A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE BIOGRAPHY, GENEALOGY, 'HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS

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SALEM, MASS. : Efp 4essex antiquar iair. 1897.

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, ., ABOLITIONISTS,The, 125. LYNN,BOUNDS OF, 45. ABORNGENEALOGY, 161. LYNN,HISTORICAL SKETCH OF FIRSTCHURCH ABRAHAMFAMILY, 174. IN, 151. &RAM FAMILY,174. MARRIAGES,Second, - --s7. ACIEGENEALOGY, 190. Smock, 57. AMESBURYINSCRIPTIONS : MUZZEY,ROBERT, Will of, 159. Salisbury Point Cemetery, 28. MYSTERIOUSLAND, The, 173. Cemetery near Depot, 5 I. NEVILL.WILLIAM. Will of. 112. Union Cemetery, 119, 143, 164. Salisbury Plains Cemetery, 167, 190. ANCESTOR,The, 141. ANDOVERIN THE FIRSTLOUISBURG EXPEDITION, 177. ANDREWS,ROBERT,W~ of, 142. ANSWERSTO QUERIES,I, 52; 3, 34; 4, 34; 5, 118; 6, 34; 7, 34; I I, 67; 19, 68; 20, 118 ; 21, 86; 24, 134; 26, 86; 30, 102; 35, 182; 36, 134; 37,-198; 38, 134; 43, 10% 46, 135. 150; 52,102; 53, 118; 54, 134; 64, 150; QUERIES,1-10, 16; 11-14 4; 15-21, 52; 22- 69, 134; 74, 150; 75, 166; 80, 166; 81, 36, 66; 37-53.86; 5.+16$, ro1 ; 69-74, 118; 182; 82, 182; 83, 182; 87, 198. 75-79, 134; 80-93. 149; 94-104) 166 i 105- BAILEY,REV. JACOB,69. I I 116-123, 197. BROWNE,GEORGE, Will of, 76. RECEIPT,AN ANCIENT,65. CARTWRIGHT,BETHIAH, Will of, 30. RESEARCH,THE CHARMOF, 150. CHURCHMAN,HUGH, Wd of, 177. REVOLUTION,Letters of the, 46. COMMERCIALHISTORY OF SALEM,I. Soldienand Sailors of the, 7,31, 63, 101, 130, CONSTITUTION,The Frigate. 189. 1571 195. CONTRACTIONSIN COLONIAL WRITINGS, 133. ROLFE. HENRY,Will of, 65. CUMMINOS,JOANNA, Will of, 187. DESERTEDVILLAGE, The, 43. DILLINGHAM,SARAH, Will of, 13. DROWNINGACCIDENT, 66. EARTHQUAKEOF 1638, 173. FENCES.EARLY, 25. SANDERS,JOHN, Wi of. 133. FEENCROFTINN, 53. SCARLET,ANNE, Will of, IW. GLOUCESTER'SDESERTED VILLAGE, 43. SIDEBOARD,THE ANCIENTPUTNAM, 181. GRIST-MILL,The Old, 109. SMITH,SAMUEL, Will of, 44. HANDWRITING,COLQNIAL, I 75. SPINNINGBEE, 51. HAVERHILL,THROAT DISTEMPER IN, 10. SPINNINGIN THE OLDENTIME, 87. HEATING,METHODS OF, IN THE OLDENTIME, STORMOF 1635, THE GREAT, 93. 183. THROATDISTEMPER IN HAVERHILL,10. INSCRIPTIONS.See Amcsbury fnscripfions. UNIONCEMETERY, AMESBURY, 119, 143, 164. IPSWICHGRANT, AN EARLY,92. VILLAGE,THE DESERTED, 43. IPSWICHMEMORIAL TABLETS, 15. VOYAGING,EARLY, 93. IpswrcH SOLDIERS,149. WALLS,THEOLD STONE, 25. Lsns~s,REVOLUTIONARY, 46. WILLS, OUR FATHERS',159. ILLUSTRATIONS.

ABBOTHOUSE, Andovei, 35. LYNN,MEETING-HOUSES OF FIBST CHURCH IN: ACIE, WILLIAM,Autograph of, Igo. Meeting-House, 1632-1682, 151. ALLEYHOUSE, Lynn, 153. Old Tunnel," 151. AUTOGRAPHOF WILLIAMACIE, 190. Meeting-House, 1827-1837, 154. BAILEY,REV. JACOB,69. Meeting-House, 1837-1870, 155. Birthplace of, 70. Resent Church, 157. MERCHANTMEN,THE LASTOF THE OLD, I. BPAKL, -9 90. CARDS,HAND, 91. NICHOLS~IoMEsT~AD, 53. CHIMNEY.EAPLIBST, 183. NORFOLKCOUNTY, OLD, MAPOF, 19. COOKIS,REV. PAPSONS,D. D., 156. PEABODYGRIST-MILL, TOPSFIELD, 103. DISTAFF,91. PORTER,HATHORNE, I 19. DOGTOWNHOUSE, A Typical, 42. REEL, Clock, 91. DRIVER,"89. Hand, 91. FENCES,Board, 27. SIDEBOARD,THE ANCIENT PUTNAM, 167. Brush. 26. SOUTHWICK,PROVIDED, ATTEMPTED SALE OF, Snak; 27. 135. Split-rail, 27. SPINNINGWHEEL, Linen, 89. Two-nil, 26. Old Wool, 87. FLPNCROFT INN, 56. STOVE,Foot, 184. FIRE-FUME,187. The Early Franklin, 184. FIREPLACE,Early Stone, 183. STOVES,VARIOUS, 187. FOOTSTOVE, 184. SWINGLEKNIFE, go. HANDWRITING,COLONIAL, 175, 176. WALL,Half-high, 27. HATCHEL,90. Stone, 27.

CO~CIAL.HISTORY OF SALEM. BY SIDNEY PERLEY. SALEMwas settled by a class of men ketches, measuring from twenty to forty who were different in several respects from tons burthen, and manned by four, five those of the other towns of the Massachu- or six men each. In 1688, there was setts Bay colony. They were sea-faring, only one ship, her tonnage being one hun- having been engaged in fishing at Cape dred and thirty tons. In 1698, Salem Ann for five years. The maritime ad- had on the water one ship of eighty tons vantages of the situation of Salem un- and another of two hundred, one bark, doubtedly attracted them thither, and three sloops and twenty ketches. resulted in the commercial activity of the Higginson wrote of the trade here in town in later years. At the very begin- I 700 as follows : " Dry, merchantable ning of Endicott's government here he codfish for the markets of Spain, Portugal was directed by the home company to and the Straits, refuse fish, lumber, horses send to England as return cargoes, and provisions for the West Indies. Re- "staves, sarsaparilla, sumack, sturgeon and turns made directly to England are su- other fish and beaver." The waters of gar, molasses, cotton, wool, logwood and the harbor and rivers contained immense Brasiletto-wood, for which we depend on quantities of fish, and for more than a the West Indies. Our own produce, a century they were the staple export, a considerable quantity of whaleand fish- Winter island being the headquarters of oil, whalebone, furs, deer, elk, and bear- the fish trade. Even as late as the pres- skins are annually sent to England. We ent century, salmon swam the North have much shipping here and rates are river in such numbers that they constitu- low." ted the main article of animal food of the Commerce was continued in similar dwellers on its banks; and theindentures lines and with but little increase to the of apprentices contained a clause provid- beginning of the Revolution. With the ex- ing that they should not be compelled to ception of Boston and New York, Beverly, eat salmon more than three times each Marblehead and Salem were the principal week. commercial ports of the province, having About 1640, vessels were sailed to An- most of the shipping. tigua and Barbadoes, some of the Leeward The patriots of the colonies, without Islands and the large islands of the West ships of war, found themselves at issue Indies, the Bermudas, Virginia and Eng- with the most powerful maritime nation land; and in 1644 Josselyn wrote that in of the world. Boston and New York Wem there "we many rich merchants." were occupied and crippled by the enemy, Within the next twenty-five years, trade and the success of the Americans was was extended to Spain, France and Hol- early believed to lie in the hands of the land. patriotic merchants of Salem bay. De- The great majority of vessels then en- votion to the cause of independence was gaged in commerce from Salem were nowhere more extensive or truer than in 2 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. the hearts of the merchants of Salem, and ing them stranded. They had sailed the those who sailed their ships over the Spanish main, and had had frequent meet- ocean. Broad-minded &d generous, the ings with the buccaneers of the ocean for owners recognized the exigency of the years. Perilous voyages were the most times and turned their vessels into priva- attractive. Most of the sailors were still teers, arming them with cannon; and young, and full of life and daring. The their gallant crews volunteered to man prospect of voyages to distant and un- them. Out upon the deep they sailed, known countries was fascinating to them, with hearts of courage and daring, to meet and when the merchants announced their in mortal combat the powerful navy of intention of opening up trade with the re- England. mote parts of the globe there was no lack Not only did they use the vessels al- of seamen. ready built, but the merchants had larger The snow-white sails of the merchant- and better onesconstructed, equipped and ships of Salem were soon seen in every manned for this very service. During the water of the then known world, and Salem war more than one hundred and fifty- became famous in the uttermost parts, its eight vessels were thus sent out from name becoming as widely known as that Salem. They carried upward of two of America. thousand guns in all, averaging about Many of the voyages of the merchant- fourteen each, and were manned by sev- ships were not less exciting and danger- eral thousand seamen. They took four ous than the experiences of the privateers hundred and forty-five prizes, an average in the Revolution. The history of the of nearly three to each vessel. The story period is crowded with incidents of dar- of these privateers upon the ocean is a ing and adventure in unknown seas and very important, and the most interesting, in ports never before visited by Ameri- fascinating and romantic part of the his- cans, encounters with pirates and tribes of toryof the struggle for independence. The cruel and treacherous savages, who were secluded conflicts at sea, between single ready to commitany atrocity for plunder, vessels, had few witnesses, and little, com- contests with the armed ships of France pared with the amount of knowledge we and England, imprisonment among the have of the battles fought on land, is there- Algerines and in the dungeons of France fore known of the history of the capture and Spain. Now and then Salem crews of these four hundred and forty-five prizes. fell victims to the pirates and cruel Ma- Little commerce in the way of trade lays. Even the most romantic imagina- had been carried on during the seven tions fail to conceive the parallel of those years of war, and on the return of peace times. the merchants found themselves possessed It has already been said that the sea- of many swift-sailing vessels larger than men were young, but it will not be learned any they had used prior to the Revolution. from that statement alone how very youth- They were too large to be profitably em- ful some of them were. When the first ployed in domestic commerce or in the vessel to the East Indies set sail from short voyages to their hitherto visited Salem, neither the captain nor his mates European and other ports. The mer- were out of their teens ;yet, with imper- chants determined to visit new and more fect mathematical instruments, and with- distant countries, and begin trade with out charts except of their own making, their peoples. they carried through coral reefs and along Many hundred seamen were idle, as strange shores ship and cargo safely to they would accept no employment but their destination. The importance of the that which was compatible with the spirit position of these boys did not alone lie in they had imbibed during the seven strange the navigation of the vessel. .They had years that had just come to an end, leav- the selling of the outward cargo, and the COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF SALEM. 3 purchase of another to bring home with first elephant that was ever seen in the them. The whole financial success of the United States. + voyage depended upon them, as there The maritime section of the town was was no communication with the owners well worth visiting. Salem was one of the during the year and a half covered by the principal depots for the distribution of voyage, and no news of them received at foreign merchandise. For instance, in home until they came sailing back again. .the year 1800, more than eight million The telegraphic cable long ago destroyed pounds of sugar alone was imported and the romantic interest which the mystery of sold to traders from various sections of silence wove around these trips. the country. The streets were alive with Derby street, the great commercial teams loaded with goods. Draft wagons thoroughfare of the town, was filled with and drays came from long distances, the bustle of business. Vessels crowded somtimes more than a hundred miles, for at the wharves, some having their cargoes this was long before the period of rail- of silk from India, tea from China, pepper roads, and all merchandise had to , be from Sumatra, coffee from Arabia, spices transported overland in this arduous and from Batavia, gum-copal from Zanzibar, tedious manner. and hides from Africa, removed to the In the taverns, teamsters from many warehouses on the wharves, and others parts of Northwestern New England were were being laden with American goods for ever to be found on chilly evenings sitting the foreign trade. around the hearth-fire, discussing politics At every lounging place, on every street or current news, or becoming cheerful comer and about the doors of the num- over frequent potations of New England erous sailor boarding houses, were seamen rum, which was then manufactured in fresh from Eastern countries, and others Salem in great quantities. about to sail thither, having all the peculi- The first new trade opened, after the arities of the true rover of the seas. Revolution, was with Russia. In 1784, The sail-makers with their curious the bark Lkht Horse, commanded by thimbles fastened to the palms of their Capt. Buffington from Salem, opened the hands, sat on the smooth floor' of their American trade at St. Petersburg. The lofts busily stitching the great sheets of trade with that country became extensive, white canvass that should carry many a but greatly declined after the embargo. gallant vessel through storm and tempest The last entry in Salem of a cargo from to seas before unplowed by American Archangel was in 1820, from Cronstadt in keels. The shops of the ship-chandlers 1836, and from St. Petersburg in 1843. were also busy places, as well as the shop The Cape of Good Hope trade was of the old maker of mathematical instru- also opened in 1784. The first voyage ments, with his swinging sign of a quad- was made in the Grand Turk, a fast-sail- rant. The shops and stores were full of ing ship of three hundred tons. It was strange and unkue articles, brought from built by Elias Hasket Derby, in 1781, as distant lands. Parrots screamed and mon- a privateer, and carried twenty-two guns. keys and other small animals from foreign In I 784, Mr. Derby dispatched the vessel, forests gamboled at will in the back shops. under command of Capt. Jonathan Inger- . Suggestions of foreign lands met the vision soll, on the first voyage from Salem to the at every turn. The collection of rare and Cape, the exportation being New Eng- unique curiosities which constitute the land rum, and the return cargo Granada East India Marine museum was one re- Nm. sult of these voyages. The next year (I 785) ,Mr. Derby opened The ship America, Capt. Jacob Crown- the trade with China by sending to Can- inshield of Salem, master and owner, ton the Grand Turk, which was then brought home from Bengal, in I 796, the commanded by Capt. Ebenezer West. 4 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. He there competed with the European Salem, was the first American vessel to syndicates of merchants for the native trade with Japan, though commercial in- trade. tercourse was not opened between the The ship Grand Tur2 was also the two countries until halfa century later. first New England vessel to open trade Salem merchants sent the first vessel that with the Dutch of the Isle of France. ever sailed direct from this country to This was in 1787. Sugar was the princi- Sumatra, and the first to bring a cargo of pal article of Dutch exportation. In I 794, pepper from that island. This trade origi- the ship Aurora brought from there a nated from the discovery, by Capt. Jon- cargo of four hundred and twenty-four athan Carnes of Salem, at the port of Ben- thousand and thirty-four pounds of sugar, coolen, who was there in I 793, that pep- it being consigned to William Gray. per grew wild on the northwestern coast The East India trade was also opened of Sumatra. He sailed for Jonathan Peele, by Mr. Derby, in I 788, by the ship Ailan- the merchant, who, upon the discovery of fic, which was commanded by his son. Capt. Carnes, built the schooner Rajah This was the first vessel to display the and sent him in it to Sumatra for a cargo American ensign at Surat, Bombay and of pepper in I 795. He took, for the pur- Calcutta. The next year, he imported the pose of trade, a cargo of brandy, gin, iron, first cargo of Bombay cotton brought to tobacco and salmon, and in I 796 brought this country. In 1798, the ship Belisa- back the first cargo of pepper to be im- rius brought a cargo of ten thousand, ported into this country in bulk. The seven hundred and sixty-seven pounds of cargo sold at seven hundred per cent. sugar and one hundred and eighteen profit. The merchants were greatly excited thousand, two hundred and fifteen pounds over Mr. Peele's success, and endeavored of coffee from Calcutta and the Isle of to learn where the pepper had been ob- France. In 1803, the ship Luria brought tained, but it was kept a secret for several from Calcutta a cargo of sugar, indigo years. The cargoes of pepper sometimes and cheroots, on which the duty was contained as much as six hundred tons. $24,001.08. In 1805, the ship Argo The ship ELm,James Cook, master, brought a cargo of sugar, from the same brought into the port of Salem, from Su- port, on which the duty was $32,799.47. matra, a cargo of one million, twelve In 1812, a duty of $51,526.33 was thousand, one hundred and forty-eight paid on the cargo of the Rc.rti/ution from pounds of pepper, on which a duty of Calcutta. The Calcutta trade was after- $66,903.90 was paid. At one time the wards carried on principally by Joseph trade with Sumatra was almost entirely Peabody, by the famous ship George, carried on by Salem merchants, and a which made twenty-one voyages to Cal- large proportion of the pepper consumed cutta, and who paid $65 1,143.32 duties on was obtained at, and through the port of its cargoes. Salem, which was the distributing point The first American vessel to open trade for that article to all countries. Cargoes with Batavia was the Salem brig Sal(y, of pepper were regularly brought to Salem Benjamin Webb, master, in I 796, who from Sumatra until 1846. Salem vessels purchased of the people there pepper and were at Sumatra for the last time in I 860 ; sugar. Salem vessels were the first to and the last American vessel that visited display the American flag at the Island of that coast was commanded by a Salem Java, near Sumatra, in the Indian ocean. captain. This was in 1867. Since then The ship Margaret, Samuel Derby, mas- there has been no direct trade between ter, was the first (in 1802) Salem vessel, that place and the United States. and second American vessel to visit The Manilla trade was opened in I 796. Japan ;and the ship Franklin of Boston, The ship Asirra, of Salem, Henry Prince, commanded by Capt. James Devereux of master, in that year entered the harbor of COMMERCIAL HISl rORY OF SALEM. 5 Manilla, the capital city of the Philippine Marseilles being in 1833, and the last from Islands, situated on the island of I.uzon, Leghorn in 1841. Trade with Messina and returned to Salem with a cargo of ceased in I 83I. seventy-five thousand pounds of sugar, Among the places early traded at by sixty-three thousand, six hundred and the colonists, the last entry from the West ninety-five pounds of pepper and twenty- Indies was from Havana in 1854. The nine thousand seven hundred and sixty- last entry in Salem from the Rio Grande seven pounds of indigo, the import duty was made in 1870. at Salem being $24,020. The ship Sf. The South American trade, which also Paul was almost as famous in the hlanilla began early, finally ended in I 8 7 7, the last trade as was the ship George in the Cal- entry in Salem from Para occuring in 1861, cutta trade. The last entry in Salem from the cargo consisting of rubber, hides, co- Manilla was the bark Dragon, in 1858, coa, coffee and castana nuts. The trade .with a cargo of hemp. with Montevideo, in hides and horns, The Mocha trade was opened in I 798 which began in 1811, also ended in 1861. by the shipRecovrry, of the port of Salem, The sugar trade with Pernambuco ended Joseph Ropes, master. It was the first in 1841. Among the places of South American vessel to display the American America visited by Salem merchants were flag in that region of the world. The Guayaquil, Lima, Patagonia, Rio Janeiro, natives were amazed at the vessel, with its, Surinam and Valparaiso. to then], strange shape and rig, and large Trade on the west coast of Africa, which size. The ship Franklin, in 1808, brought began soon after the close of the Revolu- from there a cargo of five hundred and tion, by conveying thither New England thirty-two thousand, three hundred and rum, gun-powder and tobacco, closed in sixty-five pounds of coffee, consigned to 1873. Joseph Peabody, on which was paid a duty The Feejee Islands trade was first of $26,618.25. opened in 181 I in the period between the Trade with all those distant shores was embargo and the war, by the bark Actike, firmly established and flourishing at its Capt. William P. Richardson. Salem was height, when, in 1808, the embargo was a name familiar to the cannibals of those placed upon our seaports. The whole islands during the first half of this century, trade was thus suddenly stopped, in some as well as to the savages of Africa and instances never to be re-opened, and in all Madagascar, being the synonym for all the its branches to be pursued with less vigor rest of the world. The trade continued and in a less degree. as late as 1854, when the bark Dragon The trade in wine and brandy with brought from there a cargo of eleven hun- Spain and Portugal, which had continued dred and seventy bales of hemp. for a century was wholly stopped by the After the close of the war, the Salem embargo, the last entry being from Bilboa, merchants attempted to supplement the in 1809. unparalleled commercial record of the Of the trade with all the other princi- port by opening trade with several new pal European ports, which began prior to places. the War of 1812, the last entry from Bor- The first American vessel to trade at deaux occurred .in 1815, from Copen- Madagascar was the Salem brig Beulah, hagen in 181 6, from Amsterdam in 1823, Charles Forbes, master, in 1820. In 1827, from Hamburg in 1828, from Rotterdam Salem merchants extended this trade to in 1834, from Antwerp in I 836, and from Zanzibar. The Salem vessels were the Gottenburg in 1837. first to trade there as at Sumatra and The Mediterranean trade existed prin- Madagascar. Gum-copal was its staple cipally before that war, the last entry, with article of export. The last cargo-to arrive a cargo of wine, brandy and soap, from at Salem from Zanzibar entered in 1870. 6 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. The Australian trade was commenced for a year, having in all probbilit~made in 1832, by the Salem ship Tybtc, Charles its last port. Millett, master, at Sydney, and that was -- the first American vessel to enter Austra- NOTES. lian ports. The trade came to an end in 1837. Philip Godfrid Kast kept an apothe- Considerable trade was carried on with cary at "the Sign of the Lyon and Mortar" Nova Scotia from about 1840 to 185 7. in Salem in 1768. Since that time there has been but Edward Griffiths, "taylor and habit- little. For about ten years, from 1837 to maker from London, " resided "next door 1847, Salem was engaged in the whale to Major Read's" in Marblehead in 1768. fisheries. William Vans kept a country store on The whole aspect of the old maritime '6 the Corner leading from the main Street section of Salem is now changed. Many to the ~~~th-~i~~~ id^^ in slem of the old shops on Derby street remain, in 1768. and and ware-h0uses have William Jones kept the Kingts-Head been coal tavern "in Danvers, on the road from Bas- being now the principal article of impor- t~,,to Salem,n in x768.-Esscr tation. Mansions of the old merchants =, r768. are to be found around Washington square, many of them elegant and large, but those Salem, Aug. 9, 1768. "On Thurfday that remain in the old commercial section Evening Mr. JOSEPHCABOT, of this are dilapidated and changed. The influ- town, was married to Mifs REBECCAORNE, ence of the energy, enterprise, fearless- eldeft Daughter of Mr. TIMOTHYORNE, ness and far+ightedness of the old-time late an eminent Merchant of this Place." merchants will, however, remain for cen- -Esscx Gazcftc, 9, 17~~. turies. The following persons, from Essex The engraving at the beginning of this county, settled in Henniker, N. H. :- sketch is that of the ship Mindoro, the Capt. Aaron Adams, from Rowley, about only survivor of the full-rigged merchant I 77 2, and his brother Israel about I 7 75. ships of Salem, lying at the historic Derby Stephen Adams, from Rowley, about wharf in Salem harbor. It was built in I 77 2. Bostonin 1864 by John Taylor for Messrs. David Clough (born in Salem, 17521, Pickman & Silsbee, merchants of Salem, in 1778. by whom it has always been owned. It Eliphalet Colby, from Amesbury, about measures one hundred and sixty-seven I 7 70. feet in length, thirty-five feet in breadth, Moses Duston, from Haverhill, about and twenty-three and one-half feet in 1771. depth. Its gross tonnage measurement is George Hoyt (a native of Salisbury), one thousand and twenty-one and ninety- about 1783. five one-hundredths tons, and the net, Jedediah Kilburn (a native of Rowley), nine hundred and seventy and fifty-seven about 1768. one-hundredths tons. Its first comman- 'William Mirrick (a native of Newbury), der was Capt. Charles H. Allen, jr, and about 1778. his successors, Captains Reyuolds, Bray, Samuel Paige, from Haverhill, about Gardner, Beadle, Hutchinson, Powers, I 795. Luscomb and Creelman, respectively. It John Proctor, from Manchester, in has sailed in many waters, carrying car- 1798. goes to and from China and the East In- Simeon Rogers, from Newbury, in dies, Australia, Cape Town, San Francisco, 1780. etc. It has now been lying at the wharf -History of Hcnniktr, N.H. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE REVOLUTION. 7 NEW ENGLANDS DEAD. BENJAMINABBOT of Andover ; enl. into Continental Army, from Capt. Samuel New England's dead ! New England's dead ! On every hill they lie; Johnson's co., before Eeb I 7, I 778 ; enl. On every field of strife, made red to expire Jan. I, I 780 ; joined Capt. Ben- By bloody victory. jamin Farnum's co., Col. Ebenezer Fran- Each valley, where the battle poured cis' reg. ; pay abstract for 48 days' rations Its red and awful tide, Beheld the brave New England sword from Feb. zo, 1777, the date of enl., to With slaughter deeply dyed. time of arrival at Bennington; also, in Their bones are on the northern hill, Capt. Abbott's co., Col. Tupper's reg.; And on the southern plain, Continental Army pay accounts for ser- By brook and river, lake and rill, And by the roaring main. vice from Feb. 20, I 777, to Nov. 5, I 778 ; reported, died Nov. 5, I 778. The land is holy where they fought, And holy where they fell; BENJAMINABBOT of Andover; on pay For by their blood that land was bought, roll for Andover 6 mos. men in Conti- The land they loved so well. nental Army in I 780 ; marched June 26, Then glory to that valiant band, I 780 ;dis. Dec. 15, I 780 ; service, 6 mos., The honored saviors of the land. I dy. ; also, on list of men raised for 6 J. McbZlan, Jr. mos. service. returned bv.Brig.-Gen. Pater- son on having passed kus&r in a return SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE dated Camp Totoway Oct. 25, I 780. REVOLUTION. BENJAMINABBOT, JR., of Andover; drummer in Lt. Peter Poor's co., which The following list is made up from the marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, I 775, official records of the State, and contains to Cambridge ;service, 3% dys. ; also, on the names of all soldiers and sailors of receipt for advance pay, dated Camp at the Revolution that are given as belong- Cambridge June 22, 1775 ; ako, in Capt. ing to Essex county. There are doubtless William Perley's co., Col. Frye's reg. ; names of others on the official lists who muster roll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; enl. May belonged in the county, but the records do 5, 1775 ; service, 3 rnos., 4 dys. ; also, on not state their residence. return of same co., probably in Oct., WOODABAAHAM of Marblehead ; of the 1775 ; also, on coat order dated Cam- crew of ship Rambler, May 2 7, I 780, com- bridge Nov. 14, I 775 ; also, on return of manded by Capt. Benjamin Lovett ; age, men enl. into the Continental Army from 15 yrs. ; stature, 4 ft., 8 in. ; complexion, Capt. Samuel Johnson's (1st Andover) light. co., Essex co. reg., dated Feb. I 7, I 778 ; JOHN ABBETof Marblehead ; private enl. to expire Jan. I, I 780 ; joined Capt. in Capt. Baker's co., Col. Hutchinson's Famum's co., Col. Francis' reg. ; also, on reg. ; in service, I 7 76 ; enl. for I 2 mos. ; pay abstract of Capt. Benjamin Famum's reported, deserted. co., Col. Ebenezer Francis' reg., for 48 JOBEABBXT of Andover ; priv. in Capt. days rations from Feb. 20, I 777, to time Samuel Johnson's co., Col. Titcomb's of arrival at Bennington ; also, drummer reg. ; enl. Apr. 2 7, I 777 ; dis. June 27, in Capt. Abbot's co., Col. Tupper's reg ; I 777 ; service, 2 rnos., g dys. ; marched Continental Army accounts for service to Providence, R. I. from Feb. 20, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; -ABBOT of West parish of Ipswich ; aho, on muster roll for March, 1779, corp. in Capt. Abram How's co., which dated at West Point ;also, on Continental marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; Army pay accounts for service from Jan. service, 2 dys. I, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; also, on ASA ABBOTof Andover ; priv. in Capt. descriptive list of enl. men from Andover ; Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the age, 18 yrs. ;stature, 5 ft. 6 in. ; complex- alarm of April I g, I 775 ; service, I % dys. ion, light ; hair, light ; occupation, hus- 8 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARUV.

bandman ; enl. April r g, I 779 ; joined EBENEZERABBOT of Andover ; priv. in Capt. Stephen Abbott's co., 10th reg. ; Capt. Jonathan Foster's co., Col. Nathan- enl., during war, by Lt. Libby at West iel Wade's reg. ; enl. July I, 1778 ; roll Point ;also, on muster and pay roll in Col. made up to Jan. I, I 7 79 ; stationed at Benjamin Tupper's (10th) reg. ; service, Middletown, R. I. 5 mos. ; roll made up from Jan. I, I 782, EPHRAIMABBOT of Andover ; serg. in to Jan. I, I 783. Capt. Joshua Holt's co., which marched BXXBYABBOT of Andover; corp. in on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775, to Cam- Capt. Benjamin Ames' Co., Col. James bridge; service, 1% dys. Frye's reg., which marched on the alarm EPHRAIMABBOT of Andover; on de- of Apr. 19, I 775 ; service, 7 dys. ;also, on scriptive list of men enl. from Essex co. return of men in camp at Cambridge for g mos. from the time of their arrival May I 7, I 775 ; also, on company return at Fishkill, June 20, i778 ; in Capt. Ab- dated Oct. 6, I 775 ; also, on coat order bot's co. [also giGen as Capt. Holt's co.], dated Cambridge Nov. 14, I 775. Col. Samuel Johnson's (4th Essex co.) CALEBABBOT of Andover; priv. in reg. ; age, I g yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., 7 in. ; Capt. Benjamin Ames' co., Col. James complexion, light; also, priv. in Capt. Frye's reg., which marched on the alarm Stephen Abbot's co., Col. Benjamin Tup- of April 19, r 775 ; service, 7 dys. ; also, per's (15th) reg. ; on muster roll for on return of nlen in camp at Cambridge Mar., I 779, dated West Point; enl. June May I 7, I 775 ; also, on list of men re- 19, I 778 ; dis. March 19, I 779 ; service, turned as serving on main guard, under g mos. Lt.-Col. L. Baldwin, June 22, 1775 ;a&o, GEORGEABBOT of West parish of Ips- on company return dated Oct. 6, r 775 ; wich ; priv. in Capt. Abraham Howe's also, on coat order dated Cambridge Nov. co., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 14, I 775 ; do, on return of men enl. into 19, I 775 ; service, 2 dys. the Continental Army from Capt. John GEORGEABBOT of Andover; priv. in Abbott, Jr.'s, (ad) co., Essex co. reg., dat- Capt. Benjamin Farnum's co., Col. James ed Andover Feb. 16, I 778 ; enl. 3 yrs. ; Frye's reg. ; co. return dated Cambridge joined Capt. Fox's co., Col. Hurley's reg. Oct. 6, I 775 ; also, in coat order dated DANIELABBOT of Haverhill ; on de- Cambridge Nov. 13, 1775. scriptive list of men raised to reinforce GEORGEABBOT of Rowley; priv. in the Continental Army for 6 mos., agree- Capt. John Baker's co., Col. Moses able to resolve of June 5, r 780 ; age, 22 Little's reg. ;co. return [probably in Oct., yrs.; stature, 5 ft.,. 4 in. ; complexion, 17751 ; enl. May 2, I 775 ; age, 22 yrs.; light ; arrived at Spr~ngfieldOct. 4, I 780 ; also, in coat order dated Dec. I I, I 775. marched to camp Oct. 26, I 780, under HENRYABBOT of Andover ;capt. of co. command of Lt. Cary ; also, on pay roll which marched on the alarm of April 19, of 6 mos. men raised by Haverhill for 1775; service, 15dys. service in the Continental Army during ISAACABBOT of Andover; ad it. in I 780 ;marched Sept. 26, I 780 ; dis. Apr. Capt. Benjamin Ames' co., Col. James 3, 1781 ;service, 6 mos., 20 dys. Frye's reg., which marched on the alarm DARIOUS ABBOTof Andover ; serg. in of Apr. r g, I 7 75 ;service, 7 dys. ; ako, on Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched return of men in camp at Cambridge, on the alarm of April 19, I 775 ; service, May I 7, I 775 ; also, in company return 15dys. dated Oct. 6, 1775. DAVID ABBOT of Andover ; priv. in JAMESABBOT of Bradford ;priv. in Capt. Capt. John Robinson's co., Col. William John Savory's co. ; enl. Nov. 30, 17 75 ; Turner's reg. ; enl. Aug. I I, I 781 ; dis. dis. Dec. 4, I 775 ; service, 5 dys. ; detach- Nov. r I, I 781 ; service, 3 mos., 5 dys., at ment from 2d Foot co. in Bradford, which Rhode Island ; 5 mos. levies. marched for defence of Cape Ann. SOLDIERS LID SAIU2RS OF THE REVOLUTION. 9 JEDUTHANABBOT of Andover ; serg. in of Mass. militia dated Ipswich Sept. 30, Capt. Joshua Holt's co., which marched I 776 ; co. drafted from training band and on the alarm of Apr. rg, I 775, to Cam- alarm list of the 4th Essex co. reg., and bridge ; service, I % dys. ; also, in Capt. ordered to march to Horse Neck; alro, Samuel Johnson's co., Col. Johnson's capt., r ~thco., 4th Essex co. reg. ;list of reg; en]. Aug. 14, 1777 ; dis. Nov. 30, officers of Mass. militia; commissioned 1777; service, 4 mos., with Northern Oct. 71 1779. army. JOSHUAABBOT of Rowley; on list of JEREMUHABBOT of Salem; priv. in men raised for 6 mos. service returned by Capt. Simeon Brown's co., Col. Nathaniel Brig.-Gen. Paterson as having passed mus- Wade's reg. ; enl. July 30, I 778 ; dis. ter, in return dated Camp Totoway Oct. Jan. I, I 7 79 ; service, 5 mos., 8 dys., on an 25, 1780 ;also, priv., Capt. John Williams' alarm at Rhode Island ; stationed at East co., Col. Joseph Vose's (1st) reg. ;pay roll Greenwich, R. I. for 6 mos. men faised by the town of Row- JOHNABBOT of Andover; zd It. in ley for service in the Continental Army Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched during 1780; marched Aug. 15, 1780; on the alarm of Apr. 19, I 7 75 ; service, dis. Feb. 19, 1781 ; service, 6 mos., 17 1% dys. dys. ; ako, on muster roll for Jan., I 781, JOHNABBOT of Andover ; priv. in Lt. dated West Point : reported, on command Peter Poor's co., which marched on the with Quartermaster-General. alarm of Apr. 19, 1775, to Cambridge; MOSESABBOT of Andover ;clerk, Capt. service, 2% dys. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the JOHNABBOT of Andover ; capt. of a co. alarm of April rg, 1775 ; service, I 5 which marched into Roxbury camp and days. joined Col. Samuel H. Parsons' reg. Dec. MOSESABBOT of Andover ; 1st. It., Capt. I,I ; aka, capt., I rth co., Col. Par- John Abbot's (6th) co., Col. Samuel John- sons' (4th Essex co.) reg. ; list of officers son's (4th Essex co.) reg. ; list of officers, of Mass. militia ; commissioned Feb. 21, of Mass. militia ; commissioned April 3, 1776. 1776. JOHNABBOT, JR., of Andover; capt., NATHANABBOT of Andover; priv., Capt. 6th co., Col. Samuel Johnson's (4th Essex Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the co.) reg. ; list of officers of Mass. militia ; alarm of April 19, I 775 ; service, 15 commissioned April 3, I 776. dys. JOHNLOVEJOY ABBOT of Andover ;priv., NATHANABBOT of Andover; corp., Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched Capt. John Peabody's co., Col. Ebenezer on the alarm of April 19, I 7 75 ; service, Francis' reg. ; pay abstract for travel allow- 1% days. ance, etc.; roll sworn to Nov. 29, 1776. JONATHANABBOT of Andover; serg., NATHANABBOT, JR., of Andover ; priv., Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, I 775 ; service, on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; service, 1% days. 1% days. JONATHANABBOT of Andover; ens., NATHANIELABBOT of Andover; priv., Capt. Joshua Holt's co., which marched Capt. Benj. Ames' co., Col. James Frye's on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cam- reg., which marched on the alarm of April bridge; service, 1% dys. ; also, ad it., 19, 1775 ; service, 7 dys.; alro, co. re- Capt. Joshua Holt's (I rth) co., Col. Sam- turn dated Oct. 6, 1775 ; reported, dis. uel Johnson's (4th Essex co.) reg. ; list Aug. 20, 1775 ; alro, on order for bounty of officers of Mass. militia ;commissioned coat money dated Camp at Boston, Dec. April 3, 1776 ; aha, Capt. John Abbot's 131 1775. co:, Col. Jonathan Cogswell, Jr's., reg., NATHANIELABBOT of Ipswich ; on re- Bng.-Gen. Farley's brigade ;list of officers turn of men enl. into Continental Army I0 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. from 3d Essex co. reg., dated Feb. 17, three between twenty and thirty; one be- 1778 ; enl., 3 yrs. ;joined Capt. Whipple's tween thirty and forty ;and one more than co., Col. Putnarn's reg. ; ako, Capt. Whip- forty years. From Nov. 17 to Dec. 31, ple's co., Col. Rufus Putnam's reg. ; Con- I 735, ten died ; in I 736, one hundred tinental Army pay accounts for service and sixteen; and in 1737 one hundred from April 22, 1777, to Dec. 31, I 779. and thirty. NEHEMIAHABBOT of Ipswich; priv., The number of families bereaved was Capt. Thomas Burnham's co., which one hundred and thirty-nine, twenty-three marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; of whom were left childless. The names service, 3 dys. of the heads of such families are given NEHEMIAHABBOT of Andover ;It., Capt. below, the names of those having thus Joshua Holt's co., which marched on the lost all their children being printed in the alarm of April 19, I 775, to Cambridge ; italics. senice, 1% dys. Families that lost one child each : Dea. TO bt codinrrcd. P. Ayer, Rcv. Mr. Bachellcr, Capt. Bart- let, Nat. Bartlet, Isaac Bradley, Nclrcmiah -- Bran'lcy, Eben. Brown, Ed. Carlfon, jr., THROAT DISTEMPER IN HAVE& Widow Clark, Lieutenant Clement, Jona- HILL, 1735-7. than Clement, Moses Clement, Nat. Clem- ent, S. Clement, John Corlis, -Cothran, The throat distemper which prevailed Reuben Curier, Samuel Davis, Lydia throughout the County of Essex in 1735,'6 Di/lawoy,\Villiam Dillaway, JamesEatton, and '7 so disastrously among the children Jonathan Eatton, Samuel Eatton, Widow was particularly fatal in Haverhill. From Emerson, jr., Ephraim Emerson, Jo. Nov. I 7, I 735, to Dec. 3 I, I 737, two hun- Emerson, jr., Stephen Emerson, jr., Ed. dred and fifty-six children, most of them F4n/,Benjamin Galc, Samuel G-le, under ten years of age, died in that town Bartholomew Heath, David Heath, Josiah from this disease, and in the whole county Heath, Sarah Beafh, Abner Herriman, the deaths of about fourteen hundred John Herriman, Joseph Herriman, Joshua children and also a considerable number Herriman, Come1 Jonson, Jeremiah Jon- of adults are estimated to have thus re- son, Stephen Jonson, Thomas Jonson, sulted. This estimate is undoubtedly low, Abner Kimball, Deacon Little, N. Marble, as scarcely a cemetery of that time can be Joseph Merrill, Nath. Merrill, Samuel visited without seeing the little gravestones Merrill, James Mitchel, Edw. Ordaway, bearing dates of this period, and to one -Otterson, Widow Page, Caleb Page, accustomed to examining old burying Edmund Page, Thomas Page, Captain grounds the general appearance of each Pecker, Jonathan Shepard, Benjamin stone betrays the fact that the child buried Smith, Samuel Staples, Aaron Stevens, beneath it was a victim of the distemper. Benjamin Stone, Elis Thojnsoon, Samuel It would seem that some gravestone maker Webster, W. Whitaker, jr.: John White, must have supplied the people of the coun- David Whiting, John Whiting, Ezekiel ty with the stones during this period, the Wilson, William Wilson, -Wood, and demand for them being so great that vari- N. Woodman. ation in design was not to be entertained. Families that lost two children each : In the old parish in Haverhill the num- DanirCRnnis, Colonel Bailey,]ohn Black, ber that died during the period named was William Blay, James Bradbury, Dan. Brad- eighty-eight ;in the west parish, sixty-two ; ley, Jacob Chase, Moses Cop, John Cur- and in the north parish one hundred and rier, John Dowe, jr., David Emerson, six. Two hundred and ten were under William Hancock, Jo. Hassaltine, Sa Has- the age of ten; thirty between ten and saltine, Richard Hazzen, Caleb Heath, fifteen ;elevenbetween fifteen and twenty ; Samuel Heath, William Ueafh, James Hutchins, Jo. Hutchins, Timothy Jonson, Eunice Enrerson, died June 13, 1736, William Jonson, -Kent, John Merrill, aged fifteen. Though she had symptoms Nat. Merrill, jr., Andrew Mitchel, John of the distemper, it was not certain that hfitchel, Judge Saltonstall, - rum- she died of it. She bled to death, having bal, John Warner, Stephen Webster, Sam- been troubled with bleeding before. uel White, Han. Whittaker, Eben. Whit- White& McZlard, died at one o'clock tier,.N. Whittier, and Sa. Worthen, jr. in the morning of July I 2,1736, aged four. Families that lost three children each : John McHard, aged seven, brother to Rev. Mr. Brown, David Cop, Isaac Dal- the preceding, died at noon on the same ton, John Davis, Jeremiak Eatton, Abiel day, surviving him only eleven hours. Foster, Daniel Gile, Joseph Gile, Samuel Two other children of the family died - Greele, Deacon Kimball, Jonathan Page, before the month had passed, on the Widow Parker, Seth Patee, Benjamin same day. This was the first family in Philbrick, Hugh Pike, Matthew Phmmer, the town to be deprived of all their chil- Benjamin Richards, Daniel Roberds, Jon- dren by this disease. They had another ' athan Roberds, John Stevens, and Stephen son born to them during the next year, Whittaker. however. Families that lost four children each : Daniel Chase, died July 28,1736, aged - Gatchel, John Beath, jr., ]ohn seven years and eight days. A brother, McHard, P. Memll, John Webster, jr., aged four, was sick in the bed with him, and Daniel Whittaker. one at the head and the other at the foot. Families that lost five children each: The younger died, and Daniel survived John Bradley, Abner Chase, Thomas Cor- him an hour and a half. They were en- lis, James Holgate, and Joseph Page. closed in the same coffin. This family Rev. John Brown, who was then settled lost five children. in the ministry at Haverhill, and who Sarah Chase, died Aug. 3, I 736, aged lost three children by the distemper, pre- nine. She was sister to the next preced- pared an address to the people of Haver- ing. She was a very tender hearted and hill, particularly to the bereaved parents, quiet child of few words. Her younger Aug. 14, 1737, prefixing to it "A Brief sister Molly was also very sick when she Relation" of thirty-four " Comfortable died. and Remarkable Instances of Death " 37tomas Shepard, died Aug. 28, 1736, among the children. This was published aged eleven. He was sick several weeks, in Boston by Daniel Henchman, the fol- as was his eldest sister, also, who lived. lowing year, in a pamphlet of ninety-two David Hassaltine, died Aug. 29, I 736, duodecimo pages, which is to-day a rare aged seven. book. Most of the material for this Ruth Merrill, died Sept. g, I 736, aged article has been taken from it, and thus twelve. Her younger brother died a has a peculiar interest. short time before herself. The names of the thirty-four children, Samuel Gatchel, died Sept. 20, 1736, whom Mr. Brown cites as showing extraor- aged twelve. He was the eldest of a fam- dinary spiritual insight and Christian resig- ily of six children, four of ~homdied nation, and data concerning them which with the distemper. He and his brother is worthy of being preserved, are as fol- next to him had been sick of the disease lows :- in the preceding spring, and had appar- Lydia White, died April 6, 1736, aged ently recovered, but some hard bunches eight. She was sick about twenty-four in the throat remained, finally proving hours, having a violent fever with the dis- fatal. He had a three year old brother, temper. She had been a pleasing child, named Jesse, who had died with the dis- fond of instruction. Her brother died temper. The family was poor, and both also a few days later. parents were alive. I2 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

Annc Gatchcl, died Sept. 11, 1736, Nathaniel Brown, died Oct. 21, 1736, aged six. She was a sister of Samuel aged twelve. 'I Nattie " was a brother to above. She was asked if she was willing Martha Brown above, and son of Rev. John to die, and answered, "Yes, I'm willing Brown. to die to go to my Aunt Johnson and my Sarah Eatton, died Oct. I 7, I 736, aged brother Jesse." 'This Aunt Johnson was four. an exemplary Christian, and very much Mary Mcrri'Il, died Oct. 27, I 736, aged loved, and was the only person above the fourteen. Three other children of the age of forty years who died of the dis- family died with the distemper. temper in the town. Elizabeth Bradbury, died Nov. 15, Daniel Gatchcl, died Sept. 14, 1736, x 736, aged six. She gave away her clo- aged ten. He was a brother to the pre- thing to some poor people whom she ceding. He had the whooping cough thought in most need. with the disease. Sarah Chas'c, died Nov. I 7, 1736, aged ]oscplr Richards, died Sept. 18, 1736, fourteen. Her younger brother also died aged eight. A younger brother named and was buried in the same coffin with her. Abraham died before him. Obadiah BradlcCvJdied Nov. 26, 1736, Ziizabctlr Davis, died Sept. 19, 1736, aged thirteen. He was sick three days. aged twenty-two. She was a quiet young His younger sister died the day before his lady, and lived out. She had a sister, own death. He had a brother David, who whom she requested, the day before her died the year before. He had also a sister death, to wash certain articles which would Molly, who was next to him in the family. be needed for her interment, designating He gave his playthings away before he the sheets and head-cloths she desired to died. His father could not see him, be laid out with. being confined from home." His grand- Marth Brows, died Oct. 5, I 736, aged mother was apparently living with the fourteen. She was a daughter of Rev. family. All the five children of the family John Brown. She was taken sick Sept. died of the distemper. 30th. She had an elder sister and a Sarah Corlis, died Dec. 30,1736, aged younger brother, and other brothers and nineteen. sisters. Early in the morning of the day Mary Hasscltine, died Jan. 2, 1736-7, she died she said to a girl friend of about aged nineteen. She had a weak consti- her own age, Hannah W-, "This is the tution, and was much given to the read- last time, Hannah, that you will ever see ing of books. Her mind was much occu- me in this world. I shall be with Betty pied with religious thoughts all through Bailey before night." Betty Bailey was a her youth, and some time before her sick- loving companion of Pattee's (as she was ness with the distemper she was wont to familiarly called), aged fifteen, who with say that she had not long to live. The night her sister Molly Bailey, aged thirteen, before her death, in answer to a question were taken from the family of Colonel from her father, she said that she expected Bailey. Betty died of the scarlet fever to see in Heaven her grandfather and her May 5, 1736, and Molly of the throat Aunt Betty ("good old Deacon Hasseltine distemper May I I, I 736. Pattee died and his daughter, a Christian of singular at about eight o'clock in the evening, attainments"). having considered the date of her funeral, Susanna WZlson, died Jan. 26, I 736-7, and reminded some of her friends to take aged seven. She had an elder sister. a lock of her hair to remember her by. Lydia Nasseltinc, died Jan. 28, I 736-7, She sat up and was dressed, and ate a raw aged nine. She was a sister of Mary Has- apple an hour or two before she died. seltine metioned above Mchitabr'c Pagc, died Oct. 10, 1736, Sarah Whittaker, died Feb.' 22, I 736 aged nineteen. -7, aged seven. She was the eldest of a WILL OF SAM family of four children, who all died the ren that died of throat distemper in the same week, the three latter being buried family, all dying in a little more than a together. The names of the two middle week's time. The names of two of the children were Mary and Samuel. The other children were Judith and Benjamin. youngest child was two years old. Susannah Emerson, died hlar. 3, I 736 -7, aged fifteen. She was always a sober, WILL OF SARAH DLLINGHAM. timorous little girl. She had a sister Ju- The following is an exact transcript of dith living in Newbury, and also a brother the will of widow Sarah Dillingham of who were older than she. Ipswich, made from the original on file in Susannah Emerson, died Sept. 2, 1737, the Massachusetts Archives, being the aged ten. Her grandmother was present earliest Essex county will. at her death. This is the laft will and teftament of Martha Kimbal, died Sept. I 3, I 737, mee Sarah Dillingham of Ipfwich widowe : aged eleven. She had sisters and brothers, ffor my foule I comend it into ye hands one of whom was named Benjamin. Her of God in ye mediacon of Jefus Crifi: sister Abigail died on the same day, at the ffor my temporal1 eftate : I give to my age of five. onely child Sarah Dillingham my whole John Whitr. died Se~t.28. eftate in lands and goods (except fuch I fs7, agediive. "An orhy son, an2 a firs; pticular legacyes as heerafter are named) : born." He had a little sister. and if my child Dye before it fhall be Hannah Wcbsicr, died Sept. 30, I 737, marryed or attain to ye age of one and aged ten. Her brother Joseph and sisters twenty years, then my will is that the Mercy and Sarah had died. She was the fame shalbe devyded equally between last. She said to her mother the day be- my mother Thomafine Caly, my brothers fore her death : "All the rest are gone : Abraham Caly and Jacob Caly, my fifter I have been to visit all their graves, and Bull and my fifter Baft, the wyves of John now I am going myself. I don't know Bull and John Baft and my fifters Rebecca what you will do, mother, but if I should Caly and emme Caly, or fuch of them as be taken away you must not be too much Chalbe lyving at ye tyme of ye death of cast down. 'Twas God that gave me to fuch child, all ~hmymother brethren & you, and if he take me away you must not fifters are now lyving in England : alfo I be too much concerned. You must not give to mr ward Paftor of ye Church at do as some others that have lost all their Ipfwich ffyve pounds and to Richard Sal- children; who are afraid to stay in the tonftall efqr ten pounds and to m" Salton- house, afraid to be in the dark alone; ftall his wife a filver bowle, To mr Sam- you must hire some little girl to live with uell Appleton ffyve pounds and to his you if you are afraid." wife a filver porringer: and of this my Nathaniel Bradby, died Oct. 4, 1737, will I make executors ye faid mr Salton- aged sixteen. He was a dutiful boy. He ftall and mr Appleton, comittinge ye edu- had sisters, one of whom had married cation and government of my faid child - H-th and had a child that was and ye eftate I leave her unto their faith- dying when he was sick. His aunt G-le full ordering intreating them in the bonds was present in his sickness. He had sis- of Criftian love to fee this my will fullfilled ters named Nabbe and Betty, and one my due debts paid, my body decently who had died eight years before named buyried and my child religioufly educated Ruth. He also had brothers who were if God give it life, and that they will order older than himself, one of whom was the eftate as they would doe their owne : named Isaac. In wytnes that this is my true will made in James Holgafe, died Dec. 26, I 737, my pfect memory though my body be aged five. He was the last of five child- weake & fick I publifh it after it had 14 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. benn read unto me in the prefenc of 3 thofe whofe names are under wrytten this SAMUELABBE', husbandman, was made xiiijth Day of July 1636 freeman Oct. 3,1680. He married Mary Tho : Dudley Knowlton, in Wenham, Oct. 12, 1672 ; Robert Lord Sarah Dillingham and lived first in Wenham, removing to Phillip P ffowlers marck Salem Village (now Danvers) in 1682. He -MassarhureUs RrrAivts, Vol. B15, leaf59. returned to Wenham in 1697, where he died the following year. His wife Mary -7 survived him, and married, second, Abra- ABBE GENEALOGY. ham Mitchell. The name of Abbe in Essex county Children :- records is also spelled Abbec, Abbei, A& 14-1. MARY',b. abut 1673. 15-11. SAMVEL~,b. about 1675; probably mar- bey, Abbir, Abby andAbbye. ried Hannah, dau. of Jonathan and Be- JOHN ABBE'was received for an inhabi- thiah (Marsh) Sibee of Lynn March tant of Salem, and granted land there, in 15, 1710. She was born Oct. 3, 1687, the 11th mo., 1636. He was afterward and died about 1759. 16-111. TEIOMA~',b. about 1678. See bclmu(z6). granted land there in 1638, 1639 and 17-IV. ELWLER',b. about 1680. 1642, and was granted land at Enon 18-v. EBENEZER~,b. July 31, 1683, in Salem (now Wenham) 15 : 12 : 1642-3. He Village; m. Abigail, dau. of Isaac Good- lived in Wenham where he died about ale of Salem, and settled in Mansfield, Conn., where he was living in 1739. 1689, intestate, having disposed of his es- 10--VI. MERCY'. b. March I. Salem < 1684-c.. -, in tate to his children in 1683. He married villa&. first, Mary-, who died in Wenham 20-VII. SARAH',b. uly 4,1686, in Salem Village. 21-VIII. HEPZIBAHI,b. Feb. 14,1688-9,in Salem Sept. 9,1672. He mamed second, Mary Village. Goldsmith (probably widow of Richard) 22-IX. ABIGAIL',~ - ~~ b. NOV. 19, 1690, in Salem Nov. 25, 1674, in Wenham. Village. Children :- 23-X. JOHN^, b. June 4,1692, in Salem Village. 24-XI. BENJA~~IN',b. 4, 1694, 2-1. JOHN'. Scc below (a). June in Salem b). Village. 3-11. SAMUEL'. See below 25-XII. JONATHAN',b. about 1696. 4-111. SARAH*. 5-IV. MARAH*. 6-V. REBECCA*,m. Richard Kimball, in Wen- 7 ham, 13: 3: 1667. OBADIAHABBE', settled in Enfield, 7-VI. OBADUH~.(See beh7). Mass. (now included in Connecticut), in 8-VII. THO MAS^. (See be& 8). or before 1682. He married, first, -P 2 and mamed, second, Sarah, widow of JOHN ABBE', yeoman, lived in Wenham. Joseph Warriner. Savage says that he He disposed of his property in Wenham died in I 75 2, and mentioned no children in I 696, and in the same year bought an in his will. estate in Windham, Conn., and removed 8 thither. He and his wife Hannah were THOMASABBE', married Sarah, daugh- among the charter members of the Wind- ter of Walter Fairfield of Wenham Dec. ham church Dee. 10, 1700. He died 17, 1683, in Marblehead. Settled in soon after, and his wife Hannah survived Enfield. He died in 1728, and his wife him. Sarah survived him. Children, born in Wenham :- Children :- 9--I. JOHN', b. May 5,1665; d. May IS, 1665. 26-1. SARAH¶,b. March31,1684; m.- Geer lo--11. JOHN: b. Dec. 15, 1666. before 1721. 11-111. THOMAS',b. 5 : I2 mo., 1667. 27-11. THO MAS^, b. in 1686. See beh(27). 12-IV. RICHARD',b. Feb. g, 1682-3. See beIm 28-111. MARY^, b. Feb. 3,1689; m. James Pease (12). (born in Salem, Mass., in 1679) of En- 13-V. LYDIA',b. May 21, 1696. field in 1710, and settled in Somers, Conn., in 1713. She died before 1728. IPSWICH MEMORIAL TABLETS. 29-IV. JOHN^, b. in 1692. See brlmu (29). The inscription on the tablet facing the 3-v. AB~GAIL~,m. - Warner before 1721. 31-VI. TABITHA'. ,meeting-house is as follows :- I2 ~ HERE STOOD RICHARDABBE', born in Wenham, Mass. THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE Feb. g, 1682-3. Lived in Windham, OF THE Conn., where he was a prominent citizen, 1747 SOUTH- PARISH. 1887 and a man of property. He married THE EXPEDITION AGAINST QUEBEC, Mary Jennings Nov. 17, 1703 ; and died, BENEDICT ARNOLD IN COMMAND. childless, July lo, 1737, aged fifty-four. AARON BURR IN THE RANKS. MARCHED BY THIS- SPOT SEPT. 15,1776. I 6 REV. WILLIAM HUBBARD THOMASABBE=, born about 1678. He PASTOR OF THE IPSWICH CHURCH married Sarah -. 1656 -1 704 :- HISTORIANOF THE INDIAN WARS Child LIVED NEAR THE RIVER ABOUT 32-1. MARY', d in Wenham Oct. 15,1705. A HUNDRED RODS EASTWARD. 2 7 - ERECTED BY THOMASABBE', born in 1686. Lived THE IPSWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY in Enfield in 1726. He married Mary 1806 Pease in 1714. She died in 1746. Children :- The inscription on the tablet facing the 33-1. OBADIAH',b. in 1728; died young. common is as follows :- 3-11, THOMAS',b. in 1731; died in 1811. 35-111. MARY', m. Dennis Bement in I 737. A FEW RODS EAST OF THIS SPOT 36--117. SARAH',m. Nathaniel Chapin. WERETHE DWELLING AND SCHOOLHOUSEOF 37-V. TABITHA:m. Ephraim Pease in 1740. EZEKIEL CHEEVER He became very wealthy as a contractor FIRST MASTER OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL in the French War. He was born in 1860 1661 1719, - and died in 1801. ON THE EAST SlDE OF THE COMMON 29 WAS THE HOUSE OF REV. NATHANIEL WARD JOHN ABBE=, born in I 692. Lived in 1834 MINISTER OF IPSWICH 1697 Enfield in I 726. AUTHOR OF Children :- " THE SIMPLE COBLER OF AGAWAM " 38-1. JOHN',m. Sarah Root in 1739; lived in COMPILER OF Enfield. THE BODY- OF LIBERTIES THE RESIDENCE OF RICHARD SALTONSTALL WAS ON THE SOUTH SlDE OF THE COMMON AND THAT OF REV. NATHANIEL ROGERS . IPSWICH MEMORVU, TABLETS. PASTOR OF IPSWICH CHURCH 1638 - 1655 In Ipswich, July 29, 1896, a granite WAS ON THE WEST SIDE slab, bearing two bronze tablets, was form- ally unveiled. It is placed on the little green in front of the South meeting-house. NOTES. Addresses were made by Rev. T. Frank Waters, president of the Ipswich Histori- Samuel Hall had a printing office "a few cal Society, George A. Gordon, Esq., of doors above the Town-House" in Salem, Boston, secretary of the N. E. Historic- where he issued the assex Gazette in I 768. Genealogical Society, Hon. Robert S. James Grant, who was then "Living in Rantoul of Salem, president of the Essex the Houfe formerly in the Occupation of Institute, and others. The address of Major Hicks," kept a store in Salem in Mr. Waters was lengthy and excellent. I 768.-assex Gazetie, Aug. 9,1768. 16 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARM. FAMILY RECORDS. Nancy L., daughter of Joseph and Nancy Fowler. b. 26 May 1818. The following is a copy of family rec- Joseph M., son of Joseph~. and Nancy Fowler, b. jo Sept. IS--. ords in the possession of the late Edwin Caroline M., daughter of Joseph and Nancy S. Adams and his wife, of West Boxford : Fowler, b. 19 May I&. Abiah, 1st wife of David Adams, d. 29 July 1776. Sarah, daughter of Abraham Adams, b. 14Apr. James Adams, d. (?) 13 Feb. 1790. 1681. Abiah Brown Adams, d. (1) 13 Feb. 1790 Benoni, or Israel, son of hhAdams, b. 24 Feb. 1708. Sarah Adams, d. (?) I3 Nov. 1801. 9 2. David Adams, b. 13May 1742. Martha, 2d wife of David Adams, d. Apr. 181 Abih Ordway, 1st wife of David Adams, b. 7 David Adams, 24 d. 21 Jan. 1813. Mar. 1744. David Adam, st, d. Ig A'pr. 1815. John M. Adams, d. 25 Apr. 1815. Martha Marsh, 2d wife of David Adams, h. I 3 - Daniel Adams, d. 2 Mar. 1828. Jan. 1743. So~hiaKimhall. wife of Daniel Adam. d. Sarah, daughter of David Adams, b. I g May I 767. ~ov.'1868. James, son of " " b. 19 Nov. 1768. Elvira C., wife of Edwin S. Adam, cl. 2 July David, son of " " b. 6 Apr. 1771. 1879. Abiah Brown, son of " '' b. 8 Sept. 1773. Moses Kimball, d. 16 Feh. 1795. Daniel. son of " " b.17Oct.177~. Rebecca Runnels, widow of Moses Kimhall, d. John hi., son of " " b. 18 Jan. I j;;. 3 Nov. 1821. Patty, daughter of b. 24Nov. 1781. DeWitt Clinton Chase, d. 7 Jan. 1835. Robert, son of " b. 13 Nov. 1785 Hannah Kiball, wife of James Cbase, d. 18 Edwin S., son of Daniel and Soph~aAdams, b. Apr. 1848. 14 Sept. 1806. Jonathan Chase, sen., d. 7 Apr. 1795. Julia Maria, daughter of Daniel and Sophia Joseph Fowler, d. 6 Mar. 1860, a. 76 yrs. Adams, b. 14 July 1%. Nancy, widow of Joseph Fowler, d. 14 June Moses, son of Nathan Kimball, b. 16 Apr. I 740. Rebecca, wife of Moses Kimball, b. 25 Dec.1742. 1878, a. go yrs. 11 moo. Samuel, son of Moses and Rebecca Kimball, b. Daniel Adanls m. Sophia Kiball, 24 Oct. 1805. 18 Jan. 1767. Edwin S. Adams m. Elvira Chase, 13 Jan. 1842. John Kimhall, b. 26 Sept. 1769. Leverett Winslow Swfford-. m. .Tulia Maria dams, I Feb. 1844. Hannah Kimball, h. 8 June 1772. James Chase m. Hannah Kimball, Mar. 1808. Sophia Kimball, b. 12 Apr. I 780. - Levi Chase was married 12 Nov. 1807. James Chase, b. 28 Sept. 1787. James Chase, jr., was married 3 ~ar..1&8. Elvira, daughter of James and Hannah Chase, Susanna Chase was married 8 Oct. 1812. b. 7 May 1%. DeWitt Clinton, son of James and Hannah Cbase, b. 18 Mar. 1813. Jonathan Chase, b. 6 May 1763. Lucy Chase, b. 24 Dec. I 764. Queries are inserted for one cent a word. Levi Chose, h. 14 May 1782. Answers are solicited. Susanna Chase, b. 8 June I 784. William Chase, jr., b. 20 Feb. I 786. I. Who was the father of Sarah Tarbox James Chase, jr., b. 28 Sept. 1787. who married Ebenezer Batchelder of Wen- Sally Chase, b. 22 Aug. I 789. ham about 17001 A. T. John Chase, jr., b. 5 Oct. 1791. Phehe Chase, h. 26 Aug. 1793. 2. Who were the parents of Joanna Jonathan and David, juniors, b. 25 Mar. 1795. (Rhodes?), wife of Jacob Dwinnells, who Leverett Winslow Spdord, b. 11 Nov. 1809. died in Rowley Sept. 13,1829, aged 101 ? Leverett Winslow, son of Leverett and Julia * Spofford, b. g Nov. 1844. Julia Ann Adams, dau. of Leverett and Julia 3. What was the name of the wife of Spofford, b. 21 Mar. 1846. Nathaniel Goodale, who was born in Sa- Jaxph Fowler, h. in 1783. lem Village March 17, 1697-8 : and what Nancy R. Leavitt, wife of Joseph Fowler, b. zo were her parents' names? B. M. J. June I 787. War F., eon of Joseph and Nancy Fowler, b. or 4. Mercy, wife of John Fowler, who Sept. I&-. was born in Ipswich May 11, 1686, was Amanda M., daughter of Joseph and Nancy Fowler, b. 18 Apr. 1810. daughter of Thomas and Mary Jacob. Worthen son of Joseph and Nancy Fowler, What was her mother's maiden hame? b. 2 Aug. I dl-. P. 5. Who were the parents of Sally Avery The Ancestral Chart Co.. 670 Centre of Newburyport, who married Daniel C. St., Jamaica Plain, Mass., has issued a Johnson in I 7947 J. F. J. compact, simple and ornamental single- 6. Where and how can markers to be sheet ancestral chart. placed at the graves of Revolutionary sol- THEJOHN ROGERS FAMILIES IN PLY- diers be obtained ? MOUTH AND VICINITY. By josiuh U. Georgetmun. D. B. Drumnzond. Paper ;26 pages. Portland, Me., I 896. This pamphlet is the result 7. Who was the mother of Sarah Baker, who married John Gould of Topsfield in of an attempt to distinguish the several 16607 Her father was John Baker, and men in Plymouth and vicinity bearing the name of John Rogers. she was born March g, 1641. B. 8. Who was Hepzibah Andrews, who THENEW ENGLANDHISTORICAL AND married Lt. Abraham Howe of Ipswich GENEALOGICALREGISTER, for October, 1896, contains, among its many articles, in I 712, and died there April 13, I 753 7 C. an autobiographical sketch of Hon. Na- than Read of Beverly and Salem in the g. Who was Catherine -, wife of last century, and an article on the early Robert Coker of Newbury? She died Bowditch family of Salem. there May 2, 1678. Sulcm. S. P. The city of Beverly has printed the peti- tion for its incorporation as a town, the 10. Who was Sally Coes, who married act of incorporation, the special statutes Moses Guilford in Danvers Nov. I z 17 78 7 of the colony and province of Massachu- H. setts Bay and of the State relating to ESSEX HISTORICAL SOC[ETY. Beverly, the Indian deed of the town, and the records of the town meetings from The Essex Institute commemorated the 1665 to 1675. seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Essex Historical Society, Sept. 18, GENEALOGYAND HISTORYOF A PARTOF 1896, by an address, in Academy Hall, in THE NEWBURY-ADAMSFAMILY, formerly of Salem, by Hon. Robert S. Rantoul, presi- Devonshire, England, being the descen- dent of the Institute. dants of Robert Adams and wife Eleanor, who were in Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, and FAMILY GATHEIUNGS. in Newbury in 1640. By Smifh Adams of Milltown, Maine. Paper; 61 pages. The following named families held con- Calais, Me., 1895. This is a valuable ventions in Essex County the past year, pamphlet. at the places and on the dates stated :- Peabody, at Clifton Heights, July 18. A GENEALOGICALHISTORY OF THE HAR- Nurse, at Danvers, July 30. WOOD FAMILIESDESCENDED FROM ANDREW HARWOO~,WHO WAS BORN IN ENGLAND,AND Needham, at Peabody, Aug. I z. Bailey-Bayley, at Rowley, Aug. 19. RESIDED IN BOSTON,MASS. By Watmn U. Spofford, at Groveland, Aug. 26. Hanoood. Illustrated ; I zmo. ; ~d ed. ; IOO pages ; cloth. Price, $2.50. Chasm Poor-Poore, at Haverhill, Sept. 2. Tyler, at North Andover, Sept. a. Falls, N.Y., 1896. The title fully describes the work. The illustrations consist of 28 family portraits in fine half-tone. Dr. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Harwood has also included some interest- A LIST OF GENEALOGIESBEING COMPILED ing biographical matter. He is still seek- has been issued in a twenty-four page ing to find the parentage and. birth~~lace pamphlet by Seymour Morris. Chicago, in England of the ancestor, Andrew Har- 1896. wood. e QEeeex antiquarian . fBln ZUurrtt.ateb jiHonaI2 flagatine beboteb to the Ristoq, Biograp~p,@eneaIogp, anb antiquities of Essez QTounQ, fltrssadlufietts.

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Esscx Countyis the most historiccounty The literary portion of the magazine in America, and the parent of hundreds of will consist of biographies, genealogies, towns and cities in various sections of the sketches of local history, churches and United States and British Provinces. Its old homesteads, of early commerce, edu- settlement began in 1623, and all of its cation and industries, ancient customs, etc. towns and cities were settled in that The illustrations will consist of houses, century. churches, maps, portraits, autographs, The principal object of this magazine is coats-of-arms, gravestones, ancient furni- to preserve the history and genealogy of ture, articles of domestic use, apparel, etc. the county and to bring into ready use The material which the editor has been the records which are unindexed and al- for twenty years collecting for a genealog- most inaccessible, those that are in private ical dictionary of the county, down to the as well as public custody. These include year 1800, is being published in the form admissions to and dismissions from the of genealogies. It includes the Ipswich churches, baptisms, births, marriages, Hammatt Papers and the Essex County deaths, intentions of marriages, gravestone part of Savage's Genealogical Dictionary. inscriptions, old newspaper news-items, The early wills of the county are also advertisements and obituary notices, par- being printed, verbatim et literatim, in the ish records and tax lists, town-meeting order of their probate. records and tax lists, probate records and The records of old Norfolk County, original wills and other papers on file, which existed from 1643 to 1679, and in- deeds, civil and criminal court records, cluded all towns north of the Merrimac proprietors' records, colonial, provincial, River at that period, will be published. and state records, Revolutionary and other The towns of Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter, soldiers' muster rolls, etc., Bible records, Hampton, etc., were then included in that account books, old letters, commissions, county. The records consist of births, interleaved almanacs, diaries, journals, marriages, deaths, deeds, wills, inventories, ctc. Seven-eighths of the public records etc., and have been almost inaccessible are not indexed, and none of them have and their existence known but to few. complete indexes of names. A vast amount The support and co-operation of every of hidden historical and genealogical ma- person is needed, by subscription as well terial is thus brought into ready use. as general interest.

MAP OF OLD NORFOLK COUNTY, 1643. VOL. I. SALEM, MASS., FEBRUARY,1897. No. 2.

OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS. ALL the territory of old Norfolk coun- of the Bay colony, and April 14, 1641, ty was included in the original grant of by agreement, Dover and Portsmouth August 10, 1622, to Capt. John Mason were annexed to Massachusetts, which and Sir Ferdinand0 Gorges by the Ply- was to have, by the terms of the con- mouth Council in England, established tract, " jurisdiction of government of the by a royal charter " far the planting, rul- said people, dwelling or abiding within ing, ordering, and governing of New-Eng- the limits of both the said patents." land, in America," the territory thus Exeter was admitted as a party to this granted being named Laconia. agreement in September, 1642. The next year, a fishing station was May 10, 1643, Massachusetts Bay was established on the Piscataqua river at a divided into counties, all the towns north place afterward included within the town of the Merrimac river being constituted of Dover. The leaders in this settle- the county of Norfolk. Dover had been ment were two brothers, Edward and called Cocheco, and included the present William Hilton, who had been fish- towns of Durham and Stratham and city mongers in London. of Dover. Portsmouth was then known Rev. John Wheelwright and four others as Strawberry-bank, and included the purchased of the Indians the territory of present towns of Greenland, New Cas- Laconia in 1629 ; but the English author- tle, Newington, Portsmouth and part of ities disregarded his title, and later in Rye. Exeter then included Brentwood, the year Captain Mason obtained from Epping, Exeter, Fremont, Newmarket ' the Plymouth Council a new patent of the and South Newmarket. Hampton in- territory, naming it New Hampshire. cluded Danville, Hampton, Hampton Portsmouth was established at the Falls, Kensington, Kingston, East Kings- same time as Dover, and Exeter soon ton, North Hampton and parts of Rye after. and Seabrook. Salisbury, at first called The patent of the Massachusetts Bay Colchester, included the present towns of Colony extended northward to the Merri- Amesbury, Merrimac, and Salisbury, in mac river, but by a peculiar construction Massachusetts, and Newton, South Hamp- of the grant it was claimed that the line ton and part of Seabrook, in New Hamp- extended many miles north of the pres- shire. Haverhill included Haverhill, ent boundary. The Bay colony sought to Methuen and the northern part of Law- hold the territory of original Hampton, rence, in Massachusetts, and Atkinson, Haverhill and Salisbury by colonization Hampstead, Plaistow, and part of Salem, the first and last in 1638, and Haverhill in New Hampshire. two years later. The county was divided into two court For several years Dover, Exeter and jurisdictions, Dover and Portsmouth Portsmouth had distinct and independent forming one, and the remaining towns governments. It was deemed desirable the other, Salisbury becoming the shire to place these towns under the protection town of the latter. The records, abstracts of which are begun to be published here- and Rebekah Bylie when 17 years old. with, are those of the latter jurisdiction, Tho : Bradbury, recorder. though Dover and Portsn~outhshare in Rebeckah Hall of Salisbury, widow, con- them to some extent. veys to Henry Ambross of Hampton, car- Jan. 22, 1679-80, New Hampshire be- penter, " my now dwelling house, barn & came a royal province, and the four north- land," and a lot lying within Mr. William em towns were taken from the county. Hooke's fence, also land adjoining Mr. Only the original towns of Haverhill Will : Worcester's and Richard Wells' land, and Salisbury were now left of the coun- and all hay due from Richard Ormsbie (or ty, and Feb. 4, 1679-80, the General Ormsbey). Nov. 18, I 647. Wit : Willi : Court added them to Essex county for Worcester and Tho : Bradbury. Ack. be- court purposes, but permitted the records fore Richard Saltenstall 28 :z :1649. of deeds of land to be continued. Deeds Robert Lord of Ipswich, marshall, ex- were recorded there as late as I 7 14, and tended an execution on lands of Nathaniel ., not only of land in those towns but in va- Boulter of Hampton, in favor of ye coun- rious parts of the county. try, and for £1 13s. 4d. conveys to John In August, 1737, the line dividing the Meriam of Hampton 3 acres of meadow states was settled three miles north of the which formerly belonged to Robert S-- Merrimac river, and parallel thereto, the of Hampton, bounded by Jefery Mingei, exact location being fixed in I 741. All Mr. Timothie Dalton, Willi : Howard and the territory north of this line was added the river, 21 :- :1648. Wit :Jeferie Mingy to New Hampshire. and Willi : Howard. Ack. before Samuel A map has been prepared. and is here- Symonds a : 8mo. : 164-. with presented, showing the towns of John Wedgwood of Hampton, planter, Norfolk county in 1643. The x marks conveys to Thomas ffilbrick of Hampton, designate the site of the first settlements 5 acres of land, bounded by Moyses Cox, in the region. The map is original, and etc., having been formerly granted to will be of great assistance in locating land Daniel Hendrick, Jan. 29, 16-. Wit: mentioned in the conveyances which fol- Willi ffifeild and Anthony o zkTaylor. low. These abstracts include all names Ack. before Richard Bellingham 5 : 8 mo. : of persons and facts of historical value. 1649. - William Sanborne of Hampton conveys At a court held at Salisbury 24 : 2 : to Thomas ffilbrick, jr., of Hampton, for 1649. Ma Rebeckah Hall of Salisbury, £24, his house and houselot, bounded by widow, being possessed of a house and Willi : %field and John Browne of Hamp- lands in Salisbury by the death of ton, and land adjoining that of Henry her former husband Mr. Henry Bylye, Sawyer, May 17, 1647. Wit: Robert conveyed it to her two children, Henry Tuck, John Sanborne and Thomas Waldo. and Rebekah Bylye, at the time of her Ack. before Samuel Symonds 4 : 8 mo. : marriage with Mr. John Hall. Nov. 18, 1649. 1647, she conveyed it, for the good of the Henry Dow of Hampton, for money, children, by authority of the General conveys to Manuel1 Hiliard of Hampton, Court, to Henry Ambross. The estate 10 acre house-lot and 3 acres of marsh in lay between the houses of John Sanders Hampton, adjoining land of Thomas and Andrew Greely, and was bounded Chase, etc., 18 : 3 : 1649. Wit : Timothie by land of Mr. Hooke, Mr. William Wor- Dalton and Willi Howard. Ack. before cester and Richard Wells. This court Samuel Symonds 2 : 8 mo. : 1649. confirms the sale, and constitutes Mr. Thomas Macy ofSalisbury, planter, con- Christopher Bott and Lt. Robert Pike veys to Georg Martyn of Salisbury, black- overseers of the fund thus derived, Henry smith, for £3 ~os.,$ of my 20 acre lot on . Bylie to receive his part when of age, west side of Pawwaus river in Salisbury, OLD NORFOLK CC )UNTY RECORDS. 2 I adjoining land of Willi Sargent (formerly Ack. before Richard Saltonstall 16 : 8 : given by the town to JnO. Severance) and 1649. Willi Howard of ye New I'vleadowes JnO.Hoyt (formerly the lot ofLuke Heard), in Ipswitch assents, etc., on same day. and Tho : Barnett (the present owner of Wit : Willi Inglish. the other half of the 20 acre lot), 3 : 8 15 : I : 1649, Robert Drake entered his mo.: 1649. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and caution about a house and lot bought of John Severance. Ack. before Samuel ffrancis Peboddie in Hampton. Symonds z : 8 mo. : 1649. 30: I : 1650, Tho. Chace entered his Robert Lord of Ipswich, marshall, caution about some land bought of Henry . extended an execution in favor of ye coun- Ambross. try upon 10 acres of upland and swamp in 30 : I : 1650, Edward Colcord entered Hampton, bounded by Jefferie Mingie, his caution about 8 acres of meadow John Wedgwood and Morrice Hobbs, bought of Steven Kent. belonging to Nathaniel Boultar lying in 25 : I : 1650, Tho : King entered his Hampton, and for 33s. 411. conveyed it to caution about a house and land bought of Jeffery hlingie of Hampton, Oct. 2 I, 1648. Robert Hithersa. Wit: John Meriam (his m mark) and ffrancis Pebodie of Hampton, planter, Willi Howard. Ack. before Samuel for £7 6 I 3s., conveys to Robert Drake of Symonds 3 : 8 mo : 1649. * Exiter, my dwelling-house, barn, and 10 Henry Dow of Hampton, "for a prom- acre lot in Hampton between the houses ise made to my former wife that if I was the of Isack Pirking and Willi Cole, 6 acres of longer liver I would make him as my son, meadow, bounded by Jeferie Mingay, be- he now being grown to man's estate," con- yond the mill brook, 3 acres of meadow veys to Thomas Nud my son in law 10 acres formerly belonging to Isack Pirkins, out of my home lot, bounded by Henry bounded by land formerly of Willi English, Dowe and Thomas Chace, reserving one 10 acres, 13 acres, 13 acres of marsh acre to the use ofThomas Sleper so long as toward ye springs, bounded by Abraham he lives upon it ; land bounded by William Pirkins and Isack Pirkins, one share in ye Maston, s'r, and'John Wedgwood ; and I great Ox common, and three shares in acre of salt marsh bounded by Jeferie rest of commons, 25 : I : 1650. Wit: Mingie, and of Thomas Louit and the Abraham Pirkins and John Legatt. Ack. river, 3 : 8 mo : 1649. Wit: Robert before Samuel Symonds 10 : 2 mo : 1650. Lord and William Howard. Ack. before I I : zmo : 1650, Tho : ffilbrigg entered Ri : Bellingham 3 : 8 mo : I 649. his caution about 3 acres of meadow he Willi ffuller of Hampton, locksmith, for bought of Henry Sayward in Hampton, £4 IOS., conveys to Willi Howard, sen., bounded by meadow he bought of Willi of Hampton, 4% acres of meadow bound- Sanborne. ed by land of Phylemon Daulton and oth- John Wheelwright, pastor of )p church ers, g : 12mo : 1647. Wit : Henry Elkins of Hampton, for £8, conveys to John and Mary M Elkins. Ack. before Rich- Wedgwood of Hampton, planter, 15 acres ard Bellingham g : 8 : 48. Assigned to in Hampton, known as the Elders lot, Robert Page of Hampton 22 : 8 : 1649. bounded by Henry Dove, Henry Moulton, Willi : Payne of Ipswich, marcheant, for Thomas Moulton, a lane and common, I I : £50, conveys to Robert Page of Hamp- 2 mo : 1650. Wit : Tho : Bradbury and ton, yeoman, 60 acres of upland and Abraham Perkins. Ack. before Samuel swamp, bounded by JnO. Bursly (or James Symonds I 2 : 2 mo : 1650. Wales) (sometime in the hands of Samuel Christopher Lauson of Boston, cooper, Greenfeild) and by Phylemon Daulton, gives a general power of attorney to his Nathaniel] Boulter, Taylor's river, a creek, loving friend Joseph Armitage of Lyn, 6 : and ffrancis Pebody, 11 : 8 mo: 1649. 2 mo : 1649. Wit : Willi Hilton, John Wit : Robert Lord and Robert Clements. Treworgye and JnO. Legatt. 2 2 THE ESSEX mTIQUAR1AN. Georg Martyn of Salisbury, blacksmith, "above the saw mill w*' I bought of Robert with consent of wifesusana, forA13, con- Smith" ; land bought of Nathaniel1 Boul- veys to Phillip Challice of Salisbury, tor; land at north end of Exiter, which I planter, dwelling-house and part of lot bought of John Bursley; land bought of granted by Salisbury to Thomas Macy, and Sam1 Greenfeild ; land " I bought of sold by him to said Georg Martyn, bound- Anthoney Stannian neare ye great Cove ed by Willi : Sargent, JnO. Hoyt, Paw- & a farme in ye woods bought of mr Stan- waus river, Tho : Barnett ; and 2 acres ian " ; and other land ; a debt due from meadow, bounded by Val1 : Rowell and William Tayler ; and a cart, wheels, etc., another, ii : 2 mo : 1650. Signed by the M 14 : 9 : 1650. Wit : Tho : Pettit and mark of Georg Martyn. Wit : Tho : Brad- Tho : Turner. Ack. before Tho : Wiggin bury and Abraham Drake. Wife Susana 15 : 9 : 1650. consented before Ri : Bellingham and Will : ffullar of Hampton bought of Samuel Symonds same day. Henry Saward of Strawberry banck a Willi ffullar bought of Edward Colcord house lotin Hampton, between lots of said 4 acres of meadow, formerly belonging to Will : ffullar and John Browne. A cau- Willi Wakefeild, in Hampton, bounded by tion ; entered Nov. 22, 1650. the beach, JnO. Sambome and Mr. Rich- 12 : 10 mo : 1650, James ffilbrooke and worth. A caution ;entered Oct. 15,1650. Tho : ffilbrooke, jr., bought of Edward John Crosse of Ipswich, sen., for £101 Colcord marsh in Hampton, bounded by I ss.,conveys to Rodger Shaw of Cambridge, JnO Wedgwood, Will : Cole and Willi sen., my houses and lands in Hampton, in ffifeild, way to landing place, etc. all 239 acres, 40 rods being " in ye meet- I 2 : 10 mo : 1650, Edward Colcord ing house green," Nov. 15, 1647. Wit: mortgages to James ffilbrick and Tho: John Whittingham and JnO. Dickinson ffilbrick, jr., marsh which was formerly (his L: mark). Ack. before Richard Salton- possessed by Walter Roper, adjoining Rob : stall 15 : 9 : 1647. Page, the beach, etc. Will of John Moulton of Hampton. He Henry Sayward of Hampton, now of devises to his son Henry Moulton land "Strabery banke," for 4os., sold to Tho : bounded by the beach, \Villi ffullar, the ffilbrick of Hampton, ye elder, meadow, river, Willi Sanborne, Willi ffifeild. He which said ffilbrick bought of one Wm. devises to his wife Ann his house and lot, Sanborne, bounded by the river, 30 : I : etc., for her life, and appoints her 1650. Wit : Amb Lane. Ack. before executrix. Healso gives her all his cattle, Tho : Wiggin 11 : 8 mo :*1650. except one calf to John Moulton, who Mary Hufsie of Hampton, widow, for also has the house in fee, etc. He gives £3, conveys to John Woodin, 16 acres of to his daughters Jane Moulton and Bridg- land adjoining Philemon Daulton, Willi ett [Moulton]. Twelve acres of land, Maston, sen., "meeting house greene," adjoining Willi Esto's, he gives equally to Cristopher Hussie, John Moulton, the Mary Samborne & my daughter Ann, & river, and Taylor's river, 25 : 2 : 1648. my daughter Jane, & my daughter bridg- Signed by mark G. Wit: Samuel Hall ett." To " my son Samborne " he devises and Tho : Bradbury. Ack. before Richard marsh, bounded by Christopher Pallmer. Saltingstall 25 : 2 : 1648. He devises to his daughter Ann marsh Martha Sadler enters a caution about a adjoining John Browne's. Dated Jan. 23, house and land in Salisbury, which. her 1649. Wit : Robert Tuck and Willi deceased husband Anthony Sadler bought Estowe. Proved by both witnesses at of Mr. Cristopher Batt of Salisbury about court in Hampton I : 8 mo : 1650. Tho : the first month in 1650. Also, about two Bradbury, recorder. little islands near land of Tho : Bradbury. Edward Gyllman of Exiter, for £60, Anthony Sadler of Salisbury, shoemaker, conveys to John Gyllman of Exiter, land for £12, and 1500 pipe staves, conveys OLD NORFOLK C:OUNTY RECORDS. 23 to Georg Martyn of Salisbury, with con- Hampton, and Edmond Lewes of Linn, sent of my wife Martha, a dwelling house for £15, now conveys to Henry Doue his and land on west side of Pawwaus river, interest in the same, 22 : 8 : 1649. Wit : bounded by Iohn Hoyt, Willi Osgood and JnO Lewis. Ack. before Rob : Bridges Josiah Cobham, I 2 : 2 mo : 1650. Wit : 30: 8 : 1650. Tho : Bradbury and Theo : Satchwell. Christopher Hussey of Hampton, yeo- Wife Martha assented before Rich: Belling- man, for £70, conveys to Steven Sam- ham and Sam : Symonds I 2 : 2 mo : I 650. borne and Sam1 ffogge, house and lot in Judith Parker (her P mark) of Charles- Hampton, except what was sold to JnO towne, widow, having sold to John Marian Samborne ;and land adjoining Willi ffullar's [also spelled Miriam] of Watertowne, and Tho : Lovet's, 6 : 2 mo : 1650. Wit : I 7 : 2 : 1645, a house and land in Hamp- Steven Bacheller, Edward Colcord and ton, Marian is to pay her £2 I therefor John Redman. Ack. before the court at at certain times. Wit : John Greene, sen., Hampton 10 : 8 mo : 165 I. and Jacob Greene. Judith Parker died Tho : Moulton of Hampton, yeoman, before I 1 : 4 mo : 1651, when the witnesses conveys to John Wedgwood of Hampton testified to the agreement in court before 4 acres of meadow near the springs, ad- Symond Bradstreet. joining Edmon Jonson's meadow, Aug. I 2, Christopher Batt of Salisbury, tanner, 1650. Martha Moulton also signs. Wit : for £52 5s., conveys to Isack Buswell Samuel1 Daulton and Moses Cox. Ack. and Willi : Buswell his son, house and lot, before the court at Hampton 10 : 8 nlo : etc., in Salisbury, bounded by Thomas 1651. Bradbury, 29 : 7 : 1650. Wit: Henry Edward Colcord of Hampton conveys Monde and Andrew Grile. Ack. before to John Wedgwood of Hampton. 5 acres Tho : Bradbury and Sam : Hall, commis- of marsh in Hampton in the little ox sioners, 16 : 2 : 1651. common, bounded by JnO Hugins, Tho : John Cass of Hampton, planter, conveys ffilbrick, Willi: ffifeild and JnOSamborne, to Anthony Taylor, felt maker, land at the 10: 8 mo: 1651. Wit: Robert Tuck. upper end of JnOCass' house lot I : 4 mo : Ack. before the court at Hampton ro: 1648. John Cass signs by mark 1111. Wit : S mo: 1651. Abraham Pirkins and Heury Green. Ack. William ffullar of Hampton, planter, 'for before the court at Hampton 10 : 8 mo : conveys to JnOWedgwood of Hamp- 1651. ton, planter, lo acres salt marsh in Hamp- Edward Gyllman of Exiter, planter, ton, bounded by Mr. Wheelwrite, Tho: mortgages to his "father Kichard Smith Mastone, Tho : Chase and Clambanke of Shropham in Northfolke yeoman," for river, Oct. 10, 1651. Wit: Rodger Shaw f;aoo, to be paid at the signe of the and Robert Tuck. Ack. before Samuel sonne & globe in cornwell, in London Symonds 8 mo : 165 I. wthin one yeare after notice given of ye John Redman of Hampton mortgaged decease of ye aforesay'd Richard Smith, his dwelling-house and lot in Hampton . . . one saw-mill, on ye Esterne side of ye to Mr. Sam1 Dudley of Exiter Dec. 2, River, & also ye one half of three parts of 1651. Ack, before Robert Pike and a saw mill on the other side of the river, Josiah Cobham, commissioners of Salis- & my now dwelling house wth ye Lott & bury, Dec. 2, 1651. garden wa was sometimes Tho : Joneses, Willi : Osgood entered a caution about And ye one halfe of all my land in Exiter," 16 acres of meadow in Salisbury which he Oct. 9, 165 I. Wit : Tho : Bradbury and bought of Mr. Carr, Jan. 8, 165 I. Tho. Pettitt. Ack. before the court at Thomas Moulton of Hampton, hus- Hampton 8 : 8: 1651. bandman, for £4, conveys to John Clif- Edmond Lewesand Henry Doue bought ford of Hampton, husbandman, land in of John Sanders of Hampton land in Hampton, bounded by Cristopher Pal- 24 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. mer and Mr. Wheelwrite, g : 8 mo : 1651. Howard and Slmuell ffogge. Ack. before Wit: Abraham Drake and Robert Lord. Sammuell : Symonds : I : a mo : 1652. Ack. before the court at Hampton 10 : Sam : Getchell ( his u mark ) of Salis- 8 mo: 1651. bury conveys to William Godfrey of Thomas ffilbrick of Hampton, conveys Hampton, "my late dwelling house" at to Christopher Hufse of Hampton, 20 HampLon and I 5 acres of land, I 7 : 3 : acres of marsh in Hampton, bounded by 1648. Wit : John Whelewright and Hen- John Redman, ffrancis Swaine, etc., 10 : 8 ry Doue. - mo : 1651. Wit: Robert Tuck and Thomas Macy of Salisbury, merchant, Henry Green. Ack. before the court at for £6, "& a marke," conveys to Hampton 10 : 8 mo : I 65 I. Thomas Barnett of Salisbury, planter, land John Hodges, citizen and cowper of on west side of Pawwaues river in Salis- London, gives power of attorney to his bury, bounded by Luke Heard and John "trusti & welbelove'd in Christ John Severans, April I, 1642. Wit: Tho: Chickley of London merchant & John Bradbury and Robert Pike. Ack. before Harrison of Boston in New-england in the court at Salisbury 13 : 2 : I 65 2. ye pts beyond ye seas Ropemaker," to Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, planter, rent, etc., my house and land in Salisbury. for 35s., conveys to Edward ffrench of April I, 1647. Wit: "James Reade Scr' Salisbury, tailor, meadow on Little river, Lre Cur: Lond & Thomas Hinde his bounded by Robert Pike, 20 : 12 : 16jI. servant," Jon Cutting, Edmond Thmson Wit : Andrew Wiggin and Wymond Hrad- and Abraham losselen. bury. Ack. before the court at Salisbury John Harison of Boston, cordish maker, 15 : 2 : 1652. under the preceding power, for £15, con- Samuel1 Getchell (his u mark) of veys to hlr. Tho : Bradbury of Salisbury, Salisbury for £1 2 IOS., conveys to Willia planter, one dwelling-house and lot of Godfrey of Watertown, " my late dwelling three acres, etc., bounded by Phillip house " at Hampton, and land, 17 : 3 : Challis, John Severance, John Bayly, sen., 1648. Wit : John Whelewright and Hen- Isack Buswell, Richard Singletary, Tho: ry Doue. Ack. before court at Salisbury Hauxworth, Ralfe Blesdale, Anthony Cole- 13 : 2 : 1652. bie and John Bayly, jr. ; and 40 acres on John Severans of Salisbury, planter, west side of Pawwaus river, bounded by with consent of wife Abigall, for £1 2 ros., Mr. Sam' Hale and Merimacke river, 8 : conveys to Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, 8 : 1647. Wit : Joseph Kellage and Per- planter, " my dwelling house & old house cis Harison. Ack. before Tho : Wiggin thereunto adjoyning lijng uppon both sides 22 : 3: 1651. of ye street," bounded by Mr. Christopher George Martyn mortgaged his now Batt, Thomas Bradbury and Isack Bus- dwelling house and land on west side of well, in Salisbury, Dec. 2 I, 1647. Wit : Pawwaus river in Salisbury to Mr. Sam : William Webb and Sam Winsley. Ack. Hall of Salisbury for 3500 white oak pipe before Tho : Wiggin 13 : 2 : I 65 2. staves, June 4, 165 I. Ack. before Rob- Edward Colcord and Thomas Turner ert Pike and Josiah Cobham, commission- determine a matter between Mr. Richard ers of Salisbury, 8 : I mo : 1652. Waldern and Mr. Edward Gyllman. Mr. William English of Ipswich, shoomaker, Walden is to pay Mr. Gyllman £1 I IOS. for £20, conveys to John Cass of Hamp- in marchantable board att quochequo att ton, yeoman, my house and houselot in money price wthin six dayes after ye date Hampton "abutting upon the green herof, or (I I~)(lo8) in money wt"in called the Ring," and on land of Abra- that tyme. & to this Awarde wee doe hanl Pirkins. This house and lot former- both consent." Dated 15 : a : 1652. ly belonged to Tho: Jones, and before To bs confinurn'. that to Samuel Greenfeild. ]!'it : !Villi EARLY FENCES. 2 5 THE OLD STONE WALLS. in the pasture; certain sections repre- Who were they-the builders senting such portions being marked off. Of the many gray old walls These were usually the early two-railed That checker all New England o'er, fences. Officers were appointed to ex- Where'er the vision falls? amine into the case of any delinquent, They part the hills and valleys, The meadows and the plains, with power to levy and collect fines. In And journey with us as we go 1643, the regulation of common fences Through woods and shady lanes. was left wholly to the respective towns. Mile after mile of gray stone wall The law in relation to fences around Are left until our day; corn fields was peculiar, presumably on But the active, busy builders, account of the necessity of preserving the We wonder who were they? Moss-grown, their work is left behind,- corn for the sustenance of the colonists. 'Twas neatly done and well; The owner of the corn field was obliged But years ago the builders to maintain a sufficient fence around it. Vanished from hill and dell. July 2, 1633, it was ordered by the Gen- Essex. S. S. Bar.1tpN. eral Court, "that if any cor~lefence -- shalbe by the inhabitants of the towne EARLY FENCES. iudged insufficient, & the owner there- BY BIDNEV YERLEY. of forbeare mending of it more than 2 Fences often exist today to designate dayes after warneing giuen, the inhabitants boundary lines; but in the earliest days shall mend the said fence, & the corne of our settlements they were probably of the owner of the said fence shalbe never constructed for that purpose, unless liable to pay the charges of the mending the three-rail fence erected between the thereof." The fence had to be sufficient towns of Newbury and Rowley, in 1649, to keep out hogs as well as cattle. In was such an instance. The earliest fences 1637, the law was passed making it in- were for protection from the Indians and cumbent upon owners of corn fields to the larger and more ferocious animals of first show that the fence through which un- the forest; the next, to keep both do- ruly cattle came into the field was suffic- mestic and wild animals from the culti- ient and in order before damages for vated crops of the settlers ; and the later, injuries done to the crops could be re- to restrain the various kinds of cattle of covered. In Topsfield, in 1667, such the settlers from straying into the forest fences were ordered to consist of five and elsewhere. These fences were all rails, "well placed," and be up by April made for the purposes to which they 20th. were applied, and were often uncouth The earliest roads were foot paths, and and rough. Ornamented fences belong were so ill-defined that they were not re- to a still later period, when settlements garded in fencing pastures and fields in had acquired some degree of affluence. the earliest days. Later, in the more Each farmer had to build and main- thickly settled portions, where they were tain his fences when they were erected on more defined, carts having come into use, or around his individual lots of land ; but and travel was more common and exten- the common pastures, with their many sive, fences across these ways were found owners, early demanded some rule or to be very inconvenient; and in the authority by which the fence around villages they were fenced on either side. them would be built and kept in order In Rowley, this was ordered to be done during the season of pasturage by all the as early as 1649. But outside the villages owners; and in 1633 it was provided roads remained encumbered by fences, in that each owner of a common pasture many places, until this century; though should build and support such part of the bars and the more convenient .gate were fence as was in proportion to his interest found at the crossings. 2 6 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. Oct 14, 1685, theGeneralCourt passed and laying the lower rails or poles in the a law that whoever broke down any fence crotches thus formed ; and then driving or stone wall, or lay open any gates, bars &-*= 7- or locks, unless under claim of right, --- - -=. ------.------should pay a fine and the damages there- 5 == ------by occasioned. Persons were chosen in the various towns to look after fences to see that they were kept up, and to have general oversight of them. There was at first no TWO-RAIL FUNCE. nameattached to the office, the incum- other stakes above the rails x form in such bent being called " fence viewer," " over- a way that rails or poles could be laid above seer to view fences," etc. In 1653 a law the first, as shown in the engraving. was enacted which gave this authority to The brush fence is about as ancient as the selectmen of towns, with power to the two-pole fence, and has passed away levy fines upon delinquents. Our modern first in our county. Some one has said office of fence viewer is founded upon that, '6According to an unwritten law, a the Province law, passed Dec I, 1693, brush fence must be a rod wide, wit11 no which authorizes two or more fence viewers specification as to its height." In and to be chosen in each town at the annual under the brush fence all sorts of living meeting. The statute also established creatures,-beast, bird, and reptile,- lenal fences. Thev were to be made four ~-~~- , feet high, of five rails, or boards, or four, -.= -.-: ..---7L:-.~-m -~... ---=.%.--. ... ------. -..- A - .- .- , if eauivalent to five : also. stone walls. . , .- .. .. -.- .-

their cost, that in most of the conveyances of improved lands in Essex county they BRUSH FENCE. were particularly mentioned alniost to the have made their homes. In building or time of the Revolution. piling a brush fence the small trees along The earliest fence was thepalisade built its line were lopped down, but not entire- near the house to keep the Indians and ly severed from the stump, and made to large and more ferocious animals away. fall in one direction lengthwise of the This consisted of long sticks, called pales, fence. Other trees were added to give it with pointed tops, driven into the ground, the height and width required. This was leaving about eight feet above the earth, a very effective barrier. and touching one another, in a continu- The fence next to be built by our fore- ous row around the house. As villages be- fathers was a log fence. This was one of gan to be formed in some instances a high the most substantial of fences, but was stone-wall took the place of the palisade only erected where there was a great around the churches, as at Topsfield in amount oftimber at hand. The great logs, 1676, while the palisade about houses was generally of pine, were laid straight, over- early discontinued. lapping a little at the ends, onwhich were Where fences were used in early times placed horizontally the short cross-pieces, merely for keeping cattle within certain which upheld the logs next above. It was limits, they were of the simplest construc- usually built three logs:high, and formed tion. The earliest of these was the flimsy an almost solid wooden wall. From be- two-rail or pole fence, which was made by hind the log and brush fences; the prowl- driving stakes into the ground x form, ing Indian shot the settler as he tilled his EARLY FENCES. ,2 7 field, or long watched the lonely cabin be- After these earlier fences came the fore he surprised its defenceless inmates. snake or Virginia fence, made of rails Where stones were plentiful and timber and poles scarce, stone walls were built as early as the seventeenth century. They proved the most enduring and in every way satisfactory. In spite of their being more or less frost-flung, they remain a picturesque and sufficient barrier, and will so remain until they sink beneath the SNAKE FENCE. surface of the ground. Often the stones arranged as shown in the illustration. of the wall were taken from the field, This variety of fence is truly American. where it was built, in the course of tillage. The split-rail fence is also old. Logs, There seems almost to have been a stone generally of ash, about nine feet in age in New England history, when stone length, and a foot or more in diameter, split the entire length into about sixteen equal parts, formed the rails, which were chamfered at each end. Of such split

