History of Cambridge, Massachusetts

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HISTORY
OF
CAMBKIDGE,
MASSACHUSETTS.
1630-1877.
GENEALOGICAL REGISTER.
BY
LUCIUS
R.
PAIGE.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY
H. O.
HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

(E&e Btoer6tBe
1877.
NEW YORK: KURD AND HOUGHTON.

:
COPYRIGHT, 1877, BY LUCIUS R. PAIGE.
The Riverside
Printed by
Press,
Cambridge
H. O. Houghton and Company.
To
THE MEMBERS OF THE
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

AND OP THE
NEW ENGLAND
HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY,

(Efjti
Wolttmc
IS
DEDICATED BY ITS AUTHOR,

THEIR ASSOCIATE.
PREFACE.
for a History of Cambridge, I examwhich are continuous from the Records, Municipal but and its Registry of Births and beginning, generally brief, Deaths, which, during the second hundred years after the founda-
IN collecting materials
first its
ined
tion of the town,

ing,
I
To supply what was lackvery defective. consulted such printed authorities as were accessible,
is
together with the manuscript Records and Archives of the monwealth, of the judicial courts, and of several counties,
Comcities,
towns, churches, and libraries.
My
thanks are due to
all
the
custodians of such books, and records, and archives, for their

1 have also obtained many courtesy and kindness. details from the Record of Baptisms and Church genealogical
uniform
Burials,
from Probate Records and
Files,
from inscriptions on
After gravestones, and from funeral sermons, and newspapers. the expenditure of much time and labor, however, I am conscious
of
many
It will
deficiencies.
be seen that the Genealogical Register is chiefly confined to the families who dwelt in Cambridge before the year the descendants of such as remained here being traced 1700,
down
to a recent period.
A very few families are included

;
who
became residents
not the rule.
at a later date
but these form the exception,

It
So
also in regard to the History, comparatively
few recent events are mentioned.
would be impracticable,
in
a single volume, to include with our ancient annals everything which those who are now living have witnessed, and to trace the
genealogy of all our nearly fifty thousand inhabitants. must be drawn somewhere but whether I have drawn
;
A
it
line
in the
most proper place, there may be various opinions.
vi
PREFACE.
Moreover, the reader
disappointed because he finds so little concerning Harvard College, and the military occupation of Cambridge, at the commencement of the Revolutionary War
;
may be
but the facts stated on pages 365 (note) and 408 are believed to The almost entire absence of legendary justify the omission.
lore
it
may be regretted but it should be considered, may have been my misfortune, it was not my fault,
;
that while
that I was
first
not born in Cambridge, and that I had no opportunity in the thirty years of my life to gather the local traditions, which
so deeply impress the youthful mind,

of history
and which tinge the
facts
with such a
If lack of vigor
brilliant, though often a deceptive light. and sprightliness be regarded as a serious fault
of style, I
may
plead in extenuation, that although
many
of
my
materials were gathered long ago, I was obliged by other engagements, literary as well as secular, to postpone their final arrange-
ment
for publication, until impaired health
and the
infirmities of
age became uncomfortably manifest.
LUCIUS
CAMBRIDGE, March,
1877.
R.
PAIGE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
General description of the town,
of territory
its
I.
PAGE
several additions
and diminutions
1-5
CHAPTER
The New Town
selected as
fit
II.
to erect houses.
Several Assistants
for a fortified place. General agreement fail to do so. Controversy be-
tween Dudley and Winthrop.

sade.
of lands.
Earliest inhabitants.
Canal.
Pales.
Pali-
Arrival of the Braintree Company.
Common
Division
Highways
6-16
CHAPTER
First
III.
the first General Court. Deputies appointed. No houses to be erected without permission, nor All houses to be covered with slate or boards, outside of the town.
Constable
to
Monthly meeting.
not with thatch, and to " range even." Trees not to be cut down and left in the highways. Cartway. Windmill-hill. Timber not to be sold out of the town. First Constable elected. Surveyor of high-
ways. Lots not improved to revert to the town. or Selectmen. Surveyors of lands
First
Townsmen
17-22
CHAPTER
IV.
Courts. Dissatisfaction. Prosperity of the New Town. Magistrates. John Pratt. Straitness for want of land. Exploration of other
places.
Debates and division in the General Court.
The town
ac-
Removal to cepts enlargement offered by Boston and Watertown. Hartford. Supposed personal rivalry. Names of early inhabitants. 23-33
.
CHAPTER
Arrival of Shepard's
nicipal Officers.
V-.
Company, and some of their names. New MuNew division of lands. Monthly meetings. Ferry.
Goats.
Lectures.
alewives.
Cow Common.
Herd
of cows.
Herd on the south
side of the river.
Weir Herd
for taking of swine.
Fowls not permitted to enter gardens. Cartway to the weir. Pound. Stumps. Neither houses nor lands to be sold or let, without consent of the Townsmen. Strangers not to be harbored. Grant of land to
vm
the Drummer.
CONTENTS.
Fort Hill.
Grant of land at Vine Brook.
Swine
to
be yoked and ringed. Apple trees and other quickset to be preserved from damage by goats. Births, marriages, and burials to be Grant of money by the General Court recorded. Farms granted.
for a College.
Organization of the militia.
New Town.
Marshal General.
The College to be at The New Town named Cambridge.

34-45
Printing-press.
Bond
of
Stephen Daye to Jose Glover
CHAPTER
VI.
Contemplated removal to Weathersfield, Conn. Letter from Winthrop Letter from Hooker to Shepard. Depreciation in the to Hooker. value' of property. Danger of general bankruptcy. Reasons for removing. Sir Henry Vane. Grant of Shawshine to Cambridge. Removal of John Haynes. Death of Roger Harlakenden. Arrival of Herbert Pelham. Town Spring. Restrictions on the cutting of trees. Field-drivers, Commissioners to end small causes, Clerk of the Market, and Sealer of Leather, first elected. Calves impounded. Eight-penny ordinary for 'Townsmen. Penalty for absence from monthly meetings. Prosecution for trespass in the Great Swamp. Fence-viewers first elected. Remission of tax on account of sickness. Chimneys to be swept every month and ladders to be kept ready for reaching the roofs of houses. Orchard. Wharf. Division of Shawshine lands.
Incorporation of Billerica
46-62
VII.
to colonize Ja-
CHAPTER
Change
of
Government
in
England.
Cromwell desires
maica, and employs Daniel Gookin as special agent. Gookin to Secretary Thurloe. Death of Cromwell.
Letters from
Goffe, two of the late King's judges, visit Goffe's Journal. The General Court appoints a Committee, to re" The due observance of obedience and port concerning fidelity unto the authority of England, and our own just privileges." Report of
Whalley and Cambridge. Fragment of
Committee. Instructions to the " Messengers " sent to England. The Qualified oath of allegiance offered by Gookin and Danforth. Messengers to England return with a letter from the King, promising
in their laws.
to confirm the privileges of the people, but requiring sundry changes Day of thanksgiving appointed. Reply of the General
Court to the King's letter. Commissioners appointed by the King to enforce obedience. Cambridge sustains the General Court in their
" archcontroversy with the Commissioners. Edward Randolph, the of the The Charter Sir Edmund colony." enemy abrogated, and
Andros appointed Governor
of
New England
VIII.
63-78
CHAPTER
The
inhabitants on the south side of the river obtain parochial priviTheir petition for incorporation as a separate town. Elableges.
orate and vigorous protest
by the Selectmen of Cambridge.

Unruly dogF.
Wolf.
After
long delay,
Newton
is
incorporated, under the administration of
Andros.
Ship-building in Cambridge.
Drain-
CONTENTS.
ing of a pond in the centre of the town.
ix
Stone wall'between Camfamilies,
Committee to inspect Encroachment on prevent improper practices.

bridge
and Watertown.
River.
and
to
in
fishing rights
Menotomy
Fish Officers
79-98
CHAPTER
IX.
President Dudley assumes the government. Protest of the General Court. Arrival of Governor Andros. Danforth's description of the
public distress. clared invalid.
Arbitrary proceedings of Andros.
Titles to land de-
Memorial of John Gibson and George Willis. Proceedings on petition of Edward Randolph for a grant of land in CamDeath of Major-gen. Gookin. Revolution in England. bridge. Governor Andros deposed and imprisoned with several of his adherents.
elected.
The old Magistrates reinstated. A new house of Deputies The inhabitant? of Cambridge request the old Officers to reLetters of
sume the government, and pledge

assistance.
crease Mather.
and fortune for their help and to Gov. Hinkley and to InDanforth omitted from the Council by Mather, but
life
Thomas Danforth
reinstated by the General Court; appointed Judge of the Superior Court, but not of that special Court which tried and condemned the unfortunate persons suspected of witchcraft. Death of Deputy Governor Danforth. 99-118 Cambridge Deputies
CHAPTER
Petition of the "
X.
Reply
of
Farmers "
for incorporation.
Cambridge
Parochial privileges granted. Harmony not interrupted. County Treasurers. Incorporation of Lexington. Culler of Bricks.
Selectmen.
Bounty
shal
General.
for killing wolves. Salarv of Treasurers and Jurors. MarRoad to Connecticut. Governor Shute's visit to
mitted.
Cambridge. Double voting. Small-pox. Strangers not to be adDogs. Gratuity to a proposed physician refused. Col. John Vassall's honors and disappointments. Throat distemper. ReprePart sentatives to the General Court required to serve gratuitously.
of
Watertown annexed
Bills of Mortality.
to Cambridge. Funeral customs
Bear
shot.
Fire-engine.
119-135
CHAPTER
American Revolution.
Cambridge
proves
riots,
XI.
in
Town
Meeting.
first
Action of Resolves by the General Court. Riots in Boston. Cambridge disaprefuses, but afterwards consents, that
and at
com-
Representative inpensation be made from the public treasury. structed to oppose the election of any person to the Council who
already held office of emolument under the Government the people admitted to hear the debates of the House.
;
and
to
have
Duties im-
posed on tea and other articles. Action of the General Court, and its dissolution. Convention of Delegates. Committees of Correspondence. Action of the Town, and instruction to Representative. Report concerning grievances. Response to Boston by the Committee of Correspondence.
Town meeting
earnest protest against the importation of
x
tea, as
all
CONTENTS.
an encroachment upon
political rights,
and denunciation of
Destruction of
offenders and their abettors as public enemies.
tea in Boston Harbor. Boston Port Bill. Donations to Boston. Coun-
appointed by mandamus. Powder removed from the Magazine. Concourse of people in Cambridge. Resignation of Judge DanSheriff Phips promises that he forth, Judge Lee, and Col. Oliver. will not act officially under the new establishment. Gen. Brattle's
cillors
letter
sistance
to
and explanation. Provincial Congress. Preparations for reby force of arms. Cambridge pledges persons and estates
War.
maintain a Declaration of Independence. Privations during the New General Court organized. Constitution of 1778 rejected. Constitutional Convention meets at Cambridge. Constitution adopted.
ConstiShays' Rebellion. Letter from the disaffected, and reply. tution of the United States approved. Loyalists or Tories, described by Madam Riedesel their estates confiscated proposition
;
to permit their return sentatives
Cambridge
objects,
and
instructs
its
Repre136-172
CHAPTER
XII.
Land-holders in Cambridgeport and East Cambridge.
Royal Make-
peace. Improvements after the construction of West Boston Bridge. Estate of Leonard Jarvis thrown upon the marStreets and Dikes.
ket.
Andrew Bordman
sells freely,
and others sparingly.
Daven-
the most active operators. Turnpikes. port Cambridge established as a Port of Delivery. Canals. School-houses. Meeting-house. Andrew Craigie becomes owner of almost the whole
territory
& Makepeace among

now
called East Cambridge.
Canal (or Craigie's) Bridge.

Jail.
Lechmere Point Corporation. Court House and tion of Brighton and West Cambridge. Embargo.
land.
War
Incorporawith Eng-
Address by the Town to President Jefferson, and his reply. Further action of the Town. Public rejoicing at the return of 173-194 peace
CHAPTER
XHI.
Great Bridge, and the various methods adopted for its maintenance. West Boston Bridge. Canal (or Craigie's) Bridge. Prison Point River Street Bridge. Western Avenue Bridge. BrookBridge. All the Bridges become free. Public Avenues. Sharp line Bridge. contest in regard to Mount Auburn and Cambridge Streets. Important legal principle contest
first
established in the trial
and decision
of this
195-209
CHAPTER
;
XIV.
Shire-town of Middlesex. Half shires. Records removed to Charlestown the General Court orders their return. Removal and return
Court houses. House of Correction and of the Registry of Deeds. Jail. Place of Execution, or " Gallows Lot." Negro woman burned
at the stake.
Taverns
Ordinaries, or Support of the Poor. Almshouses. committed to the charge of the most grave and discreet
CONTENTS.
Samuel Gibson fined for unlawfully entertainInnholders and Retailers during a century. Petitions of Edmund Angier and John Stedman. Memorial of President Dunster on behalf of Mrs. Bradish. Prices established. Market Places.
men.
ing Students.
xi
Blue Anchor.
Market house.
enclosure.
Common contest concerning its Athenaeum, converted into a City Hall. Petition for a division of the town Sectional rivalry and jealousy. rejected by the General Court. Unsuccessful attempt to remove difBurial places.
;
Town
House.
ficulties.
Petition for a City Charter. new petition for division interposed, which, like another presented nine years later, was unsuccessful.
City Charter granted and accepted
210-246
CHAPTER XV.
Rev. Thomas Hooker and Rev. Samuel Stone. First Meeting-house. First Church organized. Removal to Hartford. Rev. Thomas " First Church " Shepard. Another organized. Newell's "Church
Gathering." McKenzie's "Historical Lectures." Roger Harlakenden. Shepard's reasons for removing to New England. Mrs. Shepard's admission to the Church, and her death. Confessions of
Church membership. Contributions and expendiPhillips. Death of Mr. Shepard. Synods at CamSecond Rev. Jonathan Mitchell in many bridge. Meeting-house. " Harvard Graduates." Financial respects "Matchless." Sibley's records. Salary. Seating of the Meeting-house. Reputed heresy of President Dunster. Death of Mr. Mitchell, and the place of his burial. Care of the youth. Parsonage erected, and bill of expenses. Rev. Urian Oakes expense of his ordination. Almsdeeds of the Church. Labors, trials, and death of Mr. Oakes. Intense political and religious excitement. Address by the "Freemen of Cambridge" Sermon of Mr. to the General Court, against universal toleration. Oakes on the same subject. Rev. Nathaniel Gookin and Elders Clark and Stone ordained, with bill of expenses. Quiet ministry and death of Mr. Gookin. Salary of Pastors at different periods. Church organized at the Farms. Ordination of Rev. William Brattle his minThird Meeting-house. Extraordinary snow-storm. istry and death.
candidates for
tures.
Rev. John
Election of Rev. Nathaniel Appleton.
Parsonage
rebuilt.
Enlarge-
ment
Church organized at Menotomy. Fourth Rev. George Whitefield. Church organized on the Meeting-house. south side of the river. The prolonged and valuable services of Dr. Appleton recognized by Harvard College his death. Installation of Rev. Timothy Hilliard, and his death, after a short ministry. Installation of Rev. Abiel Holmes. Theological controversy, resulting in the disruption of the Church. Results of Councils. Shepard Conof Meeting-house.
;
gregational Society organized. Ordination of Rev. Nehemiah Dismission and death of Dr. Holmes. as Colleague Pastor.
Adams
Meet-
ing-house.
of Rev.
Dismission of Mr. Adams.
and Rev. Alexander McKenzie. New William Newell his long and peaceful ministry and resignation. Meeting-house. Ordination of Rev. Francis G. Peabody. 247-306 Elders. Deacons.
;
.
Rev. John A. Albro, D. D., Meeting-house. Ordination
xu
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
Christ
XVI.
Church.
Baptist.
Cambridge port Parish. University Church. First First Universalist. Second Universalist. First Methodist.
gational.
Third Congregational. Second Baptist. First Evangelical CongreSecond Evangelical Congregational. Evangelical (East
Cambridge).
Methodist.
olic).
St. Peter's (Episcopal). St. John's. Harvard Street Old Cambridge Baptist. Lee Street. St. Peter's (CathThird Universalist. North Cambridge Baptist. North Ave-
nue Congregational. Pilgrim Congregational. Broadway Baptist. Free Church of St. James. Methodist Episcopal (Old Cambridge). St. John's Memorial. St. Mary's. Chapel Congregational. Cottage St. Paul's. Church of the Sacred Heart. AsStreet Methodist. 307-343 cension Church. Charles River Baptist
CHAPTER
Antinomians.
XVII.
Quakers. Elizabeth Hooton and other disBaptists. turbers of the peace. Benanuel Bowers, and his family. Witchcraft. man Rebecca Jacobs. Petition of Rebecca Fox. Mrs. Kendall.
troubled by cats or the devil.
Mary Holman.
Testimony.
Winifred Holman, and her daughter Verdict 344-364
CHAPTER
Education.
dian
XVIII.
School.
Harvard College.
Corlett's
Grammar
of
Elijah Corlett.
In-
Students.
Nicholas Fessenden, Jr. Veterans now in service. Agreement for erecting a school-house. Allowance to Mr. Dunster and his heirs. Schools of lower grade. Schools established in Cambridgeport and East Cambridge. Schoolhouses in 1845, 1850, and
tricts.
thanks to the County Court. William Fessenden, Jr. Samuel Danforth.

letter
1876.
School Committee.
school.
School dis-
Graded
schools.
Hopkins
Salaries
of teachers at
different periods
365-381
CHAPTER
Indians.
XIX.
chased.
Squa Sachem. Tribe near Mystic Pond. Indian titles purFence to secure the Indians' corn. Cutshamakin. Waban, and Indians at Nonantum. The apostle Eliot's labors assisted bv his son, Rev. John Eliot, Jr., and by Rev. Daniel Gookin, Jr. Town
;
of Natick. Eliot's mission extended to other tribes. Missions to the heathen emphatically commenced in Cambridge. Partial successes. Attempts to educate the Indians. Dunster's account of expenses for one year. Daniel Gookin actively engaged in the Indian work from the beginning appointed Ruler and Superintendent of all the friendly Indians record of one of his courts. Philip's War. Prejudice against
;
all
the Indians
many imprisoned on Deer

; . . .
Island.
Gookin and Dan-
forth friendly to the Indians
Rev. Mr.
Eliot.
savage attacks on them, and on the 382-395
CONTENTS.
xiii
CHAPTER XX.
Military organization.
Expedition against Gorton. Narragansett War. Energetic services of Major Gookin. Reasons why old men of sixty Solyears are not to train. Long service of Capt. Samuel Green. diers in the Wars from 1690 to 1740; Old French War, 1744 to 1748; French War, 1753 to 1763. Memorial of Capt. William
Gen. William Brattle. Troop of Cavalry. War of the Angier. Revolution. Rolls of Cambridge soldiers in the Battle of Lexington.
Some events during that conflict. More persons killed in Cambridge than elsewhere. Monument in memory of the slain. Capt. Samuel
Whittemore desperately wounded.
Damage to property. Troops stationed in Cambridge. HosCollege buildings used for barracks. Battle of Bunker Hill. Col. Thomas Gardner. pitals established.
Cambridge.
Arrival of General Washington. Head-quarters. Military Works in Disposition of the troops. Military operations. Evac-
uation of Boston. goyne's troops.

olutionary
Cambridge
Difficulty in obtaining military stores. Gen. Officers and Soldiers engaged in the
Bur-
Rev-
Cambridge not enthusiastic in its Cambridge organizes the first military company for the defence of the Union Roll of that company. Richmond surrendered to a Cambridge Officer. SolOfficers and Soldiers furnished by Cambridge during the War. diers' Monument erected by the City names inscribed thereon. Nearly forty-six hundred men, about one sixth part of the entire popof
favor.
War.
War
1812.
Light Infantry.
War
of the Rebellion.
ulation of Cambridge, rendered active service in this internecine conflict
396-438
CHAPTER
Valuation in 1647.
XXI.
Census in 1777. Valuation in 1781. List of Voters in 1822. Census at intervals from 1765 to 1875. Number of Polls, Valuation, rate and amount of Tax, and amount of the City Debt, in each year from the incorporation of the City in 1846 to 1875. Census in 1875. Vice-president of the United States. GovRate
list
in 1688.
ernors.
Deputy or Lieutenant-governors.
Representatives. Treasurers. Mayors.
Assistants.
Councillors.
Senators.
Selectmen.
Assessors.
Town
Clerks.
Town
Aldermen.
Presidents of the
Common
City
Council.
Members
of
the
Treasurers.
Clerks of the
Common Council. Common Council

,
City
Clerks.
439-475
477
GENEALOGIES
KEY TO THE PLAN OF "CAMBRIDGE

Indicating the owners
IN
in
1635,"
1642.
and occupants of
to
the several lots, in 1635,
and
All are
supposed
have been homesteads, unless otherwise designated.
No.
XVI
KEY TO THE PLAN OF "CAMBRIDGE
IN
1635.
No.
HISTOEY OF CAMBRIDGE.
CHAPTER
I.
CIVIL HISTOEY.
Middlesex County, in 42 22' north 6' west longitude from Greenwich. 1 It is latitude, and 71 bounded on the east by Charles River, which separates it from Boston on the south by Charles River, which separates it from Brookline and Brighton; 2 on the west by Watertown, Belmont, and Arlington on the north by Somerville, and by Miller's River, which separates it from Charlestown. Though now small in territorial extent, embracing not more than about four and a
the
CAMBRIDGE, the Commonwealth
original shire
town
of
of Massachusetts, is situated in
half square miles,
it is
divided into four principal districts, each
having a
bridge.
post-office,
namely
Cambridge (often
called
Old
Cambridge), Cambridgeport, East Cambridge, and North
Cam-
Like most ancient townships, Cambridge has had great enAt first, it largement and diminution in its boundary lines. seems to have been designed merely as a fortified place, very small in extent, and apparently without definite bounds. Charlestown and Watertown, on the northerly side of Charles River, had already been settled ; but it is doubtful whether a distinct line of Between these two towns a separation had been established. " a fit was selected as for a fortified town," about six spot place months after the arrival of Winthrop with the fleet of emigrants in 1630. 3 Houses were erected here in 1631 by Thomas Dudley, Deputy Governor, and by a few others. It was ordered by the
1
The
City Hall, at the corner of

streets, in
Main
and Pleasant
Cambridgeport,
cently been annexed to Boston ; but they have not yet ceased to be designated by
their
8
stands exactly upon the longitudinal line, and about a hundred yards south of the
parallel of latitude indicated.
2
former names.
selection
The
was
partially
21, 1630,
re-
and
definitely
made Dec. determined Dec.
Brighton and Charlestown have

1
28, 1630.
HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE.
3,
" there should be 1631-2, that three scoore pounds levyed out of the several plantations within the lymitts of this pattent towards the makeing of a pallysadoe
Governor and Assistants, Feb.
aboute the newe towne/'
tween the
New Town
established until
parties appointed
But no definite line of division beand Charlestown appears to have been March 6, 1632-3, when " it was agreed by the
by the Court, &c., that all the land impaled by newe towne men, with the neck whereon Mr. Graves his house standeth, shall belong to Newe-town, and that the bounds of Charlestowne shall end at a tree marked by the pale, and to
the
passe along from thence by a straight line unto the midway betwixt the westermost part of the Governor's great lot and the
nearest part thereto of the bounds of Watertowne." 2 The line, thus established, was substantially the same as that which now
divides
" neck whereon Mr. Cambridge from Somerville. The Graves his house standeth," was the upland included in East Cambridge. The line between Cambridge and Watertown was
3 In the mean time, 7, 1635. " straitness for want of land," at the Court held on complaint of " May 14, 1634, leave was granted to the inhabitants of Newe Towne to seek out some convenient place for them, with promise that it shalbe confirmed unto them, to which they may remove their habitations, or have as an addition to that which already they have, provided they doe not take it in any place to preju-
not definitely established until April
After examining several "the of Newtown came and accepted of places, congregation such enlargement as had formerly been offered them by Boston and Watertown." 6 This " enlargement " embraced Brookline, Brookline, then called Muddy River, Brighton, and Newton. was granted on condition that Mr. Hooker and his congregation should not remove. They did remove and thus this grant was forfeited. But the grant of what was afterwards Brighton and
dice a plantation already settled."
;
Newton held
1
good.
i.
93. Dr. Holmes, Mass. Hist. Soc., vii. 9), says :" This fortification was actually made and the fosse which was then dug around the town is, in some places,
Mass.
Col. Rec.,
writing in 1800 (Coll.
Cambridge was at first called The New Towne," and afterwards New Town or Newtown, until May 2, 1638, when the General Court "Ordered, That Newetowne shall henceforward be called CamMass. Col. Rec., i. 228. bridge." other act of incorporation is found
record,
2
"
visible
to
this
day.
It
commenced
at
No
on
Brick
Hill)
Wharf
and
(originally called Windmill ran along the northern side of
the present Common in Cambridge, and through what was then a thicket, but now constitutes a part of the cultivated grounds of Mr. NathanielJarvis beyond which it cannot be distinctly traced."
;
Mass.
Col. Rec.,
i.
102.
8
4
Ibid., p. 144.
Ibid., p. 119.
Savage's Winthrop,
i.
132, 142.
AS BOUNDED IN
1644-1655.
Attendingfrom jQedfiam to tfieMeirimack River.
__,v*\
CIVIL HISTORY.
In the settlement of the line between Cambridge and Charles-
town, no indication is given how far the bounds of either extended into the country beyond the line drawn from " the Governor's great lot," or the Ten Hills Farm, to the " nearest part" of Watertown. But the Court, March 3, 1635-6, agreed that " Newe Towne bounds shall run eight myles into the country,
from their meeteing house." l This grant secured to Cambridge, on its northern border, the territory now embraced in Arlington and the principal part of Lexington and, as the measurements of that day were very elastic, perhaps the whole of Lexington was included. But even this did not satisfy the craving for land. Accordingly a conditional grant of Shawshine was made, June 2, " All the land 1641, and renewed June 14, 1642 lying upon Saweshin Ryver, and between that and Concord Ryver, and between that and Merrimack Ryver, not formerly granted by this
; :
Court, are granted to Cambridge, so as they erect a village there within five years, and so as it shall not extend to prejudice Charlestowne village, or the village of Cochitawit," etc. 2 This 3 grant was confirmed absolutely, March 7, 1643-4, and included the present town of Billerica, parts of Bedford and Carlisle, and a part of Tewksbury, or of Chelmsford, or of both. The terms
all the land lying between Concord and Merrimac would seem to include Lowell yet an Indian village then occupied that territory, and such villages were generally
of the
grant
rivers
protected.
attained its full size. In shape somean hour-glass, about thirty-five miles in length, and wide at each extremity, it was not much more than one mile in width in the central part, where the original settlement was made, and where most of the inhabitants then resided. Such was " This Town is its shape when Johnson described it in 1651. compact closely within itselfe, till of late yeares some few stragthe Liberties of this Town have been ling houses have been built of late in inlarged length, reaching from the most Northerly part of Charles River to the most Southerly part of Merrimack River." 4 This description, however, does not comprehend the
The township had now

like
what
Mass. Col. Rec.,

Ibid.,
i.
i.
166.
them and Concord

save what
is
is
granted them,
all
2 8
330,
62.
ii.
17.
Ibid.,
is
ii.
The
is
grant
mer:
somewhat " Shawshin
different
description in this from the for-
formerly granted to the military company or others, provided the church and present elders continue at
granted to Cam-
bridg, without
a village
any condition of makeing there; and the land between
Cambridge." * Coll. Mass. Hist.
Soc., xiii. 137.
;
whole territory then belonging to Cambridge for both Brighton and Newton are wholly on the southerly side of Charles River. The portion of Dedham, which now constitutes the town of Needham, was the southerly bound. But Cambridge soon lost a part of its enormous length. In 1655, an amicable arrangement was made between the town and those of its inhabitants who had erected houses at Shawshine, for a separation this arrangement was confirmed by the General Court, and Shawshine was incorporated as a town, under the name of Billerica. 1 Soon afterwards the inhabitants on the south side of the river, in what is now Newton, where a church was
;
organized July 20, 1664, petitioned for incorporation as a sepaCambridge objected and a long and earnest controThe Newton people triumphed at last, as will be versy ensued.
rate town.
;
fully related in another place,
and
in
1688 became a separate
township.
The northwesterly portion of the territory remaining in Cam" The Farms," and a church bridge was for many years called was organized there Oct. 21, 1696. The Farmers, as they were
styled, subsequently agreed with the town upon terms of sep" order aration, and by an passed in Council and concurred by
the Representatives," March 20, 1713, they were incorporated as " a separate and distinct town by the name of Lexington, upon the articles and terms already agreed on with the town of Cambridge."
2
From
The
this period
Cambridge was not

Indeed,
it
tions for nearly a century.
curtailed of its proporobtained some additions.
present southwesterly portion of the city, lying west of Sparks Street and south of Vassall Lane, was set off from Water-
town and annexed

"
Cambridge, April 19, 1754, except the " Cambridge Cemetery and a few acres between that and the former line, which were annexed April 27, 1855. 4 The line of Watertown was thus carried about a half a mile further westward and the tract thus acquired embraces some of the most desirable land in the city for dwelling-houses. From Charlestown (now the and a Somerville), dwellings portion of the estates of Nathanto
;
Benjamin Godand of tract bounded Nathaniel most the dard, Goddard, including North White and Avenue, Russell, Elrn, streets, were annexed by
iel
Prentiss, Josiah Wellington, Stephen Goddard,
2 8
Mass. Col. Rec., Hi. 387. Mass. Prov. Rec., ix. 258. Ibid., xx. 228. Dr. Bond conjectured
first
stood on this tract of land, not far from the present residence of James Russell
Lowell.
*
Hist. Watertown, p. 1046.
that the
meeting-house in Watertown
Mass. Spec. Laws, x. 360.
CIVIL HISTORY.
to
;
l the estate of William HunneCambridge, March 6, 1802 2 and a portion of Professor Ware's estate, well, Feb. 12, 1818 now the Norton homestead, June 17, 1820. 3 These three annexations are indicated by the sharp angles on the map. The line at White Street was somewhat changed April 30, 1856, and the line between Cambridge and Belmont and Arlington, was
;
straightened Feb. 25, 1862.
The northwesterly
cinct
part of the
town was made a separate

styled
pre-
Dec. 27, 1732, and was afterwards
Parish, or
"
more generally Menotomy. The line of Menotomy River from Charlestown till it comes to Spy Pond Brook then on said brook till it comes to a water-course or
;
Second division was

the
so called the ditch to be the bounHamblett's Brook, following the course of dary the Brook to the Bridge thence on a straight line to the northwest corner of Mr. Isaac Holden's orchard, and continuing the same course to Watertown line." 4 This tract, with the addition of the remaining territory on the westerly side of Menotomy River, was incorporated, Feb. 27, 1807, under the name of West 5 Cambridge, which name was changed to Arlington, April 20,
ditch in Whiting's
till
meadow,
;
it
comes
to
1867. 6
The
inhabitants
of
the territory
left
on the south side of
Charles River petitioned to be made a separate precinct, as early as 1748, and renewed their petition, from time to time, until April 2, 1779, when they were authorized to bring in a bill to " incorporate them as an ecclesiastical parish, excepting Samuel John Joanna and Moses Griggs, Gardner, Gardner, Sparhawk, and their estates." 7 This was styled the Third Parish, or Little
The whole territory south of Charles River was under the name of Brighton, Feb. 24, 1837. 8 incorporated, the By incorporation of West Cambridge and Brighton, which was the result of an amicable agreement between the several limparties, Cambridge was reduced substantially to its present its. Several attempts have since been made for a further division but its incorporation as a city has removed most of the difficulties which previously existed, and it may be reasonably expected that no more attempts of the kind will be made during
Cambridge.
;
the present century.

1
Mass. Spec. Laws,

Ibid., v. 220.
Ibid., v. 385.
ii.
520.
7 8
2 8
4
Mass. Prov. Rec., xxxix. 213. Mass. Spec. Laws, iv. 70.
By an
Mass. Prov. Rec., xii. 351. Mass. Spec. Laws, iv. 88.
Ibid., xii. 244.
net approved May 21, 1873, Brighton was the annexation to annexed to Boston, take full effect on the first Monday in
January, 1874.
CHAPTER
II.
CIVIL HISTORY.
THE
as a
ley.
purpose for which Cambridge was originally established

is
town
stated
" The " governor and most of the assistants," had agreed
by two
of its projectors,
Winthrop and Dud-
to build a
town fortified upon the neck," between Roxbury and Boston, Dec. 6, 1630 ; but, for several reasons, they abandoned that project, eight days afterwards, and agreed to examine other " On the of the same month met
places. again at
twenty-first day
there,
We
a place a mile beneath the town, all agreed it a fit place for a fortified town, and we took time to consider further about it." l Dudley, describing
of
Watertown, and
upon view
the events of 1630, in his letter to the Countess of Lincoln, says, " began again in December to consult about a fit place to build a town upon, leaving all thoughts of a fort, because upon
We
any invasion we were

should retire thereinto.
necessarily to lose our houses So after divers meetings at

of
2
when we
Boston,
Roxbury, and Watertown, on the twenty-eighth
December,
(Mr. Endiand Mr. Sharpe excepted, which last purposeth to return by the next ship into England), to build houses at a place a mile east from Watertown, near Charles River, the next spring, and to winter there the next year that so by our examples, and by removing the ordnance and munition thither, all who were able might be drawn thither, and such as shall come to us hereafter, to their advantage, be compelled so to do and so, if God would, a fortified town might there grow up, the place fitting reasonably well thereto." Johnson describes the original design and its " At this partial accomplishment, in his characteristic manner time, those who were in place of civil government, having some
cott
;
we grew
to this resolution, to bind all the assistants
Savage's Winthrop, i. 45, 46. Winthrop was then Governor, and Dudley Deputy Governor; the Assistants
2
cott,
Increase Nowell, William Pynchon,
Sharp, Roger Ludlow, William Coddington, and Simon Bradstreet.
Thomas
were Sir Richard Saltonstall, John Endi-
CIVIL HISTORY.
additional pillars to underprop the building, began to think of a place of more safety in the eyes of man than the two frontier
towns of Charles Towne and Boston were, for the habitation of such as the Lord had prepared to govern this pilgrim people.
Wherefore they rather made choice to enter further among the Indians than hazard the fury of malignant adversaries who in a rage
might pursue them, and therefore chose a place situate on Charles River, between Charles Towne and Water Towne, where they erected a town called New Town, now named Cambridge, being in form like a list cut off from the broad-cloth of the two forenamed towns, where this wandering race of Jacobites gathered
the eighth church of Christ."
1
Notwithstanding
build at the
it
was agreed that "
all
the assistants
it
"
should
New Town
in the spring of 1631,
does not appeal-
that any of them fulfilled the agreement, except Dudley and Bradstreet. Governor Winthrop indeed erected a house ; 2 but
he subsequently took it down again and removed it to Boston. This led to a sharp controversy between Dudley and Winthrop, which was at length decided by the elders in favor of Dudley. 3
There may have been good and
sufficient reasons
why Winthrop
should prefer to remain in Boston rather than to remove to the New Town. But it is much to be regretted that he should claim to have or " the fulfilled his
substantially
words
ately
fair
of the promise,"
by
removed it. This is fame as a gentleman of singular ingenuousness. It would seem that Sir Richard Saltonstall intended to build a house, and
1
obligation, performed erecting a house, though he immediscarcely consistent with his otherwise
Coll.
Mass. Hist.
Soc., xiii. 136.
has been said that Winthrop erected only the frame of a house but he says it was a house inhabited by servants. See next note.
It
;
ing to the promise he made to them when they first sat down with him at Boston, namely, that he would not remove, except
they went with him), he would not leave this was the occasion that he rethem
:
Savage's Winlhrop,
i.
82, 83.
Winthrop
moved
his house.
Upon
;
these
and other
says Dudley "complained of the breach of promise, both in the governor and The others, in not building at Newtown.
speeches to this purpose, the ministers went apart for one hour then returning, they delivered their opinions,
that
the
governor answered, that he had performed the words of the promise; for he had a house up, and seven or eight servants abiding in it, by the day appointed; and for the removing his house, he alleged
that, seeing that the rest of the assistants
governor was in fault for removing of his house so suddenly, without conferring with
the deputy and the rest of the assistants but if the deputy were the occasion of dis;
went not about to build, and that his neighbors of Boston had been discouraged from removing thither by Mr. Deputy himself, and thereupon had (under all
their hands) petitioned him, that (accord-
couraging Boston men from removing, it would excuse the governor a tanto, but The governor, professing not a toto. himself willing to submit his own opinion to the judgment of so many wise
and godly
faulty."
friends,
acknowledged himself
a lot was assigned to him for that purpose ; 1 but he went to England in the spring of 1631, and did not return. Nowell
remained at Charlestown Ludlow, at Pynchon, at Roxbury Dorchester and Coddington, at Boston. Endicott and Sharpe were originally free from engagement. Dr. Holmes says, " the Deputy Governor (Dudley), Secretary Bradstreet, and other principal gentlemen, in the spring of 1631,
; ; ;
No list of inhabitants " Company arrived in the summer of 1632, except this memorandum on the title-page of " The Towne Book of Newtowne. the Town Records Incommenced the execution
is
of the plan."
found until after the
;'
Braintree
Mr. Tho. Dudly Esq., Mr. Symon Bradstreet, Mr. Edmond Lockwood, Mr. Daniell Patricke, John Poole, William Spencer, John Kirman, Symon Sackett." 3 But this Book 1 The Proprietors' Records show that the General Court, Constable of the New
habitants there
what
is
now
called
Winthrop Square was

Saltonstall
;
allotted to
Sir Richard
but
when it was ascertained that he would not return from England, the lot was assigned for a "Market Place," by which
more than two centuries, though no market-house was ever erected there. Probably like the old Market Place in Boston, it was used for
it
Town, at its organization, May, 1632; and at the same session was selected as one of the two inhabitants of the town " to confer with the Court about raising of a
name
was known
for
He died before March, public stock." " 1635. Daniel Patrick, also styled Mr.," was one of the two captains appointed
by the Court, to command the militia of the Colony. Except as a military man, his character does not appear to have been very reputable. In 1637 he had liberty to remove to Ipswich, but seems rather to have gone to Watcrtown, where he was
Selectman,
in
traffic, in
the open
air,
between the
in-
habitants and such as brought commodities for sale. 2 Coll. Mass. 8 Of these
Hist Soc.,
vii. 7.
eight persons who laid the foundation of the New Town, Thomas
1638.
He
afterwards rekilled
moved
to Connecticut,
and was
by
Dudley was the most eminent. He was elected Deputy Governor in 1630, became Governor in 1634, and was either Governor, Deputy Governor, or Assistant, during the remainder of his life. He removed
a Dutchman, at Stamford, in 1643. John Poolo probably remained here only a few
months, as he
proprietors, in
is
not
named
in the list of
1633.
He was
of
Lynn,
May, 1636,when he and Bradstreet were named as magistrates to hold the court there, while others were appointed for the court at New Town. Soon afterwards he removed to Roxbury, were he died July 31, 1653. Simon Bradstreet was an Assistant from 1630 to
1678; Deputy Governor, 1678; Governor, He also removed to 1679-86, 1689-92. Ipswich, probably with Dudley, whose
to Ipswich, perhaps before
1638, and afterwards of Reading, where he died April 1, 1667. William Spencer,
ords,
uniformly styled "Mr." on the court recwas one of the " principal gentlemen." He was associated with Mr. Lock-
wood, May, 1632, "to confer with the " Court about raising of a public stock;
was Deputy or Representative of the New Town, 1634-1637; one of the first Board
of
Townsmen, 1635;
lieutenant of the
trainband, 1637, and a

cient
member
of the
An-
daughter was his wife was afterwards in Andover for a short time then in Boston until Sept. 18, 1695, when he re;
Salem, and died there, March Edmund Lockwood, having the prefix of " Mr.," was appointed by
to
moved
27, 1697.
and Honorable Artillery Company, at its organization in 1639; he probably removed to Hartford in 1639, where he was Selectman and Deputy, and died in 1640. John Kirman removed to Lynn, 1632, and was a Deputy, 1635. Simon Sack-
CIVIL HISTORY.
of
Records was not commenced until 1632, several months after " Dudley and Bradstreet performed their promise to build houses at the New Town." Whether more than the before named eight o persons, and indeed whether all these resided in the New Town
before the end of 1631, I have not found any certain proof. The number of inhabitants in that year was doubtless small yet there were enough able-bodied men to be specially included in an order
;
of court passed
July 26, 1631, requiring a general training of
1 soldiers in all the plantations.
Although the Governor and Assistants generally did not perform their agreement to make the New Town the place of their permanent residence, they seem to have regarded it as the prospective seat of government, and not long afterwards, as will appear, commenced holding the general and particular courts Several orders, passed during the year, indicate such an there. For example June 14, 1631, " Mr. expectation and intention. John Maisters hath undertaken to make a passage from Charles River to the New Town, twelve foot broad and seven foot deep for which the Court promiseth him satisfaction, according
: ;
amount unto." 2 On the fifth of the following July, provision was made for the payment of Mr. Mas" Ordered, That there shall be levied out of the ters, when it was
as the charges thereof shall
several plantations the sum of thirty pounds, for the making of but no portion of this sum the creek at the New Town," was assessed upon the New Town. Again, Feb. 3, 1631-2, " It was ordered, That there should be three score pounds levied out
of the several plantations within the limits of this patent, Town ; viz. the making of a pallysadoe about the
towards
New
Wateriu.l.
town,
viii.?.
the
New Town,
iii.Z.
Charlton,
vii.Z.
Mead ford,
Saugus and Marble Harbor, vi.L Salem, iv.Z. x.s. Boston, \ii'\.L Rocksbury, vii.L Dorchester, vii.Z. Wessaguscus, v.Z. Winettsemet, xxx.s."
ett died
here before 3d November, 1635,

to his
the
8
town ordered a causeway and

4,
foot-
when administration was granted widow Isabell Sackett.

1
bridge to be constructed, Jan.
1635-36.
Mass.
Ibid.,
Coll. Eec.,
i.
i.
90.
still
exists on Wharf, from Charles River nearly to South Street, It was a natural creek, enlarged and deepened thus far, from which point, turn88.
This canal
the westerly side of College
Winthrop says objected against the validity and justice of this assessment and his learned editor says " To the agithat
Mass.
Col. Rec.,i. 98.
Watcrtown
ing westerly,
it
extended along the south-
erly and westerly sides of South and Eliot streets, and crossed Brattle Street, where
two from each town to advise with the court about so as what they raising public moneys should agree upon should bind all,' under date of May of this year. This led to the
origin
tation of this subject we of that committee

'
may
of
refer the
10
Six months
tants,
later,
there was a considerable accession of inhabi-
by order
of the
pear on the records of of Aug. 14, 1632, "The Braintree

;
General Court. The order does not apthe Court but Winthrop says, under date
1
to sit
down
at
Newtown.
arrival
Company (which had begun Mount Wollaston), by order of court, removed to There were Mr. Hooker's Company." 2 Before their
an order was adopted by the inhabitants, in regard to the common lands; the contemplated assignment of proportions, however, was not made until several months afterwards, when new inhabitants had arrived and had received grants The date of this order, which is the of the common property. first recorded in the town records, is March 29, 1632 " An agreement by the inhabitants of the New Town, about 3 in the neck of land. Imprimis, That every one who paling hath any part therein shall hereafter keep the same in good and and if it happen to have any defect, he shall sufficient repair
paling around the
:
the same within three days after notice given, or else 'pay ten shillings a rod for every rod so repaired for him. Further, It is agreed that the said impaled ground shall be divided accord-
mend
Further, It is ing to every man's proportion in said pales. if man shall desire to sell his that part of impaled any agreed, he shall first tender the sale thereof to the town inhabiground,
tants interested, who shall either give him the charge he hath been at, or else to have liberty to sell it to whom he can."
which follows, evidently according to the preceding order, though not immediately succeeding it on the record, I preIn the
list
serve the original orthography, together with the number of rods, indicating the relative shares in the impaled ground.
representative body, having the full powers of all the freemen, except that of elections."
1
Savage's Winthrop,
i.
71, note.
near the junction of Ellsworth Avenue with Cambridge Street, to the line between Cambridge and Charlestown (now
Somerville), at its angle on Line Street near Cambridge Street, and thence followed that line to the creek, a few rods
easterly
at the
Supposed to be so called because they came from Braintree, a town in Essex, about forty miles from London. 2 Savage's Winthrop, i. 87. Mr. Hooker did not arrive until more than a year
later; but the
from
the track
Junction Railroad.
of the Grand Commencing again
members
of his flock,
who
preceded him, in due time again enjoyed

his pastoral care.
this fence, or
location of the greater part of " " is designated with pale tolerable accuracy by the ancient records
The
point first mentioned, the fence extended southwardly to the marsh near the junction of Holyoke Place with The kind of Mount Auburn Street. fence then erected is indicated in an order
passed Dec.
pales in
all
5,
1636
of possessions and conveyances. Commencing in the present College yard, near the northwesterly angle of Gore Hall,
places, to be
"That the common made after this

and
rails,
day, shall be done with sufficient posts and not with crotches."
and extending eastwardly,
it
passed very
CIVIL HISTORY.
11
COMMON PALES DIVIDED

John Haynes, Esq.
. .
AS
FOLLOWS
8 rods. 7
" " " " " "
Thomas Dudly, Esq. Mr. Symon Bradstreet

John Benjamin John Talcott
.
6
6
....
6
6 G
5 5
" "
4 4
3
3
"
"
3 3 3
2
2 2 2
"
"
"
"
" " " "
Of these forty-two persons, it is certain that at least one half were not of the Braintree Company, as many have supposed. 1 Precisely how many of the other half were of that company, I have 110 means to determine but from whatever place they may have come, the number of inhabitants so increased that in about a year there were nearly a hundred families in the New Town. The division of lands and the establishment of highways were among the first necessities. The house-lots were laid out com" Town," and in the " West End," the tract pactly in the bounded by Sparks, Wyeth, and Garden streets, Harvard and Brattle squares, and Charles River. For cultivation, lands were
;
assigned in the impaled
"
Neck," and afterwards elsewhere.
12
;
The original assignment is not found but the work was commenced before the " Braintree Company " arrived for Winthrop alleged, as early as August 3, 1632, that Dudley "had empaled, at Newtown, above one thousand acres, and had assigned lands to some there." l So much of the impaled land as lies northerly of Main Street was so divided, that the divisions are easily traced. The westerly part of what was denominated "the Neck," was allotted in small portions. First came the "planting " Old field," afterwards called the field," which was bounded westerly and northerly by the common pales, easterly by Dana this contained Street, and southerly by Main and Arrow streets about sixty-three acres, and was assigned in small portions for Next to this field was the " Small-lot hill," which separate use. was bounded southerly by Main Street, westerly by Dana Street, northerly by the common pales, and easterly by a line extended
;
;
from Somerville, near the northern termination of Fayette Street, to a point on Main Street about one hundred and thirty feet east of Hancock Street. This tract contained about forty-six acres, and was divided into eighteen narrow lots extending from Dana " " Street to the easterly line. Eastwardly from Small-lot hill the land was divided into large lots, which were assigned in the following order and quantity Samuel Dudley, 22| acres Thomas Dudley, Esq., 63 acres Richard Goodman, 6 acres William Westwood, 27 acres John Talcott, 32 acres Daniel Denison, 22^ acres John Haynes, Esq., 63 acres (these lots severally extended from what is now Main Street to Somerville line the following lots bordered southerly on the Great Marsh) Widow Hester Mussey, 9 acres Matthew Allen, 27 acres John Talcott, 45 acres, bordering eastwardly on the marsh, and another Atherton Hough, 130 acres of marsh lot, wholly marsh, 50 acres and upland, embracing " Graves his neck," or East Cambridge. At a later period, another planting field was enclosed by a common fence, and was called the " West field," and sometimes " West-end field." It was bounded northerly by Garden Street, easterly by Wyeth Street, southerly by Vassall Lane, and westThere was erly by the Great Swamp, or Fresh Pond meadows. but it also the Pine Swamp field, whose bounds I cannot trace was in the vicinity of the intersection of Oxford Street with Everett and Mellen streets. Such were the principal planting fields in early use. The marshes and meadows were in like manner assigned in severalty.
: ;
Savage's Winthrop,
i.
84.
CIVIL HISTORY.
13
meadows at first divided were those which the " Fresh Pond meadows." Fresh called The Pond, adjoin marshes on the northerly side of Charles River received distincprincipal fresh
tive
The
names. The tract lying westerly of Ash Street was called " Windmill-hill-marsh between Ash Street and College Wharf " " " the name of " Ship-marsh was Ox-marsh was applied to
;
;
the tract extending from College Wharf to the point where the river sweeps around to the south and the narrow strip between " this point and Riverside was called " Common-marsh." Long" marsh extended from Green Street between Bay and Vernon
;
streets to the river
below Riverside, and probably to " Captain's The marsh beIsland," at the south end of Magazine Street. tween Captain's Island and East Cambridge was called the " Great Marsh." Its name will appear the more appropriate,
when
it is
considered that almost the entire territory easterly of
a line drawn from the junction of Pearl and Allston streets to the point where the Grand Junction Railroad crosses Miller's
River (excepting the high land in East Cambridge), was then one continuous unbroken marsh. A small tract, indeed, lying southeast wardly from the junction of Main and Front streets,
was upland, and was an island at high water, afterwards called " Pelham's Island " and a few other small parcels of dry land
;
appeared on the easterly side of the line before mentioned, but they were more than counterbalanced by tracts of marsh on the
westerly side.
grazing lands were not divided at first but the herds of cows, goats, and swine were driven forth, under care of their several keepers, to range over the undivided lands, styled " com;
The
mons."
streets
The tract embraced between Garden and Linnaean and North Avenue was early set apart for the security of the cows at night. It was called the " Cow-common," and remained undivided nearly a century after it was first so used. Provision was also made for oxen, and the tract lying between " and Kirkland Street, extending from the the " Common Pales Common to Somerville line, was devoted as an " ox-pasture " to which was subsequently added a corresponding tract on the
;
northerly side of Kirkland Street. The " Path from Charlestown to

travelled before the
Watertown
"
was probably
New Town was

properly be
streets,
dence
and
in
it
may
selected as a place for resiregarded as the most ancient
highway
Cambridge. land, Mason, and Brattle
Its general direction
was through Kirk-
Elmwood Avenue, and Mount
14
Street.
and all the grounds originally were on the impaled southeasterly side of this path. The "common pales," so called, were about a quarter of a mile south of the path, at the present Somerville line, and about two hundred yards from it at Gore Hall. Among the earliest of the streets laid out for the use of the Town were four, running easterly and These eight westerly, crossed by four others at right angles. with a remain streets, single exception, substantially in their location of them but have been made wider, and original many the names of all have been changed.
;
Auburn
The " Town
"
ANCIENT NAMES.
Braintree Street
PRESENT NAMES.
Harvard Street and Harvard Square.
Spring Street
Mount Auburn
Winthrop
South
Street.
Long Marsh Lane Creek Lane
Street
Street.
Street, and part of Eliot Street. Brattle Square and part of Eliot Street.
Wood
Street
Water Street Crooked Street
Brighton Street. Dunster Street.
Holyoke
Street.
"
highway
Besides these principal streets were sundry highways. The " to Watertown extended from Brattle Square through
;
Brattle Street to Mason Street and thence was identical with the " Path from Charlestown to Watertown." From this high-
three others diverged southerly one, to the ox-marsh, passing near the site of the Brattle Mansion-house one to Windmill-hill, now Ash Street ; and one to Watertown marsh, not far The westerly from the residence of Samuel Batchelder, Esq.
way
and last of these three highways were long ago closed. Mason Street was early distinguished as the " highway from Charlestown to Watertown." The original " highway to the " Fresh Pond followed the track of the present Garden Street,
first
Wyeth Street, and Vassall Lane, except that it passed across the common from Harvard Square to its northwesterly corner. As far as to Wyeth Street, Garden Street was called both the
Fresh Pond," and the " highway to the Great Swamp northwesterly from Wyeth Street, it had the latter name exclusively. An old range-way on the easterly side of the Botanic Garden, now made wider and called Raymond Street, was "the other highway to the Great Swamp." The "high" way to the Common indicated that portion of North Avenue which led from Harvard Square to the point where the Old
"
highway
"
;
to the
CIVIL HISTORY.
15
Charlestown Path crossed the Common. The other portion of North Avenue was the " highway to Menotomy." The " high" Charlestown Path," as before way to Charlestown," or the In the impaled land, stated, was the present Kirkland Street.
the principal highway was the "highway to the Oyster Bank," or the " highway into the neck," extending through Arrow
Street, and Pleasant Street, to a point near Cottage and thence diagonally across the present streets towards Washington Square. From Pleasant Street a path diverged westerly, and followed the border of the upland, next to the " ] marsh, and was called the highway to Captain's Island." From the junction of Pleasant and Main streets, the highway extended easterly, nearly in the track of Main Street, and at a later day was called the " highway to Pelham's Island." Be" tween the " old field and " small-lot hill," was the " highway
Street,
Main
Street,
to the
common
pales,"
is
now
called
Dana
Street, the direction of
somewhat changed, the northerly termination now being several rods more westerly than it was at first. Another branch extended southerly from Main Street to Riverwhich, however,
" side, originally called the
highway into the little neck," now " the " town into the " highway to the " there were two principal entrances one being a oyster-bank continuation of Braintree (now Harvard) Street, from Holyoke
Putnam Avenue.
From
of
Street easterly, through Harvard Street and the northerly portion Bow Street to Arrow Street, and indifferently called " Field " Lane and the " highway to the oyster-bank ; " the other
being a continuation of Spring (now
Mount Auburn)
Sti'eet,
or
rather branching from a sharp angle in Crooked (now Holyoke) Street, opposite to the site of the printing office, and winding
along the higher land above the westerly portion of

until
it
Bow
Street,
intersected Field
;
and Arrow streets this and " Cow-yard Row." " Cow-yard Lane," separating the houselots from the yards in the rear, extended across the College en" Old Field," at the distance of closure, from the Common to the about a hundred feet from Harvard Street, having an outlet into Harvard Street about a hundred feet easterly from the present Holyoke Street this, like that into which it entered, was called " Field Lane." Cow-yard Lane and Field Lane north of Har;
Lane at the present junction of Bow was indifferently called " Back Lane,"
azine
upland, where the Powder Magwas erected, an island at high water, was granted to Captain Daniel
1
The
Patrick, at which time
it
a rcry early period, since has always been styled
Captain's Island.
16
vard Street were discontinued and enclosed with the adjoining " lands immediately after " Mr. Hooker's Company removed. The foregoing are all the highways of which I find any trace in
the present bounds of Cambridge, prior to 1636. On the south side of the river, however, a highway was early established, called the " highway to Roxbury," from a point opposite to the College Wharf, in the general direction of the road from Cam-
bridge Great Bridge, through the easterly portion of Brighton to Brookline. Frequent reference is also made, in the early " records, to the highway from Watertown to Roxbury."
CHAPTER
III.
CIVIL HISTORY.
never to have been incorporated by spewas originally set apart by the government for puband it was from the beginning recognized as a distinct lic use town. As early as June 14, 1631, the Court provided for the " making of a canal or passage from Charles River to the New
cific act.
;
THE New Town seems

It
in ordering a tax of thirty pounds, Feb. 3, 1631-2, " the to defray expense of a pallysadoe about the New Town," on that town, as related in Chapthereof one tenth assessed part
Town," and,
ter II.
There
is
no recorded evidence, however,
of
any municipal
transactions by the
New Town
until
;
March
29, 1632,
when
the
Town Book
since which time a continuof Records was opened been The first transaction recorded record has ous preserved. " the inhabitants of the New Town, about was the agreement by
paling in the neck of land." Six weeks later, the Court appointed a constable for the New Town, and selected two of its inhabitants,
with a like number from other towns, " to confer with the Court about raising of a public stock." 1 The first named record, March The 29, 1632, has been fully quoted in the preceding chapter. next in order, Dec. 24, 1632, provided for regular meetings of
the inhabitants for the transaction of business.
The
record
is
mutilated somewhat, and the words supposed to have been worn off are here inserted in brackets " An agreement made by a general consent, for a monthly
:
meeting. " Imprimis, That every person undersubscribed shall [meet] every first Monday in every month, within [the] meeting house,
in the afternoon, within half [an hour] after the ringing of the bell 2 and that every [one] that makes not his personal appear;
Mass.
Col. Rec.,
i.
95, 96,
May
9,
"Mr. Edmond Lockwood was chosen constable of New Towne for this
1632:
yeare next ensueing, and till a newe be chosen." On the same day, "It was ordered that there should be two of every 2
plantacon appointed to conferre with the Court about raiseing of a publique
"Mr. Lockwood and Mr. stockc;" Spencer for Newc Towne." a It is observable that the hour of meeting was thus early announced by "the
18
ance there [and] continues there, without leave from the [ until the meeting be ended, shall forfeit [for each] default xii. pence and if it be not paid [before the next] meeting, then to
:
double
it, and so until [it be paid]." Although a general subscription seems to have been contemplated, only two signatures are appended, namely, Thomas Dudley and John Haynes and Mr. Haynes must have subscribed his name several months after the order was adopted, as he did not
;
arrive until Sept. 3, 1633. At the first meeting holden in pursuance of this " agreement," several municipal arrangements were made, to secure the beauty and safety of the town, to wit " It is Jan. 7, 1632-3. ordered, that no person whatever house in the bounds of this town [without] [shall set] up any
:
leave from the major part.
Further, it is agreed, by a joint consent, [that the] shall not be enlarged until all [the vacant] places be filled
houses. 1 "
of the
"
town
with
Further,
it is
agreed, that
all
town
shall be covered [with] slate or board,
the houses [within] the bounds and not with
thatch. 2
"
Further,
it is
and stand
street."
just six [feet
ordered, that all [the houses shall] range even, on each man's] own ground from the
ringing of the bell." Johnson represents that, in 1636, a drum was used, because
the town
This was a reaffirmation of an agree-
"had
as yet
Coll. to meeting." Soc., xiv. 18. It seems unlikely that "Mr. Hook" er's company transported their bell,
no bell to Mass. Hist.
call
men
the original projectors of the town, nearly two years earlier. In his letter to the Countess of Lincoln,
ment made by
across the wilderness, to Connecticut, and the story perhaps was inaccurately reported to Johnson. The day of meeting
dated March 28, 1631, Dudley speaks of " For recent disasters by fire, and adds the prevention whereof in our new town,
:
intended this
summer
to be builded,
we
was changed
to the second
Monday
in
the month, Oct. 1, 1639, because ''it was " " to preordered by the General Court, vent the hindrance of the military com-
have ordered that no man there shall build his chimney with wood, nor cover his As an additional house with thatch."
prevention, the
3, 1636,
townsmen ordered, Oct.

child,
" That no
pany upon the first Monday in the month, that no other meetings should be appointed upon that day."
1
of ten years, shall carry any
under the age fire from
"
The town,"
technically
so-called,
was embraced in the district bounded northerly by Harvard Street and Square, westerly by Brattle Square and Eliot Street, southerly by Eliot and South streets, and easterly by Holyoke Street, which was then very crooked.
one house to another, nor any other person unless it be covered, upon the forfeiture of xii. pence a time for every such fault the one half to the person that sees In these it, the other to the Constable." days of lucifer matches, such an order may seem unnecessary; but even within the last fifty years, it was not unusual to send from house to house for fire.
:
CIVIL HISTORY.
19
pales, apparently at
Next follows the

the same meeting.
division of the
common
The
mies
" the prohibition against erecting houses outside of

it is
town
"
a precaution against danger from enenot ; unlikely to have been occasioned, in part at yet desire to make this the seat of governcontinued the least, by desirable the most and ment, place of residence in the colony.
may have been merely
regularity required in the position of the houses indicates a disposition to make the town symmetrical as well as compact.
The
This orderly arrangement, which had doubtless been observed from the beginning, is referred to by Wood, in his " New England's Prospect," written in this year (1633), as one of the characteristic " This features of the new town place was first intended for a but, upon more serious considerations, it was thought not city so fit, being too far from the sea, being the greatest inconvenience it hath. This is one of the neatest and best compacted towns in New England, having many fair structures, with many handsome contrived streets. The inhabitants, most of them, are very rich, and well stored with cattle of all sorts, having many hundred acres of land paled in with general fence, which is about a mile and a half long, which secures all their weaker cattle from
:
the wild beasts."
After this meeting on the seventh of January, no other is recorded until Aug. 5, 1633 from which date there is a consecutive record of the " monthly meetings." selection from the
;
orders adopted at these meetings primitive condition of the town.
may
serve to illustrate the
were granted for " cow-yards." is ordered, that whosoever hath any tree Sept. 2, 1633. lying across a highway, and doth not remove it within seven days, or whosoever shall hereafter fall any tree and let it lie cross a highway one day, shall forfeit the tree." Dec. 2, 1633. " It is ordered, that no person whatever shall fell any tree near the town, within the path which goeth from
Aug.
5,
1633.
Sundry
" It
lots
Watertowne
to Charlestowne,
upon the
forfeiture of five shillings
for every tree so felled."

1
Boston
edition,
p.
45.
The
pros-
town
in the colony
which was required
to
perity of the inhabitants seems not to have been overstated. Of the general tax im-
posed by the Court, Oct. 1, 1633, Boston, Roxbury, Charlestown, Watertown, and
New Town
eight pounds
were assessed alike, fortyDorchester was the only

;
eighty pounds. In pay a larger sum, March, 1636, the share of New Town, in a tax of three hundred pounds, was forty two pounds, when no other town was assessed more than thirty-seven pounds ten
shillings.
20
"
Agreed with Mr. Symon Bradstreet, to make a sufficient cartway along by his pales, and keep it in repair seven years and he is to have ten shillings for the same." March 2, 1633-4. " Granted John Benjamin all the ground between John Masters his ground and Antho. Couldbyes, pro;
vided that the windmill-hill shall be preserved for the town's use, of two rods wide unto the same." 1 " Granted John Pratt two acres by the old April 7, 1634. 2 the common without pales." burying place, " It is ordered, that whosoever shall fall [any] Aug. 4, 1634. tree for boards, clapboards, or frames of houses, [and] sell them
and a cartway
out of the town, shall forfeit for every [tree] so sold twenty shillings."
Nov.
3,
1634.
3
" James Olmsted

till
is
chosen Constable for the

in his room,
year following, and

ently sworn. " John White
streets
is
new be chosen
and pres-
chosen Surveyor, to see the highways and
kept clean, and in repair for the year following. is ordered, that every inhabitant in the town shall keep the street clear from wood and all other things against his own ground and whosoever shall have anything lie in the street above one day after the next meeting-day, shall forfeit five shil" It
;
lings for every such default." 1634-5. " It is Jan.

5,
ordered, that whosoever hath any
lot-
granted by the town, and shall not improve the same, then it is to return to the town or, if he shall improve the same, he shall if first offer it to the town they refuse to give him what charges
;
he hath been
at,
then to have liberty to
sell it to
whom
he can."
Next follows an agreement, accompanied by several orders, whereby the system of municipal government was radically
1
Windmill-hill was at the south end

Street,
near the former site of the windmill was Cambridge Gas Works. there erected for the grinding of corn, as no mill moved by water-power was nearer than Watertown. This mill was removed to Boston in August, 1632, because "it would not grind but with a westerly wind." Savage's Winthrop, i. 87. The
of
Ash
end, ten rods and four feet on the north line, and seven and a half rods across
was acknowledged by Eccles be public property, together with a highway to it, two rods wide, through
the east end,
to his land;
and
his
acknowledgment was
entered on the Proprietors' Records, 2 See chapter xv.
hill
was
ard
afterwards enclosed by RichEccles, who owned the adjoining
and it so remained until 1684, when the town asserted its rights ; and a tract measuring ten rods on the river, six rods and seven feet across the west
lands,
Edmund Lockwood had been appointed Constable by the Court, May 9, 1632, and John Benjamin, May 29, 1633 but James Olmstead was the first person
8
;
elected
fice,
by the inhabitants to fill that ofwhich was then of great honor and
importance.
CIVIL HISTORY.
changed.
Hitherto,
21
month, to a few
"
to
all the legal voters had met, from month to their manage public affairs. Power was now delegated " individuals, at first styled Townsmen," and afterwards
" the whole business of the Selectmen," to transact town," until the next November, when a new election might be had. 1
At a general meeting of the whole town, it was agreed upon by a joint consent, that seven men should be chosen to do the whole business of the town, and so to continue until the first Monday in November next, and until new be chosen in their room so there was then elected and chosen John Haynes, Esq., Mr. Symon Bradstreet, John Taylcott, William Westwood, John White, William Wadsworth James Olmsted,
Feb.
3,
1634-5.
"
Constable.
"It
these time,
is further ordered, by a joint consent, [that] whatsoever Townsmen, thus chosen, shall do, in the compass of their shall stand in as full force as if the whole town did the
same, either for making of new orders, or altering of old ones. " Further, it is ordered, that whatsoever person they shall send for, to help in any business, and he shall refuse to come, they shall have power to lay a fine upon him, and to gather [it]. " Further, it is ordered, that they shall have one to attend upon them, to employ about any business, at a public charge. " Further, it is ordered, that they shall meet every first Monto the day in a month, at [ ] in the afternoon, according
former [order]." Another important board of officers was elected, at the same meeting " Also, there was then chosen, to join [with] James Olmsted,
:
Constable, John Benjamin, Daniell Denison,
William Spencer
[shall]
Andrew Warner, which five, according to the order of Court, survey the town lands, and enter the [same in] a Book
;
2 appointed for that purpose.
Perhaps the term of service was thus
limited in anticipation of the proposed removal of many inhabitants.

2 Mass. Col. Rec., i. 116. April 1,1634. "It was further ordered, that the constable and four or more of the chief inhabi-
proved, or enclosed, or granted by special order of the Court, of every free inhabitant there, and shall enter the same
a book (fairly written in words at length and not in figures), with the several bounds and quantities by the nearest
in
tants of every town- (to be chosen by all the freemen there, at some meeting there),
estimation, and shall deliver a transcript thereof into the Court within six months
with the advice of some one or more of

the next assistants, shall make a surveying of the houses, backside, cornfields,
now next ensuing and

;
tered
and recorded,
shall
the same, so enbe a sufficient
mowing ground, and
other lands, im-
assurance to every such free inhabitant, his and their heirs and assigns, of such
22
" It
first
is
further ordered, that these five men [shall] meet every in the [month] at the Constable's house, in the
Monday
forenoon, at the ringing of the bell."

estate of inheritance, or as they shall have in an}* such houses, lands, or frank-tenein the
New Towne,"
and, more familiarly,
the
ments."
The book thus prepared, called " The Regestere Booke of the Lands and Houses
"Proprietors' Records," is still preserved in the office of the City Clerk. The record was not finally closed until
Feb. 19, 1829.
CHAPTER
IV.
CIVIL HISTORY.
THE
projectors of the
New Town
:
grievous disappointments not generally become inhabitants,

;
the
officers of
had hitherto suffered two the government had

to
according
the
original
and so great was the disparity in commercial adagreement it early became manifest that the New Town that vantages, could not successfully compete with Boston as the great mart of
trade.
No
this should
become the principal
reasonable hope, therefore, could be entertained that In other recity of the colony.
that
have been eminently successful. men of ability might be attracted hither by the advantages offered, had been gratified for so as Wood wrote them " the inhabspects, the enterprise appears to
The hope expressed by Dudley,

early
1633,
concerning
itants,
most
of
them, are very rich and well stored with cattle of

proportion of the rulers resided here.
all sorts."
A reasonable
Dudley remained Deputy Governor until May, 1634, when he became Governor, and the next year was an Assistant. Bradstreet was constantly an Assistant and Haynes, at the first election after his arrival, was elected as an Assistant, and the next Moreover, the New Town had become year, 1635, Governor. the seat of government and, for aught which appears to the retained that distinction, if the principal it have might contrary, inhabitants had not removed. 1
;
;
1 The first three Courts of Assistants were held at Charlestown in August and September, 1630; after which all the courts were held in Boston until May, The Assistants had even voted, 1634.
clusively until
May,
;
1636.
Then they
returned to Boston
then to
New Town
again in April, 1637, until September,

1638,
when
they
became
permanently
fixed at Boston.
It is thought, by general Oct. 3, 1632, consent, that Boston is the fittest place for public meetings of any place in the
"
Dr. Holmes, writing
in 1800, says,
"In
Bay."
Yet when Dudley was
elected
some of the first years, the annual election of the Governor and Magistrates of the Colony was holden in this town. The peopic, on these occasions, assembled under an oak tree, which stood on the northerly
Governor, in May, 1634, the courts, both

general and particular, were transferred to New Town, and were there held ex-
side of the
Common
in
Cambridge, a
lit-
24
All these advantages, however, were not satisfactory. The disappointment and uneasiness found vent in words. One memor-
" At the court of assistants," says preserved " Winthrop, Nov. 3, 1635, John Pratt of Newtown was questioned about the letter he wrote into England, wherein he affirmed
able example
is
:
divers things, which were untrue and of ill repute, for the state of the country, as that here was nothing but rocks, and sands, and salt marshes, etc. He desired respite for his answer to the
next morning
his
then he gave
own
interpretation of
it in writing, in which, by making some passages and acknowledging his

l
error in others, he gave satisfaction."
This
letter,
probably
written in the previous year, is not known to exist ; but the " answer," which sufficiently indicates its nature, is on record
:
me, John Pratt, to such things as I hear and First, perceive objected against me, as offensive in my letter. generally, whatsoever I writ of the improbability or impossibility of subsistence for ourselves or our posterity without tempting God, or without extraordinary means, it was with these two regards first, I did not mean that which I said in respect of the whole country, or our whole patent in general, but only of that compass of ground wherein these towns are so thick set together and secondly, I supposed that they intended so to remain, because (upon conference with divers) I found that men did think it unreasonable that they or any should remove or disperse into other parts of the country and upon this ground I thought I But could not subsist myself, nor the plantation, nor posterity. I do acknowledge that since my letter there have been sundry places newly found out, as Neweberry, Concord, and others (and that within this patent), which will afford good means of subsistence for men and beasts, in which and other such like new planof
:
;
" The answer
tie
The stump of
years since."
west of the road leading to Lexington, it was dug up not many

Coll.
for the counties in
on
This was probably the a note to Hutchinson's
Mass. Hist. Soc., vii. 9. tree mentioned in

:
speech, advising the people to look to their charter and to consider the present work of
in the field),
and
England was there made a
carried
At
Ifist. Mass., i. 61 the election in 1637, the party of Mr. Vane, fearing defeat, refused to proceed,
the day, which was designed for the chusing the governor, deputy governor, and the rest of the assistants for the goverii-
had been read, Mr. Winthrop's party protested against

until a certain petition
delay.
ment of the commonwealth. His speech was well received by the people, who prosently called out, election, election, which turned the scale."
1
And
it is
said that
"Mr. Wilson,
the minister, in his zeal gat up upon the bough of a tree (it was hot weather and
the election like that of Parliament
Savage's Winthrop,
i.
173, 174.
men
CIVIL HISTORY.
tations,
if
25
the towns shall be fewer and the bounds larger than
may live comfortably. The like I think of Cofiecticott, with the plantations there now in hand and what I conceive so sufficient for myself, I conceive so suffithese are, I conceive they
;
cient also for
my
posterity.
And
concerning these towns here so
thick planted, I conceive they may subsist in case that, besides the conveniences which they have already near hand, they do imto
prove farms somewhat further off, and do also apply themselves and do improve the trade of fishing and other trades. As
concerning the intimation of the Commonwealth builded upon rocks, sands, and salt marshes, I wish I had not made it, because it is construed contrary to my meaning, which I have before
expressed.
And
whereas
my
letters
judgment
skill,
of such as
came
before, as having
do seem to extenuate the more honesty than

;
they being scholars, citizens, tradesmen, &c., my meaning was not so general as the words do import for I had an eye only to those that had made larger reports into England of the country than I found to be true in the sense aforesaid. And whereas I may seem to imply that I had altered the minds or judgments of the body of the people, magistrates, and others, I
did not mean this in respect of the goodness or badness of the land in the whole plantation, but only in point of removal and spreading further into other parts, they afterwards conceiving it necessary that some should remove into other places, here and
there, of
more enlargement
an dv whereas
seem
to
speak of
all
the magistrates and people, I did indeed mean only all those with whom I had any private speech about those things. And
then as
as for the barrenness of the sandy grounds, &c., I spake of them I conceived ; but now, by experience of mine own, I
ground as before I accounted barren, yet, being manured and husbanded, doth bring forth more fruit than I did As for the not prospering of the English grain upon expect. this ground, I do since that time see that rye and oats have prosfind that such
but as for the other kinds of grain, I do still question whether they will come to such perfection as And whereas I in our native country from whence they come. into Engwritten that have all to am thought generally charge
pered better than I expected
;
land by way of commendation of this land as if what they had written were generally false, I meant it only of such excessive commendations as I see did exceed and are contrary to that which
I
have here expressed. " And as concerning that which I
said, that the gospel
would
26
it
some outward commodity to look for better grounds ere they look this way. As for some grounds of my returning, which I concealed from my friends for fear of doing hurt, I meant only some particular occasions and apprehensions of mine own, not intending to lay any secret blemAnd whereas I did express the danger of ish upon the State.
be as dear here as in England, I did which intended to come hither only
to this end, to put
for
decaying here in our first love, &c., I did it only in regard of the manifold occasions and businesses which here at first we meet
withal, by which I find in mine own experience (and so, I think, do others also), how hard it is to keep our hearts in that holy frame which sometimes they were in where we had less to do in outward things, but not at all intending to impute it as necessary to our condition, much less as a fruit of our precious liberties which we enjoy, which rather tend to the quickening of us, we
improving the same as we ought. " This my answer (according with the inward consent and of meaning my heart) I do humbly commend to the favorable consideration and acceptance of the Court, desiring in this, as in
all things,
to
approve myself in a conscience void of offence "
towards
God and man.
JOHN PRATT.
this answer of John Pratt before written, voluntarily by him made, as we are witnesses, so we do also join with him in humble desire unto the Court, that it may be favorably accepted, and whatever failings are in the letter in regard of the manner of expressions (which may seem hardly to suit with these his in-
" Of
terpretations), we do desire the indulgence of the Court to pass over without further question.
"
PETER BULKELEY. JOHN WILSON. THOMAS HOOKER.
" Whereas John Pratt of

at this present Court, into England, dated
Newe Towne, being called before us and questioned for a letter which he wrote wherein he raised an ill report of
,
this country, did desire respite
till
the next day to consider of his
answer, he hath now delivered in this before written, which, upon his free submission and acknowledgement of his error, the
Court hath accepted for satisfaction, and thereupon pardoned his
CIVIL HISTORY.
said offence,
27
and given order that
it
shall be recorded,
and such
as desire copies thereof
"
may JOHN HAYNES, Gov r RICH: BELLINGHAM, JOHN WINTHROP, THO: DUDLEY, JOHN HUMFRY,
have the same.

.,
WLLL M CODDINGTON, WILL M PINCHON, ATTERTON HOUGHE,

. .
INCREASE NOWELL, SIMON BRADSTREETE." l
This Mr. Pratt was a physician in the
New Town,
or
Cam2
He and his wife were bridge, for several years. the coast of Spain in December, 1646, as related
He was
not the only dissatisfied person, though
drowned near
by Winthrop.
less cautious
than
others in expressing his feelings. As early as May, 1634, this spirit of dissatisfaction became so general among the inhabitants
of the
New Town,
that they proposed to abandon their compara-
tively pleasant homes, and to commence anew in the wilderness. The ostensible reason for removal was the lack of sufficient land.
The town was indeed narrow, but
its
length was indefinite.
The
limit of eight miles northwesterly from the meeting-house was not fixed until March, 1636 ; and it does not appear how far the land
was previously occupied in that direction. But the westerly line Charlestown was established, March 6, 1632-3 and it seems to have been understood that the whole territory between that line and the easterly bounds of Watertown was reserved for the use of New Town, however far those lines might extend into the But the people appeared impatient of such narrow country. limits. At the General Court, May 14, 1634, " Those of New Town complained of straitness for want of land, especially meadow, and desired leave of the Court to look out either for enlargement or removal, which was granted whereupon they sent men to see Agawam and Merrimack, and gave out that they would remove, etc." 3 Early in July, 1634, " Six of New Town went in the Blessing (being bound to the Dutch plantation,) to discover Connecticut River, intending to remove their town In the following September, the same subject was thither." 4
of
;
;
The record is very again brought before the General Court. but the particulars related by Winthrop are of so much brief
;
interest that they
Sept. 4,
1634.
may well be quoted in full " The General Court began

:
at
New Town,
i.
and continued a week, and was then adjourned fourteen days.

1 2
Mass. Rec.,
i.
358-360.
ii.
Savage's Winthrop,
Ibid,,
i.
132.
Savage's Winthrop,
239.
136.
28
business,
The main
which spent the most time and caused the
adjourning of the Court, was about the removal of They had leave, the last General Court, to look out
New Town.
some place
for enlargement or removal, with promise of having it confirmed to them, if it were not prejudicial to any other plantation ; and now they moved that they might have leave to remove to Con-
This matter was debated divers days, sons alleged pro and con. " The principal reasons for their removal were,
necticut.
of
and many
rea-
1. Their want were not able to maintain their ministers, nor could receive any more of their friends to help them and here it was alleged by Mr. Hooker, as a fundamental error, that towns were set so near each to other. 2. The fruitfulness and commodiousness of Connecticut, and the danger of having it possessed by others, Dutch or Eng-
accommodation
for their cattle, so as they
lish.
strong bent of their spirits to remove thither. these it was said, 1. That, in point of conscience, Against not to they ought depart from us, being knit to us in one body
3.
The
"
and bound by oath to seek the welfare of this commonwealth. 2. That, in point of state and civil polity, we ought not to give them leave to depart being we were now weak and in danger to be assailed the departure of Mr. Hooker would not only draw many from us, but also divert other friends that would come to us we should expose them to evident peril, both from the Dutch, (who made claim to the same river and had already built a fort there,) and from the Indians, and also from our own state at home, who would not endure they should sit down without a patent in any place which our king lays claim unto. 3. They might be accommodated at home by some enlargement which other towns offered. 4. They might remove to Merimack
:
or
candlestick
any other place within our patent. 5. The removing of a is a great judgment, which is to be avoided. " Upon these and other arguments the Court being divided, it was put to vote and, of the Deputies, fifteen were for their departure, and ten against it. The Governor and two Assistants were for it, and the Deputy and all the rest of the Assistants were against it, (except the Secretary, who gave no vote ;) whereupon no record was entered, because there were not six
;
Assistants in the vote, as the patent requires. Upon this there Governor and Assistants a difference between the grew great
tive voice,
and the Deputies. They would not yield the Assistants a negaand the others (considering how dangerous it might
CIVIL HISTORY.
29
be to the commonwealth if they should not keep that strength to balance the greater number of the Deputies) thought it safe to stand upon it. So when they could proceed no farther, the whole Court agreed to keep a day of humiliation to seek the Lord,
which was accordingly done, in all the congregations, the 18th day of this month and the 24th the Court met again. Before they began, Mr. Cotton preached, (being desired by all the Court upon Mr. Hooker's instant excuse of his unfitness for that He took his text out of Hag. ii. 4, etc., out of which occasion.) he laid down the nature or strength (as he termed it) of the the strength of the magmagistracy, ministry, and people, viz. of the people, their liberty and istracy to be their authority of the ministry, their purity and showed how all of these had a negative voice, etc., and that yet the ultimate resolution, etc., ought to be in the whole body of the people, etc., with answer to all objections, and a declaration of the people's duty and right
: ;
to
etc.,
maintain their true liberties against any unjust violence, which gave great satisfaction to the company. And it
pleased the Lord so to assist him and to bless his that the affairs of the Court went on cheerfully
all
own
;
ordinance,
left to
and although
the
were not
satisfied
about the negative voice to be
magistrates, yet no
gregation of
as
man moved aught about it, and the conNew Town came and accepted of such enlargement
;
had formerly been offered them by Boston and Watertown and so the fear of their removal to Connecticut was removed." l This " enlargement," however, was not permanently satisfactory.
The
inhabitants of
New Town
strong bent of their spirits to remove." they received permission of the General Court.
again manifested It does not appear
" the
when
Perhaps the libin was held to be sufterms, 14, 1634, erty granted general May ficient. It seems certain that a considerable number of them
went to Connecticut before Sept. 3, 1635 for on that day William Westwood, a New Town man, was " sworn Constable of the 2 But the plantations at Connecticut till some other be chosen."
;
Under date of May general exodus was several months later. " Mr. 31, 1636, Winthrop says Hooker, pastor of the church of New Town, and the most of his congregation, went to Connecticut. His wife was carried in a horse-litter and they drove one
: ;
hundred and sixty

Their possessions in
1
cattle,
New
\.
and fed of their milk by the way." 3 Town were purchased by Mr. Shepard
8
Savage's Winthrop,
140-142.
Savage's Winthrop,
i.
187.
Mass.
Col. Kec.,
i.
159.
30
and his friends, who opportunely arrived in the autumn of 1635 and the following spring and summer. The reasons assigned for this removal seem insufficient to justify it
;
or, at
ability to maintain their ministers, the same session when this reason
the least, insufficient to require it. As to their init should be observed that at
was
alleged,
New Town
was
rated as high as any other town in the colony. 1 The real want of accommodation for cattle and for an additional population may be estimated from the facts that, at this time there were probably
than one hundred families here, containing from five hundred hundred persons and, supposing them to have sold one half of their cattle to their successors, their herd may have conless
to six
Including the land then offered their territory embraced Camthem, by by After Brookline, bridge, Arlington, Brighton, and Newton. all needful allowance for in making improvements agriculture, one might suppose here was sufficient room for somewhat more
sisted of
about three hundred.
others and accepted
than a hundred families, with their flocks and herds. Another reason is mentioned by Winthrop, namely, " the
The particular pressure strong bent of their spirits to remove." which occasioned this " strong bent " he does not describe. But
Hubbard, writing before 1682, when many were living who " The heard the discussion, intimates what that pressure was as and themselves did not wise men deemed impulsive cause, remove was the bent of their to altogether conceal, spirits strong out of the place where they were. Two such eminent stars, such
:
as
were Mr. Cotton and Mr. Hooker, both
of the first
though
the
of different influence, could not well continue in

2
magnitude, one and
same orb."
Again he says
"
A great number of the plan;
ters of the old towns, viz., Dorchester,
Roxbury, Watertown, and Cambridge, were easily induced to attempt a removal of themselves and families upon the first opportunity offered which was not a little advanced by the fame and interest of Mr. Hooker, whose worth and abilities had no small influence upon the people of the towns forementioned." 3 The opinion thus expressed by Hubbard, was adopted by Hutchinson, nearly a hundred years " Mr. Hooker and Mr. Cotton were later deservedly in high esteem some of the principal persons were strongly attached to The great influence the one of them, and some to the other. which Mr. Cotton had in the colony inclined Mr. Hooker and his
:
Mass. Col. Rec., i. 129. Coll.. Mass. Hist. Soc., xv. 173.
Ibid., xvi. 305, 306.
CIVIL HISTORY.
friends to
31
remove
New Town.
that they
to some place more remote from Boston than Besides, they alleged, as a reason for their removal, were straitened for room, and thereupon viewed
divers places on the sea-coast, but were not satisfied with them." l Trumbull suggests that political rivalry was mingled with cleri-
Of John Haynes he says " In 1635 he was chosen Massachusetts. He was not considered in any His growing popularity, respect inferior to Governor Winthrop. and the fame of Mr. Hooker, who, as to strength of genius and his lively and powerful manner of pi-eaching, rivalled Mr. Cotton, were supposed to have had no small influence upon the General Court in their granting liberty to Mr. Hooker and his company to remove to Connecticut. There it was judged they would not
cal jealousy. Governor of
:
so
much
and honor
eclipse the fame, nor stand in the way of the of themselves or their friends." 2
promotion
Very probably such
jealousies
and
rivalries
had some influence
upon the removal of Mr. Hooker and his friends. It is known that Winthrop and Haynes differed in judgment upon public policy, the former advocating a mild administration of justice, on " more strictness in civil and the latter
insisting government and military discipline," as Winthrop relates at large, i. 177-179. The Antinomian controversy, which did not indeed culminate in until a year or two later, had commenced as early as 1635 which Hooker and Cotton espoused opposite sides, and were among the most prominent clerical antagonists. Up to the period of the removal, it seemed doubtful which party would Both parties were zealous both lauded their own prevail. clergymen, and spoke harshly of their opponents. It is not surtheir prising, therefore, that Cotton and Hooker should feel that On the close proximity was irritating rather than refreshing. " " the was whole, I think, strong bent of their spirits to remove
;
not altogether caused by lack of sufficient land or by straitness of
accommodations.
However doubtful
part of the First
the cause, the fact
is
certain, that the greater
Town
Church and Congregation removed from more than fifty families went to Hartford, and others
New
else-
families residing here before January, 1635, not where. more than eleven are known to have remained. The following
list
Of the
compiled from the Records of the Town, It should be observed, first appear. here earlier than the them were that of however, perhaps many
of inhabitants
is
under the dates
when they
i.
Hist. Mass.,
43.
* Uist.
Conn.,
i.
224.
32
.HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE.
For example, Dudley and Bradstreet, under date of 1632, were here in 1631 many of those who are entered under date of 1633 were certainly here in 1632 and some of those whose names first appear in 1634 had perhaps been residents one or two years previously. It may also be observed, that of those who removed, many did not permanently remain in the town first selected, but subsequently
dates would indicate.
and probably
;
others,
went elsewhere ; yet
it
does not properly
fall
within
my province
to trace their various emigrations. 1632.
Thomas Dudley, Esq.

Simon Bradstreet.
Daniel Patrick. 8
1
Edmund Lockwood. 2
1633.
5 Jeremy Adams. Matthew Allen. 6 John Benjamin. 6 5 Stephen Hart.
John Poole. 4 William Spencer. 5 John Kirman. 4 Simon Sackett. 2

1
John Hayues, Esq. 5

7
Joseph Reading. Nathaniel Richards. 5
Jonathan Bosworth.
Thomas Heate." Rev. Thomas Hooker. 6

John Hopkins.
5
Thomas Edward
Spencer.
Stebbins.
5 5
John Bridge.
Richard Butler. 5
Thomas Hosmer. 6
William Kelsey. 6 William Lewis. 5
Richard Lord. 5
William Butler. 6
John Clark.
5 8 1
Anthony Colby.
Daniel Denison.
John Masters. 6
George Steele. John Steele. 6 Rev. Samuel Stone. 5 John Talcott. 5 Wm. Wadsworth. 6 Andrew Warner. 5
Richard Webb. 6 William Westwood. 5
Samuel Dudley. 9
Abraham
Morrill.
Edward Elmer. 5 Richard Goodman. 5

William Goodwin. Garrad Haddon.
5
Hester Mussey. 5 James Olmstead. 5
John White. 6
William Pantry.
John
Pratt. 6
1634.
Daniel Abbott.
10 6
Thomas
William Andrews. John Arnold. 5
Beale, 6 Christopher Cane.
Mrs. Chester. 6
Nicholas Clark. 6
Robert Day. 6 6 Joseph Easton. 5 Nathaniel Ely.
Guy
1
Banbridge.
James Ensign. 6
John Barnard. 6
Removed
to Ipswich.
;
Dolor Davis. 11
7
Thomas
8
Fisher.
12
Died here
family removed to Con-
necticut.
8
*
6 6
Removed Removed Removed

Remained
to
to
Water town.
Lynn.
13
11
to Hartford.
12
Removed to Hingham. Removed to Salisbury. Removed to Boston. Removed to Providence. Removed to Concord. Removed to Dedham.
here.
CIVIL HISTORY.
33
Michael Spencer. 7
Edmund
Gearner.1
3
Thomas Judd. 8
William Mann. 2
John Gibson. 2
Seth Grant.
John Maynard.
Bartholomew Green. 2 Samuel Green. 2 Samuel Greenhill. 3

Nathaniel Hancock. 2
Joseph Mygate. 3 Stephen Post.
Timothy Stanley. 8 George Stocking. 7 Timothy Tomlins.
John Prince. 5
Humphrey Vincent. Samuel Wakeman. 8

7
Thomas
Scott.
Edmund
1
Hunt.
Garrad Spencer.
Gardner, who
5
Samuel Whitehead. 3 Simon Willard.8

to Hull,
Perhaps the
Edmund
was
2
in Ipswich, 1638.
G
" 8
Remained
here.
to
3
4
Removed Removed
Hartford.
Removed Removed Removed Removed
to Ipswich.
to
Lynn.
to Concord.
to
Duxbury.
3
CHAPTER
V.
CIVIL HISTORY.
IT lias already been mentioned in the preceding chapter, that Mr. Hooker and a large proportion of his church removed from New Town in 1635 and 1636 and that Mr. Shepard with an" other company purchased their houses and lands. Among the reasons which swayed him to come to New England," Mr. Shepard says in his Autobiography, " Divers people in Old England
;
of
my
dear friends desired
me
to go to
New England
there to
live together, and some went before and writ to me of providing a place for a company of us, one of which was John Bridge, and
I
saw
divers families of
my
thither to go with
me."
Christian friends, who were resolved " in the Accordingly year 1634, about
the beginning of the winter," he embarked at Harwich, having with him " brother Champney, Frost, Goffe, and divers others,
most dear saints," who afterwards were inhabitants of Cambridge. They were driven back by stress of weather, and the was abandoned. But " about the 10th of August, 1635," voyage he again embarked " and so the Lord, after many sad storms and wearisome days and many longings to see the shore, brought us to the sight of it upon Oct. 2, 1635, and upon Oct. the 3d, we arrived with my wife, child, brother Samuel, Mr. HarlaWhen we had been here kenden, Mr. Cooke, &c., at Boston. two days, upon Monday Oct. 5, we came (being sent for by friends at Newtown) to them, to my brother Mr. Stone's house and that congregation being upon their removal to Hartford at Connecticut, myself and those that came with me found many houses empty and many persons willing to sell, and here our
;
we should see but having been here some time, divers of our brethren did desire to sit still and not to remove farther, partly because of the fellowship of the churches, partly because they thought their lives were short and removals to near plantations full of troubles, partly because they found
company bought
another place
off their
houses to dwell in until

;
fit
to
remove into
CIVIL HISTORY.
sufficient
35
and their company," l Besides those who are here named by Mr. Shepard, another Mr. Cooke and William French came in the same ship (The Defence^) with him and the larger portion of those whose names first appear in 1635 and 1636 may safely be regarded as members of his company, to
for themselves
;
wit
1635.
Jonas Austin.
Thomas Blodgett. Thomas Blower. 3
Roger Harlakenden, Esq. Atherton Haugh. 8

William Holman. 8
4
William Blumfield. Robert Bradish. 8
Thomas Brigham. William Buck. 8

William Butler.
4
John Jackson. 8 William Jones. 5 Barnabas Lamson. 8
Thomas
Marrett. 8
John Meane. 8
4
Clement Chaplin. Thomas Chesholme. 3

3 George Cooke. 8 Cooke. Joseph
Nicholas Olmstead. 4
Thomas
John
Parish. 3
Robert Parker. 8
Pratt. 6
4
.
Simon
Crosl>y.
8
William Ruscoe
3
Nicholas Danforth.
William French. 8
Edmund
Edward
Frost. 8
8
John Russell. Samuel Shepard. 3 Rev. Thomas Shepard. 8
Richard Girling. 8
Goffe.
Edward
Wiriship. William Witherell. 7
Percival Green.
1836.
William Adams. 8
Angier. James Bennett. 9
Josiah Cobbett. 2
Edmund
Edward
Collins.
3
John Cooper.
Thomas Besbeech. 10
Richard Betts. 8
Peter Bulkeley. 4 Benjamin Burr.
9
Gilbert Crackbone. 3
Francis Griswold. 3
Thomas Hayward. 11
12 Ralph Hudson.
John Champney. 8 Richard Champney. 8

1 Life of Shepard, edition of 1832, pp. 42-58. 7
Joseph Isaac. Richard Jackson. 3

Afterwards settled in the ministry
8
at
Scitunte.
9
10
to Hingham. Remained here. * Removed to Hartford. 5 Removed to Charlestown. Removed to Hartford. Two of the same name were here.
3
Removed
Removed Removed Removed

Removed
to Ipswich. to Concord.
to Scituate or
Duxbury
afterwards to Sudbury.
11
to
Duxbury.
;
12
proprietor
but resided in Boston.
36
John King. 1 John Moore. 2
John Santley. 1
Nathaniel Sparhawk. 2
Walter Nichols. 8 Richard Parke. 2 William Patten. 2 Richard Rice. 4

Nicholas Roberts. 1
Comfort
Starr. 5
2
Gregory Stone. William Towne. 2
Thomas
Welles. 6
John Woolcott.7
Immediately after the arrival of Mr. Shepard's company, they became prominent in municipal affairs, although the larger part of Mr. Hooker's company did not remove until six months afterquote again from the Town Records " At a general meeting of the whole town, there was then chosen, to orde.r the business of the whole town
wards.
I
:
Nov. 23, 1635.
and until new be chosen in their room, Mr. Roger Harlakenden, William Spencer, Andrew Warner, Joseph Cooke, John Bridge, -Clement Chaplin, Nicholas Danwhich nine men are forth, Thomas Hosmer, William Andrews to have the power of the Town as those formerly chosen had, as
for the year following,
:
appear in the order made the 3d Feb. 1634. (1634-5.) Further, there was chosen and sworn William Andrews, constable for the year following, and until a new be chosen.
may
"
" Further, there was then chosen for the year following Barnabas Lambson to be surveyor of the highways. " It is further ordered, That the Town Book shall be at Wil-
liam Spencer's house." With a change of government came a change of customs. Some of the common planting fields became private property.
Thus the Old

vided between
Field, containing about sixty-three acres,
was
di-
Goffe, Samuel Shepard, and Joseph Cooke. Small-lot-Hill, in like manner, passed into fewer hands. Farms were granted to such as desired them, both on the south
side of the River, and in the territory now embraced in Arlington and Lexington. Much the larger portion of the inhabitants continued to reside in the " town," and " West End," very few
Edward
venturing beyond the line of Sparks, Wyeth, and Garden Streets but provision was made for the suitable care of their cattle, on the commons, by keepers specially appointed. Rules were
adopted to promote the comfort and convenience of the inhabitants, and to protect them against annoyance by undesirable
1 2
Names soon
Remained
disappeared.
here.
to
6
7
Removed Removed
to
Duxbury.
to Hartford.
3 4
Removed Removed
Charlestown.
proprietor; but resided in Water-
to Concord.
town.
CIVIL HISTORY.
associates.
37
to ex-
few extracts from the Records may help

"
It is
hibit their condition.
ordered, That the monthly meeting, the every Monday [in month], according to the first order, shall [be continued ;] and whosoever appears not within half an hour after the ringing of the bell, shall pay for the first day vid .,
Dec.
7,
1635.
first
and
[for the second]
day
xii
d
.,
and
[unless he have] a just excuse, such as
so to double it every day, may give satisfaction to
the rest of the company. 1 " It is further ordered,
made down
to low-water
That there shall be a sufficient bridge mark on this side the River, and a
broad ladder [set up] on the farther side the River, for convenience [of] landing and Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Danforth and Mr.
;
Cooke
Jan.
to see
it
made."
is ordered, That Mr. Joseph Cooke shall 4, the and have a penny over, and a half a penny on keep ferry,
" It 1635-6,
Lecture days. 3 " It is further
ordered, That there shall be a double rail set up from the Pine Swamp fence to West-end Field fence, for the milch cows to lie in, on nights, and that no other cattle whatever
to
go there, either swine, goats, mares, or the like." Feb. 8, 1635-6, " Agreed with Mr. Chapline, that his
two days,
viz.:
man
1 This order would seem to require a monthly meeting of all the inhabitants;
gregations, did agree to reduce them to
Mr. Cotton one Thurs-
but the records indicate
that only the
thus met. A general town meeting was seldom held, except annu-
Townsmen
ally in cers.
2
day, or the 5th day of the week, and Mr. Hooker at New Town the next 5th day
;
and Mr. Warham
at
Dorchester on a 4th
November,
for the election of offi-
day of the week, and Mr. Welde at Roxbury, the next 4th day." This arrangement was not effectual for Wiuthrop adds " there were so five years later, in 16.39, many Lectures now in the country, and
;
This bridge, or causeway, was at the
southerly end of Dunster Street. Traces of the old road on the south side of the
river
were
still
visible not
long ago (and per-
many poor persons would usually

two or three
leot of their affairs,
resort to
remain), several rods east of the present road leading from the Great Bridge to Brighton. Connected with this causeway was the ferry, named in the next order,
haps
in the week, to the great ncg-
and the damage of

;
The General Court atthe public," etc. tempted to correct the evil but the Elders, or Pastors of
Although there were then
few,
if
any,
Churches, manifested
New Town residing on the south side of the River, yet many persons crossed the ferry, in going from
inhabitants of the
such a keen jealousy of their rights, that the attempt was abandoned, and all evidence of it was suppressed, or excluded
on Lecture-days, "It being found that the four Lectures did spend too much time, and proved overburdensome to the ministers and people, the ministers, with the advice of the magistrates, and with the consent of their conto town, especially
tells us, in
town
from the records.
Savage's Winthrop,
i.
Winthrop
1634,
144,324-326. * This fence was where Lin naian Street now is, and was the northern boundary of the other sides were the cow-common
;
bounded by the present Garden Street and North Avenue.
38
shall
keep the goats, and to have three half pence a week for one and a penny a week for wethers or kids to begin next
;
goat,
Monday." March 1, 1635-6, "Agreed with Richard Rice to keep 100 cows for the space of three months, to begin when he shall be appointed and is to have ten pounds paid him within ten days after the ships be come in, or in June. Also he is to have 2 men to help him keep them the first 14 days, and one man the next 7 days also to have them kept 2 sabbath days, and he one, during the time. Also he is to fetch the cows into the town every morning out of the common, half an hour after the sun is up, at the farthest, and to bring them into the town half an hour before the sun goeth down, and to pay iii d a cow for every night he
;
;
.
leaveth out any. Also he is not to keep any cattle for any man he have leave from the Townsmen, upon the forfeiture of except
v s a cow he shall so keep. Also he hath liberty to keep his own heifer without pay." " Agreed with John Clarke to make a sufficient weir to catch alewives upon Menotomies River in the bounds of this town, be.
fore the 12th of April next, and shall sell and deliver unto the inhabitants of the town and no other, except for bait, all the ale-
wives he shall take at iii ., 6 per thousand, and shall at all times give such notice to the persons that shall be appointed to fetch them away as he shall be directed, who shall discharge the
.
said John Clarke of them within 24 hours after notice, or else he to have liberty to sell them to whom he can. Provided, and it is the meaning of the Townsmen, that if any shall desire to have
ii
to eat before the great quantity cometh, then he is to have a score and fetch them there, or iii d a score and he bring them home. Further the Townsmen do promise in the behalf
d
. .
some
of the
town
to
make good
all
those fish that he shall be damnified
by the Indians, that is, shall himself deliver unto them, being appointed before by the Townsmen how many he shall deliver. Also to save him harmless from any damage he shall sustain by
Wattertowne, provided it be not his own fault. He is to have money within 14 days after he hath done fishing." March 13, 1635-6, " Agreed with William Patten to keep 100 cattle on the other side the River for the space of seven months, to begin when the Town shall appoint him, and to have twenty pounds, the one half paid him in money when he hath keep half his time, and the other half in corn when he hath done keeping, at the price which the common rate of corn goeth when
his
CIVIL HISTORY.
39
be is to be paid. And he is to have a man to help him the first 14 days, he paying him for one week, the Town for the other also he is to lodge there except once a week, and to have a man to keep them every other sabbath day and he to pay x 8 a
; ;
.
beast for every beast he shall lose ; and to keep no cattle of any s man, except the Townsmen give leave, upon the forfeiture of 5
.
a head for every head he shall so keep." " The hog-keeper began to keep on the
the
fifth
first of
April, being
week so long as the Townsday men please to have him keep them and he is to keep them at Rocky Meadow." " April 4, 1636. Agreed with John Talcott and William
of the
. ; ;
s week, at 10 per
Wads worth to have their house at Rocky Meadow this year, for the hog-keeper to abide in and they are to have their cattle go free from paying towards the pound for dry cattle this year." "It is ordered, That Richard Rice shall begin to keep the cows the llth of April, 1636."
That William Pattine shall begin to keep the 14th of April." dry " That whosoever finds a cock, hen, or turkey, in a Ordered, it shall be for them to require three pence of the lawful garden,
is
" It
ordered,
cattle the
owner
"
and
if
they refuse to pay, then to
kill
the same."
a rate for the
to fetch
.
Andrew Warner and Joseph Cooke
to
make
division of the alewives." 1 " April 23, 1636. Agreed with
Andrew Warner
is
;
home
the alewives from the weir
and he
and load them himself, for carriage any man to help him, he paying of him
"
have xvi d a thousand-, and to have power to take

to
Andrew Warner
for his work. appointed to see a cartway made to the
weir."
" William Reskie appointed to make a pound." " Oct. 3, 1636. Agreed with Mr. Cooke to take up all the stubs that are within the bounds of the town, that is, within the
town gates
1
2
;
and he
to
is
to
have ixd apiece for taking up the same,

.
It
was customary
hill
put one or more
of corn, and to use them otherwise for the enrichment of the

alewives in each
soil.
that shall be taken damage feasant, with all other just damages." " " 2 then stood across Town
dog
gates
They were considered
of so
much
Harvard
Street,
near
Linden
Street
value for this purpose as to be divided
As late as June 10, 1649, it was ordered, by the Townsmen, that all persons provide that their dogs may do no harm in corn or gardens, by scraping up
ratably.
across Brattle Street, probably near Ash Street; and across the street between the
"
College yard and the Burial-place. Besides these, there were other gates to proone across Kirktect the cow-common
;
the
fish,
U upon the penalty of 3
for every
land Street, near
Oxford Street;
one
40
filling
and
up the
holes, all
above
iii.
inches [deep]
which he
is
to do before the
December, or else to forfeit 5." Dec. 5, 1636. " Ordered, That no man inhabiting or not inhabiting within the bounds of the town shall let or sell any house or land unto any, without the consent of the Townsmen then in and lest any place, unless it be to a member of the congregation one shall sustain loss thereby, they shall come and proffer the same unto them, upon a day of the monthly meeting, and at such a rate as he shall not sell or let for a lesser price unto any than he offereth unto them, and to leave the same in their hands,
first of
;
in liking, until the next meeting day in the next month, when, if they shall not take it, paying the price within some convenient
time, or provide
let
fit
him a chapman, he
shall then
the same unto any other, provided the to be received in."
Townsmen
be free to sell or think them
Ordered, That whosoever entertains any stranger into the town, if the congregation desire it, he shall set the town free of them again within one month after warning given them, or
else
"
unto the townsmen as a fine for his as much for and default, every month they shall there remain. " There is unto Frances Greshold, the Drummer, 2 granted acres of land, lying at the end of Barnebe Lambson's pale towards Charlestowne, in regard of his service amongst the soldiers
. .
he shall pay 19 s
8d
occasions, as long as he stayeth, with condition, if he the town and leave off that service within two years, he depart shall leave it unto the town at the charge it hath cost him in
upon
all
building and enclosing." " It is Jan. 2, 16367. granted unto Joseph Cooke to have the hill by his house, which have been hitherto preserved for a place to build a fort upon for defence, with all the lane leading there-
provided if the town shall ever make use of it for that he or else to remain to him and his shall yield it again end,
unto
heirs forever. 1
" Granted to Mr. Richard Harlakingden six hundred acres of and at the meadow, upland place called Vine Brook, in the midbetween Newtowne and Concord, upon condition he sendeth way
over his man, or ordereth that some other
across Garden Street, at the west end of Linnajan Street, and probably another at
its
1
may
build upon
it
and
some
that a
hill
The
portion of it still remains. reserved for a fort is the high
east end, across
North Avenue.
of Joseph Cooke stood at the northeasterly corner of Holyoke Street
The house
land at the southeasterly angle of Holyoke Place. Mr. Cooke's lot contained five
acres, lying east of
Holyoke
Street,
and
and Holyoke Place
and
it is
believed by
south of
Mount Auburn
Street.
CIVIL HISTORY.
41
improve it for him the next summer after this next ensuing, and now, this spring, [give] certain intelligence he will do so and upon condition likewise that he cometh himself the next summer after being the third from this time and if he shall fail in all or one of these three then this grant to be void." l conditions, any " Jan. 14, 1638-9. there Ordered, being found much damage done by swine in this town, since the order of the General Court was repealed, and they left at liberty for each town to order,
;
;
it is therefore ordered, at a general meeting of the Townsmen, with a general consent of the inhabitants then present, that is to say, that none, either rich or poor, shall keep above two swine abroad on the common, one sow hog and a barrow, or 2 barrows
;
and these to be sufficiently yoked and ringed, after the judgment of the two brethren that are appointed to see to the execution of this order, and to bring in a note of such defaults as they find.
any be found defective, to break this order, either by keeping more than 2 hogs, and such hogs, so let abroad, if not sufficiently [yoked and ringed] after the order, shall pay for
if
And
every breach of this order

failing
2s.,
unless in case there should be any
so proved by suffibe mitigation of this fine, may otherwise to take place without all excuses, to the end that each man and this commonweal may be preserved from damage by that
by unexpected providence, and can be

;
cient evidence
in that case there
creature in this our town."
" Oct. 1, 1639. Ordered, for the preservation of apple-trees and all other kind of quick-set, in men's yards or elsewhere, and
for preventing all other
by skipping over pales, of the owner's yard without a keeper but if it appeareth to be willingly, they shall pay unto any one that will put them to pound two pence for every goat, beside damage and poundage. And because the charge would be too great if only a part of them be kept, it is therefore also ordered, that whosoever shall not put
;
damage by them and harm to themselves That no goats shall be suffered to go out
forth their goats shall notwithstanding pay to the keeper within one third part as much for every goat as they that do put them
out, until the first of
March
and
after that day, to the full as

shall regis-
much
1
any do for those that are with the herd." " March, 1639-40. Ordered, That William Towne
as
Richard Harlakenden was elder brothRoger Harlakenden, and had been very kind to Mr. Shepard in England, He did not comply with the conditions of
er to
this
signed, April 2, 1638, to Roger Harlakenden, in lieu of five hundred acres previously granted to him on the south
side
grant; and the same land was as-
Vine Brook passes of the river. through the central portion of Lexington.
42
ter every birth, marriage, and burial, according to the order of Court in that case provided, and give it in, once every year, to be delivered by the Deputies to the Recorder ; and shall gather for every particular entrance 1 penny for the Recorder's fees, and
xii
d
.
for himself."
1640.
"Granted unto Joseph Cooke
farm
of
400
acres of the nearest upland adjoining to his meadow lying be1 yond Cheesecake Brook and between that and Charles River
;
also liberty to side of his meadow
and
go with a straight line, (on the hithermost on this side Cheesecake Brook), down by the
edge of the highland, to Charles River." At the same meeting grants of farms were made to other perto Samuel Shepard 400 acres adjoining and besons, to wit the farm of Joseph Cooke to Capt. George Cooke, 600 yond
:
Goffe, 600 acres ; to John Bridge, 350 acres ; " about the outside of the bounds between Watertowne, severally
acres
;
to
Edward
Concord, and Charlestowne." During this period, the General Court passed several orders, affecting the comfort and prosperity of the people dwelling
here
:
" The Court Oct. 28, 1636. agreed to give 400Z. towards a school or college, whereof 200L to be paid the next year, and 200Z. when the work is finished, and the next Court to appoint
where and what building."
Dec. 13, 1636. " It is ordered, That all military men in this jurisdiction shall be ranked into three regiments, viz., Boston, Roxberry, Dorchester, Weimoth, Hingham, to be one regiment, whereof John Winthrope, senior, Esquire, shall be colonel, and
Tho. Dudley, Esquire, lief tenant colonel " Charlestowne, Newetowne, Watertowne, Concord, and Dedr dam, to be another regiment, whereof John Haynes, Esq shall r be colonel, and Roger Herlakenden Esq lieftenant colonel
:
. .
Cheesecake Brook
is
in the westerly
part of Newton.
2
Mass.
Col.
Rec.,
i.
183.
i.
President
1),
Quincy
that
laid
(Hist.
Harv.
Coll.,
states
2| acres of land, on which Holworthy, Stoughton, and Hollis Halls are supposed to stand. This grant to the Professor, made May 11, 1638, is denned on
the record to be " to the
this foundation of the College
was
Town's use
for-
Sept. 8, 1 636, overlooking the fact that the General Court, which met on
that
ever, for a public school or college ; and to the use of Mr. Nathaniel Eaton as
made
day, adjourned until October, and this grant on the 28th day of that
month.
established at
and the town granted " to the Professor "
The College was ordered Newtown, Nov. 15,
to be
long as he shall be employed in that work; so that at his death, or ceasing from that work, he or his shall be allowed
according to the charges he hath been in building or fencing."
at,
1637,
CIVIL HISTORY.
"
43
Saugust, Salem, Ipswich, and Neweberry, to be another regir ment, whereof John Endecot Esq shall be colonel, and John Winthrope, junior, leif tenant colonel:
.
"
And
i
the Governor for the time being shall

9,
be chief gen-
eral."
"March
1636-7.
;
chosen captain
ard, ensign."
2
"For Newetowne, Mr. George Cooke Mr. Willi: Spencer, leiftenant Mr. Sam: Shep;
Nov. 15, 1637. " The College is ordered to be at Newetowne." 3 Nov. 20, 1637. "For the College, the Governor, Mr. Winthrope, the Deputy, Mr. Dudley, the Treasurer, Mr. Bellingham, Mr. Humfrey, Mr. Herlakenden, Mr. Staughton, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Damport, Mr. Wells, Mr. Sheopard, and Mr. Peters, these or the greater part of them, whereof Mr. Winthrope, Mr. Dudley, or Mr. Bellingham, to be alway one, to take
order for a College at Newetowne. " Edward Michelson, being appointed marshall of the Court, is appointed to have for any execution 12(Z. in the pound for the
ten pounds, and 6^. in the pound to 40Z., and after, 3c?. in the pound to a hundred pounds, and IdL in the pound for all above 100?., to be paid out of the estate which the execution is
first
served upon. For every attachment of goods or persons the marshall is to have 2s. Qd. and if he goeth any way, he is to
;
have 12d. a mile beside.

every commitment
in
And
the marshall
is
to have 2s. 6d. for
Court, and 10Z. stipend for this year to
come."
May 2, 1638. "It is ordered, That Newetowne shall henceforward be called Cambridge." 5 Dec. 4, 1638. " The town of Cambridge was fined 10s. for want of a watch-house, pound, and stocks and time was given
;
them
1
till
the next Court."

190.
Mass.
Ibid.,
Ibid.,
Coll. Rec.,\. 186, 187.

i. i.
saved
many hundred
souls."
Coll.
Mass.
2
8
ing Providence, " the College

:
In his Wonder-WorkJohnson says concerning To make the whole world understand that spiritual learning was the
208.
Hist. Soc., xvii. 27, 28. * Mass. Col. Rec., i. 217.
Mr. Mitchel-
son held this
High
Green.
5
equivalent to that of Sheriff, until 1681, when he died

office,
and was succeeded by

Ibid.,
i.
his son-in-law,
John
thing they chiefly desired, to sanctify the other and make the whole lump holy, and
right object, might not contend for error instead of truth, they chose this place, being then
228.
This name
is
is
supposed
that learning being set
upon
its
to
have been
selected, because a place of
the
same name
the seat of a univer-
under the orthodox and soul-flourishing ministry of Mr. Thomas Shepheard, of whom it may be said, without any wrong to others, the Lord by his ministry hath
England, where several of the Magistrates and Elders had been edusity in
cated.
6
Ibid.,
i.
247.
44
March
13, 1638-9.
i
It is ordered,
That the College agreed
upon
formerly to
be built at Cambridge shall be called Harvard
College."
Under date of March, 1639, Winthrop says, " a printing-Mouse was begun at Cambridge by one Daye, at the charge of Mr. The first thing which was Glover, who died on sea hitherward. was the freeman's oath the next was an almanac made printed
;
for
by Mr. William Peirce, mariner the next was the Psalms newly turned into metre." 2 Many years ago, the late Thaddeus William Harris, M. D., then Librarian of Harvard College, gave me a copy of an ancient document preserved in the archives of that institution, which manifestly relates to this affair, though, perhaps for prudential reasons, no mention is made in it concerning printing. It is a bond in the
;
New England
usual form, given by Stephen Day 3 of Cambridge, county of 4 5 Cambridge, locksmith to Josse Glover, clerk, in the penal sum of one hundred pounds, and dated June 7, 1638. The condition " The condition of this is thus stated obligation is such, that,
:
whereas the above named Josse Glover hath undertaken and promised to bear the charges of and for the transportation of the above bounden Stephen Day and Rebecca his wife, and of Matthew 6 and Stephen Day, their children, and of William Bordman, 7 and three menservants, which are to be transported with
him the
in America, in the ship and whereas the transportation of all the said parties will cost the sum of forty and four pounds, which is to be disbursed by the said Joos Glover and whereas
said Stephen to
New England
;
called the
John
of
London
the said Joos Glover hath delivered to the said Stephen Day kettles and other iron tools to the value of seven pounds, both
which sums amount

s.
to the
sum
of fifty
and one pounds
If,
Col.Rec.,i. 253.
or of Rev.
So called in honJohn Harvard, who endowed
the college with half of his estate together with the whole of his library.
2
3
appointment. I think that Marmaduke Johnson, who came to assist in printing the Indian Bible, was the first thoroughly
instructed printer in New England. 6 The true name of Mr. Glover was
Jose.
6
Savages' Winthrop, i. 289. He wrote his name Daye.
Although Daye was recognized by the General Court, Dec. 10, 1641, as "the first that set upon printing," he was a locksmith, and not a printer, by trade. Perhaps his son Matthew had already received some instruction as a printer,
It
is
first
Matthew Daye was a printer, and the known Steward of Harvard College.
He
7
died 10th
May,
1649.
William Boardman was son of Ste-
phen Daye's wife by a former husband, and was both Steward of the College and
the progenitor of at least four stewards. He died 25th March, 1685, aged 71.
not
probable
that
his
successor,
Samuel Green, had much knowledge of

the printer's mystery, at the time of his
CIVIL HISTORY.
therefore, the said
45
shall with all speed
1
Stephen
Day do and
ship himself and his said wife and children and servants, and the said William Bordman in the same ship, and cause him
and themselves to be transported

;
in the said ship to New England aforesaid, with as much speed as wind and weather will permit and also if the said Stephen Day, his executors, adminis-
trators or assigns do truly pay or cause to be paid to the said Josse Glover his executors or assigns the sum of [fifty] and one
pounds, of lawful [money of] England within twenty and four months next after the arrival of the said Stephen Day the
father in
England aforesaid, or within thirty days next after the decease of the said Stephen Day the father, which of
and next happen to come or be after and also if the said Stephen Day the father and his servants and every of them do and shall from time to time labor and work with and for the said Josse Glover and his assigns in the trade which the said Stephen the father now useth in New England aforesaid, at such rates and prices as is usually paid and allowed for the like work in tjie country there and also if the said Stephen the father, his executors or administrate!^, do and shall, with the said sum of fifty and one pounds, pay and allow unto the said Joos Glover, his executors or assigns, for the loan, adventure and forbearance of the same sum, such recompense, damage and consideration as two indifferent men in New England aforesaid, to be chosen for that purpose, shall think fit, set down, and appoint and lastly, if the said Joos Glover, his executors and assigns shall and may from time to time detain and take to his and their own uses, towards the payment of the said sum of money, and allowances aforesaid, all such part and so much of the wages and earnings which shall be earned by the works and labors aforesaid, (not exceeding the
the said times shall
first
;
New
the date above written
principal
sum
signes shall think fit ; that then this obligation to else it to stand in force and virtue."
1
aforesaid) as the said Joos, his executors or asbe void, or
He
appears to have arrived in
New
England with the printing-press, about four months after the date of this bond,
In a
letter,
Bible was printed; after about the year 1 700, very little if any work of this kind
Hugh
here,
dated at Salem, Oct. 10, 1638, Peter says " have a printery
:
We
to
was performed here (except by Samuel Hall in 1775-76), until 1800, when a printing press was established by William HilHard.
Coll.
and think
to
go
work with some

Mass. Hist.
Soc.,
Mass. Hist.
Soc., vii. 19.
special things."
Coll.
xxxvi. 99.
During the present century, the printers of Cambridge have constantly held a
very high comparative rank, for both the quantity and the quality of their work,
The
exclusively at
business of printing was conducted Cambridge for nearly half
a century, during which time the Indian
CHAPTER
VI.
CIVIL HISTORY.
NOTWITHSTANDING Mr. Shepard and his associates here "found

themselves Records to have enjoyed foregoing chapter, they contemplated a removal
sufficient for
and
their
company," and appear by the
temporal prosperity, as indicated in the were not fully satisfied, but seriously
to Connecticut. To such removal they were advised and encouraged by Mr. Hooker, whose eldest daughter had become the second wife of Mr. Shepard in 1637. How far Mr. Hooker may have been influenced by family considerations, or
how
far
by
that spirit of emulation, or perhaps of jeal-
ousy, which naturally enough existed between the rival colonies, or whether his advice was altogether disinterested, does not but that he such even with advice, gave distinctly appear his letters to Mr. own afford conclusive eviShepard urgency, dence. Very probably Gov. Winthrop intended that Mr. Hooker should make a personal application of his general remarks con"If you tained in a letter addressed to him as early as 1638 could show us the men that reproached you, we should teach them better manners than to speak evil of this good land God hath brought us to, and to discourage the hearts of their brethren only you may bear a little with the more moderate of them, in regard that one of yours opened the door to all that have followed, and for that they may conceive it as lawful for them to discourage some with us from forsaking us to go to you, as for yours to plott by encouragements &c., to draw Mr. Shephard and his whole church from us. Sicfama est." 1 Two years later, Mr. Hooker wrote an earnest letter to Mr. Shepard, which was
;
:
long preserved in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, but which is now in the Massachusetts Archives
:
" DEAR SON, Since the first intimation I had from my cousin Sam: when you was here with us, touching the number and
1
Life and Letters of John Winthrop, Esq., vol.
ii.,
p. 421.
CIVIL HISTORY.
nature of your debts,
I
47
to be marvellous desperate in the
conceived and concluded the consequents view of reason, in truth una-
voidable and yet unsupportable, and as were likely to ruinate the whole: for why should any send commodities, much less come
themselves to the place,
when
there
is
is
pay what they
take, or the place
no justice amongst men to so forlorn and helpless that
men cannot
there
is
support themselves in a
way
of justice
and ergo
neither sending nor coming, unless they will selves and substance a prey.
make them-
"
And
hence to weary a man's
self to
wrestle out an incon-
which are laid before and fruitless, and is to increase a man's Such be the mazes of mischievous hazards, that our sinful departures from the right and righteous ways of God bring upon us, that as birds taken in an evil net, the more they stir, the faster they are tied. If there was any sufficiency to make satisfaction in time, then but when that is awantrespite might send and procure relief is to make deaths of one, and to make them all ing, delay many more deadly. The first and safest way for peace and comfort is to quit a man's hand of the sin, and so of the sting of the plague. Happy is he that hath none of the guilt in the commission of evils sticking to him. But he that is faulty, it will be his hapto himself recover by repentance, both sudden and season piness
venience,
it is
when
beyond
all possibilities
is
man
in a rational course,
altogether bootless misery, not to ease it.
ably serious ; and when that is done, in such hopeless occasions, it is good to sit down under the wisdom of some word That
:
crooked nobody can make strait, and that which is awanting none can supply 1 Eccl. 15 and then seek a way in heaven for escape, when there is no way on earth that appears. " You say that which I long since supposed the magistrates But is there, are at their wits end, and I do not marvel at it.
which
is
I confess then, nothing to be done, but to sink in our sorrows ? here to apply, and that upon the sudden, is wholly beyond all
my skill. Yet I must needs say something, if it be but to I say ours, bebreathe out our thoughts, and so our sorrows. cause the evil will reach us really more than by bare sympathising. of the
but
is
Taking my former ground for granted, that the weakness body is such that it is not able to bear the disease longer, like to grow worse and more unfit for cure, which I supI
pose is the case in hand, then course must be taken " The debtors must
:
cannot see but of necessity this
[1.]
freely
and
fully tender themselves
48
all
and
tion of the creditors.

It is too
they have into the hands, and be at the mercy and devoAnd this must be done nakedly and really.
much
that
men have
than they were able to repay and satisfy

falseness
rashly and unjustly taken more : ergo they must not add
and dissimulation when they come to pay, and so not I am afraid break their estate but their consciences finally. only there be old arrearages of this nature that lie yet in the deck. " 2. The Churches and the Commonwealth, by joint consent and serious consideration, must make a privy search what have been the courses and sinful carriages which have brought in and
increased this epidemical evil ; pride and idleness, excess in apparel, building, diet, unsuitable to our beginnings or abilities ;
what
toleration
and connivance at
extortion,
and
injustice,
and
oppression ; the tradesman willing the workman may take what he will for his work, that he may ask what he will for his com-
they have humbled themselves unfeignedly before the Lord, then set up a real reformation, not out of politick respects, attending our own devices, but out of plainness, looking
at the rule
modity. " 3. When
and following
that, leave the rest to the Lord,
who
will ever go with those
who go
his
own way.
" Has premisses : I cannot see in reason but if you can sell, and the Lord afford any comfortable chapman, but you should remove. For why should a man stay until the house fall on his head ? and why continue his being there where in reason he shall destroy his substance ? For were men merchants, how can they
hold
it,
when men
either
honesty, and
will not
want money to buy withal, or else want pay ? The more honest and able any pei
sons or plantations be, their rates will increase, stocks grow low, and their increase little or nothing. And if remove, why not to
Mattabeseck ? l For may be either the gentlemen 2 will not come, and that's most likely or if they do, they will not come
;
Middletown, Connecticut. " 2 The reference here is not to the gen" tlemen in Cambridge with Mr. Shepard,
but to certain others
in
Now
the gentlemen, those three lots
if they come that is, must carry a double pro;
England,
for
portion to that which yours take. If they take twenty acres of meadow, you must
reserve forty for them; score for them. This
if
is
whom Mr.
Fenwick, the proprietor
of
thirty,
all
three
Mattabesick, desired to provide, as appears by another letter from Hooker to Shep-
we could
Touching your business at Matabesick, this is the compassof it Mr. Fenwick is willing that you and your company should come thither Provided that you upon these terms
ard,
:
:
without date
"
obtain, because he stays one year longer in expectation of his company, at the least some of them ; and the like hath
usual in
been done in Quinipiack, and hath been such beginnings. Therefore,

silent in
we were
while."
such a grant, for the
will reserve three
double
lots for three
of
CIVIL HISTORY.
all
;
49
not probable but they may be entreated to ? or, if not abate, if they take double lots, double rates and I see must bear not but all plantations they men find this a main wound want of abilities and parts to they
or
if
all,
is it
abate one of the lots
manage
tell
their affairs,
and men
;
thee mine whole heart
of estate, to bear charges. I will as I conceive, your comconsidering,
pany must break, and considering things ut supra, if you can sell you should remove. If I were in your places, I should let those that must and will transport themselves as they see fit, in a way of providence and prudence. I would reserve a special company, but not many, and I would remove hither. For I do verily
think, either the gentlemen will not come, or if they do, they may be over-intreated not to prejudice the plantation by taking too much. And yet if I had but a convenient spare number, I
do believe that would not prove prejudicial to any comfortable subsistence for able men are most fit to carry on occasions by their persons and estates with most success. These are all my thoughts but they are inter nos ; use them as you see meet. " I know, to begin plantations is a hard work and I think I have seen as much difficulty, and came to such a business with as much disadvantage as almost men could do, and therefore, I would not press men against their spirits when persons do not choose a work, they will be ready to quarrel with the hardness of it. This only is to me beyond exception. If you do remove, considering the correspondence you have here of hearts, and hands, and helps, you shall never remove to any place with the like advantage. The pillar of fire and cloud go before you, and the Father o mercies be the God of all the changes that pass over your heads. " News with us here is not much, since the death of my brother Stone's wife and James Homstead the former smoaked
:
out her days in the darkness of melancholy the other died of a bloody flux, and slept sweetly in the Lord, having carried him;
self graciously in his sickness.
" I have of late had Mr. Chancy intelligence from Plymouth. and the Church are to part he to provide for himself, and they
;
for themselves.
"
At
a day of
fast,
when
a full conclusion of the business
should have been made, he openly professed he did as verily believe the truth of his opinions as that there was a God in heaven, and that he was settled in it as the earth was upon the centre.
If
ever such confidence find good success, I miss of my mark. " Since then he hath sent to Mr. Prydden to come to them,
4
50
:
being invited by some of the Brethren by private letters warning to Mr. Prydden to bethink himself what he did
gave
I
and
know he
to
is
sensible
and watchful.
I profess,
how
it is
possible
keep peace with a man so adventurous and so pertinacious, who will vent what he list and maintain what he vents, its beyond all the skill I have to conceive. Mr. Umphrey, I hear, invites him to Providence, and that coast is most meet for his opinion and practice. The Lord says he will teach the humble but where are those men ? The Lord make us such, his way that he may shew us such mercy. " Totus T. HOOKER. tuus,
;
"Nov.
2th. 1640.
because happily l some of the brethren would be ready to desire the sight of what is writ that you may shew this you /\ shew or conceal, as you see meet.
I writ
"
another
letter,
"
"
Sunt mutua preces
in
perpetuum.
2
All here salute you and yours."
The Town Records
But from other sources we

bankruptcy.
tion of
give no intimation of this financial distress. learn that in the year 1640, not only
Cambridge but the whole Colony was
in imminent danger of Hutchinson says that, in this year, " the importaThe motive to transportation to settlers now ceased.
America was
over, by the change in the affairs of England. This sudden stop had a surprising effect upon the price of cattle. They had lost the greatest part of what was intended for the As the inhabitants first supply, in the passage from Europe.
multiplied, the demand for the cattle increased, and the price of a milch cow had kept from 25 to 30Z, but fell at once this year
farmer, who could spare but one cow in a year out of his stock, used to clothe his family with the price of it, at the expense of the new comers when this failed they were put to difficulties. Although they judged they had 12,000 neat cattle,
to 5 or Ql.
;
3 Winthrop yet they had but about 3,000 sheep in the Colony." " This of over store there came great provisions, both year says, out of England and Ireland, and but few passengers (and those
brought very little money), which was occasioned by the store of money and quick markets which the merchants found here the two or three years before, so as now all our money was drained
1
part of Mr. Hooker's letter was published in Albro's Life of Thomas
Haply.
several mistakes which are here corrected, and the missing portions are inserted,
3
Hist. Mass.,
i.
93.
Shepard, 1847
but his copy contained
CIVIL HISTORY.
from
51
us, and cattle and all commodities grew very cheap, which enforced us at the next General Court, in the eighth month, to make an order, that corn should pass in payments of new debts
;
Indian, at 4s. the bushel ; rye, at 5s., and wheat, at 6s. ; and that upon all executions for former debts, the creditor might take
what goods he pleased

to
(or,
if
he had no goods, then his lands),
be appraised by three men, one chosen by the creditor, one by the debtor, and the third by the Marshall." 1
To
renewed
this state of things Mr. Hooker probably referred when he his efforts, in the letter already quoted, to persuade Mr.
Shepard and his congregation to remove. But why they should remove to Connecticut rather than to some other part of MassaThere were large tracts chusetts does not very plainly appear. There is no evidence that Mr. of unappropriated lands here. Shepard or his people had any jealousy, such as some have supposed to operate on their predecessors. On the contrary, Mr. Shepard was a prominent member of the religious party which had recently triumphed in the Antinomian controversy, and his own congregation had been preserved from all taint of the great " " Antinomian and Famalistic opinions heresy. Concerning the " a which then distracted the churches, Cotton Mather says, 2 at whereof Mr. no assembled was Cambridge, Shepard synod The vigilancy of small part, most happily crushed them all. Mr. Shepard was blessed, not only for the preservation of his own congregation from the rot of these opinions, but also for the deliverance of all the flocks which our Lord had in the wilderness. And it was with a respect unto this vigilancy, and the enlightening and powerful ministry of Mr. Shepard, that, when the foundation of a college was to be laid, Cambridge rather than any other place was pitched upon to be the seat of that happy seminary out of which there proceeded many notable preachers, who were made such by their sitting under Mr. Shepard's ministry." 3 " " of Mr. Shepard, and this vigilancy Possibly, however, this faithfulness of his congregation, throughout one of the most vio:
lent conflicts of religious opinion
ever
known
in this country,
may have stimulated the subsequent desire to remove beyond the limits of Massachusetts. This seems to be indicated in the fifth
1
Savage's Winthrop,
ii.
7.
"about eighty opinions, some blasphemous, others erroneous, and all nnsfe, the assembly brake up," Sept. 22, 1637.
8
This Synod met at Cambridge, Aug. 30, 1637, and "began with prayer made by Mr. Shepard." Mr. Bulkeley of Concord, and Mr. Hooker, of Hartford, were
the
Savage's Winthrop, i. 237-240. 12. Magnalia, B. III., ch. v.,
Moderators.
Having
condemned
52
" Reason for removing," entered by Mr. Shepard on the fly-leaf of one of his manuscript books, 1 namely " Reas. for removing. " 1. You say some brethren cannot live comfortably with so
:
little.
"
2.
We
and
put
all
the rest upon a temptation.
Lots being but
estates will increase or live in beggary. For to lay little, land out far off is intolerable to men ; near by, you kill your cattle.
" "
3.
Because
if
another minister come, he will not have room

for
if
company. Religion. Because now if ever is the most fit season opened, many will come in among us, and fill all
4.
for his
gate be
room
"
in time to
come
at least, not such
good room
places, and no as now. And
now you may
best
sell.
5. Because Mr. Vane will be upon our skirts." Mr. Vane was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1636, and was an active associate of Mrs. Hutchinson in the Antinomian party. Chiefly, it would seem, on account of his religious opinhe was superseded in 1637, and soon returned to England. ions, It was probably feared that he would use his great interest at court in opposition to the Colony which had thus denounced him as a heretic and disappointed his political hopes. Mr. Shepard and his congregation may have considered themselves in peculiar danger on account of their very energetic opposition to him, and have thought that Connecticut would afford a more secure shelter from his wrath. Subsequent events, however, showed that all such fears were groundless. Mr. Vane manifested his friendship to the colonists, through life, by many kind offices in their be-
half.
rect reference to
1
This temptation to remove was not kept secret, though, no di2 it appears on record. It was discussed in a
This book contains " The confessions
of diverse
propounded
to be received anil
of the were entertayned as members Church, together with sketches of sermons. 2 In addition to the before named disconragements, which tempted Mr. Shepard and his company to abandon Cambridge, may be mentioned the loss of two most valuable associates, namely John Haynes, who removed to Hartford in 1637, and Roger Harlakenden, who died
"
former had been Assistant, 1634; Governor, 1635; and Assistant again, 1636, and remained in office up to the time of the his removal in the spring of 1637 latter was elected Assistant in 1636, at
;
the
first
election after his arrival,
and
recol-
elected in 1637
onel,
and 1638.
One was
and the other lieutenant-colonel, of the military force. Both were conspicuous for moral excellence and mental ability, and each bore a large share of the pecuniary burdens of the public. The death of Mr. Harlakenden was pecnl-
November
17, 1638,
aged 27 years.
The
CIVIL HISTORY.
53
Church meeting at Cambridge, Feb. 14, 1640-1, as appears by Mr. Shepard's Diary, at which time the project passes out of
sight,
probably
is
in
by the General
of
Cambridge
consequence of a grant then recently made " The town Oct. 7, 1640. Court, to wit granted a month to consider of Shawshin for
:
a village for them, and if they like it not, the town of Roxberry hath liberty to consider of it for a village for them till the next
The examination was satisfactory for the " Shawshin is was conditionally made June 2, 1641 grant make it a to Cambridge, provided they village, to have granted there settled within three the Court families otherwise ten years About a year later this grant was renewed, to dispose of it." with slight change of condition and a final disposition was made " Shawshin is of the affair, March 7, 1643-4 granted to Camof condition a without any making village there and the bridge, is them and Concord land between granted them, all save what is
General Court."
;
:
formerly granted to the military company or others, provided the church and present elders continue at Cambridge." 1 The church
and elders did remain
lands at Shawshine were soon afterwards
assigned to individuals, thus relieving the supposed deficiency of accommodations a competent number became resident proprie;
Shawshine was incorporated as a separate town, called Billerica, which has since been shorn of its original dimensions by the incorporation of other towns.
tors
and cultivators
and
in 1655,
iarly grievous to Mr. Shepard, who^had been protected by him in England, when pursued by the emissaries of the established Church. Describing his sufferings during the last few months of his residence in his native land, Mr. Shepard says, in his autobiography
hid us all the winter long, and was fit to travel in the spring,
when it we went
"
:
London, Mr. Harlakenden not forme all this while, for he was a father and mother to me," etc. (Boston Ed., 1832, pp. 54, 55). Mr. Shepard was
up
to
saking
Being
in
great sadness and not knowing where to go, nor what to do, the Lord sent Mr.
Roger Harlakenden and my brother Samuel Shepard to visit me after they had
heard of our escape at
rows."
sea,
accompanied to New England by this " most precious servant of Jesus Christ," and bitterly lamented his early death This loss was partially repaired by the
;
who much
re-
accession of Herbert Pelham, Esq., in 1638 or 1639. He married the widow of
freshed us and clave to
me
in
my
sor-
house at Bastwick, " an aged freely offered by Mrs. Corbett, eminent godly gentlewoman," he says: "I lived for half a year all the winter long among and with my friends (Mr. Harlakenden dwelling with me, bearing all the charge of housekeeping), and far from the notice of my enemies, where we enjoyed sweet fellowship one with another and also with God, in a house which was fit
Again,
in a
Mr. Harlakenden, and was successively Treasurer of Harvard College, 1 643, Assistant, 1645-49, and Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1645-46. He brought with him his daughter Penelope, who afterwards became the wife of Governor Josiah Winslow, and died at Marshh'eld, Mr. Pelham was 7 Dec., 1703, aged 72. an active citizen and officer, but returned to England about 1649, was a member of Parliament, and a steadfast friend of
this
1
to entertain any priuce for fairness, greatHere the Lord ness, and pleasantness.
Colony. lie died in 1673. Mass. Coll. Rec., i. 306, 330
ii.
62.
54
The grant
of the
Shawshine lands removed all reasonable doubt accommodation," and the Mattabeseck project seems to have been utterly abandoned. These lands were not immediately divided, but were held in reservation for future use. Meanwhile, measures were adopted for the improvement of the
of
sufficient
"
present abode, as the records indicate. Dec. 13, 1641. " Agreed that Robert Holmes and John Sted-
man
shall take care for the
making
of the town-spring, against
Mr. Dunster's barn, a

for the use of
sufficient well,
son
is
to be
it."
watering an assistant to them by way of advice,

" Ordered
man and
of cattle.
with timber and stone, fit Also Richard Jackif
they shall
shall
require
Nov.
be
5,
1646.
by the Townsmen, that there
fifty shillings paid unto Tho. Longhorne, for his service to the town in beating the drum this two years last past." " Jan. 11, 1646-7. Ordered, That whatever person or persons shall cut down, or cause to be cut down, any tree or trees
whatsoever, whether living or dead, in swamp or upland, on this side Menottime River (the great swamp only exempted), shall
forfeit for
every tree so felled ten shillings. This order to continue until further order be taken by the Townsmen. " It is also further ordered, That whatsoever person or persons
who hath any
land at Menottime laid out unto himself or his

shall, after the
house wherein he dwelleth
12th day of this pres-
ent month, cut out or take away directly or indirectly any wood or timber on this side the path which goeth from the mill 2 to
Watertowne, every such person

if it
shall forfeit for every such load,

shillings liberty granted, until the 20th
if
be timber,
five shillings
per load, and

is
wood, two
of
per load.
Provided, that there
day
of this present
;
month,
for the fetching

is
home
:
what
is al-
found to be forfeit." ready cut out and after that whatever in 1647 Gilbert Crackbone Field-drivers were first elected for the West field, Thomas Hall for the Pine-swamp field, Russell Thomas Beale for the Town within the pales, and for the Neck of land. Commissioners " to end small causes," Sealer of Leather, and Clerk of the Market, first elected in 1648. June 12, 1648. " Upon the complaint of Edward Goffe against
Richard Cutter for wrongful detaining of calves impounded by
This spring may still be seen a few from the University Press between Brattle and Mount Auburn Streets. Mr. Dunster's barn stood on the northerly side of Brattle Street, near
1
Church
Street,
where he owned a
lot con-
feet westerly
taining six acres.

2 Cooke's Mill, afterwards known as Kolfe's Mill, or Cutter's Mill, near the
Town House
in
Arlington.
CIVIL HISTORY.
55
him
of the said
:
desired his calves of Richard Cutter, all to damages and cost as two men should apprepay promising hend to be right but the said Richard Cutter denied to let him
nesseth
Edward Edward Goffe

;
Goffe's,
wherein Samuell Eldred wit-
have them except he would take a course with his boy and promise they should never come there again and a second time, being desired to let Edward Goffe have the calves, he answered, No. The Townsmen, having considered the business, they thus
;
pay fourteen pence damage to Richard Cutter, and Richard Cutter shall pay for the costs of the same witnesses, four shillings and seven pence." Nov. 20, 1648. " Ordered, That there shall be an eight-penny ordinary provided for the Townsmen every second Monday of the
order,
that
Edward Goffe
shall
month, upon their meeting day and that whoever of the Townsmen fail to be present within half an hour of the ringing of the Bell (which shall be half an hour after eleven of the clock), he shall both lose his dinner and pay a pint of sack, or the value, and the like penalty shall be paid by to the present Townsmen any that shall depart from the rest, without leave. The charges of the dinner shall be paid by the Constable out of the town stock."
; ;
The practice, thus inaugurated, of dining or partaking of other refreshments at the public expense, seems to have been generally observed by the selectmen for nearly two hundred years, until
the municipal form of goverment was changed ; not indeed at every meeting, nor was the expense always limited to eight pence
each.
Feb. 16, 1648-9. Voted, by the Town, " That the Townsmen should prosecute suit in law against such of the inhabitants l of Watertowne as have trespassed in our Great Swamp."
At this time Sparks Street and VasLane formed part of the boundary line between Cambridge and Watertown
1
sal
and the Great Swamp extended northerly from Vassal Lane on both sides of Menotomy River. It would seem that the
swamp was common property, it " declared that, The present inhabitants of Cambridge purchased the whole dimensions of the town (this legally setthat the
is
tied their
Townsmen immediately commenced
suit
bounds by order of Court) of Harford Company about fourteen years since, at which time the chiefest
the
best parts of this swamp for wood allotted into particular propriety fenced in with their planting land
against one of the trespassers. In the>' Court Files of Middlesex County, 164950,
is
still
and was
and
preserved
" The >Reply of
Richard
forth,
Jackson
in
and
the
Thomas
behalf
Danof
the
plaint.,
by a general fence." If the trespass con" It would then be a groundwork tinue,

of endless contention, if not the desolating of our poor straitened town, and that for these reasons. (1.) The branches of
the
Cambridge, against Samuel of Watertown, def., unto his several answers in the action of the
town
of
Thatcher,
cause for taking away wood out of their In answer to the allegation bounds."
swamp
is
so runeth over
all
our bounds,
which
for five miltes together not
much
56
Fence-viewers were
first
elected
March
fields,
12,
Neck, Pine-swamp
fields,
Menotomy
and West
1648-9, for the field a

;
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Jan. 14, 164950 ; and a " to size cask," Nov. 10, 1651. Ganger, Feb. 11, 1649-50. " The request of Richard ffrances for remitting the present town rate, in regard of God's visitation by
experience shows the ineviand not table danger great loss, only to particular persons, but whole the careless also to the town, by neglect of keeping chimfrom and want of ladders in time of need, the soot, neys clean select Townsmen, taking the same into their serious consideration, do therefore order that every person inhabiting within the bounds of this town, before the 10th of the next month provide one or more sufficient ladders at all times in a readiness to reach up to the top of his or their house and forthwith and at all
9,
;
sickness on himself and family, is granted." 1650. " Whereas dreadful Dec.
times hereafter see that their chimneys be kept clean swept at least once every month, upon the penalty of 2s. Qd. for every
month's neglect herein." March 10, 1650-1. " Mr. Joseph Cooke hath liberty granted to fell timber on the common for to fence in his orchard." " William Jan. 7, 16512. Manning is granted liberty by the
inhabitants of the town, at a general meeting, to make a wharf out of the head of the creek, 1 towards Mr. Pelham's barn, and
build a house on
it,
to
come
and range with Mr. Pelham's fence next the high town."
as high as the great pine stump, street into
Besides the foregoing transactions of a general character, the
Records show that, during this period, a new meeting-house was erected, and provisions made for the support of the Grammar school both which subjects will be mentioned in another place. Measures were also adopted to convert the Shawshine territory
;
to profitable
before 1652
if
No general division of the land was made the Records indicate some grants to individuals, yet
use.
pense of
any above a mile broad, so that hereby no man can peaceably enjoy his own
(2.) It is the chief supply of propriety. the town for wood, being near to us, and
wood in our town by the College, which we cannot estimate much less than 350 load a year, the chief supply whereof
if it
many having none
elsewhere within the compass of four miles and a half of the town, which cost them two shillings a load
costly, as every load five miles." It is
be not out of the swamp, it will be must be fetched above
added that the wood

four shillings per
the cost of cutting
from the
swamp
costs
;
more than they can have it swamp. Besides the expense

habitants,
it is
for in
the
load in Cambridge
of the in-
not
unknown
the great ex-
and hauling being twenty pence, l At the foot of Dunster Street.
CIVIL HISTORY.
57
thousand acres " for the good of the church." I quote again from the Town Records " It was April 9, 1648. agreed at a general meeting, when the whole town had special warning to meet for the disposing of Shawshine, that there should be a farm laid out, of a thousand acres, to be for a public stock, and improved for the good of the church and that part of the church that here shall continue and
and the appropriation
of one
every person or persons that shall from time to time remove from the church do hereby resign up their interest therein to the re-
maining part
of the
church of Cambridge.
This thousand acres
of land, given to the use aforesaid, shall be laid out either all together, or else severally part in one place and part elsewhere,
according to the discretion of the men that are appointed to lay out the land." " Also there was granted to several brethren that had no if in the town, house-right they did desire it," farms at Shawshine " Imprimis, Capt. Googine a farm, if he buy a house in the town also to Bro. Edward Oakes, Tho. Oakes, and Richard
: ;
Hildreth, each of them a farm for their encouragement,

see
for their support and desire it. " it is Further, granted to Mr. Henry Dunster
it
if
they
may make
and Mr. Ed-
liberty to have their small farms at Shawshine, and to be considered in their quantity more than others in regard of
their
ward Collins
work and
place."
April 1649.
of
Agreed,
Harvard College, granted by the town to his own person and heirs, to enjoy freely forever, and the other 100 acres for the use of Harvard College. " Item, unto Mr. Daniell Googine 500 acres. " Item, unto Mr. Edward Collins, in lieu of his small farm within the town bounds, with some addition in respect of his place in the Deacon's office, it was agreed that he should have
" that Mr. Henry Dunster, President should have 500 acres, whereof 400 is
500 acres." June 9, 1652. " It was agreed by the Church that Shawshine should be divided as followeth " To Mr. Michell, five hundred acres. " To Edw. Okes, three hundred acres. " To Thomas Okes, one hundred and fifty acres. " It was agreed that these three above named should have their lots laid out by a committee with as little prejudice to any lot as may be, and so not to draw any lot.
:
58
"
Also, the Church doth agree that although the land be, by grant of the General Court, peculiar to the Church only, yet the
whole town, viz., such as are owners of house and land in the town, shall come into the division thereof. " Also, it is agreed, that every man shall have a proportion of
less, according to the proportion now allotted him. that Also, every man shall have a part of the meadow in his upland, to be laid out after the same rule with proportion
land,
more or
"
that the upland is, both by lot and quantity. " Also, it is agreed, that, after the farms formerly granted are laid out, the remainder of the land shall be divided into three
breadths, viz., two of the said breadths to lie between the rivers, and the third on this side Shawshine River. The first lot to
begin upon a line continued over Shawshine River, the same that is between Woburn and us, running towards Concord until it
meet with Mr. Wintrop's farm and so the said first lot to butt south upon that line, and on Shawshine River, and Mr. Winand so each lot to proceed one after another, by trop's farm due parallels, until they come clear of the farms already laid out, and then to extend in two divisions between the Rivers, and a third division on the east side Shawshine River, and so every man's lot to follow one another, taking all the three breadths at
:
once, the nearest land to the next lot in order.

"
first
centre being
still
always the
The number
of every
man's
lot
and quantity
of acres is as
followeth on the other side.

Lot.
Acres.
Lot.
1.
Daniell Cheaver
...
.
20
17.
18.
Wm
Roman
....
...
...
.
Acres.
2. 3.
4.
William Clemmance, sen r

Daniell Kempster William Bull
5.
6.
Roger Bucke Thomas ffox
.... .... ....

.
.
...
30 80
15
Nath. Greene and Mother
19.
Richard ffrench
20.
21.
John Watson
10 80
15
22.
23.
.... Richard Woodes ... John Taylor ....

Hide
50 80 20 80
10 60
7. 8. 9.
Humphery Bradshew Mr. Boman William Clemmance

Richard Cutter
20
24.
25.
Wid: Wilkerson Lieft. William ffrench

Joseph Miller
60 150
15
10. 11.
...
.
.
30 80
60
26. Jonath.
27.
Thomas Loughorne
Blogget Robert Holmes Th. Hall
.
12. Daniell 13.

14. 15. 16.
...
. . .
40
20 40
.150
Widow Banbricke
John Jacson
50
David ffiske Wid: Hancocke 29. And. Stevenson 30. Mr. Elijath Corlet 31 David Stone 32. Tho. Danforth
28.
. .
.... .... ....

.
20
60 10
... ...
.
60
.100
50 220
....
CIVIL HISTORY.
Lot.
59
Acre.".
Acres.
.
. .
Lot.
33. Rich, ffrances 34.
60
78. Richard
79. ffranc. 80. 81.
John Parker
,10
.
Parke Whitmore
.
.100
50 60 80 80
35. Jonath. Padlefoote 36.
15
37. Ri.
38.
Edw. Hall Oldam
.... ....
.
. . . . .
Jonas Clearke
....
... ...
.
. .
...
Gilbert Cracbone
39. Robert
40. 41.
42.
Stedman Tho. Swoetman
Wm
70 60 90 90 70 90 60 50 30 100 80 200 200

15
John Hasteings
82.
Henry Prentise
83. Elder
84. Nath.
Bordman
John Betts 43. John Shepard

44. Daniell Stone
45.
....
. . . .
.60
. .
Champnis Sparhauke 85. John Stedman 86. Will m Russell

.
.... ....
...
.
.350 .140
300
60 90
87. William Patten 88. Ben. 89. Tho.

90.
Bower
Briggam
John ffrenches children John ffownell 47. Sam Hides 48. Tho. Marret
46.
. .
.
91. Will.
John Russell Bucke
11
92. Richard Ecles

93.
.... .... .... ....

.
Mrs. Sarah Simes
49.
50.
Edw. Winship Goodm. Hammond

.
Mr. Jacson 95. Mr. Andrews

94.
51. Steven
Day.
John Gibson 53. Edw. Goffe 54. William Man

52.
55. Ri. Jacson
.... ....
. . . .
.
50 80
96. Abra. Errington 97. Widd: Cutter

98. 99.
ffr.
r Moore, sen
.
.... ... ....

...
.
20 180 80 20 70 50 400 150 70

40 50
450
70 200 80
60
56. Will" 57.

58. 59.
60. 61.
1
.
Dixon
Mr. Josseph Cooke m Wilcocke 101. Christopher Cane

100.
....
...
300 90 80
20
62. 63. 64. 65.
George Willowes Tho. Chesholme Mr. Edmund ffrost John Hall Edw. Michelson And. Belcher John Swan Phil. Cooke
. .
102. Rich.
....
.
....
. .
Moore, junior 66. Widd: Sill 67. Robert Parker 68. Will ". Manning 69. Richard Hassull
ffr.
.
....
. .
100 200 20 150 50 20 80 50 40

60 60
103. Mr. Angier 104. Vincet Druse 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110.
111.
r
.
.... 300 .... 15 .100 Bancroft Rog John Cooper .... 140 80 Edw. Shepard .... 50 Tho. Bridge Ranold Bush .... 10 Tho. Prentise .... 150 Math. Bridge .... 80
.
Dana
112. Golden
113.
Moore.
is
.100
.
Robert Brodish
.
..
30
70. Nicho.
71. Will
Withe m Hamlet
.
72. Will"
73.
1
.
Towne
60 90 60 70
Mem
There
these two per-
sons overslipped, viz. 28. Richard Robbins

91.
Daniell
Wines
... ...
80
10
Sam". Greene 74. Robert Browne

75.
76.
77.
John Boutell John Bridge

Tho. Beal
80 40 20 250 1 00
These two lots must come in their due order. The town do give to Gregadjoining to farm, one hundred acres.
ory Stone,
his
.
00 "
60
Although, by the generosity of the Church, all the inhabitants received allotments of the Shawshine lands, comparatively few of them established a residence upon that territory. As early, however, as 1655, there
were so many householders in Shawshine, gathered from Cambridge and elsewhere, that they were incorporated as a distinct town, named Billerica, and an amicable arrangement was made by them with the inhabitants of Cambridge, in regard to their respective territorial rights
ities.
and
liabil-
Jan. 29, 1654-5, show that " In answer to a letter sent to the town from our neighbors of Shawshine, alias
The Town Records,
Bilracie, wherein they desire that whole tract of land may be the disengaged from this place and be one entire body of itself,
town consented to choose five persons a Committee to treat and conclude with them concerning their request therein at which time there was chosen Mr. Henry Dunster, Elder Champney, John Bridge, Edward Goffe, and Edward Winship." The result
;
appears in the Record of the General Court, under date of
May
23,1655:" In answer to the desire of our brethren and neighbors, the inhabitants of Shawshin, requesting immunities and freedom
all public rates and charges at Cambridge, and that all the land of that place, as well those appertaining to the present inhabitants of Cambridge as those granted them by the Court,
from
might belong entirely to that place, for the better encouragement and carrying on of public charges that will necessarily there fall
out,
We, whose names are underwritten, being empowered by the inhabitants of Cambridge, at a public meeting of the town, the 29th of January, 1654, to make such propositions and conclusions therein as to us might seem most meet and equal, do make these
following propositions with reference to the compliance of the above named our beloved brethren and neighbors, the inhabitants of Shawshin, and the approbration of the General Court for the
full conclusion thereof.
all the lands belonging to that place called by the Shawshin, with its appurtenances or latter grants made by the General Court, as well those the propriety and peculiar right whereof belongeth to any particular person, as those granted by the town or church of Cambridge to that place for a township,
"
1.
" That
of
name
as also those given
by the inhabitants
of
Cambridge
for the fur-
CIVIL HISTORY.
61
therance and encouragement of a plantation there, shall be one entire township or plantation, always freed and acquitted from all manner of common charges or rates, of what nature or kind
soever, due or belonging of right to be paid unto Cambridge by virtue of any grant of that place unto them by the General Court. " 2. That whensoever of the inhabitants of
their heirs or assigns,
any whether
Cambridge,
make any improvement

less,
in that place or elsewhere, shall of their lands above premised, more or
by fencing, building or breaking up, or mowing of the meadows, every such person shall pay to the common charges of that place, i. e., Shawshin, suitable to his or their improvement of
the aforesaid kind, in due proportion with the rest of the inhab-
itants in that place, the whole estate and improvements of the place being laid at an equal and proportionable rate.
"
3.
That the inhabitants
of
Shawshin
shall, at all
time and
times hereafter forever, acquit and discharge the inhabitants of
Cambridge from all common charges, rates, dues, duties, and incumbrances by any manner of ways or means due by them to be paid, executed, or performed, by virtue of their interest in that place, given unto them by the grant of the General Court. "4. That whensoever any of the inhabitants of Cambridge shall alienate their present interest in any of the above named lands from themselves and heirs, then the said lands shall, in all
common charges of that place, as though those particular persons had their grants thereof made them from the said town or plantation of Shawshin.
respects, be liable to
"
5.
after shall
That no person or persons which either have had or herehave any lot or allotment granted them in the above
named township of Shawshin, in case they make not improvement thereof by building and fencing, especially the houselot, shall have any power to make any sale or gift thereof to any other person, but such land and allotments shall return again to the town, i. e., Shawshin and in case, after such like improve;
ment, any person shall then remove, to the deserting and leaving their brethren and neighbors that have adventured by their en-
couragement to
settle there
with them, no such person or persons,
for seven years next ensuing the confirmation hereof, shall have power to make either sale, or gift, or alienation thereof to any
person or persons whatsoever, save only unto such as the greater part of the inhabitants then resident at Shawshin shall consent
unto and approve

" 6.
of.
That
in case
any grievance
shall hereafter
happen
to arise,
62
which for the present neither side foresee, nor is hereby clearly determined, that then all such matter of grievance or difference shall be from time to time heard and determined by meet persons,
three or
five, indifferently
chosen by the prudential
men
of
Cam-
propositions to be subscribed by the present inhabitants of Shawshin, and by all such as hereafter shall have any allotments granted them there, and reall
bridge and Shawshin. " And these aforementioned
days after the
to the inhabitants of Cambridge within ten end of the first session of the next General Court. Given under our hands this 17th 12 In- 1654, by us, " HENRY
turn hereof
made
DUNSTER,
GOFFE,
RICHARD CHAMPNEY,
EDWARD
JOHN BRIDGE.
" These propositions are accepted of and consented unto by us the present inhabitants of Shawshin and we do humbly crave
;
this
honored Court to confirm and record the same.
" Your bumble servants, " RALPH Sen r
HILL,
WILLIAM FRENCH, JOHN STERNE, WILLIAM PATTIN, GEORGE FARLEY, RALPH HILL, Jun r JOHN CROE,
JAMES PARKER, JONATHAN DANFORTH,
HENRY
JEFTES,
.,
WILLIAM CHAMBERLYN, JOHN PARKER, ROBERT PARKER.
" Their request was granted by the Court."
On the same day, May 23, 1655, " in answer to the petition of several proprietors and inhabitants of Shawshin, humbly desiring a tract of land lying near the line of the farms of John and Robert Blood, and so along by the side of Concord River, &c.,
the Court grants their request in that respect, so as it hinder no former grants, and grant the name of the plantation to be called
*
Billirikey."
Thus was
of
this first
dismemberment
of the extensive
township
Cambridge amicably accomplished. No reasonable objection could be urged against granting an independent ecclesiastical and civil organization to those persons who resided at such a great distance from the centre of the town, as soon as they were
able to defray their necessary expenses.
l
Mass.
Col. Rec., iv.
(i.),
237-240.
CHAPTER
VII.
CIVIL HISTORY.
DURING the period embraced in the preceding chapter, very important events occurred in England. The ecclesiastical yoke which the Fathers of New England were unable to bear was
broken, and the people enjoyed comparative religious freedom. The civil government also was overturned and established on new
King Charles the First was beheaded Jan. 30, 1649, and the House of Lords was soon afterwards suppressed. For a few years, a Parliament consisting of a single House, and the army under the command of Cromwell, as chief general, exfoundations.
ercised a joint, or perhaps rather antagonistic, supremacy, until
Dec. 16, 1653, when Cromwell, with the title of Protector, grasped the reins of government, which he held with a firm hand so long as he lived. After this Revolution in England, and as
one of
its consequences, the inhabitants of Cambridge were once more tempted to remove. " Cromwell had been very desirous of drawing off the New Englanders to people Ireland after his successes there, and the inhabitants of New Haven had serious
thoughts of removing, but did not carry their design into execution. Jamaica being conquered, Ci*omwell renewed his invitation to the colony of the Massachusetts to remove and to go and people that island, and it appears by Mr. Leverett's letters and a
letter
from the General Court to Cromwell, that he had
it
much
at heart.
Cromwell foresaw that the West India planters would
raise estates far superior to those of the inhabitants of the north-
ern colonies, and though a mere worldly consideration was not proper for him to urge, yet accompanied with the fulfillment of a
divine promise, that God's people should be the head and not the tail, it was in character, and he artfully enough joined it with
the other consideration.
But
all
was
all
insufficient to
induce the
live
people of
tolerably,
New England
to quit a country
where they could
and were indulged with
the privileges they desired,
64
of
1 many families having removed." Al-
and we have no account

though
this
Colony, the inhabitants of Cambridge
temptation was offered to the people of the whole may be supposed to have
been peculiarly sensitive to its force, inasmuch as it was presented by one of their most honored and trusted townsmen. Captain Gookin was in England in 1655, and was selected by Cromwell
as a special agent to
manage
this affair.
Having received
his
instructions, he returned to .New England and devoted himself Several of his letters to Secreearnestly to his appointed task. Thurloe this mission are printed in Thurloe's concerning tary In the first, dated Jan. 21, 1655-6, he announces State Papers. his recent arrival at Boston, " after* ten weekes of an exercising 2 At a later period, he menpassage from the Isle of Wight." tions in detail some of his labors, and hopes, and discouragements, reminding the secretary that he undertook the work with some misgivings. This letter may deserve insertion
:
RIGHT HONORABLE. Since my arrival in New England, which was the 20th of January last, I wrote two letters by way of Barbadoes, and this 3d also the same way being destitute of a The sum of the 2 first were direct conveyance from hence. honour of inform arrivall to here, and of a little motion my your in his I had then made that highnesse's affayres but the sharpBut ness of the winter prevented my travill into other colonies. I procured a meeting of the council of this colony March the
;
"
7th being the soonest they mett, although the governour called
them a month before but in the interval between my arrival and the counsel's meeting, I endeavoured to make knowne, as far but there was little as I could, the sum of his highness desires
;
done during that season for the foremen tioned reson, but after the counsell of this colony mett, and I had delivered his highness letters, and declared the cause of my coming, they thankfully accepted and readily made an order for the promotion thereof, requiring their officers to attend my motions in the publishing the same. Whereupon I did forthwith cause a short declaration to be printed and published unto all the towns and plantations of the English, not only in this, but other colonys, (the copie of which printed paper and order I have enclosed,) and together
procured and imployed persons of trust in severall parts (where I could not be in person) to promote the business and take subscriptions. Shortly after this was done in mid Aprill
therewith
I
1
Hutchinson's Hist. Mass.,
i.
190-192.
Vol.
iv., p.
440.
CIVIL HISTORY.
(as soone as the waies were well passable) I tooke
to the colonies of Conecticut
for the
65
and
New Haven
my journey (about 150 miles,
most part through the woods) and unto the magistrates of those colonies declared my busines, delivering his highness letters to Mr. Eaton, &c. They all thankfully accepted his great
love,
the
West
manefesting themselves very ready to further the worke in But as for this Indies, which they trust is of God.
place of Jamiaca at present, for as

letters
in the
now tendred, the minds of most were averse much as at that very season their came divers from thence, signifieing the sore afflicting hand of God mortalitie of the English upon the Island, in so much
;
that of 8,000 and upward, that landed there, there was not living above one halfe and those very weake, and lowe, and many
wherein also was related the death of maThese tydjor general Fortescue, Mr. Gage, and divers others. are a unto the most and best perings very great discouragement which have to otherwise would remove sons, ingaged only some few families have subscribed, but not considerable. If the Lord
of
daily,
;
them dicing
please to give the state either Hispaniola, Cuba, or any other helthful place, I have good reason to beeleve, that sundry persons, of worth,
yea and some whole churches would remove from hence into those parts. But as for this Island (though through God's mercy late intelligence of 7th of March from the commis;
sioners give great hope, that the good lord is returneing to visit the remnant, that is left, with health and cure and also they give great incouradgment of the fertilitie of the said island, all
have endevored to publish with my best skill, may be towards the drawing in of more I canot persons, yet determine; but this island, through many bad reports of it, is not of such esteme here, as in several respects I conceive it deserves. For the present their are some few godly discrete persons, that intend to pass theither in a ship of the states called the Hope, whereof one Martin is comander, which is now here ladeing masts for the fleet. These persons leave
I
which tidings and what the
effects
their familie here and if it shall please God to cary them safe, and that the island be liked by them (as I hope it may) then upon their returne and inteligence, 't is probable, that many will remove, and in the interim if the Lord's purposes be to plant the said island with any people from hence, 't is possible upon this last newes I may heare of greater motion than formerly among the people. There is one thing, that I desire to mention to your that honour, is, an objection I mett with from some principal
;
66
the motions of
persons, that incline to transplant, and indeed
such will draw or hinder many.
move
is
it, 't is
probable
it
may
highness see cause to refurther the work. They say, there

If his
no incouradgment in the propositions for ministers or men of Now if a minister and place, but what is equall with other men. people remove, the people wil not be in a capacity, untill they
are settled, to maintayne their ministers, for as much as they cannot cary their estates from hence, being it principally consists in land and cattle. Now if there were some annual allowance
made unto such

ance.
or other waies be contrived,
persons for a few yeares, until the people recruite, it would then take of that hinder-
" Thus I have, as breefly as I may, perticulerly signified unto the sume of what is hetherto done. I am hartily honour, your
sorry, that his highness
of
my
service hath beene hetherunto so unprofitable to

state,
and the
whome
I desire,
through the strength
God, to serve with a faithfull hart and diligent hand. But I trust your wisdomes wil consider the providences of God, that have occurred and also remember some litle mention I made of my feares this way, before I undertooke the service but yet I am not out of hope, that his highness pious intentions and motions in this great worke both in the West Indies, and elsewhere, shal be owned and crowned with the Lord's blessing in his best
;
season.
" Thus with my most humble service presented, and earnest on to whose shoulders the government is, to give his him, prairs gracious presence and assistance to his highness and your honer
in all emergencies, I
remaine desirous to be,
sir,
his highness
and
your honer's most

"
Cambridge
in
humble and
faithful servant,
DANIEL GOOKIN.
New England, May
10th, 1656."
l
Captain Gookin wrote again, Oct. 23, 1656, announcing the " the great difficulprobable failure of the project, inasmuch as ties and discouragement the English have grapled with in that place, being fully known here, have made the most considerable
persons slow to appeare or ingage to transplant for present, lest they should bring themselves and families into great inconveniences only there was about three hundred souls that subscribed,
;
who
for the
and many
1
of
most part are young persons under family government, them females, and for quality of low estates, but
2
2
divers personally godly."

State Papers, v. 6,
7.
Ibid., v. 509.
CIVIL HISTORY.
67
While the Protectorate of Cromwell continued, Massachusetts was a favored colony, and the inhabitants of Cambridge shared the general benefit of political and ecclesiastical privileges. But his death, and the incompetency of his son Richard, prepared the way for the accession (or Restoration, as it was styled) of Charles
the Second, who, on the twenty-ninth day of May, 1660, the anFrom this niversary of his birth, entered London in triumph.
time a constant struggle for chartered rights was maintained for many years, resulting in the forcible abrogation of the old charter. In this struggle, Cambridge men were active participants.
It
is
related
by Hutchinson, under date
of 1660, that,
"in the
ship which arrived from London the 27th of July there came passengers Col. Whaley and Col. Goffe, two of the late King's judges They did not attempt to conceal their persons or
characters when tFiey arrived at Boston, but immediately went to the governor, Mr. Endicot, who received them very courteously. They were visited by the principal persons of the town, and among He others they take notice of Col. Crown's coming to see them.
Although they did not disguise themselves royalist. chose reside to at Cambridge, a village about four miles yet they distant from the town, where they went the first day they arrived.
assistants to consult about securing agree to it. Finding it unsafe to
was a noted
February the Governor summoned a court of them, but the court did not remain any longer, they left Cambridge the 26th following and arrived at New Haven the 7th " 1 of March. The particular reason why they selected Cam-
.... The
22d
of
prinbridge for their residence does not distinctly appear. cipal inhabitant of the town, Edward Goffe, was the namesake of one of the regicides, and may have been his brother or cousin
;
but
have found no proof of such relationship. Perhaps their acquaintance with Captain Gookin may have induced them to reside here. In a " Narrative of the Commissioners from England about New England," published by Hutchinson in his " Collection of Papers," 2 it is alleged that "Col. Whaley and Goffe were entertained by the magistrates with great solemnity and feasted
I
1
Haven
Hist. Mass., i. 213-215. From New the regicides retreated to Hadley,

in the
tures and fate in New England, may be found in Judd's History of Hadley, pp.
where they found shelter

Rev. John Russell.
house of
214-223.
that although It should be added, Hutchinson and others style Whalley and Goffe " Colonels," both were actually Major-generals under Cromwell,
2
"Whalley is supposed to have died there about 1670, and to have
been buried
in
Mr. Russell's
;
cellar.
Goffe
survived several years but the time and place of his death are not known.
Pages 419, 420.
chapter relative to their romantic adven-
68
were
in every place, after they to be apprehended ; they
made
told they were traytors and ought their abode at Cambridge uutill
they were furnished with horses and a guide and sent away to Newhaven for their more security Capt. Daniell Gookin is re;
ported to have brought over and to manage their estates and the commissioners being informed that he had many cattle at his
;
farm in the King's Province which were supposed to be Whalyes or Goughs, caused them to be seazed for his Majesty es use till further order, but Capt. Gookin, standing upon the privilege of their charter and refusing to answer before the commissioners, as soe, there was no more done in it Capt. Peirce, who transported Whaly and Gough into New England, may probably say someIt has been said that Gookin had made thing to their estate." a second visit to England, and that he returned in the same ship
;
with Whalley
and
Goffe.
General Goffe's journal, descriptive of his residence in Cambridge, has been printed in the " Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society," 1863, 1864. 1 Among other things he says " 27 d. 5 m. Wee came to anchor betwen Boston and Charles:
A fragment of
town betwen 8. and 9. in ye morning all in good health thro: ye good hand of God upon us oh yt men would praise the as ps. 107. 21 &c." Lord for his goodness, " 29 d. 5 m. Lds day wee had opportunity of waiting upon God in his publick ordinances, wch wer solemnly performed by Mr. Mitchel." "9 d. 6 m. At night Majr Gookins shewed us a printed paper yt was brought in ye Scotch ship, wherein ye Lords do order 66 members of ye High court of Justice to be secured, wth its dated 18 d. May, 1660. But I will meditate on yr estates, Hebr. 13. 5, 6." " 15 d. 6 m. Sup't at Mr. Chancey's the good old servant of ye Lord, still expressing much affection, & telling us, he was perswaded ye Ld had brought us to this country for good both to them and or selves." " 23 d. 6 m. In ye evening wee vissited Elder Frost, who
:
!
reed us with great kindness & love esteeming it a favour yt we would come into yr mean habitation ; assured us of his fervent
glorious saint makes a mean cotprayers to ye Lord for us tage a stately palace ; were I to make my choyce, I would rather abide wth ys saint in his poor cottage then wth any one of ye princes yt I know of at ys day in ye world."
:
1
Pages 281-283.
CIVIL HISTORY.
" 24 d. 6 m.
69
ye ye complained pain submitt with cheerfullness to ye will of God & told us yt God spake many things to him under this exercise." " 26 d. 6 m. Mr. Mitchell wth diverse came to visit us; or discourse tended to provoke to give up or selves wholly to Jesus Christ and make him ye whole delight of or souls."
stone.
Wee
He
visited G. 1 Beale, sorely afflicted with yt lie could not in ye extremity of

;
Within a few days after Whalley and Goffe left Cambridge, England for their arrest and there was at least a show of earnest exertion, on the part of the magistrates, to overtake them but the effort was in vain. Knowing that disorders arrived from
; ;
satisfaction existed in the English government, not only on account of their friendly reception of the regicides, but also for
their persistent disregard of the navigation laws, and many other acts of insubordination, the General Court which assembled May
22, 1661, attempted to
remove some of the causes of offence. rebuked the They apostle Eliot for publishing a book advocating a "Christian Commonwealth" rather than a monarchy; they modified their laws concerning Quakers, and soon afterwards expressed their intention to comply with the laws concerning navOn the last day of the session, which had extended into igation. June, they adopted a vote which clearly indicates their conception of the grave difficulties which surrounded them, and their
.
anxiety to devise means of escape " For as much as the present condition of our affairs in highest concernments call for a diligent and speedy use of the best means
:
seriously to discuss and rightly to understand our liberty and duty, thereby to beget unity amongst ourselves in the due observance
of obedience
own
fidelity unto the authority of England and our just privileges, for the effecting whereof it is ordered by this
and
Court, that Mr.
Symon Bradstreet, Mr. Samuell Symonds, Major General Denison, Mr. Danforth, Major Win. Hauthorne, Capt. Tho. Savage, Capt. Edward Johnson, Capt. Eliazer Lusher, Mr. Mather, Mr. Norton, Mr. Gobbet, and Mr. Michell, be and hereby
are appointed a committee, immediately after the dissolution or adjournment of the Court, to meet together in Boston on second day next, at twelve of the clock, to consider and debate such
matter or thing of public concernment touching our patent, laws, privileges, and duty to his Majesty, as they in their wisdom shall judge most expedient, and draw up the result of their apprehensions,
and present the same to the next session

1
for consideration
Goodman.
70
and approbation, that so (if the will of God be) we may speak and act the same thing, becoming prudent, honest, conscientious, and faithful men." This important committee consisted of four Assistants, four Deputies, and four clergymen, of whom Danforth and Mitchell were of Cambridge. The report was signed by Danforth, and was probably written by him it is here inserted, as it indicates the skill and firmness with which encroachments on their chartered rights were resisted by the party of which he was the ac;
knowledged
leader.
Immediately
after the
appointment
of this
committee, the Court adjourned. It met again on the tenth of The first busJune, after a recess of probably less than a week.
iness presented
was
this
Report
"
The answers
of the
Committee unto
the. matters proposed to

:
their consideration
by the honored General Court
" 1. Concerning our liberties.
"
1.
We conceive
the patent (under
main foundation
"
2.
of our civil polity here, is therein expressed. as pany, according
God) to be the first and by a Governor and Comby the patent, a body
The Governor and Company

and name.
are,
politic, in fact
This body politic is vested with power to make freemen. These freemen have power to choose annually a Governor, Deputy Governor, Assistants, and their select representatives or
3.
" "
4.
deputies.
"
5.
This government hath also [power] to set up
all sorts of
officers, as well superior as inferior,
and point out
their
power
and
"
places.
6.
Assistants, and select or have full power and authority, both representatives deputies and for the executive, government of all the people legislative
The Governor, Deputy Governor,
here, whether inhabitants or strangers, both concerning ecclesiastics and in civils, without appeal, excepting law, or laws repugnant to the laws of England.
The government is privileged by all fitting means (yea, need be, by force of arms), to defend themselves, both by land and sea, against all such person or persons as shall at any time attempt or enterprise the destruction, invasion, detriment, or
7.
"
and
if
of this plantation or the inhabitants therein, besides other privileges mentioned in the patent, not here expressed.
annoyance
CIVIL HISTORY.
"
71
conceive any imposition prejudicial to the country 8. contrary to any just law of ours, not repugnant to the laws of England, to be an infringement of our right.
We
"
2.
Concerning our duties
of allegiance to our sovereign lord
the King.
1. ought to uphold and to our power maintain this place, as of right belonging to our sovereign lord the King, as holden of his majesty's manor of East Greenwich, and not to subject the
"
We
same
"
to
any foreign prince or potentate whatsoever.
ought to endeavor the preservation of his majesty's royal person, realms, and dominions, and so far as lieth in us, to discover and prevent all plots and conspiracies against the same, " 3. We ought to seek the peace and prosperity of our king and nation, by a faithful discharge in the governing of this people committed to our care. (1.) By punishing all such crimes breaches of the or first second table) as are committed (being the of our against peace sovereign lord the King, his royal crown and dignity. (2.) In propagating the gospel, defending and up2.
We
true Christian or Protestant religion according to the by our Lord Christ in his word ; our dread sovereign ' being styled Defender of the faith.' " The premises considered, it may well stand with the loyalty
holding
tTie
faith given
of such subjects as are thus privileged by their rightful sovereign (for himself, his heirs and successors forever), as cause shall require, to plead with their prince against all such
and obedience
as shall at
further judge that the warrant and letter from the King's majesty, for the apprehending of Col. Whalley and Col. Goffe, ought to be diligently and faithfully executed by the
"
We
any time endeavor the
violation of their privileges.
authority of this country. " And, also, that the General Court
may do
safely to declare,
that in case (for the future) any legally obnoxious, and flying from the civil justice of the state of England, shall come over to
these parts, they
may not here expect shelter. " Boston 10. 4m. 1661. By order and consent of the Com" THO. DANFOKTH. mittee.
"
The Court
l
allows and approves of the return of the
Com-
mittee."
On
mined
the last day of the year 1661, the General Court deter" to send " Mr. Symon Bradstreet and Mr. John Norton
1
Mass.
Col. Rec., iv.
(ii.)
24-26.
72
to
England, as special agents.
"
:
Among
their instructions
were
these
shall present us to his majesty as his loyal and obedient subjects." " (4.) You shall not engage us by any act of
1.
You
yours to anything which

ing according to patent."
may be prejudicial to 1 The agents were
our present standreceived more fa-
vorably than they expected, and returned with a gracious letter from the King. This letter was read in Court, Oct. 8, 1662. In
" We will consequence of the King's declaration therein, preserve and do hereby confirm the patent and charter heretofore
granted unto them by our royal father of blessed memory, and they shall fully enjoy all the privileges and liberties granted to them in and by the same," the Court appointed a special " the safe and mention of thanksgiving, making speedy return of
our public messengers sent for England, together with the contin" uance of the mercies of peace, liberties, and the gospel and on " the same it was further that henceforth all
;
writs, ordered, day process, with indictments, shall by all magistrates, the secretary, clerk of the several courts and writs, be made and sent forth in
his Majesty's
name,
etc.,
name, i. e., you are hereby required in his Majesty's any usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding."
Some
of the other requisitions, especially those interfering with their ecclesiastical polity, were very unwelcome, and the Court was not ready to_comply. " The Court, having duly considered
now in Court, and the contents thereof, do hereby order the publication thereof. And forasmuch as the said letter hath influence upon the churches as well as the civil
of his Majesty's letters
state, it is further ordered, that all
manner
of actings in relation
thereunto be suspended until the next General Court, that so all persons concerned may have time and opportunity to consider of what is necessary to be done, in order to his Majesty's pleasure
therein."
2
In their answer to the King's letter, after expressing thankful" As ness for his confirmation of the charter, the Court say
:
Mass.
Col. Rec., iv.
(ii.)
37.
Loyalty
to the king
was held
to be qualified or
whereof he is a member, and unto which he is sworn formerly. Boston the 24th of
modified by the provisions of the charter; two examples are preserved in the
May,
1665.
DANIEL GOOKIN."
Mass. Archives, cvi. 132, 133. "Daniel Gookin, before he took the oath of allegiance in Court, May 24th, 1665, did openly and plainly declare that in taking that oath he would be so understood as not to infringe the liberty and privileges granted
in
"Before I take the oath of allegiance to his Majesty, which I am ready to do, I do declare that I will be so understood as not to infringe the liberty and
privileges granted in his Majesty's royal charter to this Colony of the Massachusetts. THOMAS DANFORTH. 26 (3)
his
Majesty's
royal
charter
to
the
1665."
2
Governor and Company of Massachusetts,
Mass.
Col. Rec., iv.
(ii.)
58.
CIVIL HISTORY.
73
touching the further purport of the letter, we have this particular account to give v viz for the repealing of all laws here established since the late changes, contrary and derogatory to his Majesty's
:
authority and government, we having considered thereof, are not conscious to any of that tendency. Concerning the oath of allegiance, we are readily to attend to it as formerly, according to the charter. Touching the administration of justice in his Majesties name, hath been done, the practice whereof, which was discontinued in the late changes, is now reassumed. Concerning liberty to use the common Prayer Book, none as yet among us
have appeared to desire it. Touching administration of the sacraments, this matter hath been under consideration of a synod, orderly called, the result whereof our last General Court commended to the several congregations, and we hope will have a tendency to general satisfaction. In reference to our elections of magistrates, we humbly answer, that it hath always been, and is, great care and endeavor, that men of wisdom, virtue and integand to that end, that such as rity be chosen to places of trust vote in elections should be orthodox in religion, virtuous (and not vicious) in conversation, and all those that according to the orders and customs of the colony here established, agreeable to the provisions of our charter, having proved themselves to be such in their places where they live, have from_time to time been admitted in our elections and if anything yeT remain to be acted by us respecting the premises, it is under consideration among us to that end. We humbly desire your honor will be pleased to assure his Majesty of the loyalty and good affection of his subjects here, they resting secure in their charter and his Majesty's 1 gracious aspect towards them." This letter, manifesting the same spirit which was exhibited a
; ;
hundred years afterwards, personal loyalty to the King, but an unwillingness to submit to the arbitrary government of a Council or Parliament in which they were not represented, was not satisfactory to the English Government and after some further correspondence, a board of commissioners, consisting of Col. Richard Nichols, Sir Robert Carr, George Cartwright, Esq., and Samuel Maverick, Esq., was appointed in 1664, to visit the New England Colonies and enforce their subjection. A long
;
controversy, shrewdly managed on the part of the Court, resulted in the departure of the commissioners without having accomplished their object.
1
The
inhabitants of Cambridge were not

Mass. Hist.
Soc., xviii. 47, 48.
Danforth Papers,
in Cdl.
74
backward in rendering encouragement to their magistrates. At " The Court a special session, commencing Oct. 19, 1664, being met together and informed that several persons, inhabCambridge, were at the door and desiring liberty to their errand, were called in, and Mr. Edward Jackson, Mr. Richard Jackson, Mr. Edward Oakes, and Deacon Stone, coming before the Court, presented a petition from the inhabitants of Cambridge, which was subscribed by very many hands, in which they testified and declared their good content and satisfaction they took and had in the present government in church and commonwealth, with their resolution to be assisting to and encouraging the same, and humbly desiring all means might be used for the continuance and preservation thereof and at the same time and the next day several petitions of like nature from Wooborne, Dorchester, Redding, Chelmsford, Concord, Billirrikey, Boston, Dedham, and Meadfield, and also one from several inhabitants of Roxbury, all which are on file." 1 The is on of its here account inserted, partly Cambridge petition and to of the list names patriotic spirit, partly preserve appended
itants of
make known
to
it
" To the honoured Generall Court of Massachusetts Colonie. The humble representation of the inhabitants of the towne of
Cambridg. " For as much as we have heard that theire have beene representations
made unto
his
Maiesty conserning divisions among us
and
dissatisfactions about the present
goverment
of this colonie
we whose names
are under written, the inhabitants and house-
holders of the towne above mentioned, doe hearby testify our unanimous satisfaction in and adhearing to the present government
and orderly estableshed, and our earnest desire of the continuance theirof and of all the liberties and privileges pertaining theirunto which are contained in the charter granted by King
so long
James and King Charles the First of famous memory, under the encouredgment and security of which charter we or our fathers ventered over the ocean into this wildernesse through great hazards, charges, and difficulties and we humbly desire our honored General Court would addresse themselves by humble petition
;
to his Maiesty for his royall favour in the continuance of the pres1
Mass. Col. Rec.,
iv.
(ii
136,
137.
Archives to the Judicial Court Files for

Suffolk
The Cambridge
petition, for
some reason,
County,
in
the
Court House,
has been removed from the Massachusetts
Boston.
CIVIL HISTORY.
ent estableshment and of
75
all the previleges theirof, and that we be to the not arbitrary power of any who are not may subjected chosen by this people according to theire patent,
"Cambrid": the 17th of the

"
8.
1664.
CHARLES CHAUNCY.
OAKES. SAM L L ANDRE WE. JONATHAN MITCHELL. ELIJAH CORLETT. RICHARD CHAMPNY. EDMUND FROST. GREGORY STONE. JOHN BRIDGE. JOHN STEDMAN. FFRANCIS WHITMOR. RICHARD JACKSON.
.
EDWARD
ROBERT STEDMAN. THOMAS CHENY. WILLYAM X HEALLY. JOHN PALFRAY. FFRANCTS MOORE, S6n JOHN GOVE. WILL X MICHELSON.
r
.
EDWARD HALL.
WILLIAM BARRETT. JOHN HOLMAN. WILL. BORDMAN. ZACHARYE HICKS. SAM L L MANNING. RICHARD CUTTER. JOHN GREEN. FFRA. MOORE, jun r JOHN X ADAMS.
.
EDWARD SHEPHARD.
GILBERT X CRACBON. JOHN Fi SEND EN. JOHN COOPER. ABRAHAM ERRINGTOON. HUMFRY BRADSHA. JOHN GIBSON. RICHARD HASSELL. DANILL KEMPSTER. THOMAS X Fox.
BEINIMAN CRACKBONE.
GEORGE X WILLIS. THOMAS X HALL. RICHARD DANA. NICOLAS X WYTHE. THOMAS CHESHOLM. SAMUEL GREEN.
THO. SWETMAN.
JOHN MARRITT. NATHANELL HANCOCKE. WILLYAM TOWN. ABRAHAM HOLMAN. JOHN SHEPHARD. SAMUELL FROST.
WALTER HASTING.
NATH. GREEN. ESTER GOSSOM.
PETER TOWNE.
RICHARD ROBINS. WILLIAM DIKSONE. RICHARD ECCLES. THOMAS LONGHORNE. JOHN WATSONN. ROGER X BUKK.
EDWARD MITCHELLSON. ANDREW BELCHER. EDMUND ANGIER.

RICHARD PARK. JOSKPH COOKE. JERMIE FISMAN. JOHN TALLER. DANIEL CHEEAVER.
ANDREW X
STEVENSON.
JOHN X PARENTS. JAMES HUBBARD. ROBERT X WILSON.

ROB.
JOHN ELIOT.
EDWARD
JACKSON.
JOHN
X PARKER. X BOUTTELL.
SAMUELL HADEN. JOHN JACKSON. GREGORY COOKE.
76
JOHN
PARKER.
senyor.
MATHEW X BOONE.
THOMAS HAMMOND, THOMAS HAMMOND,
VINCENT
junyor.
JOHN WINTOR. JOHN COLLAR.

JOSEPH MIRIAM. ISACK STARNES. DAVID FISKE. SOLOMON PRENTES. JOSEPH SILL.
DRUSE, junyor.
JOHN
JOB
X HANCHET. X HIDES.
SAMUELL X HYDES. REBECCAH X DANIELL. JONATHAN HIDES. DAVID STONE. SAMUELL STONE. JEAMES X CUTLER.
"
SAMUELL HASTING. RICHARD X FRANCES. ROBART X BROWN. THOMAS X BROWN. JOHN SWAN."
band mani-
We, whose names are subscribed, being and singell men in the above sayd town, doe
fest ourselves to
of the traine
also desire to
be of the same mynd with our parents, masters, and the aged men and housholders of the place. "THOMAS OLIVER. JOHN HASTINS. JONATHAN JACKSON. JOHN MORE. JOHN JACKSON. JOHN HOLIS.
SEBEIS JACKSON.
STEVKN COOKE. JACOB GOBLE.

JOSEPH X STEVENES. DANIEL CHAMPNES. JOHN STEAD MAN. THOMAS GATES. ARTHER X HENBURY. ROBART X SHEPAHD. DANIELL X PRAT. PHILIP EASTMAN.
GERSHOM FROST. ABRAHAM X HOWELL.

BENIAMAN X RUSSELL. SAMEUEL BUCKE.
JOSEPH FFROST. WILLIAM REYLE. SAMUELL X GARRY. NATH. PATTEN. STEPHEN FRANCES.
ARTHUR CALL. THOMAS MARRITT.

JOSEPH PRATT.
REUBEN LUXFFORD. SAMUELL X ROBINES. BENONY X EATON. RODGER CHANDLER.

JOSEPH HOLME."
THOMAS FFLEDG.
It does not appear that Cambridge, in its corporate capacity, was actively engaged in the political contest which continued, with scarcely any intermission, for more than twenty years but there is the best evidence that its representative men were among the most active leaders in opposition to the arbitrary
;
measures of the English court.

of the
:
Edward Randolph, "
the arch
enemy Colony," addressing the Lords of Trade in 1676, " says Amongst the Magistrates, some are good men and well af-
CIVIL HISTORY.
77
fected to his Majesty, and would be well satisfied to have his Majesty's authority in a better manner established; but the major part
are of different principles, having been in the government from These the time they formed themselves into a Commonwealth.
direct
are Mr. Leverett, Governor,
they please, of which number Mr. Symons, Deputy Governor, Mr. Danforth, Mr. Ting, Major Clarke, and Major Hathorn, still continued a magistrate, though commanded by his Majesty upon his allegiance to come into England, yet refused, being encouraged in his disobedience by a vote of the Court not to appear, upon some reasons best known to themselves. These, with some few others of the same faction, keep the country in subjection and slavery, backed with the authority of a pretended charter." To the Bishop of London he writes, May 29, 1682, " I think I have so clearly layd downe the matter of fact, sent over their lawes and orders to confirine what I have wrote, that they can-
and manage
all affairs as
not deny them
however,
if
commanded,
if
I will readily pass the
seas to attend at Whitehall, especially
Dan ford, Goggin, and Newell, magistrates, and Cooke, Hutchinson and Fisher, members of their late General Court and great opposers of the honest
Governor and majestrates, be sent for to appeare before his Majtill which time this esty country will always be a shame as well as inconveniency to the government at home." 2 Soon afterwards,
;
" His 14, 1682, he writes to the Earl of Clarendon, Majesties quo warranto against their charter, and sending for Thomas
June
Danforth, Samuel Nowell, a late factious preacher and
now a
magistrate, and Daniel Fisher and Elisha Cooke, deputies, to attend and answer the articles of high inisdemeanures I have now
exhibited against them in my papers sent Mr. Blaithwait per 3 Capt. Foy, will make the whole faction tremble." " During these distresses of the colony," says Hutchinson in " there were two 1681, parties subsisting in the government, both
importance of the charter privileges, but differing in opinion upon the extent of them, and upon the proper measures to preserve them. The governor, Mr. Bradstreet, was
of
them agreed
in the
at the
moderate party. Randolph in all his letters Mr. Stoughton, Mr. Dudley, and William Brown of Salem, these fell in with the Governor. The deputy governor, Mr. Danforth, was at the head of the other party the principal members of the court with him were Major Gookins of Cambridge, Peter Tilton of Hadley, Elisha Cooke and Elisha
of the
it
head
takes notice of
Hutch.
Coll.,
p 499.
Ibid., 532.
Ibid., 535.
78
of Boston. This party opposed the sending over the to acts of trade, &c., and were for adhersubmitting agents, to their charter according to their construction of it, and ing
Hutchinson
leaving the event.
Gookins, being aged, desired a paper he drew
up as his dying testimony, might be lodged with the court, con1 taining the reasons of his opinion."
Through the whole of this protracted controversy, Danforth and Gookin, together with the Deputies from Cambridge, continued firm in their resistance to the arbitrary measures of the English government. They were at last overpowered, however, and the Colony was reduced to a state little better than slavery. On the 25th day of May, 1686, Joseph Dudley, the newly appointed President, with his Council, assumed the government of the Colony, the charter having been abrogated. A few months Dec. he was Edmund Sir later, Andros, 20, 1686, superseded by who had been appointed Governor of New England.
1
Hist. Mass.,
i.
331.
CHAPTER
VIII.
CIVIL HISTORY.
As early as 1654, some of the inhabitants upon the south side of the River commenced a movement, which resulted, seven years
afterwards, in an order of the General Court, that all who resided " be freed nuore than four miles from the meeting-house should
from contributing towards the ministry on the north side the " as the south side the river shall maintain an river," so long able ministry." 1 This was not wholly satisfactory, and a petition for more extensive privileges was presented to the General Court, Oct. 18, 1672, but action thereon was postponed until the next session, May 7, 1673, at which time this record is found " In answer to the petition of Mr. Edward Jackson and John Jackson in behalf of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, on the south side of Charles River, this Court doth judge meet to grant the inhabitants of the said village annually to elect one constable and three selectmen, dwelling among themselves, to
:
order their prudential affairs of the inhabitants there according

to law, only continuing a part of Cambridge in paying country and county rates, as also town rates so far as refers to the gram-
mar school and bridge, and also pay their proportion of the charges of the deputies of Cambridge, and this to be an issue to the controversy between Cambridge and them." 2 But the people were not content to be a precinct.
of the
Accordingly at the session General Court, commencing May 8, 1678, a petition was presented for incorporation as a town
:
To the honored Governor, Deputy Governor, together with the honored Magistrates and Deputies of the General Court, now sitting in Boston. " The humble petition of us, the inhabitants of Cambridge
Village, on the south side of Charles River, showeth, that the
1
"
Mass.
Col. Rec., iv.
(ii.)
16.
Ibid., 555.
80
so late war, as it hath been a great charge to the whole Colony, to us in particular, both in our estates and persons, by loss of life to some, and others wounded and disabled for their livelihood,
besides all our other great charges in building of our meetinghouse and of late enlargement to it, as also our charge to the
you know, the Lord took that worthy time, and now in great mercy hath raised up another in the place, who hath a house in building for him, which requires assistance As also we are now, by the great mercy of God, so many families that a school is required for the
minister's house.
And,
a
as
person from us
in
little
education of our children according to law, besides our public Yet, notwithstanding, this last year, the charge of the place.
Townsmen of Cambridge have imposed a tax upon us, amounting to the sum of three country Rates, without our knowledge or consent, which we humbly conceive is very harsh proceeding "for any Townsmen of their own will and power to impose upon the
inhabitants what taxes they please, and to what end, without ever calling the inhabitants to consider about such charge. Nevertheless, for peace sake, the inhabitants of our place did
meet together and jointly consent to give the town of Cambridge the sum of one hundred pounds, and to pay it in three years, without desiring any profit or benefit from them of wood, timber,
or common lands, but only our freedom, being content with our own proprieties, which some of us had before Cambridge had any
which tender of ours they having rejected, as also right there to grant to us our freedom from them, we do most com:
humbly
distressed condition to the justice and honored Court, that you will please to grant us our
mend our
mercy of this freedom from
Cambridge and that we may be a township of ourselves, without any more dependence upon Cambridge, which hath been a great charge and burden to us and also that you would please to give the place a name, and if there should be any objection against us
;
that the honored
hoping the Almighty will assist you in

your humble petitioners.
Court will admit our reply and defence. all your concerns, we
So
rest
"Mu. EDWARD JACKSON. CAPT. THOMAS PRENTICK.

JOHN FULLER, sen r JOHN KENKICK, seii
.
THOMAS PRENTICE, jun JOHN KENRICK, jun r

.
r
.
JOHN MASON.
r
.
ISAAC WILLIAMS.
JOHN WARD.
JOSEPH MILLER.
WM. ROBINSON. THOMAS GREENWOOD. JOHN PARKER (south). HUMPHREY OSLAND.
CIVIL HISTORY.
81
JOSEPH BARTLETT.
ISAAC BACON.
JACOB BACON. SAMUEL TRUSDALE. SIMON ONGE. JONATHAN FULLER. JONATHAN HIDES, sen 1 THOMAS PARKES, sen r JAMES TROWBRIDGE. NOAH WISWALL.
.
SAMUEL HIDES, jun r NOAH MCDANIEL. JOHN FULLER, jun JOSHUA FULLER. JOHN ALEXANDER. JOHN PRENTICE. NATH L HAMMOND. JOB HIDES. JOHN PARKER (east).
.
THOMAS HAMMOND. JONATHAN HIDES, jun r

JAMES PRENTICE, sen r DAVID MEADS. VINCENT DRUSSE. JOHN HIDES.
.
WIDOW JACKSON. EDW D JACKSON, jun

.
r
.
DANIEL KEY. THOS. PRENTICE, jun
r
.
ABRAHAM JACKSON.
STEPHEN COOKE. RICHARD PARKS. JOSEPH FULLER. ISAAC BEACH. PETER HANCHET."
EBEN R WISWALL. ELIAH KENRICK.

.
SEBEAS JACKSON.
The historian of Newton says this petition " was no doubt drawn up by Mr. Edward Jackson, senior." He adds a list of " Freemen in the 2 Village who did not sign this petition,"
namely
" Rev.
:
Nehemiah Hobart.
Daniel Bacon.
Elder Thomas Wiswall. Dea. Samuel Hyde.
John Spring.
Daniel McCoy.
John Woodward.
Henry Segar. Thomas Park, junr
John Park. Samuel Hyde, Son of Jona. James Prentice, jun r ."
" In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge on the south side of the river, the Court judgeth it meet Village, to grant them a hearing of the case mentioned on the first Tues-
day
of the next session in October, and all parties concerned are ordered to have timely notice." 3 At the time appointed, a long protest was presented by the Selectmen of Cambridge, a part of which was printed in Jackson's " History of Newton," pp. 53-60. Notwithstanding its is it here inserted in of the historical on account full, length, facts mentioned in it, and the picture it presents of the general
condition of affairs
1
Mass. Arch., cxii. 250. Jackson's Hist, of Newton,

6
Mass.
50, 52.
Col. Rec., v. 188, 189.
82
"
The answer
of the
Selectmen of Cambridge to the petition of the exhibited against them by their Brethren and Neighbors on the South Side of Charles River.
Village " To omit what of narration, declaring they express by way ' sustained by the late war, the loss of lives and estates to them their having now got anthe death of their former minister and the impertinency and other for whom a house is building,' &c.
therein being obvious to all intelliabsurdity of their argument we shall only concern ourselves with what they gent minds, which may be divided into these make the main of their
petition,
two parts
"
I.
The cause on our

Cambridge,
i. e.
hard usage part, viz. the
by the Towns-
men
will
of
imposing upon them a tax of their
own
and power, and what they please, and to what end they
please.
making and putting upon them their
hereunto, the Cambridge Townsmen have imif they intend no more than the posed a tax (as they call it) of a rate for the paying of the charges of the whole town,
"For answer
just proportion of the charge of those things, properly belonging to them to bear their part of, reference to according to the order of the General Court with
them, made
1673, and then declared to be the issue of the controversy between the town and the petitioners, thus far we own to be a truth. But whereas they charge us that we
May
th
have thus done,
1, of
our
own
will, 2, of
our
own power,
:
3,
what
we
please, 4, to
will that
what end we
accusations which
we
please, cannot own to
these are high and sad be true for 1 st it was not
by our
any taxes have been imposed on them or any
other of the inhabitants, but their
own will, so declared in orderly town-meetings, legally warned, whereat themselves either were or
might have been present and had their votes. 2. Nor was it of own power, but by the authority of the General Court, committing to us by the law, as we are Selectmen of the town, power for the ordering of the prudentials of the town and levying what is necessary for the payment of the annual disbursements regularly made for the town's occasions. 3. Nor have we imposed upon the town in general, or the petitioners, what we The rule that we have observed in raising our rates beplease. ing to make them no greater than is of absolute necessity for the payment of the town's debts, and most an end falling considerour
ably short by reason of the town's poverty, and upon each inhabitant in particular according to a list of their persons and
CIVIL HISTORY.
rateable estates.
to
4.
83
raised
Nor have we improved the moneys
have faithfully disposed of the same for the end for which we raised it, namely, the payment of the town's just debts. If herein we have transgressed the line of our power, we beg pardon (and direction for the future) of this honplease, but
what end we
ored Court.
If
assert, either in general or any one article, put in our further defence and evidence.
our accusers shall deny the truth of what we we crave liberty to

is
"
II.
That which
'
the main of their petition they thus ex-
that we may be a township of ourselves, without any more dependence on Cambridge.' And this their petition they st strengthen with two arguments the 1 is prefatory to their petipress, viz.,
;
tion,
wherein they say they plead only for their freedom, being content with their own propriety the 2 d is subsequent because their dependence on Cambridge hath been a great charge and burthen to them.'
'
' '
"
We
shall begin with
their
arguments
why
they would be
To the 1 st , whereas they say that they freed from Cambridge. plead only for their freedom, being content with their own proprieties, we answer, 1. That the inhabitants of Cambridge now
dwelling on the north side of Charles River have well nigh three thousand acres of land that is laid out into several lots, some ten,
some twenty, some forty, acres, more or less, that they are at this time seised of, and by them kept for herbage, timber, wood, and planting lands, as they shall have occasion for to use the same, all which is by the petitioners included within the line of division between the town and them and therefore they do not say words
:
when they say they are content with their own proprieties. 2. Nor is it true that they plead only for freedom for they obtained these our lands within the and to be having proprieties
of truth
;
line of that division
and payable come our masters and charge us

shall
to the ministry, they would befor our lands and cattle that we
put thereon to all their common charges, if they may obtain be a distinct township. " To their 2 d argument, viz. that their dependence on CamFor anbridge hath been a great charge and burden to them. st reference to hath 1 we shall that swer hereto, say something d between the them more generally, and 2 , we shall distinguish
to
persons that are petitioners, and speak something more particu1. More generally. larly. They well know, before their settle-
ment
in that place, that all those lands that they now petition for did belong to Cambridge, and were the grant of the General
84
of Court to them, for their enabling to maintain the ordinances ariscommon other all and inevitably charges God among them, what they call a burden will appear ing in a township so that and to be no more than their duty which they owe to the town ; a as be admitted burden and just may if, in that sense, charge the Court to be freed not the servant as well
;
from his master, the tenant from his landlord, or any single town to have their freedom, and be a distinct Colpetition his Majesty the annual charges for maintenance of govthat ony, and plead
plea,
may
petition
ernment and the peace of the commonwealth is to them a great and burden hath not been charge and burden ? 2. Their charge and brethren their neighbors for we have not, by greater than
;
of our just dues and burdening or charging them, eased ourselves accommodations for their and kind in although any proportion dues are far better their and bear to discharge enabling them what that it seems of the than those town, yet they call great to the concede case our without we freely wronging
;
(and
may
truth thereof, that
when
all
our shoulders bear, and hands and

it
hearts join together, content that we should bear
we
it
find
sink and break under
so by daily experience) they are alone, not pitying us, though we for they know full well that their withit
;
weight of our burden for the bridge drawing must be maintained, the school must be kept up, the Deputies must be sent to the General Court: and they have no other charge or burden imposed upon them by us than their just pro3. They know portion of that which these do ordinarily require. full well that such hath been the tenderness of the town towards them at all times, that they have evermore chosen a Constable that hath been resident among them, and for the Selectmen also they have desired that they might constantly have some of them joined with those of the town, partly for their help, and partly that they might more easily have help from them, and be satisfied in the equity and justice of their proceedings in all respects so that we know they cannot and dare not to plead that we have at any time been unwilling to execute the power of the Selectmen for gathering the rates due to their minister or otherwise
will not abate the
;
more properly belonging
to them,
nor that
we have
carried
If we have, let us crossly, proudly, or perversely towards them. be accused to our faces, and not backbitten and slandered as we
have been in the other particulars whereof they accuse us. " Thus far in answer to the d petitioners' 2 argument in general. We shall now make answer thereto more particularly.
CIVIL HISTORY.
85
:
here we must divide the petitioners into two sorts 1. Those that were dwellers in the town before they went to inhabit on that side. 2. Another sort are those that came from
And
who knowing the and want of accommodation to be had among their brethren there, and the lands on that side the water being then of small value, procured to themselves large and comfortable accommodation for a small matter. We have confidence that these dare not to say that their being in Cambridge hath been any charge or burden to them. They must and will own that God hath there greatly blessed them that whereas we on the town side, of .1,000 that we or our parents brought to this place, and laid out in the town, for the purchasing at dear rates what we now enjoy, can not, divers of us, show .100, they may speak We could, if need were, injust contrary or in proportion. stance some,* whose parents lived and died here, who, when they came to this town had no estate, and some were helped by the charity of the church, and others yet living that well know they over this Jordan came I with may say truly, with good Jacob, and so may they say, over this River went I, with this staff, this spade, hoe, or other tool, and now, through God's blessing, am greatly increased. Yet here we would not be understood to for we acknowledge that Mr. include every particular person Jackson brought a good estate to the town, as some others did, and hath not been wanting to the ministry or any good work among us and therefore we would not reflect upon him in the
straitness
:
other towns. 1. " Those that proceeded from the town,
least.
2. There are another sort of persons that did not proceed from the town, but came from other towns, where there had been much division and contention among them, who, though they knew the distance of the place from the public meetinghouse, the dependency thereof on Cambridge, which they now call a great charge and burden, yet this they then did choose, and we are assured will own, generally at least, that they have there increased their estates far beyond what those of the town have or are capable to do. We might instance also in the Inventories of some of them, whose purchase at the first cost them a very small matter, and their stock and household stuff we judge to be proportionable, and yet when they deceased, an in-
"
" * John Jackson's Invent.,
1,230.
Kich. Park's Invent.,
972.
86
is given into ventory f amounting to more than 1,100 pounds the Court and others that are yet living have advanced in some But poor Cambridge quickly felt the sad measure suitable.
;
coming among us for though some of them came from their dwellings very near the meeting-houses in other towns, and these beforehand knew the distance of their now dwellings from Cambridge, yet this did not obstruct them in but before they were well warm in their their settlement there And though such was nests, they must divide from the town. the endeared love of our brethren and neighbors that went from
effect of their
;
us to this Church and the ministry thereof, that
it
was long be-
fore they could get them (at least with any considerable unanimity) to join with them, yet they would petition, some few of them in the name of the rest, to the honored General Court, for
And when the Court, being tired their release from the town. out with their eager pursuit and more private fawnings and insinuations, granted them Committee upon Committee to hear and examine the ground of their so great complaints, at last all
issued
in a declaration of the unreasonableness of their desire with reference to the town and unseasonableness on their part,
as
may appear by
the return of the Committee
made
to the
Gen-
October 14, 1657, Esq., Major Lusher and Mr. same, and was accepted by the " Yet here they rested not
eral Court,
;
the Worshipful Richard Russell Ephraim Child subscribing the
Court.
but in the year 1661 petitioned the Court, and then obtained freedom from rates to the ministry for all lands and estates more than four miles from
;
Cambridge
meeting-house and this being all that they desired, although we were not at that time advantaged with an opportunity to send any one to speak in the town's behalf, yet considering the
spirits, and their good words, pretending only the spiritual good of their families that could not travel (women and children) to the meeting-house at we
impetuousness of their
Cambridge,
rested therein, hoping now they would be at rest. did not satisfy them but the next
;
But
all this
very
Court again. And then as a full and final issue of all things in controversy between Cambridge town and the petitioners, there is another Committee appointed to come upon the place and determine the bounds or dividing line between the town and them
;
year J they petition the
the result whereof was such that, whereas their grant was for all the lands that were above four miles from the now town,
they
"t Old Hammond's
Invent.,
1,139.
"
j
Octob. '62.
CIVIL HISTORY.
obtain the stating of a line that for the generalty
tried
87
is (by exact above three miles
measure) from Cambridge meeting-house. Yet did not Cambridge (thus pilled and bereaved of more than half the lands accommodable to their town at once) resist, or so much as complain, but rested the Court having declared their pleasure and given therein,' them their sanction, that this, as abovesaid, should be a final issue of all things between the town and the petitioners.
" All this notwithstanding, these long-breathed petitioners, that finding they had such good success that they could never
and proved
to be very little
something was catched, they rehook again and as they had been wont some of them for twenty years together to attend constantly the meetings of the town and selectmen, whilst there was any lands, wood,
cast their lines into the sea but
solve to bait their
by begging, so now they pursue the Court for obtaining what they would from them, not sparing time or cost to insinuate their matters, with reproaches and clamors
or timber, that they could get
against poor Cambridge, and have the confidence in the year 1672 again to petition the Court for the same thing, and in the
same words that they now do, viz. that they may be a township from Cambridge and then the Court grants them further liberty than before they had, viz. to choose their own Constable and three selectmen amongst themselves, to
'
of themselves, distinct
'
order the prudential affairs of the inhabitants there, only continuing a part of Cambridge in paying Country and County rates, as
also
Town
;
Rates so far as refers to the
Grammar
School, Bridge,
and Deputy's charges, they to pay still their proportion with the town and this the Court declares, once more, to be a final issue of the controversy between Cambridge and them. " Cambridge no sooner understands the pleasure of this honored Court, but they quietly submitted thereunto and we hope
;
our brethren neither can nor dare in the least to accuse us

(first or last)
of refusing to acquiesce in the Court's issue, al-
truly say we have been not a little private intimations and reproachful backbitings of our neighbors, we have, in the minds and lips of those whom we honor and love, been rendered either too strait-
though we
may and must
grieved
when by the more
laced to
our
own
interest,
or unequally-minded towards
our
did not this honored Court, as well as we, conclude that the petitioners, having exercised the patience of the brethren. the town by causing
And
Court by their so often petitioning, as well as giving trouble to them to dance after their pipes, from time
88
appear by the Court Recnear if not have which time they petitioned the Court to town the ten great charges in meet-
to time, for twenty-four years, as will
ords, in
times, putting and provide their answers, and to aping together to consider the Court, and the Committees that have point men to attend as also the time been from time to appointed by the Court,
altogether
them all, which hath been no small discharges of entertaining their livelimore turbance to their necessary employments for this notall estates and time their ; yet hood, and expense of this before to now appear again withstanding, we are summoned for the exhibited their very honored Court to answer petition
same thing, nothing being added save only sundry falsehoods so that now it is not so much and clamorous accusations of us and irregular acting of them and Cambridge as the arbitrary
:
their
their
Townsmen
that they plead to be delivered from, as being
bondage and burden.
" It
now remains
that
we speak something
i.
'
as to the
main
of
we may be a their petition, which they thus express, e., more dependence on Camtownship of ourselves, without any we The reasons why apprehend they may not have this bridge.' their petition granted them may be taken from " I. The injustice of this their request, which may thus apthat
1. If it would be accounted injustice for any neighboring pear towns, or other persons, to endeavor the compassing so great a part or any part of our town limits from us, it is the same (and
:
in
some sense
far worse) for those that belong to us so to do.

is
This
we
conceive
plain from God's
Word,
that styles the child
be the companion of a destroyer, or, as render the a murderer although the child may plead some word, in his father's interest estate, yet he is in God's account a murif he takes that derer away whereby his father's or mother's life
that robs his father to
;
should be preserved and this, we apprehend not to be far unlike the case now before this honored Court. 2. All practices of this
;
nature are condemned by the light of nature, Judges xi. 24. They who had their grants from the heathen idolaters did not
account
by others. And Ahab, although he was a king, and a very wicked king also, and wanted not power to effect what he desired, and was so burdened for the want of Naboth's vineyard that he could neither eat nor sleep, and when denied by his own subject tendered a full price for the same, yet he had so much conscience left that he did
it
just that they should be dispossessed
idolatrous
"
Machiavelian practice.
CIVIL HISTORY.
89
not dare to seize the same presently, as the petitioners would so great a part of our possession as this is, were it in their power.
3.
The
liberty
gree) of a township,
and property of a Colony, so likewise (in its deis far more to be insisted upon than the right
of any particular person ; the concerns thereof being eminently far greater in all respects, both civil and ecclesiastical. 4. The General Court having forty-five years since (or more) made a
grant of the land petitioned for to Cambridge town, the Court's grant to each town and person as his Majesty's royal charter is to this honored Assembly and the whole Colony, we have conis their wisdom and integrity that they will not be in their power * to take away from us, or any other or person, any part of what they have so orderly granted and confirmed to them. 5. Had we no grant upon Record (which is indubitably clear that we have, none in the least questioning the same), yet by the law of possession it is ours, and may not, without violation of the law and faith of the honored Court be taken from us. " II. Could the petitioners obtain what they ask, without the law of justice, yet we apprehend it would be very crossing Because Cambridge town unequal and that may thus appear is the womb out of which the petitioners have sprung, and therefore ought, in the first place, to be provided for and the question in equity ought to be, not what do the petitioners crave,- and might be convenient for them, but what may Cambridge spare ?
fidence that such
deem town
it
to
Now that
prove:
neck of
desire we shall thus From the situation of our town, being planted on a land, hemmed about by neighboring towns, Watertown
Cambridge can not spare what they
1.
coming on the one side within half a mile and Charlestown as near on the other side
not
of our meeting-house, so that our bounds is
much above a mile in breadth for near three miles together ; and, on the south side the River, the petitioners have gained their line (as we before related) to come very near within three miles of our meeting-house. 2. The most considerable part of the best and most accommodable lands of these near lands to
in the
the town are belonging to Mr. Pelham and others that live not town so that the far greater number of those that live in the town are put to hire grass for their cattle to feed upon in the
;
summer
"*
all
time, which costs
them the least twelve
shillings
and some
is
It was no dishonor to Paul, that had church power, that he could do nothing nor diminutive to the against the truth
;
power of God Himself, that He

that cannot
lie.
God
90
fifteen shillings a
;
head in money, for one cow, the summer feed and corn-land they have not sufficient to find the town with bread. as the sea3. Cambridge is not a town of trade or merchandize, do must be in a way of husbandry, port towns be but what they for hard so never terms, they having no other way although upon ima supply. 4. By the same reason that the petitioners plead that live far nearer to Conmunity and freedom, our neighbors cord than to us may plead the like, and with far greater reason have a township granted them also, there would and should
;
;
they
be nothing
left for
Cambridge, no, not so much commonage as to
feed a small flock of sheep.

is thus situated, narrow and long on each Charlestown nipping us up close on each and Watertown wing,
" That our town
side, there
of the
members
respects
needs no proof; it is sufficiently known to sundry of this honored Court. And that we are in other circumstanced as we have related, so as that we must be
no town nor have no church of Christ nor ministry among us, in case we be clipped and mangled as the petitioners would have, we conceive there needs not further evidence than our testimony. We know not why we should not be believed. We conceive that the honor of God and of this Court is more concerned in providing against the laying waste an ancient town and church of Christ, settled in this place for more than forty years, than any of us can be to our personal interest nothing that we here enjoy as to our outward accommodation being so attractive as that we should be
;
forced here to continue, if we be disabled to maintain God's ordinances. Yet for evidence of the truth of what we thus assert
we might
allege the
removing
of
Mr. Hooker and the whole
church with him to Hartford, and that for this very reason, because they foresaw the narrowness of the place was such that they
could not live here.
Also the endeavor of Mr. Shepherd and
the church with him, before his death, to remove in like manner, and that for no other reason but this, because they saw, after
years hard labor and expense of their estates that they brought with them from England, that they could not live in this
many
place.
Also we may add, that the Committee, which the honored General Court appointed to inquire into the estate of the town, 14th. 8mo. 57, made their return that they found the state of Cambridge to be as we have declared. " We do freely own that, as our place is straitened so the are charges great for the maintenance of our Great Bridge and
schools, &c., besides all other charges
common
to other places.
CIVIL HISTORY.
91
Shall this be an argument therefore to countenance any to seek

to pluck from us our right, and to pull away their shoulders, to whom of right it appertains to bear a part with us, and have far the greatest part of the accommodation that should uphold the
same
ored Court be offended
know
speak passionately but let not this honwe speak a little affectionately. not wherein we have offended this honored Court, or why
;
We woiild not
if
We
poor Cambridge above all other towns in the country must be thus harassed from Court to Court, and never can have an end in twenty-four years time, although the Court have declared and
given in their sanction that this and the other determination should be a final issue, never to be troubled more with the petitioners
;
yet
still
compelled to
make answer
this
their petitions and clamors are received, and we thereto. If we have transgressed in
any kind, and
Court or any the members thereof have a prejwe humbly entreat that our offence may be we have been such arbitrary taxmasters as the render us, that we may either be convicted, or recompetitioners us for our cost and damage by their unjust molestapense given tion of us from time to time, for the just vindication of our
udice against us, declared. And if
innocency against their unjust calumnies. " Also we do humbly entreat of this honored Court that, whereas the petitioners at the time of their first grant which they obtained from this Court then pleaded that, for and towards
the maintenance of the ministry in that place, they might have the lands and estates on that side the River that were more than
four miles from the town, that we might have the line stated accordingly ; the whole being our own, as we have before pleaded
in justice
and proved, arid we having need thereof, we conceive we can not be denied the same. " Also, whereas they have not submitted unto nor rested in
the Court's last grant made them for the choice of a Constable and three Selectmen among themselves, but have carried it frowardly one towards another, and in like manner towards the
town from
whom
they proceeded and unto
whom
they of right
belong, we humbly entreat that the said order may be reversed, and that we being all one body politic may have a joint choice
in the Selectmen
and Constables of the town, according as the law doth determine the right and privilege of each town. " Finally, we humbly entreat that this our defence may be
entered in the Court's register, there to remain, for the vindication of our just right, in perpetuam rei memoriam. Praying
92
that the
God
of
wisdom and truth may
direct
all
honored Court in their issuing of this and
and guide this other their more

Sirs,
humble and
weighty concerns, we subscribe ourselves, honorable dutiful servants and suppliants,
your
Cambridge,
23 (8) 78.
JOHN COOPER, WILLIAM MANNING, JOHN STONE,
WALTER HASTING,
FFR. MOORE,
NATHANIELL SPARHAWK."
In Jackson's " History of Newton," it is stated that " the result was that the Court granted the prayer of the petition, and~
Cambridge Village was
set off
from Cambridge, and made an
independent township. The doings of the Court in this case are missing, and have not as yet been found, and therefore we do not know the precise conditions upon which the separation took
But the Town record is quite sufficient to establish the place. The very first entry upon the new Town fact of separation. Book records the doings of the first Town-meeting, held ' 27, 6,
1679, by virtue of an order of the General Court,' at which meeting the first board of Selectmen were duly elected, namely, Cap-
Thomas Prentice, John Ward, and James Trowbridge and Thomas Greenwood was chosen Constable." 2 " 1691. December 8. In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Camtain
;
bridge Village, lying on the south side of Charles River, sometimes called New Cambridge, being granted to be a township, praying that a name may be given to said town, it is ordered, that it be henceforth called New Town.' This order of the General Court, for a name only, has been mistaken by historians for the incorporation of the town, whereas the petitioners had been
an independent town for twelve years. The child was born on the 27 th August, 1679, but was not duly christened until the 8 th of December, 1691." 3
It is evident that the township was incorporated before Dec. 8, 1691 (or rather Dec. 18 ; the session of the Court commenced Dec. 8, but the order granting a name was adopted ten days This order plainly enough recognizes the later). village as al" ready a distinct township." Moreover, in 1689, when a General Court assembled after Andros was deposed and imprisoned,
1
Mass. Arch., cxii. 253-264. Hist of Newton, page 60.
Ibid.,
page 63.
CIVIL HISTORY.
93
Ensign John Ward appeared as a Deputy from New Cambridge, and was admitted to a seat, apparently without objection. So But other facts of public nofar, Mr. Jackson has a good case. toriety would justify grave doubts whether the town was incorporated so early as 1679. It is a very suspicious circumstance, scarcely reconcilable with such an early date of incorporation,
ment was overturned
that for the seven years following 1679, until the charter governin 1686, the Village, or New Cambridge,
never assumed, as a town distinct from Cambridge, to send a Deputy to the General Court but did not miss representation a
;
single year for half a century after the lished under the new charter. People
government was estabas
tenacious
of
their
rights as the inhabitants of the Village manifestly were, both before and after incorporation, would not be likely to let the
newly-acquired right of representation lie dormant for seven The elecyears, during a period of intense political excitement. tion of a Constable and three Selectmen in 1679 by no means
furnishes countervailing proof of incorporation ; for this is precisely what the inhabitants were authorized to do by the order
passed
May
7,
town
trary,
privileges,
1673, which was never understood to confer full and which, for aught that appears to the con27. 6.
was the order mentioned in the Town Record dated
1679. 1
But the evidence

character.
in the case is not wholly of this negative

2
documents published by Mr. Jackson indicates with some distinctness a different day (Jan. 11, 1687 8) as the true date of incorporation into a distinct town
of the
:
One
" Articles of agreement, made September 17, 1688, between the Selectmen of Cambridge and the Selectmen of the Village, in
behalf of their respective towns That, whereas Cambridge Vilorder of the in the late government, was General Court lage, by to bear their in the charges in the upholdenjoined proportion
:
ing and maintaining of the Great Bridge and School, with some other things of a public nature in the town of Cambridge also
;
there having been some difference between the Selectmen of said

1 At the close of their elaborate " answer " the Selectmen of Cambridge allege
the petitioners determined to exercise the
" that the petitioners have not submitted unto nor rested in the Court's last grant
power granted
elected
in 1673,
Constable
men, Aug.
sufficiently
made
ble
to
them
for the choice of

etc.
a constaIt
27, 1679. account for the record bearing
and accordingly and three SelectSuch action would

styles
and three Selectmen,"
seems
that
2
date in what
Jackson
the
highly probable that, having again failed in their efforts to obtain incorporation in
1678,
"New Town
Book."
Hist, of Newton, p. 62.
and despairing of present
success,
94
towns, concerning the laying of rates for the end above said, that the Village shall pay to the town of Cambridge the sum of X5, in merchantable corn, at the former prices, at or before the first
day
of
May
next ensuing the date above, in
full satisfaction of
all dues and demands by the said town from the said Village, on the account above said, from the beginning of the world to the
11 th January, 1687. Provided, always, and it is to be hereby 4, understood, that the town of Cambridge on consideration of in current county pay, already in hand paid to the Village above
have free use of the highway laid out from the Village Meeting-house to the Falls, forever, without any let, molestation, or denial also, that the Constable of the Village shall pay to the town of Cambridge or [all ?] that is in their hands unpaid of their former rates due to the town of Cambridge above
said, shall
;
said.
In witness whereof, the Selectmen above said hereunto set
their hands, the
day and year

Selectmen
of
[
)
first
above written.
JOHN SPRING,
JACKSON, JAMES PRENTICE,
JOHN COOPER, SAMUEL ANDREW,
EDWARD
Selectmen
of
New
WALTER
HASTING,
Cambridge.
DAVID FISKE, SAMUEL STONE, JONATHAN REMINGTON,
Cambridge."
seems probable by the reference to Jan. 11, 1687-8, in is rendered certain by two documents, which Mr. Jackson probably never saw, but which are yet in existence. One is an order of notice, preserved in the Massathe foregoing agreement,
chusetts Archives, cxxviii. 7 "To the Constables of the town of Cambridge, or either of them. You are required to
:
What
hereby
give notice to the inhabitants of the said town, that they or some of them be and appear before his Excellency in Council on
Wednesday
why Cambridge
next, being the llth of this instant, to show cause Village may not be declared a place distinct by
:
itself, and not longer be a part of the said town, as hath been formerly petitioned for and now desired and thereof to make due return. Dated at Boston the sixth in the day of
January
third year of his Majesty's reign, annoque Domini, 1687. By order, &c., J. WEST, D. Secy ." What was the result of this
process does not appear on record ; for the records of the Council during the administration of Andros were carried away, and no copy of the portion embracing this date has been obtained. Fortunately, however, a certified copy of the order,
which
is
equiv-
CIVIL HISTORY.
alent to an act of incorporation,
of the Judicial Courts in
is on file in the Middlesex County
:
95
office of
the clerk
"
At
a Council held at the Council
Chamber
;
in Boston
oh
Wednesday the eleventh day of January, 1687 " His Exc y S r Edmund Andros, Kt., &c.
.
.
Present,
\
>
" William Stoughton, A Robert Mason, Peter Buckley,
John Usher,
Edward Randolph,
Francis Nicholson,
Esqs.
Wait Winthrop, " Upon reading

tants of
this
Cambridge
in Council the petition of the inhabiVillage in the County of Middlesex, being
day
sixty families or upwards, that they may be a village and place distinct of themselves and freed from the town of Cambridge to
settlement they were annexed they being in every respect capable thereof, and by the late authority made distinct in all things saving paying towards their school and
which at the
first
that town
to
;
other town charges, for which they are still rated as a part of and also the answer of the town of Cambridge there;
consideration
and hearing what could be alleged on either part, and mature had thereupon those who appeared on the behalf of the town of Cambridge being contented that the said Village be wholly separated from them as desired, and praying that they may be ordered to contribute towards the maintenance of Cambridge Bridge, and that other provision be made as formerly usual to ease the town therein Ordered, that the said village from henceforth be and is hereby declared a distinct village and place of itself, wholly freed and separated from the town of Cambridge, and from all future rates, payments, or duties to them whatso;
:
ever.
And
that, for the
time to come, the charge of keeping,
amending, and repairing the said bridge, called Cambridge Bridge, shall be defrayed and borne as followeth (that is to say), two sixth parts thereof by the town of Cambridge, one sixth part by the said Village, and three sixth parts at the public charge
of the
JOHN WEST, y Sec y By order in Council, &c. " This is a true copy, taken out of the original, 4th day of
.
"
County
of Middlesex.
Decem.
"
88.
attests,
As
LAUR. HAMMOND,
Cler."
There remains no reasonable doubt, that " Newtown," which received its name December, 1691, was "separated from the
96
" a distinct village town of Cambridge," and was declared to be and place of itself," or, in other words, was incorporated as a
or Jan. 11, town, by the order passed Jan. 11, 1687, old style, 1 of the to reckoning. 1688, according present style few matters of less public nature, belonging to this period, I quote from the Town overlooked. should not be
entirely
Records.
Dec. 14, 1657.
"
Liberty
is
to fell Angier, &c., the owners of the Ketch Triall, on the common for a ware-house."
granted unto Mr. Stedman, Mr. some timber
Nov. 14, 1670. " Granted to the owners of the Ketches that are to [be] builded in the town liberty to fell timber upon the common for the building of the said Ketches."
By the County Court Records, it appears that in April, 1672, Daniel Gookin, Walter Hastings, and Samuel Champney, recovered ten pounds damage and costs of court, against William
Carr for the unworkmanlike finishing of two ketches, or
vessels,
the papers of thirty-five tons and twenty-eight tons. in this case, remaining on file, is a deposition, to wit : " John Jackson, aged about 25 years, testifieth that, being hired to work
Among
upon the two vessels (whereof William Carr was master-builder) Cambridge, I wrought upon the said vessels about four months in the winter 1670," etc. Sworn April 2, 1672. These were the vessels mentioned in the Town Order, Nov. 14, probably 1670. small in were size but it appears from Randolph's They 2 in written that more than two thirds of all the narrative, 1676, vessels then owned in Massachusetts ranged from six tons to
in
;
fifty tons.
Feb. 18, 1658. The Town voted, " That the Great Swamp lying within the bounds of this town, on the east side of Fresh Pond meadow and Winottomie Brook, shall be divided into particular allotments and propriety." March 23, 1662-3. " Ordered, that if any man be convicted that his dog is used to pull off the tails of beasts, and do not
any
The
orders in council are dated Jan.

that
this
was
in
1688; and (2) King Charles

6,
II.,
1687;
of
the
but
was
in
the
Old
died Feb.
Style, calling
year,
Jan. 1688,
is
March 25th the first day and thus equivalent to commencing the year, as we
the
first
1684-5, and consequently the third year of the reign of James II. did not commence until Feb. 6, 1686-7, and
the only
now do with
day of January,
according to the
was
2
in 1687-8, that
January in that "third year" is, in 1688, by the presColl.
certain, because
(1)
ent style of reckoning.
present style, Wednesday was not the eleventh day of January in 1687, but it
Hutchinson's
Papers, 496.
CIVIL HISTORY.
97
effectually restrain him, he shall pay for every offence of that kind twenty shillings, in case that further complaint be made." " The Constables are ordered to allow Feb. 13, 1664-5. Justinian Holden ten shillings towards a wolf, killed partly in
Watertowne and partly
in this."
May
8,
1671.
" Granted to William Barrit and Nathaniell
sluice, to drain the pond by their houses, in the town's land, provided they secure it from doing damage as soon as may be : and in case the Townsmen see reason for it,
it up again." This pond was on the easterly Dunster Street, about midway between Mount Auburn and Harvard Streets. committee was appointed " to make a covMay 29, 1671. enant with Phillip Jones, or any other able person, to make a sufficient fence of stone of four foot high, between Watertowne bounds and ours," as far as to Rocky Meadow with gates to the highways from Concord to Watertown and from Cambridge to Watertown. Feb. 14, 1675-6. " William Maning, and Nathaniell Hancocke, and John Jackson, and John Gove, are appointed by the
Hancock, to dig a
they are to stop
side of
Selectmen, to have inspection into families, that there be no bye drinking, or any misdemeanour, whereby sin is committed, and persons from their houses unseasonably." " The selectmen of Cambridge plaintiffs against Capt. Lawrence Hammond and John Cutler, jun., defendants, do humbly
declare as followeth, &c. In the year 1634 the General Court a ware upon Minottomy River, and them to erect granted liberty
same from that time
they accordingly so did, and have had quiet possession of the until now, without any disturbance of their
neighbors of Charlestown or any other and hath been in a manner the stay and support of the town by fishing their Indian corn,
;
which
is
But
this last spring the defendants, to the
the principal part of their husbandry and livelihood. great damage of the
plaintiffs, have interrupted their fishing by crossing said River below the wares granted to Cambridge by the Court, whereby the grant of the Court is made null and void, and they are put out of the possession of that which they have peaceably enjoyed And after that the forty-six years, contraiy to law and equity. of to had obtained a writ nuisance plaintiffs bring the case to a the defendants have both legal trial, violently and contemptu-
ously proceeded to obstruct the passage of the fish to the wares,
which they so long possessed as above

7
said, to their great
damage
98
and loss of two hundred thousand fish, which we judge will be a hundred pounds damage to the town in their crop, and tending to
The justhe inevitable impoverishing of divers poor families. this from relief their for tice of this honored Court great wrong done them by the defendants is the favor they beg. " JOHN COOPER.
WILLIAM MANNING.
WALTER HASTING.
FFK. MOORE."
" If the General Court's jury rendered a special verdict for the erecting a ware in Menottimyes grant to Cambridge their within own bounds, be a legal and perpetual title, River, of Court ; if not, find for the plaintiffs five pounds and costs they
The
The Court considered the for the defendants, costs of court." This case is entered in the County Court Records, title good. The under date of June 21, 1681, and the papers are on file. " of their corn was abandoned Indian long ago practice "fishing by cultivators in Cambridge ; but the privilege of taking fish in Menotomy River remains valuable. It has been subject to occasional controversies and litigations since 1681, in all which Cambridge has preserved the rights originally granted and to the " Fish Officers " are present day annually appointed by the City
;
Council, to take care that those rights suffer no infringement.
CHAPTER
IX.
CIVIL HISTORY.
May, 1686, Joseph Dudley and his assocommunicated to the General Court a copy of the King's commission authorizing them to assume the government of the Colony. The Court replied, under date of May 20, 1686, ad" These for dressed, Joseph Dudley, Esq. and the rest of the
the 17th day of
ciates
ON
gentlemen named in his Majesties commission," as follows: " Gent n We have perused what you left with us as a true of his shewed to us the 17th instant, commission, majesties coppy for the of his majesties subjects inhabimpowring you governing this and other therein mentioned. You then itting places colony to not as a Governor and Company, but us, applied yourselves were to terine some of the (as you pleased us) principall gentlemen and cheife of the inhabitants of the severall townes of the Massachusetts, amongst other discourse saying it concerned us to consider what there might be thought hard and uneasy. 1. Upon whereof there is wee as wee that finde, conceive, first, perusall no certaine determinate rule for your administration of justice, and that which is seemes to be too arbitrary. 2. That the subjects are abridged of their liberty as Englishmen, both in the matter of legislation and in the laying of taxes, and indeed the whole un:
quaestioned priviledge of the subject transferred upon yourselves, there being not the least mention of an assembly in the commission.
And
therefore
wee thinke
it
sider whither such a commission be safe, either for
highly concernes you to conyou or us

:
you are so satisfied therein as that you hold yourselves obleidged thereby, and do take upon you the government of this
if
but
shall
people, although wee cannot give our assent thereto, yet hope demeane ourselves as true and loyall subjects to his Majesty,
and humbly make our addresses unto God, and, in due time, to releife. Past by the whole Court, nemine contradicentes. By order,
our gracious prince, for our
"EDWARD RAWSON,
1
Secretary."
Afass. Col. Rec., v. 515, 516.
100
Sir Edmund Dudley was superseded in the government by commisAndros, who "landed at Boston Dec. 20, 1686, and his l sion was published the same day." During his administration,
In the the people were in a condition little better than slavery. " Massachusetts Archives " 2 is a statement by Thomas Danforth, " Our rulers are those that hate us and the churches of
that,
Christ and his servants in the ministry they are their daily and liberscorn, taunt, and reproach ; and yet are we, our lives, us as they with do to their in civil and hands, ecclesiastical, ties,
;
please
some
of the chief of
them have
said,
no better than
are slaves. slaves, only they had not power to sell us for of the benefit of the great of of Englishmen, privileges deprived
We
Charter of our nation
our lands and possessions seized and
by
I. Cap. 10, and granted to strangers, contrary to the Stat. Car. his to assurance to the subjects here, Majesty's given contrary the declaration of his late Majesty and of his present Majesty,
copies whereof I herewith send you."
was published at London, in 1689, entitled " A Sixth Collection of Papers relating to the present juncture of affairs in " A England." The tenth and last paper in the collection is narrative of the miseries of New England, by reason of an ArIt was evidently prepared bitrary Government erected there." the well with a facts, acquainted perhaps by Increase by person Mather, who was at that time in London. The case is so well
tract
stated that I shall quote freely " Before these changes happened,
:
New England was
of all the
foreign plantations (their enemies themselves being judges) the most flourishing and desirable. But their Charters being all (one way or other) declared to be void and insignificant, it was an easy matter to erect a French Government in that part of the King's
dominions, (no doubt intended by the evil counsellors) as a specimen of what was designed to be here in England as soon as the times would bear it. Accordingly Sir Edmond Andross (a
Grermey man) was pitched on as a fit instrument to be made use and a most illegal commission given him, bearing date June 3, 1686, by which he, with four of his Council (perhaps all of
of
;
them
raise
his absolute devotees)
are
empowered
to
make
laws,
and
moneys on the King's subjects without any Parliament, Laws are made by a Assembly, or consent of the people few of them, and indeed what they please nor are they printed, as was the custom in the former governments, so that the people
:
1
Hutchinaun'* Hint. Mats.,
\.
353.
Mass. Arch.,
cxxviii. 142, 143.
CIVIL HISTORY.
101
are at a great loss to know what is law, and what not. Only one law they are sensible of, which doth prohibit all Town-meetings,
excepting on a certain day once a year whereas the inhabitants have occasion to meet once a month, sometimes every week, for
:
But it is easy to penethe poor, or other Town-affairs. trate into the design of this law, which was (no question) to keep them in every town from complaining to England of the oprelief of
by the government in a most illegal and 1 without "Several arbitrary way, any consent of the people." in the were and bound to their gentlemen imprisoned country
good behavior, upon mere suspicion that they did encourage their neighbors not to comply with these arbitrary proceedings, and that so they might be sure to effect their pernicious designs, they have caused juries to be picked of men who are not of the vicinity, and some of them mere strangers in the country and no freeOne of the former holders, which actings are highly illegal. committed to without was magistrates prison any crimes laid to and his charge, and there kept half a year without any fault him. he it was denied for a Habeas though petitioned Corpus, Also inferior officers have extorted what fees they please to demand, contrary to all rules of reason and justice. They make poor widows and fatherless pay 50s. for the probate of a will, which under the former easy government would not have been a tenth part so much. Six persons, who had been illegally imprisoned, were forced to give the officers 117Z., whereas upon computation they found that here in England their fees would not have amounted to 10L in all. And yet these things (though bad enough) are but a very small part of the misery which that poor people have been groaning under, since they have been governed by a despotic and absolute power. For their new masters tell them that, their Charter being gone, their title to their lands and and that estates is gone therewith, and that all is the King's must take they represent the King and that therefore all persons patents from them, and give what they see meet to impose, that so they may enjoy the houses which their own hands have built,
;
pression they are under. moneys have been raised
And
as laws
have been established so
and the lands which, at vast charges in subduing a wilderness, they have for many years had a rightful possession of as ever any " These were the mis2 people in the world had or can have."
erable effects of
1
New
is
England's being deprived of their Charters,

related.
2
The
case of Ipswich
Seizures of land in Charlestown and

specified.
Plymouth are
102 and with them
of their
have not been English liberties. They relief in their some obtain to as to endeavors altogether negligent, Increase Madesired sorrowful bondage for several gentlemen New in England, to ther, the Rector of the College at Cambridge what see might be done for undertake a voyage for England, to he his distressed country, which motion complied with and in June the 1st, 1688, he had the favor to wait on the King, and to acquaint him with the enslaved and perishing estate
;
privately
of his subjects in England. and kind in his expressions ; then
New
The King was very
gracious
and often after promising to their complaints and fears. Amongst other give them ease as to town of Camthe a petition from things the said Mather caused to his Majesty bridge in New -England to be humbly presented
;
which, because
people,
it
doth express the deplorable condition of that shall be here inserted.

it
To the King's most excellent Majesty. " The about petition and address of John Gibson, aged
and George Willow, aged about 86 years
their neighbors the inhabitants of in most humble wise sheweth :
;
"
87,
as also
in
on behalf of
England,
Cambridge
New
" That your Majesty's good subjects, with much hard labor and great disbursements, have subdued a wilderness, built our houses, and planted orchards, being encouraged by our indubitable right to the soil
by the Royal Charter granted unto the
first
planters, together with our purchase of the Natives : as also by sundry letters and declai*ations sent to the late Governor and
Company from
of the full
enjoyment
his late Majesty, your royal Brother, assuring us of our properties and possessions, as is
more especially contained in the declaration sent when the Quo Warrant was issued out against our Charter. " But we are necessitated to make this our moan and complaint to your excellent Majesty, for that our title is now questioned to our lands, by us quietly possessed for near sixty years,
and without which we cannot

our governor, Sir
subsist.
Our humble address
to
Andross, shewing our just title, long and peaceable possession, together with our claim of the benefit
of
Edmond
your Majesty's letters and declarations, assuring all your good subjects that they shall not be molested in their properties and
possessions, not availing.
"
cure
Royal
Sir,
we
;
money
to defend
are a poor people, and have no our cause in the law ; nor
way to proknow we of
as the
friends at Court
and therefore unto your royal Majesty,
CIVIL HISTORY.
103
public Father of all your subjects, do we make this our humble address for relief, beseeching your Majesty graciously to pass your royal Act for the confirmation of your Majesty's subjects
here in our possessions to us derived from our late Governor and
Company
of this
your Majesty's Colony.

feet,
We
now humbly
of
cast
ourselves and distressed condition of our wives and children at
your Majesty's
If
and conclude with the saying
Queen
Esther, perish, perish." In the Massachusetts Archives 1
we
we
is
a manuscript by
Thomas
Danforth, so nearly identical with this petition that it may propIt is highly probable that erly be regarded as its first draught.
Danforth prepared
it,
and sent
it
to Mather,
who made a few
verbal alterations before presenting it to the king. It seems to have been written in 1688, while Randolph was endeavoring to obtain possession of seven hundred acres of land near Spy Pond.
attempts, of a similar kind, to enrich himself at the public expense. Besides asking for free grants in divers other places, he " petitioned for half an acre of land, to be
This was one of his
many
a house lot." 2 Several documents relating to the Cambridge ca.se are here inserted, as a specimen of the wrongs and indignities to which the inhabitants were subjected under the arbitrary government of Sir
taken out of the
in Boston, for
common
Edmund
"
Andros.
Other communities suffered
like evils
and
other persons were only less rapacious than
Edward Randolph.
in
At
a Council held at the Council
Chamber
Boston on
Present,
Wednesday the nine and twentieth of February, 1687. " His Excellency Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., &c.
"
Joseph Dudley,
"\
John Green,
.
\
I
John Winthrop,
4-u Wait AITWinthrop,
AXT-4.
Edward Randolph,
.
>li.sqrs.
|
ffrancis Nicholson,
-NT-
> Esqrs.
j
John Usher,
"
Samuell Shrimpton,/
reading this day in Council the petition of Edward Randolph Esq., praying his Majesty's grant of a certain tract of vacant and unappropriated land, containing about seven hundred
Upon
acres, lying between Spy Pond and town in the County of Middlesex, of
Saunders Brook, near WaterOrdered, That the Sheriff
County do forthwith after receipt hereof, give public Cambridge and Watertown, that if any person or persons have any claim or pretence to the said land, that they appear before his Excellency the Governor in Council, on
said
notice both in
Mass. Arch., cxxviii. 300.
\.
360.
104
the 7 th of
Wednesday
March
;
next, then
and there
to
show
forth
the same, and why the said land may not be granted to the. of which he is not to fail, and to make petitioner as desired due return. By order in Council, &c. " JOHN WEST. D. Secy ."
cerned.
" Per virtue of this order, notice is given to the persons con11 5 March 87-8, pr. Sam Gookin ShfL" " March 4, 1687-8. Mem This warrant was sent up from Boston to Cambridge on the Sabbath day morning by a boat,
.
so profaned notice." 2
which was an unusual thing in that place to see the Sabbath day and a warrant posted on the meeting house to give
At
"
the time appointed, the inhabitants of Cambridge asserted

:
their claims, to wit
his Excellency Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Captain General and Governor in chief of his Majesty's territory and domin-
To
ion of
and address
England, and his Majesty's Council. The petition of his Majesty's most loyal subjects, the inhabitants of Cambridge, in most humble wise showeth " In observance of the Council's order sent unto us referring
New
unto those lands petitioned for by Edward Randolph, Esq., we humbly inform and certify your Excellency and the Council, that they are neither vacant nor unappropriated lands, but are a part of those lands granted by his Majesty's royal Charter, under
the great seal of England, to the persons therein mentioned, and by the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay to this
of Cambridge, as the Records of the General Court will show, and have been quietly possessed and improved by this town of Cambridge for more than fifty years and was also pur-
town
chased of the Indian Natives that claimed
title thereto.
And
more particularly as to those mentioned by the petitioner situate and lying between Spy Pond and Sanders Brook, they were by allotment granted and measured out, more than forty years now and they have past, to sundry of the inhabitants of this town accordingly peaceably possessed and improved the same, and are
;
at this
day lawfully seized thereof. And for that other part, lying near to Watertown line, the town hath hitherto improved those lands in common, for timber, firewood, and pasture for all
1
Mass.
Arcfi., cxxviii. 56.
is
in
the handwriting of
Thomas Dan-
/bid., p. 68.
This memorandum, en-
forth,
dorscd on a copy of the order of notice,
CIVIL HISTORY.
105
sorts of cattle, the just interests of each person therein having been legally settled more than forty years ; and the proprietors
have accordingly respectively bought and sold their interests, as they have seen meet and for the securing said lands from dam;
age to ourselves by our neighbors of Watertown, the proprietors of the said lands have, at their great charge, erected a stone wall,
more than one mile in length, and made provision of gates upon the highways as was needful. " We do also humbly inform your Excellency and Council,
that the lands above petitioned for are of so great concernment to the inhabitants of this town for their necessary supplies of timber, firewood, and pasture, that, should we be deprived
thereof, it would be the inevitable ruin of more than eighty families of his Majesty's subjects here settled, who have spent their strength and estates in confidence of their indubitable right
and peaceable enjoyment thereof, by virtue of his Majesty's royal Charter, and to them legally derived in manner as is above recited.
"
We
orable Council our
do therefore humbly render to your Excellency and honhumble and thankful acknowledgement of
your respect to our welfare (as well as to justice and equity) in giving us this opportunity to inform your Excellency and Honors of our claim and just title to those lands petitioned for, as above said, and do humbly pray that the royal authority wherewith his Majesty have invested your Excellency for the government of this part of his dominion may put a check upon the abovesaid information and unreasonable request of the petitioner for said lands, and that your petitioners may not be thence illegally
ejected or disturbed in their peaceable enjoyment thereof, contrary to his late Majesty's declaration of the 26 July 1683, published
upon the issuing a Quo Warranto against the
late charter
of this Colony, and to his present Majesty's gracious declaration to all his loving subjects for liberty of conscience and maintain-
ing them in
all their properties and possessions in any their lands and properties whatsoever; the benefit whereof we humbly claim. " Your petitioners are his Majesty's most loyal subjects and your Excellency's humble servants, in the name and by the order
of the inhabitants of
Cambridge.
JOHN COOPER,
WALTER HASTING, FFRANCIS MOORE, JOHN JACKSON,

SAMUELL ANDREW."
1 1
Mass. Arch., cxxviii. 297.
106
In his rejoinder, Randolph gives an abstract of his petition and the order thereon, together with the objections urged by the inhabitants of Cambridge, and then proceeds thus " To which the Petitioner answereth, that, in case the inhabi:
Cambridge do produce to your Excellency and the Council the royal grant to any person or persons of the said land petitioned for, and from such person or persons a legal conveyance to the inhabitants of the said town, and that the said town were by that name, or by what other name the same hath been to them granted, able and sufficient in the law to receive a grant of
tants of
such lands, then the petitioner will cease any further prosecution otherwise the petitioner humbly conceives of his said prayer the right still to remain in his Majesty, and humbly prays a
:
grant for the same. 1687-8." !
ED. RANDOLPH.
Boston March y e 17 th
:
Subsequently, another order of notice was issued " Boston 22 d June 1688. Mr. Sheriff, You may give notice to any persons that lay claim to the land in Cambridge petitioned
for
by Edward Randolph Esq., that on Thursday next, in the forenoon, they appear before his Excellency in Council, and give
their full
answer therein.
am,
sir,
your servant,
JOHN WEST, D.
Superscribed,
Sec."
" To Samuell Gookin Esq. High Sheriff of Mid2 dlesex, at Cambridge." At the time appointed, the proprietors of the lands in controversy presented their case more fully
:
" The Reply of the proprietors of those lands lying between Sanders Brook and Spy Pond near unto Watertown, in the
County of Middlesex, to an answer made to their address presented to your Excellency and the honorable Council, referring to the petition of Edward Randolph Esq., he praying a grant of seven hundred acres, part of the abovesaid tract of land, as vacant
and unappi'opriated.
Your humble suppliants do crave leave to remind your Excellency and the honorable Council, that, in our former address, we have briefly declared and asserted our just title and claim to said lands, deriving the same from his Majesty's royal grant by
44
patent under the great seal, under the security whereof planters of this Colony adventured themselves into this then waste and desolate wilderness, and have here wasted and
the
first
1
his letters
Mass. Arch., cxxviii. Ill, 112.
fild., p. 281.
CIVIL HISTORY.
spent great estates and many and defending themselves and
lives, for
107
the planting, peopling,
his Majesty's right therein. The abovesaid royal grant being made not only to the gentlemen named in said letters patent, but also to all such others as they
making them one Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, and under that name are empowered to make laws and ordinances for the good and welfare of said company and for the government and ordering of the said lands and plantation, and the people that shall inhabit We further declared that, therein, as to them shall seem meet. the and lands petitioned for by the said Governor Company, by
shall
admit and make free
of their society,
body politic by the
name
of the
are granted to Cambridge, then called the said town have been orderly distributed Newtown, and by the grants and settlement whereof upon among their inhabitants,
Edward Randolph Esq.
the several proprietors and their names as they stand entered upon the Town Book we do hereby exhibit to your Excellency
If further evidence be required of the same, or of our possession and improvement thereof, plainly evincing that those lands are neither vacant nor unappropriated, as the
and the Council.
petitioner hath most untruly represented, we are ready to present the same, if your Excellency shall please to appoint us a time
for so doing.
" Your Excellency have not required of us to show or demonstrate that the formalities of the law have been, in all the cir-
cumstances thereof, exactly observed, nor do we judge it can rationally be expected of a people circumstanced as the first planters were, by whom those matters were acted in the infancy of these plantations they not having council in the law to re;
pair unto, nor would the emergencies that then inevitably happened admit thereof and, as we humbly conceive, nor doth the law of England require the same of a people so circumstanced as
;
But from the beginning of this plantation have approved themselves loyal to his Majesty, and in [they] all respects have intended the true ends of his Majesty's royal grant, and, through God's great blessing on their endeavors, raised here a plantation that redounds greatly (as is now well known in the world) to the honor and profit of the crown. And his late Majesty, by his letters sent to the Governor and Company, accordingly declared his royal acceptance thereof, with
they then were.
promise of protection in our long and orderly settlement of this Colony, as his Majesty was graciously pleased to term the same
:
108
the further security whereof, given us by the declaration of his late Majesty, when the Quo Warranto was issued forth against
this
in our
in his declaration, Colony, as also by his present Majesty If any address so we do hereby again humbly claim. for the evincing our our on behind be necessary part, yet thing informed what those claim, we humbly pray that we may be further answer are, and time given us to bring in our
as
things In the name and by the to your Excellency and the Council. order of the proprietors, together with ourselves of those lands
petitioned for
by Edward Randolph Esq.
"
SAM LL ANDREW.
.
WALTER
HASTING.
1
ZACHARIAH HICKS. JOHN GOVE."

the same day, June 28, 1688, the Council passed the following order " Upon further hearing of the petition of Edward Randolph his Majesty's grant for a certain parcel or tract of
:
On
Esq., praying vacant and unappropriated land, containing about seven hundred acres, lying between Spy Pond and Sanders Brook near Water-
town
in the
County
of Middlesex,
sented
by Samuell Andrews and
as also a certain writing preothers of Cambridge, termed
the reply of the proprietors of the lands lying between Saunders Brook and Spy Pond to an answer made to their address but
:
they declaring they had no authority to speak in behalf of others but only for themselves 2 and by reason of the general description of the land petitioned for not knowing whether the lands claimed by them be within the quantity desired or not It is ordered, that a survey and draught be forthwith made of the said land and returned into the Secretary's office accordingly. " JOHN WEST, D. Sec." 3 By order of Council, &c.,
:
Nothing further is found in the Archives concerning this transand the Records of the Council are not accessible. As the title to the lands in controversy was not afterwards disputed, it seems probable that the act of robbery was not consummated or, if it was, such arbitrary proceedings were held to be utterly 4 void, after the Revolution which soon followed.
action,
;
Mass. Arch., cxxix. 3. About two years before this Revoluof the town, because the town was pro- tion, Cambridge lost one of her most hibited from holding meetings, except eminent citizens, Maj.-gen. Daniel Gooonce in each year for the choice of officers, kin, more fnmiliarly known as Major
2
Mass
They could not speak by
Arch., cxxviii. 115, 116. the authority
<
CIVIL HISTORY.
109
Early in 1689, much excitement was produced by a rumor that the Prince of Orange had landed in England, with an armed force, and that a Revolution in the English Government was
This rumor took a more definite form, April 4, when " one Mr. Winslow came from Virginia and brought a printed of the Prince of copy Orange's declaration. Upon his arrival,
probable.
he was imprisoned by Justice Foxcroft and others, for bringing

a traitorous and treasonable libel into the country, as the mitti-
mus expressed
but
ing
of
it
it.
Winslow
offered
could not be accepted.

forces
two thousand pounds bail, proclamation was issued, charg-
and people to be in readiness to hinder the landing which the Prince of Orange might send into those any of the The old magistrates and heads of the people world. parts and silently wished, secretly prayed, for success to the glorious and determined The undertaking, quietly to wait the event. of more The which the were had flame, body people impatient. been long smothered in their breasts, burst forth with violence Thursday, the 18th day of April, when the Governor and such of the Council as had been most active, and other obnoxious persons, about fifty in the whole, were seized and confined, and the old l Several accounts of this Revolumagistrates were reinstated." tion appeared within a few months after it occurred, in which there is a substantial agreement in regard to the most important
all officers
circumstances.
Among
others,
a pamphlet of twenty pages,
written by Judge Nathaniel Byfield, was published at " An account of the late Revolution in 1689, entitled
London
in
New Eng-
land, together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants,
and Inhabitants,
1689."
of Boston,
and the country adjacent, April 18,

:
He
describes the outbreak thus
"
Upon
the eighteenth
instant, about eight of the clock in the morning, it was reported at the south end of the town that at the north end they were all
Gookin.
Sad and disheartened
at the loss
of the Old Charter, yet cheered by the consciousness that he had faithfully and
earnestly labored for its preservation, he survived the catastrophe not quite a year, He found rest from his labors and deliv-
little and weak." Hence it has been On supposed that he was quite poor. the contrary, while he was not rich, the number of houses, and the quantity of
but
silver plate and other goods bequeathed by him, in his will, denote that his estate
erance from oppression, March 19, 1686-7, at the ripe age of 75 years and a large
;
was
at least equal to the average at that
period.
His character
19,
is
described very
in his
horizontal slab
ulture in the
will,
marks
old
the spot of his sepIn his burial-place.
tersely by
Judge Sewall,
Journal
dies.
"March
the
Satterday, about 5 or 6 in
desire
dated Aug. 13, 1685, lie sn}'s, "I no ostentation or much cost to be
right good
*
morn, Major Daniel Gookin man."

Hutchinson's Hist. Moss.,
\.
expended
at my funeral, because it is a time of great tribulation, and my estate
373.
110
in
;
arms and the like report was at the north end respecting the 1 was immediately south end whereupon Capt. John George beat drums the of clock the nine about and through the seized, Then Mr. beacon. the was set an and town, up upon ensign and Mr. Dr. Mr. Richards, Cooke, Danforth, Major Bradstreet, a the Council-house to were by company brought Addington, &c., The mean while, of soldiers under the command of Capt. Hill. the people in arms did take up and put into goal Justice Bullivant, Justice Foxcraft, Mr. Randolf, Sheriff Sherlock, Capt. Rav:
Capt. White, Farewel, Broadbent, Crafford, Larkin, also Mercey, then goal-keeper, and in About noon, in the galhis place. the bricklayer, put Scates, was read the Declaration here inat the Council-house, lery 2 this Declaration sets forth the eleven etc. Under heads, closed,"
enscroft,
Smith, and many more, as
grievances which had become intolerable, and which justified armed resistance. It is scarcely possible that a document of such
length and character could have been prepared in the four hours of intense excitement and confusion, between eight o'clock and In all probability, it had been previously written in annoon.
The twelfth article ticipation of some such occasion for its use. in this Declaration announces the conclusion : " do there-
We
upon the persons of those few ill men, which have been our to sins) the grand authors of our miseries ; resolving (next to secure them for what justice, orders from his Highness, with
fore seize
the English Parliament, shall direct

find
lest,
ere
(what we may
:
fear,
being on
all sides in
are aware, we danger) ourselves
we
by them given away to a foreign Power, before such orders can reach unto us for which orders we now humbly wait. In the mean time, firmly believing that we have endeavored nothing but what mere duty to God and our country calls for at our hands, we commit our enterprise unto the blessing of him who hears the cry of the oppressed, and advise all our neighbors, for whom we have thus ventured ourselves, to join with us in prayers and all just actions for the defence of the land." 3 As a
to be
fitting result of this Declaration,
Judge Byfield inserts the summons sent by the magistrates and others to Sir Edmond Andros, who had retired to the fortification on Fort Hill
:
"
At the Town House

and many
selves
in Boston, Sir, OurApril 18, 1689. the inhabitants of this town and the others,
places adjacent, being surprised with the people's sudden taking

1 Captain of the Frigate Roue, then at anchor in Boston harbor.
2 8
Revolution, etc., pp. 3, 4.

/bid., p. 19.
CIVIL HISTORY.
of arms, in the first
Ill
we were wholly ignorant, are necessitated to acquaint being driven by the present accident, your Excellency that for the quieting and securing of the people inhabiting this country from the imminent dangers they many
motions whereof
judge
open and exposed to, and tendering your own safety, we necessary you forthwith surrender and deliver up the government and fortification, to be preserved and disposed according to order and direction from the Crown of England, which
ways
lie
it
suddenly
is expected may arrive promising all security from violence to yourself or any of your gentlemen or soldiers, in person and estate otherwise we are assured they will endeavor the
;
;
taking of the fortification by storm, if any opposition " To Sir Edmond Andross, Knight.
"
be made.
WAIT WINTHROP. SIMON BRADSTREET. WILLIAM STOUGHTON. SAMUEL SHRIMPTON.

BARTHOLOMEW GIDNEY. WILLIAM BROWN. THOMAS DANFORTH.
JOHN RICHARDS.
ELISHA COOK. ISAAC ADDINGTON. JOHN NELSON. ADAM WINTHROP. PETER SERGEANT.
JOHN FOSTER. DAVID WATERHOUSE."
Unable
obeyed
ates
this
to resist the force arrayed against him, the Governor summons, surrendered the fort, and with his associ-
went to the town-house, whence he was sent under guard to the house of Col. John Usher, who had been Treasurer under his administration, but, like Stoughton and other members of his
Council,
2
united with the patriotic party in this revolutionary

;
movement. But this kind of duress did not satisfy the people and on the following day, at their urgent demand, he was imprisoned in the fort. Some of his associates shared his confinement, The day after the while others were committed to close jail. Governor was thus securely confined, some of the old magistrates, together with several other persons who had been active in over" Council for the turning the former government, organized a of the and of the Conservation Peace," of which Safety People the old Governor, Bradstreet, was elected President and Isaac
Addington, Clerk. The authority of this Council needed the " On support of a body more directly representing the people. the second of May, they recommended to the several towns in the
1
Revolution, etc., p. 20.
Gedney), and Brown, had been members
Winthrop,
Shrimiiton,
Gidney
(or
of the Council.
112
two for each colony to meet and depute persons, not exceeding town, except Boston four, to form an assembly, to sit the ninth of the same month. Sixty-six persons met and presented a declaration to the president and former magistrates in particular, taking no notice of such as had associated with them, but upon
receiving an answer in writing, they desired the whole council to continue in their station until the twenty-second instant, at which time it was agreed there should be a meeting of the representatives
to be specially of the towns inlarge majority by structed their representatives to vote in favor of reassuming the The magistrates hesitated to adopt such a decisive old Charter.
of all the
towns
in the colony, at
1
Boston,
who were
instructed
their towns."
measure but at length, when a new House of Representatives, which assembled on the fifth of June, " urged the council to take upon them the part they ought to bear in the government, according to the charter, until orders should be received from England, and declared they could not proceed to act in any thing of public concerns until this was conceded,' an acceptance was voted,
; '
this declaration
being given as the reason of the vote.
By
these
steps the change was made from the unlimited power of Sir Edmund and four of his council, to the old government, which
had continued above
fifty
years
2
did not return with the form."
but the weight and authority This form of government, by
consent of the King, was administered about three years, until Sir William Phips arrived, in 1692, with the new Charter. In this change of government, the inhabitants of
Cambridge
were actively engaged, and took their full share of the responsiTheir delegate to the Convention which assembled on bility.
3 the ninth of May, presented the following declaration " Cambridge, May 6, 1689. We, the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, sensible of and thankful being
:
very
from the oppresand tyranny of those persons under whose injustice and cruelty we have so long groaned and withal desirous
unto
sion
God
for his
mercy
in our late deliverance
; heartily to express our gratitude to those worthy gentlemen who have been engaged in conserving of our peace since the Revolution ;
yet withal being apprehensive that the present unsettlement may expose us to many hazards and dangers, and may give occasion to ill-minded persons to make disturbance do declare that we expect that our honored Governor, and assis:
Deputy Governor,
Mass. Arch.,

Ibid., pp. 387, 388.
i.
382, 383.
cvii. 20.
CIVIL HISTORY.
113
tants, elected by the freemen of this Colony, in May, 1686, together with the Deputies then sent down by the several respective towns to the Court then holden, which was never legally dissolved, shall convene, and re-assume and exercise the Govern-
ment
of this instant
we
as a General Court, according to our Charter, on the ninth May, or as soon as possible. And in so doing, do engage that, to the utmost of our power, with persons and
estates, we will contribute to their help and assistance, as in duty and equity we are bound, praying that God would direct them in this difficult juncture and do hope that all that are concerned for the peace and good of this land will readily join with
;
us herein. " Memorandum.
It
is
here to be understood that what
we
expect to be done, as above, is only for a present settlement until we may have an opportunity to make our address unto,
or shall be otherwise settled by, the supreme land.
power
in
Eng-
" These lines above written, as they are worded, was agreed the of the town of Cambridge, this 6th of inhabitants upon by as attests Samuel Andrew, Clerk, in the name of the May, 1689, town."
This revolutionary movement was full of danger. It was not yet known here whether the Prince of Orange would be successIf he ful in his attempt to dethrone King James the Second.
fail, those who had resisted and imprisoned the king's Governor might well expect the direst vengeance. But this peril did not prevent the inhabitants of Cambridge from pledging " their " persons and estates to the support of the principal actors nor did it prevent their favorite and trusted leader, Thomas Danforth, from taking a conspicuous position in the front rank of those actors. The venerable Bradstreet, indeed, was made President of the Council of Safety, and reinstated as Governor, when it was decided to organize the government according to the old Charter but he was now eighty-seven years of age, and however desirable and important it may have been to connect his name and his presence with the enterprise, he was incapable of energetic action. Moreover, he was timid and yielding in disposition, and counselled submission rather than resistance during the controversy which preceded the abrogation of the Charter. On the contrary, Danforth had been recognized as a skilful and resolute leader through the former struggle and
should
now, at the age
of sixty-seven,
he retained the
full possession of
114
his faculties,
and bated not one jot in his hatred of tyranny. He was reinstated as Deputy-governor, 1 ostensibly the second office, but, under the circumstances, the chief position of labor and rePalfrey says of their respective capacity, Governor and Deputy-governor in 1679, elected originally had become even more manifestly true at this later period
sponsibility.
What
when
Bradstreet "can scarcely be pronounced to have been equal, either in ability of mind or in force of character, to the task of steering
More than the straining vessel of state in those stormy times. then in Danforth other man Thomas Massachusetts, living any
was competent
to act,
to the stern occasion."
Danforth did not hesitate
was in danger, if King the more because he James had so long been the leader in opposition to arbitrary authority, and, even if the Prince of Orange became King, that this seizure
though fully conscious that his head succeeded in retaining the throne,
of the
government, in opposition to the constituted authority,
might be regarded and punished as an act of treasonable rebelYet he took the prominent position assigned to him, and lion. 3
manfully performed
Sir William Phips
its
duties for the space of three years, until
1692.
became Governor under the new Charter in For some reason he was not one of the Councillors ap-
pointed under the
new Charter
fested their regard for him faithful services, by placing

election, 1693,
but his fellow citizens maniand their approbation of his long and him in the Council, at the first general
;
and kept him there by successive elections as long could not reinstate him in his former position, nor promote him to a higher, because, under the new charter, both the Governor and Lieutenant-governor were appointed by
as he lived.
They
Also, as President of Maine, June 28,

Hist.
Three months
later, writing to
Rev. In:
New
Eng.,
ii.
332.
8 In a letter to Governor Hinkley of Plymouth, dated April 20, two days after
crease Mather, then in London, he says " I am deeply sensible that we have a
Sir
says,
Edmund Andros was

may
be.
deposed, he "I yet fear what the consequences
wolf by the ears. This one thing being circumstanced with much difficulty, the people will not permit any enlargement,
they having accused them of treason against their king and country ; and those restrained, they threaten at a high rate for being denied a habeas I do corpus.
therefore earnestly entreat of you to procure the best advice you can in this matif possible, the good intents of the people and their loyalty to the Crown of England may not turn to their prejudice." Hutchinson's Coll. Papers, 568, 569.
ter, that,
thereof
bitter fruits
root.
may
I heartily pray that no spring forth from this
have need of God's pity and pardon and some do apprehend it will be wisdom to hasten our address to those
;
We
are now supreme in England for pardon of so great an irruption, and for a favorable settlement under the sanction of royal authority." Coll. Mass. Hist,
that
Soc.,
xxxv. 192.
CIVIL HISTOKY.
the King.
115
Before his election to the new Council, he had been appointed one of the judges of the Superior Court. His associate, Judge Sewall, in his Journal, thus refers to his appoint" ment Tuesday Dec. 6, [1692.] A very dark cold day is m the day appointed forchusing of Judges. Stoughton Esq. is chosen Chief Justice, 15 votes (all then Tho. Danpresent)
:
forth Esq., 12
S. S., 1 7
Major Richards,
Major-Gen
1
.
Winthrop,
This was in Col. Page's 2 rooms, by papers on " Dec. 3 8, Mr. Danforth is invited Wednesday, Xr. 7th, 1692." to dinner, and after pressed to accept his place." This place, which he seems to have accepted with some hesitation, he retained
through
life, and months before his It is due to the that he was not
presided in a court at Bristol, less than two death.

reputation of Danforth, to state emphatically, a member of the court which tried and con-
demned the unhappy persons accused of witchcraft. That special Court of Oyer and Terminer, appointed by Governor Phips
and his Council, May 27, 1692, consisted of William Stoughton, John Richards, Nathanael Saltonstall, Wait Winthrop, Bartholomew Gedney, Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin, and Peter Sargeant 4 and it completed its bloody work before the next December, when the Superior Court was organized, of which Danforth was a member. Notwithstanding he held no judicial office during this period (except that he was one of the first Justices of the Peace and Quorum), the name of Danforth has often been very improperly associated with the witchcraft tragedy. Even Savage, familiarly acquainted as he was with the history of that period, was so forgetful as to say that he was appointed " in 1692, judge of Sup. Court for the horrible proceedings against witches." 5 The only connection he had with those proceedings, Beso far as I have ascertained, is mentioned by Hutchinson. 6 fore the arrival of Governor Phips, he presided as Deputy-governor, over a Court of Assistants at Salem, April 11, 1692, for the not for their trial. There is no examination of accused persons, evidence that he was satisfied with the result of that examination, which, according to Hutchinson's account, seems to have been conducted chiefly if not entirely by Rev. Samuel Parris. 7 On the
;
Samuel Sewall.
Col. Nicholas Paige.
tonstall left the
court, being dissatisfied
with
5
G
"
Two
days,
it
seems, were devoted to

is
proceedings. Genea. Diet.

f/ist.
its
this selection of judges. * Council Records. It
Mass.,
ii.
said that Sal-
Mr. Poole
says,
27-29. " Mr. Parris on no
116
of this
in consequence examination, contrary, perhaps partly declared his dissatisfaction, and dislike of the judicial proceedIn a letter dated Oct. 8, 1692, Thomas Brattle, one of
ings.
he
you may
the most intelligent and persistent oppose rs of the witchcraft in* But although the chief judge, and some of fatuation, says the other judges, be very zealous in these proceedings, yet this take for a truth, that there are several about the Bay,
:
men
for understanding,
judgment, and piety, inferior to few,
if
condemn the said proceedings, any, in N. E., that do utterly and do freely deliver their judgment in the case to be this, viz.,
I that these methods will utterly ruin and undo poor N. E. Hon. Simon shall nominate some of these to you, viz., the
Bradstreet, Esq.
forth, Esq.
[our late governor]
the Hon.
;
Thomas Dan-
deputy-governor] the Rev. Mr. Increase Mather, and the Rev. Mr. Samuel Willard. Major N. Saltonstall Esq., who was one of the judges, has left the Court, and is
[our late
Mr. very much dissatisfied with the proceedings of it. Excepting Hale, Mr. Noyes, and Mr. Parris, the Rev. Elders, almost throughout the whole country, are very much dissatisfied. Several of the late justices,
viz., Thomas Graves Esq., N. Byfield 1 are much dissatisfied also several Foxcroft Francis Esq., Esq., of the present justices: and in particular, some of the Boston
;
justices were resolved rather to throw up their commissions than be active in disturbing the liberty of their majesties' subjects, 2 merely on the accusations of these afflicted, possessed children."
That Danforth, in common with almost all his contemporaries, believed in witchcraft, and considered witches justly obnoxious to
occasion
accused.
trates,
was employed
to
examine the
tions.
At
he
the request of the magistook down the evidence, he
was
being a rapid and accurate penman. On the occasion mentioned in the next paragraph, Danforth put the questions, and the record is, Mr. Parris being desired
'
Hutchinson says that Mr. Parris most of the examinations, although in the presence of one or more magistrates, were taken by him.' He put the questions. They show, on
'
over-officious
and appointed
to write
out the examina-
tion, did take the
same, and also read it " before the council in public.' Gen.
Keg., xxiv. 395.
a minute knowledge beforehand of what the witnesses are to say, which it cannot be supposed Danforth, Russell, Addington, Appleton, and Sewthis occasion,
all,
says, " The deputy-governor first called to the stand John Indian, and plied him, as was
Mr. Uphatn also
and the
had."
even
if
strangers, as they were, to the place details of the affair, could have
Ibid., p.
104.
For
this reason,
there were not
many
others,
it
the course pursued on

craft,
all
these occasions,
with leading questions." Salem Witchii. 102. But, after quoting from Hutchinson a part of the examination, " I would call Mr. atten-
Upham
to the
adds,
seems most probable that the "leading questions" were put by Parris, and not by Danforth. 1 Son-in-law of Thomas Danforth. 2 Coll. Mass. Hist. SK., \. 74, 75.
tion
form of the foregoing ques-
CIVIL HISTORY.
;
117
punishment, is probably true but it is not true, that he was a member of that special court which held such bloody assizes, nor, if we may believe Brattle, his personal friend, did he apThe Superior Court, of which he was &. prove its proceedings.
member, held a session at Salem in January, 1693, at which " spectral twenty persons were tried, and three convicted but " evidence was not admitted 1 moreover, there is no proof that he concurred with his associates, all of whom had been members of the Commission of Oyer and Terminer. The latter years of Danforth's life seem to have been peaceful. Doubtless he lamented the loss of the old Charter, for whose preservation he had struggled so long and so manfully. His strong opposition to some of the provisions of the new Charter is said to have induced Mather to omit his name from the list of Councillors yet he finally accepted it as the best which could be obtained, and faithfully labored, both as Councillor and Judge, to administer its provisions in such a manner as to secure the bene;
; ;
fit
of the people. 2
In the long and perilous conflict on behalf of chartered rights, Gookin and Danforth were supported by their brethren the Deputies from Cambridge, all good men and true. Deacon Edward Collins was Deputy from 1654 to 1670, without intermission Edward Oakes, 1659, 1660, 1669-1681 Richard Jack;
Upham's Witchcraft, ii. 349. The closing scene is thus described by

in his Journal
:
much on the other as to erect him a monument among this people. Mr. Willard,
in his prayer, mentioned God's displeasure in his removal, and desired the Judges
Judge Sewall
28.
1699. "Oct.
is
I
;
visit
Mr. Danforth who

tells
sick
is
his
daughter Foxcroft
very me he
much troubled with the palsy. Was much indisposed the 22d instant, which
;
hurt, I especially going out in the afternoon.
was the beginning of his sickness would go to meeting, which did him
wished him refreshings from
his
yet
might act on the Bench as those who must also shortly go to give their account. Indeed it is awful, that while we are sitting on the bench, at the same time the
ancientest
Judge should be lying by the

I can't tell
God under
day,
dies,
fainting
5.
sickness."
" Lord's
Nov.
Tho. Danforth Esq.,
about 3
past merid., of a fever.

trate forty years.
Has been
Was
a magisa very good hus-
bandman, and a very good Christian, and a good councillor; was about 76 years old." " Third day, Nov. 7. Mr. Stoughton, in his speech to the
grand jury, takes

;
great notice of Judge Danforth's death saith he was a lover of religion and religious
Mr. Danforth at Bristow I thought he would never come thither again which made him take a more particular leave than otherwise he would have done." " Sixth day, Nov. 10, 1699. Mr. Danforth is entombed about of an hour before 4 P. M. Very fair and pleasant day much company. Bearers: on the right side, Lt-Governor, Mr. left side, Mr. W. WinRussell, Sewall I helped throp, Mr. Cook, Col. Phillip?.
; ; ;
wall, dead, in his house. it came about, but I told
how
men;
;
the oldest servant the country

;
lift
the corpse into the tomb, carrying the
had zealous against vice and if [he] had any detractors, yet [there] was so
feet."
118
son, 1661,
;
;
1662 Edward Winship, 1663, 1664, 1681-1686 Edward Jackson, 1665-1668, 1675, 1676 Joseph Cooke, 1671, 16761680 Thomas Prentice, 16721674 Samuel Champney, 1686, and again, after the Revolution, from 1689 to 1695, when he died in office. Their names should be in perpetual remem;
;
brance.
CHAPTER
X.
CIVIL HISTORY.
IT has already been stated, that the General Court, March 3, " Agreed, that Newe Towne bounds should run eight rayles into the country from their meeteing howse," and that
1635-6,
large farms, near the eight mile line were soon afterwards granted by the town ; among which grants was one to Richard Harlaken-
den of "
called
six hundred acres of upland and meadow, at the place Vine Brook, in the midway between Newtowne and ConThis tract of land cord," on certain conditions, Jan. 2, 16367. was in the central portion of the present town of Lexington.
The conditions of the grant not being performed by Richard Harlakenden, the land was subsequently granted to his brother, Roger Harlakenden, who died in 1638. Herbert Pelham married the widow of Harlakenden, and became the owner of his real estate he bequeathed this property to his son Edward Pelham, who conveyed by deeds, Oct. 28, 1693, to Benjamin Muzzey 206 acres in Cambridge, towards Concord, being a part of " Mr. Pelham's farm," and to John Poulter 212 acres of the same farm. Precisely when the first houses were erected and actual settlements commenced at the " Farms," so called, does not appear on record but as early as 1682, about thirty families were there, generally " Farmers." styled They had then become so numerous and so but strong, that they desired a separation from the parent town first to be distinct at made a Although parish. they petitioned they were unsuccessful for nine years, and did not fully accomplish their purpose for more than thirty years, their petition and the
; ;
reply to it are inserted, as they indicate the condition of the people at that period.
To the honorable the General Court now assembled in Boston, October llth, 1682. " The petition of several of the inhabitants within the bounds That by the proviof the town of Cambridge humbly showeth dence of God, who hath determined the times before appointed
:
"
120
men, your petitioners are a great distance, the nearest of them above five miles them six, some seven, some eight, some nine if not ten
of the habitations of all
:
and the bounds

seated at
(some
of
town that we appertain unto

thereof,
in the miles) from the public place of meeting to worship God, that your petitioners, by reason
very great forced to be absent at

their children, for
have now (many of us) for a long time conflicted with difficulties in respect of themselves, who have been
some seasons of the year, and especially whose spiritual good and the means leading thereunto they desire to be solicitous as well as for themselves that there are now about thirty families, in which are contained
:
at least one hundred and eighty souls, within the circumstances and condition abovementioned that your petitioners have humbly and affectionately represented the premises to the Townsmen
:
at Cambridge, at their meetings, withal signifying their desire of liberty from them to call a minister to preach amongst them and catechise their children, they being willing to build a meetinghouse which may be situated so as to be within two miles and an
half near thirty families, and to advance for the present forty pounds per annum for his maintenance that the premises not:
withstanding, they have as yet obtained no relief or encouragement from the town of Cambridge in this affair. Your petitioners, therefore, who are the heads of families, fearing the sad effects of this remoteness from the public worship of God and particularly in respect of their children
and those that
shall
come
after
them,
they should grow weary of attendance upon the public means of grace, and think it too much (as Jeroboam tells Israel it
lest
was
ers,
to
go up to Jerusalem) to travel so
it
many
miles for such an

of their fath-
end, and so should cease to worship the
Lord God
bounden duty humbly to address to this honored Court, praying that you will please to take the case of your petitioners into your serious consideration, that by your favor thev
think
their
be licensed to provide for themselves a person that may be to dispense unto them the word of God; and that in order thereunto they may be freed from payments to the town of Cambridge, from whom, as their dear and beloved
may
meet and able
brethren, they no ways desire separation for any other but the forementioned cause alone declaring it to have been their stand;
and cause of grief that, by reason of their remoteness, they have not been in a capacity, according to their desires, to enjoy more And your fellowship and communion with them. petitioners shall pray, as in duty bound, &c. James Cutler, Matthew Bridge Sen r ., David Fiske Sen'., Samuel Stone, Sen r .,
ing
affliction
CIVIL HISTORY.
Francis Whitmore, John Tedd, Ephraim Winshipe, John l ter, in the behalf of the rest of the families."
121
Win-
The
petitioners
presented a strong case.

:
To
travel so far,
every week, for the purpose of attending public worship would now be regarded as a grievous burden and the burden was greater two hundred years ago, when travelling was almost exBut the peticlusively accomplished on horseback or on foot.
tion
was presented in a time of general distress and alarm. The Charter, regarded as the palladium of liberty, was in imminent peril, and there were fearful apprehensions of calamities which
might result from its loss. Financial embarrassment was already Under such circumfelt, and general bankruptcy was feared. " Farmers " and the of the town the stances, opposed petition " " until the next General Court, action thereupon was respited at which time the town presented an earnest remonstrance against the proposed dismemberment
:
"
To
the honorable the General Court assembled in Boston,

supplicants, the selectmen of
October the 16th, 1683. " Your humble
Cambridge, in
obedience to a warrant sent to us, and the concerns of our town, do humbly present unto your Honors' consideration, in answer
remote farms of our town. Some of your Honors may yet remember the unsettled condition of this church when it was about to remove to Mattabesick, 2 for the prevention of which the honored General Court, held at Boston, in March 1643-4, was pleased to grant to this Church a tract of land at Shawshine, and another parcel adjoining to Concord line, for the enlargement of our boundaries, and to enable this church and towne (with the rest of our accommodations) to maintain the ministry in this place, provided the then Church and Elders did continue in this place which condition was accordingly performed, though this Church and town (as may be demonstrated) was abler to maintain the ministry and defray public charges then than it now is, by reason most of our principal men are now removed from us, some by death and others into England and
to a petition of the
;
also humbly present unto your Honors' consideration the great disenablement of our church and town by the village on the south side of the River breaking off from us, 3
other countries.
We
which was so considerable a part of our town, and bare a considerable part of our charge in the maintenance of our ministry,
1
Mass. Arch., See chap. vi.
xi. 24.
See chap.
viii.
122
of that nor several other charges
and now bears none

is
our town
whereby we are greatly disenabled so comfortably to maintain our ministry and discharge our public charges as we want and ought to do, by reason one principal arm of our town is cut off, and our accommodations for husbandry so poor and small, and our trade so little and inconsiderable, that it is even a wonder to ourselves how we do subsist and carry on public
at
;
charge so well as
we
do,
though we do
it
not so well as
we
should.
therefore present unto this honorable General Court's most serious consideration the great damage it will be to this poor Church and town, (that have suffered so many diminutions al-
We
ready),
to let
off
if
the honored Court should grant our Farmers' petition
of their own, and so be wholly taken from contributing to ours but much more should we be damnified if the honored Court should grant any part of our outlands unto them, we are so exceedingly straitened in the boundaries
;
them have a ministry
our lands, as we shall plainly demonstrate to the honored For the distance of place that our brethren at the Farms are from the public meeting with us, it is but the same it was
of
Court.
when they first settled themselves and families there and they have there other conveniences with it, and Concord is not far from them, which in bad weather they may go unto. If we should have this arm cut off too, we shall be much disenabled to carry on God's work amongst us, both in Church and Commonwealth that as it hath been the care of the honored fathers of
;
;
our Commonwealth formerly to take care for the subsistence and well being of this senior Church of Christ in Cambridge, so we still crave the continued care of the honored fathers of the Com-
monwealth now
in being, that they
for the offspring.
We humbly leave our languishing condition

;
would not destroy the parent

to
your Honors' most serious consideration and your supplicants shall pray as in William Manning, Sam u duty bound, etc.
.
Andrewe, Samuel Chamne,

bridge."
i
in the
name
of the
town
of
Cam-
The
the next General Court.
consideration of this petition was further postponed until Both the Council and the House of
Representatives manifested a willingness, at their session in October, 1684, to establish a village at the Farms ; but they could not agree where the division line should be drawn between the
village
1
2 and the parent town, and nothing was accomplished.
Mass. Arch.,
xi. 25.
Mass. Arch.,
xi. 27, 28.
CIVIL HISTORY.
123
the disastrous During the troublous times which succeeded, administration of Andros and the perilous Revolution which folno further effort appears to have been made for a divislowed,
Seven years afterwards, a new petition was it is not found on the files of the Court, but the represented sult is recorded under date of December 15, 1691 " Upon reading the petition of the Farmers and inhabitants of the Farms within the precincts and bounds of the town of Camion of the town.
;
:
bridge towards Concord, therein setting forth their distance (the nearest of them living above five miles) from Cambridge meet-
ing house, the place of the public worship, praying that, according
to former applications by them several years since this Court for the advantage of themselves, families,
ity,
made unto
and poster-
they
may have
fit
this Court's favor
and
license in order to the
minister for dispensing the gospel among them ; they may be a distinct village for the ends proposed in their said petition : the selectmen of Cambridge having had
calling of a as also that
a copy of said petition sent them, with a notification of the time for their being heard thereupon this day, and accordingly attendAfter a full hearing and consideration of what was offered ing
:
by both parties, it is granted and ordered by this Court, that the petitioners be and are hereby permitted and allowed to invite
and
settle an able and orthodox minister for the dispensing of the gospel among them ; and that all inhabitants being within the line formerly stated by a Committee of this Court, anno 1684, beginning at the first run of water or swampy place over
which
is a kind of bridge in the way on the southerly side of Francis Whitmore's house, towards the town of Cambridge aforesaid, cross the neck of land lying between Woburn line and that
of
side, upon a southwest and northeast course, do unto the ministers maintained there ; and are hereby empay
Watertown
powered annually
to choose three or five
meet persons
to assess
their inhabitants for the support and maintenance of their minister, as also a Constable or Collector, to gather the same by
said Farmers not being hereby discharged from paying their proportion as formerly unto all public charges in the town, except what refers to the min-
warrant from the said Assessors.
The
istry, so
long as they maintain an able minister
among them-
selves."
In the remonstrance against this division, in 1683, it was rep" damnified " if the resented that the town would be grievously
1
Mass. Prov. Rec.,
vi.
205.
124
"
outlands," or
common lands not yet divided, The Court listened thus
should be granted
far to the
remonand preserved to the town the ownership of this public property, some of which was afterwards sold to the precinct. Two such sales are entered on the Town Records, under date of
to the petitioners.
strance,
Jan. 16, 1692-3. It should be added, that these financial transactions indicate a friendly spirit in both parties, the separation
having apparently been effected without such sharp controversy

In the same spirit, March as occurred in the case of Newton. " 11, 1699-1700, the town voted, to give the little meeting-house bell to the Farmers. Voted, that the Selectmen, in the name of
the inhabitants, do give their thanks to Capt. Andrew Belcher for the bell for their meeting-house he has given them."
Twenty-one years
after their establishment as a precinct, the
Farmers, according to their original design, sought to be entirely " separated from the town of Cambridge, and to be a township by themselves." This separation was readily obtained on terms sat-
The Cambridge records isfactory to both parties. " At a meeting of the inhabitants belonging to the
show
that,
meeting house in the Body of the town of convened the 1st Cambridge, orderly December 1712, Capt. Thomas Oliver was chosen Moderator. And whereas the Farmers, at their public meeting on the 28th of October last, appointed a committee to petition the town that
may be dismissed from the town, and be a township by themselves, as appears by their petition bearing date the 6th November, 1712, which has been now read ; voted, That Capt.
they
Mr. Jonathan Remington, and Andrew Bordto treat with the Committee appointed by and that the articles to be proposed to the said Committee, as terms of their dismission, are their paying a part toward the charge of the Great Bridge, and to the Town House, and a consideration for some of our Poor." The meeting was then adjourned until Jan. 12, 1712-3, at which time it watT' Voted, That the Farmers, upon their being dismissed from the town, shall annually pay to our Town Treasurer such a
Oliver,
inan, be a
Thomas
Committee the Farmers aforesaid
proportion of our part of the charge of the Great Bridge over Charles River in Cambridge as shall fall to them according to their annual proportion with us in the Province Tax. (2) Voted, That the said Farmers shall pay their proportion of twenty-five pounds toward the arrears of our Town House. The aforesaid
articles
article
being complied with by the Farmers, Voted (3) That the that has been proposed, referring to their paying their
CIVIL HISTORY.
125
proportion toward the relief of some of our Poor, (viz. Robert Webber and Richard a negro, and his wife,) be referred to the
ton,
Committee formerly appointed, (viz. Capt. Oliver, Mr. Remingand Andrew Bordman,) to debate further upon, who are
fully
empowered
in behalf of the
town, either to insist upon the
said article or to consent to their being dismissed from the town upon the articles aforementioned which they have complied with."
In accordance with this agreement, the Farmers were incorporated March 20, 1712-13, by an act of the General Court, which provided that the " tract of land known by the name of the northern precinct in Cambridge be henceforth made a separate and distinct town, by the name of Lexington, upon the articles and terms already agreed on with the town of Cambridge." 1
During this period and half a century afterwards, very few public events occurred, materially affecting the welfare of CamSome facts, however, though of a more private or perbridge. sonal character, should not be entirely overlooked, as they throw
light on the state of society
and the condition

:
By
first
the
Town
Records
it
of the people. that of Bricks were Cullers appears
Town Clerk, as an officer distinct elected, Nov. 10, 1684 from the Selectmen, March 13, 1692-3 Town Treasurer, March 30, 1694: Assessors, July 16, 1694. The County Records indicate that Thomas Danforth was Treasurer of Middlesex, before 1657, when he was succeeded by Edward Goffe, who died in 1658, and John Stedman was apSamuel Andrew was his pointed, who held the office until 1683 successor and remained in office until 1700, except during the administration of Andros. All these were Cambridge men. In the settlement of the Treasurer's accounts, charges were allowed s " 52 wolves killed in 1690, to wit by the English, 20 per wolf, and one killed by an Indian, 10% is ,52. 10" .... Paid one half the charge of Cambridge Great Bridge, <26. 7 s 6 d -." And in 1696, the Treasurer was allowed twelve pence in the pound of all collections and disbursements Grand Jurors were paid two for attendance no allowance was made for shillings per day travel, but the county paid for their dinners at one shilling each. Seventy-six wolves had been killed, and 13s. 4c?. per head was
: ; :
.
-
allowed in compensation. " May 22, 1691. Upon the death of John Green, late Marshal General, in the beginning of the last Court of Assistants,
Mr. Samuel Gookin being appointed by said Court

l
to supply that
Mass. Prov. Rec.,
ix. 258, 259.
126
of his duty in that vacancy, and sworn to the faithful discharge in the said confirmed is Gookin hereby place, the said Samuel
office of
pounds, to aid betwixt Woosin repairing especially " much incumbered as described was ter and Brookfield," which with trees fallen, and many rocky swamps, and other obstructions to travellers, drovers, and others, to the hazarding life or limb of
five
Marshal General of this Colony." 1 June 17, 1700. The General Court granted " the road to Connecticut,
Six years earlier, Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, afterwards President of Harvard College, accompanied the commissioners appointed to treat with the Maquas or Mohawks,
both
men and
horses."
and travelled over this road to Brookfield, then gener" Capt. Sewal and Major Townsend, being Quaboag commissioned to treat with the Mockways, set out from Boston about half an hour past twelve, Monday, August 6, 1694. Several gentlemen did accompany them to Watertown, and then
at Albany, ally called
:
returned.
At Watertown we met with Lieutenant Hammond
and thirty troopers, who were appointed for a guard to Springfield. We came to our first stage at Malberough, about half an hour past eight in the evening. We lodged at Abraham How's, 3 and thence set forward the next morning about half an hour past There was nothing remarkable this day, but seven of the clock. only Mr. Dwite, of Hatford, did accidentally fall into our company, and after the same manner, soil, accidentally, he and his horse both together fell into a brook but both rose again with;
out damage.
This day
we dined
in the woods.
:
Pleasant descants
were made upon the dining room

high, curiously
it
was
said that it
was
large,
our dining place was also accommodated with the pleasancy of a murmuring rivulet. This day, some of our company saw a bear but being near a thick Towards night we heard (I swamp, he escaped our pursuit.
; ;
hung with green
think) three guns
but we
knew
not
who
shot them.
Our whole
company come
day Quaboag, about sundown, not long before nor after." 4 The easterly section of this road is mentioned by Pemberton, under date of Sept. 30, 1783, in his manuscript " Chronology," preserved in the library of the Mass. Hist. Society "A gentleman of this State remarks, that soon after the settlement of our Fathers at Boston, the persons appointed to
this
to
'
explore the country, and lay out public roads did

1
it
as far as the
celebrated by
Mass. Col. Rec., vi. 184. Mass. Prov. Rec., vii. 99.
The "Wayside Inn,"

Longfellow. 4 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc
,
xxxi. 102.
CIVIL HISTORY.
127
bank by Mrs. Biglow

it
in
Weston, and reported that they had done

'
as far as they believed would ever be necessary, it being about seven miles from the College in Cambridge.' It is proper to
add, that I have never seen any contemporary authority for this extraordinary statement.
Col. Shute, the
newly appointed Governor
of Massachusetts
arrived in Boston, Oct. 4, 1716, and on the 15th day of the same month commenced a journey to New Hampshire. Instead of crossing the ferry to Charlestown, he passed
and
New Hampshire,
out of Boston over the neck, through Roxbury and Brookline, to
Cambridge Great Bridge. The commencement of his journey, and the manner of his reception in Cambridge, are described in the " Boston News Letter," October 22, 1716 " On Monday last,
:
the 15th current, his Excellency, our Governor, about eight o'clock in the morning, set out from hence by land for his other
government
of
New
Hampshire, attended by the honorable the
Lieut.-Governor and several of the chief gentlemen of this and that Province, and on this side of the river was met by Spencer
Phips Esq., with his Troop of Horse, the Sheriff of Middlesex, and other gentlemen of that County, and by them conducted to Harvard College in Cambridge, where he was received by the President, Fellows, and Students, and entertained in the Hall with a congratulatory Latin Oration, by Mr. Thomas Foxcroft after which his Excellency was pleased to take a view of the Library, and then proceeded on his journey to Lynn," etc. Col. Edmund Goffe was elected Representative, June 6, 1721. " Samuel Smith was charged with putting in two votes in the first voting for Representative, made oath that he put in but one vote for Representative. Also Daniel Gookin being charged with putting in two votes at the second voting for a Representative,
:
made oath that he put in but one vote for a Representative said oaths were administered in the public meeting per Mr. Justice Leverett." J
:
In 1721, the small-pox prevailed more extensively and fatally statement of rethan ever before in Boston and its vicinity. " " sults was made officially in the u Boston News Letter Boston,
Feb. 24, 1721-2. By the Selectmen. The number of persons visited with the small-pox since its coming into town, in April last past, having been inquired into by direction from the Selectmen, 844 of whom died and were buried in the amounts to 5,889 follows as months, May, 1 June, 8 July, 11 ; Aug., preceding
: :
Town Records.
128
Sept.,
411 Nov., 249 Dec., 31 Jan., 6." The extent of the destruction of life in Cambridge, by this scourge, is not known with exactness but references to it are found in the " " New Nov. 30, 1721. England Courant:" Cambridge, Thursday, of Boston, Esq., of This morning died here William Hutchinson,
26
;
101
Oct.,
the small-pox, in the 38th year of his age." (Dec. 4, 1721.) " Last week died one of the Indian hostages (mentioned in our " On last) of the small-pox at Cambridge." (Jan. 22, 1721-2.)
the General Assembly of this Province met at Camnumber of members to make bridge, there not being a sufficient which a House on Wednesday, to day they were before proThey are adjourned till Tuesday next, when they are rogued. to meet a few miles out of town, the small-pox being now in the heart of that place." (March 5, 1721-2.) The Town Records
Friday
last,
show that a Committee was appointed, Jan. 29, 1721-2, to provide " for the relief of such persons and families as may stand in
need thereof, in case the small-pox spread amongst us." Inocula tion for the small-pox was first introduced in Boston at this time by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, who encountered the most violent oppo" Out of 286 sition. persons who were inoculated for the small1 pox, but six died." In 1730, the small-pox again prevailed in Cambridge with Nine town meetings were held between alarming violence.
March 20 and April
3, to
devise
means
for its extermination.
these meetings indicates that inocu" Whereas lation had been injudiciously or carelessly practiced
vote passed at the
first of
Samuel Danforth, Esq's late practice of inoculation of small-pox amongst us has greatly endangered the town, and distressed sundry families amongst us, which is very disagreeable to us ; wherefore, voted, that said Samuel Danforth, Esq. be desired forthwith to remove such inoculated persons into some convenient place, whereby our town may n't be exposed by them." The College studies were broken up for a time but the students were recalled by an advertisement, dated May 2, 1730, and published in the "Weekly Journal :" " The small-pox having been lately at Cambridge, which occasioned the dispersion of the scholars to
;
escape danger
but now, through the Divine goodness, that distemper having utterly ceased here it is agreed and ordered by the President and Tutors, that the undergraduates forthwith repair to the College, to follow their studies and stated exercise.3.
;
;
Benjamin Wadsworth, Pres."

