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Brooks + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England + Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts + +Editor: Henry M. Brooks + +Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22405] +[Last updated: May 6, 2012] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLDEN TIME SERIES *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Christine D. and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 261px;"> +<a href="images/cover.jpg"><img src="images/cover_th.jpg" width="261" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<div class="padding"> +<div class="bbox"> +<h1><i>THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES.</i></h1> + +<p class="center">16mo. Per vol., 50 cents.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for +quaint and curious reminiscences of "Ye Olden Time," and to meet this, +Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. The +materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and +Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be +history, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined and +presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of +the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:—</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 1em;"> +<span class="smcap">Curiosities of the Old Lottery.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Days of the Spinning-Wheel.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Some Strange and Curious Punishments.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Quaint and Curious Advertisements.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Literary Curiosities.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">New-England Sunday, etc.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>"It has been the good fortune of the writer to be allowed a peep at the +manuscript for this series, and he can assure the lovers of the +historical and the quaint in literature that something both valuable and +pleasant is in store for them. In the specialties treated of in these +books Mr. Brooks has been for many years a careful collector and +student, and it is gratifying to learn that the material is to be +committed to book form."—<i>Salem Gazette.</i></p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p><i>For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price. +Catalogues of our books mailed free.</i></p> + +<p class="right">TICKNOR & CO., <span class="smcap">Boston</span>.</p> +</div></div> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_OLDEN_TIME_SERIES" id="THE_OLDEN_TIME_SERIES"></a>THE OLDEN TIME SERIES</h2> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3>THE DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND</h3> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</a></span></p> +<p><i>"To say that the past is of no importance, unworthy of a moment's +regard, because it has gone by, and is no longer anything, is an +argument that cannot be held to any purpose; for if the past has ceased +to be, and is therefore to be accounted nothing in the scale of good or +evil, the future is yet to come, and has never been +anything."</i>—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"<i>In my young days, when I was</i> leetle,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>The only steam came from the kettle.</i><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">....<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"<i>The</i> Gals <i>on good old Dobbins rid then,</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>But folks don't do as they used to</i> did <i>then.</i><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">....<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0"><i>"Heigho! I grieve, I grieve</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>For the good old days of Adam and Eve</i>."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class='right'>From <span class="smcap">Henry J. Finn's</span> "Good Old Times,"</p> + +<p class='right'>October, 1827.</p> + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</a></span></p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>THE OLDEN TIME SERIES</h2> + + +<h5>GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON<br /> +AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS</h5> + + +<h5>SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS</h5> + +<h5>BY</h5> + +<h4>HENRY M. BROOKS</h4> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h2>The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England</h2> + +<p> +"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is<br /> +no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by<br /> +proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span><br /> +</p> + + +<div class="padding"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 142px;"> +<img src="images/crest1.jpg" width="142" height="142" alt="T AND CO" title="T AND CO" /> +</div></div> + +<p class="center">BOSTON<br /> +TICKNOR AND COMPANY<br /> +1886</p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[Pg iv]</a></span></p> +<div class="padding"> +<p class="center"><i>Copyright, 1885,</i><br /> +<span class="smcap">By Ticknor and Company.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>All rights reserved.</i></p> +</div> + +<div class="padding"> +<p class="center"><b>University Press:</b><br /> +<span class="smcap">John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.</span></p> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="INDEX_OF_NAMES" id="INDEX_OF_NAMES"></a>INDEX OF NAMES.</h2> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>PAGE</td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>PAGE</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Aberdour, John Lord</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td><td align='left'>Carr, Colonel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Adams, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td><td align='left'>Chase, Samuel & William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amherst, General</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td><td align='left'>Clark, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amiel, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td><td align='left'>Clark, Stephen</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amory, Jonathan</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td><td align='left'>Clarke, Richard</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Apthorp, Charles Ward</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td><td align='left'>Clarke, Sukey</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Apthorpe, Charles</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td><td align='left'>Cole, Patrick</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Apthorpe, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td><td align='left'>Colman, Rev. Henry</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Apthorpe, Susan</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td><td align='left'>Cooper, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ashton, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td><td align='left'>Copeland, E. Jr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_86">86</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Avery, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_56">56</a></td><td align='left'>Copley, John Singleton</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Crocker, Cornelius</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Balch</span>, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td><td align='left'>Crosby, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Balkum, Daniel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Barnard, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Daland, B.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Belknap, Jeremiah</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td><td align='left'>Dalrymple, Colonel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bernard, Gov. Francis</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a>, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></td><td align='left'>Dana, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Blanchard, Caleb</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_84">84</a></td><td align='left'>Darley, Arthur</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bollan, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td><td align='left'>Davis, Joshua</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bowditch, Nathaniel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td><td align='left'>Deane, Rev. Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bowdoin, Hon. James</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td><td align='left'>Deane, Mrs.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bowdoin, Miss</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td><td align='left'>Deshon, Moses</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brattle, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td><td align='left'>Douglass, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Breck, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brenton, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Eastlake, Sir Charles</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Britt, Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td><td align='left'>Edes & Gill</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a>,<a href="#Page_16">16</a>,<a href="#Page_32">32</a>,<a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brown, B.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td><td align='left'>Elliot, Sally</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brown, Obadiah</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td><td align='left'>Elliot, Simon</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a>, <a href="#Page_85">85</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bulfinch, Dr. Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td><td align='left'>Ellis, Mrs.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Butler, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td><td align='left'>Ellis, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_90">90</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Elwell, Edward H.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Caldwell, James</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td><td align='left'>Emerson, R.W.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Carpenter, Captain</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td><td align='left'>Erving, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr> +<tr><td colspan='4'><hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</a></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Flemming, Albert</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td><td align='left'>Minot, George R.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Flynt, Henry</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_18">18</a></td><td align='left'>Monk, Christopher</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fowle & Draper</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td><td align='left'>Morgan, Captain</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a>, <a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Franklin, Dr. Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td><td align='left'>Morton, Captain</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Franklin, Elizabeth</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td><td align='left'>Murray, Mrs.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Murray, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Gay, Martin</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gordon, James</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Oliver, Andrew</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gorham, Joseph</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gray, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Paine, William</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Green & Russell</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a>, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></td><td align='left'>Parker, David</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Greene, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td><td align='left'>Parkman, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_80">80</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gwin, Captain</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td><td align='left'>Payne, Edward</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Peirce, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Hancock, John</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td><td align='left'>Pelham, Charles</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Haskell, Philemon</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td><td align='left'>Pelham, Mrs.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hawthorne, Nathaniel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td><td align='left'>Perkins, Thomas H.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Henshaw, Joshua, Jr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td><td align='left'>Phenix, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hickling, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td><td align='left'>Pickering, Colonel Timothy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hill, Colonel John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td><td align='left'>Pickering, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hill, Katherine</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td><td align='left'>Pickering, Timothy, Sr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Holyoke, Edward</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td><td align='left'>Pope of Rome</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hudson, James</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td><td align='left'>Poynton, Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hurd, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a></td><td align='left'>Prescott, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Prescott, William H.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Inch, John</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td><td align='left'>Preston, Captain</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Prince of Wales</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Johnson, Mr.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Queen Anne</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">King Charles</span> I.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>King George II.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Read, Thomas</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>King George III.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_37">37</a>, <a href="#Page_44">44</a></td><td align='left'>Revere, Paul</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Rhodes, Captain</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_84">84</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Lee, Francis H.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_86">86</a></td><td align='left'>Rogers, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lewis, Phillip</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td><td align='left'>Rowe, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Loyal, Paul</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td><td align='left'>Ruskin, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_99">99</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Russell, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Macaulay, T.B.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td><td align='left'>Russell, Daniel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Marshall, Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mason, Colonel David</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a>, <a href="#Page_40">40</a></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Salisbury, Elizabeth</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Maverick, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td><td align='left'>Salisbury, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Micklefield, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_86">86</a>, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a></td><td align='left'>Savage, Samuel Phillips</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Scott, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr> +<tr><td colspan='4'><hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Shays, Daniel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Washington, George</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Shirley, General William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td><td align='left'>Waters, Josiah</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Spencer, Herbert</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td><td align='left'>Watson, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Stevens, Captain</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_80">80</a></td><td align='left'>Webb, Joseph, Jr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Storr, Marmaduke</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td><td align='left'>Whipple, Joseph</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_90">90</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Story, Joseph</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td><td align='left'>Whitefield, Rev. George</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a>, <a href="#Page_58">58</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Story, William W.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td><td align='left'>Whitmore, Major-General</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Wickham, Captain</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Temple, Hon. John</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td><td align='left'>Winter, Joshua</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_80">80</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Thorn, Dr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td><td align='left'>Willard, Joseph</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a>, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treadwell, Jonathan</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td><td align='left'>Williams, Jonathan</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'></td><td align='left'>Wolfe, General James</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Upham, Charles W.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td><td align='left'>Wood, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<div class="padding"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a href="images/img010.png"><img src="images/img010_th.png" width="400" height="131" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div></div> + + + +<h2><a name="THE_DAYS_OF_THE_SPINNING-WHEEL" id="THE_DAYS_OF_THE_SPINNING-WHEEL"></a>THE DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL</h2> + +<h3>IN NEW ENGLAND.