STONE WALL. was the material most frequently em- ployed for fence building. Sometimes a single stone wall can be found stretching SPLIT-RAIL FENCE. away in a straight line over hill and sections posts were also made, having through valley for miles. In some locali- holes cut in them in the proper places to ties it would seem as if every field and receive the ends of the rails, the fence pasture and garden were bordered with it. being constructed as shown in the illus- The great amount of stone wall that re- tration. It is to the credit of Abraham mains attests the labor of our ancestors. Lincoln that in his early frontier home What bending and straining of stalwart he was a skillful rail-splitter. backs and muscles there must have been The board fence came into existence at the building of these walls, which have with the advent of saw-mills. The old been the castle of the squirrel, the weasel board fence consisted of wide, rough- and the woodchuck through the centuries. Where neither stones nor timber were plenty the half-high wall, surmounted by a rail resting or crossed stakes driven into

BOARD FENCE. edged boards nailed to posts set in the ground, and was always an inartistic HALF-HIGH WALL. structure. On leaving this subject, the countless the ground, as shown in the illustraiion, disputes, contentions and heartaches of was early used, and is still common. the past arising from line fences, where 28 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. slight divergences have created feuds In Memory of which have continued for several gener- JAMES HACKETT, ations, and the matter of maintenance of Son of certain portions of fences and building of John & Betty Hackett, spite fences are recalled. They have who died by 6eirag ihrown porn a horse always been a fruitful source of disputes N0v. 27'q 1795 and friction between neighbors in the aged 18 years. past, but under more definite laws will Farewell nay friends, I bid adieu, probably be less so in the future.. And leave this tottering 6aN; For not one rtaorrtetat can we flny When Christ our Lord doth call. AMEBURY INSCRIPTIONS.

SALISBURY POINT CEMETERY. Mr. PETERHACKET~ Jon of Mr. John Hackett, This cemetery was first used appar- died zq, of March 2797 ently in 1788, the oldest gravestones Bt. 27. there bearing that date. It was located Tho, oftri6rrtaryforrmupow,, in Salisbury until a change in the town And see, (iprpffi~/i(l the heart wir/r woe lines in 1886 brought it within the Tho' thyfondparents naourn thyfolr nt rep limits of Amesbury. The following are all A"d30~esfn61inae peaceful rlfny thefe rejecfio~ascalttj our lroubled heart the be found there And wtprepare to meet were none do part. dates prior to 1800. -

171 ANNA wtfe of Memory of Samuel Adams, RICHARD HACKET~, who died died FebY 9, I 794 Et. 39. Septr. I rth, 1794, in the 4~'~year Ye Angels guard thisfleepi~zgclay Till conaes the grent a'ecifive dny of his age. When in her Saviorrrs il~tngedref/ She awakes to 6e co~nplete&6left. DEAC,WILLIAM - HACKET.died Novr. SALLY, 20. 1808. fit. 69. Confort of WILLIAM0. HACK Tristram Coffin, ET. died. Octr. 16. died March loth, 1798 ;At. 23. I 782. at Guaduloup Thus by just Heavens conamissiora'd dart, fit. 22. Thefondest ties are broke, firiendpartfrom friend, & heart fi.0112 heart, TIMOTHYHACKF~, By death's distressing stroht. DIEDJULY 23.1797. - on his passing from Havana to Hamburgh. Et. 28. In Memory of ANNA, In Menrory of , wge of Mm.Hannah Luwey Richard Hackett, thc wve of who riied Mr. James Luwey, June 18" I 794 ; who departed this itye in the 47!h year June the 7'& A D I 788 of her age. Ktat. 24. AMESBURY INSCRIPTIONS. In Memory of

wqe of Mr. Robert Morrill : JAMES, who died Son of OcP. 18*", 1790 Samuel and in the 33d Year Abigail Nye, of her Age. who died Scpt. 8th I 793, aged 13 months. In Memo ry of ELIJAHMORRILL Son of Robert & Ajia Morn'll who died April 3", r 788 ; MARY-ANN in the 7fh Yeczr of Daughter of his Age Samuel and Abigail Nye, who died Sacred to Oct. 26m 1894. the Memory of aged 22 days. Mr. EZRAMORRILL - who departed this bye In Memory of Dm. 23, 1797 MR DANIELOSGOOD, in the 56 year of who died his age. Juiy IS, I 798 : Haif, courteous Strnltget, view the filertt 7bnz6, aged 30 years. Andft,/ndprepnrld: jor this nrufi he your honre ! Also hl~s.RHODA. his wife died Sept. I;, 1828,~ aged 59 years. - conzort'd In Memory of Mr. Jacob Morrill ; MAJORJOSEPH PAGE, who died who died Nov'. 23, I791 : &nuv gth 1793, At. 5s. in the 6oth Year At death's nrival tbev fiall ??,rile of his age Who not in life 7ner.e iay ' - Withfear their freprent thorrght sen1 ot/t To meet hint on the way. In nrenro~yof In Memory of Nicholas Spitzenfiel cap'.. - n rrntive of .Iliclrelan Lorenzt Sp~tzenfiel in Germany a native of Michelatz In Memory of wbo died nf in Germany ROBERTMORRIL~' Newbury-Port 7etho died at Son of Roderf Jflny. 23, 1795 Salisbury at. 46. Fe@ 6, 1864. & Afia MorriZZ, at. 50. who died : 191 that meet earth, when natures debt is paid, Apn'l 61h, 1788 And leaving 119 we leave its load of woes; in the 3 Year Our neighhours Rind, we trust will ste us laid; of his Age. In humble hope of mercy, to repose. 30 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. Itt Metiroy of 112 Memory of Me. HANNAHSTEVENS JONATHAN, Relict oj Son of Jonathan & Mr. Jacob Steztetts Betfy Webfter ; who ded Augfr. 13~"1796 who died &tat. 5 7 Dec''. 26, 1799 : aged 6 ma. In Mentory of - Mr. JACOB STEVENS In Memory of who departed this lge MARYWEBTER, May the 3ofh1791, Wfeof Atat. 5 7. Enoch Webster, Depart my friends dry up your tears who n'irtl Sept. 24, I 794, Here 1~nufl lie till Chrzyf rzppears iit the 24 year of her age. O! Irta,.k Irom foletna 'ria lohe,& Death's wore our eyes. JAMES, Wheir yoa#yl & oldare called to fly to yonderfkied. Son of John & They v~&,r,@trefurn lo dyfl; the gloomy gram smBr Abigail Stevens e (Ice Ast Ihi, JcorfouLt we fn"t will fee lheir Sauiour'rjtaca. diedMay 2 r" 1788 aged q years. WILL OF BETHIAH CARTWRIGHT. ha Mentoiy of The will of Bethiah Cartwright of Salem ANNE, was proved in the Salem quarterly court, Conjbrt of June 30, 1640. The following copy is Cap. William Swett ; taken from the original instrument on file who died in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem, book I, leaf 5. &"e 5, '798 Et. 59. I Bethia Cortwrite of Salem being in pfect memory doe make and ordaine this - my laft will and teftament, first I give and In Mento y bequeath my bed, my bolfter and two of pillow-beres with a blancet and a cover- Mr. EBENEZERTRUE, let unto Elizabeth Capon my fifter in who died walderfwick in Suff item I give unto Mary AI4Ruft 22, 1799 : Norton the wife of Georg Norton in Salem in the 48 year by beft coat, item I giue unto my fifter of his age above Said thre peuter platters and adouble faltfeller, item I give vnto John Jackfon the fon of John Jackfon half a dozen 1n Memory fpoones and a porrenger, item I give unto 4 Margret Jackfon the wife of John Jackfon RUTH of Salem my box of linning, with a payre wife of of fhetes, item I will that fower payer of lMr. Ebenezer True Sheets be fold to pay pt of my debts, item who died]anY. 8, I 798 I give unto Elizabeth Kellem a furg waf- In the 42 year of his age. cot, Item I give unto John Jackfon afore- VScW&h e faid my bible, item I will that mytwo best And while her grave you sole7ne ey cloath wafcotes to be fold as my Shetf aforefaid, Item Igive unto Elezabeth Nick- fone my payer of Anderens, item I will SOLDIERS AND SA1U)RS OF THE REVOLUI'ION. 31 that my napkins and bord cloaths to be Col. Tupper's reg. ;Continental Army pay fold as my wafcots aforefaid. In witnes accounts for service from Jan. I, I 777, to whereof I have hereunto fet my hand this Dec. 31, 1779 ; service, r 7 mos., as It., 19 fecond day of May Anno Dom : 1640 mos., as capt. ; also, muster return dated Elizabeth I3 Cartwrit Jan. 24, I 7 78 ; reported furloughed ; aLro, her marke muster roll for March, 1779, dated West Teftes Elizabeth Nickson Point ; reported, furloughed by Gen. Mc- Dougall from Feb. 2 to May IS, 1779 ; Thomas Warren also, return dated West Point Aug. 10, 1779 ; also Continental Army pay ac- SOLDIERS -4ND SAILORS OF THE counts for service from Jan. I, 1780, to REVOLUTION. Dec. 31, 1780 ; also, muster roll for Oct. I, Dec., 1780; dated Huts near West Contintred frotlr page 10. Point ; reported furloughed by Col. Brooks NEHEMIAHABBOT of Andover; priv., until April I, 1781. Capt. Thomas Poor's co., Col. James THOMASABBOT of Andover ; priv., Capt. Frye's reg., which marched on the alarm Samuel Johnson's co., Col. Wiggleworth's of April 19, 1775 ; service, 7 dys. ; re- reg. ; pay abstract for travel from Albany ported, enl. Jan. 3 I, I 775 ; also, on return home ; roll sworn to March 7, r 7 77 ; also, of men in camp at Cambridge May 17, Capt. Nathaniel Gage's co., Col. Jacob '775. Gerrish's reg. of guards; enl. Dec. 19, NEHEMIAHABBOT of Andover ; in Capt. I 7 7 7 ; dis. April 3, r 778 ; service, 3 mos., Benjamin Farnum's co., Col. James Frye's 16 dys., at Winter Hill, guarding Gen. reg., receipts for advance pay, dated Cam- Burgoyne's troops ; roll dated Bradford ; bridge, June 21,1775, and Aug. -, 1775 ; also, descriptive list of enlisted men ;Capt. also, on co. return, dated Cambridge, Oct. Lovejoy's co., Col. Johnson's reg. ; age 6, 1775 ; also, on order for coat money, 47 yrs.; stature, 5 ft., 7 in.; complex- dated Cambridge, Nov. 13, 1775. ion, dark; enl. March 18, 1781 ; enl. 3 PHILIPABBOT of Ipswich ; priv., Capt. yrs. Daniel Rogers' co., which marched on the TOBEY.ABBOTof Andover ; priv., Capt. alarm of April 19, 1775 ; service, 4 dys. ; Samuel Johnson's co., Col. Titcomb's reg. ; aho, .Capt. Nathaniel Wade's co., Col. dis. June 27, I 777 ; service, 2 rnos., g Little's reg. ; return dated June 5, I 7 75 ; dys:, at Providence, R. I. reported, marched to Cambridge ; also, co. WII.LIAM ABBOT of Andover ; priv., return [probably Oct., I 7 751 ; enl. May Capt. Joshua Holt's co., whichmarched on 15, I775 ;age, 24 Yrs. the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cam- PHILIPABBOT of Andover ; priv., Capt. bridge ; service, I dy. ;reported, a volun- Benjamin Ames' co., Col. James Frye's teer member of the co. who did not bear reg. ; killed June 17, I 775 ; reported, ne- arms. gro servant of Nathan Abbot. ZEBADIAHABBOT of Andover; priv., STEPHENABBOT of Andover ; It., Capt. Capt. Joshua Holt's co., which marched Benjamin Farnum's co., Col. Ebenezer on the alarm of April I 9, I 775, to Cam- Francis' reg.; pay abstract for 54 dys. bridge ; service, I % days. rations to date of arrival at Bennington ; BENJAMINABBOTT of Andover ;descrip- enl. Feb. 14, 1777 ; also, Col. Marshall's tive list of men raised to reinforce Conti- reg. ; list of officers who lost clothing while nental Army for 6 mos., agreeable to re- at Ticonderoga, dated Camp above Still- solve of June 5, I 780 ; age, I 7 yrs. ; stat- water Sept. 15, I 777 ; aho, capt., 11th ure, 5 ft., 8 in. ; complexion, light; ar- reg. ; dist of officers of the Mass. line ; rived at Springfield July 2, I 780 ;marched commissioned May 28, 1778, and con- to camp July 2, 1780, under command of firmed by Congress Sept. 6, 1779; also, Capt. Phineas Parker. 32 THE ESEX ANTIQUARUN. GEORGEABBOTT of Ipswich; priv., EBENEZERABORN of Danvers ;descrip- Capt. John Baker's co., Col. Little's reg. ; tive list of officers and crew of the ship muster roll dated Aug. I, I 775 ; en]. May " Junius Brutus," commanded by Capt. I I, I 775 ;service, 2 mas.! 26 dys. John Leach, dated Salem, June I 5, I 780 ; JOHNABBOIT of Marblehead ;return of age, 23 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., 7 in. ; com- men enl. into Continental Army from Col. plexion, dark. Jonathan Glover's (5th Essex co.) reg., JAMESABORN of Marblehead ; serg., dated Nov. 7, 1777 ; en]., 3 yrs. Capt. Mill's co., Col. Baldwin's reg. of ar- JOSHUAABBOIT of Rowley ; descriptive tificers ; Continental Army pay accounts list of men raised to reinforce Continental for service from Jan. I, 1777, to Jan. 20, Army for 6 mos., agreeable to resolve of 1779- June 5, 1780 ; age, 21 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., MOSESABORN of Lynn ; return of men 10 in.; complexion, light ; arrived at en]. into Continental Army from 1st Es- Springfield Aug. 19, I 780; marched to sex co. reg., dated Feb. 16, I 778 ; enl., 3 camp Aug. 19, I 780, under command of yrs., or during war; joined Capt. Ban- Ensign Blaisdell. croft's co., Col. Michael Jackson's reg. ; NATHANIELABBOTT of Ipswich ; priv., also, priv., Capt. Bancroft's co., Col. Jack- Capt. John Baker's co., Col. Little's reg., son's reg. ;Continental Army pay accounts co. return [probably Oct., I 7751 ;enl. May for service from May 14. I 777, to Aug. 2, 1775; age, I7 yrs. 17, 1777 ; reported, died Aug. 17, 1777. THOMASABBOTT of Andover ; return of AARONABORNS of Amesbury ; priv., men raised agreeable to resolve of Dec. 2, Capt. Robert Dodge's co., Col. Ebenezer 1780; enl. March 15, 1781 ; enl., 3 yrs. Francis' reg. ; service I dy. ; marched to THOMASABER of Andover ; list of men camp and home again ; roll sworn to Nov. enl. into Continen'l Army [year not given]. 29, 1776. SAMUELABOOT of Andover; corp., WOODWARDABRAHAMS of Salem ; Capt. Capt. James Mallon's co., Essex co. reg. ; Thomas Barnes' co., Col. Mansfield's enl. Oct. 3, I 779 ; dis. Nov. 10, I 779 ; (later Hutchinson's) reg. ; receipt for ad- service, I mo., 10 dys., at Castle Island, vance pay dated at Cambridge, June under Maj.-Gen. Hancock. 27, I 775 ; also, corp. ; muster roll dated AARON ABORN of Lynn; Capt. Aug. I, 1775; enl. May 10, 1775; ser- Nathaniel Bancroft's co., which marched vice, 2 rnos., 26 dys.; also, co. .return on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ;service, I dated Winter Hill, Oct. 5, 1775 ; also, dy. ;also, Capt. Gideon Foster's co., Col. Capt. Barnes' (5th) co., Col. Nixon's John Mansfield's reg. ;receipt for advance (4th) reg. ; return of men in service from pay dated Cambridge, July 4, I 775 ;also, Sept. to Nov., 1776, dated North Castle ; muster roll dated Aug. I, I 775 ; enl. May also, receipt for wages for Oct. and Nov., I I, I 775 ; service, 2 mos., 25 dys. ; also, 1776. Capt. Baker's co., Col. Mansfield's reg. ; JOSEPHADAMES of Ipswich ; priv., Capt. co. return [probably Oct., 17751. Richard Dodge's (volunteer) co., 3d Essex EBENEZERABORN of Lynn ;priv., Capt. co. reg., commanded by Maj. Smith ; enl. Gideon Foster's co., Col. John Mansfield's Sept. 30, 1777 ; dis. Nov. 7, 1777, at reg. ; muster roll dated Aug. I, I 775 ;enl. Cambridge ; service, I mo., 10 dys. ; co. July 22, I 775 ; service, g dys. ; also, re- marched Oct. 2, 1777, to reinforce Gen. ceipt for advance pay dated camp at Pros- Gates at the Northward. pect Hill, Aug. 10, 1775, also, Capt. NATHANADAMES of Andover ; descrip- Baker's co., Col. Mansfield's reg. ; co. re- tive list of men raised to reinforce Conti- turn [probably Oct., 17751; also, Capt. nental Army for 6 rnos., agreeable to re- Baker's co., Col. Israel Hutchinson's solve of June 5, I 780 ; age, 22.yrs. ; stat- (19th) reg. ; derfor coat money dated ure, 5 ft., 10 in. ; complexion, ruddy ; ar- Camp at Winter Hill, Oct. 27, 1775. rived at Springfield July I, I 780 ; marched

34 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. 13. Mary, bapt. Feb. 6, 1741. EDITORIAL NOTES. 14. Martha, d. Oct. 25, 1745. IS. Aaron, bapt. Sept. 20, 1747. In THE ESS= ANTIQUARI~are ap- nearing the earlv wills of Essex countv. ierbatym, in the order of their probat; ; Q-. the full official record of the service of the Queries are inrened lor one cent 3 word. Answers are solicited. Essex county soldiers and sailors in the I 1. Parentage of Thomas Nelson, son Revolution, in alphabetical order ; com- of Thomas Nelson of I 638) plete abstracts of the old Norfolk county New York CiQ. P. N. S. records ; and genealogies of Essex coun- ty families, down to the year 1800, in I 2. Parentage of widow Jonathan alphabetical order. Spofford, Jemima Freethey of York, The Abbot genealogieb will be begun Maine ? in the March number. Persons having New York CiQ. P. N. S. records of births, marriages and deaths 13. Wanted, names of parents of relative to the family before the year Hannah Dodge (Wenham), married, 1800 would confer a favor by sending about 1785 or 1786, Benjamin Dunbar, copies to the editor, as he desires to Hingham. She born, I 768. Her father's make the genealogies conlplete. supposed name was Israel. Boston. G. E. B. NEW PUBLICATIONS. 14. I wish to get as full information as possible of the earlier Clogstons who A new ancestral chart has been copy- came from the North of Ireland to New righted by C. S. Thompson of Denver, Hampshire. Also, names and dates of Col. It is in the convenient quarter- first generation born in this country. circle form, and is issued with board Please answer. DR. HARWOOD. covers. Chasm Falls, N. Y. THE SALISBURYCOMMONERS. By P. A. T'c. Pa~er: 8vo : I 2 Dages. Ames- ANSWERS bury, 1896. his is an interesting and valuable paper on the rights and history 3. Nathaniel Goodale, born in Salem of the early commoners of Salisbury. Village March 17, 1697-8, married, June OULD NEWBURY: HISTORICALAND 27, 1723, Lydia Whipple, daughter of BIOGRAPHICALSKETCHES. BJJ john Joseph and Sarah (Hutchinson) Whipple, 1. Carrier. Illustrated ; 8vd. ; 729 pages ; She was born Feb. 2, 1694.- W. P. G. Cam bridgeport. cloth. Price, $5.00. Boston, 1896. The territory covered by this volume is 4. Thomas Jacob married Mary Whip- that of Newbury, Newburyport and ple, says my record.-H. N. Harn'man, West Newbury, which comprised the Georgetown. original town of Newbury. The sketches 6. To obtain the markers of the Sons are of churches, inns, ferries, old home- of the American Revolution to be placed steads, bridges, prominent persons, etc. at the graves of Revolutionary soldiers, There are more than a hundred fine address George E. Brown, secretary of the half-tone engravings, most of them full Massachusetts Society, post-office box page, and several maps. It is a most 2535, Boston, Mass.-Zd. scrupulous and full presentation of im- 7. In "The Family of Zaccheus portant history. The mechanical part Gould," by B. A. Gould, page 36, the of the volume is artistic, and worthy of christian name of John Baker's wife is the subject matter. Every son and given as Elizabeth.-Annie HoodBosson, daughter of old Newbury should possess Reading. a copy.

VOJ*.I. SALEM,MASS., MARCH,1897. No. 3.

ABBOT GENEALOGY.

THEname of Abbot is spelled in the 8-VII. SARAHI,b. NOV.14, 1659; m. Ephraim early records Abbet, Ahkit, Abbit, Ab- Stevens Oct. 11,1680; and d. June 28, 1711. bill, Abbot, Adbott, Abbut, Abbutt, Abet, wv111. BENJAMINS,b. Dec. 20, 1661. Sce bc- Abett, Abit, Abitt, Abot, Abott, Abut and lm(9). Abutt. 10-IX. TIMOTHY.,b. Nov. 17, 1663. Sce bc- Among the several Abbots that early lmu (10). 11-x. THOMASZ,b. May 6, 1666. Scc below came to New England GEORGEABBOT' of (1.1. Andover has the most prominent and 12~x1. EDWARD^, drowned when young. numerous descendants. He is said to 13-XII. NATHANIEL.~,July-. 4, 1671. See bclmu have emigrated from Yorkshire, England, (13). 14-XIII. ELIZABETH.,b. Jan. 29, 1673-4; m. about I 640 ; and, after living at Roxbury Nathan Stevens Nov. 24, 1692; and awhile, came to Andover, where he was d. May 4, 1750. one of the settlers as early as 1643. He cultivated the soil, and lived on the farm 2 latterly owned by John Abbott, the house DEA.JOHN ABBOT=,born in Andover being a garrison. March 2, I 648. Was a farmer and lived He married Hannah, daughter of Wil- with his father in the garrison house. He liam and Annis Chandler of Andover was a deacon of the South church, and selectman of the town. He married (formerly of Roxbury) Dec. 12, 1646. The parties are said to have come to Sarah Barker of Andover Nov. 17, 1673. America in the same ship. Mr. Abbot He died March 19, 1720-1. His wife died in Andover Dec. 24, 1681, at the died Feb. 10, 1728-9, aged eighty-two. . age of sixty-six, being, as he says in his Children, born in Andover :- 15-1. JOHN~,b. NO~.2, 1674. See berm will, "aged and crazy in body." His (I<).,-a,- wife survived him, and married Rev. 16-11. JOSEPHJ,b. Dec. 19, 1676. Sre below Francis Dane of Andover between 1684 (16). and I 703. She outlived Mr. Dane, and 17-111. STEP HEN^, h. Jan. 14, 1678-9. Set bt- lo;. (17). died June I I, I 71 I, aged eighty-two. 18-IV. SARAHJ,b. NOV. 26, 1680; m. Zeba- Children, born in Andover :- diah Chandler Jan. g, 1706-7; and 2-1. JOHN~,b. March 2, 1648. Set below d. March 6, 1754. (2). ~p-v. EPHRAIMJ,~. b. Aug. 6, 1682. See beZow 3-II. JOSEPHI,b. March 11, 1649; d. June 24, (19).

16co.- ~ a-~ 20--v1. JOSHUIU,b. June 6, 1685 ; lived in Bil- 4-111. HANNAH~,b. June g, 1650; m. John lerica; was deacon, and town clerk Chandler Dec. ao, 1676; and d. thirty-one years. He m., first, Re- March 2, 1740. becca Shed June 10, 1710. She d. 5-IV. JOSEPH., b. March 30, 1652; killed hy April 7, 1720; and he m., second, the Indians, at Andover, April 8,1676. Dorcas Whiting. She d. Dec. 23, 6-v. GEORGEZ,b. June 7, 16j5. See below 1765. Deacon Abbot d. Feb. 11, (6). 1769. He had eleven children. 21-VII. MARYJ,b. Jan. g, 1687; d. Dec. 11, 1688. 36 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. 22-VllI EBENEZER~,b. Sept. 27, 1689. See -.17-v. GEORGE^, b. Dec. 21,. 1691:-- d. Dec. below (22). 30, 1691. 23-1X. PRISCILLAJ,b. July 7, 1691; lived in 38-VI. NATHAN^, b. Dec. 10, 1692; d. Jan. 9, Andover, and was often employed as 1712-3. a nurse, being an industrious Chris- 3pv11. JAMES~,. . b. Feb. 12, 1695. See belmu tian woman. She d., unmarried, May (39). 24, 1791, at the age of ninety-nine. 40--VIII. PAUU,b. March 28, 1697. See belozu 6 (40). 41-IX. PHILIPJ,b. Apd 3, 1699; was a cord- Cm. GEORGEABBOT*, born in An- wainer; lived in Andover until about dover June 7, 1655. Was a selectman 1722; when he removed to Hampton, Conn., and afterward settled in Wind- of Andover, where he resided, and a man ham, where he m. Abigail Bickford of Christian character. He married Dor- Oct. 20, 1723, and where most of his cas Graves April 17, 1678 ; and died children were born. He d. in 1749. Peb. 26, 1~~j-6.His wife survived 42-X. HANNAH~,b. April 5, 1701; m. Holt of Windham Feb. 21, 1721; and him, and died, his widow, Feb. I 8, I 739- lived in Windham. She d. Jan. 8, 40, being "aged." 1788. Children, born in Andover :- 43-XI. CALEB~,b. in 1704; was a tailor; re- 24-1. SARAHS,b. Aug. 26, 1679; d. Nov. 17, moved to Pomfret, Conn., in 1726; 1679. and settled in Union in 1749; m. 25-11. JOSEPH^, b. Oct. 7, 1680; d. young. Elizabeth Paine Dec. 3, 1730; and d. 26--111. MART HA^, b. Feb. 12, 1682-3; d. Dec. in Union Jan. 31, 1778. They had 49 1683. children. 27-W. HANNAH~,b. Feb. 27, 1684-5; m. 44-XII. ZEBADIAH~,b. in 1706; removed to Dea. John Osgood Sept. 16, 1708; Windham, Conn., in 1728; m. Hannah and d. Dec. 25, 1774. He d. in 1765, -. , and d. 17-. His widow aged eighty-three. d. in 1769. They had one child, a 28-v. DANIEU,b. Jan. 10, 1687-8. See be- daughter, who died young. He was low (28). a husbandman. 29-VI. ELIZABETHS,b. July 25, 1690; m. Benjamin Abbot (45). 9 3c-VII. GEORGE^, b. Dec. 22, 1692. See be- cORP.B~~~~~~~ ABBO~, born in 2077 (30). 20, 31-VHI. HENRY^, b. June 12, 1696. See below dover Dec. 1661. Was a carpenter, (31). and lived near the Shawshene river in 32-IX. ISAAC),b. April 4, 1699. See below Andover. He was an active and re- (32). spected citizen. He married Sarah 7 Farnum of Andover April 22, 1685; and WILLIA~IABBOT" born in Andover died March 30, 1703. His wife sur- Nov. 18, 1657. He was a weaver, and vived him, and was living, his widow, in . lived in Andover. He had the Puritan 1/24. faith. He married Elizabeth Geary of Children, born in Andover :- Roxbury June 19, 1682. She died Nov. 45-1. BENJAMINS,b. July I, 1686. See belm~ 26, 1712; and he died Oct. 21, 1713. (45). 46--11. JONATHAN~,b. Sept.-, 1687. be- born :- Children, in Andover row (46). 33-1. ELIZABETH3*b. 299 1~~3;m. 47-111. DAVIDJ,b. Jan. 18, 1688-9. See below Joseph Phelps of Andover March 13, (4~). I 71 I ; and was living in I 726. 48-IV. SAMUEU,b. May 8,1694; was a farmer, 34-11. WILLIAM^, b. March 17, 1685; was and lived in Andover. He m. widow given, when about three years old, to Mary Lovejoy Aug. 8, 1735; and she his father's uncle William Geary of d. April 15, 1754, aged fifty-four. Roxbury, who promised to care for him He d., without issue, Oct. 29, 1762, as his own, which he did. He married, and left a silver tankard to the Sec- and had a daughter. Lived in Rox- ond church in Andover. bury, and died Oct. 28, 1713. 35-111. GEORG~,b. March 19, 1687; d. Nov. I0 21, 1690. 36-IV. EZRA~,b. July 7, 1689; and d. in An- TIMOTHYABBOT=, born in Andover dover Nov. 19, 1712. Nov. 17, 1663. April 8, 1676, he was ABBOT CENEAIBGY. 37 taken captive by the Indians, and in the 56-v. GEOKGE~,b. NOV. 7, 1706; settled in following ~ugust was returned by a I~umford(now Concord), N. H., as early as 1732; and was deacon of the friendly squaw, having suffered much by churclr forty-one years. He m. Sarah hunger. He was a husbandman, and Abbot (83) Feb. I, 1737. She d.

lived-~ ~~ in~ Andover~ - where Asa A.... Abbot..---~ Tune 14... 1769:. -. and he d. Oct. 6. lived. In 1704, he built the old red i 785. They had nine children. -1ZEAAUIAI~~, b. Jan. 25,1708-9; d. in the house, a view of which is given in the expedition against Louisburg May 17, frontispiece, and which was taken down 176<. in 18J8. He lived in it. He married 58-VII. BE~~~MIN~(twin), b. March 31, 1711; Hannah Graves Dec. 27, 1689. She was a farmer, and one of the first settlers of Concord, N. H. He had died Nov. 5, 1726; and he died Sept. 9, great muscular power. He m. Han- 1730- nah Abbot (85) June 23, 1742. She Children, born in Andover :- d. of a cancer July 27, 1786 ; and he 4-1. TIMOTHY~,b. June 20, 1693. See be- d. March 8, 1794. One of their gtand- ~~ (49). children was Rev. E~hraimAbbot. a HANNAH~,b. OC~.8, 1695. She was a missionary. spinster,and lived in Andover in ITSO.* 59-"11. CATHI\RINE~(twin), b. March 31,1711; DORCASJ,b. April 25, 1698; m.Nicholas d., unmarried, Sept. 14, 1744. Holt of Andover April 12, 1717. 6G-IX. AARON3, b. Aug. 8, 1714; d. April 9, They were the parents of Rev. Nathan 1730, aged fifteen. Holt of Danven. who married Sarah 61-X. IsAAc3, b. Feb. 13, 1717; d. of sickness in the Kinrr's service at Louisbure" NUV.3, 17~5 '3 THOMASABBOT.=, born in Andover May LT. NATHANIELABBOP, born in An- 6,1666. He was a farmer, and lived on dover July 4, 1671. He was a wheel- the west side of Shawshene river in An- wright, and resided in Andover. He dover. He married Hannah Gray Dec. married Dorcas Hibbert Oct. 22, 1695. 7, 1697. She was born Nov. 30, 1674, She died Feb. 16, 1743; and he died and died, his widow, Jan. 25, 1763, aged Dec. I, 1749, aged seventy-eight. eighty-nine. Mr. Abbot died, as he had Children, born in Andover :- lived, a Puritan in faith, April 28, I 728. 62-1. NATHANIEL~,b. in 1696. See 66~0~(62). Children, born in Andover :- 63-11. MARYJ,b. Jan. 28, 1698; m. Benjamin Blanchard of Hollis, N. H., Dee. 29, 52-1. THOMAS~,b. Jan. 3, 1699. Src 6c.fo;o 1718. (52). 64-111. -son-3, b. June 9, 1700; d. 53-II. HANNARJ,b. Sept. 10, 1700; d., lln- June 20, 1700. married, July 22, 1746. 65-IV. JOSEPII~,b. Feb. 2, 1705. See bclm (65). 54-111. EDWARDS,b. Jitne g, 1702; was a settler 66-v. TABITHAJ,b. about 1707; m. John at Pennacook (now Concord), N. I-I., Chandler Jan. 5, 1726-7; lived in An- as early as 1732, being one of the first dover, Mass., and Concord, N. H. board of selectmen. His house was a garrison. His were the first white 67-VI. JEREMIAHJ,b. NOV. 4, 1709; was a sad- children born in the town. He m., ler and lived in Billerica. He m. first, Dorcas Chandler of Andover Hannah Ballard of Andover July 2, 1735 He d. Aug. 28, 1748, and July 15. 1728 She d. May 16, 1748. his widow m. William Stickney, esq., He m., second, widow Mehitable Emerson of Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 23, of Billerica. She d. Feb. 17, 1789. He d. April 14, 1759. Mr. Abl)ot had several children. 17~8-9. 68-VII. JOSFIUA~,b.in 1711-2 ; li\.ed in Ashford, 55-IV DEB OR AH^, b. Dec. I, 1704; m. Dea. Conn.; ni. Lydia and had Joseph Hall July 5, 1736; and lived -- , in Concord, N. H., where she d. Oct. children. 25, 1801,aged ninety-seven. 69-~111. SARAII~,m. Joseph Blanchard of An- dover April 4, 1722. *The Abbot Genealogy says that she married 7VIX HANNAH~. Abiel Holt, and lived in Windham, Conn., where 71-x ELIZABETA~,m. Timothy Moar of she died Feb. I I, 1751. This is evidently a mis- Andover May 26, 1741; and d. in take for No. 42. July, 1799. 38 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. 72-XI. REBECCA~,b. in 1717; m. Abiel 83-111. SARAH4, b. OC~.-, 17x1; m. Dea. Chandler of Andover March 18, George Abbot (56) of Concord, N. H. 1742; and d. in 1803;aged eighty- 84-IV. MARY^, b. Aug. 10, 17x3; m. Joseph six. Holt of Lunenburg Oct. 14, 1742; and d. Aug. 16, 1748. I5 85-v. HANNAH~,b. July 30, 1716; m. Ben- DEA. JOHN ABBOT^, born in Andover jamin Abbot (5s) of Concord, N. H. STEPHENI, b. March 21, 1718. See Nov, 2, 1674. He was a farmer, and SVI. belrsu (86). settled on his father's homestead in An- s7-v11. filsclLLA4,b. Feb. 20, 1720; proba- dover. In his early life he was a weaver. bly m. Jacob Towle of Lancaster He was a deacon thirty-four years, a (pub. Feb. 15, 1771). of the town, and a useful ,-iti- Sg-v"'. EL1zABETH4* Dee. 29, 1721 ; d. about 1786. Zen. He was mild, gentle and humble. 89-IX. SAMUEL+, b. June 23, 1726. See be- He married Elizabeth Hamden of Wil- lmu (89). mington Jan. 6, 1702-3. He died Jan. 90-x. MEHITABLM~~.March 17, 1727-8; d. April 16, 1728. I, I 754 ;and she died Aug. g, I 756. Children, born in Andover :- I9 73-1. JOHN~,b. Sept. I, 1703 ; d. Sept. 10, 1703. EPHRAIMABBOIT~, born in Andover 74-11. JOHN+ b. Aug. 3, 1704. See below Aug. 6, 1682. He was a farmer, and (74). lived in Andover. He married widow 75-111. BARACHIAS~,b. May 14, 1707 See below (75). sarah ~~~t of ~ill~~i~~jan.6, I I ; and 761~. ELIZABETH^, b. in 1712; d. JU~Y+, died June 81 1748. She survived him, 1758. and married John Dane Aug. I, I 749. 77-v. ABIEL~,b. Jan. -, 1716 ; grad. H. C., Children, born in Andover :- 1737 ; d. May IS, 1739. 91-1. SARAH~,b. March 8, 1716; m. Samuel 78--VI. JOSEPH^, b. April 24, 1719. See below Gray of Amherst, N.H., Sept. 8, 1736 ; (78). and was living in 1769. 16 92-11. EPHRAIM~,b. July 22, 1718. See be- rm (92). JOSEPHA~B~~31 born in Dee. 93-111. MARY^, b. July 9, 1720; m. Robert 19, 1676. He was a farmer, and lived Read of Litchfield May 11, 1743. in Andover. He married Hannah Allen 94-Iv. Josl3uA4, b. Oct. 1, 1722. See beh~ She died March 49 755 ; (94). 4, 1722. ' 95-v DANIEL4,b. Sept. I+, 172 ; was a and he died Jan. g, 1757, aged eighty. blacksmith, and lived in An tf over; m. Children, born in Andover :- widow Lydia Henfield May aI, 1752 ; 79-1. JOSEPH^, b. May 31, 1724. Ste belmu and d. Aug. 11, 1761. He had no (79)- children. 80-11. WILLIAM^, b. Dec. 3, 1130; d. Dec. 96~1. ELIZABETH^, b. June 29, 1726; m. -9 1735. Asa Abbot (199). 97-VII. JOSIAH~, b. Sept. 26, 1728; Was a 17 farmer, and lived in Lyndeborough, N. H. ; m. Hannah Hobbs; and d. STEPHEN ABBOT^, born in Andover Dec. -, 1777. They had children. Jan. 141 1678-9. He is called in the gS-VIII.EBENEZER~, b. Feb. 20, 1731. See records of deeds, first, a wheelwright, below (98). then yeoman, and, later, miller. He *IX. MARTHA41 March 3Is I733; d. lived in Andover where Professor Porter April 24, 1733.May s, 1734. below resided. He married Sarah Stevens (roo). July 21, 1708, and she died Dec. 28, lor-XI. MARTHAI,b. July 13, 1737; m. Ar- 1750, aged sixty-nine. He died May 27, chelaus Towne of Milford, N. H. 1766. 22 Children, born in Andover :- 81-1. STEPHEN~,b. in 1709; d. young. ENS.EBENEZER ABBOTS, born in An- 82-11. EPHRAIM~,b. in 1710. see bflow Clover Sept. 27, 1689. He was a farmer (82). and surveyor, and lived in Andover. ABBOT GENEALOGY. 39 b Being a well informed man, he was much 119-x. DAVID+,h. March 17, 1728-9; d. young. in business' He married 12-XI. GEORGE^, b. Jan.21, 1730; d.March Hannah Dane April 5, r 7 20 ; and died, 16, 1776. in Andover, Jan. 14, I 761, aged seventy- 121-XII. DAVID,,b. Jan. 11, 1733. one. Children, born in Andover :- 30 102-1. EBENEZERI,b. Jan. I, 1721 ; d. July 18, 1721. Cm. GEORGEABBOTS, born in An- 10-11. HANNAH~,b. Dec. 29, I721 ; m. Jos- dover Dec. 22, 1692. He Was a shoe- eph Abbot (78). maker in his early life, and lived on the Io4-"' EBENEzER4, b. NOV. 23, 1723; d. homestead witll his father, in Andover. April 28, 1725. 105-IV. MARY^, b. April 2, 1725; 111. Isaac He married Blunt. 29, I 72 I ;and died March 19, I 768, aged 106-v. NEHEMIAH+,h. Feb. 2, 1727; d. seventy-five. His wife survived him, and March 25, 1727. died Oct. 4, 1785, aged ninety-one. 107-VI. Is~w,b. June 30, 1728. Src 6clmu (107). Children, born in Andover :- IO&VII. PHEBE~,b. Jan. 3, 1732; m. James 122-1. MARY~,~.March 12, 1723; m. firSt, Griffin of Wilmington May 30, 175 I ; Stephen Abbot (86); and, second, and d. Feb. -, 1805. Jonathan Abbot (180). log-VIII. JAMES~,b. April 14, 1736; a physi- 123-11 GEORGE^, b. Dec. 14, 1724. See be- cian; settled in Dracut about 1775. lmu (123). He had children. 124-111. ELIZABETH^, b. Sept. 11, 1726 3 d. Jan. 7, 1726-7. 125-IV. ELIZABETH^, b. NOV. 5, 1727; m., 28 first, Benjamin Abbot (168) of Hollis ; second, J. Pollard of West- DANIEL ABBOT^, born in Andover Jan. ford; and, third, Capt. Josiah Bowers of Billerica. lo, 1687-8' He was a cordwainer and 12C-V. SARAH4, b. Jan. 14, 1730; m. Rev. farmer, and lived in Andover until about Nathan Holt of Danvers Aug. q, 17x2,.- . when he removed to Ashford, 1757; and d. Dec. 26, 1797. SCP Conn. He shortly afterward became a 5'. 127-VI. SAMUEL~,b. Feb. 25, 1732. SCCbe- resident of Woodstock. He married lw (227). Hannah Chandler Sept. 12, 171 I ; and 12&~11. HANNAH~,b. Dec. 14,1733 ; m. Wil- d'ed before 1736. liam Foster, jr., Jan. 9, 1755 ; and Children, born in Andover :- d. March 26, 1820. ~lo--~. HANNAH~.b. Se~t.12. ... 17x2: d. March 3; 1734. ' I 11-11. DORCAS~,b. Dec. 16, 1713 ; d. Au~. 22, 1798. LT. HENRY ABBOT^, born in Andover 112-111. DANIEL^, b. Feb. 18, 1715 ; d. Feb. June 12, 1696. He lived in Andover, -2 1741. where he was at first a sadler, and later JOSEPH^, b. Dec. 19, 1716; lived in an innholder; also serving as a selectman Woodstock ; m. Abigail Cutler in 1738; and d. Sept. zz, 1776. of the town. He married Mary- Platts They had children. Jan. 3, 1721-2; and died Feb. 3, 1776, ELIZABETH&,b. July 9, 1/19; d. Jan. aged seventy-nine. His wife survived 1, 1785. PHEBE~,b. Apd 7, 1721 ; d. May him, and died Aug.-, 1784, aged eighty- 30, 1756. four. NATHANI,b. Oct. 16, 1723 ; d. Jan. Children, born in Andover :- 14, 1793, at Woodstock. 129-1. LYDIA~,b. Feb. lo, I723 ; m. Dea. JOHNI, b. Jan. 11, 1726; lived in Joshua Lovejoy March 24, 1743; Woodstock; m. Mary Wright, and d. in 1807. He d. at San- Nov. 28, 1750; and d. March 7, bornton.

1806. She d. Mav8". zo. 1811. They 130-11. HENRY^, b. Dec. 31, 1724. See be- had children. low (130). SARAHI,b. May 5, 1728; d. Oct. 7, 131-111. MARY^, b. March 28, 1727; d. Feb. 1802. 7. 1735. 4' THE ESSEX A1

132-IV. DORCAS', b. May 11, 1729; m. Rev. 11- JAMES', b. Jan. 12, 1717. Sfl below Benjamin Butler of Nottingham April (141). I 7, I 754 ; and died April -, I 7cp. 142-111. ELIZABETH', b. June 24, 1718; of He d. Dec. -, 1804. One of their Concord, spinster; d. 1773. children was Maj.-gen. Henry Butler. 143-IV. WILLIAM', b. Sept. 8, 1719; d. Oct. 133-V. MARY', b. Aug. 13, 1737; m. Dea. 29, 1741. Thomas Hovey of Dracut March 22, 144-V. RACHEL', b. in I 720; m. -Man- 1759. ning. 145-VI. ELRA',b. March 11, ,1722 ; d. Dec. 59 174'. 1qbVl1. REUBEN', b. April 4, 1723 ; Was a DEA. ISAACABFJO.L.~, born in Andover farmer, and lived in Concord. He April 4, 1699. He graduated at Harvard was the first to drive an ox team from Andover to Concord; and he also college in 1723. He was a merchant at drove to the fort the team conveying first, and later devoted his attention to the bodies of the men Lied by the farming, living in Andover. He was a Indians Aug. I I, 1746. Himself deacon of the South church for forty-four and his son, grandson and great- grandson, all named Reuben, were years, and lined the psalms. He married, living at the same time in the same first, Phebe Lovejoy Nov. 29, 1739. She house. He m., first,'Rhoda Whitte- died Dec. 17, 1751, in her thirty-sixth more, who d. Jan. 27, 1785; and, year; and he married, second, Lydia second, widow Dinah Blanchard. Coley of Charlestown (pub. Nov. 17, He d. May 13, 1822, aged ninety- nine ; and his widow d. March I I, 1753).* Deacon Abbot died Aug. g, 1826, aged ninety-four. I 784, aged eighty-five; and his widow, 147-VllI. SIMEON', b. Sept. 8, 1724; d. NOV. Lydia, Feb. 28, 1791, in her eighty- 15, 1741. 14tL-1~. AMOS', h. Feh. IS, 1726; was a far- seventh year. mer, and lived in Concord; m. Children, born in Andover :- widow Rebecca (Abbot) Chandler; 134-1. WILLIAM' (twin), b. July 21, 1741; and d. Dec. 3, 1821, aged ninety-six. d. Sept. 29, 1768. They had children. 135-11. - (twin), b. July 21, 1741; d. 14yx PHEBE', b. NOV.22, I727 ;m. Thomas Au~.1, 1741. Mrrrill of Concord; and d. about 136--111. ISAAC" b. Feb. 3, 1745. See iejozu 1755. 11761. \ ., ,~ 15-XI. -son-', b. in 1729; d. in 1729. 137-IV. PHEBE', b. NOV.14, 1746 ; m. Capt. 151-XII SARAH' (twin), b. Aug. 13, 1730; m. Henry Abbot ( 129). Job Abbot (185) of Pembroke, N. H. 138-v -son-' , b. Nov. 17, 1747; d. 152-~111. REBECCA'(twin), b. Aug. 13, !730; NOV. 14, 1747. m. Enoch Eastman of Ho~klnton, 139-VI. SARAH',b. Jan. 3, 17jo; m. Tin2othy N. H. Abbot (414). 153-XIV. MARY', b. OC~.12, 1732 ; m. Adoni- jah Tyler of Hopkinton. 154-XV. HANNAH',b. Jan. 21, 1735; d. Sept. 10; 1736. JAMES ABBOT^, born in Andover Feb. 12, 1695. He was a farmer and also ran the mills on the Shawshene river in An- PAULABBOTS, born in Andover March dover until 1735, when he sold them. In 28, 1697. He was a farmer, and settled the same spring he ren~ovedto Rumford in Pomfret, Conn., about 1722. He mar- (now Concord), N. H. He married Abi- ried Elizabeth Gray Feb. 8, 1720 ; and gail Farnum Jan. 6, I 714. She was born died May 6, I 75 2. in 1692. He died Dec. 27, I 787, aged Children :- ninety-two. 155-1. NATHAN', b. April 10, I 72 I, in An- Children, born in Andover :- dover; was a farmer, and lived in 140-1. ABIGAIL', b. Jan. I, 1715; m. Jacob Ashford, Conn.; and m., first, Waldron of Warner, N. II. Eunice hlarsh Dec. 6, 1742. She d. Oct. 27, 1760; and he m., sec- 'Abbot Genealogy says he married Elizabeth ond, Hephzitrah Brown Nov. 24, Calley. I 763. He had childrw. * ABEOT C 1g&l1. \VILLIAM~, b. Feh. 18, 1/23; lived in 170-IV. DANIEL', h. Jan. 9, 1726 ; was a car- I'omfret ; m., first, Jerusha Stowell penter, and lived in Dracut ; m. Lucy, May 9, 1745 ; second, - -; dau. of Rev. T. Parker of Dracut third, Hannah Edwards June 4, (pub. March 24, 1756); and d. I 778 ; and died Nov. I, 1805. His April -, 1793. They had children. widow d. Feb. 5, 1808. He had 171-v. ABIGAIL',b. March 28, 1731 ; d. Oct. children. '0, '733. 157-IIL BENJAMIN',b. July 2.5, 1724; lived at 172-VI. ~~ARY',b. July 21, I732 ; m. Nehe- first in Canterbury, then in Hampton, miah Barker of Methuen Nov. 13, Conn., and removed to Brookfield, I 759 ; and after the Revolution re- Vt., about 1793; m., first, Mary moved to Milford, N. H. She d. Aug. Ann Andrews Jan. 28, 1746. She 9, 1798; and he d. Jan. 20, 1810. d. Dec. 8, I 788 ; and he m., second, 173-VII. ARIGAIL',b. Jan. 13, 1734; m. Gpt. widow Hannah Brown of Canterbury John Abbot (246). See belmu June 30,1793. Hed. Junezr, 1807. 174-VIIL ABIEL',. . b. July 24, 1735. He had children. (174). 158--IV. ELIZABETH',b. Feb. 5,1726; d. Sept. 175-IX. JACOB', b. Feb. 2, 1737; d. in the 10, 1736. anny, near Albany, in February, 15-V. MARY', b. March 3, 1728 ; m. Joshua 1/60, of cold, hunger and fatigue. Holt,~. ir., of Windham, Conn., June 176--x. ELIZABETH^, b. OC~.37, 1738; m., 17, 1749 ; and d. Aug. 10, 1765. first, Ebenezer Cummings of Dun- 16o--vl. SARAH'. b. Oct. 15, 1730; m. Joseph stable June I, I 758 ; second, Thomas Ingalls of Pomfret May 24, 1749; blerrill, esq., of Conway, N. H., in and d. Jan. 30, 1810. I 780 ; and d. Oct. 12, 1789. I-I ISAAC', b. Aug. 29, 1732; lived in 177-XI. ANXA', b. Oct. 23, 1739; m. Ephraini Pomfret, Conn., and Milford,N. H. ; Burge of Hollis Jan. -, 1762. He m. Sarah Barker of Po~nfretApril 29, d. July 20, 1784, aged forty-six; 1756. He had children. and she d. Jan. 15, 1810, aged sev- 162-VIII. DAR1us4, b. Oct. 16, 1734. See below enty. One of their children was (162). Rev. Josiah Burge. 163-1" ELIZABETH', b. July 20, 1737; m. 178-111. JOEL(, b. Oct. Z, I 742 ; d. March 23, Joseph Phelps of Pomfret and An- 1743. dover; and d. in Lexington April 7, 17~XIll.DORCAS~, b. Aug. 1, 1744; in. Abiel 1828, aged ninety. Abbot (248). 164-X. HARRIET~,b. Feb. 13, I740 ; d. Sept. 18, 1740. 165-XI. HANNAH', b. June 20, 1741 ; d., Un- married, Nov. IS, 1763. JONATHAN ABBOTS, born in Andover 166-XII. AsA', b. Jan. 7, 1743 ; never married. Sept.-, 1687. He was a farmer, and lived in Andover. He married Zerviah Holt May 6, 1713. She was living in BENJAMIN ABBOTS, born in Andover 1753. He died March 21, 1770. July I, 1686. He was a farmer, and lived Children, born in Andover :- on his father's farm in Andever. He mar- IS~--I. JONATHAN', b. Dec. 14, 1714. See ried, first, Elizabeth Abbot (29) Dec. 24, belo7u (180). 181-11. DAVID', b. about 1716. See bcfrd I 7 16. She died Sept. 3, 1718 ; and he (181). married, second, Mary Carlton Oct. 23, 182-111. NATHAN^, b. in 1718 ; was a farmer, I 722. She died Jan. 19, I 726 ; and he and lived in Andover; m. Abigail third, Abigail June Ames March 12, 1744.5; and d. married, Abbot 25, June 23, 1798. She d. Aug. 27, 1729. He died Nov. 26, I 748 ; and his 1812, aged eighty-nine. They had widow, Abigail, died Dec. 8, 1753. no children. Children, born in Andover :- 183-IV. MARY^. 167-1. SARAH', b. Aug. 2, 1718 ; m. James 184-V. ~ERVIAH', nl. Ephraim Blunt of Sun- Holt, jr., of AndoverApril 10, 1746; cook, N. H., Sept. 17, 1745. lived on her father's farmin Andover ; 185-VI. JOB4, b. Oct. 3, 1724. Set below (185). and d. March 5, 1778. He d. Aug. 186-VII. SAMUEL', h. Sept. 20, 1727; lived in -, 1812, aged eighty-nine. Pembroke, N. H. ; and had children. 168-11. BENJAMIN', b. OC~.21, 1723. See he- 187-VIII. JEREMIAH', b. OC~.10, 1733; d. in low (168). the French war of 1755. 169-111. MARTHA', b. June 1, 1725. To it ronfirttrcd. .

GU)UCESI.ER'S DESERTED VILLAGE. 43

THE DESERTED VILLAGE. place, then almost entirely surrounded by a dense forest, in the very heart of Cape Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close Ann, they intended to .secrete their val- - Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, uables and families if worst came to The mingling notes came softened from below. worst, and the British burned or captured the seaports. The houses were small, - But now the sounds of population fail, generally of one story in height, with two No cheerful murniurs fluctuate in the gale, t. small rooms on the floor. No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the hloomy flush of life is fled. Whoever the builders or first settlers - were, it is clear that they were succeeded Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, by poor and ignorant people. The sea- To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? faring occupation of the men soon re- - If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, 1Ie drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, moved most of them from the support of Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, their families, and the children left home. And even the bare-worn common is denied. A large number of the inhabitants came - Oliver Gol~fsf/iith. to be widows, and old and poor and ig- norant, with little commerce with the out- side world, many of them were soon es- GLOUCESTER'S DESERTED VILLAGE. teemed to be witches. Their peculiarap- Easterly from the head of Annisquam pearance, and the dreariness of the place, river, in Gloucester, was formerly a settle- especially after nightfall, giving credence ment known as Dogtown. Here lived the to the belief. The places of their natural ancestors of many of the present inhabi- protectors were taken by dogs, and so the tants of Cape Ann. Dogtown commons, region became known as Dogtown. The as the territory is now called, contains women obtained their living by picking several hundred acres, and is a barren berries and grazing sheep. waste in its general appearance, though be- The cellar at the southern comer of the tween the innumerable boulders grass locality, on the brow of a steep rise of grows for the cattle that pasture there. ground near Alewife brook, known as The old streets are distinguishable much Foxhill, was covered by the residence of of their distance by the parallel walls of Lucy George, and later of her niece, stone, and in these old thoroughfares the Tammy Younger, "the queen of the grass grows as in the pastures on either witches." The latter was probably best side. A team could not be driven over its known and most feared of her cotempo- roads most of their course. Many of the raries. She was daughter of William cellars of the houses are well preserved, . Younger, was born July 28, 17.53, and and door stones remain in some instances died Feb. 4, 1829. A writer says that no where they were first placed. Novelists one ever refused to do anything that she and poets have written of this place, requested. Richard Henry Dana, Thomas Starr King, A little farther north stood the shop of Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Joseph Allen, the first blacksmith of Glou- Hiram Rich being among their number. cester, who settled there in 1674. Then In " Oldport Days," Col. Higginson says, came the house of John Wharf, which af- '' I know of nothing like that gray waste terward became the property of his of boulders." daughter Polly Boynton. The Tristram Here a hundred fa~nilies once lived. Coffin house and Becky Rich's abode Why they chose for their habitation this came next. Becky told fortunes by coffee place so difficult of access is not clear. grounds. Then came the house of It is probable that the first settlers wished Nathaniel Day, and some distance be- to remove from the coast as the troubles yond that of Henry Day, John Clark, of the Revolution came on, and in this Philip Priestly, William Pulcifer, Arthur 44 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. Wharf and Joseph Stevens. hfr. Stevens His father, Peter Luwey, removed from was something of a farmer. Nearly op- Ipswich to Gloucester in 1707, and mar- posite his house stood that of the poor, ried Rachel Elwell three years later. but aristocratic Miss Esther Carter, which John Morgan Stanwood was Peter's was the only two-story house in the son-in-law, and tradition was thus led village. It was clapboarded, and wooden astray as to the name of the patriot, as this pegs were used instead of nails in its con- was the home of both. Granther Stan- struction. She, with her brother Joseph nard " believed that his legs were of glass are thought to have come from England. and feared to use them because of their The second story of her house was occu- fragility. pied by " Old Ruth," a mulatto, formerly Some distance westerly was the resi- a slave, who wore men's clothing. Then dence of Jim White." Still farther west came the house of Molly Stevens. The and near Washington street still stands house of Williim Carter's wife Annie, the "old castle," a part of which is built which stood a little farther east, in the rear of square logs. It is supposed to have of a large boulder, was the last one taken been originally built in I 661 by Thomas down in the village. The Llorcas Foster Riggs, the first schooli~laster and town house was near. Her father brought his clerk. family here from the Harbor village when Forty-one cellars have been discov- he enlisted into the Revolutionary army, ered here. There may have been Dorcas being at that time only eight years houses without cellars, thus increasing the of age. She married, first, an Oakes, size of the village, which has now been second, a Stevens, and, third, Capt. gone nearly three quarters of a century. Joseph Smith, the commander of a priva- teer in the war of 1812. Next beyond WILL OF SAMUEL SMITH. was the house of Capt. Isaac Dade, who lived when a boy in London, Eng., and The will of Mr. Samuel Smith of Enon was impressed into an English man-of-war. (now Wenham) was proved in the Salem. He married Fanny Brundle, a lady of quarterly court 27 : lo : 1642. The fol- Virginia, whose father's plantation ad- lowing copy is taken from the original in- joined that of the mother of Washington, strument on file it1 the office of the clerk with whom they were intimate. Soon af- of courts at Salem, book I, leaf 12. ter their marriage they came to Glouces- This 5'" of ocktober : 1642 : ter to recover Mr. Dade's health, which This my lait will and teaftament of was broken down, and the Virginia lady Sameweli Smith of Enon being in perfect took up her abode in Dogtown. memorey firft I will and bequeath vnto Toward the north was the large gam- my wife Sarah Smith my far~nein Enon brel-roofed house of Abraham Wharf, who with all the houfen vpon it as allfoe all committed suicide in 1814. the frutes vpon it as corne hemp and the The last inhabitant of the village was like : for har owne proper vfe for the Cornelius Finson, or "Neil," a colored tearme of har lif vpon conlideration that man, who resided in an old ruined house ihe fhall difcharg me of that promife until 1830, when he was taken to the alms- vpon maridge ; which is vnto my funn : house, where he died a week later. william Browne fiftie pounds : as allfoe Some distance to the northwest of Neil's that fhe fhall giue vnto his two children place was the house of Peter Luwey, the william and John Browne 11 20' betwen ymll : hero of Hiram Rich's poem, beginning all which fhall be paid11 by 11 my exequetors hearafter named : my will further is to " Morgan Stanwood, patriot: Little more is known; giue vnto Sarah my wif all my Cattell Nothing of his home is left nowe vpon the farme young and owld as But the door-step stone." neat befts horfe befts and fwine. in full BOUNDS OF LYNN. 45 coniideration of that hundred pounds faid until1 thear be gathered for ll ~JY)I that I ftand bound vnto har by A bond A portion U of 11 A hundred and fiftie obligatore in lue of A former Joynter pay- pounds to be paid vnto the excequetor abell after my diffeafe which fhall be par- william Browne and he to pay that hun- formed by my Exfequetors as allfoe fur- dred & fiftie pounds at har day of maredg ther my will is that my farme with all the & if har mother leave har then the ex- medowe and upland belongine theawnto cequetor william Browne to fe ye bring- my funn Thomas Smith ihall haue it to ing of har vp. allfoe my funn Thomas himfelf and his heairs for euer vpon this Smith is to be Aquitted of that fiftie confideration that he fhdl pay vnto his pound he ftand ingadged to pay vnto fifter mare if then liuing fiftie pownds in har : and all the ouerplufh of A hundred thre years after the entrie of it that is to and fiftie pounds if the lord give longer fay Sixtene pounds and A mark A yeare life vnto my wif Arifing out of ye farme is and for the parformance hearof he is to to be left in my fun browns hand and im- lay in good fecuretye vnto the Exfequetors proved to the beft vie and after har if the lord take har away by death this diffeaie to be equally parted betwixt my payment is to be made vnto the Children daughter mare and all the grand children of the aforefaid william Browne and I fhall haue then living further my will is Thomas Smith that then fhall be liuing that lily funn Thomas Smith whome I Equally deuided among them further my feare not : will be truly faithfull to me will is that if my funn : Thomas fhall die fhall be thearfore my Supreviior of this without iffue that my land and houfen my laft will : witnes !his prefent day vpon it hall com to iny daughter mare aboue and har heaires foreuer : and after har to Samwell Smyth [Seal] william Browne and his heaires for ever in the prefents of vs : all wich debtes and legafies and )I other I( Richard cn Pettingall marke. parformances are to be parformed by my William Sawyer. two Exfequetors which I haue Apointed which is my 1,ouing wife and my truitie BOUNDS OF LYNN. fun william Browne : & my will further is that if Sarah my wif fhall marey that The 4 day of the 4'" mo. 1640. then the firft gift of my farme fhall iiand Whereas William Hathorne of Salem & voyd and my will is that The fhall then Edward Tomlyns of Lynne were chofen refigne it vp into my other exequetors by the general1 Court to lay out the hand with A Juft accounte of all thofe length of the bounds of the towne of goods and whatfoever belong to the man- Lynne according to the Courts order of adgine of the farme 11 & proffitt 11 except Six miles fro the meeting houfe wCh ac- that hundred pounds which har due cordingly hath beene pformed the. day which is to be paide har in Cattell by the & yeare above written, weh we fignifie vn- Judgment of men : and all my houfhould der our hands to extend fro Charles- ftufe within dores whatfoever it be I give tome bounds to the fouth end of the to my wife: and my will is that my great Pond at Lynne village and fro excequetor william Browne and my funn thence to the great fwampe adjoyning Thomas Smith to Joyne with him to leat llvnllto the great pond: and fo to runne the farme : or improve it to the beft ad- fro thence northward to the north River vantage for the good of my daughter and fo to Salem bounds : thefe being the mare and to be accounted with and pro- neereft markes weh by vs meafurd wee uided for by my excequetor william finde to ftate the bounds. Browne in that particquler : Item with William 1) this 11 confideration that if my wif,marey Hathorne Edward Tomlins that then the farme is to be leat as aboue -fissachusetis Archives, Vol. 112, leaf 4. 46 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS. & tell him that Cesar Porter Defires him to keep it Safe for him. I. E. Peabody. (Ado'ress:-Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody, Box- ford.) IV. Cambridge, lgth July I 775. (Address :-Ebenezer Peabody, Lt.) After letting you know that I am well Dear Brother, I Imbrace this Oper- I would acquaint you that I heard you tunity to write a Line to you hoping that had thoughts of sending me some Butter, thefe will find you in health as they leave but I don't Deiire you should, for we have me at Prefent we are upon an Island Plenty of very good Butter for alowance. about Ten Miles from New-york there is If you don't happen to see Lieut. Rob- near twenty Sail of the Kings Shiping Now in the harbour we have Torys Plenty infon, I should be glad you would send . my Deer skin Breeches by Mr. Ivory there has been a Confpiracy againft his Hovey, and Likewife nmy fine shirt. I Excellency Gen* Wafhenton By the torys should be glad that Brother Seth would they Prevaled on Some of the Genu : send me word how forward he is about Life-Guard for a large Sume of Money to his work, and whither he is likely to have kill the Genel : whenever the fleet should any Salt Hay of Mother and upon what Attack the City and one of the Captains Terms. So hoping this will find you & of the Artillery was to spik up the Can- the Children and all Friends in health, I non and Blow up the Magazein thinking Subfcribe myself your Sincere Friend &c : this would thro our Army into Confution Ebenezer Peabody the Torys where to Muiter there whole force and fall upon us. This was the 11. Scheme of the Torys But By the Blefsing (Addrrss-Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody, Bor- of heaven they are Defeated and we have ford.) got about forty of them in Clofe Confin- Cambridge, 25th July I 775 ment among whome are the Lord Mayer Mrs. Peabody, as Providence has Cast of the City. I hope you will write to me in a Piece of Soap into your Huf- Every opertunity bands & my Mefs we thought Proper to So I Remain your loving Brother send it home,-but forgot to mention it Seth Peabody in the Letter which your Huiband sent Statan Island, July ye zt"776. you if you will be so good as to Let my v. Wife have one piece df it you will oblige Your Friend & Humble Servant (Address :- To Mr. John Pearle att Benja Fofter Ticonderoga in Capt. Peabody's Com- pany, in Col'. , Wigglesworth's Regi- . 111. ment.) (The address is gone.) Boxford Augt. 2Sth I 776 Cambridge a2"* Septr. I 7 75 My Dear Having now an opportunity to write to I have this Day received a Letter from you1 gladly embrace it to let you know you dated the lqth of Augt and am very that I am well, and I truft this will Find glad to hear of your welfare and that your you & the Children so. I have no News living is so good, hope it will continue so. to send only that there was one man I have nothing new to inform you, except kill'd and two wounded yeiterday by the that the Small Pox has been at Richard Regulars. Tyler's for several weeks past, but those I remain your Loving Hufband who have had [it] are likely to do weII. Ebenezer Peabody We are all well at present and hope that I Deiire you would give the Money this [will] find you the same, you may which is Inclosed in this to Deacon Hovey tell your Brother Peabody that his chil- .RY LETTERS. 47 dren and family are all well. Your father from them Whear thay have Drawd A Prife and mother remember their Love to you, Or Not (The rest is pope.) hope you will not be unmindful of mine, VIII. hope you wont think of staying longer (Address:-To Mr. Nathan Kimball At than your Time is out, and that you will Boxford.) embrace all opportunities of writing to me Cambridg june ye- I remain yoiir true and loving Wife To My Honored Father and Mother Unice Pearl i Have no Nufe To Right But Through VI. Divine Goodness i am in Health Provi- (Address:- Mr. John Pearl In Boxford dence fmiles upon our army in many Re- In New England.) spects aspeacely in the Last ingeagemeant (The beginning of the letter is gone.) may ye 28 Sunday morning wherein ware Nuff For 20 More I have Nothing New None of our army Killcd fore wounded to Right only we Are All wall I Shall be When The arowers of Death flew Thick Glad If You will Send Me a Letter As around them But it is fad many of our ini- Son as you Can And Send me Word mies ware Killed and wounded our fcouts A Boute the ticketts Remember Me to Have Reepeatedly taken Prises i Hope Sarrah So No more att Present If I through the Goodness of God These had Time I would have Rote you more Lines will find you yours and Myne in Butt the Tattue is Don beatting And I Pearfect Health i Remain your Dutiful Son must Go to Bead I shall be Glad you Moses Kimball would sho the Letter from Dubline to Mr. My Love To Brother and Sister Wood Lickwife to Adgt. Hovey My IX. Complements to them tow Gentlemen (Adhss:-To Mrs. Eunice Pearl In and to my Ant Wood Boxford, by the favor of Mr. Moors.) Ebenezer Peabody. Ticonderoga Octr. I 2" I 7 76 VII. Loving wife I Take this opportunity to send you (The address is gone*.) thefe lines to Inform you that Through Fort Alden in Cherry Valley the Divine Goodnefs of God I am in a very Janury 3th I 779. good state of health as I hope that thefe Brother I take this Oppetunity to Lett few lines will find you and our Children in you No that I am Well I hoop theas the Same Condition I have no News to Lines Will find you the Same I have Inform you off only that it has been very Nothing New to Right Pleafe to Re- sickly in the Camp with the camp Diior- member me to my Farther & mother And der those that have been ill are getting to My Children we Can Gett Nothing Batter I expect [to] be Discharged from hear to By for Money Butt we Ideve On the army by the time if not sooner Give Salt Beff & Brad we Can Not Gett No my Duty to my Parents my Love to my Sjder Nor Apples Nor no Kind of Sarce Brothers and sifters and remember me to it tis wary Health[y] in the Rigement at Mr. Nathaniel Peabody Lieut. Runnels Present I Am In Hoops to Gett home BenjL Foster if his at home and to all In- in the Spring butt If I Should Not I would quiring Friends So I must Conclud with have you Lett the Place Outt to the Best wishing you and ours all Profparity I am Advantadge You Can I Should be Glad your Loving Husband until1 Death you would Send me Sum Letters I Should John Pearl be Glad You would Send me Word Con- P. S. we dont expect there will be farning the Ticketts for I have Never heard any fiting here this fall for we are very 'This letter wrs probably written by Ebenezer strong by Land and by water we have Peabody. Twenty three sail of the line 48 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. X. for we have not Covering a nouf and Send (Address:-To Mr. Richard Pearl In me that Pillow that I laid upon at home Boxford in favor of Captn Reed.) if you Can Send my other Shirt and you Fort Alden In Cherry Valley may Send nle Some Butter if you Can as well as not Send me word how you all Decembr 13~~I 778. Mr. John Pearl are By Nathan Sticknee make your Selves Sr I take this Oppotuaity to Rite to as Comfortable as you Can and I have you to Lett You No that I Am Well And time to Rite no more at this time But I In Good Halth att present hooping Remain your most affectinate husband theaie will find you the Same I should be John Dorman Glad You woold Send me A Letter as P S give your Self no uneasinels if you Soon as You Can I Should be Glad You cannot Send me these things would take Care of One Half of the Corn XII. and Lett Sister Runnels have it If She (Address :-To mr [s] John Dorman in wants it And take One half of the Flax Boxford.) And Keep [it] to make Sum Ciouths for February the 2: 1778 my Dear these me I Should be glad If You would Aiset Lines Come With my tenderest Reguard in Gitting Sum Cotton to make me Sum to you and our family I have Sent two Shirts And Stockins as I am all most Shirts to be \Vashed By Seth Burnam and Naked for the want of then1 And I will you may Seqd them by him Send me sea You Sattasfyd for the Same When the five or Six dollars by Serjent Andrew Enemy Was hear'they Killed Sculp And Peabody when he Comes for it and So Bunt 32 Men Women An Children And No more at present I am in helth takein 32 Prisoners And Carrid them of (NoSig?zahlrr.) to Nigarrey. Killed of the Continantals Colo. Ichobod Alden & r 2 Privates And Sculped them that Could Not Gitt to the NOTES. fort I was att my Quarters And tryed to Gitt to the fort thay Like to have taken Salem, Aug. 30. '' His Excellency has me butt I maid my Eicape I Should be been pleafed to appoint FRANCISCABOT, Glad to Gett from this Place butt I Do Efq ; of this Town, to be one of his hfaj- Not Expect to this Winter, but am In efty's Juftices of the Peace for the County hoops to Gitt home In the Spring-the of Effex; as alfo Capt. THOMASMASON Enemy have burnt 140 Od Bildins and of this Town to be a Coroner for the fame maide the Place Dislolate of Inhabitants County."-Essex Gaeeffe, Aug. 30, 1768. Remember Me to Sister Par1 And Your Wenham, Scpf. 6, I 768. Cheldren. So No More att Present but BROKE open, either lait Saturday or I Remain your Loveing Brother Sunday Night, the Shop belonging to Ebenezer Peabody the subfcriber, and ftole from thence, XI. Five Beaver. Two Caitor. and Two Felt (Address :-To mr[s] John Dorman of Hats, three'of the ~eaverand the two Boxford.) Caftor Hats not lined; and one of the Winter Hill January the 2 : 1778. faid Beaver Hats lined with green Silk. my Dear Whoever will apprehend the Thief or these Lines Come with my Love to Thieves, fo that he or they may be you and to our Children and duty to our brought to Juftice, and the faid Hats re- mother hopeing they will find you well as covered, fhall be entitled to a Reward of they Leave me at this time Send me if Five Dollars. you Can a blanket that mother offered BILLY PORTER." me to Cary to the Lake' or Some other -Adi~t~~fise~~~erzfi~zEssex Ca:ctfe, Srpt. 6, 1768. OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS. 49 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS. and river ; and of Edward Colcord, and Willi : Howard, land bounded by Robert Continuedfromr Page rq. Tuck and Janies Davis, sen. Recorded John Redman of Hampton conveys to in town records before March 17, 1650. Christopher Hussey of Hampton 25 acres Signed by Abraham Pirkins, Richard of marsh at Hampton, adjoining Robert Swayne, Thomas Ward and John Sam- Shaw, etc. 15 : 2 : 1652. Wit: Jno borne. Legatt. Ack. before the court at Salisbury Robert Codnam of Harford, uppon 15 : 2 : 1652. Conecticot River, Mariner," gives a gen- Steven Kent of Haverell conveys to eral power of attorney to "my trusty & Jno Kedman of Hampton, land in Hamp- beloued freind Samuel1 Hall of Salisbury ton, which was granted by the town to Planter," Sept. 25, 1650. Signed by his Willi : Wakefeild, 14 : 2 : 1652. Wit : mark -. Wit : The mark of John C John Emery and Abraham Perkins. Ack. Cole and JnOTinker. before the court at Salisbury 15 : 2 : 1652. Mr. Christopher Hussie enters a cau- Will of John Bayly, sen., made on his tion about I 7 acres of marsh bought of sick bed 28 : 8 : 1651. He devises to Edward Colcord, Sept. 16, 1652. his son John Bayly '' my house " and land Henry Green of Hampton, millwright, in Salisbury "during his life, & after conveys to JnOCass of Hampton, planter, my sonnes death his second sonne Joseph 5 acres marsh in Hampton, bounded by Bayly is to enioy it, & if Joseph doth not Thomas Maston and Jeffery Mingee, Oct. live to enioy it, then his younger brother is 6, 1652. Wit : Willi : ffifeild and Edward to enioy it," Joseph paying to his oldest Gyllnian. Ack. before Rich : Bellingham brother John Bayly £40. His son John 7: 8mo: 1652. Bayly, Executor, and he is to pay to " my Thomas King of Exiter, carpenter, for wife, his mother," £6 annually, pvid- £12, conveys to Anthony Taylor of ed she cometh over hither to New Hampton, felt maker, 5 acre house lot, etc. england," and to pay "my son Robert bounded by John Cross and others, in £15, pvided also he come over hither to Hampton, Sept. 29, 1644. Signed by mark New england," and £10 each to "my r . Wit : Tho : Bradbury and Edward daughter, his sister," "pvided they come Gillman. Ack. before Ric : Bellingham 6 : over hither to new england," etc. "1 8mo: 1652. doe make my brother John Emery fen John Sanders of Wells, for £6, conveys of Nubery & mr. Thomas Bradbury of to William ffifeild of Hampton a house Salisbury overseers." Signed by initials lot in Hampton, bounded by Willi : Sam- J. b. Wit : William Ilsley and John born and Aquilla Chase, 29 : 7 : 1644. Emry, Jr. At the end is written : "like- Signed by his mark 5. Wit: Robert wise I doe give to Willi Huntingtons Tuck. Ack. before Richard Saltingstall wyfe & childereu yt. house & land yt. I March 9, 1645. Memo : Aquilla Chase bought of Vallentine Rowell," etc. (his C/) mark) says he has sold part of Proved by the witnesses at the court in this lot with a house upon it to William Salisbury 13 : 2 : 1652. ffifeild for £4, Oct. 4, 1649. Wit: Grants by Hampton to Willi ffulhr : 10 Steven Kent. acres; 16 acres, bounded by James John Legatt of Exiter, in exchange, Davis, formerly, which said ffullar bought conveys to Anthony Taylor of Hampton of Mr. Daulton, John Wedgwo~d~formerly, (as per bill under the hand of Edmond Jno Davis ; 4 acres, bounded by land said Littlefrild dated 29 : 8 : 1642) a house ffullar bought of Willi Haward ; I 2 acres, lot in Hampton, bounded by Abraham bounded by land said ffullar bought of Drake and a lot forinerly Mr. Bright's, Henry Saward; etc. He also bought 30 : 1I : 1642. Wit : William Wen- land of Henry Amhros on the great pond bourne. 5O THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. John Wedgwoodof Hampton conveys land in Salisbury, on west side of Paw- to Henry Greene land bounded by the waus river, bounded by "JnO Weed, & JnO. mill land and highway 14 : 4 : 1652. Bayly sen. late deceased," Jarrett Haddon, Wit : Humphrey Humber Scrib : and Richard Wells and Merrimack river, I : the mark of m William Godfrey. Ack. lom0: 1652. Signed by V mark. Wit : before the court at Hampton 5 : 8 : Tho: Bradbury and the mark of MB 1652. Mary Bradbury. Ack. before Sam : Abraham Pirkins of Hampton, sen., Winsley and Josiah Cobham, commission- for £30, conveys to Henry Green of ers of Salisbury, 23 : 4 : 1653. .Hampton one half of the water mill at John Bayly of Nuberie, weaver, with Hampton, etc., I I : zmO: 1651. Wit : consent of wife Elnor, conveys to Edward Colcord. Ack. before Ric : Joannah, wife of Willi : Huntington of Bellingham 7 : 8 : I 65 2. Salisbury, planter, and JnO. Huntington Thomas Coleman of Nuberie, hus- and Mary Huntington, her son and bandman, and Mary Coleman, his wife, daughter, a dwelling house and land in "web was ye wyfe of Edmonde Jonson Salisbury on the west side of the Paw- deceased," convey to John Cass of waus river, bounded by "Jn0. Weed & Hampton marsh in Hampton, bounded JnO. Bayly sen late of Salisbury de- by land given to Welles men, etc., 9 : ceased," Jarret Haddon, Richard Wells Sm0: 1652. He signs his name: and Merrimack river, 4 : I lmO: 1652. Thomas Coulman. Wit : Krancis Swaine Signed by mark E. Wit: Tho : Brad- and John Woodin. Ack. before Ri : Bel- bury and the marke of MB Mary' Brad- lingham 7 : gmO: 1652. bury. Ack. before Sam : Winsley and Christopher Palmer of Hampton, Josiah Cobham, commissioners of Salis- planter, conveys to William ffifeild of bury, 23 : 4 : 1653. Hampton, planter, marsh in Hampton, Anthony Coleby of Salisbury, planter, on little river running to the little boar's conveys to William Sargent of Salisbury, head, bounded by JnO. Huggins, JnO. seaman, a dwelling house and land in Sanborn and others, 10 : lmO:1648. Salisbury, bounded by Jarred Haddon Wit : Humphrey Humber, William ffullar and Henry Browne, 25 : I : 1647. Wit : and Abraham Drake. Ack. before Ri : Phillip Challis and John Islsly. Ack. be- Bellingham 7 : 8 : 1652. fore Josiah Cobham and Robert Pike, Henry Greene of Hampton conveys to commissioners, 3 : I I m0 : I 65 2. Abraham Pirkins a share of the cove William Sargent of Salisbury, seaman, common I I : zmO: 165 1. Wit : Edward conveys to Samuel1 ffelloes of Salisbury, Colcord. Ack. before Ri : Bellingham planter, a dwelling house and land 7: 8: 1652. bounded by jarrett Haddon and Henry Mr. Edward Colcord entered a caution Browne, 25 : I : 1648. Wit: Tho : about part "of a farme wCh hee as ye Bradbury and Andru Greely. Ack. be- Afsigne of Henry Saward bought of Willi : fore Josiah Cobham and Robert Pike, Howard : lijng neare to mr. Wheelwrnt commissioners, 3 : I rmO: 1652. farme," 30: g : 1652. Joseph Parker of Andiver, carpenter, Mr. Edward Colcord entered his for ~os.,conveys to Richard Goodale, caution about 40 acres of pine swamp sen., of Salisbury, planter, meadow in %Oh James Wall bought of Mr. Sam'. Salisbury, bounded by JnO. Rolfe, Willi : Dudley & Afsigned over to him." 30 : Partridg, little river, great neck, Bare- 9 : 1652. berrie meadow, JnO. Eaton and Henry William Huntington of Salisbury, Browne, 29 : 7: 1645. Wit: John planter, with consent of wife Joannah, Stevens and Nathan Parker. Ack. be- conveys to JnO. Bayly, sen., of Nuberry, fore Symond Bradstreet 6 : 1I~O : 16-. weaver, "my now dwelling house" and To be continued. AMESBURY WSCRIPTIONS.