1
The distemper returned again
Drake's Hist. Boston, pp. 562, 563.
CIVIL HISTORY.
129
before the end of the year, as appears by a paragraph in the " " News hear from Cambridge, Letter," dated Oct. 8, 1730 that Mr. William Patten, Representative for the town of Billerica,
:
We
being taken sick of the small-pox, while the General Assembly was sitting there, is since dead, and was interred on Monday last, On Saturday, Oct. 3, the Court was adjourned the 5th instant."
to
meet
at
Roxbury on the next Wednesday.
Again, in 1752, the small-pox caused the cessation of study in College from April 22 until Sept. 2 ; and the corporation voted,
in
" that there be no 4, public Commencement this year," and October voted to have no winter vacation. The town appointed a committee, May 18, to devise measures to prevent the " voted that of the and on the 3d of
May
disease, October, spreading a public contribution be in the three parts of this town, next Lord's-day come seven night, for the speedy raising of money to
defray the charges the town have been at in the support, &c., of sundry persons lately visited with the srnall-pox, belonging to this town. Also voted that the thanks of this town be given to the
Selectmen of the town

assistance
find no
of Charlestown for their great friendship, I to us, when visited with the small-pox." civility record of the number of lives destroyed in Cambridge by
and
this visitation of the small-pox.
But
its
in Boston during the previous year. corded the fact, in his interleaved Almanac, that while only five persons in Cambridge had the disease in 1751, of whom three
ravages were frightful Professor Winthrop re-
died, in Boston, with a total population of 15,734, 5,060 whites had it the natural way, of whom 470 died also, 485 blacks, of
;
whom
were
69 died
sick, of
and by inoculation 1,985 whites and 139 blacks whom 24 whites and 6 blacks died.
;
continued, as aforetime, to be watchful against the " At a admission of undesirable associates. meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the
.
The town
town of Cambridge, orderly convened 9th Dec r 1723. Whereas, of late years, sundry persons and families have been received and entertained amongst us, to the great trouble of the Selectmen and damage of the town for
:
preventing such inconveniences for the future. Voted, that henceforth no freeholder nor inhabitant in said town shall receive or
admit any family into our town to reside amongst us for the space of a month, without first having obtained the allowance and approbation of the freeholders and inhabitants of said town, or of the Selectmen for the time being, on penalty of paying to the
Treasurer of said town, for the use of the poor, the sum of twenty
9
130
shillings.
Also voted, that no inhabitant in said town
shall re-
ceive and entertain
as are received by education, or men or maid servants upon wages, or purchased servants or slaves), for the space of a month, without having the Allowance and approbation of the freeholders and inhabitants, or
any person into their family (excepting such reason of marriage, or such as are sent for
selectmen, as aforesaid, on penalty of paying the aforesaid." shillings for the use of the poor, as
sum
of
twenty
" Voted, that so often as any dog or dogs is or are 1729, it was seen in the meeting house on the Lord's day in the time of public worship, the owner or owners of said dog or dogs shall for
every such offence pay one shilling, half to go to the officer appointed to regulate said dogs, the other half part of said fine to
The meeting-house was equally guarded against improper inOn the 12th of May, trusion, though by a less severe penalty.
be for the use of the poor of the town.

said fine or fines, the aforesaid officer
on refusal to pay hereby obliged, authorized and empowered to prosecute the owners of the above described dogs before any one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in said County. This to continue for one year." March 10, 1728-9. " Put to vote, whether said inhabitants would grant the sum of 50<. for Joseph Hanford, to fit him out in the practice of physic, and it passed in the negative." In 1736, John Vassall (afterwards Major and Colonel) purchased the large estate at the southwest corner of Brattle and Ash streets, and became a resident in Cambridge. He was born in the West Indies, inherited a princely fortune, married (in 1734) a daughter of Lieut.-gov. Spencer Phips, became at once a very popular citizen, and was elected Selectman and Representative in 1739, and again in 1740. Shortly after his second elecsome enthusiastic friend thus in the " exulted Jourtion,
is
And
nal
last
"
of
May
20,
1740
"
Cambridge,
May
19.
Weekly On Monday
came on the choice of a Representative for this town in the approaching General Assembly. The meeting was as full as most that ever were known among us on such an occasion,
there being 109 qualified voters present at it. men had put an end to some tedious contests
After the Select-
and lingering dearose on lays, (which adjusting preliminaries, and which only and off the business of the day,) we at length interrupted kept had the liberty to proceed fairly to the choice and then it SOON appeared that Mr. John Vassall was chosen by the overbearing majority of more than double the number of all those votes which
;
CIVIL HISTORY.
131
by the majority of 75 to 34 ; a proportion of the person chosen our Representative on the side greater this year than he l had who was our Representative the last. By this it seems a certain person elect has a growing interest."
for him, viz.
were not
much
Alas for the fickleness of popular favor. Mr. Vassall was not afterwards elected either Selectman or Representative until a few " months before his death in 1747. His " interest attained its
full
growth suddenly, like Jonah's gourd, and as suddenly colHe was disturbed by a disparaging remark of a townslapsed. and man, sought legal redress with disastrous result. The hisof the suit is entered on the Records of the Inferior Court tory
for the
December term, 1740, page 172. that Samuel Whittemore of Cambridge, DepBy appears on the 13th of March, 1739, declared publicly that uty Sheriff, been elected Selectman, he " was no more Mr. Vassall had though
County
of Middlesex,
this it
fit
to discharge said trust than the horse that he, the said Samuel,
then rode on."
On
the next day Vassall

for
commenced
;
suit,
claim-
he caused ing ,1,000 damage Whittemore to be arrested and imprisoned. On the trial, two months afterwards, the Court adjudged that " the words .... spoken by the said Samuel were not actionable." Vassall appealed to the Superior Court, which affirmed the judgment of the Inferior Court. Whittemore then sued Vassall, for false and 200 damage and costs of malicious imprisonment, and recovered on record. court. So much appears Tradition says that the writ was served on Vassall at his own table, when surrounded by a large and fashionable dinner-party. Mr. Vassall was equally unsuccessful in his appeal to the General Court for protection against what he regarded as a personal insult and an encroachment on his official privileges. John Hovey had recovered judgment against him on two bonds, not" withstanding his plea of privilege (as on file) which was overruled by the Court," and had levied on his estate. The Records of the General Court show that notice was issued, Dec. 5, 1740, to John Hovey and Samuel Gookin, to make answer to Mr. John
defamation of character
insults received
who complained of sundry from them. Dec. 10, Mr. Samuel Gookin ap" Then the question peared, and the case was fully examined. was put, whether it appears to this House that an attachment being served on Mr. John Vassall's estate on the 18th of NovemVassall, Representative of Cambridge,
1
He was
his
own
predecessor.
The
increased majority indicate-! the
"growing
interest."
132
ber last
is
Cambridge, an unjust and groundless complaint of said Mr. Vassall, particfor the reasons exhibited, ularly mentioned in said petition, in answer thereto, ordered, that the said John Vassall read, and John Hovey, the sum of ten the to petitioner, the said pay for his time and expense occasioned in full recompense pounds,
a breach of the privileges of the members of this House. It passed in the negative." But this was not the end. December 18, 1740, " A petition of Mr. John Hovey of CamHouse would order Mr. John Vassall, bridge, praying that this to refund his expenses occasioned by of the member
by said complaint."
An epidemic occasioned great alarm in 1740. It was called " influenza " the " throat distemper," and was probably the same which Thacher describes : " The amazing rapidity with which it
spread through the country resembled more a storm agitating the atmosphere than the natural progress of a disease from any conAlmost a whole city, town, or neighborhood, tagious source. became affected with its influence in a few days, and as it did not
incapacitate people in general from pursuing their ordinary occupations, it was common to observe, in every street and place of
resort,
lic
a constant coughing, hawking, and wheezing, and, in pubAlassemblies, little else was to be heard or attended to.
all classes of
it is
though
fluenza,
people experienced the operation of the inremarkable that a small number, comparatively
speaking, were so ill as to require medical attendance, and instances of its fatal termination were of rare occurrence." l It
proved so fatal here, however, that the students were dismissed " from College by vote passed June 23, 1740 Whereas, through the holy Providence of God, several families in the town of Cam:
bridge are visited with the throat distemper, and the President's and Steward's families are under very afflicted circumstances by
reason of that mortal sickness
there
as
it
is
;
and whereas we apprehend that
great danger of the distemper spreading and prevailing hath done formerly in other places, and that the students
;
much endangered thereby therefore Voted, that they be immediately dismissed from the College, and that the vacation begin from this time and that the Commencement for this year be not until the expiration of the vacation." 2
are
;
Me.dical Biography, i. 28. In a private note-book, the steward of the College, Andrew Bordman, Esq.,
1
grandchild
the
Andrew Bordman
died
24
June 1740: both of
the distemper called
throat distemper."
Memorials are
made
this
record:
"Our
grandchild,
Ruth Bordman, died 23 June 1740: our
found in the burial-place, of " Mrs. Margaret Holyoke, wife to the Revd. Mr. Ed-
CIVIL HISTORY.
133
In former days, each town was required to pay its own Representatives in the General Court, and was liable to a fine if not
duly represented. This town, however, on the 14th of May, " 1750, Voted, that the town will make choice of two Representatives to represent them at the next General Court, or Assembly, provided the same serve the town gratis : also voted, that they will proceed to choose two Representatives, upon that condi-
tion only, that those who are chosen be not the Representatives of said town unless, upon their choice, they declare that they will
serve the town gratis, as aforesaid. Then Andrew Bordman and Edmund Trowbridge Esqs. were chosen Representatives," and both accepted the office. The same course was pursued the next But, in 1752, Andrew year, and the same persons were elected. Bordman refused the office on this condition, and Henry Vassall was elected in his stead. This practice was soon afterwards
wholly abandoned. The territory lying west of Sparks Street and April 19, 1754. south of Vassall Lane was transferred from Watertown to Cam" To bridge by the General Court, by a line described thus at in Charles and from thence to run the line beRiver, begin
:
tween the lands of Simon Coolidge, Moses Stone, Christopher Grant, and the Thatchers, and the land of Col. Brinley and Ebenezer Wyeth, to the Fresh Pond, so called." l Several acres were subsequently added to Cambridge, bounded westerly on Coolidge Avenue, extending to and including the Cambridge
Cemetery. Some excitement was occasioned as late as 1754, by the appearance of a bear in the easterly part of Cambridge, long after we might suppose this section of the country to have been rid of " wild beasts. The " Boston News Letter of September 19, con" On tained this paragraph. Tuesday last, a Bear, that had wandered down to Cambridge, was discovered on Lieut. Gov r 2 Phips' farm, and being closely pursued took to Charles River ; several boats put off from Charlestown, and one from whereupon
.
ward
39
Holyoke,
President
of
Harvard
College,"
;
who
Holyoke," their "youngest son," who died June 23, 1740, Similar meaged nearly three years. morials are found of two children of Mr. Ebenezer Stedman, Martha, who died June 23, 1740, aged 4 years; and Sarah, who died June 24, 1740, aged
nearly 6 years.
all
and of " William
died June 25, 1740, aged
Mass. Prov. Rec., xx. 228. This farm embraced East Cambridge, and extended westerly nearly to Columbia Five years later, in September, Street. 1759, Dr. Belknap, then a student in Harvard College, made this record
1
"
A great many bears killed at Cambridge

this
and the neighboring towns about

Life of Belknap,
p. 11.
time, and several persons killed by them."
The
dates indicate that

dis-
these
were victims of the same
ease.
134
the west part of this town, which last shot and entered two bullets into him ; but not killing him, the Bear made directly towards
and got one paw upon the side, upon which one of the struck an adze into his skull, and despatched him in an inThe whole of the body weighed stant, and brought him ashore.
the boat
men
When he was opened, a great number of the bones were found in his belly." The earliest notice which I have seen of a fire-engine in Cam" upon the motion of Capt. bridge is dated March 3, 1755, when, Ebenezer Stedman and others, referring to the town's agreeing with Henry Vassall Esq., who has an Engine and is willing the same should be improved for the town's use on certain conditions, the question was put whether the town would act on said motion,
196 pounds.
of fowls &c.
and it passed in the negative." In all probability, however, the town then possessed one or more engines. Boston had one before : and Cambridge would not 1679, and seven as early as 1733 be likely to remain entirely destitute. Yet the machines then in use might seem almost worthless, compared with the powerful
;
steam-engines recently introduced. The Town Record of Births and Deaths in the last three quarters of the eighteenth century is very imperfect all the deaths recorded between 1722 and 1772 are contained on two folio pages.
;
Professor
truth
Winthrop inserted
years, in his interleaved almanacs,

:
brief bills of mortality, for a few which afford a glimpse of the
" 1758.
Bill of mortality in first Parish in
Under 2 years old 12 Between 2 and 5 2 Between 5 and 10 Between 10 and 20 1 Between 20 and 30 2 Between 30 and 40 2
= = = = =
Between Between Between Between Between
40 and 50
=Cambridge. 50 and 60 = 60 and 70 = Whites, 20 70 and 80 = Blacks, 5 80 and 90 = 3 ~25

1
1
"
~~2lT
etc.
1762.
"
Causes of death,
Accidental,
A ge,
Colic,
Consumption,
Dysentery,
CIVIL HISTORY.
1763.
"
135
Causes of death,
Accidental,
etc.
Fit,
2 2
1
(suddenly)
2 9
1
Males,
10
Cancer,
Infancy,
Palsy,
Females, 10
^7T
Consumption,
Dropsy,
Whites,
Blacks,
17
3
20."
In the " Boston News Letter," November 30, 1764, is a reference to a custom then recently introduced, but unwisely abandoned afterwards. " On Monday the 19th instant died at Cambridge, in the 78th year of her age Mrs. Hannah Burrill, relict of the late Hon. Theophilus Burrill Esq., and sister to the Rev. Mr. President Holyoke, at whose house she had for some time past
resided.
She was a gentlewoman
of a virtuous disposition,
and
possessed of
many amiable qualities. Her remains were interred the Thursday following, without the expense of mourning ap-
As
parel, agreeable to the laudable method now practised in Boston. this is the first example of the kind in that town, and intro-
duced by a gentleman of so worthy and respectable a character, we doubt not it will acquire imitation." 1
1
Rev. John Cotton of Newton, in a

dated Nov.
7,
let-
1717, and preserved in the library of the Mass. Hist. Soc., says that at the funeral of Hon. Andrew Belter
90 dozen apprentices to him, were also. of gloves were bought, and none of any
figure but
" All the ministers there had scarves cher, and gloves. They say 50 suits of cloaths were made. All first cousins, Remington,
Blowers, &c., put into mourning. John Colman, Caswell, &c., all that had been
what had gloves sent 'em." of expenses at the funeral of Col. Edmund Goffe, in October, 1 740, remains on file in the Probate Office it was ren-
A bill
dered
by
Edmund
:
Trowbridge,
Esq.,
grand nephew of the deceased.

the charges are these
Among
"
To 5 pair of gloves at 7s. Gd., and a mourning weed, 1 17 6 To a pair of shoe buckles, 6s., knee buckles, 4s. 6c?., black studs, Is. 3d., Oil 9 To a hat, 60s., mourning wigg, 5, To a pair of gloves, black silk, 25s. To a suit of mourning for the widow, and pair of shoes, 30 To another pair of black silk gloves, 25s. To ten rings of Mr. Hurd, as per account, 23 14 To mourning for my aunt Barnard, 33 6 To the same for my sister Dana, 33 6 To a pair of gloves for her husband, To cash paid the taylors for making the cloaths, 319 To two gallons of wine, 30s., a dozen of pipes, and 2 papers of tobacco, 5s. 1 15 To cash paid for bricks, and bricking the grave, 110 10 0" To stones to cover the grave,
This
bill
800 150 150
080
though the
was allowed by the judge, estate was soon afterwards
outlay.
forts
It is to be regretted that the ef-
made by
President
Holyoke and
rendered insolvent.
The Belcher
estate
others to abolish
was
large,
and might
easily afford
the
such extravagant and useless customs were ineffectual.
CHAPTER
XI.
CIVIL HISTORY.
this history of a single town, it is not proposed to enumerate all the causes of the American Revolution, or the various
IN
events which occurred during its accomplishment ; but some of those causes and events will be mentioned, with which the town
of
Cambridge had more or
less
intimate connection.
One very
Revo-
prominent question at
issue, in
the
commencement
of the
British Parliament had lutionary struggle, was whether or not the a legal right to impose taxes on the American provinces (which were not represented therein), without their consent. In the exfor raising a revenue
pretended right of supremacy, among other methods from the provinces, Parliament enacted a law, styled the Stamp Act, with a provision that it should take With special reference to this Act, the effect Nov. 1, 1765. American doctrine was affirmed, Oct. 29, 1765, by the Massachuercise of this
setts
House
which were these
of Representatives, in fourteen resolutions, three of " III. : Resolved, That no man can justly
;
take the property of another without his consent and that upon this original principle the right of representation in the same
body which exercises the power of making laws for levying taxes, which is one of the main pillars of the British constitution, is " XII. Resolved, as a just conclusion from evidently founded." some of the foregoing resolves, That all acts made by any power
whatever, other than the General Assembly of this Province, imposing taxes on the inhabitants, are infringements of our inherent and unalienable rights, as men and British subjects, and render void the most valuable declarations of our Charter.
of
XIII. Resolved, that the extension of the powers of the Court Admiralty within this Province is a most violent infraction of
the right of trials
by
juries,
a right which this House, upon
the principles of their British ancestors, hold most dear and sacred, it being the only security of the lives, liberties, and properties of his Majesty's subjects here." l
1
Hutcbinson's Hist. Mass.,
iii.
477, 478.
CIVIL HISTORY.
137
distinct opinion had been expressed by Cambridge, a fortnight earlier, at a town meeting held on the 14th day of October,
1765,
when
it
was " Voted, That (with
all
humility)
it is
the
opinion of the town, that the inhabitants of this Province have a legal claim to all the natural, inherent, constitutional rights of
that the
Englishmen, notwithstanding their distance from Great Britain Stamp Act is an infraction upon these rights. One instance out of many, in our opinion, is this: the Distributor of Stamps will have a sovereignty over every thing but the lives
;
of the people, since it is in his power to summon every one he pleases to Quebec, Montreal, or Newfoundland, to answer for
pretended or real breaches of this Act and when the faithful subject arrives there, by whom is he to be tried ? Not by his peers (the birth-right of every Englishman) no, but by the Judge of Admiralty, without a jury, and it is possible without
; ;
Under these circumstances, the Stamp-Master may unrighteously get more than his Majesty will upon a balance by the stamps for who would not rather pay the fine than be thus
law.
;
harassed, thus tried? Great Britain treated in this

ica,
Why
manner
are not his Majesty's subjects in ? must we in Amer-
Why
who have
Majesty, and
in every instance discovered as much loyalty for his obedience to his laws, as any of his British subjects
(and whose exertions in some of the provinces during the last war have been greater), be thus discriminated ? At this time
are under an almost insupportable load of believe it may be debt, the consequence of this exertion. truly said that no one in Great Britain pays so great a tax as
especially, whilst
we
We
some in this province, in proportion to their estates. Let this Act but take place, liberty will be no more trade will languish and die our medium will be sent into his Majesty's exchequer, and poverty come on us as an armed man. The town, therefore, hereby advise their Representatives by no means whatsoever to do any one thing that may aid said Act in its operation but that,
: ; ;
in conjunction with the friends of liberty, they use their utmost endeavors that the same might be repealed That this vote be
:
recorded in the
Town Book,
that the children yet unborn
may
:
see
the desire their ancestors had for their freedom and happiness and that an attested copy of it be given to said Representatives."
While the inhabitants

arbitrary exercise of
forcement of
to encourage
of Cambridge thus protested against the power by Parliament, and against the enthe Stamp Act in particular, they were not ready
any violent outbreak
of popular fury.
During the
138
effigy,
preceding August, by hanging him in
breaking into his
house, and destroying part of his furniture, some of the inhabitants of Boston had induced Mr. Secretary Oliver to promise that he would not act as Distributor of Stamps; and on the
evening of the 26th of the same month, they attacked the house of Lieutenant-governor Hutchinson, who had rendered himself obnoxious by his subserviency to the British ministry, and " destroyed, carried away, or cast into the street, everything that was in the house ; demolished every part of it, except the walls, as far
as lay in their
power and had begun

;
to
break away the brick- work.
at about twenty-five hundred pounds without sterling, any regard to a great collection of public as welt as private papers in the possession and custody of the Lieutenant-
The damage was estimated
a town meeting in Cambridge three days later " was Voted, that the inhabitants of this town do (Aug. 29), detest and abhor the riotous proceedings in the town of Boston, in robbing and destroying the dwelling-houses of the Lieutenantgovernor and others and they will, on all occasions, use their utmost endeavors to secure their own inhabitants and their dwellBut when the ing-houses and property against such ravages."
governor."
it
;
At
Governor, in his address to the General Court, recommended that compensation should be made to the sufferers, and intimated that,
if
to
they did not make it voluntarily, they might soon be required do so," 2 the town voted, Oct. 14, 1765, that their " Representatives be and are hereby instructed by no means to vote for
any moneys being drawn out of the Province treasury to make good the demands of the late sufferers, as mentioned in his ExIn their reply to the Govercellency's speech, have sustained." nor's address, Oct. 25, 1765, the House of Representatives said, " We highly disapprove of the late acts of violence which have been committed yet till we are convinced that to comply with what your Excellency recommends will not tend to encourage such outrages in time to come, and till some good reason can be assigned why the losses those gentlemen have sustained should be made good rather than any damage which other persons on any
;
different occasions
shall not see our
might happen
to suffer,
we
made.
require this of us,
has any right to with your Excellency in point of its being an act of justice which concerns the credit of the government." 3 A year later, however, when the odious
if
We are greatly
way
clear to order such a
are persuaded we compensation to be
at a loss to
know who
we should
differ
Hutchinson's
Ibid.,
iii.
/fist.
Mass.,
iii.
124.
Ibid.,
iii.
475, 476.
129.
CIVIL HISTORY.
139
Stamp Act had been

sidered, at a
repealed, and town meeting, October
this subject
27, 1766,
was again con" The inhabitants
having taken into consideration the affair now pending in the Great and General Court, relative to the losses sustained by divers
by means of the outrage and violence of the mob in Voted, That it Boston, in the month of August, A. D. 1765, be an instruction to the Representative of this town to use his
persons,
best endeavors in the General Court that a compensation be made to the Lieutenant-governor and other sufferers (upon proper application by them made for that purpose), by advancing such sum or sums of money out of the public treasury as may be judged adequate to their losses ; and that he likewise use his endeavors
that such measures
may be gone into for replacing such money in the Province treasury as shall appear just and equitable." The General Court, after much discussion, enacted a law, granting compensation to the sufferers, and at the same time a free pardon
to all
of any crimes or offences against law, the late troubles." The Governor was induced to by " if the act should not be his give approval, because, approved in all the effect would be the for three or four England, suspending,
" who had been guilty
occasioned
months, of prosecutions which, experience had shown, could not be carried on " " but as to the compensation, the act would have an immediate effect and could not be recalled. The act was disapproved, upon its being laid before the king, merely from the nature of it, and the danger of establishing a precedent but the money was paid before the news arrived, and nothing further
:
passed upon the subject." " On the 16 th of
May, [1766] a copy
of the
Act
of
Parliament
No refor the repeal of the Stamp Act was brought to Boston. on ocsince to those this the had been revolution, equal joicings,
casion."
2
But the people were not quite ready
to forgive those
of the provincial government who had made themselves obnoxious by their advocacy of those arbitrary measures which threatened the extinction of popular liberty. At the organiza-
members
tion of the government, later in the same month, " the Lieutenant-governor, the secretary, one of the judges of the Superior Court, and the attorney-general, were struck off from the council.
Another
1
of the judges, apprehensive of this slight, chose to reHi.

Ibid.,
iii.
158-
160.
'
147.
"
they have expressed their joy on account of the repeal of the Stamp Act, by illum{nations,
We hear from Cam-
fireworks,
&c.,
&c."
Boston
bridge and other neighboring towns, that
Evening Post,
May
26, 1766.
140
came on." l The intention to exclude sign before the election from the Council some of those crown officers who were supposed to be too subservient to the British ministry, is foreshadowed in
the instructions given to the Representative of Cambridge, May 26, 1766, two days before the meeting of the General Court.
These instructions, reported by a committee consisting of Samuel Whittemore, Ebenezer Stedman, and Eliphalet Robbins, contain the usual protestation of loyalty to the crown, of a general confidence in the good intentions of Parliament, and of a desire
for
the continuance of friendship and harmony between the At the same British government and the American Colonies.
time, they counsel the utmost watchfulness against
any possible
:
power, and contain other suggestions of much importance. Two of the instructions were as follows " With regard to the General Assembly, of which you will be,
encroachment
of arbitrary
of the greatest importance that each branch should have its due weight and power and as you are to have a part in the election of one of these branches, we instruct you to avoid giving your suffrage for any gentleman already holding offices incompatible with a seat there, or who, by any sort of dependence or connection, may be under temptations to yield to unreasonable demands of prerogative and this we esteem of singular importance under the present circumstances of our public affairs." " There is one thing more which we would enjoin upon you, as a matter of considerable importance ; which is, that you endeavor to get a vote passed in the House, that a gallery be provided where as many persons as conveniently can, may be admitted to hear their debates this is agreeable to the practice in the mother country, and may be attended with very salutary effects here amongst other advantages which may arise from such an order of the House, we would hope that this would be one, namely, that it would give an opportunity to any person who desires it of seeit is
; ; ; ;
ing that nothing

benefit,
2
and
of
is passed by that assembly that is not of real advantage to their constituents, and that the Rep-
resentatives of the people are patrons of their rights

leges."
and
privi-
Soon
1
after the close of this session of the

side of this
General Court, news

for the
Hutchinson's Hist. Mass., iii. 148. By the printed Journal of the House
room
accommodation
of Representatives, it appears that on the llth of June, 1767, it was ordered, " that the debates in this House be open, and
that a gallery be erected
of such persons as shall be inclined to attend the same:" provided, "that no person be admitted to a seat in the gallery,
on
the westerly
without applying to and being introduced by a member of this House."
CIVIL HISTORY.
141
arrived from England that the Parliament had by no means relinquished the intention to derive a revenue from the colonies, but had " determined to lay small duties on paper, glass, and
to take off 12 d ., which painters' colors, imported into America had been charged in England on every pound of tea exported, and to lay 3 d only, payable upon its importation into America." l
;
.
At
it
the same time commissioners of customs were appointed, and was supposed that the collection of this tax was one of their
Popular discontent and excitement followed, principal duties. as might have been expected. Associations were formed to encourage
home manufactures, and
to refrain
from the use
of foreign
At their next winter session, the articles subject to taxation. House of Representatives prepared letters to several noblemen in
England, praying them to obtain a repeal of the new tax act, and an address to the king copies of which they sent to the Assemblies of the other colonies, asking their cooperation. These
;
When the next proceedings gave great offence in England. General Court met, in May, 1768, " the Governor sent a message to the House, which engaged the whole of their attention. In
pursuance of instructions which he had received, he required them, in His Majesty's name, to rescind the resolution of the last House of Representatives, in consequence of which a circular
had been sent to the several assemblies upon the conti2 A few days afterwards the demand was renewed, with a threat of dissolution as the penalty of refusal. After due cona and after letter to the sideration, preparing English Secretary for the Colonies, in justification of their proceedings, the House
letter
nent."
refused to rescind,
diately
by a vote of ninety-two against seventeen. This decision was communicated to the Governor, who imme" It was executed his threat and dissolved the House.
thus
made known
enjoyed only on the condition
that the vital right of representation was to be of a servile compliance with an
3 It was soon afterwards reported arbitrary royal instruction." that three regiments of soldiers were to be stationed in Boston,
to enforce submission to the
government.
The
inhabitants thereto the
upon assembled
in
if
town meeting, and sent a message
Gov-
he expected such a military force, and requesternor, inquiring him to summon a new General Court. On his refusal, the ing
town " Resolved, that as the people labor under many grievances, and as the Governor has declared himself unable, at the request
1
iii.
179.
Frothingham's Rise of
the Republic,
Hid.,
iii.
195.
p. 221.
142
of the
town, to call a General Court, which is the assembly of the states of the province, for the redress of such grievances, the town will make choice of a suitable number of persons, to act for them as a committee in convention, with such as may be sent to
join
them from the
such measures
service
l
may
several towns in the province, in order that be concerted and advised, as his majesty's
fixed for the
of his subjects in the province meeting of the Conven-
and the peace and safety
may
tion
require."
The time
was Sept. 22, 1768. For some reason, which does not apon until Sept. 29 pear, Cambridge did not elect delegates which day, it was " put to vote, whether it be the mind of the inhabitants of this town to proceed on the article in the Warrant, relating to the choosing a person to join with the committees of Convention of the other towns in this Province, now sitting in Also voted, that they Boston, and it passed in the affirmative. will now make choice of one or more persons, as a committee .... to attend the Convention that may now or hereafter be sitting in Boston in this Province. Also voted that they will make Then Andrew choice of two persons for the purpose aforesaid. Bordman was chosen, who declined the service. Then Deac. Sam u Whittemore was chosen, who declined the service. Then Whittemore was chosen, who accepted said choice. Capt. Sam Then Thomas Gardner was chosen, who accepted said choice." If Cambridge was somewhat late in the election, her delegates were not a whit behind others in patriotism and resolution. Capt. Whittemore was the veteran, who, at the age of seventynine years, performed yeoman's service with his musket, on the memorable 19th of April, 1775 and Thomas Gardner, having been successively elected Captain and Colonel, sealed his patriotic devotion with his life-blood on Bunker Hill. In the succeeding years the conflict between arbitrary power and the rights and privileges of the people became more and more earnest. The British government insisted on its right to
:
.
11
bind the colonies in

sent, to place over
all cases,
them
rulers not of their
to impose taxes without their conown choice, to over-
awe them by the presence

tablished laws
of foreign troops, and to supersede esand customs by " Royal Instructions." On the
other hand, while the people professed loyalty to the crown, they this invasion of their inalienable rights as freeprotested against
born Englishmen, and indicated a determination to resist to the last extremity. Among other methods adopted for the accom1
iii.
204, 205.
CIVIL HISTORY.
143
plishment of this purpose, at a town-meeting in Boston, Nov. 2, " that a 1772, upon the motion of Samuel Adams, it was voted, committee of correspondence be appointed, to consist of twenty-
one persons, to state the rights of the colonies, and of this province in particular, as men, as Christians, and as subjects ; to communicate and publish the same to the several towns in this
province and to the world, as the sense of this town, with the infringements and violations thereof that have been, or from time
to time
may be, made also requesting of each town a free communication of their sentiments on this subject." At an adjourned meeting, Nov. 20, the report of this committee was accepted, and
:
ordered to be printed in pamphlet form and distributed agreeably

to the original vote. The response of Cambridge was prompt and decisive. The Records show that, at a town-meeting, Dec.
14, 1772,
it
was " Voted, That the

Boston
to
letter
and the book sent by
order of the town of
the Selectmen of Cambridge, in the name and order of the town, William signed by Cooper^ Town Clerk, should be publicly read and acted upon. The Moderator 1 protested against it, as it was not in the warrant
;
and the same was read accordingly. Voted, That a committee be appointed to write to the committee appointed by the town of Boston, and to acknowledge the vigilance and care, discovered by the metropolis, of the public rights and liberties, acquainting them that this town will heartily concur in all salutary, proper and constitutional measures for the redress of those intolerable grievances which threaten, and if continued must overthrow, the happy civil constitution of this province and that said committee take under consideration the rights as stated by the committee of correspondence of the town of Boston, and the infringements and violations of the same, and to make report at the adjournment of this meeting." [The Committee was then elected, consisting of Capt. Samuel Whittemore, Capt. Ebenezer Stedman,
;
Capt. Ephraim Frost, Capt. Eliphalet Robbins, Capt. Thomas Gardner, Joseph Wellington, Abraham Watson, Jr., Nathaniel " Voted, That said comSparhawk, and Samuel Thatcher, Jr.] mittee prepare instructions to the Representative, and report upon both forthwith, or, as soon as may be. The committee retired
1
the meeting not adjourned
in less than
twelve minutes
to the
William Brattle, Esq., was the Mod-
Barnard.
But promotion
is
rank of
crator.
In the early part of the struggle he advocated the rights of the people, insomuch that he was negatived as a member of the Council in 1769, by Gov.
Major-general, in 1771, posed to have rendered

elates.
generally sup-
him much more
favorable to the Governor and his asso-
144
returned, and presented their report upon the letter and resolves aforesaid, and also reported instructions for the Representative
which reports were received, and accepted, and voted by a majorinhabitants then present. ity of the
" The instructions

tive of the
To
Capt.
Thomas Gardner, Representa-
town of Cambridge in General Assembly. Sir, We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, in town-meeting this fourteenth day of December, A. D. 1772, to legally assembled consult upon such measures as may be thought most proper to be taken at this alarming crisis, and most conducive to the public
weal, do therefore with true patriotic spirit declare, that
we
are
and ever have been ready to risk our lives and fortunes in defence of his majesty King George the Third, his crown and dignity, and in the support of constitutional government. So, on the other hand, we are as much concerned to maintain and secure our own invaluable rights and liberties and that glorious inheritance which was not the gift of kings or monarchs, but was purchased at no less price than the precious blood and treasure of our worthy ancestors, the first settlers
of this province, who, for the sake of those rights, left their native land, their dearest friends and rela-
goodly houses, pleasant gardens and fruitful fields and in the face of every danger settled a wild and howling wilderness,
tions,
;
cruel and barbarous enemies,

life
;
where they were surrounded with an innumerable multitude of and destitute of the necessaries of
yet aided by the smiles of indulgent heaven, by their heroic
fortitude (though small in number) they subdued their enemies before them, and by their indefatigable labor and industry culti-
vated this land, which is now become a fruitful field, which has much enriched our mother country, and greatly assisted in raising Great Britain to that state of opulence that it is now in ; that if any people on earth are entitled to the warmest friendship
of a
sister colonies.
mother country, But
it is
alas,
!
the good people of this Province and its with what ingratitude are we treated,
how
We have been sighing and groaning cruelly oppressed under oppression for a number of years our natural and charter rights are violated in too many instances here to enumerate; our money extorted from us, and appropriated to augment our burdens we have repeatedly petitioned our most gracious sovereign for a redress of grievances, but no redress has yet been obtained, been we have almost driven to And, in the whereby despair. midst of our distresses, we are still further alarmed with seeing
;
CIVIL HISTORY.
145
the Governor of the Province made independent of the people, and the shocking report that the Judges of the Superior Court of Judicature and other officers, have salaries affixed to their offices, dependent on the crown and ministry, independent of the grants
of the
lives
Commons
of this Province.
By
this
establishment our
and properties will be rendered very precarious, as there is the utmost danger that, through an undue influence, the streams
of public justice will
be poisoned.
all
Can we expect
the scales will
be held equal between

tion will the
parties ?
Will such Judges be unmoved
by passion or prejudice, fear or favor? What a miserable situaman be in, under a corrupt administration, who shall dare to oppose their vile measures. Must he not expect to feel
the keenest resentment of such administration, by Judges thus bribed to pursue the plan of the ministry ? In fine, we look upon
this last innovation so great a grievance, especially
when added
to the
many other grievances we have been so long groaning therefore think it under, as to be almost insupportable. seasonable and proper to instruct you, our Representative, in
We
General Assembly, that you use your greatest influence at the next session of the General Court for a speedy redress of all our And inasmuch as it has been for some years past grievances.
their circuits have
thought that the Judges of the Superior Court, especially since been enlarged, have not had salaries adequate to their important services, we desire you would make due inquiry into this matter, and if you shall find it to be a fact, you would use your utmost endeavors that their salaries may be en-
larged and made adequate to their merit and station ; and in all our difficulties and distresses, depend upon your prudence and
firmness."
The
"
time, and the meeting
business seems not to have been fully completed at this was adjourned for three weeks
:
Town-meeting from December the fourteenth, A. D. 1772 to January the fourth 1773, the following report was read and accepted by a great majority The Commitof the
:
At an adjournment
tee appointed to take under consideration the rights of the Colonists, and of this Province in particular, as stated by the town of
Boston, and also a list of the infringements and violations of those beg leave to report, That, in their opinion, the rights of the Colonists and of this Province in particular, as men, as Chrisrights,
and as subjects, are properly stated, and that the lists of the infringements and violations of those rights are notorious facts and as there appears to be the greatest reason to apprehend,
tians
10
146
agreeable to the intimation made to us in the said list of grievances, that stipends or salaries are affixed to the offices of Judges of the Superior Court, whereby they are made not only independ-
ent of the people, but absolutely dependent upon the Crown for their support, it is further the opinion of this Committee, that
such establishment, if made, is in direct repugnancy with the Charter of the Province, and the invariable usage from the time the same was granted that thereby a dangerous connection is
;
formed, and an undue influence in their decisions introduced, and therefore tends to the poisoning the streams of justice in the land that there will, moreover, be the utmost danger that the Bar may hereafter be overawed by a corrupt Court, insomuch that
;
the
of shining genius and abilities in the profession of dare to stand up in defence of an injured country. For these and many other reasons that may be offered, the Com-
no gentleman
Law
will
mittee beg leave further to report the following resolve, viz Resolved, as the opinion of this town, that the said establishment is a dangerous innovation and grievance, especially when added to
:
the
many other grievances we have been so long groaning under, and that we have the strongest aversion to a measure which is of so ruinous a tendency, and can never be reconciled to it." Before this last named town-meeting was held, the Committee of Correspondence, elected on the 14th of December, executed a
part of the duty assigned to them, by addressing a letter to the Committee of Boston, which was published in the " Boston Gazette," Dec. 28, 1772
:
the Committee of Communication and Correspondence at The Committee appointed by the town of Cambridge to write to the Committee of Communication and
To
Boston.
Correspondence
at
Boston, gladly embrace this opportunity. In the name and behalf of the said town of Cambridge, and with the most sincere respect, they acknowledge the vigilance and care discovered by
the town of Boston of the public rights and liberties ; acquainting you that this town will heartily concur in all salutary, proper, and constitutional measures for the redress of those intolerable
grievances which threaten, and
if
happy
civil constitution of this
Province.
continued must overthrow, the It is with the greatest
pleasure
full as it
that we think the meeting was as has been for the choice of a Representative, for a number of years, if not fuller and that the people discovered a glorious spirit, like men determined to be free. have here en;
we now inform you
We
CIVIL HISTORY.
closed
their
147
you a copy of the votes and proceedings of this town, at would add, meeting, so far as they have gone. May the town of Boston, the capital of this Province, rejoice in May wisdom direct her in all her consulperpetual prosperity.
We
tations.
May
her spirited and prudent conduct render her a ter-
ror to tyrants. May every town in this Province, and every other colony upon the Continent, be awakened to a sense of danger, and unite in the glorious cause of liberty. Then shall we be able
To effectually to disappoint the machinations of our enemies. conclude That this land may be purged from those sins which
:
are a reproach to a people,
and be exalted by righteousness, that
God Almighty may be our God as he was the God of our fathers, and that we may be possessed of the same principles of virtue, religion, and public spirit, which warmed and animated the
friends in the
is the sincere prayer of your cause of our country, the Committee of the town of Cambridge. EBENEZER STEDMAN, per order."
hearts of our renowned ancestors,
common
In 1773, the British Ministry adopted another measure to secure the payment of a tax by the colonists. The East India the embarrassed accumulation of teas which the Company, by
American merchants did not purchase, were encouraged to export them, on their own account, by an offer of a drawback of the whole duty payable in England on all such as should be exported to the British colonies in America but the duty of three pence on a pound was still required to be paid at the port of The tax demanded was very small, but it stood as the entry.
;
representative of a great principle ; the right, namely, of Parliawhich right ment to bind the colonies in all cases whatever,
fire of
was asserted by the ministry and denied by the colonists. contention, which had seemed to be smouldering
time,
The
for a
now
burst forth into a fierce blaze.
Public meetings were

of resistto
held, and resolutions adopted, indicating a stern spirit ance. Cambridge placed on record its determination
main-
tain
its
rights:
meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, legally assembled, Nov. 26, 1773, Capt. Ebenezer This town being greatly Stedman was chosen Moderator. alarmed at an Act of the British Parliament, passed in the last session of Parliament, whereby the East India Company in London are empowered to export their teas on their own account to the British Plantations in America, and expose the
very
full
"
At a
148
to sale, subject to a duty, payable in America, to be colwhich, if by a set of worse than Egyptian taskmasters,
:
same
lected
submitted
and as to, we fear will prove fatal to the Colonies we apprehend the sense of this town cannot be better expressed
;
than by adopting the Resolves of the patriotic citizens of PhilaResolved, that the disposal of their own property is delphia that there can be no property inherent the right of freemen of can another that which in right take from us without our con;
sent
that the claim of Parliament to tax
America
is,
in other
words, a claim of right to levy contributions on us at pleasure. 2. That the duty imposed by Parliament upon tea landed in
America is a tax on the Americans, or levying contributions on them without their consent. 3. That the express purpose for
which the tax
is
levied on the Americans, namely, for the sup-
port of government, the administration of justice, and the defence of his Majesty's dominions in America, has a direct tendency to
render Assemblies useless, and to introduce arbitrary government and slavery. 4. That a virtuous and steady opposition to this
ministerial plan of governing America is absolutely necessary to preserve even the shadow of liberty, and is a duty which every freeman in America owes to his country, to himself, and to his
posterity.
5.
That the resolution
lately
come
into
by the East
India Company, to send out their tea to America, subject to the payment of duties on its being landed here, is an open attempt
to enforce the ministerial plan, and a violent attack liberties of America. 6. That it is the duty of every
upon the American
to oppose this attempt.

directly,
7.
That whoever
shall, directly or in-
countenance this attempt, or in any wise aid or abet in unloading, receiving or vending, the tea sent or to be sent out by the East India Company, while it remains subject to the payment of a duty here, is an enemy to America. " And whereas the town of Boston have assembled twice on
this
alarming occasion, and at each meeting did choose a committee of very respectable gentlemen, to wait upon the persons who are appointed by the East India Company to receive and sell
manner requested them to resign their notwithstanding the said factors have repeatedly refused to give them any satisfaction, but, on the contrary, their answers were evasive and highly affrontive by such a conduct
said tea, in a genteel
and
appointment
any respect from their Therefore resolved, that this town will by fellow-countrymen no means show them any respect whatever, but view them as
all right
title to
:
they have forfeited
and
CIVIL HISTORY.
enemies to their country.
149
said factors of the East India
And whereas it is reported that the Company by their conduct have
rendered themselves despicable in the town of Boston, yet they can retire into the country towns, where they are treated with Therefore resolved, respect, which, if true, is truly scandalous that anyone who shall harbor said factors in their houses v ex:
cept said factors immediately make full satisfaction to this justly incensed people, are unfriendly to their country. Resolved, That any person or persons, inhabitants of this Province, that shall import any teas subject to the payment of a duty in Am.er.ica,
are in an eminent degree enemies to their country, and ought to be treated with equal contempt and detestation with the present
supposed factors. And, as it is very apparent that the town of Boston are now struggling for the liberties of their country Therefore resolved, that this town can no longer stand idle spectators, but are ready, on the shortest notice, to join with the town of Boston and other towns, in any measures that may be thought proper, to deliver ourselves and posterity from Slavery."
:
Within a month afterwards, the Gordian knot of this controversy was cut, by the destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor, after an earnest and protracted effort to induce the consignees to
send
it
back
to
Europe.
Whether any Cambridge men
partici-
reasonably certain that they assisted in the preliminary measures. Hutchinson says, " the Committees of Correspondence of the towns of Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Brookline, and Cambridge, united, and held their meetings daily, or by short adjournments, in Faneuil Hall, or pated in this
final act, or not, it is
one of the rooms belonging to it, and gave such directions as they thought proper. Two of the other vessels with tea arriving from London, they were ordered by this new body to the same wharf
first ships lay, under pretence of the conveniency of the whole under one guard. It soon after appeared that having a further conveniency accompanied it." 1 The overt act is described in the " Boston Gazette," Monday, December 20, 1773 : " On Tuesday last the body of the people of this and all the
where the
adjacent towns, and others from the distance of twenty miles, assembled at the Old South meeting-house," and, after a fruitless negotiation with the parties in the interest of the government, " adjourned to the Thursday following, ten o'clock. They then met and the people, finding all their efforts to preserve
;
.
the property of the East India Company and return it safely to London, frustrated by the tea consignees, the collector of the cus1
Hist. Mass., Hi. 433.
150
toms, and the Governor of the Province, dissolved their meeting. number of brave and resolute men, But behold what followed. determined to do all in their power to save the country from the
ruin which their enemies had plotted, in less than four hours, chest of tea on board the three ships commanded
emptied every
by the captains Hall, Bruce, and Coffin, amounting to 342 chests, into the sea, without the least damage done to the ships or any The masters and owners are well pleased, that other property.
and the people are almost universally on this happy event." other each congratulating This destruction of the tea excited the liveliest indignation of the British government. It was construed as an act of open " The rebellion, demanding condign punishment. words, often and of the cited, galling Venn, were then arrogant, insolent,
their ships are thus cleared,
' The offence of the uttered and circulated through the colonies Americans is flagitious the town of Boston ought to be knocked about their ears and destroyed. Delenda est Carthago. You
: :
meet with proper obedience to the laws of this country you have destroyed that nest of locusts.' These words embodied the feeling of England in an hour of her insolence." A The Boston Port Bill followed, which took effect on the first day
will never
until
by an array of armed vessels, effectually or The sympathy, not only of Maspreventing ingress egress. sachusetts but of all the American Colonies, was excited on
of June, 1774, enforced
behalf of the oppressed and suffering inhabitants of the devoted town, which sympathy was manifested by material aid. Although Cambridge was to some extent a joint-sufferer with Boston, it
was voted, at a town meeting, July 28, 1774, " That the Committee of Correspondence be a Committee to receive the donations that may be given by the inhabitants of this town for the relief of our distressed brethren in the town of Boston, now suffering for the cause of all America under an act of the British Parliament for blocking up the port of Boston and that they transmit the same to the Committee appointed by the town of
;
Boston to receive such donations for the purpose abovesaid." The Port Bill was followed by a more comprehensive measure,
abrogating the Charter of Massachusetts, in some important parand changing the character of the government. It provided that the members of the Council should no longer be elected by the General Court, but that they, as well as the Governor and Lieutenant-governor, should be appointed by the King. The Lieutenant-governor (Thomas Oliver), and two members
ticulars,
1
Rise of the Republic, p. 318.
CIVIL HISTORY.
of the Council
151
Samuel Danforth and Joseph Lee), appointed under the provisions of this act, were inhabitants of Cambridge. Colonel Oliver was a man of wealth and character, but had not
1 It was indeed previously held public station, except military. suggested by some, that his name was inserted in the commission by mistake, instead of Peter Oliver, the Chief Justice and a
member
tive,
of the old Council.
but never before a
member
Judge Lee had been a Representaon the contrary, of the Council

;
Judge Danforth was the senior member of that Board, having

held
office, by thirty-six successive elections, since May, 1739. The new Council (styled the Mandamus Council because its members were appointed by command of the King) consisted of thirty-six persons, of whom, however, only twenty-four accepted office and of that number nine soon afterwards resigned. 2 Its
;
meeting was at Salem, on the 8th day of August, 1774. The Governor had previously (June 17) dissolved the General Court, so that the sole governing power now vested in himself and the newly appointed Council. The struggle between arbitrary power and the spirit of liberty became more and more intense. Some of the results, of which Cambridge was the scene of action, and its inhabitants were among the more prominent actors and sufferers, are related at large in the " Boston Gafirst
zette
"
of
"
Monday, Sept.
5,
1774
the
(consisting
of
On Wednesday
last,
new Divan
the
wretched fugitives with whom the just indignation of their respective townsmen, by a well-deserved expulsion, have filled this capital) usurped the seats round the Council Board in Boston. And with Their deliberations have not hitherto transpired. equal secresy, on Thursday morning, half after four, about 260 troops embarked on board 13 boats, at the Long Wharf, and proceeded up Mistic River to Temple's Farm, where they landed and went to the powder-house, 3 on quarry-hill in Charlestown bounds, whence they have taken 250 half barrels of powder, A detachthe whole store there, and carried it to the castle. ment from this corps went to Cambridge and brought off two field pieces which had lately been sent there for Col. Brattle's Regiment. The preparation for this scandalous expedition caused
1
Perhaps
"
:
made
We
one exception should be hear that Thomas Oliver,
Esq., of Cambridge,
for this
is appointed Judge of the Provincial Courts of Vice-Admiralty
See Gen. Register, xxviii. 61, 62. This powder-house is still standing in Somerville, about half a mile southeast8
"
erly from Tufts' College,
Province and
New Hampshire."
3, 1773.
Boston Gazette,
May
152
much speculation, as some who were near the Governor gave out that he had sworn the committee of Salem should recognise or
nay, some said, put on board the Scarborough England forthwith. The committee of Boston ênt off an express after 10, on Wednesday evening, to advise their brethren of Salem of what they apprehended was coming against them, who received their message with great politeness, and re-
be imprisoned
to
and sent
turned an answer purporting their readiness to receive any attack they might be exposed to for acting in pursuance to the laws and
interests of their country, as became men and Christians. " From these several hostile appearances, the County of
Mid-
dlesex took the alarm, and on Thursday evening began to collect in large bodies, with their arms, provisions, and ammunition, de-
termining by some means to give a check to a power which so openly threatened their destruction, and in such a clandestine
manner robbed them of the means of their defence. And on Friday morning, some thousands of them had advanced to Cambridge, armed only with sticks, as they had left their fire-arms, &c., at some distance behind them. Some, indeed, had collected on Thursday evening, and surrounded the Attorney-General's
also Judge of Admiralty on the new plan, for and being provoked by the firing of a gun from a window, they broke some glass, but did no more mischief. The company, however, concerned in this, were mostly boys and
1
house, who Nova Scotia
is
negroes,
who soon
perceiving the concourse on Friday morning, the committee of Cambridge sent express to Charlestown, who communicated the intelligence to Boston, and their respective committees proceeded to Cambridge without the first of delay.
"
dispersed.
On
When
came up, they found some thousands of assembled round the court-house 2 steps, and Judge Danpeople forth standing upon them, speaking to the body, declaring in 3 substance that having now arrived at a very advanced age, and the in the service of the it was a great spent greater part public, mortification to him to find a step lately taken by him so disagreeable to his country, in which he conscientiously had meaned to serve them but finding their general sense against his holding a seat at the Council Board on the new establishment, he assured
the Boston committee
;
eral,
Jonathan Sewall was Attorney-genand his house still remains at the westerly corner of Brattle and Sparks
Streets.
The court-house was on
the westerly
side of
Harvard Square, where the Cam-
bridge
8
Lyceum now
stands.
old.
Almost seventy-seven years
CIVIL HISTORY.
153
said office, and would never henceforth accept or act in any office inconsistent with the charter-rights of his country ; and in confirmation of said declaration, he deliv-
them that he had resigned
ered the following certificate drawn up by himself, and signed with his own hand, viz. " made an I have this declaration to a
:
'
Although
day
open
great concourse of people, who assembled at Cambridge, that I had resigned my seat at the Council Board, yet for the further
satisfaction of all, I
do hereby declare under
my
hand that such
resignation has actually been made, and that it is my full purpose not to be any way concerned as a member of the Council at any
S. DANFORTH. true copy. Attest N. CUDWORTH, CV " Judge Lee was also on the court-house steps, and delivered his mind to the body in terms similar to those used by Judge
time hereafter.
d Sept. 2 , 1774.
Danforth, and delivered the following declaration, also drawn up and signed by him, viz. d " Cambridge, 2 Sept. 1774. As great numbers of the inhab:
'
itants of
those
who were met, not
the County are come into this town since my satisfying only by declaration but by reading to
them what I wrote to the Governor at my resignation, and being desirous to give the whole County and Province full satisfaction in this matter, I hereby declare my resignation of a seat in, the
new
constituted Council,
and
my
ther attendance.
Jos. LEE.
true copy.
determination to give no furTest, NATH. CUDthe body was satis-
WORTH, CV " Upon this

fied
a vote was called
for, to see if
with the declarations and resignations abovesaid, and passed in the affirmative, nem. con.
that body would signify the destruction of private and mobs, riots, and con. in the nem. affirmative, property, passed " Col. the of the County, then came before Phips, High-Sheriff the Committee of the body, and complained that he had been hardly spoken of, for the part he had acted in delivering the powder in Charlestown Magazine to the soldiery which the Committee candidly considered and reported to the body that it was their opinion the High-Sheriff was excusable, as he had acted in conformity to his order from the Commander-in-chief.
It to
"
was then moved
know whether
their abhorrence of
Col. Phips also delivered the following declaration

scribed, viz.
"
'
:
by him subin
Col. Phips's answer to the honorable
body now
meeting
154
viz.
:
upon the common,
That
I will not execute
any precept
that shall be sent me under the new Acts of Parliament for of the Massachusetts altering the Constitution of the Province
all the venires that I have sent out Bay, and that I will recall d under the new establishment. Cambridge, Sept. 2 1774. NATH. true copy. CUD WORTH, 01.' DAVID PHIPS. Test,
Which was accepted as satisfactory. 1 " About 8 o'clock, his Honor Lieut. Governor
Oliver set
off
from Cambridge to Boston, and informed Governor Gage true state of matters and the business of the people which, as his Honor told the Admiral, were not a mad mob, but the freeholders of the County, promising to return in two hours and confer further with them on his own circumstance as President of On Mr. Oliver's return, he came to the Committee the Council. and signified what he had delivered to the body in the morning, viz. that as the commissions of Lieut. Governor and President of the Council seemed tacked together, he should undoubtedly incur his Majesty's displeasure, if he resigned the latter and pretended and nobody appeared to have any objection to hold the former he begged he to his enjoying the place he held constitutionally be not to instance of incur that the at pressed displeasure, might a single County, while any other Counsellor held on the new
of the
;
;
Assuring them, however, that in case the mind whole Province, collected in Congress or otherwise, appeared for his resignation, he would by no means act in opposiThis seemed satisfactory to the Committee, and they tion to it. were preparing to deliver it to the body, when Commissioner
establishment.
of the
Hallowell came through the town on his way to Boston. The of that obnoxious so inflamed in the that a sight person people,
few minutes above 160 horsemen were drawn up and proceeding in pursuit of him on the full gallop. Capt. Gardner of Camfirst a with one of the bridge foremost, which caused began parley them to halt till he delivered his mind very fully in dissuasion of the pursuit, and was seconded by Mr. Deavens of Charlestown, and Dr. Young of Boston. They generally observed that the
object of the Body's attention, that day, seemed to be the resignation of unconstitutional counsellors, and that it intro-
might
duce confusion into the proceedings of the day if any thing else was brought upon the carpet till that important business was fin1 Notwithstanding his satisfactory declaration, Col. Phi|>s adhered to the Royal
He was
son of Lieutenant-governor Spen-
cer Phips.
cause,
left
the conn try, and never returned.
CIVIL HISTORY.
ished
;
155
and
in
little
time the gentlemen dismounted their
horses and returned to the body. " But Mr. Hallowell did not entirely escape, as one gentleman of a small stature pushed on before the general body, and fol-
lowed Hallowell, who made the best of his way till he got into overtook and stopped him in his Roxbury, where Mr.
chaise.
engage himself from him

his servant's horse,
;
Hallowell snapped his pistols at him, but could not distill he quitted the chaise and mounted
on which he drove into Boston with all the he could make till, the horse failing within the gate, he speed ran on foot to the camp, through which he spread consternation, telling them he was pursued by some thousands, who would be in town at his heels, and destroy all friends of government before them. A gentleman in Boston, observing the motion in the
camp, and concluding they were on the t point of marching to Cambridge from both ends of the town, communicated the alarm to Dr. Roberts, then at Charlestown Ferry, who, having a very fleet horse, brought the news in a few minutes to the Committee, then at dinner. The intelligence was instantly diffused, and the people whose arms were nearest, sent persons to bring them, while horsemen were despatched both ways to gain more certain advice of the true state of the soldiery. A greater fervor and
resolution probably never appeared
among any
troops.
The
de-
spatches soon returning and assuring the body that the soldiers
still remained and were likely to remain in their camp, they resumed their business with spirit, and resolved to leave no un-
constitutional officer within their reach in possession of his place.
Committee assembled again, and drew up the paper is a copy, and at the head of the body delivered it to Lieut. Governor Oliver, to sign, with which he complied, after obtaining their consent to add the latter clause, implying the force by which he was compelled to do it. Mr.
this the
On
of
which the following
Mason, Clerk of the County of Middlesex, also engaged to do no one thing in obedience to the new Act of Parliament impairing
our Charter. "
'
by
his
Cambridge, Sept. 2, 1774. Thomas Oliver, being appointed majesty to a seat at the Council Board, upon and in con-
formity to the late Act of Parliament, entitled An Act for the better regulation of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, which
being a manifest infringement of the Charter rights and privileges of the people, I do hereby, in conformity to the commands of the body of the County now convened, most solemnly renounce
156
seat at said unconstitutional Board, and hereby and engage, as a man of honor and a Christian, firmly promise that I never will hereafter upon any terms whatsoever accept a seat at said Board on the present novel and oppressive plan of
and resign
my
1 at Cambridge being surrounded by government. My house about four thousand people, in compliance with their command I THOMAS OLIVER.' sign my name. " The and Cambridge, from Charlestown, Boston, gentlemen for their refreshment some greatly -fatigued having provided brethren, they cheerfully accepted it, took leave, and departed
'
in
high good humor and well satisfied." " of the Such is the account given in the " Boston Gazette memorable proceedings in Cambridge on the second day of Sep-
tember, 1774, resulting in the compulsory resignation of three Mandamus Councillors, and the pledge of the Sheriff that he
to him under the new Acts Parliament for altering the constitution of the Province. The importance of the events, and the vivid picture afforded of the excitement which then filled the public mind, may justify the
would not execute any precept sent

of
reproduction of the history at full length. In the same paper 2 is published " a true copy of a letter said to be wrote by General Brattle to the commander-in-chief, and
picked up in this town last week, " Cambridge, August 27, 1774.
to
viz.
Governor
Excellency, knows to be
which
"
is
the
Mr. Brattle presents his duty He Gage. apprehends it his duty to acquaint his from time to time, with every thing he hears and true, and is of importance in these troublesome times, apology Mr. Brattle makes for troubling the General
with this
letter.
Capt. Minot of Concord, a very worthy man, this minute informed Mr. Brattle that there had been repeatedly made pressing applications to him, to warn his company to meet at one minute's warning, equipt with arms and ammunition, according
to
law
he had constantly denied them, adding,
if
he did not
:
gratify them, he should be constrained to quit his farms and town Mr. Brattle told him he had better do that than lose his life and
be hanged for a rebel he observed that many captains had done it, though not in the Regiment to which he belonged, which
: 1 This house was erected by Mr. Oliver, about 1767, on the westerly side of Elm-
from Cambridge to this town."

returned
2
He
at
never
but died
in
exile,
Bristol,
wood Avenue.
The
Boston
Sept. 12, announced that Oliver has removed his
Gazette of "Lieut. Gov.
England, Nov.
29, 1815.
5,
Boston Gazette, Sept.
1776.
family and goods
CIVIL HISTORY.
157
was and
under Col. Elisha Jones, but in a neighboring Regiment. Mr. Brattle begs leave humbly to query whether it would not be best that there should not be one commission officer of
is
the militia in the Province.
" This morning the selectmen of Medford came and received their town stock of powder, which was in the arsenal on quarryhill, so that there is now therein the King's powder only, which shall remain there as a sacred deposition till ordered out by the Captain-General. To his Excellency General Gage, &c. &c. &c." This letter of Gen. Brattle had been printed in a hand-bill before it appeared in the " Gazette," and lie had prepared an explanation of it, which was already in the hands of the printer but its publication was postponed until the next week, Sept. 12th. It was characteristic of the writer, manifesting a strong desire to stand well with both parties "Boston Sept. 2, 1774. I think it but justice to myself to give an account of my conduct, for which I am blamed, and His Excellency to obviate some mistakes which are believed. Governor Gage wrote me in the words following Sir, as I am informed there are several military stores in your charge
; :
'
at
Cambridge,
as
beg the favor
of
you
to
send
me
a return of
them
each.
soon as convenient, specifying the different sorts of To Major General Brattle.' Which order T. GAGE.
I did the like to Governors Pownal, Bernard, and in doing of which, every soldier will say I did Hutchinson but my duty. But it is affirmed, I advised the Governor to remove the powder this I positively deny, because it is absoIt never so much as entered into my mind or lutely false. After I had made my return, I never heard one word thought. I obeyed.
; :
till the night before last, when Sheriff Phipps house with the Governor's order to deliver him the my and the guns keys of the powder-house I then delivered powder him, and wrote to Mr. Mason, who had the care of the guns under
about the
affair
came
to
me, to deliver them, which I suppose he did both I imagine were taken, but where transported I know not. I wrote to the Governor what is contained in the Hand-Bill lately printed. I did not write the Governor the grounds and reasons of the Quere therein contained, but I will now mention them. They proceeded from a real regard both to the Commission-officers and I thought and first to the Commission-officers to the Province whom I thought would of still think it was best for them many
;
be unwilling to issue their warrants, and
if
they did not,
ap-
158
;
those that prehended they might meet with some difficulty and as therefrom did, I was not convinced so great good would result if another method was taken. Secondly, I thought and still think it would be much better for the Province for supposing there was not one Commission-officer for the present in it, what Comdanger could the Province sustain ? It may be answered, mission-officers are supposed to be the most understanding in But supposing their commissions I grant it military affairs. were vacated, supposing the respective companies in the Province were disposed and determined to do any one matter or thing which they imagined to be for its safety, and proper persons were to be employed to lead them, &c., doth their not having commis;
:
sions in the least unfit

lar services
they
may
them from being employed in the particube chosen to execute ? and in this way can
not any one conceive that the Commission-officers leading their respective companies, might in the eyes of the judicious be looked
upon more blamable in doing such and such things, than they would be if they were not military officers, and did not act under commission ? Might not the difference with respect to the ProvIt ince be looked upon very great, both at home and here? was suggested that General Gage demanded the Towns Stocks of Powder this certainly he did not the above order speaks for As I would not have delivered the Provincial powder to itself.
;
;
any one but to his Excellency or order, so the Towns Stocks I would have delivered to none but to the selectmen or their order. Upon the whole, the threatenings I have met with, my banishment from my own home, the place of my nativity, rny house being searched, though I am informed it was without damage, and the sense of the people touching my conduct &c. cannot but
be grievous, yet this grief is much lessened by the pleasui'e arising in my mind from a consciousness that I am a friend to my
country
ing to
and, in the above instances, that I really acted accordmy best judgment for its true interest. I am extremely
;
sorry for what has taken place ; I hope I may be forgiven, and desire it of all that are offended, since I acted from an honest, friendly principle, though it might be a mistaken one. " W. BRATTLE."
The Governor having

in June, writs
dissolved the
House
of Representatives
were issued for the election of a new House, to assemble at Salem on the 5th of October. Meantime, the Council elected the former House had been by superseded by the
Mandamus
Council.
Having already compelled the resignation
CIVIL HISTORY.
of
159
some members of this new council, and knowing that many others had resigned or declined to accept the office, the inhabitants of
Cambridge utterly refused to recognize the official authority of that obnoxious body, and, like most of the towns in the province, instructed their Representatives, Oct. 3, 1774, to
join only with the Council
General Court
"
:
To
Capt.
which had been duly elected by the Thomas Gardner and the Hon ble
John Winthrop Esq. Gentlemen, As you are now chosen to represent this town in General Assembly, to meet at Salem the 5th of this instant October, you are instructed and empowered ble his Majesty's Council who were chosen to join with the Hon
by both Houses legally assembled in May last, and were approved, and are the only constitutional Council in this Province to act with them as an House of Representatives, or to act with the Delegates that are or may be chosen by the several towns in to meet with them this Province, to form a Provincial Congress from time to time, and at such time and place as by them, or to consult and determine either of them, shall be agreed upon matters and things as may come either such (in capacity) upon before you, and in such a manner as to you may seem most conducive to the real interest of this town and province, and most proper to deliver ourselves and all America from the iron jaws of
:
slavery."
firm resolution to maintain their position at all
hazards, and to resist arbitrary authority even unto blood, is indicated by votes adopted at the same town meeting, empowering
the Selectmen to procure a carriage for the cannon belonging to the town, to purchase another cannon, and to furnish powder and
balls for
both
of
payment
also to draw money from the treasury for the drummers and fifers, for the instruction of fifers, the
;
purchase of fifes, and the refreshment of soldiers, till further order. At a subsequent meeting, Nov. 28, 1774, it is recorded " whereas the Provincial that, Congress did, on the 28th day of
to
October last, resolve and appoint Henry Gardner Esq. of Stow be Receiver General of this Province, for reasons most obvious," etc., the collectors of taxes were directed and required to pay the province taxes to said Gardner, and the town agreed to
and if any person or persons shall refuse to indemnify them with the true and obvious spirit and design of the said comply
;
"
resolve
1
and
this vote, this
town
will consider
them
as operating
new The Governor dissolved House of Representatives before the day appointed for meeting. The members met, however, on the 5th of October, and two
this
days afterwards, having resolved thcmselves into a Provincial Congress, adjourned to Concord, where sessions were held during the next two months.
160
with the enemies of the rights and liberties of this injured and
few months later, the Revolutionary War commenced, and Cambridge became the head-quarters of the American army. Of the share borne by the inhabitants of the town in the military a brief sketch will struggle which continued nearly eight years,
oppressed people."
be given in another place. The record of civil proceedings of the town, during that period, is meagre a few facts, however, may be
;
gleaned.
For many years after the commencement of resistance to the to arbitrary measures of the ministry and of Parliament, loyalty absolute At crown was the the King, or to length, professed. independence appeared to be the only safe and effectual solution The Continental Congress, before adopting and of the difficulty.
proclaiming a Declaration of Independence, naturally desired to know whether the people would abide by it, and sought advice
from the several colonies. This question was referred to each town by the General Court of Massachusetts. At a town meet" unanimously voted, that ing in Cambridge, May 27, 1776, it was whereas in the late House of Representatives of this colony, 10
1776, it was resolved, as the opinion of that House, that the inhabitants of each town in this Colony ought, in full town-meet-
May
ing warned for that purpose, to advise the person or persons who shall be chosen to represent them in the next General Court, whether that, if the honorable Congress should, for the safety of the said Colonies, declare them independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, they the said inhabitants will solemnly engage
with their lives and fortunes to support them in the measure, We the inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, in full town-meeting assembled and warned for the purpose abovesaid, do solemnly engage with our lives and fortunes to support them in the meas-
Most faithfully did they redeem their pledge. inhabitants of Cambridge suffered the various privations and inconveniences incident to .warfare, from which they sought
ure."
The
a quiet and peaceable manner. On the 18th of SeptemEdward Marrett, by direction of the town, petitioned the General Court that the hospital at Sewall's Point in Brookrelief in
ber, 1776,
line
might no longer be used

in
for the
coasters were fearful of passing
up the
treatment of small-pox, as river with fuel and so

;
vicinity had been destroyed by the army, that the inhabitants and students could obtain none exThe Court ordered " that the barracks cept at exorbitant prices.
much wood
Cambridge and the
CIVIL HISTORY.
161
standing within the fort at Sewall's Point be not used, for a hos" 1 pital, and that they be kept clear of infection. August 14, 1777, the General Court granted a parcel of nails (" 3300 double tens ") to a Committee, for repairing the jail at Cambridge, the
Committee not being able to obtain them elsewhere, the said nails to be paid for by the town. 2 September 10, 1777. "The petition of the selectmen of the town of Cambridge, in behalf of themselves and the inhabitants of said town, humbly sheweth, That whereas the inhabitants of said town are in great necessity of the article of salt, and it not being in their power to procure the same at any price or to make the same, our wood being at so high a price as twelve dollars a cord, and as we understand the State have supplied most of the towns within the same with some considerable quantity of the article, and are still in possession of a quantity of the same, and therefore pray that we may be supplied with such a quantity as your honors in your wisdom may
" On the Sept. 24, 1777. petition of Isaac Bradish, under-keeper of the gaol in Cambridge, setting forth that he hath in custody a number of Scotch and Hessian prisoners, (23 in all,) and is unable to procure bread-corn sufficient for their
see fit," etc. 3
sustenance, and therefore praying he may be allowed to draw bread-corn out of the public stores for the support of said prisoners Resolved, that the Board of War be, and they hereby
:
are directed to supply the said Bradish with eight barrels of flour for the purpose above mentioned he the said Bradish paying for
;
the same."
It has already
been stated that Cambridge instructed
its
Rep-
resentatives, October 3, 1774, not to recognize the Mandamus Council, so called, but to join with the Council elected in the
previous May, under the provisions of the Charter, or, if this were " to act with the impracticable, Delegates that are or may be chosen by the several towns in this Province to form a Provincial
Such a Congress was formed, and was succeeded by whose resolves and recommendations, by general consent, others, had the force of law, administered chiefly by committees and
Congress."
other officers elected by towns. After the commencement of advice was of the Continental Congress, rehostilities, requested
On the 9th of specting a more regular form of government. " no obedience that That June, 1775, Resolved, Congress being due to the act of parliament for altering the Charter of the colony
1
Mass. liec., xxxv. 287. Mass. Arch., ccxv. 46.

11
8
4
Jbid., clxxxiii. 134.
Printed Journal, Ho. Rep.
162
of Massachusetts
Bay, nor to a governor and lieutenant-governor endeavor to subvert, the governor and lieutenant-governor are to be con-
who
will not observe the directions of, but

;
that charter
sidered as absent, and their offices vacant.
And
as there
is
no
council there, and the inconveniences arising from the suspension of the powers of government are intolerable, especially at a time when General Gage hath actually levied war, and is carrying on
and loyal subjects of that near as may be, to the spirit in order to as that conform, colony and substance of the charter, it be recommended to the Provincial
hostilities against his majesty's peaceful
;
Congress to write letters to the inhabitants of the several places which are entitled to representation in assembly, requesting them
representatives ; and that the assembly, when which assembly and council chosen, should elect counsellors should exercise the powers of government, until a governor of his
to choose such
;
majesty's appointment will consent to govern the colony accord* This advice was accepted, and a General ing to the charter."
Court was duly organized. Not many months later, Governor Gage fled from the colony, independence was declared, and subjection to British authority and law was utterly renounced. Some new form of government, suitable to a free and independent people, was desired and the General Court proposed to frame a constitution. The people of Cambridge manifested their
;
disapprobation of this method, and at a town-meeting, June 16, " 1777, Voted, That the Representative of this town be and is instructed not to agree to any attempt that may be hereby
made at present to form a new constitution for this State by the General Court, or any other body of men whatever, but to opAnd when the pose any such attempt with all his influence." General Court, " acting as a Convention," agreed upon such a Constitution, Feb. 28, 1778, and submitted it to the people for
was unanimously rejected by the inhabitants of Cama town meeting, May 25, 1778, " The bridge. plan of a constitution and form of Government for the State of the Massachusetts Bay, as proposed by the Convention, was read and fully debated on the number of voters present was seventy-nine, all of them being freemen more than twenty-one years of age, and neither 'a negro, indian, or molatto,' among them the question was determined by yeas and nays, when there appeared for the proposed form, none and against it, seventy-nine." This con stitution was rejected by a large majority of the voters in the Commonwealth.
approval,
it
At
Journals of each Provincial Congress, 359.
CIVIL HISTORY.
163
On
the
first
day
of
September, 1779, a Convention of Dele-
1 gates, elected for that special purpose, assembled at Cambridge, and continued in session by successive adjournments until March
2,
1780.
As a
result of its labors,
it
submitted a " Constitution
or
Frame of Government," which was accepted by the people, and remained in force, without alteration, for the next forty The
action of
Cambridge indicates a watchful regard for same time a commendable disposition popular rights, to yield individual preferences for the sake of having some estabAt a town meeting, May 22, 1780, "Voted, lished government:
years.
and
at the
unanimously, in favor of the Declaration of the Bill of Rights in the new frame of government Forty-three voted to adopt said frame of government, and with the following amendments,
(two against Convention

:
it).
We
By way
therefore instruct
of instructions to our Delegate for you to use your endeavors

th
to procure an erasement of the clause in the 4 Article of the 1 st Section of the 1 st Chapter of the Constitution, empowering the
General Court to impose and levy duties and excises upon any produce, goods, wares, merchandize, and commodities whatever, brought into, produced, manufactured, or being, within the Commonwealth because we conceive such a power to be oppressive
;
and dangerous to the subjects of the State. It is oppressive, as employing a great number of persons to collect the revenue, who will swallow up a considerable part of it, and who will have the most favorable opportunities to cany on iniquitous [practices]
is
without being detected. It is likewise oppressive, as the money raised upon the consumers, and instead of being a tax upon trade, much more considerable sums of money are taken from our
consumers and thrown into the hands of the sellers than would otherwise be transferred, because the sellers will put their advance upon the money they pay as excise, in addition to the advance upon the articles of sale. It is also oppressive, as the officers must necessarily be trusted with a right to make a forcible for if they have not entry into the most retired apartments this power, the widest door will be open for perjury. It is dato the of the the as gerous liberty subjects, government would of course be trusted with unknown sums of money, and sums which from their own nature must be uncertain, and by means of this
;
money they may

1
secure such influence as
may
subvert the liberty
The
Sept.
1-7,
sessions were held at Cambridge, and Oct. 28 to Nov. 11; at

to
Boston from Jan. 5
March
2.
The
Cambridge were Abraham Watson, Esq., Mr. Benjamin Coopir, and Capt. Stephen Daua.
delegates from
164
we have purchased at so dear a rate. You are also instructed to th d obtain an insertion of a clause in the 2 article of the 6 chapter of the Constitution, whereby settled Teachers of morality, &c., and all persons whatever who do not pay taxes shall be excluded from a seat in the House of Representatives because those persons who bear no part of the public burden can not be such com;
petent judges of the ability of the people to pay taxes, as those who support their part. And as to the exclusion of settled
let it suffice to say that we think them the State, and that the community must very important suffer much from having so. great a number employed in services so distinct from their particular offices as undoubtedly will be,
Teachers of morality, &c.,

officers in
provided the insertion be not made. At the same time, we are not unwilling that gentlemen of this order, of shining abilities, should be introduced into superior departments by the suffrages of the people at large.
"
However, we do not mean
to
be so strenuous in our objections
as to decline receiving the whole as it stands, provided in the opinion of the Convention the amendments ought not to be made.
lesser matters, in order to obtain
Accordingly, we, being willing to give up our own opinion in a government whose authority not be and which we wish may soon be established, disputed, may
do instruct and direct you in our name and behalf, to ratify and confirm the proposed form, whether the amendments be made or
not."
Soon after the adoption
of the Constitution, uneasiness
began
fol-
to be manifested in various portions of the lowed by more or less tumultuary
Commonwealth,
assemblages minating, in 1786, in armed resistance to the government. From the name of a prominent leader, this has been called the " Shays The Rebellion," which at one time assumed a formidable aspect.
wide-spread disaffection which prevailed was not without cause. " heavy debt lying on the State, added to burdens of the same a relaxation nature, upon almost every incorporation within it oi manners, and a free use of foreign luxuries a of trade
of the people, cul-
decay
and manufactures, with a prevailing scarcity of money and, above all, individuals involved in debt to each other, are evils which leave us under no necessity of further for the
;
searching 1 reasons of the insurrections which took The nature place." of the complaints made the under name of the by insurgents, " grievances," may be gathered from the printed proceedings of
1
Minot's Hist. Insurrections, 27, 28.
CIVIL HISTORY.
105
a convention at Hatfield, Aug. 22, 1786, declaring the following to be some of the " grievances and unnecessary burdens now
lying upon the people
:
The
existence
;
of
the Senate
of
the
representation government not being annually dependent on the representatives of the peoall the civil ple, in General Court assembled, for their salaries officers of government not being elected annually by the repre;
present mode
of
the
officers
sentatives of the people, in General Court assembled ; the existence of the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the
it now stands ; the present mode of apthe and excise the unreasonable ; impost propriating grants made to some of the officers of government ; the supplementary aid ; the
Peace
the Fee table as
present
mode of paying the government securities the present mode adopted for the payment and speedy collection of the last tax the present mode of taxation, as it operates unequally between the
;
;
polls
and
estates,
and between landed and mercantile

;
interests
the present method of practice of the attornies at law the want of a sufficient medium of trade, to remedy the mischiefs arising
from the scarcity of money the General Court sitting in the town of Boston the present embarrassments on the press the neglect of the settlement of important matters depending between the Commonwealth and Congress, relating to monies and averages." " It is scarcely possible for a government to be more imperfect, or worse administered, than that of Massachusetts is here represented to be. Essential branches of the legislative and judicial said to be grievous material proceedings upon were departments national concerns erroneous obvious measures for paying the debt and the conblindly overlooked public monies misappropriated stitution itself intolerably defective." l " The immediate remedies
; ;
;
proposed by this convention were, the issue of paper money which should be made a legal tender in all payments, equal to silver and gold a revision of the Constitution and a session
'
'
of the
General Court forthwith, for the redress of the

2
:
'
griev-
The first notice of this civil commotion complained of." found on the town records is under date of July 24, 1786 " letter to the Selectmen of Cambridge, and signed by John Nutting, purporting to be written by desire of a meeting of comances
'
mittees from the towns of Groton, Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend, and Ashby, and requesting our concurrence in a County Convend tion to be held at Concord on the 23 of August next, in order to consult upon matters of public grievances, and find out means
1
Minot's Hist. Insurrections, 34-37.
Ibid., 35.
166
of redress,
that the Selectmen having been read, it was Voted, be desired to answer said letter, and express the attachment of this town to the present constitution and administration of government, and also to express our aversion to use any irregular means for compassing an end which the constitution has already no grievances the present system of provided for, as we know of redress. Voted, that the above government is inadequate to
mentioned letter, signed by John Nutting and directed to the Selectmen of this town, be printed, together with their answer, and that, the Selectmen cause the same to be done." The letter " and reply were accordingly printed in the Boston Independent
Chronicle," July 27, 1786* as follows " To the Selectmen of Cambridge.
mittees chose
:
Gentlemen,
We,
the com-
by the several towns hereafter mentioned, viz.
Groton, Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend, and Ashby, met at Groton the 29 th day of June, 1786, to consult upon matters of public for that day, it was grievances and after appointing a chairman
;
thought best to notify all the towns in this county to meet by their committees, at the house of Capt. Brown, innholder in Con-
on the 23 d day of August next, to consult upon matters of public grievances and embarrassments that the people of this Commonwealth labor under, and to find out means of redress, &c. By order of the committee JOHN NUTTING, Chairman. Groton, July 19. 1786. N. B. It is expected that a committee from the Convention that is to set in Worcester County, the 15th of Aucord,
:
gust, will attend."
" To Cambridge, Capt. John Nutting, Pepperell, &c., &c. 24 July, 1786. Sir, Your letter, dated June 29, 1786, desiring the concurrence of this town in a proposed Convention, for the redress of grievances, we have received and laid before the inhabth
Agreeably to their request, we shall give on the subject. The government under which we live, the government which we have expended much blood and treasure to establish, we conceive to be founded on the most free principles which are 'consistent with the being of
itants at a meeting. you their sentiments
any government at all. The constitution has provided for the annual choice of every branch of the Legislature, and that the people in the several towns may assemble to deliberate on public grievances, and to instruct their Representatives. By annual elections there are frequent opportunities to tives, if their conduct is disapproved. Of
change the Representa-
tion can be, without authority to call
what use then a Convenfor information, and without
CIVIL HISTORY.
167
If
power
to inforce their regulations,
is to
us inconceivable.
any
man
should be chosen Representative
he but to forbear sending constitutional Representatives, and to send unconstitutional ones, is wrong as well as trifling. It is trifling, because they can do us no good and it is wrong, not only because it is putting the people to needless expense, but because the constitution, by providing a mode in which the business shall be done, by a very strong
in a
is
town
more deserving
;
of confidence
than the
rest,
The only implication forbids its being done in any other way. case then in which we think Conventions justifiable, is where the legislative or executive powers of the State have been evidently
stitutional
and notoriously applied to unconstitutional purposes, and no conmeans of redress remains. We have yet heard of no such abuse of power and no grievances to be redressed being
;
specified in
your
letter,
unjustifiable.
We
a proposition of this kind seems wholly accordingly, in the name of the town, assure
you, not only of our aversion to joining in this measure, but of our perfect attachment and firm adherence to the present excellent constitution
and administration of government. It is in our estimation the peculiar happiness of this people to live under a mild and equitable administration, in which the penal laws therefore shall use our utmost are few and well executed.
We
endeavors to prevent the operations of government from being obstructed to gratify the restless disposition, or to promote the
sinister views, of
any designing party.
of the Selectmen,
By order and WILLIAM WINTHROP, Chairman."

it
in behalf
When
the Constitution of the United States was submitted to
the several States, in 1788, for adoption, although escaped rejection, being violently opposed by those
narrowly
re-
who had
cently manifested disaffection towards the State government, and by others who imagined that it involved an improper surrender
of State rights, the voice of
her two delegates, Hon. Francis
Cambridge was given in its favor by Dana and Stephen Dana, Esq.
Of the inhabitants of Cambridge, a great majority were true Yet there were a few, chiefly office-holders, or citizens of the more wealthy and aristocratic class, who adhered to the British government. Some of this number made
" sons of liberty."
and remained unmolested others retired to Boston, on the commencement of hostilities, and subsequently found refuge in the British Provinces or in England. So many of this class resided on Brattle Street, that it was sometimes denominated
their peace
;
168
"
"
indeed they owned and occupied almost every eson that street, between Brattle Square and Mount tate bordering Auburn. General William Brattle, 1 Col. John Vassall, 2 Penel4 3 ope Vassall, widow of Col. Henry Vassall, Richard Lechmere
Tory Row;
(succeeded by Jonathan Sewall, June 10, 1771), Judge Joseph 6 5 Lee, Capt. George Ruggles (succeeded by Thomas Fayer7 weather, Oct. 31, 1774), and Lieut.-gov. Thomas Oliver, owned and resided on contiguous estates and their families composed a
;
select social circle, to
which few others were admitted. Prominent among those few were Judge Samuel Danforth, 8 John 10 9 Of this circle of friends Borland, and Col. David Phips. Madame Riedesel speaks in her Letters. Her husband was a
General, captured with Burgoyne's Army, and was quartered in the Lechmere House, at the corner of Brattle and Sparks streets. " Never had I chanced She says, upon such an agreeable situa11 tion. Seven families, who were connected with each other,
partly by the ties of relationship and partly by affection, had here farms, gardens, and magnificent houses, and not far off plantations of fruit. The owners of these were in the habit of daily
and now
1
meeting each other in the afternoons, now at the house of one, at another, and making themselves merry with music
" House, next westerly from the Uni-
versity Press."
dition,
Washington's homestead of Prof. Henry W. Longfellow, and famous both as the tent of Mars and as the faTorite haunt of the Muses.
Headquarters,
House,
afterwards
All these houses remain in good conthough erected more than a hundred years ago; but the "farms" have
8
now
the
been divided into smaller estates.

ster Street,
House, on the easterly side of Dunabout midway between Har-
vard and
9
Mount Auburn
streets.
House nearly opposite
to the
Head-
quarters, now the homestead of the venerable Samuel Batchelder.

4
House, fronting Harvard Street, hetween Plympton and Linden streets

:
streets,
5
House, corner of Brattle and Sparks now the homestead of John
long the residence of Dr. Sylvanus Plympton and Mrs. Elizabeth B. Manning,
10
House, on Arrow Street, near

;
Bow
Brewster.
ton streets,
8
Street
for
many
years the residence of
House, corner of Brattle and Applenow the homestead of George
House, corner Brattle and Fayerweather Street., long the homestead of the late William Wells. House, Elmwood Avenue, the homestead successively of Vice-president Elbridge Gerry, Rev. Charles Lowell, and his son Prof. James Russell Lowell,
each, in his respective sphere of politics,
William Winthrop. " " Mrs. Oliver was sister to Vassall and Mrs. Vassall was sister to Oliver. The deceased father of Vassall and Mrs. Oliver was brother to Mrs. Ruggles, to Mrs. Borland, and to the deceased husband of the widow Vassall and the deceased mother of Vassall and Mrs. Oliver was
;
sister to Col.
Phips, to Mrs. Lechmere, and to Mrs. Lee. The widow Vassall was also aunt to Mr. Oliver and to John
theology, and
poetry,
more
illustrious
Vassall's wife,
than the original occupant.
CIVIL HISTORY.
169
and the dance

alas
!
this ruinous
olate,
living in prosperity, united and happy, until, war severed them, and left all their houses desexcept two, the proprietors of which were also soon obliged
i
to flee."
Of the
loyalists before
named, Judge Danforth retired soon
after the outbreak in Sept., 1774, to the house of his son in Boston, where he died Oct. 27, 1777, aged about 81. Judge Lee is
said to have dwelt in Boston during the siege, after which he returned to his estate, which he enjoyed unmolested until his death
5, 1802, at the age of 93. Capt. Ruggles sold his estate, Oct. 31, 1774, to Thomas Fayerweather, and removed from CamAll the others bridge his subsequent history is unknown to me.
;
Dec.
were regarded as enemies to the movement in behalf of liberty " absentees," and their estates, together with the they became estates of Ralph Inman, Esq. 2 and Edward Stow, a mariner, 3 were seized for the public use, and were leased by the Committee of Correspondence. Their account current with said estates for the year 1776 is preserved in a manuscript now in my possession.
I
copy a specimen
" Dr. The. estate of

to the
Thomas
Oliver Esq. late of Cambridge, Absentee,
Committee of Correspondence of the town, for the year 1776. For taking into possession and leasing out said estate, the sum of 2.
to said estate,
3.
Also for supporting a negro man belonging
12
For
Cr.
collecting the personal estate,
3.
By
cash received as rent,
69."
Similar charges are made for services, and credits given for 27 rent, in regard to the estates of John Borland, Esq., deceased,
4 Richard Lechmere, Esq., 36 rent, and 6 for wood rent; and brush which was taken off said estate 5 Jonathan Sewall,
;
Esq.,
26 13 4; 6 John Vassall, Esq., 100; Widow Penelope 15 William Brattle, Esq., 29 Vassall, Ralph Inman, Esq.,
;
Letters, Munsell's Ei., 1867, p. 140. House on Inman Street, opposite to
This property was three
fifths
of the
the head of Austin Street.

8
Resided on the south side
of
1778,
the
in
river; described as of Boston, the Proscription Act.

4
"Phips Farm," in Ward Three, or East Cambridge, of which one fifth was inherited by Lechmere in the right of his wife, and the other two fifths had been purchased from Col. Phips and the Vassnll
heirs.
Borland died in Boston, June 5, 1775, " His death was occasioned by aged 47. the sudden breaking of a ladder, on which he stood, leading from the garret floor to the top of his house." N. E. Chronicle.
The estate formerly owned by Lechmere, at the corner of Brattle and Sparks
streets,
170
40
;
Edward Stow,
; ;
10 David Phips, Esq., ,40. Five of were these estates subsequently confiscated and sold by the Commonwealth the estates of Lech mere (144 acres) and Oliver (96 Nov. 24, 1779 the estate acres), to Andrew Cabot, Esq., of Salem, of Lee Thomas to of Sewall (44 acres) Pomfret, Conn., Dec. 7,
;
1779
May
the estate of Phips (50 acres) to Isaiah Doane of Boston, 25, 1781 ; and the estate of Vassall (116 acres) to Na1
Inman rethaniel Tracy, Esq., of Newburyport, June 28, 1781. The heirs of turned soon, and his estate was restored to him.
Borland and the widow Vassall succeeded to the ownership of their but several houses and stores in Boston, estates in Cambridge to Borland, were advertised by the agents of formerly belonging to be leased at auction, March 1, 1780. GenCommonwealth the. eral Brattle conveyed all his real estate in Cambridge, Dec. 13,
;
in Halifax,
1774, to his only surviving son, Major Thomas Brattle, and died N. S., October, 1776. By the persevering efforts of Mrs. Katherine Wendell, the only surviving daughter of General
Brattle, the estate
was preserved from confiscation, and was rehavBrattle after his return from Europe, covered by Major exhibited been in and 1778, proscribed ing having subsequently
satisfactory evidence of his friendship to his country
litical
and
its
po-
Besides the persons already named, there were a few other loyalists, or tories, in Cambridge, but not hold-
independence.
John Nutting, carpenter, was ing such a prominent position proscribed in 1778 ; Antill Gallop, a deputy sheriff, who had
:
2 promised conformity in September, 1774, is said by Sabine to have gone with the British troops to Halifax, in 1776; also
of
George Inman (H. C. 1772, died 1789) and John Inman, sons Ralph Inman, Esq. After the close of the war, it was proposed to permit the proscribed loyalists to return, not indeed to share in the administration of the government, but to reclaim their confiscated estates. This proposition did not meet the approval of the inhabitants of Cambridge. At a town meeting, May 5, 1?83, instructions to
their representative, reported
by a committee consisting of James Winthrop, Samuel Thatcher, and Abraham Watson, Esquires, were unanimously adopted " Sir, The choice that this town has made of you, to represent
:
Sometimes called "English Thomas,"
to distinguish him from another Thomas was a rich Lee, his nearest neighbor.
He died May 26, generosity to the poor. 1797, in the 60th year of his age.
2
He
American
Loyalists, pp. 308, 381.
merchant, honored and beloved for his
CIVIL HISTORY.
us in the General Court sufficiently proves the confidence
place in doubt of
171
we
your integrity and abilities: and though we have no your attachment to the interest of the town and the welfare of the commonwealth, yet we think it expedient, in the present situation of affairs, to express our sentiments to you for the regulation of your conduct, that you may be enabled to act decisively and with vigor, whenever you shall be called upon to give your voice in the General Court upon the following subjects. " The long and severe conflict which the United States have maintained with the King of Great Britain and his auxiliaries is now brought to a conclusion by a treaty in which our independence is fully recognized. But while with pleasure we anticipate the blessings of peace, it gives us no small uneasiness to observe an article in the treaty, which, in its consequences, may lessen the value and shorten the duration of it. The Congress are there bound earnestly to recommend it to the different States to provide for the restitution of the property of the absentees and that they may return to America, and remain there twelve months in endeavoring to regain possession of their lost estates.
;
the States should comply with it, will, we apprebe hend, productive of as great if not greater calamities than any we have yet experienced. It is, however, some consolation, that
This
article, if
the final ratification of that article depends upon the voice of the Their people, through the medium of their Representatives.
conduct, upon this occasion, will determine whether
it is to be a lasting peace or only a temporary cessation of hostilities. Whether Great Britain had the right they claimed of making laws binding on the then Colonies in all cases whatsoever, was a question that for a long time was fully discussed in numberless publications, previous to the connection being dissolved between
that country and these States.

sible there could
By this means it was hardly posbe one person who had not considered the sub-
ject with attention,
and was not prepared to give his voice on the question. At length the time arrived, when it became necThen it became the duty of essary to decide it by the sword.
every man to declare his sentiments, and to make his conduct conform to his declarations. Happily for us, by far the greater part determined never to submit to the exercise of so unreasonable a claim and in support of their determination have resolutely carried on a war, in which our enemies have practiced a degree of cruelty and destruction that has scarcely been equalled
;
among
civilized nations.
few, however, attentive to their
own
172
emolument, or influenced by some other cause not more justifiable, abandoned their country, and sought for protection under the forces which invaded it, and with them united their efforts to subjugate their fellow-citizens, and in many instances have distinguished themselves by their cruelties and barbarities. Having
thus taken their side of the question, they ought surely to abide It is hardly conceivable that persons, who the consequence. have discovered such an enmity to their country, and who have exerted every effort to overturn our government, will ever make
may be offered against the return of those who are described persons by the laws of this Commonwealth as and and being convinced as we trust you Absentees, Conspirators are, of the dangerous consequences that will attend the admitting
influence
peaceable subjects of every objection that
it.
Without spending time
to particularize
them again to reside among us, we instruct you to use your and endeavors, by all proper means to prevent any persons of the foregoing description from ever returning, or regain:
ing their justly forfeited estates and if any such persons have already crept in, that the most speedy and effectual measures may be adopted for their removal."
CHAPTER
XII.
CIVIL HISTORY.
FOR more than a century and a half after the settlement of Cambridge, with slight exceptions, that part of the town lying eastwardly from Quincy and Bow streets, generally denominated the " Neck," consisted of woodland, pasturage, swamps, and salt marsh. In chapter ii. an account is given of the first division of
land on the northerly side of Main Street, into small lots in " the " old field and " small lot hill," and larger lots, varying in size
from six to one hundred and thirty acres. Gradually these lots passed into fewer hands, until at length the larger portion of the whole was embraced in three and subsequently four farms.
" old field " l early became the property of Edward Goffe and John Gay by sundry conveyances the larger portion became
The
Francis Dana, who subsequently pur" chased the whole tract formerly called " small lot hill (except, and several a in few the acres corner), northeasterly perhaps,
vested in Chief Justice
other lots of land on both sides of the highway now called Main Street. Judge Dana erected a spacious mansion on the westerly side of " the highway to the common pales," 2 now called Dana
Street, about
house was destroyed by
midway between Main and Centre streets, which fire Jan. 19, 1839. The Judge fully
appreciated the beauty of the scenery visible from his residence, as is manifest from his care to prevent any obstruction to the
one particular direction ; in an agreement with Leonard an exchange of lands, Jan. 3, 1797, it was said Jarvis should " forever hereafter keep open that stipulated
view
in
Jarvis, concerning
of forty feet wide, lately laid out by the said Jarvis over and across Pelham's Island (so called) to the canal cut by
the
way
him through
his marsh, for the
mutual benefit
spot,
is
of
both parties
down
in
1 He erected a house a few rods eastwardly from the junction of Main and Bow streets. very old house, perhaps the original structure, standing on this
said to have been taken
1774.
2
"
The highway which

"
separated the
old field
8
Now
from " small lot hill." called Front Street.
174
their heirs
and
an uninterassigns, .... so as to leave open Dana's the said present dwelling-house of such rupted view from as may fall in the course and of Boston part of Cambridge Bay
same way, so far as the said Jarvis's land, lately Inman's, extends." Judge Dana also owned much land on the southerly " Soden side of Main Street, both marsh and upland, including the on Main Street and Farm," so called, bounded northerly easterly on Pleasant Street, and a large tract, bounded northerly on Main His estate bordered Street and westerly on Putnam Avenue. from Putnam Avenue to on the southerly side of Main Street, Bay Street, from Vernon Street to Pearl Street and from Brookalso on the northerly side of Main line Street to Front Street Street, from a point about two hundred feet westerly from Remington Street to a point about midway between Hancock and Lee The Judge had therefore a strong personal interest in streets.
of the
;
the improvement of this part of the town. Of the large lots lying east wardly from "small lot hill," the
two were owned by Governor Thomas Dudley and his son Samuel Dudley. When Dudley left Cambridge his real estate was purchased by Roger Harlakenden, who died in 1638, and his widow married Herbert Pelham. In 1642, Pelham appears to have owned the above mentioned lots, together with the next two, formerly owned by Richard Goodman and William Westwood the whole containing 118 acres, 1 and extending from Main Street to Somerville line. Pelham also became the owner of the real estate of Simon Bradstreet, one portion of which was a lot of upland and marsh, long known as " Pelham's Island " its boundaries very nearly coincided with Columbia Street on the west, School Street on the north, and Moore Street on the east the east and west lines being extended across Main Street, beyond Goffe's Cove, so far as to embrace sixty acres in the whole lot. These two large lots passed, by several conveyances, to Ralph In man, who became the owner in 1756 his executor conveyed the same to Leonard Jarvis, Aug. 21, 1792, except ten
first
;
acres, south of Goffe's Cove, previously sold to
Judge Dana.
Subsequently Jarvis purchased the land between these two lots, extending from Norfolk Street to Columbia Street, and northerly from one hundred to two hundred feet beyond Austin Street ; so that he then owned all the land bordering on the northerlv side
of
1
Main
After
Street from the point about

1719,
midway between Hancock

generally described as containing
"Mr. Pelham's
great lot"
is
104 acres.
CIVIL HISTORY.
175
fifty acres
its
and Lee
streets to
southerly side of Front Street.
Moore Street, and about Main Street, easterly from
on the
junction with
his neck,"
The
lot of
Atherton
Hough
(or
Haugh) "in Graves
containing 130 acres in 1635, and embracing all the upland in East Cambridge, was enlarged, by the addition of the lots originally assigned to John Talcott, Matthew Allen, and Mrs. Mussey, before 1642, when it was described as containing 267 acres. Sub-
sequently the 63 acre lot of Governor Haynes was added, and when the estate was purchased, Aug. 15, 1706, by Spencer Phips
" 300 acres (afterwards Lieut.-governor), it was said to contain less ;." but it actually contained 326 acres, when measured for division after his decease. In his inventory, this tract is
more or
two farms, with a house and barn on each. The whole was bounded on the west by a line commencing at a point thirty feet south of School Street, and about one hundred feet east of Columbia Street, and thence running northerly, nearly parallel with Columbia Street to Somerville on the north by Somerville and Miller's River on the east by Charles River on the south by School Street, from the point of beginning, to Moore
called
;
;
Street, then on the east
by a
straight line extended to a point
fifty feet south of Plymouth Street, dred and fifty feet west of Portland Street
about
and about one hun;
right angle, the
boundary Great Dam, which is still visible, to Charles River, crossing Third Street near its intersection with Munroe Street. (Seethe Plan.) This estate was divided in 1759 between the children and grandchildren of Lieut. -gov. Phips, namely, Col. David Phips ; Sarah, wife of Andrew Bordman Mary, wife of Richard Lechmere
; ; ;
line
extended in the direction
then turning at a of the
Rebecca, wife of Judge Joseph Lee and the children of ElizaLechmere soon beth, the deceased wife of Col. John Vassall.
afterwards purchased the shares of Col. Phips and the Vassall heirs, and became the owner of all^the upland and a large portion of the
East Cambridge, which was confiscated by Andrew Cabot, of Salem, Nov. 24, 1779. " Lee had the Judge Phips' Farm," northwesterly portion of the and Andrew Bordman had the southwesterly portion, extending from School Street to a point nine feet northerly from the inter-
marsh
in
the State and sold to
of the easterly lines of Windsor Street and Webster Avenue, and bounded south on the Jarvis estate, west on the Jarvis, Wyeth, and Foxcroft estates, and extending so far east as to include somewhat more than thirteen acres of marsh on the easterly side of North Canal.
section
176
Such was the unimproved condition of the easterly and now most populous section of Cambridge, before West Boston Bridge was opened for public travel, Nov. 23, 1793. At that time, Rev. " Below the seat of the late Chief Justice 1 Dr. Holmes says Dana, there were but four dwelling-houses one on the Inman
:
place,
now belonging
to Jonathan L. Austin, Esq.
one
nearly
a farm of Judge Dana, formerly the Soden farm, opposite, on south of the main road one on the Phips' farm, lately owned by 6 4 A new Mr. Andrew Bordman ; and one at Lechmere's Point." itself immediately after manifested towards improvement impulse the opening of the bridge. Building lots for houses and stores Jar vis and Dana, which were soon occupied. were laid out
;
by
Dr. Holmes further says that, during the month next after the "a store 6 was erected and opened near opening of the bridge, 8 7 the west end of, the causeway by Messrs. Vose & Makepeace,
1
"
Memoir of Cambridgeport,"
to
ap-
peace
is
very conspicuous.
Born March
a sermon at the ordination of Rev. Thomas B. Gannett, Jan. 19, 1814. 2 On Inman Street, at the head of Austin Street. The mansion house, with
pended
29, 1772, at the age of twenty-one years, or earlier, he left his native town (West-
ern,
his
now Warren,
in
Boston,
Mass.), and came to company with Robert Vose,

for
a part of the farm, was purchased by the Austins when the Jarvis estate was sold in 1801. The house was removed in 1873
to the corner of streets.
8
townsman, each having borrowed
that purpose the sum of twenty-five dollars. After a short mercantile apprenticeship, they
Brookline and Auburn
entered
into
partnership,
This farm-house stood until about
and commenced business in Boston at the South End. They soon afterwards re-
1840,
Street.
*
Street, near its
on the westerly side of Pleasant intersection with Kiver
moved
to Cambridgeport, where, as here-
Andrew
Bordman,
grandson
of
tofore stated, they erected the first store after the completion of the bridge in 1793. In addition to their regular busi-
Lieut.-gov. Phips, inherited this estate on the death of his parents. The house stood on the northerly side of Plymouth
Street,
between
Webster
Avenue and
Berkshire Street, and was wantonly destroyed about thirty years ago. 6 On the northerly side of Spring
Street,
streets
;
ness as grocers, they commenced buying and selling real estate. This partnership was dissolved in 1803, by the death of Mr. Vose. In the business of the store John Cook became a partner; but Rufus Davenport, a Boston merchant, was the
principal associate of Mr. Makepeace in his subsequent transactions in real estate,
in
between
it
Third and Fourth was demolished about the
which
it
would seem that Mr. Daven-
year 1820.
6
This store remains standing on the
port contributed the larger part of the cash capital, which was offset by the skill
northerly side of
7
Main
Street, directly
opposite to Osborn Street.
and judgment of Mr. Makepeace, who was the leading spirit in nearly all the schemes
The causeway extended from
the
river to the junction of

streets,
H
Main and Front
He projected for public improvement. also rendered faithful and useful services
in various
passing near the northerly side of Pelhnm's Island.
town
offices,
and
as Represent-
ative in
the General Court.
After the
Among
those
who were
actively en-
ruin of his financial enterprises, he re-
gaged
in promoting the settlement of Cambridgeport, the name of Royal Make-
moved
to Baltimore, in 1832, to superintend the " Canton Company Improve-
*
X
II
CIVIL HISTORY.
177
which, after the opening of the great road, was the first framed building set up between Boston and Old Cambridge. The foll lowing year, a large house designed for a tavern was built by Leonard Jarvis, Esq., and soon after were erected six other houses
and
stores."
Of these
six houses
with tolerable accuracy. dwelling-house, which remains standing on the westerly corner of Main and Osborn streets, opposite to their store, before Dec.
tified
and stores, some may be idenVose & Makepeace erected the
Jonathan Brooks erected a store between Cherry and Windsor Streets, on the northerly side of Main Street, before June 5, 1795, perhaps the same building so long occupied by Eliphalet Davis, and now by his son Thomas M. Davis, for the manufacture of fancy soap. Scott & Hayden erected a store on the lot next westerly from the store-lot of Vose & Makepeace, before 1800. Besides these, Stan ton Parker erected a store and shed on the northerly side of Main Street, the precise location not known, before Nov. 11, 1794. Asaph Harlow purchased a lot on the northerly side of Main Street, Jan. 15, 1798, most of which was used in 1873 for the construction of Portland Street and the house which he erected was then removed a few feet eastwardly to the easterly corner of Portland and Main streets. Richard Thayer bought a lot, Sept. 1, 1802, and erected the house now standing on the westerly corner of Main and Portland streets. Next westerly from the Thayer estate was a lot, with a currier's shop thereon, 3 which was sold by Daniel Mason to Oliver Blake, Sept. 28, 1797. William Watson sold to Josiah and Phinehas B. Hovey a large lot, two hundred feet in width, on the westerly corner of Main and Brookline streets, Oct. 14, 1799, on which was very soon erected the store which was occupied more than half a century by the late Phinehas B. Hovey, who died April 17, 1852, and was succeeded by his son Josiah
17, 1795.
;
On the adjoining lot, at the the present occupant. corner of Main and Pearl streets, a tavern was erected easterly before April 10, 1802, and was then occupied by James Adams ;
Dana Hovey,
but the land was not sold, and
the
Watson
family.
Judge Dana
in a green
Street,
between Pearl and

called,
now remains in possession of sold the lots fronting on Main Magazine streets, in Jan., 1800, and
it
ments," so
and died
old age, his eye not having lost its brilSee Makepeace liancy, June 6, 1855.
Makepeace. It was destroyed Dec. 22, 1851.

a
by
fire,
Genealogy, by William Makepeace. 1 The tavern stood on the lot next
Ordination Sermon, ut sup. This lot was described in the deed as " a few rods east of Pelham's being
8
eastwardly from
the
store
of
Vose
&
Island."
12
178
Arrangements were made for other improvements, by laying out, on paper at least, several streets. Moreover, Judge Dana and Mr. Jarvis, for the exclusion of salt water from their marsh lands lying south of Pelham's Island and east of Brookline Street, constructed before 1797 a substantial dike, which yet remains, on the outer side of Sidney and Auburn
March, 1801.
streets.
In connection with this dike, Judge Dana opened the Canal which now extends from the head of Goffe's Cove to
Brookline Street, about a hundred feet southerly from Auburn Street. Mr. Jarvis laid out Front Street, as far as to the bend
near Village Street, and opened a canal from that point southerly to Goffe's Cove, before 1797. The prosperity of this incipient village early received a severe
check. before
In
less
than
five
much had been accomplished
years after the bridge was opened, and in the work of reclaiming
marshes and swamps, Mr. Jarvis became indebted to the United States in a large sum, and his real estate was seized by the government. In the subsequent conveyances of this estate by the United States Marshal, it is recited that, at a " Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts," June 1, 1798, the United States " obtained judgment against Leonard Jarvis of Cambridge, in said District, Esquire, for the sum of thirty-nine thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-one cents, and fourteen " dollars and twenty cents costs of suit and that an execution, " issued July 6, 1798, was levied on certain real estate situated
;
in
Cambridge
aforesaid,
said estate being

less,
forty-five acres of land,
more or
two hundred and consisting of upland and
etc. From this time for nearly three years this estate was entirely withdrawn from the market, including both sides of Main Street from Moore Street to Front
marsh, with sundry buildings,"
and extending on the northerly side to a point midway between Lee and Hancock streets. But what at first seemed In Januutterly disastrous, proved in the end to be beneficial. this been divided into 1801, estate, ary, having fifty-four lots, varying in size from a few thousand square feet to forty-seven " From this acres 1 was sold at public auction. time," says Dr. " commenced a settlement. Several Holmes, rapid large stores were erected the next year, and soon after dwelling-houses In the space of about five years, upwards of a hundred families have settled on this spot and the number of inhabitants is estiStreet,
;
Delineated on a plan drawn by Peter Tnfts, Jr., Aug. 22, 1800, and recorded in
the
Middlesex Registry of Deeds, Book
164, p. 545.
CIVIL HISTORY.
179
mated at more than one thousand." 1 The principal land-holders had not hitherto manifested a very strong desire to transfer their
lands to
new owners.
Perhaps each waited
for the others to sell,
hoping augmented prices without parting with their own property at a low rate. Mr. Watson sold very few lots before 1801 Judge Dana bought more than he sold and Mr. Bordman seems not to have sold a single lot, or even to have made preparation for sales by obtaining access to the Main Indeed Judge Dana and Mr. Watson did not afterwards Street. sell freely but much the larger portion of their lands descended to their posterity. Mr. Bordman, on the contrary, in 1801, united with others in laying out Windsor Street giving all the land through his own estate, from School Street to Webster Avenue, and in the same year he sold that portion of his estate lying east of Windsor Street and south of Harvard Street, somewhat more than six acres, to Charles Clark and Daniel Mason, who immediately divided it into small lots and brought it into the market. In 1803, he laid out into building-lots all his lands west of Windsor Street and south of Harvard Street and in 1804 he sold all which remained of his farm on the east side of Windsor Street, sixty-five acres, to Rufus Davenport and Royal
to share the benefit of
; ;
Makepeace, who offered

pointed in the result.
it for sale in small lots, but were disapMr. Austin, who purchased the Jarvis
Mansion-house,
lots
with forty- seven acres of land, laid out several
on Main Street between Temple and Inman streets, and opened Austin Street through its whole length, with buildinghe also sold a section east of Norfolk lots on both sides, in 1801 Street between Washington and Harvard Streets, to Davenport
:
this time there
Makepeace, who prepared it at once for the market. From was no lack of accommodations for all comers the supply was fully equal to the demand. In addition to the efforts of individuals to increase the market value of their own lands, by means of dikes and streets, other improvements of a more public character were projected for the
;
&
Expensive avenues into general advantage of the community. and business. The were constructed to attract travel the country " " and Concord Cambridge Turnpike Corporation was established March 8, 1803, with authority to make a turnpike-road from the
2 westerly side of Cambridge Common to Concord ; and two years authorized to March was afterwards, 8, 1805, the corporation
1
Ordination Sermon, ut sup.
pike
The Cambridge portion of this is now called Concord Avenue.
turn-
180
extend the turnpike to the Causeway near West Boston Bridge. 1 " The " Middlesex Turnpike Corporation was established June 15, 1805, with authority to make a turnpike-road from TyngsBillerica, and Bedford, to Camwith the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike near bridge, uniting West Boston Bridge. 2 Other avenues were subsequently opened,
borough through Chelmsford,
which will receive notice in another place. By an Act of Congress, approved Jan. 11, 1805,
it was enacted " that the town or in of the State of Cambridge landing-place Massachusetts shall be a port of delivery, to be annexed to the
district of Boston and Charlestown, and shall be subject to the same regulations as other ports of delivery in the United States." Accordingly this part of Cambridge has, since that time, been
To make the place available as a designated Cambridgeport. " of canals were constructed from Charles River port delivery," the Great Marsh, giving an extensive water-front. through
These canals are described in an agreement, dated July 8, 1806, 3 and recorded in the Middlesex Registry of Deeds, Book 172, page 496. The land devoted to this purpose is said to be a part of the " hundred share estate, so called by said owners by articles under seal." 4 The description of the canals may be briefly condensed as follows BKOAD CANAL, 80 feet wide, from low-water mark in Charles River to Portland Street, parallel with Broadway and Hampshire Street, at the distance of 186 feet, northerly, from the former, and 154 feet from the latter. WEST DOCK, bounded by a line commencing at a point in the westerly line of Portland Street, 154 feet northerly from Hamp:
shire Street, thence
running parallel with Hampshire Street to a
point 100 feet from Medford Street (now Webster Avenue) ; thence parallel with Medford Street, to a point 100 feet from Bristol Street ; thence parallel with Bristol Street, to a point 100 feet from Portland Street thence " with Portland
; parallel Street 210 feet to the southerly line of land late of Walter " Frost ; thence in " a straight line to a point which is on the
This extension
is
now known
as
to
is.
be made," where Broad Canal

*
now
Broadway. 2 The Cambridge portion of this turnpike is now called Hampshire Street. 8 Broad Canal, at least, was projected as early as May 19, 1802, when Vose &
The "hundred share estate" was owned thus Kufus Davenport, fifty-five
:
shares
Royal
Makepeace,
Hill, ten
twenty -five
shares;
Henry
Jr.,
;
shares; Josiah
Makepeace conveyed
Jr.,
to Josiah Mason, a right to use the " Canal which is
Mason,
four shares
three shares
Daniel Mason, ; Charles Clark, three shares.
CIVIL HISTORY.
181
westerly line of Portland Street, 20 feet southerly and westerly

of the northeasterly line of land late of
Timothy and Eunice

;
then turning and running southerly and westerly on " with Portland Street, to the bounds of West Dock begun at
;
Swan
the " right of a water-communication, or passage-way, 25 feet wide, through Portland Street under a bridge, from the main 1 part of Broad Canal to that part called West Dock."
60 feet wide, 180 feet easterly from Portland and extending from Broad Canal to a point near the This canal was subsenortherly line of the Bordman Farm.
Street,
NORTH CANAL,
quently extended to Miller's River. According to an agreement, June 14, 1811, between the Lechmere Point Corporation and Davenport & Makepeace, the latter were to have perpetual u through Miller's Creek or right to pass with boats and rafts North River, so called, to North Canal and Broad Canal," and to extend North Canal, through land owned by the Corporation,
and the Corporation was to have the right to ; the said canals to Charles River, so long as the pass through canals should remain open.
to Miller's River
CROSS CANAL, " bounded by two straight lines, 30 feet apart, and running at a right angle with Broadway from Broad Canal, between lots 279 and 280, through Broadway, and between lots 263 and 264 to South Dock." SOUTH DOCK, bounded by a line commencing at the southeast corner of Cross Canal, thence running southeasterly 53 feet ; thence southwesterly, parallel with the line of Cross Canal to a point 10 feet distant from land of the Proprietors of West Boston
Bridge
etors' land, to lot
thence westerly, at the same distance from said Propri215 thence northerly, at a right angle with
:
the causeway of
westerly, 98
West Boston Bridge, 81
feet
thence north-
feet, to the easterly corner of lot 214 ; thence, in a straight line, to the southerly corner of lot 262 ; thence, on said lot 262, 67 feet, to lot 263 ; thence southerly and easterly on
and on Cross Canal, 30 feet, to the point This dock was connected with Charles River by a " Little creek, over which was the bridge, long known as Bridge," at the junction of Main and Harvard streets. 2
said lot 263, 54 feet,
of beginning.
1
dock now remains,
Although scarcely a vestige of this it was plainly visible
twenty
stores
feet wide,
apparently designed for

;
and warehouses, some of which
a quarter of a century ago. It seems to have been designed as the head of navigation and a central point of business,
were sold at a high price but it does not appear that any such buildings were
erected.
2
Lots fronting on the dock were laid out,
Little
Bridge was superseded by a
182
feet wide,
about midway between Harvard Street and Broadway, from South Dock to a point 113 feet easterly from Davis Street. l " In 1802, a school house was built on a piece of land pre-
SOUTH CANAL, 60
sented by Mr. Andrew Bordman to the town for that purpose. It cost about six hundred dollars upwards of three hundred dollars were paid by the town of Cambridge, and the remainder " In contributed by individuals." 1803, a Fire Society was
;
formed, which, at an expense of upwards of five hundred dollars, procured an excellent engine and a company was raised to take
;
name
corporation body-politic, by for Cambridgeport Meeting-house Corporation, the purpose of building a meeting-house and supporting public worship therein, in the easterly part of Cambridge." Of the hundred shares of stock in this Corporation, Rufus Davenport was the owner of twenty, and Royal Makepeace of seventeen. A spacious brick meeting-house was erected on the westerly side of the square bounded by Broadway, and Boardman, Harvard, and Columbia streets. The easterly half of the square was given by Andrew Bordman, and the westerly half by the owners of the "hundred share estate." 3 This house was dedicated Jan. 1, 1807. By an Act passed March 1, 1808, the proprietors of the meeting-house, together with all the inhabitants and estates in the Fifth School District, in Cambridge, east of Dana Street and a line extended in the same direction northerly to Charlestown (now Somerville), and southerly to the river, were incorporated
of the
.
. .
charge of it." By an act passed June 15, 1805, Royal Makepeace, John Cook, Josiah Mason, Jr., Daniel Mason, and Andrew Bordman, were " constituted and made a and the
solid
roadway about
the
raising
By
of
thirty years ago. the grade between

Street,
pied until Nov. 10, 1833, when it much damaged by the wind that
in
was so it was
Broadway and Main
and the ex-
tension of Sixth Street, in 1873, the South
abandoned, and a new house was erected, 1834, on the northerly side of AusStreet,
Dock and Cross Canal were

obliterated.
1
effectually
tin
between Norfolk and Essex
streets.
At
the northwesterly corner of
Wind-
lot, having ceased to be used for a meeting-house, was forfeited,
The
sor and School streets, where a large brick pchool-house now stands.
2
and reverted
of the donors.
to
the
It is
heirs* and as-signs worthy of note, as
Dr. Holmes' Ordination Sermon, ut
SUP"
8
to the
portion of this square was offered County of Middlesex, for the ac-
indicating the expectations indulged at that period, that when the meeting-house
was
fact
erected, there was not a single dwelling-house on Columbia Street this

;
commodation of a court-house and other County buildings; but the offer was not The meeting-house was occuaccepted.
was assigned by the Selectmen, Nov.
3, 1806,
as a reason for not establishing that street as a public highway.
CIVIL HISTORY.
as the
;
183
Cambridgeport Parish and Feb. 2, 1809, the proprietors (reserving private ownership of pews) conveyed to the Parish the meeting-house and lot, containing two acres, together with a parsonage lot at the northeasterly corner of Harvard and Prospect streets.
an Act passed March 4, 1809, Rufus Davenport, Henry Samuel May, Elijah Davenport, Pliny Cutler, and their associates, were incorporated as the "Cambridgeport manufactory, for the purpose of manufacturing cotton and sea-salt;" and they were further authorized, Feb. 27, 1813, to manufacture " printing-types and other articles usually manufactured in chemical laboratories." I find no trace, however, of the estab-
By
Hill,
lishment of such a manufactory. While the measures adopted for the improvement of Cam" full tide of successful bridgeport were in the experiment," a similar enterprise was undertaken at Lechmere Point in which
the prime mover was
Andrew Craigie. 1 The earliest transactions were conducted by Mr. Craigie with much skill and secrecy. His name does not appear on the records until the whole scheme was accomplished indeed he took no deed of land in his own name until Feb. 14, 1803, when he purchased of Abraham Biglow
;
nearly forty acres of land, formerly the northwesterly part of the Inman or Jarvis Farm. But other purchases, manifestly in his It has her-etofore interest, had been made at an earlier period.
been stated that the estate of Richard Lechmere was confiscated by the State, and sold to Andrew Cabot in 1779. This estate, together with the share of the Phips Farm assigned to Judge
his wife, and subsequently bought by Cabot, was sold for 3,300 to Seth Johnson of New York, Jan. 31, 1795, and mort2,200: and on the 18th of gaged by him to John Cabot for
Lee and
December, 1797, Johnson, for a nominal consideration, quitclaimed all his interest in the estate to Bossenger Foster of Cambridge (brother-in-law to Mr. Craigie), who, by an agreement dated six months later, engaged to convey the estate to Craigie, on the performance of certain conditions. The next step was to secure the reversionary rights of Mrs. Lechmere and her children
in the confiscated estate of her husband, or in so
much
thereof as
was held
1
in her right
by
inheritance from her father.
These
House,
or
Mr. Craigie was apothecary-general of the Northern Department of the Revolutionary Army, Sept. 5, 1777, when the Council of Massachusetts granted
He
purchased
the Vassall
Washington Headquarters, Jan. 1, 1792, and resided there until Sept. 19, 1819, when he closed an active life, checkered
by many
vicissitudes.
him
supplies for
the General
Hospital,
184
Lechmere and his wife rights were conveyed, Oct. 14, 1799, by to Samuel Haven of Dedham, whose wife was daughter of Mr. Mr. Cabot took possession of Foster and niece of Mr. Craigie.
the estate under the mortgage from Johnson, having obtained judgtherefor in 1800, and sold the same to Samuel Parkman of Parkman conveyed to Craigie all his 26, 1803. Boston,
ment
rights in the
Aug. whole
estate,
by deed dated June
3,
1806, and on the
26th of January, 1807, the widow and administratrix of Bossenger Foster conveyed to Mr. Craigie (her brother) the Johnson title, thus sepursuant to the beforementioned agreement. Having cured a complete title to the whole of the Phips Farm, except the
share assigned to
Andrew Bordman and
his wife,
Mr. Craigie
bought
of
Jonas Wyeth, 3d, Feb. 11, 1807, about forty acres,
formerly the northerly part of the Inman or Jarvis estate, and May 5, 1807, of the heirs of Ebenezer Shed, about five acres, lying partly in Somerville, and adjoining the land purchased of
Wyeth, so that he now owned about three hundred acres of land, two parcels nearly adjoining each other the easterly parcel included almost the whole of East Cambridge, and extended westerly to a point near the intersection of Webster Avenue with Cambridge Street, bounded southerly by a line passing near the the westintersection of Windsor Street with Webster Avenue
in
; ;
erly parcel extended from tween Fayette Street and
Elm
Street to a line about

;
midway
be-
southerly boundary was an old lane, long ago discontinued, commencing on Inman Street, one hundred and seventy-six feet south of Broadway, and on the crossing Broadway near its intersection with Elm Street west side of Inman Street, the south boundary was a line varying from four hundred to three hundred feet north of Broadway. Although Mr. Craigie's title to this whole property was substantially complete, inasmuch as it was within his control, yet he had
;
Maple Avenue
its
up to this time, received a release of the reversionary rights Mrs. Lechmere and her children for obvious reasons he preferred to let this part of the title remain in the hands of his relanot,
of
;
tive,
Mr. Haven. As early as June 21, 1806, he seems to have submitted a claim against the Commonwealth for damages on account of " a breach of the covenants of warranty," in the deed of the Lechmere estate to Cabot ; for when he sought, at that " date, to improve his property, by building a dam from Prison Point in Charlestown to Lechmere's Point in Cambridge and erecting mills on the same," the General Court inserted in the act of incorporation a provision that it should " be of no avail or
CIVIL HISTORY.
effect
185
of all the covenants
of
....
until a release
and discharge
any of the lands warranty made by this Commonwealth at or near Lechmere's conveyed by said Commonwealth, lying obtained from the person shall be Point mentioned in this Act, or persons who are legally authorized to make such release or
of
discharge."
So
also
when John C.
Jones,
Loammi Baldwin,
Aaron Dexter, Benjamin Weld, Joseph Coolidge, Jr., Benjamin Gorham Parsons, Jonathan Ingersoll, John Beach, Abijah Cheever, William B. Hutchins, Stephen Howard, and Andrew
Joy,
Craigie, with their associates, were incorporated, Feb. 27, 1807, with authority to erect Canal Bridge, familiarly called Craigie's " " the northwesterly end of Leverett street in BosBridge, from a similar ton " to the east end of Lechmere's
Point,"
provision
was inserted that the act should be of no effect " until a release and discharge of all the covenants of warranty contained in the deed of James Prescott, Joseph Hosmer, and Samuel Thatcher, Esqs., unto Andrew Cabot and his assigns shall be made and obtained from
Andrew
legally authorized to
Craigie or the person or persons who are make such release and discharge." The
memorial setting forth this claim of damage is mentioned in the Records of the Executive Council, Feb. 9, 1807, while the petition for leave to erect Canal Bridge was pending in the General " The Committee to whom was referred the memorial Court of Andrew Craigie, praying that some measures might be adopted to ascertain the terms on which his claim to damages for a breach of the covenant of warranty contained in a deed made by this Commonwealth to Andrew Cabot of land lying at or near Lechmere's Point, so called, and on which the same claim may be adthat on the 24th of November, 1779, justed, beg leave to report
:
this
Committee conveyed to Andrew and one quarter of land as stated in the said memorial, in which deed of conveyance there was a general warranty against the lawful claims and demands of all persons
Commonwealth by
its
Cabot the
fifty-four acres
that the said
Craigie by sundry successive conveyances executed is the assignee of the said Cabot, and is duly by law entitled to the benefits of the said warranty and capable of disthat the said fifty-four acres and one quarter charging the same of an acre, on the death of Richard Lechmere, will by law revert
;
Andrew
Mary Lechmere his wife, or to her heirs, in whose right the said Richard possessed the same at the time of its confiscation ; that the land in question, from its local situation, appears to be
to
capable of important improvements, but from various connecting
186
circumstances
;
it is
the provery difficult to ascertain its value to for which he sum of no mentioned that he has money prietor etc. the from Commonwealth would discharge the warranty," The Committee thus reported the facts, without any specific recommendation. It would seem that Mr. Craigie did not succeed
in obtaining
any further compensation, and that he preferred
to
of abandon it, rather than to forfeit the privilege 9th for on the mentioned before ; erecting the dam and bridge of May, 1808, he executed a deed releasing all such claims for
all claim for
granted to him by two Acts and of the General Court, in 1807 1808, to erect a bridge from release was accepted and apwhich Lechmere Point to Boston
damage,
in consideration of the right
proved by the Governor,
May
12, 1808.
Having thus released the Commonwealth from liability to damage for breach of warranty, Mr. Craigie completed his record-title by receiving, for the nominal consideration of one
a conveyance, dated Sept. 20, 1808, of the reversionary right to "all the estate which was set off to Mary Lechmere," which had been held for him since Oct. 14, 1799, by his friend and kinsman, Mr. Haven. The actual value of the propdollar,
erty was to make
Court.
the privilege to erect a bridge, and the other improvements authorized by the General But the apparent inflation of value was scarcely ex-
much enhanced by
ceeded by the more recent and almost fabulous transactions in coal-fields and oil-wells. As nearly as can be ascertained from the records, Mr. Craigie paid less than twenty thousand dollars
for the
whole
estate.
Reserving sufficient land and
flats for
the
construction of the bridge and the location of a toll-house, he put the remainder on the market at the price of three hundred and
sixty thousand dollars, in sixty shares of six thousand dollars each. At this price, three shares were conveyed to Harrison G. Otis, three to Israel Thorndike, and one, each, to Ebenezer Francis,
William Payne, Thomas H. Perkins, and John Callender, by deeds dated Nov. 30, 1808. The bridge was completed in 1809, and roads were opened to Cambridge Common, to Medford, and
elsewhere, to attract travel from the country to Boston over this avenue. To enable the proprietors to manage and dispose of
which had hitherto remained apparently undivided and uninhabited (except by a single family in the old Phips farm-house), the General Court, by an Act approved March 3, 1810, incorporated "Thomas Handasyde Perkins, James
their valuable real estate,
Perkins, William Payne, Ebenezer Francis, and
Andrew
Craigie,
CIVIL HISTORY.
"
187
of lands at and near Lechmere Point, being tenants in common with their associates, as " the Lechmere Point Corporation."
Within the next two months the several proprietors conveyed their shares to the Corporation at the nominal price of five dollars. Streets and lots of suitable size were laid out ; but the records
indicate that the sales of land were few.
The
first
deed
of a
house-lot, entered on record, is dated Aug. 20, 1810, and conveys to Samuel S. Green the lot on the northeasterly corner of Cam-
score years,
bridge and Second streets, where he resided more than threeand where he died, Sept. 8, 1872. One store-lot, on Bridge Street, had previously been sold to Aaron Bigelow, but
the deed was not placed on record so early as the other. The records exhibit only ten deeds of lots given by the Corporation, until Sept. 20, 1813, when a sale was made to Jesse Putnam, which contributed materially to the prosperity of the new village ; this lot was bounded on East Street 400 feet, on North Street 400 feet, on Water Street 300 feet, and " on land covered with water "
feet, and was conveyed by Putnam, March 16, 1814, Boston Porcelain and Glass Company." But the " crown" ing mercy to the whole enterprise was the agreement, approved by the Corporation Nov. 1, 1813, and by the Court of Sessions at the next December Term namely, that the Corporation would give to the County of Middlesex the square bounded by Otis, Second, Thorndike, and Third streets, and a lot, seventy-five feet
about 400
to the "
in width, across the westerly side of the square
l bounded by Third and and would erect Thorndike, Second, Spring, streets, thereon a court-house and jail, satisfactory to the Court, at an
expense to the Corporation not exceeding twenty-four thousand dollars, on condition that as soon as the edifices were completed, they should be used for the purposes designed. The town protested most earnestly against the removal of the courts and
records from
Harvard Square, but
in vain.
At
the
March Term
committee reported that the court-house and jail were satisfactorily completed, and it was ordered that It was also they be immediately devoted to their intended use. ordered that the sum of $4,190.78 be paid to the Corporation,
of the Court, 1816, a
being the amount expended
From this in excess of $24,000. the of success the was assured. time, enterprise During the period embraced in this chapter, while two new vil-
lages were established, which, after many vicissitudes, became more populous than the older settlements, the town was sadly
1
The County has
since purchased the other portions of the square.
188
shorn of
its
the incorporation already diminished proportions by and third parishes into separate towns. Dr. Holmes,
ACRES.
of its second
1 writing in 1800, says,
BODS.
"
The First Parish in Cambridge contains, The Second Parish in Cambridge contains, The Third Parish in Cambridge contains,
2,851
60
4,345
2,660
118 81"
The
these parishes will be original organization of
elsewhere.
mentioned Their separation from the parent trunk occurred al-
most simultaneously.
The
town
of Brighton, Feb. 24, 1807,
of Boston, Jan. 1, 1874. the town of West Cambridge, by an Act passed Feb. 27,% 1807, but not to take effect until June 1, 1807 ; its corporate name was changed to Arlington, April 30, 1867. By the incorporation of
was incorporated as the and became a part of the city The second parish was incorporated as
third parish
two towns, Cambridge lost nearly three quarters of its terribut tory, probably somewhat less than half of its population. The political disturbances in the country, at the commencethese
ment
of the present century,
were disastrous to
in
its
commercial
fol-
prosperity.
The Embargo, proclaimed
December 1807,
lowed by other hostile measures, culminating in a declaration of war against Great Britain, in June 1812, paralyzed the commerce of the whole country. Grass grew in the streets of the seaports,
and ships rotted at the wharves. Cambridge felt this calamity the more keenly, because it involved so many of her citizens in distress. Merchants, mechanics, and laborers, mutually dependent on each other, were thrown out of business, and some were reduced to absolute want. A general and rapid depreciation in
the value of real estate followed, particularly in Cambridgeport ; 2 the owners ceased to erect houses and stores ; those who had
them were
purchased on speculation were unable to effect sales, and some of General stagnation ensued, from financially ruined. which the new village did not fully recover for many years, and
the hope of making it a great commercial centre seems to have been utterly and forever abandoned.
In
common
25,
earnestly protested against the
Aug.
in New England, Cambridge Embargo. At a town-meeting, 1808, an address, reported by a committee consisting of
with
many towns
Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., vii. 6. 2 Lands, which had been worth in the market more than twenty cents per square foot, were afterwards sold for less than one cent per foot. The settlement of East
Cambridge had not been commenced when the Embargo was declared but its growth was retarded by the hostilities which fol;
lowed,
CIVIL HISTORY.
189
Royal Makepeace, Francis Dana, and Samuel P. P. Fay, was

adopted, to wit " TQ the President of the United States of America
: :
The
in-
habitants of Cambridge, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in legal town-meeting assembled, respectfully represent : That we are sensibly impressed with our obligation to submit to and
support the laws of our country and we flatter ourselves that we have been and ever shall be forward to manifest our patriotism, and make any sacrifice, and submit to any privation, that the interest and honor of our country shall require. But in times of great public calamity and distress, we deem it no less our duty than our privilege, peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.' Under these impressions,
; '
we feel constrained to confess to your Excellency that we, in common with our fellow citizens of the Eastern States, suffer a
severe and increasing distress from
'
the operation of the laws
ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States.' Could we see a termination of our in we would submit But with consternation silence. sufferings,
laying an embargo on
all
we observe
commerce
;
that this
perpetual laws.
not a temporary measure, but imposed by admit the power of Congress to regulate but laws to abolish it, and raise a perpetual barrier
is
We
to foreign intercourse,
we
believe
was never contemplated by our
national compact.
" Your petitioners inhabit a district of the Union which does not abound with all the conveniences of life. The fisheries and
commerce have contributed
in an eminent degree to give us whatever of wealth, happiness, and importance, we enjoy. can ' to unsubscribe the it be that would never, therefore, opinion, wise evermore to recur to distant countries for the comforts and
We
conveniences of
Atlantic,
life.'
Situated as
we
are on the shores of the
bitterly realize many of the distressing consequences embargo laws, which fall not under the immediate eye of Government, the recital of which, we
we have
occasion to
remark and
are confident, will excite all your excellency's philanthropy, and induce you to exercise the power with which you are invested, for the relief of your fellow-citizens. The laws which shut us out from the ocean, the better part of our inheritance, palsied all our The farmer gathers his harvest with a heavy heart, enterprise.
while he has no hope of vending his surplus, and the mechanic, sailor, and fisherman, find that their willing industry will no longer enable them to supply their daily wants. Many, very
190
many, who, by a long course of persevering industry, supposed find their they had reached the desired point of independence, in value, that it must be wholly sacrificed for so fallen property Their endeavors to extricate themthe payment of their debts. selves avail them nothing and they can only weep over the ruin that overwhelms them and reduces their families to beggary. Our distress is rendered the more severe and intolerable by a
;
conviction that the neighboring British Provinces, by the very measures that embarrass us, are acquiring a consequence which
their natural advantages could never have given them. " apprehend that the benefits expected by your Excellency
We
and Congress from the Embargo have been but partially experiis a notorious fact that great numbers of our native disheartened seamen, by their situation, have resorted to the British Provinces to obtain the means of subsistence, and entered
enced.
It
voluntarily into the service of that very nation from which the
of government has been extended to protect them. Our now rests in the laws and expectation authorizing your exhope in the event of cellency, important changes in the measures of
hand
the belligerent powers affecting neutral commerce, during the recess of Congress, to suspend, in whole or in part, the acts layThe existing Revolution in Spain is a change ing an embargo.
indeed important to the world, and cannot

of every friend of
fail
to
awaken the
trade of Spain and sympathy their and colonies is now offers and a golden harPortugal open vest to the first nation who shall show themselves wise enough to
mankind.
The
gather
it.
We therefore request your Excellency
to suspend the
the embargo laws, so far at least as they relate to and and their should Portugal Spain dependencies ; or, your Exdoubt that have such that will call Concellency you power, you
operation of
gress together for that purpose."
This address, says the record, was adopted "almost unani" mously ; and the selectmen were directed to forward it to the President. Very soon a reply was received, apparently an
which is still preserved in the ofthe city clerk " To the inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, in legal townassembled. Your meeting representation and request were received on the 8th inst., and have been considered with the attention due to every expression of the sentiments and feelings of so respectable a body of my fellow-citizens. 1 No person has
fice of
:
autograph of the President,
In the original, as usual in Jefferson's manuscripts, capital
letters are generally
omitted at the beginning of sentences.
CIVIL HISTORY.
seen, with
191
more concern than myself, the inconveniences brought on our country in general by the circumstances of the times in which we happen to live ; times to which the history of For years we have been looknations presents no parallel. ing as spectators on our brethren of Europe, afflicted by all those evils which necessarily follow an abandonment of the moral Connected with rules which bind men and nations together. them in friendship and commerce we have happily so far kept
aloof from their calamitous conflicts,
justice towards
fices.
all,
by much
At length, however, all been thrown aside, the belligerent powers have beset the ing of commercial intercourse with edicts which, taken tohighway gether, expose our commerce and mariners, under almost every Each party, indestination, a prey to their fleets and armies. deed, would admit our commerce with themselves, with the view But we have of associating us in their war against the other. wished war with neither. Under these circumstances were passed the laws of which you complain, by those delegated to exercise the powers of legislation for you, with every sympathy of a common interest in exercising them faithfully. In reviewing these
by a steady observance of forbearance and multiplied sacriregard to the rights of others hav-
measures, therefore, we should advert to the difficulties out of which a choice was of necessity to be made. To have submitted
our rightful commerce to prohibitions and tributary exactions from others would have been to surrender our independence. To resist
them by arms was war, without consulting the state of things or the choice of the nation. The alternative preferred by the Legof a commerce islature, suspending placed under such unexampled to our their property and our besides citizens difficulties, saving
mariners to their country, has the peculiar advantage of giving time to the belligerent nations to revise a conduct as contrary to In the event of such peace their interests as it is to our rights.
'
or suspension of hostilities between the belligerent Powers of Europe, or of such a change in their measures affecting neutral commerce as may render that of the United States sufficiently
.safe in
pend the
the judgment of the President,' he is authorized to susEmbargo. But no peace or suspension of hostilities, no
change of measures affecting neutral commerce, is known to have taken place. The Orders of England and the Decrees of France
so far as
and Spain, existing at the date of these laws, are still unrepealed, we know. In Spain, indeed, a contest for the government appears to have arisen but of its course or prospects we
;
192
have no information on which prudence would undertake a hasty of the Executive change in our policy, even were the authority in defect of such competent to such a decision. You desire that, It is unnecessary convened. be specially power, Congress may to examine the evidence or the character of the facts which are
will be sensible, on supposed to dictate such a call because you an attention to dates, that the legal period of their meeting is as could be fully convened early as, in this extensive country, they have executed with I should call. a willingness great by special the wishes of the inhabitants of Cambridge, had peace, or a reof the obnoxious Edicts, or other changes, produced the case,
;
peal
in
which alone the laws have given me that authority and so many motives of justice and interest lead to such changes that we ought continually to expect them. But while these Edicts
;
remain, the Legislature alone can prescribe the course to be purTH: JEFFERSON. Sept. 10, 1808." sued.
The appeal
of
the- people
to
the President was fruitless.
Equally vain was an address by the General Court to the members of Congress. spirit of hostility to England was predom-
inant in the national government the Embargo was made more stringent, and enforced by regulations which were here considered
;
unreasonable and unconstitutional
and the general condition of ; the people, both present and prospective, " was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse." Under such circumstances, at a town " The act meeting, Jan. 27, 1809, lately passed by Congress for the was read and submitted to the town for enforcing Embargo
their consideration
;
and
also considering the present
after maturely considering the same, and alarming situation of our country,"
a vigorous protest against the hostile measures of the general government was adopted by a very large majority of the inhabitants.
This protestation, and hundreds of similar character by the In Congress, the influence people of New England, were in vain. of France was in the ascendant, and the Embargo was followed, in June, 1812, by an open declaration of war against Great Britain. For the next two or three years, Cambridge suffered
its full
proportion in the general stagnation of business. Cambridgeport did not recover from the blight which had fallen
upon
it
and the growth
of
East Cambridge was sadly retarded.
With a very decided majority of voters politically opposed to the war, and smarting under the losses and inconveniences resulting from it, the town could not be expected to enter with
CIVIL HISTORY.
enthusiasm into
its
193
its support, or voluntarily to assume a disproporIn fact, no reference to the war, tionate share of its burdens.
during
continuance,
is
found on the
8,
months
after its close,
May
Town Records. few " the town that the 1815, Voted,
report of the Committee appointed to determine what compensation, if any, should be allowed by the town to the militia-men
drafted and called out for the defence of the State, be accepted the report allows four dollars to each person for every thirty
:
days service."
service
The Cambridge Light Infantry was

call.
called into
by
the Governor, for the defence of the State,
and readily
:
responded to the
listments into the regular army of the United States evidence of such a fact is not found.
There may have been some voluntary enbut any
One of the most eminent citizens of Cambridge, ELBRIDGE GERRY, was Govei'nor of Massachusetts from May 1810, to May 1812, and Vice-president of the United States from March 4, 1813, until Nov. 23, 1814, when he suddenly expired, as he was about to enter the Senate Chamber in Washington for the performance of his official duties. However bittterly his politics were denounced,
Mr. Gerry enjoyed the personal respect and esteem of his townsyet neither their affection for the man, nor their regard for his high political position, could overcome their detestation of the war, of which he was an advocate and defender, nor induce them
men
to volunteer their persons or their property in the dignified silence of the Town Records.
its
behalf.
Hence
When
a general outburst of joy in Massachusetts.
the news of Peace arrived, in February, 1815, there was In many towns,
public meetings of prayer, and praise, and mutual congratulation,
were held. There was such a meeting in Cambridge, Feb. 23, 1815, and an address was delivered by President Kirkland. Among the papers presented by Hon. John Davis to the Massachusetts Historical Society is a handbill, or broadside, announcing the approaching festivity, as follows
:
CELEBRATION
OP THE RATIFICATION OF THE
TREATY OF PEACE
between the United States of America and the nked Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, at Cambridge, Feb. 23, 1815.
13 li-
194
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
The
procession will be formed at University Hall, and at 11 o'clock A. M. in the following order, to the Rev. Dr. Holmes's meeting-house.
move
Military Escort.
Musick.
Marshal.
Chief Marshal.
Marshal.
The President
of the University and the other Gentlemen, Government of Harvard College. Selectmen of Cambridge.
who
officiate.
Marshal.
Committee of Arrangements.
Strangers.
Marshal.
Marshal.
Resident Graduates.
Students.
Marshal.
Citizens of Cambridge.
Marshal.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
1.
2.
By Stephenson. was glad when they said unto me,"-&c. Prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Ware.
"
I
Anthem
3.
Reading of select portions of the Holy Scripture, by the Rev. Mr. Gannett.
4.
Hymn,
written for the occasion.
Almighty God,
to thee
we bow,
But
To thee the Thy mercy,
voice of gladness raise; that hath blessed us now,
In loud and grateful songs
we
praise.
from Heaven has shone at last, is beaming from above, The storm of doubt and fear has past, And hope returns, and joy, and love.
light
And PEACE
Long
hast
Thou
stretched the avenging
Then
hand
smote thy people in thy wrath Hast frowned upon a guilty land, While storms and darkness veiled thy
;
Who
praise to that Eternal Power, bids our wars and tumults cease,
this auspicious hour,
And
And hymn, in
The God
of mercy
God
of Peace.
path.
5.
6.
Address, by the President of the University.
Poem, by Mr. Henry Ware.

Prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Holmes.
7.
8.
Anthem, from Handel's Deum,"

"
"
Grand Dettingen Te
We praise
thee,
God," &c.
9.
Benediction.
CHAPTER
XIII.
CIVIL HISTORY.
lished
IT has already been stated in chapter v., that a ferry was estabin 1635 across Charles River (at the foot of Dunster Street), from which there was a road through Brookline and
Roxbury to Boston. The only other feasible route to Boston was through Charlestown, and across a ferry near Copp's Hill. Desiring to avoid the inconvenience and peril of a ferry, the inhabitants of Cambridge consented, Nov. 10, 1656, " to pay each one their proportion of a rate to the sum of 200Z. towards the
building a bridge over Charles River, upon condition the same may be effected without further charge to the town." A place for the bridge was selected, at the foot of Brighton Street but
;
the
work was too great
afterwards, Feb. 4, that had passed, for the building of a bridge over Charles River, were again considered and debated ; and the question being pro-
be accomplished at once. Three years " the former 1659-60, propositions and votes
to
pounded, whether the town did agree and consent that the said work should be yet further prosecuted, and that 200L should be levied on the inhabitants of this town towards the effectThe structure ing thereof, the vote passed on the affirmative."
23, 1662-3, when it was " that the be laid in oil and lead, provided that ordered, bridge it exceed not 40Z. charge to the town." This bridge was much than had been erected in the colony. which previously larger any From the first it was called the "Great Bridge; " and such is The cost of maintaining such a bridge, still its legal designation. a with together long causeway, was very great, compared with the means of defraying it, and many methods were devised to relieve the town of some portion of the burden. Under date of Oct. 12, 1670, the action of the General Court is recorded " Whereas, the Bridge over Charles River, which was first
was probably completed before March
erected at the cost of that town, together with the free contribution of several public spirited persons in some neighbor towns,
196
which bridge being now decayed, and by reason of the danger is presented to the county of Middlesex, and the town of Cambridge, as they allege in their petition, being not able to repair it, so that of necessity it must be pulled up and slighted, and the passage there must be secured by a ferry as heretofore, which is
not so safe, convenient, or useful, as a bridge, for a ferry is altogether useless in the winter, and very inconvenient to transport horses, and not at all accommodable for carts or droves of cattle
:
Court and the The premises considered, it by either pf the town of authority thereof, for the encouragement or that shall repair the bridge, any particular persons Cambridge River or erect a sufficient cart-bridge over the at Cambridge, and maintain the same for the safety of the passengers, they are
is
ordered
this
hereby empowered to take toll at the rates following, viz., one for every person three pence a head for every horse and man six pence for every cart two pence a head for every horse or other neat cattle one half penny a head for sheep, goats, or swine and if any refuse to pay the toll aforesaid, it shall be at the liberty of such as maintain the said bridge to stop their pas-
penny
;
sage.
[force] so long as the said maintained serviceable and safe for passage." 1 The bridge tolls, thus authorized, seem not to have been long continued, if ever exacted for when Newton was incorporated as a separate
is
;
And
this order to continue in
town, Jan. 11, 1687-8, it was ordered that the expense of main" be taining the bridge defrayed and borne as followeth (that is to two sixth parts thereof by the town of Cambridge, one say)
:
sixth part by the said Village, 2 and three sixth parts at the public charge of the county of Middlesex." Newton continued to
pay its proportion of the expense until May 4, 1781, when it was exempted from further liability by the General Court. 3 In like manner, when Lexington was incorporated, March 20, 1712-13, and West Cambridge, Feb. 27, 1807, they were required to share
with Cambridge the expense of maintaining the bridge, in proportion to the respective valuation of the several towns, which they continued to do until they were released from that
obliga4 In the meantime, by the General Court, various expedients were adopted the Court to aid Cambridge by in sustaining what was considered, and what actually was, a
tion,
March
24, 1860,
grievous burden.
1
Thus, in June, 1694,

a
*
it
was " resolved, that
3/05*. Col. Rec., iv. (ii.) 470. Newton was at first called Cambridge
MOSS. Rec., xlii. 98. Mass. Spec. Laws xi 56
Village.
CIVIL HISTORY.
the town of
1
197
Newton pay one
bridge."
And
in June, 1700, it
third part of the charge of said was " resolved, that the Great
Bridge in Cambridge, over Charles River, be repaired from time to time, one half at the charge of the town of Cambridge, and the other half at the charge of the county of Middlesex." 2
" Again, Oct. 25, 1733, the bridge having been very thoroughly and effectually repaired," after a large portion of it had been
carried
16s., to
away by the
Newton,
ice,
the Court granted to Cambridge,
<117
3
82 4s., in all X300, 100, and to Lexington, and on the 22d in consideration of their extraordinary expense
;
Voted, that three thousand acres of the unappropriated lands of the Province be and hereby are granted to the towns of Cambridge, Newton, and Lexington, to enable
of June, 1734,
"
them forever hereafter at their own cost and charge, amend, and repair, the Great Bridge over Charles River
bridge
;
to keep, in Cam-
the land to be laid out in three several parts, in equal " " 4 of the thouplat proportion to each of the said towns."
sand acres allotted to Cambridge, lying west of Lunenburg, was exhibited and confirmed, Sept. 13, 1734. 5 All other corporations
having been released from liability, the final disposition of the matter by an act by which the city of Cambridge and the
General Court made a

passed March 11, 1862,
and it was prorespective valuations of said city and town ; vided that a draw, not less than thirty-two feet wide, should be
constructed " the
town of Brighton were " authorized and the Great Bridge over to rebuild required Charles River,'" the expense to be borne " in proportion to the "
" at an equal distance from each abutment," that " should be " the dividin the of said draw middle opening
ing line between Cambridge and Brighton at that point," and that thereafter each corporation should maintain its half part of the whole structure at its own expense. 6
In June, 1738, a petition of
Edmund
Goffe, William Brattle,
and others
1
of
Cambridge,
for liberty to establish a ferry
between
Mass. Prov. Rec., vi. 348. Ibid., vii 92. This tax on the county may not seem unreasonable, when it is considered that a large portion of the travel to and from Boston passed overthe bridge in preference to the Charlestown Ferry. If Newton was exempted from its former obligation, it was manifestly only for a short time. 3 Mass. Rec., xv.4 53. On the 28th of the following January the town voted
2
thanks to the General Court for the aid " to Col. Jacob Wenrendered and also
;
Esq. and Mr. Cradtlock for their kindness to us in procuring and collecting
dell
a very bountiful subscription for us, to encourage and enable us to go through the
charge of the repair of our Great Bridge." * Mass. Rec., xvi. 32.
5
6
Ibid., xvi. 54.
Mass. Spec. Laws,
xi. 280.
198
be paid to Cambridge and Boston, of which the profits should Hall and others Harvard College, also a similar petition of Hugh of Boston, and a petition of John Staniford of Boston for liberty to construct a bridge from a point near the copper works in Boston to Col. Phips' farm (now East Cambridge) were severally 1 referred to the next General Court, and both enterprises were
abandoned.
Nearly
fifty
years afterwards, Feb. 11, 1785, the
town appointed a committee "to support in behalf of the inhabitants of this town the petition of Mr. Andrew Cabot to the
General Court,
now
sitting,
praying leave to erect at his
own
from Lechmere's Point in expense, a bridge over Charles River, this town to Barton's Point, or such other place in West Boston " and to demonstrate that as shall be thought most expedient ; such a bridge would be more important than one at the ferryway, as petitioned for by some of the inhabitants of Charlestown. This effort to secure a direct route to Boston failed the Charlestown petition was granted, March 9, 1785 and Charles River Bridge was opened with imposing ceremonies on the 17th The desired accommodation for Cambridge, howof June, 1786. In the " Columbian Centinel," ever, was not long postponed.
;
;
Jan. 7, 1792, appeared this advertisement " WEST BOSTON BRIDGE. As all citizens of the United States
:
have an equal right to propose a measure that may be beneficial to the public or advantageous to themselves, and as no body of men have an exclusive right to take to themselves such a privilege, a number of gentlemen have proposed to open a new subscription for the purpose of building a bridge from West Boston to Cambridge, at such place as the General Court may be pleased to
direct.
subscription for
bridge will this day be opened at side of the State House."
two hundred shares in the proposed Samuel Cooper's office, north
This subscription " was filled up in three hours." 2 A petition was immediately presented to the General Court, and on the 9th of March, 1792, Francis Dana and his associates were incorporated as "The Proprietors of the West Boston Bridge," with " from the authority to construct a bridge westerly part of Boston, near the Pest House (so called), to Pelham's Island in the town of Cambridge," with a " good road from Pelham's Island aforesaid, in the most direct and practicable line, to the nearest part of the Cambridge road," and to take certain specified tolls " for and " and they were required to " pay during the term of forty years
;
Printed Journal House of Representatives.
Centinel, Jan. 11, 1792.
CIVIL HISTORY.
199
annually to Harvard College or University the sum of three hundred pounds during the said term of forty years." 1 On the 22d
for
March, twelve Directors were chosen, and preparations made immediately commencing the work. Its completion was announced in the "Centinel," Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1793: "The Bridge at West Boston was opened for passengers &c., on Saturday last. The elegance of the workmanship and the magnitude
of
of the
undertaking are perhaps unequalled in the history of en-
terprises. hope the Proprietors will not suffer pecuniary loss from their public spirit. They have claims on the liberality and patronage of the government ; and to these claims govern-
We
ment
will not
be inattentive."
Dr. Holmes,
who witnessed
the
building of the bridge, and who may be supposed to have been familiar with the details, describes it as " a magnificent structure.
was erected at the expense of a company incorporated for that The causeway, on the Campurpose, and cost 76,700 dollars. was the wood-work, April 8, 1792 side, 15, bridge begun July 1793. The bridge was opened for passengers, Nov. 23, 1793, seven months and an half from the time of laying the first pier.
It
;
It is very handsomely constructed ; and, when lighted by its two rows of lamps, extending a mile and a quarter, presents a vista which has a fine effect.
" It stands on
180
piers,
and
is
3483
275
87
feet long.
Bridge over the Gore, 14 do.
do.
Abutment, Boston
side,
Causeway, Distance from the end of the causeway church in Cambridge,
3344
to the first
Width
" It
of the Bridge,
is
7810 40
on each side, for foot passengers. The sides of the are stoned, capstand and railed ; and on each side there causeway is a canal, about 30 feet wide." 2
railed
The peculiar circumstances connected with the construction of Canal (or Craigie's) Bridge are related in chapter xii. The between the of Boston and West Canal sharp rivalry proprietors
Mass. Spec. Laws, i. 361-364. The corporators were Francis Dana, Oliver Wendell, James Sullivan, Henry Jackson,
i
tended, Feb. 27,1807 (iv. 76-81), to seventy years from the completion of Canal
(or Craigie's) Bridge of that bridge, by
;
and the proprietors

its
Mungo Mackay, and William Wetmore. By a subsequent Act, June 30,

1792
(i.
charter
then
394) the franchise was extended
granted, were required to contribute one half of the annuity payable to Harvard
College.
2
and the annuity to Harvard College was reduced to two hundred

to seventy years,
Coll.
Mass. Hist.
Soc., vii. 3, 4.
pounds.
The
franchise
was further ex-
200
Bridges, and between land-owners especially benefited by the one or the other, resulted in the erection of other bridges and the
opening of several new
streets.
PRISON POINT BRIDGE is said to have been erected by virtue of a charter, granted June 21, 1806, to Samuel H. Flagg and
" others, as Corporation," Proprietors of the Prison Point " for building a dam from Prison Point in Charlestown to Lech-
Dam
mere's Point in Cambridge, and erecting mills on the same." No dam was constructed nor mill erected but in 1815, Prison
:
Point Bridge was built for the benefit of Canal Bridge and this is presumed to have been done under authority of the charter for
;
a dam granted in 1806, partly because that charter authorized the proprietors to construct a travelling path across the dam, not less than thirty feet in width, and partly because in an act relative to the Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation, March 5, " the Branch or 1832, Prison Point Bridge is repeatedly called l Prison Point Dam Bridge." This bridge was laid out as a
county road in January, 1839.
RIVER STREET BRIDGE was built for the advantage of the West Boston Bridge Proprietors and the owners of real estate in
Cambridgeport.
rated
Jonathan L. Austin and others were incorpo-
March 2, 1808, for the purpose of building this bridge and what is now called River Street, to be completed within two years which term of limitation was extended one year, by an act passed Feb. 13, 1810. 2 The bridge and road were soon after;
wards completed, and were maintained by the proprietors until Nov. 12, 1832, when the town assumed the care of the bridge, and since that time it has had charge of both bridge and roadway.
THE WESTERN AVENUE BRIDGE was

of
built
by the
proprietors
Bridge, under authority granted by an act passed June 12, 1824, 3 empowering them to build a turnpike from Central Square to Watertown and it was maintained by the said proprietors, until they sold their whole franchise to the Hancock Free Bridge Corporation.
;
West Boston
THE BROOKLINE BRIDGE
had no immediate connection with
either of the rival bridges, but was erected for the benefit and at the expense of persons owning real estate in its immediate
vicinity.
Edmund
l
By an act passed April 25, 1850, Sidney Willard, T. Hastings, Columbus Tyler, David R. Griggs, and
4
vii.
Mass. Spec. Laws,

Ibid., iv. 147, 248.
223.
3
*
Ibid., vi. 204.
Ibid., ix. 218.
CIVIL HISTORY.
their associates
201
were " empowered to erect a pile bridge over the Charles River between the city of Cambridge and the town of Brookline, from points at or near the old wharf or embankment, which is near where the Boston and Worcester Railroad passes under a bridge on the Western Avenue (so called) to the opposite bank of the river in Cambridge," and to receive certain rates of toll for the term of fifty years. By mutual agreement, however, and by permission of the General Court, it was transferred to the city, and became a free bridge, in 1869 and since that date Cambridge has not been burdened by toll bridges. West Boston and Canal Bridges had already become free, long
;
before the expiration of their respective charters. In 1828, the General Court discussed the propriety of purchasing both these bridges and making them free at an early day ; and a company
was incorporated April 16, 1836, for the accomplishment of the same purpose but the financial disturbances in that year defeated the project. A new charter was granted March 26, 1846, 1 to Isaac Livermore, Charles Valentine, William Reed, and their associates, as proprietors of the Hancock Free Bridge, empowering them to build a bridge across Charles River, between West Boston and Canal Bridges, but requiring them to purchase both those bridges if their proprietors would sell them at a price to be de;
termined by three disinterested appraisers.

thorized to receive the established rates of
They were
also au-
toll, until the outlay with legal interest should be refunded, over and above all expenses, and a fund of $150,000 should be secured for the future
which they should become the The purchase was made and not long afterwards both bridges were thoroughly rebuilt, and a considerable portion of the west end of West Boston Bridge was converted into a solid roadway. By an act passed May 30, 1857, 2 the proprietors were authorized to convey both bridges to the City of Cambridge, to be forever maintained by said city as free bridges, whenever the accumulated fund should amount to $100,000. This desirable event occurred on the 30th of January, 1858, when the legal forms of transfer and acceptance were completed, and notices were posted throughout the city, to wit " FREE BRIDGES. From and after this day, Saturday, Janmaintenance
of the bridges
;
after
property of the
Commonwealth.
Mass. Spec. Laws,

Ibid., x. 751.
viii.
602.
(xii.
1020),
it
a subsequent Act was provided that the fund
By
bridge and Boston, and that the Bridges should thereafter be perpetually maintained by the two cities, at a like equitable proportion of expense.
should be equitably divided between
Cam-
202
Canal Bridges will become uary 30, 1858, the West Boston and The Directors of the Hancock Free free public avenues forever. Government of Cambridge will and the
City Bridge Corporation assemble at the Athenaeum l on Monday next, February 1, 1858, at eleven o'clock A. M., and, preceded by the Brigade Band, will which will be surproceed in carriages to the two Bridges, rendered to the City of Cambridge by the Bridge Corporation, The bells in the City will be rung, and a salute fired. All persons desirous to join the procession are requested to assemble at the Athenaeum at eleven o'clock A. M. on Monday next."
The
citizens
responded to this invitation in great numbers.
and escorted by the Naprocession, more than a mile in length, tional Lancers, moved from the City Hall through Main Street, over West Boston Bridge, through Cambridge Street, Bowdoin Square, Green and Seventh streets, over Canal Bridge, through Bridge, Cambridge, Fifth, Otis, and Third streets, Broadway, North Avenue, and Waterhouse, Garden, Harvard, and Main Streets, to the City Hall, where a collation was served, and congratulations were exchanged. In the procession was the venerable Moses Hadley, who had been toll-gatherer on West Boston Bridge more than fifty-four years. The procession was saluted with hearty cheers at many places and it did not forget to halt at the
;
Washington Elm, while the Band gave enthusiastic expression to Washington's Grand March. Not only the River Street and Western Avenue bridges, but most of the thoroughfares through the city, which were opened during many years, were constructed for the benefit of West Boston or Canal Bridge. Main Street, eastward from Columbia Street, was originally a causeway, built in connection with West Boston Bridge 2 and River Street and Western Avenue were built in connection with the bridges bearing the same names, as already described. Concord Avenue was originally the easterly end of the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike, for which a charter was granted March 8, 1803 3 it was laid out as a free highway
; ;
May, 1829. By an act passed March 8, 1805, the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike Corporation was authorized to extend their road from its eastern termination, "near to the house of
in
Jonas
in Cambridge, to the causeway of West Boston 4 near the house of This portion Bridge, Royal Makepeace."
Wyeth
The same
building which
is
now
cst
highways, and their location has been

ii.
called the City Hall. 2 Miiin Street, westward from Pleacant
described in chapter
8 *
iii.
Mass. Spec. Laws,

Ibid.,
iii.
181.
Kirkland Street, North Avenue, and Brattle Street, were among the earliStreet,
514.
CIVIL HISTORY.
of the turnpike
203
was also laid out as a public highway in May, 1829, and it is now known as Broadway. Hampshire Street was the easterly end of the Middlesex Turnpike, whose charter was
so much of that turnpike as was situated a became public highway in September, 1842. All Cambridge these, as well as Webster Avenue (which was opened before 1809, and was until 1860 called Medford Street), were constructed as
granted June 15, 1805

in
avenues to
their
tion from the town.
West Boston Bridge, without material aid or opposiThe turnpikes were made at the expense of stockholders and others interested in West Boston Bridge
;
and Cambridgeport lands and Webster Avenue, by the parties specially interested, and at their own expense. But when Andrew Craigie had completed his purchase of the Lechmere or Phips estate, and was ready to bring it into the market by building Canal Bridge to connect it with Boston, a sharp rivalry between him and his associates on the one hand, and the proprietors of West Boston Bridge and the Cambridgeport residents and land-owners on the other, for several years kept the town in constant excitement and turmoil. Whenever either party desired to open a new avenue to its bridge, it was
resolutely opposed
terest.
by the The majority of
voters
other party, as adverse to its own insometimes favored one party,
sometimes the other. All, or nearly all, the desired avenues were at last obtained, but through much tribulation. The severest contest between the two parties was in regard to
Mount Auburn
Street and
Cambridge
Street.
It has
already
been stated that the road from Cambridge to Watertown for many years substantially coincided with the present Brattle
Street,
the distance between
Elmwood Avenue, and Mount Auburn Street. To shorten Watertown and West Boston Bridge, the
Town appointed a committee, Dec. 26, 1805, to present a petition to the Court of Sessions " to establish the road as now laid out
from the garden
late
of the
Hon. Elbridge Gerry

"
2
to the
garden
of the
Brattle, Esq. 1806, the other party triumphed, and the committee was disThe subject was again discussed, Nov. 17, 1806, Mr. charged. Craigie having offered to give the land and make the road so far
Thomas
At a subsequent
meeting, Feb. 17,
as it crossed his farm, if the town would establish a new road from Gerry's corner to a point on Brattle Street, nearly opposite to his house 3 the town voted in favor of establishing such a road,
;
Mass. Spec. Laws.,
iii.
61
1.
Street,
between
Elmwood Avenue and
That
is,
the present
Mount Auburn
Brattle Square. 8 Such a road would continue the con-
204
and appointed a Committee to procure the discontinuance of the On the 27th of road from Gerry's corner to Brattle's garden. as desired by Mr. the out laid the Selectmen road, May, 1807, the town that but does not it accepted it. appear Craigie Boston the West Bridge interest was year later, May 2, 1808,
;
again in the ascendant, and the town voted (104 against 65) to lay out Mount Auburn Street (west of Brattle Square), appropriated $3,000 to defray the expense, and directed the Selectmen
On the 16th of May, Anto construct the road immediately. drew Craigie and thirty-five others protested against the making of the road ; and it would seem that violent measures were
adopted to prevent it, for on the 7th of June following, the town, by a majority of 116 against 71, approved what the Selectmen had done, directed them to complete the work, and appointed
them
as a
committee " for the purpose of prosecuting Andrew
Craigie and others, for trespasses committed, or which may hereafter be committed by him or others upon the road" before described. In continuation of this road, and to complete a nearly straight avenue from the Watertown line to West Boston Bridge, the town voted, Sept. 6, 1808, to lay out Mount Auburn Street, from Holyoke Street to Main Street. Meanwhile, Mr. Craigie made several efforts to have Brattle Street laid out from Fayerweather Street to " Wyeth's sign-post," which stood near the present junction of Brattle and Mount Auburn streets, to counteract the effect of
opening the new Mount Auburn Street
this
object was not accomplished until September, 1812, when that not by portion of Brattle Street was very properly laid out,
by the county, as a county road. Cambridge Street was constructed in the interest of Mr. Craigie and his associates, the owners of Canal Bridge, almost the whole of East Cambridge, and a portion of
the town, however, but
What
is
now known
as
Cambridgeport.
In connection with William Winthrop and the
heirs of Francis Foxcroft, they opened and graded the road from Canal Bridge to the Common, except about an eighth of a mile
next eastward from
Elm
Street,
where the land was owned by

After other ineffectual
ef-
1 parties having an adverse interest. forts to have the road completed
and established as a public highway, a petition was presented by Thomas H. Perkins and
Mason Street, over which and Cambridge Street, already projected, it was designed to conduct the travel toward Lechmcre's Point.
nection with
l
The owners were Henry

and
Hoyal
Hill,
Kufus
all
Davenport,
Makepeace,
largely interested in Cambridge-port lands.
CIVIL HISTORY.
205
fifty-two others to the General Court, June 6, 1809, setting forth, " that the Canal Bridge across Charles River, between the west
end
of Leverett Street, in Boston,
and Lechmere's Point,
so called,
in Cambridge, was begun during the last season, and great progress was made therein, that the work has been again resumed
now pursued with great spirit and alacrity, so will that the Bridge probably be completed and ready for the of accommodation passengers by the middle of July next; that now there is not any public highway leading to the west end of
this spring,
and
is
and that the Court of Sessions, for lack of a quosaid Bridge ; rum of disinterested Justices, had failed to establish such a public
way.
" Wherefore your petitioners pray, that you will take
their peculiar case into your consideration, and provide for their relief, either by appointing a committee in such a way as to you
to explore, view, and mark out new highways from the westerly end of said Bridge to communicate with the great roads into the country at such places as will best comport with common convenience and the public good, or in such other
"
may seem most
fit,
as you in your wisdom may appoint which Committee shall be further authorized and instructed to notify all persons and corporations who may be in any wise interested and affected by their
way
proceedings, of the time and places, report

;
when and where they
shall
and who
for said
County
their report to the Court of Sessions of Middlesex, or to some other tribunal which
shall
make
be authorized finally to hear all persons and parties, and establish such new highways as the public convenience may reAn order of notice was issued, and at a meeting held on quire." the 12th day of June, " the following order was taken thereupon
may
by the town
Whereas
a road has been laid out and
made by
Andrew
Canal Bridge called to the road near the Cambridge and Colleges, (so called), Concord Turnpike, or Concord Street, leading to Cambridge
of
Craigie and
others, from the west
end
Common, excepting over a small piece Henry Hill and others, which prevents
said Bridge to said
of land belonging to a communication from
Common ; therefore voted, that the Selectauthorized and directed to lay out a road or way over the land aforesaid of the said Hill and others, of the same width
men be
of the road
made by
said Craigie, so that all obstructions
may
be removed to the opening of the said road from Canal Bridge to Cambridge Common. Voted, that a committee of five be to and appointed prepare present a petition and remonstrance
against the petition of
Thomas H. Perkins and
others to the
Hon.
206
now in session, and to state Legislature of this Commonwealth such facts and to petition for such measures in regard to this matter as they may judge proper. Voted, that the Committee consist of the following gentlemen: Hon. Francis Dana, Esq.,
Hon. Elbridge Gerry, Esq., Hon. Jonathan L. Austin, Esq., Messrs. Royal Makepeace and John Hayden." The Committee, thus appointed, presented to the General Court a long and very energetic remonstrance, a copy of which
in the office of the City Clerk. They commence " that the inhabitants of and CambridgeCambridge by alleging and inincessant machinations the afflicted are by deeply port " of in to roads in Andrew Mr. of proof regard Craigie, trigues which they refer to the fact that, at the last session of the Gen-
remains on
file
Mr. Craigie caused two petitions to be presented for the appointment of a committee with extraordinary powers to " seemed by lay out roads in Cambridge ; that these petitions their tenor to proceed from disinterested persons, whereas some
eral Court,
of the petitioners were proprietors of the Canal Bridge, and others deeply interested in lands connected with the proposed roads ; and Mr. Craigie, who was not a petitioner, supported
and with two lawyers, in the absence of all the these two petitions being manifestly, as the remonpetitioners strants had stated, a continuation of a plan of him and his coad-
them
in person
;
jutors,
commenced in 1797, and invariably pursued to 1809, to turn the travel to that quarter and the same game he is evidently now playing, by the petition signed by T. H. Perkins and " That such a others." viz. to out roads without
;
petition,
lay
number, with courses undefined, by a committee of the Legislature, your remonstrants conceive, never was before offered to " that a any Court, Legislative or Judicial, of Massachusetts Bill reported in accordance with these was petitions, rejected
;
;
" that the principal object of all these petitions, viz. to open a road from Mr. Wyeth's sign-post to Mr. Fayerweather's corner, 1
has been three times before the Court of Sessions of Middlesex, has been as often rejected by it, and has been once suppressed after it had obtained by intrigue and surprise the sanction of that
and it is now a fifth time pending in the existof Sessions Court of that ing County that the petition of T. H. Perkins and others prays for a committee to explore, view, and
honorable Court
; ;
mark out new highways from the westerly end

l
of the Canal Bridge to communicate with the great roads into the country,"
Namely, Brattle
Street,
from Fresh Pond Lane to Fayerweather Street.
CIVIL HISTORY.
etc.
;
207
" that this petition is predicated on the feeble pretence that there is not any public highway leading to the west end of said
an highway which Mr. Craigie has ever had it in his Bridge, power, by a petition to the town, to attain, and which is now ordered by a vote of the town, by removing every obstacle to be laid out and established." This remonstrance was effectual the " it committee, to whom the petition was referred, reported that
;
is
view or mark out any of the highways aforesaid
inexpedient for the Legislature to appoint any Committee to " and the re;
port was accepted. Agreeably to the vote of the town, before recited, the Selectmen laid out a road over the lands of Hill and others, so as to
make a continuous avenue from Canal Bridge
to
Cambridge
Common and
;
But
the road was accepted by the town July 10, 1809. this was not satisfactory to Mr. Craigie 1 and on the fol;
lowing day (July 11) he presented a petition to the Court of " laid out from the west end of Sessions, that a road might be
the Canal Bridge in a straight line through the lands of
Hill,
Andrew
Rufus Davenport, Royal MakeCraigie, Henry William Harvard peace, Winthrop, College, and John Phillips,
Hill,
Aaron
over what
is
called Foxcroft Street, to the
Common
in said
Cam-
bridge, and over and across said Common to or near the house of Deacon Josiah Moore," which "road is already made over the whole of it, except a few rods only." This petition was referred to a committee, who reported in its favor, Aug. 1, 1809 whereanother committee was who upon appointed, reported Sept. 11, the laying out of the road, with a schedule of land damages amounting to $2,055 whereof the sum of $1,327 was awarded to Andrew Craigie, and $292 to William Winthrop. The town, considering it to be unreasonable that Mr. Craigie should claim and receive damages for land used in the construction of a road which he so much desired, and for which he had so long been earnestly striving, petitioned the Court of Sessions in December, 1809, for the appointment of a jury, "to determine whether any and what damages said Craigie has sustained by
; ;
means of
it
said road," alleging " that in fact said Craigie sustained no damages." At the next term of the Court, in March, 1810,
was ordered that a jury be empanelled, and at the next term
in June,
1
Edward Wade, Coroner, returned

were awarded.
2
the verdict of
the
The road, as laid out by the town, did not include the portion already con-
strutted by Mr. Craigie, and
no damages
No
land of Aaron Hill was taken.
208
jury,
and the case was continued to December, when the verdict was set aside by the Court, and it was ordered that another jury be empanelled. The case was then continued to March, and again to June, 1811, when Nathan Fiske, Coroner, returned the verdict of the jury, which the Court set aside, and continued the
case to the next September, when neither party appeared. On petition of the town of Cambridge, setting forth that
cases in
two
which said town was petitioner for a jury to assess the damages, if any, suffered by Andrew Craigie and William Win" land taken for the highway from the Canal Bridge to throp for had accidentally been dropped from the Cambridge Common," docket of the Court of Sessions, and praying relief, the General " to restore Court, June 22, 1812, ordered the Court of Sessions u as if they had never said cases to the docket," and to proceed been dismissed therefrom." Accordingly, on the records of the Court of Sessions, Jan. 5, 1813, the former proceedings are recited, together with the action of the General Court, and a mandamus from the Supreme Judicial Court, requiring the Court of Sessions at this January Term, to " accept ar/d cause to be recorded the verdict aforesaid, according to the law in such case made and pro-
The record signify to us cause to the contrary." " And on a full proceeds thus hearing of the parties in the premises, the Court here do accept said verdict, and do order that
vided, or
:
it
send
which verdict is as follows We, David TownThomas Biglow, Thomas Sanderson, Nathaniel Brown, William Wellington jr., Jonas Brown, Ephraim Peirce, Jacob
be recorded
jr.,
; :
Gale, Moses Fuller, Thadeus Peirce, Arthur Train, and Gregory Clark, having been summoned, empanelled, and as a jury sworn to hear and determine on the complaint of the town of
Cambridge
against Andrew Craigie, have heard the parties, duly considered their several allegations, and on our oaths do say, that, by the
laying out and establishing of the highway from Cambridge Common to Canal Bridge, and by the passage of the same highway over lands of Andrew Craigie, the said Craigie has sustained no damage." It may be added, that the same proceedings were
had in regard to the damage awarded to William Winthrop and the jury, in like manner, determined that " the said Winthrop has sustained no damage."
;
Thus ended the exciting contest concerning Mount Auburn and Cambridge streets. I have entered so fully into the details,
partly because they illustrate the character of the long-continued rivalry between the two bridges, but chiefly because I have been
CIVIL HISTORY.
209
assured by the late Abraham Milliard, Esq., that in the trial of the Cambridge Street case, the principle of law was first announced
and established in the courts of this Commonwealth, that the damage which a land owner sustains by the taking of his land for a highway, and the benefit which he derives from its construction, and shall be equitably adjusted, and offset against each other
;
if
the benefit be equal to the damage, he shall receive nothing

14
more.
CHAPTER
XIV.
CIVIL HISTORY.
ALTHOUGH Cambridge was
ernment, it among the towns in the Colony. It was designated, before the establishment of counties, as one of the four towns in which
Judicial Courts should be held.
early abandoned as the seat of govmaintained from the beginning a prominent rank
Having
until that time exercised
the whole power of the Colony, both legislative and judicial, the General Court ordered, March 3, 1635-6, " That there shall be four courts kept every quarter; 1. at Ipswich, to which Newe-
berry shall belong

3.
which Saugus shall belong which Charlton, Concord, Meadford, and Waterton shall belong; 4th, at Boston, to which Rocksbury, Dorchester, Weymothe, and Hingham shall belong. Every of these Courts shall be kept' by such magistrates as shall be dwelling in or near the said towns, and by such other persons of worth as shall from time to time be appointed by the General Court, so as no court shall be kept without one magistrate at the least and that none of the magistrates be excluded, who can and will intend the same." i And when the Colony was divided into
;
2.
at Salem, to
at
Newe Towne,
to
counties,
May
10, 1643,
the courts continued to be held in

of
Cambridge, as the shire-town

the courts there
is
Middlesex.
it
As " the
business of
much
increased,"
was ordered, Oct. 19,
in each year, both at Charlestown. for many years, and a court house
1652, that two additional sessions should be held for that county These courts were continued
and jail were erected in that a later date, courts were established and similar buildings erected in Concord, and also, at a comparatively recent day, " at Lowell. All these were as " half-shires but
town.
At
places
regarded
:
County Records were never removed from Cambridge, as the principal shire, except as follows During the usurpation of
the
Sir
Andros, he appointed Capt. Laurence Hammond of Charlestown to be Clerk of the Courts and Register of Probate
1
Edmund
Mass.
Col. Rec..
\.
169.
/&/.,
\\.
38.
CIVIL HISTORY.
211
After the
and Deeds, who removed the records
to Charlestown.
revolution and the resumption of government under the forms of the old Charter, Captain Hammond denied that the existing courts had any legal authority, and refused to surrender the rec-
The General Court thereords which were in his possession. " that 168990, Capt. Laurence Hammond deliver to the order of the County Court for Middlesex the recfore ordered, Feb. 18,
ords of that county that is to say, all books and files by him formerly received from Mr. Danforth, sometime Recorder of that County, as also all other books of record, and files belonging to
;
said county in his custody." 1 year afterwards, Feb. the Marshal General was directed to summon Captain
to
4,
1690-1,
Hammond
appear and show cause why he had not surrendered the Middlesex Records and on the next day, he " peremptorily denying to appear," the General Court ordered the Marshal General to arrest him forthwith, with power to break open his house if nec2 The records were at length surrendered. Again, at a essary. town meeting, May 11, 1716, an attempt was made to reclaim
;
missing records
of
"
Whereas the
Register's office in the
County
Middlesex is not kept in our town of Cambridge, which is a grievance unto us, Voted, that our Representative be desired to represent said grievance to the honorable General Court, and intreat an Act of said Court that said office may forthwith be removed into our town, according to law, it being the shire-town in said county." 3 By the records of the General Court it appeal's that on the 8th of June, 1716, Colonel Goffe complained that no office for the registry of deeds was open in Cambridge, being the shire-town of Middlesex the Representative of Charlestown insisted that his town was the shire and a hearing was ordered. 4 " A week afterwards, June 15, upon hearing of the towns of Cambridge and Charlestown as to their respective claims of being the
;
;
shire-town of the County of Middlesex, resolved that Cambridge is the shire-town of said County. Read and non-concurred by the
5 The case between the two towns being again Representatives." heard, June 13, 1717, it was resolved by the whole court, that "6 " and on the Cambridge is the shire-town of the said county ; " that the public office following day it was voted in concurrence for registering of deeds and conveyances of lands for the County
1
Mass. Prov. Rec.,

Ibid., vi. 173.
vi.
117.
2
8
of Deeds, and kept his office and the records in Charlestown up to this time.
*
Samuel Phipps, Esq., of Charlestown, succeeded Captain Hammond as Register
Mass. Prov. Rec.,
x. 63.
Ibid., p. 68. 6 Ibid., p. 145.
212
of
Middlesex be forthwith opened and kept at the shire-town of l This order was immediately obeyed. Cambridge." I have not ascertained when or where the house was erected
which the judicial courts were first held in Cambridge. It seems to have been burned in 1671. In the Court Files of that " At a thus County Court year, is a document commencing held at Cambridge, 4 (8) 1671. After the burning of the Court House, wherein was also burnt the Court Book of Records for detrials, and several deeds, wills and inventories, that have been 2 The Court livered into Court before the fire was kindled," etc. " information that several this order
in
:
afterwards passed
Upon
Records belonging to this County were casually burnt in the burning of the house where the Court was usually kept, this Court doth order that the Recorder take care that out of the foul in his custody he fairly draw forth the copies and other scripts
and present the same to the County and that the Treasurer of the County do finished when Court, allow him for the same." 3 The first Court House of which we
said Records into a Book,
:
have any definite knowledge, was erected, about 1708, in Harvard Square, nearly in front of the present Lyceum Hall. 4 It ap" at a meeting of the pears by the Proprietors' Records that the 26 of Cambridge, orderly convened, day of JanProprietors That the Mr. John land where Bunker's Voted, uary 1707-8, with so much more as be sufficient now will to erect stands, shop the Court House upon (to be built in this town), be granted for that end, in case a Committee appointed by the Proprietors do agree with Andrew Bordman and John Bunker for building a lower story under it .... Deac. Nathaniel Hancock, Jason Russell, and Lieut. Amos Marrett, were chosen a committee to agree with said Bunker and Bordman about building under the
said house."
The Committee reported, Feb. 9, 1607-8 Pursuant to the aforesaid appointment, we, the subscribers above mentioned, have agreed with and granted liberty unto the said John Bunker
:
"
and Andrew Bordman to make a lower room under the said

Mass. Prov. Rec., x. 147. The volume which was burned contained the Records after October, 1663, up to October 4, 1671.
2
1
County Court Rec., ill. 173. This Court House stood where the Market House was erected more than a
4
on a pen and ink plan drawn about 1750, and here reproduced by permission of its owner, Henry Wheailand, M. D., of Salem. The Court House (called Townhouse on the plan) stood further south
than
is
here represented,
its
northerly
end being several feet south of the southerly front of the meeting-house.
century
later.
Its position
is
indicated
Town
Meeting house.
house.
Coledge.
Mr. Moris 1 house. Mr. Whitemores house Mr. Stedmans house.
Schol house. Mr. Foxcroftes house. Mr. Bradishes house. Presidents house.
The burying
Dr.
place. Col. Bratles house.
Wigglesworths.
CAMBRIDGE
ABOUT
1750.
Mr. Appletons.
CAMBff/DGE
CIVIL HISTORY.
213
house (which we apprehend will be about thirty foot in length and twenty-four foot in width), the said lower room to be about seven or eight foot stud, betwixt joints, with a cellar under the whole of the said house the aforesaid lower room and cellar to be for the use of the said John Bunker and Andrew Bordman, their heirs and assigns forever, excepting an entry through the middle of the said lower room, of about six foot wide, and a stairway for passage into the said Court House, or chamber, as the committee for building the same shall see meet the remainder of the said lower room and the whole of the said cellar to be for the use and benefit of the said John Bunker and Andrew Bordman, their heirs and assigns, forever, as aforesaid. It is the true intent and meaning of this agreement, that the said John Bunker and Andrew Bordman shall, at their own cost and charge, build the cellar and lower room aforesaid, and finish the same up to the girts, and keep so much of the said buildings as appertains to them the said Bunker and Bordman, viz., up to the girts afore; ;
said, in
good repair, at
all
times, on
penalty of paying treble
damage that the upper room may sustain by reason of the said Bunker andBordman's neglect in causing their part of said building to be kept in good repair," etc. The County Court had
Ordered, that there be allowed out of the County towards the erecting a suitable Court House for the use Treasury of the County in the town of Cambridge, thirty pounds, the one
previously
half thereof to be paid at the raising and covering, and the other half at the finishing of the same the said house. to be not less than four and twenty foot wide and eight and twenty foot long,
;
"
and
of height proportionable."
This house, diminutive as
its
proportions appear, was used by the courts for about half a But in 1756 the Court of Sessions appointed a comcentury. mittee to provide better accommodations, either by enlarging and repairing the old house or erecting a new one. Whereupon the town, Nov. 2, 1756, declared by vote its willingness to pay its " customary proportion of the cost of a new Court House, to be erected, of such model and dimensions, and in such place in the town, as the Committee of said Court shall judge most suitable and commodious provided the materials of the old meeting-house now about to be taken down, be given and applied (so far as
:
now
they shall be wanted) to that use, together with the town's proOn the 29th of the same portion of the present Court House." " not the voted to month, Proprietors grant land, exceeding one
1
Sessions Records, April 23, 1707.
214
the quarter of an acre, whereon to erect a new Court House," of the proprietors, place to be determined by a joint committee
town, and of the Court of Sessions. At length a lot of land, where Lyceum Hall now stands, was purchased of Caleb Prentice, who conveyed the same Nov. 5, 1757, to William Bratof the
tle,
Andrew Bordman, and Edmund Trowbridge,
for the use of
the town of Cambridge, and continuing a Court

lot a
and county of Middlesex, " for erecting House upon forever hereafter." On this
house was erected, more spacious than the former, and was An attempt occupied by the courts more than half a century. was afterwards made to erect another edifice in the centre of Har-
and the Proprietors voted, June 14, 1784, " to give and grant to the town of Cambridge, for ever, so much land adjoining to the land on which the old Court House stood (which was nearly opposite to where the present Court House stands),
vard Square
;
as shall be sufficient to
make up a piece forty six feet square including and surrounding the land on which the old Court House stood (which was thirty feet by twenty-four feet),
;
....
for the purpose of erecting
a building to keep the County Records and hold the Probate Courts in." l It does not appear, howAn ineffectual attempt ever, that any such building was erected. was also made in 1806 by prominent men in Cambridgeport to induce the County to erect a court house on the easterly side of what was long called the " meeting-house lot," bounded by Broadway, and Bordman, Harvard, and Columbia streets. Andrew Craigie and his associates were more successful. Having given ample grounds, and erected a court house and jail at an expense of $24,000, as related in chapter xiii., they were rewarded by the removal of the courts and records in 1816 to the edifices prepared for them, where they remain to this day. The old Court House having been abandoned by the County was used for town and parish purposes until April 19, 1841, when the town quitclaimed all its right and interest in the house and the lot (containing about ten perches) of land on which it stood for the nominal consideration of one dollar, to Omen S. Keith and others,
in trust for the use of the proprietors of the
Lyceum Hall
to be
erected on the premises ; provided, nevertheless, that the grantees " do and shall forever grant and secure to the town the right of the inhabitants of the first Ward in said Cambridge to the use of the Hall for all necessary of the voters in said Ward."
meetings
The
old Court
;
House was soon afterwards removed

1
to
Palmer
Street
it still
remains, being occupied for secular purposes.

Proprietors' Records.
CIVIL HISTORY.
215
The
ment
in the
earliest notice
which
in
Cambridge
is
I have found of a place of imprisoncontained in the following report, preserved

:
Middlesex Court Files
th January the 7 1655. Wee, whose names are underwritten, being appoynted by the County Cort of Middlesex to provide a house of Correction, with a fit person to keep the same, do make r our return to the honored Court as followeth Imp Wee have and of Andrew Stevenson of bargained bought Cambridge his
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"
dwelling house with about half a rood of land adjoyning to the same, being bounded with Mr. Collines on the north and east, and the highway on west and south, 1 with all the appurtenances
and
privileges thereoff; the said Andrew hereby covenanting and promising, for him and his heyres to make legal conveyance thereoff to the County when thereunto demanded. In consid-
eration whereoff
son, his heyres assignes sixteen
first of
we do covenant with the
said
Andrew Steven-
May
and assignes to pay and satisfie to him or his U pounds in cattle or 18 in corne, at or before the next and at the same time the said Andrew to de;
liver his
house in as good repaire as now it is for the use of the County. Also wee have agreed with our brother Edward Goffe to errect an addition thereunto, in length 26 foote and in propor-
and a stack of chimneys in the midle, and to finish the same as may be most sutable for the work and end proposed. Also, wee do desire the honored Court to allow
tion to the other house,
unto our brother
Andrew Stevenson (who hath
willingly at our
request yelded himselfe to the service of the County in that place) such an annual stipend as may be due incouragement to continue
the same with
shall require.
all
diligence and faithf nines, according as need
EPHRAIM CHILD,
EDWARD
EDWARD
On
the other side
is
JACKSON,
RALPH MOUSELL,
GOFFE."
" This witnesseth that I, Anendorsed, drew Stevenson, do consent to the within named propositions and th ll mo 1655. 2 covenant, as witnes my hand this 7
. .
ANDREW
1
A. 8. STEVENSON."
The House
of Correction stood on
the easterly side of Holyoke Street, about two hundred feet northerly from the pres-
was reconveyed to Stevenson, whose heirs sold it to Jonathan Nutting, March 25,
1695.
2
ent
location
of
Mount Auburn
jail,
Street.
By
the Court Records and Fjles,
it
After the erection of a
this estate
appears that the House of Correction or
216
In October, 1660, the County Court ordered, that the House of Correction, or Bridewell, should be used as a prison for the County, until further provision be made. Such provision was
made by
the erection of a jail l before Aug. 26, 1692, when it was ordered by the Court, " that the County Treasurer take care
that their majesties Goal at Cambridge be repaired, for the com2 fortable being of what persons may be committed forthwith." " that an addition be made to It was also ordered, Dec. 14, 1703, the prison at the west end thereof, of eighteen foot square, with
studs conformable to the old house."
dozen years
carpenters
later, the
appointed
old part of the prison became so unsatisfactory, that the Court " a committee to and other with
agree
and build a good well-timbered house in Cambridge for a Prison, for the accommodation of a keeper, to be thirty-six foot long, and for width agreeable to the foundation of the old Goal or Prison, two storeys high, fifteen foot stud, with a stack of chyrnneys in the middle, to be done and finished work-
workmen
to erect
manlike, as soon as ordered, that Coll.
may be
Edmund
Further conveniently effected Goffe, the present Sheriff, repaire

hath a pair of young oxen which he would part with, in order to said pay-
Bridewell was erected in 1656.
Andrew
Stevenson was the prison keeper from 1656 to 1672; William Healy, from 1672 to 1682, when he was removed from office; Daniel Cheever, from 1682 untilhe
in office by his son Israel Cheever about 1693. In 1691, the prisonkeeper presented a petition for relief, which is inserted, as characteristic of that
was succeeded
period
"
ment; which oxen your petitioner desires he may have, and then would put off his old oxen to help supply him with necesAlso he further saries for his family. desires to add that Sylvester Hayes hath lain upon him this many months, without any consideration from Charlestown, which your petitioner is not able to
bear,
To
the honored Court for the
County
therefore
desires
this
redress
of
this
also.
of Middlesex, holden in Cambridge by adjournment this llth day of May 1691,

the petition of Daniel Cheever, keeper of the Prison in Cambridge humbly sheweth,
straits
honored Court in
particular
But not
further to be troublesome, your
petitioner earnestly requests your serious consideration of what is premised, and
That your poor and want
petitioner is in great at present, by reason
remains your Honors' most humble

vant."
1
ser-
Court Files.
jail
for
that his salary hath not been paid hi.n some considerable time past, and hav-
The
stood on the northerly side
of Winthrop
ing a considerable family depending on him for maintenance, he is compelled to
make
hoping
may
complaint to this honored Court, begging some order be taken speedily for his supply,
his
to find relief,
which otherwise cannot be done without

great loss and
damage to your petitioner and he would further inform this Court, that George Newbe, who is under bond to pay a fine imposed on him by this Court,
;
Street, between Winthrop Square and Eliot Street; and this continued to be the place for imprisonment until the new county buildings were erected at East Cambridge. 2 This was when the witchcraft excitement was at its extreme height, and the prisons in several counties were put in
requisition to confine the unhappy victims who were accused in Essex.
CIVIL HISTORY.
217
the chymneys in the new Goal, and what also may be needfull for the reception of and securing of criminals." " extended to Linnaean Street, and Until 1720, the " Common included also a few acres, lying in a nearly square form, at the
1 This northwesterly corner of Linnaean Street and North Avenue. " Place of Exextreme point of the Common was set apart as a " Gallows ecution," or Lot," as it was more familiarly called. And after the Common was reduced to its present size, and the
lots in this
dividuals, about one acre in its
square fronting on the streets, had been granted to inextreme northwesterly corner was
its
reserved for
former use, until
trials,
and imprisonments, and
executions were transferred to East Cambridge. 2 It was entered from North Avenue through a bridleway or passage, between
Lancaster Place and Arlington Street, now called Stone Court. The names and the number of the wretched convicts who suffered the extreme penalty of the law at this " Place of ExecuOne horrible example, however, tion," are unknown to me. was recorded by Professor Winthrop, in his interleaved Almanac, " in Camunder date of terrible 1755
Sept. 18,
:
spectacle
Codman of Charlestown, bridge executed for petit treason, for murdering their said master by poison. They were drawn upon a sled to the place of execution
:
two negroes belonging
to Capt.
and Mark, a fellow about 30, was hanged and Phillis, an old The " Boston Evening Post," of creature, was burnt to death." " the fellow was hanged, Sept. 22, states more particularly, that and the woman burned at a stake about ten yards distant from
;
the gallows. They both confessed themselves guilty of the crime for which they suffered, acknowledged the justice of their
sentence,
Mark was brought down
and died very penitent. After execution, the body of to Charlestown Common, and hanged
Dr. Inin chains on a gibbet erected there for that purpose." crease Mather, in his diary, printed in the first volume of the " Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society," page 320, " there were ,three persays that on the 22d of September, 1681, an Englishman for a rape ; a negro sons executed in Boston,
1
Delineated on an old plan in the City
Hall.
2
land," etc. It was sold on the 24th of the the same month to William Frost, and described as
This
lot
was described
in
the Pro-
"about one acre of land, called the Gallows Lot, in front of the house of James Rule, and separated from his real estate by a bridleway leading from the county road to said
prietors' Records, April 3, 1826, as
bounded "easterly, southerly, and westerly, by his own land, northerly and northeasterly by a bridle-way, lead-
ing from the county road to land belonging to Mary Stone and Susanna Jarvis,"
etc.
218
for
burning a house at Northampton ; and a negro woman who burnt two houses at Roxbury, July 12, in one of which a child was burnt to death. The negro woman was burnt to death, the first that has suffered such a death in New England." It is devoutly to be hoped that the woman who thus expiated her " that has suffered crime at Cambridge, in 1755, was the last such a death in New England." " " Ye have the and the judicious repoor with you always but often a very perplexing is an lief of their wants important
man
For several years, as will be related in chapter xv., the church assumed this duty, and made suitable provision for the It does not distinctly appear at what destitute and distressed. time the management of this charity passed into the hands of The earliest reference to this subject which I find on the town. " Jane the Town Records is under date of June 29, 1663
duty.
:
Bourne [or Bowen] making her complaint to the selectmen, that she can find none in the town that is willing to entertain her to their service, and craving their favor that she may have liberty to provide for herself in some other town, with security to such the Townsmen do grant her request as shall so entertain her, in manner following, viz., so as that she place herself in some honest family and in case she stand in need of supply, or the town whither she shall resort do see reason to return her again
;
upon the town, she shall be still accepted as one of the poor of this place and this is to be understood and taken as binding to the town for one year next after the date hereof, any law, usage, or custom, to the contrary, notwithstanding." Again, under date " The terms of of April 8, 1672 agreement of the selectmen with Thomas Longhorne for the keeping of William Healyes That the said Thomas Longhorne is to bring child, as followeth up Hanna Hely, daughter of William Healy, born in the year 1671, providing all necessaries for her of food and clothing in the time of her minority and suitable education meet for one of her sex and degree and for his satisfaction, he is to be allowed out of the Town Rate five pounds a year for five years and if she
;
: :
should die before those five years be expired, or it should be provided for by any of its friends before that time, then he is to
annum
have no more than for the time he keep it, after five pounds per ; only forty shillings of said pay is to be made in cash, In like or, if not, then so much in other pay at money price." manner, for more than a hundred years after this date, provision appears to have been made for the poor, in private families,
CIVIL HISTORY.
219
under the supervision of the selectmen. At length it was determined, March 15, 1779, to purchase a house in which they might be gathered together, and their wants be more systematithe committee who were chosen Accordingly, cally supplied. at the last Town Meeting, March 1, 1779, to purchase a workhouse for the poor of the town, reported that they could purchase
of Deac.
"
Samuel Whittemore a
suitable house for that purpose.
Voted, That said Committee purchase the house and land belonging to said Whittemore, take a deed for the same for the town, and that the Treasurer be directed to give security for the
same, or hire the money to pay for it. Voted, that the Selectmen take care of the said house, and appoint some discreet perThe estate consisted of a dwelling house and son as Overseer."
twenty-five square rods of land on the northeasterly corner of Brighton and South streets, and was conveyed to the town by
deed dated March 29, 1779. For some reason this estate proved " that Mr. unsatisfactory and the town voted, March 1, 1785, Caleb Gannett, Stephen Dana, Esq., Capt. John Walton, Deac. Aaron Hill, and William Winthrop, Esq., be a committee to inquire whether there is any person who is desirous to purchase the house and land belonging to the town, situate near the causeway, which was bought for a workhouse and almshouse, and what and they are also to inquire whether another price it will fetch
; ;
place can be purchased in the town that will answer for said purThe committee poses, and upon what terms it can be had."
having been authorized so to do, reported, March 6, " 19, 10s. they sold the house at public auction for wards sold the -land for 37, 10s., both amounting They had also received an offer from the heirs of
;
1786, that
they afterto
57."
Abraham
Watson
.60.
of
This estate
a house and about five acres of land for the sum of x was on the southwesterly corner of North
Avenue and Cedar Street, and was conveyed to the town by The committee reported, June deed dated March 9, 1786. " that an house is 12, 1786, nearly finished and will be ready within a few days for the reception of the poor," and rec" also that ommended that it " be called the Poor's House " be chosen and appointed, as soon as may be, five persons, there distinct from the Selectmen, to be Overseers of the Poor," who
;
should have the general charge of the house, and provide all " " the food, fuel, clothing, and medicine, proper for necessary
occupants, and tools and materials necessary to their proper 1 Formerly owned by Matthew Cox.
em-
220
;
" that the Overseers should appoint a suitable person " cause his famto be Warden of the Poor's House," who should
ployment
and behave at all times soberly, quietly, and regularly particularly he shall cause them decently, orderly, to attend the public worship on Sundays as often and generally " and he " shall endeavor to form the as conveniently may be paupers under his care to habits of economy, frugality, temperance, sobriety, and industry; particularly he shall keep them employed in such useful and profitable labors as they may be respectively able to perform, within doors or without doors, having regard to their different sexes, ages, bodily strength, former habits of life, and all other circumstances, with the approbation " of the Overseers and that they should also appoint a suitable and physician, employ all necessary servants. The Warden
lives ily to lead their
;
should be required to pay all the earnings of the paupers, monthly, to the Overseers, who should pay the same, half yearly, to the Treasurer, drawing on him for the funds necessary to de-
count of
and the Treasurer should keep a separate acsuch receipts and payments. Finally, " the Overseers of the Poor shall from time to time make such regulations, not
fray all charges
all
;
inconsistent with these general regulations, the laws of the Commonwealth, or the principles of humanity and benevolence, as
they
may
judge
fit
and the
shall
affairs of it
for the better ordering of the Poor's House which regulations so by them made shall be ;
binding until the expiration of the year for which such Overseers be chosen, or until they shall be by them revoked." This
report was accepted
and Dr. William Kneeland, Mr. Jeduthun ; Deac. Aaron Hill, Mr. Ebenezer Stedman, and Mr. Wellington, Edward Jackson, were thereupon elected as the first " Overseers of the Poor, distinct from the Selectmen."
In this house, and under such regulations, the pauper establishment was admininistered until 1818, when a new Almshouse was erected in Cambridgeport. By deed dated April 2, 1818, Jonathan L. Austin and Benjamin Austin conveyed to the town
about eleven acres of land, being the whole square bounded by Harvard, Norfolk, Austin, and Prospect streets, except one house lot, previously sold, at the corner of Norfolk and Austin streets, "measuring 100 feet on each of said streets, 100 feet on the
The Overwesterly side, and 78 feet on the northerly side." seers reported to the town, Nov. 2, 1818, that had sold the they old Almshouse to Jonathan Fowle, for $454.50, and had erected
CIVIL HISTORY.
221
on the lot purchased of the Austins a brick house 1 55 feet long, 36 feet wide, about half three stories high, and the other half two stories high, with accommodations for sixty persons, and had removed the paupers into it. A code of Rules and Regulations, an Address by Royal Makepeace, on behalf of the Overseers,
and a Sermon delivered in the Almshouse by Rev. Dr. Holmes, in September, 1818, are entered at full length on the
Records of the Overseers of the Poor.
The new location of the Almshouse did not prove satisfactory and a desire for further change was soon manifested. As early as Nov. 14, 1831, a Town-house having been erected on the northeasterly corner of the square, a committee was appointed by the town " to cause the Almshouse lands to be surveyed and laid out into proper streets and building-lots, and to ascertain what the same may be sold for also to ascertain for what sum a suitable spot of ground for an Almshouse may be purchased, and a proper and suitable Almshouse erected thereon." During the night pre;
ceding July 30, 1836, the Almshouse, together with the outbuildings, was utterly consumed by fire, and one of its wretched
inmates perished. The order for surveying the Almshouse lands was renewed, Aug. 22, 1836 and it was further ordered, that the building-lots be offered for sale at auction. Meantime, the town voted, Aug. 8, 1836, " that the Overseers of the Poor be authorised to make such temporary provision for the support of the Town's Poor, and such of the State's Poor as are not of
;
competent health to labor, by hiring a building, or otherwise, as they may consider for the interest of the town." The Overseers
accordingly hired a spacious house, originally designed for a tavern, on the northerly side of Main Street, nearly opposite to Osborn Street, which was occupied until a new Almshouse was
erected at Riverside.
The town purchased, Dec. 9, 1836, of Amos Hazeltine, for $5,600, eleven and a quarter acres of land, bordering on Charles River, and extending from Western Avenue nearly to River Street, together with two acres and three quarters on the opposite
side
of
Western Avenue, extending from the
river to
Putnam
1
Street.
committee reported
first
in April, 1838, that
This house stood on the westerly side of Norfolk Street, opposite to Worcester It contained "a kitchen, 30X15 Street.
feet,
a bathing room, and three
cells,
in
the basement story; a work-room 30X15 feet, and six other sizable rooms, in the
and ten chambers in the second a large garret, 55X24 feet, and a Connected with the cellar, 34X24 feet." house were a wood-house, 30X15 feet, and a barn 35X25 feet. The land cost $1,750;
story;
;
story
the buildings, $4,851.77
total, $6,601.77.
222
first mentioned lot, and the paupers were again placed
brick Almshouse had been constructed on the

at an expense of $7,490.90 ; in a comfortable habitation.
Within a few years afterwards, a desire was manifested to abandon this pleasant spot, which had attained a greatly increased marketable value, and to try the experiment of farming
scale. Accordingly the city purchased, Aug. 7, 1849, Samuel Smith and Spencer Cook, for $12,000, about thirtytwo acres of land, situated partly in the northwesterly corner of Cambridge and partly in the southwesterly corner of Somerville, and erected a stone Almshouse of the size and fashion then prevalent. The cost of the whole establishment was reported by a com-
on a larger
of
mittee to be,
for the land, $12,000; for the house, $32,970.69;
for fences, furniture, etc., $3,000; total, $47,970.69.
The house
was formally placed
April 3, 1851, with ence of a large assembly of citizens, and the paupers were transferred to their
in the custody of the Overseers of the Poor, much congratulatory speech-making, in pres-
new home.
When
this
house was erected,
its
magnificent proportions were considered necessary for the accommodation of the large number of State paupers then under the
charge of the city. Shortly afterwards, the Commonwealth a new erected State Almshouses, and withdrew adopted policy, its paupers from the care of cities and towns. Complaints were
uttered, that the erection of so large a house for so
few inmates
was unnecessary, and involved an extravagant outlay of money. But such complaints are no longer heard partly, because the
;
increase of city paupers has kept pace with the rapidly increasing population, until the house is nearly if not altogether filled ; and partly, because the citizens have become accustomed to expenditures so
much more unnecessary and extravagant, that this has dwindled into comparative insignificance. The old Almshouse
(together with the land) was sold,
May
22, 1851, to Little
&
Brown, publishers and

it
into an
booksellers, for $24,000 ; they converted establishment for the manufacture of books, and erected
many
estate
it
additional buildings. Subsequently the larger part of the became the property of H. O. Houghton & Co., by whom
of the
was further embellished and rendered famous as the seat
Riverside Press.
Ordinaries, or houses of public entertainment, were established
at a very early period.
The General Court ordered, March 4, " that no 1634-5, persons whatsoever shall keep a common victwithout license from the Court, under the ualling house, penalty
CIVIL HISTORY.
of
223
" to keep granting licenses houses of common entertainment, and to retail wine, beer, &c." was transferred to the County Courts, May 26, 1647, " so as this Court may not be thereby hindered in their more weighty af-
xx8 a week."
.
The power
of
fairs."
Various laws were enacted, regulating such houses,
3 notably in 1645 ; yet so necessary were they considered, that the town of Concord was presented by the grand jury, June 19, 1660,
" for not having a common house of entertainment," and was " enjoined to present a meet person to be allowed at the next Court at Cambridge for that employment, on penalty of 5., and
s d pay costs of Court, 2 and 6 ." Great caution was manifested in the appointment of grave and respectable citizens to keep ordinaries and to sell intoxicating drinks. The first person licensed by the General Court, Sept. 8, " to 1636, keepe a house of intertainment at Newe Towne," was Thomas Chesholme 4 a deacon of the church, and afterwards Steward of Harvard College. He was also licensed "to draw wine at Cambridge," May 13, 1640. 5 His dwelling-house was on a lot at the northwest corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets, adjoining the lot on which the first meeting-house was erected so that the first church edifice and the first tavern in Cambridge stood side by side and from all which is known of Deacon
to
Chesholme's character, it may be confidently believed that he permitted nothing to be done in the one which could bring dis" allowed to sell wine grace upon the other. The first person " and strong water in Cambridge, March 12, 1637-8, 6 was Mr.
Nicholas Danforth, a selectman, a representative in the General He reCourt, and one of the most active and honored citizens.
sided on the northerly side of
Bow Street, near Plympton Street, but died about a month after the date of his license. The next " Mr. Nathaniell year, May 22, 1639, Sparhawke was permitted to drawe wine and strong water for Cambridge. 7 He also was
1
Mass.
Ibid.,
Col. Rec.,
ii.
i.
140.
2 8
188.
wine when above half a pint of wine is allowed at one time to one person to drink
:
It was then forbidden to "suffer
any
to
drunk or drink excessively, or continue tippling above the space of half an hour, in any of their said houses, under penalty of 5s. for every such offence suffered; and
be
provided that it shall be lawful for any strangers, or lodgers, or any person or persons, in an orderly way, to continue in such houses of common entertainment during meal times, or upon lawful business, what time their occasions shall require."
4 6 6
7
every person found drunk in the said houses or elsewhere shall forfeit 10s., and
for every excessive drinking he shall forfeit 3s. 4e?. ; for sitting idle and continuing
Mass. Col. Rec., ii. 100. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 180.

Ibid.,
Ibid.,
i. i.
292. 221.
i.
drinking above half an hour, 2s. Grf. and it id declared to be excessive drinking of
;
Mass.
Col. Rec.,
259.
224
a deacon of the church, and resided on the easterly side of Brighton Street, about midway between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, in the house formerly owned and occupied by the
Reverend Samuel Stone.
We come
long
grant liberty to Andrew Belcher to sell beer and "1 of strangers and the good of the town entertainment bread, for and the County Court granted him a license, June 20, 1654, " to Mr. entertainment at a house of
;
known Townsmen do
next to the establishment of an ordinary which " as the " Blue Anchor Tavern." Dec. 27, 1652,
was
The
keep
public
Cambridge."
Belcher was a trustworthy man, occasionally employed by the General Court to perform important duties. He was respectably connected his wife was daughter of Mr. Nicholas Danforth and
;
Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth their son, Andrew Belcher, Jr., was a member of the Council, and his son, Jonathan It Belcher, was Governor of Massachusetts and of New Jersey. " he first a beer and bread not where does shop, opened appear
sister of
;
' '
or a " house of public entertainment

tober, 1671, his son
but on the first of Octhen Andrew, residing in Hartford, Conn., of Deacon Thomas Beal, an of Sarah widow Beal, purchased estate at the northeast corner of Brighton arid Mount Auburn streets, where the sign of the Blue Anchor was soon afterwards
;
"
Mr. Belcher was licensed for the last time in April, which year he probably died. In April, 1674, license was granted to his widow Elizabeth Belcher, and afterwards from year to year until she died, June 26, 1680. She was succeeded by her son Andrew Belcher, who was licensed in 1681 and
displayed.
1673, in
In September, 1682, Capt. Belcher sold the estate to his brother-in-law Jonathan Remington, who performed the duties
1682. a
when he died, and was succeeded by widow, Martha Remington, daughter of the first Andrew Belcher. The Belcher family ceased to be inn-holders May 12, 1705, when the widow and children of Captain Remington sold to
of host until April 21, 1700,
his
near the market-place, commonly Joseph Hovey the estate called and known by the sign of the Blue Anchor." Joseph Hovey retained the house only four years, and then sold it to his
brother John Hovey,
i
"
who
died in 1715.
a
His widow Abiel Hovey
was not, as Rev. Dr. Although Holmes supposed, "the first license for an inn, in Cambridge" (Coll. Mass. Hist,
this
Soc., vii. 28),
it
Capt. Belcher's son Jonathan, afterwards Governor of Massachusetts, was born Jan. 8, 1681-2, and probably in this
house,
may
most important, in respect ter and permanency.
be regarded as the to its charac-
CIVIL HISTORY.
225
received license for two years, and then married Edmund Angier, who conducted the business until April 4, 1724, when he died
and his widow Abiel again assumed charge of the house she married Isaac Watson, Aug. 27, 1725, in whose name business was transacted about four years, when it passed into the hands of John Hovey, son of the former owner. In November, 1731, the General Court authorized the Court of Sessions to grant (out of the usual season) to Joseph Bean, late of Boston, " a license to
;
keep a Tavern in Cambridge, in the house of Mr. John Hovey, which he hath lately hired, and has for many years past been used as a house of public entertainment." On the 23d of April, 1737, Mr. Bean bought of Nathaniel Hancock an estate on the westerly side of Brighton Street, about midway between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, to which he transferred the sign of the Blue Anchor and for nearly a century afterwards it was a famous Tavern. Mr. Bean sold the estate, Jan. 26, 1749, to Ebenezer Bradish Mr. Bradish died in 1785, and his son sold Feb. to Israel it, 29, 1796, Porter, who is well remembered by now died and who many living, May 30, 1837, aged 99, according to the town record. A part of the tavern-house remains stand; ;
ing,
though much changed in appearance. John Jackson kept a public house near the northwesterly angle of Brattle Street and Brattle Square, probably from about 1672 until 1695, when he was succeeded by Capt. Josiah Parker, who purchased the estate in 1699, and was an inn-holder as late as 2 1725, and perhaps until he died in July or August, 1731.
1
1
At
this
house the Selectmen met for
their patronage of the bar.
Among
the
the transaction of public business, and probably paid for the use of rooms by
paid
ing
:
bills
remaining on
file is
the follow-
" The Selectmen of the town of Cambridge to Eben r Bradish, March, 1769, To dinners and drink, " To flip and punch, April, " To wine and eating, May 1, " To dinners, drink and suppers, May, To flip and cheese, To wine and flip, " To punch, June, " To punch and eating, July, " To punch and cheese, August, " To punch and flip, Oct.,
.
Dr.
0.17.
0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0.
0. 2. 6.
18.
1.
4.
2.
4. 3.
0.
4.
8 8
To
Dec., Jan., 1770,
dinners and drink,
0. 13.
&
Feb., Sundries,
0.12.
4.
10.
7"
It does not distinctly appear
whether
in
1672 he was punished for unlawfully entertaining students.
Samuel Gibson was an innholder; but

15
The
following depo-
226
Mount Auburn
for many years, stood on the Street, about midway between
Another tavern, somewhat famous

southerly side of
Brighton and Dunster Streets. It seems to have been first opened in 1726, by John Stedman, grandson of Robert Stedman, He was succeeded, in 1728, the former owner of the same estate. in 1734, by her son and Sarah his Stedman, she, widow, by
Ebenezer Stedman, who died Sept. 13, 1785, aged 76. Time would fail me should I attempt to enumerate and describe all the inn-holders who have flourished in Cambridge.
During the first century after the foundation of the town, licenses were granted to the following named persons (and perhaps others) besides those who have already been mentioned
:
Daniel Champney, 1691.
James
Cutler, 1718-1735.
William Russell, 1696-1715. Samuel Phipps, 1707-1709. Elizabeth Phipps, 1710-1712.
Thomas Thompson, 1721-1724.
Thomas Brown,
Elizabeth Thompson, 1725. 1721.
Edward
Marrett, 1709.
Susanna Stacey, 1709, 1713-1715. Hannah Stacey, 1712, 1716-1724. Ruth Child, 1713-1715. Samuel Robinson, 1714-1720. John Smith, 1715-1717. James Ingham, 1716-1720. Samuel Smith, 1716-1735.
William Bond, 1722-1724. Peter Oliver, 1727-1729. Joshua Gamage, 1729-1731. Daniel Champney, Jr., 1730-1733. Thomas Holt, 1730-1731. Thomas Dana, 1731-1735. William Bowen, 1732. Jonathan Starr, 1735.
During the early part of the present century, the Davenport Tavern, at the westerly corner of North Avenue and Beech and in Street, was widely celebrated for the concoction of flip
;
sition
and confessions are preserved in " Urian County Court Oakes, aged 14 yeares and upward do testifie that about 10 dayes since he and Percifall Greene being gathering up fruite in the Marshals orchard, Mr. Edw: Pelham came to them with a fowling peece in his hand and desired him to shoot a m foule of G Farlengs, and when he was disapoynted there, he brought him to y e fence between y e Marshals yard and Capt. Gookins, where sat a turkie, and desired him to shoot y', w ch he accordingly did, and y e fowle being killed y e sd Pelham took y, coate of y e s d Urian and wrapt up the turkie in it, and sent it by Percifall Greene to Samuel Gibsons and bid
the files of the
:
.
fesse
y' about 10 dayes sence Percifall Greene came to his house and brought a
turkie wrapt
there,
up
in a coate
and
left it
" Samuel Gibson, Records, Oct. 1, 1672. being convicted of enterteyneing some of the stud' 8 contrary to law, is sentenced to be admonished and to pay a fine of forty
-
and was dressed by his wife, and baked in the oven, and in the night following it was eaten by Mr. Pelham, John " Goodte -" etc. Wise, and Russell, stud wife Gibson his wife do confesse y* w* is above related is y e truth, and y' she suspected it not to be stoalen, but that Mr. Pelham said he came by it honestly, and was frequently at their house. 23 (7) 1672." The result appears on the Court
him, leave
"
it
at y e said Gibsons house."
Samuel Gibson being examined do cou-
And shillings in money. mitted until it be pd ."
he stands com-
CIVIL HISTORY.
the easterly sections of the
227
town the
streets, the
corner of
Main and Pearl
hostelries at the easterly westerly corner of Main
and Douglass streets, near the westerly corner of Main and Moore streets, at the junction of Main Street and Broadway (and another a few rods farther eastward), at the junction of Cambridge and Bridge streets, and at the junction of Bridge and Gore streets, besides a generous local patronage, reaped an abundant harvest from the country teams engaged in transporting merchandise to and from Boston which teams almost entirely disappeared immediately after the construction of railroads, and
;
the inns did not long afterwards flourish. Besides innkeepers, the County Court licensed others to
intoxicating liquors by ers, in addition to those
retail.
sell
Among
the
names
of such retail-
who have
first
already been mentioned, the

:
following appear during the
century
John Stedraan, 1653-1686.

William Manning, 1654-1686. Edmund Angier, 1674-1686. Samuel Andrew, 1684-1691.
William Andrew, 1701. Mrs. Seeth Andrew, 1702-1703. Zachariah Hicks, 1704-1717. Martha Remington, 1705-1712.
Jonathan Remington, 1713-1735. Nathaniel Hancock, Jr., 1707-1 709. Mary Bordman, 1708-1714. John Stedman, 1717-1724. Sarah Fessenden, 1720-1735.
Mary Oliver, 1731-1732. Edward Marrett, 1733-1735.

age found
;
Two
of these retailers in their old
it
necessary to
still
appeal to the
preserved on
County Court for

file,
relief
their petitions are
to wit
"
To
perity wished.
the honored Court assembled at Cambridge, all prosThease are to informe you that I wase brought
up in an honest collinge in ould England, where we sould all sortes of goodes and strong waters, withought offence. I have bine now in this land forty-nine yeres and upwards in this towne,
and have payd to the magistre and ministre, and to towne that I have helped to beare the burcharges, and all willingly then and heate of the daye and now I am 74 yers and upward, yet I can abide in my shope and attend my collinge, though
;
to be gotten by anye thinge I can by ; that my trad will not maintayne my ffamily and other charges of towne and counThere being so many sellers that never trey and ministrye.
litell is
served for a trade, I desire that it might be no offence to aney that I continue in that collinge I was brought up to, and may
have yo r leave to sell rome, it being a commodity sallabell and and many that was allowed to be brought into the countrey
;
228
is
formerly a commodity
not now.
Hopeing you
will grant
me
my
request, I rest
7,
y servant,
EDMUND ANGIER."
sitting
April
1686.
"To
the honored
br
.,
County Court
1690.
Charlestown, 24, 8
The
petition of
by adjournment John Stedman
at
of
Cambridge, aged 88,
sheweth, That your
known, hath had a license to sell Rum which never was discontinued till the Revolution, since which he would have sought for the renewal of it, had he had the least notice when or where he ought to apply himself for it, or that any others renewed theirs: That your petitioner wonders that his daughter Sharp should be summoned to this Court for selling
without license, she never having sold any at Cambridg on her own or her husband's account, but upon the sole and proper account and by the order of your petitioner, who is well assured
that he hath never given cause to be dealt with in extremity, he having never bin behindhand in paying for his draft, or in serv-
petitioner, as is well for many years past,
Rum
ing the country to his power. Your petitioner therefore praies that his said daughter Sharp may no further be molested or dis-
couraged from her dutiful and charitable assistance of your petitioner for his support and comfort in his extream old age, and
that a license
may be
granted him as formerly.
So praies your
humble
servant,
JOHN STEDMAN."
In addition to innholders and retailers, venders of beer and bread were licensed, one of whom, Andrew Belcher, has already been mentioned. Another was Mrs. Bradish, probably the wife of Robert Bradish, 1 who resided on the westerly corner of Har-
vard and Holyoke streets, where the Holyoke House now stands. The following appeal to the County Court, without date, is in the handwriting of President Dunster, and is preserved in the files for 1654
:
" Honored Gentlemen, as far as it may stand with the wholesome orders and prudential laws of the country for the publick weal, I can very freely speak with and write in the behalf of sister Bradish, that shee might be encouraged and countenanced in her present calling for of bread and and baking
of
:
brewing selling penny bear, without which shee canot continue to bake In both which callings such is her art, way and skill, that shee doth vend such comfortable penniworths for the reliefe of all that send
1 The license may have been granted to her husband been the active manager of the business.
;
but she seems to have
CIVIL HISTORY.
229
unto her as elsewhere they can seldom meet with. Shee was complained of unto me for harboring students unseasonably spending there their time and parents' estate but upon exam;
ination I found
sirous that I
a misinformation, and that shee was most deshould limit or absolutely prohibit any ;that in case
it
want of comfortable bread or bear in the College should thither resort and then not to spend above a only they a nor above two shillings in a quarter of a year man, penny which order shee carefully observed in all ordinary cases. How
of sickness or
far she
had publick allowance by the townsmen hertofore I leave any of our townsmen that are with you to shew and how good effects for the promoting of the weal publick and how Christian a thing in itself godly emulation is, as your historical knowledge informs you so your experience abundantly demas the measures of monopolyes. onstrates, contrarywise undoing The Lord to guide and prosper all your administrations shall bee the prayer of yours in what he can. H. DUNSTER."
to Br. Goff or
:
From time
ordinaries
:
to time the
Court established a scale
of prices for
At a meeting of the magistrates and committee to take the Treasurer's account, Dec. 30, 1679 ; For the regulating of expenses at the County Courts, it is ordered that henceforth, for
the juries, there shall be allowed in money,
"
For For For
their breakfast,
one man,
"
" " "
0. 0. 4.
their dinner,
0. 1. 3. 0. 1. 0.
their supper,
for the magistrates,
For
dinner,
" "
" "
0. 2. 0.
0. 1. 6. 0.
For supper,
for the marshal!
and constables, one meal,
1.0.
"
And
;
sums
shall
wine and beer, &c., to be included in the abovesaid and if any ordinary shall exceed the abovesaid order, it be at their own peril."
In the Proprietors' Records, 1635, it is stated that a large lot, " is now to be enoriginally designed for Richard Saltonstall, tered the Market Place." It was bounded northerly on Mount
Auburn
Street, easterly on Brighton Street, and southerly on Winthrop Street. This lot retained the name of Market Place
;
more than two hundred years

1
but there
is
no evidence that any
Middlesex Co. Rec.
230
market house was ever erected thereon. 1 It may have been used, between long ago, as an open mart for the interchange of goods of this, no proof remains. even but consumers and producers
;
Again, when Davenport

in the Phips Farm, a of Market Street and
& Makepeace,
;
in 1805, laid out streets
Market Place was reserved at the junction Broadway but the time has not yet arrived
In July, 1812, the first for appropriating it to its intended use. effectual movement was made for securing the long-desired ac" Premising that a convenient market-stall, sufficiently capacious to admit meat and other articles to be exposed for sale, protected by a roof or covering from the rains and the sun, erected near the town pump in Cambridge, will be of general benefit," twenty-four persons subscribed an agreement for The " town pump " stood the accomplishment of that purpose. and the Square was then near the centre of Harvard Square much smaller than it now is, having since that period been enOn the westerly larged on the northeasterly and westerly sides. of this was a about erected, Square portion building thirty-four feet long and twenty-five feet wide, with posts, and rails around it, probably encumbering nearly the whole space granted for that use by the proprietors of common lands ; namely, " a square piece, measuring forty-six feet on each side." John Bowers engaged to erect the building for such price as should be determined by Deac. Josiah Moore, Deac. John Watson, and Mr. Thomas MaThe referees reported, Nov. 5, 1812, that Mr. Bowers was son.
commodation.
entitled to $210.55, for labor and materials, and that materials had been furnished by subscribers, amounting to $38.39. They also estimated that it would cost $81.00 additional " to complete the coving, furnish posts and railings around the house, steps to each door, 2 raising the earth around it, providing benches, cleaver, block, and additional hooks, painting the building, and procur-
ing Dearborn's patent Balance, with a scale attached thereto, that 3 will weigh from half a pound to five hundred and forty weight."
1
The Market Place
is
now
generally
Winthrop Square. After remaining open and common for two centuries, on petition of Levi Farwell and others,
called
also that the town shall have a right to remove the enclosure, if they shall hereafter see fit."
2 One door was at the south end, and one on the east side, To defray the whole cost, amounting " a fund for to $329.94, and to provide
April 7, 1834, the Selectmen were authorized " to permit Market Place, so called,
to be enclosed as they shall
judge for the
ornament and
petitioners shall be of
;
benefit of the
town and the
provided that the enclosure a permanent nature and with;
repairs," a joint stock was established of forty shares, valued at ten dollars, each, which were immediately taken as follows :
out expense to the town
and provided
Oliver Wendell, three shares
Caleb Gan-
CIVIL HISTORY.
231
their meeting, Jan. 11, 1813, the proprietors established several Regulations, the first three of which were as follows
:
At
person occupying said market house shall be permitted to use or vend spirituous liquors therein, except on such public
1.
"
No
occasions,
and under such
restrictions,
as the committee
may
hereafter agree to and direct. 2. That no fire be carried into or kept in the market house, and that no cigars or pipes be allowed
to be
smoked therein. 3. That no shell or other fish be permitted to be kept in said market house, at any season of the
year."
1
The first occupant of the market house seems to have been Joel Wellington, who paid rent for the quarter ending March 31, 1813; he also occupied it several years after April 1, 1814. The
second occupant was Henry Greenwood, under a lease dated March 31, 1813, in which lease the committee of the proprietors reserved " one quarter part of said house, viz., next to the bal-
ance and scale, for the purpose of accommodating those who may bring into the market, butter, eggs, or fowls, or any kinds of
sauce
;
but no person shall be admitted to vend therein such
articles of provision as are usually supplied
by butchers."
The
committee also reserved " the right of letting said market house on Wednesday and Thursday of Commencement week, without any deduction from the rent thereof." And it is worthy of note,
that, according to the Treasurer's account current, Israel Porter paid for the use of the market house on those two days and the
intervening night, the sum of twenty dollars, while the whole rent of the house for the year, exclusive of those days, was only
forty dollars.
Afterwards, this reservation of two days was dis-
continued, and the rent was gradually increased to eighty dollars
per annum, and taxes.

lease of the ground under and around the market house had been granted by the Proprietors of Common Lands, extending to
two ; John Mellen, two Josiah Moore, two Samuel Bartlett, two Israel Porter, two Sidney Willard, one Henry William Billiard, two Ware, one Thomas Warland, one Artenatus Moore, one Richard Bordman, two Eliab W. Metcalf, one John Farrar, one John T.
nett,
;
;
Kirkland, two;
Joseph
for
McKean's
Jr.,
Levi Hedge, including one subscription,

;
James Read,
two Joseph S. Read, himself and William Brown, one;

for himself
and William Warland, one Samuel Samuel Child, Jr., one Jonas one Thomas Austin, one Joseph Holmes, one Royal Morse, one John Walton, for himself and Ebenezer Stedman, Jr., one Jacob H. Bates, one William Gamage, one. 1 A cellar was constructed in 1816, and was rented for fifteen dollars per annum " to to Zenas C. Atwood, keep for sale oysters no kind of gambling, tippling, or riself
;
Child, one d Wyeth, 3
James Munroe,
and Torrey Hancock, one; John Warland, for him-
otous behaviour, to be suffered in said

lar."
eel-
232
April
1,
1833.
But
at
mittee, of which
Abraham
a town meeting, April 3, 1826, a ComHilliard was chairman, submitted an
elaborate Report concerning the respective rights of the Town and the Proprietors of Common Lands in and to several lots therein described, and concerning sundry encroachments on the
The report recited the history of the lot on public highways. which the Market House stood, showing that, after it had been
occupied about
fifty
years by a court house,
it
for public travel during a still longer period,
had remained open from about 1760 to
1812, and that the town had thus acquired the right of passage over it as a public highway which report was accepted, and arrangements were made to secure the immediate or future re;
encroachments on any of the public highways in the a meeting of the Proprietors of the Market House, March 5, 1827, " a deed was presented by a committee of the town of Cambridge, for the Proprietors to sign, thereby acknowledging that they have no right or title to the land whereon
moval
of all
town.
At
the market house

said deed,
now
stands
the proprietors refused to sign
and voted, that William Hilliard, Levi Far well, and Holmes be a committee for the purpose of ascertaining Joseph whether a suitable lot of land can be procured upon which to remove the market house, and upon what terms. After an ineffectual negotiation, lasting more than two years, resort was had to legal process. At the September term of the Court of Common Pleas, 1829, an indictment was presented by the Grand Jury
against the Proprietors of the Market House, for keeping up and " a certain wooden maintaining building, extending in length feet in and breadth thirty-four twenty-five feet, with a cellar
under the same, and with posts and railing on the sides thereof extending in length forty feet, standing upon the common and The case was conpublic highway in the town of Cambridge." tinued from term to term until June, 1830, when the result is thus recorded " And now, Asahel Stearns, Esq., Attorney for
:
in this behalf, says, the within named defendants having paid the costs of prosecution, and given satisfactory security for the removal of the nuisance within forty days from this seventeenth of June, 1830, he will no further prosecute this indictment." In due time the building was removed, and the
the
Commonwealth
Square has since remained open and unobstructed.
The
Street
enclosure at the corner of North

is
Avenue and Garden
generally supposed to be the most ancient burial-place
CIVIL HISTORY.
in
4,
233
Cambridge. It was used for that purpose as early as January, " 1635-6, when it was ordered, that the burying-place sh^ll be paled in whereof John Taylcot is to do 2 rod, Georg Steele 3 rod and a gate, Thomas Hosmer 3 rod, Mathew Allen 1 rod, and Andrew Warner appointed to get the remainder done at a But at an earlier public charge and he is to have iiis. a rod." " Granted John Pratt we find this record date, April 7, 1634, two acres by the old burying-place, without the common pales." This evidently refers to some spot devoted to the burial of the Its location is not cerdead, earlier than the one then in use.
; ;
:
tainly
known, yet it is indicated with some degree of probability two circumstances: (1.) The lot owned by John Pratt in by was situated on the southerly side of Brattle Street, and on 1635,
both sides of Milliard Street. (2.) The "common pales" are supposed to denote the stockade which was erected in 1632, nearly, if not precisely in the line of the present Ash Street, and
of
which Dr. Holmes says traces existed when he wrote

It is not
his His-
unreasonable then to suppose that " the " old burying-place without the common pales may have been at or near the westerly corner of Brattle and Ash streets, in the
tory in 1800.
grounds now owned by Samuel Batchelder, Esq. hundred years after the second burial-place was ordered to be "paled in," the town enclosed it by a substantial stone wall,
wooden fence, or pales. The corporation of Harvard College contributed one sixth part of the expense, as appears by their Records under date of Oct. 20, 1735 " Whereas there is a good stone wall erected and erecting round the burying-place in Cambridge, which will come to about <150, and whereas there has been a considerable regard had to the College in building so good and handsome a wall in the front and the College has used, and expects to make use of the buryinstead of the old
:
ing-place as Providence gives occasion for it ; therefore, Voted, that as soon as the said stone wall shall be completed, the Treasurer pay the sum of twenty-five pounds to Samuel Danforth, William Brattle and Andrew Bordman, Esq ., a committee for the town to take care of the said fence." After another hundred " years, in his Preface to Epitaphs from the old Bury ing-ground in Cambridge," 1845, Mr. William Thaddeus Harris says, " It is
8
rather surprising, that, in this age of improvement, Cambridge should fall behind her neighbors, and suffer her ancient graveyard to lie neglected. Interesting as it is from containing within
its limits
the
'
tombs
of the prophets,' the spot
is
often visited by
234
;
the curious stranger

leaves
it
but
it
is
to be feared that he as often
with feelings of regret at its desolate appearance." It " has been almost should be added, that this " desolate appearance last thirty years, and, though not prowithin the removed entirely the spot. fusely ornamented, an air of quiet neatness now marks
This ground, however, was of such limited dimensions, that in the course of nearly two hundred years the mouldering remains The of some must have been disturbed, to give place to others. in two new the of the villages easterly part increasing population
town made the necessity urgent for additional room. Accordingly, at a Town-meeting, May 27, 1811, a committee was " to contract for a piece of land in the most eligible appointed
of the situation,
for
new burial-ground
in
Cambridgeport."
The
Committee reported, August 5, that they had selected a spot, and they were empowered to purchase it. On the first day of January, 1812, Jonathan L. and Benjamin Austin, for $791.67, conveyed to the town two acres one' quarter and twenty rods of land, bounded north by Broadway and east by Norfolk Street, with a right of way to Harvard Street by a passage forty feet wide. For more than half a century this ground was used as a
public burying-place, chiefly
by the inhabitants of Cambridgeand East Meantime the beautiful cemetery at port Cambridge. Mount Auburn was consecrated by solemn religious services, Sept. 24, 1831, and the less extensive but scarcely less beautiful and attractive Cambridge Cemetery was in like manner conIn one or the other of these cemeteries secrated, Nov. 1, 1854. of the inhabitants many purchased lots, and reverently removed to a more quiet and secluded resting place the remains of their
deceased friends.
The ground, being comparatively
disused for
burials, and divested of many treasures formerly deposited therein, gradually assumed a desolate and forlorn appearance, until a general desire was expressed to discontinue entirely its former use and to convert "it into a public park. Application was accordingly made to the General Court for permission to effect the desired change and on the 29th of April, 1865, it was
;
new
Resolved, that the city council of the city of Cambridge is hereby authorized, at the expense of said city, to remove the remains of the dead from the burial ground between Broadway
"
and Harvard Street
in
Ward Number Two,
in said
Cambridge,
to
the Cambridge Cemetery, or such other burial place in the vicinity of Cambridge as the relatives and friends of the deceased may
designate and provide
Said ground shall be surrounded by
CIVIL HISTORY.
remain unused for a public and street, unoccupied by any building, open as a public park. In due time the work was accomplished a suitable fence was erected, the ground properly graded, walks constructed, and trees planted, so that the park has already become ornamental to the
suitable enclosures,
shall forever
;
and
city.
Cambridge
Common
far as to Linnaean Street, including
originally extended northwestwardly as all the land thus far between
Garden Street and North Avenue. rades and other public purposes, but
son,
It
was used
for military pa-
In April, 1720, a survey was made for the purpose of division but the work was not completed until 1724, when that portion lying northerly of Waterhouse Street was laid out into lots, which were assigned
;
ing of the herd of cows, through and was therefore called the Cow-common.
especially for the safe keepthe nights of the summer sea-
to individuals.
its
The Common was thus reduced

It continued to
substantially to
be the property of the " Proprietors of Common Lands," until Nov. 20, 1769, when " Voted, that all the common lands belonging to the Prothey
present dimensions.
prietors, fronting the college,
commonly
called the
Town Com-
mons, not heretofore granted or allotted to any particular person or persons, or for any special or particular use, be and the same is hereby granted to the town of Cambridge, to be used as a training-field, to lie undivided, and to remain for that use forever
;
provided nevertheless, that if the said town should dispose of, grant, or appropriate the same, or any part thereof, at any time hereafter, to or for any other use than that aforementioned, that then and in such case the whole of the premises hereby granted to said town shall revert to the Proprietors granting the same, and
the present grant shall thereupon be deemed null and void, to
Across the westerly end of this burial place a large lot was reserved for the burial of paupers and strangers, generally called " the Strangers' Lot." In the Cambridge
1
all
to
upon an ancient Indian fireplace, and had remove nearly a ton of stones from the That part of the town being, acspot.
Chronicle,
Aug.
20,
1846, the late Mr.
cording to appearance, formerly a great place for Indian resort, we expected to
Daniel Stone, who had long been Superintendent of the ground, published some
come
across other relics of the Red men ; but before and since that time, there have
all
In February, 1826, Lemuel Johns, an Indian aged fifty-nine years, from the tribe that once owned Grafton, .... was buried
lowing
reminiscences, among which was the " Remarkable Coincidence.

:
fol-
been more than 2500 burials in

of the
parts
and we have made.

lot,
this is the
only discovery This was the only Indian
buried in the ground, and it would seem that he had been providentially brought
into the improvements of perhaps of his ancestors."
in rotation.
in the Strangers' Lot, as his turn came From two to three feet from
some
the top of the ground, the diggers
came
236
if
intents and purposes, as
the same had never been made."
At
a town meeting, March 3, 1828, the Selectmen reported that of the they had purchased for the town all the remaining rights "a and had taken and common in the lands, good Proprietors
deed thereof, and caused the same to be recorded." Common was fully released to the town, a desire was manifested to embellish it and convert it into a pleasant park. At a town meeting, April 7, 1823, a petition was presented by
sufficient
Before the
William Hilliard and others for liberty, at their own expense, " to make certain improvements on the Common in said town, by
setting out trees, fencing in certain parts, etc., not incompatible with the original grant to said town." The petition was referred
to a
" " matured Committee, who having nothing were discharged The matter seems then to have rested at the next meeting. until June 5, 1830, when it was enacted by the General Court, " that Israel Porter, Stephen Higginson, Asahel Stearns, Joseph Holmes, and Francis Dana, with their associates, be and they
are hereby authorized and empowered, at their own expense, and under the direction of two commissioners, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice of the council, to enclose such part or
parts of the Common in Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex, as the said commissioners shall determine, due regard being had to the public convenience and necessity. And the said commissioners, after giving due notice to all persons interested, shall have power to make such alterations with respect to the direction
of the roads
by which
the said
common
is
traversed, as they shall
see
fit,
and
common
shall designate the portion or portions of the said to be enclosed, by metes and bounds, and shall make
report of their doings, under their hands and seals, and file the same in the Secretary's office as soon as may be convenient after
the said service shall have been performed. And they are further authorized and empowered to level the surface of the ground, to
plant trees, and lay out and make walks within said enclosure, in such manner as, with the approbation of the selectmen of the said town, they may think proper, leaving suitable and convenient avenues for the
accommodation
of persons
who may have
oc-
casion to enter or pass over any part of said enclosure on foot. Be it further enacted, that the said enclosure shall be forever
kept and appropriated to public use only, as a public park, promenade, and place for military parade and no part thereof shall, on any pretence, be appropriated to any purpose of private use or emolument." l The work was accomplished in due time,
;
Mass. Spec. Laws,
vii. 7.
CIVIL HISTORY.
237
and the expenses were defrayed by the .petitioners and their associates. Meantime, a determined opposition to any enclosure of
manifested by many persons in East Camcertain market-men and others residing in Arlingand by bridge, and ton elsewhere, among whom Col. Jeduthun Wellington was especially prominent, notwithstanding the weight of more than On their petition a town meeting was held, fourscore years. The 1830. Oct. 8, people assembled in the old Court House, of usual the meeting but so great was the concourse that place
the
Common was
they immediately adjourned to the meeting-house of the First After an angry and stormy debate, it was voted, by a Parish.
majority of 169 against 119, to postpone indefinitely the further consideration of the first and second articles in the warrant, to wit: "Art. 1. To take into consideration the expediency of
petitioning the Legislature, at their next session, so far to repeal the Act passed in June last, authorizing certain persons therein
named
Cambridge Common, as to secure to the public the right to travel over the said Common by the roads heretofore Art. 2. To see if the town laid out by competent authority.
to inclose
any measures in relation to the proposed inclosure of Cambridge Common." Another meeting was held, Nov. 1, 1830, when it was voted by a majority of 299 against 211, to postpone indefinitely the further consideration of the question, whether the town will petition the Legislature so far to repeal the act authorwill take
" secure to the izing the enclosure of the Common, as to public the right to travel over said Common by the road passing by Dr.
Hill's
and the late Deacon Moore's l to the road leading to Canal 2 Bridge, and also the right to travel over said Common by the road heretofore called the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike." Although the town thus declined to ask for even a partial repeal
of the obnoxious act, it appears that individuals presented a petition to the General Court ; for at a meeting of " the subscribers
and ornamenting Cambridge Common," Jan. 11, " to was 1832, voted, request the Hon. Judge Fay and Prof. Ashmun to attend before the Committee of the Legislature to defend the interests of the subscribers." The appeal to the General Court being ineffectual, as a last resort a petition was prefor enclosing
it
sented to the County
Commissioners whereupon the town, and a of 343 voting by ballot, by majority against 111, appointed " Judge Story, Judge Fay, and William J. Whipple, to oppose before the County Commissioners, and otherwise, the petition of
;
Mason
Street.
Cambridge
Street.
238
for a
Jeduthun Wellington and others,
highway
to be laid out
over Cambridge Common." The history and result of this petition appear on the records of the Commissioners, January Term, " and others for a of Jeduthun 1835
:
new highway
notice
Cambridge Common was presented to the " at the May Term, 1832, and an order of Commissioners County
petition across
Wellington
was heard at the September Term, due deliberation, the Commissionand argument ers " did adjudge and determine that they had no jurisdiction in the premises, and could not by law lay out and establish a public highway over and across said Common, as prayed for," etc.
was
issued.
The
case
1832, when
after
"Whereupon
Court of
sioners,
this
the said petitioners applied to the Supreme Judicial Commonwealth for a mandamus upon said Commisrequiring them to exercise jurisdiction in the premises
;
and the
such
Supreme Judicial Court having refused to grant writ of mandamus, it is now ordered, that said petition,
said
which has been continued from term to term, to await the determination of the said Supreme Judicial Court, to this time, be dismissed." Costs of Court were assessed upon the petitioners, who
pursued this litigation no further. This result was highly gratifying and advantageous to the inhabitants of Old Cambridge, who thus secured in perpetuity, for themselves and their succesa spacious and pleasant park, rich in historical recollections. was here that Washington assumed the command of the Amerand here still flourishes the venerable elm, under ican army which tradition says he stood, while his commission was read and proclaimed. Long may that monumental tree escape the ravages of the rampant vandalism which disgraces the present age. But the benefit thus derived was not without its drawback. The old proverb, that " every rose has its thorn," was verified in The fierce and angry contest, which gave to Old this case.
sors,
It
its beautiful Common, indirectly transferred to Camthe public meetings of the town and the offices for the bridgeport transaction of municipal affairs. The old Court House 1 would
Cambridge
not contain the multitude assembled on the 8th of October, 1830,
and the meeting, according to a former custom, adjourned to the

1
It
was agreed, Dec.
24, 1632,
"that
the joint expense of the
every person undersubscribed shall meet every first Monday in every month within
to be used for both court
house.
Probably the town meetings were uniformly held in the meeting-house, or church edifice, until about 1708, when a house was erected at
the meeting-house."
had in
town and county, house and townA similar concert of action was 1756, when the town agreed to
share the expense of erecting a new court house, which was also used as a townhouse until 1831.
CIVIL HISTORY.
239
meeting-house of the First Parish. It is understood that some members of that Parish expressed a natural unwillingness to
have their house of worship used for the transaction of secular

the indulgence and expression of of this unpleasant meeting, the close After angry passions. some of the citizens discussed the propriety of erecting a house
business,
and
especially for
accommodate the voters, so that there might be no further occasion to use the church and it very naturally occurred to them that if such a house should be erected, it would be well to place it where it would best accommodate the whole town. 1 The result was the insertion of an article in the Warrant for the next town-meeting, Nov. 1, 1830, " to see if the town will erect a Town-house on the Almshouse lot, or some other suitable spot, as prayed for by John Cook and others." This article was referred to a committee consisting of three prominent citizens in each section of the town, to wit Samuel P. P. John Cook, Stephen Higginson, Asahel Fay, Royal Makepeace, Levi Stearns, Farwell, William Parmenter, Samuel S. Green, and Ephraim Buttrick. This committee reported, March 7,
sufficiently large to
;
:
1831, "-that, having considered the subject, it is, in their opinion, expedient that a town-house should be erected on the easterly part of the almshouse lot in the parish of Cambridgeport, as
more central to the population of the town than the present house, and that a house sufficient to accommodate the town may be built for a sum not exceeding $2,000 that when such house
:
town meetings should be held therein from and after that time." The report was accepted and Levi Farwell, Luther S. Gushing, and William Parmenter were appointed as a committee " to report a suitable location, prepare plans, and At the next town meeting, report estimates for a town-house." April 4, 1831, the committee recommended that the town-house be erected at the northeasterly corner of the Almshouse lot, 2 and presented a plan of an edifice, drawn by Asher Benjamin, and estimated to cost $2,505. The town accepted the report, elected a building committee, consisting of John Chamberlin, Luther S. Gushing, and William Parmenter, and authorized the Treasurer
shall
be finished,
all
pay the bills therefor, not exceeding the sum of $3,000. SubThe sequently an additional appropriation of $1,300 was made. total expense, including $296.09 for furniture and $145.13 for In asking for estimates, the fencing the lot, was $4,351.19.
to
1
Some
of these facts are stated on the
At
the corner of
authority of the late Samuel S. Green, Esq., as within his personal knowledge.
folk
streets,
Harvard and Norwhere the Catholic Church
now
stands.
240
long, roof one fourth of
" The house is to : building committee inserted this specification be of wood, forty-six feet in front or breadth, and seventy-six with posts twenty feet and four inches high, and the feet
its
base in height
on each end
of the building,
in addition to the aforesaid length, will be a portico, of six feet in width, consisting of six fluted Doric columns, with an entablature
was one principal hall, fiftynine feet long, of the whole width and height of the building. At the rear, or west end, were two rooms, half the full height, each eighteen feet long and fifteen feet wide, with an entry between them over which was another room extending across the whole, to which access was had by two flights of stairs from the The town held its first meeting in the new house principal hall. March 5, 1832, and all subsequent town-meetings were held in the same place. After Cambridge became a city in 1846, the 1 Mayor and Aldermen assembled in the southerly small room, and the Common Council in the larger room above, until the
and pediment."
Internally, there
:
evening of Dec. 29, 1853, when, in the midst of a furious snowFortustorm, the whole building was utterly consumed by fire.
nately, all the Records
and other books and public papers were preserved, the larger and more valuable portion being removed while the flames were raging, and the remainder being afterwards found in the safe uninjured, except that they were discolored by
smoke.
commodation
streets.
After the destruction of this edifice, rooms for the acof the City Government were obtained in the CamThis
edifice
bridge Athenaeum, at the easterly corner of

into the present City Hall.
Main and Pleasant was subsequently purchased and converted
For the space
of forty years after the erection of
West Boston
Bridge, Cambridgeport was an isolated village, separated from Old Cambridge by a belt of land half a mile in width, almost
wholly unoccupied by buildings. East Cambridge was even more completely separated from the other two villages by the Great Marsh. In 1835, the heirs of Chief Justice Dana sold the tract of land now called " Dana Hill," having laid it out into streets
lots ; and they sold other portions of the same estate, in 1840, extending, on the northerly side of Harvard Street, as far westerly as Remington Street. Buildings were soon erected on this territory, so that, within a few years, Old Cambridge and
and
Cambridgeport became one continuous

1
village,
and the original
The
northerly
room was
the office of the City Treasurer.
CIVIL HISTORY.
parish line would not be observed
241
by a stranger. East Cammore bridge also, though slowly, approached Cambridgeport, and an extensive system of especially on Cambridge Street been has improvement recently commenced, which promises to convert the northerly portion of the Great Marsh into dry land, and at no distant day to unite the inhabited portions of the two " villages along the whole line." Meanwhile, it was natural, in
;
the early days when the two new villages were struggling into existence, that a spirit of rivalry, sometimes attended by jealousy, should become manifest between each other and between both
and the 'ancient town. Their interests were sometimes adverse. Sharp contests between Cambridgeport and East Cambridge, or rather between the large landholders in the two places, in regard to streets and bridges, have been mentioned elsewhere. The removal of the courts and the public offices to East Cambridge, by the authority of the County Court, was a sore grievance to the people of Old Cambridge, and by no means agreeable to the inhabitants of Cambridgeport, whose access to the Court was easier before than after the removal. It was another grievance to Old Cambridge, that the municipal government should be removed from its time-honored seat to Cambridgeport but this was approved by East Cambridge, because the new place was easier of access. On the other side, the new villages had long standing
;
grievances, growing out of a real or supposed unwillingness of Old Cambridge to give them their full share of schools, streets,
and other public conveniences.
Especially in regard to streets, they frequently complained that they were required to pay their proportionate share of the expense of keeping all the old streets in repair, and at the same time to pay the whole expense of mak-
ing and repairing the streets necessary for their own convenience, including those which were constantly used by Old Cambridge in passing to Boston. At the expiration of half a century after the erection of the bridge, many of those sources of mutual jeal-
ousy had disappeared, and time had at least partially healed the wounds occasioned by events which were beyond remedy. The
new
villages had become sufficiently strong to protect their own interests and to secure for themselves a fair and equitable proAt the same time, no one section portion of public conveniences.
to control or oppress the two others and it does not that desire to do so was cherished. appear any Many of those who had been active in the early struggles had passed off the stage a great majority of the inhabitants had become such since
; ;
was able
16
242
;
those struggles ended and although each may have had a natural desire to make his own particular dwelling-place pleasant and convenient, and may have cherished a generous spirit of
rivalry, yet all
had a common pride in the reputation
of the
whole town, and desired the prosperity of all its institutions. In the midst of this general harmony and peace, a desire for a
division of the
town was unexpectedly manifested by a portion of the residents in Old Cambridge, who presented to the General Court a petition, dated Dec. 15, 1842, as follows " To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of
:
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. " The undersigned inhabitants of the westerly part of Cambridge, being that part of the town usually called Old Cambridge,
respectfully represent,
That, in consequence of the rapid increase of population in those parts of the town being nearest to Boston, and called Cambridgeport and East Cambridge, the town in fact consists of three
"
and separate communities, which are generally known to the public by those names, and each of which has a Post Office recognized in the United States Laws by the said names of Camdistinct
That the time bridge, Cambridgeport, and East Cambridge ; cannot be far distant, when a division of the town, for the condeemed
its
venience of elections and other municipal purposes, will be as necessary as it ever has been at any former period of
history, when the towns of Newton, Lexington, Brighton and West Cambridge were successively separated from the parent town of Cambridge. Your petitioners believe that the present
is
a favorable time for an amicable division of the town, and they
therefore respectfully pray that the town of Cambridge may be divided, and that that part thereof lying westerly of Lee Street and a line drawn in the direction of said street northerly to the
boundary
line of Somerville,
and southerly
to
Watertown Turnbe incorporated
pike, and by said Turnpike to Charles River, as a distinct town, by the name of
may
Cambridge." Legislative action was postponed until the next General Court, when a supplementary petition was presented, identical with the
former, with slight verbal changes, except that the name " Old " " Cambridge was proposed instead of Cambridge." The customary order of notice on both petitions was issued, requiring the town to show cause why it should not be divided, and the inhabitants assembled Jan. 22, 1844 : at which it is re-
" corded, that
meeting
The
subject of the second article in the warrant
CIVIL HISTORY.
243
being under consideration, the following Preamble and Resolutions were adopted, 312 voting in the affirmative, and 73 in the negative Whereas, it is understood that there are now pend:
ing before the honorable Legislature two petitions, .... praying for a division of this town and whereas an order of notice ....
;
has been issued and duly served on this town and whereas the inhabitants of the town, in pursuance of a warrant issued by the selectmen, are now in town meeting assembled, to take into
; . .
.
consideration the subject of the division of the town ; and whereas, after full inquiry made and full discussion had, no person on behalf of the petitioners being able to show any good and sufficient
reason for such division therefore " Resolved, that the division of this town, as prayed for in either of said petitions, or in any other manner, would be not
:
only inexpedient, but greatly and permanently prejudicial to the true interests and the legitimate weight and influence of the
town." committee was thereupon appointed, representing the several principal villages, " to appear before the Legislature and oppose any such division of the town." The case was earnestly contested, but the opposition was successful. The General Court,
in the absence of
any good reason for division, granted leave to withdraw the petition and the town had rest for two years. At the March meeting l succeeding this attempt to divide the town, for the purpose of obviating one of the difficulties in the administration of a committee was "
;
to consider the
municipal affairs, appointed expediency of combining the duties of sundry Boards of town-officers, imposing said duties upon a single Board, and paying to the persons performing said duties a reasonable
compensation for their services."

report,
sors,
May 12, 1845, recommending Overseers of the Poor, and Surveyors of Highways be abolished, and the duties heretofore performed by those Boards be
in future discharged by the Board of Selectmen ; that the duties of Auditor of Accounts be transferred to the Town Clerk, who shall ex-officio be clerk of the Board of Selectmen man of the Board of Selectmen be ex-officio a
;
This committee submitted a " that the Boards of Asses-
that the chairof the
member
School Committee
that the Selectmen be authorized and re-
quired annually to appoint some member of their Board to be Chief Engineer and that the Selectmen and Town Clerk be
;
reasonably paid for their services."

1
The
report was recommitted,
March
11, 1844.
244
with authority to revise and print. It came up for final action, Jan. 5, 1846, and its further consideration was indefinitely postponed. After the defeat of this measure, several citizens, before leavin the ing the Town-house, being confident that some change
of conducting the public business was highly desirable, not indeed imperatively necessary, signed a petition requesting the Selectmen to appoint a legal meeting, to see if the town would ask for a City Charter. Accordingly the inhabitants of the town met, Jan. 14, 1846, and " voted, that the Selectmen be instructed to petition the Legislature for the grant of a City
method
if
Selectmen, together with Simon Keith, Abraham Edwards, Sidney Willard, Thomas Whittemore, Isaac Livermore, William Parmenter, Ephraim Buttrick, Thomas F. Norris, and the Town Clerk, be a
Charter.
Voted, that the

S.
Greenleaf,
Omen
Committee to draft a Bill in conformity to the preceding vote, and to use all proper means to procure its passage." A renewed effort was made for a division of the town, while action on the petition for a City Charter was pending but now, as before, a large majority of the whole town opposed the division. At a town meeting, Feb. 18, 1846, by the votes of 246 in the affirmative against 50 in the negative, it was " Resolved, that, in the judgement of this meeting, the true interest and glory of the town of Cambridge require that it remain undivided. Re;
solved, that
for,
we
will oppose the division of the

all fair
town, as prayed
Resolved, that the Selectmen be to before the Committee of the Legislature to requested appear whom said petition has been committed, and to oppose the prayer
.... by
means.
of said petition,
and to employ counsel,

full
if
they shall deem
it
ex-
pedient." hearing, the petitioners, as in the former case, had leave to withdraw their petition, and the town again
After a
escaped dismemberment. Before narrating the result of the petition for a City Charter, one more effort for a division may be mentioned. In January, 1855, a petition was presented to the General Court, short, but " To the Honorable the Senexpressive and very remarkable
:
ate
westerly part City of Cambridge comprising Ward One l be set off and incorporated into a town by the name of Cambridge, and that the
1
and House of Representatives in General Court assembled Your petitioners pray that a portion of the of the
:
Ward One
then embraced
all
the territory lying westerly of the line of
Dana
Street.
CIVIL HISTORY.
245
remaining portion of the territory of said City be called CaraThis was folbridgeport, or such other name as may seem fit." lowed by a petition from certain inhabitants of the Third Ward, asking to be incorporated as a distinct town, but more modestly requesting that the new town might be called East Cambridge. On the 21st of February, 1855, orders of notice on these petitions
having been read, it was ordered, by concurrent vote of the City " That the Council, Mayor be authorized to adopt such measures in opposition to the prayer of said petitions as he shall judge exand that he be also authorized to employ counsel, if he pedient It is proper to mention the fact, that shall deem it expedient." when this vote to resist a division of the City was passed, the First and Third Wards, in which the petitions originated, had a clear majority of members both in the Board of Aldermen and in
;
the
Common
Council.
;
The
petition
from East Cambridge was
not urgently pressed but upon that from Old Cambridge an The opposition was again successful, earnest struggle ensued. 1
and Cambridge remained undivided.
Whatever excitement
at-
tended this contest speedily abated, and those who were most prominently active on either side cherished a spirit of mutual
friendship and respect as aforetime. of more than twenty years, it is not
ion
is
And
known
now,
after
an interval
that a desire for divis-
entertained in any section of the city.
The petition for a City Charter was opposed by the citizens who desired a division of the town but its advocates presented
;
such satisfactory arguments in its favor that it was granted, and " " An Act to establish the was approved City of Cambridge March 17, 1846, containing a provision that it " shall be void, unless the inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, at a legal town
meeting, called for that purpose, shall, by a majority of the voters present and voting thereon by ballot, determine to adopt the same, within twenty days after its passage." Such a meetwas held the Record, March to 30, 1846, when, according ing " the ten been minutes at
polls having past opened twenty o'clock, A. M., for the reception of ballots on the question whether the town will adopt the Act of the Legislature, passed on the
17th of March instant, entitled

1
'
An
Act
to establish the City of
In his argument against division, the
principal speaker
made
effective use
of the
extraordinary
like
fact,
their
predecessors
that the petitioners, in 1844, did not
precedented request; and that their suggestion was altogether gratuitous, that " the remaining portion of the territory of said city be called Cambridgeport, or
ask to be set off from Cambridge, but to be incorporated as Cambridge, an un-
such other
name
as
may seem
fit."
246
Cambridge,' and closed, agreeably to vote, at six o'clock, P. M., the result was ascertained to be as follows ; whole number of
in the affirmative, 645 ; in the negative, 224 ; the ; of adopting said Act being 421. in favor Whereupon majority said result was announced by the Moderator, and proclamation made, that the Town of Cambridge, having accepted its Charter
ballots,
869
by the requisite majority come a City."
of votes, as therein prescribed,
had be-
CHAPTER XV.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
As stated more
at large in chapter
ii.,
Cambridge was
originally
designed to be a fortified town, the seat of government, and the residence of the rulers. It was agreed, Dec. 28, 1630, that all
the Assistants, except two, should build there " the next spring, and to winter there the next year." Dudley and his son-in-law,
Bradstreet, were the only Assistants who fully performed what was promised. Apparently there were very few inhabitants in
the 14, 1632, when " ComMr. Hooker's Braintree Company," otherwise called pany," were directed by the Court to remove thither. Under such circumstances, it is not surprising, that, contrary to the the
town
for a year
and a
half, until
Aug.
"
usual custom, a church was not immediately organized, and a house erected and dedicated to the service of God. There is no
knowledge that meetings were held in Cam" Mr. Hookbridge for religious worship, before the arrival of " er's company and for a whole year afterwards, until Mr. Hooker himself arrived, this flock probably had no pastor nor 1 stated teacher. Meantime, Prince says, on authority of a manevidence within
my
" this uscript letter, that in year (1632) is built the first house for public worship at Newtown (after called Cambridge) with a
upon it." No notice of the erection of such a house is found on the records of the town yet the fact that it had been erected seems to be recognized in an agreement made Dec. 24, 1632, " that every person undersubscribed shall meet every first Mon2 day in every month, within the meeting-house in the afternoon, The connecwithin half an hour after the ringing of the bell." " is retion between Mr. Hooker and the " Braintree Company " The lated by Mather, and more concisely by Dr. Holmes recent settlers of Newtown had, while in England, attended the
bell
;
:
ministry of the Reverend

1
Thomas Hooker, who,

public
of Dunster and
to escape fines
Annals, ii. 75. The house first erected
worship, was on the southwesterly corner

for
Mount Auburn
streets.
248
To
for his nonconformity, had now fled into Holthe privilege of such a pastor, they were willing enjoy No sooner, therefore, was to migrate to any part of the world. he driven from them, than they turned their eyes towards New
and imprisonment,
land.
England.
They hoped
that,
if
comfortable settlements could be
made
tor.
in this part of America, they might obtain him for their pasImmediately after their settlement at Newtown, they ex-
pressed their earnest desires to Mr. Hooker, that he would come over into New England, and take the pastoral charge of them.
At their desire, he left Holland; and, having obtained Mr. Samuel Stone, a lecturer at Torcester, in Northamptonshire, for an assistant in the ministry, took his passage for America, and Mr. Hooker, on his arrived at Boston September 4, 1633 arrival at Boston, proceeded to Newtown, where he was received He was with open arms by an affectionate and pious people. now chosen pastor, and Mr. Stone teacher, of the people at Newtown and on the llth of October, 1633, after solemn fasting and l Under prayer, they were ordained to their respective offices." "A fast at Newtown, where Mr. this date, Winthrop says, Hooker was chosen pastor, and Mr. Stone teacher, in such manner as before at Boston." 2 As he says nothing concerning the organization of the Church at that time, it would seem probable that it had been constituted previously, but at what precise date does not appear. From the same authority we learn the name of the Ruling Elder of this church, in September, 1634 " At this court, Mr. Goodwin, a very reverend and godly man, being the
; :
elder of the congregation of
Newtown, having in heat of argument, used some unreverend speech to one of the assistants, and being reproved for the same in the open court, did gravely and humbly
3 In 1636, the Church with its officers acknowledge his fault, &c." removed to Hartford, Connecticut, as related in chapter iv., and
thenceforth ceased
all visible
connection with Cambridge. 4
Meantime a new company arrived from England, under the

and lands
1
leadership of Rev. Thomas Shepard, who purchased the houses of their predecessors, and organized a new church even
Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc.,

i.
vii. 12.
gifts
2 8
Savage's Winthrop,
Ibid.,
i.
115.
and graces, was conspicuous
his Christian
humility
142.
Elder William Good-
win, eminent in the State as well as in the
Church,
died
at
Farmington,
Conn.,
March
4
11, 1672-3.
Mr. Hooker, that " bright and shinlight," died

in
hour of death. As related by Mather, " when one that stood weeping by the bed side said unto him, Sir, you are going to receive the reward of all your labors,' he replied,
at the
' '
Brother, I
am
in<j
renowned "
July
both
7,
1647.
"
Though
for his
Englands
pious, learned, died July 20, 1 663.
The
" going to receive mercv.' and witty Mr. Stone
249
before the actual removal of the former, embracing probably a few of its members here. who remained very Winthrop, who
undoubtedly was present, describes with much particularity the organization of this Church, under date of Feb. 1, 1635-6 " Mr. Shepherd, a godly minister, came lately out of England,
:
and divers other good Christians, intending to raise a church body, came and acquainted the magistrates therewith, who gave
their approbation. They also sent to all the neighboring churches, for their elders to give their assistance, at a' certain day, at Newtown, when they should constitute their body. Accordingly, at
met a great assembly, where the proceeding was Mr. Shepherd and two others (who were after to be chosen to office) sate together in the elder's seat. Then the elder of them began with prayer. After, this, Mr. Shepherd
this day, there
as followeth
prayed with deep confession of sin, etc., and exercised out of that he might make it to himself a holy, etc. and Eph. v. also opened the cause of their meeting, etc. Then the elder desired to know of the churches assembled, what number were needful to make a church, and how they ought to proceed in this action. Whereupon some of the ancient ministers, conferring
;
shortly together, gave answer, that the Scripture did not set down any certain rule for the number. Three (they thought) were
for their prosuch that as were to should make conadvised, ceeding, they join fession of their faith, and declare what work of grace the Lord
too few, because by Matt, xviii., an appeal three ; but that seven might be a fit number.
was allowed from
And,
had wrought
first,
in them which accordingly they did, Mr. Shepherd then four others, then the elder, and one who was to be Then the deacon, (who had also prayed,) and another member.
;
covenant was read, and they all gave a solemn assent to it. Then the elder desired of the churches, that, if they did approve them
to
be a church, they would give them the right hand of fellowship. Whereupon Mr. Cotton, (upon short speech with some others near him,) in the name of their churches, gave his hand to the
elder, with a short speech of their assent, and desired the peace of the Lord Jesus to be with them. Then Mr. Shepherd made
an exhortation to the rest of his body, about the nature of their covenant, and to stand firm to it, and commended them to the Lord in a most heavenly prayer. Then the elder told the assembly, that they were intended to choose Mr. Shepherd for their pastor, (by the name of the brother who had exercised,) and desired the churches, that, if they had any thing to except against
250
him, they would impart it to them before the day of ordination. Then he gave the churches thanks for their assistance, and so left
them to the Lord." l The relations previously existing between Mr. Shepard and many of the early members of this Church are mentioned by himBorn Nov. 5, 1605, at Towcester, self in his autobiography. educated at Emanuel College in Camand Northamptonshire, he took orders in the English M. A. B. A. 1627, 1623, bridge, Church but as he could not conscientiously conform to all its ceremonies, he was constantly harassed by its rulers, and pre;
vented from the exercise of his ministry in peace. After preaching at Earles Colne somewhat more than three years (where he
secured the lasting friendship of Roger Harlakenden), and about a year at Buttercrambe, Yorkshire (where he married his first
and another year in sundry places in Northumberland, he sought refuge from constant persecution, by a removal to New
wife),
England. He failed in his first attempt, however, being driven back by stress of weather but his second attempt was success" ful, and he arrived at Boston Oct. 3, 1635, with his wife, child, brother Samuel, Mr. Harlakenden, Mr. Cooke, &c." 2 Two days afterwards, he came to Cambridge and took lodgings at the house " The of Mr. Stone. reasons," says he in his Autobiography, " which me to come to New England, were many. 1. I swayed saw no call to any other place in Old England nor way of subsistence in peace and comfort to me and my family. 2. Diverse in Old of dear friends desired me to go to people England rny
;
New
i
England, there to
live together,
and some went before and
Savage's Winthrop, \. 180. The organization of this Church is commemorated in Discourse on the Cambridge
ent
together, they may supply what this preswork lacks in the graces of description
and
fullness of detail.
is
general
Gathering in the First Church on

22,
Church
1636,
delivered
in
reference
now made, once
for all, to
Sunday, February
1846, by William Nevaell, Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge. See also
those Lectures for a particular account of the doctrines taught and the books written by Mr. Shepard and bv his successors in the ministry.
2
Lectures
on the History of the First Church in Cambridge, by Alexander MeKenzie, Pastor of the First Church in
Besides
these,
he
mentions among
the brethren
who
shared his unsuccessful
Cambridge and Shepard Congregational which not only is the gathering of the church described, but its
Society, in
subsequent history traced to 1872. The Discourse relates the facts, embellished with the charms of a highly poetic imagination the Lectures exhibit the fruits of careful and patient investigation, and a loyal adherence to the truth of history
; ;
attempt to cross the ocean, and who afterwards became members of his church, " brothers Champney, Frost," subse" quently Ruling Elders, Goffe, and diverse others, most dear saints." He also
acknowledges special
rendered
to
acts
of kindness
him
in
sell, Mr. Collins, names afterwards familiar
England by Mr. Busand Mrs. Sherborne,

in
Cambridge.
writ to
251
me of providing a place for a company of us, one of which was John Bridge, 1 and I saw diverse families of my Christian 3. I saw the friends, who were resolved thither to go with me. Lord departed from England when Mr. Hooker and Mr. Cotton were gone, and I saw the hearts of most of the godly set and bent that way, and I did think I should feel many miseries if I stayed behind. 4. My judgment was then convinced not only of the evil of ceremonies, but of mixed communion, and joining
with such in sacraments, though I ever judged it lawful to join with them in preaching. 5. I saw it my duty to desire the fruition of all God's ordinances,
which
2
land.
6.
My
dear wife did
much long
7.
could not enjoy in Old Engto see me settled there in

it
peace, and so put
me on
to
it.
Although
was true
should
stay and suffer for Christ, yet I saw no rule for it now the Lord had opened a door for escape ; otherwise I did incline much to 8. Though my stay and suffer, especially after our sea storms.
ends were mixed, and
Lord
let
me
made me
I looked much to my own quiet, yet the see the glory of those liberties in New England, and purpose, if ever I come over, to live among God's peo-
come out from the dead, to his praise." Actuated by such motives, Mr. Shepard entered upon the work of the ministry here. His ordination doubtless soon followed the organization of the church, but the precise date is not reple as one
1 John Bridge became a deacon of the church here. 2 Mrs. Shepard lived only a fortnight " " settlement in after this seemed peace
her, she being
unable to come unto
us.
And
because
we
feared her end was not
to be secured
church.
by the organization of the She was doubtless the first fe-
male admitted as a member of the newly constituted body. Her husband left on record an affecting account of her admission and her "unspeakable joy," which was quoted and preserved by Rev. Cotton Mather, in a Sermon entitled The Tern-
far off we did solemnly ask her if she was desirous to be a member with us; which she expressing, and so entering into covenant with us, we thereupon all took her by the hand and received her as become one with us, having had full trial and experience of her faith and life before, At this time and by this means the Lord did not only show us the worth of this
"AnOpening (1709), pp. 30, 31 other passage must be from our celebrated Shepard, who in a manuscript which I have in my hands relates the gathering of the church at Cambridge
ple
:
ordinance, but gave us a seal of his accepting of us and of his presence with us that day for the Lord hereby filled her
;
heart with such unspeakable joy and assurance of God's love, that she said to us
she had
now enough
and we were afraid
quickly after his coming into land, and the condition of his
New Engown
virtu-
her feeble body would have at that time fallen under the weight of her joy
ous consort, at that time very near her death of consumption. The relation has
these words in
'
it
It pleased the to her
Lord
After
to join us into church-fellowship.
And thus, a fortnight almost before her death unto her departure, in the midst of most bitter afflictions and anguishes, her " peace continued.'
the
day was ended, we came
cham-
252
corded.
From
the concurrent testimony of his contemporaries,
was in all the churches. No during his short ministry his praise record of admissions to the church is known to have been made
of
volume in the library by Mr. Shepard, except a small manuscript the New England Historic Genealogical Society, entitled, " The Confessions of Diverse propounded to be received and were entertained as Members." l It contains fifty confessions, all in the handwriting of Mr. Shepard, varying in length from a 3 2 Only two bear any date, quarter of one page, to eight pages. 4 Jan. the forty-seventh, 5 Jan. and the 1640, 8, forty-first, namely,
7,
1644.
The
first in
the series, though one of the* shortest,

:
may
serve as a specimen of their character " Edward Hall's Confession. The
first means of his good was Mr. Glover's ministry, whereby he saw his misery from Jer. But 7, the temple of the Lord, and that he was without Christ. he went from thence to another place, under the sense of an undone condition but in that place he was deprived of the ordinances of God, and hence the Scripture came oft to mind, what if a man win the world, and lose his soul ? Hence he debut the minister was gone. sired to come to that place again But Mr. Jenner came, and by him he saw more evil in himself but Mr. S. 6 came, and then the Lord did more clearly manifest himself to him from John 3, concerning the new birth. And here he saw more of his misery, and that he had followed examples and duties, and made them his Christ, and lived without Christ. Hereby the Lord let him see he was Christless, and built upon false foundations, and by this text he saw himself no new creaNow when the Lord did humble ture, but only a mended man. him under this, he saw the want of Christ, and that without him he must perish. And afterwards John 5. 40 was opened, you will not come to me to have life and here he saw how freely Christ was offered, and hereby the Lord did stay and comfort his spirit, and so was stirred up with more vehemency to seek Christ. And then that promise was opened, the Son of man came to seek that which was lost and he did not know but the Lord might seek him. And out of that text, 1 Pet. 2. 8, that unto you that believe he is precious and here he saw his unbelief in cleaving to Christ by fits and starts. And since the Lord
;
;
See N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, xxiii.

"
"
* 6
"
369.
2 8
Mrs. Greene." Mr. Dunster."
Goodman ffessington." Goodman With." Rev. Thomas Shepard, probably.
;
253
brought him to this place, he found his worldliness and this bred many fears whether ever any work of Christ in him was in truth, and that he was one that might fall short of Christ, and but his heart was not deep enough, and that he was humbled hence he was put to more search whether ever he was humbled. Yet the Lord made it more clear from Ephraim's condition, Jer.
;
31. 18, that the
Lord had made him loathe himself, and this him [self] and here he hath found more enmity of his heart against the Lord than ever before. But hearing the Lord was willing to take away his enmity, he, by Rev. 22. 14, was brought nearer to the Lord." Besides these fifty persons, the names of others may be gathered from the lists of Freemen in the Colony, during that period
made him
loathe
for as
none were then admitted to

it
political
freedom except
bers of churches,
may
bridge
over,
Moremen thus made Mr. Shepard's successor, the " matchless Mitchell," pre" The Church of Christ pared in 1658 a manuscript account of at Cambridge in N. E., or, the names of all the members thereof
that are in full communion," etc., which, after having long been lost, was discovered in 1815, by Rev. Dr. Holmes, among the
safely be supposed that all the free were members of the Church.
memCam-
Prince manuscripts, and was published by Rev. Dr. Newell, in the Appendix to his " Discourse on the Cambridge Church-gathIt must be remembered, however, that this list contains ering."
the names of those
who were admitted to membership between Mr. when 1649, Shepard died, and 1658, when the record was as well as of those who were previously members also, made, that the names of some deceased members may have been
;
omitted.
There are still preserved two folio volumes, which may be styled Church Books, chiefly devoted to financial affairs, containing a particular account of receipts and disbursements by the From these Deacons, together with some historical notices. books something may be gleaned concerning the condition and work of the Church. On the inside of the cover of one volume is the following mem-
orandum
"
Goodman Hayes departinge this natural life 1639 hee disposed of his children as followeth commending them to the Lord and the care of these friends following unto Mr. Goodyn of
:
Harford his daughter
Anna
unto
Goodman Lewis
his sonn
254
;
unto Goodman Taylcoat his daughter Elizabeth unto Goodman Clark his daughter Sarah his eldest son to Mr. Hookchild he comers and Mr. dispose and the youngest
Jeames
Goodyns
mitted to the mother.
of Harford did give toward satisfying of some here that he did owe money unto 25 which hath been thus paid out to that end.
The congregation
/.
s.
d.
"
30s Imprimis pd to Mr. Hill for Goodman Stanley I say > 17'. his det full of in Item alsoe pd to Mr. Cullott ) Cullock. John per me Item alsoe pd Mr. Robert Payne of Ipswich for Good-)
.
1.
10.
OQ Q
3 10
man
for
"
Item more a month's
diet of the
4 children
is
owing me |
i
On
"
a fly-leaf of the same volume,

:
we
find the disposition of a
benefaction
Item, Mr. Harlakingdon gave the Church a legacye of 20'. \ wee receved a young cow for it of Mr. Pellam 2 in the beginning of the year 1640. Wee gave the summers milk of the cow to brother Towne and brother John French the first calfe ch some the dyed. The winteringe cost to John Stone 25*. w The second summers rnilke wee gave second calfe was sold for. The 3d summers to sister Manninge and brother John French. milke was yelded Elder Frost and alsoe all the winteringe of it. The beginning of the year 1643 wee yeelded it Elder Frost for at that time it was worth but 5'." 3 his owne
ch
The
first
is
What
u
supposed to be
entry in the Record proper is somewhat mutilated. lost is here supplied, but enclosed in
brackets.
account] of the moneys by contri [bution ] upon the week for] the supply of the wants of the Church day of Christ and the needy people of Cambridge since the second
[An
first
of [the
day
1
of the tenth
month
"I
in the year of Christ 1638.

2
In the will of Roger Harlakenden,

is
Mr. Shepard our pastor forty pounds, and to our Elders that w ch is in their hands, and to the pore brethren of our congregation twentye pounds to be ordered by Mr.
1638,
this
bequest:
give to
widow
8
Herbert Pelham, Esq., married the of Harlakenden.
Winthrop says that in 1640 "cattle all commodities grew very cheap." And Hutchinson says, "the price (ii. 7.) of a milch cow had kept from 25 to
and
30/.,
Shepard."
but
i.
fell
this
year to 5 or 6/."
Hist.
Mass.,
93.
/.
255
s.
d.
"
Imprimis was contributed the first day of the week being the second day of the 10th month, 1638 (part
of
it
)
>-
0. 19.
was in papers, namely S d .) "Item was contributed the second sabbath in the 10th month 25 s 4 d (whereof was in papers 3 s 4 d.)
.
.
)
>
,
*j
4.
"
Then
follow on the
first
page the weekly contributions until
the last Sabbath in the sixth month, or August, amounting, in the nine months, to nearly fifty pounds, including two which are
specially recorded thus
"
:
Item Mrs Sara Sims the 7th of Feb. brought for herselfe Item [l mo 1639] was on a day of thanksgiving (at Mr.) j Batons) given forty-nine shillings and six pence.
.
0. 10.
On
"
the other side of the account
we
find
What
the layinges out ha[ve been
side appears [ casions for the supply of

"
] as on the other were ] contrybuted on severall ocmanyfold nessessyties.

l.
s.
d.
Imprimis for eleven quartes of red wine for the use of the } Lords tabell upon the 9th day of the tenth month 1 > d at 15 a quart. )
.
0. 13.
And
for bread for the
Lords
tabell at that time 8

.
J
.
For
) )
a messenger to goe for the wine 12 d Lent my brother Towne
5. 0.
0. 4. 6
.
Pay
for this to
Given
booke (to keepe accounts in) Elder Frost the 18 of January 2 20s
1
1. 0.
)
Pd
for a
5s
ether pillow to put in the cushin to the desk lb it wayed o .
)
)
>
Payd
for sendinge a messenger (goodman Crackbone) to Charlestowne and Roxbery to atayne helpe for
.
0. 2.
s preachinge in our pastors weaknes 2
)
0. 6. 1. 5.
Payd to goodman Line for 5 Payd my brother Towne for
quarts and | pint of wine

his half years
alowauce
and payd him for 5 times goinge with messages to the church 0. Given to Elder Frost the 22 of the 3 d month 20*. 1. Given my brother John French 3 3 Given to our brother Hall the llth of the 4th month toward the rearing of his house that was blown down, j
l
3.
0.
0.
For
the refresshing
sent
my
brother
2*.
Sill in
time of fayntnes
)
)
him 4
pints of sack,
4d
n 2 4
Pd
to
my
brother Cane for goinge to Salem with a mes-
sage to Mr. Philips

1
when he was about
to
come
500
to us. )
1638.
2 1638-9.
256
.
s Given to Elder Frost toward his Imildinge 40 th th 5 the 9 of the Bealle month, 5'. Lent our brother 1 Mr. that the Philips and for his ^ brought hyman Payd he removed to us. ) when from Salem goods bringing
2. 0.
5. 0.
"
Thus
]
far
the
account
is
copied
entire.
is
The
last
charge
is
written, erased in the account, and underneath [ this and took it out of that received for officers mainten-
"
we
ance."
Shortly afterwards the following disbursements are re:
corded
"
Payd my brother Cane

first
coming
to set
for helpinge Mr. Philips at his s up his goods, 5

.
^.
Q 5 Q
>
Payd my brother Cane
for carying a leter to Salem (con^ > cerninge clearing about Mr. Philips) to Mr. Hawthorn e. )
0. 5.
Payd my
inge to
brother Cane for his helpe in Mr. Philips removMr. Pellams house for 1 day and ^.
>
030
Pd
for a help of another to
mend Mr. Pelams house

of
for )
)
016 "
Mr.
Philips.
furnish the only evidence to be found in the
Rev. John Phillips Church Record concerning the attempt which was evidently made to secure him as Sava teacher of the church of which Mr. Shepard was pastor. 2 " minister of a famous describes him as of Dedham, 1638, age E. from about miles N. Wrentham (which is 30 Ipswich, England), where he obtained his living as rector 1609, and married 6 Jan. 1612 Elizabeth a sister of famous Dr. Ames, which gave him favor in the eyes of puritans, was desired to accept office
These several disbursements on account
here in several places, especially Cambridge, perhaps in connection with the newly begun College, but preferred to go home in the autumn of 1641." From Lamson's " History of the First Church and Parish in Dedham," pp. 77-82, it would seem that Mr. Phillips did not " take office " in Dedham until 1640, " the Lord ordering things so by a special providence that he no where
settled
ord, that
It is certain from our old Church Reche came here from Salem in 1639 and it is probable that he removed from this town to Dedham in 1640, without
"
until that time.
completing the contemplated arrangement for a permanent settlement here. His residence in Cambridge was in the old oxpasture, Street.
on the northwesterly side of Kirkland Street, near Oxford It was afterwards the homestead of Deputy-governor " At a Danforth, as appears by the Town Record meeting of the
:
Hoyman,
or boatman.
Geneal. Dictionary.
inhabitants of this town in
257
May 1650, it was voted and consented unto by the Town, that the house which Mr. Philips built anent Charlestowne lane, with the land adjoining and woodlot, should be sold to Thomas Danforth for fifty pounds, to be paid by him
Mr. Philips or his assigns in current country pay upon demand at the said house the said Thomas Danforth to enjoy the said house and land to him and his heirs and assigns forever." It does
to
;
not appear by what authority the town thus disposed of Mr. Phillips' estate; but a subsequent record, under date of Feb. 12, 1655-6, confirms the sale, notwithstanding the purchase-money had not yet been demanded by Mr. Phillips, then residing at
which place he seems to have returned when he England. Deputy-governor Danforth resided on this estate nearly half a century, having very much enlarged it by subsequent purchases, and at his death in 1699 bequeathed it to his daughter, the wife of Francis Foxcroft, Esq., whose descendants owned it more than a whole century afterwards. Among the disbursements up to 1645 (at which point there occurs a hiatus of more than twenty years in the account), are
Wrentham,
to
left
New
many for the relief of the poor as well as for provisions for the " Lord's table," and for other necessaries
:
"
[1639.]
To Elder Frost we
20 s
,
.
th sent the 15 of the 5
month
)
>-
in beefe, chese candle

all
and money to buy corne in
1. 0.
Given Given
my
my
brother John French the 5 th of the 11 th

brother
)
(
month
o A A z. u. u
i
>
Towne toward
his
expense
in )
} ]
A A
a sicknesse
Our brother
Syll being deeply indebted and that to s 22'. 12 we did give of the churches stock half soe much to Mr. Ting if he wold frely
Mr. Ting
}
|
11. 6.
forgive the other and give
it
to
our brother Syll
w ch God moved him to do Payd my brother Towne his

Payd him
its
soe pd. half years allowance 30 s
1.
10.
paynes taken more than ordinary in cleane the meetinge house in the time of making
for
~\
>
0. 12.
Payd
.
repayreinge. for 9 times going to call the church together at S d a time 6 s

.
12*.
)
)
j
n
1.
^
10.
1.
[1640.]
To our Elder
our
sister
Frost the 20 of the 3 d month 30 s

1
.
d pk of malt lS Given our sister Francis More (to supply them | [1641.] in there need) 5*. j
To
Albon
0.
17
258
Given our sister Grissell in a hard time 5 d Sent our sister Mailing a leg of mutton 13 of mutton sick a brest Banbrick Sent our sister being Sent our sister Albone the 27 of the 9 month 1641 1
.
0. 5.
0. 1.
0. 0.
10
2 6
7 of venison
[1643.]
Payd our brother Mannings
for a belrope
0.1.
ch Item payd Elder Frost for a years allowance w was ) d due at midsomer in the yeare 1643, I say p him >
10. 0.
by
10'.
)
1
for looking to goody Alborne 4 weeks (she |n found herself) j 0. Sent our sister Albone 1 bottell sack ll " brother " brother Elder Frost," Banbrick," Syll," [" " *' and " sister Stephenson," each resister Maninge
Payd on
A
"
rf
0. 11
ceived a similar benefaction during this year.]
[1644.]
Payd Mr. Palsgrave for physic for our sister Albone For 4 years rent for our sister Albone (besides 5 \ months time allowed her for about 7 s charge in >
.
"
0. 2. 6
4. 0.
repayer
[1645.]
1
she did) I say 4 years For cloth for Ben. Eaton for 2 shirts 3 s 4d
.
.
w ch
)
.
0. 3.
0. 3.
)
d 1 pr cost 14*. pr shoes for Ben Eaton cost 22 for brother our something for clothBriggam Payd
Q 7 c
r
inge for his sone
j
)
t)
Payd brother Chesholme for nessessaryes he layd out

for
Ben. Batons clothes

for a goat for
Payd
goody Albone
to
goodman Prentiss
0. 11.
"
The
cil
close of
after his
Mr. Shepard's ministry is described by Mather,2 " usual quaint manner Returning home from a coun:
at Rovvly, he fell into a quinsie, with a symptomatical fever, which suddenly stopped a silver trumpet, from whence the people
of
uttered by him,
God had often heard the when he
were about him
joyful sound. Among other passages lay a dying, he addressed those that with these words ' Oh love the Lord Jesus very
:
dearly ; that little part that I have in him is no small comfort to me now.' He died August 25, 1649, when he was forty-three
years and nine months old, and left behind him, of three wives, which he successively married, three sons who have since been the shepherds of three several churches in this country." 3 And
1
similar purchase
was made
in 1640.
1658), minister at
Rowley;
the third
was
a
8
13. Magnolia, Book iii., ch. v., His first wife was Margaret Toute-
ville,
who was mother of Thomas (H.