</h3> + +<p><span class="smcap">Within</span> the last few years many young ladies have searched country houses +or ransacked old garrets to find spinning-wheels, which, like old +chairs, tall clocks, and warming-pans, have now become objects of +curiosity and interest to those who take a fancy to antique articles. It +has become fashionable to have these things to adorn our Queen Anne +houses. And brass andirons and shovels and tongs have come into request, +so that we may enjoy the luxury of an open wood fire, which, to our +mind, is one of the most cheerful things in this world. Some one has +remarked "that to be well-dressed gives a feeling of satisfaction<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span> that +religion fails to give;" but to us, to sit before a blazing wood fire on +a dull, cold evening, gives a feeling of comfort and delight which +surpasses anything we know of. What charming companionship in a wood +fire! Better than the company of uncongenial persons.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Old wood to burn,"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Old books to read:"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>these are enough; we will leave out the "old wine to drink."</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2">"This bright wood fire,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">So like to that which warmed and lit<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My youthful days, how doth it flit<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Back on the periods nigher!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Re-lighting and re-warming with its glow<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The bright scenes of my youth,—all gone out now."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Glance backward to some years before the Revolution, and we shall find a +spinning-wheel in every house, and then, probably, in constant use. Now +its place in our homes is taken by the piano. This instrument had not +then come into use. Something resembling it,—namely, the spinnet or the +harpsichord,—was to be found in some instances; but it was by no means +common to find these, for there was but little knowledge of music in +America in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> those days. A hundred years ago, only one or two churches in +Boston had organs, and the public taste, except in rare cases, was +decidedly against music of all kinds, especially sacred music. To show +how this was, we have heard an old lady say that when she was young, +some eighty years or so ago, "musicians, for the most part, were not +thought much of" by the most cultivated people of that time; and she +assured me that even at a later date, members of military bands, as well +as organists and violinists (then called fiddlers) were too often low +characters and men much addicted to drinking. The times were too hard +for the New England people of those days to cultivate music or indulge +in entertainments of any kind except "going to meeting." There was but +little money in circulation, and that was almost always in the form of a +depreciated currency. Gold and silver were scarce articles, and a large +proportion of the necessities of life and luxuries—if luxuries they +could be called; they would hardly be so considered by us—were imported +from England or elsewhere. The leading occupations were farming, +fishing, making New England<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> rum, importing rum, sugar, and molasses +from the West Indies, and dry goods from England. The common people were +poor enough, in comparison with the condition of the same class at the +present time, when they make as good an appearance as the wealthy did a +hundred years ago. It would be safe to say that they have more comforts +and conveniences in their homes to-day than the more prosperous had at +the time of the Revolution. The humorist, John Phenix, said that "Gen'l +Washington never saw a steamboat, nor rode in a railroad car;" and +possibly his house was not heated by steam, or furnished with pipes for +hot and cold water. Nor did he ever use gas, or the telegraph or +telephone. Whether the people who lived then would have shown the +extravagance which characterizes our time if they had possessed the +means, is a question not easily to be answered; but it is certain they +were more frugal than we are, if not more industrious. The Revolution +left the masses of the people in rather a destitute condition, and they +were forced to be economical. Their habits were so entirely different +from modern habits that it would exceed our limits to undertake<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> to draw +a careful comparison. It is said that the people of those days bewailed +the degeneracy of the times, and spoke of the industry and frugality of +earlier periods.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='right'>NORWICH, May 6, 1784.</p> + +<p>A correſpondent obſerves, that the extravagances of the +preſent day are fully demonſtrated in the broadcloth +coats and ſilk gowns,—the powder and feathers, the +ruffles and cardinals, the ſilk ſtockings and feet +trappings—In the feaſts, the dancing parties and ſelect +companies—and what is the more melancholy, all orders and +degrees help form the circle.—Where is the ſimplicity in +dreſs and manners; temperance in meats and drinks, which +formed the virtuous characters of our illuſtrious +anceſtors?—O! the degeneracy of the times!</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette.</i></p></div> + +<p>Just as our ancestors did, as Macaulay says, in the days of Charles the +First; they thought they were not as good as their ancestors had been. +This habit of looking back to a time so remote that "distance lends +enchantment to the view," seems to be almost universal. It is this +feeling of reverence for the old that makes it so interesting to us, and +leads us to look at things of the past poetically rather than<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +practically; although it is true that sometimes the interest taken in +inconvenient and uncomfortable articles arises rather from their age +than from anything else. But oftentimes the very simplicity, solidity, +and strength of old furniture, for instance, is charming, in contrast +with the elaborate, unmeaning carvings and flimsy character of more +modern productions. We are beginning to see how much more sensible the +Chippendale and other styles commended by Eastlake and some other +writers on household art are to much that has been produced in later +times. Yet we must allow that prejudice and fashion go a great way in +determining our likes and dislikes, in furniture as well as in dress and +other things. Very likely in a few years we shall tire of the Queen Anne +houses and furniture, and hard floors, and have a surfeit of +<i>Anglomania</i>, especially if we carry the taste too far. In this country, +as Emerson says, "Every rider drives too fast." It is hard to be simple +and slow. We must build fast, eat fast, and live fast. But Emerson says +again, "Nature has no respect for haste." Herbert Spencer has given us +in a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> kindly spirit some hints on this score which it would be well to +heed. But we are wandering from our immediate subject. Our desire is to +illustrate, in the very words of the people of the period we refer to, +the views they entertained of economy and industry, and how they carried +them out. We will begin, then, in the year 1759, with a curious letter +to the "Boston Gazette" of June 11 of that year, in which the writer +gives some account of the cost of provisions at that period.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>To the Trading and Farming People of</i> New England.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 1em;"><span class="smcap">Gentlemen.</span></p> + +<p>I Have been coming and going among you ſince the Year +1745. I am now once more on Service in this Part of the +World, and not a little ſurprized at the Alteration in the +Value of your Proviſions, ſince my Knowledge of your +Country. When I firſt came among you, I could have bought +a Pound of Beef for a Penny, a Gooſe for a Shilling, a +Fowl for three Pence, and ſo in Proportion. It now is, I +think, four Pence Sterling for a Pound of Beef, eighteen +Pence Sterling for a Fowl, and three Shillings for a +Gooſe. Pray Gentlemen, when that is the Price at +<i>Boſton</i>, what muſt we pay for it at <i>Louisbourg</i>, after +it has gone thro' the Hands of many different People that +are to live out of it. Our Pay is not increaſed.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + +<p>I would ſay nothing to influence you to ſell cheaper, +from Motives diſintereſted or publick ſpirited, as +that weighs but little with the Generality of Mankind. But +conſider your own Intereſt, the War can laſt but +little longer: This Campaign, in all Probability, will put +an End to it, then where will you find a Market for your +Stock you raiſe. Conſider with the Fall of this +preſent Summer, its pretty certain the Soldiers and Seamen +at preſent employed for your Defence, will be called to +Britain: Take the Market while it holds Gentlemen. We have +Beef found us, that is to ſay, the Publick purchaſes it; +let us now and then taſte of your Veal, Mutton and Fowls +for our Money, and we will ſpend all among you; and we +expect both Intereſt and Inclination will prompt you to +give us an ample Supply.</p> + +<p>I am your Friend, <i>An</i> ANTI-CANADIAN.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In the same paper is an auction advertisement, showing how they mixed +the different kinds of <i>property</i>.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">To</span> be Sold by publick Vendue on <i>Scarlet's</i> Wharff, at the +North End of <i>Boſton</i>, THIS AFTERNOON, at IV o'Clock, +Sundry Hogſheads of Sugar, four likely Negro Men, and a +Parcel of old Copper; Prize Goods lately brought into this +Port.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>On the 19th November we are shown how remittances were made in those +days.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>We hear that the Treaſurer of this Province has received a +Bill of Lading for two Boxes of Portugal Gold, ſhip'd by +Mr. Agent Bollan, on board the Mercury Man of War, amounting +to Twenty thouſand ſix hundred and eighty Pounds, +ſeventeen ſhillings and ſix Pence; being Part of the +£27,000 granted by Parliament in 1757, to this Province, to +recompence them for the Expences they were at in the +Expedition in 1756.—Said Ship may be daily expected.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>And here is a description of a vessel of the time.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Mr. James Hudſon came Paſſenger in the Veſſel that +arriv'd at Cape-Ann, mention'd in our laſt, which ſaw a +Wreck in Lat: 36, he ſays, ſhe was a Frigate built Ship +of about 200 Tons burthen, had a Lion Head painted yellow, a +ſhort Topgal on Quarter-Deck, a ſmall Tafrail painted +yellow, Quarters and Stern painted blue, had a large +Trophies painted on her Stern and gilt, full of Water, and +no living Perſon on board.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>On the 5th February in that year, this was the way they advertised for +recruits for the Government<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> service, offering among other inducements, +"a Crown to drink the King's health."</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">All</span> able-bodied fit Men that have an Inclination to ſerve +His Majeſty King GEORGE the Second, in the firſt +Independent Company of Rangers, now in the Province of +<i>Nova-Scotia</i>, commanded by <i>Joſeph Gorham, Eſq</i>; +ſhall, on inliſting, receive good Pay and Cloathing, a +large Bounty, with a Crown to drink the King's Health. And +by repairing to the Sign of the Bear in King-Street, +<i>Boſton</i>, and to Mr. <i>Cornelius Crocker</i>, Innholder in +<i>Barnſtable</i>, may hear the particular Encouragement, and +many Advantages accruing to a Soldier, in the Courſe of +the Duty of that Company, too long to inſert here; and +further, may depend on being diſcharged at the Expiration +of the Time entertained for, and to have every other +Encouragement punctually compli'd with.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>There was a meeting of "very agreeable Ladies" in the interests of +economy about the same time.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>In a large Circle of very agreeable Ladies in this Town, it +was unanimouſly agreed to lay aſide the Uſe of +Ribbons, &c. &c. &c. for which there has been ſo great a +Reſort to Milliners in times paſt——It is hoped that +this Reſolution will be followed by others of the Sex +throughout the Province—<i>How<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> agreeable will they appear in +their native Beauty, ſtript of theſe Ornaments, from the +prevailing Motive of Love to their Country.</i></p> + +<p>We muſt after all our Efforts, depend greatly upon the +Female Sex for the Introduction of Oeconomy among us: And +thoſe who have the Pleaſure of an Acquaintance with +them, aſſure us that their utmoſt Aid will not be +wanting.</p> + +<p>So ſtrong is the Diſpoſition of the Inhabitants of +this Town to take off the Manufactures that come from the +Country Towns, eſpecially Womens and Childrens Winter +Apparel, that nothing is wanting but an Advertiſement +where they may be had in Town, which will be taken in, and +publiſhed by the Printers of this Paper <i>Gratis</i>.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Labrador tea began to take the place of green and bohea.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left: 1em;">Meſſieurs <span class="smcap">Edes</span> & <span class="smcap">Gill</span>,</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> uſe of <i>Hyperion</i> or <i>Labradore Tea</i>, is every day +coming into more general vogue among people of all ranks. +The virtues of the plant or ſhrub from which this delicate +<i>Tea</i> is gathered, were firſt diſcovered by the +<i>Aborigines</i>, and from them the <i>Canadians</i> learned them. It +ſoon became into ſuch repute that quantities were ſent +to <i>France</i>, where I have heard ſay, it was ſoon in +ſuch demand, as alarmed the <i>French Eaſt-India</i> company, +and procured<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> an ordinance prohibiting the importation of +any more on the pain of death. So little do ſome +politicians regard the health or even the life of man, when +either of them appear to be incompatible with their +particular intereſts, views and projects. Before the +ceſſion of <i>Canada</i> to <i>Great-Britain</i>, we knew little or +nothing of this moſt excellent herb: but ſince that we +have been taught to find it growing on every hill and dale, +between the Lat. 40 & 60. It is to be found all over +New-England in great plenty, and that of the beſt quality, +particularly on the banks of <i>Penobſcot</i>, <i>Kennebeck</i>, +<i>Nichewannock</i> and <i>Merrimac</i>. Immenſe quantities may be +found on the mountains near the great lakes.</p> + +<p>Nothing ſhort of the higheſt degree of infatuation and +madneſs could ever have prevailed with us to introduce +unwholeſome Exoticks. The voice of reaſon crys louder +than ever for their perpetual baniſhment; and the further +uſe of them muſt be accounted for but by the force of +invincible prejudice. This indeed ſometimes leads to a +preference of rank poiſon if far fetched and dear bought, +to the moſt ſalubrious draught at hand, with little +pains or coſt, tho' of ineſtimable value.</p> + +<p class='right'><span class="smcap">A Tea-Drinker.</span></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The following items, Sept. 17, 1759, throw some light on the state of +the country in some<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> parts of New England, where, even if the "Lyons" +once seen at Cape Ann by Wood had departed, there were still some bears, +one having been seen within two miles of Boston.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>We hear from Brentwood, in New Hampſhire Government, as +two Children were gathering Beans in a Field, a large Bear +came upon them and kill'd them both;—The Bear was +purſued, but could not be found.</p> + +<p>Alſo from Cheſter, in the ſame Government, that a few +Days after the above, another Bear came behind a Woman as +ſhe was walking along, not far from her Houſe, and tore +off the hind Part of her Gown, which he carried off in his +Mouth;—but the Woman happily made her Eſcape from him.</p> + +<p>And from Kingſton, in the County of Worceſter, we hear, +that on Tueſday laſt as Mr. Stephen Clark of that Town +was out a Hunting after Bears, his Next Door Neighbour went +out into his Cornfield juſt at Evening, and ſeeing +ſomething move which he thought was one of thoſe +Animals, ſhott at it, and upon his coming to the place, +found it to be Mr. Clark as above-mention'd, ſhot thro' +his Head, to his great ſurprize.</p> + +<p>We hear from Kittery, that in about 13 Days paſt, ſeven +large Bears have been kill'd within a Mile of the Rev. Mr. +Rogers's Meeting Houſe.</p> + +<p>It is ſaid ſome of theſe voracious Animals have +ventured down even to ſome of the Seaport Towns<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> at the +Eaſtward.—Two of them were ſeen at Medford laſt Week; +and one of them has been lately killed within two Miles of +this Metropolis. Some have weighed above 300 lb. Wt.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Notice to Students of Harvard College:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i><span class="smcap">This</span> is to give Notice to the Candidates for their ſecond +Degree at</i> Harvard-College <i>this Year, that they attend at +the College by the 11th Day of</i> July <i>next, and if any +ſhall neglect their Attendance accordingly, without +ſufficient Reaſon therefor, they may not expect their +ſaid Degrees this Year.</i></p> + +<p class='right'>Cambridge, June 9, 1759.</p> + +<p class='right'><span class="smcap">Edward Holyoke</span>, Preſident.</p> + +<p><i><span class="smcap">Notice</span> is hereby given to all who deſire an Admisſion +into</i> Harvard College <i>this Year, That the Preſident and +Tutors have determined to attend the Buſineſs of +Examination on Friday and Saturday the 19th and 20th Days +of</i> July <i>next.</i></p> + +<p>Cambridge, June 9, 1759. <span class="smcap">Edward Holyoke</span>, Pres.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>When we remember the present condition of the city of Lynn, it is +interesting to note how that place stood in reference to the shoe +industry in the year 1762. The "Boston Gazette" of November 2 says:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>We are confidently told, that in the Town of Lynn upwards of +Forty Thouſand Pair of Womens Shoes have been made in one +Year, equal in Goodneſs to any imported from Abroad—It is +thought that in a few Years they will be ſupply'd with +Callimanco and other Stuffs manufactured in this Province.