SPINNING BEE. SUSANNAH, daughter of David & We hear from Byfield, in the County Sarah Currier ; of Effex, that on the Day of the laft pub- diedjuly I 6'" 7 94 ; lic Commencement at Cambridge, 25 aged ro months young Won~enbelonging to the Place, - met at the Minifters Houfe with their Spinning Wheels, and gave evident Proof In Memory of of their Skill and Dexterity in managing of ARCHELAUSMORRILL them ; by carding and fpinning more than who died I, 20 double Skeins of Cotton Yarn, and November 1796. fpinning 60 double Skeins of Linen, each Aged 73 years. Skein containing 14 Knots, 40 Threads Depart my frie?rds, dry rip your fears 17~rrrstlie here 'lil Christ appears 2 Yards long to a Knot. - - - One young Woman fpun more than 6 double - Skeins of Linen. - - - Another carded and ELENOR fpun 3 double Skeins of Cotton, and then W(fe oof . fpun one double Skein of Linen. They Dea. Qaniel Morrill, all generouily gave their Work; and by dirdjune 8, 1796, their ingenious diligent conducting the in her 68 year. Bufinefs of the Day, appeared well quali- - fied to claim the Honor of being acknowl- edged M(ftrefles of their Arf."-Essex MARY, daughter of Ephraim Gnzrtte, Aug. 23, 1768. & Mary Morrill, diedAug. 1gth7g7 ; aged I year 9 7jzo - Mom, CEMETERY AT AMESBURY DEPOT. Son of Mofes & The oldest stone in this burying ground Abigail Morrill bears date of I 793. was Drowned The following are all the inscriptions in March 26, 1799 the yard bearing dates prior to 1800. in the 7 year of his age. HERE IS - BURIED THE Capt. BODY OF MEHETA ZEBEDEE MORRILL. BEL CLOUGH Ye died WIFE OF AARON ]u& 28. 1793. CLOUGH WHO DIED At. 53. NOVEMBER Ye 8th 1796 HER AGE 60 YEARS. BENJAMIN, Son of JAMES, Jofeph & Anna Son of David & Wadleigh Sarah Currier, died Novr 16, I 795, diedApn.2 1gf"797 ; in the 4 year aged 2 months. of his age. THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

In rnetnory 21. Ezra Moody, Newbury, married of Martha Greenleaf April 26, I 716. Who JOSEPHWADLEIGH ; were her parents? G. W. P. who died Febrv 8, I 799 ; ANSWERS in the 47 year I. Sarah Tarbox was probably daugh- of his age. ter of Sarah and Rebecca (Armetage) - Tarbox, and born at Lynn Oct. 15, 1674. In Memory of -Ed. I. John Batchelder of Wenham mar- MARY WADLEIGH. ried Hannah Tarbox in I 702. She was who died March 25, 1798; a daughter of Ens. Samuel Tarbox, of In the 55 year Lynn, and his second wife, Experience of her age. Look. This couple had a son Thomas who married Esther Edwards and moved to Wenham. After the death of Ens. Samuel Tarbox the widow and family re- moved from Lynn to Wenham. In the Queries arc inserted for one cent a word. Gen. Hist. Reg, vol. 42, pages 27-29, Answers SIC solicited. will be found the family record of Ens. 15. Who were the parents of John Samuel Tarbox. It seemed to me, that, Phillips, born 1751, who married Abigail as John and Ebenezer Ratchelder were Williams, born I 750, perhaps of Roxbury ? connections, possibly Hannah and Sarah Albany, N. Y. F. W. Tarbox, their respective wives, were from 16. Parentage is desired of William the same family.-E. S. T., Lowell. Fanning who married at Newbury, Mass., 1668, Elizabeth Allen, or any data of him NEW PUBLICATIONS. showing his connection or otherwise with INTHE HEARTOF CAPE ANN, OR THE Edmund Fanning of New London, Conn., STORY OF DOGTOWN.By Charler E. 1652. ' W. F. BROOKS. Mann. Illustrated; cloth; 12 mo; 71 54 Queen St., Worcester, Mass. pages. Procter Bros., Gloucester, 1896. 17. Who were the parents of Elijah This book gives the history of Dog- Jones, published to Mary Barrows, in At- town commons in Gloucester, and of tleboro, March 7, I 744-5 ? J. s. R. many of the people who lived there, and Orchard Lake, Mich. their homes and manner of life. Several I 8. Wanted, evidence of relationship of the illustrations are unique, and the of. William, Thomas, and Aquila Chase, whole volume is interesting. who came to America about 1635, and TOPSFIELDHISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. name of ship in which the two last named Volume 11. 2 plates ; 150 pages. Pub- came. H. M. CHASE. lished by the Topsfield Historical Society, Barnstable, Mass. 1896. This second annual volume ofthe 19. Benjamin Gage and Rebecca Society's collections contains the proceed- Mullican were married at Bradford ings of the Society for the year ; the town August, 1722. Who were her parents? records from 1659 to 1685 ; a descriptive Albany, N. Y. G. W. P. history of the Howlett and Clark families ; 20. Timothy Johnson, North Andover, account of Gov. Endicott's copper mining married Katherine Sprague (presumably venture in Topsfield in 1651 ; baptisms of Malden) May 3, I 705. Who were her of the Topsfield church from 1779 to parents? G. w. P. 1841 ; and much other valuable and inter- Albany, N. Y. esting matter.

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OLD NICHOLS HOMESTEAD, NOW FERNCROFT INN. BY ANDREW NICHOLS. HENRYBARTHOMMEW wasan inhabitant which being still seen about forty rods of Salem as early as 1637, and soon after westward from Ferncroft. Two days later, that date received a grant of several hun- Mr. Nichols conveyed the remainder of dred acres located in the northern part his homestead, one hundred and fifty acres, of the town. In 1650, this territory be- to his son, John, and his wife Lydia, it came a part of Topsfield, and in 1728 a being " my farme that I now live upon," part of Middleton, in which latter town in Topsfield,* but retained his residence most of it has since been included. In in the house then standing upon the 1651 he conveyed this tract of land to premises, as before stated. William Nichols, the immigrant ancestor Soon after the date of his deed (1679), of the name, who had also been living in John Nichols built upon this tract of land Salem since 1637, in that section early the house shown in the frontispiece, which known as Brooksby, and now included in has recently been transformed into the the western part of Peabody. Ferncroft Inn, and resided therein. The Mr. Nichols erected a house upon the old house stood in the valley, shut in by premises about one-third of a mile due hills. John chose for the site of his house north from the present Ferncroft Inn. a high elevation toward Salem, which Here he lived with his wife Mary and three presented attractive scenery and a wider children until his decease, and, as it was prospect, though not so well shielded gone soon after, probably no other family from the cold winds of winter. John's ever occupied the old house. Mr. Nichols' father helped him greatly in the way of death occurred in the winter of 1695-6, financial assistance during his lifetime, as at the age of about ninety-six, having been papers on file in the settlement of the born in 1599. He had three children, estate of William Nichols show, and it John, born in 1641, and two daughters, was probably in the way of building and Mary, who married Thomas Cave of finishing this house, as one so large and Topsfield, and Hannah, the wife of so'thoronghly made as this must have Thomas Wilkins. cost a great deal. The great oak timbers In 1678, William Nichols was possessed attest its age and durability ; and the of one hundred and eighty acres of land style of the chimney without and its form as his homestead; and Jan. 4, 1678-9, he and size within is the true type of the conveyed to Isaac Burton, who had been better earlier houses of New England. in his family for twenty-five years, and About the time of the witchcraft delu- had been like a son to him, thirty acres sion, John Nichols conveyed to his son- from the northwestern end of it.* On in-law Humphrey Case a lot of land, on this lot Mr. Burton erected a dwelling- which Mr. Case erected a house in which house, in which he lived, the cellar of he lived. The site of this house was about

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf I 15. 'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 56. 5 4 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. two-thirds of the distance from Ferncroft The Burton house, allusion to which Inn to the ice houses on the direct road has already been made, together with the to the old Newburyport and Boston turn- lot of land on which it stood, came into pike. Here the Case family resided many the possession of Samuel Nichols, by pur- years, and the cellar alone remains to chase, in I 757,. and was owned by him mark the spot. as long as he kept the farm. Mr. Nichols died here in the autumn of For fifteen hundred and eighty and 1700, at the age of fifty-nine. His wife one-half pounds, Mr. Nichols conveyed was named Lydia, and their children were, the farm, including the two dwelling-houses William ; Anna, who married Francis and two barns, to Capt. Israel Foster, a Elliot ; John, born Jan. 14,1667 ;Thomas, merchant of Beverly, May 17, 1777.t who settled in Sutton; Isaac; Lydia, After the Revolution, Captain Foster wife of Aquilla Wilkins; Rachel, who removed to Merblehead, where he was married Humphrey Case ; Elizabeth, wife also a merchant. While he possessed the of Thomas Brewer ; Ebenezer ; and Mar- farm he removed the old Burton house garet, ten in all. and barn, which had probably been built Four years previous to his decease, as early as the Nichols house. Mr. Nichols gave a deed of the home- He probably never lived here, but let stead to his son John and his wife Con- the farm, one of the lessees being Isaac stant to hold during their joint lives, and Giddings. the life of the survivor of them, and the With the consent of his wife Jane, remainder to his heirs or heirs of his Captain Foster conveyed the farm to body lawfully begotten."* The son John Daniel Porter, of Topsfield, a tanner, and his family lived here until his death, Dec. 30, 1805, for $3,900.$ Mr. Porter which probably occurred in the spring of lived on a farm in Topsfield, which was 1757, as administration on his estate was separated from this farm by the brook granted to his widow, Martha, June 27th only, and probably never lived here. At of that year. He had three children, the time of Mr. Porter's decease, his son Edward, John and Samuel. Allen was living here and probably had The youngest son, Samuel, came into been for some years. sole possession of the farm on the death Daniel Porter died Jan. 28, 1831 ; and of his father, by inheritance and purchase.? his executors, Allen and Ira Porter, two He was born here Feb. 25, 1714-5 ; and of his sons, conveyed this farm, by order married, first, Abigail Elliot Nov. 17, of court, to George 'Towne, of Danvers, 1742. She died May 27, I 759 ; and he April 26, 1831.s And on the same day married, second, Anna White. His son Mr. Towne re-conveyed the farm to Allen Samuel, born here in 1743, enlisted into Porter,JI who continued to dwell in the the navy, sailed to the West Indies, and ancient house. was never heard from. Another sbn, Mr. Porter lived here until Nov. 30, Andrew, was the father of Dr. Andrew 1838, when he sold the estate to Jere- Nichols, the first president of the Essex miah Augustus Estey of Middleton.7 The County Natural History Society. farm then contained one hundred and In 1728 the town of Middleton was in- forty-three acres. corporated. The town was formed from Mr. Estey lived upon the premises until parts of Andover, Boxford, Salem and he conveyed the same to Jonathan Perry, Topsfield ; and the portion taken from Topsfield included the Nichols homestead, *Essex Registry of Deeds, book I 10,leaf 65. which has ever since been in Middleton. tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 135, leaf 68. ZEssex Registry of Deeds, book 177, leaf 116. *Old Norfolk County Deeds, book 4, leaf 93. SEssex Registry of Deeds, book 259, leaf 187. The deed is dated Jan. 28, 1696. IlEssex Registry of Deeds, book 259, leaf 188. tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 115, leaf a24. llEssex Registry of Deeds, book 310, leaf 126. OLD NICHOLS HOMESTEAD. 5 5

of Danvers, April 15, I 841.* Mr. Perry tic landscape gardening greatly improved died Nov. 16, 1845, and his heirs re- the grounds. leased their interest in the estate, Jan. After two successful seasons in serving 16, 1847, to his son Edwin A. Perry,t lunches and dinners to the public, further who, April 1, following, sold it to Daniel additions were made, including a spacious Peabody, of Danvers.3 dining-room upon the front of the house, Mr. Peabody lived in the western part the original oak front door, with its hand- of the house; and June 26, 1849, con- wrought nails, being retained. veyed the eastern end of the house and The owners have been to a great deal western part of the barn and a portion of of pains and expense to furnish Ferncroft the homestead lands to Andrew Verry, of with ancient furniture, utensils, ornaments, Middleton.$ He sold out to Aaron Jen- and China, English and Holland wares of kins, of M~ddleton,April I, 1862 ;I1 and various kinds. Among the articles are Mr. Jenkins, who had removed to Salem, some ancient books and prints, a buffet, sold to the Harris family of that city, the a silver-lined drinking-horn, antique plates present owners, Feb. 6, 1880. and pewter platters, a Dutch delft pitcher Mr. Peabody became involved in a law of the sixteenth century, candlesticks, tall suit of some six years continuance, in clocks, ancient armor, canopied bed- which General Butler was counsel, and steads, an old claw-foot sideboard, made removed to Stoneham about 1858, his of various kinds of wood, with an oval part of the house being subsequently occu- marine view on marble set in the centre, pied for some years by Jonathan Perry, the drawers being velvet lined, and two son of the above named Jonathan. large arm-chairs of solid oak, reputed to Mr. Peabody's part of the premises have been the property of Robert Burns, was sold by the sheriff to James M. Perry, the poet of Ayr. of Danvers, Aug. 2, 1870 ;q and he con- Among the most interesting things that veyed it back to Mr. Peabody May 10, can be seen here is the wall-paper. The 1872.** office walls are covered with Shakespearian May 10,1882, Mr. Peabody conveyed paper, the hall with the old English land- his part of the homestead to Sidney C. scape paper, and the dining-room with Bancroft, Esq., of Peabody, who, twelve wall-paper representing old hunting scenes days later, passed the title to the present and sports of merry England. owners. At the bend of the road near the house The frontispiece shows the old house is a rustic post from which swings the sign as it appeared twenty years ago, before used at the beginning of this century at any changes had occurred in its exterior. the old tavern in Topsfield when William Some improvements were made by the Meady was its proprietor. On one side present owners upon their purchase of the is a portrait of George Washington in his farm, but no additions of any considerable military uniform, while on the other is extent were made until 1892, when it was that of John Quincy Adams. After many thought well to open the old mlnse to the years of repose among attic cobwebs, the public. A broad piazza, running the sign has returned to its former usefulness. whole length of the house, was added to The house has now been open to the the front; and at the rear was made the public four seasons, and thousands have principal place of entrance. Some artis- examined its nooks and crannies and *Essex Registry of Deeds, book 324, leaf 164. antiques, and enjoyed the cuisine and de- tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 378, leaf 57. lightful grounds, and a drink from the SEssex Registry of Deeds, book 381, leaf 46. deep old well with its well-sweep and SEssex Registry of Deeds, book 413, leaf 248. oaken bucket. IlEssex Registry of Deeds, book 637, leaf g. TEssex Registry of Deeds, book 806, leaf 264. Old houses have ever a charm, and **Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1081,leaf253. romance clings to them in the minds of 5 6 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. all people that are not decidedly unimag- What stalwart yeoman or cultured youth inative and unimpressionable. Births, Brought hither his smiling and bonnie bride? What hopes have perished, what been fulfilled? weddings, deaths of their occupants have what aspirations have lived and followed each other in their natural order, generation after generation. What children frolicked by this old hearth? Erected in the time of the Indian dep- What baby slept on its mother's knee? redations amidst the woods, far away from What grandsire pondered o'er Holy Writ? Had they hours of gloom, had they days of neighbors and miles from any considerable glee ? settlement, the early occupants of this old mansion must have ever dreaded the un- What lovers strolled through yon woodland seen approach of the savages, with their paths torch and tomahawk and scalping knife. When the wild red roses were all aglow? What youngsters coasted adown these hills Later in the midst of the social life of the When the whole wide land was a field of snow? neighborhootl where the terrible witch- craft delusion broke out, they saw their Did they quaff at Thanksgiving,- with joke and friends, neighbors and relatives accused, jest,- convicted and hanged, and knew not how The home-brewed beer and the nut-brown ale, At the table heaped by the good wife's skill?- soon the condemning finger night be " For seedtime and harvest shall never fail." pointed at them. Passing through the period of the Indian and French wars, Had they Christmas greetings and goodly cheer? the Revolution, and all the commotions of Were the stockings hung by thischimney, old? this century, its occupants saw the colony Did the mistletoe hang from these rafters here, While the sweet old story of love was told? become a province,. and the province a great state' Yet stands the 'Id house Have hearts here broken and loves grown cold? ready to enter upon the twentieth'centur~. ---Have friendshins- - c turned into mortal hate? he following lines were written of this Have lives grown passionless, stern and grim, old place :- Crushed by the iron hand of Fate? The breeze blows keen, but the sun glints bright ; werethere days of sorrow and nights of joy, O'er the old gray house on the wooded hill Sad hours of watching mid sobs and tears? Stand the pines, stern sentinels clad in green, Old house, old house, hast thou seen them all, And the rippling river stands mute and still. And the happy dawning of glad New Years? I pass within by the friendly blaze of the huge ',back log ,, and the pine.tree's Or did smiling Plenty and Peace serene cone, Gild the glad morning and bless the night ; By the chimney huge in the quaint old hall, Did Hope and Happiness reign.supreme, I sit in the gloaming and musc alone. And hearts run thrilling with love and light?

?z The sun flames red in the glowing west- My soul seems bound by some mystic I pause-I linger-I breathe goodbye. Old house, thou guardrst thy secrets well! A. S. G. SMOCK MARRIAGES. 57 SECOND MARRIAGES should always have been performed as it Whenin the flush of life and hope, was in the Birmingham church instance. The springtime of their lives, But the modesty of the people generally Our fathers loved and wooed and won forbade such an exhibition, and various Their neighbors' girls for wives; expedients were resorted to to accomplish Though oft with blindness Cupid gave A blessing or a curse, the desired effect and yet avoid the unde- They married them, and brought them home sirable features. Sometimes the bride For better or for worse. stood in a closet and put her hand through But when time passed, alone again, a hole cut in the door. Sometimes she Another mate was sought, stood behind a cloth screen, and put her They gave less heed to sentiment, And more to prudent thought ; hand out at one side of it. Again, she They made the matter business, wound about her person a white sheet And oft in writing shown, furnished for the occasion by the groom ; The wife retained what she possessed, and sometimes she stood in her chemise, The husband kept his own. SaZcm. S. P. or smock, or shift, as the same garment is variously called. EventuaJly, in Essex SMOCK MARRIAGES. county, at least, all immodesty ofthe per- BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. formance of such a wedding was overcome by the groom furnishing to the bride all These are marriages where the bride the clothes she wore, retaining title to the appeared dressed in a white sheet or same in himself. This he did in the chemise, and sometimes without any presence of witnesses, that he might prove covering whatever. Both in Old and New the fact in case he was subjected to a suit England in the last century brides could for any debts she might have previously thus be seen taking connubial vows upon contracted. A marriage of this kind them. occurred at Bradford in 1733; and the The reason of this was the belief that following is a copy of the record of the if a man married a woman who was in same :- debt he would be held liable for her in- debtedness to her creditors if he received " Bradford, Dec. ye 24, I 733. her at the hands of the minister or magis- "This may certifie whonlsoever it may trate with any of her property. And, also, concerne that James Bailey of Bradford that if a woman married a man who was who was married to the widow Mary Bacon owing debts his creditors could not take Nov. 22 last past by me ye subscriber her property to satisfy them if he received then Declared that he took the said person nothing from her. without anything of Estate and that Lydia In England, there is a least one case the wife of Eliazer Burbank & Mary the that has come to the knowledge of the wife of Thos. Stickney & Margaret the writer where the bride was clothed puris wife of Caleb Burbank all of Bradford nnturalibur while the ceremony was being were witnesses that the clothes she then performed in the great church at Birming- had on were of his providing &bestowing 'I ham. The minister at first refused to upon her. perform the ceremony, but finding noth- William Balch, Minister of ye Gospel." ing in the rubric that would excuse him It is noticed by the writer that in all from the exercise of his professional cases of "smock marriages," as they are functions he married the pair. 'The pub- called, that have come to his knowledge, lic were much incensed at the clergyman, the brides have been widows. Widows and it made considerable newspaper com- were always liable to be owing debts for ment at the time. The date was 1797. the support of their families. Maiden To carry out the law as the people of ladies were then usually married young that century understood it, the ceremony before they had contracted debts to any 5 8 THE ESSEX A

201-V. HANNAH',b. Tune 21,1726; m. Joseph considerable amount, and again the con- - -4 sideration of the financial condition of Parker Aprii 25, 1754; . . 202-VI. NATHAN', b. Jan. 4, 1729; lived in the couple was then as now of secondary Wilton; m. Jane Paul Jan. 11, 1759; importance to young people. With the and had several children. lapse of years the sentimental glow of 203-VII. SARAH',b. May 5, 1731 ; m. Edward youth somewhat abates, and the matter- Farmer of Dracut March I, 1757. 2i 204-V111. LYDIA',b. March 28, 1733; m. Thomas of-factness of life has more control of Farnum Jan. 13, 1756. human judgment. 205-IX. DORCAS',b. Oct. 2, 1735; m. Samuel Bailey (pub. Dec. 3, 1774). 206-x. PHEBE', b. Feb. 16, 1737; m. Wil- ABBOT GENEALOGY liam Dane July 22, 1766. Continued from pop gr. 207-XI. CALEB', b. Au~.30, 1738; d. Sept. 7, 1738. DAVID ABBOT^, born in Andover Jan. 5 2 18, 1688-9. He was a housewright and THOMASABEOT~, born in An dover Jan. husbandman, and lived in Andover. He 3, 1699. He was a farmer, and sue- married Hannah Danforth in I 718. He ceeded his father on the homestead. died Nov. 14, I 753 ; and she died in He married Elizabeth Ballard Jan. 28, 1788, aged ninety-one. 1725. He died July I I, 1774 ; and she Children, born in Andover :- died July 31, 1782, aged eighty-two. 188-1. HANNAH',b. Oct. 10, 1721; d. Feb. Children, born in Andover :- 14, 1721-2. 208-1. SAMUEL',b. NOV. I, 1725; d. Dec. 8, 189--11. HANNAH',b. Dec. I, 1723; d., un- 1725. married, March 12 (27)). 1813, 2-11. ELIZABETH',b. Jan. 10, 1727; m. aged eighty-nine. Samuel Osgood of Andover Jan. 4, 1-III. DAVID', b. March 28, 1728. See be- 1753. He d. March 16, 1774 ; and low (190). she d. Sept. 27, 1792. 191-IV. SOLOMON',b. about 1730. SCC61/02u 210--111. THOMAS',d. March 19, 1728-9. (191). 21 I-IV. THOMAS',b. April 4, 1729. SCE~ZOW 192-v. SARAH',m. Robert Hildreth of Dra- (211). cut Jan. 30, 1753 ; and was living 212-V. JABEZ', b. April 18, 1731; Was a far- in 1807. mer, and lived in Concord, N. H.; 193-vr. ELIZABETH',b. July 23, 1733; d. m., first, Phebe Abbot; second, OC~.21, 1753. Hephzibah Stevens of Andover 194-VII. JOSIAH', b. Feb. 5, 1735-6; d. Nov. (pub Aug. 28, 1772); and d. Jan. '53 1753. 7, 1804. He had children. 195-VIII. JONATHAN',b. OC~.24, 1739. See 213-VI. AARON', b. Feb. 17, 1732; Was a far- below (lor)., ,a, mer, and lived in Fryeburg, Me. ; m. 196-1x. BENJAMIN',b. Jan. 16,1743; d. NOV. Lydia Abbot ; and d. Dec. 31, 1812. 9, 1753. They had children. 214-VII. JOSEPH', b. Dec. 29, 1734; was taken captive by the Indians at Lake TIMOTHYABBOTS, born in Andover June George Sept. 19, 1756; was carried to Canada, and died in prison at 20, 1693. He lived in the garrison Quebec in January, 1758, aged house in Andover with his father, and twenty-three. was a farmer. He married Mary Foster 215-VIlI. NATHAN', b. Feb. 7, 1736-7; Was a seaman, and subsequently a farmer, ; 10, I Dec. g, 1717 and died July 766, and lived in Concord, N. H.; m. aged seventy-three. Betsey Farnum in 1766; and d. Jan. Children, born in Andover :- 18, 1805 They had children. 197-1. MARY', b. Oct. 5, 1718; d. Oct. 28, 216-IX. ISAAC',b. May 3, 1740; d. Sept. 16, 1718 1740- 198-11. TIMOTHY?,b. Oct. 26,1719; d. March 217-x. JESSE', b. Oct. 4, 1741 ; was a farm- 26, 1745, aged twenty-five. er, and lived in Concord, N. H. ; m. IP11I.- - AsA', b. OC~.17, .. 1721.. Set ~C/OW - -. , and d. May 12, 1808. (199). He had no children. -IV. MARY', b. Jan. 18, 1724; m. Ephraim 218-XI. LVDIA', b. Oct. 5, I 743 ; d. June z, Abbot (92). 1749. ENEAWGY. 5 9

She d. Sept. 10, 1836, aged eighty- four. C@T. NATHANIEL ABBOT^, born In An- 229-XI. DOROTHYI,b. Dec. 28, I 746; m. Da- dover in 1696. He was one of the first vid George of Concord May 29, 1766; and d. Sept. 27, 1776. settlers of Rumford (now Concord), N. 23WxII. SARAH',b. Dec. 3, 1748; m. Samuel H., being an innholder there in 1735. Farnum, and settled in New York. In 1744, he served as an officer in Major Shedied June -, 1842, aged ninety- Rogers' company of Rangers ;was at the three. capture of Cape Breton in 1745 ; and in 65 I 746 commanded a company in defence of the town against the Indians. He was DEA.JOSEPH ABBOT^, born in Andover lieutenant in the expedition against Feb. 2, 1705. He was a farmer, and Crown Point. He married, first, Penel- lived in Andover with his father on the ope Ballard, in Andover, Nov. ~3~~726; homestead, which his father conveyed to and, second, Mehitable -. He died him in I 749. About I 776, he removed in 1770. to Wilton, N. H. He was a deacon of Children :- the church in Andover for many years, 219-1. NATHANIEL',b. March 10, 1727, in and tuned the psalm. He married Deb- Andover; was a farmer in Concord ; orah Blanchard Aug. I 2, I 731 ; and she m. Miriam Chandler of Dunstable, died July zr, 1773. He died Aug. 23, and had children. He d. Feb. 19, 1800: and she d. Tan. 1811, '787. -. Children, born in Andover :- 231-1. DEBORAH',b. Sept. 17, 1732; d. July ver; m: Capt. ~oses~ernll of Con- 9, 1736. cord. 232-11. JOSHUA', b.. Jan. 21, 1734; d. Dec. 221-111. REBECCA',b. May 27,1731 ; m. John 31, 1736. Memll; and d. in Thetford, Vt. 233-111. BATHSHEBA',b. Sept. 16, 1735; m. 222-IV. ELIZABETH',b. July I, 1733 ; m. JOS- Nathan Blanchard of Wilton -.Tulv eph Hazletine of Concord; he d. 2, I752 ; and d. Dec. -, 1784. May 30, 1798, aged sixty-seven ; and 234-IV. NATHANIEL',b. Aug. 12, 1737; d. she d. Jan. 25, 1734, aged one hun- April 5, 1740. dred. 235-V. JOSHUA', b. April 27, 1739; d. Oct. 223-V. MARY', b. March 7, 1735 ; m. Joseph '59 1739. Walker; and settled in Fryeburg, 236~1.DEBORAH (twin)', b. July 15, 1740; Me. She d. March -, 1795. d. NOV.22, 1745. 224-VI. HANNAH',b. March 7, 1736; m. Z~~-VII. JOSEPH(twin)', b. July 16, 1740; d. Ephraim Moar. Sept. 14, 1741. 225-VII. RUTH', b. Jan. 28, 1738; m. James 238-VIII. HANNAH',b. June Is, 1742; m. Lt. Walker of Concord ; and d. Feb. Timothy Dale of Witon Jan. IS, 27, 1817. He was a tailor; and d. 1761 ; and d. in 1800. Feb. 9, 1821, aged eighty-three. 239-IX. JOSEPH', b. April 2, 174.4. SCC ~C~MU 226-v111. JOSHUA',b. Feb. 24, 1740 ; captain in (239). battle of Bunker hill; was a far- 240-X. JACOB',. . b. Feb. 9, 1746. See belov mer, and lived in Concord ; m. Eliz- (240). aheth Chandler of Bradford ; and had 241-XI. DORCAS',b. Jan. 19, 1747-8; d. Oct. children. She d. May 27, 1812, 17. 1749. aged seventy-three; and he d. 242-XII. OBADIAH',b. NOV.23, 1749; d. Feb. March -, 1815. 227-IX. RACHEL',b. April 7, 1743; m. Daniel .- Abbot of Concord; and d. June 13, ~C~OW(243). -,---I 788. 244-XIV. REBECCA',b. June 19, 1754; m. Dan- 228--X. JEREMIAH', b. March If, 1744; was a iel Batchelder of Andover Aoril 6. farmer, and lived in Concord and 1775 ; and removed to Witon.' she Conway, N. H.; was a sergeant in d. June -, 1796. the battle of Bunker hill, a lieuten- ant at Ticonderoga, and in the expe- 74 \lition against Canada ; kept an inn in Conway; m. Elizabeth Stickney CAPT. JOHN ABBOT+,born in Andover of Concord; and d. Nov. 8, 1823. Aug. 3, 1704. He was a farmer, and 60 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. lived in the South parish, in Andover, ZS~-VI.-. RHODA', b. Feb. -, 1743;. .- d. Feb. -? 1743. with h~sfather. He was a selectman of ZSS-VII. PRISCILLA',b. Feb. 6, 1744 ; m. Zelah the town, and a man of principle. He Holt Nov. 16, 1762. married Phebe Fisk Sept. 28, 1732 ; and Z~~VIII.LYDIA', b. March 7, 1745; m. Uriah died Nov. 10, 1793, aged ninety. She Russell Aug. 15, 1771. z60-IX. TIMOTHY(twin)" b. April 23, 1747 ; died Dec. -, 1802, aged ninety. d. March 30, 1772. Children, born in Andover :- 261-x. RHODA(twin)', b. April 23, 1747; d. 245-1. PHEBE', b. April 14, 1733; m. Na- Aug. 11, 1775. than Chandler. A~ril18, . 1x4;.-.. and 262-XI. PHEBE', b. Aug. zg, 1749; m. John d. July 26, 1812.' Russell (pub. Oct. g, 1773). 246-11. JOHN', b. Sept. I, 1735. SCC~C~OW 263-XII. ABIGAIL',b. Aug. 25, 1751 ; m. John (246). Johnson Oct. 10, 1786; and d. in 247-111. EZRA', b. Sept. 27, 1737; d. in the 1841. army Sept. 15, 1760. He had great agilil and strength. 78 248-IV. ABIEL~: b. April 19, 1741; was an esquire, deacon, oficer in the mili- JOSEPH ABBOT+, born in Andover April tia, and representative to the General 24, 1719. He lived, first, in Lancaster, Court; lived in Wilton, N. H. ; m. and later in Chester, Vt. He married Dorcas Abbot (I 79) Nov. 20, I 764 ; and d. Aug. 19, I-. They had Hannah Abbot (103) Nov. la, 1741 ; children. and died in 1789. 24pV. JEREM~AH',b. May 25, 1743; lived in Children :- Wilton; m. Chloe Abbot Sept. 16, 264-1. JOSEPH', b. March 29, 1742, in An- 1766; and had children. She d. dover. Aug. 21, 1%; and he d. Nov. 2, 265-11. ABIEL? 1825. 266111. JOHN^. 250-VI. WILLIAM',b. Jan. I, 1748; lived in 267-IV. EBENEZER'. - Wilton ; m. Phebe Ballard Nov. 12, 268-v. HANNAH', 1772 ; and d. Nov. 30, f793 She 269--vr. ELIZABETII~. d. Jan. -, 1846, aged n~nety-three. 27+VII. PHEBE'. Was an esquire. Among their chil- 271-VIII. 1~~1.1~~'. dren were Dr. Herman Abbot of Belfast, and Williaul Abbot, Esq., 7 9 of Bangor, Me. I-I BENJAMIN&,b. May 29, 1751 ; d. Aug. JOSEPH ABBO*, born in Andover May I, 175'. 31, 1724. He was a farmer, and lived 75 with his father in Andover. He married, first, Anna Peabody Feb. 9, 1748-9 ; and BARACHIASABBO~, born in Andover she died March 20, I 766. He married, May 14, 1707. He was a meek and up- second, Ednah Platts of Boxford (pub- right man, lived in Andover, and was a lished Nov. 8, 1766). He was drowned cordwainer by trade. He married Han- Dec. 10, 1766, aged forty-two, and his nah Holt March 22, 1733. She died wife Ednah survived him. July 31, 1775, aged sixty-five; and he Children, born in Andover :- died Oct. 2, I 784, aged seventy-seven. 272-1 ANNA', b. NOV.Is, 1749; m. The~- Children. born in Andover :- dore Stevens (pub. May 26, 1774). 252-1. BARACHIAS',b. Jan. 16, 1734; d. 273-11. SARAH', b. Sept. 3, 1751 ; m. Benja- June 24, 1738. min Henick, jr., of Methuen (pub. 253-11. MOSES" b. Aug. 9, 1735. SCC~C~OW March 4, 1775). (253). 274-111. LYDIA', b. OC~.23, 1753; m. Maj. 254-111. HANNAH', b. May 18, 1737; m. Samuel Lovejoy of Wilton ; and d. Jeremiah Holt of Wilton April 21, Se~t.20. 1826. 1756; and d. Nov. -, 1812, aged 275-IV. DOGAS',b. Oct. 26, 1755 ; m. Joseph seventy-five. Chandler. 255-IV. BARACHIAS',b. May 22, 1739. Scc 276-v. JOSEPH'. b. Feb. 16, 1758 ; lived in belmu (ajs). Andover, Vt. ; m. Lucy King; and 256~.EL~ZABETH', b. NOV. 2, 1740; m. d. in 1835. He had children. Zebadiah Shattuck Aug. 30, 1759; 277-VI. HULDAH',b. Oct. 21, 1760; m. Josh- and d. Sept. -. 1779. ua Abbot of Nelson, N. H. ABBOT GENEALOGY. 6 I

82 291-VII. GEORGE" h. June 13, 1756. See be- low (291). EPHRAIMABBOT*, born in Andover in 291-VIII. DORCAS"b. Sept. 23, 1758; m. Jam- r 710. He was a miller, and resided in than Abbot (384). Andover. He married Hannah Phelps 293-1x ABNER59 b. Jan. 29, 1761. See *elm (293). Feb. 14, 1734; and died April 24, 1745. 294-x. SAMUEL',b. April 27, 1763 ; killed by His wife survived him. a cart Au . 10, 1768. Children, born in Andoyer :- 295-XI. ELIZABETH,% h. Oct. 22, 1766; m. 278-1. HANNAH'.b. Dec. 26, 1 734; d., un- Abraham Valpey of Salem Sept. 27, married, Nov. 17, 1798. I 788. 279-11. ME HIT ABLE^, b. Aug. 11, 1736; m. 89 Jonathan Abbot (384). Z~III.SARAH', b. NOV.18, 1737; lived with SAMUELABRO*, born in Andover June Hen. Samuel Phillips, caving on 23, 1726. He lived in his native town; his and unmarried* alld married Elizabeth Wyman of Pel- March 20, 1831, aged ninety-three, having been blind for several years ham (pub. Sept. I4, 1754). He died at before her death. Lake George in I 758. His wife survived 281-IV. EPHRAIM',b. June 22, 1739 ; d. Nova him, and married Joseph Dane Oct. g, 19, 1739. She was living in 1767. 282-v. RHODA', b. June 22, 1741 ; m. Jacob 1759. Holt March 22, 1764; and d. Jan. Children, born in Anrlover :- -, 1820. 2961. ELIZABETH',b. NO~.2, 1755; m. 283-VI. EPHRAIM"b. May 8, 1742; was a Ebenezer Jones of Andover Feb. miller, and lived on his father's 15, 1780. homestead ; m., first, Lydia Poor 297-11. HANNAH?bb. April 24, I757 ; m. Ben- Oct. 27, 1774.' Shed. July 3, 1788, jamin Goldsmith April 24, 1777. aged thirty-six; and he m., second, widow Sarah Safford of Salem Oct. 9 2 4, 1789. He d. April 23, 1809; Andover July and h~swife, Sarah, sunrived him, EPHRAIMABBOT(, born in and d. Oct. 29, 1812. 22, I 718. He was a farmer, and lived 284-VII. ABIEL-,b. April 12, 174s; m. Benja- in Amherst, N. H., and Andover, Mass. min Walker Aug. 4, 1763, and d. He married, first, Mary Abbot (200) Nov. May -, 1795. 3, 1740. She died March g, 1745 ; and 86 he married, second, Hannah Kneeland of Ipswich.(published Feb. I, 1745-6). STEPHEN ABBOT^, born in Andover children :- March Ill I 718. He was a farmer, and 298-1. MARY', b. March 11, 1741. in Ando- lived with his father iu Andover. He ver ; m. Peter Cross (Goss?) of Bol- married Mary Abbot (rzz) May 24, ton Dec. 9, 1762. 299-11. EPHRAIM',b. Dec. 5, 1742. in Ando- 1743. He died Nov. 8, I 768 ; and his ver; was a deacon, and lived in widow married Jonathan Abbot (180). Goffstown, N. H.; m. Dorothy Children, born in Andover :- Stiles ; and d. in 1827. One of their 285-1. MARY', b. March 8, 1744 ; was known children was Rev. Samuel Abbot of as nurse Molly; and d., unmarried, Antrim, N. H. Sept. 15, 1820, aged seventy-six. 3-HI. HANNAH',b. March I, 1745, in An- 286-11. DEBORAH', b. Oct. 13, 1745 ; m. Jon- dover ; m. -Shattuck of Hollis. athan Fiske of Danvers Sept. 18, 301-IV. KNEEL AND^, m. - Stanley, and 1766 ; and removed to Groton before lived in Vermont. He had children. 1790. 302-V. DANIEL"m. Sarah Stevens. 287-111. SARAH', b. Aug. 1, 1747; m. Joseph 303-VL SARAH',m. W. Codman of Deering. Stevens of Danvers July 7, 1772; 30q-vtr. DORCAS',m. John Willey of Amherst. and d. July 8, 1824. 288-IV. STEPHEN', b. Aug. I, 1749. be- 94 row (288). JOSHUA ABBOT*,born in Andover Oct. 289-v. ABNER',b. Aug. 269 1751 i d. March I, I 722. He lived in Amherst, N. H. 11, 17.58. 20, I 2-VI. HANNAI~~,b. Aug. 10, 1753; living He married Phebe Ingalls Nov. 749. in 1772. Children :- 6 2 THE ESSEX 305-1. PHEBE" b, Aug. w, 1750, in Andover. Children, born in Andover :- 36". JOSHUA'. 321-1. SVSANNAH~,b. Au~. 29, 1754. 307-111. STEPHEN'. 322-11. -(dau.)', b. Feb. 17, 1756. 323-111. Luc~,b. Ma~fb20, 1759. 98 324-IV. EBENEZER',h. Dee. 7, 1760. EBENEZERABBOT+, born in Andover 32.5-V. ISAAC',b. June 16, 1762. was cordwainer, 326~~1.SIMEON', b. May 29, 1764. Feb. 20, 1731. He a 327-VII. MICAH', b. May 15, 1766; d. Aug. 16, and lived in Andover. He married 1767. Lydia Farrington Jan. I, 1752 ; and died Dec. 19, 1771. His wife survived him, and was his widow in 1776. COL. GEORGEABBOT+, born in Andover Children, born in Andover :- Dec. 14, 1724. He was a colonel in the 308-1. HANNAH~,b. Jan. 27, 1752-3; m. Abijah Clark Sept. 18, 1777; and militia, and an esquire, and lived with his d. July 24,1816. father in Andover. He married Han- 3-11. LYDIA', b. June 18, I 754; m. Peter nah Lovejoy Jan. I, I 747 ;and died Dec. Town Dee. 26, 1773. 26, 1775. Shedied Sept. 7, 1813, aged 31-111, EBENEZER',b. Jan. 15, 1757; m. Sarah Graves Jan. 20, 1783; was a eighty-nine. cordwainer, and lived in Reading. Children, born in Andover :- They had children. He d. in 1803. 328-1. GEORGE',b. Feb. g, 1748. See below 311-IV. EPHRAIM',b. March 19, 1759; lived (328). in Fryeburg ; m. Esther Eastman of 329-11. HANNAH~,b. Oct. IS, 1749; m. Jos- Conway (pub. Oct. 26, 1781); and eph Ballard (pub. Sept. 29, 1773); had nine daughters. and d. May 27, 1784. 312-V. JETHRO~,b. Apd 18, 1761 ; d. May 33-11'.. MARY', b.Sept. 4, I751 ; d. Sept. Is, 2, 1764. 1752.8 313-VI. THEODORE',b. Sept. 10, 1763; d. 331-IV. MARY', b. June 29, 1753 ; m. Dea. May 14, 1764. Joseph Poor of Danvers Dec. 26. 314-VII. SARAH', b. Dee. 7, 1765; m. David I 769 ; and d. Aug, 17, 1820. Stevens Dec. 28, 1784. 332-V. ELIZABETH',b. July 10, 1755; m. Samuel Lummus of Hamilton (pub. I00 Dec. 3, 1774); and d. Aug. 18, PETERABBOT+, born in Andover May 1821. lived Kingston, 333-VI. JOHN LOVEJOY',b. April 12, 1757. 8, 1734. He in N. H. See below (333). He married widow Elizabeth Damon of 334~~11.SAMUEL', b. June 12, 1759; d. July Reading Sept. 22, 1757 ;and died April --? 1759. 18, 1774. 335-VIII. SAMUEL',b. Sept. 19, 1760; grad: H. Children :- C., 1784; was a merchant, and lived in Saco, Me.; m. Mary Cutts at 315-1. PETER (twin)', b. June 22, 1758, in Saco ; and d. May 8, 1792. They Andover ; lived in Chester, N. H. ; had children. m. Phebe Pratt; and d. Feb. -, 3361~.SARAH', b. Oct. 3, 1762; m. Nehe- 1825. She d. in 1846. They had miah Abbot March 3, 1785. children.-~-~ 337-X. MARTHA', b.Oct. 17, 1764; m. John 316-11. EDMUND(twin)', b. June 22, 1758, Jenks of Salem Aug. 31, 1788. in Andover. 338-XI. DORCAS', b. Dec. 18, I 766 ; m. Dea. 1-111 BENJAMIN',d. March 4, 1765.' Tohn Holt of Greenfield Jan. 6. 318-IV. DANIEL', d. March 5, 176.5.. i792; and d. Jan. IS, 1841 319--v. BETTY', d. March 4, I 765.. .- -.,.?~--xII. TAMASIN'.b. Tan. ~a... 1769: m. Wi- liam ~p~letonof ~dekJuly 23, 107 1797 ; and d. in Salem Jan. 27,1850. ISMCABBO*, born in Andover June To be continued. 30, 1728. Lived in Andover until about 1768, when he removed to Fryeburg. NOTE. He married Susannah Farnum May 29, " Stebens Cummings Dyed by the hands 1753. of the Indians on the third Day of July: *These three were buried in one grave. I 706."-TopsjcId Town

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE EMERSONADAMS of Ipswich; priv., REVOLUTION. Capt. Robert Dodge's co., Col. Samuel Johnson's reg., Gen. Warner's brigade; Continued from Page 33. enl. Aug. 15, I 7 7 7 ; dis. Dec. 14, I 7 77 ; BENJAMINADAMS of Rowley ;priv., Capt. service, 4 rnos. ; co. raised from 3d reg. Eliphalet Spafford's co., Col. Samuel Ger- Mass. militia for service in Northern de- rish's reg., which marched on the alarm of partment ; stationed at Peekskill. April 19, I 775, to Cambridge ; service, 3 ENOCHADAMS, JR., of Newbury; priv., dys. ; reported as belonging to alarm list. Capt. Jacob Gerrish's co., which marched BENJAMINADAMS of Beverly; priv., on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cam- Capt. Larkin Thorndike's (1st) co., which bridge ; service, 6 dys. i also, Capt. Ger- marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, rish's co., Col. Moses L~ttle'sreg. ; muster to Concord ;service, 2% dys. ; also, Capt. roll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; enl. April 24, John Low's co., Col. Hutchinson's (19th) 1775 ; service, 3 rnos., 14 days.; also,co. reg.; musterroll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; enl. return [probably Oct., I 7751 ;age,18 yrs. ; May 12, 1775 ; service, 2 mos., 25 dys. ; also, order for coat money, dated Dec. also, order for coat money, dated Camp at 27, 1775 ; also, descriptive list of men Winter Hill, Oct. 2 I, I 775. en]. from Essex co. for g mos. from the BENJAMINADAMS of Rowley ; capt., Col. time of their arrival at Fishkill, June I I, Jedediah Huntington's reg. ; return of I 7 78 ; age, 22 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., 8 in. ; men in service at Roxbury Dec. 22, I 7 75 ; complexion, dark. also, list of officers of Mass. militia ; com- EZEKIELADAMS, JR., of Ipswich ; priv., missioued Feb. 3, I 776 ; also, Col. John- Capt. Elisha Whitney's co., which marched son's reg. ; enl. Aug. 18, I 7 77 ; dis. Nov. on the alarm of April 19, I 775,tO hlystic; 30, 1777 ; service, 3 rnos., 27 dys., in service, 4 dys.; also, served 16 dys. on Northern department. an alarm at Cambridge May I, 1775. BENJAMINADAMS, JR., of Rowley ; priv., ISRAELADAMS of Ipswich; in Capt. Capt. Eliphalet Spafford's co., Col. Samuel Richard Dodge's co., Col. Gerrish's (later Gerrish's reg., which marched on the Baldwin's, 38th)reg. ; return of men in ser- alarm of April 19, I 775, to Cambridge ; vice Aug., I 775, dated Camp at Chelsea ; service, 6 dys. ; returned home April 23, enl. May I, I 7 75 ; also, co. return dated 1775. Chelsea Oct. 2, 1775 ; also, order for DANIELADAMS of Boxford ; priv., Capt. coat money dated Chelsea Dec. 2 7, I 775. John Cushing's co., Col. Samuel Johnson's JAMESADAMS of Boxford ;in list of men reg., which marched on the alarm of enl. into Continental Army [no date]. April 19, I 775 ; service, 4 dys. JOHN ADAMSof Newburyport; priv., DANIELADAMS of Newbury ;priv., Capt. Capt. Moses Nowell's co., which marched Jacob Gerrish's co., Col. Moses Little's on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; service, reg. ; muster roll dated Aug. I, I 775 ; enl. 4 dys. ; also, 4th serg., Capt. Nowell's co. ; April 24, 1775 ; service, 18 dys. ; also, pay rolls for service from July I I, I 775, co. return [probably Oct., 17753 ;age, 20 to Dec. 31, I 775 ; service, 6 mos., 6 dys. ; yrs. ; dis. May I 2, 1775 ; also, Capt. Silas stationed at Newburyport. Adams' co., Col. Titcornb's reg. ; service, JOHN ADAMSof Andover; It., Capt. z mos. ; roll dated June zg, 1777. Nathaniel Lovejoy's co., commanded by DANIEL ADAMS of Haverhill; priv., Lt. John Adams, Col. Samuel Johnson's Capt. Samuel Johnson's co., Col. Tit- reg., which marched on the alarm ofApril comb's reg. ; dis. June 27, I 77 7 ; service, 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 3% z mos., 10 dys., at Providence, R. I. dys.; also, Capt. Lovejoy's (9th) co., DAVIDADAMS of Nrwbury ; serg., Capt. Col. Samuel Johnson's (4th Essex co.) Silas Adams' co., Col. Titcomb's reg.; reg. ; list of officers of Mass. militia ; service, 2 mos. ; roll dated June 29, 1777. commissioned April 3, I 776. 64 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

JOHN ADAMSof Amesbury (also given enl. May I, I 775 ;service, 3 mos., 8 dys. ; Scarborough) ; return of men enlisted also, co. return [probably Oct., 17751 ; Continental Army from. Capt. William age, 18 yrs. ;also, order for bounty coat Ballard's co., dated Amesbury, April I 8, dated Dec. 27, 1775 ; nlso, adj., Col. s 778 ; enl., 3 yrs. ; joined Capt. Lemuel Jacob Gerrish's reg. of guards ; return of Trescott's Co., Col. Henley's reg. officers dated Winter Hill, Jan. 22, 1778; JOHN ADAMS of Marblehead; priv., also, pay roll for service from April I, Capt. William Hooper's co. ;enl. July 18, 1778, to July 3, 1778, 3 mos., 3 dys.; r 775 ; service, 3 mos., 22 dys. ; also, ako, 1st It. ;list ofofficers of Mass. militia ; receipt for advance pay dated Salem, commissioned July 12, I 778 ; detached Sept. 26, 1775 ;also, pay roll for service to guards troops of convention; also, from Nov. I, 1775, to Dec. 31, 1775, Capt. Richard Rogers' co., Col. Jacob 2 mos., 5 dys. ; also, pay rolls for service Gerrish's reg.; enl. July 3, 1778; dis. from Jan. 4, 1776, to Nov. 15, 1776, 10 Dec. 12, 1778 ; service, 5 mos., I 2 dys. mos., 13 dys. Rolls dated Marblehead. NATHANADAMS of Newbury ; drummer, - JOSEPH ADAMSof Ipswich ; priv., Capt. Capt. Jacob Gerrish's co., Col. Moses James Patch's co., which marched on the Little's reg. ; co. return [probably Oct., alarm of April 19, 1775, to Mystic ; ser- 17751 ;age, 20 yrs. ;enl. April 24, 1775 ; - vice, 4 dys. ; also, Capt. John Baker's co., dis. Sept. 5, 1775 ; also, order for bounty Col. Moses Little's reg. ; muster roll dated coat dated Dec. 30, 1775; ako, Capt. Aug. I, 1775 ; enl. May 20, 1775 ; ser- Jonathan Poor's co.; return of men in - vice, z mos., 17 dys.; also, co. return service for six weeks, dated Newbury, [probably Oct., I 7753 ;age, 24 yrs. ;also, March 18, 1777. order for bounty coat dated Dec. 11, NATHANADAMS of Newbury; It., Col. - 1775. Brook's (late Alden's) reg., Continental JOSEPHADAMS of Salisbury ; serg., Capt. Army pay accounts for service from Jan. Jonathan Evans' co., Col. James Frye's I, 1777, to Oct. I, 1777 ; reported, ab- - reg., which marched on the alarm of April sconded Oct. I (also given Oct. IS), 19, 1775 ; service, 7 dys.; also, receipt 1777. for advance pay dated Campat Cambridge, NATHANADAMS of Andover ; list of men - June 28, I 775 ; also, return of nlen who raised for six mos. service and returned lost articles at Bunker Hill, June I 7, I 775 ; by Brig.-gen. Paterson as having passed also, co. return dated Cambridge, Oct. 6, muster, in return dated Camp Totoway, 1775. Oct. 25, 1780 ;also, pay roll for 6 mos. JOSEPH ADAMSof Lynn ;return of men men raised by Andover for services in raised agreeable to resolve of Dec. 2, I 780 ; Continental Army during 1780 ; marched enl. July 31, 1781. June 26, I 780 ; dis. Dec. 18, I 780 ; ser- JOSEPH ADAMSof Newbury; list of men vice, 6 rnos., 3 dys. drafted from Essex co. militia to march to NATHANIELADAMS of Newbury ; serg., Horse Neck, under Col. Cogswell ;drafted Capt. Jacob Gerrish's co., Col. Moses to Capt. Ilsley's co. ; failed to join reg. Little's reg., Gen. Green's brigade ; muster JOSHUAADAMS of Bradford (also given roll dated Aug. I, I 775 ;enlisted April 24, Falmouth) ; priv., Capt. William Hudson 1775 ; service, 3 rnos., 14 dys. ; also, co. Ballard's co., Col. John Brooks' (late return [probably Oct., 17751; age, 28 Alden's, 6th) reg..; Continental Army pay yrs.; also, receipt for bounty coat dated accounts for servtce from Feb. 10, 1777, to Oct. I 2, r 7 77 ; reported, died Oct. I 2, 1777. Capt. Joshua French's co., Col: ~dward JOSIAH ADAMSof Newbury; priv., Capt. Wigglesworth's reg. ; pay abstract for Jacob Gerrish's co., Col. Moses Little's mileage from Albany to his home, dated reg. ; muster roll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; Jan. 30, '777. RY ROLFE. 65 OLIVERADAMS of Newbury ;priv., Capt. AN ANmRECEIPT. Jeremiah Putnam's co., Col. Nathaniel Receiued the 2'" day of march 1629 Wade's reg. ; enl. June 5, 1778 ; service, of mr. Thomas marihe Citizen & habor-. 3 mos., 2 dys., on an alarm at Rhode daiher of london the fome of thirtie three Island ; reported, deserted Oct. 16,1778 ; poundes fix ihillings and eight pence in also, muster rolls for June-Sept., 1778, new England in America for wh a devi- dated East Greenwich. iion alotted to him as to every of the PELATIAHADAMS of Bradford (also adventurers pportionable to each man his given Chelmsford) ; priv., Capt. William undderwritinge ihall be Concluded & Hudson Ballard's co., Col. John Brooks' agreed vppon. I fay Recd. (late Alden's) 7th reg. ; Continental Army Ric : Saltonstall. pay accounts for service from March 25, (In margin : 33 :' 6" : Sd.) 1777, to Nov. I I, 1778 ; reported, killed John Tabor Sr Richard Saltonstall. Nov. 11, 1778. This is a true coppie of the receipt RICHARDADAMS of Newburyport ; prize given vnder Sir Richard Saltonitall his master, brig " Julius C~sar,"commanded one hand by Capt. Nathaniel Bently ; descriptive Witneled by me Thomas marihe. list of officers and crew dated June 21, (In another hand) Ett mr Arthur ffinch. 1780 ; age, 25 yrs., 4 mos. ; stature, 5 ft., -~l~nssac/rusetisArchiucs, volume ~o,fo/ioI. 8 in., complexion, light. RUFUSADAMS of Ipswich ; priv., Capt. Richard Dodge's co., Col. Baldwin's (late WILL OF HENRY ROLFE. Gerrish's) 38th reg.; co. return dated The will of Henry Rolfe of Newbury Chelsea, Oct. 2, 1775 ; enl. May I, 1775 ; was proved in the Ipswich court 28 : I : reported, sick and absent, Aug. I I, I 7 75 ; I 643. The following copy is taken from also, return of men in service, Aug., 1775, the record contained in Ipswich Deeds, dated Camp at Chelsea; also, order for volume I, leaf 3, the original being missing. bounty coat dated Chelsea, Dec. 27, I 775. The I jth lzth month 1642 SAM ADAMSof Salisbury; priv., Capt. I defire to comend my foule into the Joseph Page's co., which marched on the hands of the lord Jefus Chriit, I deiire alarm of April 19, 1775 ; service,4% dys. my goods may be equally divided to my SAMUELADAMS of Ipswich ; serg., Capt wife & all my children, only my ionne Elisha Whitney's co., which marched on John Roffe muft have the howle &land the alarm of' April 19, 1775, to Mystic ; more then all the reft of my children and service, 4 dys. ; marched to Capbridge, that their porcons shalbe divided when May I, 1775 ; service, 16 dys. they be 21 yeares of age if they marry To be continued. not before In cafe my wife dye or marry then the goods ihallbe divided ; otherwife not till my eldeft childe come to be 21 yeares of age But itill to re- NOTE. mayne in their mothers hands with the TO BE SOLD, now luying at Mrs. reit till that either of them are 21 yeares Nodg es's Whatf; of age or marry If any of my children dye then that porcon ihalbe equally A SCHOONER of about 120 Tons Burthen, has been one Voyage to the divided betweene my wife & the reit of Weit-Indies, built by Abel Merrell of my children I doe give vnto my wife Newbury Port, a prime Sailor, and in one great braiie pott and one great braife good Order. For further Particulars, en- pann, and a great braiie poinett and a quire- of Bartholomew Putnam." chafing dirh and five pewter platters I -Aduerfisencnt in Esscx Cazeffe (Salem), Set. doe give vnto my Kiniman Thomas 6, 1768. whittear a swarlne of bees. I defire my 66 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. brother John RoKe and my Cofen John John died in 1790; Benjamin married Saunders of Sillisbery and william Mondy Mary, daughter of Dr. Joseph Tryon, Jan. of Newberry to overfee my will & order 4, 1716, settled in laste en bur^, and had it to my defire & accordinge to my will. five children; and Jonathan settled in witnes herevnto I fet my hand Willington, where he died in I 760, having Thomas Hale. five children. Thomas Cowllman. Henry Roffe. -F. I. A. Wallace, Albany, N. Y. william Mofe. DROWNING ACCIDENT. ABBE NOTES Salem, Aug. 23. '' Laft Friday a very John Abbe (2) , mentioned in the Abbe U~CO,~O~Accident happened off Man- Genealogy, January Anfiquatian, Page 14, chefter, and the following Account is died in Windham, Conn., Dec. I I, 1700, related by a perfon who faw it. ---- and his widow Ilannah married Jonathan ~i~h~l~~~hi~~~~,Abraham Wyatt, and Jennings of Windham- Mr. Abbe had Daniel Poland, all of Beverly, were fifhing other children than those given, viz : in a canoe,near ~ittl~Mifery Ifland, ~oseph,born in Wenham in 1673, and which lays within 2 or 3 Leagues of this mentioned in the second paragraph of Harbour, and had out a Kellogg, or fmall Abbe Notes, page 33; Obadiah, who Anchor; while they were employed at married Elizabeth Wilkinson at Malden their Bu[inefs, to their inexprefllble Sur- Dec. 262 17012 and settled at lvindham, prize, the Canoe fuddenly fhot forward, later removing to Ashford, Corm.; Abi- very great Rapidity, without any gail,* who married Daniel Sabin of Wind- apparent Caufe, and, before they could ham March 18, 1701 ; Mary, born Sept- cut the Painter, run the Diftance of about 16, 1684, and married James Pease of 70 or 80 Feet, when fhe was pulled fo Enfield, Corm. ; Mercy, born Match 51 low as to fill andoverfet, and then ftopped. 16891 and married Nathaniel Flint of One of the Men fwam afhore, another Windham; John, born April 20, 16911 faved his Life by getting upon the Bot- married twice, had children, and lived in tom of the canoe,and remailling there Windham ; Hannah, born 13, 1693, till relieved by fome People in a Fiiher- and married Thomas Welch of Windham ; canoe,then in sight, getting in and Sarah, born in Windham March 111 Ballaf~; and the third, Daniel Poland, was 16999 and married John Welch. Of the unfortunately drowned, who, we hear, has children givell on Page 14, Johll and left a Wife and 7 or 8 Children. It is Thomas probably died Young, and Lydia fuppofed that fome large Fifh run foul of married Benjamin Bidlack. the Painter, dragged the Canoe the above Of the children of Samuel Abbe (31, mentioned Diftance, and was then difen- Page 14, Mary probably died unmarried i gaged."-- Essex Gazcftc, Aug. 23, I 768. Samuel had one son, Samuel, who die? young ; Eleazer (from Connecticut records and family tradition this name is QUERIES. Queries are inserted for one cent a word. shown to be Elizabeth) married William Answers arc solicit~d. I Slate ; Ebenezer was of Norwich in 705, 22. Who were the parents of Susanna of Windham in 1706, and later of Mans- Eastman, who married Thomas Wood, at field, and had thirteen children; Mercy east hill, M~~~.,M~~ 13, 1693? married Jonathan Ormsby of Windham; Muscatine, Iowa. H. Sarah married John Fowler of Lebanon ; Hepzibah married Samuel Palmer; Abi- 23. Wanted, ancestry of Sarah Davis, married John Swetland of Salem about gail probably married Joseph Ormsby ; I 7oo. H. *See February A#zliqvarian, page 33. Waftr~ir'le,N. y. ANSWERS. 67

14. Wanted, ancestry of Sarah Hart, 36. Andrews Peters lived in Ipswich, married George Norton of Salem, 1669. 1658 to 1686; in Andover, 1686 to 1713. H. Who were his parents? E. B. P. New York City. 25. Wanted, ancestry of Mary Bart- lett, married Nathaniel Norton of Suffield, Conn., 1729. H. ANSWERS. 26. The widow of David Haynes of I I. Thomas Nelson, ad, was born in Haverhill, Mass., who died soon after the Rowley, Yorkshire, England, A. D. 1638, battle of Bunker Hill, married again in son of Thomas and Jane (Dummer) Nel- Boxford, Mass., a Mr. Putnam or Perley, son. Thomas, st, returned to England, and was living there in 181 I. Can any- and died there about 1650. Thomas, ad, one give the right name, or any informa- died 5th April, 171 2. Thomas, ad, was tion in regard to her? F. G. H. styled sergeant." Epitaph :- Ballard Yale, Mass. Who lived a saintly harmless life, Who were the parents of Nathaniel Loved all good hooks, hut no bad strife. 27. Who dyed a quiet easie death, Parker, who married Hannah Chamber- And to Christ resigned his breath lain, Jan. I, I 756, of Roxbury ? So live my sons, my Christ, 0 seek Rox~u?~. AUGUSTUS PARKER. And when you die, like Christ be meek. 28. What was the maiden-name of -H. N. Harriman, Georgetown. Rebeckah, wife of Robert Mullicken, who [It would appear from the following removed from Boston to Bradford between marriage contract that Joane Dummer 1683 and 1688? S. E. M. was the second wife of Thomas Nelson, Newburyport. and the stepmother of his sons. This is 29. William Peabody, born, Salem, found in the records of the Salem quarterly I 765 ; married Hannah Wilkins, 18001 court, gmo: 1656, in connection with the Middleton ; died, Lynnfield, Nov. 14, settlement of Thomas Nelson's estate. 1852. Who were his parents? -Ed. S. H. PEABODY. Know all men by thefe prfents, that 7424 Wrkht St., Chicago. whereas there is a Contract of marriage betwixt Thomas Nelfon of Rowley in New- 30. Wanted, parents of Amos Pea- England Gent: & Joane Dumer Spinr ye body, born in Middleton; married Abi- daughter of Thomas Dumer of Badgeth in gail Needham, 1828 ; lived in Billerica. old England Gent: and whereas alfoe S. H. P. Richard Dumer of Newbery in New-Eng- 31. Wanted, parents of Sarah Peabody land Gent hath engaged &bound himselfe of Topsfield, who married Joshua Towne for ye payment of two hundred pownds June 241 1799. S. H. P. foror towards ye marriage portion of the 32. Sally PeabodyofTopsfield married faid Joane, as by his bond bearing euen John Estey Aug. 16, 1804. Who were date wth thefe prfents appeareth, Now the her parents? S. H. P. faid Thomas Nelfon (In confideracon of his marriage W~ the faid Joane) doth 33. Wanted, parents of Sally Peabody of Topsfield, who married Daniel Kimball hereby bind himselfe his heires Execum : Nov. 8, 1804. S. H. P. Adminiftrators & afsigns & euery of them vnto ye kid Richard Dumer his executors 34. Who were the parents of Hannah adminrs & afsigns & to euery of then], in Peabody who married Daniel Andrew of ye fumme of fower hundred pownds, to be Salem Feb. 12, 1701-z? S. H. P. paid vnto them or fome one of.them, in 35. Any information relating to the cafe therebe a faileing to pforme the Con- Pottle or Pottelle family requested. + dicons ffollowing : Vizt. That if after the Lawrence. E. S. T. Compleating of the marriage Contract 68 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. abave mentioned, the faid Joane doe ' Robert Mullicken came from Glasgow, furvive the faid Thomas Nelfon then Scotland, to Boston, in 1683, when eigh- (Imediately upon the death of the faid teen years of age and afterwards moved to Thomas) the fummer ualloe of two hun- Bradford, then a part of Row1ey.-S. E. dred pownds & Likewife foe much more AiIulliRen, Ncwburypori. as the fdid Thornam Dumer fhall ad unto the faid porcon of two hundred pownds EDITORIAL NOTES. (together alfoe w" what elfe the faid Thomas Nelfon fhall thinke fitt) shall be At the Salem quarterly court the wills allowed payed or deliuered unto ye said of the following named persons were Joane for her owne ufe behoofe & beneffit, proved on the dates stated respectively. And further that as ye Eldest fonn of the Can anyone tell us where the originals or faid Thomas Nelfon fhall have a double copies can be found? porcon out of his eftate, foe the remainder Thomas Eaborne, 27 : 4 : 1643. of his eftatefhalbe equally deuided amongst John Woodbury, 27 : 4 : 1643. ye reft of the children, as well thofe as Abraham Belknap, 20 : I 2 : 1643-4. fhall be ye Joynt ifsue of them ye P thomas John Mattox, I I : 5 mo. : 1644. & Joane (if any fuch be) as ye other: weh A full list of the patriotic and historical condicons being performed according to societies of the county, with names of ye true intent &meaning of thefe prfents, their respective presidents and secretaries, Then the bond in thefe prfents conteined is desired for publication in the ANTI- fhalbe utterly void or els it fhall stand QUARIAN. remaine & be in full' force & vertue; Dated ye fifteenth day of ye Twelfth month NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1641 Sealed & deliuered COL. THOMASGOLDTHWAIT-WAS HE A in ye prfents of TORY? By R. Golir'tlrwaite Carter, U.S. Richard Saltenstall A. Illustrated ; 8vo. ; paper ; IOO pages. Ez : Rogers Tho Nelfon Price, 50 cents. H. W. Bryant, Portland, wm : Wakefeild 1896. This is a valuable and interesting Md : that before ye enfealing & deliuery paper, read before the Maine Historical of ye prfent writing, it was agreed that the Society. Capt. Carter shows that Col. whole porcon that shalbe Reced by the Goldthwaite was not born in Chelsea, aboue named Thomas Nelfon shall (upon Mass. ;that he was not shipwrecked and ye Requirey & according to ye aduife of lost when en route to Nova Scotia in ye ffriends of his prfent Contracted wife) 1775 ; and that he was not an active be difposed & ifsured for the maintenance loyalist. He belonged to the Goldthwaite of his P wife during her life (in cafe he family of Salem. furuive the faid Thomas) &afterward to be OLD ELIOT. A monthly publication equally devided amongst there Children, with this title has been commenced by but while they both Live it is to be for Mr. Augustine Caldwell. It is devoted to there Joynt maintenance, Alfoe it is the historical interests of Eliot, Me., the agreed that ye P porcon fhalbe Receiued old North parish of Kittery. & difpofed of from time to time by the EPITAPHSFROM MEETINGHOUSE HILL aduiie of ye friends indifferently of the BURYINGGROUND IN METHUEN. Paper; laid Thomas & his faid wife ; ec.] 12mo. ; I 16 pages. Published by the 19. Rebecca Mullican or Mullicken, Methuen Historical Society, 1897. The as the name was more commonly spelled epitaphs are well printed, and show care at that time, was daughter of Robert and in copying, which was done, we believe, Rebeckah Mullicken of Bradford, and she by Charles W. Mann, who is much inter- married Benjamin Gage Aug. 2, 1722. ested in the antiquities of this town.

VOL. I. SALEM,MASS., MAY,1897. No. 5.

REV. JA(mB BAILEY. MR. BAILEYwas a son of Deacon David One day some of his scribbling came to and Mary (Hodgkins) Bailey, and was the knowledge of Rev. Jedediah Jewett, born in Rowley, Mass., in the ancient the pastor of the parish in which Mr. house pictured on the next page, in 1731. Bailey was born, and a learned Christian His father had a large family ;and though gentleman. He was much impressed with always industrious and saving he obtained the originality and slumbering talents of for them but a scanty maintenance. the young man, and came to his father's The means for securing an education, house to see him. When Jacob was beyond the slightest knowledge of writing, called, on learning who the visitor was, he reading and arithmetic, were not within was so diffident that he went into the the grasp of poor boys in Rowley at that woods and remained there until Mr. Jewett time. Extreme bashfulness added to had departed. young Bailey's poverty the hopelessness Arrangements were, however, made of ever being anything more than a drudge with Jacob's father by which the boy was within a world whose confines were little to study a year with Mr. Jewett gratuitous- more than the extent of his vision. From ly. His thirst for learning was so intense, his early childhood he had an insatiable that after a great struggle he overcame desire for knowledge and travel ; a thirst his diffidence, and placed himself under which he could never hope to satisfy. the agreed tutelage ; thus taking his first He had no books. They were scarce and step out of obscurity. high; and his labor must be bestowed Mr. Bailey entered Haward college in upon that which would assist in obtaining 1751, at the age of twenty. Poverty bread and clothing for the family from placed him, in those days of social dis- day to day. tinctions, at the foot of his class, in The poor are sometimes ambitious, and which were John Wentworth, afterward by some means sooner or later such will baronet and governor of New Hampshire lift themselves into prominence and posi- and Nova Scotia ; John Adams, afterward tions of responsibility. second president of the United States; Without books, this young man did William Browne, who became the royal the best thing to do; he made them. governor of Bermuda, and a justice of the Arduous toil occupied the day, but dur- supreme court of Massachusetts ; David ing the hours of darkness his time was his Sewall, who also became a justice of the own. When the family were asleep he supreme court of Massachusetts ; Tris- frequently spent hours in writing, upon tram Dalton, in after years a member of such paper as he could find, thoughts that the United States senate ; Samuel Locke, came to him, occurrences of the day, de- afterward president of the University ; and scriptions of the neighborhood, the peo- Rev. Willlam W. Wheeler, a n~issionary ple, their customs, etc., thus acquiring of the Church of England. skill and knowledge and accomplishing Mr. Bailey relied principally upon Mr. that which books alone could not effect. Jewett for means to pursue his course of THE ESSEX ANTIQUARUN. study in college. Mr. Jewett persuaded June 4, 1758, Mr. Bailey attended an Messrs. Cushing and Newman, of Boston, association of Congregational ministers at to give eighty-five pounds each, and also the house of Rev. Mr. Odlin in Exeter, solicited money from other persons to aid N. H., to deliver his approbation dis- the needy student. Among them was Sir course, which he says heread after having William Pepperell. Jan. 28, 1754, when overcome his extreme diffidence. He he was at home in Rowley, he was so dis- was duly accepted, and approbated to couraged that he almost resolved to go to preach the gospel, and thus became !a sea; but by the friendly overtures of Rev. regular clergyman. James Chandler, pastor of the church in The time that he could' nave devoted the West parish (now the town of George- to the study of theology and the Bible town), who gave him two dollars in money during the three years that he taught and a pair of gloves, and loaned him his school, after his graduation from college, Hebrew Bible, he returned to college. must have been limited. He preached He developed during his college course occasionally at various places along the fidelity, courage and a rather unyielding coast during the twelve months succeed-

BIRTHPLACE OF REV. JACOB BAILEY. will, and as a result of his condition in ing his approbation, and pursued his life, probably, became possessed of strong school work at Gloucester. prejudices and a slight eccentricity. He For some reason, not now known, Mr. graduated in I 755. Bailey concluded to enter the service of While in college he taught school in his the Episcopal church. Dec. 13, 1759, native town in 1753, and after his gradu- he left Gloucester and walked to Boston, ation, in 1755, in Kingston, N. H. He snendlng the night, while on the trip, at endeavored to establish a private school Norwood's tavern, in Lynn. Jan. 10, there in the following spring, but failed ; 1760, with his college diploma, which he and succeeded no better in the same sea- had just obtained from the president, and son in a similar enterprise in his native letters of recommendation from various town. In the summer of 1756 he taught clergymen in Boston, addressed to the in Hampton, N. H., and continued there archbishop of Canterbury, the. bishop of until April, I 758, when he went to Glou- London, and the Society for Propagating cester, Mass., where he was a teacher the Gospel in Foreign Parts, he set sail until December, I 759. from Boston for London in the Hind. REV. JACOB BAILEY. 71 He arrrived at Portsmouth, England, Feb. them by his diligence, prudence and ex- 16, after a very disagreeable voyage, hav- amplary life. He was the only clergy- ing had the meanest accommodations and man in the entire region at that time, and fare and very profane and uncouth asso- his work lay among seven thousand peo- ciates. He went by stage from Ports- ple, besides the Norridgewock Indians, mouth to London. who were Catholics. He also preached After having passed the customary ex- at Georgetown as often as he could. amination, he was ordained, March 16, In August, 1761, Mr. Bailey married in St. James' church ;and was introduced Sally, daughter of Dr. John and Martha to the bishop of London, Thomas Sher- (Wingate) Weeks of Hampton, N. H., lock, at his palace at Fulham. This was who was much younger than himself, and only a few months before the death of the had been one of his pupils. bishop, and while he was terribly dis- In the same year (1761), Pownal- figured by his disease. borough became a county seat, and a He received nineteen pounds, seven court house was built. In it the services shillings and sixpence, the royal bounty of the church were held for several to all American clergymen after ordina- years. tion, the king signing the order himself. The next spring, Mr. Bailey removed The Prince of Wales also presented him across the river to Richmond, where he with a copy of Leland's View of the could have land to better advantage. Deistical Writers and some other works. In 1768, he was invited to become the He was then informed that the Society rector of the church in Arnesbury, Mass., for the Propagation of the Gospel in but he decided to remain with his poor Foreign Parts, had appointed him their people, with whom he had been for missionary at Pownalborough, on the nearly eight years. , Kennebec river, with a salary of fifty A church was built at Pownalborough, pounds. and in I 7 7 I a parsonage-house was com- Before leaving London, Mr. Bailey pleted and occupied by Mr. Bailey and called upon and dined with Benjamin his family. It stood about fifty rods from Franklin. the church. He returned to America in a frigate, Soon after the courts began to be sailing in March, and sighted the moun- held at Pownalborough, some persons of tains of Agamenticus May 28, arriving in wealth and influence settled there. From Boston June 4. them Mr. Bailey hoped to obtain assist- Mr. Bailey made no delay in commenc- ance in his work, but instead they were ing his missionary labors at Pownalbor- opposed to him. ough. He arrived there July I, and took He suffered also from his loyalty to the up his abode with the fanlily of Capt. king as the dawn of the Revolution came Samuel Goodwin, a surveyor. The town on, and on several occasions was com- contained one hundred and fifteen fami- pelled to flee before mobs. The battle of lies. His parish, however, comprehended Lexington increased the feeling against the county, which consisted of the settle- the Episcopal ministers especially, and ments scattered along the Kennebec river down into the wilds of Maine went many for fifty miles. He soon found that the people who were loyal to their sovereign. service was no sinecure. Travelling was Among these was Mr. Bailey's brother-in- inconvenient and dangerous through the law Rev. J. Wingate Weeks, rector of St. almost trackless wilderness, and the river Michael's church in Marblehead, who afforded very little advantage over land with his wife and eight young children travel. He found the people poor and took refuge in Mr. Bailey's house. Here, ignorant, having neither schools nor they were discovered, and insulted and preaching, and he became very useful to threatened. 72 THE ESSEX ANTIQUAR IAN. Because of Mr. Bailey's position on spring. They sailed in a small schooner, the political question, nearly one-half of June 9, 1779, leaving behind his library the members of his church withdrew. and their many friends, who would still be He was stigmatized as an enemy to his ill-treated because of their loyalty to country, and some of his domestic ani- the mother country. They had a stormy mals were killed in the pasture. In I 77 7, passage most of the way, but at length a he was forbidden to pray for the king, gentle wind wafted them toward Acadian but he continued to do so, and would shores. But after they had had a view not read in his pulpit the Declaration of of the province, another storm compelled Independence. A warrant was issued their stay at sea for several days. They for the arrest of himself and others, who landed at Halifax June 21. were loyal to the crown, for the purpose After having been in the province of transporting them out of the country. awhile, Mr. Bailey was invited to become He lay concealed in his house for five pastor of the church at Cornwallis during weeks, an attempt upon his life having the subsequent winter. Cornwallis was a been made, and escaped secretly, on foot part of that beautiful region known as and in a canoe, to Brunswick. His wife " the garden of Nova Scotia. " This was was left with a young infant and two little a part of the Acadia of the French set- girls and without money or provisions, tlers, and adjoining if not a part of the except a few garden roots. On horse- the same territory as Grand Pr4, the prin- back, he continued to flee, through Fal- cipal town of the neutral French in the mouth, toward Portsmouth. Before he former years, and the scene of Longfel- arrived there he heard of Burgoyne's low's Evangeline. Cornwallis is now surrender, and hurried forward to Bos- called Upper Canard. On sept. 6, I 779, ton. There, he remained for about two Mr. Bailey wrote that he dined upon the months, when he thought that he might very spot where Ren6 LeBlanc, the pub- return home in safety, and came back lic notary of the Acadians, had lived. at Christmas, having been gone since After the devastation of the region by Oct. 15. the English, about 1761, a colony of two Though a considerable number of his hundred persons from Connecticut settled poor piople adhered to him through all Cornwallis. At the time of Mr. Bailey's his trouble, he had received no salary arrival about two hundred families were since June, I 775, three years' time, dur- living there. Invitations had also been ing which he had continued to perform extended to Mr. Bailey to settle at St. his duties whenever it was possible. John and Cumberland, but as he had He resolved to remove his family into given some encouragement to the people the region that still remained loyal, and of Cor~iwallishe would not disappoint not permit them to suffer longer as they them, although by settling with them had for several years preceding. In the he sacrificed much more advantageous autumn of 1778, he petitioned for leave prospects. to remove into Nova Scotia. He began his service at Cornwallis in While waiting for the dilatory council October, I 779. The succeeding winter to act upon his petition, he was seized by was one of anxiety and gloom ; the peo- a mob and stripped naked in search of ple were divided in religious matters, and papers, alleging that he intended to escape his supporters were so few and poor that surreptitiously to Quebec. they could do but little for their shepherd. About the first of November, the gen- His salary was almost nothing. . eral court granted his petition, and he In the next summer, he was appointed was allowed to depart with his family and deputy chaplain to the eighty-fourth regi- goods to Halifax. But the inclemency ment, a part of which then kept a gar- of the season forbade their journey until rison at Annapolis. REV. JACOB BAILEY. 7 3 Mr. Bailey remained at Cornwallis un- No English mission had been established ti1 July 26, 1782, when he removed to there, though religious services had been Annapolis, having been appointed mis- held there a few time s by Rev. Thomas sionary for that place on the twenty-ninth Wood, formerly of New Jersey and Rev. of the preceding January by the Society J. Wingate Weeks, formerly of Marble- in England. He made his change of head, Mass. residence with a cart and two yoke of Mr. Bailey was kindly received by the oxen, carrying his goods, and a vehicle inhabitants. At that time there were only covered with canvas and drawn by two about one hundred and twenty persons in horses, conveying Mrs. Bailey and the the town; but, in October, nine trans- children. Friends accompanied them for ports, convoyed by two men-of-war, ar- fourteen miles. They then entered the rived from New York with five hundred wilderness, passed along the unmade path, refugees of both sexes and of all ages. which was specially dangerous in the Every habitation became crowded, and darkness of the thickclouds, great showers many were unable to procure lodgings. making ponds of water in the hollows, Most of the new-comers had left all their swelling the streams and drenching them. property, and were suffering for common The distance was seventy-two miles, and necessaries. They were people of cul- five days were tediously spent in travel- ture and fashion and deeply felt their ling it. Of the termination of this jour- deprivations. The influx of loyalists from ney, Aug. I, Mr. Bailey wrote : ['Having New England was so great that thousands passed through a gloomy wood, we sud- landed at Annapolis in 1783. Several denly opened upon an extensive plain hundred slept in the church, and more overspread with the richest vendure, or- were unprovided for. The season was namented with little groves, and beauti- rigorous and stormy. Nov. 6, 1783, Mr. fied with bunches of wild roses, which Bailey wrote to the home society that scattered their delicious fragrance through nearly " four hundred of these miserable the air. After crossing this plain the re- exiles perished in a violent storm, and I mainder of our progress for the space of am persuaded that disease, disappoint- a mile was an easy descent towards the ment, poverty, and chagrin will finish the northwest, both sides of the road being course of many more before the return adorned with little fields, gardens and or- of another spring." chards. Upon an obtuse point of land In I 787, in reply to suggestions rela- formed by the bending of the river, the tive to dressing better and to his toilet, town appeared, rising amidst a forest of Mr. Bailey wrote as follows to Doctor fruit trees, while the lofty mountains of Peters in London : - Granville terminated the direct view. " If you reflect that we are liable to be Annapolis, or Port Royal, as it was at called, upon a sudden emergency, in all first called, was settled by adventurers weathers, to distant excursions, where our from France in 1604, who established progress must be continued, partly on there an important fortress and the Ro- foot, partly on horseback, by land and by mish religious worship. In 1713, by water, through deep morasses, muddy treaty Nova Scotia passed into the pos- roads, and unbroken forests, you cannot session of the English, who in honor of wonder that we sometimes exhibit a the reigning sovereign, Queen Ann, tragic-comic appearance. Several times changed the name from Port Royal to in the year past I have been exposed in this Annapolis. Here the governor of Nova manner, amidst violent storms of rain, Scotia resided; and, until 1750, when mire to the horse's belly, wet to my skin, Halifax became the seat of the provincial and my clothes rent in climbing over government, it was the most noted place windfalls ; and in this pickle to perform in the eastern country, except Louisburg. the service I went upon and then to re- 74 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. turn in the same shattered condition. had no sooner crossed Moose river than You are sensible that should a clergyman a cold, disagreeable storm of wind and adjourn a sermon, a wedding, or a funer- rain commenced, which quickly rendered al, or a christening, or the visiting of a these new roads intolerable. ~Mrs. Spur sick or dying person till fine weather, as was thrown from her horse, but her hus- other gentlemen may do, who only travel band, catching her in his arms, prevented for pleasure, it would still be more crimi- her from receiving any harm. nal. I will give you an extract from my " ' She was however, so wet and fatigued journal to the present purpose. that we were obliged to leave her behind. " ' November 15th. After a severe By twelve we were completely soaked to frosty night we set forward, being four in our skins, and, by the plunging of our company, for a wedding, to Clement's, horses, were covered with mud from the about fourteen miles below Annapolis. soles of our shoes to the crown of our " ' In the second mile we crossed Al- hats. Before dark I reached my habita- lan's river, a rapid, rocky stream, where tion in woful plight. we were finely bespattered. Our pro- " 'Menroranrillrn. Received half a dol- - gress for several miles lay through horrid, lar fee, as a reward for my journey, ex- broken roads, so encumbered with rocks, pense, trouble, wear and tear, and in holes and gullies, roots of trees, and wind- consequence of this soaking, I was afflicted - falls, and sloughs, that the passage was with the rheumatism through the winter, extremely difficult and dangerous. We though I never omitted duty.' were frequently obliged to dismount and "As to Annapolis town, upon my ar- - lead our horses, wallowing knee-deep rival it contained eighteen families, at through the mire. The last six miles present forty-five, only four or five of conducted us over hanging precipices, which, either by fortune or education, woody promontories, and three stony have any pretensions to politeness, and - beaches, full of honey pots. We crossed these are all very friendly. One has ex- Moose river at a critical moment, as the erted himself to procure subscriptions, tide was running in with great rapidity. and another, acknowledged to be the - A little before sunset we arrived at Mr. politest man in the county, has sub- Jones', a log house with two small apart- scribed to give five pounds yearly. The ments, where I united in matrimony, other families are tavern keepers, dis- - Sheepy Spur and Alicia Van Voorhies, banded sergeants, Scotch pedlars, me- the bride very pretty. chanics, farmers and negroes. " ' The house being crowded with peo- "Some are transformed into shop- - ple, Capt. Ditmarsh, the bride's grand- keepers, and others remain very indigent. father, invited us to sleep at his house. There is nota building equal to the homes A little before dark we set forward, and of middling farmers in New England. It - having walked about a mile, we came to a is from a regard to truth, and not from river, where, after wading into the water any disrespect that I transmit this ac- over our knees, we were under the neces- count, for I am treated civilly by all. I - sity of returning in a dismal, dark and have not, to my knowledge, an enemy cloudy evening, along the ragged banks among them, and they have readily sub- or a rocky beach, every moment in scribed to give me twenty pounds per danger of breaking our legs, and of hav- annum, which is as much as they are able. - ing our eyes scratched out against the It is payable in May, and most of them branches of trees which had fallen over have already discharged the first year, the bank. We at length recovered the and the fear of my being removed was - house, where music and dancing contin- their principal inducement to subscribe. ued till after sun-rising. About nine we be- " But the inhabitants of Annapolis are gan to return towards Annapolis, but we not the fifth part of my parishioners. - REV. JA( :OB BAILEY. 7 5 They are chiefly husbandmen and labor- the result of the times and his peculiar ers with miserable habitations. Many situation. His visit to England revealed families are confined to a single apart- to him the grandeur of the military and ment, built with sods, where men, women, naval power of the nation ; and the at- children, pigs, fowls, fleas, bugs, mosqui- tention and treatment which he received toes and other domestic insects, mingle from the dignitaries had less of the dis- in society. No less than forty of these tant formality and more of the free and huts exist within a mile and a half of An- interested republican intercourse than he napolis town. In some of these wretched had anticipated. Moreover the beneficent hovels, the politest clergyman in Europe, Church entrusted to him their bounty for were he a missionary, would be con- the needy people in Maine and Nova strained to enter, to eat, and perhaps to Scotia, reposing full confidence in his sleep, or else to neglect his duty."' judgment and integrity. When enemies Jan. 20, I 794, Mr. Bailey was appointed, rose to speak ill of its sway, all these by Gov. John Wentworth, deputy chap- things tended to draw him more and more lain of the garrison at Annapolis. He strongly to the support of the government had performed the duties of this office under which he was born and had always for several years, but another had re- lived. He also felt the madness and ceived the emoluments. futility of an attempt to make the colonies The county was his parish, which was independent. Moreover the character of called St. Luke's. He dieti of dropsy, the leaders of the revolting colonists in July 26, 1808, at the age of seventy-six, his section rather inspired in him an having retained his faculties, both of body aversion to rebellion on the principles of and mind, to the last. He was below right and justice. Excessive immorality medium stature, and had a delicate con- and want of religious obligation were fear- stitution. The frontispiece of this num- lessly and openly proclaimed. If argu- ber is an exact reproduction of the only ment failed to convert a tory, mob portrait of him. violence wdls resorted to, even though the His love of learning assisted him in re- object of it was a respected clergyman, moving many obstacles in order that he and blood was readily shed. This was might acquire knowledge and cultivate his not, to him, the fruit of an enlightened mental powers. He had fair natural and honest love of liberty, or the course talents, and was possessed of a large of its devotees. amount of varied information. His temporal condition remained un- He was always busy, and well en~ployed improved to the last. He never had an in a great variety of matters and lines of income sufficient for the maintenance of investigation. himself and family; yet his hospitality He was a voluminous writer of both was ever generous. Despite certain prose and poetry. He prepared a manu- strong elen~entsof his character he al- script history of New England; a de- ways retained the personal regard of his scription of New Brunswick, with an ac- acquaintances, and the love of the people' corlnt of the sufferings of the American of his charge. loyalists; some dramatic sketches of a His wife and six children sumived him. political cast; and two or three manu- Mrs. Bailey died March 22, 1818, aged script school books. seventy. Of the children, Charles Percy Mr. Bailey was always ardently inter- was so handsome that, when the Duke of ested in politics, which was without doubt Kent (father of Queen Victoria) was com- mander of the Nova Scotia forces, he saw the lad and was so pleased with his ap- *From "The Frontier Missionary: A Memoir of the Lifc of the Rev. Jacob Bailey, A. M:," prepared by pearance and address, that he took him Rev. Wllliam S. Barflet, and publuhcd m '853 under his own care and provided for him. 76 THE ESSEX A He became an officer in the army and &then thofe legacies before mentioned was killed in the battle of Chippewa, in before any of the revenew goe to him Upper Canada. Another son, William It I make my brother Richard Browne Gilbert, was a lawyer. executor of this my will &Teftament And I defire my two frends Richard Knight & Thomas Macye to fe that this my will be WILL OF GEORGE BROWNE. pformed according to my plaine intent The will of George Browne of Newbury and meaning pvided that they fhalbe was proved in the court at Ipswich March fattiffied for whatfoever trouble or charge 28, 1643. The following copy is may come to them about the fame ffur- taken from the record contained in Ip- thermore my will is that if my wife be with swich Deeds, volume I, leaf 5, the origi- child that then my former will fhalbe nal being missing. voyde I then give vnto my wife rpy The laft will & Teftament of George howfe & lande & all ye reft of my Browne May 1642 eftate to my child to be deliv'ed to it In the name of God amen I George when it come to be eighteene yeares old Browne being fick & weake in body but and that my wife in the meane tynie fhall pfect in minde &c doe make my laft have the ufe of it toward ye bringing vp will & Teftament in mann 6r forme as of the child and all charges that doe or followeth Impr I bequeath my foule in- fhall arife whatfoever to be paid out of to the hands of god and my body to the the child's porcon This also I defire earth to be buried It I give to my be- my two frends aforenamed to overfee. loved wife my howfe & land with all my Item I give vnto my wife the fwyne howfehold goods except my mufkett & and my fhirts except one and my bands fword my wearing clothes & Tooles except three & a hatt & a paire of Item I give vnto her my kow It I fhoes and my will is that my wife fhall give to my brother Richard Browne my pay thefe debts that which I owe to wearing clothes & Tooles &t I give Richard Littleale John Bifhopp & vnto Richard Littleale Twenty fhillings to Henry flay & to John Lowle & to be paid out of the rent of the Mill mriB. Goodale & mrb. Olliver Item Item : I give vnto my father 6r to my I give to my wife my bible Item my brother Michael Twenty fhillings a peece will is that if my father & my brother to be paid out of the Mill, but if god by michael come not then my two Neph- his pvidence bring them into this land ews Margery & Jofua fhall have then my will is to give them fix pounds a that which my father & brother fhould peece or if but one of them come over have. then he fhall receive twelve pounds & if By me George Browne. afterward the other come then he fhall U'ittnes repay to him iix pounds Item I give Richard Knight to all my brethren & fifters belides Twelve Thomas Macy. pence a peece my will is that all this fhalbe paid out of my Mill after all my debts are difcharged It I give unto NOTE. Jofeph Browne fonne of my brother Richard Browne my fhare in the Mill at "Hemp, Dear Skins, Beaver Skins, Salifbury with the land belonging to it, to Lignumvitze, Brimftone, Mahogany Plank be affigned vnto him when he come to be & Boards, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, and eighteene yeares of age & in the meane Indigo" were offered for sale on board tyme the revenew of it to be imployed for the brig Pift-Packet, Israel Obear, master, his ufe & at the Terme aforefaid Pro- lying at Mr. Samuel Barton's Wharf.- vided that my debts be firft paid out of it Essex Gazette (Salem), Sept. 27, 1768. OLD-TIME LOTTERIES. 7 7