;
C.
Margaret Boradell, who survived him and was mother of Jeremiah (H. C. 1669), minister at Lynn and elsewhere.
Besides these, John, a son of the second wife, survived the father, but died young.
1653), minister at Charlestown
the sec-
ond was Joanna, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker, and mother of Samuel (H. C.
259
Savage, who surely will not be considered a partial judge, says, " So well employed had been his short life, that no loss of a public man in our country was more lamented, except that of Gov.
l It is much to be regretted Winthrop a few months before." that no monument marks his grave. Almost a year elapsed between the death of Mr. Shepard and the ordination of his successor. In the mean time, a new meetOf the style and dimensions of the old ing-house was erected. meeting-house we know nothing. Doubtless it was very plain and humble yet it was rendered glorious by the manifestation of divine power in the preaching of Hooker and Shepard, two of the
;
most
brilliant lights of that age, insomuch that to the congregation " of worshippers it became as " the house of God and " the gate " 2 of heaven. It was built, however, of perishable materials, and
had stood less than twenty years, it had fallen into would seem also that it was not sufficiently large. At " with a first, it was proposed to repair the house four-square roof and covered with shingle," and Edward Goffe, Thomas Marrett, John Stedman, Robert Holmes, and Thomas Danforth, were
although
it
decay
it
appointed, Feb. 18, 1649-50, to superintend the repairs. But " At a shortly afterwards, March 11, 164950, general meeting of the whole town, it was voted and agreed, that the five men
chosen by the town to repair the meeting-house shall desist from the same, and agree with workmen for the building of a new house, about forty foot square and covered as was formerly agreed
for the other,
and levy a charge of their engagements upon the inhabitants of the town. It was also then voted and generally that the new agreed, meeting-house shall stand on the watch-
The new house was erected immediately, as apthe pears by following extracts from the Town Records: Jan. "The Townsmen do consent that one of the 13, 1650-51
house
hill." 3
:
Geneal. Diet.
g
also
ates
at
from the several churches, assembled
probably gathered the whole body of reverend and

learned divines in
first
In this house
were
New England
at the
two Synods
for the determination of
vitally
important questions both of doc-
trine
and of church polity: 1. In 1637, when through the prophesyings of Mrs. Hutchinsou and others, the religious community was violently agitated, and the two parties, styling each other Antinomians and Legalists, were on the brink of
civil
Cambridge, and condemned eighty-two opinions adjudged erroneous. 2. In 1646, a second General Synod assembled at Cambridge, and after sundry adjournments was dissolved in 1648, having adopted a system of church discipline
called
8
" The Cambridge Platform." The watch-house hill was in
the
southwesterly corner of the present Col-
war, a Synod, composed of all the teaching elders in the country and dele-
and extended several feet into Harvard Square, which has been enlarged since that meeting-house was erected,
lege yard,
260
Elders and two of the Deacons, at the request of John Betts, shall determine whether in equity any satisfaction ought to be the town to the said John Betts for the land on rendered
by which the new meeting-house standeth ; and with their deter1 mination the said John Betts promiseth to set down satisfied." " That the Townsmen shall make Feb. 26, 1651-2. Ordered, sale of the land whereon the old meeting-house stood." The Reverend Jonathan Mitchell, described by Mather as the " matchless Mitchell," was born at Halifax, in Yorkshire, Eng" was at settlement," says Dr. Holmes, Concord, in Massachusetts whence, a year after, they removed to Saybrook, in Connecticut and, not long after, to Wethersfield. Their next removal was to Stamford, where Mr. Mitchell, the
land, about 1624, and

in 1635.
was brought by
;
his father to
New England
" Their
first
father, died in 1645, setat.
LV.
The
classical
studies of his son
Jonathan were suspended for several years after his arrival in America but, on the earnest advice of some that had observed In his great capacity,' they were at length resumed in 1642. he entered Harvard at the of 1645, College. age twenty-one, Here he became religiously impressed under Mr. Shepard's minisuntry, which he so highly estimated as afterward to observe, less it had been four years living in heaven, I know not how I could have more cause to bless God with wonder, than for those four years spent at the university. He was an indefatigable and made in student, great acquirements knowledge and virtue. His extraordinary learning, wisdom, gravity, and piety, occasioned an early application of several of the most considerable churches
' ;
'
'
for his services in the ministry. The church at Hartford, in parsent for him the with intention of his becoming successor ticular,
to the
ford,
famous Mr. Hooker. He preached his first sermon at HartJune 24, 1649 and on the day following was invited to a
;
settlement in the
ministry in that respectable town.
Having
however been previously importuned by Mr. Shepard and the principal members of his society to return to Cambridge, free from any engagement, with a view to a settlement there, he declined an acceptance of the invitation at Hartford, and returned to Cambridge, where he preached for the first time, Aug. 12, 1649. Here a providential opening was soon made for his ini
John Betts owned

hill,
the lot adjoining
and fronting on Harvard Square. It is described on the Pro" prietora' Records as by the town, one
the watch-house
acre of land, more or less Edward Goffe, east; the watch-house hill, south; com;
mon, west
the land intended for the Col-
lege, north."
261
duction into the ministry. Mr. Shepard died on the 25th of the same month ; and by the unanimous desire of the people of Cambridge, Mr. Mitchell was now invited to become his successor.
He
"
l accepted the invitation, and was ordained Aug. 21, 1650." " did he continue a Eighteen years," says Mather, pastor to the
church of Cambridge.
And
as that
which encouraged him to
accept at first the pastoral charge of that flock, was his being able to write that character of them, that they were a gracious
by Mr. Shepard, liking an humbling, mourning, heart-breaking ministry and spirit, living in religion, praying men and women, .... so the continual prayers of such a people to the Lord Jesus Clmst for him doubtless contributed more than a little unto his being furnished from heaven with such rich treasures of light and grace as made his 2 ministry richly serviceable unto them all." By the concurrent of his and subsequent writers he was testimony contemporaries for remarkably distinguished learning, eloquence, and piety, to Morton testifies that uncommon natural superadded gifts. " he was a with God that held near communion person very in eminent wisdom, piety, humility, love, self-denial, and of a compassionate and tender heart surpassing in public-spiritedness a mighty man in prayer, and eminent at standing in the gap he was zealous for order, and faithful in asserting the truth against all oppugners of it. In a word, he was a frian whom God had richly furnished and eminently fitted for his work lived
savoury-spirited people, principled
; ; ; ; ;
good Christians that knew him. It pleased God upon the ninth of July, 1668, in a hot and burning season, (but much more hot in the heat of God's anger to New England,) to take him to rest and glory." 3 About eight years after his ordination, Mr. Mitchell commenced compiling an account of " the Church of Christ at Cambridge," etc., in which he rescued many interesting facts from
desired,
and died lamented, by
all
oblivion.
The
were not resumed until near the very few items may be reproduced
cons,
:
financial records of the church, kept by the deaclose of his ministry.
"20.
3.
67.
to
Mr. Michell
in
silver
when he went to)

f
Rehoboth
1
Mass. Hist.
Magnolia,
Coll., vii. 48.
chap.
9.
ed.,
iv.
i.
2 8
iv.,
chap,
iv.,
ates,
141-157;
and Sibley's Harvard Graduand for the character
New
England's Memorial, Davis's
For a more full biograpp. 336, 337. phy, see Mather's Magnolia, Book iv.,
of his theological labors anil writings, see Rev. Mr. McKenzie's Historical Lectures.
262
20. 3. 67
to bro.
Okes
l
when he went
to
Rehoboth with
to
4
5
Mr. Michell
22. 4.
in silver
Payd to Daniell Cheavrs Chauncy when he was sick

67
for veall
Mri
)
)
3.
Mrs. Danforth in her husband's] sume of 25 shillings for wine ^ j the buriall of Mrs. Chauncy who at and spice sugar deseaced the 24 of the 11. 67 27. 4. 68 Paid to John Sheapheard for a fower gallon |_ Q j bottell to bring sack for the sacrament
12.
67-8 Payd
to
absence in silver the
>
The Town Records

of
also afford
some glimpses
of the
manner
9,
The town " Voted, affirmative, that the deacons, townsmen, Mr. Jacson, Edw. Goffe, Mr. Stedman and Edw. Winship are appointed to make a levy of two hundred and forty pounds for the maintenance this year, and for the payment of the debts of our reverend " Ordered, 27, 1. 1665, The selectmen pastor, Mr. Michell." that all persons that do contribute to the ministry of this place
2 upon the first second day of May next, appear before the deacons and selectmen, to clear the payment of their dues for time past, or send in writing a receipt thereof under the hand of our pastor or deacons, and that for the future every one do annually attend the like order at the same time the place of meeting to be a,t the meeting-house, and the time by eight of the
managing
ecclesiastical affairs at this period:
Nov.
1657.
do,
Feb. 18, 1658-9. " Voted, that the Elders, and Selectmen for the time being, shall be a constant Deacons, and settled power for regulating the seating of persons in the One meeting-house, from time to time, as need shall require." of the acts of this committee is recorded under date of Jan. 19,
clock in the morning."
1662-3. " The committee for ordering the seating of people in the met at the ordinary, appointed meeting house, being Bro. Ri. Jackson's wife to sit there where sister Kempster was
wont
to
sit.
Upham, with her mother. Ester Sparhauke, in the place where Mrs. from.
Mrs.
Upham
is
removed
Daniel Champney, Ephraim Wiuship, on the south gallery. Jno. Stedman, on the fore gallery on the south side. Joanna Winship, in the place where Ester Sparhauke was
wont
1
to
sit.
Edward Oakes,
father of President
'
The
first
Monday.
Oakes.
263
to
sit.
Mary Lemon, where

Mr. Day,
to sit
old sister Jackson was
wont
in the 2d seat from the table.
Ens. Samuel Greene, to sit at the table. Ri. Bobbins, to sit in the place where Ens. Greene was wont
to
sit.
Jno. Gibson, where Mr.
Day was wont
to
sit.
Richard Eccles, where John Gibson was wont to sit. Benj. Crackbone, where Richard Eccles was wont to Justinian Holden, to sit in the foremost seats. Robert Stedman, to sit in the second seats.
7
I
sit.
Goode Gates, at the end of the Deacons seats." Almost all the congregation either walked to the meetinghouse, or rode on horseback.
trians,
For the accommodation of equesmounting, dismounting, and passing between their beasts and the house, Nov. 20, 1665, " The Townsmen do order
in
the Constables to
make
a convenient horse-block at the meeting-
And to secure order in the house, and causeway to the door." house and the comfort of the worshippers, Nov. 12, 1666,
"
Thomas Fox
is
ordered to look to the youth in time of public
worship, until the next monthly meeting, and to inform against such as he find disorderly The Constables are ordered to
repair the glass about the meeting-house, and to get the pinning
mended."
trials,
his ministry, Mr. Mitchell encountered two special namely, the division of his church, and the reputed heresy and open opposition of President Dunster. It has already been related in chapter viii., that as early as March, 16545, some of the inhabitants on the south side of the river requested " that they might have the ordinances of Christ amongst them, distinct from the town." Doubtless Mr. Mitchell shared the fears which were expressed by the townsmen, that " the fraction will prove destructive to the whole body." Upon the extreme urgency of
During
the petitioners, the town consented, Jan. 23, 1659-60, " that the remote inhabitants on the south side of the River should annually
be abated the one half of their proportion to the ministry's allowance, during the time that they were provided of an able minister
And Jan. 15, 1661-2, all persons residing according to law." south of the river and more than four miles distant from the old
meeting-house, were released from all ministerial charges, on condition that they should " give good security to the town for the
payment
twenty pounds per annum forever to the use of the other part of the town belonging to the old meeting-house on the
of
264
Although these propositions were not continued for many years, until Newwas the accepted, agitation ton became a separate town. Mr. Mitchell did not live long enough to witness the final catastrophe but the church was
north side of the River."
;
was effectually divided in his lifetime, and Rev. John Eliot, Jr., ordained pastor of that portion which withdrew from the parent
still greater trial was the open opposition body, July 20, 1664. of President Dimster to an ordinance which Mr. Mitchell con-
When Mr. Dunster became a sidered important and sacred. member of Mr. Shepard's church, about 1640, he avowed his belief that the children of believers ought to be baptized, and his
1 willingness that baptism should be administered by sprinkling. Afterwards, he opposed both ; he withheld his own infants from
" not according baptism, and publicly denounced such baptism as It is to the institution of Christ," when administered to others.
that, besides his public advocacy of infant Mitchell labored baptism, privately with Dunster, though he felt " embarrassed in a controversy with so considerable a person,
related
by Mather
" for disturbance of the ordinances of Christ 1655, upon the Lord's day at Cambridge, July the 30 th 1654, to the dishonor of the name of Christ, his truth, and minister." 3 It was testified
2,
1 As prayer, so the Lord hath given 2 sacraments. 1. Baptism, by which we
and with one who had been his tutor, and a worthy and a godly man." 2 His efforts to reclaim his former guide and instructor were unavailing. Dunster became more and more violent in opposition to what he regarded as error, until he both forfeited the office of President of the College and exposed himself to the penof a violated law. He was indicted alty by the grand jury, April
"
ster,
it
should be remembered that their

friendship
will,
personal
life.
continued
through
and concerning it, I believe that only believers and their seed ought to be received into the church by
;
have our initiation
In his
Dunster
and President Chauncy

brethren,"
styles Mitchell (his successor in
the presidency), his "trusty friends
and
that sacrament; hence profane unbelievers are not to be received into the church,
that the seed are to be received, that of Paul is clear, else your children were
and gave
to
each of them
And
unholy ; hence,
fered to
if holy, let
let
them be
of-
God
children
And
as children, so
come to me. those that come to
mature age ought to be received into the church by baptism. And concerning the outward elements, something there is concerning sprinkling in the Scripture ; hence not offended when it is used." Shepard's
MS.
2
sundry books from his library. And Mather says, that " Mr. Mitchell continued such an esteem " for Mr. Dunster, " that although his removal from the government of the College, and from his dwelling-place in Cambridge, had been procured by these differences, yet when he died, he honored him with an elegy," which "very truly points out that generous, gracious, catholic spirit, which adorned that person who wrote it."
8
Confessions.
" Probably Mr. Mitchell was the min-
Magnolia,
Book
iv.,ch.
iv.,
10.
To
the lasting honor of Mitchell
and Dun-
ister" then engaged in administering the ordinance of baptism.
265
" Mr. Dunster that, on that day, spake to the congregation in the time of the public ordinance, to the interruption thereof, without
which was also aggravated in that he being desired by the Elder to forbear and not to interrupt an ordinance of Christ, yet
leave,
notwithstanding he proceeded in way of complaint to the congregation, saying I am forbidden to speak that in Christ's name
which I would have testified. And in his following speeches, he asserted as his testimony in the name of Christ these things 1. That the subjects of baptism were visible, penitent believers, and they only, by virtue of any rule, example or any other light in
:
That there was an action now to be done which was not according to the institution of Christ. 3. That the exposition, as it had been held forth, was not the mind of Christ. 4. That the covenant of Abraham is not a ground for baptism no, not after the institution thereof. 5. That there
the
new Testament.
2.
were such corruptions stealing into the church, which every faithThe Court ordered ful Christian ought to bear witness against. to Eccleast. that Mr. Henry Dunster, according Law, page 19, at the next Lecture at Cambridge should (by such magistrates as should then be present) be publicly admonished, and give bond
good behaviour. " Mr. Henry Dunster acknowledged that he had spoken these particulars above named, and said that he owned them and that he would stand by them in the fear of God and after farther
for his
;
debate he gave in his answer in writing as followeth April 4 th 1655. I answer to the presentment of the grand jury I answer, first, that I am not conscious that I did or said any thing
: :
contemptuously or in open contempt of God's word or messengers, and therefore I am not guilty of the breach of that Law, page 19, as I conceive. For the particulars that were charged against me,
the terms, words, or expressions, wherein they are presented to the honored Court, I own not, being not accurately the same that were spoken, especially the 1st, 4th, and 5th but the matter or
;
purport of them I spake. I also acknowledged, and do, that for the manner they were not seasonably spoken but for the matter, I conceived then, and so do still, that I spake the truth in the
;
God, and dare not deny the same or go from it, until the Lord otherwise teach me and this I pray the honored Court to take for mine answer. As for any words or expressions that in mixed or broken conference, interrogations by sundry persons propounded and mine answers interrupted before they have been fully expressed, I heartily and humbly pray you, mine honored
fear of
;
266
with our gracious Judge, the Judges, as you desire to find mercy Lord Jesus Christ, that you will be pleased to give the most candid and Christian construction, if any were amiss, seeing charity thinketh no evil, and seeing by interruptions they were not perfected,
my sickness yesternight my mind and in a capacity to be so clear and distinct as not are expressions in expression, proceeding from usually that therefore no lapse
and especially since
;
the aforesaid grounds or mere natural infirmity may be improved and afflicted brother, against your humble servant
HENBY DUNSTER."
It is reported
by
his biographers, that
Mr. Mitchell was a
Fellow of Harvard College, 1650, a member of the Synod which assembled at Boston in 1662, and very frequently employed on
and in resolving questions propounded by and that, while he was much younger than many of his associates, great deference was paid to his skill and judgment. The famous Baxter is reported to have said, "If an Ecumenical Council could be obtained, Mr. Mitchell were worthy to be its moderator." But his labors, and trials, and enjoyments, in the work of the ministry, came to a sudden termination July
ecclesiastical councils
;
the General Court
9,
1668,
living, his
scribed
when a violent fever destroyed his life. Although, while name was renowned in the church, it is not found inon any monumental stone, to denote the spot where his
laid.
body was
it
There are circumstances, however, which render highly probable that the bones found under the slab which bears the name of President Dunster are in fact the bones of
Mitchell. They are briefly as follows About thirty years ago, a desire was entertained to erect some memorial of Dunster. The
:
place of his sepulture was unknown, but it was assumed to be underneath an ancient slab from which the inscription had disThis assumption is said to have been grounded on appeared.
two
facts, which were supposed to point more directly to Dunster than to any other person 1. It was perceived that this slab was of a peculiar stone, probably imported, and unlike any others in
the cemetery except two, which bore respectively the names of President Chauncy and President Oakes, who died during the
same
half century.
this slab,
2. There were found, not very far from two headstones, inscribed with the names of President
Dunster's great-grandchildren.
related
The
subsequent, proceedings are
by Palfrey " His grave, in the old

:
'
God's Acre,' near the halls of Harvard
267
College, was opened July 1, 1846, when the President and Fellows renewed the tablet over it. The remains were found lying
below the surface, in a brick vault which was covered with irregularly shaped flag-stones of slate about three inches thick. The coarse cotton or linen shroud which enveloped them
six feet
had apparently been saturated with some substance, probably Beresinous, which prevented it from closely fitting the body. tween it and the remains of the coffin was found a large quantity of common tansy, in seed, a portion of which had evidently been The skeleton appeared to be that of a pulled up by the roots. person of middle size but it was not measured, as the extremities of the bones of the arms and thighs had perished, as well as portions of the cancellated structure of these and of some other bones. The configuration of the skull, which was in good preservation, was such as to the phrenologists indicates qualities, both moral and intellectual, of a superior order. The hair, which appeared to have retained its proper place, was long behind, covering thickly the whole head, and coming down upon the forehead. This, as well as the beard, which upon the upper lip and chin was about half an inch long, was of a light brown color. The 1 eyebrows were thick, and nearly met each other. The foregoing description indicates the remains of some eminent person. But are they the remains of Dunster ? or, are they not rather the remains of Mitchell ? It is no disparagement to Dunster to assume that Mitchell was fully his equal, both intellectually and morally so that the skull might seem as characteristic of the one as of the other. The character of the grave and memorial slab is more suitable to Mitchell than to Dunster, because, 1. Dunster left a small estate, deeply involved in debt, and there is no evidence that his widow was able, or that the corporation of the College was disposed, to provide for him such an expensive sepulchre but, on the other hand, Mitchell died in the meridian of his fame, and left a plentiful estate, so that his widow was able thus to honor him, unless (which is more probable) his church insisted on defraying the expense. 2 2. The peculiar slab, similar, it is said, only to those which cover the remains of Chauncy, who died in 1672, and Oakes, who died in 1681, would more probably be placed over the grave of Mitch;
New Eng., \\. 534. church, which long made a generous allowance to the widow of their
1
Hist.
The
beloved pastor, and was able to send a

special
his successor, (and another to accompany him hither,) surely would not grudge him an honorable burial and a conspicuous stone of remembrance.
messenger
to
England,
to
invite
268
ell,
who
died in 1668, than over that of Dunster, who died nine But if the structure and adornments of years earlier, in 1659. the grave point to Mitchell rather than to Dunster, much more For what conceivable reason should the coffin of its contents.
Dunster have been stuffed with tansy, or his body wrapped in He died in February, when the frost might reasoncerecloth? noxably be expected to arrest decomposition and prevent any ious or offensive effluvia from his body. Morton, indeed, says, " " his but body was embalmed and removed unto Cambridge it may reasonably be doubted whether the process was very
;
thorough or complete at that season of the year. On the conretrary, Mitchell died in midsummer, and under circumstances
quiring the utmost precaution against discomfort and danger. " Mr. Mitchell had, from a principle of godliness, says, used himself to bodily exercise nevertheless he found it would
Mather
not wholly free him from an ill habit of body. Of extreme lean, he grew extreme fat and at last, in an extreme hot season, a
;
This was a case loudly calling for cereand the proof is preserved that such cloth was In the old Financial Record of the Church is actually used. found this memorandum of disbursement " To goodman Orton of Charlestown for making a terpaluing 2 to wrap Mr. Michell, and for doing something to his coning that way 4'." And what would be more natural than to adopt the custom, which certainly prevailed in the country in the early part of even the present century, of placing tansy in and around the coffin, to
fever arrested him."
cloth
and tansy
counteract the effect of unpleasant odors ? The contents of the described were what we might expect grave by Palfrey precisely
to find in the grave of Mitchell, and what we should not expect to find in the grave of Dunster namely, the cerecloth or tarpauling, which was necessary, and is known to have been used in
;
in the other,
the one case, but not known to have been either necessary or used and the tansy, which was in season, fragrant, and to its adapted purpose, in the one case, and out of season, com-
On the whole, paratively unfragrant, and useless in the other. it seems that the monumental slab, on which is highly probable
inscribed the
name
mains
1
of Rev.
Jonathan Mitchell. 3
iv., tli. iv.,
of President Dunster, actually covers the reIt may be added, if this be

16.
Magnolia,
Book
2
a
Tarpauling, cloth smeared with tar. The name of this eminent man is
tographs which I have seen, it was nniformly so written by himself; and it was
spelled Mitchel on the College Catalogue ; I write it Mitchell, because, in several au-
same form by his two sons, Samuel (H. C. 1681), and Jonathan (H.
written in the
C. 1687).
269
really the grave of Mitchell, the remains of Shepard probably rest near it, because the widow of these two pastors, as well as their bereaved and grateful church, would naturally desire that
their bodies should rest near each other.
It
may
also be safely
;
Dunster was buried near the same spot for supposed where could his friends desire to place his body rather than near that of his former pastor and beloved co-laborer, Mr. Shepard, the only clergyman who had previously been laid to his rest in that cemetery ? This supposition is to some extent rendered more probable by the proximity of the graves of the greatthat
grandchildren. For three years after the death of Mr. Mitchell, the church remained destitute of a pastor ; during which time President
Chauncy appears
office.
to
have partially performed the duties
of that
the town for that purpose " Dec. that voted, 20, 1669, fifty pounds be paid to Mr. Chauncy and such as labor among us in preaching the word," and u thirty pounds to Mistris Mitchell," and Dec. 23, 1670, forty-five pounds
The committee appointed by
were in
to Mrs. Mitchell. 1
Mr. Chauncy, and thirty pounds the town and church were not idle or inactive. Thus it is recorded, Feb. 8, 1668-9. " For Elder Champney, Mr. catechising the youth of this town Oakes, are appointed for those on the south side the Bridge. Elder Wiswall, Mr. Jackson, and John Jackson, for those at the new church. Deacon Stone, and Deacon Chesholme, for those at the remote farms. Lt. Winship, William Dixon and Francis Whitmore for those on west side Winottime. Deacon Stone and Deacon Cooper, for those families on the west side the common, and for Watertowne lane, as far towards the town as Samuel 2 Thomas Danforth and Thomas Fox, for those famiHastings. lies on the east side the common. Richard Jackson and Mr. Stedman, for those families on the west side of the town Captain Gookin and Elder Frost, for those families on the east side of the town Water Street, leading from the meeting-house
like
manner granted
In the
to
mean time
to the waterside being the partition." Again, May 10, 1669, " The Selectmen, taking into consideration, upon the complaint
and carelessness of sundry persons in the time of public worship, upon the Sabbath day, by keeping without the meeting-house, and there unprofitably spending their
of of the idleness
1 Similar gratuities were granted to Mrs. Mitchell, from year to year, as late
some
That
is,
to
Ash
Street.
as 1687.
270
time, whereby God's name is dishonored, they do order, for the time being, that the Constable shall set a ward of one man
during the time of public worship, one in the forenoon and another in the afternoon, to look unto such persons, that they do attend upon the public worship of God, that God's name and
worship be not neglected nor profaned by the evil miscarriage of such persons." Hitherto the pastors of the church had dwelt in their own
houses
lic
but now it was determined to erect a house, at the pub" Voted on the July 5, 1669, expense, as a parsonage. affirmative, that the Selectmen and Deacons, and Richard Jack;
son,
and Mr. Stedman, and Mr. Angier, are appointed a committake present care to purchase or build a convenient house
tee, to
for the entertainment of the minister that the
to send us to
hath
made
Lord may please the breach that his afflicting providence in this place ; and that the charge thereof be levied
make up
on the inhabitants as
of the ministry."
is
usual in proportioning the maintenance

of
meeting, to consider about the selling of the church's farm at Bilrica, for the building of a house for the ministry, it was voted on the affirmative, that
Sept.
9,
was adopted.
Afterwards a different method " At a church

1669,
payment
the said farm should be sold and improvement made of it for the l In the old Financial building of a house for the ministry."
Record of the Church a particular statement is made that " a committee was chosen for that purpose, which tooke care for the same, and to that ende bought fower akers of land of widdow Beale to set the house upon, and in the yeare 1670 theare was a house earected upon the sayd land of 36 foote long and 30 foote broad this house to remayne the churchis and to be the dwelling place of such a minister and officer as the Lord shall be
;
pleased to supply us withall, during the time hee shall supply that place amongst us. 2 The chargis layd out for the purchas
and building of the house and barne, inclosing the and other accommodations to it orchyard
of the land
:
"
The purchas of the land in cash The building and finishing the house The building the barne,
side
40'.
s
.
Od
6
263.
42.
5.
0.
It was sold Nov. 12, 1669, to Kichard Daniels, for .220. 2 This house stood on the northerly
1
of
Harvard
feet
Street,
two or three
hundred
Street.
easterly
from
Plympton
The
inclosing the orchyard and yards, and repayering the fencis, building an office-house, and planting the orchyard with trees, and
271
some part of the house and laying a duble floore on sume part of it,
seeling
27.
1.
10
" In the yeere 1676, the hall and hall-chamber were sealed, and another floore of bords was layed upon the chichin chamber.
The
"'
perticular chargis
20 bushells of lime and the feching it 800 of larth, 6*. 8 d a bushel of hayer,
.
1'.
r.
7.
2.
0.
3 peckes of shreds, 1'. 6 rf 3560 nailes, 8s . 10<*
d lamblack, 8
0.
0.
1.
8. 4.
6.
The mason's worke

For brickes, and sand, and help
to brick the
kichen
4.
Other disbursements
March
at this period
were
6. 1668-9. "To Deacon Stone by a pair of shooes } and a pound of suger, because the deacon had silver > s d ) though they cost him 4 Q had but Feb. 4, 1670. " Payd in silver, by the apoyntment of the] commitee for the mynister house unto the deputie governor, Mr. Francis Willoughby, by Deacon Stone and Thomas Chesholm, as appears by his discharg wch ^ Deacon Stone hath, for the discharg of Mr. Michells
,
0'. 3*.
6d
&
l .
13 s 6 d
.
funarall the
pence.
I say the
sum of eight pounds sum of
thirteen shillings six

j
The
events connected with the induction of Mr. Oakes to the

:
"An acpastorate are minutely detailed in the ancient record count of seaverall providencis of God to the Church of Cambrigd,
after the death of that reverant
and eminent
man Mr. Jonathan
Micthell pastor of the church of Cambrigd whoe departed this life July th 9, 1668, and the actings of the church for supply in the ministry. The church, sume time after gave Mr. William
Stoutton a
inge
call,
but they were denied, but after sume time of seek-
God by prayer the Lord was pleased to guide the church to make theare application to Mr. Urian Oakes in old England which
to further the
same theare was a
letter sent
from the church with
a mesenger namly Mr. William Maning with a letter alsoe sent by seaverall magistats and ministers to invite him to come over
and be an
oficer
amongst us which he
after counsill
and advice
did except but devine providence ded hinder him for that yeere by reason of a sickness the Lord was pleased to visit his wife withall
272
and afterward tooke her away by death which hindered him for The church the next yeere renewed againe thear that yeere. call to him by another letter but then he was hindered by an Thease ague that he was long visited withall in the yeere 1670. to in wheather was the church doupt providencis interposing to church was debate the sume but after willing waight any longer answer had an and then 1671 in the till the yeere spring waight that sumer which early in the yeere of his purpose to come over was acomplished by the good providence of God hee ariving in England July th 3, 1671, and finding good acceptance both church and towne and in the country and joined a member the by with our church and was ordained pastur of our church November
New
the eight 1671."
Mr. Oakes was received with demonstrations of joy. "At a 1. To meeting of the church and town July the 17th 1671. love and for his thankfulness to Mr. Oakes great acknowledge self-denial in parting with his friends and concerns in England to
come over
to us.
2.
To
manifest unto him the continuance of
the earnest and affectionate desires of the church and people that, as soon as well may be, he would please to join in fellowship here, in order to his settlement and becoming a pastor to this church. 3. To intreat him forthwith to consent to remove
himself and family into the house prepared for the ministry. 4. That the deacons be furnished and enabled to provide for his accommodation at the charge of the church and town, and distribute the
n.
same seasonably
for the comfort of
him and
;
his family,
half a year's payment forthwith be made according to their yearly payment to the ministry
That
by every one, and the one
money, and the other in such pay as is end intended. All these particulars were voted on the affirmative." The church and town united in keeping " " the 17th day of January 1676 a day of thanksgiving that the loss sustained by Mr. Mitchell's death was thus The supplied. the removal of the serMr. expense attending Oakes, including vices of a special messenger sent to accompany him hither, was
half of
it
to be paid in
suitable to the
defrayed by the church.
"
August the 9th 1671.
Delivered to
William Manning sixty pounds in silver to pay Mr. Prout toward the transportation of Mr. Urian Oakes his familie and goods, and other disbursements and for John Taylor his passage, I say payed him the just sume of 60'. 0. 0. Let it be taken notice of that Mr. Prout dos demaund thirteen pounds more due to him." This balance was subsequently paid, as appears by the account
:
273
" Disbursed for Mr. Oakes transportation from Old England with his family 73." Also a gratuity was given to the messenger.
Out
of the legacy of
X20 bequeathed
to the church
died Th 1676, there was given " to John Taylor five pound, hee being in sume streights by reason of a dept in England he goeing to accompany our pastor to New England it was
by Hezekiah
Usher, who
the ocation of it."
An additional glimpse of the customs of that period is obtained from the following " Account of the disbursements for the ordination of Mr. Urian Oakes pastor of the church of Cambrigd,
being the 8 of November, 1671.
" It 3 bushells of wheate
It. It. It.
Ol
0. 0.
1. 1.
15'.
0*
2 bushells
of malt
10.
4 gallons of wine forbeefe
18. 10.
4.
It. for
It.
It.
mutton
30 of butter
1
for
0. 0.
15.
14. 9
0.
8.
6.
for foules
for suger, spice, It. for labour

It. It.
It.
and
frute,
and other small things
1.
1.
for
washing the table lining s for woode 7

bread
6'
0. 0.
0.
9.
7.
9.
It.
lb suit 7 , 3'
17.
.
3"
, .
"
Gathered by contribution of the church the saboth before
) )
)
)
"
And
the ordination for the sayde occasion the remainder of the charge was defrayed out of the
weekly contribution
9.
17.3"
As a
further illustration of the customs, the following items

:
are inserted
" Eldar Frost liing a longe time weake with others of his familly alsoe having the ague at the same time the church see meete to make a contribution for his relefe upon June 16, 1672.
The sume gathered was in cash 7. 4. 9 and in other pay 2. 5. 8." " 1675. u For a new hour-glass for the meeting-house, 0. 1. " October the The contribution was for Ensigne 22, 1676.
Samuell Green in the time of his sicknes and his family alsoe
being sicke there was contributed in cash 10.
3. 7.
5.
7 and in bills
6."
" November 2d 1679.

18
The
contribution upon the saboth day
274
for the reliefe of the family of John Gibson condition they being visited with the small
was
low
they being in a pox and under
contributed in cash was six pound nineThis contribution was disposed teen shillings and fower pence. of as f olloweth
many
wants.
The sum
:
"
To To To To To To To
doctor Oliver for fisicke
3'.
10".
4.
Od
6
Mr. Angier for things in his sicknes Mr. Stedman for things in his sicknes sister Belsher for wine for his funeral! two nurses that tended him in his sicknes
0.
0.
0. 1.
7.
7. 4.
Hana Arington
for nursing
0.
0. 0.
10.
6.
Jeremiah Holman's daughter for nursing

bords for his coffin
coffin
For
2. 4.
To John Palfree for making of his To old goodman Gibson in cash
0. 0.
6.
4.
4
4."
19.
Like his predecessors, Mr. Oakes died when he was yet comHe had long been subject to a quartan paratively a young man. but his life was terminated by fever July 25, 1681, in the ague; His death was as sudden and unexpected fiftieth year of his age. " He was arrested with a as that of Mr. Mitchell. malignant fever which presently put an end unto his days in this world. .... When he had lain sick about a day or two, and not so
long as to give the people of God opportunity to pray for his recovery, his church coming together with expectation to have the Lord's Supper on the Lord's day administered unto them, to their horror found the pangs of death seizing their pastor that should
have broken to them the bread of life." 1 The last ten years of his life were years of trial, mental excitement, and severe labor,
partly in the proper work of the ministry, and partly resulting from his connection with the College. 2 Within a year after his ordination as pastor of the church in Cambridge, he was elected
Fellow of Harvard College, which

of
office
he (together with three
his
associates,
Thomas Shepard, Joseph Brown, and John

overseers of the College requested
Richardson) very soon resigned, under somewhat questionable

circumstances.
The
;
them
to
resume the office but they declined, until March 15, 1674-5, the day on which President Hoar sent in his resignation. " On the same day, Oakes and Shepard took their seats as members of the
1
Mather's Magnolia, Book

-
iv.,
ch.
v.,
8
2
Oakes, see Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 173-185, and McKenzie's Lectures, 120127.
For a more extended notice of Mr.
275
Corporation, and the seat Dr. Hoar had quitted was given to the Rev. Mr. Oakes." He hesitated to accept the office, but at length consented to perform its duties as President pro tern., which he
continued to do for five years when, having been again elected, he was installed into the office of President on Commencement
;
Day,
in August, 1680, less than a year before his death. 1 Ancient writers uniformly represent Oakes as a skilful and
dili-
gent teacher.
he assumed
its
college was in a disorganized condition when management, and required the most cautious and
The
judicious guidance.
was
sufficient, it
would seem,
This, together with the labor of instruction, to tax his mental energy to the
utmost, especially in connection with his various duties to his church and parish. But in addition to all this, his mind was
disturbed by the consciousness that his opposition to President' Hoar was regarded by many as the result of disappointed ambition, it
being suspected that he coveted the presidency when it was vacated by the death of Chauncy, that he was offended when it
was given
to Hoar, and that he hoped yet to obtain it if his rival could be displaced. Mr. Oakes had other trials, more closely connected with his pastoral office. Intense political excitement
prevailed in regard to encroachments by the British Government on the Charter, which, not long after the death of Oakes, was Intense religious excitement utterly subverted and abrogated.
also prevailed in consequence of the renewed activity of those dreaded disturbers of the public peace, the Anabaptists and Quakers,
who were encouraged

this excited state of
thereto by the British Government.
the public mind Rev. Samuel Danforth alluded in a letter addressed to his brother, Thomas Danforth, March matters are so circumstanced 1670: " The truth
31,
is,
To
can hardly come into any company and enter into but before he is aware he finds himself in the like discourse, any fan and sieve as that wherein Satan winnowed Peter in the high
that a
2 priest's hall."
man
"
bridge
the same subject the " Freemen of Camaddressed a long memorial to the General Court, dated
On
1671 (just one month before the arrival of Oakes from England), in which they say " After the experience of the Lord's goodness in giving a good issue to many other temptations wherewith in his wisdom he hath seen meet to exercise his people and churches here, it is
June
3,
i.
Quincy's History of Harvard College, 34-38, and Sibley's Harvard Graduates,

1
Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1873-1875,
p.
306.
180.
276
of the least trials to the faith
is
none
vants that which at present
and patience of his poor serupon us, viz., the Lord's judicial
us to their
hand
is
delivering up
many among
own
heart's lusts,
that they can boldly, with a presumptuous high hand, give defiance to the Lord's holy institutions and ordinances, to his dealministers, despising the word of the Lord in their mouths, and
refusing to obey
them that have the
rule over
them
in the Lord,
is is more especially the practice of the Quakers, Anabaptists, and Familists, that are of late risen up among us, and in these wicked practices do they continue notwithstanding all the means that have been used for their conviction, and wholesome laws of
this jurisdiction prohibiting
them
therein.
And
if,
by their
in-
corrigible hardiness, they can at last weary out God's ministers, casting dirt and reproach on their persons, doctrine, and holy ad-
ministrations, which they well know will soon stick and easily prevail to cause the word of God by them dispensed to be unprofitable, and also shall perceive that there are some, who, though
they declare not themselves to own their corrupt opinions and to allow their wicked practices, yet can plead for their liberty and
implicitly at least make their reflections to the reproach of the godly zeal of the authority here established, (seeking to reform such exorbitant practices), and thereby so weaken their hands
that they wax feeble in that great work of the Lord, they hope then that the day shall be theirs ; but sure it is, if it be their
be a black and dark night, as with the Lord's people, and holy institutions, (examples whereof are not a few in Eccl. histories), the upholding whereof in purity
day,
it
will
so also with his truth
and power, and the conveying of the same in pure streams down to our posterity, as it was the main end of the first planters, as is before declared, so it cannot but be the earnest desire and endeavor of every Christian soul. Be pleased, therefore, honorable sirs, to accept our tender of humble thankfulness as to the Lord, so also to your honored selves, who, under God are the walls of this our Jerusalem, for all your pious endeavors and holy zeal
(tempered with much tenderness, as well becometh Christians) And it is against those highhanded and presumptuous sinners. our humble petition to this honored Court, that the laws here established against the wicked practices of those obstinate offenders
may be fully executed, all discontentments that may tend to give any discouragement thereto notwithstanding we being well assured that the tolerating of them will add to the catalogue of those things that he whose eyes are as a flaming fire in the midst
;
of his churches will soon espy
277
for, as is
and be offended with us

;
but on the contrary it is 14, 20 those things that his soul do hate his when very pleasing people doth hate, as appears in the 6th verse of that chapter." 1
by himself affirmed, Rev.
ii.
his opinion concerning these exciting in an Election Sermon, May 7, 1673 : " They that are subjects of and disaffected to this government that God hath estabweary
Mr. Oakes expressed
lished
of
among
of.
us,
and
a
New
England,
shall betray and give up the civil interest wilt have more to answer for than they are
aware
He
is
madman
if
that will hope for the continuance of
'our spiritual liberties,
broken down.
civil
the wall of our civil government be once Those beasts that break down the hedge of our
government do not design or do it merely because they are angry with the hedge, but because they would break in and devour all that is precious and dear to us. The change of our government will inevitably introduce a sad change in our churches. To divide what God hath conjoined, viz., civil and ecclesiastical liberties, to deliver up civil and yet hope to keep spiritual liber" The loud ties, is folly in its exaltation." Again, outcry of some is for that they may hold and practice liberty of conscience what they will in religion. This is the Diana of some men, and I remember great is the Diana of the Libertines of this age. Julian the Apostate, that malicious and implacable enemy to Christianity have observed that the Christian religion prospered the more for the severe persecution in Dioclesian's time, and that the Christians grew up thicker and faster for being mowed down
;
with the scythe of bloody enemies. He did for a while abstain from severities against the Christians, and suffered all men to use
would and Austin saith of it, Libertatem perditionis permisit, he gave men liberty to destroy themselves. Such is that liberty of conscience, even a liberty of perdition, that some men are so unconscionably clamorous for. But remember, that as long as you have liberty to walk in the faith and order of the Gospel, and may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty, you have as much liberty of conscience as Paul desired under any government. He 1 Tim. ii. 1. 2. that is allowed without molestation to walk with God, and serve him with all good conscience, hath liberty enough. Never comreligion they
;
what
your condition, that you may be as good as all societies, and in all respects, of an inordinate and undue affectation of liberty. The latter end of it
plain
when
that
is
you
will.
Oh
take heed in
Mass. Arch., x.
58.
278
will be
bondage and slavery."
" I look upon an unbounded tolIf this should be abominations.
us,
eration as the first born of all
once born and brought forth
among
you may
call it
Gad, and
give the same reason that she did of the name of her son, Gen. xxx. 11, Behold a troop cometh, even a troop of all manner of This would be not only to open the wicket, but abominations. to fling open the great gate for the ready admission and reception
of all
abominable heresies."
In the ancient Record-book, Deacon Cooper continues his " ac" count of seaverall providencis of God to the church of Cambrigd " as follows Mr. Oakes our pastor being chosen to be president of the Colegd about a yeere before his death it pleased the Lord to guide our church to give Mr. Nathanill Gookin a call to
:
bee helpfull in the ministry in order to call him to office in time convenient which same time after our pasturs death our church
ded give hime a call to the office of pastor which call he ded except of and was ordained pastor of our church November 15th, 1682. Alsoe theare weare ordained the same day two Ruling Elders of our church, namly, Deacon John Stone, and Mr. Jonas Clarke to the ofice of Ruling Elders." By the same hand we have an account of the expense attending Mr. Gookin's ordination,
"
and the manner

1
,
in
which that expense was defrayed

9'.
Provision for 80 persons For burnt wine I sugar 2 s brandy 6 d before diner Wine for the mesengers in the morning
. .
10*.
2.
Od
6
1.
0.
16.
2
^
The
A pound of lofe
Spice
6
1
chargis for the cakes for the mesingers wheate flower 7 s 8 d rose-water 9^ s 12 lb ofcurrans 6 s 15 lb of suger 4 8*'
. .
8
0. 0. 0.
10.
1
.
8
6
5*.
suger 1 milke IT>

6
d
east 6
6.
11
Ten pound
.
of butter 5 s
1'.
a cheese 4s
0. 0.
9.
1.
of porke
Hay
for the horsis 5"
s helpe to tende the horsis 2

rf
0. 0.
7.
0.
Half an ounce of cloves 6
13.
14.
was produced the pay ordination in maner as followeth

it
:
"
How
"
for the charge of
Mr. Gookins
5'.
s
.
Payed to John Jackson by cash in his hand Payed to John Jackson out of the contribution upon
the saboth dayes 5 l 2* a part of the saide contribution being otherwayes disposed of then to the minister before Mr. Gookins ordination
Od
2.
by the order of the church.

1
Pages 49-54.
More payed
to John Jackson out of Thomas Beales ^ the ordination by Walter Hastins i toward legacy More payed by Walter Hastins toward the ordina- 1
,
z
279
g,
Q<J
widow Beales legacy s By John Cooper 11 a cheese, 4' s By butter and hay and milke this 15 was payed by money that was in my hand."
tion of
.
0.
15.
13. 15.
Little
is
known
but
it
was
short,
of Mr. Gookin's personal history. His ministry extended over a troublous political period, em-
bracing the abrogation of the charter, the usurpation of the government by Andros as the agent of arbitrary power, and the revolution which reinstated the old charter-magistrates. Although
his father, Major-general Gookin, was one of the most sturdy defenders of popular rights against the encroachments of tyranny,
and
his brother, Capt. Samuel Gookin, was an active participant in the struggle, sometimes on the one side and sometimes on the other, Mr. Gookin is not known to have turned aside from his
pastoral duties, or to have taken any part in the political conflict. He was a Fellow of Harvard College, but probably did not act as
a tutor after taking the entire charge of the church. Short as was the life of his predecessors, his own was even more brief, lackmonths of His was almost two thirty-four years. pastorate ing
1 long as that of Mr. Oakes, nearly ten years. " The ancient record says, Mr. Nathaniel Gookin, our pastor, departed this life 7 day of August 1692, being the Sabbath day
precisely
as
at night, about nine or ten o'clock at night. Elder Clark dethis life 14 99 or the Sabbath day. 1700, January being parted
pastor Mr. Nathaniel Gookin's wife Hannah died 14 day of 2 May 1702, and was buried 16 day of May at the town's charge." " During Mr. Gookin's ministry, the church continued to remem-
Our
ber the poor." Contributions were taken for Joseph Graves, in 1683, Moses Eyers, in 1684, and Thomas Gould, in 1685, sev" " for poor Frenchmen, in 1686, who Turkey Slavery erally in fled here for shelter ; and in 1692 for " York captives with the
;
Indians."
In 1686, seven pounds were contributed for the

:
relief
" The shortness of 1 Dr. Holmes says Mr. Gookin's ministry, and the imperfection of the early records of the church, leave us very deficient in the means of
Journal says, "Mr. Joseph Eliot comes

in
and
tells
me
the
amazing news of
the
:
Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Gookin's being dead 'tis even as sudden to me as Mr. Oakes'
death.
a
obtaining his history and character."
Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc.,

:
vii.
54.
But we have
this
He was one of our best ministers, and one of the best friends I had left."
The orthography
of this record
is
testimony of his worth by one of his conJudge Sewall in his MS. temporaries
is
ex-
traordinnrily vicious, and
here corrected.
280
of
John Parker at the " Village," whose house had been burned. The contribution upon the Saboth day was for 8, 1683. the releefe of widdow Crackbon and her sone, hee being disThe sume contributed in cash was 8'. 13*., and in other tracted. s d by pay, by Maior Gookin a bl. of rie and a bl. of malt, 7 6 Thomas Androwes, 2*. by Sharabiah Kibby, 2*. by Simond " Jan. 12, 1689. Theare was a contribution Gates, 4*." Again for widdow Arrington and her family they being under the and aflicting hand of God, her sonns weare taken away by death her daughter and a grandchilde. The sum in cash was 6'. 18". The sum in common pay was I 2*. While Mr. Gookin was laboring as an assistant to Mr. Oakes, the County Court required certain statistical returns from the
" June
. .
6V
several towns in the county, concerning the number of families and taxable polls, schools, tything-men, and the amount of com-
The pensation paid to the pastors of the several churches. follows March as made Committee 30, 1680, bridge report,
Cam:
" The number of our families, according to our nearest comis one hundred and twenty-one. The number of our putation,
1
persons,
and sixty-nine.
money
is
according to our nearest computation, is one hundred The annual allowance to our reverend pastor in about 51' ; in goods and provisions about 78', 13 Sum is
.
with his dwelling in the house built for the ministry, with four acres of land adjoining thereunto ; also about twenty
;
129' 13* O d
carried to his house." It was voted, June " that the maintenance that is annually allowed to the Mr. Nathanill shall have one hundred pounds Gookin ministry, thereof for this present year, and the remainder to be paid to Mr. Oakes." After Mr. Gookin's death, the town voted, May 13, 1695, " to to the next minister that the church and town shall settle
load of
wood annually
28, 1680,
give
in money, so long as he on the work of the ministry in Cambridge " and, Jan. 23, 1712-3, " voted, that the sum of ten pounds per annum be added to the salary of the ministry in this part of the town, instead of the annual custom of carting of wood so that the said salary is one hundred pounds The annum." nominal per remained until the close of Dr. salary unchanged Appleton's long but it was the ministry, more than seventy years afterwards custom, for many years, to give the pastor " a considerable quantity of wood gratis, some years between thirty and forty loads,
shall carry
;
among them ninety pounds per annum,
Ratable
polls,
or males sixteen years of age.
281
sometimes above forty loads." * A reasonable allowance was made, also, for the depreciation of values, during the Revolutionary War. Provision was made which resulted in the creation of June 28, 1680, a fund for the maintenance of the ministry. " Voted and of the remote lands, hundred acres that five agreed, our and between Oburne, Concord, head-line, shall be laid lying
out for the use and benefit of the ministry of this town and In 1718, this land place, and to remain to that use forever." was sold, and of the proceeds one hundred and thirty pounds
were expended on the Parsonage, and the remainder was invested in a fund, whereof two thirds of the interest should be paid annually to the pastor of the church, and the remaining It is understood third part should be added to the principal. more than twenty thousand that this fund recently amounted to
dollars.
lot to witness another division of his " In 1682, the Farmers," as those were called who parish. dwelt in what is now the town of Lexington, petitioned to be set " in order to off as a separate parish, provide for themselves a person that may be meet and able to dispense unto them the " " seated at a word of God great representing that they were distance, the nearest of them above five miles (some of them six,
It
was Mr. Gookin's
eight, some nine, if not ten miles), from the public place meeting to worship God in the town that we appertain unto." This petition was opposed by Cambridge, and was not granted by the General Court. It was renewed in 1684, when it met a The request was finally granted, Dec. 15, 1691 similar fate.
some
of
and although a church was not mother church, until nearly five Estabrook was engaged to preach mencing May 1, 1692. He was
organized, separate from the
years later, Rev. Benjamin one year in the parish, comordained Oct. 21, 1696, and
died July 22, 1697. After the death of Mr. Gookin, more than four years elapsed before the ordination of his successor. In the meantime more
than thirty ministers preached in the Cambridge pulpit, of whom Samuel Angier, William Brattle, and Increase Mather, preached more frequently than any other. The compensation to the ten for was each sermon and generally one preachers shillings
;
and another in the afternoon. person preached The commendable generosity of one eminent preacher is re" Mr. Increase Mather corded by Deacon Hastings preached
in the forenoon,
:
Church Record.
282
in the
;
time of our vacancy and he gave his to Mrs. Hannah Gookin, widow, and it was paid her and for entertaining the l The generosity of the parish minister that preached with us."
much
of Mr. ought also to be held in remembrance. The expense and donations the was funeral Mitchell's parish, defrayed by were made to his widow (who was also widow of the former pasMr. Oakes left no tor, Mr. Shepard), as long as she lived.
widow, and the College assumed the charge of his funeral, as in The town the case of their former President, Mr. Chauncy. " to Nov. the 14, 1692, pay the exparish) voted, (which was funeral of our Pastor Gookin's the charge pense and defray " in about to amounted which eighteen pounds money charges,
:
and the continuance of the same benevolence
is
indicated
by a
vote, March 10, 1700-1, "that Mrs. Hannah Gookin should be paid three pounds, to pay the rent of her house this present The account is fittingly closed by the record under date year." of May 15, 1702 " Voted, that the selectmen take care that Mrs. Hannah Gookin be decently buried at the charge of the inhabi:
tants belonging to this meeting-house, and the charge of said funeral be added to the town rate granted this year."
Rev. William Brattle, born at Boston, November, 1662, H. C. 1680, Tutor and Fellow of the College 1692, one of the first two on whom the College conferred the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, 1692, who had supplied the pulpit occasionally since Mr.
Gookin's death and constantly since March 25, 1696, was ordained pastor of the church Nov. 25, 1696. From this time a regular church record was made, which has been preserved in
At the commencement of this record, Mr. good condition. Brattle says he u succeeded the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Gookin, and was ordained a minister of Jesus Christ and a pastor to the flock at Cambridge, Nov. 25, 1696, per the Rev. Mr. Inc. Mather. The Rev. Mr. Morton, Mr. Allin, and Mr. Willard laid on hands. The Rev. Mr. Sam Willard gave the right hand of fellowship Deo sit gloria. Amen." The proceedings at this ordination seem to have been misapprehended by some historians. President
1
.
" Quincy says that Brattle gave immediate evidence of his disposition to set himself free from some customs of the established Congregational Church. He preached at his own ordination, and forbade an elder, because he was a layman, to lay his hand upon his head during the ceremony. Both were deviations from the established practice of the early Congregational Churches." 2
1
Church Record
orthography revised.
History of Harvard University,
i.
88,
89.
he quotes the remark of Judge Sewall ordered that Mr. Brattle should not preach.
troubled at
it,
283
" It was, at
first,
And
But many being

conformed to
it
'twas afterward altered."
Instead of deviating
from the established custom, Mr. Brattle,
in fact,
by preaching
at his
own
ordination, though he earnestly desired to
be excused from that service.
In proof that
it
was not unusual
for a pastor to preach his own ordination sermon, it is sufficient to quote two examples, which occurred near the same time and
in this
immediate
" Mr.
vicinity.
Rev. Thomas Shepard, grandson of
the
5,
first
pastor of this church, was ordained at Charlestown,
May
Shepard was ordained by Mr. Sherman of Watertown, and received the right hand of fellowship from President Oakes. He preached his own Ordination Sermon, and took his text from Hebrews, xiii. 20, That great Shepherd of the Another sermon was preached on this occasion, from sheep. Ezekiel xxxiii. 7, Son of man, I have set thee a watchman." 2 Rev. Benjamin Estabrook was ordained at Lexington, Oct. 21, 1696, exactly five weeks before the ordination of Mr. Brattle.
1680.
" A church is Judge Sewall describes the exercises thus gathered at Cambridge North Farms. No relations made, but a covenant signed and voted by ten brethren, dismissed from the churches of Cambridge, Watertown, Woburn, Concord, for this work. Being declared to be a church, they chose Mr. Benjamin Estabrooks their pastor, who had made a good sermon from Jer. iii. 15. Mr. Estabrooks, the father, managed this, having prayed Mr. Willard gave the charge Mr. Fox the right excellently. hand of Fellowship." 3 These examples are sufficient to show that Mr. Brattle did not depart from an established Congrega:
by preaching at his own ordination. On the conhe conformed to the custom, not willingly, but in deference trary, to the wishes of others. In the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society is preserved a manuscript letter from Mr. Brattle to Rev. Rowland Cotton of Sandwich, dated Nov. 6, u I wrote to 1696, in which he says your good father the last therein and him and week, acquainted yourself, &c., that the ordination at Cambridge is designed (God willing) 25 this instant. Shall be glad to see you and others my friends, and in the meantime entreat your good wishes. I trust the Reverend Presitional custom,
:
dent
1
will
preach the ordination-sermon

*
it
is
my
hearty desire,
History of Harvard University, i. 489. Frothingham's History of Charles-
Sewall's
MS.
Journal.
town, p. 192.
284
and that which must he, otherwise I shall have great dissatisfacmy own mind, it being, according to my best light, most proper that, when there is time but for one sermon on such days, some grave Divine, and not the young Candidate, should give As a compromise, Mr. Brattle preached to the said sermon." to the custom, and in compliance with adhered who those gratify his earnest desire Dr. Mather preached, as appears by the deation in
con's record of the services.
In one matter, Mr. Brattle early adopted a practice, then reHe cently introduced, at variance with the established usage. obtained a vote of the church that public relations of experience
should not be required of candidates for admission to member1 and that the question upon admission should no longer be ship " manual taken but silence should be considered as;
by
vote,"
This gave dissatisfaction to Deputy-governor Danforth " At a church and others whereupon, meeting at Mr. Bordmau's house, May 4, 1697, (1) Then propounded to Mr. Danforth and the whole body of the brethren who had remonstrated as to the votes of the church passed March 11, '967, at the
sent.
:
house of deacon Hastings, whether, if I would condescend so far as to let something be communicated to the church by myself, or
the Elder, wherein I received
satisfaction
communion with us, as to their spiritual fitness be done at some time before or when they are
I shall judge best,
from those who ask for it, and this to to be admitted as
remain so long as the peace of the would then be satisfied, and give no they further trouble This proposal was consented unto by them all, no one expressing his dissent. (2) Then propounded to them whether, if the way and manner of taking the Church's consent, whether by handy vote, or silence, or any other indifferent sign,
this to
and
church requires
it,
be
left to
:
faction
the discretion of the Elders, this would be to their satisto this, likewise, their consent was given, and no one
expressed his dissatisfaction. Upon which I promised that, so as the of the Church called for it, I would observe long peace
what
differences
had now propounded to them for the accommodating the which had been among us." 2 The connection of Mr. Brattle with his church for more than twenty years was peaceful and successful. His connection with the college, as Tutor and Fellow was even longer, and equally
I
1
The same
course had been pursued at
Church Record.
the gathering of the church at Lexington, Oct. 21, 1696.
pleasant and beneficial.
285
After the death of his brother, Thomas Brattle, he skilfully performed the duties of Treasurer of the At the election of President, College, for about two years.
Oct. 28, 1707, he had one vote. 1 His literary attainments were further recognized by his election as a member of the Royal Soci-
an honor conferred on very few Americans. After "a languishing distemper which he bore with great patience and " died with resignation," he peace and an extraordinary serenity
ety,
mind," Feb. 15, 1716-17, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. An " Boston News Letter," dated Feb. 25, obituary appeared in the in which it is said that his " good name while he lived was better than precious ointment, and his memory, now being that of the just, will be always blessed. They that had the happiness to know Mr. Brattle, knew a very religious, good man, an able
of
divine, a laborious, faithful minister,
an excellent scholar, a great a wise and and one of the best of friends. benefactor, prudent man, The promoting of religion, learning, virtue, and peace, every where within his reach, was his very life and soul, the great busi-
ness about which he was constantly employed, and in which he
Like his great Lord and Master, he went about His principles were sober, sound, (ôr sent) doing good. of In a preface to a catholic and moderate, being pacific spirit." Dr. Se wall's sermon on the death of Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, " In Dr. Mather fully corroborates the foregoing testimony
principally delighted.
:
the same
week another faithful minister of God was taken away, viz. the Rev. Mr. William Brattle, pastor of the church in Camwhom also I had reason to have an intimate acquaintance bridge,
with, for that I presided over the College all the time of his being a Fellow and a Tutor there ; and I had much comfort in his
conversation.
Had
I not
known
his abilities, I
would not have
advised the precious Church in Cambridge to have elected and

1
It is
not unlikely that this vote was
given by Increase Mather, D. D. letter from Mr. Brattle to him, dated

8,
A MS.
May
and that day with your presence and managements. I know it would be very
great condescension in yourself; but because of the special service which would
1707, preserved in the Library of Harvard College, indicates their mutual respect and affection.
for a
come
lie
After hearty thanks
book which he had recently received, " Mr. Brattle says As to the affairs of the College, I wish they were under better circumstances than they are I do not
: :
thence, and for the sake of the pubglory that would attend it, I cannot but wish it. I have deep resentments of
hear but that the Commencement is like to be carry'd on as of late If not, I would with all earnestness wish that your:
self
would once more honor that society
your respects to my unworthy self it is what I am most apt to be proud of, that I have in any measure your smiles. The argument you urge my compliance from in case and of your presence, &c., is without flattery the greatest temptation from the head of honor that could assault me."
:
286
ordained him their pastor, and at their and his desire performed He that holds that office of respect and love on Nov. 25, 1696.
the stars in his right hand was pleased to uphold
office
him
in the
some months above twenty years. I am glad to pastoral see his character already published, and that it is done without said of him being true, and hyperbolizing, that which is there
nothing but justice to his memory. Where shall there be found a suitable successor?" This surely does not indicate such a as jealousy and antagonism between Dr. Mather and Mr. Brattle
some historians have represented. It would seem that hitherto, very few pews had been coninstead of which there were long structed in the meeting-house " seaters of the seats appropriated to individuals by the meetingBut early in Mr. Brattle's ministry, March 14, 1697-8, house." the town " voted, that there should be a pew made and set up between Mr. Samuel Gookin's pew and the stairs on the south;
east corner of the meeting-house for the family of the ministry." Soon afterwards, July 11, 1698, "on the motion of Mr. John
Leverett and Doctor James Oliver, the Selectmen do grant that they shall have convenient place in the meeting-house for the accommodation of their respective families the place or places to be
;
set out to
them by the Selectmen, the Elders consenting thereto the places which they desire are on each side of the east door of
:
the meeting-house."
This meeting-house, having stood some-
had become dilapidated, and the inhabitants of the town voted, July 12, 1703, " that they apprehend it necessary at this time to proceed to the building of a new meetfifty years,
what more than
ing-house, and in order thereunto, there
was then chosen Capt.
Andrew
Belcher, Esq., Thomas Brattle, Esq., John Leverett, Esq., Col. Francis Foxcroft, Esq., Deacon Walter Hastings, Capt.
Thomas Oliver, and Mr. William Russell, a committee to advise and consider of the model and charge of building said meetinghouse, and to make report of the same to said inhabitants." Final action was delayed until December 6, 1705, when it was "voted that the sum of two hundred and eighty pounds be levied on said inhabitants, toward the building a new meeting-house amongst them." Thanks were voted by the town, March 8, 1707-8, to "the Hon ble Andrew Belcher, Esq.," for his gift "toward building our new meeting-house." The same generous benefactor had On previously given a bell, as mentioned in a former chapter. the 28th of September, 1703, the College granted sixty pounds " out of the College Treasury towards the building a new meet-
;
287
" " voted that Mr. Leverett with and, August 6, 1706, ing-house for the the Treasurer take care building of a pew for the Presiin the dent's family meeting-house now a building, and about the
students' seats in the said meeting-house
;
the charge of the
pew
This third house to be defrayed out of the College Treasury." the stood on or very near the spot occupied by second, and seems
have been opened for public worship, Oct. 13, 1706, as Mr. Brattle's record of Baptisms shows that on that day he first baptized a child in that house, having performed a similar service in the College Hall on the previous Sabbath. As before stated, Mr. Brattle died Feb. 15, 1716-7. On the next day after his decease, the town " voted, that the charge of wine, scarves, and gloves, &c., for the bearers at the funeral of our late Pastor, the Rev. Mr. William Brattle, deceased, be defrayed by the town, and that the deacons and selectmen, by
to
themselves, or any three of them that they may appoint, order An account of money thus disbursed, the management thereof."
amounting to <23 17 10, was presented and allowed March 11, 17167. Mr. Brattle's remains were deposited under the same slab which marks the resting-place of Dr. James Oliver, who
deceased April
1
8,
1703. l
where I lodgd. Try'd again y e next day. r Many of us went over y e ferry Maj
Turner, Price, Lynde, Brattle, Somersby, Holyoke, Sewall, &c., & held a council at e Charlstown, & having heard of y g* difficulty of a butcher going tow'd neck of
On
the
day of the funeral, Wednes-
day, Feb. 20, 1716-7, there was an exThe Boston traordinary snow-storm. News Letter, dated Feb. 25, says " Besides several snows, we had a great one
:
on
it began to snow about noon and continued snowing till Friday the 22d, so that the snow lies in some parts of the streets about six foot
Monday Wednesday
the
18th current, and on
the 20th,
who was we were quite

land,
founder'd, dug out, &c y* went back & disco rag'd

,
:
lodg'd w* abundance of heartiness at Mr. Belchers. Mr. White & I trudg'd thro'
e up to y South, where I knew Mr. Col man was to preach in y e forenoon, when he
high."
in
more vivid description is given a letter from Rev. John Cotton, of
Newton (who was present at the funeral) to his father, Rev. Rowland Cotton, of
Sandwich, dated Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1716-7, and preserved in the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society " Hon d I left 3 letters at Savel's
:
.
design'd to give the separate character of
Mr. Pemb., [Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton,

died Feb. 13, 1717] w c y r wasn't time for on y c Lecture, w c he did sweetly & well telling how emulous he always was to excell ; his candle envied, &c., y'
who
Father,
l
ys at
&
ye
a st week, besides
last
I put into
night went to
when we saw him stand up how our exalways rais'd & y* he always & never deceiv'd 'em. Mr. we have y 8 Treas. in earthin Sewal upon Mr. Sewal spake well, very vessels &c. well, of his ascended Master & father, ra concerning w he cdnt be wholly silent, & then gave a breif, full, & good characc Mast'. ter, together w* his last words w
pectations
Ezra Bourns hand

Cambridge,
Wednesday
wr
wc
night (as he
exceeded 'em
Maiden &
till
now) so I went
there I suppose kept prisoner to Boston, & by
reason of y e late great & very deep snow was detained there till yesterday. I got with difficulty to y e ferry on Friday, but
:
cdnt get over
went back
to
Mr. Belcher's
288
Immediately after the decease of Mr. Brattle the Church adopted measures to supply the vacancy thus occasioned. A meeting for that purpose was duly appointed, and its proceedings were minutely recorded preserved in the Library of
by President Leverett, in his Diary, Harvard College. As the result was
so important, securing the settlement of a pastor who fed the flock of Christ nearly sixty -seven years, almost as long as the combined ministry of his five predecessors, this record is worthy
of publication "Friday, April the 19th, 1717. At a meeting 1. The President being of the Church of Christ in Cambridge.
:
by the deacons and brethren opened the meeting with 2. The deacons proposed that a moderator might be prayer. 3. Voted, chosen for the ordering and directing the meeting.
desired
He subPresident be moderator of this meeting. mitted to the vote of the brethren of the Church, and, opening the design and intention of the meeting, earnestly desired that
that the
every body would freely discover their minds and declare what measures they thought proper, and what steps they would take
After a in order to a settlement of the ministry in this place. due time of silence Mr. Justice Remington expressed himself,
first
that the nomination of some suitable persons seemed to be the Some other spake to the same effect. No step to be taken.
opposition being expressed, a vote was called and it was voted. Voted, that the brethren express their minds as to nomination in writing, and the three persons that shall have the most votes
4.
shall be the persons nominated, out of which an election shall be made of one, in order to be settled in the pastoral office in this
Williams writ down.
print.
They'll
all
be in
On Monday
Newton;
I assay'd again for but 'twas now also in vain. No.
&c.
Sam. Jacks. [Samuel Jackson] Stowell, come down on purpose to break y c
way & conduct me home

did
yy kindly
r body had been from Camb & there was lodg'd there Mr. Gerrish, Rogers, Fitch,
&
thro favor safely, last night; but

difficulty y* I design
Blowers,
Prescot, Whiting,
Chevcrs,
&
Mr. Gerrish preach'd 23 beg. with prayer. Mr. Fitch beg. in y c aft'n. Mr. Blow, preach'd 2 Ez. 5 ult. clause. At Boston w r lodg'd as prisoners Mr. Sheph. Loring, Barnard,
others.
10,
some
Numb.
Mr.
Rg 8
not down toTho' y c Dr's mind, he told me his yesterday run much on a thaw text tomorrow ^ 4 ?> 18. They were afraid of a sudden thaw, bee. of a mighty
w* such
morrow.
flood.
Before Cutler's door, so great was bank that yy made a handsome arch
Holyoke, Porter, &c. "I ordered my horse over y e ferry to Bost" yesterday, designing to try Rox-
in
it
&
sat in chairs, w* y r bottles of wine,
bury way gentlemen

w<
but was
in
so
discorag'd by
town, especially by y e
GoV.
whom I din'd y' I was going to put up my horse and tarry till Thursd. & as I
was going
to
Denison came over yest. upon sno I shoes & designs back tomorrow. r suppose bee. of Conventions last week, y was w'out County preaching. generally I believe y e like was never known as to r ministers absence from y parishes," etc.
&c.
do
it
met Cap. Prentice,
church.
289
Pursuant to this vote, the brethren were desired by the moderator to write and bring in their votes, which they did and upon the view, numbering and declaring the vote, Mr. Henry Flint, Mr. Jabez Fitch,, and Mr. Nathaniel Appleton were the three persons agreed to be nominated, out of which the brethren should proceed to an election. Accordingly the moderator de;
sired the brethren of the
Church
to bring in their votes for the
choice of a person to settle in the ministry in this place, viz. one Pursuant hereto the church of three before nominated persons.
brought in their votes in writing. 5. Upon sorting and numbering the votes, Mr. Nathaniel Appleton was by the church elected
to the
work
pastoral
office as
of the ministry, in order to the taking upon him the God shall open the way thereunto. This was
;
by a great majority the votes for Mr. Appleton being 38, and The moderator declared to the the votes for Mr. Flynt but 8. church their election of Mr. Appleton as aforesaid. 6. It was proposed that those that had not voted for Mr. Appleton in writing might have the opportunity to manifest their satisfaction with the vote that had passed, that the brethren would manifest that they chose him as aforesaid by lifting up their hands, which was complied with, and it is said that there were but two that had acted
in the foregoing votes that did not hold up their hands." After appointing a committee to ask the concurrence of the town with
the church in their choice, " the moderator concluded the meeting with returning thanks to God for the peaceable and comfortl The management of the affairs of the church. Laus Deo." town concurred, and Mr. Appleton was ordained Oct. 9, 1717. Dr. Increase Mather preached and gave the charge Dr. Cotton Mather gave the right hand of Fellowship and they, together with Rev. Messrs. John Rogers, of Ipswich, and Samuel Angier, of Watertown, imposed hands. Ministers and delegates of elev-
able
en churches in Boston, Charlestown, Watertown, Ipswich, Newton, Lexington, and Medford, "were invited," says President " and were all Leverett, pi'esent except Mr. Gibbs, who could not attend by reason of indisposition. The solemnity was carried on with as great decency and good order throughout as has
been ever remembered at any time in any place. Laus Deo." The town, having concurred with the church in the invitation
to
1
Mr. Appleton, voted,
May
27, 1717, that the
sum
of
one hun-
This election was the more gratifying Mr. Appleton was a nephew of the President's wife,
to President Leverett, because
was gratified in a similar manner by the election of his brother-in-law, Rev. Ed-
ward Holyoke,
vard College.
to the Presidency of
Har-
Twenty
years afterwards, Mr. Appleton 19

.
290
dred pounds, and the stranger's money, the improvement of the our late Rev d Pastor parsonage, and all other perquisites which .... enjoyed, be annually paid to and enjoyed by the Rev. Mr.
.
Nath. Appleton, he settling in the work of the ministry, amongst The Parsonage erected in us, during his continuance therein."
1670 having become dilapidated, the town voted, Aug. 1, 1718, " that the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds be granted for the building a new Parsonage-house, provided the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds of the said money be procured by the sale of town, propriety, or ministry lands in said town, as may be thought most proper to be disposed of for said use." Accordingly, the church farm in Lexington was sold, and so much as was not appropriated for the Parsonage was invested in a permanent fund. The records do not distinctly indicate whether But Dr. the Parsonage was wholly or only partly rebuilt. " All the ministers, since Mr. Holmes, writing in 1800, says, The front part of the Mitchell, have resided at the Parsonage. at the built in was 1720." i The whole house, Parsonage, present house was taken down in 1843. The congregation seems to have soon increased, demanding additional room and it was voted, Aug. 1, 1718, " that a new
;
women, agreeable to the gallery over the men, be erected and built, provided the corporation of Harvard College be at the charge of the same ; which
upper
to
gallery in our meeting-house over the
the Rev. Mr. President Leverett, on behalf of the College, offered do ; the whole of the gallery on the south side of our meeting-
house being then resigned for the use of the scholars, excepting the two wings of the front seat, which are to be improved by the town till such time as the scholars have occasion for the same, and no longer." Notwithstanding this enlargement of the seating capacity of the house, the people on the westerly side of notomy River desired better accommodation, and as early as
10, 1725, petitioned the
Me-
May
town to consent that they might become a separate precinct. The town withheld its consent, on the " " ground that near one half of said inhabitants had not signed the petition. The request was renewed in 1728, but was not
successful until four years later. The General Court having dismissed the petition of James Cutler and others for
incorporation
as a religious precinct, Nov. 3, 1732, a new petition, slightly differing in form, was presented soon afterwards; which was
granted Dec. 27, 1732, and

1
Menotomy became a
Coll., vii. 30.
precinct, with
Mass. Hist.
substantially the
291
same bounds which were assigned to it when it was incorporated as a town in 1807. This separation appears to have been entirely amicable, and a spirit of Christian fellowship and love is indicated by an act of the church mentioned by Dr. Holmes in " Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc.," vii. 33: "On the Lord's day, September 9, 1739, a church was gathered in this precinct by the Rev. Mr. Hancock of Lexington and on the 12th day of the same month, the Rev. Samuel Cooke was ordained its pastor. On this occasion, the First Church in Cambridge voted, that 25 be given out of the church stock to the Second Church in Cambridge, to furnish their communion table in a decent manner."
;
In 1753 the First Parish resolved to erect a new meeting-house, and desired the College to defray a part of the expense where;
" upon the corporation voted, Dec. 3, 1753, to pay one seventh part of the charge of said house," provided the students should have the use of the whole front gallery, and " at least the third or " fourth pew as to the choice be set apart for " the President for the time being and his family." The erection of the house was " was raised Nov. about three It 17, 1756, and delayed years. Meandivine service was first performed in it July 24, 1757." *
time further negotiation was had with the College, and a proposition was made to place the new house farther from the street, which would " very much secure it from fire as well as render the appearance of it much more beautiful," and also would render it " in order to a suitable accommodation of
absolutely necessary the Parish that they should be allowed the use of a part of the President's orchard behind their said new meeting-house, where
when they come
to attend on divine worship they
might place
" to make the said their horses, chairs, chaises, &c." Desiring situation of the new meeting-house as convenient as may be," the
6, 1756, to grant to the Parish the use of a strip of land one hundred and sixteen feet and four inches in length by thirty-two feet and ten inches in width, on certain con" ditions viz., (1.) That the scholars' gallery shall be in the
corporation voted, Sept.
front of the said meeting-house, and the fore part of the said gallery seventeen feet on a perpendicular line from the said front,
and that they shall enjoy all that space of the said front gallery contained within the mitre lines drawn from the angles where the foreparts of the side gallerys meet with the forepart of the front gallery to the corner-posts of the house, saving what shall
be cut
off
from the said mitre

1
lines
by a pew
vii.
at each corner of
Cdl. Mass. Hist. Soc.,
34.
292
said house of about seven feet square. 1 (2.) That the said new the street, in the manfront down shall meeting-house southerly
ner the old one
now
doth.
(3.)
That the front
of the said
new
meeting-house be two and an half or three feet behind the backside of the old meeting-house. (4.) That there be a liberty for the President of the College to cart into his back yard, viz., at
the backside of the said
&c., for his
it."
new meeting-house, wood, hay, boards, or the College use, as there shall be occasion for These conditions were accepted by a Committee of the
own
The amount paid by the College is stated at <213 6 8. was exactly " one seventh part of the charge," the whole cost of the new house was XI, 493 6 8, and the sum payable by the Parish was Xl,280. 2
Parish.
If this
1 By consent of the corporation, the width of the gallery was reduced to fifteen feet and seven inches. Also a portion of " "
the mitral part of the gallery was relinquished, "provided, that the part we thus cede to the Parish shall not be occu-
pied by the negroes." The pew selected for the President was " that on the left
hand entering
in
at the front door,

if
if it
may
be had, and
not,
then the third
pew on
the east side of the pulpit."
The
corporation also paid "for erecting two pews in the scholars' gallery in the new
meeting-house for the Tutors to sit in." 3 large portion of this amount was
subscribed by individuals, as appears by a MS. in the Library of Harvard College,

entitled,
ers
"List of the number of subscriband sums subscribed for building the

.
N. Meeting house in Cambridge." Sam 1 Kent,
JVo.2.
JYo.I.
PL
Jtichardson.
Mary Tufts. S&noet&nk
Foxcroft.
PeterTufts.
Fofa.
Trowbrifyt
Dea
JVo.7
JVo.37.
J?.
Gardner
JVo.8.
Jlradish.
dm. Jrowbndge. OfSiBHfD FOR
Wm.Tletcher.
JVo.W.
JftctfChampney.
Seth Hastings
MnFessenden.
Stephen
Palmer.Jurf:
T.
JVb.36.
f~
wt.
Widow Sarah
ffastmqs. 7
The house
293
thus erected by the joint contributions of the Col-
lege, the Parish, and individuals, served its purpose until 1833, when it was taken down, and the land on which it stood was
Harvard College. " In this edifice all the public commencements and solemn inaugurations, during more than seventy years, were celebrated and no building in
sold to the corporation of
;
Massachusetts can compare with it in the number of distinguished men, who at different times have been assembled within its
walls.
his brother patriots in arms there worshipped, during the investment of Boston by the Provincial army, in 1775. In 1779, the delegates from the towns of Massachu-
Washington and
setts there
met and framed the Constitution
of the
Common-
There wealth, which the people of that State ratified in 1780. Lafayette, on his triumphal visit to the United States, in 1824, was eloquently welcomed, during the presidency of Dr. Kirkland."
i
" before the " triumphal visit of Lafayette, and several years before the erection of this famous edifice, another distin-
Long
guished foreigner,
creating nearly as
Rev.
George Whitefield,
visited
America,
;
as Lafayette himself with this difference, however, that while all united to honor the one,
much excitement
the other was vehemently applauded by some and resolutely and sternly opposed by others. Without discussing the subject
in controversy between him and his opposers, it is sufficient here to record the historical fact, that the Pastor of the Cam-
bridge Church and the Faculty of Harvard College set their faces as a flint against Mr. Whitefield, who had denounced the Col lege and the New England clergy, as teachers of an unsavory
and unprofitable religion, and alleged that a large number of grave and learned divines, held in honor and reverence throughout the vicinity, were in fact unconverted and destitute of vital
Professor Wigglesworth and others published vigorous piety. replies to Mr. Whitefield, who was finally induced to retract 01 Mr. Apessentially modify his accusations against the College.
pleton declined to admit Mr. Whitefield into his pulpit, in accordB. Hancock,
Pr. Holyoke,
10.
0.
0.
6.
Josh Morse,
.
6. 8.
13. 6
1.
20.
13. 15.
13.
Aaron
8
Hill,
John Dickson, Rich. Dana, Caleb Dana, Mr. Fletcher,

Lt.
0.
6.
L.
8
= in O. T.
The sum
total is
M.
836.
2.
1.
6270.
14.
0. 0.
0.
Gov r
[Phips]
40.
10.
Mr. Inmaii,
not precisely accurate. copy of the original Plan of this meeting-house is here reproduced.
1
Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ.,
ii.
463.
294
ance with the advice of his brethren, which was published in the " Boston Evening Post," Jan. 7, 1745, as follows " Cambridge Jan. 1, 1744-5. At a meeting of the Association
:
sieurs
and the neighboring towns, present, the Reverend MesJohn Hancock of Lexington, William Williams of Weston, John Cotton of Newton, Nath Appleton of Cambridge, Warham
of this
1
.
Williams of Waltham, Seth Storer of Watertown, Eben r Turell of Medford, Nicholas Bowes of Bedford, Samuel Cook of CamThe Rev. Mr. Appleton having applied to his brethren bridge. of said association for our advice, relating to a request which hath been made to him by a number of his church and congregation, that he would invite the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield to preach in Cambridge ; after supplications to God and mature consideration of the case proposed, and the several pleas made in favor of said
.
request, and the state of the town, as also the many weighty objections which lie against the said Mr. Whitefield, with respect to his principles, expressions, and conduct, which are not yet answered, nor has any Christian satisfaction been given by him
for
them ; considering also how much the order, peace and edification of the churches of this land are endangered, together with
the unhappy, divided state of many of them It was unanimously voted, that it is not advisable, under the present situation of things, that the Rev. Mr. Appleton should invite the Rev. Mr.
;
clared, each of
Whitefield to preach in Cambridge. And they accordingly dethem for themselves respectively, that they would
advice was signed by each "Attest,
not invite the said gentleman into their pulpits. JH@" The above member of the association.
JOHN HANCOCK, Moderator." Another article relative to the same subject appeared in the " Boston " Whereas it is Weekly News Letter," June 27, 1745
:
reported in the Gazette or Journal of this week, that the Rev. Mr. Whitefield preached last Saturday at Cambridge, to prevent
misapprehensions and some ill consequences which may arise from thence, you are desired to give your readers notice that he preached on the Common, and not in the Pulpit and that he did
;
it,
not only without the consent, but contrary to the mind, of the Rev. Mr. Appleton the minister of the place." As early as May, 1747, a petition was presented to the General Court that the inhabitants of that part of Cambridge which
afterwards became the town of Brighton might be incorporated as a separate religious precinct. protest was presented by other persons residing on the same territory, and the petition
295
was dismissed. After a like unsuccessful attempt in April, 1748, the petition was renewed by a committee in December, 1749, in which it is said, " There is within the bounds of the proposed
new
2660 acres parish on the south side of the river, and 81 rods of land, by the plan 42 dwelling-houses about 50 families above 50 persons in full communion with the church and this part of the town's proportion to the Province Tax in d 1748 was 700. 11 s 8 ., old tenor, and 67 ratable polls, about 290 souls." It is also said " We have supported the gospel among us some part of the year for fourteen years, during which time we set apart a house for divine worship that had been a
; ; ; ;
.
dwelling-house upon finding it too small for the congregation we erected a convenient house for the worship of God, .... and soon after we had winter-preaching in this house we con:
cluded to have summer-preaching in it also and we are now in the 5 year that we have had constant preaching." l This petiIt was foltion, like those which preceded it, was dismissed.
:
stated that
lowed by another in June, 1758, in which it is more definitely " it was necessary for the inhabitants on this side the river, about twenty-seven years since, to procure preaching among ourselves during the winter season, which we for the space of fourteen years continued to support at our sole expense, paying
proportion of the gospel in the old town ; but afterwards the house in which we met neither convenient nor large finding for the enough purpose, we did about thirteen years since erect a
our
full
to
meeting-house of suitable dimensions in the most suitable place accommodate the people on this side the river, and have ever since supported the public preaching of the gospel among us at
our
own charge (except about ten or eleven pounds per annum which has been allowed us by the First Parish for a few years last past)," etc. 2 So strong was the opposition, however, that this petition was dismissed and another which was presented Feb. 22, 1774, met the same fate. At last, nearly half a century
;
after the
commencement
of
regular religious services
(for the
winter), and about thirty-five years after the erection of a meeting-house in which public worship was offered throughout the year, the inhabitants on the south side of the river were incorporated by the General Court, April, 1779, as a separate precinct with authority to settle a minister, and to provide for his support " excepting Samuel Sparhawk, John Gardner, by a parish tax, Joanna Gardner, and Moses Griggs, and their estates, who shall
1
Mass. Arch.,
xii.
368-371.
Mass. Arch.,
xiv. 73-76.
296
be exempted from all ministerial taxes to said precinct, so long as they shall live or reside within the same, or until they or either of them shall give their hands into the Secretary's Office of this State, desiring that they with their estates may be considered as
The subsequent proceedings are related part of said precinct." Mass. Hist. Soc.," vii., 36, 37: "In Holme's in "Coll. Dr. by on the south side of Charles River in members church 1780, the
Cambridge presented a petition to the church, signifying their desire to be dismissed and incorporated into a distinct church, for enjoying the special ordinances of the gospel more conveniently by themselves. The church voted a compliance with their petiand they were incorporated on the 23d of February, 1783. The Reverend John Foster was ordained to their pastoral charge,
tion
;
November
4,
1784."
Besides the incorporation of the second and third precincts, resulting in the establishment of two more churches professing the
faith which had distinguished the parent church during the century and a half of its existence, Dr. Appleton witnessed yet another secession from his congregation, involving what he must have regarded as a departure from the faith and order of the
.
same
churches.
subscription
was commenced
in
1759 for the erec-
tion of an edifice, which was opened Oct. 15, 1761, for the worship of God according to the forms prescribed by the Episcopal
Church. The organization and history of Christ Church Parish will be more fully noticed elsewhere. It is sufficient to say here
it drew from Dr. Appleton's parish several of its richest and most aristocratic members. Socially and financially, he must have regarded their secession as a serious loss. The ministry of this sixth pastor of the church was long and two thirds of a century in length, but not marked peaceful, " The written record by any very extraordinary characteristics. of his labors as pastor comprises little more than long lists of persons received to the church, of adults and children who were baptized, and of persons married. The summing up is as
that
follows
children baptized, 2,048 ; adults, 90 ; admissions to the All through this long ministry fellowship of the church, 784. the pastor was busy in the duties of his office, preaching the
:
word, striving for the salvation of those under his care, and for
the edifying of the body of Christ." 1 Among the methods adopted for the furtherance of this object, Dr. Holmes says that " in 1736, a committee, chosen by the church to consult with the
1
McKcnzie's Hist.
Lect., p. 147.
297
and recommended
pastor respecting measures to promote a reformation, proposed to the church, as what they ' apprehended might
be serviceable for reviving religion and suppressing growing disorders,' that there be a number of wise, prudent, and blameless
Christians chosen among themselves, whose special care it should be to inspect and observe the manners of professing Christians, and such as were under the care and watch of the church. The pro-
posal was adopted, and a committee was appointed, for the purpose expressed in the recommendation. This committee, which was a kind of privy council to the minister, though without authority, appears to religion
fifty
sist
;
have been very serviceable to the interests of
and
l
it
years." of " three in the body of the town, one upon the
was renewed annually, for the space of about It was provided that this committee should con-
common,
one in Charlestown End, two at Menotomy, and two on the south side of the River." The members first elected were Samuel
Danforth, Esq., Andrew Bordman, Esq., John Bradish, Deacon Samuel Bowman, Benjamin Goddard, John Cutter, Ephraim Frost, Daniel Dana, and Deacon Samuel Sparhawk. The faithful and useful services of Dr. Appleton were recognized by the College in the bestowment of a degree, which, however common it may have since become, had never before been conferred by that corporation, except upon Rev. Increase Mather in 1692, and which was therefore a notable mark of honor. The " The Rev. Mr. Nathanael record bears date July 9, 1771 Appleton having been long an ornament to the pastoral character and eminently distinguished for his knowledge, wisdom, and sanctity of manners and usefulness to the churches, and having for more than fifty years exerted himself in promoting the interests of piety and learning in this society, both as a Minister and as a Fellow of the corporation, therefore, Voted, that the Degree of Doctor in Divinity be conferred on the said Rev. Mr. Nathanael Appleton, and that a Diploma for that purpose be pre:
sented to him."
On the verge of ninety longest human life has an end. " Dr. on account of his years Appleton very advanced age and " infirmities that a requested growing colleague might aid him in
The
Timothy Hilliard was and was duly installed. Dr. Appleton survived this event less than four months. " His public usefulness, though diminished, for a few of his last
the pastoral office. Accordingly, Rev. elected by the church and congregation
1
Coll.
Mass. Hist.
Soc., vii. 33, 34.
298
years, by the infirmities of age, did not entirely cease but with He died Feb. 9, 1784, in the ninety-first year of his his life. and England can age, sixty-seventh of his ministry ; and
New
any, instances of more useful talents, and of more exemplary piety, united with a ministry equally long and successful." 1 memorial tablet marks the resting-place of his body in
furnish few,
if
the old burial-ground.
The prolonged pastorate of Dr. Appleton was succeeded by the shortest which the church experienced, from its organization in
Rev. Timothy Hilliard, born in H. C. N. 1746, 1764, Tutor 1768-1771, ChapH., Kensington, lain at Castle William, 1768, was ordained at Barnstable, April The climate proving unfavorable to his health he 10, 1771.
1636 to
its
division in 1829.
resigned his charge at Barnstable, and was installed at bridge as colleague with Dr. Appleton, Oct. 27, 1783.
CamHis
ministry here did not continue quite seven years, yet it was productive of good fruits. His immediate successor, Dr. Holmes, " Placed of him says by Providence in this conspicuous station,
:
his sphere of usefulness
became much enlarged,
his labors being
now extended
to the University. For this new sphere he was ' His talents were excellent. He was peculiarly qualified. pulpit in his elocution. In he was exceeded by few, pleasing prayer
being ready in his utterance, pertinent on every occasion, and devotional in his manner. His discourses from the desk were never such as could be said to have cost him nothing, but were
well studied, pure in the diction, replete with judicious senti-
ments, clearly and methodically arranged, instructive, serious,
and truly evangelical so that his public services were and edifying to all ranks of men, both learned and unlearned.' He was ever viewed by the Governors of the Univeras an excellent model for the youth under their care who sity were designed for the desk and they considered his introduction into this parish a most happy event.' .... Though firm in the maintenance of his own religious sentiments, he was eminently In public and candid, and ready to embrace all good men.' private life, he was exemplary for virtue and piety There was no minister among us,' said President Willard, of his standing, who, perhaps, had a fairer prospect of becoming
practical,
;
useful
'
'
'
extensively useful to the churches of Christ in this Commonwealth.' .... In his last illness, which was very short, he was
supported by the Christian hope, which gave him a religious su1
Coll.
Mass. Hist.
Soc., vii. 62.
299
He died on the Lord's-day periority to the fear of death l morning, May 9, 1790, in the forty-fourth year of his age." " His bereaved, affectionate flock," erected a suitable monumental slab, in the old burial-place, over his mortal remains. Mr. Hilliard was succeeded in the pastoral office by Rev.
Abiel
Holmes, who was born in Woodstock, Conn., Dec. 24, 1763, Y. C. 1783, and was ordained pastor of a church at Midway, Georgia, Sept. 15, 1785, which church removed thither bodily from Dorchester, Mass.
resigned his pastorship of this church in June, 1791, and was installed pastor of the church in Cambridge, Jan. His ministry was long and eventful. His parish was 25, 1792.
He
much enlarged by the
establishment and growth of villages at Cambridgeport and East Cambridge, and it was subsequently diminished by their incorporation as a separate parish, 2 and the A new church was organization of churches in both villages. organized, Nov. 6, 1814, under the auspices of the College, which withdrew many of the officers and students from his congregation. These changes were effected peacefully, and with the He preached at the dedication of cooperation of Dr. Holmes. the meeting-house of the Cambridgeport Parish, and at the ordination of their
first
minister.
He
also assisted in the organi-
zation of the College Church.
But another change occurred, which occasioned much

sadness,
and which he
resisted earnestly
grief and and steadfastly though
which had
About the year 1815, a difference in opinion, unsuccessfully. for several years existed between the Trinitarian and
Unitarian Congregationalists, attained such prominence as to disturb the relations between pastors of churches, and to rend the
here.
churches themselves into fragments. Such was the sad effect The pastor felt it to be his duty to bear testimony against
what he regarded
and to prevent from his pulpit. A majority of his church approved the measures which he adopted, and adhered to him with unswerving fidelity. A minority of the church, with a majority of the parish, disagreed with him in opinion, and inas the errors of Unitarianism,
their dissemination
sisted that,
if he could not conscientiously teach such doctrines as they believed to be true, he should at least allow other clergymen to do so in his pulpit. long and unhappy controversy en-
Coll.
Mass. Hist,
foe.,
vii.
64-66.
The Cambridgeport
Parish, which in-
The
quotations by Dr. Holmes are from President Willard's Sermon at the funeral
eluded both Cambridgeport and East

bridge,
Cam-
of Mr. Hilliard.
300
For obvious sued, which resulted in a division of the church. are of this not here incidents the reasons, controversy particular its own version of the whole Each repeated. party published
"
in 1829 one, in a pamphlet of 58 pages, entitled, Account of the Controversy in the First Parish in Cam" the other, in a pamphlet of 103 pages, entitled " Conbridge troversy between the First Parish in Cambridge and the Rev. Dr. Holmes, their late Pastor." It may suffice to record the re-
matter
An
bled
ex-parte council, called by the First Parish, assem" May 19, 1829, and, after due deliberation, Voted, That there is plenary evidence of the facts, that Dr. Holmes has masult.
An
and Christian intercourse from and from that of more than thirty years of his own ministry that such change more essentially affects the peace, comfort, and edification of the Parish, than any mere change in speculation, or in points of dogmatterially varied in his ministerial
that of his two immediate predecessors,

;
ical
theology ; that this change has been persisted in, contrary to the repeated remonstrances of a large majority of the Parish, consisting of about three-fourths of the legal voters, including several
members
them, and
of
the church
that this course has greatly grieved
so far impaired their confidence in their pastor, as to the preclude possibility of continuing his ministerial relation to them, either with comfort to himself, or any prospect of advan-
Voted, That the First Parish in cing their religious interests. Cambridge have sufficient cause to terminate the contract subsisting between them and the Rev. Dr. Holmes, as their minister, and this Council recommend the measure, as necessary to the ex-
istence
and spiritual prosperity of the society. This Council to be distinctly understood," it is added, " that the service, to which we have in Providence been called, is one of the
wish
it
most painful services

that
all
of
our
life.
We
do not arraign or condemn
the motives of the Rev. Dr. Holmes.
We
are
happy
to testify
our impressions of his course, during the peaceful state of his society, are associated with the most interesting and honorable views of his ministerial character and the Christian
spirit."
l In accordance with this " Result," the Parish notified Dr. Holmes, June 11, 1829, that his " services will not be required or authorized in the public religious services in the meet-
2 ing-house in said Parish hereafter." And, as Dr. Holmes exthe pressed opinion that he was still the legal minister of the Parish, and professed a willingness to perform all his pastoral
1
Controversy, etc., pp. 87, 88.
Ibid., p. 97.
and ministerial
301
duties, as heretofore, the Parish committee, on " You do the succeeding day, closed the correspondence thus not owe any such duties as aforesaid to said Parish, and that said
:
Parish refuses to accept from you any service, or services, as such Hereafter you cannot occupy nor minister, or pastor, thereof. use the pulpit of the meeting-house of said Parish, as it will be
exclusively appropriated to such preacher, or preachers, as said Parish shall employ to supply it." 1 On the next Sabbath, Dr.
Holmes and those who adhered

the old Court House.
which assembled June
religious services in called an They ex-parte council, 17, 1829, and, after a full examination of
also
:
to
him held
the case, agreed in this result " In view of all the facts and evidence presented to this council, they are unanimously of the opinion, that the Rev. Dr. Holmes has not in any way forfeited
church and parish in Cambridge and that he is still, according to ecclesiastical usage, the pastor and minister of said church and parish." 2 As before stated, a majority of the church adhered to Dr. Holmes, and acknowledged him as their pastor but the majority of the parish would never thereafter acknowledge such relationship, and the breach between the two has never been healed. The minority of the parish organized a new society, and
his office as pastor of the first
; ;
" Shepard Congregational Society," with adopted the name of the which the majority of the church, claiming to be the First Church, united to maintain public worship and the ordinances of the Dr. Holmes soon asked for a colleague, and his request gospel.
was granted.
1829.
On
Rev. Nehemiah Adams, Jr., was ordained Dec. 17, account of physical debility, Dr. Holmes requested
a dismission, which was granted by the church, and confirmed by a council. He preached his farewell sermon Oct. 2, 1831. He
continued to preach occasionally until near the close of his life. He died, of paralysis, June 4, 1837, in the 74th year of his age. It is worthy of notice, that even during the unhappy controversy no " in the accusation" is known to have been
parish,
railing
heard against the moral and Christian character of Dr. Holmes even the council, which determined that he had forfeited his ministry by a steadfast persistence in what he regarded as his
;
duty contrary to the desires of others whose opinions differed from his own, bear a frank and manly testimony to his worth and His present successor in the ministry sincerity as a Christian. " The minishas thus described his labors and his character
:
Controversy,
etc., p. 98.
Account of
the
Controversy, etc., p. 55.
302
try of Dr.
Holmes here was but a few months short of forty single exception, it was the longest which the years. church has known. For neai'ly the whole of the time he was the the centre of only pastor in this part of the town, and he stood at
With a
a large parish, making his influence felt in every direction. He fulfilled the preached the word with fidelity and diligence. He
He instructed the 'children, various offices of our holy religion. and gave them books. He formed libraries for the use of the
He parish. to the poor.
he
watched over the schools.
He gave
of his substance
brought into the parish the aid of others whom esteemed able to edify the people. He zealously followed
He
Dr. Holmes left, a large number of every good work works, consisting chiefly of sermons preached on various printed He published a small History of Cambridge,' 1 occasions
'
which is invaluable to any one interested in the ancient town. His largest work was The Annals of America from the DiscovHe ery by Columbus in the year 1492 to the year 1826 was connected with a number of societies. From 1798 he was a most devoted friend of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and He was for more than twenty years its corresponding secretary. one of the founders of the Society for promoting Christian
'
Knowledge, and of the American Education Society. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the Trustees of the Institution at Andover, and an Overseer of Harvard University. His degree of Doctor of Divinity was received from the University of Edinburgh about 1805, and he was made Doctor of Laws by Alleghany College, in 1822." 2 Dr. Holmes was the last pastor of the whole church. Each of the two branches, into which it was divided in 1829, asWithserts its claim to be " The First Church in Cambridge."
out reference to the validity of their respective claims, in a brief sketch of their history after the division, it seems most natural
and proper to speak first of that branch which adhered to Dr. Holmes, and with which he remained connected during the residue of his life. Rev. Nehemiah Adams, H. C. 1836, D. D. Amherst, 1847, was ordained Dec. 17, 1829, as colleague pastor. During his
" ministry there were large additions to the church upon confession of faith. The loss of members was soon more than made
good."
1
Religious services were held in the old Court House,

8
In
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., vii. 1-67. McKenzie'a Hist. Led., pp. 210-213.
Ibid., pp. 222, 223.
until a
303
and Mount Auburn
the northwest corner of Holyoke was completed the corner stone was laid Sept. 21, 1830, and the house was dedicated Feb. 23, 1831. The pastorate of Mr. Adams was short. He accepted an invitation to become pastor of the Essex Street Church in Boston, and his connection with the church here was dissolved by an ecclesiedifice, erected at
new
streets,
astical council,
March
14, 1834.
Mr. Adams was succeeded by Rev. John Adams Albro, who was born at Newport, R. I., Aug. 13, 1799 studied law at Litchfield, Conn., and, after practising that profession about two years, entered the Theological Seminary at Andover, from which he graduated in 1827. He received from Yale College, the same and also received year, the honorary degree of Master of Arts the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Bowdoin College, in 1848, and from Harvard College in 1851. He was ordained in Chelmsford in 1827, installed in Fitchburg, May 9, 1832, and again inAfter a faithful service stalled here on the 13th of April, 1835. of thirty years, Dr. Albro requested a release from pastoral duty, which was granted, and which took effect April 15, 1865. He
;
;
continued to reside here, preaching occasionally in the neighborhood, until he departed this life, after a very short sickness, Dec.
20, 1866.
ished
by those
His ministry was successful, and his memory is cheramong whom he labored so long and so dili-
gently.
The successor of Dr. Albro was Rev. Alexander McKenzie, who was born at New Bedford, Dec. 14, 1830, H. C. 1859, and
ordained at Augusta, Me., Aug. 28, 1861. He was installed here, Jan. 24, 1867, and thus far his labors have been rewarded by large accessions to the church, and by general peace and prosperity.
spacious meeting-house has been the northwesterly corner of at erected, during ministry, Garden and Mason streets ; the corner-stone was laid April 29, 1871, and the house was dedicated May 22, 1872. The old
new and much more

his
meeting-house, which had been in use for more than forty years, was sold, and, having been re-consecrated, is now a Catholic church.
The other branch of the original church, which retained its connection with a majority of the First Parish, held a meeting on the 12th of July, 1829, and, in consideration of the fact that the
to
two Deacons, William Hilliard and James Munroe, had neglected meet with the church in the meeting-house, but adhered to Dr. Holmes, and had acted as deacons at his administration of the
304
'
Lord's supper to the majority of the church in the Court House, Voted, as said William Hilliard and James Munroe have separ-
ated themselves, as above stated, from said church, and abdicated or abandoned their offices as deacons therein, and left said church destitute of a deacon, that said Hilliard and Munroe severally be
removed and dismissed from

if
his office of deacon of said church, the above stated facts do not amount, in law, to a legal abdication or abandonment of said office of deacon ; and that the office
deacon in said church is now vacant, and that it is expedient and necessary now to elect a deacon or deacons thereof. Voted, To elect by ballot. Voted, That Abel Whitney be a deacon of said church. Voted, That Sylvanus Plympton be the Clerk or Scribe of said Church." 1 Being thus reorganized, the church Rev. Wilunited with the parish in the settlement of a pastor. liam Newell, born at Littleton, Feb. 25, 1804, H. C. 1824, D. D. After a 1853, accepted a call, and was ordained May 19, 1830. office he his and March, peaceful ministry, resigned long pastoral
of
1868.
He
still
dwells
among
his people, universally respected
and beloved, having, for several years after his resignation, performed most of the duties of a pastor (preaching excepted) as a
The First Parish erected a new meeting-house on the westerly side of Harvard Square, between the ancient burialplace and Church Street, which was dedicated Dec. 12, 1833.
labor of love.
The College contributed a portion
of the expense,
and became
entitled to certain rights in the new house, equivalent to its interest in the house erected in 1756, which was now removed, and
it stood was sold to the College. For the space up to 1873, the annual Commencements of Harvard College were celebrated in this new house, which is still standing and it is perhaps not extravagant to apply to it the language used by President Quincy concerning the former house " namely, that no existing building in Massachusetts can compare
the land on which

of forty years,
with
it
in the
number
of distinguished
men who
at different times
have been assembled within its walls." After the resignation of Dr. Newell, the church remained destitute of a regular pastor
until
March
31, 1874,
when Rev. Francis Greenwood Peabody
was ordained and duly installed as shepherd of the flock. Mr. Peabody was born in Boston, graduated at H. C. 1869, and at
the Theological School in Cambridge, 1872. From the beginning, the First Church in Cambridge has
regular succession of Deacons
1
;
had a
and
for the first
two
thirds of a
Controversy, etc., p. 100.
305
century, it had also Ruling Elders. Until 1696, the Church Records are imperfect, so that the dates of early elections cannot be ascertained. The dates of death are obtained from other
sources.
RULING ELDERS.
306
the division of the church in 1829, the two surviving Deaa majority of the members, adhered to Dr. Holmes. with cons, Subsequently other Deacons were installed into office, as fol-
At
lows
CHAPTER
A
XVI.
" Hiscomprehensive and interesting torical Notice of Christ Church," is appended to a sermon by Rev. Nicholas Hoppin, D. D., on the reopening of the church, Nov. 22, 1857. This church was originally established as a " Society for the Propagation of the missionary station by the under the charge of Rev. East Apin Parts," Foreign Gospel in born who was 1733, and educated at CamBoston, thorp, " The original subscription for building the bridge, England. church is dated at Boston, April 25, 1759, The petition to the society was signed by Henry Vassal, Joseph Lee, John Vassal, Ralph Inman, Thomas Oliver, David Phips, Robert Temple, James Apthorp. At a meeting held at Boston, September 29, 1759, the six first named gentlemen, with the Rev. East Apthorp, were chosen as the building committee Ralph Inman, Esq., was " 1 These " six first named gentlemen reappointed Treasurer." " each sided in Cambridge, and were among the richest citizens, of whose income was judged to be adequate to the maintenance
CHRIST CHURCH.
The church edifice, which is still preof a domestic chaplain." 2 served in good condition, was erected on the southerly side of the
common, between the
A Appian Way. Mr. of James feet was of hundred one land, square, bought piece " This with the 16. 2. 1^., lawful money." Reed, for same quantity bought of the Proprietors of the common a.nd
old burial ground and
.
"
Town of Cambridge and taken in from formed the church lot. The price paid to the ProCommon, .13. was 6s. 8d. lawful money, the church also paying prietors The line of the Common, which for the removal of the Pound. was originally curved, was thus straightened, the burying ground 3 At the meeting, being also extended up to the church line." the edifice were of when the size and Sept. 29, 1759, general plan
undivided lands of the
the
1
Hist. Notice, etc., p. 21. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., vii. 34.
Hist. Notice, p. 22.
308
determined,
it
was voted, " That the expense
of executing the
whole building is not to exceed X500 sterling." l But although " the dimensions of the building proposed by the committee were adopted by the architect without change, the whole cost of the 2 church, not including the land, was about ,1300 sterling." " The church was opened for the performance of divine service, Rev. Mr. Apthorp again visited England in Oct. 15, 1761." 1765, where he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and became successively Vicar of Croydon, Rector of St. Mary-le-
Bow, London, and a Prebendary
of St. Paul's Cathedral.
He
Sar-
died April 16, 1816, aged 83 years. The next Rector of Christ Church was Rev.
Winwood
jeant, supposed to be a native of England, who was ordained He commenced his Priest by Bishop Pearce, Dec. 19, 1756. in continued to perand as a June, 1767, missionary rectorship
form the duties
of his office, until the
commencement
of
the
Revolutionary War, when he

afterwards to Newbury.
retired to Kingston,
N. H., and
In 1777 he had an attack of paralysis, 1778 went to England. He died at Bath, Sept. 20, 1780. " The congregation had almost entirely dispersed at the beginthe war. Perhaps no church in the country was more of ning completely broken up. Of all the persons who took part in its
and
in
concerns, including the sixty-eight original subscribers for the
building (several of
original purchasers of
whom, however, were of Boston), and twenty pews, not a name appears on the records
John Pigeon, Esq., and Judge
the patriotic side
;
after the Revolution but those of
Joseph Lee.
The former espoused
the latter
loyalist, but being a quiet man and moderate in his opinremained unmolested." 3 Divine service is said to have ions, been had in the church a few times while the army remained in
was a
and much damaged by the It " was left soldiers, for many years in a melancholy and desecrated condition, the doors shattered and all the windows broken out, exposed to rain and storms and every sort of depredation, its beauty gone, its
Cambridge.
It
was
also occupied
who were
destitute of proper barracks.

Ibid., p. 23.
Possibly this enormous excess over the estimated cost of the edifice
Lands, May 9, 1760; they appointed a committee, Nov. 20, 1769, to commence a suit against the grantees the purchase;
occasioned
some
disaffection
to
which
money was
Jan.
6,
paid by
resulted in
what seems
able delay of
payment
erected.
for the
be an unaccountland on
1670,
Major John Vassall, but no interest was allowed,
though payment had been delayed nearly

ten years. 8 Hist. Notice, p. 46.
which
it
was
The
land was
granted by the Proprietors of
Common
309
sanctuary defiled, the wind howling through its deserted aisles and about its stained and decaying walls the whole building being a disgrace instead of an ornament to the town. No effort
;
the beginning of the year 1790."

paired,
appears to have been made for the renewal of divine worship till 1 The edifice was then re-
and an
effort
was made
for the regular administration of
religious services.
Rev. Joseph Warren, Rev. William Monfor short periods, but for nearly forty officiated and others, tague, the church was years generally supplied with lay Readers, among
afterwards Bishop of South Car2 and olina, Jonathan-Mayhew Wainwright, afterwards Bishop of New York. The church was thoroughly repaired in 1825, and was again " opened for service July 30th, 1826, when the Rev.
whom were Theodore Dehon,
Gôrge Otis, M. A., then tutor in the University, preached a 3 Mr. Otis was chosen Rector, but sermon, afterwards printed." declined the office, as it was supposed to be inconsistent with his official engagements to the College he " however continued to officiate for the church, and was virtually its minister, till his lamented and untimely death, at the age of thirty-two, February 4 Rev. Thomas W. Coit, D. D., was Rector from 25th, 1828." to Easter, 1829, Easter, 1835; Rev. M. A. D'W. Howe, D. D., for a few months in 1836 and 1837 and Rev. Thomas H. Vail from, the spring of 1837 to Easter, 1839. Rev. Nicholas Hoppin, a native of Providence, R. I., and a
;
;
graduate of Brown University, 1831, commenced his labors as Rector in November, 1839, and ministered to the church longer
than
predecessors in that office. During his rectorship the congregation so increased that it became necessary to enlarge the church edifice, and twenty-three feet were added to its length
all his
A subscription had been commenced, in 1855, to procure a chime of bells for the church the design was now prosin 1857.
;
ecuted more vigorously and with such success that thirteen bells, at a cost of about five thousand dollars, were placed in the belfry
of the church,
1860. 1874.
and were first chimed on Easter morning, April 8, After a faithful and successful ministry for more than
thirty-four years, Dr.
Hoppin resigned the rectorship April 20, His degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred by Trinity
College in 1859.
1
sary of Rev. Mr.
Apthorp and
of Epis-
Grandson of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew of Boston, who, a half century earlier, was a most zealous and formidable adver-
copacy generally.
8 *

Ibid., p. 62.
310
entered present Rector, Rev. William-Chauncy Langdon, 1876. Jan. duties his 2, upon the discharge of The Wardens of Christ Church have been as follows :
The
1762, 1763,
David Phips,
John
Vassall.
John
Vassal],
1764-1765, Robert Temple, David Phips, 1766,

1767-1770, Thomas Oliver,
1771, 1772, 1773, 1774,
Robert Temple. Richard Lechmere.
Thomas
John
Oliver.
Vassall.
John Vassall,
Ezekiel Lewis,
Ezekiel Lewis.
Joseph Lee, David Phips,
John Fenton. Jonathan Sewall. John Pigeon.

Nathaniel Bethune.
1791-1795, Jonathan Simpson, John T. Apthorp, 1796,
Andrew
Samuel
Craigie.
1797-1799, Leonard Jarvis,

1800, 1801,
W. Pomeroy.
Samuel
W. Pomeroy,
Abraham Biglow.
Richard Richardson.
Abraham Biglow,
1802-1803, Richard Richardson, 1804-1809, William Winthrop, 1810-1813, William Winthrop, 1814-1815, Abraham Biglow, 1816-1819, Abraham Biglow,
1820,
Jonathan Bird. Ebenezer Stedman.
Abraham Biglow.
Samuel P. P. Fay. William D. Peck.
J.
Abraham Biglow,
F. Dana.
1821-1825, Abraham Biglow, 1826-1828, Abraham Biglow, 1829-1832, Joseph Foster, 1833-1835, Joseph Foster, 1836-1840, Samuel P. P. Fay,
1841,
1842,
Jonathan Hearsey.
Samuel P. P. Fay.
Abraham Biglow.
Samuel P. P. Fay.
Isaac
Lum.
Charles C. Foster,
James Greenleaf,
Isaac
James Greenleaf. Isaac Lum.

Luther Foote.
Charles Chase.
1843,
Lum,
C. Gayton Pickman, 1844, 1845-1846, C. Gayton Pickman, 1847-1851, William C. Bond,
William E. Carter.
George P. Bond, 1853-1859, George P. Bond, Herbert H, Stimpson, 1860, Luther Crane, 1861, 1862-1863, Herbert H. Stimpson,
1852,
William E. Carter. John M. Batchelder.

Charles F. Foster.
Luther Crane. Samuel Batchelder,
Jr. Jr.
Jr.
Abraham Edwards, 1865-1871, Samuel Batchelder,

1864, 1872,
Jr.,
Jr.,
Samuel Batchelder, Samuel Batchelder, J. Gardner White.

Jos.
Samuel Batchelder,
Fay Greenough.
A. Herrick.
1873-1874, Samuel Batchelder, 1875-1876, Samuel Batchelder,
Jr.,
Jr.,
Wm.
J.
Gardner White.
311
CAMBRIDGEPORT PARISH.
brief account has already
been
" given (chapter xii.) of the establishment of the Cambridgeport " Meeting-house Corporation," in 1805, and of the Cambridgeport Parish," in 1808 also of the erection, dedication, and destruction, of their brick meeting-house on Columbia Street, and the erection of the present meeting-house on Austin Street.
;
was not organized until was Rev. Thomas Brattle Gannett, born in Cambridge, Feb. 20, 1789, H. C. 1809, and ordained Jan. 19, 1814. During his pastorate occurred that theological contest which rent the parish and church of Dr. Holmes asunder.
this parish
The church connected with
July 14, 1809.
Its first pastor
The great majority of the Cambridgeport Parish, together with their pastor, adhered to what was styled the liberal party, and were thenceforth known as Unitarians. Mr. Gannett, however,
did not take an active part in the contest, but devoted himself entirely to the inculcation of those moral duties and Christian
Indeed, he is graces which become the true disciples of Christ. in his mature reported to have expressed the highest satisfaction,
years, that he had never preached a doctrinal sermon. Early in 1833 he closed his labors with a flock which had abundant cause
to regard
him with profound

old,
respect and love.
"
good man,
according to the gift that was in him, had gone in and out before the people, pure and godly in his conversation, charitable in his words and feel-
one like Nathaniel of
without guile,
ings as in
his
deeds, keeping
peace with
all
men."
He
re-
mained
Cambridge about ten years after the close of his ministry, during which period he represented his fellow-citizens two years in the General Court, and served them faithfully three
in
He afterwards took charge of years in the office of Town Clerk. the Unitarian Church in South Natick, to which place he removed in 1843, and died there April 19, 1851.
Rev. Artemas B. Muzzey, born in Lexington, Sept. 21, 1802, H. C. 1824, was ordained at Framingham, June 10, 1830, dismissed May 18, 1833, and installed here Jan. 1, 1834. He resigned May 4, 1846, and was succeeded by Rev. John F. W. Ware, H. C. 1838, who was installed Nov. 29, 1846, and re-
He signed April 1, 1864. ton Street, Boston. Rev.
now pastor of the church in ArlingHenry C. Badger was installed Jan. 15, 1865, resigned Oct. 1, 1865, and was succeeded by Rev. George W. Briggs, B. U. 1825, D. D. 1855, who was installed
is
Sermon by Rev. John F. W. Ware, on the Fiftieth Anniversary of of Rev. Thomas B. Gannett, p. 19.
1
the Settlement
312
April
3,
1867.
The
four successors of Mr. Gannett are
still
ac-
tively engaged in the ministry ; may it be long before shall be pronounced upon their completed labors.
judgment
DEACONS.
313
The First Baptist Church was organized FIKST BAPTIST. " at the house of Mr. Samuel Hancock " in Cambridgeport, Dec. 17, 1817, seventeen males and twenty-nine females then the " Articles of Faith and a Covenant." l The
subscribing
church was publicly recognized on the 25th day of the same regularly convened ; and on the same day the meeting-house, which had been erected at the junction of Magazine and River streets, was dedicated. This house was a
month by a Council
structure, which was enlarged in 1827 and twice afterwards it was utterly consumed by fire Jan. 22, 1866. Preparations were immediately made for the erection of a much larger house on the same spot. The corner-stone was laid Aug. 17, 1866. The chapel was dedicated March 17, 1867, in which religious services were held until the completion of the main " the edifice, which was opened and dedicated Dec. 25, 1867, on fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the church, and of the " The cost of the dedication of the former house of
wooden
;
worship."
It
whole building was about $90,000."
is
a spacious brick
edifice, not only convenient to its occupants, but ornamental to the city. On the 8th of February, 1819, William Brown and
twenty-one others (several of whom resided in Brighton) were " incorporated as a religious society, by the name of the Baptist
Church
in
first
Cambridge."
The
pastor of the Baptist
pastor of this church was Rev. Bela Jacobs, formerly Church in Pawtucket, R. I. He was in-
stalled July 22, 1818, and served the church faithfully and successfully until May, 1833, when he resigned, and became Secre-
tary of the Baptist Educational Association. He received the defurther notice gree of A. M. from Brown University, 1822.
of him wiil be found in connection with the Second Baptist Church, of which he was afterwards pastor. Rev. Stephen Lovell was installed March 24, 1834, and resigned May 15, 1836, " and immediately after his resignation united with the Methodist
afterwards associated with Rev. Thomas F. Norris, in the editorship of the " Olive Branch," and died in Boston, Sept. 29, 1858, aged 59 years. Rev. Joseph
in Portland,
Church
Maine."
He was
W.
Parker, U. C. 1831, was ordained Dec. 11, 1836. The church enjoyed prosperity during his ministry, which continued until Jan. 1, 1854, when he resigned, and entered upon his duties
as Secretary of
the Northern Baptist Education

2
Society and
282.
1 Brief History of the First Baptist Church in Cambridge, etc., p. 3.
Mass. Spec. Laws,
v.
314
Financial
tution.
Agent
of the Trustees of the
He received
the degree of D. D. from
Newton Theological InstiBrown University,
Rev. Sumner R. Mason, formerly pastor of the Baptist Church in Lockport, N. Y., entered upon his labors the first Sabbath in March," 1855, and " on the 25th of the same month he was publicly recognized by religious services." He received His ministry was the degree of D. D. from Chicago University. sixteen years. for somewhat more than and successful diligent It had an unexpected and tragical termination on Saturday even1852.
ing,
Aug.
26, 1871,
when
a disastrous collision of cars occurred
on the Eastern Railroad, at Revere, Mass., by which about thirty 1 some persons were killed, and a still larger number wounded, Dr. of them fatally. those who were killed was outright Among Mason. He died at his post, while engaged in his Master's serfor the object of his journey was to fulfil an engagement to vice preach the gospel. His mutilated body was identified on the next day, and was interred at Mount Auburn on the following
;
Thursday, after appropriate funeral services in the presence of a great congregation, and in the house where he had so long been a living power.
The present pastor of the church, Rev. Hiram K. Pervear, B. U. 1855, had been pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Cambridge about seven years, and of the First Baptist Church in Worcester nearly eight years, before his public recognition here
on the 5th of January, 1873. The church has had nine Deacons, to wit
:
315
On the ninth day of February, 1822, FIEST UNIVERSALIST. Peter Tufts, Jr., and thirty-three others were "incorporated and made a body politic and religious society by the name of the
First Universalist Society in Cambridge." 1 For some years prehad others Hosea Ballon and Rev. occasionally preached viously, in the school-house then standing on Franklin Street. Immediately after its incorporation the society commenced preparations for the erection of the meeting-house which now stands at the
The corjunction of Main and Front streets in Cambridgeport. ner-stone was laid with masonic ceremonies by Amicable Lodge,
June
24,
1822
God on
the 18th of the following December. organized June 19, 1827.
and the house was dedicated to the worship of The church was
The first pastor of this church was Rev. Thomas Whittemore, who was born in Boston, Jan. 1, 1800, ordained, June 13, 1821,
and after preaching somewhat more than a year at Milford, commenced his labors here in April, 1822, but was not formally installed until April 23, 1823. He resigned the pastorate, and preached his farewell discourse May 29, 1831, but remained a
citizen of
Cambridge until the close of his life. " Universalist Magearly as June, 1828, he purchased the " azine (which was established July 3, 1819), and changed its
As
Trumpet and Universalist Magazine." This paper he conducted with consummate skill and energy until Feb. 18, 1861, about a month before his death, when he was compelled, by sheer
exhaustion, to relinquish the charge. He represented the town three years in the General Court, and served the city one year in the Board of Aldermen. For many years he was President of
name
to "
the Cambridge Bank, and also of the Fitchburg and the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroads. He continued to preach, almost
every Sabbath, until near the close of life. In 1837, he published " Songs of Zion," a volume of sacred music, a portion of which was original. He was the author of " Notes and Illustrations of the Parables of the New Testament," 1834 " Plain Guide to " Memoir of Rev. Walter Balfour," 1852; Universalism," 1840
;
" Life
"
1859. 1830.
of
Rev. Hosea Ballon," in four volumes, 1854, 1855

of
first
and
The Early Days

His
Thomas Whittemore, an Autobiography," and last literary work was " The Modern History
of
of Universalism,"
which the
first
edition
was published
in
large collections for a second edition, and published the first volume in 1860 ; but the completion of the second
1
He made
Mass. Spec. Laws,
v.
464.
31t
volume was prevented by his death, which occurred March 21, Tufts College bestowed on him the degree of Doctor of 1861.
commenced preaching here June 5, on the nineteenth day of the same month. ordained and was 1831, His ministry was very short. About the first of May, 1832, he removed to Baltimore, and was for a time engaged in teaching. He subsequently preached in several places, and at length settled
in Chicago,
Divinity in 1860. Rev. Samuel P. Skinner
He died August 12, 1858, aged 48. 111. Rev. Lucius R. Paige was born in Hardwick, March 8, 1802, commenced preaching June 1, 1823, and was ordained June 2, 1825. After laboring in several places, as an evangelist, more than two years, and performing the duties of a settled pastor nearly four years at Springfield, and about two years at Glouces(now Rockport), he commenced his ministry here May 20, 1832, was installed July 8, 1832, and resigned July 1, 1839. He
ter
continued to preach, occasionally, nearly thirty years afterwards, until the precarious condition of his health compelled him to de" sist. During his pastorate he published Selections from Eminent Commentators," in 1833, and " Questions on Select Portions of the Gospels, designed for the use of Sabbath Schools and Bible
Classes," in 1838
He
Address at Hardwick, 1838. subsequently Commentary on the New Testament," in six volumes, of which the first was published in 1844 and the last in 1870. While engaged in this work, as a relaxation from severer studies, he gathered materials for this History of Camalso a Centennial wrote a "
;
Meanwhile, his literary labors yielding scanty returns, he devoted the business hours of the day to the performance of secular duties. He was Town Clerk from March, 1839, to January, 1840, and from March, 1843, to May, 1846 City Clerk from
bridge.
;
Treasurer of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, from April, 1855, to April, 1871, during the larger portion of which period he was also successively Cashier and President of the Cambridge Bank. He received the degree of
May, 1846,
to October,
1855
A. M. from Harvard College, 1850, and that

College, 1861.
of
D. D. from Tufts
Vt., April 24,
2,
Rev. Lemuel Willis was born at

1802,
Windham,
1,
commenced preaching July
28, 1822,
was ordained Oct.
1842, having previously been settled at Troy, N. Y., Salem, Washington, N. H., and Lynn. He resigned Sept. 28, 1845, and was afterwards pastor at Claremont, N. H., South Orange, Mass., and Portsmouth,
1823, and was installed here Oct.
N. H.
317
Since 1856 he has generally resided at Warner, N. H. Though he has passed beyond the age of three-score years and
ten, his eye is not yet dim, nor is his
mind clouded
and he con-
tinues to preach and perform other ministerial duties. Rev. Luther J. Fletcher was ordained in 1843,
commenced
preaching here Jan.

following April.
4,
1846, and was
installed on the 5th of the
resigned April 14, 1848, and was afterwards settled at Lowell and at Buffalo, N. Y. He received the degree of D. D. from St. Lawr. Univ. 1876. Rev. Edwin A. Eaton, who had been previously settled at Newburyport, com-
He
menced preaching here Jan. 7, 1849, resigned April 25, 1852, and was afterwards settled in Providence for six years, and at
South Reading for a similar period. He retired from the ministry about 1870, and is now an Insurance agent in Boston. Rev. Charles A. Skinner was ordained in 1848, labored a few years in western New York, and was installed here July 17, 1853. He retained the pastorship longer than any of his predecessors and after a peaceful and successful ministry he resigned Sept. 29, 1867, in order to become the pastor of the church in Hartford, Conn., which office he still sustains. Rev. Benjamin F. Bowles
;
was ordained
in 1848,
and held the pastoral
office successively at
Salem, Southbridge, Natick, Melrose, Manchester, N. H., and Worcester. He was installed here Dec. 6, 1868, and resigned since which time he has been pastor of the Jan. 31, 1873
;
Second Church in Philadelphia. The present pastor of this church is Rev. Oscar F. Safford, a graduate of the Theological School, St. Lawrence University, 1862, who was ordained in 1862, and who was settled at Danvers, Charlestown, Chicago, and
Springfield.
He was
installed here Jan. 1, 1874.
DEACONS.
318
SECOND UNIVERSALIST.
By an Act
of the
General Court,
Feb. 11, 1823, Calvin Brooks and others 1 were incorporated as the " Second Society of Universalists in the town of Cambridge." They held meetings for a time in a school-house on Third Street, between Bridge and Gore streets, and afterwards worshipped
Street.
with the Unitarian Society in their meeting-house on Third In July, 1834, the Society hired what was then called " Berean Hall," on the northerly side of Cambridge Street, be-
streets, and occupied it until the early was purchased, enlarged, converted into a meeting-house, and was dedicated on the 5th day of December. In 1865 this house was sold, and the Society erected the neat and commodious church now standing on the northerly side of Otis Street, between Third and Fourth streets, which was dedicated
tween Third and Fourth

part of
1843, when
it
Sept. 26, 1866.
This parish had no settled pastor until 1834, when Rev. Henry Bacon commenced his labors in November, and was ordained on the 28th of December. He resigned in the spring of 1838, and was afterwards settled at Haverhill, Marblehead, Providence, and He was born in Boston, June 12, 1813, and died Philadelphia. in Philadelphia, March 19, 1856. His was a busy life. Besides faithfully performing his pastoral duties, he was a prolific writer in various periodicals, the author of some small volumes, and edi" tor of the " Ladies' Repository twenty years. Rev. Elbridge G. Brooks was ordained at West Amesbury, Oct. 19, 1837, and was
installed here Sept. 16, 1838. He resigned early in 1845, was subsequently settled in Bath, Me., Lynn, York,
and
and
New
Philadelphia, where he is still actively engaged in the ministry. He has written much for various periodicals, and in 1873 published a volume entitled " Our New He received
Departure."
the degree of D. D. from Tufts College in 1867. Rev. William R. G. Mellen was ordained at Milford, May 17, 1843, and was installed here Oct. 26, 1845. He resigned in October, 1848,
and was afterwards settled in Chicopee, Auburn, N. Y., and Gloucester he served his country several years as a Consul in a foreign port and has since had the pastoral charge of several Unitarian societies. Rev. Massena Goodrich was ordained at
;
;
Haverhill Jan. 1, 1845, commenced his ministry here April 8, 1849, resigned in January, 1852, and was afterwards settled at Goff's Corner, Me., Waltham, and Pawtucket, R. I. In 1861 he became a Professor in the Theological School at Canton, N. Y. ;
1
Mass. Spec. Laws,
vi. 78.
after
319
two
his pastoral duties. College in 1863.
or three years he returned to Pawtucket, and resumed He received the degree of A. M. from Tufts
Rev. Henry A. Eaton was born in South Reading (now Wakefield) Nov. 27, 1825, ordained at Milford Sept. 11, 1859, took charge of this parish on the first Sabbath in May, 1855, and resigned at the end of September, 1857. His health was broken down, yet he preached, more or less, for two or three years at Waltham, and Meriden, Conn. He died at Rev. Henry W. Worcester, of consumption, May 26, 1861. Rugg was ordained in 1854, and having preached three or four years on Cape Cod, commenced his pastorate here on the first of March, 1858 resigned at the end of three years, and was afterwards settled at Bath, Me., and Providence, R. I. Rev. S. L. Roripaugh was ordained in 1856, was pastor of this flock from January, 1862, to the end of the year, and has since beeen settled at New Bedford, North Bridgewater, Joliet, 111., Valhermosa Rev. James F. Powers, Tufts Springs, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. College, 1861, was pastor from the first of December, 1863, until He was afterwards settled in Maiden, and about April, 1866. 1872 took orders in the Episcopal Church. Rev. Henry I. Cushman was ordained May 15, 1867, resigned May 31, 1868, and was afterwards associate pastor of the Second Universalist Church in Boston, and pastor of the First Universalist Church in Providence. His successor was Rev. Frank Maguire, a graduate of St. Lawrence Theological School, 1863, whose pastorate extended from Oct. 1, 1868, to Jan. 1, 1871, after which he was settled at He was ordained in 1863, and had previously Fitchburg. at preached Greenport, N. Y., and Waterville, Me. Rev. Sumner Ellis, ordained at Boston, Nov. 1851, and successively pastor at Boston, Salem, Brighton, Lynn, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Newark, had charge of this parish, as stated supply, from April He 1, 1872, to Sept. 29, 1874, when he returned to Chicago. was succeeded, as " stated supply," by Rev. Henry I. Cushman, Nov. 1, 1874, and by Rev. William A. Start of Melrose, Sept. Mr. Start has recently been appointed Secretary of the 4, 1875. Massachusetts Convention of Universalists. A further notice of him may be found in connection with the Third Universalist
;
Society.
320
Jan.
1,
The church was organized

Deacons have been
:
1836.
Its
Stewards or
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOYY.
321
As
nearly as can
of this church
now be ascertained, the preachers in charge were appointed as follows

:
Rev. Leonard Frost. 1823, Died 12 March,' 1826. 1824, 1825, Rev. D. Young. Rev. Ebenezer Blake. 1826,
1827, 1828, Rev. 1829,
Enoch Mudge.
Died 2 April, 1850.
1830,
Rev. Ephraim Wiley. Rev. Bartholomew Otheman. Rev. Ephraim Wiley. Rev. Leonard B. Griffing.
Rev. George Pickering. Died 8 Dec., 1846. Rev. James C. Bontecou.
1831,
1832,
1833,
1834,
1835,
Rev. Edward Otheman. Rev. Elijah H. Denning. Rev. Stephen G. Hiler, Jr. 1837, 1838, 1839, Rev. Henry B. Skinner. 1840, 1841, Rev. Edmund M. Beebe.
1836,
Died 30 Dec., 1856. 1842, 1843, Rev. Shipley W. Willson. 1844, 1845, Rev. Samuel A. Gushing. Died 22 July, 1849. 1846, 1847, Rev. Joseph A. Merrill.
1848, 1849, Rev. James Shepard. 1850, 1851, Rev. John W. Merrill, W.U. 1834, D. D. 1852, 1853, Rev. William H. Hatch. 1854, 1855, Rev. Converse L. McCurdy. Rev. Abraham D. Merrill. 1856,
(McK.
C.) 1844.
Died 22 Nov. 1876.
1857, 1858, Rev. George Bowler. Died 27 Jan. 1861. 1859, 1860, Rev. Moses A. Howe. 1861, 1862, Rev. David K. Merrill.
Rev. Samuel Tupper. Died 11 Jan. 1869. 1863, 1864, 1865, Rev. William H. Hatch. 1866-1868, Rev. Isaac J. P. Collyer. Died 7 May, 1872.
Wood. Died 1873. 1871-1873, Rev. William P. Ray. 1874, 1875, Rev. Charles T. Johnson, W. U. 1863. Rev. George W. Mansfield, W. U. 1858. 1876,
1869, 1870, Rev. Pliny
The Third Con1 was gregational Society incorporated June 16, 1827, and in the course of the same year erected a substantial brick meeting-house, which is yet standing at the northwest corner of Thorndike and
1
THIRD CONGREGATIONAL (UNITARIAN).
The
named, "and
the
corporators were eight citizens, all those persons who now

subscribe and pay dollars towards the erec-
tion of a Congregational meeting-house
at
have or hereafter
may
Lechmere Point in Cambridge." Mass. Spec. Laws, vi. 575.
sum
of
fifty
21
322
streets.
The church was organized March 3, 1328. The Warren Burton, H. C. 1821, who was born Rev. was pastor at Wilton, N. H., Nov. 23, 1800, and ordained here March 5, He resigned .June 6, 1829, and after preaching for short 1828. in the cause of periods in several places, and laboring abundantly D. Green, 1866. Rev. James in June died Salem, 6, education, H. C. 1817, born in Maiden, Sept. 8, 1798, was ordained at Lynn, Nov. 3, 1828, and installed here Jan. 6, 1830. He resigned the the pastorate April 21, 1840, and soon afterwards retired from in called he was Like other by Cambridge, ex-pastors ministry.
Third
first
performance of various municipal duties. was a Selectman, 1845, and Representative in the General Court six years, between 1841 and 1854. On the incorporation of the City in 1846, he was elected as its first Mayor, and was reelected to the same office in 1847, 1853, 1860, and 1861. He was succeeded in the ministry by Rev. Henry Lambert, June 3, 1841, who resigned April 19, 1846. Rev. George G. Ingersoll, H. C. 1815, D. D. 1845, was installed Dec. 3, 1847, and resigned He died in 1863. Rev. Frederick W. Holland, Oct. 14, 1849. H. C. 1831, was installed Oct., 1851, and resigned June 3, 1859 he is actively engaged elsewhere in the work of the ministry. His successors, for short terms, were Rev. Frederick N. Knapp, H. C. Rev. William T. Clarke, 1843, from July, 1860, to July, 1861 from Oct. 1861 to Oct. 1862 Rev. Henry C. Badger, from Nov., 1862, to Nov., 1863 Rev. Rufus P. Stebbins, Amh. C. 1834, D. D. " " stated from Jan., 1864, to May, 1864. 1851, was a supply Rev. Stephen G. Bulfinch, Columbian, Wash. 1827, D. D. 1864, was pastor from Sept., 1865, to July, 1869, and died in 1870. He was succeeded by Rev. Samuel W. McDaniel, in Nov., 1869, who The parish is now destitute of a pastor. resigned, July, 1874.
his fellow citizens to the
He
DEACONS.
323
ton and elsewhere, established a Sabbath-school, and subsequently 'made arrangements " to have preaching one evening in a week, and to this end permission was asked to occupy one of the rooms In 1827* a meeting-house was in the Putnam School-house." erected on the northeasterly corner of Cambridge and Fourth streets, which was dedicated on the tenth of October in that year. This house was of wood, 66 feet in length, 46 feet in breadth, with a steeple about 100 feet in height, and cost, with its bell and furniture, about nine thousand dollars it was burned, with all its contents, April 14, 1837. With commendable spirit, the house on the same spot, of brick, 70 feet a new society erected in in length, 54 feet breadth, with a convenient vestry in the basement, which was dedicated Jan. 11, 1838. The church was formed Sept. 3, 1827, which was publicly recognized by a council convened for that purpose four days afterwards. The first pastor of the church was Rev. John E. Weston, who was ordained Oct. 10, 1827, having preached to the society for several months preHe was a graduate of the Newton Theological Instituviously. He resigned tion, and was a faithful minister of the church. April 4, 1831, and was invited to take charge of the Baptist Church in Nashua, N. H. but " in the month of July in the same " year he was unfortunately drowned at Wilmington, Mass. Rev. Jonathan Aldrich, B. U. 1826, a graduate of Newton Theological Institution, who had previously been pastor of a church in Beverly, entered upon his labors here June 2, 1833, resigned June 19, 1835, and took charge of the First Baptist Church in
;
Worcester.
tist
Rev. Bela Jacobs, formerly pastor of the First BapCambridge, was installed here Aug. 23, 1835. His pastorate had a tragical termination on the morning of May
Church
in
22, 1836,
when, as he was about to leave his carriage, at the door of the meeting-house, his horse suddenly started, ran a few rods, dashed the carriage against the Univeralist Church, " at the same
time throwing him against the corner with such force as to frac" he survived about an hour, and entered into rest. ture his skull
;
Mr. Jacobs had resided in Cambridge eighteen years, and was His death was sincerely launiversally respected and beloved. mented, not only by the people of his charge, but by the whole
community.
Theological Institution,
Rev. Nathaniel Hervey, a graduate of Newton who had been settled at Marblehead,
was
1,
installed Sept. 18, 1836,
and closed
his ministry here Sept.
1839.
He
was afterwards
settled for a short time at
and soon afterwards died,
of consumption, at Worcester.
Andover, Rev.
324
William Leverett, B. U. 1824, who had been pastor of the Dudin Roxbury, was installed Oct. 4, 1840, ley Street Baptist Church After a short pastorend of the year 1849. the at and resigned ate in New England Village, his health failed and he retired from Rev. Amos F. Spalding, born in Boston, B. U. the ministry. 1847, a graduate of Newton Theological Institution, who had
been settled in Montreal, commenced his ministry here Aug. 1, Rev. Hiram K. Pervear, 1852, and resigned Nov. 23, 1856. of Newton B. U. 1855, a graduate Theological Institution, was Nov. an ordained as 5, 1857, commenced preaching Evangelist
here in the previous summer, became the regular pastor April 30, 1858, resigned April 1, 1865, was installed over the First Baptist Church in Worcester, and on the 5th of January, 1873, Rev. took charge of the First Baptist Church in Cambridge.
Frank R. Morse, D. C. 1861, a graduate of Newton Theological Institution, commenced his pastorate Sept. 3, 1865, and resigned Nov. 20, 1867. He was succeeded, Dec. 4, 1868, by Rev. George H. Miner, B. U. 1863, who resigned Aug. 21, 1872. Rev. Hugh
C. Townley,
who graduated
at the University of Rochester, 1858,
called to office here April 1, 1873, having previously been He resigned settled at Peekskill, N. Y., and Woburn, Mass.
was
April
Rev. George W. Holman, and ordained in the State of New York, and had been pastor at Radnor, Pa., Fort Edward, N. Y.,Lewiston, Me., and Holliston, Mass. He was in1,
1875.
The
present pastor
is
who was born
in Somerville, 1841, educated
stalled
Nov.
7,
1875.
DEACONS.
325
whom, being residents of this place, had been previously connected with the Hanover Street Church, Boston, then under the
Rev. Lyman Beech er, D. D." l The society connected with this church consists of the pew-owners, by whom " all In the settlement of a questions of taxation are decided."
pastoral care
of
" it is the pastor, right and privilege of the church to nominate, and of the pew-holders to concur or non-concur ; and upon their non-concurrence, the church nominate anew, until the parties
Their first meeting-house was dedicated Sept. 20, stood on the southerly corner of Norfolk and Washington streets, and " was held by the Deacons in trust for the use of
agree."
1827
it
the religious society worshipping in it, but subject, with certain 3 restrictions, to the ultimate and entire control of the church."
This house was of wood and was several times enlarged, but still 4 proving too small, and not sufficiently convenient, it was sold, and a much larger brick house was erected on the westerly side
of
Prospect Street between Harvard and Austin streets
the
corner-stone was laid July 29, 1851, and the house was dedicated June 30, 1852.
The first pastor of the church was Rev. David Perry, D. C. 1824, who was ordained April 23, 1829, and resigned October He was succeeded by Rev. William A. Stearns, who 13, 1830. was born at Bedford, March 17, 1805, H. C. 1827, D. D. 1853, was ordained December 14, 1831, and resigned December 14, " The 1854. pastoral connection was dissolved, that he might the accept Presidency of Amherst College, to which he had been
His pastorate was distinguished for energy and sucand it is understood that his presidency was equally enerHe died 8 June, 1876. Rev. Edward W. getic and successful. Oilman, Y. C. 1843, who had been settled at Lockport, N. Y., commenced preaching here in July, 1856, was installed on the 9th of the following September, resigned Oct. 22, 1858, and was succeeded by Rev. James O. Murray, B. U. 1850, who was installed May 1, 1861, resigned Feb. 6, 1865, and became pastor of a church in New York. He received the degree of D. D. from
elected."
cess
;
Princeton College, 1867.

formerly settled at
Rev. Kinsley Twining, Y. C. 1853,
Conn., was installed here Sept. 12, 1867, resigned April 28, 1872, and took charge of a church
1
New Haven,
Historical Sketch of the Church, in
its
Manual, 1870.
2 Ibid.
8
* The house was used for a lectureroom, and for similar purposes, until it was consumed by fire, Nov. 7, 1854.
Ibid.
326
in Providence,
R.
I.
installed Jan. 15, 1873,
Rev. William S. Karr, A. C. 1851, was and dismissed Nov. 22, 1875, to take a
Rev. James
professorship in the Hartford Theological Seminary.

S.
Hoyt, Y. C. 1851, D. D. Olivet College, 1876, commenced his pastorate Sept. 3, 1876, and was installed on the 15th day of the same month.
DEACONS.
church
edifice
327
sorrows, was
fire,
which had been the scene of many joys and many sold, and was soon afterwards utterly consumed by
Sept. 6, 1865.
DEACONS.
328
DEACONS.
1851, 1852,
329
Stephen P. Greenwood,
Isaac
1853,
Lum, Benjamin Woodward,

Isaac
Bela F. Jacobs. Asa P. Morse.
1854-1855, Luther Crane,

1856, 1857,
Lum,
1858, 1859, 1860,
Swain Winkley, Goodrich M. Dayton,

Goodrich M. Dayton, Goodrich M. Dayton, Asa P. Morse,
Asa P. Morse. Asa P. Morse. Ethan Earle. John K. Palmer, M. D.

William Page.
Asa P. Morse.
Francis Dana,
M. D.
1861,
1862,
Justin A. Jacobs.
William D. Robinson, 1863-1864, James H. Hallett,

1865,
Humphrey Humphrey
P. Caldvvell.
P. Caldwell.
James H.
Hallett,
1866-1876, Edward R. Cogswell, M. D.,

ST.
William Whitman. William W. Dallinger.
The parish of St. John's Church was JOHN'S CHURCH. Rev. John B. Fitzpatrick and the church on the organized by of side Fourth Street, between Otis and Cambridge easterly Mr. Fitzin erected was streets, 1841, and dedicated in 1842. the was first he was afterwards Bishop of the patrick pastor diocese of Massachusetts. He received the degree of D. D. from Harvard College, 1861, and died in Boston Feb. 13, 1866, aged 53 years. He was succeeded in 1848 by Rev. Manasses P. Dougherty, who may be regarded as the Apostle of the Catholic Church in Cambridge, inasmuch as he has organized three parishes, in His succesaddition to that of which he was originally pastor. sors in the pastorship of St. John's Church were Rev. George T. Riordan Rev. Lawrence Carroll Rev. Francis X. Brannagan, who died in office, June 25, 1861, aged 29 years Rev. John W.
; ; ;
Donahoe, who also died in office, March 5, 1873, aged 45 years and Rev. John O'Brien, the present incumbent. All these clergymen are supposed to have been liberally educated but the par;
ticulars are not ascertained.
A class of six EPISCOPAL. whose leader was James Luke, who still survives. In 1835, this class, which had hitherto met in or near Harvard Square, and had lost some of its members, by removal from the town, was established in Cambridgeport, and by new accessions consisted of seven members, under the leadership of Samuel Stevens, who died July 2, 1876. From this small bethe Harvard Street Methodist Episcopal Church has beginning, come one of the most vigorous and active religious organizations
HARVARD STREET METHODIST
in 1831,
members was formed
330
in the city.
Meetings for public worship were held first in the " Fisk Block," at the westerly corner of Main and Cherry streets, and afterwards in the Town House, on the southwesterly corner
Harvard and Norfolk streets, where St. Mary's Church now " In 1842, a wooden church, 40 by 60 ft. was erected at an expense of about $6,000, which was lengthened in 1851, twenty feet, increasing its value to $9,000. This edifice was burnt Nov. 26, 1857. A new church of wood, 60 by 80 ft., was immediately erected at an expense of $17,000, and dedicated Oct. 13, 1858. This house was burnt March 15, 1861, and the present edifice, a brick structure 61| by 96^ ft. extreme length, was dedThis house, like its predecessors, was icated Nov. 19, 1862. "* It has a built on Harvard Street, opposite to Essex Street. on the and commodious the audispacious vestry ground floor, ence room being approached by an easy flight of stairs. "The church appears in the Minutes for the first time in 1841, when the first appointment was made." The preachers in charge,
of
stands.
according to the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, were appointed at the Conferences holden in the years hereunder
named
1841, 1842, Rev. Leonard B. Griffing. 1843, 1844, Rev. Isaac A. Savage, W. U. 1841. Rev. Mark Trafton. 1845, 1846,
Died 16 Feb. 1854.
Rev. John Clark.
1847, 1848, Rev. I. J. P. Collyer. 1849, 1850, Rev. A. D. Merrill.
Died 19 Oct. 1849. Died 7 May, 1872.
1851, 1852, Rev. Charles Adams. 1853, 1854, Rev. I. J. P. Collyer.

1855,
1856,
1
Died 7 May, 1872. Rev. C. S. McReading. Died 11 April, 1866. Rev. Moses A. Howe. Died 27 Jan. 1861.
was
by
lions.
The
corner-stone of this church
Especially he prayed that
the
laid in
masonic form, June
12, 1861,
the
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.
Masons present might be
blessed for the
very characteristic prayer was offered by Rev. Edward T. Taylor, who was clad in the appropriate costume of a Knight
respect which they were showing to Religion, and that the members of the church
Templar. Kneeling on the foundation stone, and brushing away the carpet which had been spread to protect his knees from its hard and sharp protuberances, he poured forth his fervent thanks and supplications on behalf of ChristianChristians and ity and Freemasonry,
alternately,
might receive an abundant spiritual reward for their steadfastness in the midst of trials as by fire, and for their generous
contributions to defray the expense of erecting this third house of worship, " Two churches, Lord," said he, " for-
Masons, the Church and the Grand Lodge, and in about equal propor-
merly standing on this spot, have been destroyed by the hand of the incendiary, or by carelessness, which is as bad as an incendiary."
331
1857, 1858, Rev. Isaac Smith. Died 16 July, 1860. 1859, 1860, Rev. Gilbert Haven, W. U. 1846. Elected Bishop, 1872. 1861, 1862, Rev. Edward Cooke, W. U. 1838, D. D. (H. C.) 1855. 1863, 1864, Rev. Lorenzo R. Thayer,
W.
U. 1841, D. D. 1863.
1865-1867, Rev. Henry W. Warren, W. U. 1853. Died 16 April, 1871. 1868, 1869, Rev. Nelson Stutson. Rev. Ira Bidwell. G. 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, Rev. Andrew McKeown.
1874-1876, Rev. Melville B. Chapman.
[For most of the statistics concerning this church I debted to its Secretary, Mr. Samuel L. Ward.]
am
in-
OLD CAMBEIDGE
BAPTIST.
The Old Cambridge
Baptist
and was publicly recognized Oct. 23, 1845. Eighty-three members of the church were formerly members of the First Baptist Church, and a large number of the society and congregation had worshipped with them in Cambridgeport. Their first meeting-house was a wooden structure, which was erected on the corner of Kirkland Street and Holmes Place, and was dedicated Oct. 23, 1845. This house was sold, Oct. 23, 1866, to what is now known as the North Avenue Congregational Society, and was removed bodily, without even disturbing the steeple, to the southerly corner of North Avenue and Roseland Street, where it now stands. The congregation worshipped for the next few years, partly in the meet20, 1844,
Church was organized Aug.
ing-house of the Shepard Congregational Society, generously

offered for their use,
and partly
in
Lyceum
Hall.
Meantime
arrangements were made, and contributions on a magnificent scale were offered, for the erection of a new meeting-house.
The
effort
was
successful,
ing from
Street,
Main
Street to
and the spacious stone edifice, extendHarvard Street, opposite to Prescott
was dedicated Sept. 29, 1870. first pastor was Rev. Ezekiel G. Robinson, B. U. 1838, D. D. 1853, LL. D. 18T2, who was installed Oct. 23, 1845, the day on which the church was recognized and the first meeting-house was dedicated. He resigned Sept. 13, 1846, and became Professor of Theology at Rochester, N. Y., and afterwards President of Brown University. His successor was Rev. Benjamin I. Lane, who was installed Dec. 30, 1846, and resigned March 8, 1849. The next pastor was Rev. John Pry or, who had received the degree of D. D. at King's College, N. S., and was installed March 25, 1850. He resigned July 26, 1861,
The
332
and was succeeded by Rev. Cortland W. Anable, who was installed June 21, 1863, and resigned Oct. 27, 1871, having received the degree of D. D. from Madison University during his ministry The present pastor is Rev. Franklin Johnson, D. D., who here. was installed Dec. 31, 1873.
DEACONS.
DEACONS.
333
334
Court, approved March 27, 1874, its corporate name was changed to the " Third Universalist Society in Cambridge."
church was Rev. James pastor of this parish and June 14, 1853, and installed was who H. C. 1829, Thurston, H. C. 1852, Davis Caleb Rev. 1854. Bradlee, resigned July 5, was ordained Dec. 11, 1854, resigned the pastorship June 28,
The
first
1857, and soon afterwards took charge of a parish in Boston. Rev. John M. Marsters, H. C. 1847, formerly of Woburn, was installed April 25, 1858, resigned April 7, 1862, and was succeeded, on the first of the next September, by Rev. Frederick W.
Holland, H. C. 1831, formerly pastor of the Third Congregational Society at East Cambridge, who retained his charge somewhat more than two years, when he resigned, and Mr. Marsters re-
sumed the pastorate Feb.
and held it until Sept. 26, more than a year, the pulpit was 1867, after which " numerous preachers." Mr. Charles E. supplied by various and Fay, T. C. 1868, was invited, Dec. 10, 1868, to become pastor
10, 1865,
time, for
he preached statedly about a year, when, not having been ordained, he accepted a professorship in Tufts College, and disRev. William A. Start, T. C. 1862, continued his ministry. was ordained at Groton Junction (now Ayer), Sept. 24, 1862, and was installed here, April 10, 1870, having previously been
" Under pastor of the societies at Ayer and at Marlborough. his ministry, the church building was enlarged, and the society 1 He resigned Jan. greatly increased in numbers and strength."
1, 1874, and removed to Chicago, but returned before the end of the year and was installed pastor of the Universalist Church at Melrose, March 7, 1875. Rev. Isaac M. Atwood was ordained at Clifton Springs, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1860, and commenced his
pastorship here on the first Sabbath in April, 1874, having previously held the like office at Clifton Springs, Portland, Me.,
North Bridgewater (now Brockton), and Chelsea. the degree of A. M. from St. Lawr. Univ., 1869.
He
received
In 1846, a Sabbath-school was North Cambridge, under the auspices of the Baptists. For a time it had permission from the City Council to meet in the Winthrop School-house; 2 but in 1852 this privilege was
established in
1
NORTH CAMBRIDGE BAPTIST.
MS.
letter
from Jabez A. Sawyer,
Esq., from which are derived many statistics in this sketch. " Cambridge, Sept. 26, 1846. By the authority vested in me by a vote of the
hereby, grant the use of the lower room in the school-house in the north district
of
Ward One,
for the purpose of holding
a Sabbath School, until otherwise ordered,
JAMES D. GREEN, Mayor."
City Council, passed Sept. 22, 1846, I
3S5
suddenly and unceremoniously withdrawn by the School ComThe friends of the school thereupon hired a lot of the mittee. 1 near the and erected " a neat and commodious
city,
school-house,
chapel,
at a cost, including furnishing, of $1,411.81," 2 which was dedicated Oct. 31, 1852, and was called " Our Sabbath Home." Religious meetings were held in the chapel on Thursday
In May, 18-53, regular sabbath Rev. Alexander M. Averill, a and established, of the Newton graduate Theological Institution, soon became the "stated preacher." A meeting-house was erected in 1854, on the northwesterly side of Coggswell Avenue, near North Avenue, which was dedicated Feb. 15, 1855. The Sabbath-school chapel was soon afterwards removed, and connected with the new meeting-house ten years later the house was greatly enlarged and beautified, and was reopened on the nineteenth anniversary of the school. The church was organized in March, 1854, and was Rev. Mr. publicly recognized on the 6th of the following April.
evenings, through the winter.
services were
;
Averill continued to hold the office of pastor until October, 1859. Rev. Joseph A. Goodhue, D. C. 1848, was elected to the pastorate in July, 1862, which he resigned in July, 1864,
and was suc-
ceeded by Rev. Joseph Colver Wightman, B. U. 1852, who was elected in February, 1866, and resigned in March, 1868. The
present pastor
is
Rev. William S. Apsey, Madison Univ. 1861,
who commenced
his pastoral duties here in October, 1868. This church has no officers bearing the name of deacons
but
the duties ordinarily performed by such officers are assigned to a " standing committee," consisting of four members, elected an" nually. Upon this committee brethren Henry R. Glover and
Chester
ber."
3
W.
tion of the church
Kingsley have regularly served since the organizadifferent members have completed the num;
NORTH AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL.

religious society name of the "
In September, 1857, a
was organized in North Cambridge, under the Holmes Congregational Society," which name was changed, about ten years afterwards, to " North Avenue Its first place of worship was an Congregational Society." edifice of moderate size, called " Holmes Chapel," which was
1
To
the
"CAMBRIDGE, Sunday, July 18, 1852. members of the Sabbath School

the
service after this day.
N.WILKINSON,
Sub-School Committee,
2
Winthrop school-house: I am directed to inform you that the room now occupied by you will not be at your
held in
Memorial of
the
One." North Avenue Sab-
Ward
bath School, p. 21.

8
MS.
letter
from Warren Sanger, Esq.
336
dedicated Sept. 17, 1857. After a few years this house was found to be too small for the congregation, and was sold (it is now owned and occupied by the Methodist Society on North Avenue).
Society bought of the Baptists, Oct. 23, 1866, their meeting-house which stood at the corner of Kirkland Street and
Place, which was removed bodily to its present location on the southerly corner of North Avenue and Roseland Street, and was dedicated Sept. 29, 1867. " The succeeding four years found this house too small, when it was enlarged by adding chancel and transepts, and otherwise remodelling the house, giving it
The Holmes
Holmes
its
present seating capacity of 1,040."
The
house, thus improved,
was rededicated Dec. 15, 1872.
now known as the North Avenue Congregational was Church, organized Sept. 23, 1857, under the auspices of an it consisted originally of ecclesiastical council duly convened members. The first forty-three pastor of this church was Rev. William Carruthers, Bowd. Coll. 1853, who was installed Jan. Rev. David O. 2, 1861, and was dismissed Feb. 21, 1866. in born Feb. A. C. Mears, Essex, 22, 1842, 1865, was ordained and installed Oct. 2, 1867, under whose ministry "-the growth of the church and congregation has been rapid and substantial." The following named persons have served this church as DeaThe
church,
;
cons
John Harmon, Samuel Chadwick,

F. E. Whitcomb, James R. Morse,
Daniel Fobes, H. D. Sweetser,
Henry M.
Bird,
Wm. Fox
William P. Hayward,
Richardson, Frank Foxcroft.
school
PILGRIM CONGREGATIONAL. was established under the
In 1852, a mission Sabbathjoint direction of the Baptist,
Methodist, and two Congregational Churches in Cambridge. After a few years it was managed solely by the First Evangelical Church. In 1863, a chapel was erected for the accommodation
1 of the school, and as a It was soon opened missionary station. for religious services two in the week, and Rev. William
who was at that time city miswas to In sionary, employed preach on Sabbath afternoons. 1864, Rev. Edward Abbott, Univ. of the City of New York, 1860, was invited to take charge of this mission, with the hope
1
evenings R. Stone, a Methodist clergyman,
This
edifice,
still
Chapel,"
known as the Stearns stands on the northerly side
"
of Harvard
feet easterly
Street, about two hundred from Windsor Street.
of organizing a permanent congregation and church, and church was organized menced his labors Jan. 1, 1865.
337
comNov.
under the name of the Stearns Chapel Congregational " Church, and Mr. Abbott was installed as its pastor. Fifty-one persons constituted the church at its formation, of which 15 were
21, 1865,
number, 12 made profesand 39 brought letters from other churches. Of the latter, 18 came from the First Congregational Church, 17 from the Second Congregational Church (recently disbanded), and the remaining 4 from different and distant churches." l Mr. Abbott was dismissed, at his own request, in November, 1869 he became assistant editor of the " Congregationalist," published several books, and performed other After the change of name and removal of this literary work. Mr. Abbott returned to the scene of his former labors, church, and gathered a new congregation, out of which the present Chapel Church was organized in October, 1872. During the last few years, still residing here, and still retaining his connection with the " Congregationalist," he has been connected with a third missionary enterprise in Belmont and Watertown, near Mount Auburn, which has proved so successful that a chapel has been erected, and the organization of a church is anticipated. Rev. George R. Leavitt, W. C. 1860, was installed as pastor
males, and 36 females.
Of the
entire
sion of their faith for the first time,
Chapel Church, May 4, 1870. The chapel, though enwas still too small for the congregation and a much more spacious edifice was erected on the northwesterly corof the
larged in 1867,
ner of Magazine ând Cottage streets, at a cost of nearly forty thousand dollars the corner-stone was laid May 13, 1871, and
;
the house was dedicated Jan.

to a
new meeting-house,
In anticipation of removal 4, 1872. at the distance of about a mile from
" Stearns Chapel," and in view of the fact that the original name would not properly designate the church after its removal, it assumed the name of "The Pilgrim Congregational Church,"
Feb. 27, 1871.
The church has had only

elected
three Deacons
John N. Meriam,
Edward Kendall,
elected
Nov. 29, 1865. Nov. 29, 1865.
Lyman G.
Case, elected 1875.
BAPTIST. Sabbath-school, consisting of twenscholars and fifteen teachers, was opened Dec. 16, 1860, ty-eight in a room at the corner of Harvard and Clark streets, under the
1
BROADWAY
Manual and
22
Historical Sketch of
Steams Chapel Church.
338
In 1861, a small chapel patronage of the First Baptist Church. of the school, and for religious was erected for the accommodation
about two meetings, on the southerly side of Harvard Street, school held its first The Pine Street. hundred feet easterly from
meeting in this chapel Jan. 12, 1862 ; and it was dedicated as a house of worship Feb. 9, 1862. This chapel was afterwards sold, and removed to the southeasterly corner of Harvard and Essex streets, where it was occupied by a school under the direction of A new house of worship, for the accomthe Catholic Church. modation of the Sabbath-school and the congregation which had been gathered in connection with it, was erected in 1866, on the southwesterly corner of Broadway and Boardman Street, eighty six feet in length and sixty-four in breadth, which was dedicated Nov. 22, 1866. Meantime, Rev. William Howe, Waterville Col-
formerly pastor of the Union Church in Boston, had been engaged by the First Baptist Church as a missionary at this He commenced his labors early in 1863, which were so station. successful that on the 9th of May, 1865, a church consisting of
lege, 1833,
fifty
The Broadway Baptist Church," and he was unanimously elected pastor. The public services of recognition were held in the First Baptist Church, June 25, 1865. Mr. Howe remained pastor until July, 1870, when he resigned he continues to reside in Cambridge, and performs clerical duties, but without pastoral charge. The present pastor of the church, the Rev. Henry Hinckley, H. C.
members was
constituted under the
;
name
of "
1860, was installed Dec. 13, 1870

at Winchester,
he had previously been and more recently at Groveland, Mass.

;
settled
DEACONS.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY,
339
1871, when the failure of health compelled him to resign. He was succeeded by Rev. William H. Fultz (since deposed), whose Rev. connection with the church ceased in the summer of 1873.
Theodosius S. Tyng, a graduate of Kenyon College, 1869, and of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, 1874, took charge of the church Oct. 1, 1873, and became its Rector June 15, 1874. At first, divine service was held in a building on North Avenue, which was erected for a bank, and altered into a chapel. " The present church building stands upon Beech Street, on a lot acquired by the parish during the Rev. Mr. Croswell's rectorship. It was presented to the parish by Mrs. Mary L. Greenleaf, and
The following consecrated Dec. 21, 1871." l have served the church as Wardens
:
named persons
1865-1870, Joseph H. Rice, 1871-1872, Joseph H. Rice,
George Vincent, 1873-1875, James M. Barker, James M. Barker, 1876,

1872,
George A. Meacham. George Vincent. James M. Barker. George H. Mullin.

Daniel
McNamara.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
in
The Methodist Episcopal Church

3,
Old Cambridge was organized June
1868
and on the same
day, their chapel on the easterly side of North Avenue, between Holmes Place and Waterhouse Street, was dedicated. 3 The
preachers in charge of this church have been as follows 1868, 1869, Rev. Abraham D. Merrill and Rev. James Mudge, Wesl. Univ. 1865. The Rev. Mr. Mudge received the degree of
:
B. D. from the Bost. Theol. Sem. 1870
was transferred to the
India Conference and assigned to missionary work, in 1873, and now has "charge of the publishing interests of the M. E. " in India. Church 1870, 1871, Rev. Samuel Jackson, Wesl. In 1873, Rev. Mr. Univ. 1859. 1872, Rev. Pliny Wood.
Wood was
at Vienna,
appointed a commissioner to the National Exposition and died there of cholera. 1873, Rev. James Lan-
sing, who was transferred to Nashville, Tenn., before the expiration of his year, and his place here was supplied by Rev. Mr.
Beiler.
debted
1874, 1875, Rev. David K. Merrill, to whom I am infor some of the foregoing facts. 1876, Rev. Charles
Young.
1
MS.
Mr.
letter
from Rev. T.
S.
Tyng.
;
Chapel," had for several years been occupied by what was then called the " Holmes Congregational Society," now " North Avenue the Congregational Society."
its
July 28, 1872, aged 71 and thereupon Mr. Vincent was elected Senior Warden, and Mr. Barker, Junior
llice died
Warden.
a
This
edifice,
formerly called
"Holmes
It was purchased and removed to present locality early in 1868.
340
ST.
MARY'S CHURCH.
The parish of St. Mary s Church was 1866 by Rev. Manasses P. Dougherty, who performed the duties of pastor, in connection with his charge of St. Peter's Church, until May, 1867, when he was succeeded by the served present pastor, Rev. Thomas Scully, who had previously his country as Chaplain of the Ninth Regiment, Massachusetts
organized in
The corner-stone of Volunteers, in the War of the Rebellion. the spacious brick church, at the southwesterly corner of Harvard and Norfolk streets, was laid July 15, 1866, and the edifice
was dedicated March
8,
1868.
The congregation
is
larger than
any other in Cambridgeport.
On the twenty-second day Mr. Benjamin T. Reed, of Boston, by legal indenture, placed in the hands of trustees one hundred thousand dollars, towards the founding and endowing of an Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, which school was opened in the autumn of the same year. " In the year 1869, Mr. Robert M. Mason [of Boston], completed and presented to the Trustees the beautiful edifice of St. John's Memorial Chapel, as a free church for the permanent use of the students of the school, and of the congregation which might be gathered there as worshippers. This building, with its fine organ and other furniture, cost its generous
ST. JOHN'S
MEMORIAL CHAPEL.
of January, 1867,
donor seventy-five thousand dollars." 1 The congregation is not organized as a parish, nor has it any Rector or Wardens but the
;
Faculty of the School are required to maintain, permanently, public worship and preaching in the Chapel, under the direction of the Dean of the Faculty. Rev. John S. Stone, D. D. was
elected
Dean
at the organization of the School in 1867.
CHAPEL CONGREGATIONAL.
After the removal of the Pil-
grim Church, in January, 1872 (see page 337), a mission Sabbath-school and religious services on the Lord's day were continued at Stearns Chapel, by the Rev. Edward Abbott, the former pastor of the church. A new church was organized Oct. 16, 1872, under the name of " Chapel Congregational Church," and on the same day the Rev. John K. Browne, H. C. 1869, was ordained and installed as its pastor. At his request, he was dismissed from his charge, Sept. 16, 1875, that he might devote himself to
the foreign missionary service.
poot, in
1
He
is
now
stationed at Har-
Eastern Turkey.
the westerly corner of Brattle and
streets.
14.
This elegant stone
Statement by the Trustees, etc., p. edifice stands on
Mason
341
Rev. Robert Beales Hall, W. C. 1870, who had preached two years at Wolf borough, N. H., was installed here Dec. 28, 1875. His ministry was acceptable, and gave promise of abundant success but it was terminated by what seemed to be a premature
;
death, Nov. 2, 1876, before he

thirty-one years.
had quite attained the age
of
DEACONS.
H. Porter Smith, elected January, 1873.
Henry
C. Williams, elected January, 1873.
The Cottage Church the Methodist Street outgrowth of a MisEpiscopal in sion Sabbath-school enterprise started 1870, in Williams It consisted of seventeen was organized April 5, 1871. Hall at first The church and members. worshipped in Wilsociety In 1872 a in Fellows Hall. Odd liams Hall, and afterwards
COTTAGE STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
convenient chapel was erected, which was dedicated June 19th. By the erection of this chapel, the Society incurred a debt of four thousand dollars, in addition to its own free and generous conOne of its original members, Mr. Amos P. Rollins, tributions.
who
ward
died
March
9,
1873, bequeathed two thousand dollars to-
the extinction of this debt, on condition that the society which should raise an equal sum within three years of his death, condition was complied with ; but the estate of Mr. Rollins
yielded to the society little more than half the original bequest. The several preachers in charge have been as follows :
1871-1874, Rev. Isaac F. Row. 1874-1875, Rev. W. L. Lockwood. 1875-1877, Rev. Jarvis A. Ames.
PAUL'S CHURCH. new parish was organized in 1874, P. Rev. Manassqs Dougherty, in old Cambridge, under the by name of St. Paul's Church. The meeting-house at the northST.
westerly corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke streets, erected in 1830 by the First Church in connection with the Shepard
Congregational Society, was purchased for the use of this
new
after being repaired and fitted for its new use, was parish, for Divine service Dec. 25, 1873. Rev. Mr. Dougherty opened
and
retained the pastoral charge of St. Paul's Church, as well as of St. Peter's, until Oct. 1, 1875, when he was succeeded by Rev.
William Orr, the present
pastor.
342
CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART.
On
the fourth day of
October, 1874, the corner-stone Was laid of an edifice to be called the Church of the Sacred Heart, on the southerly side of Otis It is to be conStreet, between Sixth -and Seventh streets.
structed of stone, 150 feet in length and 75 feet in width, at an The church is designed to seat twelve estimated cost of $80,000.
hundred persons.
be
The basement under
fitted for the use of
the whole building is to the Sabbath-school and various societies.

Several attempts had been made, at
ASCENSION CHURCH.
different times, to establish the Episcopal Church in East In May, 1875, Rev. William bridge, but without success.
CamWar-
land, a native-born son of Cambridge, H. C. 1832, finding several Episcopal families in that part of the city, offered his services as The use of the Unitarian meeting-house, on the a missionary.
northwesterly corner of Third and Thorndike streets, was obtained, and on Whitsunday, May 16, 1875, worship according to the ritual of the Episcopal Church was commenced, ajid it has
At the continued thus far with encouraging prospect of success. close of the first year, however, in May, 1876, an arrangement was made with the Second Universalist Society for a joint occupation of their church on Otis Street ; since which time the Mission has a morning and evening service in that edifice, and the Universalists hold their regular service in the afternoon. No Episcopal parish has yet been organized, nor have the customary
church
officers
been elected.
CHARLES RIVER BAPTIST.
The
history of this church
is
:
briefly given in the printed order of services at its recognition " Meetings for prayer held in 1869 at private houses. Sunday-
school
house No.
3, 1870, meeting in the chambers of Court. 8, Magazine Chapel dedicated Nov. 29, 1870. services in July, 1874, and contincommenced Regular preaching ued to the present time in 'charge of J. P. Thorns, Theo. C.
commenced April
The chapel is a neat and Gleason, and Rev. G. T. Raymond." convenient edifice of wood, 78 feet in length by 33 feet in width, capable of seating 300 persons, and standing at the southeast corner of Magazine Street and Putnam Avenue ; it was erected
in 1870, at an expense of about $8,500.
Until recently this was a substantially missionary station, under the patronage of the First Baptist Church ; but on the 25th of April, 1876, a new church was organized, consisting of forty members, twenty -eight
;
343
of whom had previously been members of the First Church and on the 8th day of the following June, it was publicly recognized, and received into the fellowship of the Baptist churches. Rev. Fenner B. Dickinson was installed as pastor of the new church Nov. 13, 1876, and commenced his ministry under very favora-
North Cambridge Baptist Church," the official duties, ordinarily assigned to Deacons, are performed by the "Standing Committee" of this church.
ble auspices. As in the "
CHAPTER
HEKESY
A2STD
XVIII.
WITCHCRAFT.
the present time, almost every principal sect into which the Christian Church is divided has its representatives in Camtively little
AT
and the introduction of a new sect produces comparacommotion. But in the beginning it was not so. For a few years after the settlement of New England by the " the Puritans, the churches had rest but in 1636, country was miserably distracted by a storm of Antinomian and Fainalistical J So violent became the controversy, and opinions then raised."
bridge
;
so great was the apparent danger of civil strife, that many of the heretical party, in Boston, Salem, Newbury, Roxbury, Ipswich,
and Charlestown, were disarmed. 2 The Cambridge church, howand none of its members ever, seems to have escaped infection were included among the disaffected and supposed dangerous " The for class. vigilancy of Mr. Shepard was blessed the preservation of his own congregation from the rot of these
;
opinions."
sorely tried by the defection of President established faith, as related in chapter xvi.
;
Mr. Mitchell, was Dunster from the Great excitement followed, both in church and in state and, as Dunster would neither renounce nor conceal his opposition to infant baptism, he was removed from office as head of the College (designed to be the school of the prophets), and fell under censure of the civil magistrates. Both consequences were natural, and apparNearly twenty years
later, his successor,
The governors of the College could not be reasonably expected to retain in office a President who perently unavoidable.
sisted in teaching
what they regarded as " damnable heresy," and thus poisoning the minds of his students, and unfitting them to become preachers of the truth and the civil magistrate was bound to take notice of open violations of the law. It does not
; 1
Mather's Magnolia, Book
iii.,
ch. v.,
2
8
Mass.
Col. Rec.,
i.
211, 212.
12.
Magnalia,
ut sup.
HERESY AND WITCHCRAFT.
345
appear, however, that Dunster had many adherents in his opposition to the ordinances of the church, notwithstanding the general respect entertained for his scholarship, and the warm
affection cherished for
him
as a
man.
Indeed,
it
is
doubtful
of the congregation at Cambridge openly avowed similar sentiments, except his kinsman Benanuel Bowers, 1 and
whether any
the
members of his family. The Middlesex County Court Records show that, on the 19th of June, 1656, " Benanuel Bower, being presented by the Grand Jury for ordinary absenting himself
from the ordinance
of baptism,
was admonished and con-
2 by the court." In the same year, 1656, " an accursed and pernicious sect of heretics lately risen up in the world who are commonly called " Quakers appeared in Boston. Severe measures were adopted
victed of his evil therein
but in vain. Neither fines, imprisonment, nor scourging, would turn them aside from their purpose and they even submitted to death, rather than to depart, or to forbear " Some at Salem, Hampton, Newdisturbing the public peace.
for their suppression,
;
bury, and other places, for disorderly behaviour, putting people in terror, coming into the congregations and calling to the minis-
time of public worship, declaring their preaching, &c., an abomination to the Lord, and other breaches of the peace, were ordered to be whipped by the authority of the county courts or particular magistrates. At Boston one George Wilson, and at Cambridge Elizabeth Horton, went crying through the streets that the Lord was coining with fire and sword to plead
ter in the
to be
Thomas Newhouse went into the meeting-house at Boston with a couple of glass bottles and broke them before the congregation, and threatened, 'thus will the Lord break you in Another time M. Brewster came in with her face pieces.' smeared and black as a coal. Deborah Wilson went through the
with them.
Salem naked as she came into the world, for which she was well whipped. For these and such like disturbances they might be deemed proper subjects either of a mad-house or house of correction, and it is to be lamented that any greater severities
streets of
Mr. Bowers married, Dec. 9, 1653, Elizabeth Dunster, whom the President, " in his will, styles my cousin Bowers."
1
Up
to this time
Mr. Bowers had

Street.
re-
deed of twenty acres in Charlestown, now " Somerville, adjoining Cambridge line," on which lot he probably resided during the remainder of his life yet in almost
;
resided in Cambridge, near the junction
of North
Avenue and Milk
Soon
respects his relations continued to be more intimate with Cambridge than with
all
afterwards he received from his father a
Charlestown.
346
of."
l
were made use

colors
Some
by George
Bishop, in a
of these events are painted in Quaker work entitled " England judged
New
by
of
the Spirit of the Lord."
sign to
Hampton, them
Elizabeth, wife of Eliakim Wardel the church at Newbury, " as a called before being she went in (though it was exceeding hard to her
modest and shamefaced disposition) naked amongst them, which put them into such a rage, instead of consideration, that they soon laid hands on her and to the next court at Ipswich had " her etc. 2 For this offence she received " twenty or thirty cruel " 3 Amongst the rest, one stripes, being tyed to the fence post."
Deborah Wilson, who, bearing a great burthen for your hardheartedness and cruelty, being under a deep sense thereof, was constrained, being a young woman of a very modest and retired life, and of sober conversation, as were her parents, to go through
your town of Salem naked, as a sign which she having in part performed, after she had gone through some part thereof, as aforesaid, she was soon laid hands on, and brought before old Hathorne, who ordered her to appear at the next Court of Salem, at which your wicked rulers sentenced her to be whipped." 4 " After this at Cambridge, as she [Elizabeth Hooton, called Horton by
;
of that town,
Hutchinson] returned, she crying Repentance through some part where no Friend had been before (as she heard of)
she was there laid hold of by a blood-thirsty crew, and early in the morning had before
Thomas Danfort and Daniel Goggings, wicked and (two bloody magistrates of yours, of whom I have elsewhere spoken, and their wickedness), who committed her, and whose jaylor thrust her into a noisome, stinking dungeon, where there was nothing to lie down or sit on, and kept there
two days and two nights, without helping her to bread or water and because one Benanuel Bower (a tender Friend) brought her a little milk in this her great distress, wherein she was like to have perished, they cast him into prison for entertaining a stran" 6 ger, and fined him five pounds." They ordered her to be sent out of their coasts towards Rhode Island, and to be whipped at three towns, ten stripes at each, by the way." 6 She returned to Cambridge, was imprisoned, and whipped there and at two other " This was the entertainment towns, as before. they received at Cambridge, (their University of Wickedness), and from Thomas Danfort and Daniel Goggin, magistrates, who (viz. Goggin)
;
i.
2 *
New England judged,

Ibid., p. 377.
etc., p.
203, 204. 376.
6 & 6
Ibid., p. 383.
Ibid., p. 414.
Uifi^
p>
415-

desired his brother Hathorne to send
347
that he might see

treatise."
1
them
lashed, as
is
some Quakers that way, mentioned elsewhere in this
Danfort, a magistrate of Cambridge, one whose were exceeding great to the innocent, mentioned before he laid his hand on Wenlock Christison's shoulder, in your Governor's house at Boston, and said to him, Wenlock, I am a mortal man, and die I must, and that ere long, and I must appear at the tribunal-seat of Christ, and must give an account for my deeds in the body and I believe it will be my greatest glory in that day, that I have given my vote for thee to be soundly
cruelties
;
"
Thomas
whipped
at this time."
Making due allowance for extravagance and embellishment, it appears by Bishop's account, that no Quaker missionaries visited 3 that when they did appear, Gookin and Cambridge before 1662 Danforth were ready to enforce the law against them and that Benanuel Bowers, who had formerly suffered as a Baptist, had become a Quaker, and subject to fine and imprisonment. His wife, Elizabeth, and his daughters Barbara and Elizabeth, shared his faith and his sufferings. 4 At the County Court, October 6, 1663, " Benanuel Bowers appearing before the court, and being convicted of absenting himself from the public ordinances of Christ on the Lord's days, by his own confession, for about a quarter of a year past, and of entertaining Quakers into his family two several times on his examination he affirmed that the Spirit of God was a Christian rule, and that David had no need of the word, nor never contradicted it, and that he speaks of no other law but that which was in his heart. The court fined him, for his absenting himself from the public ordinances, twenty shillings and for twice entertaining the Quakers, four pounds, and costs three shillings to the witnesses." For the next twenty years he
; ; ; ;
was called to account, almost every year, and fined for the absence of himself and his wife from the public ordinances. 5 Notably was this the
1
fact,
October
418.
3,
1676,
when he was
fined forty
New England judged,

Ibid., p. 467.
etc., p.
2
8
head
is
ing the meeting-house with his hat oil his in 1670, for saying "I dare as well
;
The
date 1662
first visit
affixed to Elizabeth
come
to
to
an Image among the heathen as

"
;
Hooton's
327.
and imprisonment, by
of
the
Sewell, in his History

*
Quakers, p.
Sufferings of the Quakers, by Joseph Besse, pp. 260-264.

5
in 1673 for slandering your worship and reviling the Court, and for servile labor on the Lord's Day; and in 1676, for "profane and wicked cursing." County Court Records and Files.
He was
also fined, in 1666, for enter-
348
shillings for his own absence, and twenty shillings for the absence of his wife, with costs of court, and was ordered to stand com-
He refused to pay, and was committed to prison, where he remained more than a year during which time he offered several petitions and addresses to the Connty Court and to the General Court, some of which are yet preserved on file, and refer to facts which do not else" To the Court now where appear on record. For example I have been kept in prison this six months held in Cambridge. not account of attending the public worship of God. upon my I desire the Court to consider of my condition and the condiand if it be just and necessary that you tion of my family should relieve us in this case, I desire you to do it. I leave
mitted until payment should be made.
;
:
with you to act as you think meet. 3 April, 1677. BENANUELL BOWER. From prison in Cambridge." The Court re" The Court understands that plied you are imprisoned for not
it
:
paying a
therefore
fine
if
and duly imposed upon you according to law or for will or tender yourself any you pay it, goods to
;
the officer that he
may take
;
it,
you may be discharged, paying

the favor that the Court can
also the prison charges
which
:
is all
show you." l He then presented to the higher court a long ad" To the General dress, commencing thus Court, whom I honor in the Lord, and whose laws I am bound to obey by doing or suffering for conscience sake, and that not of constraint, but wilI lingly. kept in prison this eight months, because I refuse to attend the publick meetings to hear the ministers preach in order to the public worship of God, or pay the sum of three
am
pounds ten
give
money
It seems shillings according to law. or lie constantly in prison, I may
if
I will either
left
be
to
my
liberty whether I will worship God according to your law or be of a any use in the Commonwealth, contrary to the law in nature,
And I told the Court then, and do now tell you, large liberty that I did attend God's worship according to my faith and con!
and according to Scripture which saith, where two or three are assembled together in Christ's name he is in the midst of them. And this I can prove by those that assaulted us (on the
science,
first
day
of the
week) when we were met
to worship God.
At
that very instant, because I would not obey men's commands and leave the worship of God, though I told them if they would for-
bear whilst
order.
we had done, They would not

1
did not
know but
might attend their
forbear, but violently hauled

County Court Files, 1677.
me
out of

the room
349
down a pair of stairs by the heels into the open street, and carried me in a wheelbarrow to prison and was whipped (as I have been at several courts), which is no shame for me to
;
tell of,
though I am sure 'tis a shame for some to hear of. I am about sixty years of age, thirty of which I have dwelt within about a mile of Cambridge town. What my life and conversation hath been
fifteen years for
amongst them, and what
have suffered
this
not going to the public meeting is well known to many of my neighbors." He then appealed for relief. Dated, " From Cambridge Prison the 24th 3d mo., 1677," and signed " Benanuel Bower." 1 This address, like the former, is not an " In answer to the the signature. autograph except petition of
tion thereof to the next
Benanuell Bowers, the Court judgeth meet to refer the considera2 County Court in Middlesex for answer." " At the session of the Oct. The remonstrance exhibited
2, 1677, County Court, Bowers to the General Court in Benanuel by last order of said Court referred unto the conbeing, by May sideration of this Court for answer, this Court sent for the said Bowers, and gave him liberty to declare what he had to say, and no just exception appearing against the sentence of the Court that committed him unto prison, but on the contrary he manifesting much perverseness and peremptory obstinacy against the laws and government here established, making his appeal to England: the Court declared unto him that they judged his sentence to be just, and his imprisonment just, and that it was the pride and perverseness of his own spirit that was the cause and ground of his suffering by his imprisonment." 3 He had now been in prison a year, and he again appealed, to the General Court, which Court summarily settled the whole matter, Oct. 22, " In answer to a 1677 paper signed by Benanuel Bower, it is ordered that the marshal general do forthwith levy upon the estate of the said Bowers such fine or fines as have been laid on him according to law by the County Court of Cambridge, and that thereupon he be discharged the prison." 4 Imprisonment for more than a year, however, was not the full measure of punishment endured by Mr. Bowers. Naturally impatient of confinement, he gave vent to his feelings in some doggerel poetry, which he sent by his wife to Mr. Dan forth, whom he seems to have regarded as his chief opposer. For this he was convented before the General Court, convicted and pun:
ished.
The
1
official
record appears in " Mass. Col. Rec.,"

8
*
v.
153.
County Court Files, 1677.
County Court Records.
Mass.
Col. Rec., v. 153.
Mass.
Col. Rec., v. 163.
350
before printed, are preserved in the original papers, never files of the Middlesex County Court, 1677, and are here in-
The
serted
1
:
"
To THOMAS DANFORTH, MAGGISTRATE.
" It
since first oure war begun nigh hard this fifteene years nor thou the conquest wunn yet the feild I have not lost which of us twoo shall conquer Against thy power I have ingaged it to the venter to assist if God I am resolvd put
is
And
Both
my
all I
And
person and estate for truth Isle sacrafise have He leave at stake He venter winn or loose
He By
that from his cullors runs and leaves his captaine in the feild the law of armes he ought to dy and reason good shoud yeald Unwise art thou against the streame to strive
For
Thy
in thy enterprise thou art not like to thrive forces are to weake thou art not like to conquer
For with a power thou hast ingagd that will thy Of him thats wise thou counsell didst not take
forces scatter
Thy teachers like unto thyself Ime sorry for thy sake Though of Christianity profession thou dost make And yet thy neighbor doest oppress only for conscience sake Tho art as blind as Bonner was that burnt the martyrs at the To the proud belongs the fall he surely shall comm downe
Out
of
his throne
stake
be brought he
shall
mans
pride
must come
to th
ground
Abomminable if be his deed soe in the end heas like to speed Dread belongs to the evell Almighty God will recompence 2
From Cambridge
11
Prison March
3,
1677.
BENANUELL BOWER."
" I do attest that on e 5th of March last Elizabeth e wife of y y Ben Bowers came to my house & put a printed book & this
abovewritten paper into my hand the book I perceiving by the frontispeace it was a Quakers work I caused it at the same time
;
to
be burnt
;.
this
paper I tore
it
it
imediately before her face
&
did
3 after a time peice Also I do assert y* accordagain as above. 1 e ing to y knowledge y one man may have of another's hand it
have been written by Ben Bowers owne hand.

11
By
mee,
THO. DANFORTH.
Sworn
1
to
by Mr. Danforth
in Court, 30th of
May, 1677.
E. R. S."
4
As
these documents are autographs,
the orthography is preserved. 2 Fifteen more lines were written
same size. In their efforts to consume the paste, the worms have not
sheet of the
but
spared the paper.

*
they are so mutilated as to be illegible. 8 The paper was rent asunder, and was reunited by being pasted upon another
The
initials
of
Edward
Rawson,
Secretary,

"
351
The Deputyes
liaveing read a paper of scurilous verses pre-
sented
subscribed by Benanel Bower, now in Cambridge prison, wherein the honor* Mr. Danforth by name & others are defamed, d they judge it no less than duty to call the s Bower to give an
&
account thereof, & to that end that a warrant be issued out from 11 this Court to the Marshall Gen to bring or cause to be brought d the s Bower before this Court on the morrow by four of the
clock,
not to fayle, 30th May, 1677.
&
&
desire o r
honor d Magist8 consent thereto.
WILLIAM TORREY,
it
.
Cleric.
"
The
Magist. consent, so
be 4 of the clock in the afternoon. " EDW D Seer*.
RAWSON,
" The magistrates on further consideration doe judge meet that Benanull Bowers be severely whipt w th twenty stripes, or pay The Magist 8 have past this w th the fine of five pounds mony.
June 1677.
reference to their brethren the Deputies hereto consenting. 7 of D 1 RAWSON, Seer
EDW
u Consented to by the Deputies.
WILLIAM TORHEY,
Cleric."
Smarting under this sharp discipline, Mr. Bowers publicly denounced Mr. Danforth in presence of the congregation, about a
The deposition of witnesses fortnight afterwards. served in the county court files
:
'
is
still
pre-
John Danforth, 1 aged about 16 years, testify that on the 24 of June last past, being Sabbath day, after the pronunciation of the blessing in conclusion of that day's exercise, BenanI,
th
"
uel Bowers, standing forth upon one of the benches in public view of the assembly, began to speak unto them. Then the Reverend Mr. Oakes interrupted him and told him that if he had any exception to make against what himself had delivered he should give him liberty so to do, provided he did it on a week day and not on the Sabbath, alleging that it was not the custom This notwithstanding, the said Benanuel proof the church. ceeded in his speech. Whereupon the constables were required to carry him the said Bowers out of the Assembly by the worshipful Major Gookin, and he the said Bowers commanded silence. Nevertheless he proceeded in his speech, saying that he was very grievously oppressed and slandered by Magistrate Danforth, and desired the church to take notice thereof and single out such of
themselves as might take cognizance of his great affliction, using that for a motive, that he that did him the wrong was a member
1 John Danforth, H. C. 1677, son of Rev. Samuel Danforth of Roxbury, was
afterwards pastor of the church in DorChester.
352
of the church.
Many
other words did he utter to the like pur-
The above assembly. pose in the the and words truth for that he written being substance, very th then uttered as near as I can remember. 9, 5 , 77.
audience of the abovesaid
JN. DANFORTH."
have been had by the court. No immediate Bowers was discharged from after But on the 20th of November, of the General Court before order prison in accordance with the mentioned, the foregoing deposition was substantially confirmed by the oaths of five witnesses, and the court rendered judgment " Benanuel Bowers and Elizabeth Bowers his Dec. 18, 1677 wife appearing before the Court to answer the presentment of the Grand Jury for reproaching and slandering Thomas Danforth, and by their own confession convicted thereof, the Court
action seems to
:
sentenced them to be openly whipped fifteen stripes apiece, unand to stand comless they pay five pounds apiece in money
;
mitted until the sentence of the Court be executed."
Quakerism obtained no firm establishment in Cambridge is no evidence within my knowledge that it extended beyond the family of Mr. Bowers. Whether he held fast the faith through life or renounced it, and whether he maintained perpetual warfare or made his peace with the civil and ecclesiastical
;
there
rulers, does
not appear. 1
It
may
be hoped, however, that the
It is certain that the closing years of his life were peaceful. witnesses of his will (dated Oct. 5, 1693, and proved May 28,
1698), were John Leverett, H. C. 1680, William Brattle, H. C. 1680, Isaac Chauncy, H. C. 1693, and Joseph Baxter, H. C. 1693; of whom the first was afterwards President of Harvard
College, and all the others
justifies
became orthodox ministers.
This fact
the presumption that he did not regard them as persecutors, and that they did not consider him to be an arch heretic.
Early in 1692, a strange infatuation seized the inhabitants of Salem village, and soon spread widely. It was imagined that Satan was making a deadly assault on men through the intervention of witches. I do not propose to enter upon the general 2 but as one of the victims was a child history of that tragedy
;
The
Court
Records indicate that as
June, 1682, he was fined for nonattendance on public worship, and that in
late as
during her old age, for her testimony was received in Court, Dec. 26, 1693, notwith" she being a Quaker took no standing
oath."
*
April, 1681, both he and his son George were fined for the same offence. His wife seems to have been tolerated in her heresy
"
The
;
mischief
February
but
it
began at Salem in soon extended into

of
353
Cambridge, a brief notice of her case may be proper. ReThomas and Rebecca Andrew, was born here, and married John Frost, June 26, 1666 he died 18, 1646, April in 1672, and she married George Jacobs, Jr., of Salem. The father of her second husband and her own daughter had already been imprisoned, and her husband had fled to escape a similar She was fate, when she was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft. confined in of them four one long prison, leaving young children, an infant, to the tender mercies of her neighbors. What made
becca, daughter of
;
her case the more deplorable was, that she had long been parl tially deranged. During her confinement, her mother presented a petition to the court in her behalf, on account of her mental
infirmity, but in vain.
She then addressed

is
still
to the
Governor and
:
Council a petition which "
Commonwealth, and which
preserved in the archives of the deserves insertion here
William Phips, Knt., Governor, and the honorable Council now sitting in Boston, the humble petition of Rebeccah Fox of Cambridge sheweth, " That whereas Rebecah Jacobs (daughter of your humble pehas a even titioner) long time, many months now lyen in prison for Witchcraft, and is well known to be a person crazed, distracted, and broken in mind, your humble petitioner does most humbly and earnestly seek unto your Excellency and to your Honors for rehis Excellency Sir
lief in this case.
To
Your petitioner, who knows well the condition of her poor daughter, together with several others of good repute and credit, are ready to offer their oaths that the said Jacobs is
a
woman
crazed, distracted,
and broken
in
her mind
and that
she has been so these twelve years and upwards. However, for (I think) above this half year the said Jacobs has lyen in prison, and yet remains there, attended with many sore difficulties.
Christianity and nature do each of them oblige your petitioner to be very solicitous in this matter ; and although many weighty cases do exercise your thoughts, yet your petitioner can have no rest in her mind till such time as she has offered this her address
on behalf of her daughter. Some have died already in prison, and others have been dangerously sick, and how soon others, and
various parts of the Colony. The contagion, however, was principally within the County of Essex. Before the close
of September, nineteen persons were executed and one pressed to death, all
1
Thomas Andrew,
the father of Mrs.
Jacobs, died about 1647, and his widow he died July married Nicholas Wyeth
;
19, 1680,
and she married Thomas Fox,

;
Dec. 16, 1685
she died in 1698.
of
whom
asserted
their
i.
innocence."
Holmes' Amer. Annals,
438.
23
354
child,
die,
among them my poor ment, may be sick and

of
by the
difficulties of this confine-
God
making
that shift for herself that others
She is uncapable only knows. can do ; and such are
her circumstances on other accounts, that your petitioner, who is her tender mother, has many great sorrows and almost overcoming burthens on her mind upon her account but in the midst of
;
all
her perplexities and troubles (next to supplicating to a good and merciful God), your petitioner has no way for help but to make this her afflicted condition known unto you. So, not
doubting but your Excellency and your Honors will readily hear the cries and groans of a poor distressed woman, and grant what help and enlargement you may, your petitioner heartily begs God's gracious presence with you, and subscribes herself in all
humble manner your sorrowful and
distressed petitioner,
REBECCAH Fox." 1
This petition availed nothing, except perhaps to delay the
The poor demented woman was kept in prison until the next January, when she was indicted, tried, and acquitted. Before this January Court, a great change had occurred in the public opinion. principal reason for such a change is mentioned " Hutchinson of the lowest rank in
trial.
by
Ordinarily, persons
life
have had the misfortune to be charged with witchcrafts and although many such had suffered, yet there remained in prison a number of women, of as respectable families as any in the towns where they lived, and several persons, of still superior rank, were
;
hinted at by the pretended bewitched, or by the confessing witches. Some had been publicly named. Dudley Bradstreet, a justice of the peace, who had been appointed one of President
Dudley's Council, and who was son to the worthy old governor, then living, found it necessary to abscond. Having been remiss in prosecuting, he had been charged by some of the afflicted as a
confederate.
also.
His brother, John Bradstreet, was forced to fly Calef says it was intimated that Sir William Phips's lady was among the accused. It is certain that one who pretended to
spread,
be bewitched at Boston, where the infection was beginning to charged the Secretary of the colony of Connecticut. Mrs. Hale, wife to the minister of Beverly, was accused also which caused her husband to alter his judgment, and to be less
;
active in prosecutions than he

1
had been."
"
Mass. Arch., cxxxv. 76. Mass., ii. 60. Hutchinson adds At the Court in January, the grand
2 Hist.
:
jury found
witchcraft,
bills
one
against about fifty for or two men, the rest

trial
women
but upon
they were
all ac-
355
few years afterwards, Mr. Hale published " A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft," etc., wherein he gave the reasons for his change of opinion. In this book reference is made to two cases of suspected witchcraft in Cambridge, one of " Another which had a tragical result suffering in this kind
was a woman of Cambridge, against whom a principal evidence was a Watertown nurse, who testified that the said Kendal l (so
was the accused called) did bewitch to death a child of Goodman 2 for the said Kendall did make much of of Watertown the child, and then the child was well, but quickly changed its The court took this evidence color and dyed in a few hours.
Genings
But after others, the said Genings not knowing of it. Kendal was executed (who also denyed her guilt to the death), Mr. Rich. Brown, knowing better things of Kendall, asked said
among
Genings
if
swered, No. to be thus

;
they suspected her to bewitch their child they anBut they judged the true cause of the child's death
;
viz., the nurse had the night before carryed out the and kept it abroad in the cold a long time, when the red gum was come out upon it, and the cold had struck in the red gum, and this they judged the cause of the child's death. And that said Kendal did come in that day and make much of the child, but they apprehended no wrong to come to the child by her. After this the said nurse was put into prison for adultery, and and Mr. Brown went to her, there delivered of her base child and told her it was just with God to leave her to this wickedness as a punishment for murdering Goody Kendal by her false witBut the nurse dyed in prison, and so the matter ness bearing. was not further inquired into." 3 " Another instance was at 4 There was a man much Cambridge about forty years since
child
troubled in the night with cats, or the devil in their likeness, haunting of him whereupon he kept a light burning, and a
;
quitted, except three of the worst characters, and those the governor reprieved for
Jackson
ical.
but
whether
this
is
were
the
woman mentioned by Hale

2
problemat-
the king's mercy. All that were not brought upon trial he ordered to be disSuch a goal delivery was made charged. this court as has never been known at any
The reference is probably to Robert Jennison, who died July 4, 1690, or to his son Samuel Jennison, who died Oct. 15,
1701.
8 *
other time in
1
New
England."
I cannot certainly identify this person. The only known early inhabitant
Modest Enquiry,
not
etc.,
pp. 18, 19.
of Cambridge bearing this name was John Kendall, who resided on the south side of the river, and married Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Holley, before Sept. 8, 1646, when the estate was sold to Edward
what case of supposed witchcraft Mr. Hale here refers. Mrs. Holman was accused at about the
It is
known
to
date indicated, but the circumstances of

the
two cases were
different.
356
;
sword by him as he lay in bed for he suspected a widow woman And to send these cats or imps by witchcraft to bewitch him. within his one night as he lay in bed, a cat or imp came reach, and he struck her on the back and upon inquiry heard this
;
widow had a sore back this confirmed his suspicion of the widow, he supposing that it came from the wound he gave the cat. But
;
Mr. Day, the widow's chyrurgeon, cleared the matter, saying this widow came to him and complained of a sore in her back, and because she could not see it desired his help and he found it to be a boyl, and ripened and healed it as he used to do other boyls. But while this was in cure, the supposed cat was wounded as
;
1 already rehearsed." Although we are not certain
to
whom
Mr. Hale refers in
the foregoing instances of supposed witchcraft, yet one case did
" Modest occur, about forty years before he wrote his Enquiry," in regard to which a circumstantial account has been preserved.
William Holman resided on the northeasterly corner of Garden and Linnaean Streets (where the Botanic Garden now is) ; he died Jan. 8, 1652-3, aged 59, leaving a widow, Winifred, and several children, among whom was an unmarried daughter, named Mary. On the opposite side of Garden Street, and extending to Sparks Street, was an estate of six acres belonging to John Gibson, whose house was within plain view from Mrs. Holman's. Some " root of bitterness " sprung up between these neighbors, and troubled them, until Mr. Gibson entered a complaint against Mrs. Holman and her daughter as witches, and a warrant of peu To the Constable of culiar form was issued for their arrest
:
Cambridge. You are required forthwith to apprehend the persons of Widow Holman and her daughter Mary, and immediately bring them before the County Court now sitting at Charlestowne, to be examined on several accusations presented, on suspicion of witchcraft ; and for witnesses John Gipson and his wife ; you are forthwith to bring them away, and not suffer them to speak one with another after their knowledge of this
warrant, and hereof you are not to fayle at your perill. Dat. 21 (4) 1659. THOMAS DANFOETH, R. It will be convenient
that you charge some meet person to bring away the mayd first, and then you may acquaint the mother also with this warrant
respecting her also." No notice of this action appears on the Records of the Court
1
Modest Enquiry,
etc.,
pp. 64, 65.
Copied from the original
in the files
of the County Court, 1659.

from which
it
357
may be
inferred that the evidence submitted to the
grand jury was not sufficient to justify an indictment. Nine months afterwards the Holmans sought legal redress for the " To the wrongs they had suffered. This warrant was issued
:
Constable of Cambridge, or his Deputy. You are hereby required to attach the goods or in want thereof the person of John Gibson Jun r of Cambridge, and take bond of him to the value
.
twenty pounds, with sufficient surety or suretyes for his appearance at the next County Court holden at Cambridge upon the 3 day of April next, then and there to answer the complaint of Mary Holman of Cambridge, in an action of defamation and slaunder and so make a true return hereof under your hand. Dated this 26 of March, 16|$. By the court, SAMUEL GREEN." l Similar warrants were issued March 28, 1660, requiring John
of
;
Gibson, Sen., his wife, and his daughter Rebecca, wife of Charles Both Stearns, to make answer to the widow Winifred Holman.
still
mass of testimony is tried together. in the files of the preserved County Court, apparently prepared by John Gibson, Sen., to be used in this trial, as a justificases
to
seem
have been
cation of the charge formerly
made
against Mrs.
is
Holman and her
tedious, but it may daughter. testimony be excused inasmuch as it shows on what frivolous grounds the charge of witchcraft was made two hundred years ago " relation of the passages between Mrs. Holman and her 2 daughter Mary, and the wife of Charles Stearns, now living in
recital
of
this
Cambridge.
after she
The first thing that makes us suspect them is that had two extraordinary strange fits, which she never had
the like before,
Mary Holman asked her why
she did not get
some help for them, and she answered she could not tell what to do she had used means by physicians, and could have no help. And the said Mary said that her mother said, if she would put herself into her hands, that she would undertake to cure her with the blessing of God. Our daughter telling us of it, and we not her to go and to see what she would we wished suspecting them, to her. And she her said say daughter was a prating wench and loved to prate but yet she did prescribe some herbs to her that
;
;
After this my daughter's child and Holman grew ill, Mary coming in often asked her what the child ailed and she said moreover that her mother and she took
;
she should use in the spring.
Court Files, 1660.
left
unchanged.
partially
Mrs. Stearns was daughSen., subject to

fits,
of this testimony is corrected, except that proper names are
The orthography
ter of
John Gibson,
and
demented.
358
notice of
it,
that the child declined ever since the 5 of January, come to the grave ; but if you will put it into my
:
and will hands I will undertake to cure it I cured one at Maiden that had the ricketts, and if you will take a fool's counsel, you may if you will not, choose. She said also the child fell away in the lower parts, and yet she did not see the child opened. She said also that Mr. Metchelles child had the ricketts, and it was easy to be seen, for the face did shine but since Mr. Metchell sent to Linn for a skilful woman to look on it, and she could not see no such thing. After this, Mary Holman borrowed a skillet of her,
till it
;
and when she brought it home, the child was asleep in the cradle, and a boy a rocking it, and the mother of the child was gone for water and the boy said that Mary Holman came to the child as it was asleep, and took it by the nose, and made the blood come, and set it a crying, that the mother heard it and before she came in Mary was gone out over the sill. When she came in and saw the child in such a case, she chode the boy for making and he said it was Mary Holman that did it and the child cry went away as fast as she could. " After this, she was taken with her ordinary fits, two nights and two days, and was pretty well again and sensible one day and then she was taken with a strange raving and marvellous unquiet night and day, for three or four days and nights together, and took no rest and it was observed that all this time Mrs. Holman was walking about by her rails, stooping down and picking of the ground along as she went, and both of them walking up and down, and to and again, that it was taken notice of by many arid all this time she raged, could not be quiet, till the last day of the week in the afternoon they were gone both from home and then she was quiet and was fast asleep till she came home, and suddenly she sprung up out of her sleep, and cried out with such rage against Mrs. Holman that she was a witch, and that she must be hanged. Her mother being amazed, she went out and see her a coming towards the house and the nearer she came the more she raged, and so she continued all night. And in the morning, Mary Holman came in for fire, as she did as soon as she every morning, and sometimes twice in a day came in she cried out on her that she was a witch, so that we could not still her till my wife shoved her out of door and when they were out, Mary asked my wife what her daughter ailed, and said she was a quiet woman. Another being by, my wife answered she thought she was bewitched. Then said Mary Hoi; ;

man,
359
mother said that she was not light-headed, nor her head but she continued so still, and crying out to her mother, and said Mrs. Holm an she was working wickedness on the Lord's day. With that, my wife looked out and saw Mrs.
my
did not ache
Holman a pecking by
folks
the
rails,
as she did of other days.
When
were gone to meeting, about half an hour after two of the and by that clock, she went to meeting, that is, Mrs. Holman time she got to meeting as we guessed, she lay still about half an hour and then fell asleep. And of a sudden, she flings up and cried out of Mrs. Holman. My wife, not thinking they had been come home from meeting, looked out and saw her at home. Anon after, Mary Holman came to the house and said to my wife, your daughter had a sleep, had she not ? and she answered her, Why do you ask ? and she said, because she slept yesterday afore this time, and so she did, but how she should come to know it, we cannot tell for they were both times from home. On the second day in the morning, Mary came for fire and she cried out on her as before, and continued raging almost all that On the third day, Mary Holman was a coming again for day. fire, and my wife prayed me that, if I saw her come, that I would not let her come in and so I did I met with her at the sill, with a bright skillet in her hand, and she asked me how my daughter did, and I said, she is not well, and I asked her whither she went with that and she said, for fire. But I told her she should not have none here, but bid her go to some other house upon which we took notice that that day she was very quiet, and there was such a sudden alteration to admiration to all that saw it, and so continued but after she was more sensible of her weakness. " Some that my daughter, before she things were forgotten was taken with her fits, put a pair of stockings to her, and she kept them a great while and upon the last day of the week at night she sent them home, and she wore them on the Sabbath, and that night she had her fits, being free from them a great while before and, as was said before, when she had had them two days and two nights, she fell into this strange condition, as before mentioned. And all this time she cried out of Mrs. Holman and her daughter Mary, that they were witches, and they must be found out, and said, you must not suffer a witch to live and she said Mr. Danford was chosen a magistrate to find out Mrs. Holman. And when my wife went to give her some refreshing, she would not take it in, she was so troubled with Mrs. Holman, that she must be found out, that my wife told her that
;
360
she would get the magistrate to find her out ; and it was taken notice of by my wife and others, that her countenance was
changed and did eat. Thus she lay, taking on against Mrs. Holman and Mary to all that came to her, that they were witches and must be hanged and so she told them to their faces, and could not be stilled. And many times she flung up with such rage and cried out with exceeding earnestness that Mrs. Holman was and it was at the rails, let me go out and I will show you her
;
;
my wife and others looked out, and saw her there. It seemed to us very strange ; for it was not possible that she could
so, for
see her, for she was kept so close on her bed, and a covering hanging before her, and another before the window.
first great trouble that she had, she was affrighted with and Satan, thought that she saw him stand by the bed's side, so
"
The
that she cried out with a loud noise, all night, to the Lord, for help, saying Lord, help me, Lord, help me, that she was heard a
The second great trouble she had, she was likegreat way off. wise troubled with Satan appearing to her, that she was set of a
and striving great trembling that she shook the bed she lay on and her her with with hands, that two body, fighting mightily
;
We asked her why she fought so fain to hold her. and she said she fought with the devil. And ever and anon she and called out of Mrs. Holman, and would have her sent for to her ? And she sat what would one that said, you say by said,
men were
;
I will tell her that she
is
a witch.
We then
so to be,
we reproved her, and wished her not to say so
not suspecting her but the

;
more we forbade her, the more violent she was in so calling her, and crying out of Mrs. Holman's black chest and Mrs. Holman's cake but what she meant by them, we cannot tell. But this last time, she was troubled with Mrs. Holman and her daughter Mary. And concerning the child, it does decline and fall away and yet we cannot perceive daily, according to Mary's words that it is sick at all, but will suck and eat and in the time of
;
; ;
the mother's trouble, the child is set quite crooked in the body, which before was a straight, thriving child. Also it was taken
notice of that, in the time of
my
daughter's trouble, that her
hands were set crooked, that her husband could not get them
open. " while after
fit,
A we were at the Court, she had another raging wherein she was carried with rage against her parents, and
;
her brothers and
pray with her
and we desired one of our brethren to and she raged at him, and bade him get him
sisters,

home, or she would throw something
at his
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;
head
and she was
so outrageous that we were fain to tie her hands. out and said a snake stung her under her arms.
And she cried And when she
was out of her distemper, she said she saw a thing like a great snake come into the house, with a something like a turtle upon the back, and came upon the bed to her. And another time when one of our elders was at prayer, she barked like a dog and though we held her mouth close with our hands, yet she would speak, saying that Mrs. Hoi man and Mary Holman were witches, and
;
bewitched her and her
child.
And
sometimes she cried out
against blood, that it cried and that it stunk ; and we bade her hold her peace ; but she said she must speak, and conscience must speak ; and at last she said there was a hole of blood by the
cradle."
....
" The last winter before this, I was afflicted with Mrs. Hoiman's hens, and could not keep them out of my barn from stroyI being much troubled at it spake of it to ing my corn. my wife ; and she said, it may be the poor woman cannot keep them I being thus afflicted with them, I at home. flung a stone at one
of
them and
if
it
killed
it,
and
laid
it
the common.
to see
When my
wife saw
upon a hovel that stood upon it, she sent to Mrs. Holman,
;
were one of hers, and her daughter fetched it home me no more, though they went abroad still, which we wondered at, being so constantly there every day before. After this, my wife had a brood of chickens of fifteen, which were like to do well, and did thrive for the space of one fortnight "and then they were taken with fits, and they would turn their heads upward, and turn round many times, and run about the house as if they were mad and sometimes picking towards the ground, but not touch the ground, and sometimes they would be pretty well and eat their meat but they died, two or three at a time, till they came to four. Likewise Mrs. Holman had a white cock, that went a grazing about the common every day in the summer time, between the pond and the house, without any hens with him and we taking notice of him asked Mary Holman wherefore that cock went so alone and she said, that the hens did not care for him, nor he cared not for them and she Then we asked her, said, moreover, that he was seven years old. would him and could not tell her she she said, keep why they mother would keep him. And soon after that, we saw him no more. Also there was a bird that was taken notice of, not only of us but of some others such a one as they nor we ever saw be-
and
after that they troubled
362
fore.
It
was
all
milk-white, save only a
little
gray on the wings.
My
it,
son, being told of such a bird, did look to see if he could see and did see it, and threw stones at it, but could not hit it,
although it were very near him. And when it rose up, it would house. So likewise when those that saw it fly to Mrs. Holman's
first
flung stones at it, it would always fly thither and sometimes they said they saw it fly into the house. They had taken and when A son arid I went to notice of it a week before we did
; ;
mend up
the fence that was before

;
my
;
daughter's house, the bird
was skipping about the rails My son said, here is the devilishand I asked him why he did est bird that ever I saw in my life so and he said, I never threw half so often at a bird in his life but he did hit it, but this I cannot hit and he flung again at it, but could not hit it and we both of us see it fly to Mrs. Holman's house. The same day my son and the other persons saw it again and they hunted it about and flung stones at it and it flying thither again, one of them called out, saying, the bird was gone home and two of them resolved the next day to get Mrs. Holman came their guns and see if they could shoot it. out of her house, and looked on them, and in likelihood heard what they said, for they were near the house but since that
;
; ; ; ; ;
;
time the bird have not been seen.
In this time, my daughter house out of her within Starnes, going evening, saw this bird under her house-sill. She thought at first it had been a cat but she, going towards it, perceived it was a white bird, and it did
;
fly
along by the house-side, and so away to Mrs. Holman's. It was seen another evening, when it was too late for birds to be abroad, between my daughter's house and the rails. "
My
wife have been
much troubled with her
wheel,
when she
have
set herself to spin, for the necessity of her family. Sometimes she could not make no work of it ; she thought at first it
might be out
with
it
;
and we both used what means we could was never the better, but was fain to set it away, and go about some other work and when she took it again, it would go very well, and thus it was very often and sometimes, when she could make no work with it, she would set it away, and not so much as unband it, and take it again and not alter it at all, and it would go very well. One time amongst the rest, she set herself to work, and was much troubled that she could make no work of it, she began to fear that there might be something that might be the cause of it she set her wheel away, and went out, and saw Mary Holman at the oak, turning round and when
of kilter,
but
it

she saw
363
my
it
fear that
up a chip and that caused her to be their means. Another time she was a might by
wife, she catched
;
spinning, and as it was wont so it did again, that she was so it that she could have cried ; and sitting still, with her wheel before her, saying thus to herself, Lord, thou hast
affected with
'
commanded me
to labor, but I
it,
am
it
hindered
'
be any hand of Satan in

"
prevent
it
; good Lord, if there with some other words,
and went to spinning again, and
went
as well as ever.
At
another time,
wife went out
when my daughter was not very well, my and saw Mary Holman sitting on her knees at a
hole of water
she took up water in a dish, and held it up a wife went pretty height, and drained into another thing. to her found and her so presently daughter crying immoderately
;
My
that the tears
fell so fast from her eyes that my wife was fain to stand and wipe them off her face with her apron. And her mother asked her wherefore she cried and she said she could
;
it. Concerning what our daughter have seen and felt in the time of her affliction, she can declare, if she be called to it." Following this long and tedious statement (with much more to
not
tell,
but she said she could not forbear
the same purpose), is a recapitulation of the same facts, with the names of the witnesses by whom they might be proved. Their
deposition
r
(2) 1660.
jun ., Charles Sternes, Steven ffrances, sworn in Court to their respective evidences
;
authenticated by the Recorder of the Court 4 Jn. Gibson, sen r ., Rebeccah Gibson, Jn. Gipson, Rebecca Sternes, Martha Belsher, Bethia Michelson,
is
:
"
as attests, TH. DANFORTH, R." In defence of her character as an honest, Christian woman, Mrs. Holman submitted two certificates, which yet remain on file,
1 signed by two of the deacons, and several members of the " names are underwritten, we do here church We, whose we that Winifret Holman, having been acquainted with testify
:
her this many years, she being near neighbor unto us, and many times have had occasion to have dealings with her, and we have
not indeed in the least measure perceived, either by words or deeds, any thing whereby we could have any grounds or reason
to suspect her for witchery or
this is
any thing thereunto tending.

is
And
evident unto us that she
frequents public preaching, and unto. John Palfery, Mathew Bridge, Richard Eccles, ffrancis Whitmor, John Greene, Nathaniell Green, William Diksone."
1
diligent in her calling, and gives diligent attention there-
John Bridge and Gregory Stone.
364
"
We, who have here subscribed our names, do testify that we have known this Winnefret Holman, widow, this many years, but never knew any thing in her life concerning witchery. But she hath always been a diligent hearer of and attender to the word of God. Mary Patten, Mary Hall, Jane Willows, Anna Bridge, Elizabeth Bridg, Elizabeth Green, Jeane Diksonne, Elizabeth Winship, Thomas Fox, Ellin Fox, William Towne,
Martha Towne, Mary Eccles, Isobell Whittmor, John Bridge, Rebekka Wieth, Gregory Stone, Lidea Stone." The result of the trial is entered on the County Court Recr " Winifred ords Holman, Pit. against John Gibson sen and
:
an action of defamation the jury having heard their respective pleas and evidences presented in the case do bring in
his wife, in
;
their verdict, finding for the

shillings
defendants costs of court, fifteen
and
ten
pence.
Winifred
Holman,
Pit.
against
Rebecca the wife of Charles Sternes, Def*., in an action of defamation the jury having heard their respective pleas and evidences presented in the case, and it appearing to the court that the defendant was by God's hand deprived of her natural reason when she expressed those words charged on her, do bring in their
;
verdict for the defendant, costs of court, eight shillings and four pence." The decision in the other case I copy from the original
verdict, preserved on file, as it is more full and circumstantial " than the record Concerning the case between Marye Holr and John man, plaintive Gibson, jun defendant, we find for the
: .
plaintive, that the said John Gibson shall make acknowledgement that he hath wronged and scandalously slandered Marye
Holman, by speeches irregularly, rashly, and sudden spoken, for which he desire to be humbled and sorry for the same and if he
;
refuse to
acknowledgement in the present court, that then we do enjoin John Gibson to pay to the plaintive the full sum of five pounds and we also give the plaintive cost of court." To which the Recorder appended this memorandum " John Gibson junr acknowledged in court that, whereas he is legally
this
;
: .
make
convicted of a slanderous speech concerning
Mary Holman, he
is
heartily sorry for his evil thereby committed against God, and wrong done to the said Mary Holman and her friends, and doth crave forgiveness of the said Mary Holman of this trespass."
It does not appear that either of these persons was ever afterwards disturbed on suspicion of practising the diabolical arts of witchcraft. Mrs. Holman died Oct. 16, 1671, aged 74 her
;
daughter
Mary
died, unmarried, in 1673, aged 43.
CHAPTER
XIX.
EDUCATION.
IN 1643, there was published
"
in
London a Tract
entitled
New
England's First Fruits
sion of some, Conviction
in respect, first of the Converof divers, Preparation of sundry, of

;
2. Of the progresse of Learning, in the Colledge With divers other speciall at Cambridge, in Massacusets Bay. matters concerning that countrey." In regard to the "progresse
the Indians.
of learning," the writer says, " After
God had carried us safe to our and wee had builded houses, provided necesEngland, saries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worOne of the next things ship, and settled the Civile Government we longed for, and looked after, was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to posterity dreading to leave an illiterate Minis-
New
tery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the dust. And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effect
work it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his estate (it being in all about 1700.) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and all his Library after him another gave 300Z. others after them cast in more, and the publique hand of the state added the rest the
this great
;
consent, appointed to be at Cambridge and (a place very pleasant accommodate), and is called (according to the name of the first founder) Harvard Colledge." 1 He adds,
Colledge was, by
common
"
And by the side of the Colledge a faire Grammar Schoole, for the training up of young Schollars, and fitting of them for AcaNew England's First Fruits, p. 12. History of Cambridge may well be considered incomplete, if it do not contain a full account of Harvard College. But such an account must be omitted by me
1
have already been published, and there is no apparent necessity to glean a field so recently and so
tories of the College
thoroughly reaped. See History of Harvard University, by Benjamin Peirce, LiHistory of Harvard by Josiah Quincy, President, etc., 1840; and Sketch of the History of Harvard College, by Samuel A. Eliot, 1848.
brarian, etc., 1833;
University,
for
is
two obvious reasons
(1.)
The
subject
too important to be thrust into a corner
and treated as merely subsidiary to a general history of the city. (2.) Three his-
366
demicall Learning, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the Colledge of this Schoole l Master Corlet is
;
the Mr.
has very well approved himselfe for his abilities, and painfulnesse in teaching and education of the youth dexterity 2 him." The precise date when the grammar school was under
who
established in
Cambridge does not appear but before 1643 Mr. Corlett had taught sufficiently long to have acquired a high repHe continued in office nearly utation for skill and faithfulness.
;
half a century, until his death, Feb. 25, 1686-7, at the age of 78 His services were commemorated by Cotton Mather, who years.
knew him and
his
works
and Cheever's, we must own, That thou, New England, art not Scythia grown." 3 " Mr. Elijah Corlet, that memorable old schoolAgain, he calls master in Cambridge, from whose education our colledge and country have received so many of its worthy men, that he is himself
his name celebrated in .... our church hisIn addition to his English scholars, he prepared several tory." Indians for the College, though only one of the number graduated. 5 the records of the " Commissioners of the United
" 'Tis Corlet's pains,
worthy to have
4
" for Colonies," it appears that he was paid <6 9 4, in 1658, the Indians at an Indian and the of teaching Cambridge charge that died in his sickness and funeral;" also X22, in 1659,
" for dieting John Stanton for some time not reckoned formerly, and for his extraordinary pains in teaching the Indian scholars
By
and Mr. Mahews son about two years." Similar payments were made to him in 1660 and 1661. In their letter to the corporation in England, dated Sept. 7, 1659, the Commissioners say, " there are five Indian youthes att Cambridge in the lattin
whose dilligence and profisiency in theire studdies doth us to hope that God is fiting them and preparing them for good instruments in this great and desirable worke wee have good testimony from those that are prudent and pious, that they are dilligent in theire studdies and civell in theire carand from the Presedent of the Colledge wee had this riage testimony in a letter directed to us the 23 of August 1659 in
schoole,
much encurrage
" 1 Rather, they may be received into the Colledge of this schoole, Master Corlet is the Mr. " In the " Errata,"
:
8 2 4
Coll.
Mass. Hist.
Soc., xvii. 132.

p. 13.
i.
England's First Fruits, Magnolia, Book iii., Part
New
App.
without any more definite reference, is found this direction "At Colledge, put a colon." There is no other place in the
:
27.
6
Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, 1665, died
1666.
tract where the
change
is
so
much
needed.
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these words
:
367
the Indians in Mr. Corletts scoole were examined

selfe att the
oppenly by
my
publicke
Commencement
consern;
ing theire growth in the knowledge of the lattin toungue and for their time they gave good satisfaction to myselfe and also to the honored and Reverent Overseers." 1
Notwithstanding Mr. Corlett's well-earned fame, and his ability to teach both English and Indians, his school seems never
to have been large, nor were the stated fees for tuition adequate for his support. The town had frequent occasion to supply the
In 1648, " It was agreed at a meetdeficiency by special grant. ing of the whole town, that there should be land sold of the com-
mon,
for the gratifying of Mr. Corlett for his pains in keeping a "school in the town, the sum of ten pounds, if it can be attained; provided it shall not prejudice the cow-common." Forty acres of land on the south side of the river were sold, for this purpose, " The town to Mr. Edward Jackson. Again, Jan. 29, 1654-5, consented that twenty pounds should be levied upon the inhabitants', and given to Mr. Corlett, for his present encouragement to continue with us." March 25, 1662: "The townsmen taking
into their consideration the equity of allowance to be made to Mr. Corlett, for his maintenance of a grammar school in this
town, especially considering his present necessity by reason of the fewness of his scholars, do order and agree that ten pounds be paid to him out of the public stock of the town." Nov. 14, 1684 " Voted on the aflfirmative, that Mr. Elijah Corlett shall be allowed and paid out of the town rate, annually, twenty
:
pounds, for so long as he continues to be schoolmaster in this The colony also interposed for his relief and, having place." previously made similar grants, on the 7th of November, 1668, " In answer to the petition of Mr. Elijah Corlet, the Court
;
having considered of the petition, and being informed the petitioner to be very poor, and the country at present having many engagements to satisfy, judge meet to grant him five hundred The acres of land where he can find it, according to law." 2 official in an number of scholars is more stated meagre definitely answer of the town to certain questions proposed by the County " 30 Court (1) 1680. Our Latin Schoolmaster is Mr. Elijah
:
Under at present." 3 all these discouragements, the veteran teacher seems to have persevered bravely up to the close of his life ; for there is no evidCorlitt
;
his scholars are in
number nine
Plym. Mass.
Col. Rec., x. 217. Col. Rec., iv., part

ii.,
Middlesex Court
Files, 1860.
p.
406.
368
ence that a successor was elected until after his death. Two one containing a reference manuscripts have been preserved,
which seem worthy of and the other written by him, 1. In a letter from Thomas Danforth of Campublication bridge to Rev. John Cotton of Plymouth, dated Nov. 16, 1674, concerning the troubles which compelled Dr. Leonard Hoar to
to him,
:
' As for resign the Presidency of the College, the writer says, I the Dr.'s grievance, you do not I suppose wonder at it. doubt not but he hath been told of his evill in that matter from
k
more hands than yours, yet he does justifie his own innocency, and I perceive that Mr. Corlet, both elder and younger, 1 were so
taken with hopes of a fellowship, that they strenuously sought to excuse the Dr. and lay the blame elsewhere but by this time I
;
suppose are out of hope of
what they expected, the Colledge
2 2. Richard standing in more need of students than of rulers." Cutter, brother-in-law to Mr. Corlett, felt aggrieved at a decision of the County Court in 1659, and Mr. Corlett united with him in
petition to the General Court for relief; the petition was referred to the County Court with a favorable result. At the same
General Court, upon his petition, granted to Mr. Corof land." 3 In acknowledgment of both he his benefactions, presented thank-offering to the magistrates
session, the
lett
two hundred acres
County Court, who were also members of the General " Much honoured, Mr. Deputie Governour, Major WilMr. lard, Russell, and Mr. Danforth Elijah Corlett, who was latelie your Wor ps humble the at Generall Court in my petitioner owne behalfe, for land very thankfull and humblie, I acknowledg the great favour and good will of that Court unto mee (and 8 your Wor my good friends therein) confering upon mee 200
of the
Court
1*
acres of land.
As
alsoe touching
my
petition in the behalfe of
and finall decision of this honoured Court I most humblie and thankfullie acknowledg your Worps favour in your rernarkeable gentlenes and very tender dealinge with a sad, afflicted, weake man, inconsiderate and rash sometimes, &c., your goodnes towards him will, I hope, have a good effect upon him to mollifie his heart, and the influence of your good advice you left with him, to moderate his spirite. Soft meanes many times effects what rigour cannot and mercie
Ric. Cutter, referred to the full
;
;
rejoiceth
1
against
(exulteth over)
2
judgement.
Harvard
Mass.
College
Elijah Corlett
Papers (MSS.),i.
i.,
mah
The "younger" was Ammi-RuhaCorlett, H. C. 1670, who obtained

and died 1679.
11.
Col. Rec., iv., part
p.
397.
th; coveted fellowship,
EDUCATION.
humblie blesseth
369
you: who cause judgment to run down where mercie likewise has its current. Thus heartielie wishing and praying for your happienes and wellfare in the Lord, he ever remaines acknowledging himself 1 ps your Wor most obliged humble servant, ELIJAH CORLETT." The successors of Mr. Corlett were generally young men fresh from College. 2 Very few of them appear to have selected teaching as a permanent employment only one indeed died in the
God
for
;
our streets like water
namely, Nicholas Fessenden, Jr., H. C. 1701, who taught about eighteen years, and died of apoplexy Oct. 5, 1719. Wilservice,
liam Fessenden,
Jr.,
H. C. 1737, taught the
school eleven years,
from 1745 to 1756, but left it two years before he also died of Samuel Danforth, H. C. 1715, seems apoplexy, June 17, 1758. At a meeting of the to have chosen teaching as a profession.
" selectmen, Oct. 26, 1719, it is recorded, that Whereas, by reason of the death of Mr. Nicholas Fessenden, our late Schoolmaster, the school in our town
is
in
an unsettled condition
and
whereas, Mr. Samuel Danforth of Dorchester has been pleased to manifest his inclinations to be a Schoolmaster amongst us, and to
Voted and agreed, that the said Mr. Samuel Danforth take the care and charge of said school, on the same terms that our said late Schoolmaster kept it and that he forthwith provide some suitable person to manage said school until such time as he can remove amongst us himself which Mr. Danforth promised to comply with." After eleven years, however, Mr. Danforth retired from the service, and for many years was Judge of Probate, Judge of Common Pleas, and member of the Council. All the others seem to have adopted teaching as a
devote himself to said service
:
temporary expedient, while studying some other profession, or 4 waiting for more desirable employment.
1
Middlesex Court
Files, 1660.
Samuel Kendall, May, 1780; Asa Packard, April, 1783; Lemuel Hedge, July, 1783. All these teachers were graduates
John Hancock was elected teacher, Jan., 1690-1; John Sparhawk, Feb.,
1692-3; Nicholas Fessenden, Jr., about 1701 Samuel Danforth, Oct., 1719 John Hovey, April, 1730; Stephen Coolidge, May, 1730; John Hovey, May, 1737; Stephen Coolidge, May, 1741; William Fessenden, Jr., May, 1745 James Lovell, May, 1756 Antipas Steward, about 1760 Ebenezer Stedman, Jr., about 1765; Thomas Colman, July, 1770; Jonathan Hastings, Jr., May, 1772; Jonathan Eames, May, 1 776 Elisha Parmele,
; ;
;
; ;
of Harvard College. I have not found the materials for a consecutive list at a
later period.
8
*
Nephew
of Nicholas Fessenden, Jr.

in the service
There are now engaged
of
the city three veterans, whose lives have been devoted to this work, and whose
terms of service commenced as follows:
Aaron B. Magoun, Harvard Grammar

School, 1838.
Daniel Mansfield, Washington Gram-
May, 1778; Aaron Bancroft, Aug. 1778;

24
mar
School, 1842.
370
first
The
school-house
known
to
have been erected
in
Cam-
bridge stood on the westerly side of
Holyoke Street, about mid;
1 The lot was way between Harvard and Mount Auburn streets. it of the President owned in 1642 by Henry Dunster, College
contained a quarter of an acre of land, on which there was then There are reasons a house, which was not his dwelling-house. " " had been estabfaire Grammar Schoole that the for
believing
and that it remained there five or six years. " mentioned in the seems probable that the " school-house " " was afterwards erected on that lot, and following agreement
lished in that house,
It
designed for that school
" Articles of agreement between Henry Dunster and Edward Goffe on the one party and Nicholas Withe and Richard Wilson, Daniel Hudson, masons, on the other party, witness as followeth: 2
1. Impr. That we Nicolas Wite, Richard Wilson and DanHudson, masons, have undertaken to get at Charlestowne Rock one hundred and fifty load of rock stone, and to lay them in convenient place whence they may be fetched with carts, and that betwene this present third month 1647 and the tenth of the ninth month next ensuing, for the which stones Henry Dunster and Edward Goffe covenant to pay to us sixe pence the load. " 2. Item. That we the foresaid three masons will wal or lay
"
iel
the said stones in wall for twelve pence the yard, so long as we lay any side of the said wall within the ground, and the other
answering wals at the same price until they come to the hight of the wal that lieth within the grounde, albeit that these wals should ly both sides of the ground to the open ayre, and that
wee
will
measure
all
this cellar or in
ground wall within the
house. " 3. Item.
That we will lay in wal the saide stones above a foote and a halfe thick at the least, at the middle story, ground and soe proportionally gathering in until it end in the wal plats
Benjamin W. Roberts, Allston Gramuntil 1769
;
not
many
years later, a print-
mar
School, 1848. In addition to these should be mentioned Dr. Alvah C. Smith, who was
ing
office
precisely
was erected on nearly if not the same spot, which has thus
compelled by the failure of his health in 1872 to resign the office of Grammar
Master, to which he was elected in 1845. He served the city two years afterwards
as teacher of penmanship. 1 This lot was used for a school-house
been devoted almost continuously to the cause of literature.

2 For a copy of these " articles of agreement," made by him from the original
in 1845, I
am
indebted to John Wingatc
Thornton, Esq., of Boston.
EDUCATION.
or eaves, about a foote thick, for eighteene pence a yard, n the said above ground wals, where Henry Dunster or
371
making
Edward
Goffe shal apointe, convenient dore ways, arched over head, and windowe spaces as we shal be ordered and directed for timber windowes to be put in as we goe up with the wall, one of which said dore ways, and as many window spaces as shal bee judged
convenient,
directed.
we
will alsoe
make
in the cellar wall as
we
shall be
That we will erect a chimney below, ten foote wide within the jaumes, and another in the rome above, eight foote ^ wide within the jaumes, in the place where we shal be directed, whereof if the jaumes be different from the wal of the
house we will receive eighteene pence a yard for as much as we wal with stone, and ten shillings a thousand for what square brickes we lay, and sixteene shillings a thousand for the bricks
that appear out of the roofe. " 5. Item. The said Henry Dunster and
" 4. Item.
Edward Goffe
are to
prepare and lay on the ground in redines, within forty or at the most fifty foote of the aforesaid cellar, al the aforesaid brickes and rock stones but the saide brickes. as many as shal need to be cut, are to be done by the sayde masons. The convenient planckes alsoe and poles for staging are to be laid in redines by the said Henry and Edward, and the stages to be made by the
;
said masons.
by presents that they wil lath the roofe of the aforesaid scholehouse and the same at sixe shillings the thousand the tile.
"
8.
The 2 gable erides of the foresaide wals or schole6. Item. house shall be wrought up in battlement fashion, at the prize of eighteene pence a yard, as above said. " 7. Item. The foresaid masons these covenant
tile
"
Item.
is
The
said
masons covenant
worke that
herein mentioned before the
first of
to perfect the saide the sixth month
that shal be in the yeare one thousand sixe hundred forty-eight, provided the said Henry Dunster and Edward Goffe procure all the materials requisite of stones, brick, timber, clay, lime, sand, and the sayde materials lay in convenient place.
It is the true intent and meaning of both partyes, 9. Item. that al pay specified in these writings should be such as is received of the inhabitants and neighbours of the town of Cam-
"
bridge, provided it bee good and merchandible in its kind, whether corne or cattle, and to goe at such rates as now it is payable from
man
to
man when
the aforesaid masons take the aforesaid worke,
372
that
3'.
is
to say,
Wheat
at
4*.
Ry
d
.
d at 3* 6
Indian at
3*.
Pease at
6 Early mault at 4* 6 the bushell. u In witness of the premises wee for our parts subscribe our
.
hands,
HENRIE DUNSTER EDWABD GOFFE

RICHARD HILDRETH."
[L. s.]
[L. s.]
"
Sealed, signed, indented and delivered
in presence of It
would seem from the Records, that the school-house was not by the town but that certain public-spirited individuals, assumed the Mr. Dunster being foremost in the enterprise, the date of Feb. and Under defrayed expense. responsibility, " Whereas Mr. Dunster hath 10, 1655-6, we find this record made proposition to the Townsmen for the acquitting and diserected
;
:
charging of forty pounds upon the account of his outlaying for the Townsmen hereby declare, namely, that the school-house as they cannot yield to the same, for the reasons before mentioned, yet nevertheless, if Mr. Dunster shall please to present
:
any proposition concerning

the
his outlayings for the school-house to
town when met together, they shall be willing to further the same according to justice and equity." Perhaps inconsequence of some such proposition by Mr. Dunster, it is recorded that at a The town do agree and consent meeting, November 10, 1656, that there shall be a rate made to the value of .108. 10 s and
' k .
levied of the several inhabitants, for the
payment
for the school-
provided every man be allowed what he hath already contributed thereto, in part of his proportion of such rate." freely Whatever Mr. Dunster may have received as his share of this
house
assessment, his heirs renewed the claim for further renumeration, " As a after his death, with partial success : Nov. 12, 1660.
complaints referring to Mr. Dunster's expenses about the school-house, although in strict justice nothing doth appear to be due, it being done by a voluntary act of particular
final issue of all
inhabitants and Mr. Dunster
and
also the
town having other;
wise recompensed Mr. Dunster for his labor and expenses therein yet the town, considering the case as its now circumstanced, and
especially the condition of his relict widow and children, do agree that thirty pounds be levied on the inhabitants of the town,
by
the selectmen, and paid to Mr. Dunster's executors, and that on condition that they make an absolute deed of sale of the said house and land to the town, with a clear acquittance for the full
payment
thereof."
school-house, constructed as this appar-
EDUCATION.
373
ently was, might be expected to stand much more than twenty years but the record shows that on the 4th of October, 1669, " at a meeting of the selectmen, Mr. William Manning and Fetter Towne was appointed to agree with workmen to take down the
;
school-house and set
it
up again
and to carry the stones
in the
cellar to the place where the house for the ministry is to be built." The town voted, June 24, 1700, to build a new school-
house, twenty-six feet in length and twenty feet wide ; and in 1769 it was ordered, that the old grammar school-house then standing on this lot, be demolished, and that a new house be
Garden Street, about a hundred from Appian Way. This house was removed to Brighton Street, converted into a dwelling-house, and succeeded by a larger and more convenient edifice in 1832, in which the Grammar School was taught until, after a transitional state of a few years duration, it was merged into the High School.
erected on the southerly side of
feet westerly
Grammar School, others of a lower grade were but their scanty patronage affords slight ground for In March, 1680, when it was certified that Master boasting. Corlett had only nine scholars, it was added, " For English, our schooldame is good wife Healy at present but nine scholars. Edward Hall, English schoolmaster at present but three scholars." A school was also established at an early date in Menot" It was voted whether now omy, Arlington Jan. 16, 1692-3. the town would give to Menotomie people a quarter of an acre of land, upon our common, near Jasson Russell's house, near the highway, for the accommodation of a school-house; and it was voted on the affirmative, so long as it was improved for that The earliest trace which I have seen of a use, and no longer." school-house on the south side of the river, afterwards Brighton, is in 1769, in which year new houses were erected in three sections of the town. At a meeting of the Selectmen, May 7, 1770, " Voted, To give an order on the Treasurer to pay for the new
Besides the
;
established
school-houses erected in the town the last year, viz.
"In
the body of the town, In the northwest part, In the south part,
107.
50.
42.
2.
4.
6.
1.
14.
3.
2
1
200.
0.
0.
0"
Dr. Holmes, writing

of the Episcopal
in
Church
is
little to the westward 1800, says, the grammar school-house where a

;
"
374
HISTORY OF CAMBEIDGE.
is
1
kept through the year. Besides this, there are six school-houses in the town two in each of the three parishes." Of the two in the First Parish, one undoubtedly stood at the
town school
northeasterly corner of Winthrop and Eliot streets, and the other probably on the northeasterly corner of North Avenue and Russell Street.
is
The Second Parish
is
now
the Brighton District of Boston.
Arlington, and the Third Before the incorporation of
the second and third parishes as separate towns, another schoolhouse was erected in 1802, at the northwesterly corner of Windto the
and School streets, in Cambridgeport, on a lot of land given it cost about six hundred town by Andrew Bordman dollars, of which sum about one half was contributed by indiSeven years viduals, and the remainder was paid by the town.
sor
;
later, in
1809, the population of Cambridgeport having rapidly
increased, yet another school-house was erected on the southerly side of Franklin Street, about midway between Magazine and
Pearl streets, on a lot of land given to the town by Chief Justice
Dana it cost somewhat more than eight hundred dollars, of which sum the town paid about three hundred dollars, and the remainder was contributed by individuals. After the inhabitants of East Cambridge had become numerous, and had repeatedly petitioned therefor, the town, in 1818, appropriated four hundred dollars for a school-house on the easterly side of Third Street between Gore and Bridge streets the remainder of the expense was raised by subscription. In 1845, the School Committee de;
scribed thirteen school-houses, then standing, and their cost, so far as it was 1. The NORTH School-house, paid by the town corner of North Avenue and Russell Street, erected in 1841 on
:
the site of a former house, at the cost of $2,477, exclusive of land. 2. WASHINGTON, on Garden Street, erected in 1832 on the site of a former house, at the cost of $2,150.56, besides about $1,000
contributed by individuals. 3. AUBURN, in School Court, erected in 1838, at the cost of $4,171.67. 4. HARVARD, on the
streets, erected in
northerly side of Harvard Street, between Norfolk and Prospect 1843 (on the site of a similar house which was
in March of that year), at the cost of $3,557.48, besides the land, which originally cost $500. 5. FRANKLIN, on a lot given by Judge Dana, erected in 1809, at the cost to the town of
burned
about $300.
6. MASON, on Front Street, opposite to Columbia Street, erected in 1835, at the cost of $3,901.89. 7. BOARDMAN, at the corner of Windsor and School in 1802, on erected streets, land given by Andrew Bordman, at the cost to the town of about
1
Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc.,
vii. 5.
EDUCATION.
8.
375
Street and
at the southwesterly corner of Windsor Broadway, "erected in 1838 for the accommodation of a Classical or High School for the whole town," at the
BROADWAY,
9. BKIDGE, on the westerly side of Pioneer between Main and Street Street, Broadway, erected in 1836, at the cost of $1,055, besides the land. 10. OTIS, on Otis Street,
cost of $5,791.05.
erected in 1843, at the cost of $5,406.78, described as " quite a 11. THORNDIKE, on Thorndike Street, magnificent structure."
1832, and enlarged in 1840, at the total cost of 12. PUTNAM, on the southwesterly corner of Otis $2,585.31. and Fourth streets, erected in 1825 at the cost of $550 to the
erected in
town, besides about $800 contributed by individuals. 13. THIRD STREET, on the easterly side of Third Street, between Gore and
1818, at the cost to the town of $400. the since the date of this Report, several of thirty years During the school-houses then standing have disappeared ; but other spacious edifices have been erected, so that, instead of the thir-
Bridge
streets, erected in
teen houses described in 1845 as having cost $32,646.67, besides individual subscriptions, or the sixteen houses, valued by the Committee on Finance in 1850 at $80,000, there are now in the city twenty-six school-houses, which have cost more than half a
million dollars.
The
earliest record
is
which
have found
21, 1744,
1
.
of the
election of a
was " Voted, m That the Hon. Francis Foxcroft and Sam Danforth, Esq8 ., d 8 Brattle, and Edm Trowbridge, Esq ., also the Hon. Jona. RemSchool Committee
dated
May
when
it
ington, Esq., be a committee to inspect the

this
Grammar School in town, and to inquire (at such times as they shall think meet')
proficiency the youth
what
Again,
May
7,
1770,
it
and children make in their learning." was " Voted, That a committee of nine
persons be and hereby are fully empowered to chuse a Grammar the Hon. Judge Danforth, Judge Schoolmaster for said town,
Lee, Col. Oliver, Judge Sewall, Mr. Abraham Watson, Jr., Mr. Francis Dana, Major Vassall, Mr. Samuel Thacher, Jr., Mr. Professor
Winthrop, they or the major part of the whole being notified, and that said committee be a committee of inspection upon the said schoolmaster, and that said committee be and hereby
empowered to regulate said school." Generally, however, the schools were under the charge of the Selectmen until March 1 23, 1795, when a committee, consisting of Caleb Gannett, Rev.
are
1
Mr. Gannett declined, and Josiah Moore was substituted.
376
Abiel Holmes, Maj. John Palmer, William Locke, Jonathan Winship, Rev. John Foster, and Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, was " chosen for the purpose of superintending the schools in this and town, carrying into effect the School Act. The only material change since that period consists in the appointment of a Superintendent of schools, in 1868, who acts, however, under the is their executive general direction of the School Committee, and
officer.
" a town-meeting, March 3, 1794, a committee was appointed to divide the town into school districts, as the law directs,
At
and
" " of wings "or precincts money was distributed among the for example, twelve pounds were granted, in May, the town 1737, to "each wing," for winter schools; and June 4, 1770,
:
to put the schools into operation."
Previously the school"
the Selectmen " voted to give an order on the Treasurer to pay the town's school-money for the year 1769, viz. :
The Body of the Town's l The northwest Precinct, 2 The southwest Precinct, 3
proportion
is
40.
0.
18. 18. 11
15. 14.
74. 13. 5
and
so for several years afterwards. Again, Aug. 4, 1777, in consideration of the diminished value of the currency, it was " agreed to make a present to our Grammar Schoolmaster for his
encouragement to continue said school from the 4th day of last July to the 4th day of October next, being three months, the
sum mer
of four pounds, exclusive of the
sum
of
60, being the for-
contract for one year ; he allowing the Hopkins money that he may receive for said term, as before. Also that the wings of
the town shall have the same allowance in proportion." Subsethe divided of was into quently present territory Cambridge
three,
and
still
later into five districts

:
(2.) (3.) Cambridgeport, west of Columbia Street ; (4.) East of Columbia Street ; (5.) East Cambridge. It was ordered, March 1, 1802, that in the first of these districts, there should be a Gram-
south of the Railroad
The
(1.) Old Cambridge, section north of the Railroad ;

:
mar School the whole year, and a school for female children four months in the second district, a school for four months and in the third, fourth, and fifth, then included in a single district, " four months being the quantity required by law, according to the number of families in the town." May 4, 1829, a committee
; ; ;
What is now the Now Arlington.
City of Cambridge.
Now
Brighton or Boston.
EDUCATION.
377
tween the ages
reported the amount of valuation, the number of children beof three and seventeen years, and the duration of
the schools in each of the five districts before described, 12 months of school taught by a female being reckoned as equivalent to 4
months
of a master's school.
District.
378
struction of
" are applied, according to the insays Dr. Holmes, in 1800, the will of the donor, to the maintenance of five
resident Bachelors of Arts at
'
fourth
to the Master of
Harvard College, and the other Cambridge Grammar School, in consid-
grammar learning five boys nominated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, and the Minister of Cambridge for the time being,' who are, by the will, " l 4 Some of the subsequent changes in Visitors of said School.' the management of the "Hopkins Fund" are described in the
eration of his instructing in
Report of the School Committee of 1869 " We sometimes hear complaints that our High School is essenThis we deny it should, however, be a classical school. tially remembered that it ought to be really more than a High School the under our statutes. In 1839, the Legislature authorized second trustees of the charity of Edward Hopkins,' who was the
: ;
'
' governor of the Connecticut colony, to establish in the town of Cambridge a classical school, the main object of which shall be to
prepare boys for admission to Harvard University,' and to apply one fourth part of the net income of their funds to the support of said school.' This school was accordingly established. 2 It was
'
thereafter,
provided, however, in the act above referred to, that at any time when the school should ' cease to be supported in said
town, the trustees shall annually pay over the said fourth part of the net income of their funds to the treasurer of the town of
Cambridge, on condition that the said town of Cambridge shall provide and maintain a school, and perform and comply with the other duties and provisions contained in the next section of this
act.'
The next
section
is
as follows
'
:
The town
of
Cambridge
shall annually apply so much of said income as may at any time hereafter be paid to the treasurer thereof, in pursuance of the
preceding section, to the instruction of nine boys in the learning the said instrucrequisite for admission to Harvard University tion to be furnished in a public school in said town, the instructor of which shall be at all times competent to give such instruction
; ;
and said town

paid, receive
shall, so
into
long as said income shall continue to be said school, and admit to all the benefits,
privileges, and advantages thereof, free of expense, any number of boys not exceeding nine at any time, who, being properly
qualified, shall
be selected and presented for admission thereto, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, and the Min1
Coll.
Mass. Hist.
Soc., vii. 22, 23.
erly side of
erly
Main
Street, a few rods west-
In a house which stood on the south-
from Dana
Street.
EDUCATION.
ister of the First
379
shall
Church in Cambridge, who
be the visitors
of said school for the purpose of seeing that the duties and provisions in this section are duly complied with and performed.'
In
1854, the trustees proposed to the city to discontinue the
Hopkins School, and, pursuant to the provisions of the statute above recited, to transfer to the city that portion of the income of their fund which had been previously applied to the support of that school this proposition was accepted by the city, which thereby assumed the obligations above quoted, and the school Committee of that year immediately acted in fulfilment of those
;
It is not obligations, by appointing a Hopkins classical teacher. for us to pass upon the wisdom of the contract thus entered into
by the city, but we will ask those who may be inclined to think our High School too much a classical school, whether it can be any less so without a violation of that contract."
It has already been stated that the compensation paid to the pioneer master of the Grammar School was meagre. prob-
He
1 10$. per annum from the Hopkins Charably received about with a small tuition-fee for each scholar ; in addition to which ity,
occasional special grants from the town and colony served to eke out a precarious subsistence. His successors for more than a
Nov. 9, 1691, "it century, received a very moderate stipend. was put to vote, whether there should be given by the town, in
common
pay, annually, to a schoolmaster, twelve pounds, and it was voted on the affirmative, to teach both Latin and English, and to write and cypher;" and June 27, 1692, "it was voted to pay the schoolmaster twenty pounds per annum in common pay." The Grammar School was made a Free School 1 May 16, 1737, and, in consideration, it would seem, of the discontinuance of a It was then tuition-fee, the salary of the master was increased. " to vote our town should whether the in Grammar School put be a Free School for the year ensuing, and it passed in the affirmative. Also voted, that the sum of forty pounds be paid Mr.
for his service as schoolmaster for the year ensuing. Also that twelve pounds be paid each wing in our town, to devoted, the fray charge of their schools in the winter season." This
Hovey
iirs
At
"
Notwithstanding this vote, the scholwere not wholly exempt from expense, a town-meeting, Nov. 28, 1748, it was
from time to time, as there
boy, not exceeding six shillings old tenor, shall be oc-
Voted, that the Grammar Schoolmaster in this town be desired and is hereby empowered to make a tax on every school-
casion to purchase wood for the use of If not paid, said Grammar School."
delinquent pupils
were to be excluded
from the school.
380
salary remained stationary until 1777, when it was advanced to sixty pounds ; but as an offset the master was required to relin-
quish
all
tion, all
claim to the " Hopkins money." During the Revoluvalues became unsettled and fluctuating. The school-
master was partially protected, however, by an agreement that the town should pay for his board in addition to the stipend from obtain a glimpse of the financial time to time established. disturbances at that period from the records of the Selectmen. " Allowed the schoolmaster For 1780.
We
example
Sept.
4,
407 4s., weeks at two and 50, per week, boarding including allowing 8, per week, above what he charged some time before, for eight m How weeks board." Oct. 1, 1780. " Allowed to Mr. 90, for boarding Mr. Kendall two weeks, and .55, per week, for 310. It is 220, being in the whole boarding him four weeks, too much, and the account was allowed by the selectmen for pru7,
Kendall his account from July
d 1780, to Sept. 2 .,
Dec. 18, 1780. dential reasons, but sorely against their wills." " Allowed Mr. Kendall's account (schoolmaster's) to this day, at within one if otherwise to be 400. Soon afweek, 380, paid
terwards a more stable currency was introduced, and the former was withdrawn. The Selectmen, May 9, 1781, " allowed Master Whittemore's account of 1,000, in old emission, to be paid in
emission at one for forty." Under this new state of things Master Kendall's salary was fixed at thirty pounds and his board, as appears by a vote of the Selectmen, April 7, 1783, " to engage with Mr. Asa Packard to keep the Grammar School in this town for three months, to commence on Thursday next, 1 at the rate of thirty pounds per annum, and his board to be found for him, it being upon the same terms that Mr. Kendall kept it." Fifty years later, it appears by the Report of the Auditing Committee,
new
April 19, 1833, that the salary of the schoolmasters (of there were then five) was five hundred and fifty dollars,
;
whom
each
providing his own board since which time the amount of salary has been more than quadrupled.
The
cost for instruction, as stated in
following tables exhibit the condition of the schools, and a " Tabular View of the Public
1,
Schools of Cambridge, Jan.

the School Committee.
1
1876," appended to the Report of
Mr. Samuel Kendall closed

service
his three
1782.
5,
He was
ordaine.1 at Western Nov.
years'
having taught the Grammar School more than two years before he graduated at H. C.
April
10,
1783,
1783, where he died Feb. 16, 1814. He received the degree of D. D. from Yale
College, 1806.
EDUCATION.
Grade.
381
CHAPTER XX.
INDIAN HISTORY.
original settlement of Cambridge by the " calls atof " Wonder-working Providence author the English, tention to their preservation when "they were in guch great " and what " was more remarkable, when straites for foode
IN describing the
they had scarce houses to shelter themselves, and no doores to hinder the Indians accesse to all they had in them, yet did the Lord so awe their hearts, that although they frequented the
of aboade, where their whole substance, weake ones, lay open to their plunder during their absence, being whole dayes at Sabbath-assemblies, yet had they none of their food or stuffe diminished, neither children nor wives
Englishmens places
little
wives, and
hurt in the least measure, although the Indians came commonly to them at those times, much hungry belly (as they use to say) and were then in number and strength beyond the English by
far.''
of the
There may have been some Indians in the easterly part town, as in old records that section is sometimes styled " " but the far greater number probably dwelt Wigwam Neck
*
;
They were subject to Menotomy the " Squaw-sachem," formerly wife of Nanepashemet, who is mentioned in " Mourt's Relation." party from Plymouth visited the Indians at " the bottom of the Massachusetts Bay," whose sachem, Obbatinewat, a subject of Massasoit, " used us very kindly ; he told us he durst not then remain in any settled
near
River and Mystic Pond.
place, for fear of the Tarentines.
Also the squaw-sachim, or

2
Massachusetts queen was an enemy to him."

1
On
promise of
Coll.
Mass. Hist.
Soc., xiii. 138.
Charles River, anciently called Quineboquin, was the natural boundary between these two hostile tribes. The
County Court (1662), testifying that he was present when the Squaw-sachem and her husband in 1639 "did give and sell
unto Charlestown
all
their lands within
Squaw-sachem seems to have resided on the westerly side of Mystic Pond. A deposition of Edward Johnson is preserved among the papers of the Middlesex
the limits of Charlestown, except that on the west side of the Ponds called Misticke,
where their
wigwam
then stood,
which
they reserved for term of her
life," etc.
INDIAN HISTORY.
" protection, however, he
383
went along with us, to bring us to the squaw-sachim." Crossing the bay to its northerly side, "we went ashore, all but two men, and marched in arms up in the Having gone three miles, we came to a place where country. corn had been newly gathered, a house pulled down, and the people gone. A mile from hence, Nanepashemet their king in His house was not like others, but a his life-time had lived. scaffold was largely built, with poles and planks some six foot from ground, and the house upon that, being situated on the top of a hill. Not far from hence in a bottom, we came to a fort there were poles built by their deceased king, the manner thus some thirty or forty foot long, stuck in the ground as thick as they could be set one by another, and with these they enclosed a ring some forty or fifty foot over. A trench breast high was one way there was to go into it with a digged on each side bridge in the midst of this palisado stood the frame of a house, wherein being dead he lay buried. About a mile from hence,
:
we came to such another, but seated on the top of an hill here Nanepashemet was killed, none dwelling in it since the time of After his decease, his widow administered the govhis death." l ernment of the tribe as squaw-sachem, and married Webcowits, her principal powwow, conjurer, or medicine man. By this mardid or he not become a however, sachem, riage, king, but merely
;
a prince-consort. In the " First General Letter of the Governor and Deputy of the New England Company for a Plantation in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Bay, to the Governor and Council for London's Plantation in the " In Gravesend Bay in New England," dated " If the 17th of April, 1629," is this important direction, any of the salvages pretend right of inheritance to all or any part of the lands granted in our pattent, wee pray you endeavour to purchase their tytle, that wee may avoyde the least scruple of intrusion." 2 Accordingly, at the session of the General Court, March " Mr. Gibons was desired to 13, 1638-9, agree with the Indians for the land within the bounds of Watertowne, Cambridge, and Boston." 3 The deed of conveyance, or release of title, I have not been able to find yet there is sufficient evidence that the purchase was made of the squaw-sachem, and that the price was duly paid. The General Court ordered, May 20, 1640, "that the d 13'. 8*. 6 layd out by Capt. Gibons shall bee paid him, vid.
;
.
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., xix. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 394.
57, 58.
Mass. Col. Rec.,
i.
254.
384
13'.
8*.
6 d by
.
Watertowne and
10*.
by Cambridge
and
also
Cambridge
is
J
shee liveth."
" nized in a deed executed Jan. 13, 1639, by the Squa-Sachem of " and her husband Webcowits, whereby they conveyed Misticke
of all that parcel of land Mistick at the aforesaid, together with ponds against the said ponds, all which we reserved from Charlestown and
to give Squa-Sachem a coate every winter while This sale or conveyance to Cambridge is recog-
to
Jotham Gibbons " the reversion

lies
which
Newtowne, and all hereditaments and apthereunto belonging, after the death of me the said purtenances 2 The inhabitants of Cambridge lived on friendly Squa-Sachem."
Cambridge,
late called
terms with the Indians
at least, no evidence appears to the con-
They paid their allotted dues to the Squa-Sachem, and trary. made full compensation for all losses which she sustained through
their default.
The Town Records show
that,
on the 10th of
April, 1643,
to
pay
to
agreed with the Indians, by the present townsmen, Squa-Sachem 8 bushels of Indian corn, after next haris
"
vest.
It
agreed likewise, that George Cooke being at the
charge to make a fence of two sufficient rails in the town line, about half a mile in length, the fence to begin at the outside of George Cooke's land, running out northward to meet Captain
Gibbines his fence, to secure the Indian's corn,
it is
agreed that
the town will. pay for the making the fence." Again, Nov. 11, " that the six bushels of corn shall 1643, Agreed, cow-keepers pay to Squa-Sachem, for the damage done to her corn, upon the Sab-
bath day, through the neglect of the keepers, in the year 1642." On the 8th of March, 1643-4, the " Squa-Sachim " with four other Indian rulers, voluntarily put herself " under the governjurisdiction of the Massachusetts, to be governed and " to be true and faithful to protected by them," and promised the said government." 3 She is supposed to have died not lorif
ment and
before 1662, when a claim was reserved a life estate. 4
made
for land in
which she had
One of the Indian Chiefs, who united with the Squaw-sachem in this act of submission to "the government and jurisdiction of the Massachusetts," was Cutshamache, Cutshamakin, or Kucha" at a makin, who resided place called Nepousitt, within the
1
Mass.
Coll. Rec.,
i.
292.
marks,
2
files
The
original deed is preserved in the of the Middlesex County Court, 1662,

l>e 'n
it bears the autographs of John Winthrop, John Endicott, Richard Sal-
tonstall,
Thomas
Flint,
Thomas Dan-
used as evidence in a legal controversy concerning the lands conveyed to Gibbons. Besides the Indian
having
forth,
8 *
and William Aspinwall. Mass. Col. Rec., ii. 55.

p. 74.
Brooks' Hist. Medford,
INDIAN HISTORY.
385
bounds of Dorchester." 1 His authority extended over those who dwelt at Nonantum, which was then included in Cambridge. With these Indian neighbors the English maintained peace. In one respect their relations were peculiarly interesting. When Rev. John Eliot commenced the public labors of his mission, " the first place he began to preach at was Nonantum, near Watertown Mill, upon the south side of Charles River, about four or five miles from his own house, where lived at that time Waban, one of their principal men, and some Indians with him." 2 Eliot had previously devoted much time to the task of acquiring a competent knowledge of the Indian language, and had imparted religious instruction to individuals, as he had opAt length he commenced his public ministry to the portunity. " heathen, as thus related by himself Upon October 28, 1646, four of us (having sought God) went unto the Indians inhabiting
:
within our bounds, with a desire to little before their peace to them.
make known the things of we came to their Wigwams,
five or six of
the chief of them met us with English salutations,

;
bidding us
much welcome who leading us into the principal of Waaubon, we found many more Indians, men, wigwam
children, gathered together from all quarters round about, according to appointment, to meet with us, and learn of us. Waaubon, the chief minister of justice among them, exhort-
women,
ing and inviting them before thereunto, being one who gives more grounded hopes of serious respect to the things of God than any
that as yet I have
known
of that forlorn generation," etc. 3
My
prescribed limits will not admit a particular account of this primitive Christian mission to the Indians. Briefly, they were visited
in a similar
the same year.
manner, November 11 and 26, and December 9, in At these several meetings, by prayers, and serand familiar mons, questions and answers, an earnest effort was
made
to impart to
them a knowledge
of the Gospel.
particu-
lar description of the means used, and of the encouraging results, " The is given by Eliot in a tract entitled, Day-breaking if not
the Sun-rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England," printed at London, 1647, and reprinted in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, xxiv. 123. In this missionary
work, Mr. Eliot was assisted by Rev. Thomas Shepard

He is Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., i. 169. " Sagamore of the Massachusetts," styled in his sale of land in Andover to John
1
of
Cam-
cott
2 8
to Richard Colle"for the use of the plantation of Mass. Arch., xxx. 7, 15. Dorchester."
of land in Dorchester
" Woodbridge and his associates, and Sachem of Massachusetts " in a similar sale
Ibid., p. 168. Coll. Mas*. Hist. Soc., xxiv. 3.
25
386
In a tract entitled " The Clear Sunshine of bridge and others. the Gospel breaking forth upon the Indians in New England," " As soone as ever printed at London, 1648, Mr. Shepard says, March was the fiercenesse of the winter 3, 1647, I went out past, where Mr. Wilson, Mr. Indian to Noonanetuni to the Lecture,
Allen of Dedham, Mr. Dunster, beside many other Christians were present." 1 At a later day, Mr. Eliot was assisted by his son John (H. C. 1656), by Daniel Gookin, son of General
Gookin (H. C. 1669), and by others. For several years, the beyond all reasonable expectation. The Indians at Nonantum soon became so far civilized as well as Christianized, that they desired to live in a more orderly way.
mission was successful
Accordingly a tract of land, called by the natives Natick, or a Place of Hills, was assigned by the General Court, for their ex" In the clusive use. year 16ol, the town of Natick was setIt consisted of three long streets, two on the north and tled.
one on the south side of the river, with a bridge eighty feet long, and eight feet high, and stone foundations,- the whole being built
streets
by the Indians themselves. To each house situated on these was attached a piece of land. The houses were in the Indian style. One house, larger and more commodious than the One apartment of it was rest, was built in the English style. used as a school-room on week-days, and as a place of worship on the Sabbath. The upper room was a kind of wardrobe, where the Indians hung up their skins and other valuables. In the corner of this room was partitioned off an apartment for Mr. Eliot. This building was the first meeting house in Natick." 2 In this town was the first church of Indians embodied, in the
'
year of our Lord, 1660."
The Christian mission was not confined to the dwellers at Nonantum. Mr. Eliot, and others whom God raised up, both English and Indians, preached the word with success to other tribes. In addition to his other labors, Mr. Eliot translated the whole Bible into the English tongue, which was printed at Cambridge, the New Testament in 1661, and the Old Testament in 1663. He also prepared an Indian Grammar, and
translated
himself and others,*

It
it
1
by Cambridge. was very properly said by the Rev. Mr. McKenzie, " Let be remembered to the honor of our fathers, that the first
all
into
the
Indian
tongue several tracts
written
which were
also printed in
Coll.
Mass. Hist.
Soc., xxiv. 41.

9.
One
or
more of them
is
said to
have
2 8
Bacon's History of Natick, p. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., i. 181.
been written by Mr. Shepard.
INDIAN HISTORY.
387
Cambridge
Protestant mission to the heathen in modern times began in the first Protestant sermon in a heathen tongue was
;
;
preached here the first translation of the Bible by an Englishman into a heathen tongue was printed here; the first Protestant tract in a heathen language was written and printed here." l The
result of all these labors
Gookin,
in his
up to the year 1674 was described by " Historical Collections of the Indians in New
England," printed in the first volume of Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Besides Natick, the most important of all, there were six communities in Massachusetts, exclu" Plymouth, which had long been denominated praying towns namely, Pakemitt, or Punkapaog (now Stoughton) Okommakamesit Hassanamesitt, or Hassanamisco (Grafton) or Pawtuckett NaWamesit, (Marlborough) (Tewksbury) shobah (Littleton) There were Magunkaquog (Hopkinton). also seven " new praying towns," where the Gospel had been Manchage (Oxford) favorably received about three years Chabanakongkomun (Dudley) Maanexit (north part of Woodsive of
"
stock,
at
that
time included in Massachusetts)

;
Quantisset
Woodstock) Wabquissit (southwest part of WaeWoodstock) Packachoog (south part of Worcester) other Indian "There are two towns; viz., untug (Uxbridge). Weshakin 2 and Quabaug, 3 which are coming on to receive the and reckoning these, there are nine in the Nipmuck gospel 4 In these fourteen established towns, there were two country." organized churches, and, as Gookin estimated, about eleven hun;
(southeast part of
dred " souls yielding obedience to the gospel." Meantime an earnest effort was made to impart scientific as well as religious knowledge to the Indians, in which commenda-
was a prominent actor. His labors and their " by Gookin in his Historical Collections." Besides preaching and inducing others to preach the Gospel, and translating the Bible and other books into the Indian language, he took great care that schools should be planted among the praying Indians and he taught some himself to read, that they might be capable to teach others; and by his procurement some of the choice Indian youths were put to school with English schoolmasters, to learn both English, Latin, and Greek tongues. There was much cost out of the Corporation stock expended in this work, for fitting and preparing the Indian youth to be learned
ble
work Mr.
Eliot
result are described
'
Hist. Lect., p. 67.
Brookfieid.
Coll.
Or
Niishiiway,
now
Lancaster.
Mass. Hist. Soc.,
i.
189-195.
388
and able preachers unto their countrymen. Their diet, apparel, books and schooling, was chargeable. In truth the design was ineffectual to the ends prudent, noble, and good but it proved of the said youth died, after they had been for several proposed
;
sundry years at learning, and made good proficiency therein. Others were disheartened, and left learning after they were almost ready for the college. And some returned to live among
their countrymen,
where some
of
them are improved
for school-
masters and teachers, unto which they are advantaged by their Some others of them have entered upon other calleducation.
another, a carpenter ; another ings ; as one is a mariner for England with a gentleman that lived sometimes at
;
went
Cam-
bridge in New England, named Mr. Drake, which Indian, as I I rememheard, died there not many months after his arrival. ber but only two of them all that lived in the college at Cambridge
;
the one
named
Joel, the other Caleb,
both natives of
Martha's Vineyard.
ially Joel,
These two were hopeful young men, especso being ripe in learning, that he should, within a few
months, have taken his first degree of bachelor of art in the He took a voyage to Martha's Vineyard, to visit his college.
father and kindred, a little before the commencement, but upon his return back in a vessel, with other passengers and mariners, suffered shipwreck upon the island of Nan tucket The
of art
other, called Caleb, not long after he took his degree of bachelor 1 at Cambridge in England, died of a consumption at
New
Charlestown, where he was placed by Mr. Thomas Danforth, who had inspection over him, under the care of a physician in order to his health, where he wanted not for the best means the country could afford, both of food and physick but God denied the blessing, and put a period to his days." 2 The records of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of
;
New England contain accounts of sundry payments for the maintenance and instruction of Indian scholars, some of them very young, from 1656 to 1672. An earlier account is preserved in the " Massachusetts Archives," xxx. 9, which may serve as a
sample
"
:
An
1645
1
untill this 8
account of expenses layd out for y e country from August th of October 1646.
on the Triennial Catalogue of Harvard
College.
2
"
1665,
Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, Indus," is the solitary Indian name found
Coll.
Mass. Hist. Soc.,
i.
172, 173.
INDIAN HISTORY.
First, for
e y printing of
389
4. 00.
five
hundred declarations,
00
c e d c Item, for y diet & washing of y two Indians since y 3 of ) e th e e 8 mon. attendance of hitherto, considering y y y r think a childe w* ) meet, yonger beeing very y
1 6.
00. 00
Item, for physick for James during his sicknes for 5 or 6
weeks, e Item, for physick for Jonathan in y time of his sicknes, m 1 2 bands & 8 shirts & often for Item, making y mending
their apparel, Item, for buttons thread & other materials bought of Mr. Russel for y m Item, for half a years schooling for James,
,
^. 19. 00. 04.
06 06
00. 03. 08
00. 02.
06
00. 06. 00
I pray y to appoint mee part of my pay as far as that will reach in the hands of Henrie Shrimpton both because I am in-
"
him and hee hath promissed to accept y* pay, & if y* y e Indians require pay back at his hands I shall bee ready to repay him such as they shal accept. Further, wheras the Indians with mee bee so small as that they [are] uncapable of y e benefit of such m & th erf ore as was desire to to
gaged
to
learning
my
impart
they being
an hindrance to mee
may
bee somwhere
I no furtherance to them, I desire they th So else -disposed of all convenient speed.
&
I rest in
what
I can.
Y HENRIE DUNSTER."
rs
This account was referred to a committee, who reported,

**
Wee
The
thinke meete Mr. Dunster should be paid 22'. 16*. 2 d d magistrates consent to this return of the s Committee, " Jo Gov r
:
WINTHROP,
e 8 " Consented to by y deput .
EDWARD RAWSON."
Christianize the Indians,
In this praiseworthy effort to enlighten, and civilize, and Cambridge shares the glory with Rox-
bury.
Not only was the gospel

of their
many
first preached to them here, and here but some of the most conspiceducated, youth
uous and energetic laborers in this field of duty resided here. Omitting for the present all mention of others, if the labors of John Eliot of Roxbury entitled him to be regarded as an " Apostle," or as standing in the place of Aaron as a high-priest to them in spiritual things, with equal propriety may Daniel their civil Gookin of Cambridge be regarded as their Moses, " The " praying Indians instructor, ruler, judge, and historian.
are said to have been early persuaded by Mr. Eliot, Aug.

to adopt the
6,
1651,
Mosaic form of government, by electing rulers of
390
hundreds, of
fifties,
and
of tens. 1
" Moreover the General Court
appointed and empowered one of the English magistrates, to join with the chief of their rulers, 2 and keep a higher court among them extending the power of this court to the latitude of a
;
county court
from the jurisdiction whereof the English order and government, civil or criminal, is exnothing for good but appeals, life, limb, banishment, and eases pected [excepted ?] of divorce. The first English magistrate, chosen to be ruler over
among
the praying Indians in the colony of Massachusetts, was first Mr. D. G. 3 the anther of these Collections ; and this was in A. D. 1656.
or three years, one
him for England for two Major Humphrey Atherton was appointed But to conduct this affair, which he did about three years. then the Lord taking him to himself by death, and the author being returned back, in the year 1660, a year or more before Major Atherton's death, was again called and reinstated in that 4 employ, A. D. 1661, and hath continued in that work hitherto." In this position Gookin continued until the Charter government was abrogated in 1686 and most faithfully did he perform his
But not long
after his occasions called
duty.
us that besides causing the orders of the General Court to be observed, sundry other things were to be " done by
tells
He
him
in order to their
good
as the
making
of orders,
and giving
instructions
backed with penalties, for promoting and practising morality, civility, industry, and diligence in their " he was also " to make and execute good particular callings orders for keeping holy the sabbath day and that the people do
directions,
:
and
attend the public worship of
God
and that schools
for the edu-
His cation of youth be settled and continued among them." 5 own record of a court held at Wabquissit, in 1674, illustrates
the manner of proceeding: After Mr. Eliot had preached, " then I a court the And first I approved Indians. began among their teacher Sampson, and their Constable Black James ; giving
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., xxiv. 171. Gookin bears honorable testimony to the character of one of these rulers. In describing Natick he says: "In this town they have residing some of their principal rulers, the chief whereof is named Wuhan, who is now above seventy years
2
1
first
missionary
as
visit
of Eliot to
related.
Nonanin
turn,
heretofore
His
manual, or mark,
is
preserved
sign the
ment "to keep about
Cambridge Records, affixed to an agreesix-score head of
of age. He is a person of great prudcnee and piety I do not know any Indian that excels him." Coll. Mass.
;
dry cattle on the south side of Charles River," in 1647. He was living in 1681, then " aged about eighty years." 8 Daniel Gookin.
*
Coll. il/s<. Hist. Soc.,

Ibid.,
i.
i.
177.
/list.
Soc.,
\.
183, 184.
This
Wahan was
for the
178.
the
same who made arrangements
INDIAN HISTORY.
391
each of them a charge to be diligent and faithful in their places. Also I exhorted the people to yeild obedience to the gospel of
Christ,
and
to those set in order there.

I
Then published
a war-
had prepared, empowering the constable to suppress drunkenness, sabbath-breaking, especially po wo wing and idolatry and, after warning given, to apprehend all delinquents, and bring them before authority, to answer for their misran
t
or order that
doings
the smaller faults to bring before
ruler of the
Nipmuck country
for idolatry
Wattasaeompanum, and powowing, to

:
1 life-like picture of one of these bring them before me." courts is exhibited in Gookin's certified copy of its session " At a Court held at Naticke the
among
Indians, Sept. 14,
1681.
The
testimonies of several aged and

:
principal Indians
hereafter named, taken in Court, as followeth
"
r Present, Daniel Gookin sen Esq., Assistant. \ Mr John Eliot, sen r ., Waban,
.
\ V
)
Piambow,
>
Rulers.
Andrew
Pittimee,
Interpreters.
Tom
"
Tray,
Peter Ephrairn,
years, Piambow, aged about about 81 years, Jethro, aged about Nowanit, aged eighty years, 70 years, William, aged 68 years, Anthony Tray and Tom Tray, unkells by the father's side unto John Woampas deceased, aged 60 years and fifty-eight or thereabout," testified that the said " John Woampas was no Sachem, and had no more right or title
to
Waban, aged about eighty
any lands
in the
Nipmuk
Massachusetts than any other
common
country within [the bounds] of " Indians and therefore

;
they disclaimed and repudiated all sales or gifts of land pretended to have been made by him. 2
Under the joint instruction and superintendence of Eliot and Gookin, slow but encouraging progress was made in civilizing and Christianizing the Indians in Massachusetts, as far west as the westerly border of Worcester County and a similar good
;
work was accomplished
in the
Colony
of
Plymouth.
The two
races maintained peaceful relations with each other until 1675, when that terrible contest commenced, which is generally known
And even then, Gookin insists that the Chrisas Philip's War. tian Indians, in the seven old praying towns, were true friends to
the English, and rendered them important assistance ; and he intimates that the magistrates agreed with him in opinion, while the popular branch of the government and the common people
1
Coll.
Mass. Hist.
Soc.,
i.
192.
Mass. Arch., xxx. 260.
392
generally, lost all confidence in the Indians, and insisted that, without distinction, they should be treated as enemies. Having
mentioned some instances of useful information given by the Indians, and services rendered by them as soldiers, Gookin says, "Notwithstanding those signal and faithful services done by
those Christian Indians, and divers others not here related, yet the animosity and rage of the common people increased against them, that the very name of a praying Indian was spoken against,
in so
much
that were concerned with
praying
lish,
that some wise and principal men did advise some them to forbear giving that epithet of Things growing to this height among the Eng-
the Governor
and Council, against
their
own
reason and
inclination,
were put upon a kind of necessity, for gratifying the people, to disband all the praying Indians, and to make and publish an order to confine them to five of their own villages, and not to stir above one mile from the centre of such place, upon " This cruel frame of l peril of their lives." spirits (for I can give it no gentler denomination) arose, I apprehend, from a double ground first the malice of Satan against Christ's work among
;
the Indians, and to hinder their progress in religion second root of this trouble arose from the perfidious and unfaithful dealing of the
wicked Indians, and their causeless rage and cruelty and fury against the English, and particularly the Springfield and Northampton Indians, who lived near the English and
seemed to carry it fair for a time, but at last proved perfidious and treacherous. But there was not one of them that ever I heard of, that was a pretender to Christian religion." 2 It is
possible that a desire to appropriate the land of the Indians to their own use may have had some influence on the populace then,
as
it
has in more recent times.
Afterwards, orders were issued for the removal of the Indians to Deer Island and Gookin relates the manner in which the
;
Natick tribe was removed. " In pursuance of this order, Capt. Thomas Prentiss (who was a person civil and friendly to those Indians), with a party of horse, was commanded to bring them
speedily to a place called the Pines upon Charles River, about two miles above Cambridge, where boats were appointed to be in readiness to take them on board, and take them to the aforesaid island Good Mr. Eliot, that faithful instructor and teacher of the praying Indians, met them at the place before mentioned, where they were to be embarked, who
1
down
Coll.
Amer. Antiq.
Soc.,
ii.
449, 450.
Ibid.,
ii.
454.
INDIAN HISTORY.
393
comforted, and encouraged, and instructed, and prayed with them

; exhorting them to patience in their sufferings, and the hearts of those disciples of Christ, and exhorting confirming them to continue in the faith, for through many tribulations we
and
for
them
must enter into the kingdom
of heaven.
....
In the night,
about midnight, the tide serving, being the 30th of October, 1675, these poor creatures were shipped in three vessels and carried away to Deer Island above mentioned, which was distant from that place about four leagues, where I shall leave them at
present."
1
In
May, 1676, many
of the
men having performed
military service for the English, permission was granted by the General Court for the departure of the Indians from the Island.
The remnant of the Natick tribe, after a temporary residence near Nonantum, returned to their own town, which was under the management of Indian officers for nearly a century, until it was incorporated as an English district in 1762. " From 1651 to " 1762 Natick " was an Indian town and its history is little
;
more than a picture
of wild Indians
making unsuccessful
2
at-
tempts to clothe themselves in the robes of civilization."
While the Christian Indians were passing through

of affliction, they had a faithful friend in constantly to avert the evils to which they
this furnace
which they suffered. the constant support of Thomas Danforth, his associate in many a hard-fought political battle on other fields. Indeed it would
alleviate those
Gookin, who labored were exposed and to In this labor of love he had
seem that most

curred with
dians
;
of the magistrates, or
Court of Assistants, con-
in a desire to deal kindly with the praying Inbut that they were to some extent compelled by the pop-
him
" the enmity, jealousy, and clamors of some people against them put the magistracy 3 upon a kind of necessity to send them all to the island." Again,
ulace to adopt harsh measures.
He
says,
an Indian who had a

in
certificate of fidelity
from Gookin and was
the public service as a secret agent, was actually employed " apprehended by Capt. Henchman, who, being ignorant of the design, sent both him and his pass to the Governor, at Boston, who more to satisfy the clamors of the people than for any offence committed
jail
by
He had
railed
this man, he was committed to the common committed no offence (that ever I heard of),
still
but was imprisoned merely to
the clamors of the people,
who
1
a
much
against this
poor fellow, and fain would have

8
Coll. Amer. Antiq. Soc., ii. 473, 474. Bacon's Hist, of Natick, p. 23.
Coll.
Amer. Ant. Soc.,
ii.
485.
394
had him put to death (though they knew not wherefore). But those murmurings were not only against the Indian, but as much 1 against Major Gookin, who granted him the certificate." " in the the council's endeavors he notwithstanding Again, says, former orders, and the testimony of these English witnesses 2 on behalf of the Christian Indians, yet the clamors and animosity
among
common people increased daily, not only against those but also against all such English as were judged to be Indians, to charitable them, and particularly, many harsh reflections and were uttered against Major Daniel Gookin and Mr. speeches
the
John Eliot,"
of the popular " clamors and animosity," I a few copy manuscripts " Elizabeth Belcher, aged 57, Martha Remington aged 31, and
As a specimen
e Mitchell, aged 20, being sworne, doe say, that on y 28th r came Scott day of Feb last, ab* 10 of the clocke at night, Ri: e e into y house of y said Belcher, and suddenly after he came in
Mary
1 e many hideous raileing expressions ag y wor Capt. Daniel Gookin, calling him an Irish dog y* was never faithful to his country, the sonne of a whoare, a bitch, a rogue, God confound him, & God rott his soul, saying if I could meet him
broak out into
11
alone I would pistoll him. I wish my knife and sizers were in his heart. He is the devils interpreter. I and two or three more de-
signed to cut of all Gookins brethren at the Island, but some English dog discovered it, the devil will plague him," etc. Sworn before Simon Willard, Assistant, March 4, 1675-6. 4 Scott was
and imprisoned he afterwards made a very humble conand was released. Two copies of a written handbill are preserved, dated on the same day that Scott gave vent to his wrath " Boston, February Reader thou art desired not to supprese this paper, 28, 1675. but to promote its designe, which is to certify (those traytors to their king and countrey) Guggins and Danford, that some generous spirits have vowed their destruction as Christians wee warne them to prepare for death, for though they will deservedly
fined
;
fession,
dye, yet we wish the health of their soules. A. B. C. D." 5
e By y new
society.
Coll.
Amer. Ant.
Soc.,
ii.
481.
their obedience to
God and
their faithful-
2
tiss,
John Wntson,
and Henry Prenboth of Cambridge, who by direction

Sen.,
ness to the English. 3 Coll. Amer. Ant. Soc.,

*
,
ii.
452, 453.
of the Council dwelt with the Natick Indian alout twelve weeks, and certified
Mass. Arch xxx. 192. Mass. Arch., xxx. 193.
INDIAN HISTORY.
395
l>y
The
following
memorandum was
:
entered
7
th
Rev. John Eliot,

<l
on his Church Record

Capt. Gookins,
" 1676.
On the
Mr. Danforth,
&
.
day of the 2 month, Mr. Stoughton w r sent by

Island for the Indians
the Councill to order matters at
th m a In o r way thither a great planting there, y called me w y r boat of about 14 ton, meeting us, turned head upon us (wheth a run the sterne willfully or by negligence, God he knoweth)i y
Long
4 sat under water. O r boats- saile or something tangled with the great boat, and by God's mercy kept to it. r My cosin Jacob & cosin Perrie being forwarder in o boat quickly got up into the great boat. I so sunk y* I drank in salt water
of o r boate
w we
r
twice,
us
all,
& could & help
not help
us
it.
God
assisted
my two
cosins to deliver
up
into the great boat.
We
the Castle, where we went ashore, dryed & r to the Island, performed o work, returned well
were not far frm refreshed, & y" went
home
at night,
Some thanked God, & some wished we praised be the Lord. had been drowned. Soone after, one y* wished we had been
drowned, was himself drowned about the same place
wonderfully delivered count abruptly ends.
:
w we w
r
so
the history
w off
r
is
"
Here the
ac-
a later day, John Marshall testified that on the 9th of Octo" I saw John Joans ber, 1677, driveing his trucks, whipping his the worshipful horses which caused them to run very furiously
;
At
Thomas Danforth being

;
before the trucks shifted the
way
several
times to escape the horses, and I was afraid they would have ran over him but having escaped them, when the said Joans came to the wharf e where I was, I asked him why he drave his trucks
him he had like to have ran he answered it was noe matter if Mr. Danforth and Major Gucking were both hanged. Sworn in Court. J. Dudley, Assistant. 12. 8. 77. Said Jones is sentenced to be admonished, and not to drive a cart in Boston upon penalty of a
soe hard to run over people, and told
over Mr. Danforth
severe whipping.
J. DUDLEY, per order." account of the popular exasperation, Capt. Gookin failed of election in May, 1676, as one of the Assistants. The General manifested their and Court, however, confidence, by sympathy
On
promoting him, at their
first
session, to the office of
Sergeant-
major, or chief commander of the militia in the County. During the year, the tide of feeling changed in his favor, and in May,
1677, he was reinstated in his former position as an Assistant. Thenceforth, both he and his associate, Danforth, retained their hold on the public confidence until the close of life.
1
Mass. Arch.,
viii. 4.
CHAPTER
XXI.
MILITARY HISTORY.
AT
the second meeting of the Court of Assistants after their
arrival at Charlestown, Sept. 7, 1630, "half a year's provision" " was made for " Mr. Patrick and Mr. Underbill ; and at the next
meeting, three weeks later, the sum of fifty pounds was assessed " " upon the several plantations, for the maintenance of the same
persons.
These were the commanders of the incipient militia. Of Daniel Patrick, Winthrop says, " This Captain was entertained by us out of Holland (where he was a common soldier We made him a of the Prince's guard) to exercise our men. 2 resided him." He a short time in and maintained captain, 3 Watertown, but came to Cambridge before May 1, 1632, and remained here until Nov. 1637, when he removed to Ipswich, and subsequently to Stamford, Connecticut, where he was killed
1
by a Dutchman
in 1643.
During
his residence here, the tract of
upland surrounded by marsh, on which the Powder Magazine

to
stands at the foot of Magazine Street, was granted by the town him ; and since that time it has been known as " Captain's Island." Thus, for five years, from 1632 to 1637, Cambridge
was the head-quarters

manders.
of
one of the two principal military com-
a more perfect organization of the militia was made, Dec. 13, 1636, the whole being divided into three Thomas regiments, Cambridge had a large share of the honors.
ant-colonel of the
And when
Dudley, one of the founders of the town, was appointed lieutenfirst regiment and seven years later he was
;
elected Major-general of all the militia.
It
was further ordered,
"
Charlestowne, Newetowne, Watertowne, Concord, Deddam, to bee another regiment, whearof John Haynes, Esqr ., shalbee r r 4 colonell, and Rog Herlakenden, Esq ., leiftenant colonell." Both were Cambridge men the former had been Governor of
. ;
Mass.
Col. Rec.,
i.
75, 77.
ii.
Ibid.,
*
i.
74.
i.
Savage's Winthrop,
151.
Mass.
Col. Rec.,
187.
MILITARY HISTORY.
397
Massachusetts, and was afterwards for many years Governor of Connecticut the latter was one of the Assistants, and remained in office, both civil and military, until Nov. 17, 1638, when he
;
departed this life. At the session of the General Court, commencing March 9, 1636-7, officers were appointed to command the militia in the " For Mr. Cooke chosen towns
several
:
captain
George Mr. Sam: Shepard, J these exhibited a All military spirit. Captain Cooke ensign." was one of the earliest members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638-9, was its captain in 1643, and when a similar company was incorporated in Middlesex County, May 14, 1645, he was its first captain. Having performed faithfully 2 services and civil he returned to England here, many military near the end of 1645, was a colonel in Cromwell's army, and
;
Newetowne,
Mr. Willi: Spencer, leiftenant
sacrificed his life in the service of the
Commonwealth, being " re-
3 ported to be slain in the wars in Ireland in the year 1652." Lieutenant Spencer was one of the corporate members of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1638-9, in which year he removed to Connecticut, where, as well as here, he was an active and useful civil officer. 4 Ensign Shepard returned to England with Captain Cooke, being excused by the General Court in October, 1645, from further attendance as a member, " being to go for England." He was a Major in Cromwell's army, and very probably in Colonel Cooke's regiment. He is represented in Mitchell's Church Record, 1658, as then living in It does not appear Ireland, where he probably died about 1673. that either of these officers was engaged in the short and decisive Pequot War, which occurred shortly after they were commissioned 5 but in September, 1643, " it was agreed that we should
;
send three commissioners, with a guard of forty able men to attend them, which have authority and order to bring Samu: Gorton and his company, if they do not give them satisfaction.
The
three commissioners are Capt.

;
Atherton, and Edward Johnson

1
George Cooke, Humfrey and Capt. Cooke to command

expedition
"
;
Mass.
Col. Rec.,
i.
190.
in this
and Captain Patrick,

"for the country's resided here, had com-
He was
House of
of
*
member and Speaker of the Deputies, and served on many

a
who was an
service
officer
still
and
its
important committees. Middlesex Court Files. Both here and in Connecticut he was
m.-unl of forty men from Massachusetts, but seems not to have arrived until after
the principal battle ended.

Rec.,
i.
a Deputy in the General Court. 6 Cambridge furnished twelve soldiers
197; and
Coll.
Mass. Col. Mass. Hist. Soc.,
xviii. 143, 144.
398
in chief,
and Hum: Atherton
to be his
Leift: of
the military
force."
Captain Cooke returned to England in 1645, the GenCourt thought " meet to desire Mr. Joseph Cooke to take care of the company in the absence of the Captain, and till the Court shall take further order, and that John Stedman be established ensign." 2 Nov. II, 1647. " Mr. Joseph Cooke, upon his petition, is freed from exercising the company at Cambridge, and from being compellable by fine to attend upon every training hereafter." 3 About this time Daniel Gookin removed to Cambridge, and probably was the next Captain of the trainband, of which he retained the command about forty years. He was cornmander-in-chief of the militia in Middlesex County during that terrible contest which is generally denominated " Philip's War," or the " Narragansett War," even before he attained the rank of
eral
4 He wrote the instructions to Captain Joseph Sergeant-major. 5 Nov. 2, 1675, to "take charge of the soldiers raised from Sill, Charlestown, Watertown, and Cambridge, which are about sixty men," and to go forth against the enemy, closing thus u so de:
When
siring the ever-living Lord God to accompany you and pany with his gracious conduct and presence, and that
your comhe will for
Christ's sake appear in all the mounts of difficulty, and cover all your heads in the day of battle, and deliver the bloodthirsty and
cruel
enemy of God and his people into your hands, and make you executioners of his just indignation upon them, and return you
victorious unto us, I
commit you and your company unto God, and remain your very loving friend, DANIEL GOOKIN, Sen r ." 6 The names of some of the Cambridge soldiers may be gleaned from the few military documents preserved. It appears that in November, 1675, John Adams, Daniel Champney, John Eames, David Stone, and Samuel Stone, Jr., were impressed as " troopOn the 26th day of the same month, Corporal ers," or cavalry.
1
Mass.
Col. Rec.,
ii.
44.
In tins ex-
pedition Thomas Parris of Cambridge served as surgeon, and Samuel Green as Mr. Green held military office sergeant.
9, 1648, when, among the lands at Shawshine, the town grant, d to "Captain Googine a farm, if he buy a house in the town."
April
about sixty years, attaining the rank of
Captain
2
in 1689.
ii.
ii.
Ibid.,
8
137. 217.
Ibid.,
* He came from Virginia to Boston, May 20, 1644, being then styled "Cap-
Cambridge man, and was " before September 24, 1675, when he was appointed Captain of one hundred men, under Major John Pyna
He was
"
styled
Lieutenant
clion.
Mass. Arch.,
ture
Ixviii. 40.
This signa-
tain ;" he resided in
years,
Roxbury about three but removed to Cambridge In-fore
was afterwards
er.ised,
and
"By
the
Council, E. B. S." substituted.
MILITARY HISTORY,
399
Jonathan Remington, and Isaac Amsden, Jacob Amsden, John Amsden, Gershom Cutter, William Gleason, James Hubbard, Jonathan Lawrence, Nathaniel Patten, Samuel Read, John Salter, Samuel Swan, Edward Winship, Jr., Daniel Woodward, and John Wyeth, were impressed by order of Captain Gookin, to whom the Corporal reported, Dec. 3, 1675, that all his men were
" Edward Winship, his father tells me ready, except as follows he is or will be released by the council John Salter, he saith his
: ;
master will give him his time, and so will take no care to fit him out how he will be provided I know not John Wyeth is not come to his father's, neither can I hear any tidings of him." l yet These three men were not mustered. The names also of Capt.
; ;
Thomas
Prentice, Lieut. William Barrett, Cornet Edward Oakes (afterwards styled Lieutenant), and several soldiers who served
of
in this war, are
Account Book
found in the Massachusetts Archives, and in an Treasurer Hull, preserved in the Library of the
2
England Historic-Genealogical Society. Captain Daniel Gookin was by the whole Court chosen and appointed to be sergeant major of the regiment of Middlesex,"
"
New
May
5,
1676. 3
Before this election, however, he performed the
and Watertown," were " ordered and required to impress such armor, breasts, backs, and head-pieces, and blunderbusses, as you can find in your respective towns, and to give express and speedy order that they be cleaned and fitted for service, and sent in to Cambridge to Captain Gookin at or before the 15th of this instant, by him to be sent up to the army by such troopers as are
1 Mass. Arch., Ixviii. pp. 73, 79, 80. At about the same date, Peter Hanchet, Joshua Woods, Samuel Hides, and Jonathan Bush, oil the south side of the river, were impressed.
duties proper to that office. Thus, on the llth of January, " the committee of militia of 1675-6, Charlestown, Cambridge,
Gates, John Gibson, Samuel Gibson, Samuel Goffe, Nathaniel Green, John Hasr-
2 Of private soldiers, the following names appear Matthew Abdy, Thomas Adams, John Barrett, Thomas Batherick
:
Zachariah Hicks, Holden, Sebeas Jackson, Ambrose McFassett, Daniel Magennis, Amos Marrctt, Thomas Mitch-
ings, Nathaniel Heuly,

Hill,
Jacob
Justinian
elson,
ver,
John Nc'edham, Thomas OliZashariah Paddlefoot, John Paik,
[or Baverick], llichard Beach, Joseph Bemis, William Bordman, Francis Bow-
man, Matthew Bridge, Thomas Brown, Samuel Buck, Samuel Bull, Samuel Champney, James Cheever, Joseph Cooke, Stephen Cooke, Benjamin Crackbone Cragg, James Cutler, [killed], John Samuel Cutler, John Druse [killed], Thomas Foster, Jonathan Dunster, Stephen Francis, Thomas Frost, Simon
Solomon Phipps, Henry Prentice, James Solomon Prentice, William Reed, Samuel Robbins, Jason Russell, William Russell, John Smith, Joseph Smith, Nathaniel Smith, Samuel Smith, John Squire, John Stedman, Andrew Stimson [or Stevenson], John Strceter, Gershom Swan, John Wellington, Jacob Willanl, John Winter.
Prentice,
3
Mass.
Col. llec., v. 83.
400
ordered to go up to the army." l And on the 25th of April, " Commander-in-chief of Captain Gookin received instructions as
all
the forces of horse and foot in this expedition, for the service
" Honored the spirit in which they were met sirs, I received I was retired to rest ; but I suddenly got up after orders your
:
2 letter addressed by him of the Colony, against the enemy." affords a glimpse to the Council for the management of the of the magnitude of the perils which then beset the Colony, and
War
and issued forth warrants for the delinquents, and sent away the warrant to Capt. Prentice, and also sent warrants to the commanders-in-chief of Charlestown, Watertown, Cambridge, and the Village, Maiden, and Woburn, to raise one fourth part of their
companies to appear at Cambridge this morning at eight a clock. But I fear the rain and darkness of the last night hath impeded their rendesvous at the time ; but sometime to-day I hope they will appear, or at least some of them. I judge, if the Captains do their duty in uprightness, there may be about 100 men, or near
it.
have written to Capt.
compliance your order, in case of failure, and also directions to what It is a very rendesvous to send this company when raised. afflictive time to be called off, considering we have planting in hand this week, and our fortification 3 pressing upon our shoulBut God sees meet to order it so that this rod must gmart ders. I pray let me have your directions sent away with all sharply. I stay at home on purpose to despatch these soldiers. So speed. with my dutiful respects to your honored selves, I remain your
; ;
to conduct this
company
Hammond to send up am uncertain about his
Capt. Cutler
I desire
assured friend and servant, DANIEL GOOKIN, Sen r May the "4 Four 1676. after the date of this letter, first, days May 5,
.
1676, Capt. Gookin was elected Sergeant-major of the Middlesex Regiment, and at the General Election, May 11, 1681, he became
Major-general of
1
all
the militia in the Colony, which office he

pursuance thereof do nominate and emmilitia of the town and selectmen to set out the place where, and to each one their proportion, and to do what-
Mass. Arch.,
Ibid.,
Ixviii. 114.
p 228. 8 So imminent was the peril, that on the 27th of March, 1676, " at a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town to consider about fortifying the town against the Indians, it was agreed upon by a publie vote of the town as followeth It is by
:
power the
thereof."
ever shall be necessary for the completing The stockade was commenced
the inhabitants jointly agreed, that they judge it necessary that something be done
for the fencing in the
but before it was completed the danger so far diminished that the project was abandoned, and the timber which had been
gathered was used for the repair of the Great Bridge,
*
town with a stockaand in doe, or something equivalent

;
Mass. Arch.,
Ixviii. 247.
MILITARY HISTORY.
retained until the Charter
401
in 1686,
Government was abrogated when he was seventy-four years of age.
Up to this time military service was required of all able-bodied men. Such service commenced at the age of sixteen years but I have not found a limit prescribed for its close. Special exat various to was ages. April 1, 1656 privates emption granted " Edward Goffe of 63 about years, having long Cambridge, aged been serviceable both to town and country, and now disenabled
;
?
as well
by
infirmities of
body
as age,
is
by
to
this court released
make such annual ordinary trainings. himself to the as shall see meet." l allowance military company
from
all
And
he
is
Ordinarity, five shillings per annum was required to be paid in consideration of such exemption, as in the case of Gilbert Crack-
bone, April 6, 1658, and
2 October, 1658, all Cambridge men. " William 3 Kerley, aged about 76 years,
Robert Parker and William Mann, So also, June, 1659, is released from all or-
company
tled,
dinary trainings, paying 5s. per annum to the use of the military in the town where he dwelleth." In the Middlesex
"
of 1659 is preserved a document without date, entiReasons, showing why old men of sixty years are not to
Court Files
From the word of God, though not in express terms, yet by consequence, may be gathered, that if the Levites were to be dismissed at fifty years from their service at the tabernacle,
much more old men at sixty from training, which is the practice of our native country, to take in at sixteen years and dismiss at sixty, which is agreeable to our neighbor plantations to do the like.
then
it is
iy. The Scripture doth hold forth, by way of allusion, that an act of cruelty. Deut. vi. The words are these if a bird's nest be upon a tree or upon the ground, be they young or eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young, but in any wise thou shalt let the dam go, and take the young to thee, that it may be well with thee. Doth God count it an act of cruelty to put no difference between old and young in an unreasonable creature, and shall not man shun cruelty towards the reasonable ?
:
" First.
If your children come in at sixteen years, well may their fathers be taken out at sixty. " 3 ly Old men of sixty years have not the organs of nature to handle their arms, and are overborne with heat and cold, having
.
Middlesex Court Record.