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The statement has often been made by connoisseurs that there was no +mahogany furniture in America before the Revolution; but this is a +mistake, for here, in the "Boston Gazette" of Feb. 5, 1759, is an +advertisement announcing the sale of a "Beautiful Mehogany Desk and +Book-Case." Probably this was an early specimen of such kind of work, as +mahogany, it is said, was not introduced into Europe long before this +time.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big><i>To be Sold by</i> Moſes Deſhon,</big></p> + +<p>On Dock-Square, Next Wedneſday, at V o'Clock, in the +Afternoon, and Friday Evening following.</p> + +<p><i>A Handſome 8 Day Clock, a Braſs Grate, Shovel Fire, +Tongs, Tables, and a Variety of other Articles; a fine +Aſſortment of Engliſh, Scotch, and French Goods.</i> N.B. +<i>A beautiful Mehogany Deſk and Book-Caſe; and a Quantity +of Cannon-Powder to diſpoſe of at private Sale.</i></p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>A curious advertisement of a runaway convict in Maryland appears in the +same paper, Sept. 15, 1759:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>Fifteen Piſtoles Reward.</big></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Ran-away</span> from the Subſcriber, (living at ANNAPOLIS, in +MARYLAND) in <i>June</i> laſt, a Convict Servant Man, named +<i>Thomas Read</i>, alias <i>Cutbert</i>, about 25 or 30 Years of Age, +5 Feet, 4 Inches high, well ſet, grey Eyes, large Noſe, +and had ſhort brown curl'd Hair. He is ſuppoſed to be +in <i>Boſton</i>, or ſome of the Northern Governments; is a +Jeweller, and Motto-Ring-Engraver, and is an artful +talkative pert Fellow;—can write pretty well, and has +doubtleſs help'd himſelf to a Diſcharge, Paſs, or +any other Writing to deceive, and ſuit his Purpoſe; His +Apparel is probably genteel, as he had Money with him, a +Watch in his Pocket, and a large Stock of Pride; By what +Name he now goes is uncertain, as he has Impudence eno to +pick & chuſe any he ſhould think proper.</p> + +<p>Whoever takes the ſaid Convict Servant, and returns him to +his Maſter, ſhall have FIFTEEN PISTOLES Reward, and +reaſonable Charges paid, by</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='center'><i>Annapolis, September 15,<br /> 1759.</i></td><td align='right'><big>JOHN INCH.</big></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class='center'>Boston, Printed and Sold by <span class="smcap">Edes & Gill</span>. 1759.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In the year 1762 there appears to have been quite a stir in reference to +economy and home productions, and doubtless the spinning-wheels were +constantly in use. In the "Boston Gazette," November 2, is a very +curious letter of Henry Flynt, a noted teacher, addressed to the ladies +of North America.</p> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>To the</i> LADIES <i>of</i> <span class="smcap">North America</span>.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 1em;"><span class="smcap">Ladies,</span></p> + +<p><i><span class="smcap">I am</span> one of thoſe who think it not only high Time but of +the laſt Importance, that you ſhould be publickly +addreſſed: And of the many ingenious Pens, which in the +Courſe of a few Years have informed and enlightened this +Country, I have often wiſhed that at leaſt ſome one of +them had been more particularly devoted to your Service. +This would have agreeably prevented me in an attempt to +which I find myſelf in all Reſpects but too unequal. Yet +relying on your good Senſe and Candour, I venture to lay +at your Feet a few well-intended Sentiments, which tho' in a +plain homeſpun Garb, I hope will not offend. I am +convinced that at this preſent it is not only in your +Inclination and Will, but alſo in your Power, to effect +more in favour of your Country, than an Army of an Hundred +Thouſand Men; and indeed more than all the armed Men on +this vaſt Continent.</i>—Can a Woman forget her Ornaments? +<i>Yes I know ſhe can.</i> Deborah <i>once judged Iſrael, and +ſome think it was never judged much<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> better afterwards. +But what tho't</i> Deborah <i>or</i> Jael <i>of their Ornaments, when +the one was contriving, & the other driving the Nail that +would go? What tho't beautiful</i> Eſther <i>of her Ornaments, +when thoſe of her Kindred & Houſhold were in immediate +and imminent Danger, by the Decree treacherouſly obtained +by</i> Haman, <i>from the mouth of her beloved and almoſt +adored</i> Lord Ahaſuerus <i>the Great? What tho't</i> Judith <i>of +her Ornaments, when ſhe was ſevering the Head of</i> +Holofernes <i>from his Body, or while flying with the Prize to +the Relief of her deſpairing Friends? The Time would fail +me, were I to recount the wondrous Deeds and mighty +Atchievements of renowned and honorable Women in all Ages.</i></p> + +<p><i>I have but alluded to a few Inſtances, among many of +divine Heroiſm in your Sex, which hath often ſaved a +Country, when the dull ploding Wiſdom of man has been +totally at a Plunge. How near we are to ſuch a</i> Criſis, +<i>is left to the Conjecture of others. It would be a little +out of Nature to expect the Birth and Exploits of Heroines +to take Place before thoſe of Heroes. I believe we ſhall +be furniſhed with both in their Order, as Occaſion may +require. All I think at preſent that can be reaſonably +expected or deſired of you, is to conſent to lay aſide +all ſuperfluous Ornaments for a Seaſon—after which they +ſhall be ſurely returned to you again with +Intereſts.—You ſhall be cloathed in Purple, and +Scarlet, and Fine Linnen of our own, and with other glorious +Apparel; which, if poſſible, ſhall add a Luſtre to +your native Charms.</i></p> + +<p class='right'>HENRY FLYNT.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Newport, R.I., has the reputation of having been engaged in the +slave-trade before the Revolution; and the following item, in the +"Boston Gazette," June 30, 1762, noticing without comment the arrival of +a Guinea trader there, would seem to show it to have been not an +uncommon occurrence.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>We hear from Newport, Rhode Iſland, That Capt. Carpenter +was arrived there from the Coaſt of Guinea, having had 104 +Days Paſſage, ten Days whereof they were without Meat, but +had a Sufficiency of Rice and Corn. They loſt but ſix +Slaves out of 69 they bro't out with them.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>On the 5th of November "the gunpowder treason and plot" was formerly +pretty generally remembered,—by the boys, at least, who made bonfires +and burned tar-barrels. We believe the custom has fallen into disuse +except in Salem and Marblehead, where there seems to be a little +"Colonialism" left. As recently as 1885 the writer saw a bonfire in +honor of the occasion on a hill near the latter place. In 1762 there +must have been quite a demonstration, if we can judge anything<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> by a +vote of the town of Boston. Englishmen visiting us have sometimes +expressed astonishment at learning that this curious custom should still +be kept up here, while it had been abolished at home.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Upon a motion made, <i>Voted</i>, That the Town will take all +proper Meaſures, by keeping in their Children and +Servants, & other Ways, to prevent the Diſturbances which +have ſometimes happened on or about the 5th Day of +November.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 1em;">Atteſt,</p> +<p class='center'><big>William Cooper, <i>Town-Clerk</i>.</big></p> + +<p><i>Tueſday laſt (5th November) being the Anniverſary of +the happy Deliverance of the Britiſh Nation from the +Popiſh Powder Plot, at Noon the Guns at Caſtle William +and at the Batteries in this Town were fired: At One all the +nine Men of War then in this Harbour alſo fired.</i></p> + +<p class='right'>From the <i>Essex Gazette</i>, Nov. 12, 1771.</p></div> + +<p>The accommodation offered for travel between Boston and New York before +the Revolution must have been slim enough, judging from an advertisement +in the "Boston<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> Gazette" in 1761. Passengers then went by vessel from +Providence; that is, "Gentlemen Passengers." Whether ladies were +accommodated or not, does not appear; but perhaps they were in the habit +of going by stage, taking a week or so to accomplish the journey, or, +more than likely, few ever travelled at all in those times. In our day, +when every one is on the move, it is hard to realize this state of +things.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Notice is Given, That SAMUEL and WILLIAM CHACE, of</i> +Providence, <i>have a ſuitable Veſſel that goes ſteadily +between there and</i> New-York. <i>So that all Gentlemen +Paſſengers and others that incline to take the Rout from</i> +Boston <i>to</i> New-York, <i>or from</i> New-York <i>to</i> Boston, <i>may +be well accommodated.</i></p> + +<p class='right'>Providence, Aug. 29, 1761.</p></div> + +<p>"In 1756," Watson says, "the first stage was started between +Philadelphia and New York by Mr. Butler; three days through in summer +time, five and six in winter. In 1765 a second stage was started, to go +through positively in three days. This was a covered<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> Jersey +wagon,—fare, twopence per mile. In 1766 another stage, called the +'Flying Machine,' was started, to go through in two days,—threepence +per mile."</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>A brief account of Montreal in the "Boston Gazette," March 30, 1761.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>NEW-YORK, March 23.</p> + +<p class='center'>Extract of a Letter from Montreal.</p> + +<p>——"The Caſe of the poor Canadians is really deplorable, +occaſioned by the bankruptcy of the crown of France. Many +of them who had, with great danger and labour, acquired +eſtates worth 20,000 l. ſterl. by the fur-trade, or +otherwiſe, can now ſcarce procure a dinner. All their +remittances from their mother country, conſiſted in +bills on the French King, which are not now worth one +farthing, as no body whatever will accept of them in +payment. It is computed there is above the value of +3,000,000 l. ſterling of theſe uſeleſs paper +ſcraps, circulated through the colony, which, as a reward +to the wretched inhabitants for all their hardſhips and +fatigues, muſt now ſupply the place of affluence and +independence. Moſt, if not all of them, are perfectly +reconciled to the Britiſh government, as they can now with +ſecurity enjoy any little property they have; whereas +formerly, Governor Vaudreuil made no ceremony of ſeizing +the produce<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> of their lands, their merchandize and +manufactures of every kind, and after conveying them to the +King's ſtore houſes, paid to the proprietors any price +he pleaſed. If the owners thereafter had occaſion for +any of their own commodities, they could not procure them +under twenty times the price they had received.</p> + +<p>"Montreal in general is a well built town, but incapable of +any defence. The churches are elegant, and the houſes of +ſome of their principal men are really magnificent; though +few in number. The Hotel Dieu is by far the fineſt +hoſpital I ever ſaw, every thing in it is extremely neat +and convenient.</p> + +<p>"The people here are extravagantly fond of dreſs; a +ſtranger would take Montreal to be a city inhabited by +none but the rich and idle: they are all finely powdered, +walk with their hats under their arms, and wear long coats, +adorned with tinſel lace, and buttoned down to the +extremity. Since I came here, I have not ſeen one man +dreſſed like a tradeſman. The ladies in general are +handſome, extremely gay, and well bred."</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In 1767 the best soap and "dipt" and "mould" candles were sold at the +post-office in Boston, according to an advertisement in the "Gazette" of +October 26. The candles were made of tallow, and gave but little light, +requiring almost constant snuffing. Other kinds of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> candles were not in +general use in New England in the last century. Sperm oil and sperm or +wax candles could be used only by the wealthy. Many families, for +economy, made their own candles. This practice was common in New England +down to within fifty years.</p> + +<p>It will be recollected that Dr. Franklin's father was a tallow-chandler +in Boston, and that the Doctor himself worked at the business when a +boy. Elizabeth Franklin, whose name appears in the following +advertisement, was probably a relative of the family.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p class='center'> +<small>SOLD BY</small><br /> +<i><big>Elizabeth Franklin,</big></i><br /> +<small>At the Poſt-Office,</small><br /> +</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> best true Crown Soap, Alicant beſt hard Soap, by the +Doz. or ſingle Pound, dipt and mould Candles at the +loweſt Price.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Every week the burials and baptisms in Boston were thus inserted in the +papers. The following is from the "Gazette" of Nov. 23, 1767:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>Buried in the Town of Boſton ſince our laſt,<br /> +Five Whites. Three Blacks.<br /> + Baptiz'd in the ſeveral Churches, Four.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>This custom was continued many years. We take the following from the +"Massachusetts Centinel," April 2, 1788:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>BURIED <i>in town laſt week</i> 11—BAPTISED 14.</p> + +<p class='center'>Publiſhed by BENJAMIN RUSSELL, near the<br /> +State-Houſe, Boſton.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>General Wolfe's Manifesto from the "Boston Gazette," Dec. 10, 1759.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>As the Manifeſto lately publiſhed was only a +Tranſlation from a French Manuſcript, we are requeſted +to publiſh the following, which is</i></p> + +<p class='center'><big> +<i>General</i> WOLFE's Manifeſto,<br /> +<i>as written by Himſelf.</i></big></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> formidable Sea and Land Armament which the People of +<i>Canada</i> now behold in the Heart of their Country is +intended by the King my Maſter to check the inſolence of +<i>France</i>;—To revenge the Inſults offered to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +<i>Britiſh</i> Colonies, and totally deprive the <i>French</i> of +their moſt valuable Settlements in <i>North-America</i>.</p> + +<p>For theſe Purpoſes only is the Formidable Army under my +Command intended.</p> + +<p>The King of <i>Great-Britain</i> wages no War with the +Induſtrious Peaſant, the ſacred Orders of Religion, or +the defenceleſs Women and Children: To theſe in their +diſtreſsful Circumſtances His Royal Clemency offers +Protection. The People may remain unmoleſted on their +Lands, inhabit their Houſes, and enjoy their Religion in +Security. For theſe ineſtimable Bleſſings, I expect +the <i>Canadians</i> will take no Part in the Great Conteſt +between the two Crowns; But if by a vain Obſtinacy, and +miſguided Valour, they preſume to appear in Arms, they +muſt expect the moſt fatal Conſequences; their +Habitations deſtroyed, their ſacred Temples expoſed to +the Fury of an exaſperated Soldiery; their Harveſt +utterly ruined, and the only Paſſage of Relief ſtopped +up by a moſt formidable Fleet.—In this unhappy Situation, +and cloſely attacked by another great Army, what can the +wretched Natives expect from Oppoſition!</p> + +<p>THE unparelelled Barbarities exerted by the <i>French</i> +againſt our Settlements in <i>America</i>, might juſtify the +bittereſt Revenge in the Army under my Command; but +<i>Britons</i> breathe higher Sentiments of Humanity, and +liſten to the merciful Dictates of the Chriſtian +Religion. Yet ſhould you ſuffer yourſelves to be +deluded by an imaginary Proſpect of our want of Succeſs; +ſhould you refuſe thoſe Terms, and perſiſt<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> in +Oppoſition; Then ſurely will the Law of Nations +juſtify the Waſte of War, ſo neceſſary to cruſh an +ungenerous Enemy: and Then, the miſerable <i>Canadians</i> +muſt in the Winter have the Mortification of ſeeing +thoſe very Families, they have been exerting a fruitleſs +and indiſcreet Bravery for, periſh by the moſt +diſmal Want and Famine.</p> + +<p>In this great Dilemma let the Wiſdom of the People of +<i>Canada</i> ſhew itſelf!</p> + +<p><i>BRITAIN</i> ſtretches out a powerful, yet a merciful Hand, +Faithful to her Engagements, and ready to ſecure them in +their moſt valuable Rights and Poſſeſſions.</p> + +<p><i>FRANCE</i>, unable to ſupport <i>Canada</i>, deſerts her +Cauſe at this important Criſis, and during the whole War +has aſſiſted her with Troops, who have been maintained +<i>only</i> by making the Natives feel all the Weight of grievous +and lawleſs Oppreſſion.</p> + +<p class='right'>JAMES WOLFE.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='right'>Boſton, <i>November 2, 1761</i>.</p> + +<p><i>Laſt Evening, juſt at Eight o'Clock, this Town was +alarmed with the Shock of an</i> EARTHQUAKE.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Gazette.</i></p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>On the 15th of August, 1763, the "Boston Post-Boy" gives the following +account of the celebration of a royal birthday:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big><i>BOSTON, Auguſt 15.</i></big></p> + +<p>On Friday being the Birth-Day of the <i>Prince of Wales</i>, and +the Anniverſary of the Acceſſion of the Houſe of +<i>Hanover</i>, and alſo of the Surrender of the <i>Havanna</i>, +which was the immediate Means of bringing about the Peace; +at One o'Clock the Guns at the Caſtle and Town Batteries +were Fired; and in the Evening his Excellency the Governor +gave a Ball at Concert Hall. There were preſent about 240 +Gentlemen and Ladies; the Ball was opened by General +<i>Shirley</i> and the Governor's Lady about 8 o'Clock; the +Country Dances began about nine, and about ten a Supper Room +was opened, where was a very handſome Collation. The +Ladies made a brilliant Appearance, and the Company +expreſſed the higheſt Pleaſure and Satisfaction on the +Occaſion, and broke up about two in the Morning. The whole +was conducted with the greateſt Order, Elegance and +Decorum.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The great military "occasion" of those days was the annual parade of the +Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. In June, 1763,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> that Company +celebrated its one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary. In the "Boston +Post-Boy" of June 13 we have this account:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Monday laſt, agreeable to ancient Cuſtom, the Artillery +Company of the Province, appeared under Arms, being the +Anniverſary of the Election of Officers for the Company: A +Sermon was preached by the Rev'd Mr. <i>Balch</i> of <i>Dedham</i>, at +the Old Brick Meeting-Houſe, where his Excellency the +Governor, the Members of his Majeſty's Council and Houſe +of Repreſentatives, with a Number of other Gentlemen, +attended; after which they proceeded to Faneuil-Hall, where +an elegant Dinner was provided; and in the Afternoon the +following Gentlemen were choſen for the enſuing Year, +viz.