THE STATE LOTTERY. The preamble to the law of 1719, TAcrc,-speak,--speak out,--abandon fear; states that 'I there have lately been sett up Let both the dead and living hear,- within this province certain mischievous The dead, that they may blush for shame and unlawful games, called lotteries, Amidst their monumental fame,- whereby the children and servants of sev- The living, that, forewarned of fate, Conscience may force them, ere too late, eral gentlemen, merchants and traders, Those wheels of infamy to shun and other unwary people have been drawn Which thousands touch, and are undone. into a vain and foolish expence of money, There, built by legislative hands, which tends to the utter mine and im- On Christian ground, an altar stands. poverishment of many families, and is to " Stands? gentle poet, tell me where?" the reproach of this government, and Go to Guildhall. "It stands not there! " True,-'tis my brain that raves and reels against the common good, trade, welfare Whene'er it turns on lottery wheels; and peace of the province," and declares Such things in youth can I recall all lotteries to be "common and publick Nor think of thee,--of thee, Guildhall? nusances." Where erst I played with glittering schemes, And lay entranced in golden dreams. Since the passage of the severe act of James Motzlgol~zery. I 733, already referred to, it is probable that no private lottery of any considerable extent has been carried on in Massachu- OLD-TIME LOTTElUES setts. BY BIDXEY PERLEY. In spite of the severe language of the The state of public opinion at the general court in 1719, and its confirma- present time in reference to all means of tion in 1733, there came over the legisla- obtaining money by chance makes the his- ture in effect at least, an idea that what tory of our old-time lotteries interesting. was obnoxious and utterly wrong for indi- In the first years of the settlement of viduals to do was all right if done by the this region, the chimerical schemes of body politic. It was one of a series of lotteries were not known here. But instances of perversion of human judg- towards the close of the seventeenth cen- ment in which it is deemed that the end tury they began to develop ; and early in justifies the means. The ease of pro- the eighteenth century the attention of curing large sums of money by means of the public was forcibly drawn to them by lotteries came to be more thoroughly un- the demoralizing influences of that sys- derstood, and when the provincial treas- tem of money getting,-or money losing. ury was very much depleted, Feb. 4, The attention of the provincial general 1744-5, an act was passed establishing court was drawn to the matter, and Nov. the '' Massachusetts Government Lot- 4, 1719, an act was passed forbidding tery," to 'raise seventy-five hundred the existence of lotteries under a penalty pounds for the service of the province. of two hundred pounds for each offence, Twenty-five thousand tickets were issued, a fine of ten pounds being put upon ticket- and sold for thirty shillings each. There sellers, etc. Finding that these heavy were five thousand four hundred and penalties did not have the effect desired, twenty-two prizes, divided as follows, April 26, 1733, the fine was greatly in- viz: two of twelve hundred and fifty creased. The promoters of the lottery pounds each; four of six hundred and were doomed to pay a fine of five hun- twenty-five; six of three hundred and dred pounds, and those persons who as- seventy-five ; eight of two hundred and sisted in printing or writing tickets, no- fifty; sixteen of one hundred and twenty- tices, and so forth, one hundred pounds, five ; thirty-six of sixty-two pounds, ten and for exposing for sale or selling tick- shillings ; one hundred and fifty of thirty ets two hundred pounds for each ticket pounds; and fifty-two hundred of three so exposed or sold. pounds, fifteen shillings each. The total 7 8 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. amount of the prizes, thirty-seven thou- Notwithstanding these objections, the sand, five hundred pounds, equalled the general court extended this lottery for amount of the proceeds from the sale of raising three hundred pounds more Feb. the tickets. The profit was obtained by 24, 1763. every winner paying over to the province The first lottery to build Parker river twenty per cent of his prize. bridge was managed by Thomas Berry, This, the first public lottery here, was John Greenleaf, Joseph Greenleaf and soon succeeded by others. The secondof Joseph Atkins, esquires. There were these was one for raising twelve hundred six thousand tickets, at two dollars each, dollars to defray the expense of building which were sold by the managers and at and maintaining a bridge over Parker various stores in Boston. The largest river in Newbury. The act was passed prize was a thousand dollars. Jan. 29, 1750-1, at the request of the The second lottery was managed by town of Newbury. In this lottery, the Daniel Farnham, Caleb Cushing, Joseph amount deducted from each prize was Gerrish, William Atkins, esquires, and ten per cent. of the same. With the Patrick Tracy, merchant. This lottery funtls thus raised the bridge was built in will be found advertised in the Boston 1758. More money was needed, how- Guzeffeof May 19, I 760, the announce- ever, to meet unforeseen charges, and ment being headed by one of the coarsest April 28, I 760, the general court passed wood-cuts of a three-arch bridge ever another act establishing a lottery to raise seen. There were five thousand tickets, six hundred dollars for that purpose. at the price of two dollars each; and April 2 I, I 76 I, The Lords of Trade in sixteen hundred and fifty-five prizes. London wrote to Governor Bernard, at The largest prize was five hundred dollars. Boston, stating that several laws had been The lottery for building the Parker passed providing for the construction of river bridge was followed by an act of ferries, roads, etc., by lotteries, and that the province, passed Jan. 11, 175'8, es- it " is a mode of raising money that in our tablishing a lottery to build bridges over opinion ought not to be countenanced, the Saco and Pesumpscot rivers, Sir and hardly to be admitted into practice William Pepperell being at the head of upon the most pressing exigency of the the managers. April 29 following, a state, more especially in the colonies, lottery was created for raising money to where the forms of government may not pay the expense of the expedition against admit of those regulations and checks Canada. Then followed, in quick suc- which are necessary to prevent fraud and cession, other lotteries for various pur- abuse in a matter so peculiarly liable to poses, as for paving Boston Neck and them." They say they cannot, therefore, Prince street in Boston, for removing but disapprove these laws upon general rocks and shoals in Taunton great river, principles; and when they considered the and for rebuilding Faneuil Hall after the unguarded and loose manner in which great fire of I 761. they were framed, the objections were so An act for raising the sum of thirty-two many and so strong that they should have hundred pounds, by means of a lottery, thought to have laid them before His for building a hall for the students of Majesty for his disapprobation had they Haward college to live in, was passed, not been restrained by the consideration June 25, 1766, and consented to by that the purposes for which they were Governor Bernard after the Lords of passed, had been carried into full execn- Trade had so permitted. In their tion ; and that it was their duty to desire communication consenting to it, they that the governor would not for the future state that they are still of the opinion give his assent to any laws of the like that lotteries in the American colonies nature. ought not to be countenanced, and are ABBOT GENEALOGY. 79 fully convinced that the too frequent Joseph Hovey of Boxford drew a prize practice of such a mode of raising money of a thousand dollars in a State lottery in will be introduction of great mischief; November, 1790. With this money, he yet, in consideration of the general pro- purchased the farw which is, now the site .priety and utility of the service to be ofthe Barker Free School in West Box- provided for by the bill submitted for ford, where he afterward lived and died. approval, we have no objection to your In 1817, the capital prize of ten passing it into a law, desiring at the same thousand dollars in the Union Canal time that it may be understood that such lottery was drawn by a ticket that had a permission shall not be drawn into been sold in Newburyport in quarters. precedent in any other case whatever." The owners of three of the quarters were Lotteries continued to be established Samuel Burrill, a tailor, Woodbridge for various public purposes, as for build- h'oyes, a ': horse-letter," and Mrs. Bass, ing paper, woolen and cotton mills; widow of Bishop Bass. The name of the academies and schools; for the benefit of owner of the remaining quarter has not Harvard and Dartmouth colleges and come to the knowledge of the writer. Brown University ; canals, streets and bridges ; houses of religious worship, Con- ABBOT GENEALOGY. gregational, Episcopal and Roman Catho- Co7zlirruedfro71z page 62. lic ;* the Washington monument ; for the improvement of beaches ; the assistance 127 of needy individuals, etc. SAMUELABBOT, EsQ.,~ born in Andover Finding that the lottery idea had been Feb. 25, 1732. He was a merchant in carried far enough, March 6, 1790, the Boston, being an importer from England. general court passed an act speedily He lived in Boston until after the Revo- closing up those already established. lution, when he removed to Andover. He The act establishing the last lottery in gave a bell and clock for the meeting- Massachusetts was passed June 3, 18x5. house of his parish in Andover, andvalu- This was for the purpose of building a able plate for the communion service; bridge over Connecticut river, between and also five hundred dollars to the church Springfield and West Springfield. for its poor. He was one of the found- A road in Gloucester was built by the ers of the Andover Theological Seminary, aid of a lottery in 1797. and endowed a professorship of Christian In I 79 I, the proprietors of the cotton Theology, donating in all about a hundred manufactory in Beverly, the first in thousand dollars. He married Sarah America, were helped by the gift from Kneeland, a widow with three children, the State of seven hundred tickets in two but had no children of his own. He of the State's lotteries. died April 30, I 8 I 2, aged eighty ; and she There is always an interest in winners died Feb. 12, 1816, aged eighty-nine. of prizes in lotteries. A few names of '30 such have come down to this generation. In I 786, upwards of a dozen poor widows CAFT. HENRY ABBOT,^ born in Ando- of Marblehead were the fortunate owners ver Dec. 31, I 724. He was a sadler, and of the ticket that drew a prize of fifteen lived with his father in Andover. He hundred dollars. A poem on this occur- married, first, Elizabeth Sibson (pub. Oct. rence, written in Marblehead, was pub- 2, 1750) ; second, Phebe Abbot (137) lished in the Colurnbian Ccnb'nel' of April March 21, 1765. He died Feb. 21,1805, 24, 1790. aged eighty.

Children. born in~~ Andover--- :-- *An instance of the Roman Catholics thus 340-1. PHEBE,". Jan. 25, 1766; m. Jona- raising money occurred in Philadelphia, early in than Porter, a merchant of Medford, the century. Nov. 7, 1790. 80 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

341-11. MARY?b. April4, 1768; d. Aug. 17, 353-111. ABIGAIL,~b. Jan. 22, 1746; m. Maj. -,-,~I 760. Asa Bailev of Haverhill, N. H.. 342-111. HENRY,' b. July 10, 1770; d. Sept. April 15, 1j67 They were the pa: 10, 1770. rents of Rev. Phineas Bailey of East 343-IV. HENRY,' b. Sept. 6, 1771 ; d. May Berkshire, Vt., and Hebron, N. Y. 19, 1776. 354-IV. MARY,' b. Feb. 6, 1748; m. - 344-V. HENRY,' b. April 8, 1777 ; grad. H. Minchen. C., 1796; was a merchant in Ando- 355-V. JAMES,' b. Oct. 18, 1750; m. Zilpha ver : m. Tudith Follansbee in 1807, :, Smith in 1780; moved to Ohio in and'had children. 1809; and d. about 1814. They had 345-v' ISAAC,'b. June 9, 1779; m. Charlotte children. Houghton; and d. in 1838. They 356~1.JUDITH,' b. Jan. 19, 1753 ; m. Dea. had no children. Thomas Brock of Newbury, Vt., .in 346~11.ELIZABETH KNEELAND,' b. Jan. 10, 1773; and d. in 1807. 1788; d., unmarried, Aug. 29, 1812. 357-v11. WILLIAM,' b. April 24, 1755 ; was a farmer, and lived in Haverhill, N. 136 H.; m. Mabel Whittlesey of East DEA.ISAAC ABBOT,^ born in Andover Guilford, Conn., in 1777; and d. He was a farmer, a dea- June 14, 1807. They had children. Feb. 3, I 745. 358-VIII. BANCROFT,'b. June 4, 1757 ; was a con, town clerk, selectman, and the first farmer, and lived in Newbury, Vt. ; postmaster of Andover, where he resided. m. Lydia White in 1787; and d. He was lieutenant in the military service, Oct. 29, 1829. They had children. and was wounded in the battle of Bunker 359-1s. EZRA,' b. OCt. 8, 1759; d. young. 360-x. -,' d. young. hill. He married Phebe Chandler in 361-XI. SUSANNAH,'b. March 3, 1763. 1765. She died July 6, 1800, aged fifty- 362-SII. EZRA,' b. June 2, 1765; lived in eight; and, after being blind for several Newbury, Vt., and Bath, N. H. ; m. Hannah Abbot in 1786; and had years, he died May 21, 1836, aged ninety- children. He d. July 5, 1842. one. Children, born in Andover :- 347-1. PHEBE,' b. May 27, 1767; d. Nov. 8, DARIUS ABBOT,^ born in Pomfret, 1772. 348-11. ISAAC,' b. Dec. 9, 1768 ; m., first, Conn. ( ?),Oct. I 6, I 734. Hewas a house- Hephzibah Fiske July 5, 1798. She wright and farmer, and lived in Andover d. March 22, 1800, aged twenty- until about 1777, after which he resided seven; and he m., second, Mary Moulton. He d. Dec. 27, 1806, in Amherst and Hillsboro', N. H. He aged thirty-eight. He had children. married (when of Pomfret) Mary Holt, She d., his widow, Aug. 19, 1851, in Andover, Nov. I, I 757 ; and died in aged seventy-six. 1817. 349--111. PRISCILLA,Jb. June I, 1770; m. John Kneeland, Esq., in 1820; and d. Children :- Feb. -, 1830. 363-1. ANNA,'b. Aug. 31, 1758, inAndover; 35+1V. WILL~AM,'b. OC~.30, 1772; Was a d. OCt. 14, 1777. farmer, and resided in Concord, N. 364-11 HENRY: b. June I, 1761, in Andover. H.; m. Rebecca Bailey in 1801 ; and 365-111. EL~ZABETH,~b. March 26, 1763, in had children. Andover. 366-IV. PAUL,^ b. March 18, 1767, in Ando- 141 ver; was a farmer, and lived in Du. JAMES ABBOT,+born in Andover Holderness, N. H. He had children. TRYPHENA,".Feb. 23, 1769, in An- 12, He was a farmer, and 367-v. Jan. 1717. dover. lived in Concord, N. H., until 1763, 368-VI. CALVIN,' b. April IS, 1771; was a when he removed to Newbury, Vt., where farmer, and lived in Barre, Vt. ; m. he was one of the first settlers, and dea- Lucy Dutton ; and had children. He con of the church. He married Sarah d. Aug. 14, 1841. 369-VII. HANNAH,'m. Joel Jones. Bancroft of Reading in I 742. 370-VlII. LUTHER,'b. Sept. 1 I, 1775 ; d. Sept. Children :- '49 '775. 351-1. SARAH,". March I, 1743, in Ando- 371-1X. MARY.^ ver; m. J. Walden of Warner, N. H. 372-X. NANCY,". her brother in law, Joel 352-11. -,' d. young. Jones. ABBOT GENEALOGY. 81

I 68 Children, born in Andover :- 384-1. JONATHAN,' h. Au~.29, 1740. SCC CAPT. BENJAMINABBOT,+ born in Ando- bt20w (384). ver Oct. 21, I 723. He was a farmer, 385-11. WILLIAM,' b. Jan. 21, 1746. See be- and lived in Andover until after 1754, low (385). 386x11. MARTHA,'b. Jan. 23,1749; m. Oliver when he removed to ~~lli~,N. H. He Whiting of Temple (pub. March 3, married Elizabeth Abbot (125) April 2, 1774) ; and d. Dec. -, 1841. 1747 ; and died Jan. 5, 1770. 387-IV. NATHAN,' d. young. Children :- 373-1. BENJAMIN:b. April -, 1748; d. June 181 11, 1748. DAVIDABBOT,+ born in Andover about 374-11. BENJAMIN,'b. April 11, 1749, in An- dover; lived in Hollis; m. Sally I 716. He settled in Pembroke, N. H. Wright; and d. Sept. 5, 1839. They He married, when of Suncook, Hannah had children. Chandler Aug. 10, I 741. 375-111 ELIZABETH,^ b. Feb. 22, 1751; m., first, Ehenezer Nutting of Pepperell Children :- in 1770; second, Sampson Power of 38&1. BENJAMIN,'b. Jan. 2, 1743. Hollisin 1773 ; and d. Feb. 19,1836. 389-11. JOB,' b. in Andover; m. Phebe Far- 376-IV. SAMUEL,~b. April 13, 1753 ; m. Susan nun1 ; and removed from Pembroke Hubbard; and d. Feb. -, 1794. to Barnet, Vt., about 1783. They They had one child. had children. 377-V. MARY,'b. Dec. 31, 1754; d. Jan. 23, 1755. 185 378-VI. GEORGE,'b. Dec. 29, 1755 ; m. Naomy Tuttle; and d. Sept. 15, 1818. JOB ABBOT,+born in Andover Oct. 3, 379-v11. JOEL,". Dee. 4,1757 ; lived in West- * I 724. He lived in Pembroke and Sun- m. Lydia Cummings; and d. cook, N. H. He married Sarah Abbot April 12, 1806. She d. March 5, 1813. They had children. (151) of Concord, N. H.;and d. before 380-vr~r. JACOB,^ b. April 12, 1760; lived in 1763. Westford ; m. Polly Cummings Sept. Children :- -9 17~7;and d' April 1~~5'390-1. SARAH,'b. in 1751; m. Abiel Holt, They had children. jr., of Temple, N. H. (pub. Aug. 381-1x. MARY,'d. in 1796. 27, 1772). 391-11. NATHAN,b. Sept. 9, 1753. See bc- I74 Lore (391). DR. ABIEL ABBOT,+born in Andover 392-111 Jon,' b. in 1755 ; m. Anna Ballard of He was a physician in Andover Dec. 12, 1780; lived in July 24, 1735. Wilton; and d. July 12, 1805. They the army in the war of 1755 ; and settled had children. in practice in his native town. He rnar- 393-IV. ABIGAIL,' b. in 1757; m. Stephen ried Phebe Ballard Feb. 5, I 761 ;and died Dresser of Lowell, Me. June 24, 1764. She died Ju!y -, 1815. Children, born in Andover :- 190 382-1. ABIEL,~h. Nov. 6, I761 ; a seaman. DAVIDABBOT,+ born in Andover March 383-11. BENJAMIN,'b. May 28, 1763. See below (383). 28, 1728. He was a farmer, and lived in Andover, except for a short time in Bar- I 80 ton, Vt., and Salem, O., until about 1784, JONATHAN ABBOT,+ born in Andover when he removed to Billerica, Mass., Dec. 14, 1714. He was a farmer, and where he died Nov. r, 1788. He mar- lived in Andover. He married (when of ried Prudence Sheldon of Billerica Dec. Lunenburg), first, Martha Lovejoy Oct. 8, 28, 1752. 1739. She was living in 1768. He mar- Children, born in Andover :- ried, second, Mary Abbot (122), widow 394-1. ELIZABETH,~b. Feb. 26, 1754; m. of Stephen Abbot (86), Sept. 14, 1770. - Douglass; and removed to She died Aug. 8, 1792 ; and he died May Barton. Vt. 395-11. -(;on),5 h. Feb. 7, 1756; d. 211 1794. March 2, 1756. 8 2 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. 396--111. PRUDENCE,~b. OC~. 3, 1757; m. Na- 1759. He died April lo, 1817, aged thaniel Sawyer of Wilton Oct. 30, 1788; and d. Dec. 15, 1839. seventy-seven. Children, born in Andover :- 397-1V. JOSIAII,~. . b. Dec. 29, 1759. See beluiu (397). 412-1. JONATHAN,~b. March3, 1/60; d. May 398-v. HANNAH,~b. Jan. 5, I 762 ; m. Aaron 21, 1830, aged seventy, having never Parker of Campton, Can. (pub. in married. 1786). 413-11. MARY,^ b. Jan. 10, 1762; m. Maj. 3-VI. SAMUEL?b. March 27,1764. See be- Abiel Chandler of Andover Oct. 17, (399). 1782; and d. May -, 1845. Rev. I DAVID,~b. March 4, I766 ; lived in Joshua Chandler of Swansey, N. H., Barton, Vt ; and had children. was their son. 401-VIII. BEN JAM IN,^ b. June 26, 1768; lived 414-111. DAVID,~b. March 11, 1764. See bc- in Salem, 0. ; and had children. (OW (414). 402-IX. OLIVE,^ b. July 24, 1770; m. David 415-IV. PHEBE,' b. Feb. 26, 1766; m. Joseph Towne of Waterbury, Vt. Shattuck March 30, 1790. 403-x. DORCAS,~b. Dec. 5, 1773 ; m. John 416-V. NATHAN,^ b. May 17, 1768. See be- Snow of Chelmsford. 1070 (~16).,- -,- 404-XI. JEREMIAH,'b. May 17, 1776; lived 417-VI. BENJAMIN,~b. June 7, 1770. See be- in Gorham, Me. ; and reuiovod to lo70 (417). Portland. He had children. 41&V11. SOLOMON,'b. NOV.I, 1772. See be- lo7u (418). 419-VIII. JOSHUA,'b. NOV.22, 1774; d. March 26, 1775.

SOLOMON ABBOT,^ born in Andover about 420--1X. HANNAH,'b. Oct. 14, 1776; living- in He was a farmer, and lived in An- I 807. 1730. 421-X. SARAH,' b. July 9, 1778; living in dover until 1758, when he rrnloved to 1807. Dracut. He married Hannah Colby hiay 422-XI. PRISCILLA,". July 29, 1780 ; living 3. 1756; and died Dec. 17, 1797. in 1807. Children :- 423-XH. JOSHUA,; b. June 9, 1784. 405-1. HANNAH,~b. May I, 1757, in An- dover; m., first, Parker Bodwcll '99 (pub. Feb. 27, 1776) ; second, David As& ABBOT,+ born in Andover Oct. I 7, Jones of Methuen. 172 I. was farmer, with 406--11. SOLOMON,'b. May 5, 1759; lived in He a and lived Dracut ; m. Rachel Bowers ; and d. his father it1 the garrison house in Ando- Jan. 5, 1842. They had children. ver. He married Elizabeth Abbot (96) 407-111. SARAH,~b. May 22, 1761; m. Samuel Sept. 20, 1744. He died Dec. 23, 1'797 ; Morse of Loudon, N. H., in 1786. his widow Elizabeth 40%-IV. DANIELCOLBY,~ b. Oct. 26, 1766 ; and died Dec. 18, lived in Dracut ; esquire, member of 1819, aged ninety-three. the legislature; town treasurer for Ch~ldren,born in Andover :- twenty-one years; m. Patience Co- 424-1. TIMOTHY,~b. Juneq, 1745. Set below burn in I792 She d. April 15, (424). 1830; and he d. Sept. 18, 1842. 425-TI. ELIZABETH,^ b. May 21, 1747; m. They had children. Jesse Manning of Billerica Dec. 30, 409-V. ELIZABETHD.,' b. Oct. I I, I 768 ; m. 1779. Ephraim Lane of Walpole, N. H. 426-111. AsA,' b. June 14, 1749; d. June 5, 410-v1. LYDIA,". May 22, 1771 ; m. Joshua Martin of Hookset, N. H. I-I. DAVID,' b. May 18, 1775; preacher; (427). lived in Windham, N. H. ; m., first, 428-v. DANIEL,'b. June IS, 1754; d. in the Hannah Crosby ; second, Dolly Ab- army in 1776. bot; third, Sarah McKinley. He 429-VI. NATHAN,'b. NOV. 18, 1756; d. in had children. 1840.

CAPT.JONATHAN ABBOT,+born in Ando- THOMASABBOT,+ born in Andover April er Oct. 24, I 739. He was a farmer, and 4, 1729. He was a farmer, and lived on ved on his father's farm in Andover. the homestead in Andover. He married e married Mary Chandler Nov. 13, Lydia Blunt Feb. 12, 1756 ; and died ABBOT (

March 29, 1 775. His wife survived him, He removed to his native town, assisted and died, his widow, Nov. 16, 1798. Hon. Samuel Phillips in his business, and Children, born in Andover :- was a trustee of Phillips Academy. In 430-1. LYDIA,' b. April 10, 1757; m. Dea. 1797 he moved to Concord, N. H., traded Thomas Merrill of Andover May 4, in goods, and represented the town in the 1779 ; lived in Deering, N. H. ; and d. Nov. 12, 1826. Rev. Thomas legislature three years. He moved to Merrill, D. D., of Middlebury, Vt., Brunswick, Me., in 1802; and was an was their son. overseer of Bowdoin college and a state 431-11. HANNAH,~b. May 5, 1759; m. Abiel Faulkner of Andover Feb. 16, 1777. senator. He married ,Lydia Stevens Dec. 432-111 THO MAS,^ b. May 25, 1761 ; esquire; I, 1767 ; and died in BrunswickMarch 5, lived on the homestead in Andover 1820. until about 1794, when he moved to Children :- Providence, R. I. ; m. Ruth Owens 444-1. LYDIA,~b. June I, 1769; d. June I, Jan. 1800; and d. June 11, 1826. 5, I 760. They had children. -8 -, 445-lL LYDIA,' b. May I, 1771; m. Thomas 433-1v. BRTSEY,~b. June-, 1763; m. Capt. Russell of Temple, Me.,Feb. 10,1789. Jonathan Ballard of Peterboro' Dec. 446--111. HANNAH,'b. July 31, I772 ; d. May I 7,1789 ; and moved to Temple, Me. rn. 1786. 434-v. JOEL,~b. NOV. 22, 1765; lived in --> -,--. Andover; and d. Dec. -, 1826. He 44.7-1V. PHEB~,~b. June 25, 1774; m. Benja- had seven children, one of whom min Abbot, Esq.,A - of Greenfield Tan. was named Joel. 17, 1792. 448-v JACOB,^ b. Oct. 20, 1776; esquire; ~~s-vI. ANNA,^ b. Feb. 28, 1769; m. Dea. merchant in Concord, N. H., and Christopher Osgood of Concord, N. Brunswick, Me.. and farmer in Far- H., NOV.7, 1793. rington, ML.; &. Betsy Abbot ~$1 436-VII. CHLOE,$b. Nov. 4, 1771 ; m. Peter 8, 1798; and had several children, Frye of Danville, Vt. (pub. Jan. 19, four of whom were Jacob Abbot, B. 1799); and d. in Canada. C., 1820, the author; Rev. John S. 239 C. Abbot of Worcester and Nan- tucket, the author; Rev. Gorham D. JOSEPH ABBOT,+ born in Andover April Abbat of New Rochelle, and New 2, 1744. He was a farmer, and lived in York city; and Rev. Samuel Phillips his native town and in Wilton, Nelson, Abbot of Houlton, Me. and Packersfield, He married 449--vI. DORCAS~(twin), b. Sept. 6, 1778; d. N. H. Dec. 29, 1778. Mary Barker; and died of cancer in I 792. 45c-VII. SALVA~(twin), b. Sept. 7, 1778; d. Children :- Sept. 16, 1778. 437-1. JOSEPH,~b. NOV.6, I 763, in Andover; 451-vIII. JOHNS.? b. NOV.25, 1779 ; grad. H. lived in Keene, N. H. ; m. Betsey C., 1801 ; d. June 9, 1809. King in 1784; and had children. 452-IX. LUCY,~b. April 19, 1781; m. Rev. 438-11. JOSHUA,~b. NOV. 5, 1765; lived in Daniel Campbell of Orford, N. H. Nelson; m. Huldah Abbot (~77)~453-X. DORCASHIBBERT,' b. Feb. 21, 1784, who d. at Roxbnry, N. H., April 6, in Andover; d. Aug. 14, 1784. 1830. He d. Nov. 30, 1798. 439-111. JA~IES,'b. Feb. 2, 1768, in Andover; d. July -, 1810. NATHANIELABBOT,+ born in Andvver +o--lv. ISRAEL,^ b. Jan. 29, 1771, in Ando- ver; d. Feb. 26, 1831. Oct. 2 7, r 75 I. He was a shoemaker and 441-v. POLLY,". June 18,1773, in Andover.. farmer, and lived in Wilton, N. H. He .+42--VI. LUCY.* married Sarah Stevens Aug. 31, 1773 ; 443-VII. JEDEDIAH.~ and died March -, I 791. Children :- HON.JACOB ABBOT,+ born in Andover 454-1.' ~ATHANIEL,' b. June 20, 1774, in Andover; d. July 11, 1774. Feb. 9, 1746. Settled in Wilton, N. H., 455-11. SARAH,'b. Oct. 12,1775, in Andover; and made a farm in the forest. He became m. Abijah Keyes of Pelham, N. H. a merchant about I 776 ; was representa- He died in 1845. Rev. Nathaniel tive to the legislature ; justice of the court A. Keyes was their son. 456-111. PHEBE,' m. Ephraim Abbot of Bruns- of common pleas ; and a state councillor. wick. Me. 84 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. 457-IV. DORCAS,~d. July 6, 1811. 467-VII. ABIEL,~b. Aug. 17, 1770; grad. H. 458-v. HANNAH." C., 1792 ; wasa D. D. ; instructor in 459-VI. PETER,'lived in Bedford. Phillips Academy at Exeter and An- 11.NATHANIEL,~ b. NOV. -, 1791 ; and dover two years ; ordained over First lived in Bedford. church in Haverhii in 1795; in- stalled over First church in Beverly in 1803; and d., on his returnfroma trip to Cuba, ofi Staten Island, June CAR. JOHN ABBOT,^ born in Andover 7, 1828. He m. Eunice Wales of Dorchester in 1796. She survived Sept. I, 1735. He had an active mind, him, and d. Dec. 29, 1831. Rev. and improved much of his time by read- William E. Abbot of Billerica was ing. He lived with his father in Andover, his son. and was a farmer. He married Abigail 468-VIII. JACOB,". Aug. 25, 1771 ; d. July -, I, 1772. Abbot (173) June 1758. She died To be contirrned. Feb. I, 1807, aged seventy-three ; and he died April 4, 1818, aged eighty-two. OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS. Children, born in Andover :- 461-1. JOHN,~b. April 8, 17.59; grad H. C., Continucdfiom pagr 50. 1784 ; inst~uclorinPhillips Academy Anthony Colebie of Salisbury, planter, in Andover for two or three years, and tutor in Haward college for five for land in Salisbury, on west side of years. He then studied for the Pawwaus river, conveys to Josiah Cobham ministry, and was licensed to 4 acres on west side of Pawwaus river, . preach; but his health forbidding, bounded by Willi: Sargent, etc., 25 : I : he engaged in mercantile business in Portland, Me. In 1802, he was 1645. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Rich- elected a professor in Bowdoin ard Currier. Ack. before Sam : Winsley college, and resigned in 1816. He and Robert Pike, comn~issioners. was then appointed a fellow and Josiah Cobham of Salisbury, planter, treasurer of the college, and also served as librarian for twenty-four for land on west side of Pawwaus river, years. In 1829, he retired from COI- bounded by William Sargent, etc., con- lege duties, and removed to Water- veys to Anthony Coleby of Salisbury, and planter, land bought of Jarrett Haddon Charlestown, Mass. He died at his brother's in Andover July 2, 1843, on Pawwaus river, etc., 25 : I : ,1645. aged eighty-four. Wit : Tho : Bradbury and Richard Cur- 462-11. EZRA,=b. Dec. 2, 1760. See &-low rier. Ack. before Sam : Winslev and- (462). Robert Pike, commissioners. . BENJAMIN?b. Sept. 17, 1762; grad. H. C., 1788; lived in Exeter, N. H., Jarrett Haddon of Salisbury, planter, and had charge of the Phillips Acad- for ~os.,conveys to Josiah Cobham of emy there for fifty years; and m., Salisbury, planter, 8 acres in Salisbury, on first, Hannah Tracy Emery of Exeter west side of Pawwaus river, bounded by Nov. I, 1791. She d. Dec. 6, I 793. aged twenty-two. He m., second, Anthony Colebie, I : I : 1644. Signed Mary Perkins of Boston May I, by mark h. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and 1798. His son, Rev. John Emery Richard Currier. Ack. before Sam: Abbot, was pastor of the North Winsley and Robert Pike, commissioners church in Salem. ABIGAIL,~b. Sept. 15, 1764; m. of Salisbury, 2 I : 5 : 1652. William Douglass, a merchant of John Hoyt of Salisbury, planter, for a Portland, Me., April 21, 1791. He house lot, etc., in Salisbury, at ffitt's d. Dec. 4, 1827; and she d. April corner, and land bounded by Willi: 22, 1841. Rev. John Abbot Doug- lassof Waterford, Me., was theirson. Browne and JnO Bayly, sen., and Merri- ELIZABETH,#b. Aug. 2, 1766; m. mack river, conveys to JnO Dickison of Rev. Abiel Abbot of Coventrv,Conn..,. Salisbury, planter, 4 acres in Salisbury, May 19, 1796. bounded by Anthony Sadler and Willi: PHEBE.~b. NOV. 18. 1768: m. Dea. ~dw&dCarleton df ~1ue'~illApril Holdred, 25 : I : 1642. Signed by mark 9, 1789. He d. June 12, 1825. H. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Edward OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS. 83 ffrench. Ack. before Robert Pike and mill on land on Humfry Wilson's creek Josiah Cobham, commissioners, 2 : I zmO: in Exiter, etc., and one-third ('of those 1652. sawes wCh are in ye hands of Georg George Martyn of Salisbury, black- Halsie," for seven years from March smith, conveys to JnO. Dickison of Salis- 1st next, the annual rent to be 10,ooo bury, planter, land in Salisbury, bounded feet of sound, well condiconed and mer- by JnO. hllar and Anthony Sadler, on chantable boards of pine. Humfrey highway to mill, Sept. 29, 1643. Signed Wilson also owns one-third of the mill. by mark M. Wit : Tho : Bradbury and Dec. I 3, I 65 I. Wit : Christopher Hus- Edward ffrench. Acl;. before Sam : sey. Ack. by S. D. and H. W. before Winsley and Josiah Cobham, commis- Tho : Wiggin 15 : 4 : 1653, and by E. sioners. C. in court at Salisbury 14 : 4 : 1653. John Severans of Salisbury, planter, Mr. JnO. Ward of Haverhill, for £1 2s. conveys to Georg Martyn of Salisbury, 6d., conveys to JnO. Clement of Haver- blacksmith, land in Salisbury, bounded hill 2 acres of land in the plain Marc? by Anthony Sadler, John ffullar, great 29, 1653. Wit: JnO. Eaton and Joseph river, Pawwaus river, Willian~ Barnes, Peasly. Ack. before JnO. Eaton and and on road to mill ; and also common Joseph Peasly. Also signed by Alice Ward. right I bought of JnO. Coles, March I, Isack Cosins of Haverill, for £8, con- 1643. Wit: Tho : Bradbury and Richard veys to JnO.Clements of Haverill 8 acres Wells. Ack. before Sam : Winsley and on east side of little river, bounded by Robert Pike. danniell Hendrick, little river, etc., 30 : Edward Colcord entered a caution 3 : 1653. Wit: ffrancis Wainewrite and about 10 acres of land he bought of the mark of 4 James Davis. Signed Henry Ambross in Hampton, I 5 : I : 165 2. also by the mark of Elizabeth Cosins 8. Widow Chase entered a caution about Also witnessed by JnO.Eaton and Joseph 10 acres of land in Hampton, etc., Peaslie, commissioners, 30 : 3 : 1653. bought of Henry Ambros, I 5 : I : 1652. Thomas Biggs of Exiter conveys to Edward Gyllman of Exiter, for £14, JnO. Gyllman of Exiter interest in a grant conveys to JnO. Robeson of Haverell, for a saw-mill at Pascasuck river; also, 'sthat dwelling house in Exiter w* was land at mouth of Lamprell river, granted sometimes mr. Purmets hoilse &yehouse- to me. May 8, 1652. Signed by 0 lott on weh it standeth," and land adjoin- mark. Wit: JnO. Lcgatt and Elizabeth ing sometimes Mr. Isach Grosses; and Legatt. Ack. before Tho : Wiggin 22 : land said Edward bought of Henry 12 : 1652. Robie, bounded by Humfrey Wilson, Henry Sayword (also written Seword near the great cove : and land I bought in the deed) "of Sagrmore Creke, in of Samuel1 Greenfeild, bounded by Wil- Straubury Banke," conveys to JnO. ffill- liam Maver and Tho : King : *'except ye broo~e(also spelled Philbroocke) of privilidge of tymber for my saw mills, & Hampton a common right in Hampton Pines for great Masts." 20 : 12 : 165 I. Oct. g, 1652. Wit: Humphrey Humber Wit : Edward Hilton and JnO. Legatt. and Joseph Davis. Ack. before Richard Ack. before Tho : Wiggin 22 : 12 : 1652. Bellingham I o : 8"" : I 65 2. Willi : Sargent of Salisbury conveys to To be Co~~n'nucd. JnO. Browne of Hampton, planter, land bounded by Aquilla Chase and the widow Bristo, Dec. 16, 1652. Wit : Henry NOTE. Green and JnO. Redman. Ack. before Rev. Mr. ~arnard'isermon delivered the court at Salisbury 15 : 4 : 1653. at the funeral of Rev. Mr. Clarke of Dan- Sam : Dudley leases to Edward Col- vers was published.-Zssex Gazefie, Oct. cord of Hampton one-third of the saw- 11, 1768. THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

QUERIES. Ipswich March 3, r 701-2, and names and Queries are inserted for one cent a word. birthplace of children. C. CARYL. Answers are solicited. Groton, Mass. 3 7. Wanted, ancestry of William Blay 4 7. Wanted, any information as to West, millwright, who came to New Glou- Nathaniel Carrel1 and wife Mary, to whom cester, Maine, before 1770. A. T. D. a daughter Mary was born in Salem May Portland, Me. 20, 1662. c. c. 38. Andrew Peters lived in Ipswich, 48. ancestry tom^- 1658 to 1686 ; in Andover, 1686 to 1713. Son Or married Joseph Page Who were his parents? E. B. P. Haverhill about 1710. A. P. J. New York City. East Boston. 49. Wanted, ancestry ofSarah George, .39. Wanted, date of birth of William Baker, of Ipswich, who married, 1686, married Samuel Smith, jr., of Haverhill, 1720. A. P. J. Sarah Fitts. MRS. E. R. H. Castle Rock, Wash. 50. DidThomis Tolman, who married Elizabeth Johnson in Lynn in 1664, re- 40. Wanted* parentage Richard side there? If so, when? When and Smith, of Salisbury, who married, 1666, where was their son Thomas born, and Sarah Chandler of Newbury. who was his wife Experience? MRS. E. R. H. MRS. A. M. PICKFORD. 4 I. Anthony Vaughan, born I 75 I ( ?) 166 Washington St., Lynn. at Scituate, R. I., or Mass. ( ?), married 5 I. Who were the parents of Eliza- Anne Armstrong of Sugar Loaf, N. Y., beth Woodman of Ipswich, who married andsettled at Chester, Lunenburgcounty, Joseph Noyes of Newbury between 1630 N. S., in 1773. What was his father's and 16~01 J. F. J. given name and who was his mother? Amcsbrtry. What was her father's given name and 52. Wanted, ancestry of Grace Par- who was her mother? D. A. KEIZER. ker, born 1690, died 1755, married in Winnt;beg, Manitoba. I 714 to Abel Morse. E. L. K. 42. Wanted, names of parents and Denver, Cof. grandparents of Smnnah Low (of Es- 53. Wanted, ancestry of Edna Hale, sex), who married As3 Perley in I 738. born about I 720, married Abel Morse. Lawrence, Kan. A. H. B. E. L. K. 43. Who were the parents and grand- parents of Lydia Peabody, who married ANSWERS. Thomas Perley in 1667? A. H. B. 21. Martha Greenleaf, who married 44' Mary married Ezra Moody April 26, I 7 16, was daughter (son of emigrant, of of John and Elizabeth (Hills) Greenleaf, same name* in 1~37). Who were her and was born in Newbury April 23, 1699. parents and grandparents? A. H. B. -Ed. 45. David Nichols of Salem, born 26. Lydia, widow of David Haynes Amesbury, 1709; married Hannah Gas- of Haverhill, married Nathaniel Perley of kill, I 730 ; lost at sea, I 756. What was Boxford Sept. 10, I 7 76. Mr. Perley died name and record of his immigrant ances- July I 8, I 81o, and she survived him. Her tor, and how descended? F. L. HILLS. home in Roxford was the farm nowowned Wilmington, Dcl. by T. Perley Killam, and situated near 46. Wanted, ancestrv of Beniamin the railroad station. There were no chil- airi ill and of ~ar~Crbss, marrikd in dren born of this marriage.-Ed.

OLD WOOL SPINNING WHEEL. VOL. I. SALEM,MASS., JUNE, 1897. No. 6.

SPINNING IN THE OLDEN TIME.

PHILBRICK. WE have but a ,faint conception of the sheep the privilege of grazing them on severe and varied labors of pioneer life. the common lands, and dogs that had Nearly everything we use today we buy killed sheep were hung, and the owners ready-made, while in the old days the of the guilty canines had also to pay colonists had to produce whatever they twice the value of the sheep killed. needed. The general court ordered, May 13, The first settlers of Essex County 1640, that the magistrates and deputies brought a limited supply of clothing and of the several towns "make enquiry what bedding with them, and some of the seed is in every town, what men and families brought their spinning wheels, on women are skillful in the breaking, spin- which they could manufacture yarn for ning, weaving, what means for the pro- the weaving of cloth on home-made viding of wheels ; and to consider with hand-looms, which were probably con- those skillful, in that manufacture, and st~ctedby carpenters here as soon as what course may be taken for teaching new apparel was needed. The great in- the boys and girls in all towns the spin- crease in population, and the diminishing ning of the yarn," also concerning the intercourse with England made more spinning and weaving of cotton wool. necessary the home production of woolen The general court encouraged the and linen cloth. The first mention made raising of hemp and flax by offering pre- of a spinning wheel here is in 1638, and miunis for cloth woven from material the next year home-made clothing is grown, spun and woven here. They also mentioned. To be sure, leather was used proposed that as much as possible of the to a some extent, and so continued for wild hemp should be saved by the chil- a century and a half. From that early dren and servants. date to comparatively recent times it was About this time (1641), Samuel Corn- the custom, in the rural districts for the hill of Salem was allowed an acre of land people to manufacture their ordinary for the cultivation of flax. clothing and the family linen. In 1642, the general court ordered the The settlers first used the wild hemp selectmen of each town to see that all of that was made use of by the Indians for the children were taught spinning and the manufacture of ropes and mats ; and weaving, and diligently exercised therein. very soon had flax and hemp seed for In May, 1656, the general court en- sowing sent to them by their friends in acted "that all hands not necessarily em- England who were interested in the wel- ployed on other occasions, as women, fare of the colony. girls and boys, shall be and hereby are Cotton was early imported from the enjoined to spin according to their skill West Indies ; and sheep, for the produc- and ability, and that the selectmen in tion of wool, were early introduced. every town do consider the condition and The general court allowed the owners of capacity of every family, and accordingly 88 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. to assess them as one or more spinners," three months. After that, the master and they must proportioliately spin a was to allow them their earnings. The certain quantity each week for thirty town provided twenty spinning wheels weeks each year. for the school. The Boston Society, of Rowley soon exceeded all other towns which Benjamin Lynde of Salem was a in the colonies in the manufacture of member, had one person come from cloth, taking the lead in 1643. The rea- each town for instruction. The business son of this lay probably in the fact that employed a variety of people for pulling the town was settled by some twenty or flax, watering, breaking, swingling, hatch- more families from Yorkshire, England, ling, and spinning. At the fourth anni- who had thoroughly learned the business versary of the society, three hundred of making cloth in the mother country. young ladies took their wheels on to Bos- They brought with them gearing for a ton common and spun yarn, and weavers fulling mill, the first in America. This were at work with their looms. was used for finishing men's wear, the The Stamp Act offended the Ameri- cloth being first woven at the homes of can colonists so seriously that they the people. There was a similar mill at pledged themselvesnot to import or use Andover in 1673, and others at Ipswich English goods, nor to eat lamb that wool and Salem in 1675. Experienced work- might be more plenty for domestic manu- men came over to carry on the mills. facture. The people went to work eamestly, and In Newbury, the "Daughters of Lib- there was not, at the beginning of the erty" held all-day sessions for spinning eighteenth century, one family in forty and weaving, sometimes as many as that did not spin and weave the cloth for seventy linen wheels being employed. their own clothing. As early as 1719, the English parlia- Early in I 706, one hundred and fifty- ment passed a stringent law against ex- five dozen of cards and a large number porting any tools or utensils used in the of wool-combs, of wrought iron, were silk and woolen manufacture; and in brought to New England. The first I 774 all tools and implements used in mention we find of any cards being made cotton and linen manufacture, excepting here is in 1747, when both wool and cot- wool-cards, were prohibited. These ton cards were made and sold in Boston. statutes were vigorously enforced, and By 1745, the manufacture and use of proved serious obstacles to the introduc- home-spun woolen cloth was thoroughly tion of machinery. Garments made of incorporated into the domestic habits of fabrics spun by the young lady weavers' the people. Most of the cloth was used own hands were emulously worn as prools at home, but a part was sold to the set- of patriotism. Spinning matches in Es- tlers on the frontier, who had not been sex county were common occurences for able to produce it for themselves. This several yeap prior to the Revolution, and lessened the sales of the English mer- extraordinary achievements by the fair chants. spinners are recorded. They also some- In 1751, the general court granted times took their wheels to their neighbors' fifteen thousand pounds to erect a lrspin- and spent the day socially and profitably. ning house" for the "Boston Society for As the implements of manufacture Promoting Industry and Frugality." were comparatively rude, and many This was a school for the instruction modern processes of manufacture and of poor children. A similar and smaller finish were as yet unknown, the fabrics school had been established a few years made, whether woolen or linen, were more before for which the children were remarkable for service than elegance. to be furnished by overseers of the poor, The material was mostly grown upon and the town was to pay expenses for the farms of the planters. The breaking I SPINNING IN THE OLDEN 1'IhIE. 89 and hatchling were done by the men, and stroke of the open right hand, the thread the carding, spinning, weaving, bleaching being slowly worked downward by the and dyeing, by the wives and daughters man~pulationoi wet hgers. mbeneriily 8 of the planters. Beautiful and abundant ringor "whorl " of stone or clay was stores of household linen were objects passed round the upper part of the spin- of laudable pride and emulation with dle to give it momentum and steadiness all thrifty families. in its rotary movement. Dyeing made the cloth quite ornamen- The distaff consisted of a stick larger tal. Indigo was the most common color. and stronger than the spindle. The fibre Samuel Diggadon of Salem made the was wound aroudd one end of it in a coloring of cotton and linen yarn in Eng- loose coil or ball. The other end was lish blue his business. carried under the left arm, or fixed in the girdle at the left side. Otherwise the implement and the principles of the movement were similar to the spindle. In the eastern countries this ancient method of spinning is still in vogue. The first improvement in the irnple- ments of spinning was the placing of the spindle in a horizontal position in a frame . between two upright supports, and made to rapidly revolve by a band passing around the spindle and over a large wheel, set in the same frame work, the large wheel being turned by one hand. This improvement was probably made about the thirteenth century, and is the same as the woolen wheel shown in the frontispiece. At first the wheel was made to revolve by taking hold of the spokes with the hand, but, soon after its inven- tion, a round stick of wood about nine inches in length and an inch in diameter came into use. /'4 A little groove was formed near one end of the stick to DRIVER. prevent slipping from the LINEN WHEEL. * spokes. This implement was called the The ancient implements for spinning " driver," or " finger." These wheels linen were the spindle and distaff. The were rare until the sixteenth century. spindle was a round stick or rod of wood At the beginning of the eighteenth about a foot long, tapering toward each century an improved wheel was in use end, and having at one end a notch or among the Scotch in the northern part slit in which the yarn might be caught or of Ireland. The wheel was smaller and fixed. This end was held uppermost narrower, thus having less resistance from supported by the thread which was being the air, and was propelled by foot. When spun, the upper end of the thread being those Scotch immigrants came to New slowly evolved from a handful of tow England, and especially to Essex county, held in the same hand. The spindle was where they settled, they brought these made to swiftly revolve by rolling it out- improved wheels with them. From that wardly on the right thigh, by a quick time the two wheels were used by our go THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. people. The large wheel, moved by about five feet in length, and consisted of hand, was used for spinning wool, being two series of slats, one loosely fitting into esteemed to be better adapted for that the other. The flax was laid across the material ; and the small wheel, propelled lower slats, and the woody stalks were by foot, for spinning flax. So the old broken into small pieces by letting the wheel came to be called "the woolen upper part of the brake" fall upon wheel," and the new one the "linen them. This part of the work was severe wheel." The linen wheel is shown here- as the upper part of the brake was made with. ' No material improvement oc- veiy heavy in order to give it force when curred in spinning michinery until the it descended upon the flax. invention of the spinning jenny about Then came the swingling process, by 1767. which the woody fragments were beaten The advent of the Scotch-Irish, as the off with a wooden knife, called the immigrants were called, caused a new " swingle knife," which was about impetus to be given to the linen manu- two feet in length and three inches facture, as they brought not only the foot in width. A bunch of the flax was wheel, but a better knowledge of the cul- held in one hand and the swingle tivation of flax and manufacture of linen. knife in the other, the operation These new wheels were soon an append- being performed by cleaving strokes age to almost every farm-house and cot- 1; of the knife. Care was taken not tage in the county. to ravel or entangle the fibre. Af- Flax is an annual crop, and its seed is ter this operation the fibre was sown in the spring. The amount raised called " swingle tow." A strong and the quality of the fibre depends SU'INGLE man could swingle about forty upon the fertility of the soil and the time KNIFE. pounds in a day. the plant is pulled. In early times the IBut swingling did not leave it entirely stalks, when pulled, were tied into loose free from the woody part of the stalk. bundles, all the roots being placed one To clear it wholly it had to be "hat- way. These bundles were then laid in cheled " ; that is, combed through a long pools of water for the purpose of fer- steel-toothed comb, technically menting and rotting the woody part of called a hatchel," but more the stalk, so that it would easily separate con~monly called in New from the fibre. This required a period of = England a tow or flax comb. about ten days. If it remained in the . Skill was required to do this. water too long the fibre would be injured HATCHEL. The operator took a strip of by decay. flax in one of his hands, by one end, threw thewther end spread out over the comb, and drew the strip toward him, re- peating the process until the woody por- tion and short fibres called tow were re- moved from that end. To clean the other end, the bundle of fibre was taken in the hand by the end already combed and the operation repeated. The cleaned long flax was called combed flax. FLAX BRAKE. If it was required to be very -fine, as for When taken from the water the stalks cambric, etc., the fibre was afterward put were spread upon the grass to dry, and through a finer comb. then put through a hand machine, here- The flax or tow was loosely wound with shown, called a " brake." This was around the distaff of the linen wheel, and SPINNING IN THE OLDEN TIME. 9 r from it was spun the yarn on the spindle. day, and her pay fifty cents a week and The distaff was fastened to board. the wheel frame by insert- For knitting, woolen yarn was doubled ing the lower end of it into and twisted, then thoroughly washed with a hole bored in the frame hot water and soap, and bleached with near the spindle. During brimstone. the operation the spinner Worsted yarn was made from the best frequently moistened the ' long wool combed the same as tow, and thread, by forefinger and not made into rolls, being spun on the thumb, with saliva or small wheel. Cotton was carded into water, to more securely rolls, and spun on the large wheel. unite the fibre and im- The knack in spinning wool, which the prove the appearance of D,,,A,,, old people used to talk about, says Doc- the yam. tor Norwood, in Quabbin, was only the When the spindle was full the yarn was experience requisite to a free movement wound off, on a reel, into knots and of the arms, an elastic pose, and a long skeins. The oldest and simplest reel was gliding step, advancing and retreating. the hand reel, made of three The graceful movement of the arms of a sticks of wood, fastened by harpist and the action of the lawn-tennis cords. The later and more player are tame beside the damsel at the complicated machine was great wheel. Look at her as she is lean- the automatic clock reel, a ing forward, lightly poised upon the toe useful, and rapid instru- of the left foot. With her left hand she HAND REEL. a ment. picks up, by the end, a long slender roll The skeins or of soft wool, and deftly winds the fibres hanks of yarn were upon the point of the steel spindle before then boiled in soapy her. Now holding it an instant with water or potash to thumb and finger, she gives a gentle mo- free it from impuri- tion to the wheel with the driver" that ties. For cotton a she holds in her right hand. Meanwhile, little flour was added she seizes the roll of wool, at a little dis- to the boiling water tance from the spindle, and measures with to increase its firm- practiced eye the length that will be re- ness and tenacity, quired for a drawing. Then, while the which linen does not CLOCK REEL. hum of the wheel rises to a sound like the require, its fibre being firm, long and echo of wind in a storm, backward she tenacious. steps, one, two, three, holding high the The manufacture of yarn from wool is long yarn as it twists and quivers,-then, somewhat different from that from flax. suddenly reversing the wheel, she glides After the sheep were sheared the wool from it with a long, even stride, and lets was oiled and made into rolls by hand the yarn wind upon the spindle. Then cards, usually by women. It was very another movement, a new pinch of the hard work. and roll, a new turn of the wheel, and da capo. so they occasion- The backward and forward movement, the ally had a "card- left hand controlling the yarn, while the ing bee." The right governed the wheel, was a most pic- wool rolls were turesque sight. HAND CARDS. generally spun Shortly before 1800, machinery began on the large wheel, though some used the to do all this work. In 1788, in Beverly, small wheel for this purpose. A woman's was established the first cotton mill in the stent in spinning wool was five skeins a United States ; and in Newbury-Byfield, ga THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

in I 794, the first woolen mill was built, of ground in the street called the east ent course, in both instances, with rude and bounded by a houfe Lott of John Perkins imperfect machinery. Mills have silenced the younger on the eaft & by two houfe the buzz of the spinning wheel on the Lotts formerly granted to Sergent How- domestic hearth, and changed the charac- lett, & Tho : Hardy on the south, the ter of the textile manufactures of the Towne referuing liberty to digg clay in any country, as well as the social habits of the part of the said pcell To enjoy all the people. said Lands to him his heirs & afsigns for- "The spinning wheel of the olden day euer. entered the 7th day of May: 1639 : Forgotten now in the corner stands ; Vera Copia as it stands recorded in the The bunch of flax is a dusty gray, Towne book of Ipswich: taken ye 20"' And for years untouched by living hands, From each long spoke have the spiders spun (7) 1666. A filmy web, but they, too, are old, P mee Rob : Lord Recordr. And the rust of years have long begun Vera Copia of yt left in Court on file On the hub of brass, once bright as gold. taken I 8 Jan : 66 It is hard to turn the old wheel now, P me Rob : Lord cleric. It slowly moves with a sorry creak ; 'It seems like a voice so faint and low,- Vera Copia Atteftes So long unused it can hardly speak." Pr Edw. Rawson Secret' -~fassacAusctfs Rrchivrs, volunrr 45, folio 3. AN IPSWICH GRANT, Granted to Thomas Borman on houfe FAMILY RECORDS. Lott about two Acres of ground lying to In the possession of Mr. William C. the street called the east end & butting Peabody of Georgetown is a book entitled upon the street at the South eaft, bound Rise and Progress of Religion in the one the north eaft by a houfe Lott, be- Soul," by Philip Qoddridge, D. D., and longing to Mr. John Winthrop, & on the published in Boston in 1818, having South weft by a houfe Lott granted to on the first fly-leaf the following words, Wm. Bartholomew, alfo six Acres of Plant- written in ink : "John Adams from his ing ground, on the north side of the brother Joseph Adams," and on two other Towne, hauing a planting Lott formerly blank pages the following family records : granted to Thomas Scott on the eaft & a : John Adams Born Sept. 17th, 1789. planting Lott of Will Bartholowmeu on Sarah Adams Born Decr. 5% 1790. the weft, alfo an Island about ffifty & ffive John Quincy Born March 17th, 1815. Acres more or leff pt upland pt meadow, Abigail Bowles Born April 25, 1816. bounded the north eaft, by the Towne Sarah Ann Born Nov. Sth, 1817. Ruth Bowles Born Augt I 1% 1819. River, & on the eaft by a Creeck parting Nathl Hayward Born April 24th. 1821. it, & an Island belonging to John Lydia Towne Born Febv IS*, 1823. Perkins the elder on the south by a par- Abigail Bowles 2 Born Janrv 30, 1824. cell of Land formerly granted to George Nathl. Niles Hayward Born June zgth, 1825. Susan Hayward Born April IS^, 1828. Carr, on the weft by ye great Creeke George Washington Born Janrv 27th, 1830. called the labour in vaine, alfo a parcel1 Joseph Hayward Born Decr 30, 1831. of Ground aboqt two Acres, for a houfe Susan Irene Born Oct. 28, 1833. lott lying on the south syde, the Towne My Wife Sarah Adams Died April 9th on Fry- dav at 6 1-2 Clok 1841 P. M. Intered on Mon- River, bounded on the south by a high- day Following. way, leading to the Laboure in vaine, on Abigial Bowles 1st Died July ad, 1817. the Northweft by certain houfe Lotts, Nathl HaywardDiedSept. loth, 1822. granted to daniell Houey, Wm Holdred Abieial Bowles 2d Died March 2d.. -~-~.182~. ~~dyi~owne~ied Sept. ~qth,1824. &c. on the north eaft by a houfe Lott George Washington Died May rat, 1832. formerly granted to Thomas Gylven, Susan Hayward Died May 5th, 1832. alfo a small parcel1 of about a Rodd of Sarah Ann Wildes Died July 14th, 1853. EARLY VOYAGING. middle. Slender young oaks and good The dread of mystery exists today, sized walnuts were twisted like withes, and We feel its power though we deny its sway, Indian corn, upon which the people de- But less than in an earlier century, pended for their support the coming win- When superstitious faiths were manifold, ter, was beaten down, and much of it And land and sea alike were deemed to be By gods and demons jealously controlled. destroyed, while it was hardly in the milk. To venture then across the trackless sea, So fraught with danger and uncertainty, Among the many anecdotes told of As pilgrims went, in vessels small and old, the storm is that of an old man in Ips- Parting from friends they loved so long and well, wich, who was accustomed to go to sea And homeland they might nevermore behold, in a small boat, his only companion being Required a heart of courage naught could quell. a dog that he had taught to steer. As Our fathers plowed the sea with PuVose firm ; the storm increased in violence, the old No idle wind had wafted on the germ That into powerful states was sure to grow,- man hoisted his sail and prepared to go States to become a nation proud and strong; down river in his little vessel. His neigh- And storm and tempest wild, and death and woe, bors endeavored to dissuade him from go- Deterred them not from right against the wrong. ing, but he obstinately replied, " I will go Salem. to sea, though the devil was there." He went, but neither he nor his boat were ever seen again. THE GREAT STORM OF 1635. As many vessels bearing passengers This was the year of the great exodus and goods to the New World were on from England to America. Many colo- our coast several of them were wrecked. nists had come early in the season, and by the storm. The Great Hope, be- planted their seed and cultivated the longing in Ipswich, England, of four hun- growing crop. Hay to a considerable dred tons burden, was wrecked near extent had been harvested. During the Charlestown. The ship lames, of Bris- whole of thesecond week of August the tol, England, suffered severely, scarcely wind blew from the south-southwest with escaping destruction off the mouth of considerable force. At midnight ofthe four- the Piscataqua river ; and the ship Angel teenth of the month, its course suddenly Gadriel, also from Bristol, was dashed changed by way of the southeast to the to pieces on Pemaquid Point. northeast, and before daybreak anortheast At this early period, there was a boat, rain storm set in. The wind had greatly a pinnace in build, belonging to Isaac increased in violence, blowing with terrific Allerton, sailing regularly between the force, and the rain fell in torrents, some- Piscataqua river and Boston. On Wed- times with such fury that the ill-made nesday, two days before the storm, the houses of the settlers could hardly with- boat sailed from Ipswich, where it had stand its onslaughts. After the gale had stopped on its trip to Boston. There continued five or six hours the wind were sixteen passengers and four mari- changed to the northwest, and the tumult- ners. The passengers were Rev. John uous elements subsided. Avery, his wife and six children,' and The wind caused the tide to rise to a Mr. Avery's cousin Anthony Thacher, height the settlers had never observed, who had been in New England but a few and which the Indians said they could weeks, his wife and four children,? another not remember ; and some of the shore member of his family, and one other pas- houses were submerged. senger. A great number of trees were 'Winthrop and Mather say six, Hubbard five, over or broken down, the stronger being and another writer says that there were eight tom up by their roots, and the tall pines children. and other brittle trees broken in- the tone writer says nine. 94 THE ESSEX AWIQUARIAN. Mr. Avery had been a minister of rock, being quickly dashed to pieces. good repute in IViltshire, England, and This rock is off what is now Rockport, had come to Newbury, Mass., with the in- and has since been known as Crackwood's tention of becoming the pastor of that Ledge.* little colony, but concluded not to re- When the vessel struck, Mr. Averj and main, after being strongly urged to settle his eldest son and Mr. Thacher and his in the ministry at Marblehead, and on daughter were thrown into the sea, and this Wednesday he took the boat at Ips- carried by a mighty wave upon a rock. wich with his all on board for that purpose. They called to those in the boat to come to The ladened craft sailed down the them, but the latter had scarcely time to placid river, while behind them discover the impotence of such an effort. During the few moments that Mr. " Pleasant, lay the clearings in the mellow sum- Avery and his three companions were up- mer worn, With the newly planted orchards dropping their on the ledge, expecting every instant to fruits first-born. be washed from their footing into the rag- And the homesteads like green islands anlid a sea ing sea, he raised his eyes toward heaven, of corn. . and uttered these memorable last words : " Broad meadows reached out seaward the tided " Lord, I cannot challenge a preserva- creeks between, tion of my life, but according to thy And hills rolled wave-like inland, with oaks and walnuts green ;- covenant I challenge Heaven." The A fairer home, a goodlier land, their eyes had words had scarcely left his lips, when a never seen." gigantic wave lifted the vessel on high On entering the bay, the course was and as with giant arms dashed it upon changed souther!^, against the wind, the rock, at the same time washing from which blew with such force that no ad- the ledge those who had gained moment- vance could be made, even by tacking, ary foothold upon it. Thus pasbed Mr. which was attempted many times. On Avery and all his household to their the evening of Friday, the fourteenth, eternal rest. Whittier put the incident after vainly striving to round Cape Ann, into poetry, calling it the "Swan Song of they found themselves in the same peril- Parson Avery," from which the writer has ous position, the wind increasing in fury. freely quoted. Of this portion of the At ten o'clock, their sails were rent. and incident, he said :- anchors were cast. At midnight, the'wind "There was wailing in the shallop, woman's suddenly changed to the northeast, and a wail and man's despair, terrific gale and rain followed. The anchor A crash of breaking timbers on the rocks so sharp dragged, and the boat and its cargo was and bare, And, through it all, the murmur of FatherAveryls driven over the dark and angry waves. prayer. " Blotted out were all the coast lines, gone were " From his struggle in the darkness with the wild rock, and wood and sand, waves and the blast, Grimly anxious stood the skipper with the rud- On a rock, where evely billow broke above him der in his hand, as it passed, And questioned of the darkness what was sea Alone, of all his household, the man of God was and what was land. cast. "And the preacher heard his dear ones nestled "There a comrade heard him praying, in the round him weeping sore: pause of wave and wind: 'Never heed my little children! Christ is walking 'All my own have gone before me, and I linger on before just behind; To the pleasant land of heaven, where the sea shall be no more.' " 'For two hundred years it was supposed that Avery's Rock was the scene of the disaster, but The boat was rushed on towards the it is now disproven. Crackwood's Ledge is some rocky headlands, and soon struck upon a three hundred feet from Thacher's Island. THE GREAT STC

Not for life I ask, but only, for the rest thy ran- comfortable as they could under the sor- somed find ! rowful circumstances. When morning (In this night of death, I challenge the promise came, the wind went down, the waves of thy word ! subsided, and the August sun shed its Let me see the great salvation of which mine ears have heard ! hopeful rays over the stretch of ocean. Let me pass from hence forgiven, through the In every direction but one the sea and grace of Christ, our Lord ! sky met in their limitless range, and on " 'In the baptism of these waters wash white my the west was the mainland, but separated every sin, from them by a wide expanse of water And let me follow up to thee my household and They were upon an island; and the my kin! Open the sea-gate of thy heaven, and let me en- main-land that could be seen was forest, ter in !' inhabited only by its savage denizens. . "When the Christian sings his death-song, all the They had no means of reaching it, and listening heavens draw near, signs of distress could awaken no re- And the angels, leaning over the walls of crystal, sponse. The day passed, and another hear hopeless night reached its end. The How the notes so faint and broken swell to music in God's ear. second day of their imprisonment dawn- ed ; and before the sun again went down "The ear of God was open to his servant's last request ; they were discovered by the people on As the strong wave swept him downward, the .board a passing vessel bound to Marble- sweet hymn upward pressed, head, taken on board, and carried thither. And the soul of Father Avery went singing to its On leaving the island, Mr. Thacher rest." named it "Thacher's Woe," and the next The' destruction of the vessel was so year it was granted to him by the general complete that there were few timbers for court. It has since borne his name. the drowning men, women and children to A cradle and an embroidered scarlet cling to. After beating about in the broadclothcovering, saved from thewreck, waves and the darkness, and being re- are still preserved by his descendants in peatedly thrown against the rocks, Mr. Yarmouth, Mass., where he settled. Thacher obtained a footing, and he fought The story of this ship-wreck was often his way to the shore. He looked around told about the hearth-fires of the coast- for his companions, but the darkness was dwellers in the long winter evenings of scarcely penetrable, and his loud voice the years that followed ; and the fisher- was mocked by the raging wind or men, with "grave and reverend faces," drowned in the thunder of the waters. recalled the ancient tale when they saw the He soon saw pieces of the frame work of white waves breaking over the fatal ledge. the vessel coming toward him, and when they struck a woman extricated herself and reached the shore in safety. It was NOTE. his wife. "A Sloop with Wood from the Eait- Together, in the rain and the blast, the ward was drove aihore at Plumb-Ifland two watched for signs of their companions, on Saturday Night laft, - the People but none came. Of the twenty souls, were faved, and it is expected the Vefiel they only were saved, their quartette of will be got off. We hear of no other little ones having passed on with the rest. Veffel being afhore : The Storm began Sad and dejected they sought a resting- fooner here than further Eaftward, the place under a sheltering bank. Some Veffels that have arrived fince not having provisions and clothing came ashore, and, it very revere until Saturday Night, where- also, a "snapsack," in which was a steel as we had it here from Thuriday to Sun- and flint, and some dry gun-ppwder. day Morning.'-Essex Gazette (Salenr), They built a fire, and made themselves as Oct. 4, 1768. THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

ABBOT GENEALOGY. 484-IV. JOEL%,b. April 17, I 776 ; esquire ; m. Judith Batchelder ; and had children. 485-v. SARAH@,b. Oct. 10, 1778. 486-VI. JAMES~, b. March 30, 1780; lived in 25 3 Andover on the farm owned by first CAPT.MOSES ABBOTS, born in Andover Benjamin Abbots; m. Mary Foster; He was a surveyor, and and had children. Aug. 9, '1735. 487-VII. ELIWBETH~,b. Sept. 14, 1784. resided in Andover. He married Eliza- beth Holt Dec. 31, 1761 ; and died Feb, 288 23, 1826, aged ninety. She died Sept. GEN. STEPHENABBOTS, born in Ando- -, 1838, aged ninety-five. ver Aug. I, 1749. He resided in Salem, Children, born in Andover :- where he was a dealer in hats. He was a 469-1. REBECCA~,b. Jan. 2,1763 ; m. Joseph captain in the Revolution, major-general Phelps June 28, 1798. in the militia, and first commander of the 47-11. M05ESa, b. Nov. 30, 1765 ; m., first, Martha Frye Feb. 5, 1799. She d. Salem Cadets. He married, first, Sarah Sept. 15, 1804, aged thirty-two ; and Crowell ; and, second, Mary Badger. He he m., second, Priscilla N. Flint. died Aug. 10, 1813. She d. April 5, 1811, aged twenty- Children :- seven ; and he d. April -, 1813. He had children. 488-1. MARY~,b. June 3, 1772; m. Abijah Chase Sept. and lived in 1-11. ELIZABETH^, b. May 8, 1768 ; d. Feb. 10, 1795; Salem. He d. Aug. 7, 1851, aged 12, 1829. eighty-one; and she d. April 472-Iv. NOAH" b. May 11, 1770; m.Hannah' 26, Holt in 1806: and had a son. 1861, aged eighty-eight. 473-V. HANNAH', b. arch 15, 1772; d. 48-11. BETSE~,d. young. April 13, 1840. 4go-111. SARAH~,d. Jan. 29, 1776. 474-VI. ENOCH~,b. April 8, 1774. See below 491-IV. HANNAH', d. Sgt. 5, 1775. 492-v. BETSEV~,b. NOV.4, 1778, in Ando- (474). 475-~11. RHODA@(twin), b. Sept. 8, 1776. ver; m. Henry Chase of Salem. 476~111. ANNA^ (twin), b. Sept. 8, 1776; d. 493-vI. HANNAH~,b. NOV. 8, 1780, in Ando- ver ; m. John Snethen of Salem Dec. July 27, 1834. HENRY%,b. Se t. m. Dor- 18, 1798. 477-IX. 22, 1778; 494--v11. STEPHEN#,b. Dec. in An- cas Holt in I lo3 ; and bad children. 28, 1781, Shed. March 25, 1842, aged sixty ; dover. 495-VIII. SARAH@,d. young. and he d. Sept. 23, 1845, aged. six- ty-seven. 291 478-x. JACOB%, b. June 30, 1781; d. May 12, 1816. GEORGEABBOTS, born in Andover June 479--~1. ABIGAIL@, b. Dec. 22, 1783; m. Jona- 13, 1756. He lived in Billerica and than Pbelps; and d. Aug. g, 1827. Salem, Mass., and Wilton, N. H. He was 48-xrr. PHEBE~,b. March 2, 1786. a tanner, and was living in Wilton in I 790. 255 He married Rebecca Blanchard of Bil- lerica April I, I 7 79 ; and died Nov. -, BARACHIASABBOTS, born in Andover 1829. May 22, 1739. He was a cordwainer Children :- and lived in Andover until I 786, when he 496--I. SAMUEL~,b. NOV.2, 1779; lived in removed to Wilton, N. H., where he St. Stephen, N. B., and in Wilton was a farmer. He married Sarah Holt or Salem ; and had seven children. (pub. Nov. 10, 1770)~who was living in 497-1I. REBECCA~. 498-111. SARAH ST EVENS^, m. Gen. David 1792. He died Jan. 29, 1812. Putnam. Children, born in Andover :- 49plV. GEORGE^. 481-1. BARACHIAS~,b. Dec. 8, 177I ; lived in goo--v. EPHRAIM~,b. in 1787 ; was a trader. Landgrove, Vt. ; m. Anna Colburn; and lived in Salem until 1817, when and had children. he removed to Zanesville, 0.; m. 482-11. TIMOTHY~,b. March 30, 1773 ; lived Sarah Cheever Jan. 17, 1813; and in Wilton; m. Polly Bancroft ; and d. in Zanesville in 1821. d. Jan. I, 1837. They had children. 501-Vl. ELIZABETH^. 8-111. JOEL" b. April 29, 1775; d. May 7, 502-+i1. STEPHENB. '775. 503-VlII. ~~ARY'. .. ABBOT GENEALOGY.