Ibid.
Ibid.
Kerley resided in Lancaster.
26
402
natural infirmities, and are slow in action
;
many
that which was
For old their delight, when young, is their burden being old. men to attend common trainings, to stand forth with every young
answer to his name, and it may be stand three or four till his joints be stiff and numb, that he can scarce go upon his legs, surely such practice cannot be pleasing and then not to be suffered nor approved on by men to God but we hope our wise and godly magistrates will take it into serious consideration, and relieve such as are thereby oppressed." This appeal was not immediately successful, as appears by the " I would intreat that petition of a Cambridge man in 1673 favor of this honored Court, that T may be freed wholly from training any more, as one not being able to perform that service by reason of a consumptive cough I have had about a year and a half, and other weakness of body that attend me, besides my age which is very near 63 years so that I find that exercise, when standing so long upon the ground, very prejudicious and destructive to my health, as I found by experience the last training day, although it was a warm day. So committing myself to your
boy
to
hours together,
worships favor I rest your humble servant. THO. SWCETMAN. The 8 (8) 73." 1 In 1689, the term of service had been shortl% All the inhabitants from sixteen to sixty years in each ened.
town are by the law and constant custom

arms,
if
of the country to bear
But, although the private require." were released from further service, on attaining three score years, their officers sometimes voluntarily served until a
occasion
shall
soldiers
much later period of tinued devotion to
life.
official
service
notable example of this long-conwas exhibited by Captain
printer, who was sergeant in the as before stated, in 1643, ensign in expedition against Gorton,
Samuel Green, the veteran
Of him 1660, and on the 27th of June, 1689, became a captain. was stated, in an obituary notice of his son Bartholomew, that " this Captain Green was a commission officer of the military company at Cambridge, who chose him for above sixty years toit
gether; and he died there, Jan. 1, 1701-2, ae. 87, highly esteemed and beloved both for piety and a martial genius. He took such
great delight in the military exercise, that the arrival of their

training days would always raise his joy and spirit ; and when he was grown so aged that he could not walk, he would be carried
out in his chair into the

1
field,
to view
and order
his
company."
Middltxex Court Files.
England from
of
the beginning
of that Planta-
Brief Relation of
the state
New
tion to this present year, 1689, p. 9.

8
Boston
News
Letter, Jan. 4, 1733.
MILITARY HISTORY.
403
In the warfare with the French and Indians, during most of the time for more than thirty years after the government of the Province was organized under the new charter, Cambridge fur-
nished both
officers
and
soldiers, of
whom, however,
the
lists
are
be included John Leverett, imperfect. Esq. (afterwards President of the College), who, with his associates, Col. Elisha Hutchinson and Col. Penn Townsend, received instructions from Governor Dudley, July 3, 1707, as " joint commissioners for the superior command, conduct, rule and govern-
Among
the officers
may
ment
of her majesty's forces on the expedition to
Nova
Scotia
and L'Accadie." l Andrew Belcher, previously of Cambridge, was Commissary five years before 1708. 2 In the expedition against Port Royal, which sailed from Nantasket Sept. 18, 1710, Edmund Goffe was Lieut.-colonel of the regiment whereof William Tailer was Colonel and William Dudley was Major. Samue Gookin (grandson of General Gookin) was a Lieutenant in the 8 In the Minutes company commanded by Capt. Robert Handy. of Council, when raising troops for an expedition against Canada in 1711, are some memoranda concerning Cambridge men June " Mr. Daniel Foxcroft to be with 20, spoken sub-commissary in this expedition, and accepted." June 21, " Capt. Gookin 4 and " Mr. Capt. Phips to be sent to for riding officers." June 22, Sheriff Gookin and Capt. Sam Phips accepted to ride the circle
T
:
1
for hastening the troops (Gookin commanded a this expedition). June 23, Lieut. -col. Goffe and
"
company in Major Jonas
Bond
to provide quarters for the troops " of the north of Charles 5 River, appointed to rendezvous at Cambridge."
Goffe submitted a memorial to Lieut. -gov. Dumthe Province was engaged in a war with the Indians, representing that " in the month of July last past," he " was commissionated and appointed to be Colonel of all the
Col.
Edmund
mer, in 1724,
when
forces in the western frontiers of
Middlesex and Essex, together with the town of Brookfield, by his Honor the Lieutenant Governor," and that he had visited all the stations at great personal and at the hazard of his life he the " number
expense,
of
;
men now
viz.
;
:
in the service of this
Government
;
reported in the towns
fol-
lowing,
hill,
12 land, 25
1
; Dracut, 12 Almsbury, 10; Haver14 Groton, Lancaster, 14 Turkey-Hills, 12 ; Rut6 10 149." At a later period, Rev. Brookfield, total,
Dunstable, 40
;
Mass. Arch.,
Ibid., p. 455.
Ixxi. 368.
2
8
Ibid., p. 673.
* Sheriff of Middlesex, and son of Gen. Gookin. 6 Mass. Arch., Ixxi. 806, 807.
6
Ibid., Ixxii. 169-172.
404
C. 1725, having been dismissed from his charge at North Yarmouth, served his his death, which occurred country as Captain several years before
at Louisburg in March, 1746. Next after Colonel Goft'e, William Brattle
1
Ammi-Ruhamali Cutter (a Cambridge man), H.
was for many years He attained the rank of the most prominent military character. Major as early as 1728, when he was only twenty-two years old; Colonel, before March, 1739; Adjutant-general in 1758; of the Brigadier-general, as early as 1760, and Major-general militia throughout the Province in 1771. During the French
in 1753 (though not formally declared 1756) and continued until 1763, he was active and enerof troops and the general administration of getic in the raising Province but in the army Cambridge in the affairs military seems to have had no officer of higher rank than Captain. 2 I have gleaned from the muster rolls, preserved in the State House, until
;
War, which commenced
the names of probably only a portion of the Cambridge officers and privates who served in that war. Of officers, Capt. Thomas
Adams, Capt. William Angier, Lieut. Leonai'd Jones, and EnOf staff and nonsigns Joseph Chadwiek and John Dickson. commissioned officers, Samuel Dean, Chaplain Francis Moore, Surgeon John Wright, Surgeon's Mate Daniel Barrett, Downing Champney, John Demont, Benjamin Manning, Abraham William Baldwin, Osborn, and James Lanman, Sergeants Jason Batherick and William Butterfield, Corporals. Some; ;
; ;
1 Cutter Family, 55-59. The names of a few non-commissioned officers and pri-
to the shorter
1748.
A paper
war with France, 1744 to is on file in the office of

"
vates also, during these troublous times, have been preserved. Joseph Hastings was wounded and lost an eye in 1690. In the same year, among those who were
the City Clerk, endorsed,

in
Men
enlisted
Cambridge against Canada, 1745 and 1746," containing the following names:
Capt. [William] Phips, Lieut. [Spencer] Phips, Lieut. Moore, Sergeant Gee, SamBatherick,
engaged
the unfortunate expedition against Canada are found the names of

in
John Andrew, William Blanchard, Nathaniil Bowman, Matthew Bridge, Daniel Champney, James Cutler, Edward Green, Stephen Hastings, Joseph Hicks, John Manning, John Peirce, Joseph Smith, Nathaniel Sparhawk, John Squire, Thornas Stacy, John Stedmm. In 1707, John Comce was killed, and Benjamin
Ma-sey "captived." Sergeants William Cheever and Eliazar P.irker served in 1722; Zechariah Hicks, clerk, and John
Manning,
J
Andrew, William Barrett, Jr., John W. Brown, Nathaniel ChadSolomon wick, Downing Champney, Champney, John Clark, Abraham Colfrey, Benjamin Crackbone, Robert Crowuel
"
ell,
Cutter's Man,''
Fillebrown, Si-
mon Godding, Nathaniel Hancock, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hinds, William How,
Edward Jackson, Joseph Kidder, Cuffe Monis, William Morse, Thomas Patrick, Reuben Prentice, Edward Pursley, John
Smith, Solomon Smith, John Sparhawk, Stank-y, Michael Stanley, Jonathan Stedman, Webber, William
in
1724; Sergeant Simon Hoi-
Edward
den, in 1725, and
John Oldham,
in 1740.
in
The
ime remark holds true
regard
Woodhouse.
MILITARY HISTORY.
405
served
what more than one hundred names of private soldiers are preand although the list is probably far from perfect, it is
;
inserted in a note. 1
One
of the papers in the Massachusetts
Archives commemo-
rates the good service of a
Cambridge
officer
and
its
recognition
" Province of the Massachusetts by Bay. To his Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq., Captain General, Governor, and Commander-in-Chief, in and over his Majesty's Province aforesaid, the Honble his Majesty's Counc\J, and the Hon 1)le House of Representatives in General Court assembled at Boston,
the General Court
:
December, 1763, Humbly sheweth William Angier of Camthat on the second bridge, day of November, A. D. 1759, he was of a in Col. Captain Joseph Frye's Regiment, stationed company at Fort Cumberland in Nova Scotia that the Regiment appearinclined to and ing refusing to do duty because (they mutiny, the time for enlisted said) expired the day before and as they there was no troops arrived to relieve the Regiment, the Fort would undoubtedly fall into the hands of the enemy, if the Regiment (as they threatened) should desert it, Col. Frye, to pre:
vent their desertion, ordered the several Captains to demand
from the men their arms in consequence of which order your petitioner mustered his Company on the parade and demanded
;
Theophilus Alexander, William AlHenry Appleton, John Badger, William Barker, Caleb Barrett, Jonathan Barrett, Joshua Barrett, John Bartlett,
ford,
John Batherick, Timothy Batherick, Jason Belknap, Joseph Belknap, John Bisco,
Blackington, Thomas Brickley, Thomas Brown, John Bryant, Eobert Bull, Thomas Bumstead, Robert Campbell, Moses Chadwick, Downing Champney, Ephraim Child, Thomas Coe, John
Israel
Aaron Hodges, Nathaniel Holden, Elisha Holmes, Daniel Hovey, Simon Howard, Jonathan Ingersol, Jonas Jackson, John Kidder, David Lamson, Edward Manning, William Marshall, John Mason, John Matthews, Thomas Mayhew, Francis Moore, Jr., William Moore, Christopher Mudgeon, John Mullett, John Nutting, Daniel Paine, Stephen Paine, Daniel Parkhurst, Thomas Peirce, Warren Per-
Cole,
John
Cole,
Jr.,
Samuel Cole,
Aaron Comstock. Joshua Converse, Joseph Cook, Daniel Cooper, John Craige,
Samuel Cutter, Benjamin Darling, Edward Dickson, John Dickson, Jr., Wil-
Reuben Prentice, Addison RichardJohn Rickey, John Robbins, Joseph Robbins, Nathan Robbins, Thomas Robbins, Jr., William Robbins, John Robinson, Hobart Russell, Philemon Russell,
kins,
son,
Thomas Durant, Henry Evans, Edward Fillebrown, John Filleliam
Doty,
brown, Richard Fillebrown, John Fowle, Simon Gardis. Samuel Gookin, Jr., Joseph Hamilton, Solomon Hancock, Cato Hanker, Joseph Hartwell, Elisha Hastings, William Hastings, Jason Hazard,
Dennis Ryan, Henry Seagcr, Thomas Shepard, Philip Sherman, Thomas Slierman, Thomas Sisson (Drummer), Joseph Smith, Parsons Smith, Benjamin Stanley, David Stanley, Jonathan Stanley, Joseph Stanley, Michael Stanley, Stephen
Timothy Heath, Abraham Hill, Andrew Ilill, Benjamin Hill, Daniel Hill, Zachariah Hill, Israel Hinds, Samuel Hinds,
Aaron Swan, Joshua Swan, Samuel Swan, Mansfield Tapley, Thomas Thwing, Daniel Warren, Joseph Withington, Jason Winship, John Wellington, Jonas Wycth.
Stearns,
406
of every
man
his
gun
that Elisha Jackson, the second
man
to
whom
he made this demand, not only refused to deliver his gun, but made great resistance and upon your petitioner's seizing the gun, he with great force and violence thrust one end of it against his breast ; and as several of the men at the same time cocked
;
your petitioner apprehending his life to be in great and at the same time knowing it was his duty if possible danger, to put his Colonel's orders into execution, was obliged to draw his sword and with it (to intimidate the rest of the men) strike at the said Jackson, who, by endeavoring to ward it off, had some
their guns,
by this behavior of your petiFrye and the other officers that a general mutiny was at that time prevented, and the Fort preserved from falling into the enemy's hands (your petitioner's company being the first to whom the Colonel's orders were comhis fingers cut. However, tioner, it is the opinion of Col.
of
municated), as Col. Frye is ready to testify to your Excellency and Honors, and as appears by the annexed affidavits. Notwithstanding which, the said Jackson, soon after his return to this
Province, sued your petitioner for striking at him as aforesaid, and at the Superior Court, held in Charlestown in January last, the Jury gave a verdict for your petitioner to pay him six pounds and costs (although the Hon ble Judges all gave their opinion to the Jury in your petitioner's favor), by which means your And as petitioner has been put to very great trouble and costs. was his with to said Jackson, doing regard your petitioner duty and his so doing was the means of preserving the King's Fort, he most humbly requests that your Excellency and Honors would be pleased in some measure to relieve him, by making him a
grant of the sum of fifteen pounds, lawful money, being the sum with the costs that said Jackson recovered of him, or that you would be pleased otherwise to interpose in his behalf, as to you
your great wisdom shall seem meet. And, as in duty bound your petitioner shall ever pray. WILLIAM ANGIER. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 27, 1764. Read, and ordered That the sum of fifteen pounds be paid out of the public Treasury to the petitioner in full consideration for his sufferings. Sent up for concurrence. TiM. RUGGLES, Spkr In Council, Jan. 27, T 1764. ConRead, and concurred. JOHN COTTON, D. SEC
in
.
sented
to,
FRA. BERNARD."
General Brattle remained Major-general of

the Province until the
1
all
the militia in
commencement
of the
Revolutionary War.
.Mass. Arch., Ixxx. 395.
MILITARY HISTORY.
407
At
in force,
the same time, agreeably to the military code until that time he retained the offices of Colonel of the First Middlesex
Regiment, and Captain of the train-band of Cambridge. The immediate command of the train-band was styled CapThus the records tain Lieutenant, though ranking as Captain. in the office of the Secretary of State show that in 1763 commissions were issued to William Brattle, Colonel, and Henry Vassall,
officer in
Lieut. -colonel, of the 1st
Regiment
in Middlesex, also to
Edward
Marrett, Capt. Lieutenant, Eliphalet Robbins, 2d Lieutenant, and William Gamage, Ensign of the train-band. In 1765, Eliphalet
Robbins became Capt. Lieut., William Gamage, 2d
Lieut.,
and
Seth Hastings, Ensign, who was soon afterwards succeeded by Thomas Gardner. In 1771, commissions were issued to " Honble
the Province
William Brattle, Esq. Major General of the militia throughout " ble William Brattle, Esq., Colonel also to Hon
; ;
Oliver, Esq., Lieut. Colonel of the 1st Regiment in Middlesex x and in the same year, Thomas Gardner became
;
Thomas
Capt. Lieut., Samuel Thatcher, 2d Lieut., and John Gardner, Ensign, of the train-band, which up to that time included the There was another trainmilitia on the south side of the river.
(Arlington), of which Ephi'aim Frost was William Cutler, Lieut., and Daniel Brown, Ensign, in Captain, 1766 and Ephraim Frost, Captain, Daniel Brown, Lieut., and William Adams, Ensign, in 1771. There are traces also of a Cavalry company styled the Troop, whose Captain and two Lieutenants, like those of the present company of Cadets, ranked as Colonel, Lieutenant-colonel, and Major. Of this company, probably including members from several towns, some of the commanders were Cambridge men. When the Governor commenced a journey " by land for his other " government of New Hampshire," Oct. 15, 1716, he was met by
in
band
Menotomy
dlesex,
Spencer Phips, Esq., with his Troop of horse, the Sheriff of Midand other gentlemen of the county, and by them conducted to Harvard College in Cambridge," etc.2 It is not unlikely that the elder Col. John Vassall may have derived his from the command of the same company ; but I find no
definite designation of officers succeeding Colonel Phips until 1771, when his son David Phips was commissioned Captain, and
title
John Vassall 3 and Jonathan Snelling Lieutenants, with the rank respectively of Colonel, Lieutenant-colonel, and Major.
1
Massachusetts Spy, August 1, 1771. Boston News Letter, Oct. 22, 1716.
Colonel Phips was Lieut.-goveruor from 1732 until he died in 1757.

8
Son
of the
first
Col.
John
Vassall.
408
military events in and around Cambridge at the comof the Revolutionary War have been so fully related
The
in
mencement
History of the Siege of Boston," that I may travel again, step by step, over the same forbear to properly if I mention a few transactions in which It suffice may ground.
Frothingham's
"
the inhabitants of this

interested.
town were actively engaged,

hostilities,
or especially
Before the commencement of active
General Brattle
gave place to his former Lieutenant, Thomas Gardner, as mander of the company composed of the militia in what is
com-
now
Cambridge, together with those who resided in that part of the town which was afterwards Brighton. At the new organization of the military force, Captain Gardner was elected Colonel of
the First Middlesex
Regiment, and his Lieutenant, Samuel On the Thatcher, was promoted to the office of Captain. memorable 19th of April, 1775, when the British troops landed at Lechmere's Point (East Cambridge), under cover of the night,
crossed the marshes to the Milk
Row Road (now Milk Street, 1 and marched and North Somerville), through Beech Street Avenue to Menotomy, and thence to Lexington and Concord, Captain Thatcher and his company were among the foremost to There is a tradition that a British rally for the public defence. soldier, becoming sick, was left at Lechmere's Point, and sought relief at the solitary house then standing there and that the ocof the house the alarm at the centre of cupant immediately gave
;
the town.
is
Whether this tradition be trustworthy or not, there reason to believe that the Cambridge militia pursued good the foe very early in the morning, and fully participated in the
perils
and the glory of that day. Their muster roll says they " marched on the " number of miles out and alarm," and the " home for which they were credited, was twenty-eight, equal to the distance to and from Concord. In commemoration of their patriotism, I insert " A Muster Roll of the company under
the
command
"
2
of Capt.
Sam
1
.
iment" of
1775:
militia,
which
marchd
Thatcher, in Col. Gardner's Regon the alarm, April 19,
Sam
1 .
Thatcher, Capt.,
Lieut.,
John Walton,
1
Jothani Walton, 2d Lieut., Josiah Moore, Serg*.,

North Avenue
later day.
2
Beech Street was then the only open passage-way between the Milk Row Road and North Avenue. Milk Street in Cambridge, from Milk Street in Somerville to
at
Union Square, was not

highway
until
established as a
much
Muster
rolls in the State
House.
MILITARY HISTORY.
Joseph Bates, Serg ., Sam Butterfield. Serg1 .,
11
.
409
James
Kittle, Serg'.,
Thos. Fillebrown, Corp., Belcher Hancock, Corp.,
Will. Manning, Abel Moore, Alexander Nelson, John Phillips, Jr.,
Joshua Gamage,
Will. Bradish,
Drum Drum r
.,
".,
Thomas Prentiss, Nath Prentice,

11
.
Daniel Prentice,
Joseph Ayers,
Sam". Prentice,
Israel Porter,
John Batherick, Will. Bordman, Jr., Oliver Brown,

Benj. Butterfield,
Stephen Palmer, Joseph Palmer,
Jr.,
James Stone,
Robert Twadwell,
Josiah Temple,
Edmund Bowman,
Will. Brewer,
John Caldwell, Walter Coxs, 1

Sam". Coxs,
Joseph Coxs,
Solomon Cooper, Henry Dickson,

Isaiah Dickson,
Eben r Wyeth, Jonas Wyeth, Jonas Wyeth, Jr. Noah Wyeth, Joseph Wyeth,
.
John Dickson, John Evers,
John Wyman, Nathan Watson, Joshua Walker, John Warland,
Eben r
Fisher,
Thomas Warland,
Nath". Wait,
Stephen Frost,
Jonathan Frost, David Frost,
Thomas
Barrett,
John Frost,
James Reed, John Butterfield,
Eben r Fessenden,
.
Edward
Fillebrown,
Stephen Goddard, Benj. Goddard, Thos. Goddard, Nathaniel Goddard,
John Prentice, Parson Smith, John Haven, \

Bangs,
Killam,
>
Schol. 2
Torry Hancock, Philemon Hastings,
Thomas
Hastings,
Cato Stedman, a Negro, Cato Bordman, a Negro.
Stephen Hastings,
Cox is the proper name. Of the " scholars," who seem to have volunteered, John Haven was of the college Class of 1776, and Edward Bangs
1
bridge during the spring vacation of 1775, when the British troops marched to Concord. On the 19th of April, as soon as
intelligence of the hostile
movement was
Daniel Kilham (probably the persons here named), were of the Class of
and
1777.
Lincoln
(Hist.
Worcester,
in
says that Mr.
Bangs
" remained
233)
received, he hastily equipped himself from the armory of the college company, repaired to the scene of action, and fought
Cam-
gallantly during the day."
410
company
of
minute-men had previously been organized in the northwest precinct of the town, or Menotomy, under the command of Capt. Benjamin Locke, consisting of fifty non-commissioned officers and privates, twenty-five of whom are described as residents in Cambridge on the original enlistment roll, which
is
April, here inserted.
There can be no reasonable doubt that this company was actively engaged in the conflict on the 19th of 2 and the names of its Cambridge members should be
still
extant. 1
Benjamin Locke, Capt. Solomon Bowman, Lieut.

Stephen Frost, Ens.
Charles Cutter,
Andrew
Cutter,
John Cutter, Serg Moses Hovey, Serg'.

.
Joseph Frost, John Fowle, Miles Greenwood,

1
.
Thomas
Cutter, Corp John Ticld, Corp James Fowle, Corp

1 .
1
Abraham
Hill,
Elisha Hastings, Zechariah Hill,
Seth Stone, Corp William Adams,
1 .
John Locke, Jonathan Perry,

Peter Stearns, Josiah Williams,
Israel Blackington, Israel Blackington, Jr.,
Matthew Cox,
Joseph Cox,
William Winship, Cuff Whittemore (negro).
This was an eventful day in Cambridge. The first detachof British troops passed through the town, at midnight, The reinforcement marched openly stealthily and unmolested.
ment
at
midday but the militia were engaged in the distant conflict, and no opposition was offered, except the 'removal of the planks from the Great Bridge 3 these, however, were speedily replaced,
; ;
"Delmont Locke.
In possession of the family of the late See Smith's Address al West Cambridge (1864), p. 59. 2 More than thirty years ago, I copied from a muster roll, then in the State
bridge
doubt that prompt and effective service was rendered in this memorable conflict. 2 General Heath says (Memoirs, p. 13),
that he sent
itia
some of
the
Watertown
mil-
"down
to
Cambridge, with directions

;
House, the names of twenty-five Cammen who served in a company

Unfortunately that muster
roll
commanded by Capt. Benjamin Locke,

in 1775.
has disappeared, so that I cannot ascertain its precise date but as the names
;
to take up the planks, barricade the south end of the bridge, and there to take post that, in case the British should, on their return, take that road to Boston, their rctreat might be impeded." Other accounts say the planks were removed to the north
correspond,
name, with the Cambridge names on Capt. Locke's Enlistmcnt Roll of Minute-men, we need not
for
name
side of the bridge, by order of the Selectmen, to impede the advance of Lord
Percy with the reinforcement.
MILITARY HISTORY.
411
and the troops suffered little delay. 1 But their retreat toward Boston was far different. From the westerly border of Menotomy to their point of departure by Beech Street into the Milk Row Road, their passage was through a flame of fire. The provincials rallied from the towns in the vicinity 2 even to as great a distance as Salem, and hung upon their rear and flanks, The British firing upon them from every advantageous point. " loss, in this retreat, is reported to have been seventy-three killed, one hundred and seventy-four wounded, and twenty-six the most of which were taken prisoners." 3 Of the missing, provincials the loss was less, being forty-nine killed, thirty-nine 4 This conflict has generally been wounded, and five missing. " " but the called the Concord Fight," or " Lexington Battle in than in this town was other carnage greater any greater in; ;
deed than in all others combined, if it be true, as has been stated " at least by a diligent investigator, that twenty-two of the
Americans, and probably more than twice that number

British, fell in citizens
of the
West Cambridge." 5
As many
as four
native
were killed on the southerly side of North Avenue, a few feet eastwardly from Spruce Street, near the house then owned" 7 These four, with the twenty-two slain in by Jacob Watson. the northwest precinct, make a total of twenty-six, more than half of the whole number of Americans whose lives were sacrificed on that memorable day. Among the victims were six inhabitants of Cambridge, three
1
The
train
and supplies was
bearing their provisions less fortunate; it was
3
*
Frothingham's Siege of Boston,

Ibid., p. 81.
p. 82.
delayed so long that it lost the protection of the troops, and was captured at Menot-
of those
6
who
place of residence were killed is indicated in
The
the preceding note.
omy
to
by a dozen exempts, or men too old go into the conflict in which all the young men were actively engaged. 2 The list of killed, wounded, and missing,
Smith's Address, p. 48. General Heath (Memoirs, p. 14) sa\s, " several of the militia (among whom was
6
names of twenty-three towns, which, with their respective numgives

the
1
;
Isaac Gardner, Esq., of Brookline, a valuable citizen) imprudently posted themselves behind
her of killed are as follows
Bedford,
line,
Beverly,
Acton, 3 Billerica Brook:
Charlestown, Cambridge, 6; 2; Chelmsford; Concord; Danvers, 7; Dedham, 1 Framingham Lexington, 10 Lynn, 4 Medford, 2 Needham, 5 Newton; Roxbury; Salem, 1; Stow; Woburn, 2. Sudbury, 2; Watertown, 1 See Frothingham's Siege of Boston, pp. 80, 81. Certainly some other towns, and probably many, besides these, were repre1;
;
; ;
;
some dry casks, at Watson's Corner,-and near to the road, unsuspicious of the enemy's flank-guard, which came behind them and killed every one of them
dead on the spot."
Neither Gardner nor
Cambridge men killed were of the if any such were slain here, it increases by so much the number who
the
" militia "

;
fell
7
in
late
Cambridge. This house was the residence of the John Davenport, after he left the
It
tavern.
was
said to exhibit a largo
sented
in this
sanguinary
conflict.
number
of bullet-holes.
412
on each side of Menotomy River. 1 Jason Russell, son of Hubbard Russell, born Jan. 25, 1717, resided on the southerly side of the Main Street not far westerly from the centre of Menotomy (Arlington)
;
" he barricaded his gate with bundles of shingles,
making
on the
what he thought would be a good cover from which
to fire
enemy as they returned." The British flank-guard drove in a " rushed into Mr. Russell's house. Mr. party of militia, who
Russell himself, being lame, was the last to reach the house, and was shot with two bullets in his own doorway they found afterwards eleven bayonet stabs on the body of the poor old man." " The house itself was riddled with bullets, and the marks of them in many places are still visible." 2 Jason Winship, son of Jason Winship (who was drowned Dec. 26, 1762), was baptized June 28, 1730. Jabez Wyman, son of John Wyinan, was born at Woburn July 24, 1710, but had long resided here. The two last named were slain at Cooper's tavern. " They had come up to The landlady, Mrs. inquire the news, and were surprised there. who was at the bar, with her husband Cooper, just mixing flip fled to the cellar." 3 A month afterwards, Benjamin Cooper and
;
"Rachel Cooper deposed " that in the afternoon of the 19th day of April last, the King's regular troops under the command of General Gage, upon their return from blood and slaughter, which
they had made at Lexington and Concord, fired more than one hundred bullets into the house where we dwell, through doors, windows, &c. then a number of them entered the house where we and two aged gentlemen were all unarmed we escaped for our lives into the cellar the two aged gentlemen were immediately most barbarously and inhumanly murdered by them, being
;
; ;
stabbed through in many places, their heads mangled, sculls broke, and their brains out on the floor and walls of the house." 4 On
North Avenue, near the easterly end of Spruce Street, three Cambridge men were killed John Hicks, son of John, and greatgrandson of Zechariah Hicks, was born here, May 23, 1725. He built and resided in the house still standing on the southeasterly corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets. Among the early patriots he was active in resisting the arbitrary measures of
:
The
old
monument
in the
Menotomy
:
cruelly slain
on that
fatal
had this inscription " Mr. Jason Russell was barbarously murdered
burial place
in his
day."
Win-
own house, by Gage's bloody troops on the 19th of April, aetat. 59. His body
ship and Wyman were two of the number; the other nine may have been inhabitants of other towns,
2 8
4
Smith's Address, pp. 37-39.

Ibid., p. 45.
is
quietly resting in this grave, with eleven of our friends, who, in like manner, were
Mass. Arch., cxxxviii. 371.
MILITARY HISTORY.
413
There is a tradition among his dethe British Government. scendants that he assisted in the destruction of the tea in Boston
Harbor, Dec. 16, 1773. He is said to have been shot through Moses Richardson, born probably about 1725, was a and resided in the house which still stands at the northcarpenter, easterly angle of Holmes Place, and which was afterwards the home of Mr. Royal Morse for about three quarters of a century. Like Hicks, he was exempt from military service, on account of his age but, like him also, he is represented to have been ac1 William Marcy tively engaged in the conflict as a volunteer. His origin Dr. Kneeland. William was a laborer, employed by but he seems to and former residence have not been ascertained 2 Tradition have been here about five years before his death. who imagined the milsays he was a person of feeble intellect, itary parade to be an ordinary training or muster, and the conflict to be a sham fight he was sitting on a fence near the street, enjoying the spectacle, when he was shot by the British flank 3 At the same time and place, Isaac Gardner, Esq., of guard. Brookline was killed. In an address at the dedication of their monument, Rev. Alexander McKenzie has embodied the traditions preserved in one of
the heart.
; ;
the families concerning the burial of these three victims " The son of John Hicks, a boy fourteen years old, was sent
:
4 by Ins mother in the afternoon to look for his father who had been absent most of the day. He found him lying by the side of the road dead. Marcy and Richardson were near him. He and the bodies were lifted into a wagon and assistance, procured here for burial. But who had leisure for funeral rites ? brought The dead alone were safe, done with duty. The living had the One grave received them all, as with patriotic living to care for. indignation against the tyranny and cruelty which hurried them to their death, with admiration and affection for their devotion
1 His military spirit was inherited by one of his great-grandsons, James P.
Hastings' barn
charges."
the Steward paying the
Richardson, Esq.,
volunteer
who
organized the
first
company
for the defence of the
country in the late War of the Rebellion, as will be mentioned in another place. probably the person named in a vote of the Selectmen, Sept. 3, 1770, when such proceedings were customary " Voted, to warn out of the town William Mercy, a man of very poor circumstances
:
3 My informant was the late Mr. Royal Morse, born in 1779, whose memory of events which occurred during his life was
He was
remarkably comprehensive and accurate, and whose traditional lore was almost
equivalent to authentic history. * The widow of Mr. Hicks died in De-
he
for
some time hath lodged
in
Steward
cember, 1825, aged 99 years; many persons now living have heard the story from her own lips.
414
to the
common weal, they were given to the keeping of their The son of Moses Richardson, standing by, mother earth. it was too bad that the earth should be thrown directly thought the large upon their faces, and getting into the trench he spread l In 1870 the city of his father's coat over his face." cape erected over their remains a neat monument of Scotch granite, with this inscription: "Erected by the City, A. D. 1870. To the memory of JOHN HICKS, WILLIAM MARCY, MOSES RICHARDSON, buried here. JASON RUSSELL, JABEZ WYMAN, JASON WlNSHlP, buried in Menotomy. Men of Cambridge who fell in " defence of the Liberty of the People, April 19, 1775. O, what
!
" a glorious morning is this Among the wounded, on that memorable day, was Capt. Samuel Whittemore. He was son of Samuel Whittemore of Charles-
town, where he was born July 27, 1696, but early removed to Cambridge. His estate bordered on Menotomy River and his
house stood on the northerly side of the Main Street, near the He was now nearly magnificent elms which are still preserved. but in body and mind. In yet vigorous seventy-nine years old,
to the post spite of the expostulations of his family, he repaired His exploits and sufferings have often been related, of danger.
some embellishments in later years. He died 2 His obituary was 2, 1793, aged 96 years and six months. " Columbian Centinel " of in the February 6, which I published than more recent rather publications for obvious reasons. quote " Died at the 2d instant, Capt. Samuel Whittemore, Menotomy, The and moral 99. JEt. virtues, in all the varied relamanly tions of brother, hoe band, father, and friend, were invariably He was not more remarkable for exhibited in this gentleman. his longevity and his numerous descendants (his progeny being
possibly with
Feb.
185, one of which is the fifth generation), than for his patriotism. When the British troops marched to Lexington, he was 81 years
and one of the first on the parade he was armed with a and After an animated exhortation to the colhorse-pistol. gun lected militia to the exercise of bravery, and courage, he exclaimed, If I can only be the instrument of killing one of my
of age,
;
'
The prayer of this veneracountry's foes, I shall die in peace.' ble old man was heard ; for on the return of the troops, he lay
1
Cambridye
Revolutionary
Memorial,
years, as
liis
is
manifest from the record of
pp. 32, 33.
birth.
At
the date of the conflict he
His age is overstated in the obituary, as 99 years, and on his yrarestone as 98
was not
jears.
81, but lacked three
months of 79
MILITARY HISTORY.
415
behind a stone wall, and discharging his gun a soldier immehe then discharged his pistol, and killed another diately fell at which instant a bullet struck his i'ace, and shot away part of his cheek bone on which, a number of the soldiers ran up to
; ; ;
the wall, and gorged their malice on his

'
wounded head.
;
They
were heard to exclaim, We have killed the old rebel.' About his head four hours after, he was found in a mangled situation was covered with blood from the wounds of the bayonets, which were six or eight but providentially none penetrated so far as to destroy him. His hat and clothes were shot through in many he survived to see the complete overthrow of his places yet and his enemies, country enjoy all the blessings of peace and His funeral will be tomorrow, at 4 o'clock P. M., independence. from his house at Menotomy, which his relations and friends are
;
requested to attend." Among the disasters of the day, it should be mentioned that Seth Russell and Samuel Frost of Menotomy were taken prisoners, and remained in captivity until the 6th of June, when a
general exchange was effected. The destruction of property partly appears in a report submitted to the Provincial Congress, by a committee which was ap" The committee pointed May 12, 1775 appointed to estimate
:
the damages done at Cambridge, Lexington, and Concord, by the King's troops, on the nineteenth of April, 1775, have at-
tended that duty, and beg leave to report That the destruction made by fire and robbery on said day, by said troops, is as fol:
lows, viz:
The damages to the buildings in Cambridge, estimated according to the best skill and judgment of your committee, after 76 5. 6. viewing the same amount to " The value of the goods and chattels that were destroyed, or taken out of the houses, or near the same, by the estimation of
those persons who left the same, according to their several accounts, exhibited on oath, and annexed, amounts to ,1036. 6. 3.
"
" The value of the goods and chattels that were destroyed, or taken out of the said houses, or near the same, by the estimation of those persons who left the same, by their several accounts exhibited, who were not sworn, by reason of some being absent, or some other inconvenience that attended the same, amounts to
12. 6. 10.
" The damage done to the meeting-house and school-house in the northwest precinct in said Cambridge, as estimated by your committee, amounts to
0. 13. 4.
416
" The church of vessels, linen, and cash, belonging to the said precinct, taken out of the house of Joseph Adams, deacon of said church, as by his account exhibited on oath, amount
to
16. 16. 8.
"
The whole
losses suffered in
Cambridge amount
to
<1202.
8. 7." !
In the morning, at Concord, the military movements seem to have been directed by Col. Barrett, Lieut.-Col. Robinson and militia at Lexington and Maj. Buttrick. General Heath met the
assumed the command. 2 Having pursued the British until they crossed Charlestown neck, he placed suitable guards and con" were ordered to ducted his troops to Cambridge, where they In the afternoon of the next day General lie on their arms." Ward arrived, and, being the senior general officer, became commander-in- chief. From this time, for the next eleven months, Cambridge was occupied by the American army, of which the and the left, right wing was immediately extended to Roxbury, General Ward established his to Prospect and Winter Hills. 3 head-quarters at the house of Jonathan Hastings now known as The soldiers were quarthe Holmes House, in Holmes Place. tered in private houses, in the College buildings, 4 and elsewhere,
accommodations could be found. " The buildings of the College were taken possession of, and occupied as barracks, by the American Army." 5 As early as May 1, 1775, the Committee of Safety " Voted, That the quarter-master general be directed to clear that chamber in Stoughton College, occupied by S. ParAnd on the sons Jr., for a printing office for Messrs. Halls." 6
as
1
Journals of each Provincial Congress,
"
Heath's Memoirs,
p. 14.
p. 685.
Whole amount
1,761.
1. 5.
;
ton,
16.
7.
Lexingand in Concord, 274.
ot'loss in
8
*
Familiarly called Steward Hastings. In the Mass. Arch., vol. clviii., is pre-
served a
Col.
"Return of
Ruggles Woodbridge's Regiment, Cambridge, June 14, 1775.
Captains' Namff.
MILITARY HISTORY.
fifteenth
of
417
June the Provincial Congress took possession of " Whereas, it is expedient that those apartments in Harvard Hall, under the immediate charge of the professor of philosophy and librarian of Harvard College, be evacuated, Resolved, that the library, apparatus, and other valuables of Harvard College be removed, as soon as may be, to the town of Andover." l The students were scattered no public commencement was had that year but the degrees were conferred by a general diploma. An arrangement was made to give instruction at Concord, to which place a part of the library and " On the apparatus was removed in November from Andover. 24th of June (1776), the students were again assembled within
other apartments
:
the College
a dispersion of fourteen months." 2 The Episcopal Church also was converted into barracks for the Connecticut troops. 3 It had previously been deserted by its
walls,
after
owners, most of whom were adherents to the British government. Private houses were hired, and some seized for public use. The
May 15, 1775, Resolved, That Mr. Borbe appropriated for the use of the Committee of Safety and the quarter master general is directed to provide Voted, That quarters for the troops now lodged at said house. the quarter master general be directed to remove as many of the three companies now at Mr. Borland's, to the house of Dr. 5 Kneeland, as the house can accommodate, and that the three
of Safety,
4
Committee
land's house
;
6 companies at Mr. Vassal's house be placed at Mr. Foxcroft's 7 and that Mr. Borland's house be cleared and cleansed as house,
soon as possible." 8 On the same day it was " Voted, that the clearing Mr. Borland's and Mr. Vassal's houses be suspended till " further orders and the committee probably remained at Stew;
ard Hastings' house, where they had a room soon after the conflict
at Lexington. 9 Hospitals were established in

Journal of each Provincial Congress, Quincy's Hist.,
ii.
many
7
private houses.
It
was
On
the northerly side of Kirkland
p.
334.
2 8
Street, near
Oxford Street; burned Jan.
164-169.
24, 1777.
8
Froihingham's Hist. Siege of Boston,

Ibid., p.
p. 132.
*
pp. 548, 549.

9
Auburn,
Between Harvard, Plympton, Mount and Chestnut streets; now
521.
The Committee
re-
known
6
as the Plympton house. At the southwesterly corner of Mount Auburn Street and Winthrop Square
;
April 24, 1775, "that General Ward be desired, immediately, to direct all the field officers of the Regiments of
solved,
demolished not long ago. 6 Afterwards the Washington Headquarters.
Minute Men now in Cambridge, to attend the Committee of Safety, at their Chamher at Mr. Steward Hastings' house."
27
418
" that a ordered, April 22d, sergeant and six men mount daily to 1 The guard the wounded at Mr. Abraham Watson's house."
Provincial Congress, June 20, " resolved that the house of Mr. Hunt, at Cambridge, be hired for a hospital," and on the pre" vious day the Committee of Safety resolved, that the house of the Rev. Samuel Cook, of Menotomy, be improved, as a hospital
and as many other houses in that parish In addition to these, the General Orders as might be necessary. " that Lieut.indicate other hospitals : it was ordered, June 28,
for the colony
army,"
col.
Bond occupy one room
in the south-east corner of Col.
Vas-
house, upon the second floor, for the sick belonging to said regiment, till a convenient place can be procured elsewhere for
sall's
the above
named purpose."
July 26
" It being represented
that the present hospital
is not large enough to contain the sick, Lieut.-gov. Oliver's house is to be cleared for that purpose, and "a care to be taken that no injury is done to it." August 21
:
sergeant, corporal, and nine men to mount guard to-morrow morn3 ing at Mr. Fairweather's house lately converted into an hospital."
On
Bunker
particularly
and vividly described in Frothingham's " History of But 1 must the Siege of Boston." I shall not repeat the story. not omit the fact that Cambridge furnished one of the most illustrious victims in that heroic sacrifice.
the 17th of June, 1775, occurred the sanguinary Battle of Hill. The disasters and the glory of that day have been
With the exception

;
of
General Warren, Colonel Thomas Gardner held a higher military rank than any other who fell on that day and like Warren, he was conspicuous for the political services which he rendered be-
He was a selectman of the town from 1769 until his death, and Representative in the General Court from 1769 until that Court was superseded by the first Provincial Congress, of which and also of the second Congress he was one of the most active, members. He was an energetic member of the
fore the clash of arms.
Committee of Correspondence elected by the town in 1772, and by the House of Representatives in 1773, and of the Committee of Safety, elected by Congress, April 14, 1775. He was commissioned as an Ensign in the company commanded by General Brattle in 1765, and Captain Lieutenant in 1771. When Brat1 General Ward's Orders. Watson's house was on North Avenue, near Coggs-
southwesterly corner of
Mount Auburn
and Eliot
8
streets.
well Avenue.
on
th e
northeasterly corner of Brattle

streets,
Journals of each Provincial Congress, Hunt's house was at the pp. 360, 571.
and Fayerweather
MILITARY HISTORY.
tie fled to
419
Boston, he became the commander of the company, with Samuel Thatcher 1 for Lieutenant, and John Gardner 2 as
Ensign. The Provincial Congress, Oct. 26, 1774, "recommended to the several companies of militia in this province, who have not
already chosen and appointed
officers,
that they meet forthwith

;
their respective companies that the officers so chosen assemble as soon as may be ....
elect officers to
and
command
and and
proceed to elect field officers to command the respective regiments." 3 In accordance with this recommendation. Captain
Gardner having been reflected or retained in office, was elected " at a Colonel, Nov. 29, 1774, meeting of the officers of the several companies of militia in the first Regiment in the County of
after the Battle of Lexington, in which he 5 actively engaged, he enlisted a Regiment for the Continental Army, of which he was commissioned as Colonel, June 2,
Middlesex." 4
Soon
was
1775. 6
his
He led fortnight later, he secured immortal fame. into the "and was to Bunker Hill, just descending regiment
engagement, when a musket ball entered his groin, which proved mortal. He gave his last solemn injunction to his men, to conor die and a detachment were just carrying him off the quer when he was met by his son, 2d Lieut, of Capt. Trevett, ground mere a inarching on, youth of nineteen, and the interview which ensued between them was melancholy and heart-rending, though
;
desperate situation of his father
agony at the was anxiously desirous to assist him off the field, but was prohibited from doing this by his father, who, notwithstanding he was conscious that his wound was mortal, yet encouraged his son to disregard it, reminding him that he was engaged in a glorious cause, and, whatever were the conse7 Colonel Gardner, u a quences, must march on and do his duty." few days after the battle, being asked if he was well enough to see his son, Yes,' answered the hero, if he has done his duty He had the satisfaction to see him and learn that he bravely dis8 He suffered more than a fortnight, but tinguished himself."
at the
heroic.
' '
'
!
same time
The
affectionate son in
Lieut.
Thatcher succeeded Gardner
as Captain, and as Colonel, of the militia,

2
3
Ensign Gardner was afterwards Major.

Gazette,
officers
;
5 The Council Records, March 14, 1776, show that a warrant was drawn to pay "Col. Thomas Gardner's Field Alarm lioll, on the 19th of April last." 6
p. 33. * Boston
Dec.
5,
1774.
The
p. 292.
Journals of each Provincial Congress, The other field officers were Wil-
other
field
were Capt. William
Ham Bond
Bond, Lieut. -col. Capt. William Conant, 2d Lieut. -col. Capt. Abijah Brown, Major Capt. Benjamin Hammond, 2d
;
;
of Watcrtown, Lieut.-col., and Michael Jackson, of Newton, Major. 1 Swell's Bunker Hill Battle, pp. 40-42.
8
Ibid., p. 55.
Major.
420
was mercifully released by death on the 3d of July. notice, eulogistic, but well merited, was published
An
obituary
in the
"
New
England Chronicle," July 13th: "On Monday the 3d instant, died of the wounds received in the late engagement, Thomas
Gardner, Esq., Colonel of a Regiment in the American Army, 52d year of his age and on the Wednesday following was interred with martial honors 1 and every testimony of respect
in the
;
and friends. From the era of our public diffihe distinguished himself as an ardent friend to the expiring liberties of America, and by the unanimous suffrages of his townsmen was for some years elected a member of the General Assembly but when the daring encroachment of intruding despotism deprived us of a constitutional convention, and the first law of nature demanded a substitute, he was chosen one of the Provincial Congress in which departments he was vigilant and
from
his relatives culties
; ;
To promote indefatigable in defeating every effort of tyranny. An inthe interest of his country was the delight of his soul.
freedom caused him to behold every engine of with contempt, horror, and aversion. His abilities in oppression That he might a military capacity were equally conspicuous. cultivate a spirit of emulation for that now necessary and useful science, he devoted not only a great part of his time, but even of
flexible zeal for
his
own patrimony, and ever exhibited an example of courage and magnanimity. In the humid vale of private life he was agreeable and entertaining. Justice and integrity were the first movements of his actions To his family, kind, tender, and indulgent To his friends, unreserved and sincere To the whole circle of his acquaintance, affable, condescending, and obliging
: : : :
while veneration for religion augmented the splendor of his sister As he ever maintained and avowed the highest sentivirtues.
ments of patriotism, so
his conduct entirely cohered, and, actuated
by
And although he returned uncrowned with victorious bays, and his temples unadorned with laurel wreaths, yet doubtless he will be crowned with unfading honors in the unclouded regions of eternal day." Colonel Gardner's residence was near Union Square, in the souththis divine principle, entered the field of battle.
1
4,
1775
General Washington's Orders, July " Colonel Gardner is to be buried

:
to-morrow, at three o'clock, p. M., with the military honors due to so brave and
gallant an officer, who fought, bled, and died, in the cause of his country and
at Maiden, to attend on this mournful occasion. The places of these companies, on the lines, on Prospect Hill,
company
to be supplied
by Colonel Glover's
is
ment,
till
the funeral
over."
regi-
sad
after
mankind.
His
own
regiment, except the
day assuming command of the army.
order, to be issued on the next
MILITARY HISTORY.
erly parish of
421
of
Cambridge, which afterwards was the town
Brighton. On the day of Colonel Gardner's death, July 3d, General Washington assumed the command of the American Army, hav-
Quarters were ing arrived in Cambridge on the preceding day. at first assigned to him in the President's house, erected in 1726,
and
still
Halls.
The
standing on Harvard Street, between Dane and Boylston Provincial Congress, June 26, " resolved, that the
President's house in Cambridge, excepting one
room reserved by
use, be taken, cleared, prepared, and for the furnished, reception of General Washington and General Lee." V This arrangement was not wholly satisfactory. He had occupied the house only four days, when Congress ordered, July " that the Committee of 6, Safety be a committee to desire General Washington to let them know if there is any house at Cambridge, that would be more agreeable to him and General Lee
the President for his
own
than that in which they now are; and in that case, the said committee are directed to procure such house, and put it in 2 proper order for their reception." Accordingly the Committee " that the house of Mr. John directed, July 8th, Vassall, ordered for residence of his the by Congress excellency General Washshould be in such a condition as may ington, immediately put
3 purpose." Precisely how soon the does not appear but Thacher represents that before July 20 the General was residing in " a convenient house, about half a mile from Harvard College," 4 a
make it convenient for that new quarters were occupied
description which indicates the Vassall house and these quarters were retained until he left Cambridge, April 4, 1776. Quartermaster-general Mifflin's head-quarters were at the Brattle House. " Immediately after the battle of Bunker Hill, the Americans began to erect works on Prospect Hill, a very commanding height above Charlestown Common, and at several other places Several works were also constructed at Roxbury, and the British confined to Boston and Charlestown within the neck." 5 These works were extended, after the arrival of Washington, from Dorchester on the south, through Cambridge, to Mystic River on the In Cambridge a line of fortifications was constructed north.
;
along the summit of

1
Dana
Hill, then called

* 5 6
Butler's Hill, 6 top. 32.

Ibid., p. 460.
Ibid., p. 593.
p. 398.
2 8
Thacher's Military Journal, Heath's Memoirs, p. 22.
Probably so called because, in the first division of lands in Cambridge, lots on
422
gether with several detached forts and redoubts, delineated on the " map accompanying Marshall's Life of" Washington." The forwas a very little outside tress there designated as " Fort No. 3 of Cambridge bounds, not far from Union Square in Somerville.
Hill,
This served as a connecting link between the works on Prospect and the Cambridge lines which extended northwardly from
the point where
Broadway
still
crosses the top of
Dana
Hill,
and
of
which some vestiges
remain.
" Fort No. 2 " was on the
easterly side of Putnam Avenue, at its intersection with Franklin Street. It was in good condition a few years ago ; but since
tion of the
Franklin Street was extended directly through it, a large proporembankment has been removed, and the remainder is
rapidly disappearing. This fort effectually commanded the river as far down as Riverside, where "Fort No. 1" probably stood, though no vestige of it remains. Both the map and the obvious
fact that
it
commands the
river
down
to Captain's Island, un-
mistakably indicate this as the locality of the Fort. At Captain's Island was a " 3 gun battery," commanding the River
to its next angle this also has disappeared, its embankments very probably having been levelled when the Powder Magazine was constructed. At the next angle of the river, on the easterly side of Pine Grove, anciently called the Oyster " Banks, there was another 3 gun battery," which commanded the river down to Lechmere's Point. This fortress was carethe Dana for fully preserved by family, many years, until by an with the and at the owners, arrangement joint expense of the and the it was restored in 1858 as nearly as Commonwealth, City
;
down
possible to its original state, and enclosed by a substantial iron fence. The United States contributed three cannon, which were
duly mounted.
relic,
ary dable fortress, mentioned in another place. Immediately after the arrival of General Washington, the
now known
Let no unpatriotic hand destroy this revolutionas Fort Washington. A still more formiat Lechmere's Point, called Fort Putnam, will be
army was more

brigades,
cer.
The right wing, at Roxbury, fully organized. under the command of Major-general Ward, consisted of two
The
commanded by Brigadier-generals Thomas and Spenleft wing, commanded by Major-general Lee, con-
sisted of
Greene.
two brigades, under Brigadier-generals Sullivan and The centre, at Cambridge, commanded by Major-genHancock Street, were assigned Butler and William Butler.
to
the northerly side of Main Street, extending from Dana Street somewhat beyond
Richard
MILITARY HISTORY.
eral
423
one under the com-
Putnam, consisted
of
of
two brigades
mand
Brigadier-general Heath, embraced the regiments of General Heath, and Colonels Patterson, Scammon, Phinney,
;
of
the other, under the immediate command General Putnam, comprehended the regiments of Colonels 1 Glover, Frye, Bridge, Woodbridge, and Sargeant. According " to a List of Colonels of the several Regiments raised by the Colony of Massachusetts," dated Oct. 18, 1775, it appears that the regiments composing the centre (except that of Colonel GerGerrish, and Prescott
which seems to have been detached for service elsewhere), were stationed as follows General Heath's Regiment at Number Two.
rish
:
Colonel Patterson's Regiment at Colonel Scammon's Regiment at
Colonel Phinney's Regiment at Colonel Prescott's Regiment at Cambridge. Colonel Glover's Regiment at Cambridge.
Number Three. Number One. North of Number Two.
Colonel Frye's Regiment at Cambridge. Colonel Bridge's Regiment at Cambridge. Colonel Woodbridge's Regiment at West side of Prospect Hill on the road leading from Charlestown Road to Menotomy.
Colonel Sargeant's Regiment at Inman's Farm. 2 Frothingham says that during the next winter the troops were accommodated in barracks thus " At Prospect Hill, 3,464 at
:
different places,
;
Number One, Inman's House,

at Dorchester,
; ;
&c., 3,460
at
;
814 at Sewall's Point, 400 Roxbury, 3,795 at Cambridge Barracks, 640 at Winter Hill, 3,380 in the Colin the New College, 640 in the. Old College, 240 lege, 640 North Chapel, 160 total, 17,633 exclusive of private houses in
;
Cambridge."
After the 19th of April, 1775, not many important military events occurred within the borders of this town, while it was ocfew are mentioned by Gen. Heath, who cupied by the army.
was an eye-witness
" Nov. 9th.
At
the top of high water, the
tide being very full,
some British Light Infantry, in boats, came over from Boston, and landed on Lechmere's Point. The centinels on the point came off the alarm was given and several hundred Americans forded over the causeway,4 in the face of the
; ;
Frothingham's Siege of Boston, pp.
The New England
Chronicle,
full,
219, 220.
says:
"The
tide
was very
Nov. 16, and our
Mass. Arch., cxlvi. 340. It is said that Gen. Putnam's head-quarters were in the Inman house.
8
men were
retarded in getting to the point
Siege of Boston, p. 291.
by being obliged to pass a ford near breast high." This ford or causeway was probably the same which the British troops
424
The British, seeing British, the water at least two feet deep. the spirit of the Americans, although they were very advantageto their boats. Three ously posted, made a precipitate retreat The British or four Americans were wounded, one mortally.
brisk fire, but to ship and floating-batteries kept up a " 1 was 12. Dec. causeway begun over the pose.
little
pur-
marsh to
Lechmere's Point." 2 For the next few days the " approaches were carried on briskly, nearly to the top of the hill." On the " the detachment of 300 men, 17th, morning was foggy. under the direction of Gen. Putnam, broke ground on the top of the hill, on Lechmere's Point, at a distance of not more than Between twelve and one o'clock, the half a mile from the ship.
fog cleared away, and the ship began to cannonade the Americans with round and grape shot, and some shells were thrown
from West-Boston. One soldier was wounded, and the party driven from the works." On the next day, Gen. Heath " with " 300 men renewed the work, and although severely cannonaded, held his ground without loss. The fortification was completed within a few days, during which the " cannonade continued, but This fortress rendered important service in the to no effect." 3 final attack, which resulted in the evacuation of Boston by the Feb. 25, 1776, " some heavy cannon were British army. mounted on the works at Lechmere's Point." March 2d, " at night a cannonade and bombardment began at the American works on Cobble Hill and Lechmere's Point on the Cambridge side, and at Lamb's Dam on the Roxbury side, against the British works ; and a number of shells were thrown into Boston." March 4th. " There was an almost incessant roar of cannon and mortars during the night, on both sides. The Americans took possession of Dorchester heights, and nearly completed their works on both hills by morning. March 9th, " there was, during the evening and night, a continual roar of cannon and mortars, from the Castle and lines on Boston neck, south end of that town, as well as from the Americans at Roxbury, Cobble Hill, and Lechmere's Point at Cambridge." The position of Gen. Howe had now become utterly untenable, and on the 17th of
crossed, on their way to Lexington, there was only a half tide.
1
when
Memoirs,
p. 30.
ing the fortification on Lechmere's Point with " Fort No. 3," and crossing Miller's River at or near the spot where the Gore
(or Medford) Street Bridge was wards built.
8
Whether a new causeway was con-
after-
structed, or the old
one repaired does not But, old or new, it is distinctly appear. delineated on Marshal's Map as connect-
Memoirs, pp. 32-34.
MILITARY HISTORY.
425
" March, in the morning, the British evacuated Boston ; their rear guard with some marks of precipitancy." " The troops on the Roxbury side moved over the neck and took possession of On the AmeriBoston, as did others from Cambridge in boats.
cans entering the town, the inhabitants discovered joy inex1
pressible." I find on the

of
Town
Records only three references to the presence
a large army. The town protested, May 29, 1775, against permitting army contractors to become rich at the public expense. In the instructions given to their delegates in the Provincial " As we are informed the honorable ComCongress, they say, mittee of supplies have agreed with a number of persons to supply the Provincial Army with fresh provisions at a stated price,
which has caused great uneasiness amongst the inhabitants of this Province in general, and this town in particular, we do in-
you to use your influence that they be paid a reasonable consideration for their services, and no more." On the llth of " John Foxcroft and John March, 1776, Wyeth, Esqs. and Deacon Aaron Hill were chosen as a committee to present a petition to his Excellency General Washington, to know what part of our lands he will want for the use of the Army for the presThe committee made no report to the town of their ent year. Perhaps the committee did not consult General proceedings." Washington, and had nothing to report within a week after their appointment, Boston was evacuated by the British, and the American army left Cambridge very soon afterwards. After their departure, the town appointed a committee, May 13, 1776, " to estimate the losses sustained by means of or in consequence of the British troops, and report to Col. Palmer and others, a committee appointed by the Great and General Court of the
struct
;
Colony
of the Massachusetts
Bay
to receive the same,
keeping
separate accounts of the damages sustained by posting the ican Army in this town."
Amer-
of the Selectmen afford some glimpses of the with which arms and ammunition were procured at the commencement of the War, and of the ruinous depreciation of
difficulty
The Records
the currency at a later period. I select a few items. An order was drawn, March 13, 1775, to pay Col. Thomas Gardner " for four half barrels of powder, X20. 13. 4." To arm the soldiers,
it
was necessary to obtain muskets from private

1
individuals.
The
Heath's Memoirs, pp. 39-43.
426
Selectmen,
guns,
etc.,
May 30, 1775, acknowledge that they have received valued as follows
:
.
Of John Caldwell, gun, Of Ebenezer Bradish, gun and bayonet, Of Capt. Thatcher, gun, Of Capt. Edward Marrett, gun, Of Capt. Stedman, gun, Of Capt. Stedman, gun, Of Capt. Stedman, gun,
and on the llth
of
1.
1.
0.
10.
4. 4.
1. 1.
1.
7.0
6
0.
0. 19.
1.
June,
2.
Of Wyman, gun and bayonet, Of Mr. Sparhawk, gun and bayonet, Of Mr. Sparhawk, gun and bayonet, Of Mr. Sparhawk, his own gun,
8.
1. 10. 1. 10. 2.
8.
" the subscribers received of Cambridge, Feb. 2, 1776. the Selectmen one gun each, valued at the price set against our names subscribed which gun we respectively promise to return
;
We
or allow the price set against each name.
William Fuller, XI. 7. Jonathan Deland, XO. 18.

;
Samuel Champney, Abijah Brown, XI. 0. March 4: John Lock, X2. 14. 0." December 16, 1776, " Voted, to desire the Selectmen of Watertown to find a Drum and deliver the same to Mr. Eayers, our drummer, for Capt. Blaney's Company now going to New York and in case there should happen any damage to said Drum, we will be at charges with them to make it good." August 4, 1777, "N. B. There being X6. 8. money left of powder, voted to deliver the same to Capt. Locke, Deacon Hill, and Mr. JackMemorandum The powder last son, to procure balls and flints. Hill Deacon and Mr. bought by Wyeth (at Watertown) came to X37. 10. 0." July 26, 1780. Voted to " meet at 5 o'clock
1. 4.
; ; ; ;
:
next Friday to procure the horses." July 28, " Mr. his bay horse for XI, 000 ; the sorrel horse, X900
;
Brown
;
offers
Capt. Jesse
;
Putnam for his, X900 Mr. Locke, for money down, XI, 000 Mr. Lemuel Blanchard, for a large one, X 1,200, or X 2,400 for
two, that and another ; Thad. Wyman, X 1,000 ; another horse of Locke's Xl,000." The sad state of the currency appears also
from sundry votes of the town June 20, 1780, to assess X 15,000 for the purpose of hiring soldiers June 22, the same sum, and June 29, X 50,000, for the same purpose Dec. 18, 1780, to assess X60,000 for the purchase of 35,255 Ibs. of beef for the
:
MILITARY HISTORY.
use of the arn>y,
427
being at the rate of very nearly six dollars per pound. On the 17th of October, 1777, Gen. Burgoyne surrendered his army as prisoners of war. They were ordered to Cambridge,
where they arrived in the following month, and were placed under the charge of Gen. Heath, the commander of this military " As soon as he was notified that these district. troops were coming under his direction, he set himself in earnest to prepare for their reception. The barracks at Prospect and Winter Hills were directed to be put instantly in order. The Council was applied to, to aid in the procurement of quarters from the citizens for the officers nor was this an easy task. The families of the citizens generally wanting the room in their respective houses rendered it difficult to obtain so many quarters as were necessary for so great a number, and extended the limits of the 1 Gen. Burgoyne had quarters asparole very considerably." signed to him in the Borland House, Gen. Riedesel in the Lechmere (or Sewall) House, and others elsewhere. The soldiers occupied barracks on Prospect and Winter Hills. "Between 11 and 12 o'clock" on the 5th of April, 1778, " " General and on Burgoyne left Cambridge for Rhode Island " the 15th a division of the Convention troops marched for Rutland, under escort of a detachment of militia, commanded by 2 The remainder of "the Convention troops Major Read." marched for Virginia," on the 10th and llth of November, 1778, 3 after having been prisoners of war somewhat more than a year. During their continuance in and around Cambridge, vexatious collisions were of frequent occurrence and two, of a more serious
; ; ;
" Col. character, produced painful excitement. In January, 1778, Henley, who had the immediate command at Cambridge," being treated insolently by a British soldier, " pricked him with a sword or bayonet. Gen. Burgoyne immediately presented a complaint against Col. Henley, charging him with barbarous and wanton conduct and intentional murder." 4 spicy correspondence
ensued between Generals Burgoyne and Heath. The case was duly examined by a court martial, and Col. Henley was acquitted. 5 June 17, 1778. " A British officer was shot by an American sentinel on Prospect Hill, the officer attempting to pass contrary to the standing orders."
1
jury of inquest, consisting of

* 6
Heath's Memoirs,
8
p.
134.
Ibid., pp. 149, 150.

Ibid., p. 155.
Ibid., pp. 161, 162.
Ibid., p. 198.
428
" William Howe, Benjamin Locke, John Brown, Ebenezer StedSamuel man, Manning, Nathaniel Austin, Joseph Read, jr.,
James
Hill,
Thomas
Isaac Bradish,
Barrett, Benjamin Baker, Aaron Hill, James Munroe, Joseph Johnson, good and lawful
of Cambridge," rendered their verdict on the 18th of June, " that the said Richard Brown was shot with a fire arm by the centinel in Charlestown, near Prospect Hill, between the hours of five and six, P.M., on the 17th day of June, A. D. 1778, in attempting to pass the centinel with two women, after being
1 properly challenged by said centinel, and so came to death." By the official census, it appears that the population of Cam-
men
a very large probridge was 1,586 in 1776, and 2,115 in 1790 in the of which served number Revolutionary Army. portion My list is doubtless imperfect yet it contains more than four
;
hundred and fifty names. Among the officers were Colonels Ebenezer Bridge, Thomas Gardner, Samuel Thatcher Captains, Benjamin Locke, John Walton Lieutenants, Solomon Bowman, Samuel Butterfield, William Colson, Stephen Frost, Samuel Locke, Josiah Moore, Josiah Warren, Jotham Walton, John Wyman Sergeants, Joseph Bates, Joseph Belknap, Nathaniel Bemis, Oliver Brown, John Burns, John Cutter, Josiah Dana, James Fillebrown, Thomas Fillebrown, Belcher Hancock, William Harrington, Moses Hovey, James Kettle, Isaac Learned, Joseph Trask, Isaac Tufts, Elkanah Welch, Jeduthun Wellington Corporals, Michael Applebee, Ebenezer Brown, Stephen Cook, Moses Coolidge, John Cooper, Thomas Cutter, James Fowle, Joshua Gamage, John Hackleton, Nathaniel Learned, James Locke, James Perry, Solomon Phipps, Seth Stone, John Tidd, James Tufts, John Warland, Thomas Warland. Abraham Watson, Jr., was Surgeon of Col. Gardner's Regiment, and James Winthrop was aid-de-camp to Gen. Prescott. Besides the private soldiers whose names appear on the before mentioned rolls of the two companies commanded by Capt. Samuel Thatcher and Capt. Benjamin Locke, those who are named in the list below appear to have been a portion of the Cambridge quota
;
John Abbott. John Acres. Daniel Adams. John Adams. Thomas Adams.
George Allen.
Nathaniel Austin.
Jonathan Barrett.
George Barrington.
Benjamin Badger. William Barber.

Caleb Barrett.
Daniel Barrett.
Thomas Beals. Thomas Bemford. Luke Bemis.

Francis Bennett.
John Barrett.
1
Heath's Memoirs, p. 175.
MILITARY HISTORY.
Joseph Biglow.
429
Frost.
Nathan Blodgett. Henry Bond. Amos Bordman. Moses Bordman. Richard Bordman. William Bordman.
Zechariah Bostwick. Andrew Bradshaw.
Christopher Brandon.
William Crosby. Ishmael Cutler. Prince Cutler.
Neptune
Seth Frost. Charles Frothingham.
Ammi
James
Cutter, Jr. Cutter.
Richard Cutter.
William Frothingham. Robert Fulton. William Fuller.

Jesse Gaffield.
Samuel Cutter. William Cutter,

Silent Cutting.
Jr.
Samuel Gallison.
Daniel Gamage. John Gardner.
Robert Bray. Jonathan Bright.
Joseph Bright. Abijah Brooks. Abijah Brown. James Brown. Jonathan Brown. William Brown. AJexander Buckingham.
Benjamin Dana. Ezra Dana. John Dana. Richard Dana.
Thomas Gardner.
George Geyer. Jonathan C. Godden. William Grady.
Henry Darling.
Daniel Doland. Paul Dexter.
John Grandy.
Isaac Greenleaf.
James Dickson.
William Dickson.
William Gridley.
John Hagar.
Richard Hales.
Thomas
Ditson.
John Bucknam. John Bull.

Stephen
Butterfield.
Isaac Dix.
Edward Harrington.
Benjamin Hastings.
John Dorin.
Thomas Dove.
Zacheus Drury. Daniel Duncan. David Edmands.
Edward
Hastings.
John
Capell.
John Hastings.
Richard Hay.
Daniel Carmichael.
Thaddeus Carter. John Cassell.

Isaac
Champney.
Nathaniel Champney.
John Edmands. Thomas Edmands. Andrew Ellis.

Richard Everett.
John Heywood. Samuel Heywood.. John Hill.

Samuel
Hill.
Hill.
Samuel Champney. Thomas Champney. Joseph Child. Moses Child.
Thomas
Thomas Farrington.
Absalom Farwell. David Farwell.
Josiah Fessenden.
John Hoi brook.

Joseph Holden. Reuben Hooker.
Norman
Clark.
James Connor.
Benjamin Cook.
Caleb Cook.
Samuel Fillebrown.
Thomas Hoppin. Edward Horton.

Josiah Horton.
Aaron
Fisher.
Ephraim Cook. James Cook.

Joshua Cook.
Ephraim Flagg. Benjamin Floyd. John Forman.

Benjamin B. Foster. Bennett Foster. James Fowle. John Fowle, Jr. Samuel Fowle. John Francis. Cato Freeman.
Caleb Hovey.
Josiah Hovey.
Thomas Cook.
Caleb Coolidge.
Thomas Hovey. Samuel Howard. Simon Howard.
Abraham Hurley.
William Hurley.
Peter Jackson.
Joseph Coolidge. Joshua Coolidge.

Nathaniel Coolidge.
Job Jennens.
Phinehas Jennison. Abel Johnson. Abijah Johnson. Jesse Johnson. Jonas Johnson.
Simon Coolidge.
Thomas Coolidge. Thomas Cooper.

Richard Crease. Jazaniah Crosby.
Abraham
Frost.
Edmund
Frost.
John Crosby.
Ephraim Frost. James Frost. James Frost, Jr.
Lawrence Johnson.
430
Philip Johnson.
Johnson.
Wicom
James Jones.
MILITARY HISTORY.
The war against Great Britain, which was proclaimed on the 19th of June, 1812, was unpopular in Cambridge, as in New England generally. The muster rolls are not within my reach and I am unable to furnish a full list of volunteers who may have en;
tered the army.
remains on file, however, that the in camp at South Boston fiftywere Cambridge Light Infantry one days, commencing Sept. 10, 1814. The company consisted of Captain Samuel Child, Jr. Lieutenant Jonathan C. Prentiss Ensign Eliab W. Metcalf; Sergeants, John Ruggles, William Hunnewell, Oliver L. Child, Ruf us Roberts Corporals, Jacob
certificate
;
H. Bates, Asa
Wyman
Fifer,
Nathaniel Munroe
Privates,
William Bates, Elijah Bellows, David Bowtell, John Brackett, William Brown, James Child, Nathaniel Colburn, Charles Everett, John Fillebrown, Timothy Flagg, Abraham J. Gould, Henry Greenwood, Sewall Hadley, Isaac Herrick, William Hollis, Isaac Kilburn, Richard Larrabee, Cyrus Morse, Harris Munroe, Seth Sanderson, Buckley Stone, Moses Thompson, Charles Walton, Galen Ware, Jonas Wyeth 3d. Besides these, William Surges, James Gilson, John Wheeler 2d, Samuel S. Willard, and Stephen Wyeth, were drafted into the service in August, 1814, and Samuel Carpenter, Peter G. Conant, William C. Davis, Thomas Dean, Jr., Edmund Morrill, Seth Tinkham, and John Wyman, served as substitutes for other drafted men.
To Cambridge
first
company
rightfully belongs the honor of organizing the of militia in the United States, which was enlisted
expressly for the defence of the government in the War of the Soon after the Presidential election in 1860, Rebellion, 1861. who many carefully watched the signs of the times were confi-
dent that the Southern States would soon be in open rebellion, and that the national government could only be preserved by force of arms. Among those who foresaw the peril and did not
shrink from
it
was James P. Richardson,

:
law
gle,
Cambridgeport. he issued the following notice *'The undersigned proposes to organize a company of volunteers, to tender their services to our common country, and to do what they can to maintain the integrity and glory of our flag and Union. Any citizen of good moral character and sound in
body,
in
Esq., an attorney at In anticipation of the impending strug-
who wishes
Main
1
to join the corps, will please call at my office, J. P. RICHARDSON." 2 Street, Cambridgeport.
Great-grandson of Moses Richardson,
who was
a
ton Battle, April 19, 1775.
slain on the day of the LexingCambridge Chronicle, Jan. 5, 1861.
432
the 13th of April, 1861, it was announced that sixty persons had enlisted, and that the company had been accepted by the Governor. Two days afterwards, April 15th, the President of the United States issued a proclamation, calling for 75,000
On
On volunteers, to serve three months, in defence of the Union. and issued his this the Governor orders the 16th, ; company
responded on the morning of the 17th, having in its ranks, when it arrived at the State House, ninety-five members, some having It seems highly proper to preserve the joined it on its march.
names
of those patriotic men, their services to the country :
who,
first of all,
voluntarily offered
CAPTAIN.
Thomas
Costello.
Alfred J. Mason.
James
P. Richardson.
1ST LIEUT.
Robert D. Grabble. Jere C. Cronin, Jr.
Joseph Mayer. Timothy McCarty.
Samuel E. Chamberlain. Hugh Cunningham. 2D LIEUT. Charles R. Dakin.
Thomas McDonald. Eugene H. McQuillen.

Michael McQuillen. Daniel R. Melcher. Horatio C. Moore.
Edwin
F. Richardson.
Louis
P. Davis, Jr.
SERGEANTS.
John Kinnear.
Francis
Lowell Ellison.
Edwin E. Fairbanks.
Thos.
M. Doble.
W.
J.
Frederickson.
George T. Nichols.
George Conrad D. Kinnear.
W.
Smith.
John C. Gaffney.
Gamble. Thomas Gamble.
Thomas A. B.
Norris, Jr.
Robert
James W. Penniman.
Calvin D. Peirce.
CORPORALS.
Augustus A. Thurston. Daniel F. Brown.
Joseph Gay. John Green.
Thomas
Preston.
Benjamin F. Dexter. John E. Howe.

MUSICIAN. John Charles Copp. PRIVATES. Leonard Arkerson.
Abner A. Griffing. James W. Haley. Samuel L. Harty.

George W. Hastings. Levi Hawkes. William A. Hayward. Frederick A. Hill. Simon D. Hitchcock.
Alfred F. Holt.
Patrick Howard.
Charles
William W. Richards. William R. Russell. William Shannon.
James Sheedy.
Charles S. Slate.
Samuel F. Slocomb.
Edwin Barry. Andrew J. Bate.

Joseph H. Baxter.
Albert C. Berry. Isaac H. Blake.
Henry A. Smith. John Smith.

Charles E. Stevens.
Warren F.
Timothy
Stone.
Michael Sullivan.
Sullivan.
M. Hewlett.
Kelly.
Robert F. Bourne. Charles B. Brown. Solomon M. Busnach.
William Kavanaugh.
Frank E.
Paul Kennedy.
William Tibbetts. Charles H. Titus. Edwin H. Trulan.
Joseph P. Cartwright.
John W. King.
George W. Lamson. Samuel H. Libbey. Samuel C. Lucy. Thomas H. Lucy.
John Vose.
Waters. Wheelock. Henry White. John A. White.
James Gate. Edwin F. Chandler.

Frederick Chandler.
George George
W. W.
William Chandler. William H. Clark. William A. Colby.
Thomas Martin.
Richard T. Marvin.
1
Andrew Wilson.
Or, Llewelyn.
MILITARY HISTORY.
Ninety-seven in
all
;
433
but Calvin D. Peirce and
Edwin H. Tru-
lan were not mustered in until the 6th of
May, after the company
arrived at Fortress Monroe.
At the expiration of its term of service, this company returned, and received an ovation from their fellow citizens July 23, 1861, at the City Hall. Nearly all its members reenlisted, and rendered further service to the country and many laid down their lives in its defence. 1 Of its three commissioned officers, Capt. James P. Richardson received a commission as Captain in the 38th Regiment, Aug. 12, 1862 was promoted to the office of Major, Dec. 4, 1862, and to that of Lieut.-colonel, July 16, 1863 from which time he had the command of the regiment, as the Colonel was absent on leave from April, 1863, until the end of the war. Col. Richardson was severely wounded at the battle of Opequan, Sept. 19, 1864, but continued in service until the end of the war, after which he served in the regular army in a subordinate office, and was for a considerable time Judge Advocate. He was afterwards appointed Judge of a court in Texas. Lieut. Samuel E. Chamberlain was commissioned Captain of a company in the First Regiment of Cavalry, Nov. 25, 1861 Major, Oct. 30, 1862 Lieut.-colonel, March 5, 1864; Colonel of the Fifth Regiment of Cavalry, July 26, 1865 and was discharged, Oct. 31, 1865, after the war ended, with the brevet rank of BrigadierHe was very dangerously wounded at Kelly's Ford, general. March 17, 1863. A bullet entered his left cheek-bone, and was long afterwards taken out from his spine between the shoulderHe soon returned, however, to his post, and remained blades. in active service more than six months after the surrender of Gen. Lee's Army. He afterwards served the Commonwealth as Deputy Quartermaster-general, from Aug. 24, 1866, to Jan. 25, 1872 and he is now Warden of the State Prison, to which office he was appointed in December, 1871. Lieut. Edwin F. Richard;
; ; ; ; ; ;
son received a commission as First Lieutenant of a
company
in
the 22d Regiment, Oct. 1, 1861, which he resigned June 10, 1862. He soon afterwards enlisted as a private, became a Sergeant, was mortally wounded in battle, May 18, 1864, and died on the 26th of the same month. He nobly redeemed his pledge
at the ovation
have
said,
"he was determined
on the 23d of July, 1861, when he is reported to to go back to the seat of war,"
ceived commissions, and twenty-one were killed in battle, or died of wounds and
disease contracted in the service.
1 As nearly as can be ascertained, the whole number reenlisted, with only two
exceptions
twenty-seven of 28
them
re-
434
and " to fight till the war was over ; and if need be he would 1 He sacrificed his leave his bones to bleach on southern soil."
life,
but his remains, transported by friendly hands, were honorin the Soldiers' Lot in the Cambridge Cemetery. ably deposited about two hundred commissioned officers, furnished Cambridge
during the
War
of the Rebellion.
imperfect; yet
it is
The following list is doubtless the result of an examination of the Adjutant-
and an ingeneral's Reports, supplemented by personal inquiry, of the names on the Soldiers' Monument in Cambridge. spection
BRIGADIER-GENERALS. Thomas O. Barri. Joseph H. Baxter. Henry L. Eustis. Charles Russell Lowell. James B. Bell. BREVET BRIGADIER- George N. Bennett. Robert T. Bourne. GENERALS. Samuel E. Chamberlain. John T. Burgess.
Charles F. Walcott.
William Plumer.
Josiah Porter.
Thomas R. Robeson.
J.
Emery Round.
S.
Taylor P. Rundlett.
John
COLONELS.
P. Stearns Davis.
Richard Gary. Charles H. Chapman. Joseph H. Clark.

J.
Norwood P. Hallowell.
Albert Ordway.
Warren
Cotton.
Edmund Rice. BREVET COLONEL.
Lewis S. Dabney. Alexander J. Dallas. George H. Dana.
Sawyer. George A. Schmitt. J. Lewis Stackpole. George H. Taylor. Levi P. Thompson. George O. Tyler.
Charles C. Wehrun.
James T. Davis. James B. Smith. LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. Horace Dexter.

William W. Bullock. Jeremiah W. Coveney.
J. Durell
Henry C. Wells. T Thomas R. W ells. Edward E. White.

William H. Whitney.
Edward G. Dyke.
Charles
W.
Folsom.
Green.
William H. Lounsbury. George A. Meacham. David P. Muzzey.
James P. Richardson. Samuel W. Richardson.

Albert Stickney.
William H. Gertz. Joseph A. Hildreth. Arthur Hodges. George F. Holman. Henry A. Homer.
John B. Whorf. John Wilder. John C. Willey. Andrew Wilson. John T. Wilson.
J.
Henry Wyman.
Henry
P. Hoppin.
BREVET CAPTAIN.
Benjamin Vaughn. SURGEONS.
Alfred F. Holt.
MAJORS. Ezra P. Gould.

C. Frederick Livermore.
Samuel D. Hovey. William G. Howe.

Alpheus Hyatt. William H. Jewell.
Anson
P. Hooker.
Charles C. Parsons.
Henry L. Patten. John T. Richards.
Edward B. P. Kinsley. Leodegar M. Lipp.

Roger
S. Littlefield.
Alfred A. Stocker.
A. Carter Webber.
Atherton H. Stevens, Jr. 2 Frederick A. Lull.
BREVET MAJOR.
Charles J. Mills.
John W. McGregor. Samuel McKeever.

Robert R. Newell. William J. O'Brien.
ASSISTANT SURGEON. Henry O. Marcy. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. John S. Allanson.

William B. Allyn.
CAPTAINS.
Thomas H. Annable.
1
John Bigelow.
the city,
Cambridge Chronicle, July 27, 1861. Stevens was allotted the privilege of conferring special honor on
2
Richmond a formal surrender of

led his
To Major
squadron within the walls, and
Cambridge. On the morning of April 3, 1865, he received from the Mayor of
displayed the Stars and Stripes upon the State House.
MILITARY HISTORY.
George W. Booth. William S. Buck. Isaac H. Bullard. John H. Butler. A. L. Chamberlain. Daniel H. Chamberlain.
Frederick Chandler.
435
Amos W.
Edward Howard
Bridges.
Lebbeus H. Mitchell. William Mullett. James Munroe. Isaac H. Pinkham. John H. Rafferty.
Joseph P. Burrage.
F. Campbell.
Carroll.
W.
Carey Rice.
F. Richardson.
Darius P. Richards.
William H. Clark. Theodore Collamore.
Edwin
Ezra Ripley.
William A. Robinson.
William M. Cloney. George Cole. Daniel G. E. Dickinson. Lowell Ellison. George A. Fisher.
Marcus M. Collis. John H. Conant.

George H. Copeland. Calvin A. Damon. Henry C. Dana. Charles M. Duren. Gerald Fitzgerald.
Charles F. Foster.
Thomas
J. Fletcher.
Nathan Russell, Frank N. Scott.
Jr.
Nathan G. Gooch. James B. Hancock.

Stephen S. Harris. Harrison Hinkley.
Jared Shepard. George B. Smith. George W. Smith.

Charles B. Stevens.
Henry C. Hobbs. Andrew J. Holbrook.

George M. Joy.
Frank E. Stimson.
William B. Storer.
John John
C. GalFney.
Thomas
C.
L.
Harmon.
Humphrey
Sullivan.
Henry B. Leighton. John McClintock.
Heymer. Charles V. Holt, George H. Howard.
Robert Torrey, Jr.
Edmund
Jr.
Miles.
Emory Washburn,
Charles P. Welch.
Daniel S. Parker. William L. Putnam.
Eli P. Kinsley. Thomas J. Langley.
James R. Lawrence. Edward M. Livermore.

James
Charles A. Longfellow. J. Lowell.
Alphonso M. Lunt. Timothy McCarty. William McDermott.
Austin C. Wellington. Hiram Rowe. William L. Whitney, Jr. George P. Small. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. William H. B. Smith. Leonard C. Alden. William A. Tarbell. Pardon Almy, Jr. William H. Tibbetts. Rudolph N. Anderson. Pay son E. Tucker. John V. Apthorp. Oliver H. Webber. Charles P. Blaisdell. Nathaniel S. Wentworth.
George L. Bradbury.
these should be added three officers in the Navy, whose names are inscribed on the Soldiers' Monument Assistant
:
To
Surgeons William Longshaw, Jr., Henry Sylvanus Plympton Assistant Engineer, John M. Whittemore. And it would be unpardonable to omit the name of Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, who rendered active and efficient service during the War. On the 17th of June, 1869, the Mayor and City Council laid the corner-stone of a monument, 1 which was dedicated, with fit;
It stands upon the Common in ting ceremonies, July 13, 1870. " THE SOLDIERS front of the College, and bears this inscription
:
AND SAILORS OF CAMBRIDGE, WHOSE NAMES ARE HERE

1
IN-
tion of this
The committee charged with the erecmonument give due credit to

:
Silloway, A. M., of Boston

for the
Contractors
the persons engaged in its construction " Designers of the Monument and Artists of the Statue, Cyrus and Darius Cobb, of Cambridge; Architect, Thomas W.
Stone and Masonry, McDonald & Mann, of Cambridge Manufacturers of

;
the Tablets, The Metallic Compression Company, of Somerville."
436
THE
SCRIBED, DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY, IN
FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE UNION. To PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THEIR VALOR AND PATRIOTISM, THIS MONUMENT is ERECTED BY THE CITY, A. D. 1869-70." The names
on eight tablets, two upon each buttress. It is more than just that they should also be inscribed here no surely
are inscribed
:
WAR
BRIGADIER GENERAL. Charles

Charles Russell Lowell.
Bisbee.
Levi Langley.
Charles B. Brown.
COLONEL.
P. Stearns Davis.
Daniel F. Brown.
James L. Brown.
George F. Gate. Martin G. Child.
MAJOR.
Thomas Lawson. David K. Munroe. Jeremiah Murphy. Joseph McEvoy.

Charles E. Neale.
Henry
L. Patten.
BREVET MAJOR.
Charles James Mills.
A. Stacy Courtis. John L. Fenton.

George Grier. William P. Hadley.
CAPTAINS.
William J. Rand. Frederick Ruhling. Lucian J. Sanderson.
Thomas O.
Barri.
Joseph A. Baxter. Robert T. Bourne. Richard Gary. Alexander J. Dallas. Thomas R. Robeson.
Levi P. Thompson.
Anselm
George
C.
Hammond.
Harris.
John Scanlan. Frank Snow.

William F. Sparrow. Thomas Tabor. Augustus A. Thurston. Alphonzo D. Titus. Henry Walker. Joseph H. Wyman. PRIVATES. William Adams. George N. Allen.
Sidney Allen.
Oliver Hapgood.
W.
Edward M.
Hastings.
George E. Henshaw. Curtis Hobbs.
FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Oliver L. Hodgdon. William Bradford Allyn. Horace M. Hosmer. Charles A. Howard. Gerald Fitzgerald. William H. Keene. James J. Lowell. Andrew A. Langley. James Munroe. Lauren F. Langley. John H. Rafferty.
Frank M. Almy.
Lucien Andrews.
W.
Carey Rice. Ezra Ripley.
William Matthews.
James McCalvey.
Nathaniel Prentiss.
James Angling.
Joseph Baldwin. Samuel Benjamin. George W. Bentley. Joseph D. Bertsch.
Jared Shepard. Frank E. Stimson.
John Henry Purcell. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Edwin F. Richardson.

Charles C. Schwartz.
Leonard C. Alden. Pardon Almy, Jr. Rudolph N. Anderson.

Joseph P. Burrage.
John P. Turner. Theodore E. Waters. CORPORALS.

Alexander T. Barri.
Erastus R. Bullard.
Cassidy. William L. C'hampney.
Edwin
J. Bigelow.
Howard
Carroll.
George R. Blake. Horace O. Blake. Walter S. Bradbury.

Charles
James B. Hancock. William L. Putnam. Hiram Rowe. William H. B. Smith.

William H. Tibbetts.
M.
Bridges.
Thomas
John P. Brown.
George W. Bullock. George L. Burton. John D. Burtwell. Albert L. Butler.
Richard Condon.
John Cooley.
SERGEANT MAJOR.
Walter
J.
Owen
Duffy.
W.
Nurse.
Hezekiah O. Gale.
John E.
Butler.
SERGEANTS. Frank Angell.
William H. Babcock.
John Hamilton. John Hogan. John E. Howe.
Patrick Callahan.
William C. Games. Charles A. Carpenter.
MILITARY HISTORY.
Charles A. Carter.
437
John Caswell. H. Gray Chipman.
Benjamin F. Garland. Charles R. Gay. John Gibbons.
William H. Lattimer. William Laws. Philo G. Lawton.
Edwin R. Clark. Herman J. Clark. Thomas J. Clements.

Jeremiah Cokely.
James J. Gibson. Thomas Gibson. John M. Gilcreas.

Patrick J. Gill.
Timothy Leary.
Edward Lennon. John M. S. Lernard. Thomas Long.

George W. Lucy. William H. Lunt.
Timothy Condlin.
Peter Conlan.
James Golden.
Charles
W.
Goodwin.
John Conner. Bernard Con way. Daniel Con way.

Michael Conway. Jeremiah Corkery.
Henry Gould. Samuel S. Gould. Francis Graham.

Aurelius Gray.
Benjamin F. Gunnison.
Winfield S. Gurney. Ferdinand Haberer. Bernard Haley. Aromel H. Hamilton. Peter Hanlon. Charles D. Harlow. William Harlow.
John Lynch. John W. Macconnell. Bernard Madden. John Madden. John H. Maguire.
Elias Manning.
Joseph Corrigan.
Thomas F.
Costello.
Franklin J. Cremin.
John Crockett.
Michael T. Croning. George Cubery. Augustus Cunningham.
John Manning. Thomas Marin. Thomas Maroney. John Marshall.

Ferdinand Matthews. Archibald McCaffrey.
Samuel A. Cutting.
Robert L. Dale. Michael Daley. Milo H. Daley. John H. Dame.
Charles T. Denton.
John Harney. David G. Hatch. John F. Hawkes.

George
John McCarthy. Patrick McDermott.

Albert
McKown.
W.
Hearsey.
Daniel Hickey.
Dennis McMahon. James McNall.

Francis McQuade.
Edward T. Hixon.
Michael Hoar.
William A. Dillingham. John A. Dodge. Joseph Donavan. Patrick Donavan.
Marcus Downing. John Ducy. John Dunn.

Francis
Joseph Hodges, Jr. Joseph Hoey. Francis C. Hopkinson. Dennis Horrigan. Patrick Howard.
W.
Eaton.
John Hughes, 2d. Joseph H. Hughes.

John
Irwin.
Michael McQuillan. Michael McVey. Dennis Meagher. William Mitchell. Alvah Montgomery. Stephen Moore. William Z. Morey. Alexander Morin.
Christopher Morris.
Charles F. Edwards. Herbert L. Emerson.
William R. Jackson.
Austin Jefferson.
Charles
W. Emery.
James English. Henry L. Ewell. James M. Fairfield.

George F.
Falls.
Alfred Jennings. George A. Jewett. Charles D. Johnson.
Joseph A. Morris. George E. Morse. Bernard Mullen.

Charles Murphy. John Murphy. John C. Murphy. Michael Murphy. Thomas Murphy.
Charles C. Fatal.
Patrick Fay.
Isaac Fenton.
William Johnson. David Johnston. John O. Keefe.
Timothy Kelleher.
Peter Kelly.
Dennis B. Nash.
Thomas
Fitzgerald.
Flint.
J.
Thomas
Neville.
Bernard Flanigan.
Thomas
Kelsey.
Herman Howard
Thomas
Paul Kennedy.
Alois Kolb.
Ford.
William F. Freeman.
Gaffney.
Benjamin F. Lancton.
Francis L. Lander.
George Nichols. Dennis O'Brien. Martin O'Brien. William O'Brien. John O'Connor.
438
John O'Hara.
Patrick O'Niel.
Randolph Ruther. Thomas F. Ryan. William Schmidt.
Orrin Seavey.
James
Travis.
Thomas Palmer.
Charles Parker.
William L. Parker.
David
Shattels.
J. Short.
George T. Tucker. John H. Tucker. David Tyler. Leonard Volk.

George F. Wakefield. George W. Waters. Henry C. Waters. George P. Welch. Lewis Westacott. Richard Westacott. Charles White. Dennis White. Edward P. White. George R. White.
George
W.
Paul.
Thomas
James D. Paul. Edwin R. Pearson.
William H. Smart. Daniel F. Smith.

Augustine Sorg. George H. Stearns. Walter H. Stedson. Francis E. Stevens. William L. Stevens.
Henry Penmore.
Walter S. Penniman. William Pliipps. James H. Pierce, Jr. William Plant.
Augustus R. Pope. John Powers. William B. Price.
Humphrey Sullivan. Thomas Sullivan.

Francis C. Swift.
Ebenezer AVhiting.
Edwin
C. Proctor.
Philip J. Quinn.
John H. Talbot. Edward B. Thomas.

William Thompson. Robert Thornton. George G. Thwing. William Tingey. Frank Todd.
Thomas Wilson.
William Wilson. Robert Wiseman.
John H. Ready.
Frederick S. Richards. William Robins.
James B. Robinson. Thomas H. Roper. James H. Rowe.
John Toomey.
George T. Wood. Levi Woofindale. William H. Wyeth. Charles F. York. Thorn a* Yuill.
Of those engaged in the naval service: Assistant Surgeons, Assistant William Longshaw, Jr., Henry Sylvanus Plympton Jacob Amee John M. Whittemore Gunner, George Engineer, Bacon, Charles F. Brown. Among the documents deposited under the corner-stone of the
;
a u Brief History of Cambridge," (prepared by Henry W. Muzzey, Esq., President of the Common " Council), in which it is stated that, During the War, Camfurnished to the of the States four thousand United bridge army
Soldiers'
Monument
is
one hundred and thirty-five men, and to the navy four hundred and fifty-three men." This was about one sixth part of the entire population,
which was 26,060
in 1860,
and 29,112
in 1865. 1
1 Cambridge not only furnished a full share of soldiers, but was active in relieving the distress occasioned by the war. subscription was commenced in July,
1862, which amounted to more than $30,000, for the benefit of soldiers and " their families. When the Massachusetts Soldiers' Relief Association" was formed
Before that proof-reader at Riverside. Association was formed, however, Mr. Bliss was appointed by the Senators and Representatives of Massachusetts in Congress to visit and relieve the sick and
wounded
until his
soldiers.
As
their agent,
and
afterwards on behalf of the Association,
Washington, Aug. 11, 1862, its first President, George W. McLellan, and its Corresponding Secretary, George F. McLellan, were Cambridge men. One of its Directors was Zenas W. Bliss, then a clerk in the Department of the Interior, but previously and for many years since a
at
appointment as Commissioner of Enrollment, he visited the hospitals and battle-fields near Washington, on his errand of mercy, and at one time was for ten days within the rebel lines, ministering to the wants of the soldiers who were wounded at the second Bull Run Battle.
CHAPTER
XXII.
STATISTICS.
THE Town
number
taken by
Records contain the following Rate List
" The
of persons
of the estate of the [inhabitants] as it was the townsmen by the order of the Court 1 in the yeare
:
&
1647 (1) mo.
135 ^sons, at 20'

to 11'. 5<
^ heade, one peny in

1'
the pound, comes
/.
s.
d.
11 05 00
90 houses, at 2537'. 10" Broaken land, 776 ac. at
10 11 05
^ ac.
3'. 4*.
rf
Unbroaken land, 1084 ac. at 10 s "$ Marsh land, 500 ac. at 10s ^ ac. s ffarr medowes, 258 ac. at 6 ^ ac.
208 cowes, at 5 ty cow, 1040' 42 three yearelings, at 4' "$ head, 74 two yearelings, at 2'. 10" head, 79 one yearling, at 1'. 10* heade,
14
steers, at
5'.
1 . 1
.
ac.
03 02 01 00
04
^ heade, f heade, ^
131 oxen, at 6
"$ heade,
20 horse,
at 7
6 thre yearlings, at 5' heade, 9 two yearlings, at 3'. "$ heade, 5 one yearelings, at 2' heade,
37 Sheepe at I 1 10s *$ heade, 62 swine, at 1' heade,

.
58 goates,
at 8'
f ^ heade,
00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 11
04 08 05 04 01 08 06 05 06 08 14 00 15 05 09 10, 05 10 05 06 11 00 02 06 02 03 00 10 04 07, 05 02
total, 40'. 01'.

1
4d
40 01 04
one penny for every 20^ estate both for lands and goods and that every laborer, artificer, and handicrafts man that usually take in summer time above 18<i. by the day wages, or work by the great which by due valuation amounts to more than I8 d
;
.
lishing
This "Order of the Court," estabwhat was called a "

single rate,"
:
was passed in November, 1 646 " That a due proportion may be had in all public rates, it is ordered, that every male within
this jurisdiction, servant
or other, of the
treasury the
age of sixteen years and upward, shall
pay yearly
into the
common
in
sum
able
of 20 d .,
and so
way
for all estates,
some proportionviz. that all and
pay per annum 3*. 4 into the treasury, over and besides the 20<*. Mass. Col. Rec., before mentioned," etc.
by the day,
shall
-
ii.
173.
every person that have estates shall pay
440
I.
s.
d.
It.
More More
in a
in
barke of Mr. Sparahauke, 50 at peny s goods of Mr. Tanners, 70' 10 at peny

. .
f\
l .
It.
a hoy of John Thrumbles Halfe a shallup of Bro. Hutchins, 5 s 10 men to be added to there rate 3
at 50'.
13.
00 00 00 00
04 02
05
04 02 00 05
4<*.
ty heade,
1'.
01 13 04
02 07 11
More,
halfe a barke of
Mr. Andrews,
halfe
come
to
a 140*
Halfe a boate, 2
00 11 06 00 00 02
02 19 40 01 04 43 00 11
In Stocke
55'. 4'. 7".

.
In Sheepe, 3 Z
00 04 07 00 00 03 43 05
CAMBRIDGE LIST OF PERSONES AND ESTATES TAKEN

OF AUGUST, 1688. 1
PBKSONS.
IN
THE MONTH
<*
J.
1 1
Tho. Danforth Esqr person

11
:
&
estate is
Edmond Angier person & estat is Sam Gookin Esq r person & estate is Leut. Sam Green person & estate is
11
3
1
Nath: Hancock persons

Will: Barritt person
&
estate
is
&
estate is
Arron Bordinau persons & estate is Andrew Bordmans widdow estate

Joseph Cooledg person
Isacc
1
1
Day
person
&
estate
is
Jonah Clarke person

Fetter Town person Jonath Cane persons
& estate is & estate is

&
estate
is
2
1
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
12
01
05
03
11
04
02 06 04 05
01
01
01
06 03 03
01
03 08
11
02
05
04
05
00
11
This List purports to contain
the
ratable polls and estates in Cambridge ; the polls being rated, as in the preceding d each list, at 1*. 8 (or one penny in the pound on a valuation of "20*. per head"),
.
the River, or the Brighton District those between the second and third, residents in
;
Menotomy, or
the Arlington
third
District
and those below the

District.
blank
line, resi-
dents at the Farms, or the Lexington
and the
pound.
estates also at
one penny in the The names above the first blank

City
The original document, recently

was the property of the late M. D., of Boston, by whose
discovered,
line indicate residents in the present
John
Jeffries,
of Cambridge ; those between the first and second, residents on the south side of
permission
it is
now
printed,
STATISTICS.
I.
441
t.
d.
3
1
Nicholas ffessenden persons
&
estat is
Mr. Steadman estate Zecheriah Hicks sen r person

.
2
1
Zecheriah Ilickes jun r Joseph Hickes person
& estat is person & estate & estate
is
2
2 2
1
2
1
Tho: Stacy person & estate John Buncker persons & estate is Mr. Joseph Cook persons & estate John Goue persons & estate is Mr. Sam": Gaskell person & estate John Green estate Sam Gibson person & estate is Ovvin Warland persons & estate is Jacob Amsden person & estate is
11
:
is
2
1
Daniell Cheeuers persons

.
&
estate
is
John Steadman jun r person & estat Jonath: Remington person & estate
4
2
1 1
1
Sam Sam
11
:
Andrew
11
:
persons & estat Goff persons & estate is

Hill persons
ffrost
Abraham
Ephraim
&
estate
is
person and estate
is
Will: Burges person
&
estat
Michell Spencer person
&
estate
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
09 05 03
02 09 03
11
04
01 01
10
11
03
06
10 09 08 06 09 09 06 03
01
06
05 02
01
03 03 02 05
02 03
05
15
03
06
09 05 00
11
13
04
02 02
01
01
Tho:
1
11
ffox estate is
Sam Green
person
&
state is
1
1
1 1
1 1
3
1 1
2 2
1
Christopher Muchin person & estat John Palfry person & estate is John Green person & estate is John Cooper jun r person & estate Tho: Andrew person & estate is Sam Cook person & estate is John Watson persons & estate is Phillip Cook person & estate is Barnabus Cook person & estate is ffrancis More persons & estate is
11
00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00
08
11
02 02 03 02
02
01 09
01
04
10 03 05 03
04 04
10
03
Walter Hastin persons
&
estate is
John Marritt person

Richard Eccles estate
1
1
John Collice person
&
estat is
Sam
11
:
Prentice person
John Hasting persons
&
estate is
2
1 1
Hasting persons & estat is Edward Goff person & estate is
Sam
11
James
ffrost
person
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
04 08 09
01 01
00 08 02 08 04
11
02
01
06 05 03
01
08 02
01
03 08
442
I.
i.
d.
1
1
John Jackson person
&
estate is
Henry Prentice person
& &
estate
is is
Solomon Prentice person John Cooper sen 1 estate

Joseph Cragbon person
Jer:
&
estate
1 1
1
estate
is
Holman person
&
estate
1 1
1
1 1
& estate is John "Wieth person & estate is Will: Wieth person & estate is Sam Cooper person & estate is Piam Blores person & estate is John Marritt sen person & estate
Jacob Hill person
11
:
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08 02 03 04 04
08
02
02 07
t)2
04 04
03 03
01
10
04
07
01
04 04 04
10
09
00 02
3 2
1 1
1 1 1 1
Samuell Chamne persons
&
estate is
04
09
Tho: Oleuer persons & estat is Richard Dany person & estate
Jacob Dany person
Dauiell
Daniell
is
&
estate
is
Beniamin Dany person
&
estate is
Dany person & estat is Chamne person & estate
is
2
1
1
& estate is John Squire persons & estate is Richard Hauen person & estate is
Nath: Robbins person
02 03 04 02 06 05 06 06 05 08 04 05 04 02
10
08 08 10
04
11
05
07
John Hauen person

Tho:
3
1
1
& estate is Brown persons & estate is
08 03
11
1
1
Henry Smith person & estate is John ffrancis person & estate is John Smith person & estate is Isacc Wilson person & estate is
Nath: Sparahauke persons Tho: Cheeny persons & estate is
:
01
00 00
10
01
Sam &
11
&
is
estat
3
1
1
10
1
1
1 1
John Mackoon jun r person & estate James Phillips person Dauid Stowell person & estate is James Clarke person & estate is John Oldum person & estate is
02
01
07 04 08
10
02
02 05 03 01 03 03
10
01
Sam Oldum
11
:
person
&
estate
is
09 09
05 01
John Mackoon sen r

1
estate is
Joshua ffuller person & estate Ebenezer Ston person & estate
Justin Houldon estat is John Willington person
is
1 1
Jonath: Sanders person
& estate is & estate is
04 04
08
03 01
04
STATISTICS.
I.
443
5.
d.
Will: Cutter person
&
estate
is
2
1
Mathew Abdee person & estate is John Addams persons & estate is
Richard Cutter person & estate Nath: Cutter person & estate is Tho: Hall estate is
is
2
1
1
Joseph Russell person & estate is Nath: Pattin persons & estate is
Joseph Winship person
&
estate is
1
1
1
Gersham Cutter person & estate is Leut. Edward Winship estate is Edward Winship person & estate is
1
1
& estate is & estate is James Herberd person & estate is Sam Buck person & estate is
Jason Russell person
Will: Russell person
11
:
2
1 1
Will: Dickson persons
&
estate
is
John Dickson person

Israeli
Mead
Jonath:
& estate is & estate is person Dunster person & Doom

persons
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
06
02 10 05 02 00 05 09 03
03
07 08
08
11
09 09 09
01 01
04
03
00
03
05 09
06 05 04 05 04 10
04
11
03
05 10
03 03 02
11
06 06 07 00 03 01 07 02 07 07 03 09
01
3
1
Mathew Bridge
&
estate
is
is
Phillip Jones person

ffrancis
&
estate
1 1 1
Widdow Boeman person & estate is Boeman person & estate is Goorg Addams person & estate is
03 06 05 03 03 03
11
1
1
Tho: Smith person
&
estate is
3
1
James Guttler, junr person & estate is John Winter sen1 persons & estate is
Tho: Cutler person & estate is Sam11 Ston jun r person & estate
:
04
03 01
1
1 1 1 1
1
is
John Cutler person

Sam":
& estate is Cutler person & estate is

11
02
01
Tho: Johnson person John Ston Sam Stons son person John Miriam person & estate is
&
estat
04
03 06
1 1 1
1
Widdow Miriam
person
& estate
estate
is
is
Joseph Miriam person

Isacc Sternes person
&
is
& &
estate
John Ston Dauid Stons son person
&
estat
04 04 04
11
08 04 07 08 02
05
2
1
Sam
11
:
Ston sen r persons
&
estate is
is
John Sternes person Dauid Ston estate is

Daniel Ston person
estate
02
01
03 09 05 07 08
01
444
Dauid Dauid
I.
s.
d.
1 1
1
1
1
& estate is ffisk jun person & estate is Ephraim Winship person & estat John Russell person & estate is
ffisk
sen 1 person
r
3
1
estate Phillip Gleesson person estate is John Tidd persons
&
&
2
2
Phillip Russell person Will: Munroe persons
2
1 1
1
Whittmore Beniamin Muzy persons & estate Will: Reed person & estate is Joseph Simons person & estate is
11
:
Sam
& estate is & estate is persons & estate
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00
06
03
11
04
05
04
02
09
06 08
01
08
10
Will: Carly person
&
estate
is
04 08 07 06 03 04 02
02 02 03 02
2.
10
00
08 03
11
10
1 1 1
John Johnson person

Will: Johnson person
Sam
11
:
Winship
& estate is & estate, is person & estat is

Total
06
01
00
37
37.
08
11
11.
N.
The
Jacob
Hill,
persons 192
sum
is
foregoing "List"
is endorsed "Cambridge Rate, John Wythe, Joseph Symons, Constables."
NUMBER OF PKOPLE
Henry Holden Jonas Prentice Ebenezer Wyeth Col. [Samuel] Thatcher Seth Hastings
.
IN
1 CAMBRIDGE, 1777.
.... ...
...
. .
Between
the Bridges. 2
1 1
Nathaniel Prentice Thomas Prentice
...
.
.3
1
.
4
.
Thomas Fayerweather Judge [Joseph] Lee
.... .2
2 3
Esq. [Abraham] Watson . Daniel Watson .

'
Col. [Ebenezer] Bridge Deac. [Aaron] Hill
James Munroe Josiah Moore Josiah Mason

Corp Prentice Jonas Wyeth
1
.
... ... ... ....

.
. .
1
.
2
1
.2
1
Widow Wyeth
Daniel Prentice
Noah Wyeth
John Prentice
Noah Bowman Thomas Goddard
.... .... ... .... .... ... .... ...

. . .
.
2
1 1
Jacob Watson Henry Dickson Samuel Cook Edward Dickson Walter Dickson John Dickson Nathaniel Kidder Gideon Frost
Torrey Hancock Samuel Hastings
....
. .
.
.2
1
4
1 1
1
John Wyeth
Nathaniel Jarvis William Bordman
... .2 .... ... .... ... ... .... ... .1

.
. . .
.1
3
1
3
2
1
1
1 1
2
1 1
Mansfield Tapley
1
...
Capt. [John] Walton Jotham Walton John Hastings Moses Richardson

2
.... .... .1
.
.
1
1
Rather,
number of
ratable polls.
In the present
city.
STATISTICS.
Stew d [Jona.] Hastings
. .
445
446
Capt. Thomas Adams Edward Wilson
.
.
George Swan
Lieut. Stephen Frost
1 1
2
1
1
John Winship Samuel Russ Samuel Hill

.
Stephen Cutter
1 1
John Adams
William Cutter Jeduthun Wellington Moses Hovey
.
1
.
1
1
Jason Belknap Seth Russell

.
2
1
1
1
Joseph Belknap
Aaron Cooke
Zechariah Hill'
1
.
Benjamin Cooper Jonathan Robbins

Seth Stone
Capt. Samuel Carter Josiah Hall
1 1
2
1
Sam Whittemore Thomas Whittemore

Capt.
.
1
.
Samuel Whittemore,
Jr.
2
1 1 1
1
Thomas Robbing
William Butterfield
Thomas Adams, John Cutter, 3d Thomas Cutter

Jonathan Perry John Locke Josiah Wilson James Frost
.
Jr.
1
1
1
1
Thomas Cutter
John Wilson
.
1
1
Timothy Swan Samuel Frost
1
1
Joseph Frost Edward Fillebrown
2
1 1
John Stone
Jonathan Locke
. .
Ephraim Frost,
Jr.
John
Cutter, Jr.
.
1
1
Abraham
Hill
.
2
1
1
t
William Hill
Caleb Hovey Francis Locke, Jr.
1
.
John Hill Samuel Swan
Ephraim Cooke
1 1
Am mi
Cutter
Joshua Kendall
1 1
George Prentice
Patten Russell
2
1
.
William Adams, James Locke Stephen Locke
Jr.
1
.
1 1
Samuel Frost, Jr. Solomon Prentice Joseph Locke William Cutter Lemuel Blanchard
.
John Perry
Ebenezer Robbins
Joseph Shaw
Black,
1.
.
1 1
122
Number of
Eliphalet Robbins Josiah Warren .
Inhabitants on the South Side of Charles River.
5
6 3
Widow Smith
Lois
Brown
Seth Brown
John
Wyman
Caleb Child
Cool id ge
Jonathan Fessenden
Nathaniel Sparhawk John Dennie, whites
blacks,
2.
Wood
4
6 6
Benjamin Baker Widow Capen John Ellis Thaddeus Wyman
3 4 5
James Bryant
William Fuller
Nehemiah Fuller
Henry Coolidge Widow Hood Edward Jackson
.
2 2
Abijah Learned Samuel Learned

Elijah
White
James Holton
STATISTICS.
Thomas Thwinf O Nathaniel Thwing Nathaniel Clark Jona. Winship, whites
black,
.
447
...
.
.6
2
Jonathan Park Silas Robbins
....
.
.5
5
.
Benjamin Faneuil, Esq., white

blacks, 3.
4
4
.12
9
Mr. Cocklin Ebenezer Seaver Nathaniel Wilton Caleb Coolidge

Ezekiel
.... .9
1.
.
John Tudor, white

black,
...
.
1.
Comee
Samuel Champney
Daniel
Dana
.3 .... .4 ....
.
. . . .
...
.
Thomas Sparhawk,
James Robbins
Benjamin Hill
Phinehas Robbins David Ross Edmund Horton Samuel Sparhawk
Esq., white
2.
black,
4
A
Mr. Wells
Benjamin Dana
Josiah Sanderson
Moses Robbins John Stratton Jonas White Samuel Zeagars, white

.
... ...
. . .
... .7 ... ... ... ...

4
6
.
3
6
.10
.
.2
7
Edward
Hastings, white
black,
1.
....
....
2.
.6
2
.
Moses Griggs Maj. John Gardner, white

black, 2
blacks,
Stephen Dana
Ezra Comee Michael Taylor
.... .... ....

.
5
3
The
Office.
foregoing enumeration is preserved in the City Clerk's It is manifest that, in the last section, the whole number
of inhabitants is included, instead of ratable polls as in the first a separate paper in the same file, this and second sections.
On
:
" The whole number of found polls on the south side of Charles River in Little Cambridge, from sixteen The whole years of age and upwards, 66 whites, 4 blacks."
memorandum
is
number
is
155 whites. In the Town, 122 whites. In Menotomy, South side of the River, 66 whites.
Total,
9 blacks.
1
black.
4 blacks.
343 whites.
14 blacks.
Commonwealth, was as follows l
In 1781, a general valuation was taken of the property in the as the basis of a State tax. The Cambridge List
:
Mass. Arch.,
clxi., p.
369.
448
STATISTICS.
Cutter, William F.
449
Hastings, John, Jr. Hastings, Joseph. Hastings, Samuel.
Frost James.
Frost, James, 2d. Frost, William.
Carter, George. Child, Nathan. Carter,
Nathan
C.
Clark, Hosea.
Clark, Horace.
Fuller, J. N. Fuller, Oliver.
Hay den, John.

Hayden, John C. Hayden, Lot.
Hearsey, Jonathan. Hale, Stephen.
Hall, Prentice.
Fuller, Robert. Fuller, Timothy.
Daley, David.
Dana, Dana, Dana, Dana, Dane,
Edmund
T.
Joseph. Joseph, Jr.
Ford, Thomas. Farrar, Jacob.

Fairbanks, Silas.
Richard H.
Joseph. Danforth, Otis. Dascomb, Daniel.
Fay, Isaac. Gary, Jonathan.

Gay, Lusher. Gideon, John.
Gilson, Asa.
Gilson, Simeon.
Holmes, Abiel. Hearsey, Jonathan, Hemenway, Luke.

Hill, Hill,
Hill,
Jr.
Higginson, Stephen, Jr.
Davenport, John.
Davis, Asa.
Benjamin. John.
Joseph.
Davis, Eliphalet.
Derby, Loring.
Dickson, Edward.
Ditson, Thomas.
Dodge, John. Dowse, Thomas.

Dudley, Ephraim. Dunbar, Alpheus. Dana, Francis W. Dudley, John.
Ditson, William.
Goddard, Benjamin. Goddard, Daniel. Goddard, John. Goddard, Nathaniel. Goddard, Thomas. Goodenow, Daniel.
Gookin, Squire. Gookin, Thomas T.
Hill,
Hilliard,
Thomas. Abraham.
B.
Billiard, William.
Hammond, Shaw
Holmes, Joseph. Hosmer, Josiah. Hovey, Ebenezer.
Gordon, Charles.
Edwards, Abraham. Edwards, John.
Gorham, Benjamin. Gould, Camaralzaman. Grant, Abraham.

Gray, Benjamin. Gray, Lewis. Green, John.
Green, Samuel S. Green, Zaccheus.
Hovey, Hovey, Hovey, Hovey, Hovey,
Josiah.
Phinehas B. Samuel.
Thomas,
William.
Jr.
Howe, Joseph
N., Jr.
Emmet, William.
Everett, Charles. Everett, William.
Benjamin. Fairfield, Barney.

Ellis,
Greenwood, Henry.
Gibbs, John.
Hunnewell, Charles. Hunnewell, Leonard. Hunnewell, William. Hyde, Jonathan. Howe, Artemas W.
Henley, Charles.
Farrington, Isaac. Farwell, Levi.
Gray, Samuel.
Hayden, Caleb.
Hastings, Thomas.
Faulkner, Francis E.
Goodhue, Nathaniel.
Gannett,
Fay, Samuel P. P.
Felsit,
Thomas B.
Israel.
Hastings, Thomas, Jr v
Ireland, Nathaniel.
Harry.
Fillebrown, Richard. Fisher, Jabez.

Fisk, Nathan.
Fisk, Rufus.
Hadley, Hagar, Jonathan.

Hall, Jesse.
Jackson, Jonathan,
Jacobs, Bela.
Jewell, Benjamin,
Jarvis,
Fisk, William.
Fogg, Ebenezer. Ford, Jonathan W. Ford, Simeon. Foster, John.

Foster, Joseph.
Foster,
Hancock, Samuel. Hancock, Solomon. Hancock, Torrey. Harlow, Asaph. Harlow, Joshua.
Harris, Benjamin.
Harris, Leonard.
Harris, Samuel.
Deming.
Jennings, Gilbert. Jennison, Timothy L. Johnson, Jonas.
Johnson, Josiah.
Jennings, Joseph. Johnson, William.
Thomas.
29
Hastings, Charles.
Hastings,
Freeman, John.
Edmund
T.
Johnson, Moses.' Jewell, Gilman.
450
Jordan, Sylvanus.
Keating, Oliver.
Meacham, George. Mellen, John. Meriam, William.
Merritt, Gamaliel.
Parks, Leonard. Parks, Leonard, Jr. Parmenter, William.

Peirce, Abijah H.
Keyes, Ephraim. Keyes, Joshua. Kidder, Samuel.

Kidder, Samuel, Jr.
Kimball, Henry. Kimball, Isaac.
Messenger, Henry. Metcalf Eliab W.

,
Metcalf,
Thomas.
Penn, William. Pickett, Samuel. Pond, Samuel.

Porter, Israel.
Porter, Joseph. Prentiss, Caleb.
Prentiss, Ellis. Prentiss,
King, George.
Miranda, John. Mixer, Josiah.

Mixter, Amos. Mixter, Joshua. Moore, Luke.
King, Horatio. King, Lemuel.
Kuhn, George.
Kimball, Joseph. Lawrence, Jonas.
Leach, Thomas.
Learned, Benjamin G. Leathe, AVilliam.

Lee, Thomas.
Lenox, Charles.
Lewis,
Moore, Lyman. Morse, Calvin. Morse, Cyrus. Morse, Daniel. Morse, Royal. Mumler, George F. Munroe, Amos.
Jonathan C. Putnam, Artemas.
Page, Isaac. Payson, Samuel.
Pay son, Samuel,

Peirce, Artemas.
Peirce, Joseph.
Pitts,
Jr.
Edmund.
Adam.
Litchfield, Roland.
Livermore, David. Livermore, David, Jr.

Livermore, Isaac. Livermore, Marshall.
Munroe, Edmund. Munroe, James. Munroe, Nathaniel. Murdock, Asa. Murdock, Robert.
Mycall, John. Martin, Samuel.
Mallard, George. Mclntire, Jonathan.
Pratt, Dexter.
Priest, Jonathan.
Palmer, Nathan.
Livermore, Nathaniel. Livermore, Oliver.
Rand, Benjamin. Read, James. Read, Joel. Read, Joseph S. Read, Lawrence.
Reed, Enos. Reemie, Marcus. Reney, William L. Reynolds, Nathaniel S.
Rice, Charles.
Lord, Joseph EL Lyon, John.

Lowell, Charles.
Mallard, David.
Manning, Samuel,
Miller, Joel. Meacham, Albert.
Jr.
Lyon, Isaac. Lyon, Leonard, Lord, Joseph W.

Lovell, Joshua.
Nevens, Elijah.
Newton, Abraham.
Noble, George. Nowell, Henry. Norton, Henry.
Rice, Joseph W. Richards, Edward.
Lyman, Samuel F.
Lake, Robert. Leonard, Thomas. Linscott, Samuel.
Richardson, Augustus. Richardson, Loa.
Rindge, Samuel.
Roberts, Rufus.
Lowden, George. Makepeace, Royal. Manning, Samuel. Manson, Frederick. Marcy, Marvin. Marshall, Josiah N.
Mason, Mason, Mason, Mason, Mason, Mason,
Alphonso.
Josiah.
Nowell, Mark. Nowell, James.
Oakes, Josiah. Oliver, David.

Orcutt, Levi.
Ruggles, John. Rule, James.

Russell, Nathan.
Russell, John.
Odin, David.
Oliver, Daniel.
Rand, James.
Richards, Sullivan. Robertson, John.
Orcutt, Henry.
Josiah, Jr.
Samuel.
Orne, John G. Page, Jacob. Page, Jonathan.
Roulston, George.
Roundy, Oliver.
Rumrill, Joseph. Russell, Phinehas.
Thomas. Walter R.
Palmer, John. Parker, Aaron.

Parker,
Roby, Ebenezer.
L.
Sales, Francis.
Mclntire, Charles.
Thomas
STATISTICS.
Saunders, Richard. Saunders, William.
Studley, George. Tarbell, John.
Tarbell, Samson. Teel, Arnmi C. Thayer, Richard.
451
Wetherbee, Jeremiah. Weld, John.
Wellington, Joel.
Sawin, Joshua.
Sawyer, Franklin. Sawyer, Samuel F. Scott, Ebenezer B.

Scott, Nathaniel.
Tidd, John.
Wheeler, Edward. Wheeler, John. Whipple, William J.
Thayer, Cephas P.
Train, Isaac.
Seaver, Richard.
Short,
Thomas W.
Trowbridge, John.
Tufts, Peter, Jr.
Whitney, Abel. Whitney, Zaccheus. Wilde, Daniel.

Willard, Abel. W'illard, Charles.
Skinner, Benjamin.
Slocomb, Emmons. Smith, Billings. Smith, Jacob.

Smith, Ralph. Soper, Frederick.
Tupper, Hiram. Tainter, William C.

Taylor, Daniel G.
Williams, Amasa. Williams, John.
Taylor, Coffin.
Taylor, David G.
Tilley, John.
Tirrell,
Winthrop, William. Worcester, Joseph E.
Southwick, Simeon.
Stearns, Asahel. Stebbins, Smith.
W yeth, Jacob.
r
Ebenezer.
Stedman, Ebenezer. Stedman, Samuel. Stevens, Atherton H. Stimson, James.

Stimson, Royal. Stone, Abraham.
Stone, Daniel. Stone, William F.
Turner, Barnabas. Valentine, Elijah F.
Wyeth, Job. Wyeth, Jonas. Wyeth, Jonas,
2d.
Walton, Charles. Walton, John. Walton, John, 2d.
White, Sewall. Wheelock, L. J. Walker, Edward.

Winchester, William. Wells, Thomas.
Ward, Winthrop.
Wadsworth, Ira. Ware, Galen. Warland, John. Warland, Thomas. Warland, William.
Waterhouse, Benjamin. Waters, Thomas.
Warner, Stephen. Wallace, James.

Whitney, Stephen. Woodbury, John. Wyeth, Stephen.
Snyder, John.
Sherman, Abraham P. Sherman, Prentice. Snow, Joseph. Summers, Samuel S.

Stevens, Alexander. Stone, Ezra.
Wyman,
William.
Watson, Jacob. Watson, Samuel. Watson, Samuel,
York, Uriah.
2d.
For nearly two hundred years after its foundation, Cambridge Most of the inincreased very slowly in population and wealth.
habitants were employed in agriculture and ordinary handicraft. The "New England Glass Company," established about 1814,
and sundry " soap
factories,"
represented almost the
entire
manufacturing interest of the town.

ers
;
The
College gave employ-
ment to several professors, mechanics, and boarding-house keepand there was a competent supply of professional men and
retail traders.
In those early days the municipal affairs were The school-houses and other very economically administered. public buildings were few and inexpensive the streets and sidewalks were neglected and unlighted thorough sewerage was un; ;
known
the
members
of the fire
and the
police consisted of
department were volunteers one constable in each of the three

;
452
As the result of this self-denying system, the principal villages. inhabitants enjoyed a grateful immunity from excessive taxation. In 1830 (near the close of the second century of its corporate
existence), with 1,514 polls, and property valued at $3,061,570, the town levied a tax of $8,387.88, at the rate of $2.26 on $1,000,
Even in 1840, the rate was only to defray its current expenses. $2.77 on $1,000 ; but in that year the Committee on Finance uttered a warning voice against a ruinous system, then recently introduced " There has been expended within the last six years $40,000 more than has been raised by taxation." The town debt
:
was then $36,600 it reached its highest point, $41,527.41, in 1842 after which it was reduced to $22,000 in 1846, when the town became a city. Meantime, an increase of population and wealth commenced, which from year to year became more rapid. Various manufactures were introduced, giving employment to many workmen. Merchants, mechanics, and others, transacting
; ;
business in Boston, adopted Cambridge as a residence. With this increase came naturally a demand for public improvements
and increased expenditures. Unwisely, instead of postponing such improvements, or making them gradually and paying for them when made, the policy was adopted of making them rapidly and extensively, and providing for the expense by the creation of
a City Debt.
lation
The
and wealth, and the much larger increase

POPULATION. 1
following tables exhibit the increase of popuof taxation and
debt.
1765,
STATISTICS.
453
454
Note of the City City Bonds
.
$30,000.00
3,186,000.00
$3,216,000.00
Daniel White Charity
5,000.00 10,000.00
Trust Funds
Dowse
Institute
( Sanders
State and County
Temperance Fund
10,000.00
25,000.00
Tax
84,426.47
3,883.08
Unpaid approved bills Unpaid interest, due Water Loan

Gross amount of outstanding debts
565.00
1,500,300.00
$4,830,174.55
" Towards the payment of this debt there was, November 30, 1876, in the hands of the
Commissioners of the Sinking Funds of the City (not in$14,080.00 paid on securities cluding the premium purchased for investment of the funds, as has been the
custom heretofore)
Trustees of the Sinking Funds of the Cambridge Water
531,945.85
179,441.33
27,157.58
Works, June
30,
1876
City Treasurer, cash
738,544.76
Leaving the
total net
debt of the City

*
November
30, 1876, $4,091,629.79
"
before stated,
Deducting the Water Loans from the net amount we have as

real Municipal Debt,
of debt, as
The
"
provision must be
November 30, 1876, made by taxation
for
which
$2,770,771.12
To pay
this portion of the debt, there
the interest, and provide for the Sinking Funds upon must be raised by taxation this
of 8188,162.50 for interest,
year the
sum
the Sinking Fund,
making a
total of $343,427.50, equal to
and $155,265.00 for more
than $5.50 per thousand on the valuation of the City, as deter-
mined
last year."
STATISTICS.
455
CENSUS OF MASSACHUSETTS
- 1875.1
MANUFACTURES AND BELATED OCCUPATIONS.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY. CITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
Number
NAMES OF INDUSTRIES.
ments.
of
Capital Invested.
Establish-
Value of Good made and Work

done.
MANUFACTURES.
Artists' Materials
2
1
$400
30,000 57,500 2,500 55,000 3,150 72,000 420,000 46,800 513,000
Barrels Barrels and Harnesses
2
1
Boats
Tanks, etc Boots and Shoes Bookbinding Book and Pamphlet Printing Bread, Cake, and Pastry Bricks Brittania Ware, Stationers' HardBoilers,
2
7
....
...
2 3 13
7
$2,672 201,000 56,650 18,000 180,550 9,135 435,300 551,000 261,222 249,275
33,000 9,375 221,000 377,500 83,885 12,000 34,000 49,978 79,900 175,350 550,000 131,375 9,700 500,000 150,000 75,000 60,000
5,000 1,050 616,837 8,725 248,100 370,500 5,000 15,750
ware, etc
Brooms
Brushes
Buildings
Carriages,
Wagons,
Sleighs, etc.
8 9
1
1
Car Springs Car Wheels

Cigars Clothing, Men's Coffins, Robes, etc Collars and Cuffs, Paper Confectionery and Ice Cream
12
6
....
.
.
2
1
30,000 1,500 90,000 105,000 55,500 6,000 20,000 12,300 14,550 100,500 140,000
22,081
Cordage
Crackers
Diaries
3 2
1
.
650
92,000 130,000 10,000 60,700
Drain Pipe, Chimney -Tops, etc. Earthenware Engine Polish, Boiler Composition,
etc
2
1
Fishing Rods Furniture, House, Church, and Office Furnace Registers and Borders
.
500 50
150,300 3,000 950,000 500,000
10
1 1
Gas
Glass Ware Glass Syringes, Tubes,
... Hardware Hats and Bonnets, Women's ...

etc.
2
1
1
500
10,000
500
125,000 10,000 160,000 15,000 110,000 10,000 386,000 4,000 108,000 91,500 265,000 35,000 9,000
800
32,500 40,000 420,000 10,500 605,646 50,000 480,493 8,000 1 70,000 138,080 231,000 103,600 35,000
Ice
2
1
Iron Castings Iron, Rolled Ladders, Steps, Clothes-Driers,
etc.
Leather
2 5
1
Lumber, Planed, Machinery Mats, Door
etc
4
1
Medicines, Proprietary Monuments, Mantels, Tablets, etc. Mouldings, Brackets, Boxes, etc.
etc.
2
.
Newspapers, Magazines, Oil Clothing and Water-proof Hats

*
...
3
6
1
Copied from advance sheets, kindly furnished by lion Carroll D. Wright, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor.
456
(Continued.)
MANUFACTURES AND BELATED OCCUPATIONS

Number
NAMES OP INDUSTRIES.
of EstablishCapital Invested.
Value of Goods
made and Work

done.
ments.
Oleomargarine and Stearine Organs, Cabinet and Church

Patterns,
... ...
3
1
50,000 571,000
Wooden
200
5,000 10,000 12,000 33,000
Photographs
Piano-fortes Piano-forte Actions
1
1
2
.
.
Piano and Organ Key-boards Piano Taborets Picture-Frames Pocket Books Printing, Job
1 1
400
5,300 1,000 21,000
3
1
3
1
69,000 1,036,000 1,000 15,000 6,060 33,200 137,604 4,000 10,700 6,195 27,500
Pumps, Wooden
300
6,000 45,000 5,500
250
17,500 199,347 31,000 7,500 4,000 120,000 928,800 51,300 22,550 4,000 4,000,000 10,000 321,068 14,800 9,790 80,000
1,550 1,200
Rum
Roofing Cement
2
1
Sausages
Shirts, Cuffs, and Collars Shirts, Overalls, and Jumpers
....
. .
3
1
1
550
1,000 10,000
Slippers
and Candles Soap, Tallow, Spring Beds and Cots

Stair Rails, Balusters, etc. Steel Engravings
... ...
2 2
1 1 1
168,500 18,000 4,500 2,000
Sugar, Refined Telescopes
Tinware Trunks and Valises

Tools, for Ice Cutting Wood, sawed and turned
5
1
....
for
2
1
20,000 204,850 3,000 4,500 65,000
Washstands and Woodwork Sewing-machines
1
1
Whips
OCCUPATIONS.
Bell-hanging Blacksmithing
700 300
100
25,815
800
102,262 5,000 11,999 200,000
23
1
Bookbinding
Building Moving Butchering Cabinet Making and Repairing . Carpentry and Joinery Carpet, Feather, and Hair Cleansing Carriage Trimming Carriage Painting Carriage Smithing Chair, Cane-seating Clock Repairing Clothes Cleaning, etc
.
500
4,000 5,000
2
1
400
25,760 4,600
182,070 4,300 2,750 9,600 10,500 1,100 1,500 1,930 7,342
26
1
4
7
325
2,700 2,300
4
5
4
6 9
1
98 110 50
4,025 4,745 6,000 4,500 12,000 190
Clothing, repairing and remodelling
Coat Making Cobbling Coffin and Casket Trimming Coopering Drain Building Dressmaking
Fruit Preserving
800
26,463 9,000 55,000 26,773 5,050 12,000
...
36
1
2
6
1 1
Funeral Wreath Preserving Furniture Repairing Fur Skin Dyeing
...
25,000
6
1
25 720 50
300
2,850
250
STATISTICS.
457
(Continued).
MANUFACTURES AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS

Number
NAMES OP INDUSTRIES.
of EstablishCapital Invested.
Value of Goods
made and Work

done.
ments.
Ham Curing Hair Work, etc. Harness and Saddle Repairing Horseshoeing
House Painting House and Sign Painting Japanning
Jewelry Repairing
Gilding Glazing
6
1
100 150
5,000
500
2,000 25,000
2
. .
850
4,600 1,700 8,500 200
18,830 13,800 54,925 2,500
10
4
8
1
....
. .
200 330
15,000 1,200 10,500 75
6,300 3,000 3,000 1,750 1,790 35,000 2,700 35,000
8
1
Lard Rendering Locksmithing and Bell-hanging

Machinists'
Work
Machine Stitching and Sewing Masoning Marble Finishing Marble Sawing

Millinery
2 3
5
1 1
320
44,274 8,000 7,500 10,238 1,500 39,500 6,327 135,000 1,800 6,000 750
8,945 80,946 43,200 1,320 6.000
Work
9
.
Organ-pipe Making and Repairing
200
7,750 6,230 75,000
Paper and Wood Hanging Paving Photographing Piano Hammer Covering

Picture Framing Plastering
Painting
...
6
1 1
1
....
Plumbing
Roofing Sign Painting Stair Building Steam and Gas Fitting Stone Cutting and Dressing
Tailoring
5 12
5
800 500 300 250 25,070

19,500
3
1
110
1,000 7,350
...
Tinsmithing Upholstering Varnishing and Polishing Watch Repairing Wheelwrighting Whitening and Coloring
4 2 16
7
24,000 500 21,150

15,575 1,400 2,120 6,100
....
12,800 95,000 2,200 67,246 76,250
....
2 10 9
600
8,450 14,300 1,450
50
AGGREGATES.
Manufactures (goods made) Occupations (work done)
.
211 321
$6,033,081
383,473
$6,686,554
$15,229,765 1,561,555
536
$16,971,320
458
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
1
Value.
Apples Beans, String and Shell

Beets
Cabbage
Carrots Corn, green Flowers, Leaves, and Vines, cut Fodder, corn
....
bush., bush., bush., heads, bush., bush.,

tons, bush., tons, tons, tons,
50 300 200
6,500
$50 300
100 300 50 80
25,000
100 90
2 6
Grapes Hay, English Hay, meadow Hay, salt

Lettuce
36 9
40 24 800
136
20
2,000 1,000 2,400 185
heads,
gals.,
Melons Milk Onions

Parsnips Pears
Pease, green
Peppers
Plants, flowering Potatoes, Irish
bush., bush., bush., bush., bush.,
150
2,900 75
300 40 100 600 200 100

7,200
30
275
3,000 1,150 10,000 18,000
and
other, in greenhouses
Radishes
Raspberries
bush., b'ches,
qts.,
Ibs.,
100 30 21,800 260 150 210

5,000
Shrubbery in nurseries Squashes
Tomatoes
Trees, Fruit, in nurseries Trees, Ornamental, in nurseries
bush.,
400
15,000 40,000 100
6,000
375 200
15,000 5,000
....
bush.,
Turnips Vines in nurseries
30
3,500
AGGKEGATES.
Hay, 65 tons Other Agricultural Products
$1,236 85,839
$87,075
Over and above home consumption.
CHAPTER
XXIII.
CIVIL OFFICERS.
THE
following
list
of civil officers, resident in

official
Cambridge,
is
compiled chiefly from
records.
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Elbridge Gerry, 1813, 1814.
GOVERNORS.
Thomas Dudley,
John Haynes,
1634.1
8 Elbridge Gerry, 1810, 181 1.
1635. 8
DEPUTY OR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS.
Thomas Dudley, 1630-1633. 1 Thomas Danforth, 1679-1692. 4
Spencer Phips,
1
732-1 757. 6
Thomas
6 Oliver, 1774.
ASSISTANTS UNDER THE FIRST CHARTER.

Simon Bradstreet, 1630-1636. 7
Thomas Dudley,
John
1635, 1636. Haynes, 1634, 1636.
Herbert Pelham, 1645-1649. Daniel Gookin, 1652-1675, 1677-1686. Thomas Danforth, 1659-1678.
Roger Harlakenden, 1636-1638.
COUNCILLORS UNDER THE SECOND CHARTER.
Thomas Danforth, 1693-1699. John Leverett, 1 706.

1
Thomas
8 Oliver, 1715.
Spencer Phips,
offices
721-1 723,
725-1 782.
Held one or other of these
every year, residing elsewhere, until he

died,
2
July 31, 1653. Afterwards for many years Governor
11, 1749, to Aug. 7, 1753, and from Sept. 25, 1756, until he died, April 4, 1757. 6 Left the country at the Revolution.
7 Mr. Bradstreet, residing elsewhere, remained in the office of Assistant until
of Connecticut.
8
He was
one of the signers of the Dec-
laration
of Independence. He was defeated as a candidate for Governor in

1812, but before the end of that year elected Vice-president of the United
was
1778, when he was elected Deputy Governor; in 1679 he was elected Governor, and held that office until 1692, except during the administration of Andros. He was a member of the Council under the
States, in
23, 1814.
which
office
he died, November
Second Charter, but
retired in 1693, after
4 Except during the administration of Andros. 6 He was acting Governor during the absence of Governor Shirley, from Sept.
sixty-three years' continuous official service, with the exception before named.
8
Died
1,
in office,
October 31, or Novem-
ber
1715.
460
Edmund
Trowbridge, 1764, 1765.
1776.
Jonathan Remington, 1730-1740.

Francis Foxcroft, 1732-1757. Samuel Danforth, 1739-1774.
John Winthrop, 1773, 1775, Francis Dana, 1776-1779.
William Brattle, 1755-1 7 73. 1
MANDAMUS COUNCILLORS,
Thomas
Oliver.
1774.
Joseph Lee.
All resigned in Sept. 1774.
Samuel Danforth.
COUNCILLORS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.

Aaron Hill, 1810, 1811, 1824, 1825. Samuel P. P. Fay, 1818, 1819.
Timothy
Fuller, 1828.
Sidney Willard, 1837, 1838. Albion K. P. Welch, 1868.
SENATORS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.

Elbridge Gerry, 1793.
Aaron Hill, 1797,1801-1808. William Winthrop, 1 799.
John Sargent, 1849, 1876. Anson Burlingame, 1852.

Zebina L. Raymond, 1855, 1856.
J.
Timothy
Fuller, 1813-1816.
M.
S. Williams, 1859.
Asahel Stearns, 1830, 1831.

Sidney Willard,
1840. 1834, 1835,
1839,
Stephen T. Farwell, 1860. John C. Dodge, 1862.
Knowlton
William Parmenter, 1836.

Francis
Bowman,
1837.
S. Chaff ee, 1868. Estes Howe, 1869, 1871. Robert O. Fuller, 1872, 1873.
Levi Farwell, 1838.
Ezra Parmenter, 1874, 1875.

Charles T. Russell, 1877.
John
P. Tarbell, 1842.
Isaac Livermore, 1844, 1845. Joseph T. Buckingham, 1846-1848,

1850, 1851.
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE GENERAL CouRT. 2

William Goodwin, 1634. William Spencer, 1634-1638.
Samuel Shepard, 1639, 1640, 1644,

1645.
John Talcott, 1634-1636. John Steele, 1635. Matthew Allen, 1636.

8 George Cooke, 1636, 1642-1645. Clement Chaplin, 1636. Joseph Cooke, 1636-1641.
Nath. Sparhawk,
1647.
1642-1644,
1646,
Edward Goffe, 1646, 1650. Edward Jackson, 1647-1654,

1665-1668,1675, 1676. Daniel Gookin, 1649, 1651. 4 Edward Collins, 1654-1670.
1656,
Nicholas Danforth, 1636, 1637.
Richard Jackson, 1637-1639,

1648, 1653, 1655, 1661, 1662. John Bridge, 1637-1639, 1641.
1641,
Thomas Danforth, 1657, 1658. Edward Oakes, 1659, 1660, 16691681.
Joseph Isaac, 1638. Gregory Stone, 1638.

1
Edward Winship,
1686.
8
4
1663, 1664, 1681-
Negatived by the Governor in 1759. Styled Deputies, under the First
Speaker in 1645. Speaker in 1651.
Charter.
CIVIL HISTORY.
Joseph Cooke [2d], 1671, 1676-1680. Thomas Prentice, 1672-1674.
461
John Stone, 1682, 1683. Samuel Champney, 1686, 1689-1692,

1694, 1695.
Jonathan L. Austin, 1803, 1806. 2 Daniel Mason, 1804-1806. William Whittemore, 1804-1806. Nathaniel P. Watson, 1807. Samuel Butterfield, 1807.
Josiah Mason, 1807.
David Fiske, 1689, 1697.
Thomas
Oliver,
1692,
1696,
1693, 1699,
1698,
Samuel P. P. Fay, 1808-1812, 18151818, 1820.
1701-1713.
John Leverett,
1706. 1
1700,
John Mellen, 1808-1812.

William
Hilliard,
1811-1817,
1821,
Jona. Remington, 1714, 1715, 1717, 1718, 1722-1728.
1822, 1827, 1834.
Royal Makepeace, 1813, 1814, 1818,

1827-1830.
Edmund
Andrew
Goffe, 1716, 1720, 1721. Bordman, 1719, 1720.
James
P. Chaplin, 1819.
Spencer Phip?, 1721. William Brattle, 1729-1733,

1736, 1754, 1755, 1770.
1735,
Richard H. Dana, 1819. Levi Farwell, 1823-1825, 1833-1835,

1844.
Samuel Danforth, 1734, 1735, 1737,

1738.
Newell Bent, 1824-1826.
Deming
1831.
Jarvis, 1824.
Fuller,
8
John Vassall, 1739, 1740, 1747. Samuel Bowman, 1741.
Timothy
1825,
1827,
1828,
Andrew Bordman
1757-1768.
[2d],
1742-1751,
Ephraim Buttrick,
Isaac Train, 1826.
1825, 1827, 1828.
Edmund
Henry
Trowbridge,
1750-1752,
William
J.
Whipple, 1826, 1828-1834,
1755, 1763, 1764.

Vassall, 1752, 1756.
1836-1838.
William Fletcher, 1753, 1754.
William Parmenter, 1829. Francis Dana, 1829.
David Phips, 1 753. Henry Prentice, 1 756. Joseph Lee, 1764, 1765.
John Trowbridge, 1829, 1834. Ralph Smith, 1829, 1835, 1837.

Benjamin Bigelow, 1830, 1835.
Thomas Gardner, 1769-1774.

John Winthrop, 1774. Abraham Watson, Jr., 1775, 1776. Samuel Thatcher, 1775, 1776, 1779,
1782, 1784-1786.
James Hayward, 1830-1832, 1835.

Jesse Hall, 1830.
Abraham P. Sherman, 1830, 1831. Thomas Whittemore, 1831-1833, 1836,

1837.
William Bowman, 1776. Eliphalet Robbins, 1776.

Stephen Sewall, 1777. Stephen Dana, 1778, 1787, 1788, 1792.
1793.
Levi Parker, 1831, 1834, 1836. Josiah Mason, Jr., 1832.
Samuel King, 1832, 1833.

Davies, 1832-1834. Sidney Willard, 1833, 1837, 1843. Charles Everett, 1833.
Amasa
Thomas
Farrington, 1780.
.
Jeduthun
Wellington, 1788, 1793, 1794, 1800-1802, 1804-1806. Aaron Hill [Deac.], 1789, 1790.
Robert Fuller, 1834.
Thomas B. Gannett,
1838.
1834, 1835, 1837,
Ebenezer Bradish, 1791.
Luther Brooks, 1835-1839.

Eliab
Aaron
Joseph
1
Hill [Dr.], 1795-1800.
W.
Metcalf, 1835.
Bartlett, 1801.
Jos. T.
8
Buckingham, 1836, 1838, 1839.
Speaker in 1700. Mr. Austin was Secretary of State, 1806-1807, and State Treasurer, 1811.
2
Speaker, 1825.
462
Isaac
1841,
Livermore, 1836, 1838, 1842, 1849. Charles C. Little, 1836, 1837. Abraham Edwards, 1836.
George
Francis L. Chapman, 1860-1861. W. McLellan, 1860, 1861.

Charles Beck, 1862, 1864. Hamlin R. Harding, 1862, 1867.
Anson Hooker, 1861, 1862.
Enos Reed, 1837. Ezekiel Hayden, 1839, 1840, 1844.

Joel Giles, 1840.
Knowlton
S. Chaffee, 1863.
James D. Green,
1853, 1854.
1841-1843, 1846,
Charles F. Choate, 1863. P. Francis Wells, 1863.

J.
Warren
Merrill, 1864.
Sylvanus Plympton, 1842, 1843. John Sargent, 1844-1848.
Lorenzo Marrett, 1864, 1865.

George S. Saunders, 1865, 1866. George P. Carter, 1865, 1866. Isaac S. Morse, 1866. Richard H. Dana, Jr., 1867, 1868. John S. March, 1867. Anson P. Hooker, 1867, 1868.
Curtis Davis, 1868, 1870, 1874.
John
S.
Ladd, 1845-1847, 1852.
Charles R. Metcalf, 1845.
Samuel Batchelder, 1847.

Stephen T. Farwell, 1848-1852. William Wyman, 1848, 1849.
Charles Wood, 1850, 1851. Justin Jones, 1850-1852. Willard Phillips, 1851.
Franklin Sawyer,
Jr., 1851.
JohnMcDuffie, 1868, 1871, 1872. Asa P. Morse, 1869, 1873. James R. Morse, 1869, 1870.
1867,
Isaiah Bangs, 1852, 1853.
John
Livermore,
1852,
1853,
Charles A. Fiske, 1869. Martin L. Smith, 1869.

Charles J. Mclntire, 1869, 1870.
1868.
William A. Brewer, 1853.
Joseph Whitney, 1853, 1854.

Franklin Hall, 1854, 1856.
Joseph Newmarch, 1870. Alonzo B. Wentworth, 1870.

Charles F. Walcott, 1871, 1872.
Thaddeus B. Bigelow, 1854.

Justin A. Jacobs, 1854. Stephen Smith, 1855.
J.
Robert O. Fuller, 1871.

Curtis C. Nichols, 1871, 1872.
M. S. Williams, 1855. Oliver T. Leighton, 1855. David S. Buck, 1855.
Ezra Parmenter, 1871, 1872. John W. Hammond, 1872, 1873.

George P. Sanger, 1873. Joshua B. Smith, 1873, 1874. Samuel W. McDaniel, 1873. Levi L. Cashing, Jr., 1874, 1875. Daniel H. Thurston, 1874. 1875. Jeremiah W. Coveney, 1874-1876.
Asa
George Fisher, 1855. F. Lawrence, 1856. William Parker, 1856.

1857.
Eben Manson, 1856. Henry S. Hills, 1856,
Edward Kendall,
1875, 1876.
William A. Saunders, 1857, 1858.
Austin C. Wellington, 1875, 1876.
Wm.
John
T. Richardson, 1857, 1859. C. Dodge, 1857.

,
Leander M. Hannum, 1876, 1877. Solomon S. Sleeper, 1876, 1877.
Josiah Burrage, Jr. 1857. Nathan K. Noble, 1858-1860. William Page, 1858.
Emory W'ashburn,
1877.
Oliver J. Rand, 1877. Charles F. Thurston, 1877.
Alanson Bigelow, 1859.
Joseph
J. Kelley, 1877.
SELECTMEN. 1
John Haynes, Feb. 1634-1635. Simon Bradstreet, Feb; 1634-1635.
1
John
Talcott, Feb. 1634-1635. William Westwood, Feb. 1634-1635.
Styled
Townsmen
until 1656.
It is certain,
from the Records, that the Con-
CIVIL HISTORY.
John White, Feb. 1634-1635. William Wadsworth, Feb. 1634-1635. James Olmstead,* Feb. 1634-1635.1
Roger Harlakenden, 1635-1638. William Spencer, 1635.
Herbert Pelham, 1645.
463
Thomas
Beale, 1645, 1647, 1651, 1653. 1671.
Richard Hildreth, 1645.
Thomas Danforth, 1645-1669,

John Cooper,
1646, 1648, 1650, 1652,
Andrew Warner, 1635. Joseph Cooke, 1635-1637, 1639, 1641,

-
1654, 1656-1681, 1683, 1685-1690.
Robert Holmes,* 1649, 1657, 1662.
1643, 1645.
John Bridge, 1635, 1637-1639, 16411644, 1646, 1647, 1649, 1652.
Roger Bancroft, 1649-1651. John Fessenden, 1650, 1655-1666. John Jackson,* 1650.
Richard Robbins,* 1651, 1655.
Clement Chaplin, 1635.

Nicholas Danforth, 1635-1637.
Thomas Fox,
1652, 1658, 1660-1662,
Thomas Hosmer,
1635.
1664-1672, 1674, 1675.
William Andrews, 1635, 1640. Richard Jackson, 1636, 1637, 1641,

1644, 1654, 1656.
William Manning, 1652, 1666-1670,

1672, 1675-1681, 1683.
John Hastings,* 1653.
Edward
Goffe, 1636, 1637, 1639, 1641, 1643, 1644, 1646-1655. Simon Crosby, 1636, 1638.
Thomas Oakes,* Thomas
1653.
Samuel Hyde,* 1653.

Prentice,* 1 654. Gilbert Crackbone,* 1656, 1663. Philip Cooke,* 1655.
Barnabas Lamson, 1636.
Edward Winship,
1637, 1638, 1642-
1644, 1646, 1648, 1650, 1651, 1662, 1663, 1673, 1682, 1684.
Richard Parkes,* 1656.
Edward Shepard,*
1656.
George Cooke, 1638, 1642, 1643. Samuel Shepard, 1638.

Joseph Isaac, 1638.
Marritt, 1639-1641, 1646, 1647. John Moore,* 1639.
Robert Parker,* 1656.
Thomas Hammond,*
John Watson,
1644,
1657, 1677.
1657, 1665, 1682, 1684,
Thomas Thomas
Parish, 1639, 1640.
Nathaniel Sparhawk, 1658, 1677-1680. 1683, 1685,1686.
John Shepard,*
1658.
Thomas Brigham,
1647.
1639, 1640, 1642,
Francis Moore, 1659, 1673-1681, 1683, 1685-1687.
Angier,* 1640. John Stedman, 1640, 1647-1649, 1651, 1653-1655, 1669-1676.
Edmund
Thomas Longhorn,* 1659. Thomas Cheney,* 1659. Thomas Chesholme,* 1660,

John Ward,*
1660.
1664.
Abraham Shaw, 1640. Edward Collins,* 1641.

Roger Shaw, 1641, 1642, 1644, 1645. John Russell, 1642, 1643, 1648.
Richard Eccles,* 1660, 1669.

Daniel Gookin, 1660-1672. Richard Dana,* 1661.
Abraham Errington,*
Walter
1661.
Edward Oakes, 1642-1646,

1670-1678.
stables acted as
1648, 1649,
Hastings, 1661, 1669,
1673-
1652, 1655, 1657-1664, 1666-1668,
1681, 1683, 1685-1705. Jonathan Hyde,* 1662, 1676.

as
members of
the
Board of
Constables,
are
distinguished
by a
Townsmen
there
is
or Selectmen until 1666; and no evidence that they ceased so to
star (*).
1 Mr. Olmstead was elected Constable, Nov. 3, 1634, before the office of Townsman was established and still earlier, in May, 1632, Edmund Lock wood was ap;
act until the first Charter

in 1686.
was abrogated
cluded in this
Their names are therefore inlist but the names of those persons who were never members of that Board, except by virtue of their election
;
pointed Constable by the General Court, and John Benjamin, May 29, 1633.
464
Ephraim Winship,* 1679. John Oldham, 1679, 1695-1698, 17001703, 1706-1708, 1711-1714.
Edward Hall,* 1663. Thomas Brown,* 1663.

John Greene,* 1664.
Isaac Williams,* 1664.
John Hastings,* 1680.

Nathaniel Wilson,* 1680.
Thomas Parks,* 1665, 1685. Edward Jackson, 1665, 1682.

Samuel Andrews, 1666, 1681-1693. James Trowbridge,* 1666.
Joseph Cooke,* 1667, 1689. William Dickson, 1667, 1679, 1680,
1682, 1684.
John Russell,* 1680. James Prentice,* 1680.
Abraham Holman,
James
1681, 1684, 1685.
Cutler, Jr.,* 1681. Sebeas Jackson,* 1681.
Gregory Cooke,* 1667. Francis Whitmore,* 1668, 1682. Peter Towne, 1668, 1676, 1690, 1691,
1694, 1695.
Solomon Prentice,* 1682. Nathaniel Patten,* 1682.

Samuel Buck,* 1G83.
Abraham Jackson,*
1683.
John Spring,* 1668, 1678. John Fuller,* 1669, 1675. Samuel Goffe,* 1670. Thomas Prentice, Jr.,* 1670. Samuel Champney, 1670, 1681-1687,
1689, 1691, 1692, 1694.
Samuel Gookin,* 1683. John Tidd,* 1683. David Fiske, Jr.,* 1684.
Joseph Russell,* 1684.
John Prentice,* 1684. James Hubbard,* 1685.
Thomas
Cutler,* 1685.
John Kendrick,* 1671. John Gove, 1671, 1684, 1690, 1697.

William Barrett, 1671, 1681. Samuel Hastings, 1672, 1691, 1692. Daniel Bacon,* 1672.
Aaron Bordman,* 1686. Thomas Andrews,* 1686. Ebenezer Wiswall,* 1686.

Philip Russell, 1686, 1700, 1701.
Edward
1701.
Wins-hip,
1691-1693, 1695-
Marmaduke Johnson,*
1672.
Nathaniel Hancock,* 1673, 1685.
James
Samuel Stone, 1673, 1681, 1688, 1692.

Daniel Champney, 1673, 1684, 1686,
1687.
Abraham
William
Oliver, 1694, 1698, 1699. Hill, 1695, 1696.
Noah Wiswall,*
1673.
Russell, 1697, 1700-1702, 1704, 1705, 1712-1714. Joseph Simons, 1698, 1699.
Job Hyde,* 1674. John Palfrey,* 1674. Jonathan Remington,
1674,
1688,
William Reed, 1698, 1699. John Leverett, 1699, 1700. Samuel Sparhawk, 1701-1705, 1709,
1710.
1689, ,1691-1694, 1698-1700. Isaac Stearns,* 1674.
Samuel
1716.
Cooper,
1702-1710,
1712-
Matthew Bridge,* 1675. John Jackson, 1675, 1693, 1694. David Fiske, 1676, 1688. Andrew Bordman,* 1676.
Francis
Andrew Bordman
1719-1730, 1732.
[2d], 1706-1710,
Bowman,
1677, 1689, 1696,
Joseph Winship, 1706, 1725. Jason Russell, 1707-1709, 1711.

Josiah Parker, 1710.
1700-1711.
Nicholas Fessenden,* 1677, 1692.
Christopher Reed,* 1677. John Marrett,* 1678. John Winter,* 1678.
John Dickson, 1711, 1717, 1722-1724.
Thomas
Blodgett, 1711.
Jonathan
Jcsej;h
Remington
1712.
[2d],
1712,
1715-1719.
Thomas Foster,*
John Mason,*
1678.
Bowman,
Bordman,
Jonas Clarke, 1679, 1690.

1679.
Moses
1713-1718,
1720-
1724, 1726, 1727, 1731, 1733-1736.
CIVIL HISTORY.
Joseph Coolidge, 1713, 1714, 1730. Daniel Dana, 1715, 1725. William Cutter, 1715, 1718-1721. Samuel Kidder, 1716, 1719-1721. Nath. Sparhawk, 1716-1724, 1726,
1727, 1730.
465
Cutter, 1757.
Gershom
William Dana, 1757, 1765-1768.
Joseph Adams,
Jr.,
1758, 1769-1771.
Ephraim
Frost, Jr., 1758, 1760, 1761,
1763-1768, 1772-1777.
Ebenezer Stedman, 1759-1764, 17671776, 1786-1790, 1796-1801.

1726,
Edmund
Samuel
Goffe, 1717, 1718.
Bowman, 1722-1724,
1727, 1735-1743.
Henry Prentice, 1761-1765. Abraham Watson, Jr., 1765,
1766.
John Bradish, 1725, 1729, 1730, 1732,

1735, 1736.
Joseph Wellington, 1769-1773, 1776. Abij ah Learned, 1769-1771.
Francis
1734.
Foxcroft,
Jr.,
1725,
1727,
1728,
1730,
Thomas Gardner, 1769-1775. Edward Marrett, 1769-1777.

Nath 1 Sparhawk, 1772-1775. Samuel Thatcher, 1773-1776, 1780.
Ephraim
1735.
Frost,
1725,
Nathaniel
Bowman,
Davis,
1726.
1786.
Solomon Prentice [2d], 1728.
John Cutter,
1731,
Gershom
1732.
1728,
1729,
Jr., 1774, 1775. Eliphalet Robbins, 1775-1776.
Stephen Dana, 1776-1778,1787, 1788,

1793, 1794.
Brattle,
John
Cutter, 1728, 1T36, 1741.
William
1729,
1731-1733,
1731,
Deac. Aaron Hill, 1777, 1778, 1787,

1788.
1748-1757, 1766-1772.
Joseph
Adams,
1729,
1732,
1737, 1738. Isaac Watson, 1731, 1737, 1738.
Jonas Wyeth, 1777, 1778. Benjamin Locke, 1777, 1778.
Edward Jackson,
1782.
1777,
1778, 1780-
Samuel Danforth, 1733, 1734, 17371739.
Thomas
Farrington, 1778. 1779.
Henry Dunster, 1733, 1734. Samuel Smith, 1733.

Benjamin Dana,
1743.
Jr.,
1734-1736, 1742,
Benjamin Cooper, 1778. William Howe, 1779. Gideon Frost, 1779-1785. William Adams, 1779.
Samuel Sparhawk, 1737-1741. John Vassall, 1739, 1740, 1747.

Jonathan Butterfield,
Jr., 1739, 1740. [2d], 1740-1769. Joseph Bean, 1741. Jacob Hill, 1742.
Ammi
Cutter, 1779, 1786.
John Gardner, 1779. Moses Robbins, 1779,

1790-1792.
1781-1786,
Andrew Bordman
John Wyeth, 1 780. Jeduthun Wellington, 1780-1785, 1792

-1802, 1805.
John Winship, 1742.
Edmund
Trowbridge, 1743-1746. Capt. Sam. Whittemore, 1743-1746, 1748-1757, 1759, 1762.
Samuel Whittemore 3d, 1780. Ebenezer Seaver, 1780. Ebenezer Wyeth, 1781-1785,
1790.
1789,
Stephen Prentice, 1744. Thomas Sparhawk, 1744, 1745, 1747,

1750-1764.
John Adams, 1781, 1782, 1791-1795. Ephraim Frost, Jr., 1783-1788.

Daniel Dana, 1783. Jonathan Winship, 1784-1789, 1793,
1794.
Abraham Watson, 1745-1749, 17571760.
Caleb Dana, 1746, 1748, 1749.
John Butterfield, 1747. John Wyeth, 1750-1756.

30
William Winthrop, 1786, 1789-1791, 1793, 1794, 1799, 1800-1802.
466
Walter
1792.
Dickson,
1786-1788,
1791,
Henry Messenger, 1819-1821.

Isaac Train, 1820-1822, 18'.'5-1827. Thomas Warland, 1822, 1823.
Samuel Butterfield, 1787, 1788.
Ephraim Cook, 1789, 1790. Samuel Locke, 1789, 1790. James Robbins, 1 789. Moses Griggs, 1790-1792.
Richard Richardson, 1791-1795.
Lusher Gay, 1822. Samuel F. Sawyer, 1823-1825.
Deming
Jarvis, 1823, 1824.
Lincoln Brigham, 1823.
John Whitney, 1824,
1825.
George Prentiss, 1791, 1792. John Walton, 1793, 1794, 1796-1798,

1809-1811.
Isaiah Bangs, 1824-1826. Jabez Fisher, 1825, 1826, 1840.
Tim. L. Jennison, 1795, 1806, 1817. Dr. Aaron Hill, 1795-1805, 1807.
Nathaniel
1806.
William Brown, 1826-1828. William Fiske, 1827.
Ephraim Buttrick, 1827-1831, 1842,

1843.
Champney,
1795-1801,
Ebenezer Brown, 1795-1801, 18031805.
Josiah Mason, Jr., 1828-1831. Atherton H. Stevens, 1828-1831.
Edmund
Eliab
William Locke, 1796-1802. Ebenezer Hall, 1802-1804.
W.
T. Hastings, 1828-1830. Metcalf, 1829-1833.
James
Frost, 1802-1805, 1807.
James Hayward, 1831, 1832. Ralph Smith, 1832-1835, 1837.

Luther Brooks, 1832-1835, 1837. Robert Fuller, 1832-1834.
Dudley Hardy, 1802-1806. Thomas Mason, 1802, 1811-1814. John Holbrook, 1802.
Daniel Mason, 1803-1805. William Whittemore, Jr., 1803-1805.
Nathaniel P. Watson, 1806, 1807.
Wm.
J.
Whipple, 1833-1835.
1835.
John Chamberlin, 1834,
Joseph Burridge, 1835, 1836. William Parmenter, 1836.

Charles C. Little, 1836-1841.
Jesse Hall, 1836.
Asa
Nichols,
806.
Benjamin Locke, 1806, 1807. Jonathan Whittemore, 1806, 1807. Newell Bent, 1807, 1822-1824. Nathan Fiske, 1807. John Mellen, 1808-1810. John Hayden, 1808-1811.
Royal Makepeace, 1808-1811. William Billiard, 1808-1816,
1822, 1826, 1827. Josiah Mason, 1808.
1818,
William Hunnewell, 1836, 1837.
Nathan Childs, 1837, 1838. Walter R. Mason, 1838, 1839. John L. Hobbs, 1838, 1839. Walter M. Allen, 1840, 1841.
Jonathan Wheeler, 1840.
Sidney Willard, 1841, 1844. William H. Odiorne, 1841. Levi Parker, 1841.
Benjamin Bigelow, 1812-1814.
Thomas
Austin, 1812, 1813, 1815.
Thomas Whittemore, 1842, James Luke, 1842, 1843.

Sylvanus Plympton, 1842. William Saunders, 1842. Jacob H. Bates, 1843.
Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1843. Stephen T. Farwell, 1844.
1843.
PhinehasB. Hovey, 1812-1814.

Josiah Moore, 1814.
Job Wyeth, 1814, 1815. John Cook, 1815, 1816.

Rufus Fiske, 1815, 1816, 1839, 1840. Josiah Hovey, 1816-1818. Abel Whitney, 1816, 1838, 1839.
William
Wyman,
1844, 1845.
Josiah Burrage,
Jr., 1844, 1845.
John Williams, 1817.

Levi Farwell, 1817-1821. Thomas L. Parker, 1817-1822.
Jonas Wyeth, 1844. James D. Green, 1845. Alex. H. Ramsay, 1845.

Charles
Luke Hemenway,
Jonas Wyeth
1818, 1819.
Wood,
1845.
2d, 1819-1821.
CIVIL HISTORY.
467
ASSESSORS. 1
Walter Hastings, 1694, 1697, 1698,
1700-1705.
Joseph
Adams,
1729,
1731, 1730.
1732,
1737, 1738.
Samuel Stone, 1694, 1697, 1698.
Andrew Bordman,
Jr.,
Thomas
Oliver, 1706, 1715.
1694,
1697-1699,
William Brown, 1730. Isaac Watson, 1731.
Josiah Parker, 1699. Francis Bowman, 1699-1709, 1711.
Henry Dunster, 1733,
1734.
Jonathan Remington, 1700. Edward Winship, 1700, 1701. John Oldham, 1700, 1701, 1710-1714,
1716, 1718, 1719, 1721, 1727.
William
Russell, 1700, 1701, 1705, 1712, 1714. Philip Russell, 1700, 1701.
1704,
Samuel Smith, 1733. Benjamin Dana, 1734-1736, 1742. Samuel Sparhawk [2d], 1737-1741. Jonathan Butterfield, 1739, 1740. John Winship, 1742. 2 Samuel Whittemore, 1743-1746,
1748-1757, 1759, 1762.
Edmund
Trowbridge, 1744.
1744, 1745, 1747,
Samuel Sparhawk, 1701, 1703-1705,

1707-1709.
Thomas Sparhawk,
1750-1764.
Andrew Bordman,
Samuel
Cooper,
1702, 1707, 17091713, 1715, 1716, 1718.
Caleb Dana, 1746, 1748, 1749.
John
Butterfield, 1747.
1704,
1705,
1708,
Abraham Watson, 1747-1749,

1758, 1765, 1766.
1757,
1709, 1714.
Samuel Kidder, 1706, 1715.

Jason Russell, 1709, 1710.
John Wyeth, 1750-1756.

Joseph Adams, Jr., 1758. Ebenezer Stedman, 1759-1764, 17671776.
Joseph Coolidge, 1710, 1714. Joseph Bowman, 1712.
Moses Bordman, 1714, 1717, 17331736.
Ephraim
Frost, Jr., 1760, 1761,. 1763
William Cutter, 1716. Jonathan Remington [2d], 1717.
-1768, 1772, 1775-1777. William Dana, 1765-1768.
Edmund
Nath.
1726.
GofFe, 1717.
Joseph Wellington, 1769-1771. Thomas Gardner, 1769-1775.
Sparhawk,
1717,
1722-1724,
John Cutter,
Jr., 1774.
John Dickson, 1717-1720, 1722, 1723. John Bradish, 1719-1721, 1725, 1726,
1729, 1732.
Nathaniel Sparhawk [2d], 1775. Eliphalet Robbins, 1776, 1779.
Aaron
1792.
Hill,
1777, 1778, 1782, 1786-
Daniel Dana, 1720, 1725.
Stephen
1806.
Dana,
1777,
1778,
1780-
John
Cutter, 1721, 1724, 1727, 1728, 1736, 1741.
Benjamin Locke, 1778, 1788, 1789.

Farrington, 1779. Cutter, 1779, 1781-1786. Abraham Watson [2d], 1780, 1781.
Samuel
Bowman, 1722-1724,
Frost,
1727,
1730,
Thomas
1737-1743, 1745, 1746.
Ammi
1726,
Ephraim
1735.
1725,
Samuel Andrew, 1728. Gershom Davis, 1728,

1732.
1
William Whittemore, 1780. Samuel Thatcher, 1783-1786.

1729, 1731,
Thomas
Cutter, 1787.
Samuel Locke, 1790-1805.

the duty in the
2
The Selectmen performed
Capt. Samuel Whittemore.
of Assessors, until 1697, except
year 1694.
468
Abraham
P. Sherman, 1838, 1839. William H. Odiorne, 1840.
Ebenezer Wyeth, 1793-1796. Aaron Hill [2d], 1797-1805, 1807.

Josiah Moore, 1806, 1808-1813.
Ezekiel Harden, 1840.

1841, 1842, 1847. 1841. Willard, Sidney Lucius R. Paige, 1842-1846.
Ira
Ichabod Fessenden, 1806.
Wads worth,
George Prentice, 1807. Newell Bent, 1807.

Maj. Jonas Wyeth, 1808, 1809, 1812, 1813, 1817-1819.
Jacob H. Bates, 1842, 1843.
Omen
S. Keith, 1844.
Thomas Mason, 1808-1813,

1825, 1826, 1831-1835.
1815.
Benjamin Bigelow, 1810, 1811, 1814,

Royal Makepeace, 1814.
Royal Morse, 1845, 1846. Jonas Wyeth 2d, 1847-1849. James Luke, 1847. Josiah W. Cook, 1848, 1849, 1855.
Thomas
Austin, 1814, 1815.

1816.
Edward
G. Stevens, 1848-1850, 1854.

1850.
Nathaniel Livermore, 1815.
William L. Whitney, 1850-1852.
Loammi Baldwin,
John Hews,
Charles
Richard H. Dana, 1816, 1817. Rufus Fisk, 1816, 1818, 1837. William Billiard, 1817-1819. Jabez Fisher, 1819. Wm. J. Whipple, 1820-1841.
Isaac Train, 1820, 1821.
Wood, 1851-1854.
Joseph Whitney, 1851-1853, 1857. George Coolidge, 1853, 1854, 1856,

1857.
Joseph H. Rice, 1855.

Ozias Clark, 1855.
Luke Hemenway, 1820-1822. Deming Jarvis, 1822, 1823.

Lusher Gay, 1823.
Peter Tufts, Jr., 1824.
W. Bruce, 1856, 1860. Atherton H. Stevens, 1856. Alvaro Blodgett, 1857. William Frost, 1858-1863.
Abel
George
Livermore, 1858, 1859. Green, 1860-1877. Artemas Z. Brown, 1861-1877.
Samuel
1846.
S.
Green, 1824-1837, 1843-
W.
J.
Andrew
John Wheeler, 1827-1830. John Trowbridge, 1836.

Eliphalet Davis, 1838, 1839.
Charles H. Saunders, 1864-1867. LeviL. dishing, Jr., 1868-1877.
TOWN
William Spencer, 1632-1635. Joseph Cooke, 1636, 1637, 1639-1641. 2 Joseph Isaac, 1638. 8 1642. Shaw, Roger
CLERKS. 1
Andrew Bordman [3d], 1 769-1 779. 5 Thomas Farrington, 1780-1782.

William Winthrop, 1782-1788. Timothy L. Jennison, 1789-1797, 1806. Aaron Hill, 1798-1805.
Thomas Danforth, 1645-1668.

John Cooper, 1669-1681. Samuel Andrew, 1682-1692.
Jona. Remington, 1693, 1698-1700. Samuel Green, 1694-1697. Andrew Bordman, 1 700-1 730. 4
Timothy
Fuller, 1807.
William Billiard, 1808-1816. Levi Farwell, 1817-1826.
Thomas
Foster, 1827.
Andrew Bordman
1
[2d], 1731-1769.
William J. Whipple, 1828-1830. Luther S. Gushing, 1831.

Probably. Elected May 18, 1700, in place of Jonathan Remington, deceased.
5
The Records were kept by

styled
of the
officer
the Clerk Selectmen until 1693, when an
"Town
Clerk" was
first
elccted.
2
Elected June
2,
1769,
upon the
de-
Probably.
cease of his father.
CIVIL HISTORY.
John
P. Tarbell, 1832-1834.
469
Henry M. Chamberlain, 1835-1838.
Lucius R. Paige, 1839, 1843-1846. Thomas B. Gannett, 1840-1842.
TOWN TREASURKRS. 1
Samuel Andrew, 1694-1699. Jona. Remington, 1700. Andrew Bordman, 1701-1747.
Abraham Watson, 1779-1781. Ebenezer Stedman, 1786-1 80S. 4 Samuel Bartlett, 1809-1815.
Andrew Bordman
8 [2d], 1747-1769.
Loammi Baldwin,
1816.
John Foxcroft, 1769-1771. 8 Samuel Thatcher, 1772-1776, 17821786.
William Hilliard, 1817-1820. Levi Farwell, 1821-1836. Abel W. Bruce, 1837-1846.
Andrew Bordman
[3d], 1777, 1778.
OFFICERS AFTER THE INCORPORATION OF THE CITY.

MAYORS.
James D. Green, 1846, 1847, 1853,
1860, 1861.
George C. Richardson, 1863.

J.
Warren
Merrill, 1865, 1866.
Sidney Willard, 1848-1850. George Stevens, 1851, 1852. Abraham Edwards, 1854. Zebina L. Raymond, 1855, 1864.
Ezra Parmenter, 1867. Charles H. Saunders, 1868, 1869. Hamlin R. Harding, 1870, 1871.
Henry O. Houghton,
1872.
John Sargent, 1856-1859.

Charles T. Russell, 5 1861, 1862.
Isaac Bradford, 1873-1876. Frank A. Allen, 1877.
ALDERMEN.
Samuel Batchelder, 1846. Ephraim Buttrick, 1846, 1848. Samuel P. P. Fay, 1846. William Fisk, 1846.
Joseph
Charles
S. Hastings, 1846, 1847.
Lorenzo Marrett, 1849, 1850, 1852. Charles R. Metcalf, 1849.

Jonas Wyeth 2d, 1849. Isaiah Bangs, 1850.
Edmund A. Chapman,
1850, 1851.
Wood,
1846, 1847.
Stephen T. Farwell, 1847, 1848. Walter R. Mason, 1847. William Saunders, 1847.
Stephen Smith, 1850-1852, 1854. Abraham Edwards, 6 1851-1853.
John Hews, 1851. Anson Hooker, 1851,
1852.
Abraham
P.
Sherman, 1847.
Isaac Fay, 1848.
Richard C. Joseph, 1851. Thaddeus B. Bigelow, 1852.
Wm.
George Stevens, 1848-1850, 1855. L. Whitney, 1848, 1871, 1872,

1874, 1875.
Ambrose Chamberlain, 1852, John W. Donallan, 1853.
1853.
Thomas Whittemore,
1848.
George W. Livermore, 1853, 1854. George Meacham, 1853.
George Cummings, 1849.

Calvin Dinoick, 1849-1851.
1
John Taylor, 1853.
Henry M. Chamberlain,
Treasurer
"
*
1854, 1859.
No
was
2
officer styled elected until 1694.

3,
"
Town
Elected July 10, 1786, in place of Col.
Elected Aug.
1747,
upon the
de-
cease of his father.

8
Elected June
2,
1769, in place of
An-
Thatcher, deceased. 6 Elected July 31, 1861, in place of James I). Green, resigned. 8 Elected Oct. 6, 1851, in place of Ed-
drew Bordman, deceased.
mund
A. Chapman, deceased.
470
Henry
S. Hills, 1854.
John Livermore, 2 1863-1865. Ezra Parmenter, 1863, 1864, 1866. John P. Putnam, 1863.
George P. Carter, 1864, 1865.
Charles F. Choate, 1864-1866.
Linus A. Phillips, 1854. William A. Saunders, 1854, 1867. John B. Cook, 1855, 1856. Isaac Cutler, 1855-1857.
John Dudley, 1855. James W. Gates, 1855.

Joseph R. Knight, 1855. George H. Davies, 1856-1858.
Isaac Davis, 1856.
Arthur Merrill, 1864.
James R. Morse, 1864. 8 Fordyce M. Stimson, 1864. 1865. H. 1864, Tyler, Joseph
George B. Lathrop, 1865, 1866. Alpheus Mead, 1865, 1866, 1869.
George
W.
Fifield, 1856, 1857.
Edward T. Whitney, 1856-1858. John B. Atwill, 1857-1860. James G. Hovey, 1857. John Remick, 1 1857, 1858. Knowlton S. Chaffee, 1858, 1859.
Chester
W.
Kingsley, 1858.
Rice, 1858.
James M. Price, 1865. John L. Sands, 1865, 1866. Sumner Albee, 1866. John N. Meriam, 1866, 1867. Asa P. Morse, 1866. John M. Tyler, 1866, 1867.
William Gibson, 1867.
Thomas G.
James P. Richardson, 1858-1860. Solomon Sargent, 1858.

Albion K. P. Welch, 1858, 1859.
Josiah Burrage, 1859, 1860. Francis L. Chapman, 1859,
1860,
Watson B. Hastings,
1867, 1868.
William Page, 1867, 1868. Samuel B. Rindge, 1867, 1868. Samuel F. Woodbridge, 1867, 1868,
1872, 1873.
1864-1866.
Alex.' Dickinson, 1859, 1860.
David
Ellis, 1859, 1860.
Michael C. Kenney, 1859. Lewis Hall, I860.
Samuel Slocomb, 1860, 1861.

Albert Vinal, 1860, 1861.
Andrew
S. Waitt, 1860.
Levi L. Gushing,
Jr., 1861, 1862. Curtis Davis, 1861, 1862, 1873. Amory Houghton, 1861, 1862.
William Wright, 1867, 1869, 1876. Marshall T. Bigelow, 1868. Daniel U. Chamberlin, 1868, 1870. U. Tracy Howe, 1868. John S. March, 1868-1870. Jabez A. Sawyer, 1868. Daniel R. Sortwell, 1868, 1869, 1872. Jeremiah W. Coveney, 1869, 1870. Henry O. Houghton, 1869. William J. Marvin, 1869.
George
W.
Park, 1869, 1870.

1869, 1870.
Henry Lamson, 1861-1363.

Charles H. Saunders, 1861, 1862. Albert Stevens, 1861, 1863.
James H. Sparrow,
Charles F. Walcott, 1669. D. Gilbert Dexter, 1870, 1871.
James H. Thayer, 1861-1863.

Israel Tibbetts, 1861-1863.
Lewis B. Geyer, 1870, 1871.

Horatio G. Parker, 1870, 1871.
Hosea Jewell, 1862, 1863.

J.
Aaron H.
Saffbrd, 1870.
Hall, 1871.
Warren
Merrill, 1862.
Amos
C. Sanborn, 1870.
Henry Whitney,
1862.
James H.
Samuel W. Dudley, 1868-1866. George H. Folger, 1863, 1864. Samuel James, 1863.
1
Charles L. Harding, 1871, 1872.
John Holman, 1871. Joseph A. Holmes, 1871, 1872.

of
8
Elected
May
1,
1857, in
in
place
Resigned March 23, 1864, and suc-
James G. Hovey, deceased. 2 Elected March 2, 1863, Hosea Jewell, deceased.
ceeded by Francis L. Chapman.

place of
CIVIL HISTORY.
Edward Kendall, 1871-1873.
Robert L. Sawin, 1871, 1873. William Caldwell, 1872. Chandler R. Ransom, 1872.
Francis H. Whitman, 1874.
471
Samuel Snow, 1872, 1873. Jason Winnett, 1872.

George R. Brine, 1873.
James H.
Collins, 1873, 1874. Hatnlin R. Harding, 1873. Isaac S. Morse, 1873.
Walter S. Blanchard, 1875. Benjamin F. Davies, 1875. Russell S. Edwards, 1875, 1877. Leander Greely, 1875, 1876. George H. Howard, 1875, 1876. John H. Leighton, 1875, 1876. Samuel L. Montague, 1875, 1876. Jonas C. Wellington, 1875.
George F. Piper, 1876, 1877.
Daniel H. Thurston, 1873, 1876, 1877. Horace O. Bright, 1874.
Edmund Reardon,
Augustus P. Clarke, 1874.
1876, 1877. Sulvilyer H. Sanborn, 1876. Walter S. Swan, 1876, 1877.
James
C. Davis, 1874.
Leander M. Hannum, 1874, 1875. Theodore C. Kurd, 1874.

Francis Ivers, 1874.
John Clary, 1877. James A. Fox, 1877.

Charles J. Mclntire, 1877. Charles
John McSorley,
1874.
W. Munroe, 1877. Martin L. Smith, 1877.
PRESIDENTS OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Isaac Livermore, 1846.
Jared Shepard, 1862. 2
John Sargent, 1847, 1852, 1853. John C. Dodge, 1848, 1854. Samuel P. Heywood, 1849, 1850. John S. Ladd, 1851.
Alanson Bigelow, 1855. Ezra Ripley, 1856. 1
Knowlton S. Chaffee, 1862. John S. March, 1865, 1866.

Marshall T. Bigelow, 1867.
Henry W. Muzzey, 1868,
1869.
George
1864.
S.
Saunders, 1856, 1857, 1863,
Joseph H. Converse, 1870, 1871. Alvaro Blodgett, 1872, 1873. 8 Francis H. Whitman, 1873.
James C. Fisk, 1858, 1859. Hamlin R. Harding, 1860, 1861.
George F. Piper, 1874, 1875. Frank A. Allen, 1876.

Perez G. Porter, 1877.
MEMBERS OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Josiah Coolidge, 1846, 1847.
John
C. Dodge, 1846-1848, 1854. Francis Draper, 1846, 1847.
Alex. H. Ramsay, 1846, 1847. Enos Reed, 1846, 1847. Aaron Rice, 1846-1848.
Charles Everett, 1846-1848. Stephen T. Farwell, 1846.
John Sargent, 1846, 1847, 1852, 1853.

William Saunders, 1846. Abraham P. Sherman, 1846.
Charles Valentine, 1846, 1847. William L. Whitney, 1846, 1847. Samuel P. Heywood, 1847-1850.
George W. Fifield, 1846, 1847. Lewis Hall, 1846-1848. Joseph A. Holmes, 1846, 1847, 1852,
1853.
Isaac Livermore, 1846. Walter R. Mason, 1846.

Isaac Melvin, 1846-1848. Thomas F. Norris, 1846.
1
Anson Hooker, 1847-1850.

William Hunnewell, 1847. Levi Jennings, 1847, 1848, 1856. Elijah Spare, Jr., 1847-1849.
8
Resigned Jan. 31, 1856. Resigned Sept. 17, 1862.
Resigned June
17, 1873.
472
Andrew
S. Waitt, 1851, 1852. Jonas Wyeth, 1851. Alvaro Blodgett, 1852-1854, 18671869, 1871-1873.
Jonas Wyelh 2d, 1847, 1848. Edmund A. Chapman, 1848, 1849.
George Cummings, 1848.

Eliphalet Davis, 1848.
Ralph Day, 1848, 1849, 1852.

Jesse Fogg, 1848, 1849. Horatio N. Hovey, 1848.
Ozias Clark, 1852, 1853. Isaac Cutler, 1852. Joseph M. Doe, 1852.
Estes
Howe,
S.
1848.
Phinehas B. Hovey, 1852, 1853.
John
Ladd, 1848, 1851.
Wm.
T. Richardson, 1848. William Wyman, 1848, 1849.
George L. Mitchell, 1852, 1853. William Stevens, 1852, 1853.

Francis L. Batchelder, 1853, 1854. Alanson Bigelow, 1853-1855.
David
S.
Buck,
1849-1852.
Jesse Coolidge, 1849. Isaac Davis, 1849, 1850, 1855. Israel P. Dunham, 1849.
William P. Fisk, 1849, 1850, 1852,

1853.
Barnabas Binney, 1853. Daniel U. Chamberlain, 1853, 1854. John B. Cook, 1853, 1854, 1863. Lloyd Grossman, 1853, 1854.
George H. Davies, 1853, 1854. Franklin Hall, 1853, 1854. George G. Ryder, 1853, 1854, 1863,
Amory Houghton, 1849. Edward Hyde, 1849. Andrew Jones, 1849-1851,
1858.
1864, 1867.
Charles T. Murdoch, 1849, 1850. Geo. C. Richardson, 1849-1851.
Charles H. Saunders, 1853, 1854. Oliver Tenney, 1853, 1854.
Hosea Spencer, 2 1849-1852.
Edwin Scudder,
1849, 1850.
Robert P. Tuten, 1849-1851.

Francis Wells, 1849, 1850. Charles Wood, 1849.
William Watriss, 1853, 1854. Thaddeus B. Bigelow, 1854. O. H. P. Green, 1854. Rufus Lamson, 1854, 1855. William A. Munroe, 1854.
James Atwood, 1850, 1851.
Thomas P. Ayer, 1850-1852. John Dudley, 1850-1852.

David B. Hadley, 1850, 1851.
Benjamin F.Nourse, 1854,1856,1857. Henry Noyes, 1854, 1855. Ebenezer T. Tufts, 1854, 1855, 1857,
1858.
Henry
S. Hills, 8 1850, 1851.
Almon Abbott,
Daniel
S.
1855.
George Meacham, 1850-1852. Luther L. Parker, 1850, 1851.
Brown, 1855.
1855, 1859.
Griffing, 1855, 1856.
Luther Crane, 1855.
Wm.
A. Saunders, 1850.
John Gage,
Augustus P.
Edmund
Boynton, 1851, 1852.

1864.
Hiram Brooks, 1851. Mason Davis, 1851, 1863,
John Holman, 1855. James G. Hovey, 1855, 1856.

William Hunnewell, 1855.
Daniel Kelly, 1855.
Royal Douglass, 1851. 4 George T. Gale, 1851, 1852, 1856. Josiah Dana Hovey, 1851. Zebina L. Raymond, 6 1851, 1852.
Franklin Sawyer,
1
Jacob
S. Merrill, 1855. Philip Nutting, 1855.
Jr.,
1851.
George G. Rice, 1855, 1856.

4 Elected Dec. 15, 1851, in place of Franklin Sawyer, Jr., deceased. 5 Elected April 22, 1851, in place of Geo. C. Richardson, resigned.
Elected June 11, 1849, in place of Jesse Coolidge, resigned. 2 Elected Jan. 21,1850, in place of Jesse
Fogg, resigned.
8
Elected Oct.
6,
1851, in place of Rob-
ert P.
Tuten, deceased.
CIVIL HISTORY.
Joel Robinson, 1855.
473
Augustus Russ, 1859.

Charles T. Russell, 1859, 1860.
Israel Tibbetts, 1859, 1860, 1867.
George
1864.
S.
Saunders, 1855-1857, 1863,
Nathaniel N. Stickney, 1855.
Joseph V. Wellington, 1859, 1860.
William
W.
Bullock, 1856.
Chester N. Clark, 1856-1858. Curtis Davis, 1856-1858.
Henry Whitney, Jr., 1859, 1861. George L. Cade, 1860, 1864. Henry M. Chamberlain, 1860, 1861. Eben M. Dunbar, 1860, 1862. John C. Farnham, 1860, 1861. Watson B. Hastings, 1860, 1869. James Jelly, 1860, 1861, 1863. John H. Leighton, 1860. James Mellen, 1860, 1861, 1868. Nathan K. Noble, 1860, 1866.
Josiah Porter, 1860, 1861.
Hervey Davis, 1856, 1857. John H. Fellows, 1856-1858. N. St. John Green, 1856.
Michael C. Kenney, 1856-1858. William Page, 1856, 1857.
Thomas G.
Rice, 1856, 1857.
Ezra Ripley, 1856. Samuel Sawyer, 1856, 1857. Atherton H. Stevens, Jr., 1856,' 1867.
Albion K. P. Welch, 1856, 1857.
Jonas C. Wellington, 1860, 1861.
John
1
James
1873.
C.
Davis, 1857,
1858, 1872,
S. Bates, 1861, 1862. Russell S. Edwards, 1861, 1862.
John A.
Ellis, 1861.
James
C. Fiske, 1857-1859.
George B. Lathrop, 1857, 1858, 18621864.
William Gibson, 1861, 1862. Isaac C. Holmes, 1861, 1862, 1872. William F. Knowles, 1861, 1862.
J.
John Murray,
Jr., 1857.
Warren
Merrill, 1861.
Michael Norton, 1857.
John
S. Pollard, 1861, 1862.
Samuel S. Runey, 1857. Samuel Saunders, 1857. J. Henry Wyman, 1857.

Marshall T. Bigelow, 1858-1860, 1867.
Nathaniel D. Sawin, 1861, 1862.
George P. Carter, 1862, 1863. K. S. Chaffee, 1862, 1863, 1867, 1871,

1872, 1876.
Win. P.
David
Butterfield, 1858, 1859. Francis L. Chapman, 1858.

Ellis, 1858.
Hosea Clark, 1862.

Samuel
1859.
P. Stearns Davis, 1862. W. Dudley, 1862.
Charles F. McClure, 1858, 1859.
Edward
B. P. Kinsley, 1862.
Thomas B. G. Messinger, 1858, Joseph Newmarch, 1858, 1863.

Lucius R. Paige, 1858. Ezra Parmenter, 1858, 2 1871. Jared Shepard, 1858, 1859,
1862.
James P. Richardson, 1862. Joseph H. Tyler, 1862, 1873. John Wilder, 1862.
Sunnier Albee, 1863-1865. Nathaniel P. Brooks, 1863-1866. Francis C. Foster, 1863, 1864.
1861,
Albert Stevens, 1858-1860.
James M.
Sargeant C. Whitcher, 1858. Ebenezer Fogg, 1859, 1861-1863. Hamlin R. Harding, 1859-1861.
Henry C. Rand, 1863,
Price, 1863, 1864. 1864.
Amos
George E. Richardson, 1863, 1864. C. Sanborn, 1863-1865.
Anson P. Hooker, 1859-1861. Samuel James, 1859.
Fordyce M. Stimson, 1863. James M. Thresher, 1863.

William Brine, 1864, 1865. William Daily, 1864-1866. Samuel H. Folsom, 1864.
Henry Larnson, 1859, 1860. John Livermore, 1859, 1860.
Edward
1
Milliken, 1859.
Elected March 24, 1872, in place of J.
Elected
May
24,
1858, in
place
of
Milton Clark, resigned.
John H. Fellows,
resigned.
474
Orrin
John John
William Hutchins, 1864. S. March, 1864-1866.

S.
W.
Hall, 1869.
Hill, 1869, 1870.
William G.
Sawyer, 1864, 1865.
Charles B. Stevens, 1864, 1865.
George W. Homer, 1869. John McSorley, 1869-1871,

1877.
1873,
James H. Wyeth, 1864, 1865.

Walter S. Blanchard, 1865. Robert O. Fuller, 1865, 1866. Nathan G. Gooch, 1865, 1866. Samuel C. Knights, 1865, 1866. Arthur Merrill, 1865, 1866.
Phineas Parker, 1865, 1866.
James Richardson, 1869-1871.

Gustavus A. Smart, 1869, 1870. Seymour B. Snow, 1869, 1870, 1876. Daniel H. Thurston. 1869. Samuel K. Williams, Jr., 1869, 1870.
Isaac Bradford, 1870.
J. Milton Clark, 1870, 1872.
Aaron H.
Augustus
Safford, 1865, 1866. Towne, 1865, 1866.
John M. Tyler, 1865.

Bradley C.'Whitcher, 1865. Joseph Whittemore, 1865, 1866.
Charles
Thomas Devens, 1870. Augustus W. Fix, 1870. Thomas G. Lally, 1870.
W.
Eliot, 1866.
Charles A. Fiske, 1866. Lewis B. Guyer, 1866. William H. Lounsbury, 1866.
M. Mason, 1870, 1871. Robert L. Sawin, 1870. Robert Stewart, 1870.

Francis
JohnMcDuffie, 1866, 1867.

Charles J. Mclntire, 1866, 1867.
John Wilson, 1870, 1871. Augustus P. Clarke, 1871, 1873. Darius Cobb, 1871.
Joseph Cogan, 1871, 1872, 1877. Joshua G. Gooch, 1871, 1872.
Benjamin R. Rand, 1866, 1867. Samuel F. Woodbridge, 1866.

Joseph Child, Jr., 1867, 1868.
Jeremiah W. Coveney, 1867, 1868. William R. Hurlbut, 1867.
James E. Hall, 1871, 1872. Levi Hawkes, 1871, 1872.
Wm.
Lucien
S. Learned, 1867, 1868. Horatio Locke, 1867, 1868.
L. Lockhart, 1871. Charles R. Patch, 1871, 1872. Warren G. Roby, 1871.1
Elijah H. Luke, 1867, 1868. William J. Marvin, 1867, 1868. Jabez A. Sawyer, 1867.
Alonzo R. Smith, 1871. John H. Swiney, 2 1871, 1872. T Francis H. hitman, 1871-1873. James A. Woolson, 1871.
Samuel Snow, 1867, 1868, 1871. James H. Sparrow, 1867, 1868.

Charles F. Walcott, 1867, 1868. Charles C. Clapp, 1868, 1869.
Sumner
J. Brooks, 1872.
George B. Hamlin, 1872. Joseph G. Holt, 1872. Thomas L. Huckins, 1872.

Harrison
Noah M.
Cofran, 1868, 1869.
W.
Huguley, 1872.
Leander Greely, 1868-1870. John W. Hammond, 1868.
Francis Ivers, 1872, 1873. John L. Porter, 1872.
Henry O. Houghton, 1868. Bernard J. McCormic, 1868, 1869.

Henry W. Muzzey, 1868,
George
1869.
Thomas
L. Smiih, 1872.
Johr Stone, 1872, 1873, 1875.

Joseph A. Wellington, 1872.
W.
T. Riley, 1868.
Frank D. Wheeler, 1868, 1873, 1874. Samuel P. Adams, 1869, 1870.

George R. Brine, 1869, 1870. Joseph H. Converse, 1869-1871. James H. Hall, 1869, 1870.
Elected July 1, 1871, Parmenter, resigned.
1
John Clary, 1873-1876. Frank Corcoran, 1873, 1874.

G. C.
W.
Fuller, 1873.
Thomas
Grieves, 1873. Leander M. Ian num. 1873.

I
George H. Howard, 1873, 1874.

Ezra
2 Elected May 15, 1871, in place of L. Lockhart, resigned.
in place of
Wm.
CIVIL HISTORY.
John F. Hudson, 1873. Samuel L. Montague, 1873, 1874. Edward H. Norton, 1873, 1874.
George F. Piper, 1873-1875.
Charles C. Read, 1873, 1874. Richard F. Tobin, 1873.
475
Walter S. Swan, 1875. William E. Andrews, 1876. Joseph H. Bancroft, 1876. James F. Davlin, 1876.
1 Benjamin Dow, 1876. Franklin Gay, 1876. Archibald M. Howe, 1876, 1877. Isaac A. Nay, 1876. 2 William Poland, 1876, 1877.
Thomas H. Emerson,
1874.
John J. Fatal, 1874. Alexander Frazer, 1874, 1875.
Thomas A. Graham,
John
J.
1874, 1875.
Perez G. Porter, 1876, 1877.
Henderson, 1874.
J. Kelley, 1874, 1875.
Joseph
Charles Laurie, 1874.
James Mellen Jr., 1874, 1875. John T. G. Nichols, 1874, 1875.

Charles Quinn, 1874, 1875.
1874, 1875. Sulvilyer H. Sanborn, 1874, 1875. Frank A. Allen, 1875, 1876.
George W. Rawson, 1876, 1877. Silas Rhoades, 1876, 1877. Daniel B. Shauohnessy, 1876, 1877. Benjamin R. Tilton, 1876. George F. Whiting, 1876, 1877.
Henry A. Doherty,
1877.
Edmund Reardon,
Woodward Emery,
Samuel Noyes,
1877.
Jr., 1877.
Henry K.
John T.
Joseph
Parsons, 1877.
William E. Doyle, 1875, 1876.
Henry D. Forbes, 1875, David Heffernan, 1875. Lemuel Kempton, 1875.
1876.
W.
Scully, 1877. Smith, 1877.
James H. Snow, 1877. Z. H. Thomas, Jr., 1877.
Charles Moore, 1875, 1876. Jeremiah Murphy, 1875, 1876. Hibbard P. Ross, 1875.
Edward P. Tucker, 1877. Nathan Underwood, 1877. Edward H. Whitney, 1877.

CITY CLERKS.
Lucius R. Paige, 1846-1855.
Justin A. Jacobs, 1857-1877.
Henry Thayer,
1855, 1856.
CITY TREASURERS.
Abel
Bruce, 1846-1848. Samuel Slocomb, 1849-1855.
W.
Joseph
A Holmes, 1856, 1857. Joseph Whitney, 1858-1877.
Alonzo J. Webber, 4 1855.
CLERKS OP THK COMMON COUNCIL.

Charles S. Newell,
1846-1848.
James M. Chase, 1856-1861.

Joseph G. Holt, 1862-1867.
J.
Eben M. Dunbar, 1849-1853. Henry Thayer, 1854, 1855. Anson J. Stone, 6 1855.
March 14, 1876, in place of E. Andrews, resigned. a Elected March 14, 1876, in place of Franklin Gay, deceased.
1
Warren
Cotton, 1868-1877.
Elected
Elected Feb. 26, 1855,

resigned.
in
place of
Wm.
8
Samuel Slocomb,
6
Elected Oct.
1,
1855, in place of
Henry
Thayer, resigned.
Elected Oct.
1,
1855, in place of
Lu-
cius R. Paige, resigned.
ABBOTT, DANIEL, owned a house in 1635, at the N. W. corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn streets, which he sold to John Russell, and removed to
Providence, R. L, about 1639. No trace is found here of his family. 2. GEOKGE, in 1715, purchased a building lot, "near Adams's gate." By w. Rebecca, he had Jacob, b. 25 Jan. 1715-16; George, b. 2 Oct. 1718; Rebecca, bap. 24 June 1721; Rebecca, bap. 22 Nov. 1724; Samuel, bap. 12 Mar. 1726-7. ABDY, MATTHEW, " Boston, came in the Abigail, 1635, from London, was a fisherman; by w. Tabitha, dau. of Robert Reynolds of B., who d. 1661, had Mary, b. 24 May 1648, and Tabitha, 24 Nov. 1652; besides Matthew, named in the will of his grandfather R. He next m., 24 May 1662, Alice Cox, perhaps dau. of Moses of Hampton." Savage, Gen. Diet. 2. MATTHEW, s. of Matthew (1), b. about 1654, m. Deborah, dau. of Andrew Stevenson of Camb., and wid. of Robert Wilson of Sudbury. Widow Ruth Abdy, who d. 10 Dec. 1762, aged 93, was a subsequent wife of Matthew. He is supposed to have resided at the S. W. corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke streets, and to have died in 1730, leaving no posterity. For several years he was a fisherman; but in 1718 he was appointed College Sweeper and Bedmaker, an office in which his widow succeeded him. After his death, " Father Abdy's Will," in doggerel rhyme, afforded much amusement on both sides of the Atlantic. ADAMS, JOHN, was here about 1650. His children, by w. Ann, were Rebecca, bap. in England; Mary, John, Joseph, all bap. here; Hannah, bap. 17 June 1660, and d. 25 Jan. 1660-61; Daniel, bap. 14 Sept. 1662, and d. 14 May 1685. Rebecca m. Nathaniel Patten, 24 Nov. 1669, and d. 18 Dec. 1677.
John rem.
to Sudbury, m. Hannah Bent, had John, 1684, Daniel, 1685, Hannah, 1688, and was living in 1714. JOHN the father resided in Menotomy, was a millwright, and d. 1706, a. about 85. His w. Ann was living in 1714. 2. JOSEPH, s. of John (1), received from his father a deed of the homestead, 4 Sept. 1697. He m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas Eames, 21 Feb. 1687-8, but I find no record of the birth or baptism of their children. He d. 20 July 1701, and his w. Margaret was appointed administratrix; she was prob. the person whom. Lieut. Daniel Dean of Concord, 27 Dec. 1705. 3. JOSEPH, prob. s. of Joseph (2), m. Rebecca Cutter 18 Jan. 1710-11; she d. 12 Jan. 1717-18, aged 24, and he m. Rachel who survived him. His chil. were Thomas, b. 3 Dec. 1711, and d. 17 Nov. 1713; Thomas, b. 20 Aug. - Double1713; Joseph, b. 3 July 1715; Margaret, b. 26 May 1717, m. day; Rebecca, b. 12 Sept. 1720, in. Samuel Kent 27 Nov. 1740; Lucy, b. 29 Oct. 1722, m. John Cutter, Jr., 21 May 1745, and d. 17 Ap. 1810; William, b. 12 Jan. 17-24-5; Anne, b. 8 July 1729, m. Peter Tufts, Jr., of Charlestown, 19 Ap. 1750; Mary, b. 12 May 1733, m. Nathan Tufts of Charlestown, 6
,
adopt this plan of a Genealogical Regbecause it is less complicated than others, yet sufficiently particular for all The system is too plain practical purposes. and obvious to require an}' explanation, The ordinary abbreviations are used, such as a., for aged; b., for born; bap., for baptized; d., for died; m., for married; f., for
l
dau.,
for
daughter,
etc.
The ivimes
of
ister,
towns are also sometimes abbreviated, as Bos., for Boston; Camb., for Cambridge: Chs., for Charlestown; Lex., for Lexiugton; Medf., for Medford; Menot., for Menotomy; Som., for Somerville; Wat., for
Watertown; and
if there be any other, the reference will be easily perceived,
father; w., for wife or
widow;
s.,
for son;
478
ADAMS.
June 1751. JOSEPH the f. was selectman five years, and d. 18 Oct. 1774, a. 86. His w. Rachel d. 1 Aug. 1775, a. 85. 4. THOMAS, s. of Joseph (3), m Anna Frost, 22 Sept. 1737; she d. at Worcester 6 Oct. 1740, and he in. Lydia Chadwick; she also d. at Wore., His chil. were 1748, and he ra. Elizabeth Bowman of Camb. 15 Sept. 1754. d. at Wore., 1740 Hannah, b. 13 Ap. 1743, in. Walter RusJoseph, b. sell 17 Dec. 1761, and (2d) Enos Jones 26 Dec. 1790; John, b. 22 Jan. 1744-5, m. Joanna Munroe of Lexington, by whom he had nine children, all b. in Ashburnham, from which place he removed, in his old age, to Hartford, Penn., where he d. 26 Feb. 1849, aged one hundred and four years and one month; Lydia, b. 20 Aug. 1755, m. Lemuel Blanchard, and (2d) Joseph Thorndike, Esq., of Jaffrey, N. H.; Lucretia, b. 2 Aug. 1757, m. Ethan Wetherbee 31 Dec. 1775; Ebenezer-Thomas, b. 10 Jan. 1762, m. Polly Goodwin of Charlestown 20 June 1784. THOMAS the f. was a captain, resided a few years at Wore., but returned to Menot. about 1748, where he kept a tavern, and d. there in October 1802, a. 89. 5. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (3), m. Martha, dau. of Ephraim Frost, 10 Jan. His 1739-40; she d. 23 Dec. 1749, and he m. Hannah Hall 11 Sept. 1750. chil. were Anna, b. 14 Dec. 1740, m. Timothy Tufts of Medf. 7 May, 1761, and d. 8 Oct. 1825; Joseph, b. 29 Nov. 1743, m. Lucy Kent 6 Sept. 1770; Martha, b. 25 Sept. 1746, in. Samuel Locke, Jr., 16 May 1771; Thomas, b. 19 July 1751, m. Martha Stone 28 May 1780, rem. to New Salem, where he d. 27 June 1848, a. nearly 97; his w. Martha d. 22 Jan. 1847, a. 96; Rebecca, b. 16 Aug. 1753, d. unm. 19 May 1834; Hannah, b. 12 April 1756, m. Peter Tufts, 3d, of Medf. 22 July 1773, and d. 24 Jan. 1843; Susanna, b. 26 June 1758, m. Gershom Teele of Medf. 3 Oct. 1776, and d. 28 June 1828; Mary, b. 13 Feb. 1761, m. Benjamin Winship, 4 April 1788, and d. 2 Oct. 1846; Nathan, b. 9 Aug. 1763, res. in Medf., where he d. 25 Mar. 1842; Joel, b. 23 Aug. 1765, m. Sybil Stone of Medf., 23 Aug. 1788, and d. at New Salem, 8 Feb. 1841; Amos, twin with Joel, b. 23 Aug. 1765, m. Lydia Adams 19 April 1790, and d. 24 Mar. 1844; Daniel, b. 14 Mar. 1768, m. Phebe Britton 3 June
,
;
1793; Abigail, b. 18 Sept. 1772, m. Joseph Convers of Medf. 19 Oct. 1800; b. 1 April 1775, m. James Hill 11 Oct. 1796. JOSKPH the f. was for many years deacon of the church in Menotomy, now Arlington, Selectman four years, and d. 3 May 1794, a. 79; his w. Hannah d. 13 Aug. 1803, a. 73. When her youngest child was eighteen days old, Mrs. Adams was driven from her home by the British troops on their retreat from Lex., and the house was set on fire; but the flames were extinguished before much damage resulted 6. WILLIAM, s. of Joseph (3), m. Sarah Hill 14 June 1750, and had John, b. 25 July 1751; William, b. 12 Dec. 1753, m. Hannah Stone 26 June 1781, and d. 9 July 1820; Sarah, b. 10 April 1756, m. James Perry 19 Oct. 1773, and d. 19 July 1780; Lucy, b. 7 Sept. 1758, m. John Cutter, 3d, 4 Feb. 1777, and d. 9 Nov. 1830; Anna, b. 1 Mar. 1761, m. Richard Hay of Chs. 25 Mar. 1781; Rebecca, b. 12 June 1764 Lydia, b. 2 Sept. 1767, m. Edward Russell, 9 May 1786; Margaret, b. 12 Nov. 1769, m. Thomas Russell of Chs. 25 Nov. 1788; Mary, b. 9 July 1772, m. Nathaniel Russell of Chs. 8 Mar. 1795; Susanna, b. 10 April 1778. WILLIAM the f. was a captain, and d. 10 Sept. 1787, a. 63: his w. Sarah d. 11 Nov. 1805, a. 74. 7. JOHN, s. of William (6), m. Ruth Perry 2 Dec. 1773; she d. 12 July she d. 20 1776, a. 24, and he m. Elizabeth Gardner of Chs. 18 Nov. 1777 His chil. were April 1785, a. 29, and he m. Hannah Phelps 6 July 1786. John, b. 7 June 1774, m. Susanna Cutter, 5 April 1798 James, b. 7 May 1776, and d. 24 Aug. 1776 James, b. 28 July 1778, and d. 16 Dec. 1818; Bettey, b. 28 Feb. 1780, m. David Hill 13 Sept. 1799 Joseph, b. 15 April and d. 10 Dec. 1819 Sarah, b. m. Thomas 1782, m. Elizabeth m. Sukey Foster 17 Sept. Fillebrown, Jr., 31 Jan. 1808 William, b, m. Anna Whittemore of Chs. 1818, and d. 26 March 1827; Samuel, b. 26 May 1822 Amos, b. 1792, and d. 29 Sept. 1794; Lydia, b. 9 Nov. 1797 Hannah, b. 25 Sept. 1799, and d. unm. 14 Oct. 1821 Amos, b. 16 Nov. 1804, m. Rebecca Whittemore 25 June 1834. JOHN the f. was a deacon of the
Ann,
ADAMS
Church
in
AMSDEN.
a.
479
his w.
Menot. and
d.
31 Mar. 1819,
67
Hannah
d.
16 Dec.
1854, a. 93.
to of a rock, according to the verdict of Coroner's Jury, preserved hi the Suffolk Court Files), in. Martha Fiske 20 Jan. 1683-4, and had George, b. 28 April " 1685, a "bone-setter" or Martha, chirurgeon," d. at Wat. 8 Feb. 1767
;
8. GKOKGE, s. of George Adams (who was of Watertown in 1645, rein, Camb. Farms about 1664, and was killed at Wat. 10 Oct. 1696, by the fall
10 Jan. 1686-7 Nathaniel and Sarah, both bap. John, b. 2 Sept. 1688 Wat. 12 June 1698 Benjamin, b. 20 Dec. 1701. By second w. Judith he had Lydia, b. 9 July 1706 Jonas, b. 6 June 1708 Judith, b. 15 Sept. 1709 Elizabeth, b. 8 July 1712. JEREMY, was here in 1632, and removed with Hooker to Hartford. He served as Deputy in the General Court of Connecticut. Hinman. THOMAS, sold a house and nine acres of upland "at the Fresh Pond," in 1638, to Nathaniel Sparhawk. WILLIAM, owned a house on the south side of Brattle Street, not far westerly from Ash Street, in 1638. HENRY, bought of Moses Payne a house at the S. E. corner of Dunster and South streets, in 1646, and All these probably left in the same year sold it to William Manning, Jr. Cambridge early, as no trace of their families appears on the Records.
b.
; ;
at
in 1642, as occupying the estate at the westerly corner of Dunster Street and Harvard Square. ALEXANDER, JOHN, by w. Beatrix, or Beatrice, had Martha, b. 16 July and Elizabeth, b. 16 Sept. 1674. 1668 Deliverance, b. 17 Jan. 1671 ALLEN, MATTHEW, was here in 1632, and in 1635 he owned the estate at the N. W. corner of Winthrop and Dunster streets. He also owned the oppoHe was a Deputy in the General site corner, south of Winthrop Street. Court, 3 Mar. 1635-6, removed to Connecticut with Hooker, and settled at
; ;
ALBONE. See LUXFORD. ALDUS, NATHAN, is named
Windsor, where he d. 1670, having had children, John, Thomas, and Mary. Mr. Allen sustained a high rank among his fellow colonists held several town offices, and served as Juror, Deputy, Magistrate, and Assistant, in the Colony government. He wasalso appointed by the Colony, in 1660 and 1664, one of an office fully equal in digthe " Commissioners of the United Colonies," nity and importance to that of Senator in the Congress of the United States. Hinman and Hazard. was buried 23 Dec. 1644. She was widow of " that
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AMES, JOANNA,
famous light," and distinguished Puritan clergyman, William Ames, D. D. She came to N. Kng. in the summer of 1637, then aged 50. Mather says " Dr. Ames had a design to follow Mr. Hooker; but he died soon after Mr. Hooker's removal from Rotterdam. However, his widow and children afterwards came to N. Eng., where, having her house burnt, and being reduced unto much poverty and affliction, the charitable heart of Mr. Hooker and others that joined with him, upon advice thereof, comfortably provided for them." Mrs. Ames resided for a time in Salem, before she came to Camb. The General Court, 15 Nov. 1637, "gave 40 to Mrs. Ames, the widow of Doctor Ames of famous memory." Her children were William; Ruth, who married Edmund Angier and d. 3 July 1656; and John, who came with her to New England. 2. WILLIAM, s. of the foregoing, grad. H. C. 1645, returned to England succeeded his father in the ministry at Wrentham was ejected, under the Act of Uniformity, 1662, and d. 1689, a. 65. Winthrop. AMSDEN, ISAAC, m. Francis Perriman 8 June 1654, and had Isaac, b. 1655 Jacob, b. 17 Nov. 1657. ISAAC the f. was a mason, and owned prob. He d. 7 Ap. 1659, and his w. Frances m. Richard land south of the river.
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Cutter 14 Feb. 1662-3.

2.
ISAAC,
s.
of Isaac (1),
m. Jane, dau. of John Rutter of Marlborough, 17
1677, and had, in Camb., Elizabeth, b. 3 Feb. 1677-8, and Isaac, b. 28 Aug. 1680. Soon after 1680 he removed to Marlborough, where he was living His w. Jane, in her will, dated Feb. 1729-30 and proved 26 May in T727. 1 740, names children, Isaac, John, Thomas, Jacob, Abraham, Elizabeth Read,
May
and grandchild, Amity Wheeler.
480
AMSDEN
ANDREW.
3. JACOB, s. of Isaac (1), in. Susanna, dau. of John Marrett, and resided on the westerly side of Ash Street. He was a glazier, and in 1681, contracted " to and to keep it in repair the glass of our meeting-house, for ten shillings He d. 11 June repair for seven years following, for fifteen shillings a year." 1701, and his w. Susanna d. 16 Oct. 1707, without issue. ANDREW, WILLIAM, was here as early as 1634, and in 1635 resided at the N. E. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets which estate he sold in 1637, and purchased a house at the N. E. corner of Dunster and South streets. He was a mariner, but served as Constable (then a very important office) in 1635 and 1640, and Selectman in 1635. His w. Mary d. 19 Jan. 1639-40, and he m. wid. Reana James of Watertown about Aug. 1640 their marriage contract is dated 11 Aug. 1640. He d. 1652, leaving an only son Samuel, b. about His w. Reana m. Robert Daniel 2 May 1654, who d. 6 July 1655, 1621. and she then m. a fourth husband, Elder Edmund Frost, whom also she surThe date of her death does not appear. vived. 2. SAMUEL, s. of William (1), inherited the homestead, which he sold in 1680, and purchased the estate at the N. E. corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets. He m. Elizabeth White, 22 Sept. 1652, and had Samuel, b. 29 Jan. 1655-6; William, b. 7 June 1658; John, b. 2 Mar. 1660-61, d. 30 May 1693 Elizabeth, b. 5 Ap. 1663, m. William Gedney of Salem, 25 May 1704; Thomas, b. 13 May 1665, d. 24 Feb. 1666-7; Mary, b. 28 Dec. 1666, d. 20 June 1667 Thomas, b. 23 March 1667-8, had "been missing" four years, in 1698, and does not appear to have returned afterwards Mary, b. 22 Feb. 1671-2, d. 29 Feb. 1671-2 Jonathan, named in his father's will as the youngest son, SAMUEL the f. was in early life a mariner, and is men1698, d. 9 May 1700 tioned as follows: " Mr. Jonas Clarke and Mr. Samtiell Andrews, both well skilled in the mathematics, having had the command of ships upon several voyages, being appointed to take an observation at the northerly bounds of our Patent upon the seacoast," submitted a report to the General Court, dated 29 Oct. 1653. He was Constable, 1666, Selectman, 1681-1693, Town Clerk 1682-1693, Town Treasurer, 1694-1699, and County Treasurer from 1683 to He d.^1 June 1701, a. 80. 1700, except during the usurpation by Andros. 3. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (2), was Fellow of the Colgrad. H. C. 1675 ordained at Milford, Conn.. 18 Nov. 1685; united with Rev. Messrs. lege Pierpont and Russell in concerting a plan for the foundation of Yale College, 1698 was one of its first Board of Fellows 1700 and served in that capacity during life; was its acting President between 1707 and 1719; and d. 24 Jan. 1738. He was prob. f. of Samuel Andrew, who grad. Y. C. 1711. 4. WILLIAM, s. of Samuel (2), by w. Seeth, had Seeth, b. 1690, d. 21 Sept. 1700 Elizabeth,. William; Samuel; Jonathan, b. 1696, d. 28 Oct. 1717 Thomas Stone of Sudbury 18 June 1730 Mary, bap. 10 Aug. 1701. WILLIAM the f. was a merchant, and inherited the homestead. He d. 13 June 1702 his w. Seeth in. Zechariah Hicks, and was living in 1740. The eldest son William was living in 1704 but on the final division of the estate in 1740 his name does not appear, and he prob. d. without issue. Mary was living unm. in 1 753, when the Selectmen represented her to be insane, and in need of a guardian. Mary Andrew, perhaps the same, d. at Menot. 7 Dec. 1 756. 5. SAMUEL, s. of William (4), grad. H. C. 1714. Winthrop calls him a " but he is not so " preacher designated on the Catalogue, and no evidence has been found that he was ever ordained. He appears to have resided on the homestead in Camb. until 1745, when he and his sisters sold it to Edward Administration on his Marrett, Jr. He m. Elizabeth Cooper, 10 Ap. 1741. estate was granted 18 May 1747, in which year he probably died, without
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issue.
brother to William (1), had by w. Rebecca, Thomas, Watertown 15 Oct. 1641 Daniel; Rebecca, b. at Cambridge 18 Ap. 1646, m. John Frost 26 June 1666, who d. in 1672, and she m. George Jacobs, Jr., of Salem Village. THOMAS, the f. d. about 1647, and his w. Rebecca m. Nicholas Wyeth, who d. 19 July 1680 she m. (3d) Thomas Fox 16 Dec. 1685, andd. in 1698.
6.
THOMAS, perhaps
b. at
ANDREW
ANGIER.
481
7. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (6), m. Martha Eccles 30 Oct. 1673, and had dau. Rebecca, who m. Samuel Bowman 21 Nov. 1700, and d. 18 Nov. 1713. THOMAS the f. was a mason; Constable, 1686, 1696, and resided on the easterly side of North Avenue, near the Fitchburg Railroad. This estate he conveyed to his dau. Rebecca 5 Feb. 1699-1700, shortly before her marriage to Bowman. 8 DANIEL, s. of Thomas (6), b. Mar. 1643-4, was a mason received deed of house and land east of North Avenue 28 Feb. 1666-7 and removed to Salem, where he was schoolmaster in 1672. He was a representative of Salem Village in 1689, and suspected of witchcraft in 1692. The youngest of four sons of John Angier, a person of ANGIKR, EDMUND, good account and property at Dedham,'' England (Co//. Mass, Hist. Soc., xxx. 166), was here in 1636; m. Ruth Ames, "daughter of that famous light, Dr. Ames," who d. 3 July 1656; he m. Anna Batt of Newbury 12 June 1657, whod. 3 Oct. 1688, a. 57. His children were John, b. 21 Aug. 1645, d."2 Jan. 1647-8; Ruth, b. 28 Sept. 1647, m. Rev. Samuel Cheever of Marblehead John, b. 22 Ap. 1649, d. young Ephraim, b. 1652, d. unm. 16 Jan. 167H-9, a merchant Samuel, b. 17 Mar. 1654 or 1655 Jotin, b. 2 June 1656, d. 25 Jan. 1657-8; Edmund, b. 20 Sept. 1659, d. young; Anna, b. 9 Dec. 1660, d. unm. 23 Jan. 1690-1; Mary, bap. 10 May 1663, d. young John, bap. 15 May 1664, d. 3 July 1664; Nathaniel, bap. 14 May 1665, d. young: Elizabeth, bap. 22 m. John Sept. 1667, m. Rev. Jonathan Pierpont of Reading; Mary, b.
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'
m. Rev. Christopher Tappan (or Toppan) Newbury; Sarah, b. of Newbury, 13 Dec. 1698. Of these fourteen children, only five were living in 1703, when the four married daughters and their husbands executed an EDMUND agreement with their brother, Rev. Samuel Angier of Watertown. the f. was a grocer or merchant, sometimes styled " woolen-draper," ami resided at the N. W. corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets, his store beof
,
March
He d. 4 Mar. 1691-2, a. 80. ing on the opposite or S. E. corner. 2. SAMUEL, s. of Edmund (1), grad. H. C. 1673 ordained at Rehoboth, now Seekonk, 15 Oct. 1679; installed at Watertown, West Parish, 25 May 1697. He in. Hannah, dau. of Rev. Urian Oakes, 2 Sept. 1680, who d. 15 Aug. 1714, a. 55, and was buried at Cambridge. He d. 21 Jan. 1719, leaving children thus named in his will Ames, Edmund, Samuel, Urian, Ephraim, Oakes, John, Ruth, Eunice, Sarah. Of these, Ames, b. 29 June 1681, grad. H. C. 1701, and d. 1720 Edmund and Samuel resided here; Urian was of Sudbury Ephraim, a saddler, m. Mrs. Elizabeth Goddard of Wat. 30 April 1717, and d. there 19 Oct. 1724 Oakes, a saddler, m. Abigail Coolidge, 12 Feb. " 1703-4, and resided in the village which was so long known as Angier's Corner" in Newton; John, b. 1 July 1701, grad H. C. 1724, ordained at East Bridgewater 28 Oct. 1724, and d. 14 April 1787; Ruth, m. Francis Bowman of Lex., and d. 23 July 1754, a. 70; Eunice, d. unm. at E. Bridgewater. 1771, a. 73 Sarah, m. Rev. John Shaw of Bridgewater (she was mother of Rev. Oakes Shaw of Barnstable, H. C. 1758, whose son Lemuel Shaw, H. C. 1800, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; of Rev. Bezaleel Shaw of Nantucket, H. C. 1762, whose only child was Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Andrew Craigie of Camb. of Rev. William Shaw of Marshfield, II. C. and of Ruth Shaw, 1762 of Rev. John Shaw of Haverhill, H. C. 1772 who m. Gen. Nathaniel Goodwin, and gave birth to the Rev. Ezra S. Goodwin of Sandwich, H. C. 1807). Hannah, the eldest dau. of Rev. Mr. Angier, d. unm. at Watertown 27 Sept. 1714, a. 32. In 1710, his father gave 3. EDMUND, s. of Samuel (2), was an innholder. him a house and f ac. of land at the S. E. corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn streets; and he afterwards inherited house and about two acres bounded S. and E. on Bow Street. He m., 9 Ap. 1717, Abiel, wid. of John Hovey, who had for several years owned and kept the original " Blue Anchor Tavern," at the N. E. corner of Brighton and Mt. Auburn streets, which tavern Mr. Angier appears Their children were William, b. to have kept for the remainder of his life. 9 Dec. 1717; Mary, b. 7 May 1719, m. Rev. Joshua Prentice of Holliston EDMUND the f. d. 4 Ap. 9 Nov. 1743, d. 1754; Samuel, b. 15 July 1722. 1724, a. 38, and his w. Abiel m. Isaac Watson, 27 Aug. 1725.
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31
482
ANGIER
BACON.
4. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (2), was a shoemaker, and resided at the homestead of his grandfather, N. W. corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets, and used the old store on the opposite corner for a shop. He m. Dorothy and had Dorothy, b. 16 Oct. 1713, m. Rev. Gad Hitchcock of Pembroke 22
,
Dec. 1748; Hannah, b. 11 Feb. 1715-6, m. Rev. Ebenezer Gay of Suffield 7 July 1742; Sybil, b. 5 Sept. 1718, m. Daniel Farnham of Newbury 11 July 1749, probably the graduate of 1739; Patience, b. 9 Jan. 1721-2, d. 21 Feb. 1721-2. SAMUEL the d. 6 Mar. 1721-2, a. " 34 years and 6 mo." His w. Dorothy was living, a widow, in 1750, when she and her three daughters sold the homestead to Ebenezer Stedman. 5. WILLIAM, s. of Edmund (3), was a tanner, and inherited real estate of He m. Ruth, dau. of Dea. Samuel Whittemore, 15 Sept. 1742; his father. she d. and he in. Elizabeth Dana (prob. dau. of Thomas) 18 Dec. 1760. His
.
children were, William, b. 12 July 1743, d. 13 Sept. 1743; Ruth, b. 10 Ap. Wiswall; living in 1784; Mary, b. 26 Feb. 1746-7, d. young; 1745, m. Sarah, b. 4 June, 1749, m. John Hildreth of Boston, 3 Jan. 1776; Hannah, bap. 4 Oct. 1761; Hannah, bap. 3 Oct. 1762; William, bap. 1 July 1764; Margaret, bap. 15 June 1766; Mary, bap. 18 Sept. 1768, m. Edmund WinWILLIAM ship, 3 Dec. 1789; Lydia and Hannah, twins, bap. 27 Feb. 1774. Tothe f. was a Captain in two campaigns, 1758, 1760, in the French War. wards the close of life he became poor, and d. in the almshouse, 11 Dec.
1796,
6.
a. 79.
s. of Edmund (3), grad. H. C. 1748, taught school at Medford, and preached for several years, though he was probably never ordained. He
SAMUEL,
d. 23
ident Rogers, was
s. of Hon. John Appleton, and grandson of PresIpswich, 9 Dec. 1693, in. Margaret, dau. of Rev. Henry Gibbs of Wat. 1719-20, and had Margaret, b. 29 Nov. 1720, m. Rev. Joshua Prentice 9 Jan. 1755; Jose, b. 9 Mar. 1722-3, d. 6 June 1723; Nathaniel, b. 22 Feb. 1724-5, d. 1 Dec. 1726; Elizabeth, b. 16 Dec. 1726, m. Dr. Isaac Rand, 10 Jan. 1754; Mehitabel, b. 6 Dec. 1728, m. Rev. Samuel Haven, 11 Jan. 1753; John, b. 23 Mar. 1729-30, d. 22 May 1730; Nathaniel, b. 5 Oct. 1731, H. C. 1749, loan officer, d. 25 June 1798; Mercy, b. 18 Jan. 1732-3, d. 4 July 1733 Mercy, b. 24 Aug. 1734, d. 12 Sept. 1734; Henry, bap. 29 May 1737, H. C. 1755, merchant in Portsmouth, d. 5 Sept. 1768; John, bap. 1 April 1739, H. C. 1757, merchant in Salem, d. Mar. 1817; Samuel, bap. 11 May 1740, prob. d. young. NATHANIEL the f. grad. H. C. 1712, and was Fellow He was ordained pastor of the church in of the Corporation, 1717-1779. Cambridge 9 Oct. 1717, and remained in office more than sixty-six years. In 1771 his Alma Mater conferred on him the degree of D. D., an honor never bestowed before by that college, except on President Mather about eighty years previously. Dr. Appleton d. 9 Feb. 1784, aged ninety years and two months; his w. Margaret d. 17 Jan. 1771, a. 72. AUNOLD, JOHN, in 1635, resided on the south side of Winthrop Street, between Brighton and Eliot streets. He removed with Hooker's company, and was " of Hartford, 1639, in the division of lands. He died in 1664, and left children, Josiah, Joseph, and Daniel." Hinman. AUSTIN, JONAS, about 1638, sold "two acres of planting ground in the west end." BACON, MICHAEL, of Woburn, in 1648, bought of Roger Shaw a farm in the northwesterly part of Camb. (now Bedford), including " all the meadow adjoining to the great swamp near the east corner of Concord bounds, that falls in Cambridge bounds." The Shawshine River runs from this " great " swamp," on which Mr. Bacon is said to have erected, before Philip's War" in 1675, a mill, which was very recently, if it is not now, standing. He had a son Michael, and is supposed to have been the ancestor of the large family of his name, in Bedford. 2. DANIEL, brother of Michael (2), was early in Bridgewater, and owned land there, " which he sold to his nephew, Michael Bacon, Jr., of Billerica." " He was one of the jury for laying out highways in 1664, and is mentioned
Aug. 1775, a. 53. APPLETON, NATHANIEL,

b. at
BACON
BARRETT.
4&o
Mitchell. In 1668, he again in 1668, but the family early left the town." purchased a house and 6 acres near Angier's corner, about which time he probably came to Cambridge. His w. was Mary, dau. of Thomas Read of Colchester, Essex Co., England; and their children, recorded here in 1674, but prob. all born in Bridgewater, were Isaac, b. 14 Ap. 1650; Rachel, b. 8 June 1652; Jacob, b. 2 June 1654; Lydia, b. 6 Mar. 1656-7. They had also son John, to whom the father gave deed of land in Watertown, Feb. 1678-9, " in observ" ance of the last will and testament of his grandfather Read. DANIEL the f. was a tailor, and d. 7 Sept. 1691. 3. JACOB, s. of Daniel (2), by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. 26 Mar. 1677-8, d. 6 Ap. 1678 7 Jacob, b. 9 Ap. 1680 Ruhamah, Elizabeth, b. 27 Mar. 1682 b. 8 Ap. 1686. BALLARD, SAMUEL, m. Hannah Belcher, 2 Sept. 1678. SAKAH, m. Caleb
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Dana,
Jr., 24
May
1756.
of land in
streets.
Aug. 1634, and resided at the S. His name appears in the records under an unusual variety of forms, such as Bambrige, Bambrigg, Bainbrick, Banbridge, Banbricke, Banbrook, and Benbricke. He was buried 10 Ap. 1645. His w. Justice subsequently exchanged the homestead, with William Towne, for a house on the east side of Dunster Street, between Harvard and Mt. Auburn streets, which she sold to Nathaniel Hancock, 6 Oct. 1666. She was living, and received alms of the church, 1670. No account of posterity has been found, except the incidental remark in the Church Record, that Jane, the first wife of Capt. Samuel Green, was " daughter to the foresaid Justice Bainbrick." BANCROFT, ROGER, in 1639, purchased house and half an acre on the south side of Brattle Street, not far westerly from Ash Street. He d. 28 Nov. 1653, His w. must have had unleaving w. Elizabeth, but apparently no children. common attractions, it would seem for she successively m. three additional husbands, to wit, Martin Saunders of Braintree, 23 May 1654, Deac. John She was living in Bridge of Camb. in 1658, and Edward Taylor of Boston. 1685, as appears by a receipt indorsed on her marriage contract with Deac. The reBridge, acknowledging the full payment of her claim on his estate. " Timothy Pratt of Boston, tailor, ceipt is dated 23 Dee. 1685, and signed by attorney and by order of Edward Taylor and Elizabeth his wife, the relict of
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BANBRIDGE, GUY, had a grant E. corner of Garden and Mason
John Bridge deceased, within named." BARNARD, JOHN, in 1635, owned house and eight acres, extending from Brattle Street to Garden Street, embracing a part of the Craigie estate but, within two or three years, he sold to John Bridge, and his name disappears
;
from the record.
BARKETT, WILLIAM, m. Sarah, prob. dau. of John Poole of Reading, and Champney of Billerica, 19 Aug. 1656. She d. 21 Aug. 1661, and he m. Mary Barnard 16 June 1662; she d. 28 Mar. 1673, and he m. Mary, dau.
wid. of Joseph
of Nathl.
who
survived him.
Sparhawk, 8 Oct. 1673; shed. 27 Oct. 1673, and he m. Margaret His children were Lydia,b. 17 Sept. 1657, m. Arthur Cole
,
4 Sept. 1676; John, b. 6 Feb. 1660-61 William, b. 3 May Jan. 1667-8; Samuel, b. 7 Feb. 1669-70; Bartholomew, b. 1 Ap. 1672, d. 6 May 1672; Margaret, b. 4 Mar. 1675-6, m. Giles Roberts Thomas, b. 28 Jan. 1678-9; Bartholomew. WILLIAM the f. was a tailor, and resided on the west side of Dunster Street, the second lot from Harvard Square, which he purchased of William French 10 June 1656, together with the lot on He d. 17 Mar. 1688-9, aged about 60. the opposite side of the street. He prob. re2. THOMAS, had by w. Lydia, son Thomas, b. 17 Dec. 1672.
27 Nov. 1673,
whod.
b. 8
1665; Edward,
moved to Marlborough. Barry's Framingham. 3. WILLIAM, s. of William (1), by w. Hannah, had William, prob. b. 1695, 21 May bap. 17 Jan. 1696-7; Hannah, bap. 7 Mar. 1696-7; Elizabeth, bap. 1699; Hannah, b. 23 Mar. 1700-1; William, bap. 30 May 1703; John, b. 9 f. was a tailor, resided July Ii06; Daniel, b. 28 Feb. 1708-9. *WILLIAM the
on the homestead of his f and d. about 1 730. 4. EDWARD, s. of William (1), was a cordwainer, and called of Bos. 1705,
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484
BARRETT
BARTLETT.
and of Camb. 1708, apparently unm. at both dates. No further trace of him has been discovered, unless he was the same who united with the sons of his brother William, in 1740, in a sale of land. 5. BARTHOLOMEW, s. of William (1), in. Rebecca Warland (prob. dau. of Owen), 23 July 1706, and had Rebecca, bap. 18 May 1707; Thomas, bap. 17 Aug. 1712; Bartholomew, b. 27 Dec. 1713. BARTHOLOMEW the f. was a mariner. 7. WILLIAM, s. of William (3), by w. Mary, had William, b. 30 Nov. 1728; Jonathan, b. 6 Feb. 1729-30; Hannah, b. 14 Oct. 1731 Daniel, b. 12 Nov. 1733, m. his cousin Elizabeth, dau. of Daniel Barrett, 5 Nov. 1761, and d. 2 Nov.
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1809; Samuel, bap. 3 Aug. 1735; Mary, bap. 15 May 1737; Mary, bap. 11 Feb. 1739; Joshua, bap. 25 June 1741; Jonathan, bap. 28 Nov. 1742, perhaps m. Susanna Robbins 24 Aug. 1 783, served long in the Revolutionary Army, and d. in the almshouse 15 Nov. 1794; Caleb, bap. 27 June 1745; Hannah, WILLIAM the f. was a cordwainer and occupied the estate bap. 8 Feb. 1747. on the east side of Dunster Street until 1738, when he sold the southerly half to Samuel Danforth, having previously sold the other half to his brother Daniel Barrett. 7. JOHN, s. of William (3), m. Ruth, dau. of Samuel Champney, 5 May 1737, and had Hannah, bap. 9 Ap. 1738, d. unm. 3 Feb. 1759; John, bap. 6 July 1740; Thomas, bap. 3 July 1743. JOHN the f. was a tailor, and resided on the old homestead. He d. 16 Nov. 1754, a. 48; his w. d. 25 Nov. 1768,
a. 61.
8. DANIEL, s. of William (3),m. Margaret, dau. of Isaac Manning, 10 Nov. Elizabeth, 29 Oct. 1739, m. her 1737, and had children, baptized as follows cousin Daniel Barrett, 5 Nov. 1761; Lydia, 24 Aug. 1740; Sarah, 22 Aug. 1742; Maraaret, 17 Mar. 1745 Margaret, 1 Sept. 1746 James, 18 Dec. 1748; DANIEL the f. was a carpenter, owned the northerly Daniel, 8 Sept. 1751. part of estate on the east side of Dunster Street from 1733 to 1737, when he He was College Sweeper sold it, with a new house, to Andrew Bordman, Jr. in 1753, and d. before 1764, when his w. held the same office, and retained it in 1768; she d. in the almshouse, 13 Feb. 1794, a. 84. 9. THOMAS, s. of John (7), m. Elizabeth Cook, 6 Dec. 1771, and had Thomas, b. 30 Oct. 1772; Elizabeth, b. 12 Jan. 1774, m. Edward Fillebrown 16 Ap. 1801 Ruth, b. 19 July 1775, m. Oliver Blake, 30 Nov. 1813; Sarah, b. 26 July 1776, m. Oliver Blake, 29 Nov. 1798; Hannah, b. 20 Oct. 1780; d. unm. 16 Sept. 1855; John, bap. 31 Aug. 1783, d. 7 Nov. 1784. THOMAS the f. was a saddler; he owned the old homestead on the west side of Dunster Street, the south half of which he sold to William Morse, 5 Ap. 1773, having purchased in 1 768 an estate on Brattle Street, next southwesterly of the Court House. His w. d. 17 Ap. 1785, a. 41, and he m. Mercy Cook, 4 Feb. 1787.
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He
d. 1
Dec. 1812,
a. 70.
27 Oct. 1668, and had Mary, b. 17 Feb. 1672-3; Joseph, b. 5 Mar. 1673-4; Elizabeth, b. 12 July 1676. 2. JOSEPH, by w. Zabilla, had Lydia, bap. 28 Sept. 1735 James, b. 11 Ap. 1737; Rhoda, b. 12 Oct. 1738; David, b. 20 Mar. 1741-2. 3. JOSEPH, said to have been born in Plymouth, grad. H. C. 1782, came here from Woburn in 1795, and purchased the estate long called the " Farwell Store," corner of Brighton Street and Harvard Square. He prob. left about 1809, when his estate passed into the hands of A. Biglow, Esq. He afterwards resided in Portsmouth, N. H., Saco, and Boston, in which last He had no children. His taste place his sun went down in a cloud, 1827. was very singular. In Woburn he painted his house black, with white window-sashes and green doors. In Saco he built a house of round form, and painted with fiery red. 4. SAMUEL, of Concord, a silversmith, was elected Register of Deeds in He remained in office until his death, 29 Sept. 1795, and soon removed here. 1821. The names of his children, recorded here, were Lydia, d. 25 Sept. 1796; Joanna, d. 21 Oct. 1837, a. 44; and Joseph, b. July 1799, and d. 2 Oct. 1799. Besides these, he had, Samuel ; John, grad. H. C. 1805, minister at Marblehead, d. 3 Feb. 1849, a. 66; Benjamin Dixon, grad. H. C. 1810,
BARTLETT, JOSEPH, m. Mary Wayte,
BARTLETT
BATHERICK.
485
a physician in Lowell, d. here 7 Feb. 1853, a. 63; Mary, m. Willard Buttrick of Dracut 28 April 1799; Elizabeth, d. here unm. 6 Aug. 1873, a. 85; Susan, d. here unm. 6 Oct. 1875, a. 85. ABIAH, m Jonathan Sanders 24 Oct. 1669. MARY, m. Thomas Thwing 19 May 1731. JOHN, m. Tabitha Kidder 3 May 1759. BARSTOW, GEORGE (Bearstow, Baistow, and Baisto, on Town and Probate Records), d. here 18 Mar. 1653-4. His w. Susanna, who was dau. of Thomas Marrett of Camb., d. 11 Ap. 1654. They left two children, Margaret, aged four years, and George aged two years, who were taken into the family of their grandfather, and were living in 1669. He was brother to Michael of Wat., and to William of Scituate, and removed here from Scituate, in 1653, " We notice the followaccording to Deane, who adds a melancholy note: ing entry in the Plymouth Colony Records, 1653: 'A suit was commenced against William Barstow by Mr. Charles Chauncy (afterwards President), for saying that he (Mr. Chauncy) was the cause of the death of his brother, George Barstow, late deceased: and for saying that the said Mr. Chauncy sent his bulls abroad to the Church at Cambridge, whereby the said George Barstow was hindered from communion with said Church, which hastened his death through grief.' The court ordered William Barstow to retract. The explanation of this is, that George Barstow was a member of the Second Church in Scituate, with which Mr. Chauncy was at variance." Deane's
Hist. Scituate, p. 219.
BASTER, JOSEPH, by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 13 May 1643. Savage says to Boston in 1647, and had other children. BATHERICK, or BAVERICK, THOMAS, m. Ruth, dau. of Roger Buck, about 1670, and perhaps resided for a time in Woburn. Only one of his children In is recorded here, Jonathan, b. 3 Sept. 1683, and the f. d. 2 Nov. 1683. 1688, Roger Buck, then of Woburn, formerly of Camb., executed a deed, " Thomas Bathreciting that he had formerly sold a part of his homestead to A part of this estate was sold in erick who married my daughter Ruth." 1701, by Thomas Batherick and Ruth Wales, probably a son and daughter of Thomas, first named; and the remainder, in 1732, by the said Thomas and Ruth, joined by Ruth Hook, perhaps a daughter of Ruth Wales, and by Jonathan Batherick of Billerica. Anna, who m. Richard Robbins 2 Jan. 1700-1, was prob. dau. of THOMAS. 2. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), m. Elizabeth Beeger 9 Oct. 1701, and had
he removed
John, b. 12 May 1702; Ruth, b. 7 Aug. 1703; Elizabeth, b. 2 Sept. 1705; Thomas, b. 23 Ap. 1709; William, b. 23 Oct. 1710; Jonathan, b. 24 Oct. 1713; THOMAS the f. d. " at widow Robbins's," 20 Aug. Samuel, b. 5 Nov. 1718. his w. d. 8 a. 1762, 87; Ap. 1749, a. 80. 3. JONATHAN, prob. s. of Thomas (1), by w. Jemima, who owned the covenant 4 Oct. 1722, had Samuel and Jonathan, both bap. 21 Oct. 1722; Jemima, bap. 1 Dec. 1723; Jonathan, bap. 9 May 1725; Lucy, bap. 26 Jan. 1728-9; Rebecca, bap. 28 Feb. 1730-31. Mehetabel, dau. of wid. Jemima, bap.
1
Nov. 1741.
,
4. JOHN, s. of Thomas (2), m. Mary Boyce, who d. about 1726, and he m. who d. 18 June 1747, a. 39* and he m. Ruth Hook (prob. his Elizabeth 1747. He had Elizabeth, b. 7 Sept. 1724, m. James Brooks 24 Dec. cousin), of Concord 26 Dec. 1745; Mary, b. '24 Dec. 1725; John, b. 4 Jan. 1728-9; John, bap. 8 Nov. 1730; Henry, bap. 13 Aug. 1732; Timothy, bap. 3 Ap. 1737; Hannah. 30 Aug. 1741; Josiah, b. 3 Dec. 1743, d. 11 Dec. 1743; Li/dia, b. 30 June 1746, d. 17 July 1749; Ruth, b. 31 July 1748, d. 29 May 1754; a son b. 4 Dec. 1750, d. the next day; Lydia, b. 19 Mar. 1752; Ruth, b. 8 Oct. 1754. JOHN the f. d. 3 June 1769. Ruth, prob. w. of JOHN, d. in the almshouse, 14
not ascertained), m. Rebecca Russell, 1744, and had chil(f. as their names dren, born in 1745, 1747, 1749, and 1750, who prob. d. young, are not entered on record. 2 6. JOHN, s. of John (4), (name of w. not recorded) had Eunice, b. Feb. 1755; Phebe, b. 21 Aug. 1757, d. unm. at Brighton, 1837; Lazarus, b. 31
5.
Sept. 1795,
a.
78.
SOLOMON
486
BATHERICK
BELCHER.
July 1760, and prob. Hannah, b. 1762. The last two were inmates of the almshouse in 1807, and described as " non compos." 1759. No record of chil7. TIMOTHY, s. of John (4), m. Beulah Prentice, dren is found. DEBORAH, owned the covenant 3 Dec. 1727. HANNAH, was pub. to Edward Giner of Sudbury 8 Feb. 1736. JASON, was a corporal in the army, during the French War, in 1760. BEALE, THOMAS, had a grant of land in 1634; and in 1635 owned and occupied the easterly half of the estate at the N. E. corner of Brighton and Mt. Auburn streets; and purchased the other half about 1650. He owned also four acres, fronting on Harvard Street, which was purchased by the church in 1669, and was occupied as a parsonage for more than a century and a half; it now forms part of the College Square. It does not appear that Mr. Beale had any children. He d. in 1661, a. 63, devising by will one half his estate to the church, subject to the life-estate of his w. Sarah, who d. about
1679.
BEARD, ANDREW, was chosen Hog-reeve for Menotomy, 1692. BELCHER, ANDREW, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas Danforth, 1 Oct. 1639, and had Elizabeth, b. in Sudbury 17 Aug. 1640, m. Pyam Blowers 31 Jan. 1668-9, and d. 29 May 1709; Jemima, b. in Camb. 5 Ap. 1642, m. Joseph
5 Dec. 1660; Martha, b. in Sud. 26 July 1644, m. Jonathan Remington 13 July 1664, and d. 16 July 1711; Andrew, b. in Camb. 1 Jan. 1646-7; Anna (or Hannah, as she was more generally called), b. in Camb. 1 Jan. 1649-50, m. Samuel Ballard 2 Sept. 1678. ANDREW the f. was in Sud. as early as 1640, and probably resided there until 1646; for, although one of his children was b. here in 1642, yet the next was b. at Sud. in 1644, and he sold "his now dwelling house" at Sud. 23 Jan. 1645-6, reserving possession of it until to keep the next May. In June 1654 he was licensed by the County Court, This license was renewed a house of publique enterteinment at Cambridge." from year to year, until 1673, in which year he probably died, as the license " " to keep an ordinary was granted to his widow Elizabeth in Ap. 1674; she d. 26 June 1680, " aged about 61," and was succeeded by her son Andrew. This " ordinary," " house of entertainment," or " tavern," was the original " Blue Anchor Tavern," and stood at the N. E. corner of Brighton and Mt.
Sill
'
Auburn
2.
streets.
s. of Andrew (1), m. Sarah, dau. of Jonathan Gilbert of Hartford, and had Andrew, b. in Hartford 12 March 1671-2; Elizabeth, b. in Camb. 12 Jan. 1677-8, m. Daniel Oliver of Boston 23 April 1696; [she was mother of Daniel, H. C. 1722, a merchant, who d. in London 5 July 1727; of Andrew, H. C. 1724, Secretary and Lieut.-governor of Mass.; and of Mrs. Oliver d. 21 Peter, H. C. 1730, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. May 1735.] Mary, b. in Chs. 7 Mar. 1679-80, m. George Vaughn of Portsmouth, and d. 3 Feb. 1699-1700 Jonathan, b. in Camb. 8 Jan. 1681-2; Anna, b. in Chs. 30 March 1684, m. Oliver Noyes of Chs.; Martha, b. in Chs. 29 March 1686, m. Anthony Stoddard of Boston, and d. 11 Feb. 1748; Deborah, b. in Chs., 3 Jan. 1688-9; Sarah, b. m. John Foye, Jr., of Chs. Mrs. Sarah Belcher d. in Chs. 26 Jan. 1688-9. Mr. Belcher in early life was a mariner, and commanded the vessel which so opportunely arrived at Smith's Garrison, with provisions, on the evening after the sanguinary Narragansett battle in Dec. 1676. Hutchinson, i. 300. He is described as of Hartford in 1671 and 1672, of Chs. in 1679, of Camb. in 1681 and 1682 (where he seems also to have resided in 1677-8), of Chs. again in 1684 to 1689, and of Boston in 1696-7, where he continued afterwards to reside, and became one of the most He was often employed enterprising and wealthy merchants in the Province. in important public stations. He was one of the Committee of Public Safety, 20 Ap. 1689, in which year he was associated with Col. John Pynchon and Major Thomas Savage, in negotiating a treaty of peace with the Maquas, or Mohawks; a Commissioner of Imposts, 25 Dec. 1691; Commissary General from 8 Sispt. 1703 to 1708; and a member of the Council from 1702 until his death, 31 Oct. 1717. He had a second wife, Hannah, who was buried 9 Ap.
ANDREW,
1729.
BELCHER
BESBEECH.
487
3. JONATHAN, s. of Andrew (2), grad. H. C. 1699, and after a few years spent in Europe, established his residence in Boston. He m. Mary, sister of Richard Partridge, agent for N. H. in England, and dau. of Wm. Partridge, Lieut-governor of New Hampshire. His children, born in Boston, were Andrew, b. 7 Nov. 1707, grad. H. C. 1724, Register of the Court of Admiralty, member of the Council, and d. at Milton 24 Jan. 1771, a. 63 Sarah, b. 22 Ap. 1709, m. Byfield Lyde, Esq., 17 Aug. -1727, and d. 5 Oct. 1768; Jonathan, b. 23 July 1710, grad. H. C. 1728, Chief Justice and Lieut.-governor of Nova Scotia, where he d. 29 Mar. 1776, leaving son Daniel, a merchant in Halifax, d. at Boulogne, France, 17 Nov. 1841, a. 78, and a dau. Mary Emilia Elizabeth, who m. Dr. Tim. L. Jennison, and d. in Camb., 23 Aug. 1848, a. 88; William, b. 12 Ap. 1712; Thomas, b. 14 May 1713. JONATHAN the f. after his return from Europe, devoted himself for a time to commerce, in company with his father, but afterwards abandoned it for public life. He was a member of the Council, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1722, 1723, 1726, 1727 and was elected in 1729, but was negatived by Gov. Burnet. He then visited Europe again, and returned early in August 1730, bringing his commission as Governor of Mass, and N. H. 'The Boston News Letter, 5 Feb. 1730, says he received this appointment 27 Nov. 1729. The New England Journal, " 14 Ap. 1730, contains this paragraph By Capt. Homans from London, we are informed that his Majesty has been pleased to confer the honor of Knight; ;
:
hood on his Excellency, Jonathan Belcher, who is appointed Governor," etc. He was superseded in office by Gov. Shirley, in 1741 appointed Governor of New Jersey, 1747, which office he held until his death, at Elizabethtown, 31 Aug. 1757. By his special direction, his body was removed to Camb., where he had caused a tomb to be constructed. 4. SAMUEL, s. of Richard and Mary Belcher of Chs., was a tailor, and resided in Camb. 1722. He purchased an estate, 9 Feb. 1724-5, on the west He side of Dunster Street between Harvard Square and Mt. Auburn Street. in. Sarah, dau. of Ichabod Brown, 27 Dec. 1726, and had Samuel, b. 5 Dec. 1727: Sarah, b. 13 Oct. 1729: Mary, b. 21 Mar. 1731-2; Martha, b. 22 Mar. 1733-4; Abigail, b. 16 Dec. 1735; Elizabeth, b. 3 Aug. 1738; Andrew, b. 10 Sept. 1740; SAMUEL the f. removed to Wrentham about 1743. MARY, dau. of Jeremiah of Ipswich, m. Joseph Russell, of Camb. 23 June
;
1662.
BEMIS, JOSEPH, perhaps s. of Joseph of Wat. (1640), was a husbandman, and sold land in 1709 to Jonathan Robinson. The only other record found concerning him is dated 11 Nov. 1700, and recites that "there hath been of late a public contribution for the relief of Joseph Bemus and William Chamberlin, their substance having been of late consumed by fire." Their children were 2. PHILIP, m. Elizabeth Lawrence 21 Nov. 1723. baptized as follows: Philip and William, 13 Nov. 1726; David, 30 July
1727; Abigail,^ July 1731; Edmund, 22 Oct. 1732; Zaccheus, 25 July 1736. SAMUEL, m. Elizabeth Robinson of Lexington, 16 Nov. 1775. ABIGAIL, m. John Brown, 19 Mar. 1778. BENJAMIN, JOHN, was Constable of Camb. in 1633. He was released from the duty of training, in 1634, but required " to have in readiness at all times sufficient arms." He resided in 1635 and 1642 on the easterly side of Ash Street, his land, six acres, bordering on said street and on Charles River. "Mr. Benjamin's house burnt, and 100 in goods lost," 1636. Savage's Winthrop, i. 185. He removed to Wat. and d. 14 June 1645. His eldest son was John. 2. JOSEPH, of Barnstable, sold land in Camb. 30 Oct. 1686, bounded on land of " Abel Benjamin, my brother," which was devised by will of my honored father, Mr. John Benjamin, sometimes of Watertown, deceased." BESBEECH, THOMAS, sold land in Camb. 1636. About 1636 ho purchased of William Lewis a house, which he sold to William Cutter in 1638, on the
'
His name is variously N. W. corner of Holyoke and Winthrop streets. written on the records, Besbeche, Besbege, and Besbidge, and is supposed to He seems to have resided in be the same as the present Bisbee or Bisby.
488
BESBEECH
in 1647,
BLACKLEACH.
removed; he was of Duxbury in 1639, and of SudMar. 1673-4, leaving dau. Mary, w. of William Brown, dau. Alice, w. of John Bourne of Marshfield, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. BETTS, JOHN, came to N. E. 1634, aged 40. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., xxx. 143. Before 1639, he purchased a house at the S. W. corner of Holyoke and Winthrop streets, which he sold to John Shepard, 6 Dec. 1662. In 1642, besides many other lots of land, he owned about an acre, fronting the Common, which he sold to Harvard College in 1661. Dane Hall stands on the He d. 21 Feb. 1662-3, a. about 68. His w. southerly part of this lot.
Scituate, 1634, but soon
bury
where he
d. 9
Elizabeth d. 2 Jan. 1663-4. In her will, dated 16 Dec. 1663, she devises house to John Bridge, Sen., who seems to have been her brother, and trifling 1 legacies to a large number of friends, but does not mention any children. The following, from the Colony Records, 18 May 1653, is sufficiently definite: '* John Betts of Cambridge, being at a Court of Assistants on his trial for his life, for the cruelty he exercised on Robert Knight his servant, striking him with a plough-staff, &c. who died shortly after it, the jury brought in their verdict, which the magistrates not receiving, came in course to be tried by the General Court." ..." The General Court do not find John Betts legally guilty of the murdering of his late servant Robert Knight but forasmuch as the evidence brought in against him holds forth unto this Court strong presumptions and great probabilities of his guilt of so bloody a fact, and that he hath exercised and multiplied inhuman cruelties upon the said Knight, this Court doth therefore think meet that the said John Betts be sentenced, viz. 1. That the next lecture day at Boston, (a convenient time before the lecture begin,) the said Betts have a rope put about his neck by the executioner, and from the prison that he be carried to the gallows, there to stand upon the ladder one hour, by the glass, with the end of his rope thrown over the gallows. 2. That he be brought back to prison, and, immediately after the 3. That the said Betts shall pay all the lecture, to be severely whipped.
;
witnesses brought in against him 2s. per day for so many days as they have attended upon the Court of Assistants and the General Court, upon his trial. 4. That he shall pay 15 into the Country Treasury, for and towards the charges the Court have been at, upon big trial. 5. That the said Betts be bound to the good behavior, for one whole year, in the sum of ten pounds." BITTLESTOXE, THOMAS (elsewhere written Bittleston, Bicklestone and Beetlestone), d. here 23 Nov. 1640, owning house and land east of North
Avenue, which was
in possession of his wid. Elizabeth, in
1642.
By
will,
dated 3 Nov. 1640, he bequeathed 150 to his dau. Elizabeth, 5 to Mr. l to Mr. Foordham Thomas Shepard, (prob. Rev. Robert Fordham, who settled at South Hampton, Long Island, 1648, and d. 1674) and the remainder to his w. Elizabeth. His boy, John Swan, was enjoined to serve the w. five years and was then to receive 5. Mr. Bittlestone was prob. from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as he ordered, in case his w. and dau. should both decease without legal heirs, his estate should be divided, one third to his natural kindred in Old England, one third to the Church in Camb., and one third to "my two friends Thomas Cheesholme and William Cutter," which two persons are known to have formerly resided in Newcastle. Elizabeth the w. or dau. of Thomas, m. John Bisco of Watertown, 13 Dec. 1650. 2. WILLIAM, prob. brother of Thomas (1), in 1638, owned house and three He d. (on the 5th of acres, east of Garden Street, near the Botanic Garden.
October, the date of the year mutilated), before 1642, when the estate was held by Guy Banbridge, Edward Hall, and Edward Winship, feoffees but for what heirs, or for what purpose, it was so held, does not appear. BLACKLKACH, BENJAMIN, by w. Dorcas (dau. of Nathaniel Bowman, of Wat.), had Nathaniel, b. 12 Oct. 1666.
;
ing: "I give to Mr. [Stephen] Day twenty shillings in old iron and leaden weights, and if they will not reach it, to
Among
these bequests
was the
follow-
it up in some other things that will sute him; but he is not to have them exhe mend the cob-irons." cept
make
BLODGETT
BLODGETT, THOMAS
BONNER.
489
and Blokwod), a glover, came to New England in 1635, and had a grant of land 6 Mar. 1636-7. By w. Susan he had Daniel; Samuel; Susan, b. June 1637, m. in Woburn, Jonathan Tompson, 28 Nov. 1655. THOMAS the f. d. 7 Aug. 1639, according to the record; but the date of his will is 10 Aug. 1641. His w. Susan m. in Woburn, James Tompson, 15 Feb. 1643-4, and d. 10 Feb. 1660-61. 2. DANIEL, s. of Thomas (1), of Camb., freeman 1652, of Chelmsford 1654, where his son Nathaniel was b. 22 Oct. 1664, and d. 27 Oct. 1666; his w. Mary d. 5 Sept. 1666. He had also s. Samuel. DANIKL the f. d. 28 Feb.
1671-2, leaving w. Sarah.
3. SAMUEL, s. of Thomas (1), m. Ruth Eggleden 13 Dec. 1655, and had Ruth, b. 28 Dec. 1656; Samuel, b. 11 Dec. 1658; Thomas, b. 26 Feb. 1660-61; Sarah, b. 17 Feb. 1667-8; Martha and Mart/, twins, b. Susanna, b.
;
(otherwise written Bloget, Blogget, Bloggitt, Bloged,
15 Sept. 1673. SAMUEL the f. resided in Woburn, and d. 21 May 1720, his w. Ruth d. 14 Oct. 1 703. a. nearly 87 4. SAMUEL, s. of Daniel (2), d. at Woburn 3 July 1687, and Samuel Blodgett of Woburn was appointed administrator 25 Jan. 1687-8.
;
s. of Samuel (3), m. Rebecca Tidd, 11 Nov. 1685, and had Russell; Ruth, Aug. 1686; Rebecca, b. 5 June 1689, m. b. 14 Oct. 1694; Joseph, b. 17 Sept. 1696; Abigail, b. 7 Nov. 1698, in. Reed: Samuel, b. 17 June 1702. THOMAS the f. removed from Woliurn to Lex. about 1692, and became one of the most active and useful citizens. He d. 29 Sept. 740; his w. Rebecca, who d. 8 March 1750, and all the before named children, except Ruth, are mentioned in his will, dated 26 Oct. 1738. [Deac. Alvaro Blodgett, who d. 14 May 1874, was of this family, and the last male representative in Camb. of the first named Thomas Blodgett.] BLOOMKIELD, WILLIAM, about 1638 sold to Robert Stedman a house on the north side of Winthrop Street, between Dunster and Brighton streets. BLOSSE, JOHN, buried 23 April 1646. FRANCIS, buried 29 Sept. 1646. Probably the name was BLOIS. BLOWERS, PYAM (sometimes written Blower and Blores), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Andrew Belcher, 31 Mar. 1668, and had Thomas, b. 27 July 1669, d. 14 Aug. 1669; Samuel, b. 14 Jan. 1671-2, d. 12 Feb. 1671-2; Jonathan, b. 8 Feb. 1671-3, d. young; Hannah, b. 4 July 1674, d. 16 July 1676; Elizabeth, b. 19 July 1675, m. Rev. Thomas Symmes of Bradford, 9 July 1701; Thomas, b. 1 Aug. 1677; Pyam, b. 29 July 1679, d. 14 Aug. 1679; John, b. 22 Oct. 1680, THOMAS the d. 22 July 1707; Andrew, b. 27 Aug. 1682, d. 21 Oct. 1682. 1686 commanded the ketch Adventure, owned in f. was a ship-master, and in a part by his brother-in-law, Capt. Andrew Belcher. In 1672, he purchased house and 4 acres, at the N. W. corner of Brattle and Mason streets, where he resided through life after his decease, it was sold by his son to Abraham Capt. Blowers d. 1 June 1709. His w. Elizabeth d. three days Hill, in 1713.
5.
THOMAS,
b.
Thomas,
Pyam (1), grad. H. C. 1695, ordained at Beverly 29 Oct. 1701, m. Emma Woodbury, and had Pyam, grad. H. C. 1721, merAnchant, d. in Boston 18 Mar. 1739; Emma; Thomas: John; Elizabeth; THOMAS the f. d. 17 June 1729. His w. and six children survived drew.
2.
previously, 29
May
s.
709.
THOMAS,
of
him.
s. of Thomas (2), resided in Boston, and m. Sarah, dau. of Samson Nov. 1735. One of their sons was Samson Salter Blower*, b. 10 Mar. 1741-2, grad. H. C. 1763, in. a dau. of Benjamin Kent, was Ch. Justice of the Sup. Court in Nova Scotia, and d. Oct. 1842, having lived more than half a year beyond a full century. BONNER, JOHN, came here from Boston about 1690. By second w. Mary in. John Clark, who d. here 20 April 1697, he had Jane, b. 2 May 1691,
3.
JOHN,
Salter, 25
b. 6 Dec. 1693, in. Sarah, dau. of Ellery of Boston, 31 Aug. 1710; John, uel Marsh, 17 Nov. 1715; Thomas, b. 6 Jan. 1695-6, and d. 3 June
Sam719
"buried in South Carolina." Bos., and d. 30 Jan. 1725-6,
JOHN
the
f.
>ld
his
house
705, returned to
a.
83 years.
An
obituary represents him as
490
BONNER
in
BOONE
BORDMAN.
;
cially
skillful and ingenious in many arts and sciences, espeone of the best acnavigation, drawing, moulding of ships, &c. quainted with the coasts of North America, of any of his time; of great knowledge and judgment in marine affairs; was very much consulted, improved, and relied upon, by the Government, as principal pilot in our marine expeditions; and with diligent care and faithfulness discharged his trust. . By his second wife, who was a daughter of the famous Elder Clark of Cambridge, he had several children a son and a daughter only surviving." Bost. News Letter. plan of Boston and the harbor, drawn by Capt. Bonner,
.
"a gentleman very
was published
and has recently been republished. BOONE, MATTHEW, by w. Anna, had Frank, b. 28 Mar. 1664. BORDMAN, WILLIAM (now generally written Boardman), by w. Frances, had Moses, d. 16 Mar. 1661-2, owning real estate, and therefore prob. of age; b. about 1640; Rebecca, b. 1 Nov. 1643, m. John Palfrey, 4 Aug. 1664; Andrew, b. 1646; Aaron, b. 1649; Frances, b. 1650, d. unm. 16 Sept. 1718; Martha, b. about 1653, m. Daniel Epes, 17 Ap. 1672, and d. 9 Feb. 1692; Mary, b. 9 Mar. 1655-6; William, b. 6 Dec. 1657, was a carpenter, resided in Maiden 1684, and d. at Rumney Marsh, or Chelsea, 14 Mar. 1695-6; Elizabeth, b. 17 Aug. 1660, m. John Cooper, 28 Ap. 1686, and d. 15 Nov. 1714. WILLIAM the f. d. 25 Mar. 1685, aged 71 years. He was b. in England. When quite young, his father died, and his mother m. Stephen Day, with whom he emigrated to New England, in 1638. About 1659, Day paid to him a legacy of 50, left by his father, styling him his "son-in-law," and acknowledging that it should have been "paid to him twenty-three years agone." As early as 1656, he owned and occupied the estate at the easterly corner of Harvard Square and Dunster Street. At the death of Day in 1668, he came into possession of the estate on the opposite corner, to which his son Aaron added the adjoining land, extending to Brighton Street. Both these estates remained in the Bordman family about a hundred and fifty years. Mr. Bordman was a tailor, and was early appointed Steward and Cook of Harvard ColHe resigned the office of Stewlege, which last office he held until his death. ard in 1667, and Thomas Danforth was elected in his stead. Judge Sewall, " in noticing his death, styles him Major Bordman." This was probably a title, indicating his office in College, a Steward being in some sort a majordomo. 2. ANDREW, s. of William (1), m. Ruth Bull, 15 Oct. 1669, and had Andrew, b. 22 Aug. 1670; Ruth, b. 15 Jan. 1671-2, m. Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard College, 30 Dec. 1696, and d. without issue, 17
in 1722,
Feb. 1744-5; Moses, b. 8 July 1672, d. 15 Feb. 1672-3; Martha, b. 31 Oct. Such is 1675, d. 14 June 1676; Abigail,}). 10 Mar. 1677-8, d. 10 July 1678. the record of births; but there are manifest mistakes in it. The son Andrew, in a manuscript account of his family, dates his own birth 22 Aug. 1671, and that of his sister Ruth, 28 Jan. 1672-3. I cannot reconcile these dates with the others. ANDREW the f was a tailor; inherited the homestead; succeeded his father as College Cook; and the Corporation voted, 23 July 1686, that he "henceforward manage the office of Steward in the manner as of late." He also kept a shop, or variety store, as is plainly indicated by his He d. of fever, 15 July 1687, a. 41; his w. Ruth d. of small-pox, inventory. 17 Dec. 1690, a. 39 years. 3. AARON, s. of William (1), by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 1 Ap. 1674, d. 20 June 1674; Moses, b. 17 Feb. 1675-6; Mary, b. 9 Mar. 1678-9, d. 15 Ap. 1 1679; Andrew, b. 21 June 1681; Martha, b. 9 Nov. 1683, m. Stephen Willis of Medf. 30 Sept. 1708; Aaron, b. 18 Ap. 1586; Mary, b. 6 May 1689, m. Ebenezer Dorr of Roxbury 16 Feb. 1709-10. AARON the f. was a lockwas to take smith; appointed charge of the College clock, and also to serve as College Smith, 1675; and succeeded his brother as College Cook and Steward.
.
1 The record has Aaron, but I think it should be Andrew, who is named in his and who sold lands in Camb. bequeathed by his father. He was a saddler,
father's will,
resided in Roxbury, and had three children living in 1714, Mary, Moses, and Aaron, He m. second w. Sarah Goddard, at Rox., 20 Oct. 1715.
BORDMAN.
He
which he made large additions, and became an extensive land-holder town. He d. 15 Jan. 1702-3, a. 53; his w. Mary was living in 1717.
491
inherited his father's estate on the westerly side of Dunster Street, to in the
4. ANDREW, s. of Andrew (2), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Kit-hard Trusedale, 17 Dec. 1697, and had Kuth? b. 19 Nov. 1698, m. Mr. John Higginson of Salem, 4 Dec. 1719, and d. 14 June, 1727; Andrew, b. 1 Aug. 1701. ANDREW the f. was a saddler, and endowed with an unusual tact for business. Though only sixteen years old when his father died, he assumed the charge of the store, aided by his mother, indeed, until her death, three years after-
wards
and he continued
to
manage
in addition to his official duties.
He
his mechanical and commercial affairs, succeeded his uncle in the office of Stew-
ard and College Cook, in 1 703, and so satisfactorily performed the duties of Steward for a period of forty -four years, that, on his death, the Corporation entered on their records a testimony to his faithfulness. He was Town Clerk thirty-one successive years, from 1700; Town Treasurer, forty-six successive years, from 1701; Selectman, eighteen years, between 1706 and 1732; RepHe resided through life on the homestead, where resentative, 1719 and 1720. he d. 30 May 1747, aged nearly 76; his w. Elizabeth d. 16 Aug. 1760, a. 86 years 6 months. 5. MOSES, s. of Aaron (3), m. Abigail, dau. of Deac. Walter Hastings, 25 June 1700, and had Moses, b. 2 June 1703; Elizabeth, b. 19 Aug. 1704; m. Col. Abraham Williams of Marlborough, 5 Nov. 1730; Abigail, b. 5 July 1706, m. John Colson of Bos., 18 Feb. 1731, and d. before 1751; Aaron, b. 8 Sept. 1707, d. young; William, b. 30 Ap. 1711, d. 10 Aug. 1715; Mary, b. 10 Aug. 1713, m. Josiah Stearns of Watertown, 1752; Martha, b. 25 July 1715, m. John Williams of Lynn, 9 Oct. 1740; Aaron, bap. 9 Mar. 1717-18, d. young; Walter, bap. 15 Mar. 1718-19, living in 1751; Andrew, bap. 20 Feb. 1720-21, grad. H. C. 1737, ordained at Chilmark, 1746, d. of small-pox 19 Nov. 1776; William, neither birth nor baptism recorded, but named in the father's will, and in the division of his estate. MOSES the f. was a tanner, and resided on the easterly side of North Avenue, near the Common. He was a Captain in the militia, and an active, energetic man. He was a Selectman eighteen years between 1713 and 1736, and on various important committees. He d. 21 Jan. 1750-51, aged nearly 75; his w. Abigail d. Oct. 1752, a. 75 years 8 months. 6. AARON, s. of Aaron (3), m. Elizabeth Parker 14 Oct. 1708, and had Aaron, b. 6 May 1711, a tin-plate worker in Boston, 1737; Zechariah, b. 24 Oct. 1713. AARON the f. was a saddler, and inherited the homestead, on Harvard Square. He d. 24 Jan. 1718-19, a. 32; his w. Elizabeth was living
.
in 1732.
7. ANDREW, s. of Andrew (4), grad. H. C. 1719; m. Sarah, dau. of Lieut.gov. Spencer Phips, 25 Feb. 1731-2, and had Ruth, b. 28 Jan. 1732-3, d. 23 June 1740; Andrew, b. 15 Ap. 1735, d. 24 June 1740; a son (twin with Andrew), d. 18 Ap. 1735; Elizabeth, b. 30 Mar. 1742, d. 16 Nov. 1749; Andrew, b. 31 Aug. 1 745. ANDREW the f. inherited the homestead on Harvard Square, east of Dunster Street, and succeeded his father as Steward of the College, in 1747, which office he held about three years; thus nearly if not He sucentirely completing a century pf Stewardship by the same family. ceeded his father, also, in the office of Town Clerk, which he held thirty-nine years, from 1731; and of Town Treasurer, which he held twenty-three years from 1747. He was a Representative in the General Court twenty-two years, 1742-1751, and 1757-1768; Justice of the Peace; Register of Probate twentyfour years, 1745-1769; and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas seventeen 1752-1769. He d. 19 May 1769, aged nearly 68; his w. Sarah d. at years, Tewksbury, Dec. 1793, a. 81. He was 8. MOSES, s. of Moses (5), in. Elizabeth Fillebrown, 25 Dec. 1746. a tanner, and inherited part of the homestead, including half the dwellinghouse. He d. 8 Mar. 1753, aged nearly 50. His w. Elizabeth d. 1784. They had no children.
1 Mrs. Ruth Higginson had four children, John, b. 12 Oct. 1720; Elizabeth, b. 30 Mar.
1722
1727;
Ruth,
b.
26 Sept. 1723,
b.
d.
10 July
Andrew,
June
1727.
492
BORDMAN.
a. grad. 1767, and d. Oct. 1772, leaving a son Aaron, who d. 28 July 1817, 48; Zechariah, bap. 2 Dec. 1750, prob. d. young; Elizabeth, bap. 20 Dec. 1753, m. Major John Brown, 13 May 1776 Mary, bap. 16 May 1756, d. 1795; Richard, bap. 30 Nov. 1760. ZECHARIAH the f. was a carpenter, and inherited the homestead. He d. 1776. 11. ANDREW, s. of Andrew (7), m. Mary, onlydau. of William Blair Townsend, Esq., 1 Nov. 1770; she d. 13 Mar. 1797, a. 46, and he m. Abigail, dau. He inherited the homestead and, of Bartholomew Richardson of Woburn. after his mother's death, the whole estate, including more than a hundred This tract embraced, acres in the northeasterly section of Cambridgeport. substantially, besides a large quantity of marsh, all the upland bounded northerly by Lincoln Street, easterly by the marsh, southerly by School Street and westerly by a line passing through the centre of the Brick Meeting-house
;
9. WILLIAM, s. of Moses (5), m. Susanna Bricksey, 15 Mar. 1753, and had 7 Oct. 1753, m. William Prentiss; Elizabeth (twin with Abigail), Abigail, bap. m. Andrew Brown, 13 Dec. 1775; William, bap. 10 Aug. bap. 7 Oct. 1753, 1755; Moses, bap. 23 Oct. 1757, a cordwainer in Camb. 1779; Susanna Mackey, bap. 23 Sept. 1759, living in 1781. WILLIAM the f. inherited part He d. before 18 May of the homestead, including half the dwelling-house. 1779; his w. Susanna d. about 1794. 10. ZECHARIAH, s. of Aaron (6), m. Mary Stebbins, 16 Aug. 1743, and had 1 Aaron, bap. 16 June 1744, d. 22 Dec. 1746; Aaron, bap. 10 Oct. 1746,'
About 1782 he removed to Tewksnearly parallel with Columbia Street. bury, but returned about 1796, and resided several years in the house on Plymouth Street, recently destroyed, familiarly known as the Cholera House, having sold the homestead, in 1794, to the Corporation of Harvard College. In 1805 he erected the house now standing at the S. W. corner of Hampshire and Windsor streets, where he subsequently resided. When the great speculations in land commenced, about 1802, he sold large portions of his estate, united with others in laying out streets for a great city, and gave to the Town the school-house lot at the corner of Windsor and School streets, and to the proprietors of the Brick Meeting-house the easterly half of the square on which that house stood. He was Town Clerk, 1769-1780, and Town Treasurer, 1777, 1778. It is remarkable, that the office of Town Clerk was held by three generations of the same family, father, son, and grandson, for eighty consecutive years, and that the name of the incumbent was Andrew Bordman, through the whole period. The first two also held the office of Treasurer, for sixty-eight successive years. They deserve the thanks of posterity for the very legible and neat appearance of their records. It is to be lamented, however, that in regard to births and deaths, after about 1740, the record is so meagre. He d. 27 July 1817, a. nearly 72; his w. Abigail d. 27 Aug. 1848, a. 78. As he had no children, the male line, in this branch of the family, became extinct. 12. WILLIAM, s. of William (9>, m. Sally McCleary, 17 Mar. 1784, and had William, b. 1785, d. unm. 16 Mar. 1851; Sally, b." 1787, in. Isaac Bosworth, 1 Dec. 1805, and d. 2 Oct. 1842; John, b. 1789; Andrew, b. 1792; Moses, b. 1794 James, b. 1796 Esther, b. 1798, m. Joseph Hiscock, 23 Sept. 1821; Charles, b. 1801, m. Christiana Reed 14 June 1827, and d. of cholera at Cincinnati, July 1834. WILLIAM the f. in 1802 sold his interest in the homestead, and erected a house at the S. W. corner of Washington and Cherry streets, where he d. 22 Sept. 1829; his w. Sally d. 25 Jan. 1837, a.
lot,
;
71.
of the
s. of Zechariah (10), was a bricklayer, and inherited a part homestead at the westerly corner of Harvard Square and Dunster Street. He m. Prudence Dockum, 10 April, 1794, and d. s. p. 17 Dec. 1816; his w. Prudence m. Deac. Levi Farwell 21 May 1818, and d. in August 1847,
13.
RICHARD,
a.
72. 14.
JOHN, s. of William (12), m. Aliphal B. Wheeler 18 Jan. 1813, and had John; James, d. 20 Dec. 1865, a. 49; Charles; Joseph PL, d. 3 Mar. 1857, a. 25. JOHN the f. was a painter, resided in Cambridgeport, and d. 21 Nov.
1834,
a.
45
his w. Aliphal B. d. 8 Oct. 1843, a. 48.