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 4em;"> +<i>Thomas Marſhall</i>, Eſq; Captain,<br /> +Mr. <i>Joſiah Waters</i>, Lieutenant,<br /> +Mr. <i>Jeremiah Belknap</i>, Enſign.<br /> +</p> + +<p>In the Evening a plentiful Repaſt was given by the +Officers newly elected, at Faneuil-Hall; where many loyal +Healths were drank.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>After the great fire in Boston in March, 1760, this item appeared in the +"Gazette" of May 19:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>We hear that <i>Charles Ward Apthorp</i>, Eſq; of <i>N.-York</i>, +Merchant, upon hearing of the Calamity which had befallen +this Town by the late dreadful Fire, generouſly ordered +his Agent here to pay to the Gentlemen appointed to receive +the Donations of charitable diſpos'd Perſons the Sum of +<i>One Hundred</i> Pounds, L.M. for the Relief of the Sufferers.</p></div> + +<p>Mr. Apthorp, of New York, made this generous donation—a large sum for +that time—for the relief of the sufferers of his native place.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>On the 30th of March, 1761, the "Boston Gazette" prints the following +among its items of news:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The following Proverbs we hope will not be diſregarded, +tho' taken from a Book in the Hands of almoſt every +Freeholder in this Province; for they are true Engliſh +Proverbs</i>——</p> + +<p><i><span class="smcap">Look</span> before you leap—Wiſe Men think twice before they +act once—Avoidance is better than late Repentance—Put your +Hand in the Lion's Mouth, then get it out if you +can—Haſte makes Waſte—Faſt bind faſt find—A Wedge +once enter'd, the Log flies—You may add, when you cannot +take away—Cut your Coat<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> according to your Cloth—A raſh +Beginning makes a fooliſh Ending—Better late than +never—He that acts for others, ſhould act with +Caution—Once well done is twice done—A wiſe Man +foreſeeth the Storm and ſecureth himſelf——Of all +Murderers, Self-Murderers are the moſt ſtupid—A Snake +in the Graſs may bite before it is ſeen.</i></p> + +<p class='center'>A Word to the Wiſe is ſufficient. <span class="smcap">Amen</span>.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Boston in Olden Times</span>.—The "Boston Transcript," in a notice of the +newspapers published in Boston in 1767, of which there were ten, says: +The printer in those days was a man of "all work." If a negro or horse +was up for sale, the printer was the seller. The advertisements in these +old papers are curiosities in their line. The following notices appeared +in the advertising columns of the "Boston Evening Gazette," in 1741:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"To be sold by the Printer of this Paper, the very best +negro woman in this town, who has had the small pox and the +measles; is as hearty as a horse, as brisk as a bird, and +will work like a beaver."</p> + +<p>"To be sold by the Printer of this Paper, a negro man about +thirty years old, who can do both town and country business +very well, but will suit the country best, where they have +not so many dram-shops<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> as we have in Boston. He has worked +at the printing business fifteen or sixteen years; can +handle axe, saw, spade, hoe, or other instrument of +husbandry, as well as most men, and values himself, and is +valued by others, for his skill in cookery."</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>This item, from a paper of 1767, seems to show that the Government was +not then obliged to have a "bill" to uphold silver, for it was evidently +in the ascendency; but there was no Western territory at that time, or +rather, it had not been discovered.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Gold as well as Silver will be taken for the Tickets, and +the Prizes paid off in like Manner. Prizes not demanded +within Twelve Months after Drawing, will not be paid, but +will be deem'd as generouſly given for the Purpoſe +aforeſaid, and applied accordingly.</p> + +<p>Tickets to be had of the reſpective Managers, and of Edes +and Gill.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Fashionable weddings in the days of the spinning-wheel were not so fully +described as they are at the present day. Nothing used<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> to be said about +the "magnificent dresses," "best man," "ushers," "contracting parties," +"elegant presents," etc., etc.; there was a simple announcement of the +fact. Here are specimens of marriage announcements,—persons belonging +to the first families in Boston.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><small>"Boston Gazette," Feb. 5, 1759.</small></p> + +<p>Laſt Thurſday Morning, was married at King's-Chappel, +Dr. <span class="smcap">Thomas Bulfinch</span>, Son of the late Dr. <span class="smcap">Bulfinch</span> of this +Town, to Mrs. <span class="smcap">Susan Apthorpe</span>, Daughter of the late <span class="smcap">Charles +Apthorpe</span>, Eſq; The Rev'd Mr. <span class="smcap">Apthorpe</span> perform'd the +Ceremony, before a very great Number of Spectators.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><small>"Columbian Centinel," March 26, 1788.</small></p> + +<p>——Mr. THOMAS H. PERKINS, merchant, to Miſs SALLY ELLIOT, +only daughter of Mr. <span class="smcap">Simon Elliot</span>.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><small>"Gazette," Jan. 26, 1767.</small></p> + +<p class='center'>BOSTON, January 26, 1767.</p> + +<p>Tueſday the Honorable <span class="smcap">John Temple</span>, Eſq; Surveyor-General +of North-America, was married to Miſs <span class="smcap">Bowdoin</span>, Daughter of +the Honorable <span class="smcap">James Bowdoin</span>, Eſq; of this Town.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Specimen of a house in "Corn-Hill," from the "Post-Boy," May 7, 1763.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> +<a href="images/img043.png"><img src="images/img043_th.png" width="150" height="118" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p class='center'><big>TO BE SOLD,</big></p> + +<p>A Large and Commodious Brick Dwelling-Houſe, pleaſently +ſcituated in Corn-Hill: For further particulars Enquire of +<i>Green & Ruſſell</i> Printers in Queen-ſtreet.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The "Virginia Gazette" gives an account of an early and bold attempt at +British impressment of seamen. This business caused us a great deal of +trouble in after years, and was one of the causes of "Madison's War," as +the old people were fond of calling it.</p> + +<p>The press-gang was one of the peculiar institutions of Great Britain.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='right'>BOSTON, October 26, 1767.</p> + +<p>By the Virginia Gazette, of the firſt Inſtant, it +appears that Captain Morgan, of the Hornet Sloop of War, +concerted a bloody riotous Plan, to impreſs Seamen, at +Norfolk, for which Purpoſe, his Tender was equipped with +Guns and Men, and under Cover of the Night ſaid Morgan +landed at a public Wharff, having firſt made proper +Diſpoſitions either for an Attack or Retreat, then went +to a Tavern, and took<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> a chearful Glaſs, after which they +went to work, and took every Perſon they met with, and +knocked all down that reſiſted; and dragged them on +board the Tender; but the Town ſoon took the Alarm, and +being headed by Paul Loyal, Eſq; a Magiſtrate, they +endeavoured to convince Capt. Morgan of his Error, and being +deaf to all they ſaid he ordered the People in the Tender +to fire on the Inhabitants, but they refuſed to obey their +Commanders Orders, and he was ſoon obliged to fly, leaving +ſome of the Hornets behind, who were ſent to Gaol, but +were afterwards releaſed.</p></div> + +<p>Mr. John Ashton, in his recently published work on "Social Life in +England at the end of the Eighteenth Century," informs us that one +evening in the year 1790, 2,100 men were pressed in London alone, +besides many more at the seaport towns.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In the summer of 1762 there was a severe drought in Massachusetts, and +the Governor issued a proclamation recommending public prayers for rain; +but it will be noticed that he says if rain should come before the day +set apart for prayers, then, instead of humiliation, it would be the +duty of the people to make it a day of thanksgiving. The proclamation<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +referred to was published in the "Boston Post-Boy" of July 13, 1762.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a href="images/img045.png"><img src="images/img045_th.png" width="400" height="176" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p class='center'>By <span class="smcap">His Excellency</span></p> + +<p class='center'><big>FRANCIS BERNARD, Eſq;</big></p> + +<p class='center'>Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over His +Majeſty's Province of <i>Maſſachuſetts-Bay</i> in +<i>New-England</i>, and Vice-Admiral of the ſame.</p> + +<p class='center'><big>A PROCLAMATION</big></p> + +<p class='center'><i>For a Day of Public Prayer.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> having pleaſed Almighty God to viſit this Province +with another ſevere Drought, which, if it ſhould +continue much longer, cannot fail of bringing great +Diſtreſs upon the Inhabitants thereof—We are again +called upon to ſupplicate the Interpoſition of Divine +Providence to relieve this Country from the imminent Danger +with which it is threatned, by diſpenſing timely and +plentiful Rain.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">I have</span> therefore thought fit to appoint, and I do, by and +with the Advice of His Majeſty's Council, appoint +Wedneſday the Twenty-eighth Day of this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> Inſtant <i>July</i> +to be a Day of Public Prayer throughout the Province: +Whereon the whole People may as at one Time humble +themſelves before Almighty God, acknowledging their great +Unworthineſs, and confeſſing their manifold Sins, and +imploring the Supreme Diſpenſer of all Good, that He +would be graciouſly pleaſed not to with-hold from them +the Fruits of the Earth, but by ſeaſonable and +refreſhing Rains bring what yet remains undeſtroyed to a +due and ſeaſonable Maturity.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">And whereas</span> ſome Places have been exempted from the +general Want of Rain; and it is to be hoped that before the +Day appointed as aforeſaid, many others, and poſſibly +the whole Province, may have a gracious and timely Relief: +It will be our Duty to intermix Thankſgiving with +Humiliation, in ſuch a Manner as the State of the +Province, and particular Parts thereof, ſhall at that Time +require.</p> + +<p>And I do order the ſaid Day to be obſerved as a Day +ſet apart for Religious Worſhip, and that no ſervile +Labour or Recreation be permitted thereon.</p> + +<p><i>GIVEN at the Council-Chamber in</i> Boſton, <i>the Ninth Day +of</i> July, 1762, <i>in the Second Year of the Reign of our +Sovereign Lord</i> GEORGE <i>the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of</i> +Great-Britain, France, <i>and</i> Ireland, <i>KING, Defender of the +Faith</i>, &c.</p> + + +<p class='right'><i>Fra. Bernard.</i></p> +<p style="margin-left: 2em;">By His Excellency's Command,</p> +<p style="margin-left: 4em;">A. OLIVER, Secr'y.</p> +<p style="margin-left: 6em;">GOD Save the KING.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Fire-works to be "play'd off," Aug. 13, 1759. From the "Boston Gazette."</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The Publick REJOICINGS in Town this Day, on Account of the +Succeſs of His Majeſty's Arms in the Reduction of +Ticonderoga, Niagara and Crown-Point, by the Troops under +the Command of the victorious General AMHERST, are now +beginning—A great Number of People have been employ'd in +making Fire-Works, &c. which will be play'd off this +Evening, when there will be a handſome illumination.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The "Post-Boy" of November 15 of that year prints the following:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>NEW-YORK, November 15.</p> + +<p>The Ships Mancheſter and Edward, that arrived here lately +from London, brought over no leſs than 206 Cheſts of +Green and Bohea Teas, for the different Merchants of this +City.</p> + +<p>Since our laſt two Veſſels arrived here from Ireland, +with about 2000 Firkins of choice Iriſh Butter, which we +hope will bring down the Price of that Article.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>We get an idea of men's clothing in 1767 from the following:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i><span class="smcap">Whereas</span> in the Time of Divine Service Yeſterday, the +Houſe of the Subſcriber was broke open, and the +following Things ſtolen from thence, viz.</i> a +Chocolate-colour Coat and Jacket trim'd with Braſs +Buttons, a cloth-colour'd cut-velvet Jacket with white +Buttons, a pair Waſh-Leather Breeches with white Buttons, +five Silver Tea-Spoons, and one large ditto, mark'd G.P. +<i>Whoever ſhall apprehend the Thief or Thieves, ſo that +he or they may be convicted, ſhall have FOUR DOLLARS +Reward, paid by</i></p> + +<p class='right'>JOHN PRESCOTT.</p> + +<p>Concord, September 14, 1767.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Lectures were not common in the last century. It was not until within +fifty or sixty years ago, when Lyceums began to be established, that the +lecture system became developed.</p> + +<p>We find that in 1769 a Mr. Douglass lectured in Boston, according to an +advertisement in the "Chronicle," August 17th.</p> + +<p>The well-known Colonel David Mason of the Revolution, who was a +prominent figure among the patriots at Leslie's Retreat at the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> North +Bridge in Salem in February, 1775, was one of the earliest, if not the +very first, to lecture in Salem upon a scientific subject. In the "Essex +Gazette," Jan. 15, 1771, we find his advertisement:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>No longer than next Week, will<br /> +Continue to be exhibited, +every Evening in which the Air is dry, (Saturday and Sunday +excepted)</i></p> + +<p>A Course of Experiments in that inſtructive and +entertaining Branch of Natural PHILOSOPHY, called</p> + +<p class='center'><b><big>Electricity</big></b>,</p> + +<p>To be accompanied with Methodical Lectures on the Nature and +Properties of that WONDERFUL ELEMENT,</p> + +<p class='center'>By David Maſon,</p> + +<p class='center'> +At his Dwelling-Houſe near the North Bridge.<br /> +The Courſe to conſiſt of two Lectures,<br /> +<small>At a Piſtareen each Lecture.</small></p> + +<p>As the Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, +and give us more noble, more grand and exalted Ideas of the +<span class="smcap">Author</span> of Nature, and if well purſued, ſeldom fails +producing ſomething <i>uſeful</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> to Man, 'tis hoped theſe +Lectures may be thought worthy of Regard and Encouragement.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Tickets to be had at the above Place.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p class='center'> +<i>Poſitively the LAST NIGHT.</i><br /> +<big>To-Morrow, being Friday</big>,<br /> +<small><i>Auguſt 17, 1769.</i></small><br /> +<big>Mr. Douglaſs</big>,<br /> +<small><i>Will deliver the</i></small><br /> +<i>LECTURE</i><br /> +<small>ON</small><br /> +<big>HEADS,</big><br /> +<i>Coats of Arms, Wigs, Ladies-head<br /> +Dreſſes,</i> &c., &c., &c., &c.<br /> +After which, will be pronounced<br /> +<span class="smcap">Some Select Pieces</span><br /> +From<br /> +<span class="smcap">The most Celebrated</span><br /> +<big>ENGLISH POETS.</big><br /> +<sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> Tickets for Admiſſion, to be had of <i>Green</i> and<br /> +<i>Ruſſell</i>, and at the <i>Bunch of Grapes</i> in King-Street.<br /> +<i>At</i> HALF-a-DOLLAR each.<br /> +To begin exactly at 8 o'clock.<br /> +</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Thus we see that Salem was early in the field of literature and science. +Its citizens must take pride in remembering such great names as +Nathaniel Bowditch, William H. Prescott, Joseph Story, Timothy +Pickering, John Pickering, Benjamin Peirce, William W. Story, Nathaniel +Hawthorne, and many others.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>When we see the great waste of paper in these days,—handbills, +circulars, and newspapers, which are blowing about the streets at +times,—we sometimes wonder how it was in 1767, on October 19, when the +following notice appeared in the "Boston Gazette."</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>☞ <i><span class="smcap">This</span> is to give Notice, That on</i> TUESDAY <i>the 27th +Inſtant, the Bell-Cart will go thro'</i> Boſton, <i>to +collect Linnen Rags for</i> Milton <i>Paper-Mill; as the +higheſt Price will be given, all Houſe-keepers and +others are deſired to have them in Readineſs.—And, as +it appears that all Sorts of Paper now to be imported, will +come at a much higher Price than uſual—if People will but +ſave their Rags, it will not only be greatly intereſting +to the Public that the aforeſaid Mill ſhould have a full +Supply, but will alſo<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> encourage the manufacturing of all +ſuch different Sorts of Paper as are generally uſed +among us, and a little to ſpare the neighbouring +Governments.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Here are two notices,—the first, nearly eight years before the battle +of Lexington, sounds warlike; the second is a call to promote greater +economy on the part of the inhabitants.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>Meſſieurs</i> <span class="smcap">Edes & Gill</span>,</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Pleaſe to inſert the following in your next.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> is rumoured, and ſome ſay with great Probability, +that a Body of Troops are ordered to be in Readineſs at +Halifax, to embark to any Part on the Continent of America, +upon the firſt Notice of Uneaſineſs at the Novelties +we daily expect.—It is as certain that America is alſo in +Readineſs to defend their Liberties at the Riſque of +every Thing elſe—there can be no Heſitation whenever +the Alternative ſhall be Slavery or Death—If therefore +they wait to know whether we will tamely ſubmit to +Slavery, the ſooner the Matter is bro't to a Criſis the +better.