515-11. GEORGE^, b. April 25, 1785 ; captain ; 293 lived on his father's farm in Ando- ABNERABBOTS, born in Andover Jan. ver; m. Ruth Dixon; and d. Oct. 29, 1761. He was a blacksmith, and 21, 1822. They had children. 516-111. SAMUEL',b. June 29, 1787; was a lived in Andover until about 1798, when merchant, and lived in Charlestown; he settled in Albany, Me. He married, m. Lucretia Fowle ; and had children. first, Ruth Holt of Andover Jan. 29, I 784. 517-rv. PHEBE~,b. June 15,1789; d. Nov. 11, rRrr. she died Nov. 21, 1806; and he mar- ----. 518-v. LYDIACLARK@, b. July 10, 179; d. ried, second, Dorcas Nason. He died March 16, 1796. Sept. 16, 1843. 51ev1. HANNAH',b. Feb. 17, 1793 ; m. E. L. Children :- Herrick, Esq., of Rockford, Ill. 504-1. RUTH~,b. July 26, 1785 ; m. R. T. 520-VII. WILLIAMLOVE JOY^, b. Jan. 25, 1795 ; Williams of Salem. d. March 27, 1796. 505-11, SARAH~,b. July I I, 1787. in Ando\,er; 521-VIII. SARAHKNEEL AND^, b. July 7, 1797; m. David Holt in 1819. m., first, Rev. Hezekiah Hull of Lou- 506-111. OBED~,b. Sept. 14, 1789, inAndover; isiana; second, Sidney Hull of New r m. Ruth Jordan; and had children. Haven, Conn. 507-IV. STEPHEN',b. OC~.I, 1792; d. 1793. 522-IX. MARTHA ENKS', b. NOV.26, 1799 508-v. STEP HEN^, b. Dec. 14, I 794 ; m. Tem- 523-X. WILLIAMH , b. Dec. 16, 1809; lived in perance Jordan in 1819; and had Charlestown ; m., first, Amelia children. She d. in Andover Oct. Hull ; second, E. M. Bradley. 9, 1842. 50g-v1. MARY^, b. May 12, 1797; m. Edward 383 Philli s of Taunton in 1819. DEA. BENJAMINABBOTS, born in Ando- 510-VU. JOSEPH[ b. Feb. 22, 1804; m. Grace ver May 28, 1763. He lived in New- Wiggin of Concord, N. H., in 1829; buryport. He married Joanna Holmes in and had children. 511-VIII. -sone, b. in 1809; d. in 1809. 1785;anddiedAug.18,18~1.Shedied 512-IX. MARGARETNASON~, b. JuIy,12,1812. Aug. -, 1828. Children :- 328 524-1. PHEBEB." b. Oct. 10, 1787. GEORGEABBOTS, born in Andover Feb. 525-11. JOANNA~,b. Jan. 4, I 790. He resided in Salem, where he 526-111. MARYS.@, b. Oct. 21, 1791. 9, iT48. 527-IV. ELIZABETH^, b. Feb. I, 1793. was a shopkeeper. He married Priscilla 528-v. BEN JAM IN^, b. Dec. 10, 1794 ; d. at ,Manning of Salem March 1z, I 7 7 2 ; and seain August. 1818. died there Oct. 5, 1784. His wife sur- 529-vr FRANCIS',b. Jan. 4, 1797. vived him, and continued his trade. She 530-VII. ABIEL~,b. July 26, 1798. 531-VIII SARAH'. was living in I 799. 532-IX. IOHNe. Child :- 513-1. PRISCILLA~,b. March 20, 1773, in 3 84 Salem; d. young. JONATHAN ABBOTS, born in Andover 333 Aug. 29, 1740. He was a millwrightand a farmer, and lived with his father in An- CAW. JOHNI~VEJOY ABBOTS, born in dover. He married, first, Mehitable Ab- Andover April 12, 1757. He was a bot (279). She died Jan. I, 1777 ; and farmer, and lived on the homestead in he married, second, Dorcas Abbot (292) Andover. He married Phebe Abbot of (pub. Dec. 13, 1777). She died March 3, Andover 0 ct. 29, I 782. She died Oct. 1844, aged eighty-seven. He died Dec. I, 1825, aged sixty-two; and he died 25, 1821, aged eighty-two. Nov. -, 1837. Children, born in Andover :- Children, born in Andover :- 533-1. MEHITABEL', b. Sept. 29, 1764 ; m. 514-1. JOHN LOVEJOYB,b. NO~.29, 1783 ; Benjamin Russell of Bethel, Me., grad. H. C., 1805 ; was librarian; Sept. 20, 1787. and minister of First church in Bos- 534-11. SARAH@,b. June 2i, 1~66;rn. Jona- ton. He m. Elizabeth B. Warland ; than Stickney of St. Armanda, and d. Oct. 17, 1814, at the age of Lower Canada, June I I, 1793 ; and thirty. d. July 25, 1845. 98 THE ESSEX 1 535-111. ZERVIAH~,b. March 19, 1768; m. 553-IV. Je,h. Aug. 7, 1782; captain; lived John Ellenwwd of Lyndehoro' Dec. w~thhis father; m. Lucy Chandler 24, 1789. in 1807 ; and had chiildren. 536-IV. ABIGAIL~,h. July 30; 1770, m. Theo- 554-V. JOSHUA~,h. June 29, 1784; d. Jan. dore Russell of Bethel Seat. 17,.- 29, I 786. 1789; and d. June 2, 1810.' 555-vr ABEL" b. Sept. 7, 1786. 537-v. HANNAH~,b. NOV. 18,1774; m. Simeon 556~11.PASCHAL%, b. July 26, I 788 ; deacon ; Twitchell of Sudbury Aug. 16,1795. m., first, Mary Abbot, who d. Oct. 538-VI. JONATHAN%,b. June 11, 1776; lived 28, 1828; and, second, Hannah Fos- in Bethel ; m. Betsey Batchelder of ter. He had children. Wilton Jan. 27, 1799; and d. Jan. 557-VIII. EREM MI AH^, b. Aug. 14, 1790. 7, 1843. They had children. 558-1x. SARAH~,b. Dec. 20, 1792. 539-VII. STEP HEN^, b. Dec. 30, 1779; captain ; 559-x. AMOS%,b. March 13, 1795. lived with his father in Andover ; 5bx1. JOSHUA%, b. Jan. 29, 1796 ; d. young. was representative to the legislature ; 561-XI]. JOSHVA~.b. April 22, 1797. . m. Hannah Russell; and d. Oct. I, 562-XIII. LYDIA%,b. Nov. 4, 1800. 1835. Shed. Jan. 30, 1840. 540-VIII. DORCAS~,b. March 26, 1782; m., first, George Valpey of Salem; sec- ond Capt. Joseph Sibley. JOSIAHABBOTS, born Dec. 29, 1759. 541-IX. PATTY%,b. June g, 1785 ; d. June 4, 1797, aged twelve. He lived in Andover until 1800, when he 542-X. PHEBE~,b. Jan. 17, 1788; m. Capt. removed to Bath, N. H., and subsequent- Joshua Ballard of Andover in 1810. ly to Lexington, Vt. He married, first, 543-XI. MARY%,d. Jan. 31, 1796, aged five. Ruth Bodwell of Methuen May 15, 1784. 385 She died in 1788, and he married, sec- ond, Anna Furbush March 30, I 790. He WILLIAMABBOTS,'~~~~ in Andover Jan. died Feb. -, I 837. 21, 1746. He was a farmer, and lived in Children:-* Andover. He married Sarah Holt Aug. 563-1. CHARLES^, b. NOV.25, 1784 ; lived in 26,1766 ; and died Oct. -, 1807. Bath; m. Nancy Lang ; and d. Dec. Children :- 29, 1833. They had children. 564-11. RUTHBOD WELL^, b. Jan. I, 1786; m. 544-1. HANNAH~,b. June 11, 1767, in An- dover. Asa Holmes of Dalton, N. H. 565-111. FANNY%,b. Dec. 20, 1787; m. Jere- 545-11. SARAH@,b. June 3, I 769, in Andover ; m. Ezra Upton. miah Clough of Bath. I.MARTHA%, b. Dec. I I, 1772 ; m. Eli. 5661~. ANNA^, h. NOV.30, 1790; d. July 10, sha Child of Temple. 1818. 547-IV. WILLIAM^, had three wives and eleven 567-v. SARAH%,b. NOV. 10, 1791; m. Aaron children; d. in Malden May -, Hall of Troy, N. Y. 1843 ; pub. to Hannah Bailey. -Tune 568-VI. SOPHIA"b. Aug. 20, 1793 ; m. Henry 3, 1799. Goss of Chazv. N. Y. 548-v. MAR+, m. Samuel Tufts of Malden ; 56g-vl1. DORCAS~,b. arch 4, 1796; m. Ar- and d. June -, 1806. temas W. Buffington of Lemington, Vt.; and d. June 11, 1842. 549-VI. HANNAH~,m. Capt. Daniel Heald of - Temple, N. H. 57-VIII. WALTERSTVART~, b. Feb. 23, 1798; lived in Hereford, Lower Canada ; 39' m. Betsey G. Ladd; and had chil- dren. - Du. NATHANABBOTS, born Sept. 9, 571-lx. GEORGEWASHINGTON', b. ~ec.24, - 1753. He was a farmer, and lived in 1799; lived in Lyman, N. H. ; m. Andover. He married Sarah Ballard Lucinda Rowel1 ; and had children. 572-x. MOSES@,d. young. - May 8, I 777 ; and died March 5, 1801. 573-XI. SEWELL%,d. young. Children, born in Andover :- 574-x11. MOSESS.', b. Oct. 22, 1&6; lived in 550-1. NATHA~,b. Aug. 25,1778; m. Han- Hereford; m. Sophronia S. Ladd; nah Russell, who d. Nov. -, 1832. and had children. - He d. Feb. 11.". 1817.". Thev had 575-XIII. MARIA F.', b. July 18, 1809; m. children. Stephen Harris of Lemington. 551-11. b. in 1780; d. in 1780. 552-111. -son-6, b. March -, 1781; d. *The children that were born before 1800 were - March -, 1782. born in Andover. ABBOT GENEALOGY. 99

399 Children, born in Andover :- 597-1. BENJAMIN~,b. March 29, 1795; m. SAMUELABBOTS, born in Andover March Rebecca Boynton in 1814; and had 2 7, I 764. He lived at Society Land, N. children. H. He married, first, Rhoda Blanchard 598-11. RHODA',b. Oct. 24, 1796; m. Daniel Knowlton of Concord, N. H. of Billerica (pub. Jan. 4, 1786); second, 599-111. PHEBE', b. NOV.27, 1798; m. Dea. Ann Wallace ; and died in I 834. Solomon Holt in 1824. Children :- 600-IV. JONATHAN~,b. NOV. 15, 1801; d. 5761. HENR~,b. Feb. 1I, 1787. March 8, 1838. 577-11. RHODA%,b. Oct. 18, 1788,inAndover. 601-v. NATHANC.$ b. Jan. 16, 1807; m. 578-111. SAMUELSHELDON%, b. Sept. 23,179, Hannah Grant in 1836. in Andover. 602-VI. MARY%,b. NOV.17, 1809; m. Eben- 57~1~.WILLIAM', b. Oct. 18, 1792, in An- ezer Ricker of Lyman, Me., in 1836. dover. 603-VII. GILBERT%,b. April 5, 1812 ; d. Jan. , 580-v. DAVID%,b. July 10, 1794. I, 1835, aged twenty-two. 581-VI. PAMELA%,b. Dec. 7, 1796. 582-VII. HANNAH',b. Jan. I 1799. 583-v111. BETSY%,b. May I, I 1'03. 5%-IX. SARAH%,b. Sept. 23, 1804. SOLOMONABBOTS, born in Andover Nov. 585-X. ROBERT M.', b. Sept. 24, 1806; d. I, I 7 7 2. Lived in Andover ; and mar- Aug. 16, 1810. ried Lucy Frye July 8, 1794. He died Sept. 24,1840; and she died June 14, 1854. DAVIDABBOTS, born in Andover March Children, born in Andover :- 11, I 764. He lived in Andover; and 604-1. LUCY', b. OC~.30, 1794. married Priscilla Chandler May 26,1789. 605-11. -',~ b. Nov. 7, I 796; d. Dec. 30, He died June 21, 1823 ; and she died 1796. 606-111. SOLOMON@,b. Sept. 25, 1802; d. Feb. 19, 1831. young. Children, born in Andover :- 607-IV. SOLOMON',b. Feb. 5, 1805. 5861. PRISCILLA~,b. June lo, 179; d., 608-v. JOSHUA~. unmarried, Nov. g, 1857, aged sixty- 609-VI. ANDREW~,b. Aug. 8, 1808. seven. 587-11. MAR^, b. June 25, 1791. 588-111. DAVID', b. Dec. 23, 1792; m. Mary Grant in 1833. LT. TIMOTHYABBOTS, born in Andover 589-IV. JdNATHAN\ b. June 12, 1796; Cap- June 4, I 745. He was a farmer, and lived tain ; m. Lydia Phelps. with his father in Andover, being blind for 5-v. NATHAN%,b. July 5, 1799. 591-VI. EZRA',b. April 19, 1&1. several years before his death. He mar- 592-VII. PHEBE~,b. Aug. 5, 1803 ; m. Elijah ried Sarah Abbot (138) Jan. 2, I 770. He Wilson. diedMarch 21, 1826, aged eighty; and ~~~-vIII.JOSHUA~, b. Sept. 8, 1806. she died April 2, 1835, aged eighty-five. 594-IX. SERENA*,b. Sept. 7, 1808. 595-X. HERMAN%,m. Mary Gray. Children, born in Andover :- I ASAe, b. Nov. IS, 1770. st~~C/OW (610). 611-11. TIMOTHY', b. Sept. 28, 1774;.~. NATHANABBOTS, bom in Andover May drownedAug. 17, i777. 17, I 768. He married Hannah Phelps 612-111. DANIEL%,b. Feb. 25, 1777; grad. H. C., ; of 11, 1792. 1797 m. Elizabeth Pickman Dec. Salem ; and was a lawyer and state Child, born in Andover :- senator in New Hampshire. They 596-1. NATHAN',b. Feb. 25, 1799. had children. 613-IV. SARAH', b.. May 22, 1783; m, Na- 41 7 thaniel Swlft, Esq., in 1803. BENJAMINABBOTS, born in Andover June 427 7, 17 70. Lived in Andover ; and mar- ried Rhoda Chandler Nov. 26,1793. He CALEBABBOTS, born in Andover Oct. died Oct. 20, 1835 ; and she died March 28, I 7 5 I. He was a farmer, and lived in IS, 1853. Andover. He married, first, Lucy Love- I00 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

joy Jan. 21, 1779. She died Feb. 636-V. BENJAMINF.', b. June 1, 1809. 637-VI. REBECCAH.5, b. July 12, 1811. (March?) "J 1802~aged and 63Pv11. SAMUELFLINTI, b. Aug. 3, 1814; d. he married, second, Hannah -. His Jan. 2, 1843, aged twent eight. wife Hannah died Sept. 24, 1828, aged 63g-VIII. RHODAA.', b. April 11, I&,. fifty-four; and he died April 12, 1837, 64'>--1x. BUSHROD W.', b. Aug. 1% 1821; d. aged eighty-five. Jan. 20, 1853, aged thirty-one. Children, born in Andover :- 610 CALEB~,b. NOV.10, 1779. TIMOTHUS,b. Jan. 13, 1781. ASAABBO~~, born in Andover Nov. I 5, ORLANDO~,b. NOV. 20, 1782; d. Oct. 1770. Lived with his father in Andover; 4, 1834, aged fifty-two. and married Judith Jaquith of Billerica LucUS, b. Feb. 20, 1784. (pub. Feb. I, 1798). She died July 15, CHARLES^, b. Jan. 8, I 786. GARDNBR~,b. Sept. 29, 1787; m. 1843, aged sixty-seven. Rachel -., and had children. He Children, born in Andover :- d. Jan. 17, 1853, aged sixty-five. 641-1. ASAALBERT', b. March 29, 1799; m. DANIEL%,b. June 15, 1789; d. April Mehitable H. Ingalls in 1820; and 13, '797. Lived in Andover. . ELIZABETH^, b. July 27, 1791. 642-11. ADELINEALTON', b. Dec. 31, 1800; MARUS,b. March 25, 1793. m. Thomas Manning. SAMUEL~,b. Jan. 28, 1795;. . . d. April 643-111. SYLVESTER',b. Feb. 26, 1803. 14, 1796. 644-IV. SERENOTIMOTHY', b. Aug. 17, 1805 ; PHEBEFOX CROFT^, b. Feb. 8, 1797. A. C., 1833; minister at Hampton DAVID%,b. Feb. 19, I 799. Falls ; m. Sarah French. 645-v ELIZABETHJAQUITH', b. NOV. 8, 1807 ; m. Eben G. Beny of Danvers in 1831. EZU ABBOT^, born in Andover Dec. 646~1.SARAH ANN', b. Dec. 23, 1811. 2, 1760. He lived in Andover on his 647-VII. HANNAHJ.', b. Aug. 31, 1815. father's farm, which was settled by his first American ancestor, George Abbot'. He married Hannah. Poor April 24, I 798 ; WILL OF ANNE SCARLET. and died Jan. 22, 1844, aged eighty- The will of Mrs. Anne Scarlet was three. written 2 : I mo : I 639, and proved 30 : Children, born in Andover :- 4 : 1643. The following copy is taken 6261. EZRA', h. March 30, 1799; d. Jan. from the original instrument on file in the 12, 1804. 627-11. JOHN', b. March 17, 1801 ; d. Aug. office of the clerk of courts at Salem, 6, 1803. book I, leaf 16. 628--111. DANIEL POOR', b. March 9, 1803; captain ; m. Mehitabel Foster. I doe Defire to have fome order taken 629-IV. HANNAHFRYE', b. June 16, 1806; for the payinge my brother Samuell . . . . . m. Rev. D. Mansfield of Wenham. in old England the fome of Tenne pownds 63-V. EZRA',b. NOV. 27, 1808; physician wChhe layd out for mee. at Canton, Mass. ; m. Harriet Lin- coln in 1839. And alfo my brother D[avidPs] Child- 611-VI. IOHN',b. Feb. 9. 1812. ren twelve fhillings a peece to buy them a wthall. And for the reft of my goods & move- E~ociiABB~, born in Andover April ables, & lynnen & wollin I defire they 8, 1774. He lived in Andover. He fhall be equallie Devided to my three married Nancy Flint (pub. July 5, 1799) ; children. Mary Margaret & Jofeph and died Sept. 26, 1842. She died Feb. equally alike to them : I, 185 I, aged seventy-three. AIfo I Doe give unto my filter Dennis Children, born in Andover :- my blew gowne further I give to my 632-1. HENRY',b. Aug. 12, 1799. brother James Hindes tenne shillings. 633-11. NANCY',b. March 5, 1801. 634-111. SOPHRONIA',h. Feb. 18, 1803. And alfoe my three Children to be wholy 635-1V. ENOCH', b. NOV.7, 1804. executom & my brother Browning & his SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE REVOLUTION. I01

- wiefe advifers. And alfo my brother Ten Eyck, Aug. 27, I 780 ;deserted March Joseph Grafton I defire him to advice in 5, 1777. the ordering of my goods & my things THOMASADAMS of Boxford ;priv. ; Capt. - as are abovewritten. And that my child- John Cushing's co., Col. Samuel Johnson's ren may equallie devide fuch of my goods reg., which marched on the alarm of a fhall remayne aftere thefe things be April I 9, I 7 75 ; service, 5 days. discharged that are abovenamed equallie THO~IASADAMS of Boxford ;serg., Capt. - amonge them Richard Peabody's co., Col. Edward Anne Scarlet Wigglesworth's reg. ; pay abstract for Witnes. travel allowance from Ticonderoga home, James Hinds in 1776. James Moulton. THOMASADAMS of Newburyport ; sea- man, brig " Julius Caesar," commanded by Capt. Nathaniel Bently; descriptive SOLDIERS AND SAIL0kS OF THE list of officers and crew, dated June 21, REVOLUTION. I 780 ; age, 2 I yrs., 5 mos. ; stature, 5 ft., Continuedfrom page 65. 6 in. ; complexion, light.- Roll sworn to SILASADAMS of Newbury ; 1st it., Capt. at ~almouth. Jacob Gerrish's co., which marched on To be continued. the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cam- bridge ; service, - 6 dss. ; also, Capt. Gerrish's co., Col. Moses Little's reg. ; LOUISBURG EXPEDITION, musler roll dated Aug. I, I 775 ; enl. April The Massachusetts legislature, at its 24, r 775 ; service, 3 mos., 14 days ; also, present session, has passed the following list of officers ; commissioned June 2 7, resolve. The Fifth regiment was com- 1775 ; also, co. return [probably Oct., posed of Essex county. men, and was 17751 ; age, 33 yrs.; also, list of men commanded by Col. Robert Hale of drafted from Essex co. brigade to march Beverly. to Rhode Island to reinforce Gen. Spencer, ~~IZrsolvec~That the Secretary of the by order of Brig.-gen. Michael Farley, Commonwealth is hereby instructed to agreeable to resolve of April I I, I 7 77 ; ascertain and to report to the general appointed capt. of a co. made up from court' whether or not there are in exist- Newbury, Danvers, Rowley and Middle- ence in England rolls of the Fifth Massa- ton also, capt., Col. Titcomb's reg.; chusetts Colonial regiment, and of all the roll dated June 29, 177 7. colonial forces engaged in the Louisburg SOLOMONADAMS of Rowley ; priv. ; pay expedition of 1745, and whether or not roll for 6 mos. men raised by Rowley for certified copies of such rolls can be ob- service in the Continental Army during tained and the cost of obtaining the 1780 ; marched July 6, 1780 ; dis. Dec. same." 5, 1780; service, 5 mos., 12 dys. STEPHENADAMS of Newbury; priv., Capt. Silas Adams' co., Col. Titcomb's Q-. reg. ; service, 2 mos. ; roll dated June 29, Queries arc inrencd (or one cent a word. Answers are solicited. 1777- THEODOREADAMS of Marblehead; re- 54. Information wanted of William turn of men enl. into Continental Army Peter, said to be brother of Hugh. A from Col. Jonathan Glover's (5th Essex William Peter had an account with the co.) reg., dated Nov. 7, I 777 ; enl., 3 yrs. Plymouth Company in 1628. Nrw York CiQ. E. B. P. , THEOUOREADAMS of Boxford ; priv.; list of deserters from Major's co., Col. 55. Wanted, ancestry of Sarah -- 1 Thomas Nixon's (6th) reg., dated Camp who married William Harris of Ipswich I02 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. about 1685. Also, date of her birth, 68. Mehitabel, daughter of Thomas marriage and death. M. F. W. C. Raymond, was baptized Aug. 23, 1691, Rochester, N. Y. First Church, Salem. Wanted, her mother's maiden-name. A. P. J. 56. Was Thomas Harris of Ipswich and Rowley son of Thomas (of Charles- town, I 630) ? M. F. W. C. ANSWERS. 57. Wanted, ancestry of Susannah 30. Amos Peabody, who married Abi- -, who married Thomas Don, of Ip- gail Needham of Billerica Nov. 6, 1828, was son of Amos and Rachel (Berry) mich about 1683. M. F. W. C. Peabody. He was born in Middleton 58. Wanted, marriage of David Ham- June 30, I 793 ; and died there June 28, mond and Mary -, Ipswich, Mass., I 85 7 .-M. j. AvedZ, Middleton. i 7 10-20, and births of children. [Abigail Needham was born Dec. 10, Oneida, N. Y. F. S. HAMMOND. I 803 ; and married, secondly, George 59. Wanted, information of descen- Lyman, in May, 1844. Mr. Peabody was dants of Jonathan Hammond, brother of insane many years. Apparently, his wife David. F. S. H. was either divorced from him, or the marriage was annulled.-Ed.] 60. Wanted, marriage of Thomas Hammond with Martha -- (of Brook- 43. Lydia Peabody married Thomas field, Mass.), 1738-42, and with Abia Perley July 8, 1667. She was the daughter of Lt. Francis and Mary (Fos- -, of Littleton, 1744-50 F. s. H. ter) Peabody, and was baptized in Hamp- 61. Wanted, names of parents of ton, N. H., Aug. 30, 1640. Francis Thomas Hammond, born I 747, married Peabody, born in England in 1614, was a Esther Dole of Rowley. F. S. H. son of John and Isabel Paybody, and 62. Wanted, information of marriage Mary Foster was a daughter of Reginald of John Chamberlain and -, daugh- and Judith Foster of Ipswich. John Pea- ter of Nathaniel Hammond, I 732-37. body was born about 1585, came to New F. S. H. England early, was probably at Lynn 63. Thomas Morse, of Bradford, awhile, then resided in Bridgewater, and Mass., married Elizabeth Bartlett, ,May, subsequently in Daybrook in Plymouth colony. His will was proved in 1667. 1747. Who were her ancestors ? F. Wichita, Kan. M. B. G. His wife Isabel survived him.-G. Dow, Topsjid. 64. Wanted, ancestry of Benjamin Carrill and of Mary Cross, married in 52. Grace Parker was the daughter Ipswich March 3, 1701-2, and names of Abraham Parker, Jr., of Bradford. She was born in Chelmsford (of which town and birthplace of children. c. CARYL. Groton, Mass. her grandfather, Abraham Parker, Senior, wasone of the settlers) May 27, 1693, 65. Wanted, any inforination as to and removed to Bradford with her father Nathaniel Carrel1 and wife Mary, to in I 700. She married Capt. Abel Morse whom a daughter Mary was born in Sa- of Bradford June 3, 1714, and died in lem May 20, 1662. c. c. Chester, N. H., Oct. 16, 1755. Her 66. Wanted, maiden-name of Bath- mother's name was Martha Livermore, sheba, who married Capt. John Foote of of Watertown. Her emigrant ancestor, Amesbury about 1680. A. P. J. Abraham Parker, came to this country in East Boston. 1630, from England, lived first in Charles- 67. Wanted, ancestry of Thomas town, was one of the settlers of Woburn, Williams, who married Mary Lowle or and later of Chelmsford, where he died Lowell of Newbury, 1696. A. P. J. Aug. I 2, 1685.-john L. Parker, Lynn.

VOL. I. SALEM,MASS., JULY, I 89 7. No. 7.

DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE ABBOT OF ROWLEY.

GEORGEABBCYr1, with his three sons, 9-v. NEHEMIAH',b. July 20. 1667. See be- emigrated from England, and settled in low (9). 10-VI. HANNAH~,b, Sept. 22,1668 ; m. James Rowley, Mass., where he died in 1647. Ingalls April 16, 1695. Nothine is known of his wife. 11-VII. ME HI TAB EL^. b. Feb. I .- 1671-2:. . d. ~hiliren:- YOU'=f: 2-1. GEORGE~.See below (2). 12-VIII. LYDIA,b. March 31, 1675 ; m. Henry 3-11. NEHEMIAH'. Ste below (3). Chandler Nov. 28, 16gj. 4-111. THOMAS*,lived in Rowley ; m. Dorothy, 13-IX. SAMUEL"b. May 30, 1678; lived in daughter of Richard Swan; and d. in Sudbury; m. Joyce Rice June 16, 1659, without issue. He was buried 1705 ; and had children. Dr. Josiah in Rowley Sept. 7, 1659. His wife Abbot of Rindpe, N. H., and Dr. survived him, and m., second, Edward Alexander Abbot of Kinderhook, N. Chapman of I swich. Mr. Chapman Y., are descendants. ME HI TAB EL^, b. April 4, d. April 18, I g78 ; and she m., third, 14-X. 1680. Archelaus Woodman of Newbury Nov. 13. 1678. 3 In Thomas Abbot's will he speaks DEA.NEHEMIAH ABBOT,', born in Eng- of his brother Thomas Abbot ; and in land, settled in Ipswich, Mass., where he several deeds he is called brother by a Thomas Abbot. This has occasioned was living in 1659. He was commoner much perplexity in arranging the Ab- there in 1664 and 1678; and was made bot genealogies. The word brother a freeman in 1669. He was a deacon of was probably used in the broader the church in Topsfield in 1686. He sense of kinsman. married Mary How, in Ipswich, Dec. 14, 1659 ; and died March -, 1706-7. His GEORGEABBOT=, born in England, set- wife survived him. tled in Andover, Mass., in 1655. He Children, born in Ipswich :- was a tailor and husbandman. He mar- 15-1. MARY', b. No". 19. 1660; A. young. 16--11. NEHEMIAH~.See ~~OZV(16). ried Sarah Farnum of Andover April 26, 17-111. MARY^, b. NOV. I, 1665; d. Dec. 12, 1658; and died March 22, 1688-9. His I 668. wife survived him, and married, second, Henry Ingalls Aug. I, 1689. Mr. In- galls died in I 7 19, aged ninety-two ; and GEORGE ABBOT^, born in Andover Jan. she died in I 7 28, aged ninety. 28, 1659. He lived in Andover, and was Children, born in Andover :- a shoemaker. I-le married, first, Eliza- 5-1. GEORGE~,~.Jan.28,1659. See below(5). beth Ballard Sept. I 3, 1659 ; and she 611. SARAH', b. Sept. 6, 1660; m. John died May 6, r 706. He married, second, Faulkner Oct. rg, 1682. Hannah Estey of Topsfield July 21,1707. 7-11. JOHN', b. Aug. 26, 1662; m. Jemima -. , and settled in Sudbury about He died Nov. 23, I 724 ; and his wife 1696. He d. March 19, 1721; and died in Topsfield Nov. 5, 1741. She she m., second, John Beeks. They lived for several years during her widow- had children. Rev. Orrin Abbot of hood with her cousin John Perkins and Akron, N. Y., was a descendant. 8-IV. MARY=,b. March 20,1664 ; m. Stephen his wife in Topsfield. Barker May 13, 1687. Children, born in Andover:- 104 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. 18-1. GEORGE',b. July 28, 1691. lived in Ipswich. He married Remem- I URIAH'. b. NOV.26. 1692. See below - . - ber Fisk Jan. 21, 1690. She died July . (19). 2-111. JACOB', b. March 19, 1694; lived in 12, I 703. He made his will May 28, Brookfield, Mass. ; m. Ruth Foster 1728; and it was proved Jan. 20, 1736-7. of Andover May I, 1722. Children, born in Ipswich :- 21-IV. ELIZABETH',b. NOV.5, 1695 ; m. Dea. 34-1. JOHN', b. April 9, 1691; d. June 5, David Foster of Boxford Nov. 25, -,---1710. 1714; and d. before 1724. He d. 35-11. NEHEMIAH',b. Oct. 19, 1692. Set June 22, 1759, aged sixty-six. below (35). 22-V. OBBD', b. March 6, 1697. See below 36-111. MARY', d. unmarried; was living- in (22). 1727. 23-VI. MOSES', b. Feb. 4, 1699; lived in New 37-IV. MEHITABEL',b. Oct. 17, 1700; d. un- Braintree. married; was living in 1727. 24~~11.PETER'. 38-v. JOHN'. See belmu 25-VIII. SARAH',m. Comfort Barnes of Brook- w). 39-VI. SARAH',m. Joshua Jackson of Rowley field Sept. 6, 1728. April I 7, I 728. 26--1x. HANNAH4, m. David Gilbert of Brook- - field Aug. 30, 1727. I9 URUHABBOT+, born in Andover Nov. DEA.NEHE~~~AH ABBOT^, born in Ando- 26, 1692. He was a shoemaker andyeo- - ver July 20, 1667. He was an yeoman, man, and lived in Andover. He married and lived in Andover. He was a deacon Sarah Mitchell of Salem March 24, 1724. died forty-seven; of South church, 1720 to I 750, and a She May g, 1750, aged - representative to the General Court. He and he died April 7, I 770. :- married Abigail Lovejoy April g, I 69 I. Children born in Andover 40-1. 40-1. JOHN', b. March 10, 1725. See below She died May 2, 1747 ; and he died Sept. (40). - 16, I 750, aged eighty-three. 41-11. SARAH3, b. Dec. 4, 1726; m. Rev. JO- Children, born in Andover :- siah Stearns of Billerica Dec. 4, 27-1. NEHEMIAH',b. Jan. 19, 1692. See be- 1755 ; and d. Nov. 5, 1776. low (27). 42-111. ELIZABETH',b. Aug. 3, 1728; d. Jan. - 28-11. ABIEL', b. Aug. 10, 1693 ; lived in 29, 1750, aged twenty-one. East Windsor, Conn.; and m. Abi- 43-IV. URIAH', b. Aug. 20, 1729; d. Sept. .. .A gail Grant Jan.9, 1717. Shed. Aug. 14, 1/29. - 22, 1724, aged twenty-eight. He d. 44-V. MARY^, b. OC~.5, 1733 ; d. OC~:7: Jan, 21, 1758. They had children. 1776. 29-111. ZEBADIAH',b. April 6, 1695. See be- l'w (29). (45). 30-IV. JOHN', b. NOV.4,1697 ; settled in Tol- 46~11. WILLIAM^, b. Oct. 2, 1738; m. Eliza- land, Conn., about 1/20; m., first, beth Tay of Woburn (pub. March 3, Elizabeth Birge Dec. 31, 1721. She 1761). d. March -, 1/28 ; and he m., sec- ond, Mary Robinson Oct. -, 1731. She d. April 3, 1778, aged eighty- OBEDABBOT+, born in Andover March one ; and he d. Nov. 25, 1779. He had children. Among bis descend- 6, 1697. He was a weaver and husband- ants are Dr. Jehiel Abbot of West- man, a man of small stature, but of great field, Mass., state senator, etc. ; Dr. physical power. He lived in Salem until Lucius Abbot of Detroit, Mich., and 1725, when he removed to Bedford, then John StearnsAbbot, esq., of Detroit. 31-V. ABIGAIL', b. Oct. 7, 1699; m. Benja- a part of Billerica. He was prominent min Abbot. in town and church. He married Eliza- 32-VI. MARY', b. March 23, I~I; m. James beth Tarbell of Salem Feb. I, 1721-2. BridgesAug.31,1738; andd. in 1774. She died May 29, 1752; and he died 33-VII. JOSEPH', d. NOV. I, 1726. May 11, 1773. 16 Children :- 47-1. JONATHAN~,b. April I, 1723, inSalem. NE~EMIAn ABB0T3, born 'pswich' 4&1~. ELIZABETH^, b. Feb. 5, 1724-5, in Sa- He was a weaver and husbandman, and lem; d. young. DESCENDANTS OF GEOR(;E ABBOT OF ROWLEY. 1°5

49-111. Mosss5, b. Jan. 13, 1727 ; was captain 63-IV. LYDIA^, b. July 23, 17 5 ; m. Abraham of the Bedford company of minute Moar March 16, 175i ; and d. before men in the Revolution ; was known 1767. as " Solid Abbot "; m. Mary Hill of 64". CHLOE~,b. NOV.5, 1737; m. Jeremiah Billerica April 15, 1755. She d. Abbot. Sept. 5, 1801; and he d. May 22, 65-VI. ZEBADIAH~,b. Sept. 27, 1739. See below (651. 1809. They had children. , 4,~ 5"IV. SARAH',b. April 22, 1729; m. Isaac 66~11.ANNA', b. July 27, 1752; d. Oct. 8. Stearns of Billerica Feb. I I, I 748. 1764. 51-V. ELIZABETH', b. March 16, 1731 ; m. 35 Abijah Cutler of Brookfield Dec. g, NEHEMIAHABBOT+, born in Ipswich 1756. 52-VI. JOHN', b. Feb. 4, 1732-3. Oct. 19, 1692. He was a yeoman, and 53-VII. MARY=,b. Feb. 16, 1734-5; m. Daniel lived in Linebrook parish, Ipswich. He Parker of Reading. married Eleanor Porter of Topsfield 27 (pub. March 24, 1743). He died before May 22, 1760; and his widow mamed DEA.NEHEMIAH ABBOT+, born in Ando- Mark Fisk Sept.21, 1762. ver Jan. 19, 1692. He settled in Weston Children, born in Ipswich :- in I 7 I 4, and in I 7 I 9 moved to Lincoln, 67-1. ELIZABETH~,d. May 22, 1760. then a part of Lexington. He was town 68-11. ELEANOR', b. March 15, 1746; m. treasurer, etc. He married Sarah Foster Joseph Fisk of Ipswich April 21,1763. 6~111. b. Sept. 1749. See below Nov. 2, 1714. He died Feb. 17, 1767 ; JOHN^, 15, (69). and she died July I 9, I 7 70. 70-IV. NEHEMIAH~,b. NOV. 14, 1751; d. Children :- young. -.54-1. NEHEM1AH5, bapt. in Weston Dec. 4, 71-v. GEORGE',b. Jan. 29, 1754; m. Mehit- 1715; d. young. able Jewett of Rowley (pub. May 12, 55-11. NEHBM~AH',bapt. in Weston March 1777) ; and d. in 1778. He was a 14, 1717. See below (35). blacksmith, and lived in Rowley. ~6-111. ABlGA1L5, bapt. March in < SARAH~,bapt. in Weston Nov. 2,1718;~. . 72-vr. 23, 1756, m. -warren. Linebrook parish; living in Rowley 57-IV. ABIGAIL~,b. Jan. 26, 1721, in Lexing- in I 775, and later in Ipswich ; and d., ton; m. Amos Lawrence of Groton unmarried, before April 5, 1784. Nov. -, 1749; and d. Jan. 6, 1784. 73-VII. NEHEMlAH5, bapt. Feb. 18, 1759, in They were grandparents of Hon. Ab- Linebrook parish ; living in I 775 ; bot Lawrence. sewed in the Revolution ; and was a S&V. WILLIAM', b. Oct. 9, 1/24, in Lexing- baker by trade. ton. See below (58). 5g-VI. JOSEPH', b. June 8, 1727: lived in 3 8 Lincoln; m. Hannah White March DEA. JOHN ABBOT+,born in Ipswich. 24, 1752; and d. in 1793. They He was a farmer, and lived in Linebrook had children. parish, Ipswich. He married, first, Abi- 29 gail Dresser of Rowley Feb. 3, 1714-j. ZEBADIAHABBOT+, born in Andover She died after 1735 ; and he married, second, widow Susanna Neland July I I, April 6, 1695. He was a farmer, and lived in Andover on the homestead, which 1750. She died Dec. 14, 1759 ; and he died four days later, Dec. 18, 1759. his father deeded to him in I 747. He Children :- married Anna Lovejoy June 20, 1728. 74-1. REMEMBERS, b. NO~.30,1715. He died Sept. g, 1767; and she died 75-11. JOHN', bapt. Oct. 26, 1717. Sept. 5, 1770. 40 Children, born in Andover :- JOHNABBOTS, born in Andover March 61. ANNA', b. OC~.-, 1/29; d. April 3, 1738. 10, I 725. He was a cordwainer and I-. NEHEMIAH~,b. Aug. 24, 1731. See farmer, and lived in Andover. He mar- below (61). ried, first, Sarah Carlton of Bradford 62-111. SARAH',b. Aug. 3, 1733; m. 'Nmothy Baliard Jan. 21, 1755 ; and lived in (pub. Feb. 3, 1753). She died May 17, Andover. He d, before 1767. I 7 76, aged hrty-seven ; and he married, I 06 THE ESSEX A second, Phebe Steel (pub. Nov. 22, Children, born in Andover :- 1776). He died of the smallpox Jan. 3, 94-1. JEDUTHAN~,b. Aug. 6, 1749. Srr 6e- (OW (94). 1779; and she married James Holt of 95-11 BIXB*,b. NOV.24, 1750. bd~d(95). Andover June 22, 1779. 96-111. HANNAH~,b. July 15, 1753; d. July Children, born in Andover :- 79 1792. 76-1. ELIZABETH"b. March 24, 1754. 97-IV. LucyG, b. Sept. 3, 1758; m. John 77-11. MAR*, d. Jan. 6, 1763. Brown of Hopkinton, N. H., April 78-111. NEIIEMIAH~,b. June 18, 1756. Set be- 11, 1776. low (78). 98-v. SARAH"b. June 16, 1763; m. Isaac 79--1v. JOSEPH^, b. Dec. 7, I 758; d. March 22, Moar Feb. g, I 786; and d. in I 786. 1763. 80-v. BEZALEEL~,b. March 16,1761 ; d. Jan. 3, 1763. NEHEMIAHABBOTS, born in Andover 81-vr. JOSEPH@,h. Oct. 18,1763 ; d. of small- Aug. 24, 1731. He lived with his father pox Jan. s, 1779. 82-VII. REVBENO,b. July 16, 1766; d. Jan. 17, in Andover, and was a farmer and trustee 1768. of the Phillips Academy. He married, 83-VIII. SARAH~,b. Dec. 30, 1768; m. Benja- first, Hannah Ballard March 11, 1756. min Johnson May g, 1793. 4-IX. HANNAH",m. John Johnson in 1793. She died Sept. 27, 1778, aged forty-two; and he married, second, Lydia Clark of 45 Andover Jan. 18, 1780. He died Oct. URIAHABBOTS, born in Andover Sept. 13, 1808, aged seventy-seven; and she 29, I 735. He lived in Pelham, N. H. died Feb. 13, 1814, aged sixty-nine. He married, first, Sarah wright April 26, Children, born in Andover :- 1757 ; and, second, Sarah Perry. 99-1. NEHEMIAH~,b. March 10, 1757 ; was Children :- an innholder, and lived in Andover ; 85-1. JOHN@,d. in Leominster in 1806. m. Sarah Abbot March 3, 1785 ; and 86-11. BEN JAM IN^, b. Dec. 22, 1780. d. Dec. 12, 1822. His widow 87-111. JOSEPH^, lived in Newburyport. founded the Abbot Female Academy 88-IV. DUDLEY~.See below (88). in Andover; and d. March 2, 1848, 89--v. SARAH",m., and lived in Beverly. aged ei5- hty five. go-vr. LYDIA^, m., and lived in Newbury. 1-11. HANNAH, b. Sept. 19, 1758; d. Oct. 91-VII. BENJAM~N~,lived in Andover; m. Polly 29, 1764. Wood ; and had children. 101-111. ABIEL~,b. Sept. 4, 1760. See be/oru 92-v~n. URIAH~,b. in 1778; d. in Portland in (101). 1808. 102-IV. PHEBE~,b. in 1763 ; m. John L. Ab- 93-IX. WILLIAM^, b. Feb. 14, 1789; m. Mary bot, esq.; and d. Oct. I, 1825. Stone of Beverly, where he lived. 103-V. WILLIAMLOVE JOY^ (twin), b. Jan. 18, 176j ; grad. H. C., 1787 ; was a physician in Amesbury mntil 1794. when he settled in Haverhill. He DR. NEHEMIAHABBOTS, baptized in m. Abigail Carr of Amesbury March Weston, Mass., March 14, 1717. He 11, 1792 ; and d. April 18, 1798. was a physician, and lived in Andover childless. His widow married Elias until 1770, when he removed to Chelms- Weld of Amesbury July I I, 1799. 104-VI. NANNAH~(twin), b. Jan. 18, 1765; ford. He married, first, Joanna Parker m. Samuel Hawley Jan. I, 1788. of Chelmsford (pub. Nov. 5, I 748). She 10s-VII. ELIZABETH^, b. Oct. 22, 1781. died after I 770 ;and he married, second, the widow of Rev. Ebenezer Bridge. He 65 had no children. DEA. ZEBADIAHABBOTS, born in Ando- ver Sept. 27, 1739. He lived in Ando- 5 8 ver, where he was a teacher, and also a WILLIAMABBOTS, born in Lexington, shopkeeper. He was a member of the Mass., Oct. 9, I 724. He was a farmer, convention for forming the State consti- and lived in Andover. He married Ex- tution. He married Rebecca Ballard perience Bixby June 4, 1747. He died (pub. Oct. I, 1765). He died Nov. 24, Jan. 2,1798; and she died Sept. 3, 1815. I 793 ; and his wife died Sept. 14, 1821. DESCENDANTS OF GEOR .GE ABBOT OF RGWLEY. 107

Children, born in Andover :- 120-111. DUDLEY~,b. Dec. 26, 1796; m. Pame-

106-1. ANNA~,b. Aug. 3, 1767; m. Chris- lia~~ Ober.~ topher Osgood of Pembroke, N. H. ; JOHN', b. Oct. 14, 1800; m. Annis and d. Dec. 26, 1826. Chapman May 2, 1825. 107-11. ZEBADIAH~,b. June 6, 1769. See It- SALLY^, b. Feb. 15, 1803; d. Sept. Imu (107). 26, 1805. 108-111. HERMANO,b. March 5, 1771; lived NATHAN',b. July 15, 1805. in Andover; m. Lydia Farrington SALLY^, b. July 26, 1808. (pub. Sept. 7, 1799); and had chil- . JOSEPH^, b. Jan. 6, 1811 ; lived in dren. She d. April 27, 1838. Beverly; m. Elizabeth Foster May lop--IV. JOSHUA~,b. March I, 1773; d. March 20, 1834 ; and d. Sept. 24, 1842. 20, 1773. ELIZABETHLAKE MAN^, b. Jan. 2, 11-V. - d. young. 1814; m. Larkin T. Lee; and d. 111-VI. JOSHUA~,b. Feb. I, 1782; d. July Aug. 24, 1881. 26, 1782. 69 JOHN ABBOTS,born in Ipswich Sept. 15, CAFT.JEDUTHAN ABBO~~born in Ando- ver Aug. 6, 1749. He lived with his 1749. He was a blacksmith, and lived in Rowley. He married, first, Elizabeth father in Anclover. He married Hannah Fisk of Ipswich (pub. July 25, 1772) ; Poor Nov. 26, I 772 ; and died July 5, and, second, Sarah Perkins of Ipswich 1810. She died Sept. 3, 1823. Sept. 17, 1774. He died before 1778; Children, born in Andover :- and his wife married John Fowler, 3d, of 127-1. HANNAH~,b. July 10, 1773. 128-11. Lucy7, b. Oct. g, 1775 ; d. Aug. 16, Ipswich June 19, I 777. 1798 Children :- 12111. JEDUTHAN~, b. June 18, 1777; lived 112-1. ME HIT ABLE^, m. Joshua Burpee of with his father in Andover; m. Bet- Rowley in 1774. sy Bridges ; and had children. 113-II. SARAHB, m. Robert Cary in 1804. 130-IV. FAXNY~,b. March 30, 1779; m. Os- 114-111. BET HI AH^, m. Josiah Parsons of Glou- good Johnson ; and d. July 19,1829. cester in 1795 131-v. LYDIA^, b. March 24, 1781 ; m., first, 115-IV. -6, d. before 1778 John Richardson ; and, second, Dea. - Fulsom of Corinth, Vt.; and 78 d. Feb. -, 1843. SARAHPEABODY', b. July4, 1783; d. .4~~07~,born Andover 132-VI. NEHEMIAH in Feb. -, 1822. June 18, 1756. He was an innholder, 133-VII. Aoros7, b. Sept. 6, 1786; was deacon. and lived in Andover. He married Su- state senator, and member of Con- sannah Emery Nov. 17, I 778 ; and died gress; and m. Esther West Dec. 6, 1812. Alfred Amos Abbot of Pea- 1, wife married, Jan. 1784. His sec- body, U. C., 1841, district attorney, ond, Robert Swan May 21, I 789. lawyer, and clerk of courts for Essex Children :- county, was their son. 1161. JOHN~,b. July 29, 1779; lived in 134-VIII. ABIGAIL',b. &lay 23, 1790; m. Capt. Portsmouth ; m. Rebecca Wilson; Thomas C. Foster; and d. Oct. 24, and had children, ISAA.. , 11-11. BUTLER', b. Jan. 28, 1782; lived in 135-IX. PAA~ELA',b. Oct. 11, 1792; d. Aug. Newburyport ; m. Martha Dale; and 31, 179% had children. 136-x. REBECCA~,h. March 10, 1795; d. Sept. 8, 1798. 95 DUDLEYAEEOI~. He lived in Beverly; and married Nancy Poland of Ipswich BIXBY.4BB016, born in Andover Nov. Hamlet June 2,1791. 24, 1750. He lived in Andover and Children, born in Beverly :- Greenfield. He married, first, Hephzi- I-. ANNA^, b. Dec. 5, 1792; m. Isaac bah Ames Jan. 13, r772. She died May Lakeman NOV. 10, 1811. 20, I 796 ; and he married, second, Mary 119--11. STEPHEN', b. Feb. 22, 1794; m. Nancy woodbury Dec. 11, 1821; -, who died hlarch 27, 1805. He and d. ~ug.-, 1872. probably married, third, Deborah Johnson. I 08 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARUN.

Children, born in Andover :- 156~11.ZEBADIAH', b. April 10, 1810; m. 137-1. HEPH~IBAH',b. Aug. 17, 1772; m. Caroline W. French. Joshua Bailey Feb. 19, 1795. 157-VIII. EDWARDF.', b. Dec. 24, 1816; was 138-11. WILLIAM',b. July 14, 1774; lived in a preacher. Greenfield; m. Hannah Bailey in 1799 ; and had children. I39 139--11I. BEN JAM IN^, b. NOV. 8, 1776. See he- COL.BENJAMIN ABBOT^, born in Ando- low ('39). ver Nov. 8, I 776. He lived in Andover. 140-IV. BETSY', b. Sept. 18,1780; m. Nathan Bailey. He married, first, Mary Kidder of Med- 141-v. JOSEPH',b. Feb. I, 1783; died at ford (pub. May 19, 1798). She died May sea. 26, 1816, aged thirty-seven; and he 142-VI. HENRY',b. March 5, 1785 ; lived in married, second, Elizabeth Goldsmith in Amherst; m. Rhoda Bailey Jan. --, 181I ; and had children. 1817. He died Aug. 13, 1852, aged I~~TVII. AsA', b. March 7, 1787; m. Hannah seventy-five. -& Bailey. Children :- 144-VIII. SAMUEL',b. Jan. 28, 1789; lived in 158-1. BEXJAMIN~,b. July 19, 1798. in An- Woburn. dover ; d. in Providence. 145-IX. NEHEM~AH'~b. OC~. 18, 1790; lived 159-II. SAMUELK.8, b. NOV. 22, 1803; d. in Andover. April 17, 1820. 1~6-X. TIM~THY'Sb. Feb. 22, 1793; d. in 160-111. MARY G.8, b. July 11, 1806; m. 1813. George Wardwell. 1477x1. WARREN',b. July 14, 1796; grad. Y. 161-IV. WILLIAM^, b. Feb. g, 1808. C. ; was a physician in Bradford ; I&?-V. JOSEPH ~.8,b. Dee. 19, 1809. and d. Aug. -, 1825. 163-VI. HEPHZIBAH~,b. Feb. 7, 1812. 101 164-VII. ELIZABETH^, b. March 8, 1814; m. Albert Ware of Providence. ABIELABBO~~, born in Andover Sept. 165-VIII. SARAH~,b. Dec. 25,1817; m. Charles 4, I 760. He lived on the homestead in Pray. ~~d~~~~.H~ married, first, ~~~~~h 166-1". SAMUELW.8, b. March 14, 182s. Frye of Dracut (pub. Aug. 6, I 793). She died Oct. 12, 1821, aged fifty-four ; and NOTES. he married, second, Chloe Hawley. He 6' His Excellency Governor WENT- died Aug. 18, 1828 ; and she died Feb. WORTH came to Town Yefterday from Bof- 18, 1847, aged seventy-five. ton, and this Day fets out for his Govern- Children, born in Andover :- merit."-Esse; Gazette (Salenr), Ocf. zr, 148-1. NEHEMIAH',b. Sept. 28, 1794. 1768. 14p11. LYDIACLARK', b. May 13, 1797; m. John Flint, esq., of Andover. Ebenezer Choate of Ipswich advertised, - Oct. 3, r 768, that on the preceding Tues- 107 day night a pair of fat oxen were stolen DEA.ZEBADIAH ABBOT^, born in Ando- from his pasture and driven to "Cape- - ver June 6, 1769. He was a trader, and Ann Harbour,", where they were sold by lived in Andover. He married Sarah a man who said his name was Samuel Farrington of Andover Oct. 18, 1796 ; Williams. He was about five and a half - and died May 31, 1836. She died March feet in height, with short hair, somewhat 4, 1847, aged seventy-four. dark, a little round-shouldered, somewhat kchildren, born in Andover :- bow-legged, and stooping, and work a - 15-1. SARAHF.', b. Feb. 24, 1798. dark homespun cloth coat, a blue jacket, 151-11. REBECCA',b. June 5, 1799; m. Dea. yellow leather breeches, light blue ribbed ltobertKnights Of N' H' stockings, double-soled shoes, and large 1-111. ANNA', b. May 18, 1801 ; m. John Stanyon. square brass buckles. He was supposed - 153-IV. ZEBADIAH',b. May 20, 1805 ; d. Oct. to be one Lindsey, we!l known in Ipswich, 7, 1808. who was an old offender. One guinea re- 154-v. JEREMIAH',b. Jan. -, 1807; d. Jan. ward was for his being brought to -, 1807. - 155-"1. JEREMIAH~,b. Jan. 9, 1S03. justice.-ESSCX Gazette, Ocf. 4,1768. OLD PEABODY MI13, TOPSFIELD. 1°9

THE OLD GRIST-MILL. meadows." The saw mill was built in Grass overgrown the old cart path 1672. Now leadeth to the mill, So far as the writer is able to learn, Whose mossy roof and blackened boards everything pertaining to these mills went Display its old age still. along smoothly until 1691, when, the Around the vacant dam and wheel business having increased on account of The trees now closely stand, And over all a large old elm the growth of the surrounding district, Sends out a shielding hand. there was not a sufficient head of water Cobwebs and dust and tenants snlall during a part of the year to run the mills. Remain secure within ; Howlett's brook, a branch of Pye Without, is seen no sign to show brook, left the latter stream and ran off to The life that once had been. the northeastward, a short distance above As in the silent hall of death, the Peabody mills. As, at that time, E'en nature seems suppressed ; there was no mill on Howlett's brook, While rust and dampness slowly cause The old mill's well-earned rest. Mr. Peabody was granted by the town the Salrnz. privilege of building a dam across this branch a few rods below its parting from the main stream, providing he pay satis- OLD PEABODY MILLS, TOPSFIELD. factory damages to the adjoining owners BY LC. by reason of his flowing their meadows. JOXX TOU'XE. The records speak of damages being Lt. Francis Peabody, the ancestor of received the following year by Thomas the American Peabodys, was born at St. Dorman and sons, who had in 1690 Albans, Hertfordshire, England, in I 6 14. erected a house within a few rods of the He came to America in 1635 ; lived first parting of the brook.* There was prob- in Lynn, and then in Ipswich, in the ably water power enough at themills after Massachusetts Bay colony. In 1639, he the building of the dam as there are no removed to Hampton, N. H., where he papers showing the want of it for more lived until 1657, when he came to Tops- than fifty years afterwards. field, Mass. He was useful in the new During the year 1698 (?after faith- place, and was chosen to the office of fully sewing his day and generation, Lt. selectman, as well as town clerk, both Francis Peabody passed away full of of which offices he held many years. years and honors. By his will, dated Jan. 4, March 1664, the town voted that 20, 1695, he gives his son Isaac Peabody Lt. Peabody have liberty "to set up a the mills and mill-yard, the dwelling- grist mill and to flow so much of the house by the mill, and other property. town's common as is needful for a mill so The agreement under which damages long as the mill does stand and grind for caused by flowage were paid to Thomas the town." The next year (1665), Mr. Dorman, expired in 1700 ; and it was re- Peabody established the mill on Pye newed by Isaac Peabody at that time and brook. again in 1710. By the terms of the Who can estimate the joy of the in- agreement, the water could be kept habitants at that early period.of having a grist mill to accommodate them in the *This house was occupied for several years grinding of their rye and corn! It during the latter part of the eighteenth century marked a new era in the history-of the by Asahel Smith, and here was born, July 12, Topsfield commoners. 1771, his son Joseph, who was the father of the March 7, 1671, the'town voted that it celebrated Joseph Slnith, the noted .founder of Mormonism in this country. The house, one was d1 willing that Lieut. Peabody shall hundred and eighty-fire years old, was torn down set up a saw mill provided it does not do by Francis C. Franle in 1875, and another was damage to any of the townsmen in their built upon the same spot. 110 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. dammed from the last of September to In 1765, the old saw-mill was taken the first of April, as high as was needed down and a new one built to take its for the use of the mill. And it was place. further agreed "that when Mr. Baker and During the next few years, business in said Dormau do send word to said Pea- both mills flourished. Then there began body together to lower the water for to be a lack of water power on account of them that they may mow the meadow neglecting to keep in good conditiou the that is commonly flowed by the mill dam dam across the branch stream. In I 787, the said Peabody is to lower the water there was nothing left of the former dam such time as they may conveniently take but one stick of timber lying across the off the hay of said meadow." bed of the stream called a mud-sill. In Dec. 27, I 715, Capt. Thomas Baker September of that year, supposing that applied to the courts at Salem to have he had a right a in conformity with the damages allowed him by reason of having grant of the town to Lieut. Peabody to his meadows flowed on account of the build the dam," Jacob Peabody partially dam, but the claim was not at that time restored it. Mr. Hobbs, who then owned allowed. the Howlett mills, objected to this, and The mills were both run with more or tore it down. The dam was repeatedly less success until 1726, when Isaac Pea- rebuilt, and as often torn down. body died. By his will, dated Oct. I, Mr. Peabody then entered the courts 1726, he gave to his son Joseph Peabody for redress, early in the next spring com- "my Grist and Saw Mills with all irons, mencing an action of trespass against Mr. wheels, stones, profits, privileges and Hobbs. Two trials were had in the court appurtenances to the said mills belonging, ofcommon pleas, and on exceptions the also the Dwelling House and barn stand- case went to the supreme court. Before ing near the Gristmill, the mill-yard," etc. a hearing was had in that court the When Joseph Peabody came into pos- parties agreed to leave the settlement of session of the mills Mr. Baker renewed the contention to Nathaniel Lovejoy, his denland for damages for flowing his Esq., Mr. Moody Bridges and Capt. Peter nleadows, and it was agreed the next Osgood as referees. They made their re- year that Mr. Peabody should pay hinr port, which was accepted by the court in eighteen shillings yearly; and this sum April, I 789. The decision was against was paid to the Baker family for more Mr. Peabody, the report providing that than seventy years. the branch stream should be kept open. Until I 736, the Peabody grist-mill was In 1801, Joseph and John Batchelder,d the only one in the town. In that year, owners of the Baker farm at that date, Thomas Howlett built one on Howlett's brought suit against Mr. Peabody for brook, the branch of Pye brook already flowing their meadows. The case was mentioned ; and three years later he tried in November, of the same year, in added a saw-mill. These mills of How- the supreme judicial court at Salem and lett's were at or near the present Donald- the plaintiffs were awarded ten dollars as son grist-mill. part damages, the decree further pro- Joseph Peabody died June 7, 1755. viding that they should be paid three dol- By his will, dated Nov. I 2, I 753, he gave lars yearly in the future. This amount all his real estate to his only son Jacob. was paid every year until 1870. In the summer of 1760, the original Jacob Peabody died Nov. 25, 1806, grist-mill was torn down and a new one and by his will, dated Feb. 16, 1804, he built on the same site, David Nelson per- gave the mills to hts two sons, Jacob and forming the work. The millstones and John P. Peabody. These brothers con- some other things were put into the new tinued the operation of the mills until mill. the summer of 1824.

I I2 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. Smith and Benjamin Austin Perkins, and unless soon repaired, will also shortly be a then by Mr. Locke himself until July 17, thing of the past, and this ancient land- 1873, when he conveyed the property to mark will be obliterated forever. It is not John B. Perry of Somewille. probable that the grist-mill will ever be Mr. Perry ran the mill until he sold it again rebuilt, although the water power to Mrs. Licenetta Ham of Wakefield may be utilized for some other purpose in Aug. 19, 1875. During her ownership it the long distant future. was run by John B. Perry, Jr. The frontispiece is a picture of the Mrs. Ham sold out to Mrs. Catharine grist-mill as it appeared in I 895. Bennie Hanford of Lexington Jan.4,1876. The B. Towne, of the eighth generation in de- mill was run during her ownership by her scent from Lt. Francis Peabody is standing son Clarence C. Hanford, who made in the foreground. some repairs. June 27, 1883, Mrs. Hanford's interest OF in the property was sold to Leon F. WILL WILLIAM NEVILL. Chamecin. The will of William Nevill of Ipswich Oct. 2, 1883, Mr. Chamecin sold out to was proved 7"O: 1643. The following Mrs. Teresa C. Carr, the present owner. copy is taken from the record contained The most successful period of the in Ipswich Deeds, volume I, leaf 5, the mill's history probably began with the original being missing. introduction of the corn cracker in 185 I, I william Nevill of Ipswich fingleman and ended in 1875, for during the civil being weake of body but of pfect mem- war and for some years afterwards grain ory & vnderftanding doe make this my was very high, often bringing two dollars laft will & Teftament as followeth I per bushel. comit lily ioule to god that gave it & my Many amusing incidents could be re- body to the earth when I fhall depart this lated in connection with this mill. Some life and for my worldly goods I thus dii- people would come to the miller's house, pofe of them firft that Phifitian & other and say in pleading tones, '' I want to go debts that I owe fhalbe paid Alfoe I to mill." Others would say, I' I have give Mary whipple my bible and I give to come to get some meal ground." The her & to the reft of my mr children that writer's father, who was miller for many which my mafter oweth me alioe I give years, often spoke of a Linebrook parish that which my dame owe'th me ; and IS* man who occasionally came to mill. He which Philip ffowler oweth me to william generally rode in a two-wheel shay, and Robinfon alfoe I give to william Gooder- when coming down the turnpike hill by ion my intereft in the Teame [term?] the grove he began to cry out in stentorian . hired of mr. Bradftreet and in the ground tones, " Where is the miller? " And this hired of mr. Carner being ptner with cry he repeated more or less frequently william Kobinfon as alfoe in an other until he had reached the miller's house. bargaine and agreement wherein william If the miller was within an eighth of a mile, Robinfon & I are ptners and my will is he would be almost sure to hear the cry. that william Gooderfon hall have halfe J i The old mill stands to-day in quiet re- the profitt paft & to come & to beare pose. No busy sound is heard save that halfe the charges that are paft 8. are yet of the ceaseless flow of the running brook, to pay for & that ihalbe hereafter to be bringing to mind the words of Tenny- done Alioe I give to Goody Langton the son :- feed wheat alfoe I give to Mary Langton " For men may come and men may go, that which goodman Horton - oweth me But I go on forever." alioe I give to Jofeph Langton my fowl- The saw-mill has been gone for more ing peece alfoe I give to Sarah Langton than half a century, and the grist-mill, my barly Alfoe I give John wooddam OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS. 113 one bufhell of Barly as is at Goodman JnO. Sanders of Hampton conveys to Quilters & a little debt which John doth JnO. Browne of Hampton my house and owe me And laftly I make Roger Lang- lot, etc., bounded by Morris Hobbs, ton my only executor & overfeer of this Villi: ffifeild, etc., 27: 5: 1643. laft will & Teftament Alfoe I give Ann Signed by mark 9. Wit: Christopher whipple my cheft wittnes my hand the Hussy and the mark 0 of Anthony z month the lgth day 1643 Taylor. Ack. before Richard Salting- Wittneifed by stallMarch g, 1645. Jofeph Morfe william Nevell Deposition of Isack Buswell and Thomas Dorman Willi : Buswell of Salisbury : About seven years ago, Anthony Sadler and JnO. Gyll were together at- said Isacke Buswell's OLD 'OUNTY house, and Sadler then sold to Gill a Cotatinucd jronz page 85. house and lot. bounded by Rodger Edward Gillman of Exiter, for £150, Eastman, ~homisBradbury (sometiGes conveys to my brother JnO. Gillman of John Bayley), Henry Brown (sometimes Exiter, one-fourth of my saw-mill on the Willi : HoldredJ ; etc. Sworn in court at western side of the river on Exiter falls, Salisbury I 7 : 4 : 1653. and one-fourth 'of my saw-mill on the Deposition of Martha Sadler alias eastern side of the river on Exiter falls; Burbie, sworn to 14 : 4 : 1653. She says also, one house and lot, which was some- that she heard her husband Anthony Sad- times Robert Smith's and the remainder ler, late deceased, say that he sold to !no of the land of Nathaniel1 Boultor and Gyll a house and lot in Salisbury, between Mr. Wheelwrite, bounded by land I have lots of John Bayly, sen., and Rodger sold to Tho : Pettitt ; also, 200 acres on Eastman, and bounded upon a street s. w. ' the river; also, one-half of a 300 acre and the land of JnOHoyt formerly. farm I bought of Mr. Staniell three or JnOBayly of Nubery, weaver, with con- four miles south from the fall ; also, sent of my wife Ellnor, conveyed to Jo- meadow I bought of Mr. Clarke, which annah, wife of TVilli : Huntington of Sal- was sometimes Mr. Legatt's; also, isbury, planter, and to JnO Huntington, meadow near Mr. Hilton's on the river ; her son, and Mary Huntington, her daugh- also, one-fourth of my right of the patent ter, a dwelling house and five acres of of Swamscott and Dover, which I bought upland, bounded by JnO. Weed, JnO. of Mr. Sam : Olipher, Dec. 28, 1652. Bayly, sen. (late of Salisbury, deceased), Wit: Humfry Humber and the mark of Jarrett Haddon; also, 20 acres of up- 1 : Hilton. Ack. before Tho : land, bounded by Richard Wells, Merri- Wiggin 31 : 12 : 1652. mack river ; both lots being in Salisbury, Edward Colcord of Hampton conveys on west side of Pawwaus river, 4 : 11 to Tho: ffilbrick and James ffilbrick of mo : 1652. Signed by mark. Wit : Tho : Hampton land in Hampton, between the Bradbury and Mary Bradbury her MB highway to Moses Cox and highway to mark. Ack. before Sam : Winsley and the landing places, bounded on Jonathan Josiah Cobham, commissioners of Salis- thing, river, JnO. Wedgwood, Willi : bury, 23 : 4: 1653. ffifeild, William Cole, etc., April g, 165 I. William Payne of Ipswich, merchant, Wit : Robert Tuck. Ack. 8 : 8 : 1652. for £55, conveyed to William Godfrey of Christopher Hussey of Hampton con- Watertowne a house and 44 acres of land, veys to Thomas Rlbrick and James one share in great ox-common and two ffilbrick marsh in Hampton, bounded by shares of all others commons, all in Hamp- Tho: Maston and the river, 10 : SmO: ton, the house lot being bounded by Hen- 165 I. \!'it : Robert Tuck. Ack. before ry Elkin, Anthony Taylor, Nathaniel Boul- Richard Bellingham 8: 8 : 1652. ter, meeting house green, alder). meadow, 114 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. and a common way ;five acres of meadow, cataway great Bay." Needham said he bounded by mr. Timothy Daulton, John owed the boults to Henry Robie, who Marian, Tho : Levitt, and a common way ; had sold them to Anthony Stanian. He ten acres of marsh near Burch island, testified to the same facts eight or nine bounded by ye river, William ffullar ; and years before verbally in Salem court in the 14 acres of land in the north field, bound- trial of the action between Henry Robey ed by Walter Roper, Robert Page, Abra- and Ann Needam. ham Pirking, JnO.Marian ; all above lots Edward Gyllman of Exiter, for £8, of land and house lately belonged to Wil- conveyed to his brother Moses Gyllman liam Howard of Hampton. Dated 18 : of Exiter four house lots (about eight 3 : 1649. Signed also by Willi : Howard acres), which were son~etimesJon. Crams and ye mark H of Hanah Payne. Wit: and Tho : Pettitts; etc. Wit: Tho : Timothy Daulton, Henry Doue, and Willi : Bradbury and Georg Browue. Ack. in Bartholomew. Ack. in Ipswich court, court at Hampton 8 : 8 : 1655. John Endecott, govr., zg : 7 : 1652. 8 : 8 : 1653, JnO.Wedgwood of Hamp- Sammuell Winsly, sen., of Salisbury, ton, planter, conveyed to Henry Greene planter, for £23 SS., co&eyed to Willi : of Hampton 20 acres of land on falls Barnes of Salisbury, house-carpenter, 60 river. Wit : Nathaniel1 Drake and Ghiles acres of upland in Salisbury, on west ffuller. Ack. before Willi: Estow and side of Pawwaus river, in ye range of ye Jeffery ?dingee, commissioners of Hamp- great lots, bounded by Ralfe Bleidale (late ton, g : Smo : 1653. deceased, formerly the lot of Thomas JnO. Samborn of Hampton conveyed to Bradbury), Richard Singletarie (former- Thomas Marston of Hampton ibur acres ly), and Isack Buswell, 31 : I I : 1652. of fresh meadow in Hampton, bounded Wit : Tho : Bradbury and Rich : Currier. by Rodger Shaw (formerly JnO. Croffes), Ack. in court at Salisbury 14 : 4 : 1653. Willi : hIarston and a highway, 23 : 3 ; Ralfe Hall, for £8, conveyed to Moses 1645. Wit : Joseph Mason, Humphrey Gyllman my house lot that was sometime Humber apd Abraham Pirkins. Ack. in Robert Smith's, etc., Dec. 29, 1652. Hampton court 5 : 8mo: 1653. Signed Ralfonfus Hall. Wit : Edward JnO. Redman of Hampton, blacksmith, Gyllman and JnORobinson. Ack. before conveyed to Sam : ffogg of Hampton one Tho : Wiggin 29 : 12 : 1652. share in cow common 18 : I I : 16-. Oct. 6, 1653, Willi : ffifeild of Hamp- Wit : Nathaniel1 Bacheller and Nathaniell ton conveyed to Anthony 'raylor of Hamp- Drake. Ack. in court at Hampton 8 : 8 : ton 5 acres of salt marsh, bounded by 1653. mr. Anthony Stainard, etc. Wit : Joseph Oct. 5, 1653, Robert Knight of Yorke Mason and Humphrey Humber. Ack. conveyed to Tho : Marston of Hampton before Tho : Wiggin 6 : Smo : 1653. a house and ?-acre lot, formerly Robrt Thomas Moulton of Hampton, hus- Marston's, bounded by Robert Page, bandman, conveyed to Henry Green of etc.; 15 acres of upland in the north Hampton, miller, 13 acres of salt marsh, field ; 30 acres of upland granted to Mr. bounded by fals river; and 15 acres of Rushwood ; 5 acres of salt marsh; 10 upland on west side of mr. Dalton's farm, acres of salt marsh, bounded by Georg July 7, 1652. Wit: Willi: ffifeild and Abourne; and shares in commons. Samuel1 Andrewe. Ack. in court at Signed by mark : R. Wit : Brian Pendle- Hampton 8 : 8 : 1653. ton and Seth ffletcher. Ack. before Willi : Deposition of JnO. Legatt, sworn to Estow and Tho : Coleman, commissioners before Willi: Hibbins 9 : 81no : 1652. of Hampton, 1653. He said "that aboute Tenn yeres since he Oct. 6, 1653, Tho: Moulton of Hamp- was a helping of Nicolas Needham of ton conveyed to Tho : Nudd of Hampton Exiter to make a pcell of boults in Pas- six or seven acres in the East, field, OLD NORFOLK COL JhTY RECORDS. 'I5 bounded by goodman Dow, Mr. Wheel- Edward Gillman, jr., of Exeter con- write, Nath : Batcheller, and a common veyed to his father Edward Gillman houses way. Martha Moulton also signs. Wit : and lands described in JnO. Legatt's bill Robert Tucke and Henry Doue. Ack. in of sale of 20 : 5 : 1650, and all my land Hampton court 8 : 8 : 1653. on ye neck on ye eastern side of ye river, Edward Gyllman of Exiter, for £36, 2 mo : 1653. Apparently given to secure conveyed to his brother Moses Gyllman title to real estate conveyed in the fore- of Exiter a house and three house lots going deed. Wit : JnO. Gillman and JnO. which I bought of Henry Robie, one of Tod. Ack. before Tho :Wiggin 7 : 9 mo : which was formerly Aumtuns, the others 1653. Needums and Coles; 10 acres of land, Whereas Edward Gillman, s'r., Jno. bounded by a house lot formerly goodman Gillman and Moses Gillman are bound Crames; 20 acres of land I bought of to Capt. Clarke for Edward Gillman, jr., Joseph Armitage, formerly Tho : Jones' ; for ye performing a covenant to get down 40 acres of land at the head of Stony masts to Exeter river, and to pay for brook ;meadow I bought of Henry Robie goods had of mr. Dudley,-Said Edward and goodman Maston, bounded on the Gillman, jr., conveys to iny father Edward river between Stony brook and great Gillman, and my brother JnO. Gillman, cove; 3 acres of meadow I bought of Moses Gillman all my cattle now at Exe- Henry Robie ; meadows bought of good- ter or lpswich and all my wheels and man Cram and Mr. Pirmats ; 60 acres of tackling for drawing masts, 7 mo : 1653. land bought of Henry Robie at the head Wit: John Tod and James Wall. Ack. of the falls; 50 acres of upland between before Tho : Wiggin 7 : 9 mo : 1653. Stony brook and great cove ; and rights William Hooke of Salisbury, planter, of Henry Robie and Ralfe Hall in mead- conveys to JnO. Wheelar of Newbury, bar- ows; and one orchard. Wit: Tho : ber, an island of seven acres, on Merri- Bradbury and Georg Browne. Ack. in mack river, 1650. Ma. Elnor Hooke and Hampton court 8 : 8 : 1653. JnO. Wheeler consented to it I I : 2 mo : Henry Robie of Hampton, planter, 1654, in Salisbury court. conveyed to Willi : More of Exiter my Rodger Eastman of Salisbury, planter, houseing and house lot; four shares of for 36s conveys to JnO. ffrench of Salis- common ; 13 acres of salt marsh bounded bury, tailor, right of commonage in Salis- by Jeffery Mingee, old Drake, etc., Sept. bury, and also that he bought of Richard 20, 1653. Wit : Edward Gyllman, Moses Singletary. Dated I 6 : I I : 1653. Wit : Gyllman, JnO. Meder (his W mark), and Tho : Bradbury and Edward ffrench. Ack. JnO Daus (his D mark). Ack. before before Sam : winsley and Josiah Cobham, Tho : Wiggin 26 : 7 : 1653. commissioners, 25 : I I : I 653. Edward Gillman of Exiter conveyed to John Sanders of Newbury, yeoman, for his brother Moses Gyllman one-quarter £4, conveyed to Edward ffrench of Salis- of a saw-mill on little fresh river, and the bury, tailor, 10 acres of land in Salisbury, gear, and one-quarter of 300 acres of between lands of ffrancis Doue and upland, I : 9mo : 1653. Wit : JnO. Gill- Thomas Macy, and on highway, great man and Edward Gillman, sen. Ack. be- neck and land of Sam1. Dudley, I : I : fore Tho : Wiggin 7 : 6mo : 1653 1642. Wit : Tho : Bradbury and Sam : Edward Gillman, jr., of Exeter, for Winsley. Ack. before Sam : Winsly and £1 10, conveyed to Edward Gillman, s'r. Josiah Cobham, commissioners. of Exeter, one-half of house, barn and Tristram Coffyn of Newbury conveyed land, adjoining Mr. Hilton's, with a quar- to Richard Littleale house and a-acre lot ter of the old saw mill, Nov. I, 1653. in Haverhill lately belonging to Willi: Wit : John Gillman and JnO. Tod. Ack. Duglas, now of Boston, and other land, before Tho : Wiggin 7 : 9 mo. Nov. 20, 1647. Wit : Richard Browne 116 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. I and Margery Brown her 0 mark. Ack. Tho : Bradbury, Wymond Bradbury and by Tristram Coffyn, s'r., before JnO.Eaton Jacob Hooke. Ack. in court at Salis- and JnO. Clement, commissioners of bury 12 : 2mo: 1654. Haverhill, Feb. 24, '52. Edward Gyllman, jr., of Exeter, "hav- Grants to Tho : Whittier in Haverhill ; ing urgent occasion to go to old Eng- also land bought of William Holdred, land," appoints Henry Robie of Hampton bounded by Daniel Hendrick, James his attorney, for his business with Captain Pecker, Richard Littlehale, James ffiske, Shapleith, willi Payne and others, 4mo : Thomas Lilford, Sam : Gile, Georg Brown, 1653. Wit : JnO. Gylln~an. JnO. Woodin, Hawks' meadow, Mr. Ward, Dee. 22, 1644, Joseph Merry (his 1 Edward Clarke and Richard Ormsbey, mark) of Haverhill conveyed to JnO. and by Little river. Taken from the Robison (his S mark) of Haverhill house town records, Richard Littlehale, tow0 and lot. Signed by both by mark. Wit : clerk. Thomas Hale and ye mark cn of Henry Grants to Richard Littlehale in Haver- Savig. hill, land bounded by land of JnO. Chin- The preceding house and lot is con- aree, mr. Clement, JnO. Eaton, Job veyed by JnO. Robison to Daniel Hen- Clement, Tho : Whittier, Heiiry Savage ; drick of Newbury, 1645. Wit : Tho : and land bought of Sam : Gild ; and land Hale. Both above ack. in court at Salis- bounded by JnO. Chynaree, Job Clement, bury rz : 2mo: 1654. Isack Cosens, Tho : Lilford, JnO. Eyer, James \Val1 of Hampton, carpenter, jr. Taken from town records. conveyed to Henry Kobie of Hampton, Grants to Steven Kent in Haverhill, planter, one-third of my saw-mill in land at Duck meadow, Spickett, and land Exeter, owned with Humfrey Willson bounded by the great river, Merrie's and Mr. Dudley and standing on said creek and little river and land of Matthias Willson's creek ; also, 38 acres of land Button, Job Clement, George Corlis, granted to me by Exeter ; also, 19 acres James ffiske, Henry Savage, land bought more ; also a debt due from Vallentine of Joseph Merry and land of Edward Hill of Dover dwelling near Oyster river; Clarke, Joseph Peasly, Tho : Davis and also, a mare, pipestaves, ashen oares, Steven Kent. Taken from town records. cows (in hand of John Robinson), house, Whereas at Hampton court, 7 : 8mo : barn, etc., 18 : 5 : 1654. Wit : Sam: 1653, it was ordered that the children of Winsley and Andrew Greeley. Ack. Edmond Jonson, late of Hampton, de- before Tho Bradbury and Josiah Cobham, ceased, should have from their father's commissioners of Salisbury, 18 : 5 : 1654. estate the following sums of money when Janles Wall of Hampton, carpenter, they severally came of age: -Peter Jon- conveyed to his " trusty & welbeloved son, the eldest, £32, John Jonson, £16, frinds Capt Richard Waldern of Do- James Jonson, £16, and Dorcas Jon- ver, and W". Bartholmew of Ipswich & son, £16 (at the age of eighteen, or Henry Robie of Hampton," in trust for marriage with her mother's consent),- my two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah Thomas Coleman, their father-in-law, (bothunmarried), house and ninety acres binds himself to pay them, and to edu- of land in Hampton, on Taylor's river; cate them, with consent of Mary, his wife also, six acres of salt marsh near mouth and their mother, by his land in Hamp- of ffalls river, bounded by goodman ton, bounded by land of Tho : Moulton, Marston, s'r ;articles ofpersonal property ; Edward Colcord, JnO. Wedgwood, Will : their deceased mother's apparell, 18 : 5 : Maston, Willi : Cole, Robert Tucks, Phile : 1654. Wit: Sam : Winsley and Andru Dalton, Tho : Ward, Will : Samborn, JnO. Grele. Ack. before Tho : Bradbury and Huggins, Tho : Smith,, JnO. Redman, and Josiah Cobham, commissioners of Salis- ye meeting house, 16 : 8 : 1653. Wit: bury, 18 : 5 : 1654. NOTES ON ABBOT GENEALOGY. 117 Henry Browne of Salisbury, shoemaker, Wilson's meadow ; and land I bought of for so$., conveyed to Barnabas Lamson Edward Gyllman (formerly Samuel Green- of Salisbury, planter, marsh in Salisbury feild's), bounded by meadow formerly at mouth of Merrimack river, 19 : 5 : William Mores and Thomas King's, 24 : 1654. Wit: Thomas Bradbury and 2 : I 654. Wit : John Gillman and Eliza- Wymor~d Bradbury. Ack. before Tho : beth Gillman. Ack. in court at Hampton Bradbury and Josiah Cobham, commis- 3: 8mo : 1654. sioners of Salisbury, 20 : 5 : 1654. Edward Colcord (also s~elledColrott) Barnabas Lamson of Salisbury, planter, of Hampton, conveied to Tho : ~uck for sos., sells Edmond Elliott above pur- one-third of saw-mill on Exeter falls, chased marsh 19 : 5 : 1654. Wit : Tho : which one-third I bought of James Wall Bradbury and Henry Brown. Ack. be- of Hampton. Dated March 10, 1653. fore Tho : Bradbury and Josiah Cobham, Wit : Tho : Kemble and Joseph Armitage. commissioners of Salisbury. Ack. before Daniel Gookin 12 : 3mo: John Gill: of Salisbury, planter, for 1654 ; and before Nic : Shapleighe ~os.,conveyed to Edmond Elliott ofSalis- March 14, 1653. Recorded by Edward bury, planter, marsh in Salisbury, bounded Rauson, recorder, June g, 1654. by Richard Wells and Willi Buswell, 19 : George Hauborne of Hampton, in his 5 : 1654. Signedby mark p. Wit : Tho : last sickness, a little before his death, Bradbury and Josiah Cobham. Ack. be- gave all his estate to his wife Susana Ha- fore Tho: Bradbury and Josiah Cobham, bone. Testimony dated 3 : 8mo : 1654, commissioners of Salisbury, 20 : 5 : 1654. and signed by John Marian HH his Whereas the town of Hampton granted mark and Samuel Wheelwrite. This was the farm which was lately Mr. Bacheler's, a will proved in court at Hampton 3 : 8 in Hampton, to John Wheelewright, pas- mo : 1654, by their oaths. tor of ye church in Hampton, in fee, 10 mo : 1648, the prudential men of Hamp- ton, Roger Shaw, Robert Tuck, Robert Page and Willi: Estow, convey all that farm which Steven Bacheller sold to NOTES ON ABBOT GENEALOGY. Willi: Howard and Thomas Ward of No. 80. William died Dec. 17, 1730. Hampton, which they have lately sold to No. 131. Mary died Jan. 27, I 734-5. Hampton, 14 : I 2 : 1649. Wit : Timothie No. 137. Phebe married Henry Ab- Dalton and William ffullar. Ack. before bot (130) instead of (129). Tho : Wiggin 5 : 6mo : 1650. No. 139. ' Sarah married Timothy Ab- Daniel Hendrick of Haverhill, planter, bot (424) instead of (414). conveyed to JnO. Browne of Hampton, No. 202. Nathan-~bbotwas a hus- husbandman, six acres of marsh in Hamp- bandman, and lived in 'Methuen until ton, 8 : 8 : 1649. Dorettry Henricke, wife about I 762. He and his wife Jane had of the grantor, also signs. Wit : Tho : two sons born to them in Methuen : Paul, Bradbury and Abraham Pirkins. Ack. Dec. 2,1759, and Nathan, March g, 1761. before Robert Clements and Henry Pal- No. 383. Dea. Benjamin Abbot's wife mer, commissioners. died Aug. I I, 1828. The middle-name John Robinson of Exeter, for £14, of Phebe, his first child, was Ballard. conveyed to Moses Gyllman of Exeter, Mary's middle-name was Smith. Eliza- house in Exeter I bought of Edward Gyll- beth is recorded as Eliza. Fra'ncis' mid- man, which was sometimes Mr. Permit's dle-name was Holmes. Sarah was born house, and 2% acre lot on which it stood ; June 19, 1800. A daughter Rebecca a lot sometimes Isaac Grosses; land I was born in 1802, and died Aug. g, 1802. bought of Edward Gyllman (formerly John's middle-name was Owen, and he Henry .Robie's), bounded by Humphrey was born Aug. 5, 1803. f 118 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

No. 467. Rev. Abiel Abbot married 20. Katherine Sprague, who married Eunice Wales July 19, 1796, and had the Timothy Johnson of Andover May 3, - following children, born in Haverhill: 1705, was daughter of Phineas and Sara Eunice Adeline, Aug. I 7, 1797 ; Emily, (Hasey) Sprague of Charlestown Village. Feb. 4, I 799 ;Abiel, Oct. 25, I 800 ; and After the death of Mr. Sprague, about - Mary Susanna, Jan. 10, 1803. 1690, his widow married Moses Tyler of Boxford, and brought Katherine and her other children to Boxford with her.- Q-. Mrs. Larissa C. Lad4 West Boxford. - Queries are inserted for one cent a word. Answers are solicited. 53. Edna Hale, born in Nerbury 69. Andrew Peters lived in Ipswich, Dec. 4, 1716 ; married, Nov. I I, I 736, 1658 to 1686 ; in Andover, 1686 to I 7 13. Abel Morss, Jr., son of Abel and Grace Who were his parents? E. B. P. (Parker) Morss. Edna Hale's immigrant New York CiQ. ancestor, Thomas Hale', settled at New- bury in 1635, and was one of the first 70' ancestry of Benjamin and Moses Bennett, at Groton, 17-. land holders and first board of selectmen of Haverhill, 1646, and in 1648 was Brookline. C. K. BOLTON. keeper of the ferry there. He died Dec. 71. Wanted, ancestry of William Bol- 21, 1682, aged seventy-eight,-his wife ton, at Reading, 1720. c. K. B. Thomasine died Jan. 30, 1683. His son Thomasz, born in England Nov. 18, 16~~, 72. What is the proof that Grace Parker, who married Abel Morse, was the married, at Salem May 26, 1657, Mar)., person of that name born in Chelmsford daughter of Richard and Alice (Bas- in 1693 ? ,-. worth) Hutchinson. He lived at New- Cincinnah', 0. bury, and died there Oct. 22, 1688, having held many town offices. His son 73. Wanted* New- Thomass, born Feb. 11, 16j9, married comb, bornabout I7s09 died, IT64 ; mar- Sarah Northend, daughter of Ezekiel and ried Mary Coas; lived in Gloucester. Edna (Halstead-Bailey) Northend of Denver, Col. E' L. K. Rowley ;\lay 16, 1682. She was born in 74. Wanted, parentage of Hannah Rowley Dec. 3, 1661, and died Apr. 26, Lowell, of Salem, who married William I 732. Thomas3 passed most of his life in Chandler, 1779 ; and of Jane Nelson, Newbury, but moved to Rowley, and died mother of said William. He died in there Apr. 12, 1730. He was a leading I 804, insane. D. R. L. man in church and town, and known as MirZnefown, Conn. Captain Hale. He was of immense size, weighing nearly five hundred pounds. His son Ezekiel4 born May 13, 1689, ANSWERS. married Ruth, daughter of John and 5. Sally Avery of Newburyport who Mary (Sawyer) Emery, I 71 I. They lived married Daniel Coffin Johnson Oct. 23, in what is now West Newbury. She died 1794, was a daughter of Benjamin Averill Nov. 27, I 735, aged forty-four ; and he (or, Azje~)of Ipswich, where she was married, second, Oct. 31, 1736, Sarah baptized, with her twin sister Elizabeth, (Poor) Spofford, widow of Capt. John Dec. 26, 1773. Her mother was Mary Spofford. Of his eightchildren, the third, Pitman, and the parents were married in Ednas, born Dec. 4, I 716, married Abel Ipswich Dec. 2 I, I 772. Mr. Averill Morss, Jr., as above. She had a brother, served in the Revolutionary war, and the Ezekiel, who moved to Methuen, and was family afterward removed to Newbury- a man of ability and influence, as well as port.-(;. F. Dow, Topsfield. wealth.-John Q. Evans, Selis6ury.

HATHORNE PORTER. VOL. I. S.~J.EA~,MASS., AUGUST,I 89 7. No. 8.

AMESBURY INSCRIPTIONS. UNION CEMETERY.

BEFORE1663, the only cemetery in In Memory of the present town of Amesbury was the BGTTY BAGLY I ANNEBAGLY ancient burial place on the western side Daurs. of WIL~.& MARY BAGLY of the P~wowriver, near its junction with died Octr 17th I died Novr ye 5th the blerrimac, which has ever since been 1776: 1776: called Golgotha; though every trace of its , Aged 6 Months Aged 2 Years use as a cemetery is gone, being now a 1 & G Months. field. Here the first settlers of the town while you do view where we do lie found their final resting-place. death may to you be very nigh In 1663, the town of Amesbury bought and if you would prepared be an acre of land of Edmund Elliot for a to christ you nust for refuge flee burying-ground, it being what is now the eastern end of the ancient cemetery at Hrre Lies Interr'd Bartlett's corner. In the early days the hi" KEZIA B.\GLY church stood by its side or in it, and a Former Wife to few rods to the west was the Friends' nlr. David Currier cemetery, in which the poet Whittier's Late Wife to remains lie by the side of his family in hlr. jacob BxLy their qvergreen enclosure. In recent LVho Dest. mvr. times the old cemetery has been enlarged so as to include the Friends' acre, and ye 3rd 1754 In the 59"' Year the latter is not to be distinguished from of her AGE the rest of the yard except by the pres- ence of some inconspicuous granite posts which mark the dividing line. The in- scriptions in this old cemetery, still re- maining, and bearing dates prior to 1800, are as follows :-

AMOS BAGLEY, Son of 171 j.' 37'" jiear of her Age William and Hannah Bagley 7uho die(( AII~14, I 796 in the 2nd year of his age THE ESSEX ANTIQUARUN.