1
Such
is
the record of baptism and of death.
BORDMAN
15.
BOWERS.
493
s. of William (12), m. Adeline Hiscock 26 Oct. 1816; she Aug. 1834, and he m. Anne Emery 21 June 1835. He resided in Cambridgeport, had children by both wives, and d. 7 Sept. 1868, a. 76. BORLAND, JOHN, of Boston, m. Anne, or Anna, dau. of Leonard V assail, 20 Feb. 1749. In 1765, he purchased of Rev. East Apthorp's agent, and of the Wigglesworth heirs, the estate bounded by Harvard, Bow, and Holyoke Bow Street, however, streets, except a small lot in the northwesterly corner. was then further north than its present location. The house in which he dwelt was long the residence of Dr, Plympton. Probably he remained here until the Revolutionary troubles commenced. Two of his twelve children were baptized here, in the Episcopal Church, Samuel, 26 Dec. 1765, and Thomas, 21 June 1767, d. 29 Sept. 1767. He d. in Boston, 5 June 1775, a. " His death was occasioned 47. by the sudden breaking of a ladder on which he stood, leading from the garret floor to the top of his house." N. E. Chronicle. His w. Anna prob. m. William Knight, Esq.. of Portsmouth, N. H., Ap. 1784; she executed a release to her son Leonard Vassal Borland, of the shares of her children, William, Anna, and Elizabeth, deceased, 26 Ap. 1784, styling herself, Anna Borland, widow of John Borland, Esq.; and, 28 Ap. 1784, William Knight, Esq., and his w. Anna, executrix of the will of John Borland late of Cambridge, Esq., executed a general power of attorney to Leonard V. Borland. By sundry conveyances, dated 1783 and 1784, it appears that the children of John and Anna Borland, besides those previously named, were John Lindall : James (of New York); Francis (physician, of Boston); Phebe, wife of George Spooner of Boston; and Jane, wife of Jonathan Simpson of Cambridge. Of these, John Lindall, grad. H. C. 1772, was Lieut.-col. in the British service, and d. in England, 16 Nov. 1825; Francis, grad. H. C. 1774, resided a few years in Boston and Portsmouth, N. H., and was probably the same who died at Somerset, Mass., in 1820, aged 86. JOHN the f. was probably s. of Francis Borland of Boston, who was b. 28 Dec. 1691, m. Jane, dau. of Hon. Timothy Lindall of Salem, 22 Sept. 1726, and died 16 Sept. 1763, and grandson of John Borland, "one of the prin" of Boston, who d. 30 Mar. 1727, aged 68. cipal merchants BOSWORTH, JONATHAN, was here in 1632. In 1635 he owned a house and land on the westerly side of Garden Street, not far from the Botanic Garden. He prob. left early. It would seem that he was son or perhaps brother of Edward Bosworth, and had brothers Nathaniel and Benjamin, and a sister who m. William Buckland. The General Court ordered, 5 Aug. 1634, " That such moneys as shall be laid out for the maintenance of widow Bosworth and her family shall be paid again by the Treasurer " and, 7 July 1635, " in consideration of money disbursed by Mr. Henry Seewall for the transportation of Edward Bosworth and his family," it was ordered that Jonathan Bosworth, William Buckland, Nathanael Bosworth, and Benjamin Bosworth, should pay 5 each, to said Sewall. BOWERS, GEOUGK, was of Scittiate in 1637, of Plymouth in 1639, and soon afterwards in Cambridge. His w. Barbarie d. 25 Mar. 1644, and he m. Elizabeth Worthington 15 Ap. 1649. Their s. Jerathmeel was b. 2 May 1650. GEORGE the f. d. 1656, and his w. Elizabeth m. Henry Bowtell 25 June 1657. In his will are named wife, and children, Benanuel (who had already
ANDREW,
was
bur. 29
received his portion); John; Patience, wife of Humphrey Bradstreet; Silence; and Jerathmeel; the wife and Jerathmeel to inherit the homestead. Matthew Bowers, who d. 30 Jan. 1644-5, was prob. s. of George. Mr. Bowers resided on the easterly side of North Avenue, not far south from the Railroad bridge. In 1656 he conveyed to his son Benanuel 20 acres in Charlestown, adjoining Cambridge line. Previously, however, an unhappy difficulty occurred between the father and son; for Thomas Danforth complained to the General Court,
1652, against George Bowers, "for rendinga deed committed to liis trust, with several articles between the said George Bowers and Benanuel Bowers " " for which offence a fine was his son; George imposed at the same Court, Bowers of Cambridge being complained on, for putting in a vote on the elecbut this tion day for the Governor, acknowledged the fact, not only every year
May
494
BOWERS
BOWMAN.
year since he came into these parts, [and] pleaded ignorance: It is ordered, that the said George Bowers, for his offence therein, shall pay the sum of 10." He was not a sworn freeman, and therefore not a legal voter. 2. BENANUEL, s. of George (1), m. Elizabeth Dunster (called "cousin" by President Dunster, in his will), 9 Dec. 1653, and had son George, b. 3 Feb. 1653-4. In 1656, he received a deed of land in Charlestown, now Somerville, adjoining Camb., where he had Barbary, b. 4 Jan. 1655; Elizabeth, b. 8 Dec. 1656; *Mary, b. 16 Sept. 1660; Henry, b. 2 June 1665, and d. 16 Oct. 1690; Anna, b. 14 Oct. 1668; Bathsheba, b. 4 June 1671; Jonathan, b. 11 Aug. 1673; Mary, b. 20 May 1679, and d. 26 Dec. 1669. His passage through life was stormy, as related somewhat fully on pp. 344-352. His will, dated 5 His w. Elizabeth was living 26 Dec. Oct. 1693, was proved 28 May 1698.
1693.
3. JOHN, s. of George (1), grad. H. C. 1649; preached at Guilford, New Haven, Branford, Derby, and Rye, in Connecticut; and d. about 1697. Quart. Savage (Gen. Diet.) says he died 14 June 1687; and that Keg., Mny 1836. his son John was minister at Rye, and died at Derby 23 Sept. 1708. JEKATHMEEL, s. of George (1), sold the homestead 2 Jan. 1683-4; he then resided in Chelmsford, of which town he was a prominent inhabitant, and Representative in the General Court. His w. was Elizabeth. BOWES, NICHOLAS, m. Sarah, dau. of James Hubbard, 2 June 1684, and had James, b. 16 Jan. 1686-7, and another child who d. in infancy. His w. Sarah d. 26 Jan. 1688-9, aged 27, and he m. Dorcas, dau. of Daniel Champney, 6 May 1690: she d. and he m. Martha, dau. of Capt. John Remington, 29 Jan. 1718-19. He removed to Boston, and d. 23 Oct. 1721, aged 65. His s. William was bap. here, 31 Jan. 1702-3. 2. NICHOLAS, prob. s. of Nicholas (1) by his second wife, m. Lucy, dau. of Rev. John Hancock of Lexington, and had William; Lucy,-m. Rev. Jonas Clark of Lex.; Nicholas; Elizabeth; Dorcas, m. John Hill; Lydia ; Mary; all of whom were living in 1768. NICHOLAS the f grad. H. C. 1725, was ordained at Bedford 15 July 1730, and dism. in 1754; was Chaplain in the Army at Fort Edward in 1755, and d. at Brookfield as he was returning home. His w. Lucy m. Rev. Samuel Cook of Menotomy 25 Nov. 1762, and d. 12 Sept.
.
ELIZABETH, m. Rev. Henry Ware, 15 Sept. 1807. Widow HANNAH, d. 18 July 1848, aged 81. BOWMAN, NATHANIEL, was a proprietor "then inhabiting" Watertown, 4 Feb. 1636-7, but removed to Cambridge Farms (Lexington) about 1650, and d. 26 Jan. 1681-2. His chil. were Francis, b. 1630; Mary, bur. 1 Jan. 1637-8; Joanna, bur. 20 Nov. 1638; Dorcas, buried 6 Feb. 1638-9, aged 7 days Na/haniel, b. 6 Mar. 1640-41 Joanna, b. 20 Nov. 1642, prob. m. m. Benjamin Blackleech, who d. and she m. Turner; Dorcas, b.
;
1768, aged 56.
Marsh.
FRANCIS, s. of Nathaniel (1), m. Martha Sherman of Watertown, 26 and had Francis, b. 14 Sept. 1662; John, b. 19 Feb. 1664-5; Martha, b. 2 Mar. 1666-7, d. 10 Dec. 1667; Nathaniel, b. 9 Feb. 1668-9; Mary, b. about 1671, m. Rev. John Eveleth, 2 Dec. 1692, and had s. Joseph who d.here, 27 Oct. 1714, aged 18 Joseph, b. 18 May 1674; Anna, b. 19 Sept. 1676; Samuel, b. 14 Aug. 1679; Jonathan, b. about 1682; Martha, b. 4 April 1685. FRANCIS the f. inherited the homestead, and d. 16 Dec. 1687; his w. Martha survived. 3. FRANCIS, s. of Francis (2), m. Lydia Stone 26 June 1684; she d. and he m. Ruth, dau. of Rev. Samuel Angier of Watertown. He inherited the homestead in Lexington, near Watertown, and d. 23 Dec. 1744, aged 82 his w. Ruth d. 23 July 1754, aged 70. He was a very active citizen, and frequently sustained public office. He was Constable 1689, and Selectman 1696 and from 1700 to 1711. After the incorporation of Lex., he was Representative from that town eight years, between 1715 and 1733, and was also Justice of the Peace, when that office was bestowed much more sparingly than now. His children, according to Hudson (Hist. Lex.), were Francis, b. about
2.
Sept. 1661,
BOWMAN.
; ;
495
;
1685 Mary, m. Morse Lydia, m. Jonathan Simonds John, b. 14 July 1689; Sarah, m. Philip Russell haac, b. 1693, d. 18 July 1785. 4. NATHANIEL, s. of Francis (2), m. Anna Barnard of Watertown, 16 Dec. 1692, and had Mary, b. 22 Dec. 1693, m. Samuel Garfield of Wat. about 1 714; Anne, bap. 6 Sept. 1698, m. Nathaniel Bright of Wat. about 1714, and m. (2d) Richard Clarke; Elizabeth, bap. 13 Nov. 1698, d. unm. 25 Feb. 1748; Abigail, b. 1700, in. Matthew Bridge, Jr., 22 Mar. 1719-20, and d. 15 June 1785; Nathaniel, bap. 31 May, 1702, and d. 26 Dec. 1723, leaving dau. Mary, b. 19 Dec. 1723, and wife Ruth, who m. Oliver Livermore 24 Aug. 1726 and afterwards Soden Grace, bap. 1 Oct. 1704, m. Nathaniel Coolidge 10 Mar. 1726-7 Sarah, bap. 25 May 1707, m. Samuel Stearns, 3 Feb. 1731-2; m. James Brown 21 Jan. 1733-4. NATHANIEL the f. resided Jane, b. in Lexington near Wat., and d. 30 June 1748 his w. Anna d. 16 Sept.
; ; ;
1757.
5. JOSEPH, s. of Francis (2), m. Phebe and had Joseph, b. 16 Sept. 1697; Hannah, b. 11 Nov. 1699; James, b. 11 Sept. 1701; Jonathan, b. 23 Feb. 1703-4, grad. H. C. 1724, ordained at Dorchester 5 Nov. 1729, and d. 30 May 1775 Francis, b. 10 June 1705, d. unm. 1750, and his brother Wil,
;
liam, of Cauib., administered;
Edmund, b. 5 Mar. 1709-10, grad. H. C. 1728, Portsmouth N. H. William, b. 2 Thaddeus, b. 2 Sept. 1712 JOSEPH Sept. 1715; Martha, b. 8 Sept. 1718, m. Samuel Bridge, 27 Ap. 1738. the f. resided in Lexington, which town he represented in the General Court six years between 1718 and 1737. He was also Justice of the Peace, and Selectman of Camb., 1712. He d. 8 Ap. 1762, a. nearly 88; his w. Phebe
merchant
in
;
d. 20
6.
Dec. 1751,
a.
78.
of Francis (2), m. Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Andrew, 21 Nov. 1700; she d. 18 Nov. 1 713, and he m. Deborah, dau. of John Wyeth, who His children were Andreiv, b. 15 Oct. 1701, d. 6 Ap. prob. d. about 1783. 1702; Samuel, b. 2 Mar. 1702-3; Martha, b. 13 May 1704, d. 1 Dec. 1713; Mary, b. 14 Aug. 1706; Rebecca, b. 10 Jan. 1708-9; Hannah, b. 2 Ap. 1711, m. Beriah Wetmore of Middletown, Conn.; Andrew, b. 27 Ap. 1713 ; Martha, b. 10 Feb. 1714-15, m. Nehemiah Cutter, 17 July 1739; Deborah,b. 30 May 1716, m. Nathaniel Kidder, 17 Sept. 1741 ; Noah, b. 23 Oct. 1718; Elizabeth, bap. 7 May 1721, d. 11 Oct. 1739 Eunice, bap. 4 Nov. 1722; Abigail, bap. 15
SAMUEL,
s.
Mar. 1723-4, m. William Winship, Jr., 30 Dec. 1755 Susanna, bap. 10 July 1726. SAMUEL the f. d. 1746, and his son Samuel, then of Chs., administered. He resided on the easterly side of North Avenue, near the Bridge on the homestead of Thomas Andrew, since owned and occupied by Mr. Ozias Morse and his estate extended to the Charlestown line, and perhaps beyond He was elected Deacon of the Cambridge Church Aug. 5. 1724 Selectit. man fourteen years, 1722-1727, 1735-1743; and Representative, 1741. 7. JOHN, s. of Francis (3), d. at Lex. 30 April 1726, leaving w. Mary, who d. 28 June 1757, and children, John, Jonas, Francis, Ebenezer, and
;
; ;
Ruth.
8
He named his father, Francis Bowman, as executor of his will. WILLIAM, s. of Joseph (5), m. Mary Reed of Lex. 5 May 1753, and
;
had Mary,
b. 28 Feb. 1754, m. Joel Viles, 27 June 1775 Hannah, bap. 4 Jan. 1756, m. James Walker of Burlington; Phebe, bap. 19 June 1757, m. Jonathan Bridge, 22 Feb. 1781; Martha, bap. 19 Nov. 1758, m. Abraham Smith 8 May 1788; Betty, bap. 28 Oct. 1759, m. William Bridge of Waltham; f. reLydia, bap. 14 Dec. 1766, m. John Davis of Methuen. WILLIAM the sided in Lex and afterwards in West Cambridge. He was a prominent his w. Mary d. 27 Oct. 1802, a. 76. citizen, and d. 12 Oct. 1793, a. 78 9. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (6), in. Hannah Frost, 20 Mar. 1745-6, and had Hannah, bap. Samuel, bap. 26 Ap. 1747; Edmund, bap. 12 Feb. 1748-9 17 Feb. 1750-51. SAMUEL the f. d. June 1783 his w. prob. d. 25 Ap.
,
;
1794.
10. NOAH, s. of Samuel (6), m. Hannah Winship of Lex. (pub. 14 July 1744), and had Hannah, prob. b. 1745, adm. to the Ch. 1763 Joshua, bap. 15 Feb. 1746-7, grad H. C. 1766, a Captain in the Continental army, in. Elizabeth, bap. 1 May 1748, perhaps in. Abigail Fowle of Wat., 1767
; ;
496
BOWMAN
BIIADISH.
Francis Whitmore 3d of Medf., 6 June 1765; Andrew, bap. 3 Mar. 1754, a He had also dau. Susanna, adin. to the Ch. 1777. physician, d. 9 Feb. 1777. In his will, dated 19 May 1782, and proved 2 Oct. 1782, are named w. Hannah, grandson Nathaniel Bowman, living in his family, and then in College, nephew Samuel Kidder, and son-in-law Nicholas Pike of Newburyport. 11. SOLOMON, parentage not ascertained, m. Abigail Brown 1 Mar. 1768, and had Abiquil Brown, b. 12 Mar. 1769, m. Ebenezer Cutter of Charlestown, Eliza6 Dec. 1789;' Sybil, b. 2 Oct. 1770. m. Nathan Nurse 24 Mar. 1803 beth, b. 23 July 1773, d. 24 Ap. 1797. BOWTELL, JOHN (otherwise written Boutell, Bouttill, and Boutaile), by w. Margaret, had Mary, b. 26 Oct. 1646 Margaret, b. 4 Jan. 1650-51 John, b. 1652, d. 1 Dec. 1673. JOHN the f. d. 30 Aug. 1676, a. about 60 his w. " burned to death in a fit," Margaret was living in 1689. M<iry, who was 24 Jan. 1701-2, may have been dau. of JOHN. 2. HENRY, m. Elizabeth, wid. of George Bowers, 25 June 1657, and d. 24 May 1681 his w. Elizabeth survived him. BRACKETT, JOHN, m. Sarah, dau. of John Stedman, 23 Aug. 1662, and had Sarah, b. 11 April 1663, d. 19 Sept. 1665; John, bap. 21 April 1667. JOHN the f. d. in Boston between 12 Dec. 1666 and 30 Jan. 1666-7 his w. Sarah m. successively Dr. Samuel Alcock of Boston, and Hon. Thomas Graves and Col. John Phillips, both of Charlestown. BRADISH, ROBERT (sometimes written Bradishe, Breadish, Broadish, and Brodish), purchased of John Steele, 28 Aug. 1635, a house and land at the westerly corner of Harvard and Holyoke streets, a lot on the opposite side of Harvard Street, where the Sewall house stood, and several acres out of the By his w. Mary, he had s. Joseph, b. May 1638. His w. d. Sept. village. and had Samuel, b. 23 Feb. 1639-40, d. 6 July 1638, and he m. Vashti 1642; John, b. 3 Dec. 1645; Samuel, b. 28 Nov. 1648, d. 9 Dec. 1648; he had also, perhaps by first wife, James ; Hannah ; Mary. m. Matthew Gibbs. ROBERT the f. d. about 1659; in his will, dated 1 May 1657 and proved 29 Oct. 1659, he named w. Vashti (who d. in 1672), and chil. James, John, Joseph, Mary Gibbs, Hannah ; also son-in-law Ezekiel Morrill. 2. JOSEPH, s. of Robert (1), was in Sudbury, 1662, in Framingham, 1672, and returned to Camb. about 1678. He in. Mary and had Mary, b. 10 Ap. 1665, m. John Green 22 Nov. 1684; Sarah, b. 6 May 1667, prob. d. young; Hannah, b. 14 Jan. 1669-70, m. Edward Marrett, and d. 9 Ap. 1754 (Barry says she first m. Joseph Stanhope. Hist. From.); Joseph, b. 28 Nov. 1672, prob.
;
the
pirate sent to London, 1699, and executed; James; Ruth, m. Thomas of Marshfield, 5 Ap. 1711; John, b. 18 Sept. 1678. JOSEPH the f. d. before 2 Ap. 1725, when a part of his estate in Cambridge was sold by Ed-
Ford
ward Marrett and w. Hannah, John Green and w. Mary, John Bradish, all Camb., James Bradish of Westborough and Thomas Ford and w. Ruth of " children of Marshfield, describing themselves as Joseph Bradifh, late of Cambridge, yeoman, deceased, who was son of Robert Bradish, formerly of Cambridge aforesaid, yeoman, also deceased." 3. JAMES, s. of Joseph (2),rem. to Marlborough where he m. Damaris Rice 16 June 1708, and had Hepzibah, b. 1709; Sarah, b. 1711; Robert, b. 1712; Mary, b. 1715; James, b. 1717; John, b. 30 Aug. 1719, who removed to Hardwick, 1742, m. Mary Green of Southborough 1746, adm. Hardwick Church, 1746, chosen Deacon, 1774, and removed to Cummington, 1778; Jonas, b. 7 Aug. 1724; Sarah, b. about 1727, d. 27 Aug. 1740, in her 13th year; Anna, b. 6 June 1729; Joseph, b. 26 Feb. 1731-2, d. 28 Aug. 1740 4. JOHN, s. of and had Hannah, b. 27 Oct. Joseph (2), m. Hepzibah
of
,
1705: John, b. 10 Sept. 1717; James, b. 30 July 1709; Elizabeth, b. 1 Feb. John Wood of Charlestown, 1732; Jonathan, b. 16 Sept. 1713; 1711-12, William, b. 31 May 1715, d. 1 Oct. 1736 Ebenezer, b. 28 April 1716; Sarah, b. 27 Jan. 1717-18, m. John Morse 29 July 1736; Rebecca, b. 10 Dec. 1720, m. Thomas Oliver, and was his wid. in 1746; Mary, bap. 17 June 1722, d. young; Isaac, b. 25 June 1723. JOHN the f. d. 17 July 1741, a. nearly 60; his w. Hepzibah d. 10 Dec. 1735, a. 50; his second w. (Mrs. Abigail Tucker of
BRADISH.
497
His residence was at the N. W. corChs., whom he m. 1 738) survived him. ner of Brighton and Eliot streets. He was College Glazier, forty years from 1701; Selectman six years, first in 1725; and Deacon of the church from 5
May
5.
6.
1738.
JOHN,
s.
of
John
(4),
had dau. Hepzibah, bap. 15 Mar. 1740-41,

at his father's house.
d.
22
Mar. 1740-41; he was then
Mary
JAMES, s. of John (4), resided at Chs., where he d. Mar. 1798, a. 89; w. of James Bradish, Jr., of Chs. d. 4. Mar. 1776, a. 47, and was buried at Camb. 7. JONATHAN, s. of John (4), may have been the same whose dau. Sarah was bap. 29 Mar. 1741. He resided in Chs., where his dau. Catherine d. 1836,
a. 83.
8. EBENEZER, s. of John (4), m. Eunice, dau. of Joseph Cook, 1739 (pub. 10 June), and had Eunice, bap. 15 June 1740, d. 5 Mar. 1740-41; Ebenezer, bap. 29 Aug. 1742, d. young; Sarah, b. 26 Feb. 1743-4, m. Dr. Ebenezer Hunt of Northampton, 5 Nov. 1772; Eunice, b. 22 Mar. 1744-5, d. unm. 10 Jan. 1797; Ebenezer, b. 17 Sept. 1746; Eleanor, b. 30 Jan. 1748-9, m. Hon. David Cobb of Taunton, and d. 7 Jan. 1808. EBENEZER the f. was a glazier and succeeded his father in the care of glazing the College edifices. He purchased the estate on the easterly side of Holyoke Street, south of Mount Auburn Street, sometimes called the Holyoke estate, in 1740, where he resided until 1749, when he bought the Blue Anchor Tavern, in Brighton Street, where he continued through life. This house, under his direction, became He dealt largely in real estate, and appears to have been not very popular. only enterprising, but judicious and successful in his transactions. He d. 17 Oct. 1785, a. nearly 70. 9. ISAAC, s. of John (4), by w. Esther, had Esther, m. John Goodwin 3d of Chs. (afterwards of Camb.) 21 Nov. 1764, and d. 19 Aug. 1840, a. 95; Isaac, b. 3 Nov. 1752, grad. H. C. 1773, of Topsfield in 1795; William, b. 20 July 1754; Abigail, b. 15 July 1756, d. 2 Oct. 1756; Abigail, b. 14 June 1758, d. unm. 18 Oct. 1815; Ebenezer King, b. 21 Nov. 1760, d. 19 Dec. 1760; Ebenezer King, b. 24 June 1762, d. 16 July 1796; Timothy, b. 28 Sept. 1763, d. 15 Nov. 1763; Sarah, b. 9. Oct. 1765, d. 5 Oct. 1767; Jame*, b. 18 Mar. 1770, d. 4 May 1770. The eldest child, Esther, was b. about 1745; and there may have been others between her and Isaac, the first recorded in Camb. ISAAC the f. resided on the homestead. He was a blacksmith, and for several years College Smith; his shop stood on Winthrop Street, opposite the old jail. For many years before his death he was jailor; in which office he was succeeded by his son-in-law, John Goodwin, who in turn was succeeded by his son-inlaw, Jacob Watson, the office being to some extent hereditary in the female line. Like many of his relatives in different branches of the family, he was
occasionally insane, and d. by suicide,

10.
Ebenezer (8), m. Hannah Paine of Worcester, 1772 (pub. 12 Sept.), and had Ebenezer, b. 8 Sept. 1773, grad. H. C. 1792, rem. to Wilkesbarre, Penn., was largely concerned in land speculations, and d. several years ago; Timothy Paine, b. 10 Ap. 1775, d. young; Elizabeth W., m. Walter Burling of New York, 22 June 1800 Timothy Paine, b. 4 Sept. 1781, d. young; Timothy Paine, bap. 28 Jan. 1786, d. before attaining manhood; EuEBENEZKR the f. grad. H. C. 1769, nice, bap. 14 Sept. 1788, d. 22 Ap. 1791. studied law, practiced a short time in Menotomy, afterwards in Camb., and His supposed resided at the S. W. corner of Mt. Auburn and Eliot streets. Tory predilections subjected him to considerable inconvenience during the. Revolution. By a humble submission, however, and a promise of good behavior, as well as by the recommendation of a committee on his behalf, he was permitted to remain, and his property escaped confiscation. In the latter part of his life he resided in Lancaster, where his habits of self-indul1818. gence became more inveterate, and he d. by suicide, 29 or 30 Ap. 11. WILLIAM, e. of Isaac (9), m. Ruth, dau. of Benjamin Green of Groton, and had Esther Rand, b. 1 Mar. 1789, d. 17 Mar. 1805; Elizabeth Woods, b. 23 Jan. 1791; Sarah Goodwin, b. 13 Feb. 1793; Ruth Keep, b. 10 Mar. 1795;
May
1790,
a.
nearly 67.
EBENEZER,
s.
of
32
498
BRADISH
BRADSHAW
BRADSTREET.
WILLIAM William King, b. 19 Sept. 1797; Louisa Chandler,\>. 29 Jan. 1800. the f. was a blacksmith, but thriftless, and of unsteady habits. He sold his share of the homestead in 1 794, and was a public charge, with his family, in 1807. He d. in the almshouse, 26 Aug. 1817, a. 63. BRADSHAW, HUMPHREY (elsewhere written Bradsheere, Bredsha, and Bredshew), was in Camb. in 1652, and received his dividend of the Shawshine lands. By his w. Patience, dau. of Geo. Bowers, he had Sarah, b. 3 May 1653; John, b. 24 June 1655, had liberty to build a seat in the meetinghouse, 1678, and is supposed to have afterwards resided in Medford; Ruth, b. 3 Nov. 1657. His w. d. and he m. Martha, wid. of William Russell, 24 Mar. 1665-6. He resided in Menotomy, frequently held minor offices and acted on committees for the town, and d. 9 May 1682. His wid. m. Thomas Hall, 24 May 1683. MARY, perhaps sister to Humphrey, m. William Mitchelson, 26 Ap. 1654. STEPHEN, s. of John, bap. 25 July 1708. HENRY, m. Hannah Gibbs Cooke, 3 June 1781. BRADSTREET, SIMON, was one of the original founders of Camb. He reHe was sided at the easterly corner of Brighton Street and Harvard Square. a prominent citizen here, as well as in other towns where he successively resided, and was one of the first board of Selectmen, or Townsmen, elected in Camb. About the time of Hooker's emigration to Hartford, he removed to Ipswich, and thence to Andover, about 1644; of which town he was a princiHe afterwards pal founder, and Selectman from its organization until 1672. removed to Boston, and thence to Salem, in 1695, where he d. 27 Mar. 1697, a. 94 years. Before he left England, he m. Ann, dau. of Gov. Thomas Dudley. She d. at Andover, 16 Sept. 1672, in the 60th year of her age. He afterwards
m. a sister of Sir George Downing. His children, all by his first w., were Samuel; Simon; Dudley; John; Dorothy, m. Rev. Seaborn Cotton 25 June 1654, had nine children, and d. 26 Feb. 1671-2; Hannah, m. Andrew Wiggin of Exeter, N. H. Sarah, m. Richard Hubbard of Ipswich, who d. in 1681, and she m. Samuel Ward of Marblehead, a Major in the Canada Expedition of 1690, in which he lost his life; Mercy, m. Maj. Nathaniel Wade, who d. in Medford, 28 Nov. 1707. These names are gathered from Gov. Bradstreet's will. Some writers name another daughter, Ann, whom I regard as identical with Hannah these two names were often used interchangeably, and the father mentions only one in his will. Those who make a duplicate of Ann and Hannah, omit Sarah entirely, and thus preserve the number, four sons and four daughters, which Mrs. Bradstreet claimed as her own. The name of Mercy has been called Mary, in some publications, but erroneously it is Mercy in her father's will, and on the Medford Records, where the birth of her children is recorded. 2. SAMUEL, s. of Simon (1), m. Mercy, dau. of Capt. William Tyng, and Annice or Ann, b. 17 had, in Boston, Elizabeth, b. 29 Jan. 1663-4, d. young Nov. 1665, d. young; Mercy, b. 20 Nov. 1667, m. Dr. James Oliver of Camb., and d. 29 Mar. 1710. Dr. Bradstreet's w. Mercy d. 6 Sept. 1669, and he m. Martha, and had Ann, b. 3 Sept. 1670; John; Simon, b. 1680, elected John Leverett. Esq., as his guardian, 29 July 1697, being then 17 years old. SAMUEL the f. grad. H. C. 1653, and was Fellow. He was a physician in Boston, Representative of Andover, 1670, removed to Jamaica, and d.
;
1685.
3. SIMON, s. of Simon (1), m. his cousin Lucy, dau. of Rev. John AVoodbridge of Newbury, and had Simon; John, b. 1677; Lucy, b. 1680, m. Hon. Jonathan Remington of Camb., 5 Sept. 1711, and d. 18 Ap. 1743. John, a. 20, and Lucy, a. 17, chose Samuel Ruggles of Roxbury (whose wife was their SIMON the f. grad. H. C. 1660, aunt), to be their guardian, 9 Sept. 1697. preached for a time at Charlestown, was settled at New London, and d. 1683; his wid. Lucy m. Daniel Epes, and d. at Medford. Her will, dated 20 Dec. 1707, was proved 11 July 1710. 4. DUDLEY, s. of Sirnon (1), m. Ann, wid. of Theodore Price, 1673 (Felt's Hist. Salem), and had Dudley, b. Ap. 1678, grad. H. C. 1698, taught school in
BRADSTREET
BRATTLE.
499
Andover, ordained at Groton, 16 June 1706, became an Episcopalian, went to England for Episcopal orders, and d. there of small-pox, 1714. DUDLEY the f. resided at Andover, and d. 13 Nov. 1702. 5. JOHN, s. of Simon (1), resided in Topsfield, and had, by w. Sarah, Simon, b. 14 Ap. 1682 (who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Joseph Capen of Tkayer's Fam. Mem. Topsfield), and perhaps others. 6. SIMON, s. of Simon (3), grad. H. C. 1693, preached a few years at Medford, was ordained at Chs. 26 Oct. 1698, and d. 31 Dec. 1741, a. 72. He was distinguished especially for his knowledge of the Greek language and it is reported that Lieut. -gov. Tailer, in introducing him to Gov. Burnet, remarked, "Here is a man who can whistle Greek." Mr. Bradstreet had several children, and among them was Rev. Simon of Marblehead. BRATTLE, THOMAS, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. William and Elizabeth d. 5 Sept. 1657; Thomas, b. 20 June 1658; Tyng, and had Thomas, b. Elizabeth, b. 30 Nov. 1660, m. Nathaniel Oliver, 3 Jan. 1676-7; William, b. 22 Nov. 1662; Katherine, b. 26 Sept. 1644, m. John Eyre 20 May 1680, and after his death m. Wait Winthrop 13 Nov. 1707, and d. 2 Aug. 1725; Bethia, b. 13 Dec. 1666, m. Joseph Parsons of Boston, and d. 4 July 1690; Mary, b. 10 Aug. 1668, m. John Mico 20 Aug. 1689, and d. 22 Dec. 1733; Edward, b. 18 Dec. 1670, m. Mary Legg of Marblehead 23 Mar. 1692-3, and d. in 1719. THOMAS the f. resided in Boston, and, while towns were permitted to elect non-residents as Representatives, he represented Lancaster, 1671, He was a member of the Suffolk Troop, 1672, and Concord, 1678, 1679. Cornet in 1670, and Captain in 1676, in which office he was actively engaged in Philip's War. He d. 5 Ap. 1683, a. 60. His w. Elizabeth d. suddenly 9 Nov. 1682, a. 44, at the wedding of her niece Anna Shepard and Daniel Quincy. Judge Sewall, who was present, says she died immediately after her illness commenced, and that she was laid out on the bridal bed. [Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Tyng, was daughter of Rowland Coytmore, Master of the Trinity or East India House, whose widow Katherine d. at Charlestown, 29 Nov. 1659; Mrs. Coytmore, by her first husband, Gray, had Parnell, m. Increase Nowell Katherine; m. Thomas Graves, a Rear Admiral Sarah, m. Williams; by her second husband, Coytmore, she had Elizabeth, m. Capt. William Tyng; and Thomas, a ship-master, who was lost at sea 1645, and whose wid. Martha, dau. of Capt. Rainsborough and sister to Col. Rainsborough of Cromwell's army, became successively the wife of Gov. John Winthrop and of Mr. John Cogan, and d. 1660; of her, it is remarkable that she had three husbands, children by each, and yet d. childless.] 2. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), grad. H. C. 1676, resided in Boston, was Treasurer of the College twenty-five years from 1688, and d. unm. 16 or 18 May 1713. He was a principal founder of the Brattle Street Church, and a
; ,
;
steadfast opposer of the violent proceedings of the courts, during the witchcraft delusion in 1692. 3. WILLIAM, s. of Thomas (1), m. Elizabeth Hayman of Boston, 3 Nov. 1697, and had Thomas, bap. 14 Aug. 1698, d. young; William, b. 18 Ap. 1706. WILLIAM the f. grad. H. C. 1680; Tutor; Fellow, 1707 to 1717; Treasurer, 1713 to 1715; Bachelor of Divinity, 1692; Fellow of the Royal Society; ordained at Cambridge 25 Nov. 1696, where he d. 15 Feb. 1716-17, a. 54. His w. Elizabeth d. 28 July 1715, and he m. Elizabeth, widow of Rev.
Joseph Green of Danvers, and dau. of Rev. Joseph Gerrish of Wenham she d. at Medford 26 Nov. 1747. See pp. 282-287. 4. EDWARD, s. of Thomas (1), settled in Marblehead, was a Captain, m. Mary, dau. of John Legg, and d. in 1719, and his w. Mary in. Col. Edmund
;
Goffe 24 July 1728.

s. of William (3), m. Katherine, dau. of Gov. Gurdon Salton23 Nov. 1727, and had William, b. 4. Jan. 1728-9, d. 14 Oct. 1730; Katherine, b. 2 June 1730, m. John Mico Wendell 13 Aug. 1752, and d. 30 Jan. 1821; Mary, bap. 18 March 1732-3; Elizabeth, bap. 16 June 1734; Sarah, bap. 20 June 1736; William, bap. 8 Oct. 1738; Lucy, bap. 30 Mar. 1740; Thomas, bap. 14 Feb. 1741-2; Elizabeth, bap. 8 May 1743. Only
5.
WILLIAM,
stall,
500
BRATTLE
BREWER
BRIDGE.
Katherine and Thomas survived to maturity. His w. Katherine d. 28 April 1752, a. 47, and he m. wid. Martha Allen of Boston, dau. of Thomas Fitch, Esq. WILLIAM the f. grad. H. C. 1722, resided in the house which still bears his name on Brattle Street, and was successively physician, preacher, and lawyer, and was Attorney-general, 1736 and 1747. An inordinate love of
his popularity seems to have been one of his most striking characteristics and He was appointed Justice of the Peace, 1729, taste was abundantly gratified. was Selectman twenty-one years, at the early age of twenty-three years between 1729 and 1772; Representative ten years, first elected in 1729;
; ;
of the Council from 1755 to 1773, except the single year 1769, when he was negatived by the Governor. As early as 1729, he was Major; Capt. of the Ancient and Hon. Artillery in 1733; Adjutant-general as early as 1758; and Brigadier-general. Up to 1769, Gen. Brattle seems to have advocated the popular rights, and was probably negatived by the royal Governor as a punishment. But soon afterwards he received new light concerning the matter in dispute between the Provinces and Great Britain, and was allowed As a further reward for his political conto resume his seat in the Council. version, he was appointed, in 1771, Major-general of the Militia throughout the Province; and from this time the Government had not a more devoted On the other hand, his subserviency to British power did not servant. He was doubtless gratified with the commission secure all which he desired. of Major-general but, after nearly twenty years' service as a member of the Council, he must have been mortified and chagrined, when he learned that he was not named as a Mandamus Councillor, but wns superseded by Judge Lee, and still worse, by Col. Oliver, his subordinate officer, both as Councillor and His fate furnishes a sad example of the folly of atLieutenant-governor. tempting to serve two masters. He took shelter in Boston when the people became roused to action he had gone too far ever to reinstate himself in their good opinion, and his only alternative was to put his trust under the shadow of British power. In Dec. 1774, ostensibly for the consideration of 1,500 sterling, he conveyed to his son Thomas Brattle all his real estate in Cambridge. When the British troops evacuated Boston he went to Halifax, N. S., and there d. 25 Oct. 1776. 6. THOMAS, s. of William (5), grad. H. C. 1760, and was Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Mass. Historical Society. He was in Europe when the Revolutionary War commenced; and, perhaps chiefly on account of his father's apostacy, he was proscribed as an absentee in 1778. He returned to Newport, R. I. in 1779, but was not permitted to reside in Massachusetts until 1784, when he was forgiven on account of his kindness and generosity to Americans in Europe. It is doubtful whether he was a thorough Tory; but it is certain he was not an active one. He was too fond
member
The taste he displayed in ornamenting his grounds, and cultivating the choicest fruits and flowers, was a subject of general admiration. His personal conduct was such, that the late Dr. Holmes styles him a " very worthy and respectable man." He d. unm. 7 Feb. 1801, a. 59. In him, the male line, in direct descent from Rev. William Brattle, became extinct. BREWER, JOHN, by w. Anne, had John, b. 10 Sept. 1642; Hannah, b. 18 This family prob. rem. to Sudbury, and thence to FramingJan. 1644-5.
tality.
of luxurious ease to peril life, limb, or personal comfort, upon any political After his return, he lived in quietness among his fellow-townsmen. question. His house was open to his friends, where he dispensed a most generous hospi-
ham. BRIDGE, JOHN, was among the
earliest inhab. of Camb., and owned land here in 1632. He resided, 1635, at the N. E. corner of Dunster and South streets, and soon afterwards owned a house at the N. W. corner of Holyoke and Winthrop streets. About 1638, he purchased a house near the spot where the Washington Head-quarters now stands, with twelve acres of land, and resided there. He was early elected Deacon of the Church was Selectman twelve years, between 1635 and 1652; Representative four yeai-s, from 1637 to 1641; and frequently employed in the settlement of estates, and in
;
BRIDGE
BRIGHAM.
501
He in. Elizabeth Saunders 1658 determining the boundaries of towns. (marriage contract dated 29 Nov. 1658), who had previously been the w. of Roger Bancroft of Camb. and Martin Saunders of Braintree. He d. about 1665, leaving wife, son Matthew, and granddaughter Dorcas, dau. of s. Thomas deceased. His w. Elizabeth subsequently m. Edward Taylor of Boston, and was Jiving in 1685. See ROGER BANCROFT. 2. THOMAS, s. of John and had Dorcas, b. 16 Feb. (1), m. Dorcas THOMAS and his w. Dorcas 1648-9, m. Daniel Champney 3 Jan. 1665-6. both d. before 28 Nov. 1654, when his father was appointed administrator. 3. MATTHEW, s. of John (1), m. Anna, dau. of Nicholas Danforth, and had John, b. 15 June 1645, d. 1672, and his father administered; Anna, b. about 1647, living in 1674, m. Saml. Livermore, Wat., 4 June 1668 Martha, b. 19 Jan. 1648-9, d. 15 Jan. 1649-50; Matthew, b. 5 May 1650; Samuel, b. 14, 17, or 24 Feb. 1652-3, d. 25 Feb. 1672-3; Thomas, b. 1 June 1656, d. 28 Mar. 1673 Elizabeth, b. 1 7 Aug. 1659, in. Capt. Benj. Garfield, Wat., 19 Jan. 1677-8, and (2d) Samuel Harrington. MATTHEW the f. rern. to the Farms, now Lex., where he owned 400 acres, m. 1668, previously to which he had prob. resided on the estate at the N. W. corner of Brattle and Mason streets, which he bought in 1657, and sold to Capt. Pyam Blowers in 1672, being then occuHe inherited his father's homestead, which he sold pied by Reuben Luxford. to John Marrett in 1683. In early life he was accused, probably without sufficient cause, of a heinous crime, for which he was arraigned before the General Court. June 4 1637, " Matthew Bridge, being accused to be of the guilty untimely death of John Abbot, the said Matthew and John Bridge his father were bound in 40. for his appearance at the next Quarter Court, to be held the first Tuesday in the 7th mo. at Boston." Sept. 19, 1637, " Matthew Bridge appearing, and no evidence coming in against him, he was His innocence is to be presumed, not only from the quit by proclamation." absence of testimony against him, but from his subsequent character and conduct. He married into one of the most respectable families in Camb. and He d. appears to have lived to a good old age, respected by his townsmen. 28 Ap. 1700, when he must have been more than 80 vears old; his w. Anna d. 2 Dec. 1704. 4. MATTHEW, s. of Matthew (3), m. Abigail, dau. of Joseph Russell, and had Mary, b. 19 June 1688, m. Wm. Russell; Anna,b. 12 Sept. 1691, m. WhitWatson; Matthew, b. 1 Mar. 1693-4; Abigail, b. 1 Ap. 1696, m. ney; Joseph, b. 8 July 1698, d. 1 Nov. 1778, and his w. Abigail d. 13 Dec. 1797, a. 95; John, b. 1 Sept. 1700; Elizabeth, b. 30 Nov. 1703; Samuel, b. 2 May 1705, d. 8 June 1791, and his w. Martha d. 10 June 1793, a. 76; Martha, b. 20 Sept. 1807. MATTHEW the f. resided on the homestead in He d. 29 Lex., which was secured to him by deed from his father in 1674. May 1738, a. 88 his w. Abigail d". 14 Dee. 1722, a. 55. 5. MATTHEW, s. of Matthew (4), m. Abigail, dau. of Nathaniel Bowman, 24 Mar. 1719-20, and had Matthew, b. 18 July 1721, grad. H. C. 1741, ordained at Framingham 19 Feb. 1745-6, and d. 2 Sept. 1775 Anna, b. 1723, m. Brooks; Nathaniel, b. 8 July 1725; Sarah, b. 30 Sept. 1728. MATTHEW the f. d. at Waltham 25 Mar. 1761. His w. Abigail d. 15 June 1785. See Barry's Hist. From. BRIGHAM, SEBASTIAN, about 1638 bought house and garden at the N. W. corner of Holyoke and Winthrop streets, which he sold to John Bridge in 1639. He prob. rem. to Rowley, where one of the same name was Captain of the militia, 1643, and was Representative in 1650. Gage's Hixt. Rowley. 2. THOMAS, came to N. E. in the Susan and Ellen, 1635, then aged 32, and about 1638 resided at the easterly corner of Brattle and Ash streets. By his w. Mercy he had Thomas, b. about 1641, d. 25 Nov. 1717, a. 76; John, m. John Fay of b. 9 Mar. 1644-5, d. 16 Sept. 1728, a. 83; Mary, b. Marlborough, had John, b. 30 Nov. 1669, David, b. 15 Oct. 1671, d. 2 Aug. 1676, and Samuel, b. 11 Oct. 1673, not long after whose birth the mother died; Hannah, b. 9 Mar. 1650-51, m. Wm. Ward of Marlborough; Samuel, b. 12 Jan. 1652-3, d. 24 July 1713, aged 60. THOMAS the f. was Constable in
,
502
BRIGH AM
BROWN.
1639 and 1642, Selectman, 1640, 1647, and d. 8 Dec. 1653. His w. Mercy 1 (whose name is said to have been Hurd) m. Edmund Rice, Sen., of Sudbury Mar. 1655-6, who removed to Marlborough and d. in May 1663, and she m. William Hunt of Concord whom she survived, and d. at Mavlborough 22 or 28 Dec. 1693. On her second marriage, she took with her to Sudbury and to Marlborough all her children, from whom descended a numerous posterity, attained high distinction. 1 residing in and near Marlborough, some of whom south of the river, which he land owned or BROWNE, RICHARD, BROWN, sold in 1645; but probably was a resident of Watertown. 2. ROBERT, m. Barbara Eden 8 May 1649. They seem to have had no In 1657 he purchased a house and land at the S. E. corner of children. Holyoke and Bow streets, when the westerly end of Bow Street was several rods more northerly than its present location. He d. 23 Nov. 1690, a. 70. His w. Barbara d. 1 June 1693, a. 80. 3. JOHN, m. Esther Makepeace of Boston, and had in Camb. Joseph, b. 8 Feb. 1655-6, killed by a cart 24 Sept. 1671; Elizabeth, b. 26 Mar. 1657 Sarah, b. 18 July 1661; Mary, b. 19 Dec. 1662; and "in Marlboro," John, b. 27 Nov. 1664; Hester, b. and d. 1667; Thomas, b. 1669; Daniel, b. 1671 Deborah,
,
1673; Abigail, b. 1675; Joseph, b. 1677. JOHN thef. resided in Menotomy, sold his estate 27 Oct. 1665, and four days afterwards bought in Marlborough; in " Scotsman." He " sold to Thomas the deed of purchase, he is styled again T at., and d. 1696, leaving John, Thomas, Daniel, and Rice, 1678, moved to Joseph; and four daus. who m. John Justin, John Adams, Thomas Darby, and
b.
Barry's Hist. From. wid. of Richard Oldam, 7 Oct. 1656, and had Mary, b. 28 Ap. 1658, d. young; Mehetabel, b. 13 May 1661 Mary, b. 1 Nov. Ebenezer, b. 15 June 1665; Ichabod, b. 5. Sept. 1666; 1663, d. before 1690 Martha, b. 19 Oct. 1668, m. Samuel Parker of Reading, 3 Jan. 1688-9. THOMAS the f. resided south of the river, on the estate which he purchased He d. in 1690. His w. Martha and of Richard Oldam 's executor in 1659. four children survived. 5. EBENEZKR, s. of Thomas (4), by w. Mary had Thomas, b. 16 May, 1692, d. May 1696; Ebenezer, b. 30 Nov. 1694; Mary, b. 9 Ap. 1696, d. 25 Jan. 1711-12; Thomas, b. 19 Aug. 1698; Hepzibah, b. 31 Mar. 1702; Mehetabel, b.
John Hartshorn."
4.
THOMAS, m. Martha,
;
s. of Thomas (4), m. Martha, had John, b. 1 Nov. 1696, grad. C. 1714, ordained at Haverhill 13 May 1719; d. 2 Dec. 1742; Martha, b. 16 June 1699, m. William Fessenden, 4 Jan. 1727-8; Priscilla, b. 16 Dec. 1702, m. Noah Sparhawk, 24 Sept. 1724; Sarah, b. 26 Sept. 1706, m. Samuel Belcher 27 Dec. 1726. Martha the m. d. 1 Sep. 1708, and her husb. m. Margaret Odlin 13 Jan. 1708-9 and had Abigail, b. 8 May 1710. ICHABOD His w. Margaret and his five children survived. the f. d. 1728. 7. WILLIAM, m. Deborah, wid. of Thomas Squire, 11 Nov. 1703, and had William, b. 24 Nov. 1704; Josiah, b. 22 Oct. 1706; Jonathan, b. 8 July 1708,
May
6.
1710.
ICHABOD,
H.
of
The marriage of Mar}- to John Fay, and Hannah to William Ward, is indicated
Deeds, vol. viii. John Fay's wife was Mary, and there was no other Fay in Marlborough
at that time of suitable age to be the father of John and Samuel before named; and I do not find any Hannah Ward in that town who could represent herself as a daughter of Thomas Brigham, except the wife of William who united with the Brighams in the sale of Cambridge land. This Hannah had been wife of Gershom Eames, and is
by two legal documents found on record in Middlesex County: (1.) " Thomas Brigham, John Brigham, Samuel Brigham, Hannah Ward, and John Fay and Samuel Fay, children of Mary Fay, all of Marlborough in said County of Middlesex, being the children and heirs of their father Thomas Brigham late of Cambridge," etc., commenced
a suit 28 Sept. 1695, to recover certain lands " Samuel in possession of Hastings, Sen.,"
who purchased
the
Brigham
homestead,
Mid. Prob. Rec., vii. 9, at the end of the volume. (2.) Thomas, John, and S:imuel Brigham, and William Ward, all of Marlborough, jointly convey land in Cambridge to Nicholas Fessenden, 27 Dec. 1681. Mid.
supposed by her descendant Andrew H. Ward (Hist. Shrewsbury, p. 457) to have been daughter of Solomon Johnson of Sudbury; but I think it more probable that Thomas Brigham was her father, and that John Brigham, who witnessed the execution of her will, 30 Oct. 1714, was her brother,
BROWN
BUCK.
503
m. Hannah Gore of Roxbury 1731, d. in Camb., and his bro. Josiah of Newton was appointed adm. 18 Nov. 1751; Deborah, b. 6 Oct. 1712, m. James Green 20 Mar. 1733-4; Mary, b. 16 Jan. 1715-16, m. John Bowles of Roxbury 1735; John, b. 19 Jan. 1717-18, m. Esther Hovey of Brookline 7 Dec. 1739. By a second w. Mary Bayley (pub. 13 Oct. 1744), he had Thaddeus, bap. 28 Sept. 1746; Susanna, bap. 24 Ap. 1748; Seth Ingersoll, bap. 8 July 1750, m. Lucy Brown 7 July 1777, and Sarah Goddin 5 Oct. 1786; Mary, b. 1752; Jonathan, bap. 15 Sept. 1754; AUjah ; Josiah; Lucy. WILLIAM the f d. 1 768. His w. Mary (who afterwards m. Bray) and her six children survived; also William, the eldest son by the first wife; the others had deceased, leaving heirs. From the long interval between 1718 and 1746, these children might be thought to compose two families; but the father names them all in his will, describing the second class as his " five younger sons," and his " three younger daughters." About two years before his death, he rem. from Camb. to Natick. 8. JOSIAH, s. of William He is (7), m. Mary Sever of Brookline 1737. supposed to have resided principally in Newton, but was of Camb. at the time of his death. His w. Mary and s. Josiah were appointed adms. 7 Sept. 1761.
.
were Josiah, became non comp. and Thomas Learned and Stephen guardians, 21 Nov. 1768; Mary, m. Stephen Paine, Jr., of Maiden 28 Feb. 1754; Deborah, m. Thomas Learned of Watertown 1759; Phineas. b. abt. 1742; Sarah, m. William Bowles of Roxbury 26 Nov. 1761 Eleanor, bap. in Camb. 5 Aug. 1744, m. Stephen Dana 16 Sept. 1762, d. in Brighton 19 Nov. 1837, a. 93 Elizabeth, b. 1745 or 1746, m. Thomas Hovey 21 Ap. 1763, d. at Rutland 14 Jan. 1821, a. 75. 9. JOHN, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Zachariah Bordman, 13 May 1776, and had Elizabeth, b. 9 Feb. 1777, d. 18 Feb. 1777; John Thomas, b. 23 Nov. 1778, d. on the passage from Africa to Havana, 15 Sept. 1811 Mary Stebbins, b. 18 Dec. 1780 (1781 on the record), m. James Read; Charles, b. 13 Jan. 1782, d. 8 Ap. 1782; George Bulkley, b. 11 Dec. 1783; Elizabeth, b. 13 Sept. 1786, m. John Labottiere of Boston 31 Aug. 1806; Sally, b. 17 Aug. 1789. JOHN the f was a bricklayer, and a Major of militia. He kept a tavern several years on Harvard Square. He d. 1 Sept. 1815, a. 68, having m. two wives after the decease of his first w. Elizabeth, both of whom it is said followed his body His
chil.
Dana were appointed
in the funeral procession.
in the Increase 1635, then a. 50, with his son Roger, a. 18. He resided in the west field, northeasterly from Garden Street, where was formerly one of the highways to the Great Swamp now called Raymond Street. He d. 24
BUCK, WILLIAM (sometimes
written Bucke), a
"
plowrite,"
came toN. E.
Jan. 1657-8,
2.
He the f. inherited the homestead and the occupation of his father. also for a time the public executioner, in which capacity he was ordered to inflict twenty lashes on a culprit in 1668. His w. Susanna d. 10 Sept. 1685 ;
about 73. of William (1), by w. Susan, or Susanna, had Samuel, b. 6 Feb. 1642-3; John, b. 3 Sept. 1644; Ephraim, b. 26 July 1646; Mary, b. 23 June 1648, d. 31 Aug. 1669; Ruth, b. 6 Nov. 1653, m. Thomas Baverick Elizabeth, b. 5 July 1657, m. Joshua Wood, 20 Aug. 1678. John, prob. s. of Roger, d. 1664. Lydin, perh. dau. of Roger, m. Henry Smith, 3 Mar. 1672-3.
a.
ROGER,
s.
ROGER
was
after
which he seems
to
have removed
to
Woburn, where
in
1688 he acknowl-
'the sale of part of his homestead to his son-in-law Thos. Baverick, on condition that, if Baverick should sell the same, his son Ephraim Buck should have the preference as a purchaser. He d. at Woburn 10 Nov. 1693, a. 76.
edged
3. SAMUEL, s. of Roger (2), m. Rachel Leven 16 Mar. 1669-70, and had Nathaniel, b. 16 July 1672, d. 19 July 1672 Hannah, b. 3 Jan. 1674-5, d. 13 Brooks; Hannah, b. 18 Aug. 1680; Ap. 1675; Rachel, b. 7 July 1676, m. Sarah, b. 5 July 1684; Samuel, b. 3 Dec. 1686. SAMUEL the f. resided in Menotomy, and d. 21 Sept. 1690. His w. Rachel survived about four years, her 2 Mar. inventory being presented 27 Feb. 1694-5. The estate was divided, 1696-7, between Rachel Brooks, Hannah Buck, Sarah Buck, and Samuel Buck. His will, dated 23 Nov. 4. EPHRAIM, s. of (2), resided in Woburn.
;
Roger
504
BULL
BUNKER -BURGESS.
1717, proved 20 Mar. 1720-21, names w. Sarah, and chil. Ephraim, Samuel, John, Ebenezer, Sarah Grover, Mary w. of Nathaniel Pike, Eunice. BULL, WILLIAM, by w. Blythe, had Rebecca, b. 22 Aug. 1644; John, b. 9 Mar. 1646-7; Mary, b. 9 Mar. 1649-50; William, 10 Sept. 1652; Samuel, b. 17 Sept. 1654 Elisha, b. 21 June 1657. WILLIAM the f. d. 13 Sept. 1688, a. 72. At the date of his will, 21 May 1687, all his chil. were living. His w. Blythe d. 23 Sept. 1690, a. 72. chil. 2. SAMUEL, s. of William (1), resided in Menotomy, and d. without r illiam about the end of the year 1724. His w. Elizabeth was prob. sister to Goddin or Goding of Watertown. He conveyed, 29 Oct. 1724, to his adopted
;
children, Samuel Goding and Mary Boyce, all his estate, except 50, due by his brother-in-law William Goding of Watertown, which, being a part of his wife's inheritance, was left to her disposal. 3. ELISHA, s. of William (1), resided in Menotomy. He m. Deborah Wilson 2 May 1689, and had Elisha, b. 12 Mar. 1689-90; John, b. 1693, d. 2
SAMUEL the f. prob. d. in 1747, when guarSarah, bap. 14 Jan. 1738-9. dians were appointed to his children, John, Mary, and Sarah. His w. Mary d. 9 Feb. 1739-40, a. 29. was 6. ROBERT, s. of Elisha (3), executed a will 10 Sept. 1755, which proved 6 Nov. 1758. He had w. Tabitha who d. in Aug. 1770, but no children. His property was bequeathed to John, Mary, and Sarah, children of his bro. Samuel, deceased, subject to the widow's life estate and to a legacy 40 to the Town of Cambridge. of RUTH m. Andrew Bordman 15 Oct. 1669. JACOB, m. Rebecca Gamage 25 Mar. 1756. ROBERT, m. Mellicent Mason 7 Oct. 1771. BUNKER. JOHN, of Maiden (prob. son of George, of Charlestown), m. Hannah Miller Oct. 1656, m. in Sept. 1655, and had Hannah, b. Camb., Samuel Newman of Rehoboth, 2 May 1689; and was living in 1715; Mary, b. 29 Dec. 1658, m. Jonathan Sprague of Maiden, and was living in 1714; John,b. and d. in Jan. 1660-61; John, b. May 1662; perhaps a third John; Edward, a mariner, d. 1691 Joseph, a felt-maker, d. in Boston, prob. unm. about 1690. His will is dated 18 Aug. 1687; his inventory presented 1 July 1690; JOHN the f. d. 10 Sept. 1672, on which day he executed a will in which are named children, John, Mary, Hannah, Edward, and Joseph, all minors, "cousin Mr. Edward Bulkley," and "sister Hills, w. of Joseph Hills." 2. JOHN, s. of John (1), m. in Camb., Rebecca, dau. of Benoni Eaton, 28 Ap. 1690, and had daughter Rebecca, who m. John Stimpson of Chs. 5 July 1709. JOHN the f. was a saddler; his shop was in Harvard Square. In 1708, the spot where the shop stood was granted for a Court House, but the right was reserved to John Bunker and Andrew Bordman to finish and use the lower story for shops. In 1701, he purchased the estate formerly the homestead of his wife's father; and, in 1709, a house and land on the east side of
;
William, b. 11 Ap. Ap. 1698; John, bap. 25 June 1699, d. 14 Jan. 1720-21 1703; Samuel, b. 23 Ap. 1705; Robert, b. 3 July 1707; Deborah, b. 1 July Deborah the m. 1710, was non comp. from her birth, and was living in 1771. d. 7 Ap. 1722. 4. WILLIAM, s. of Elisha (3), was a public charge, and d. prob. unm. before 1755. His brother Robert left a legacy to the. Town, of 40, in consideration of the expense incurred for the support of William, and his sister Deborah. 5. SAMUEL, s. of Elisha (3), by his w. Mary, had Samuel, bap. 9 Dec. 1733, prob. d. young; John, bap. 21 Sept. 1735; Mary, bap. 17 Ap. 1737;
;
Brighton Street, between Harvard Square and Mt. Auburn Street, part of which was subsequently owned by his nephew Joseph Sprague. He d. 1 7 May 1712, a. 48 (so marked on the gravestone); his w. Rebecca d. 15 Sept. 1710, a. 40 years and 9 months. BURGESS, WILLIAM (otherwise written Burges, Burgis, and Burgiss). m. Hannah, dau. of Andrew Stevenson, 20 May 1684, and had in Camb., William, b. 2 Mar. 1685-6; John, b. 14 Aug. 1687; Elizabeth, b. 1690, d. 13 Dec.
BURGESS
BUTTERFIELD.
505
WILLIAM the f. was a husband1713, a. 23, and was buried in Cambridge. man, and was living in Ipswich 25 Mar. 1695, when he and his w. Hannah conveyed to Jonathan Nutting their share of her father's estate in Camb. BURR, SAMUEL, son of John, and grandson of Jehu, b. at Fairfield, Conn., 2 Ap. 1679, grad. H. C. 1697, and m. Dorothy, wid. of Samuel Shove, and Their dau. Sarah great-granddaughter of John Stedman, 16 Dec. 1700. was b. 17 Oct. 1701. Dorothy the m. d. 20 Feb. 1701-2, a. 30. After her death, Mr. Burr was unsettled for a time, residing in Woburn, 1704, and in Concord, 1705. He subsequently settled in Chs., where he m. Elizabeth Jenner 19 June 1707, and had John, b. 14 Ap. 1708; Samuel, b. 28 May 1709; Rebecca, b. 14 Mar. 1710-11. His four children are named in his will, dated 2 May 1717. He d. 7 Aug. 1719; his w. Elizabeth m. Wyer, and was living 22 Mar. 1741-2, when she was appointed administratrix on the estate of her son Samuel Burr. BUSH, RANDOLPH (otherwise written Randall, Renold, Renould, Reynold, and Reighnold), owned a house and 18 acres, in 1642, near Newton Corner. No record of children. One of the same name, perhaps the same person or his son, contracted 2 Sept. 1678 to marry Susanna Lovell, late of
Beverley, Wilts Co., England. Susanna Lovett.
On
the
Town
Records her name appears as
2. JOHN, by w. Elizabeth, had Joseph, b. 16 Aug. 1654; Elizabeth, b. 14 Aug. 1657; Daniel, b. 4 Ap. 1659; Abiah, b. 2 Mar. 1660-61; Mary, b. 17 Nov. 1662. JOHN the f. d. 1 Jan. 1662-3. DEBORAH, m. John Maccoone, 8 Nov. 1656. BUTLKR, RICHARD, was one of the earliest inhabitants here. In 1635, he owned 2 acres at the N. E. corner of Main and Dana Streets. His brother William owned 2 acres adjoining, extending eastward of Hancock Street. Mr. Butler removed to Hartford, with Hooker, was a Deacon, and d. in 1684, leaving wife Elizabeth, and children, Thomas, Samuel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Daniel, Mary Wright, Elizabeth Olmstead, and Hannah Green. (Binman.) 2. WILLIAM, brother to Richard (1), owned house and one acre, in 1635, on the north side of Brattle Street near Brattle Square. He removed to Hartford, with Hooker, and d. in 1648 or 1649; had sister-!, West and Winter. " He appears to have left neither wife nor children." (Hinmttn.) BUTTERFIELD, JONATHAN, by w. Ruth, had Jonathan; John, m. Mary all baptized 2 July 1699; Abigail, b. 11 May Hill 1 Mar. 1725-6; Mary 1702, m. Joseph Wheeler 2 Mar. 1726-7; Ruth, b. 7 Sept. 1704, m. William Robbins 13 July 1733; Jane, b. 7 Aug. 1706, m. George Cutter 10 July
;
1729: Lydia, bap. 3 Oct. 1708;

for
Aug. 1713; Deborah, bap. 3 June 1716.

2.
William, bap. 24 Sept. 1710; Phebe, bap. 30 JONATHAN the f. was Field-driver
had (1), m. Sarah Robbins 12 Dec. 1733, and Mary, bap. 15 Sept. 1734; Jonathan, bap. 21 Mar. 1735-6; Mary, bap. 5 Feb. 1737-8. WILLIAM, probably the same, m. Mehitabel Chamberlin 1 May 1740, and had Sarah, bap. 31 May 1741, d. 24 June 1741; William, bap. 6 Mar. 1743; Jonathan, bap. 27 Jan. 1745; John, bap. 11 Jan. 1747; Samuel, bap. 15 April 1750; Sarah, bap. 16 Feb. 1752; Mary, bap. 25 Aug. 1754;
Abel, bap. 13 Feb. 1757; Stephen, hap. 30 Dec. 1759. 3. JOHN, had Abigail, bap. 22 Nov. 1772; John, bap. 26 Nov. 1775; Jame*, bap. 20 July 1777.
4. JONATHAN, m. Mary Dickson 4 Aug. 1772, and had Jonathan, bap. 1 Aug. 1773; Mary, bap. 18 Dec. 1774. 5. SAMUEL, m. Elizabeth Bemis of Watertown 14 July 1774, and had Samuel, b. 8 Ap. 1776; Samuel, bap. 5 Ap. 1778; Abel, b. 28 Feb. 1797; and
Menotomy fields, 1693. WILLIAM, s. of Jonathan
probably others.
6.
BENJAMIN, m. Mary Hackleton
4 Ap. 1776, and had Mary, bap. 5 Jan.
1777.
12 Jan. 1768.
MARY, m. Abraham Watson 4 Jan. 1750. WILLIAM, m. Deborah Lock MEHETABKL, m. Samuel Lock 6 June 1770. SARAH, in. John Dickson, Jr., 6 Oct. 1771. MARY, m. Joseph Lock 19 Nov. 1772. JOSEPH,
m. Polly Hastings of Weston 12 Mar. 1792.
506
C ANE
CH AMPNE Y.
Kene), by w. Margaret, had Jonathan,
written Caine, Cayne, Kane, Ken, and b. 27 Mar. 1640; Nathaniel, b. 5 Aug. 1642; Deborah, b. 17 Jan. 1644-5, was living unm. 1695, and prob. d. about 1723; Ruth, b. 6 Dec. 1647, m. Marmaduke Johnson 28 Ap. 1670, and d. 1676. CHRISTOPHER the f. was here in 1634; owned a house on the east side of Dunster Street, about 100 ft. N. of Mt. Auburn St., in 1635, which he sold about 1638, and afterwards owned and occupied the estate at the S. E. corner
CANE, CHRISTOPHER (elsewhere
of Brighton 3 Ap. 1687.

2.
and Winthrop
streets.
He
d. 9
Dec. 1653; his w. Margaret
d.
s. of Christopher (1), m. Deborah Welch, 14 May 1674, 18 Oct. 1689, a. 36. He inherited the homestead, and d. without issue March 1694-5, devising the use of his estate to his sister Deborah, during life, and then the fee to his brother Nathaniel. In 3. NATHANIEL, s. of Christopher (1), prob. settled in Kittery, Me. Sept. 1 723, Nathaniel (prob. the same or his son) sold the homestead in Cambridge to John Hill, who conveyed it, four days afterwards, to Judah Monis, who long resided there. 4. SAMUEL, prob. s. of Nathaniel (3), was Representative of York, Me., for many years Justice of the Peace, Judge of Inferior Court, Member of the Council, and d. at Wells 26 Dec. 1768, a. nearly 95 years, leaving 167 descendants. {Boston Post Boy, Jan. 16, 1769.) " CARLEY, WILLIAM (prob. Kerley), had a grant of land in Camb., near his house," in 1683. CARTER, WILLIAM, by w. Jane, had Rachel, b. 7 Mar. 1675; Ruth, b. 25 Feb. 1677; Hester, b. 8 Mar. 1678, d. 25 June 1678; Elizabeth,}). 15 May 1680. SUSANNA, m. Richard Eccles 4 June 1677. JABEZ, m. Abigail Manning 27 June 1723. Mrs. ELIZABETH, d. 3 Feb. 1797, a. 84. CHADWICK, JOHN, m. Mary Barlow 30 Oct. 1674. BENJAMIN, of Watertown, in. Hannah Welch 10 May 1711. NATHANIEL, m. Mary Burgess 24 Oct. 1738. MARY, m. John Oldham 2 June 1743. MARTHA, m. Israel Porter 29 Jan. 1772. CHAMBERLIX, THOMAS, m. Elizabeth Hammond 18 Ap. 1681, and had Thomas, b. 10 Sept. 1683; Elizabeth, b. 1 Aug. 1686, perhaps the same who m. Benjamin Winchester of Brookline, 22 June 1726. 2. JACOB, chosen Hog-reeve for Menotomy, in 1695. 3. WILLIAM; his house had been destroyed by fire, and a contribution was made for his relief, in 1700. 4. JOSHUA, by w. Anna, had Amelia, b. 18 Dec. 1793; Anna Perkins, b. 19 July 1795, d. 14 Sept. 1796; Thomas Gould, b. 26 Sept. 1796. MEHETABEL, m. William Butterfield 1 May 1740. CH AMPNE Y, JOHN, was here as early as 1638, and resided at the N. W. corner of Brattle and Mason streets. By his w. Joanna, he had three chil-
JONATHAN,
d.
who
baptized here, but without dates; Mary, m. Theophilus Richardson 2 May 1664; Sarah, m. John Russell, Jr., of Woburn 31 Oct. 1661; John, d. unm. 20 Feb. 1664-5, and his estate was distributed to his mother and sisters. JOHN the f. d. and his w. Joanna m. Golden Moore, before 1642, and d. at Billerica 18 Feb. 1675-6. The General Court, 15 Oct. 1650, authorized Richard Champney and John Bridge to sell the estate in Camb. for the benefit of the children, who soon afterwards went to Billerica with their mother and her husband. 2. RICHARD, Ruling Elder of the Cambridge Church, came to N. Eng. in 1635. By his wife Jane, he had Esther, b. in England abt. 1633, m. Josiah Convers of Woburn 26 Mar. 1651, who d. 30 Dec. 1689, and she m. Jonathan Danforth of Billerica 17 Nov. 1690, and d. 5 Ap. 1713, a. 80 Mary, b. Oct.
dren,
all
of
Woburn
1635, d. young; Sam,uel, b. Sept. 1636; Sarah, b. May 1638; Mary, b. Nov. 1639, m. Jacob French of Billerica 20 Sept. 1665, and d. 1 Ap. 1681; John, b. 23 May 1641; Lydia, b. abt. 1643, m. John Hastings 20 May 1668. and d. 23 Jan. 1690-91; Daniel, b. 9 Mar. 1644-5. RICHARD the f. resided on the westerly side of Holyoke Street, on the second lot southerly from Harvard
CHAMPNEY.
Street. He d. 26 at 1,449, 16s.
507
His estate was appraised
Nov. 1669; his w. Jane survived.
3. SAMUEL, s. of Richard (2), m. in Billerica Sarah Hubbard 13 Oct. 1657, where the five children first named were born. Samuel, b. 8 Dec. 1658, d. young; Sarah, b. 17 Feb. 1659-60, m. James Clark 24 Sept. 1685; Afari/. b. 12 May 1662, m. Stowell; Hester, b. 14 May 1664, d. 31 Mar. 1667; Samuel, b. 9 Mar. 1666-7; Joseph,^. 1 Sept. 1669; Richard, b. 20 Aug. 1674. SAMUEL the f. returned to Cambridge about 1667, and resided on the south side of the river. He was Selectman eleven years between 1681 and 1694, Muster-master 1690; Deputy or Representative during the stormy period from 1686 to 1695, and d. in 1695, leaving w. Ruth, who was his second w. and had formerly been w. of Marshal-general John Green. 4. DANIEL, s. of Richard (2), resided on the south side of the river, m. Dorcas, dau. of Thomas Bridge, 3 Jan. 1665-6, who d. 7 Feb. 1683-4, and he m. Hepzibah Minot, wid. of James Minot and dau. of Elijah Corlett, 9 June 1684. His children were Dorcas, b. 22 Aug. 1667, m. Nicholas Bowes 6 May 1690 Daniel, b. 14 Dec. 1669; Thomas, b. 12 Sept. 1673; Noah, b. 27 Sept. 1677, prob. the same who was of Boston, and appointed guardian to his daughter Sarah in 1705; Downing, b. 1 June 1680, and d. 27 June 1705; Abigail b. 26 Ap. 1683 Hepzibah, b. 23 June 1687, m. Jonathan Wyeth and was living in 1743. DANIKL the f. was appointed by the General Court, 1677, to redeem Indian captives near Wachusett; Selectman, 1684-1687, and d. 19 Nov. 1691 his w. Hepzibah and his seven children survived. 5. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (3), by w. Hannah, had Hannah, bap. 27 June
; ;
;
1697; Man/, bap. 21 May 1699, m. Rev. Ebenezer Parkman of Westborough 7 July 1724, and d. 29 Jan. 1735-6; Samuel, b. 12 Nov. 1701; Rebecca, b. 8 Oct. 1703, m. John Hicks 8 May 1721 Lydia, b. 4 Jan. 1705-6; Ruth, b. 16 Jan. 1707-8, m. John Barrett 5 May 1737, and d. 25 Nov. 1761; John, b. 6 Feb. 1709-10, and d. 12 June 1710. SAMUEL the f. d. 8 Mar. 1745-6; his w. Hannah d. 1 Sept. 1748, a. 78. 6. JOSEPH, s. of Samuel (3), by w. Sarah, had Sarah, bap. 21 Feb. 1696-7; Elizabeth, bap. 23 Mar. 1701-2 Esther, bap. 9 Oct. 1698 Joseph, b. 19 Sept. 1704; Abigail, b. 24 June 1706; Susanna, b. 8 Sept. 1709; John, b. 7 June 1713. JOSEPH the f. d. 19 Jan. 1729-30; his w. Sarah d. 1 July 1730,
;
;
a. 58.
7. DANIEL, s. of Daniel (4), m. Bethia, dau. of Solomon Phipps and gr. dau. of Thomas Danforth, and had Thomas, bap. 7 Mar. 1696-7 Dorcas, bap. 18 Ap. 1697, d. 26 Mar. 1705; Daniel, b. 21 July 1700; Solomon, b. 17 Mar. 1701-2 Noah, b. 14 Sept. 1704; Downing, bap. 10 Mar. 1705-6; RichThe parents prob. d. ard, bap. 23 Nov. 1707; Thomas, b. 14 Oct. 1709. 1754, in which year their son Richard was appointed administrator of their
; ;
joint estates.
8. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (5), m. Abigail Stearns of Concord 1739, had Mary, bap. 19 Ap. 1741, d. 22 Sept. 1743; Mary, bap. 26 Aug. 1744 Abigail, SAMUEL the f. owned the Holyoke Place several years. bap. 19 July 1747. He may have been the same who was pub. to Hannah Corey 17 Dec. 1772. 9. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (6), grad. H. C. 1721, ordained at Beverly 10 Dec. 1729, where he d. 23 Feb. 1773. His first wife was Elizabeth, dau. of his predecessor, Rev. Thomas Blowers, whom he m. 1 Oct. 1730; she had one son Thomas, and d. 13 Jan. 1731-2, a. 19. He then m. Thankful Pickens of Lynn 1733, and had Richard, a second Richard, Israel, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Thomas. His wid. Thankful d. 31 July 1777. a. 71. (Stone's Beverly.) 10. DANIEL, s. of Daniel (7), m. Tabitha Hancock 4 Sept. 1723, and had Daniel, bap. 19 Ap. 1724; Dorcas, bap. 22 Aug. 1725, d. young; Mary, bap. 21 Ap. 1728; Dorcas, bap. 20 Aug. 1732; Nathaniel, bap. 1 Dec. 1734; Tabi/ha, bap. 5 June 1737, d. young; Ebenezer, bap. 29 Ap. 1739; Tabitha, 12 Sept. 1774; Thomas, bap. 19 July 1741, perh. m. Samuel Hancock of Wells, Tabitha was appointed adbap. 24 May 1747. DANIEL the f. d., and his wife
;
ministratrix 20 Ap. 1747. 11. SOLOMON, s. of Daniel (7), m. Elizabeth Chamberlin 8
May
1723,
who
508
d.
CHAMPNEY
CHAPLIN
CHAUNCY.
suddenly 21 Feb. 1736-7, and he m. Abigail, wid. of Geo. Macsparran, 1738; his chil. were Elizabeth, b. 4 Nov. 1723; Solomon, b. 7 Jan. 1724-5 Ebenezer, b. 27 Ap. 1729 (Town Rec. 1730, but bap. 4 May 1729) Nathan, b. 27 Sept. 1733; John, b. 25 Sept. 1735; Silence, b. 22 Mar. 1739-40, d. 29 Nov. 1747; Ebenezer, bap. 29 Ap. 1744; grad. H. C. 1762, was the first lawyer in New Ipswich, N. H., Judge of Probate sixteen years, and d. 10 Sept. 1810. SOLOMON the f. was living in 1764; his w. Abigail d. 18 Jan. 1785. 12. NOAH, s. of Daniel (7), m. Martha Hubbard 26 Oct. 1725, and had John, b. 12 Oct. 1729 Noah, 14 Jan. 1731-2; Noah, bap. 23 Dec. 1733. All these appear to have d. young. NOAH the f. died 1749. His w. Martha long survived him, and was a distinguished school-dame. In 1758 she purchased the homestead of Dr. Coolidge, at the E. corner of Harvard and Hoiyoke Streets, where she resided, in the old red house, until her death. Her will was proved 11 Jan. 1776. 13. DOWNING, s. of Daniel (7), had Downing,}), abt. 1734, bap. 3 Ap. 1737; Bethia, bap. 1 Jan. 1737-8, perh. in. John Colston 9 Dec. 1779 Joseph, bap. 17 July 1748. DOWNING the f. was a carpenter; his w. Abigail d. 24 Sept. 68. a. 1775, 14. RICHARD, s. of Daniel (7), by w. Catherine, had nine chil. bap. in Camb.: William, 8 Ap. 1739; William, 2 Nov. 1740; Richard, 5 Dec. 1742; Jonathan, 2 Dec. 1744; Noah, 21 Dec. 1746; Samuel, 2 Oct. 1748; Sarah, 21 July 1751: Nathan, 26 Mar. 1753; Daniel, 26 Sept. 1756. RICHARD the f. died in Framingham, 1769, and his son Jonathan, of Southborough, administered on his estate. 15. THOMAS, s. of Daniel (7) by w. Jane, had Danforth, b. 27 Oct. 1730; Thomas, b. 7 Nov. 1735. 16. DANIEL, s. of Daniel (10), m. Hannah Emmons 22 Sept. 1746, and d. before 1 Dec. 1773, when his "only son and heir," Benjamin Champney of Providence, R. I., released all interest in the estate in Framingham, formerly belonging to his ancestor Thomas Danforth, Esq. 17. SOLOMON, s. of Solomon (11), m. Rebecca Brown, 1756, and had .ZVaHe was suddenly killed by the wheel of a loaded thaniel, bap. 17 Ap. 1757. cart passing over his head 5 or 7 Ap. 1763. 18. NATHAN, s. of Solomon (12), m. Elizabeth Osborn of Charlestown 24
;
; ;
June 1760.
19. DOWNING, s. of Downing (13), in. Hannah Reed 4 July 1765, and had Mary, bap. 15 June 1766; Mary, b. 10 Dec. 1767. 20. NATHANIEL, s. of Solomon (17), by w. Susanna, had Lucy Stratton, b. 20 Jan. 1796 William Richard*, b. 18 Mar. 1798. NATHANIEL the f. was Selectman of Camb. eight years, 1795-1806, and d. in Brighton 12 Nov.
;
1826,
a. 70.
CHAPLIN, CLEMENT, came to N. Eng. in the Elizabeth and Ann, 1635, then a. 48, and was elected the same year a Selectman of Cambridge. He purchased the estate of William Goodwin at the easterly corner of Harvard and Holyoke streets, which was afterwards sold to Samuel Shepard. He removed, probably in 1636, to Connecticut, of which colony he was Treasurer in 1637, and was an Elder of the church in Weathersfield. CHAUNCY, REV. CHARLES, s. of George Chauncy of Hertfordshire, Eng., bap. at Yardley 5 Nov. 1592, came to N. Eng. 163, and after preaching at Plymouth and Scituate, became President of Harvard College 27 Nov. 1654, in which office he d. 19 Feb. 1671-2. His w. was Catherine, dau. of Robert Eyre, Esq., of Wiltshire, Eng., and d. in Camb. 24 Jan. 1667-8. Their children (all born before the parents removed to Camb.), were Isaac, b. 23 Aug. 1632, grad. H. C. 1651, went to England, preached until the reign of Charles II., when he was ejected, and afterwards resided in London, until his death, 28
Feb. 1711-12; Ichabod, b. 1635, grad. H. C. 1651, went to England, preached, and afterwards practised medicine, and d. at Bristol 25 July 1691; Barnabas, Nathaniel, grad. H. C. 1661, minister of Hatfield, d. 4 grad. H. C. 1657 Nov. 1685 Elnathan, grad. H. C. 1661, physician in Boston, d. 1684 Israel, Besides grad. H. C. 1661, minister of Stamford, Conn., d. 14 Mar. 1702-3. these, were two daughters Sarah, m. Rev. Gershom Bulkeley, and Hannah.
; ; ; ;
CHEEVER
CHEEVER, DANIEL
had Mary,
b.
CHENEY
CHES HOLME.
509
(otherwise written Cheevers, and Cheavers), by w. 14 Feb. 1645-6, d. young; Lydia, b. 26 Nov. 1647 James, b. abt. 1649; Esther, b. abt. 1651, d. 21 Mar. 1654-5; Daniel, b. 1 Jan. 1652-3, d. 1654 Daniel, b. 12 Dec. 1654, d. 4 Jan. 1659-60; Mary, b. 6 Oct. 1656, m. William Taylor 28 Nov. 1683; John, b. 24 July 1659; Esther, b. 26 Dec. 1660, d. Feb. 1660-61; Israel, bap. 26 Jan. 1661-2; Anna and Elizabeth, twins, b. 28 May 1664, and d. 14 and 16 June 1664 Elizabeth, DANIEL the f. sucElizabeth, b. 9 May 1672. bap. 6 Aug. 1665, d. young ceeded William Healy as prison keeper, 1683, and held the office about ten He resided on an estate adjoining years, when he was succeeded by his son. the prison, west of Winthrop Square. He d. Mar. 1703-4. 2. ISRAEL, s. of Daniel (1), m. Bridgett Woodhead 10 June 1690, and had Daniel, William, Esther, all bap. 15 Aug. 1697 (Esther m. Rev. Henry Messingerof Wrentham 5 Jan. 1719-20) James, bap. 19 Mar. 1698-9 ;John, b. 25 Aug. 1702. ISRAEL the f. inherited the homestead of his father; was appointed Prison Keeper, 1693, and Keeper of the House of Correction, 1699. He prob. d. before 1720, in which year Bridgett Cheever, prob. his wid., m. Daniel Hawes of Wrentham, and soon afterwards the homestead was sold by his sons Daniel of Concord, William of Cambridge, James of Wrentham, and John of Roxbury. 3. WILLIAM, s. of Israel (2), was a victualler, and by w. Miriam, had William, b. 27 Aug. 1718 John, b. 15 Aug. 1722 Aaron, b. 28 Nov. 1725. CHENEY, THOMAS, m. Jane Atkinson 11 Jan. 1655-6, and had Margaret, b. 26 Nov. 1656; Thomas, b. 25 Dec. 1658; Mehetabel, b. 20 Feb. 1660-61; William, b. 30 June 1663 Mary, b. 17 Ap. 1665; Joseph; Benjamin; and perhaps others. THOMAS the f. resided on the south side of the river, and d. before 1698, when his son Joseph mortgaged certain lands to his mother Jane, and brother-in-law Thomas Belknap. The w. Jane was living in 1724. 2. JOSEPH, s. of Thomas (1), m. Rebecca Robbins, and had Ebenezer, b.
Esther,
; ;
; ;
Nov. 1694; Mary, b. 1 Dee. 1695, m. Thomas Dill 11 May 1713 Rebecca, 19 Nov. 1697 Mehetabel, b. 13 Jan. 1700-1 Abigail, b. 30 June 1703, m. Thomas Brown, 9 Oct. 1722; Thankful, b. abt. 1708; Sarah, b. abt. 1710, m. Daniel Burnap 14 Dec. 1731 and perhaps others. JOSEPH the f. resided south of the river, and d. before 1725; and guardians of his minor children were appointed. 3. BENJAMIN, s. of Thomas (1), by w. Mary, had Benjamin, b. 7 Sept. 1703 Mary and Hannah, twins, b. 23 Oct. 1705 (Mary m. Henry Cheney, and Hannah m. Zaccheus Goodale, before 1726) Mary the m. d. 31 Oct. 1705 and BENJAMIN m. a second Mary, and had Thomas, b. abt. 1709 Joseph; Ebcnezer ; Ruth, b. abt. 1714, m. Elias Mason 7 Nov. 1740 John; William. BENJAMIN the f. resided south of the river, and d. 13 July 1718. His w. Mary m. Michael Falshaw before 1720, and prob. d. about 1761, when her dower in Mr. Cheney's estate was distributed. 4. BENJAMIN, s. of Benjamin (3), in. Elizabeth Parker 3 Jan. 1744-5, and had Benjamin, b. 23 Nov. 1745; Elizabeth, b. 13 Feb. 1747-8. Elizabeth the m. d. 25 Dec. 1748; and BENJAMIN m. Margaret Stednian 9 Nov. 1752; no
1
;
b.
children are recorded.
He
died about 1762.
of
" Robin, negro servant of Andrew Gardner River, indicted for that on the 2d Aug. 1689, he wounded John Cheney of Cambridge, by striking him on the head with a stick, whereof he died Aug. 6." Verdict, guilty of manslaughter; sentence, to pay costs, prison fees, etc. Sup. Court Records. EBENEZER, d. 17 Nov. 1689, a. about 11. THOMAS, m. Sarah Fessenden 30 July 1629. RKBECCA, m. John Mullis 28 April 1748. THOMAS, m. Hannah Hill 22 Feb. 1787. CHESHOLME, THOMAS (sometimes written Chessham, Chesseholme, and Cheeseholme), was admitted freeman 1636, in company with Shepard. Soon afterwards he owned and occupied the estate at the N. W. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets, wlu>re he resided until his death 18 Aug. 1671. Ho was a tailor, and for several years a Deacon of the Church, and Steward of Harvard College. In 1636 he was licensed by the General Court, " to keep
JOHN,
d. 6
Aug. 1689,
a. 26.
Muddy
510
CHESHOLME
CHESTER
CLARK.
a house of entertainment," being apparently the first in Camb. who received such license. His wife was Isabel; but they left no posterity. CHESTER, MKS., owned land in Camb. 1635. She was sister of Rev. Thomas
Hooker, and was probably the widow Dorothy Chester, who settled at WeathConn., and whose son, Leonard Chester, is said by Hinnian to have been "the father and ancestor of the Chester family;" and to have "died when young, under forty years of age, in 1648." His children at Weathersfield were John, b. 3 Aug. 1635; Dorcas, b. Nov. 1637; Stephen, b. Mar. 3 1639; Mary, b. Jan. 1641; Prudence, b. Feb. 1643; Eunice, b. Jan. 1645; Mercy, b. Feb. 1647. Hinman. Of these children, Dorcas m. Rev. Samuel Whiting of Billerica 12 Nov. 1656; Prudence m. Mr. Thomas Russell of Chs. 30 Dec. 1669; Eunice m. Richard Sprague of Chs. 25 Feb. 1672-3; Mercy d. in Chs. 15 Sept. 1669. Mary the mother, widow of Leonard, had become the wife of Richard Russell, Esq., of Chs. CLARK, JOHN (or Clarke), owned the lot on the easterly corner of Brattle and Mason streets in 1635, which he sold to Edward Winship, and removed to Hartford, where he was a juror in 1642, and Deputy to the General Court
ersfield,
in 1649.
2. NICHOLAS, sold a lot on the easterly side of Mason Street to Edward before 1639. Winship, and removed to Hartford " famous " 3. JONAS, the ruling Elder of the Cambridge Church, was here in 1642, and Selectman in 1679 and 1690. He seems to have been a shipmaster in early life. The General Court Records, under date of Oct. 18, 1654, " Mr. Jonas Clarke and Mr. Samuel Andrews, both contain a report made by well skilled in the mathematics, having had the command of ships upon several voyages, being appointed to take an observation at the northerly bounds This report, doubtless made by two of our Patent upon the sea-coast," etc. residents of Camb., is dated Oct. 29, 1653 the observation was taken Oct. 13, 1653. The residence of Elder Clark was on the southerly side of South Street near its junction with Holyoke Street. He was three times married first, to Sarah who died 20 Feb. 1649-50; second, to Elizabeth Clark, 30 July 1650, who died 21 Mar. 1672-3; third, to Elizabeth Cook, 19 Aug. 1673; this last wife survived him, and became the third wife of Deac. Walter Hastings, 7 Jan. 1702-3, whom also she survived. By these several wives he had seventeen children, as follows: Thomas, b. 2 Dec. 1642, d. 20 May 1649; Sarah, b. 15 Sept. 1644, m. Samuel Green, the veteran printer, 23 Feb. 1662-3, and was living in 1705; Jonas, b. 4 Sept. 1646; Mary, b. prob. 1648, d. 15 Nov. 1649; Elizabeth, b. prob. 1651, m. (1) Mr. John Woodmancy 23 July 1672, and (2) Monk; Thomas, b. 2 Mar. 1652-3 John, b. 30 May 1655, d. young; Timothy, b. 1657; Samuel, bap. 6 Nov. 1659; Abigail, b. 7 Ap. 1662; Mary, b. 6 Mar. 1664-5, m. Capt John Bonner before 1687, and d. 20 Ap. 1697; John, b. 7 Aug. 1674, d. 15 Oct. 1675; John, b. 3 Nov. 1675, d. 7 Mar.
; ; ,
;
living in 1705;
b. 27 Oct. 1677, d. 15 June 1686; Joseph, b. 5 May 1679, Hannah, b. and d. Dec. 1680; Sumnna, b. 20 Oct. 1682, m. Ebenezer Hancock 14 Jan. 1702. JONAS the f. was ordained Ruling Elder of the Church 15 Nov. 1682. His associate, Elder John Stone, ordained at the same time, died within a year afterwards, and Elder Clark held the office alone until 14 Jan. 1700, when he died a. 80 years and the office was never " again filled. Judge Sewall notices his death thus Lord's-day, January 14 |f $ Elder Jonas Clark of Cambridge dies a good man in a good old He quickly follows the age, 'and one of my first and best Cambridge friends.
1676; Nathaniel,
great patron of Ruling Elders, Tho. Danforth, Esq." 4. JONAS, s. of Jonas (3), resided in Boston, where he d. 14 Jan. 1737-8, a. 91 years, 4 months, 10 days. 5. THOMAS, s. of Jonas (3), grad. H. C. 1670, was settled at Chelmsford as successor to Rev. John Fiske, in 1677; "died 7 Dec. 1704, a. 52. His children were, Jonas, a Colonel and Magistrate, b. 20 Dec. 1684, d. 8 Ap. 1770; Thomas, b. 28 Sept. 1694; Elizabeth, who m. Rev. John Hancock of Lexington; Lucy, who m. Major William Tyng of Dunstable; and several who died in infancy." Farmer.
CLARK
6.
COLLINS.
511
of Jonas (3), resided in Boston, where he d. 13 June 1737, " obituary, published in the Weekly Journal," 21 June " son of the 1737, describes him as a exemplary, pious and well-known Mr. Jonas Clarke, Ruling Elder of the Church at Cambridge, where he was born in 1657. He followed the sea till he was near forty years of age; when, settling on shore, he was successively employed by this town in the various offices of Assessor, Selectman, Overseer of the Poor, &c., and by the Government as Captain of our south and north batteries, overseer of the buildings of Castle William, with Col. Romer, director and overseer of the fortifications on the Neck, and of the building our Light-house, and as a Justice of the Peace. He had likewise served as a member of the Hon. House of Representatives, in the time of the Non-resident Act; and he discharged the duty of every em-
TIMOTHY,
s.
a.
80 years.
An
ployment with singular wisdom, diligence, and fidelity and was esteemed among us as a pattern of every grace and virtue, a true and sincere lover of his country, and who took a singular pleasure in being useful to all about him. " 7. SAMUEL, s. of Jonas (3), was a goldsmith, and probably resided in Boston. He was living in 1705. Under date of Nov. 1, 1673, John Hull of Boston writes, " I accepted Samuel Clark, s. of Jonas Clark, as an apprentice
;
for eight years."
JAMES, a housewright, was in Camb. as early as 1685. He was probably who in. Hannah Heath 27 April 1681, in Roxbury, where their son James was b. 4 Feb. 1681-2, and where also the w. Hannah d. 30 May 1683. He m. in Camb. 24 Sept. 1685, Sarah, dau. of Samuel Champney, and had Surah, b. 20 Sept. 1686, d. 13 Oct. 1707; Ebenezer, b. 31 July 1688, d. 7 Nov. 1688; Mercy, b. 18 Dec. 1690, m. Joseph Gibbs of Framingham 1 July 1712; JAMES the f. d. 8 Ap. 1714, Abigail, b. 3 May 1703; and perhaps others.
8.
the same
a.
62
9.
his w.
Sarah
s.
d. 1716.
(8), a cordwainer, purchased in 1705 the former homestead of Elder Jonas Clark. He m. (1) Mary Lamson 4 Nov. 1703, who d. 25 June 1711, a. 32; (2) Elizabeth who d. 7 Feb. 1722-3, a. 43; His children were Hannah, b. 30 July (3) Elizabeth Collis, 29 Oct. 1723. 1704; Mary, b. 3 Oct. 1705; James, b. 10 Jan. 1707-8; Susanna, b. 4 May 1709 (bap. 2 July 1710) Samuel, b. 28 Ap. 1711, d. young; John and Samuel, twins, b. 19 Ap. 1713 (Samuel d. young); Elizabeth, b. 10 Dec.
JAMES,
of
James
JAMES the f. d. 29 Oct. 1751, a. 69. CLEMANCE or CLEMENT, WILLIAM, owned a house and land, 1642, on the south side of the river (now Newton). No record of children but a William
1714.
;
Jr. appears on record, 1866. In 1672, William Clemance, Sen., sold all his real estate in Camb. and Billerica to Daniel Hudson of Lancaster, and said Hudson
agreed to maintain him and his wife. Sen., d. 4 Jan. 1659, and WILLIAM m.
Martha, probably w. of WILLIAM, Taylor 3 Ap. 1660. COLBY, ANTHONY (otherwise written ColeLy, Colebie, Coldby, Couldby, Couldbey), in 1635, owned house and three acres near the southerly side of Brattle Street; and another house with three acres, extending from Garden These and Street to the way leading from Brattle Street to Fresh Pond. other parcels he sold in 1639 to Simon Crosby, and removed to Salisbury. He " died 1663, leaving 8 children." Farmer. COLE, ARTHUR, m. Lydia Barrett, 27 Nov. 1673, and had Arthur, b. 20 Dec. 1674, d. 30 Oct. 1702; Daniel, b. 7 Mar. 1675-6. ARTHUR the f. d.
Ann
4 Sept. 1676.
2. JACOB COLE (or Coale), and others, "single men and inmates in this town," were required by the Selectmen, Feb. 12, 1665-6, to connect themThe next month, "Jacob Coale submitted himself selves with some family. to the family government of Francis Whitmore, who engaged to respond his Town Rec. rates and orderly carriage, during his abode there." MARY, who m. Samuel Frost 12 Oct. 1663, may have been sister to Arthur Cole, Sen. SARAH, m. Philemon Hastings, 19 Mar. 1766. COLLINS, EDWARD, was a large land-holder in Catnb. as early as 1636, and during his sojourn here was one of the most prominent citizens. He was appointed " Clerk of the Writs," with power "to grant summons and
512
COLLINS
COMEE.
;
attachments in all civil actions," Oct. 7, 1641 Representative or Deputy to the General Court from 1654 to 1670. He was Deacon of the church before the death of Rev. Thos. Shepard, who appointed him as one of the executors of his will, in 1649. His residence was on the easterly side of Holyoke This estate Street, nearly opposite to where the Printing Office now stands*. he sold to Gen. Gookin, in whose famiiy it remained until 1760. The latter
about part of his life was spent in Charlestown, where he d. 9 Ap. 1689, a. 86." His widow Martha survived, and executed a deed of her mansion house, 12 Feb. 1691-2, to William Stoughton, in trust for the family of her "son John Collins in England, deceased " the widow Margaret to have 10, son Edward to have a double portion, and the remainder to be divided equally between the other children. I find no record of her death, unless (which is probable), she is the person named in the following memorandum in Rev. John Pike's manuscript Journal: "March 22, 1699-1700. Grandmother Collins departed this life, being very aged, and many years shaken with the The chil. of Deacon palsy, yet retained her understanding wonderful well."
;
"
Collins were Daniel; John; Samuel ; Sybil; all born in England ; Martha, b. Sept. 1639 Nathaniel, b. 7 Mar. 1641-2 ; Abigail, b. 20 Sept. 1644, m. John Willett, who d. 2 Feb. 1663 ; Edward, bap. here, was living in 1663. Sybil
;
m. Rev. John Whiting, and had in Camb. Sybil, John, and William, bap. 19 Feb. 1659-60. Phebe Collins, who d. 5 Jan. 1653-4, may have been dau.
Deacon Collins. DANIEL, s. of Edward (1), was in Koningsberg, Prussia, in 1658. It is not known whether he returned. 3. JOHN, s. of Edward (1), grad. H. C. 1649, went to Europe, preached in Edinburgh 1658, went as chaplain with Gen. Monk from Scotland to England, settled in London, where he was pastor of an Independent church, and a popular preacher at Pinnar's Hall. He was also the political agent of Massachusetts several years. He d. in London 3 Dec. 1687. His s. John was afterwards pastor of the same church. [A Rev. John Collinges, son of "Edward Collinges, M. A." which Edward was " one whose faithfulness in the ministry many, both in New England and Old, could bear witness to." But this John is said to have been "educated at Cambridge, where he was of Emmanuel College." Oct. 18, 1645, being then B. A., he was recommended for ordination and afterwards preached at Norwich 44 years. He died Jan. 1690. He was a voluminous writer. "In Poole's Annotations, he was the author of Notes on the six last chapters of Isaiah, the whole of Jeremiah and Lamentations, the Four Evangelists, both the Epistles to the Corinthians, the Epistle to the Galatians, both the Epistles to Timothy, the Epistle to Philemon, and the Book of Revelations." David's Annals of Evang. Nonconformity in Essex Co., England, fol. 589-591.] 4. SAMUEL, s. of Edward (1), resided in Scotland a few years, but returned to New England. His s. Edward was bap. in Camb. June 1664. He is said to have resided in Middletown, Conn., in 1670. {Field's Hist. Mid. Co.) The following document is recorded with the Middlesex Deeds, xi. 172: "Charlestown, Nov. 4. 1691, I whose name is underwritten, do oblige myself, my heirs, executors, and assigns, to set free for himself a Mulatto Boy, which was given me by my mother, Mrs. Martha Collins, at the age of thirty-one years, which Boy was born in the year 1686, on the 30th of March. In witness whereof I set my hand and seal. Samuel Collins." 5. NATHANIEL, s. of Edward (1), grad. H. C. 1660, ordained at Middletown, Conn., 4 Nov. 1668, where he d. Dec. 1684. COLLIS, JOHN (or CoLLiCE),had a grant of land in Camb. 1683; was Hogreeve in 1700; his w. Mary d. 19 June 1711 and he received assistance from
of
2.
;
the church several years, to 1716. No record of children. ELIZABETH, m. James Clark, 29 Oct. 1723. Mrs. ANNA, d. 26 Oct. 1730, a. 51. COLLOR, JOHN, by w. Hannah, had John, b. 6 March 1661 Thomas, b. 14 Dec. 1663. Probably removed to Sudbury. See Barry's Framwoham. COMEE (CooMEY, or COMY), JOHN, was at Camb. Farms (Lexington), 1690. He m. Martha, dau. of William Munroe, 21 June 1688, and had David,
;
COMEE.
b. 11
COOK.
513
29 Jan. 1700-1, and probably others. RUHAMARY, ra. James Leah 21 July 1768. COOK (or COOKE), GEORGE, came to N. Eng. in 1635 in the same vessel with Rev. Thomas Shepard. He was then twenty-five years of age. He and his brother, Joseph Cook, were registered as servants to Roger Harlakenden. The position, however, which they at once assumed in the community, shows that this was only a disguise, which enabled them the more easily to leave England. Such a disguise, at that period, was frequently adopted by prominent men; even Shepard embarked under a fictitious name and character, being
MAH Comee
Jan. 1695-6; klizibeth,

in.
b.
Isaac Corey 9 Dec. 1762.
" John Coil. Mass, ll'ist. Soc., xxviii., 268. Shepperd, husbandman." Immediately on his arrival, in connection with his brother, he purchased a large number of houses and lots, of those who were about removing to Connecticut. While he remained here, he was among the most active and energetic citizens, both in civil and military affairs. He was Selectman 1638, 1642, 1643; Deputy or Representative, 1636, 1642-1645, five years, and Speaker of the House in 1645. While a member of the House he was frequently placed on important committees, especially in relation to military affairs. In 1645 he was elected one of the Reserve Commissioners of the United Colonies. He was appointed in 1637 Captain of the first train-band in Camb. became a member of the Artillery Co. in 1638, and its Captain in 1643 and when a similar company was incorporated in Middlesex, 14 May 1645, he was placed at the head of it. He was one of the Commissioners and Commander-in-chief of the expedition sent to Rhode Island, in 1643, to apprehend " Samuel Gorton and his company." He returned to England about the end of 1645, became a Colonel in Cromwell's army, and was "reported to be slain in the wars in Ireland, in the year 1652." (Mid. Court Files.) By his w. Alice he had, in Camb., Elizabeth, b. 27 Mar. 1640, d. July 1640; Thomas, b. 19 June 1642, d. 16 July 1642; Elizabeth, b. 21 Aug. 1644, m., in England, Rev. John Quick of London; Mary, b. 15 Aug. 1646, m., in England, Samuel Annesley, Esq., of Westminster; both the last named daughters were living in 1697, when they were prosecuting a suit for the possession of property formerly belonging to The dau. Mary was not born until after her father returned their father. to England; and the County Court, 5 Oct. 1652, empowered "Mr. Henry Dunster and Mr. Joseph Cooke to improve the estate of Col. George Cooke, deceased, for the good of Mary Cooke, the daughter of the said Col. George Cooke, deceased, as also to dispose of the said Mary Cooke for her education as they shall apprehend maybe for her best good." Perhaps she was placed in the custody of John Fownell of Charlestown, millwright, as guardian or agent, who sold thirteen acres of land in 1655, describing it as the same " which I recovered by law from the estate of George Cooke, Coronell, for the education Col. Cooke probably resided on the of his daughter." (Mid. Deeds, i., 109). northerly corner of Brighton and Eliot streets. 2. JOSEPH, elder brother to George (1), came to N. Eng. in the same vessel with him, in the same disguise, and like him became a prominent citizen. His residence was on the east side of Holyoke Street, near Holyoke Place. Connected with his house were several acres of land, extending northerly to Mount Auburn Street, and southerly and easterly into the marsh besides which he owned numerous other houses and lots. He was Selectman seven from 1635 to 1641, local years, from 1635 to 1645, Town Clerk five years, six years, from Magistrate or Commissioner, 1648 to 1657, and Representative 1636 to 1641. He also was a military man; and when his brother embarked " to desire Mr. for England, "the Court think meet," says the record, the Captain, Joseph Cooke, to take charge of the Company in the absence of and till the Court shall take further orders." He was the friend and patron of Mr. Shepard in England, and is affectionately noticed in his autobiography. He went to England in 1658, and in 1665 was residing at Stannaway, Co. lots of land to Essex, at which date he conveyed his homestead and several
styled
; ; ;
his son.
Joseph
It is not known that he returned here afterwards. By his w. Elizabeth he had Joseph, b. 27 Dec. 1643; Elizabeth, b. 16 Mar. 1644-5, in. Rev. Cawthorne of London ; Mary, b. 30 Jan. 1646-7 Grace, b. 9 Dec.
;
33
514
1648
;
COOK.
Grace,
;
b. 1 May 1650. Mitchell (Ch. Rec.) names Ruth as the youngperhaps the second Grace is a mistake and should be Ruth. 3. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (2), grad. H. C. 1660 or 1661, and m. Martha, dau. of John Stedman, 4 Dec. 1665, by whom he had John, b. '25 Jan. 1667-8, d. 3 June 1684; Elizabeth, b. 11 Feb. 1669-70, d. 2 Feb. 1687-8; Joseph, b. 16 Sept. 1671; Haynes, b. 1 Feb. 1677-8, resided in Camb., Woburn, and Concord, and was living in 1724; Alice, b (elder than Haynes), m. Rev. John Whiting of Lancaster about 1693; he was killed by the Indians 11 Sept. 1697, and she m. Rev. Timothy Stevens of Glastonbury, Conn 19 May 1701; her dau. Alice d. here 19 Oct. 1697, a. 2 years 10 mo., and Eunice, d. 4 Nov. 1697, a. 1 year. JOSKPH the f. resided on the homestead, and purchased several tracts of land, in addition to those which were given him by his father. It is not known that he devoted himself to any profession. He was RepresentHe inherited the military spirit of his ative six years, from 1671 to 1680. relatives, was Lieutenant (commanding) of Maj. Gookin's company, 1677, and was engaged in King Philip's War. He d. about Feb. 1690-91, in which month administration was granted to Jonathan Remington, on behalf of the son Joseph, a minor. 4. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (3), by w. Eunice, had Eunice, b. 2 June 1716, m. Ebenezer Bradish 1739 (pub. June 10); Joseph, b. 5 Mar. 1717-18. He inherited the homestead, was a farmer, and d. 28 May 1739, a. nearly 68. His w. Eunice d. 9 May 1718, a. 34 y. 1 mo. 19 days. 5. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (4), m. Elizabeth Stratton 7 June 1739, and had Joseph, b. 14 May 1740; Eleanor, bap. 19 July 1741; Benjamin, b. 16 Aug. 1742, d. 2 Dec. 1790; Jonathan, bap. 5 Jan. 1745-6; Elizabeth, bap. 20 Mar. 1747-8, m. Joseph Sanderson 25 Oct. 1775; Eunice, bap. 7 Oct. 1750, m.
est dau.
Joseph Read 4 July 1775, and d. 3 Oct. 1825. JOSEPH the f. was a tanner. He sold the homestead to his brother-in-law, Ebenezer Bradish, in 1740, and seems afterwards to have lived on the south side of the river. Both he and his w. were living in 1 7 70. 6. JONATHAN, s. of Joseph (5), m. Esther Johnson 8 Nov. 1770, and had Thomas, bap. 22 Dec. 1771. 7. PHILIP, freeman 1647, m. Mary, dau. of Barnaby Lamson, and had prob. d. 13 July 1654; Mary, b. 26 July 1652; Philip, b. 19 Aug. Hannah, b. 1654, d. young Samuel, b. 1655; Hannah, b. 4 July 1657; Sarah, b. d. 12 May 1661; Philip, b. 2 May 1661; John, b. 25 Aug. 1663; Barnabas, PHILIP the f. d. 10 Feb. 1666-7 his w. Mary d. 17 Mar. bap. 4 June 1665. 1714-15, a. 93. His residence was on the northerly side of North Avenue, not far from the almshouse. 8. SAMUEL, s. of Philip (7), m. Abigail Griggs 14 Nov. 1681, and had Samuel, b. 29 Aug. 1682, d. 10 Jan. 1699-1700; John, b. 15 July 1685, d. 8 Sept. 1723, a. 38, leaving no children; Philip, b. 5 Mar. 1686-7 Abigail, b. m. 31 Mar. 1688, m. Joseph Farley of Billerica, 8 May 1712; Mary, b. Jonathan Willard 23 Jan. 1728-9; Hannah, b. Joseph, bap. 23 May 1697; Elizabeth, bap. 6 Nov. 1698, d. young; Elizabeth, b. 18 Jan. 1700-1, m. Samuel Prentice 23 Dec. 1736; Samuel, b. 29 Nov. 1702; Sarah, b.
,
;
d. 27 Sept. 1706. Jan. 1714, a. 54.

9.
SAMUEL the f. d. 22 Aug. 1731, a. 76 his w. Abigail He was a farmer, and resided on the homestead.
;
d. 28
s. of Philip (7). by w. Sarah, had Ephraim, bap. 30 July 1699; 19 July 1702; m. Haskins of Boston; Philip, b. 13 Oct. 1704; Israel, b. 29 Oct. 1710; Mary bap. 8 Feb. 1712-13; Abigail, bap. 16 Oct. 1715, m. John Milledge. PHILIP the f. d. 25 Mar. 1718; his w. Sarah d. 1742. 10. BARNABAS, s. of Philip (7), m. Mary Goodwin 4 Dec. 1689, and had son Barnabas, b. 1691. He d. 1696. 11. PHILIP, s. of Samuel (8), by w Mary, had John, b. 9 Oct. 1726; Abigail, b. 18 Ap. 1729; Martha, bap. 27 June 1731 Hepzibah, bap. 6 July 1735. PHILIP the f. d. 5 Ap. 1 736. 12. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (8), m. Joanna, dau. of Solomon Prentice, 31 Mar. 1726, and had Joseph, b. 12 Jan. 1726-7; Samuel, bap. 20 Oct. 1728;
PHILIP,
b.
Sarah,
d.
young; Susanna, bap. 3
May
1730, m.
Aaron Teel,
5 Sept. 1754; Lydia,
COOK.
515
bap. 5 Nov. 1732, d. unm. 20 June 1765; Joanna, bapt. 21 Sept. 1735, d. young; Joanna, bap. 7 Nov. 1736; Sarah, bap. 10 June 1739, m. Henry Dickson 15 Nov. 1774; Samuel, bap. 8 Nov. 1741; Solomon, bap. 1 Jan. 1743-4, d. young; Eunice, bap. 16 Aug. 1747, d. unm. 7 Ap. 1765: Solomon, bap. 11 Feb. 1749-50. SAMUEL the f. d. 3 Nov. 1785, a. 83; his w. Joanna d. 28 Nov. 1772, a. 63. 13. EPHRAIM, s. of Philip (9), m. Sarah Swan 14 Dec. 1727, and had Eunice, bap. 12 Jan. 1728-9; Sarah, b. 15 Mar. 1729-30, m. Joseph Frost 8 Feb. 1753; Ephraim, b. 12 Sept 1732; Mercy, b. 21 Nov. 1733; Abigail, b. 6 Dec. 1735, m. Eben. Tufts 23 Ap. 1760; Mary, b. 17 Ap. 1737; Ann, b. 17 Mar. 1739, d. unm. 7 Ap. 1813 Aaron, b. 20 Dec. 1740; Elizabeth, b. 7 Dec. 1743, m. Thomas Barrett 6 Dec. 1771, and d. 17 Ap. 1785; Martha, b. 6 Feb. 1748, m. Jonathan Dickson 7 Mar. 1771. EPHRAIM the f. resided in Menotomy, and d. 11 Sept. 1763, a. 64; his w. Sarah d. 24 Mar. 1748, a. 47. 14. JOSEPH, s. of Samuel (12), m. Abigail Winship 3 May 1746, and had Joseph, bap. 23 Aug. 1747; Elizabeth, bap. Oct. 1750; William, bap. 20 May 1753; Abigail, bap. 18 Feb. 1759 (Joseph Cook, perhaps the same, m. Margery Dickson 13 May 1756; and the last named child, Abigail, may have been the offspring of this marriage). 15. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (12), m. Elizabeth Dickson 26 April 1764, and d. 1765; his w. owned the covenant 24 May 1767, on which day their dau.
;
Rhoda was baptized. 16. EPHRAIM, s. of Ephraim (13), m. Mercy Hale of Boston (pub. July 1755), and had Ephraim, b. 17 Ap. 1756; Abraham, bap. 5 Mar. 1758, m. Naomi Russell 5 July 1781, and d. 29 Oct. 1795; Sarah, twin with Abraham, bap. 5 Mar. 1758; Mercy, bap. 10 June 1759, m. Ephraim Mullett 28 May
1782; Deborah, bap. 16 Aug. 1761, m. Benj. Perry 4 Dec. 1794; Thomas, b. 10 June 1763 Ly<Ha, b. 11 Oct. 1765, d. unm. 1813; Lucy, b. 19 July 1767, m. Walter Foss 10 Jan. 1786; Mary, b. 3 July 1769, d. 28 July 1780. EPHRAIM the f. resided in Menotomy, and d. 14 Nov. 1773. 17. AARON, s. of Ephraim (13), m. Elizabeth Mullet (pub. 7 June) 1766, and had Aaron, b. 12 June 1767, d. 19 Sept. 1819, having had son Jefferson, b. 22 Sept. 1803; John, b. 18 Oct. 1768, d. 24 May 1770; Elizabeth, b. 25 Feb. 1770; Sarah, b. 20 Feb. 1772: John, b. 19 May 1774; Mary, b. 26 Jan. 1777; Rebecca, b. 14 June 1779. Elizabeth the m. d. 8 April 1808, aged 62.
;
Ephraim (16), m. Hannah Crosby (pub. 6 Dec.) 1777, 25 Sept. 1778; Ephraim, b. 2 Mar. 1780; Isaac, b. 2 Oct. 1781, d. 12 Dec. 1815; Sally, b. 27 April 1783; Jazaniah, b 25 Feb. 1785, d. 27 Nov. 1846; Simeon, b. 20 Dec. 1786, d. 20 Mar. 1815; Polly, b. 23 Feb. 1790; -Sukey, b. 9 Oct. 1791. EPHRAIM the f. resided in Menotomy, and d. 30 April 1824. 19. EPHRAIM, s. of Ephraim (18), m. Susan Wellington 18 Dec. 1803, and had Josiah W., b. 12 Nov. 1805; Susan W., b. 4 Mar. 1810; Micah W., b. 12 July 1812; John B., b. 14 Jan. 1816 Ann L. W., b. 22 Aug. 1818; Thomas Aaron S. W., b. 22 Aug. 1824; Harriet A., b. 16 Dec. D., b. 4 May 1821 EPHRAIM the f. resided on North Avenue, and d. 27 Jan. 1861 his 1827. w. Susan W. d. 22 Aug. 1858, aged 74.
18.
EPHRAIM,
s.
of
and had Hannah,
b.
ampton),
(a descendant from Aaron Cooke of Dorchester and NorthHadley 1708, grad. H. C. 1735, ordained at Menotomy, 12 He was three times married: to Sept. 1739, where he d. 4 June 1783. she d. 22 Aug. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Porter of Hadley (pub. 29 Aug. 1740); Newton (nub. 5 1741, a. 24, and he m. Anna, dau of Rev. John Cotton of Feb. 1761, a. 38, and he m. Lucy, widow of Rev. Sept. 1742); she d. 12 Nicholas Bowes of Bedford, and dau. of Rev. John Hancock of Lexington
20.
SAMUEL
b.
in
b. 14
with Samuel, b. 14 July July 1745, d. 21 Aug. 1745; Elizabeth, twin d. unm. 1 Feb. 1824; 1745, d. unm. 13 Feb. 1784; Mary, b. 15 May 1747, b. 29 Mar. 1752, grad. unm. 9 Samuel, b. 1784; 1750, living Sarah, Aug.
516
COOK
COOLIDGE
COOPER.
;
H. C. 1772, d. in Boston, suddenly, 2 Jan. 1795, leaving no posterky Hannah Gibbs, b. 17 Ap. 1754, m. Henry Bradshaw 3 June 1781, and d. 21 Jan. 1793; Rebecca, b. 29 Dec. 1758, d. 2 Feb. 1778. Mr. Cooke is described in his epitaph, as a social friend, a man of science, an eminent and faithful As might be expected, from his family connection, he was an clergyman. ardent patriot in the Revolution and he was chaplain of the General Court
;
Watertown, in the summer of 1776. COOLIDGE, JOSEPH, s. of Simon and grandson of John, b. in Watertown May 31 1666, was here as early as 1696, when he purchased an estate on Harvard Street, extending from Holyoke Street to Bow Street. His house He was a tailor, and stood near the corner of Harvard and Holyoke streets. accumulated a large estate. He was a Selectman, 1713, 1714, 1730; and Deacon of the Church from 22 Jan. 1718, until his death. His w. was Rebecca, dau. of John Frost and granddaughter of Elder Frost. Their children were Rebecca, bap. 5 Dec. 1697, d. young; Rebecca, bap. 4 June 1699, m. Rev. Edward Wigglesworth 10 Sept. 1729, and d. 5 June 1754; Joseph, bap. 18 Jan. 1701-2, prob. d. young, as he is not named in the settlement of his father's estate; Mary, b. 14 Ap. 1706, d. 3 June 1707; Stephen, b. 18 Ap. 1708; Mary, b. 15 Jan. 1710-11, m. Rev. Samuel Porter of Sherburne 30 Oct. 1735, and d. 10 Aug. 1752. JOSEPH the f. d. 17 Dec. 1737, a. 71 his w. Rebecca d. 1 July 1750, a. 81. 2. STEPHEN, s. of Joseph (1) grad. H. C. 1724, was a physician, and
at
; ;
He never married but retaught the Grammar School here many years. sided with his mother on the homestead until her death, and probably until his own death, which occurred 5 May 1758. 3. STEPHEN, prob. brother of Joseph (1), m. Sarah, dau. of Capt. Josiah Parker, 30 Ap. 1702 and had Sarah, bap. 11 May 1704, d. 3 Feb. 1704-5. He d. 1704, and his w. Sarah in. Nicholas Fessenden, the somewhat noted Schoolmaster, 8 Aug. 1706. ELIZABETH, m. Gilbert Crackbone 17 June 1656. HENRY, m. Phebe Dana 12 Sept. 1747. EUNICE, m. Joseph Miller 15 April 1765. ELIZABETH, m. George Brown 24 April 1777. COOPER, JOHN, son, by a former marriage, of Lydia, wife of Gregory Stone, b. 1618, came to Camb. before May 1636. He resided on the easterly side of North Avenue, not far from Linnzean Street, and was a prominent citizen.
He was a Selectman thirty-eight years, from 1646 to 1690, and Town Clerk thirteen years, 1669-1681. He was also Deacon of the Church, from 1668 until his death. He m. Anna, dau. of Nathaniel Sparhawk, and had Anna, b. 16 Nov. 1643, m. Edward Pinson 2 Aug. 1664, and d. 8 May 1666 ; Mary, b. 11 Sept. 1645, m. John Meriam 21 Aug. 1663, and was living in 1713; John, b. 2 Ap. 1651, d. 26 Aug. 1652; Samuel, b. 3 Jan. 1653-4; John, b. 3 Oct. 1656; Nathaniel, b. 2 May 1659, d. 19 Dec. 1661 ; Lydia, b. 8 Ap. 1662, m. John Francis 5 Jan. 1687-8; Anna, b. 26 Dec. 1667 (T. Rec. 1668), d. in Woburn 1712. Deac. Cooper d. 22 Aug. 1691, a. 73. His w. Anna in. James Convers, Sen., of Woburn, and was living in 1712. 2. SAMUEL, s. of John (1), was a farmer, and inherited the homestead. He was elected Deacon of the Church 22 Mar. 1705; and was a Selectman 12 He m. Hannah, dau. of Deac. Walter Hastings, years, from 1704 to 1716. 4 Dec. 1682, and had Hannah, b. 23 Dec. 1683, m. Edmund Frost 1 Feb. 1710-11; Lydia, b. 9 Mar. 1684-5, m. Jona. Gove 26 Dec. 1706; Sarah, m. Ephraim Frost, Jr., 9 Sept. 1714; Samuel; Mary, m. Nathaniel Goddard 26 Nov. 1723; Elizabeth, prob. d. young; Walter (the last five were bap. 17 Jan. 1696-7); John, b. 2 Oct. 1698; Jonathan, b. 6 Dec. 1707. SAMUEL the f. d. 8 Jan. 1717-18, a. 64 his w. Hannah d. 9 Oct. 1732, a. 66. 3. JOHN, s. of John (1), was a shoemaker. He resided on the easterly side of North Avenue; his estate adjoined 'that of his father, and was formerly owned by George Bowers. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Bordman, 28 Ap. 1686; she d. 15 Nov. 1713 (G. S. 1714), and he m. Sarah Hancock 21 June 1720. His children were John, bap. 3 July 1698; Elizabeth, bap. 3 July 1698; Elizabeth, b. 9 May 1699, m. Samuel Andrew 10 Ap. 1741 Anna, bap. 7 July
;
Wm.
;
COOPER
1700, m. Joseph
CORLETT.
517
Carter of Woburn 12 Feb. 1718-19; Hannah, b. 29 Dec. 1701; Sarah, b. 9 Ap. 1704; Timothy, b. 9 Ap. 1706; Joshua, b. 25 Jan. 1708-9; Abigail, b. 10 July 1711; and perhaps others, previous to 1698. JOHN the f. d. 12 Feb. 1735-6, and his estate was divided, about a month Afterwards, between the widow Sarah, grandson John Cooper, legal representative of only son John, daughter Elizabeth, and grand daughter Anna Carter. Amount of the estate, 2,868 5 3. 4. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (2), was a farmer and inherited the homestead, which he sold to Ebenezer Frost, 14 Ap. 1730. He m. Sarah, dau. of Deae. Samuel Kidder, 29 Mar. 1720, and had Nathaniel, bap. 18 Sept. 1720; Samuel, bap. 15 Oct. 1721; Joseph, bap. 20 Oct. 1723; John, bap. 7 Mar. 1724-5; Sarah, bap. 12 Jan. 1728-9. In the summer of 1730, he removed with his family to Grafton. 5. WALTER, s. of Samuel He m. Martha, dau. of (2), was a shoemaker. Benjamin Goddard, 7 June 1722, and had Walter, bap. 31 Mar. 1724; Walter, b. 23 Feb. 1728-9; Benjamin, b. 8 Feb. 1729-30; Martha, b. 2 Jan. 1733-4; Samuel, bap. 28 Nov. 1736; Martha, bap. 7 May 1738; Benjamin, bap. 10 Feb. 1740-41, d. 11 Sept. 1760; Nathaniel, bap. 18 April 1742; Samuel, bap. 25 Aug. 1745. WALTER the f. d. 27 Sept. 1751, a. 55; his w. Martha d. 10 Ap.
1768,
6. a.
65.
s, of Samuel (2), m. Lydia, dau. of Solomon Prentice, 6 Ap. 1 721, Mar. 1723-24, without children. His w. Lydia m. Thomas Kidder,
JOHN,
d. 13
and
8 April 1725.
7. JONATHAN, s. of Samuel (2), was a saddler; he seems to have served his apprenticeship in Rox., and to have remained there a short time afterwards; but he returned early to Camb., and m. Sarah, dau. of Solomon Prentice, 25 Oct. 1732. His children, bap. here, were Jonathan, 23 Mar. 1734-5; Sarah, 5 Sept. 1736; Samuel, 18 Feb. 1738-9, pub. to Hannah Geohegan of Chs. 19 Mar. 1763, and d. Sept. 1765, leaving his whole estate to his wife; Simon, 24 July 1741: Daniel, 7 Aug. 1743, m. Lydia Mullett 9 May 1764; Solomon, 9 Feb. 1745-6; Lydia, 24 Ap. 1748, m. Samuel Cox 16 Nov. 1768. JONATHAN the f. d. in Chs. 1766, prob. in that portion near "Porter's," which is
" Camb., and formerly called Cooper's Corner." John (3), m. Hannah Johnson 21 Oct. 1725, and had John, b. 22 Jan. 1727-8, represented in 1748 to be incapable of managing his affairs; JOHN the William, bap. 11 Jan. 1729-30, d. young; Anna, bap. 2 Ap. 1732. the f. d. 15 Ap. 1733 (as appears by receipts on the Probate Files), and his w. Hannah prob. m. Benjamin Crackbone, pub. 30 Sept. 1738. 9. WALTER, s. of Walter (5), m. Lydia Kidder 13 Mar. 1755, and had Walter, b. 17 Ap. 1756, d. 14 Sept. 1758; previously, however, to the birth His w. Lydia prob. in. Jonof this child, the father d. 1 Ap. 1756, a. 27.
now embraced 8. JOHN, s.
in of
athan Hill 10 Jan. 1763.

10. JONATHAN, s. of Jonathan (7), m. Mercy, dau. of Jonas Prentice 1 Oct. (pub. 10 Ap. 1755), and had Mercy, bap. 18 Ap. 1756; Jonathan, bap. 1758, d. 17 Sept. 1760; Anna, bap. 6 Feb. 1763; Mara (her father having "died suddenly sixteen days past," Ch. Rec.), bap. 12 May 1765, m. Joshua Palmer 23 May 1791. JONATHAN the f. d. 26 Ap. 1765. 11. BENJAMIN, an innholder in Menotomy duringthe Revolutionary War, removed to Boston in 1781, and opened a tavern in Fish Street, at the sign of the Masons' Arms, but soon returned to Menotomy, where he d. 5 Sept. 1786, The birth of only one child, a. 54; his w. Rachel d. 12 Oct. 1805, a. 73. mentions Isaac, is found on record; but the father's will, dated 17 May 1782, w.Rachel and chil. Benjamin; Mary, m. Thomas Beals 8 July 1779; William, Boradell Fessenden 1 Sept. prob. m. Rebecca Jenkins 24 April 1780, and unm. at 1784; John, d. in Georgia before 1813, leaving posterity; Sarah, d. Newton in 1813; Samuel, living at Boston in 1813; Isaac, b 2 Sept. 1775. m. Nathaniel Patten 8 Oct. 1678. SALLY, m. Josiah Dickson 10
SARAH,
July 1788.
CORLETT, ELIJAH, the famous schoolmaster, educated
Oxford, had charge of the
Grammar School
at Lincoln College, here, for nearly half a century,
518
CORLETT
COX
CBACKBONE.
and trained up many of English, American, and Indian birth, for admission to the College. This school he had taught so long before 1643, that he had, " according to Johnson, very well approved himself for his abilities, dexterity, and painfulness, in teaching and education of the youths under him; " and he remained in office until 1680, and probably until his death. His fame extended through the colony; and Mather, in his Magnalia, refers to him as "that
memorable old schoolmaster in Cambridge, from whose education our college and country has received so many of its worthy men, that he is himself worthy to have his name celebrated," etc. He resided on the easterly side of Dunster Street, between Mt. Auburn and Winthrop streets. By his w. Barbara (who was sister to Richard Cutter), he had Rebecca, b. 14 Aug. 1644, prob. d. young; Hepzibah, bap. here, m. James Minott 2 May 1673 (by whom she had Mary, living unm. 1723), and Daniel Champney 9 June 1684 (by whom she had Hepzibah, b. 23 June 1687), and d. prob. 1715; Ammi-Ruhamah, bap. here. ELIJAH the f. d. 25 Feb. 1686-7, aged 78. His w. Barbara survived him about twenty years. She had a grant of land in 1707, but prob.
d.
during that year.

2.
;
AMMI-RUHAMAH, s. of Elijah (1), grad. H. C. 1670; is said to have taught school in Plymouth, 1672 was afterwards Fellow of the College, and probably engaged as one of the instructors until he d. unm. 1 Feb. 1678-9; for the corporation ordered, "that the Treasurer of the College do pay to Mrs. Belshar for wine of her received and expended at the funeral of Mr.
dau. of Walter Russell (pub. 30 Mar. 1739), and had Elizabeth, bap. 20 Jan. 1739-40, m. Henry Dickson 24 July 1766; Agnes, bap. 1 Mar. 1740-41, m. James Phillips 14 May 1778; Walter, bap. 7 Oct. 1744; Samuel, bap. 28 Sept. 1746; Matthew, bap. 27 Mar. 1748; William, bap. 8 Ap. 1750; Phebe, bap. 14 Ap. 1754, m. John Hobbs 24 June 1777; Benjamin, bap. 7 Mar. 1756. MATTHEW the f. was instantly killed by a fall from an apple tree, which he was pruning, 16 Feb. 1756; his w. Elizabeth d. Jan. 1768. 2. WALTER, s. of Matthew (1), was a tanner; he m. Judith Deland of Chs. 16 Nov. 1769, and had Elizabeth, bap. 18 Nov. 1770; Walter, bap. 6 June
Ammi-Ruhamah Corlett. " Cox, MATTHEW, m. Elizabeth,
1773; William, bap. 7 Sept. 1777; John Hobbs, bap. 7 Ap. 1782; John Upham, Samuel, bap. 28 Sept. 1788. Mrs. Judith Cox was living bap. 6 Mar. 1785 (chargeable) with her sons, William and Upham, Mar. 5 1807. 3. SAMUEL, s. of Matthew (1), m. Lydia Cooper 16 Nov. 1768; she d. and he m. Jemima Hasey 16 Feb. 1775. He d. 1776 and his w. Jemima m. John Christian Fricke 18 Aug. 1778. Children not recorded. 4. WILLIAM, s. of Matthew No fur(1), m. Mary Sawin 25 Nov. 1779. ther record.
; ;
5. BENJAMIN, s. of Matthew (1), m. Susanna Leeds of Dorchester (pub. 25 Sept. 1779), and had Nancy, bap. 12 Feb. 1786, and perhaps others. 6. WALTER, s. of Walter (2), m. Susanna Smith, 11 Dec. 1796, and had Susanna, b. 28 Mar. 1797; Sarah, b. 28 Oct. 1799; Walter, b. 5 Nov. 1801. WALTER the f. d. 27 Ap. 1807; his w. Susanna survived. 7. SAMUEL, prob. s. of Samuel (3), m. Fanny, dau. of Daniel Watson, and
had Samuel,
b. 9
Nov. 1793; Leonard,
b. 3
f.
Mar. 1796
Elbridge, b. 4 May 1806. d. 27 April 1855, a. 88.
SAMUEL
Fanny,
a.
b. 7
July 1800;
the
d.
26 Oct. 1848,
82; his w.
Fanny
who
CRACKBONE, GILBERT (otherwise written Crackbon, Cragbone, Crakeborne), was an early inhabitant of Camb. and freeman in 1636. He bought an estate on the westerly side of Garden Street of Joseph Isaac about 1638, which he sold in 1646 to Philip Cook; and he seems afterwards to have resided on North Avenue. His w. having deceased, he m. Elizabeth Coolidge 17 June 1656. He d. 2 Jan. 1671-2, and devised his estate to his w. and to Joseph and Sarah, children of his only son Benjamin; of which son he says, "it is my sore affliction that his disobedient carriage have obstructed the manifestation of my fatherly compassions towards him." His w. Elizabeth m. Richard Robbins 26 Mar. 1673. Mary, who d. 30 May 1655, and Judith,
d. 1
July 1655, were probably his daughters.
CRACKBONE
2.
CROSBY
CUTLER.
519
m. Elizabeth Button 10 Nov. 1657. and had 24 Sept. 1658; Sarah, b. 24 Aug. 1659; Benjamin, 23 Jan. 1660-61, d. 27 April 1661; Joseph, b. 28 Mar. 1663. BENJAMIN the " f. served in Philip's War," under Capt. Beers, and was killed in 1675. 3. JOSEPH, s. of Benjamin (2), m. Abigail, dau. of John Marrett and widow of Timothy Rice of Concord, 11 May 1698; she d. 6 Jan. 1700-1, and he m. His chil. were Joseph, bap. 19 Mar. 1698-9; Elizabeth, b. 29 Abigail Dec. 1700, m. Joseph Hunnewell of Chs. before 1729; Abigail, b. 20 Aug. 1707, m. George MacSparran 2 Ap. 1730, and Solomon Champney (pub. 12
BENJAMIN,
s.
of Gilbert (1),
Hannah,
b. 3 Sept. 1658, d.
Ap. 1738), and was living his widow in 1767; John, b. and d. 11 Feb. 1708-9; b. 22 Ap. 1710. JOSEPH the f. was a shoemaker, and owned an estate at the westerly corner of Brattle and Ash streets. He d. about 1 738
Benjamin,
;
was a shoemaker, res. in Watertown, m. Abigail Grant 10 Jan. 1734-5, had Abigail and Lydia, b. 20 Oct. 1735, and removed to Sherburne, where a Joseph Crackbone, perhaps his son, res. in
1793.
s. of Joseph (3), was a tanner, and resided on the easterly North Avenue, near Roseland Street. This place he sold 1764 to Gideon Frost, and purchased a small lot on the same street near the Common. He in. Hannah, prob. wid. of John Cooper (pub. 30 Sept. 1738), but there is no record of children. He d. 28 Mar. 1767, devising his estate to his w. Hannah. CROSBY, THOMAS (otherwise written Crosbee and Crosbie), styled " senior," He resided on the westerly 1640, was early in Camb. No record of family. side of Ash Street, which estate he sold partly to Edmund Frost, 1649, and at both which dates he resided in Rowley. partly to Richard Eccles, 1651 2. SIMON, perhaps brother to Thomas (1), embarked for N. Eng. in the Susan and Ellen 18 Ap. 1634, then a. 26, with w. Ann, a. 25, and son Thomas, a. 8 weeks. (CW/. Mass. Hist. Soc., xxviii., 26.) His children b. in Camb. were Feb. 1638-9. SIMON the f. was SelectSimon, b. Aug. 1637; Joseph, b. He resided at the corner of Brattle Street and Brattle man, 1636, 1638. Sept. 1639, a. 31 Square, nearly where the old Brattle house stands. He d. his w. Ann m. Rev. William Tompson of Braintree, before 1646, and became
his w. Abigail survived. 4. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (3),
5.
BENJAMIN,
side of
a second time a widow at his death, 10 Dec. 1666.

3. THOMAS, s. of Simon (1), grad. H. C. 1653, minister in East-ham from 1655 to 1670, where, by w. Sarah, he had Thomas, b. 7 April 1663; Simon, b. 5 July 1665; Sarah, b. 24 Mar. 1667; Joseph, b. 27 Jan. 1668-9; John and another son, twins, b. 11 Feb. 1670-71 ; William, b. March 1673; Ebenezer, b. 28 Mar. 1675; Anne, Mercy, and Increase, triplets, b. 14 and 15 April 1678; Eleazar, b. 30 Mar. 1680. THOMAS the f. d. in Boston 13 June 1702. His posterity on the Cape was both numerous and respectable. 4. SIMON, s. of Simon (2), removed early to Billerica, was the first Innholder in that town, and Representative 1691, 1697, 1698. He m. Rachel Brackett, 15 July 1659, and had Simon ; Rachel, m. Ephraim Kidder Thomas, b. 16 Mar. 1665-6; Joseph, b. 5 July 1669, m. Sarah French 7 Jan. 1691-2; Hannah, b. 30 Mar. 1672, m. Samuel Danforth Nathan, b. 9 Feb. 1674-5; Josiah, b. 11 Nov. 1677; Mary, b. 23 Nov. 1680, m. John Blanchard; Sarah, SIMON the f. d. about b. 27 July 1684, m. William Rawson of Braintree. 1725 his wife Rachel and all the before named children were living at the date of his will, 7 June 1717, which was proved 26 Feb. 1724-5.
;
in his childhood
of Simon (2), settled in Braintree, where he was prob. carried by his mother; was Representative in 1690; appointed to assist in laying out the Braintree 6,000 acres in 1673; m. Sarah Brackett 1675, had sons Thomas, Simon, Ebenezer, and perhaps others, and d. 26 Nov. 1695. CUTLER, JAMES, was early in Watertown, and about 1049 removed to remain to this day. His w. Anne was Farms, where his
5.
JOSEPH,
s.
Cambridge
posterity
buried 30 Sept. 1644, and he m. Mary, wid. of Thomas King, 9 Mar. 1645; she d. 7 Dec. 1654, and be m. Phebe, dau. of John Page of Watertown. His
520
chil.
CUTLER.
were James,
b. 6
b. 26 July 1638, m. John Winter, Mary, b. 29 Mar. 1644; Elizabeth, b. 20 July Sudbury; Thomas, b. about 1648; Sarah, b. m. about 1653, m. Thomas Waite, and d. 17 Jan. 1744; Joanna, b. b. John, Philip Russell 19 April 1680, and d. 26 Nov. 1703; Jemima, b. 19 May 1663, d. 21 Sept. 1714 Samuel, b. 18 Nov. 1664; Phebe, b. JAMES the f. d. 17 May 1694, aged about 88. See Bond's Watertown and Hudson's Lexington. 2. JAMES, s. of James (1), m. at Sudbury Lydia, wid. of Samuel Wright, dau. of John Moore of Sudbury, 15 June 1665, and had in Camb. James, b. 12 May 1666, d. 1 Feb. 1690-1; Ann, b. 20 Ap. 1669, m. Richard Bloss (or Samuel and Joseph, twins, b. 2 May Bloise) of Watertown 26 Sept. 1688 1672; John, b. 14 Ap. 1675; Thomas, b. 15 Dec. 1677; Elizabeth, b. 14 Mar. 1680-81. JAMES the f. d. 31 July 1685, a. nearly 50; his w. Lydia survived. 3. THOMAS, s. of James (1), by w. Abigail had Abigail, b. 31 Oct. 1674; Thomas, b. 19 Jan. 1677-8; Mary, b. 15 Mar. 1680-81; Hannah, b. 7 Mar. 1682-3 James, bap. in Watertown, 9 Jan. 1687; Jonathan, bap. in Wat. 17 June 1688; Benjamin, b. 4 July 1697. THOMAS the f. d. 13 July 1722. 4. JOHN, s. of James (1), m. Mary Stearns 1 Jan. 1694, and had Samuel, b. 20 Dec. 1694; John, b. 3 June 1696; Ehenezer, b. 24 July 1700; Mary, b. 3 Ap. 1702, m. Capt. Samuel Bond of Weston; Sarah, b. 20 Nov. 1704. JOHN
Nov. 1635; Hannah,
Jr.; Elizabeth, b. 28 Jan. 1640; 1646, m. John Parmenter 2d of
the
f.
d. 21 Sept.
1714; his w.
of
Mary
d. 24
Feb. 1733.
his brother
5.
SAMUEL,
s.
James
was appointed admr.
(2), d. at 20 Nov. 1 700.
Camb. Farms, and
Thomas
June
b.
6. THOMAS, s. of James (2), m. Sarah Stone, and had Abigail, b 2 1703; David, b. 28 Aug. 1705; Amity, b. 19 Dec. 1707; Sarah, b. 19 1709-10; Mary, b. 8 Nov. 1714; Hannah, b. 13 May 1717; Thomas, Sept. 1719; Millicent, bap. 29 July 1722. 7. JAMES, prob. s. of Thomas (3), by w. Alice, had James, b. 13 Ap. William, b. 3 Ap. 1717; Thankful, bap. 24 Mar. 1719; Robert, b. 3 Ap. Alice, b. 27 Nov. 1729, m. Ephraim Jones, Jr., of Concord 16 Nov. JAMES the f. d. at Menotomy 16 Sept. 1756, a. abt. 70; his w. Alice
Jan. 30
1715; 1721;
1752.
d. 22
Sept. 1756,
8.
a. 67.
s.
gail, b. 1
;
m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Tidd, and had AbiHodgman of Western (now Warren) 7 May 1755 David, b. 15 July 1730, m. Dorcas Reed of Lex. and rem. to Western; Joseph, b. 31 May 1733, m. Rebecca Howe of Lincoln, who d. and he m. Mary Reed of Western, to which town he rem. Isaac, b. June 1736, d. Jan. 1737; Mary, b. 12 Aug. 1738, m. John Paige of Hard wick 15 Sept. 1758 Solomon, b. 15 May 1740, m. Rebecca Paige of Bedford; Thomas, b. 5 May 1742, m. Abigail Reed of Western; Elizabeth, b. 5 Aug. 1745, m. Benjamin Moore of Lex. 3 May 1768; Amittai, b. 15 July 1748, m. Nathan Leonard of Hard wick 6 Nov. 1766. DAVID the f. d. of small-pox 5 Dec. 1760 his w. Mary d. 25
DAVID,
of
Thomas
(6),
May
1728 m. Samuel
May
1797,
a. 93.
9. JAMES, s. of James (7), m. Abigail, dau. of Henry Dunster (pub. 29 Oct. 1737), and had James, b. 30 May 1741; Abigail, b. 22 Sept. 1742: Alice, b. 16 April 1745; Martha, b. 14 July 1746 Henry, b. 10 May 1748; Betty, b. 12 May 1750, d. 24 July 1754; Sarah, b. 1 Feb. 1753, d. 30 July 1754; WilJAMES the f. was a brickmaker, and rem. to Salem liam, b. 11 April 1755. before 1772, when he joined with the Dunster heirs in the sale of land in Cambridge. He d. 18 Feb. 1795; his w. Abigail d. before 1776. and he was twice m. afterwards. 10. WILLIAM, s. of James (7), was an innholder in Menotomy. He m. She d. 29 Dec. 1770, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Whittemore, 15 Sept. 1743. and he m. Rebecca, wid. of Thomas Hall, and dau. of Samuel Cutter (pub. 2 The death of the first w. is thus noticed in the Boston News Jan. 1773). Letter, of Jan. 10, 1771: "Died at Menotomy, the wife of Mr. William Cutler of that place, aged 48 years. She was the mother of 36 children; but the 35th was the only one that survived to follow her to the grave." This account seems incredible. The records show, however, that she had a large
;
CUTLER
CUTTER.
521
number of children, all of whom died young, except one. The survivor of this numerous progeny, William, b. 23 Dec. 1764, grad. H. C. 1786, was a physician, resided in Virginia more than thirty years, and d. in Dinwiddie Co. 17 May 1836, a. 71. By the second w. Mr. Cutler had James, b. 12 May 1774,
a printer in Boston, 1817; Rebecca, b. Jan. 1777, d. 6 Aug. 1778 Rebecca, b. 22 Dec. 1779, m. John Tufts 13 Dec. 1798. WILLIAM the f. d. of dropsy 1 Ap. 1781; his w. Rebecca survived, and in 1817, by reason of old age, was placed under the guardianship of her son James. 11. ROBERT, s. of James (7), grad. H. C. 1741. was ordained at Epping, N. H., in 1747, dismissed in 1755, installed at Greenwich, Mass., 13 Feb. He m. Hannah Crosby of Billerica 1760, where he d. 24 Feb. 1786, a. 65. she d. and he m. Elizabeth Fiske of Lexington 3 Sept. 1751. His chil. were Hannah, b. 22 July 1745, m. John Haskell of Hardwick, and d. 4 Sept. 1831 Millecent, b. 20 Jan. 1747, m. Denison Robinson of Hardwick, and d. at Windsor, Mass., 5 July 1798; Robert, b. 2 Oct 1748, a physician in Amherst, m. wid. Esther Guernsey, and d. 10 Mar. 1835; Prudence, b. 18 Feb. 1750, m. Joshua Clark, and d. 17 Aug. 1782; Dudley, b. 1 July 1752, m. Lydia Howard, and d. in 1838; William, b. 23 Dec. 1753, a physician in Warren and Hardwick, m. Rebecca Cutler of Western (now Warren) 2 Nov. 1780, and d. 9 Feb. 1832; James, b. 24 Sept. 1756, d. 8 Oct. 1856; Elizabeth, b. 2 June 1758, d. 4 Nov. 1758; Ebenezer, b. 17 July 1759, d. unm. 26 June 1839; James, b. 5 Sept. 1761, d. 27 Mar. 1768; Amos, b. 11 Oct. 1763, d. 15 Ap. 1764; Elizabeth, b. 2 May 1766, m. Benjamin Harwood, and d. in Nov. 1849; Alice, b. 23 Nov. 1768, m. Jairus Howard, and d. 29 June 1811; Samuel, b. 16 Ap. 1771, d. 7 May 1771 James, b. 23 May 1772, d. 3 Oct. 1773. CUTTKR, ELIZABETH, a widow aged 87 years, executed a will, dated 16 Feb. 1662-3, proved 5 Ap. 1664, in which she declares herself to have resided for about twenty years with her dau. Barbary, w. of Elijah Corlett. She had three children who resided here William; Richard ; and Barbary, m. Elijah
; ; ;
Corlett.
of Elizabeth (1), about 1638, owned and occupied the corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets. He returned to England, and in 1653 resided at Newcastle-upon-Tyne at which date he empowered Edward Goffe, Elijah Corlett, and Thomas Sweetman, of Camb., and Robert Hale of Chs. to collect debts d.ue to him in New England. He probably d. without children; for Richard Cutter, by deed dated 10 June 1693 (six days previous to his own death), conveyed to his son William a house and lot in Camb. describing the premises as " formerly the right and proper estate of
2.
WILLIAM,
s.
estate at the S.
W.
William Cutter,
3.
my brother, deceased, and from lawful right of inheritance."

RICHARD,
s.
him descended
to
me
as
my
his mother. wid. of Isaac
He
of Elizabeth (1), probably came here, when a minor, with m. Elizabeth who d. 5 Mar. 1661-2, and he m. Frances,
,
14 Feb. 1662-3. His chil. were Elizabeth, b. 15 July 1645, d. 10 Jan. 1663-4; Samuel, b. 3 Jan. 1646-7 Thomas, b. 19 July 1648, d. young; William, b. 22 Feb. 1649-50; Ephraim, bap. here; Gershom, bap. here; Marah, bap. here, m. Sanger; Nathaniel, b. 11 Dec. 1663; Rebecca, b. 5 Sept. 1665, m. Thomas Fillebrown 19 Dec. 1688; llepzibah, b. 11
Amsden,
d. 27 Feb. 1667-8; Elizabeth, b. 1 Mar. 1668-9, m. Hall; the Ruhamah, b. Sarah, b. 31 Aug. 1673 Hepzibah, b. 15 Aug. 1671 last three are named as unmarried, in their father's will, 1693. RICHARD the f. d. 16 June 1693, a. "about 72." His w. Frances probably d. 1725, when an additional inventory was taken of his estate. 4. SAMUEL, s. of Richard (3), was unm. at the time of his father's decease, and prob. d. without posterity. 5. WILLIAM, s. of Richard (3), m. Rebecca, dau. of John Rolfe, and had Elizabeth, b. 5 Mar. 1680-81, m. John Harrington; Richard, b. 13 Nov. 1682; Mary, b. 26 Jan. 1684-5, d. 6 Ap. 1685; Hannah, b. 20 May 1688, m. Ephraim Winship 17 June 1708; John, b. 15 Oct. 1690; Rebecca, b. 1693, m. Joseph Adams, 18 Jan. 1710-11, d. 12 Jan. 1717-18: William, b. 1697; Samuel, b. 14 June 1700; Sarah, bap. 18 Oct. 1702, m. Ebenezer Cutter 19 July
Nov. 1667,
522
CUTTER.
1722; Ammi Ruhamah, bap. 6 May 1705. WILLIAM the f. d. 1 Ap. 1723, a His w. Rebecca m. Deac. John Whitmore, 3 June 1724, and d. 13 Nov. 73. Mr. Cutter resided in Menotomy, not far from the present centre 1751, a. 89. In 1685 he purchased of John Rolfe the mill formerly called of Arlington. " Cut" Cook's Mill," which long remained in his family, and is known as ter's Mill." 6. EPHRAIM, s. of Richard (3), m. Bethia Wood 11 Feb. 1678-9, and had in Chs. Ephraim, b. 9 Aug. 1680; in Camb. Jonathan, b. 5 May 1685 Bethia, b. 2 Dec. 1686; Mary, b. 29 Mar. 1689, d. 27 Jan. 1696-7; and at Wat. Hannah, 22 July 1690; Abigail, b. 1693, d. 26 Nov. 1702; George, b. John, b. 23 July 1 700. EPHRAIM the f was a glazier, and res. successively in Chs., Camb. (at the N. E. cor. of Dunster and South streets), and Wat., where he was living in 1729, and where his w. Bethia d. 18 Sept. 1731, a. 71. 7. GKRSHOM, s. of Richard (3), m. Lydia Hall 6 Mar. 1677-8, and had Gershom, b. 1 June 1679; Lydia, b. 14 Sept. 1682, m. Jonathan Hall of Medf. 11 Nov. 1702, and d. 1 Jan. 1754; Hannah, b. 26 Nov. 1684, m. Thomas Hall of Medf. 22 Dec. 1702; and d. in 1705; Isabel, b. 9 May 1687, m. Thomas Fillebrown, Jr., 9 Dec. 1713. GERSHOM the f. res. in Menotomy, was a soldier in Philip's War, 1675, and d. 2 Ap. 1738, " in the 85th year of his age," as inscribed on his gravestone. 8. NATHANIEL, s. of Richard (3), m. Mary Fillebrown 8 Oct. 1688; she His children were Nad. 14 Mar. 1713-14, a. 52, and he m. Elizabeth
; ;
. .
two bap. 24 July 1698); Ebenezer, bap. 2 July 1699; John, bap. 23 Ap. 1704; Richard, bap. 21 Oct. 1716, d. 6 Aug. 1717; Elizabeth, bap. 26 Jan. 1717-18, m. John Williams of Groton 5 May 1741. 9. RICHARD, s. of William (5), was a mill-wright, and removed to Woodbridge, N. J., where he d. 17 Dec. 1756. 10. JOHN, s. of William (5), m. Lydia Harrington, and had Lydia, b. 13 Ap. 1710, m. Seth Reed Rebecca, b. 13 July 1712, m. Zechariah Hill 10 Feb. 1731-2, and Samuel Carter 11 Dec. 1770; Hannah, b. 14 June 1715, m. John Brooks; Mary, b. 1 June 1717, pub. Ephraim Frost, Jr., 16 Mar. 1739, and d. 20 Oct. 1805, a. 88 John, b. 13 June 1720; Abigail, b. 21 Ap. 1722, m. Samuel Frost 19 Feb. 1741; Richard, b. 9 Mar. 1725-6; Thomas, b. 2 Nov. 1727, d. 21 May 1737; Martha, b. 31 Mar. 1731, m. Jonathan Stone 21 May 1747; Ammi, b. 4 Nov. 1733; Ruhamah, twin with Ammi, b. 4 Nov. 1733, d. 7 June 1737. JOHN the f. was a farmer, was elected Deacon of the church in Menotomy at its organization in 1739, and d. 21 Jan. 1776, a. 85; his w. Lydia d.
thaniel
;
Jacob;
Mary
(last
7 Jan. 1754, a. 64. On his gravestone is this inscription "His surviving children, 8; grand-children, 68; great grand-children, 115; of the fifth generation, 3." 11. WILLIAM, s. of William (5), appears to have HI. Ann much older than himself, by whom he had s. Jonathan, b. 2 June 1726. WILLIAM the f. d. 16 Nov. 1756, a. 59 ; his w. Ann d. 19 May 1753, a. 70. 12. SAMUEL, s. of William (5), in. Anne Harrington 10 Nov. 1720, and had William, b. 10 Sept. 1721, d. 27 Ap. 1737; Esther, b. 15 Feb. 1722-3, m. Stephen Prentice; Samuel, bap. 31 Mar. 1728; Ann, bap. 8 Feb. 1729-30, m. Walter Dickson 3 May 1750; Rebecca, bap. 12 Mar. 1731-2, m. Jason Dunster 26 Oct. 1749; Hannah, b. 1733; John, b. 1735. SAMUEL the f. resided in Chs. after 1724, and d. 29 Sept. 1737, a. 37 ; on the division of his estate, 1744, all the before named children were living ; his wid. Anne had then m. Nathaniel Francis of Medford. 13. AMMI RUHAMAH, s. of William (5), grad. H. C. 1725, was ordained at North Yarmouth 8 Nov. 1730, dismissed in 1735 on account of Arminianism ; afterwards practised as a physician, was a captain, and died at Louisburg during the military expedition in 1746. His son Ammi Ruhamah grad. H. C. 1752, and was an eminent physician in Portsmouth, N. H., where he d. 1820. Charles Cutter, son of the last named, a sophomore in H. C., was drowned
: ,
here 22 Oct. 1779,

14.
a. 16.
JOHN,
s.
of
Ephraim
;
Rachel, b. 9
May
1724
John,
(6), m. Rachel Powers, and had, at Woburn, b. 9 Jan. 1726-7; Jonathan, b. 2 Mar. 1728-9;
CUTTER.
David,
b. 15
523
b. 4 Dec. 1730; Nathan, b. 13 Mar. 1733-4; and at Lex. Abigail, Aug. 1735; Benjamin, b. 29 Ap 1738, d. 24 Nov. 1740; Elizabeth, b. 24 1741 27 b. Jan. 1744-5. the f. JOHN was a May Benjamin, glazier, and resided in Woburn and in Lex., where he d. 20 Nov. 1747, a. 47; his w. Rachel m. Barnabas Davis. 15. GERSHOM, s. of Gershom (7), m. Mehetabel Abbott 11 June 1701, and had Thomas, b. 8 May 1702, d. 25 Oct. 1727; Gershom, b. 13 Jan. 1703-4; Hannah, b. 29 Dec. 1707, m. Thomas Eminons 17 Nov. George, b. 7 Oct. 1705 1726 Mehetabel, bap. 9 Oct. 1709, m. Ephraim Winship of Lex. 28 Aug. 1735; Lydia, bap. 29 Mar. 1713, m. John Whitmore 24 June 1735; Sarah, bap. 31 Oct. 1714; Richard, bap. 22 Jan. 1715-16; Nehemiah, bap. 14 Ap. 1717 Isabel, bap. 25 Jan. 1718-19, m. Jonathan Winship 1 Oct. 1741 Aaron, GERSHOM the f. was a bap. 24 June 1722; Thomas, bap. 17 Nov. 1728. farmer, resided in Menotomy, and d. 7 July 1753, a. 74 his w. Mehetabel d. 28 Mar. 1757, a. 78. 16. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (8), m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph Winship, 11 Dec. 1712; shed, before 16 June 1726, and he m. Elizabeth His children were Joseph, b. 19 Jan. 1713-14, d. 4 May 1714; Mary, b. 25 Nov. 1715, pub. Peter Fassett of Bedford 4 Mar. 1737; Nathaniel, b. 31 July 1731 Josiah, bap. 17 Mar. 1733-4. 17. EBENEZER, s. of Nathaniel (8), m. Sarah, dau. of Wm. Cutter, 19 July 1722. and had Sarah, bap. 14 July 1723, m. James Blanchard; Ebenezer, bap. 15 May 1726; Mary, bap. 25 Mar. 1728, m. Timothy Hall; Susanna, bap. 5 Ap. 1730, d. young; Daniel, bap. 29 Ap. 1733 Susanna, bap. 30 Nov. 1735;
; ; ; ;
Rebecca, bap. 5 Feb. 1737-8, pub. Thomas Hall, Jr., 17 Sept. 1756; Abigail. EBENEZER the f. resided for some time in Medf. where he d. 29 June 1750; his w. Sarah survived. 18. JOHN, s. of John (10), m. Lucy Adams 21 May 1745, but had no children. He resided in Menotomy, d. 12 Feb. 1797, a. 77, and devised his estate by will (which was disallowed), to w. Lucy, nephews John Frost and Samuel Kent, except $5,000 for a free school in Menotomy. His w. Lucy d. 17 Ap.
1810,
19.
a. 87.
s. of John (10), m. Kezia Peirce (pub. 3 July 1747), and had 29 May 1748; Ruhamah, b. 6 Mar. 1750; Kezia, b. 10 Oct. 1751; Hannah, b. 16 Jan. 1754; Richard, b. 25 Mar. 1756; Seth, bap. 16 Ap. 1758; Susanna, b. 14 Oct. 1760; Rhoda, b. 4 Dec. 1762; Lucy,b. 19 June 1765; John, b. 14 Ap. 1767. 20. AMMI, s. of John (10), m. Esther Peirce of Woburn (pub. 11 May 1751); she d. 8 Jan. 1772, a. 39, and he m. Abigail Holden of Charlestown 12 Nov. 1772; she d. in childbed (child still-born) 29 June 1773, a. 29 and he m. Hannah Holden, sister to his former wife, 27 Oct. 1774. As the dates show, he was less than eighteen years old at his first marriage; and from this time until a few months previous to his death, children were born to him ten by the first wife, and ten by the third; of which number, abundantly, seventeen survived him; and, though he died at the age of 62 years, he had then 46 living grandchildren. His children were Esther, b. 10 Nov. 1751, d. 18 Dec. 1751; John, b. 25 Oct. 1753; Ammi, b. 22 Oct. 1755; Lydia,b. 26 Oct. 1757, m. Jonathan Teel of Medford 7 Ap. 1776; James, b. 14 Dec. 1759; Benjamin,\). 1 Nov. 1761 Jonas, b. 13 Oct. 1763; Esther Ruhamah, b. 27 Sept. 1765, m. Ebenezer Hall 26 Mar. 1786; Ephraim, b. 31 Oct. 1767; Frances, b. 30 Dec. 1769, m. Walter Russell 26 June 1788; Joshua, b. 1 Dec. 1774, d, 7 Dec. 1776; Thomas, b. 1 Nov. 1776, d. 25 Nov. 1795; Joshua, b. 20 Mar. 1779; 24 Abigail, b. 25 Mar. 1781; Hannah, b. 24 Oct. 1783, d. young; Rebecca, b. May 17.86; Simon, b. 17 Ap. 1788; Hannah, b. 29 July 1790; Artemas, b. 16 Aug. 1792; Abiel, b. 29 Aug. 1794. AMMI the f. d. 20 Ap. 1795, a. 62; his w. Hannah d. 23 Aug. 1801, a. 48. He owned the mill which had long been in the Cutter family, and transmitted it to his posterity. 21. JONATHAN, s. of William (11), m. Anne Jennings 23 Nov. 1749, and had William, b. 15 Feb. 1751; Anne, b. 28 Mar. 1753, d. 29 Oct. 1754; Anne, b. 6 Ap. 1755; Rebecca, b. 4 Oct. 1757; Mary, b. 7 May 1760, in. Benj. Rich-
RICHARD,
b.
Thomas,
524
CUTTER.
ardson 16 Feb. 1783; Jonathan, b. 19 Oct. 1762; Mehetabel, b. 25 Dec. 1765, d. 3 Mar. 1809; Solomon, b. 23 Ap. 1769. JONATHAN the f. d. 24 Ap. 1770, a. 44; his w. Anne d. 29 Ap. 1797, a. 67. 22. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (12), m. Susanna Francis of Medf. 28 Ap. 1757, and had Samuel, bap. 26 Feb. 1758; William, bap. 22 July 1759; Susanna, bap. 15 May 1761, m. Thomas Whittemore 16 Nov. 1783; Francis, b. 17 Ap. 1763; Ezekiel, b. 24 Dec. 1764; Ebenezer,b. 31 Dec. 1766 Abigail, b. 19 Jan. 1769, m. Samuel Cutter 21 Jan. 1787; Anne, b. 25 June 1771, m. William Whittemore, Jr., 2 Feb. 1796; Adam, b. 13 Ap. 1773; Edward, b. 9 June 1775, d. 2 Aug. 1778; Washington, b. 18 June, 1777, m. Elizabeth Robbins 16 Mar. 1800; she prob. d. 10 July 1817, a. 39. SAMUEL the f. d. 7 Ap. 1791; his w. Susanna d. 19 Dec. 1817, a. 86. 23. GERSHOM, s. of Gershom (15), m. Anna Fillebrown 13 Feb. 1728-9, and had Thomas, b. 9 Jan. 1729-30; Anna, b. 13 Nov. 1731, m. Thomas Whittemore 1 Feb. 1753; Gershom, b. 19 Feb. 1733-4; James, b. 31 Jan. 1735-6, d. 16 July 1738; John, b. 26 Sept. 1737; Mehetabel, b. 6 Feb. 1739-40, d. 29 Nov. 1750; James, b. 28 Mar. 1742; Sarah, b. 27 Sept. 1744, m. Joshua Swan 20 July 1762, d. before 15 Oct. 1777, leaving children; Elizabeth, b. 20 Jan. 1746-7, d. 24 Nov. 1750; Stephen, b. 26 Ap. 1750; Amos, b. 7 Aug. 1752, d. 21 Dec. 1753. GERSHOM the f. d. of jaundice 10 Dec. 1777, a. 74; his w. Anna and six children survived. 24. GEORGE, s. of Gershom (15), m. Jane Butterfield 20 July 1729, and had Hannah, bap. 1 Mar. 1729-30, d. young; Jane, bap. 17 Jan. 1731-2; Hannah, bap. 20 July 1740; Isabel, b. 18 June George, bap. 21 Jan. 1732-3 Phebe, b. 12 Mar. 1746-7; 1742; Jonathan, b. 30 Aug. 1744, d. 19 Aug. 1747 Jonathan, b. 6 Oct. 1749, d. 11 Sept. 1751. Jane, wife of George Cutter, d. 7
; ; ;
May
25.
1776, a. 69.
AAROX,
b.
s.
of
Gershom
(15),
m. Mary Moore
Ap.
1745, and
had
Aaron,
(apparently before the marriage) 15 Mar. 1744-5; Mary, b. 22 Oct. 1746, d. (felo de se) 11 May 1809, a. about 63; Thomas, b. 17 May 1749, d. (drowned) 21 Oct. 1751 Lydia, b. 1 Feb. 1750-51, m. John Bowers 21 Jan. 1773; Thomas, b. 21 Sept. 1753; Charles, b. 4 Oct. 1757; Isaac, b. 17 July 1760, m. Sarah Bucknam 23 July 1784, and d. 14 Sept. 1819, a. 59; Amos, b. 26 May 1762, d. 27 Sept. 1818, a. 56; Benjamin, b. 10 Ap. 1766, d. 26 Sept. 1812, a. 46, and his wid. Anna d. Mar. 1842, a. 76; Robert, b. 25 June 1768. AARON the f. was a currier, and d. 9 July 1768, a. 47; his w. Mary d. 27
;
Sept. 1793.
26. DANIEL, s. of Ebenezer (17), m. Patience Hall 18 Nov. 1756, at which time he resided in Medf. They may have been the parents of Jacob, b. 23 May 1774, and Isaac, b. 10 Feb. 1777, d. 28 June 1778, in Menotomy Parish. 27. RICHARD, s. of Richard (19), m. Miriam Brown 25 May 1781, and had Hannah, b. 29 Dec. 1782; Elizabeth Meriam, b. 30 Sept. 1784; Mary, b. 25 Dec. 1786, m. Joseph Bird of Watertown Charles, b. 10 Jan. 1788; Leonard, b. 11 Mar. 1791, and perhaps others. 28. JOHN, s. of Ammi (20), m. Lucy Adams 4 Feb. 1777, and d. 7 June 1811, a. 58. % 29. AMMI, s. of Ammi (20), m. Esther Winship 6 Feb. 1776, and had Ammi, b. 7 Sept. 1777 Edward, b. 22 Mar. 1780; James, b. 6 Oct. 1782; Esther,}). 25 Dec. 1784, d. young; Esther, b. 2 Nov. 1786; Charlotte, b. 11 Oct. 1789; Amos (d. young) and Hannah, twins, b. 29 Aug. 1792; Amos, b. 14 Aug. 1794. 30. JAMES, s. of Ammi (20), m. Anna 11 Aug. 1785. Harrington Russell She d. 14 Dec. 1806, a. 41, and he m. Mehetabel Cutter, who d. 1 Mar. 1809, a. 43. His children were James, bap. 28 Sept. 1788; Seth Russell, ibap. 13 June 1790, d. 15 Feb. 1796; Benjamin, bap. 19 Feb. 1792, d. 19 Dec. 1819; Cyrus, bap. 23 Feb. 1794; Anna, bap. 7 Feb. 1796; Mahala, bap. 26 Nov. 1797; Seth Russell, bap. 16 Feb. 1800; Either Peirce, bap. 13 Dec. 1801. JAMES the f. d. 15 Dec. 1823, a, 64. 31. BENJAMIN, s. of Ammi (20), m. Elizabeth Wyeth 6 Mar. 1785, and d. 7 Mar. 1824; his w. d. 15 Ap. 1842. No children.
; ;
CUTTER.
32.
b. 24
525
JONAS, s. of Ammi (20), in. Lydia Frost 19 Oct. 1786, and had Lydia, Ap. 1787, m. Nehemiah Mason 16 Oct. 1803; Esther Peirce, b. 15 Ap. 1789, m. Jonas Gleason 31 Oct. 1805; Jonas, bap. 21 Aug. 1791, d. -_>2 Oct. 1795; Pamela, b. 25 Feb. 1794; Ephraim Frost, bap. 1 Jan. 1797; Louisa, b. 9 Jan. 1800, d. 14 Jan. 1800; Jonas, b. 17 Aug. 1801, d. 3 Mar. 1840; Albert, b. 4 Jan. 1805; and perhaps others. JONAS the f. d. 29 July 1844; his w. Lydia d. 7 Dec. 1858, a. 90. 33. EPHRAIM, s. of Ammi (20), m. Deborah Locke 13 Mar. 1791, and had Deborah, b. 18 June 1791, d. 7 Sept. 1802; Fanny, b 25 July 1792, d. 26 Sept. 1795; Anna, b. 7 Sept. 1793, m. Jona. Benjamin 8 Sept. 1816, and Peter Tufts of Camb. 17 May 1825; Ephraim, b. 2 Dec. 1794, d. 4 Ap. 1826; Esther Peirce, b. 28 Ap. 1796, d. 29 June 1798; Ammi, b. 5 Aug. 1797 Sam;
uel Locke, bap. 19 Jan. 1800, d. 1 Sept. 1802; Benjamin, bap. 13 Sept. 1801, d. 8 Sept. 1802; Benjamin, bap. 12 June 1803, a physician in Wob., d. 9 Mar. 1864; Helen, bap. 2 Sept. 1804; Samuel Locke, bap. 23 Nov. 1806, d. in
Cambridgeport 20 June 1871 Eliza Ann, bap. 9 Ap. 1809; Joseph, bap. 25 Nov. 1810; d. 23 Aug. 1811. EPHRAIM the f. was elected Deac. of the church in West Camb. about 1819, and d. 31 Mar. 1841, a. 75; his w. Deborah d. 29 Jan. 1823, a. 50. 34. WILLIAM, s. of Jonathan (21), m. Mary Blackman 6 Nov. 1774, and d. 11 June 1824, a. 74; his w. Mary d. 9 Mar. 1836, a 80. A granite monument was erected by the town of West Camb. to commemorate their donation of the " School Fund." 35. JONATHAN, s. of Jonathan (21), m. Lydia Trask of Lex. 15 Sept. 1788, ami had a child, b. 28 Mar. 1789, d. 2 Ap. 1789 Jonathan Trash, bap. 31 July 1791; William, bap. 6 Oct. 1793; David Cummings, bap. 21 June 1795; Lydia, bap. 12 May 1798 Bitty, bap. 15 Feb. 1801. 36. SOLOMON, s. of Jonathan (21), m. Sarah Wyman of Wob. 30 June 1793, and removed from the town. 37. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (22), m. Rebecca Hill 29 Sept. 1780, and had Samuel, bap. 25 Mar. 1781; Edward, b. 3 Jan. 1783; Rebecca, b. 20 Jan. 1786; Sukey Francis, bap. 24 May 1789; Fitch, bap. 17 Ap. 1791; Sophia, bap. 2 Feb. 1794; Ebenezer, b. 12 Ap. 1796, d. 22 Ap. 1796; Anna, b. and d. 23 May 1799; Ebenezer Francis, b. 13 Mar. 1801. 38. WILLIAM, s. of Samuel (22), m. Hannah, dau. of Samuel Cutter, 29
;
;
Ap. 1783, and Lydia, widow of Jonathan Cutter, 9 Nov. 1818. He d. at West Camb. 28 Nov. 1846. 39. FKANCIS, s. of Samuel (22), m. Susanna Whittemore 29 Dec. 1782, and had a child, b. and d. 28 Ap. 1783; Francis (over 21 years old, and non compos, in 1807); Eliot and Sukey, both bap. 3 Jan. 1790; and perhaps others. FRANCIS the f. d. (felo de se) 6 Mar. 1807, a. 44; his w. Susanna d. 24 Sept.
1805,
40.
a.
42.
EBENEZER, s. of Samuel (22), m. Abigail Brown Bowman 6 Dec. and Anna Frost 14 Nov. 1781. He d. 10 Dec. 1824. 41. THOMAS, s. of Gershom (23), m. Hannah Whittemore 19 July
1789, 1757,
and had Hannah, bap. 10 Dec. 1758, d. unm. 27 July 1783; Mehetabel, b. 23 June 1760, d. 1 May 177J; Elizabeth, b. 14 July 1762; Thomas, b. 26 June 10 Ap. 1764; James, b. 16 Mar. 1766; Marshall, b. 7 Mar. 1768; Eunice, b. d. 1770; Abijah, b. 11 July 1772, d. 16 Oct. 1772; Abijah, b. 27 Aug. 1773, 13 Nov. 1773. THOMAS the f. d. 17 May 1782, a. 52. 42. GERSHOM, s. of Gershom (23), m. Rebecca Crosby 15 Mar. 1757, and had Gershom, b. 6 Nov. 1757, a very skilful inventor and machinist; he d. b. 15 Feb. 1763; (felodese) 20 Aug. 1799; Rebecca, b. 1 Aug. 1760; Amos, Hannah, b. 17 Mar. 1768; Rhoda, b. 12 July 1770; Aaron, b. 4 June 1772; Susanna, b. 27 Oct. 1774, m. John Adams, Jr., 5 Ap. 1798; Sarah, b. 20 May GERSHOM the f. d. 20 Ap. 1807; his 1778, m. Nathan Locke 14 Nov. 1797. w. Rebecca d. 12 Dec. 1817, a. 80. 43. JOHN, s. of Gershom (23), m. Rebecca Hill 24 Jan. 1765, and had Reb. 16 Aug. becca, b. 26 July 1765, m. William Cutter 21 June 1789; Anna, 25 Mar. 1767; John, b. 26 July 1770; Zechariah, b. 8 Feb. 1773; Elizabeth, b. 1775; and perhaps others.
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44.
CUTTER
STEPHEN,
s.
DANA.
Mary Meads
a. 66.
of
Gershom
(23), m.
and
d.
without children 13 Ap. 1816,
of Medf. 8 Oct. 1776, His w. Mary d. 18 Aug. 1836,
a. 83.
45. GEORGE, s. of George (24), m. Sarah Bobbins 21 Oct. 1 756, and had Jonathan, b. 18 June 1757, m. Mary Locke 20 Nov. 1777; Joseph, bap. 22 Ap. 1759; Sarah, bap. 2 Aug. 1761. 46. AARON, s. of Aaron (25), m. Abigail Bowman 17 Dec. 1772, and had Aaron, b. 28 Ap. 1774. AARON the f. was a tanner, and d. about 1776. His w. Abigail survived, and m. Thomas Goodwin of Chs. 24 Dec. 1776. 47. THOMAS, s. of Aaron (25), m. Elizabeth Brown 15 Oct. 1780, and had Thomas, b. 5 Oct. 1781, d. 23 May 1818; Aaron, b. 14 Sept. 1783, d. 22 June 1786; Lewis, b. 20 Nov. 1785; Oliver, b. 21 June 1787; Sounders, b. 13 Mar. 1789; Betsey, b. 21 Jan. 1791. 48. CHARLES, s. of Aaron (25), m. Sarah Bobbins 9 Nov. 1784, and d. 12 Dec. 1840, a. 83. His w. Sarah d. 9 Feb. 1840, a. 84. 49. AARON, s. of Gershom (42), m. Polly Putnam of Medford 23 Aug. 1796, and had Rhoda, b. 31 Mar. 1797; Maria, b. 22 Ap. 1798; Gershom, b. 12 Mar. 1800; Aaron Burr, b. 10 Dec. 1801; Jefferson, b. 22 Sept. 1803. AARON the f. d. 25 Dec. 1822, a. 50. 50. NEHEMIAH, s. of Gershorn (15), m. Martha Bowman 17 July 1739, and had Samuel, bap. 20 July 1740; Martha, b. 1 Nov. 1742, m. Henry Luckis 12 Feb. 1767; Elizabeth, b. 14 Feb. 1743-4; Joseph, b. 21 Sept, 1745, d. 23 Dec. 1749; William, b. 14 Ap. 1748, d. 9 Oct. 1788; Sarah, b 14 Feb. 1 749-50, m. James Foster of Boston 26 Nov. 1773; Joseph, b. 23 Dec. 1751; Nehemiah, b. 3 June 1753; Mehetabel, b. 28 Ap. 1755, pub. Thomas Hopkins of Boston 19 Dec. 1778; Andreic, b. 9 Feb. 1757, m. Rebecca Cutter 15 Nov. 1779. NEHEMIAH the f. d. 12 Sept. 1798, a. 81; his w. Martha d. 1 July 1790, a. 75. 51. SAMUEL, s. of Nehemiah (50), m. Hannah Hartwell of Charlestown 1 Dec. 1760, and had Samuel, b. 1 Dec. 1760 (on the day of marriage), m. Abigail Cutter 21 Jan. 1787; Hannah, b. 18 July 1763; Elizabeth (twin with Hannah), b. 18 July 1763; Mary Bowman, b. 13 Mar. 1766. SAMUEL the f. d. 8 April 1791. 52. NEHEMIAH, s. of Nehemiah (50), m. Deborah Hill 30 Oct. 1781, and had Nehemiah, b. 26 Mar. 1782, m. Hannah Packard 24 Nov. 1808, d. 11 Dec. 1864; Deborah, b. 19 Oct. 1783, d. unm. 14 May 1842; Sarah, bap. 7 Jan. 1786, m. William Dickson, Jr., 3 Feb. 1819, d. 5 Oct. 1855; Elijah, bnp. 11 May 1788; Asa, bap. 31 Jan. 1790, m. Susan Rand 9 Jan. 1820, d. 2 Mar. 1866; Rebecca, bap. 20 May 1792, m. Benjamin Rand 3 Feb. 1817, d. 8 Aug. 1873; Ezra, bap. 23 Mar. 1794; Leander, bap. 13 Dec. 1795; Alpheus, bap. 8 April 1798; Maria, bap. 26 Jan. 1800. NEHEMIAH the f. d. 3 May 1828; his w. Deborah d. 28 May 1824, a. 68. The Cutter family has resided principally in Menotomy, now Arlington, and in the adjoining sections of Charlestown (or Somerville) and Medford. So numerous are its branches, and such a similarity of names occurs in the families, that it is very possible some mistakes may be found in the preceding " A arrangement. Fora very full genealogy, see History of the Cutter Family of New England," compiled by Dr. Benjamin Cutter, and revised with large additions by his son William Richard Cutter, 1871. DANA, RICHARD (otherwise written Danie, and Dany), was an early inHe m. Ann Bullard, habitant, and resided on the south side of the River. and had John, b. 15 Ap. 1649, d. 12 Oct. 1649; Hannah, b. 8 July 1651, m. Samuel Oldham 5 Jan. 1670-71; Samuel, b. 13 Oct. 1653, d. 8 Nov. 1653; Jacob, b. 2 Feb. 1654; Joseph, b. 21 May 1654; Abiah, b. 21 May 1655; d. 8 Dec. 1668; Benjamin, b. 20 Feb. 1661-2; Elizabeth, b. 20 Feb. 1662-3, m. Danl. Woodward; Daniel, b. 20 Mar. 1663-4; Deliverance, b. 5 May 1667, m. Saml. Such are the Hides, d. 1741; Sarah, b. 1 Jan. 1669-70, d. 11 Jan. 1669-70. dates in the record but some of them are manifestly wrong. RICHARD the f. was killed bv a fall from his scaffold, 2 Ap. 1690 his w. Ann d. prob. 15 July
;
;
1711.
2.
JACOB,
s.
of
Richard
(1),
by w. Patience, had Jacob,
b.
12 Nov. 1679;
DANA.
527
Hannah, b. 25 Nov. 1685, m. Jonathan Hides, Jr., of Newton 4 April 1706; Experience, b. 1 Nov. 1687; Samuel, b. 7 Sept. 1694; Abigail, bap. 7 Feb. 1696-7, m. Samuel Griffin 9 Jan. 1716-17; Jacoli, b. 13 Aug. 1699. JACOB the f. d. 24 Dec. 1698; his w. Patience prob. d. in 1711, when administration
on her estate was granted. 3. JOSEPH, s. of Richard (1), was living in 1690, when he received a share of his father's estate. He was probably the same who d. at Concord, 1699 or 1 700, leaving wife Mary. 4. BENJAMIN, s. of Richard (1), m. Mary Buckmaster, or Buckminster, 24 May 1688, and had Benjamin, b. 28 Ap. 1689; Isaac, bap. 10 Oct. 1697; Joseph, b. 21 Feb. 1699-1700; John, b. 16 Aug. 1702, d. 13 Sept. 1702; William, b. 11 Oct. 1703; Anne, b. 14 May 1705, m. Matthew Davis of Pomfret 17 Nov. 1726; Sarah, b. 14 May 1705, m. Gamaliel Rogers 14 Ap. 1726; d. 21 Oct. 1712, and perhaps Jedediah, b. 11 Feb. 1707-8; Mary, b. others. BENJAMIN the f. resided on the south side of the river, and d. 13 Aug. 1738, a. 78; his w. Mary m. Joshua Fuller 19 July 1742, the groom, according to Dr. Appleton's record, being in the 87th year of his age, and the
,
bride in her 75th; she prob. d. 13 Feb. 1754. 5. DANIEL, s. of Richard (1), m. Naomi Croswell of Chs. and had Thomas, named in his father's will; Caleb, bap. 13 June 1697; Richard, b. 26 June
1700; Naomi, b. 7 Aug. 1702, m. Win. Upham of Pomfret 21 June 1722, and prob. d. before 1 742, leaving son William; Timothy, b. 16 Ap. 1705, d. 3 May 1705; Priscilla, b. 10 Mar. 1705-6, m. Joseph Hill 24 Aug. 1727, and Capt. Samuel Gookin 15 May 1740; she d. prob. in April 1785; Ebenezer, b. 12 Dec. 1711 Hepzibah, bap. 24 Oct. 1714, m. Samuel Hastings 8 May 1735; a son Daniel d. 5 Dec. 1713. DANIEL the f. d. 10 Oct. 1749, a. 8*5; his w. Naomi d. 24 Feb. 1750, aged 81. C. SAMUEL, s. of Jacob she d. 1 June 1718, and he (2), m. Abigail m. Susanna He had Nathaniel, b. 1 Feb. 1716-17; Susanna, b. 10 Oct.
;
; .
" went to 7. JACOB, Pomfret, prob. s. of Jacob (2), perhaps the same who Conn., and was ancestor to the late Rev. Joseph Dana, D. D., two of whose Rev. Daniel Dana, a graduate and president of D. C., and Rev. Samuel sons,
1720; and perhaps others.
Dana, were ministers of Newburyport and Marblehead." Farmer. 8. BENJAMIN, s. of Benjamin (4), m. Anna, dau. of John Francis of Medf. and had John, b. 10 July 1725; Anna, b. 25 Nov. 1726, d. 20 Ap. 1727; Anna, b. 5 Mar. 1727-8, m. John Kenrick 2 Mar. 1748-9; Benjamin, b. 10 Feb. 1729-30, d. young; Mary; Benjamin, b. 7 June 1734; Francis, b. 6 Feb. 1737; Stephen, b. 1740 (in his 12th year, 16 Mar. 1752, when his guardian was apBENJAMIN the f. was a captain, and d. 5 June 1751, a. 62; his w. pointed).
s. of Benjamin (4), m. Mary Green of Maiden, pub. 20 Feb. 1735-6, and had Jonathan, b. 22 Mar. 1736-7; Samuel, b. 14 Jan. 1738-9; Benjamin, b. 6 Ap. 1741; Sarah, b. 16 Ap. 1743, m. Moses Robbins 31 Oct. 1765; William, b. 29 Sept. 1745; Mary, b. 29 Feb. 1747-8; Lucy, b. 2 Ap. 1750; Josiah, b. 19 Sept. 1752; Ezra, b. 29 Sept. 1755. WILLIAM the f. d. 17 May 1770, a. 67; his w. Mary d. 5 Mar. 1763, a 44. All the children sur-
Anna survived. 9. WILLIAM,
vived.
22 10. THOMAS, s. of Daniel (5), m. Mary, dau. of Capt. Josiah Parker, Jan. 1718-9; and had Mary, b. 27 Nov. 1719, d. unm. 17 Dec. 1740; Susanna, b. 4 Aug. 1721; Thomas, b. 8 Aug. 1723; Naomi, b. 28 Aug. 1725, d. young; Daniel,b. 22 Oct. 1726; Naomi, bap. 12 Jan. 1728-9, m. Ebenezer Frost, Jr., 21 Ap. 174X; Elizabeth, b. 7 Feb. 1730-1, prob. m. Capt. William Angler 18 Dec. 1760; Ann, b. 8 June 1733, pub. David Wyman, Woburn, 3 Nov. 1752; Richard, b. 6 Aug. 1735; Sarah, b. 2 Sept. 1737, in. George Lamb of Springthe f. field 1 Dec. 1757; Silence, b. 5 Oct. 1739, prob. d. young. THOMAS d. 1752; his w. Mary d. 10 Oct. 1739. 11. CALEB, s. of Daniel (5), m. Phebe Chandler of Andovcr, and had Caleb, b. 20 Mar. 1726-7, d. 6 Aug. 1727; Phebe, b. 12 July 1729, m. Henry Coolidge 12 Sept. 1747; Priscilla, b. 24 Aug. 1731; Caleb, bap. 13 Aug. 1733;
528
James, bap. 18
1769.
DANA.
CALEB
1735; George, bap. 10 Oct. 1742, and was living in Stow the f. was Justice of the Peace, and d. 28 April 1769; his w. Phebe d. in Dec. 1772. 12. RICHARD, s. of Daniel (5), in. Lydia, dau. of Thomas Trowbridge, 31 May 1737, and had Lydia, b. at Marblehead 14 April 1738, d. 24 Sept. 1744; at Charlestown, Edmund, b. 15 Nov. 1739; Henry, b. 12 Aug. 1741, d. 14 Mar. 1761; Francis, b. 13 June 1743; Mary, b. 2 Mar. 1744-5, d. 12 Dec. 1747; Robert, b. 13 April 1747, d. 10 July 1748; and at Boston, Anne, b. 14 July 1749, d. 4 Aug. 1749; Mary, b. 17 Feb. 1750-51, d. 16 Aug. 1752; Lydia, RICHARD b. 26 Jan. 1755, in. John Hastings 7 Dec. 1783, and d. 2 May 1808. the f. grad. H. C. 1718, was Counsellor and Barrister at Law, resided several years in Charlestown and Boston, a zealous patriot during the Revolutionary period, but d. 17 May 1772, before the commencement of hostilities; his w.
May
Lydia
13.
d. at Newton 7 April 1776, a. 65. JOHN, s. of Benjamin (8), m. Abigail Smith (pub.
May
1748), and
had
Mr. Dana was a carpenter, but much engaged in public life. He was Colonel of Militia; Justice of the Peace; Selectman seven years, between 1776 and 1794; Representative from Camb. four years, from 1778 to 1792, and from Brighton, 1806, 1808. His epitaph well describes him as "a prudent, pleasant friend, the father, legislator, judge, and peace-maker of Brighton, extensively useful, and greatly beloved by all who knew him." 15. SAMUEL, s. of William (9), grad. H. C. 1755; was settled in the ministry at Groton 3 June 1761, dismissed, on account of his supposed hostility to the Revolution, May 1775, and not many years afterwards removed to AmHe d. 2 Ap. herst, N. H., and was there a lawyer and Judge of Probate. 1798, a. 59, and was buried with Masonic honors. The address at his funeral was delivered by Hon. Timothy Bigelow, of Groton. Mr. Dana m. Anna Kendrick, and had at Groton, Luther, b. 13 Aug. 1763; Amelia, b. 14 Ap. 1765; Samuel, b. 26 June 1767, Judge of Court of Common Pleas, in Middlesex; Thesta, b. 14 Aug. 1769; Anna, b. 16 June 1771; and others born in New Hampshire. 16. BENJAMIN, s. of William (9), was prob. the same who, by w. Lucy, had Jonathan, bap. 13 Nov. 1785. 17. JOSIAH, s. of William (9), m. Rachel Leverett 31 Oct. 1782, and had Sarah, bap. 7 Mar. 1784; Josiah, bap. 25 Feb. 1787.
18. DANIEL, s. of Thomas (10), in. Experience Hunting of Dedham 16 she d. 25 Jan. 1766, and he m. wid. Elizabeth Bowen 22 May Jan. 1745-6 His cliil. were Mary, b. 24 June 1748; Samuel, b. 29 Nov. 1749; Abi1766. Elizagail, b. 15 Oct. 1752; Daniel, b. 25 Nov. 1754; Joseph, b. 2 Oct. 1756 DANIEL the f. resided in beth, b. 15 Mar. 1767; Experience, b. 14 Dec. 1768. Brookline and Warwick; he d. 15 Nov. 1787; his w. Elizabeth d. in 1779. See Dana Family, p. 52. 19. RICHARD, s. of Thomas (10), by w. Mary, had Edward, b. 18 May 1756. 20. CALEB, s. of Caleb (11), m. Sarah Ballard 21 May 1756, and had Charles; Orlando, bap. 23 Sept. 1760; Henry, bap. 19 Sept. 1762; Caleb; James. CALEB the f. d. Ap. 1769; his w. Sarah survived. 21. JAMES, s. of Caleb (11), grad. H. C. 1753 (D. D., Edinb. 1768), settled in the ministry at Wallingford, Conn., 1758; installed at New Haven 29 Ap. 1789; dismissed Dec. 1805, d. Aug. 1812, a. 77. His s. Hon. Samuel Whittlesey Dana, was several years Senator in Congress. 22. GEORGE, s. of Caleb (11), m. Margaret Clark of Waltham (pub. 28 Jan. 1764); she d. 3 Oct. 1770, and he m. his chil. were Sarah, bap. 23 Sept. 1770; Edmund, bap. 20 Dec. 1772; and probably others. 23. EDMUND, s. of Richard (12), grad. H. C. 1759; went to England, and was Rector of Wroxeter, Co. of Salop; m. Helen, dau. of Lord Kinniard, and niece of Sir William Pulteney; d. 7 May 1823, a. 84. His s. George Kinniard Dana, was a Brigadier-general in the British Army.
;
;
1749; Lydia, b. 7 Sept. 1750; Benjamin, b. 24 Feb. Abigail, b. 8 1751-2; Elizabeth, bap. 18 Oct. 1754; John, b. 26 May 1756, and others. 14. STEPHEN, s. of Benjamin (8), m. Eleanor Brown 16 Sept. 1762, and d. 15 Oct. 1822, a. 82; his w. d. 19 Nov. 1837, a. 91. They left no posterity.
May
DANA
D ANFORTH.
529
24. FRANCIS, s. of Richard (12), H. C. 1762, LL.D. 1792, m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Ellery of Newport, R. I., 5 Aug. 1773, and had Edmund Trowbridge, b. 13 June 1774, d. 12 Aug. 1776; Francis, b. 14 May 1777; Edmund Trowbridge, b. 26 Sept. 1779, Justice of the Peace, a gentleman of leisure, founded the Dana Library by a generous donation, and d. unm. 6 May 1859; Martha Remington, b. 29 Sept. 1784, m. Washington Allston, and d. s. p. 24 Dec. 1862; Richard Henry, b. 15 Nov. 1787; Elizabeth Ellery, b. 6 Sept. 1789, d. unm. 20 Nov. 1874; Sarah-Ann, b. 1 Sept. 1791, d. unm. 6 Feb. 1866. FRANCIS the f. was a large landholder, and resided on the northwesterly corner of Main and Dana streets. He was a lawyer; Delegate to the Continental Congress, 1778, 1783, 1784, 1786, 1787; Elector of President, 1789; Ambassador to Russia: Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Mass. and d. 25 Ap. 1811 his w. Elizabeth d. 31 Aug. 1807, a. 56. 25. HENRY, s. of Caleb (20), m. Sally Wilson 31 Aug. 1786, and had Sarah, bap. 27 May 1787; Charles, bap. 26 Ap. 1789; Henry Ballard, bap. 11 Sept. 1791; Mary, bap. 30 Mar. 1794; Martha, bap. 23 July 1797; Orlando Nelson, bap. 21 Dec. 1800; James, bap. 21 Oct. 1804. HENRY the f. d. 20
; ;
Feb. 1817, a. 53.

26. CALEB, s. of Caleb (20), by w. Elizabeth, had Caleb ; Elizabeth; Sarah Weld, all bap. 3 Aug. 1794; Francis, bap. 3 May 1795; Harriet, bap. 5 Mar. 1797; Thomas Weld, bap. 19 May 1799. CALEB the f. was a victualler, and d. prob. 1801, in which year administration was granted to his w. Elizabeth. 27. JAMES, s. of Caleb (20), m. Catherine Graton 2 Sept. 1790, and had
Samuel Heath,bap. 1 June 1794. 28. FRANCIS, s. of Francis (24), m. Sophia, dau. of President Joseph Willard, 4 Aug. 1802, and had Sophia Willard, b. 6 July 1803, m. Rev. George Ripley 22 Aug. 1827; Mary Elizabeth, b. 6 May 1805; Francis, b. 2 Dec. 1806; H. C. 1827, physician, d. I July 1872; Joseph Willard, b. 17 Sept. 1808, H. C. 1828, d. at Donaldsonville, La., 5 Dec. 1830. FRANCIS the f. d. in Boston 28 Dec. 1853; his w. Sophia.d. 27 Feb. 1840, a. 67. 29. RICHARD HENRY, s. of Francis (24), m. Ruth Charlotte Smith of Providence 11 May 1813, and had Ruth Charlotte, b. 28 Feb. 1814; Richard Henry, b. 1 Aug. 1815; Edmund Trowbridge, b. 28 Aug. 1818, grad. Ver. Uni. 1838, lawyer, d. 18 May 1869; Susan, b. 3 June 1820, d. 27 Ap. 1822. RICHARD HENRY the f. grad. H. C. 1808, LL.D. at W. C. 1867, devoted himself to literature and enjoys an honored old age in 1877; his w. Ruth Charlotte d. 9
Feb. 1822,
30.
a.
34.
s.
RICHARD HENRY,
of Richard
Henry
(29), m.
Mary Watson
of Hart-
ford 25 Aug. 1841, and had Sarah Watson, b. 12 June 1842; Ruth Charlotte, b. 30 June 1844; Elizabeth Ellery, b. 3 Ap. 1846; Mary Rosamond, b. 1 Sept. 1848; Richard Henry, b. 3 Jan. 1851, H. C. 1874; Angela Henrietta Channing, b. 22 Feb. 1857. RICHARD HENRY the f. grad. H. C. 1837, LL.D. 1866, an eminent lawyer, has resided alternately in Cambridge and Boston.
31. JAMES FREEMAN, s. of Luther and grandson of Samuel (15), b. at Amherst, N. H., 23 Sept. 1793, H. C. 1813, M. D. 1817, Professor of Chemhe d. in Ap. 1827. He istry in Dartmouth College and at New York, where m. Matilda, dau. of President Webber, 18 Jan. 1818, and had one child, who d. young. 32. JOSEPH, supposed to be a descendant of Richard (1), through Daniel and had (5), Thomas (10), and Daniel (18), b. 2 Oct. 1756, m. Joanna Loud, Mary, b. 17 July 1791, d. 12 Ap. 1837; Experience, b. about 1793, m. Jonathan Hyde, and d. 22 May 1849, a. 55; Elizabeth, b. 14 May 1795, d. 4 Oct. 1797; Joseph, b. 11 Feb. 1799, d. 7 June 1847; Elizabeth, b. 1801, d. unm. 17 Dec. 1863, a. 62; Joan Frances, b. 27 May 1810, d. 27 Sept. 1829; and perwho was b. 26 haps others. JOSEPH the f. d. 13 Feb. 1827, and his w. Joanna, Mar. 1766, d. 12 Dec. 1847. DANFORTH, NICHOLAS, was here in 1635, and resided on the northerly side He was Selectof Bow Street, near its intersection with Mt. Auburn Street. man 1635-1637, Deputy or Representative 1636, 1637, and d. in April 1638. His w. Elizabeth d. in England in 1629. Their children, all born in England,
34
530
were Elizabeth,
DANFORTH.
;
b. 1619, m. Andrew Belcher, and d. 26 Oct. 1680, a. 61 Thomas, 1622; Anna, b. prob. 1624, m. Matthew Bridge, and d. 2 Dec. 1704; Samuel, b. 1626; Jonathan, b. 29 Feb. 1627-8. 2. THOMAS, s. of Nicholas (1), m. Mary, dau. of Henry Withington (Ruling Elder) of Dorchester, 23 Feb. 1643-4, and had Sarah, b. 16 Ap. 1645, d. 29 Oct. 1645; Sarah, b. 11 Nov. 1646, m. Rev. Joseph Whiting of Lynn, and afterwards of Southampton, L. I., and d. before 1699; Mary, b. 20 Ap. 1649, d. 29 Ap. 1649; Mary, b. 28 July 1650, m. Solomon Phipps of Chs. July 1669, and Maj. Thomas Brown of Sudbury, 1 Mar. 1703-4, and was living as his widow in 1725; Samuel, b. 5 Oct. 1652, grad. H. C. 1671, and d. unm. in England 22 Dec. 1676, of small-pox; Thomas, b. 16 Dec. 1654, d. young; Jonathan, b. 27 Feb. 1656-7, d. 20 Ap. 1657; Jonathan, b. 10 Feb. 1658-9, grad. H. C. 1679, d. unm. of consumption, 13 Nov. 1682; Joseph, b. 18 Sept. 1661, d. 2 Oct. 1663; Benjamin, b. 20 May 1663, d. 23 Aug. 1663; Elizabeth, b. 17 Feb. 1664-5, m. Francis Foxcvoft, 3 Oct. 1682, and d. 4 July 1721; THOMAS the f. d. 5 Nov. 1699, Bethia, b. 21 June 1667, d. 21 Sept. 1668. Mr. Danforth inherited the homestead, his w. Mary d. 26 Mar. 1697. a. 77 which he sold in 1652, and removed to the northerly side of Kirkland Street near Oxford Street, where a number of elm trees recently marked the location of his house. Connected with his house he had about 120 acres of land, including nearly the whole lying between the estates of the late Dr. Holmes and Nathaniel Jarvis, the Charlestown or Somerville line, Kirkland Street, and Holmes Place together with about the same quantity on the southerly side of Kirkland Street, extending across Cambridge Street, from the junction of Cambridge Street and Ellsworth Avenue nearly to Gore Hall, including the This will readily northeasterly portion of the College grounds, the Delta, etc. be recognized by many of the elder inhabitants, as the Foxcroft estate. Besides this farm, he owned many other large tracts of land in Camb. and about 10,000 acres in Framingham. Mr. Danforth, through a long life, was one of the most energetic and useful citizens in the town and in the Colony. He was a Selectman, 1645-1671, 27 years; Town Clerk, 1645-1668, 24 years; Representative (or Deputy), 1657, 1658; Assistant 1659-1678, 20 years; Deputy Governor 1679-1692, except during the three years' usurpation by Andros, and probably nothing but the prolonged life of the venerable Bradstreet prevented his election as Governor. With the same exception, he was President of the District of Maine 1681-1692. Under the second charter he was one of the Council from 1693 to 1699 and Judge of the Superior Court, to which office be was appointed 6 Dec. 1692, " being pressed to accept his place " as Judge Sewall says. He was Treasurer of Harvard College 1650-1669, Treasurer of Middlesex County several years, and Recorder 1648-1686. He was also Commissioner of the United Colonies at every session from 1662 to 1678, and President of that Board in 1675. Through his whole life, his appointment and action on numerous and highly important committees, especially during the long struggle which preceded the vacation of the old Charter, abundantly indicate the confidence reposed in him, and his wisdom and integrity in the performance of the duties assigned to him. He was confessedly the leader of the party in opposition to the arbitrary proceedings of the King and his counsellors. 3. SAMUEL, s. of Nicholas (1), grad. H. C. 1643, one of the first Board of Fellows, named in the act of incorporation 1650, ordained Pastor of the Church at Roxbury 24 Sept. 1650, the apostle Eliot being teacher. He m. Mary, dau. of Rev. John Wilson of Boston 5 Nov. 1651, and had Samuel, b. 14 Jan. 1652-3, d. 22 July 1653; Mary, b. 24 May 1654, d. 7 Dec. 1659; Elizabet/i, b. 13 July 1656, d. 15 Dec. 1659; Sarah, b. 30 Oct. 1658, d. 5 Dec. 1659 John, b. 8 Nov. 1660; Mary, b. 13 Mar. 1662-3, in. Edward Bromfield, Esq., 4 June 1683, and d. 7 Oct. 1734; Elizabeth, b. 9 Feb. 1664-5, d. 26 Oct. 1672; Samuel, b. 18 Dec. 1666; Sarah, b. 21 Feb. 1669-70, d. young; Thomas, b. 3 Ap. 1672, d. 13 Ap. 1672; Elizabeth, b. 16 Oct. 1673, d. 30 Oct. 1673; Abiel (posthumous), bap. 31 Jan. 1674-5, m. Thomas Fitch, merchant, Boston. SAMUEL the f. d. of putrid fever 19 Nov. 1674, aged about 48 years; his w. Mary m. Joseph Rocke of Boston, and d. 13 On Sept. 1713, a. 80.
b.
;
; ;
DANFORTH.
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the death of his father, he was placed under the care of Rev. Thomas Shepard, and he well improved his advantages. Having graduated at the early of he devoted himself to seventeen, age diligently study, and became a skilful He was mathematician, and one of the most learned theologians of his time. particularly distinguished however, for the fervor of his piety and the purity of his life. So peaceful was his conscience and so firm his faith, in the hour " of death, that his colleague Eliot is reported to have said, My brother Danforth made the most glorious end that ever I saw." It is certain that Eliot " entered this testimony on record: brother Danforth died in the Lord; it pleased the Lord to brighten his passage to glory." 4. JONATHAN, s. of Nicholas (1), was one of the first settlers in Billerica, where he spent his long and useful life. " He was the first Captain of Billerica, was chosen Representative in 1684, Town Clerk 20 years, and one of the most eminent land surveyors of his time." (Farmer.) He m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Poulter 22 Nov. 1654; she d. 7 Oct. 1689, a. 56, and he m. Esther, wid. of Josiah Converse of Woburn, and dau. of Elder Champney of Camb. 17 Nov. 1690. His children were Mary, b. 29 Jan. 1655-6, m. John Parker of Chelmsford 4 June 1678; Elizabeth, b. 27 May 1657, m. Simon Hayward of Concord 7 Mar. 1686-7; Jonathan, b. 18 Feb. 1658-9; John, b. 23 Jan. 1660-61, d. 7 Feb. 1660-61; John, b. 22 Feb. 1661-2, d. 4 June 1664 Lydia, b. 1 June 1664, m. Edward Wright; Samuel, b. 5 Feb. 1665-6; Anna, b. 8 Mar. 1667-8, m. Oliver Whiting 22 Jan. 1689-90; Thomas, b. 29 Ap. 1670, d. 31 July 1670; Nicholas, b. 1 July 1671, d. 8 Mar. 1693-4; Sarah, b. 13 Dec. 1676, m. William French. Of this family, only two sons survived their father; but from them have descended a very numerous posterity. JONATHAN the f. d. 7 Sept. 1712, a. 84, being the last survivor and the longest liver of his father's children. His w. Esther d. 5 Ap. 1713, a. 80. 5. JOHN, s. of Rev. Samuel (3), grad. II. C. 1677, at the age of seventeen, and was ordained at Dorchester 28 June 1682, where bed. 26 May 1730. His children, by his w. Elizabeth, were Elijah, bap. 2 Dec. 1683, grad. H. C. 1703, a physician and Justice of the Peace, d. 8 Oct. 1736; Thomas, b. 1685, settled at Surinam, where he d. 18 Oct. 1714; Israel Stoughton, b. 14 Oct. 1687, d. 22 Mar. 1688; John, b. 16 Jan. 1688-9, d. 3 Mar. 1728; Ann, b. prob. 1691, d. young; Elizabeth, b. 12 Nov. 1693, m. Capt. John Lowder, Boston; Samuel, b. 12 Nov. 1696; Hannah, b. 3 Nov. 1698, m. Rev. Samuel Dunbar of Stoughton; Alary and Mehetabel, twins, b. 4 June 1701, of whom the latter d. 1 May 1727; Stoughton, b. 24 July 1702, buried 26 Nov. 1735; George, b. 11 Nov. 1704. Soon after Mr. Danforth's death, an obituary appeared in the New England Journal, in which it is said that he " was one greatly qualified by many bright accomplishments for the evangelical ministry, and was eminently a man of God, a man of prayer, a close and profitable preacher, of sound principles, a pattern of all the virtues of the Christian life, and zealous for the cause of God and religion among us; greatly beloved and valued while and his memory will always be preliving, and now lamented at his death cious to those who have had the honor and pleasure of an acquaintance with him." He had a fondness for writing epitaphs in rhyme, of which very many specimens remain in the Dorchester burial ground. An allusion to this trait in his character is made in Blake's Annals: " He was said to be a man of great learning; he understood the mathematics beyond most men of his function. He was exceeding charitable, and of a very peaceful temper. He took much pains to eternize the names of many of the good Christians of his own to preflock; and yet the world is so ungrateful that he has not a line written serve his memory, no, not so much as upon his tomb, he being buried in Lt.Gov. Stoughton's tomb, that was covered with writing before; and there, also, lyeth his consort, Mrs. Elizabeth Danforth." 6. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (3), grad. H. C. 1683, and was settled in the " He was esteemed one of ministry at Taunton, where he d. 14 Nov. 1727. Farmer. the most learned and eminent ministers of that period." 7. JONATHAN, e. of Jonathan (4), resided in Billerica, in. Rebecca Parker 27 June 1682, and d. 1710; his w. d. prob. 1755, when her dower was divided
My
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to her son Jonathan, the heirs of sons Thomas, Samuel, Nicholas, Jacob, and John, all deceased, and to daughters Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Sarah. 8. SAMUEL, s. of Jonathan (4), resided in Billerica and was perhaps the same whose estate was divided in 1742, to wid. Hannah, and children Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Hannah, Rachel, Lydia, and the heirs of Abigail Ruggles, deceased. 9. SAMUEL, s. of Rev. John (5), b. in Dorchester, grad. H. C. 1715, established himself in Cambridge as schoolmaster about 1724, having had the general charge of the school for some years previously, it would seem. In 1725 he purchased of Samuel Hancock the estate on the easterly side of Dunster Street, between Harvard and Mount Auburn streets, where he resided for the next half The house in which he dwelt was demolished not many years ago. century. He m. Elizabeth Symmes (perhaps dau. of Rev. Thomas Symmes of Bradford, and, if so, a relative to himself), 14 Aug. 1726, and had Elizabeth, b. 24 July 1729, d. young; Elizabeth, b. 29 July 1736, d. unm. 4 June 1816; Samuel, b. 4 Aug. 1740, grad. H. C. 1758, an eminent physician in Boston, President of the Mass. Medical Society, and d. 16 NOT. 1827; Thomas, b. 21 Aug. 1744,grad. H. C. 1762, was a lawyer in Chs. until the Revolution, when he fled to England, and d. at London 6 Mar. 1820; John, b. 17 Sept. 1748. SAMUEL the f. d. at the house of his son in Boston, 27 Oct. 1777, a. about 81; his w. Elizabeth d. 13 Jan. 1775, a. 67; but both were buried here. Judge Danforth, during a large
He was Selectportion of his life, filled offices of trust and responsibility. man five years, 1733-1739, Representative four years, 1734-1738, Member of the Council thirty-six years in succession, 1739-1774, in which last named year he was appointed "Mandamus Councillor;" but having taken the oath of office, he was speedily induced to resign. He was also Justice of the Peace and Quorum; Register of Probate, 1731-1745; Judge of Probate, 17451775; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 1741-1775. At the Revolution he passed out of office but was so quiet in his deportment that, although understood to be a royalist, he was not disturbed in the possession of his property. DANIEL, ROBERT, was an early inhabitant of Cambridge. About 1638 he purchased of Thomas Blodgett a house and land, on the westerly side of Garden Street, which he sold about 1645 to Nicholas Wyeth. By his w. Elizam. Thomas Fanning 17 May 1653; Samuel; beth he had Elizabeth,}). Joseph; Sarah; Mary, b. 2 Sept. 1642. These children are named in the father's will; Thomas, who was buried 6 Nov. 1644, was probably of the same His w. Elizabeth d. 2 Oct. 1653, and he m. Reana, wid. of William family. Andrew, 2 May 1654. He d. 6 July 1655, and his wid. Reana m. Elder Frost, whom also she survived. 2. JOSEPH, s. of Robert (1), purchased of David Fiske 12 Dec. 1660 a house and land on the northerly side of Linnaean Street, being the southBefore 28 May 1662 he had easterly corner of the present Botanic Garden. removed to Medfield. There is no record here of his family. 3. RICHARD, of Edmonton, England, gentleman, was in New England 12 Nov. 1669, and purchased the farm in Billerica, 700 acres, belonging to Cambridge Church. He remained in Billerica several years, and is said to have resided subsequently in Andover. No record is found of wife or children. DAVIS, DOLOR (Dolard, Dollard, and Doller, .on the Record), owned a house lot, in 1635, on the easterly side of Dunster Street, between Winthrop and South streets. He removed early; was a proprietor of Groton in 1656, and an early planter of Barnstable, where he d. in 1673. " He m. Margery, sister of Major Simon Willard. His sons were John, Simon, and Samuel. Simon and Samuel lived in Concord, the former of whom was Representative in John 1689." (Farmer.) From this family descend Gov. John Davis and a numerous race of that name in Worcester County. DAYE, STEPHEN, resided at the westerly corner of Harvard and Dunster streets in 1656. Bordman, and mother of By his w. Rebecca (wid. of
;
,
William Bordman), he had and brought to N. Eng. with him, Stephen, who d. 1 Dec. STEPHEN the f. d. 22 Dec. 1668, a. about 75; his 1639, and Matthew. w. Rebecca d. 17 Oct. 1658. Mr. Daye was unquestionably the first printer in
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New England, though it may be doubted whether he ever served a regular apIn his agreement, 1638, to emigrate to N. Eng., prenticeship to that trade. and to labor in the employment of Rev. Mr. Glover, he is styled " locksmith," and various circumstances sufficiently indicate that he labored in that occupation, after he was superseded by Green in the management of the It may be that Mr. Glover was unable, or printing-office. judged it imprudent, to engage a regular printer to emigrate; and therefore employed Daye to superintend the press, on account of his skill in working iron, and perhaps a However this be, it is certain that he was general knowledge of machinery. called locksmith in the agreement, and so styled himself in a deed executed He re1660; and the inventory of his goods in 1668 indicates the same fact. ceived several grants of land, in cousideration of his services as a printer; but
he seems always to have been poor, and was probably dependant for assistance, in his old age, on Wm. Bordman, a son of his wife by a former marriage. His age, at death, has been erroneously represented as 58. In a deposition, 2 Ap. 1656, he called himself 62 years old, and must have been about 75 in Dec. 1668, if his own estimate was correct. 2. ROBERT, in 1635, owned a house on the westerly side of Garden Street, but removed early to Hartford. "He died in 1648, and left a comfortable estate for his widow and several children. He had been a good citizen in the Colony. He was the first ancestor who came to Connecticut of President and Secretary Day, and of the Day family in this State." Hinman. 1 3. MATTHEW, s. of Stephen (1), appears from his will to have been a printer; he was also Steward of Harvard College, as appears by the following memorandum in the Records of the Corporation, Lib. iii. fol. 32: " Mr. John Buckley, first Master of Arts in Harvard College, and Matthew Day, Steward of the College, gave a garden, containing about one acre and one rood of land, situate and near adjoining to the College, and ordered the same to be for the use of the Fellows that should from time to time belong to and be resident at the said society; the said garden being commonly called and known by the name of the Fellow's Orchard." Gore Hall stands on the northerly end of this tract; the southerly end fronts on Harvard Street. From Buckley's Deed, dated 20 Dec. 1645, it appears that the orchard, or garden, was purchased of Thomas Marrett, by himself, Emanuel Downing, Samuel Winthrop, and John Alcock. Buckley conveyed one quarter part; hence it would seem that Day purchased the other three quarters, which he bestowed, by will, on the College. Mr. Day d. unm. at Cambridge 10 May 1649. 4. ISAAC, not ascertained to have been a relative of the foregoing, was in Camb. fora short time previous to 1700, and prob. resided at the N. W. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets. His w. was Susanna, prob. dau. of Robert Meriam of Concord. They had Robert, b. 24 Oct. 1686, d. 4 Feb. 1688-9; Susanna, b. 28 Nov. 1688. In 1692, "Isaac Day, heretofore citizen and embroiderer of London," and his wife Susanna, together with Mary, the
1 " The last Will and Testament of Matthew Day, May 10, 1649. 1. I doe give with all my heart all that part 1 have in the Garden unto the fellowes of Harvard Col-
for the training

6.
I
up of the childe
to schoole.
lege, for ever.
ard
which were not yet made up.
2. I doe give to Mrs. Shepdiaper table cloath and napkins 3. I doe give my 3 silver spoones, the one to David Dunster, the other to Doraty Dunster, and the 3d that hath my owne name on it w c I brought out of England, to my old acquaintance lit4. I doe give to my tie Samuell Shepard. mother all the estate I have in both the houses together with all the furniture, beds and all mo veables( my debts being first paid) to her for her life, and when she dies to the little child Moyses. 5. I doe give to S*. Brocke (my ould and deare friend) all the bookes I have which he thinks may be usefull to him, except those which may serve
my
doe give unto my mother that eight pound or there about which is due to me for printing, to pay for the house which is due at Michalemas. 7. I would have Daniell and Mary Lemon and my mother's girle have some thing given them, as Mr. Shepard and my mother shall see meet. 8. I doe give my Ivory Inkhorne in my box with 9. I a whistle in it unto Jeremy Shepard. give 20 s in mony which once I had and Jayd out for the Colledge, and is to be payd by it in mony againe unto Mr. Thomas Shepard. 10. I give unto John Glover my lookinge glasse. 11. I give to Elder ffrost foure pound. Those before whom he spake these things were Mr. Tho. Shepard, Mrs. Day. Deposed the 30th 8th mo. 1649. INMiddlesex Deedt, i. 2. CKEASE NOWKLL."
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widow and executrix
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of Robert Meriam late of Concord, deceased, sold to Richard Proctor of Boston, the above mentioned estate, describing it as " heretofore the mansion place whereof one Thomas Chesholme died siezed, of whose administrators the said Robert Meriam in his life-time," to wit, 3 Oct. 1671, purchased it. After this sale, no further trace is found here of this family.
exists in Camb. but it is not known that the individuals bearare descendants of either of these early families. DEMING, DAVID, was a Fence-viewer in Camb. 1699, and Tything-man, 1700. He owned the Brattle estate, extending from Brattle Square to Ash Street. Before Nov. 1707 he removed to Boston; at which date he sold the westerly portion of this estate to Andrew Belcher, and the easterly portion, including the house, to Rev. William Brattle. In the conveyance, he is styled " Knacker," which Johnson defines, "a maker of small work; a ropemaker." There is no record here of his family. DENISON, WILLIAM, came to N. Eng. about 1630, and settled at Roxbury. He was a merchant, Representative, 1635, and d. 25 Jan. 1653-4. By his w. Margaret, who d. 3 Feb. 1645-6, he had in England, Daniel ; Edward, resided
;
The name now

it
ing
Roxbury, Selectman, Town Clerk, Representative 1652, 1655, and d. 26 Ap. 1668, a. about 50, leaving five daughters who married, and an only son, William, who grad. at H. C. 1681, was many years Town Clerk, Representative more than twenty years, and d., leaving a widow but no children, 22 Mar. 1718, a. 53; George, removed early to Stonington, Conn., was highly distinguished as a military leader in "Philip's War," and d. about 1693; he was twice married, (1) to Bridgett Tompson, 1640, and (2) to Ann Boradell, about 1644; he left a numerous family, and among his descendants are many
in
distinguished citizens of Connecticut.

s. of William (1), was one of the earliest inhabitants of Camb. probably among those who erected the first buildings, under the agreement to establish this as a fortified town and the seat of government. His residence, as nearly as can be determined from the Proprietor's Records, was the spot since known as the Winthrop Estate, near Bow Street, between Ar-
2.
DANIEL,
He was
row and Mount Auburn
streets.
He removed
one of the most distinguished citizens of that town and of the Colony. He was Representative, eleven years; Speaker of the House, two years; Assistant twenty-nine years, until his death Major-general of the whole military force
;
early to Ipswich,
and became
of the Colony, eleven years, including the period of "Philip's War;" Commissioner of the United Colonies, eight years, and once President of that Board. He m. Patience, dau. of Gov. Thomas Dudley, by whom he had two children, who survived to maturity. (1) John, who m. Martha, dau. of Dep.
Gov. Samuel Symonds, and d. 1671, leaving a daughter Martha, and a son John, who grad. H. C. 1684, m. Elizabeth Saltonstall, commenced preaching at Ipswich, but died 1689, leaving an only son, John, who grad. H. C. 1710, was Sheriff of Essex Co., m. Mary, dau. of President Leverett, and d. 1724, See Felt's Ipswich. leaving one son and one daughter. (2) Elizabeth, m.
of Harvard College, and d. 13 June 1723, a. 82. Her children were Elizabeth, m. John Appleton, Esq., and was mother of the venerable Dr. Appleton of Cambridge, and of Margaret, wife of President Hoiyoke; Margaret, m. Capt. Thomas Berry, and (2d) President Leverett; John, grad. H. C. 1684, minister at Ipswich, d. 28 Dec. 1745, a. 79; Daniel, grad. H. C. 1686, a physician and Justice of the Peace, perished on Hampton Beach in a snow storm 1 Dec. 1723; Nathaniel, grad. H. C. 1687, minister at Portsmouth, N. H., d. 3 Oct. 1723; Patience, m. Benjamin Marston, and was living his widow in 1721. DEXTER, JOHN, by w. Sarah, had Richard, b. 6 Nov. 1676. He may have been s. of Richard of Maiden but there is no further trace of him here. DICKEKMAN, LYDIA, d. 13 Sept. 1680. DICKSON, WILLIAM (otherwise written Dikson, and Dixon), in 1642 owned the estate fronting on Brattle Square, extending from Mount Auburn Street to Winthrop Street. At what time this residence was changed does not disBut, at an early period the Dickson family occupied an estinctly appear.
John Rogers, President
DICKSON.
tate on the easterly side of Menotomy River, extending from to the Winter Hill road, a portion of which remained until
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North Avenue
very recently in
their possession. Mr. Dickson, by his w. Jane, had Mary, b. 10 Aug. 1644. d. 21 July 1648; Lydia, bap. here, and d. young; Abigail,]}, 10 Mar. 1 647-8,
1692, leaving an only son William; Mary, b. Butterfield; Hannah, bap. here, m. Stephen b. 21 Mar. 1655-6. WILLIAM the f. d. 5 Aug. 1692, a. 78; his wife Jane d. 4 Dec. 1689, a. 73. 2. JOHN, s. of William (1), m. Margery (or Margaret), dau. of Edward Winship, 12 May 1687, and had Jane, b. 4 Oct. 1688, m. Joseph Robbins, 3 Aug. 1709; he d. and she m. John Green before 1737; Elizabeth, bap. 24 July 1698, m. Hubbard Russell, 9 May 1710; William, bap. 24 July 1698; John, bap. 24 July 1698; Margery, b. 11 Dec. 1698, m. Samuel Carter of Woburn, 30 June 1719; Edward, b. 16 Jan. 1701-2. JOHX the f. d. 22 Mar. 1736-7, a. 81; his w. Margaret d. 6 Oct. 1734, a. 70. 3. WILLIAM, s. of John (2), m. Ruth, dau. of Solomon Prentice, 12 June 1718, and had William, b. 26 Ap. 1719; Solomon, b. 8 June 1720, d. 3 Aug. 1720; Solomon, bap. 27 Aug. 1721, d. young; Ruth, bap. 21 July 1723, d. 19 - Teel; Sept. 1723 Josiah, bap. 15 Nov. 1724 Ruth, bap. 23 Oct. 1726, m. Margery, bap. 12 Jan. 1728-9, m. Joseph Cook, Jr., 13 May 1756; Jonns, bap. 15 Feb. 1729-30, d. young; Jonas, bap. 28 May 1732, d. young; Lydia, bap. 8 June 1735, m. Samuel Prentice (pub. 17 Oct. 1765); Jane, bap. 31 Oct. 1736, in. Teel; Isaac, bap. 26 Mar. 1738, d. young; Hannah, bap. 29 July 1739, d. 13 Jan. 1739-40; Jonas, b. 28 May 1741, d. 5 July 1749. WILLIAM, the f. d. 15 Jan. 1768, a. 74; his w. Ruth d. 12 June 1776, a. 73. After 1720, Mr. Dickson seems to have resided on the Charlestown part of the estate. 4. JOHN, s. of John (2), m. Mary, dau. of Walter Russell 4 Aug. 1725, and had John, b. 31 Mar. 1726; Walter, b. 18 Mar. 1728-9; Mary, bap. 5 Dec. 1731, in. Patten Russell of Chs. 25 July 1749, and d. 12 Feb. 1813. a. 82. JOHN the f. d. 26 July 1775, a. 80; his w. Mary d. 4 July 1770, a. 63. 5. EDWARD, s. of John (2), m. Martha, dau. of Henry Dunster, 18 Mar.
d. before
m.
Thwing, and
1649-50, m. prob. Francis 16 Sept. 1633; John,
17 Jan.
1730-31, and had Edward, bap. 2 Ap. 1732, d. 3 May 1732; Martha, b. 8 Dec. 1734, d. unm. May 1788; Edward, b. 7 June 1737, d. without issue, 30 Oct. 1820, a. 83; Elizabeth, bap. 4 Nov. 1739, m. Samuel Cook, Jr., 26 Ap. 1764; Henry, bap. 8 Nov. 1741; Gilbert, bap. 18 Nov. 1744; Isaiah, bap. 12 Ap. 1747; Abigail, named in her father's will, and prob. b. 1749, d. unm. 6
July 1817,
6.
a. 68.
EDWARD
the
f.
d.
May
1788,
a. 86.
WILLIAM, s. of William (3), m. Elizabeth Lawrence 3 Dec. 1741, and had in Camb. William, b. 9 Aug. 1 742, d. 5 Dec. 1744 Aaron, b. 10 Aug. 1 744,
;
July 1749; William, b. 28 Feb. 1745-6, d. 2 Nov. 1746; Jonathan, b. and had 23 Ap. 1748. His w. d. 24 Feb. 1753, a. 32, and he m. Rachel in Chs. Rachel, b. 12 Sept. 1754 Elizabeth, b. 10 William, b. 14 Aug. 1757 June 1760, d. 13 Aug. 1761; Elizabeth,}). 27 May 1763; Aaron, b. 1 Oct. 1767. WILLIAM the f. d. 28 Jan. 1801, a. 82; his w. Rachel d. 21 May
d. 10
,
; ;
1796, a. 65.
William (3), had dau. Mary, b. 10 Ap. 1750. (4), m. Sarah Whittemore 19 Jan. 1748-9, and had Sarah, b. 10 Aug. 1749, m. John Blanchard (pub. 6 Jan. 1767) John, bap. a child, b. and d. 22 Ap. 17 Feb. 1750-51, m. Sarah Butterfield 6 Oct. 1771 1753; Susanna, bap. 28 Dec. 1755, m. Joseph Shaw, 23 Jan. 1777; David, 28 June) bap. 6 Aug. 1758. JOHN the f. d. 1762 (administration granted his w. Sarah d. 13 May 1777, a. 51. 9. WALTER, s. of John (4), m. Anna Cutter of Charlestown, 3 May 1750, and had Anna, b. 1 Oct. 1752, m. Richard Peirce 21 Oct. 1777; Mary, b. 23 Mar. 1755, m. Jonathan Butterfield 4 Aug. 1772; Esther, b. 23 Aug. 1757, m. Joseph Tufts 23 Dec. 1779; Rebecca, b. 16 Oct. 1759,d. 29 July 1765 Lucy, b. 12 May 1764, living unm. in 1798; Walter, b. 9 Dec. 1767, m. Anna Tufts 3 Jan. 1793. WALTER the f. d. 1798; his w. d. at Groton, 4 Ap. 1819, a. 89. 10. HENRY, P. of Edward (5), m. Elizabeth Cox 24 July 1766; she d. and he m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Cook, 15 Nov. 1774; she d. about 1785, and he
7.
JOSIAH,
s.
of
8.
JOHN,
s.
of
John
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DICKSON
DUDLEY.
;
m. Mercy His children were Elizabeth, b. 1767, d. unm. 3 Mar. 1800 Eunice Cook, bap. 17 May 1778, m. John Goddard 21 Dec. 1806; Henry, bap. 21 Feb. 1790. HENRY the f. resided at the easterly corner of North Avenue and Cedar Street, and d. 23 Sept. 1815, a. 74, leaving only one surviving child, Mrs. Goddard, who inherited the homestead; his w. Mercy d. 4 Dec.
1815,
11.
a.
69 or 71.
,
and had in Pepperell, GILBERT, s. of Edward (5), m. Martha Hannah, b. 13 May 1773, m. Thomas Rundle of Boston 17 July 1810; Sally, b. 21 Feb. 1775, m. Joshua Shed; Patty, b. 9 Feb. 1778, d. 6 Aug. 1868; in
Acton, John,
b. 29
perell, Lydia, b.
Walter Fisk. Martha d. 28 June 1800,

12.
Dec. 1781; Polly, b. 4 Oct. 1783, m. Hosley; in Pep10 Sept. 1787; and in Camb., Nobby, b. 17 Sept. 1790, m. GILBERT the f. d. of lockjaw 15 Sept. 1818, a. 74 his w.
;
a. 50.
ISAIAH, s. of Edward (5), m. Judae (Judith) Symmes of Woburn 15 Judith, bap. 10 1773, and had John Eliot, bap. 9 Feb. 1777, d. 1783 and had Nov. 1781, d. 1783. His w. Judith d. 1783, and he m. Sarah Edward (prob. the same who d. at Bedford 23 Mar. 1825, a. 33), Ann, and ISAIAH the f. d. 2 Aug. 1805, a. 59. Abigail, who all survived him. 13. JONATHAN, s. of William (6), m. Martha Cook 7 Mar. 1771, and had I find no record of any who survived, several children who died in infancy. nor of the death of the parents. 14. WILLIAM, s. of William (6), m. Rachel Cutter 15 May 1792, and had William, bap. 6 Oct. 1793; Rachel, bap. 16 Sept. 1798 Oliver, bap. 11 Jan. 1801, d. young; Martha, bap. 17 July 1803, d. unm. 19 June 1839; WILLIAM the f. Oliver, bap. 8 Sept. 1805: Mary Cutler, bap. 17 July 1808. d. 15 Ap. 1835, a. 78; his w. Rachel d. 15 Aug. 1842, a. 76. 15. AARON, s. of William (6), m. Lucy Cutter 21 Nov. 1797, and d. 2 Oct.
May
1805,
a. 38.
Capt. Samuel Chandler 4 Nov. 1777. JOHN, m. Eleanor Russell 23 June 1781. JOSIAH, m. Sally Cooper 10 July 1788. Wid. SARAH, d. 13 Sept. 1780. SALLY, d. 16 Nov. 1792, a. 23. ELIZABETH, d. 11 Feb. 1793, a.
MARY, m.
Mrs.
20.
HANNAH,
d. 31
July 1801,
a.
45.
DOOLITTLE, JOHN, m. Sibilla Nutt, wid. of Miles Nutt of Chs., 30 Oct. 1674. She d. in Maiden 23 Sept. 1690, a. 82. He is called by Dr. Bond of
(otherwise written Druse, Drusse, and on the list of Freemen, 1645, "Vincent Ruth"), removed from Hingham and purchased a farm on the south side of the river, adjoining Brookline, 4 Feb. 1650-51. He was father of Vincent, and probably also of John of Roxbury who was slain in Philip's War, to whom Eliot refers in the Roxbury Church Record, under date of 24 July 1675: "John Druse dyed in the warrs, and was there buried; he acquited himselfe valiantly." 2. VINCENT, s. of Vincent (1), had John, b. 25 Feb. 1668-9; Mehetabel, b. 26 Sept. 1670; Mary, b. 7. Aug. 1672; Deliverance, b. 15 Mar. 1674-5. VINCENT the f. d. 1683; his w. and these four children survived. DUDLEY, THOMAS, was one of the founders of Cambridge, and among the first who erected houses here in the spring of 1631. He remained here only a few years; but removed to Ipswich about the time of Hooker's removal to Hartford, and thence to Roxbury before the close of 1636. During his whole life in New England, and even before the colonists left England, he was a member of the government. First elected an Assistant in England in 1629, he held that office eight different years, was Deputy Governor thirteen years, and Governor four years, to wit, 1634, 1640, 1645, 1650; Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1643, 1647, 1649, and President 1647, 1649. His military skill and energy seem to have been appreciated; he commanded a company of eighty volunteers at the siege of Amiens in 1597; was appointed Lieut.-colonel of the Southern regiment, on the first military organisation of the Colony, in 1636, and Major-general of all the forces, 1644. So entirely was his life devoted to the public service, that a particular biography of him would be a general history of the Colony during the same period. Gov. Dudley was twice
Runmey Marsh. DRUCE, VINCENT
DUDLEY
DUNKLIN
DUNSTER.
537
married; by his first wife, Dorothy, he had five children, who came to N. Eng.; she d. 27 Dec. 1643, and he m. Katherine, wid. of Samuel Hagburne, 14 Ap. 1644, by whom he had three children. Besides these, it is not improbable that Thomas Dudley, of Emanuel College 1626, A. M. 1630, was also his son; but there is no evidence that he came to N. Eng., and he is not named in the Governor's will. The known children were Samuel, b. 1606; Ann, b. 1613, m. Simon Bradstreet; Patience, m. Daniel Denison, and d. 1690; Sarah, m. Maj. Benjamin Keayne, and Pacy; she d. 3 Nov. 1659, leaving an only child Ann (by her first husband), who m. Edward Lane, and Col. Nicholas Paige, and d. without surviving issue, 30 June 1704; and thus this branch of the Dudley family, and the entire family of Capt. Robert Keayne, became extinct; Mercy, b. 27 Sept. 1621, m. Rev. John Woodbridge, and d. at Newbury 1 July 1691, having had eleven children, three of whom were clergymen; Deborah, b. 27 Feb. 1644-5, m. Maj. Jonathan Wade of Medford, and d. about 1685; Joseph, b. 23 Sept. 1647, m. Rebecca, dau. of Edw. Tyng, and was successively Representative of Roxbury, Assistant, President of New England, Counsellor under Andros, Governor of the Isle of Wight, and member of the British Parliament, Chief Justice of New York, and Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; he d. at Roxbury, 2 Ap. 1720, a. 72; " well Paul, b. 8 Sept. 1650, m. Mary, dau. of Gov. John Leverett, was a a short of Probate for merchant," accomplished period, (Sewatt) Register and d. 1 Dec. 1681, a. 31. The posterity of Gov. Dudley, in these several been is a have multitude which no man them can number. branches, Among many representatives in Cambridge. The residence of Governor Dudley, while he remained here, was on the northwesterly corner of Dunster and South streets; his house lot, which contained half an acre, extended westerly He died at Roxbury 31 July 1653, a. 76; his w. nearly to Brighton Street. Katherine m. Rev. John Allen of Dedham, and d. 29 Aug. 1671. 2. SAMUEL, s. of Thomas (1), came here and departed with his father. While here he resided at the southeast corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn streets. He was three times married; first to Mary, dau. of Gov. John Winthrop, who d. 12 Ap. 1643. He resided for short periods at Boston, Ipswich, and Salisbury was Representative 1641, 1644; and settled in the His children, acministry at Exeter, N. H., 1650, where he d. 1683, a. 77. cording to Farmer, were Thomas, bap. 9 Mar. 1634, grad. H. C. 1657, d. 7 Nov. 1655; John, bap. 28 June 1635; Margaret; Samuel, bap. 2 Aug. 1639, d. 17 Ap. 1643 Anne, b. 16 Oct. 1657, m. Edward Hilton of Exeter; Theophilus, b. 4 Oct. 1644; Mary, b. and d. 1646 Biley, b. 27 Sept. 1647; Mary, b. 1649, m. Samuel Hardy, a schoolmaster, of Beverly, 24 Jan. 1676; Thomas;
; ; ;
Stephen; James; Timothy; Abigail; Dorothy; Rebecca; Elizabeth, who m. Kinsley Hall; Samuel. His descendants are very numerous, particularly in New Hampshire. See Dudley Genealogies, by Dean Dudley, pp. 19, 20. DUNKLIN. NATHANIEL (otherwise written Duntlin), owned land at CamNATHANIEL, probably the same, by w. Mary, had bridge Farms, in 1699. Robert, b. 13 Mar. 1709-10. DUNSTER, HENRY, President of Harvard College from 27 Aug. 1640 to 24 Oct. 1654, m. Elizabeth, wid. of Rev. Jose Glover, 21 June 1641; she d. 23 Aug. 1643, and he m. Elizabeth and had David, b. 16 May 1645, who was an expensive son to his mother, went to England about 1664, and returned not; Dorothy, b. 29 Jan. 1647-8, prob. d. young; Henry, b. about 1650, prob. d. young; Jonathan, b. 28 Sept. or 27 Oct. 1653; Elizabeth, b. 29 Dec. 1656, was the second wife of Major Jonathan Wade of Medford (by whom she had Elizabeth, b. 1687, d. unm. 19 Aug. 1721; Dorothy, b. 17 Feb. 1689, d. young); Major Wade d. 24 Nov. 1689 and she m. Colonel Nathaniel Thomas of Marshfield (a Judge of the Sup. Court), about 1714 he d. 22 Oct. 1718, and she returned to Medford, where she d. between 31 May and 8 Nov. 1729. HENRY the f. d. at Scituate 27 Feb. 1658-9, and was buried in Cambridge, as specially directed in his will his w. Elizabeth d. 2 was probably somewhat Sept. 1690, a. 60, according to the Record; but she older. In a memoir, formerly in possession of Rev. Samuel Sewall of Bur,
; ;
538
DUNSTER.
lington, drawn up by his predecessor, Rev. John Marrett, a lineal descendant of this family, it is said that President Dunster was son of Henry, of Balehoult, England, a man liberally educated and living 20 Mar. 1640, as appears by a letter from him of that date; that he had three brothers, Thomas,
Richard, and Robert, and two sisters, Faith, who m. Edmund Rice of Sudbury, and had many children, and Dorothy, who m. [Simon] Willard and had children. The marriage of Faith to Edmund Rice I have not been able to verify; nor have I found evidence that Dorothy was the name of Mrs. Willard. In the Amer. Quar. Reg., 1839, it is stated that Major Willard m. two of Mr. Dunster's sisters; but their names are given as Elizabeth (or Isabel),
Mr. Dunster, in his will, speaks of his sister Willard, and also of understood to be the w. of Joseph Hills of Maiden; but Mr. Hills m. Helen Adkinson (or Atkinson) in Jan. 1655-6, who was prob. living at the date of the will, 1658; she may, however, have been a widow, at the time of this marriage, or she may have been sister to Mrs. Dunster, and sister-in-law to the testator. He also speaks of his cousin Bowers (the wife of Benanuel), and cousin Faith Dunster. It is singular that so much obscurity should rest on such a distinguished family, even the name or origin of his wife not being known. The only clue which the most diligent search has obtained, " twelve or sixteen books is a bequest to her, in his will, of brought by her out of England." 2. JONATHAN, s. of Henry (1) m. Abigail Eliot, prob. dau. of Francis of Braintree, 5 Dec. 1678; she d. and he m. Deborah, dau. of Maj. Jonathan Wade of Medford (by his first wife), 5 Ap. 1692 after her death he in. Ruth, wid. of Joshua Eaton of Reading, His marriage contract signed 23 Nov. 1719. children were (by first wife), Henry, b. 17 July, 1680; Elizabeth, b. 22 Feb. 1681-2, d. young; and by second wife, Jonathan, b. 1695, d. unm. 11 April 1742, aged 47; Elizabeth, b. about 1699, m. Philip Carteret (or De Carteret), and d. 25 Jan. 1787, aged 87, as inscribed on her gravestone; Thomas, b. d. unm. between 3 Ap. 1726 and 1 Ap. 1728; Dorothy, b. 1702, m. Solomon Page of Hampton, N. H. (prob. the graduate H. C. 1729), 13 Ap. 1732, and
sister Hills,
; ,
and Mary.
David, b. 1705. JONATHAN the f. d. 1725; his w. Ruth m. Lieut. Amos Marrett 22 Nov. 1732, and after his death, Peter Hayes of Stoneham, pub. 30 Sept. 1742. 3. HENRY, s. of Jonathan (2), m. Martha, dau. of Jason Russell, 25 Feb. 1707-8, and had Martha, b. 7 Feb. 1708-9, m. Edward Dickson 18 Mar.
d. 13 Oct. 1741, leaving five children;
1730-31; Mary, b. 7 July, 1712, ra. Amos Marrett 21 Sept. 1732; Abigail, bap. 21 Mar. 1713-14, m. James Cutler (pub. 29 Oct. 1737); Elizabeth, b. 7 July 1717, d. 7 Nov. 1717; Isaiah, b. 21 Oct. 1720, grad. H. C. 1741, ordained in the north parish of Harwich (now Brewster) 2 Nov. 1748, and d. 18 Jan. 1791. a. 70; Henry, b. 13 Feb. 1722-3; Elizabeth, bap. 10 May 1724, d. young; Jason, bap. 18 July 1725; Eunice, bap. 26 May 1728, d. young; Jonathan, bap. 1 June 1729, d. young; Ruth, bap. 7 Oct. 1733, d. 30 June 1735. HENRY the f. d. 28 Jan. 1753, a. 72; his w. Martha m. Francis Locke 15 Mar. 1759. 4. DAVID, s. of Jonathan (2), m. Mary, dau. of Hubbard Russell, and had Elizabeth, bap. 25 Ap. 1731 Mary, bap. 4 Mar. 1732-3; Margery, b. 1739; and others. Mr. Dunster resided in Menotomy; but removed to Westminster (being dismissed from the Church 17 Oct. 1742, to help form a Church at
;
Narragansett No.
2), where he d. 1758, leaving w. Mary, and chil. Hubbard ; Elizabeth, w. of James Taylor; Mary, w. of David Bemis; Margery ; Ruhamah ; Carteret ; Henry. 5. HENRY, s. of Henry (3), m. Abigail Moore 27 Ap. 1748, and had (posthumous), a daughter, b. and d. 4 Mar. 1748-9. He d. 13 Oct. 1748, a. 25; his w. Abigail, m. Jonathan Harrington of Lex. (pub. 9 June 1750). 6. JASON, s. of Henry (3), m. Rebecca, dau. of Samuel Cutter 26 Oct. 1749, and had Ruth, b. 10 Aug. 1750; Rebecca, b. 17 Aug. 1752, d. 5 July
Thomas ;
1753; Henry, b. 4 Aug. 1754; Rebecca, b. 18 June 1756; Martha, b. 28 Aug. 1758; Josiah, b. 10 Ap. 1761; Jason, b. 27 Mar. 1763; Samuel Cutter, b. 20 Ap. 1766. Before 5 Aug. 1769 Mr. Dunster removed to Mason, N. H., and d.
1
805,
a. 80.
DUNSTER
7.
EATON.
539
HENRY, parentage
ELIZABETH, 1653. FAITH,

1664.
not ascertained, had Elizabeth, bap. 24 May, 1767. called cousin by Henry (1), m. Benanuel Bowers, 9 Dec. called cousin by Henry (1), m. John Page, at Groton, 12 May
DUTTON, ELIZABETH, m. Benjamin Crackbone 6 Nov. 1657. EAGER, WILLIAM (otherwise written 2Egur, Egar, and Eger), m. Ruth
Hill in Maiden, 1659,
and was here between 1672 and 1682. His w. Ruth d. 16 Jan. 1679-80, and he m. Hester Cole (Lydia, wid. of Arthur?) 13 Ap. 1680. His children, born here, vrere Zerubbabel, b. 8 June 1672; Martha, b. 26 Nov. 1674; Ruth, b. 1 Feb. 1677; Sarah, b. 25 June 1679; Margaret, b. 25 May 1681. WILLIAM the f. d. at Maryborough 4 Ap. 1690; in his will, dated Dec. 1687, he speaks of his w. Lydia, and children, William, Zachary, Abraham,
Zerubbabel, James, Jacob, Sarah, Margaret, Mercy, Lydia, Esther, Ruth, and one unborn. Many of his descendants may be found in the County of Wor" Abraham cester, especially in the vicinity of Shrewsbury. (w. Lydia), Zechariah (w. Elizabeth), Zerubbabel (m. Hannah Kerly 1697), had children in Marlborough, from about 1693." Barry's Hist. Fram. In Camb., Mercy m. David Morse of Newton 1 May 1706, and Margaret m. Isaac Mannin^ 8 Ap. 1708. EAMES. THOMAS (having previously resided at Dedham, where he had John, b. 16 May, 1641, d. 17 Sept. 1641 John, b. 6 Oct. 1642, and Mary, b. 24 May, 1645), m. Mary, wid. of Jonathan Paddlefoot, and had Thomas, bap. here 12 July 1663; at Sudbnry, Samuel, b. 15 Jan. 1664-5; Margaret, b. 8 July 1666; Nathaniel, b. 30 Dec. 1668; and at Framingham, Sarah, b. 3 Oct. While at Framingham his house was de1670; Lydia, b. 29 June 1672. stroyed, and his wife and some of his children were killed by the Indians. He d. 25 Jan. 1680, a. about 62. See Barry's Hist. Framingham. EASON, JOSEPH, owned a two-acre lot on the northerly side of Brattle Street in 1635, which he sold about 1638, to Abraham Morrill. He "removed early to Hartford." Savage. EATON, NATHANIEL, styled a schoolmaster by Winthrop, and brother to Gov. Theophilus Eaton, was the first teacher at Harvard College, before it was fully organized by the appointment of Dunster to be President. Mather relates that while preparations were in progress for the erection of a college edi"a fice society of scholars, to lodge in the new nests, were forming under the conduct of one Mr. Nathaniel Eaton, a blade who marvellously deceived the expectations of good men concerning him for he was one fitter to be master of Bridewell than a College; and though his avarice was notorious enough to get the name of a Philargyrius fixed upon him, yet his cruelty was more scandalous than his avarice. He was a rare scholar himself, and he made many more such; but their education truly was in the school of Tyrannus." His He was fined and severity and other misconduct attracted public attention. discharged from his office by the General Court, and excommunicated by the
;
;
Church. He fled to Virginia, and subsequently to England, where he is said have died in prison for debt after rendering himself an object of detestation by his persecution of his former brethren in the faith. While he remained in " he sent for his wife and children. Her friends here persuaded her Virginia to stay a while, but she went notwithstanding, and the vessel was never heard One child, Benoni, remained in Cambridge; the of after." (Winthrop.)
to
names of the others are not known. 2. BENONI, s. of Nathaniel (1), was brought up in the family of Deac. Chesholme, and the Church contributed something for his maintenance. He became a maltster, and res. at the S. W. corner of Dunster and Winthrop
1690-91,
a.
Ap. 1708.
BENONI
24; and, perhaps, Ursula, who m. Jacob Parker of Boston 29 the f. d. 20 Dec. 1690; his wid. Rebecca m. John Hast7
ings 28 Sept. 1691.
ALBEE, m. Francis Moore

in
Sept. 1650.
WILLIAM,
m. Elizabeth Osborn,
Camb.,
Jan. 1781.
540
ECCLES
ERRINGTON.
ECCLES, RICHARD, resided for a time on the westerly side of the Common, and afterwards on the westerly corner of Brattle and Ash streets. By his w. Mary he had Timothy, b. 15 Mar. 1644-5, d. 21 Nov. 1656. Mary, m. John Watson of Roxbury; Anna (or Hannah), m. Gershom Brooks of Concord; Martha, m. Thomas Andrew 30 Oct. 1673. His w. Mary d. 23 Aug. 1675, and he m. Susanna Carter 4 June 1677. Mr. Eccles was a weaver, and d. before 10 Mar. 1696-7, when the estate was sold by his daus. Mary and Anna (both widows), and Martha, whose husband, Thomas Andrew, joined in the sale. ELDRED, SAMUEL, by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. 26 Oct. 1642; Samuel, b. 26 Oct. 1644; Mary, b. 15 June 1646; Thomas, b. 8 Sept. 1648; no further
trace of the family
is
found here.
ELIOT, JOHN, styled the "Apostle to the Indians," was for nearly sixty years minister at Roxbury, where he d. 20 May 1690. By his w. Ann (or Hannah), he had Hannah, b. 17 Sept, 1633; John, b. 31 Aug. 1636 Joseph, b. 20 Dec. 1638, grad. H. C. 1658, minister at Guilford, Conn., where he d. 24 May 1694; Samuel, b. 22 June 1641, grad. H. C. 1660, Fellow of the College and candidate for the ministry, d. 1 Nov. 1664; Aaron, b. 19 Feb. 1643-4, d. 18 Nov. 1655 Benjamin, b. 29 Jan. 1646-7, grad. H. C. 1665, assisted his father in the ministry, and d. 15 Oct. 1687. 2. JOHN, s. of John (1), grad. H. C. 1656, was ordained 20 July 1664, the first minister at Cambridge Village (now Newton), m. Sarah, dau. of Thomas Willett of Swansea (first English mayor of New York); she d. 13 June 1664 (or 1665, as Jackson says), and he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Gen. Daniel Gookin, 23 May 1666. By his first wife he had Sarah, bap. 21 Sept. 1662, m. John Bowles of Roxbury 16 Nov. 1681; and by his second wife, John, b. 28 April 1667, who was educated by his grandparents, grad. H. C. 1685, and res. in Windsor, Conn. JOHN the f. d. 11 Oct. 1668; his widow Elizabeth m. Col. Edmund Quincy 8 Dec. 1680. Mr. Eliot "was a person of notable accomplishments, and a lively, zealous, acute preacher, not only to the English at
; ;
New
3.
Cambridge, but also to the Indians thereabout." Mather. ascertained, m. Susanna Soden 2 May 1745, and had Susanna, b. 19 Mar. 1745-6, m. Aaron Swan 19 Sept. 1765; Hannah, b. 18 Jan. 1747-8; Ebenezer, b. 18 Aug. 1749; Lovisa, b. 20 Aug. 1751; Margaret, b. 30 June 1753; Elizabeth Prentice, b. 27 Sept. 1755; Thomas, b. 3 Jan. 1758; Rebecca and Abigail, twins, b. 4 Feb. 1760. Before 1770 Mr. Eliot removed with his family to Royalston. ELMER, EDWARD, was here in 1635 and owned several tracts of land; but removed to Hartford before 1639. ELY, NATHANIEL (or Elly), in 1635 res. on the westerly side of Garden He rem. with the first comStreet, nearly opposite to the Botanic Garden. pany to Connecticut, and was one of the purchasers of Norvvalk from the Indians in 1651. At Hartford, he was "a Constable in 1639, Townsman in
EBENEZER, parentage not
He 1644, also in 1649, Juror in 1643, was in the division of land in 1639. was one of the settlers of Norwalk, but afterwards rem. to Springfield. He was a loss to the Colony." Hinman. EMMONS, THOMAS, by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 26 Nov. 1683. MARY, m. Mephibosheth Bigsbeeof Andover 28 May 1713. THOMAS, m. Hannah Cutter 17 Nov. 1726. HANNAH, m. Daniel Champney, Jr., 22 Sept. 1746. ENSIGN, JAMES, in 1635, owned an estate on the easterly side of Brighton He rem. with Street, extending from Mt. Auburn Street to Winthrop Street. the first company to Hartford, where he was Constable in 1645 and 1648, and died 1670. See Hinman. ERRINGTON, ANN (otherwise written Erinton, Arrington, Herrington, and Harrington), a widow, died here 11 Dec. 1653; or according to the inscripon her gravestone, the most ancient now standing in our burial ground, 25 Dec. 1653, a. 77. She was formerly of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as appears by a document recorded Mid. Reg. Deeds, i. 87. It is not known at what time she came here, nor whether she was at that time a widow. She left children, Abraham; Rebecca, who m. John Watson; and possibly Robert of Watertown.
tion
ERRINGTON
FARRABAS.
541
2. ABRAHAM, s. of Ann (1), m. Rebecca, dau. of Robert Cutler of Chs., and had Rebecca, bap. here, m. John Gibson 9 Dec. 1668; Abraham, b. 11 Nov. 1652, d. young; Abraham, b. 1 Nov. 1654, d. young; Hannah, bap. here, in. Thomas Ayres, and was living in Newbury in 1699; Sarah, bap. here, m. Lewis, and was living in 1716; Mary, bap. 13 Jan. 1660-61, d. prob. 1689; m. Abraham, bap. 8 Nov. 1663, d. prob. 1689; Ann, b. Parker, and was living in 1697; Jacob, b. 12 Sept. 1668, d. 2 Oct. 1668; and perhaps others. ABRAHAM the f. was a blacksmith, and res. on the easterly side of Brighton Street, about midway between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street he owned also the lot on the opposite side of the street, where the old "Porter Tavern" stands. He d. 9 May 1677, a. 55; his wid. Rebecca d.
, ;
prob. 1697, as in that year she received alms for the last time of the Church, and in the same year a final settlement was made of her husband's estate. She seems to have endured much affliction in her old age. Frequent donations were made to her by the Church between 1686 and 1697, and for a much
longer period to her daughters Gibson and Lewis, both widows. Especially, in 1689, "there was a contribution for widow Arrington and her family, they being under the afflicting hand of God; her sons were taken away by The male line seems to have death, and her daughter, and a grandchild."
become
extinct.
to
ESTABKOOK, JOSEPH, according

sex, England, about
grad. H. C. 1664, and was ordained at Concord, where he continued in the ministry during life. He m. Mary, dau. of Capt. Hugh Mason, and had Joseph, b. 6 May 1669; Benjamin, b. 24 Feb. 1670-71; Mary, b. 28 Oct 1672; Samuel, b. 7 June 1674, grad. H. C. 1696, ordained at Canterbury, Conn., 13 June 1711 (Trumbull) and d. 26 June Such are the dates 1727; Daniel, b. 14 Feb. 1675-6; Ann, b. 30 Dec. 1677. of Births, on the County Records. Savage has some of them different. I know not which is the more correct. Rev. JOSEPH the f. d. 16 Sept. 1711. 2. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (1), m., at the Farms, Millicent Woodis 31 Dec. 1689; she d. 20 Mar. 1692-3, and he m. Hannah, wid. of Joseph Loring, 25 Aug. 1693. His children were Joseph, b. 10 Oct. 1690; John, b. 28 July 1694; Solomon, b. 22 Dec. 1696, "deceased in 15 days;" Hannah, b. 2. Aug. 1698; Millicent, b. 21 Mar. 1700; Elijah, b. 25 Aug. 1703. JOSEPH the f. res. at Cambridge Farms, or Lexington, was a Captain, was elected Deacon 1716, and d. 23 Sept. 1733, a. 64. 3. BENJAMIN, s. of Joseph (1), grad. H. C. 1690, commenced preaching at Camb. Farms in May 1692; was ordained there, 21 Oct. 1696, and d. 22 July 1697, a. 26. By his w. Abigail (dau. of Rev. Samuel Willard), he had Benjamin, b. 13 Dec. 1695, and Richard, b. 5 July 1697. 4. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (2), m. Submit, dau. of Joseph Loring, 8 July His 1713; she d. 31 Mar. 1718, and he m. Hannah Bowman 26 Mar. 1719. children were Joseph, b. 27 June, and d. 17 July 1714; Joseph, b. 16 and d. 18 Mar. 1717-18; Joseph, b. 9 Ap. 1720; Hannah, b. 22 Sept. 1725, d. young; Benjamin, b. 9 Oct. 1727, d. 29 Dec. 1728; Hannah, b. 24 Oct. 1728; H. C. Benjamin, b. 20 Dec. 1729 (whose son Joseph, b. 4 Mar. 1758, grad. 6 1782, was ordained at Athol 21 Nov. 1787, and d. 1830); a daughter, b. Oct. 1731; Solomon, b. 10 June, and d. 1 Oct. 1733; Samuel, b. 16 June 1735; Millicent, b. 25 July 1738; Ebenezer, posthumous, b. 21 Sept. 1740. JOSEPH the f. succeeded his father in the office of Deacon 1733, and d. 19
1660.
,
He
Savage came from Enfield
in
Middle-
Aug. 1740,
a.
nearly 50.
ESTWICK, PHEASANT, by w. Sarah, had Stephen, b. 3 Oct. 1679. EVERETT, FRANCIS, m. Mary Edwards 7 Dec. 1675. The name does not
occur again on our Records, for about a century. FANNING, THOMAS, m. Elizabeth Daniel 17 May 1655. He was of Camb. in 1652, when he purchased of John Belts land in Billerica. He d. in Wat. 30 Aug. 1685, leaving wid. Elizabeth, and children, Mary, w. of Benoni Lamed, Elizabeth, and Sarah. His w. Elizabeth d. 27 Jan. 1722, a. 92. FARRABAS, DANIEL, m. Rebecca Perriman 27 Mar. 1660; she d. 1 May 1677 in Camb., and he m. Deborah Rideat 22 May 1679. He had in Camb.
542
FARRABAS
FESSENDEN.
Daniel, b. 20 Nov. 1664; Thomas, b. 7 Mar. 1666-7; Elizabeth, b. 26 Mar. and in Marl1669; in Concord, Rebecca, b. 15 Feb. 1672; Samuel, b. borough, John, b. 1681; Isaac, b. 30 Oct. 1682; Jonathan, b. 12 Mar. 1684. DANIEL the f. d in Oct. 1687. This name subsequently underwent various
;
transformations, becoming Farrowbush in 1688, and Forbush in 1693, at Marlborough, and afterwards Forbes at Westborough. FASSETT, JOSEPH, owned land at the Farms, 1699. He was prob. the same who m. Mary, dau. of William Munroe, and had Joseph, b. 6 Dec. 1701. 2. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (1), res. at Lex., and by w. Amittai, had Joseph, b. and d. 8 Jan. 1726-7; Mary, b. 18 Aug. and d. 12 Oct. 1728; Joseph, b. 21 Mar. 1730-31; Amittai, b. 1 Feb. 1732-3; m. Simon Newton of Bedford 14 Nov. 1754; Mary, b. 9 May 1736 John, b. 7 Dec. 1739; Jonathan, b. 15 Mar. 1741-2; Sarah, b. 13 Jan. 1744-5. JOSEPH the f. d. 1755; his w. Amittai m. John Page of Bedford 15 Jan. 1756, and d. 25 Dec. 1771.
;
Servant to Nathaniel Sparhawk," d. 11 Mar. 1650-11. FEAN, HANNAH, FELCH, SAMUEL, a tailor, rem. here from Weston in 1718, having w. Catherine and children, among whom were Catherine, m. Henry Prentice 31 Jan. 1728-9; and Jemima, m. Abraham Hasey 17 Jan. 1739-40; he had here,
b. 30 July 1719, d. 9 July 1722; Samuel, b. 21 Sept. 1721; Elizabeth, 13 Ap. 1723; Abigail, b. 26 Ap. 1725. SAMUEL the f. d. 1725, and his w. Catherine m. Joseph Badger 2 June 1731. 2. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (1), had Eunice, bap. 16 Sept. 1744, and Samuel, bap. 21 Feb. 1747-8.
"
Ruth,
b.
FERGUSON, RICHARD (Forginson on Town Rec. and Fergeson on Ch. Rec.), m. Sarah Hurley 31 July 1690, and d. apparently s. p. 25 April 1701 his w. Sarah m. John Laicore 11 Aug. 1701. 2. JOHN, parentage not ascertained, had five children baptized here: Anne, 24 Jan. 1724-5; Mary, 26 Nov. 1727; John, 19 July 1730; James, 7 May 1732; David, 29 June 1735. DELIVERANCE, owned the covenant in 1697, and was probably the same who m. William Chamberlain at Watertown 20 Dec. 1698. FESSENDEN, JOHN (otherwise written Fesenden, Fessinden, Fessington, Fezington, Fiziden, Fisenden, Fissenclen, Fishenden, Fishington, Phesenden, and Phesington), was here as early as 1638, and res. at the southerly corner of Winthrop and Eliot streets; which estate he sold in 1639, and purchased a house and land on the westerly side of Eliot Street south of Mt. Auburn Street. The family res. here for more than a century. Mr. Fessenden was a glover, Selectman eleven years, from 1656 until his death, and d. 21 Dec. 1666; his w. Jane d. 13 Jan. 1682-3, a. 80. They left no children. Their estate was " cousin Nicholas Feslarge, for that period, and descended by will to their 30 to senden," except a few legacies to others, among which was one of " cousin Hannah Sewall," prob. sister to Nicholas Fessenden.
;
2.
NICHOLAS,
;
prob.
nephew
to
John
(1),
was a
;
glover,
and inherited the

;
homestead. By his w. Margaret, he had Jane, b. 25 Oct. 1674, d. 24 July 1676 Hannah, b. 27 Aug. 1676, d. 4 Sept. 1676 John, b. 4 Oct. 1677 Nicholas, b. 12 Ja'n. 1680-81; Thomas, b. 4 and d. 28 Jan. 1682-3; Thomas, b. 12 Aug. 1684; Margaret, b. 22 Jan. 1686-7, living unm. 1742; Jane, b. 22 Ap. 1688, m. SamuelWinship 10 Jan. 1711-12; Mary, b. 28 Oct. 1689, m. Joshua Parker 15 June 1712; Ebenezer, b. prob. 1692 William, b. 1694; Joseph, bap. 17 Jan. 1696-7; Anna, bap. 9 Jan. 1697-8; Benjamin, bap. 15 June 1701, grad. H. C. 1718, ord. at Sandwich, 12 Sept. 1722, and d. 7 Aug. 1746. NICHOLAS the f. d. 24 Feb. 1718-19, a. 68; his w. Margaret d. 10 Dec. 1717, a. 61. 3. JOHN, s. of Nicholas (2), m. Sarah, dau. of John Squiers, and had John, b. 21 Oct. 1704; Sarah, b. 17 July 1706, m. Thomas Cheney 30 July 1729; Jonathan, bap. 24 July 1709; Jabez" bap. 9 Jan. 1714-15, d. 1743; Mary, (named in division of her father's estate), m. Stephen Jennings of Framingham, pub. 9 June 1737. JOHN the f. was of Lexington 1721, and d. prob. 1739; his Inventory is dated 24 Nov. 1739. 4. NICHOLAS, s. of Nicholas (2), grad. H. C. 1701, m. Sarah, wid. of Stephen Coolidge and dau. of Capt. Josiah Parker, 8 Aug. 1 706, and had Elizabeth,
;
FESSENDEN.
b. 19
543
May 1707, m. Jacob Sweetser of Maiden 4 May 1732; Sarah, b. 23 Oct. 1708; Nicholas, b. 8 July 1710, a brazier in Boston 1737, and prob. the same who d. there of apoplexy 22 Nov. 1753; Anne, bap. 11 May 1712, d. 6 June 1714; Mary, b. 19 May 1714, m. Mr. Timothy Bourne of Sandwich, pub. 26 Oct. 1741; Josiah, bap. 10 June 1716; Stephen, posthumous, bap. 25 Oct. 1719, grad. H. C. 1737, was a lawyer in Worcester 1742, and is said to have been remarkable for the neatness and accuracy of his official papers; he did not long remain in Worcester, but whither he removed is not ascertained. NICHOLAS the f. res. near the S. W. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets; he was Register of Probate 1704 to 1709, master of the Grammar School in Cambridge for many years, and d. suddenly (prob. of apoplexy), 5 Oct. 1719; his w. Sarah was living in 1737. 5. THOMAS, s. of Nicholas (2), m. Abigail Poulter 1708; she d. 25 Ap. 1719, and he m. Abigail Locke 8 Jan. 1720; she d. 12 June 1736, and he m. Anna Fillebrown 29 Dec. 1737. After about 1712, he resided at Lex. His children were Thomas, b. 9 Dec. 1709; Samuel, b. 11 Aug. 1711; Abigail, b. 13 July d. 25 Ap. 1719; Elizabeth, b. 1713; Mary, b. 17 Jan. 1716; Elizabeth, b. 18 Mar. 1721 Jonathan, b. 28 Ap. 1723; Hannah, b. 18 June 1725, d. young; Hannah, b. 19 Jan. 1726-7, d. 21 Ap. 1729; John, b. 27 Ap. 1729, rem. to Rutland, was Representative, Senator, member of the Committee on Confiscated Estates, Justice of the Peace, etc., and d. of apoplexy 7 Ap. 1793, a. 64, having had seven children (See Reed's Hist, of Rutland) Timothy, b. 6 May 1731; Benjamin, b. 9 Jan. 1733-4; Submit, b. 28 May 1736, d. 6 Jan. 1737. THOMAS the f. d. 6 Mar. 1738, a. 53 his w. Anna d. at Menotomy (suicide) 12 July 1753, a. 62. 6. KBKNKZER, s. of Nicholas (2), m. Elizabeth Barrett 13 June 1733, and His children were Alice, bap. 18 Dec. 1743, m. Alice Badcock 16 Ap. 1742. Thomas Ireland, Jr., of Chs. 28 Jan. 1768; Elizabeth, bap. 27 Ap. 1746, m. William Stanwood of Portsmouth, N. H. (pub. 30 Ap. 1768) Lucy, bap. 30 Sept. 1750, m. Samuel Foster of Portsmouth, N. H., 15 Oct. 1772. EBENEZER the f. d. about 1756 (his will proved 13 Sept. 1756), and his w. Alice m. James Pierce 26 June 1760. 7. WILLIAM, s. of Nicholas (2), m. Martha, dau. of William Wyeth 12 Oct. His children were Ruth, b. 28 1716, and Martha, dau. of Ichabod Brown. June 1717, m. John Hunt of Watertown William, b. 7 Dec. 1718; Martha, b. 29 Feb. 1719-20, m. John Cheney (pub. 23 Sept. 1738), and was living, his widow, in Rox. 1760; Margaret, b. 8 Nov. 1721, d. 17 Sept. 1722; Benjamin, b. 14 Jan. 1722-3, d. 21 Sept. 1723; Benjamin, b. 23 Oct. 1724, d. 21 Nov. 1724; Nicholas, b. 22 Nov. 1725; Peter, b. 16 Aug. 1728, was living in Rutland District (now Barre), 1760; John, b. 16 June 1730; Hannah, b. 15 Aug. 1732, m. John Wright, a physician in Camb. (pub. 25 Jan. 1752-3), d. 9 Dec. 1800, a. 68; Benjamin, bap. 25 Aug. 1734; Ebenezer, bap. 10 July 1737; Thomas, bap. 15 July 1739, grad. H. C. 1758, ord. at Walpole, N. H., 7 Jan. 1767, and d. 9 May 'l813 (he was father to Thos. G. Fessenden, well known as an editor and a poet, who d. at Boston of apoplexy 11 Nov. 1837); Mar22 Feb. 1815, a. 73; Martha, bap. 19 Oct. garet, bap. 17 Jan. 1741-2, d. unm. 1746, according to the Record; but another Martha was then living, and the Record may be suspected of error. Nicholas, Benjamin, and Ebenezer are not named in the division of their father's estate, and probably died young only one Martha had a share. WILLIAM the f. was a farmer, and res. on the old homestead. He d. 26 May 1756, a. 62; his w. Martha and eight children survived. 8. JOSKPH, s. of Nicholas (2), m. Mindwell, wid. of John Oldham, 6 Dec. The only child recorded was Margaret, bap. 11 Dec. 1737, the f. 1733. having previously deceased. 9. JOHN, s. of John (3), m. Mary Nowell 19 Sept. 1723, and had Grace, Smith 10 June 1742; Martha, bap. 17 Oct. 1725, bap. 26 Ap. 1724, m. Daniel m. Alexander Thompson (pub. 24 Mar. 1743-4); Sarah, bap. 13 Ap. 1729; Margaret, bap. 29 Aug. 1731. 10. JONATHAN, s. of John (3), in. Elizabeth Newell of Brookline (pub. 16
,
;
544
Aug. 1735.)
FESSENDEN
FILLEBROWN.
He was a victualler on the south side of the river, and d. 21 Nov. 1770; his w. Elizabeth d. 25 July 1776, a. 61. The estate was divided 5 Dec. 1782, to chil., Jonathan, Josiah, Moses, Mary, and heirs of Samuel, deceased. 11. JOSIAH, s. of Nicholas (4), was a brazier in Camb. 1737, and in Boston 1745. He is supposed to be the same who was pub. to Ruth Frost of Camb. 25 He then resided in Boston. Oct. 1755. 12. WILLIAM, s. of William (7), grad. H. C. 1737, m. Mary, dau. of Stephen Palmer, and had Martha, b. 8 June 1740, d. 11 May 1741; Nicholas b. 14 Ap. 1742, d. young; Mary, bap. 29 July 1744, d. 15 Nov. 1749 Sarah, b. 8 Aug. and d. 12* Sept. 1746; William, b. 3 Nov. 1747, grad H. C. 1768, taught school at Topsfield a short time, while there, m. Sarah Read of Camb. 22 Jan. 1771, was ord. at Fryeburg, Me., Oct. 1775, and d. May 1805. Stephen, bap. 20 May 1750; Mary, bap. 1 Mar. 1751-2; Nicholas, bap. 8 WILLIAM the f. taught the GramSept. 1754; Ebenezer, bap. 13 Feb. 1757. mar School in Camb. several years, and d. of apoplexy 17 June 1758, a. 39. 13. JONATHAN, s. of Jonathan (10), in. Elizabeth Parker 2 Sept. 1763, and had Boradel, bap. 14 Ap. 1765, m. W'illiam Cooper 1 Sept. 1784. 14. JOSIAH, s. of Jonathan (10), by w. Elizabeth had Pemberton, bap. 29 Oct. 1769; William, bap. 10 June 1770; Sarah, bap. 12 Dec. 1773, d. of consumption, at the almshouse, 6 Jan. 1797, a. 23; Josiah, bap. 7 July 1776; James, bap. 9 Aug. 1778, d. at the almshouse 14 Sept. 1795, a. 17. JOSIAH the f. d. at the almshouse 15 Ap. 1793, a. 47. 15. SAMUEL, s. of Jonathan (10), was a victualler on the south side of the Administration on his estate was river, and m. Sarah Spring 23 Nov. 1762. granted 4 Aug. 1772 to his w. Sarah, and guardians were appointed for his children, Henry and Samuel, 4 Dec. 1782. HANNAH, prob. sister to Nicholas (2), m. John Sewall, brother to Judge MARY. m. Elisha Hagar 19 Aug. 1752. SARAH, Sewall, 28 Oct. 1674. buried at Menotorny 28 Jan. 1775. MARTIN, d. "by accident," 19 Feb. 1798. FILLEBROWN, THOMAS (otherwise written Phillebrown) was admitted to the Church 18 May 1666. By w. Anna he had Thomas, bap. 20 May 1666. Mary, b. 5 May 1662, bap. 20 May 1666, m. Nathaniel Cutter 8 Oct. 1688 Hannah or Anna, bap. 14 Oct. 1666, d. 9 Aug. 1685. He prob. also had s. John, b. about 1672. THOMAS the f. d. 7 June 1713, a. 82; his w. Anna d. 31 Mar. 1714, a. 82. 2. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), in. Rebecca, dau. of Richard Cutter, 19 Dec. 1688, and had Thomas, b. 18 Sept. 1689; Anna, b. 13 Dec. 1691, m. Thomas Fessenden of Lexington (pub. 5 Nov. 1737), survived him, and died by suicide 12 July 1753; Isaac, b. 7 Sept. 1693; Rebecca, b. 6 Nov. 1695; John, b. 4 Jan. 1699-1700; Elizabeth, b. 10 May 1703; Sarah, b. 5 July 1707; Abigail, b. 18 Aug. 1711. THOMAS the f. d. prob. 1736 (adm. granted to his s. Isaac 7 June 1736); his w. Rebecca d. 26 July 1741, a. 76. 3. JOHN, prob. s. of Thomas (1), by w. Sarah had John, b. 12 Oct. 1698, d. 8 Nov. 1716; Mary, b. 5 Nov. 1700; Thomas, b. 5 June 1703; Sarah, b. 31 Dec. 1704; Anna, b. 26 Jan. 1706-7, m, Gershom Cutter 3d, 13 Feb. 1728-9; Elizabeth, b. 20 Ap. 1709, m. Moses Bordman, Jr., 25 Dec. 1746; Edward, bap. 18 May 1712; Ruth, bap. 23 Jan. 1714-15, m. Benj. Storer, Boston (pub. 4 June 1738). His w. Sarah d. 16 Oct. 1716. Perhaps the following were his children by a second wife John, bap. 6 Nov. 1720; Mercy, bap. 1 Sept. 1723. JOHN the f. d. 23 Oct. 1756, a. about 85. 4. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (2), m. Isabel dau. of Gershom Cutter, 9 Dec. 1713; he was admitted into the Church 16 Mar. 1717-18. 5. ISAAC, s. of Thomas (2), m. Hannah and had Isaac, John, and Richard, all bap. 4 Oct. 1 724 Hannah, bap. 6 Feb. 1 725-6, m. Solomon Prentice, Jr., at Chs. 2 Nov. 1744; Mary, bap. 25 Mar. 1728, m. Rand; Rebecca, bap. 29 Mar. 1730, m. Nehemiah Mason; James, bap. 13 Feb. 1731-2; Thomas, Hunnewell; Sarah, bap. 16 June 1734; Elizabeth, bap. 9 Nov. 1735, m. bap. 23 Ap. 1738, d. unm. 7 Feb. 1803. ISAAC the f. d. prob. 1767 (will 10 his w. and all the children except John and James survived. proved Dec.);
:
FILLEBROWN
6.
7.
FISHER
and
FISKE.
545
JOHN,
s.
of
s.
Thomas
of
(>), res. in Chs.

(3),
m. Susanna and had Edward, b. 8 June 1749; Sarah, b. 29 Oct. 1752; Elizabeth, b. 5 Jan. 1755; Ruth, b. 25 Oct. 1757; and perhaps others. His w. Susanna d. 23 June 1772, and he m. (2) Mrs. Elizabeth Stearns 7 Dec. 1775. He d. 16 June 1793. 8. ISAAC, s. of Isaac and had John, bap. 24 Nov. 1745; (5), m.
, ,
EDWARD,
John
d. 17 Oct. 1772, a. nearly 73.
Hannah, bap. 2G Ap. 1747; Mart/, bap. 6 May 1750; Elizabeth, bnp. 12 Ap. 1752; Rebecca, bap. 1 Dec. 1754, d. young; Rebecca, bap. 5 Sept. 1759;
Thomas, bap. 5 Sept. 1762.
9. RICHARD, s. of Isaac and had James, b. 23 (5), m. Mehetabel Nov. 1751 Samuel, b. 27 Nov. 1753, m. Mary Pitts 9 Nov. 1775 a child, b. and d. 3 June 1756; Richard and Mehelabel", twins, bap. 11 May 1758, of whom the- first d. 25 Feb. 1759, and the other d. young: Mehelabel, b. 28 Jan. 1761. RICHARD the f. d. (in the army) at Kittery 20 Nov. 1762; his w. Me,
hetabel
10.
d. prob.
1764 (administration granted 8 Oct.).

,
and had Hannah, bap. prob. s. of Isaac (5), m. 1772, m. Josiah Morse 12 May 1793; she d. and he m. Hannah Brown 1 Dec. 1778, and had Thomas, bap. 3 Oct. 1779 Dorcas and Susanna, twins, bap. 21 Ap. 1782; John, bap. 11 July 1784; James, bap. 20 Aug. 1786; His w. Hannah d. Elizabeth, bap. 20 July 1788; Leonard, bap. 28 Feb. 1790. 3 Oct. 1797, a. 47. Rebecca, wid. of Thomas Fillebrown, who d. at AVest Camb. 18 Aug. 1840, a. 85, was perhaps his third wife. 11. EDWARD, perhaps s. of Edward (7), m. Lydia Prentice 23 Aug. 1770, and had Lydia, bap. 16 June 1771, m. Nathaniel P. Watson 9 Feb. 1797; Edward, bap. 20 Sept. 1772; Jonas, bap. 22 June 1777. EDWARD the f. was a tanner, and res. on the westerly side of North Avenue, not far southerly from Linntean Street. He d. 9 July 1798, a. 54 (so the age is expressed on the gravestone but if this be correct, he was not the son of Edward, 7). His
THOMAS,
25 Oct.
w. Lydia d. 2 Dec. 1832, a. 87. 12. JAMES, s. of Richard (9), m. Elizabeth Prentice 5 June 1774; she d. and he m. wid. Phebe Barnard 24 May 1798. His children were James, b. 3 Nov. 1774; Elizabeth, b. 26 Sept. 1778, m. Joseph Seaver Sept. 1795; Samuel Sprague, b. 30 Nov. 1780; Richard, b. 8 Aug. 1783, m. Charlotte Lowe 26 May 1819, and d. 31 May 1829; John, b. 25 May 1786, prob. m. Joanna Morrison 2 June 1816, and d. 24 Dec. 1839; Silas Barnard, b. 15 Aug. 1799, m. Rebecca R. Richardson 4 July 1824, and d. 27 April 1857 William Jenks, b. 29 Jan. 1802. JAMES the f res. on the easterly side of Holyoke Street, between Harvard and Mount Auburn streets, and d. 22 Oct. 1816, a. 65. His w. Phebe <1. 28 Nov. 1851, a. 92. 13. EDWARD, s. of Edward (11), m. Elizabeth Barrett 16 Ap. 1801, had Elizabeth, b. 20 Ap. 1806, and perhaps others, and d. 13 July 1817, a. 45. and had Mary, b. Aug. 1799. 14. JONAS, s. of Edward (11), m. Mary He d. 19 Nov. 1799, a. 22. 15. JAMES, s. of James (12), m. Elizabeth Newland 2 Ap. 1795, and had Elizabeth, b. 24 June 1797; Mary, named in her grandfather's will, and living in 1816. JAMKS the f. d. on a voyage to the N. W. coast within the year admx. previous to Sept. 1805, when his wid. Elizabeth was appointed
:
.
16.
SAMUEL SPRAGUE, He
d. before
s.
of
Samuel, on the Record, and by w. Dorcas had Klmira,

1806. 10
May
was prob. the same who is called b. 28 Mar. 1806, d. Ap. 1816, leaving children to whom bequests were
James
(12),
their grandfather. and Chs., and This'family resided principally near the line between Camb. many of the births were not recorded in either town. Very little is to be the true line of gleaned from the Probate Records, to assist in determining I apprehend there may be errors in the foregoing sketch. descent. FISHER, THOMAS, in 1635 res. at the N. W. corner of Holyoke and South He rem. early, but would seem not to have settled in Hartford, as he streets. Hinman. forfeited his lot there. David FISKE, DAVID, of Watertown, freeman 1638, d. 1661 leaving son Fitch. and dau.
made by
546
FISKE
FITT.
2. DAVID, s. of David (1), was early in Camb. and m. Lydia, sister of Deac. John Cooper, and dau. of Deac. Gregory Stone's second wife; she d. His chil29 Nov. 1654, and he m. Seaborn Wilson of Ipswich 6 Sept. 1655. dren were Sarah, b. d. 8 May 1647; Lydia, b. 29 Ap. 1647, m. Nicholas Wyeth 6 Sept. 1681, and d. without issue 10 Mar. 1697-8; David, b. 1 Sept. 1648, d. 20 Sept. 1649 Dacid, b. 15 Ap. 1650; Ephraim., b. 13 Aug. 1653, d. 14 Sept. 1653; Elizabeth, bap. here, m. John Russell; Sarah, bap. here, prob. d. young; Hannah (or Anna), bap. 27 Nov. 1659, m. Timothy Carter of Woburn Abigail, b. 1 Feb. 1674, m. Henry Baldwin of Woburn. DAVID the f. rem. from Watertown to Camb. about 1646, and res. on the northerly side of Linnaean Street, near the Botanic Garden, which estate, he sold to Joseph Daniel 12 Dec. 1660, and prob. rem. to the Farms (Lex.) about the same time. He was a wheelwright, but much employed in public service, especially as a surveyor of lands. He was Selectman 1688, and Representative in the critical period of 1689. He was one of the most prominent men in the settle,
;
ment at the Farms; precinct clerk, and assessor;, the first subscriber for erecting a meeting-house there, and the first named member of the Church. He d. 14 Feb. 1710-11, a. 87. His w. Seaborn d. prob. 1720. 3. DAVID, s. of David (2), by w. Sarah, had Dane?, b. 5 Jan. 1676-7; Jonathan, b. 19 May 1679; Robert, b. 8 May 1681, a physician, d. 18 Ap. 1753; Anna, b. 2 Ap. 1683; Lydia, b. 14 May 1685, m. Joseph Loring Sarah, b. 16 June 1687; Abigail, b. 20 May 1689, d. 13 Aug. 1691 Ebenezer, b. 12 Sept. 1692. DAVID the f. res. at the Farms (or Lex.), and d. 23 Oct. 1729: his w. Sarah d. 22 Ap. 1729. See Hudson's Hint. Lex. 4. THADDEUS, s. of Jonathan of Weston, a descendant from Nathan of Watertown, b. 22 June 1762, m. Lucy, dau. of Rev. Jonas Clark of Lex., 17 June 1789, and had Horatio Hancock, b. 22 June 1790, m. Letitia Whittemore 29 Mar. 1818, and d. 13 Sept. 1829; Elmira, b. 23 Ap. 1792, m. Joseph Adams, a lawyer, 19 Nov. 1811, and d. s. p. 13 June 1854. THADDEUS the f. grad. H. C. 1785, and received the degree of D. D. from Columbia College, N. Y. in 1821 he was ordained pastor of the Church in Menotomy 23 Ap. 1 788, which office he resigned 23 Ap. 1828, and d. 14 Nov. 1855 his w. Lucy
;
; , ; ;
Mar. 1855, a. 88. 5. ISAAC, brother of Thaddeus (4), b. 4 Dec. 1778, m. Sukey Hobbs of d. young; Augustus Henry, b. Weston 7 Nov. 1802; and had Isaac, b. 19 Sept. 1805, H. C. 1825, a lawyer in Boston, d. 22 Mar. 1864; Isaac Lamson, b. 18 Mar. 1810; George, b. 19 Nov. 1813; Susan Ann, b. 22 Oct. 1815; Andrew, b. 8 May 1817; Edwarrl, b. 17 Dec. 1819. ISAAC the f. grad. H. C. 1798, was a lawyer in Weston, Register of Probate in Middlesex from 1817 to 1851, res. alternately at Weston and Cambridge, and d. 11 Mar. 1861. 6. NATHAN, s. of Samuel of Waltham, a descendant from John of Waterd. 9
,
town, b. 6 Dec. 1780 (according to the family record, or 1779, as Bond records it), settled early in Camb., m. Anna Livermore, dau. of Josiah Mason, 13 July 1805, and had Clementina, b. 12 Aug. 1805, d. young; Frederick WilSarah Ruxsell Mason, b. 16 Dec. 1808, m. liam, b. Nov. 1806, d. young James Munroe, Jr, 8 Oct. 1834; Elijah, b. 1 Feb. 1811, m. Charlotte D. Endicott 5 Oct. 1837, a merchant in New York, where he d. 4 Dec. 1859 Mary Lois, b. 1 May 1813, m. Alexander H. Ramsay 8 Ap. 1835 Margaret, b. 1 April 1815, m. David Humphrey 15 Nov. 1837; Benjamin, b. 9 May 1817, d. young; Eibridge Gerry, b. 26 July 1819, m. Sarah P. Teele 24 Nov. 1842 Joseph Bradley Varnum, b. Aug. 1821, d. young Josiah Mason, b. 23 Oct. 1823, m. Martha T. Smith; Anna Abigail, b. 10 July 1826, m. Nathaniel Prentiss 4 May 1844 Charles Carroll, b. 11 June 1828, grad. H. C. 1849. NATHAN the f. was a grain dealer near West Boston Bridge, and afterwards Deputy Sheriff, and otherwise engaged in public business. Late in life he res. on Holyoke Place and on North Avenue, and d. 27 April 1868, his w. Anna L. d. 12 Sept. 1861, a. 77. FITT, ROBERT, owned an estate, 1638, on the southerly side of Winthrop PerStreet, nearly opposite the southwesterly corner of Winthrop Square. " haps he was identical with ttobert Fitts, who was at Salisbury 1640 rem. to Ipswich, and d. about 1665, leaving a wife Grace, and son Abraham-" Farmer.
; ; ; ; ; ; ;
FOORTH
FOX.
547
FOOKTH, ROGKR, (in the margin written Foord), d. 24 Ap. 1644. No further record of this family, whose name was proh. Ford. FOSTER, THOMAS, styled a physician on the Court Files, was proh. s. of Thomas Foster of Wey mouth. He was in Roxbury 15 Oct. 1662, when he m. Sarah Parker, dau. of Robert Parker of Camb., who bequeathed property in 1684 to his dau. Sarah Foster. His children, at Roxbury, were Thinna*, b. 1 Aug. 1663 Sarah, b. 3 June 1667, prob. m. Thomas Williams of Stow; Hannah, b. 23 July 1669 Jonathan, b. 21 Sept. 1671 and in Camb. Elizabeth, b. 26 Sept. 1677. He d. here 16 Sept. 1679, or as inscribed on his gravestone 28 Oct. 1679, a. 39. His widow Sarah survived, and was empowered by the General Court, May 1680, to sell land in Roxbury. See Gen. Reg., xxvi. 394. 2. THOMAS, s. of Thomas He (1), m. Experience Parker 30 Nov. 1686. removed to Stow, had son Thomas, b. 18 Sept. 1687, and was living in 1715. 3. BOSSKNGER, s. of Thomas and grandson of Thomas who m. Ann Bossenger, in Boston, 1 June 1711, res. on the estate now owned by Samuel BatchHe was elder, Esq., on the south side of Brattle Street, west of Ash Street. a gentleman of leisure, and d. of gout 23 Ap. 1805, a. 63. He m. Mary, sister to Andrew Craigie, and had (all prob. b. in Boston) Boxsenger, grad. II. C. 1787, a lawyer, d. unm. of palsy 17 Jan. 1816, a. 48 Elizabeth, m. lion. Samuel Haven of Dedham Andrew, grad. H. C. 1800, a physician in Dedhatn, in. Marv Conant in Camb. 19 Nov. 1813, and d. 1831 John, b. July 1782, grad. H. C. 1802, d. unm. 3 Nov. 1836 Thomas, grad. H. C. 1805, a physician, Town Clerk 1827, d. unm. Feb. 1831, a. 46; James, grad. H. C. 1806, a lawyer, Register of Probate for a short period, d. unm., of dysentery, 27 Aug. 1817 George, grad. B. U. 1811, a lawyer, d. unm., of dysentery, 4 Sept. 1817, a. 27. Mary Craigie, bap. in Camb. 7 Dec. 1794, d. 18 Feb. 1811,
;
; ; ;
a. 16.
4. JOHN, s. of Nathan, b. at Western (now Warren) 19 Ap. 1763, grad. D. C. 1783, D. D. at H. C. 1815, was ordained at Brighton 1 Nov. 1784, was dismissed by mutual agreement 31 Oct. 1827, and d. 15 Sept. 1829, a. 66. He m. Hannah Webster of Boston Ap. 1785, and had Wainwriyht, b. 4 Feb. 1786 Hannah White, b. 22 Dec. 1790 Henry, b. 31 John, b. 22 Ap. 1789 May 1793 Elizabeth Lane.ford, b. 19 Oct. 1794 Harriet Vaughn, b. 9 Sept.
;
1796.
FOWNELL, JOHN, by w. Mary, had Sarah, b. Aug. 1638. He was prob. the same who. according to Savage, was in Chs., freeman 1645, and d. 19 Mar. his w. Mary d. 25 Jan. 1696, a. 84. 1673, a. 65 Fox, THOMAS, was prob. the freeman named 1638, and may have been the same whose name is found in the Colony Records, 8 Mar. 1630-31 " Ordered, That Tho. Foxe, servant to Mr. Cradocke, shall be whipped for uttering malicious and scandalous speeches, whereby he sought to traduce the Court, as if they had taken some bribe in the business concerning Walter Palmer." He prob. resided a few years at Concord, for Mitchell says his son Jabez was baptized there, but was in his minority when his father joined this church. His w. Rebecca d. at Concord 11 May 1647. Before June 1649, he came to Camb. He m. Ellen, wid. of Percival Green, the marriage contract " Her death was being dated 24 May 1650. She d. 27 May 1682, a. 82. occasioned by a fall she got on the floor, whereby she broke her thigh." (N. Mr. Fox m. (3d) Elizabeth, wid. Russell's Diary, N. E. Gen. Reg., vii. 54.) of Charles Chad wick of Watertown, 24 Ap. 1683, who d. 22 Feb. 1684-5, and was buried in the old cemetery in Watertown, by the side of her former husband. Soon afterwards, 16 Dec. 1685, Mr. Fox m. Rebecca, wid. of Nicholas He d. 25 Ap. 1693, his last three wives. He had no children
; ;
Wyeth.
by
Place, about midway between its northeasterly angle and North Avenue, until the house was destroyed by fire about 1681 or 1682 after which, with the exception of a very short residence in Watertown, he afterwards probably occupied the estate on the east side of Holmes Place, owned bv Steward Hastings and still later by the Rev. Dr. Holmes.
aged 85
his w.
Rebecca
d. in 1698.
After his marriage to Mrs. Green he

;
resided in
Holmes
548
2.
FOX
THOMAS,
FOXCROFT.
s.
of Concord, perhaps
of
Thomas
(1),
m. Hannah Brooks
13 Dec. 1657, and d. 12 Ap. 1658, leaving wid., and chil. Eliphalet, Elizabeth, and others not designated by name in his will. Bond (Hist. Waterlown, p. 765) conjectures that this person was identical with Thomas (1), and Savage (Gen. Diet., ii. 197) doubts. But the record of his death in 1658, which describes him as " husband of Hannah," settles this point beyond all question, though it does not indicate what relationship, if any, he sustained to the other Thomas who survived until 1693.
3. JABEZ, s. of Thomas (1), bap. at Concord, came here in his minority, m. Judith, dau. of Rev. John Reyner, and had John, b. in Cambridge 10 May 1678, and in Woburn, Thomas, b. 6 July 1680, and d. four days afterwards; Thomas, b. 13 Nov. 1681 Jabez, b. 2 Dec. 1684; Judith, b. 19 June 1690, d. young. JABEZ the f. grad. H. C. 1665, was ordained pastor of the church in Woburn about 1679, and d. of small-pox 28 Feb. 1702-3, a. 56; his w. Judith m. Col. Jonathan Tyng and d. 5 June 1736, a. 98. 4. JOHN, s. of Jabez (3), grad. H. C. 1698, succeeded his father in the ministry at Woburn 17 Nov. 1703, and d. 12 Dec. 1756, a. 78, having been His son Jabez, b. 1705, grad. H. C. blind for the last fifteen years of his life. 1727, was trained for the ministry but did not preach; rem. to Portland as early as 1743, and d. there 6 Ap. 1755, having been Magistrate, Representa;
Smith's tive, Councillor, etc. 5. JABEZ, s. of Jabez (3),
Journal, note.
was a
tailor,
and
res.
with w.
Hannah
in
Bos-
He d. before ton, 1708, when he and his brother John sold land in Camb. 30 Aug. 1 736, when his heirs, to wit., widow Hannah, and her children Thomas, of Woodstock, Hannah, w. of Thomas Roberts, Boston, Judith, w. of Thomas Prince, Duxbury, and Rebecca, w. of James Allen, Boston, received from Rev. John Fox a quitclaim of all interest in the Cambridge homestead, which they
sold
the next year to Jonathan Hastings, the famous Steward and ardent
patriot.
FOXCROFT, FRANCIS, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Dep. Gov. Danforth, 3 Oct. m. Mr. Christopher Bridge 1682, and had, in Boston, Elizabeth, b. 15 May 1701 Martha, b. 26 Mar. 1689, m. Benjamin GerDaniel, b. rish of Boston, merchant, 28 June 1716, and d. here 14 Ap. 1736; Francis, b. 26 Jan. 1694-5; Thomas, b. 26 Feb. 1696-7 Samuel, b. 5 June 1 700, prob. d. young. FRANCIS the f. came from England (prob. Yorkshire, where he appears to have had an estate), and established himself in Boston. On the death of his wife's father, he removed to the homestead in Cambridge, which had been conveyed to him, and res. here during the remainder of his life. He was a man of wealth and energy, and sustained many public offices. He was Justice of the Peace, under Andros and upon his warrant, Winslow was committed to prison for announcing the Revolution in England. A few days afterwards, he exchanged places with Winslow, and became himself a prisHe seems, however, not to have been oner, with Andros and his adherents. very obnoxious to the new government, for 20 Ap. 1689, it was "ordered, that Mr. Francis Foxcroft be released from his present imprisonment, and be confined to the house of Thomas Danforth, Esq., in Cambridge, for one week's time, and that then he be set at liberty, unless anything appear to be objected He was elected Representative for Dunstaagainst him, in the mean time." He was Judge of the Common Pleas, ble, though residing in Boston, 1693. 1707-1719, and Judge of Probate, 1708-1725. His character is briefly but graphically delineated by Tutor Flint, in the preface to the funeral sermon delivered by Rev. Dr. Appleton. " He was a gentleman by birth, of a worthy He family in the north of England, where he had a good school education. was bred a merchant, and was very expert and skilful, as well as very just and upright in all his business. His natural powers were extraordinary; his acquired knowledge of various kinds was so too; his virtues were great and eminent. His generosity, prudence, sincerity, justice towards men, and piety towards God, were conspicuous to those that knew him. His temper indeed was sudden, and made almost uncontrollable by the violence of the gout and pain he was such an uncommon instance of but this was his burden and
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FOXCROFT.
lamentation.
sation,
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He was a person of a grave and austere countenance and convermixed with much of the gentleman and the Christian." His w. d. 4 July 1721, a. 56. He d. 31 Dec. 1727, a. 70. He was an Episcopalian, and was buried with the forms of that church; but for nearly thirty years he had worshipped and communed with the Congregational Church here. 2. DANIKL, s. of Francis (1), was Register of Probate 1710-1714, and Subcommissary in the expedition against Canada, 1711. He removed to England, and as early as 4 May 1723, was at " Rawdon near Leeds, in the west riding of Yorkshire." Between 14 May 1730, and 24 Aug. 1731, he removed from Rawdon to " Plaistow, near London," where he died, and his brother Francis was appointed administrator on his estate in N. Eng. 13 Aug. 1741. He prob. d. unm. as his property descended to his relatives here. 3. FRANCIS, s. of Francis (1), grad. H. C. 1712, in. Mehetabel Coney of Boston 5 Nov. 1722, and had Mehetabel, b. 19 Aug. 1723, m. Rev. Jonas Meriam of Newton 25 Jan. 1759, and d. 22 Ap. 1770; Francis, b. 11 May 1725, d. young; Daniel, b. 11 Feb. 1726-7; Elizabeth, bap. 30 Mar. 1729, m. Benjamin Brandon 4 Jan. 1750, and d. before 1765; Thomas, bap. 24 Jan. 1730-31, d. young; Martha, bap. 4 Feb. 1732-3, d. young; Francis, bap. 29 June 1735, d. young; George, bap. 6 June 1736, "fell into scalding wort " 19 Aug. 1739, and d. the next day Katherine, bap. 24 Ap. 1737, d. young; William, bap. 16 Ap. 1738, d. young; Layton, bap. 11 Mar. 1738-9, d. young; John, bap. 30 Mar. 1740; Georoe, bap. 5 July 1741, d. young; Phebe, bap. 14 Aug. 1743, m. Hon. Samuel Phillips, Jr., of Andover 6 July 1773 (who was elected Lt.-gov. of Mass. 1801), and d. 1812; Francis, bap. 18 Nov. 1744. FRANCIS the f. spent most of his life in the public service. It is stated in an obituary notice, published in the Boston News Lftter, 31 Mar. 1768, that "he was early appointed Register of Probate for the County of Middlesex, which office he sustained for many years [1719-1731]; was clerk of the Hon. House of Representatives was Register of Deeds forty-four years [forty-five years, 1721-1766]; was one of his Majesty's Council for twenty-six years [17321757]; the eldest Justice of the Peace and Quorum through the Province, and First Justice of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the County where he lived [1737-1764], till by reason of bodily infirmities, and from a great scrupulosity and tenderness of conscience, fearing he should not do his duty by not giving a constant attendHe abhorred arbiance, he resigned his seat at the Board and on the Bench. trary power, on the one hand, and a mobbish plebian spirit, on the other." Judge Foxcroft occupied the paternal mansion, and in his will expressed a strong desire that it should be retained by his family. He d. 28 Mar. 1768, a. 73. His w. Mehetabel d. at Andover 4 May 1782, a. 79. 4. THOMAS, s. of Francis (1), grad. H. C. 1714, was selected by Pres. Leverett to salute the Governor in a Latin Oration, on a formal visitation of the 20 Nov. College, 1716, was ordained minister of the First Church in Boston 1717, m. Anna Coney 9 March 1718-9, and d. of apoplexy 16 or 18 June He was eminent in his profession, and well sustained the char1769, a. 72. His son Samuel, grad. H. C. 1754, was ordained minisacter of his family. ter at New Gloucester, Me., 16 Jan. 1765, was honorably dismissed, 1793, Justice of the Peace for the County of Cumberland, and "died suddenly 2 Mar. 1807, in the 72d year of his age." Alden's Epitaphs, and Winthrop's
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(MS.) Catalogue. 5. DANIEL, e. of Francis

aged
29.
(3). grad.
H. C. 1746, and
d.
unm.
3 Jan.
1756,
6. JOHN, a. of Francis (3), grad. H. C 1758, m. Sarah [DeaneV], and d. " fell from her chair without issue 23 Dec. 1802, a. nearly 63; his w. Sarah and instantaneously expired," 2 July 1800, a. 53. Mr. Foxcroft was Justice f the Peace, and was Register of Deeds ten years (1 766-1776). Being suswith the ected, and probably with sufficient cause, of a strong sympathy ritish Government (luring the Revolutionary struggle, he became unpopular nd lost office. He remained here, however, and spent his days in luxurious natural disposiease, which appears to have been much more congenial to his
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tion than a
FOXCROFT
FRANCIS.
more active employment. He heeded the request of his father and retained possession of the homestead, having obtained the rights of the other heirs by purchase, and prob. resided in the mansion-house until it was He afterwards owned and occupied the estate destroyed by fire 24 Jan. 1777. After his decease, the at the N. W. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets. family having become extinct here, the heirs residing in Essex and Worcester counties sold the real estate, and the noble farm of Danforth and the Foxcrofts was cut up into fragments. The only considerable portion of it which
remains undivided
7.
is
the valuable estate of the late Professor Norton.
FRANCIS, s. of Francis (3), grad. H. C. 1764, was an eminent physician in Brookfield, where he m. Sarah, dau. of Dr. Jabez Upham, 5 May 1768, and d. 15 Feb. 1814, a. 69; his w. Sarah d. at Claremont, N. II., April 1827. Their children were Sarah, m. Samuel Fiske, Esq., Claremont, N. H., son of Rev. Nathan Fiske, D. D., of Brookfield; Betsey, m. Thomas Haskins of Witherell of Brookfield; Boston, and d. at Roxbury in 1849; Fanny, m. Mehelabel, m. Josiah Lyon, and d. at Woodstock, Vt., May 1850, a. 74; Francis Augustus, b. 4 A'ug. 1782, a merchant at Wethersfield, Vt., 1804, and at Boston about 1810, d. at Newton 7 Ap. 1818; Martha Brandon, m, David H. Sumner of Hartland, Vt. John, prob. jjrad. H. C. 1807, d. at Worcester Aug. 1824, a. 39; George, d. at Brookfield July 1803, a. 15. FRANCIS, RICHARD, 4 July 1644, bought of Nathaniel Sparhawk a house and land at the N. E. corner of Holmes Place, being part of the estate recently owned by Mr. Royal Morse. By his w. Alice, he had Stephen, b. 7 Feb. 1644-5; Sarah, b. 4 Dec. 1646, m. John Squires, and was living his wid. 1713;
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John, b. 4 Jan. 1649-50. RICHARD the f. d. 24 Mar. 1686-7, "aged 81 years or thereabout," and was noticed by Judge Sewall, as "an ancient and good man indeed." 2. STEPHEN, s. of Richard (1), m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas Hall, 27 Dec. 1670; she d. 2 Ap. 1683, and he m. Hannah, d. of William Dickson, 16 Sept. 1683. His children, in Camb., were Hannah, b. 28 Sept. 1671, d. 17 June 1677; Stephen, b. 15 Aug. 1674; Hannah, b. 18 June 1677, d. young; HanSTEPHEN the f. was a brickmaker, and rem. to Medf. nah, b. 7 Ap. 1680. about 1680, where he died 24 Sept. 1719; his w. Hannah survived. 3. JOHN, s. of Richard (1), m. Lydia, dau. of Deac. John Cooper, 5 Jan. 1687-8, and had in Camb., John, b. 10 Oct. 1688, d. young; John, b. 17 Feb. 1689-90, d. at Medford 31 Aug. 1750; Stephen, b. 2 Nov. 1691; Nathaniel, b. about 1C93, named in the division of his father's estate; and in Medf., Samuel, b. 17 Feb. 1695-6; Anna, b. 2 Nov. 1697, m. Benjamin Dana 23 July 1724; Joseph, b. 5 Jan. 1699-1700; Ebenezer, b. 30 Oct. 1701, d. 23 Mar. 1702-3; Lydia, b. 20 Ap. 1703, m. Joseph Tufts; Ebenczer, b. 25 Mar. 1708. JOHN the f. was a brickmaker, and rem. to Medf. where he d. 3 Jan. The 1727-8, a. 78, and administration was granted to his eldest son John. " following extract from Judge Sewall's Diary refers to him: Aug. 7, 1674. New College raised. John Francis, helping about raising the New College, had his right leg (both bones) broke, a little above the ankle, and his left This thigh, about four inches below the joint, by a piece that fell on him." accident probably occasioned a permanent lameness; such at least, is a fair inference from a petition presented to the Council of War, in the summer of 1676: "The petition of Stephen Francis humbly showeth, that your petitioner, being by trade a brickmaker, and having been several times abroad on the country's service, 'and now hath a servant out in his stead, his father at home, ancient, and his brother lame, and this season only being the time for his calling which he is altogether unable to follow for want of the abovesaid servant your petitioner humbly intreats your Honors to consider his distressed condition, and give order for the release of his said servant Amoras Mackfassitt, that is in his stead, that so they may improve the summer for their calling; and your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray." 4. NATHANIEL, s. of John (3), res. in Medf. and thence rem. to Chs. where he d. 2 Sept. 1764, a. 71, leaving wife Ann (who d. at Mason, N. H., 31 Dec. Of these 1777, a. 74), and three sons, Nathaniel, Benjamin, and Richard.
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sons, Nathaniel m. in Camb. Phebc Frost 11 Ap. 1751; Benjamin m. Lydia Convers of Medf. 7 Ap. 1757, by whom he had Benjamin, d. at Baltimore; James, William, a daughter, and Convers, b. 14 July 1766, d. 27 Nov. 1856, whose son Convers Francis, D. D., b. in Camb. 9 Dec. 1795, was one of the
professors in Harvard College and d. 7 Ap. 1863; by his second w. Sarah Hall, Benjamin Francis had Sarah, m. Ephraim Bound of Middletown. Conn.; Simon; Nathaniel, drowned in the British Channel; Lydia, m. Job Wyeth of Camb. 31 Jan. 1804; Ebenezer; Stephen. 5. SAMUEL, s. of John (3), res. in Medf., where he d., and administration was granted to Aaron Blanchard 1 Dec. 1778. His estate was divided between the heirs of son John, dec.; heirs of Samuel, dec. (b. at Medf. Jan. 1728-9); Lydia, w. of Ebenezer Blunt; Mary, w. of William Tufts; heirs of Diekson ; heirs of Sarah, dec. w. of Abraham Smith; Hannah, dec. w. of and Rebecca, w. of Aaron Blanchard.
6.
ministration
JOSEPH, s. of John was granted
were, Elizabeth, b 7 1829; Lydia, b. 12 Dec. 1737; Joseph, b. 17 July 1741. 7. EBENEZER, s. of John (3), res. in Medf. and by w. Rachel had Susanna, b. 28 Nov. 1734; Abigail, b. 6 Oct. 1736; Lucy, b. 12 Mar. 1738-9, m. Edward Wilson 23 Nov. 1758; Sarah, b. 6 June 1741; Ebenezer, b. 22 Dec. 1743; William, b. 20 Ap. 1746; Thomas, b. 15 July 1748, in. Susanna Hill 11 July 1771; Aaron, b. 16 Feb. 1750-51; John, b. 28 Sept. 1753. 8. EBENEZER, s. of Ebenezer (7), rem. to Beverly 1764, was a Colonel in the Revolutionary Army, highly distinguished for his bravery and good conduct, and was slain in battle at Hubbardton, Vt., 7 July 1777. By his w. Judith Wood, m. 1766, he had four daughters and one son, Ebenezer Francis, of Boston, Treasurer of Harvard College, who d. 20 Sept. 1858. 9. AARON, s. of Ebenezer (7), rem. to Beverly, where he d. 1825, a. about 74; his son Ebenezer, b. at Bev. 18 Oct. 1790, has for many years resided here, and is father of Rev. Eben Francis. 10. JOHN*, s. of Ebenezer (7), rem. to Beverly, was adjutant in the regiment of his brother, Col. Francis, at the Hubbardton Battle, afterwards Col. of militia, and d. 30 July 1822, a. nearly 69. FRENCH, WILLIAM, by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. in England about Ellis of Dedham; Mary, b. about 1633, "bap. in England, be1631, m. tween two and three years old at her father's joining; John, bap. by Mr. Hooker, in Camb." about 1635 (Mitchell). Sarah, b. Mar. 1638; Jacob, b. 16 Jan. 1639-40; Hannah, b. 2 Feb. 1641-2, d. 20 June 1642; prob. another Hannah, b. about 1643, m. John Braekett at Billerica, 6 Sept. 1661; Samuel, b. 3 Dec. 1645, d. 15 July 1646. WILLIAM the f. was a tailor, and Lieutenant of the militia; he res. on the westerly side of Dunster Street, about midway between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, which About estate he bought in 1639, and sold to William Barrett, 10 June 1656. 1653, he removed to Billerica and was the first Representative of that town, 1666; his w. Elizabeth d. 31 Mar. 1668, and he m. Mary, wid. of John Stearns, 6 May 1669, and had Mari/, b. 3 Ap. 1670; Sarah, b. 29 Oct. 1671; d. 20 Nov. 1681, a. Abigail, b. 14 Ap. 1673, d. 13 Ap. 1674; WILLIAM the f.
78.
where he d. 1 Feb. 1748, and adHis children, recorded at Medf., Nov. 1736, prob. the same who d. unm. at Medf. Feb.
(3), res. in Medf. to w. Elizabeth.
to William (1), by w. Joanna, had John, b. about 1635: Oct. 1637, dismissed to the Church in Billerica 16 May 1664, and b. 4 An. 1640; prob. the same who m. John Trull 11 Dec. 1657; Joseph, JOHN the f. was a tailor, and Nathaniel, b. 7 June 1643, prob. d. young. res. at the S. E. corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn streets, nearly on the which now makes the N. E. corner of said streets. He was buried 16 spot Feb. 1645-6, and his w. Joanna, 20 Jan. 1645-6. His brother William French of Billerica administered, and sold the homestead to Robert Browne, 1657 " John French, son and heir of said John French," joined in the sale. 3. RICHARD, prob. brother to William (1), was here a short time, and by 1653. He res. on the northerly side of had Samuel, b. 13 w.
2.
JOHN, brother
b.
Sarah,
Martha,
July
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FRENCH
FROST.
Bow Street, on the estate formerly of Nicholas Danforth, which he bought 26 Jan. 1651-2, and sold to Edmund Angier 8 Oct. 1654, after which time no trace is found of him here. 4. JOHN, prob. s. of William (1), settled in Billerica, and m. Abigail Coggan of Barnstable 21 June 1659; she d. 5 Ap. 1662, and he m. Hannah Burrage 3 July 1663; she d. 7 July 1667, and he m. Mary Rogers 14 Jan. 1667-8; she d. 16 June 1677, and he m. another Mary soon afterwards. His children were Hannah, b. 11 Jan. 1663-4, m. John Kittredge 3 Aug. 1685; b. 15 May 1679; Abigail, b. 6 Dec. 1665; Mary, b. 1 Mar. 1669-70; John, William, b. 26 Nov. 1683, d. 21 Ap. 1686; WilElizabeth, b. 24 July 1681 JOHN the f. d. Oct. 1712, a. 78. liam, b. 18 Aug. 1687. 5. JACOB, s. of William (1), settled in Billerica, and m. Mary, dau. of Elder Champney of Camb., 20 Sept. 1665; she d. 1 Ap. 1681, and he m. Mary Convers 3 June 1685. His chil. were Jacob, b. 20 Feb. 1666-7; William, b. 18 July 1668; Mary, b. 6 Oct. and d. 12 Nov. 1669; John, b. 3 Dec. 1670; d. 23 Joseph, b. 5 May 1673; Jabez, b. and d. 16 Sept. 1674; Hannah, b. and Oct. 1677; Elizabeth, b. 8 June 1679; Sarah, b. 7 Mar. 1680-81; Abigail, b. JACOB the f. d. 20 May 1713, a. 73; his w. 20 Ap. 1686, d. 29 Mar. 1687. Mary d. 18 June 1686. 6. JOSEPH, s. of John (2), settled in Billerica, m. Experience Foster 4 Nov. 1663, and had Joseph, b. 25 Mar. and d. 25 Ap. 1667 Elizabeth, b. 16 July 1668; Joseph, b. 7 Mar. 1669-70; John, b. 30 Jan. 1671-2; Nathaniel, b. 6 May 1674; Thomas, b. 29 Feb. 1675-6; Sarah, b. 6 and d. 20 Ap. 1677; Jacob, b. 26 Ap. 1678. FROST, EDMUND, Ruling Elder of the Church in Camb., came here in 1635, and by w. Thomasine, had John, b. in England about 1634; Thomas, b. Ap. 1637, d. young; Samuel, b. Feb. 1637-8; Joseph, b. 13 Jan. 1638-9; James, b. 9 Ap. 1640; Mary, b. 24 July 1645; Ephraim ; Thomas: Sarah,}). 1653. Elder FROST bought of Thomas Blodgett, about 1639, an estate on the
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westerly side of Dunster Street, between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, which he sold soon afterwards to wid. Catherine Haddon; he then bought a house on the westerly side of Garden Street, near Mason Street, which he occupied in 1642, but sold to Richard Eccles in 1646. His subsequent residence is not known with certainty but several circumstances indicate that he occupied the estate on the northerly side of Kirkland Street, which extending from Divinity Hall Avenue to and beyond Francis Avenue, He estate remained in possession of his posterity until a very recent period was reputed to be rich in Faith, and manifestly enjoyed the confidence of Shepard and his Church. Yet he had trial of earthly poverty and while his associate, Elder Champney, added acre to acre and became one of the largest landholders in town, he possessed little besides his homestead, and his pressing wants were relieved by the Church. His w. Thomasine d. and before 1669 he m. wid. Reana Daniel, who survived him. He d. 12 July 1672, leaving to his children the example of a godly life. 2. JOHN, s. of Edmund (1), m. Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Andrew, 26 June 1666, and had John, b. 19 Nov. 1667, was a mason, and resided in Salem
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Rebecca, b. 3 Dec. 1669, m. Deac. Joseph Coolidge, and d. 1 July 1750 (her dau. Rebecca was w. to the first, and mother to the second, Prof. Wigwas a weaver, and resided here in 1696. JOHN Thomas, b. glesworth) the f. d. and administration was granted, 30 Sept. 1672, to wid. Rebecca, for The wid. m. George Jacobs, Jr., of Danvers herself and her three children. Village, 9 Feb. 1674, and was imprisoned during the witchcraft delusion. 3. SAMUEL, s. of Edmund (1), by w. Mary, had in Camb., Samuel, b. 21 Aug. 1664; Isaac, b. 21 Oct. 1666; Edmund, b. 21 Aug. 1668; he rem. to Billerica as early as 1674, at which time he had m. Elizabeth Miller, by whom he had John, b. 2 Ap. 1678; Benjamin, b. 10 Aug. 1683 Jonathan, b. 3 Nov. 1685; Daniel, b. 12 and d. 14 Ap. 1689; Edmund, b. 1 Mar. 1691-2. A son Edmund had d. 12 Feb. 1690-91. SAMUEL the f. d. at Billerica 12 Aug. 1711,
1696
a. 73. 4.
JOSEPH,
s.
of
Edmund
(1), settled in Chs.
m. Hannah Miller 22
May
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1666, and had Jabez, b. 12 Dec. 16G7; Susanna, b. 27 Jan. 16G8-9; Joseph, b. 15 Feb. 1670-71, perhaps the same who m. Sarah Whittemore 12 Jan. 1707-8;
Stephen, b. 9 Mar. 1672-3; Nathaniel, bap. 7 May 1676; Hannah, b. 30 Aug. 1677; Abigail, b. 12 Mar. 1679-80; Miller, b. 28 Feb. 1682-3; Faith, b. 9 Sept. 1687. JOSEPH the f. d. about 1692, and administration was granted to wid. Hannah 23 Jan. 1692-3. 5. JAMES, s. of Edmund (1), settled in Billerica, and in. Rebecca Hamlet 17 Dec. 1664; she d. 20 Aug. 1666, and he m. Elizabeth, dan. of Thomas His children were James, b. 14 Aug. 1666; Thomas, Foster, 22 Jan. 1666-7. b. 18 Oct. 1667; John, b. 14 Nov. 1668, d. 3 Mar. 1668-9; Samuel, b. 28 Feb. 1669-70; Elizabeth, b. 6 Nov. 1672, m. Peter Cornell; Edmund, b. 14 and d. 18 May 1675; Sarah, b. 15 July 1678, m. Howard; Hannah, b. 31 Jan. 1680-81 Joseph, b. 21 Mar. 1682-3; Abigail, b. 23 Aug. 1685, m. Ephraim Kidder; Benjamin, b. 8 Mar. 1687-8, and Mary, who m. John Walker. JAMES the f. was deacon of the Billerica Church, and d. 12 Aug. 1711, a. 71; his w. Elizabeth survived. 6. EPHRAIM. s. of Edmund had Mary, b. 20 May (1), by w. Hepzibah 1678, in. Howard; Edmund, b. 14 Mar. 1679-80; Ephraim, b. 23 Sept. 1682; Thomas, b. prob. 1688; Ebenezer, bap. 17 Jan. 1696-7; Sarah, b. m. Nathaniel Patten 17 May 1720. EPHRAIM the f. res. on the homestead, on the northerly side of Kirkland Street, and d. 2 Jan. 1717-18, a. 72; his w. Hepzibah survived. 7. THOMAS, s. of Edmund (1), settled in Sudbury, m. Mary Goodridge 12 Nov. 1678, and had Thomas, b. 23 Aug. 1679; John, b. 14 Sept. 1684, rein, to Groton Samuel, b. 28 Nov. 1686 (was father of Amariah, b. 4 Oct. 1720, grad. H. C. 1740, minister at Milfbrd, and d. 1792); and Sarah, who in. John Kice. THOMAS the f. m. (2d) Hannah Johnson of Sudbury, 9 July 1691, who d. 3 Ma* 1712, and he m. (3d) Sarah He prob. d. Singletary, 22 Dec. '1712. 1724. See Barry' s Hist. Framingham.
;
where he m. Elizabeth His children, baptized here, were Elizabeth, 22 Dec. 1700; Stephen, 6 Sept. 1702; Hannah, 23 Feb. 1703-4; Susanna, 10 Mar. 1705-6. 9. EDMUND, s. of Ephraim (6), m. Hannah, dau. of Deac. Samuel Cooper, 1 Feb. 1710-11, and had Hannah, bap. 26 Oct. 1712, m. Samuel Bowman 20 Mar. 1745-6; Elizabeth (Ch. Rec. Hannah), bap. 22 Feb. 1712-13, m. John Goddard 19 Feb. 1734; Edmund, bap. 12 June 1715; Stephen, bap. 18 Jan. 1718-19; Jonathan, bap. 20 Feb. 1720-21; Gideon, bap. 14 June 1724. EDMUND the f. was a shoemaker, and res. on the homestead, Kirkland Street. He d. 6 Nov. 1752, a. 72; his w. Hannah d. 15 May 1767, a. 83. 10. EPHRAIM, s. of Ephraim (6), m. Sarah, dau. of Deac. Samuel Cooper, 9 Sept. 1814, and had Ephraim, b. 10 July 1715; Samuel, b. 18 Dec. 1716; Sarah, b. 2 Jan. 1718-19, m. Moses Harrington, and d. 12 May 1759; Anna, b. 15 Dec. 1720, m. Thomas Adams 22 Sept. 1737; Martha, b. 4 Aug. 1722, m. Joseph Adams, Jr., 10 Jan. 1740; Eunice, b. 19 July 1724,d. 10 Ap. 1732; Carter; William, b. 13 Nov. 1727, d. 13 Feb. Abigail, b. 25 Ap. 1726, m. 1727-8; Lydia, b. 8 Aug. 1729. EPHRAIM the f. res. in Menot., and d. 26 June 1769, a. 87; his w. Sarah d. 21 Feb. 1753, a. 66. 11. THOMAS, a. of Ephraim (6), m. Mary Butterfield 25 Oct. 1716, and Wheeler had Joseph, b. 21 Dec. 1717; Hepzibah, b. 31 Aug. 1719, m. Ruth, b. 17 Mar. 1721-2, m. Josiah Fessenden, pub. 25 Oct. 1755; Thomas, 1728 (Mary m. bap. 9 Feb. 1723-4; Silas and Mary, twins, bap. 11 Aug. Silas Stone before 1771, and was living in New Braintree 1795); Phebc, bap. 26 Sept. 1731, m. Nathaniel Francis, Jr., 11 An. 1751; Jonathan (perhaps the same who is called John, in the mother's will, 1771), bap. 25 Feb. 1732-3; Sarah, b. about 1736, named in her mother's will, d. unm. 17 May 1825, a. 8!); 3 May 1765, a. Lydia, b. 29 Aug. 1740. THOMAS the f. res. in Menot,, and d. 77 his w. Mary d. 10 Mar. 1 774, a. 77. 12. EBENEZER, s. of Ephraim (6), in. Deborah Martin 2 July 1723, and had Abraham, b. 7 Mar. 1723-4; Ebenezer, bap. 22 Aug. 1725; James, b. 2 Mar.
8.
STEPHEN,
1
s.
of
Joseph
(4), prob. res. in Chs.,
Woodward
Feb. 1699-1700.
554
FROST.
1731-2. EBENEZER the f. was a currier, and purchased of Samuel Cooper, 1730, an estate on the easterly side of North Avenue, which subsequently descended to the wife of Jonathan W. Ford. He d. between 16 Ap. and 28 June 1768 his w. Deborah survived. 13. EDMUND, s. of Edmund (9), m. Sarah Rand of Chs., 9 Aug. 1750. and had Sarah, b. 24 May 1751 Edmund, b. 21 July 1753; Stephtn, b. 13 Sept, 1755; Jonathan,}^. 12* Dec. 1757, d. 7 Aug. 1800; Hannah, b. 13 May 1760, m. Josiah Wilson 13 Ap. 1 780 Nehemiah, b. 6 Oct. 1 762 Abigail, b. 23 Nov. 1763; Phebe, b. 4 June 1766, d. unm. 3 Dec. 1811 Samuel, b. 16 Mar. 1770, perhaps m. Dorcas Hill 15 Oct. 1789. EDMUND the f. was a blacksmith, res. on a part of the homestead, and prob. d. about 1777; his w. Sarah d. 28 Oct. 1801, son Gideon received a share of his estate. a. 71. 14. STEPHEN, s. of Edmund (9), according to Winthrop, grad. H. C. 1 739, was a preacher, and d. 9 Aug. 1749, a. nearly 31. 15. GIDEON, s. of Edmund (9), m. Sarah Ireland 18 Jan. 1753, and had Sarah, b. 1 Mar. 1754, d. unm. 29 July 1821 Gideon, b. 14 Oct. 1 755, was a physician in Uxbridge John, b. 4 Mar. 1758, d. young; Elizabeth, b. 15 Nov. 1760, m. Thomas Frothingham 24 Sept. 1785; Walter, b. 29 Aug. 1766; Martha, b. 29 June 1769, in. Thomas Austin of Boston 22 Mar. 1807, and d. 17 Ap. 1838; William, b. 23 Ap. 1774. GIDEON the f. was a blacksmith, and for a period of twenty years was deacon of the Church. He possessed, by inheritance and purchase, the homestead on Kirkland Street, but his residence, after about 1763, was on the easterly side of North Avenue, nearly He d. 30 June 1803, a. 79; his w. Sarah d. opposite to Linnsean Street.
;
;
July 1805,
16.
a. 76.
s. of Ephraim (10), m. Mary, dau. of Deac. John Cutter, pub. 16 Mar. 1739, and had Anna, b. 22 Oct. 1740, d. 20 Nov. 1740; Ephniim, b. 29 Sept, 1742; Jonathan, b. 15 Dee. 1744, grad. H. C. 1767, and 25 Ap. 1771; Stephen, b. 18 June 1747; Ruhamah, b. 4 Nov. 1749, m. John Russell 31 Aug. 1769; Mary, b. 4 Mar. 1752, m. Jonathan Locke 3 Jan. 1775; Anna, b. 3 Oct. 1754; Lydia, b. 21 Oct. 1756, d. 23 Oct. 1766; John, b. 9 Sept. 1760; Amos, b. 17 Aug. 1763. EPHRAIM the f. res. in Menot. and d. 5 Mar. 1799, a. 84; his w. Mary d. 20 Oct. 1805, a. 89. 17. SAMUEL, s. of Ephraim (10), m. Abigail, dau. of Deac. John Cutter, 19 Feb. 1741, and had Samuel b. 7 Dec. 1741, d. young; Samuel, b. 2 Aug. 1743, d. 24 Ap. 1790; Abigail, b. 24 Jan. 1744-45, living unm. 1799; Rebecca, b. 28 Dec. 1746, m. Solomon Prentice 13 Ap. 1775; John, b. 29 June 1748, d. 9 Aug. 1749; Martha, b. 12 May 1750, m. Isaac Tufts 16 Ap. 1769; she seems afterwards to have m. a Cooper, which name she bore in 1799; Sarah, b. 10 June 1752, m. John Hutchinson 28 May 1772 John,b. 23 June 1754; Hannah, bap. 21 May 1758, m. Josiah Wilson 13 Ap. 1780; Seth, b. 20 Mar. 1760; William, bap. 3 Jan. 1762, d. 20 Sept. 1791 Cooper, b. 20 Mar. 1764, married, had children, many of whom d. in infancy, and d. 30 Sept. 1813, a. 49; Lydia SAMUEL the Harrington, b. 16 Nov. 1766, m. Simeon Crosby 7 May 178T. f. res. in Menot, and d. 30 Sept. 1798, a. nearly 82; his w. Abigail d. 7 Mar.
EPHRAIM,
1796,
18.
a. 74.
JOSEPH, s. of Thomas (H), m. Sarah, dau. of Ephraim Cook, 8 Feb. had James, b. 9 June 1753; Joseph, b. 14 Jan. 1757, removed to Harvard, was Deacon, and d. 1827 Sarah, b. 8 Aug. 1760, d. unm. 22 Sept. 1837; Elizabeth, b. 12 Dec. 1764, d. unm. 1 May 1813; Mary,b. 11 Nov. 1767; Jona'han, b. 27 Jan. 1775. JOSEPH the f. res. m Menot. and d. 22 Sept. 1798,
1753, and
;
a.
nearly 81
19.
his w.
Sarah
s.
d.
28 Oct. 1801,
a. 71.
(11), by w. Betty, had Betsey, b. 16 Feb. 1776, m. Benjamin Harrington of Chs. 1 Oct. 1792; Abigail, b. 12 July 1778, d. 20 Nov. 1782; Eunice, b. 12 Sept. 1780; Lucy, b. 31 May 1782, m. Stephen Tufts 9 Dec. 1798; Abigail, b. 29 Mar. 1784, m. John Niles 27 Mar. 1803; John, b. 12 Oct. 1785; Reuben, b. 14 Ap. 1787, d. 8 May 1829; Mary, b. 12 Mar. 1789. His w. Betty d. 18 Mar. 1802, a. 51. 20. ABRAHAM, s. of Ebene/er (li), m. Mary Oliver 8 June 1747, and had Deborah, b. 1 Ap. 1748, d. 8 Oct. 1753 ; Olicer, b. 4 June 1751; Abraham, b.
JOHN,
prob.
of
Thomas
FROST.
;
555
25 Jan. 1754 Mary and Lucy, twins, bap. 10 June 1759; Samuel, bap. 1 Nov. 1761. This family prob. rem. as no further trace of them is found. 21. EBEXEZER, s. of Ebenezer (12), m. Naomi, dan. of Thomas Dana, 21 A p. 1748; she d. and he in. Ruth Wright of Woburn, pub. 24 Feb. 1761. His children in Canib. were Ebenezer, bap. 19 Feb. 1748-9; Mary, bap. 24 Feb. 1750-51 David, bap. 9 June 1754; Deborah, bap. 12 Feb. 1758. EBENEZER the f. rem. to Rutland, and was appointed guardian to the four children of his w. Naomi, 13 July 1761. 22. JAMES, s. of Ebenezer (12), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Dr. Ebenezer Robv of Sudbury, about 1753, and Mary Prentice of Chs. 1 Dec. 1768. His children were James, b. 8 Feb. 1754; David, b. 4 Ap. 1757; Elizabeth, bap. 23 Dec. 1759, d. young; Ebenezer Roby, b. 26 Nov. 1763, d. in the almshouse, 11 May 1810, described as "late of Providence"; Mary, posthumous, b. 3 and d. 24 Feb. 1771. JAMES the f. was a physician, possessed the homestead on North Avenue, and d. 22 July 1770, a. 38; his w. Mary m. Nehemiah Rand Chs. 1766? 23. WALTER, s. of Gideon (15), m. Martha Tufts of Chs. 21 June 1792, and had Martha, b. (prob. 1792), d. 31 Oct. 1796, a. 4; John, bap. 17 Aug. 1794, was printer in Boston and New Orleans: Walter, bap. 14 Feb. 1796, carriage maker in Boston; Martha, b. abt. 1798, m. Geo. II. Kuhn, Boston; Sarah Ann, bap. 19 July 1801, d. 10 Oct. 1802; Gideon, bap. 17 July 1803, d. 5 Sept. 1825; Samuel T, (prob. the same who was born at his mother's death, as she d. in childbed 30 July 1805, a. 32). WALTER the f. was a tanner, res. on the easterly side of North Avenue near the Railroad Bridge on the estate recently owned by Ozias Morse, which passed out of his hands in He d. at Haverhill 20 Ap. 1818, 1807, when he pVob. rem. from Camb.
;
a. 52.
24. WILLIAM, s. of GHeon (15), m. Lucy Adams of Chs. who d. 25 Nov. His chil. were 1809, a. 36, and he m. Mary Teele (pub. 29 Dec. 1810); , m. Wiliiam, bap. 27 Dec. 1801 Edmund, bap. 17 July 1803; Lucy C., b. Gideon Frothingham of Sandlake, N. Y., 3 Sept. 1839; Henry, bap. 5 Oct. Frederick Austin, bap. 15 Oct. 1820; 1817, a painter, rem. to Galena, 111. WILLIAM the f. rem. to Galena; and perhaps others. Benjamin, b. res. in 1800 on the northerly side of Linnaean Street, but afterwards rem. to the easterly side of North Avenue, near Forest Street, and d. 10 July 1832,
; ;
,
a. 58.
25. EPHRAIM, s. of Ephraim (16), m. Lydia Perry 6 June 1765; she d. 19 His Oct. 1792, and he m. Mary (or Martha) Boylston of Chs. 3 June 1794. children were Ephraim, b. 7 Ap. 1766; Lydia, b. 30 Jan. 1768, m. Jonas Cutter 19 Oct. 1786; James, b. 31 Jan. 1770, m. Margaret Locke 1 Feb. 1795, who d. 10 Sept. 1803, a. 26, and he m. Susanna Fillebrown 3 Mar. 1805 Jonathan, b. 2 Mar. 1772, d. 17 Aug. 1773; Mary,b. 26 Ap. 1775, m. Spencer Bucknam of Medford, 9 Nov. 1794; Ruth, b. 26 Ap. 1777 Isaac, b. 7 Aug. EPHRAIM the f. res. in Menot., was deacon of the 1780, d. 14 Feb. 1804. Church forty-one years, and d. 4 Ap. 1833, a. nearly 91; his w. Martha (or
;
;
and (16), m. Susanna Brown 22 Dec. 1772, 18 Nov. 1773, d. young; Step/ten, b. 14 Sept. 1775; Jonathan, b. 6 Dec. 1777; Susanna, b. 26 Aug. 1779; Abigail, bap. 14 Oct. 1781; d. Frances, b. about 1788, d. 10 Feb. 1816, a. 28; Daniel, bap. 7 Nov. 1790, 24 Mar. 1822; Mary, bap. 26 Aug. 1792. STEPHEN, the f. res. in Menot., was a captain, and d. 31 Oct. 1810, a. 63 his w. Susanna d. 15 Oct. 1800,
26.
Mary)
d. 10
Nov. 1824,
s.
a. 68.
STEPHEN,
of
Ephraim
had Susanna,
b.
aged 50.
had 27. JOHN, Ephraim (16), m. Susanna Hill 21 Nov. 1780, and Susanna, bap. 4 Mar. 1781; Anna, b. 25 Jan. 1783; Jonathan, bap. 1 Mar. 21 Dec. 1789; Asa, bap. 7 Nov. 1790; Isaac, bap. 16 Dec. 1792; Mary, bap. and d. 15 1794; a child, b. and d. 6 June 1801. JOHN the f. res. in Menot., May 1812, a. 52; his w. Susanna d. 29 Sept. 1804, a. 44. 28. AMOS, s. of Ephraim (16), by w. Lydia, had A most. bap. 1 June 1788 1 Mar. 1789; Thaddeu*, bap. 11 Dec. d. 18 June 1812; Joel,
s.
of
(idiot),
bap.
556
FROST
FRYERS
FULLER.
1791, d. 4 Oct. 1792; Lydia, bap. 24 Nov. 1793; Thaddeus, bap. 7 Feb. 1796; William, bap. 3 Dec. 1797; Abijah, bap. 13 Oct. 1799; Susan, bap. 6 Sept. 1801. 29. JOHN, s'. of Samuel (17), by w. Lydia, had Mary, bap. 15 Mar. 1789; Sarah, bap. 10 Aug. 1790, d. 13 Feb. 1791: Sarah, bap. 5 Feb. 1792; Maria, JOHN the f. res. in Menot., and d. bap. 14 Dec. 1793; and perhaps others 1 Nov. 1818, .a. 64; his w. Lydia d. 9 Ap. 1804, a. 42. 30. SETH, s. of Samuel (17), m. Sarah Hill 20 Nov. 1781', and had Sarah, b. 11 Sept. 1782; Abigail Cutter, bap. 2 Nov. 1788; Patty, bap. 14 Ap. 1793; Samuel, bap. 14 Ap. 1793, d. 25 July 1822, a. 29; Rebecca Wellington, bap. 5 June 1795; and perhaps others. SETH the f. res. in Menot., and d. 23 Jan. 1814, a. nearly 54. 31. JAMES, s. of Joseph (18), m. Susanna Dutton 3 Dec. 1776, and had Susanna, b. 8 Sept. 1777: Patty, b. 5 Jan. 1780; in the division of the estate, 1819, two other children are named, James, and Anna, w. of Eben Cutter. JAMES the f. res. on the westerly corner of North Avenue and Tannery Street. He d. 7 Aug. 1818, a. 65; his w. Susanna d. prob. 1820; administration on her estate was granted 10 Jan. 1821.
32.
Elizabeth,
JAMES, s. of James (22), m. Grace Bonner of Springfield, and had who m. Thomas Wallace 10 Oct. 1800. JAMES the f. was a tin-
plate worker, res. on the southerly part of the homestead, and d. 13 Nov. 1825; his w. Grace d. 14 June 1803, a. 42. 33. DAVID, s. of James (22), m. Elizabeth Allen 8 May 1777, and had David, b. 6 Sept. 1777, d. of dropsy 7 Mar. 1816; /amex, b. 13 Feb. 1780, a carpenter, d. on his passage from the West Indies 25 July 1812; John, b. 4 Feb. 1782, d. young; Betsey Roby, b. 17 Aug. 1784, m. Jonathan W. Ford 23 Oct. 1808, and d.^26 Mar. 1820; Pamela, b. 30 Aug. 1786, d. 8 July 1787 DAVID the f. res. on the homestead, and (date of 1788 on G. S is wrong). d. 17 Jan. 1787, a. about 30; his w. Elizabeth was buried 1 Ap. 1839, a. 86. 34. EPHKAIM, s. of Deac. Ephraim (25), m. Elizabeth Lolridge 4 July
d.
1793, and had Ephraim, bap. 3 Aug. 1794 Mary Ann Jones, bap. 7 Feb. and 1 Oct. 1796 Henry Hope Jones, b. 17 Aug. 1797, d. 24 Aug. 1799; Henry, and perhaps others. bap. 22 Mar. 1801 35. STEPHEN, si of Stephen (26), m. Sarah Twadell 29 Mar. 1798, and
;
had Stephen, bap. 24 Nov. 1798, and perhaps others. FRYERS, JAMES. His w. Katherine d. 28 July 1640. FULLER, JOHN, settled on the south side of the river, now Newton, about 1644, and was an extensive landholder. By his w. Elizabeth, he had John,
1645 Jonathan, b. 1648, m. Sarah Mirick, and d. \ 7 22;. Joseph, b. 10 Feb. 1652-3; Joshua, b. 16 Feb. 1654-5; Jeremiah, b. 4 Mar. 1658-9, m. Elizabeth and d. 1741 Bethia, b. 23 Nov. 1661, m. Nathaniel Bond 1684; Elizam. Job Hyde Isaac, b. 2 Dec. 1665, d. 1691, a. 26. JOHN the beth, b. f. was a farmer and maltster; he d. 1698, a. 87. 2. JOHN, s. of John (1), m. Abigail Ballstone (or Boylston) 30 June 1682, and had Sarah, b. 5 Oct. 1683; John, b. 2 Sept. 1685, and perhaps others. JOHN the f. prob. m. (2d) Margaret Hicks 14 Oct. 1714, and d. 1720, a. 75. 3. JOSEPH, s. of John (1), m. Lydia, dau. of Edward Jackson, 13 Feb. He had in all five sons and two 1678-9, and had John, b. 15 Dec. 1680. One of his sons, Joseph, b. 4 July 1685, m. Lydia, dau. of Abradaughters. ham Jackson, and had Abraham, b. 23 Mar. 1720, who was a Captain, Judge, Representative eighteen years, between 1764 and 1790, m. Sarah Dyer, and had Sarah, b. 27 Ap. 1759, m. Gen. William Hull, and Joseph, b. and d.
b.
;
,
JOSEPH the f. d. 1740, a. 88; his w. Lydia d. 1726, a. 70. JOSHUA, s. of John (I), m. Elizabeth Ward 7 May 1679; she d. 17 Aug. 19 July 1742, he married a third wife; the 1691, amL he in. Hannah " Joshua Fuller in 88th record, as made by Dr. Appleton, is, year, and Mary Dana in 75th year." His children, recorded here, were Elizabeth, b. 22 Jan.
1765.
4.
;
1679-80, m. Isaac Shepard of Medford 31 Dec. 1702; Hannah, b. 8 July 1682; Experience, b. 5 Nov. 1685, m. Thomas Miller of Newton 23 Mar. 1709-10; Mercy, b. 11 Mar. 1688-9, m. Aaron Cady 23 Mar. 1709-10: Prix-
FULLER
cilia, b.
GATES.
JOSHUA
the
f.
557
d. 1752, in the
25 Oct. 1700; Ruth, 98th year of his age his w.