——But while we have any Opinion of the Integrity +and good Senſe of the Parliament of G.B. ſuch Reports +will not eaſily gain Credit. <span class="smcap">Determinatus.</span></p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The Freeholders and other Inhabitants of this Town, are to +meet at Faneuil-Hall, on Wedneſday next, to conſider and +agree upon ſome effectual Meaſures to promote +Induſtry, Oeconomy, and Manufactures, thereby to prevent +the unneceſſary Importation of European Commodities, which +threaten the Country with Poverty and Ruin, &c.——</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Timothy Pickering, the father of the distinguished Revolutionary officer +and statesman of the same name, addressed an open letter to King George +III., which is printed in the "Salem Gazette," Oct. 31, 1769. It is a +very quaint production, but it shows the writer's love of simplicity and +downright honesty. He was a sturdy Puritan.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='right'>"Oct. 31, 1769.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 1em;">"<span class="smcap">To the King of Great Britain.</span></p> + +<p>"<span class="smcap">Great Sir</span>,—Your Kingdom is like a Houſe divided +againſt itſelf. Something Extraordinary muſt be done. +Our Parliaments for fifty years paſt (or ſome of them) +have ruined the Nation, in making a monſtrous Debt by +hiring Money, while greater Sums have been expended in Pride +and Luxury. Thirteen hundred Thouſand Pounds Sterling, the +Public Prints tell us, is paid annually to the Dutch as +Intereſt money. My Advice is that all Rulers and +Officers,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> who have high Salaries, drop them, except ſo +much as is neceſſary for plain Living;—(Samuel had more +Honour in his plain Living with his upright Mind, than Saul +had in all his Princely Grandeur,)—And that all +unneceſſary Penſions ceaſe together with military +Officers half-pay, (How Unequal are our Ways: Theſe +Officers muſt have large Half-Pay, while the common +Soldiers are not allowed ſmall Half-Pay—who have been +expoſed generally to greater Hardships than their +Officers. Either let all have Half-Pay or none. The Soldiers +are to be reſpected as well as their Officers and are as +neceſſary,) and that high Taxes <i>very high</i> be laid on all +Pride and Luxury, wherever it is found, the Clergy and the +Women not excepted; And that great Taxes be laid on the +Rich. I have an Income of but about eighty Pounds Sterling a +Year, including my own Hands Labour, nevertheleſs I am +freely willing to pay one quarter Part of it in Taxes till +my Public Debts are paid. Others that have Two hundred a +Year, can with Eaſe pay one half of it in Taxes, if need +be. <i>Pay thy Debts</i>; Owe no man anything is Law, <i>Divine and +Moral</i>. Immoral Men are in the road that leads to Hell; if +they attend Public Worſhip, they are Hypocrites, like the +Scribes and Phariſees, of whom <i>Chriſt</i> ſaid, Ye are +of your Father the Devil. If I underſtand the Apoſtle, +when such Men ſit or kneel at a Communion Table, it is a +Table of Devils to them. Pray, Sir, tell your Placemen that +the vaſt Multitude of your Subjects are very uneaſy that +ſo<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> much of the Public Money, when raiſed is ſunk in +the Gulph of Exhorbitancy. My Governor, Mr. Francis Bernard, +demands a thouſand Pounds Sterling a Year; one half that +Sum is more than Enough, eſpecially as the Nation is ready +to ſink with the Weight of its Public Debt. The <i>Clergy</i> +can tell their Congregations that the New Teſtament rather +reproves than commands the wearing of coſtly Array and +faring ſumptuouſly every Day; And I may venture to tell +my Readers that all thoſe who neglect taking a +conſcientious care to pay their Debts, private Debts, as +well as public, are in the high Way to Deſtruction; the +commonneſs of the Sin don't abate the Malignity of it.</p> + +<p>P.S. Your Majeſty ſees how diligent Governor Nehemiah +was in reforming what was amiſs in Iſrael. He was +obliged indeed to contend with the Nobles and the Rulers who +oppoſed him, but he ſubdued them, and no wonder! +Becauſe he feared God and not Man.</p> + +<p>From a loyal Subject of my King and a ſincere Friend to +his Kingdom.</p> + + +<p class='right'>TIMOTHY PICKERING.</p></div> + +<p>Mr. Pickering wrote a letter to his son, while the latter was a student +at Harvard College, requesting him not to play at cards, a practice +which he regarded as wicked. But the son (Colonel Timothy Pickering +afterwards), as Mr. Upham, his biographer, well remarks, was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> altogether +too busy with his studies to waste time over cards.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>We do not observe in the old papers much that would indicate a belief in +modern Spiritualism; but it would seem from some accounts that "angels" +were occasionally seen. In the cases we quote, the kind of "angels" is +not stated. Whether they were real live beauties, or not, can only be +conjectured. Who would not now like to buy one of these books at "four +Coppers," so as to read all about these angels?</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>THIS DAY PRINTED.</i></p> + +<p class='center'>(And Sold by <i>Green & Ruſſel</i>, in Queen-Street,)</p> + +<p>A True & wounderful Relation of the Appearance of THREE +ANGELS, (cloathed in White Raiment) to a young Man at +<i>Medford</i>, near <i>Boſton</i>, in <i>New-England</i>, on the 4th of +<i>February</i> 1761, at Night. Together with the Subſtance of +the DISCOURSE, delivered by one of the Angels, from the 3d +Chapter of <i>Coloſſians</i>, and 4th Verſe.</p> + +<p class='center'>[Price only four Coppers.]</p> + +<p>☞ Good Allowance to thoſe that purchaſe by the Dozen.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boston Gazette</i>, Feb. 18, 1761.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>About this time, also, "angels" made their appearance "at home" +(England), as will be seen by another notice from the same paper.</p> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>This Day Publiſhed,</big></p> + +<p class='center'>(<i>And Sold by</i> Fowle & Draper, <i>in</i> Marlboro'-Street.)</p> + +<p>A full Relation of the ſurprizing Appearance of an Angel, +in the Pariſh-Church of Gainſbury in Lincolnſhire, on +Chriſtmas-Day laſt, in the Morning.—From whom was +obtained a Prophecy of many Things that ſhould come to +paſs in Europe; but more eſpecially in England and +France:—The firſt of which Kingdoms is threatened with +ſeveral Judgments on Account of their great +Miſimprovement of peculiar Priviledges: Whilſt the +latter, notwithſtanding their Endeavours to become great, +ſhall be totally deſtroy'd by Diſcord among +themſelves, &c. &c. The whole being a loud Call to +Repentance.—Publiſhed at the Requeſt of the +Pariſhioners, and atteſted to by two Miniſters, and +three Eſquires.</p> + +<p class='right'>1761.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In the "Boston Post-Boy" for Dec. 12, 1763, is an account of the +dedication of the Synagogue in Newport, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span>R.I.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>NEWPORT, December 5.</i></p> + +<p><i>On Friday laſt, in the Afternoon, was the Dedication of +the new Synagogue, in this Town. It began by a handſome +Proceſſion, in which were carried the Books of the Law, to +be depoſited in the Ark. Several Portions of Scripture, +and of their Service, with a Prayer for the Royal Family, +were read, and finely ſung by the Prieſt and People. +There were preſent many Gentlemen and Ladies. The Order +and Decorum, the Harmony and Solemnity of the Muſick, +together with a handſome Aſſembly of People, in an +Edifice the moſt perfect of the Temple Kind perhaps in +America, and ſplendidly illuminated, could not but raiſe +in the Mind a faint Idea of the Majeſty and Grandeur of +the antient Jewiſh Worſhip mentioned in Scripture.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>We find by the "Salem Mercury" of March 30, 1789, that New Hackensack +was fifty or sixty years before Rochester in "rappings" and +"table-tippings." Who shall say that these manifestations, whatever they +are, are not as old as man himself? The best and wisest of us do not +know everything. There may be some science, yet in its infancy, which +will some day be explained, so that all these things will then be +perfectly understood. The<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> account here given has no appearance of +deception. Had the girl lived a hundred years earlier, she would in all +probability have been hanged for a witch; but had she lived in these +days, she might have reaped a harvest from lectures and séances.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>PHILADELPHIA, March 10.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fiſhkill, dated +March 3, 1789.</i></p> + +<p>"Were I to relate the many extraordinary accounts of the +unfortunate girl at New-Hackenſack, your belief might, +perhaps, be ſtaggered. I ſhall therefore only inform you +of what I was an eyewitneſs to. Laſt Sunday afternoon +myſelf and wife went to Dr. Thorn's, and after ſitting +ſometime, we heard a knocking under the feet of a young +woman that lives in the family; I aſked the Doctor what +occaſioned the noiſe—he could not tell, but replied, +that he, together with ſeveral others had examined the +houſe, but were unable to diſcover the cauſe. I then +took a candle, and went with the girl into the cellar—there +the knocking alſo continued; but as we were aſcending +the ſtairs to return, I heard a prodigious rapping on each +ſide, which alarmed me very much. I ſtood ſtill ſome +time looking around with amazement, when I beheld ſome +lumber, which lay at the head of the ſtairs, ſhake +conſiderably. About eight or ten days<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> after, we viſited +the girl again—the knocking ſtill continued, though much +louder. Our curioſity induced us to pay the third viſit, +when the phenomena were ſtill more alarming. I then ſaw +the chairs move; a large dining table was thrown againſt +me, and a ſmall ſtand on which ſtood a candle, was +toſſed up, and thrown in my wife's lap; after which we +left the houſe, much ſurpriſed at what we had ſeen."</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Advertisements for runaway slaves are very numerous, as well as offers +for the sale of single slaves. In some instances negro children are "to +be given away." The following notices are taken from the "Boston +Gazette" and the "Boston Post-Boy." The descriptions of dress, personal +appearance, etc., are very curious.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Ran</span> away from <i>Thomas Poynton</i> of <i>Salem</i>, a Negro Fellow, +about 25 Years of Age, a ſhort thick-ſet Fellow, not +very black, ſomething pitted with the Small-Pox, ſpeaks +bad Engliſh: Had on when he went away, a dark colour'd +Cloth Coat, lined with red Shalloon, with Mettal Buttons, a +blue Sailor's Jacket, and a flowered German Serge Jacket, +black knit Breeches, a Pair grey Stockings newly stock'd, an +old Beaver Hatt, and an old Drab Great<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> Coat: Any Perſon +that ſhall take up ſaid Negro, and convey him to +<i>Salem</i>, or ſecure him in any Gaol ſhall be well +rewarded, and all neceſſary Charges paid.</p> + +<p>N.B. All Maſters of Veſſels and others are cautioned +againſt harbouring, concealing or carrying off the ſaid +Negro, as they would avoid the Rigour of the Law.</p> + +<p class='right'>THOMAS POYNTON.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Gazette</i>, Feb. 4, 1766.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>To be given away,</p> + +<p>A Male Negro Child of a good Breed, and in good Health. +Inquire of Green and Ruſſell.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Post-Boy</i>, Feb. 28, 1763.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>TO BE SOLD.</p> + +<p>A young Negro Woman about 20 Years of Age, born in this +Country, poſſeſs'd of many good Qualifications, is a +very good COOK, can handle her Needle well, and do every +Kind of Buſineſs about Houſe, and ſold only for want +of Employ. Enquire of Green & Ruſſell.</p> + +<p class='center'>☞ She will not be ſold out of this Town.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Post-Boy</i>, Feb. 28, 1763.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Ran</span> away from his Maſter, +<i>John Amiel</i> of <i>Boſton</i>, laſt Thurſday Night, a Negro +Fellow named <i>Peer</i>, he had on when he went away a cloth +colour'd Coat, lin'd and trim'd with red, a black broad +cloth Waiſtcoat without ſleeves, a yellow pair of +leather Breeches, a large pair of ſilver Buckels, and a +good Beaver Hat; he is a thick ſet Fellow, has very large +Feet and Legs, and ſpeaks good <i>French</i> and <i>Engliſh</i>. +Whoever will apprehend the ſaid Negro and bring him to his +Maſter in <i>Boſton</i>, ſhall have TWO DOLLARS Reward, and +all neceſſary Charges paid by</p> + +<p class='right'><i>John Amiel.</i></p> + +<p>All Maſters of Veſſels and others, are hereby forbid to +harbour, conceal or carry off ſaid Negro Servant, as they +would avoid the penalty of the Law.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Boston, May 2.</i></p> + +<p class='right'><i>Post-Boy</i>, May 10, 1763.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>TO BE SOLD</p> + +<p>A Negro Woman, about Twenty Eight Years of Age; ſhe is +remarkably healthy, and ſtrong, and ſeveral other good +Qualities; and is offer'd to Sale, for no other reaſon, +than her being of a furious Temper, and ſomewhat lazy; +ſmart Diſcipline, would make her a very good Servant. +Any Perſon minded to Purchaſe, may be further inform'd +by enquiring of the Printers.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Gazette</i>, May 12, 1760.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>Newport, Rhode-Iſland, Auguſt 28, 1767.</i></p> + +<p>Ran-away from <i>Benjamin Brenton</i>, a ſhort thick Negro Man +named LONDON, has loſt his Toes off both Feet. Whoever +brings ſaid Negro to his Maſter, ſhall have EIGHT +DOLLARS Reward, and all Charges paid.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boston Gazette.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Boston, for aught we know, did as much in the slave-trade as Newport; +possibly more. The numerous advertisements of "Prime Men and Boys" and +"Parcels of likely Negroes" which appear about this time in the Boston +papers rather indicate a considerable trade in slaves.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>JUST IMPORTED AND TO BE SOLD BY<br /> +<big>John Rowe,</big><br /> +AT HIS STORE,</p> + +<p>A few likely Negro Boys, and two Negro Men between 20 and 30 +Years of Age. Alſo, Newcaſtle Coals, Liſbon and +Salterduda Salt, A few Pipes of <span class="smcap">Madeira</span> WINES, alſo Fyal +Wines, Quart Bottles by the Groce—Hemp—Ruſſia and Ravens +Duck—Engliſh Duck of all Numbers—Cordage<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> +Anchors—Oznabrigs—Ticklenburgs—Hooks and +Lines—Newcaſtle Crown Glaſs of all Sizes and in +Sheets—ALSO, Briſtol Glaſs of all Sizes—All Sorts of +Nails—Scotch Snuff, and a variety of Engliſh and Scots +Manufactures.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boston Post-Boy</i>, Dec. 19, 1763.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>Juſt Imported from <i>Africa</i>,</big><br /> +And to be Sold cheap at No. 5 <i>Butler's</i> Row.</p> + +<p>A few prime Men and Boys Slaves from the Gold Coaſt.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>TO BE SOLD,</p> + +<p>A Parcel of likely Negroes, imported from <i>Africa</i>, Cheap +for Caſh or Credit with Intereſt; enquire of <i>John +Avery</i> at his Houſe, next Door to the white Horſe, or at +a Store adjoining to ſaid <i>Avery's</i> Diſtill Houſe, at +the South End, near the South Market:—Alſo if any +Perſons have any Negroe Men, ſtrong and hearty, tho' not +of the beſt moral character, which are proper Subjects for +Tranſportation, may have an Exchange for ſmall Negroes.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boston Gazette</i>, 1763</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>JUST Imported,</big></p> + +<p class='center'><big>From <i>AFRICA</i>.</big></p> + +<p>A Number of prime young <i>SLAVES</i>, from the Windward Coaſt, +and to be Sold on board Capt. <i>Gwin</i> lying at New-Boſton.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boston Gazette</i>, July 13, 1761.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>To be ſold, a parcel of likely hearty Negroes, both Male +and Female from Ten Years of Age to Twenty, imported the +laſt Week from <i>AFRICA</i>. Enquire of Capt. <i>Wickham</i> on +board the Sloop <i>Diamond</i>, now laying at the Wharff +adjoining to <span class="smcap">John Avery's</span> Diſtill-Houſe near the South +Market, or of ſaid <i>Avery</i> at his Houſe next the White +Horſe.</p></div> + +<p>We have not been able to find that any of the inhabitants of Salem +engaged in the slave-trade; but we notice that at a town-meeting held in +the month of May, 1773, the following vote was passed: "That the +Representatives of the Town be instructed to use their utmost Endeavours +to prevent the future Importation<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> of Negroes into this Province; their +Slavery being repugnant to the natural Rights of Mankind and highly +prejudicial to the Province." It is of course possible that some Salem +people may have been interested in vessels hailing from other places and +engaged in this nefarious traffic, as it is now considered.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Arrival of Irish servants at Boston in 1769.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>Arrived from IRELAND,</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Ship King of Pruſſia, <span class="smcap">Arthur Darley</span>, maſter, has on +board 30 Servants, ſome Tradeſmen, viz. Taylors, +Shoe-makers, Smiths, Weavers, &c. the remainder Country lads +that underſtand Farming buſineſs.——His ſtay here +will be ſhort, as he is bound to another Port.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boston Chronicle</i>, September 25.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The celebrated revival preacher Rev. George Whitefield was in Boston in +1764. We take the following item from the "Boston Post-Boy" of February +24:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the +Town of Boſton on Friday laſt, it was voted +unanimouſly, That the Thanks of the Town be given the Rev. +Mr. <span class="smcap">George Whitefield</span>, for his charitable Care and Pains in +collecting a conſiderable Sum of Money in Great-Britain, +for the diſtreſſed Sufferers by the great Fire in +Boſton, 1760; and a reſpectable Committee was appointed +to wait on Mr. <span class="smcap">Whitefield</span> to inform him of the Vote, and +preſent him with a Copy thereof, which Committee waited +upon him accordingly, and received the following Anſwer,</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Gentlemen,</i></p> + +<p><i>This Vote of Thanks for ſo ſmall an Inſtance of my +good-will to</i> Boſton, <i>as it was entirely unexpected, +quite ſurprizes me——Often have I been much concerned +that I could do no more upon ſuch a diſtreſſing +Occaſion.