FAMILY STONE. Here Lies Interrd Mr. Valentine Bagley, Mr. ICHABOD BARNARD died April 1780. Ait. 37. the Son of Mr. Mrs. Sarah Blasdel, Jonathan Barnard & fornrerly wrjce of V. Bagley, Mrs. Tabitha His wife died Dec. 7, 1821. Et. 77. Who DES~. 0 28 176 * Dolly, died Aug. 1788. Bt. 19. in the 21" year Willia~~z,died 1771 &t. 2. of his age Sally, died 1773. at. 2. - Children of the above-named. HERE LYETH EURIED YC An Infant son, died Feb. 1797. EODY OF CAPt. JOHN EAR Rhoda, diedjuly 1801, uged 18 nro. NARD WHO DIED IULY Edward H. died Dcc. 1808rEt. 2. Ye 15~" 1718 & IN Ye 63 Childrtn of Capt. Valentine YEAR OF HIS AGE & Mrs. Hannah BngZey.* - - This In Memory of Zn nretnory of C~pt JOP BARNARD WILLIAMBAGLEY Who Departetl Son of this Life SEPT'. \lrilliam and ye 27th 1770 Hinnah B-glev. AGED 67 YEAR I n1o ?i,/~oawo .?'o:rr. r ,I"* 1731, k 2 7 'fi AX S in the 9'hyear of his nge. The Sweet Remembrance of the Just In Memory of Will Flourish When POLLY they sleep in Dust daughter of SA~IUEL and Molly Balch HERE LYES BURIED who died Oct. 25, I 790 Ye BODY OF MOLLE aged I Year and 3 mO. BARNARD Ye DAUGHT OF M' JONATHAN & TABARTHY B.4RNARD In Iklen~oryof WHO DIED DECEMB' POLLY, Ye 25 1775 AGED daughter of SA~IUEI. 5 YEARS I MONth and blolly Balch, 5 DAYS who died Auggt 2oth I 794 Aged 3 Years. IN hfEhl0R~ of Here lies Buried the Body MRS. TABITHABARNARD of hIT%ELIZAEETH w* of B.~\-.+G, Cqt; Jo2z:>a E;?~i:d, Wife of hi'. TIMOTHY who died EARNARD dfay 19Ih, I 787, Who died Srptr 2oth I 7 7 2 in the 83'"t-ar Aged 29 Years. of her age. Dtpnrf ,/tyfrierzn's, dry up)'our fears 'Capt. Valentine Bagley is the captain men- 1 nrrrst lie Acre till Christ appeur.s tioned in Whittier's poem, entitled, '< The Cap- tain's Well." *The stone is defaced. AMESBURY INSCRIPTIONS. IZI In Mcllrory of HANN.4H BAR TI~~OTHYBARNARD, TLET D.4UGHT Son of Of DACn STEPH" Capt. Timothy & BARTLET WHO Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard DIED JANUARY 70h0 fid Apd 11, 17 89. ye 1719 IN in the zr Year ye 4 YEAR OF of his Age. HER AGE /2/L:/jXart they ?c,ho die ia the Lord fir they rest fror~r their 1,ahuur - - Here Is Interrd HANNAH ];ART : TI~~OTHY, the Wifc of Dcn /on of Jonathan Stephen Bartlet & Sufan Barnard Who DES~JANUARY and GrantlJon of ye 15, 1768 CapL.Timothy Barnard In the 76 year died Atrgzdt 13, I 797, of her AGE Aged 2 years 6 ?no. /.ie/lill my Sort, you need noifear ' 7 ?'ill Chrjftyour v~nRer0'0th izjp" In Afernory of - Ionatba~zBsrtlet In Afetnory 01 Son of /cbabod Colby Bartlett of G Sarah Bartlett Cap*. TIMOTHYBARNARD Ditd azp. 16" I 776 7e1ho died j 0 ,Ws. March 17, 1798 age Year 7 &f. 5 7. Sfo,h 0 jtonth b kind& drop a tear n yofit/' uncegny lihsyou lies buried - - here / n New 0 7y of hf.4RY BARTLet Anvt(z Bartlet DAUG~' of dacn Bazr. of Mr. Jobn G Mrs. STEP^ & MIS Anna Bartlet died HAN~BARTLET WHO DIED .'7u/ze 22d, ,1778 Aged IUY lTe 27th 7 Xoiztb. 1729 also a Infafzf. IN ye 5t1i YEAR Blessed are [the Dead of her AGE 7bat die in the Lord. - - Mary, da/rglrt. of 1V~n. ELISABETH : BAR & Mary Barflet : TLET : WIFE : OF : hIOSES. died PH-B- WQO DIED OCTOBER A?/:. 51 179.5. Ye6:- 1718-INYe 23 YEARof aged3 years HER AGE. &- 9 months 122 THE ESS- ANTIQUARIAN. Mr. SIMEONBARTLUT, 8XGeG83 rlcpizrted this ivt Marclr 13, 1798 : IN in the 71 year of memory of his age. MR. JONATHAS BAYLEY, Farnuell deizrfrierrf 1fhall (yc here who died Till fitf~efhn/letzd nird Chrifl appear. March 24, 1 798, at. 26. A~re~ellII~ wzye &, chilifrefr ,/tor, If azigirf ota eurfh cozrfif keep fne hcre: Here is Interrd It ~ou/dbe !fry lovefor y011. STEPHEN BARTLET DEC" of ye lBtChurch of CHRIST 111 Almsbury DAVID B L .I Who Departed DEL DIED hi This Life APRIL AY: 5: 17:17 Ye I otll '773 &: IN: Ye: I: .YE In the 82'ld Year AR : OF : HIS : AGE. o f h i s AGE THE SWEET KEhlEblDRANCE 0 F THE JUST SHALL FLOURISH WHEN HENRY BLASDEI. THEY SLEEP IN DUST DIED MAY THI; 3* 1730 IN ?'HE 5 YEAR OF HIS AGE Here Is Interrcl Cut. STEVEX EARTLET Who Departed IEMIhZA BLA SD E L this Life F~nruary Ye WIFE OF IACOH ye 5th '7691 BL.ISDEL & Ye In the 52"" year DAUGHTER OF C.4PT. of his AGE. HUM'. & MrB XuDITH DEPART MY FRIENDS HOOK WHO DIED DRY UP YOUR TEERS NOuEMBr Ye 13'~ I MUST LIE HERE 1740 IN Ye 37 TILL CHKIST APEARS YEAR OF HER AGE

Here lies Buried Here Lies Interred the Eody of Mrs. IUDITH BLASDELL Mrs. AXSA E.IYLEY,Conibrt the Wife of hlr of Capt. ~VILLIAXIBAYLEY : * ID Blasdel \Tho who departed this Life no 2 2 I 760 FebrY the lSL1'I 774, in ye AGED 21 years 87 6 mo. 5xit Year of Her .4ge. The JIeffrory o/pe 71,/ii~ B/cf/eii. 'The stone is defaced. AMESBURY INSCRIFTIONS. 123 In Xeitwry of nlr JOHN V. CLEAVELANL), Son of Nrs. Judith Blasddl, Rev. Ebenezer Cleaveland : Wve of died Mr. David Blasdel sEPt 159 1795 in tht 32 year wbo died Jaitry I 7th I 786 of his age. I~zye jut4 Year of her age. 7 Here Lies Intered HERE LYES BURIED ENfIn DAVID CLOUGH Ye BODY OF DACN Who Departed this Life IOSEPH BROWN MAY Ye 8th 1757 WHO DIED OCTOBER In the 61" Year Ye XVIII MDCCXXXII o f his AGE AGED LXIII YEARS. Depart hly Friends Dry up Your Teers I Must Lie here Till Christ Apears. HERE LYES BURIED Ye BODY OF MR NAtHANIEL BROWN WHO DEPARtED HERE LYES BURIED THIS LIFE N0VEhfi;ER the BODY of ye 3 1 1722 6r IOHN CLOUGH IN Ye 30t" YEAR SON to DAUId & 0 F HIS AGE. ELISABEth CLOUGH dUJ H.1BUIt WHO DYEd IULY PRIMUAI Ye 1 5 '736 GRADUhl IN AGEd 3 YEARS ARtIBUS COLLEGIO HARU 1722. HERE LYES BURIED the BODY Of MARY CLOUGH MARY DAVGHTER of DAVID daughter of Bailey 6r ELISABEth CLOVGH atzd Hannah Chafe WHO DYEd IUNE died Octr 23, I 796. 21 1736 IN the aged 18, months 13 YEAR Of HUR AGE

Sacred to the .Me~tzory of Here Lies Interrd Ehjer, MOSESCHASE, MEHETABEL CLOUGH, who died the Wife of Ensign Ffhfl 5, 1797. Davd Clough Former in the 58 year Wife to Mr. C 11 a r l s of his age, Worthen Who Dest Y%c rkhteotrs are August ye 3'* 1766 In rverl~zfii?~~~re~~~cnrhrnnc~~. in her 5 Jst Year 12-4 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. HERE LYES BURIED In Mentory the BODY Of of RACHEL CLOUGH Mr. HUMPHREYCURRIER, who aka' DAUGHtER Of D.4- Oct". 1776 UId & ELIEBETH In the 58 year of CLOUGH WHO DYED his age. AUGUST Ye 18 1736 - AGED 5 YEARS HERE LYES BURIED - THE BODY OF MK IACOB CURRIER THE : CHILD WHO DIED IUNE lzt" CINRIER : DYED 1742 IN Ye 42NU NOUmBER YEAR OF HIS AGE THE : g : 1737 - HERE LIES IOHN - Sun to Mr ISSACHAR HERE LIES BURIED 6r M" Rebeckah THE BODY OF MRB CUrrIer IVHO Dest ANNA THEDAUGHTER JUNE Ye 17 1773 AGED 6 Years OF MR IACOB & hl.4RIT And 11 DAYS CURRIER WHO DIED - IANUARY 14~" 17-47 JUDITH IN THE 18~~'YEAR CUrRIER : THE OF HER AGE DAUGHTER : OF - BEn : CURRIER DIED : Here Lies Interrd * 1736 DOROTHY CURIER - The Wife of Capt HERE : LIES : BURIED : Ye Richard Curier BODY: OF : MRs IUDATH Who Departed this CURRIER : WIFE : OF Life March Ye 2"" 1765 MR. IOHN : CURRIER In the 91% Year WHO : DIED : IENEARY o f her age. 4 : 1736 : 6r :IN :Ye :4g - YEAR : OF : HUR : AGE Family Stone. MR. DANIEL CURRIER, Here Lies Interrd died Atlg. 19, 1801, At. 87. MI8 IUDITH CVRRIER ELECTA, The IV i f e o f his wqe Mr. Timothy Currier died Sept. 16, 1786. &t, 76, Who Departed HANNAH, This Life April wife of Mr. Daniel Curn'erjr, ye 9 t h 2 747 died Maj~19, 1792, At. 37. In the 42na Year of her AGE KEZIA, wi/e of Mr. James Pollansbee, To 6c continued. diedjlme 1805. Et.49. *The stone is defaced. HATHORXE PORTER. 125 THE ABOLITIONISTS. four-score, against the advice of friends, Whenever man, a slave decreed, he left off smoking as a testimony against Down-pressed and trodden lies, the use of tobacco. He never chewed. Great human hearts rise at the need Hathorne was christened Samuel Ha- And end the sacrifice. thorne, but when he came to man's estate In our fair land, against the blight discarded his first name, as he preferred Of such a human wrong, one Christian name to two. Aaron, his With courage, zeal, and sense of right, True men protested long. oldest brother, went to sea in early life, and probably died in China. His other They often bravely plead alone, Alone the mob withstood, brothers and sisters who grew up were Till love and sacrifice had -grown Andrew S., Israel P,, Alfred R., Eunice, To fearless martyrhood. hfarv and Sallv. ~Zthorne.~nhrew and Under the rod of social ban Israil, when oid enough, left their home, They worked and spoke and prayed and went to live with their paternal uncle, Until by freedom's law a man Zerubabel Porter, who carried on the tan- The negro slave was made. ning and currying business in Danvers, Snlenr S. P. . and lived in the house still standing in Putnamville where Ger~.Moses Porter, HATHORNE PORTER. a brother of Zerubabel, was born. This US BEV. AAlC06 1'OItTTEIC. house was brought into the Porter family FIathorne, son of Aaron and Eunice years before by marriage with the widow (Hathorne) Porter, was born in Salem, of Bartholomew Brown, who married their Mass., in a house which stood on the father, Benjamin Porter. southwest corner of Lafayette and Porter Hathorne commenced business for him- streets, May I 2, I 798. Porter street was self in Danversport, and was successful for named for Hathorne's father, who carried a while ; but at last he became insolvent. on the currying business in the lower A failure in those days meant much more story of his house, while his family resid- than now. The writer was not then old ed in the upper rooms. enough to understand anything about bus- The father was very Puritanic in ideas iness matters; but he remembered very and habits, being a devout member of clearly the privation and reduction in fanl- the Tabernacle parish, though never unit- ily expenses which followed, extending ing with any church, his constant reply to even to New Year's presents and other in- all solicitations in that direction being, " I dulgences for the children, and also the am not good enough." Possibly he looked disappointment and mortification of his through all the religious forms and usages father through the rest of his life. of his day and had glimpses of the spirit- He was the first in Danvers to employ ual truths that underlay them. workmen in the shop, and workwomen in As illustrating his approval of the Chris- the house, from Ireland. Generally his tian Judaism which then constantly did, workmen boarded in his own family, and and even now at intervals does attempt always ate at his own table, no matter who to make the Lord's day identical with were present. Such was his democracy. the Jemish Sabbath, it may be said that Dec. 14, 1824, he married Mehitable one Sunday he saw his daughter Mary Brown, a granddaughter, by her first hus- crossing the yard, and because in ap- band, of the widow Brown, who was Ha- proaching a bit of ice she quickened her thorne's step-grandmother already men- pace, and slid once across this natural tioned. The officiating clergyman was temptation, he felt in duty bound to ap- Rev. Mr. Barnaby, then pastor of the Bap- ply the rod to his child. He acted from tist church in Danversport, where Ha- no domineering spirit, but religiously and thorne and his wife attended religious ser- conscientiously. At the age of more than vices until the coming of the Universalists. 126 THE ESSEX AXTIQUARIAN. Mr. Porter died in Danversport Sept. in the simple, primary, unsectarian use of I 7, 1845, at the age of forty-seven. His all three of those much abused terms. wife survived him for twenty-three years, He died, as he had lived, testifying con- passing on June I 7, 1869, in her seventy- stantly and consistently against all laws third year. To say that she was ever a that held men in slavery politically, and loving, tender, patient, inspiring compan- against all churches that sanctioned such ion through her husband's life would be slavery ecclesiastically and against all so- only repeating that which needs no af- cial usages that justified human slavery. firming wherever they H.ere known. Still He was also a total abstainer from the use she did not go with him to the fullest ex- of all intoxicants as a beverage. tent in all his aboliti p and other reform- He belonged to the local town and atory ideas. She di3 not break with the county abolition and temperance societies church for its unfaithfulness to reform to of his time, and during the three years the same extent as did he. She had all a while he with his family lived in Vermont true woman's conservatism and all a true he was active and ready in private con- mother's instincts. She always with right- versation, school-house meetings, and eous impartiality divided among her chil- county conventions to bear testimony to dren the word of truth,-suggestion, ad- the essential Christian righteousness strug- monition, reproof, commendation. gling for existence. The eccentric but With shame to himself the writer recalls faithful Orson S. Murray, Henry C. Wright, her earnest asking his forgiveness for a Patten Davis, jehial Claflin, B. IV. Dyer punishment which most tired mothers and others were his frequent visitors in would have thought perfectly just and Randolph, Vt. And after his return to proper, twenty-four hours after the pun- Danvers, school-house, meeting-house and ishment took place. Such was her Chris- grove witnessed his faithful testimony. tian righteousness ; and though not prom- His death took place early in the morn- inent at all as a reformer and abolitionist, ing and his funeral was he14 in the after- yet was her devotion to every good cause noon of the next day, Sept. 18th. Doubt- not one whit less than that of her husband. less he would have preferred that no sec- In early life, Mr. Porter was a Demo- tarian minister should have been special- crat in politics. In religion, he was a ly called to attenJ it, but that perfect lib- Universalist of the Hosea Ballou kind. erty for remarks or prayer should have He did his part financially and officially been granted to every one, as was then in erecting the first Universalist meeting- the custom among the "come-outer " house in Danrers.. abolitionists, and is still the custom of When Garrison issued his trumpet call the Quakers. But the widow, either of for the slave, Mr. Porter went straight her own volition or upon suggestion of from Democracy, as to name and form, friends who were not abolitionists, pre- into Abolitionism. Christianity, democ- ferred to have some ordained minister. racy, abolitionism,-these were prominent The Universalist parish in Danversport among the foundations of righteousness had no settled pastor at that time. Rev. for his time and for him. The essence of Joseph Eaton, the Baptist minister, who all was in the first, the second and third held not a theological, reformatory or were manifest issues from the first. abolition view in common with the de- He died before the American slaves ceased, and who was a comparative strang- were legally emancipated. He died a er, officiated. Christian, a democrat and an abolitionist hfr. Eaton's service was very perfunc- torv. It consisted of one formal .Draver. . . in hhich there was not an allusion to the *This building is now owned by the Roman Catholics, who have built across its front a porch " peculiar " views of the deceased, reform- and across its rear an altar. atory, social, theological, by which he had SALEM AND lPSWlCH BOUSDS. 127 lived and died. At the conclusion he Imprimis we conceive that the meet- immediately left for his home only two or ing-howfes of the Two Townes ftand from three doors away, after giving with appar- each other north north eaft halfe a poynt ent reluctance the request of the widow eafterly and fouth fouth weft halfe a poynt - that any one wishing to farther take part in wefterly whether it be exactly or noe we the funeral service was at liberty to do so. are fully agreed that the line betwixt the The opportunity was improved by Jesse P. two Townes fhall runn as followeth viz : - Harriman, another "come-outer," * and a from the bound tree neare John ffaire- personal friend of the deceased. He paid feilds howfe weit north weft halfe a poynt a glowing tribute to the social virtues and northerly and eaft fouth eaft halfe a poynt - Christian character of the dead, extolled foutherly as the trees are marked both his fidelity to the slave, and conc1u:led by ways from the faid bound tree. quoting or improvising the following w : Hubbard Jefferie Maffey John Gage couplet :- his mark I John Tuttell Jo : Balch Jofeph Youngs Thomas Howlett Roger Conant " He lives on those eternal plains Where everlasting glory reigns." --il/nssnchusc~ts A~chizes,volrr~~ze 112, lenf 6.

NOTE SALEM AND IPSWICH BOUNDS. The following persons from Essex The ~7'~of ye first month 1643 county settled in Framingham, Mass. :- At a meeting by vs whofe names are Peter Balch, from Beverly, in I 740. vnderwritten chofen by the Townes of IVillianl Ballard, from Lynn, about I 7 20. Salem Sr Ipfwich Sr having full power Samuel Bxrton, probably from Salem, from either Towne to agree Sr determine about 1699. of the Bounds betweene the faid Townes Capt. Benjamin and Caleb Bridges, doe in the behalfe of each Towne agree brothers, from Szlem, in 1693. & determine the fame as follo\veth- Job Burnham, born in Ipswich in I 738, lived in Hopkinton,- Framingham- and *So far as the writer can recall to mind the Littleton. names of the abolition cotemporaries and asso- ciates of the subject of this sketch residing in or Peter Cloyes, from Salem Village, in near Danversport were as follows:- 1693. OW O~~aarrizafiorzisfs,Joseph Merrill, Jesse P. Thomas Darling, from Salem, in 1735. Harriman, John Hood, John Cutler, John Ken- John Death, from Topsfield, in r 677. ney, Richard Hood, William Endicott, David Mead, and James D. Black ; iVew 01pni:nfioa- Daniel Elliott, from Salem Village, in isfs, Dr. Eben Hunt, Alfred Ray Porter, William 1693. Alley, John A. Learoyd, Elias Savage and Peter Widow Hannzh Goodale, from Lynn, Wait. The old organization was the (;arrisonian, in 1704 and the new that which finally issued in the Lih- erty party. John Haven, abmt 1690, Nathaniel Both these organizations were abolition, though Haven, about I 694, and hfoses Haven, the old had the advantage of age, earnestness about I 702, brothers, and sons of Richard and logical cosistency, and of accepting facts, H~~~~-- -~-bf Lvnn. both historical and contemporaneous, just as the , mass of people accepted them. For instance, Benjamin Nurse, from Salem, in I 693. the ~o~ularbelief, as of the courts, that the John Nurse, from Salenl, about 1693. ~nit'ed'States constitution upheld slavery, was Joseph Russ, from Andover, about

that of the old orcanization abolitionists. while ,, , ,L. the new opposed it- But the greater moral earn- ., . estness of the old organization sometimes led its John Singletary, from Salisbury, about members into the sheerest sectarianism, as when I 709, and his brother Ebenezer Single- Stephen S. Foster once declared in the writer's tary, from Haverhill, about 17 15. hearing, that " No man is an abolitionist unless John Town, from Topsfield, in 1698. he belong to the American Anti-Slavery Society, or to one of its auxiliaries !" --Histoty of Frami)tgham, Mass. 128 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS ABBOT 15-1". SARAH',bapt. March 30, 1707. OF ANDOVER. 16-i~. MARY" bapt. April 24, 1709. 17-r. ANN" bapt. Feb. 11, 1710-1. CAW. THOMASABBOT'. He was a 18-vr. JOSEPH',b. May IS, 1713. See below husbandman, and lived in Andover. (18). He .Ip--vlI. HANNAHJ, bapt. April 24, ITIS. married Sarah Stewart, in Andover. Dec. 15, 1664. He died &lay 7, 16~~';and 7 she died Feb. 16, 1715-6, aged sixty- NATHANIELABBOT=, born in Andover nine. She lived with her son Thomas, in Jan. 19, 1678-9. He was a carpenter, North Andover, during her widowhood. and lired in Andorer until after 1714, Children, born in Andover :- removing to Ashfvrd, Conn. He married 2-1. JOSEPH~,b. March 16, 1666-7; d. Mercy Hutchinson of Ashford (pub. Oct. March 7, 1667-8. 26, 1709). 3-11. THO~~AS~,b. in 1668. See belo~u(3). Child :- 4-111. SARAH=,b. Jan. 8, 1671-2; m. Joseph 20--I. b. May in Chandler Nov. 26, 1691 ; and d. be- NATHANIEL~, 22, 1714, An- fore 1735. dover; m. Esther Lyon of Ashford; 5-1V ]OSEPH~,b. Aug. 16, 1674. See below and had children. , . (5). 8 6-V. DOROTHY~,b. Jan. 2, 1676; d. Oct. 27, 1678. JOHX ABBOT', born in Andover Sept. 7-vr. NATHANIEL~,b. Jan. 19, 1678-9. See 23, 1681. He was a weaver and yeo- below (7). mdn, and lived in Andover. He mar- b. See below 8-VII. JOHN^, Sept. 27, 1681. ried, first, Hannah Chubb April I I, IR)~,-,. 9-vlrl. DOROTHY~,m. Braviter Gray Nov. 21, 1710. She died May 23, 1733 ; and he 1710; and was living in 173s. married, second, Hephzibah Frye Oct. 10--IX. MARY=,b. July 23, 1686; m. Dr. John 29, 1734. They were both living in An- of Billerica Kittridge Jan. 3, 1708; dover in I 763. and was living in 1735. 11-X. EBENE~ER~,1). NOV. 23, 1689. See Children, born in Andover :- belo70 (11). I-. IIAXNAH',b. about September, 171 I. 22-11. SARAH',b. March 18, 1713; d.young. 3 23-111. MARY^, b. May 5, 1716; d. young. THOMASABBOT'. born in Andover in 24-IV. JoHI\'", b. Feb. -, 1718. See below 1668. He was a husbandman, and lived j-. SARAH:',(241. b. Aug. 5, 1722; m. Timothy in the North ~arishof Andover. He h'oves,-- --r.--Anril r. -,,a.17C2 was a husbandman and lived in the North 6-1 ~IARY~,b. Nor. 12, 1727; nl. Samuel parish of Andover. He married Eliza- Griffin June 6, 1754. beth French (pub. Dec. 14, 1fo6), and I I died Dec. 25, 1753. His wife survived EBEXEZERABBOT%, born in Andover him, and died, his widow, Sept. 30, I 754, Nov. 23, 1689. He was a husbandman, aged seventy-two. and res~dedin Amesbury until I 735, when Child :- he removed to Shrewsbury. He probably 12-1. THOMAS',d. March g, 1729. removed to Andover in 1737. He mar- 5 ried, first, Elizabeth Tucker of Amesbury JOSEPH ABBOT', born in Andover Aug. (pub. Nov. 24, 17 16). She died April 16, 1674. He was a house-carpenter by 14, I 744, aged fifty ; and he married, sec- trade, and lived in Marblehead, where he ond, hIary Ingalls of Andover Dec. 4, was collector of custorns in 1711. He 1744. married Sarah Devereaux ; and was living Children :- 27-1. SARAH"b. June 7, 1717, in Amesbury; in 1735. . d. Sept. 22, 1721. Children, born in Marblehead :- 28-11. ELIZABETH, b. May 6, 171g,in Ames- 13-1. SUSANNA',bapt. Aug. 10, I701 ; m. bury. Nathaniel Petingell July 14, 1720. 29-111. EBENEZER',b. Sept. 6, 1721, in Ames- 14-11. JOHN=,bapt. Oct. 31, 1703. bury. See belozu (29). DESCEND.4NTS OF THOMAS ABBOT OF ANDOVER. 129

3-lV. JOHN', b Feb. 28, 1722-3, in Ames- 49-v. BETSY', b. Nov. g, 175s; m. Peter bury; m. Phebe -; and had chil- Carlton, jr., Sept. 20, 1781. dren. 50--VI. JOHN', b. Jan. 24, 1769; d. Jan. 6, 31-V. PHI LIP^, b. Sept. 11, 1725, in Ames- 1833. bury; d. at Louisburg Jan. 31, 1746. 32-VI. THO MAS^, b. May 28, 1728, in Ames- 2 9 bury; d. Sept. 12, 1731. EEESEZERABEOT~, born in Amesbury 33-VH. SARAH3, b. July 15, 1730, in Ames- Sept. 6, I 72 I. He lived in Andover un- hurv.- -., . til about 1757, when he removed to 34-v11r THOMAS',b. Feb. 22, 1732-3, in Ames- bury; lived in Andover; and m. Shrewsbury. He married Martha Frye Elizabeth Saxby of Boxford April 26, Oct. 6, 1748. He was a miller; and '759. died July 21, I 775. His widow married 35-IX. SAMUEL"b. June 16, 1736, in Shrews- Henry Baldwin, sen., in r 7 78. bury; lived in Shrewsbury, and ni. Eathsheba Dustin of Andover Feb. Chi!dren :- 22, !75g. Their daughter Eusebiam. 51-1. ISAAC',b. Oct. 13, 1750, in Andover; Benlamln Gould of Boxford April I 7, d. Nov. 5, 1773, in Shrewsbury. 1785. 52-11. MARTHA',b. hlarch 7, 1753, in Ando- 36~.BENJAM~N~, b. Jan. 25, 1738-9, in An- ver; m. Nymphas Stacey in 1781. dover; In. Joanna Barker Feb. '18, 53-HI. PHEEE', b. Au~.22, 1755, in Andover. 1759; and d. in the Revolution. 54-IV. SUSANNA',b. Oct. 13, 1759, in Shrews- They had children. bury; d. Aug. 31, 1770, in Shrews- bury, of dysentery. 55-v. SARAH', b. Sept. 10, 1763, in Shrews- bury; d. Sept. 3, 1770, of dysentery. JOSEPH AEBOT~,born in Marblehead 56-41. hIoo~v', b. June 29, 1765, in Shrews- May 15, 1713. He married Mary Grant bury; d. Sept. 4, 1770, of dysentery. of Marblehead July I 7, I 735 ; and lived 57-11 JOHN', b. Sept. 22, 1767, in Shrews- there. bury; d. Nov. 22, 1770, of dysentery. 58-VIII. LEWIS', b. Sept. 26, 1769, in Shrews- Children, born in htarblehead :- bury. 37-1. JOSEPH', b. Feb. 24, 1735-6. Ssebelozu 59--1". JOHXMOODY', b. March 2, 1771, in f,", ?7). , Shrewsbury. 38-11. JOHN', bapt. Oct. 2, 1737; d. in in- 6-x. ISAACJ, b. Dec. 9, 1773, in Shrews- fancv. 2 - bury. 3g-111. JOHN', b. April 20, 1740; died in in- fancy. 37 4-IV. JOHN', b. in 174' See belo?;r (40). JOSEPH AREOT~.born in Marblehead 41-V. FRANCIS',b. in 1744 ; m. Mary Mal- Feb. 24, 1735-6. He was a fisherman, colm, in Ipswich, Nov. 26, 1767; and d. -. She survived him, and and lived, first, in Marblehead, and sub- d. in hlarblehead Jan. 25, 1819. sequently in Andover. He married, first, 42-VI. MARY', b. Au& 31, 1746. in Ipswich, Hannah Chinn Sept. 11, 43-VII. SARAH',b. in 1748. 1760. She died Oct. 4, 1772, aged thir- 44-VIII. GEORGE'. See belor3 (44). ty-six; and he married, second. Jane Homan Dec. 10, 1772, in Marblehead. She died, of small pox, Sept. -, I 7 73, JOHN AEEOT~,born in Andover Feb. -, thirty-four ; and married, 1718. He was a yeoman, and lived in aged he third, his native town until late in life, when he widow Sarah Hooper Aug. 28, 1774, in removed to Andover, Me. He married Marblehead. He died from the effects of the explosion of the powder-mill at An- Hannah Farnum June 17, I 746. Children, born in Andover :- dover June 2, I 7 78 ; and his wife Sarah 45-1. ~~NATHAN',h. April 23, 1748. Set survived him. below (45). Children :- 46-11. PHILIP',. . b. Oct. 4, 1749. See below 61-1. JOSEPH', b. Oct. 29, 1761 ; d. in the (46). Revolution. 47-Ill. HANNAH',b. Aug. 29, 1751 ; m John 62-11. HANNAH~,b. NOV. 4, 1763 ; d., unmar- Johnston April 29, I 773. ried, Jan. 21, 1820. 48--IV. SUSANNA',b. Dec. 20, 1753 ; m. Dan- 63-11' ~IARY',b. April 21, 1766; d. Dec. 3, iel Stevens Nov. 14, 1771. 1772. 130 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

b4-1v. BEN JAM IN^, b. OC~.z+, 1767. seebe- Martin Dec. IS, 1793. She died March low (64). 16, 1803; and he msnied, second, 65-V. JOHN', b. Oct. 21, 1770; d. NOV.26, widow Priscilla Homan Sept. g, I 803. 1772. She died, in Marblehead, Dec. 7, 1826, 66-w. -son p5.b. Sept. -, I 773 ; d. Sept. -, 1773. and he survived her. Children, born in Marblehead :- 40 78-1. BENJAMIN~,b. Sept. 7, 179s ; left town JOHNABBOV, born in Marblehead in when very young; was a cooper by He was a fisherman, and lived in trade ; amassed a fortune in Cuba; I 741. resided in Boston; and m. Olivia Marblehead. He married Ann Hooper Welch Feb. 21, 1828. He d., in Bos- Aug. 15, 1765. She died, his widow, in ton, Sept. 29, 1872; and by hi will Marblehead, NOV.6, 1823. gave a fund to Marblehead for the Children :- erection of Abbot Hall. 67-1. SAIlAH5, bapt. Sept. -, 1767; proba- 79-11. MERCY~,b. Nov. 13, 1799; nl. Thomas bly m. Thomas Russell Jan. 7, 1790, Paine Nov. 8, 1829; and d. in 1830. in Marblehead. 68-11. JOHN',bapt. Oct. 16, 1768. 69-111. ANNA',b. Sept. 23, 1770; m. f(n0tt Martin, 3d, in hlarblehead, Sept. 25, SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE 1794. REVOLUTION. 4 4 Courinrred from p

gent's reg.; muster roll dated Aug. ' I, bounty coat dated Dec. 13, 1775. 1775; en]. May 18, 1775; service, 74 JOHNALLEN of Gloucester ;priv., Capt. dys.; also, Capt. John Wiley's co., Col. Joseph Roby's co., Col. Moses I.ittlels Sargent's reg. ; order for bounty coat reg. ; muster roll dated Aug. I, r 7 75 ; dated Dec. 13, 1775. enl. hIay 29, 1775 ; service, 2 n~os., 8 ISAACALLEN of Gloucester; corp., dys. ; ah, co. return [probably Oct., Capt. Abraham Dodge's co., Col. Moses 17753 ; age, 24 yrs. ; also, order for Little's reg. ; muster roll for April, I 7 76 ; bounty coat dated Dec. I I, I 775. enl. Feb. g, 1776. JOHN ALLEN of Manchester; priv., JACOBALLEN of hfanchester ; priv., Capt. Andrew Marsters' co., which Capt. Andrew k1arsters1 co., which marched on alarm of April 19, I 7 75, to marched on alarm of April 19, 1775, to Medford; service, 3 dys. ; alro, Capt. Medford ;service, 3 dys. Hart's co., Col. Paul Dudley Sa~gent's JACOBALLEN of Cape Ann ;Capt. John reg. ; muster roll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; Row's co., Col. Ebenezer Bridge's (27th) enl. hIay I 7, I 775 ; service, 75 dys. ; reg.; receipt for advance pay dated also, Capt. John Wiley's co., Col. Sar- Cambridge, June 28, I 77 j ; also, priv. ; gent's reg. ; order for bounty coat dated muster roll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; enl. Dec. 13; 1775. June 3, 1775 ; service, 2 mos., 3 dys. ; JOHN ALLEN of hlanchester ; priv., also, co. return [probably Oct., I 7 75 1. Capt. Joseph Whipple's co. ; enl. July 13, JACOBALLEN of Danvers (also given 1755 ; dis. Dec. 31, 1775 ; service, 6 Salem) ; Capt. Gideon Foster's co., Col. mos., 3 dys. ; stationed at Manchester John Mansfield's reg. ;receipt for advance and Gloucester. pay dated Cambridge, July 4, I 775 ;also, JOHN.-~LLEN of Marblehead ; Capt. Cur- priv.; muster roll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; tis' co., Col. John Glover's reg. ; receipt enl. May 8, I 7 75 ; service, 3 mos. ; also, for advance pay dated Cambridge, June CONTRACTIONS IN COLONIAL WRITINGS. I33

27, I 775 ;also, serg., Capt. John Glover's new built on the Commons ride right over co., Col. Glover's reg. ; muster roll dated a gainft it when he Come to the age of Aug. I, 1775 ; enl. May 27, 1775 ; ser- one & twentie yeers or at the death of his vice, 2 mos., g dys. ; also, co. return mother with the Aker And halfe of mid- [probably Oct., 17753 ; also, order for dow ground adioyning to it and I do be bounty coat dated Marblehead, Jan. 8, truit my father Jofeph Graften & good- 1776. man Hardie to fee this my will & ded JONATHANALLEN of Salem; Capt. Ebe- performed mad in the yeere 1643 ye 28 nezer Winship's co., Col. John Nixon's of October.* reg. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cam- Wit bridge, June 10, 1 7 75 ;aCso, priv. ; mus- nathaniell ter roll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; enl. May 3, Porter 1775 ; service, 3 mos., 6 dys. ; also, co. Henrye Birdiall return dated Srpt. 30, 1775 ; reported, went to Canada. JOSEPHALLEN of Newbury ;priv., Capt. CONTRACTIONS IN COLONIAL Gideon Woodwell's co., which marched on alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cam- WRITINGS, bridge ; service, 6 dys. ; returned home BY BIDNEY PERLE>-. Contractions are other than the author- --=--Anril* 92-J, rqqc -,, J. JO~E~HALLEN Of ~~~df~~d(also given ized abbreviations of words. These were Falmouth and Methuen) ; return of men common during the first century of our enl. into Continental Armv, from Cant.- history, and only gradually became obso- Jones' (2d) CO., Essex co. reg., dated lete. Methuen, Feb. 13, r 778 ; residence, Fal- A horizontal line written above a letter mouth ; enl. for Methuen ; joined Capt. denoted that one or more letters which Ballard's co., Col. Alden's reg.; enl., 3 should have followed had been omitted. yrs., to expire Jan. I, I 780 ; also, priv., This was the ordinary rule when mm " Capt. William H. Ballard's co., Col. or nn " were written together, and one '6 rn I, orC'n" only, with the line above Brooks' (late Alden's) 6th reg. ; Conti- nental Army pay accounts for service it, would be written. It is rarely or never from March 4, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; found written above the full-height let- residence, Bradford ; credited to Me- ters, such as b, dl t, etc. For example, the thuen ; also, muster roll for March and word manner " was written mafier." April, 1779, dated Cherry Valley; also, "And" was sometimes written "ad" l Capt. White's co., Col. Brooks' reg. ; a nd the ordinary sign (&) was often used. Continental Army pay accounts for ser- The letter b was frequently written in- vice from Jan. I, I 780, to March 4, I 780. stead of " ber" ; d for "ded ;" n for To be conlinucd. ner " ;o for 'I on " ; p for " par ", '(per ", pir 'I, por ", '' pur ", " pra", pre," WILL OF JOHN SANDERS. pri ", pro ", and pru " ; and q for The will of John Sanders of Salem was 'I que " and qui ". Superior letters, that is, small letters proved in the Salem quarterly court 28 : written above the line, was also a kind of 1o : I 643. The following copy is taken from the original instrument on file in the abbreviation. In such cases, the word office of the clerk of courts at Salem, book I, leaf 18. 'Under the will is written by the clerk of the The Laft wil & teftament of John San- court: "Teftifyed upon oaths in Court & alfo ders inhabytant of the Towne of Salem yt the id Jno Sand= Left all the Reft of hiseftate to his wyfe." I be queath unto my fonn John San- This will has no signature of the testator. It dars my Tenn Aker lot with my houf seems to have been a nuncupative will. 134 THE ESSEX

"which " was written web ", as well as Capt. Pliny and Anna (Gillett) Abbott6, 61 wch 'I, wh ", and " whh " ; " " " stood all of New Braintree, Mass., about 1800 ; for 11 em ?> ; 11 n "for 11 en " ,. Anna Abbott6 of Newburyport, Mass., Syllables in the middle or at the end of about 1825 ; all of whom were de- words were sometimes written as superi- scendants of George Abbott, who was one ors, though often without abbreviation. of the first settlers of Rowley, Mass., in The words " shall be " and "will be " 1639. L. A. A. were frequently written shalbe " and Washington, D. C. wilbe ". 79. Abraham Redington, living in The article ye " needs explanation. Rowley, or Boxford, Mass., in 1645, died It is really the ", and should be so pro- in 1697. Any information regarding him nounced. The y in this word represents prior to the first date, or his birth and the Anglo-Saxon character which was parentage, is earnestly desired. equivalent to the English "th ". When A. P. REDINGTON. the Old English black-letter type re- Sania Barbara, CaC. placed the Anglo-Saxon letters in the printing of English words, from its close resemblance to the Anglo-Saxon character ANSWERS. for "th " the Old English a was substi- 24. Sarah Hart, who married George tuted for it, and continued to be so used Norton Oct. 7, 1669, was a daughter of so long that people became accustomed Thomas and Alice Hart, and was born in to using the y for th " in writing the ar- Ipswich in 1647. Thomas Hart was a ticle " the " and some other words. tanner by trade, and one of the earlier settlers of Ipswich, being one of the com- Q-. Q-. moners in I 641. He was born in 1606, Queries are inserted for onq cent a word. and died in Ipswich March 8, 1673-4. Answers arc rolic~ted. His wife, Alice, born in 1612, died June 75. Who were the ancestors of Eliza- 8, r 682.-Ed. beth Beauchamp who married Zachariah 36. Rev. Hugh Petersa, minister of Goodale of Salem 10 mo. 1666? Salem about 1636, afterwards executed Huautla, Morelos, Mexico. w. S. M. by Charles II., had a brother Williama of 76. Who were the ancestors of Eliza- Boston, and was a son of William Peters' beth Witt of Marlboro' who married John of Torrey, Cornwall, England. The young Goodale Sept. 8, I 703? w. S. hf. men came over in 1634. William'sa 77. Information wanted of William son Andrew3, of Ipswich and Andover, Peter, said to be brother of the celebrated came here some time after the arrival of Hugh. A William Peter had an account hlary Beamsley, and an amusing account with the Plymouth company in 1628. of Andrew's3 arrival and first experience . Ncw YorR Ciiy. E. B. P. of Boston mud is given in a private man- uscript belonging to Rev. Anson Titus. 78. Wanted, to locate the living de- He is called a young Holland by the lady scendants of John, Nehemiah and George, who was watching, and his notice was at- sons of Nehemiah and Eleanor (Porter) tracted, leading to a marriage. Boston Abbott4 of Topsfield, Mass. ; also, of records would probably give other facts John and Martha (Whiting) Abbott6, and and dates.-C. B. Abbott, Andover. Jeremiah and Polly (Jaqueth) Abbott6, See answer to 36 above. brothers, of Ashby, Mass., about I 800 ; 38. also, of Sewell and Dorothy (House) Ab- 54. See answer to 36 above. bott6, Aaron and Martha (Bush) Abbott6, 69. See answer to 36 above.

VOL. I. SALEM,MASS., SEF~EMBER, 1897. No. g.

PERSECUTION OF THE QUAKERS IN ESSEX COUNTY. BY SIDNEY PERLEY. THESociety of Friends, or Quakers, known Quaker, or any other blasphemous has always been small, probably on ac- heretics" under a fine of one hundred count of the absence of much that at- pounds, or imprisonment until it was tracts people to membership in other paid, and to return such Quakers to religious bodies, and the simplicity and the place from which they were taken. quietness of their lives. They have Quakers that came from without the neither creed, liturgy, clergy, nor sacra- court's jurisdiction were ordered to be ment; have given to woman a place committed to the house of correction, equal to that of man; have sought to being severely whipped at their entrance, eliminate war, oaths, and litigation ; and and kept constantly at work, no one be- have always been a sober, industrious, ing suffered to speak to them during thrifty, and truth-loving people. the time of their imprisonment, which The Society was founded by George shall be no longer than necessity re- Fox, in England, who began to preach in quireth." It was further ordered that if 1648 ; and about the first of July, 1656, any person knowingly imported into any Quakers first arrived in New England, harbor of the colony "any Quaker books landing at Boston. They were put into or writings concerning their Devilish prison as soon as they reached the shore, opinions," they should be fined five and their books burned in the market pounds for each and every such book or place. There was as yet no statute writing ; #(and whoever shall disperse or against such believers, but the general conceal any such book or writing and it court convened, and, October rqth, be found with him or her or in his or her passed such an act, the preamble being house, and shall not immediately deliver as follows :- it into the next magistrate" is to be st Whereas there is a cursed sect of fined five pounds ; and " if any person heretics lately risen up in the world, within this colony take upon them the which are commonly called Quakers ; heretical opinions of the said Quakers " who take upon them to be immediately they were to be fined forty shillings; sent of God, and infalltbly assisted by the "and if they shall persist in the same and spirit to speak adwrite blasphemous shall so again defend it," four pounds; opinions, despising government and the and if "they shall again so defend and order of God in church and common- maintain the said Quakers' heretical wealth, speaking evil of dignities and re- opinions, they shall be committed to the proaching and reviling magistrates and house of correction till there be conven- ministers, seeking to turn the people ient passage to send them out of the from the faith and gain proselytes to their land, being sentenced by the court of pernicious ways." assistants to banishment." By this law, master-mariners were for- It would appear that Cassandra, wife bidden to bring into the t( jurisdiction any of Lawrence Southwick of Salem, was the ANTIQUARIAN. 13~ THE BSSEX first in Essex county to become inter- power hath over-shadowed me, and man ested in the new faith, she being ad- I do not fear; for my eust is in the Lord monished by the quarterly court, June who is become our shield and buckler, 30, 1657, for absenting herself from the and exceeding great reward." church services. Their home was in the Oct. 14, 1657, another law was en- neighborhood of Aborn street, on the acted, providing that if any Quaker present Peabody line ; Mr. Southwick should return after having been punished being a manufacturer of glass and earthen under the former law, he should have one ware. of his ears cut off, and be kept at work in The first missionary of the Friends in the house of correction till he be sent Essex county, as far as the writer has away at his own charge ; and for a second learned, was Josiah Hobart, who was offence, to have his other ear cut off, and preaching at Cape Ann Side (now Bev- kept at the house of correction as in the erly) that summer, and there, probably, first instance ; and every Quakeress to be Mrs. Southwick heard the Quaker- evan- whipped instead of suffering the loss of gelist. her ears; and for a third offence, In that eventful summer, a Quaker whether male or female, their tongue craft, called the "Wood house," sailed should be bored with a hot iron, and they from England to Boston, bearing among be kept at the house of correction as in its passengers, Christopher Holder, former convictions. William Brend, and a young man named William Brend,+ who came in the John Copeland, names ever to be as- vessel with Holder and Copeland, was a sociated with the history of Salem. man of three-score and ten years. He Holder and Copeland came to Salem a began his missionary labors in Rhode few weeks later, and being hospitably re- Island, and worked his way toward Bos- ceived by the Southwick family, the latter ton, preaching the gospel of repentance were committed to prison. Mr. South- as he went. While passing through wick was soon released to be dealt with Plymouth he was severely scourged, his by the church, but his wife served seven age exciting no compassion in the breasts weeks and was let out upon paying a fine. of his persecutors. He continued north, At the close of the church service, and held meetings in Salem with William Sept. 21, 1657, Holder and Copeland at- Leddra,t who is said to have been a tempted to address the congregation, but Cornishman, though his home was in were seized and held uritil the following Barbadoes, and who, also, had come to day when they were sent to Boston, where New England as a Quaker preacher. they received thirty stripes, inflicted with They were welcomed by several fam- a knotted scourge, left three days without ilies in Salem, who sympathised with food or drink, and then imprisoned nine the new faith, Lawrence Southwick's and weeks. Nicholas Phelps' being the most promi- Samuel Shattuck, whose house is still nent among them. Meetings were held, standing, and numbered 315 Essex street, at which the strangers preached of re- opposed the arrest of Holder, and he, too, pentance and forgivenes; of sins through was imprisoned at Boston till he was re- Christ, and of the joy of the spiritual, leased on bail. life. These two preachers had their right The evangelists were soon brought be- ears cut off in Boston, Copeland was fore the Salem court, and were asked, scourged at Plymouth, and in 1659, " Why and for what they came into these Holder was banished on pain of death. Soon after his arrival in America, Cope- 'His name is also spelled "Brand " on the Salem quarterly court records. land said, in a letter to his parents, tHis name is also spelled " Lutherway " and "Take no thought for me. The Lord's " Lederay " on the Salem quarterly court records. PERSECVTION OF THE QUA.KERS IN ESSEX COUNlY. '37 parts?" They answered, "To seek a the open court, in the face of this law and godly seed. The Lord God said, 'Pass of the magistrates, and made ''a good away to New England.' " At the same confession " that they were Quakers. Mr. term of the court, June, 1658, they were Phelps uttered a few words in defence of presented for being at a disorderly the meeting; and for daring thus to an- meeting " at the house of Nicholas swer was fined. For their connection Phelps, during the time of the service of with the meeting and for professing the the church. Mr. .Phelps lived in Salem, Quaker faith, all seven were sent to the near Phelps' crossing (now in West Pea- house of correction in Boston. Others body), and about five miles from Salem at this meeting and fined were Mrs. town. The preachers made their escape Anthony Needham, Mrs. Nicholas Phelps, from the meeting, but were apprehended hlrs. Joseph Pope, Henry Trask, Daniel and brought to court. Upon their ac- Southwick, Thomas Brackett, Mrs. Sam- knowledgment that they were Quakers, uel Shattuck, Mrs. Isaac Page of Salem they were sent to the house of correction. and Robert Adams of Newbury; and This meeting was probably held before Provided Southwick was sentenced to sit May 19, 1658, when a new law was by her heels in the stocks an hour be- passed, providing that Quakers and sides being fined. Others present who such accursed heretics arising among were not punished were hlrs. Henry ourselves may be dealt with according to Trask, Mrs. George Gardner, John their deserts, and that their pestilential Southwick, Joseph Pope, Anthony Need- errors and practices may speedily be ham, Edward Wharton, Mrs. Robert prevented." The act provided that Buffum and John Hill. every such person professing any of their All through the score of years that fol- pernicious ways by speaking or writing, lowed, these people, with new sympathisers or by meeting on the Lord's day or any from time to time, were brought before the other time to strengthen themselves or court and fined for '' absence from meet- reduce others to their diabolical doc- ing," sometimes heavily, as in the case of trines," shall be fined, every person so Mrs. Phelps, who was fined, in 1659, ten meeting ted shillings, everyone speaking pounds. in such meeting five pounds, and any The preachers, Brend and Leddra, were such person who has been punished by confined at Boston. While imprisoned, scourging or whipping under former laws Brend wasso brutally beaten with a pitched to be kept at work in the house of cor- rope by the jailer, who had kept him with- rection till they give bond with sureties out food for five days and most cruelly " that they will not any more vent their fettered him, that he wasapparently dying. hateful errors or use their sinful prac- Endicott was alarmed, and summoned a tices," or else shall depart out of the physician, who concluded that the prisoner jurisdiction and stay there. was beyond recovery. The floggings in All those present at this Quaker the prison had been repeatedly so cruel, meeting were summoned into court, and that at the terrible scourging in this in- a large number of them came in and stance, the public became so indignant, stood with their hats on, until the officer that the officials released the Quaker pris- pulled them off. Nicholas Phelps, oners, Brend, Leddra and others, and Lawrence Southwick and his wife and banished them on pain of death. son Josiah, Samuel Shattuck, Samuel But the unseen Healer had more labors Gaskin* and Joshua Buffum stood up in in store for the aged Brend, and he rose from his sick cot, and left the colony, afterwards preaching in Rhode Island and *This name was also s~elledat this time.. and~ probably properly, " ~asco~ne,"and was also the West Indies. In I 662, he was one of called "Gaskill." the hundreds of Friends confined in 13~ THE ESSEX A loathsome Newgate prison. At the age of mend my righteous cause unto Thee, 0 ninety, he died; and the following is the God ! Lord Jesus receive my spirit." record of his burial : "William Brend, When Leddra was being sentenced, of the Liberty of Katherine's, near the Wenlock Christison of Sdem, who had Tower, a minister, died Seventh mo., also been banished, entered the court Seventh, 1676, and was buried at Bunhill room, causing such consternation that Fields!' no one moved or spoke for several min- The beautiful spirit of this venerable utes. He was then, also, placed to the pilgrim is shown in his writings, in one of bar, and condemned to die; but on the which, written in prison, he says, "It hath day preceding that fixed for his execution, been upon my heart, when in the sweet tidings came from England which caused repose of the streams of my Father's love him and others to be banished instead of and life, by which my heart hath been hung. overcome, to visit you with a loving The seven Salem prisoners, committed salutation from the place of my outward to the house of correction in Boston in bonds. * * Oh, in the love and life June, 1658, remained there all through of the Lamb, look over all weakness in the heat of the summer, from their hus- one another, as God doth look over all the bandry. After three weeks' imprison- weakness in every one of us, and doth love ment, they wrote to the Salem court as us for his own Son's sake-in so doing follows :- peace will abound in our borders, it will "This to hlagistrates at the court in flow forth amongst us like a river, and it Salem. will keep out jars, strifes and contentions." "Friends :-Whereas it was your pleas- Leddra returned into the colony a year ure to commit us, whose names are under- later, was arrested and kept chained in the written, to the house of correction in Bos- open prison in Boston for many months, ton, although the Lord, the righteous notwithstanding the inclemency of a New Judge of Heaven and Earth, is our witness England winter, while awaiting the exe- that we have done nothing worthy of cution of his sentence of death. stripes or of bonds; and we being com- On the day before he was hung, he ad- mitted by your court to be dealt withal as dressed a letter to "The little flock of the lawprovides for foreign Quakers, as ye Christ," in which he said : " Stand in the please to term us ; and having some of us watch within in the fear of the Lord, suffered your law and pleasures, now that which is the very entrance of wisdom and which we do expect is, That whereas we the state wherein you are ready to receive have suffered your law, so now to be set free the secrets of the Lord. Hunger and by the same law, as your manner is with thirst patiently, be not weary, neither strangers, and not to put us on the ac- doubt; stand still and cease from thy count of one law, and execute another law own workings, and in due time thou shalt upon us, of which according to your own enter into rest and thy eyes shall behold manner we were never convicted, as the His salvation. Confess Him before men ; law expresses. If you had sent us upon bring all things to the light that they may the account of your new law, we should be proved whether they are wrought in have expected the jailer's order to have God. Without grace possessed there is been on that account, which that it was not no assurance of salvation. By grace you appears by the warrant which we have, and are saved." the punishment which we bear, as four of The following day, the fetters that had so us were whipped, among whom was one long bound him were knocked off, and he that had formerly been whipped ;so now went " forth to the slaughter in the meek- according to your former law, friends, let ness of the spirit of Jesus." His last it not be a small thing in your eyes, the words, from the scaffold, were : I com- exposing as much as in you lies, our fam- PERSECUTION OF THE QUAKERS IN ESSEX COUNTY. 139 ilies to ruin. It is not unknown to you, pointed to speedily undertake to convince the season and the time of year, for those them of their errors. that live of husbandry, and what their cat- On this same day (Oct. 19, 1658), the tle and families may be exposed unto ;and general court, finding that the seven also such as live upon trade. We know if Salem Quakers who were in the Ipswich the spirit of Christ did dwell and rule in house of correction would do nothing to you these things would take impression on effect their release, ordered that they be your spirits. What our lives and conver- brought into court. This was done ; and sations have been in that place is well much endeavor to convince and reform known, and what we now suffer for, is the prisoners was made; but in vain. much for false reports, and ungrounded The court then ordered that Samuel jealousies of heresy and sedition. These Shattuck, Lawrence Southwick and his things lie upon 11s to lay before you. As wife depart out of the jurisdiction ('be- for our parts we have true peace and rest fore the first day of the court of election in the Lord in all our sufferings, and are next, which, if they neglect or refuse to made willing in the power and strength of do, they shall then be banished under God, freely to offer up our lives in this pain of death." Under this order they cause of God, for which we suffer: yea, were released from prison, and, returning and we do find (through grace) the en- to their homes, cared for their snffering largement of God in our imprisoned state, families and farms. The time of their to whom alone we commit ourselves and probation was about at an end when, May our families, for the disposing of us accord- I I, 1659, the seven were called before ing to his infinite wisdom and pleasure, in the court. The governor charged them whose love is our rest and life. From the with rebelling against the authority of the house of bondage in Boston wherein we country in not' departing according to are made captives by the wills of men, al- the order. They answered that they though made free by the Son (John 8 : had no other place to go to, and had their 36). In which we quietly rest, this 16th wives, children and estates to care for ; of the 5th month, 1658. nor had they done anything worthy of "Lawrence Southick, death, 1)anishment or bonds, or any of Cassandra Southick, the hardships or ignominious punish- Josiah Southick, ments which they had suffered in their Samuel Shattock, persons, besides theloss of a large amount Joshua Buffum." of money and property that had been Whether or not Gaskin had been re- taken to pay fines. The governor was leased, the writer has not learned, but his silenced ; but Major-general Dennison name is not seen again in connection with made this unanswerable reply, that they the others. Neither does it appear why stood against the authority of the country Nicholas Phelps did not sign this letter. in not submitting to its laws ; that "they Soon after, the prisoners were transferred and the church people are not able well to the Ipswich house of correction. to live together; at present the power is Oct. 19, 1658, the general court, be- in our hand, and therefore the strongest coming convinced that the terrible laws must fend off." The sentence of banish- that had been enacted were insufficient to ment then pronounced upon them, stop the preaching of the Quakers, and and only two weeks' time was allowed in "for the further prevention of infection which to settle their aflairs and bid good- and guiding of people in the truth," by forever to their families and friends passed a law banishing all persons ('favor- and home. ing the Quakers who after due means of Lawrence Southnick and his wife, in conviction remain obstinate and pertina- their old age, parted from their children, cious," and Rev. John Norton was ap- and with but little money and few arti- 140 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. cles, the fines of the court having taken tence is no more terrifying to me than if much of their estate, secured a boat and you had taken a feather and blown it in sailed southward along the coast. They the air." finally built a little house on Shelter Samuel Shattuck and Nicholas Phelps Island, in Long Island Sound ; and there took advantage of an opportunity that passed the few months of their exile. offered, four days later, to sail for England, The privation and exposure that they with the intention of laying the whole experienced during the rigorous winter matter before parliament; and, late in that followed was too severe for their aged 1661, Shattuck secured and brought to and weakened bodies, and both died in New England a letter from the king re- the following spring, his wife surviving quiring the colony to cease proceedings him three days. against the Quakers. On the day that Lawrence Southwick This letter caused a suspension of the and his wife and friends were sentenced obnoxious laws, and the prisoners were set to banishment, the court ordered that Mr. at liberty. Simon Bradstreet and two and Mrs. Southwick's younger children, other representatives of the colony were Daniel, aged twenty-two, and Provided, sent to England to inform his majesty of aged eighteen, be sold into slavery to the the prisoners' release, and to deprecate English in Virginia or Barbadoes. This his displeasure. In 1675, however, the was because these young people could not law was so far revived that persons at- pay the heavy fines imposed upon them tending Quaker meetings could be pun- di for siding with the Quakers, and ab- ished therefor ; and the death penalty was senting themselves from public ordi- not repealed until 1681. nances," and as a means of satisfaction Other laws than those mentioned were of the fines. They were offered for sale in force. In May, 1657, the law forbid- as slaves to the sea captains who might ding hospitality to Quakers was passed; carry them to the West Indies and dis- and under it several persons were con- pose of them at a profit. But no one victed. Among them was Zaccheus Gould would buy them ; and the brother and of Topsfield, and Thomas Macy of Salis- sister were released. bury, in 1659, and John Emery of New- Whittier wrote a ballad on this inci- bury, in 1663. The Quakers whom they dent, entitling it with the mother's name, entertained were generally those that were " Cassandra Southwick," instead of the on their way to the more hospitable daughter's. He represents Provided as wilderness of Maine. May 22, 1661, being offered for sale near the wharves in was enacted a law providing that Quakers the presence of Endicott, Rawson, Hig- without homes in the colony should be ginson, and many others. An old wood- punished for the first offence by whipping, cut illustrating it is reproduced herewith. second, by branding, and third, by death. Josiah Southwick and Joshua Buffum It cannot seem strange that some of went to Rhode Island, the home of many the sufferers under the Quaker laws should an exile from the Massachusetts Bay col- become so insane as to appear naked in ony. Southwick returned from banish- public, under an idea that it was their duty ment, and, Sept. 9, 1661, was ordered by to thus declare the lack of spiritual apparel the court of assistants to be stripped from of New England's established church. his girdle upwards, tied to a cart's tail, " The Quaker of the olden time ! . and whipped ten stripes in each of the So calm, and firm, and true, towns of Boston, Roxbury and Dedham. Unspotted by its wrong and crime, He walked the dark earth through ; When sentenced to a severe scourging, The lust of power, the love of gain, he said : Here is my body ; if you want The thousand lures of sin a further testimony to the truth I profess, Around him had no power to stain take it and tear it in pieces ; your sen- The purity within." SUR ABBOT OF IPSWICH. '4' THE ANCESTOR. survived him, dying, his widow, in Ips- While I meander in and out wich, Jan. I I, I 730-1. The labyrinthof ancient date, Children, born in Ipswich :- Sometimes I catch him on the fly; I.ARTHUR', b. Feb. 3, 1693-4 See be- Sometimes he goes sedately by, 1.w (7). Or scans me closely with his eyes; 8-11. FRANCES',h. M2.y 18, 1696; living, Or greets me with a gladsurprise unmarried, in 1711. - That I should know him-strangers we. 9-111. SUSANNA',m. Abraham Hobbs Sept. Where did we meet before? says he. 173 1719. Cortn. Quar. Delia B. Wurrr'. I MARY', b. July 26, 1701 ; m. John Roberts March 16, 1720-1. - 7 DESCENDANTS OF ARTHUR ABBOT ARTHURABBOT*, born in Ipswich Feb. OF IPSWICH. 3, 1693-4. He is called in his deeds, - ARTHURABBOT' came from Totness, successively, cordwainer, innholder, yeo- near the Ivy bridge, Devonshire, Eng- man, and gentleman. He lived in Ips- land, with the early settlers of Salem, and wich, where he was a constable in 1729. - probably resided at Marblehead till 1633, He married, first, Widow Mercy (+- when John Winthrop, jr., with twelve ten) Smith Sept. I 6, I 7 I 6. She died Sept. others (one of whom Mr. Abbot is said I I, I 733 ; and he married, second, widow - to have been) commenced the settlement Priscilla Burnham of Ipswich May 23, of Ipswich. He died there between 1671 I 734. He died in Ipswich, " advanced and 1679. in years," June 16, 1767. She died Children* :- there, his widow, June -, 1774. - 2-1. ARTHUR?,b. abont 1639. See below(~). Children,* born in Ipswich :- 3-11, PHILIP?. I I-I. ARTHUR~bapt. Aug. 3, 1718, " about 2 two years old." See below (II). 12-11. SARAH', hapt. Aug. 3: 1718; m. ARTHURABBOT', born about I 639. He George Dutch of Ipsw~chApril 21, was made a freeman in 167 I. He was a 1736. farmer, and lived in Ipswich. He mar- 13-111. FRANCES~,bapt. Nov. 12, 1721 ; m. Daniel Sawver of Wells f\. uub. Nov. ried Elizabeth White April 26, 1669. She 22, 1740). was fitledin 1675 for " wearing silk." He 14-lv. DANIEL', bapt. March g, 1734-5; d. died after 1716; and his wife survived July 19, 173.5. him, dying, his widow, Feb. 17, 1738, aged ninety. ARTHURABEOT~, bapt. in Ipswich Aug. Children?, born in Ipswich :- 3, 1718, being "about two years old." 4-1. ARTHUR3, b. Oct. I, 1670. He was a joiner, and lived in Ipswich. 5-lI. PHI LIP^, b. Aug. 30, 1672. Sn belo20 He married Sarah Willcomb (pub. Nov. (5). 6-111. ELI~ABETH~,b. June 6, 1686 ; ni. Jos- 18, 1738). He died Dec. 19, 1779 ; and eph Brown of Ipswich (pub. 2: g nio: she died April 22, I 781. I 706) ; and was living in I 71I. Children, born in Ipswich :- 15-1. WILLIAM~,bapt. Feh. 28, 1741; d. 5 June 14, 1742. PHILIPABBOTS, born in Ipswich Aug. *There was probably a son named Hull, who 30, 1672. He was a house-carpenter, lived at Cape Ann, and was lost at sea. He mar- and lived in Ipswich. He married Mary ried Bethiah Row (published in Gloucester April He died after I 701 ; and his wife 4, 1766, when he is called a "sojourner "), and -- . had the following children born in Gloucester: 'Richard Abbot, keeper of the New Hamp- Hull, born Aug. I, 1766; Mary Burrcl, born shire prison in 1684, may have been his son. July 12, I 768 ; married Vinery Parsons ; Rachel, +It is probable that Moses Abbot of Boston born Feb. 2, I 770 ; married Richard Whitridge ; was one of the children. He was the father of and Bethiah, born Aug. 13, 1772; married Jo- Rev. Hull Abbot of Charlestown. There was siah Parsons. Hull's widow, Bethiah, was living also, perhaps, a daughter Susannah. in Gloucester in 1796. 142 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. - 16-11. ELIZABETH"bapt. Feb. 19, 1743; d. WILL OF ROBERT ANDREWS. July 17, 1745. 1111 JOHN", d. Aug. 24. 1747. The will of Robert Andrews of Ipswich 18--1v. DANIEL",bapt. May 25, 1746; d. was proved 26 : I : 1644. The following - rg-v. SARAH,you"%. bapt. Aug. 13, 1749; d., un- copy is taken from the record contained married, in Ipswich, of a cancer, in Jp~OvichDeeds, volume 1, leaf 6, the April 13, 1783. original being missing. - ac-VI. PHILIP"b. ~pril5, 1752. Set klow the firft of March 1643. (20). In the name of god amen I Robert 21-VII. ELIZABETH^, bapt. April 14, 1754; d. Feb. 19, 1773. Andrewes of Ipfwa in New England being - 22-VIII. DANIEL"bapt. Nov. 28, 1756. of pfect vnderftanding & memory doe 23-IX. ANNA%,bapt. Nov. 19, 1758. make this my laft will & Teitament

20 Imprmis I coment my foule into the hands of my merciful1 Creator & redeemer - PHILIPABBO~~, born in Ipswich April 5, & 1 doe comitt my body after my depar- 1752. He was a housewright, and lived ture out of this world to be buried in in Ipswich. He married Sarah Hovey of ieemly manner by my frends &c concern- - Ipswich Dec. 6, 1773; and died Sept. ing my eitate Imprimis I doe make my 20, 1805. She died July 25, 1838. eldeit fonne John Andrewes my executor Children, born in Ipswich :- Item I give vnto my wife Elizabeth 24-1. DANIEL',b. Jan. 152 1774. See *elow Andrews forty pounds and to John Griffin (24). the fonne of Humfry Griffin fixteene 25-11. PHILIP', b. Dec. 23, 1775; was a baker, and lived in Salem; m. Peggy pounds to be paid vnto him when he fhal- Turner April 3, 1810. They had be Twenty one yeares of age, 6r if he fhall children. dye before he comes to that age it ihall 26-111. THOMAS',b. July 20, 1779; m. Nabby Corbin May g, 1810; and d. Aug. 14, returne to my two fonnes John &Thomas 1818. They had children. Andrewes Item concerning nly ioilne 27-IV. ARTHUR',b. Jan. 24, 1782 ; d. April ThomasAndrews my willis that he ihalllive 17, 1805. with his brother John Andrews three 28-V. SALLY',b. March 18, 1784; d. June yeares two of which he fhalbe helpfull to his 25, 1790. 29-VI. JOHNHOVEV), b. June 17, 1787; d. brother John Andrewes in his hufbandry Dec. 24, 1805. and the laftof the three yeareshe fhall goe 3*V11. SAMUEL N.', b. NOV. 11, 1789 ; lived to fchoole to recover his learning and if he in Salem ; m. hlary A. Francis July 31, 1833 ; and had children. fhall goe to the vniverfity or hall fet him- 31-VIII. WILLIAM',b. Jan. I, 1792; lived in felfe vpon f0me other way of living his Franklin, Ill.; m. Mary Barry Dec. brother John fhall allow him ten pounds 2, 1824; and had children. by the yeare for foure yeares & then fif- 32-IX. SALLY',b. Oft. 3, I794 ; d. Sept. 8, teene pounds by the yeare for two years 1796. fucceeding after. Item concerning the - 2 4 foureicore pounds which is to be paid vnto DANIELABBOT?, born in Ipswich Jan. my fonne in lawe ffrancklins daughter Elizabeth ffrancklin n~ygrandchild my - 15, I 7 74. He was a baker, and lived in Salem. He married Rebecca Allen of will is that if fhe die before the debt is due it fhalbe thus diipofed ten pounds of Salem Feb. 21, 1796. it fhall goe to my fonne Daniel1 Hovies Children :- - 33-1. REBECCA~b. Dec. 4, 1796; m. Dr. Child Daniell Hovey my grand child and ~lijahPO~~~~NOV. 28, 1816. He was the other feav[en]ty pounds fhalbe di- a physician in Salem, Mass., and vided betweene my two fonnes John & - Brooklyn, N. Y. Thomas Andrews and if thofe my Two 34-11. DANIEL" b. April 16, 1799; lived in Salem; m. Rebecca Gray, April 29, fonnes fhould dye then thirty pounds 1830 ; and bad children. fhould be divided betweene my kinfmen - John Thomas & Robert Burnum by equal1 Here Lies Interrd porcons, & Twenty more fhould goe to Mr TIMOTHY CURRIER Humphry Griffins Two other fonnes & Who Departed the other Twenty fhall goe to Daniel1 This Life March Hovey. And becaufe my fonne John Ye I 0t I753 Andrewes is yet vnder age I doe comend In ye goth year him vnto Thomas Howlet as his Guardian of his AGE vntill he Ball come of age. Wittneffes hereof William Knight Robert Andrews HERE LYES THE John whipple BoDY OF WILLM Thomas Scot CURRIER Ye SON Jofeph Metcalfe OF h1~ THOMAS CURRIER AND hIRs AMESBURY INSCEUP??ONS. SARAH HIS WIfE WHO DIED IUNE UNION CEMETERY. Coirtinuedfrom page 124. HERE LYES YEAR OF HIS .4GE BURIED Ye BODY 01 LYDIA CURRIER WHO DIED DECEM Here Is Interrd BER Ye 19 1735 BENAIAH Son TO IN Ye 4th YEAR Mr Jaruis 8. MrS Of HER AGE Mary Flanders - Who Dest APRIL /n Nemory,of , Ye IIth I771 Najor Nathaniel Currier AGED I Year lo hlo. of Salisbury, wbo Died Decey 235 1776, in J* 53" Yrar of his Agr. In Menlory of rlfyjcsh and Hearf, has faild And the spirit refurrrcd to God iuho did ifgive JAKVISFLANDERS And Nothing can (plead but vrercy who died JanrY 24th 1778 Purchest by the Lull16 of God In ye 3gth Year of his Age HERE LYES BURIED Ye BoDY Of NI- In Memory of COLAS CUR XIm MARYFLANDERS RIER WHO wife of DIED DECEMB : JARVISFLANDERS ye 7 I735 died July ye 2 1" I 775 IN Ye z YEAR in ye 33* Year of her Age. OF HES- AGE HERE LIES BURIED Here Lies Interrd Mr 'r H E BODY OF JOSHUA FOLLANSBE CAPt RICHARD CURRIER Who Departed WHO DEPARTED THIS This Life Aucust LIFE FEBRTJARY Sh the 15'" 1766 1747~IN THE 7sth In Ye 46th Year YEAR OF HIS AGE o f his A G E THE ESSEK ANI'IQUARIAN.

ITI Menr o yy of H~reLies the Body of SIBYLFOLLANSBE, MR. JEREMIAHHIBBERT daughtrr- of Thomas Sr otrly Son of Mary Follanf be : the Rev. Thomas who a'ied Apr' 24, 1796 & Mrs. Abigail Hibbert Bt23. who died Dec. 1791. See hrrc the youth, whoje cheerful 6loonz &fat. 34. Prontis'd n train ofycars to cot~re: He is gotrc, & caiz't rcfurit Whcn death derider fh'ex~ccfedjoyes, Oh ar~iazitrgGrief! 61d if And all herflnff'rit~ghope deflroj'es. 6ecotnes 21s hulrib(y tofir611tit.

In In Here Lies Interrd Me~noryof Memory of Cap. SAMUEL GEORGE SARAHHOITE HANNHHolTE WHO DEPArtEd Daur. of MI. WILL^. Daur. of M'. WILL^. This Life JUNe & we. HANHHOITE 6: arm. HANHHOITE died Sept. 28th died Sept. 28tll Ye 2gth 1765 1776 1776 AGED 40 years In ye 6 Year In ye 8 Month 8: 2I nays of her Age of her Age - - IN /IZ Memory of r~~emoryof MY$. Atzrza Halt Lieut. Ezekiel Goodridge who was killed at the capt- Wife fl afty.'Ben? Hoyt ure of Burgoyne Oct. 7, 1777. Bt. 37 Daz~y.of afP. Tbornas & and of Molly his wife who . JZbry Pearfon died March 29, 1814. Bt. 65. and of 6 of their children 'Died Febr~)24" 1785, Elizabeth died Mar. I, 1778 112 ye I 9th Year of ber Age. .E . - Ezekiel died Sept. 13, 1777 &t. 11. In Menzory of in memory LYDIA of* Dazrghfer of Willebe & Lydia Hoyt, lllolly died March g, I 77 7. Et. 3. zuho died ApnYSfh,1791, Nancy died Aug. 16, 1778. apd II years. Bt. 16. - Abigail died Nov. I 786. In Memo? of At. 14 WILLIA~~HOYT - who died March 15, 1793 ; REBEKAH at.52 dauglrter 01 Hannah GoUld - n'rpa~fedthis Zfle IACOB . DecT. 8, 1798 HVNTI N T V N at.6 DIED APRIL s 1730 IN T~E *In the place of the words " in memory of " YeAR OF HIS something had been erased, and these words inserted. AGE AMESHURY INSCRIPTIONS. '45 HEAR LYES BURIED 112 $temo?y of ye BODY of MARY $li-s. HUNTUNTIEN ye Hannab Lowell DAVGHtr of IOHN widow of & ABIGEL HUN Capf. Samuel Lowell TUNTIEN WHO DYEd NOVEMBER Died Ju?ze 3d 1783 ye 13 1736 AGED 112 ye 83d Year of ber Age AbOUt I YEAR Depnrl ~r~yf?iends,dry ~fpyourTears I nfnst lie here fill Christ appears - HERE LYES BURIED THE In memory of UODY OF Mr Afi. LEWISLOWELL SAMUEL IONES who dicdjutre rjth1777 WHO DIED i?z the 5oth),ear FEBRUARY Ye of his age. 3 1742"N ANyoxr f/rof itow alive rrrny be, THE 65 YEAR Prepare to die andfollow nrc. OF HIS By harkrrirrg fo Gods gracious voice AGE Alma' 711nkethe Lordyour ortly choice.

In mentory Here Lies Miriam of the Dautr. of M=. THOMASLANE, Lewis & Mrs. who de-arted this l#e Molly Low e 11 Fe'e6ry. I, 1797, Who Des' April At. 30. ye 2" 1762 AGED 11 Years

LE HASTR * OF IUNE Sacred to 1736 & IN THE the Memory of 10 YEar OF MP. WiIliam Lowell H * AGE who departed this Lge, Sejt. the 2athA. D.I 788, in the ~8~"year of his age. In Memory of Mrs. ANNALOWELL. wi;tP oy Mr. Simeon Lowell : HERE LYES BURIED who died the BODY OF mRS ]any. 29, 1789 MaRY LOWLe the Aged 39 Years. WIFe Of Mr GIDEon reptm LOWLe WHO DIED M'hor Cod cornnrnndr tho' friends nOUEmBER THE 2 tt" I'out- lye, like ~IIC,you 7r~ustrejag7z. 1734 & In the 63 *The stone is defaced. YEAR OF HER AGE THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. Here Lies Interr'd HERF LYES BURIED BAZELEEL Ye Son THE BODY OF of Mr. David REBACKAH MORRIL ener THE WIFE OF MR L Who MOSES MORRIL the WHO DIED APRIL 1747 " HER .4GE In Memory of - Dea. David Merrill, This In Memory of the who died REVu Atr. ELISHA ODLIN June ye 15, I 785, the 3rd pastur of the aged 81 Years First Church of christ In Almsbury Who I hlo. 4 Days. After He Had Faithfully Discharg'd the pastural Herr Lies Interr'd hlT' office For near a Daee of ELLEANOR MERKILL 8 Years Departed This the Wife of Deacn. LIF~JANUARY 21. 1752 David Merrill In the 41 Year Who Dest. February of his- AGE. ye 26 - 1767 ACED 57 Year DANIEL O-LI- & 19 Days \V.4Y DIED NOUEmr. Ye * 1740 IN ye In Afcnzorj' of 51 YE.AR OF ANNA, HIS *4GE C072j0?.tof Addams Morrill In 3Iemory of who died ]any. I 7Ih I 795 ; Doctr. NEHE~~~AHORDWAY in the 45 jsur Deceafed JarirY r 3th 17 79 of her aze. In Ye6Sth Year And le/t the/Xndozv of a ~2ul of his Age. Shortldo~t111y Soul 6rjozrnd, //e took thc ro6c the S,zaiot~r;ururf$~f And cnj it a//nrotrnr~. Here Is Interrd Mr. S-AXIUEL OSGOOD Who Departed this Life oct' Ye I 71h I750 Son of Jonathan In the 28"' Year & Hannah hlorrill o f h i s AGE who died COME MORTAL MAN AND CAST AN EYE Sept. 13'" I 7 85 COME READ THY DOOhf aged I YEUr 6 7110. PREPARE TO DIE *The stone is defacecl. *The edge of the stone at this place is gone. OLD NORFOLK Cl 3WY RECORDS. '47 In Memory of allro a Infafat Same, of Israel, daughter of said John John Pear.son of Mr. Tho*. & Son of Mr. Tho#. & M". Mary Pearson Pike, and wife of Henry True of Salis- Mrs. Mary Pearson bury, May I, 1655. Sheacknowledged it diedDecr. 1st 1774 May I, 1655, and he 15 : g : 1655, before Aged 6 Tho : Bradbury, commissioner of Salis- Mo~zths bury. The marshall of Salem is directed to levy on goods of Richard Ormsby, in favor of John Godfrey, Aug. 10, 1662. Samuel Archard, the marshall, assigns it to Rob- OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS. ert Lord, marshall of Ipswich, 24 : 7 : Confinuedfronzpage 117. 1662. Oct. 11, 1662, Robert Lord Inventory of estate of George Habone, levied 011 the farm of Richard Ormsby, late of Hampton, deceased, dwelling etc., the appraisers being John Severans house and land, live stock, etc., amount- of Salisbury, John Emerie of Newbury, ing to £126. Appraised by Tho: Levitt and said Lord. his S mark and Robert Smith his R mark. John Wheelwrite of Hampton, conveyed Filed in court at Hampton 3 : 8 mo : r 654. to John Redman of Hampton, smith, 33 Will of John Pike, sen., of Salisbury, acres of land, bounded by Robert Page, weak in body; dated May 24, 1654. I Tho : Nudd (formerly Tho : Moulton's), give my land in Newbury to my grand- Christopher Palmer, Nathaniel Batcheller, child John Pike (under age), son of my Henry Dowe, William ffifeild and Henry eldest son John Pike. My land at ye new Moulton, 10 : 6 mo : 1654, Wit : Samuell towne called by the name of the pitt, both ffogg and Stephen Samborn. Ack. before upland and meadow, I give my grand- Willi: Estow and Jeffery Mingay, com- child John Pike (under age), son of my missioners of Hampton. son Robert Pike. Gives to his daughters Martha Sadler (her o mark) deposed Dorothy, Ann, and Israell, and their that her husb~ndAnthony Sadler, late of children. To my daughter-in-law, wife Salisbury, deceased, sold to Robert ffitts of my son John, and to her children, of Salisbury, land formerly Sam1 Hall's. Joseph, Hanna, Mary and Ruth. To my Sworn to in court at Salisbury I 2 : 2 mo : daughter-in-law Sarah, wife of my son 1651. Robert, and to her children, Sarah, Dora- JnO Hoyt deposed that he heard An- thie, Mary and Elizabeth. To my tenant, thony Sadler say that he had received of Samuell More. My two sons, John and Willi: Hooke full pay for some meadow Robert, executors. Wit : Henry Mondey sold to him. Martha Sadler deposed to and ye mark R of JnO Ralfe. Proved in the same effect. Sworn to in court at court at Hampton 3 : 8 mo: 1654. Salisbury 15 : 4 : 1653. Inventory of estate of John Plke, sen., Jno Severans deposed to the same deceased May 26, 1654, taken May 29, erect. Sworn to jncourt at Salisbury I I : 1654, by Henry Mondey, John Ralfe (his 2 mo: 1651. EJ mark) and George Goldwyer (his o Martha Sadler alias Burbie deposed mark). House and land at old town in that she heard her husband Anthony Sad- Newbury; land at new town ;etc. Total ler, late deceased, say that he had sold to amount, Ez30 6s. rod. Sworn to by the John Gill a house and lot in Salisbury, executors. bounded by JnOBayly, sen., and Rodger Dorothy, daughter of abovesaid John Eastman and land formerly of JnO Hoyt. Pike, and wife of Daniel1 Hendrick of Sworn to in court at Salisbury 14 : 4 : Haverhill, acknowledged the receipt of her 1653. legacy, etc., June 10,1654. Wit : Robert Isack Buswell and Willi: Buswell of Clements and Henry Palmer. Salisbury deposed that about seven years 148 THE ESSEX AWQUARIAN. agone Anthony Sadler and JnO Gill were side of little river, and bounded by Edward together at said Isaac's house when Sad- ffrench, Oct. lo, 1650. Wit: John ler sold to Gill a house and a I-acre lot Sanders, JIIO Rudduck and Georg Manig. bounded by Rodger Eastman, Tho : Ack. by " Chriftopher Batt late of Salif- Bradbury (sometimes JnO Baylies), and bury & his wife mr Ann Batt" before Henry Browne (sometimes Willi Hol- William Hibbins 14 : 4 : 1654. dridgs) ; also, his right of commonage. Mr. Sam' Dudley leases to Humphrey Sworn to in court at Salisbury I 7 : 4 : 1653. Wilson saw-mill onlessee's creek in Exeter, Whereas Master Thomas Savage of and saws in the hands of George Halsie, Boston, merchant, at request of Richard for 5% years, for rent of ro,ooo feet of Leader of Strauberry banke, gent., is pine boards per annum, 14 : a : 1654. bound with and for said Leader, to pay Ack. in court at Salisbury, before Robert William Davis of Boston, apothecary, for Clemenk, April 14, 1654. Maj. Nehemiah Burne,-to secure said Whereas, in 1645, two judgments were Savage Leader mortgages to him, house, granted against Edward Colcord and land, etc., in Boston, and house and land Robert Tucke of Hampton, at the suit of at Strawberry bank in Pascatoquack, late- William Paine of Ipswich, the execution ly purchased of Ambros Lane. Dec. 18, issued thereon being served by deputy- 1652. Wit : Wln Tinge, Robt Oateshall, marshall Walter Roper upon said Colcord's Rhad Ridden and Nathaniel Souther, house and all of his lands in Hampton, notpub cas. including commonages, at request of said Thomas Ruckeof Boston, drap, for £70, Tuck,-William Paine of Ipswich, marcht, conveyed to Anthony Stanion ofHampton, conveyed said property to Robert Page planter, one-third of a mill work at Exe- of Hampton Oct. 16, 1654. Signed : ter falls, sometimes belonging to James Will Payne. Wit : Robert Lord and Willi : Wall, and sold to Edward Colcord, and Howard. Ack. before Daniel1 Denison conveyed by Edward Colcord to the Oct. 16, 1654. grantor. Dated Nov. 2 7, 1654. Also Thomas Kemble releases ffrancis Swaine signed by Elisabeth Rucke (her E mark). from all indebtedness Jan. 25, 1654. Wit : Wit : William Lumpkin and Samuel1 Thomas Jenner and John Mirocke (his Rucke. Ack. before Tho : Wiggin Nov. M mark). 28, 1654. Timothy Dalton, "teacher of the Joseph Merrie conveyed to Tho : Lilford Church of Chrift att Hampton," for £50, of Haverhill March 17, 1648, 5 acres of conveyed to Isack Pirkins of Hampton, land. Signed by mark of Joseph Merry planter, farm in Hampton, on Salisbury 1 and mark ). of Tho : Lilford. Wit : line southerly, northerly on the farm JnOWard and John Cass (his -) mark). sometimes John Moulton's but now JnO. Christopher Batt of Boston, tanner, Brown's, westerly to a tree belonging to with consent of my wife Ann, for £45, a farm sometimes mr. Steven Batcheller's conveyed to Lt. Robert Pike of Salisbury, but now m'. John Wheelwrit's, easterly on 20-acre planting lot in Salisbury, bounded farm of John Browne, a creek and the by Mr. William Worcester, little river, and river ; also, 70 acres of meadow, 18 : 4 : town common, r I : 9 mo : 1651. Wit : 1652. Wit : Sam : Dalton and Tho : John Sanders and Ann Batt. Ack. by Nudd. Ack. before Willi : Estow and " Chriftopher Batt late of Salifbury Sr Jeffery Minge, commissioners of Hampton. his wyfe mr Ann Batt" before William June ig, 1654, Robert Codnam of Hibbins 14 : 4 : 1654. Saibrooke fort, mariner, conveyed to Christopher Batt of Salisbury, gent, Isack Buswell of Salisbury, a acres of with consent of my wife Ann, for £45, land in Salisbury, bounded "southward by conveyed to Robert Pike of Salisbury 14- ye high way, which goeth towards the acre meadow lot in Salisbury, on north Bay," east and north by the green by the IPSWICH SOLDIERS. '49 meeting house, and land of Isack Buswell. NOTES ON ABBE GENEALOGY. Signed by mark. Wit : Jonathan Negus John Abbe (2) had two wives,-John, and Samuel Buswell. Ack. before Richard John, Thomas, Joseph, Obadiah and Abi- Parker, commissioner, 28 : 8 : 1654. gail being children by the first wife, and To be corrfinued. Richard, Mary, Mercy, John, Hannah, Lydia and Sarah by the second. IPSWICH SOLDIERS. It was Mary Abbe's (28) cousin Mary, Among the papers on file in the probate daughter of John, that married James office at Salem in the settlement of the estate of Daniel Rogers, of Ipswich, who Samuel Abbe (3) died in Windham. died about 1722, is the following :- His son Thomas died, unmarried, in I 700 ; " July : 7th 17 24. and Mary (32) is Mary (28). "A List ofThose Souldiars on the North Obadiah Abbe (7) died in Enfield in Side of ye River In Ipswich under the I732 ;and probably hlrs-Sarah (Tibbals) Command of ColoUJohn Denison ordered Warriner was his wife. to Go out into his magest Service Thomas Abbe (8) had no daughter "Joseph Wait Abigail ; it was Tabitha that -Warner John Knowlton married. Dan'. Griffin Ebenezer Abbe (18) married Mary Allen. Richard Pearce It was his son Ebenezer who married Thos. Gofs." Abigail Goodale (published, both of Sa- lem, Feb. 7, 1729-30). NON-IMPORTATION AGREENIENT. -.EEen Putnam, Danvrrs. Salem, Sept. 6. "The Merchants and Traders in this Town having had feveral Q-. Meetings to coniult Meafures for the bet- Queries are inserted for one cent a word. ter Regulation of the Trade, which at Ansvcrs are rolicitcd. preient labours under great Difficulties 80. Wanted, ancestry of Hannah, wife and Difcouragements; and being con- of John Wilder (born, Charlestown (?), vinced that a further Importers of un- Mass., 1646). F. R. W. W. neceffary Goods from Great-Britain would Indianapolis, InA involve the Importers in ftill greater 81. Wanted, ancestry ofSarah Sawyer Difficulties and render them unable to who married John Wilder (born, Lancas- pay the Debts due to the Merchants in ter (?), M~~~.,1673). F. R. W. W. Great-Britain, they unanimoufly VOTED 82. ancestry of prudence any further Orders for Goods Keyes, who Josiah Wilder (born, be this and that Lancaster, Mass., Jan. 6, 1701). the firit of January 1769 to the firft of January 1770, they will not fend for or F. R. W. W. import, either on their own Account or on 83. Wanted, ancestry of Lydia Rugg, Commiffions, or purchafe of any Factor who married Asa Wilder, West Boylston, F. R. W. W. or others, who may import any Kind of Mass., Sept. 22, 1753. Goods or Merchandizes from Great- 84. Wanted, ancestry of Mary Pierce, Britain, except Coal, Salt and fome Arti- Shrewsbur~,Mass., who married Reuben cles neceffary to carry on the Fifhery. Wilder Feb. 16, I 784. F. R. W. W. They likewife agreed not to import any 85. Information wanted of William Tea, Glafs, Paper or Painters Colours Peter, said to be brother of the celebrated until the Acts impoiing Duties on thofe Hugh. A William Peter had an account Articles are repealed."-Essex Gazette, with the Plymouth company in 1628. Sept. 6, 2768. New York Ciiy. E. B. P. - 150 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARUN. 86. Wanted, ancestry of Sarah, wife 1732, was the eldest daughter and thud

of Samuel Porter of Boxford, Mass., child of Solomon and Mercy (Chaplin) - 1722-1750. J. P. Nelson. Her great-grandfather, Thomas Worcester. Nelson, born in England in 1638, was g7. Wanted, ancestry of Hazadiah brought by his father Thomas to Salem in - Smith of Beverly and his wife Hannah, December of that Year. Thomas, the whose daughter Hannah married Nehe- father, was very prominent in the Settle- miah Porter of Ipswich. J.p. ment of Rowley in the following spring. - Solomon Nelson, the father of Jane, was 88. Wanted, ancestry of Mary Wad- leigh of Exeter, N. H., who married John born in Rowley, but for a few years pre- vious to her birth was a resident and Cram, grandson of the emigrant. J. p. - original settler of that part of Mendon, 89. ancestry Israel 'life Mass., now Hopedale, but returned and ford, jr., I7I3, and of h's settled, in 1730, on what is now Nelson wife Mary Garland. J. P. street, in South Georgetown, on the farm - 90. Wanted, ancestry of Robert Run- where the writer resides. Jane Nel- nells, of Stratham, who married, about son married, about I 750, Williain Chand- I 739, Love Clifford. J. P. ler of Andover, a cousin of Rev. James - gr. Wanted, ancestry of Hannah, Chandler, the first minister of the Con- wife of John Clifford, nlarried about 1730. gregational church in Georgetown. Wil- J. P. liam Chandler was of sedentary pursuits, - and a school teacher in Georgetown a 92. Wanted, ancestry of Ezekiel Hol- man, of Raymond, N. H., who married century and a quarter ago. Late in life Susan Brown about 1758. J. he lived in Salem, and after his death his - 93. Wanted, ancestry of Hepzibah, widow returned to Georgetown, dying of wife of Abraham Howe of Ipswich. He cancer in the house of her brother, Maj. Asa Nelson (the writer's great-grand- - died in I 770. J. P. father), where she was born about seven- ty-eight years before. William, her son, ANSWERS. to whom this query refers, lived in Salem, - Mary Cross, who married Benja- was a goldsmith, and prominent in the 46. Masonic order, but unfortunately addicted min Carrill, in Ipswich, March 3, I 701-2, to the excessive use of intoxicants. Jere- - was daughter of Robert and Martha miah, the only other son, was a soldier of (Treadwell) Cross of Ipswich, a'nd grand- daughter of Robert and Hannah (Jordan) the Revolution, and in service in Penn- sylvania. He outlived the war, but never Cross of the same 'lace. The first returned, settling in that state or in the - ert Cross was born about 1613, and was living in Ipswich as early as 1637. His South, and leaving a wife and family in Row1ey.-Henry M. Nelson, Grorgctown. wife Hannah was daughter of Stephen - Jordan. She died Oct. 29, 1677 ; and Mr. Cross married, secondly, Mary -. THE CHARM OF RESEARCH. Both Mr. Cross and his wife were To weave together the fading dates of - living in 1~97. His sonRobert was born old manuscripts with the traditions that about 1~4'1and died about '7'3. He have survived sleeping generations, until . married Martha Treadwell Feb. 19, 1664. the joy the tears, the quaint speech - She was born arch 16, 1643-4 ;and died and piety, stand out upon the tapes- March 3, 17.38, aged ninet~-three.-Ed. try in the semblance of a living man- 64. See answer to46 above. this gives a pleasure which he only who - 74. Jane Nelson, born in the west has stood at the loom can feel and under- parish of Rowley (now Georgetown) in stand.-Charles KnowZes Bolton.

VOL. I. SALEM,MASS., OCTOBER,I 89 7. No. 10.