;
b. 14
Nov. 1702.
5.
b. 11
Mar. 1798, d. 14 Oct. 1799; Cyrus Bryant, b. 21 Ap. 1802, d. 25 Aug. EBENEZER the f. was elected 1805; Lucy, b. 15 Sept., and d. in Nov. 1804. Deacon of the Brighton Church 10 Jan. 1803, and rein, to Newton about
1823.
Mary prob. d. 13 Feb. 1754, a. 86. EBENEZER, res. in what is now Brighton, and by w. Martha had Martha, Sept. 1791; Ebenezer, b. 19 Feb. 1793; Mary, b. 4 Ap. 1795 Luci/, b.
;
GARDEN, RICHARD, had a grant of timber, for fencing, 1663. GARDNER, THOMAS, of Roxbury, d. Nov. 1638, leaving chil. Thomas and
Peter.
2. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), m. Lucy Smith 4 July 1641, and had Andrew, Thomas, Abigail, Alary, Peter, Abigail (2d), Lucy, Joanna^ Joshua, Caleb. THOMAS the f. res. in Roxbury, and d. 15 July 1689; his w. Lucy d. 6 Nov. 1687. 3. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (2), m. Mary Bowles 17 Nov. 1673, and had Sarah, Thomas, Mary, John, Caleb, Peter, Isaac, Richard, Solomon (?), Benjamin. THOMAS the f. res. in Roxbury or Brookline, and d. in 1725. 4. RICHARD, s. of Thomas (3), m. Elizabeth Winchester, and had Thomas, RICHARD the f. and his w. were dismissed from the Elizabeth, John, Sarah. Church in Brookline, and recommended to the Church in Cambridge in 1725. He was the first of this family in Camb., and d. 9 Jan. 1776, a. 73; his w. Elizabeth d. Aug. 1795. 5. THOMAS, s. of Richard (4), m. Joanna Sparhawk, and had Richard, Thomas, Thomas (2d), Samuel, Elizabeth. THOMAS the f. was the patriotic 1 Colonel, who sealed his devotion to his country with his blood on Bunker See pp. 418-420. He d. of his wounds 3 July 1775; his Hill, 17 June 1775. w. Joanna d. 24 Nov. 1794. 6. RICHARD, s. of Thomas (5), m. Hannah Goldthwait, and had John; Joanna; Martha; Hannah, m. Dr. James P. Chaplin of Camb. 10 Doc. 1807, and d. 24 May 1838, a. 45; Susan; Sally. 7. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (5), m. Hannah, dau. of Isaac Gardner, who was slain in Camb. on the memorable 19th of April 1775, and had Hannah, b. 2 Feb. 1791, m. Aaron Rice of Camb. 10 Oct. 1821, and d. 7 July 1853; Thomas ; Susanna; Mary S. ; Harriet E.; Thomas S. No trace is found in the Camb. Records of Col. Gardner's parentage, or of his children; nor do the Probate Records refer to the settlement of his estate,, The materials for the foregoing brief sketch were given to me by Mr. Thomas Gardner Rice (son of Aaron and Hannah), the present Cambridge representative of two martyrs in the cause of liberty, namely Isaac Gardner, Esq. of Brookline, and Col. Thomas Gardner of Cambridge. GASKELL, or GASKIN, SAMUEL, by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. 13 May His w. Elizabeth d. 18 Oct. 1686; his son John d. 9 Oct. 1686. Un1688. less there be an error in the date, he must have m. a 2d w. Elizabeth. GATES, STEPHEN, d. here 1662, leaving w. Ann, who contracted 18 Ap. 1663 After his death she resumed the to marry Richard Woodward of Watertown.
The
fice
spirit of patriotism and self-sacriwhich animated Col. Gardner in the

is
formed from good authority that the Cotnnuttee of
Revolutionary struggle
letter
exhibited in his
Towns
to
in
Boston:
Kriends and Brethren, The time is come that every one that lias a tongue and an arm is called upon by their country to stand forth in its behalf; and I consider the call of my country as the call of God, and desire to be In obedience all obedience to such a call. thereto I would administer some consolation unto you, bv informing you of the glorious union of the good peopfe of this Province,
the Committee of Correspondence "Cambridge, Aug. 12, 1774.
Correspondence for the several the County of Worcester have assembled, are in high spirits, and perfectly
in
united.
The Committee
for
Cambridge and
Charlestown are to have a conference tomorrow, and I trust the whole County of Middlesex will soon be assembled by Delegates from the respective Towns in said County. I have the greatest reon to begloriously
lieve that the people will cluise rather to fall in the cause of their Country,
to slavery.
I
than meanly submit Friend and'Brotlier,
am your
both in sentiment and action.
am
in-
THOMAS GAHDMBK."
558
name
GATES
GIBSON.
Their children were Stephen; Simon ; of Gates, and d. at Stow 1683. Thomas; Elizabeth, m. John Lasell; and Mary, m. John Maynard of Sudbury. 2. STEPHEN, s. of Stephen (1), by w. Sarah had Simon, b. here 5 Mar. 1666-7. In his will, dated at Stow, 5 Sept. 1701, and proved 15 Sept. 1707, are named w. Sarah, and children Stephen, Simon, Thomas, Isaac, Nathaniel, Daniel, Surah, and Rebecca. 3. SIMON, s. of Stephen (1), by w. Margaret, had Abigail, b. 14 Aug. 1671, m. Nathaniel Sparhawk; Simon, b. 1 Sept. 1673, d. 2 Jan. 1675-6; Simon, b. 5 Jan. 1675-6, settled in Marlborough, and was ancestor of a numerous posin Worcester County; George, b. 6 Ap. 1678, d. 23 May terity there and 1679; Amos, b. about 1680; Jonathan, b. 22 June 1683; Samuel,}). 11 Aug. SIMON the f. d. at ]685; Margaret, b. 13 Aug. 1689, m. James How. Brookline, and his estate was settled by agreement 11 Oct. 1705. 4. AMOS, s. of Simon (3), m. Hannah, dau. of Samuel Oldham, 19 May 1703, and had Hannah, b. 28 Oct. 1706, m. Jonathan Edmunds, Newton; Margaret, bap. 25 Ap. 1708, in. Thomas Spring, Newton, 31 Dec. 1729; AbiJune 1710, m. Jonathan Pierson, Andover, 17 Mar. 1729-30; gail, bap. 25 Mary, bap. 27 July 1712, m. Nehemiah Wright in Framingham, 24 May 1 733; Amos, bap. 3 Oct. 1714; Oldham, bap. 3 Sept. 1716; Susanna, bap. 18 Sept. AMOS 1720; Samuel; Sarah, m. William Jones, Framingham, 31 Mar. 1748. the f. rein, to Brookline, thence to Framingham, and d. about 1754. 5. JONATHAN, s. of Simon (3), by w. Persis, had two children, bap. 2 Aug. 1713, and 8 Jan. 1715-16, names not recorded; Jonathan, bap. 20 Oct.
1717; Perais, bap. 9 Aug. 1719; Margaret, bap. 10 Sept. 1721; William, b. 5 Jan. 1723-4, d. young; Susanna, b. 2 June 1726; William, b. 17 Oct. 1727; Maryaret (bap. Abigail), b. 17 Jan. 1728-9; Sarah, b. 12 June 1730; JONATHAN the f. rem. to Worcester, and William, bap. 29 Oct. 1732; John. died there in 1756. For a more extended account of the Gates family, see Barry's Hist. Fram-
ingham.
GAY, JOHN, of Wrentham, Miller, bought of Gov. Belcher, 8 Feb. 1733, a part of the estate at the N. E. corner of Brighton and Mount Auburn streets; and afterwards purchased the remainder, which had been owned by the heirs This was the original Blue Anchor of Edmund Angier, or of John Hovey. Tavern stand; it does not appear, however, whether Mr. Gay pursued the His wife, whom he prob. m. before he removed business of an inn-holder. here, was Sarah, dau. of Jonathan Nutting. They had no children. He d. between 18 Dec. 1753 and 14 Jan. 1754; she d. 1772. Rev. EBENEZER, of Suffield, 2. HANNAH, m. Owen Warland, 3 Ap. 1679. Conn., in. Hannah, dau. of Samuel Angier, 5 July 1742. Rev. BUNKER, of Hinsdale, N. H., m. Abigail, dau. of Henry Prentice, 22 Sept. 1763. GEARNER, EDMUND, in 1635, owned house and land at the S. W. corner Pie removed before 1642. of Brighton and Winthrop streets. GIBSON, JOHN, in 1635, owned a house on the easterly side of Sparks Street not far southerly from Vassall Lane; and soon after he added three acres more, so that his estate extended across to Garden Street. By his w. Rebecca he had five children, all bap. here Rebecca, b. about 1635, m. Charles Stearns 22 June 1654, and within two years afterwards was grievously afflicted with a mental disorder, imagining herself to be under the power of witchcraft Mary, b. Mar. 1637-8, m. John Ruggles of Rox. 3 Ap. 1655;
:
Dec. 1674; Martha, b. Ap. 1639, m. Jacob Newell of Rox. 3 Nov. 1657; John, b. about 1641; Samuel, b. 28 Oct. 1644. His w. Rebecca was buried at Rox. 1 Dec. 1661, and he m. Joanna, wid. of Henry Prentice, 24 July 1662. He signed a petition to the King in 1688, and d. in 1694, a. 93.
d. 6
2. JOHN, s. of John (1), in. Rebecca Errington 9 Dec 1668, and had He d. 15 Oct. 1679, a. 38; his Rebecca, \). 4 Oct. 1669, and perhaps others. w. Rebecca d. 4 Dec. 1713, after having long been a pensioner on the bounty of the Church. 3. SAMUKL, s. of John (1), m. Sarah Pemberton 30 Oct. 1668; she d. 10 Oct. 1676, and he m. Elizabeth, wid. of John Stedman, 14 June 1679; she d.
and
GIBSON
,
GLOVER.
559
about 1680, and he m. Abigail who survived him. His children wore, Sarah, b. 30 Mar. 1670, m. John Stedman 9 Ap. 1691, and d. 1 July 1754; Martha, b. 12 Dec. 1671, m. llolfc; Samuel, b. 6 May and d. 14 Sept. 1676; Samuel, b. 2 Oct. 1690; Elizabeth, b. who, with her mother SAMUKL Abigail, sold the original homestead, 4 May 1711, to Jacob Hill. the f. was a glover, and d. 20 Mar. 1709-10.
,
GIRLING, or GURLING, RICHARD, a mariner, 25 Aug. 1635, bought 100 acres of Simon Willard, 75 acres of John Bridge, and 25 acres of Dolor Davis, all on the south side of the River, at or near the present S. W. corner of Brighton District. He d. shortly afterwards. Under date of 19 Sept. 1637, the General Court "ordered, that Mr. Joseph Weld and Mr. John Benjamin (being authorized), should make sale of Mr. Gtirling's land, for satisfaction of the creditors, in proportion if it came short, and if an overplus be, that to remain in the hands of Mr. Benjamin." The land was accordingly sold to William Andrew, and the sale confirmed by the Court, 6 Mar. 1637-8. At " Mr. the Quarterly Court, 4 June 1639. Benjamin gave in the account of Richard Gurling, whereby four shillings only appeareth remaining due to widow Gurling.'' It is not known whether any children survived. Mr. Girling was probably the same who was Master of the ship Hope of Ipswich, in 1634,
in
which Shepard embarked, with his friends, for New England, but was driven back, and narrowly escaped destruction. Shepard says, "The master of it, a very able seaman, was Mr. Gurling, who professed much love to me, who had got this ship, of 400 tons, from the Danes, and, as some report, it was by some fraud. But l,e denied it and being a man very loving and full of fair promises of going at the time appointed, and an able seaman, hence we resolved to adventure that time, though dangerous in regard of the approachAutobiography, p. 45, ed. 1832. ing winter." GLEASON, THOMAS, by w. Susanna, had Mary, b. here 31 Oct. 1657. He is said to have res. previously in Wat. and subsequently in Chs. and to have d. about 1684. 2. WILLIAM, perhaps s. of Thomas (1), by w. Abiel, or Abiah, had WilWILLIAM the f. d. liam, b. 15 Ap. 1679; Esther, b. 13 and d. 27 Sept. 1688. He seems to have res. here, and adm. was granted to w. Abiel, 6 Ap. 1691. at the Farms. 3. WILLIAM, prob. s. of William (2), by w. Thankful, had Experience, b. 18 Jan. 1707-8.
;
4.
DAVID, by
w. Mercy,
had David,
b.
Aug. 1744;
Mary
(bap. Mercy),
b. 31
Jan. 1745-6.
GLOVER, REV. JOSE, was Rector of Sutton, in Surrey, Eng. In 1638 he made preparations for emigrating to New England; and, among other things,
provided a printing press, types, and furniture, and contracted with Stephen Daye 7 June 1638, to embark with him, and devote his services as he should direct. This was the first printing press established in the British American Mr. Glover is understood to have embarked, and to have died on Colonies. the passage. Shortly before his departure from England, being then in London, he executed a will, from which it appears that he had then living a wife and five children; it also appears that he had already purchased estates in New England, and possessed, in both Englands, a considerably large property. His widow arrived here in 1638, with the children, and a stock of merchandise, which from time to time she replenished, under the superintendence of John Stedman, her agent or steward, until 22 June 1641, when she became the wife of President Dunster. Her residence was on the westerly side of Winthrop Square, the estate extending from Mt. Auburn Street to Winthrop Street. She d. 23 Aug. 1643, and her estate, after tedious and vexatious litigaAs an illustration of the manner tion, was settled by her surviving husband. in which justice was administered more than two hundred years ago, it may be mentioned, that, on the final settlement of his account by the court Pres. Dunster was required to pay for the use of all the property he had by his wife, and to surrender every article, or its equivalent, to her children; but, on the other hand, he was allowed payment for his expenses in providing for the
560
GLOVER
GODDARD.
burgh castle about 1649; Elizabeth, in. Adam Winthrop about Mar. 1643-4; and after his death she m. John Richards; Sarah, m. Deane Winthrop about 1648; Priscilla. m. John Appleton of Salem, Oct. 1651; John, grad. H. C. The date of his gradua1650, M. D. at Aberdeen, and d. unm. about 1668. tion is assumed ,to be 1650 (rather than 1651 when his namesake graduated), because this best agrees with one of the items in Mr. Dunster's account "maintenance of the children after the death of their mother, viz, John Glover's liberal education, for diet, apparel and schooling, mostly at the The college, for seven years and two months, at 20/. per annum, 143.3.4." mother (Mrs. Dunster) d. in Aug. 1643; seven years and two months would expire in Oct. 1650. The Christian name of Mr. Glover has appeared in various forms, such as Joseph, Jose, Josse, Jesse, Joss, and Joas; and antiquarians have doubted which was the true name. Proof has at last been presented by J. Hammond Trumbull, LL. D., that his widow and Mr. Dunster wrote the name Josse ; but that he himself wrote it Jose, three times in his last will. He " adds, comparison of the forms Josse, and Joan, with the autograph Jose, shows that the name was pronounced as a monosyllable, and that the first vowel was See N. Eng. Hist, and Gen. Register, xxx. 27. moderately lon<r." GODDARD, EDWARD, of Norfolk Co., England, a farmer, m. Doyley, and had William, John, Richard, Edward, James, Vincent, Benjamin, Thomas, Goddard Gen., p. 5. Josias, and three daughters, who reached maturity. 2. WILLIAM, s. of Edward (1), was a grocer in London, m. Elizabeth He Miles, and had William, Joseph, Robert, and three others who d. young. came to N. Eng. in 1665; his w. and chil. followed him in 1666. He had in Watertown, besides three who d. young, Benjamin, b. 17 Aug. 1668 Josiah, b. about 1672, resided on the homestead, and d. 14 Nov. 1720 Edward, b. 24 Mar. 1674-5, m. Susanna Stone, was a schoolmaster in Boston, rein, to Framingham, was Selectman, Town Clerk, Representative nine years, member of the Council three years, and d. 9 Feb. 1754. Goddard Gen., pp. 8-10; Bond's
:
children while in his family, and also for " disbursements for the maintenance of Mrs. Glover, for diet and apparel in sickness and health, two years and two months, after her marriage to Mr. Dunster until her death, with a maid 30 per annum, 65 "; for medical attendance 15 and for to attend her, at funeral charges 10. Mr. Glover was twice married; his first wife (as inscribed on her monument, erected 24 May 1629, by her husband, in the church of which he was Rector), was Sarah, dau. of " Mr. Roger Owfield, citizen of London," by whom he "had three children, viz., Roger, Elizabeth, and Sarah. She died July 10, 1628." See Glover Memorials, p. 563. His second wife was Elizabeth Harris, by whom he had John and Priscilla. Of his children, Roger is said to have been a captain, slain at the taking of Edin;
Hist.
3.
Wat., pp. 237, 238.
BENJAMIN, s. of William (2), m. Martha, dau. of John Palfrey, 30 May 1689, and had Nathaniel, b. 19 Aug. 1692, m. Mary, dau. of Deac. Samuel
Cooper, removed to Weston, and d. without issue about 1770; Benjamin, b. 26 Aug. 1696, d. 29 Dec. 1702; Elizabeth, b. 20 Aug. 1699; Martha, b. 12 Aug. 1702, m. Walter Cooper 7 June 1 722, and d. 10 Ap. 1768; Benjamin, b. 8 Aug. 1705, was a carpenter, m. Mary, dau. of Samuel Kidder, 9 Dec. 1731, removed to Grafton, and d. here, on a visit 10 Dec. 1 759, leaving children Josiah, Benj., Nath., James, Eliz., Sam., Mary, and Hannah; John, b. 18 May 1709; Thomas, b. in Chs. 14 Aug. 1712; William, bap. here Aug. 1716. BENJAMIN the f. was a carpenter, and res. at the S. W. corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke streets until about 1712, when he rem. to the estate opposite to Porter's Hotel, which was then a part of Charlestown. His w. Martha d. 26 Nov. 1737, a. 67, and he m. Anne Oldhatn (pub. 16 May 1738), who survived him. He d. 24 Oct.
1748,
4.
a. 80.
s. of Benjamin (3), in. Elizabeth, dau. of Edmund Frost, 19 Feb. 1734-5, and had John, bap. 26 Sept. J736, d. young; Martha, bap. 6 May 1739; Stephen, bap. 6 Sept. 1741 Elizabeth, bap. 5 Sept. 1743, m. Norton, and d. Dec. 1834, a. 91; Ruth, bap. 10 Aug. 1746; John, bap. 12 Aug. 1750. JOHN the f. was a cordwainer, and d. 12 May 1751, a. nearly 42; at the divis-
JOHN,
GODDARD - GOFFE.
561
ion of his estate 1767, only two children, Stephen and Elizabeth, appear to have been living. His w. Elizabeth d. 4 Ap. 1786, a. 74. 5. THOMAS, s. of Benjamin (3),m. Hannah, dau. of Jonathan Gove, 3 Jan.
1738-9, and had Kezia, bap. 25 Nov. 1739; Hannah, bap. 11 Ap. 1742, in. Jonas Prentice 1 Dec. 1785; Benjamin, bap. 12 Aug. 1744; Thomas, and NaTHOMAS the f. was a carpenter, inherited thaniel, twins, bap. 12 July 1747. the homestead, then in Chs. now in Camb. His estate was divided 22 Nov. 1768, to his widow Hannah (who d. 18 Mar. 1799, a. 82), and chil. Benjamin, Thomas, Nathaniel, and Hannah. 6. STEPHEN, s. of John (4), m. Mary, d. of Rev. David Goddard of Leicester, and had Mary, b. 23 Nov. 1769, d. 10 Oct. 1798; John, b. 2 May 1771, d. young; Stephen, b. 3 Feb. 1773, d. 25 Dec. 1774; Sarah, bap. 22 Jan. 1775, d. unm. 26 May 1859, in the almshouse, a pattern of patience and Christian trust; Stephen, bap. 18 May 1777, m. Charlotte Hawes of Canton, 26 Nov. 1801, removed to Leicester; David, bap. 22 Aug. 1779, m. Hannah Brown of Concord, 13 June 1805, was a wheelwright here, and a Baptist clergyman at Wendell; Isaac, bap. 27 Jan. 1782, m. Catherine Johnson 3 Aug. 1806, and d. in Boston 14 Mar. 1823; Benjamin, bap. 4 Ap. 1784, m. Persis Fullerton 25 Sept. 1808; Elizabeth, b. 24 Ap 1788, d. young; STEPHEN the f was a wheelwright, and res. on North Avenue, nearly opposite to 'Porter's Hotel. He d. 31 Jan. 1820; his w. Mary d. 8 Oct. 1798, a. 54. 7. BENJAMIN, s. of Thomas (5), was a wheelwright and res. nearly opposite Porter's Hotel, on the old homestead, at the easterly corner of North Avenue and Beech Street, and d. unm. July 1828, a. 74. 8. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (5), m. Hepzibah Prentice 11 Dec. 1777, and had Thomas, b. 11 June 1778, d. 20 Sept. 1805; James, b. 27 July 1780; John, b. 17 May 1783; Daniel, b. 11 July 1787, d. unm. 10 Nov. 1836; Mary, b. 25 Mar. 1792, m. John Kent of Framingham, 9 June 1816; Charles; Hannah, b. 27 Nov. 1797, d. 3 Dec. 1799. THOMAS the f. was a blacksmith, and res. on the estate now occupied by Porter's Hotel; he d. 15 or 17 Mar. 1830, a. 82;
.
his w.
9.
Hepzibah
d. 17
s.
Aug. 1836,
a. 82.
NATHANIEL,
of
Thomas
side of
10.
17 30
Beech Street. He d. s. JAMES, s. of Thomas (8), m. Rebecca, dau. of Nathaniel Frothingham, Nov. 1806, and had Rebecca Austin, b. 12 Sept. 1807; Thomas Austin, b.
b.
;
(5), was a shoemaker and res. on the westerly p. in Jan. 1830; his w. d. in July 1828, a. 75.
May
James,
JAMES
11.
1811, merchant in Boston, d. 16 July 1868; Matilda, b. 21 July 1814; 24 Feb. 1818, d. 24 Mar. 1838 Charles, b. 20 Nov. 1820, d. young; the f. res. in Boston, and d. 4 June 1845; his w. Rebecca d. 30 Oct.
s.
1859, a. 78.
(8), m. Eunice Cook, dau. of Henry Dickson, 21 and he m. Anna Peirce 18 Mar. 1824; she d. Nov. 1H36, a. 74, and he m. Almira Sanderson of Waltham, 30 An. 1837. His second wife was much older than himself. His chil., all by the first wife, were Charles Henry, John, and Hannah, who m. Elhanan W. Russell, 18 Oct. 1838. JOHN the f. was a farmer, res. on the southerly side of North Avenue, near Cedar Street, and was killed on the Fitchburg Railroad track, 3
JOHN,
of
d.
Thomas
,
Dec. 1806; she
Feb. 1853.
GOKFE, EDWARD, embarked with Shepard in 1634, for N. Eng. and narrowly escaped shipwreck. The next year, he was more successful, and arrived safely, with his wife and two (or three) children. His w. Joyce d. in His chil. were Samuel, b. in England Nov. 1638, and he m. Margaret about 1630 Lydia, b. in England about 1632, m. John Sprague of Maiden, 2 May 1651 Nathaniel, b. Feb. 1637-8, d. 23 Aug. 1645; Deborah, b. 15 Dec. 1639, d. 21 Nov. 1660 Hannah, b. 23 Mar. 1643-4, m. John Moore of Windsor, Conn., 21 Sept. 1664; Abiah, b. 1 Ap. 1646, m. Henry Woolcott, of Windsor,
. ; ;
A dau. Mary d. 23 Ap. 1646. EDWARD the f. d. 26 Conn., 12 Oct. 1664. Dec. 1658; his w. Margaret m. John Witchfield, of Windsor, Conn., in Dec. She was 1662, and d. in Cambridge, "about the end of the 4th mo. 1669." sister to Jane, the first wife of Edward Winship, as appears by her will; but Mr. Goffe was a prominent citizen, their name before marriage is not known.
36
562
GOFFE
;
GOODMAN
GOODWIN.
Selectman sixteen years, between 1636 and 1655; Treasurer of Middlesex Commissioner (or Magistrate) to settle controversies for a loss Co. 1657-8 amount than forty shillings, seven years, between 1648 and 1658; RepresentaHe was a large landholder, and one of the most wealthy men tive, 1646, 1650. in the town. His homestead contained thirty-two acres, bounded southerly on the old road into the neck, easterly on land of Joseph Cooke (near the present Ellery Street) northerly on the Danforth estate and westerly on the parHis dwelling-house stood at the S. W. corner of his farm, very near sonage.
; ;
the junction of Main and Harvard streets. Vestiges of the old garden, extending into Beck's Park, were visible within the memory of some now living.
s. of Edward (1), m. Hannah Barnard, of Watertown, 25 she d. Ap. 1679, and he in. Mary, wid. of Thomas Saxton, 9 Nov. His children were, Hannah, b. 12 May 1657 Edicard, b. 28 Nov. 1658; 1682. Deborah, b. 22 Jan. 1660-1, d. 27 Dec. 1690; Samuel, b. 1 Jan. 1662-3; Lydia, b. 7 Jan. 1664-5, m. Rev. Thomas Barnard of Andover, 20 July 1704, and d. abt. 1743 John, b. 11 Nov. 1666; Elizabeth, b. 6 Oct. 1668, d. 15 Jan. 1690-91 Edmund, b. about 1670; Nathaniel, b. 9 Ap. 1675 Joseph, b. 23 May 1677. SAMUEL the f. was a farmer, inherited the homestead, and d. 15 Jan. 1705-6, a. 75. In younger life, Mr. Goffe had been adopted by Rev. Edmund Brown of Sudbury, as a son and heir. 3. EDWARD, s. of Samuel (2), m. Mary, dau. of John Biscoe of Watertown,
2.
SAMUEL,
;
June 1656
and had Mary, b. 11 May 1687, m. Thomas Trowbridge of Newton, and became the mother of Judge Edmund Trowbridge, and of Lydia the wife of Richard Dana, Esq., and grandmother of Chief Justice Francis Dana. EDWARD the f. was a tanner, aud d. here before 20 Ap. 1691, Avhen administration on his estate was granted to his w. Mary. See THOMAS TROWBIUDGK. 4. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (2), a shoemaker, appears to have d. here in
Feb. 1699-1700, prob.
5.
s.
p.
JOHN, s. of Samuel (2), was prob. the soldier of that name at Piscataqua, who had leave from the General Court, 4 Nov. 1690, to return home. He d. before 1706, as Edmund, when appointed administrator on the estate of their " the father, Samuel, is styled only surviving son." 6. EDMUND, s. of Samuel (2), was the principal heir to his father's estate, and res. on the homestead. He grad. H. C. 1690, and is said to have been a lawyer; but his time was chiefly devoted to public affairs. He was sheriff of Middlesex 1715-17; Selectman of Cambridge 1717, 1718, Representative 1716, 1721, and often rendered service on important committees. As early as 1710 he was Lieut.-colonel in the expedition against Port Royal; and was commissioned Colonel of Troopers in 1724, in which office he was actively employed against the Indians. About 1697 he m. Hannah, dau. of Simon Lynde of Boston, who had previously been the w. of John Bigg of Bos. and of Jonathan Mitchell of Camb.; she d. and he m. 24 July 1728, Mary dau. of John Legg of Marblehead, who had been the w. of Cant. Edward Brattle and of Col. Nathaniel Norden, both of Marblehead. Col. Goffe d. s. p. 16 Oct. 1 740. It is worthy of note that in 1 725 Col. Goffe was appointed guardian to Edmund Trowbridge (grandson of his brother Edward), then a minor, afterwards a famous Judge. Jn 1740, Judge Trowbridge was appointed guardian to Col. Goffe, who had become incapable of managing his affairs. Thus they alternately had guardianship of each other, a case of rare occurrence,
if it
has a parallel.
;
here in 1633, freeman 1634, but soon rem. to Hartford, where he "was townsman in 1641 and in 1646 surveyor of common lands and fences in 1647; fence-viewer in 1649; member of the civil court in He was a valuable 1637; juror in 1643 and 1645; and held other offices. citizen." (Hinman.) A Deacon of the same name, probably the same person, was slain by the Indians, at Hadley, 1676. GOODWIN, WILLIAM, was here in 1632, and res. at the easterly corner of Harvard and Holyoke streets. He rem. to Hartford with Hooker, in whose church he was a ruling elder, and was a prominent person both in Church and
GOODMAN, RICHARD, was
GOODWIN
GOOKIN.
563
State. During the unpleasant dissension in the Hartford Church, after Hooker's death, he rem. to Hadley; but he subsequently returned to Connecticut, and d. at Farmington, 1673. leaving a large estate to his only child, a See Hinman. daughter, who m. John Crowe. GOOKIN, DANIEL, is said to have emigrated, with his father, from the County of Kent to Virginia in 1621. He is supposed to have arrived in Boston 1<>44, in which year he was admitted freeman. He resided for a short time in Boston and Roxbury, but rem. to Camb. about 1647, and here dwelt 1 during the remainder of his life. By his wife Mary, he had Mary, b. prob. in Virginia, in. Edmund Batter of Salem 8 June 1670, and was living in 1685; Eliznbelh, b. at Rox. 14 Mar. 1644-5, m. Rev. John Eliot, Jr., 23 May 1666; he d. 1668, and she m. Edmund Quincy of Braintree 1680, and d. there 30 Nov. 1700; she was mother of Edmund Quincy, Esq., who d. in London 1738, and the ancestor of many distinguished persons of that name; Hannah, bap. at Rox. 9 May 1647, d. there and was buried 2 Aug. 1647; and in Camb., Daniel, b. 8 Ap. 1649, d. 3 Sept. 1649; Daniel, b. 12 Julv 1650; Samuel, b. 22 Ap. 1652; Solomon, b. 20 June and d. 16 July 1654; Nathaniel, b. 22 Oct. 1656. His w. Mary d. after 4 Oct. 1681, and he m. Hannah, wid. of Habijah Savage of Boston, and dau. of Edward Tyng, who survived him, and d. 28 or 29 Oct. 1689, a. 48. Gen. Gookin, for about forty years, was one of the most active citizens of Camb. He was Licenser of the Printing-press, 1663; Selectman, from 1660 to 1672; Representative 1649, 1651, in which last year he was Speaker of the House; an Assistant from 1652 to 1686 excepting 1676, in which the prejudice against the Praying Indians, whom he be-
He was elected Captain of the Cambridge friended, prevented his election. band, or military company, before 1652, and was described by Johnson as a " Kentish "a souldier," very forward man to advance martial discipline, and He became Major of the Middlesex Regiment withal the truths of Christ." in 1676, and was very active in raising and furnishing troops in Philip's War. In 1681 he was appointed Major-general of all the military force of the Colony, and was the last who held that office under the old charter. He was trusted by Oliver Cromwell as a confidential agent, and was selected by him to assist in executing his favorite project of transplanting a colony from New England
He visited England twice, partly at least on public service. On to Jamaica. his last return to this country, the two regicides, Goffe and Whalley, were his He was therefore defellow passengers, and accompanied him to Camb. nounced by Randolph as their friend and protector, and as the custodian of
their
scanty funds. In the troublesome contest which commenced soon afterwards, upon the restoration of Charles II., Major Gookin was among the Side by side with foremost defenders of the chartered rights of the colonists. Thomas Danforth, he steadfastly resisted the encroachments of arbitrary power. If Danforth was the acknowledged leader of the party, Gookin was He was as resolute in the one of his most active and reliable associates. maintenance of religious, as of civil privileges, and when the Quakers disturbed the peace of the Church, he was among the sternest of their judges. 8
1 J. Wingate Thornton, Esq., of Boston, one of the posterity of Gen. Gookin, com" Col. Chester of Lonmunicates this note: don writes that, 11 Nov. 1639, the Bishop of London granted a marriage-license for Daniel Gookin, of St. Sepulchre Parish, London, gentleman, widower, aged 27, and Mary Dolling, of St. Dunstan in the West, London, spinster, aged 21, whose parents were dead." 2 Once in his life he was summoned before I copv from the tribunal as a transgressor. the Files of the County Court: "'fo the or his of Constable Deputy, Cambridge, You are hereby required in his Majesty"'*
and take bond twenty pounds, with

bridge,
sureties for
his
of
him
to the
sufficient
value of surety or
the
appearance
at
next
County Court holden at Charlestown the 19 day oi December next, then and there to answer the complaint of Caleb Grant of Watertown, in an action of defamation, for charging of him for stealing of his horse, and for pulling of him by the hair and neckcloth, and punching of him with hi* staff, and all this in the King's highway, and shaking of his staff over his head, and saying. Sirrah, get you out of the highway, and coming back again several rods to the
with many threatening words, saying, I have had better men than to wipe my shoes; and father or your you
said Caleb Grant,
want thereof the person of Major Daniel Gookin, of Cam-
name
to attach the goods, or in
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GOOKIN.
He took
a deep interest in the conversion of the Indians, and rendered valuable assistance to Eliot, in his apostolical labors. Under the authority of the General Court, he acted for many years as general superintendent of Indian affairs, visiting their villages, holding courts among them, appointing officers, and generally making provision for their welfare. Gen. Gookin probably res. several years on the easterly side of Holyoke Street, between Harvard and Mount Auburn streets. But he afterwards established himself on what is generally styled the Winthrop Estate, on the southerly side of Arrow Street, near the easterly angle of Bow Street. Here he closed his long and useful life 19 Mar. 1686-7, a. 75 years. 2. DANIEL, s. of Daniel (1), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Edmund Quincy of Braintree, in 1681; she d. 2 Jan. 1690-91, and he m. Bethia Collicutt 21 July His children were Daniel, b. 7 July 1683; Mary, b. 16 Oct. 1685, m. 1692. Thomas Paine of Newcastle 23 Jan. 1706-7; Edmund, b. 31 Mar. 1688; Elizabeth, b. 20 May 1690, m. Isaac Hinkley of Barnstable 6 June 1712; Bethia, b. 7 Oct. 1693, d. 1 Mar. 1694-5; Nathaniel, b. 5 June 1695, d. 9 Aug. DANIEL the f. grad. H. C. 1669, was or1695; Richard, b. 12 July 1696. dained at Sherburne 26 Mar. 1685, where he d. 8 Jan. 1717-18. " He was eldest son of the honorable Daniel Gookin, Esq.; a good scholar and solid diFrom his vine; was many years Fellow of Harvard College and a Tutor. ordination he continued our minister about 34 years, being diligent in his The vicinity of Natick study, tender of his flock, and exemplary in his life. gave him the opportunity of preaching lectures to the Indians there. And al-
though by great pain and indisposition of body he was taken off from his work for some considerable time, he died lamented." Boston News Letter,
Jan. 20, 1717-18.
3. SAMUEL, s. of Daniel (1), by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 26 Aug. 1679, m. Dr. Samuel Gedney of Salem, 2 May 1701, and Rev. Theophilus Cotton of Hampton 16 Aug. 1711; he d. 18 Aug. 1726, and she m. Newmarch; Elizabeth, b. 11 Nov. 1681, m. Rev. Daniel Greenleaf of Portsmouth 18 Nov. b. 16 1701 (of Yarmouth in 1723); Samuel, b. 14 Aug. 1683; Nathaniel, His w. Mary d. after 29 Ap. 1707, and he Feb. 1685-6, d. young; Daniel. m. Mrs. Hannah Biscoe of Watertown (wid. of Thomas Biscoe) 28 Sept. 1708. SAMUEL the f. res. on the easterly side of Holyoke Street, about one hundred feet southerly from Harvard Street, where he d. 16 Sept. 1730, a. 78. He inherited his father's military spirit, and was a Captain as early as 1692, when he was commissioned to settle difficulties existing at Little Compton. He was active also in raising troops for the expedition to Canada in 1711. Captain Gookin seems to have been more moderate than his father in opposition to arbitrary power; as in May 1687 he was appointed Sheriff of Middlesex by the Andros Administration. At the Revolution, John Green was reinstated Marshal-general, and Gookin probably went out of office. Green died 3 Mar. 1690-91, and two days afterwards Gookin was appointed Marshal-general, equivalent to High Sheriff of the Colony. After the form of government was changed by the new charter, this office was abolished, and High Sheriffs were appointed in each county. Gookin held this office for a time in Suffolk, and was afterwards appointed, 1702, to the same office in Middlesex, which he held (except from Dec. 1715 to July 1717) until 27 July
1
729.
4.
NATHANIEL,
s.
Oakes
for all
in the ministry
of Daniel (1), grad. H. C. 1675, and after assisting Pres. a few years, was ordained minister of the First Church
make
due damages.
Hereof you are to
a true return under your hand. Dated this 27th of November, 1676. By the Court, SAMUEL GKEEN." At the trial, "John Johnson, aged about 39 years, doth say that
in November last, near to Mr. Danforth's house, he saw Major Gookin, with sundry others, among whom was Caleb
sometime
Grant and some of his brethren, and at a distance I saw Major Gookin hold up his
over the head of Caleb Grant, and lay his shoulder, but I saw no blow given, nor heard any further. Major GOOkin doth confess this testimony, he being greatly abused. 19. 10. 76. T. D. R." Another witness testified that he heard the obThe jury rendered this jectionable words. verdict: " In the case between Caleb Grant, plaintive, and Major Gookin, defendant, we tind (or the defendant cost of court."
staff
his
hand on
GOOKIN.
in Cambridge,
565
:
15 Nov. 1682. Judge Sewall noticed the ordination thus ordains Mr. Nath. Gookin Pastor of Camb. Church. Mr. Eliot gives the right hand of fellowship, first reading the Scripture that warrants it. Mr. Sherman, Eliot, and Mather laid on hands. Then Mr. Gookin
"Mr. Sherman
ordained Deac. Stone and Mr. Clark Ruling Elders. The presence of God seemed to be with his people. Mr. Jona. Danforth, the Deputy Governor's only son, lay by the wall, having departed on Monday morning, (13th) of a Mr. Gookin m. Hannah, dau. of Habijah Savage (whose consumption." wid. Hannah was the last w. of Gen. Gookin), and had Nathaniel, b. 15 Ap. 1687, grad. H. C. 1703, minister at Hampton, N. H., and d. 25 Aug. 1734; (leaving son Nathaniel, grad. II. C. 1731, ordained at North Hampton, N. H., 31 Oct. 1739, and d. 22 Oct. 1766, a. 53;) Habijah, b. 23 Jan. 1689-90, d. 1 Aug. 1690; Hannah, b. about 1692, m. Vincent Carter of Charlestown. NATHANIEL the f. was cut off in the midst of his usefulness 7 Aug. 1692, at the early age of 36. His w. Hannah d. 14 May 1702, a. 34. The affection and esteem cherished by the Church and town towards her, are manifested by their frequent donations while she lived, and by assuming the direction and charge of her funeral, as they had previously defrayed the expense of her husband's burial. 5. EDMUND, s. of Daniel (2), was a joiner and owned the homestead in Sherburne, 1718, which he sold to his brother Richard 4 Sept. 1722. He m. Sarah Thompson of Boston 27 Oct. 1715, and had Elizabeth, b. 23 Nov. 1716; Mary, b. 1 Mar. 1718; Daniel, b. 11 Mar. 1720, d. 12 May 1720. 6. RICHARD, s. of Daniel (2), was a husbandman for a short time in Chelmsford, but afterwards bought the homestead in Sherburne and was there an innholder; this estate he sold 29 July 1729, and rem. to Dedham. He m. Margaret Morse 19 Feb. 1716-17, and had at Sherburne Bethia, b. 14 Jan. 1717-18, d. unm. at Dedham 14 Ap. 1768; Hannah, b. 22 Dec. 1722, d. 11 Sept. 1723; Daniel, b. 13 Jan. 1725-6, d. 13 Nov. 1729; Richard (twin), b. 13 Jan. 1725-6, d. 15 Jan. 1725-6; also at Dedham, Mary, b. 8 May 1729, d. 28 Sept. 1734; Margaret, b. 15 Feb. 1733-4, m. William Smith 3 May 1753; Daniel, b. 23 Mar. 1735-6; Edmund, b. 8 May 1738; Hannah, b. 20 Aug. 1740, d. 22 Aug. 1740; Samuel, b. 29 May 1743. RICHARD the f. d. 23 Feb. 1754; his w. Margaret d. about 1771, and her son Daniel was appointed administrator 5 Ap. 1771.
(3), inherited the homestead and the military served as a Lieutenant in the expedition against Port Royal, 1710, and was afterwards a Captain, by which appellation he was genHe was appointed Deputy Sheriff by his father in 1702, when erally known. he was only nineteen years old; which office he held for sixty-four years, a longer term than I have elsewhere noticed. He was also appointed Crier of the Courts in 1742, and remained in this office until 2 Dec. 1766; on which day Towards is the last record of his appearance as Deputy Sheriff and Crier. the close of life, his financial affairs appear to have become embarrassed. Having disposed of sundry other lots of land, he sold the homestead in 1754, His life-estate he sold reserving a life-estate therein to himself and his wife. to Rev. East Apthorp, in 1760, and purchased a house and lands at the N. W. corner of Holyoke and South streets, for the use of himself and wife durand one ing their lives, and then to descend one half to their daughter Mary, Mrs. Gookin by a quarter each to Benjamin and Priscilla Hill, children of former husband. He was twice married, (1) to Susanna, dau. of Capt. Josiah Parker, 28 Feb. 1711-12, by whom he does not appear to have had any children; (2d) to Priscilla, wid. of Joseph Hill, and dau. of Daniel Dana, 15 May 1740, by whom he had Daniel, b. 28 Mar. 1741; Mary, bap. 24 Oct. 1742, m. James Kettle 1 Dec. 1763; he d. and she m. Joseph Jeffries before 1790, and d. in Boston 2 or 3 Aug. 1825, a. 83, leaving children. In recording her death Dr. Holmes adds the remark, " she was the last of the Gookin family It is said by those who remember her, that although she in Cambridge." she fully maintained possessed but a small estate, in her personal deportment SAMUEL the f. d. prob. 1767, a. about 84; the ancient dignity of her family.
7.
SAMUEL,
s.
of
Samuel
spirit of his father.
He
566
GOOKIN
April
1
GOULD
785, at
GOVE.
is
his w. Priscilla d. prob.
which date
recorded the death of
also a Captain, and much engaged in m. Sarah Biscoe (wid. of John Biscoe) 9 July 1716, and had in Camb. Sarah, bap. 11 May 1718, d. young; Mary, bap. 24 Ap. 1720; Sarah, bap. 21 Oct. 1722; Samuel, bap. 31 Jan. 1724-5. He prob. was the same who rem. to Worcester, and was the first High Sheriff of Worcester County, from 1731 until his death in 1743. Wor. Mag., ii. 206. 9. DANIEL, s. of Richard (6). m. Hannah Child 24 Dec. 1761; she d. 7 May His chil. born in Dedhani, 1769, and he m. Susanna Whiting 12 Dec. 1771. were Margaret, b. 21 Nov. 1762; Lydia, b. 7 Mar. 1765; Hannah, b. 23 Ap. 1 769 and perhaps other. 10. EDMUND, s. of Richard (6), res. in Roxbury, m. a dau. of Seth Tucker, and d. 10 July 1810. He is said to have had three sons, Edmund, Squire, and Daniel, and four daughters, one of whom, Hannah, was under 14 years of age in 1 765. He res. in 11. SAMUEL, s. of Richard (6), is called a surgeon in 1768. Dedham, m. Rebecca Swan 1 Dec. 1768, and had Richard, b. 6 Oct. 1769, settled in Haverhill, N. H.; William, b. 1784, settled in Rutland, Vt., and perhaps others. 12. SAMUEL, the reputed s. of Samuel (7) by Bethia Grover of Watertown, b. 1739, was placed under guardianship of Samuel Stratton 31 Mar. He m. Mary Mullett 21 Dec. 1761 (being 1755, being then sixteen years old. styled Samuel Gookin, Jr.), and had Mart/, bap. 3 Oct. 1762, and others. SAMUEL the f. rem. to Suffield, Conn., and thence to Rupert, Vt. where he
" widow Gookin, an aged woman." 8. DANIEL, s. of Samuel (3), was

public
affairs.
He
d. 2
April 1812.
Brighton, and m. Sarah Learned Boyes, bap. Ap. 1792, entered the Army, and is supposed to have died in the service; Sarah, bap. 14 Ap. 1793; established himself in Charlotte, bap. 14 Aug. 1796; Samuel Learned, b. business in Memphis, Tenn., and d. at Florence, Ala.; and perhaps others. EDMUND the f. d. at Claremont, N. H., about 1843. 14. SQUIRE, s. of Edmund (10), res. in Brighton, and m. Phebe, dau. of Deac. Thomas Thwing, 20 Sept. 1792, by whom he had Thomas Thwing, bap. 6 Jan. 1793, d. in Watertown 1 May 1842, leaving George Dana, m. Ann A. Plummer; Abijah Brown, m. Sarah F. Munroe and others; Phebe, bap. 24 July 1794. d. unm. 23 Feb. 1860; Samuel, bap. 19 Aug. 1798, d. 15 Oct. 1842; Edmund Parker, bap. 1 Nov. 1801, d. 21 June 1839; George, hap. 24 Mar. 1805, d. unm. 6 Aug. 1856; Elizabeth Barker, bap. 11 Sept. 1808, died young; Charles, b. 3 July 1811. a merchant in Florence, Ala., where he m. Sarah M. Brocchus 3 Sept. 1838, and had five sons. SQUIRE the f. rem. to Camb., and d. 18 June 1833, a. 62. His w. Phebe d. 22 Dec. 1855, a. 81. 15. DANIEL s. of Edmund (10), rem. to New Hampshire, and d. about 1849, leaving son Daniel, and four daughters. GOULD, THOMAS, by w. Mary, had Jacob, b. 16 Sept. 1643. GOVE, JOHN, perhaps brother to Edward of Hampton, N. H., was a turner, and was here as early as 1657, when he bought an estate on the easterly side
13.
EDMUND,
s.
18 Oct. 1791, by
of Edmund (10), res. whom he had William
in
between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, where through life. He m. Mary Aspinwall 6 Oct 1658 she d. 14 Nov. 1676, and he m. Mary Woodhead 15 Mar. 1676-7; she d. 11 Sept. 1700, a. 56, and he m. Elizabeth Waldin 2 Dec. 1700, who had previously been the wid. of His children were Mary, b. 14 Sept. 1659, m. Henry Prentice Batson. 7 Ap. 1682; John, bap. 3 Mar. 1660-61, d. 28 Ap. 1679; Aspinwall, b. 2 and d. 11 Oct. 1661; Nathaniel, bap. 16 Nov. 1662, living in 1704; James, bap. 13 Dec. 1663; a child (name worn off) bap. 4 Aug. 1667; Jonathan, b. 19 Jan. 1677-8, d. 11 Oct. 1681; John, b. about 1680, d. 16 Jan. 1681-2; Jonathan, b. 3 May 1682; Sarah, b. 28 Aug 1686, living in 1704. JOHN the f. d. 24 Nov. 1704, a. 77. His w. Elizabeth was living in 1717. 2. JONATHAN, s. of John (1), m. Lydia, dau. of Deac. Samuel Cooper, 26 Dec. 1706, and had John, b. 2 Nov. 1707 Mary, b. 3 Mar. 1709-10, m. John
of Brighton Street,
he
res.
GOVE
Walker 28 Oct. 1731 Weston Jan. 1730-31
;
;
GREEN.
567
Lydia, b. 22 Aug. 1712, m. Jonathan Wellington of Kezia, b. 17 Ap. 1715, m. Deae. Joseph Loring of Lex., pub. 2 Nov. 1735; Hannah, b. 27 Feb. 1717-18, m. Thomas Goddard 3 Jan. 1738-9; Sarah, b. Dec. 1720, d. 21 Jan. 1720-21; Jonathan, b. and d. 16 Feb. 1721-2; Jonathan, b. and d. 23 Oct. 1723; all, except the last three, living in 1742, at the date of their father's will. His w. Lydia d. at Weston 18 Ap. 1 740, and he m. Hannah who survived him. JONATHAN the f. was a husbandman, and inherited the homestead, which he sold in 1706, and subsequently owned and probably occupied a lot of two acres on the S. W. side of North Avenue, at its angle between the Railroad Bridge and Porter's Hotel. This estate he sold in 1729, and rem. probably about that time to Weston, where he d. 22 Dec. 1747. His will, dated 16 July 1742, was offered for probate 15 Feb. 1747, but disallowed; his son John administered. GKEKN, BARTHOLOMEW, was here in 1634, and had a house in the West Field, not far from the Botanic Garden, but prob. rem. to the S. W. corner of Brattle and Ash streets, where his widow resided in 1638. By his w. Elizabeth, he had Samuel; Nathaniel; Sarah, m. Thomas Longhorn about 1646; Phebe, m. William Healy 15 Aug. 1661; all prob. born in England. BARTHOLOMEW the f. d. about 1638; his w. Elizabeth d. 28 Oct. 1677, a. 88, after a widowhood of about forty years. 2. PERCIVAL, perhaps a brother to Bartholomew (1), came here in 1635, in the Susan and Ellen, then aged 32. and resided on Holmes Place about midway between its eastern angle and North Avenue. By his w. Ellen, he had June 1636; Elizabeth,^. John,b. Ap. 1639. m. John Hall of Concord 4 Ap. 1656, but subsequently res. here and d. at Medf. 14 Feb. 1713-14; PERCIVAL the f. d. 25 Dec. 1639', a. 36; his w. Ellen m. Thomas Fox about 16oO, and d. 27 May 1682, a. 82. 3. SAMUEL, s. of Bartholomew (1), m. Jane, dau. of Guy Banbridge; she d. 16 Nov. 1657, and he m. Sarah, dau. of Elder Jonas Clark, 23 Feb. 1662-3. His children were Elizabeth, b. 16 Feb. 1640-41; Sarah, b. 7 Oct. 1642; Lydia, b. 23 Mar. 1644-5, d. young; Lydia, b. 13 Ap. 1646, d. young; Samuel, b. 6 Mar. 1647-8; Joseph, b. 7 Nov. 1649; Lydia, b. about 1651, d. 24 Sept. 16C5 Deborah, b. 19 Mar. 1655-6; Jonas, b. 29 Jan. 1663-4; Lydia, b. 3 Nov. 1665; Bartholomew, b. 26 Oct. 1667; Mary, b. 6 Nov. 1669; Dorcas, b. 6 Sept. 1671; Timothy; and perhaps five more not recorded. Mr. Green is principally celebrated as a printer, the conductor of the Cambridge printing-office about half a century, and the ancestor of a very numerous race of printers. Upon some dissatisfaction with Daye, who was the first to commence printing in New EngWhether land, Green was appointed to take charge of the press, about 1649. he had previously become acquainted with the business, under the direction of Daye, does not appear. But from this time forward, he devoted himself to this work. Thomas (Hist. Printing) gives a catalogue of books published under Green's superintendence; among which were the Indian New Testament, 1661, the Indian Bible, 1663, and a second edition of the same, six years in press, completed in 1685. Notwithstanding his employment, as sole master-printer in New England, Mr. Green found some leisure for civil and military duties. He was Town Clerk, 1694-1697, and Clerk of the Writs, from 1652 until a late Properiod if not to the end of life. He had a passion for military exercises. motion was not as rapid then as now; and a practice then prevailed, and continued, I believe, until the Revolution, for a Captain to retain the command of
,
his
company, however highly promoted, so long as he remained in office; thus Gookin, a Captain about 1647, continued to be Captain of his company while he was Sergeant-major, and Major-general, the immediate command being exercised by a Lieutenant; hence Green remained long in a subordinate office before he could attain high rank. He served as Sergeant in the expedition the same office previously; against Gorton Sept. 1643, and had probably held he was appointed Ensign in 1660; was Lieutenant in 1686 and was commissioned Captain in 1689, when seventy-five years old, which station ho seems to have held until death. See page 402. In an obituary notice of his son Bar" Capt. tholomew, published in the News Letter, 4 Jan. 1733, it is stated that
;
568
GREEN.
Samuel Green,. the famous printer of Cambridge .... arrived with Gov. Winthrop in 1630; he came in the same ship with the Hon. Thomas Dudley, Esq., and used to tell his children that upon their first coming ashore, both he and several others were for some time glad to lodge in empty casks, to shelter them from the weather, for want of housing." Capt. Green res. from an early period on the lot afterwards occupied by Judge Trowbridge, on the northerly
side of
Mount Auburn
Street,
Jan. 1701-2, and his w. Sarah and his children, Jonas of New London, mariner, Bartholomew of Boston, printer, Joseph of Boston, tailor, and Timothy of Boston, printer, sold the homestead in 1707 after which time, very little trace is found here of this family. " chandler " and res. on the 4. NATHANIKL, s. of Bartholomew (1), was a homestead with his mother. It does not appear that he ever married. The last notice I have found of him is in 1693, when he and his brother Samuel sold the homestead. 5. JOHN, s. of Percival (2), m. Ruth, dau. of Edward Mitchelson 20 Oct. 1656, and had John, b. 24 July 1657; Nathaniel, b. 25 Sept, 1658; Percival, b. 29 Mar. 1660; Ruth, b. 25 Nov. 1661, m. Zechariah Hicks, 18 Nov. 1685; Samuel, b. 4 May 1663; Elizabeth, b. 22 Ap. 1665, m. Thomas Johnson 8 Jan.
;
between Holyoke and Dunster
streets.
He
d. 1
1682-3; Edward, b. 15 Ap. 1667; Thomas, b. 7 Mar. 1668-9; Jonathan, b. Bethia, b. 20 Jan. 1673-4, m. Joseph Hicks, and d. 12 Ap. 1708; prob. 1671 Joseph, b. 24 Nov. 1675; Benjamin, b. 13 Aug. 1677; was living in 1696; m. Rev. and Mary, b. Mitchelson, b. 14 Mar. 1680-81, d. 21 Oct. 1681 Nathaniel Hunting of Easthampton, L. I., 27 Oct. 1701. JOHN the f. was a tailor. He succeeded his father-in-law, Mitchelson, 3 June 1681, as Marshal-general of the Colony. During the Andros administration, he was superseded in office by Samuel Gookin 1687. but was reinstated 15 Aug. 1689. He d. 3 Mar. 1690-91, a. nearly 55; his wid. Ruth m. Samuel Champney. 6. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (3), was a printer in Boston as early as 1682, where he died of small pox in July 1690. His wife, who is reputed to have been a lady of rare accomplishments, died of the same disease within a few days afterwards. 7. BARTHOLOMEW, s. of Samuel (3), was a printer, and commenced business at Boston, upon the death of his brother Samuel. sketch of his labors and character is given in an obituary published soon after his death: He " first set up his press with his father in Cambridge, and afterwards removed to Boston; where, on Sept. 16, 1690, soon after he was first married, his press and letters, which were then esteemed the best that had been in the country, were consumed by a fire that began in the neighborhood upon which he returned to Camb. and there continued till the winter 1692-3, when he came
; ; ,
to Boston, where he has been printer to the Governor and Council for near forty years, and of the Boston News Letter (excepting a small intermisHe was commended "for a strict observing the sion), from its beginning." Sabbath; his household piety: his keeping close and diligent to the work of his calling his meek and peaceable spirit; his caution of publishing anything offensive, light, or hurtful; and his tender sympathy to the poor and afflicted. He began to be pious in the days of his youth and he would always speak of the wonderful spirit of piety that then prevailed in the land, with a singular He was one of the Deacons of the Old pleasure." News Letter, 4 Jan. 1733. South Church, and d. 28 Dec. 1732, a. 65. He left several children, of whom Mary was b. in Camb. 2 June 1691 one m. John Draper, the successor of Mr. Green in the publication of the News Letter; and Bartholomew, a printer in Boston, 1727, rem. to Halifax, N. S., 1751, to establish a printing house, where he died about a month afterwards, a. 52; one of the daughters of Bartholomew, Jr., was mother of Joseph Dennie, Editor of the Port Folio. Thomas's Hist. Printing. 8. TIMOTHY, s. of Samuel (3), was a printer in Boston 1700, rem. to Connecticut 1714, was a Deacon, and d. at New London 5 May 1757, a. 78. 9. JOHN, s. of John (5), m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Bradish, 22 Nov. 1684, and had John, b. 23 Aug. 1688; Mary, bap. 26 June 1698; Sarah, b. 12 June and perhaps others. 1701; Hannah, b.
; ; ;
;
back
GREEN
10.
GRISWOLD.
was
living in 1691, but not
NATHANIEL,
p.
of
John
(5),
named
in his
brother Edward's
will, 1696.
JONATHAN
16.
11. PEKCIVAL, s. of John (5), grad. H. C. 1680, preached a short time in Stow and also in Wells, Me., but probably was not ordained. He d. here unm. 10 July 1684. 12. SAMUEL, s. of John (5), was a tailor, and res. here; he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Sill, 18 Nov. 1685, and d. soon after 23 July 1692 (the date of his will), leaving children Samuel and Elizabeth. 13. EDWARD, s. of John (5), a His will, ship-master, d. unm. in 1696. dated 4 Feb. 1695-6, was made on board ship. 14. THOMAS, s. of John (5), was living in 1691, but not named in his brother Edward's will, 1696. 15. JONATHAN, s. of John (5), a housewright, sold the homestead in 1696 to Joseph Coolidge, and rein, to Newton, where by w. Mary, he had Mary, b. 9 Feb. 1702; Jonathan, b. 31 May 1707, d. 1732; Ann, b. 4 Mar. 1713.
the
f.
d. in
1736
his w.
Mary
d. in 1732.
H. C. 1695, and was ordained at Salem He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Joseph village, or Danvers, 10 Nov. 1698. Gerrish of Weuham, 16 Mar. 1698-9, and had Anna, b. 27 Nov. 1699, d. 8 Aug. 1725; John, b. 22 Dec. 1?01, H. C. 1719; Joseph, b. 12 Dec. 1703; Ed-
JOSEPH,
s.
of
John
(5), grad.
ward,
11
b. 1
Dec. 1705; Elizabeth,
b.
May
1708, d. 23 July 1732; William, b.
Aug. 1710; Benjamin, b. 1 July 1713; Ruth, posthumous, b. 23 Ap. 1716, d. 24 Aug. 1716. JOSEPH the f. d. 26 Nov. 1715; his w. Elizabeth m. Rev. William Brattle of Camb. and d. at Medf. 22 May 1747. See An Account of Percival and Ellen Green and some of their Descendants, by Samuel Abbot
Green, M. D., City Physician of Boston. 17. JOHN, s. of John (9), m. Elizabeth Corey 25 Jan. 1711-12, and had
Joseph, b. 24 Oct. 1712.
w. Mary, had Mary, b. 21 May 1661. ABIGAIL, m. William Stevens prob. of Chs., had s. Jacob, bap. 1714. 1 July 1673. JAMES, of Maiden, m. Deborah Brown 20 Mar. 1734. JOHN, m. Mary Reed 24 Ap. 1777. GREENHILL, SAMUEL, res. 1635 at the N. W. corner of Brighton and Mount Auburn streets. He rem. to Connecticut with Hooker, and " died early." (Hinman.) Rebecca Greenhill, perhaps dau. of Samuel, m. John Shepard in Camb. 4 Oct. 1649. GREENWOOD, THOMAS, otherwise written Greenhood, m. Hannah, dau. of John Ward, 8 June 1670, and had John, b. prob. 1671; Thomas, b. 27 Dec. William, b. 14 1673; by his 2d w. Abigail, he had James, b. 19 Dec. 1687 Oct. 1689, m. Abigail Woodward 1715. THOMAS the f was a weaver, and res. on the south side of the river, in what is now Newton, where he d. 1694. It is said that he was the first Town Clerk in Newton, and also Justice of the
WILLIAM, parentage unknown, by
JACOB,
Peace.
2. ISAAC, parentage not ascertained, by w. Sarah, had Isaac, b. 9 May 1730; Sarah, b. 8 Sept. 1731; John, b. 29 Mar. 1733; Thales, bap. 23 Mar. 1735; Elizabeth, bap. 1 May 1737. ISAAC the f. grad. II. C. 1721; was the first Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, to which office he was elected in May 1727; he was a candidate for the Presidency of that Colwith Holyoke, lege in 1737, and divided the votes of the Corporation equally who, about a month later, was elected by unanimous vote. He was removed " He held his office ten years and from his Professorship a year afterwards. five months (from the time of his inauguration), and might have continued to hold it, with credit to himself and benefit to the College, had his wisdom and " Little is known of him firmness been equal to his acknowledged abilities." after his dismission. He went to Charleston, S. C., and there he died Oct. Pence's Hist. Hare. Unio. 22, 1745." GRIFFITH, HENRY, d. here 12 Nov. 1639. GRISWOLD, FRANCIS (variously written, Greshold, Greshould, Grisell, b. 28 Oct. 1639; Grissell, Grissoll, and Grisold), by w. Mary, had Mary, Hannah, b. 3 Feb. 1642-3, d. Ap. 1643; Hannah, b. 4 Mai. 1644-5. FRANCIS
570
GRISWOLD
HALL.
the f. res. on the northerly side of Kirkland Street, and d. in Charlestown 2 Oct. 1652, leaving two daughters; his wid. Mary m. William Bullard. GROVER, ANDREW, m. Hannah Hill 7 Feb. 1673-4. 2. THOMAS, a carpenter, from Reading, bought the estate at the N. W. corner of Brattle and Mason streets, 1711, but sold it again, the next year. GUY, JOHN, by w. Hannah, had Mary, b. 17 Ap. 1676, d. 25 July 1676. Possibly this name may be Gay; in which case, perhaps Hannah may be the
same who m. Owen Warland 3 Ap. 1679. HADDEN (or Haddon), GERARD (variously written Garrad, Jarett, and Jarritt), owned a house and three acres, extending from Sparks Street to Garden Street, in 1635. He rem. to Salisbury about 1640, and was living in 1663. George, H. C. 1647, may have been his son. HALL, MARY, a widow, is named by Mitchell as a member of his church. " Her children were all adult at the time of her But two of them are joining. Her son since joined to the Church of Concord, viz., John, and Susanna." William, who Stephen was living in 1668, then "aged 28 or thereabouts." d. at Concord 10 Mar. 1666-7, was another son. A John Hall of Cambridge had a share of the Shawshine lands in 1652, who may have been husband of Mary but he was more probably her son. 2. EDWARD, in Camb. as early as 1638, res. on the easterly side of North Avenue, very near Holmes Place; the same estate which afterwards became the property of Aaron Bordman, and remained in his family several generations. EDWARD had w. Margaret, but prob. no children; she d. 7 Dec. 1676, and he m. Mary Rayner 18 June 1677. He d. 20 Oct. 1680, a. 73; his w. Mary m. Thomas Brown 23 May 1681, and was living, again a wid., in 1696; her last husband, Thomas Brown, Sen., "on the common," having d. 3 Nov.
;
1688.
THOMAS, brother of Edward (2), had a grant of land in 1645. By w. Isabel (Mitchell calls her Elizabeth), he had Mary, m. Israel Mead 26 Feb. 1669-70; Hannah, b. 4 Mar. 1658, m. Stephen Francis 27 Dec. 1670, and d. 2 Ap. 1683; Lydia, b. m. Ger.-^hom Cutter 6 Mar. 1677-8, and perhaps others. His w. Isabel d. 28 Ap 1682, and he m. Martha, wid. of Humphrey Bradshaw, and formerly wid. of William Russell, 24 May 1683. He d. about 1691 his Inventory is dated 5 Oct. 1691 his w. Martha d. about 1694. 4. WILLIAM, s. of Mary (1), by w. Grace, had Mary, b. 4 Nov. 1657. He
, ; ;
removed
5.
to
Concord and
d. 10
Mar. 1666-7.
; ;
JOHN, s. of Mary (1), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Percival Green, 4 Ap. 1656, and had Elizabeth, b. *18 Sept. 1658, m. John Oldham John, b. 13 Dec. 1661
William, b. prob. 1664, d. at Medf. 4 Jan. 1683-4, a. 19; Nathaniel, b. 7 July 1666; Mary, b. 23 Oct. 1668, m. John Bradshaw; Stephen, b. prob. 1670; Percival, b. 11 Feb. 1672; Susanna, b. prob. 1675; Jonathan, b. 28 Sept. 1677; JOHN the father res. in Sarah, b. 31 Mar. 1679; Thomas, b. 16 Nov. 1681. Concord 1658 and 1666; then in Camb. till about 1675, when he bought a quarter of the Collins farm at Medf. where he d. 18 Oct. 1701, a. 74; his widow Elizabeth d. 14 Feb. 1713-14 a nearly 75. Ten of their children were
living in
6.
1
702.
JOHN, s. of John (5), m. Jemima, dau. of Capt. Joseph Sill, 21 Dec. 1687, and had John, b 11 Sept. 1689, d. 2 Oct. 1689; John, b. 19 Sept. 1690; William, b. 24 June 1694, d. 4 Oct. 1694; William, b. 1 Nov. 1694. d. 3 Jan. 1694-5; Elizabeth, b. 10 June 1696; Andrew, b. 15 May 1698; Jemima, b.
f.
8 Oct. 1700 Joseph, b. 30 Nov. 1702; Stephen, b. 19 Jan. 1703-4. JOHN the resided in Medf. and d. 14 Nov. 1720. 7. NATHANIEL, s. of John (5), by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. 9 Jan. 1691-2; Nathaniel, b. 25 Oct. 1694, d. 22 Sept. 1773; Susanna, b. 30 Aug.
;
1696; Sarah, b. 8 Sept. 1698; Tabitha, b. 9 Nov. 1699; William, b. 9 Feb. 1704-5. NATHANIEL the f. res. in Medford. 8. STEPHEN, s. of John (5), by w. Elizabeth, had Grace, bap. here 24 June 1698; Josiah, bap. here 24 Feb. 1705-6; Ruth, bap. here 25 July 1708; Mary, bap. Medf. 19 Ap. 1719; Stephen, bap. Medf. 13 Aug. 1721; and probably others. STEPHEN the f. res. in Medf.
HALL
HANCOCK.
571
9. PERCIVAL, s. of John (5), m. Jane Willis, and had Percival, b. 13 Nov. 1698; Jane, b. 15 May 1700; Mary, b. 15 July 1706; Thomas, b. 15 Aug. 1712; Zaccheus and Susanna, twins, b. 11 Jan. 1714-15; Grace, b. 5 Oct. 1717; Willis, b. 7 Mar. 1718-19 and perhaps others. Mary, was b. in Cainb. the others named in Medf. where PEUCIVAL the father res. until about 1721, when he and his w. Jane were recommended for admission to the Church in Sutton. He was elected Deacon in Medf. 6 Ap. 1720. 10. JONATHAN, s. of John (5), res. in Medf., but had son Jonathan, bap. here 20 Oct. 1706.
;
s. of John (5), res. in Medf. and was elected Deacon in Dec. m. Hannah, dau. of Gershom Cutter, 22 Dec. 1702, and had Thomas, b. 5 Oct. 1703; by second w. Abigail, he had Edward, b. 11 Ap. 1707 Abigail, b. 24 Oct. 1708 Ruth, b. 1 July 1712, d. 30 Oct. 1714; John, bap. 13 Mar. 1715; Ruth, bap. 30 Aug. 1719; William, bap. 18 June 1721 Rebecca, b. 28 Feb. 1727, m. A. Blanchard, Jr., 13 Nov. 1745; Samuel, bap. 5 Jan. 1729. THOMAS the f. m. a third w., Elizabeth Davis, 16 Ap. 1747, and d. 25 Jan. 1757. In his will, dated 25 Mar. 1755, he made provision for his wife and for chil. Thomas, Edward, Rebecca, John, William, and the heirs of
11.
THOMAS,
1706.
He
dau. Ruth, deceased.

father,
of Thomas (11), received by deed of gift from his grandHe m. Cutter, a tract of land at Menot. 22 Nov. 1728. Patience Allen 10 July 1729, and had Hannah, b. 11 July 1731, m. Joseph Adams, Jr., 11 Sept. 1750 Thomas, bap. 6 Aug. 1733; Patience, b. 4 May 1738, m. Daniel Cutter of Medf. 18 Nov. 1756. THOMAS the f. was a weaver, res. at Menot , was elected Deacon of the Church 5 Dec. 1759, and d. 29 May
12.
THOMAS,
s.
Gershom
1794,
13.
a. 90.
THOMAS, s. of Thomas (12), m. Rebecca Cutter of Medf. (pub. 17 Sept. 1756), and had Thomas, b. 4 July 1760; Ebenezer, b. 24 Dec. 1762; Gershom, THOMAS the f. res. at Menot. and d. 25 Feb. 1770, a. 37; bap. 31 May 1767. his w. Rebecca m. William Cutler 19 Jan. 1773, and d. 12 Dec. 1817. 14. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (13), by w. Elizabeth had Elizabeth, b. 21 Aug. 1786; Lydia and Rebecca, twins, b. 23 Feb. 1788; Oliver, b. about 1792, d. 24 Feb. 1796, a. 4 and perhaps others. THOMAS the f. res. at Menot. and d. 8 Sept. 1804. 15. EBKNEZKR, s. of Thomas (13), m. Esther Ruhamah, dau. of Ammi Cutter, 26 Mar. 1786, and had Ebenezer, b. 12 Oct. 1786, d. 20 Dec. 1826; Esther, b. 10 July 1 788 Sarah Cutter, b. 14 Mar. 1790 Ammi, b. 18 Feb. 1 792, d. 5 Ap. 1794 Hannah, bap. 17 Ap. 1796 Ammi, Isaac, bap. 16 Mar. 1794 Thomas, bap. 20 Oct. 1799; a child, b. 3 and d. 6 Jan. bap. 21 Jan. 1798 1804 and perhaps others. EBENEZER the f. res. at Menot. and d. 7 Jan. 1840. EZEKIKL, of ABIGAIL, m. Jonathan Ward of Newton 31 Dec. 1700. Medf. m. Anna, dau. of Rev. Samuel Cook, 24 Oct. 1765. STEPHEX, 4th, of Medford in. Mary, dau. of Abraham Hill, 12 July 1770. He m. wid. Sarah as an inhabitant in 1651. HAMLET, WILLIAM,
;
appears
Hubbard, and had Jacob and Rebecca, before 1658. HAMMERSTON, EDWARD, was buried 24 Aug. 1646. HAMMOND, THOMAS, was in Hingham 1636. In 1650, he and Vincent Druce (also from Hingham) purchased a tract of land in what is now Newton, He d. 1675. leaving a adjoining Brookline, which they divided in 1664. large estate to his wid. Elizabeth, and chil. Elizabeth Woodward, Thomas, and Nathaniel, and to his grandchildren Sarah and Elizabeth, chil. of his dau. Sarah Stedrnan, deceased. 2. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), m. Elizabeth Stedman, 17 Dec. 1662, and had Elizabeth, b. 3 Nov. 1664; Thomas, b. 16 Dec. 1666; Isaac, b. 20 Dec. b. 18 1668; Nathaniel, b. 3 Feb. 1670-1; John, b. 30 Ap. 1674; Eleazar, Nov. 1677. THOMAS the f. d. 20 Oct. 1678. His w. Elizabeth survived. HANCHET, PETER, by w. Mary, had Human, b. 2 May 1680. HANCOCK, NATHANIEL, one of the "first company," was here as early as Harvard and 1634, and res. on the easterly side of Dunster Street, between and his widow Mount Auburn streets. He died in life, about 1648,
early
572
Joanna was appointed,
estate.
HANCOCK.
;
fifteen years afterwards, in 1663, administratrix on his Their children were Mary, b. Nov. 1634; Sarah, b. March 1636-7 Nathaniel, b. 18 Dec. 1638; John, b. 8 April 1642, and d. 2 April 1643; Eliza2.
March 1644-5, and Lydia, b. 5 April 1646. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (1), was a shoemaker, and inherited the homestead. He was also one of the Town Drummers, and in 1685 recovered 8, against the Selectmen, "for drumming and the maintenjudgment, for
beth, b. 1
ance of drums for sundry years past." He was admitted to the Church 31 May 1667 (at which time he was baptized), and elected Deacon 7 June 1705. He m. Mary, dau. of Henry Prentice, 8 Mar. 1663-4, and Sarah Green 26 Dec. 1699. He d. 12 Ap. 1719, a. 80; his last w. survived him, and probably m. John Cooper 21 June 1720. His children, all by the first wife, were Nathaniel, b. 28 Feb. 1664-5, and d. 20 July 1665; Mary, b 6 May 1666, prob. m. a Bixby, as a grandchild " Mary Bigsbee " is named in Deacon Hancock's will; Sara'h, b. 23 Aug. 1667, m. Nathaniel Patten 15 Oct. 1711; Nathaniel, b. 29 Oct. 1668; Abigail, b. 29 Dec. 1669, and d. 7 May 1672; John, b. 1 Mar. 1671; Samuel, b. 2 Jan. 1672-3; Abigail, b. 23 Aug. 1675; was unm. in 1719, but prob. m. Richard Davenport 8 Nov. 1720; Elizabeth, b. 26 Aug. 1677, m. Benjamin Wyman of Woburn 20 Jan. 1702, and Jonathan Bacon of Bedford, and d. Mar. 1749; Ebenezer, b. 10 Mar. 1680-81; Joseph, b. 28 Ap. 1683, and prob. d. young, as he was not named in his father's will; Solomon, birth not
recorded, d. 16
3.
May
s.
1700.
of Nathaniel (2), was a shoemaker, and prob. res. in a house belonging to his father, opposite to the homestead in Dunster Street, until 1699, when he purchased of Thomas Eyers the estate afterwards famous as the " Blue Anchor Tavern," in Brighton Street. There is a tradition, how well founded I know not, that he erected the ancient edifice now standing, formerly the "Blue Anchor," and recently known as the old Porter Tavern. This estate he sold to Joseph Bean, in 1737, and purchased an estate on the northerly side of Holmes Place, about midway between its easterly angle and North Avenue. Here he d. 10 May 1755, a. 87. His w. was Prudence, dau. of Joseph Russell, and d. 15 July 1742, a. 72. Their chil. were Mary, b. m. John Parker 20 Dec. 1711; he d. 2 Nov. 1712, and she m. Francis Whitmore; Prudence, bap. 27 Dec. 1696, m. Abraham Hill 18 Dec. 1718, and d. 16 Jan. 1775; one of her sons was Deacon Aaron Hill, father of the late Dr. Aaron Hill; and one of her daughters (Elizabeth) m. Benjamin Eustis, and was mother of the late Governor Eustis; Martha, bap. 21 Feb. 1696-7, and d. 20 Oct. 1712; Tabitha, bap. 23 Ap. 1699, m. Daniel Champney 4 Sept. 1723; Nathaniel, b. 14 Jan. 1701-2, grad. H. C. 1721, settled in the ministry at Tisbury 1727, dismissed about 1760, styled Esquire in 1772, and d. Sept. 1774, leaving children Josiah, Nathaniel, Russell, Mary, Martha, and Tabitha Dunham: Elizabeth,^. 16 Nov. 1704, m. John Wyeth 20 Dec. 1733; he d. 1756, and she administered on the estate; she d. between 1772 and 1781; Solomon, bap. 10 Nov. 1706; Belcher, b. 24 Ap. 1709; grad. H. C. 1 727; Tutor 1742-1767, and Fellow 1760-1767; he d. unm. 8 Nov. 1771 Martha, bap. 18 Ap. 1714; d. unm. and her estate was divided 12 Dec. 1781. 4. JOHN, s.of Nathaniel (2), grad. H. C. 1689, taught the Grammar School in Camb. 1691, was ord. at Lexington (then called Cambridge Farms), 2 Nov. 1698, where he continued in the ministry until his death, 6 Dec. 1752, a. 81. He was eminent in his profession, and was generally styled "Bishop Hancock." He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Thomas Clark of Chelmsford, and granddau. of Elder Jonas Clark of Camb. Their chil. were John, b. 1 June 1702, grad. H. C. 1719, ord. at Braintree 2 Nov. 1726, and d. 7 May 1744; his son John was Governor of Massachusetts, President of the Continental Congress, and the first signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas, b. 13 July 1703, a prosperous merchant in Boston, a member of the Council, d. of apoplexy 1 Aug. 1763, and bequeathed his fortune to his nephew John, afterwards Governor; Elizabeth, b. 5 Feb. 1704-5, m. Rev. Jonathan Bowman of Dorchester; Ebenezer, b. 7 Dec. 1710, grad. H. C. 1728, ord. colleague with his father 2 Jan. 1734, and d. 28 Jan. 1740 Lucy, b. 20 Ap. 1713, m. Rev. Nicholas Bowes
NATHANIEL,
HANCOCK.
of Concord;
573
after his death she m. Rev. Samuel Cooke of Menot. and d. 21 her dau. Lucy m. Rev. Jonas Clark (who succeeded Bishop Hancock at Lexington), and had twelve children, of whom Mary m. Prof. Henry Ware, Sen., Lucy m. Rev. Thaddeus Fiske of W. Camb., and Martha in. Rev. William Harris of Salem. 5. SAMUEL, s. of Nathaniel (2), was a cordwainer, rem. to Lexington about 1698, sold his estate there in 1716, and returned to Camb., inherited the homestead, which he sold to Samuel Danforth in 1725, rein, to Chs. where he d. and administration on his estate was committed to his widow Dorothy and son John, 15 Mar. 1735-6. His chil. were Dorothy, bap. at Camb. 21 Mar. 1696-7, m. Caleb Sampson of Chs. 24 Nov. 1720; John, bap. (as were all the following) at Lex. 10 Sept. 1699, was a shoemaker, and res. in Chs.; prob. at the burning of Chs. in 1775 he came to Camb. and here d. 18 Mar. 1776, a. 77; his son John was a goldsmith, res. in Boston, m. Martha Sparhawk 20 Nov. 1760, and had John, Nathan Sparhawk, and Martha Mary, bap. 19 Ap. 1702, and m. Paine; Solomon, bap. 18 June 1704; Samuel, bap. 21 Hannah, bap. 27 Feb. 1708-9 Sarah, bap. July 1706, and d. 14 June 1716 17 Feb. 1711-12 Nathaniel, bap. 7 July 1715. 6. EBENKZER, s. of Nathaniel (2), m. Susanna, dau. of Elder Jonas Clark, 14 Jan. 1702, and had Ebenezer, bap. 10 Sept. 1704, and Susanna, bap. 6 July 1707. No further trace of him has been discovered. Susanna Hancock, The dau. Susanna prob. the widow of Ebenezer, m. Jacob Hill 29 Sept. 1714. was named [1719] in her grandfather's will, and was prob. the same who in. Ebenezer Wyeth about 1726. 7. SOLOMON, s. of Nathaniel (3), was a shoemaker; m. Mary, daughter of Rev. Josiah Torrey of Tisbury, 4 Nov. 1730, and probably res. with his father on Holmes Place. He served in a company of Artillery during the French war, and d. at Lake George 20 Sept. 1756, a. 50. (His age is erroneously marked 57 on the gravestone.) His widow d. 18 Mar. 1799, a. 88. Their children were Nathaniel, b. 1 Aug. 1731, a housewright in Boston in 1773; Torre>/, b. 4 Nov. 1733, d. young; Ebenezer, bap. 14 Aug. 1737, d. young; June 1828, a. 87, and is well rememMary, bap. 12 July 1741, d. unmarried bered by very many her res. was on the south side of the Common near Appian Way; Sarah, bap. 15 Ap. 1744, m. William Colson 21 Oct. 1779, and rem. to Northampton Ebenezer, bap. 10 Sept. 1749, Torrey, bap. 6 Ap. 1746 was a brick-layer, and died in Boston 1796 Belcher, bap. 24 Feb. 1754, was a harness maker, and d. in Roxbury 1813 his son, of the same name and oc-
Sept.
768
cupation,
now res. in Cambridge. 9. TORREY, s. of Solomon (7), was a brick-layer, and res. on the westerly He m. Sarah, dau. of Ebenezer side of North Avenue, near Avon Street. Wyeth, 5 July 1774, and d. 17 July 1778, a. 32 his widow m. Deacon James Munroe, senior, 23 July 1783, and d. 31 Mar. 1815, a. 69. The children of Mr. Hancock were John, bap. 22 Oct. 1775, and d. 29 Sept. 1796; Solomon,
;
Torrey, bap. 15 Nov. 1778. Samuel, bap. 10 Aug. 1777 of Torrey (9), m. Susanna Baker Bird of Dorchester. 13 Jan. 1803 she d. 10 Nov. 1816, and he m. Nabby Hews of Weston 23 Nov. 1817. His chil. were Susanna Baker, b. 15 Ap. 1804 and d. same day John, Si-pt. b. 29 Aug. 1805; Ann Susan, b. 1 June 1807, m. Belcher Hancock d. 9 Mar. 1871 1834; and d. 28 Dec. 1866; James Bird, b. 3 July Ib09, 7 b. Ap. 1814, m. Joanna Bird, b. 21 Dec. 1811, d. 4 May 1813; Solomon, Amaranth J. Nash of Auburn, Me., 10 July 1854; res. on the homestead; b. 18 Oct. 1825. Samuel, b. 26 Sept. 1815, d. 29 Sept. 1815; William Torrey, SOLOMON the f. was a saddler, harness maker, and chaise trimmer he res. on the northwest corner of Pearl and Green streets, where he d. G May 1862;
bap. 14 July 1776

10.
SOLOMON,
;
s.
his wife
11.
of Dorchester 20 Nov. 1! and had Royal Bird, b. 23 Sept. 1809, printer, res. in India, and was long under the auspices of the Baptist Missionary Union he m. Abigail b. I haver wid. of Dr. 10 June 1832, and (2d) Sarah, dau. of Deac. William Brown and John W. Valentine, 1842 she d. here 2 July 1868 Martha Ward, b. 20 Oct.
; ; ;
Nabby d. 21 Jan. 1851. SAMUEL, s. of Torrey (9), m. Ann Bird
574
HANCOCK
HASSELL.
. ,
d. 1811, d. unm. 11 Oct. 1867; Joanna Bird, b. 24 Ap. 1814, in. SAMUEL the f. was a chaise maker, and in later life a pump maker he res. on the southeast corner of Magazine and Auburn streets, and d. 13 Ap. 1860 his w. Ann d. 2 May 1864, a. 78. 12. TOHRKY, s. of Torrey (9), in. Olive Orcutt 28 Feb. 1805; shed. 11 Oct. 1809, aged 34, and he m. Isabella Rice of Wayland 5 June 1811, who was bur. 29 May 1838, aged 48. His chil. were Ann Elizabeth, b. 8 June 1807, in. John Dolbeare of New York 19 July 1831 Sarah, b. 16 Sept. 1809, m. Josiah W. Cook 11 Oct. 1829; Mary Torrey, b. 10 June 181 2, m. Jonas Wyeth 2d, 1 Jan. 1833; Isabella, b. 28 July 1815, m. Shepard R. Laughton of Pittsford, Me., 11 Aug. 1846; Abigail Louisa, b. 16 Sept. 1817, d. unm. 29 Nov. 1843 John Torrey, b. 26 Ap. 1820, res. in Chatfield. Minn.; Horace Augustus, b. 22 Nov. 1823, m. Nancy M. Fuller 21 Sept. 1848. and res. in Texas TORREY Charles Edward, b. 10 Nov. 1827, m. Abby Han scorn 9 Oct. 1850. the f. was a blacksmith and res. on the southerly side of Brattle Street, near Story Street; he d. at St. Catherines, Canada, while on a visit 18 Mar. 1852, and was buried here. HAKLAKKNDEN, ROGER, whose ancestry is traced from William Harlakenden (who d. in Wood-Church in Kent 30 Ap. 1081). was a younger son of a wealthy family at Earls-Colne, Essex Co., England, and came to Camb. in the same ship with Shepard, in 1635. He had buried his w. Emlen, 18 Aug. 1634 and he brought with him his 2d w. Elizabeth, dan. of Godfrey Bosville, Esq. (m. 4 June 1735), by whom he had Elizabeth, b. Dec. 1636; Mart/are/, b. Sept. 1638. ROGER the f. purchased the Gov. Dudley estate, at the N. W. corner of Dunster and South streets, where he d. of small-pox, 17 Nov. 1 1638, a. 27; his w. Elizabeth m. Herbert Pelham, Esq., by whom she had several children. Though Mr Harlakenden was young at the time of his death, he was much employed and trusted in public office. Shepard had known him in England, and had received favor and protection from him and his family. Less than two months after his arrival here, he was elected a Townsman or Selectman. The next year, 1636, he was elected an Assistant and in December of the same year, on the first division of the military forces, he was commissioned Lieut.-colonel of the regiment embracing the towns of Cambridge, Charlestown, Watertown, Concord, and Dedham. All these offices he held until he died. His death occasioned public lamentation. Gov. " he was a Winthrop, in his journal, says, very godly man, and of good use both in the commonwealth and in the church. He was buried with military " honor, because he was Lieutenant-colonel." Shepard describes him as my most dear friend, and most precious servant of Jesus Christ." His daughters, if they survived so long, probably went to England with their step-father in 1648 and it is not known that any of his descendants have since resided in
;
; ; ; ; ; ;
this country.
sister of Roger (1), m. Governor John Haynes. HARRIS, RICHARD, d. here 29 Aug. 1644. Little is known of him, though from his being styled " Mr." he was evidently a person of considerable imHe seems to have had some connection with the college. There portance. are indications that he was brother to Mrs. Dunster, formerly the wife of Rev. Jose Glover. He probably had no family. HART, STEPHEN, in 1635 owned a house at the northeast corner of Hoiyoke Street and Holyoke Place. He rem. soon afterwards to Hartford, and thence to Farmington. He was a Deacon there, and d. 1682-3, leaving sons John, Stephen, and Thomas. He was also Deputy to the General Court 1646,
MABEL,
1648, 1649. Porter, in his Historical Discourse at Farmington, 1840, says that he was Deacon "of the original church formed by Thomas Hooker in CamHe also informs us that John Hart, prob. s. of Stephen, bridge, in 1633." was burned in his own house 1666, with all his family, except his eldest son who was absent the fire was supposed to have been kindled by the Indians. HASSKLL, RICHARD (otherwise written Hassall, Hassull, and Hasewell),
;
lx
The Town Record has October

;
date of his death
but this
is
as the a manifest er-
because on the 28th day of that month he was reflected to the office of Townsman.
ror,
HASSELL
by w. Jane (or Joanna), had
HASTINGS.
575
Elizabeth, b. 20 Sept. 1643; Joseph, b. 20 Sept. All were living 1645, m. Mary Perry 21 Aug. 1667; Esther, b. 6 Dee. 1648. when Mitchell commenced his Church Record, in 1658.
res. a few years at Braintree, and rein, wife d. at Braintree, and he in. Ann, the wid. of John Meane of Camb. His chil., all by first w., were Walter and Samuel, bap. in England, and John and Elizabeth, bap. in Braintree. To the name of John, Mitchell adds " Seaborne," indicating perhaps that he was born during the passage of his parents across the ocean; but it does not appear that he ever
HASTINGS, JOHN, freeman 1643,

His
first
here about 1654.
used it as a part of his proper name. Elizabeth is supposed to have in. William Buttrick before 1657, and Billings before 1 666. JOHN the f. was a tanner, and res. on the easterly corner of Brattle and Ash streets, the former homestead of Thomas Brigham, which he bought 5 Mar. 1654. He d. 2 Dec. 1057, his w. Ann d. 25 Mar. 1666, a. about 60, as stated upon the Inventory of her
estate.
2. WALTER, s. of John (1), m. Sarah, dau. of John Meane, 10 Ap. 1655; she d. 27 Aug. 1673, a. 34, and he m. Elizabeth, dan. of Deac. Henry Bright of Watertown, 23 July 1674 she d. 23 July 1 702, a. 56, and he in. Elizabeth, His children were Sarah, b. 3 June 1656, wid. of Elder Clark, 7 Jan. 1702-3. d. 10 June 1663; John, b. 2 Dec. 1660, H. C. 1681, was a physician in Barbadoes, and prob. d. before 1705 as he was not named in his father's will; Walter, b. 29 Nov. 1662, d. young; Walter, b. 26 Nov. 1663, d. 19 Sept. 1673; Sarah, b. 9 Dec. 1664, d. 16 Jan. 1664-5; Hannah, b. 9 Jan. 1665-6, m. Samuel Cooper 4 Dec. 1682 Elizabeth, b. 19 Feb. 1666-7, d. 3 May 1669 Nathaniel, b. 12 Ap. 1669, d. 15 Sept. 1669; Jonat/ian, b. 15 July 1672; Elizabeth,}). 3 and d. 12 July 1675; Abigail, b. 16 Feb. 1676-7, m. Moses Bordman, 25 July 1700; Walter, b. 10 Ap. 1679, d. 25 Sept. 1699. WALTKU the f. d. 5 Aug. 1705, a. 74; his w. Elizabeth survived. He res. on the estate inherited by his first wife, at the corner of -North Avenue and Holmes Place, and obtained large tracts of land elsewhere by purchase. He was by trade a He was a Selectman, tanner, but was much employed in the public service. with the exception of only two years, from 1673 until his death. He was also Deacon of the Church as early as 1681. 3. SAMUEL, s. of John (1), m. Mary dau. of John Meane, 12 Nov. 1661, and had Mary, b. 29 Sept. 1662; John, b. 5 Sept. 1664, d. 12 Nov. 16HO; Samuel, b. 22 Ap. 1668 (or more prob. 1667); Stephen, b. 23 May 1669; Sarah, b. 16 Aug. 1671, d. 20 Dec. 1690; Nathaniel, b. 14 July 1673; Martha, b. 20 Oct. 1674; Daniel, b. 30 Jan. d. 12 Mar. 1675-6; Caleb, b. 30 Mar. SAMUEL the f. was a gunsmith, and inherited a part of the homestead, 1677. next to Brattle Street. He was Selectman 1691, 1692, and d. 14 Feb.
; ;
1704-5,
4.
a.
about 70; his w.
JOHN, s. of John (1), in. Hannah, dau. of Francis Moore, 1 Mar. 1665-6; she d. 10 June 1667, a. 24, and he m. Lydia, dau. of Elder Champney, 20
a. about 47; and he m. Rebecca, wid. of His children were John, b. 17 Ap. 1667; Allen Hannah, Joseph, b. 6 May 1669; Lydia, b. 30 Sept. 1671, m. Ebenezer d. unm. May b. 13 Mar. 1672-3, d. 16 Ap. 1691; Elizabeth, b. 11 Ap. 1675, and res. on the 1727; Daniel, b. 3 Feb. 1676-7. JOHN the f. was a tanner, He survived to.old age, and Street. southerly part of the homestead, on Ash His w. his son John was appointed administrator of his estate 1 Nov. 1720. d. before 20 June 1723, when the estate was divided between Rebecca
Mary
survived.
May
1668; she d. 23 Jan. 1690-91,
Benoni Eaton, 28 Sept. 1691.
chil.
5.
prob. John, Joseph, Daniel, and Elizabeth.
Jonathan, b.
Jan. 1708-9; Waiter, b. 4 July 1711, prob. the graduate II. C. 23 June 1718, was a 1730, who d. 1735; Sarah, b. 17 Oct. 1714; Robert, bap. 6 Mar. 1719-20, res. on the homestead currier, and livin" O in 1743 John, bap. .>.. 1. -I.. 1 TAT
1
; '
'
JONATHAN,
s.
of
Walter
(2), in.
Sarah Sharp of Brookline, and had
.-k-A
576
HASTINGS.
JONATHAN the f. inherited the homestead, and sucS. C., 10 July 1850;] ceeded his father also in the business of tanning. He accumulated a large estate, on which his wid. Sarah took administration, 20 Aug. 1742. 6. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (3), m. Hannah, dau. of John Marrett, and d. Their son Samuel, prob. posthumous, was bap. 4 Feb. 169928 Sept. 1699.
and d. 15 Aug. 1700. STEPHEN, s. of Samuel 1708, and had Samuel, bap.
1700.
7.
(3),
16
m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas Stacy, 28 Oct. Ap. 1710; Thomas, bap. 24 Feb. 1711-12
(and prob. a 2d Thomas, b. about 1717, called 70 years old at his death in STEPHEN the f. was a currier, inherited 1787); Stephen, bap. 7 May 1721. the homestead, corner of Brattle and Ash streets, which he sold in 1707, and afterwards res. on the north side of Mount Auburn Street, between Brighton Street and Brattle Square. He d. 24 Sept. 1726, a. 57; his w. Hannah survived.
8.
JOHN,
s.
of
John
(4),
was described
as a
"husbandman"
residing in
Cambridge, when he was appointed administrator of his father's estate 1 Nov. 1720, also when he sold the homestead to Stephen Palmer 23 May 1733, after which date 1 find no trace of him on our records or elsewhere. m. John 9. JOSEPH, s. of John (4), by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. Allen of Walpole 22 June 1725; Mary, b. 1708; Joseph, b. 1710; Hannah, b. 1713; Abigail, b. 9 Sept. 1716, d. young; Matthew, b. 18 Sept. 1718; Esther, b. 6 Ap. 1721, m. Samuel Boyce of Medfield 13 Ap. 1744. JOSEPH the f. was a weaver, and resided in Reading in 1699, when he petitioned the General Court for relief, describing himself as "late of Cambridge," and representing that in 1690 he was in an expedition against the Indians, and that near Exeter he " was wounded by a shot close by his eye," which In July 1716 he 10, money. destroyed its sight. The Court granted him rem. to Weston, where he d. 27 Feb. 1724-5. 10. DANIEL, s. of John (4), m. Abigail Cooksey 13 Nov. 1701, and had Abigail, b. 9 and d. 27 Aug. 1702; Walter, b. 24 Mar. 1703-4, and d. in Hardwick 6 July 1792; Abigail, bap. 19 May 1706; Daniel, b. 8 Jan. 1708-9; Sarah, bap. 9 May 1714. DANIEL the f. was a blacksmith, and his house and shop were at the easterly corner of Brattle and Mason streets. He removed to Marlborough before 6 June 1722, when he sold his Camb. homestead to Dr. Samuel Wheat of Needham; he was residing in Sudbury 1727, in Oxford 1732, after which he rein, to Hardwick, where he d. 25 Jan. 1755. 11. JONATHAN, s. of Jonathan (5), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Cot,
ton of Newton, 30 Oct. 1750, and had Jonathan, b. 2 Aug. 1751; Walter, b. 25 Sept. 1752; John, b. 23 Mar. 1754; Rebecca, b. 16 Sept. 1758, d. unm. 20 Sept. 1846. JONATHAN the f. grad. H. C. 1730, was Justice of the Peace and Steward of Harvard College. In 1742 he purchased the estate on the easterly side of Holmes Place (afterwards owned by Rev. Dr. Holmes and his He was an ardent patriot in family), which was thenceforth his residence. the War of the Revolution, and his house, the same which is now standing, was the head-quarters of Gen. Ward in the early part of 1775. From this house, the last probably which he ever entered, Gen. Joseph Warren departed, on the morning of 17 June 1775, to the field of glory and of death. Mr. Hastings d. 16 Feb. 1783; his w. Elizabeth d. 10 July 1782, a. 60. 12. SAMITEL, s. of Jonathan (5), m. Mary, dau. of Deac. Samuel Whittemore (pub. 7 Nov. 1746), and had Sarah, bap. 22 Nov. 1747, d. young; Sarah, b. 18 Oct. 1749, in. James Hill 29 Jan. 1791, and d. in the following March. SAMUEL the f. was a glazier, res. on the easterly side of North Avenue, near Mellen Street, and d. 16 July 1785. 13. SAMUEL, s. of Stephen (7), m. Hepzibah, dau. of Daniel Dana, 8 May
1735, and had in Camb., Hepzibah, bap. 11 Ap. 1736, d. young; and in Newton, Hepzibah, b. 1 Ap. 1737, m. Alexander Sampson 1754; Samuel, b. 1 Aug. 1738; Hannah, b. 20 July 1740, m. Caleb Aspinwall 1763, and Stephen Winchester; Mary, b. 1 Dec. 1742, m. Howard; Joseph Stacy, b. 9 Feb. 1745, grad. H. C. 1762, was ordained at Northampton, N. H., 11 Feb. 1767, removed to Boston about 1774, and d. at Middlebury, Vt. 30 June 1807;
,
HASTINGS.
Aaron, b. July 1756.
577
Stephen, b. 29 Jan. 1747; Daniel, b. 12 May 1749; Thomas, b. 12 July 1751; 2 May 1754, grad. H. C. 1780, and was a physician; John, b. 28 SAMUEL the f. was a tanner, rem. to Newton about 1737, and d. in 1776.
14. THOMAS, s. of Stephen (7), in. Lydia Shed of Chs. (pub. 24 Nov. 1744), and had Lydia, b. 14 Dec. 1745, d. unm. 12 Ap. 1804; Hannah, bap. 20 Nov. 1748, non comp. and an inmate of the almshouse 1804; Abigail, bap. 14 Oct. 1750, d. young; Thomas, bap. 30 Aug. 1752, d. young; Thomas, bap. 6 Oct. 1754, was a cordwainer, and d. Nov. 1789; Stephen, bap. 6 Nov. 1757, was a cordwainer, represented non comp. 1805, d. in the almshouse 6 June
1815; Ebenezer, bap. 6 Ap. 1760; Abigail, bap. 6 Feb. 1763, d. unm. 11 Nov. 1803; Elizabeth, bap. 21 July 1765, d. unm. 26 Sept. 1803; Samuel, bap. 21 Feb. 1768, living in 1789, when he sold his share of his father's estate. THOMAS the f. was a currier, and inherited the homestead. He appears to have possessed considerable property in early life but his family was large, and many of the children imbecile, so that little estate remained after his death. He d. 22 Jan. 1787; his w. Lydia and several of the children sold the homestead to James Winthrop, Esq., and removed into a small house on the S. E. corner of Dunster and South streets she d. 30 Aug. 1804, a. 82. 15. JONATHAN, s. of Jonathan (11), m. Christina Wainwright 24 Nov. 1780, and had Eliza, b. 11 Dec. 1781 Caroline, b. 26 Jan. 1783; John Winthrop, b. 12 June 1787, d. 28 Nov. 1787; Maria Wainwright, b. 14 Ap. 1789, d. 21 July 1792; Christina Newton, b. 4 Ap. 1790, d. 24 July 1792; Frederick, b. 3 Oct. JONATHAN the f. grad. H. C. 1768, was appointed 1791, d. 19 Aug. 1794. Postmaster on the resignation of James Winthrop 1775; afterwards rem. to Boston, and d. 8 Mar. 1831 his w. Christina d. 26 Oct. 1815, a. 64. 16. WALTER, s. of Jonathan (11), m. Lucretia Bridge of Chelrnsford 23 Nov. 1777, and had Walter, b. 26 Dec. 1778, grad. H. C. 1799, a lawyer at Townsend, d. 6 June 1821 Jonathan Cotton, b. 2 Feb. 1782, a broker, d. in Boston 4 Ap. 1837. AVALTER the f. grad. H. C. 1771, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army, afterwards practised medicine in Chelmsford, and d. 29 Nov. 1782 his w. Lucretia d. here, and was buried 2 Mar. 1834, a. 77. 17. JOHN, s. of Jonathan (11), m. Lydia, dau. of Richard Dana, and sister to Chief Justice Dana, 7 Dec. 1783, and had Harriet, b. 20 Sept. 1784, d. unm. 25 Jan. 1817; Amelia, b. 13 Mar. 1786, d. unm. at Medf. 17 July 1872; Elizabeth Cotton, b. 8 Oct. 1787, m. Moses S. Judkins of Castine 6 Mar. 1808, and Charles P. Phelps of Hadley 5 Aug. 1833; Edmund Trowbridge, b. 15 May 1789; a son, b. and d. 9 Mar. 1791; Frances Marion, b. 2 Oct. 1792, m. Thomas Gibson of Leominster 28 Mar. 1815; Elmira, b. 3 June 1794, m.. Reuben Parker, and d. 10 Oct. 1857; Mary Augusta, b. 21 Oct. 1798, d. unm. at Medf. 13 Mar. 1869. JOHN the f. grad. H. C. 1772, was an officer in the Revolutionary Army, attained the rank of Major, res. for a time in Medf. but returned here, and d. 16 Feb. 1839 his w. Lydia d. at Woburn 2 May 1808, and was buried here. 18. DANIEL, s. of Samuel (13), m. Mary Morse, 1772, and had Rebecca, b. 25 Mar. 1774; Daniel, b. 1 Ap. 1775, merchant in Boston; Mary, b. 15 Ap. 1777 Henry, b. 10 Sept. 1780 Nathan, b. 20 Aug. 1782; Deborah, b. 8 Ap. 1785 Joseph Slacey, b. 25 June 1789, merchant, a member of the first board of Aldermen in Camb. 1846, and d. at Hoboken, N. J., 18 Dec. 1872; Nancy, b. 15 May 1791 George, b. 18 Nov. 1792, d. 1817; Lewis, b. 20 Nov. 1795; DANIEL the f. was a gravestone cutter, and res. Elizabeth', b. 20 May 1800.
;
in
Newton.
19.
b. 12
of Samuel (13), m. Elizabeth Morse 1777, and had Thomas, Elizabeth, b. 2 Mar. 1780, m. Jonathan Balch 1800; Ifepzibah, b. 1 Sept. 1782, m. James Hyde; Charles, b. 10 Sept. 1783; Joseph S., b. He m. 2d 2 Dec. 1784; Malinda, b. 2 Mar. 1789; Fanny, b. 20 July 1793. and 3d Mehetabel, dau. of Jacob Watson and wid. of Adino
THOMAS,
s.
June 1778;
Betsey Jackson, to be the Hastings, and had Morse Curtis Watson, b. 17 July 1803, supposed " Watson Hastsame who was known and respected in Camb. by the name of " and who d. here 5 May 1849, a. 45; Jonathan Balch, b. 28 Jan. 1805; ings
37
578
HASTINGS.
Joseph Warren, b. Ap. 1806. THOMAS the f. was a grocer in Newton and afterwards a brewer in Camb. His will, dated 31 Dec. 1806, was proved 19 Feb. 1808; his w. Mehetabel d. 7 Jan. 1850, a. 84. 20. EDMUND TROWHKIDGK, s. of John (17), m. Elizabeth Spring of Boston 1 June 1815, and had Edmund Trail-bridge, b. 3 Mar. 1816; Harriet Elizabeth, b. 3 Aug. 1818, m. John B. Hatch 5 Oct. 1841; John Walter, b. 27 Nov. 1819, m. Sarah E., dau. of Rev. Thomas B. Gannett, 4 Sept. 1850; Lydia Dana, b. 29 Sept. 1821, d. Dec. 1821; Horace, b. 16 Sept. 1822, d. 3 Nov. 1826; a son, b. and d. 7 Feb. 1824; Mary Augmta, b. 6 Dec. 1824, d. EDMUND TKOWBRIDGK the f. 14 Dec. 1824; a son, b. and d. 15 Jan. 1827. was a merchant and res. on the westerly side of Prospect Street, between Main and Austin Streets; about 1840 he rem. to Medford, where he d. 13 May 1861. 21. JOHN, by w. Mary, had Moses, b. Mary,\>. 24 Jan. 1716-17; Anna, b. 22 Dec. 1718, m. Jacob Caldwell Zebulun, b. 2 Oct. 1720; Seth, b. 22 Aug. 1722; Enoch, b. 31 Aug. 1724, d. young; Elixha, b. 10 Jan. 1726-7; Asher, b. 9 Nov. 1728, d. 1731 Sarah, b. 4 Feb. 1730-31, d. 1731 Elizabeth, b. 27 Oct. 1732 Sarah, bap. 21 Sept. 1735. JOHN the f. was a cordwainer, and res. near the old cemetery in Wat. from 1718 until 1738, when he exchanged his homestead for an estate opposite to the northeasterly corner of Mount Auburn Cemetery, extending from Mount Auburn Street, where the His son Seth and son-in-law old house remains standing, to Fresh Pond. Jacob Caldwell were appointed administrators of his estate 6 Oct. 1746. His parentage is not satisfactorily ascertained. Dr. Bond conjectured that he was son of John (4) of Cambridge. (Hist. Wat., p. 293.) On further investigation, he assigned him a place among the grandchildren of Deac. Thomas Hastings The latter supposition is certainly the more of Watertown. (Ibid., p. 791.) probable but I have been unable to find absolute proof of its correctness. 22. SETH, s. of John (21), m. Hannah dau. of Thomas Soden 30 Dec. 1747, and had Mary, b. 9 Oct. 1750, m. Josiah Moore 19 Sept. 1768, and d. 9 May 1781; Thomas, b. 15 Nov. 1753, d. 4 Feb. 1823; John, b. 13 Sept. 1759 ; Seth, b. 5 Ap. 1762,grad. H. C. 1782, lawyer in Mendon, Senator 1810, 1811, Member of Congress 1801-1807, Judge C. C. P. 1819, and d. 1831 (his son William Soden, H. C. 1817, was also Member of Congress, and d. 1842); William Soden, b. 6 Nov. 1764, d. unm. 24 Jan. 1792; Robert, b. 18 Mar. 1767, d. 5 Oct. 1775. SETH the f. res. on the homestead, and d. 15 Oct. 1775. His w. Hannah m. William How in 1779, and d. 28 Aug. 1817, a. 90. 23. JOHN, s. of Seth (22), m. Elizabeth Prentice 30 Ap. 1780, and had Lucretia, bap. 18 Mar. 1781, m. William Richardson 10 Ap. 1803; Robert, m. Franklin Sawyer 20 Feb. 1806. JOHN bap. 6 Ap. 1783; Mary, b. the f. d. 17 July 1797 his w. Elizabeth m. Josiah Learned 28 Ap. 1799. 24. SAMUEL, a descendant from Deac. Thomas Hastings of Wat., m. Lydia Tidd 16 Jan. 1755, and had nine chil. among whom were Samuel, b. 11 July 1757, and Hepzibah, b. 3 July 1762, m. John Swan of Waltham, 1781 he d. and she m. Jonas Wyeth of Camb. and d. in 1789. SAMUEL the f. res. his w. Lydia d. 10 Nov. 1802, a. 71. in Lex. and d. 8 Feb. 1820, a. nearly 99 25. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (24), m. Lydia Nelson of Lincoln 1 Oct. 1778, and had Lydia, b. 20 Feb. 1780, m. Nehemiahl. Ingraham of Boston; Samuel, b. 15 Dec. 1781, d. Sept. 1798; Jonathan, b. 17 Aug. 1783; iJorcas, b. 27 June 1786, m. Rev. Daniel Marrett of Standish, Me., in 1810, and was mother of Lorenzo Marrett, Esq., of Camb.; Thomas, b. 22 May 1787, a merchant at East Cambridge, d. 14 Aug. 1865; Polly, b. 10 Ap. 1789, m. Benjamin O. Wellington 20 May 1811; Oliver, b. 16 May 1791, a retired merchant, now residing in Camb.; Hepzibah, b. 24 May 1793, m. Peter Wellington 24
;
;
May 1813; Harriet, b. 12 July 1795, m. Elias Smith 8 Aug. 1819; James, b. 5 Oct. 1797. SAMUEL the f. res. in Lincoln, near Lex., and d. 8 Jan. 1834; his w. Lydia d. 5 Ap. 1829, a. 71. 26. EDWARD, parentage not ascertained, had Lydia, b. about 1767, d. 24
Ap. 1804, a. 37; John, bap. 6 Jan. 1771, prob. Nov. 1772, d. 12 Mar. 1800.
d. 16
May
1804
Esther, bap.
HASTINGS
27.
HEALY.
;
579
she d. 21 July
REUBEN, parentage
a.
not ascertained, m. Grace
Susanna Jackson and Sarah Dana, twins, b. 20 .July 1796. REUBEN the f. res. in Brighton, and d. 4 Mar. 1835, a. 71 his widow d. at Worcester 29 June 1869, a. 90. 28. ADINO, parentage not ascertained, m. Mehetabel, dau. of Jacob WatADINO the f. d. 8 Jan. son, 21 June 1795, and had James, b. 19 Mar. 1797. 1798; his w. Mehetabel m. Thomas Hastings 3 Oct. 1802, and d. 7 Jan.
1805,
35,
;
and he m. Deborah Park 1806.
He had
1850.
29. SAMUEL, parentage not ascertained, m. Susanna Lane of Bedford, and had Samuel Emery, b. 1806, d. 21 July 1870; Susanna, b. 13 Oct. 1808, m. George W. Hubbard 4 Mar. 1827, d. 21* July 1852; Mary Adeline., b. 17 Feb. 1811, m. Gilbert Cutting 25 Nov. 1832; Isaac H., b. 23 Ap. 1813 Amittai,
;
1815, m. Daniel Davis 1834; Sylcana, b. 3 Mar. 1818, m. Rufua Cox 2 Ap. 1846; James P., b. d. 12 Sept. 1874, a. 51; Abby, b. Andretv Jackson, b. res. here. SAMUKL the f. res. in Cambridgeport, and d. 19 Jan. 1857, a. 74; his w. Susanna d. 28 Ap. 1872, a. 86. HAUGH, ATHERTON (otherwise written Hough and Hough t), was one of the Assistants in 1635, and owned a house and farm embracing the whole of the upland in East Cambridge, and in 1642 he had added so much to his farm that it contained two hundred and sixty-seven acres. He early removed to Boston, and resided at the southerly corner of Washington and School streets, where he died 11 Sept. 1650. His son Samuel was pastor of the Church at Reading, and d. 30 Mar. 1662, leaving a son Samuel, who d. before 15 Oct. 1679, leaving wid. Anna and sons Samuel, a goldsmith, and Atherton, a tailor, who both resided in Boston, and sold the farm in 1699, to John Langdon, who 1273. Atherton H. Stevsold the same in 1706 to Spencer Phips, Esq., for ens, Esq., who d. at East Cambridge 8 Ap. 1875, aged nearly 88 years, was a lineal descendant from the first Atherton Haugh of Cambridge, and for many years resided on a part of the original homestead.
b. 3
Oct.
an Assistant in 1634 and 1636, and Governor in 1635. He rem. to Connecticut in 1637, settled at Hartford, was elected the first governor of that Colony in April 1639, and every second year afterwards, until his death in 1654. By two wives he had eight'children, Robert, Hezekiah,John, Roger, Mary, Joseph, This second wife." (Farmer.) Ruth, and Mabel, the last three by the second While in Camb. he res. on wife was Mabel, sister of Roger Harlakenden. the westerly side of Winthrop Square (then called the Market Place), his lot d. extending from Mt. Auburn St. to Winthrop St. Of his children, Robert, at Copford Hall " in August 1657, of a sickness so infectious that it killed all On his decease the persons employed in putting him into his leaden coffin. He was much employed in the Hezekiah became possessed of this estate. "John civil wars, and a Major-general." (Morant's Hist. Essex, ii. 195.) and Roger, who came into this country with their father, sometime before his after his ardeath, returned to England. Roger d. on his passage, or soon rival. John [grad. H/C. 1656] settled in the ministry at or near Colchester in the county of Essex in England, where he left issue. Joseph [grad. H. C. in Hartford; [d. 24 May 1679]. 1658] was ordained pastor of the first church m. Mr. Cook in Ruth, Mr. Samuel Wyllys of Hartford;
HAYNES, JOHN, "came to N. Eng. 1633, from Copford Hall company with Rev. Thomas Hooker, was admitted freeman in
in Essex, in
1634, elected
England; Mary, Joseph and Mabel, Mr. James Russell of Charlestown
issue."
one
in Mass.; and all had of Hartford had Rev. Hist. Haynes Joseph Conn.,\. 224.) (TrumbulVs for a son John who " was a gentleman of importance in the Colony, and
time was a magistrate and judge; ony in this generation." Hinman.
and the name became extinct
in the Col-
His w. died 8 Nov. 14 Nov. 1647. 1645, d. at eleven months; Elizabeth,}). 2d w. he had Sarah, bap. 2 beb. 1649, in childbirth." (Savage's Gen. Diet.) By 11 July 1652; his '2d w. d. and 1650-51, d. here 10 Oct. 1653; William, bap.
580
HE ALT
HICKS.
he m. in Camb. Grace Butterice 14 Oct. 1653, and had Grace, b. about 1654; Mary, b. 4 and d. 27 Nov. 1657; Nathaniel, bap. 6 Feb. 1658-9; Martha, bap. 9 Sept. 1660; his w. Grace d. and he m. Phebe, dau. of Bartholomew Green, 15 Aug. 1661, and had Samuel, b. 14 Sept. 1662 Paul, bap. 3 Ap. 1664 Mary, bap. 29 Oct. 1665, m. Jacob Watson 12 Nov. 1702, d. 16 Sept. 1728; his w. Phebe d. and he m. widow Sarah Brown 29 Nov. 1677, as certified by her son James in a deposition dated 28 Feb. 1682. WILLIAM the f. was prison keeper as early as 1674, which office he held until 29 Dec. 1682, when he was removed for gross misconduct, u sentenced to be severely whipped 20 He d. 28 Nov. 1683, a. 70. stripes," and became an inmate of the prison. 2. WILLIAM, s. of William (1), is said to have resided at Hampton, N. H., and to have d. in 1689. " He was convicted with eight others of the ridiculous crime of high treason in 1683, by the tyrannical government of Cranfield, and pardoned by advice of the crown." Savage's Gen. Diet. 3. NATHANIKL, s. of William (1), by w. Rebecca, had Nathaniel, b. 28 Morse; Samuel, b. 9 May 1690; Sept. 1686; Mary, b. 25 Nov. 1688, m. Ebenezer, b. 14 Nov. 1691 Martha, b. 25 Sept. 1694, m. Badcock; William, b. Lydia, b. 16 Feb. 1697, m. Avery; John, b. 8 Jan. 1699; m. m. Rebecca, b. Joshua, b. Thwing; Abigail, b. m. Brackett; Hannah, b. Young. NATHANIEL the f. after 1686 res. near Brook Farm in Newton, and d. 2 June 1734; his w. Rebecca d. 7
; ; ; ;
Jan. 1735.
4. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (3), was " under the command of Capt. Josiah Parker at Groton on the 21st day of July 1706, and was slain and his gun carried away by the enemy, who waylaid him and others as they were going to meeting on the Sabbath day." Mass. Arch., Ixxi. 345. HKATE, THOMAS (otherwise written Hitte), in 1635 owned an estate on the northeasterly corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn streets, which he sold about 1638 to Thomas Marrett; after which I find no trace of him here. HERRING, JAMES, in 1639, sold, with other lands, a house and land on the northerly side of South Street, near if not bordering on Holyoke Street. HICKS, ZECHARIAH (otherwise written Hicke, and Hickes), res. on the
easterly side of Brighton Street, his estate extending from Winthrop Street He m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Sill, 28 Oct. 1652, to Mount Auburn Street. and had Elizabeth, b. 28 Ap. 1654, m. John Needham 10 Oct. 1679, d. 4 Feb. 1690-91 Zechariah, b. 27 Sept. 1657 John, b. 10 Ap., d. 4 June 1660 ; Joseph, bap. L2 Jan. 1661-2; Thomas, bap. 3 July 1664, d. young; Hannah, bap.
; ;
4 Mar. 1665-6, m. Thomas Stacy, 20 June 1683; Margaret, b. 3 July 1668, m. John Fuller 11 Oct. 1714; he d. 1720, and she m. John Weld of Roxbury, and was living in 1727; Thomas and John, twins, b. 15, and d. 27 and 25 ZECHARIAH the f. d. 5 Aug. 1702, a. 73 his w. Elizabeth d. 12 Sept. 1676.
;
Sept.
730, a. 93.
2. ZECHARIAH, s. of Zechariah (1), m. Ruth, dau. of John Green, and granddaughter of Edward Mitchelson, 18 Nov. 1685; she d. and he in. Seeth, wid. of William Andrew, 26 June 1704. His chil.were Ruth, b. 11 Aug. 1686, d. 17 July 1687; Zechariah, b. 11 Feb. 1688-9, d. young; Elizabeth, b. about 1692, m. Ebenezer Fisher of Boston 19 Oct. 1716; Margaret, b. about 1694, m. Deac. Samuel Whittemore 13 Oct. 1715; John, bap. 14 Feb. 1696-7; Ruth, bap. 26 Feb. 1698-9, m. Joseph Bradford of Boston; Thomas, bap. 10 June 1705, prob. d. young Zechariah, bap. 2 May 1708, grad. H. C. 1724, was an eminent schoolmaster in Boston, where he d 21 July 1761, leaving an only son Timothy Prout Hicks. ZECHARIAH the f. was a carpenter, res. on the home;
stead,
3.
m. Bethia, dau. of John Green, and granddaughter of Edward Mitchtlson, about 1693; she d. 12 Ap. 1708, a. 35, and he m. Rebecca, dau. of John Palfrey, 29 Nov. 1716. His chil. -were, Joseph, b. about 1694, who was living at East Hampton, N. Y., in 1751 Bethia, bap. 20 Dec. 1696; Elizabeth, bap. 19 June 1698; Mary, bap. 20 May 1700, m. Samuel Larkin of Chs. 3 Mar. 1723-4; Zechariah, bap. 1701-2, d. in Boston 1744, leaving w. Lydia and two sons, Thomas Daggett and Mitchelson; there
(1),
;
and d. 27 Jan. 1752, a. JOSEPH, s. of Zechariah
94.
HICKS
HILDRETH
HILL.
581
are reasons for supposing that he grad. H. C. 1729, though he was styled "Mariner" in the settlement of his estate; Hannah, bap. 13 Feb. 1703-4; Mercy, bap. 27 Jan. 1705-6 Samuel, bap. 28 Mar. 1708. JOSEPH the f. was a carpenter, res. on the homestead, and d. at the age of about 85; his son-inlaw Samuel Larkin, was appointed administrator 9 Ap. 1747.
;
4. JOHN, s. of Zechariah (2), m. Rebecca Champney 8 May 1721, and had Rebecca, b. 17 Feb. 1721-2; Ruth, b. 19 Sept. 1723; John, b. 23 May 1725; Zechariah, b. 25 Jan. 1727-8; Samuel, b. 28 Jan. 1728-9. JOHN the f. was a carpenter, and purchased, 1727, the northerly half of his grandfather's homestead, which until that time had been held in common by the heirs. He rem. to Sutton before 29 July 1731, at which date he sold his estate to Deac. Samuel Whittemore, his brother-in-law, who in December of the same year bought the remainder of the old homestead. 5. JOHN, s. of John (4), m. Elizabeth Nutting 26 Ap. 1748, and had Elizabeth, b. 12 Dec. 1748, d. unm. 1841 or 1842 John,b. 16 Oct. 1750; Jonathan, b. 16 Nov. 1752, grad. H. C. 1770, a physician, regimental surgeon in the Revolutionary War, and d. in Demarara 15 Feb. 1826; Zechariah, b. 28 Feb. 1755, a saddler, res. in Boston, d. 10 May 1842; Sarah, b. 20 Aug. 1757, m. Timothy Flagg 1780, and d. 25 May 1830 (she was mother of Sarah, b. 9 Dec. 1789, m. William Saunders 8 June 1815, d. 6 Nov. 1871; also, of Elizabeth N., b. 19 Jan. 1797, m. Jonas Wyeth 8 Feb. 1820); Samuel, b. 17 Mar. Hunt, d. 1852; James, b. 7 May 1760; Rebecca, b. 17 Sept. 1762, m. he is said also to 1765, was a saddler in Bennington, Vt., where he d. have been a Judge; William, b. 11 Feb. 1767, d. in Canada 1834; Mary, b. 28 Sept. 1771, m. Sawyer, and d. in Camb. 16 Dec. 1855 (she was mother of Susan H., who m. William Bates, and d. 6 June 1875). JOHN the f. in 1760 bought the estate on the southerly side of Winthrop Street, extending from Dunster Street to Holyoke Street, which passed into the hands of John Foxcroft in 1773. He was one of the earliest martyrs to American liberty he was slain near the junction of North Avenue and Spruce Street, by the retreating British troops, on the 19th of April 1775; his w. Elizabeth d. here and was buried 22 Dec. 1825, a. 99. for a 6. JOHN, s. of John (5), was a printer in Boston, and was regarded time as a whig; but in 1773 he entered into partnership with Nathaniel Mills The sacrifice of his father's life in the publication of the tory Post Boy. did not induce him to forsake the British; he went with the army to Halifax, thence to England, to New York, and to Halifax again; after the close of the war, he bought a good estate at Newton, and d. there s. p. 1794, making
;
generous provision in his will for his relatives, especially for his aged mother
and
his
unm.
sister Elizabeth.
HILDRETH, RICHARD (otherwise
written Hildred)
his w.
Sarah
d.
15
June 1644; by 2d w. Elizabeth, he had Elizabeth, b. 21 Sept. 1646; Sarah, b. RICHARD the f. removed to 8 Aug. 1648, m. David Stone 31 Dec. 1674. Chelmsford, where he d. about 1693, leaving w. Elizabeth, and children James, Ephraim, and others. HILL, ABRAHAM, was an early inhabitant of that part of Charlestown which is now Maiden. By w. Sarah, he had Ruth, b. 2 June, 1640; Isaac, b. 29 Oct. 1641 Abraham, b. 1 Oct. 1643; Sarah,b. and d. Oct. 1649; Mary, ABRAHAM the b. May 1652; Jacob, b. Mar. 1656-7; and probably others. f. d. at Maiden 13 Feb. 1669-70. 2. ISAAC, s. of Abraham (1), in. Hannah Hayward 1666, and was prob. the same who had, in Camb., Sarah, b. 5 Feb. 1677-8; His w. Hannah d. 25 Ap. he had Moses, b. 1679, and he m. Sarah Bicknall 12 Jan. 1679-80, by whom 27 Sept. 1680. ISAAC the f. prob. returned to Maiden, where Isaac and Sarah Hill had Abraham, b. 22 Mar. 1687-8.
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3. ABRAHAM, s. of Abraham (1), m. Hannah Stowe, Oct. 1666, and had, Jefts, and is named in Maiden, Abraham, b. Aug. 1670; Hannah, who ra. in her father's will; and in Camb., Mary, b. 10 Dec. 1678; Sarah, b. 25 July
b. 1681, m. Samuel Jones 15 Mar. 1704; Samuel, b. 10 Sept. 1683; Deborah, ABRAHAM, 26 Nor. 1685; Prudence, b. 24 Feb. 1687-8; and perhaps others. he f. d. 1713; his wid. Hannah survived.
582
HILL.
4. JACOB, s. of Abraham (1), m. Sarah, dau. of Elder John Stone, and had Jacob; Tabitha, m. William Warland 3 Feb. 1701-2; John, b. 25 Sept. 1684 they had also, Nathaniel and Abraham; some or all of whom were All the children perhaps b. in Maiden, where he sold an estate in 1683. before named were living in 1711, and named in a conveyance of land.
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The date on his gravestone is the f. d. 12 Dec. 1690, a. nearly 34. 1689, but probably wrong for his Inventory is dated 20 Mar. 1690-1, and his wid. Sarah was appointed administratrix 7 Ap. 1691. 5. ABRAHAM, s. of Abraham (3), by w. Sarah, had Abraham, b. about 1694, bap. 18 June 1697; Deborah, b. 25 Feb. 1696-7, bap. 18 June 1697; Martha, bap. 29 May 1698; Zechariah, b. 26 Ap. 1708; and perhaps others. ABRAHAM the f. res. a few years in Chs. He d. 9 Mar. 1746, a. 75; his w. Sarah d. 30 Mar. 1752, a. 79. 6. JACOB, s. of Jacob (4), m. Susanna Hancock 29 Sept. 1714, and had Sarah, bap. 17 Aug. 1715, m. Henry Prentice 3d, 19 Aug. 1735, and d. 8 July 1736; Elizabeth, bap. 8 Mar. 1718-19; Mary, bap. 4 Feb. 1721-2, m. Abraham Snow, Chs., 25 Mar. 1746, and d. before 1768; Margaret, bap. 15 Mar. 1723-4; Elizabeth, bap. 16 July 1727; Sarah, bap. 25 Aug. 1734, m. Nathaniel Kingsbury 4 Sept. 1755. JACOB the f. d. Jan. 1768; his w. Susanna survived and was living in 1770. None of the children are named, as living, in the father's will, 5 Jan. 1768, and only two grandchildren, Mary and Sarah, children of his deceased dau. Mary Snow. 7. JOHN, s. of Jacob (4), m. Anna Remington 24 June 1708, and had Martha, b. 22 Ap. d. 25 July 1709; Jacob, b. 6 July 1710; John, b. 9 Mar. 1711-12; Jonathan, b. 11 Dec. 1714; Andrew, b. 5 Jan. 1716-17, d. unm. in the alinshouse, 26 Feb. 1806; Tabitha, bap. 8 Mar. 1718-19, m. William Howe, pub. 24 Aug. 1 744. JOHN the f. was a cordwainer, and res. on the Judge Trowbridge place, on the northerly side of Mount Auburn Street,
JACOB
between Dunster and Holyoke streets; in 1717 he sold this estate to Jonathan Remington, and removed to the easterly side of Brighton Street, between Mount Auburn Street and Harvard Square the same estate was recently owned by his granddaughter, Mrs. Lydia Fogg of Kensington, N. H. 8. NATHANIEL, s. of Jacob (4), by w. Martha, had Gregory, b. 14 June 1724, d. prob. unm. 21 Aug. 1778; Martha, b. 21 Mar. 1725-6, d. young; Martha, b. 31 Mar. 1728, d. 12 Nov. 1749; and at Sudbury, Daniel, b. 1729; Sarah, b. 1732, prob. the same who d. at Menot. 22 Feb. 1815, aged 83. NATHANIKL the f. was a tanner, and bought an estate on the northerly side of Holmes Place near its easterly angle, 30 Nov. 1715, which he sold to Francis Foxcroft and Thomas Foxcroft 30 Jan. 1727-8, and removed to Sudbury and afterwards to Menot., where he d. 28 May 1761, a. 75; his w. Martha d. 18 Nov. 1752. 9. ABRAHAM, s. of Jacob (4), m. Prudence, dau. of Nathaniel Hancock, 18 Dec. 1718, and had Abraham, b. 27 Sept. 1719, grad. H. C. 1737, settled in the ministry at Shutesbury 1742, became obnoxious to the Sons of Liberty on account of his political sentiments, and was dismissed in 1778; he d. in Oxford 8 June 1788; Prudence, b. 13 Aug. 1721, m. Joseph Clark 27 Mar. 1741; Mary, b. 11 Nov. 1722, m. William Codner, 25 Dec. 1745; Abigail, bap. 23 Aug. 1724, m. Rev. Stephen Badger 20 Sept. 1753; Elizabeth, bap. 4 Sept. 1726, d. young; Elizabeth, bap. 26 Nov. 1727, m. Benjamin Eustis 11 May 1749, and d- 30 May 1775 (she was mother of Gov. William Eustis who was b. here 10 June 1753); Aaron, bap. 3 May 1730; Martha, bap. 28 Nov. 1731, m. William Bell 9 Aug. 1767; Sarah, bap. 7 Oct. 1733, m. Rev. Nathan Fiske
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of Brookfield 19 Oct. 1758; Tabitha, bap. 4 Jan. 1735-6; Lucy, bap. 16 Dec. the f. was a mason, and res. at the 1739, d. prob. before 1754. westerly corner of Brattle and Mason streets, near the spot where St. John's
ABRAHAM
this estate, which he bought in 1713 of Rev. contained four acres and extended to the Common, including the site of the Shepard Congregational Church. He d. 27 Dec. 1754, a. 66; his w. Prudence d. 16 Jan. 1775, a. 79. 10. ABRAHAM, s. of Abraham (5), m. Mary Grant, and d. s. p. 11 Feb.
Memorial Church now stands;
Thomas Blowers,
HILL.
583
1723-4; his w. Mary m. John Butterfield 1 Mar. 1725-6, and Abraham Watson 4 Jan. 1750; she d. about March 1789. 11. ZKCHARIAH, s. of Abraham (5), ra. Rebecca Cutter 10 Feb. 1731-2,
and had Sarah, bap. 15 Oct. 1732, m. William Adams 14 June 1750; Abraham, b. about 1734; Zechariah, bap. 27 Mar. 1737; John, b. 11 Jan. 1738-9; Samuel, b. 3 Mar. 1741; William, b. 8 Oct. 1743; Rebecca, b. 25 Sept. 1745, m. John Cutter 3d, 24 Jan. 1765; Lydia, b. about 1747, m. George Prentice 21 June 1770; Susanna, bap. 4 Mar. 1749-50, m. Thomas Francis of Medf. 11 July 1771; Mary, bap. 7 June 1752, m. Stephen Hall 4th, 12 July 1770; Deborah, bap. 18 July 1756, m. Nehemiah Cutter, Jr., 30 Oct. 1781. ZECHARIAH, the f. res. in Menot., and d. 11 Mar. 1768, a. 60; his w. Rebecca d. 1
Feb. 1797,
12.
a. 84.
s. of JOHN (7), m. Sarah Palmer 14 Sept. 1732, and had Anna, bap. 24 Feb. 1733-4, d. young; Jacob, bap. 12 Sept. 1736; Anna, bap. 12 Nov. 1738; John, bap. 30 Nov. 1740; Elizabeth, bap. 22 Aug. 1742; Bethia, bap. 14 Oct. 1744; m. Rev. Charles Backus of Somers, Conn., about 1775. JACOB the f. res. in Watertown, prob. in the easterly part, now embraced in Cambridge. His w. Sarah administered on his estate 5 Dec. 1 755. 13. JONATHAN, son of JOHN (7), m. Lydia Cooper 10 Jan. 1763, when advanced in life, and had Jonathan Cooper, bap. 19 Aug. 1763, grad. H. C. 1784, res. in Kensington, N. H. f and d. 1820; Lydia, bap. 13 Ap. 1766, m. Jeremiah Fogg of Kensingson, N. H. JONATHAN the f. was a mason, and resided on the northerly side of Linnaean Street, about midway between North Avenue and Garden Street. He d. 28 Ap. 1775, a. 60; and the homestead was sold by his children, 1783, to Deac. Gideon Frost. 14. DANIEL, prob. s. of Nathaniel (8), m. Lydia Locke 27 Aug. 1761, res. in Menot., and d. 13 Feb. 1774, leaving six children, who were bap. 16 Ap. 1775, viz., Phebe, m. Joel Winship 14 Nov. 1792; Martha; Daniel; Nathaniel: Lydia; Deborah, d. 10 Mar. 1791, a. 23. His w. Lydia d. 7 Feb.
JACOB,
1835,
15.
a.
about 95.
s. of Abraham (9), m. Susanna Tainter of Watertown 31 May 1753, and had Susanna, bap. 28 Sept. 1755. d. young; Aaron, b. about 1758; Susanna, bap. 5 Oct. 1760, d. unm. 20 May 1830; William, bap. 17 Nov. AARON the f. was a 1765, grad. H. C. 1788, d. at Tobago, 5 Aug. 1790. mason, and inherited the homestead; he was Selectman 1777, 1778, 1787, 1788, and Deacon of the Church from 14 July 1772 until he d. of small-pox 16 Oct. 1792, a. 62. His w. Susanna d. of the same disease 2 Oct. 1792, a. 63. (Such are the dates on the gravestones; but Dr. Holmes, on the Church Record, gives the dates eight days later.) 16. ABRAHAM, s. of Zechariah (11), m. Susanna Wellington 17 Dec. 1757, and had Abraham, b. 6 Dec. 1758; Susanna, bap. 13 July 1760, m. John Frost, Jr., 21 Nov. 1780; Thomas, bap. 27 June 1762, d. unm; Rhoda, bap. 8 Jan. 1764, m. Samuel Kent 20 June 1782, and d. 17 Jan. 1841; Isaac, bap. 11 May 1766; Cherry, bap. 18 Oct. 1767, m. Gershom Swan 4 Jan. 1787, and d. 2 Oct. 1806; Sarah, bap. 2 July 1769, m. Thomas Rand of Chs. 19 Dec. 1786, and had sons Thomas, Benjamin, James, Samuel, William, and dau. ABRAHAM the f. Sarah, m. Nathaniel Stone, and Susan m. Asa Cutter. res. in Menot., and d. 16 Dec. 1812, a. 79. guardian was appointed for him 1789, on the representation of his brother that he was non compos mentis. He was probably insane, and the fearful malady was inherited by several of his children Mrs. Frost and Mrs. Swan were insane many years before their
AARON,
son Thomas, also, especially in his younger life, was periodically deprived of reason, and subjected to confinement. 17. ZECHARIAH, s. of Zechariah (11), m. Rebecca Wellington of Waltham 22 Jan. 1757; she d. 16 Aug. 1770, a. 35, and he m. Ruth Robbins 9 May 1771. His children were Rebecca, b. 15 Ap. 1757; Zechariah, b. 8 June 1759, m. Abigail Blodgett 25 Mar. 1781, and d. (suicide) 5 Mar. 1814; Sarah, b. 14 Feb. 1761, m. Seth Frost 20 Nov. 1781; Betsey, bap. 23 Jan. 1753,jn. Jonathan Perry 29 June 1780; Mary, bap. 20 Jan. 1765: Love, bap. 17 Feb. 1767; 15 Dorcas, bap. 20 Aug. 1769, m. Samuel Frost 15 Oct. 1789; Ruth, bap.
death.
The
584
Mar. 1772;
HILL.
Lucy, bap. 18 Dec. 1774; William, bap. 22 June 1777. ZECHAMenot., and d. 11 Mar. 1812; his w. Ruth d. 21 Mar.
RIAH
1816,
18.
the
f.
res. in
a. 78.
JOHN, s. of Zechariah (11), m. Dorcas Bowes 1 Aug. 1765, and had Elizabeth, bap. 13 Ap. 1766, m. Samuel Gowen of Medf. 26 Feb. 1793; John,
bap.
1 Mar. 1767, d. 24 Nov. 1768; Lucy, bap. 22 May 1768; Lydia, bap. 17 Sept. 1769, d. unm. 3 Sept. 1800; John, bap. 29 Ap. 1771; Mary, bap. 7 June 1772, d. 25 Aug. 1773; David, bap. 22 Aug. 1773, m. Betsey Adams 13 Sept. 1797; Jonathan, bap. 23 Oct. 1774; a son, b. 9 and d. 10 May 1776; Mary, bap. 21 Dec. 1777, d. unm. 1 Oct. 1802; Stephen, bap. 18 July 1780. JOHN the f. res. in Menot., and was killed " by a fall from his market-cart," 26 June 1798; his w. Dorcas d. 27 Dec. 1823, a. 79. 19. SAMUEL, s. of Zechariah (11), m. Martha Bennett of Chs. 15 Oct. 1765, and had Samuel, bap. 19 Oct. 1766, d. 22 Aug. 1797; Martha, bap. 11
Aug. 1768; Rebecca, bap. 19 May 1771; Joseph, bap. 11 Sept. 1774, d. 26 Aug. 1777 Abigail, bap. 29 Mar. 1778; Joseph, bap. 27 Aug. 1780, d. 23 SAMUEL the f. res. in Menot., and d. 15 Ap. 1782; his w. Sept 1807. Martha d. 30 Mar. 1820. a. 78. 20. WILLIAM, s. of Zechariah (11). m. Mercy Perry 3 Oct. 1767, and had Mercy, bap. 30 Oct. 1768, d. unm. 27 Feb. 1808; William, bap. 29 July 1770, m. Mary Bowman 4 Ap. 1802, and d. 8 July 1820 James, bap. 11 Ap. 1773, m. Anna Adams 11 Oct. 1796; Benjamin, bap. 13 Aug. 1775; Anne, bap. 19 Oct. 1777, d. unm. 7 Jan. 1806; Amos, bap. 12 Dec. 1779; Lydia., bap. 24 Mar. 1782; Sally, bap. 29 Nov. 1789, d. unm. 22 Dec. 1808. WILLIAM the f. res. in Menot., and d. 13 June 1815 his w. Mercy d. 31 July 1828, a. 81. 21. AARON, s. of Aaron (15), grad. H. C. 1776, and immediately entered the Revolutionary Army, in which he served about a year and a half; returned and studied medicine with Dr. Joshua Brackett of Portsmouth, N. H.; went to sea as surgeon, and was twice taken prisoner. He afterwards became a merchant in Portsmouth, but being unsuccessful in trade, he returned to Camb. about 1792. He inherited the homestead, which he bequeathed to his children. He was Selectman twelve years, from 1795 to 1807, Town Clerk
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eight years, 1798 to 1805, Representative four or five years, up to 1800, Senator 1797, and from 1801 to 1808, and Member of the Council 1810, 1811, 1824, 1825. He was appointed Post-master for Boston in 1808, and held that office .about twenty years, after which he once more returned to his birth place, and here spent the evening of his days. He. m. Hannah, dau. of Samuel Qnincy, the refugee Solicitor-general of the Province, and had, at Portsmouth, Sophia; Harriet, m. Willard Phillips, Esq., 3 Sept. 1838, d. 16 Jan. 1856; Thomas Quincy, a merchant, d. at sea, when on a voyage for his health, 1813,
leaving an only dau., Mary Timmins Quincy; William, b. about 1790, d. here 7 Aug. 1859, a. 69 and in Camb., Hannah Brackett, b. 5 Nov. 1793, m. Willard Phillips, Esq., 12 June 1833, and d. Feb. 1837 Anna, b. 24 Mar. 1797; Henry, twin with Anna, b. 24 Mar. and d. 5 Oct. 1797 Susanna, b. 9 Sept. AARON the f. d. 27 Nov. 1799, m. John P. Todd, and d. s. p. 11 Ap. 1869. 1830; his w. Hannah d. 15 Jan. 1839, a. 76. 22. ABRAHAM, s. of Abraham (16), m. Elizabeth Robbins 9 May 1782, and had a son, b. July and d. 15 Aug. 1782 she d. 18 June 1783, a. 18, and he m. Ruth Blodgett 9 Sept. 1784. His residence was in Menotomy. 23. ISAAC, s. of Abraham (16), m. Hannah, dau. of Walter Russell, and had Isaac, b. 6 April 1789, a printer by trade and a very active and prominent
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politician, was Governor of New Hampshire, Senator in Congress, and sustained several other public offices, d. 22 Mar. 1851 ; Walter, b. 22 Feb. 1790. ISAAC the f. removed from Menot. to Ashburnham. 24. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph of Boston, who d. 1727, m. Priscilla, dau. of Daniel Dana, 24 Aug. 1727, and had Priscilla, b. about 1729, d. unm. (in the almshouse) 3 Oct. 1805; Joseph, bap. 19 July 1730, d. young; Joseph, bap. 23 A|>. 1732; Benjamin, b. about 1733 Abiel, bap. (after the father's death) 21 May 1738. JOSEPH the father prob. resided a few years in Boston, after 1732, where he owned an estate near Fort Hill. He d. about 1738, and hi s w. Priscilla in. Capt. Samuel Gookin 15 May 1740.
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HILL
HOLDEN.
585
25. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (24), was a tanner, and bought of Capt. Samuel Gookin. 1754, an estate on the N. E. corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn streets. He prob. d. before 1765, and no record is found of his family. 26. BENJAMIN, s. of Joseph (24), m. Hannah Manning 4 Feb. 1*761; she d. 7 Jan. 1782, a. 48, and he m. Mary Winship 5 July 1782. His children were Priscilla, b. 31 July 1761; prob. Benjamin, b." about 1763, m. Patty Myrick 16 July 1786; Joseph, b. 16 Mar. 1766; Hannah, b. 8 Oct. 1768 (probably 1767), m. Thomas Cheney 22 Feb. 1787: Edward, b. 23 July 1769, m. Anna Hyde 6 Aug. 1795 Henry, bap. 3 Aug. 1783 Man/, bap. 13 Mar. 1785; George, b. 16 Nov. 1787. BENJAMIN the f. res. on the south side of the river, was a Tanner, Deacon of the Church from 1791, and d. 16 Nov. His w. Mary prob. m. Abraham Randall of Stow 26 Mar. 1802, a. 69.
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1805.
27.
JOSEPH,
s.
of
Benjamin
(26),
m. Persis Munroe 18 Nov. 1788, and had
July 1789; Joseph, b. 9 Jan. 1793; Priscilla, b. 8 June 1796, m. John Warland 8 Sept. 1825; Mary, b. 28 Feb. 1798; Martha, b. 6 May 1800, m. Luke Moore 14 Oct. 1821. JOSEPH the f. was a tailor, and resided at the westerly corner of Holyoke and South streets, and afterwards at the S. W. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets he d. 17 Dec. 1845, a. nearly 80. 28. SAMUEL, parentage not known, m. Sarah Cutler 24 Feb. 1764, and had Samuel, b. about 1765, a carpenter, removed to Mason, N. II., where he died 23 May 1813; Ebenezer, b. 31 Jan. 1766, grad. H. C. 1786. and was ordained pastor of the Church in Mason, N. H., 3 Nov. 1790, which office he sustained for more than sixty-three years; he d. 20 May 1854. SAMUEL the f. was a carpenter, and resided on the easterly side of North Avenue, a few rods from the Common; he was very thriftless and improvident, and depended on others for support. He d. 21 June 1798, a. about 66. His w. Sarah is reputed to have been an excellent woman, who by her industry and self-denial enabled her son Ebenezer to obtain a good education; her kindness was repaid by her son, who received her into his family and provided for her comfort in the latter years of her life; she d. 30 Dec. 1808. 29. ALEXANDER SEARS, parentage not known, grad. H. C. 1764, and res. here a few years. His dau. Rebecca was bap. 8 Ap. 1770. HANNAH, m. Andrew Grover 7 Feb. 1673-4. CHARLES, m. Sarah Prentice 15 Sept. 1757, prob. the same Sarah who d. at W. Cambridge 22 Feb. 1815, a. 83. THOMAS, m. Mary Smith 18 June 1765. ELIZABETH, m. Isaac Clark 4 June 1764. REBECCA m. Samuel Cutter, Jr., 29 Sept. 1780. MARTHA, in. John Burbeck 1 Feb. 1 781 HANNAH, m. Jona. Hearsey 8 July 1 792. ISAAC, s. of Tabitha, bap. 17 Feb. 1739-40. ELIZABETH, dau. of'josiah, bap. at
Sally, b. 22
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Menotomy 11 Sept. 1774. HINCKSON, JOHN, m. Mary Harrington 13 Ap. 1680. HOAR, LEONARD, grad. H. C. 1650, and three years
afterwards went to England, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the UniHe was also a preacher at Wanstead in Essex, and versity of Cambridge. was ejected in 1662; returned to New England, and was elected 30 July His continuance in office was short and 1672, President of Harvard College. 45. He was unpleasant; he resigned 15 Mar. 1674-5, and d. 28 Nov. 1675, a. buried a,t Braintree, now Quincy, by the side of his mother Joanna, who d. 21 Dec. 1661. President Hoar m. in England, Bridgett, dau. of Lord Lisle, Thomas by whom he had Bridyett, b. 13 Mar. 1672-3, m. at London, Rev. Cotton of Peviston, Yorkshire, 21 June 1689; Tripkena, b. according to the Record 25 Mar. 1610, but manifestly a mistake, d. young. After Pres. Hoar's his w. m. Hezekiah Usher of Boston; this proved to be an
death, Bridgett unfot-tunate connection, and she sailed for England with her dau. Bridgett 12 July 1687, and probably did not return until after her husband's death in 1697; she d. in Boston 25 May 1723.
to N. Eng. 1634, a. 25, and was an early proprieWatertown. He m. Martha, dau. of Stephen Fosdick of Charlestown, 1644; Martha, b. 15 Jan. and had Stephen, b. 19 July 1642; Justinian, b. m. 1645-6, m. Thomas Boyden; Samuel; Mary, m. Thomas Williams; Sarah,
HOLDEX, RICHARD, came
tor in
586
HOLDEN.
Gershom Swan 20 Dec. 1677; Elizabeth; Thomas; John, 22 years old in 1679, as stated in a deposition, all living and named in a conveyance of real estate, 25 July 1679, but perhaps not arranged here in the order of their birth. RICHARD the f. res. at different times at Wat., Woburn, Camb., Groton, again at Wat., and finally at Groton with his son Stephen, to whom, in consideration of his future maintenance, he conveyed his estate 23 Mar. 1691, being then He d. 1 Mar. 1696; his aged, infirm, and a widower. (Mid. Deeds, xii. 31.) w. Martha d. in Wat. 6 Dec. 1681. 2. JUSTINIAN, came to New England 1634 with Richard (1), to whom he was probably brother. About 1649 he bought land in Wat., the conveyance, " 9 Nov. 1660, reciting that the purchase was made " about eleven years ago; and in 1653 he bought of Nathaniel Sparhawk's Executors 289 acres bounded S. on Fresh Pond and E. on Alewife River, and 5 acres bounded S. on Fresh Pond and W. on Alewife River. In a deposition 1679 he styles himself about 66 years old. Elizabeth, prob. his 1st w., d. 18 Mar. 1672-3; he m. Mary, dau. of John Rutter of Sudbury, and had Samuel, b. 28 Ap. 1674; John, b. 18 July 1675 ; Isaac, b. 28 May 1677; Mary, b. 21 Mar. 1678-9 ; Grace, b. 13 Aug. 1681 Joseph, b. 6 Sept. 1683 Elizabeth, b. 6 May 1686. JUSTINIAN the f. was a carpenter, and d. between 12 Aug. and 6 Oct. 1691; his w. Mary was living 12 Nov. 1716. It appears unlikely, at first sight, that a man should raise up a large family after attaining the age of sixty years. But the purchases of land were made 1649 and 1653, before any son of Richard or Justinian was of age; and it is certain that the same land was bequeathed by Justinian to his children in 1691. It is probable that Justinian, Sen., had no children by his first wife, and that after her death he m. a second w. much younger than himself. 3. STEPHEN, s. of Richard (1), settled in Groton, where he d. about 1715. His estate was divided 19 Mar. 1718-19, to wid. Han(Inv. 18 Nov. 1715.)
; ;
nah, and chil. John, Stephen, Nathaniel, William, Simon, Jonathan, Benjamin, Rachel, Hannah, and Sarah. His widow's dower was divided to the same children, 30 Jan. 1737. 4. JUSTINIAN, s. of Richard (1), was a carpenter, residing here with w. Susanna, to whom and to his son Thomas Durren he gave power to sell land in Woburn, 14 Dec. 1696. He had by w. Mary, in Groton, Mary, b. 20 May 1680, and by w. Susanna, in Billerica, Susanna, b. 16 Oct. 1694. 5. SAMUEL, s. of Richard (1), by w. Anna, had in Groton, Anna, b. 1 Mar. 1682. 6. JOHN, s. of Richard (1), purchased land in Woburn 1679, and was prob. the same whose w. Abigail d. there 22 May 1685, and who m. Sarah Peirce 19 June 1690. 7. SAMUEL, s. of Justinian (2), resided on the homestead, and by w. Susanna, had Lydia, bap. in Wat. 8 Oct. 1699, m. Benjamin Clark of Watertown 8 May 1721; Anna, m. John Stratton; Susanna, bap. in Wat. 8 Oct. 1699, m. Wm. March 24 June 1734 Samuel, b. 29 Sept. 1701, prob. d. young; Mercy, b. 26 Mar. 1704, prob. d. young; Mary, m. Reuben Farnsworth; Abigail, b. 30 May 1710, m. Samuel Jennison; William, b. 4 Mar. 1712-13; Phineas, b. 12 May 1715. They are all named, except Samuel and Mercy, in a petition to the Judge of Probate 1729". SAMUEL the f. d. about 1 726 (admin, granted 20 Feb. 1726-7); his w. Susanna survived. 8. JOHN, s. of Justinian (2), m. Grace Jennison of Wat., where he had John, b. 5 June 1700; Daniel, b. 3 Ap. 1702; Peter, b. 1 Feb. 1704-5; Grace, b. 3 July 1707; Elizabeth, b. 29 July 1709, m. Henry Goddin 31 May 1728; JOHN the f. subsequently Josiah, b. 29 Jan. 1711-12; Judith, b. 3 July 1715. res. in Sudbury, and in Concord, where he had Jonas, b. 1721. 9. ISAAC, s. of Justinian (2), by w. Joanna, had Isaac, b. 12 Nov. 1703, m. Elizabeth Cutting of Wat. 6 Oct. 1726; Justinian; Henry. ISAAC the f res. on the homestead, near Fresh Pond, and d. 8 Mar. 1772, a. nearly 95; in his will he named the three children, before mentioned, of whom only Henry was then living. 10. JOSEPH, s. of Justinian (2), m. Abigail Shattuck at Watertown 17
;
.
HOLDEN
HOLLEY
HOLM AN.
587
Feb. 1714-15, and had there Joseph, b. 31 Jan. 1715-16; Stephen, b. 21 Oct. 1717; Abigail, b. 19 Oct. 1719; Abner, b. 6 May 1721; prob. 2d Abner, b. 2 Nov. 1722; Jonathan, b. 6 June 1725 Elizabeth, ban. 26 Ap. 1730. JOSEPH the f. was perhaps the same who m. Elizabeth Russell of Cainb. 11 June 1729. He removed to Westminster in 1737, where he was a prominent citizen, and d. 30 Nov. 1 768. 11. SIMON, s. of Stephen (4), was here as early as 1728, and by w. Abigail had Elizabeth, bap. 12 Sept. 1736, d. young; Simon, b. 6 Jan. 1737-8, d. 7 May 1752; Elizabeth, b. 1739; Nathaniel, bap. 1 Aug. 1742; Abigail, bap. 7 Oct. 1744; Charlex, b. 19 June 1746, d. 5 June 1768 Thomas,b. 8 May 1749; Hannah, b. 5 Aug. 1752; Sarah, b. 16 June 1757. SIMON the f. was a black;
;
Menotomy. of Samuel (7), was a physician and surgeon; he res. a few years in Bridgewater, and afterwards settled in Dorchester. He m. Hannah Beal of Hingham, and had in Bridgewater Samuel, b. 26 Nov. 1737; William, b. 30 Oct. 1739; and in Dorchester, Hannah, b. 8 Jan. 1742; Phineas, b. 31 Jan. 1744, was a physician; Jonathan, b. 21 Dec. 1745; Lydia, b. 4 Nov. WILLIAM the f. d. 1749; Mercy, b. 4 Jan. 1752; Abigail, b. 24 Mar. 1757. at Dorchester 30 Mar. 1776. His posterity survive in that vicinity. 13. HKNRY, s. of Isaac (9), m. Sarah Fuller 14 Oct. 1756, and" had Sarah, b. 13 Nov. 1757; Enoch, bap. 8 Dec. 1765; and perhaps others. HENUY the f. was the residuary legatee of his father, and possessed the homestead. 14. JAMES, m. Hannah Adams 17 Feb. 1708-9, and had Hannah, bap. 18
12.
smith,
and
res. in
WILLIAM,
s.
Dec. 1709; James, bap. 18 Nov. 1711. 15. JOSEPH, m. Sarah Holden 24 Dec. 1778, and had Hannah, bap. 19 Sept. 1779; Isaac, bap. 10 Dec. 1780; Mary, bap. 21 Ap. 1782; Sally, bap. 6 Ap. 1783. 16. STEPHEN, prob. brother of Richard (1) the verdict of a coroner's jury is among the Files of the Middlesex County Court, dated 12 Jan. 1658-9: " We, whose names are subscribed being summoned by the Constable of Cambridge to view the dead body of Steven Holden, lately deceased, we saw that his skull was crushed by a blow which (as we were informed by Samuell Wood and Richard Parke) come by the falling of a tree which himself had been helping to fell, and as he was going from it the tree fell suddenly and contrary to the expectation of all that were present, and gave him his mortal wound on his head. Edward Oakes, Edward Shepherd, Jonas Clarke, William Manning, Tho. Swoetman, Thomas Fox, Walter Hasting, Rob. Stedman, Gibert Cragbon, Thomas Longhorne, Humphry Bradsha, David ffiske." No further trace of him has been found. HOLLEY, SAMUEL (otherwise written Holye), owned a house and 18 acres In his will dated 22 Oct. of land on the south side of the river, in 1639. His w. was 1643, he mentioned wife and son, without indicating their names. Elizabeth, and she m. John Kendall. Perhaps she was the same who was exSee page 355. ecuted upon the absurd charge of witchcraft. HOLMAN, WILLIAM (otherwise written Homan, Hoeman), came from Northampton, Eng., to Camb. in 1634, and res. on the corner now occupied by the Botanic Garden. By his w. Winifred he had, in England, Hannah, b. 1626; Jeremiah, b. 1628; Mary, b. 1630, d. unm. 1673; Sarah, b. 1632; Abraham, b. 1634; they perhaps had also in Camb. Isaac, who d. 12 An. 1663, and Seeth, b. 1640 (called " dau. of Mr. Homan," by Mitchell), m. Thomas Ross 16 Jan. 1661-2, and was " slain by the Indian enemy," at Billerica, 5 w. Winifred Aug. 1695, a. 55. WILLIAM the f. d. 8 Jan. 1652-3, a. 59, his but the suffered much inconvenience from an accusation of witchcraft, 1659 a. 74. charge against her was not sustained, and she d. in peace 16 Oct. 1671, See pp. 356-364. 2. JEREMIAH, s. of William (1), by w. Mary, had Mehetabel, b. 12 Nov. one or 1667; Jeremiah, b. 29 Aug. 1670. His w. d. and he m. Susanna. By both of his wives, he had also Abraham, Abigail, Deborah, who shared his esJEKKMIAH the f. inherited the hometate, and Sarah, who d. 21 Dec. 1679. stead, and d. 30 Nov. 1709; his w. Susanna d. 4 Dec. 1709.
; ;
588
3.
HOLM AN
ABRAHAM,
children.
s.
HOLMES
(1), was to Stow,
HOMWOOD.
m. before 1666, but seems to have d. between 14 Sept. and 30 Dec. 1711, devising his estate to w. Sarah, to Abraham and Jeremiah, sons of Jeremiah Holman, and Abraham, son of Timothy Gipson; about six months after his death, his wid. Sarah, having " grown ancient," conveyed her estate to Timothy Gipson of Sudbury, who agreed to maintain her through life. 4. JEREMIAH, s. of Jeremiah (2), res. in Stow 1710, when he sold his father's homestead to Solomon Prentice. He subsequently rem. to Lancaster, and with his w. Abigail conveyed land to his son Jeremiah 4 Feb. 1722-3. 5. ABRAHAM, s. of Jeremiah (2), had in Camb. Abraham, bap. 15 Aug. 1697; Susanna, bap. 1706. He rem. to Stow. HOLMKS, ROBERT (otherwise written Holme, Homes), was an early inhabitant, and by w. Jane, had Dorcas, b. Aug. Aug. 1638, d. 1642; John, b. 1639 Joseph, b. about 1641 Elizabeth, b. 2 Mar. 1643-4; Mehetabel, b. 16 Ap. 1645, bur. 14 Aug. 1645; Sarah, b. 13 Nov. 1646, d. 7 Nov. 1654; Ephraim, b. 8 Sept. 1647, bur. 8 May 1648; Samuel, b. 3 Ap. 1653, d. 18 June 1653. ROBERT the f. res. on the southerly side of Brattle Street, not far from Appian Way. He d. 1663; his w. Jane d. 28 Oct. 1653. 2. JOHN, s. of Robert (1), m. Hannah, dau. of Samuel Thatcher of Watertown, 13 Sept. 1664, and had John, b. 23 Oct. 1665 Hannah, b. 25 June 1667, m. George Felt before 1691; Mary, b. 21 May 1670, prob. d. before 1691. JOHN the f. inherited a part of the homestead, which he sold to his brother Joseph 25 May 1675, having previously rem. to Salem. His w. Hannah d. here 24 May 1670. 3. JOSEPH, s. of Robert (1), appears to have res. in Marlborough previous to 1665, when he sold his estate there to John Brown. He sold his share of the homestead to Christopher Read, and bought his brother John's share in 1675. He was here in 1680, but had rem. to Salem as early as 1684. We have no record of his family. 4. JOHN, s. of John (2), res. a few years in Boston, but d. in Wat. unm. at the house of his uncle Samuel Thatcher, to whom he gave all his property by will, dated 15 Nov. 1688, proved 16 June 1691. His father, John Holmes of Salem, and his sister Hannah, wife of George Felt, objected to this disposithe tion of the estate, and an amicable settlement was made 31 Dec. 1691 father took the real estate in Camb. Thatcher took other property, and both
of
William
had no
He removed
where he
paid
5.
of Joseph (3), d. here, and his son Benjamin of Salem was appointed administrator 20 Jan. 1719-20. By a release. 18 Feb. 1720-21, it appears that Benjamin was the only son, and Sarah, wife of Charles Johnson of Marblehead, was one of the daughters of JOHN. Benjamin sold the Camb. homestead to Andrew Bordman 28 Ap. 1721. 6. ELISHA, parentage not ascertained, by w. Lucy had Lucy, b. 15 Mar. 1763; Mary, b. 25 Mar. 1765. 7. ABIEL, b. at Woodstock, Conn., 24 Dec. 1763; grad. Y. C. 1783; D.D. at Edinburgh; was installed Pastor of the First Church 25 Jan. 1792; his His first pastoral connection with the church was dissolved 26 Sept. 1831. w. Mary was dau. of Ezra Stiles, D.D.; she d. 29 Aug. 1795, a. 28. He m. Sarah, dau. of Oliver Wendell, Esq., of Boston (pub. 14 Feb. 1801), and had Mary Jackson, b. 17 Jan. 1802, m. Dr. Usher Parsons of Providence 23 Sept. 1822; Ann Susan, b. 15 May 1804, m. Rev. Charles W. Upham of Salem 29
money to Hannah. JOHN, probably s.
Mar. 1826; Sarah Lathrop, bap. 29 Dec. 1805, d. 6 Nov. 1812; Oliver Wendell, b. 29 Aug. 1809, grad. H. C. 1829, a distinguished physician and poet, res. in Boston; John, bap. 12 Ap. 1812, grad. H. C. 1832; LL.B. 1839, res. in Camb. Dr. Holmes was eminent as a theologian and historian. His Annals are a monument of patient research and cautious and accurate investigation. His
character is too fresh in the memory of the living to require a delineation. He d. 4 June 1837. His w. Sarah d. 19 Aug. 1862, a. 93. The mansionhouse, venerable for its age and the historical associations which cluster around it, still stands on the easterly side of Holmes Place. HOMWOOD, WILLIAM, by w. Winifred, had Elizabeth, b. 19 May 1644. Perhaps this may be the same as Holman.
HOOKER
Camb.
HOVEY.
589
HOOKER, THOMAS, Rev., arrived in N. Eng. 3 Sept. 1633, and settled at He rem. to Hartford July 1636, and d. there 7 July 1647, a. 61. In his will, dated 7 July 1647, he named his w. Susanna, sons John and Samuel, and dau. Joanna, deceased (w. of Rev. Thomas Shepard); Mary, deceased (w. of Rev. Roger Newton); and Sarah, who afterwards m. Rev. John WilThe character of Mr. Hooker has deservedly been held son, Jr., of Medfield.
in reverence in N. Eng. He was considered one of the most able theologians of his day, equal, and, in the opinion of many good judges, superior to his great contemporary, John Cotton. The celebrated Dr. Ames* said of him, " That though he had been acquainted with many scholars, of divers nations, yet he never met with Mr. Hooker's equal, either for preaching or for disputWhile in Camb. he res. on the northerly side of ing." (Mather's Mag.) Harvard Street, nearly opposite to Holyoke Street, on the site afterwards
successively by Rev. Thomas Shepard, Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, President Leverett, and the Professors Wigglesworth, father and son ; the westerly end of Boylston Hall stands on the Hooker house-lot. 2. SAMUEL, s. of Thomas (1), supposed to have been b. in Camb. 1635, grad. H. C. 1653, settled in the ministry at Farmington, Conn., 1661, and "conof the his tinued pastor Church till He had eleven death, 6 Nov. 1697." children, from whom descended a numerous race, many of whom have been
owned and occupied
highl}' distinguished. HOPKINS, JOHN, in
1635
Mount Auburn
streets.
He
res. at the northwesterly corner of Dunster and rem. in 1636 to Hartford, where he was Select-
man in 1640, and Juror in 1643. HOSMER, THOMAS, in 1635 res. on

in
the southerly side of Brattle Street, and 1642 on the southerly side of Winthrop Street, between Brighton and Spring streets. He was Selectman, or Townsman, 1635, and rem. early to
Hartford.
b. 6 Dec. 1642, 22 Ap. 1644. It is supposed that he came here from Scituate, and returned there after a few years' residence. A person of the same name was in Scituate 1634, and d. there 1661, leaving chil. Samuel, Elizabeth, and per-
HOUSE,
d.
HOUGHTON, ROBERT, m. Sarah Phipeny 8 Sept. 1668. or HOWES, SAMUEL, by w. Elizabeth, had John,
and
haps others.
in Ipswich 1637, and had Daniel, b. 1642; John; 1648; James, killed by the Indians at Brookfield 1675; Joseph; Nathaniel, b. 20 Mar. 1657; Abigail, said to have m. Thomas Hodgkins; Priscilla, m. John Ayers. DANIEL, the f. d. 1692; his w. Rebecca d. 1665. 2. JOSEPH, s. of Daniel (1), m. Hannah Pratt, and had Joseph, b. 1677; Ebenezer, b. 1680, m. Elizabeth Denny at Ipswich, and had five sons and three daughters; Hannah, b. 1682; John, b. July 1684; Caleb, b. 1687; Thomas. JOSEPH the f. is said to have res. several years in Hadley, where perhaps most or all of his children were born. He is also said to have rem. with his
HOVEY, DANIEL, was

b.
Thomas,
family to Camb.; or perhaps more probably to Chs., whence his sons
came to Camb. He d. 1739. 3. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (2), m. Mary, dau. of John Marrett, 10 Dec. 1702, and had Joseph, bap. 28 May 1704; Hannah, bap. 7 July 1706, m. Samuel Wheat 2 Aug. 1708; Mary, bap. 15 Aug. 1708; Amos, b. 26 Jan. 1710-11; JOSEPH the f. was a Daniel, bap. 24 Jan. 1713-14; John, bap. 2 Nov. 1718.
cooper; but appears to have connected with his trade the business of an innholder for a few years. He bought of the Remington heirs, 12 May 1705, the "Blue Anchor Tavern," at the northeast corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn In 1729 he bought a streets, which he sold 1 Ap. 1709 to his brother John. house at the northwest corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn streets, where he d. between 28 June and 18 Nov. 1735; his w. Mary m. Nathaniel Parker of Newton 27 Jan. 1636-7. 4. JOHN, s. of Joseph (2), by w. Abiel, had in Chs., John, b. 12 June 1707; Sarah, b. 28 Feb. 1708-9; and in Camb., Thomas, b. 2 Sept. 1710, a phyD. 1 sician, d. in the English Factory, River Gambia, Africa, 1732; James, Dec. 1712, a carpenter, removed to Plymouth about 1733, is said to have been
590
HOVEY.
a preacher from 1742 to 1767, and afterwards clerk in a mercantile house; he m. Lydia, dau. of John Atwood of Plymouth; she d. 23 Feb. 1771, a. 56, and he d. 7 Jan. 1781 Ebenezer, b. 12 July 1714. JOHN the f. was a baker, but he bought of his brother Joseph, 1 Ap. 1709, the "Blue Anchor Tavern," which he probably kept as a public house until he d. 13 Sept. 1714; his w. Abiel m. Edmund Angier 9 Ap. 1717, who d. 4 Ap. 1724; she then m. Isaac Watson 27 Aug. 1725; he perished in the conflagration of his dwelling-house 27 Feb. 1741-2, and she d. 18 Sept. 1753, a. 66. 5. CALEB, of Joseph (2), m. Mary Winchester of Brookline, and had
;
s*.
Camb. Josiah, b. 24 Dec. 1763; Mary, b. 1 July 1765, m. Benjamin Hammond, and d. 19 Dec. 1846; in Roxbury, Thomas, b. 18 Aug. 1766; James, b. 8 Feb. 1768; in Lunenburg, Ebenezer, b. 8 June 1769; Phineas Brown, b. 1 Nov. 1770; Elizabeth, b. 4 July 1772, m. John Royal Barlow 6 Sept. 1792, and d. 30 Sept. 1850; Stephen, b. 23 June 1774, fell from mast-head and was in Cambridge, Washington, b. 26 Aug. 1777, supposed to killed 25 Dec. 1796 have perished in the Richmond Theatre conflagration 1811 another account " Eleanor " lost at Dana, b. 23 Feb. 1779, in. Rev. Abisha Sampson, sea; says and d. at Harvard 15 Feb. 1813; John, b. 23 Jan. 1781, m. Anna Gardner of Brookline, had son John G. Hovey, and d. 11 Dec. 1853; Sarah, b. 26 Sept. 1782, m. Washington Lee, and d. 7 Jan. 1862; Ann, b. 3 Sept. J 784, m. Ephraim Chamberlain; William, b. 4 Aug. 1786, d. May 1790; Susan Soden, b. 9 Ap. 1791, in. Elisha Brimhall, and d. 9 Feb. 1824. THOMAS the f. was a currier, and resided successively in Cambridge (Brighton), Roxbury, Lunenburg, and Cambridge. He served in the Revolutionary War, and was styled "Major" in the record of his election as Deacon of the Brighton
in
; ;
b. 20 Ap. 1716; Caleb, b. 21 Dec. 1717; Esther, b. 10 June 1720; Sarah, b. 21 May 1722; Josiah, b. 4 May 1724, prob. the same who d. at Maiden, and whose brother Caleb of Newton was appointed administrator 14 July 1746. CALEB the f. d. at Newton, and his son Caleb was appointed administrator 3 Feb. 1745. 6. DANIEL, s. of Joseph (3), m. Mary Tapley 30 Dec. 1736, and had six children, bap. here: Joseph, 30 Mar. 1740; Margaret, 14 Oct. 1744; Mary, 26 Oct. 1747; Daniel, 27 May 1750; John, 30 Dec. 1753, d. young; John, 15 July 1659. 7. JOHN, s. of John (4), grad. H. C. 1725; was several years engaged in teaching here and at York, Me.; settled in the ministry at Arundel, Me., 1741; was dismissed 176S, and d. 1773 or 1774. He m. Elizabeth Muzzey, who d. Dec. 1729, aged 19; he afterwards m. Susanna Swett of New York, sister to the w. of Rev. Thomas Prentice, who survived him. By his w. Susanna, he had Susanna, bap. here 18 Sept. 1737; John, bap. 7 Jan. 1738-9. " He was a man of respectable talents, and, to judge from his writings that were preserved some time after his death, of good acquirements. He wrote a splendid hand, and was well acquainted with business, nearly all the deeds and contracts of the day being drawn up by him. professorship had been offered him at Cambridge before his settlement." "In returning from a visit in Plymouth, in 1774, he came to Biddeford by water, and lodged at the house of Col. Richworth Jordan. After having been in his chamber for some time without extinguishing his light, some of the family entered his apartment, and found him sitting in his chair partly undressed, apparently having been dead some considerable time." Bradbury's Hist. Kennebunk Port. 8. EBENEZER, s. of John (4), m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Mason of Watertown, 7 Ap. 1737, and had Thomas, b. 14 Aug. 1740; Elizabeth. EBENEZER the f. d. 11 Ap. 1742, a. 28. 9. THOMAS, s. of Ebenezer (8), m. Elizabeth Brown 21 Ap. 1763, and had
Mary,
b.
11
Ap. 1714; Abigail,
Church, 10 May 1791. He d. at Brighton 8 May 1807; his w. Elizabeth d. Rutland 14 Jan. 1821, a. 75. 10. JOSIAH, s. of Thomas (9), m. Isabella Winship 31 Mar. 1789, and had Isabella, b. 29 Dec. 1789, m. William Leathe 4 July 1811, and d. 9 Aug. 1875. JOSIAH the f. was a merchant, and innholder in early life, but for many years cultivated a few acres in Cambridgeport. His w. Isabella d. 24 Nov.
at
HOVEY
1821,
a.
HUBBARD.
591
52, and he m. Mrs. Mary Forbes in 1822, and Mrs. Elizabeth Greenof Boston in 1838; he d. 29 Mar. 1847. 11. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (9), m. Elizabeth Seaver 22 Sept. 1793; he was a blacksmith, and resided near the easterly corner of Main and Douglass streets for several years after 1801, but I find no record here of his family. He rem. to Newton and was killed by a load of lumber passing over his bodv 19 Nov. 1829. 12. JAMES, s. of Thomas (9), m. Nancy Wilson 11 Nov. 1794, and had William B.,b. 3 Sept. 1795; Abigail, b. 27 July 1797; Eleanor, b. 5 Oct. 1803, d. 6 Oct. 1803; Martha T., b. 3 Oct. 1704, m. Horatio N. Glover of
wood
Feb. 1810, m. V. D. Cushman; James G., b. Quincy; Julia A., b. Ap. 1811, m. Harriet Lincoln, of Boston, who d. 18 Feb. 1856 he was a merchant, resided in Camb. a few years before his death, a Member of the Common Council 1855, 1856, Alderman 1857, and d. 28 Ap. 1857. JAMKS the f. d. 21
;
Sept. 1831; his w.

13.
EBENEZER,
s.
Nancy (otherwise called Ann) d. 2 Dec. 18fi5, a. 90. of Thomas (9), m. Sarah, dau. of Nevinson Greenwood
of Brighton, 28 Nov. 1799, and had Ebenezer, b. 24 Mar. 1801; a bacon curer, Deacon of the Broadway Baptist Church, m. Harriet Scott 1823, d. 25 Mar. 1866; Josiah, b. 1 Nov. 1802, d. 19 Sept. 1803; Elizabeth, b. 10 June 1804; Sarah, b. 17 June 1806, d. 1 Mar. 1807; Eleanor, b. 19 Nov. 1807, m. Lorenzo D. Willis 11 June 1829, d. 2 Feb. 1830; Sarah Ann, b. 22 Feb. 1809, d. 23
Nov. 1830; Freeman,
b. 1 Mar. 1811, m. Hannah Stone Dec. 1831, and Sophronia Walker 1838, and d. 28 Jan. 1843; Susanna, b. 23 Nov. 1812, m. Nahum Stone 1 Jan. 1832; George, b. 5 Aug. 1814, d. 6 July 1863; Thomas G., b. 23 Jan. 1816, merchant, m. Ann M. Hoppin 4 Nov. 1841, and rem. to Lex. Josiah, b. 3 June 1819; Stephen D., b. 20 Mar. 1823, d. 24 Feb. 1838. EBENEZEU the f. res. on Main Street, nearly opposite to Windsor Street, and d. 5 May 1831; his w. Sarah d. 27 June 1863, a. 81. 14. PHINEAS BROWN, s. of Thomas (9), in. Sarah Stone of Newton, and had in Watertown Sally, b. 10 Ap. 1795, m. Samuel Foster of Greenwich 19 Nov. 1817, and d. 10 Dec. 1819; Eunice, b. 31 May 1797, m. Isaac Livermore of Camb. (pub. 5 Oct. 1822), and d. 11 June 1871; Elizabeth Brown, b. 17 Mar. 1799; and in Cambridge Phineas Brown,\>. 3 Sept. 1803, m. Mary L. Cooke 10 Nov. 1828; Caroline, b. 14 Ap. 1807; Charles Mason, b. 26 Oct. 1810, m. Ann Maria Chapouil 25 Dec. 1835; Josiah Dana, b. 31 Mar. 1813, m. Atlantic Peirce 27 Dec. 1835. PHINEAS BROWN the f. was a grocer and resided at the N. W. corner of Brookline and Green streets, on an estate purchased 14 Oct. 1799. He erected a store on the northerly end of the lot, fronting Main Street, which is still standing and is occupied by his youngest
;
The elder sons are extensively known as horticulturists. Mr. Hovey d. his w. Sarah d. 9 Dec. 1846, a. 77. 19 Ap. 1852, a. 81 HUBBARD, JAMES (otherwise written Hubbert and Hubert), m. Sarah Winship 29 Sept. 1659; she d. in childbed 20 Oct. 1665, and he m. Hannah, dau. of Miles Ives of Watertown, 8 Jan. 1667-8. His children were Sarah, b. 17 June 1662, m. Nicholas Bowes 26 June 1684, and d. 26 Jan. 1688-9; Mary, JAMES the f. was prob. son b. 20 Oct. 1665, m. Jason Russell 27 May 1684. of wid. Elizabeth Hubbard, who m. William Hamlet, and whose children, as
son.
;
and the
to her faithful performinscription on her tombstone bears testimony ance of the difficult duties of a step-mother. "Here lies buried Hannah to his Hubert, the loving wife of James Hubert, a tender and loving mother and faithful, diligent and children; careful of their souls and bodies, loving life in sweet peace the 24th day of November 1690, prudent; who departed this aged about 48." MARTHA, m. Noah Champney 16 Oct. 1725. MARTHA, m. Reuben Prentice 1 Mar. 1757. MARY, m. Thomas Durant 25 Dec. 1758. ELIZAIJKTH WILLIAMS, dau. of William and Elizabeth, b. 24 Dec. 1776. BKNJAMIX, d.
12 Oct. 1797.
592
HUDSON
JACKSON.
HUDSON, GEORGE (variously written Hodson, Hutson, Hodchen, Huchen, Hntchens, Hutchins), by w. Jane, had Joseph, b. 28 Dec. 1639 Luke, b. 6 Ap. 1644; Anna, b. 30 Sept. 1645; Abiah, b. 3 Ap. 1648 Barbara, perhaps a dau., d. 14 Feb. 1640. GEORGE the f. res. on the southerly side of South Street, between Dunster and Brighton streets. 2. DANIEL, a mason, rem. here from Lancaster, about 1672, and res. on the south side of the river. After a few years he returned to Lancaster, where he and his w. Joanna and two daughters are said to have been killed by the Indians in 1697. His chil., as gathered from his will and the division of his estate, were John (dec.), Nathaniel, Daniel, William, Thomas, Mary, w. of Thomas Waters, Sarah, w. of Jacob Waters, and Abigail, w. of James Atherton. HUNT, EDMUND, was one of the first company, and in 1635 res. on the westerly side of Garden Street, near the Botanic Garden. In 1636 he sold his estate to Joseph Isaac, after which his name disappears from the Records. He was probably the same who was in Duxbury 1637. See Winsor's Hist.
; ;
Duxbury. 2. ISAAC, parentage not ascertained, by w. Mary, had Thomas, b. 20 Aug. 1701; Samuel, b. 11 Jan. 1709-10; John, b. 12 Feb. 1711-12. HYDE, SAMUEL, (otherwise written Hide, and by himself Hides), "the second settler in Camb. village, about 1640," by w. Temperance, had Samuel, named in his will; Joshua, b. 14 Mar. 1642, d. 21 Ap. 1656; Job, b. 1643; Sarah, b. 19 Ap. 1644, m. Thos. Woolson 20 Nov. 1660; Elizabeth, m. HumSAMUEL the f. was a farmer, and Deacon of phrey Osland 7 Mar. 1666-7. the Church in Camb. Village, afterwards Newton. He d. 14 Sept. 1689, a. about 80, as noted on his Inventory. 2. JONATHAN, a younger brother of Samuel (1), m. Mary French; she d. in childbed 27 May 1672, a. 39, and he m. Mary Rediat of Sudbury 8 Feb. 1673-4. His children, so far as their names are ascertained, were Jonathan, b. 1 Ap. 1651 Samuel, b. 23 May 1652, m. Hannah Stedman 20 Jan. 1673; Joshua, twin, b. 23 May 1652, d. young; Joshua, b. 4 Ap. 1654, d. 21 Ap. 1656; Jonathan, b. 1 Ap. 1655 John, b. 6 Ap. 1656, m. Mary Kendrick 20 Jan. 1682; Abraham, b. 2 Mar. 1657-8, d. 22 Feb. 1658-9; Elizabeth, b. 4 Sept. 1659; Daniel, b. 2 Aug. 1661, d. 3 Oct. 1661; William, b. 12 Sept. 1662, d. 8 Dec. 1699, leaving wid. Elizabeth; Eleazar, bap. 3 July 1664; Daniel, b. 1665 Ichabod, b. 22 Sept. 1668 Joseph, b. 27 May 1672; Hannah, b. 14 Oct. 1677, d. 10 May 1679; Sarah, b. 1 Ap. 1679; Ruth, b. 3 Oct. 1682, d. 21 Dec. 1682; Isaac, b. 31 Oct. 1685; Jacob, b. 9 Ap. 168-; Lydia, b. 1 Mar. 1689 Ann, b. 28 Aug. 1692, m. Richard Barnes of Marlborough. JONATHAN the he d. 1711, and his second w. Mary d. f. was a farmer, and res. in Newton
;
; ; ;
1708.
The posterity of these two brothers is as the sand upon the sea shore. The elder large genealogy is given in Jackson's Hist, of Newton, pp. 313-326. family has among its Representatives in Cambridge, Mr. Edward Hyde, who holds the responsible position of Treasurer of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank and the younger family furnished the first Mayor of the young City of Hon. James F. C. Hyde. Newton, ISAAC, JOSEPH (otherwise written Isaack, Isaacke, Isack, Isacke, Isak, Isaake), res. on the northerly side of Mount Auburn Street, opposite to Winthrop Square. He was an active citizen, being one of the Committee to He d. 11 May 1642; his allot lands, Selectman, and Representative in 1638. w. Elizabeth survived. REBECCA, a. 36, came to N. Eng. 1634. JACKSON, RICHARD (otherwise written Jacson, Jacksone, Jacksonne, JackeHe was Selectman six sone), res. on the northerly side of Brattle Square. years, between 1636 and 1656, and Representative nine years, between 1637 and 1662. Mr. Jackson had no children. His w. Isabel d. 12 Feb. 1661, and he m. Elizabeth, wid. of Richard Browne of Chs. 12 May 1662. He d. between 22 June and 10 Oct. 1672, a. 90; his w. Elizabeth d. 11 Jan. 1676-7.
;
His kinsman, John Jackson, was his principal legatee.
JACKSON
JOHNSON.
593
2. JOHN, came to N. Eng. in 1635, then a. 40, the first permanent settler of Camb. Village (now Newton), as early as 1639; was Deacon of the Church, and res. a short distance easterly from Angier's Corner. By his w. Margaret he had John, b. in England 1633, and d. 17 Oct. 1C 75; Theoriosia, in. Noah VViswall 14 Dec. 1664, and Samuel Newman of Rehoboth, and d. about 1727; Mary, m. Samuel Truesdale; Grace; Caleb, b. and d. 1645: Hannah, b. 7 June 1646, m. Elijah Kenrick; Abigail, b. 14 Aug. 1647, m. Daniel Preston; Margaret, b. 20 June 1649, m. James Trowbridge, Sen., and d. 1727; Ed-
ham,
14 Jan. 1650-51, slain by the Indians at Medfield 1676; Ann; Abra14 Aug. 1655; Deliverance, b. 5 Nov. 1657; Joshua, b. 15 Sept. 1659; JOHN the f. d. 1674, a. 79; his w. Isabel, d. 1661; Sarah, b. 10 June 1662. Margaret d. 1684, a. 80. 3. EDWARD, brother to John (2), came from Whitechapel Parish, London, and settled in Camb. Village as early as 1643, res. on the northerly side of the He was street, nearly opposite to his brother, and was a distinguished citizen. Representative fifteen years, between 1647 and 1676. His first wife having died he m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Newgate, and wid. of John Oliver, 14 Mar. 1648-9. His children were Jonathan, a merchant in Boston, d. 1693; Hannah, m. John Ward, and d. 24 Ap. 1704, a. 73; Rebecca, m. Thomas Prentice; Frances, d. 5 Oct. 1648; Sebas ; Sarah, b. 5 Jan. 1649-50, m. Rev. Nehemiah Hobart 21 Mar. 1676-7, and d. 1711; Edward, b. 15 Dec. 1652; Lydia, b. 1656, m. Joseph Fuller 13 Feb. 1678-9, and d. 1726; Elizabeth, b. 28 Ap. 1658, m. John Prentice 28 June 1677, and Jonas Bond; Hannah, b. about 1660, m. Nathaniel Wilson, and d. 1690; Ruth, b. 15 Jan. 1664, d. unm. 1692. EDWARD the f. d. 17 June 1681, a. 79, leaving a large estate, embracing about 1 700 acres of land, some portion of which still remains in possession of
ward,
b.
b.
his descendants.
His w. Elizabeth survived twenty-eight years, and was noted for her usefulness, especially as a midwife; she d. 30 Sept. 1709, a. 92. For a full genealogy of the families of Deacon John Jackson and his brother " It is a remarkable fact," Edward, see Jackson's Hist, of Newton, pp. 326-353.
Jackson, that while
Newton, and not one of John's. Now (1854) there are but three families in town of Edward's descendants, that bear his name." (Pages 332, 333.) I insert here a single family of the older branch: 4. ABRAHAM, s. of John (2), m. Elizabeth, dau. of
"in relation to these two brothers, John and Edward Edward had but three sons and John five, there are multitudes of Edward's posterity, who bear his name, and only five of John's. Forty-four of Edward's descendants were in the Revolutionary Army, from
says the
historian,
John Biscoe of Wat., and had Elizabeth, b. 8 Aug. 1680, m. Ephraim Williams, and d. before 1739, of Williams leaving two sons, Ephraim, a distinguished soldier, and the founder b. 25 Ap. 1682; Sarah, College; and Thomas, a physician in Hatfield; John, b. 21 Aug. 1684, m. Joseph Fuller, Jr., and was mother of Hon. Abraham Fuller; Margaret, b. 1685, m. Henry Bright; Mary, b. 2 Dec. 1686, d. young; Hannah, m. James Trowbridge, Jr., 1712; Mary, b. 19 Jan. 1689, m Daniel b. 1692, d. Cook Ap. 1722; Abigail, b. 21 Mar. 1690, d. young; Abigail, 26 Jan. 1703; Abraham, b. 12 Mar. 1793, d. young; Thomas, b. 6 Sept. 1694,
d. 1713.
5. JOHN, s. or grandson to a brother of Richard (1), was an innholder, and His first w. inherited the lands of Richard on Brattle Street and elsewhere. Sarah d. without issue 15 Nov. 1700, a. 50; by his second w. Deborah, he had Samuel, bap. 4 June 1699; Fifield, b. 8 Ap. 1702, a cabinet-maker in Boston 1724; John, b. 12 Jan. 1703-4 James, b. about 1706; Xene, b. 2 Ap. JOHN the f. d. 26 Sept. 1709, a. 64. 1708, m. Thomas Robbins 24 Oct. 1737. His w. Deborah survived. 6. EDWARD, parentage not ascertained, m. Susanna Dana 2> May, 1755, and had Samuel, b. 2 Sept. 1759; Mary, bap. 30 Aug. 1761. EDWARD the f. kept a tavern in the centre of Brighton. for the JOHNSON, MARMADUKE, contracted 21 Ap. 1660 with the Society to remove forthwith to Boston, Propagation of the Gospel in New England, and to serve for three years in printing the Indian Bible and other books, under 38
;
594
JOHNSON.
He encountered opposition in his matrimonial designs, which he smoothly. At the resented so highly as to bring himself within the grasp of the law. Middlesex County Court, April 1662, " Marmaduke Johnson being presented by the Grand Jury of this County in Oct. last, for obtaining the affections of the daughter of Ens. Samuel Greene, without the knowledge or consent of said Samuel Greene, also being expressly forbidden her society, being a married man, hath often endeavored to draw her into his society, threatening the death of any other that should make suit to her, the said Marmaduke Johnson, appearing in Court, confessed a part of the said presentment, and denied the other part thereof, which by evidence on file with the records of this Court appeared to be true; the Court, on hearing the case, sentenced the said Johnson to pay, as a fine for seeking to draw away the affections of the daughter of the said Samuel Greene without his consent, five pounds and for his threatening speeches, to give security for the peace and his appearance at the next Court at Charlestown, in case he abide so long within the jurisdiction of
;
the direction of said Society, and of Mr. John Eliot and Mr. Green, at a salary of 40 per annum. (Max.s. Archives, x. 205). Agreeably to his contract, he entered the Cambridge printing-office, assisted in printing the first edition of the Indian Bible which was completed in 1663, and afterwards assisted in The current of his life did not run printing other books for about ten years.
his presumptuous and wicked attempt of marriage, havconfession, a wife in England, that he return with the first opportunity that he may to his wife, on penalty of twenty pounds, to be forfeited and paid to the County Treasurer; and to pay the costs of the Court." Instead of departing from the country, as required by this order of Court, Johnson contracted to serve the society another year, in the printing-office. He was accordingly brought before the County Court Oct. 1663, and com" 40, to pelled to give bonds in the sum of depart this jurisdiction, according to the order of the Court, within six weeks time next ensuing, or by Christopher Clark's ship, now bound for England." higher authority now At the session of the General Court, commencing 20 Oct. 1663, interposed. an order was passed, to wit " Upon perusal of the Commissioners' letter to the honorable Corporation in England, and Mr. Eliot's motion, touching Marmaduke Johnson, printer, informing that the said Corporation have contracted with the said Johnson for one year, expiring 10th August next it is hereby ordered, that there be a suspension of the execution of an order of the last County Court of Middlesex for one year, enjoining the said Johnson to return to England, to his wife, whom he allegeth is diseased [deceased?], and
this
Colony
and for
ing,
by
his
own
opportunity, in the interval, to produce full certificate thereof." Probably, before the expiration of the year, Johnson furnished satisfactory evidence that his wife was dead; for he was allowed to remain and to continue the business of printing, without molestation. His intention to marry Greene's daughter, however, was effectually frustrated. He m. Ruth, dau. of Christopher Cane, 28 Ap. 1670, by whom he had Elizabeth, b. 12 Feb. 1671-2, who He resided at the S. E. corner of Winthrop and Brighton prob. d. young. streets until 1674, when he removed to Boston, where he d. 25 Dec. 1674. His w. Ruth d. 1676, devising her estate, by will dated 3 Ap. 1676, to her mother, brothers, and sisters a conditional bequest was made to her brother " that house and land at Camb., in case that my husband's son Jonathan, of (whom I never saw) come not to demand it, and let it be kept in repair; and in case he come, it is my will that the aforesaid house and land be delivered Johnson's to him, without any molestation of him or any by or under him." son probably never came to New England; the estate remained in possession of the Cane family until Sept. 1723, when it passed into the hands of Judah Monis, the Hebrew Preceptor. 2. JOHN, by w. Mary, had John, b. 17 Nov. 1662; Thomas, b. 12 Jan. 1664. 3. JOHN, prob. s. of John (2), by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 20 Jan. 1686-7; A bit/ail, b. 1 8 Sept. 1 703 and probably others. THOMAS, m. Elizabeth Green 8 Jan. 1682. WILLIAM, m. Mary Cook 18 Feb. 1690-91. HANNAH, m. John Cooper 21 Oct. 1725. MATTHEW, m. Eliza; ;
may have
JOHNSON
KENRICK.
595
beth Prentice 9 May 1726. JAMES, m. Margaret Logan 4 Jan. 1738-9. TABITHA, m. Asa Warren 1 Oct. 1747. ESTHER, m. Jonathan Cook 8 Nov. 1770. FREDERICK, m. Rhoda Reed 16 Oct. 1783. RUHAMAH, m. Joseph Perry 11 Ap. 1786. REBECCA, m. Samuel Hastings 14 June 1789. ABIJAH, m. Betsey Whitney 19 Feb. 1797. PHEBE, m. Benjamin Barker 14 Jan. 1798. JOSEPH. m. Amy Goodnow 23 May 1798. JOSIAH, Jr., m. Betsey Moore 10 Ap. 1800. JONES, WILLIAM, was here as early as 1635, and owned a house in the " West End," and six acres on the northerly side of Linnasan Street, which he sold to Edward Winship, about 1638, after which period his name disappears from the Records. The hill, however, in the angle of Linnsean Street and North Avenue, crowned by what was afterwards known as the " Gallows " Jones's Hill." Lot," was for many years called 2. JOHN, by w. Dorcas, had Samuel, b. 8 Oct. 1648. It is said that he rem. to Concord, and there had Ephrahn, b. 1650; Elizabeth; Joseph, b. 1654; He d. 22 June 1673, and his w. Dorcas John, b. 1656; Rebecca, and William. m. William Buss of Concord. See Farmer. 3. PHILIP, in 1671 contracted to erect " a sufficient fence of stone, of four foot high," from Richard Hassell's farm (on the west side of Menotomy River) to Rocky Meadow, for which he was to receive land in payment. No Record is found of his family. Ann Gleason, spinster, administered his estate 26 Dec.
1690.
DORCAS, perhaps
1789.
UEL, m. Sarah Hill 15 JAMES, m. Ruth Fisk
dau. of John (2), m. Samuel Stone 12 June 1679. SAMMay 1704. WILLIAM, m. Elizabeth Ash 28 Mar. 1776. 1 Jan. 1778. THADDEUS, m. Sarah Horton 19 Oct.
JUDD, THOMAS, one of the first company, was here in 1635, and res. on the northerly side of Brattle Street; his homestead probably embraced the spot where the Craigie House stands, now owned by Professor Longfellow. He rem. with Hooker to Hartford. He was several years a Deputy or Representative of Hartford, and subsequently of Waterbury, to which place he removed. He was great-grandfather of Rev. Jonathan Judd, the first minister of
Southampton, Mass., of whom Sylvester Judd, Esq., of Northampton, a diligent and accurate antiquarian, was grandson. KELSEY, WILLIAM (otherwise written Kellsie), was here in 1635, and res. He rem. to Hartford at the S. E. corner of Winthrop and Spring streets. with Hooker. " After his decease, his widow Bethia m. David Phillips of Milford. The town of Hartford, in 1664, offered him 10 to remove from Hartford with his wife." Hinman. KEMPSTER, DANIEL, in 1642 res. on the southerly side of the Common, near Appian Way. In 1644 he bought an estate on the westerly side of Dunster Street, about one hundred feet northerly from Mount Auburn Street, where few months before his death, he sold this estate he subsequently resided. to Justinian Holden. He was a carpenter, and d. between 15 Oct. 1666 and In his will, 2 Ap. 1667, a. about 80; Abigail, prob. his w., d. 22 Oct. 1657. dated 27 Sept. 1665, he bequeaths sundry articles to his cousin Thomas Moulton, his kinsman Samuel Andrew, the daughter of his brother John Kempster,
" sometime of Needum, England, deceased," Anna, daughter of Thomas Parke of Dunstable, England, and Elder Frost: |' and the residue to such as shall tender me, and show me kindness, in my sickness and old age."
KENDALL, JOHN, sold land on the south side of the river 8 Sept. 1646; of John Kendall and according to the Record, "Edward Jackson bought Elizabeth his wife, one dwelling-house, late Samuel Hollyes, together with an His w. Elizabeth was widow of Samuel out-house and ten acres of land." 355. for death she have suffered supposed witchcraft. See page Holley may 1711. 2. THOMAS, by w. Sarah, had Alary, b. 28 Ap. and KENRICK, JOHN (otherwise written Kendrick, Kenderick, Kindrick, time at Muddy River (now BrookKinnerick), was of Boston 1639, res. for a Nov. 1656, and in 1658 purchased u farm south line), where his w. Anna d. 15 His children, of the river (now Newton), where he d. 29 Aug. 1686, a. 82. w. Anna, were Hannah, bap. 9 Feb. 1640, d. young; John, b. 3 Oct. 1641;
;
by
596
KENRICK
KIDDER.
;
Hannah, b. 20 Elijah, bap. 21 Jan. 1644, d. young; Elijah, b. 18 Oct. 1645 Mar. 1652, m. Jonathan Metcalf of Dedham 10 Ap. 1674. His second w. Judith d. at Roxbury 23 Aug. 1687. 2. JOHN, s. of John (1), by w. Esther, had Mercy, b. 1 July 1673; Grace, b. 10 Sept. 1674; Maria, b. 28 Jan. 1675-6; Esther, b. 25 Sept. 1677; Sarah, b. 26 Feb. 1678-9; Hannah, b. 15 Dec. 1680; Ann, b. 4 Nov. 1682; Abigail, b. 12 Nov. 1684; Mary; John, b. 6 Jan. 1690; Elizabeth,}). 9 Feb. 1693; Caleb, b. 8 Mar. 1695; Margaret, b. 15 Jan. 1697. JOHN the f. res. in Newton, and d. 30 Sept. 1721 his w. Esther d. 1723, a. 70. 3. ELIJAH, s. of John (1), m. Hannah, dau. of John Jackson, and had Margaret, b. 29 Jan. 1668-9; Hannah, b. 5 Aug. 1670; Ann, b. 3 July 1672;
;
John, b.
July 1675; Elijah,
b. 11
ELIJAH the f. res. in Newton, and d. 24 Dec. 1680 his w. Mary m. John Hyde 20 Jan. 1682-3, and d. 1 May 1737, a. 91. KIDDER, JAMES (otherwise written Kiddar, and Skidder), m. Anna, dau.
;
May
1678; Ebenezer, b. 12 Feb. 1679-80;
of Francis Moore, and had in Camb. Hannah, b. 1 Mar. 1650-51, m. Nathaniel Kettle, Chs.. 30 Ap. 1672; Dorothy, m. Jonathan Hyde, Jr., 6 May 1673; James, b. 3 Jan. 1653-4; John, b. about 1656; Thomas, b. 1 Mar. 1657; Nathaniel, bap. 27 Feb. 1658-9; and in Billerica, Ephraim, b. 31 Aug. 1660; Stephen, b. 26 Nov. 1662; Enoch, b. 16 Sept. 1664; Samuel, b. 7 Jan.
June 1667, m. George Brown 30 Jan. 1689-90; Joseph, the f. d. 16 Ap. 1676; Anna Kidder of Billerica, prob. his wid., m. William Underwood of Chelmsford 17 Mar. 1684-5. 2. JAMES, s. of James (1), m. Elizabeth Brown 23 Sept. 1678, res. in Billerica, and had James, b. 27 June 1679; John, b. 27 Jan. 1680-81; Joseph, b. 21 Ap. and d. 30 July 1683; Elizabeth, b. 30 Mar. 1686 d. 14 Ap. 1703; Hannah, b. 27 Ap. 1689; Samuel, b. 22 May 1691, d. 1692. JAMES the f. d. 15 Dec. 1732 his w. Elizabeth d. 10 Aug. 1691. 3. JOHN, s. of James (1), resided at Chelmsford, where he m. Lydia Parker 3 Sept. 1684, and had Anna, b. 12 Sept. 1685; John, b. 23 Dec. 1687; Thomas, b. 13 Oct. 1690; and others. 4. THOMAS, s. of James (1), by w. Elizabeth, had at Billerica, Rebecca, b. 27 Ap. 1689 and probably others. 5. NATHANIEL, s. of James (1), d. unm. at Newton, between 12 Dec. 1690 and 7 Jan. 1690-91, devising his estate to his seven brothers and three
b.
1665-6; Sarah, b. 30 Nov. 1670.
JAMES
James (1), m. Rachel Crosby 4 Aug. 1685, and had Joseph: Ephraim, b. 26 Ap. 1688; Rachel, b. 1 Ap. 1691; Alice, b. 8 Feb. 1692 Hannah and Dorothy, twins, b. (at Medf.) 2 Sept. 1696 Thomas, b. 3 Aug. 1700; Benjamin, b. 3 Aug. 1702 Richard, b. 10 May 1705. EPHRAIM the f. inherited the homestead at Billerica, where he d. 25 Sept. 1724 his w.
; ;
sisters, then living. 6. EPHRAIM, s. of
Rachel
d. in 1721.
7. STEPHEN, s. of James (1), by w. Mary, had Mary,b. 16 Oct. 1694; Stephen, b. 17 June 1696, d. 21 Jan. 1696-7; Stephen, b. 18 Oct. 1697; Anna, b. 20 Dec. 1699, d. young; Anna, b. 27 July 1701; Elizabeth, b. 29 Sept. 1703, d. of small-pox 28 Jan. 1721-2; Sarah, b. 22 Ap. 1705; Isaac, b. 6 Nov. STEPHEN the 1707; John, b. 13 Feb. 1708-9; Abigail, b. 28 Jan. 1711-12. f. was a blacksmith, res. in Chs., and d. 1748; his w. Mary d. of small-pox 17 Sept. 1722.
8. ENOCH, s. of James (1), m. Mary she d. in 1742, and he m. Hannah Danforth 4 June 1743. His chil. were Mary, b. 14 Sept. 1693, d. same
;
William, b. 5 Dec. year; Abigail, b. 16 Dec. 1694; Enoch, b. 30 Dec. 1697 1700, d. 1702; Francis, b. 1 Oct. 1703; Mary, b. 26 Mar. 1707; William, b. 13 Mar. 1710. ENOCH the f. res. in Billerica, where both he and his w. Han;
nah
9.
d. in 1 752.
Street (for
Cedar Street. He m. Sarah Griggs 23 Oct. 1689, and had Sarah, b. 17 Aug. 1690, m. Samuel Cooper, 29 Mar. 1720; Francis, b. 1692; Samuel, b. 1694, " d. 14 Aug. 1718, a. " about 24; James, bap. 3 Jan. 1696-7, d. 31 Oct. 1714;
SAMUEL, s. of James (1), res. in Camb., on the southerly side of Spruce many years and until recently known as Kidder's Lane), opposite
KIDDER
unm.
LAMSON.
597
Thomas, bap. 18 Dec. 1698; John, b. 25 Nov. 1700, was a cordwainer, and d. 6 Mar. 1734-5; Nathaniel, b. 20 Nov. 1702; Joseph, b. 23 Mar. 1704-5, d. 23 Aug. 1725; Mary, b. 5 June 1707, m. Benjamin Goddard 9 Dec. 1731; Hannah, b. 5 Mar. 1708-9. SAMUEL the f. was a maltster; Deacon of the Church six years; Selectman four years between 1716 and 1721; and was a useful and respected citizen. He d. 4 July 1724, a. 58; his w. Sarah d. 15
Nov. 1738, a. 72. 10. FRANCIS, s. of Samuel (9), m. Mary Prentice 13 Feb. 1717-18, and had Mary, b. 16 Mar. 1718-19, m. Richard' Hunnewell, pub. 26 May 1739; Samuel, b. 21 June 1720, m. Mary Tompson 20 Mar. 1744, at Medf., where he prob. resided and was father of Deac. Samuel of Medf., who d. 16 Dec.
;
1821, a. 75; James, b. 12 Dec. 1721; Francis, bap. 26 Jan. 1723-4. FRANCIS the f. resided here, and d. 21 Jan. 1723-4, a. 31; his w. Mary m. Samuel Sprague of Stoneham, and was living 7 Nov. 1741. 11. THOMAS, s. of Samuel (9), m. Lydia Prentice 8 Ap. 1725, and had Lydia, b. 19 Jan. 1725-6, m. Walter Cooper 13 Mar. 1755; Joseph, b. 20 Nov. 1727, d. unm. and his f, was administrator 9 May 1752; Solomon, b. 5 Feb. 1729-30; Thomas, b. 18 Jan. 1731-2; Nathan, b. 12 Feb. 1733-4, grad. H. C. 1755, trader at Dover, N. H., d. at Havanna, 1761, a. 27. Tabitha, bap. 29 Aug. 1736, in. John Bartlett 3 May 1759; John, bap. 18 Feb. 1738-9; Sarah, bap. 21 June 1741; Thomas, bap. 29 Aug. 1742, and d. young; Sarah, bap. 16 Sept. 1744; Benjamin, bap. 30 Nov. 1746. THOMAS the f. was a housewright he d. before Ap. 1792, at which date his wid. Lydia d. in
;
Boston,
a. 88.
12. NATHANIEL, s. of Samuel (9), m. Deborah Bowman 17 Sept. 1741, and had Eunice, b. 16 Aug. 1742, m. John Ranslow Sigourney 8 Nov. 1764; Nathaniel, b. 10 Ap. 1747, grad. H. C. 1767. and was a physician at New Market, N. H., where he d. in Dec. 1828; Samuel, b. 26 Sept. 1753. NATHANIEL the f. was a farmer, and d. 28 Mar. 1789, a. 86; his w. Deborah d. 31 Mar. 1789, a. 72; and they were buried in one grave. 13. JOHN, s. of Thomas (11), m. Mary Jackson of Newton (pub. 6 Mar. 1761) and had Mary, bap. 29 Dec. 1761; Lydia, bap. 11 Dec. 1763, m. Charles Frothingham 27 Sept. 1786; Sarah, bap. 29 Dec. 1765, m. Andrew Lopez 19 Nov. 1788; Phebe, bap. 1 Nov. 1767; John, b. 10 Sept. 1769, prob. d. Ap. 1810; Tabitha, b. 9 Ap. 1771; Hannah, b. 20 Ap. 1773; Elizabeth, b. 10 Mar. 1775, d. 6 Nov. 1776; Elizabeth, b. 26 Aug. 1778; Rebecca, b. 16 Aug. 1780, d. unm. 7 Nov. 1854; Thomas, b. 20 May 1783, d. in Boston 20 Jan. 1876. JOHN the f. was a tailor, and res. near the southeasterly corner of the old where the church of the First Parish now stands. He d. Nov.
Burial-ground, 1793.
14.
had Samuel,
of Nathaniel (12), m. Abigail Winship 12 Nov. 1787, and Nov. 1791; and perhaps others. SAMUEL the f. d. July 1832; his w. Abigail d. Mar. 1830,' a. 78. KNIGHT, JOHN, sold a house in Camb. to Nicholas Simpkins 20 Nov. 1637; and about 1638, to Roger Shaw, a house near the junction of Bow and Arrow
SAMUEL,
b.
s.
streets.
RICHARD, servant
land, 1683.
of
John Betts,
d.
about 1652.
MICHAEL had
a grant of
was a Selectman 1636, and res. at the N. E. corner of Holmes Place. about 1640 his w. had prob. d. previously. By a nuncupative will, he ordered that his estate should be equally divided among his five children, whom he commended to the care of his friends, during their minority, to wit:
sone),
KNOWLES, RICHARD, by w. Ruth, had James, b. 17 Nov. 1648. LAMSON, BARNABAS (otherwise written Lamsonn, Lambson, and Lampd.
;
He
to my brother Isaack, my "My daughter Mary to my brother Sparahak brother Parish; my daughter Matha daughter Sarah; my son Barnabey to my was stil to my brother Stone; my son Joseph to my brother Bridge." Joseph of livino- in the family of Deacon Bridge, when Mitchell prepared his fragment a Church Record and he may have been the father of Mary, b. about 1678, m. James Clark, Jr., 4 Nov. 1703, and d. 25 June 171 1, a. 32.
; ;
598
LAPPINWALL
LEVERETT
Isabel, bad Naomi, b. 8 Nov. 1638. (otherwise written Lathom, Lathome, Lathura, and Latbrum), by w. Elizabeth, had Thomas, b. Nov. 1639; Joseph. He res. on the He sold his house and seven acres of land about westerly side of Ash Street. 1646, and rem. to New London, where he had Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia, and
LAPPINWALL, MICHAEL, by w.
LATHAM, GARY
Hannah.
2.
He
d. 1685.
res. in
ROBERT,
vious to 12 Nov. 1646.

family.
the family of Rev. Thomas Shepard two years, preHe afterwards rem. to Bridgewater, where he had a
b.
LAWTON. JOHN
Jan. 1691.
(otherwise written Lorton), by w. Mary, had John,
10
LEVERETT, JOHN, son of Hudson, grandson of Governor John, and greatgrandson of Elder Thomas Leverett, was b. in Boston 2f) Aug. 1662, grad. H. C. 1680, and received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity 1692, being the first, together with his classmate, Rev. William Brattle, on whom that honor was ever bestowed by Harvard College. He was several years Tutor, and a member of the Corporation; Selectman 1699, 1700; Representative of Cambridge 1696, 1699, and 1700; Speaker of the House 1700; Member of the Council 1706; Vice-judge of Admiralty; Judge of Probate from 30 Oct. 1702 to 1707; and during the same period, 1702-1707, Justice of the Superior Court. He was elected President of Harvard College 28 Oct. 1707, was inaugurated on the 14th of the succeeding January, and performed the duties of that office with distinguished honor to himself and advantage to the institution, until 3 was found dead in his bed, having apparently deceased May 1724, when he without a struggle. 1 He was highly honored and respected through life, and his death occasioned a general lamentation. For a more extended notice of his character, see Pres. Quincy's Hist, of the University. It would seem that his
1
A bill for
professional services rendered
throw any light on the cause of President

Leverett's death, it indicates the manner of medical practice a hundred and fifty years ago:
by Dr. Henry Hooper (who resided at the westerly corner of Brattle and Appleton
streets) is preserved in the Library of the N. Eng. Hist. Gen. Society. If it does not
" Feb. 23d 1721-2

to
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appearance was very dignified, and somewhat more haughty than would be tolerated in these days, .since it has been discovered that all men are born free and equal. In the Library of the Mass. Hist. Society is preserved a letter from Nathaniel Cotton, a member of the Senior Class in College to his father, Rev. Rowland Cotton of Sandwich, dated 6 Ap. 1717, in which it is said: " Our two Deacons walk on each side of the President with their hats under their arms, when consulting, making very low obeisance to him when they take their leave of him. He not so much as touches his hat, or takes his hand out of his pocket, which is taken notice of and indeed is ruler of the Town as well as College." Pres. Leverett res. on the northerly side of Harvard Street, nearly opposite to Holyoke Street, which was the former residence of Hooker, Shepard, and Mitchell, and afterwards of the Professors Wigglesworth ; connected with his homestead were about seven acres of land, now the property of Harvard College. He in. 25 Nov. 1697 Margaret, dau. of President Rogers, granddau. of Gen. Daniel Denison, and wid. of Capt. Thomas Berry. She d. 7 June 1720, a. 54, and he m. 5 Ap. 1722 Sarah, wid. of William Harris, who survived him, and in. Hon. John Clark of Boston 15 July 1725, after whose death she contracted a fourth marriage 6 May 1731, becoming the wife of Rev. Benjamin Column, and d. 24 Ap. 1744, a. 71. His children, all by his first w., were Margaret, b. 30 Sept. 1G98, d. 22 Nov. 1702; Sarah, b. 12 Nov. 1700, m. Rev. Edward Wigglesworth 15 June 1726, and d. 9 Nov. 1727 ; Mary, b. 29 Oct. 1701; m. Major John Denison of Ipswich 9 Ap. 1719, and Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich 25 Dec. 1728; John, b. 26 Sept. 1703, d. 31 Oct. 1704; Payton, b. 4 Aug. 1704, d. 7 Dec. 1704; Margaret, b. 31 July 1705, d. 16 June 1716 Anne, b. 5 July 1708, d. 30 July 1 708 John, b. 21 June 1711, d. 4 July 1711. RACHEL, m. Josiah Dana 31 Oct. 1782. SALLY, m. Oliver Pratt 29 Sept. 1788. LEWIS, WILLIAM, was here in 1635, and res. at the N. W. corner of Win; ; ;
He rem. to Hartford with Hooker's company, throp and Holyoke streets. and thence to Farmington, where he was a Sergeant in 1649 " to train the
;
the more prominent of the first company of inhabitants. He was appointed Constable by the General Court, May " ordered that there should be two of 1632; and, at the same session, it was Plantation to with the Court about raising of a public confer every appointed He died before 3 stock; Mr. Lockwood and Mr. Spencer for New Town." March 1634-5, when the Court " Ordered, that Ruth Lockwood, widow, shall bring all the writings that her husband left in her hands to John Haynes, Esq., and Simon Bradstreete, on the third day of the next week, who shall detain the same in their hands till the next Court, when they shall be disposed of to those to whom they belong." It is not improbable that Mr. Lockwood removed to Wat. before his death, or that his widow removed there immedian order of Court 7 Ap. 1635, " It is referred to the ately afterwards ; for
of Robert Lockwood, executor of said Eddispose of the children and estate of the them), to such persons as they think meet," etc. Of these children, only one name appears on the record of births, viz. John, b. Nov. 1632. 2. ROBERT, prob. brother of Edmund (1), res. in Wat. and by w. Susan had Jonathan, b. 10 Sept. 1634; Deborah, b. 12 Oct. 1636; Joseph, b. 6 Aug. Gershom, b. 6 Sept. 1638; Daniel, b. 21 Mar. 1640; Ephraim, b. 1 Dec. 1641 1643. Hinman says ROBERT the f. removed to Norwalk, Conn., as early as 1649. LONGHORN, THOMAS (otherwise written Longhorne and Langhorne), was a In 1652 he purchased the homestead prebutcher and the town drummer. Brattle Street and viously owned by Simon Crosby, at the southerly corner of Brattle where he probably resided during the remainder of his life.
men there." LOCKWOOD, EDMUND, was among
Church
of
by Watertown, with the consent
Edmund Lockwood dec. to mund Lockwood (given to
Square, m. Sarah, dau. of Bartholomew Green, about 1646, and had Tlioni't*, 26 b. Au". 1647, bur. 5 Ap. 1648; Sarah, b. 26 Feb. 1648-9; Elizabeth, b.
He
600
;
LONGHORN
LUXFORD.
aged Ap. 1664, d. young. THOMAS the f. d. 6 May 1685, about 68 years," according to his epitaph but in his will, dated 24 Ap. 1685, he calls himself 69 years old, and names wife Sarah, and surviving children Sarah, Elizabeth, and Mary. BETHIA; family uncertain, m. Amos Marrett 2 Nov. 1681. LOUD, THOMAS. His name does not appear on our Records. But Hinman " came to Hartford from Cambridge, Mass., in 1636, .... and was says he His children were Thomas [a in the division of lands at Hartford in 1639. surgeon], Richard, William, Dorothy, Robert, John, and Amy. He is the antience, bap. 3
;
about 1651 Mary, b. 5 Sept. 1653, d. 27 Mar. 1654; Mary, b. 1 Mar. 1654-5; Samuel, bap. 9 Dec. 1660, d. young; Mercy, bap. 11 May 1662, d. young; Pa-
"
of the State." " one of Thomas (1), in 1635 owned shop, with and Mount N. E. of half a at the corner about rood," Brighton garden plot, Auburn streets. He rem. to Hartford, where he was Constable in 1642, and Selectman in 1744,. " He was a man of great energy, and an original settler. In 1657, he was appointed Captain of the first troop of horse ever raised in the Colony After several years spent in Hartford he removed to New
cestor of the
2.
Lord family
RICHARD, perhaps
s.
Hinman. London, where he died." LOWDEN, JOHN, m. Sarah Stevenson 29 May 1682. LUXFORD, JAMES, was an early inhabitant, and res. on the westerly side of Holyoke Street, on a lot which he sold to Mrs. Glover in 1639, and which became the site of the famous Old School-house. By his w. Elizabeth, he had It would Elizabeth, b. Sept. 1637, living in 1658; Reuben, b. Feb. 1639-40. seem that Luxford left a wife in England, and during her life-time iniqui-
The General Court, being intously contracted a second marriage here. formed of the fact shortly before the second child was born, took measures to punish the guilty and protect and partially indemnify the innocent. Under date of 3 Dec. 1639, it is recorded that "James Luxford being presented for having two wives, his last marriage was declared void or a nullity thereof, and to be divorced, not to come to the sight of her whom he last took, and he to be sent away for England by the first opportunity all that he hath is appointed to her whom he last married, for her and her children. He is also fined 100, and to be set in the stocks an hour upon a market day, after the lecture the next lecture day if the weather permit; or else the next lecture day after." Soon afterwards, he appears to have been convicted of other crimes for 13 May 1640, "James Luxford, for his forgery, lying, and other foul offences, was censured to be bound to the whipping post till the lecture from the first bell, and after the lecture to have his ears cut off and so he had liberty to depart out of our jurisdiction." Very probably he availed himself of the liberty granted, and with mutilated ears departed from the jurisdiction of those rulers who were a terror to evil doers. I find no trace of him here afterwards. 1 His wife remained here, was a member of the Church, and a Her name appears on the records as sister Albon, recipient of its bounty. I conjecture that her name before marriage was Olbon or Albone, or Olbon Albone that she resumed it for herself and her children when her marriage was annulled by the Court; and that, at some period subsequent to 1645 Cole (perhaps the father of (when she is called sister Albone), she m. Arthur Cole), and died before 1668. This conjecture is partly founded on
; ; ; ;
the fragment of a Church Record commenced by Rev. Mr. Mitchell, who d. in 1668. Under the name of John Fezington (Fessenden) he says: " In his family is Reuben Luxford, alias Olbon, who, together with his sister Elizabeth, were baptized in this church, being the children of our Sister Olbon (lately The original Record was thus written but subseCole), now deceased." " Luxford alias " were erased. quently the words
;
1 An unfaithful steward of Governor Winthrop, bearing the same name, perhaps the same person, fled to Plymouth before 10 Oct. 1640, and was then in extreme poverty and distress. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., xxxvi.
169. More than a dozen suits were commenced against him in Plymouth, at the court holden in December. 1641. Plym. Col. Rec., vii. 24-27.
LUXFORD- MANNING.
2.
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James (1), resumed the name Luxford, and m. Margaret June 1669; she d. 31 Aug. 1691, and he m. Lydia His chil. were Margaret, b. 27 July 1673, m. John Pattin 13 Mar. 1700; Lydia, m. Philip Goodwin 14 June 1694. REUBEN the f. res. on the southerly side of Brattle Street, near Ash Street and d. 3 May 1703; his w. Lydia
REUBEN,
s.
of
at Lancaster 22
m. Nathaniel Billings 29 Mar. 1 709. MACKEY, DANIKI, (otherwise written Mackee and Makey), by w. Sarah, had Sarah, b. 10 Jan. 1663; Nathaniel, b. 1 Oct. 1665; Daniel, b. 17 Aug.
1670; Mary, b. 17 Oct. 1672, d. young; Mary, b. 25 Sept. 1673; Jacob, b. 14 Mar. 1675;' Hannah, b. 29 Mar. 1677; Ebenezer, b. 20 Ap. 1680. MACOONK, JOHN (otherwise written Maccoon, Maccoone, and Mackoon), in. Deborah Bush 8 Nov. 1656; she d. 20 Feb. 1664, and he m. Sarah Wood 14 June 1665. His chil. were Hannah, b. 31 Oct. 1659; Deborah, b. 31 Dec. 1661; Elizabeth, b. 31 Jan. 1662, d. 30 Jan. 1663; Sarah, b. 15 Feb. 16C3; John, b. 14 June 1666; Daniel, b. 18 Feb. 1668; Elizabeth, b. 17 Jan. 1669; Margaret, b. 20 Feb. 1671; Peter, b. 21 Feb. 1673. JOHN the f. resided on the south side of the river, and was living in 1676. MERCY, m. Samuel Foster of Boxford 2 Sept. 1703. MAN, WILLIAM (or Mann), m. Alice Teel 11 June 1657, and d. before 1. Ap. 1662. In his will, dated 10 Dec. 1661, he names his wife, and an only son Samuel, by a former marriage. WILLIAM the f. was here as- early as Before 1642 he pur1635, and res. on the road leading to the Fresh Pond. chased a house and land on the easterly side of North Avenue, near the Common, where he subsequently resided. 2. SAMUEL, s. of William (1), b. 6 July 1647, grad. H. C. 1665, and taught school for a time in Dedham. About 1670 he commenced preaching at Wrentham, where a few families were settled. They were scattered during Philip's War. Soon afterwards they returned, and Mr. Mann recommenced his labors. He continued in the ministry until 22 May 1719, when he died. His posterity is very numerous. HEZEKIAH, grad. H. C. 1731, d. at the house of Mr. Palmer 5 Aug. 1739, and was buried from the College Hall. MANNING, WILLIAM, was an early inhabitant and ancestor of a family once numerous here and not yet extinct in the female line. About the year 1638 he purchased of George Stocking an estate at the southwest corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke streets. He appears to have been living in Oct. 1650, when his wife Susanna died; but I find no trace of him afterwards. 2. WILLIAM, s. and apparently the only child of William (1), inherited the homestead, and was a prominent citizen. He was a merchant, somewhat concerned in navigation, and owned a warehouse at the southwest corner of Dunster and South streets, to which boats had free access by the canal. He d. 14 Mar. 1690-91, a. 76 his w. Dorothy d. 26 July 1692, a. 80. Their chil. were Hannah, b. 21 June 1642, m. Samuel Stearns of Wat., 1662; Samuel, b. 21 July 1644; Sarah, b. 28 Jan. 1645-6, m. Joseph Bull; Abigail, b. 15 Jan. 1647-8, d. 10 May 1648; John, b. 31 Mar. 1649, d. of small-pox 25 Nov. 1678, prob. unm.; Mary, birth not recorded, but named on the Church Record and in the division of her father's estate, m. Adams, and d. before 1692, a son Eliphalet. Timothy, prob. of the same family, d. 8 Nov. 1653. leaving 3. SAMUEL, s. of William (2), rem. early to Billerica, where he subsequently resided, was Representative in 1695 and 1696, Town Clerk six years, and d. 22 Feb. 1710-11. By his first wife, Elizabeth Stearns of Watertown, whom he m. 13 Ap. 1664, he had Samuel, birth not recorded, and John, b. 30 Aug. 1666. By his second wife, Abiah Wright, whom he m. 6 May 1673, he had Timothy, b. 4 Feb. 1673-4, d. 12 Mar. 1673-4; Hannah, b. 28 Mar. 1675, m. Ebene/er King of Watertown 7 Dec. 1699; William, b. 27 June 1677; 1 Mary, b. 2 Sept. 1679; Surah, b. 26 Aug. 1681, m. Samuel Robinson of Camb.
;
and was a Captain
1 Her son, Samuel Robinson, born in Cambridge 4 April 1707, removed to Hardwick, in the French War, 1756 -1763; he afterwards removed to Benning-
ton. Vt., went to England as agent for the settlers on the Hampshire grants in their controversy with York, and died at London, of small-pox, iu 1767, leaving a
New
New
602
MANNING.
23 Mar. 1703-4, and d. 19 July 1709; Dorothy, b. 27 June 1683; Isaac, b. 15 Ap. 1685; Ephraim,\). 11 Sept. 1686; Elizabeth, b. 14 Mar. 1690-91 Timothy, b. 4 Mar. 1692-3 Eliphalet; Abiah. " 4. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (3), was styled waterman," and rem. from BilIn 1698 his father conveyed to him the warelerica to Camb. about 1692. house, boat-house, and wharf rights (which he had inherited), at the southwest corner of Dunster and South streets, and a house and land on the southeast corner. A part of this estate he sold to Jonathan Remington in 1720, and before 1724 rem. to Windham, Conn., where he was living in 1744. By his wife Deborah, he had Dorothy, b. 17 Jan. 1688-9; Samuel, b. 14 Jan. 1690-91 Edward; John, bap. 17 Jan. 1696-7; Abigail, bap. 14 May 1699, m. Jabez Carter 27 June 1723; Elizabeth, b. 21 Nov. 1701, m. Bingham; Case; Joseph (prob. grad. at H. C. 1730), Mary, b. 17 Mar. 1703-4, m. was a physician in Woburn, where he d. in 1745. By his will, dated 29 Oct. 1744, he seems to have left neither wife nor children, as he gives his whole property to his father Samuel, his brothers Edward and John, and his sisters Abigail, Elizabeth, and Mary. In 1709 he purchased of 5. JOHN, s. of Samuel (3), was a carpenter. Richard Proctor an estate on the westerly side of Dunster Street, between Mount Auburn and Winthrop streets, on or near which the first meeting-house in Cambridge was erected. He d. 3 Feb. 1718-19. By his wife Sarah, he had John; Edward, bap. 27 Mar. 1698 William, b. 21 May 1700 Samuel, b. 20 Ap. 1703; Benjamin, b. 10 Mar. 1704-5, res. in Billerica 1748, and prob. the same who m. Mary, dau. of Deacon William French; Sarah, b. 27 Mar. 1708, and was living unmarried in 1732. 6. ISAAC, s. of Samuel (3), m. Margaret, dau. of William Eager, 8 April 1708, and had Isaac, b. 13 Jan. 1708-9; Margaret, b. 25 Sept. 1710, m. Daniel Barrett 10 Nov. 1737 Thomax, b. 16 Aug. William, b. 24 Oct. 1712 1714, and d. 16 Nov. 1714; Daniel, b. 5 Feb. 1715-16; Sarah, b. 7 Feb.1717-18; Hannah, b. 25 Dec. 1719, m. James Lanman 25 July 1743; Thomas,
;
;
b. 19
7.
Jan. 1722-3.
s.
Samuel (4), was styled " waterman," and sometimes "cordrem. to Hopkinton as early as 1725. By his wife Abigail, dau. of Joseph Winship, he had in Camb. Joseph, b. 15 July 1718; John, b. 10 July 1720; Sarah, b. 2 Jan. 1721-2; Samuel, bap. 10 Nov. 1723. He m. Rebecca Winship 6 June 8. JOHN, s. of John (5), was a carpenter. 1728, and had Sarah, bap. 20 Ap. 1729 John, bap. 12 Dec. 1731 Esther, bap. 5 Jan. 1 734-5. 9. EDWARD, s. of John (5), was a chair maker. By purchasing the rights of the other heirs, he became owner of the homestead on Dunster Street, where he d. 6 June 1774. By his wife Mary, he had Mary, b. 26 May 1720, m. Stephen Randall 29 Mar. 1753; Elizabeth, b. 18 Jan. 1721-2, and d. 26 Jan. 1731-2; Edward, b. 26 Mar. 1724 John, b. 3 Dec. 1725; Mercy, b. 4 Aug. 1727, and d. 24 Jan. 1731-2; James, b. 16 May 1729, and d. 1 Feb. 1731-2 Benjamin, b. 15 Oct. 1730 Elizabeth, b. 5 June 1732, and d. 1 Oct. 1733 Hannah, b. 20 Mar. 1733-4, m. Benjamin Hill 4 Feb. 1761; Mercy, b. 19 Nov. 1735, m. Samuel Woods of Roxbury 26 Feb. 1756; Abigail, bap. 3 Dec. 1738, and d. 28 July 1739. In 1725 he purchased an 10. WILLIAM, s. of John (5), was a cordwainer. estate at the southwest corner of Winthrop and Brighton streets, where he d. 17 Sept. 1778. His wife Mary d. 15 May 1774, a. 74. Their children were William, b. 19 Sept. 1722, and d. young; Thomas, b. 8 May 1727; Samuel, b. 26 Aug. 1729; Joseph, b. 26 Jan. 1730-31; Mary, b. 19 Feb. 1732-3, m. John Warland 26 Sept. 1754; after his death, she m. William Darling 19 May 1763,
JOHN,
of
wainer."
He
Two of large family all born in Hardwick. his sons were particularly distinguished : Moses, who was Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, Senator in Congress, and Governor
of
Senator in Congress, for the same State, Another son, Samuel, served as Adjutant in the French War, commanded a company in the Bennington Battle, and became Colonel
of a regiment of militia.
Vermont and Jonathan, who was also Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and
;
MANNING
whom
MARKH AM
MARRETT.
603
she survived, and d. 22 May 1817; William, b. 11 May 1755; Sarah, b. 29 Nov. 1737, m. John Barrows of Plymouth (afterwards of Dighton), and was living in 1806; Rebecca, b. 17 Ap. 1740, m. Pratt, and d. 19 June 1774, leaving an only child Rebecca; Ebenezer, b. 8 May 1743, grad. at H. C. 1766, taught school in Greenland, N. H., and d. 26 Sept. 1801. 11. EDWARD, s. of Edward (9), m. Patience Day of Boston 4 Dec. 1746, and had Margaret, b. 27 Sept. 1747. 12. JOHN, s. of Edward (9), was a chair-maker, and inherited the homestead on Dunster Street. In 1794, having lost his reason, his guardian sold the estate for his benefit. Unable by reason of mental and physical imbecility to maintain himself, he became an inmate of the almshouse where he d. 17 Ap. 1814, aged 88. I think he was never married. 13. SAMUEL, s. of William (10), was a cordwainer, and inherited his father's homestead. He d. 2 Ap. 1824, a. 94 years and 7 months. He m. Mary Woods 1777, and had Samuel, b. 28 May 1778. His w. d. 15 Oct. 1788, a. 50; and he m. Sarah Woods 29 Dec. 1791; she d. 16 April 1812, a. 72. 14. JOSEPH, s. of William (10), grad. at H. C. 1751; was a clergyman, and chaplain in the Continental Army; res. for a time in Providence; was of Bath, Me., in 1806, and d. in 1808, a. 77. He had several children; one of whom was the late William Manning, who, having been a printer for nearly or quite half a century, and subsequently Messenger to the Governor and Council of the Commonwealth, spent the last few years of a cheerful old age with his affectionate family in this city, and d. 25 July 1849, a. 82. His descendants are numerous. 1 15. WILLIAM, s. of William (10), was a cordwainer, and resided on the
westerly side of Harvard Square, on an estate which he purchased in 1778, and which after his death was sold to Harvard College. He m. Rebecca Oliver 26 Nov. 1772, and d. 10 Dec. 1804, a. 69. She d. 13 Ap. 1821, a. 81. Their children were Rebecca, b. 7 Sept. 1774, and d. 21 Sept. 1774; William, b. 4 Nov. 1775, and d. 22 Sept. 1777. 16. SAMUEL, s. and only child of Samuel (13), grad. at H. C. 1797, was a He returned to Camb. in 1821, physician, and res. principally in Lancaster. and d. in Oct. 1822. His first wife was Lucy Cogswell, by whom he had Samuel, grad. at H. C. 1822, res. in Baltimore, and d. 16 May 1857; Mary W., m. Dr. A. B. Cleaveland of Baltimore; William, a physician in Michigan; Rebecca, deceased; Joseph and Charles, both of Baltimore. His second wife was Elizabeth B., dau. of Thomas Warland, and widow of Rev. John L. Abbott, to whom he was m. 20 Mar. 1822, a few months before his decease.
She
still
resides in
MARKHAM, DANIEL,
and had Daniel, Mar. 1674-5.
ott),
b.
Cambridge. m. Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Whitmore, 3 Nov. 1669, 1 Nov. 1671; Elizabeth, b. 13 July 1673; James, b. 16
'
occupation a shoemaker, but a prominent citizen. He is supposed to have been the first elected Deacon of Shepard's Church, organized in 1636, and was a Selectman six years, from 1639 to 1647. His children, by w. Susanna, all prob. b. in England, were Abigail, m. Daniel Fisher of Dedham 17 Nov. 1641; Susanna, m. George Barstow of Scituate, and d. here 11 Ap. 1654; John; Thomas; Hannah, d. unm. 9 Dec. 1668. THOMAS the f. d. 30 June 1664, a. 75. In his will, dated 15 Oct. 1663, he names as then living, his w. Susanna; children John, Thomas, Abigail, Hannah; and grandchildren, Lydia, Amos, John, and Jeremiah Fisher; Thomas, Amos, Susanna, and John Marrett, and the children (George and Margaret) of George Barstow, dec. 2. JOHN, s. of Thomas (1), m. Abigail Richardson 20 June 1654, and had
1 Among the children of William Manning are the wives of Hon. Henry 0. Houghton,
(otherwise written Marritt, Maritt, Mariott, and MaryCamb. and in 1638 purchased the estate at the N. E. corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn streets. He had previously owned a lot on the northerly side of Harvard Street extending northerly to Gore Hall, which was long afterwards known as the " Fellows' Orchard." He was by
MARRETT, THOMAS
came
early to
Hon.
J.
M.
all
Glover,
S. Williams, and Mr. residing in Cambridge.
Henry R.
604
MARKETT.
Thomas, b. 15 Dec. 1656, killed by the Indians at the Sudbury Fight, 20 Ap. 1675 John (twin with Thomas), b. 15 Dec. 1656, d. 7 Mar. 1657-8 Amos, b. 25 Feb. 1657-8 Susanna, b. 19 Jan. 1659-60, m. Jacob Amsden, and d. 16 Oct. 1707 without issue; John, b. 29 Jan. 1661-2, d. 6 Nov. 1663; John, b. 3 June 1664, d. at sea, unm. (administration granted to Jacob Amsden 17 Mar. 1690-91); Aligail, b. 16 Aug. 1666, m. Timothy Rice of Concord 27 Ap. 1687, who d. 1692, arid Joseph Crackbone 11 May 1698 Hannah, b. 17 Aug. 1668, m. Samuel Hastings, Jr. Edward, b. 2 Aug. 1670; Mary, b. 7 Mar. 1671-2, m. Joseph Hovey 10 Dec. 1702, and Nathaniel Parker of Newton 27 Jan. 1736-7 Lydia, b. 22 Feb. 1673-4, d. young. The deaths of Thomas and the third John are stated on the authority of a manuscript genealogy by the late Rev. John Marrett of Burlington. JOHN the f was a shoemaker, and after 1682 resided a few rods westerly from the Craigie House in the former mansion of Deac. John Bridge. He. d. between 3 Oct. and 16 Dec. 1695; his w. Abigail survived and was prob. the same who d. 15 Mar. 1721-2. 3. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), taught school in Dedham from Dec. 1659 to July 1661 and is named in his father's will 15 Oct. 1663. 4. AMOS, s. of John (2), m. Bethia she d. 20 Longhorn 2 Nov. 1681 Nov. 1730, a. 69, and he m. Ruth, wid. of Jona. Dunster, 22 Nov. 1732, who survived him, and m. Peter Hayes of Stoneham 1742. Mr. Marrett, generally known as Lieut. Marrett, was by occupation a farmer and brickmaker, a man of wealth, and a prominent citizen of the town. In 1 704 he purchased ten acres of land, between the paternal homestead and the estate late of Dr. Hill, embracing the site of the house celebrated as the headquarters of Washington, the present residence of Professor Longfellow. On this lot, which he had occupied for several previous years under lease, he seems to have spent the remainder of his days but whether his house was erected by him or by a previous owner does not appear. The estate remained in the Marrett family until 1746, when it was sold to Col. John Vassall. Lieut. Marrett d. without posterity 17 Nov. 1739, a. 81. He had previously con; ; ; ; ; ;
.
veyed
his homestead to his nephew Amos Marrett, and in his will constituted his principal heir. 5. EDWARD, s. of John (2), m. Hannah, dau. of Joseph Bradish (Barry, Hist. From., says she had previously m. Joseph Stanhope). Their chil. were
him
'
Amos, b. about 1694, d. young; Hannah, bap. 27 Dec. 1696, m. Joseph Lawrence 17 Feb. 1714-15. rem. to Connecticut; Susanna, bap. 11 Sept. 1698, m. John Pierce of Boston 27 Sept. 1722, and Samuel Witt of Marlborough, d. without issue Dec. 1794; Abigail, b. 28 Feb. 1700-1, m. Judah Monis, the Hebrew Preceptor, 13 Jan. 1723-4, d. without issue 1761 Amos, b. 5 Sept. 1703; Mary, bap. 28 Ap. 1706, m. Rev. John Martyn of Cambridge, afterwards of Northborough, 18 Aug. 1724, d. 8 Sept. 1775, leaving several children John, b. 29 July 1711, d. of small-pox in Boston, a. 18; Edward, b. 5 Nov. 1713. EDWARD the f. was a glazier, and resided on the homestead on Brattle Street. He d. 11 Ap. 1754, a. 83; his w. Hannah d. 9 Ap. 1754, a. 84. Both attended meeting on the previous Sabbath, and both were buried in one
;
;
grave.
of Edward (5), m. Mary, dau. of Henry Dunster 21 Sept. Abigail, b. 25 Aug. 1733, d. young; Ruth, b. 30 Ap. 1735, d. unm. 2 May 1766, and was buried at Lexington Amos, bap. 17 July 1737, d. young; Amos, b. 8 Feb. 1738-9; Mary, b. 17 Aug. 1740, d. 17 Oct. 1754; John, b. 10 Sept 1741, grad. H. C. 1763, ordained at 2d church in Woburn (now Burlington) 21 Dec. 1774, m. Martha, dau. of his predecessor, Rev. Thomas Jones, and d. 18 Feb. 1813, leaving an only dau. Martha, who in. his
6.
AMOS,
s.
1732, and
had
successor, Rev. Samuel Sewall, the distinguished ecclesiastical antiquarian. AMOS the f. was a glazier and farmer. He dealt largely in real estate, and appears to have been a man of wealth. He was the principal heir of his uncle Amos, and resided on his homestead, until 1746, when he sold it to Col. John Vassall, and purchased the estate afterwards called the Fayerweather estate,
He d. recently owned by William Wells, which was then in Watertown. there (perhaps in the old farmhouse lately demolished) 14 Nov. 1747, a. 44. His w. Mary survived.
MARRETT
7.
MARTIN
MASON.
605
EDWARD, s. of Edward (5), m. Mary Wyatt of Boston 13 May 1736; she 15 Jan. 1743-4, a. 29, and he married wid. Susanna Foster of Boston 3 Nov. 1762, who d. 12 Dec. 1787, a. 71. His chil. were Mary, bap. 13 Mar. 1736-7; Edward, b. 21 Jan. 1738-9, d. young; Judah, bap. 21 Dec. 1740; Thomas, bap. 16 May 1742, grad. H. C. 1761, school-master and Deacon of the 3d Church at Gloucester, returned here after his father's death, united with the Cainb. Church 1781, and d. 24 June 1784; Edward, bap. 15 Jan. 1743-4. EDWARD the f. was a tailor, and inherited the homestead, which he sold 28 July 1759 to Col. John Vassall. He had previously, 13 June 1745, purchased the estate formerly occupied by his first N. Eng. ancestor, Deac. Thomas Marrett, at the N. E. corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn streets, where he resided during the remainder of life. He was Captain of militia, and Selectman seven years, from 1769 to 1777 inclusive. He d. 13 Sept.
d.
1780,
8.
a. 67.
s. of Amos (6), m. Abigail Tidd of Lex. (pub. 14 Sept. 1760), and had, in Camb., Abigail, bap. 6 June 1762, d. 4 Oct. young; Amos, b. 1763 and in Lex., Abigail, b. 4 June 1765; Daniel, b. 18 July 1767; Ruth, b. 12 Nov. 1768. AMOS the f. was a farmer, and inherited the homestead, which he sold 19 Ap. 1764 to George Ruggles, Esq., of Boston it was subsequently known as the Fayerweather estate. About the time of this sale he removed to Lex. where he d. 27 Mar. 1805, a. 66. 9. AMOS, s. of Amos (8), res. in Lex., and by w. Patty, had Patty, b, 9 Sept. 1787; Sally, b. 1 Oct. 1789; Hannah, b. 24 Dec. 1792; Nabby, b. 18 Aug. 1795; Betsy, b. 4 July 1798; Ruth, b. 18 Mar. 1801; John, b. 17 Oct.
AMOS,
1803; EmUy, 16 Nov. 1824,
b.
25 Dec. 1806
Harriet, b. 13 Sept. 1809.
AMOS
the
f.
d.
a. 61.
10. DANIEL, s. of Amos (8), grad. H. C. 1790, Pastor of the Church in He m. Standish, Me., 33 years, where he d. 14 Ap. 1836, a. nearly 69. Dorcas, dau. of Maj. Samuel Hastings of Lex., 8 Oct. 1810 (second wife), and had Leander, b. 16 Sept. 1811, d. 13 July 1814; Lorenzo, b. 18 Mar. 1816, grad. Bow. Col. 1838, m. Eliza A. Winsor of Pawtucket, R. I, 14 Aug. 1845, res. in Camb., is a lawyer, and has been Alderman and Representative Isabella Annette, b. 20 July 1817, d. 4 Mar. 1818; Avery Williams, b. 19 Jan. 1819, m. Elizabeth B. Weston of Standish 25 Nov. 1847, and res. on the homestead; Dane Appleton, b. 12 Jan. 1822, m. Eliza A. Locke of Lancaster 7 June 1848, was a merchant, and had children in Somerville; Samuel Hastings, b. 12 Jan. 1822, m. Fanny A. Locke, twin sister to his twin brother's wife, 7 June 1848, was a merchant in Somerville, where he d. 22 May 1850; Helen Maria, b. 3 July 1823, d. unm. 15 Mar. 1846 Francis Grenville, b. 8 Sept. 1826, a piano-forte manufacturer, d. unm. at East Cambridge 16 May 1859. MARTIN, THOMAS, by w. Alice, had Abigail, b. 22 Aug. 1653. DEBORAH, m. Ebenezer Frost 2 July 1723. MASON, HUGH, came to N. Eng. with his w. Hester, or Esther, in 1634, and settled in Watertown. He was by occupation a tanner, but much engaged in public life, being a Captain of the train-band for a long succession of years, Selectman about thirty years, and Representative ten years. His children, all born in Wat., were Hannah, b. 23 Sept. 1636, m. Capt. Joshua Brooks of Concord 17 Oct. 1653; Elizabeth, b. 3 Sept. 1638, d. young; Ruth, b. 17 Dec. 1640, d. young; Mary (twin with Ruth), b. 18 Dec. 1640, in. Rev. Joseph Estabrook of Concord 20 May 1668; John, b. 1 Jan. 1644; Joseph, b. 10 Aug. 1646; Daniel,b. 19 Feb. 1648-9; Sarah, b. 25 Sept. 1651, m. Capt. Andrew Gardner of Muddy River (Brookline) 20 May 1668, and was mother of Rev. Andrew Gardner, who was accidentally killed at Lancaster during the Indian troubles in 1704. HUGH the f. d. 10 Oct. 1678, a. 73; his w. Esther d. 21
;
;
May
2.
1692,
a. 82.
of
s. of Hugh (1), was a tanner, and settled in Newton (then a part Camb.); he m. Elizabeth Hammond, and had John, b. 22 Jan. 1676-7; Elizabeth, b. 10 Nov. 1678, m. Thomas Brown of Boston; Abigail, b. 16 Dec. 1679, d. young; Daniel; Samuel, b. 22 Jan. 1688, d. young; Hannah, b. 26
JOHN,
606
MASON.
He had of Brighton and Winthrop streets, where he closed his long life. previously, from 18 Sept. 1738 to 7 Jan. 1749, owned the estate at the N. E. corner of Holmes Place but whether he resided there is not ascertained. Mr. Mason m. Rebecca, dau. of Deac. Jonathan Williams of Boston, 17 Feb. 1736-7; she d. in childbed 2 Ap. 1748, and he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan Sewall, Esq., of Boston, 7 Nov. 1748; she d. 12 Feb. 1755, and he m. Ann, dau. of Thomas Fayerweather, Esq., 18 Oct. 1759. His children were Jonathan, b. 15 Dec. 1737, d. unm. 18 Nov. 1760 (he was drowned on a voyage to the West Indies) ; Rebecca, b. 17 Dec. 1738, m. William Harris 20 Aug. 1767, and d. 2 Feb. 1801 (she was mother of the late Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D., of Dorchester); Thaddeus,b. 1 Aug. 1740, d. Dec. 1740; Thaddeus, b. 19 Aug. 1741, d. 10 Jan. 1747-8 Martha, b. 25 Nov. 1742, m. Dr. Isaac Foster of Chs. July 1765, and d. 21 Sept. 1770; Hugh,b.l6 May 1 745, d. 8 Mar. 1746; a child, b. and d. 2 Ap. 1748; John Alford, b. 10 Dec. 1750, grad. H. C. 1771, was Clerk in the Boston Post Office, afterwards res. here with his sisters, and still later with Rev. Dr. Harris at Dorchester, where he d. unm. 16 Feb. 1831,
; ;
Jan. 1694, m. Joseph Sabin of Rehoboth, 7 July 1721. JOHN the f. d. about 1729. 3. JOSEPH, s. of Hugh (1), was also a tanner, and inherited the homestead in Watertown. He in. Mary, dau. of John Fiske, 5 Feb. 1683-4, and had Mary, b. 22 May 1684, m. Thomas Learned; Esther, b. 8 July 1686, m. Capt. Joseph Coolidge 10 Nov. 1737, being his second wife; Joseph, b. 2 Oct. 1688; Sarah, b. 17 Nov. 1691, m. Thomas Chamberlin 22 June 1709. JOSEPH the f. d. 22 July 1702. in which 4. DANIEL, s. of Hugh (1), grad. H. C. 1666, was a physician, capacity he sailed with Capt. Ellson, 1679; he was taken prisoner, carried to Algiers, and never returned. 5. JOHN, s. of John (2), settled in Lex., where he was Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Spring of Newton, 18 Oct. 1699, and had a son, b. and d. 14 Aug. 1700; John, b. 8 Aug. 1701, d. in Lex. 1787; Elizabeth, b. 30 Aug. 1703; Mellicent, b. 24 Ap. 1705; Tkaddem, b. 27 Dec. 1706; Jonas, b. 21 Oct. 1708; Catherine, b. 5 Aug. 1710; Esther, b. 2 Jan. 1712-13; Sarah, b. 7 June 1714; Mercy, b. 12 Nov. 1716, d. 30 Nov. 1717; Samuel, b. 9 Oct. 1720. JOHN the f. d. 24 Mar. 1738. 6. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (3), inherited the homestead in Wat., was elected Deacon in 1726, and appointed Justice of the Peace 1734. He m. Mary, dau. of Elias Monck of Dorchester, 14 Sept. 1710, and had Mary, b. 23 Oct. 1711, m. Ebenezer Hovey of Camb. 7 Oct. 1737; Joseph, b. 9 Oct. 1713; Abigail, b. 10 Oct. 1715, m. Thomas Biscoe 8 Sept. 1737; Benjamin, b. 14 July 1717; Elizabeth, b. 3 Feb. 1718-19, m. Nathaniel Perry of Sherburne 11 Oct. 1739; Nehemiah, b. 14 June 1721; Elias, b. 24 Ap. 1723, m. Ruth Cheney 7 Nov. 1740; Esther, b. 14 Nov. 1725, m. Jonathan Brown, Jr., 25 Jan. 1749-50, d. 14 July 1802 Lydia, b. 6 Nov. 1727, m. Micah Whitney of Natick 11 Nov. 1747; Susanna, b. 22 Sept. 1729, m. Samuel Soden of Camb. 16 Dec. 1755; Ebenezer, b. 1 Mar. 1731-2; Josiah, b. 3 Oct. 1734. Of this numerous family it is remarkable that all lived to maturity and were married. JOSKPH the f. d. 6 July 1755. 7. THADDEUS, s. of John (5), grad. H. C. 1728, and was the earliest graduate who survived until the present century commenced. He outlived all his classmates about nine years, and was the eldest living graduate about five He taught school at Woodstock a short time after leaving college, but years. was soon appointed by Gov. Belcher as his private Secretary he was appointed Deputy Naval Officer 1731, Deputy Secretary of the Province in April 1734, and Clerk of the Middlesex Courts Feb. 1735-1736, which last office, by which he was best known, he held for the long period of fifty-four He was also Register of Deeds from Ap. 1781 to Dec. 1784. He years. resided principally in Chs. until shortly before the Battle of Bunker Hill, when he removed to Lex. leaving his mansion to the flames which consumed the village. After a temporary residence in Lex., Stoneham, and Medf., he rem. here and purchased the Monis estate 11 Feb. 1786, at the S. E. corner
; ;
MASON.
607
in consequence of being run over by a milk cart in the previous August; Hannah, b. 3 Sept. 1760, d. here umn. 20 Jan. 1847; Thaddeus, b. 3 Aug. 1762, d. 15 Sept. 1762 Ann, b. 1763, d. here unm. 25 Nov. 1816 Elizabeth, b. 21 May 1765, d. here unm. 12 May 1830; Abigail Belcher, b. 23 July 1766, d. 5 July 1767. THADDEUS the f. d. 1 May 1802, a. 95 years and 4 months; his w. Ann d. 4 Jan. 1802, a. 71. 8. NEHKMIAH, s. of Joseph (6), a tanner in Watertown, m. Elizabeth Stone 28 Mar. 1754; she d. 24 Ap. 1755, and he m. Martha Clark in 1756 she d. 23 July 1761, and he m. at Camb. Elizabeth Fillebrown, who survived him; he d. 6 Aug. 1775. His chil. were Daniel, b. 15 Aug. 1757; Hugh, b. 23 Dec. 1758; Elizabeth, b. 18 Dec. 1759, m. Moses Coolidge 19 May 1785; Joseph, b. 4 July 1761, tanner, d. unm. 1785; Moses, b. 24 July 1764; Sarah, b. 21 Aug. 1766, m. James Howland of Walpole, Vt.; Martha, b. 5 Jan. 1768, m. Samuel Sawin of Livermore, Me., and d. at Jay, Me.; Rebecca, b. 28 May 1769, m. Charles Clark of Cambridge, and d. 28 Ap. 1809; Aaron, b. 13 Ap. 1773. 9. JOSIAH, s. of Joseph (6), housewright and surveyor, m. Anna Livermore of Watertown 21 June 1757, rem. to Camb. and had Thomas, b. 28 Jan. 1758; Lucy, b. 21 Sept. 1759, m. Samuel Child 8 July 1779, and d. 9 June 1849; Josiah, b. 11 Sept. 1761 James, b. 13 Jan. 1764, d. 8 Oct. 1765; Anna, b. 21 July 1766, d. 2 Sept. 1767; John, b. 3 Aug. 1769; Joseph, b. 22 May 1771, d. 31 Dec. 1771; Suxanna, b-. 25 Sept. 1775, d. unm. 19 May 1856; Samuel, b. 4 Sept. 1777; William, b. 31 July 1779, d. at sea 13 Dec. 1799. JOSIAH the f. res. on the easterly side of Mason Street, and d. 9 Sept. 1814; his w. Ann d. 10 Sept. 1819, a. 80; both of paralysis. 10. DANIEL, s. of Nehemiah (8), a tanner, resided successively at Wat., He m. Esther Mason Camb., and Westbrook, where he d. 9 Oct. 1817. (who d. at Westbrook 17 Dec. 1824), and had in Wat. Nehemiah, b. 31 Aug. 1780; Daniel, b. 1 June 1782; Samuel, b. 8 June 1783; Lewis, b. 27 Feb. 1785; Azor, b. 14 Dec. 1786; Joel, b. 3 Mar. 1788; Vanlow, b. 3 Mar. 1790, d. 27 Nov. 1790 or 1791; Noble, b. 9 Feb. 1793, d. 2 Aug. 1793; Nancy, b. 19 April 1794, d. unm. 31 Dec. 1814. 11. THOMAS, s. of Josiah (9), m. Lydia Dane of Gloucester 18 Jan. 1783, and had Lydia, b. 23 Aug. 1784, d. unm. 19 Ap. 1811; Thomas, b. 12 Mar. 1787, m. Sophia Webster, and d. s. p. at Troy, N. Y., 8 May 1843; Mary D., b. 12 Dec. 1790, d. unm. 2 Ap. 1872. THOMAS the f. was a housewright, res. a few years at Acton and Gloucester, but returned here about 1790, res. at the junction of Front and State streets, was Selectman five years, and performed other public services. He d. of paralysis 28 Mar. 1841; his w. Lydia d. 27 May 1791. 12. JOSIAH, s. of Josiah (9), m. Lois, dau. of Hubbard Russell, 18 July 1784, and had Anna Livermore, b. 16 Sept. 1784, in. Nathan Fiske 13 July 1805, and d. 12 Sept. 1861; Luke, b. 30 Nov. 1785; Sally Russell, b. 20 Ap. 1789, d. unm. Jan. 1814; Josiah, b. 6 Sept. 1791; James Winthrop, b. 28 Ap. 1794 Walter Russell, b. 22 Feb. 1796; Frederick William, b. 4 Julv 1798, d. Nov. 1800; Caroline, b. 13 Mar. 1801, m. Hiram Brooks 20 July 1828, and d. 9 April 1858; Louisa, b. 31 Mar. 1804, d. unm. 3 Ap. 1850. JOSIAH the f. from an early period in life devoted himself to mercantile pursuits. He resided a few years on Governor's Island, and Boston proper, but soon returned, and res. first near West Boston Bridge, and afterwards at the N. W. corner of Harvard and Moore streets; was Selectman 1808, several years an Overseer of the Poor, and Representative 1807. He d. of paralysis 19 May 1839; his w. Loisd. 17 Ap. 1847, a. 87. 13. JOHN, s. of Josiah (9), settled in Gloucester, m. Tryphena Shipley of Pepperell Dec. 1792, and had Alphonso, b. 2 Oct. 1793, and perished in the ill-fated steamer Lexington, Jan. 1840, leaving wife and children Sidney, b. 22 Oct. 1799; John, b. 2 Ap. 1802; Albert, b. 22 Nov. 1812, d. 30 Oct. 1813. Maj. JOHN the f. was a housewright, and d. 6 June 1852. 14. SAMUEL, s. of Josiah (9), m. Mary Spear Harlow 15 May 1803, and had Eliza Harlow, b. 1 Nov. 1804, m. Richard Blanchard of Boston 3 July 1823; Mary Spear, b. 14 Ap. 1806, m. Charles Livermore of Brighton 20
;
608
Aug. 1829; Samuel,
;
MASON.
b. 11 Jan. 1808, a druggist, d. unm. at New Orleans 12 William, b. 4 July 1810, d. 10 Sept. 1814 Abigail, b. 26 Ap. Sept. 1833 1812, d. unm. 1 Mar. 1868; William Albert, b. 4 May 1816 Lucy Ann, b. 19 Feb. 1818, m. Rev. Albert E. Denison 6 June 1844; Nancy Harlow, b. 22 Aug. 1820, m. Rev. Calvin H. Topliff 8 Ap. 1849 George Frederick, b. 29 SAMUEL the f. was a housewright, and d. 12 Aug. 1843; his w. Sept. 1824. Mary S. d. 15 Jan. 1859. 15. LUKE, s. of Josiah (12), m. Mary Nichols of Cohasset 28 Ap. 1811, and had William Frederick, b. 31 Oct. 1812 Sarah Skilling, b. 2 Sept. 1814, Charles Luke, b. 15 Dec. 1816, d. 29 Jan. 1833; Mary d. unm. 8 Feb. 1870 Caroline, b. 27 Dec. 1818; Susan Matilda, b. 16 Dec. 1820, d. 20 Aug. 1822. LUKE the f. was a merchant, resided on the southerly side of Harvard Street, near Moore Street, and d. 4 Dec. 1821; his w. Mary d. 17 Nov. 1874, a. 80. 16. JOSIAH, s. of Josiah (12), m. Hannah Bond Clark of Wat. 21 Oct. 1824, and had Maria Louisa, b. 13 Aug. 1825, d. unm. 29 Feb. 1848; Julia Ann, b. 16 Oct. 1827, d. unm. 10 Mar. 1844 Henry Clay, b. 23 Dec. 1829, d. JOSIAH 21 Mar. 1841; Hannah Ellen, b. 25 May 1833, d. unm. 27 July 1851. the f. was a merchant, resided near West Boston Bridge, was Selectman from
; : ; ; ; ;
1828 to 1831, four years, Representative 1832, and d. of consumption 18 Dec. 1840. His w. Hannah B. d. 12 Nov. 1858. 17. JAMES WINTHROP, s. of Josiah (12), grad. H. C. 1816, removed to Monroe, La. He was a physician, merchant, and planter. *He m. Melinda Tennell of Monroe, and had Elizalieth St. Clair, b. 23 Oct. 1827, m. Judge Sharp of Monroe, and d. leaving an infant; Mary Caroline, b. 7 May 1829, m. James McEnery, and d. in 1854, leaving issue; Melinda Theresa, b. 4 Dec. Buckner Josiah Tennell, b. 2 Nov. 1832, 1830, m. Oliver Kellam, and m. Emily De Lery of Monroe Louisa Jane, b. 9 May 1836, m. Watson; James Winthrop, b. 5 Ap. 1838, d. about 1859. JAMES WINTHROP the f. d.
;
18 Oct. 1837.
18. WALTER RUSSELL, s. of Josiah (12), m. Elizabeth Harrington of Lex. (pub. 22 May 1819), and had Mary Jane, b. 3 Jan. 1820, m. Oscar Stratton 9 Feb. 1843, d. 30 Aug. 1875 Elizabeth Harrington, b. 27 Jan. 1822, m. Hon. John Sargent 12 Dec. 1859; Lois Elmira, b. 23 Dec. 1823, m. Elijah H. Luke 24 Sept. 1846; Melinda Tennell, b. 25 Sept. 1825, d. unm. 24 Aug. 1845; James Walter, b. 22 Nov. 1827, m. Harriet J. Dexter 27 Jan. 1851 Frances Charles Russell, Virginia, b. 12 Sept. 1829, m. John D. "Sargent 6 Dec. 1864 b. 22 Mar. 1822, m. Caroline A. Marshall of Lawrence 24 Dec. 1859 Eugene Ellen Maria, b. 20 May J., b. 9 Feb. 1834, m. Susan F. Sargent 28 Dec. 1863 5 1858. WALTER RUSSELL f. unm. the was a d. merchant, resided 1837, May near West Boston Bridge and afterwards on Broadway near Prospect Street; was Selectman and Alderman near the close of life he removed to Lawrence, where he d. 9 Aug. 1859; his w. Elizabeth H. d. 31 Oct. 1859. 19. WILLIAM ALBERT, s. of Samuel (14), surveyor and civil engineer, m. Clara M. Hodges of Taunton 23 May 1847, and had Clara M., b. 28 March 1848, d. 18 Aug. 1850; Ellen Eliza, b. 21 Jan. 1850; Charles Albert, b. 27 Oct. 1851; Francis Edgar, b. 30 Ap. 1853; William Albert, b. 26 Dec. 1855 Clarence Herbert, b. 7 Ap. 1857; Clara Eleanor and Frances Evelyn, twins, b. 23 July 1859. 20. GEORGE FREDERIC, s. of Samuel (14), a wood turner, m. Mary Ann Dudley of Somerville 30 July 1851, and had Frederic Gerry, b. 26 Aug. 1852, d. 6 Jan. 1853 George Dudley, b. 11 Nov. 1854; Samuel, b. 23 July 1856 Florence Bellows, b. 12 Jan. 1858, d. 10 June 1860; Frederic Bellows, b. 17 June 1859. 21. WILLIAM FREDERIC, s. of Luke (15), was a merchant in Cambridge for a few years, and then became a planter in Ouachita (Monroe), La.; m. Hannah L. Bry 10 June 1843, and had Mary Bry, b. 12 Aug. 1850 Alice T., b. 9 Nov. 1853. He m. a second wife, had one son, and d. at Rome, Ga., 24 Ap. 1875. RACHEL, m. Francis Wellington 6 Jan. 1763. MILLICENT, m. Robert Bull 7 Oct. 1771. NEHEMIAH, m. Lydia Cutter 16 Oct. 1803. AARON, d. 20
;
; ; ; ; ;
Sept. 1797,
a.
25; his w. Sally d. 30 Aug. 1797, a. 22; both of bilious fever.
MASTERS
MILLER.
in
609
1635
MASTERS, JOHN, was one of the earliest inhabitants of Camb., and owned a house and seven acres of land on the westerly side of Ash
Street,
near Brattle Street. In 1631 he engaged to construct a canal from the river, through the marsh, to the upland, near the foot of Dunster Street, "12 foot broad and 7 foot deep, for which the Court promiseth him satisfaction, acThe cording as the charges thereof shall amount unto." (Afass. Col. Rec.~) Mr. Masters d. 21 Dec. 1639; his w. 30. cost of the canal, or creek, was Jane d. 26 Dec. 1639. By his will, dated 19 Dec. 1639, it appears that he had daughters Sarah Dobyson, Lydia Tabor, and Elizabeth Latham ; a grandson, John Lockwood; and probably sons Nathaniel and Abraham. MAYNARD, JOHN, owned a house and five acres of land at the West End, He rem. to Hartford, where he 1635, fronting easterly on Garden Street. was living in 1648. Another of the same name was early in Sudbury. MKAD, ISRAEL, perhaps from Roxbury, m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Hall, 26 Feb. 1669, and had Margaret, b. 20 Jan. 1676; Mary, b. 10 Feb. 1682; Ruth, b. 10 Aug. 1684; Ebenezer, b. 10 May 1686; and probably others. 2. DAVID, perhaps brother to Israel (1), m. Hannah Warren 26 Sept. 1675,
and had Hannah,

3.
b. 17 Sept. 1676;
s.
b. 12 Mar. 1709-10; Moses, b. 21 Oct. 1711. 4. THOMAS, by w. Hannah had Elizabeth, b. 13 June 1711. 5. HOPESTILL, by w. Elizabeth (prob. dau. of Samuel Hastings), had Abigail, b. 26 Dec. 1712. ELIJAH, m. Abigail Barnard 10 Nov. 1778. BENJAMIN, m. Susanna Collins 26 Feb. 1781. MARY, wid. of Israel Mead, d. Sept. 1797, a. 69. MEANK, JOHN (otherwise written Mean, Meen, Meene), was one of the first company, and in 1635 res. at the corner of Holmes Place and North Avenue. By w. Ann he had John, b. 7 Feb. 1637-8, d. 10 Aug. 1739; Sarah, b. Feb. 1639-40, m. Walter Hastings 10 Ap. 1655, and d. 27 Aug. 1673; Mary, b. 3 Ap. 1644, m. Samuel Hastings 12 Nov. 1661; John, b. 19
DAVID, perhaps
of
David
(2),
and probably others. by w. Hannah, had Joshua,
Ann
Sept. 1646, d.
in.
21
Oct.
1646.
JOHN
the
John Hastings, the father
of
f. d. 19 Mar. 1645-6, and his w. Walter and Samuel, and d. 25 Mar.
1666.
res. in
(otherwise written Merriam, Miriam, and Mirriam), Concord, where he d. I Jan. 1641, leaving sons, Joseph, who in. Sarah Stone 1653; John, b. 1640-41, m. Mary, dau. of Deacon John Cooper of
MERIAM, JOSEPH
Camb., 21 Oct. 1663, and had a large family. Farmer. 2. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (1), m. Sarah, dau. of Deacon Gregory Stone, and had Lydia, b. 3 Aug. 1656; Joseph, b. 25 May 1658; Elizabeth, b. 20 May 1660; John, b. 30 Aug. 1662; Mary, b. 14 June 1664; Robert, b. 17 Feb. 1666-7, and probably others. JOSEPH the f. res. at the Farms, and d. before
169,6.
3. JOHN, prob. s. of Joseph (2), by w. Mary had Mary, b. 6 Jan. 1689; Benjamin, b. 6 Jan. 1700-1; John, b. 13 Feb. 1703-4; Ebenezer, b. 2 Mar. 1705-6; Joshua, b. 27 Feb. 1707-8; William, b. 24 Sept. 1711 Amos, b. 25 July 1713; and prob. others, between 1689 and 1701. JOHN the f. res. at the Farms, was elected Deacon at the organization of the Church 21 Oct. 1696,
;
andd. 1727.
s. of Joseph (2), by w. Abigail had Joseph, b. 3 Mar. 1696-7; Oct. 1699; Hannah, b. 16 Ap. 1701 Robert, b. 18 July 1703, d. 30 June 1713; Jonathan, b. 25 July 1705; Hezekiah, b. 30 Mar. 1708; Sarah, b. 25 July 1710, d. 7 July 1713; Mary, b. 11 Dec. 1712. ROBERT the f. res. at the Farms. 5. THOMAS, prob. s. of Joseph (2), by w. Mary had Mary, b. 3 Oct. 1697; Thomas, b. 15 Ap. 1700; Lydia, b. 23 July 1703; Nathaniel, b. 6 Dec. 1705; b. 23 Nov. 22 b. 5 b. Simon, 1708; David, Aug. 1711; Isaac, July 1714. THOMAS the f. res. at the Farms. SARAH, m. Eliazer Ball of Concord 14 June 1688.
4.
ROBERT,
Abift'iil, b. 3
MILLER, JOSEPH, by w. Mary, had Thomas,