——That the Redeemer may ever preſerve the +Town from ſuch like melancholy Events, and ſanctify +their preſent afflictive Circumſtances to the +ſpiritual Welfare of all its Inhabitants, is the hearty +Prayer of,</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 2em;">Gentlemen,</p> +<p class='right'>Your ready Servant in our common LORD.<br /> +<i>GEORGE WHITEFIELD.</i></p> + +<p>The Rev. Mr. WHITEFIELD preached on Tueſday and Saturday +laſt, at the Old South Meeting-Houſe, to large and +crouded Auditories.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Marriage of Copley, the celebrated painter, from the "Chronicle," Nov. +20, 1769.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Laſt Thurſday Mr. <i>John Singleton Copley</i> was married to +Miſs <i>Sukey Clarke</i> Daughter of <i>Richard Clarke</i>, Eſq; +and Mr. <i>Joſhua Henſhaw</i>, jun. to Miſs <i>Katherine +Hill</i>, Daughter of Col. <i>John Hill</i>.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><big class='center'>Thomas Britt</big></p> + +<p>Would take a few young Ladies, <i>&c.</i> to teach them Spelling, +Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, at his School near the +Cornfield. ALSO, French taught and tranſlated by ſaid +<i>Britt</i>.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boston Gazette</i>, April 27, 1767.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Where were or where was, as the case might be, the "Cornfields" or +"Cornfield" of Boston in 1763? Martin Gay kept a store or lived near +there, and in 1767 Master Britt kept a school for young ladies near the +"Cornfield."</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>Choice Engliſh Peas</big></p> + +<p>at the North-Mills, TO BE SOLD, by the larger or ſmaller +Quantity, at a low Rate, Enquire of <i>William Paine</i> at +ſaid Mills, or of <i>Martin Gay</i>, near the Cornfields, +<i>Boſton</i>.</p> + +<p class='right'>Dec. 12, 1763.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>When we remember the old pictures and portraits of stately ladies with +high headdresses and gentlemen with wigs, the following advertisements +are interesting:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>Joſhua Davis, <i>Peruke-Maker</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Hereby</span> informs his Cuſtomers, and others, That he has +Remov'd his Shop from the Head of the Long Wharf, next the +Crown Coffee Houſe, to the firſt Shop in Mackrell Lane, +next the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, where they may be ſerv'd +with Fidelity and Diſpatch.</p> + +<p>☞ Said <i>Davis</i> makes the neateſt and moſt +faſhionable Wiggs, at a moderate Rate.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boston Gazette</i>, Feb. 18, 1761.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A genteel Gold Watch, made by <i>Marmaduke Storr</i>, to be Sold, +inquire of the Printers.</p> <p class='right'>Sept. 14, 1761.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A few Genteel Grey and light Grey London-made WIGS, to be +ſold by JOHN CROSBY, Periwig Maker near the Sign of the +Lamb, alſo Wig-makers Ribbons, Silk and Cauls, Bodyed +Grizle, and Grizle Hairs for cut Wigs, Bleach'd, Tye and +Brown Spencer Hairs, white Goat<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> Hairs, white, black, and +brown Horſe Hairs, Moy Crown Hairs, Cards and Bruſhes, +drawing Cards and Bruſhes, beſt Razors, purple Thread, +Tupee Irons, & Curling Tongs, Tupee Combs in Caſes, Wig +Blocks, Silk Puffs, Hair, Powder, Shaving Boxes, & +Bruſhes, waſh Ball Boxes, and waſh Balls, London black +Balls with Printed directions, to uſe them very Nice, +black Sattin Baggs for the Hair, white, black, yellow; & +Bear Grees, Pomatum Excellent with their uſe to make Hair +of a good Colour, & to grow thicker, Gold & Silver Powders +(ſo called) to clean Gold and Silver Lace & Embroaderry.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boston Post-Boy</i>, Dec. 12, 1763.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>At fires, leather buckets were used by the inhabitants, and were +sometimes lost or misplaced, as appears from the following +advertisements from the "Boston Gazette":—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Lost</span> at the late Fire on the 5th of November Inſt. a +Leather Bucket, No. 2, mark'd <i>Wm. Hickling</i>: Whoever is +taken up the ſame, are deſir'd to return it to the +Owner, or the Printers hereof.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>LOST at the Fire near Oliver's-Dock, on the 14th Day of +November laſt, a Pair of Leather Fire Buckets, mark'd</i> +Benj<sup>a</sup>. Barnard, <i>and dated 1757.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> Whoever will give +Information, or bring them to the Printers hereof, ſhall +be handſomely Rewarded.</i></p> + +<p class='right'>Dec. 10, 1759.</p></div> + +<p>Within the writer's recollection, in nearly every house in Salem two or +more fire-buckets, marked with the owner's name, were, when not in use, +kept hanging in the front hall. At fires, lanes, as they were called, of +men were formed, under the direction generally of the fire-wards, and +water was passed from one to another and to the fire from some +neighboring pump or cistern.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>We see notices like the following of insurance offices; but they were +principally for marine risks, as not many fire risks were taken before +the beginning of the present century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big><i>Hurd's</i> Inſurance-Office,</big></p> + +<p class='center'>At the <span class="smcap">Bunch of Grapes, State-Street</span>,<br /> BOSTON,</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Open</span> at all hours of buſineſs, where Policies of +Inſurance are underwritten upon the moſt moderate +premiums; and the Gentlemen forming this Inſurance +Company, whoſe names are inſerted in each Policy, having +eſtabliſhed adequate Funds for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> the ready payment of +ſuch loſſes as may happen, hereby notify, that +buſineſs will be done with all poſſible attention, +diſpatch and punctuality, by</p> + +<p class='right'>JOHN HURD,<br /> +(Inſurance Broker.)</p> + +<p>April 8, 1784.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>THIS is to inform all Gentlemen in Trade,<br /> +That</p> + +<p class='center'><big>THE INSURANCE OFFICE</big></p> + +<p>Lately kept in Ann-Street near the Town-Dock, by <span class="smcap">Samuel +Phillips Savage</span>, is removed to the Houſe of the Honorable +<span class="smcap">William Brattle</span>, Eſq; next Door to the Britiſh +Coffee-Houſe, King-Street: Where the Buſineſs of +Inſurance is carried on as uſual.</p> + +<p><i>Boſton, December 6, 1759.</i></p></div> + +<p>With regard to policies, the term "under-writer" came from an old +custom. There were in old times no joint-stock companies for insurance, +but policies were filled out and left at an office kept by some person +for the purpose, where any responsible man could sign his name to a +particular policy and affix such sum as he was willing to risk, and thus +become one of the "underwriters." We<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> have seen, for instance, a policy +for $20,000 with twelve or fifteen names of merchants, signed with +various sums from $500 upwards.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>A quaint notice of the death of Obadiah Brown, of Providence, from the +"Boston Post-Boy":—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>PROVIDENCE, June 21, 1762.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> Thurſday laſt died at his Seat in the Country, after +two Days Illneſs, <span class="smcap">Obadiah Brown</span>, Eſq; in the 50th Year +of his Age. He was one of the moſt conſiderable Men in +this Town: In the various Branches of Buſineſs which he +carried on, his Activity was unequalled, his Judgment and +Prudence oftener admired than imitated, his Honeſty and +Integrity fit to be drawn into Example.—As a Magiſtrate, +he was judicious, grave, and reſerved:—As a Friend, +conſtant, open, facetious, and cheerful:—In the Relations +of a Huſband, Father, and Maſter, the deep and real +Sorrow of his Widow, the mournful Tears of his Children, and +the unuſual Cries and Lamentations of his Servants, are +invincible Proofs in his Favour. His Beneficence is +witneſſed by the Sighs of the Poor and Thanks of the +Tradeſmen: And his Death is univerſally lamented, +becauſe his Life was univerſally uſeful.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Notice of Hon. Daniel Russell, from the "Boston Gazette":—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='right'><i>Charleſtown, December 10, 1763.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> Tueſday laſt departed this Life, after a ſhort +Illneſs, the Hon. <span class="smcap">Daniel Russell</span>, Eſq; who, for upwards +of Twenty Years, was a Member of his Majeſty's Council for +this Province: He alſo ſerved the Province as +Commiſſioner of Impoſt, and the County of Middleſex as +Treaſurer, for more than fifty Years; in the Diſcharge +of all which Offices, ſuch was his conſcientious +Fidelity and unſullied Integrity, as procured him +univerſal Approbation and Eſteem.</p> + +<p>In public and private Life, his whole Conduct was ſuch as +evidently ſhowed his invariable deſire and endeavour to +preſerve a Conſcience void of Offence both towards God +and Man; and by the Rectitude of his Behaviour, to adorn and +recommend the holy Religion which he profeſſed, and to +approve himſelf to the all-ſearching Eye of the Father +of Spirits.</p> + +<p>His Memory is greatly honoured by all who were acquainted +with him, in whoſe eſteem he was truly that "nobleſt +Work of God, <i>An honeſt Man</i>."</p> + +<p>It is obſervable that in the ſeveral Offices which he +ſuſtained, he ſucceeded his worthy Father and +Grandfather; both of whom held and diſcharged the ſame, +for a great Number of Years, with unſpotted Reputation.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p> + +<p>His Remains, we hear, will be inter'd on Monday next, on +which Day, had he lived, he would have entered the 79th Year +of his Age.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The ſweet Remembrance of the juſt<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Shall flouriſh when he ſleeps in duſt."<br /></span> +</div></div> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Account of the burial of Major-General Whitmore, from the "Boston +Gazette":—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>BOSTON, December 21, 1761.</i></p> + +<p>Wedneſday afternoon the Corps of Major General <span class="smcap">Whitmore</span> +was interred in the King's Chapple with all the Honours that +this Town could give. The Proceſſion went from the +Town-Houſe to the King's Chapple in the following Manner; +A Party of the Troop of Horſe Guards, the Company of +Cadets, the Officers of the Regiment of Militia, the +officiating Miniſters, the Corps, the Pall ſupported by +ſix regular Officers, the chief Mourners, the Governor and +Lieut. Governor, the Council, the Judges, Juſtices, +Miniſters, and principal Gentlemen of the Town, a great +Number of Coaches and Chariots following. During the whole +Proceſſion Minute-Guns were fired. The Corps was placed in +the Middle of the King's Chapple whilſt Part of the +Funeral Service was performed, and was from thence carried +into the Vaults below, and there interred. Whilſt the +laſt Service was performing the Cadets fired three +Vollies.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Notice of Hon. John Erving, from the "Massachusetts Gazette," Aug. 22, +1786:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Died, laſt Sunday morning, in the 94th year of his age, +the Hon. <span class="smcap">John Erving</span>, Eſq. who, for twenty years, was a +member of the Council under the old conſtitution, and one +of the moſt eminent merchants in America.</p> + +<p>As a man of probity, and ſtrict honeſty, he was +univerſally eſteemed. Thoſe who were acquainted with +his character muſt regret the loſs of ſo worthy a +member of the community. In his domeſtick life he was a +tender parent and kind maſter.——His funeral will be this +afternoon, preciſely at five o'clock, from his houſe in +Tremont-ſtreet, where his friends and acquaintance are +deſired to attend.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Notice of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Salisbury, from the "Massachusetts +Centinel," March 28, 1789:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Laſt Wedneſday night departed this life, very +ſuddenly, Mrs.</i> <span class="smcap">Elizabeth Salisbury</span>, <i>the amiable and +virtuous Conſort of Mr. Samuel Saliſbury of this town, +merchant. Her funeral will be from his houſe in +Marlborough-ſtreet, this afternoon—which her friends are +deſired to attend.</i></p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>From the "Boston Chronicle," March 8, 1770:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>BOSTON.</p> + +<p>For ſome days bye-paſt, there have been ſeveral +affrays between the inhabitants and the ſoldiers quartered +in this town.</p> + +<p>Laſt Monday about 9 o'clock at night a moſt unfortunate +affair happened in King-ſtreet: The centinel poſted at +the Cuſtom-houſe, being ſurrounded by a number of +people, called to the main-guard, upon which Capt. +Preſton, who was Captain of the day, with a party, went to +his aſſiſtance: ſoon after which ſome of the party +fired, by which the following perſons were killed and +wounded,</p> + +<p>Mr. Samuel Gray, ropemaker, killed.—A Mollatto man, named +Johnſon, killed.—Mr. James Caldwell, mate of Capt. +Morton's veſſel, killed.—Mr. Samuel Maverick, wounded, +and ſince dead.—A Lad named Chriſtopher Monk, +wounded.—A lad named John Clark, wounded.—Mr. Edward +Payne, Merchant, ſtanding at his entry-door, wounded in +the arm.—Mr. John Greene, taylor, wounded.—Mr. Patrick +Cole, wounded.—David Parker, wounded.</p> + +<p>Early next morning Captain Preſton was committed to gaol, +and ſame day 8 ſoldiers.</p> + +<p>A meeting of the inhabitants was called at Fanueil-hall that +forenoon: and the Lieutenant-Governor and Council met at the +Council-chamber, where the Colonels Dalrymple and Carr were +deſired to attend,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> when it was concluded upon, that both +regiments ſhould go down to the barracks at +Caſtle-William, as ſoon as they were ready to receive +them.</p> + +<p><i>We decline at preſent, giving a more particular account +of this unhappy affair, as we hear the trial of the +unfortunate priſoners is to come on next week.</i></p></div> + +<p>This is all the "Boston Chronicle" has to say about that great +historical event of the fifth of March, an event which stirred the whole +country and filled the minds of the Colonists with a perfect hatred of +the British power in America,—"The Boston Massacre." The editor of the +paper was probably a Tory.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The "Massachusetts Gazette," Feb. 3, 1774, says:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>We hear that the Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Eſq; is appointed to +deliver the ORATION in Commemoration of the Bloody Tragedy +on the 5th of March.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The "Salem Gazette" has this item, March 7, 1782:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Laſt Tueſday Mr. George R. Minot delivered an elegant +and ſpirited Oration, at the old brick meeting-houſe, in +commemoration of the horrid maſſacre perpetrated on the +5th of March, 1770, by a banditti of the Britiſh tyrant's +29th regiment.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>It may not be of any consequence to the public to know what kind of coat +Jonathan Williams wore in 1767, but it may be a matter of curiosity to +his descendants now living. We take the following advertisement from the +"Boston Gazette," Dec. 28, 1767:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Whereas there has been taken out of the Houſe of <i>Jonathan +Williams</i> in Cornhill, two Great Coats, on the 23d +Inſtant, one of his own Wearing a cloth-coloured Drab; the +other his Servants, a blue Cloth ditto. Whoever has taken +them, and will return the former to ſaid <i>Williams</i>, +ſhall have the latter <i>gratis</i>, and no Queſtions +aſk'd.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>Notice.</big></p> + +<p>Frequent applications being made to the Town-Cryer, to +proceed through the ſtreets in ſearch of Children that +have ſtrayed from their home, which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> practice often +excites unneceſſary alarm to the inhabitants.</p> + +<p>The public are reſpectfully deſired, in caſe of any +diſcovery of a child, or children ſo loſt or +ſtrayed, to bring them immediately to the ſubſcriber +at No. 71, Newbury ſtreet.—By an attention to this +regulation, Parents and friends may have their anxiety +relieved by applying as above.</p> + +<p class='right'>SAMUEL ADAMS, <i>Town-Cryer</i>.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Constitutional Telegraph</i>, Aug. 8, 1800.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Masonic notice from Paul Revere and others, from the "Boston Post-Boy."</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>NOTICE is hereby given to the Brethren of the Antient and +Honorable Society of <span class="smcap">Free and Accepted</span> MASONS, That the +Feaſt of St. <span class="smcap">John</span> the <span class="smcap">Baptist</span> will be Celebrated by the +Brethren of St. <span class="smcap">Andrew's</span> Lodge, (duly authoriz'd, +conſtituted and appointed to be held at <i>Boſton</i>, by the +Right Honorable, <span class="smcap">John Lord Aberdour</span>, Grand Maſter of +<i>Scotland</i>) on Thurſday the 24th Inſtant, at the +Royal-Exchange Tavern in King-Street, Tickets to be had of</p> + +<p style='margin-left: 12em'> +<span class="smcap">Joseph Webb</span>, jun.<br /> +<span class="smcap">Phillip Lewis</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">Paul Revere</span>.<br /> +</p> + +<p><i>Boſton, June 14, 1762.</i></p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The house of Copley, the celebrated painter, is thus advertised:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>To be LET, and entered on immediately,</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">That</span> elegant, convenient, and moſt pleaſantly ſituated +DWELLING-HOUSE, with a large Garden, and other Land about +it, (near his Excellency the Governour's) belonging to Mr. +<span class="smcap">Copley</span>; well known to be completely accommodated for a +genteel family. Inquire of CHARLES PELHAM, (at the late +Dwelling-Houſe of Mrs. <span class="smcap">Pelham</span>, at New-Boſton) he being +impowered to let it.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>May 16, 1789.</i></p> +<p class='right'><i>Massachusetts Centinel.