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN LYNN.* IN the first settlement of Lynn the bell. It stood in a small hollow, partly people either attended religious services below the surface, having steps leading at Salem or social meetings at farm houses. down to it, causing some persons to de- Among the settlers was Christopher - Hussey, whose wife's father was Rev. Stephen Bachiler. Mr. Bachiler was born in England in 1561, and received orders in the established church. He had acquired a good reputation, when he became dissatisfied with some of the re- ligious ceremonies, and refused to ob- - , serve them. He was then deprived of -. his benefice. Following John Robinson, ~IEETING HOUSE, 1632.1682. he removed with his family and a number scribe it as a basement. This was prob- of his parishioners to Holland, where they ably done to protect it as much as ~ossi- - resided for several years. Returning to ble from cold winds. London, they sailed for New England , After preaching here about four March 9, 1632, and arrived in Boston months, Mr. Bachiler's ways and manners

- June 5th. They at once time to Lynn, became such that he was cited before the and with such other of the inhabitants court, and forbidden to preach any more as chose to join with them they organ- in public in the colony, "till some scan- ~- ized the first church in Lynn, which was dals be removed." He was finally dis- the second in the county. Without in- missed at his own request ; but immedi- stallation, or invitation of the settlers ately renewed the covenant with the six even, Mr. Bachiler entered upon the du- members who came with him, and con- ~- ties of minister. This was all done by tinued his ministrations. The other mem- June 8th, just three days after Mr. Bach- bers complained to the court, which for- iler landed in America; and it indicates bade him proceeding, and later obliged - his vigor at the age of seventy-one. him to leave the town, he having been in Mr. Bachiler immediately began the Lynn about four years in all. He re- construction of a house of worship, which moved, in February, 1636, to Ipswich, - .~ was built probably within the year. It where he had some prospect of settling stood near the northeasterly corner of in the ministry; but some difficulties Shepard and Summer streets, and was arose, and his opportunity was lost. In - about twenty feet square, probably with the rigorous winter of 1637, with some a common pitch roof, without cupola. or of his friends, he went on foot to Yar- mouth, about a hundred miles distant, 'In the preparation of this sketch the editor has been greatly assisted by Mr. Franklin Bach- for the purpose of planting a town and eller, of Lynn, who is better acquainted with establishing a church, but difficulties the history of this church than any other person. again forbade. He then returned, and took 152 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. I up his abode in Newbury. Sept. 6.1638, remained as colleague with Mr. Whiting the general court gave him liberty to settle nineteen years, Mr. Whiting being the Winnecunnet, now Hampton, N. H. He pastor and Mr. Cobbett the teacher. In removed thither the following summer, 1656 Mr. Cobbett relinquished his con- the six church members that had come nection with the Lynn church, and re- from England with him accompanying moved to Ipsrvich, where he afterward him. The town was planted, and a church preached twenty-nine years. He died gathered, Mr. Bachiler becoming the there Nov. 5, 1685. He possessed good minister. He soon had trouble with the abilities, and wrote more books than any church, and was dismissed. He returned other of the early ministers of New Eng- to England in 165 1 ; and died at Hack- land. He preached the election sermon ney, near London, in 1660, in his hun- in 1649 and 1666. He was a devout dredth year. He was a man of educa- man, and fervent in prayer. tion, strong will and quick temper. Mr. Whiting was greatly relieved of Mr. Bachiler's successor was Rev. Sam- the care of temporal things by his dis- uel Whiting, son of Sir John Whiting, creet and frugal wife. She wasa sister of mayor of old Boston, I,incolnshire, Eng- Oliver St. John, chief-justice of England land, where he was born Nov. 20, 1597. during the common\~ealth,and Oliver He graduated at Emanuel college in Cronlwell was her own cousin. Mr. 1616, receiving the degree of A. M. in Whiting lived nearly opposite the meet- 1620, and subsequently that of D. D., ing house on Shepard street, and both and took orders in the Church of Eng- himself and wife lie buried in the old land soon after his graduation, becoming cemetery. They did all they could to chaplain in a family in Norfolk. After refine the manners and tastes and elevate three years he became colleague to the the condition of every class, and to ad- rector in Lynn Regis. He remained vance all material interests. Mr. Whiting there three years, and then became a was a man of innate goodness and per- non-conformist, subjecting hi~nselfto the sonal control, being noted for his pa- censure of the bishop of Norwich. He tience. His style of preaching was mild was induced to resign, and remove to the and persuasive, though ardent; and his parish of Skirbick, near his native place, countenance was always illumined with where he again came under censure for a smile. He was a man of learning, ' the same cause. In 1636 his situation being an excellent Hebrew scholar, and . became so uncomfortable that he re- the author of several books. He died signed, and emigrated to America, arriv- Dec. 11, 1679, at the age of eighty-two, ing at Boston May 26th of the same year. and after a ministry in Lynn of forty- Nov. 8th following, at the age of thirty- three years. nine, he was insta!led over the church at The next pastor was Rev. Jeremiah Lynn, then consisting of only six members. Shepard, of Cambridge, Mass., son of The next year Rev. Thomas Cobbett, " the gracious " Rev. Thomas Shepard who had been a friend of air. Whiting of Cambridge, formerly of Towcester, in England, was made his colleague. Mr. England. He was born in Cambridge Cobbett was born in Newbury, England, Aug. I I, I 648 ; graduated at Harvard of poor parents, in 1608. He entered college in 1669 ; and preached, first, in Oxford college, but left during the great Ronrley, from 1673 to 1677, and then ill sickness of 1625, and became a pupil of Chebacco parish, in Ipswich, where he Doctor Twiss in his native town. He remained a year or two. He came to became a minister of the Established Lynn to preach for Mr. Whiting during Church, but, after suffering for non-con- his illness in 1679 ; and after Mr. Whit- forming opinions, emigrated to New ing's decease was ordained pastor of the England, arriving May 26, 1637. He church, Oct. 6 1680. Rev. Joseph HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN LYNN. I53 Whiting, son of his predecessor, was also The new meeting house, known as the installed as his colleague on the same day. Old Tunnel," because of the likeness He graduated at Harvard college in 166 I. of its roof to an inverted cone, stood on The next year after his installation he re- the common, about a hundred feet west moved to Southampton, L. I. of Whiting street, in front of the present The little old meeting house as it was residence of Doctor Holbrook. It was nearing its fiftieth year was becoming too forty-four by fifty feet. It had folding small for the increasing congregation. In doors on three sides, without porches ; it, probably, town meetings had always and the top of each door mas formed into been held ; and in 1641 the town voted two semi-circular arches. The windows that the meeting house be used as a watch- consisted of diamond-shaped panes set house. The erection of a new building in lead. In the northeast corner of the was contemplated soon after the settle- gallery was the negro pew." The pul- ment of Mr. Shepard. It was erected in pit was large enough to seat ten persons. 1682 ; and the old building was sold and The floor was at first supplied with seats,

THE ALLEY HOUSE, SEA STREET. removed entire to the northwest corner of then from time to time, as the town gave Sea and Market streets, fronting on Sea permission, pews mere built by individu- street, where it was at that time or sub- als, who were left to their own devices as sequently raised and added to at the end, to material, style and position. After a together with a leanto in the rear. This while the effect was extraordinary. Some thus became the house in which the late of the pews were square, others oblong, Timothy Alley lived and died. The house some of oak, others of pine, some were was afterward removed to the northerly large and some small. Galleries were on side of Harbor street ; and after being a three sides, supported by six oak col- tenement house for many years was taken umns, and guarded by a turned balus- down in April, 1896. The old church trade, and reached by two flights of was the chamber at the right-hand of stairs, one in each corner. Overhead it the picture, running to the left as far as was unceiled for many years, and exhib- the door. ited enormous beams of oak traversing I54 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. the roof in all directions. A small bell thusiasm or innovation, and having pe- swung in the little tower, and was rung by culiar notions of ministerial rights and a rope in the centre of the meeting house duties. Under his charge the church floor. This bell was sent to England in membership ran down to eighteen. Af- 1699, in exchange for a new one. In ter a service of forty-one years, Mr. 1816 another bell was obtained of Paul Henchman died at his house on North Revere and Sons. In I 7 I 6 porches mere Common street Dec. 23,1761, at the age added to the doors, and a curiously of sixty-one. carved and paneled oak pulpit was im- ported from England. Town meetings were held in this building until 1805. Mr. Shepard resided at first in Shep- ard street, and afterward built a house, which was burned, on the north side of the common, between hfall and Park streets. He was a plain, honest man, of unvaried piety, and was indefatigable in his exertions for the spiritual welfare of his people, as well as for their temporal prosperity. He was much interested in public affairs, an excited Ieader of the people of Lynn against Andros, and a member of the general court in 1689, upon the resumption of the old colonial government. He was successful in his ministry, which continued in Lynn for forty years. He 'died June 3, 1720, aged seventy-two; and his death was deeply mourned. Up to this time this was the only church in Lynn, the Lynnfield parish being the first to be set off. Mr. Shepard's successor was Rev. Nathaniel Henchman of Boston. He His successor was Rev. John Tread- was son of Nathaniel Henchman, a book- well, who was born in Ipswich, Mass., binder, and deacon of a church in Bos- Sept. 20, 1738, and graduated at Harvard ton, where Nathaniel was born Nov. 22, college in 1758. He was ordained over 1700. He graduated at Harvard col- this church March z, I 763. hlr. Tread- lege in I 7 I 7 ; and was ordained over this well had genial manners, and he de- church in December, 1720, at the age of lighted to indulge in pleasantry, being twenty. He resided on North Common possessed of considerable wit. He was a street, between Mall and Park streets, lover of New England, and of its govern- and in 1855 his house (which he built) ment, and upon the general recommen- was removed to Park street, a few rods dation of the provincial congress in June, south of the brook. He was genial in 1775, he always carried his musket and his manners, and a man of extensive military accoutrements into the pulpit on learning, of integrity and virtue. He Sundays and other days of religious early secured the esteem and confidence worship. He resigned his pastorate in of his people ; though, being strongly 1782, after nineteen years of service, attached to regularity and order, and dis- and, returning to his native town, taught inclined to entertain any species of en- school there for two years, subsequently ' HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE: FIRST CHURCH IN LYNN. 755 removing to Salem, where he became a pleasing manners. He resided in Lynn state senator, and judge of the court of in the Lindsay house on South Common common pleas, and died Jan. 5, 181 I. street, which occupied the site of the The next pastor was Rev. Obadiah present State armory. Parsons, who was born in Gloucester Mr. Parsons' successor was Rev. Thom- April 5, I 747, and graduated at Harvard as Cushing Thacher, son of Rev. Peter college in 1768. He was at first pastor Thacher, minister of the Brattle street of the Squam parish in his native town, church in Boston. He'was born in Mal- and was settled over the church in Lynn den Oct. I I, I 77 I ; graduated at Harvard Feb. 4, I 784. In I 797, the deacons and college in I 790 ; and installed Aug. 13, some other members of the church joined I 794. He was affable in his social rela- the Methodist church, carrying with tions, though inclined to asperity in his them the communion plate, which was controversial writings, and was well subsequently returned. The church was esteemed by his people. After a service thus reduced to three male members. in Lynn of nineteen years, he was dis- One deacon and some others came back missed Feb. 3, 1813, and he removed to three years later. Mr. Parsons left Cambridge, where he died Sept. 24, Gloucester on account of charges of im- 1849, at the age of seventy-seven. The next minister was Rev. Isaac Hurd of Charlestown, where he was born in December, 1785. He graduated at Harvard college in 1806, and was or- dained over this church Sept. 15, 1813. His religious views were inclined toward Unitarianism, and soon the church was similarly affected by his preaching. Its condition became so low that, at the time of his dismissal, May 22, r 816, the mat- ter of disbanding was agitated. He re- moved to Exeter, N. H., and was there installed over the Second church Sept. I I, I 8 I 7, remaining there till his death, Oct. 4, 1856, at the age of seventy. Mr. Hurd'~successor was Rev. Otis Rockwood, who was ordained July I, 1818. In him the church secured a sound Trinitarian preacher of the high Calvinist type ; firm in his faith and de- nominational attachments ; being an ear- nest man, ardently interested in educa- tion, and sound -rather than brilliant, though always popular. morality against him ; and some scandals In the spring of 1827, the "Old Tun- in Lynn hastened his removal from the nel " meeting house was taken down, and church here. He was dismissed July 16, reerected, with changed form and a 1792, after a service in Lynn of eight steeple, on the southerly corner of South years. He returned to Gloucester, where Cominon and Commercial streets. The he subsequently taught school, is he had new building was dedicated Oct. 17, done at Lynn while preaching there, and 1827. died in December, 1801. He was a Mr. Rockwood was dismissed May 12, man of talent and learning, and possessed 1832. 156 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. The next minister was Rev. David Pea- Century of its Opposite," and other body, who was ordained Nov. IS, 1832 ; books; and for twenty years was editor of and dismissed April 22, 1835. " The Puritan," a religious and secular Mr. Peabody was succeeded by Rev. newspaper, published first in Lynn, and Parsons Cooke, who was born in Hadley, subsequently in Boston. His literary Mass., Feb. 18, 1800, being son of style was that known as "elegant ;" his Solomon Cooke, a farmer. He graduated sentences being terse and concise. He at Williams college in 1822 ; an11 subse- was tall and symmetrical in form. His quently received the degree of D. D. appearance in the pulpit was dignified; He was installed over the East Evangeli- and his delivery rapid, in a high tone, and cal church at Ware in June, 1826, and re- with little intonation. He was industrious mained there till April, 1835, when he ant1 faithful, though he did little parish accepted a work. His call to Ports- sedentary mouth, N. H., habits occa- where he sioned a long stayed six and painful months. He illness, of then came to which he Lynn, and died, in Lynn, was installed Feb. I z,r 864, May 4, 1836. at the age of After Mr. sixty-t h r e e . Cooke's in- His n~inistry stallation, the was success- society at ful; and his once began a parishio n r r s new house of were strongly worship on attached t o the eastern him. His por- corner of trait here pre- Vine and sented was South Com- made from a mon streets, photog r a p h where their taken about present church three ye a r s' stands. The before his new church REV. PARSONS COOKE, D. D. death. In the was dedicated sorrow of Feb. I, 1837. The old one was sold to his widow, consequent upon his death, the Second Universalist society, who have she wrote tile well-known hymn, entitled, occupied it as a church ever since. " The Lord will provide." Dr. Cooke was a high Calvinist and "In some way or other, loved controversy; was a man of quick The Lord will provide ; perceptions and good reasoning powers, It ]nay not be 91ry way and rapidly arrived at conclusion^, which It may not be thy way he held tenaciously, and not always with And yet, in his ozo?r way The Lord will provide." .gentleness toward those who differed from him. He had an abundance of natural During Dr. Cookers last sickness and wit, which often became sarcastic. He the year follo\ving his death the pulpit wrote "A Century of Puritanism and a was supplied by Rev. George E. Allen. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE REVOLUTION. '57 The next settled pastor was Rev. James The next pastor was Rev. John Olaf M. Whiton, who was ordained May 10, Haawig, who was installed Oct. 24, 1865. He was dismissed April 13, 1869, I 893, and dismissed in I 895. and subsequently became pastor of the His successor is the present pastor, North church. Rev. William C. Merrill, who entered up- Then the pulpit was supplied by Rev. on his work here March 22, 1896. Joseph Cook, the pungent and famous lecturer, in 1870 and 1871 ; and by Rev. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE J. R. Danforth in 1872. REVOLUTION. Corrtinue

PRESENT CHURCH EDIFICE. LEMUELALLEN of Lynn; serg., Capt. David Parker's (1st) co., which marched On Christmas day 1870, the church on alarm of April 19, I 7 75, to Concord ; was burned, and the present edifice was service, z dys. ; also, ad it., Capt. John erected, being dedicated Aug. 29, Pool's (ad) co., 1st Essex co. reg..; list 1872. of officers of Mass. militia ;commissioned The next settled minister was Rev. April 26, 1776. Stephen R. Dennen, who was installed MARK ALLEN of Gloucester; priv., Nov. 13, 1872. He was dismissed Capt. Barnabas Dodge's co., Col. Ger- March 29, 1875. rish's (later Baldwin's) 38th reg. ; mus- His successor, Rev. Walter Barton, was ter roll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; enl. May 22, installed Feb. 24, 1876, and dismissed 1775 ; service, 10 weeks, I dy.; also, co. Feb. 19, 1854, removing to Attleboro'. return dated Camp at Chelsea, Oct. 2, The next pastor was Rev. Frank J. I 775 ; also, order for bounty coat dated Mundy, who was installed Dec. 4, 1884, Chelsea, Dec. 27, 1775. and dismissed April 2, I 889. E\TATHANIEL COIT ALLENof Cape Ann ; His successor was Rev. James B. Dunn, priv., Capt. Henry Prentiss' co., Col. who served from Sept. I, 1859, to July Thomas hlarshall's reg. ; enl. hlay I 6, 24, 1892. 1776;dis. Dec. I, 1776. 158 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. NEHEMIAHALLEN of Manchester ;priv., ceipt for wages dated Long Island, June Capt. Joseph Whipple's co. ; enl. July 13, g and July 14, I 776; also, pay abstract 1775; dis. Dec. 31, 1775; service, 6 for equipments, etc., dated Prospect Hill, rnos., 3 dys. ;co. stationed at Manchester '776. and Gloucester ;also, Capt. Daniel War- WILLIAMALLEN of Cape Ann ; seaman, ner's (1st) co. ;pay rolls for service from brigantine " Defence," commanded by May 31, I 776, to Dec. 31, 1776, 7 mos. ; Capt. John Edmonds ; descriptive list of stationed at Gloucester. officers and crew, dated July 21, 17 81 ; SOLOMONALLEN of Gloucester ; priv. stature, 5 ft., 10 in. ; complexion, dark. Capt. Abraham Dodge's co., Col. Moses ZERUBBABELALLEN of Gloucester ;priv., Little's (I zth) reg. ; muster roll dated Capt. Nathaniel Warner's co., Col. Moses April 24, 1776; en]. Feb. g. 1776. Little's (I 7th) reg. ; muster roll dated SOLOMONALLEN of Rowley ;descriptive Aug. I, I 775 ; enl. May 4, 1775 ;service, list of men raised to reinforce Continen- 3 rnos., 5 dys. ; also, co. return [proba- tal Army for 6 mos., agreeable to resolve bly Oct., I 7751 ; age, I 7 yrs. ; also, order of June 5, 1780; age, 21 yrs.; stature, 5 for bounty coat dated Prospect Hill, ft., 8 in. ; complexion, light ; arrived at NOV.25, 1775. Springfield July 10, I 780 ; marched to SAMUELALLENWOOD of Cape Ann ; de- camp July 11, 1780, under command of scriptive list of enl. men; Capt. Child's Capt. George Webb. co. ; age, 29 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., 6 in. ; THOMASALLEN of Marblehead ; Capt. complexion, light ; hair, dark ; occupa- Joel Smith's co., Col. John Glover's reg. ; tion, mariner; rank, priv.; enl. Jan. I, receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, 1777 ; joined Capt. Edes'co., Col. Henry July 28, 1775 ; also, priv.; muster roll Jackson's reg. ; enl., during war; also, dated Aug. I, 1775 ; en]. May 27, 1775 ; priv., Lt.-col.'s co., Col. James Wesson's service, I mo., g dys.; reported, killed reg. ; Continental Army pay accounts June 17, 1775 ; also, order for bounty for senrice from Jan. I, I 780, to Dec. 3 I, coat dated Camp at Cambridge, Dec. 30, I 780 ; also, Capt. Watson's (light infan- 1775. try) co., Col. Wesson's (9th) reg. ; return THOMASALLEN of Gloucester ; corp., of clothing for I 780; reported, taken Capt. Nicholas Blasdel's co., Col. Wig- prisoner Dec. 28 [year not given]. glesworth's reg.; pay abstract for travel ABXER ALLEYof Lynn; priv., Capt. allowance from Albany home, in I 776. William Farrington's (2d) co., which THOMASALLEN of Salem; boy, brig marched on alarm of April 19, I 775, to " Union " (privateer), commanded by Concord; service, 2 dys. Capt. Jonathan Gardner ; descriptive list EPHRAIA~ALLEY of Lynn ; list of men of officers and crew, dated Nov. 3, I 780, who served as privates at Concord battle age, 15 yrs.; stature, 4 ft., 5 in. ; com- and elsewhere, belonging to Lynn, now plexion, light. called Lynn, Lynnfield and Saugus ; also, THOMASALLEN, JR., of Marblehead ; nlatross, Capt. Jonathan \V. Edes' (4th) priv., Capt. Joel Smith's co., Col. John co., Col. Thomas Crafts' (artillery) reg. ; Glover's reg. ; muster roll dated Aug. I, enl. May 20, 1776 ; dis. Aug. I, I 776 ; 1775 ; enl. May 22, 1775 ; service, 2 service, 2 rnos., 16 dys. mos., 14 dys.; also, receipt for advance JAMES ALLEY of Lynn; priv., Capt. pay dated Cambridge, July 28, 1775 ; Joseph Hiller's co., Col. Jonathan Tit- also, co. return [probably Oct., 17751 ; comb's reg. ; enl. May 5, 1777 ; dis., reported, transported to a privateer. July 5, 1777 ; service, 2 mos., 6 dys., WILLIAMALLEN of Gloucester ; priv., on an alarm at Rhode Island. Roll Capt. Nathaniel Wade's co., Col. Moses dated Providence, R. I. Little's (12th) reg. ; enl. Jan. I, I 776 ; reported, died Sept. 8, I 776 ; also, re- WILL OF Rot 3ERT MUZZEY. I59 OUR FATHERS' WILLS. my wife a morter bell mettle ikillett an Our fathers in the olden time iron pott & pott hangers a Coltrell or Once in a lifetime made tramell & a braffe kettle during her wid- Their wishes manifest by wills, dowhood moreover I give her two Ewe Thorough and strong and staid. goates only willing if they profp fie give They acknowledged faith in Christ two Ewe-goates to my daughter Mary I And hope to rise again, alfoe give her the biggeft cheft but not to Requesting Christian burial, Decent, proper and plain. be carried out of my howfe alfoe the table but both to be ftanding in the howfe Then fixed the widow's support Till she remarried be, for my daughter Mary afterward : And Appointed the lands to sons as for fuch things as fhe brought with her And men to oversee. I leave them wholly wthout any inter- Salem. meddling therewith. Item I bequeath to Jofeph my eldeft fonne my farme wth all WILL OF ROBERT MUZZEY. the apprtances belonging vnto it lying on The will of Robert hfuzzey of Ipswich the other fide of Egipt river only re- was proved May 16, 1644. The follow- fenring a peece of land called the Cowleas ing copy is taken from the record con- and a peece of meadow adioying to it tained in Ipswich Deeds, volume I, leaf called the rocky meadowes all which may 40, the original being missing. containe Twenty acres Alfoe I give to Menfisvndecimi fen Januarij so A D I 642. him my mulkett Sr what belongs to it I Robert Muffy of the Towne of Alfoe I give to him foure pewter platters Ipfwich in New England expecting my And a felling axe two dubble hookes and change approaching though at p'fent of my biggeft fowling peece alfoe a firepan firme memory & vnderftanding And de- & tongs. And one bed & a paire of firing feafonably to fett in order my fheets a couerlett & a blankett the fecond eftate of earthly goods that the lord hath biggeft cheft alfoe a paire of cobirons and gracioufly given me doe thus difpofe a plowchaine & a fpitt & three wedges & thereof in particulars as follow : ffirft I a warming pan two narrow howes & one give & bequeath vnto Bridgett my wife filver fpoone Alfoe I give vnto him my the howfe & howflott that lyes in the dun mare, one diap napkin & two hollan weft ftreet of the Towne neare ioyning to napkins one of the beft hollan pillow- the howfe of John Dane the elder wtl" the ,beeres all which I give to him & his heires out howfen ptainyng vnto it during for ever. Item 1 give vnto my fonne her life, and fhe to keepe it in fufficient Beniamin the Cowleas & the Rocky repayring But the comonage ptayning to meadowe both adioyning to my farme to my howfe & land I leave to be divided alfoe a peece of land which was fore- betwixt my wife & children according to menconed to be my wives during the the difcretion of my overfeers Alfoe the tyme of her widdowes eftate & noe longer free vfe of a peece of land that I bought that I bought of John Newman containyng latly of John Newman which of the the quantity of fix acres whether more or quantity of fix acres whether more or leffe that I give to my fonne Beniamin leffe ioyning to my farme on the fouth after her widdowhood likwife two filv ride of it at Egipt River and this for the ipoones alfoe a Cowple of young fteers terme of her widdowes eftate. Likewife and one flock bed a paire of fheets a cover- I give vnto her one of the bedds that I lett alfoe two hollan napkins & one hollan lye vpon (which fie fhall like beft) the pillowbeere foure pewters platters & a rugg one paire of blanketts and one paire felling axe. Item I give to my daughter of fheets one pillow & bowlfter & two Mary the howfe & howlott that lyes in the pillowbeeres to inioye them for the tyme weft ftreet of the Towne neare adioyning of her widdowhood. I likwife give vnto to the houfe of John Dane the elder with 160 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. the out howfen ptaining vnto it after the pofe thereof equally amonge my three death of my wife. Alfoe I give vnto her leafr children foure cowes prfently after my deceafe alfoe In wittnes hereof I fett my hande & a bull & a Cow calfe & foure ewe goates feale the day & yeare above written. all there pTfently after my deceafe to be in the pTfence of imployed for her beft benefit I give her John Daine alfoe my beft bible a great braffe pan to Humphry Bradftreet Robert Muzzall be referved for her till fhe comes to William Norton his mark. yeares alfoe a iilver fpoone alfoe a paire ffrancis Dane. of the beft fheets & two diap napkins Item I give & bequeath vnto Jofeph foure peuter platters the broad box with my eldeft fonne one yoake of two yearl- all her mothers wearing linen. Item I ing fteers with my beft yoake & a chaine give to my daughter Ellen a dripping pan with my cart & plough Alfoe I give a braffe candleftick a braffe fkillett & a vnto him my dun mare Alfoe I give spitt Alfoe I give vnto my daughter vnto him my grug axe alioe I give to my Ellen one yoak of oxen. Item I give to fonne Joseph one fpade & ihovell the vfe of the poore one Ewe goate to be Alfoe I give vnto him three bills alfoe I difpofed of by the overfeers of my will to give vnto him one yoake & a chayne al- fuch as are godly onely the firft yeares vfe foe 1 give vnto him my hand fawe a long I appoynt to my brother Dane the elder faw alfoe I give vnto him the practice jf fhe brings kidds or elfe longer and of piety alfoe I give vnto him my little when the goat growes old I will that one hamer Alfoe I give vnto him my pef- of the yonge ones be referved for fuch a terili fhott mould alfoe a pitchforke alfoe vfe. I likwife intreate & appoynt mr. a draught fhave and a hatchett alfoe a Bradftreet mT. Dumer mr. Rogers & mT. fword & a fowling peece. Alfoe I give Norton overfeers of this my will to fee vnto my fonne Jofeph mr. Preftons the fame faithfully pformed & leave what works I alfoe give to him my beft ham- is doubtfull & defective by them to be mer alfoe I give vnto my fonne Joseph ordered & difpofed morover I defire mr. 2 S bullett moulds afoe I give to him Dumer to take Jofeph mT. Norton to take my horie booke alfoe a pitchforke alfoe Beniamine & my daughter Mary if it I give to him my phizike booke I give pleafeth him when the overfeers fhall to him my broad axe & frow alfoe I give ioyntly fee meet to take them from my to him a fword & a fowling peece Alfoe wife my mill likewife & meaning is that I give to my daughter Mary mT. Down- the ftock which I give to my children hams works & mT. Dods works Alfoe I fevally fhalbe in the hands & vie of each give to her my great butter churne alfoe of thofe freinds that take them into their I give vnto her the fecond beft gowne & governmt giving affurance for the payment a greene waftcote with all her owne thereof vnto my children when they fhall mothers wearing linen And I give to come to convenient age as to my two my daughter Mary foure of the beft ewe fonnes when they come to the age of one goats &a ram. Alfoe I give to my wife & twenty yeares & my daughter Mary Bridget one of my formr wives beft at the age of eighteene yeares and for any gownes and two of the beft petticotes. addicon to be made to the pTfent ftock I And I give vnto my two fonnes Jofeph leave it to the good will of thofe my &Benjamin all my wearing cloathes & my frends on whom I repofe the truft of their bootes & ftockins and fhoes. educacon. ffineally I appoynt Bridgett 18'" of this firft month 1643. my wife the fole executrix of this my laft My will is that whereas I gave vnto my will & teftament And after all this what wife two ewe goates that now fhe fhall ever my overfeers fhall fee remaining have in the lieu of them one milch cowe meet to be divided I will that they dif- vntill the tyme of her death and after her ABORN (

deceafe to returne to my daughter Mary. 6--v. REBECCA?,bapt. 23: I: 1651, in First Item my will is that whereas I gave to my Church, Salem; m. Thomas Bell 10: ro: 1680 ; and was living in Salem in two fonnes Jofeph & Beniamin either 1699. of them a pillow-beere now my will is 7-VI. HANNAH~,m. Joseph Houlton of Salem that my daughter Mary fhould have them Village before 1699; he d., 1732; and Item whereas I gave to my daughter El- she d., 1743. 8-VII. SARAH*,bapt. 15: 4: 1656, in First len a yoke of oxen now my will is that my Church, Salem; m. Benjamin Horne eldeft fonne Joieph fhould have them & (or Orne) before 1699 ; and was living that he in coniideracon of them after the in 1713. terme of feven yeares after my deceafe 2 hall pay vnto my daughter Ellen fixteene SAMUELABORN~, born in Salem (?) pound in Cuntry paye Item whereas I about 1639. He was .a yeoman, and gave vnto my daughter Mary foure Cowes lived in Salem. His will is dated April & a Bull now my will is that fhe fnall 18, 1720; ant1 it was proved June 29, have two cowes one bull Sr three yearl- 1721. He married Susanna Trask of ing heffers & one two yearling heffer. Salem Feb. 19, 1663-4. Thefe alteracons vnder tbe date of the Children, born in Salem :- 18'~of ye firft month 1643 were made 9-1. SAIIUEL~,b. July I, 1664; was living & written by the appoyntment of Robert in Salem in I 728 ; husbandman. Muffy being of pfect memory witneffed lo--11. WILLIA~I~,b. Jan. Ig, 1666-7. See by vs whofe names @reherevnder written below (lo). 11-111. SUSAXXA"b. April (first week), 1669; Robert Payne d. Aug. -, 1669. John whipple. 12-rv. SARAH:',nl. William Coffin of Salem be- fore 1720 ; he d. before r 726 ;and she survived him, living in Salem. ABORN CENEALOGY. ' 13-v Susnxx~",m. John Bakerbetween 1708 and r 720 ; lived in the Danvers part of The name of Aborn is variously spelled Salem ; he d. before 1728. in the early records as Aberne, Aberon, Abon, A60772, Abo~iie,(Ibour?~, Aboz~r~ze, Adron, Aburn, -4b1irne, Eaborn, Eaborne, MOSES BORN^, born in 1645-6 (?); Eaboum, Eabourne, Eabuvn, Eaburne, baptized in First Church, Salem, 6 : 6 : Ebborn, Ebborne, Eborn, Eborne, 1648. He was a husbandman; and lived. Ebourn, and Eboumr. in Marblehead in 1666-7, and then in SAMUELABORN' was an errly settler of Salem until about 1678, when he removed Salem Village. He was born about 161I ; to Lynn, where he afterward lived. He made a freeman in 1665 ; and died in married, first, Sarah Haines, g : 7 mo : the winter of 1699-1700, his will being 1671. She died in Salem I : g mo : dated July 20, 1699, and not allowed, but 1676 ; and he married, second, Abigail administration granted on his estate Feb. Gilbert of Ipswich, who was living in 5, 1699-1700. He married Catherine 1723. Mr. Aborn made his will May 8, Smith of Marblehead, who survived him, 1723, "being stricken in years "; and it and was living in I 701. was proved Feb. 17, I 735-6. Children :- Children :- 2-1. SAMUEL~,b. about 1639; eldest son. 14-1. hlos~s~,b. 14: 12: 1672-3, in Salem. See drlozu (2). See below (14). 3-11. JOSEPH^ ; husbandman ; living in Salem, 15-11. J0SEpH3, b. 24: 2: 1674, in Salem. 1704, 1708. See 6rlo:o (15). 4-111. MOSES*, b. in 1645-6; bapt. 6: 6: 1648, 16--111. SARAH~,b. 26: 8: 1676, in Salem; m. in First Church, Salem. See below (4). George Flint April 1I, 1718. 5-IV. MARY^, bapt. 6:6: 1648, in First Church, 17-IV. ABIGAIL~,b. May 7, 1680, in Lynn; Salem; m. Dr. George Jackson before m. Raham Bancroft of Lynn (pub. 1699 ; and was living in Marblehead in Nov. 2, 1717); and was his widow 1706-7. in 1723. 162 THE ESSEX A NTIQUARIAN.

18-4. TH0MAs3, b. Jan. 26, 1682, in Lynn; town from I 7 r 5 to I 7 I 7. Administration living in 1723; and probably d., un- was granted on his estate March 26, 1722. married, before 1760. 19--VI. HANNAH=,b. Aug. 26,1684, in Lynn ; He married Union --; and both hirn- m. Edward Twiss of Salem Feb. 3, self and wife had lately died of small 1708-9; he was a husbandman ; and pox, leaving three small children, in 1722. lived in Billerica in 1737. Children :- 20-VII. MARY: b. April 19, 1686, in Lynn; 26-1. UNION',m. John Welman of Lynn m. Daniel Twiss of Salem Dec. 22, 17x4; and was living in 1723. (pub. Jan. 3, 1730-1). 27-11. ABIGAIL',living in 1723. 21-VIII. JAMES',b. April 21, 1688, in Lynn; 28-111. HANNAH',pub. to Eliphalet Manning cooper ; lived in Salem in I 71 I, in of Tewksbury Dec. 28, 1740. Marblehead in 1711-2, and in Lynn in 1715; and probably died before '723. 2 7 22-IX. JOHN=, b. April 17, 1690, in Lynn. SAMUELABORN~, born in Lynn March -See 6elmu it,?\. 19, 1692. He was a husbandman, and 23-X. SAMIJEL3, b.'~irch19, 1692, in Lynn. See 6elo:u (23). in I 744 is called a shepherd. He lived 24-XI. EBENEZER',b. Jan. 31, 1694, in Lynn. in Salem, I 733, '4, '9, '44, (of Lynn, fish- See 6rfow (24). erman, 1734). He married, first, Martha 10 Bancroft of Lynn Oct. 29, 1720. He WILLIAMABORN~, born in Salem Jan. married, second, Sarah Needham of Salem 19, 1666-7. He was living in Salem in (pub. Sept. 25, I 731). Children :- 1720. He married Sarah --, who was 29--I. JOHN',~ ~~ bapt. Sept. -, 1722, in Lynn- living in I 720. field. Children :- 30-11. SAMUEL',bapt. June 4, 1727, in First 25-1. SAMUEL'.See Geloru (25). Church in Salem. 31-111. SARAH',bapt. April 8, 1733, in Pea- I4 body. MOSESABORN~, born in Salem 14 : 12 : 32-IV. JANE',bapt. Nov. 17,1134,in Peabody. 33-v. SUSANNA',bapt. Dec. Ig, 1736, in Pea- 1672-3. He was a yeoman, and lived in body. the Danvers part of Salem. He made his 34-VI. WILLIAM', bapt. May 13, 1739, in will Jan. 10, 1753, being "advanced in Peabody. years " ; and it was proved Nov. I, I 756. 24 He married Mary Tarbox of Lynn (pub. EBENEZERABORN~, born in Lynn Jan. March 7, 175.2)~who married, secondly, 31, 1694. He was a yeoman, and lived Robert Howard of Reading (pub. July I, in Lynn. His will, dated Sept. 4, I 778, 1757). was proved Oct. 5, I 778. He married, '5 first, -- ,. and, second, Margaret JOSEPH ABORN~,born in Salem 24 : 2 : Moulton of Lynn July 7, 1734. She was I 6 74. He was a husbandman ; and lived living in I 778. first in Lynn, and subsequently in Mar- Children :- blehead. He was living in Lynnin 1708. 35-1. JAMES',bapt. July -, 1722, in Lynn- Administration was granted on his estate field. 36-11. BENJAMIN',non co?npos meitfis; was Dec. 27, 171 I. He married Elizabeth living in Lynnfield in 1798. -(perhaps widow of Thomas Roades 37-111. EBENEZER',bapt. March 22, 1724, in of Marblehead), who survived him. Lynnfield. See below (37). 38-IV. JO~EPH',bapt. Sept. 26,1725,in Lynn- 22 field. See lefow (38). JOHNABORN~, born in Lynn April I 7, 39--v JOHN', bapt. April g, 1727, in Lynn- 1690. He was the miller in the South field. See below (39). mill in Salem, where he resided, and was 2 5 by trade a ship-carpenter. He also lived SAMUELARORN~ born in Salem. He in Marblehead in 171 I, and in Charles- was a husbandman ; and lived ill Salem (in ABORN GENEALOGY. '63

Danvers part in I 759). He had ten ne- 51-11. J-~MEs',bapt. Dee. 9, 1759; m. Han- groes at his decease, which were lost to nah Dove March 21, 1771 ; lived in Marblehead i joiner and cabinet mak- the estate by emancipation. His will, er; she d., h~swife, at Marblehead, dated July I 2, I 771, was proved June I, Dec. 10, 1810. I 772. He married, first, Jane Pickering 52-111. ABIGAIL', bapt. Dee. 9, 1759; m. Dr. July I 7, I 723 ; second, Margaret Massey Thomas Swain of Reading before I 778 ; he d. in 1780, and she was liv- Sept. 30, 1742. His wife Margaret sur- ing in Reading in 1782. vived him, and was living in 1800. 53-Iv. JOSEPH', bapt. Dec. g, 1759; lived first Children :- in Danvers, and subsequently in 40-1. 40-1. JOSEPH', b. April 10, 1726, in Salem. Lynnfield; yeoman ;m. Sarah Silver See below (go). of Danvers July 17, 1777; and was 41-11. SAMUEL~,bapt. June 23, 1728, in First living in 1785. Church, Salem; lived in Salem ; bus- 54-v LYDIA", bapt. Dec. 9, 1759; m.- bandman ; and d. between I 790 and Mungel of Salem ; and was a widow 18oo ; administration granted on his in 1782. estate March 31, 1801; was prob- 55-V' ~~ARY',bapt. hlay 11, 1760; m. Joseph ably unmarried. Thomson of Salem, mariner; and 42-111. SusANNA5, m. -Troflater before was living in 1782. 1771; he d. before 1774; and he was living in 1801. 39 43-IV. JANE5, m. William Dowst June 23, DR. JOHN ARORN~baptized in Lynn- 1754; and was living in 1773. field April 9, I 727. was a physician ; 44-v. SARAH, m. Robert Stone of Danvers He (pub.Sept. 16, 1752); and was liv. and lived in Lynn- He died N0v. 8, ingin 1774 He was a fisherman. 1768. He married Rebecca Bancroft 3 7 Nov. 22, 1758. She survived him, and EBENEZERABORN~, baptized in Lynn- married, secondly, Thomas (?) Dodge in 1773. June 20, field March 22, 1724. He was a yeoman, or before She died 1798, and lived in Lynnfield. His will, dated aged sixty-four. Children, born in Lynn :- March 12, 1789, was proved April 12, 56-1. JOHN",b. Aug. 5, 1761; d. in Lynn 1792. He married Mary Goodale of March 2, 1769. Danvers Nov. 9, 1752. 57-11. SAMUEL~,b. Jan. 27, 1764; yeoman; Children, born in Lynn :- deacon ; lived in Lynnfield ; m. Mary 45-1. MARY^, b. Oct 25, 1754; m. -- Flint of Danvers (pub. March 6, Butler; and was living in 1789. 1788) ; he d. in Lynn May 19,1844 ; 46-1 I. EBENE~ER~,b. April 16, 1756 ; served and she d. there h'ov. 28, 1851, aged on the ship Jzrrziur Bruttis in Revo- eighty-one. v olution in 1780; m. Catherine Jen- 58-111. REBECCA',b. NOV.4, 1766; m. James nesey of Salem Dec. 18, 1777. They Gould of Reading in 1786. were alive in 1789. 59-Iv. EL~~ABETH',b. Dec. g, 1768; d. July 47-Ill. AARON', b.Oct. I, 1757. See6elow(g7). 2, 1770. 48-IV. JAME~~.See below (48). 40 49--V PATTY(or POLLY)'; under age in 1789. JOSEPH ABORN~,born in Salem April 10, 3 8 I 726. He was a cordwainer and farmer, JOSEPHAB0RN4, baptized in L~nnfield and lived in that part of Salem which is Septa 26, 1725. He lived first in Lynn- now Peabody. He married Sarah Derby field, and removed to nanvers in 1757-8. of Danvers Dee. -, '753. He died in He died before Dee. 9, 1759. He mar- Peabody (then Danvers) Sept. 5, 1800; ried Lydia Nourse of Lynn (pub. June 14, and she died there, his widow, Aug. 2, 1747). She survived him, and was living in 1782. Children, born in Danvers :- Children, baptized in Peabody :- I. LYDIA^, b. Sept. 6,1755 ; d. March 16, 50-1. BET~EY',bapt. Dec. g, 1759; m. Wil- 1841. liam Mackintire of Salem June 24, 61-11. LUCRETIA~,b. Sept. 7, 1757; m. Sam- 1762. She was of Lynn, 1762, and uel Marshall, in Salem, July 28, of Salem, widow, in 1782. 1783; and d. June 3, 1802. 164 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. In 62-111. HANNAH~,' b. Dec. 6, 1759; d. NOV. 21, 1830. Menroiy of 61-1".., JANE" b. Dec. 18, 1763; d. Feb. 27, Lieut. DANIELQUINBY 1834. who died 64-v. JOSEPH^, b. Dec. 27, 1768; d. Feb. 10, 1830. Novr 28th 1791. in the 62"d Year 47 of lrer age AARONABORS~, born in Lynn Oct. 1, - 1757. He married Phebe Pope of Dan- In Metitory vers Dec. 31, 1779 (when he was of of Lynn) ; and died before I 789. She mar- Mifs HANNAHQUINBY ried, secondly, Francis Sheldon Sept. 20, wlro ffkd I 788, in Salem. Sejt~'141" 1786 Children :- in the 67th sfear oj lrer age. 65-1. AARON"livillg in 1789, under age. - 66-11. PHEBE"living in 1789, under age. HE.4R LIES BVRIED 48 ye BODY : of : 10s EPH : qVINBY : HO JAMESAEORN~, lived in Lynn ; 111. Cath- DIED : B/ARCH ye erine ;and wxs alive in I 789. -- 23 : 1736 : 6: : IN Child :- : : 67-1. JAMES~,in. Betsey Alley Dec. 2, 18~; ye this -Yer of she d. Tune 23, 1820. They had his AGE six children. - - 111 Afenrorj of MIS. SARAHOUINBY, AMESBURY INSCRIPTIONS. fif/#e 07 Lieut Daniel Quinby, UNION CEhIETERY. who died Seft.. I 2"' I 7 70 Cotrliaacdf>o711 p(7;"' 147. in the 43''" Yeor 112 Jfemory of oj her- op. . Thonzas Pearsow In blenlory of v Died Febrv ~1st1785 Lieut. SA~~UELSHEPPARD In ye 54th Year died AugSt 2* I776 of his Age. In ye 63" Sear Cotne i?lot-tnl 711attand CRS!nn Eye of his Age Come readyour Doot~t,p~.@nre to die - In Afemov of In RHODA - lntr~roryof wye of EBEXEZER, son of Mathew Shores : 22, 1798, 6r who died Marclr Ebenezer in the 33 year Eleanor Pierfon, of who was drowned her age. July 25, '794 MIRIAM : STR in the rr pear of his age. AW : DIED : Thc rifirrg furt cant nffire IUNE :ye : 23 : 1736 That zt~efhllend the day ; & : IN : : 8"' For Death flartds read) at the do07 ye To hnr onr fozrls awn)!. YEr of : HUR AGE AMESBURY INSCRIPTIONS.. In Menlory In menrory of d ANNAWELLS ; DOROTHY, who died wge of Dcc''. 9, 1799 : Dean. David Teuxbury ; in the 30 jeny 7uho died of her agr 1Fe6Y. I 2, I 799 So Je/usflt$f, Cotis &itt,rr/oa In the 65 gear of PaJ2 through the grave n~zdBlrjl the bed her age. Rejl here firir- faitrt, tillfior?~his throtzt Thr ntortzitlg brenfis ntzd pierce the - /had<. In Memory of INTERRED HERE the BODY HANNAH, OF hlrB. hIARY \TELLS zdfe of IIEC" IANUARS' the 26"' Mr. Daniel Tukefbeary 1727 AGED 75 YEARS who died LATE WIFE OF hf'. THOMAS ]any. I 7, I 798. \VELLS in the 33 gear of her age. DEATH IS KOt DUAIE It BIDS US ALL PREPARE BEFORE BY It \\YE FALL - WE KNO~~ot HOW NOR WHERE NOR^ In Memory of Flt KOW OR REUR WCAx Not THEN Mrs. ABIGAILTUXBURY - wife of Interred here the BODY of Deacon DAVIDTUXBURY the RevD. hZr. THOJf.4S \TELLS. died March xBt 1779. first Pastor, of the first Church I11 ye 50 Year of her Age of CHRISI' in Amesbury, who Departed this life. July ye 10"' where you ftand now so once did I and view the dead as you view me 1734. in the 87"' pear of his but you muft die as well as I Age, & the 6zD of his hliniftry, and orthers ftand 61 gaze on the haring served his Generation by - the will of GOD, he fell on sleep, and (we trust) enjoys a Prophets reward, Here Is Interred hlr. for tho' Israel should not JACOB TUXBURY be Gathered; yet would Who Departed t h e fa i t h f u 11 minifters of this Life IUNE the Gospel1 be glorious Ye istb I754 in the Eyes of the Lord. In the 31'" Year of his AGE Here lies Interr'd DEPART MY FRIENDS the Body of DRY UP YOUR TEARS Mr. JOHNWHITE, I MUST LIE HERE who departed this Life TILL CHRST APEARS May ye lGt" 1~75 - Aged -25 Years. A. \V. OCTOBER ye 10 DI~DDec 15'~' 1735 ANNA 1 I4 WORTHAX - D I E * IN Ye ~3~ Ye or IN the 6 YeAR OF HER of her AGe AGE THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN-

IUNE of Wenham, Mass.? His will, in 1707, MR. mentions wife Martha, who was his second BENIAMIN wife and not the mother of his children. THAN-DIED Haverhill. hf. L. W. AGED SI * 99. Sarah White, daughter of Thomas - and Martha (Fiske) White, born in Wen- Here Lies Interrd ham, Mass., Sept. 20,1700, married, June MI. CHARLESWORTHEN I 5, I 727, Nathaniel Brown. Wanted, Who Departed this Life some knowledge of their descendants. MARCH ye 2zd 1740 hl. L. W. AGED 33 Years. Come Mortal Man roo. Wanted, ancestry of Emma and And cast your Eye Sally Knowlton, said to be cousins. Em- Come read Thy Doom ma married Benjamin Leach of Manches- Prepare to Die ter about I 747, and Sally married their son Ca~t.Benjamin Leach in I 798. HERE LYES BURIED ~.p&/d. - G. L. G. YeBODY OFMR lor. Wanted, ancestry of Abigail HENRY YOUNG Foster, who married Richard Leach of WHO DEPARtED hlanchester about 17 15. G. L. G. THIS LIFE 102. Wanted, ancestry of Susanna SEPtE&fBER Ye 7th Butler, born in 1744, and married Ezekiel 1716 & I N Ye 33 YEAR Cheever of Manchester Dec. 6, I 770. G. L. G. OF HIS AGE 103. Wanted, ancestry of Bethiah Boardman of Hamilton (?), who married, first, Josiah Fitts ; second, Gid- QUERIES. - Queries are inserted for one cent a word. dings ; and, third, John Gould of TOPS- Answers are solicnrd. field. G. L. G. Wanted, ancestry and place of 94. 104. Wanted, date of birth and birth of Francis Norwood, who settled in father's name of James Burnham, who Annisquam, Gloucester, in 1662, or any exact knowledge of him or his family married Sarah Whittemore Nov. 5, I 772, and sailed from Salem in 1773, never previous to 1662. S. N. TORREY. being heard from. A. W. B. Rockport. Lowell. 95. Who was the mother of Elizabeth Hills who married John Greenleaf in I 685 ? ANSWERS. Her father was Joseph Hills of Newbury. Albany, N. Y. G. W. P. 75. Elizabeth Beauchamp, who mar- 95. was Peter C10~s.eofsalem, 1692, ried Zachariah Goodale in 1666, was the husband of Sarah (Towne) Cloyse? daughter of Edward and h'lar~ Beau- North Cambn'dge. S1 P. G, champ of Salem, and born 9 : 5 mo : 1648. Edward died in 1684. His g7' the maiden name of Elizabeth Baker, wife of Thomasa Baker father is considered to have been Robers (John') of Ipswich and Roxbury. Beauchamp, a resident of Ipswich at I M. S. P. G. early as 642.- C. H. Abbott, Ana'over. 98. Where is the name of Peggy 80. I think that John Wilder was born found as the wife of Thomas Fiske, sen., in Hingham- He was married Han- nah in Lancaster I 7 : 5 : 1672.- *A considerable portion of this inscription is - unintelligible. Myra L. White, Uaverhill.

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AMESBURY INSCRIPTIONS. SALISBURY PLAINS CEMETERY. THISburying ground is first mentioned, Here Lies JACOB as far as has been learned, in 1705. It ADAMS The fon Of was included in the limits of Salisbury M'. San~uelAnd MI^. until 1886, when it was annexed to Ames- Elizabeth Adams bury. The following are all the inscrip- Who Dcst : Au~ust tlons to be found therein with dates prior Ye zgt" 1753 to 1800. In Ye loth Year of his' age l~zjKefn0t-y of - XJ.Anna cAdains In ~J'Kemoryof 'Daur. of Xr Samuel 0 Jt . Jfercy Jda~~zs ~1/6rs. Elizabeth Adam wife of Mr. Arcbctazcs wbo Died Sepf. 28th 1755 Ada~zswbo died Sepf. In ye 36 Year z5th I 784 112 ye 66th Of ber- Age. Year of ber Age. 112 Mefnovl, of SAMUEL AD.4Rls $9. Archeelaz~sAdanzs SOX to Mr. SANL wbo died Janru [sf, 1783 & MI8. ELEZEBth ADAMS DIED In ye 69th Year SEPTM Ye gth of bis Age. I741 AGED Here side by side lie man & wifr ABout I YEX. The Partners of Each Other's life. - Here Lies Interrd ELIZABETH, hfr. SAMUEL ADAMS Relict of Who Departed Samuel Adams this Life M'ay died Ye 16~~1767 Nov'. I, 1795 ; AGED 5 7 Year in the 81 year 6r 16 Days of her age. Depart My Friends Sleep lovc(yfiint & fake thy re/t, Dry up Your teers Thy work is done thy 6cd is bley, For Chrifl will raifr this nzouldr'ng clay I Must Lie Here Tahe fint to cverlaf!ing day. ti1 CHRIST Apears 168 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

Here Is Interrd M*. Here Lies Merrill JOSEPH BAGLEY the Son of Mr. IOhn Who Departed & Mr. hlary Butlett this Life FEBRY. Who Dcst Sept Ye gth I772 23 1763 AGED AGED 67 Years 3 Days 2 Years * MO. DEPART MY FRIENDS DRY UP YOUR TEARS HERE IS INTERRED I MUST LIE HERE SETH CLARK THE 'TIL CHRIST APPEARS SON OF Mr. SETH & - Mr'. SARAH CLARK Here Is Interrd WHO DCSt JULY ENSIGN Ye lgth- 1771 THOMAS BAGLEY AGED I YEAR g MO Who Departed AND -I4 DAYS this Life SE~. In Menlory of Ye 1.5~~1771 Capt. SETHCLARKE AGED 49 YEARS died FebrY ~3~ - '787 In the 5 I year ELIZABETH of DAUGHTER OF SAMU his Age EL & MARY BROWN - DIED JANUARY Ye HERE 11 1727 AGED ONE LIES BUR1 YEAR & 4 DAYS ED Ye BODY GOD DID LEND OF MR AARON & THEN DID SEND CLOUGH HE DIED & GOO IT MUST JAN Ye 2oth 1781 FOR GOD IS JUSt IN Ye 86 YEAR OF - HIS AGE & HES znd WIFE REBEKAH IN Here Li~s BURIED ye SAME GRAVE the Body o f IN HER 7znd YEAR. Mn. HANNAH BROWN t h e Wife o f MRS Mr. Abraham Brown AP ABIGAIL CLOUGH WIFE OF MR I754 AARON CLOUGH - DIED JAN : 26 : I 743 Here Lies Interrd AGE 46 the Dautr. of - Mr. Peter & M". HERE LYES BURIED Ye Molley B u f s e 1 1 BODY OF Mr. JOHN Who Decst. Febry. CLOUGH WHO DIED Ye lzth 1763 APRIL Ye 19 1718 In Ye 4" Mo & IN Ye 70 YEAR of her AGE. OF HIS AGE *The rest is unintelligible. *The stone is defaced. AMESBURY INSCRIPTIONS. 169 HERE LY BURIED In Memory of the BODY of JACOB EASTMAN SAMUEL CLOUGH who Departed this SON to MR Life Janw. ye 13, I 776 SAMUEL and MRS In ye 34th Year SARAH CLOUGH of his Age WHO DIED IUNE YeMortal Youth Come ye 4 1756 Read ihese Lines AGEd ONE YEAR Prepare your Soul and 3 ~o~ths With Chrijt to join.

HERE LYES Ye BODY es Buried OF MARTHA EAS- of Mr MAN WIFE OF ZE * CLOUGH CHARIAH EASTMAN Auguft WHO DIED APRIL Ye ye 48- Ye 10 1718 AGED - 32 YE.4RS - HERE LYES Ye BODY Here Lies Interred OF IANE DEAnE LATE M" RUTH EDWARDS WIFE OF THOmAS DEAnE The Wife o f nlr. Rise EDWARDS OF SALSBURY DAUGHtR Who Departed this OF Mr RIChARD & Life Decr 12 I 760 PRUDENCE SCAMMAN In ye 73 Year LAtE OF StRATHAM o f h -e r AGE WHO DIED OCTOBER * Ye gfh 1726 & IN Ye David Evans 6ot" YEAR OF HER Who Dcst May AGE Ye 31d 1766 In ye 26 Year of her AGE In menaory of Mr. BELSHERDOLE Here is Interred who died INfIGN DAVID EVANS April 13, 1799, Who Departed 'Et. 58. this Life April Depart nzy friends, dry up your tears Ye 7t" 1768 I nrufr lie here till Christ appears In thc 3gfh Year of his AGE HARK FROM Ye TOOMS A DOLEFUL SO? Here Lies olle MINE EARS ATEND THE CRY the Dad of Iohn & * Ye LIVING MEN COME VIEW THE GROUND Lydia E WHERE'YOU MUST ~HORTLELIE 'On a fragment of a gravestone. +From a fragment of a gravestone. I 7O THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. DAVID THE SON In Memory of OF Mr. JONATHAN WILLIAMEVANS AND Mm. ELISABETH Son of Capt. JONATHAN EVANS DCSt. JUNE & Mr. ELIZABETHEVANS - Ye 24th 1771 who died Octr ye ~4~"I775 AGED I YEAR Aged 13 Years In In Memory of Mm. DOROTHYFITTS Nemory of wife of Xrs EJi~abei'bEvarzs h. RICHARDFlm of Jotznib7~. who died Novr Ye 8"' wife Capf. Evans I 776. Aged 74 Year. who Died Sept. 2 1st I 784 In yc 43" Year of her Age In me?taory of Depart my Fn2tzds dry ztp Benj Evans Flanders yoar Tears, I w~ttst Soft of John Sr Lie here till Cltrist appears Betty Flanders who died In inerttory of Octr 21, 1796. MR. EZEKIELEVANS, aged 3 I'ears who died ]any. 611, I 753, aged 42 Here Is Interd - TH FLANDERS the Wife of Mr. Memory of In SERS .* MRS. JUDITHEVANS, Who Dcst Rel'ict of * 1768 Mr. Ezekiel Evans, 6oth Year w~hodied of her Age April ~8'~1777 ; DEP.4RT MI' FRIENDS aged 65 Years T RS Here Lies Interrd HERE MI. SAMUEL EVANS - Who DCS'. Septr. HERE LYES ye BODY OF NA Ye 29th 1766 THANIEL FRENCH SON In the 2ot" Year OF Mr TOSEPH & HANNAH FREN CH -DI~DOCTOBER ye 19: 1720 of his AGE AGED IS YEARS - HIS CARRIAGE UNTO ALL WAS COURTEOUS & KIND HERE LYES Ye BODY HIS LOUE IT DID EXCELL OF Mr. THOMAS MOST THAT ARE LEFT BEHIND EUENS WHO DIED HIS PATIENCE WAS ADMIERRED JANUARY Ye z4th BY ALL THAT DID HIM KNOW THERE IS NO TONGUE CAN TELL 17178 & I Ye WHAT HE DID UNDER GOE 54 YEAR 0 F SO DIED THIS PIOUS YOUTH HIS AGE HE DID OBAY & FIND Ye TRUTH *The upper part of the gravestone is gone. *The stone is defaced and broken down. AMESBURY In LMemory of Here Lies Interrd M'VBIGAILHACKETT Mr. WILLIAM HACKETt Contort to Who Departed Mr JOHNHACKETT This Life Aucust who Departed this Life Ye I Zth I7 5 5 April ye 18'~1775 In the 41 Year Aged 36 Year o f his A G E 8: 9 Months - - Here Is Interrd In Xemory of SARAH MERRILL Consort to Mr. Xys Eleanor Hackett Melatian Merrill wife of Xy Richard Who Dcst JULY Hackett Died Oct 2; 1779 Ye 2zn* 1772 AGED 31 Year 4 Mo I~ye63yd Year of ber Age. & 30 Days Cot~zer~zortal matz cast ntz eye - Come reau your doom prepare to die In Memory of hf'. ABIGAILMORRILL HERE LYES BURIED wife of Ye BODY F 0 Mr. RUBENMORRILL DEACON JUDE who departed this Life HACKEt WHO June ye I 6th I 7 24 DEPARTED THIS LIFE Aged 24 Years & 6 hlO. MARCH Ye 13~~:1741. - & IN ye 57th Here Lies ABIGAIL YEAR OF HIS AGE the Dautr of EXCHANGING AS WE nrr Ebenezer & nfr8 HOPE THIS WORLD Mary hIorrill Who FOR A BETTER PREPARE Dcst May Ye 5 TO FOLLOW HIM 1767 AGED 3 Years - * Days MARY, dazqhter of Here Is Interred IVilliam Hacket & ENOCH MORRILL Nanna his wije Son to I. Jacob died Morrill Junr & Mary Apil 251h 1777, his Wife Who aged 3 j*ears & 6 mo Dcst Novr Ye 2znd - I769 AGED Here Lies Interrd 9 Year I Mo RICHARD HACKETt * Days Who Departed this Life April In hlemory of ye 25th 1767 Mrs.HANNAH MORRILL In the 5 31d Year wife of o f h i s A G E h1;. REUBENMORRILL come Mortal Man who departed this Life And cast An Eye march ye 7'" 1774 come Read thy Doom Aged 63 Years Sr 3 MO. prepare to Die 'The stone is broken. THE ESSEX Here Lies Interrd DAVIDOSGOOD Mr. JEREMIAH MORRILL died Who Departed Jan. gt+7S2 this Life February &t. 70. Ye 2 th 175' Depart nzy friends dry up your tears, in the 37t" Year Z in,rst lie here till Christ appmrs. o f his A c E - Depart My Friends DAVID, Dry up your teers Sotc of Aaron & I Must Lie here Judith Osgood ti1 CHRIST Apears died April 25, 17841 In aged 2 years. Menror)) of Life is uncertain death is sur, Sin gives the wound bul Christ the Dean Reuben Morrill, cure. who deceased FeGrY 8"' AD 1787 aged 66 I'ears How lovely Saint thy Rest: Here Is InterrdMr Thy worR is done + Ble.; DOROTHY OSGOOD Ye For Chrijl will cha7rce fhy morlaf clay, Consort to Mr. And raife the Saiitt to endl?ss day. Kichard 0sg00d - \Irho Dcst Octr. ZEBLON Ye SON OF I' 4ttl 1771 EBENEZER In the 44at' sear MORRILL DIED DECE of her AGE. MBER MIRIAM DEPART hlY FRIEPI'DS AUGU DRY UP YOUR TEARS * 1 MUST LIE HERE TIL CHRISI' APPEARS. In Memoty of MR. EDMUNDNOYES, so71 of Here Lies Interrd Capt. Edmund Noyes, who IOHN OfGOOD SON OF departed this &he April 20th arr. John And hir Rachel Osgood 1799 ; In the 26th . Year of his Are Who Dcst. Aucust ye 2 7th 1767 Look & behold as yo71 pnfi by, As you are nowfo once was I In the 18~"Year As 1am izowfo you rnti/f be o f his AGE Prepare for death- to folfozu 7rrE. 7b be co~~fi~rac~l. In Memor~~of 1 NOTE. JOSEPHNOYES Son oj Capt. Edmund Noyes The D. Poitmafter-General has ap- who departed this lye JanY 26 pointed Mr. EDWARDNORRIS to be D. Poftmsiter for this Town. He has re- 1796 in the I year of his Age. Come aN iny friends Boih far &near, moved the Office from School-Street, Coine lo my pave a~zdfheda tear where it was lately kept, to his Houfe in 0,that you irray prepared Be the main Street, oppofite the Houfe of To welconze death & lye with nip Francis Cabot, Eiq."-Essex Gazetfe (Sa- *The inscription is partly worn off. lem), Oct. 11, 1768. THE EARTHQU AKE OF 1638. I73 THE MYSTERIOUS LAND. shaking continued to such an extent that To this land unknown came men of old people had to secure some permanent sup- From their homes across the sea, port in order to stand erect. Remembering well the stories told Not only the mainland, but the islands Of wonders found here to be. along the coast were shaken violently, Strange sights in the heavens filled them with and the vessels that rode in the harbors dread, and those sailing without were jostled as Strange noises were heard with alarm, And great fear came when the darkness spread though a series of tidal waves had passed At the midday's light and calm. under them. Wit% terror they felt the sudden shock People in the houses were greatly Of the earthquake's mighty force, alarmed, for they not only heard the aw- Causing the very ledges of rock ful sound but felt the trembling of the To tremble along its course. earth. The houses over them shook to But they stayed in the place they were cast, their foundations, and it seemed as if they Steadily, bravely and true, must collapse. The chimneys, being im- Till the terrors were things of the past As knowledge and learning grew. perfectly built on the outside of the house, of rough and uneven stones, without mortar, except for filling the chinks, readi- THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1638, ly yielded to the general shaking, and the BY BIDXET PmLEY. tops of many of them fell 06 striking on Earthquakes are always fearful and im- the house or on the ground. The noise pressive, but at the time this one oc- of the falling stones without and the rat- curred the people were possessed of many tle of pewter platters and dishes upon the fears. They were not only superstitious, shelves within seemed the precursor of but this was a new and unknown world, danger. which but a few years before was said to This first and greatest shock of the be associated with the most awful terrors. earthquake continued about four minutes ; Friday, June I, 1638, was a very clear and shook the larger portion of New Eng- and beautiful day, with a gentle wind from land. the west. After the settlers had eaten their The first shock died away and the noise noon meal, they proceeded to their va- ceased. The people resumed their labors. rious labors in the field. Before two Half an hour passed, when to their sur- o'clock acute ears heard a faint murmur prise and terror, the horrible rumbling of distant sound, which became louder and quaking were renewed. But it quick- and clearer until every one heard that ly passed, being less violent than the first which seemed to be the far-a-way rumble shock. For twenty days the earth re- of thunder. In a minute or two it in- mained in an unquiet condition. creased in volume and sharpness until it At Newbury, a town meeting was being resembled the rattling of many carriages held, and during the discussions the fiercely driven over granite pavements. sound of the on-coming earthquake burst The people were alarmed, and discontin- upon their ears like '' a shrill clap of thun- ued their labors to discover the source and der." The building was violently shaken ; nature of the sound. Above, the sky was and amazement and fear filled the minds perfectly clear. They became perplexed. and hearts of the people. After the tu- Not many moments elapsed, however, be- mult it had caused had ceased, before pro- fore the earth began to tremble, and ter- ceeding, the assembly voted to make a rified they threw down their tools and ran record of the fact of the earthquake, con- reeling like drunken men, with blanched cluding it, '' wherefore taking notice of so countenances, to the first group of people great and strange a hand of God's provi- they could find, for men like animals will dence, we were desirous of leaving it on flock together when they are afraid. The record to the view of after ages to the in- I74 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARM. tent that all might take notice of Almighty 7-vI. WOODWARD?b. July 14, 1762; was short of stature, being only four feet God and fear his name." and eight inches tall; and had a The summers for several years after the light complexion. He served in the earthquake were too cool for the sufficient Revolution as one of the crew of the ripening of corn and other crops, as com- ship Rambler, Capt. Benjamin Lovett, commander; and married Eunice pared with those of a number of years Gallison May 4, 1788. preceding it. They were subject to un- GVII. HANNAH HILL,^ b. Dee. 4, 1764. seasonable frosts, and on this account but FVIII. JOSEPH SMBTHURST,~b. NOV. 18, little of the Indian corn matured. What 1766; d. Aug. 27,1767. connection this fact had with the earth- I*'X. JOSEPH SMETHURST,'b. Sept. 99 11-x. NATHANIEL?b. Aug. 13, 1771 ; d. quake, if any, is unknown. Aug. 27, 1771. This, the greatest earthquake of the 12-XI. BETSEY,~b. Sept. 21, 1775. seventeenth century, marked an epoch in the lives of the settlers, and for many THE ABRAM FAMILY. years afterward it was common for them The su,a,e of Abram is also spelled to compute dates as "so long since the ~b~~~~ and Abnflfns. earthquake." JOHNABRAIMS,' with his wife Mary, first appear in Amesbury in 1766. He is THE ABRAHAM FAMILY. supposed to have been a Jew, from Pales- The surname of Abraham is also tine. It is said that he had a brother spelled Abrahams. William, with whom he came from Pales- WOODWARDABRAHAM,' born about tine to New England at an unknown date, 1727, was living in Marblehead as early and that William fell into the sea and as 1753. He kept a shop, and was was drowned. John moved irom Ames- called a merchant in 1755, 1763, 1772 bury to Salisbu'ry in I 77 I, and after I 775 and 1779 ; and gentlemen in I 769, I 785 probably settled in Sanbornton, N. H. and 1786. He was one of the Salem The children of John and Mary were as custom-house officers,being commissioned follows :- Sept. 26, r 762 ; was an attendant at the 2-1. JOHN,?b. May 3, 1766, in Amesbuly ; services of St. Michael's church in Marble- m. Mehitable, daughter of Laban and 1774 ; Mehitable (Putnam) Harriman, and head, having bought a pew in it in niece of Gen. Israel Putnam; and was at one period in the Revolutionary settled in Sanbornton. He d. Aug. era regarded as unfriendly to the Ameri- 29, 1841 ; and his wife d. July 26, can cause, but was proven to be loyal 1844, aged eighty-two. They had four children. thereto. He performed services in the 3-11. WILLIAM,%b. April 7, 1768, in Ames- army in the early part of the Revolution, bury. when he was called of Salem; and after- I.BETSEY,? b. Jan. 15,1770, in Amesbury ; ward was for a long time postmaster of m. Joshua Copp of Warren, N. H. 5-IV. MARY,?b. Feb. 13, 1775, in Salisbury; Marblehead, dying in office, Nov. I 7, m. George Washington Copp of War- 1813, at the age of eighty-six. ren, brother of her brother-in-law; He married Tabitha, daughter of and d. in Warren Oct. 6, 1860. Joseph Smethurst, a merchant of Marble- head, Nov. 28, 1751. She was living in NOTE. 1788. Their children were born in Mar- blehead, as follows :- On the back of a copy of the inven- 2-1. TABITHA,?b. July I I, 17.53. tory of the estate of John Abbey, s'r, of 3-11. MARTHA,%b. Aprll 15, 1755. Wenham, taken in I 703, and on file in 4-11'. ANN,". May 25, 1757; d. in Marble- the probate office at Salem, is written the head Nov. 26, 1783. following : "Lydia, dau. of Caleb Rr $-IV. MARY,?b. April 4, 1759. I bv. ELIZABETH,^ b. Feb. 2, 1761; d. June Mary ffoster 14 May 703 ; David son to I, 1761. Wm. & Mary Goodle born 26 Apr. 1703." COLONIAL HANDWRIlING. I75

COLONIAL HANDWRITING. The small d " usually has a loop BY CHAXLES KNOWLES BOLTON. above instead of a downward final 9 To copy a manuscript letter for letter, is, stroke. in the minds of some, the mark of pedan- Capital " E " is commendably individ- try; to modernize it is, in the estimation ual. In officially prepared documents it of others, the source of all inaccuracy. is the common capital '' C " with a small Whether we copy letter for letter or "z" just inside the downward stroke, or, give the words as they should be we as in the signature of Jacob Eliot, brother should at least know just what was in- of the apostle, the z " crossed back and forth over the downward stroke of the tended by each character in the manu- " C." script before copying. Thus this word : It is so written by Madit Engs of should be recog- Boston, whose peculiar name is among nized as lcdesesed" those of the early settlers. '9s,s, r4 before it becomes "deceased." Some of the early handwriting shows a lack of training which is to be expected in an agricultural community like that in Tie small "e " is an imperfect " C" the New England of the seventeenth surmounted by a dash or cup. In ordi- century. The callous hand was not al- nary writing it became an " o " with the ways under control. A quaintness, too, last stroke looped at the top. This form was given to the page by the spelling is frequently misleading. Often, however, which at best allowed some liberty to the loop comes above the starting point follow one's taste, originality, and manner of the letter, which then looks like one of pronunciation. A man who spelled form of the Greek "th." "son" with a double 6do" would now be The double a ffn was used occa- writing his own death warrant. sionally, as in the surnames ffrencl: But there were certain forms charac- and ffarrington, but hardly more teristic of the writing of our emigrant often in the seventeenth century ancestors which were due neither to paper, thanas an affectation in the nine- 3 pen nor lack of training. These are after teenth. all few, but they appear with sufficient Capital " G " is usually very intelli- frequency to puzzle one unfamiliar with gible. A curious form, however, the subject. They may be traced in part is that of a backward inclining to the teaching of the schoolmaster and capital " C " with the last stroke 82% in part to the influence of the printed running down into a loop across the forms of letters. center of the C," and returning "A " and " B " have changed little to form a smaller loop some dis- since the days of Pericles. tance above the character. The 7- Capital '' C," in many cases looks like small c'g " is often a " y " crossed at the a copy-book "0," in which the returning top or mouth. stroke, instead of meeting the point of Capital " H " is often simple. One form starting runs dowu inside the down- appears as a written S " (looped at the ward stroke. The whole is crossed top) with an inverted cap below and a by a horizantal line. Sometimes 4.c tail starting at its right and running down- it is an ''0" open at the top and ut ward. The small "h" is a crowned with a cup or semicircle. 6 very curious transformation The small '' c " is usually much like of a simple letter. The 9 6 the small printed "r"-a down- main part of the letter de- ward heavy stroke with a horizontal r creases to little or nothing, b line at the top. while the final downward 17~ THE ESSEX A stroke becomes a large loop. Both this It is also the final form and the present " h " appear in the Greek "S"-a circle same signature as written by John Win- end~ng in an upward P/sI I s stroke.. throp, governor of Connecticut. The old h " was a common form and with Sillall li u " (or " v ") is very often a does much diagonal upward stroke with to confuse early writ- a small cup at the end. ing. In the, his, When combined with other /"bL V t+the theand this,"" " h " is par- letters it nearly disappears. .-his titularly capricious. The remaining let- " 1" and " J," both ters of the alphabet ph7,J 'c capital and small are fairly simple. w x T letter, are often made In the combina- alike. tions of letters some dif- Small " k " looks like a long old- ficulties arise, but by trying fashioned '' f " attacked by a '6 2.'' tthe forms here described Y. The downward stroke of 4 most words will be easily Y 3 the large " L" twists to the right deciphered. Below 'umore than is now thought neces- are given copies of a few sary. words and combined letters, Capitals " M '' and 11 N " take various as specimens of early writ- e~ grotesque shapes, in imitation of the print- ing. & & ed letters. Capital " 0,"as written by the Olivers and others, has parallel perpendic- a insacross it. Small o ' is @ often disconnected, to distinguish it, perhaps, from the e" which, when looped at the top, is very similar. Capital 66 P" is a heavy downward stroke, crossed by a line which forms a small loop at the right, and runs up to form a semicircle or inverted cups oppo- site the head of the initial stroke. Small Up" is an Ux" P P P ffi&/ Y-1uLet where the first and second strokes join, Seuen the second stroke extending downward river Act diagonally toward the left. Capital " R" is frequently a P " DEATHS IN ROWLEY. crossed at the centre. Roii~lr~',Sept. 13. This Day was Small r " is some- buried in the Firft Parifh in this Place, ? ,* times the German Mr. Jeremiah Hopki~tfon,Statis go. And written '' r "-a down- there have been buried in that Parifh, R r ward stroke, a stroke within 39 Years lait pait, forty-one Perfons to the right ending in a !oop which ends above 80 Years of Age each ; one of them in an upward stroke,-and sometimes the died aged 103, one 95, one 94, one 93, ordinary forms. two 91, two 90, two 89, two 87, four 86, "S," for capitals as well as for small three 84, one 83. And befides thefe letters, is a downward stroke retraced. there were two Perions died there in the ANDOVER IN THE FIRST LOUISBURG EXPEDITION. 177 Years 1717 and 1719, thatwere reckoned Phillip, Son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth to be above IOO Years old a Piece. And Abbott, Jan. 31, I 746. there are yet living in the Town twenty Isaac, Son of Philemon & Elizabeth Perfons beyond 80 Years of Age ; two of Chandler, in the 19th year of his Age, whom are near go, three above 85, Feb. IS, 1746. and three above 84 Years of Age.---- Jacob Mastin, Son of Jacob & Mary Mas- Perhaps there is nothing wanting, but tin, who was in the King's Service at Time and Obiemation, to ihew that Peo- Lewesburg came sick from thence to ple live as old in New as they do in Old Boston and died April 26, 1746. England."-Essex Gazette, Scjt. 27,1768. Tinlothy Johnson Jr. died in Sickness in the King's Service at Lewesburg, Dec. ANDOVER IN THE FIRST LOUISBURG 16, 1746. EXPEDITION. BF PRANK A. EUTCAINYON. WILL OF HUGH CHURCHMAN. The following names occur in the The will of "ould " Hugh Churchman, Records of Deaths of Andover. In a few as he was called, of Lynn, was proved in cases for the sake of brevity the tran- the Salem quarterly court g : 5 mo : 1644. scriber has omitted the words "in the The following copy is taken from the King's Service at Lewesburg." As the original instrument on file in the office of State has no list of men who took part in the clerk of courts at Salem, book I, leaf this siege, the names here given are the 20. more valuable. I heugh Churchman of Len do macke Benjamin Son of John & Ruth Frie Died this my laft will as foloeth :- at Lewesburg in the King's Service. firft I give my howfe and Lot Ilin Len11 He was shot by a gun and died June wth ale my march and ale other the 14, 1745. apurtenances tharevnto belonging to wil- Samuel Farnum Jr, Aug. 27, I 745. yam wenter tel his fon Jofias ihale atayen Ephriam,'son of Joseph & Sarah Barker, the age of twenty one yeares and then to Sept. 12, 1745. his fon Jofias und his Ayeres for ever: Andrew, son of Andrew & Hannah John- wth this Condicon that he fhale pare to son, Oct. I, 1745. his fifter hanna winter ten poundes wth in Jonathan, son of Josiah & Sarah Chandler one hole year after the aforfayed Jofias died with Sickness in the place, Oct. winter ihale atayen the age of twenty one 25, 1745. yeares and if he fhale Refeufe to paye to David, son of Andrew & Hannah Johnson, his fifter hana minter ten poundes of Oct. 29, 1745. Corant money then my will is that hanna Isaac, son of Thomas & Hannah Abbott, winter fhale have the howfe and lot w" died with Sickness in the King's Ser- ale and fingeler the apurtenances to her vice at Lewesburg Aged 28 Years 8 and her ayeres for ever and fhe fhall paye Months & 21 days, Nov. 3, I 745. to her brother Jofias ten poundes: and Francis, son of John and Sarah Dane my will is that if the aforefaid Jofias fhale Died with Sickness ...... in the dy before he fhale atayen the age of ~1stYear of his Age, Nov. 12, 1745. twenty 6. one yeares that then the afor- Andrew Allin the son of Andrew & Mary fayed hanna fhale have it wthout paying Allin, Dec. 14, 1745. aney thing out of it: and my will is Benjamin, Son of Christopher & Martha further chat if the aforfayed Jofias and Carlton, in the 20th Year of his age, hanna fhde booth dy before that theye Jan. 4, 1746. fhale atayen the age of twenty one yeres Joseph, Son of Noah & Mary Marble, that then wilyam winter or his now wif or Jan. 29, 1746. the longer liver of them hale have it to 17~ THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. them and thar Ayeres for ever : I do 3 acres of salt marsh allowed me by town give to the widow Androes that thre of Hampton ; ox, steers, cow, calf, year- fhilinges that fhe oethe me and further I ling, and all commonages, May 2, 1655. do giv her one buchel of Ingen Coren to Wit : Christopher Hussey ahd Anthony be payed wthin one month after my Ssanyan. Ack. before Anthony Stanyan death : I do give gorge far one buchel ale and Chrissopher Hussey, commissioners fo to be payed at the fame tyem : I do ale of Hampton, 2 : 3 mo : 1655. fo give to edward burt ten fhilinges to be Henry Green of Hampton acknow- payed wthin one hole yer after a/tcr my ledged indebtedness of A61 to ffrancis death: I ale fo give to rnr whiten and Swaine May 2, 1955. Ack. before Tho : mr Cobet: five fhilinges apece to be Bradbury, comillissioner of Salisbury, payed wthin one hole year after my hlay 2, 1655. death : ale the Reft of my goodes or Tames \Val1 of Hamuton, millwrite, con- Chateles vnhequeaved I give to wilyam veied to " mr. ~ofe~h'Maion of ye kiver winter whom I do macke role exeter to this of Paicattoquack gent," 1-4 of saw-mill my will : in witnefe whar of I have her- dr uppon ye River of Exitcr & ye firft faw vnto put my hand the fourth daye of the mill built there all being wth in ye River fourth mounth in the fixtenth year of the of Pafcattoquack," and land " on my Rayen of oarer foveran lord Charles by point agt. my own dwelling houfe there," the grace of god Kyng of Ingland icotland for him to build a dwelling house, etc., france and Irland &c 1640 on; also, 20 acres of meadow on fresh in the prcence of hegh Churchman river; 20 acres on little fresh river grant- Zacheus Gould ed to Nicolas Liscen, from whom I pur- chased it; loo timber trees fit for sawing OLD NORFOLK COUNTY RECORDS' 1bought ofTho : King in 1652 ; and com- Coirii~rued/roinpate 149. mons granted to mT. Edward Gillman by Tristram Coffyn, s'r, of Newbury, plant- Exeter. JnORobinson has a lease of the er, with consent of my wife Dionis, for nlill fron~the grantor for two years longer. £15, conveyed to Richard Ormsby of Dated hlay I I, 1654. Wit : Richard Tuck- Salisbury, husbandman, a dwelling house er and Henry Sherburne. Ack. before with a frame standing at the end of it, and Tho. Bradbury, commissioner ofsalisbury, one-half of the house lot whereon it stands ; 7 : 3mo : 1655. also, 6% acres in the plain, between Tristram Coffin, aged about 46 years, lands of Theophilus Sstchwelle asterly and deposed that from five to seven years be- James Davis, jr., westerly, south by Mer- fore, at Nuberie, he heard m8 Cutting, rimack river, and north by town common ; as attorney for her husband, John Cutting, also, 5 acres meadow ; all being in Hav- who had gone to sea, bargain with Josiah erhill, 24 : 9 : 1649. Wit : Tho. .Brad- Cobham and Richard Currier for two lots bury and Josiah Cobham. Ack. by grantor of meadow in Salisbury, one cow being and his wife Dionis before Tho : Brad- the consideration. Sworn to in court at bury and Josiah Cobham, commissioners Salisbury 12 : 2 mo : 1655. of Salisbury, 15 : 9 : 1654. Sam : \Vinsley, sen., deposed that An- ffrancis Swaine of Hampton, for £61, drew Greely told him that if M8 Cutting conveyed to Henry Green of Hampton, so requested him he would make assurance land in Hampton :-a 7 acres of upland of above named meadow unto Josiah Cob- between land of Robert Tucke and Mr. ham, and the deponent went to Charles- Stanian ; 4 acres offresh meadow between town and saw ,Mr. Cutting and his wife. good : hlerriam and Robert Tucke ; I 7 Sworn to in court at Salisbury I z : z mo : acres of marsh adjoining mr. Hussi's land ; 1655. ro acres of salt marsh adjoining farm of Anthony Colebie of Salisbury, planter, mr. Hussie and land of goodman Marian ; for A6, conveyed to JnO. Bayly, sen., of OLD NORFOLK 001 Salisbury, weaver, 6 acres of meadow in bounded by the town creek, Thomas Salisbury, bounded on an island, the great Rowell, Richard Currier and Josiah Cob- river, by the ferry, Jno. Bayley, jr., Willi : ham, 30 : 4 : 1650. Wit : Tho : Bradbury Barns, Willi : Sargent, mr. Sam : Winsley, and Richard Currier. Sworn to by wit- and great creek leading to the town, mr. nesses to be act and deed of John Bayly, Jno. Hodges and Enoch Greenleif, sen., in court at Salisbury, 10 : 2 mo : I : 2 mo : 1644. Wit : Tho : Bradbury 1655. and Tristram Coffyn. Ack. before Tris- Anthony Stanian of Hampton, having tram Coffyn and Rich : Wells, commis- bought of Joseph Merrie of Hampton a sioners of Salisbury, 12 :z mo. : 1655. house, 25 acres of land and two cows, Will of John Wedgwood of Hampton, leases the property from him March 13, husbandman, dated Nov. 24, 1654; 1655. Wit : Robert Pike and Thomas proved in court at salisbury 10 : z mo. ; Macy. Ack. in court at Salisbury 10 : 2 1655, by Willi : ffifeild and Henry hloul- mo: 1655. ton. He was "of whole minde." Be- Edward Gilman of Exiter deeds to his queaths to my eldest son, John, after the loving wife Mary Gyllman and his two decease of his grandmother, my house sons John Gyllman and Moses Gyllman and 16 acres of land at Exeter, meadow at £30, houses, lands, goods, etc., 14 : I I : Puscasicke, I 50 acres of upland adjoining 16 54. Wit : JnO. Ted and Mary Pettitt, mr. Edward Hilton's. To my wife Mary, her 0 mark. my sons Jonathan and David(both minors). Valentine Hill of Boston, merchant, To my daughters Mary (unmarried) and Oct. 20, 1653, sold to Thomas Kemble Abigail. My wife Mary, ex'x, and Willi : ffi- one-fourth of a saw-mill in Oyster river ; feild and Henry Moulton, overseers. Wit : and in this deed Kemble conveys it, for Seth Metcher, Willi: ffifeild and Henry £300, to Randall Nicolls of Charlestown, Moulton. baker, Feb. 20, 1653. Wit : Giles Kem- John Severans conveyed to Richard bell and James Miller, his I mark. Ack. North, both of Salisbury, planters, I -acre before Increase Nowell 17 : I : 1654. house lot in Salisbury, between house Luke Heard of Salisbury, weaver, con- lots of grantee and Willi: Barnes, and veys to George Browne of Salisbury my bounded by the green, Sept. 29, 1642. now dwelling house with the house lot and Wit : Tho. Bradbury and Andrew Greely. planting lot Sept. I 9, 1645. Sarah Bigsbie, Ack. in court at Salisbury 10 : 2 mo :1655. late wife of Luke Heard, consents before John Sanders of Nubery, yeoman, for Daniel Denison Feb. 23, 1654. 13 acres of land in Salisbury, on west side Nov. 35, 1646, John Eaton, s'r, of Ha- of pawwaus river, bounded by highway, verhill conveys to George Browne of Ha- Jarrett Haddon, and a street, conveyed to verhill one-half of the 20-acre lot I Anthony Colebie of Salisbury, planter, 6 bought of Mr. Nathaniel1 Warde of Ip- acres of meadow in Salisbury, formerly of swich. Also signed by grantor's wife mr. Thomas Dumer, bounded on great Anne Eaton (her X mark). Wit : Rich : river, the ferry, John Bayly, jr., Willi : Littlehale, Sam : Gilde and JnO. Chinarde, Barnes, Willi : Sargent, mr. Sam : Winsley's Ack. by both before Robert Clements and island, great creek leading to the town, Joseph Peasly, commissioners for Haver- mr. John Hodges, and Enoch Greenleif, hill. I : I : 1644. Wit : Tho : Bradbury and Willi : Barnes (his V mark) of Salis- Tristram Coffyn. Ack. before Tristram bury, carpenter, conveys to Willi : Allin Coffyn and Richard Wells,'commissioners of Salisbury, carpenter, six acres of of Salisbury, 12 : 2 mo : 1655. meadow in Salisbury, bounded by &.PI. John Bayly of Salisbury, weaver, for £7 ffrancis Doue, Mr. Tho : Bradbury, John 14s., conveyed to John Hoyt of Salisbury, Ralfe, Mr. Batt and Henry Blesdale, Sept. planter, 6 acres of meadow in Salisbury, 29, 1650. Wit : Tho. Bradbury and Mary - I 80 THE ESSEX ANTIQUAR~AN. Bradbury (her MB mark). Ack. before ]no Bayly, sometime Luke Heard's, Nov. Tho : Bradbury, commissioner of Salisbury, 24, 1653. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and 10: 3 mo : 1655. \Vymond Bradbury. Ack. and grantor's Salisbury court, 10 : 2 mo : 1655, Mary wife consented before Tho : Bradbury Gillman, widow of Edward Gillman, sen., and Richard Wells, commissioners of late of Exiter, deceased, appointed ad- Salisbury, 23 : 3 : 1655. ministratrix of his estate. Moses Gillman, Same to same, 2 acres of meadow in son of the deceased, consents, referring Salisbury, bounded by Willi : Sargent, to deed of his father to him dated 14 : I I : Thomas Macy and Willi : Barnes. Date, 1654. Wit: Sam : Dudley and Tho: execution, etc., as above. Bradbury. JnO. ffulsham, Daniell Cushin, Henry Green of Hampton, millwright, JnO. Leavitt and John Gillman, the sons conveys to William Swaine of Hampton, of the deceased, consent. Ack. by J. F., 4 acres of fresh'meadow (sometime ffran- J. L. and J. G., before Ri : Bellingham, cis Swaine's), bounded by Robert Tuck, deputy governor, 29 : 7 : 1655. Tho : Coleman and JnO Marian, and 3 Inventory of above estate, filed 2 : 8 acres of salt marsh lying below Gouges mo : 1655. Had house and lands at Ex- wiggw8, all in Hampton, 10 : 5 nio : 1655. iter; property in my son JnO. Leavit's Wit : Christopher Hussie and Richard hands at Hingham ;also in the hands of Swaine. Ack. before Christopher Hussey my sons Daniell Cushin and Moses Gill- and Anthony Stanian, commissioners of man. Total, £2 I I. Hampton. ffrancis Swaine of Hampton conveys John Sanders of Newbury, yeoman, to Willi : Swaine of Hampton 4 acres of conveys to Willi : Barnes and William meadow, bounded by Rodger Shaw, Osgood, both of Salisbury, carpenters, xo Willi : Maston, Robert Tuck ; 4 acres of acres of meadow in Salisbury, bounded salt marsh ;5% acres of salt marsh on south by meadow late of Robert ffitts and John side of ffalls river, bounded by John Mari- Hoyt, 12 : 8 mo: 1653. Wit: Tho: an ; and I 7 acres of land, bounded by Bradbury and Steven fflanders. Ack. be- highway to the mill, land of Robert Tucke fore Tho : Bradbury and Richard Wells, and Richard Swaine, 6:8 mo: 1652. commissioners of Salisbury, 4 : 6 mo : Wit : Sam : Dalton and Humphrey Will- 1655. son. Ack. before Tho : Wiggin 6 : 8 mo : John Sanders of Newbury, yeoman, 1652. conveys to Lt. Robert Pike of Salisbury, Brian Pendleton and John Pickrime 1% acres of meadow, and a 12.acre (his A mark) for Portsmouth, and Wil- planting lot on hoghouse neck in Salis- liam Fifield and Thomas iMarston for bury, formerly Mr. Thomas Dumer's, Hampton, agree upon a division line be- bounded by Robert Ring, Mr. Hook's tween the two towns beginning "att ye farm, and land formerly Ralfe Blesdale's, Cawfway lijng Eaitward from ye fd towne with right to a highway through Mr. towards Pafcataqua, ten Rod diftant from Doue's neck of upland, Aug. 4, 1651. ye fd Cawfway there begin & Runn -hue Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Rich : Wells. miles uppon as direct a line as may be Ack. and grantor's wife consented before keeping neare vnto ye Comon way. The Tho: Bradbury and Rich : Wells, com- wChLine being runn ended on ye edg of missioners of Salisbury. Joflins Neck on ye North tide, the faid John Sanders of Newbury, yeoman, Neck is ye next to ye northward of ye for money and boards, conveys to Andrew Longe ftony beach." Greely of Salisbury, shoemaker, 40 acres Josiah Cobham of Salisbury, planter, of upland southside of Batt's hill, and a conveys to Lionel1 Worth of Salisbury, meadow lot, bounded by the great neck, husbandman, 6 acres of meadow in Salis- Mr. Doue, Mr. Willi : Worcester, and bury, an island, and part of meadow of Robert Pike, all in Salisbury, Aug. 4, THE ANCIENT PWI NAM SIDEBOARD. 181

1655. Date, execution, etc., as above. nam family. It is an elaborate piece o . To be continued. furniture, made of the dark English oak, and shows every sign of its antiquity. No NOTES. nails were driven in its construction, Mary Abbott published to Benjamin wooden pegs being used instead. Lead, both of Beverly, Nov. 28, 1748. Feb. 2, I 779, abated Nathaniel Abbott's Q-. tax, " in captivity." Queries are inserted for one cent a word. -Brverly town records. Answers arc solicited. "We hear the Hon. Board of Commif- 105. Wanted, parents of John Hinds fioners have appointed JOHN NUTTING, (or, Hains), who married Hannah Shaw, Efq ; of this Town to be Collector of his probably at Bridgewater, Mass., August Majefty's Cuftoms for this Port."-Essx 11, 1709. ALBERT H. HINDS. Gazetic (Salem), Oci. rr, 1768. 72 Pine St., Porfland, Mr. In the Military and Naval Annals " 106. Wanted, ancestry of Lydia Web- . of Danvers, published in 1895, Daniel ster, who married Samuel Haseltine of Needham was omitted. He was made Haverhill, and had a daughter Lydia born sargent " July 3, 1778, Capt. John Bod- May 27, 1755. A. B. B. well, Col. Jacob Gerrish, when not eigh- West Newbury. teen years old. He was married in 1783, and soon after removed to Lynnfield 107. Who were the ancestors of Mary Centre, where he lived until 1844, re- Johnson, wife of Samuel Haseltine, of spected by all. He married Ede, daugh- Haverhill about I 725 ? A. B. B. ter of Capt. Samuel Flint, the only com- 108. Wanted, ancestry of Ruth Whit- missioned officer from Danvers killed in tier, wife of Benjamin Greeley of Haver- the Revolution.-finnit Hood Bosson, hill. She died in 1744, aged forty-five. Rcading. A. B. B. We hear the Churches and Congre- 109. Who were the ancestors of gations in the Towns of Newbury and Rachel Mitchell, who married William Rowley, (agreable to a Vote of defire by Whittier of Haverhill May I 7, I 7 I 6 ? faid Towns) obfewed Thurfday the 6th A. B. B. Inftant, as a day of Fafting and Prayer, I lo. Wanted, ancestry of Daniel Col- on account of the perplexed, diltreffed cord and Hannah Gilman, who were mar- ftate of our public Affairs.-One . of ried at Kingstown, N. H., April 22, I 730. the Minifters (upon the forrowful Occa- A. B. B. fion) chofe for his Text thoie Words in I I I. Who were the ancestors of Han- the Prophefy of Jeremiah, 2 Chap. 14 ver. Is yracl a Servant? Is he a home nah Webster, wife of Stephen, son of born Slave ? Why is hc,/poiled ? "-Es- Richard and Hannah (Emery) Bartlett of sex Gazcttc, Ocf. 18, 1768. Amesbury ? A. B. B. I I z. Information wanted regarding ' THE ANCIENT PUTNAM SIDEBOARD. ancestors of John Blethin (or, Blevin), a The frontispiece of this number of the Quaker, living at,Lynn, Mass., 1659, at Antiguarian is an engraving of the ancient Salem, 1674 ; also, information of James Putnam sideboard, which is believed to Blevin and Edward Blevin, living at Oys- be nearly if not quite three hundred years ter Bay, L. I., about 1685, and at Wes- old. It is now in the possession of the terly, R. I., about 1691, believed to have Essex Institute at Salem, having been been brothers of John Blethin. Address placed there by Miss Harriet P. Fowler, WILLIAM W. BLIVEN. of Danvers, who is a member of the Put- zqo Nassau St., N. Y. Cify. 182 THE ESSLX ANTIQUARIAN. 113. Wanted, name of wife of Rich- ard) Keyes of Marlborough. Prudence ard King (born, 1667), son of Daniel married, July 7, 1725, in Lancaster. I King. E. A. H. find her name, Prudence Wilder, in her Cleveland, Ohio. father's will. Hannah Divoll was daugh- ter of Ens. John and Hannah (White) I 14. Wanted, name of wife of Rich- ard King (born, 1677)) son of Capt. Divoll, and was born in Lancaster June Ralph King of Salem and Lynn. 12, 1667. She was taken prisoner by the E. A. H. Indians with her mother and youngest brother, William, at the Rowlandson gar- I IS. Wanted, ancestry of Elizabeth, rison house in Lancaster Feb. 10, 1675- wife of Richard King of Littleton (mar- 6, and her father and older brothers died ried, 1720-26). E. A. H. .in captivity or were killed. Hannah . (White) Divoll was daughter of John and ANSWERS. Joanna White, and sister of Mrs. Mary 35. Genealogical information con- Rowlandson, wife of the first minister of cerning the Pottle family can be found in Lancaster.-M. L. White, Haverhill. the records of Hampton and Stratham, in 83. Lydia Rugg was a descendant New Hampshire, and of Newbury and from Johnx and Hannah Rugg of Con- Salisbury, in h,iassachusetts.-Ed cord. Their son, Daniel Rugg,= was 81. Sarah+, wife of John Wilder, jr., born in Concord 15 : g : 1678, and mar- was not Sarah Sawyer, but Sarah, daugh- ried Elizabeth Priest in I 704. They had ter of Josiah3 and Mary (Rice) White, a son, Reuben Rugg,J who was baptized born in Lancaster Oct. 2 I, I 680. They in Lancaster Aug. 26, 17 16 (being prob- were married about 1699. John White' ably ahout eleven years old). He mar- and wife Joanna came from the west of ried Lydia Ross of Lancaster Riarch 10, England to Salem, Mass., in 1638, and I 730-1, and they became the parents of settled in that part of the town which is Lydia Rugg, who was born in Lancaster now Wenham. His wife Joanna died in hfarch 23, I 732-3 ; and married Asa Wil- Lancaster 18 : 4 : 1654 ; and his will was der Dec. 12,1754.-M.L. W., Haverhill. made in 1673. Their youngest son, Jo- siah White,' baptized in Salen~June 4, 1643, removed with his parents to Lan- NEW PUBLICATIONS. caster in 1653, and married, first, hlary BATTLE AND MASSACREOF WYOMING, Lewis, who had no children. He mar- 113th anniversary of, July 3, 1897. ried, second, Nov. 28, 1678, Mary Rice, This is the report of the proceedings on of Marlborough, daughter of Thomas and that occasion, accompanied by illustra- Mary Rice, who was born in Sudbury tions of the monument and portraits of Sept. 4, 1656. Her father, Thomas Rice, Calvin Parsons, president of the IVyom- died in Sudbury, his will being proved in ing Commemorative Association, and of 1681 and her mother's in 171s. Thonl- Henry hl. Kieffer, D. D., of Easton, Pa., as Rice was son of Edmund and Tamer- one of the speakers. zine Rice, who came froin England. I NOVABRITANNIA : offering most Excel- prove Sarah (White) Wilder's parentage lent Fruits by Planting in Virginia ; Ex- by an agreement made by John Wilder citing all such as be well affected to and his wife and her sisters May 13, 1719, further the same. London, 1609. This and recorded in Middlesex county rec- is the October number of the American cords, volume 20, page 486.-Myra L. Colonial Tracts published by George P. White, Haverhill. Humphrey, Rochester, N. Y. These 82. Prudence Keyes was daughter of tracts are reprints of early pamphlets re- James and Hannah (Divoll) Keyes. Her lating to America, and are issued monthly father was son of Elias and Sarah (Blanch- at $3 per year.