Sept. 1678.
b. 9
Ap. 1675; Samuel,
b. 24
39
610
MILLER
MITCHELSON.
MINOTT, HEPZIBAH, granddaughter of Elijah Corlett, m. Daniel Champ9 June 1684. MIRICK, JOHN, m. Elizabeth Trowbridge 9 Feb. 1681-2. MITCHELL, JONATHAN (otherwise written Mitchel, Micthel, and Michell), came to New England about 1635 with his father, Jonathan Mitchell, who
ney
died at Stamford, Conn., in 1645, a. 54. He grad. H. C. 1647, and commenced preaching at Hartford 24 June 1649, where he was desired to On the remain. He returned however and preached here, 12 Aug. 1649. 25th day of the same month, Rev. Thomas Shepard died, and Mr. Mitchell
2. JOSEPH, m. Eunice Coolidge 15 Ap. 1765, and had Joseph, bap. 25 Jan. 1766, prob. ra. Mary Tapley of Chs. 3 Dec. 1788; Isaac, bap. 29 Nov. 1767; William, bap. 25 Feb. 1770; James, bap. 16 Feb. 1772; Thomas, bap. 12 Feb. 1774. HUMPHREY, m. Elizabeth Smith 12 Sepi 1677. THOMAS, m. Polly Frothingham 4 Dec. 1794.
was invited
to
become
his successor;
which invitation he accepted, and was
ordained 21 Aug. 1650. During the same year he was also elected Fellow of the College. By the General Court he was made Licenser of the Press He was one of the most eminent clergymen of his day; and his early 1663. death, which occurred 9 July 1668, at the age of 43 years, was a subject of general and bitter lamentation. Mr. Mitchell succeeded Mr. Shepard in more than one respect. On the 19th of Nov. 1650, he m. Margaret, the wid. of Mr. Shepard, and purchased the homestead 9 Oct. 1651, consisting of a house on Harvard Street, opposite Holyoke Street, with seven acres of land, now owned by Harvard College. His children, by his w. Margaret, were Margaret, b. 26 Feb. 1652, d. 24 July 1654; Nathaniel, b. 4 Mar. 1655-6, killed by a fall from a horse, 15 July 1673; John, b. 16 Mar. 1657-8, d. 29 Oct. 1659; Samuel, b. 14 Oct. 1660, grad. H. C. 1681, Fellow of the College, was living 6 July 1687, but prob. d. unm. before 1691, as no provision was made for him or his representatives in the settlement of his mother's estate in that year Margaret, b. 1664, m. Maj. Stephen Sewall of Salem 13 June 1682, and d. 20 Jan. 1735-6, having been the mother of 17 children, eight of whom survived her; one of them was Chief Justice Stephen Sewall, who d. in Sept. 1760; Jonathan, b. about 1667, grad. H. C. 1687, and d. without children she was 14 Mar. 1694-5, leaving wid. Hannah, who m. Col. Edmund Goffe dau. of Simon Lynde, and had been w. of John Bigg of Boston. MITCHELSON, EDWARD (otherwise written, Mitcheson, Michason, Michel;
;
and Micherson), m. Ruth Bushell, who came to N. Eng. in 1635. His children were, Ruth, b. 8 Nov. 1638, m. John Green 20 Oct. 1656; Thomas, b. Sept. 1639; Bethia, b. 6 Dec. 1642, m. Daniel Weld; Edioard, b. 11 Nov. 1644, grad. H. C. 1665, physician, lost at sea with Capt. Scarlet 1666; Elizabeth, b. 29 Aug. 1646, m. Theodore Atkinson, Jr., and Henry Deering of Boston. EDWARD the f. in 1639 bought of Maj. Simon Willard the estate at the S. E. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets, where he prob. resided until 29 Oct. 1650, when he bought the estate of Maj. Samuel Shepard, on the southerly side of Harvard Street, extending from Holyoke Street to Bow In 1637 he was appointed Street, which was thenceforth his dwelling-place. Marshal-general of the Colony, which office, similar in many respects to that The fees were established by the of High Sheriff, he held through life. General Court, Nov. 1637. In April 1668, a stated salary was fixed, instead " The Court, on of fees weighty reasons moving them thereunto, having by their order, this Court, disposed of the annual recompense of Edward Michelson, Marshal General, to the public use and advantage, judge it necessary to provide for so ancient a servant of this Court some comfortable maintenance instead thereof, that so no discouragement may rest upon him, do therefore order, that the said Marshal General Edward Michelson shall be allowed and paid 50 per annum out of the Country Treasury, in lieu thereof, by the Treasurer for the time being." Mr. Mitchelson d. 7 Mar. 1680-81, a. His w. Ruth 77, and was succeeded in office by his son-in-law, John Green. d. 15 June 1664, a. about 52.
son,
:
MITCHELSON
MOORE.
611
2. WILLIAM, brother of Edward (1), m. Mary Bradshaw 26 Ap. 1654, and had Mary, b. 15 Jan. 1654-5; Thomas, b. 8 Jan. 1656-7; Alice, b. about 1661, bap. 3 Ap. 1663, m. John Shears of Sudbury 9 Ap. 1688; Ruth, bap. 4 Oct. 1663; Abigail, bap. 11 Mar. 1665-6. WILLIAM the f. d. 10 Dec.
1668.
3. THOMAS, s. of William (2), was married before 20 Dec. 1682, as at that date Mrs. Jane Fessenden bequeathed thirty shillings to " Tho. Michenson's The Inventory of his wife." He was a cordwainer, and d. about 1689. estate is dated Feb. 1689-90; and "his brother-in-law John Shears of Fram" was ingham appointed administrator de bonis non, 12 Nov. 1700. MOORE, JOHN (otherwise written More), was sworn freeman, with other Camb. men, 8 Dec. 1636. About 1637 he bought of Humphrey Vincent (who had removed to Ipswich) a house and garden, on the southerly side of Winthrop Street, between Dunster and Brighton streets, together with sundry lots of land. He owned the same estate in 1642. He was Constable in 1639. 2. ENOCH, had grant of a house-lot 14 Aug. 1637. 3. GOLDEN, as early as 1642, res. near the spot where the meeting house of the Shepard Congregational Society now stands, at the junction of Garden and Mason streets. He m. Joanna, wid. of John Champney, and had Hannah, b. 15 Sept. 1643, m. John Hastings 1 Mar. 1665-6; Lydia ; Ruth. The last two are named by Mitchell. Mr. Moore rem. to Billerica, and d. there 3 Sept. 1698, a. about 89; his w. Joanna d. 18 Feb. 1675-6. 4. FUANCIS, had a grant of land in 1638, and in 1642 had a dwelling-house near the spot now occupied by the church on the N. W. corner of Holyoke
and Mount Auburn streets. His chil. were Francis; Samuel; Thomas; Anna, m. James Kidder about 1650; Sarah, b. 3 Ap. 1643; John, b. 20 Mar. 1644-5. His w. Kathcrine d. 28 Dec. 1648, and he m. wid. Elizabeth Periman 6 Dec. 1653. Mr. Moore d. 20 Aug. 1671, a. 85; his w. Elizabeth d. 5 Nov. 1683,
a. 84.
s. of Francis (4), m. Albee (or Alba) Eaton 7 Sept. 1650. near the junction of Spruce and Cedar streets, was Selectman thirteen years, from 1673 to 1687, and d. 23 Feb. 1688-9, a. 69; his w. Alba d. 19 Ap. 1 708. They appear to have had no children. Their property was bequeathed principally to his nephew, Deac. Samuel Kidder. 6. SAMUEL, s. of Francis (4), is named in Mitchell's Church Record, and is described as resident in Barbadoes. It is not known that he returned here. 7. THOMAS, s. of Francis He is not (4), m. Sarah Hodges 9 Nov. 1653. named by Mitchell, among the children of Francis, Sen. but Francis, Jr., in his will, styles him his brother. There is no Record of his family here. 8. RICHARD, was here as His dau. Lydia was baptized early as Nov. 1711. 1 Mar. 1712-13, and she united with the church 25 June 1733. He resided at the S. W. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets as late as 19 Ap. 1731 but d. before 1749. 9. FRANCIS, prob. s. or bro. of Richard (8), was a physician, and as early as 1749 resided on the homestead of Richard, which is referred to in deeds of a later date, sometimes as the estate of Francis, and sometimes as the estate of Richard's heirs. The estate was sold 25 May 1775 by widow Martha Moore to Joseph Russell, and by him 12 July 1784 to Lydia Moore, single woman. I find no record of Dr. Moore's family. He d. 27 Dec. 1783, a. 74; his w. Abigail d. May 1788, a. about 70. Two of his daughters united with
5.
FRANCIS,
He
res.
the Church, viz., Lydia, 1 Mar. 1767; Abigail, 7 Nov. 1773, perhaps the same who d. 4 Jan. 1803. Lydia, m. Joseph Russell of Boston Sept. 1795. 10. JOSIAH, m. Mary, dau. of Seth Hastings, 19 Sept. 1768; she d. 9 May 1781, a. 30, and he m. Nancy, dau. of Owen Warland, 22 Aug. 1782. His chil. were Jane, b. 14 Jan. 1769, m. Prescott Jones of Athol, Jan. 1798; Hannah, bap. 14 Oct. 1770, d. young; Hannah, b. 4 Mar. 1772, m. Samuel Sweetser of Athol 24 Oct. 1792; Josiah, b. 8 Mar. 1774, entered II. C. but left home soon afterwards and never returned Seth Hastings, m. and resided in Roxbury, where he died at the age of about 50, leaving a family; Arlenatus, b. 15 Oct. 1777; Abel, b. 10 Ap. 1780, very eccentric, d. unm. at Roxbury
;
612
7
MOORE
MORRILL
MUNROE.
;
Feb. 1855; Sarah Warland, bap. 11 Aug. 1783, m. Dr. Stephen Batchelder Royalston 17 Jan. 1816; Mary, bap. 5 June 1785, d. unm. 24 May 1860 Augustus, bap. 28 June 1789, a merchant in Boston, d. 29 Oct. 1821, leaving widow and one child; William Warland, bap. 24 July 1791, d. young; Ann, m. Abraham Edwards, Esq., 27 May 1823. JOSIAH the f. was a carb. penter, and res. at the southwesterly corner of the Common, on the estate formerly of Golden Moore. He was elected Deacon of the Church 4 Jan. 1805 Assessor and Overseer of the Poor for many years, and Selectman 1814. He d. very suddenly, 1 May 1814, a. 67; his w. Nancy d. June 1835,
of
, ;
a. 83.
11. ABEL, brother to Josiah (10), m. Sarah, dau. of Owen Warland, 16 Oct. 1776, was an Innholder in Boston several years, and afterwards kept a tavern at the corner of North Avenue and Holmes Place. He d. 2 Jan. 1794, his w. Sarah m. Israel Porter 10 Mar. 1796. a. 39 12. FRANCIS, s. of Francis (9), was pub. to Susanna Richardson of LanThe children of this marriage, if any, are not recorded caster 14 July 1768. here; Lydia, who d. 24 Oct. 1790, a. 13, was perhaps his daughter. By his second w. Phebe, he had Sally Preston, b. 14 Feb. 1780, d. 12 Aug. 1782; Francis, b. 30 Mar. 1782, a physician in Brighton, M. D. at H. C. 1812, rem. to Eaton, N. Y., 1825, and afterwards to Texas, where his son Francis is a prominent citizen; Sally, b. 17 Ap. 1783, prob. d. young; Phebe Preston, b. 16 Aug. 1784, m. Joseph Adams of Chs. 15 Jan. 1801 William, b. 24 Jan.
;
;
1787; Sally Preston, bap. 11 Ap. 1795; and perhaps others. FRANCIS the'f. was a baker; he was also a Revolutionary soldier; he d. at Lynn Aug. 1833, a. 92; his w. Phebe d. at Lynn, May 1838, a. 84. 13. ARTENATUS, s. of Josiah (10), m. Susanna, dau. of William Watson, 7 Feb. 1802; she d. May 1807, and he was pub. to Sarah S. Holyoke of
Marlborough 10 Sept. 1808.
His
;
chil.
were Susan W.,

;
b.
1803, d. unm. 21
May
b. 4
1875;
Mary H.,
b.
1805, d. unm. 13 Feb. 1865
May 1806, d. 1 Mar. 1807 Sarah Ann; Augusta A. Miles 15 Ap. 1833. ARTENATUS the f. was a baker, and d. 15 Oct. 1814. MARY, m. Aaron Cutter 1 Ap. 1745. ELIZABETH, m. Thomas Robbins, Jr., 1 May 1746. ABIGAIL, m. Henry Dunster, Jr., 27 Ap. 1748. MARTHA, m. Joseph Rand, Jr., 8 Dec. 1757. ABIGAIL, m. Thomas Mayhe\v 20 Mar. 1759. BETSEY, m. Josiah Johnson, Jr., 10 Ap. 1800. ABIGAIL, d. 4 Jan. 1803, a. 81. Wid. REBECCA, d. 2 Nov. 1821, a. 74. LUKE, m. Martha, dau. of Joseph
Hill, 14 Oct. 1821,
Priscilla Watson, H., pub. to Rev. Henry
Lucy
and
d. Oct. 1835, a. 41.
(otherwise written Morrell and Morill), was here as early as 1633, and in 1635 resided on the westerly side of Brighton Street, near the spot occupied by the old Porter Tavern. He removed to Salisbury before 1650, where he d. about 1662. MUNROE, WILLIAM (otherwise written Munro, Munrow, Mon Roe, Roe, and Row), came to New England in March 1652, and is first named on the Records 17 Sept. 1657, when he was fined six pence for some trivial breach He early established himself at the Farms, where a numerof a town order. ous posterity succeeded him. He had w. Martha in 1665, and w. Mary in 1673. His chil. were John, b. 10 Mar. 1665-6; Martha, b. 2 Nov. 1667, m. John Comey of Concord 21 June 1688; William, b. 10 Oct. 1669; George, b.
b. 12 Aug. 1673; Hannah, b. prob. 1674, m. Joseph prob. 1671; Daniel, Peirce 21 Dec. 1692; Elizabeth, b. prob. 1676, m. Thomas Rugg; Mary, b. 24 June 1678, m. Joseph Fassett; David, b. 6 Oct. 1680; Eleanor, b. 24 Feb. 1682-3, m. William Burgess; Sarah, b. 18 Mar. 1684-5, m. George Blanchard; Joseph, b. 16 Aug. 1687 Benjamin, b. 16 Aug. 1690; Susanna, bap. with Of these fourthe three last preceding 28 Feb. 1698-9, and prob. d. young. teen children, all except the last named were living 14 Nov. 1716, the date of WILLIAM the f. d. 27 Jan. 1717, a. 92, according to the their father's will. inscription on his gravestone. By another inscription of like nature, it appears that he had a third wife, Elizabeth, formerly wife of Edward Wyer; she d. 14 Dec. 1714, a. 79. 2. JOHN, s. of William (1), res. at the Farms, where his children John,
;
MORRILL, ABRAHAM
MUN11OE.
613
Hannah, and Constance, were bap. in 1698-9, and Nathan, 12 Mar. 1699-1700. He had also, by w. Hannah, William, b. 1 Feb. 1700-1, m. Phebe about 1725, and Tab'itha Jones 29 May 1745; Elizabeth, b. 5 Mar. 1702-3; Susanna, b. 23 Jan. 1705; Jonas,, b. 22 Nov. 1707, in. Joanna Locke 3 Jan.
1734-5; Martha, b. 6 Dec. 1710; Marrett, b. 6 Dec. 1713, m. Deliverance Parker 7 Ap. 1737. I suspect that JOHN the f. had two wives; and that the second, m. prob. in 1700, was Hannah, dau. of John Marrett, whose first husband, Samuel Hastings, Jr., d. 28 Sept. 1699. 3. WILLIAM, s. of William (1), by w. Mary, dau. of Thomas Cutler, had Mary, b. 3 Ap. 1699; Abigail, b. 28 June 1701; William, b. 19 Dec. 1703; Thomas, b. 19 Mar. 1706 David, b. 28 Dec. 1708 Ruth, b. 16 Mar. 1711 Hannah, b. 19 Mar. 1713 and by w. Joanna (dau. of Philip Russell), Philip, b. 26 Feb. 1717-18; Susanna, b. 21 Oct. 1726. WILLIAM the f. res. at the Farms and d. 2 Jan. 1759, a. 89. 4. GEORGE, s. of William (1), res. at the Farms, and by w. Sarah had William, b. 6 Jan. 1699-1700; Sarah, b. 17 Oct. 1701; Dorothy, b. 19 Nov. 1703;
; ; ;
Lydia, b. 13 Dec. 1705; George,}). 17 Oct. P707; Robert, b. 4 May 1712; Samuel, b. 23 Oct. 1714; Andrew, b. 4 June 1718; Lucy, b. 20 Aug. 1720. 5. DANIEL, s. of William (1), res. at the Farms, and by w. Dorothy had Daniel, b. 27 Jan. 1717-18; Jedediah, b. 20 May 1721; Sarah, b. 14 July 1724; Dorothy, b. 21 June 1728; John, b. 30 May 1731. DANIEL the f. d. 26 Feb. 1734. 6. JOSEPH, s. of William (1), res. at the Farms (Lexington), and by w. Elizabeth, had Joseph, b. 23 May 1713; Elizabeth, b. 12 Jan. 1714-15 Nathan, b. 11 Sept. 1716; Joshua, b. 22 Dec. 1717; Nathaniel, b. 17 Nov. 1719 Amos, b. 21 Ap. 1721 Abigail, b. 2 Jan. 1722-3; Mary, b. 21 Jan. 1725-6 Eleanor, 13 b. June 1727; Kezia, b. 16 Oct. 1731; Hannah, b. 29 Nov. 1733. 7. WILLIAM, s. of William (3), m. Sarah, dau. of John Mason, and had Edmund, b. 2 Feb. 1735-6; Sarah, b. 1 May 1738, m. William Tidd, and rem. to New Braintree Catherine, b. 29 Sept. 1740, m. Maj. Joseph Bowman 22 Nov. 1764, and d. at New Braintree 30 Ap. 1824; William, b. 28 Oct. 1742; Abigail, b. 24 Feb. 1744; Nehemiah,b. 1 July 1747. WILLIAM the f. resided at Lex., and d. 18 Aug. 1747, a. 43.
; ; ; ; ;
James,
s. of George (4), m. Rebecca Locke 6 Mar. 1734-5, and had 12 Dec. 1735; Isaac, b. 11 Sept. 1737; Asa, b. 29 Dec. 1739, d. unm. at Lex. 20 Feb. 1825 Rebecca, b. 12 Jan. 1741-2, d. unm. 6 Sept. 1767; Lydia, b. 21 Feb. 1743-4, m. Phineas Parker of Reading 23 June 1768, and d. 6 Oct. 1781; Amos, b. 31 May 1746, d. unm. 5 July 1765; Mary, b. 10 Oct. 1748, m. Samuel Sanderson 27 Oct. 1772, d. at Lexington 15 Oct. 1852, aged 104; Hannah, b. 26 Sept. 1751, m. William Porter, Jr., of Woburn 13 Jan. 1774, and d. 28 Mar. 1834; Philemon, b. 30 Oct. 1753; William, b. 29 Aug. 1756. WILLIAM the f. res. at Lex., and d. 10 July 1778, a. 78; his w. Rebecca d. 9 Oct. 1798, a. 87. 9. EDMUND, s. of William (7), m. Rebecca Harrington 31 Aug. 1768, and had Pamela, b. 17 Sept. 1769, d. 29 Sept. 1770; Rebecca, b. 27 June 1771; Pamela, b. 20 Sept. 1773; Edmund, b. 13 Oct. 1775, a printer in Boston; Abigail, b. 6 Dec. 1777. EDMUND the f. res. at Lex. and was one of the noble band who withstood the British troops, on the morning of 19 Ap. 1775. He entered the Revolutionary Army, and was slain at Monmouth, while doing battle for his country 28 June 1778. 10. JAMES, s. of William (8), m. Lucy, dau. of Jacob Watson, 18 Aug. 1763; she d., and he m. wid. Sarah Hancock, dau. of Ebenezer Wyeth, 23 July 1783. His chil. were Lucy, b. 1 June 1764, d. unm. of paralysis 5 Ap. 1812; Rebecca, b. 6 Nov. 1767, d. unm., bur. 14 May 1838; Lydia, b. 22 May 1772, d. 25 Sept. 1773 James, b. 14 June 1775; Lydia, b. 30 Ap. 1777, d. young; Nathaniel, b. 7 Mar. 1784; Sarah Tapley, b. 20 Aug. 1785, m. Peter Coolidge of Framingham 28 June 1813, and d. 1823; Susan, b. 8 Aug. 1786, d. 13 Ap. 1863; Mary, b. 19 Dec. 1788, d. 16 Sept. 1863. JAMES the f. was a blacksmith, settled here in early life, and res. on the northerly side of Brattle Street, between James and Mason streets. He was Deacon of the
8.
WILLIAM,
b.
614
MUNROE
MUTCHLN
MUZZEY.
Church from 30 June 1783, and d. 14 Sept. 1804, a. 69; his w. Sarah d. of paralysis 31 Mar. 1815, a. 69. 11. ISAAC, s. of William (8), was a currier, and resided principally at " Menot, where he d. 17 July 1791, a. 53, by the bite of a venomous insect," and William. chil. Amos, Isaac, leaving
12.
m. Rhoda s. of William (8), was a farmer, res. in Lex., 13 Sept. 1786, and had Thomas, Betsey, Edwin, Charles, Harrison, and He d. 17 Oct. 1806. others. 13. WILLIAM, s of William (8), was a farmer, res. in Lex., and d. 1 May His s. William, of Chs., was father of William A. Munroe, a 1837, a. 80. trader in Cambridge. 14. JAMES, s. of James (10), m. Margaret, dau. of Nathan Watson, 10 June 1804, and had Nathan Watson, b. 7 July 1806, grad. H. C. 1830, an
PHILEMON,
Mead
Episcopal clergyman residing here; James, b. 15 Dec. 1808, m. Sarah R. M. Fiske 8 Oct. 1834, publisher and bookseller in Boston and Camb., d. 12 Jan. 1861; William Watson, b. 26 Mar. 1810, a grocer, res. here and d. 14 Aug. 1876 Isaac, b. 1812, d. 23 Sept. 1817; Charles Augustus, b. 1815, d. 28 Sept. 1817. JAMES the f. was a blacksmith, and res. on the northerly side of James Street; he was Deacon of the Church from 2 Aug. 1818 until he d. 31 May 1848 his w. Margaret d. 28 Feb. 1852, a. 78. 15. NATHANIEL, s. of James (10), m. Martha Lewis 12 Dec. 1802; she His chil. were Nad. 23 Mar. 1822, and he m. Rebecca Kent 6 Feb. 1823. thaniel, b. Mar. 1804, d. 14 Sept. 1805; James, b. 29 Nov. 1805, d. 17 Mar. 1822; Martha, b. 1807, d. 2 Jan. 1830; Nathaniel, b. 1810, d. 21 Nov. 1822; Rebecca R. ; and others. NATHANIEL the f. d. 8 June 1854; hisw. Rebecca
;
d. 9
Mar. 1871,
a. 80.
of Isaac (11), b. 31 Mar. 1766, m. Ruth Prentice 18 Dec. 1803, and had Henry P., b. 17 July 1804, m. Eunice M. E. Burt Oct. 1827; Francis W., b. 22 May 1807, m. Sarah B. Coolidge Sept. 1829, and d. 15 July 1838; Mary Ann Bird, b. 7 June 1809, d. unm. 31 Aug. 1873; Amos, b. 27 Oct. 1811, m. Celina Robbins 30 Sept. 1852, and had dau. Caroline Celina, b. 9 Aug. 1853; Caleb S., b. 18 Mar. 1815, m. Mary Ann Bowen 8 Dec. 1836, and d. 26 Mar. 1870. AMOS the f. res. at the northeasterly corner of Pearl and Auburn streets from about 1805 until he d. 5 Sept. 1829; his w. Ruth d. 17 June 1853, a. nearly 84. MUTCHIN, CHRISTOPHER, was elected Hog-reeve 1639. MUZZEY, HESTER (or Esther, otherwise written Muzzy, Mussey, Musse, Muse), was here in 1633, and two years later she owned a house on the westIn 1635 erly side of Holyoke Street, where the printing-house now stands. she in. William Ruskew (Reskie or Roscoe), and soon went to Hartford.
16.
AMOS,
s.
2. BENJAMIN, sometimes styled of Maiden and sometimes of Rumney Marsh, m. Alice, dau. of Richard Dexter of Maiden, where he had Benjamin, b. 16 Ap. 1657; Joseph, b. 1 Mar. 1658-9. He had also Richard: and Sarah, who m. John Waite before 1697. In 1678 he bought 15 acres in Chs. which he sold in 1682; in 1680 he bought 250 acres in Billerica; at both these peHe d. before 26 Jan. 1696-7. riods he was of Rumney Marsh. 8. BENJAMIN, s. of Benjamin (2), was of Rumney Marsh in 1675, when he " in an " He rewas impressed as a trooper expedition against the Indians. moved to Camb. before 1681, and in 1693 he bought 206 acres at the Farms, where he subsequently resided, and where his posterity remain to this day. His chil. were He m. Sarah who d. 28 Jan. 1710, and he m. Jane
, .
Mary,
b. 13
July 1683; John,

,
d. Richan/, b. 1701; Thomas, bap. 1 Sept. 1706, d. 26 Nov. 1740. BENJAMIN the f. d. 5 May 1732 his w. Jane survived. He was in an expe4. BENJAMIN, s. of Benjamin (3), res. at the Farms. dition against the Indians in 1707, when he was taken prisoner, and remained
;
about 1686; Benjamin, b. 20 Feb. 1689-90; unm. 1719; Amos, b. 6 Jan. 1699-1700; Bethia,b. 15 Ap.
b.
in captivity at
turned, and
Meriam
Canada until 1710, and perhaps longer. He subsequently reby w. Patience, had Joseph, John, Benjamin, Esther, m. Reed. He d. 19 Jan. 1764; his w. Patience d. 7 Mary, m.
a. 79.
Oct. 1767,
MUZZEY
5.
NUTTING.
615
of Benjamin (3), m. Esther Green 26 Sept. 1734, and had June 1735 Sarah, b. 30 Mar. 1737; Amos, b. 7 June 1739, d. William, b. 31 July 1743; Samuel, b. 12 July 1740; Amo*. b. 24 May, 1741 July 1745, d. 23 Aug. 1747; Bethia, b. 8 July 1747; Mary, b. 8 Sept. 1749; Benjamin, b. 25 Jan. 1752, grad. H. C. 1774, d. 1777. AMOS the f. res. in Lex. and d. 26 June 1752; his wid. Esther m. Thomas Prentice, Esq., of Newton 4 May 1758, who removed to Lex. and d. there 31 Mar. 1760, a. 49; and she m. Capt. Samuel Whittemore of Carnb. 15 Aug. 1765, who d. 2 Feb. 1793; a. 96^ years; she returned again to Lex. and d. 9 Sept. 1801, a. 84. 6. AMOS, s. of Amos (5), m. Abigail Bowers of Billerica, and had in Lex. Amos, b. 19 Ap. 1766; Joxiah, b. 4 Nov. 1767; Abigail, b. 27 May 1769; Wil-
AMOS,
s.
Esther, b. 11
liam, b. 20
7.
the f. d. 10 Dec. 1822. m. Lydia Botitelle of Leominster, and had in Lex. Elmira, b. 21 Oct. 1794, m. Charles Reed 23 Oct. 1817, d. 15 Nov. 1819; Benjamin, b. 13 Dec. 1795, d. suddenly in Boston 21 Ap. 1848, leaving wid. and children; Lydia, b. 11 June 1799, m. Samuel Chandler (late Sheriff of Middlesex) 29 Oct. 1818; Artemas Botcers, b. 21 Sept. 1802, grad. H. C. 1824, ordained at Framingham 10 June 1830, resigned 18 May 1833, installed over Cambridgeport Parish 1 Jan. 1834, resigned 4 May 1846, commenced his ministry with the Lee Street Society 7 Sept. 1846, resigned 20 Feb. 1854, installed at Concord, N. H., 29 Mar. 1854, resigned May 1857, installed at Newburyport 3 Sept. 1857, resigned May 1865, returned to Camb. where he has since resided, preaching statedly at Chestnut Hill, Newton; he has two sons, Henry W., LL. B. 1855, a lawyer in Camb.; and David P., practised law about a year, enlisted as a private soldier 23 May 1861, served through the war, and was discharged as Lieut. -colonel 8 Oct. 1865, grad. from the Harvard Divinity School 1869; ordained at Littleton Oct. 1869, resigned Ap.
May
s.
1771.
AMOS
AMOS,
of
Amos
(6),
1871, settled at Stow July 1872, resigned Sept. 1876; Abigail, b. 26 Nov. 1804, m. Samuel Chandler 11 Sept. 1834; Amos Otis, b. 11 June 1808, d. 20 Jan. 1812. MYGATE, JOSEPH (otherwise written Mygatt, probably the same whose name appears among the freemen of 1635 as Maggott), was here in 1634, and res. on the easterly side of North Avenue in 1636. He rem. to Hartford and was Townsman, or Selectman there in 1639. Hinman says, " He was the ancestor of the Mygatts in Fairfield and Litchfield counties," and " a valuable man in the Colony." NKEDHAM, JOHN, of Boston (otherwise written Neadom, and Nedam), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Zechariah Hicks, 10 Oct. 1679, and had Elizabeth, Hannah, Margaret, Zechariah, and Mehetabel. The mother d. 4 Feb. 1690-91, a. 36; the chil. were placed under the guardianship of their grandfather Hicks, and some or all of them probably became members of his household. Elizabeth, m. John Maynard of Sudbury 7 Dec. 1713; Mehetabel, m. Jonathan Maynard of Sudbury 10 Dec. 1714. NEWMAN, PATIENCE, m. Nathaniel Sparhawk 3 Oct. 1649. SAMUEL, of Rehoboth, m. Hannah Bunker 2 May 1689; the same SAMUEL (probably), ra. wid. Theodosia Wiswall before 1709. NICHOLS, THOMAS, owned house and nine acres near Fresh Pond in 1638. NORCROSS, JOHN (otherwise written, Norcrost), in 1642 had 22 acres on the south side of the river. NUTTING, JOHN, one of the earliest inhabitants of Groton, by w. Sarah, had Sarah, b. 29 May 1663; Ebenezer, b. 23 Oct. 1666 Jonathan, b. 17 Oct. 1668. 2. EBENEZER, s. of John (1), was probably the same who res. in Medf. and by w. Lydia, had Lydia, b. 5 Nov. 1692; Jonathan, b. 31 Jan. 1694-5; Sarah, b. 11 Aug 1698; Ebcnezcr, b. 9 Aug. 1700; James, b. 31 Jan. 1703-4; Josiah, b. about 1706; John, b. 23 Mar. 1708-9; Benjamin, b. 7 Sept. 1711; Mary. EBENEZER the f. was a blacksmith, and was described in a deed, as His estate was settled 6 July 1733. of Camb. 1697. 3. JONATHAN, s. of John (1), by Elizabeth had Hannah, m. John Gross of Boston, 17 Ap. 1710, and Shepard of Boston, and was living in 1746
; ;
616
NUTTING
OAKES.
Sarah, m. John Gay, and d. 1772; John, b. 1695, grad. H. C. 1712, Master Grammar School at Salem 1719-1749, Ruling Elder of a new church at Salem 1736, Notary Public 1755, Collector of Customs at Salem and Marblehead 1768, and d. 20 May 1790; Jonathan; these four were bap. here, 18 July 1697 Elizabeth, bap. 9 Oct. 1698, d. unm. between 20 Ap. and 2 June 1785
of the
;
;
Samuel, b. 1 Aug. 1701; James, bap. 25 Ap. 1703; Ebenczer, bap. 25 Mar. 1705 prob. d. young; Mary, m. Paul Nowell of York, living in 1785. JONATHAN the f. was a gunsmith and locksmith in 1695 he bought house and land at the N. E. corner of Bow and Holyoke streets, but at a later period he owned and occupied the square inclosed by Dunster, Winthrop, Holyoke, and South He d. 1735; his w. Elizabeth and seven streets, except the southeast corner.
;
;
children survived.
s. of Jonathan (3), settled in Wrentham, where he d. before His .children were Jonathan; Elizabeth, b. 1726, was placed under the guardianship of John Gay of Camb. 30 Nov. 1737, being then described as in the twelfth year of her age, m. John Hicks 26 Ap. 1 748, and died Dec.
4.
JONATHAN,
1735.
(buried the 22d) 1825,

5.
a.
99; Hannah.
(3), was a brickmaker, resided a few years in Medf., where two of his children were born, afterwards in Camb., and removed to Wat. as early as 1746. His children were Samuel, b. 16 Oct. 1729; Elizabeth, b. 7 June 1731; Jonathan, bap. here 15 June 1735; Joseph, bap. 14
SAMUEL,
s.
of
Jonathan
Aug. 1737,
6.
d.
young; Joseph, bap.
May
1739.
JAMES, s. of Jonathan (3), by w. Mercy, had Ebenezer, b. 15 May 1728; Mary, bap. 15 May 1730; James, b. about 1734, d. 1758, and his mother administered 1 Jan. 1759; Ebenezer, bap. 30 Jan. 1736-7, was of Salem 1799; John, bap. 21 Jan. 1738-9; Jonathan, bap. 14 June 1741; Samuel, bap. 15 Ap. 1 744. JAMES the f. was a locksmith, and resided on the westerly side of Dunster Street, about midway between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street. He d. about 1 745, and his w. Mercy who was appointed administratrix 27 Jan. 1745, remained a widow, and dwelt on the homestead more than
half a century; she died of a cancer 2 May 1799, at the age of 98 years, according to the record of Dr. Holmes. 7. JOHN, prob. s. of James (6), by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 26 Ap. 1762, d. 12 Ap. 1766; John, b. 3 Mar. 1764; Mercy, bap. 3 Mar. 1766; Mary, bap. 6 Mar. 1768; Elizabeth, bap. 6 May 1770. JOHN the f. was a carpenter, and in 1 761 bought house and one fourth acre on the easterly side of North Avenue, near the Common, which estate he mortgaged to John Walton of Reading 1770; Walton's Executor took possession of the estate 1786, and it became the residence of Deacon John Walton. In the Revolution, Mr. Nutting adhered to the King, and was proscribed by the Act of 1778. Whether he returned is not ascertained. 8. JONATHAN, s. of James He was probably (6), was a trader in Chs. the same who sold the estate formerly of John Gay in 1 785, then styled trader of Boston, and having repurchased a part of it, sold it again to Judge Winthrop in 1 786, then styled trader of Reading. 9. SAMUEL, s. of James (6), grad. H. C. 1768, was a physician, and res. here. The Overseers of the Poor 6 Mar. 1793, "agreed with Dr. Samuel Nutting, for the current year, as Warden to the Poor's House, and as Physician to the Poor, for 16; his son to do the errands." This situation he retained until his death 8 Jan. 1797, after which his wid. Elizabeth acted in Their children are not found on record. place of a Warden until Dec. 1802. OAKES, EDWARD (otherwise written Okes), was here in 1640. By w.
Jane he had, in England, Urian, b. about 1631; Edward, living in 1658; and in Camb., Mary, m. John Flint of Concord 12 Nov. 1667; Thomas, b. 18 June 1644. EDWARD the f. was a prominent and useful citizen; he was Selectman twenty-nine years, between 1642 and 1678, and Representative seventeen years, between 1659 and 1681. He was also Representative for Concord 1683, 1684, and 1686. He was appointed Quartermaster of the Troop 1656, and twenty years later was engaged in Philip's War, with the title of Cornet or Lieutenant, unless, indeed, this last service was per-
OAKES
OLDHAM.
;
617
formed by his son of the same name. He d. 13 Oct. 1689, according to the Concord Records; if the date be correct he was 85 years old his w. Jane was
living 24 Dec. 1691,
2.
when she petitioned for leave to sell real estate. THOMAS, brother to Edward (1), by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth,
d.
;
b. 3
young; Thomas, b. 5 Nov. 1648, d. 14 Jan. 1648-9; Elizabeth, b. 26 May 1650, m. Lemuel Jenkins of Maiden Hannah, b. 4 May 1657, m. Joseph Waite of Maiden; Thomas, b. 18 Mar. 1658-9, after his father's death. THOMAS the f. was a farmer, and resided on the westerly side of Garden He d. in 1658; his wid. Elizabeth m. Samuel Street, near Concord Avenue. Hayward of Maiden. She removed with her children to Maiden, the residence of her husband. By the Camb. Records, it appears that Elizabeth Oakes m. Seth Sweetser Ap. 1661; if this were the same, she must have soon lost her second husband and married a third; for her dau. Abigail, by her husband Hayward, was bap. here 23 Sept. 1666. 3. URIAN, s. of Edward (1), grad. H. C. 1649, went to England and was minister at Titchfield until he was silenced in 1662, by the Act of Uniformity. On invitation of the Church, communicated by a special messenger, he reHe was elected President of turned, and was installed here 8 Nov. 1671. Harvard College 1675, but declined the appointment; he acted, however, as President pro tempore, until 2 Feb. 1680, when he was fully inducted into office. He continued to perform the duties of President and Pastor (having an assistant in the latter office) until his life was suddenly terminated by fever 25 July 1681. His w. d. in England 1669, about two years before his return hither. His children were all born there, and consequently no record of them is found here. He had a son Edioard, who was a joint administrator on his estate; he was prob. the same who grad. H. C. 1679, and preached for a short time at Branford and New London, but d. before 1698; Urian, grad. H. C. 1678, and d. 13 June 1679, " at 22 years of age, after almost two years' languishing by a consumption;" and Laurence, styled B. A., though his name does not appear on the Catalogue, who d. 13 June 1679, a. 18, was probably son of Rev. Urian Oakes; perhaps he had completed his studies, but was cut off by death shortly before the Commencement; he had certainly been in Camb. a considerable time; for he gave a deposition concerning Indian troubles 1 Oct. 1677, in which he is described as about fifteen years of age. Hannah, who m. Rev. Samuel Angier 2 Sept. 1680, and d. 15 Aug. 1714, a. " 55, was buried here, and her epitaph describes her as daughter of the Rev. Mr. Urian Oakes, sometime President of Harvard College and Pastor of " Cambridge." Judge Sewall in noticing her death calls her the only survivchild " of her father.
ing
4. THOMAS, s. of Edward Boston. (1), grad. H. C. 1662, was a physician in He was eminent in his profession, and also as a politician. He was Repre-
Nov. 1646,
and Speaker of the House 1689, and Assistant. 1690, 1691, 1692, during a part of which time he was in England, as an agent to assist in procuring a restoration of the Charter. He had been a prominent advocate of the rights of the Colony, and a sturdy opposer of the encroachments by the crown; so much so, that he was selected by Randolph as one of the number He was subseagainst whom he exhibited articles of impeachment in 1681. quently a Representative for Boston, elected Speaker and Councillor, but negatived by Gov. Dudley, as to both offices, and was a prominent leader in the opposition to Dudley's government. He d. at Wellfleet 15 July 1719, a. 75. His w. Martha d. at Boston 19 Ap. 1719, a. 70, and was buried here. Their youngest son Josiah, grad. H. C. 1708, preached in Wellfleet several years, and d. there in 1732, a. 44. OLDHAM, RICHARD (otherwise written Oldam), was here as early as 1650, and by w. Martha, had Samuel, and John. RICHARD the f. res. on the south side of the river, and d. 9 Dec. 1655; his w. Martha m. Thomas Brown 7 Oct. 1656. 2. SAMUEL, s. of Richard (1), m. Hannah, dau. of Richard Dana, 5 Jan. 1670-71, and had Samuel, b. 27 May 1672, d. 4 Jan. 1672-3 Samuel, b. 15 Jan. 1673-4, d. 24 Aug. 1675; Hannah, b. 25 Mar. 1676, d. 9 July 1676
sentative of Boston
; ;
618
OLDHAM
OLIVER.
; ,
d. 3 May 1678; Andrew, b. 22 Ap. 1677, d. 12 July 1677 Nathaniel, b. Mary, b. 1 June 1679, m. James Read 3 Ap. 1722 Hannah, b. 10 Oct. 1681, m. Amos Gates 19 May 1703; Ann, b. SAMUEL the living in 1727. d. between 13 July 1727, and 10 June 1728. 3. JOHN, s. of Richard (1), m. Abigail Wood 22 July 1675, and had John, b. 20 July 1676; Abigail, b. 28 Nov. 1679, in. Capt. Samuel Frothingham of Chs. 23 Nov. 1708. JOHN the f. was Selectman fifteen years, between 1695 and 1714, and d. 14 Oct. 1719, a. 66 his second w. Elizabeth survived him. 4. JOHN, s. of John (3), m. Mindwell Parks 1 Nov. 1720, and had John, b. 18 Dec. 1720; Samuel, b. 26 Aug. 1722; Mary, b. 10 Mar. 1727-8; besides these were Abigail, who d. unm. 20 Oct. 1743; Jonathan, and Elizabeth, named in their father's will. JOHN the f. d. between 7 Mar. and 9 July 1733; his w. Mindwell m. Joseph Fessenden 6 Dec. 1733. 5. JOHN, s. of John (4), m. Sarah Chadwick 2 June 1743, and had Abigail,
;
.
Mar. 1743-4, d. 26 May 1744 Sarah, b. 30 July 1746 Susanna, b. 11 Mar. 1748-9; Abigail, b. 3 Ap. 1752; John, b. 1 Nov. 1754. JOHN the f. d. and his w. Sarah administered 21 Feb. 1757. OLIVER, THOMAS, an Elder of the First Church in Boston, came to N. Eng. 1631, and d. 1657. By his w. Ann, he had James; John; Peter; Samuel; Nathaniel, who was killed by the fall of a tree 9 Jan. 1632-3, a. 15; and
b. 18
; ;
Daniel.
2. JOHN, s. of Thomas (1), grad. H. C. 1645, was a preacher at Winnisimmet (Chelsea) several years. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Newgate, and had John, b. 1638, d. 1639; Elizabeth, b. 28 Feb. 1640, m. Enoch AViswall; Hannah, b. 1642, d. 1653 John, b. 2 Ap. 1644, res. in Boston; Thomas, b. 10 Feb. 1645-6. JOHN the f. d. 12 Ap. 1646; his w. Elizabeth m. Edward Jackson of Cambridge 14 Mar. 1648-9, and d. 30 Sept. 1709, a. 92. 3. PETEH, s. of Thomas (1), admitted freeman 1640, was an eminent merchant in Boston, where he d. 1670. He had sons Nathaniel, b. 8 Mar. 1652, a member of the Council of Safety 1689, d. in Boston 15 Ap. 1704, described in an obituary as " a principal merchant " of Boston Peter, b. 3 Mar. 1654-5, He grad. H. C. 1675; James, b. 19 Mar. 1658-9; Daniel, b. 28 Feb. 1663-4. had also dau. Sarah, who m. John Noyes; and another dau. Mary, who m. Deac. Nathaniel Williams of Boston, and was mother of Nathaniel, b. 25 Aug. 1675, grad. H. C. 1693, ordained in the College Chapel 1698, as an evangelist to preach the gospel in Barbadoes, but his health would not permit him to remain there; he returned and was master of the Grammar School in Boston, with Cheever, from 1 703 to 1 708, and sole master from 1 708 to 1 734 he also studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. James Oliver, and as stated in an obituary notice of him, "he continued to preach ,and practise physic as occasion required, through life"; he d. 10 Jan. 1737-8, a. 62. 4. THOMAS, s. of John (2), m. Grace, dau. of Capt. Thomas Prentice, 27 Nov. 1667; she d. 30 Sept. 1681, a. 33, and he m. Mary Wilson 19 Ap. 1682. His chil. were Grace, b. 15 Nov. 1668, d. 16 Nov. 1680 Elizabeth, b. 11 Ap. Hannah, b. 1670, d. 22 June 1674; John, b. 22 Nov. 1671, d. 20 Dec. 1673 16 Aug. 1674, prob. d. young; Thomas, b. 22 Aug. 1676, d. 22 May 1683 Samuel, b. 18 May 1679, d. young; John, b. 9 July 1683, d. 23 Sept. 1683; Nathaniel, b. 1 Feb. 1684-5; Mary, b. 20 Mar. 1687-8; Sarah, b. 14 Nov.
; ; ; ; ;
m. 1690, m. Rev. Caleb Trowbridge of Groton 10 Mar. 1714; Abigail, b. Benjamin Prescott of Groton 12 June 1718, and was mother of Col. William Prescott of Bunker Hill memory, and his brothers, James, Sheriff and Judge C. C. P., and Oliver, Judge of Probate for Middlesex County Peter; Thomas, b. 17 July 1700, grad. H. C. 1719, a schoolmaster; Samuel, b. 12 Jan. 1702-3, d. unm. 2 Dec. 1729. THOMAS the f. was brought here when a child by his mother, who m. Edward Jackson. He settled in that part of the town which
,
;
now forms the westerly border of Brighton District, but retained his connection with the Church at Newton, of which he was a Deacon. He was Selectman of Camb. 1687, Representative 18 years, between 1692 and 1713, and Councillor 1715. He d. 31 Oct. or 1 Nov. 1715; his w. Mary survived. 5. JAMES, s. of Peter (3), m. Mercy, dau. of Dr. Samuel Bradstreet, and
OLIVER.
619
granddaughter of Gov. Bradstreet, and had Mercy, b. about 1694, d. unra. 21 Feb. 1773, a. 78 Sarah, bap. 20 Dec. 1696, m. Jacob Wendell, an eminent merchant of Boston, 12 Aug. 1714, and d. 22 July 1762; from this marriage have descended many distinguished persons. JAMES the f. grad. H. C. 1680, was an eminent physician, resided on what is known as the Winthrop estate, where the present house stands, between Mount Auburn and Arrow streets, and d. 8 Ap. 1703, a. 43; his w. Mercy d. 29 Mar. 1710, a. 42, and her cousin, the Rev. William Brattle, was appointed guardian to her children. 6. DANIEL, s. of Peter (3), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Andrew Belcher, and sister to. Gov. Jonathan Belcher 23 Ap. 1696, and had Daniel, b. 14 Jan. 1703-4, grad. H. C. 1722, d. at London of small-pox 5 July 1727; Andrew, Massab. 28 Mar. 1706, grad. H. C. 1724, Secretary and Lieut. -governor of chusetts; Peter, b. 26 Mar. 1713, grad. H. C. 1730, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and the last who held that office before the Revolution. DANIEL the f. d. in Boston of apoplexy 23 July 1732; his w.
;
Elizabeth
7.
d. 21
May
f.
735.
NATHANIEL, s. of Thomas (4), by w. Bethia, had Mary, b. 15 1716, m. Thomas Sparhawk, Esq., 14 Jan. 1730-31, and was living in
Sept. 1779.
was not the Chelsea schoolmaster and magistrate who " grad. H. C. 1701, as some have supposed, but a farmer or yeoman." He d. 11 Mar. 1727-8; his w. Bethia d. Dec. 1774, a. 81. 8. PETER, s. of Thomas (4), m. Mary Mattucks, and had Elizabeth, b. about 1716; Thomas, b. about 1718; Peter, b. about 1720; Mary, b. about 1722, 747; Samuel, b. about 1726, prob. the mariprob. rn. Abraham Frost 8 June ner on whose estate Abraham Frost administered 21 Dec. 1764; Surah, b. about 1728. The dates of birth are estimated from the ages specified in the guardianship granted to their mother Mary 30 July 1731. PETER the f. was " and d. 7 Dec. 1729. " styled Captain 9. THOMAS, prob. s. of Peter (8), m. Rebecca, dau. of Deac. John Bradish, and had Rebecca, b. about 1740, m. William Manning, Jr., 26 Nov. 1772, andd. 19 Ap. 1821, a. 81; Mary, bap. 30 Oct. 1743; Hepzibah, bap. 27 Ap. 1746, in. John Wyman of Woburn 1 Aug. 1765. THOMAS the f. d. about 1746; his w. Rebecca purchased her father's homestead in 1746, a part of which she immediately sold to Capt. William Angler, and occupied the remainder until 4 Nov. 1762; when she sold it to her brother Isaac Bradish. 10. ROBERT, styled " Esquire," parentage not ascertained, m. Ann, dau. of James Brown, prob. of Antigua; her f. d. and her mother m. Isaac Royal, (who resided many years in Antigua), and had Col. Isaac of Medford, and Penelope, who m. Col. Henry Vassall of Cambridge. Mr. Oliver was of Antigua in 1738, where prob. most of his children were born: he returned, or came, to N. Eng. before 1747, and settled at Dorchester, where he d. between 3 Aug. 1761 and 24 Dec. 1762. His children were James, a physician, prob. d. before 1761, as he is not named in his father's will; Thomas, b. about 1733; Isaac ; Richard ; Elizabeth, m. Col. John Vassall the younger, of Cambridge. 11. THOMAS, s. of Robert (8), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Col. John Vassall, Sen., 1760 (pub. 17 May), and had Anne, bap. 4 Mar. 1764; Elizabeth, bap. 17 Aug. 1766 THOMAS the Penelope, bap. 2 Oct. 1768; and perhaps others. f. grad. H. C. 1753, he prob. resided at Dorchester until 1766, when he purchased an estate on Elm wood Avenue, near Mount Auburn, and erected the mansion afterwards the residence of Gov. Gerry, and of the Rev. Dr. Lowell, now owned and occupied by Prof. James Russell Lowell. Being a man of nor did he mingle in the fortune, he was not actively engaged in business stormy political contests of that eventful period, until, in a day fatal to his * peace and quiet, he accepted the office of Lieutenant-governor of the Prov" Sir Wil1 He enjoyed the distinction of being the Lib.), under date of 10 Oct. 1775, last Lieut.-governor of Mass, appointed by Ham Howe succeeds to the military comthe King. He seems also to have been the mand, and Lieut. -gov. T. Oliver to the civil last representative of royal authority in the department, and is now Governor of Boston
the
1
; ;
NATHANIEL
Province ; for when Governor Gage returned to England, Pemberton says in his Manuscript Chronology (in the Mass. Hist. Soc.
only, he having jurisdiction over no town in the province."
other
620
ince,
larly
OLIVER
PADDLEFOOT.
and President of a Council appointed by the King in a manner particuobnoxious to popular resentment. On the morning of 2 Sept. 1774, a large number of Middlesex freeholders (Gov. Oliver says about four thousand), assembled at Cambridge, and induced the recently appointed Mandamus Councillors to renounce their offices. The President of the Council was not spared but, though he urgently requested delay, inasmuch as he could not with propriety renounce that office, while he held that of Lieut.-gov., yet he finally yielded, and signed a solemn engagement " as a man of honor and a Christian," that he would "never hereafter, upon any terms whatsoever, accept a seat at said Board, on the present novel and oppressive plan of At government." He left Cambridge immediately, and never returned. the evacuation of Boston he accompanied the British forces, soon went to England, and d. at Bristol 20 Nov. 1815, a. 82. He has uniformly been represented as a mild and quiet person, and gentlemanly in deportment. It has even been suggested that his name was inserted in the commission by mistake instead of the name of Chief Justice Peter Oliver, a much more active, restless man, and better fitted as an unscrupulous tool of an arbitrary government. OLMSTEAD, JAMES, was one of the earliest inhabitants, and was Constable He resided on the northerly side of Harvard Street, upon or near 1634, 1635. the spot occupied by what has long been known as the President's House, now called the Wadsworth House. He rem. to Hartford, and d. in 1640 or 1641. " His children were Nicholas and Nehemiah. He left a large estate and gave in his will 50 to the Church in Hartford." Hinman. 2. NICHOLAS, s. of James (1), was early here with his father, and had a house-lot on the easterly side of Holyoke street. He rem. to Hartford, was a soldier at Mystic against the Pequots in 1637, and was afterwards a Lieuten;
ant.
3.
He was
living in 1672.
Hinman.
father,
NEHEMIAH, s. of James (1), was undoubtedly here with his though not named on the Records. He was at Hartford in 1649. This name appears with a fruitful variety of orthography. Some
of the
forms are Omsted, Olmsted, Olmstead, Olmsteade, Olmestead, Olmesteade, Homstead, Holmstead, Hompstead, and sundry others. OSLAND, HUMPHREY, m. Elizabeth Hyde 7 Mar. 1666-7, and had Elizabeth, b. 25 Jan. 1667-8, m. Nathaniel Wilson; John, b. 10 Oct. 1669; Hannah, m. Dr. John Prentice 1696, and d. 1704; Sarah, b. 23 Nov. 1683, m. Edward Prentice. HUMPHREY the f. was a cordwainer, and resided on the south side of the river, in what is now Newton. He d. 19 June 1720; his w. Elizabeth d. 13 Mar. 1723. 2. JOHN, s. of Humphrey About ten (1), m. Sarah Hyde, and d. in 1733. years afterwards his estate was distributed to his chil. Jonathan : Mary, w. of Philip Pratt, Framingham; Mehetabel, w. of Robert Paul of Union, Conn.; Elizabeth, w. of Josiah Hyde; Thankful, w. of Jonathan Hyde; Lydia, w. of Caleb Hyde; all of Canterbury, Conn.; Sarah, and Hannah, both unm. at the time of division.
PADDLEFOOT, JONATHAN
;
(otherwise written Padlefoote, and Padlfoote),
m. Mary Blanford 5 Oct. 1652, and had Jonathan,}). 6 July and d. 29 Oct. 1653 Mary, b. 22 Aug. 1654; Jonathan, b. 13 Aug. 1656; Zechariah, b. 16 Dec. 1657, d. in Framingham 7 July 1737; Edward, b. 14 June 1660, " slayn in the wars." JONATHAN the f. res. on the easterly side of North (Chart.) Avenue, near the Railroad Bridge. He d. 1661 his w. Mary m. Thomas Eames, and had son Thomas, bap. here 12 July 1663. She subsequently removed with her husband and family to Sudbury, and thence to Framingham,
;
where she had

Feb. 1675-6.
eral years.
five children,
and was
killed
bv the Indians
at
Framingham
a physician in Hardwick sev1770, was a lawyer in Hardwick, removed to Taunton, was Judge of Probate, and received the degree of LL.D. at Brown University. The name, now generally written Padelford, still exists in the southerly part of the Commonwealth, and in Rhode Island;
JOHN PADDLEFORD, grad. Y. C. 1768, was SETH PADDLEFORD, grad. Y. C.
Barry.
PADDLEFOOT
and the descent from Jonathan
family.
of
PALMER.
is
621
Camb.
duly set forth in a chart of the
PAINE, MOSES (or Payne), is styled "Mr." on our Records 1639. In 1642 he owned house and land at the S. E. corner of South and Dunster streets, which he sold in 1646.
PALFREY, JOHN (otherwise written Palfray, Palfraye, Palfry, Palfory, Paulfrey, Paulfery), m. Rebecca, dau. of William Bordman, 4 Aug. 1664, and had liebecca, b. 15 Sept. 1665, m. Joseph Hicks 24 Nov. 1716; John, b. 12 Ap. 1667, d. 27 June 1667; Elizabeth, b. 24 May 1668; Martha, b. 18 May 1670, m. Benjamin Goddard 30 May 1689; Thomas, b. 7 May 1672, d. 21 Nov. 1677; Ruth, b. 1 Nov. 1677, d. unm. at Medf. 29 Dec. 1737; John, b. Jan. or Feb. 1688-9, a shoemaker, d. unm. 1 Dec. 1759. There were at least two more daughters, one of whom was prob. Mary, who in. Ebenezer Williams 1 Dec. 1700. JOHN the f. was a carpenter, resided on the easterly side of North Avenue, near the Common, and d. in 1689. The name, in this family,
became
extinct.
,
PALMER, STEPHEN, by w.
residence not ascertained.
2.
He
had Stephen, bap. 18 Ap. 1697.
His former
d. 21
May
;
1697.
Stephen (1), by w. Sarah, had Sarah, bap. 6 Nov. 1717, 1732; Stephen, bap. 12 Oct. 1718; Mary, bap. 20 Feb. 1720-21, m. William Fessenden Elizabeth, bap. 21 Ap. 1723, in. Joseph Gibbs 11 Sept. 1749 Bethia, bap. 12 Sept. 1725, m. John Ellis, Jr., 24 Oct. " advanced 1750; John, bap. 26 Nov. 1727 (perhaps the same who d. at an age," in Newton, between 22 Aug. 1808 and 29 Aug. 1809, naming in his will chil. Thomas, William deceased, Mary Wiswall, Ann Parker, and John) Joseph, b. 2 Sept. 1729, grad. H. C. 1747, ordained at Norton 3 Jan. 1753, and d. 4 Ap. 1791. STEPHEN the f. was a tanner, and d. about 1766, when his will was presented 23 Ap. by his son Joseph, one of the executors; after whose death, Rev. John Ellis of Rehoboth was appointed administrator de bonis non. 3. STEPHEN, s. of Stephen (2), m. Sarah Gamage 17 Jan. 1750-51, and had Deborah, b. 23 Dec. 1751, d. 3 Feb. 1752; Stephen, b. 9 Jan. 1753 John, b. 22 Oct. 1754; Joseph, b. 7 May 1756; Joshua, b. 20 Mar. 1758, d. 7 Oct. 1759; Sarah, b. 9 Nov. 1759, m. John Warland 5 Feb. 1806, d. at Plymouth; Joshua, b. 2 Sept. 1761, m. Mary Cooper 23 May 1791, was a baker, resided here and at Chs., d. 15 Jan. 1832, leaving son John, merchant in Camb., and perhaps others; Benjamin, b. 24 Aug. 1763, and d. 5 Jan. 1764; Benjamin, b. 30 Jan. STEPHEN the f. was a tanner, and resided near Brattle 1765, d. 3 Aug. 1773. Square; he d. 30 Mar. 1806, a. 88; his w. Sarah d. 15 Mar. 1794, a. 73. 4. STEPHEN, s. of Stephen (3), m. Thankful Child of Wat. 16 June 1774, and Mary Bemis of Waltham (pub. 28 Feb. 1777) his chil. were Thankful, bap. 16 Ap. 1775; Polly, bap. 28 June 1778, m. Samuel Frost Wyman 10 Nov. 1796; Betsey, bap. 23 Ap. 1780, m. Chas. Walker of Fryeburg, Me.; Eunice, bap. 9 Dec. 1781 (this baptism is recorded as that of Eunice, dau. of Mary Palmer, and underneath the line is written, "her husband Stephen Palmer was drowned "); Stephen, s. of Stephen and Mary, d. 1 Sept. 1806. Sarah, who m. Lemuel Brown of Chs. 7 Dec. 1797, was dau. of Stephen. STEPHEN the f. removed to Fryeburg, Me., in 1780, where he was drowned 1 Sept. 1781. Mary Palmer, perhaps wid. of Stephen, m. Ebenezer Day of Fryeburg, Me.,
STEPHEN,
s.
of
m. Jacob
Hill, Jr., 14 Sept.
13 Feb. 1783.
5. JOHN, s. of Stephen (3), m. Susanna Stratton 28 Nov. 1781, and had Susan, b. 21 Aug. 1782, d. 7 Mar. 1783; John, b. 4 Oct. 1783, grad. H. C. 1802, d. unm., of consumption, 17 Oct. 1802; Joseph, b. 27 Sept. 1784, d. 27 Mar. 1785 Susanna, b. 26 Feb. 1786, m. Isaac Jones 2 Ap. 1809, and d. before 1822, leaving an only child Lucy Ann, who m. William L. Whitney 18 Oct. 1836, d. in childbed, and was buried 12 Aug. 1838, together with her child; Stephen, b. 14 Mar. 1787, d. of consumption 9 Ap. 1805; Joseph, b. 22
;
July 1788, d. of consumption 6 Ap. 1807; Lucy, b. 16 Oct. 1789, d. unm., of consumption, 14 Ap. 1818; Abner, b. 21 Ap. 1793, d. of fever 31 Mar. 1805. JOHN the f. was a baker and trader he was also Major. He resided on the
;
northwesterly side of Brattle Square. He d. 1 Sept. 1822, a. nearly 68; his w. Susanna was buried 12 Dec. 1837. The family of Major Palmer is extinct.
622
PANTRY
was here
in 1633,
PARISH
PARKER.
PANTRY, WILLIAM
tree),
and
forth, to Thomas Oakes. He is described in the deed as Thomas Parish, gent., of Naylond, Suffolk Co., England. It is not impossible that Rev. Samuel The Parris, of witch mania memory, who d. 27 Feb. 1720, was of this family.
by the Wadsworth House, so called, on Harvard Square. He went to Hartford with Hooker, and was living in 1649. PARISH, THOMAS, by w. Mary, 1 had Thomas, b. 21 July 1641, grad. H. C. 1659; Mary, b. 3 Ap. 1643. THOMAS the f. resided on the westerly side of Garden Street, near Concord Avenue was Selectman 1639, 1640, and Savage styles him "physician "; he returned to England before 1654, when his homestead (the house having been burned) was sold by his agent, Thomas Dan;
(otherwise written Pantrey, Pentry, Peintrey, Peynin 1635 owned a house near the spot now occupied
In his will, Samuel is spelled differently, but the sound is similar. speaks of his father Thomas as a merchant, living in London 1656, and owning estates in Barbadoes, where he d. 1673. " was admitted a member Boston and
name
Church 1634." (Farmer.} " Robert Parker and his wife, both in full communion, having been dismissed hither (together with their children) from the Churches of Boston and Roxbury. Their children, Benjamin, John, He was here as early as 1638, when he Sarah, and Rachell" (Mitchell.) owned a house on the southerly side of Brattle Street, a few rods westerly from Ash Street; but it would seem that he did not change his ecclesiastical relationship until a later period. By his w. Judith, he had Benjamin, b. June 1636, d. here 17 Jan. 1671-2; Sarah, b. Ap. 1640, m. Dr. Thomas Foster 15 d. beOct. 1662; Nathaniel, b. 28 July 1643, prob. d. young; John, b. d. 5 Ap. 1663. fore 1684; Rachel, b. ROBERT the f. d. 1685, a. 83; his w. Judith d. 8 May 1682, a. 80. The son Benjamin m. a dau. of William Hartwell, owned an estate in Billerica, had sons Benjamin and John, and perof Boston
,
,
PARKER, ROBKRT,
butcher,
Roxbury,
haps others.
side of the river (now Newton), and by w. Jan. 1647; Martha, b. 1 May 1649, m. and d., leaving children, before 1686; John, b. 15 Feb. 1651-2; Joanna, b. 16 Jan. 1653-4, m. Stone"; Thomas, b. 1 Feb. 1657; Sarah, b. 6 Jan. 1659; Isaac, b. 15 Mar. 1662; Jonathan, b. 6 Nov. 1665; Lydia, b. 15 May 1667. JOHN the f. prob. d. about 1686, in which year his will is dated. 3. JOHN, prob. s. of John (2), by w. Mary, had John, b. 17 Aug. 1687, and
2.
JOHN, resided on the south

b. 28
Joanna, had Mary,
Newton. JOSIAH, s. of Capt. James Parker and w. Elizabeth, was b. in Groton 1655, and resided there until 1683, and perhaps later; was an innholder in Woburn from 1693 to 1695, and in Camb. 1696 and for many subsequent In 1699 he purchased a part of the homestead of John Jackson, and years. in 1 708 the remainder, fronting on Brattle Street and Brattle Square extending from Palmer Street to Church Street, or thereabouts, and bounded northHe m. Elizabeth Saxon, or Sexton, of Boston, and erly on the burial ground. had in Groton, Elizabeth, b. 31 Aug. 1679, m. Samuel Livermore 15 Nov. 1699; John, b. 13 Ap. 1681; Sarah, b. 1 May 1683, m. Stephen Coolidge 30 Ap. 1702, and Nicholas Fessenden, Jr., 8 Aug. 1706; he had also, Susanna, b. m. Samuel Gookin, Jr., 28 Feb. 1711-12; Joshua; William, prob. d. young; Ann, m. William Warland 3 July 1718 (Joshua, William, and Ann, bap. here 3 Ap. 1698); Mary, bap. 11 Dec. 1698, m. Thomas Dana 22 Jan. 1718-19, and d. 10 Oct. 1739; Thomas, bap. 15 Dec. 1700, grad. H. C. 1718, minister at Dracut, d. 18 Mar. 1765. JOSIAH the f. was a Captain and served in the war against the Indians he was in command at
several others in
4.
, ;
Probably Mary Danforth, dau. of Nicholas, and sister of "Deputy-governor Thomas Danforth. In the Steward's account with
Parish, who graduated at Harvard College in 1659, credit is given for payments, to wit:
Thomas
"
I.
i.
d.
qr.
7.
7. 10. 55, payd by his unckell 1. 58-9, payd'by his unckell
Thomas Danforth, Thomas Danforth,
5.
5. 8.
2
1
4.
9. 6.
Sume
is
9.
15. 2. 3
"
PARKER
PATRICK.
623
Groton 21 July 1706, when Nathaniel Healy of Newton, one of his company, was "waylaid" and slain, together with John Myrick and Ebenezer Seager, He also of Newton, " as they were going to meeting on the Sabbath day." was Selectman 1710, and'd. between 26 July and 6 Aug. 1731; his w. Elizabeth survived.
5.
STEPHEN, parentage not

JOHN, perhaps
.
ascertained,
by w. Susanna, had Hannah,
b. 27
Feb. 1704-5.
if so, a second son of that name, m. s. of Josiah (4), but " (dau. of Nathaniel), 20 Dec. 1711, and d. 2 Nov. 1712, aged 22 years 10 mo and 11 days," according to the inscription on his gravestone. 7. JOSHUA, s. of Joshua (4), m. Mary, dau. of Nicholas Fessenden senior, 15 June 1712, and had Mary, bap. 12 Oct. 1712; Elizabeth. 8. ELEAZAR, prob. s. of Eleazar of Groton, and nephew of Josiah (4), b. at Groton 25 Sept. 1695, m. Hannah Humphrey at Camb. 24 Mar. 1719-20, and had Elizabeth, bap. 21 May 1721, d. young Hannah, bap. 17 Mar. 1722-3; Mary, bap. 15 Aug. 1725, m. Joseph Grant of Chs. 3 Oct. 1745 Elizabeth, bap. 29 June 1727, m. Benjamin Cheney 3 Jan. 1744-5; Sarah, bap. 13 Ap. 1729; Eleazar, bap. 27 Jan. 1733-4; Joseph and Benjamin, twins, bap. 11 Ap. 1736. ELEAZAR the f. was a shoemaker. 9. DAVID, by w. Elizabeth, had David, b. 13 Oct. 1791; Elizabeth, b. 11 Nov. 1793; Alice, b. 4 Sept. 1799. 10. SCARBOROUGH, m. Hannah Goddin of Watertown 27 Ap. 1794; son Jonathan died 30 June 1796. 11. AARON, m. Lydia, dau. of Joseph Bates, 1 Jan. 1801, and had Mary Snow, b. 29 Dec. 180"l Aaron, b. 20 Feb. 1803; Benjamin, b. 15 Ap. 1804; Lydia, b. 16 Oct. 1805; Jane, b. 18 Aug. 1807; Joseph Bates, b. 19 June 1810. AARON the f. d. 23 Feb. 1822, a. 48. EXPERIENCE, m. Thomas Foster 30 Nov. 1686. ELIZABETH, m. Aaron Bordman 14 Oct. 1708. ELIZABETH, m. Thomas Thwing 6 Mar. 1764. JOSHUA (of Westford), m. Hannah Kidder 26 Ap. 1744. NOAH, m. Hannah Livermore 4 Dec. 1777. PATIENCE, m. Coolidge P. Woods 2 May 1793. PARKS, RICHARD, here as early as 1638; resided on the easterly side of North Avenue near the Common; and afterwards on the south side of the river. He d. between 12 July and 19 Oct. 1665, leaving s. Thomas, and two dau. not named, one of whom was Isabel, w. of Francis Whitmore, and the other prob. Elizabeth, w. of Edward AVinship.
6.
Mary Hancock
Richard (1), m. Abigail Derkes (or Dix) 1 Dec. 1653, and Nov. 1654, d. 28 Aug. 1681 John, b. 6 Sept. 1656, was a soldier under Capt. Beers, in the disastrous battle with the Indians near Northfield, Sept. 1675, where he had an arm broken and was crippled for life Abigail, b. 3 Mar. 1658, m. John Fisk Edward, b. 8 Ap. 1661 Richard, b. 21 Dec. 1663 Sarah, b. 21 Mar. 1666, m. John Knap, Jr., of Wat.; Rebecca,}). 13 Ap. 1668, m. John Sanger of Wat.; Jonathan, b. 27 Aug. 1670; Elizabeth, b. 28 July 1679, m. John Holland. THOMAS the f. d. 11 Aug. 1689 his w. Abigail d. 3 Feb. 1691, and his estate was divided 12 Mar. 1693-4, to eight surviving children. 3. EDWARD, before 1648 purchased of Col. George Cooke, a house at the N. W. corner of Brighton and Mount Auburn streets, with several parcels of outlands; to which the town added a grant of seventy-two acres on the Rocks. It is not certain that he ever resided here, or even crossed the Atlantic he may have made the purchase in England, whither Cooke had returned and entered the military service of Cromwell. These parcels of real estate were conveyed to John Stedman 1 June 1655, by Henry Parks of London, mer" son and heir of Edward Parks of chant, London, merchant, deceased," to whom they had been devised by will. PARLEN, NICHOLAS (otherwise written Parly n), m. Sarah Hanmore 30 Nov. 1665, and had John, b. 31 Mar. 1666; Sarah, b. 1 Aug. 1668; Hannah, b. 8 Aug. 1670; Elizabeth, b. 8 June 1672; Mary, b. 25 Nov. 1675; Susanna, b. 16 Ap. 1677; Abigail, b. 14 June 1680. PATRICK, DANIEL, was here as early as May 1632, and resided at the S. E. corner of Brighton and Winthrop streets. He was one of the first two military
2.
THOMAS,
s.
of
had Thomax,
b. 2
624
PATRICK
PATTEN.
commanders appointed in the Colony. At a General Court 7 Sept. 1630, it was " Ordered, that Mr. Patrick and Mr. Underhill shall have allowed them for
half a year's provision, 2 hogsheads of meal, 4 bushels of malt, 10 pounds of powder and lead to make shot, also houseroom provided for them, and 15 12s. in money to make their provisions; all this to be done at the public And charge; their year to begin from the time they begin to keep house." when officers were appointed 9 March 1636-7, for the several Train-bands, Mr. Daniel Patrick and Mr. John Underhill are named as Captains "for the CounHe served three months in the Pequot war, and performed try's service."
other military service, until Nov. 1637, when " the Court did give way to Capt. Patrick's remove to Ipswich, discharging him from any further service, and gave him a quarter's pay for a gratuity." (Col. Rec.) But Bond says he was a Selectman in Watertown 1638. He subsequently rem. to Connecticut, and was " About this killed in a quarrel time, by a Dutchman 1643. Winthrop says, Daniel Patrick was killed at Stamford a who shot him Dutchman, Capt. by dead with a pistol. This Captain was entertained by us out of Holland (where he was a common soldier of the Prince's guard), to exercise our men. made him a Captain, and maintained him. After, he was admitted a member of the Church of Watertown and a freeman. But he grew very proud and vicious," etc. Capt. Patrick had a wife, described by Winthrop as "a good Dutch woman and comely " but it is not known that he left any posterity. PATTEN, WILLIAM (otherwise written Pattin, and Patting), was here as early as 13 Mar. 1635-6, when he agreed to take charge of a part of the town herd of cattle. By w. Mary he had Mary, b. before his arrival here Jan. Oct. 1636; Nathaniel, d. William, d. 22 Mar. 1645-6; Thomas, b. 1639; Sarah, d. young; Nathaniel, b. 29 July 1643. WILLIAM the f. res. on the easterly side of North Avenue opposite the Common; and d. 10 Dec. 1668; his w. Mary d. 20 Sept. 1673.
We
2.
THOMAS,
d. 19
s.
of
William
(1), settled in
Billerica;
he m. Rebecca
1689, and Sarah Didson (or Ditson) of Reading 20 May 1686. His children were Mary, b. 21 Aug. 1664; Thomas, b. 22 Mar. 1665-6 ; Nathaniel, b. 14 Sept. 1668, d. about 1718, leaving family; William, b. 12 May 1671, a Deacon at Billerica, d. here of small-pox 5 Oct. 1730, while attending the General Court as Representative; Rebecca, b. 29 Jan. 1674-5; Sarah, b. 18 June 1677; Elizabeth, b. 8 May 1680; Mehetabel, b. 28 Feb. 1686-7; Kendall, b. 20 Ap. 1689. THOMAS the f. d. 16 Jan. 1689-90; his w. Sarah m. Thomas Richardson 29 Dec. 1690. 3. NATHANIEL, s. of William (1), m. Rebecca Adams 24 Nov. 1669; she d. 18 Dec. 1677, and he m. Sarah Cooper 8 Oct. 1678; she d. and he m. Sarah Hancock 15 Oct. 1711. His chil. were Nathaniel and John, twins, b. 24 Sept. 1672; Anna, b. 20 Ap. 1674, m. Nathaniel Eames of Framingham, and was living in 1725; William, b. 12 July 1676; Mary, b. 24 July 1679, m. Walter Russell 17 May 1699, and d. before 1706 ; Samuel, b. 2 Jan. 1681-2 ; Elizabeth, m. John Russell 30 Mar. 1710, living at Killingry, Conn., 1725; Daniel, b. 18 Jan. 1689 (I suspect this last should be Hannah, instead of Daniel; Hannah d. 16 Sept. 1739, a. 50, naming sister Russell in her will). NATHANIEL the f. d. 12 June 1725. 4. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (3), m. Deborah she d. 7 Mar. ; 1715-26 (G. S. 9 Mar.), and he m. Sarah Frost 17 May 1720. His children
who
May
were Nathaniel,
b. 10 Dec. 1702; Abigail, b. 6 May 1705, m. Sebas Jackson 2 Dec. 1731; Jonathan, b. Oct. 1706, prob. the same who was killed by the falling of a clay bank where he was digging 22 Dec. 1730; his bro. Nathaniel
1 Feb. 1730-31; Deborah, b. 25 July 1708, d. 22 Oct. 1708; Deborah, b. 6 Sept. 1709; Phebe, b. 2 Dec. 1711; Prixcilla, b. 6 June 1713; Sarah, b. prob. 1714, bap. 10 Ap. 1715; Daniel, b. 22 Feb. 1715-16. NATHANIEL the f. d. about 1727; his w. Sarah administered 8 May 1727, and d. at Menot. 11 Aug. 1747, a. 78. 5. JOHN, s. of Nathaniel (3), m. Margaret, dau. of Reuben Luxford, 13
was appointed administrator
Mar. 1699-1700, and had Margaret, b. 5 Mar. 1700-1, m. Charles Hunnewell of Chs. 8 Nov. 1733; Luxford, b. 31 Mar. 1704; John, b. 8 Nov. 1706, was a
PATTEN
PELH AM
625
,
living 24 carpenter, residing in Stoughton 24 Ap. 1728; Rebecca, b. June 1730, and prob. the "spinster" who bought a small estate (two rods square) on the easterly side of North Avenue, opposite the Common, 24 June 1768. JOHN the f. resided on the southerly side of Brattle street, between Ash and Sparks streets, and d. about 1717; his w. Margaret d. 19 Feb. 1717-18: Amos Marrett was appointed administrator on the estates of both John and Margaret 22 Feb. 1717-18. 6. WILLIAM, s. of Nathaniel (3), m. Abigail, dau. of Stephen Willis of Medf., 3 Jan. 1700-1, and had in Camb., William, b. 21 Aug. 1701, m. Ann Seccomb 17 Nov. 1726, and had family in Medf. Abigail, b. 11 June 1708; Rebecca, b. 14 Jan. 1705-6; Stephen, b. 19 June 1707; 'Eliot, b. 15 May 1709; Mary, b. 20 May 1711; and in Medf., John, b. 1 Jan. 1712-13; Aaron, b. 16 Ap. 1717; Thomas, b. 2 Feb. 1718-19, m. Mary Tufts of Chs. 10 Jan. 1745, and had family in Medf., where his w. Mary d. 28 Aug. 1764, a. 42. WILLIAM the f. appears to have removed to Medf. about 1712, and d. there 7
;
Sept. 1744, a. 68.
NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (4), in 1727 was a housewright in KillingConn., but returned, and was a resident here in 1730. Perhaps he was the same who owned a house at the N. E. corner of Mount Auburn Street and Brattle Square 1751, which he sold in 1755, being styled "cooper" in the deeds. He had Jonathan, bap. 12 Aug. 1744; Ebenezer, bap. 22 July 1750.
7.
ly,
of John (5), m. Rebecca Robbins 11 May 1727, and had LUX1728; Rebecca, b. 14 May 1730, d. 11 Mar. 1735-6. FORD the f. was a mason, inherited the homestead, and d. before 17 May 1730. His w. Rebecca was appointed administratrix 26 June 1730. PATTERSON, JAMES, prob. of Billerica, m. Rebecca Stevenson 29 May 1662. They resided in Billerica 1695. PErucE, MARK (or Pierce), owned an estate at the N. E. corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn streets 1642, when that corner was about a hundred feet
8.
LUXFORD,
b. 10
s.
Mary,
May
northerly from
2.
its
present position.
of Chs., had six children bap. here, viz., Martha, 8 Aug. 1697; Benjamin, 2 Oct. 1698; Elizabeth, 28 July 1700; Isaac, 9 Aug. 1702; John, 23 Ap. 1704; Stephen 30 Ap. 1709. 3. JAMES, of Chs., m. Mary Prentice 10 Feb. 1731-2, perhaps lived on the Chs. side of the line, but his children were baptized here, as follows: Mary,
JONATHAN, perhaps
10 Dec. 1732; John, 14 Dec. 1735; Susanna, 16 Oct. 1737; James, 30 Dec. 1739; Abigail, 20 Dec. 1741; George, 30 Oct. 1743; Hannah, 10 Nov. 1745; Samuel, 23 Oct. 1748. Probably the same James m. Alice, wid. of Ebenezer Fessenden, 26 June 1760, and afterwards res. here. MARY, servant of Nathaniel Sparhawk, d. 12 July 1647. JOSEPH, m. Hannah Munroe 21 Dec. 1692. JOHN, m. Susanna Marrett 27 Sept. 1722. ALICE, m. Thomas Read 1 Ap. 1773. NATHANIEL, m. Mary Fisk 28 June 1776. RICHARD, m. Anna Dickson 21 Oct. 1784. SAMUEL, m. Sophia Stedman 20 Mar. 1796. ELIJAH, m. Rebecca Ransford 19 Feb. 1797. PELHAM, HERBERT, Esq., s. of Herbert, Esq., and Catherine, eldest dau. of Lord Delaware (or De la Warr), and a near relative, on his father's side, to the Duke of Newcastle, was b. 1601, and resided in Lincolnshire, England. He was an early friend of the emigrants to Massachusetts, and promoted their In 1638 or 1639, he enterprise by his influence, his advice, and his money. removed his family hither and settled in Cambridge. He res. at the N. W. corner of Dunster and South streets; the same estate having been previously
occupied by Gov. Thomas Dudley, and by Roger Harlakenden, Esq., whose widow became the wife of Pelham. He was Selectman 1645, Assistant from 1645 to 1649; Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1645, 1646, and intrusted by the General Court with much important business as a member of Committees and otherwise. He was also the first Treasurer of Harvard College, elected 27 Dec. 1643, and the second person named in the act incorporating the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians, 1649. He returned to England about 1649, was afterwards member of Parliament, rendered fre-
quent and important services to the Colony, and d. according to Morant, June
,
40
626
PELHAM.
" Parish 1674; but, according to a certified copy of the Register of Bures, St. in the Co. of Suffolk," which was his last residence, he was buried 1 July 1673. His first wife was Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas and granddaughter of Sir William Waldegrave, by whom he had Waldegrave, bap. 26 Sept. 1627, the principal heir of the English estates, buried 12 Nov. 1699 Penelope, b. about 1631, m. Gov. Josiah Window, and d. at Marshfield 7 Dec. 1703, a. 72 Nathaniel, bap. 5 Feb. 1631-2, grad. H. C. 1651, embarked for England with Capt. Garrett Nov. 1657, and was lost; by his second wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Godfrey Bosville, Esq., and wid. of Roger Harlakenden, Esq., he had Mary, b. 12 Nov. 1638, according to the town Record, but manifestly a mistake; the date should prob. be 1639 or 1640; Frances, b. 9 Nov. 1643; Herbert,b. 3 Oct. 1645, bur. 2 Jan. 1645-6; and a son Edward, whose birth is not recorded, but who was the principal heir to the estates here; also Henry, named in a legal document as younger than Edward. Other children are named in the father's will 1 Jan. 1672-3, viz., Anna ; Katherine Clark ; a dau., w. of Cuthlach Eliot. He names also two sisters, Penelope, who was w. of Gov. Bellingham and d. 29 May 1702, a. about 83, and Elizabeth, who d. unm. at Marshfield 1 Ap. 1706, a. 83. Capt. William Pelham of Sudbury was prob. brother to Herbert Pelham,
Mary
2. EDWARD, s. of Herbert (1), grad. H. C. 1673, remained in New EngHe seems never to have engaged in any useful land, and d. 20 Sept. 1 730. or remunerative business, but rather to have lived on his income as a gentleman at large. In his early life he was probably dissipated, certainly indisOne of his freaks while in College is related on pp. 225, 226. The creet. jmxiety and disapprobation of his father may be inferred from his will, dated " 1 Jan. 1672, in which he lands, tenements, and heregives this son all his ditaments in New England in the Massachusetts Bay in America, situate, lying and being in Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, or elsewhere within the said Colony," and a life estate in some lands in England; he also bequeaths certain personal property to '' my son Winslow for the use of my son Edward Pelham, to be paid unto him in New England, if he reside there, upon the conditions hereafter expressed; that is to say, if he the said Edward shall so
Esq.
of New Plymouth Government, that he is now grown serious, sober, and solid, and follows his study, and avoids all idle and profane company, and that they verily conceive there is a real change in him for the better, and not only to But if in all these years he will not be reattain his ends thereby claimed," then the property shall go to others. In sundry documents he is He had wife Freestyled of Boston 1676, and of Newport, R. I., 1691-1711. love in 1693, and is said to have had a previous w. Godsgift, dau. of Gov. Benedict Arnold of Newport; Savage suggests that the two wives may have been His chil. were Edward and Thomas, to whom he conveyed all his sisters. lands in Cambridge and Watertown 23 Nov. 1711, at which date the father and both sons are described as " gentlemen " of Newport, R. I.
3. EDWARD, s. of Edward (2), executed his will at Newport 21 May 1740, " Hermione, the wife of John Bannaming wife Arabella and three daus., viz. ister of Newport aforesaid merchant," Elizabeth, and Penelope. Among the articles bequeathed to his father by Herbert Pelham, Esq., was an " inlaid cabinet," which was purchased about 1842 by Mr. Robert Bolton of Bedford, West Chester Co., N. Y., together with portraits of Charles II., Queen Henrietta Maria, Col. Godfrey Bosville, and Elizabeth Bosville. In a letter to Rev. John L. Sibley, Librarian of Harvard College, announcing this pur" Edward Pelham died at Newchase, dated 19 Jan. 1867, Mr. Bolton says, port, R. I., 1740, leaving two daughters: 1st Hermione, who m. John Bannister, from whose granddaughter Elizabeth I purchased the pictures and cabinet 2d, Penelope, who m. Joseph Cowley of Wolverhampton, England, whose dau. Henrietta m. Admiral Jahleel Brenton, a native of Newport, R. I." 4. THOMAS, s. of Edward (2), had w. Abigail but whether he had children
; ;
behave and demean himself that he can procure either the hands of the Governor and four of the Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay or
is
not ascertained.
PHILLIPS
POLLY.
627
PHILLIPS, JOHN, a clergyman, came from England in 1638, and dwelt a He had several invitations to settle, but was undecided short time at Salem. which to accept. In 1639 he removed here, as it would seem for the purpose The Church paid the expense of of becoming a colleague with Mr. Shepard. his removal, and fitted up a house of Mr. Pelham for his use. He remained here about a year, during which time he erected a house on the northerly side of Kirkland Street, afterwards the homestead of Deputy-gov. Danforth and the Foxcrofts. His connection with this Church, however, was not permanent, and he was not "called to office." In 1640 he removed to Dedham, and united with the Church, preparatory to taking office there. But this intenCircumstances prevented his settletion, like the former, was frustrated. ment, and he resolved to return to England. He sailed 26 Oct. 1641, and He was afterwards minister at arrived after a long and tempestuous passage. Wrentham, Eng., and is supposed to have been a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. The particulars concerning his residence here are gleaned from the Town Records and other ancient memoranda. 2. SAMUEL, supposed to be son of Rev. George of Watertown, sold land on the south side of the river to John Jackson 10 Ap. and 11 June 1648, bounded on land of Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips, probably the wid. of Rev. George, who d. 1 July 1644. See Farmer. H. C. 1728, a PHIPS, SPENCER, by w. Elizabeth, had William, b. , Captain, d. s. p. before 22 June 1752; Mary, b. 30 May 1710, d. 8 June 1716; Sarah, b. 19 Oct. 1712, m. Andrew Bordman 25 Feb. 1731-2, and d. in Dec. 1793; Eliakim, b. 7 Oct. 1714, d. 3 Dec. 1714; Elizabeth, bap. 9 Dec. 1716, m. John Vassall, 10 Oct. 1734, and d. 22 Sept. 1739; Spencer, bap. 20 Feb. 1721, a Lieutenant, d. before 7 April 1747; David, bap. 26 Aug. 1722, d. 21 Sept. 1722; Eliakim, bap. 25 Aug. 1723, d. young, David, b. 25 Sept. 1724; Mary, b. 27 Dec. 1725, m. Richard Lechmere (pub. 1 March 1754); Rebecca, b. 14 Feb. 1727, m. Joseph Lee, Esq. (pub. 15 Feb. 1755). SPENCER the f. was son of Dr. David Bennett of Rowley by his w. Rebecca Spencer; he was b. at Rowley 6 June 1685, and was early adopted by Gov. William Phips, whose wife was sister to Mrs. Bennett. He took the name of Phips when quite young, which was confirmed to him as his legal name by the General Court 18 June 1716. He grad. H. C. 1703, was a Colonel, Representative 1721, Councillor He bought the Haugh farm of more 1721-1732, Lieut. -governor 1732-1757. than 300 acres, embracing the whole of East Cambridge and the northeasterly portion of Cambridgeport, 15 Aug. 1706, and soon afterwards removed here. He also bought 2 Oct. 1714 the estate formerly owned by Dr. James Oliver, on Arrow Street near Bow Street, afterwards known as the Winthrop estate,
which became
1764.
s.
his homestead.
He
d. 4
Ap. 1757; his
w. Elizabeth d. 7
May
DAVID, Mary Greenleaf of Boston 13 Sept. 1753, and had Mary, b. 20 Ap. 1757; Spencer, b. 4 Mar. 1760; Sarah, b. 26 Ap. 1762; Rebecca, b. 26 June 1763; William, b. 18 Dec. 1764; Stephen Greenleaf, b. 28 Ap. 1767; Elizabeth Hutchinxon, b. 25 Sept. 1770. DAVID the f. grad. H. C. 1741, was a Colonel, Representative 1753, and High Sheriff of Middlesex 1764-1774. He inherited the homestead, and resided there until the Revolution, when he adhered to the King and went with his family to England, where he d. 7 July 1811. His estate here was confiscated; but the loss was repaired by benefits which the British Government bestowed on him and on
his children.
of Spencer (1), m.
PICKE, JOHN, by w. Mary, had Abigail, b. 22 Ap. 1642. See Pickering. PICKERING, JOHX, by w. Mary, had Lydia, b. 5 Nov. 1638. I suspect this John Pickering and the foregoing John Picke, are but different forms of the same name. PINSON, EDWARD, m. Anna, dau. of Deac. John Cooper 2 Aug. 1664. She d. 8 May 1666, and he disappears.
PLACE, THOMAS, POLLY, GEORGK,
sold land adjoining the " west-end field," 1639.

fined for breach of a
Perhaps
he was the freeman of 1640.
Town Order
1657.
628
POST
PRATT
PRENTICE.
POST, STEPHEN (otherwise written Poast), owned a house and twelve acres on the south side of the river, 1635. He rem. with Hooker to Hartford, where he was Constable in 1641. " Some of the family moved down the River." Hinman. " 2. THOMAS, a weaver, had a grant 1669, of fencing timber for his garden," and resided on the westerly side of Dunster Street, between Harvard and Mount Auburn streets, in 1673. He may have been son of Stephen (1), but the traces of his early history have been obliterated. He d. between 28 Mar. and 7 Ap. 1691 and bequeathed his whole estate to Nathaniel Hancock, direct30 to his heirs at law, viz.: to dau. Rebecca Post, now dwelling him to pay ing in England, near Gravesend, to grandson Thomas Post, and to grandson John Satle (Sawtell), which last named grandson was to have all the testator's books, except the great Bible. PRATT, JOHN, was here in 1633, and owned a house 1635 on the northerly side of Mount Auburn Street, between Brighton Street and Brattle Square, which he soon sold to Joseph Isaac. He rem. to Hartford, where " he was a He Juror, Deputy, and Magistrate, and was an important man in the Colony. came here among the first settlers of Hartford." Hinman. 2. JOHN, styled on our records "Mr. Pratt," was one of the earliest inThat we had two Johns at the same time appears from the fact habitants. " 5 Jan. that land was granted to " John Pratt 1634-5, and another lot to " Mr. Pratt," on the same day also from the fact that one removed to HartThe ford, as aforesaid, while a more tragical fate was reserved for the other. last named John came here, under an agreement with the Company of Adventurers, as appears by a record on a fly leaf of the Colony Records, vol. i., under date of 5 Mar. 1628-9: "A proposition being made to entertain a surgeon for the plantation, Mr. Pratt was propounded as an able man, upon these condiThat 40 should be allowed him, viz., for his chest 25, the tions, namely, rest for his own salary for the first year provided he continue three years, the company to be at the charge of transporting his wife and a yo[uth, to] have 20 a year for the other two years, and to build him a house [at] the company's charge, and to allot him 100 acres of ground; but if he stay but one year, then the company to be at charge of his bringing back for England, and he to He settled leave his serv[ant] and the chest for -the company's service." But becoming dissatisfied, he wrote a here, and remained quietly for a time. letter to a friend in England, for which he was called to account by the magisHis answer, which is recorded in Col. Rec., i. 358-360, is trates 3 Nov. 1635. worth preserving and is inserted elsewhere. His offence was pardoned, and he remained about ten years longer, when he sailed for England, with Capt. Thomas Coytmore, and together with his wife was wrecked and drowned near the coast of Spain, in Dec. 1644. " This man was above 60 years old, an experienced surgeon, who had lived in New England many years, and was of the First Church at Cambridge in Mr. Hooker's time, and had good practice, and wanted nothing. But he had been long discontented, because his employment was not so profitable to himself as he desired, and it is like he feared lest he should fall into want in his old age, and therefore he would needs go back into England (for surgeons were then in great request there by occasion of the war); but God took him away childless." Savage's Winthrop, i. 173;
;
; ;
ii.
239.
PRENTICE, THOMAS (otherwise written Prentis, and Prentiss), settled on the south side of the river, and by w. Grace, had Grace, b. in England 1648, m. Thomas Oliver 27 Nov. 1667, and d. 31 Sept. 1681, a. 33; Thomas, and Elizabeth, twins, b. here 22 Jan. 1649-50; Mary, b. about 1652; John, b. 2
Feb. 1653-4, d. 10 Jan. 1654-5; John, b. 10 July 1655, in. Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Jackson, and d. without issue 14 Mar. 1688-9; Hannah, b. 1661, d. 28 Ap. 1738. THOMAS the f. was the famous Captain of the Troop, distinin Philip's War. He also commanded the Troop which escorted Sir guished Edmund Andros, as a prisoner, from Rhode Island to Boston, August 1689. He was a Justice of the Peace 1686, and Representative three years, 1672 to 1674. His name often occurs in the history of his times, and all accounts
PRENTICE.
concur
629
an active, energetic, and valuable public officer. consequence of a fall from his horse about two months previously, on his return from a meeting on the Sabbath. His wife Grace d. 9 Oct. 1692. 2. JAMES, also resided on the south side of the river, and by w. Susanna, had James, prob. b. 11 Mar. 1655-6; Susanna, b. 29 June 1657; Hannah, b. 24 Ap. 1659; Elizabeth, b. 25 Aug. 1660; Sarah; Rose. JAMES the f. d. 7 Mar. 1709-10. His w. Susanna survived. 3. THOMAS, early called Thomas, Jr., to distinguish him from his con" temporary the Trooper," supposed to be brother to James (2), with whom he purchased a farm in 1650, m. Rebecca, dau. of Edward Jackson, and had (as given by Binney in his History of the Prentice Family), Thomas, b. about 1669; John; Edward, b. about 1685; James; Rebecca; Hannah; Enos ; Ebenezer. He is supposed to be the same who d. 6 Nov. 1722, a. 93. 4. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), m. Sarah Stanton 20 Mar. 1675, and had Thomas, b. 13 Jan. 1676; John, b. about 1682; birth not recorded, but named in the will of his Uncle John, 1689, and supposed to be the grad. of H. C. 1700, and minister at Lancaster. Binney mentions also, Grace : and Samuel, b. about 1689. THOMAS the f. d. 19 Ap. 1685, and administration was granted 4 May, to his wid. Sarah and his father, Captain Thomas Prentice. 5. JOHN, s. of Thomas (3), cordwainer, and afterwards physician, m. HanHe d. at nah Osland 1696; she d. 2 May 1704, and he m. Bethia Newton 4 Jan. 1720-21, naming in his will w. Bethia and six daughters, who are again named in the division of his estate 1 754 Hannah, w. of Thomas Soden Experience, w. of William Darby; Rebecca, w. of Daniel Collins;
He
in representing
him
as
d. 7
July 1709,
a. 89, in
unm. Bethia, deceased; Anna, w. of Nathan Hyde, also deceased. here dismiss the Newton family of Prentice, as since 1688 it disappears from the Camb. Records. An extensive genealogy may be found in the History of the Prentice Family by C. J. F. Binney, and the History of Newton by Francis Jackson. 6. HENRY, was an early emigrant to New England, and the ancestor of the Camb. family of Prentice. He was a proprietor, and perhaps a resident, of He sold his Sudbury lands to John Sudbury, but settled here before 1643. Goodnow 6 Feb. 1648. His w. Elizabeth d. here 13 May 1643; and he m. Joane (Joanna) by whom he had Mary, b. 25 Nov. 1644, m. Nathaniel Hancock 8 Mar. 1663-4 Solomon, b. 23 Sept, 1646 Abiah, b. 22 May 1648; Samuel, b. 3 Aug. 1650; Sarah, m. John Woodward; Henry; all these, except Abiah, were living, and named in a conveyance of real estate 31 Dec. 1713. HEXRV the f. was a husbandman, and d. 9 June 1654; his w. Joanna m. John Gibson 24 July 1662. 7. SOLOMON, s. of who d. and he m. Hepzibah Henry (6), m. Elizabeth before 1676. His children were Solomon, b. 7 June 1674; Thomas, b. 25 Aug. 1676; Mary, b. 4 Jan. 1678-9, m. Benjamin Balch of Chs. 4 Jan. 1710-fl, d. before 1742, and was mother of Rev. Thomas Balch of Dedham, who grad. H. C. 1733 Stephen, b. 1 June 1681 Nathaniel, b. 20 July 1684, d. 18 Sept. 1688; Elizabeth (twin), b. 25 July 1684, d. unm. 14 May 1727; NaSOLOMON the f. was a husthaniel, b. 18 Oct. 1689; Henry, b. about 1693. bandman and brickmaker. In 1672 he bought a house and land on the westerly side of the Common, on which estate near the close of his life he erected a new house, supposed to be the same not long ago occupied by Misses Betsey and Persis Bates. He d. 24 July 1719, a. nearly 73 his w. Hepzibah d. 5 Jan. 1741-2, a. 88. [According to the Town Records, Thomas, s. of Solomon and Elizabeth, was b. 7 June 1674, and the birth of Solomon is not recorded. I am confident that Thomas is a mistake for Solomon. Solomon was 84 years old at his death in 1758, as inscribed on his gravestone, corresponding with his birth in 1674; and the age of Thomas, at his death 7 Dec. 1709, is inscribed on his gravestone with much minuteness, as 33 years 3 months and 12 days, answering to his birth at the date assumed by me, 25 Aug. 1676. Moreover, there is no evidence that Solomon was the son of the 2d w. Hepzibah; but it is certain, from the recorded settlement of Hepzibah's estate, that Thomas was her sou.]
Elizabeth,
I
; ,
; ; ,
630
PRENTICE.
8. HKNRY, s. of Henry (6), m. Mary Gove 7 Ap. 1682, and had John, b. Mar. 1682-3; Mary, b. 11 Dec. 1684, d. 2 May 1685; Mary. b. 4 Dec. 1685, d. 11 Mar. 1685-6; Hannah, b. 19 Jan. 1686-7, d. 3 June 1687; Jonathan, b. 4 Ap. and d. 1 May 1688; Sarah, b. 6 Ap. and d. 31 May 1689; Tabitha, bap. 6
Aug. 1697; Nathaniel, bap. 11 Dec. 1698; Jacob, b. 18 Aug. 1700, d. 18 Feb. Susanna, b. 29 Mar. and d. 22 July 1 703. 9. SOLOMON, s. of Solomon (7), by w. Lydia, had Samuel, bap. 12 June 1698, d. young; Ruth, b. 31 Oct. 1700, m. William Dickson 12 June 1718; Lydia, b. 8 Mar. 1702-3, m. John Cooper 6 Ap. 1721, and Thomas Kidder 8 Ap. 1725; Solomon, b. 11 May 1705, grad. H. C. 1727, minister at Grafton, d. 22 May 1773; Samuel, b. 5 May 1707; Jonnna, b. 5 Feb. 1709-10, m. Samuel Cook 31 Mar. 1726; Ebene'zer, b. 29 May 1712; Sarah, b. 11 Mar. 1714-15, m. Jonathan Cooper 25 Oct. 1732; Daniel, b. 17 May 1717; Stephen, b. 26 Feb. 1719-20, m. Esther Cutter 6 Aug. 1741, rem. to Grafton; Mary, b. 25 Sept. 1723. SOLOMON the f. resided on the estate, of which the Botanic Garden is a part, at the corner of Garden and Linna3an streets, and d. 25
8
1
700-1
84; his w. Lydia d. 25 Ap. 1758, a. 81. s. of Solomon (7), m. Maria Russell 28 Dec. 1696; she d. 1 May 1701, and he m. Mary Batson 6 Nov. 1701. His chil. were Thomas, bap. 21 Nov. 1697, d. young; Mary, bap. 2 Ap. 1699, m. Francis Kidder 13 Feb. 1717-18, Philip Cook about 1725, and Samuel Sprague of Stoneham 4 Ap. 1740 Thomas, b. 9 Dec. 1702; John, b. 3 Mar. 1703-4, prob. the mariner of whose estate William Prentice and Matthew Johnson were appointed administrators 4 May 1738; Elizabeth, b. 22 Aug. 1705, m. Matthew Johnson of Chs. 9 May 1726; Henry, b. 25 Nov. 1706; William, b. 24 July 1708; HepziUnderbah, b. 29 Oct. 1 709, m. William Badger of Chs. 29 June 1 727, and wood of Boston before 1771; her son John Badger was brought up by his uncle William Prentice. THOMAS the f. was styled a brickmaker, and res. on the westerly side of Garden Street, opposite to the Botanic Garden; the cellar and well were visible recently. He d. 7 Dec. 1709, a. 33 years 3 months and 12 days, as inscribed on his gravestone; his w. Mary m. Nathaniel Robbins before 1720, and Samuel Lyon of Roxbury 24 Nov. 1742, after whose death she returned to her former dwelling, and d. here 2 Mar. 1760, a. 83. The epitaph on her gravestone was prob. written by her son, Rev. Thomas Prentice of Chs., and as a tribute of filial affection is worthy of preservation " Here lyes interr'd the body of Mrs. Mary Lyon, in her first marriage consort to Mr. Thomas Prentice whom she survived more than 50 years, and th expired March the 2d 1760, in the 84 year of her age, not impatient of life, but satisfied with it: Her children rise up, and call her blessed." 11. STEPHEN, s. of Solomon (7), m. Judith Frost of Chs. 8 July 1708; she d. and he m. Faith she d. 23 Jan. 1741-2, and he m. Lydia Prentice 10 Nov. 1743. He was a cordwainer, and res. on the westerly side of North Avenue, a few rods south of the Railroad Bridge. He was a Selectman 1744, and d. without issue, between 19 Mar. and 11 May 1761. 12. NATHANIEL, s. of Solomon (7), in. Hannah, dau. of John Wyeth, and had Jonas, b. 25 Ap. 1713; Nathaniel, b. 19 May 1715, a tailor, resided in Sherburn 1742; Hannah, b. 16 Dec. 1716, in. Thomas Fessenden of Lex. (pub. 6 Feb. 1734-5); Tabitha, b. 30 Aug. 1718, m. Eleazar Russell before 1742; Solomon, b. 31 Jan. 1720-21. NATHANIEL the f. was a brickmaker, and d. 24 Oct. 1722; his w. Hannah m. Jason Winship, 1724. 13. HENRY, s. of Solomon (7), m. Elizabeth Rand about 1718; she d. 13 Mar. 1748-9, and he m. Elizabeth Haley of Boston (pub. 21 Oct. 1 749). His chil. were Joshua, b. 9 Ap. 1719; Caleb, b. 21 Feb. 1721-2; Martha, b. 27 June 1724, m. John Ware of Sherburn 19 June 1743, and was mother of the late Rev. Henry Ware, Sen., D. D.; Elizabeth, b. 17 Oct. 1727, m. Rev. Amos Adams of Rox., 18 Oct. 1753, and d. before 1776; Thomas, bap. 20
a.
June 1758,
10.
THOMAS,
Sept. 1730, d. young; Hepzibah, bap. 23 Jan. 1731-2, m. Rev. of Berwick, 13 Oct. 1756; Thomas, bap. 6 O"ct. 1734, prob. d. 12
;
Jacob Foster Mar. 1735-6;
Nathan, b. 8 Ap. 1738, grad. H. C. 1756, a merchant in Berwick, Me., m. Mehetabel Spencer, and d. here 29 July 1769 Sarah, bap. 25 Jan. 1740-41,
PRENTICE.
631
m. Charles Hill of Berwick 15 Sept. 1757. HKNRY the f. was a husbandman and briekmaker; Deacon of Dr. Appleton's Church from 24 Nov. 1741 to 14 July 1 774, when he resigned on account of his advanced age. He inherited the homestead on the westerly side of the Common: he also purchased in 1729 a large part of the Holden Farm, bounded south on Fresh Pond and east on Alewife Brook, being the former southeasterly corner of Arlington. He retained possession of both estates through life but what proportion of the time he resided on each, has not been ascertained. When the War of the Revolution commenced, and Camb. became the headquarters of the Continental Army, Deac. Prentice retired to the house of his son, Rev. Joshua Prentice of Holliston, where he d. 18 Oct. 1778, a. 84; his w. Elizabeth d. 7
;
Ap. 1775,
14.
a. 78.
s.
of Henry (8), m. Mary Smith 5 Jan. 1704-5, and had Mary, m. James Pierce of Chs. 10 Feb. 1731-2; John, b. 18 July 1707, a currier, residing in South Carolina 1736; Henry, b. 4 Ap. 1711; Susanna, b. 20 Oct. 1712; Abigail, b. 24 May 1716 Smith and Ishmad, b. 11 [there is some confusion here the births are entered in different Sept. 1718 places on the Town Records, but of the same date, yet Smith's baptism is dated 6 Mar. 1725-6;] Lydia, b. 16 Mar. 1721-2, prob. m. Stephen Prentice 10 Nov. 1743; Reuben, b. 14 June 1726, m. Martha Hubbard 1 Mar. 1757, served in the French War, and was drowned 5 Oct. 1764; Tabitha, b. 8 Oct. 1728. JOHN the f. was a briekmaker, and res. on the south side of the Com-
JOHN,
b. 8 Oct. 1705,
mon, a very little in the rear of the old Washington School- house, the same estate which was for many years afterwards occupied by Miss Mary Hancock.
He
d.
24 Jan. 1741-2.
s. of Henry (8), grad. H. C. 1715, minister at Dunstable from about 1720, m. Mary, dau. of Maj. William Tyng 1724, and had Mary, b. 2 Jan. 1725; William Henry, b. 2 Dec. 1726; Nathaniel, b. 29 May 1729, an "officer in the Navy," d. unm. and Abraham Watson of Camb. was appointed adminstrator 1 May 1770; Lucy, prob. m. Abraham Watson 28 Mar.
15.
NATHANIEL,
All these children are named in their father's will 6 Dec. 1736. the f. d. 27 Feb. 1736-7, a. about 38. 16. SOLOMON, s. of Solomon (9), grad. H. C. 1727, settled in the ministry at Grafton 1731, m. Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel Sartell of Groton, 26 Oct. 1732, and had Solomon, b. 29 Oct. 1733, killed in blasting a well 25 Oct. 1747 Nathaniel Sartell, b. 8 Dec. 1735, settled at Alstead, N. H. Sarah, b. 14 Feb. and d. 2 Mar. 1737-8; John, b. 24 Feb. 1738-9, d. in Auburn, 26 Feb. 1812; Sarah, b. 29 Nov. 1740, d. young; Henry, b. 17 Nov. 1742; Sarah, b. 1 July 1744; Lydia, b. 22 May 1746 Solomon, b. 13 Aug. 1748, d. at Edenton, N. C. Mary, b. 12 Aug. 1751, m. Amos Binney of Hull, and was mother of the late Amos Binney, Navy Agent at Boston. Rev. Mr. Prentice was dismissed from his charge at Grafton 10 July 1747, on account of his favoring the preaching of Whitefield. He afterwards preached in Easton a few years, then in Bellingham, then in Hull from 1768 to 1772, and afterwards returned to Grafton, where he d. 22 May 1773, a. 68. [For most of the particulars in this paragraph, I am indebted to Binney 's History of the Prentice Family."] 17. SAMUEL, s. of Solomon (9), m. Elizabeth Cook 23 Dec. 1736, and had Lydia, b. 11 Mar. 1737-8, m. Samuel Whitney of Wat. 15 Jan. 1765; SAMUEL the f. res. in Elizabeth, b. 2 Ap. 1741, d. here unm. 10 Aug. 1817. Wat. and d. between 30 Sept. and 6 Nov. 1749. His w. Elizabeth survived. 18. EBENEZER, s. of Solomon (9), in. Sarah Peirce of Chs. 21 Aug. 1735, and had Ebenezer, b. 4 Mar. 1736-7; Solomon, b. 24 Ap. and d. 24 May 1739; Sarah, b. 20 Aug. 1741, m. John Robbins of Lex. 14 May 1761; Solomon, b. 14 Mar. 1743-4; George, b. 27 Sept. 1746; Mary, b. 16 Oct. 1747, d. young; Elizabeth, b. 4 Mar. 1748-9, d. 1750; Mary and Elizabeth, twins, b. 11 Jan. 1751-2, both d. young; Love, b. 27 Mar. 1755, m. Moses Hovey 11 Mar. 1776, and d. 9 May 1824. EBENE/ER the f. was a housewright, resided in Menot. and d. 30 Aug. 1790, a. 78; his w. Sarah d. 10 Nov. 1772. 19. DANIEL, s. of Solomon (9), m. Deborah Wyeth 29 Dec. 1743, and had Daniel, bap. 30 Dec. 1744, a housewright, was of Harvard 1796; Sarah, bap.
1751
John.
NATHANIEL
632
PRENTICE.
14 Sept. 1746; Sarah, bap. 6 Nov. 1748; Jonathan, bap. 19 Aug. 1750; Mercy, bap. 15 Oct. 1752; these four prob. d. young; Hepzibah, bap. 14 Mar. 1756, in. Thomas Goddard 11 Dec. 1777; Samuel, bap. 21 May 1758; Beulah, b. prob. 1760, named in settlement of estate, m. Timothy Tufts 9 May 1784. DANIEL the f. was styled " yeoman," inherited the homestead (Botanic Garden and adjoining lands, four and a half acres), and d. about 1776. His w. Deborah and s. Daniel were administrators 4 Mar. 1776. The estate was divided 11 Mar. 1777, between w. Deborah and chil. Daniel, Samuel, Hepzibah, and Beulah, 20. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (10), grad. H. C. 1726, minister at Arundel 1730, and installed at Charlestown 31 Oct. 1739. He m. Irene, dau. of Rev. Mr. Etnery of Wells; she d. 1745, and he m. Rebecca Austin of Chs. 16 Oct. 1746; she d. 1748, and he m. wid. Mary Butman of York, Me., who survived His chil. (besides others who him, and after his death returned to York. d. in infancy), were Irene, b. about 1737, d. here unm. 29 Ap. 1791, a. 54; Mary, m. Dr. James Frost of Camb. 1 Dec. 1768; he d. 22 July 1770, and their only child Mary was b. 3 Feb. and d. 24 Feb. 1771 the wid. subsequently m. Nehemiah Rand of Chs., and when that place was destroyed in June 1 775, rem. to Lyndeborough, N. H., where she d. before 1 791 Lucy, b. 1 8
;
Aug. 1740, d. young; Margaret, b. 9 Aug. 1 742, m. Nehemiah Rand of Lyndeborough 21 Oct. 1791; Thomas, b. 9 June 1745, d. young; Rebecca, b. 2 Mar. On 1747-8, m. Joseph Kettell of Boston 15 Mar. 1770, and d. 2 Feb. 1825. the destruction of Chs. 1775, Rev. Mr. Prentice removed into the house where he was born, in Camb., and resided there during the remainder of life. After the inhabitants of Chs. returned from their dispersion, he recommenced the labors of his ministry with them, which he continued to perform until both body and mind became so enfeebled that he was obliged to desist. It is related of him, that, on the last Sunday of his ministry, through sheer forgetfulness he repeated in the afternoon the same sermon which he had preached in the morning. He d. 17 June 1782, a. 80; his remains were removed to Chs. and buried by the people of his charge. 21. HENRY, s. of Thomas (10), m. Katherine Felch 31 Jan. 1728-9, and had Mary, b. 19 Oct. 1729, m. Moses Richardson before 1755, and d. 10 Mar. 1812, a. 82 HENRY the f. was a currier, and resided on the easterly side of Mason Street, near the Common. He is styled "junior " on the records, with reference to Deacon Henry Prentice, who was about a dozen years his senior. He rem. to Shrewsbury, which is named as his residence 1771, in the will of his brother William. He was prob. the same who m. Mary Walker 16 Oct. 1752 (still styled " junior," Deacon Prentice being yet alive), and had John, b. 27 July 1753 Thomas, b. 27 May 1755; Jerusha, b. 17 Oct. 1757; William, b. 12 Sept. 1760; Samuel, b. 10 June 1763; the last named is recorded as son of Henry Prentice of Shrewsbury. It appears probable that he subsequently returned, as a Henry Prentice d. here, 23 Aug. 1787, said to be a. 82, which
;
very nearly corresponds with his age.

22.
WILLIAM,
;
s.
of
of the homestead.
He
Thomas (10), was a cordwainer/and inherited a part m. Mary Badger of Chs. 6 Nov. 1629. They had no
but they adopted John Badger, son of his sister Hepzibah, and WILLIAM d. between 17 Ap. and 17 principal heir to the estate. his w. Mary was living in 1773. Sept. 1771 23. JONAS, s. of Nathaniel (12), m. Mercy Peirce of Chs. 22 Ap. 1736, and had Mercy, bap. 22 May 1737, m. Jonathan Cooper, Jr., 5 June 1755; Jonas, bap. 29 Ap. 1739; James, bap. 24 May 1741, grad. H. C. 1761, m. Lydia Saunders of Gloucester, was Captain of Marines on board a privateer in the Revolutionary War, and d. in Boston without issue 26 Nov. 1797; Nathaniel, born 14 Oct. 1743; Lydia, bap. 22 Sept. 1745, m. Edward Fillebrown 23 Aug. 1770, and was buried 2 Dec. 1832; John, bap. 28 Aug. 1748; Thomas, bap. 19 Jan. 1751-2; Elizabeth, bap. 29 Sept. 1754, m. James Fillebrown 5 June 1774; Hannah, bap. 13 Mar. 1757, m. John VVarland 12 Mar. 1776. JONAS the f. res. on the estate afterwards of Deac. Abel Whitney, on North Avenue, which he inherited from his uncle Stephen Prentice. He d. 14 Nov. 1775, a. 62; his w. Mercy d. 24 Feb. 1790, a. 76.
children
made him
PRENTICE.
24.
633
of Nathaniel (12), m. Hannah Fillebrown of Chs. 2 Nov. b. 11 Aug. 1745, d. 8 Sept. 1765; Hannah, b. 27 SOLOMON the f. July 1748; Isaac, b. 11 Dec. 1750; Sarah, b. 18 July 1761. was a fanner, and is said to have res. for a time in Wat. the date of his death is not ascertained; his w. Hannah d. in the almshouse 26 Aug. 1805. 25. JOSHUA, s. of Deac. Henry (13), grad. H. C. 1738, ordained at Holliston 18 May 1 743, and d. 24 Ap 1788, after a ministry of about forty-five years. He had three wives, all of Camb.; he m. Mary, dau. of Edmund Angler, 9 Nov. 1743; she d. 4 Jan. 1754, and he m. Margaret, dau. of Rev. Dr. Appleton, 9
SOLOMON,
s.
1744,
and had Solomon,
Jan. 1755; she d. and he m. Mary Haley 9 Jan. 1770, who survived him, and d. at Holliston 21 May 1804, a. 81. His children were Joshua, b. 9 Sept. 1744, merchant in Marblehead, and Town Clerk more than thirty years; Thomas, b. 27 Oct. 1747, grad. H. C. 1766, D. D. 1808, ordained at Medfield 30 Oct. 1770, and d. 28 Feb. 1814 (his son Thomas, b. 11 Jan. 1793, grad. H. C. 1811, was settled in the ministry at Charlestown 26 Mar. 1817, and d. 5 Oct. 1817); Henry, b. 7 Mar. 1749, merchant in Boston, owned
,
estate bordering on Fresh Pond, formerly of his where he grandfather, resided a portion of the time; he m. Ruth Freeman of Boston 11 Sept. 1775, and d. 31 Aug. 1821 his w. Ruth d. here Jan. 1800 Mary, b. 9 Nov. 1 752 d. next year; Mary, b. 1753, d. 30 Aug. 1759; Appleton, b. 1756, d. 16 June
the.
;
1758; Margaret, m. Rev. Timothy Dickinson of Holliston; Appleton, b. 1761, grad. H. C. 1781, merchant in Boston, where he m. Silence Conant 14 June 1785, and had a large family; res. for a time in Rox. and rem. to Holliston 1812, where he d. in April 1821; his w. Silence d. 5 Mar. 1829; Elizabeth, b. 1763, d. unm. at Holliston 13 Dec. 1835. Some of the births and deaths in this paragraph are taken from Binney's Prentice Family. 26. CALEB, s. of Deac. Henry (13), m. Lydia, dau. of Deac. Samuel Whittemore, 17 Sept. 1744, and wid. Rebecca Rockwell 20 Dec. 1762. His chil. were Caleb, b. 17 Ap. and d. 14 Aug. 1745; Caleb, b. 14 Nov. 1746; Elizabeth, b. 24 Sept. 1748, m. Benajah Davenport, Jr., of Dorchester, 4 Oct. 1769; Samuel, b. 10 Feb. 1749-50, d. young; Samuel, b. 26 May 1753, grad. H. C. 1771, a trader in Gorham, Me. (his son William was father of Sargent S. Prentice, Esq., one of the most eloquent men of his William, b. 1 age) Dec. 1754, pub. Mary Gorham of Barnstable 10 Oct. 1778, a merchant, d. in Kentucky; Henry, b. 4 Feb. 1757, d. } oung; Lydia, b. 27 Jan. 1759, m. Sargent Smith of Gloucester; Henry, bap. 30 Dec. 1759, a saddler, d. unm. 1794. CALEB the f. is styled "yeoman; " in 1747 he bought of the assigns of Edward Pelham two and a half acres, lying between Harvard Square and Brattle, Palmer, and Church streets, portions of which he afterwards sold He d. 19 Nov. 1772; his w. Rebecca d. 1807. 27. NATHAN, s. of Deac. Henry (13), grad. H. C. 1756; m. Mehetabel Spencer of Berwick, and had William, and Mehetabel, d. here young; Henry, b. 25 July 1767, a blacksmith, res. in Princeton, and afterwards in Hubbardston; Nathan, twin, b. 25 July 1767, a cabinet maker, res. in Petersham; and was Mehetabel, bap. here 4 June 1 769, m. Joseph Fosdick of Boston mother of Elizabeth, w. of Charles T. Murdoch, Esq., of Cambridge. NATHAN the f. was for several years a trader in Berwick, but returned and d. here 29 July 1769. 28. HENRY, e. of John (14), m. Sarah, dau. of Jacob Hill, 19 Aug. 1735; she d. 8 July 1736, and he m. Susanna Brown of Wat. (pub. 5 Nov. 1737); he was again pub. 20 Jan. 1769, to Eunice Fitch of Bedford. His chil. were Jacob, b. 2 July 1736, d. young; Joseph, bap. 15 Ap. 1739 (witness to a deed from his father 2 Dec. 1784); Abigail, bap. 25 May 1740, m* Rev. Bunker Gay of Hinsdale, N. II., 22 Sept. 1763 William, bap. 3 Oct. 1 742, d. young; John, bap. 7 Oct. 1744, grad. H. C. 1766, removed to Londonderry, N. H., 1772, a lawyer, Attorney-general 1787-1793, Representative thirteen years, and Speaker in 1794 and 1795 and from 1798 to 1803, appointed Judge of the Superior Court 1798, but declined the appointment and d. 18 May 1808; Jacob, bap. 23 Mar. 1745-6; William, bap. 27 Dec. 1747; Henri/, bap. 22 Jan. 1749-50; Sarah, bap. 20 Oct. 1751, m. Jonas Prentice 12 Nov. 1777.
;
634
HENRY,
PRENTICE.
the f. was a cooper, and was generally styled on the Records, " Henry He res. on the Prentice 3d," and in conversation, " Cooper Prentice." easterly corner of Garden and Mason streets, on the estate afterwards owned by Judge Fay. He was living in 1784, and dead in 1797. 29. SMITH, s. of John (14), res. in Wat, m. Mercy Learned 13 Oct. 1743, and had Benjamin, b. 17 Mar. 1744-5; Mary, bap. 15 July 1753, m. Benjamin Bird of Watertown 9 Nov. 1775 and several others. 30. EBENEZER, s. of Ebenezer (18), pub. Abigail Hovey of Newton 26 June 1762, and m. Experience Williams 24 Nov. 1785. According to a record kept by Rev. Samuel Cook of Menotomy, he had a child, b. 26 Sept. 1 763, and a son, b. 10 Ap. 1767; both d. young, and their names if any are not recorded. EBKNEZER the f. res. in Menot., and d. 23 Ap. 1803; his w. Experience d. 22
;
Sept, 1810, a. 55.

s. of Ebenezer (18), m. Rebecca Frost 13 Ap. 1775, and had 22 Mar. 1776, in. Elizabeth Wyeth of Charlestown 15 Ap. 1803, and d. 6 Oct. 1821 (Elizabeth, prob. w. of Solomon, Jr., d. 22 Sept. 1839, a. 67); Rebecca, b. 9 Sept. 1777, m. Benjamin Tenney of Hollis, N. H., 18 Aug. 1796; Samuel, b. 13 July 1779; Isaac; Ebenezer ; and William; all named in the settlement of the estate of their grandfather, Samuel Frost, 6 June 1799. SOLOMON the f. res. in Menotomy, and d. 23 Jan. 1804 his w. Rebecca d. 13
31.
SOLOMON,
b.
Solomon,
Nov. 1798,
a. 52.
32. GEORGE, s. of Ebenezer (18), m. Lydia Hill 21 June 1770, and had Lydia, b. 15 Ap 1771, in. Jonas Pierce; Sarah, b. 10 Feb. and d. 5 Mar. 1773; Georye, b. 24 May 1774, m. Susanna Adams 7 June 1804; Sarah, b. 25 Nov. 1775, d. unm. 22 Mar. 1797; Ebenezer,b. 29 June 1778, d. 28 July 1SQ1; Elizabeth, b. 19 Sept. 1780; Zechariah and Rebecca, twins, b. 17 Oct. and d. 27 and 28 Oct. 1782; to the foregoing Binney adds Zechariah, b. 1 Jan. and d. 21 Sept. 1784; Polly, b. 24 Nov. 1785, m. Abijah Pierce Rebecca, b. 22 Oct. 1787, m. Ebenezer Warren; John, b. 12 Sept. 1789, m. Sarah Hall; Joseph, b. 27 May 1792, d. 19 Nov. 1795; Benjamin, twin, b. 27 May 1792, killed by a fall from a wagon in New York 1836. GEORGE the f. res. in Menotomy, and d. 6 Oct. 1819, a. 73; his w. Lydia d. 3 Sept. 1822, a. 75. 33. SAMUEL, s. of Daniel (19), m. Mary Todd 13 June 1782, and had Samuel, b. 12 Ap. 1783, d. 6 Sept. 1807; Daniel, b. 15 Sept. 1787, d. 1 Mar.
;
d. July 1794; Elizabeth, b. 6 Ap. 1794, m. Joseph 1796; an infant, b. Braekett 2 Ap. 1819; Joseph, b. 12 Nov. 1797, went to North Carolina. SAMUEL the f. d. 18 July (or 25, gravestone,) 1795; his w. Mary d. 27 Ap.
,
1832,
34.
a.
82.
s. of Jonas (23), m. Rachel Kent of Charlestown 22 May 1765; and Sarah Prentice 12 Nov. 1777 she d. 1784, and he m. Hannah Goddard 1 Dec. 1785. His chil. were Jonas, b. 2 Nov. 1766, d. young; Jonas, b. 8 Oct. 1769; Susanna Brown, b. 13 Sept. 1778, m. John Haskell, school teacher of Boston, and Benjamin D. Emerson of Boston, also a teacher and author of school books; Sally, b. 2 Ap. 1780, m. Nathaniel Ireland 18 Nov. 1802. JONAS
JONAS,
thef. d. 2
35.
s. of Jonas (23), m. Abigail Logan 22 Nov. 1764, and had Nathaniel Shepard, b. 7 Aug. 1766, grad. H. C. 1787, for many years physician and Town Clerk in Roxbury, d. 5 Nov. 1853, in Arlington; John, b. 1 Aug. and d. 2 Sept. 1768; Mehetabel, bap. 4 June 1769; Abigail, b. 10 Oct. 1771, m. Samuel Capen 14 Oct. 1792; James, b. 19 July 1774, d. 24 Jan. 1794; Lydia, b. 24 Feb. 1779, d. unm. 25 Mar. 1864; Jonas, bap. 1 Ap. 1781, d. young; Jonathan Cooper, b. 23 Dec. 1783 Harriet, b. 7 Nov. 1786, m. Mark Weare of Boston 4 Jan. 1810, d. 26 Mar. 1864; Jonas, b. 27 Mar. 1789, in. Ellen Whittemore, and resided in Arlington. NATHANIEL the f. was a chaise maker, and resided on the southerly side of North Avenue, near Porter's Hotel he d. 18 June 1817 his w. Abigail d. in Rox. (but was buried here) 28 Aug.
May
1801.
NATHANIEL,
1825,
a. 81.
36. JOHN, s. of Jonas (23), m. Mary Scripture 23 Ap. 1772, and had Mary, bap. 31 Jan. 1773. m. Raham Richardson 6 Jan. 1791, had charge of the almshouse (styled " Wardeness ") from Dec. 1802 until Sept. 1818, and afterwards
PRENTICE.
635
removed to Maine, to reside with her son; Rebecca, bap. 14 May 1775, m. Nathan Robbing 10 Ap. 1803; Mercy, bap. 13 April 1777, m. Gibson; Lucy, bap. 14 Feb. 1779, m. John Frost of Newton 19 Jan. 1801; Hannah, bap. 28 Jan. 1781, in. Samuel Worth 21 Mar. 1800; John, bap. 4 May 1783, m. Sarah Collier 1 Nov. 1807; Anna, bap. 10 July 1785; Charles, bap. 28 Oct. 1787; Henry; Clarissa, bap. 7 Aug. 1791. JOHN the {.inherited the homestead, on North Avenue, near the Fitchburg Railroad, was a farmer, and d. 23 Feb. 1802 his w. Mary d. 11 May 1797, a. 50. 37. THOMAS, s. of Jonas (23), m. Ruth Symmes of Woburn (pub. 14 May 1774), and had Ruth, b. 12 Oct. 1776. m. Isaac Cowdrey of Reading 30 Aug. Judith Symmes, bap. 1795; Thomas, b. 27 June 1779 Betsey, b. 8 Dec. 1781 21 Mar. 1784; Fanny, bap. 4 June 1786; Joseph, bap. 15 Nov. 1789, d. 24
; ; ;
Sept. 1802.
38. CALEB, s. of Caleb (26), grad. H. C. 1765, ordained in Reading Oct. 1769, m. Pamela, dau. of Rev. John Mellen of Sterling, 1 Jan. 1771, and had Caleb, b. 22 or 23 Nov. 1771, settled in Paris, Me.; Thomas Mellen, b. 29 Mar. 1773, d. in Lexington, Ky.; Charles, b. 8 Oct. 1774, grad. H. C. 1795, was a lawyer, editor, and poet, d. in Brimfield 19 Oct. 1820; Pamela, b. 21 Ap. 1776, m. Col. John Orne of Lynnfield John, b. 21 Mar. 1778, the veteran printer and editor of the New Hampshire Sentinel at Keene, N. H., where hed. 6 June 1873; Henry, b. 10 Dec. 1779, d. in Paris, Me., 1845; Sophia, b. 5 Jan. 1782, known as a poetess, d. unm. 12 Oct. 1805; Clarissa, b. 4 Ap.
;
b.
Benjamin Johnson of Boston, Mar. 1805, d. in Camb. 1813 William, 20 Feb. 1786, d. 15 Mar. 1806; George, b. and d. 1787 Lydia, b. 11 April 1790, m. Rev. William Frothingham of Belfast, Me., 1821 George Washington, b. 21 July 1792, a merchant in Wiscasset, Me., and afterwards editor of the New York Statesman, d. at Keene 28 Feb. 1829; Rebecca, b. 25 Aug. REV. CALKB the f. d. of consumption 7 Feb. 1803; his w. 1794, unm. Pamela m. Col. John Waldron of Dover, N. H., 14 Sept. 1809, and d. July
1784, m.
;
1823,
39.
a, 73.
WILLIAM, s. of Henry (28), m. Abigail, dau. of William Bordman, and had David Gorham, bap. 19 Mar. 1780; Susanna, bap. 10 Oct. 1796, m. Pond. He had also William, a hackman and afterwards a florist John ; Re;
inherited, in the right of his wife, a part of the Bordman Estate, on North Avenue, and bought 18 May 1779 another portion; but in consequence of thriftless habits, he was reduced to poverty, and d. in the almshouse 23 Sept. 1813; his w. Abigail d. 25 May 1801. 40. HENRY, s. of Henry (28), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Phillips; they bought a house and two rods square of ground, on the east side of North Avenue, opposite the Common, 16 Nov. 1778, which was seized on execution by Dr. William Gamage 20 Jan. 1791. He rem. to New Hampshire, and was residing in Windham 1797; but afterwards returned and d. here 12 Nov. 1806; his w. Elizabeth d. 24 Feb. 1807. They had children Henry and Thomas (felo de se), and perhaps others. 41. BKNJAMIN, s. of Smith (29), m. Ruth Worthylake 10 Dec. 1767, in
becca.
WILLIAM
the
f.
Wat., and had Benjamin; Ruth, b. 28 Aug. 1769, m. Amos Munroe 18 Dec. 1803, and d. 17 June 1853; Caleb; Henry, d. 15 Oct. 1796, a. 24; John; George, d. in the almshouse 18 Mar. 1849, a. 74; Elisha ; Ellis, m. Lydia Haynes of Wat. 23 Mar. 1806; and perhaps others. BENJAMIN the f. res. several years on the road leading from the junction of Elm wood Avenue and Mount Auburn Street toward Charles River, and d. 17 Dec. 1807. 42. GEORGE, s. of George (32), a farmer in Menot., m. Susanna Adams 7 June 1804, and had child, b. and d. 1805; Susanna, b. 2 Sept. 1806; George, b. 13 Mar. 1809; Sarah, b. 24 Sept. 1811; Lydia, b. 11 Ap. 1814; Caroline Austin, b. 22 Aug. 1816; Eliza Bradley, b. 26 Oct. 1819. 43. JONATHAN COOPER, s. of Nathaniel (35), m. Mary Whittemore of Chs. 14 Aug. 1812, and had Abigail Logan, bap. 26 Sept. 1813; Mary Whittemore, bap. 22 June 1817 Nathaniel, bap. 12 Aug. 1821. in. Anna A., dau. of Nathan Fiske, Esq., 4 May 1844, and removed to the westward. JONATHAN C. the f. was a chaise trimmer, res. nearly opposite Porter's Hotel, and d. 15
;
636
Aug. 1856.
PRENTICE
READ.
male representative in
Camb.
It is worthy of note, that he was the last of this family, once so numerous here, and
now spread abroad
so
widely. 44. JOHN, prob. s. of John (36), m. Sarah Collier 1 Nov. 1807, and had Julian, b. 1809, d. 19 Aug. 1817, a. 8; John, b. 1812, d. 17 Aug. 1817, a. 5; and perhaps others. Sarah, prob. w. of John, d. 9 June 1818, a. 40. 45. SAMUEL, of Acton, parentage not ascertained, m. Lydia, dau. of William Dickson of Chs., 17 Oct. 1765, and had, in Menot., a child, b. 22 Aug. 1766, and another b. 16 June 1768, both d. young; Ruth Dickson, b. 25 Dec. 1770; a child, b. 17 Oct. 1773, d. youno;. 46. EDWARD, parentage not ascertained, by w. had Mary, bap. 18 Dec. 1768; Thomas, bap. 10 Mar. 1771; John, bap. 25 Ap. 1773. 47. STEPHEN, by w. had in Menot. Ruth Ted, bap. 8 Dec. 1771. 48. CALEB, m. Margaret W. Winship 1 Aug. 1816, res. in Cambridge,
,
port,
where he d. and was buried 20 Feb. 1829, a. 44. PRINCE, JOHN, owned two lots of land here in 1635, and Records in 1634.
is
named on
the
RAYNER, SAMUEL (otherwise written Rainer, Reighnor, and Reynor), by w. Mary, had Hannah, b. 2 Mar. 1654, m. Ephraim Winship 7 Ap. 1670*; Mary, who m. Edward Hall 18 June 1677, was perhaps of the same family. SAMUEL the f. received a share in the division of lands 1665; his w. Mary was probably the person mentioned in the settlement of Ephraim Winship's estate 2 Feb. 1700-1, in which is a charge for maintaining his "ancient mother-in-law Reighnor." READ, CHRISTOPHER, bought of Joseph Holmes 31 May 1674 a house and three quarters of an acre of land on the southerly side of Brattle Street, not far from Appian Way, where he appears to have resided until 20 June Mr. Read was a tanner, and 1685, when he sold the estate to Samuel Goffe. had previously resided in Boston. He removed hence, was in Dunstable 5 Mar. 1686-7, and d. at Dracut about 1710. He had one dau. who was the wife of " Mr. Samuel Whiting " 5 Oct. 1710. 2. JAMES, m. Sarah Batson 12 Aug. 1714 she d. 25 Nov. 1721, and he m. Mary Oldham 3 Ap. 1722, who d. 20 Ap. 1751, a. 72. His chil. were James, b. 9 Oct. 1721, d. Ap. 1722; James, bap. 27 Jan. 1722-3. JAMES the f. was a tanner, and bought 2 Oct. 1714 the estate formerly owned by Christopher Read (1), which had previously passed through several hands. It is not known that he was a relative of Christopher. He purchased other lands adjoining his homestead, and also three and a half acres on the opposite side of the street. He d. 6 May 1734, a. about 69. By his will, dated 30 Aug. 1728, he devised the use of his estate to his w. Mary, and constituted his s. James his sole heir providing that if his son should die without issue, then the estate should go to Sarah Glover and Elizabeth Culvery, sisters of the testator, It is not unlikely that Mr. Read was himself an emiresiding in England.
;
;
grant from England.

3. JAMES, s. of James (2), m. Hannah, dau. of Rev. Joseph Stacey of Kingston (pub. 20 July 1744), and had Mary, bap. 13 Oct. 1745, d. 12 Aug. 1748 Sarah, bap. 1 Nov. 1747, m. Rev. William Fessenden 22 Jan. 1771, and d. before 1780 James, bap. 25 Feb. and d. 29 July 1750; James, bap. 28 July 1751; Joseph, bap. 14 Sept. 1753; Joseph Stacey, bap. 10 Nov. 1754 Hannah, bap. 25 Sept. 1757. JAMES the f. was a tanner, and resided through life on the homestead. He d. 31 July 1770, a. 48 his w. Hannah d. 22 Sept. 1788,
; ; ;
;
a. 65.
bap. 15 Aug. 1773.
m. Elizabeth Wait 3 Dec. 1772, and had James, f. erected the house now standing on the lot purchased by his grandfather, on the northerly side of Brattle Street, at the corner of Church Street. He d. Sept. 1814, a. 63 his w. Elizabeth d. 9
4.
JAMES,
s.
of
James
(3),
JAMES
the
June 1827.
5. JOSEPH STACEY, s. of James (3), m. Esther Goodwin 25 Sept. 1783, and had Sarah, b. 11 July 1784, m. Chester Sessions 10 Aug. 1806, and d. 18 June 1834 Esther, b. 17 Oct. 1785, in. Asa Wyman 27 Mar. 1814, d. 29
;
READ
;
REED.
637
Dec. 1863; Joseph Stacey, b. 17 Aug. 1787, a saddler and harness maker, d. 24 May 1853 James, b. 19 Nov. 1789, a merchant in Boston, d. 24 Dec. 1870; Elizabeth, b. 4 Aug. John, b. 10 Sept. 1793, a merchant, d. 14 June 1871 1795, m. Josiah N. Marshall 23 July 1823, d. 8 May 1860; William, b. 10 May 1798, d. 15 July 1799; William, b. 12 Ap. 1800, a merchant in Boston, res. on Appleton Street; Mary, b. 19 Sept. 1803, accidently killed by a rund. 6 Sept. 1805, a. 2 months. JOSEPH away team 4 Jan. 1854; Lucy, b. STACEY the f. was a saddler and for many years Postmaster. He was bur. 12 Oct. 1836 his w. Esther was bur. 25 Sept. 1843, a. 78. 6. JAMES, s. of James (4), m. Mary Stebbins Brown, dau. of Maj. John
; , ; ;
Brown, and had Eliza, b. 13 Aug. 1800, m. Nahum Stratton of Richmond, Va., 13 Aug. 1826 James Barnard, b. 26 Aug. 1802, m. Emily, dau. of Maj. Jonas Wyeth 9 Nov. 1828, and res. in Boston. JAMES the f. was a merchant and spent several years in the Island of Tobago, where both his children were born. He returned to Camb. before 1809, and d. 8 Sept. 1828, a. 55. REED, WILLIAM, aged 48, with w. Mabel, aged 30, and three chil. left London in the ship Defence July 1635, and arrived at Boston on the 6th of the next October. He res. successively at Dorchester, Scituate (where he was Constable in 1644), and Brookline until 1648, when he bought a farm in Woburn. His chil. b. in England, were George, b. 1629; Ralph, b. 1630, m. Mary Pierce, d. 4 Jan. 1711-12 Justice, b. 1633, prob. d. young; and in New England", Abigail, b. 1635, m. Francis Wyman 2 Oct. 1650; Bethia, b. m. John Johnson, 28 Ap. 1657 Israel, b. 1642, m. Mary Kendall, d. 29 June m. Samuel Walker 10 Sept. 1662; Rebecca, b. 1711; Sarah, b. in. Joseph Winn, and d. in 1734. WILLIAM the f. with his w. and the four younger chil. returned to England and d. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a. 69; administration, with the will annexed, was granted to his wife Mabel by Oliver Cromwell, "the last day of October 1656." She returned to Woburn with her children, and m. Henry Somers 21 Nov. 1661, whom she survived, and died at the house of her son George, 5 June 1690, a. 85. 2. GEORGE, s. of William (1), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Jennison of Watertown, 4 Oct. 1652 she d. in childbed 26 Feb. 1664-5, a. 28, and he m. Hannah Rockwell of Chs. 9 Nov. 1665. His chil. were Elizabeth, b. 26 July 1653, m. David Fiske; twins, b. 14 Nov. 1654, both d. in infancy; Samuel, b. 29 Ap. 1656, prob. the physician of that name in Chs.; Abigail, b. 27 June
; ,
1658 George, b. 14 Sept. 1660; William, b. 22 Sept. 1662; Sarah, b. 12 Feb. Elson John, 1664-5, m. Robinson; Hannah, b. 18 Feb. 1669-70, m. b. 18 Mar. 1671-2, m. Ruth Johnson of Woburn, had children, and d. 21 Dec. 1755; Mary, b. 15 June 1674, m. Matthew Johnson, Jr., of Woburn 12 Dec. 1695 Timothy, b. 20 Oct. 1678, m. Persis Kendall, had children, and d. 17 Oct. 1758; Thomas, b. 15 July 1682, m. Sarah Sawyer, and d. 18 Aug. 1736. GEORGE the f. was a farmer, res. in Woburn, and d. 21 Feb. 1705-6, a. 77 his w. Hannah survived. 3. GEORGE, s. of George (2), m. Abigail, dau. of Thomas Peirce, 18 Feb. 1684-5; she d. 9 Sept. 1719, a. nearly 59, and he m. wid. Sybil Rice of Sudbury 24 May 1721. His chil. were Abigail, b. 6 Feb. 1685-6, m. Capt. Samuel Stone of Lex., and d. 16 Jan. 1767; Ebenezer, b. 6 Mar. 1689-90, m. Huldah had children, and d. 9 July 1767 George, b. 2 Aug. 1697, d. 6 Oct. 1697; Elizabeth, b. 14 June 1700, m. Deac. Christopher Paige, of that part of Billerica which is now Bedford, 23 May 1720, afterwards rein, to GEORGE the Hardwic-k, had seven sons and three daughters, and d. 1786. f. was a farmer, res. in Woburn, was many years Deacon of the Church, and d. 20 Jan. 1756, a. 95.
; ;
dall 24
s. of George (2), settled at Camb. Farms, m. Abigail Ken1686, and had Abigail, b. 29 May 1687, m. Deac. Jonathan Fisk; William., b. 18 July 1693; Mary, b. 8 Ap. 1695. m. Deac. John Stone of Lex. 8 Ap. 1714, andd. 16 Oct. 1772; Benjamin, b. 22 Oct. 1696; Samuel, b. 24 Oct. 1699; Joshua, b. 20 June 1702; Hepzibah, b. 10 Dec. 1705, m. Daniel Tidd 9 Ap. 1724. WILLIAM the f. was a farmer, Captain of Militia, and an On the incorporation of Lex. as a separate town he was active citizen.
4.
WILLIAM,
May
638
REED.
He was also the first Representelected one of the first Board of Selectmen. ative 1714, and again in 1716. and 1717, and d. 12 May 1718, a. 55; his w. Abigail d. 12 Oct. 1734. 5. WILLIAM, s. of William (4), m. Sarah Poulter, and had William, b. 1 Jan. 1719-20; Samuel, b. 4 May 1722; Sarah, b. 3 Jan. 1724-5; Mary, b. 10 Mar. 1727-8; Oliver, b. 25 Mar. 1730; John, b. 28 May 1731; Hammond, b. 28 Ap. 1734; Eliot, b. 28 Ap. 1738; Hannah, b. 21 Oct. 1740; NaWILLIAM the f. res. in Lex. and was one of the most than, b. 9 Nov. 1743. prominent citizens of the town. He was Captain of the Militia, RepresentaHe tive seventeen years between 1741 and 1770, and Justice of the Peace. d. 11 Feb. 1778; his w. Sarah d. 25 Nov. 1769, a. 70. 6. BENJAMIN, s. of William (4), m. Rebecca, dau. of Deac. Samuel Stone, about 1717; she d. 31 Mar. 1748, a. 52, and he m. Hannah, wid. of Deac. Joseph Estabrook, 19 July 1753. His chil. were Benjamin, b. 13 May 1718
;
Abigail, b. 30 Mar. 1720; Jonas, b. 7 June 1722; Rebecca, b. 5 Nov. 1724; Isaac, b. 30 July 1727; Jonathan, b. 8 Mar. 1730; Thaddeus, b. 17 June 1732. d. 21 Ap. 1741 Dorcas, b. 18 July 1734; Samuel, b. 3 Ap. 1737 ; Ruth, b. 9 Nov. 1741. BENJAMIN the f. res. in Lex., was Major of Militia, Justice of the Peace, and was Representative 8 years, from 1750 to 1763. He d. 21 Dec. 1 765. His sons Benjamin and Jonas settled in Rutland.
;
7.
had
ter,
JOSHUA, s. of William (4), m. Elizabeth Russell Elizabeth, b. 28 Feb. 1725-6, m. Jonathan Winship
21 Jan. 1724-5, and Hepzibah, b. 8 Mar.
1727-8, d. young; Joshua, b. 15 May 1730, m. Susanna Houghton of Lancasand d. 11 Aug. 1798; Joseph, b. 21 June 1739, m. Anna Blood of Sterling. JOSHUA the f. res. in Lex., and d. 5 Oct. 1 755 his w. Elizabeth d. 29 Feb. 1743, a. 41. 8. JONATHAN, s. of Timothy of Woburn, b. 10 May 1718, m. Kezia Converse 26 Feb. 1739, and had Jonathan, b. (in Woburn) 15 June 1740; Robert, b. (in Lex.) 3 Aug. 1742; Jude,b. these four were Mehetabel,\>. bap. here 25 Sept. 1748; Joel, bap. 12 Nov. 1749; Phebe, bap. 2. Feb. 1752; Amos, bap. 30 Dec. 1753; Samuel, b. Ann, "born in the boat when " they were fleeing to escape the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indians (Hisf. Reed Fam.) Mary. JONATHAN the f. removed to Woolwich, Me., soon after 1753, where he d. in 1805; his w. Kezia d. in 1808. numerous posterity remains near the Kennebec River. 9. SETH, s. of Daniel of Woburn, by w. Lydia, had Samuel, b. 1733, d. 13 June 1749, a. 16; Seth,\>. 1735, d. 26 June 1749, a. 14; Thomas, b. about 1737; Susanna, b. 1739, d. 25 June 1749, a. 10; Daniel, b. 10 Ap. 1742; Lydia, b. 13 June 1745; Susanna, b. 17 Mar. 1749-50, d. 24 Nov. 1753; Hannah, b. 6 Jan. 1751-2, d. 24 Nov. 1753. SETH the f. res. in Menot., and d. 18 Mar. 1783, a. 80; his w. Lydia d. 31 Aug. 1789, a. 79.
;
s. of Seth (9), m. Rhoda Crosby 2 July 1761, and had 13 July 1762, m. Frederic Johnson 16 Oct. 1783;" Seth, b. 21 June 1765; Daniel Crosby, b. 11 Sept. 1766 (prob. the same called Daniel Reed, who d. in Arlington 6 Feb. 1820, a. 54, and whose chil. were Daniel, Jr., d. 20 June 1817, a. 14 Mary, d. 20 Sept. 1821, a. 25; and Benjamin, d. 12 Aug. 1836, a. 40); a dau. b. 11 Dec. 1769; Amos, b. 12 Oct. 1773. THOMAS the f. res. in Menot., and d. 7 June 1776, a. about 40; his w. Rhoda d. 22 Nov. 1773, a 32. 11. DANIEL, s. of Seth (9), res. in Menot., and according to the Rev. Mr. Cooke's Journal, he had by w. Dorothy, twelve children between 8 Feb. 1764 and 1 Sept. 1783, among whom were two pairs of twins and one set of triplets, but none of the names are recorded. DANIEL the f. d. 22 Aug. 1801 his w. Dorothy d. 26 Ap. 1789, a. 47. 12. THOMAS, s. of Thomas of Woburn, b. 18 Nov. 1704, by w. Lydia, had Lydia, b. 17 Oct. 1737; Thomas, b. 22 Dec. 1740; Sarah, b. 26 June 1742; Abigail, b. 21 Aug. 1743 Kezia, b. 24 Aug. 1747. Joseph, b. 23 Dec. 1745 THOMAS the f. rem. to Camb. before 27 Nov. 1770, when his w. Lydia d. a. He d. 1 7 Ap. 1776. 54, and he m. Alice Pierce 1 Ap. 1773. 13. JOSEPH, s. of Thomas (12), m. Relief Richardson, and had William, b.
10.
THOMAS,
b.
Rhoda,
REED
;
REMIN GTON.
639
24 July 1768. His w. d. and he m. Lavina Bond, and had Joseph, bap. 3 Feb. 1771 Edmund, bap. 13 Sept. 1772; Lydia, bap. 14 Ap. 1776 John, bap. 21
;
Mar. 1779. 14. JOSEPH, s. of Jacob of Woburn, b. 1748, m. Eunice Cook of Camb. 4 July 1775, and had Joseph, b. 7 Ap. 1776; Eunice, b. 1 Ap. 1778, m. Ebenezer Jenkins, Boston, 15 Oct. 1801; Reuben, b. 9 Nov. 1785, chaise maker in Boston, d. 17 May 1873; Elizabeth, b. 22 Nov. 1787, m. John Rayner, Boston; JOSEI-H the f. d. 23 Sarah, b. 22 Dec. 1790, m. Abel Baker, Boston, 1807. Feb. 1816; his w. Eunice d. 1 Oct. 1825, a. 76. MERCY, dau. of Samuel, bap. 5 Dec. 1697. JOHN, s. of Timothy, bap. 15 Ap. 1722. HANNAH, m. Downing Champney, Jr., 4 July 1765. REDDING, JOSEPH (or Reading, and Readinge), here in 1633, owned house and land 1635 on the easterly side of Holyoke Street, between Mount Auburn Street and Holyoke Place. His name disappears early; and Farmer says he was of Ipswich in 1638. REDFEN, WILLIAM (or Redfin, and Redfyn), owned house and four acres on the south side of the river in 1642, which he sold to Edward Jackson 8 Sept. 1746, and rem. to New London, Conn. REMINGTON, JOHN, of " Newbury 1637, freeman 1639, rem. to Andover, and thence to Rowley and to Roxbury." (Fanner.) By w. Elizabeth he had John; Thomas; Jonathan, b. 12 Feb. 1639-40; Daniel, b. 2 Oct. 1641, was prob. of Boston 1680; Hannah, b. 19 June 1643, prob. the same who m. Thomas Larkin of Chs. 13 Sept. 1666; Elizabeth, b. 5 Ap. 1645, d. 16 Mar. 1646; prob. a second Elizabeth, b. about 1648, m. John Stedman of Camb. 14 May 1666, and Samuel Gibson 14 June 1679, and d. 1680, naming Jonathan Mar. Remington in her will, as her brother; Mary, b. 31 Mar. 1653, d. 1653-4. These chil. except the first two were b. at Rowley, where Elizabeth the mother d. 24 Oct. 1658. JOHN the f. was Lieut, of militia 1647, and removed to Roxbury, where he d. 8 June 1667. 2. JOHN, s. of John (1), by w. Abigail, had in Rowley, John, b. 12 Mar.
1650-51; Abigail, b. 14 Sept, 1652; Prudence, b. 14 July 1657. JOHN the f. rem. with his family to Haverhill as early as 1667. 3. THOMAS, s. of John (1), by w. Mehetabel, had in Rowley, Thomas, b. 17 Dec. 1663; Mary, b. 14 July 1659; John, b. 2 Nov. 1661; Jonathan, b. July 1666; Sarah, b. 8 Dec. 1668.
drew Belcher,
s. of John (1), settled in Camb. and m. Martha, dau. of An13 July 1664, and had Martha, b. 18 Feb. 1666-7, d. 23 Ap. 1669; Jonathan, b. 17 Mar. 1668-9, d. 16 Ap. 1669; Martha, b. 28 Oct. 1674, m. Capt. Nicholas Bowes of Boston 29 Jan. 1718-19; Jonathan, b. 25 Sept. 1677; Samuel, b. 11 July 1679, d. 3 June 1680; Anna, b. 30 Jan. 1680-81, m. John Hill 24 June 1708; John, b. d. 3 Dec. d. 6 Ap. 1689; Mary, b. ,
4.
JONATHAN,
1690; Elizabeth, b. Biscoe of Watertown
had share
of estate; Sarah, b. 10
Feb. 1710-11.
JONATHAN
the
f.
May 1688, m. John was a carpenter, but
from an early period much engaged westerly corner of Brattle and Ash
He resided near the from 1665 to 1682, when he exchanged that estate for the original Blue Anchor Tavern, which he kept durHe served in Philip's War, 1675, as Corporal ing the remainder of his life. was appointed Lieutenant 27 June 1689; and served in a later Indian War, during which he was stationed at Groton as Commissary, Sept. 1689, and at Wells as Lieutenant, May 1691, at which last place he had command of He was Selectman nine years between Capt. Josiah Convers' Company. 1688 and 1700, and Town Clerk 1693, 1698, 1699, 1700. He d. 21 Ap. 1700,
in public affairs.
streets
a.
d. 16 July 1711, a. 67. of Jonathan (4), m. Lucy, dau. of Rev. Simon Bradstreet of New London (whose wid. had m. Daniel Epps, and at the time of this marriage was residing in Medf. being a second time a widow), 5 Sept. 1711, and had Lucy, b. 17 Aug. 1712, m. Rev. William Hobby of Reading 21 Oct. 1734; Martha, b. 24 July 1714, m. Judge Edmund Trowbridge 15 Mar. 1737-8, and d. without issue 31 July 1772; Jonathan, b. 11 June 1716, grad.
5.
61; his w.
Martha
s.
JONATHAN,
H. C. 1736,
d.
unm. 24 Dec. 1738; Mary,
b.
22 July 1718, m. Rev. Benjamin
640
REMINGTON
RICE
d.
RICHARDSON.
27
May 1763 (she was grandmother grad. H. C. 1800, and d. 1812); John, b. 24 Oct. 1720; Simon, b. 31 July 1722, prob. d. young; Ann, b. 19 Feb. 1724-5, m. William Ellery, Esq., of Newport, R. I, 11 Sept. 1750, and d. 7 Sept. 1764, a. 39 (she was mother of Elizabeth, who m. Chief Justice Dana 5 Aug. 1773, and d. 31 Aug. 1807, a. 56; and of Lucy, who m. William Channing, of which marriage issued William E. Channing, D. D., Walter Channing, M. D., and Prof. Edward T. Channing, LL. D.). JONATHAN the f. grad. H. C. 1696, was elected Tutor 4 Jan. 1702-3, was also Fellow, but
of Rev.
Stevens of Kittery 28 Sept. 1752, and Joseph Stevens Buckminster,
who
resigned his Fellowship 1711, in anticipation of marriage, which was prohibHe was admitted by the ited to a Fellow of the College at that period. Superior Court an attorney at law, and took the prescribed oath in Jan. 1709-10. He was a Selectman 1712 and 1715-1719; Representative in the General Court twelve years between 1714 and 1728; was elected Councillor 1727, which office he then declined, but accepted a similar appointment three years later, and served as Councillor eleven years, 1 730-1 740. He was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas 1729, Judge of Probate 1731, and Judge of the Superior Court 1733, which last two offices he held during He d. 30 Sept. 1745, a. 68. His w. Lucy d. 18 Ap. 1743, a. 62. Judge life. Remington was cousin to Governor Belcher. It is said that they cherished towards each other such a peculiar friendship as to desire that their bodies might rest in one grave. Judge Remington died first, and was buried near his father. Gov. Belcher, though at that time residing in New Jersey, caused a tomb to be constructed here, in which, upon his death in 1757, his body and that of Judge Remington were placed side by side. RICE, RICHARD, was an early inhabitant .here, and contracted 1 Mar. " one hundred cows for the 1635-6, to take charge of space of three months, to begin when he shall be appointed, and is to have ten pounds paid him within ten days after the ships be come in, or in June." He remained here but a short time, and rem. to Concord, where he d. 9 June 1709, having nearly or quite completed his century. In a deposition, 7 Oct. 1684, he is styled 72 years old; if this were his true age, he was 97 at death, and Mr. Shattuck assumes this as the true age but he was reputed among his contemporaries to be still older. Judge Foxcroft made a memorandum on the back of Mr. " Paul Rice the surviving Executor in the same named, exhibRice's will, ited this writing as the last will and testament of his father Richard Rice, late of Concord, (aged 100 years), deceased for probate," etc., 8 Aug. 1709. In the will are named chil. Paul, Peter, Mary (who d. between 27 Dec. 1708 and 8 Aug. 1709), Hannah Wilcockson, Abigail Reed, and Sarah Cootsay. It has been supposed, but erroneously, by several writers, that this RICHARD was ancestor of the numerous race in Sudbury and, Marlborough, distinguished for Their ancestor was EDMUND, freeman 1640, first of Sudbury and longevity. afterwards of Marlborough, where he d. in May 1663, and as the Record says, " was buried at Sudbury." JONATHAN, m. Rebecca Watson 1 Nov. 1677. TIMOTHY, of Concord, m. ABIGAIL, m. Thomas HarringAbigail, dau. of John Marrett, 27 Ap. 1687. ton 5 Feb. 1712-13, SUSANNA, m. Joseph Shed 16 Dec. 1720. RICHARDSON, ABIEL, parentage not ascertained, had w. Sarah, who d. 24
;
His chil. 1751, a. nearly 28, and he m. Abigail Convers 9 July 1751. vtere-Sarah, b. 15 Nov. 1749, m. Jonathan Winship 4 May 1769; Susanna, b. 2 May 1751; Abiel, b. 28 June 1753; Abigail, bap. 19 Jan. 1755; Frances, b. 2 Feb. 1756 Godfrey, b. 15 Sept. 1757. ABIEL the f. rem. to Cumberland, N. S., where he and his son Abiel were drowned 14 Nov. 1765.
May
gr. gr.
s. of Theophilus (who was s. of Ezekiel, gr. s. of Theophilus, and of the original Ezekiel), was born in Woburn 8 Ap. 1722; he m. Mary, dau. of Henry Prentice, and had Mary, b. 10 June 1753, m. William Russell of Boston 16 Jan. 1772; Moses, b. 10 Sept. 1755; Katherine, b. 16 Aug. 1757, m. James Smith of Boston 11 Sept. 1788; Elias, b. 27 Sept.
2.
MOSES,
s.
1760 Raham, b. 4 Nov. 1762; Elizabeth, b. 14 July 1767. MOSES the f. was a housewright, and resided at the N. E. corner of Holmes Place, on the estate
;
RICHARDSON
long
ROBBINS.
641
owned by Mr. Royal Morse, which estate he purchased of Downing Champney 8 Jan. 1749. He was one of the first martyrs in the cause of American Freedom. With other gallant spirits, he resisted the British Troops
a. 82.
on the memorable nineteenth of April 1775, and was slain in battle. It is said that a musket ball passed through his head. His w. Mary d. 10 Mar. 1812,
said to have been s. of Edward of Woburn, and nephew of m. Anne Wilson 16 May 1771, and had in Camb. Edward, b. 28 Sept. 1773, d. 7 May 1774; John, b. 25 Sept. 1775; Edward, b. 22 Oct. 1777; Samuel, b. 22 Oct. 1780, and perhaps others. 4. ELIAS, s. of Moses (2), m. Mary Rand 15 May 1788, and had Moses, b. 7 Ap. 1789; Mary, b. 19 Ap. 1791 Elias, b. 15 and d. 26 Oct. 1792 Christopher Columbus, b. 17 Jan. 1794; Elizabeth, b. 11 Oct. 1795; Sarah Rand, b. 27 Nov. 1797, d. 20 Mar. 1798; Rebecca Rand, bap. 27 Jan. 1799, m. Silas B. Fillebrown. ELIAS the f. was a glazier, and d. 14 Aug. 1801, a. 41; hisw. Mary d. 26 Oct. 1828, a. 71. 5. RAHAM, s. of Moses (2), m. Mary, dau. of John Prentiss 6 Jan. 1791, and had Henry, b. 25 Mar. 1791 James Prentiss, b. 23 July 1796, ordained at Poland, Me., 16 Aug. 1826, dismissed 1833, and installed at Otisfield, Me., 22 Oct. 1833. RAHAM the f. was a saddler, inherited the homestead, which he sold to Susanna and Catherine Morse 13 Ap. 1792, and d. of consumption 27 Nov. 1800, a. 38; his w. Mary had charge of the alrnshouse from Dec. 1802 to Sept. 1818, rem. to Maine to dwell with her son, and d. 1 Jan. 1861. 6. HENRY, s. of Raham (5), m. Relief Arnold, and had at Framingham Henry Francis, b. 4 June 1815 Mary Prentiss, b. 25 June 1817 Raham William, b. 20 July 1819, d. 12 Oct. 1847; James Prentiss, b. 20 Aug. 1821, a lawyer in Camb., m. Jane Carson, was Captain of the first military company which was organized for the special purpose of maintaining the Union in the War of the Rebellion, and was afterwards Lieut.-colonel and Judge (see page 431); Benjamin Franklin, b. 6 Feb. 1823 and in Sudbury, Samuel Wadsworth, b. 30 Nov. 1824, a Lieut.-colonel in the War of the Rebellion; Relief Catherine, b. 27 Nov. 1826 HENRY Elizabeth Ann, b. 14 Dec. 1828, d. 31 Jan. 1850. the f. res. at Framingham, and afterwards at Sudbury, where he d. Aug.
3.
EDWARD,
(2),
Moses
1871; his w. Relief d. 17 Sept. 1864.

said to have been s. of Edward of Woburn, also nephew to and brother to Edward (3), is supposed to have been born 23 He was a housewright, Sept. 1751. Slight traces are found of him here. and bought a part of the Holden Farm, bordering on Fresh Pond and Menotomy River, 19 Jan. 1784. He was a Selectman of Camb. five years, 1791-1795; he was deeply interested in the construction of the Concord Turnpike, which passed over his land, and subscribed largely for the stock he erected a hotel near the present division line between Camb. and Belmont, in anticipation that the Turnpike would be a great thoroughfare for travel. But his investments proved unprofitable, and he lost a large portion of his property in the
7.
RICHARD,
(2),
Moses
operation.
ABIGAIL, m. John Marrett 20 June 1654. THOMAS (of 1695), m. Mary, dau. of Andrew Stevenson, 5 Jan. 1669.
Peirson of
I find no record here of his family.
Billerica 25
Mar.
Woburn
28 Oct. 1673.
JOHN, ra. Mary PETER, m. Hannah Bond 13 Ap. 1780,
and was licensed by the General Court 28 May 1779, to keep a tavern in Camb. BENJAMIN, Jr., m. Mary Cutter 16 Feb. 1783. ABIGAIL, perhaps dau. of Abiel (1), m. Isaac Munroe 30 May 1784. RIDKR, WILLIAM, by w. Hannah, had William, b. 29 July 1675. ROBBINS, NICHOLAS (otherwise written Robbines, Robins, and Robines), owned a house and lot, which he sold about 1638 to John Fessenden. 2. RICHARD, and w. Rebecca united with the Church at Chs. 24 May 1640, but soon removed here. Their children were John, bap. at Chs. 31 May
1640; Samuel,
in.
1643; Nathaniel, bap. here; Rebecca, bap. here, Rebecca the mother d. and RICHARD m. He seems to have reElizabeth, wid. of Gilbert Crackbone, 26 Mar. 1673. sided on the south side of the river until about the period of his second mar-
b.
here 22
John Woodward before 1674.
May
41
642
ROBBINS.
riage; after which he res. in the body of the town, perhaps on the Crackbone He executed deeds 14 Mar. 1678-9, to his son Samuel, of thirty-six place. acres, and to his son Nathaniel, of thirty-four acres; and another deed 7 June 1681 to his dau. Rebecca, and her husband John Woodward, of thirty
acres, apparently all on the south side of the river. 3. JOHN, s. of Richard (2), was probably the same
who was
" In 1680, in what is now Lex. Judge Sewall, under that date, writes thus the afternoon a whirlwind ariseth (at first in a small body), near Samuel Stone's, passeth on to Mat. Bridge's (taking part of Stone's barn with it), kills
:
killed 8 July
John Robbins, who was at hoe, breaking his arm and jawbone. It hurled stones, and brake off and transported trees in an unusual manner." The jury of inquest on the same day rendered their verdict concerning the death of John Robbins, whose body was found on the ground " within the bounds of Cambridge, about seven miles towards Concord." .... "We find him very much bruised, and his jawbone broken and one of his arms, and several other wounds about his head; which we judge to be by a most tempestuous storm or whirlwind, that after a most formidable manner blew up trees round about him, and removed great stones from under the fence that was just by him, with other most dreadful and amazing effects which many were eye-witnesses
have found no record of his family. s. of Richard (2), by w. Ebenezer (so twice in the Record) had Elizabeth, b. 15 Jan. 1676, m. Joseph Allen of Wat. 19 Dec. 1700; RichSAMUEL the f. was one of the Hog-reeves on the south ard, b. 6 Dec. 1679.
unto."
4.
SAMUEL,
b. 6 June 1674, m. Thomas Squire, and (2d) William Nathaniel, b. 28 Feb. 1677-8; John, b. 21 Nov. 1680; Thomas, b. 6 Nov. 1683, d. 31 Jan. 1700-1; Samuel, b. 30 May 1686; Joseph, b. 8 Nov. NATHANIEL the f. was one of the Hog-reeves on the south side of 1689. the river in 1679, and d. 1719; his w. Mary survived. she d. 15 Sept. 6. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (5), m. Hannah His chil. were 1718, a. 43, and he m. Mary, wid. of Thomas Prentice. Thomas, b. about 1696, d. young; Nathaniel, bap. 19 June 1698; Mary, bap. 27 July 1701, m. Joseph Russell 9 Oct. 1724; Thomas, b. 11 Aug. 1703; Han-
side of the river in 1684. 5. NATHANIEL, s. of Richard (2), m. Mary Braside 4 Aug. 1669, and had Rebecca, b. 6 Jan. 1671-2, m. Joseph Cheney; Mary, b. 31 May 1673, d. 30
Nov. 1676; Deborah,
Brown;
nah, bap. 9 Sept. 1705, m. Zebadiah Johnson; Rebecca, bap. 7 Sept. 1707, m. Luxford Patten 11 May 1727 Philemon, bap. 25 Sept. 1709, H. C. 1729, minister at Branford, Conn., was f. of Rev. Chandler Robbins of Plymouth, and Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins of Norfolk, Conn., d. 1781; Deborah, bap. m. William Butterfield. NA30 Mar. 1712, living unm. 1737; Sarah, THANIEL the f. d. 26 Jan. 1761-2, and his w. Mary m. Samuel Lyon of Roxbury 24 Nov. 1742 she d. 2 Mar. 1760, a. 83 years. 7. JOHN, s. of Nathaniel (5), m. Abigail Adams 4 Ap. 1705, and had John, b. 1 Feb. 1705-6; Daniel, b. 25 Nov. 1707, pub. Hannah Trowbridge, Newton, 23 Oct. 1731; Mary, b. 20 May 1711; Roger, bap. 26 Sept. 1714, resided in Lancaster; Eliphalet, bap. 26 Jan. 1717-18; Solomon, bap. 25 Sept. Parker. JOHN the f. prob. lived 1720; Abigail, b. 24 Feb. 1723-4, m. on the south side of the river, and d. 10 June 1751; his 2d w. Hepzibah d. about 1762. 8. SAMUEL, s. of Nathaniel (5), by w. Rebecca had Rebecca, bap. 21 Nov. 1708; SAMUEL the f. d. at Sudbury about 1748, naming in his will, 1743, w.
;
, ;
Rebecca and children, Rebecca More; Elizabeth Griffin; Hepzibah Brown; Stone ; Samuel ; Thankful ; Lois. 9. JOSEPH, s. of Nathaniel (5), m. Jane Dickson 3 Aug. 1709, and had Joseph, b. 14 Mar. 1709-10; William, b. 2 Jan. 1711-12; Edward, b. 9 Jan.
Mary
Jonathan, b. 9 Dec. 1715; Jane, b. 9 May 1718 David, bap. 10 July 1720, d. young; David, b. 4 Sept. 1722. These chil., except the first David, were living in 1731. JOSEPH the f. prob. res. at Menot., and d. about 1724; his w. Jane was administratrix 27 Ap. 1724, and d. about 1771. 10. THOMAS, s. of Nathaniel (6), m. Ruth who d. 27 June 1737,
1713-14
BOBBINS.
a. 34,
643
and ho m. Xena Jackson 24 Oct. 1737. His chil. were Thomas, bap. 23 Feb. 1723-4; Nathaniel, bap. 17 Ap. 1726, grad. H. C. 1747, was ordained at Milton 13 Feb. 1751, was father of Lieut -governor Edward H. Robbins, and d. 19 May 1795; Mary, bap. 16 June 1728; Stephen, bap. 28 June 1730; Susanna, bap. 9 Dec. 1733; Esther, bap. 16 Jan. 1736-7; John, bap. 6 Aug. 1738, prob. the same who was of Lex., and m. Sarah Prentice 14 May 1761; Philemon, bap. 19 Aug. 1739; Ruth, bap. 7 June 1741; Ebenezer, bap. 4 July 1742, m. Sarah Estabrook 8 June 1775 Ezra, bap. 12 Aug. 1744; and others after his removal to Lex. THOMAS the f. prob. res. near the line between Camb. and Chs. (as the towns then existed), being called of Chs. at the time He rem. to Lex. about 1744, and d. 30 Jan. 1791. of his second marriage. 11. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (6), had Thomas, bap. 8 Mar. 1718-19, pub. Anna Stearns 26 Feb. 1740; Martha, bap. 24 Sept. 1721. NATHANIEL the f. d. prob. 1721, and administration was granted 9 Nov. 1721. 12. JOHN, s. of John (7), by w. Elizabeth, had John, bap. 4 Jan. 1729-30; Joshua, bap. 27 May 1733; Hepzibah, bap. 27 Oct. 1734. JOHN the f. prob. resided on the south side of the river. 13. ELIPHALET, s. of John (7), by w. Jemima, had Eliphalet, b. pub. Martha Durant of Newton 15 Mar. 1777 Moses, b. 6 July 1742; Nathaniel, 30 b. 3 Sept. 1745; Jemima, b. Mar. 1747, m. Israel Whitney 10 Dec. 1765; Mary, b. 2 May 1760, m. Joseph Draper of Dedham 2 June 1779; and perhaps others. ELIPHALET the f. resided on the south side of the river, was a Captain, and an influential citizen; he was Selectman 1775 and 1776, and a
; , ;
member
of the Committees of Correspondence and Inspection, in which great He d. 1795, and authority was vested in the early days of the Revolution. was survived by his 2d w. (Mrs. Sarah Whitney of Dedham), to whom he was pub. 10 Dec. 1776. 14. SOLOMON, s. of John (7), m. Martha Sweetser 9 Oct. 1746, and had Phineas, b. 28 Ap. 1747 Abigail, bap. 3 Ap. 1748; David, b. 1749, d. 13 Jan.
;
1753,
a. 3
years 9 months.
15. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (9), m. Deborah Robbins 30 Mar. 1732, and had Sarah, bap. 10 Dec. 1732, m. George Cutter, Jr., of Chs. 21 Oct. 1756; Joseph, bap. 29 Sept. 1734 Hannah, b. 1737, d. 3 Aug. 1764, a. 27, "who," says Rev. Mr. Cooke in his diary, "from about 15 months, continued the same in stature and understanding to the day of her death, and had the actions of a child of " a that age; about her tenth year she grew something thicker; daughter, b. 1739, d. 14 Aug. 1740, a. 16 months; Isaac, bap. 14 Mar. 1741-2, pub. to Elizabeth Robbins of Marblehead 20 Nov. 1763, and to Elizabeth Stone of Chs. 1 July 1769 Isaiah, bap. 1 Ap. 1744, pub. to Susanna Reed of Chs. 1 Mar. 1766, and d. 15 May 1770. JOSEPH the f. res. in Menot. and d. between 25 May and 9 Oct. 1758 his w. Deborah d. 23 Feb. 1771, a. 59. 16. WILLIAM, s. of Joseph (9), m. Ruth Butterfield 13 July 1733; she d. and he m. Hannah Hartwell 17 Oct. 1764. His chil. were William, bap. 17 Nov. 1734, d. young; Ruth, b. 26 Aug. 1738,m. Zechariah Hill 9 May 1771; William, b. 20 Aug. 1740, m. Hannah Paine 5 Mar. 1767; David, b. 27 Jan. 1742-3 Jonathan, b. 9 Ap. 1746; Mary, bap. 26 June 1748, prob. d. young. WILLIAM the f. res. at Menotomy, where he d. 3 Sept. 1773 his w. Hannah
;
survived.
17. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (10), m. Elizabeth Moore 1 May 1746, and had Thomas, bap. 10 Dec. 1749 Elizabeth, bap. 27 Oct. 1751, m. Abraham Hill, Jr., 9 May 1782; Ruth, bap. 26 Sept. 1756; Sarah, bap. 17 Jan. 1762, prob. d. unm. 28 Ap. 1802, a. 40 (39 on gravestone); Rebecca, bap. 11 Nov. 1764; Nathaniel and Philemon, twins, bnp. 31 May 1767. 18. STEPHEN, s. of Thomas (10), styled of Lex. 1754 and of Camb. 1769, had four children bap. at Menot.; Sarah, 24 Nor. 1754 Rebecca, 4 May 1755; John, 30 July 1769 Nathan, 16 June 1771. There were prob. other children not found on record. 19. THOMAS, prob. s. of Nathaniel (11), res. at Menot., m. Anne Stearns (pub. 26 Feb. 1740), and had Thomas, bap. 27 Sept. 1741 Nathaniel,^ bap. 25 Sept. 1743; James, bap. 27 Oct. 1745; at the last date the father is styled
; ;
" now
of
Woburn."
644
20.
ROBBINS
MOSES,
b.
ROBINSON.
23. NATHANIEL, prob. s. of Thomas (19), in. Mary Coolidge of Wat. (pub. Mar. 1768), and had Nathaniel, bap. 5 Mar. 1769. 24. JOSIAH, parentage not ascertained, m. Sarah Fillebrown 29 Jan. 1729-30, and had Josiah, bap. 20 Dec. 1730; Nathan, bap. 8 Aug. 1736; Anna, bap. 1 Ap. 1739; Rebecca, bap. 11 Ap. 1742. JOSIAH the f. and his w. Sarah were original members of the Church gathered at Menot. 1 739, and were dismissed to Townsend 5 Oct. 1744. 25. JAMES, parentage not ascertained, m. Lydia Capen 30 Mar. 1780, and was Selectman 1789. No record of family. HANNAH, m. Daniel Russell 3 Aug. 1749. SILAS, m. Mary Stratton 7 May 1772. SUSANNA, m. Jonathan Barrett 24 Aug. 1783. SARAH, m. Charles Cutter 9 Nov. 1784. SILAS, m. Rebecca Hammond of Newton 20 May 1792. LUCY, m. Elijah White 2 Oct. 1796. LUCY, m. Stephen Bacon 23 Nov. 1797. AMELIA, m. Ebenezer Brown 21 Ap. 1799. SAUAH, m. John Williams of Roxbury 7 May 1804. The last five were m. on the south side of the river. THOMAS, d. at Menot. 25 Sept. 1778. JOHN, d. 11 Oct. 1797. LUCY, d. unm. at Menot. July 1799, a. 35. ROBINSON, WILLIAM, by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth; Hannah, b. (at Concord) 13 July 1671, d. here (called Ann) 5 Oct. 1672; William, b. 10 July " " lame and 1673; Mercy, b. 7 Aug. 1676; David, b. 23 May 1678, helpless in 1695; Samuel, b. 20 Ap. 1680; Jonathan, b. 20 Ap. 1682. WILLIAM the f. is styled sometimes of Camb. and sometimes of Wat. he executed a will 22 Mar. 1693, which was presented for probate 26 June 1693, but disallowed on account of its informality; at which date all the children except Hannah were living. 2. WILLIAM, s. of William (1), resided in Newton; his will dated 25 Dec. 1742, proved 11 Mar. 1754, names w. Elizabeth, and chil. Elizabeth Upham ;
6
;
s. of Eliphalet (13), m. Sarah Dana 31 Oct. 1765, and had 18 Aug. 1766; Daniel, b. 21 May 1768; Mary, b. 15 May 1770. MOSES the f. res. on the south side of the river, and was Selectman ten years between 1779 and 1792. 21. JONATHAN, s. of William (16), m. Elizabeth Miles of Chs. (pub. 7 May 1774), and had Jonathan Miles, bap. 9 July 1775, d. young; Elizabeth, bap. 15 Nov. 1778, m. Washington Cutter of Chs. 16 Mar. 1800 Jonathan Miles, bap. 28 July 1782. JONATHAN the f. res. at Menot.. and d. 2 Oct. 1799, a. 53; his w. Elizabeth d. 30 May 1790, a. 36. 22. THOMAS, prob. s. of Thomas (19), m. Sarah Gould 29 Oct. 1761, and had Nathaniel, bap. 16 May 1762.
Moses,
Hannah Biglow ; Thankful; William; Jeremiah; Josiah; Ichabod ; John. 3. SAMUEL, s. of William (1), m. Sarah Manning 23 Mar. 1703-4; she
d.
19 July 1709, and he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Samuel Brigham of Marlborough, 16 Oct. 1711. His chil. were Sarah, bap. 22 July 1705, d. young; Samuel, b. '4 Ap. 1707; Dorothy, b. 19 Ap. 1709; Persis, b. 7 Sept. 1712; Edmund, b. 7 June 1714, d. 25 Nov. 1716; Sarah, b. 3 Oct. 1717. SAMUEL the f. in 1707 bought a house and three quarters of an acre at the S. W. corner of Brattle Square and Brattle Street, where he kept a tavern, nearly, if not exactly, on the spot occupied by the Brattle Mansion-house until 13 June 1721, when he sold his estate, and about that time removed to Westborough, where he d. administration was granted to his w. Elizabeth 24 Ap. 1724, and her brother Jedediah Brigham was appointed guardian to the only surviving son, Samuel, then in his nineteenth year, 25 Feb. 1725. 4. JONATHAN, s. of William (1), by w. Ruth, had Jonathan, b. 21 Feb. Bacon; 1706-7; Ruth, b. 29 Jan. 1708-9; Abigail, b. 4 Feb. 1710-11, in. James, b. 30 Aug. 1715; Lydia, b. 29 Aug. 1718, m. Caleb Simons Hannah, bl 8 Jan. 1720-21. JONATHAN the f. was a weaver, and resided at Lex. His his w. Ruth survived. will, dated 2 Feb. 1748, was proved 18 Feb. 1754
; ;
;
m. Mercy Leonard of Southborough May 1732, resided a short time in Graf ton, and removed to Hard wick in 1735 or 1736. His chil., all recorded in Hardwick, were Elizabeth, b. 24 Dec. 1733; Leonard, b. 16 July 1736, m. Rebecca Billings of Hardwick 31 Aug. 1758, d.
5.
SAMUEL,
s.
of
Samuel
(3),
ROBINSON
at
ROLFE.
645
Swanton, Vt., 29 Sept. 1827 (his son Samuel Leonard settled in Hardwick, d. 18 Jan. 1863, a. nearly 96, and left posterity there) Samuel, b. 9 Aug. 1738, was an Adjutant in the French War, at the age of about 20, m. Esther Safford of Bennington, Vt., was a Captain in the Bennington Battle, afterwards Colonel of Militia, actively engaged in the American Revolution, and d. 3 May 1813; Moses, b. 15 Mar. 1741, m. Mary, dau. of Capt. Stephen Fay, settled in Bennington, was the first Colonel of Militia in Vermont, "and with his regiment was often in active service during the war; " he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Senator in Congress, and Governor of the State; he received the honorary degree of A. M. at Y. C. 1789, and at D. C. 1790; he d. 19 May 1813; Paul, b. 17 Dec. 1743, d. 1754; Silas, b. 17 Mar. 1745-6, m. Susanna Weeks, d. at St. Albans, Vt., at an advanced age; Mercy, b. 8 Oct. 1748, m. Col. Joseph Safford of Bennington, and d. 7 May 1814; Sarah, b. 13 Nov. 1751, m. Benjamin, son of Capt. Stephen Fay, and (2d) Gen. Heman Swift of Cornwall, Conn. David, b. 4 Nov, 1 754, settled in Bennington, in. Sarah, dau. of Capt. Stephen Fay, and (2d) Eunice, dau. of Doct. John Dickinson of Middletown, Conn., and (3d) Nancy, wid. of George Church of Hartford, Conn. he was in the Bennington Battle, and afterwards Major-general of Militia he was also United States Marshal for the District of Vermont eight years, and Sheriff of Bennington County twentytwo years he d. Nov. 1843 Jonathan, b. 24 Aug. 1756, settled in Bennington, m. Mary, dau. of John Fassett, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Senator in Congress he received the honorary degree of A. M. at D. C. 1790, and d. 3 Nov. 1819 Anne, b. 4 Oct. 1759, m. Isaac Webster, and d. in the 84th year of her age. SAMUEL the f. was Deacon of the Church in Hard wick, and Captain in the French War. In 1761 he removed with his He family to Bennington, and was one of the most prominent inhabitants. was a Justice of the Peace, and active in resistance against the encroachments by New York he went to England as an agent for the New Hampshire Grants in 1766, and d. at London 1767, of small-pox. His w. Mercy d. 5
;
;
June 1792,
6.
a. 82.
b. 20 s. of Jonathan -(4), by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, June 1732; Jonathan, b. 29 Sept. 1733; Jacob, b. 3 Feb. 1738-9. JONATHAN the f. res. at Lex., and d. before 1748. 7. JAMES, s. of Jonathan (4), by w. Margaret, had Asa, b. 17 Jan. 1759 James, b. 26 Nov. 1760, m. Judith Reed of Woburn 25 May 1787 Rhoda, b.
JONATHAN,
1763 Ebenezer, b. 14 Feb. 1765; Persis, b. 25 Jan. 1767; Jonas, b. 1770; Lydia, b. 2 Jan. 1773, all at Lex. 8. JACOB, s. of Jonathan (6), by w. Elizabeth, had Jacob, b. 28 Oct. 1762; Elizabeth, b. 6 Mar. 1766 Jonathan, b. 20 June 1769; Jesse, b. 14 July 1767 Nathan, b. 1 Dec. 1775, d. Betsey, b. 26 Feb. 1772; Anna, b. 28 June 1774 22 Ap. 1776. JACOB the f. resided at Lex., and d. 18 June 1776, a. 38; his w. Elizabeth d. 24 Sept. 1830, a. 89. and had 9. JACOB, s. of Jacob (8), m. Hannah Simonds 26 Aug. 1790, Hannah, b. Jacob, b. 24 Ap. 1791 Charles, b. 5 May 1793, d. 24 Sept, 1801 25 Ap. 1795, m. Charles Tufts, founder of Tufts College; John, b. 30 Ap. 1797, d. 26 Sept. 1801 George, b. 2 Dec. 1799, d. 22 Sept. 1801; Charles, b. 5 May 1802; John, b. 19 Aug. 1804; Harriet, b. 5 Nov. 1806; Mary Ann, b. 2 Feb. 1812; all at Lex.
10 18
May May
had
JESSE, s. of Jacob (8), m. Rebecca Tidd of at Lex., Rebecca, b. 14 Feb. 1795 ; Jesse, b. 4 others.
10.
Acton 21 Nov. 1793, and June 1797 and perhaps

;
ROLFE, JOHN (otherwise written Rolph), prob. s. of John Rolfe who d. at Newbury 8 Feb. 1664, m. Mary Scullard at Newbury 4 Dec. 1656, and had Mary, b. 2 Nov. and d. 10 Dec. 1658; Mary, b. 16 Jan. 1660; Rebecca, b. 9 Feb. 1662, m. William Cutter of Cambridge about 1680 John, b. about 1665, sold part of his father's estate to his brother-in-law William Cutter 4 June 1685, and d. before 26 Sept. 1705 Samuel, b. about 1667, sold his share of the a millwright; Benjamin, b. 1 Ap. heritage 12 July 1688; Joseph, b. 1674, a yeoman; Henry, b. 26 Sept. 1678, a ship carpenter; Moses, b. 14 Oct.
; ; ,
646
1681.
ROLFE
The
first
RUSSELL.
three births are recorded at Newbury (see Coffin's Hist. at Camb., and the intermediate three are gathered All the sons removed to Woodbridge, N. J., except John, and it is not known that he left JOHN the f. was a millwright. In 1670 posterity. he purchased a mill and lands at Menot. and 600 acres of wild lands in the northeasterly part of what is now Lex., formerly the estate of Col. George Cooke. He was taken suddenly sick at the house of his brother Benjamin at Newbury, executed a nuncupative will 30 Sept. 1681, and died before the next morning. His w. Mary survived, and was here 2 Oct. 1683. ROSCOE, WILLIAM (otherwise written Reskie, Ruscoe, and Ruskew), m. widow Hester Muzzy 1635, and sold some of her land 24 Mar. 1635-6. He was " appointed to make a pound," 23 Ap. 1636, but soon afterwards rem. to Hartford, where Hinman says he was a Juror in 1644. ROSE, JOHN, d. 12 Dec. 1640. RICHARD m. Huldah Russell 5 Oct. 1722. Ross, THOMAS, m. Seeth (often written Seth), dau. of William Hoiman, 16 Jan. 1661-2, and had here Thomas, b. 19 Dec. 1662, d. young; MarLevistone; Thomas, b. 20 June 1668; and yaret, b. 22 Jan. 1663-4, m. Patin Billerica, Sarah, b. 21 June 1671 Hannah, b. 31 Mar. 1679, m. THOMAS the f. was a Scotchman, and was a ten; John, b. 18 Jan. 1686-7. servant to Edward Winship 9 June 1656, when he had " liberty to mow the He rem. to Billerica grass in the swamp anent the north end of Spy Pond." about 1670, and d. 20 Mar. 1694-5, a. 64; his w. Seeth was slain by the Indians in one of their attacks on that settlement 5 Aug. 1695, a. 55. ANN, m. Thomas Bumford 25 Feb. 1779. RUGG, THOMAS, m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Munroe, and had Thomas, b. 6 Dec. 1690, d. 10 Ap. 1709; William, b. 16 Nov. 1693; Elizabeth, b. 20 Jan. 1695; Hannah, b. 16 Ap. 1697; Abigail, b. 15 Mar. 1699; Sarah, b. 12 Feb. 1701-2; Mary, b. 30 May 1703; Ruth, b. 25 Sept. 1706; Tabitha, b. 10 Sept. 1708, d. Ap. 1713; Milllcent, b. 11 Nov. 1710, d. 19 Nov. 1712; Martha, b. 10 Nov. 1713. THOMAS the f. resided at the Farms. RUSSELL, JOHN, was here as early as 5 Oct. 1635, and resided at the N. W. corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn streets, in a house purchased of Daniel Abbott. He was Surveyor of Arms 1638, Selectman 1642 and 1643, Constable in 1648, Clerk of the Writs 1645, and an active citizen. He was father of John, who grad. H. C. 1645, and was Minister at Weathersfield and Hadley, the trusty protector of the Regicide Judges. 2. WILLIAM, by w. Martha, had Joseph,}), in England about 1636 (55 years
Newb.), the from deeds.
last three
old in 1691, Depo.), and after his arrival here, Benjamin; John, b. 11 Sept. 1645; Martha; Philip, b. about 1650; William, b. 28 Ap. 1655; Jason, b. 14 Nov. 1658; Joyce, b. 31 Mar. 1660, m. Edmund Rice of Sudbury before 1681. It is not known that this family was connected with that of John (1), or that of Richard of Chs. WILLIAM the f. was a carpenter, and appears to have He d. 14 Feb. 1661 his w. Martha m. Humphrey Bradshaw res. in Menot. 24 Mar. 1665, and after his death, m. Thomas Hall 24 May 1683; she d. about 1694. 3. JOSEPH, s. of William (2), m. Mary Belcher, dau. of Jeremiah Belcher, Ipswich, 23 June 1662, and had Mary, bap. 8 Jan. 1664, prob. d. young; Martha, b. 1 Feb. 1666, d. unm. 26 June 1691 Abigail, b. 12 May 1668, m. Matthew Bridge; Prudence, b. 30 May 1670, m. Nathaniel Hancock; Joseph, b. 15 July
; ;
1673, prob. d. young; Walter, b. 30 Ap. 1676; Mariah, b. 28 Nov. 1678, m. Thomas Prentice 28 Dec. 1696, (2d) Nathaniel Robbins, (3d) Samuel Lyon of and d. in her third widowhood 2 Mar. 1760,'" in the Roxbury 24 Nov. 1742, 84th year of her age " according to her epitaph, but in the 82d, according to the Record; Jeremiah, b. 21 Jan. 1680-81 John, b. 13 July 1683; Samuel, b. 9 Aug. 1685. JOSEPH the f. was a carpenter, res. in Menot., and d. between 14 Nov. and 17 Dec. 1694; his w. Mary d. 24 June 1691. 4. BENJAMIN, s. of William (2), by w. Rebecca, had Kebecca, b. , d. 2 Feb. 1673 Jason, b. 10 May 1674; Benjamin, b. 2 and d. 19 Ap. 1676; Joyce,
; ;
b.
14
5.
1677; Sarah, b. 4 July 1679. JOHN, s. of William (2), m. Elizabeth, dau. of David Fiske, and had
May
RUSSELL.
b. 18
647
Martha, b. 1 Aug. and d. 7 Nov. 1675; David; Jonathan; William; Abigail, d. 27 May 1688; Esther, b. 19 Dec. 1700; Ap. 1686; Patience, b. and perhaps others. JOHN the f. was a housewright, and res. at the Farms, where he and his w. Elizabeth were living 13 Dec. 1731. 6. PHILIP, s. of William (2), m. Joanna, dau. of James Cutler, 19 June 1680; she d. 26 Nov. 1703, and he m. Sarah Brooks of Medford 18 Oct. 1705. His chil. were James, b. about 1681; Joanna, b. 30 Dec. 1683, m. William Munroe; William, b. 23 July 1686; Philip, b. 18 Sept. 1688; Samuel, b. 12 in. William Locke Jan. 1690-91; Jemima, b. Thomas, bap. 3 July 1698; Abigail, b. 11 Sept. 1700, m. David Sprague of Chs.; Susanna, b. 18 Oct. 1706. PHILIP the f. was a carpenter, and appears to have res. at Menot., and afterwards at the Farms. He was Selectman 1700 and 1701, and d. 7 Feb. 1730-31,
,
, ;
a. 80.
7. WILLIAM, s. of William (2), m. Abigail, dau. of Edward Winship, 18 Mar. 1682-3, and had William, b. 5 Ap. 1687; Abigail, b. 31 Dec. 1688, d. unm. 20 June 1710; Edward, b. Feb. 1695, d. 21 Jan. 1695-6; Edward, bap. 10 Oct. 1697; and probably others. WILLIAM the f. was engaged in the Narraganset War, Selectman nine years between 1697 and 1714, res. at Menot., and d. 17 May 1744, a. 89; his w. Abigail d. 31 July 1727, a. 71. 8. JASON, s. of William (2), m. Mary, dau. of James Hobart (or Hubbard), 27 Mar. 1684, and had Hubbard, b. 20 May 1687; Martha, b. 2 May 1691, m. Henry Dunster 25 Feb. 1707-8, and (2d) Francis Locke 15 Mar. 1759, and d. 27 June 1771. JASON the f. res. at Menot., was Selectman four years between 1707 and 1711, and d. about 1736 (administration granted 2 April
1736); his w.
9.
Mary
s.
,
d.
14
May
1738.
Joseph (3), m. Mary, dau. of Nathaniel Patten, 17 May and he m. Elizabeth Winship 3 Ap. 1706. His chil. were 1699; she d. Joseph, b. 25 Aug. 1703; Mary, b. 8 Feb. 1706-7, m. John Dickson 4 Aug. 1725; Walter,\>. 7 Ap. 1709, d. unm. 11 Feb. 1763; Martha, b. 27 Jan. 1711-12 (prob. 27 Dec. 1711, as she was bap. 6 Jan. 1711-12), pub. John Wilson 2 July 1737, d. 26 Nov. 1797; Jeremiah, b. 11 Feb. 1713-14 Elizabeth, bap. 4 Mar. 1715-16, pub. Matthew Cox 30 Mar. 1739; Edward, bap. 10 Aug. 1718, d. young; Edward, bap. 15 Oct. 1721; Samuel, bap. 9 Feb. 1723-4; Daniel, bap. 5 May 1728 Hobart (or Hubbard), bap. 22 Aug. 1731. WALTER the f. res. at Menot., and d. 30 Mar. 1748 his w. Elizabeth d. 14 Ap. 1750, a. 64. 10. JOHN, s. of Joseph (3), m. Rebecca, prob. dau. of Thomas Blodgett, and had Rebecca, b. 24 June 1711; Adonijah, b. 25 Feb. 1712-13 Abigail, b.
WALTER,
of
15 Feb. 1715-16; John, b. 16 Ap. 1719; Solomon, b. 5 Aug. 1723 Joseph, b. 23 Aug. 1729. JOHN the f. was a housewright, and res. at Lex., where he d. 14 June 1746. 11. DAVID, &. of John (5), by w. Abigail, had David ; John, b. 1 Dec. 1702; Abigail, b. 27 Aug. 1704, m. Isaac Preston of Littleton; Hannah, b. 2 June
;
Edward Farwell of Littleton; Amos; Jason; Sarah, m. William Sanderson of Harvard; Elizabeth; Esther. DAVID the f. was a farmer, and res. at the Farms until 1715, when he removed to Concord, and from thence about 1720 to Littleton, where he was Deacon; he d. not long before 29 Oct.
1708, m.
1 744, when his estate was divided among his children, who then resided, David and John, at Lunenburg, Abigail, Hannah, Amos, Elizabeth, and Esther, at Littleton, and Jason and Sarah, at Harvard. 12. JONATHAN, s. of John (5), by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. 15 July 1702 Mary, b. 1 Jan. 1704-5; Jonathan, b. 5 Ap. 1707; Jane, b. 19 July 1711, m. Benjamin Lawrence 12 Feb. 1734-5; Ruth, b. 24 Ap. 1714; Eliezer, b. 5 May 1717, m. Tabitha Prentice 10 Jan. 1738-9; Samuel, b 3 Feb. 1722-3;
;
b. 24
Lexington. 10 Jan. 1705-6, and had Mary, m. of Stow; Joanna, b. 3 Dec. 1707, prob. July 1706, Benjamin Bailey d. young; James, b. 14 Aug. 1709; Josiah, b. 28 Mar. 1711; Samuel, b. 27 Oct. 1712; Jemima, b. 8 Sept. 1714, m. John Carruth of Westborough; Sarah, b. 8 Feb. 1716, m. Creasey of Groton; Abigail, b. 29 Ap. 1718, m. Dr. Ebeuezer Perry of Groton; Lucy, b. 15 Ap. 1720. JAMKS the f. res.
13.
Hester, b. 22
May
s.
1725.
JONATHAN
the
f.
res. at
JAMES,
of Philip (6), m.
Mary Howe
648
at Lex.,
RUSSELL.
where he prob. d. between 6 July 1747, when he and his w. Mary executed a deed to his son Josiah, and 17 May 1749, when the other children confirmed the title to the estate. They then resided James (a cordwainer), at Camb., Samuel (a cordwainer), at Sudbury, Mary, at Stow, Josiah, at Lex., Sarah and Abigail, at Groton, and Jemima, at Westborough. 14. WILLIAM, s. of Philip (6), by w. Elizabeth had Nathaniel, b. 23 Feb. 1706-7; Lrjdia, b. 19 May 1711; Submit, bap. 28 Dec. 1712; Joel, b. 2 Aug. 1716. WILLIAM the f. res. at the Farms, and had a deed of the homestead 1722 (subject to the life estate of his father), which be conveyed to his son Nathaniel, and d. 25 Nov. 1731. 15. PHILIP, s. of Philip (6), by w. Sarah, had Sarah, b. 22 May 1718; Millicent, b. 29 Dec. 1720; Mary, b. 13 May 1722, d. 12 Aug. 1736; Phebe, b. 14 Ap. 1725, d. 29 July 1736; Philip, b. 5 Ap. 1727; Joseph, b. 19 June 1729; Joanna, b. 21 Nov. 1731. PHILIP the f. res. at Lex., and d. 3 Mar. 1773; his w. Sarah d. 17 Dec. 1767. 16. EDWARD, s. of William (7), by w. Sarah, had Anna ; Abigail, m. Israel Blackington of Wrentham 1 3 Ap. 1 755 Ruth ; these three were bap. together 26 Nov. 1727; William, bap. 29 Oct. 1732. EDWARD the f. d. 20 Mar. 1749-50, a. 53. Ruth of Boston, and William of Camb. quitclaimed their right in their father's estate to their sister Abigail, 1 Jan. and 15 Feb. 1754. 17. HUBBARD (or Hobart), s. of Jason (8), m. Elizabeth Dickson 9 May 1710, and had Jason, bap. 25 Mar. 1711, d. young; Mary, b. 7 Dec. 1712, m. David Dunster; Margery (or Margaret), b. 30 Ap. 1715, m. Joseph Belknap; Jason, b. 25 Jan. 1716-17; Hobart, bap. 24 Ap. 1726, d. young. HUBBARD Hoithe f. res. at Menot and d. 4 June 1726, a. 39; his w. Elizabeth m. den, before 1737 (prob. Joseph Holden of Wat. 11 June 1729). 18. JOSEPH, s. of Walter (9), m. Mary liobbins 9 Oct. 1724, and had Mary, b. 9 Mar. 1726-7; Lucy, bap. 16 Mar. 1728-9, d. young; Lucy, bap. 17 Jan. 1730-31 Patten, bap. 28 Jan. 1732-3 Joseph, bap. 9 Mar. 1734-5; Walter, b. about 1737; Mary, bap. 22 Ap. 1739, d. young; Philemon, b. 1 Aug. 1740; Mary, b. 20 May 1743, d. unm. 16 Oct. 1762. JOSEPH the f. was a farmer and res. on the northerly side of the main road in Menot., on the first estate westerly from the river, or Alewife Brook, until the spring of 1 730, when he exchanged estates with Capt. Samuel Whittemore, and removed into the westerly border of Chs. (now Somerville) on the road leading to Winter Hill. He d. 13 Nov. 1776, a. 73, and was buried at West Cambridge, as were most of the Russell family of Menot., whether residing on the Camb. or Chs. side of the line; his w. Mary d. 28 Dec. 1781, a. 80. 19. JEREMIAH, s. of Walter (9), m. had Seth, b. 1732, bap. 3-1 , and Mar. 1734; Edward, bap. 10 Nov. 1734. JEREMIAH the f. m. (2d) Damaris Williams 12 Jan. 1737-8. A guardian was appointed for his two sons 3 July
;
;
1744; his w. Damaris d. 23 July 1778,

(9), b. 27 Sept. 1754; Eleanor, b. 11
20.
a. 70.
m. Ruth Cox 21 Feb. 1754, and had Samuel, May 1757, m. John Dickson 25 June 1781; Mary, bap. 23 Dec. 1759, prob. d. young; Ruth, b. 29 Sept. 1762, d. unm. 11 Aug. 1769, Aug. 1840; David, b. 24 June 1765, m. Ruth Locke; Amos, b. m. Betsey Pierce 30 Dec. 1793, and d. 13 Oct. 1828; Aathan,b. 25 Sept. 1772. SAMUEL the f. res. at Menot. and d. 16 July 1802 his w. Ruth d. 12 Nov.
SAMUEL,
s.
of
Walter
1797,
a. 68.
21. DANIEL, s. of Walter (9). m. Hannah Robbins 3 Aug. 1 749. and had Walter, b. Elizabeth, b. 21 Dec. 1749, m. Joshua Underwood 25 Aug. 1771
;
24 July 1751: Hannah, b. 2 Ap. 1753; Hepzibah, b. 27 Ap. 1755; Mary, b. " one week 7 Ap. 1757; Daniel, bap. 7 Ap. 1759, and d. on the same ;" day, a. Martha, bap. 12 Ap. 1761; Daniel, b. 23 Aug. 1763, and d. 5 Jan. 1803; Esther, twin, b. 23 Aug. 1763; Margery,}). 2 Feb. 1766; Margaret, b. 13 Feb. 1768. DANIEL the f. res. in Menot. 22. HUBBARD (or Hobart) s. of Walter (9), m. Lois Boynton of Wat. (pub. 24 Mar. 1759), and had Lois, b. 30 Ap. 1760, m. Josiah Mason, Jr., of Camb. 18 July 1784, and d. 17 Ap. 1847; Hubbard, bap. 18 Oct. 1661, res. at Wat., and had John, Hubbard, Jeremiah, Isaac, and George W.; Walter, bap. 10
RUSSELL.
649
July 1763; Isaac, bap. 8 June 1766, d. unm. 21 May 1819; Mary, bap. 1 May 1768, m. Bartlett; Sarah, bap. 25 Feb. 1770, m. Thaddeus Hastings, and (2d) Ballard, or Bullard; Lucy, bap. 19 Jan. 1772; Susanna, bap. 31 Aug. 1777; Betsey, bap. 12 Dec. 1779. HUBBARD the f. was drowned in crossing from Boston to East Cambridge 22 May 1782; his w. Lois d. about 1791 at which last date all the children, except Susanna, were living. 23. JAMES, s. of James (13), removed from Lex. to Menot., and had MarHe was a cordwainer, and was here in tha and Sarah, twins, b. 8 July 1747.
;
1749.
24. PHILIP, s. of Philip (15), m. Lydia Eaton of Reading 24 Ap. 1750; she d. 5 Oct. 1751, and he m. Lydia Dodge 22 June 1758. His chil. were Amos, b. 5 Dec. 1750; Lydia, b. 9 Nov. 1758, d. 25 May 1777; Nathan, b. 1 Mar. 1760; Sarah, b. 24 Mar. 1761, m. Jonas Locke; Thomas, b. 10 Ap. 1762, d. 15 Nov. 1763; Phebe, b. 24 May 1764, m. Joseph Merriam; Thomas, b. 18 Feb. 1766, d. 14 May 1766; Jonas, b. 29 Ap. 1767; Lucy, b. 7 Nov. 1768, m. Joseph Harrington; a child, b. 16 March 1771, d. 27 May 1771. PHILIP the f. res. in Lex., and d. 19 Jan. 1816, a. 89 his w. Lydia d. 28 Feb. 1772. 25. WILLIAM, perhaps s. of Edward (16), by w. Mary had William, b. 24
;
Mar. 1772. Katherine, b. 4 Mar. 1784. 26. JASON, s. of Hubbard (17), m. Elizabeth Winship 28 Jan. 1739-40, and had Jason, b. 7 Mar. 1741-2; Elizabeth, b. 27 Dec. 1743, d. 29 Mar. 1751; John, b. 4 Aug. 1746; Hubbard, b. 25 Mar. 1749, m. Sarah Warren of Weston (pub. 31 Mar. 1774); Thomas, b. 22 July 1751; Noah, b. 15 July 1753, d. 13 Oct. 1754; Elizabeth, b. 3 July 1756, m. Jotham Webber 12 Mar. 1778; Mary, bap. 17 May 1761, d. 11 Ap. 1762; Noah; b. 8 Mar. 1763. JASON the f. res. at Menot. on the southerly side of the Main Street, a few rods west of the Church, where he was killed by the British on their retreat from Lex. 19 Ap. 1775, a. 58, and was buried in the ancient burial ground. With praiseworthy liberality and patriotism the citizens of Arlington have erected a handsome granite monument, to mark the resting-place of this early martyr of American Liberty and bis slaughtered companions. His w. Elizabeth d. 11 Aug. 1786,
27.
a. 65.
Joseph (18), m. Mary, dau. of John Dickson, 25 July His children were Lucy, 1749; she d. 14 Feb. 1781, and he m. Mercy b. 12 Mar. 1749-50, d. 26 Oct. 1752; Mary, b. 12 Oct. 1752; Lucy, b. 6 Mar. 1755; Joseph, bap. 24 Sept. 1758; Naomi, bap. 25 Feb. 1761, m. Abraham Cook 5 July 1781; Chandler, b. 19 June 1764; Patten, bap. Jan. 1767; John Dickson, b. 31 Dec. 1768, d. 21 Oct. 1769; Rhoda, b. 5 Ap. 1771. PATTEN the f. res. at Menot., probably on the Chs. side, and d. 19 Jan. 1802 his w. Mercy d. 12 Feb. 1813, a. 82. 28. WALTER, s. of Joseph (18), m. Mary Wyman of Woburn 14 Dec. 1758; she d. 1 Dec. 1759, a. 23 (according to Rev. Mr. Cooke's record, but the gravestone is inscribed 1760), and he m. Hannah Adams 17 Dec. 1761. His chil. were a son, b. 18 and d. 21 Oct. 1759; James, b. 30 Ap. 1763; Walter, b. 3 May 1765, m. Frances, dau. of Ammi Cutter, 26 June 1783; perhaps f. of Walter, who d. at Boston in Jan. 1835, a. 37, and was buried at Arlington; Thomas, b. 9 June 1767, m. Margaret Adams 25 NOV. 1788; a son. b. and d. 8 Oct. 1769 Hannah, b. 8 Feb. 1772, m. Isaac Hill about 1788, and was mother of Gov. Isaac Hill of New Hampshire Nathaniel, b. 1 5 Ap. 1774; John, b. 29 Aug. 1776; Joseph, b. 15 Mar. 1779; a dau. b. and d. 17 Feb. 1782. WALTER the f. res. at Menot. on the Chs. side, and d. 5 Mar. 1782; his wid. Hannah m. Enos Jones of Ashburnham 26 Dec. 1790, and d.
PATTEN,
s.
of
17 Oct. 1836,
29.
a. 93.
s.
PHILEMON,
of
Joseph (18), m. Elizabeth

b. 18 Oct.
Wyman
of
Woburn, and
had Philemon Rollins,
1769; Elizabeth, b. 1771, d. 22 Ap. 1778; David, b. about 1773; Jesse, b. 11 June 1775; Susanna, b. 10 Oct. 1779, m. Gardner Colby of Boston 2 June 1803; Ward, b. 12 Sept. 1781. PHILEMON the f. res. at Menot. on the Chs. side, and d. 2 June (or, as inscribed on the gravestone at Arlington, 31 May) 1797; his w. Elizabeth d. 22 Oct. 1825,
a. 86.
650
30.
RUSSELL.
SETH, s. of Jeremiah (19), m. Dinah Harrington of Worcester (pub. Ap. 1755), and had Jeremiah, b. 5 Dec. 1755; Phebe, b. 28 July 1760, m. Dr. Silas Barnard, and (2d) James Fillebrown 24 May 1798, and d. 28 Nov. 1851; Seth, b. 18 July 1762; Edward, b. 6 Oct. 1764; Anne Harrington, b. 17 Mar. 1767, m. James Cutter 11 Aug. 1785; Josiah Harrington, b. 5 Dec. 1769. SETH the f. res. in Menot., was taken prisoner by the British Troops 19 Ap. 1775, and exchanged 6 June 1775. His w. Dinah d. 15 May 1802,
11
a. 73.
EDWARD, s. of Jeremiah (19), grad. H. C. 1759, studied for the minbut subsequently became a physician. He m. Hannah Clark at Andover 23 July 1767, and had six children, the youngest of whom, Edward, b. 21 Aug. 1782, H. C. 1803, d. 29 Nov. 1835, was grandfather of Dr. Edward Russell Cogswell of Camb., b. at South Berwick, Me., 1 June 1841, H. C. " settled in North Yarmouth, Me., where 1864, M. I). 1867. EDWARD the f. he was a Justice of the Peace and Quorum; commissioned 1781 Colonel of 2d Regiment of Militia of Cumberland County led an active and useful life, and d. 19 Ap. 1785. His w. d. 28 Sept. 1832, a. 89." See Gen. Reg., xxvii.,
31.
istry,
;
s. of Philip (24), by w. Sybil, had Philip, b. 6 Aug. 1796; 4 July 1798, a shoe dealer here, d. 14 Mar. 1874 Thomas, b. 2 Feb. 1800, a furniture dealer here, d. 1857; Bowen, b. 24 Mar. 1802; Mary and Stephen, twins, b. 21 Feb. 1804 Lydia and Sally, twins, b. 30 Sept. 1806 (Sally m. Thomas Joyce White of Camb. 16 Oct. 1834) Betsey, b. 2 May 1808. NATHAN the f. res. at Lex., and d. 9 Jan. 1848, a. 88 his w. Sybil d. 28 Jan. 1853, a. 88. 33. JASOX, s. of Jason (26), m. Elizabeth Locke 28 Oct. 1762, and had Jason, b. 2 June 1763; Jonathan, b. 8 Feb. 1785; Josiah, b. 13 Jan. 1767; and at Mason, N. H., Elizabeth, b. 2 July 1769; Samuel, b. 4 Ap. 1772; Benjamin, b. 2 Aug. 1775; Thomas, b. 2 Oct. 1777, d. 8 Feb. 1785; William, JASON the f. rem. to b. 6 Oct. 1779; David, b. 6 May 1782; Thomas. Mason about 1768, and d. 19 Feb. 1825; his w. Elizabeth d. 24 May 1789. 34. JOHX, s. of Jason (26), m. Ruhamah Frost 31 Aug. 1769, and had John, b. 5 Feb. 1770 Ephraim, b. 23 June 1772. 35. THOMAS, s. of Jason (26), in. Anne Whittemore 8 Mar. 1774, and had Anna, b. 19 Ap., d. 13 Oct. 1775; Thomas, b. 23 Nov. 1776, m. Eliza Warren of Chs. 21 Dec. 1802; Aaron, b. 30 May 1779, d. 17 Nov. 1848 Anna, bap. 4 Feb. 1781, m. John Holbrook 31 Aug. 1800; Mary, b. 25 Sept. 1783. THOMAS the f. d. 7 June 1809 his w. Anna d. 17 Jan. 1819, a. 64. 36. NOAH, s. of Jason (26), m. Eunice Bemis at Wat. 12 Sept. 1782, and had Eunice, bap. 9 Mar. 1783; Elizabeth, bap. 7 Sept. 1788; Josiah, bap. 17 Ap. 1791; Abigail, bap. 6 Sept. 1795. NOAH the f. res. at Menot. and d. 27 Oct. 1824. 37. JAMKS, s. of Walter (28), m. Rebecca Adams 6 Mar. 1783, and had Walter, b. 9 Aug. 1783; Rebecca, bap. 28 June 1789, m. Amos Whittemore 22 Ap. 1804; James, b. 14 Jan. 1788, H. C. 1811, a lawyer and active politician in Arlington, m. Harriet Tufts, and d. s. p. 9 Dec. 1863; she d. 2 Ap. 1866; William Adams, b. 14 May 1790, m. Kezia Teel 16 June 1811. JAMES the f. res. in Menot., and d. 13 Feb. 1846. 38. NAfHANiEL, s. of Walter (28), m. Mary Adams 8 Mar. 1795, and had Ablel and Nathaniel, both bap. 7 Dec. 1800; Mary Adams, b. 2 June 1799, d. 23 May 1800 and perhaps others. NATHANIEL the f. d. 1844. 39. PHILEMON R., s. of Philemon (29), m. Martha Tufts 10 Nov. 1791; she d. 26 May 1821, a. 51, and he m. a second wife who survived him. He His children were Daniel, b. res. at Menot., Chs. side, and d. It July 1842. about 1793, long an officer of the State's Prison, d. at Ipswich 11 Dec. 1849,
p. 290. 32. NATHAN,
Nathan,
b.
56; Philemon Robbins, b. 1794, m. Mary Wilkins 1832, res. several years Camb., and d. in Somerville 6 June 1863; Martha, b. 10 Jan. 1802, m. Samuel Stedman 1823, and d. 28 Nov. 1874; and probably others. 40. EDWAKD. s. of Seth (30), m. Lydia Adams 9 May 1786, and had Jeremiah, bap. 28 Sept. 1788, and d. 29 Jan. 1827; Lydii, bap. 15 Feb. 1789,
a.
in
RUSSELL
d. 29
SAUNDERS.
651
Sept. 1793; EdAug. 1790; Lydia, bap. 6 Mar. 1791; Sophia, bap. ward, bap, 8 Nov. 1795; Leonora, bap. 11 Mar. 1798; Mary Ann, b. about 1800. EDWARD the f. d. 3 Nov. 1808. 41. JOSIAH H., s. of Seth (30), m. Sarah Hutchinson of Chs. 5 Ap. 1795. and had Sarah Hutchinson, bap. 7 Feb. 1796; Mary Wright, bap. 1 Ap. 1798; Samuel Phillips, b. 20 Ap. 1800, d. 21 Nov. 1821; Emily, bap. 30 May 1802; Elmira, bap. 24 Mar. 1805; Josiah Harrington', Rebecca, bap. 30 Sept. 1810; Olive, bap. 24 May 1812, d. 25 Sept. 1815 Hannah, bap. 17 Aug. 1814. JOSIAH H. thef. d. 15 Mar. 1815; his w. Sarah d. 25 May 1843, a. 68. PHEBE, d. 8 July 1642. THOMAS, d. 21 July 1653. RACHEL, d. 15 Aug.
;
1778,
a. 29.
SACKKTT, SIMOX (otherwise written Saket), was one of the first company. His name appears on the Records before Aug. 1633, and for the last time 20 Aug. 1635. He res. on the northerly side of Winthrop Street, between Hoiyoke and Dunster streets. Administration on his estate was granted by the General Court 3 Nov. 1635 to his wid. " Isabell Sackett." She is named on the Records 8 Feb. 1635-6, after which the name disappears. The estate passed into the hands of Robert Stedman before 1642. Simon Sackett of Springfield, about 1654, and John Sackett of Northampton, in 16GO, were sons of Simon and Isabel of Cambridge. SALTONSTALL, SIR RICHARD, was one of the Assistants, when the Government of the Colony was removed to Massachusetts in 1630. He had lands in Wat., and res. there a short time. Although he returned to England in 1631, he seems still to have been regarded as an Assistant, and provision was made for him when Camb. was selected as a suitable place for a fortified town and the residence of the Governor and Assistants. What is now called Winthrop Square was granted to him for a house lot; but, as he did not return, it was devoted for a Market Place, and has always remained public property. SAUNDKRS, DANIEL (otherwise written Sanders), d. 27 Feb. 1639-40. No
trace of family.
res. on the S. E. corner of Mount Auburn trace of family. 3. JONATHAN, m. Abiah Bartlett 24 Oct. 1669, and had Abiah and Jonathan, twins, b. 25 Oct. 1673; Thomas, b. 10 Mar. 1674-5; John, b. 25 Mar. 1677; Benjamin, b. 28 May 1679; Samuel, b. 28 May 1681; Edward, b. 3 Mar. 1683-4; Hannah, b. 31 May 1689. JONATHAN the f. deposed 1696 (then aged 49) that he lived with Justinian Holden when he was 17 years
2.
ROBERT,
in
1639 and 1642
and Dunster
streets.
No
old.
4.
MARTIN, aged
40,
came
to
His w. d. 15 Sept. 1651, and he m. Elizabeth, widow Camb., and d. 4 Aug. 1658. He was the ancestor of the Camb. family bearing that name, as appears by the Saunders Family Record and Genealogy, of which what follows is an abstract. 5. JOHN, 8. of Martin (4), d. in Braintree 1688. 6. JOHN, s. of John (5), m. Hannah Pennim.an 15 Dec. 1692. 7. JOHN, s. of John (6), bap. 20 Mar. 1712, m. Mary Spear 3 June 1735, and had six children of whom the fifth was William, b. in Quincy 1747. 8. WILLIAM, s. of John (7), " res. in Cambridge from 1770 to 1775, when he returned to his native town, and m. 20 Nov. 1782 Ann, the eldest dau. of Dr. Elisha Savil, H. C. 1743," by whom he had William, b. 14 May 1787, and four daughters. WILLIAM the f. d. 27 Oct. 1830; his w. Ann d. 2 Ap.
settled at Braintree. of Roger Bancroft of
New England
in 1635 with w. Rachel,
and
1826.
9. WILLIAM, s. of William (8), removed to Camb. in 1801, m. Sarah Flagg 8 June 1815, and had William Augustus, b. 9 June 1818, merchant, member of Common Council, and Alderman, m. Mary W. Prentiss 22 Dec. 1841 Charles Hicks, b. 10 Nov. 1821, merchant, member of Common Council, Alderman, and Mayor, m. Mary B. Ball 18 Sept. 1849; George Savil, b. 2 Oct. 1823, merchant, member of Common Council and President of that Board, m. Lucy C. Willard 11 Feb. 1847: Francis Edward, b. 14 Aug. 1826, merchant, m. Eliza A. Whittemore 30 Ap. 1856; Sarah Ann, b. 8 Mar. 1828;
;
652
S AUNDERS
SHAW.
Horace, b. 6 Dec. 1830, dealer in real estate. WILLIAM the f. was a carpenHe resided on ter, a member of the first Common Council, and Alderman. Garden Street, near Appian Way, and d. 29 Ap. 1861 his w. Sarah d. 6
;
Nov. 1871, aged nearly
b2.
written Sawtle, and Satle), a grandson of Post's will 1691, had grants of land here in 1689. He prob. had w. Anna, but no children; he resided at the N. W. corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn streets, where the church now stands. Obadiah Satle of Groton, Enoch Satle and Bethia Satle, both of Wat., and John Hews of Camb. Farms with his w. Ruth, quitclaimed to Josiah Parker, 21 Oct. 1700, all their interest in the real estate of their brother John Satle late of Camb. deceased the same estate was quitclaimed by Parker 26 Ap. 1709 to "Anna Satle," and sold by "Anna Sawtell, widow," to John Knight, 4 June 1711. SAXTON, MOSES, d. here 24 Oct. 1690. MARY, m. Samuel Goffe 9 Nov. 1682.
,
;
SAWTELL, JOHN (otherwise Thomas Post, as appears by Mr.
SCOTT, THOMAS, was here in 1634, and in 1635 owned a house and five acres on the northerly side of Brattle Street, near Mason Street. He removed to Hartford about 1636, and was accidentally killed by John Ewe 6 Nov. 1643. He had son Thomas and two daughters, who with their mother were mentioned in his nuncupative will.
2.
BENJAMIN, by w. Margaret, had

; ;
5 July 1646
BENJAMIN
Joseph, b. 14 May 1644 Benjamin, b. John, b. 2 July 1648 Elizabeth, b. 27 May and d. 3 June 1650. the f. was of Braintree in 1640, where he had son John. He re;
moved to Rowley, and d. in 1671. 3. SAMUEL, by w. Sarah, had Thomas,

1712; Sarah, b. 9 Jan. 1714-15; Esther, m. William Smith 27 Oct. 1757.
4.
5.
b. b.
31 July 1710 Samuel, b. 22 Sept. 20 Feb. 1716-17. Sarah Scott

;
b. 27 .Tune 1732. established himself in Cambridgeport, soon after West Boston Bridge was erected. At the sale of the Jarvis estate, in 1801, he purchased several lots, among which was the estate at the N. E. corner of Main
JOHN, by w. Lydia, had Abraham,
EDWARD,
Scott & Trowbridge. He subsequently purchased of B. & J. L. Austin, the adjoining estate, at the S. E. corner of Austin and Norfolk streets, and the opposite lot, at the N. E. corner of the same streets. He d. 13 Dec. 1808, and his surviving partner continued the business under the name of Trowbridge & Biscoe, having formed a connection with Thomas Biscoe. SCRIPTURE (or Scripter), SAMUEL, m. Elizabeth Knapp 11 Sept. 1674. MARY, m. John Prentice 23 Ap. 1772. SEAGER, HENRY, m. Sarah Bishop 21 Jan. 1673, and had Job, b. 1 Feb. 1674, d. 1739; Sarah, b. 2 Mar. 1676; Ebenezer, b. 2 May 1679, killed by the Indians at Groton, 21 July 1706; Elizabeth, b. 28 Aug. 1682; Henry, b. 25 Sept. 1686; Mary, b. 21 Jan. 1689; Job, b. 1691; Mercy; Thankful, b. 24 Ap. 1695. HENRY the f. lived on the south side of the river, in what is now
of
and Norfolk streets (now owned by Samuel James and Daniel A. Buckley), where he traded in connection with the late John Trowbridge, under the name
Newton.
SEWALL, JOHN, brother

Oct. 1674.
2.
to
Judge Samuel Sewall, m. Hannah Fessenden 28

to the Judge,
STEPHEN, another brother
of Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, 13 children.

3.
June 1682.
/
He
m. Margaret, only surviving dau.

res. in
Salem, and had
many
(1), H. C. 1761, Hebrew Professor 1765-1785. He m. Rebecca, dau. of the first Professor Wiggles worth, 9 Aug. 1763, and had an only son Stephen, b. 30 Deo. 1767, and d. 26 Dec. 1768.
STEPHEN, a descendant from John
Judge Samuel Sewall, H. C. 1761, m. Abigail, dau. of Thomas Sparhawk, Esq., 20 Mar. 1766; he d. in Dec. 1772. 1767, and his w. Abigail m. Palsgrave Wellington SHAW, ROGER, about 1638 bought a house and land on the southerly side
STEPHEN the f. d. 23 July 4. HULL, of Brookline,
1804, a. 71. a descendant from
SHAW
of
SHEPARD.
653
,
Arrow Street. d. 26 Jan. 1639;
By w. Anne, he had Esther, b. June 1638; Mary, b. Mary, b. 29 Sept. 1645. ROGER the f. was Selectman 1641, " removed to 1642, 1643, 1645. Farmer says, he Hampton, which he represented in 1651 and 1652. He d. 1660, leaving sons Joseph and Benjamin, and
This
four daughters."
ABRAHAM, appears on the Record to have been a Selectman herein 1640. may denote the same person who was of Dedham, freeman 1637. JOSEPH, m. Susanna Dickson 23 Jan. 1777. EMZABETH, of Nantucket, a
2.
descendant from Rev. Samuel Angier, m. Andrew Craigie Jan. 1797, and
d. 7
May
1844,
a. 69.
s. of William, b. in Towcester, NorthamptonNov. 1605, grad. at Cambridge, Eng., 1623, came to New England in A large number 1635, and was immediately established here in the ministry. of his friends and acquaintances either preceded or accompanied him, and purchased the estates of the first company, most of whom were about removing to Connecticut with Hooker. Mr. Shepard was thrice married, 1st in England to Margaret Touteville 1632, who d. early in 1636; 2d, to Joanna, dau. of Rev. Thomas Hooker, 1637, who d. 28 Ap. 1646; 3d, to Margaret Boradile, or Boradel, 8 Sept. 1647. His children were Thomas, b. 1633, d. Oct. or Nov. 1634; Thomas, b. in London 5 Ap 1635; a son, b. and d. 1638; Samuel, b. Oct. 1641 John, b. and d. 1644; John, b. 2 Ap. 1646, d. young; Jeremiah, b. 11 Aug. 1648. Mr. Shepard was one of the most eminent clergymen in New England. To his reputation for " grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ," is to be chiefly attributed the location of the College here. Such confidence was reposed by the General Court in his skill and integrity to discover and guard against danger, that they preferred to place this institution of learning under the shadow of his wing rather than elsewhere. His valuable life was suddenly terminated 25 Aug. 1649, at the age of 43 years; his wid. Margaret in. Rev. Jonathan Mitchell 19 Nov. 1650. The death of Mr. Shepard occasioned a general lamentation and gloom throughout New England. He resided on the northerly side of Harvard Street, nearly opposite Holyoke Street. That spot of ground may justly be regarded with veneration, as the dwelling place of many eminent and pious men. It was successively occupied by Hooker, Shepard, Mitchell, President Leverett, and the two Professors Wigglesworth, father and son; by the heirs of the last named, it was sold to the Corporation of Harvard College, and now forms a portion of the College Grounds. 2. SAMUKL, half brother to Thomas (1), a son of William by a second wife, came to New England with his brother, and purchased the estate on the southerly side of Harvard Street, extending from Holyoke Street to Bow Street. His house stood near the west end of his lot, nearly opposite to his brother's residence. By his w. Hannah he had Thomas, b. 5 Nov. 1638, bur. 9 Feb. 1649; Samuel, b. Feb. 1639-40, d. 16 Mar. 1644-5; Hannah, b. 20 June 1642; Jane, b. 16 May 1645. SAMUEL the f. was much employed in the The management of the College stock, and the " carrying on public service. the building begun by Mr. Eaton, was committed to Mr. Samuel Shepard," by the General Court, in Sept. 1639. He was Selectman 1638, Representative or Deputy 1639, 1640, 1644, 1645, Clerk of the Writs 1640, and Commissioner for small causes 1641. He had a military spirit, and was closely associated with Col. George Cooke they came together, served here together, and returned to England, to serve together under Cromwell. He was the first Ensign of the military company here, organized in Dec. 1636, with Cooke for Captain. In Oct. 1645, he and his friend Cooke were excused from their duties as members of the General Court, " being to go for England." In the Civil War, which commenced in England at about that time, both were engaged for the Parliament, Cooke as Colonel, and Shepard as Major. Mitchell in his Church Record, commenced in 1658, says, " Major Samuel Shepard and his wife, now living in Ireland, do yet stand in memberly relation to us." He had then probably been in Ireland several years; for, under date of 8 March 1649-50, he wrote from London to Deac. Edward Collins, appointing him attorney to manage his affairs in New England, and saying, " I am
SHEPARD, REV. THOMAS,
shire, 5
654
SHEPARD
SHERBORNE.
when wasting away by infectious disease, and was deeply lamented by the people of his charge, and by the community. Mr. Shepard m. Hannah (or Anna), dau. of William Tyng 3 Nov. 1656, and had Thomas, b. July 1658; Anna, b. 8 Sept. 1663, in. Daniel Quincy 9 Nov. 1682, and was mother of Hon. John Quincy, for many years Speaker of the House of Representatives, a Councillor, and ancestor of the late President John Quincy Adams; Margaret. His w. Anna d. at the house of her granddaughter Hoiman, in Milton, 5 Aug. 1709, and was buried at Chs. in the tomb with her husband and son.
visiting his flock
5. SAMUEL, s. of Thomas (1), was prob. brought up by his grandfather, Rev. Thomas Hooker, at Hartford; grad. H. C. 1658, ordained at Rowley 15 Nov. 1665, and d. 7 Ap. 1668, a. 26. His son Samuel, bap. 25 Aug. 1667,
within a tew days to be in Ireland, if God will; but the next letters will, I (Mid. Reg. Deeds, ii. 57.) Administration was granted hope, settle me." to Edward Collins on the estate of Samuel Shepard deceased 15 Sept. 1673. Probably this was the same person. is not ascertained, 3. EDWARD, whether a relative of the bought foregoing a house about 1639, on the northerly side of South Street, between Holyoke and Dunster streets. His w. Violet d. 9 Jan. 1648, and he m. Mary who survived him. His children, named in his will, dated 1 Oct. 1674, and proved 20 Aug. 1680, were John, Elizabeth, Abigail, deceased w. of Daniel Pond; Deborah, and Sarah. All the daughters appear to have been married. Abigail and Deborah were at Dedham, and Sarah at Braintree, about 1658. EDWARD the f. was a mariner, and d. about 1680. 4. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), grad. H. C. 1653, was ordained at Chs. 13 Ap. 1659, and d. of small-pox 22 Dec. 1*577, a. 42. He well sustained the reputation inherited from his father, fell a victim to his own faithfulness in
,
grad. H. C. 1685.
6. JEREMIAH, s. of Thomas (1), grad. H. C. 1669, a candidate at Rowley 1675, at Ipswich 1678, at Lynn 1679, at which last place he was ordained, 6 Oct. 1680, and remained in the ministry about forty years, until his death 3 June 1720, a. 72. He had the reputation of piety, but probably did not equal his father or brothers in power or brilliancy of intellect. By his w. Mary (who d. 28 Mar. 1710, a. 53), he had Hannah, b. 1676, m. John Downing of
concealment in London, previous to his embarkation for New England. Inventory of her estate was presented by Edward Mitchelson 6 Ap. 1652.
b. 1677, d. 1700; Mehetabel, d. 1688; Nathaniel, b. 16 June 1681, settled in Boston; Margaret, d. 1683; Thomas, b. 1 Aug. 1687, d. 1709; Francis, d. 1692; John, m. Alice Tucker 1722; Mehetabel, m. Rev. James Allen of Brookline. Lewis's Lynn. 7. JOHN, s. of Edward (3), m. Rebecca Greenhill 4 Oct. 1649, and had Rebecca, b. about 1650; John, b. 22 Jan. 1651-2; Sarah, b. 5 Mar. 1655; Violet, b. about 1658; Elizabeth, bap. 29 July 1660; Edward, b. 31 July 1662; Samuel, bap. 3 July 1664; Thomas, b. 12 Nov. 1666. JOHN the f. was a cooper, and inherited the homestead, to which he made additions by purHe sold his estate here 1681, having recently removed to Hartford. chase. Hinman says " he became a man of consequence in the Colony." 8. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (4), grad. H. C. 1676, succeeded his father in the ministry at Chs., where he was ordained 5 May 1680, and d. 7 June 1685, a. nearly 27. Mr. Shepard was distinguished for studiousness and He m. widow Mary faithfulness, for activity and success in his ministry. Lynde (maiden name Anderson), 27 July 1682, and had Anna, b. 26 Ap. His w. Anna Smith. 1683, d. 27 July 1684; Anna, b. 30 Jan. 1685, m. m. for a third husband, Mr. Samuel Hayman 16 June 1686, and d. Aug. 1717, on the 20th day of which month she was buried in the tomb which she had caused to be erected for Mr. Shepard. SHERBORNE, ELIZABETH (otherwise written Sherbone and Sherbole) about 1639 bought a house and lot at the S. W. corner of Brighton and Winthrop streets, where she res. in 1642. She was prob. the same person who sheltered Rev. Thomas Shepard and his family in 1635, while seeking
Boston 1698; Jeremiah,
An
SILL
SMITH.
655
SILL, JOHN (otherwise written Scill, Syll, and Scyll), about 1638, bought a house and lot at the S. E. corner of Eliot and Winthrop streets. By his w. Joanna, he had Elizabeth, b. about 1637, m. Zechariah Hicks 28 Oct. 1652, and d. 12 Sept. 1730, a. 93; Joseph, b. about 1639. JOHN the f. was living in 1645, but d. before 1662, when his w. Joanna had a grant of land, and another in 1665; she d. before Oct. 1671, when her will was presented and approved. Mr. Sill was unfortunate in his pecuniary affairs soon after his settlement here, and received assistance from the Church but subse;
quently appears to have been more prosperous. 2. JOSEPH, s. of John (1), in. Jemima, dau. of Andrew Belcher, 5 Dec. 1660, and had Andrew, b. 5 Feb. 1665, d. 12 June 1666; Joseph, bap. 11 Mar. 1665-6 [this son is prob. the same as Andrew before named]; Jemima, b. 21 Sept. 1667; Elizabeth, b. 12 Sept. 1668, in. Samuel Green, Jr., 18 Nov. 1685; Andrew; Thomas; and perhaps others. JOSEPH the f. was engaged in Philip's War, first as Lieutenant and afterwards as Captain. He was appointed as Captain 2 Nov. 1675, to "take charge of the soldiers raised from Chs., Wat., and Camb., which are about 60 men," and to lead them forth against the enemy. He had previously been Captain of a company consisting of 100 men, under Major John Pynchon. He was at Lancaster, 21 Feb. 1675-6, when the Court "ordered, on request of Captain Scyll, that the committee for the war do forthwith send twenty pounds of tobacco and three gallons of rum, for the supply of the company that now resides at Lancaster." For some insubordination, or, as the Record expresses it, because " of late he hath carried himself offensively," he was discharged from office 11 Oct. 1676. In Nov. 1685 he petitioned the General Court for a grant of land, as a combut was unsuccessful in his request. pensation for .his military services Before this time, however, he had removed to Lyme, Conn., where he was at which date he executed a deed of his estate in residing 7 Nov. 1681 Camb. to a feoffee in trust for his son A ndrew ; or if said A ndrew should die in his minority, then his other son Thomas to inherit the estate. He d. 6 Aug. 1696. His son '1 homos, mariner, of Boston, described himself in a deed, dated 8 Nov. 1699, as son of Joseph Sill, formerly of Cambridge, late of Lyme, Conn., deceased. The son Thomas was probably a shipmaster, residing in Boston, and the Capt. Sill who died in May 1709. ELIJAH, who grad. H. C. 1748, and was ordained at Fairfield, Conn., 17 Oct. 1751, may have been of this family. Five others of the name graduated at the same College, previous to 1839. SIMONDS, JOSKPH (otherwise written Simons, Symons, and Symonds), m. Mary, dau. of John Tidd, 7 Mar. 1680-81, and had Rebecca, b. 11 June 1682; Mary, b. 15 Dec. 1684 Joshua, b. 23 Jan. 1686-7, d. at Lex. 3 Nov. 1768, a. nearly 82, and his w. Hannah d. 11 Nov. 1789, a. 93; Joseph, b. 8 June 1689; Daniel, b. about 1692, d. at Lex. 3 Ap. 1776, a. 83; and his w. d. 2 Ap. 1776, a. 81; Jonathan, d. 22 Dec. 1748; Abigail; Elizabeth, bap. 13 Nov. 1698. SIMPKINS, NICHOLAS (otherwise written Sympkins), "late of Dorchester" bought house and land in Camb. of John Knight 20 Nov. 1637. He was at some time Captain of the Castle; he removed to Yarmouth about 1638 (SavPlym. Col. age, Gen. Diet.), was of Barnstable 1645, and of Scituate 1648.
;
; ;
Rec.,
b. 11
xii.
142, 192.
SKIDMORE, THOMAS (otherwise

Ap. 1643.
THOMAS
the
f.
res.
north of Mount Dec. 1649.

will,
Auburn
Street.
He
written Skidmer), by w. Ellen, had John, on the westerly side of Brighton Street,
rem. to Hartford, where he was living 6
SKINNER, EDWARD, owned a house and six acres in the West End. By his dated 25 Dec. 1641, it would seem that he had no family; he devised his estate, with the exception of a few trifling legacies, one half to Robert Ibbitt of Cambridge, Old England, and the other half to the Church in Cambridge,
New
2.
England.
field,
SMITH, ABRAHAM, was

planting
HENRY,
His Inventory denotes a shopkeeper. fined sixpence, for a trespass of his heifer in the 4 Nov. 1646. m. Lydia Buck 3 Mar. 1672-3, and had Lydia, b. 20 July 1677,
656
SMITH
SPARHAWK.
m. Edward Thwing 8 Aug. 1704; Henry, b. 17 Oct. 1679; Ebenezer, b. 9 Mar. HENRY the f. d. 21 Aug. 1720, a. about 75. 1688-9; and perhaps others. 3. JOHN, m. Sarah Prentice 8 June 1676, and had Sarah, b. 31 Mar. and d. 13 Ap. 1677; John, b. 2 Mar. 1677-8; Sarah, b. 17 Aug. 1681; Joseph, b. 9 Aug. 1687; and perhaps others. 4. HENRY, prob. s. of Henry (2), by w. Sarah, had John, b. 2 Ap. 1714; Sarah, b. 24 June 1716 Abigail, bap. 30 Nov. 1718; and probably others. 5. JOSEPH, by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 23 Ap. 1701, prob. m. Abraham White 22 June 1721; William, b. 25 June 1703; Hezekiah, b. 2 Ap. 1706;
;
Ebenezer, b. 18 Aug. 1708; Sophia, b. 20 Oct. 1711. 6. JOHN, s. of John (3), by w. Mary, had Sarah, b. 1 Feb. 1698-9; Israel, b. 23 Jan. 1 701-2 Eunice, b. 1 Sept. 1 704 by w. Sarah, Zebadiah, b. 23 Feb. 1707-8; Jesse, b. 10 Dec. 1710; and by w. Martha, Ebenezer, b. 15 Mar. 1712-13; His last w. Martha survived him, and m. Joseph Elizabeth, b. 4 May 1716. Parsons 14 June, 1742. 7. DANIEL, by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 13 Mar. 1708-9; Daniel, b. 10 Mar. 1710-11, and several others in Lexington. 8. SAMUEL, by w. Sarah, had Sarah, b. 13 Ap. 1717; Susanna, b. 24 Aug. 1720, d. 26 Ap. 1721; Anna, b. 6 Nov. 1726; Pelaliah, b. 8 Jan. 1727-8; Samuel, b. 8 Dec. 1729; Michael, b. 12 June 1732; Joseph, b. 7 July 1734; Benjamin, b. 13 Jan. 1735-6; Robert, bap. 31 Dec. 1738, d. 19 May 1740; Thomas, b. 25 Mar. 1740 Robert, b. 10 Dec. 1741; Daniel, bap. 8 June and d. 23 July 1746. SAMUEL the f. resided in Menotomy. 9. JOHN, by w. Eunice, had Mary, b. 8 Dec. 1744, m. Thomas Hill 18 June 1765. There may have been other children; but this was probably the youngest. Eunice the mother d. in the almshouse 19 Jan. 1794, a. 93. 10. EBENKZER, prob. s. of John (6), or of Joseph (5), m. Ann Bissell of Boston (pub. 21 Ap. 1739), and had Joseph, bap. 13 July 1740; Parsons, bap. 2 Jan. 1 742-3 Tabitha, bap. 4 Aug. 1 745 Ebenezer, bap. 7 Aug. 1 748, d. young; Ebenezer, bap. 8 Mar. 1752, d. 4 Jan. 1802 (his w. Sarah d. 1 Aug. 1780, a. 19); John, bap. 10 Feb. 1754; William, bap. 26 Sept. 1756. 11. DANIKL, prob. s. of Daniel (7), m. Grace Fessenden 10 June 1742, and had Grace, bap. 20 Mar. 1742-3; Daniel, bap. 30 Dec. 1744; Lucy, bap. 8 May
;
; ; ;
1748, and perhaps others.

12. JOSEPH, s. of Ebenezer (10), had Joseph, bap. 21 Feb. 1768, d. young; Joseph, b. 3 Sept. 1769; Elizabeth, b. 4 Aug. 1771, m. Jonas Wyeth, Jr., 8 Ap. 1792; Hannah, b. 24 Jan. 1774. 13. PARSONS, s. of Ebenezer (10), m. Waitstill Jordan 11 May 1769, and had John, b. 1 Feb. 1770 Parsons, b. 8 May 1772; Samuel, b. 26 Sept. 1774 ;
;
Ebenezer,
26 Jan. 1777, d. 2 Ap. 1778; Susanna, b. 12 Ap. 1780, m. Walter Cox 11 Dec. 1796. PARSONS the f. d. in the almshouse 23 July 1816, a. 73; his w. Waitstill d. in the same place 30 Aug. 1808, a. 63. 14. JAMES, m. Hannah Daniel 16 Mar. 1726-7; no record of children, ex" Hannah Smith alias Hannah Daniels " was cept that Mary, daughter of 30 1741. bap. Aug.
b.
DAVID, m. Mary Hagar 2 June 1757, and had David, bap. 9 Ap. 1758, bought a house and lot at the corner of Mount Auburn Street and Winthrop Square 10 Jan. 1758, which he sold 14 Feb. 1760. He was a carpenter,
15.
He
at the time of his purchase. w. Elizabeth, had William, b. 11 Dec. 1755, d. in the almshouse 1 May 1802, a. 46. WILLIAM the f. may have been the same who m. Sarah Scott of Newton 27 Oct. 1767, and had Rebecca, bap. 9 Oct. 1768. ELIZABETH, m. Humphrey Miller 12 Sept. 1677. MARY, m. John Prentice 5 Jan. 1704-5. MARY, m. Edmund Fowle 23 Oct. 1718. The relationship between these families of Smith is very obscure, and may
of
16.
and described as
Weston
WILLIAM, by
SPARHAWK, NATHANIEL (otherwise written Sparhawke, Sparhauk, Sparhauke, Sparowhauke, Sparrowhauke, Sparrow Hawke), was here as early as 1636, and was a Deacon of the Church. By his w. Mary (who d. 25 Jan. 1643-4), he had Nathaniel, b. in England; Anne, m. Deac. John Cooper,
have been misapprehended.
SPAEHAWK.
657
and (2d) James Convers, Sen., of Woburn, and was living 1712; Mary ; Esther, m. Samuel Adams of Chelmsford; Samuel, b. 27 Oct. 1638, d. 13 Oct. 1639: John, d. 21 Sept. 1644; and by w. Katherine, Ruth, b. 12 Ap. and bur. 9 May 1645; Elizabeth, b. 1646, d. unm. 9 Nov. 1692, a. about 47. NATHANIEL the f. resided on the easterly side of Brighton Street, between Mount Auburn He appears to have owned, in 1642, five houses Street and Harvard Square. and about five hundred acres of land which quantity was afterwards increased. After his death, about a thousand acres were sold from his estate, leaving a large quantity of land on the south side of the river (now Brighton Disin possession of his descendants. He was trict), a part of which still remains " 1639. He d. 28 " permitted to draw wine and strong water for Cambridge June 1647, a. prob. about 50; his w. Katherine d. 5 July 1647; and Mary Pierce d. in his family, and was bur. 12 July 1647. 2. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (1), m. Patience, dau. of Rev. Samuel Newman of Rehoboth, 3 Oct. 1649, and had Nathaniel, b. 3 Nov. 1650, d. 12 Feb.
;
1650-51 Mary, b. about 1652, m. William Barrett 8 Oct. 1673; Sybil, b. about 1655, m. Dr. Jonathan Avery of Dedham 22 July 1679, and subsequently m. Rev. Michael Wigglesworth of Maiden, was mother of the first Professor Wigglesworth, and d. 6 Aug. 1708, a. 53; Esther, bap. 5 May 1661; Samuel, bap. 5 Feb. 1664; Nathaniel, bap. 3 Nov. 1667; John, b. about 1672. NATHANIEL the f. resided in the Brighton District (the residence of most of his descendants who remained within the ancient limits of Cambridge), was Selectman seven years between 1677 and 1686, a Deacon of the Church, and d. soon after 29 Dec. 1686, the date of his will; an Inventory of his estate was presented 20 Jan. 1 686-7. 3. SAMUEL, s. of Nathaniel (2), m. Sarah, dau. of Rev. Samuel Whiting, and had Sarah, bap. 5 Sept. 1697, d. 9 Oct. 1701; Samuel, bap. 2 Oct. 1698; Sarah, b. 22 Dec. 1700; John, b. 12 June 1702, grad. H. C. 1723, a trader in Plymouth; Thomas, b. 25 May 1706 Joseph, b. 2 Ap. 1708. SAMUEL thef. was Selectman 6 years, 1701-1710, and d. 2 Nov. 1713, a. about 49; his w. Sarah d. 8 Dec. 1752, a. 84. 4. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (2), m. Abigail, dau. of Simon Gates, and had Nathaniel (b. about 1694), bap. 11 Ap. 1697; Noah (b. about Feb. 1696-7), bap. 11 Ap. 1697; Simon, b. 30 Nov. 1704; Abigail, b. 21 Jan. 1710-11, m. Thomas Williams 30 Aug. 1733. NATHANIEL the f. was Selectman 12 years between 1716 ami 1730, was elected Deacon 5 Aug. 1724, and d. 8 Nov. 1734, a. 67 years and 10 days his w. Abigail was pub. to Joseph Mayo of Roxbury 16 Oct. 1735, and after his death returned to Camb., and attained extreme old age. In his century sermon, 1801, Dr. Holmes says, " about the year 1770, Mrs. Mayo of Cambridge died in the cvi year of her age." This date of death is too early the Boston News Letter, March 19, 1 772, contains this paragraph: "Died at Cambridge the present year 1772, Mrs. Thwing aged 101 in Jan., Mrs. Williams 102 in Feb., Mr. Holden 96 Mar. 8th. Still living in Cambridge, Mrs. Mayo in her 102d year." This statement varies only one year from the fact Abigail, dau. of Simon Gates, who m. Nathaniel Sparhawk and Joseph Mayo, was b. 14 Aug. 1671, and had not
; ;
; ; :
fully attained 101 years in
Mar. 1772. She must have lived at least until 14 she entered her 106th year. Under date of Mar. 1774, PemDied this month at Cambridge the widow Abigail Mayo, aged berton says, 106 years" (Man. Gen.~); but Pemberton's dates are not always accurate. It seems certain that she was living in Mar. 1772, and she may have survived the 14th of August 1776. Her great grandson, Edward Sparhawk, Esq., who was b. 29 Nov. 1770 and d. 3 Sept. 1867, informed his pastor, the Rev. Frederic A. Whitney, that Mrs. Mayo "died in the house of his father, Nathaniel Sparhawk at Brighton (then a part of Cambridge) and was buried in the old
Aug. 1776,
if
"
ground on Market Street, Brighton." JOHN, s. of Nathaniel (2), grad. H. C. 1689, settled at Bristol, R. I. Alden gives his epitaph thus: " Here lyeth interred the body of the Rev. Mr. John Sparhawk, a minister of this place 23 years last past, and died the 29
burial
5.
42
658
of April
SPARHAWK.
He was f. of John, b. 1713; 1718, in the 46 year of his age." Nathaniel, b. 1715; and perhaps others. 6. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (3), by w. Joanna had Samuel, b. 17 Jan. 1730-31 Joanna, bap. 21 Jan. 1732-3, m. Thomas Gardner 12 June 1755; Sarah, bap. 3 Nov. 1734 Dorothy, b. 14 July 1739, m. Edward Wigglesworth (the younger Professor), 6 Jan. 1778; John, b. 8 Nov. 1745; Elizabeth, b. 11 Mar. 1754. d. Feb. 1796. SAMUEL the f. was Selectman five years 1737-1741, was elected Deacon 12 Ap. 1734, and d. 14 Ap. 1774, a. 75. At the date of his will, 27 Aug. 1771, his w. Joanna and all their children were living. 7. THOMAS, s. of Samuel (3), m. Mary, dau. of Nathaniel Oliver, 14 Jan. 1730-31, and had Mary, b. 3 Jan. 1731-2, m. Isaac Gardner, Jr., of Brookline 26 Ap. 1753 Elizabeth, bap. 30 Sept. 1733, m. Elisha Gardner of Brookline 21 June 1753; Sybil, b. 13 July 1735, m. Samuel Aspinwall of Brookline, 25 May 1758 Thomas, b. 16 Mar. 1736-7, grad. H. C. 1755, Judge in Cheshire Co., N. H., d. Nov. 1802; Lucy, b. 14 Aug. 1738, m. Thomas Aspinwall, Katherine, b. 16 Dec. 1739, m. Elijah HoughJr., of Brookline, 4 Oct. 1762 ton of Lancaster 27 Nov. 1760; Oliver, b. 1 Ap. 1742; Abigail, b. 19 Ap. 1746, m. Hull Sewall of Brookline 20 Mar. 1766, and Palsgrave Wellington 1772. THOMAS the f. was Selectman eighteen years of Cambridge between 1744 and 1764, Justice of the Peace, and d. 15 Aug. 1783, a. 77; his w. Mary survived. 8. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (4), grad. H. C. 1715, ordained at LynnHe m. Elizafield 17 Aug. 1720, dismissed 1731, and d. 7 May 1732, a. 35. beth Perkins, who d. 12 May 1768, a. 68 years. He had four children Elizabeth, b. 28 Dec. 1721; Nathaniel, b. 24 Sept. 1725, d. 11 Dec. 1728; Edward Perkins, b. 10 July 1728, grad. H. C. 1753, preached often, but was not ordained John, b. 24 Oct. 1730, apprenticed to a shoemaker, but was subsequently a physician in Philadelphia. Lewis's Lynn. 9. NOAH, s. of Nathaniel (4), m. Priscilla, dau. of Ichabod Brown, 24 Sept. 1724, and had Priscilla, b. 6 Aug. 1725, m. Abraham Cutting 3 Oct. 1745, and d. before 1765 Nathaniel, b. 28 Oct. 1727 ; Noah, b. 19 Oct. 1729, was of Rutland 1765; Martha, b. 2 Jan. 1731-2, m. John Hancock, Jr., of Chs. 20 Nov. 1760; Nathan, bap. 28 July 1734, was of Rutland 1765; Ebenezer, b. 15 June 1738, perhaps grad. H. C. 1756, and d. 1805; George, bap. 20 NOAH the f. d. 4 Feb. 1748-9; his w. PrisSept. 1741, d. 27 Jan. 1757. cilla survived, and administration on her estate was granted to her son Nathaniel, 18 Ap. 1765. 10. SIMON, s. of Nathaniel (4), had Patience and Simon (prob. not twins), Sarah, bap. 22 May 1737. bap. 10 Ap. 1737 11. JOHN, s. of John (5), grad. H. C. 1731, ordained at Salem 1736, and He m. d. 30 Ap. 1755, a. 42. Porter, and had thirteen children, among whom were Nathaniel ; John, of Portsmouth, N. H., Speaker of the House of Representatives, d. 5 Sept. 1787, a. 45, leaving son Samuel, who was afterwards Secretary of State Samuel, a merchant. Farmer. 12. NATHANIEL, s. of John (5), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir William Pepperell, and had Nathaniel, grad. H. C. 1765, d. 1814; William, grad. H. C. 1766, took the name of his grandfather Pepperell, was his principal heir, and succeeded to his title, was a Councillor, and Mandamus Councillor, a royalist, fled to England, and d. there in 1816; Samuel Hirst, grad. H. C. 1771, also a refugee, but returned and d. unm. at Kittery 29 Aug 1789, a. 38; Andrew Pepperell, who dropped the Sparkawk from his name, married a Miss Turner, was a refugee, and both he and his w. d. in England during the Revolution Mary Pepperell, m. Doct. Jarvis of Boston. Farmer and Sabine. 13. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (6), m. Elizabeth Gardner 28 Mar. 1758; and had Mary, b. 17 Dec. 1758, m. Isaac Sparhawk Gardner 13 June 1784; Joanna, b. 6 Ap. 1764; Samuel, b. 10 Feb. 1766.
;
;
s. of Noah (9), m. Lydia Blake of Boston (pub. 16 June 27 Sept. 1766, and he m. Hannah Murdock of Newton (pub. 12 Nov. 1767). His children were John, b. 10 Sept. 1753; Nathaniel, b. 23 Mar. 1755; George, b. 21 Ap. 1757, grad. H. C. 1777, a physician in New Hamp-
14.
NATHANIEL,
she
d.
1753)
SPARHAWK
shire, d. 1847;
SQUIRE.
659
Noah, b. 29 Ap. 1759 ; Blake, b. 12 Ap. 1761, m. Anna Dana 18 Dec. 1786: Lydia, b. 10 Ap. 1763, d. young Lydia, b. 25 and d. 26 Sept. 1766; Nathan; Edward, b. 29 Nov. 1770; Katherine ; these three named in their father's will; Thomas Gardner, bap. 5 Nov. 1775, d. young. NATHANIEL the f. was Selectman four years, 1772-1775, and d. 1 Oct. 1777; his w. Hannah d. 27 Jan. 1826, a. 83. 15. EDWARD, s. of Nathaniel (14), m. Elizabeth Murdock of Roxbury (pub. 7 June 1804), and had Edward Corey, bap. 4 Aug. 1805, resides in Brighton District; Samuel, bap. 19 Ap. 1807; George, bap. 24 June 1810, a lawyer in Boston Thomas Gardner, bap. 13 Sept. 1812; Charles, bap. 8 Mar. 1818. EDWARD the f. was President of the Brighton Bank, Deacon of the Church, and held other offices until extreme old age; he d. 3 Sept. 1867, a.
; ;
nearly 97.
16. THOMAS, by w. Mary, had Sybil, b. 3 Mar. 1761. SPENCER, WILLIAM, one of the first company, was here in 1632, and res. at the N. E. corner of Mount Auburn Street and Brattle Square. He was Selectman 1635, Deputy or Representative 1632, 1634-1637, five years; Lieutenant of the first Train-band in Camb. 1637, and one of the original members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company 1639, in which year he rem. to Hartford, where he was Selectman, Deputy, and one of the Committee to revise the laws of the Colony. 2. THOMAS, was here as early as 1633, and res. on the easterly side of Eliot Street. His estate extended from Mount Auburn Street to Winthrop Street, which he sold to Edmund Angier, and rem. to Hartford, where he served on a Committee 1644, and was Chimney-viewer 1649. 3. GARRAD (or Gerard, or Jared), was here in 1634, and owned land on the south side of the river. He probably removed to Lynn, and afterwards to " the Haddam, Conn. The General Court 13 Mar. 1637-8 granted him ferry at Linn for two years, taking two pence for a single person to the furthest place, and but one penny a person for more to the furthest place, and but one penny for a single person to the nearest place." 4. MICHAEL, owned four acres on the south side of the river 1635. Lewis says he was of Lynn 1637.
the foregoing not ascertained, m. Rebecca, Dec. 1671, and had Rebecca, b. 4 Nov. 1673; Susanna, b. 6 Ap. 1680; Michael, b. 16 Ap. 1682; Thomas, b. 3 Feb. 1688; Ammi, b..ll July 1690. MICHAEL the f. was a ship-carpenter. In 1677 he purchased the homestead of Thomas Swoetman at the N. W. corner of the College Grounds, subject to the life estate of Swoetman and his wife, except three rooms already occupied by Spencer. This estate he sold 12 June 1697 to the Corporation of Harvard College, reserving the use of one third thereof to the widow Isabel Swoetman during her life. SPRING, JOHN, s. of John of Wat. m. Hannah Barsham, and had Hannah, b. 1 Oct. 1657; Mary, b. 10 June 1659; Susanna, b. 16 Ap. 1661; Sarah, b. 1662; Rebecca, b. 10 Feb. 1664; Abigail, b. 20 Feb. 1666; Susanna, b. 18 Aug. 1670, d. young; Mary,b. 19 Feb. 1672-3; Elizabeth,b. 7 Ap. 1675; John, b. 1678. JOHN the f. resided in what is now Newton, was Selectman and Representative, and d. 18 May 1717, a. 87; his w. Hannah d. 18 Aug. 1710,
5.
dau. of
MICHAEL, whether s. Thomas Swoetman,
of
7
a. 73.
MARY, m. John Ward

Dec. 1729.
30 Nov. 1681. THOMAS, m. Margaret Gates 31 SARAH, m. Timothy Swan 27 July 1766. MARSHALL, m. Han-
nah Lee 31 Aug. 1797. SQUIRE, JOHN (otherwise written Squiers), m. Sarah, dau. of Richard Francis, and had Samuel; Stephen; John; Thomas, b. 25 July 1672, m. Debwho subsequently m. William Brown 11 Nov. 1703; Sarah, b. 23 orah May 1677, m. John Fessenden; Jonathan, b. 24 July 1679 Mary, b. 18 Oct. - - Askell (HaskellV); Richard, b. 2 Nov. 1683; Daniel, b. 3 1681, m. Aug. 1686. JOHN the f. res. on the south side of tho river, and d. 26 June
,
;
1713,
2.
a.
about 83; his w. Sarah survived.

s.
JOHN,
of
John
(1),
by w. Rebecca had John, bap. 31 Jan. 1696-7;
660
SQUIRE
;
STEARNS.
Sarah, bap. 3 Oct. 1703. JOHN the f. d. before Rebecca, b. 11 Mar. 1700-1 26 Ap. 1708 (the date of his father's will); his w. Rebecca survived. he was long absent, prob3. THOMAS, s. of John (1), m. Deborah ably supposed to be dead; and his w. Deborah m. William Brown 11 Nov. His father left him a legacy, if he should return; if he should not 1703. return, then a legacy to Deborah w. of William Brown, formerly w. of the testator's son Thomas. 4. JONATHAN, s. of John (1), had married and d. before 26 Ap. 1708, leaving a dau. Sarah, who was provided for in her grandfather's will. 5. DANIEL, s. of John (1), by w. Deliverance, had Deliverance, b. 13 Dec. 1715; Daniel, b. 26 July 1718; John, b. 3 Mar. 1720-21.
;
STACY, THOMAS, m. Hannah Hicks 2 June 1683, and had Hannah, b. 2 Sept. 1684. m. Stephen Hastings 28 Oct. 1708; Thomas, b. about 1686; Elizabeth, b. 19 Feb. 1687-8, d. unm. between 18 Dec. 1742 and 28 Ap. 1743; Joseph, b. about 1694, grad. H. C. 1719, ordained at Kingston 3 Nov. 1720,
April 1741, a. 47; Susanna, bap. 2 June 1700, d. 2 Jan. 1702-3. the f. was a blacksmith, and resided at the point made by the juncHis estate was divided 5 Nov. 1 744. tion of Brighton and Brattle streets. had Susanna, m. Cutting Bean 2. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), by w. 27 Dec. 1744; Thomas, b. about 1723, was a ship-joiner in Boston 5 Nov. 1744, when he sold to Joseph Bean the homestead which had that day been assigned to him from the estate of his grandfather. THOMAS the f. was a blacksmith and d. before 5 Nov. 1744, prob. 24 Ap. 1743, a. 56. 3. JOSEPH, of Charlestown, a shipwright, prob. brother to Thomas (1), m. Elizabeth Adams 29 June 1682; she d. 27 Dec. 1709 and he d. 17 Aug. 1711. He prob. left no children, as he bequeathed his whole estate to his sister Susanna Adams, except a small legacy to his cousin John Salter. STANLEY, TIMOTHY (otherwise written Standly), in 1635 owned a house and garden on the westerly side of Dunster Street near Harvard Street. He removed to Hartford, where he was juror 1639 and 1642; he "died in 1648 and left a good estate to his widow and children, viz., Caleb, Isaac, Lois, " "The and a younger daughter. Stanley family maintained a high reputaIn tion in the jurisdiction for many years after the union of the two colonies. 1709 Caleb Stanley was elected or rather appointed Secretary of the Colony, which he held three years." Hinman. STANESBY, JOHN, is named as a land-holder in describing the bounds of William Cutter's land in the Neck about 1638. " STAHR, COMFORT, a Chirurgeon," or physician, was here in 1638, in Duxbury 16 Mar. 1639-40 and d. in Boston 2 Jan. 1660. See Savage, Gen.
d. 25
THOMAS
Diet.
STEARNS, CHARLES, of Wat., had w. Hannah who d. July 1651, and he m. Rebecca, dau. of John Gibson of Cambridge, 22 June 1654. His chil. were Samuel, b. at Wat. 2 June 1650; at Camb., Shubael, b. 20 Sept. 1655; John, and again at Wat., Isaac, Charles, Rebecca, and Martha. b. 24 Jan. 1656-7 CHARLES the f. removed to Lynn and d. before 1695. (Sav. Gen. Diet.) His See GIBSON, JOHN. w. Rebecca was afflicted by insanity. 2. ISAAC, of Wat., by w. Mary, had Mary, b. in England; Hannah; John; Isaac, b. 6 Jan. 1632-3; Sarah, b. 22 Sept. 1635, m. Deac. Samuel Stone of Camb. 7 June 1655, and d. 6 Oct. 1700; Samuel, b. 24 Ap. 1638; Elizabeth, m. Samuel Manning of Camb. 13 Ap. 1664; Abigail, m. Deac. John Morse.
;
ISAAC the f. d. 19 June 1671; his w. Mary d. 2 Ap. 1677. 3. JOHN, s. of Isaac (2), m. Sarah Mixer of Watertown, and had John, b. " in 41 the second week May 1654 his w. Sarah d. 18 June 1656, and he m. Mary Lathrop of Barnstable, Dec. 1656, by whom he had Isaac, b. 1 7 April
;
1658, d. young; Samuel, b. 3 Sept. 1659; Isaac, b. 23 Dec. 1661; Nathaniel, 30 Nov. 1663 Thomas, b. 6 Dec. 1665. JOHN the f. was orie of the earliest settlers in that part of Cambridge which was incorporated into the town of Billerica, and d. 5 Mar. 1668-9; his w. Mary m. Lieut. William French 6 May 1669. 4. ISAAC, s. of Isaac (2), m. Sarah Beers 28 June 1660, and had at the
b.
;
STEARNS
Farms Sarah,
b.
STEBBINS
STEDMAN.
661
14 Jan. 1661-2; Mary, b. 8 Oct. 1663; Isaac, b. 20 Aug. 20 Jan. 1667-8; Abigail; John, b. 1675. 5. SAMUEL, s. of Isaac (2), m. Hannah, dau. of William Manning, 1 Feb. 16G2-3 and had Samuel, b. here 4 May 1664, and several others at Wat. 6. JOHN, s. of John (3), reputed to have been the first English child born on the present territory of Billerica, by w. Elizabeth, had John, b. 22 Jan. 1679-80, d. 4 Ap. 1680; Sarah, b. 21 Mar. 1680-81; Mary, b. 23 July 1684; Isaac, b. May 1689; Abigail, b. 22 Aug. 1691. JOHN the f. d. 26 Oct. 1728,
1665; Samuel,
b.
a.
74.
7.
prob.
ISAAC, s. of Isaac (4), by w. Elizabeth, had Isaac, b. 23 Feb. 1690-91, in. Mehetabel Frost 24 Dec. 1725; Simon, b. 19 Oct. 1697; Jonathan, b. 20 Nov. 1701; Hannah, b. 26 Jan. 1703-4. 8. PKLEG, by w. Elizabeth, had William, b. 10 Ap. 1754. PHINKAS, m. Mary Willington 9 July 1761. ELIZABETH, m. Edward Fillebrown 7 Dec. 1775. DANIEL, m. Elizabeth Knowlton 7 Sept. 1783. STEBBINS, EDWARD (generally written Stebing or Stebinge, on the Record), was here in 1633, and res. on the westerly corner of Harvard and Dunster streets. He sold his estates here to Nicholas Danforth (who bought on behalf of his associates forming the second company of settlers) 2 May 1636, and removed to Hartford, with Hooker. He was a Deacon of the Church, " Juror in 1639 and 1643, Deputy in 1639, 1641, and 1648, Selectman in 1647, Collector of funds for the students of Cambridge College, by order of the Gend. in 1663." Hinman. w. Alice had Elizabeth, b. about 1641; Sarah, b. 11 Jan. 1643-4 Martha, b. 3 June 1646. JOHN the f. came here in 1638, in the employment of the widow Glover, as her steward, or general superintendent. " I do In the will of her husband, Rev. Jose Glover, is a bequest as follows further bequeath and give to my servant John Stedman, my antient faythful The epithet ancient must refer to his serservant, the sum of fifty pounds." vant's length of service rather than to his age, for he was then only 36 years old. He resided at the N. E. corner of Mount Auburn Street and Brattle Square, where he kept a store for about half a century after Mrs. Glover's death. The monopoly of the trade in furs for Camb. was granted to him Oct. 1658. He was a Selectman 16 years between 1640 and 1676, and Treasurer of the County 26 years, from 1658 to 1683. He was also connected with the military department. The General Court ordered, Mar. 1647-8, that " John Stedman, having been Ensign of the Company at Cambridge about six He served as Coryears, is freed from serving as a common soldier there." net of Capt. Davis's Troop, in the expedition against Ninigret 1654 and was one of the Committee of the Militia for Cambridge 5 Mar. 1676-7, holding the rank of Quartermaster (unless John (3) was the person named in the Record). He d. full of years 16 Dec. 1693, a. 92; a large tablet in the old burial ground marks his resting place; his w. Alice d. 6 Mar. 1689-90, a. about 80. He left no son. His daughters m. and had posterity, namely: (1) Elizabeth, the eldest dau., b. 1641, or 1642, m. Nathaniel Upham, son of Deac. John Upham of Maiden, 5 Mar. 1661-2; lie was a preacher, but had not been ordained he survived his marriage but a few days, and d. 20 Mar. 1661-2; his w. Elizabeth m. Henry Thompson, merchant, of Boston, 27 Ap. 1669, and had Elizabeth, b. 29 Jan. 1669-70; Dorothy, b. 26 Oct. 1671 (m. Samuel Shove x of Boston 16 Nov. 1692, and Samuel Burr by whom she had one dau. Sarah, and d. 20 Feb. 1701-2); Henry, b. 23 Oct. 1673, d. Sept. 1690; Alice, b. 8 Sept. 1677. Mr. Thompson d. and his w. Elizabeth m. John Sharp, a merchant, whom she also survived, and d. in her third widowhood 9 Mar. 1699-1700. (2) Sarah, the second dau., b. 11 Jan. 1643-4, m. John Brackett of Boston 23 Aug. 1662, and had Sarah, bap. 5 June 1664; John, posthumous, bap. 21 Ap. 1667; both d. young. Mr. Brackett d. 1666,
eral Court, in 1645.
He
STEDMAN, JOHN, by
;
i By Mr. Shove, Dorothy had Elizabeth, m. Benjamin Bagnall, watchmaker, Boston, and Sarah, m. Thomas Edwards, goldsmith,
Boston.
In a deed, dated 27 Sept. 1727,
and. heirs of Dorothy Shove, who was dau. of Elizabeth Sharp, who was dau. of John Mid. Deeds, xxvii. 192. Stedman."
they
are called
" the only surviving children
662
STEDMAN.
and his w. Sarah m. Dr. Samuel Alcock 24 Mar. 1667-8, and had Samuel, b. 2 Mar. 1669; Elizabeth, b. 25 Dec. 1672; both which children appear Dr. Alcock d. 16 Mar. 1676-7, to have d. before the death of their father. and his w. Sarah m. Thomas Graves of Charlestown, H. C. 1656, a physician and judge, 15 May 1682, by whom she had one son Thomas, b. 28 Sept. 1683, grad. H. C. 1703, was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and Supreme Judicial Court, and d. 19 June 1747. Judge Graves the f. d. 30 May 1697, and his w. Sarah m. Col. John Phillips of Charlestown (also Judge of Court of Common Pleas), who. d. 20 Mar. 1725-6, a. nearly 94. Last of all, the w. Sarah d. in her fourth widowhood 1 Mar. 1729-30, a. 86. I think her only surviving child was Judge Graves the younger, who left several children, chiefly daughters. (3) Martha, youngest dau., b. 3 June 1646, m. Joseph See COOKE, JOSEPH. Cooke, Jr., 4 Dec. 1665, and had posterity. 2. ROBERT, prob. brother to John (1), by w. Ann had a daughter, b. 14 Sept, 1638, d. young; John, b. 27 Dec. 1642; Mary, b. 27 Ap. 1645, m. Daniel Thurston 1 Ap. 1674; Thomas, d. 2 Ap. 1659. ROBERT the f. was here about 1638, and res. on the northerly side of Winthrop Street, between Hoiyoke and Dunster streets, on an estate previously owned by Simon Sackett. This house-lot was enlarged by purchase, until it extended through to Mount Auburn Street, and included the S. W. corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke In this form it remained in possession of the family until a very restreets. cent period. ROBERT the f. d. 20 Jan. 1666; his w. Ann was living 10 Dec. 1674, but d. before 2 Nov. 1676. 3. JOHN, s. of Robert (2), m. Elizabeth Remington 14 May 1666, and had d. 15 July 1676. JOHN the f. was a John, b. 22 Aug. 1668; Elizabeth, b. farmer (perhaps the " Quartermaster" named in 1676-7), and d. of small-pox 24 Nov. 1678, a. 36; his w. Elizabeth m. Samuel Gibson 14 July 1679, and d. between 1 7 July and 1 1 Dec. 1680, her son John being her only surviving child. 4. JOHN, s. of John (3), m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Gibson, by his first wife, 9 Ap. 1691, and had John, b. about 1692, grad. H. C. 1712, and d. 5 Sept. 1719; Elizabeth, bap. 1 Aug. 1697, m. Dr. Lawrence Dolhond 26 Oct. 1715, had two children who d. in infancy and were buried here, and son John, who was a physician living in Boston 1754; Samuel, bap. 1 Oct. 1699, prob. d. young; Sarah, b. about 1701, appears by her father's will to have m. and d., leaving children, before 1728; Jonathan, b. 21 Nov. 1703, grad. H. C. 1726, living in Chelmsford 1756, perhaps the same who was pub. here to Mary Blaisdell 22 May 1742; Benjamin, b. 17 July 1706, was a physician in Braintree 1746, had a s. Leonard, who was a paper-stainer in Braintree 1759; Ebenezer, bap. 2 Jan. 1708-9; Mary, b. 7 Jan. 1711-12, m. John Henshaw 14 May 1 730. JOHN the f was a tailor, innholder and shopkeeper. He inherited the homestead, was a thrifty man, and accumulated a large property. He d. 24 Mar. 1727-8, a. nearly 60 his w. Sarah, who appears to have been a very in,
. ;
woman, d. 1 July 1754, a. 84. 5. EBENEZER, s. of John (4), m. Lydia Moore, and had Sarah, bap. 27 Oct. 1734, d. 24 June 1740; Martha, b. 1 May 1736, d. 23 June 1740 Lydia, bap. 26 Mar. 1738, d. 5 June 1740; Ebenezer, b. 27 Ap. and d. 15 Nov. 1740; Sarah, b. May 1741, m. Jonathan Titcomb, Esq., of Newport, R. I., and was
telligent, energetic
;
John and Ebenezer, twins, b. 16 May 1743, both grad. H. C. 1765 (John m. Mary Quincy, was a physician, and d. 1780, leaving sons John and Ebenezer); Martha, bap. 4 Aug. 1745, d. 10 Oct. 1746; Elizabeth, bap. 1 Nov. 1747, m. Samuel Clark, hatter, of Newport, and was living in 1786; Samliving in 1786;
1749, d. 9 Aug. 1751 Samuel, bap. 20 May 1753, a printer, William, bap. 21 Sept. 1755, d. 1 May 1758; Lydia, bap. 11 Mar. 1759, d. young. Mrs. Lydia Stedman d. 1761, and Mr. Stedman in. Mary Austin of Chs. 4 Jan. 1764, by whom he had one son William, bap. 20 Jan. 1765, grad. H. C. 1784, was a lawyer, resided in Lancaster, Charlton, and Worcester, was a member of Congress, and d. 1831. EBENEZKR the f. inherited the homestead, and increased the amount of property which he inherited. He kept a tavern many years on the southerly side of Mount Auburn Street,
uel,
bap.
May
d.
May
1774
about midway between Brighton and Dunster
streets.
He was
Captain of
STEDMAN
STONE.
663
the militia, and Selectman from 1759 to 1776, with the exception of two years. He d. 13 Sept. 1785, a. 76; his w. Mary d. about 1788. 6. EBENKZER, s. of Ebenezer (5), and twin with John, m. Eunice, wid. of Thaddeus Winship of Lex., and prob. dau. of Samuel Munroe, and had Lydia, b. 24 Jan. 1 787, m. Col. Eliab W. Metcalf 7 May 1809; Ebenezer, bap. 21 June 1789, m. Mary Braman of Norton 13 Ap. 1807, and d. without issue; Mary, bap. 8 Ap. 1792, m. Col. George Meacham 1 Mar. 1818; Samuel, bap. 14 June 1795, m. Martha Russell (pub. 10 Ap. 1823), and d. 18 June 1848; John, bap. 29 Mar. 1801, d. unm. 1 Jan. 1822; he was crushed between the wheel of a cart and a brick wall, in Boston. EBENEZER the f. grad. H. C. 1765, was for many years Postmaster, Selectman eleven years between 1786 and 1801, and Treasurer twenty-three years, from 1786 to 1808. In his old age his mind became unsettled, and he d. (felo de se) 7 Oct. 1815, a. 72; his w. Eunice was buried 6 Sept. 1846, a. 87. ELIZABETH, m. Thomas Hammond 17 Dec. 1662. HANNAH, m. Samuel Hyde 20 Jan. 1683. MARY, m. David Stowell 7 Ap. 1692. SARAH, m. Joseph Sprague 30 Nov. 1714. MARGARET, m. Benjamin Cheney 9 Nov. 1 752. These may have been of the Roxbury family. STEELE, JOHN, one of the earliest inhabitants, res. 1635 at the westerly corner of Harvard and Holyoke streets, and was a large landholder. He was Deputy or Representative three sessions in 1635. He rem. to Hartford with " Hooker, and was Deputy and Magistrate many years. He was of the Court that declared war against the Pequots. He was the Town Register in Hartford 1639, which office he held until he removed to Farmington. He was a valuable man in the Colony, and was the ancestor of the Steeles in Hartford, He d. in 1665, and left a son Samuel, and Farmington, and Woodbury two daughters, who married William and Thomas Judd." Hinman. 2. GEORGE, brother to John (1), was one of the earliest inhabitants, and res. 1635 on the easterly corner of Harvard and Dunster streets, adjoining to his brother's estate. He also rem. to Hartford, where he was Selectman and Juror 1644, and d. in 1664, one son James, and two daughters. leaving STEVENS, WILLIAM, m. Abigafl Green 1 July 1673. REV. BENJAMIN, m. Mary Remington 28 Sept. 1752. THOMAS, m. Mary Barrett 30 Sept. 1771. STEVENSON, ANDREW (otherwise written Steevenson, Steveson, Stievenson, and Stimson), by w. Jane, had Deborah, b. in England, m. Robert Wilson of Sudbuiy, and (2d), Matthew Abdy; Sarah, m. Joseph Lowden of Charlestown, and d. before 1681, leaving son Jarnes, and dau. Mary, who m. James Burbeen of Woburn; Rebecca, b. 20 Jan. 1642, m. James Patterson of Billerica 29 May 1662 John, b. 29 Dec. 1644, d. 26 May 1664 Mary, b. 17 Jan. 1646, m. Thomas Richardson of Billerica 5 Jan. 1669-70; Lydia, b. 2 Aug. 1648 Andrew, b. about 1652 Hannah, m. William Burges, and was living in Ipswich 1695. ANDREW the f. d. between 3 May 1681, and 1 Oct. 1683; his w. Jane survived. 2. ANDREW, s. of Andrew (1), by w. Abigail, had Andrew, died 5 Sept. 1683; Mary, b. 17 Feb. 1682-3, d. young; Mary, b. 21 Oct. 1684 Joseph,b. 17 Dec. 1695, d. 29 Aug. 1696; Lydia, b. 13 Aug. 1697, d. 12 Ap. 1703; Joseph, b. 7 Feb. 1699-1700; Lydia, b. 14 Oct. 1703, and perhaps others. ANDREW the f. was a housewright, and resided in Chs., where his chil. were born, and where he d. 14 Dec. 1721. 3. JONATHAN, parentage not ascertained, by w. Elizabeth, had Abigail, b. 1 July 1671 James, b. 26 May 3673. STILEMAN, RICHARD, by w. Hannah, had Samuel, b. 23 May 1644; went to Salem as early as 1646, and thence to Portsmouth, where by w. Mary he had Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Richard, from 1657 to 1668. STOCKING, GEORGE (otherwise written Stockine), was an early inhabitant, and res. 1635 at the S. W. corner of Holyoke and Winthrop streets. He rem. with Hooker to Hartford, where he was Selectman in 1647. STONE, SAMUEL, "one of the first ministers of Cambridge and Hartford, was born in Hartford, England, and was educated at Etnanuel College, came to N. Eng. in 1633, and settled at Camb. with Rev. Thomas Hooker 11 Oct.
.
664
STONE.
1633, admitted freeman 1634, removed to Hartford with Mr. Hooker in 1636, d. 20 July 1663." Farmer. " He was chaplain in the little army of ninety brave men under Major Mason in 1637, who by their valorous deeds exterminated the Pequot Nation of Indians He left a widow Elizabeth
and there
and children, Samuel, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary, and Sarah." (Hinman.) Rev. Mr. Stone res. while here on the easterly side of Brighton Street, between Mount Auburn Street and Harvard Square. His w. who accompanied him here d. before 22 Nov. 1640, and he appears to have m. again at Hartford. 2. GREGORY, prob. brother to Samuel (1), was here as early as 1637, and about 1638 purchased a house and five acres on the westerly side of Garden Street, between the Botanic Garden and Concord Avenue, which became his homestead. He acquired, by gift and purchase, large tracts of land at the Farms, where some of his children settled. By his w. Lydia (who had formerly been the w. of Cooper), he had six children, all born in EngPotter of Ipsland; John, b. about 1619; Daniel; David; Elizabeth, m. wich; Samuel; Sarah, m. Joseph Miriam of Concord 1653. GREGORY the f. was a farmer; he owned a house and 26 acres at Wat. and 54 acres of outlands, all which he sold to Nathaniel Sparhawk, agent of Thomas Boylston of London, 30 Sept. 1639; but it is not certain that he ever resided in Wat. He was a Representative for Cambridge 1638 a Deacon of the Church; and d. 30 Nov. 1672, a. 82; his w. Lydia d. 24 June 1674. 3. JOHN, s. of Gregory (2), in early life settled in that part of Sudbury which was afterwards included in Framingham, and by w. Anne had John; Hannah, b. 6 June 1640, m. John Bent 1 July 1658; Mary, b. prob. 1642, m. Isaac Hunt of Concord, who d. Dec. 1680, and she m. Eliphalet Fox of Concord, and d. before 6 Ap. 1686; Daniel, b. 31 Aug. 1644; David, b. 31 Oct. 1646; Elizabeth, b. prob. 1649, m. Samuel Stow; Margaret, b. 22 Oct. 1653, m. William Brown 11 Jan. 1676; Tabiiha, b. 29 May 1655, m. John Rice 2 Nov. 1674; Sarah, b. 22 Sept. 1657, m. Jacob Hill of Camb.; Nathaniel, b. 11 May 1660. JOHN the f. was a Deacon of the Church at Sudbury, and employed by the town in civil affairs. On the death of his father he returned to Camb., and occupied the homestead. He was Representative 1682 and 1683. He was also elected a Ruling Elder of the Church here, to which office he and Elder Clark were ordained 15 Nov. 1682, when the Rev. Nathaniel Gookin was ordained pastor. He d. 5 May 1683, a. 64. His w. Anne and their ten children survived. A large posterity of Elder Stone remains in Framingham, and in the region round about. 4. DANIEL, s. of Gregory (2), m. Mary, wid. of Richard Ward, and dau. of John Moore of Sudbury, and had Mary, b. 21 Mar. 1643-4, m. Walker; Sarah,\). 22 Sept. 1645, m. Edmands; Daniel, b. 2 Jan. 1646-7, prob. d. young; Elizabeth, b. 1 Jan. 1648-9, prob. d. young; Abigail, b. 28 Keach. DANIEL the f. was a physician, or as styled on Ap. 1653, m. " sundry records, Chirurgeon," and resided at the N. E. corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn streets. He removed to Boston between 1 May 1655, when Edward Burt acknowledged a debt to him of 7,200 Ibs. " Muscavadoes " in Camb. " late mansion sugar," and 23 Nov. 1657, when he sold his place to Samuel Andrew. He d. between 6 Dec. 1686 and 6 July 1687. 5. DAVID, s. of Gregory (2), by w. Dorcas had David, b. 6 Ap. 1650;
;
Daniel, b. about 1651 Dorcas, b. 18 Dec. 1652 John, b. about 1654 b. 19 June 1656; Nathaniel, b. about 1658. 6. SAMUEL, s. of Gregory (2), m. Sarah, dau. of Isaac Stearns of June 1655, and had Samuel, b. 1 Oct. 1656 Isaac, b. about 1658, young; Sarah, b. 5 Feb. 1660-61 John, b. 12 May 1663 Lydia, b.
; ;
Samuel, Wat.,
7
prob. d. 25 Nov.
1665; Mary, b. 22 Feb. 1667-8, d. 11 May 1669; Joseph, b. 1671; Anna, b. 30 June 1673. SAMUEL the f. resided at the Farms was Selectman 1681, 1688, and 1692; at the organization of the Church (now the First in Lex.), he was elected Deacon, and d. 27 Sept. 1715, a. about 80. His w. Sarah d. 4 Oct. 1700, and he m. Abigail who d. 1728 at Woburn, a. 71. 7. DAVID, s. of David (5), m. Sarah Hildreth 31 Dec. 1674, and had Sarah, b. 6 Mar. 1676-7 DAVID the Elizabeth, b. 6 Feb. 1678-9, d. 12 Aug. 1679.
; , ;
f.
d. 21
Aug. 1679.
STONE.
8.
665
s. of Samuel (6), m. Dorcas Jones 12 June 1679, and had Aug. 1634; and others. SAMUEL the f. succeeded his father as Deacon of the Church at Lex. 1715, and d. 17 June 1743, a. nearly 87 his w. Dorcas d. 24 Sept. 1746, a. 87. 9. JOHN, s. of Samuel (6), m. Rachel Shepard of Concord 27 Ap. 1C87, and had John, b. 12 Mar. 1687-8, d. young; John, b. 15 Dec. 1689, was Deacon of the Church at Lex., and d. 7 Aug. 1762, a. 72 (his w. Mary d. 16 Oct. 1772, a. 77); Mary, b. 26 Sept. 1692; Anna, b. 27 Nov. 1694; 'Rachel, b. 6 June 1697; Ruth, b. 27 Aug. 1700. JOHN the f. res. at the Farms, and d.
SAMUEL,
b. 12
Samuel,
there 3 Feb. 1713.