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Antique luxuries.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Wanted</span>, the following, viz. Fifteen Pair of WOOD DUCKS, Four +Pair of WILD GEESE, Three Pair of FLYING SQUIRRELS, Three +Dozen of the ſmalleſt Size Terrapeins or freſh Water +TURTLES, for which a good PRICE will be given, or for any +Part of them.——Enquire of the Printer.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Essex Gazette</i>, Feb. 21, 1771.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>We do not see much in the papers about spinning-wheels until after the +War of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> Revolution; then there seemed to be what may be called a +revival of domestic industry. In 1786 the ladies of Hartford, Conn., +formed an Economical Association. They say that they are "fully sensible +that our calamities are in a great measure occasioned by the luxury and +extravagance of individuals, and are of opinion that it is a duty they +owe their country as well as their families to retrench as far as +possible all unnecessary expenses." Their articles of agreement were +signed, on the 6th of November, 1786, by more than a hundred ladies +belonging to the first families in the city. By these articles they +engage "not to purchase for next six months any Gauze, Ribbons, Lace, +Feathers, Beaver-Hats, Silks, Muslins, and Chintzes, except only for +weddings and mourning;" also to "dress their persons in the plainest +manner and encourage industry, frugality, and neatness, giving all due +preference to the manufactures of their own country." To this they add +that "when they receive visits and make entertainments, it will be their +study to avoid unnecessary expense, especially on foreign articles." On +June 17 of that year the President of Harvard College addressed a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> +letter to the "Massachusetts Gazette" which is interesting in this +connection. This letter we copy to show how economy entered into +everything, even a "liberal education." It will moreover be of interest +because of the attempt made to regulate the students' dress.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p class='right'> +<span class="smcap">University in Cambridge</span>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">June</span> 17, 1786.<br /> +</p> + +<p><i>To the Publiſher of the Maſſachuſetts</i> Gazette.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Every</span> proper attempt of the Governours of the Univerſity +to leſſen the expenſe of a liberal education muſt be +grateful to the Publick, and meet with their hearty +concurrence; the Members of the Community, therefore, in +general, and the Parents and Guardians of the Students in +particular, it is not doubted, will be well pleaſed with +ſome late regulations, made by the Corporation and +Overſeers, to introduce economy in dreſs, and will +readily perform their part, in carrying them into effect.</p> + +<p>By ordering an uniform, the Governours of the Society have +removed the temptation to that frequent change of apparel, +which may have ariſen from the liberty the Students have +had, of chuſing different colours, from time to time: And +by entirely prohibiting ſilk (an unneceſſary article in +their clothing) a very conſiderable expenſe is +prevented.</p> + +<p>That the dreſs of the Students be neat and decent is +highly proper; but that it ſhould be very ornamental<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> and +expenſive is ever needleſs, and oftentimes pernicious: +Nor will any Student, who is ſolicitous to acquire +knowledge, and ſincerely diſpoſed to improve his time +to the beſt advantage, in obtaining ſuch degrees of it, +as may enable him to be extenſively uſeful to the +Community, feel a reluctance to economical inſtitutions +reſpecting dreſs. He will not only eſteem the +ornaments of the mind of vaſtly higher importance than +thoſe of the body, but the general good will alſo +conſtantly influence his conduct; and he will chearfully +encourage every regulation, which tends to promote +frugality.</p> + +<p>The regulations referred to, I now tranſmit to you, which +the Corporation and Overſeers of the Univerſity +requeſt you to publiſh, for the information of all +concerned.</p> + +<p style='margin-left: 2em'>I am, Sir, your humble ſervant,</p> + +<p class='right'>JOSEPH WILLARD.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>At a Meeting of the</i> <span class="smcap">Corporation</span>, <i>&c.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">June</span> 13, 1786.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Whereas</span> the enjoining of an uniform colour, in the clothing +of the Undergraduates, and prohibiting a certain ſpecies +of materials, in their apparel, will have a great tendency +to leſſen the expenſe of dreſs (which, at preſent, +conſtitutes too large a proportion of the Collegiate +charges) while, at the ſame time, the appearance will be +more academical:</p> + +<p><i>Voted</i>, That it be recommended, that the Freſhmen, who +ſhall be admitted into the Univerſity the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> preſent +year, before the end of the Summer Vacation, be provided +with coats of blue-gray, being a mixture of deep blue and +white wool, as nearly as may be, ſeven eighths of the +blue, and one eighth of the white, or, if that cannot +conveniently be obtained, of a dark blue colour,—and with +waiſtcoats and breeches of the ſame colour, or of a +ſtraw colour.</p> + +<p>That, when they ſhall procure clothes, afterwards, and +while Undergraduates, their coats ſhall be of the colour +firſt mentioned, and their waiſtcoats and breeches of +the ſame colour, or of a ſtraw colour.</p> + +<p>That the Freſhmen, who ſhall be admitted into the +Univerſity in the year 1787, and afterwards, ſhall be +provided with coats of the colour firſt mentioned, and +with waiſtcoats and breeches as laſt mentioned, and +ſhall continue provided with clothes of theſe +ſpecified colours while they remain Undergraduates.</p> + +<p>That all, who ſhall hereafter be admitted, when they +commence Sophimores, ſhall have the addition of frogs to +the button holes of their coats, the cuff of the ſleeve to +be plain.</p> + +<p>That when they commence Junior Sophiſters, their coats +ſhall have the further addition of frogs on the +button-ſide,—continuing the plain cuff; and they ſhall +alſo provide themſelves with black gowns, having a +cloſe ſleeve and ſlit cuff, to be made according to +the direction of the Corporation.</p> + +<p>That, when they commence Senior Sophiſters, they ſhall +have the further addition of buttons and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> frogs to the cuff +of their coat, and ſhall alſo have black gowns, with a +wide ſleeve,—the mode to be determined by the +Corporation.</p> + +<p>That when they are admitted to the Bachelor's degree, they +ſhall appear in like gowns and clothes as are preſcribed +for the Senior Sophiſters.</p> + +<p>That the Seniors and Juniors ſhall wear their black gowns, +on all publick occaſions, and whenever they ſhall +publickly declaim in the Chapel.</p> + +<p>That no Undergraduate, to whom theſe injunctions may +extend, be permitted to appear within the limits of the +College, or town of Cambridge, in any other dreſs than is +before deſcribed, unleſs he has on a night gown, or an +outſide garment be neceſſary over his coat.</p> + +<p>That no part of the dreſs of the Undergraduates be made of +ſilk;—and that it be recommended to them, to clothe +themſelves in home manufactures, as far as may be.</p> + +<p>That theſe regulations be extended to all who ſhall +hereafter be admitted into the Univerſity;—and that it be +recommended to ſuch as are already Members, to conform +thereto, upon principles of economy, as far as may +conſiſt with their preſent ſupply of clothing.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='right'><span class="smcap">University</span> <i>in Cambridge, June 12, 1786</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Candidates</span> for their ſecond degree, at the next +Commencement, are notified, that it is expected that they +give their attendance at the Univerſity by the 12th day of +July; and if any<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> ſhould not attend by that time, they +will not receive their degree this year, unleſs they give +ſufficient reaſons for their abſence.</p> + +<p>They who deſire admiſſion into the Univerſity this +year, are alſo notified, that the Preſident and Tutors +will attend the buſineſs of examination on Friday and +Saturday, the 21ſt and 22d of July.</p> + +<p class='right'>JOSEPH WILLARD, Preſident.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In 1788 the industry of the people of Providence, R.I., is set forth in +the following notice, from the "Salem Mercury" of November 25:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><span class="smcap">American Manufactures</span>.</p> + +<p>A Providence paper informs, that the Carding and Spinning +Machines uſed in England in manufacturing cotton ſtuffs, +are introducing into that town by ſome publick ſpirited +gentlemen—and that there are few families in that town +which are not manufacturing ſome kind of cloth.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>It appears from the "Columbian Centinel," July 14, 1790, that the +wealthy of that day had a fondness for foreign articles.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p> + +<p>Complaint is very prolifick in all countries. In the United States we +complain, that,</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0"><i>Tho' rich at home, to foreign lands we ſtray,</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>And trade for trinkets our beſt wealth away.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The following advertisement from the "Massachusetts Centinel" recalls +the time when cows were pastured on Boston Common.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Strayed</span>, on Saturday laſt, from Boſton Common, and +belonging to JONATHAN AMORY, a young red COW, with ſome +white on the back and belly, forehead white, ſmall horns, +with the tips off. Whoever will bring her to the owner will +be rewarded.</p> + +<p><i>Boſton, May 24, 1788.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>People were expected to have long memories in old times, judging from +the following notification in the "Boston Gazette" of 1760:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Whereas</span> on the 17th of January 1740-1, twenty-ſeven yards +and an half of yard-wide ſheeting linnen, and ſome +ſmaller articles, was ſold at Mr. <i>James Gordon's</i> +ſhop in <i>Boſton</i>, and deliver'd to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span> one capt. <i>Stevens</i>, +as appears by ſaid <i>Gordon's</i> book; and thro' ſome +miſtake in keeping his books, ſaid articles are charg'd +to another of the ſame name. If therefore the ſaid capt. +<i>Stevens</i>, that really had ſaid goods, or any of his +family, or others, can give any light into the matter, it is +deſired they would acquaint the printers hereof, and they +ſhall be generouſly recompenced for their trouble.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The "small pox" was very troublesome in Colonial times, as this +announcement from the "Boston Gazette," Feb. 2, 1761, shows:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Samuel Parkman hereby informs his Cuſtomers and others, +That immediately on the breaking out of the Small-Pox in the +back Part of his Houſe in Union Street, he removed his +Shop Goods to a Store on a Wharf that they may be ſafe +from any Infection, and himſelf to the Houſe of Mr. +Joſhua Winter Stationer—The Perſon who had the +Diſtemper is perfectly recovered, and departed the Houſe +ſome Days ago, and the Houſe thoroughly cleanſed.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The following notice from the "Massachusetts Gazette" reminds us of the +time of open fire-places and blazing, cheerful wood-fires:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">The Selectmen</span> would inform the Town, that they have +<i>approbated</i> a number of <i>Chimney-Sweepers</i>, who are +furniſhed with badges agreeable to the By-Laws, and have +ſtipulated to execute their buſineſs <i>faithfully</i>, at +the following rates, viz.—For lower-room chimnies, +<i>fourteen pence two fifths</i>, or <i>one piſtareen</i>; and for +<i>all</i> chamber chimnies, <i>one ſhilling</i> each—that all +concerned may govern themſelves accordingly.</p> + +<p><i>Boſton, Sept. 21, 1786.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>The spinning-wheel at Ipswich. From the "Columbian Centinel," June 7, +1791.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>For the</i> CENTINEL.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">The Printer</span> is requeſted to record it among the numerous +inſtances of female benevolence and harmony, which have +been exhibited in theſe times, and ſo well reprove the +jarring diſſenſions of the <i>men</i>—that at Ipſwich, +lately, at the houſe of the Rev. Mr. <span class="smcap">Dana</span>, a numerous band +of ladies, in harmonious concert, have again "laid their +hands to the ſpindle, and held the diſtaff," and +preſented the fruit of their generous toil, 118 run of +good yarn; viz. 88 linen, 30 cotton; the materials, +proviſions, and handſome attendance, all furniſhed by +themſelves and thoſe who joined with them.—"<i>Give her +of the fruit of her own hands, and let her own works +praiſe her in the gates.</i>"</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>From the "Salem Mercury," April 28, 1787.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Not long ago a number of ladies belonging to the +Preſbyterian ſociety in Newbury-Port, aſſembled at the +Parſonage-houſe, with their ſpinning-wheels and other +utenſils of induſtry, for the day, to the benefit of +their miniſter's family. The aſſembly having firſt +united in the ſolemn exerciſes of ſocial worſhip, +the buſineſs of the day was opened. Every apartment in +the houſe was full. The muſick of the ſpinning-wheel +reſounded from every room. Benevolence was ſeen +ſmiling in every countenance, and the harmony of hearts +ſurpaſſed even the harmony of wheels. The labours of the +day were concluded about 5 o'clock; when the fair labourers +preſented Mrs. <span class="smcap">Murray</span> with cotton and linen yarn, of the +beſt quality, amounting to 236 ſkeins. Neceſſary +refreſhment being paſt, publick worſhip was attended; +and a diſcourſe delivered, by the Rev. Mr. <span class="smcap">Murray</span>, to a +large aſſembly, from Exodus 35, 25, <i>And all the women +that were wiſe-hearted did ſpin with their hands.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>From the "Salem Mercury," Feb. 6, 1787.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>There is a young Miſs in New-Haven, who will ſoon wear a +ſilk gown <i>of her own make</i>. Such noble induſtry ought +to be written in letters of gold. May the ladies profit by +the example—and may it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span> ſoon be eſteemed +diſreputable, by both ladies and gentlemen, to wear any +thick ſilk but of our own manufacture.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>An advertisement in the "Boston Gazette," Feb. 19, 1760, rather +indicates that "searchers" sometimes exceeded their powers.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">All</span> Perſons who within five Years paſt, have had any +Shoes or Boots, ſeiz'd and taken from them, in the Town of +Boſton, by any of the Searches and Sealers of Leather +there, for being made of Leather unduly tann'd or curried, +or on Pretence thereof; are hereby notified to give or +ſend in to the Printers hereof, an Account in Writing, of +the Number of Shoes, &c. ſo taken from them, the Time when +(as near as they can) with the Name of the Perſon that +ſeiz'd and took them, and the Name of the Juſtice of +Peace to whom Complaint or Information was made concerning +ſuch Shoes, &c. by the eighth Day of <i>March</i> next, if they +deſire any Recompence for the Injuries they have +ſuffer'd by ſuch Seizures.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In 1767 snuff was apparently of more importance, as merchandise, to say +the least, than were Bibles and Testaments. In an advertisement it was +printed in capitals, while the latter were in smaller type.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>Caleb Blanchard,</big></p> + +<p class='center'>In Union-Street, <i>BOSTON.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>HAS juſt Imported by Captain</i> Rhodes <i>from</i> London, <i>and +Captain</i> Bain <i>from</i> Glaſgow.</p> + +<p><i>A Great Variety of Engliſh, India, and Scotch GOODS, +ſuitable for all Seaſons of the Year, which He ſells +at the loweſt Rates, by Wholesale or Retail, for Caſh or +Treaſurer's Notes.</i></p> + +<p>N.B. <i>Kippen's and Tillich's SNUFF, Bibles and Teſtaments, +all Sorts of Stationary, &c. &c. &c.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='right'><i>Boſton, April 19th, 1788.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Whereas</span> ſome perſon or perſons have acted ſo +villainous a part, as to make uſe of my name in vending +and ſelling Snuff of a very bad quality; not only injuring +me in my credit, but cheating the purchaſer, as the Snuff +manufactured by me is of the beſt kind, and which I always +warrant to be ſuch.</p> + +<p>Some of the purchaſers of ſaid bad Snuff have brought +the ſame to me, ſuppoſing it to be really of my +manufacture; but upon examination, found it to be of a +looſe and dry kind, and may be eaſily diſcovered.</p> + +<p>Whoever will give information of the perſon or perſons, +who thus impoſe on the publick, by making<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span> uſe of my +name to vend and ſell ſuch baſe Snuff, ſhall be +handſomely rewarded, by their humble ſervant,</p> + +<p class='right'>SIMON ELLIOT.</p> + +<p>N.B. The publick are informed, that to prevent the above +deception, the advertiſements on bladders of Snuff, in +future, will be altered from letter-preſs, to a +copperplate impreſſion. (2m)</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Massachusetts Centinel.</i></p></div> + +<p>The habit of Snuff-taking was formerly very prevalent in New England, as +well as elsewhere. Within the writer's recollection it was a very common +thing to see the snuff-box passed round for friends to take a pinch. +Very few now a days indulge in this uncleanly habit; but a recent +traveller relates that on visiting St. Peter's in Rome, the first thing +upon entering the church which attracted his attention was seeing the +Pope take a pinch of snuff and then shake from his pocket a large +old-fashioned bandanna handkerchief, which he applied to his nose. Many +years ago a gentleman of Salem was questioned by a stranger about a +certain man who happened to be an inveterate snuff-taker and who was at +the same time greatly interested in free-masonry. "Yes," said the +gentleman, "I know<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> him."