EARLY STONE FIREPLACE. VOL. I. SALEM,MASS., DECEMBER,r 89 7. No. ra.

METHODS OF HEATING IFJ THE OLDEN TIME. BY SIDNEY PERLEY. THE first settlers of Essex county indeed bring to mind the ancient Yule found here a climate even colder and logs of merry England. more rigorous that that of their old But these logs had just been felled, home. In the construction of their hab- and being perfectly unseasoned could not itations arrangements had to be made be readily kindled. Dead boughs of for heating theliving room, at least, and pine and other trees were gathered and also for purposes of cookery. They piled beneath the logs. Then the jack- were compelled to resort to the quickest knife of our fathers was used to make and readiest, and, in many instances, the shavings from the dry sticks with which cheapest method of its accomplishment. to kindle them. And then the flint and In the mother land open fireplaces sup- steel and tinder-box must be patiently plied all these needs. These could read- used until the shavings were on fire. ily be made by piling stones at the end of Once kindled, the fire was rarely allow&j the house, wall fashion, in the form of to become extinct in the winter season, three sides of a square, opening into the being constantly supplied with logs, or house. When a height of about six feet continued by living coals of peat buried was reached, a hewn timber was laid in the ashes. across the ends, the front being utilized Though the fire was usually a hot one, for a mantle-piece and the rest for the most of the heat passed up the chimney, support of the front part of the chimney. and in cold frosty nights the flames some- which was then carried up on all sides as times rose above the chimney top, ell- high as the house, being made somewhat dangering the safety of the dwelling. In smaller at the top, thus forming a large the large living rooms of our ancestors Rue. The construction was made as the hearth-fire did not ~omfurtabl~warm tight as possible, though chinks soon the entire space; so settles with high appeared in the ear- tight board backs,* some five teet in liest chimneys. The height and several feet in length, were later ones were bet- placed in front and on either side of the ter constructed. fireplace, that back and face might be The hearth was equally warm. And the light from the also built of stone flames was generally so bright that no and extended not candles were required for the ordinary only over the fire- work of the household. place but several This hearth-fire was not only used for feet into the room. Into the' fireplace heating, but for cooking, by placing the the long heavy logs were piled, being food to be cooked on the hearth in front raised a few inches above the hearth, for of the fire, or in the great kettle tllat the purpose of draught, by firedogs, and later by andirons. Those early scenes *Shown in the frontispiece. 1~4 THE ESSEX .4N'I'lQUARlAN. hung over it ; or, later, when better chim- having an open space at its back, which neys were built with baking ovens in is still deemed by many to be'an advan- them, the food was placed in the oven tage. Toward the close of the' last cen- and slowly and deliciously cooked, to tury the Franklin stove, of the style]shown the enjoyment of the family on Sunday in the following engraving, was in common morning, unless the door of the oven was use in Essex county. outside of the house, and some lover of a good breakfast purloined its contents, leaving the family without their custom- ary Indian pudding, brown bread and beans. If persons were working in a corner of the room far from the fire-place, they would heat stones and keep their feet upon them while they worked. In later years an improvement was made in the use of portable heat. A tin box was placed within a wooden frame, which was sometimes square and sometimes round or oblong, and within the box, which was more or less per- THE EARLY FRANKLIN STOVE. forated at the sides and top, live coals In 1796, Dea. Eleazer Spofford of faf- from the hearth-fire frey, N. H., invented a novel stove made were placed on of brick. Deacon Spofford was born in ashes. The coals FOOT STOVE. what is now Georgetown, on Spofford's kept alive for several hours. These foot hill, Aug. I 2, 1739. He moved to Jaf- stoves, as they were called, were very frey in I 778 and built some valuable comfortable. mills on the Contoocook river, being an In some early meeting-houses, fire- ingenious mechanic. Late in life, he places were built in one corner, as, for removed to the East parish of Bradford, instance, in the first church in Salem. now Groveland. Mass., where he died in Foot stoves were also carried to meeting 1828. in later times, and they lessened the The Salem Gazette of Feb. 2., 1746,.< . coldness of the place. In many towns a contained a description of this stove. small house was erected near the meeting- Captain Saunderson of Salem read the house, having a fireplace and a chimney article, and thought he would have one in it, and in such houses the people com- built. He engaged Capt. John Dodge, a fortably passed the intermission between brick niason, to construct one. The services. Here, also, the foot stoves principles upon which it was made were could be replenished with coals from the similar to the Franklin iron stove. It hearth-fire. was found that brick retained heat better In 1745, the inventive mind of Benjn- than iron, thus making the temperature min Franklin added another star to his more equable and consuming less fuel. famous constellation by the Franklin It was so successful in its use that Mr. stove, which is still in use, though some- Dodge was employed to build several what changed. It was made of cast-iron others in the fall of that year, as well as as now, and was in its appearance a mod- in the next year. ified fire-place. It varied principally A man by the name of Pollock made from the modern stove of that name in an improveillent on the brick stove, and METHODS OF HEATING IN THE OLDEN TIME. '85 Mr. Dodge added it to the stoves he was the models being in the German lan- making, apparently without knowing of guage, Mr. Adams furnished Captain Mr. Pollock's patent. The following Towne with an English translation of copy of an advertisement which Mr. them. Dodge inserted in the Salem Gazette of On Captain Towne's 'return to Salem, Dec. 18, 1810, shows that he and Mr. he exhibited the models to Mr. Dodge, I Pollock came to an agreement :- who was eager to seize on any improve- ment. With Captain Towne's consent, PATENT STOVES. Mr. Dodge erected one in his own house, . THESubscriber last winter invented a BRICK which proved satisfactory. STOVE for the purpose of warming dwell- The principle of the stove was that the ing-houses, churches, compting rooms, &c. heat should pass through various which proved very beneficial for that purpose; but finding that it participated of the principle of partments*so as heat a large surface Mr. Pollock's patent, he has obtained authority of brick in a small space. The directions of that Patentee to continue to erect the same, for using the stove stated that "the wood and has invented a new-constructed and durable air vessel, which will give full effect to the princi- should be light alld dry, so as quickly to ple, by which rooms may be warmed at a reduced burn a when, the smoke expence of fuel, and a great increase of comfort. having passed off, the damper is imme- He will now erect said Stoves, with the improved diately closed, by which means the heat air vessel, for any who may wish, or empower is ~t one-half of the others to set them up. Air Vessels, Doors, &c. may be had of Nnvlrall S. Lequis, dnbplatework- fuel that was needed for the old manner of ers, near the Salem Hotel. heating, and diffused a moderate and Salem, Dec. 18. JOHN DODGE. uniform heat. The stove could be con- This kind of a stove was soon sup- structed in various shapes, and was sus- planted by a brick stove that was in use ceptible of a neat appearance. in Russia and had been for two centuries. inserted in the Sak/# Capt. Solomon Towne,* of Salem, com- Gazetteof Jan. 7, 1811, the following ad- mander of the ship Galatea, spent the vertisement :- winter of I 8 10-1 I in Russia, where he, Great Saving of Fuel, and Prornolion oJ with other Americans, were attracted by Warmth and Conrfort. the efficiency of the brick stoves in use THE Subscriber, having obtained a complete there. With muchdifficulty he found a model of the most improved person who could make him a model. RUSSIAN STOVE, This was an ingenious German potter, and, in order to ascertain its merits, set one up in residing near ~~~~l (the port where his own house, has found by experiment that he cap. can warm a common room for 24 hours with ten ti'es tainTowne's lay), who made sticks of wood, each 3 inches diameter and 2 feet for Stoves. At considerable expense to long, keeping the room at about 60 degrees of Captain Towne, the German made him Fahrenheit's thermometer on an average for the two neat porcelain models, one square 24 hours. The Russian stove would be excellent for large public rooms, and especially for meet- and the other Captain ing-houses, by which three-fourths of the fuel sailedfrom Revel to St. Petersbure;, and commonly used may be saved; and, being of mentioned the matter of the models to brick, the expense is not great. The Stove he john ~~i~~~ ~d~~~,tthe ~~~~i~~~ am- has constructed may be seen in operation at his housein Barton Square; and he will attend to bassador, great pleasure any calls for putting up Stoves of this or his own at his success, observing that he had him- construction. self been desirous of obTaining a model to Salem, Jan. 7, 1812. JOHN DODGE. send home, but had never been able to ~~i~was the only ~~~~i~~ stove that do so. The directions accompanying captain~~d~~ ever made. He had *He was born in Boxford. nearly completed one for the office of tHe studied law in Newburyport. Hon. Samuel Putnam, and was finishing I 56 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. it when he was seized with a pain in his winter. This Stove may be built at a small ex- pense, and at the same time be made as handsome breast. He sat down in a chair, and as any piece of furniture whatever, and it may be instantly expired without a groan. This so placed as to warm several rooms with the same was on January 13th, and he was forty- fire. The Subscribers having purchased of Capt. Towne the modelof this Stove, with the directions five years of age. ' for building and using it, they are now ready to In the Salem Gazetfe of Jan. 2 I, r 8 I 2, attend to any calls upon them from any place, the following- advertisement may be either to erect Stoves, or to sell the model, &c. found :- upon reasonable terms. WILLIAM ROBERTS, Russian Stoves. EBESEZER HINMAN, DAVID ROBBINS, THEsubscriber, who was an apprentice to, the 'TIhfOTHY CHAMBERLAIN. late Capt. rohn Dodge, proposes to contlnue 17, 1812. to work for the family at his trade. He offers to Salem, March construct RUSSIAN STOVES for any persons 1, the Sulrm Gazct(e of April 28, 1812, who He assisted Mr. Dodge in the following advertisement can be building that for S. Putnam Esq. in his ofice- which has exceeded tbe most sanguine expecta- found :- tions. He will be assisted by Mr. Willinm Rob- erts. RUSSIAN STOVE. Apply to ALLEN MARSH, - At Capt. Dodge's late dwelling. THEpublic are respectfully informed that the N. B.-The Stoves will be built after the model Subscribers have purchased with others the that Mr. Dodge had procnred. model of the RUSSIAN STOVE, introduced by Capt. SOLOMONTOWNE. The real utility of this An Orllamental stove Of this lrind was Stove has been completely proved by experiment. built in the Essex Bank, two in the then Independent of the fact that in Russia it is in ordi- new South meeting-housc, and others in nary use among all classes of persons-it hasbeen dwellings witl,i,l ;lI2 next two here subject to repeated trials, and under all the private disadvantages attending first experiments, has ob. weeks, of which the highest taiued universal success and approbation. It saves expectations. more than one half of theordinary consumption of In the Salem Gazette of March 17, fuel; diffuses a moderate, uniform and agreeable grz, the following advertisement heat, and is perfectly safe from accident. Care however must be taken in the constmction, other- peared :- wise the beneficial effects will be impaired. The Stove admits of a variety of forms, and is not only TO tAe Pubh~. susceptible of neatness, but evenpf elegance, and can be accommodated to every shape of room. THEsaving of fuel, and at the same time the The subscribers have the full benefit of the Rus- promoting of warmth and comfort, has long sian model and directions, and are ready to warrant been a desirable attainment in this Country; and that Stoves erected by themshall equal any which much time has been spent, and great expense in- C~IIbe constructed. The Subscribers are alsoau. curred upon this object. Many new methods thorized to sell models, &c. to any persons who have been invented, and patent rights secured ; wish to engage in this business. but all have fallen short of the purpose, until the JAMES NICHOLS, JOSHUA UPHAM, RUSSIAN AIR STOVE SAMUEL LATHERBY, LOAMMI COBURN, was introduced by Capt. SOLOMONTOWNE, who LEV1 CHAMPION, with much difficulty and at great expense obtained JONATHAN HASELTON, a correct model of it, with directions for erecting EBENEZER HENMAN, and using it. From this model from 20 to 30 SATH'L S. FOSTER, Stoves have already been erected, the experience of which have proved it to be superiortoanything PEIRCE L. WIGGIN, lOSEPH STIMPSON, of the kind ever offered to the public, whethertor JONATHAN NEAL, JR. the saving of fuel, or introducing a pleasant Salem, April 28, 18rz. warmth into the room, free from the disagreeable air which generally arises from stoves hitherto in J~ Spite of the transferof the interest use. The experience of the country from whence of the family of Dodge in this it comes, for 200 years, affords the most ample captain proof of its utility in tempering the severity of new stove, Allen Marsh, who assisted him WlLI. OF JOANNA CUBlhl1NC.S. 187 in the erection of the first one, published tion, of course, of the in the Salem Gazette of July 2 I, 181 z, a stove. These notice addressed to " his friends and the stoves were public of this and the neighboring towns, " probably that he continues to erect the Russian made in stove according to the real earthen model Philadel- -, "--. brought from Russia." He further said . phia, perhaps by the com- that it could be ornamented with marble -... . . - -, pany manufacturing the or freestone ;'and that orders would be Franklin stove. These stoves received at his lodgings, directly oppo- were in use as early as 1819. site Tay's sadler's shop near North They were connected with bridge. the chimney by funnel, as Early in this century iron fire-frames, modern stoves are. These .- ...C as they were called, being a sort of fire- crude engravings are repro- -- '.--- place with sides and top, but no back or ductions from newspaper advertisements front, were in use in some houses. They of the date mentioned. were made to be set against the chimney The following are similar engravings so that the chimney would form the back of stoves that were in use in 1826. Some of the frame, an aperture being in the of them were made for use in shops and chimney at the upper part of the frame. others in school houses. It stood on a hearth of brick, on which These methods of heat- the fire was built, the wood being raised ing seem above the hearth by andirons. The fire- very crude place, thus formed, was used as such. and impar- These fire-frames were often quite orna- tial when mental ;and may yet be seen in old houses compared with modern in Essex county. . . :steam, hot ...... ~.... ~. .-. air, hot water, gas, oil and elec- tric heating, but each of them ~3sa step ::: toward the present systems.

WILL OF JOANNA CUMMINGS. The will of Joanna Cummings of Saleill was written May I I, 1644, and proved in the Snlem quarterly court July I I, 1644. The following copy is taken from the origi- nal instrument on file in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem, book I, leaf A FIRE-FRAME. 2 2. I Jone Cowins : dow giue vnto my ronn Immediately after this time the idea'of John Affter my death my houfe & ground making the stoves of iron became preva- &my gate : 6r my fow & he {hall give vnto lent, and soon manifested itself by the gooman Cornifh a hog pig of tow manufacture of stoves made of both months ould: mr:es noris fhall have my sheet and cast iron. The following are mufe. some of the earliest stylcs of iron stoves I dow give my Cow to m[y] gran Child that the writer has found, u*ith the excep- mary Bourne : I 88 THE ESSEX ANl'lQUARDLN.

[I dow give llallll my beft Apparil & The lldof the : jd: month Caled may Ucdi::g & bed to my Gran Child Johanali beeing the laft day of the week to by a heafer of tow yere ould to bee wittnes put forth for hir good & that wich ken a 8 Mary Beacham Jone Comins parte of that to my fonn John to Buery VI Elizabeth Corning : mee with all*] Elnor : wathin M I will have my debtes to bee payed out of the pipe ftaves & that wich Remaynes ABBOT NOTES. to bee giuen the one halfe to my gran- Joseph Abbat married Eliz Chinn, in child mary borne & the other halfe to Johanah borne my gran Child. Marblehead, Dec. I I, I 787. David Flint married Eliz Abbot (Chinn), I my bed in Marblehead, Sept. I I, I 794. bedding & all my houfould goods fould' : & out of that a heafer of tow yere ould to -Marb&head town records. bee bought for Johanah Bourne & Jlerejv Sarah Abbott published to ~enjatliin to burie meell I give To mr Moris Twenty Herrick of Methuen March 41 1775. Chilings & to the Church twenty ihilings : James Wymall of Methuen married deririug ym to Extort fo fmal a gift I Rhoda Abbott of Bradford, in Methuen, giue to goody Cotta my Blew pott robe & Oct. 11, 1797. a waft Cote my Trunck & Cloth vpon -Methuen town records. Goodye wathin fhall haue it for tenn William Abbot married Martha White, fhilings & the ffor to bare it vp with & both of Ipswich, May g, 1758. He goodye llwathinll fhall bee payed what I lived in Beverly, and was a mariner. He owe hir & the Reft to the deacons for was living in 1765, and died before Dec. them to giue wher Is appoynted Goody 8, 1768, when his widow Martha was ap- ffeld fhall halie my Iorn pol at qd a pointed administratrix of his estate. She pound to bee payed that I owe hir Sr was living in Beverly, his widow, in I 783. that w* Remaines to the dacuns I giue Their children were born in Beverly, as to goody Beacham a petticot with j caces follows : I. W'ifiaam, born April 20, about & a green fane yard & an ould 1761 ; was a mariner; died at Guada- waft Cote & an ould liuin Change I giue loupe in I 794 ; married Elizabeth I to Ann lhiply Tow linin Changes. I give who died Oct. 19, 181 7, aged fifty-seven; goodman boyce an ould blanckit wi[c] and lived in Beverly, where their children bp in the Chamber & a pilow wich he were born as foUows: I. William, born hath a Redie what fo euer is vnder my Jan. 6, 1785 ; married HepsibahBatchel- bed I giue to goody Corning & goody der Dec. 15, 1808; and was drowned at wathin to bee Equally deuided I giue sea July 19, 1811 ; his widow marrying, John brownes wife a whit Cutworke Coyfe : second, Samuel Picket May g, 1815 ; 2. I giue goody'wathin a blacke Coyfe wth a Martha, born Dec. 18, 1787; died July j, lape : a @ograne Coyie : I giue nly whit 1809 ; 3. John, born Feb. 14, 1789 ; llaf waft Cot & ould hat to Deborah died June 29, 1809 ; 4. George, born wathin I giue goody ffeld one of my lafe March 25,1791 ; msrried Nancy Stickney han carchefes wtChis at good bornes April 2, 1820; and died Jan. 18, 1848; I defire That llthell Tow deacons mr and 5. Elizabeth, born March 10, I 794 ; Got :I,& goodman horne : that they fhall married Oliver Blanchard Nov. 15, 1814 ; haue the ordring & defpofiug of thefe 2. John, christened April 10, 1763 ; died things in my ,will to Improve for the young. j. ]ohn, born Aug. 23,' I 764 ;lost Childrens good : yt it may not bee at sea; tax abated April I, 1788. 4. bangled away Hannah, christened Jan. 8, 1767 ; pub- *The words enclosed in these brackets are lished to Woodbery Messey of Ware Sept. crossed out in the original will.-Ed. 6, 1789.-BeverG town records, etc. THE FRIGATE (

" OLD IRONSIDES. " missing. The Constihtion had seven Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! killed and seven wounded. Up to this Long has it waved on high, time, the British navy had had a charm of And many an eye has danced to see invincibility upon the sea, which was now That banner in the sky; broken, and the dismay in England was Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar;- only paralleled by the joy in America. The The meteor of the ocean air enthusiasm in Marblehead upon the result Shall sweep the clouds no more ! of this engagement was unbounded. Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Dec. 29, I 812, she so successfully en- Where knelt the vanquished foe, countered the British frigate lava, of When winds were hurrying o'er the flood thirty-eight guns, off San Salvador, in the And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, West Indies, that after a desperate action Or know the conquered knee;- of three hours' duration theJava was re- The harpies of the shore shall pluck duced to a complete wreck, not a spar The eagle of the sea! being left standing. Her commander and 0. LV. Hol~nl~zrs. one hundred and sixty of her crew were either killed or wounded. The Constitu- THE FRIGATE CONSTITUTION. tion was slightly injured, and but thirty- The centennial anniversary of the four of her men were killed or wounded. launching of the old United States frigate Among the killed were the two sons of Consiitution has just been celebrated in a poor widow, named Cheever, of Marble- Boston, the gallant ship having been re- head. paired and put in order for formal service. The Cons6ituiion came north to be re- Some of the original timbers were cut paired, and again recourse was had to old in the woods in that part of Rowley which Baldpate, in Georgetown, for the timber, is now Georgetown, and teamed, by the out of which its new knees, planks and Brocklebanks and Nelsons, toCharlestown stanchions were formed. The timber was havy-yard, where the ship was launched hauled to Charlestown by Capt. Eliphalet OC~.21, 1797. Chaplin. Its crew was made up of men fro111 this On Sunday forenoon, April 3, 1814, the part of the state, eighty of whom were people of Marblehead were alarmed by from Marblehead. the sudden appearance of three great She carried forty-four guns ; and came ships of war sailing as fast as wind could to be affectionately called "Old Iron- carry them with their prows pointed to- sides." ward the harbor. The ship in advance Her first active service was in the mari- was recognized as the Consiitulian, the' time troubles before Tripoli in I 804 ; and two in the rear being the English frigates she served all through the war of 1812-15, Tenedos and End)mion. The Constitu- being always fortunate, probably from the tion was escaping from her pursuers, and fact that she was well co~nnlandedand \~iththe assistance of the seamen, who manned. In the war of 1812-15, Capt. knew every rock and shoal of the locality, Isaac Hull had her in command until she sailed swiftly and majestically into the toward the end of the year 1812, when he harbor, as cheer followed cheer from the transferred her to Comnlodore Bainbridge. crowded headlands and housetops. The Aug. 19, 1812, she engaged the GILPI.- British co~nlnandershad no such assistants n'rre, a thirty-eight-gun ship under the and they dared not come very near the command of Captain Dacres. The Eng- rocky coast. At about five o'clock, she lish vessel finally surrendered, after being weighed anchor, and sailed into Salem so badly injured that she was set on fire harbor, where she was more protected. and abandoned.. The Guen.icre lost one The Constitution was commanded at this hundred and one men killed, wounded and time by Captain Stewart. 190 THE ES$EX A To protect the frigate and the town a Mary's portion, being encumbered with number of heavy cannon were sent from his support for the rest of his life. Salem, and the Marblehead artillery assem- Children :-* bled, but no further sally of the British was 2-1. RUTH', m. John Palmer of Rowley 17: 7: made. 1645- 3-II. MARY^, m. Charles Brown of Rowley 14: She was in active service all through the 8: 1647. She d., and was buried Dec. war, and was never dismasted or stranded. 12, 1683; and he was buried Dec. 16, She was in three actions, and was twice 1687. closely chased. She captured five vessels 4-111. ELIZABETH%,m. Robert Swan in 1652. of war, two of which were frigates, and a 5-IV JOHN^, b. about 1638. See below b). third frigate-built. 5 At the breaking out of the Rebellion, in JOHN ACIE', born about 1638. He April, 1861, the Consfitutian was sta- lived in Rowley, where he first appears in tioned, as a school ship, off Annapolis, 1065. He died in 16go ; administration Md., and it was feared that the Confeder- being granted on hisestate 25 : I : 1690-1. ates would seize her. On their way to Mr. Acie married Hannah Green of Washington, by water, the Salem Zouaves Hampton, N. H., June 5, 1676. She and the "sappers and miners" corps of survived him, and married John Shepard the Eighth reginlent discovered her immi- of Rowley before I 694. She died March nent danger and they went aboard and by 30, 1718. lightening her got her over the bar and Children, born in Rowley :- out to sea, sailing her to New York. Many 6-1. MARY~,b. Aug. 5, 1677; d. young. of these men were sailors, and belonged 7-11. ELIZABETH^, b. Jan. 23, 1678-9; m. Judah Trumble of Rowley Nov. I 1, in Georgetown, Gloucester, Lynn, Marble- 1698; and was living in Rowley in I 734. head, Newburyport, and Salem. The old 8-111. HANNAH",b. March g, 1680.1; m. frigate was saved just in time from being Caleb Burbank of Rowley Aug. 31, transformed into a rebel ram. 1689; and was living in Rowley in I 71 5. 9-IV. ~IARGARET~,b. Aug. 30, 1683; m. John Dresser Feb. lo, 1702-3. ACIE GENEALOGY. The surname of ACIE is also spelled AMESBURY J~scFUPTIONS. Aasa, Accc, Acce, Acey, Acy, Acye, Asa, SALISBURY PLAINS CEMETERY. Ascyc, Asec, Ascy, Asie and Asyc. Continued fronz page 172. WILLIAMACIE' was living in Rowley, and had a grant of land there as early as Here Is Interrd 1643. He bought land in Topsfield in MI'. LYDIA OSGOOD 1664, but continued to live in Rowley. t h e Wife o f His autograph herewith given, as follows : Mr. Davi~OSGOOD Who Dcsd JULY Ye zoth 1768 AGED 53 years FARWAL MY HUSBAN NOW TO HOME I WISH ALL GOOD was written in 166 I. He was a constable THE GOD OF HOSt BE YOUR SUP in 1654, and also held other town offices. TILL WE DO MEET AGAIN OR^ Being "very aged," he made his will FAREWELL blY CHILDREN DEAR .TO HOME MY BOWELS ARN (GH~ April 22, 1689; and it was proved Sept. LEt LOVE &! TRUTH BE YOUr DELI 20, 1690. WHO AM DEAD 8: GONE Mr. Acie married Margaret be- fore 1664, and she died in February, 'There may have been a son Thomas, who was of Kowley in 1676-7. Savage says that there was 1674.5, being buried on the twelfth. He a son Joseph baptized in Boston in 1657. But then conveyed his estate to his children, William was living in Rowley in 1657.-Ed. AMESBURY IXSCRIPTIONS. Igr In Memory of Here Is Interrd LYDIAOSGOOD M". ELEANOR PAIGE Daur. of Lievt SAMUEI. the Wife of hfr. Mrs. ELENEROSGOOD SAMUEL PAIGE Who died may I 7" I 7 76 Dcst. JANUARY Ye Aged 7 Years. 29" 1770 AGED - 44 year 5 Mo In hlemory of Pr I I- Days SAMUELOSGOOD Son of Lievt SAMUEL Here Lies Interrd Mm.ELENER OSOOOD M'. JOiiN PAIGE ESQ' died June ye 17~~1776 Who Departed Aged r Year & 8 MO. This Life March - Ye I Ith 1767 In the 71 Year SARAH, o f his Age Relict oj Come Mortal Man Capt. William Oigood, And Cast An Eye died Come Rend thy Doom June 18" 1774, Prepare to Die &t. 57. - Here Lies Interrd Here Lies Interrd MARY ye DaUFr Of CAPt. WILLIAM OSGOOD Mr. Samuel & hl". Who Died of The Elnor Paige Snrar.~ POX NOW the Who Dcst. March 26"' 1758 AGED 43 Ye IO~" 1760 Year : I MO : IZ Days In the 3'" Year Depart My Friends of her .~GE Dry up Your Teers - I Must Lie here T i 11 C h r i s t Apears In &fctnoq~of - MR.JOSIAH PARKER, of Lexrtigton, Here Lies Interrd zcrho ded NOZJ.9th, 1792 ; MrZ MARY PAGE aged 22 j1eal.s. Consort to Mr. l?yr John Pace ESQ' 7%is prdselrt ririll'juorr drcay \Vho Desl. AUGUST Prrhaps tnjr tit11e wiN etrd lo day. Thnt nroy /find the hnfly /7rorp 21" Ye 1774 LVher~,?n j%oN :r:r ufy So"/ ,LO rtrurp In the 77" year - of her AGE HEKE LIES THE BODY OF IOIIN Here Is Interrd PARSONS LATE D "'-1ARY PAGE STUDEN?' OF HARUAR the wife of COLLEGE SON OFTHE Ensign Enoch Page REV. IOSEPH AND Who DcSt MARCH ELISABETH P.4RSONS ye 6 I775 HE \Y.4S BORN OCT In the 35 yezr 15 1725 DECEASED of her AGE OC'Y ?8'" I 730 ET.4T. I 6 192 THE ESSEX AhllQUARUN. HERE LIES THE BODY MARY OF THE REU: Relict o/ IOSEPH PARSONS A. M. Samuel Smith, INSTALLED PASTOR OF THE died 2* CHURCH. IN SALISBURY, ]any. I 8'" I 786 ANN0 I 718 : HE DECEASED .&t. 68. MAR. 13~~.1739. ETAT: 69 : HE WAS AN EMINENT CHRISTIAN AND WELL SAMUELSMITH ACCOMPLISHED MINISTER : died AB1.E FAITHFUL. LABORIOUS, 251h. or&.1778 AND SUCCESSFUL.- in his 65'" JP(W. HERE 1,IES ANNA DAUT'. 'r0 M ' STEPHEN & Mr" JOANNA PRESCUT Here Lies I~iterrd WHO DCSt AUGUST The Uody of cap'. Ye 16 1770 JEREMIAH STEVENS AGE I YEA 6 MO Who Departed & 16 DAYS This Life Nov'. - ye 24th I759 Here Is Interrd In Ye 85" Year CAPt. DAVID RING o f His .\ G E. Who Departed this Life April Ye 31d I752 Here Is Intered In the 3gth Year DE~. JONA'I'HAN STEVENS of his AGE - Who Departed this Life MAY Here Lies Interrd ye 3rd 1771 XIr DAVID RING AGED 68 YEAR 5 MO Who Departed & 28 Days this Life JULY DEPARl nlY FRIENDS Ye f ot" 177.5 DRY UP YOUR TEARS In the 23rd. Year I MUST LIE HERE of his AGE TILI. CHRIST APPEARS. MAN THAt IS BORN OF A WOMA, IS OF FEW DAYS - AND FULL OF TROUBLE HE COMETH FORTH LIKE A HERE LIES Ye FLOWER, AND IS CUT DOWN BODY OF Mr. IOSEl'H STOCKMAN HERE LYES * WHO DEPARTED BODY OF THIS MORTAL RING Ye WIFE OF Mr. DAVIS LIFE OCTOBER RING THE 3 A. D. I753 & IN THE 38 YEAR OF HIS A4GE * The inscription ia i~~dislinct. AlMESBLTXY INSCRIPTIONS. HERE LIES YE Here Is Interrd BODY OF MARY us. ANNA TRUE STOCKMAN WHO the Wife of WAS THE DAFTER MI. Henry True OF LIUT JOSEPH Who Departed .4ND Mm. MARY this Life AUGUSt STOCKMAN WHO Ye lStb 1756 NOUEMBER THE In the qStVear 7tb. -4 D 1753 of hir .~GE DIED I N THE 6th. YEAR OF HER AGE HERE LYES 'THE BODY OF

ANNE 'TRUE- - DAFTER OF HERE LYES Ye Mr. IACOB 6: BODY OF RUTH Mrs. ANNA TRUE STOCKhIAN THE W 11 0 DIED DAFTER OF LIU' NOUEMBER JOSEPH AND Mrs. THE 28 1753 MARY STOCKMAN AND IN THE WHO DIED NOU' j YEAR OF Ye 13th. 1753 HER X G E IN Ye 4th YEAR OF HER AGE Here I s Interred THE CHILDREN OF Mr. JOHN KI Mr8. MARY TRUC HERE LYES BURIED DANIEI. TRUE DCS' the BODY OF Mrs OCT Ye 2 8 I744 MaRv 'I'aPPEn the AGED I YEAR WIFE OF mr. Iames RUTH TRUE D C St TaPPEN WHO DIED IANUARY Ye 6 1748 nOVEMBER Ye. 4th AGED '3 M 0 1728 & In the z31d YEAR OF HER AGE Here lies interrd Mrs. DOROTHY TRue the Wife o f HERE LYES Capt. IVinthrop True THE BODY OF \V h o Departed ABEL TRUE This Life March THE SON OF Ye I I t" 1764 I IACOB AND In Y' 531d Year Mrs. ANNA TRUE o f her AGE WHO DIED NOUEMBER MR. IACOB TRUE THE 30 1753 * AND IN THE sd YEAR OF HIS A G E *This inscription is almost entirely gone. = 94 THE CSSEX ANTIQUARIAN. Here is Intered HERE LIES Ye BODY Mr. WINTHROP TRUE JOHN WEBSTER JUnr. Who Departed s o N TO M' this Life Octr GRANT & M" ye Sta I770 HANNAHWEBSTER in the 31" Year DIED OCT~3 oth o f his AGE I753 AGED - 5 YEARS & 4 Mo Here Is Interrd Mr. JAMES TUCKER Who Departed In Nernog~of this Life July 6t" Mr Natbanid Webster 1769 In Ye 73rd Year of his Age Who Died rnq' 61h ,784 In Jlemory /ti ye 37& Year of of bis Age MR. BENJAMINWADI.EIG~ who died January 2rst1787, irt the 7sfh Ycnr Thisjtorze is ercc/ed oj his to ihc memory of the A2e REV. SAMUEL WEBS~ER, n. n. paftor of fire wf/l L/LUYC~ irr this Tawtr. Here lies BETTY In him, were united, the 800d WEBiTER DautT of Scholar, the rational n'iui~rr, Cap7 Stephen 8. Mrs. /he jui/h/uZ minif/eel. and Hannah Webster rscmpla1-y chrijtia~l Who Dcs' Sept" He died Jt/b I?, 1796 ye 5 t,h I75 3 in the 78'" year 01 hts as, In Ye 18'~ Year ntzii' 551hf his vri9/i/tq8. of Hir AGE 6~ Behold the tifri~/ztjor ill? - enif of fhaf ntan ts priice.' Here Lie Interd Ye Remains of MI'. ELIZABETH DAFTER of the REV^ Samuel Here Lies Y" lie~liains & MT. Elizabeth Webster Lfrn SARAH WEBSTER Who Departed this Life Dr of The RevU in hope of A Better Samuel We bster oct ye zgtl' 1771 in Y" zyt" Who calmly Resignd Y" of her AGE her Breath APRIL 17'~ HARK FROM 'THESE 'l'00MS 1770 In the zzd AN ALARM COMES year of her AGE THREE SiSTEKS CRY THAT DEATH lS NIGH Thus sicknes & THAT ALL h1USl' MEm' Decese Consullle THAT JUDGMEW1' SEAT the Smiling virgins ANI) TI-1lNewfoundland to EBENEZERANAVER of Marblehead ; Salem, Mass., where he lost his life by fall- priv., Capt. Curtis' co., Col. Glover's - ing into a well in November; 1762. Also, reg. ; co. return [probably Oct., I 7753. of his family. w. L. JOHN ANDERSONof Cape Ann; mas- IVorresfer. ter's mate, ship Franklin," com'manded " 118. Wanted, ancestry and place of - by Capt. Allen Hallett ; descriptive list of birth of Samuel Bradford, who married officers and crew, dated Boston, June 20, Mary Taylor in Middleton, Mass., in I 743, I 781 ; age, 25 yrs. ; complexion, dark. - JONATHAN ANDERSONof Salem ; sea- and lived and died in Hillsborough, N. H. Media, Pa. M. B. S. man, ship " Pilgrim," commanded by Capt. Joseph Robinson ; descriptive list I I g. Ipswich Sold'iPrs, King Williams' of officers and crew, dated Aug. 2, I 780 ; and QUPC~~Anne's Wars.! Wanted, the age, 20 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., I in. ; com- military record, with captain's name and plexion, light. particulars of service, of 'I Sergeant " JOHN ANDRESSof Gloucester ; priv., John Foster,3 (Reginald,z Reginald1), Capt. Warner's co., Col. Little's reg. ; co. 1664-1 736, of Chebacco village, Ipswich, return [probably Oct., 17751 ; enl. May Mass., styled " sergeant " in inventory of estate, Essex records. JOSEPH FOSTER. 4, 1775 ; age, 19 yrs. JOHN ANDRESSof Gloucester ; priv., Porfsrnoufh, N. H. Capt. Barnabas Dodge's co., Col. Ger- I 20. Wanted, parentage of Martha rish's (later Baldwin's) 26th reg. ; muster Tyler, who married Thomas Downing, in roll dated Aug. I, I 7 75 : enl. May 2, Salem, in August, 1744. L. C. L. I 7 75 ; service, 13 wks. ; also, co. return West Boxlord. dated Camp at Chelsea, Oct. 2, I 775 ; 121. Wanted, parentage' of Mary also, list of men absent from muster, Tyler, who married John H. Reed in dated Chelsea, Oct. 3, 1775 ; reported, 1 745. L. C. L. 198 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

122. Wanted, descendants of Ed- EDITORIAL. ward Augustus Hammond, born, Beverly, This number completes volume one of June 13, 1807. F. S. H. THEESSEX ANTIQUARIAN. There have been Oneida, N. Y. published the wills proved in Essex coun- 123. Wanted descendants of Nath- ty before 1644 ; the gravestone inscrip- aniel Oliver Hammond, born, Topsfield, tions in the present town of Amesbury be- Oct. 30, 1808. F. S. H. fore 1800 ; the genealogies of families from Abbe to Acie, inclusive ; the record ANSWERS. of the Essexcounty Revolutionary soldiers and sailors from Abaaham to Andrews; 37. Noah West married Abigail Blay, and abstracts of the old Norfolk county both of Newbury, Oct. 16, 1745. On the records to 1655. The publishers are record of births in Newbury is recorded : gratified at the support given them in 6d William Blay, son of Noah Blay and their endeavor to present a magazine of Abigail his wife, born January 2 I, I 746 " Essex county history and genealogy with (probably 1746-7). This William Blay is some degree of completeness. They undoubtedly William Blay West, son of expect that the new year will produce Noah West and Abigail Blay. Not being even better results. accustomed to writing middle names the town clerk wrote, inadvertantly probably, as the father's name, 6Zay instead of NEW PUBLICATIONS. West. This is probably the William Blay A GENEALOGICALACCOUNT OF THE SPOF- West who lived in New Gloucester, Me.- Ed. FORTH OR SPOFFORDFAMILY. By Ashworth P. Burhe, Editor of the " Landed Gen- 87. May 8, 1648, James Smith bought try," etc. London, 1897. This is a re- a large tract of land in Woolwich, Me., print from Burke's Family Records, and of Robin Hood, the Indian chief. He shows the English ancestry of the Ameri- died in Woolwich about 1660. His can Spoffords. widow Elizabeth married again, and in an A Mas~sOF THE MORMONS.Strang's Indian raid, in August, 1676, this second City of Refuge and Island Kingdom. By husband was killed, together with her son Hetzry E. Le,.lr. Milwaukee, 1897. This Samuel Smith, and the rest of the family is one of the publications of the Parkrnan were made prisioners. When liberated, Club, whose purpose is the study of the two of the sons, James and Hazadiah, history of the Northwest. This number fled to Massachusetts, James settling in contains 67 pages, and five illustrations. Salem Village and Hazadiah in Beverly. Hazadiah married Hannah Grover in THENEW LIFE OF V~RGINM: Declaring 1684. She died in 1751. Hazadiah is the Former Success and Present Estate of said to have been one of the early settlers that Plantation, being the Second Part of of Falmouth, now Portland, Me., and that Nova Britannia. London, 16 I 2. This is he came to Beverly in 1690.-Mary A. the November number of the American Parso?zs, Lyi~njeldCentre. Colonial Tracts. Pages, 20. [Hazadiah Smith was born about 165 7. CHIPMANSIN MAINE. .4 Genealogy. His mother's second husband was Richard By Alberto Lee Chipman. Sabbathday Hammond, who was killed by the Indians Lake, Me., 1897. Cloth ; I z mo. ; pages, in 1676 ; and she married again, to Capt. 44 ; with colored coat-of-arms. In this John Rawdon of the Sagadahoc militia. little book, Mr. Chipman gives the history Hazadiah married Hannah, daughter of and genealogy of the Chipn~ansthat were John and Sarah (Barney) Grover May 27, identified with the early settlement of 1684.-Ed. Bakerstown, now Poland, Me. INDEX TO SURNAMES.

Aasa, ]go. Aburn, 161. Anaver, 197. Balch, 57, 120, 127. Abaaham, 7, 198. Aburne, 161. Anderson, 197. Baldwin, 8, 32, 63, 65, Abbat, 188. Abut, 35. Andress, 197. 129-1.31,157, 196, 197. Abbe, 14, 15, 33, 66, Abutt,js. Andrew, 67. Ballard, 37, 58-60, 62, 149, 198. Acce, 19. Andrewe, I 14. 64,65,81,83,98, 103, Abbee, 14. Acee, ]go. Andrewes, 142, 143. 105, 106, 127, 133. Abbei, 14. Acey, 190. Andrews, 17, 41, 142, Ballou, 126. Abbet, 7, 35. Acie, lgo, 198. 143,198. Bancroft, 3% 33, 55, 80, Abbett, 35. Acy, 190. Androes, 178. 96, 161.163. Abbey, 14,33, 174. Acye, 190. Andros, 154. Barker, 35, 41, 79, 83, Abbie, 14. Adam, 196. Alan, 197. 103, 129, 177. Abbit, 7, 35. Adames, 32, 33. Ann, Queen, 73. Bamaby, 125. Abbitt, 35. Adams,6, 16,17, 28,33, Ann!, Queen, 197. Barnard, 85, 120, 121. Abbot, 7-10, 31, 34-41, 55, 63-65,69,92, 101, Ann~s,10. Barnes, 32,85, 104,114, 58-62, 79-84, 96-100, 130,137,167,185,206. Appleton, 13,62,141. 179,180. 103-108, 117, 118, Addams, 130. Archard, 147. Barnett, 21, 22, 24. 128-130,141,14~,188,Adderson, 130. Armetage, 52. Barney, 198. 196. Addums, 130. Armitage, 21, I 15,1x7. Barns, 179. Abbott, 7, 8, 31, 32, Adoms, 206. Armstrong, 86. Barrows, 52. 35, 134,166,177,181,Aeors, 130. Arnold, 15. Barry, 142. 188, 196. Aiers, 130. Asa, 190. Bartholmew, I 16. Abbut, 35. Airs, 131. Ascye, 19. Bartholomew, 53, ga, Abbutt, 35. Aitkins, 13 I. Asee, 190. 114. Abby, 14. Akiss, 131. Asey, 19. Bartholowmeu, 92. Abbye, 14. Alden, 48, 64,65, 133. Asie, 190. Bartlet, 10,75, 121, 122. Aber, 32. Alexander, 131. Asye, 1go. Bartlett, 25, 67, 102, Aberne, 161. Alhey, 131. Atkins, 78. 119,121, 122, 181. Aberon, 161. Alinwood, 131. Auntun, I 15. Barton, 76, 127, 157. Abet, 35. Alld, 131. Averill, 102, 118. Bass, 79. Abett, 35. Allem, 131. Avery, 17, 93, 94, 118. Bast, 13. Abit, 35. Allen, 6, 38, 43,52,131-Ayer, 10. Batchelder, 16, 52, 59, Abitt, 35. 133, 14~,149t156-158. 96, 98, I 10,188. Abon, 161. Allenwood, 158. Bacheler, r 17. Batcheller, 115,147, 148. Aboot, 32. Allerton, 93. Bacheller, 10, 23, 1x4,Batt,22-24,148, 179, 180. Aborn, 32, 161-164. Alley, 127, 153, 158, 117, 151. Bayley, 17,113,122,1fg. Aborne, 161. 164, 195. Bachiler, 151, 152. Baylie, 148. Aborns, 32 Allin, 177, 179, 195. Bacon, 57. Bayly, 24, 49, 50, 84, Abet, 35 Allon, 195. Badger, 96. 113, 147, 178-180. Abott, 15. Ally, 195. Bagley, 119,IW, 168. Beacham, 188. Abourn, 161. Alsworth, 195. Bagly, 119. Beadle, 6. Abourne, 114,161. Ambros, 49, 85. Bailey, 10, 12, 17, 57, Beamsley, 134. Abraham, 174. Ambross, 20, 21, 85. 58, 69-73, 75, 80, 98, Beauchamp,134,166,~06. Abrahams, 32, 174. Ames, 8, g, 31, 41, 107, 108,118. Beeks, 103. Abram, I 74. 195, 196. Bainbridge, 189. Belknap, 68. Abrams, 174. Amory, 196. Baker, 7, 8, 17, 32-34,Bell, 33, 161. Abrims, 174. Anabel, 196. 64, 86, r 10, 132, 161, Bellingham, 20-23, 49, Abron, 161. Amble, 196, 197. I 66. 50, 8.5, 113, 180. 200 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

Bemcnt, 15. Bnsto, 85. Carter, 44, 68. Codman, 61. Bennett, I 18. Brock, 80. Cartwright, 30. Codnam, 49, 148. Bently, 65, 101. Brocklehank, 189. Cartwrit. 31. Coes, 17. Bernard, 78. Brook, 64. Cary, 8, 107. Coffin, 28, 43, 161, 178. Berry, 78, loo, 102. Brooks, 31, 52, 64, 65, Caryl, 86. Coffyn, I 116, 178, Bickford, 36. 133. Case, 53, 54. 179. Bidlack, 66. Broughton, 131. Cass, 23, 24, 49,50,148. Cogswell, g, 64. Biggs, 85. Brown, 9-12, 33, 34, 40, Cave, 53. Coker, 17. Bigsbie, I 79. 41, 106, 11r,113,116,Chace, 21. Colburn, 96. Birdsall, 133. 117, 123, 125, 131, Challice, 22. Colby, 6, 82. Birge, 104. 132, 141, 148, 15o,Challis, 24, 50. Colcord, 21-24, 49, 50, Bishopp, 76. 166, 168, IF. Chamberlain, 67, 102, 85, 116, 117, 148,181. Bixby, 106. Browne, 20, 22, 44, 45, 186. Colcott, 117. Black, 10, 127. 50~69,76,84,85, I I 3- Chamecin, I 12. Cole, 21, 22, 49, 113, Bladel, 122. I IS, 117,148,179,188. Champion, 186. 115, 116. Blaisdell, 32, 33. Browning, 100. Chandler, 35, 37-40, 59, Colebie, 24,84, 178, 179. Blanchard, 37, 40, 59, Brundle, 44. 60,70, 80-82, 86, 98, Coleby, 50, 84. 96, 99, 130, 182, 188. Bryant, 68. 99, 103, I 18, 128, Coleman,~o,114,116,180. Blasdel, 120, 122, 123, Buffington, 3, 98. 1.50, 177. Coles, 85. 158. Buffum, 137, 139, 140. Chapin, 1.5. Coley, 40. Blasdell, 122. Bull, 13. Chaplin, 150, 189. Comins, 187, 188. Blay, to, 197. Burbank, 57, 190. Chapman, 103, 107. Conant, 127. Blesdale, 24, I 14, 179, Burbie, "3, 147. Charles, 131. Cook, 4, 157. 180. Burge, 41. Charles, I 78. Cooke, 156. "Blethin, 181. Burgoyne, 31, 72. Chal-lcs 11, 134. Cop, lo, I I. I Blevin, 181. Burke, 198. Chase, 10-12, 16, 20,23, Copeland, 136. Blunt, 39, 41, 82. Burnam, 48. 49. 52,85, 96, 123. COPP, 174. Boardman, 111, 166. Burne, 148. Cheever, 15, 96, 166, Corbin, 142. Bodwell, 82, 98, 181. Burnham, 10, 127, 141, 1.89, 197. Corlis, 10.12, 116. Bolton, 118, 150, 175. 166. Ch~ckley,24. Cornhill, 87. Borman, 92. Burns, 55. Child, 98, 158. Corning, 188, Borne, 188. Burnum, 143. Chinarde, I 79. Cornish, 187. Bosson, 34, 181. Burpee, 107. Chinaree, I 16. Cortwnte, 30. Bosworth, I 18. Burr, 15. Chinn, 129, 188. Cosens, 116. Bott, 20. Burrill, 78. Chipman, 198. Cosins, 85. Boultar, 21. Bursley, 22. Choate, 108. Cothran, 10. Boulter,zo,21,113. bur sly,^^. Christison, 138. Cotta, 188. Boultor, 22, 113. Burt, 178. Chubb, 128. Coulman, 50. Bourne, 187, 188. Burton, 53, 54. Churchman, 177, 178. Cowllman, 66. Bowditch, 17. Bush, 134. Chynaree, I 16. Cox, 20, 23, 113. Bowers, 39,232. Bussell, 168. " Cinrier," 124. Crafts, r58, 195. Boyce, 188. Buswell, 23,24,113,114, Claflin, 126. Cram, 114, 115, 150. Boynton, 43,99. 117, 147-149. Clark, 10, 43, 52, 62, Creelman, 6. Brackett, 137. Butler, 40. 55, 163, 166. 106, 168. Cromwell, 152. Bradbury, 10, 12, 20-24, Butlett, 168. Clarke, 85, I 13, 115, Crosby, 82. 49, 50, 84, 85, 113- Button. 116. 116, 168. Cross, 49, 61, 86, 102, 117, 147, 148, 178- Bylie, 20. Cleaveland, 123. 114, 150. 180. Bylye, 20. Clement, 10, 74,85, 116. Crosse, 22. Bradford, 197. Clements, 21, 85, 117, Crowell, 96. Bradley, 10-13, 97. Cabot, 6, 48, 172. 147, 148, 179. Crowninshield, 3. Bradstreet, 23, 50, I I I, Caldwell, 68. Clifford, 23, 150. Cummings, 41, 62, 81, 112, 140, 160. Calley, 40. Clogston, 34. 187. Bragg, 130. Caly, 13. Clough, 6, 51, 98, 123, Curier, 10, I-. Brand, 136. Campbell, 83. 124, 168, 169. Currier, 10, 34, 51, 43, Bray, 6. Capon, 30. Cloyes, 127. 1149 119, 124, 184, Brend, 136-238. Carleton, 84. Cloyse, 166. 178, 179. Brewer, 54. Carlton, 10, 41, 105,129, Coas, 118. Curtis, 132, 197. Bricket, 33. 177. Cobbett, 152. Cushin, 180. Brickett, 33. Carner, 112. Cobet, 178. Cushing, 63, 70, 78, 101, Bridge, 106, 132. Carnes, 4. Cobham, 23, 24, 50, 8 , 131, 132. Bridges, 23, 1% xof,Carr, 23, 92, 106, 112. 85, 113, 115-117,17i-~utl~r,39, 105,127. 110, 127. Carrell, 86, 102. 180. Cutt~ng,24, 178. Bright, 49. Carrill, 86, 102, 150. Coburn, 82, 186. Cutts, 62. INDEX TO SURNAMES. 201

Dacres, 189. . Dunbar, 34. Farmer, 58. Freethey, 34. Dade, 4. Dunn, 157. Farnham, 78. French, 64, 100, 108, Daine, 160. Dustin, 129. Farnum,7,8,31,36,40, 128,131,170. Dale, 59, 107. Duston, 6. 58, 59, 62, 81, 103, Fries 177. Dalton, 11, w, 69, 114,Dutch, 141. 129. 130, 177, 196. Fryer 7, 8, 31, 64, 83, 116, 117, 148,180. Dutton, 80. Farnngton, 62,107, 108, 96, 99, 108, 128.130, Damon, 62. Dwinnells, 16. 158. 19.5, 196. Dana, 43. Dyer, 126. Faulkner, 83, 103. Fulsom, 107. Dane,~S,39,58,61,III, ffairefeild, 127. Furbush, 98. 159,160, 177- Eaborn, 161. ffamngton, 175. Danforth, 58, 157. Eaborne, 68,161. flay, 76. sage, 3~52,68,127. Darling, 127. Eabourn, 161. ffeld, 188. Gale, 10. Daulton, 21-23,49, 114. Eabourne, 161. ffelloes, 50. Gallison, 174. Daus, 115. Eaburn, 161. ffifeild, 20, 22, 23, 49, Gardner, 6, 137, 158. Davis, 10-12,49, 66,85, Eaburne, 161. 50, 113, 114, 147, 179.Garland, 150. 116, 126, 148, 178. Easman, 169. ffifield, 20. Garrison, 126. Day, 43. Eastman, 40, 62, 66, ffilbrick, 20, 22-24, 113.Gascoyne, 137. Deane, 169. 113, 115, 147, 148,ffilbrigg, 21. Gaskill, 86, 137. Death, 127. 169. ffilbrooke, 22. Gaskin, 137, 139. Denison, 148, 149, 179. Eaton, 50, 85, I 16, 126,ffillbrooke, 85. Gatchel, 11, 12. Dennen, 157. 179. ffinch, 65. Gates, 32, 33. Dennis, 100. Eatton, 10-12. ffiske, 116. Geary, 36. Dennison, 139. Ebborn, 161. ffitt, 84. Geer, 14. Derby, 3, 4,163. Ebborne, 161. ffitts, 147, 180. George, 43, 59, 86, 144. Devereaux, 128. Eborn, 161. fflanders, 180. Gerrish, 31, 63-65, 78, Devereux, 4. Ebome, 161. ffletcher, 1x4, 179. 101, 13% 1319 157, Dickinson, 22. Ebourn, 161. ffogg, 114. 147. 181,196, 197. Dickison, 84, 85. Ebourne, 161. ffogge, 23, 24. Getchell, 24. Diggadon, 89. Edes, 158,195. ffoster, 174. Giddings, 54, 166. Diilaway, 10. Edmonds, I 58. ffowler, I 12. Gilbert, 104, 161. Diilingham, 13, 14. Edwards, 41,52,i+. ffrancklin, 142. Gild, 116. Ditmarsh, 74. Elkin, 113. ffrench, 24,85, 115, 148, Gilde, 179. Divoll, 182. Elkins, 21. 375. Gile, 11, 116. Dixon, 97. Ellenwood, 98. ffullar, 22, 23, 49, 50, Gill, 113, 117, 147, 148. Dod, 160. Elliot, 54, 119,175. 85, 114, 117. Gillett, 134. Doddridge, gz. Elliott, 117, 127. ffuller, 21,114. Gillman, 49, 113, 115, Dodge, 32-34, 63, 65, Elwell, 44. ffulsham, 180. 117, 178,180. 11 I,130-132,157,158, Emerie, 147. Fifield, 180. Gilman, 179, 181. 163, 184-186,196,197.Emerson, 10,I I, 13,3f,Finson, 44. Glover, 32, 101, 132, Dole, 102,169. 196. Fisk, 60, 104, 105, 107. 133, 158,196,197. Donaldson, I 10. Emery, 49, 84, 107,I 18, Fiske, 61, 80, 166. Godfrey, 24, 50, 113, Dorman, 48, 109, 110, 140, 181. Fitts, 86, 166, 170. 147. 113. Emry, 49. Flanders, 143,170. Goldsmith, 14, 43, 61, Doue, 23, 24, 114, I 15, Endecott, I 14. Flint, 66, 96, 100,108, 108. 1799 180. Endicott, I,52,127,137, 161, 163, 181, 188. Goldthwait, 68. Douglass, 81, 84. 140. Flynt, 10. Goldthwaite, 68. Dove, 21, 163. English, 21, 24. FoUansbe, 143,144. Goldwyer, 147. DOW, 18, 20, 21, 102,Engs, 175. FoUansbee, 80, 124. Goodale, 127, 134, 149, 115, 118. Estey, 54, 67, 103. Foote, 102. 163, 166. Dowe, 10, ax, 147. Esto, 22. Forbes, 5. Gooderson, I 12. Downham, 160. Estow, 114, 117, 147,Foster, 8, I I, 32,39, 44, Goodle, 174. Downing, 197. 148. 46, 47, 54, 58, 96 98, Goodridge, 144. Dowst, 163. Estowe, 22. 100, 102, 104, 105,Goodw~n, 71. Drake, 21, 22, 24, 49, Evans, 64, I 18,:16g, 170. 10, I 132, 166,Gookin, 117. Evens, 170. 186, 197. Gordon, IS. Dresser,I It I,I 15.105, 190. Eyer, I 16. Fowle, 97. Gorges, 19. Dmmmond, 17. Fowler, 14, 16, 66, 107, GOSS,61, 98, 149. Dudley, 14, 23, 50, 85, Fairbanks, 86. 181. Got, 188. 115, 116, 148, 180. Fairchid, 195. Fox, 8, 135. "Gouge," 180. Duglas, I IS. Fairfield, 14. Frame, 109. Could, I 7, 34, I I I, I tg, Dumer, 67, 68,160,179,Fanninf 52. Francis, 7, g, 31, 32, 140, 144, 163, 166, 180. Far, 17 . 130, 142, 196. I 78. Dummer, 67. Farley, g, 101, 157. Franklin, 71, 184,:187. Graften, 133. 202 THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN.

Grafton, 101. Hasey, 118. Hoo er, 64, 129, 130. Jewett, 69, 70, 105. Grant, 15, 99, 104, 129. Hassaltine, 10, 11. opti in ton, I 76. Johnson, 7-9, 1% 17~31, Graves, 36,37, 62. Hasseltine, 12. Horne, 161, 188. 529 60, 63, 86, 101, Gray, 4, 37, 38, 40, 128, Hathorne, 45, 125. I-lorton, I 12. 106-108, 177, 181, 142. Hauborne, "7. Houghton, 80. 195, 196. Greele, I I. ' Hauxworth, 24. Houlton, 161. Johnston, 129. Greeley, 33, 116, 181. Haven, 127. House, 134. Jones, 6, 23, 24, 52, 61, Greely, 20, 50, 178-180. Haward, 49. Hovey, 40, 46, 47, 79, 74, 80, 82, 115, 133, Green, 23, 24, 49, 50, Hawley, 106, 108. 9514% 143. 145. 64, 85, 114. 178, 180, Hay, I*. Hovle, 142. Jonson, [IO, 11, 23, 50, 190. Haynes, 67, 86. How, 7, 103. I 16. Greene, 23, 50, 114. Hazletine, 59. Howard, 20, 21, 24, 49, Jordan, 97, 150. Greenfeild, 21, 22, 24, Hazzen, 10. 50, 114, 117, 148, 162. Joslin, I&. 8.5, 117. Heald, 98. Howe, 8, 17, 150. Josselen, 24. Greenleaf, 52, 78, 86, Heard, 21, 24, 179, 180. Howlet, 143. Josselyn, I. 166. Heath, 10, 11. IIowletl, 52, 92, rog, Greenleif, I 79. Henchman, 11, 154. 110, 127. Kast, 6. Grele, 116. Hendrick, 20, 85, I 16, Hoyt, 6, 21-23, 84, I 13, Keizer, 86. Griffin, 39, 128, 142, 117. 147. 144, 147, 179, 180. Kellage, 24. !43~149. Henfield, 33, 38. Hubbard, 15, 81, 93, Kellem, 30. Gnffiths, 6. Henley, 64. 127: Kembell, 179. Grile, 23. Henman, 186. Hugens, 50, I 16. Kemble, I 17, 148, I 79. Gross, 85, I 17. Henricke, I I 7. Hugins, 23. Kenney,'127. Grover, 198. Hemck, 60, 97, 188. Hull, 97, 189. Kent, 11, 21, 49, 116. Guilford, 17. Herriman, 10. Humber, 50, 85, 113, Keyes, 83, 149, 182. Gyll, 113. Hibbert, 37, 144. 114. Kidder, 108. Gyllman, 22-24, 49, 85, Hibbins, 114, 148 Humphrey, 182. Kieffer, I 82. 114-117, 179. Hicks, 15. Hunt, 38, 127. Kilburn, 6. Gylven, 92. Higginson, 1, 43, 140. Huntington, 49, 50, 63, Killam, 86. Hildreth, 58. 113.. Kimbal, 13. Haawig, 157. Hill, 105, 116, 137, 179. Hunt~ntun,144. Kimball, 10, I I, 14, 16, Habone, 117, 147. Hillard, 20. Huntuntien, 145. 479 67. Knights, 108. Hiller, 158. Hurd, 155. King, 21, 43, 49,60, 83, Hacket, 28, 171. Hills, 86, 166. Hurley, 8. 85, 117, 178, 182. Hackett, 28, 171. Hilton, 19, 21, 85, 113, Husse, 24. Kittridge, 128. Haddon, 50, 84, 113, 115, 179. Hussey, 23, 49, 85, 1x3, Kneeland, 61, 79, 80, 179. Hinde, 24. 151, 178, 180, 206. III. Haines, 161. Hindes, loo. Hussi, 178. Knight, 76, 114, 143. Hains, 181. Hinds, 101, 181. Hussie, 22, 49,178, 180. Knowlton, 14, 99, 149, Hale, 24, 66,. 86.. 101. Hinman. 186. Hussv. IIZ. 166. 116, 118. ' ith hen*, 21. ~utcbins,~~I. Hall, 15, 20, 22-24, 37, Hobart, 136. Hutchinson, 6, 7, 32,34, Ladd, 98, 118. 49, 98, 114, 115, 147. Hobbs, 21, 38, 110,113, 63, 118, 128, 130-132, Lakeman, 107. Hallett, 197. 141. 177, 195. Lamson, I I 7. Halsie, 85, 148. Hedges, 24, 65, 179. Lane, 22,82, 145, 148. Halstead, I 18. Hodgkins, 69. Ilsley, 49, 64. La%, 98. Ham, 112. Hoite, 14.4. Ingalls,41, 61, 100, 103, Langton, 112, 113. Hammatt, 18. Holbrook, I 53. 128. Latberby, 186. Hammond, 102, 198. Holder, 136. Ingersoll, 3. Lauson, 21. Hancock, 10, 32. Holdred, 84, 92, 113, Inglish, 21. Lawrence, 105. Hanford, I 12. I 16. Islsly, 50. Leach, 32, 166. Hardie, 133. Holdridg, 148. Lead, 181. Hardy, gz. Holgate, I I, 13. Jackson, 30, 32, 104, Leader, 148. Harison, 24. Holman, 150. 158, 161. Learoyd, 127. Harnden, 38. Rolmes, 97, 98, 189. Jacob, 16, 34. Leant, 180. Harriman, 34, 67, 127, Holt, 8-10, 31, 36-39, Jaqueth, 134. Leantt, 180. 174. 41, 60-62, 80, 81, 96- Jaquith, ~oo. LeBlanc, 72. Harris, 55,98, 101, 102. 99, 106, 195. Jenkins, 55. Leddra, 136.138. Hamson, 24. Homan, 129, 130. Jenks, 62. Lederay, 136. Hart, 67, 132, 134. Hood, 127. Jenner, 148. Lee, 107. Harwood, I 7, 34. Hook, 122, 180. Jennesey, 163. Watt, 21, 49, 85, 113- Haseltine, 181. Hooke, 20,115, 116 Jennings, 15,66 115. Haselton, 186. 147- Jeremiah, 181. Legler, 198. INDEX TO SURNAMES. '“3

“LeHastr," 145. Marston, I 14, I 16, I&. Morss, I 18. Onnsbey, 20, 116. Leland, 71. Martin, 82, 130. Mose, 66. Ormsbie, 20. Levitt, 114, 147. Martyn, 20, 22-24, 85. Mosrs, 198. Omby, 66, 147, 178. Lewes, 23. Mason, 19, 48, 114, 178. Moulton, 21-23, 80, 101,0me, 6, 161. Lewis, 23,182, 185. Massey, 127, 163. 114-116,147,148,162,Os ood, 23. 29, 36, 58, Libby, 8. Mastin, 177. 179. 83,10'],110, 146, 172, Lilford, 116, 148. Maston, 21, 22, 49, 113, Mull~can,52, 68. 180, 19,191. Lincoln, 27, 100. 115,116, I&. Mullicken, 67, 68. Otterson, 10. Lindsay, 155. Mastone, 23. Mulliken, 68. Owens, 83. Lindsey, 108. Mather, 93. Mundy, 157. Licen, 178. Mattox, 68. Mungel, 163. Page, 10-12, 21, 22, 29, Little, 8, 10, 31, 32, 63, Maver, 85. Murray, 126. 65, 86, 114, 117, 137, 64, 101,131,132,158, McDougall, 31. Mussy, 159, 161. 147, 148, 191. 197. McFarland, 195. Muusll, 160. Paige, 6, 191. Littleale, 76, I 15. McHard, I I. Muzzey, 159- Paine, 36, 130, 148. Littlefeild, 49. McKenzie, I I I. Pallmer, 22. Littlehale, I 16, I 79. McKinley, 82. Nason, 97. Palmer, 23, 50, 66, I I 7, Livermore, 102. McLellan, 7. Neal, 186. 147, 190. Locke,69, 1x1, 112. Mead, 127. Needam, 114. Parker, 11, 23, 31, 33, Longfellow, 72. Meady, 55. Needham, 17, 67, 102, 41, 50, 58, 67,82,86, Look, 52. Meder, I 15. 114, 137,162, 181. 102, 105, 106. 118, Lord, 14, 20, 21,24, 92, Meriam, 20,21. Needum, I 15. 131, 149, 1572 191. 147, 148. Merrell, 65. Negus, 149. Parkman, 198. Louit, 21. Memam, 178. Neland, 105. Parl, 48. Lovejoy, 36, 39, 40, 60, Merrie, 116, 148, 179. Nelson, 34, 67, 68, 110, Parsons, 9, 1of,141,15~, 62, 63, 81, 99, 104, Merrill, 10-12, 40, 41, 118, 150, 189. 182, 191, 192, 198. 105, 110. 59,83,1~f, 146, 157, Nevell, 113 Partridg, 50. Lovet, 23. 171. Nevill, I 12. Patch, 64, 197. Lovett, 7, 174. Merry, 116, 148. Newcomb, I 18. Patee, 11. Low, 63, 86, 132. Messey, 188. Newhall, 185, 195. Patenon, 7, 9, 64, 130, Lowell, 102, 118, 145. Mctacom, 197. Newman, 70, 159. 131, 197. Lowle, 76, 102, 145. Metcalf, 86. Nichols, 53, 54, 86, 186. Paul, 58. Lummus, 62. Metcalfe, 143. Nickson, 31. Paybody, 102. Lumpkin, 148. Mill, 32. Nicksone, 30. Payne, 21,113,114,116, Lumey, 28, 44. Miller, I 79. Nicolls, 179. 148, 161. Luscomb, 6. Millett, 6. Nixon, 32, 101, 132, 195. Payson, 195. Lutherway, 136. Mingay, 21, 147. Noris, 187. Peabody, 4, 5, 9,17,46- Lyman, 102. Minge, 148. Noms, 172. 48, 55, 60, 67, 86,92, Lynde, 88. Mingee, 49, I 14, 1I 5. North, 179. 101, 102, 109-112, Lyon, 128. Mingei, 20. Northend, I 18. 131, 156. Mingie, 21. Norton, 3467, 134, 139, Pearce, 149. Mackintire, 163. Mingy, 20. 160. Pearl, 47, 48. Macy, 20, 22, 24, 76, Miriam, 23. Nonvood,70, 91,166,206. Pearle, 46. 115, 140, 179, 180. Mirocke, 148. Nourse, 163. Pearson, 144, 147, 164. Macye, 76. Mirrick, 6, Nowell,63, 179,196, 197. Pease, 14, 15, 66, 149, Major, 101. Mitchel, 10, 11. Noyes, 79, 86, 128, 172, Peaslie, 85. Malcolm, 129. Mitchell, 14, 104, 181. 196. Peasly, 85, 116, 179. Mallon, 32. Moar, 37, 59, 105, 106. Nud,~!. Peboddie, 21. Manig, 148. Monde, 23. Nudd, r 14, 147, 148. Pebodie, 21. Manley, 196. Mondey, 147. Nurse, 17, 127. Pebody, 21. Mann, 52, 68. Mondy, 66. Nutting, 81, 181. Pecker, 10, 116. Manning, 40, 82, 97, Montgomery, 77. Nye, 29, 206. Peele, 4. 100, 162. Moody, 52, 86. Pendleton, 1x4, 180. Mansfield, 32, 100, 131, Moors, 47. Oakes, 44. Pepperell, 70, 78. 1329 19.5. More, 115, 147. Oateshall, 148. Perirles, I 75. Marble, 10, 177. Mores, 117. Obear, 76. Perkins, 21, 49, 84, 92, Marian, 23, 114, 117, Moris, 188. Ober, 107, 131. 103, 107, 112. 178, 180. Mod, 146. Odlin, 70, 146. Perley, 1, 7, 18, 25, 57, Marsh, 14, 16, 40, 186. Morrill, 29, 51, 146, 171, Olipher, 1x3. 67, 77, 86, 102, 133. Marshall, 31, 1-57, 163. 172. "0-li-way," 146. 1359 173, 183. Marshe, 65. Moms, 17. Olliver, 76. Permit, I 17. Marster, 132. Morse, 82, 86, 102, I 13, Ordaway, lo. pew~4~55, 106,. 112. Marsters, 132. 118. Ordway, 16, 146. Peter, 101, 134, 149. 204 THE ESSFX ANTIQUARIAN. Peters, 67, 73, 86, "8, Quilters, "3. Sabin, 33, 66. Singletary, 24, 115, 127. 134. Quinby, 164. Sadler, 22, 84, 85, r 13,Slate, 66. Petingell, 128. 147, 148. Sleper, 21. Pettingall, 45. Ralfe, 147-179. Safford, 61. Smethurst, 174. Pettit, 22. Rantoul, 15, 17. Saltenstall, 20, 68. Smith, lo, 22, 03, Pettitt, 23, 113, 179. Rauson, I 17. Saltingstall, 22,49, 113. 33, 44, 45, 80, it Pevear, I I I. Ravill, 33. Saltomtall, 11,13, 15,21, 109, 112-114, 116, Phelps, 36, 41, 61, 96, Rawdon, 198. 22, 65. 141, 147, 150~ 158, 99, 136,137, 139,140.Rawson, 92, 140. Samborn, 49, 1x4, 116, 161, 192, 198. Phibrick, I I, 87. Raymond, 102. 147. Smyth, 45. Philbroocke, 85. Read, 6, I 7, 38. Sambome, zz,z3,49. Snethen, 96. Philip, King, 197. Reade, 24. Sanborn, 50. Snow, 82. Phillips, 39, 52, 61, 83, Redington, 134. Sanhorne, 20-22. Somes, 157. 97. Redman, 23, 24, 49, 85, Sandars, 133. Souther, 148. Pickering, 163. 1x4,116, 147. Sanders, m, 23, 49, 1x3,Southick, 139. Picket, 188. Reed, 48, 197. 115. 133. 148, 179,Southwick, 135-137,139, Pickford, 86. Revere, 154. 180. 140. Pickman, 6, 99. Reynolds, 6. Sargent, 21, 22, 50, 84, Spafford, 63. Pickrime, 180. Rhodes, 16. 85, 132,r 79,180,195. Spencer, 101. Pierce, 149. Rice, 103. 182. Satchwell, 23. Spitzenfiel, 29,206. Pierson, 164. Rich, 43,~. Satchwelle, I 78. Spofford, 16,17,34,r 18, Pike, 11,20,23, 24, 50, Richards, rr, 12. Saunders, 33, 66. 184, 198. 84, 85, 147, 148, 179,Richardson, 5, 107. Saunderson, 184. Sprague, 52, I 18. 180. Richworth, 22. Savage, 14, 18, 116,Spur, 74. Pirking, 21, I 14. Ricker, 99. 127, 148. Stacy, 129. Pirkins, 21, 23, 24, 49, Ridden, 148. Savig, I 16. Stainard, I 14. 50, 114, 11?$148. Riggs, 44. Savory, 8. Stanian, 22, 1x4, 178- Pirmat, 1x5. Ring, 180,192. Saward, 22, 49,50. 180. Pitman, I 18. Roades, 162. Sawyer, 20, 45, 82, 118,Staniell, II Platts, 39, 60. Robbins, 186. 141. 149, 182. Stanion, r4l: Plummer, r I. Roberds, I I. Saxby, 129. Stanley, 61. Poland, 66, 107. Roberts, 141, 186. Sayward, 21, 22. Stannian, 22. Pollard, 39. Robeson, 85. Sayword, 85. Stanwood, Pollock, 184, 185, Robey, 1x4. Scamman, I 69. Stanyan, 17p;o6. Pool, 157. Robie, 85, 114-117. Scarlet, roo, 101. Stanyon, 108. Poor, 7, 9, 17, 31, 61, Robin Hood, 198. Scot, 143. Staples, 10. 62, 64, IW, 107, 118,Robinson, 8, 46, 104, Scott, 92. Starkweather, 197. 196. x12,114,116,117,1~1,Severance,21, 24, 33. Stearns, 104, 105. Poore, 17. 178, 195. 197. Severans, 24, 85, 147,Steel, 106. Pope, 137, 164. Robiison, I 16. 179. Stevens, 10, I I, 30, 35, Porter, 38, 46, 48, 54, Roby, 132. Sewall, 69. 38, M, 50, 58, 60-62, 79, rag, 1x9, 125-127,Rockwood, 155. Seword, 85. 83, 129, 192. 133, 134, 142, 150. Roffe, 65, 66. Shaplighe, 117. Stewart, 128, 189. Pottelle, 67. Rogers, 6, 15, 17, 31, Shapleith, I 16. Sticknee, 48. Pottle, 67, 182. 59, 64, 68, 149,Shattock, 139. Stickney, 37, 57, ~9~97, Power, 81. 160. Shattuck, 60, 61, 82, 188. Powers, 6. Rolfe, 50, 65. 136, 137, 139, 140. Stiles, 61. Pratt, 62. Root, 15. Shaw, 22, 23, 49, 1x4,Stimpson, 186. Pray, 108. Roper, 22, 1x4, 148. 117, 180, 181. St. John, 152. Prentiss, 157. Ropes, 5. Shed, 35. Stockman, 192, 193. Prescut, 192. Ross. 182. Sheldon, 81, 164. Stone, 10, 106, 163. Preston, I 60. Row, 132, 141. Shepard, 10, I I, 152-Stowell, 41. Priest, 182. Rowell. 22, 49, 98, 179. 154, 190. Strang, 198. Priestly, 43. Rowlandson, 182. Sheppard, 164. Straw, 164. Prince, 4. Ruck, 117. Sherburne, 178. Swain, 163. Procter, 52. Rucke, 148. Sherlock, 71. Swaine, 14, 50, 148, Proctor, 6. Rudduck, 148. Shiply, 188. 178, 180. Pulcifer, 43. Rug& 149, 182. Shores, 164. Swan, 103,107, 190. Purmet, 85. Runnels, 47, 48, 150. Sibley, 98. Swayne, 49. Putnam, lo, 65, 67, 96, Rushwood, 1x4. Sibson, 79. Swetland, 66. 131, 132, 149, 157, Russell, 60, 83, 97, 98. Sishee, 6,14. Swett, 30. 7 74 1 1 5 130. Silver, 163. Swift, 99. 186. Ruth, qq. Singletarie, 114. Symonds, 20-24. INDEX TO SURNAMES. 205

Tabor, 65. Tufts, 98. Washenton, 46. Whittemore, 40, 166. Tappen, 193. Tukesbeary, 165. Washington, 44, 55. Whittier, 11, 94, 116, Tarbell, 104. Tupper, 7, 8, 31, 196. Waters, 15. 119, 120, 140. 181. Tarbox, 16, 52,162,206. Turner, 8, 22, 24, 142. Wathin, 188. Whittingham, 22. Tay, 104, 187. Tuttell, 127. Watson, 158. Whittlesey, 80. Tayler, 22. Tuttle, 81. Webb, 4, 24. 158. Wiggin, 22, 24, 85, 97, Taylor, 6, 20-23, 49. Tuxbu'y, 165. Webster, 10, 11, 13, 30, 113-115, 117, 148, 113, "4, 116, 197. Twiss, 152, 162. 181, 194. 180, 186. Ted, 179. Twitchell, 98. Wedgwood, 20.23, 49, Wigglesworth, 33, 46, Tennyson, 112. Tyler, 17, 40, 46, 118, 50, 113, 114, 116, 64, 101,131, 158,195. Teuxbury, 165. 197- 179- Wiggleworth, 31. Thacher, 93-95. 155. Weed, 50, 113. Wilder, 149, 166. 182. Thing, I 13. Underwood, 206. Weeks, 71, 73. Wildes, gz. Thompson, 34, 86. Upham, 186. Welch, 66, 130. Wiley, 132, 195. Thomson, 10, 24, 163. Upton, 98. Weld, 106. Wilkins, 53, 54, 67. Thorndike, 63. Wellman, 195. Wilkinson, 66. , Tibbals, 149. Valpey, 61, 98. Wells, 20, 50, 85, 113, Willcomb, 141. Tinge, 148. Vans, 6. 117,165,179,180. Willey,61. Tinker, qg. Vaughan, 86. Welman, 162. William, King, 197. Titcomb, 7, 31, 63, 101, Verry, 55, Wenbourne, 49. Williams, 9, 52, 97. 130, 158, 195-197. Vesey, 195. Wenter, 177. Wison, 116, 180. Titus, 33, 134. Victoria, Qureta, 75. Wentworth, 69, 75, 108. Wilson, ro, 12, 85, 99, Tod, 115. Voorhies, 74. Wesson, 131, 158. 107, 117, 148. Todd, 196. Vose, 9. West, 3, 86, 107, 197. Wingate, 71. Tolman, 86. Wharf, 43,44. Winship, 133. Tomlins, 45. Wade, 8, g, 31,65, 131, Wharton, 137. Winsle~,24, 50, 84, 85, Tomlyns, 45. 158. Wheelar, 1IS. 113, 115, 116, 178, Tompson, 86. Wadleigh, 51, 52, 150, Wheeler, 69, 115. 179. Torrey, 166. 194. Wheelewright, I 17. Winsly, I 14, 115. Towle, 38. Wainewrite. 85. Wheelwright, 19, 21. Winter, 177, 178. Town, 62, 127. Wait, 127, 149. Wheelwrit, 148. Winthrop, 92, 93, 141, Towne, 38, 54, 67, 82, Wakefeild, 7.2, 49, 68. Wheelwrite, 23, 24, 115, 176. 109, 111, 112, 166, Walden, 24, 80. "7, 147. Wit!, 134. 185, 186. Waldern, 24, I 16. Wheelwnt, 50. Wood, 10, 33, 47, 66, Tracy, 78. Waldo, 20, 197. Whelewright, 24. 73, 106. Trask, 137, 161. Waldron, 40. Whipple, 10, 34, 66, Woodbury, 68, 107. Treadwell, 150, 154. Wales, 21, 84, 118. 112, 113, 132, 143, Wooddam, 112, Trescott, 64. Walker, 59, 61. 1.57, 158, 161. Woodin, 22, 50, I 16. Treworgye, 21. Wall, 50, 115-117, 148, Whitaker, 10. Woodman, 10, 86, 103. Troffater, 163. 178. White, 10, I I, 44, Woodwell, 133. True, 30, 34, 147, 193, Wallace, 66, 99, 108. 54, 80, 105, 131-133, Worcester, 20, 148, 180. 194. Ward, 13, 15, 49, 85, 141, 157, 165, 166, Worth, 180. Trumbal, I I. 116, 117, 141, 148. 182, 188. Worthan, 165. 166. Trumble, 190. Warde, 179. Whiten, 178. Worthen, 11, 123, 166. Tryon, 66. Wardwell, 108. Whiting, 10, 35, 81,134, Wright, 39, 81,106, 126. Tuck, 20, 22-24, 49, Ware, 108. 152, 153. Wyatt, 66. 113, 117, 148, 180. Warland, 97. Whitney, 63, 65, 197. Wyman, 61, 188. Tucke, 115, 148, 178, Warner, 11, 15, 63, 131, Whiton, 157. 180. 149, 158, 195, 197. Whitridge, 141. Young, 166. Tucker, 128, 178, 194. Warren, 31, 105. Whittaker, 11, 12. Younger, 43. Tucks, 116. Warriner, 14, 149. Whittear, 65. Youngs, 127. ERRATA. PAGE29, Mary Ann Nye died in 1794 and not in 189.# ;and Captain Spitzenfiel died in 1804instead of 1864. PAGE52, first answer, second line, Sauah should read Sa~~aueI. PAGE91, DOC~OYNomood should read Doctor Underwood. PAGE130, Solomon Adams should read Solomon Adonas. PAGE149, In "Non-Importation Agreement," seventh line, itnporfcrs should read i?n~orfa/ion; and in third line from bottom i7,rpoiing should read inrposing. PAGE 166, first answer, sixth line, Ro6ers should read Robcrf. PAGE167, first column, last line, first two words should read "Thr~i~zt." PAGE,178, second column, fifth line, Ssalzyan should read Stanyan; and, in the next line Chrisso- phrr should read Chrislop/rtr.