10. JOSEPH, s. of Samuel (6), by w. Sarah, had Sarah, b. 1 Nov. 1700; and others. JOSEPH the f. d. 17 Jan. 1713-14. 11. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (8), m. Abigail, dau. of Deac. George Reed of Woburn 1 706, and had Abigail,}). 21 Ap. 1 707, m. Micah Stone of Framingham; Samuel, b. 8 Dec. 1708, rem. to Rutland; Jonas, b. 3 Dec. 1710, a Deacon at Lex., d. 29 Oct. 1790; Elizabeth, b. 21 Dec. 1713, m. John Stone and rem. to Rutland Tabitha, b. 9 Jan. 1715-16. m. John Noyes of Sudbury; Mary, b. 9 Mar. 1717-18, in. Thomas Bent of Sudbury; Susanna, b. 24 Ap. 1720, m. Elijah Bent of Sudbury; Nathan, b. 28 Ap. 1722, m. Mary Robbins, and res. at Sudbury and Rutland; Eunice, b. 2 July 1724, m. Samuel Reed; Sybil, b. 9 Sept. 1727, m. Nathaniel Bright, and (2*d) Samuel White; Isaac, b. 5 Ap. 1730. SAMUEL the f. was a Captain, and an active, energetic man. He is said to have res. at different times at Concord, Sudbury, and Rutland, as well as at Lexington; he d. at Lex. 5 Ap. 1769; his w. Abigail d. 16 Jan. 1767,
;
a. 81.
12. SIMON, brother to Gregory (2), came to N. Eng. in 1634, and settled at Wat. with w. Joanna and four chil., born in England; Frances, b. about 1618; Ann, b. about 1623; Simon, b. about 1630; John, b. 1634, d. young. He had at Wat. John, b. 15 Aug. 1635, Deacon at Wat., where he d. 26 Mar. 1691 SIMON the f. was Deacon of the Wat. Church, and Elizabeth, b. 5 Ap. 1639.
;
d. 22 Sept. 1665, a. about 80, having previously m. 2d w. Sarah, wid. of Richard Lumpkin, and sister to William Warner of Ipswich; she d. 1663. 13. SIMON, s. of Simon (12), m. Mary Whipple, and had John, b. 23 July 1658; Matthew, b. 16 Feb. 1659-60; Nathaniel, b. and d. Feb. 1661-2; Ebenezer, b. 27 Feb. 1662-3; Mary, b. 6 Jan. 1664-5; Nathaniel, b. 1666, grad. H. C. 1690, ordained at Harwich, m. dau. of Gov. Hinkley, and d. about 1755, a. 88, having had ten children, one of whom, Nathan, b. 1708, grad. H. C. 1726, was ordained at Southborough 21 Oct. 1730, and d. 31 May 1781; Elizabeth, b. 9 Oct. 1670; Susanna, b. 4 Nov. 1675, m. Edward Goddard, Esq.; Jonathan, b. 26 Dec. 1677. SIMON the f. d. 27 Feb. 1707-8: his w. Mary d.
1720.
EBENEZER, s. of Simon (13), settled in Newton, and m. Margaret, dau. James Trowbridge, 1686; she d. 4 May 1710, a. 44, and he m. Abigail Wilson; she d. 1720, a. 57, and he m. wid. Sarah Livermore 8 Ap. 1722, who d.
14.
of
by his first w.. were Ebenezer, b. 21 Dec. 1686, m. and was buried in the old burial ground at Wat. 1 Aug. 1688, m. Nathaniel Hammond, d. 1776; Samuel, b. 1 July 1690, rem. to Framingham, and m. Hannah Searl; John, b. 18 Sept. 1692, in. Lydia Hyde 1717; Nathaniel, b. 6 Sept. 1694, d. 1713; Mindwell, b. 26 June 1696, m. Ebenezer Woodward 1716; David, b. 15 May 1698, d. 1725; Man/, b. 19 Ap. 1700; Simon, b, 14 Sept, 1702, m. Priscilla Dyke 1732; James, b. 8 June 1704, grad. H. C. 1724, ordained at Holliston 20 Nov. 1728, d. 1742; Experience, b. 1707, m. Sarah Livermore 1722. 15. DANIEL, a descendant of Gregory (2), through his s. Elder John (3), m. Sally Williams of Wat. 2 Ap. 1806, and had in Mendon, Nahum, b. 7 Ap. June 1809, d. 12 Oct. 1810 1807, m. Susanna Hovey 1 Jan. 1832; Daniel, b. Dec. 1831, and, in Camb., Hannah, b. 12 July 1811, m. Freeman Hovey, buried 29 Jan. 1838; Daniel Gregory, b. 18 Ap. 1813, d. 18 June 1815; Sarah Maria, b. 16 Ap. 1815, m. William Hovey, Jr., 31 July 1834; Catherine Whitney, b. 7 May 1817, m. Ansdn J. Stone (pub. 5 Nov. 1839), d. 31 July
1741, a. 70.
His
1
chil., all
1
Sarah Bond. Margaret, b.
d.
Feb.
784,
666
STONE
;
STREETER.
1845; Levi Farwell, b. 8 Feb. 1819; Daniel Gregory, b. 14 Jan. 1821, d. 23 July 1876 Persia Haynes, b. 26 Ap. 1824, d. 'l825. DANIEL the f. was a He retanner, and res. at the N. W. corner of Harvard and Prospect streets. linquished that business about 1837, and sold the southerly part of his estate to Rev. Joseph W. Parker. He was Superintendent of the Burial Ground in Ward Two many years after 1825, and d. 25 Sept. 1861, a. 80 his w. Sarah was buried 3 Feb. 1843. 16. WILLIAM F., a descendant of Gregory (2), through Elder John (3), b. in Framingham, in. Harriet Brigham of Westborough (a descendant from Thomas Brigham of Camb. 1638) (pub. 22 Sept. 1826), and had William Lowell, b. 24 June 1829, grad. H. C. 1850, d. 1857; Mary Warren, b. 30 Ap. 1833; Harriet Brigham, b. 11 Aug. 1835; Olynthus Brigham, b. 3 Ap. 1838. WILLIAM F. the f. was bred a physician, but early abandoned the profession
; ;
he was elected Register of Deeds for Middlesex County in 1822, which office he held, by successive elections, until 1845, when he resigned in consequence of ill health, and d. 26 Mar. 1857 his w. Harriet d. 2 July 1868. 17. WILLIAM, a descendant from Simon (12) m. Kezia Fairbanks of Brighton (pub. 3 May 1823); she d. 3 Mar 1850, a. 56, and he m. Sarah Ann Coombs of Lynn (pub. 14 Jan. 1851). His children were Sarah P., b. 10 Feb. 1824, bur. 14 Aug. 1825; Sarah A., b. 26 Dec. 1825; William W., b. 20 Sept. 1827; Ephraim W., b. 14 Ap. 1830; Martha Maria, b. 30 Nov. 1832; Horace, b. 8 Nov. 1836; Henry M., b. 30 Oct. 1839. WILLIAM the f. was a wheelwright and resided in Ward One; he d. 4 Dec. 1868. 18. LOWELL M., a descendant from Gregory (2), and nephew to William F. (16), b. in Framingham, m. Mary L. Moody (pub. 4 Ap. 1845), and had (posthumous) Mary Lowell, b. 17 Nov. 1847. Mr. Stone was a young man of great promise a Justice of the Peace several years chief clerk in the Pension Office, Boston; and was elected Cashier of the Merchant's Bank a short
; ;
time before his decease. July 1849, a. 31.
He
d.
25 July 1847,
a.
31; his w.
Mary
L. d. 31
THOMAS, of Framingham, m. Elizabeth Andrew 18 June 1730. REBECCA, m. Timothy Wellington of Lex. 23 Sept. 1742. LOVE, m. Samuel Whittemore 3d, 11 June 1747. SETH, m. Mary Tufts of Medf. 6 Aug. 1776. JOHN, m. Mary Tufts of Medf. 13 Ap. 1780. STOWELL, DAVID, m. Mary Stedman 7 Ap. 1692. STRATTON, SAMUEL, d. 19 Dec. 1672, naming in his will sons Samuel and He prob. resided on John, and grandson Samuel, son of Richard deceased. the northerly side of Mount Auburn Street, next westerly from Prof. James R. Lowell's estate, which was then in Wat. but is now a part of Camb. Those which follow were perhaps his descendants. 2. EBENEZER, by w. Lydia, had Ebenezer, d. 4 Dec. 1735; Lydia, b. 26 Feb. 1716-17, m. Samuel Child of Dudley 24 Oct. 1734; Abigail, b. 24 July 1718, d. 14 July 1736; Elizabeth, b. 12 Feb. 1719-20, m. Joseph Cooke 7 June 1739; Thankful, b. 17 Dec. 1721, m. Ebenezer Richards 24 Dec. 1741; Man/, b. 2 Jan. 1722-3, m. Samuel Walker 20 Dec. 1750; Sarah, b. 19 Nov.
1725; John,
3.
b. 9
Aug. 1727.
JOHN, prob. s. of Ebenezer (2), m. Mercy Norcross 3 May 1750, and had Mary, b. 29 Ap. 1752, m. Silas Robbins 7 May 1772; Nathaniel, b. 14 Dec. 1755; John, b. 13 Ap. 1759; Susanna, b. 2 Dec. 1760, m. Major John Palmer 28 Nov. 1781 and d. Dec. 1837, a. 77; the Town Record says 79, but
wrongly, unless
4.
mistake the parentage.
JOHN, had Joshua, bap. 18 Nov. 1722; Mercy, bap. 27 Sept. 1724. 5. JAMES, had Mary, bap. 17 May 1724. 6. JAMES, by w. Nabby, had James, b. 7 Feb. 1797. STRKETER, STEPHEN, prob. a descendant from Stephen of Chs. 1644, by w. Deborah, had in Camb. Rebecca, b. 3 Sept. 1683 Deborah, b. 25 Sept.
;
1685, d. 7 Ap. 1689; Joseph, b. 18 Sept. 1687; Benjamin, b. 25 Nov. 1689, d. 23 Ap. 1690; and prob. others. Deborah Streeter, perhaps wid. of STEPHEN, m. Samuel Sears of Wrentham 10 Aug. 1704. 2. SAMUEL, prob. s. of Stephen (1), had Mary and Sarah, prob. not
STHEETER
SWAN.
667
twins, bap. 21 Feb. 1696-7; Stephen, bap. 4 Sept. 1698; Samuel, bap. 7 Jan. 1699-1700; Mercy, bap. 14 May 1704; Susanna, bap. 28 Ap. 1706. 3. JOHN, perhaps s. of Stephen (1), by w. Mary, had Hannah, b. 26 Dec. 1700; Mary. b. 29 Mar. 1702 John, bap. 16 Ap. 1704.
;
SWAN, .JOHN (otherwise written, Swann, Swaine and Swayne), m. Rebecca Palfrey 1 Jan. 1650-51 she d. 12 July 1654 and he m. Mary Pratt 2 Mar. 1655-6. His children were Ruth, b. 1 or 10 Mar. 1652; Gershom, b. 30 June 1654; Samuel, b. 3 Ap. or 1 May 1657, d. 19 or 20 June 1678; Mary, b. 2 May 1659; Elizabeth, b. 14 July 1661, m. Ezekiel Richardson of Woburn 27 July 1687; Lydia, b. 28 July "l 663; John, b. 1 May 1665, resided in Woburn 1712; Hannah, b. 27 Feb. 1667; Ebenezer, b. 14 Nov. 1672. JOHN the f. was brought up in the family of Thomas Bittlestone, who provided by his will 3 Nov. 1640 that his w. Elizabeth should be served five years by his boy John Swan, and should then pay him five pounds. He was a farmer and resided in Menot. where his posterity may now be found; he was a member of the Church, but for some fault was excommunicated 1684. It would seem he was not easily moved from his purposes whether good or bad for in that day when excommunication was generally regarded as an effectual bar against salvation, he withstood the power of the Church more than twenty years but at length when he had attained extreme old age he made his peace " with the brethren and "was restored to communion 22 Dec. 1706. He d. 5 June 1708, a. 87, as inscribed on his gravestone; his w. Mary d. 11 Feb.
;
1702,
2.
a. 69.
s. of John (1), m. Sarah Holden 20 Dec. 1677, and had Sarah, b. about 1679, d. unm. 25 Ap. 1699, a. 20; liebecca, b. 24 Aug. 1681, d. young John, b. 3 Oct. 1683; Ruth, b. 25 Dec. 1685, m. Theophilus Richardson of Woburn; Abigail, b. 12 Feb. 1686-7, m. John Richardson of Woburn 1 July 1714; Lydia, b. 10 Nov. 1689, m. William Mansur of Medf. 2 Feb. 1714-15; Rebecca, bap. 14 Aug. 1698, m. George Abbott 2 Feb. 1714-15; and perhaps others between 1689 and 1698. GERSHOM the f. res. at Menot. and d. 2 July 1708, a. 54 his w. Sarah survived. 3. EBENEZER, s. of John (1), by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. 29 Mar. 1699; Sarah, b. 26 Feb. 1700-1 701, m. Ephraim Cook, 14 Dec. 1727; Ebenezer, b. 23 Mar. 1703-4; Mary, b. 4 Mar. 1706-7; Samuel, b. 5 Ap. 1711; William, b. 31 Jan. 1713-14, m. Ruth Polley 13 Ap. 1743. EBENEZER the f. res. at Menot., and d. 27 July 1740; his w. Elizabeth d. 20 Ap. 1748, a. 73. 4. JOHN, s. of Gershom (2), by w. Elizabeth (who d. 21 Dec. 1723, a. 28), had John, bap. 12 Ap. and d. 11 June 1719; Timothy, b. 3 Aug. 1720; Elizabeth, b. 12 Oct. 1722, perhaps the same (called Mrs. Elizabeth), who d. 24 Jan. 1799, a. 76; and by 2d w. Elizabeth, Esther, b. 15 Mar. 1725-6, m. Zebadiah Richardson 19 Ap. 1 759 John, bap. 4 Aug. 1728; Gershom, bap. 10 Aug. 1729, d. young; Susanna, b. 4 Oct. 1730, m. Joseph Parks, Jr., of Concord (pub. 3 Mar. 1753), or Samuel Watts of Woburn 4 Ap. 1757; William, JOHN the b. 4 Sept. 1737, pub. to Lucy Robbins of Boston 15 Mar. 1759. f. had the homestead, and d. 31 Mar. 1752 his w. Elizabeth d. 28 Oct. 1780,
GERSHOM,
;
a. 85. 5. EBENEZER, s. of Ebenezer (3), by w. Bathsheba, had Peter, b. 6 Jan. 1728-9 Ebenezer, b. 18 Nov. 1730 Benjamin, b. 20 Ap. 1733 Joseph, b. 16 Feb. 1735-6; Ba'hsheba, b. 15 Feb. 1737-8, d. unm. 26 Aug. 1805; a daughter, b. 1739, d. 22 July 1740, a. eighteen months; Joshua, b. 28 June 1743, m. Sarah Cutter 20 July 1762; Mary, bap. 7 Ap. 1745, d. 1 Aug. 1747. EBENEZER the f. d. 23 Ap. 1752; his w. Bathsheba d. 31 Aug. 1793, a. 84. 5 6. SAMUEL, s. of Ebenezer (3), m. Sarah Patten, and had Samuel, bap. Feb. 1737-8; Aaron, bap. 1 June 1740; George, bap. 20 June 1742, d. 26 May 1748; Sarah, bap. 10 Feb. 1744-5; Nathan, bap. 17 May 1747; Georye, posthumous, bap. 1750. SAMUEL the f. d. 19 June 1750, a. 39 his w. Sarah was prob. the same who m. Israel Hinds 20 Feb. 1755. 7. TIMOTHY, s. of John (4), m. Sarah Crosby of Billerica (pub. 24 Sept. 1748); she d. 2 Ap. 1756, a. 26, and he in. Sarah Spring (pub. 23 Aug. 1765). His children were a daughter, b. 1749, d. 1 Jan. 1750, a. 9 mo.; Timothy, bap.
;
;
668
SWAN
;
TAYLOR.
11 Nov. 1750; d. 3 July 1753 Sarah, bap. 5 Jan. 1751-2, m. James Con vers of Woburn 10 Sept. 1767; Prudence, bap. 26 May 1754, d. unm. 29 July 1803 Eunice, bap. 15 Feb. 1756. TIMOTHY the f. d. 19 Oct. 1780. 8. EBENEZER, s. of Ebenezer (5), m. Mary Mansur of Wat. (pub. 13 Jan. 1757), and had Peter, bap. 19 Feb. 1758. d. young; Ebenezer, bap. 25 Feb. 1761, d. 3 Feb. 1814; Peter, bap. 15 May 1763, d. Feb. 1822; Gershom, bap. 23 Mar. 1766, d. 10 Oct. 1827 (his s. Gershom, Jr., d. 23 July 1827, a. 36) Timothy, bap. 20 Aug. 1769. EBENEZER the f. d. Aug. 1798 his w. Mary d. 1 Jan. 1797.
; ; ;
9. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (6), m. Sarah Williams (pub. 1 Nov. 1760), and had Sarah, bap. 23 May 1762; Samuel, bap. 30 June 1765, d. 11 Mar. 1771;
Thomas, bap. 27 Dec. 1767. 10. NATHAN, s. of Samuel (6), had a child, b. and d. 30 Oct. 1770; a child b. and d. 4 July 1772; Nathan, bap. 27 June 1773; Moses, bap. 26 Feb. 1775; Walter, b. 1 Sept. 1776, d. 6 June 1797 Martha, bap. 17 Sept. 1780. NATHAN the f. d. 6 Nov. 1799. 11. TIMOTHY, s. of Ebenezer (8), by w. Lydia, had Amos Monroe, b. 21 Mar. 1795; Timothy, b. 1 Mar. 1796; Varennes,\>. 20 Feb. 1798; Roxanna, TIMOTHY the b. 20 Feb. and d. Oct. 1800; a son, b. 1804, d. 15 Aug. 1805. f. d. 12 Dec. 1813; his w. Lydia d. 15 Dec. 1823, a. 54. 12. EBENEZER, parentage not ascertained, had Joshua, bap. 10 July 1743 Mary, bap. 7 Ap. 1745, d. young; Mary, b. 1746, d. 25 Sept. 1750; a daughter b. 4 and d. 6 Feb. 1749 Ebenezer, b. 3 and d. 8 Mar. 1752. 13. JOHN, parentage not ascertained, by w. Mary, had John, bap. 14 Jan. 1776; Reuben, bap. 5 Ap. 1778; William, bap. 25 Mar. 1781; Molly (Mary), JOHN the bap. Nov. 1783, d. unm. 14 Sept. 1805; Stephen, bap. Oct. 1785.
;
f.
Wade Medf., and had Thomas, bap. here 6 May 1705. THOMAS the f. was prob. the grad. H. C. 1689, and was Register of Probate 1702. SWCETMAN, THOMAS (otherwise written Sweetman, Sweateman, Swetman, and Swatman), by w. Isabel, had Elizabeth, b. 6 Jan. 1646-7, m. Benjamin Wellington 7 Dec. 1671 Rebecca, b. 7 Ap. 1649, m. Michael Spencer 7 Dec. 1671 Mehetabel, b. prob. 1651 Sarah, b. 2 May 1654 Thomas, b. 18 andd. 27 Jan. 1655-6; Ruhamah, b. 28 Mar. 1657; Samuel, b. 19 Ap. 1659, grad. H. C. 1677; Bethia, bap. 7 July 1661, m. James Hews of Boston 12 Dec. 1692 Hepzibah, b. 19 June 1666. THOMAS the f was a weaver he was here as early as 1645, and res. at the N. W. corner of the present College grounds. He d. 8 Jan. 1682-3, a. 73. His w. Isabel was living 12 June 1697, and was prob. the wid. Swoetman who received charity from the Church 1691-1709, about which last date she prob. died. SYMMES, MRS. SARAH, had a grant of land 1639. She appears to have been a lady of wealth, and a member of the Church. She d. 10 June 1653.
; ;
;
d. 26 Oct. 1804, a. 71; his w. Mary d. 18 Sept. 1826, a. 82. 14. THOMAS, m. Prudence, dau. of Maj. Jonathan of
TALCOTT, JOHN (otherwise written Talcot, Tallcott, Tailcott, Taylcot, and Taylcott), was one of the earliest inhabitants, and resided on the easterly corner of Brattle and Ash streets; he was a large land-holder, and a man of
energy and influence; he was one of the. first Board of Selectmen 1634-5, and a Representative or Deputy in the first General Court which admitted Deputies or Committees, as they were first styled 1634. and was reflected to the same office the two succeeding years he rem. with Hooker to Hartford 1636, and was one of the leading men of that town and of the Connecticut Colony; Selectman 1643, 1644, and 1648; Deputy to the General Court 16371639; frequently an Assistant; and a Commissioner of the United Colonies,
;
" He was the ancestor of the Talcotts in 1656, 1657, 1658, 1662, and 1663. Hartford, and of the former Attorney-general of the State of New York."
Hinman.
went
w. Katherine, had Joseph, b. about 1651. JOHN the f. messenger of the Church, to accompany the Rev. Urian Oakes across the Atlantic. In this mission he contracted a debt which afterwards subjected him to inconvenience. In acknowledgment
TAYLOR, JOHN, by
to
England
in 1671, as a special
TAYLOR
THATCHER.
669
of his services, the Church subsequently granted him five pounds. He was the Butler of Harvard College, and perhaps performed other services for that His epitaph, now somewhat mutilated, bears testimony to his corporation. worth: " Here lyes the body of John Taylor, aged 73 years, deceased September 6th. 1683. He was a useful man in his generation, a lover of piety, a lover of learning, a faithful servant of Harvard Colledg about 40 years." Aecording to the Town Records he d. 7 Sept. 1683. His w. Katherine d. between 21 Sept. nnd 7 Nov. 1685. 2. JOSEPH, s. of John (1), grad. H. C. 1669, was fellow of the College 1673, was ordained at Southampton, L. I., Mar. 1680, and d. 4 Ap. 1682, a. about 31. He left sons John, grad. H. C. 1699, styled "of Southampton, gent." in 1700; and Joseph, a tailor, who was of Southampton 1702. They sold in 1 702 the homestead, formerly of their grandfather, to Francis Foxcroft; it contained three acres, and was on the southeasterly side of Kirkland Street.
JAMES, by w. Sarah, had William, b. 21 Aug. 1676. ANN, in. William Clemance 3 Ap. 1660. THATCHER, SAMUEL, by w. Hannah, had Hannah, b. 9 Oct. 1645, m. John Holmes 13 Sept. 1664, and d. before 16 Ap. 1682; Samuel, b. 20 Oct. 1648. SAMUEL the f. resided near the easterly corner of Mount Auburn Street, and Coolidge Avenue (which until 1754 was included in Wat.), was Deacon, Selectman, and Representative; d. 30 Nov. 1669. 2. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (1), by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 1 Aug. 1681, d. Maj 1682; Samuel, b. 8 Ap. 1683, a weaver, d. s. p and made Samuel, son of his brother Ebenezer, his principal heir by will dated 13 June 1753, proved 7 Feb. 1775; John, b. 22 Jan. 1685-6, in. Elizabeth Morse 24 Oct. 1712, and d. 29 Feb. 1743-4; Anna, b. 30 Ap. 1668, d. 22 July 1690; Mary, b. 17 Sept. 1690, m. Joseph Child 8 July 1713 Hannah, b. 10 Dec. 1692, d. unm. 3 Nov. 1741 Abigail, b. 6 June 16*94 Mercy, b. 2 Jan. 1697-8; Sarah, b. 30 Nov. SAMUEL the f. 1699, d. unm. 13 June 1727; Ebenezer, b. 17 Mar. 1703-4. inherited the homestead, was a Lieutenant, and d. 21 Oct. 1726; his w. Mary
r ,
; ;
d.
17 Aug. 1725.
3.
EBENEZER, s. of Samuel (2), m. Susanna Spring 27 Jan. 1731-2, and had Samuel, bap. 5 Nov. 1732; Sarah, b. 20 Feb. 1733-4, d. before 21 Ap. 1754; Mary, b. 27 Dec. 1735, prob. m. Elisha Goddard 23 May 1758; Ebenezer, b. 20 Aug. 1737, d. Oct. 1741 Susanna, b. 3 July 1739, d. Dec. 174-; Sarah, b.
;
3 Oct. 1741, d. 3 Sept. 1749; Ebenezer, b. 15'jan. 1742-3,
d 14 Sept. 174-. the f. was a weaver, res. on the homestead, and d. about 1753 administration granted to w. Susanna 26 Feb. 1753, and on her estate, to son Samuel, 21 May 1757. 4. SAMUEL, s. of Ebenezer (3), m. Mary Brown of Lex. 3 Sept. 1753, and had Susanna, bap. 18 May 1755, m. Jesse Putnam 13 Feb. 1776; Ebenezer, bap. 28 Sept. 1759, d. young; Mary, bap. 17 May 1767, m. Thomas Payson 12 May 1785, d. 1805; Elizabeth, bap. 24 Mar. 1771, d. about 1792; Samuel, Ebenezer, bap. 18 Oct. 1778, grad. H. C. 1798, a lawyer in bap. 7 July 1776 Thomaston, Me., m. Lucy F., dau. of Gen. Henry Knox, and d. in 1841. SAMUEL the f. inherited the homestead (which was sold by his heirs to Gov. Gerry, 4 Ap. 1793), but during the latter part of his life resided on the wesHe was one of the most terly corner of Mount Auburn and Brighton streets. active citizens in the Revolutionary period, and succeeded Thomas Gardner as Colonel he was Selectman, Treasurer, and Representative, and while holding these several offices, died suddenly of apoplexy 27 June 1786 his w. Mary d.
EBENEZER
Nov. 1815,
a. 80.
5. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (4), b. 1 July 1776, grad. H. Brown of Concord Jan. 1800, and had Harriet Howard,
C. 1798, m. Sally 28 May 1801; Elizabeth, b. 1 Ap. 1803, d. Jan. 1827; Samuel, b. 11 Feb. 1805; George Augustus, b. 24 Aug. 1806; Benjamin Busxey, b. 8 Oct. 1809, grad. Bowdoiu SAMUEL the f. was a lawyer, settled in Warren, College 1826, d. July 1840. Me., in 1800, after a short residence in New Gloucester; was a member of Congress 1801-1805, Sheriff 1814-1821, Representative 1824, etc. He d. 18 July 1872, a. 96 years and 17 days. At the time of his decease he had been
b.
670
THATCHER
TOWNE.
for several years the oldest lawyer in Maine, the oldest ex-member of Congress, and the oldest surviving graduate of Harvard College. THOMPSON, REV. WILLIAM, of Braintree, m. Ann, wid. of Simon Crosby, before 1646. 2. HENRY, of Boston, a merchant, m. Elizabeth, wid. of Rev. Nathaniel Upham, and dau. of John Stedman, 27 Ap. 1669. They had, in Camb., Elizabeth, b. 29 Jan. 1669-70, d. young; and in Boston, Dorothy, b. 26 Oct. 1671, m. Samuel Shove 16 Nov. 1692, and Samuel Burr of Chs. 16 Dec. 1700,
and d. 20 Feb. 1701-2; Henry, b. 23 Oct. 1673, d. in Camb. 17 Sept. 1690; After Mr. Thompson's death his wid. m. Alice, b. 8 Sept. 1677, d. young. John Sharp, also a merchant, whom she survived, and d. in Camb. 9 Mar.
1699-1700.
3.
See STEDMAN, JOHN. ALEXANDER, by w. Martha, had

1748.
Samuel,
b.
13 Oct. 1744
John, b. 31
May
4.
b.
EBENEZER, by w. Rhoda, had
Ebenezer, b. 5 Mar. 1795;
Hannah Locke
22 Mar. 1797.
Lois, m. Samuel Chandler 19 Ap. 1759. EUNICE, m. Richard HunneJune 1764, and d.'l9 Feb. 1806. THURSTON, DANIEL, m. Mary, dau. of Robert Stedman, 1 Ap. 1674, and had Daniel, b. 11 Ap. 1676. They prob. removed soon, for they sold to John Stedman, Jr., 2 Nov. 1676 all right in the estate of Robert Stedman, deceased,
well 21
and the name disappears. TIDD, JOHN (otherwise written Teed and Tead), was of Chs. 1644, and had sons John and James. Perhaps he was the same who d. at Woburn 24 Ap. 1657. 2. JOHN, s. of John (1), m. Rebecca Wood 14 Ap. 1650, and had in Woburn, Hannah, b. 21 Sept. 1652, m. Joseph Smith of Wat. 1 Dec. 1674; John, b. 26 Feb. 1654; Mary, b. 13 Nov. 1656, m. Joshua Simonds of Lex. Samuel, b. 16 June 1659, d. unm. 9 May 1699; Joseph, b. 20 Jan. 1660, Daniel, b. about 1662; Rebecca, b. about 1665, m. Thomas Blodgett and res. in Lex. JOHN the f. rem. to the Farms about 1686, and d. 12 Ap. 1703, a. 78; his w. Rebecca d. 10 Jan. 1717, a. 92. 3. JOSEPH, s. of John (2), res. at the Farms, and by w. Mary had Mary, b.
;
Jan. 1716-17, and he m. a second Mary, who survived him ten He d. 26 Dec. 1730, a. 69 and she d. 5 Jan. 1730-31, a. 59. days. 4. DANIEL, s. of Joseph (2), res. at the Farms, and by w. Lydia had Daniel and Mary. DANIEL the f. d. 29 Nov. 1696; his w. Lydia d."l4 Aug. w.
21 Jan. 1704-5; Joseph, b. 15 May 1707 Samuel, b. 29 May 1709; Sarah, b. 19 Nov. 1711 m. David Cutler. His Betty, b. 29 May 1714; Mercy, b.
;
Mary
d. 9
1727,
5.
a.
55.
s.
Joseph (3), by w. Dorothy had Mary, b. 7 Jan. 1732; 1734; Ebenezer, b. 16 Aug. 1737, removed to New Braintree; Sarah, b. 8 Mar. 1739; Benjamin, b. 21 June 1742; John, b. 26 Oct. 1749. JOSEPH the f. resided in Lex., and d. 18 Sept. 1773, a. 66; his w. Dorothy d. 23 Oct. 1790, a. 78. 6. DANIEL, s. of Daniel (4), m. Hepzibah, dau. of Capt. William Reed, 9 Ap. 1724, and had a son, b. 22 and d. 24 Jan. 1724-5; Daniel, b. 26 Feb. 1725-6; Amos, b. 12 Jan. 1728-9; Hepzibah, b. 22 Aug. 1730, m. Jonas Wyeth 29 Mar. 1753; Lydia, b. 6 July 1732; John, b. 13 Sept. 1734, d. 27 Nov. 1743; William, b. 11 July 1736; Abigail, b. 12 Jan. 1737-8; Samuel, b. 12 Jan. 1740-41; Betty, b. 24 Oct. 1742. DANIEL the f. resided in Lex., and d. 16 Jan. 1776; his w. Hepzibah d. 11 Ap. 1777, a. 71. 7. WILLIAM, s. of Daniel (6), d. at Lex. 25 Dec. 1826, a. 91; his w. Ruth Munroe d. 14 May 1839, a. 97. They had only one child, Ruth, bap. 11 Jan. 1767, m. Nathan Chandler 4 Oct. 1785, and d. 15 Sept. 1846. TOMLINS, TIMOTHY, owned land south of the river in 1635. He was probably the same who was of Lynn in 1633, and a Representative. If he removed here, he appears to have returned to Lynn. TOWNE, WILLIAM (otherwise written Town and Towen), was an early inhabitant. By w. Martha he had Peter, b. in England, and Mary, b. here
JOSEPH,
of
Joseph, b. 11
May
TOWNE
TROWBRIDGE.
;
671
Sept. 1637, and admitted to the Church 4 Nov. 1659 his residence was on the easterly side of Dunster Street, between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, until about 1653, when he sold his homestead to the widow Banbrick, and bought of David Stone the estate at the easterly corner of Garden and Mason streets he was long the Sexton of the Church. He d. 30 Mar. ("or Ap. Sewall says he was buried 1 May) 1685, a. 80; his w. Martha d. 20 Jan. 1673-4. 2. PETER, s. of William (1), was by trade a cooper, and had w. Joanna in 1687, and a second w. Elizabeth, but no children he resided on the S. W. corner of Winthrop and Brighton streets; he was Constable five years between 1668 and 1694, and Selectman 1695. He d. 2 Nov. 1705, a. (according to his gravestone) 72. years and 10 months; his w. Elizabeth was living in Braintree 4 Mar. 1723-4, when she sold her life-estate in the property of her husband. By his will, dated 28 May 1705, Mr. Towne seems to have been both a slaveholder and an abolitionist. He ordered that his three negro slaves should become free one was to be free as soon as he should recover from his sickness, and in the meantime to be carefully provided for; one in four years, and the third, who was young, in seven years. Each of his slaves was to reA legacy of three ceive a legacy of ten pounds on the day of his freedom. pounds was bestowed on a former slave. After the death of his wife, who
;
was
to
cousins,
have a life estate in his property, he bequeathed his estate to his John Howard, Nathaniel Howard, Joseph Howard, Elisha Howard,
and Mary Mitchell, all of Bridgewater, with the special provision that Joseph Howard should have twenty pounds more than either of the other legatees, if he would make his slave, Stephen, free; otherwise he should have no part of the real estate, which was appraised at 307. This provision was
probably complied with; for the heirs of Joseph, having acquired the rights of the other legatees, sold the real estate 8 Mar. 1723-4 to John Bradish. TROWBRIDGE, JAMES, son of Thomas, was born at Dorchester about 1636, and baptized 1638. He m. Margaret, dau. of Major Humphrey Atherton, 30 Dec. 1659; she d. 17 Aug. 1672, and he m. Margaret, dau. of Deac. John Jackson, 30 Jan. 1674. His children were, in Dorchester, Elizabeth, b. 12 Oct.
1660, m. John Mirick 9 Feb. 1681-2; Mindivell, b. 20 June 1662, m. Jonathan Fuller 2 May 1684; and in Camb., John, b. 22 May 1664, m. Sarah Margaret, b. 30 Ap. 1666, m. Hon. Ebenezer Stone 18 Mar. 1686; Thankful, b. 4 Mar. 1667-8, m. Deac. Richard Ward 1690; Mary, b. 11 June 1670, m. Stedman; Hannah, b. 15 June 1672, m. John Greenwood, Esq.; Experience,}). 1 Nov. 1675, m. Samuel Wilson; Thomas, b. 10 Dec. 1677; Deliverance, b. 30 Dec. 1679, m. Eleazar Ward; James, b. 1682, m. Hannah, dau. of Abraham Jackson, and d. 1714; William, b. 1684, m. Sarah and d. 1744; Abigail, b. 11 Ap. 1687; Caleb, b. 7 Nov. 1692, grad. H. C. 1710, ordained at Groton 2 Mar. 1714-15, m. Sarah, dau. of Thomas Oliver, Esq., 10 Mar. 1714-15, by whom he had Oliver, b. 16 May 1716, d. 28 Sept. 1723, and afterwards m. Hannah, dau. of Rev. Nehemiah Walter of Roxbury, by whom he had four sons and four daughters, and d. 9 Sept. 1760. JAMES the f. rem. to that part of Camb. which is now Newton about 1664, was Lieutenant, Clerk of the Writs, and Deac. of the Church; he was also a Representative of Newton 1700, 1703, and a Selectman of the Village nine years from 1679. He d. 22 May 1717, a. 81 his w. Margaret d. 16 Sept. 1727, a. 78. 2. THOMAS, s. of James (1), m. and had John; he m. (2d) Mary Goffe of Cambridge, dau. of Edward and granddaughter of Samuel, and had Edmund, b. 1709, H. C. 1728, an eminent lawyer, Attorney-general and Judge of the Superior Court, Representative and Councillor, m. Martha, dau. of Hon. Jonathan Remington, 15 Mar. 1737-8, and d. s. p. 2 Ap. 1793; * his w. Martha d. 31 July 1772 Lydia, b. 1710, m. Richard Dana, Esq., 31 May 1737, was mother of Chief Justice Dana, and d. at Newton 7 Ap. 1776
;
,
1 The exact relationship of Judge Trowbridge to the Goffe family has long been involved in obscurity; it even escaped the It is now gleaned from scrutiny of Savage.
the Probate Records and Files in Middlesex County, and from the Records of the Superior Court under date of January and July 1726.
672
Mary,
TROWBRIDGE
,
TRUESDALE
;
TRUMBULL.
b. 1715, m. Ebenezer Chamberlin 1733. THOMAS the f. m. (3d) Suand had Abigail, b. he is styled, on the Probate Records, sanna both of Newton and of New London; he d. about 1725. Guardians were appointed to his children 7 Mar. 1725; his w. Susanna m. William Bodding-
ton and removed to Framingham before 15 Ap. 1730. 3. JOHN, s, of Thomas (2), m. Mehetabel Eaton at Framingham where he had Mehetabel, b. 26 Jan. 1725-6, m. Gates; Mary, b. 27 July 1728, m. Amos Gates 28 Nov. 1744; John,b. 22 May 1730; Lydia, b. 24 Dec. 1 731 m. Ralph Hemenway 7 Jan. 1752 Thomas, b. 1 Ap. 1734 Ruth, b. 3 Mar. 1736, m. Peter Rice. JOHN the f d. 19 May 1762 his w. Mehetabel d. Mar. 1777. 4. JOHN, s. of John (3), resided at Framingham, m. Margaret Farrar 27 Mar. 1751, and had John, b. 12 Feb. 1752 Peggy, b. 17 Mar. 1754, m. Abel Stone, and (2d) John Jones; Joshua, b. 20 Feb. 1756; Mary, b. 10 July 1758, m. Luther Stone; Martha, b. 8 Feb. and d. 6 May 1772; Daniel, b. 1 Feb. 1764; Martha, b. 7 Oct. 1766, m. Dr. Gambell of Amherst Nelly, b. 7 and d. 18 Feb. 1769 Lydia, b. 4 Oct. 1770, d. young Nelly, twin, b. 4 Oct. 1770, m. Aaron P. Edgell. JOHN the f. was a Colonel. Selectman, and Treasurer; he d. 22 May 1807, a. 77 his w. Margaret d. 6 Mar. 1774. 5. JOHN, s. of John (4), was of Framingham, m. Mary Bent 23 Ap. 1776, and had Edmund, b. 30 Ap. 1777; John, b. 12 June 1778; Josiah, b. 28 Sept. 1785, a physician at Buffalo, N. Y., and was Mayor of that City; WilJOHN the f. was a Colonel, Selectman, Treasurer, liam, b. 20 June 1791. and Representative; he d. 1826 his w. Mary d. 1844, a. about 89. For a more full account of this family in Framingham, see Barry's Hist. 6. JOHN, s. of John (5), established himself as a merchant in Camb. before 6 May 1804, at which date he m. Sarah How of Framingham, and had John H., b. 9 May 1807; Sarah R., b. 18 March 1809, m. Dr. Charles F. Chaplin 11 Nov. 1835; Mary E., b. 22 June 1811, m. Newell Bent 19 June 1833; Charles S., b. 20 July 1814. JOHN the f. d. 28 Jan. 1841; his w. Sarah d. 15 Oct. 1839, a. 59. TRUESDALK, RICHARD (otherwise written Trusedale, Trusdale, Trusdall, Trusdel, and Trewsdale), freeman 1635, was of Boston, butcher, and Deacon of the First Church; member of Third Church 1669. He d. apparently without issue, before 1672, at which date his wid. Mary executed a will (proved 26 Nov. 1674), bestowing legacies on cousin William Emblin, brother John Hood, Richard, son of Samuel Trusdall, 50, and William, son of William Gilbert, 50. William Gilbert presented the inventory " of the estate of Mrs. Mary Trusdall, his late Ant," 30 Jan. 1674-5. 2. SAMUEL, nephew of Richard (1), m. Mary, dau. of John Jackson, and had Richard, b. 16 July 1672 Mary, b. 30 Nov. 1673, m. Foot; Samuel, and d. at Newton about 1731; Mindwell, b. 13 Oct. 1675, m. Elizabeth b. 31 Aug. 1676; Rebecca, b. 25 Mar. 1678; Experience, b. 8 Aug. 1680; Thomas, b. 27 Ap. 1682; Ebenezer, b. 1685. SAMUEL the f. resided on the south side of the river (Newton), and d. 2 Mar. 1695. 3. RICHARD, brother to Samuel (2), and brother-in-law to William Gilbert, as is indicated by certain records in an old account-book formerly owned by Andrew Bordman, in. Katherine Halton in England 29 May 1673, and had Elizabeth, b. 10 Feb. 1673-4, m. Andrew Bordman 17 Dec. 1697, and d. 16 " and was buried in the sea the 14th day Aug. 1760 Richard, b. 8 June 1675, RICHARD the f. "arrived at Boston in New England 21 day of June 1675." " he seems to have died soon of June 1675; afterwards, and his w. m. Greenleaf, by whom she had Joseph, and perhaps others; she survived her
, ;
second husband, came to live with her son-in-law, Bordman, in May 1705, and d. 28 Aug. 1712, aged 62. TRUMBULL, JOHN, by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. June 1638; John, b. 4 Aug. 1641; Hannah, b. 10 Dec. 1642; Mary, b. 9 Feb. 1644-5; James, b. 7 Dec. 1647. JOHN the f. was a ship-master, and resided on the southerly side of South Street, at its intersection with Holyoke Street; he removed to Chs. before May 1655, where he was living at the age of 80, as appears by his deposition dated 27 Ap. 1686. Elizabeth, prob. his wid., d. at Chs. 169*6, a. 86.
UPHAM
UPHAM, NATHANIEL,
dau. of
USHER.
673
s. of Deac. John Upham of Maiden, m. Elizabeth, John Stedman, 5 Mar. 1661-2, and d. on the 20th day of the same month. He had preached for a time at Maiden. His w. Elizabeth m. Henry Thompson 27 Ap. 1669, and afterwards m. John Sharp. 2. WILLIAM, of Pomfret, Conn., but prob. of the Maiden family, m. Naomi, dau. of Daniel Dana, 21 June 1721. USHER, HEZEKIAH, in 1642 res. at the N. E. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets, but rein, to Boston about 1645. By w. Frances he had in Camb., Hezekiah, b. June 1639; John, b. It Sept. 1643, d. Dec. 1645; and in Boston, His w. Frances d. 25 Ap. Elizabeth, b. 1 Feb. 1645-6; John, b. 17 Ap. 1648. 1652, and he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Zechariah Symmes of Chs., 2 Nov. 1652, and had Hannah, b. 29 Dec. 1653 Zechariah, b. 26 Dec. 1654. After the death of his second wife he m. widow Mary Butler, who survived him. He had also dau. Sarah, who m. Jonathan Tyng, and dau. Rebecca, who m. Abraham Brown 1 May 1660; one of his daughters, perhaps Elizabeth, m. Samuel Shrimpton, as is manifest from his will, and the will of his son Hezekiah, in both of which the relationship is mentioned. Mr. Usher removed to Boston about 1645, and was Representative for Billerica three years, 1671-1673. Thomas (Hist. Printing, ii. 409) says, " Hezekiah Usher was the first bookseller in English America, of whom I can find any account." He d. May 1676. In his will, dated 11 May and proved 19 May 1676, he names w. Mary; sons Hezekiah and John ; dau. Sarah, w. of Jonathan Tyng, and her children John and Mary grandchildren Hezekiah and Elizabeth Brown, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Usher; son-in-law Samuel Shrimpton; brother Samuel Usher of England; sister Elizabeth, w. of John Harwood, and her children; brother Willis and wife; Robert Usher and his sister Elizabeth and many others. He
;
; ;
left
a large property; his inventory being 15,358 192, from which a deduction was to be made for debts 1,325 176. 2. HEZEKIAH, s. of Hezekiah (1), was one of those unhappy men who seem born to disappointment. He engaged largely in land speculations, indulging sanguine hopes of finding rich mines of the precious metals, but his success answered not his expectations. When about 40 years old, he m. Bridgett, wid. of Leonard Hoar, Pres. of Harvard College, and dau. of Lord Lisle, one of Cromwell's Peers. This marriage was unfortunate for both parties he was unwilling to conform to her expensive style of living, and she appears to have had just cause to doubt the orthodoxy of his faith, a point in which she was very tenacious, and for which she was held in the highest esteem by the Their situation became so uncomfortable, that she clergy and magistrates. embarked for England, and did not return during his life. Judge Sewall records her departure thus: " 1687. Tuesday July 12. I go to Mr. Usher's about 5 mane. About 7 or eight we go on board, the ship being under sail. Go with them to Alderton's Point. Go in the ship, Mr. Wharton, Sam. Newman, Mr. Charles Morton, Mr. Wooddrop, Mrs. Bridgett Usher, and her daughter Mrs. Bridgett Hoar, and others. Had an extraordinary good wind. Mr. Usher wept at taking leave of 's wife and daughter. Before went from Mr. Usher's, Mr. Moodey went to prayer in behalf of those going to sea, and those staying behind, in a very heavenly manner." (Am. Quart. Reg., xi. 269). After her departure, Mr. Usher seems to have resided for a time at Groton, where, as I judge from the names of the witnesses, he executed his will, dated at Nonacoicos 17 Aug. 1639, in which his dissatisfaction at the conduct of his wife is clearly manifested. Professing a willingness to forgive her, how" To ever, he says, my wife, if she comes over to New England before she heareth of my death, with a intention in love to live with me, then I bestow on her 300." After recapitulating a long list of grievances, he appropriates a
;
sum
of
money
for the publication of his letters
and other
writings,
" as to the
having a wife only in name, and to seek themselves in a way of separation from their husbands, or the government of wives to their husbands, or the duty of wives to their husbands, &c." But this was not his only nor his last trouble. Whether his habits of life were naturally eccentric, or whether they became so in consequence of his domestic unhappiness, for some reason,
evil of
43
674
USHER
VASSALL.
notwithstanding his general good reputation, he became a subject of suspicion and narrowly escaped a public execution. Thomas says: " In 1692, a respectable man, whose name was Hezekiah Usher, was accused of witchcraft, in consequence of which accusation he was ordered to be confined in the common prison; but on account of the goodness of his character, he was, by connivance, allowed to secrete himself in the house of a friend, and afterward to escape out of the hands of his persecutors, until the delusion or madness of the times in part subsided." (Hist. Printing, ii. 410, note.) He closed his troubled life " at Lynn, July llth, was brought to Boston and laid in his father's tomb July His w. Bridgett probably remained in England until 14th, 1697." (Sewall.~) after she heard of his death. Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge testified 4 Jan. 1697-8, that he saw her in London, two years before, at the house of her
She subsequently returned, and daughter's husband, Mr. Thomas Cotton. much honor at Boston, where she d. 25 May 1723, having survived her first husband nearly half a century, in whose grave she directed that her body should be placed, rather than in the tomb with Mr. Usher. The Sexton's Monitor gives the inscription on the monument of Dr. Hoar, who d. 28 Nov. 1675, aged 45, which closes thus: " His pious and aged widow, the late Madam Usher, was brought hither from Boston, and interred in the same grave, according to her desire, May 30, 1723." a 3. JOHN, s. of Hezekiah (1), was a bookseller in Boston; he became Colonel, was one of the Andros Council, Treasurer of Massachusetts, and Lieutenant-governor of New Hampshire. Towards the close of life he removed to Medford, resided on what has since been known as the Royall Farm. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Lidgett, by whom he had one daughter Elizabeth, who m. David Jeffries 15 Sept. 1686, and d. 17 June 1698, leaving eight children. Mr. Usher m. (2d) Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Allen, Governor of New Hampshire, by whom he had John; Hezekiah, who resided in Boston; Elizabeth, m. Stephen Harris of Boston; Frances, m. Rev. Joseph Parsons of Bradford. JOHN the f. d. at Medf. 5 Sept. 1726; his w. Elizabeth
lived in
d. 5 4.
July 1753.
JOHN, s. of John (3), grad. H. C. 1719, "was a missionary from the Society in England for propagating the Gospel for half a century, and d. in Alden's Epitaphs, Note. Bristol, R. I., at the age of 75 years, in 1775."
5. JOHN, s. of John (4), b. about 1720, grad. H. C. 1743, was an Episco" Sacred to pal Clergyman at Bristol, R. I. His epitaph is given by Alden: the memory of the Rev. John Usher, late Rector of this Church, who departed this life 5 July 1804 in hope and full assurance of a resurrection to a better, aged 84 years; a kind and tender parent, an ardent, active and faithful friend, a -just and generous man, and sincere Christian," etc. Mr. Alden adds, that "he was a descendant, to family tradition, from the learned
James Usher, Archbishop
have been son or grandson
If this be true, Hezekiah (1) must Archbishop; but James is not a family name among his descendants so far as I have seen. VASSALL, JOHN, s. of Major Leonard Vassall, was born in the West Indies 7 Sept. 1713, and He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Lt.-gov. Spengrad. H. C. 1732. cer Phips, 10 Oct. 1734; she d. 22 Sept. 1739, and he m. Lucy, only daughter of Jonathan Barron of Chelmsford. His chil. were Ruth, b. 14 July 1737, m. Edward Davis of Boston 20 May 1756, and d. 23 Jan. 1774; John, b. 12 June 1738; Elizabeth, b. 12 Sept. 1739, m. Thomas Oliver of Dorchester 11 June 1760, who afterwards rem. to Camb. and was the last Lt.-gov. of Massachusetts appointed by the King; Lucy, b. 15 Nov. 1747, m. John Lavicourt of Antigua 16 June 1768. JOHN the f. bought, 26 July 1736, a house and seven acres of land at the westerly corner of Brattle and Ash streets, which estate he sold 30 Dec. 1741 to his brother Henry, having probably, in the mean time, either erected or much enlarged the house now owned and occupied by Samuel Batchelder, Esq.; he afterwards, 17 Jan. 1746, bought six and a half acres on the opposite side of Brattle Street; he was a Colonel, and
according
of
Armagh."
of the
VASSALL
Representative.
VINCENT - WADSWORTH.
l
675
He
d. 19
Nov. 1749, and
d. 27 Nov. 1747; Oct. 1752.
his w.
Lucy m. Benjamin Ellery 22
2. HENRY, a. of Major Leonard Vassall, was born in the West Indies 25 Dec. 1721, in. Penelope, dau. of Isaac Royall, 28 Jan. 1742, and had Elizabeth, b. 1742, m. Dr. Charles Russell 15 Feb. 1768, and d. 23 Feb. 1802: Penelope, d. young. HENRY the f. was also a Colonel and Representative, resided in the fine old mansion still standing at the westerly corner of Brattle and Ash streets, and d. 17 Mar. 1769; his w. Penelope d. in Boston 19 Nov. 1800, a.
76.
3. JOHN, s. of John (1), grad. II. C. 1757, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Oliver (and sister to the Lt.-governor) 12 June 1761, and had John, b. 7 May 1762; Spencer Thomas, b. 7 Ap. 1764; Thomas Oliver, b. 12 Ap. 1766; Robert Oliver, b. 28 May 1769; Elizabeth, bap. 5 July 1767, d. 5 Jan. 1768 Elizabeth, b. 5 May 1771; Leonard, b. 1773, d. 7 Nov. 1775; Mary,b. in London 26 Mar. 1777. JOHN the f. erected the stately edifice known as the Washington Head-quarters, now the homestead of Professor Henry W. Longfellow, which he abandoned at the commencement of the Revolution and fled with his family to England, where he d. suddenly 2 Oct. 1797. He had large possessions in Camb. and Boston, all which were confiscated, and himself For a full account of the Vassall exiled, soon after he departed from home. Family, see N. Eng. Hist Gen. Reg., xvii. 56-61, 113-128. VINCENT, HUMPHREY, in 1635 owned a house and garden on the south;
erly side of
Winthrop
Street,
Holyoke Street, near Harvard Street. He rem. with Hooker to Hartand sold his house to Elder Champney 25 Sept. 1637; he was a distinguished citizen of Connecticut, Selectman, Deputy in the General Court, and useful in other offices. His second wife was Elizabeth, sister of Rev. Samuel Stone, whom he m. 2 July 1644, and by whom he had Elizabeth, b. 17 May 1645, m. John Terry of Windsor 1662; Samuel, bap. 25 Oct. 1646; Sarah, bap. 17 Mar. 1649, m. Jonathan Ashley of Springfield; Joseph, b. 1650, the bold patriot who wrested the Charter from the rapacious grasp of Andros, and secreted it in the memorable oak 31 Oct. 1687; Thomas, b. 1651; Rebecca, m. Stoughton. WILLIAM the f. d. 1675, his w. Elizabeth d. 1681-2. Hinman. 2. BENJAMIN, s. of Capt. Samuel Wadsworth of Milton, who was slain in battle, by the Indians, at Sudbury 1676, and grandson of Christopher of Duxbury, was born at Milton 1669, grad. H. C. 1690, was ordained at Boston as
side of ford,
1 A receipt recorded in the Middlesex Registry of Probate (xliv. 201), serves to illustrate the fashion of dress worn by the aristocracy, in Col. Vassall's time: "Camb r Nov. 7. 1752. Then received of Mr. Benjamin Elery of Camb. the articles hereafter mentioned, given bv the last will and testament of Col. John Vassall late of said town Esq., deceased, to his son John Vassall, viz., his library, watch, sword, and arms, a velvet coat laced, an embroidered jacket, silk breeches, a blue velvet coat with gold lace, a camblet coat, a flowered silk coat and breeches, a paduasoy waistcoat and breeches, scarlet breeches, a scarlet coat, a fustian coat, a cloth coat, an old waistcoat, a pair of new cloth breeches, a banyan, an old greatcoat, eighteen pairs of white ribbed stockings, one pair of worsted do., a pair of boots, a pair of spurs, a trooping saddle, one laced hat, one plain
.
Field and Pine Swamp. Before 1642 he removed to Ipswich, and sold his house and lands to John Moore; he received a grant of land in Ipswich 1638, and d. 5 Dec. 1664. WADSWORTH, WILLIAM, one of the earliest inhabitants, and one of the first Board of Townsmen or Selectmen in Feb. 1634-5, res. on the westerly
other lots in the
West End
between Brighton and Dunster
streets,
and
a pair of pocket pistols, holsters, and caps, saddlcgirt, brass stirrups, a silver billed sword, a gun, riding pistols, a silver watch, an old green coat, a black velvet jacket, a book-case: all which were left in the possession of the said Vassall's widow, and whereof the said Elery is hereby discharged, and from all demands for the same,
do.,
Witness our hands.
RICHARD BILL, JOSHUA HENSHAW,

"Nov.
1752.
Executors of the last will and testament of

the said
John VassaU,
Esq.
I, Spencer Phips, Esq., 7, guardian to John Vassall (son of Col. John Vassall abovenamed), do hereby ncknowledge that I have received of the executors before named the several articles above enumerated for and on behalf of the said
John,
pupil, for the same.
my
and
shall
account with him

S.
PHIPS."
676
WADSWORTH
WARD.
pastor of the First Church 8 Sept. 1696, inaugurated President of Harvard College 1725; during his Presidency he resided here. He m. Ruth, dau. of Andrew Bordman, 30 Dec. 1696, who survived him, and d. 17 Feb. 1744-5, a. 72. President Wadsworth d. 16 Mar. 1736-7, " in the 68th year of his age, and the 12th of his presidency over Harvard College, leaving behind him a character in which there appears much to love and respect, and, to human
eyes, nothing to
condemn."
(Petrce.)
He
left
no posterity.
By his
will,
dated
15 Feb. 1736-7, he distributed his estate, naming as legatees, his w. Ruth; brothers Timothy and Joseph, and Andrew Bordman, who by special direction was to be regarded as one of his natural brethren, sister Ruth, w. of Bryant Parrott, Esq., and the wives of his deceased brothers Ebenezer and John. 1 legacy was also bestowed upon the children of Capt. Higginson by his first wife, Ruth Bordman, dau. of Andrew. For a full account of this Wadsworth family see Winsor's History of Duxbury. WAKEMAN, SAMUEL (otherwise written Wackman), came to N. Eng. with w. Elizabeth in Nov. 1631, settled at Roxbury, was Deputy at the May session 1635, in which year he seems to have removed to Camb. and owned about 12 acres on the south side of the river. He reni. to Hartford, of which town he was the first Constable. He is supposed to have been slain in 1641 at Providence in the Bahamas. See Winthrop's New Eng., ii. 33. WALES, JOHN, was a Hog-reeve for the Common, 1696. WARD, WILLIAM, freeman 1643, "represented Sudbury in the General Court in 1644, and was several years chairman of the Selectmen." He removed to Marlborough 1660, where he was a Deacon of the Church, and d. His wid. Elizabeth, who was a there 10 Aug. 1687, at a very advanced age. second w. and supposed to have been the mother of all his children except the His children were John, b. about 1626; first three, d. 9 Dec. 1700, a. 86. Joanna, b. about 1628, m. Abraham Williams, and d. 8 Dec. 1718, a. 90; Obaand d. 5 Jan. 1718, a. 86; Richard, b. about diah, b. about 1632, m. Mary 1635, m. Mary Moore, and was drowned in Sudbury River 31 Mar. 1666, a. 31; Deborah, b. about 1637, m. John Johnson, and d. 9 Aug. 1697, a. 60; Hannah, b. about 1639, m. Abraham How, and d. 3 Nov. 1717, a. 78; William, b. 22 Jan. 1640, m. Hannah, wid. of Gershom Eames, and d. 25 Nov. 1697; Samuel, b. 24 Sept. 1641, m. Sarah How, and d. 1729; Elizabeth, b. 14 Ap. and d. 4 Aug. 1690; 1643; Increase, b. 22 Feb. 1644-5, m. Record Hopestill, b. 24 Feb. 1646, m. James Woods, and d. 23 Dec. 1718; Mary, b. about 1647, m. Daniel Stone, and d. 10 June 1703, a. about 57; Eleazar, b. about 1649, m. Hannah Rice, and was slain by the Indians Ap. 1676, a. about See 27; Bethia, b. about 1658, m. Daniel Rice, and d. 8 Dec. 1721, a. 63.
See, also, THOMAS BRIGHAM. Family, by Andrew H. Ward, Esq. JOHN, s. of William (1), rem. to that part of Camb. which is now Newm. Thomas ton, m. Hannah, dau. of Edward Jackson, and had Hannah, b. Greenwood 8 June 1670, and d. before 1687 John, b. 26 Jan. 1653, d. 5 June 1654; Rebecca, b. 15 June 1655; John, b. 8 Mar. 1658; Elizabeth, b. 18 June
Ward
2.
Deborah, b. 19 Oct. 1660, m. Joshua Fuller 7 May 1679, and d. 6 Sept. 1691 1662, m. John Wyeth 2 Jan. 1682; William, b. 19 Nov. 1664, m. Abigail Richard, b. 15 Jan. 1666; Mercy, b. 27 Jan. 1668, d.unm.4 June 1685; ; Edward, b. 13 Mar. 1671, m. Grace Lovering, and d. Jan. 1749; Eleazar, b. 26 Feb. 1672, m. Deliverance Trowbridge ; Jonathan, b. 22 Ap. 1674, m. Abigail Hall 31 Dec. 1700, and d. at Newton 26 July 1723; Joseph, b. 15 Nov. 1677, m. Esther Kenrick, and d. at Newton 26 Oct. 1742. JOHN the f. was by trade a turner; he was Selectman nine years from 1679, and Representative eight years, being the first sent from Newton; his dwelling-house was used as a garrison house in Philip's War, and remained standing until 1821. He d. 1 July 1708, a. 82 ; his w. Hannah d. 24 Ap. 1704, a. 73. Some of the foregoing dates vary slightly from those given in the Ward Family, but I know not whether our records, or the dates referred to, are the more correct. See Jackson's Hist, of Newton.
;
He had
d. at
also a brother Christopher, Milton 1687, and a sister Abigail,
who who
m.
1696.
Davis, and d. in childbed 18 Oct.
WARD
WARLAND.
677
3. JOHN, s. of John (2), m. Mary Spring 30 Nov. 1681, and had Sarah, b. 25 Mar. 1685, m. William Trowbridge about 1707, and d. 1720. She is supposed by A. H. Ward, Esq., to have been the only child of her parents, who survived her. JOHN the i. was Representative of Newton ten years, and d. June 1727; his w. Mary d. 20 Ap. 1731, a. 71. 4. RICHARD, s. of John (2), m. Thankful Trowbridge 15 Dec. 1690, and had Lydia, b. 13 Aug. 1692, m. John Burrage 9 Oct. 1718; Thomas, b. 8 Jan. 1693-4, m. Sarah Mattocks James, b. 6 Jan. 1695, d. young; Hannah, b. 13 May 1697, m. Joshua Gay of Dedham 15 Mar. 1732; William, b. 12 Sept. 1699, m. Elizabeth Wilson; James, b. 14 Aug. 1701, m. Mary Bacon; Ephraim, b. 1703; Margaret,}). 28 Feb. 1705-6. RICHARD the f. was Representative of Newton eight years, and Deacon of the Church; he d. 27 Mar. 1739; his w. Thankful d. 17 Sept 1742, a. 75. WARLAND, OWEN*, m. Hannah Gay 3 Ap. 1679, and had William, b. 27 Mar. 1680; Rebecca, b. m. Bartholomew Barrett 23 July 1706. OWEN the f. was a currier, and res. on the N. W. corner of Holyoke and South He was Constreets, which estate he bought of John Shepard 18 Sept. 1681. In 1705 he and his w. Hannah conveyed the westerly half of stable in 1697. their homestead to their son William. They prob. both d. before 1716, when Bartholomew and Rebecca Barrett released to William Warland all their interest in the homestead.
;
,
s. of Owen (1), m. Tabitha,dau. of Jacob Hill, 3 Feb. 1701-2; Jan. 1717-18, a. 34, and he m. Anne, dau. of Capt. Josiah Parker, 3 July 1718. His children were William, b. 3 Oct. 1706, d. 23 Aug. 1708; Sarah, bap. 9 Jan. 1708-9, d. 5 Oct. 1712; 1'abitha, b. 3 Mar. 1710-11, m. John Morse 14 Aug. 1729; Sarah, b. 1713; Rebecca, bap. 4 Sept. 1715, d. 24 Jan. 1716-17; William, bap. 12 Jan. 1717-18; Anne, bap. 29 Mar. 1719; Thomas, bap. 13 Aug. 1721; Owen, bap. 2 June 1723; John, bap. 11 Dec. 1726. WILLIAM the f. was a shoemaker, and inherited the homestead. He d. 29 Sept. 1727, a. 47 (his gravestone says 56th); his w. Anne survived, and in 1745, in connection with her son Owen, bought the estate at the N. W. corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets, where she subsequently resided until 22 Dec. 1763, when she d. "of being cut for a cancer in her breast," a. 69.
2.
WILLIAM,
she
d. 6
3. WILLIAM, s. of William (2), m. Mary Mann 11 June 1747, and was probably the mason of that name in Boston, whose will, dated 9 Dec. 1771, and proved 24 Feb. 1775, mentions w. and names children, Mary Breed, Rebecca, and Sarah, and granddaughter Mary, dau. of Hannah Giles, deceased. As his will was proved in Middlesex County it is probable that he d. here, having left Boston during the siege. 4. OWEN, s. of William (2), m. Sarah Stearns (pub. 12 Oct. 1745), and had Thomas, b. 4 Oct. 1746; d. 27 May 1749; Owen, b. 15 July 1748, d. 20 Oct. 1748; Anne (or Nancy), b. 3 Ap/1750, m. Josiah Moore 22 Aug. 1782, and d. June 1835; Owen, b. 26 Jan. 1751-2, grad. H. C. 1770, d. 7 Feb. 1775; Sarah, b. 27 Sept. 1753, m. Abel Moore 16 Oct. 1776, and m. Israel Porter 10 Mar. 1796; Mary,b. 2 Nov. 1755, d. 11 Sept. 1756; Thomas, b. 17 July 1757; Mary, b. 1 Ap. 1759, d. 14 Nov. 1762; Lucy, b. 26 Mar. 1762, in. Jonathan Hunnewell 10 Feb. 1785, and prob. d. before 1792; Elizabeth, bap. 11 Dec. 1763, d. unm. Nov. 1786; William, b. 19 Sept. 1765, d. Sept. 1786; John, OWEN the f. was a b. 25 Dec. 1768, grad. H. C. 1786, and d. Ap. 1788. tailor, inherited the homestead, and dealt somewhat largely in real estate. His place of business was on the easterly side of Brighton Street, near Harvard Square, where the late Deac. Levi Farwell last resided. He d. 1 Jan. 1793, a. 70; his w. Sarah d. 19 Feb 1800, a. 75. 5. JOHN, s. of William (2), m. Mary Manning 26 Sept. 1754, and had John, b. 16 July 1755 ; William, bap. 25 May 1760, a chaise maker in Springfield 1783. JOHN the f. was a barber. He bought of Cutting Bean, 19 Dec. 1758, a house and small lot of land at the junction of Brighton and Brattle streets. He d. 6 Oct. 1762; his w. Mary m. William Darling 19 May 1763, and d. in her second widowhood 22 May 1817, a. 84. and had Owen, b. 26 Aug. 6. THOMAS, s. of Owen (4), m. Elizabeth
,
678
WARLAND
WARNER.
1783, grad. H. C. 1804, d. 1816; Elizabeth Bell, b. 15 July 1785, m. Rev. John Abbott of Boston 21 Oct. 1813, he d. 17 Oct. 1814, and she m. Dr. Samuel Manning, Jr., 20 Mar. 1822 she still survives in a second widowhood, honored and beloved; William, b. 23 Ap. 1787, d. Sept. 1788; Lucy, b. 1 Aug. 1789, d. unm. 10 Oct. 1830; Mary Bell, b. 23 Jan. 1797, m. Dr. Sylvanus Plympton, and d. 9 July 1867. THOMAS the f. was a tailor, and res. on Brighton Street, near Harvard Square. He accumulated a large property, partly by speculations in real estate. Among his more profitable investments were a large tract of land between Pleasant and Magazine streets in Cambridgeport, and the estate between Harvard, Plympton, Bow, and Linden He d. 27 Aug. 1837; his w. Elizstreets, where his daughters long resided. abeth was buried 21 Dec. 1838, a. 84. d. 12 7. JOHN, s. of John (5), m. Hannah Prentice 12 Mar. 1776; she Aug. 1803, and he m. Sarah Palmer 5 Feb. 1806. His children were Hannah, b. 23 Oct. 1776, d. 5 Sept. 1777; Hannah,b. 14 June 1778, d. 28 Dec. 1778; John, b. 28 Dec. 1779; William, b. 8 Mar. 1782; Polly (Mary), bap. 29 Feb. 1784, m. Jason Howe 28 Nov. 1805; Ebenezer, bap. 12 Feb. 1786, a mason, went south, and was living in 1819; Charles, bap. 16 Dec. 1787, d. Sept. 1788; Charles, b. 1789, d. 9 Feb. 1817; Hannah, b. about Dec. 1792, d. 4 Sept. 1 793, a. 9 mo. JOHN the f. was a mason, and possessed the homestead, which he exchanged 1784 (reserving his mother's dower therein) for an estate on the easterly side of Brattle Square, near Mount Auburn Street, where he d. 20 Nov. 1809 his w. Sarah survived. 8. JOHN, s. of John (7), m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph Bates, 20 June 1805; she d. of apoplexy 23 Aug. 1824, a. 43, and he m. Priscilla Hill 8 Sept. 1825; she d. 16 May 1830, a. 34, and he m. Mary Ann Phelps of Marlborough (pub. 6 Ap. 1833). His chil. were Sarah, b. 20 May and d. 29 June 1806; John Henry, b. 20 Ap. 1807, grad. H. C. 1827, m. Mary Ann, dau. of William E. Carter, 9 Sept. 1832, a popular editor of sundry newspapers, and d. 7 July 1872; Mary Madelia, b. 21 Jan. 1809, m. Royal Richardson 22 Mar. 1831, and d. 28 Nov. 1872; Theodore, b. 1 June 1812, grad. H. C. 1832, commenced preaching, but became insane, and d. at Brattleborough, Vt., 14 July 1864;
; ;
Alfred, b. 9 April 1814, d. 19 Sept. 1817; Charles Horace, b. 18 Sept. 1816, d. 21 Nov. 1819; Sarah Ann, b. 9 Nov. 1818, m. Joseph Cutler, a lawyer, 9 Ap. 1846, and d. 1 Nov. 1874; Ann Elizabeth, bap. 4 Aug 1822, m. Joseph Caroline Priscilla, Bird, Jr., a music teacher of Watertown, 10 Dec. 1848 bap. 17 Sept. 1826, m. Marshall T. Bigelow, printer, 21 Oct. 1847; Henrietta Charles Alfred, b. m. Mary D. Brown; Edward Merrick, Hill, b. b. Francis Horace, b. 7 May 1836, d. at Bombay 8 June 1865; Emily Frances Bates, b. JOHN the f. was a mason, and inPhelps, b. herited the homestead, which he sold to James Winthrop 1810; he bought in 1802 an estate on Appian Way, to which he subsequently added several adHe joining estates, on one of which, fronting on Brattle Street, he resided. accumulated a very considerable property, consisting chiefly in houses and He d. 15 Feb. 1852; his w. Mary Ann lands, on both sides of Appian Way. d. 20 Dec. 1871.
;
s. of John (7), m. Mary C. Thompson, and had William, b. 2 1811, grad. H. C. 1832, an Episcopal clergyman, now having charge of the Church of the Ascension at East Camb. Mary, b. 27 Feb. 1813; AltaWILLIAM the f. was a mason, and resided on the mont, b. 26 Feb. 1819. northerly side of Brattle Street, near Brattle Square; he d. 3 Mar. 1871, a. 89; his w. Mary C. d. 23 Mar. 1866, a. 79. WARNER, ANDREW, one of the earliest inhabitants, resided in 1635 on the northeasterly side of Eliot Street, about midway between the westerly end of Winthrop Street and Brighton Street. He owned several other lots in various parts of the town. He sold his estates here to Capt. George Cooke 20 Dec. 1636, and retn. to Connecticut. He rem. yet again, in 1659, to HadOf his sons, ley, where he d. 1684, leaving six sons and three daughters. Andrew, Robert, and John, settled in Middletown, Conn.; Daniel, in Hatfield,
9.
WILLIAM,
May
and Jacob and Isaac, in Had ley.
WARNER
;
WATSON.
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2. DANIEL, s. of Andrew (1), resided in Hatfield, where he d. 1692, leavthe sons were Daniel, Andrew, John, ing seven sons and seven daughters (b. 1677), Abram, Samuel, Ebenezer, and Nathaniel. 3. DANIKL, s. of Daniel (2), was of Hatfield, where, besides daughters, he had sons Joseph and Jonathan, who removed to Hardwick; Joseph was a Capt. in the French War, and subsequently rem. with his family to Cummington; Jonathan was an innholder and had sons Jonathan, a Major-general, and Senator; Daniel, a Captain; and others. DANIKL the f. d. in Hardwick 12
Mar. 1754,
4.
a. 88.
12 June 1677, and had son He was Samuel, b. here 10 May 1680, after which the name disappears. probably the same who was "freed from training," May 3, 1678, being "a
JOHN, parentage unknown, m. Sarah Wood

soldier."
wounded
a resident here as early as about 1650. He m. Errington, and had Rebecca, b. about 1650, m. Jonathan Rice 1 Nov. 1677; John, b. 14 Oct. 1653, d. prob. unm. 25 Nov. " " of 1678, Abraham, b. 26 June 1661 Ann, b. 21 Aug. 1666, d. small-pox; 10 Oct. 1676; Isaac, b. 24 Sept. 1669; Jacob, b. 20 Dec. 1671. JOHN the f. was a husbandman, resided on North Avenue, northwesterly from the Railroad Bridge, was Selectman 1682 and 1684, and d. 20 May 1711, a. 92; his w. Rebecca d. 11 Nov. 1690, a. 65. [This John Watson has been supposed, but erroneously, to have been the same who resided at Roxbury, and m. Alice, wid. of Valentine Prentiss, 3 Ap. 1634, or perhaps his son. But the gravestones of John Watson, father and son, are still standing in the old burial ground at Roxbury, indicating that the father d. 2 Dec. 1671, a. 77 (or Whether any rela73), and that the son, John, Jr., d. 14 Aug. 1693, a. 59. tionship existed between the Cambridge and Roxbury families of this name, is not ascertained.]
WATSON, JOHN, became Rebecca, dau. of wid. Ann
(1), m. Mary Butterfield, and had Isaac, b. 3 about 1692, m. William Willis of Medf. 23 June 1709, and d. 30 Sept. 1754, a. 62; John, b. prob. 1694, bap. 21 Feb. 1696-7; Abraham,b. prob. 1696, bap. 21 Feb. 1696-7; William, bap. 8 May 1698; Mary, bap. 14 Ap. 1700; Jonathan, bap. 18 Oct. 1702; Jacob, bap. 7 May 1704. ABRAHAM the f. d. 23 Mar. 1704-5; his w. Mary m. Samuel Whitmore of Lexington, d. 4 Nov. 1730, a. 60, and was buried here. 3. JACOB, s. of John (1), m. Mary Healy 12 Nov. 1702. He received the homestead by deed of gift, 25 May 1705, in consideration that he should pro2.
ABRAHAM,
s.
of
John
b.
Mar. 1689-90; Rebecca,
vide for his father, during life. He d. s. p. 29 Mar. 1724, and bequeathed his whole estate to his w. Mary; she d. about 1728, giving by will, dated 10 Mar. 1725-6, proved 7 Oct. 1728, a large portion of her estate to her husband's relatives. 4. ISAAC, s. of Abraham she d. 19 Aug. 1718, a. 26, and (2), m. Anna he m. Abiel, wid. of Edmund Angier, 27 Aug. 1725. His children were Abraham, b. 20 Aug. 1712, removed to Salem, was a joiner, and living in 1742; laaac, b. 28 Feb. 1713-14; Abid, bap. 13 Aug. 1727; Benjamin, b. 14 Nov. 1730. ISAAC the f. was a yeoman, and res. on the southerly side of Brattle Street, not far eastward from Ash Street, and afterwards on the his house was consumed northerly side of North Avenue, near Dover Street by fire 27 Feb. 1741-2, and he perished in the flames; his w. Abiel survived. b. 21 Mar. 5. ABRAHAM, s. of Abraham (2), by w. Mary, had Abraham, 1728-9; Daniel, b. 14 Feb. 1731-2; Mary, b. 2 Sept. 1734, prob. d. unm.; Samuel, b. 22 Dec. 1736, prob. d. unm. (neither of these are named in their father's will); Sarah, b. 2 June 1745, m. Christopher Grant, Jr., 4 Aug. 1763. After the death of his first wife Mr. Watson m. Mary, wid. of John ButterHe was a tanner, Selectman nine field, formerly wid. of Abraham Hill. years between 1745 and 1760, and resided on the southwesterly side of North Avenue, near Coggswell Avenue. He d. 7 Oct. 1775; his w. Mary d. about March 1789. 6. WILLIAM, s. of Abraham (2), resided in Medford, where he m. Abigail
;
;
680
WATSON.
Hall 17 Feb. 1731. She d. 10 May 1731, a. 22; and he d. .6 Jan. 1741-2, a. No record is found of a second marriage, or any children. 7. JONATHAN, s. of Abraham (2), was a housewright, and resided in Medf. He m. Abigail Bradshaw 16 Jan. 1728-9, and had Abigail, bap. 2 Nov. 1729, m. Samuel Angier 29 Ap. 1762; Jonathan, bap. 15 Oct. 1732, a housewright, res. for a time in Salem, but returned to Medf. on the death of his father; Mary, bap. 14 Nov. 1736, m. Capt. James Hall 27 Mar. 1760; Ruth, bap. 7 Oct. 1744, d. young; a second Ruth, d. 10 Ap. 1761, a. 10. JONATHAN the f. d. 5 Jan. 1759. 8. JACOB, s. of Abraham (2), by w. Lydia, had Jacob, b. 22 Feb. 1727-8; John, b. 26 Sept. 1729, living in 1760; Nathan, bap. 31 Oct. 1731, d. young; Lydia, bap. 30 Sept. 1733, d. young; Nathan, b. 30 May 1735; Lydia, b. 7 Mar. 1737-8, prob. d. young; Lucy,b. 15 May 1741, m. James Munfoe 18 Aug. 1763; William, bap. 30 Sept. 1744, rem. to New Salem, and afterwards to Tewksbury; Rebecca, bap. 17 May 1747, m. Abiel Murdock of Roxbury 4 JACOB the f. resided on Oct. 1770, and is said to have rem. to Hubbardston. North Avenue, near the easterly end of Spruce Street. He d. about 1757, and his son Jacob administered 9 Jan. 1758; his w. Lydia d. 10 Sept. (Ch.
43.
22 Dec. 1741, d. 24 Oct. 1743 ; Margaret, b. 9 May 1745, m. Nathan 19 Aug. 1772; Isaac, b. 12 May 1747, d. young; Isaac, bap. 30 Oct. 1748, a saddler, m. Ruth Locke 26 Sept. 1771, res. in Medf. as early as 1771, and was living there in 1794; Samuel, bap. 21 July 1751, said to have died in Gloucester at an early age Elizabeth, bap. 4 Mar. 1753, d. unm. 17 Sept. 1787; William, bap. 1 June 1755; John, bap. 8 Aug. 1762, a saddler, res. in Amherst, N. H., 10 Ap. 1794. ISAAC the f. was a glazier, and resided on part of the homestead, in the house long occupied as a Hotel and still standing on the
Rec., 22 Sept.) 1790, a. 85. 9. ISAAC, s. of Isaac (4), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Deac. Samuel Whittemore, His children were 3 Ap. 1740; she d. and he m. Rebecca Tufts 20 May 1761.
Anna,
b.
Watson
northerly side of North Avenue. 19 Oct. 1796, a. 72.

10.
He
d. 17
May
1758; his wid. Rebecca d.
s. of Abraham (5), m. Lucy, dau. of Rev. Nathaniel PrenDunstable, 28 Mar. 1751, and had Abraham, b. 5 Mar. 1752, grad. H. C. 1771, a physician in Littleton 1786, and in Ackworth, N. H., 1787; Lucy, b. 26 May 1754, d. 5 Oct. 1760; Samuel, b. 11 Nov. 1757, d. 26 Ap. 1760; Samuel, b. 19 Sept. 1759, d. 19 Oct. 1760; Lucy, b. 13 Feb. 1762, m. Dr. William Gamage 21 Oct. 1784; Mary, b. 11 Feb. 1763, living unm. 21 Oct. 1784; Nathaniel Prentiss, b. 21 Oct. 1764; Ruth, b. 19 Sept. 1765, living unm. 21 Oct. 1784; Lydia, b. 20 July 1768, m. Thomas Shepard of Worcester 25 Nov. 1790 Catherine, b. 31 Dec. 1771, d. 9 Sept. 1772; William Tyng, b. 16 Nov. 1773, d. 17 Jan. 1775. ABRAHAM the f. was a tanner, and inherited He was a man of intelligence and energy; a prominent and the homestead. useful citizen. He d. " after a long and lingering illness," 11 Dec. 1781. In an obituary published in the Boston Gazette, it is stated that " He was a gentleman of superior abilities, which early introduced him into public life, being honored with a commission for the peace, and much employed in the public affairs of the town, parish, and church. In the American Revolution he took an early and decided part, representing the town in the Provincial Conthe Congress, in the first General Court, and in the Convention for forming In domestic life, the tender passions were stitution of this Commonwealth. as conspicuous in that circle as his manly virtues were on the public stage. In his death, the family have to lament an affectionate husband, and an indulgent parent; and the public to regret the loss of a useful member of society." His w. Lucy survived. 11. DANIEL, s. of Abraham (5), m. Anna, dau. of Capt. John Tainter cf Watertown, 24 Nov. 1757, and had Anna, b. 2 Ap. 1759, d. 27 Sept. 1767 Daniel, b. 22 May 1761, settled in Keene, N. H.; Sarah, b. 15 Mar. 1763, m. Jonathan Stone of Watertown; Rebecca, b. 3 June 1765, m. Morgan; Fanny, b. 4 May 1767, m. Samuel Cox 14 Mar. 1793, and d. 27 Ap. 1855 Samuel, b. 18 Nov. 1769; Joseph, b. 23 Oct. 1772, settled in Putney, Vt.
ABRAHAM,
tiss of
WATSON
DANIEL
the
a.
f.
WEBB.
681
Avenue and
Jan. 1823,
12.
was a currier, and resided on the northwesterly corner of North Russell Street. He d. of palsy 26 Ap. 1805; his w. Anna d. 11
89.
JACOB, s. of Jacob (8), m. Mehetabel Skinner of Woburn (pub. 25 Jan. 1761), and had Jacob, b. 8 Sept. 1765 Mehetabel, b. 10 Sept. 1767, m. Adino Hastings 21 June 1795; he d. 8 Jan. 1798, and she m. Thomas Hastings 3 Oct. 1802, and d. 7 Jan. 1850. JACOB the f. was a blacksmith, and inherited the
;
homestead, near Spruce Street.
He
d. 5
Oct. 1801; his w. Mehetabel d. 17
May
1814,
a. 90.
13. NATHAN, s. of Jacob (8), m. Margaret, dau of Isaac Watson, 19 Aug. 1772, and had Margaret, b. 10 June 1773, m. James Munroe 10 June 1804, and d. 28 Feb. 1852; Nathan, b. 14 May 1775, a chaise maker, resided in Roxbury, d. 17 Jan. 1855; Elizabeth, b. 20 May 1777, d. unm. 19 Sept. 1857; Lydia, b. 3 May 1780, m. Joseph Holmes 12 May 180?, and d. 16 Jan. 1864. NATHAN the f. was a cordwainer, and resided on the estate formerly owned by the father of his wife. He d. 31 Jan. 1804; his w. Margaret d. 15 Aug. 1825, a. 80, having, by lease from her children, long occupied the homestead at the nominal rent of one dollar per annum. 14. WILLIAM, s. of Isaac (9), m. Susanna, dau. of Ebenezer Wyeth, 6 Dec. 1779; she d. 29 Dec. 1788, a. 26, and he m. Catherine Lopaus (or Lopez), 29 Dec. 1781. His chil. were Susanna, b. 6 Dec. 1780, m. Artenatus Moore 7 Feb. l"802, and d. May 1807; Nancy, b. 23 Oct. 1782, d. unm., of consumption, 24 Dec. 1803; Priscilla, b. 9 Ap. 1784, d. unm., of consumption, 5 Nov. 1803 William, b. 13 June 1785, grad. H. C. 1805, d. unm., of consumpNov. 1787; Mary, b. 12 tion, 4 Nov. 1805; Mary, bap. 29 May and d. Dec. 1788, d. unm., of consumption, 22 "July 1812 Elizabeth, b. 28 Jan. 1794, m. Andrew Allen 31 Dec. 1826, and d. 14 Mar. 1868; Samuel, b. 2 Feb. 1796, unm., for many years an inmate of the McLean Asylum for the Insane, and d. 18 June 1857; Abraham Andros, b. 11 May 1799, grad. H. C. 1823, a physiWILLIAM the f. was a glazier, cian, resided in Boston, and d. 14 June 1868. and ECS. on the S. E. corner of Brighton and Mount Auburn streets, the homestead of his maternal grandfather (Deac. Whittemore), which he obtained by purchase. He also owned a large tract of land in Cambridgeport, which he is said to have received as a compensation for maintaining an aged colored woman, formerly a slave, called Venus Whittemore; although by some defect in the written obligations, she finally became a public charge and died in the almshouse 4 May 1825, aged 107, according to the account in the Columbian Centinel. This land has become very valuable and much of it remains in possession of the family. Mr. Watson d. 9 Feb. 1811; his w. Catherine d. 15
; ;
Sept. 1851,
15.
a. 89.
s. of Abraham (10), m. Lydia, dau. of Edward Fillebrown, 9 Feb. 1797, and had Nathaniel, b. 17 Dec. 1797, many years Jailer and Master of the House of Correction in Camb., d. at Charleston, S. C., while on a journey for his health, 8 Mar. 1848; Edward, b. 9 Oct. 1799, d. at Chs., and was bur. 13 Aug. 1839; Abraham, b. 23 July 1802, d. at Chs. 18 Nov. 1820; Mary, b. 27 Jan. 1810; and perhaps others. NATHANIEL P. the f. was a tanner, a Colonel, Selectman 1806, 1807, after which he rem. to Chs., where he d. and was buried 3 Ap. 1822. 16. SAMUEL, s. of Daniel (11), was in early life a card maker, and afterwards a farmer he inherited a life estate in the homestead he long held the office of Deacon in the First Universalist Church, and d. s. p. 8 Feb. 1855; his w. Martha d. 8 Mar. 1851, a. 75. 17. JACOB, s. of Jacob (12), m. Abigail Goodwin 8 May 1794, and had Abigail, b. 4 Aug. 1800, d. unm. 18 Aug. 1817; John Waldo, b. 13 Dec. 1802, d. 20 July 1807; Nancy, bap. 23 June 1805, m. John S. Huntress 8 Sept. 1825; Catherine Bradish, bap. 29 Nov. 1807; John Waldo, bap. 4 Feb. 1810, d. 9 Aug. 1818. JACOB the f. was for several years Jailer, while the County Jail was in Ward One. He d. 12 Jan. 1849, a. 83; his w. Abigail d. 7 Aug. 1850, a. 85. WEBB, RICHARD, owned several parcels of land here in 1635. He rem. to
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NATHANIEL PRENTISS,
682
WEBB
WELLINGTON.
leaving w. Elizabeth
Hartford with Hooker, and thence to Norwalk, Conn., and d. July 1665, who d. 24 Jan. 1681, but no children. WEBBER, ROBERT, was a Field-driver 1692, but no more of him appears. WELCH, THOMAS, was fined for a breach of a Town order 4 Nov. 1646. Perhaps he was the same who afterwards resided in Charlestown. DEBORAH, m. Jonathan Cane 14 May 1674. WELD, JOSEPH, an early inhabitant of Roxbury, was brother to Rev. Thomas Weld, a merchant, Captain, Representative, and otherwise a prominent citizen. His first w. Elizabeth d. Oct. 1638, and he m. Barbara Clapp 20 Ap. 1639; his chil. were Elizabeth, b. in England about 1625, m. Edward Denison of Roxbury 30 Mar. 1641, and d. 5 Feb. 1716-17, a. 91 John; Mary, m. Daniel Harris; Thomas, d. Sept. 1649; Hannah; Edmund, b. 14 Sarah, bap. 21 Dec. 1640, m. John Frank 23 July 1663 Daniel, July 1636 b. 18 Sept, 1642; Joseph, bap. 9 Feb. 1643-4, buried 7 Dec. 1645; Marah, bap. 2 Aug. 1646. JOSEPH the f. d. 7 Oct. 1646, and his w. Barbara m. Anthony Stoddard. 2. DANIEL, s. of Joseph (1), grad. H. C. 1661, m. Bethia, dau. of Edward Mitchelson, the Marshal-general, and had in Camb., Daniel, b. 20 Aug. 1663; Edward, b. 7 June 1666; Bethia, b. 24 Jan. 1667-8. DANIEL the f. was a he was Surgeon-general in the Narragansett physician, and rem. to Salem expedition under General Winslow 1675, and petitioned the General Court for compensation, inasmuch as during his absence another physician was invited Mr. Felt says he d. at Salem about 1690, leaving w. to Salem to his damage. Bethia and chil. Edward ; Bethia, who m. Robert Kitchen Barbara, and Elizabeth. Probably the last two were born at Salem, and the eldest son Daniel
;
had deceased. REV. THOMAS, of Dunstable, m. (2d w.) Mary Savage of Camb. 22 May 1700. JOHN, prob. of Roxbury, m. Margaret Fuller 6 June 1723. WELLINGTON, ROGER, an early inhabitant of Wat., m. Mary, dau. of Richard Palsgrave of Chs., and had John, b. 25 July 1 638 Mary, b. 10 Feb. 1 640-41 m. Henry Maddock 21 May 1662, and John Coolidge, Jr., 16 Sept. 1679 JoOliver, b. 23 Nov.. 1648, m. seph, b. 9 Oct. 1643; Benjamin, b. about 1646 wid. Anna Livermore, and d. s. p. 30 Aug. 1727; Palsgrave, b. about 1653, a physician in Wat., m. Sarah Bond 29 Jan. 1689-90, and d. s. p. 22 Oct. 1715, a. 62. ROGER the f. d. 11 Mar. 1697-8; his w. seems to have previously de;
ceased.
2. JOHN, s. of Roger (1), was a farmer, resided in Camb., m. Susanna Straight (or Strayte) 9 June 1681, and d. prob. s. p. 23 Aug. 1726. 3. JOSEPH, s. of who d. 5 Feb. 1683-4, and he Roger (1), m. Sarah m. Elizabeth Straight (or Strayte) 6 June 1684, and had Elizabeth, b. 27 Ap. 1685, m. Zechariah Cutting 5 May 1701; Thomas, b. 10 Nov. 1686; Mary, b. 7 Oct. 1689, m. Benjamin Barnard, Jr., 8 Dec. 1726 Susanna, b. 5 Feb. 1691-2. JOSEPH the f. resided in Wat., and d. 30 Oct. 1714. 4. BENJAMIN, s. of Roger (1), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Swoetmaii of Cambridge, 7 Dec. 1671, and Elizabeth, b. 29 Dec. 1673, m. John Fay; Benjamin, b. 21 June 1676; John, b. 26 July 1678, d. 30 Nov. 1717 Ebenezer, b. m. Deliverance Bond 28 Jan. 1703-4, an innholder at Wat. Ruhamah, b. m. Deac. Joseph Brown 15 Nov. 1699 Mehetabel, bap. 4 Mar. 1687-8, m. William Sherman of Newton 13 Sept. 1715, and was mother of the distinguished Roger Sherman of Revolutionary memory Joseph, bap. 4 Jan.
, ; ;
,
;.
and d. about 1718; Roger, b. named in his 1690-91, m. Hannah grandfather's will. BENJAMIN the f. resided in Wat., and d. 8 Jan. 1709-10. 5. THOMAS, s. of Joseph (3), m. Rebecca Whittemore; she d. 6 Nov. 1734, a. 53, and he m. Cherry Stone (pub. 7 Mar. 1734-5). His chil. were Rebecca, b. 3 Nov. 1709, m. Wyman; Joseph, b. 21 Nov. 1711 ; Thomas, b. 6 Aug. 1714, m. Margaret Stone (pub. 18 Jan. 1734-5), and d. 4 Nov. 1783; Susanna, b. m. Abraham Hill 16 Feb. 1758; Elizabeth, b. m. Richard Clark 2 July 1761. THOMAS the f. resided in Menot. and d. 2 July 1759. 6. BENJAMIN, s. of Benjamin (4), m. Lydia Brown 16 Jan. 1698-9; she d. 13 May 1711, and he m. Elizabeth Phipps 25 Dec. 1715; she d. 7 Jan.
,
WELLINGTON.
b. 21
683
1728-9, and he m. Mary Whiting 21 Oct. 1731. His chil. were Benjamin, May 1702; Lydia, b. 24 Aug. 1704, d. 10 Aug. 1718 Keziah, b. 28 Mar. 1707; John, b. 12 Nov. 1709, d. 22 Sept. 1728; Abigail, b. 14 July 1715, m. David Munroe 19 Feb. 1733-4; Timothy, b. 27 July 1719; Mary, b. 20 Oct. 1732; Oliver, b. 14 Ap. 1735. BENJAMIN the f. was a housewright, and resided in Lex. where he d. 15 Nov. 1738 his w. Mary and son Benjamin administered 18 Dec. 1738. 7. JOSEPH, s. of Thomas (5), m. Dorcas Stone 13 Nov. 1733, and had Joseph, b. 13 Nov. 1734, m. Martha Adams 1 Ap. 1760, and Anna Dix 10 Sept. 1766; Rebecca, b. 4 Sept. 1737, m. Zechariah Hill of Camb. 10 Feb. 1757 Dorcas, b. 31 Mar. 1740, d. unm. Mary, b. 29 Nov. 1742, m. Phineas Stearns of Waltham 9 July 1761; Hannah, bap. 1745; Margaret, b. 22 Aug. 1745, m. Timothy Page of Bedford 12 May 1766; he was slain in battle, at White Plains, 25 Oct. 1776, and she m. Asa Fassett Pabgrave, b. 12 Mar. 1747-8; Jeduthun, b. 4 Sept. 1750; Elizabeth, b. 6 Nov. 1753, m. James Reed of Woburn 24 Sept. 1778 Enoch, b. 1 Sept. 1756, m. Sarah Richardson of Watertown 8 Aug. 1782, and rem. to Jaffrey, N. H. JOSEPH the f. res. at Lex. and at Menot., where he d. 18 Dec. 1777; his w. Dorcas d. 1 Mar. 1801, a. 86. 8. BENJAMIN, s. of Benjamin. (6), m. Abigail, dau. of Thomas Fessenden, and had Lydia, b. 21 Dec. 1732; Roger, b. 27 June 1734, m. Abigail Stearns of Waltham 10 Mar. 1757, and rem. to Brookfield; John, b. 18 Ap. 1736; Benjamin, b. 22 Ap. 1738, rem. to Brookfield before 1 Sept. 1763, at which date he m. Lucy Smith. BENJAMIN the f. was a housewright and resided in Lex. In December of 1738 he was appointed one of the administrators of his father's estate. His own death occurred soon afterwards, 7 Feb. 1738-9, and his wid. Abigail (who subsequently m. Ebenezer Smith) was appointed administratrix 21 Feb. 1 738-9. 9. TIMOTHY, s. of Benjamin (6), m. Rebecca Stone 23 Sept. 1742, and had Benjamin, b. 7 Aug. 1743, m. Martha Ball 4 Dec. 1766; Cherry, b. 12 July 1745; Timothy, b. 15 Ap. 1747; Abigail, b. 14 Mar. 1749, m. Daniel Cutting of Waltham 29 Dec. 1768; Ruhamah, b. 4 Sept. 1751. TIMOTHY the f. res. in Lex. and d. 1751. 10. PALSGRAVE, s. of Joseph (7), m. wid. Abigail Sewall of Brookline, (pub. 28 Nov. 1772), and had Mary Oliver, bap. 18 Aug. 1773 Penelope, bap. 26 Dec. 1784; Lucy Sparhawk, bap. 8 June 1788; Nancy, bap. 29 Nov. 1789. The first named of these was bap. at Menot. the other three at the Third Church, now Brighton District. Besides these, Dr. Bond names Christiana ;
; ; ;
; ; ; ; ;
Abigail; and Edmund, who grad. D. C. 1811, and d. 1823. PALSGRAVE the f. grad. H. C. 1770, taught school in Menot. and afterwards in what is now Brighton District; was elected Deacon of the Third Church 1784 and about 1790 removed to Alstead, N. H. He devoted the later years of his life to and d. 29 Aug. 1808. farming, 11. JEDUTHUN, s. of Joseph (7), m. Susanna Reed of Woburn (pub. 11 Feb. 1775) she d. 3 Oct. 1803, and he m. Elizabeth Winneck 31 May 1802. His chil. were Susanna, b. 22 Oct. 1775; Sophia, b. 1777, d. 6 Sept. 1785; Charles, bap. 3 Dec. 1780; Mary, b. 25 Ap. 1783, d. 25 Aug. 1799 Hannah, bap. Oct. 1784; Henry, bap. Ap. 1787 Sophia, bap. 1 Mar. 1789 a child, b. 30 Sept. and d. 3 Oct. 1790 Mary Maria Dix, bap. 29 Ap. 1804; Louisa Annis, bap. 20 Ap. 1806; Alfred Augustus, bap. 20 Dec. 1807; Adeline MaJEDUTHUN the f. resided in Menot., was a farmer tilda, bap. 17 Dec. 1809. and an energetic citizen, Colonel of Militia, Selectman 18 years between 1780 and 1805; Representative nine years, between 1788 and 1806; he was one of the principal projectors of the Concord Turnpike, and was engaged in other public enterprises; he was sanguine in his projects, and very impatient of opposition. Even in his old age he entered zealously, not to say fiercely, into the contest concerning the fencing of the Cambridge Common, and was one of the most conspicuous opposers of that measure, as long as the slightest possible hope of success remained; he d. 25 Nov. 1838, a. 88; his w. Eliza; ; ; ; ; ;
beth
d. 11
Mar. 1851,
s.
a. 83.
12.
TIMOTHY,
of
Timothy
(9),
m. Hannah W., dau. of Joseph Abbott of
684
WELLINGTON
WH1TMORE.
Lincoln, and had Rebecca Stone, b. 5 Feb. 1777, m. John K. Coolidge 23 Ap. 1799; Timothy, b. 29 Mar. 1778, drowned 8 Ap. 1781; Nehemiah,b. I Jan. 1780, m. Nancy Stearns 16 May 1805, and d. 11 May 1857; Timothy, b. TIM8 Oct. 1781; Hannah, b. 4 July 1783; Joseph Abbott, b. 14 July 1785. OTHY the f. res. in Lex. 13. NEHEMIAH, s. of Timothy (12), m. Nancy Stearns of Waltham 16 May 1805, and had Ann Eliza, b. 2 Mar. 1806, d. 3 Oct. 1822; Augustus", b. 15 June 1807; Hannah Maria, b. 17 Nov. 1809, m. Samuel Bridge 15 June 1835 Timothy W., b. 4 July 1811, a coal merchant in Worcester; Sullivan, b. 8 Nov. 1813; Jonas Clark, b. 30 Nov. 1815, a coal merchant in Boston, resides in Camb. m. Harriet Bosworth 17 Oct. 1839, and had sons Austin C., and Homer, who reside here; Horatio, b. 6 Sept. 1817, a coal merchant in East Camb., res. at Charlestown; Avis M., b. 27 June 1819, m. Emory A. Mulliken 17 Oct. 1850; Joseph A., b. 12 June 1821, a coal merchant in Chs., NEHEMIAH the f. res. in Lex., and d. 11 May 1857, a. 77. resides here. 14. TIMOTHY, s. of Timothy (12), m. Maria E. Lord 17 Oct. 1813; she d. 6 Mar. 1816, a. 23, and he :m. Lydia Yates 1 Ap. 1819. His chil. were William Williamson, b. 27 July 1814, grad. H. C. 1832, is a physician in Camb. Francis Edward, bap. 5 Nov. 1820; Maria Eunice, bap. 13 Oct. 1822; George Yates, bap. 22 Ap. 1827; Ellen; Hannah; Joseph A. TIMOTHY the f. was a physician in West Camb., where he d. 6 May 1853, a. 71. 15. JOSIAH, parentage not ascertained, bought 28 Oct. 1803 the once famous Tavern (which yet stands) on the westerly corner of North Avenue and Beach Street, which he sold to John Davenport 12 Sept. 1806. His dau. Susan m. Ephraim Cook 18 Dec. 1803, and d. 22 Aug. 1858. Several of her children reside here. WESTWOOD, WILLIAM, in 1635 resided on the S. W. corner of Holyoke and Winthrop streets; and was one of the first Board of Selectmen, called Townsmen, 1634-5. He rem. to Hartford, where he was Selectman, and several times Deputy to the General Court. He subsequently rem. to Hadley, where he d. 9 Ap. 1669. He left no son, and only one daughter Sarah, who m. Aaron Cook, an emigrant from Dorchester, and had a son, Westwood Cook. Rev. Samuel Cook of Menot. was a descendant. WHALEY, GEORGE, by w. Katherine, had Thomas, b. 14 Nov. 1650 George, b. 19 Ap. 1653. WHITCOMB, JOB (otherwise written Whetcomb), by w. Mary, had Jemima, He was prob. s. of John of Lancaster, driven thence at the b. 30 Mar. 1678. destruction of that town, and finally rem. to Weathersfield, Conn., where he
:
, ;
w. Mary and chil. Job, John, Mary, and Jemima. WHITE, JOHN, one of the first company, res. on the northerly side of Bow He was a Street; he sold his estate 20 Oct. 1635 to Nicholas Danforth. member of the first Board of Selectmen or Townsmen 1634-5, and rem. with
d. 1683, leaving
Hooker to Hartford, where he held sundry offices. "He was one of sixty persons in 1659 who signed an agreement to remove to Massachusetts for the His children settlement of Hadley. He removed, and d. there in 1683. were Nathaniel, who resided at Hadley; Daniel, Jacob, John, Sarah Gilbert, Mrs. Taylor, and a daughter who had m. Mr. Hixton. Mr. White was a strict Puritan in all its forms, and left the Colony in consequence of a division Hinman. in the Church at Hartford." 2. THOMAS, about 1638 bought a house and half an acre of land on the
westerly side of Garden Street, probably between Mason Street and Phillips Place. He was appointed with Edward Shepard "to drive the neck," 23 Mar. 1662-3. No record is found of his family. 3. DANIEL, by w. Mary had Daniel, b. 18 May 1695; Mary, b. 29 Oct. 1697; John, b. 16 Feb. 1699; Thomas, b. 22 Feb. 1701; Joseph, b. 17 Ap. 1704; Sybil, b. 12 May 1796; Stephen, b. 27 Ap. 1709; Sarah, b. 23 Aug. 1711. WHITMORE, FRANCIS, m. Isabel Park about 1648; she d. 31 Mar. 1665, and he m. Margaret Harty. His chil. were Elizabeth, b. 2 May 1649, m. Daniel Markham 3 Nov. 1669; Francis, b. 12 Oct. 1650, living in 1691; John,
WHITMORE.
b.
685
1 Oct. 1654; Samuel, b'. 1 May 1658; Abigail, b. 3 July 1660, m. Wilcox Sarah, b. 7 Mar. 1662, m. William Locke; Margery, bap. 27 Mar. 1664, m. Thomas Carter; Hannah, bap. 16 Feb. 1667, d. young; Hannah, b. 9 Feb. 1668; Frances, b. 3 Mar. 1671, m. Jonathan Thompson Thomas;
; ;
Joseph, living in 1691, perhaps m. and d. about 1720. FRANCIS the
13 Feb. 1698-9, f. was a tailor, resided several years in the present city, but subsequently near the line between Menot. and the Farms. He d. 12 Oct. 1685, a. 62 his w. Margaret d. 1 Mar. 1685-6. 2. JOHN, s. of Francis (1), m. Rachel, wid. of John Poulter, and dan. of Francis Eliot of Braintree; she d 20 Mar. 1723, and he m. wid. Rebecca CutHis chil. were Francis, b. 8 May 1678; ter, dau. of John Rolfe, 3 Jan. 1 724. JOHN Abigail, twin, b. 8 May 1678, m. John Elder; John, b. 27 Aug. 1683. the f. was a carpenter, and resided in Medf. where his chil. were born. On the organization (or perhaps reorganization) of the Church in Medford, 1714, he was elected Deacon. He d. 22 Feb. 1739; his w. Rebecca returned to Menot. where she d. 13 Nov. 1751, a. 89. 3. SAMUEL, s. of Francis (1), m. Rebecca Gardner 31 Mar. 1686; she d. 5 June 1709, a. 43, and he m. Mary, wid. of Abraham Watson. His chil. were Francis, b. 9 Dec. 1686, d. at Lexington prob. unm. 20 Dec. 1758 Samuel, b. 1 Ap. 1688; Rebecca, b. 9 Feb. 1689-90, d. unm. 12 June 1709; John, b. 5 June 1692, a cordwainer, d. 5 May 1714, prob. unm. (his father was appointed administrator 11 Aug. 1714); Benjamin, b. about 1696 Abigail, b. 8 May 1698; Sarah, b. 10 Ap. 1700, m. Hyde, d. before 1733 Nathaniel, b. 7 May 1702, m. Abigail Park of Newton 18 June 1725; Mary, b. 4 May 1704, d. unm., and William Munroe administered 1733; and John, b. 25 Jan. 1714. SAMUEL the f. resided at the Farms, and d. 22 May 1724; his w. Mary d. 14 Nov. 1730, a. 60. 4. FRANCIS, s. of John (2), m. Anna Peirce of Boston 7 Dec. 1699 ; she d. 6 Aug. 1716, a. 34, and he m. Mary, dau. of Nathaniel Hancock of CamHis chil. were Sarah, b. 4 May 1701, m. Nathaniel Francis 16 May bridge. 1723; Hannah, b. 22 Jan. 1703-4, d. young; Anna, b. 4 Ap. 1706; Eliot, b. 13 Mar. 1710, d. 16 Mar. 1713; Rachel, b. 1 Ap. 1712, m. Ebenezer Tufts 17 Feb. 1731; he d. and she in. Ebenezer Francis 15 Nov. 1733; Mercy, b. 11 Mar. 1713-14, d. young; Elizabeth, bap. 22 July 1716, m. Thomas Fillebrown 30 Mar. 1732; Martha, bap. 1 Mar. 1719; and one more not named. FRANCIS the f. was a tanner, resided in Medf. and d. 6 Feb. 1771, a. 93 nearly. An obituary in the Boston News Letter, 14 Feb. 1771, states that "he was the father of 10 children, 41 grandchildren, 96 great-grandchildren, and 8 of the
of
;
;
Mary Kendall
Woburn
fifth
5.
generation, in all 155."
JOHN, s. of John (2), m. Mary, dau. of Maj. John Lane of Billerica, (now Bedford), and had Mary, b. 17 July 1707, m. Jonathan Webber of Bedford 19 Aug. 1725; Susanna, b. 25 Nov. 1708, m. Benjamin Webber of Bedford 6 Sept. 1727; John, b. 15 Ap. 1711, settled in Bedford, and d. 1748;
Francis, b. 4 Oct. 1714; Martha, b. 22 Ap. 1716, d. young; Martha, b. 23 Feb. 1717-18, m. John Skinner of Chs. 22 Dec. 1743; William, b. 19 Dec. 1724. JOHN the f. was a carpenter, resided in Medf., and d. 26 Mar. 1753 his w. Mary was living 29 June 1773, when through age she had become incapable of managing her estate, and John Webber was appointed guardian; by a memorandum in his account of guardianship, it appears that she d. 27 Mar. 1783, when she had nearly completed 97 years. 6. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (3), m. Bethia Page 7 Jan. 1719-20, and had Rebecca, bap. 15 Jan. 1720-21; Daniel, b. 15 Feb. 1724-5, posthumous. SAMUEL the f. d. in Lexington 17 Aug. 1724; his w. Bethia m. John Winship 1726. 7. JOHN, s. of Samuel June 1735, and had Mary, b. (3), m. Lydia Cutter 24 3 Sept. 1735; John, b. 24 Ap. 1737; Lydia, bap. 11 Jan. 1740-41 ^Samuel, b. 4 July 1743. JOHN the f. was under the guardianship of Deac. Samuel Bowman of Cambridge, during his minority, and settled here. The date of his death or removal is not ascertained. 8. FRANCIS, s. of John (5), m. Mary Hall 1 Jan. 1739, and had Stephen, bap.
; ;
686
24
WHITMORE
WHITTEMORE.
May 1741, (prob. b. 1739); Francis, bap. 2 Aug. 1741; Mary, bap. 24 Ap. 1743; John, bap. 6 Jan. 1745, d. young; William, bap. 8 Sept. 1746; Elizabeth, bap. 3 .Dec. 1752; John, bap. 15 Dec. 1754; Susanna, bap. 18 Sept. 1757; Andrew, bap. 5 Oct. 1760. FRANCIS the f. was a merchant in Medf., removed his w. Mary d. 20 Oct. 1791. to Maine, and d. 27 Ap. 1794 9. WILLIAM, s. of John (5), m. Mary Brooks 1 Oct. 1747, and had William, bap. 22 May 1748; John, bap. 3 June, and d. 28 July 1750: Mary, bap. 29 Oct. 1752, in.' Nathan Blodgett of Camb. 27 Ap. 1775; Martha, b. 1755; Sarah, bap. Nov. 1757 Samuel, b. 15 Dec. 1759, d. 22 Oct. 1762. WILLIAM the f. grad. H. C. 1744, and was a merchant in Medford, in partnership with He d. of small-pox 10 Mar. 1760; his w. Mary d. 10 his brother Francis.
; ;
Oct. 1765.
STEPHEN, s. of Francis (8), m. Mary Whittemore of Camb. 14 July had Elizabeth Cutter, bap. 30 Dec. 1764; Stephen, bap. 22 Sept. 1765 Lydia, bap. 10 May 1767 Samuel and William, twins, b. in Cambridge 11 June 1768 John, bap. here 30 Aug. 1772, at which date STEPHEN the f. is styled of Kennebunk. 11. FRANCIS, s. of Francis (8), m. Elizabeth Bowman of Cambridge 30 Dec. 1764, and had Elizabeth Sanders, bap. 13 Oct. 1765, d. 22 Aug. 1777; FRANCIS the f. removed from Medf. to Boston, Francis, bap. 2 Aug. 1767. and his subsequent history is not known to me. WHITTEMORE, THOMAS, resided in Chs. on the Maiden side, near Chelsea, where he died 25 May 1661. In his will, dated 8 Feb. 1660-61, he bestows legacies on w. Hannah (who afterwards m. Benjamin Butterfield of Chelmsford, and was living in 1680), and ten children, viz.: "eldest son Thomas, being now in England and hath his portion there by gift"; Daniel ; Nathaniel ; John ; Elizabeth ; and " my five youngest, Benjamin, Thomas, Samuel, Pelatiah, and Abraham." These children were probably born between 1633 and 1656; Daniel was 48 years old at his death in 1683, prob. b. 1635, and Abraham was 35 at his death in 1690, prob. b. 1655; Elizabeth m. Hopestill Foster Oct. 1670; Pelatiah d. unm. 1678; Abraham, &. unm. 14 Jan. 1690-91, a. 35. TnoMAS'the f. probably res. in England until about 1650, and left his oldest son there. After his emigration, he gave the same name to another son; and at the time of his death had two sons bearing his own name, one in each Eng10.
1763, and
;
land.
DANIEL, s.of Thomas (1), in. Mary Mellins 7 Mar. 1662, and had Daniel, Ap. 1663, res. in Maiden, had eight chil., and d. 21 Sept. 1756, a. 93; John, b. 12 Feb. 1664; Thomas, b. 5 Mar. 1667; Mary, b. 15 Feb. 1668-9 DANIEL the f. inherited the homestead, and d. Nathaniel, b. 7 Feb. 1670-71. at " Mistick Side," now Maiden, 11 May 1683, a. 48. 3. NATHANIEL, s. of Thomas (1), by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 26 Ap. 1668; Nathaniel, b. 26 Sept. 1670. NATHANIEL the f. d. at Maiden 1671, a. 33. 4. JOHN, s. of Thomas (1), m. Mary, dau. of Deac. John Upham of Maiden about 1661; she d. 27 June 1677, and he m. Mary Miller of Chs. 8 Nov. 1677.
2.
b. 27
His chil., all b. in Chs., were John, b. about 1662; Thomas, b. 1 Sept. 1664; Joseph, b. 29 Jan. 1666-7; Benjamin, b. 1 Sept. 1669; Elizabeth, b. about 1671; Nathaniel, b. 9 Mar. 1673; Joel, b. about 1675, d. 27 Ap, 1676; Joel, b. 15 June 1677; Mary, b. 24 Oct. 1678, d. young; Pelatiah, b. 7 May 1680; Amos, b. 25 July 1681; Mary, b. 26 Sept. 1683 Daniel, b. 28 Dec. 1685, d. 27 Mar. 1686; Rebecca, b. 3 Mar. 1686-7, living unm. 1 752; Hannah, b. 10 Feb. 1688-9. JOHN the f. was a wheelwright, and resided in Chs. until near the close of life, when he removed to Menotomy, having leased a farm of Lieut. -gov. DanThirteen children survived him. forth, and d. there 8 Dec. 1694, a. about 54. On the settlement of his estate in 1695, a house with about ten acres in Chs. was assigned to his son Thomas, and the unexpired lease of Lieut.-gov. Danforth's farm to Thomas and Nathaniel. 5. BENJAMIN, s. of Thomas (1), may have res. here in his younger days. Under date of 8 Jan. 1665-6, it is recorded that, " Benjamin Whittemore, for pulling down a bench of a seat in the meeting house, is fined five shillings; and the Constables are to require the bench of him, and set it up again." No
;
WH1TTEMORE.
record
687
is found of his family; he was prob. the same who died at Maiden, 1726, and devised his estate by will, dated 22 Dec. 1725, to his grandchildren, Benjamin Faulkner (who was to provide for the testator and his wife during life), Hannah Durant, Elizabeth Pilet of Boston, Mary Linnex of Boston, and Hannah Johnson of Boston. 6. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), and the younger of that name, m. Elizabeth Peirce of Woburn 9 Nov. 1666, and had Thomas, b. 14 Aug. 1667. THOMAS the f. was a blacksmith, and resided at Woburn, where ne d. and his wife Elizabeth was appointed administratrix 5 Ap. 1670. 7. SAMUEL, s. of Thomas (1), by w. Hannah, had at Dover, N. H., Samuel, b. 24 Oct. 1672, d. 31 Jan. 1693-4; and at Chs., Hannah, b. 16 Dec. 1676; Clark, living in 1723; Sarah, b. 16 Jan. Elizabeth, b. 15 June 1679, m. 1681-2, m. David Lawrence 3 Feb. 1700-1, and res. at Norton; Mary, b. 9 Smith, living in 1726; Abigail, b. 31 Jan. 1687-8, m. Sept. 1684, m. Eleazar Parker of Norton; Susanna, b. 17 Oct. 1690, d. 25 June 1694; Thomas, b. 23 Sept. 1693, d. 28 Jan. 1693-4; Samuel, b. (after the decease of his oldest SAMUEL the f. was a farmer, and after a short resibrother) 27 July 1696. dence in Dover, N. H., settled upon a farm in the southwesterly part of Chs., now Soraerville, on the road leading from Winter Hill to Arlington. He d. 15 Sept. 1726, a. 79; his w. Hannah d. May 1728, a. 76. Both were buried in
Cambridge.
Harris (Epitaphs,
p. 73)
erroneously calls this Samuel Whitte-
more a son
Mary, wid. of Capt. Samuel Pease of Boston (See Gen. Reg., ii. 393), and had Thomas, b. 4 Nov. 1694; Francis, b. 5 Sept. 1696; Samuel, b. 22 Sept. 1698; Mary, b. 4 Sept. 1700; Daniel, b. 22 Feb. 1701-2; Hannah; Ephraim; Sarah. All these children were baptized THOMAS the f. resided at Menot., a part of his estate, together, 29 May 1709. described in the inventory, consisted of " a lease parol, under Mr. Whiting, This doubtless refers to the farm leased to the father of minister, Concord." Thomas by Lieut.-gov. Danforth, of whom Mr. Whiting was one of the deviHe d. about 1717, and his w. Mary administered 23 Sept. 1717; she sees. was living, 9 Sept. 1727, and petitioned for an allowance on account of her taking care of her grandson, Thomas Whittemore, the only heir of her deceased husband. I think Hudson mistakes in supposing this THOMAS (the f.) to be son of Francis Whitmore. 9. JOSEPH, s. of John (4), m. Joanna Mousall; she d. 28 Oct. 1691, and he m. Susanna His chil. were Joseph, b. 22 Feb. 1689; Joanna, b. 27 Oct. 1691, m. Edward Miller 2 Nov. 1715; Jabez, b. 30 Jan. 1695, resided at Marshfield and at Chs., where he d. 12 May 1772, leaving posterity; Susanna, b. 11 Ap. 1697; Huldah, b. about 1699, m. Ebenezer Kent 25 Dec. 1728, and d. 25 Feb. 1730-31; Abiel, b. 6 Aug. 1701, m. Richard Sprague 25 Dec. 1722. JOSEPH the f. resided in Chs., was a Captain, somewhat engaged in public business, and late in life became an attorney. By the Records of Middlesex " it Capt. Joseph Whittemore, upon his motion to appears that in Aug. 1719 the Court, was admitted and sworn before the Court to the office of an attorney." Apparently, however, he derived not much pecuniary advantage from his honorable offices, for he d. insolvent in 1746; his w. Susanna survived.
.
of Francis Whitmore. 8. THOMAS, s. of John (4), m.
10. BENJAMIN, s. of John (4), m. Esther Brooks of Concord about 1692, and had Benjamin, b. about 1696; Nathaniel; Aaron, b. 13 Dec. 1711, grad. H. C. 1734, ordained at Pembroke, N. H., 1 Mar. 1737, d. 16 Nov. 1767; Mary, m. John Farr of Littleton Grace, m. Joseph Wood of Littleton Mehetabel ; all living in 1734. BENJAMIN the f. res. in Concord, was a prominent citizen, Selectman, and several years Representative. He d. 8 Sept.
; ;
1734; his w. Esther d. 1742.

s. of John (4), m. Sarah, dau. of Deac. William French of and had Thomas, b. 25 Sept. 1718 Jacob, b. 3 Mar. 1721-2; Sarah, bap. 4 Ap. 1724, d. 15 Aug. 1734 Abigail, b. 8 Dec. 1725; John, b. 21 Aug. 1727; Nathaniel, b. 26 June 1729. NATHANIEL the f. resided at Lex., was He d. about 1754, and a styled a physician, and was an almanac maker.
11.
NATHANIEL,
Billerica,
second w., Abigail, survived.
688
WHITTEMORE.
;
12. PELATIAH, s. of John (4), m. Elizabeth Eustis of Boston 6 Oct. 1709, and had Joshua, b. at Boston 31 July 1712 and perhaps others. PELATIAH the f. was Commissary in the expedition against Port Royal in 1707, and d. at
Chs. 21 Oct. 1724. 13. SAMUEL, oldest s. of Samuel (7), m. Lydia Scott, and had, Samuel, b. 23 Jan. 1693. SAMUEL the f. d. in Chs. 31 Jan. 1693-4, a. 21. 14. SAMUEL, youngest s. of Samuel (7), m. Elizabeth she d. 5 June 1764, a. 63, and he m. Esther, wid. of Thomas Prentice, Esq., and formerly His chil. were Samuel, b. 19 wid. of Amos Muzzey of Lex., 15 Aug. 1765. Jan. 1721; Elizabeth, b. 29 Feb. 1724, m. William Cutler 15 Sept. 1742, and d. 29 Dec. 1770, having been the mother of thirty-six children (see CUTLER, WILLIAM); Sarah, b. 12 Mar. 1725-6, m. John Dickson, Jr., 19 Jan. 1749; Hannah, b. 15 Nov. 1727, d. young; Thomas, b. 29 Oct. 1729; Susanna, b. 22 Mar. 1730-31, d. suddenly, unm 5 Ap. 1752; William, bap. 29 Oct. 1732; Catherine, bap. 23 Mar. 1734-5; Hannah, bap. 24 Ap. 1737, m. Thomas Cutter 19 July 1757 Mary, b. 6 May 1741, m. Stephen Whitmore of Medford 14 July 1763. SAMUEL the f. was a farmer, and inherited the homestead, which he exchanged with Joseph Russell about 1730 for an estate in Menot., situated on the Main Street, adjoining Alewife or Menotomy River. Both in body and mind he was a sturdy, energetic man. He was Selectman sixteen years between 1743 and 1762, and served on various important committees, espehe was Captain of Dragoons in his early days, cially during the Revolution and in old age his military spirit was not quenched. (See pp. 414, 415.) He closed his long and eventful life 3 Feb. 1793, a. 96 years and 6 months the inscription on his gravestone gives his age 98, and his obituary 99; his w.
; ,
Esther
15.
d. at
Lex. 9 Sept. 1801,

s.
a.
84.
by w. Dorothy, had Thomas, b. about 1715. the f. d. about 1723, and his w. Dorothy m. Samuel Jennison of Wat. before Sept. 1727. 16. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (9), m. Mehetabel Raymond at Salem Village (Danvers) 21 Feb. 1711-12, and had Joseph, b. 10 Oct. 1713; Thomas, b. 30 Jan. 1715; Josiah, b. 20 Mar. 1721; Joanna, b. 15 Sept. 1723; Mehetabel, b. m. Shippie Townsend of Boston 1745, and d. about 1747. JOSEPH the f. was a joiner, res. at Chs., and d. 20 Feb. 1740-41 his w. Mehetabel d. 4 Ap.
THOMAS,
of
Thomas
(8),
THOMAS
1731,
17.
a.
38.
s.
BENJAMIN, Benjamin (10), m. Ruhamah Locke of Woburn 15 June 1726, and had Joel, b. 1728; Sarah, b. 1732 Ruhama, b. 1733. BENJAMI;ST the f. res. at Concord, and d. 22 Oct. 1734, a. 38; his w. Ruhama m. Bond before 24 Mar. 1746. 18. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (13), m. Margaret, dau. of Zechariah Hicks, 13 Oct. 1715; she d. and he m. Hannah Livermore of Wat. (pub. 24 May 1764). His chil. were Elizabeth, b. 24 Nov. 1716, m. Isaac Watson, Jr., 3 Ap. 1740; Margaret, b. 9 Aug. 1718 Ruth, b. 5 Nov. 1720, m. Capt. William Angler 15 Sept. 1742; Lydia, b. 15 Dec. 1722, m. Caleb Prentice 17 Sept. 1744; Mary, b. 22 Nov. 1726; m. Samuel Hastings (pub. 7 Nov. 1746); Samuel, b. 15 and d. 22 Dec. 1728; Hannah, b. 19 Dec. 1730; Samuel, b. 12 June 1733. SAMUEL the f. was a currier, and res. at the S. E. corner of Brighton and Mount Auburn streets; his homestead comprised what was afterwards known as the Watson estate he also owned large tracts of land in Cambridgeport and elsewhere. He was Deacon of the Church more than forty years, and a useful citizen. For many years he kept a store or " shop " in a part of his house.
of
; ;
He
d. early in 1784.
of Samuel (14), m. Love Stone 11 June 1747, and had 1748; a child, b. and d. 3 Dec. 1749 Elizabeth, b. 7 Nov. 1751, d. 13 Mar. 1753; Elizabeth, b. 20 Oct. 1753, m. Amos Warren 25 Nov. 1773; Nathan, b. 18 Nov. 1757; Jonathan, b. 9 Nov. 1762; Josiah, b. 4 Dec. 1 764. SAMUEL the f was a farmer, and inherited the southerly part of the homestead in Menot.; he was Selectman 1780, and d. 5 Mar. 1800; his w. Love d. 14 Feb. 1793, a. 72. 20. THOMAS, s. of Samuel (14), m. Anna Cutter 1 Feb. 1753, and had
19.
SAMUEL,
b.
s.
Samuel,
May
WHITTEMORE.
Anna,
;
689
b. 14 Aug. 1754, m. Thomas Russell 8 Mar. 1774 Thomas, b. 1 Oct. 1756; Amos, bap. 22 Ap. .1759; William, bap. 1 Feb. 1761; Smanna, b. 5 Aug. 1763, m. Francis Cutter 29 Dec. 1782; Aaron, b. 13 Aug. 1765, d. 21 Ap. 1766 Aaron, b. 30 and d. 31 Mar. 1767; Rhoda, b. 2 Feb. 1770; Lydia, b. 29 Nov. 1771; Samuel, b. 25 Mar. 1774; Gershom, b. 6 Ap. 1776. THOMAS the f was a farmer, inherited the northerly part of the homestead in Menot. and d. 5 Oct. 1799; his w. Anna d. 17 Jan. 1816, a. 84. 21. WILLIAM, s. of Samuel (14), m. Abigail, dau. of Capt. Philip Carteret of Chs., and a descendant from President Dunster, 12 Oct. 1758, and had Elizabeth Carteret, b. 4 Ap. and d. 8 Nov. 1763; Elizabeth Carteret, b. 6 Oct. 1764; Philip Carteret, b. 1 Sept. 1766; William, b. 28 Jan. 1769, d. 3 July 1771 ; William, b. 30 June 1772, m. Anna Cutter of Chs. 2 Feb. 1796; Abigail, b. 16 Aug. 1776, m. John Davenport 4 May 1801. WILLIAM the f. grad. H. C. 1755, taught school here many years and was familiarly known as " Master Whittemore." He d. at his residence in West Cambridge 17 Mar. 1818, a. nearly 86; his w. Abigail d. 27 Aug. 1807, a. 70. 22. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (16), m. at Woburn, Abigail Phipps of Chs. 17 Aug. 1732, and had Sarah, b. 31 Aug. 1736, d. unm. 16 Ap. 1762 (on the day of her father's death); a child, b. and d. 27 Mar. 1738; a child, b. and d. 29 Feb. 1739; Thomas, b. 8 July 1740; Joseph, b. 29 Nov. 1742, m. Alice Kettell, had five chil., and d. 27 Nov. 1790; Abigail, b. 29 Nov. 1744, m. John Goodwin 5 Sept. 1763; Mehetabel, b. 26 Ap. 1746, living unm. 1762; Josiah, b. 6 Aug. 1747, d. young; Josiah, b. Jan. 1749, d. young. Perhaps Amos, b. 2 Aug. 1733, and Joseph, b. 11 Sept. 1735, were of this family; but they are recorded as chil. of Joseph and Sarah. JOSEPH the f. was a ferryman, and afterwards a retailer in Charlestown, and d. 16 Ap. 1762, a. 48 years and six months; his w. Abigail d. 9 Oct. 1773. 23. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (18), m. Margaret Gee of Boston 18 Mar. 1757; she d. 25 Feb. 1773, and he m. Sarah Parsons of Gloucester 27 Dec. 1774. His chil. were Samuel, b. 10 and d. 18 June 1758; Samuel, b. 14 Jan. 1761, d. 2 Dec. 1790; Joshua Gee, b. 11 Ap. 1762; Nathaniel, b. 19 Sept. 1765, lost in ship Tempest, 1781 George, b. 25 Nov. 1768, d. 17 Mar. 1771; Sarah, b. 22 Oct. 1775; Margaret, b. 7 May 1777; Hannah, b. 13 Nov. 1779; Jacob Parsons, b. 4 July 1782, d. 27 Jan. 1794; Nathaniel, b. 17 June 1784; Nathan
;
.
and George, twins, b. 8 May 1786; Lydia, b. 8 June 1788. SAMUEL the f. grad. H. C. 1751, and settled in Gloucester, where he was Schoolmaster, Justice of the Peace, and Representative. He was appointed Naval Officer at
Gloucester 23 Nov. 1776.
24.
;
He d. 15 July 1806 his w. Sarah d. 1808. Samuel (19), m. Elizabeth Wilson 20 Mar. 1770, who was the mother of all his children. He m. 2d, wid. Lucy Dana. His chil. were, a child, stillborn 27 or 29 May 1770; Elizabeth, b. 7 May 1772, m. Ebenezer Brooks of Medford 31 Mar. 1796; Samuel, b. 24 Dec. 1774; John, b. 6 Mar. 1777, d. 4 Sept. 1796; Joseph, b. 28 Feb. 1779; a child, d. 14 May 1781; Aaron, b. 3 Ap. 1782, d. 21 July 1796; James, bap. 23 May 1790. SAMUEL the f. resided in Menot., and d. 6 Nov. 1822; his w. Lucy d. 15
SAMUEL,
s.
of
Dec. 1815,
25.
a. 65.
had and
s. of Samuel (19), m. Mehetabel Cutter 7 Feb. 1781, and Polly, bap. 9 Dec. 1781; Harriet, bap. 29 Oct. 1783, m. Samuel Jaques, d. 21 July 1837; Charles, b. 21 Nov. 1788, d. unm. 7 July 1807 ; Eliza, bap. 16 Sept. 1791, m. John Harris 1818; Sarah, b. 15 Dec. 1793, m. Henry NATHAN the f. resided within the bounds of Chs., and d. 27 Jaques, 1815. Feb. 1825; his w. Mehetabel d. 3 Feb. 1832, a. 75. 26. JONATHAN, s. of Samuel (19), m. Rebecca Munroe of Lex. 1 Feb. 1795, and had Rebecca, bap. 10 Jan. 1796; Sophronia, bap. 1 Oct. 1797, d. 9 Oct. 1802, and called Miranda in the Record of her death; Elbridge, bap. 26 Dec. 1802; Winslow, bap. 24 Mar. 1805; Miranda, bap. 30 Nov. 1806; Julia Ann, bap. 18 Sept. 1808; Francis Henry, bap. 25 Ap. 1819. JONATHAN the
NATHAN,
f.
resided in Menotomy.
27.
JOSIAH, s.
6 Dec. 1786, m.
of Samuel (19), m. Olive Winship of Lex., and had Olive, b. Joseph Roby Sally, b. 15 Sept. 1788, m. Stephen Wheeler,
;
44
690
WHITTEMORE.
and 2d, Joshua Avery; Sophia, b. 22 Nov. 1790, m. Ezekiel Cutter; Louisa, 22 Feb. 1792 or 1793, m. Peleg Bradley; Josiah, b. 8 May 1795; Clarissa, b. 22 June 1797; Edward, b. 22 Nov. 1799; Elmira, b. 28 Dec. 1801 Mary, b. 27 July 1803. JOSIAH the f. was styled Major, resided in Menotomy, and his w. Olive d. in May or June 1840, a. 74. d. 3 Ap. 1836 28. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (20), m. Sukey (Susanna) Cutter 16 Nov. 1783, and had Sukey, b. 1784, m. Jonathan Butterfield 21 Sept. 1806; Thomas, b. about 1786; Ezekiel, b. 1788; these three bap. together 12 Oct. 1788; Ebenezer Francis, bap. 21 Feb. 1790, d. 23 Aug. 1796; Anna Cutter, Maria, bap. 27 July 1794, d. 10 Feb. 1795; Maria, bap. bap. 30 Oct. 1791 15 Oct. 1797; Ebenezer Francis, bap. 25 Aug. 1799, d. 13 Dec. 1804. THOMAS the f. res. in Menotomy, and d. 22 Sept. 1805; his w. Susanna d. 11
b.
; ; ;
Oct. 1818,
29.
a. 57.
s. of Thomas (20), m. Helen Weston 18 June 1781, and had Amos, b. 16 Ap. 1782; Timothy, b. 10 Mar. 1784; Helen, b. 29 July 1786, d. 17 Nov. 1787; Helen, b. 21 Ap. 1788, m. Jonas Prentiss 22 Feb. 1807; Clarissa, b. 3 Nov. 1789, m. Thomas Davis 2 Oct. 18<)8, d. 11 May 1814; Harriet, b. 6 Ap. 1792, d. 9 Sept. 1802; Nancy, b. 1 May 1794, d. 25 Sept. 18(>2; Gershom, b. 20 Jan. 1796; Henry, b. 1 Sept. 1798; Letitia, b. 26 Mar. 1799, m. Horatio H. Fiske 2 Mar. 1818; Mary, b. 2 Sept. 1801, d. 24 Aug. AMOS the 1802; Harriet, b. 13 Aug. 1806, m. Herman Foster 8 Nov. 1826. f. resided in Menotomy, and was widely renowned as a card maker, and invenHe d. 27 Mar. 1828 his w. Helen d. 15 tor of a machine for that purpose.
AMOS,
Oct. 1829.
WILLIAM, s. of Thomas (20), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nehemiah Cutter, Nov. 1783, and had ''Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah, William, Caroline; the foregoing d. unm. James Madison, m. twice, a physician, d. in Brighton 7 Dec. 1863, aged 68; Thomas Jefferson, m. and removed to New York; Mary Ann, m. Henry S. Low of Boston, is deceased; John Hancock, name changed to William, m. Lucinda King of Charleston, S. C., served in the Mexican War, and d. in Oregon about 1850-51." {Cutter Family, p. 250.) WILLIAM the f. res. in Menotomy, and was largely engaged in the manufacture of cards and He was Selectman of Cambridge 1803-1805, Representain merchandise. He d. 2 Nov. 1842, a. 81. tive, 1804-1806, Senator, 1820, 1821. 31. SAMUEL, s. of Thomas (20), was a merchant in New York, and President of the Greenwich Bank. He d. 22 June 1835, aged 61. 32. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (24), m. Lydia Perry 19 July 1796, and had Samuel, bap. 21 Jan. 1798; John, bap. 6 Ap. 1800; Lydia, bap. 17 May 1802; Maria, bap. 31 Ap. 1804 Aaron, bap. 12 Ap. 1807. SAMUEL the f. d. 8 Oct.
30. 2
;
1808, a. 34.
AMOS, (29), m. Rebecca Russell of Charlestown 22 April and had Mary, bap. 5 May 1805, m. Dr. Benjamin Cutter 26 Sept. 1824; Rebecca, bap. 5 Ap. 1807; Helen, bap. 20 Aug. 1809; Clarissa Davis, bap. 17 May 1812; Amos, bap. 19 June 1814, a machinist and inventor in Cambridgeport James Russell, bap. 15 Mar. 1818; Charles Barton, bap. 9 July 1820; George Clinton and Caroline Langdon, bap. 7 Oct. 1827. AMOS the f. res. at West Camb., and d. 5 Aug. 1827, a. 45. 34. PHILIP, his w. Sarah, and children Philip Augustus, William Henry, Henry William, and Sarah, were all bap. 18 July 1824. 35. THOMAS, s. of Joseph (22), m. Elizabeth Rand 8 Ap. 1762, and had
33.
s.
of
Amos
1804,
age. 36. JOSEPH, s. of Thomas (35), m. Comfort Quiner 11 Ap. 1794, and had Eliza, b. 14 Sept. 1794, d. 7 Dec. 1795; Eliza, b. 12 Feb. 1796, m. Barnabas Edmands of Charlestown 8 Aug. 1824, and d. 5 June 1852 Joseph, b. 12 Dec. 1797, a merchant in Fredericksburg, Va., m. Narcissa Perry, and d. 22 July 1831 Thomas, b. 1 Jan. 1800, a clergyman in Cambridge, and Pres. of Camb. Bank, and of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, Editor of the Trumpet, and author of several valuable books, m. Lovice Corbett of Milford 17 Sept.
; ;
Sarah, b. 16 Jan. 1 763; Joseph, b. 11 Sept. 1766. THOMAS the f. resided in Chs., was a chaise maker, and d. 7 Ap. 1773, a. about 33; his w. Elizabeth d. 1815, at a good old
WHITTEMORE
WILLARD.
;
691
Sarah Rand, b. 18 Mar. 1821, res. in Cambridgeport, and d. 21 Mar. 1861 1802, in. John Ferguson 1818, and was bur. 10 Aug. 1833; Benjamin Bruce, b. 5 Nov. 1805, a merchant in Fredericksburg, d. unm. 10 Aug. 1829; Abigail Riggs, b. 22 Oct. 1807, m. Lucius R. Paige 5 Oct. 1834, d. 23 Dec. 1843; John McClure, b. 16 Jan. 1810, a merchant in Fredericksburg, and afterwards in New York, m. Martha Eliza Lucas 17 Jan. 1831; Alice Bruce, b. 29 Nov. 1811, d. 22 Nov. 1812; Alice Bruce, b. and d. 8 May 1814. JOSEPH the f. was a baker, and resided in Boston until about 1806, when he removed to Chs., where he d. 13 Jan. 1814, a. 47 ; his w. Comfort d. 1830. WIGGLKSWORTH, EDWARD, s. of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth of Maiden, by his last wife, Sybil Sparhawk, m. Sarah, dau. of President Leverett, 15 June 1726 she d. s. p. 9 Nov. 1727, and he m. Rebecca, dau. of Deac. Joseph His children were Rebecca, b. 18 June 1730, m. Coolidge, 10 Sept. 1729. Prof. Stephen Sewall 9 Aug. 1763, and d. 1783; Edward, b. 7 Feb. 1732; Mary, b. 26 Ap. 1733, d. 5 July 1758; Sybil, bap. 19 Sept. 1736, d. 28 Dec. 1740. EDWARD the f. was born about 1692, grad. H. C. 1710, Fellow 17241 765, D. D. Edinb. 1 730, and was the first Professor of Divinity in H. C. 1 721In a 1765. He d. 16 Jan. 1765 his w. Rebecca d. 5 June 1754, aged 54. funeral sermon, Dr. Appleton described him as a learned, faithful, and success" ful teacher, a "very useful member of the College government and corporaHe res. on the tion, and a Christian whose example was worthy of imitation. northerly side of Harvard Street, opposite to the head of Holyoke Street, on the spot previously occupied by Hooker, Shepard, Mitchell, and Leverett. The southwesterly corner of Boylston Hall stands on a part of the estate. 2. EDWARD, s. of Edward (1), m. Margaret Hill of Boston (pub 5 Oct. 1765); she d. Ap. 1776, and he m. Dorothy Sparhawk 6 Jan. 1778; she d. 25 Aug. 1782, and he m. Sarah Wigglesworth 20 Oct. 1785. His children were Margaret, b. 28 Dec. 1766, m. Rev. John Andrews of Newburyport 8 Sept. 1789, and survived to old age; Mary, bap. 13 Nov. 1768, d. Aug. 1784; Edward Stephen, bap. 17 Nov. 1771, grad. H. C. 1789, commenced the study of
; ;
medicine, but d. of consumption Aug.
June 1775
1790; Thomas, bap. 1 Aug. 1773, d. Thomas, b. in Concord (where the College exercises were pursued during the occupation of Cambridge by the Continental Troops) 2 Nov. 1775, an eminent merchant in Boston, d. 27 Mar. 1855. EDWAKD the f. grad. H. C. 1749, was Tutor 1764, succeeded his father as Hollis Professor of Divinity He resigned his Profes1765, Fellow of the College 1779-1792, D. D. 1786. sorship in 1791, being disabled by paralysis, which office, President Quincy " he sustained for says, twenty-six years, with an equal reputation for learnHe inherited the homestead, and d. 17 ing, fidelity, and a catholic spirit."
;
June 1794.
WILCOX, WILLIAM (otherwise written Wilcock, Wilcocke, and Wilcocks), m. Mary Powell 22 Jan. 1650, resided on the southerly side of Brattle Street, near Ash Street, and d. 28 Nov. 1653; he probably had no children. In his will, he devised his whole estate to his wife, so long as she remained his widow; 5 to to Mr. Mitchell, upon her death or marriage, it was to be distributed, Elder Frost, 4; to cousin John Woods, 10; "to my loving brethren that were of my family meeting, viz., Roger Bancroft, John Hasting, Thomas Fox, William Patten, and Francis Whitmore, I give 20s. apiece"; to my sister wid. Hall, 20s.; to her son William and daughter Susan, 10s. each; " to my honest brother Richard Francis, 20s."; to bro. John Taylor, 40s.; to Thomas and the remainder to the children of his Shepard, for his father's sake, 5 sister Christian Boyden in England. His w. Mary m. Jacob Eliot 9 January
; ;
1654-5.
WILKINSON, ISABEL, a widow, was here early, and had several grants of land; she probably resided in the family of Edward Winship, with whom she owned certain lands in common; she was mother to the wives of Edward Winship and Edward Goffe. She d. 23 Feb. 1655. WILLARD, MAJOR SIMON, from the County of Kent, came to N. Eng. in 1634, and settled here; his residence was at the S. E. corner of Dunster and
Winthrop
streets; in
1635 he removed to Concord, of which place he was
692
WILLARD
WILLIAMS.
;
for about forty years in the most prominent citizen during his long life succession, he served as Representative and Assistant, and commanded the
Middlesex militia many years. 2. JOSEPH, son of Rev. Joseph of Biddeford, who was son of John, a merchant at Jamaica, who was son of Rev. Samuel of Boston, Vice President of Harvard College, who was son of Major Simon (1), was born at Biddeford 29 Dec. 1738, grad. H. C. 1765, Tutor and Fellow, ordained at Beverly 25 Nov. 1772, D. D. 1785. He was inaugurated President of Harvard College, 19 Dec. 1781, rem. his family here 2 Jan. 1782, and continued in office, and a resident of Cambridge, during the remainder of life. He m. Mary Sheaffe of Portsmouth 7 Mar. 1774, and had in Beverly, Sophia, m. Francis Dana, Jr., 4 .Aug. 1802; Augustus, grad. H. C. 1793, d. unm. 7 July 1799; Mary, d. unm. 26 Dec. 1860; and Sidney ; and in Camb., Samuel, b. 26 Ap. 1782, resided several years in Waltham, d. here unm. 18 Oct. 1848, a. 66 Thomas Hollis, b. 14 Feb. 1784, d. 23 Nov! 1785; Horatio, b. 16 Sept. 1785, d. 8 Aug. 1793 Jacob Sheaffe, b. 19 Jan. 1788, a student in H. C., d. 27 July 1805, a. 17 Lucinda, b. 12 Dec. 1789, d. unm. 11 Ap. 1864; Amelia, b. 9 Oct. 1791, d. 9
; ;
;
Jan. 1793; Augusta, b. 31 Oct. 1792 Ann Theodora, b. 14 Oct. 1795; Joseph, b. 14 Mar. 1798, grad. H. C. 1816, a lawyer in Lancaster and afterwards in Boston, clerk of Supreme Judicial Court, d. 12 May 1865. JOSEPH the f. d. 25 Sept. 1804; his w. Mary d. at Portsmouth, N. H., 6 Mar. 1826. 3. SIDNEY, s. of Joseph (2), grad. H. C. 1798, prepared for the ministry and often preached, but was not ordained; Professor of the Hebrew and other Oriental Languages in H. C. from 1807 to 1831; Representative 1833, 1837, 1843; Senator 1834, 1835; member of the Executive Council 1837, 1838, 1840; and Mayor of Camb. 1848, 1849, 1850. He m. Elizabeth Ann Andrews of Ipswich 28 Dec. 1815; she d. 17 Sept. 1817, and he m. Hannah S. Heard of Ipswich 27 Jan. 1819. His chil. were, by 1st w., Joseph A., who m. Penelope Cochran 5 Sept. 1841, res. on Allston Street, and has long been Clerk of the Superior Court in Boston; and by 2d w., Mary Ann, d. young; Augustus, grad. H. C. 1841, d. 1842; Hannah Stamford, m. John Bartlett 4 June 1851. SID-
NEY
the f. was b. 19 Sept. 1780, res. several years in Ward One, and afterwards on Allston Street, where he d. 6 Dec. 1856 his w. Hannah S. d. 28 June 1824. 4. JONATHAN, parentage not ascertained, by w. Elizabeth, had Abigail, b.
;
His 18 Sept. 1716; Josiah, bap. 21 Oct. 1722; Benjamin, bap. 5 Jan. 1724. w. Elizabeth having d. he m. Mary, dau. of Samuel Cook, 23 Jan. 1728-9, and rem. to Sutton before 29 Nov. 1731. WILLIAMS, ISAAC, s. of Robert Williams, b. at Roxbury 1 Sept. 1638, m. Martha, dau. of Deac. William Park of Roxbury, and settled on the south side of the river, in what is now Newton, 1660, being one of the first three who established themselves in the West Parish. He was a weaver by occupation, but a prominent man in public life, being a Captain of Militia in a troublesome and dangerous period, and Representative six years between 1692 and 1705. His w. Martha d. and he m. Judith Cooper before 1680; he His chil. were Isaac, b. 11 Dec. 1661, had a large d. 11 Feb. 1707, a. 69. family, and d. at Roxbury 1739; Martha, b. 27 Dec. 1663; William, b. 2 Feb. 1665, grad. H. C. 1683, minister at Hatfield, d. 1741; John, b. 31 Oct. 1667; Eleazar, b. 22 Oct. 1669, rem. to Stonington, and d. 1725; Hannah, b. 8 Oct. 1671 ; Thomas, b. 23 Dec. 1673 by second w. (Judith Cooper), Peter, b. 31 Aug. 1680, d. 1732; Elizabeth; Mary; Sarah, b. 2 Oct. 1688; Ephraim, b. 21 Oct. 1691, a Colonel, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Abraham Jackson, by whom he had Eleazer, b. 23 Feb. 1715, a Colonel, and the founder of Williams Colin lege, slain in battle 8 Sept. 1755; and Thomas, b. 1 Ap. 1718, a physician Hatfield, d. 1775 he d. when on a visit at Hatfield Aug. 1754, a. 63. 2. JOHN, perhaps s. of Isaac (1), though Jackson says that Isaac's son John removed to Stonington, Conn., res. at Menot., and by w. Mary had Jason, b. 1 Nov. 1694, living in 1748; John, b. 22 May 1697; Nathaniel, b. 31 Oct. 1699, pub. Anna Davies 30 July 1738, d. at Menot. s. p. 20 July 1748; Mary, b. 26 Oct. 1701 ; Martha, b. 29 June 1704; Damaris, b. 17 Feb. 1706-7, m. Jer; ;
WILLIAMS.
emiah Russell 12 Jan. 1737-8; Thomas,
1712.
693
b. 2 Jan. 1708-9; Sarah, b. 31 May Jan. 1752, a. 85, according to Rev. Mr. Cooke's Record of deaths; his w. Mary d. 17 Feb. 1772. a. 102, according to the same Record. See SPARHAWK, NATHANIEL (4). 3. THOMAS, s. of John (2), m. Sarah Cutter (pub. 1 Oct. 1731); she d. 1
JOHN
the
f.
d. 17
Nov. 1772, and he m. Mary Winship (pub. 14 Aug. 1773). His chil. were Thomas, b. 22 Feb. 1733-4, pub. to Lydia Child of Newton 18 Mar. 1754, and d. 26 July 1756; John, b. 27 Jan. 1735-6, m. Elizabeth Priest of Waltham 13 Dec. 1764; Gershom,b. 3 Mar. 1738; Sarah, b. 9 Ap. 1740, in. Samuel Swan 1 Jan. 1761; Hannah, b. 26 Ap. 1742, d. unm. 7 Feb. 1773; Aaron, b. 28 May 1744, m. Deborah Robbins of Lex. 12 May 1772; a child, b. and d. 12 Ap. 1751 Mary, b. about 1752, d. 5 June 1769, a. 17. THOMAS the f. res. at Menot., and d. 5 Feb. 1809, a. 100 years and one month; the Church Record calls him 101 years old. 4. GERSHOM, s. of Thomas (3), m. Martha Wilson 3 Feb. 1765, and had Gershorn, bap. 6 July 1766, and d. 31 Dec. 1808; Martha, bap. 27 Nov. 1768; Mary, bap. 16 June 1771, d. 12 Sept. 1771. GERSHOM the f. res. at Menot. and d. 6 Dec. 1824, a. 86; his w. Sarah d. 24 May 1803, a. 60. 5. AMASA, parentage not ascertained, m. Peggy Cunningham 17 Ap. 1796, and had Elizabeth, b. 12 Feb. 1797 Amasa, b. 5 Feb. 1799; Mary, b. 5 Dec. 1801 Lydia, b. 5 July 1803; Thomas Burrell,b. 30 Oct. 1805. 6. JAMES, parentage not ascertained, by w. Ann had Ann, b. 7 Aug. and d. 9 Oct. 1797; Ann the mother d. 20 Sept. 1797. 7. WARHAM, s. of Rev. John Williams of Deerfield, and grandson of Deac. Samuel of Roxbury, was b. 7 Sept. 1699, grad. H. C. 1719, ordained at Watertown West Precinct, now Waltham, 11 June 1723, m. Abigail Leonard of Norton 1724, and had John, b. 1 and d. 21 Mar. 1728-9; Abigail, b. 12 Feb. 1729-30, m. Rev. Samuel Woodward of Weston 11 Jan. 1753; Anna, b. 27 May 1732, m. Rev. Jacob Gushing, her father's successor, 8 Nov. 1753;
; ; ;
Eunice, b. 8 Feb. 1733-4, d. 30 Sept. 1743; Samuel, b. 12 Dec. 1735, d. 27 Feb. 1742-3; Sarah, b. 2 Dec. 1737, m. Rev. Joseph Parsons of Brookfield 24 Nov. 1763,; he d. 17 Jan. 1771, and she m. Rev. Eliphalet Williams of Hartford 12 June 1777; Leonard, b. 13 July 1739, grad. H. C. 1758, a physician, resided at Waltham, where he was a Selectman, Assessor, Treasurer, Town Clerk. Representative, and Justice of the Peace; he d.unm. 24 Dec. 1799; Eleazar, b. 8 Jan. 1741-2, d. 5 Mar. 1742-3; Samuel, b. 23 Ap. 1743. Rev. WARHAM the f. d. 22 June 1751; his w. Abigail d. of cancer 18 Sept. 1789, a. 86. 8. SAMUEL, s. of Warham (7), grad. H. C. 1761, a clergyman, LL. D. (Y. C.) 1786, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in H. C. from 1780 to 1788, rem. to Vermont about 1789, of which state he published a History, and d. 1817. The only child (by his w. Jane) whose birth is recorded here, was Charles Kilborn, b. 23 Jan. 1782, grad. Mid. Col. 1803, and
became Governor
9.
of
s.
Vermont.
of Deac. Nathaniel, was b. at Boston 25 Aug. 1675, grad. H. C. 1693, ordained in the College Chapel 1698, and went to Barbadoes, but soon returned and was appointed Master of the Grammar School in Boston He was nephew, by the mother, to 1703, which office he held until 1734. Dr. James Oliver of Camb. and availed himself of the opportunity to study the science of medicine. Upon the death of Dr. Oliver, Mr. Williams, " being furnished with his books, papers, medicines, and apparatus, belonging to the physical art "engaged in the practice, and became an eminent physician. He m. in Camb., Ann Bradstreet, dau. of Dr. Samuel, and granddaughter of Gov. Simon Bradstreet, 21 Nov. 1 700 she was sister to the wife of his uncle, Dr. Oliver. He d. 10 Jan. 1737-8, a. 62; his wife Ann and two An obituary was published in the N. Eng. Weekly Jourdaughters survived. nal, a week after his decease, from which most of these facts are gathered.
NATHANIEL,
ABRAHAM, of Marlborough, m. Elizabeth Bordman 18 Feb. 1730-31. THOMAS, m. Abigail Sparhawk 30 Aug. 1733. JOHN, of Lynn, m. Martha Bordman 9 Oct. 1740. ABIGAIL, m. John Savell 7 Aug. 1755. ANNA, in.
Ebenezer Parker 25 Oct. 1749.
JOSIAH, m. Experience Hovey of Lex. 17
694
Dec. 1776.
WILLIAMS
WILSON.
MEHETABEL, m. Manuel Grace 10 Ap. 1777. EXPERIENCE, m. Ebenezer Prentice 24 Nov. 1 785. WILLIS, GEORGE (otherwise written Willowes and Willois), m. wid. Jane Palfrey, and had Thomas, b. 28 Dec. 1638; Stephen, b. 14 Oct. 1644. GEORGE the f. res. on the westerly side of Garden Street, near the Washington Elm. Hed. 1690; a second w. Sarah survived. 2. THOMAS, s. of George (1), by w. Grace, had in Billerica, Grace, b. 18 May 1664; Stephen, b. 25 Nov. and d. 30 Dec. 1669; John, b. 3 Ap. 1671 and in Medf., Elizabeth, b. 19 Oct. 1673 Jane, b. 9 Ap. 1677 Stephen, b. 16 Nov. 1679; Mary, b. 1 Mar. 1682; William, b. 7 July 1685, and d. at Medf. 27 Aug. 1754, and his w. Rebecca d. 30 Sept. 1754, a. 62. THOMAS the f. was elected Deacon of the Medford Church at its organization or reorganization 1713, and d. 14 Aug. 1725. 3. STEPHEN, s. of George (1), by w. Hannah had Hannah, b. about 1672, m. Seccomb, and is named in her father's will Stephen, b. about 1674 Thomas, Abigail, b. 3 Oct. 1677, m. William Patten of Camb. 3 Jan. 1 700-1 701 b. 16 Nov. 1679, a Deacon of the Medf. Church, d. 16 May 1731 John, b. 6 Aug. 1681 Jonathan, b. 1 Ap. 1683; Lydia, b. 1 Mar. 1684-5, prob. d. young; Benjamin, b. 30 Oct. 1686, a Deacon of the Medf. Church; his w. Ruth d. 19
;
;
Feb. 1752, a. 59 Mary, b. 15 July 1690, in. Parker. STEPHEN the f. was a carpenter, and resided in Medf. where he d. 29 July 1718; his w. Hannah d. 22 Mar. 1732, a. 80. 4. STEPHEN, s. of Stephen (3), m. Susanna, dau. of Maj. Jonathan Wade, 18 Dec. 1698, and had Susanna, b. 1699, d. 7 Nov. 1700. a. 1 year; Deborah, STEPHEN the f. d. 13 Mar. 1717-18. b. 27 June 1701, d. unm. 15 July 1718. ESTHER, w. of Andrew, d. here 29 Dec. 1721, a. 24. WILLY, TIMOTHY, m. Elizabeth Daues 4 Dec. 1677. WILSON, ROBERT, m. Deborah, dau. of Andrew Stevenson, and had Deborah, b. 25 Sept. 1666, m. Elisha Bull 7 June 1689; Sarah, b. 6 Oct. 1668, m. Croford Andrew, b. 17 Ap. 1670. ROBERT the f. d. prob. about 1685. 2. ANDREW, s. of Robert (1), by w. Hannah, had Andrew, b. 12 May 1696; Hannah, b. 10 Aug. 1698, m. Benjamin Hopkins of Billerica 27 Mar. 1723; Deborah, b. 12 Oct. 1700, m. John Perry of Lex. before 27 Ap. 1724; John, b. 28 Jan 1702-3; Mary,\). 11 Mar. 1706-7; Damaris, b. 1 Nov. 1708, d. young; Damaris, b. 25 Aug. 1710; ANDREW the f. d. 1722 his wid. Hannah survived. 3. ANDREW, s. of Andrew (2), m. Sarah Sherman of Wat. 7 June 1722, and had Sarah, b. 1 Nov. 1722, m. Jonathan Wyeth 14 Nov. 1750; Joseph, b. 11 Dec. 1724; Hannah, bap. 19 Feb. 1726-7; Damaris, bap. 8 Dec. 1728; Josiah, bap. 24 May 1730; Lydia, bap. 28 May 1732; Andrew, bap. 29 Ap. 1733. ANDREW, the f. res. at Menot., and d. 20 June 1757; his w. Sarah d.
;
;
27 Nov. 1772,
4.
a. 77.
(2), by w. Martha, had Josiah, bap. 24 May 1730; 1732; John, l>ap. 17 Mar. 17334, d. young; John, bap. 30 Nov. 1740; Martha, bap. 2 Jan. 1742-3, m. Gershom Williams 5 Feb. 1765; Phebe, bap. 19 May 1745, m. Nathan Swan 21 June 1770; Anna, bap. 21 Jan. 1749-50; m. Edward Richardson of Concord 16 May 1771 Susanna, bap. 1 Dec. 1751 Josiah, bap. 5 May 1754. JOHN the f. res. at Menot., and d. 11 Feb. 1773; his w. Martha d. 26 Nov. 1797, a 86.
JOHN.
s.
of
Andrew
Lydia, bap. 28
May
5. ANDREW, s. of Andrew (3), m. Joanna Winship 5 July 1757, and had Andrew, bap. 28 May 1758; Sarah, bap. 15 July 1759, m. "Henry Dana 31 Aug. 1786 Joanna, bap. 7 Dec. 1760, d. unm. 28 Feb. 1780; Benjamin, bap. 15 May 1763, m. Elizabeth Brown 12 Mar. 1787. ANDREW the f. res. in Menot. 6. EDWARD, prob. s. of John (4), res. at Menot., m. Lucy Francis of Medf. 23 Nov. 1758, and had Joseph, b. 9 Oct. 1759, m. Elizabeth Caldwell 6 Mar. Edward, bap. 11 Ap. 1762; Ebenezer, bap. 21 1785; Lucy, b. 21 Jan. 1761 Aug. 1763; Rachel, bap. 17 Feb. 1765; Samuel, bap. 14 Sept. 1766; NaAaron, bap. 17 Mar. Ihaniel, bap. 21 Feb. 1768; William, bap. 5 Nov. 1769 " 1771 a son, b 16 and d. 17 Dec. 1772, " with one hand Francis, bap. 7 Aug. 1774; Andrew, bap. 5 Jan. 1777; Thomas, bap. 25 Oct. 1778. 7. JOHN, s. of John (4), m. Susanna Payne 10 Oct. 1765, and had John,
; ;
;
WILSON
WINSHIP.
695
hap. 2 Nov. 1766, m. Lydia Meek of Salem 31 Mar. 1793, and d. at West Camb. 24 Sept. 1822; Susanna, bap. 14 Ap. 1771; William, bap. 30 Aug. 1772; Sarah, bap. 9 June 1776; Hannah, bap. 15 May 1779. JOHN the f. resided in Menot. 8. JOSIAH, s. of John (4), ra. Hannah Frost 13 Ap. 1780, and had Josiah, bap. 22 Oct. 1780, d. 4 Nov. 1818; Hannah, bap. 8 Dec. 1782. JOSIAH, the f. d. at. Menot. 10 Oct. 1808 his w. Hannah d. 10 Mar. 1810, a. 52. " for his 9. RICHARD, parentage not ascertained, gross abuse of his master, Thomas Cheesholme, in base reviling speeches, and refusing to obey his lawful commands, was censured to be severly whipped." (Col. Rec., 29 Ap. 1641). Perhaps he was the same who had a grant of land 1645. No further trace of him is found on our records. SEABORNE, m. David Fiske 6 Sept. 1655. CATHERINE, m. John Lopaus 6 Nov. 1760. ELIZABETH, m. Samuel Whittemore 3d, 20 Mar. 1770. LYDIA, m. Joseph Belknap 5 Jan. 1773. THOMAS, m. Susanna Patrick 29 Aug. 1785. WINCHESTER, JOHN, owned land on the south side of the river in 1699, but probably was not an inhabitant. The Winchester family was of Brook;
line.
acres near
acres in Rocky meadow. He removed to Kittery, and in 1672 sold to Matthew Bridge 150 acres in Camb., describing it as land bought of Edward
Goffe.
of the Shawshine lands assigned to him in other evidence of his residence here is found on record. WINSHIP, EDWARD, was here in 1635; he m. Jane, prob. dau. of wid. Isabel Wilkinson she d. and he m. Elizabeth before 1652. His children were Sarah, b. Ap. 1638, m. James Hubbard 29 Sept. 1659, and d. in childbed 20 Oct. 1665 Mary, b. 2 July 1641 Ephraim, b. 29 June 1643; Joanna* b. 1 Aug. 1645, d. unm. 19 Nov. 1707 Edward, b. and d. June 1648; Elizabeth, b. 15 Ap. 1652; Edward, b. 3 Mar. 1654; Abigail, b. 13 Feb. 1656, m. William Russell 18 Mar. 1682-3; Samuel, b. 24 Oct. 1658; Joseph, b. 21 June 1661 Margery, b. 11 Dec. 1664, m. John Dickson 12 May 1687 Mehetabel, b. 14 Nov. 1667. EDWARD the f. bought an estate in 1638 containing nearly three acres, at the easterly corner of Brattle and Mason streets, and extending through to the Common. He was one of the most active and energetic inhabitants for many years, a Lieutenant of Militia 1660, Selectman 14 years,
WINCOLL, THOMAS (otherwise written Winckall), owned a house and 8 Ash Street, which he sold about 1638, and probably removed. 2. JOHN, was of Watertown, 1649, when he bought of John Bridge 15
WINES, DANIEL, had a share
1652.
No
between 1637 and 1684, and Representative 1663, 1664, 1681-1686, eight years; he d. 2 Dec. 1688, a. 75; his w. Elizabeth d. 19 Sept. 1690, a. 57. Eleven children survived. This name is written with a remarkably rich variety of orthography; such as Winship, Winshipp, Winshepp, Winshape, Win-
Winshope, Winchip, Winchep, Winchepp, Winchope, Windship, etc. the progenitor wrote his name Winshipp; most of his descendants now write Winship. 2. EPHRAIM, s. of Edward (1), m. Hannah, dau. of Samuel Rayner, 7 Ap. 1670 she d. 10 Nov. 1674, and he m. Elizabeth, daii. of Francis Kendall of Woburn, 9 Nov. 1675. I find no record of children he resided at the Farms, was an Ensign of Militia, and d. 19 Oct. 1696 his w. Elizabeth m. Joseph Peirce of Watertown, before 23 June 1701. Mr. Winship was one of the
shipe,
EDWARD
i "Here lyes the body of Mrs. Joanna WinJoanna, dau. of Edward Winship, devoted herself to the instruction of children, ship, aged 62 years, who departed this life and her services appear to have been re- November the 19 th 1707. garded with great favor. She was honored " This good school dame with the appellation of Mrs., and her epi">' a Jucontains affectionate but taph homely logy of the dead and lamentation for the For children's sake to weep." On her gravestone, still standing in living. the old burying-place, is the following in-
^jXSSS^
scription:
696
WINSHIP.
pioneers at the Farms, and his situation, as well as that of his associates, is faintly shadowed in a memorandum connected with the settlement of his " His honored estate father-in-law, Mr. Francis Kendall of Woburn, in said county, demands these following debts, viz. that his son-in-law, Ephraim Winship, in the time of the former war, called Philip's War, came to his house for shelter, for fear of the Indians, because his living was then in the woods, remote from neighbors and he brought with him his ancient motherin-law Reigner, a widow of whom he was to take care and that the said Francis Kendall did keep the said widow Reigner for said Ephraim Winship with provisions, more than a year and a half, at eight pounds per year," etc. Mid. Prob. Files. 3. EDWARD, s. of Edward (1), m. Rebecca Barsham 14 May 1683, and had Edward, b. 9 Mar. 1683-4; Elizabeth, b. 1 June 1686, m. Walter Russell 3 Ap. 1706; Ephraim, b. 4 Feb. 1687-8; Nathaniel,^. 16 Feb. 1689-90; William, b. about 1691 John, b. about 1697; Jason, bap. 29 Oct. 1699. EDAVARD the f. res. at Menot. and was Selectman eleven years, up to 1701. He d. 10
:
his w. Rebecca d. Aug. 1717, a. about 61. s. of Edward (1), m. Mary Powter (Poulter) 12 Ap. 1687, and had Samuel, b. 8 Jan. 1687-8; Mary, b. 12 Dec. 1689, living unm. and non comp. 5 Dec. 1748, when a guardian was appointed; Elizabeth, b. 26 Nov.
4.
June 1718;
SAMUEL,
1691 John; Abigail ; all these were living 22 Feb. 1708-9, and shared in the division of their father's estate. SAMUEL the f. res. at the Farms, and d. 18 June 1696 ; his w. Mary m. Isaac Powers before 3 Aug. 1702. 5. JOSEPH, s. of Edward (1), m. Sarah Harrington, who d. 26 or 28 Nov. 1710, a. 39, and he m. a second Sarah; his chil.were Joanna, b. 14 Jan. 1689, d. young; Sarah, b. about 1691, m. Nathaniel Carter of Chs. 11 Dec. 1712, and d. before 1726 Susanna, b. about 1693, m. Thomas Carter of Woburn 1 Ap. 1713; Joanna, b. about 1695, d. unm. 17 Dec. 1716, a. 21 (Susanna and Joanna were bap. together 14 Feb. 1696-7); Abigail, bap. 16 Oct. 1698, m. John Manning, and was living in Hopkinton 1725; Joseph, b. 28 Feb. 1700-1701 Margery, b. 8 Aug. 1703, m. John Elder 26 Mar. 1729. JOSEPH the f. res. at Menot., was Selectman 1706 and 1725, and d. 18 Sept. 1725 ; his w. Sarah d. Sept. 1726, and Samuel Jennison of Wat. administered. 6. EDWARD, s. of Edward (3), by w. Sarah, had Edward, b. 26 Aug. 1 707;
; ; ;
Rebecca, b. 22 Aug. 1709, m. John Manning 6 June 1728, and John Wootton of Lex., a mariner, before 13 Dec. 1763 Sarah, b. 25 June 1712, m. Jonas Meriam of Lex., and was mother of Rev. Jonas Meriam of Newton; Mary, b. 25 June 1716, living unm. 1763; Jonathan, b. 28 May 1719; Isaac, b. 8 June 1724. All these are named as children of Edward Winship, deceased, in a deed dated 13 Dec. 1763. EDWARD the f. was a wheelwright and resided at Lex., where he d. 13 May 1 763, a. 79, and was buried at Menot. Mr. Cook calls his age 84, and the Lex. Church Record 82 but both are wrong if I am
;
correct as to his parentage.

7. EPHRAIM, s. of Edward (3), m. Hannah, dau. of William Cutter, 17 June Daniel, 1708, and had Ephraim, b. 23 May 1709; Richard, b. 25 July 1711 b. 27 Aug. and d. 8 Dec. 1713; Joshua, b. 17 Feb. 1715-16; Hannah, b. 18 Aug. 1718, m. Noah Bowman of Cambridge (pub. 14 July 1744) and perhaps others. EPHRAIM the f. res. at Lex., and d. 16 July 1757; his w. Hannah was bur. 9 Ap. 1 764, a. 77. 8. NATHANIEL, s. of Edward (3), m. Rebecca Peirce of Woburn 11 Feb. 1713-14, and had Elizabeth, b. 13 Oct. 1713; Nathaniel, b. 27 Dec. 1716, perhaps the same who d. at Holliston 1754; Rebecca, b. 7 Dec. 1717, m. Elijah Whitney 8 Dec. 1736; Martha, b. 21 June 1720. d. unm. 8 July 1746; NATHANIEL the f. res. in Menot., and d. Abigail, b. 25 Mar., d. July 1722. 1721; his w. Rebecca administered 6 Mar. 1721-2. 9 WILLIAM, s. of Edward (3), m. Thankful, dau. of John Wyeth, 6 Dec. 1716, and had Joanna, b. 26 Jan. 1717-18, d. unm. 9 Ap. 1795; Deborah, b. 27 Dec. 1719, perhaps m. Moses Harrington 23 June 1760; William, b. 1 July 1722; Aaron, b. 16 Feb. 1723-4; Abigail, b. 30 Oct. 1726, m. Joseph Cook, Jr., 22 May 1746; Rebecca, b. 13 Mar. 1728-9, d. young; Tabitha, b. 26 July
;
WINSHIP.
697
1730, d. unm. 15 Mar. 1813; Benoni, b. 30 Mar. 1735, d. 22 May 1805, prob. unm. Some fatality attended this family: Joanna, William, Tabitha, and Benoni became paupers, and most of them d. in the almshouse. WILLIAM the f. res. at Menotomy, and d. 26 Jan. 1774, a. 83. 10. JOHN, s. of Edward (3), m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Wyeth, 2 Oct. 1718, and had Josiah, b. 1 Oct. 1719, d. young; Elizabeth,b. 24 Mar. 1720-21, m. Jason Russell 28 Jan. 1740; John, bap. 8 Dec. 1723, d. young; Ruth, b. 14 June 1726, d. young; John, bap. 1 Sept. 1728, d. young; Ruth, bap. 24 Oct. 1731, m. Ebenezer Shed, Jr., 24 Mar. 1760; Josiah, bap. 28 May 1738, grad. H. C. 1762, ordained in Woolwich, Me., 12 June 1765, d. 2 Sept. 1824; John, b. 3 May 1742; Thankful, b. 14 Mar. 1744-5 Noah, b. about 1747, d. 18 Oct. 1759. JOHN the f. res. in Menot., was Selectman 1742, and one of the first Deacons of the Church there, elected 17 Nov. 1739. He d. 7 Nov.
;
1759,
11.
a.
62; his w. Elizabeth d. 8 Oct. 1759.
a. 58.
JASON, s. of Edward (3), m. Hannah, widow of Nathaniel Prentice, and dau. of John Wyeth, between 4 Mar. and 13 May 1724, and had Lydia, bap. 13 Dec. 1724, living unm. 1766, prob. in. Jabez Wyman of Woburn 13
Jan. 1767; Prudence, bap. 11 Sept. 1726, m. Michael Geohegan of Boston 10 Thornton before 1766; Nathan, bap. 23 Feb. May 1744, and (2d) 1728-9, d. s. p. 27 Sept. 1766; Jason, bap. 28 June 1730. JASON the f. res. in Menot., and d. 26 Dec. 1762; "going from a neighbor's near Menotomy Pond, it is supposed he missed his way, and got into the Pond where he was drowned." (Boston News Letter.) His w. Hannah, who was several years his senior, d. 12 Dec. 1756, a. 63. 12. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (4), m. Jane, dau. of Nicholas Fessenden, 10 Jan. 1711-12; she d. and hem. wid. Lydia Cutter (formerly wid. Simonds) 24 Dec. 1761. His chil. were Samuel, b. 19 Sept. 1712; Martha, b. 27 Dec. 1714, m. William Bowers; Margaret, b. 25 Dec. 1718, d. unm. 13 Feb. 1791. SAMUEL the f. res. in Lex., and was bur. 13 Feb. 1776, a. 88; his w. Lydia was bur. 18 April 1790, a. 95. 13. JOHN, s. of Samuel (4), by w. Bethia, had John, b. 12 July and d. 27
Nov. 1726; John, b. 8 Nov. 1728, d. 1749; Thaddeus, b. 8 Mar. 1731-2, d. before 15 Ap. 1755; James, b. 27 Sept. 1733, m. Lydia Phillips 15 Ap. 1762; Ebenezer, b. 30 Sept. 1735; Bethia, b. 28 Aug. 1738, d. 19 Mar. 1739-40; Josiah, b. 18 July 1741 (was under the guardianship of Ebenezer Eliot 1755, and perhaps was the same who d. at Wat., and on whose estate Jonathan Harrington administered 7 Jan. 1760); Eliot, b. about 1744 (in her 5th year 20 Feb. 1748-9), m. Edward Crafts of Boston 16 June 1768. JOHN the f. res. in Lex. and d. 18 July 1747. 14. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (5), by w. Anna, had Francis, b. 5 Aug. 1723, perhaps of Concord, whose administrator was Joseph Green 24 Aug. 1752; Sarah, b. 25 Ap. 1725, m. Henry Spring 30 Jan. 1744; Joseph, b. 3 Jan. 1727 Anna, b. 24 Sept. 1728, m. Samuel Manning; Man/, b. 18 Ap. 1730, m. Ebenezer Wyeth, Jr., 5 Nov. 1751 Aaron, b. 24 Sept. 1731, d. young; Joanna, b. 30 Sept. 1733, m. Andrew Wilson 5 July 1757; Philemon, b. 12 Oct. 1735, a mariner, res. in Norwich, Conn., 1784 Aaron, b. 26 Dec. 1736. JOSEPH the f res. in Menot., but near the close of life probably removed to the Chs. side of the line. He d. 24 July 1761, a. 60; his w. Anna d. 2 Feb. 1806, a. 101. 15. EDWARD, s. of Edward (6), by w. Esther, had Thomas, b. 25 Oct. 1 729 Benjamin, b. 12 Ap. 1731 Edward, b. 18 Jan. 1733 Joel, b. 13 Nov. 1734 Amos, b. 12 Dec. 1736, d. 19 May 1740; Esther, b. 1 Jan. 1739, d. unm. 1 May 1 789 Isabel, b. 2 Feb. 1743, d. unm. 18 Nov. 1763. EDWAKD the f. was a wheelwright, and res. at Lex. where he d. and was buried at Menot. 7 Dec. his w. Esther d. 10 Oct. 1785, a. 85. 1773, a. 66 16. JONATHAN, s. of Edward (6), m. Isabel Cutter 6 Oct. 1741; she d. 9 June 1742, a. 24, and he m. Elizabeth and had Jonathan, b. 18 June 1747; Joshua, b. 27 Jan. 1748-9; Amos, b. 19 Dec. 1750; Hepzibah, b. 15 Feb. 1753, m. Jonathan Davis 29 Feb. 1776; Alary, b. 18 Feb. 1755, m. Benjamin Hill 5 July 1782; Elizabeth, b 23 May 1757, m. Isaac Learned 8 July 1784; Lucy, b. 9 Feb. 1760, m. Jason Lyon 5 Nov. 1789; Nathaniel, b. 23 June 1762,
;
698
WINSHIP.
perhaps the same who m. Mary W. Symons 28 Mar. 1 799; Edmund, b. 2 Oct. 1765; and probably Abigail, b. about 1767, m. Samuel Kidder 12 Nov. 1787; Isabel, b. about 1769, in. Josiah Hovey 31 Mar. 1789, and d. 21 Nov. 1821, a. 52. JONATHAN the was a wheelwright, and res. at Lex. until after 1765,
.
subsequently removed to Brighton, and purchased the estate afterwards known as Winship's Nursery. 17. ISAAC, s. of Edward (6), by w. Hannah, had Hannah, b. 26 Dec. 1746, d. 23 July 1749; Isaac, b. 7 Ap. 1749, m. Sarah Fessenden 4 Mar. 1773, res. in Medf., and afterwards at Lex., where he was buried 1 Dec. 1834; Hannah, b. 4 May 1752; Sarah, b. 12 May 1754, m. Nathan Fessenden 17 Oct. 1771 Phebe, bap. at Menot. 27 July 1755; and perhaps others. ISAAC the f. res. at Lex., where he d. 8 Ap. 1783; his w. Hannah survived. 18. EPHRAIM, s. of Ephraim (7), m. Mehetabel, dau. of Gershom Cutter, 28 Aug. 1735, and had Gershom,\>. 10 May 1736 Mehetabel, b. 28 July 1738; Ephraim, b. 20 Nov. 1740; Hannah, b. 22 July 1742 Rebecca, b. 11 June EPHRAIM the f. res. in 1744, m. John Edgell of Westminster 9 Nov. 1762. Lex., probably in the easterly section of the town, as he was a member of the Menotomy congregation. He rem. to Windham, Me.
; ;
;
He
19. RICHARD, s. of Ephraim (7), m. Prudence Estabrook, and had Prudence, b. 12 Mar. 1749, d. 2 Oct. 1751; Abigail, b. 2 Jan. 1751; Ephraim, b. 25 June 1753, m. Susanna Marion 8 Ap. 1777; Prudence, b. 16 July 1756, d. young; Hannah, b. 25 Ap. 1757 (so in the Record); Grace, b. 17 May 1759; Rebecca, b. 20 May 1760, m. Simon Childs 28 Sept. 1788; Richard, b. 30 Nov. 1762; Prudence, b. 2 May 1765; Nehemiah, b. 23 Ap. 1767. RICHAKD the f. res. in Lex., and d. 13 Dec. 1768; his w. Prudence survived. 20. WILLIAM, s. of William (9), m. Mary Johnson of Chs. 14 July 1748; she d. in childbed 18 June 1749, and he m. his cousin Abigail, dau. of Deac. Samuel Bowman, 30 Dec. 1755. His children were Mary, b. 11 June and d. 13 Sept. 1749; William, b. 31 Aug. 1756, m. and had family, became a
Thorn, and pauper, and d. 30 June 1821; Susanna, bap. 9 July 1758, m. was buried here 3 Dec. 1841; Lucy, b. 29 Aug. 1760, d. 1 Aug. 1772; Aaron, b. 8 Ap. 1763, probably the pauper styled a "vagrant," 1808; Caleb, b. 26 Feb. 1765, m. Abigail Blackington 28 Sept. 1802, and d. 15 Sept. 1805; Samuel, b. 25 Feb. 1768; Mary, b. 7 Dec. 1771, lived several years with her sister Susanna on the westerly side of North Avenue, d. unm. and was buried 17 Sept. 1747. WILLIAM the f. res. in Menot. In old age, he and his w. Abigail became paupers and were inmates of the almshouse. He d. 4 Feb. 1811, a. 88 years and 7 months (Ch. Rec., 92); his w. d. 22 June 1809, a. 85
years and 3 months (Ch. Rec., 89). 21. JOHN, s. of John (10), m. Judith Carter of Woburn 5 Dec. 1763, and had Noah, b. 18 Nov. 1764; Elizabeth, b. 29 Aug. 1766; John, b. and d. May 1769; Josiah, b. 6 Ap. 1771; Joseph, b. 22 May 1774; Sarah, b. 6 Nov. 1776; Phebe, b. 25 Feb. 1779. JOHN the f. res. in Menot. 22. JASON, s. of Jason (11), m. Ruth Carter of Woburn 24 Mar. 1764; she d. in childbed 30 Jan. 1765, and he m. Mary Piper of Lex. 16 Jan. 1768. His chil. were, a child, b. and d. 29 Jan. 1765; a child, b. and d. 14 May 1769; Prudence Peirce, b. 9 Ap. 1770; a child, b. and d. 8 Nov. 1772; Jason, b. Mar. or Ap. 1775. JASON the f. res. in Menot., and was one of the victims slaughtered by the British troops 19 Ap. 1775. 23. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (12), m. Hannah Loring 22 May 1755, who d. 27 July 1747; Abigail Crosby 5 May 1748; and Rebecca Johnson of Lynn 4 July 1771. His chil. were Hannah, b. 26 Ap. 1736, m. Richard Francis 20 Mar. 1760; Lydia, b. 14 Feb. 1737-8, d. 9 May 1754; Elizabeth, b. 23 May 1740, m. Nehemiah Estabrook 1 Mar. 1759; Martha, b. 12 May 1742, d. 8 Jan. 1746; Samuel, b. 17 Ap. 1744; Loring, b. 10 Dec. 1746, d. 11 May 1754; Simon, b. 2 Nov. 1749; John, b. 15 Jan. 1752, d. 7 Ap. 1754; John, b. 12 May 1754; Stephen, b. 23 Feb. 1756, m. Edith Meriam 5 Feb. 1787, and d. 16 Nov. 1839; Abigail, b. 18 May 1759, m. Robbins. SAMUEL the f. res. at Lex., and d. about 1784 his w. Rebecca d. about 1791. 24. JAMES, s. of John (13), m. Lydia Phillips, 15 Ap. 1762, and had
;
WINSHIP.
699
Bethia, b. 12 May 1762; Lydia, b. 4 Sept. 1763, d. 23 Dec. 1775; Hannah, b. 17 Feb. 1765; Elizabeth, b. 2 Jan. 1767; James, b. 26 Mar. 1768; Daniel, b. 11 July 1769; Joseph, b. 17 Dec. 1770; John, b. 2 June 1772; Rebecca, b. 10 July 1775; Francis, bap. 10 Nov. 1776; Lydia, bap. 14 Feb. 1779; Samuel, bap. 2 July 1780; Wi7/u/m, bap. 10 Nov. 1781, d. 28 Feb. 1782. JAMES the f. res. at Menot.; but after 1 775 his children were bap. in the First Church. 25. EBENEZER, s. of John (13), in. Elizabeth Raymond 19 Aug. 1756, and had a daughter, b. about 1757, d. 1 May 1761, a. 4; a son, b. 1759, d. 29 Oct. 1762; a daughter, b. 21 Jan. 1762, d. 22 Oct. 1762; Ebenezer, b. 23 Aug. 1763; Daniel, b. 12 July and d. Sept. 1765; Samuel, b. 30 Sept. 1766, d. 1 Nov. 1811 ; John, b. 11 Jan. 1 769 ; Joseph (on the Record of births, but bap. Daniel), b. 18 Feb. 1771. EBENEZER the f. res. at Menot. 26. JOSEPH, s. of Joseph (14), m. , and had Elizabeth, b. 17 Sept. 1740, m. Green of Norwich, Conn., and (2d) Ebenezer Wyeth, Jr. (pub. 3 May 1777); Susanna, b. 9 June 1742; Kezia, b. 19 May 1744; a daughter, b. 10 and d. 22 Nov. 1745; Abigail, b. 4 June 1747, d. 16 May 1751; Francis, b. 13 May 1749; Priscilla, b. 24 Ap. 1751 Benjamin, b. 5 Sept. 1753, d. 20 July , , m. 1757; Anne, b. Irijah Sawyer of Norwich, Conn.; Philotheta. b. m. Simeon Bundy of Norwich, Conn.; Philemon ; the last three were living at Norwich, Conn., 1784. JOSEPH the f. res. at Menot., perhaps on the Chs. side, and was a member of Rev. Mr. Cooke's congregation, by whom the births of his children were recorded. He was probably a mariner, was styled Captain, and rem. to Norwich, Conn., where he d. prob. about 1784. 27. THOMAS, s. of Edward (15), m. Sarah Godding 4 Sept. 1753; shed, in childbed 24 Mar. 1754, a. 20, and he m. Sarah Harrington 28 May 1755. His chil. were a child, b. and d. 17 Mar. 1754; Sarah, bap. 25 Dec. 1757; Isabel, b. 29 Mar. 1762; Anna, b. 18 Ap. 1764; Thomas, b. 12 Ap. 1766, m. Ann Harrington 11 Ap. 1793; Moses, b. 20 June 1768; Jonathan, b. 14
;
Sept. 1770, m. Elizabeth Coggan of Natick 12 May 1800, and d. at West Cambridge 23 July 1825; his w. Elizabeth d. 19 June 1823, a. 43 Joel, b. 18 Ap. 1773. THOMAS the f. res. at Lex., and d. 4 Aug. 1796. 28. BENJAMIN, s. of Edward (15), by w. Abigail, had Benjamin, bap. 30 Mar. 1755, m. Mary Adams 4 Ap. 1788; Abel, bap. 12 Sept. 1756, m. Abigail Muzzy 30 Nov. 1780. BENJAMIN the f. res. at Lex., but his chil. were bap. at Menotomy. 29. EDWARD, s. of Edward (15), m. Hepzibah Laughton 9 Feb. 1757, and had Amos, b. 6 Feb. 1758; Exther, b. 4 Mar. 1760, m. Ammi Cutter, Jr., 6 Feb. 1776; John, b. 16 Feb. 1762; Edward, b. 15 Oct. 1764; Olive, b. 8 May 1767. EDWARD the f. res. at Lex., and d. 16 Ap. 1768. 30. JOEL, s. of Edward (15), m. Elizabeth Grant 15 Jan. 1755, and had Mary, b. 14 Mar. 1755, m. Thomas Williams (pub. 14 Aug. 1773); Dorcas, b. 2 June 1758, d. unm. 21 July 1807; Joel, b. 1 May 1761, m. Phebe Hill 14 Nov. 1792, and removed to " Queensbury," N. Y., before 1807; Elizabeth, b. about 1763, m. Fisk of Barre, where she was living in 1807. JOEL the f. was of Lex., rem. "to Royalston after 1761, and d. before Feb. 1788. 31. JONATHAN, s. of Jonathan (16), m. Sarah Richardson 4 May 1769, and had Abiel, bap. 8 Oct. 1769; Jonathan; Nathan, d. between 17 Jan. 1818 and 22 Aug. 1820, leaving dau. Lucy; Francis, bap. 1785; Anna Dana, bap. 27 Sept. 1789, m. Augustus Story 7 Sept. 1809, and d. 19 Feb. 1852. JONATHAN the f. resided in Brighton District, and d. 13 Oct. 1814; his w. Sarah d. 1 Mar.
;
1822, a. 73.
32. AMOS, s. of Jonathan (16), m. Mary Wyman 20 Oct. 1 782, and had Sally Wyman, bap. 1 June 1783, m. Cyrus Holbrook 28 Sept. 1800; Polly (Mary),
bap. 13 Feb. 1785, d. 18 Mar. 1792; Amos, bap. 2 Mar. 1788, d. 29 Oct. 1788. AMOS the f. resided in Brighton District, and d. 12 Nov. 1801; his w. Mary m. Rev. Joel Foster of E. Sudbury (Wayland), and d. 1 Nov. 1833, a. 73. 33. EDMUND, s. of Jonathan (16). m. Mary Angier 3 Dec. 1789, and had Edmund, d. 17 Sept. 1796; Elizabeth; William; Edmund; the last three bap. 1 Jan. 1797; Harriet, bap. 26 May 1799; Josiah Hocey, bap. 21 Mar. 1802; Charles, bap. 17 June 1804; Mart/ Ann, bap. 14 Sept. 1806; Amos, bap. 10
700
WINSHIP
WINTER
WINTHROP.
July 1808, d. young; Amos, bap. 25 Feb. 1810. EDMUND the f. resided in Brighton District, and d. Feb. 1836, a. 70. 34. EDWARD, s. of Edward (29), m. Lucy Learned 22 Nov. 1789, and had Edward, bap. 25 July 1790, d. 13 Nov. 1790; Edward, bap. 9 Oct. 1794, being the seventh Edward in a direct line of descent. EDWARD the f. resided here, and d. of putrid fever 9 Jan. 1794, a. 29; his w. Lucy survived. 35. MOSES, parentage not ascertained, by w. Lucy, had Moses, b. 1760, d. before 29 Ap. 1754. MOSES the f. was of Lexington, and d. about 1773; his w. Lucy m. Benjamin Wheeler of Concord 27 Nov. 1753. 36. THADDEUS. parentage not ascertained, m. Eunice Munroe of Lex. 11 May 1781, and had Eunice, b. about 1782, m. Joseph Porter 24 Jan. 1799, and d. 7 Nov. 1836. THADDEUS the f. prob. d. about 1784, in which year a guardian was appointed for his daughter; his w. Eunice m. Ebenezer Stedman about 1785, and was buried 6 Sept. 1846, a. 87. WINTER, JOHN, by w. Hannah, had Hannah, b. 10 Ap. 1665; John, b. 17 Sept. 1667; Thomas, b. 25 June 1669; Joseph, b. 2 Mar. 1671-2; Mary, b. 6 Feb. 1675; Elizabeth, b. 20 Aug. 1678; Abigail, b. 12 Mar. 1680; Samuel, b. 12 Mar. 1684-5. JOHN the f. res. at the Farms, and d. 18 Jan. 1689-90. WINTHROP, JOHN, s. of Adam, and a descendant in the fourth generation from Governor John Wiuthrop, was b. in Boston 19 Dec. 1714, m. Rebecca, dau. of James Townsend, Esq.; she d. 22 Aug. 1753, and he m. (pub. 25 Mar. 1756) Mrs. Hannah Tolman of Boston, dau. of Thomas Fayerweather. His chil. were John, b. 17 Sept. 1747, grad. H. C. 1765, m. Sarah Phillips, and d. in 1800, leaving posterity; Adam, b. 27 Nov. 1748, grad. H. C. 1767, left home contrary to the desire of his father, became a shipmaster, and "was unfortunately knocked overboard by the boom of his vessel on his passage from hence to London, and was drowned," 11 Feb. 1774 (Bost. News Letter); Samuel, b. 20 July 1750, d. 28 July 1751; James, b. 28 Mar. 1752, grad. H. C. 1767, LL.D. Alleghany College 1817, Postmaster 1775, 1 Register of Probate from 6 Sept. 1775 until 1817, for several years Judge of the Court of
1 After Boston was invested by the American troops, the Provincial Congress, May " Resolved, as the opinion of this 13,1775, Congress, that post riders be immediately established to go from Cambridge, and to ride the following roads, viz. : to Georgetown, in the County of Lincoln, to Haver-
strained to quit the place of business and seek for a subsistence some where else. All the money I have received since the oath was administered on the 25th of May, amounts
to .1 7. 10<j. ; 15 per cent, of it* is pay d for six weeks, that is at [the rate] of \ . a day nearly. Judge then, sir, whether this be sufficient to furnish one, who has no other support, with a subsistence, or indeed whether the office is worth keeping up on this plan ; for it is in vain that we expect it to grow better during times of confusion and a suspension of trade. But I will not take up your attention any longer than to observe, that it is with reluctance I think of leaving Cambridge, and that I shall be glad of any opportunity to promote the common cause as far as shall come within Unless the small sphere of action. Congress think fit to alter the establishment, I must beg the favor of them to consider this letter as a resignation, and grant an order for paying the money which I have received 15 to the Treasurer, after a deduction of per cent., and that the bond may be forthwith
my
Providence, to Woodstock by Worcesand from Worcester to Great Barrington by Springfield, and to Falmouth, in the County of Barnstable, and that post offices be kept as followeth, viz.: one at Cambridge; one at Salem; one at Ipswich; one at Haverhill one at Newburyport one at Kennebunk, or Welles; one at Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland; one at Georgetown, in the County of Lincoln; one at Worcester; one at Springfield one at Great Barrington; one at Plymouth; one at Sandwich one at Falmouth, in the County of
hill, to
ter,
my
And it is further Resolved. Barnstable. that Mr. James Winthrop be appointed for the town of Cambridge," postmaster etc. (Journals of each Provincial Congress, pp. 222, 223.) Only one post office in the Count}* of Middlesex; and even this afforded slight charms, as is evident from the followto the President of the ing letter addressed Prov. Congress: " Cambridge, July 5th, 1775. Sir, When the Congress did me the
honor
town,
to
I was in hopes it would have enabled But as the office will not to tarry here. furnish the single article of victuals, as the establishment is at present, I shall be con-
my
delivered up. The letters which remain I shall be ready to deliver to any new postmaster whom the Congress shall appoint,
appoint
me
postmaster for this
me
and remain with perfect respect, sir, your most obedient servant, JAMES WINTHROP. Hon. President Warren." (Mass. Arch., cxciv. 59.) Jonathan Hastings, Jr., was
appointed, July
8,
1775, as the successor of
Mr. Winthrop, who, two months afterwards,
became Register of Probate.
W1NTHROP
WOOD.
701
Common Pleas, Librarian of Harvard College 1772-1787, one of the founders of the Mass. Historical Soc.,res. on the northerly side of Mount Auburn Street,
between Brighton Street and Brattle Square, and d. umn. 26 Sept. 1821; William, b. 19 Ap. 1753, grad. H. C. 1770, Town Clerk 1782-1788, Selectman ten years, between 1786 and 1802, Senator in 1799, a gentleman farmer, res. on Arrow Street, near Bow Street, and d. unm. 5 Feb. 1825. JOHN the f. was Representative 1774, Councillor 1773, 1775, 1776. and Judge of Probate from 6 Sept. 1775 until his death in 1779. But he was more extensively known in the literary world. He grad. H. C. 1 732, LL.D. 1 773, was Hollis Prof, of Math, and Nat. Philosophy 1738-1779, a Fellow of the College 1765-1779, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Dr. Chauncy said of him, " I suppose none will dispute his being the greatest Mathematician and philosopher in this country and was the world acquainted with his other accomplishments, he would be ranked among the chief for his learning with reference to the other sciences." (Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., x. 159.) He res. on the N. W. corner of Mount Auburn and Brighton streets, and d 3 May 1779; his w. Hannah d.
;
May
790.
a Selectman of Dorchester 1642, 1644, 1652; rem. to Cambridge Village (now Newton) about 1654, and was ordained RulA pond in Newton, near which ing Elder of the Church there 20 July 1664. he resided, still bears his name. His last wife was wid. Isabella Farmer, who survived him, and d. at Billerica 21 May 1686. Elder Wiswall d. 6 Dec. 1683. 2. NOAH, s. of Thomas (1), m. Theodosia Jackson 14 Dec. 1664, and had Thomas, b. 29 Ap. 1666 Elizabeth,}). 30 Sept. 1668; Margaret, b. 1 Mar. 1672; Hannah, b. 1 Ap. 1674; Esther, b. 1 Ap. 1678; Sarah, b. 5 Jan. 1680; all living in 1727, except Thomas. NOAH the f. was a Captain, and was slain in battle by the Indians 6 July 1690, a. about 52, at Wheeler's Pond, now Lee, N. H. his w. Theodosia m. Samuel Newman of Rehoboth, and prob. d. 1727; her estate was divided 10 Nov. 1727 to her children and grandchildren.
; ;
WISWALL, THOMAS, was
3.
EBENEZKR,
s.
of
Thomas
(1), d. 21
June 1691,
a.
45, prob.
s.
p.
By his
dated 10 Jan. 1688-9, and proved 5 Ap. 1692, he devised his estate for life to w. Sarah, and after her decease, to John, Oliver, and Samuel, sons of his brother Enoch Wiswall. WITHEKELL, WILLIAM (otherwise written Wetherell), was here about 1634, and is said to have taught school in Chs. 1635, and in Camb. 1636 and 1637. In March 1635 he sold a house and twelve acres of land on the south side of the river, to John Benjamin; and about 1638 he sold a house and four acres on the southwesterly side of Garden Street, to Thomas Parish. He rem. to Duxbury in 1638, and thence to Scituate, where he was ordained Pastor of the Second Church 2 Sept. 1645, and d. 9 Ap. 1684, a. about 84. His children were Samuel; John; Theophilus ; Daniel (was born 29 Nov. 1630, "at the Free Schoolhouse in Maidstone, Kent, Old England;" was one of the most prominent citizens of New London, Conn., a Judge, etc., and d. 14 Ap. 1719, aged
will
" " No man in the 88. county stood higher in point of talent and integrity); Mary, m. Thomas Oldham of Scituate 1656; Elizabeth, m. John Bryant of Scituate 1657; Sarah, bap. in Scituate 1645, m. Israel Hobart 1676; Hannah, See Deane's Hist. Scituate, pp. 190-194, and Hist. bap. in Scituate 1646. New London, by F. M. Caulkins, p. 363. WOOD, RICHARD (otherwise written Woods and Woodes), by w. Sarah, had Thomas, b. 22 Oct. 1650; Deliverance, b. 8 Jan. 1653; Joshua, b. 29 Mar. 1657, m. Elizabeth Buck 28 Aug. 1678; James, b. 17 June 1659; Rebecca, Rachel, b. 14 Feb. 1660-61. RICHtwin, b. 17 June 1659, d. 7 Feb. 1659-60 ARD the f. was a farmer, and resided on the south side of the river; he d. 17 Jan. 1669; his real estate was sold by his wid. Sarah and son Thomas 13 Ap. 1676, to John Maccoone. 2. SAMUEL, m. Alice Rushton 28 Sept. 1659, and had Samuel, b. 3 Jan.
;
1660.
July 1675.
SARAH, m. John Maccoone 14 June 1665. ABIGAIL m. John Oldham 22 ELIZABETH, m. Joshua Fuller 7 May 1679. HANNAH, m. Thomas Greenwood 8 June 1670.
702
WOODMANCY
WYETH.
,
WOODMANCY, JOHN (otherwise written Woodmanse and Woodmansie) m. Elizabeth, dau. of Elder Jonas Clark, 23 July 1672, and had Elizabeth, b. Aug. " 1674, d. 2 Oct. 1675, a. "one yeare and 6 weekes Margaret, b. 9 July 1678. WOODWARD, RICHARD (otherwise written Woodhead), came to N. Eng. He was then 45 years old; his w. Rose in 1634, and settled at Watertown. His w. Rose d. 6 Oct. 1662, and he m. Ann, wid. 50; sons George, and John. of Stephen Gates, marriage contract dated 18 Ap. 1663, after which he res. here he d. 16 Feb. 1664-5 his w. Ann d. at Stow 5 Feb. 1682-3. she d. about 1658, and he 2. GEORGE, s. of RICHARD (1), m. Mary m. Elizabeth dau. of Thomas Hammond of Newton, 17 Aug. 1659. His chil. were Amos, who administered the estate, prob. m. Sarah, dau. of William Patten, and d. here 9 Oct. 1679, a. 38, according to the Record; the same is given in his nuncupative will, in which he names brothers Thomas and Nathaniel
;
Patten, Daniel and John Woodward, and sisters Mary Waite, Sarah Gates, and Rebecca Fisher ; his w. Sarah had d. here 24 Sept. 1677, and there were prob. no children; Mary, b. 12 Aug. 1641, m. John Waite 13 Jan. 1663-4;
Sarah, b. 6 Feb. 1642-3, m. Stephen Gates, Jr.; Rebecca, b. 30 Dec. 1647, m. Thomas Fisher in Dedham 11 Dec. 1666 John, b. 28 Mar. 1649; Susanna, b. 30 Sept. 1651, d. unm. 22 Sept. 1676; Daniel, b. 2 Sept. 1653, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Dana, and appears to have been an innholder at Medf. 1690; Mary (prob. Mercy), b. 3 June 1656; George, b. 11 Sept. 1660, m. Lydia Brown 31 Dec. 1686, resided in Brookline and d. 1696; Thomas, b. 15 Sept. 1662, d. 1666; Elizabeth, b. 8 May 1664, m. Samuel Eddy 7 Dec. 1693; Nathaniel, b. 28 May 1668 Sarah, b. 3 Oct. 1675, m. John Eddy 6 July 1693. GEORGE the f. resided in Wat. 3. JOHN, s. of George (2), m. Rebecca, dau. of Richard Robbins, had John, b. 7 and d. 22 Sept. 1674; John, b. 18 July 1675, m. Hannah Hyde Jan. 1698, who d. 15 Jan. 1724-5, and he rem. to Canterbury, Conn. Richard, b. 27 Sept. 1677, rem. to Canterbury; Rebecca, b. 29 Oct. 1679, d. 14 Mar. 1681-2 Daniel, b. 24 Sept. 1681, m. Elizabeth Greely. and (2d) Sarah Goodnow; Rebecca, b. 2 Feb. 1682-3, m. in Wat. Stephen Hunting of Dedham 11 Ap. 1709; Marah, b. 6 Oct. 1684, d. 15 June 1689; Jonathan, b. 28 Sept. and (2d) Thankful Myrick. The foregoing births 1685, m. Patience and deaths are recorded here. Jackson adds the following: Joseph, b. 26 Nov. 1688, m. and had heirs Ebenezer, b. 12 Mar. 1690-91, a Deacon in Newton, m. Mindwell Stone 26 Jan. 1716; Abigail, b. 25 May 1695, m. William Greenwood 1715, who rem. to Sherburn, and was a Deacon. JOHN the f. was a weaver, and res. on the south side of the river, near Newton Upper Falls. He erected a house which was standing in 1854, and then occupied by descendants of the 5th and 6th generations. Jackson's Hist. Newton, p. 465. .MARY, m. John Gove 15 Mar. 1677. BRIDGETT, m. Israel Cheever 10 June 1690. ELIZABETH, m. Jonathan Moore of Newbury 14 Aug. 1701. WOOLSON, THOMAS, m. Sarah, dau. of Deac. Samuel Hyde, 20 Nov. 1660, and had Sarah, b. 2 Jan. 1661,m. Thomas Bond 30 Sept. 1680; Thomas, b. 28 Feb. 1666-7; Elizabeth, b. 30 Ap. 1668, m John How at Sudbury 3 Nov. 1686; Mary, b. 28 Nov. 1673, m. Samuel Jones 1700; Joseph, b. 16 Nov. 1677. THOMAS the f. res. on the south side of the river until about 1666, when he rem. to Sudbury, and d. about 1713; his w. Sarah d. 11 Sept. 1711. 2. THOMAS, s. of Thomas (1), m. Elizabeth Chadwick, and had in Wat., John, b. 8 July 1694; Elizabeth, b. 17 Aug. 1698; and in Camb., Jonas, b. 1 Oct. 1711, said to have been one of the first five settlers of New Ipswich, N. H.
;
WORWOOD, RICHARD, d. 13 May 1644. WYER, EDWARD, Jr., in. Abigail Lawrence 1 Sept. 1684. WYETH, NICHOLAS, about 1645 bought house and land on
of
Street, near Phillips Place, which descendants, bearing the name of Wyeth, for
the westerly side
remained in possession of his more than two centuries. He had then a dau. Sarah, by a former wife, b. in England, who m. John Fiske of Wat. 11 Dec. 1651; there is no evidence that he brought other children with him. He m. Rebecca, wid. of Thomas Andrew, and had Mary, b. 26
Garden
WYETH.
703
Jan. 1649, d. unm. May or June 1698; Nicholas, b. 10 Aug. 1651; Martha, b. 10 July 1653, m. Ives, and d. before 1680; John, b. 15 July 1655; William, b. 1 Jan. 1657. NICHOLAS the f. was a mason, and resided on the estate first
purchased by him, being apparently the same which was occupied fifty years ago by Major Jonas Wyeth, and more recently rented by Dr. John W. WebHe d. 19 July 1680 a. 85; his w. Rebecca m. Thomas Fox 16 Dec. 1685, ster.
1698, prob. in May. s. of Nicholas (1), m. Lydia Fiske 6 Sept. 1681; she d. s. p. 10 Mar. 1697-8, and he m. Deborah Parker 30 June 1698, by whom he had Mary, b. 5 and d. 27 July 1699. He was a tanner, and resided in Wat. where he was living in 1716, but d. before 1723, at which time his w. Deborah was a widow. They became paupers before 1716, being the only persons of their name, so far as I have ascertained, who have been a public charge. 3. JOHN, s. of Nicholas (1), m. Deborah, dau. of John Ward, 2 Jan. 1682, and had Elizabeth, b. 6 Oct. 1684, d. young; Deborah, b. 20 Nov. 1686, m. Deac. Samuel Bowman 1714 (she appears to have survived to extreme old age, as the estate of her husband, who d. 1746, was not wholly distributed to his heirs until 1783, after the death of both his sons; if she retained possession of her dower until that period, her age at death was about 97); John, b. 21 Dec. 1688, d. young: Jonathan, b. 3 Mar. 1689-90; Hannah, b. about 1693, bap. 18 Ap. 1697, m. Nathaniel Prentice about 1712; he d. 24 Oct. 1722, and she m. Jason VVinship 1724, and d. 12 Dec. 1756, a. 63; Thankful, b. about 1696, bap. 18 Ap. 1697, m. William VVinship 6 Dec. 1716; Ebenezer, bap. 24 July 1698; Elizabeth, bap. 25 May 1701, m. John Winship 2 Oct. 1718; John, b. Three of these sisters m. three brothers; but the eldest sister 27 Dec. 1705. m. the youngest brother. JOHN the f. was a mason, Constable 1687, 1688, and resided on Garden Street, upon an estate purchased by him, and adjoinHe d. 13 Dec. 1706; his w. ing the westerly side of his father's homestead. Deborah survived. 4. WILLIAM, s. of Nicholas (1), m. Ruth Shepard 16 Oct. 1683, and had m. Joshua Ruth, b. 29 Nov. 1685; William, b. 31 Jan. 1687-8; Deborah, b. Gamage 22 June 1710; Martha, bap. 1696-7, m. William Fessenden 12 Oct. 1716. The last two appear to have been the only survivors 19 Aug. 1702, when their father conveyed his estate to trustees for their benefit. WILLIAM the f. inherited the homestead, and according to a contemporaneous record, was " killed by the Indians about 1 Oct. 1703." His w. Ruth had probably deceased before 1702. 5. JONATHAN, s. of John (3), m. Hepzibah, dau. of Daniel and Hepzibah Champney, and granddau. of Elijah Corlett, and had Jonathan, b. 12 Oct. 1714, d. young; Jonathan, b. 27 July 1716; Sarah, bap. 17 Aug. 1718, d. unm. 23 Sept. 1743; Deborah, bap. 24 Aug. 1720, m. Daniel Prentice 29 Dec. 1743; Noah, bap. 28 Oct. 1722, prob. d. before 29 Dec. 1743, when the estate was divided between w. Hepzibah, and chil. Jonathan and Deborah. JONATHAN the f. was a mason, and d. 24 Sept. 1743. 6. EBENEZER, s. of John (3), m. Susanna Hancock (prob. dau. of Ebenezer), about 1726, and had Ebenezer, b. 8 Ap. 1727; Jonas, b. 19 Feb. 1730-31; Susanna, b. 2 Mar. 1734, m. Daniel Sawin of Wat. 27 Mar. 1755 Mary, bap. 30 Sept. 1739, m. Mansfield Tapley 1 Oct. 1760; Noah, b. 7 July 1742; Sarah, b. 2 Ap. 1746, m. Torrey Hancock 5 July 1774; he d. 17 July' 1778, and she m. Deac. James Munroe 23 July 1783, and d. 31 Mar. 1815. EBENKZKR the f. was a shoemaker, and appears to have resided on the old homestead, which he bought of his sister Hannah, to whom it had been assigned in the division of their father's estate. He d. 3 Ap. 1754; his w. Susanna d. 29 July 1789,
d.
2.
and
NICHOLAS,
a.
prob. 82.
7. JOHN, s. of John (3), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Hancock, 20 Dec. 1733, and had John, bap. 29 Dec. 1734, d. young; Elizabeth, bap. 4 July 1 736, d. young; Martha, bap. 23 July 1738; Elizabeth, bap. 30 Nov. 1740, d. unm. 17 Sept. 1804; John, bap. 6 Mar. 1743; Prudence, bap. 28 Ap. 1745; Jonathan, bap. 13 Nov. 1748, d. 29 Sept. 1756. JOHN the f. was a mason, Selectman from 1750 to 1756, and d. 23 Oct. 1756; his w. Elizabeth d. prob. 23 Feb.
1793, a. 88.
704
WYETH.
s. of Jonathan 8.. JONATHAN, (5), m. Sarah, dau. of Andrew Wilson, 14 Nov. 1750, and had Jonathan, bap. 23 July 1751, non comp. and under guardianship 7 Ap. 1791, and d. unm. 1(5 May 1796; Joseph, twin, bap. 28 July 1751, in. and had children, was of Groton 1792, of Harvard 1796, and d. among the Shakers about 1840; Sarah, bap. 22 Feb. 1761, m. Ebenezer Smith; Hepzibah, twin, bap. 22 Feb. 1761, in. Samuel Brooks of Plymouth. JONATHAN the f. inherited his father's homestead, and d. 26 Ap. 1767 his w. Sarah d.
;
Ap. 1785,
a. 62.
9. EBENEZER, s. of Ebenezer (6), m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Winship, 5 Nov. 1751, and had Ebenezer, b. 17 Dec. 1752; Mary,b. 17 Sept. 1755, d. unm. 7 Oct. 1790 Jonas, b. 17 May 1757; Joshua, b. 6 or 22 Oct. 1758, rem. to the West, and some of his descendants reside in the vicinity of Cincinnati; William, b. 22 May 1760, d. 8 June 1776; Susanna, b. 14 May 1762, in. William Watson 6 Dec. 1779, and d. 29 Dec. 1788; Jacob, b. 29 Ap. 1764; Anna, b. 22 or 27 Feb. 1766, m. Benjamin Cutter 6 Mar. 1785; Gad, b. 27 July 1768, m. Polly Kendall 1 Dec. 1793, rem. to the West, and left descendants in Ohio; John, b. 31 Mar. 1770, settled in Pennsylvania; Elizabeth, b. 12 Feb. 1772, d. unm. 23 Feb. 1793. EBENEZER the f. was a farmer, Selectman seven years between 1781 and 1790. Either he or his father, in 1751, bought a farm adjoining the present line of Belmont, embracing the northwesterly portion of Mount Auburn, and extending to Fresh Pond. He d. 4 Aug. 1799; his w.
;
Mary
10.
d. 9 Sept.
1798,
a. 68.
JONAS, s. of Ebenezer (6), m. Hepzibah Tidd of Lex. 29 Mar. 1753, and had Lucy, b. 7 Feb. 1754, m. Thomas Coolidge of Wat., and removed to Livermore, Me., in June 1790, where she d. 16 Oct. 1850, a. 96 years and 8 months; Jonas, b. 13 Ap. 1762; Tapley, b. 11 May 1765. JONAS the f. res. on the old homestead on Garden Street, was Selectman 1777, 1778, and d. 15 Feb. 1813 his w. Hepzibah d. 25 May 1801, a. 71. 11. NOAH, s. of Ebenezer (6), m. Betty (Elizabeth) Fitch of Bedford 12 Mar. 1763, and had Noah, b. 24 June 1763, d. before Aug. 1807, leaving chil. Elizabeth, b. 4 Mar. 1765, m. Andrew Newell 14 Feb. 1785; Lydia, b. 3 Feb. 1766, prob. m. Nathaniel Woodward of Wat. 26 Sept. 1804; Rhoda, b. 18 May 1768, living in 1807; Dorcas, b. 21 Nov. 1770, m. Samuel Hill, and d. before Aug. 1807, leaving children; Isaac, b. 10 Feb. 1773, d. 6 Sept. 1779; NOAH the f. resided near the northwesterly end of Job, b. 14 June 1776. Garden Street, on the estate afterwards the homestead of his son, Captain Job Wyeth. He d. 10 Sept. 1811; his w. Elizabeth or Betty d. 5 May 1823,
; ;
a. 84.
from 5 Feb. 1766
John (7), grad. H. C. 1760, was a clergyman at Gloucester He was very eccentric to 1768, afterwards a lawyer here. in his habits, a bachelor, and resided with his maiden sister Elizabeth, in a house owned by him, on the westerly side of North Avenue, southerly from Avon Street. After her death in 1804, he boarded in several families, and at
12.
JOHN,
s.
of
d. at the house of his cousin, Noah Wyeth, 2 Feb. 1811. " One of the body I provisions in his will is somewhat illustrative of his character: commend to the dust, and order that no one shall see my dead body but only such as shall lay it out immediately after death." 13. EBENEZER, s. of Ebenezer (9), m. wid. Elizabeth Green of Norwich, Conn., dau. of Captain Joseph Winship (pub. 3 May 1777), and had Ebenezer, bap. 17 May 1778; William, bap. 23 Jan. 1780; Joseph, bap. 29 July 1781; Mar. 1 783 Stephen, b. EBENEZER the f. on the divisElizabeth, b. ion of his father's estate, had the southeasterly portion, now owned by John C-
length
My
Gray, Esq.
14. JONAS, s. of Ebenezer (9), m. Elizabeth Smith 8 Ap. 1792, and had Elizabeth, b. 22 July 1792; Jonas, b. 3 Sept. 1792; Nancy, b. 9 Sept. 1796, m. Richard C. Hastings of Boston 5 June 1823; Susan, b. 6 May 1798, m. Oren Willard of Ashburnham 11 Mar. 1828; Harriet, b. 30 Sept. 1800, m. Reuben Win slow of Roxbury 20 June 1824; Mary, b. 2 Dec. 1802; John, b. 17 Feb. 1805; Francis, b. 14 May 1807, d. 27 May 1862; Sarah, b. 29
Oct. 1809, d. 19 Aug.
1817
Joseph,
b.
20 Jan. 1813, d. unm. at Guadaloupe
WYETH.
705
10 Ap. 1846. JONAS the f. was a tanner, and on the division of his father's estate received the southwesterly portion, adjoining Belmont and fronting on Mount Auburn Street. He d. 3 Oct. 1817 ; his w. Elizabeth d. 16 Sept. 1853,
a. 82.
15. JACOB, s. of Ebenezer (9), grad. H. C. 1792, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Jarvis, 8 Nov. 1796, and had Jacob, b. 10 Feb. 1797, grad. H. C. 1820, a physician, d. in Illinois; Leonard, b. 1797, settled in New York, and d. Jan. 1855; Charles, b. settled in Baltimore, and f. of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, who grad. H. C. 1850; Nathaniel Jarvis, b. 1802, m. his cousin Elizabeth Jarvis Stone 29 Jan. 1824, and d. s. p. 31 Aug. 1856 his w. Elizabeth J. d. 29 Aug. 1865, a. 66. Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth was one of the most About 1830, he led a active and energetic men ever born in Cambridge. band of adventurers across the Rocky Mountains to Oregon; after his return, he engaged in the ice business at Fresh Pond, was one of the first shippers of that article to or coastwise ports, and through life conducted that foreign business with great skill and efficiency. He was not ambitious of public staJACOB tion, and held no municipal office except that of Selectman in 1843. the f. not long after he graduated (20 Sept. 1796), bought of his father eight acres bordering on Fresh Pond and erected the " Fresh Pond Hotel," which has always been a favorite place of resort. This establishment he attended personally until he accumulated a large estate, when he retired from active
,
;
business,
and leased the hotel
to his
with a satisfactory fortune about 1840.
nephew, Jonas Wyeth, who also retired The. elder Mr. Wyeth resided on the
estate until 14 Jan. 1857, when he d. at the great age of nearly 93 years; his w. Elizabeth d. 20 Jan. 1858, a. 90. 16. JONAS, s. of Jonas (10), m. Hepzibah, wid. of John Sawin, and dau. of Samuel Hastings of Lex 15 Nov. 1787 she d. 17 May 1789, and he m. Susan Stearns of Waltham (pub. 24 Sept. 1800). His chil. were Lydia Hastings, bap. 24 Aug. 1788 Henry, bap. 7 Mar. 1790; both prob. d. young; Augustus, bap. 14 Feb. 1802, d. unm., and was bur. 15 July 1831 Lydia, bap. 29 July, and d. 15 Sept. 1804; Jonas, bap. 28 Dec. 1806; Emily, bap. 24 Sept. 1809, m. James B. Read 9 Nov. 1828, d. 19 Sept. 1864 Susan Stearns, bap. 10 Nov. 1816, d. 31 Aug. 1817. JONAS the f., generally known as Major Wyeth, inherited the homestead on Garden Street, was Selectman 1819, 1820, 1821, a large landholder, d. 8 July 1828, a. 66; his w. Susan S. d. 28 Mar. 1855, a. 80.
, ; ;
17.
TAPLEY,
where, he m.
s. of Jonas (10), grad. H. C. 1786, and settled in Sherburn, Sarah Fisk, and had two daus. Elizabeth Fisk, b. 21 Jan. 1799,
and Lucy Coolidge, bap. 17 June 1804. TAPLEY the f. d. 17 Sept. 1813, and was described in an obituary, as "an eminent physician, and a highly useful and respectable member of society, a member of the Mass. Med. Soc., and of the Legislature of the Commonwealth," etc. His w. Sarah d. Mar. 1853, a.
81.
18. JOB, s. of Noah (11), m. Lydia Convers, dau. of Benjamin Francis, 31 Jan. 1804, and had Noah, b. 13 or 15 Ap. 1805 Eliza, b. 6 Mar. and d. 14 Oct. 1807; a twin with Eliza, b. 6 and d. 8 Mar. 1807; Abiel, b. 23 Ap. 1809; Benjamin Francis, b. 31 Mar. 1812; John Bound, b. 22 June 1815; Andrew Newell, b. 29 Ap. 1817. JOB the f. inherited his father's homestead, was Selectman 1814 and 1815, and d. 5 June 1840; his w. Lydia Convers d.4 Jan.
;
1850,
19.
a.
71.
s. of Ebenezer (13), m. Naomi Cook (pub. 1 Mar. 1800), sold his father's homestead 22 Oct. 1801 to Jonathan Hastings (from whom it passed to Hon. William Gray, and from him to his son, Hon. John C. Gray), after which his name disappears from the Records. 20. STEPHEN, s. of Ebenezer (13), m. Sarah Wright 10 Dec. 1815, who d.
EBENEZER,
17 July 1831, a. 37. Their children were Sophia Bradford, b. 24 Ap. 1821 ; Sarah, b. 23 Mar. 1823; Lucy, b. 3 Oct. 1825, d. 30 May 1833; William Wallace, b. 3 Aug. 1828; Francis John Hiyginson, b. 29 June 1831; and perhaps others before 1821. 21. JONAS, s. of Jonas (14), m. Elizabeth N. Flagg 8 Feb. 1820, and had James H., b. 11 June 1820, d. 28 Mar. 1829; Sarah E., b. 21 May 1822; 45
706
WYETH
YOUNG.
Mary Ann,
b. 9 May 1824; Maria, b. 18 Sept. 1826; Caroline, b. 29 July 1828, d. 30 Sept. 1843; James, b. 24 July 1830; Harriet, b. 18 June 1833; Martha, b. 30 June 1835. JONAS the f. after accumulating a competent fortune in the Fresh Pond Hotel, purchased a farm, extending from Mount Auburn Street to Fresh Pond, formerly the estate of Seth Hastings, on which he erected the house in which he resided until 14 June 1867, when he d., a. He was Selectman 1844, frequently Overseer of the Poor, and nearly 73. member of the Common Council 1851. 22. JOHN, s. of Jonas (14), m. Mary Ann Newman of Roxbury 12 Nov. 1839, and had John Jasper, b. 25 Dec. 1841; Marion, b. 8 Ap. 1844; Sarah JOHN the f. was engaged in the West India and Elizabeth, b. 6 Dec. 1846. other foreign trade. About the time of his marriage he erected on his
Mount Auburn Gate, a large and comhe rem. to Rox. and d. 25 Sept. 1871. 23. JONAS, s. of Jonas (16), m. Mary T., dau. of Torrey Hancock, 1 Jan. 1833; and had a son and two daughters, whose birth is not found on record. JONAS the f. inherited the homestead, and other large tracts of valuable land. He spent several years in Philadelphia, engaged in mercantile transactions but returned about 1840, and after residing for several years near the old house on the original Wyeth homestead, erected a house on Raymond Street, where he d. 3 June 1868. 24. ABIEL, s. of Job (18), m. Mary, dau. of Edward Fillebrown, 29 Dec. 1831, and had Charles, b. 1837 and d. 1 Ap. 1861; and perhaps others. ARIEL the f. was bur. 11 Aug. 1841; his w. Mary m. Solomon Sargent 19 Feb. 1851. 25. BENJAMIN FRANCIS, s. of Job (18), m. Zoa Duntin 7 Ap. 1836 (who d. 30 May 1875), and had Lydia Francis, b. 13 Jan. 1837; Zoa Ann, b. 5 Aug. 1838; John Bound, b. 4 Sept. 1839, d. 6 July 1840; John Bound, b. 18 Feb. 1842; Abiel Augustus, b. 21 Nov. 1843; Benjamin Franklin, b. 28 Dec. 1845; Henry Alonzo, b. 1 July 1847; Agnes Maria, b. 24 Ap. 1852; Alice Amelia, twin, b. 24 Ap. and d. 22 Oct. 1852. BENJAMIN F. the f. is well known as Sexton, Undertaker, and Overseer of the Poor. 26. ANDREW NEWELL, s. of Job (18), m. Amelia H., dau. of Royal Stimson, 4 May 1843, and had Amelia Annie, b. 4 Jan. 1846; Susan Elizabeth, b. 28 Dec. 1847. YOUNG, WIDOW, had a grant of land on the south side of the river, Oct. 1638. Her name does not elsewhere appear on the Records of Cambridge.
father's homestead, nearly opposite
;
modious house
INDEX OF NAMES.
BKSIDKS those which are embraced in this Index, several long lists of names occur in A general reference to those lists may be sufficient, inasmuch as some of the History. them are already arranged in alphabetical order, and all may be easily examined. separate Index contains the names in the Genealogical Register.
List List List List List List List List
of of of of of of of of
Inhabitants, 11, 32-36, 58, 59, 75, 76, 80, 81, 444-7. Officers, City, 469-475. Officers, Military, 404-10, 28, 31-36. Officers, State, 459-462. Officers, Town, 462-469. Soldiers, 404, 5, 9, 10, 28-32, 36-38. Tax Payers (1688), 440-444. Voters (1822), 448-451.
Abbott, 32, 336,
7, 40.
Bancroft, 369.
Adams,
11, 32, 35, 75, 143, 301-3, 26, 30, 98, 404, 7. Addington, 110, 11, 16.
Bangs, 312.
Barker, 339.
Blowers, 35, 135, 288. Blumfield, 35. Bond, 4, 226, 310, 403. 18,
19.
Albee, 326.
Albone, 257.
Albro, 50, 303. Aldrich, 323.
Barnard, 32, 135, 143, 288. Barrett, 75, 97, 399, 416, 28. Bartlett, 81, 231.
Batchelder,
310.
14,
168,
233,
Bonner, 350. Bontecou, 321. Boone, 76.

Boradell, 258.
Alexander, 81.
Allen, 11, 32, 175, 233, 82, 320, 33, 86. Amee, 438.
Baxter, 266, 327, 53. Beach, 81.

Beale, 32. 54, 9, 69, 224, 56, 70, 9.
Bordman,
374.
44,
5, 59, 75,
124,
5, 32, 3, 42, 75, 6, 9, 82, 4,
212-14, 27,31,3,84,92,7,
Ames, 256, 317, Amsden, 399.

Anable, 332.
61.
Bean, 225. Beebe, 321. Beecher, 325.

Beiler, 339. Belcher, 59, 75, 124, 35, 224, 86, 7, 363, 94, 403. Belknap, 133. Bell, 327. Bellingham, 27, 43.
Borland, 168-70, 417. Bosworth. 11, 32.
Bourn, 218, 87.
Andrew,
32, 36, 59, 75, 94, 105, 8, 13, 22, 5, 227, 80,
Bowen,
218, 26.
Bowers, 59, 230, 345-7.
353, 440.
Andros,
78,
94,
95,
5,
102-4, 10, 14, 23, 459.
100, 210,
7, 8,
Bowes, 294. Bowler, 321. Bowles, 317.
Bowman,
58, 297, 305, 410.
Angier, 35, 59, 75, 225,
Benjamin,
459.
11, 20, 1, 32, 239,
Bowtell, 59, 75.
70, 80, 9, 92, 404-6. Appleton, 116, 280, 9, 90, 2,

4, 7, 8.
Apsey, 335. Apthorp, 307, 8, 10.

Arnold, 32.
Bennett, 35, 327. Bernard, 143, 405, Besbeech, 35.

Besse, 347. Bethune, 310.
Betts, 35, 59, 260. Bidwell, 331. Bigelow, 187, 326. Biglow, 208, 310. Binney, 320.
6.
Boyer, 320. Boylston, 12. Bradish, 35, 59, 161, 225,

92, 7, 305, 426, 8.
8,
Bradlee, 334.
Bradshaw,
58, 75.
Ashmun.
237.
8.
Aspinwall, 384. Atherton, 390, 7,
Atwood, 231, 334.

Austin, 35, 176, 200, 6, 20,
34, 428. Averill, 335.
Bradstreet, 6-9, 11, 20, 1, 3, 7, 32, 69, 71, 110-14, 16, 354, 459. Brannagan, 329.
Brattle,
Bacon, 81, 318,86,93,438. Badger, 311, 22. Baker, 428. Baldwin, 185.
Balfour, 315. Ballou, 315.
Bird, 310, 36. Bishop, 346-52. Blake, 177, 321. Blanchard, 426. Bland, 332.
116, 17, 43, 56-8, 68-70. 97, 203, 33, 80, 2-8, 92, 352, 75, 404, 6-8, 18. Brewer, 328. Brewster. 168, 345.
Bridge, 11, 32,36,42,59,60,

2, 75, 120, 251, 305, 63, 4,
Blaney, 426. Blathwait, 77.

Bliss, 328, 438.
423, 8. Briggs, 311.
Banbridge, 32, 58, 258.
Blodgett, 35, 58, 317. Blood, 62.
Brighum,
35, 59, 258.
Brinley, 133.
708
Broadbent, 110. Brooks, 177, 318.
INDEX OF NAMES.
75-8, 81, 110, 11, 18, 76, 82, 222, 39, 50, 90, 4, 314, 31, 84, 97, 8, 418.
32, 42, 3, 77, 8, 99, 100, 3, 74, 249, 395, 8, 403.
Brown,
59, 76, 7, 111, 208, 222, 6, 31, 74, 314, 32, 40, 407, 55, 19, 26, 8, 438.
35, 58, 9, 75, 6.
Dummer,
403.
Coolidge,
Bruce, 150.
Buck,
133, 85, 305, 14, 17, 32, 69. Cooper, 35, 59, 75,92,4, 105, 43, 63, 98, 269, 78, 9, 305,
Dunster, 54, 7, 00, 2, 228, 9, 52,63-9,344,5,71,2,85,9.

Durrell, 320. Dwight, 126.
Bulfinch, 322.
412.
Bulkelev, 26, 35,51,95.

Bull,
58".
Corbett, 53.
Corlett, 58, 75, 366-8, 73. Corwin, 115.
Eames, 369, 98. Eastman, 76.

Easton, 32. Eaton, 42, 65, 76, 255,
19, 20, 38.
8,
Bunker, 212, 13. Burdakin, 320. Burgoyne, 168, 427.

Burr, 35.
Burrill, 135. Burton, 322.
Cotton, 29-31, 7, 43, 135, 249, 51, 83,94, 368, 406.

416. Cowls, 416. 219. Cox,
317,
Cowden,
Eayers, 426.
Eccles, 20, 59, 75. 263, 363, 4. Edwards, 244, 310. Eldred, 55.
69, 75, 264, 320, 65, 85-7, 89-92/4. 319. Ellis,
Eliot,
Butler, 11, 32, 5, 422. Buttrick, 239, 44, 416. Byfield, 109, 10, 16.
Crackbone,
35,
59, 75, 255,
63, 80, 401.
Cradock, 197.
Crafford, 110. Craigie, 183-6, 203-8, 14, 310. Crane, 309, 29. Cromwell, 63, 7, 399.
Cabot, 170, 5, 83-5, 98. Caldwell, 329, 426.

Calef, 354. Call, 76.
Elmer, 11, 32.

Ely, 32. Endicott, 6, Ensign, 32.
8, 43, 67,
384.
Crosby,
6.
35.
Callender, 186. Cane, 32, 59, 255, Carr, 73, 96.

Carroll, 329. Carruthers, 336. Carter, 310. Cartwright, 73. Case, 327, 337. Caswell, 135. Chadwick, 336.
Crosw'ell, 338, 9. Crow, 62.
Ephraim, 391.
Errington, 59, 75. Estabrobk, -281, 3. Eyers, 279.
153, 4. Cullock, 254. Cummirrgs, 314. Cushing, 239, 321. Cushman, 319. Cutshakin, 384.
Cutler, 76, 97, 120, 83, 226, 88, 90, 400, 7. Cutter, 54, 5, 8, 9, 75, 297, 368, 404.
Crown, Cudworth,
67.
Fairbanks, 327.
Farley, 62. Farrar, 231. Farwell, 110, 230, 2, 9, 306,
14.
Chamberlin, 62, 239, 432, 33.

34, 59, 60, 2, 75, 6, 96, 118, 22, 226, 50, 62, 9, 92, 305, 98, 426. Chandler, 76.
Champney,
Dallinger, 328,
9.
Fay, 189. 237, 9, 310, 34. Fayerweather, 168, 9, 418. Fenton, 310. Fenwick, 48. Fessenden, 75, 227, 52, 92,
338, 69. Fisher, 32, 77. Fiske, 58, 76, 120, 208, 376.
Channing, 314.
Chaplin, 35-7.
Dana,
422
Chapman,
331.
59, 75, 135, 63, 7, 739, 89, 98, 9, 206, 19, 26, 36, 40, 93, 7, 329, 32, 74, 5,
8, 62,
Charles I., 63, 74. Charles II., 67, 96. Chase, 310, 28.
49, 68, 75, 262, 4-7, 9, 75, 82, 352. Cheeshahteaumuck, 366, 88. Cheever, 58, 75, 185, 216,62.
Fisman,
75.
Danforth, 35-7, 43, 55,

9,
Chauncy,
70-2, 7, 8, 100, 3, 4, 10, 17, 25, 8, 51-3, 69, 211, 23, 62, 9, 75, 84, 92, 7, 346-52, 6, 9, 63, 8, 9, 74, 84, 8, 93-5.
4, 33, 56, 7,
Fitch, 288, 9. Fitzpatrick, 329.
Flagg, 76.
Fletcher, 317. Flint, 289, 92, 306, 84. Fobes, 336. Foote, 310. Forbes, 312.
Foster, 111, 83, 4, 296, 310, 76. Fowle, 220.
Cheney, 75. Chesholme,
15, 59, 75, 223, 58, 69, 71, 305. 32. Chester,
Daniel, 76, 270. Davenport, 179-83, -204,
7,
Child, 86, 215,. 26, 31, 431. Christison, 347. Clark, 32, 8, 59, 77, 180, 208, 54, 78, 9, 305, 22, 30.
30, 411. Davis, 32, 177, 93, 326, 435. Daye, 32, 44, 5, 59, 263, 356.
Clements, 58. Cobb, 435. Cobbett, 35, 69. Coddington, 6, 8, 27.
Dayton, 329. Dean, 333, 404. Dehon, 309. Deland, 426.

Denison, 11, 12, 21, 32, 69,
288.
Fownell, 59.
Fox,
4.
58, 75, 263, 9, 83, 353,
Foxcroft, 109, 10, 16, 27, 204,

57, 86, 92, 336, 75, 403, 17, 25. Foy, 76. Francis, 59, 76, 186, 312, 63.
Codman,
Coit, 309.
217.
Coffin, 150. Cogswell, 329.
Denning, 321. Devens, 154. Dexter, 185, 416. Dickinson, 343, 416.
Dickson,
4.
French, 35, 58,

7.
9, 62, 254, 5,
59, 75, 269, 93, 363,
Colby, 20, 32.

Collar, 76.
Donahoe, 329.
Donallan, 324.
Collecott, 385. Collins, 35, 56, 117, 250, 305. Collyer, 321, 30. Column, 135, 369.
Conant, 419. Uooke, 34-40,
2,
3,
56,
9,
Dougherty, 329, 33, 40, 1. Dowse, 454. Drake, 338. Druce, 59, 76, 81. Dudley, 1, 6-12, 18, 23,
68, 75, 6, Frost, 34, 5, 143, 80, 254-8, 69, 73, 297, 353, 407, 15. Frothingham, 408, 11, 17, 18, 23. Frye, 405, 6, 23. Fuller, 80, 1, 208, 426. Fultz, 339.
59,
7,
INDEX OF NAMES.
65, 154, 6-8, 162. Gale, 208. Gallop, 170. Gamage, 407.
709
Hoppin, 307, 9. Hortori, 345, 6.
Gage,
Hanchet, Hancock,
76, 81. 33, 58, 75, 97, 212, 25, 7, 31, 91, 3, 4, 305, 13, 69.
Gannett, 176, 94, 219, 311,

12, 14.
403. Hanford, 130.
Handy,
Hosmer, 11, 32, Houghton, 222, Hovey, 131, 2,
6,
185,233.
5,
Gardner,
5,
5, 407, 8, 11, 13, 8.
142-4, 54, 9, 292, 18-21, 5,
Harlakenden, 34-6, 40-3, 3, 119,74, 250,4, 396. Harlow, 177.
52,
77, 224, 314, 38, 69, 79. 185. Howard,
Howe,
126, 292, 309, 21, 30,
8, 80, 424, 8.
Gates, 263.
Harmon,
15.
336.
Gay, 173.
Gearner, 33.
Harrington, 332.
Harris, 233.
Howell, 76. Hewlett, 317. Hoyt, 326.
Gedney, 111,
Genings, 355. Geprge, 110.
Hart, 11, 32.
Harvard, 44, 365.

Hassell, 59, 75. Hastings, 59, 75, 6, 92, 4, 6, 8, 105, 8, 200, 69, 79, 81, 4, 6, 92, 305, 20, 63, 9, 407, 13, 16, 17. Hatch, 321.
George
III., 144.
Gerrish, 288, 423. Gerry, 168, 93, 203, 6.
Gibbons, 383, 4. Gibbs, 289. Gibson, 33, 59, 75, 102, 263,
74, 356, 7, 63, 4. Gilinan, 325.
Hubbard, 30, 75. Hudson, 35, 370. Humphrey, 27, 43, 50. Hunnewell, 5. Hunt, 33, 312, 27, 418. Huntington, 312. Kurd, 135.
Hutchings, 185, 440. Hutchinson, 30, 50, 2,
67, 77,
Hathorne, 69, 77, 115, 256,

346, 7.
Girling, 35. Gleason, 342.
Haugh, 12, 27, 35, 175. Haven, 184, 6, 331. Hayden, 177, 206.
Hayes, 216, 253. Haynes, 11, 12, 18,
21, 3, 31, 2, 42, 52, 175, 396, 459. 336. Hayward. 35,
8, 115, 28, 38, 49, 57, 9, 346, 54, 403.
254,
Hyde,
58, 9, 76, 81.
Glover, 44,
-
5,
252, 335, 420,
3. 4, 397.
Ingersoll, 185, 322. Ingham, 226.
Goddard,
Inman, 169,
Isaac, 35.
70, 6, 293, 307.
Goffe, 34-6, 42, 54, 5, 9, 60, 2, 7-9, 125, 7, 35, 73, 4, 97, 211, 15, 16, 50, 9, 60, .2, 371, 2, 401, 3, 4. Goodhue, 335. Goodman, 12, 32, 174. Goodnow, 314. Goodrich, 318.
Hazeltine, 221.
Healy, 75, 216, 18, 373. Hearsey, 310.

Heate,"ll, 32. Heath, 410, 11, 16, 27.
Jackson, 35, 54,

79-81,
8, 9, 5,
5, 8, 9, 74-6, 92-97, 105, 17, 18, 99, 215, 220, 5, 62, 3, 9, 70,
Hedge, 231, 369. Henbury, 76.
Goodwin,
32, 248, 53, 4.

7, 8,
Henchman,
393.
88, 339, 55, 67, 406, 19, 26. Jacobs, 313, 23, 9, 53. James II., 96, 113.
Gookin, 57, 64, 6-8, 72,
Hendley, 320.
Henley, 427. Herrick, 310.
James (Black),
96, 104, 6, 9, 17, 25-7, 31, 269, 78-82, 6, 346, 7, 8695, 8, 9, 400, 3.
Hervey, 323.
Hicks, 75, 108, 227, 92, 41214.
390. Jarvis, 2, 173, 4, 6-8, 310. 2. Jefferson, 190, Jeffries, 440.

Jefts, 62.
Gorton, 397, 402.
Gossom,
75.
Gould, 279. Gove, 75, 97, 108. Grant, 33, 133, 292, 324.
Granville, 320. Graves, 2, 279.
Higginson,
236, 9.
Jenner, 252. Jennison, 355.

Jethro, 391. Jewett, 320. Joel, 388. Johns, 235.
Hildreth, 57.
Hiler, 321. Hill, 62, 180, 3, 204, 5, 7, 19, 20, 37, 93, 305, 425, 6, 8,
Billiard, 45, 209, 31, 2, 99, 303-5. Hinkley, 114, 338. Hoar, 274. 5, 368. Hobart, 81. Holden, 5, 97, 263. Holland, 322, 34. Holley, 355. Hollis, 76.
Green, 33,
5, 43, 4, 58, 9, 75,
Johnson,
103, 25, 239, 52, 63, 73, 322, 7, 34, 57, 63, 4, 77, 98, 402, 22. Greenhill, 33. Greenleaf, 310, 28, 39. Greenough, 310.
97-
3, 6, 18, 43, 4, 69, 83, 321, 32, 82, 97, 428. Jones, 35, 97, 157, 85, 326, 95. Joy, 185. Judd, 33.
Greenwood,
9.
80, 92, 231, 328,
Griffing, 321, 30. Griggs, 5, 200, 95.
Holman,
64.
35, 58, 75, 324, 55-
Griswold, 35, 40, 258. Grover, 326.
Holmes,
8,
Gushee, 328.
2, 23, 54, 8, 76, 176, 94, 9, 220, 31-3, 6, 47,
Karr, 326. Keith, 214, 44. Kelsey, 11, 32. Kemp'ster, 58, 75. Kendall, 327, 37, 55, 80. Kenrick, 80, 1.
Haddon,
11, 32, 75.
Hadley, 202.
Hale, 116, 354-6. Hall, 45, 54, 8, 9, 75, 150, 252, 5, 305, 41, 64, 73, 416. Hallett, 329. Hallowell, 155. Hamlet, 59.
53,9, 60,90,1, 6,8,300-3, 11, 14, 73, 6,7. Holt, 226. Holyoke, 132, 3, 5, 287-9,
93.
Kent, 292. Kerley, 401. Keys, 81.

Kidder, 292, 305. Kilburn. 327.
Homer, 306. Hooker, 2, 10,
16, 26-37, 46, 50, 1, 90, 247, 8, 51, 4, 8, 9, 60.
Kimball, 317. King, 36. Kingslev, 335. Kirkland, 193, 231, 93, 312. Kirtnan, 8, 32.
Hammond,
7,
59, 76, 81, 5, 96, 126, 210, 11, 400, 19.
Hooton, 345-7. Hopkins, 32, 377-9.
Knapp,
322.
17.
Kneeland, 220, 413,
710
La Fayette,
293.
INDEX OF NAMES.
330. Mcl.ellan, 438. McNamara, 339.
McKeown,
Lambert, 322. Lamson, 35, 40, 256. Lane, 331. Langdon, 310.
Lansing, 339. Larkin, 110. Leavitt, 337.
Me Reading,
Meacham,
Meane,
35.
330. 339, 416.
Palfrey, 75, 114, 266, 8, 274, 363. Palmer, 292, 322, 9, 76, 425. Palsgrave, 258.
Pantry, 32. Parents, 75.

Parish, 35. Parker, 35, 59, 62, 75, 6, 80,
Mears, 336. Mellen, 231, 318.

5,
Lechmere, 168-70,
310.
83-6,
Lee, 151,
68-70, 5, 83, 307, 8, 10, 75, 421, 2, 33. 263. Lemmon, Leonard, 416.
3,
Meriam, 75, 337. Merrill, 321, 30,9. Metcalf, 231. Mifflin, 421. Mighill, 327.
Miller, 58, 80. Miner, 324. Minot, 156.
1,177,2-25,80,313,27,401. Parkes, 36, 59, 75, 81, 5.
Parkman,
184.
Parmele, 369. Parmenter, 239, 44.

Parris, 145, 16, 398. Parsons, 185, 416. Patrick, 8, 11, 15, 32, 396, 7. Patten, 36, 8, 9, 59, 62, 129, 364. Patterson, 423.
Leverett, 63, 77, 286-90, 324, 51, 403. Lewis, 11, 32, 253, 310. Lincoln, 409. Little, 222. Livermore, 201, 44, 312, 448.
Locke, 376, 410, 26,
8.
Mitchell, 57, 68-70, 5, 26074, 82, 90, 344, 58, 94. Mitchelson, 43, 59, 75, 363. Monis, 292. Montague, 416.
Payne, 186, 254. Peabody, 304, 12.

Pearce."308. Pearl, 416. Peck, 310.
Peirce, 44, 68, 208, 365, 433. Pel ham, 53, 6, 89, 119, 74, 226, 54. Pemberton, 126, 287. Perkins, 186, 204-6 327.
Lockwood,
8, 17, 20, 32,
341,
Moore, 36, 59, 75,
463 Longfellow, 126, 68. Longhorn, 54, 8, 75, 218.
Longshaw,
435, 8.
Lord, 11, 32.

Loring, 288. Lovejoy, 326.
Lovell, 313, 69. Lowell, 4, 168.
Ludlow, 6, Luke, 329.
8.
6, 92, 8, 105, 207, 30, 1, 7, 57, 305. 32. Morrill, 11, Morse, 231, 92, 324, 8, 9, 36, 413. Morton, 261, 8, 82. Mousell, 215. Mudge, 320, 1, 39. Mullin, 339. Munroe, 231, 303-6, 428. Murray, 325.
Perry, 325, 7. Pervear. 314, 24.

Peters, 43, 5. Pettingell, 328. Phillips, 117, 207, 255-7. Phinney, 423. Phipps, 211, 26.
Muzzey,
Lum,
310, 28, 9.
Lusher, 69, 86. Luxford, 76.
11, 12, 32, 119, 75, 311, 32, 438. 33. Mygate,
Lynde, 255,
87.
Nanepashemet, 382,
Nelson, 111.
3.
Phips, 112-15, 27, 30, 3. 53, 7, 68-70, 5, 6, 307, 10, 53,

4, 403, 7.
Mackay, 199. Mackintosh, 333. Maguire, 319.

Makepeace, 176-82,
4, 6, 7, 21, 30, 9. 9,
Newbe,
216.
Newell, 250, 3, 304, 28. Newhall, 322.

202,
Piambow,
391.
Pickering, 321.
Newhouse, 345.
Nichols, 36, 73, 168. 327.
Pickman, 310.
Pigeon, 308.
Pittimee, 391.
Mann,
33, 59, 401, 35. Maiming, 59, 75, 92, 8, 122,
Nicholson, 95. 103.'

Norris, 244, 313.
168, 227, 54, 8, 71, 2, 92, 372, 428. Mansfield, 321.
Norton,
5, 69,
71
Plympton, 168, Pomeroy, 310.
204, 435, 8.
Nowanit, 391.
Nowell,
6, 8, 27, 77. 6, 70,
Poole, 8, 32, 116. Porter, 231, 6. 88.

Post, 33.
Marcy,
110, 413, 14. Marrett, 35, 59, 75, 6, 160, 226, 7, 59, 92, 305, 407, 26. Marshall, 395. Marsters, 334.
Noyes, 116.
Nutting, 165,
215.
262, 351,
Powers, 319.
Pratt, 20, 4, 6, 7, 32, 5, 76, 233.
Oakes, 57, 74,

6,
5, 117,
9,
71-80,
2,
3,
Prentice, or
Prentiss, 4, 59, 76, 80, 1, 92, 4,118,214,88,92,305, 92.
4, 400, 31 Prescott, 185, 288, 423. Price, 2 87. Prince, 33, 247. Prout, 272. Prudden, 49, 50. Pryor, 331.
.
Martin, 65.
99.
Mason,
80, 95, 155, 7, 77, 9, 80, 2, 230, 314, 40. Massasoit, 382. Masters, 9, 11, 20, 32.
Obbatinewat, 382. O'Brien, 329.
Oklham,
59.
Mather, 51,69, 100,
2, 14, 16,
217, 47, 8, 58, 61, 4, 81-6, 9, 97, 366.
Oliver, 76, 124, 5, 38, 50, 1, 4-6, 68, 9, 226, 7, 74, 86, 7, 307, 10, 75, 407, 18.
Olmstead,
11, 20,
1,
32, 5,
Maverick, 73.
May, 183. Mayhew, 309, Maynard, 33.

McClure, 327.
Onge,
66.
49, 463. 81.
Ordway,
Orr, 341.
328.
Putnam, 187, 423, 4, 6. Pynchon, 6, 8, 27, 398.

Quincj-, 42, 275, 82, 304, 65.
Osland. 80.
McCoy, 81. McCurdy, 521.

McDaniel,
81, 322.
Otheman, 321.
Otis, 186, 309.
Randolph,
8.
76, 7, 95, 6,
103-
McDonald. 435.
Packard, 326, 69.

Paddlefoot, 59.
4, 74,
Ravenscroft, 110.
McKean,
86, 413.
231.
302, 3,
McKenzie, 250,
Page, 328. Paige, 115, 316.
Rawson, 99, 350, Ray, 321.
1, 89,
98.
Raymond,
342.
INDEX OF NAMES.
Read, 201,
427, 8.
31, 92, 324, 40,
711
Thurloe, 64. Thurston, 334. Tidd, 121.
Tilton, 78, 326.
Skinner, 316, 17, 21.

Slafter, 328. Smith, 110, 27, 222, 6, 331, 41, 70. Snelling, 407.
Reading, 11, 32. Reed, 201, 31, 92, 324, 40,

427, 8.
Timlow, 327.
Tirrell, 320,
Remington, 124,
88, 375, 94, 8.
5, 35,
224, 7,
Snow, 333.
Soden, 292. Somersby, 287. Sparhaw'k, 5, 36, 59, 92, 143,
223, 62, 92, 5, 7, 305, 69, 426, 40. Sparrow, 338. Spaulding, 324.
Reyle, 76.
Rice, 36, 339.
Tomlins, 33. Torrey, 351.

Touteville, 258. Towne, 36, 41, 59, 75, 255, 7, 364, 73. Townley. 324. Townsend, 126, 208, 403. Tracy, 170. Trafton, 330. Train, 208. Tray, 391. Trevett, 419.
Richards, 11, 32, 110,11,15. Richardson, 292, 310, 32, 36, 413, 14, 31-33.
Riedesel, 168, 427. Riorden, 329.
Spencer,
3,
Robbins, 59, 76, 140,

407.
263,
3, 6,
8, 11, 17, 21, 32, 43, 397, 422.
Sprague, 292.
Spring, 81, 94.
Roberts, 36, 370.
Robinson, 80, 226, 331, 415. Rogers, 288, 9.

Rolfe, 54. Rollins, 341. Roripaugh, 319. Row, 341.
Squaw Sachem,
Stacey, 226. Staniford, 198. Stanley, 33, 254. Stanton, 366.
382-4.
Trowbridge, 81, 92, 133,

214, 92, 375.
5,
Truesdale, 81. Trulan, 433.
Rugg, 319,
27.
9, 292, 406.
Ruggles, 168, Rule, 217. Ruscoe, 35.
Starr, 36, 226. Start, 319, 34. Stearns, 62, 76, 232, 6, 9, 92, 325, 57, 62-4. Stebbins, 11, 32, 322.
Trumbull,
31, 440.
Russell, 35, 54, 9, 76, 86, 116, 17,226, 86, 306, 68,73,89, 412, 14, 15.
Stedman,
Sabine, 170. Sackett, 8, 11, 32.

Safford, 306, 17. Saltonstall, 6-8, 115, 16, 229, 384. Sampson, 390. Sanborn, 324. Sanderson, 208. Sanger, 335.
54, 9, 75, 6, 96, 125, 33, 4, 40, 3, 7, 220, 6-8, 31, 59, 62, 3, 9, 70, 4, 92, 310, 69, 98, 426, 8. Steele, 11, 32, 233. Stevens, 76, 329, 32, 434. Stevenson, 58, 75, 215. Steward, 369. Stewart, 324. Stickney, 328. Stimpson, 310.
Tufts, 292, 315. Tupper, 321. Turell, 294. Turner, 287. Twining, 325. Tyler, 200.
Tyng,
77, 257, 339.
Underbill, 396.
Upham,
116.
Usher, 95, 108, 273.

Vail, 309.
Valentine, 201.
Vane, 24,
52.
Stocking, 33. Stone, 32, 4,6,49, 58, 9,746, 92, 4, 120,
Santley, 36. Sargent, 111, 423.
33, 235, 48,
Vassal!, 130-4. 168-70, 292, 307, 8, 75, 407, 17, 18, 21. Venn, 150.
15,
308,
20,
50, 69, 71, 8, 305, 36, 40, 64, 98.
Vinal, 314, 22. Vincent, 33, 339.
Saunders, 306, 454. Savage, 69, 115, 259, 324, 30. Sawyer, 334.
423. Scates, 110. Scott, 33, 117, 394. Scully, 340. Sears, 327.
Storer, 294.
Vose, 176,
7, 80.
Story, 237.
Stoughton, 43, 77, 95, 111,

15, 271, 395.
Waban,
Scammon,
385, 90, 1. Wadleigh, 328.

11,
Stow, 170.
Stowell, 288. Stratton, 292. Stutson, 331.
Wadsworth,
126, 8.
21,
32, 9,
Wainwright, 309.
Wakeman,
Ward,
Ware,
33.
Segar, 81. Sewall, 109, 15-17, 126, 68,

9, 283, 7, 305, 10, 47, 75.
Seymour, 328.
Sharp, 6, 8, 228. Shed, 184. Shepard, 29, 34-6, 42, 3, 6, 8, 50-3, 9, 75, 6,248-53,
58-62,
9, 74, 82, 3, 8, 321, 44, 85, 6, 97.
Sullivan, 199, 422. Swan, 59, 76 181. Sweetser, 336. Swindell, 320.
Walton, 219,
31, 305. 80, 92, 3, 331, 18, 22. Wardell, 346.
416,
Swoetman,
Symonds,
59, 75, 402. 69, 77, 444.
5, 194, 231, 311, 12.
Warham,
32, 9,
37.
Sherborne, 250. Sherlock, 110.
Tailer, 403. Talcott, 11, 12, 175, 233, 54. Tanner, 440.
30, 8.
Warland, 219, 31, 92, 342. Warner, 11, 21, 32, 6, 9, 233,
21,
326.
Warren, 309, 31, 418. Washington, 168, 83, 202,

3,
Taylor, 58, 75, 272,
328,
38, 93, 420, 1, 5.
Sherman, 283, 322.

Shirley, 459.
Shorfenburg, 320. Shrimpton, 103, 11, 389. Shute, 127.

Sibley, 261, 74, 5. Sill, 59, 76, 257, 8, 398. Silloway, 435. Simes, 59, 255. Simpson, 310.
Temple, 307, 10. Thacher, 132.

Thatcher, 55, 133, 43, 70, 85, 292, 375. 407-9, 21, 8. Thayer, 177, 331.
Waterhouse, 111. Watson, 58, 75, 143, 63, 70,

7, 9,
225, 30, 92, 317, 75,

391.
94,411, 18.
Wattasacompanum, Webb, 11, 32.

Webcowits, Weld, 37, 185.
Wellington, 37,8.
383, 4.
Thompson, 226. Thorns, 342. Thorndike, 186. Thornton, 370.
4, 143, 208,
712
Wells, 36, 168.
INDEX OF NAMES.
Wightman,
335.
Wendell, 170, 99, 230. West, 94, 5, 104, 6, 8. Weston, 323.
Wilcocks, 59. Wiley, 321. Wilkinson, 58, 335.

Willard, 33, 116, 200, 31,44,
82, 3, 98, 9, 306, 68, 94.
Westwood, 12, Wetmore, 199.
21, 9, 32, 174.
Whalley, 67, 9, 71. Wheatland, 212. Whipple, 237, 328.
William, 391. Williams, 80, 294.

Willis, 59, 75, 102, 316, 64.
Whitcomb,
White,
10,
336.
20,
1,
Willoughby, 271.
32,
110,
287, 310, 17, 454. Whitefield, 293, 4.
Willson, 321. Wilson, 24, 6, 43, 75, 345,

70.
Whitehead,
33.
Whitman,
Whitmore,
329.
Winchester, 328. Wines, 59.
103, 11, 15, 17, 29, 34, 59, 67, 8, 70, 207, 8, 117. 19, 48, 9, 54, 9, 92, 310, 75, 84, 9, 96. Wise, 226. Wiswall, 81, 269. Witherell, 35. Woampas, 391. Wood, 19, 23, 58, 321. Woodard, 320. Woodbridge, 385, 416, 23. Woodward, 81, 329. Woolcott, 36. Wright, 455. Wyatt, 327.
59, 75, 121, 3, 269, 363, 4. Whitney, 304, 6. Whittemore, 131, 40, 2, 3, 219, 44, 92, 305, 15, 80, 414, 35, 8. Wigglesworth, 292.
Winkley, 329.
Winship, 35,
59, 60, 118, 262, 9, 364, 76, 412, 14. Winslow, 53, 109, 320. Winter, 76.
Wveth,
59, 75, 133, 75, 84, S02, 31, 52, 92, 353, 64, 70, 425, 6, 44. Wyman, 412, 14, 26.
Winthrop,
1,
6-12, 24, 6, 9,
Young,
154, 321, 39.
30, 1, 7, 42-6, 50, 8, 95,
INDEX TO GENEALOGIES.
THE names of families are printed in small capitals, and the figures annexed indicate the pages where they may be found; the other names denote persons mentioned in connection with the several families, whether as intermarrying or otherwise.
ABBOTT, 477. Adams.
AMSDEN,
479, 80.
ABDY,
Russell 477.
Cox. Reynolds. Stevenson. Wilson.
ADAMS,
477-9. Bent. Blanchard.
Bowman.
Britton.
Chad wick.
Convers.
Cutter.
Dean. Doubleday. Eames.

Fillebrown. Fiske.
Foster. Frost.
Gardner.
Goodwin.
Hall.
Hay.
Hill.
Jones.
Kent. Locke.
Manning. Munroe.
Patten.
Payne.
Perry. Phelps.
Russell.
Sparhawk.
Stone. Teele.
Thorndike.
Tufts.
Wetherbee. Whittemore. Winship.
ALBONE,
ALDUS,
479.
Luxford.
479.
ALEXANDER, ALLEN, 479.

Hooker.
479.
AMES,
479.
Angier.
714
Buck.
Giner.
BONNEK,
Clark.
Ellery.
489, 90.
Brown.
Clarke.
Hook.
Prentice.
Robbins.
Russell.
Marsh. BOONE, 490.
BORDMAN,
Bricksey.
490-3.
Coolidge. Cutter. Davis. Eveleth.
Wales.
486. BEARD, 486.
Bosworth.
Fowle.
Frost. Garfield.
BEALE,
Brown.
Bull.
BELCHEB,
Ballard.
486, 7.
Colson.
Blowers.
Brown.
Burnet. Danforth. Fore.
Gilbert.
Cooper. Danforth.
Daye.
Kidder. Livermore. Nurse. Pike. Reed.

Russell.
Dockum.
Dorr.
Emery.
Epes.
Sherman. Simonds.
Smith. Soden.
Stearns. Stone. Viles.
Jennison.
Lyde. Noyes.
Oliver.
Far well.
Fillebrown.
Goddard.
Hastings. Higginson. Hiscock.
Partridge.
Pynchon. Remington.
Russell.
Walker.
McCleary.
Palfrey. Parker.
Wetmore. Whitmore.
Winship.
Savage.
Shirley.
Sill.
Phips.
Prentiss.
Wyeth. BOWTELL,
Bowers.
Alcock. Graves.
Phillips.
496. 496.
Stoddard.
Vaughn.
BEMIS, 487. Brown. Chamberlin. Lawrence.
Robinson.
Reed. Richardson.
Sewall. Stearns. Stebbins.
BRACKETT,
Stedman.
Townsend.
487.
487, 8.
BRADISH,
Ford. Gibbs. Green. Marrett.
Morrill.
496, 7.
BENJAMIN, BESBEECH,
Bourne.
Truesdale.
Wadsworth.
Wheeler.
Williams.
Willis.
Brown.
Cutter.
Lewis. BETTS, 488. Bridge.
BORLAND.
Apthorp. Knight.
Lindall.
493.
Morse.
Oliver. Rice. Sewall.
Daye. Knight.
Shepard.
Plympton.
Spooner.
488.
Stanhope. Tucker.
BlTTLESTONK,
Banbridge.
Biscoe.
Vassall.
Wigglesworth.
Wood. BRADSHAW,
Bowers. Cooke.
498.
BOSWORTH,
Buckland.
Sewall.
493.
Chesholme.
Cutter.
Foordham.
Hall.
BOWERS,
493, 4,
Hall. Mitchelson.
Russell.
Shepard.
Bowtell. Bradstreet.
BRADSTREET,
Capen.
Cotton.
498, 9.
Swan.
Winship.
Danforth. Dunster.
BLACKLEACH, 488. BLODGETT, 489.

Eggleden. Reed.
Worthington.
Downing.
Dudley.
Epes.
BOWES, Champney.
Clark.
494.
Hubbard.
Leverett. Oliver. Price.
Tompson. BLOOMFIELD, Stedman.

BLOSS, 489.
Blois.
489.
Cook. Hancock.
Hubbard. Remington. Ware.
Remington.
Ruggles.
BLOWERS,
Belcher.
Hill.
489.
BOWMAN,
Andrew.
494-6.
Tyng.
Kent.
Salter.
Angier. Barnard. Blackleech.

Bridge. Bright.
Wade. Ward.
Wiggin. Woodbridge.
Symmes. Woodbury.
BRATTLE,
Allen.
499, 500.
Cogan. Coytmore.
Eyre.
Gerrish.
Goffe.
715
Oldham.
Paine. Parker.
Rice. Sever.
Brown. Bowes.
Chamberlin.
Clark. Colston. Convert.
Coolidge.
Graves. Gray. Green.
Sparhawk.
Squire.
BUCK,
503.
Hay man.
Nowell.
Oliver.
Corey.
Corlett.
Batherick. Brooks.
Danforth.
Leven.
Pike.
Emmons.
French. Green.
Smith.
Parsons.
Wood.
BULL, 504. Bordman.
Boyce.
Hancock.
Hastings. Hicks.
Quincy. Rainsbo rough.

Salstonstall.
Hubbard.
Macsparran. Moore. Osborn.
Sewall.
Gamage.
Goddin. Mason.
Wilson.
Shepard.
Tyng.
Wendell. Williams. Winthrop.
Parkman.
504.
BUNKER,
Bordman.
Bulkeley. Eaton.
Hills.
BREWKR,
BRIDGE,
500.
500.
Phipps. Pickens. Reed. Richardson.

Russell. Stearns.
Bancroft. Blowers.
Newman.
Sprague. Stimson.
Bowman.
Brooks.
Stone. Stowell.
Champney.
Danforth.
Garfield.
BURGESS,
504, 5.
Nutting. Stevenson.
Wyeth. CHAPLIN, 508. Goodwin.

Shepard.
Harrington. Livermore. Luxford.

Marrett. Russell.
BURR,
505. Lovell.
CHAUNCY,
CHEEVER,
Hawes.
508.
Maccoone.
BUTLER,
505.
Bulkeley. Eyre.
509.
Saunders.
Taylor.
Green. Olmstead.
Watson. Whitney.
West. Winter. Wright.
Healy. Messinger.
Taylor.
505.
BRIGHAM,
Eames.
501, 2.
BUTTERFIELD,
Bemis. Chamberlin.
Cutter.
Woodhead. CHENEY, 509.

Atkinson. Bel knap.
Fay. Fessenden. Gage.

Hastings.
Hunt. Kurd.
Johnson.
Rice.
Dickson. Hackleton. Hastings. Locke. Robbins.
Brown.
Burnap.
Dill.
Wheeler.
Ward.
CANE,
502, 3.
Hill.
506.
Falshaw. Fessenden. Gardner. Goodale.

Hill.
BROWN,
Barry.
Adams.
Belcher.
Johnson. Monis.
Mullis.
Welch.
Parker. Robbins.
Bordman.
Bowles. Bray.
CARLEY, CAKTER,
Eccles.
506. 506.
Stedman.
CHESHOLME,
Shepard.
509.
Dana. Darby. Eden.

Fessenden. Goddin.
Gore. Green. Hartshorn.
Manning.
CHESTER,
506.
510.
CHADWICK,
Burgess.
Hooker.
Hussell.
Oldham.
Porter.
Sprague. Whiting.
Welch.
CLARK,
506.
510, II.
CHAMBERLIN,
Butterfield.
Andrew.
Bonner.
Hovey.
Justin. Labottiere.
Hammond.
Winchester.
Champnev.
Collis.
CHAMPNEY,
Barrett.
506-8.
Cook.
Danforth.
Fiske.
Leonard. Makepeace.
Odlin.
Blowers.
Bridge.
Gibbs.
716
Green.
Shepard.
Hancock.
Hastings.
Heath.
Hill.
Lamson. Homer.
Stone.
Tvng.
Winship.
Woodmancy. CLEMENT, 511.

Hudson.
Taylor.
COLBY,
511.
Crosby.
COLE, 511.
Barrett. Frost.
Hastings.
Whitmore.
COLLINS, 511, 12.
Collinges.
Gookin.
Pike.
Shepard. Stoughton. Whiting.

Willett.
COLLIS, 512.
Clark.
COLLOR,
Burns.
512.
COMEE.
Corey. Leah.
Munroe. COOKE, 513-16.

Annesley.
Barrett.
Bowes.
Bradish.
Bradshaw. Cawthorne.
Cotton.
Crosby. Dickson. Dunster.

Farley. Foss.
Fownell.
Frost.
Goodwin.
Gookin. Gorton.
Griggs. Hale. Hall.
Hancock. Harlakenden.
Haskins. Johnson.
Lamson.
Milledge. Mullett.
Perry.
Porter. Prentice.
Quick. Read.
Remington.
Russell.
Sanderson.
Francis. Frost. Goffe.
717
Pulteney. Riplev. Robbins.
Goodwin.
Hale.
Hall.
Harrington. Hartwell.
Hill.
Holden.
Hopkins. Jennings. Kent. Locke.

Luckis.
Mason. Meads.
Moore. Packard.
Peirce.
Powers.
Prentice.
Putnam. Rand.
Reed. Richardson. Robbins.
Rolfe. Russell. Stone.
Swan. Swoetman.
Teele.
Trask.
Whitmore. Whittemore.
Williams.
Winship.
Wood. Wyeth.
Wyman.
DANA,
526-9.
Allston.
Angier.
Ballard.
Bigelow.
Bowen. Brown.
Buckminster.
Bullard.
Chandler. Clark.
Coolidge. Croswell. Davis.
Ellery. Francis. Frost. Fuller.
Gookin. Graton. Green.

Griffin.
Hastings. Hides.
Hunting.
Hyde.
Kenrick. Kinniard.
Lamb.
Leverett.
Loud.
Parker.
718
Glover. Harrington.
FARRABAS,
541, 2.
Hayes.
Hills.
Locke.
Marrett.
Moore. Page.
Rice. Russell.
Sewall.
Taylor.
Thomas.
Wade.
Willard.
BUTTON,
539. 539.
Crackbone.
EAGER,
Cole.
Hill.
Kerley.
Manning.
Morse.
EAMES,
Barry.
539.
Paddlefoot.
539. Morrill. EATON, 539.
EASON,
Bunker. Chesholme.
Dunster.
Hastings.
Moore. Osborn.
Parker.
Winthrop. ECCLES, 540. Andrew.

Brooks.
Carter.
Watson.
ELDKED,
540.
ELIOT, 540. Bowles. Gookin. Quincy. Soden.
Swan.
Willett. 540. ELY, 540. EKSIGN, 540.
ELMER,
ERRINGTON,
Ayres.
Cutler.
540.
Gibson. Lewis. Parker.
Watson.
ESTABROOK, Bowman.
Loring.
541.
Mason.
Willard.
Woodis.
ESTWICK, EVERETT,
FANNING,
Betts.
541. 541. 541.
Edwards.
Daniel.
Lamed.
Cooper.
719
Kuhn.
Locke.
Lolridge.
Newell.
Dana.
Dickson.
Frost. Hall.
Hill.
Pemberton.
Prentice. Rolfe.
Martin.
Miller.
Ruggles.
Stearns.
Mackfassitt.
Morse. Smith.
Miles. Oliver. Patten.
Perry.
Prentice.
Sparhawk.
Squires. Tufts.
Rand.
Rice.
Stedman. GIRLING, 559. Andrew. Benjamin.

Bridge. Davis.
Wilson.
Wood. Wyeth. FRENCH, 551,

Angier.
Barrett.
Roby.
Russell.
2.
Shepard.
Weld.
Willard.
Singletary. Stone. Teel. Tufts.
GLEASON,
GLOVER,
Dave.
659. 559, 60.
Brackett.
Appleton.
Dunster.
Twadell.
Browne.
Burrage.
Walker.
Wallace. Wheeler. Whittemore. Wigglesworth. Wilson.
Hani*.
Owfield. Richards.
Champney.
Coggan.
Convers. Danforth.
Ellis.
Woodward.
Wright.
Stedman. Winthrop.
GODDARD,
Brown.
Cooper. Dickson. Doyley.
Frost.
560, 1.
Foster.
Hooker.
Kittredge. Rogers. Stearns.
Trull.
FRYEKS, FULLKR,
Bond.
556.
556, 7.
Boylston.
FKOST, 552-6.
Adams.
Allen.
Cady. Dana. Dyer.

Hicks. Hull.
Frothingham.
Fullerton.
Gove.
Hawes.
Johnson. Kent. Kidder.
Miles.
Andrew.
Austin.
Blodgett. Boylston.
Hyde.
Jackson.
Mirick.
Bonner.
Bowman.
Brown.
Shepard.
Norton.
Buckman.
Butterfield. Carter.
Ward. GARDEN, 557. GARDNER, 557.

Bowles.
Chaplin. Gpldthwaite. Rice. Smith.
Oldham.
Palfrey. Prentice. Russell.
Cook.
Coolidge. Cooper. Cornell.
Sanderson. Stone.
GOKFE,
561, 2.
Sparhawk.
Winchester.
Barnard. Beck.
BiggBiscoe. Brattle.
Crosby.
Cutter.
Dana.
Daniel.
GATES, 557-8. Edwards.
How.
Jones.
Lasell.
Brown.
Cooke. Dana. Danforth.
Dutton.
Eccles.
Kessenden. Fillebrown. Ford.

Foster. Francis.
Maynard.
Old'ham.
Pierson.
Lynde.
Mitchell.
Sparhawk.
Spring.
Frothingham. Goddard. Goodridge. Haddon. Hamlet.

Harrington.
Hill.
Woodward.
Wright.
GAY,
558.
Angier. Belcher.
Hovey.
Nutting.
Prentice.
Moore. Norden. Saxton. Shepard. Spraguc. Trowbridge. Winship.

Witchfield.
Howard.
Hutchinson
Ireland.
Woolcott.
Warland.
GOODMAN,
Crowe.
9.
502, 3.
GEAKNEK,
Hill.
558.
Jacobs.
GIBSON, 558,
Errington.
GOOKIN, 563-6.
Apthorp.
Batter.
Johnson. Kidder.
720
Biscoe.
Dudley. Fox.
Gerrish.
Brocchus.
Carter. Chester. Child.
Davenport. Dolbeare.
Eustis.
Gookin.
Hall.
Evers.
Fiske.
Fuller.
Clark.
Collicutt.
He a ley.
Hicks.
Green.
Cotton.
Cromwell. Dana. Danforth.

Dolling.
Eliot.
Hunting. Johnson. Longhorn.

Mitchelson. Reed.
Sill.
Hanscom. Hews.
Hill.
Laughton. Munroe. Nash.

Orcutt. Paine. Parker. Patten.
Prentice. Rice. Russell.
Gedney.
Goffe.
Stevens.
Thomas.
Trowbridge. Winthrop.
Grant. Green. Greenleaf. Grover.

Hill.
GREENHILL,
Shepard.
569. 569.
GREENWOOD.
Ward. Woodward.
Hinkley. Holmes.
Jeffries.
Sampson. Sparhawk.
Thayer.
Torrey. Valentine.
GRIFFITH, 569.
Johnson.
Keith.
GRISWOLD,
Bullard. GUY, 570.
569, 70.
Learned. Mather. Morse.

Mullett.
Gay. Warland.
Ware. Whitmore. Wyeth.

1.
HADDEN,
Allen.
570.
Munroe.
Oakes.
Paine. Parker.
HALL, 570, Adams.
Wyman. HARLAKENDEN,
Bosville.
574.
Blanchard.
Haynes. Pelham.
Shepard.
Plummer.
Quincy. Savage.
Sewall.
Bordman. Bradshaw. Brown.

Cook.
Cutler. Cutter.
HARRIS,
574.
Dunster. Glover.
Sherman.
Smith.
Stone.
Stratton.
HAKT,
574.
HASSELL,
Perry.
Allen.
574, 5.
Davis. Francis.
Swan. Thompson.
Thornton.
HASTINGS, 575-9.
Aspinwall. Balch.
Billings.
Green.
Hill.
Thwing.
Tucker.
Mead. Oldham.
Kayner.
Russell.
Sill.
Bordman.
Boyce. Bridge.
Tyng. Whalley.
Whiting.
Ward.
Willis.
Brigham.
571.
571. 571.
GOULD, 566. GOVE, 566, 7.

Aspinwall. Batson.
HAMLET,
Hubbard.
Bright. Buttrick. Caldwell.
HAMMEUSTON,
Champney.
Clark.
Cooper.
HAMMOND,
Bruce.
Goddard.
Loring.
Prentice.
Stedman.
Cooksey. Cooper.
Cotton.
571.
Woodward.
Waldin. Walker.
Wellington.
HANCHET, HANCOCK,
Bacon. Bean.
Bird.
Cox.
Cutting.
571-4.
Dana.
Davis. Eaton. Gannett. Gibson.
Woodhead. GREEN, 567-9.

Banbridge.
Bradish.
Brattle.
Bixby. Bowes.
Bowman.
Brown.
Hatch.
Hill.
Brown.
Champney.
Clark.
Champney.
Clark. Colson.
Coolidge.
Corey.
Cook.
Cooke. Cooper. Danforth.
Daye.
Dennie. Draper.
Holmes. Howard. Hubbard. Hyde. Ingraham.

Jackson. Judkins.
Lane. Learned.
Lovell.
721
585.
Saunders.
HOAR,
Sawyer.
Sill.
Cotton. Usher.
Marrett.
Stacy.
Meane. Moore.
Morse. Nelson. Palmer. Park. Parker.
Phelps. Prentice. Richardson.
Weld. Whittemore. Wyeth. IlLURETH, 581.

Stone. HILL, 581-5.
IOLDEN, 585-7. Adams.

Beal.
Boyden. r;u U haw.

I !
Clark.
Crackbone.
Cutting.
Adams.
Badger.
Bell.
Durren. Farnsworth.
Fiske. Fosdick.
Bennett.
Bicknall.
Sampson. Sawyer.
Sharp. Shed. Smith. Soden. Spring.
Stacy.
Blodgett.
Fox.
Fuller.
Blowers.
Bowes.
Bowman.
Brackett.
Godding.
Hasting.
Burbeck. Cheney.
Clark.
Swan.
Tidd.
Longhorn. Manning. Oakes.

Peirce. Russell. Rutter.
Wainwright.
Codner. Cooper.
Cutler. Cutter.
Ward.
Warren. Watson.
Wellington.
Shattuck.
Dana.
Eustis. Fiske.
Shepherd.
Wheat.
Whittemore.
Winchester.
Sparhawk. Stedman.
Stratton.
Foxcroft.
Frost.
Winthrop.
Swan. Swcetman.
Williams.
Wyeth.
Gookin.
HAUGH,
HAYNES,
579.
Gowen.
Grant. Grover.
HOLLEY,
587. 587,
8.
Langdon.
Stevens.
579.
Kendall.
HOLM AN,
Gipson.
Hancock.
Cook. Harlakenden. Hooker.

Russell.
Haywood.
Hearsey.
Howe. Hvde.
Jefts.
HOLMES,
Felt.
Prentice. Ross. 588.
Wyllys.
Bordman. Brown.
.Johnson.
HEALY,
579, 80.
Jones.
Avery. Badcock.
Brackett.
Kent.
Kingsbury. Locke.
Parsons.
Read.
Stiles.
Brown.
Butterice.
Manning.
Moore.
Thatcher.
Green. Parker.
Munroe. Myrick.
Perry.
Phillips.
Upham.
Wendell.
Thwing. Watson.
HOMWOOD,
HOOKER,
Ames.
Cotton. Leverett.
Mitchell.
588. 589.
HEATE,
580.
Prentice.
Marrett.
Quincy.
580.
1.
HERRING,
Bates.
Rand.
Randall.
HICKS, 580, Andrew.

Bradford.
Remington.
Robbins.
Russell.
Newton.
Shepard. Wigglesworth. Wilson.
Champney.
Fisher.
Smith.
Snow.
Stone.
HOPKINS,
589.
Flagg. Foxcroft.
Fuller.
Stowe.
HOSMKR, 589. HOUGHTON, 589.

Phipeuy.
Swan.
Tai nter.
Green.
HOUSE,
589.
Hunt.
Larkin.
Mills.
Mitchelson.
Needham.
Nutting. Palfrey.
Todd. Trowbridge. Warland. Wellington. Winship.
HOVEY,
589-91.
Angier.
Atwood.
Avers. Barlow. Bradbury. Brimhali.
HINCKSON,
585.
Harrington.
722
Brown.
Chamberlin.
Chapouil.
Kenrick.
Jackson.
Kettle.
Newgate.
Oliver. Prentice.
Newman.
Preston.
Cooke.
Cushman. Denny.
Forbes.
Foster.
Lopez. Moore. Parker.

Prentice.
Robbins.
Trowbridge.
Truesdale.
Sigourney. Sprague.
Gardner.
Glover.
Ward.
Williams. Wilson. Wiswall.
Tompson. Underwood.
Winship.
Greenwood.
Hammond.
Hodgkins. Hoppin.
Jordan. Leathe. Lee.
Lincoln.
KNIGHT,
Belts.
597.
JOHNSON, 593-5.
Barker. Cane.
Clark.
Shaw.
Simpkins.
KNOWI.ES, 597.
LAMSON,
Bridge. Clark.
Isaac.
597.
Livermore.
Marrett.
Cook. Cooper.
Eliot.
Mason. Murray.
Parker.
Peirce. Pratt. Prentice.
Goodnow.
Green.
Hastings.
Parish.
Sparhawk.
Stone.
Logan. Monis. Moore.

Perry. Prentice.
LAPPINWAI.L, 598.
LATHAM, LAWTON,
598.
598.
598, 9.
Shepard.
Remington. Sampson.
Scott.
LEVERKTT,
Barry. Boylston.
Brattle.
Reed.
Seaver. Stone. Swett. Tapley.
Warren. Whitney. JONES, 595.

Ash.
Buss.
Fisk.
Clark.
Colman.
Cotton.
Walker. Watson. Wheat.

Willis.
Dana.
Denison.
Harris.
Gleason.
Hassell.
Hill.
Wilson. Winchester. Winship.
Hooper.
Mitchell. Pratt.
Horton.
Stone.
HUBBARD,
Bowes.
Durant.
591.
Winship.
JUDD,
595.
Rogers. Shepard.
Champney.
Hamlet.
Ives. Prentice. Russell.
Craigie.
Hooker.
Longfellow.
Wigglesworth. LEWIS, 599.
LOCKWOOD,
Bradstreet.
599.
KELSEY,
595.
Hooker.
Phillips.
Haynes.
Spencer.
595.
Winship.
KEMPSTEK,
Andrew.
Frost.
LONGHORN,
Crosby. Green.
Marrett.
599, 600.
HUDSON,
592-
Atherton. Waters.
HUNT, 592. Isaac. HYDE, 592.

Barnes. French. Jackson. Kendrick. Osland. Rediat.
Holden. Moulton. Parke.
LORD,
595.
LOWDEN,
600. 600. 600, 1.
KKNDALL,
Holley. Jackson.
Stevenson.
LUXFORD,
Albone.
595, 6.
Billings.
KENRICK, Hyde.
Jackson. Metcalf.
Cole.
Fessenden.
Glover.
Stedman. Woolson.
ISAAC, 592. JACKSON, 592, 3. Biscoe.
KIDDER,
596, 7. Hartlett.
Goodwin.
Olbon.
Patten.
Bowman.
Brown.
Cooper. Crosby. Danforth.
MACKEY, 601. MACOONE, 601.

Bush.
Foster.
Bond.
Bright.
Browne.
Cook.
Frothingham. Goddard.
Griggs.
Wood. MANN, 601.

Palmer.
Teel.
Dana.
Fuller.
Hobart.
Hunnewell Hyde.
MANNING,
Abbott.
601-3.
723
609.
MASON,
605-8. Biscoe.
MEANE,
Ball.
Adams.
Barrett.
Hastings.
Blanchard. Brooks.
MERIAM,
Cooper. Stone.
609.
Barrows.
Brown.
Bry. Buckner.
Bull.
Bingham.
Bull. Carter.
MILLER,
609, 10.
Coolidge.
Case. Cleaveland.
Chamberlin.
Cheney.
Child. Clark.
Cogswell. Darling.
Frothingham. Smith. Tapley.
Day.
Eager. French. Glover.
Hill.
Coolidge. Cutter.
MINOT, 610. Champney.

MIHICK,
Corlett. 610.
Dane.
De Lery.
Denison. Dexter.
Trowbridge.
MITCHELL,
Goffe.
610.
Hough ton.
King. Laninan.
Oliver. Pratt. Proctor.
Dudley.
Ellson.
Lynde.
Sewall.
Estabrook.
Fayerweather.
Fillebrown. Fiske.
Foster.
Shepard.
MITCHELSON,
Atkinson.
610, 11
Randall.
Remington.
Robinson.
Stearns.
Bradshaw.
Bushell.
Gardner.
Hammond.
Harlow.
Harrington.
Harris.
Stocking.
Deering. Green.
Scarlet.
Warland.
Williams.
Shears.
Winship.
Hodges.
Woods.
Wright.
Rowland. Hovey.
603.
Shepard. Weld.
Willard.
MARKHAM,
Whitmore.
MARKETT, 603-5. Amsden.

Barstow. Bradish. Crackbone. Dunster. Fayerweather.
Fisher. Foster.
Kellam. Learned. Livermore. Luke.

Marshall.
MOORE, 611, Adams.

Champney.
Cutter.
12.
Batchelder.
McEnery. Monck.
Monis.
Nichols.
Dunster. Eaton.
Edwards.
Hastings.
Perry.
Russell.
Hodges. Holyoke.
Johnson.
Jones. Kidder.
Hastings.
Sabin.
Hayes.
Hill.
Hovey.
Jones.
Sargent. Sawin. Sewall.
Mayhew.
Miles. Mitchell.
Lawrence. Locke.
Longfellow.
Sharp. Shipley. Soden.

Spring. Stone.
Stratton. Tennell.
Topliff.
Periman.
Porter.
Longhorn. Martyn. Monis.

Parker.
Pierce. Rice.
Rand.
Richardson. Robbins.
Russell.
Watson. Webster.
Wellington.
Sweetser. Vincent.
Richardson.
Ruggles.
Sewall.
Whitney.
Williams.
Warland. Watson. MOHRILL, 612.
Shepard. Stanhope. Tidd.

Vassall.
MASTERS,
609.
MUNROK,
Dobyson. Latham. Lockwood.

Tabor.
612-14. Blanchard.
Bowen.
Bowman.
Burgess. Burt.
Washington.
Wells.
Weston. Winsor.
Witt.
MAYNARD, MEAD, 609.

Barnard.
Collins.
609.
Coney.
Coolidge.
Cutler. Fassett. Fiske.
Wyatt.
Hall.
605.
MAKTIN,
Frost.
Hastings.
Warren.
Hancock.
724
Harrington. Hastings.
Jones.
Belcher.
Kent, Lewis. Locke.

Marrett.
Mason. Mead.
Parker.
Peirce. Porter. Prentice.
Robbins.
Rugg.
Russell.
Sanderson. Tidd.
Watson. Wyer. Wyeth.
MUTCHIN, 614. MUZZEY, 614, 15.

Boutelle.
Bowers. Chandler.
Dexter. Green.
Prentice.
Reed. Roscoe.
Ruckew.
Waite. Whittemore.
MYGATE, 615. NEEDHAM, 615.

Hicks.
Maynard.
NEWMAN,
Bunker.
Wiswall.
615.
Sparhawk.
NICHOLS, 615. NORCROSS, 615. NUTTING, 615, 16. Gay.
Hicks.
Holmes.
Nowell. Shepard, Walton. Winthrop.
OAKES,
Flint.
616, 17.
Angier. Dudley.
Hay ward.
Jenkins. Sewall. Sweetser. Waite. OLDHAM, 617.
Brown.
Chadvvick.
Dana.
Fessenden.
Frothingham.
Gates. Parks.
Reed.
Wood.
OLIVKK, 618-20.
Angier.
Dudley.
Eliot.
725
Fillebrown. Fiske.
Fitch.
Williams.
Winship.
Garrett.
Woodward.
Worth. Worthylake. Wyeth. PRINCE, 636.
Harlakenden. Morant.
Sibley.
Fosdick.
Foster.
Freeman.
Frost.
Waldegrave. Winslow. PHILLIPS, 628.
Frothingham.
RAYNER,
Hall.
636.
Gamage.
Gay.
Gibson.
Dan forth.
Foxcroft.
Winship.
READ,
636, 7.
Jackson.
Goddard. Good now.
Batson.
Brown.
Culvery. Fessenden. Glover.
Goffe.
Pelham.
Shepard. PHIPS, 627. Bennett.
Gorham.
Gove. Haley.
Hall.
Bordman.
Greenleaf.
Hancock.
Haskell.
Goodwin. Holmes.
Marshall.
Lech me re.
Lee.
Oliver.
Haynes.
Hill.
Oldham.
Sessions.
Holden.
Spencer.
Vassall.
Hovey.
Hubb'ard.
Stacey.
Stratton.
Winthrop. PICKE, 627. PICKERING, 627. PINSON, 627.

Cooper.
Hyde.
Ireland.
Wait. Whiting.
Jackson. Johnson. Kent.

Ketteell.
Wyeth.
Wyman.
REED,
637-9.
PLACE, POLLY,
627. 627. 628. POST,
Kidder. Learned.
Baker. Blood.
Bond.
Hancock.
Satle.
Logan. Lyon.
Mellen.
Champney.
Converse.
Sawtell. PRATT, 628.
Coytmore.
Ho'oker.
Isaac.
Munroe. Murdoch.
Oliver.
Cook. Crosbv.
Elsonl Estabrook. Fiske.
Winthrop.
Orne. Osland.
Peirce.
Phillips.
PRENTICE, 628-36. Adams.

Andros. Angier. Appleton.
Austin.
Pierce.
Rand.
Richardson. Bobbins. Rockwell.
Russell.
Sartell.
Houghtoti. Jenkins. Jennison. Johnson. Kendall.

Paige.
Peirce. Pierce.
Badger.
Balch. Bates. Batson.
PouUer. Ravner.
Rice.
Saunders.
Scripture.
Binney.
Bird.
Bordman.
Brackett.
Brown. Butman. Capen.

Collier.
Smith. Soden. Spencer. Sprague. Stanton.
Richardson. Robinson. Rockwell.

Russell.
Sawyer. Somers.
Stone. Tidd.
Symmes.
Teel.
Collins.
Conant. Cook. Cooper.
Tenney. Todd.
Tufts.
Walker.
Winn.
Winship.
Cowdrey.
Cutter.
Darby. Davenport.
Dickinson.
Dick son. Emerson.
Emery.
Fay.
Fetch.
T/ng. Underwood. Waldron. Walker. Ware. Warland. Warren. Watson. Weare.

Whitefield.
Wyman.
REDDING, 639. REDFKN, 639.
Jackson.
REMINGTON,
Belcher. Biscoe.
639, 40.
Bowes.
Bradstreet.
Buckminster.
Fessenden.
Whitney. Whittemore.
Channing.
Convers.
726
Ellery.
Prentice. Russell.
Cutler.
Epps. Gibson.
Hill.
Hobby.
Larkin.
Stedman.
Stevens.
Squire. Stearns. Stone. Stratton. Sweetser.
Cutter Dickson.
Dodge.
Dunster. Eaton. Farwell. Fillebrown.
Fiske. Frost. Hall.
Trowbridge.
Trowbridge. RICE, 640. Cootsay.

Foxcroft.
White. Whitney.
Williams.
Woodward.
ROBINSON, 644,
Bacon. Biglow.
Billings.
5.
Hancock.
Harrington. Hastings.
Hill.
Harrington. Marrett. Reed. Shed.
Watson.
Wilcockson.
Brigham. Church.
640, 1.
Hobart. Holbrook. Holden.
RICHARDSON,
Arnold.
Dickinson.
Fassett.
Howe.
Hubbard.
Hutchinson.
Jones.
Bond.
Carson.
Fay. Leonard.
Champney.
Convers.
Cutter.
Manning.
Reed.
Safford.
Fillebrown. Marrett. Morse.
Simonds. Simons.
Swift.
Lawrence. Locke. Lyon. Mason. Meriam.
Munroe.
Patten.
Munroe.
Peirson. Prentice. Prentiss.
Tidd.
Tufts.
Perry.
Pierce.
Upham.
Webster.
Rand.
Russell.
Weeks. ROLFE, 645,

Coffin.
6.
Prentice. Preston. Rice.
Smith. Stevenson. Wilson. Winship.
Cutter. Scullard. ROSCOE, 646.
Robbins. Sanderson. Sprague.
Stedman.
Tufts.
RIDER, 641. ROBBINS, 641-4. Adams.

Allen.
Muzzey. Ruskew. ROSE, 646.

Russell. Ross, 646.
Underwood. Warren. Webber.

White. Whittemore.
Wilkins. Williams. Wilson. Winship.
Bacon.
Barrett. Braside.
Bumford. Holman.
Levistone. Patten.
Bridge.
Brown.
Butterfield.
Winship.
Capen. Cheney. Cook.

Coolidge.
RUGG,
646.
Wyman.
SACKETT,
651.
Munroe. RUSSELL, 646-51.

Abbott.
Stedman.
Crackbone.
Cutter.
Adams.
Bailey. Ballafd.
SALTONSTALL, 651. SAUNDERS, 651, 2.

Ball.
Dana.
Dickson. Draper. Durant. Estabrook.
Fillebrown. Gould.
Griffin.
Bancroft.
Bartlett.
Barnard.
Belcher. Bel knap.
<
Flagg.
Holden.
Bemis. Black ington.

Blodgett.
Penniman.
Prentiss. Savil.
Hammond.
Hartwell.
Hill.
Boynton. Bradshaw.
Bridge.
Spear.
Whittemore.
Willard.
Brooks.
Bullard. Carruth. Clark.
SAWTELL,
Knight. Parker.
Post. Satle.
652.
Jackson. Johnson.
Lyon.
Miles.
Moore. Morse.
Patten.
Peirce.
Cogswell. Colby. Cooke.
SCOTT, 652.
Austin.
Biscoe.
Cox.
Creary.
Buckley.
Ewe.
James.
Jarvis.
727
Wyeth.
STEBBINS, 661.
656-9.
SPAKHAWK,
Adams.
Aspinwall.
Danforth. Hooker.
Smith.
STEDMAN,
Alcock. Austin.
Bagnall.
Blaisdell.
661-3.
Trowbridge.
Avery.
Bartlett.
SCRIPTURE, 652. Knapp.
Blake.
SEAGER,
Prentice. C52.
Brown.
Convers. Cooper.
Cutting.
Brackett.
Bishop.
Braman.
Burr.
SEWALL,
652.
Fessenden.
Mitchell.
Dana. Gardner.
Gates.
Cheney.
Clark.
Sparhawk.
Wellington. Wigglesworth.
Cooke.
Davis.
SHAW,
652, 3.
Hancock. Holden. Holmes.

Iloughton.
Jarvis.
Dolhond. Edwards.
Gibson. Glover. Graves.
Angier.
Craigie.
Dickson.
SHEPAKD,
Allen.
Boradell.
Collins.
653, 4.
Mayo. Murdock.
Hammond.
Henshaw. Hyde. Meacham.
Metcalf.
Newman.
Oliver.
Anderson.
Pemberton.
Pepperell. Perkins.
Pierce. Porter.
Cooke. Cromwell.
Moore.
Munroe.
Phillips.
Downing.
Eaton.
Greenhill.
Sewall.
Thwing.
Turner.
Wellington.
Quincy. Remington.
Russell.
Hayman.
Holman.
Hooker.
Leverett.
Sackett.
Whiting.
Lynde.
Mitchell.
Whitney. Wigglesworth. Williams.
Sharp. Shove.
Sprague.
Stowell.
Pond. Quincy.
Touteville.
SPENCER,
Angier.
659.
Thompson.
Thurston. Titcomb.
Tucker.
Tyng.
Wigglesworth.
Swoetman. SPRING, 659. Barsham.

-654.
Upham.
Winship.
SHERBORNE,
Mitchelson.
Gates. Lee.
Shepard.
SILL, 655. Belcher.
Swan. Ward.
SQUIRE, 659-60.
Askell.
STEELE, 663. Judd. STEVKNS, 663.

Barrett.
Green.
Remington.
Green. Hicks.
Brown.
Fessenden.
Francis. Haskell. STAGEY, 660.
STEVENSON, Abdy.
Burfieen.
663.
Pynchon. SIMONDS, 655.

Tidd.
Burges.
Lowden.
Patterson.
SlMPKINS, Knight.
655.
Adams.
Bean.
Hastings. Hicks.
SKIDMORE, 655. SKINNER, 655.

Ibbitt.
Richardson. Wilson.
SMITH,
Buck. Cox.
655, 6.
STANLEY, 660. STANESUY, 660.

Cutter.
Bissell.
STILEMAN, 663. STOCKING, 663. STONE, 663-6. Andrew.

Bent.
STARR, 660. STEARNS, 660,

Beers. Fillebrown.
1.
Bond.
Boylston. Brifiham. Bright.
Daniel.
Fessenden. Fowle.
French.
Frost.
Hagar.
Hill.
Brown.
Burt. Clark.
Gibson.
Jordan.
Miller.
Knowlton.
Lathrop.
Coombs.
Cooper.
Parsons.
Prentice.
Scott.
Manning.
Mixer. Morse.
Stone.
Dyke. Edmands.
Fairbanks.
Thwing.
White.
Wellington.
Fox.
728
Goddard. Gookin.
SWCETMAN, Hews.
668.
.
Savage. Stedman.
Stone.
Hammond.
Hildreth.
Hill.
Spencer. Wellington.
Walter.
SYMMES,
Hinkley. Hooker.
TALCOTT, TAYLOR, 668,

Clemanoe.
Foxcroft.
668. 668.
9.
Ward.
Wilson.
Hovey. Hunt.
Jones.
TRUESOALE, Bordman.
Emblin.
Foot. Gilbert. Greenleaf.
672.
Oakes.
Keach. Livermore.
THATCHER,
Brown.
Child.
669, 70.
Lumpkin. Mason.
Miriam.
Halton.
Moody.
Noyes.
Parker.
Potter.
Gardner. Gerry. Goddard.
Hood.
Jackson.
TRUMBULL,
Holmes.
UPHAM,
Dana.
Sharp.
672. 673.
Knox.
Morse. Payson.
Reed.
Rice.
Putnam.
Spring.
Stedman. Thompson.
Robbins.
Searl.
USHKR,
670.
673, 4.
THOMPSON,
Burr.
Alden.
Allen.
Shepard.
Sparhawk.
Stearns.
Chandler.
Crosby.
Andros.
Brown.
Butler. Cotton.
Stow.
Hunnewell.
Sharp. Shove.
Trowbridge.
Tufts.
Cromwell.
Harris.
.
Walker.
Stedman.
Ward.
Warner.
Wellington. Whipple. White.
Upham
Harwood.
670.
THURSTON,
Stedman. TIDD, 670.
'
Hoar.
Jeffries.
Lidgett.
Whittemore.
Williams. Wilson.
Blodgett. Chandler. Cutler.
Moodey.
Morton.
Newman.
Parsons.
Royall. Sewall.
Munroe.
Reed. Simonds. Smith.
Woodward. STOWELL, 666.

Stedman.
Shrimpton.
STRATTON,
Child.
666.
Wood. Wyeth.
TOMLINS, 670.
Symmes.
Thomas. Tvng. Wharton.
Willis.
Cooke.
Lowell. Norcross.
TOWNE,
670, 1.
Palmer.
Richards. Robbins.
Banbrick. Bradish.
Howard.
Mitchell.
666, 7.
Woodbridge. Wooddrop. VASSALL, 674,

Barron.-
5.
Walker.
STRKETEK,
Sears.
Sewall. Stone.
TROWBRIDGE,
Atherton. Bent.
671, 2.
Batchelder. Davis.
Ellery.
SWAN,
667, 8.
Abbott.
Bittlestone.
Lavicourt.
Oliver.
Convers. Cook. Crosby.

Cutter.
Boddington. Chamberlin.
Chaplin.
Phips. Royall.
Russell.
Dana.
Eaton.
Edgell. Farrar.
Fuller.
VINCENT,
Moore.
Andros. Ashley.
675. 675, 6.
Hinds. Holden. Mansur.

Palfrey. Parks. Patten.
Polley. Pratt.
WADSWORTH,
Bordman. Champney.
Higginson.
Parrott. Peirce.
Gambell.
Goffe.
Greenwood.
Hemenway. How.
Jackson.
Jones. Mirick.
Oliver.
Richardson. Robbins. Spring.
Stone.
Wade.
Watts. Williams.
Stoughton. Terry.
Remington.
Rice.
WAKEMAN,
WALES,
676. 676.
WARD,
676, 7.
729
Huntress.
Bacon.
Brigham.
Burrage.
Eames.
Fuller.
Gay. Greenwood.
Hall.
How.
Jackson. Johnson. Kenrick.
Lovering. Mattocks.
Moore.
Rice.
Spring. Stone.
Trowbridge. Williams. Wilson.
Woods. Wyeth.
WAKLAND,
Abbott.
Barrett.
677, 8.
Bates.
Bean. Bigelow.
Bird.
Breed.
Brown.
Carter. Cutler.
Darling. Farwell.
Giles. Hill.
Howe.
Hunnewell.
Mann.
Manning.
Moore. Palmer.
Parker.
Phelps.
Plympton.
Porter. Prentice.
Richardson.
Shepard.
Stearns.
Thompson.
WAKNEK,
Cooke.
678, 9.
Wood. WATSON,
Allen.
679-81.
Angier.
Bradshaw.
Butterfield.
Cox.
Errington. Fillebrown.
Gamage.
Goodwin.
Grant.
Hall.
Hastings. Healy.
Hill.
Holmes.
730
Kettell.
WlNTHROP,
Chauncy.
Fayerweather.
Hastings.
Phillips.
731
700, 1.
Goodnow.
Gove.
Greely.
Flagg. Fox.
Francis.
Greenwood.
Hammond.
Hunting.
Gamage.
Gray. Green. Hancock.
Hastings.
Hill.
Tolman. Townsend. Warren.
Hyde.
Moore. Myrick.
Patten. Kobbins. Stone.
WISWALL,
Farmer. Jackson.
701.
Jarvis.
Kendall.
Newman.
WlTHERELL,, 701.
Benjamin. Bryant.
Caulkins.
Munroe.
Newell.
702.
Waite.
WOOLSON,
How.
Hyde.
Jones.
Newman.
Parker.
Prentice.
Bond. Chadwick.
Deane. Hobart.
Oldham.
WOOD,
Parish. 701.
WORWOOD, 702. WYER, 702.

Lawrence.
Read. Sargent. Sawin. Shepard. Smith.

Stearns.
Buck.
Fuller.
WYETH,
Brooks.
702-6.
Greenwood. Maccoone.
Andrew. Bowman..
Stimson. Stone.
Oldham.
Kushton.
Tapley. Tidd.
Champney.
702.
702.
Ward.
Watson.
Webster.
Willard.
WOODMANCY,
Clark.
Cook.
Coolidge.
Corlett.
WOODWARD,
Brown.
Cheever.
Cutter.
Dana. Eddy.
Fisher. Gates.
Duntin. Fessenden.
Fillebrown. Fiske.
Fitch.
Wilson. Winship.
Winslow.
Wood ware Wright.

YOUNG,
706.
ERRATA.
Page Page Page
5, line 6,
note
30,/or 1837 read 1807. I, for 45, 46 read 38, 39.
12, note I, for 84,
read 85.
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HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: KURD AND HOUGHTON.

COPYRIGHT, 1877, BY LUCIUS R. PAIGE.

H. O. Houghton and Company.

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY,

DEDICATED BY ITS AUTHOR,

tion of the town,

towns, churches, and libraries.

thanks are due to

custodians of such books, and records, and archives, for their

from Probate Records and

A very few families are included

but these form the exception,

also in regard to the History, comparatively

few recent events are mentioned.

most proper place, there may be various opinions.

so deeply impress the youthful mind,

and which tinge the

plead in extenuation, that although

for publication, until impaired health

age became uncomfortably manifest.

for a fortified place. General agreement fail to do so. Controversy be-

tween Dudley and Winthrop.

Arrival of the Braintree Company.

Debates and division in the General Court.

Herd on the south

side of the river.

for taking of swine.

Grant of land at Vine Brook.

Organization of the militia.

The College to be at The New Town named Cambridge.

Stephen Daye to Jose Glover

Whalley and Cambridge. Fragment of

Andros appointed Governor

orate and vigorous protest

by the Selectmen of Cambridge.

incorporated, under the administration of

Stone wall'between Camfamilies,

Committee to inspect Encroachment on prevent improper practices.

Arbitrary proceedings of Andros.

Titles to land de-

sume the government, and pledge

to Cambridge. Funeral customs

earnest protest against the importation of

offenders and their abettors as public enemies.

tea in Boston Harbor. Boston Port Bill. Donations to Boston. Coun-

to permit their return sentatives

Land-holders in Cambridgeport and East Cambridge.

and others sparingly.

& Makepeace among

called East Cambridge.

Canal (or Craigie's) Bridge.

established in the trial