—"He's about one third masonry and two thirds +snuff." Mr. Francis H. Lee, of Salem, has a curious collection of a +hundred or more snuff-boxes of former generations. They are of various +patterns; some are made of shell and tipped with silver, and look quite +ancient. Simon Elliot, of Boston, and later Wm. Micklefield, of Salem, +were famous snuff manufacturers.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>A curious snuff-box, advertised in the "Columbian Centinel," 1819.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>A CURIOSITY.</big></p> + +<p>E. COPELAND, Jr., has for sale a most elegant Gold SNUFF BOX +set with Pearls, &c. It is about 2½ inches long and from the +top a beautiful <i>little Bird</i> rises at command and sings a +tune. The movements of the wings, beak, eyes, &c. are +perfectly natural, and all its motions while singing are in +complete unison with its notes. This is probably as +ingenious a piece of mechanism as was ever seen in this +town. It will be sold a great bargain.</p> + +<p class='right'>august 21</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In this connection we notice "Micklefield's Indian," as it was called, a +well-known landmark<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> in Salem half a century ago. Mr. Micklefield was +much respected, and noted for his liberality and public spirit.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 334px;"> +<a href="images/img096.png"><img src="images/img096_th.png" width="334" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the +public, that owing to the fall in prices of different Scents +and Stock in general, that compose the article of Snuff, he +is thereby enabled to sell his different kinds, +viz.—Maccoboy, Scented and Plain Rappee and Scotch</p> + +<p class='center'><big>SNUFFS,</big></p> + +<p>at a much lower price than heretofore.—Traders in the +neighboring towns that deal in those articles are +particularly solicited to call at his Store, sign of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span> +<i>Indian Chief</i>, corner of Central and Front streets, where +they can purchase at very low prices, and warranted of the +first quality.</p> + +<p class='right'><small>ALSO</small>,</p> + +<p>Spanish, half Spanish and common</p> + +<p class='center'><big>CIGARS,</big></p> + +<p>Cavendish, Ladies' Twist, Pigtail, and all kinds of +Manufactured</p> + +<p class='center'><big>TOBACCO,</big></p> + +<p>wholesale and retail.</p> + +<p class='right'>WM. MICKLEFIELD.</p> + +<p>Salem, Jan. 18, 1827.</p> + +<p class='right'>tf</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>From the "Salem Mercury," Nov. 25, 1788.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>S. Breck, Eſq. member of the Houſe of Repreſentatives +for Boſton, appears in his ſeat with a complete ſuit +of American manufactured broadcloth, of an elegant colour.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>About 1787 and 1788, spinning-wheel meetings seem to have been very +popular. We copy notices of meetings of young ladies in Attleboro', +Dighton, Gloucester, Rehoboth, Mass., and Providence and Johnston, R.I., +all from the "Salem Mercury."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Attleboro</span>', <i>June 20</i>. Yeſterday, 63 reſpectable young +ladies, belonging to this town, aſſlembled, at 2 o'clock, +P.M. at the houſe of Mr. Daniel Balkum, and, to the +ſurpriſe and great ſatisfaction of all the friends to +induſtry, ſpun, before ſunſet, 199 ſkeins of +excellent linen yarn. Induſtry is the genuine ſource of +all laudable pleaſure. On it depend all the conveniences +of life. Health, the greateſt of bleſſings, depends on +induſtry—beauty, on health. If ladies, then, wiſh to be +beautiful, they muſt be induſtrious; they muſt animate +their countenances with that blooming health which comes +from the <span class="smcap">Spinning-wheel</span>. The fair ſex, when rightly and +induſtriouſly employed, are juſtly termed the beauty +of this lower creation. Beauty without virtue is +contemptible. Merit only gains the heart. Idleneſs is +diſgraceful. Induſtry is the ornament of wealth, the +ſupport and conſolation of poverty. We hope ſoon to +ſee the time, when the fair daughters of America will be +clothed in the manufactures of their own hands. Happy are +we, that ſome have already ſet the example. May it never +be ſaid, that American ladies riſe 15 minutes later than +the ſun. May they ever have thread enough in their hands +to make a halter for a Shays.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>On Tueſday laſt, thirteen young ladies aſſembled, with +their ſpinning-wheels, at the houſe of Mr. Joſeph +Whipple, in North-Providence, and, between the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> hours of +eight in the morning and ſix in the afternoon, completed +fifty ſkeins of excellent linen yarn.</p> + +<p class='right'>July 1, 1788.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The ſpinning-wheel, a few years ago imprudently neglected, +begins to be held in general reputation by the Fair; and the +exploits of ſome on that uſeful machine, are +deſervedly celebrated, as worthy of imitation. To thoſe +good works of female induſtry may be added the ſingular +attachment of two young ladies in Dighton, who ſpun, the +11th inſtant, between the riſing and ſetting of the +ſun, thirteen ſkeins and eleven lees of good linen yarn; +one ſix ſkeins and ſeven, and the other ſeven +ſkeins and four lees. The ſpirit of induſtry is +becoming more prevalent, eſpecially among the fair ſex. +They begin to lay aſide their uſeleſs and idle +viſits, or, at leaſt, make them leſs frequent. When +perſons become more induſtrious and mind their own +buſineſs, they talk leſs, and to better purpoſe; +they become more contented, and the world around them is +more peaceable and happy.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Providence Gazette</i>, July 1, 1788.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Providence</span>, <i>May 24</i>. On the 7th inſt. 71 ladies met at +the houſe of the Rev. Mr. Ellis, in Rehoboth,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> and lodged +187 ſkeins of good linen yarn, which they had ſpun for +Mrs. Ellis; and others have ſince added 31. Solomon, in +deſcribing a virtuous woman, ſays, "She ſeeketh wool +and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.—She layeth +her hands to the ſpindle, and her hands hold the +diſtaff." Induſtry is certainly a virtue, which, while +it adorns, enriches, ſociety; it baniſhes the languid +hue from the countenances of the fair, and adds vigour and +vivacity to the mind.—The ſpirited exertions that the +daughters of Columbia are making, to manufacture our wool +and flax, which are neceſſary for our conſumption, are +praiſe-worthy, and demand the approbation and +aſſiſtance of every true patriot. We flatter ourſelves +with the pleaſing expectation of ſeeing the virtuous +fair clothed and ornamented in the genuine productions of +their own labour.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>We hear from Glouceſter, that on Thurſday laſt nearly +thirty young ladies, inſpired with the love of induſtry, +aſſlembled at the houſe of Capt. Philemon Haſkell, for +the praiſe-worthy purpoſe of a Federal Spinning Match, +when, to their honour, their ſpirited exertion produced 99 +ſkeins of excellent yarn—practically declaring, that they +neither laboured in vain or ſpent their ſtrength for +nought. The day thus induſtriouſly concluded, finiſhed +not the harmony of their federaliſm; in the evening, to +crown the pleaſure of the day, with additional company, +they regaled<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> with an agreeable dance, and, at a modeſt +hour, parted in love and friendſhip, with hearts convivial +as they met, leaving others to admire their female +patriotiſm, and to go and do likewiſe.</p> + +<p>In Scotland, the farmers knit as well as the women of their +families; but they do this while they are watching their +ſheep or cattle, or while they are ſitting by their +evening fire in winter. Why cannot our American farmers and +their ſons adopt this frugal practice? Time is the moſt +precious thing in the world. Its very fragments ſhould be +ſaved.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Providence, May</span> 17. Monday laſt, eighteen young ladies +aſſembled, with their ſpinning-wheels, at the houſe of +Captain Jonathan Treadwell, and ſpun 40 ſkeins of good +linen yarn.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">May</span> 22. A correſpondent deſires us to mention, that at +Johnſton, a few days ſince, four induſtrious young +ladies, by "laying their fingers to the ſpindle, and their +hands to the diſtaff," completed, in one day, the +ſpinning and reeling of 21 fifteen-knotted ſkeins of +good linen yarn. Would to God, that the Gentlemen at the +head of our political affairs in this State, were half ſo +zealous in encouraging our own manufactures, as the fair +ſex are; who, at preſent, deſervedly bear the palm, as +friends to their country.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p> + +<p>"<span class="smcap">Spinning Bee</span>. On the 1st inſt. aſſembled at the houſe +of the Rev. Samuel Deane of this town, more than one hundred +of the fair ſex, married and ſingle ladies, moſt of +whom, were ſkilled in the important art of ſpinning. An +emulous induſtry was never more apparent than in this +beautiful aſſembly. The majority of fair hands gave motion +to not leſs than ſixty wheels. Many were occupied in +preparing the materials, beſides thoſe who attended to +the entertainment of the reſt,—proviſion for which was +moſtly preſented by the gueſts themſelves, or ſent +in by other generous promoters of the exhibition, as were +alſo the materials for the work. Near the cloſe of the +day Mrs. Deane was preſented by the company, with two +hundred and thirty-ſix, ſeven-knotted ſkeins of +excellent cotton and linen yarn, the work of the day, +excepting about a dozen ſkeins, which ſome of the +company brought in ready ſpun. Some had ſpun ſix and +many not leſs than five ſkeins apiece. She takes this +opportunity of returning thanks to each, which the hurry of +the day rendered impracticable at the time. To conclude and +crown the day, a numerous band of the beſt ſingers +attended in the evening and performed an agreeable variety +of excellent pieces in psalmody. "The price of a virtuous +woman is far above rubies, * * * She layeth her hands to the +ſpindle and her hands hold the diſtaff."</p> + +<p><i>Cumberland</i> (Portland, Me.) <i>Gazette</i>, May 8, 1788, copied +by <span class="smcap">Edw. H. Elwell</span>, Esq., editor of the <i>Transcript</i>.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>When spinning-wheels ceased to be used altogether, we are not able to +say. Probably they were not in use for any great length of time after +the opening of the present century; but possibly in some country places +they were used down to the time of the War of 1812, and even later. We +are informed that in some remote places in Rhode Island and in Maine +spinning-wheels are in use to this day; but these are exceptional cases.</p> + +<p>The "Massachusetts Centinel," April 30, 1788, has this advertisement:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<div class="figleft" style="width: 141px;"> +<a href="images/img103.png"><img src="images/img103_th.png" width="141" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p class='center'> +<big>WILLIAM SCOTT,</big><br /> +At the Sign of the SPINNING<br /> +WHEEL,<br /> +In MARLBOROUGH·STREET,<br /> +(<i>Reſolving to quit Trade in the<br /> +Fall</i>)</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Will</span> ſell all his +GOODS on hand at +the STERLING COST and +CHARGES. Among which +are,</p> +<p>Some elegant <i>Merſailles</i> Bed-Quilts, <i>Merſailles</i> +Quilting in pieces, Iriſh Linens, Gauzes, +Shawls and Luſtrings of a ſuperiour quality, &c., &c.</p> + +<p>A large quantity of ſilk Gloves, Mitts +and Fans</p> +<p class='right'>☞ <i>CASH for POT-ASHES.</i></p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span></p><hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>THE following very curious notice in the "Massachusetts Centinel" in +reference to funerals shows what had been customary upon such occasions; +the object of these "wholesome regulations" seemed to be to induce +economy. Gloves and rings were given to mourners in Salem to within the +last fifty or sixty years, and wines or liquors were also furnished.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>TAKE NOTICE.</i></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">An</span> economical plan of mourning was adopted, before the +Revolution, and its ſalutary effects have been experienced +by almoſt every family in this town; ſince which thoſe +wholeſome regulations have been paſſed into a law: +Notwithſtanding which, it has lately been broken in upon +in ſeveral inſtances.—The <i>Inſpectors of the +Police</i>—that no one may hereafter plead ignorance, have +cauſed the law reſpecting the ſame to be publiſhed, +and give notice, that any future breach of it, will be +proſecuted without any favour or affection.</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Boſton, April 30, 1788.</i></p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>To prevent exceſs and vain expenſe, in Mourning, &c.</i></p> + +<p>IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, That in future no scarfs, gloves or +rings shall be given at any funeral in this town, nor shall +any wine, rum, or other spirituous liquor, be allowed or +given at, or immediately before or after, any funeral in +this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span> town, under pain that the person or persons giving, +allowing or ordering the same shall respectively forfeit and +pay the sum of <i>twenty shillings</i> for each offence.</p> + +<p><i>And it is further ordered</i>, That whatever male person shall +appear or walk in the procession of any funeral in this town +with any new mourning or new black or other new mourning +coat or waistcoat, or with any other new black apparel, save +and except a black crape around one arm, or shall afterwards +on account of the decease of any relation, or other person +or persons, put on and wear any other mourning than such +piece of black crape around one arm, shall forfeit and pay +the sum of <i>twenty shillings</i> for every day he shall put on +and wear or appear in the same.</p> + +<p>AND no female, of whatsoever degree, shall put on, wear or +appear at any funeral in this town, in any other mourning or +new black clothes whatever, other than a black hat or +bonnet, black gloves, black ribbons and a black fan, on pain +to forfeit and pay the sum of <i>twenty shillings</i>; and also +forfeit and pay a like sum of <i>twenty shillings</i> for every +day she shall at any time at, or after such funeral, put on +wear or appear in such new black clothes, as or for +mourning, other than black hat, bonnet, black gloves, black +ribbons, and a black fan as aforesaid.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In 1790 the town of Salem published in the papers some regulations about +funerals; among the fees fixed were these:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"For each Tolling of the Bell 8d."</p> + +<p>"The ſextons are deſired to toll the Bells only four +ſtrokes in a minute."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span></p> + +<p>"The undertakers service in borrowing chairs, waiting upon +the Pall-holders and warning the Relations &c. to attend +8/."</p> + +<p>"B. Daland and B. Brown are appointed by the Selectmen to +ſee that Free Paſſages in the ſtreets are kept open." +(This was before carriages were used at funerals.)</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><small>Extracts from Mr. Colman's Agricultural Address</small>.</p> + +<p class='center'>MANUFACTORIES AND THE SPINNING WHEEL.</p> + +<p>"The establishment of extensive manufactories, and the +introduction of power-looms and spinning-jennies, has nearly +destroyed the usual household manufactures, and put our +other Jennies out of employment. Our ears are seldom greeted +now a days in the farmer's cottage with the flying of the +shuttle, or the deep base of the spinning wheel. We confess +that we have looked upon their departure with a strong +feeling of regret; and deem it no small abatement of the +advantages, which the establishment of extensive +manufactures has obviously yielded to the country, that it +removes the daughter from the shelter and security of the +paternal roof, and places her in a situation, which +certainly furnishes no means of qualifying her for the +proper department of woman; to preside over our domestic +establishments; to perform her part in the joint labors of +the household; and to know how and when and where to use, +prepare, and to apply to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span> the best advantage within doors, +the products of man's labor without doors. Many occupations +of female industry, strictly domestic however, of a healthy +and agreeable nature, are constantly presenting themselves, +so that there is little danger that the race of industrious +women, and accomplished wives, at least among the country +girls, will soon be extinct; and the silk culture, fast +gaining ground among us, promises to furnish an unexhausted +resource and a profitable employment of female labor."</p> + +<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, 1834.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>In one of the numbers of the London "Spectator" for 1884 is an +interesting account of an attempt to revive the spinning-wheel industry +in England, through the kind offices of Mr. Albert Flemming, for the +purpose of helping poor women too old or blind to leave their homes for +other work. After considerable difficulty, a wheel was discovered among +a store of ancient articles; but no one at first knew how to use it. +Spinning was one of the lost arts, apparently. At length, however, an +old woman of eighty-four was found who understood the use of the wheel. +She taught Mr. Flemming how to spin. A few more old<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> wheels were found, +and some new ones constructed. Then it was some time before a loom could +be discovered. Eventually this was accomplished, and the art of weaving +taught. The account says that twenty women who were unable otherwise to +obtain a living, are now busily at work, happy in being able to provide +for their families. They make, it may be added, a good strong, honest +linen, specimens of which have been presented to Mr. Ruskin. This +account is substantially from the "Living Age," Nov. 1, 1884.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<a href="images/img108.png"><img src="images/img108_th.png" width="200" height="152" alt="" title="" /></a> +</div> + +<p class='center'>University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge.</p> + +<div class='trnote'> +<p>Transcriber's note:</p> +<p>These are mainly excerpts from Newspapers. Original spelling was not corrected.</p></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The +Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England, by Henry M. 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