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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol 1, No. 3 - -Author: Various - -Editor: William Cogswell - -Release Date: December 24, 2015 [EBook #50758] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL REGISTER *** - - - - -Produced by Heather Clark, John Campbell and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - - TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE - - Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. - - Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. - - Superscript letters are denoted by ^, for example y^e and Serv^t. - A number following the ^ indicates the generation of the family, for - example Joseph,^3 is in the third generation of the (Parsons) family. - - Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been - corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within - the text and consultation of external sources. - - More detail can be found at the end of the book. - - - - - =VOL. I. JULY, 1847. NO. 3.= - - - - - THE - - NEW ENGLAND - - =HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL REGISTER:= - - PUBLISHED QUARTERLY, - - UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE - - NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC, GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. - - - REV. WILLIAM COGSWELL, D. D., EDITOR. - - - [Illustration] - - - BOSTON: - SAMUEL G. DRAKE, PUBLISHER, - NO. 56 CORNHILL. - 1847. - - - COOLIDGE & WILEY, Printers, 12 Water Street. - - - - - CONTENTS. - - Page - - Memoir of Governor Endecott, 201 - - Original Covenant of the First Church in Massachusetts Colony, 224 - - Heraldry, 225 - - Heraldic Plate, 231 - - Ratification of the Federal Constitution by Massachusetts, 232 - - Letter of Chief-Justice Sargent, 237 - - Complete List of the Ministers of Boston, 240 - - Congregational Ministers and Churches in Rockingham County, N. H., 244 - - Genealogy of the Wolcott Family, 251 - - Genealogy of the Minot Family, 256 - - Genealogy of the Parsons Family, 263 - - Ancient Bible in the Bradford Family, 275 - - Biographical Notices of Physicians in Rochester, N. H., 276 - - Sketches of Alumni at the different Colleges in New England, 278 - - Advice of a Dying Father to his Son, 284 - - Relationship, 285 - - Decease of the Fathers of New England, 286 - - New England, 288 - - Arrival of Early New England Ministers, 289 - - Genealogies and their Moral, 290 - - First Settlers of Rhode Island, 291 - - Marriages and Deaths, 292 - - Notices of New Publications, 293 - - - - -[Illustration: (Portrait of John Endecott, Governor.)] - - - - -NEW ENGLAND - -HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. - - VOL. I. JULY, 1847. NO. 3. - - - - -MEMOIR OF GOVERNOR ENDECOTT.[1] - - -It is now upwards of two centuries and a quarter since the despotic -sway of the English Sovereigns over the consciences of their -subjects, induced all who entertained different sentiments from those -of the established church, to turn their eyes towards the wilderness -of America, as an asylum from the unnatural persecutions of the -Mother Country. - -With this in view, some of the principal men among those who had -already sought a refuge in Holland, commenced treating with the -Virginia Company, and at the same time took measures to ascertain -whether the King would grant them liberty of conscience should they -remove thither. They ultimately effected a satisfactory arrangement -with the Company, but from James they could obtain no public -recognition of religious liberty, but merely a promise, that if -they behaved peaceably he would not molest them on account of their -religious opinions. - -On the 6th of September, 1620, a detachment from the Church at -Leyden set sail from Plymouth for the Virginia territory, but owing -to the treachery of the master,[2] they were landed at Cape Cod, -and ultimately at Plymouth, on the 11th day of December following. -Finding themselves without the jurisdiction of the Virginia Company, -they established a distinct government for themselves. - -In the year 1624, the success of this plantation was so favorably -represented in the West of England, that the Rev. John White, a -distinguished minister in Dorchester, prevailed upon some merchants -and others to undertake another settlement in New England. Having -provided a common stock, they sent over several persons to begin a -plantation at Cape Ann, where they were joined by some disaffected -individuals from the Plymouth settlement. This project was soon -abandoned as unprofitable, and a portion of the settlers removed -westward within the territory of Naumkeag, which then included -what is now Manchester. By the intercession and great exertions -of Mr. White, the project of a settlement in that quarter was not -altogether relinquished, but a new company was soon afterwards -formed. One of this company, and the principal one to carry its -objects into immediate effect, was the subject of this Memoir. He -was in the _strictest_ sense of the word a _Puritan_,--one of a -sect composed, as an able foreign writer has said, of the "most -remarkable body of men which perhaps the world has ever produced. -They were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the -daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not -content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, -they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being -for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing -was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with -them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the -ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the homage of -the soul. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they -looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a -more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language; -nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the -imposition of a mightier hand." - - * * * * * - -JOHN ENDECOTT, whose name is so intimately associated with the first -settlement of this country, and with whose early history his own is -so closely interwoven, that, in the language of the late Rev. Dr. -Bentley,[3] "above all others he deserved the name of _the_ FATHER OF -NEW ENGLAND," was born in Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England, in the -year 1588. He was a man of good intellectual endowments and mental -culture, and of a fearless and independent spirit, which well fitted -him for the various and trying duties he was destined to perform. Of -his early life, and private and domestic character, little is known; -neither are we much better informed as to his parentage, except -that his family was of respectable standing and moderate fortunes. -He belonged to that class in England called esquires, or gentlemen, -composed mostly at that period of the independent landholders of the -realm. With the exception, therefore, of a few leading incidents, -we are reluctantly obliged to pass over nearly the whole period of -Mr. Endecott's life, previous to his engaging in the enterprise for -the settlement of New England. History is almost silent upon the -subject, and the tradition of the family has been but imperfectly -transmitted and preserved. His letters, the only written productions -which are left us, furnish internal evidence that he was a man of -liberal education and cultivated mind. There are proofs of his -having been, at some period of his life, a surgeon;[4] yet, as he -is always alluded to, in the earliest records of the Massachusetts -Company, by the title of Captain, there can be no doubt whatever -that at some time previous to his emigration to this country, he had -held a commission in the army; and his subsequently passing through -the several military grades to that of Sergeant Major-General of -Massachusetts, justifies this conclusion, while the causes which led -to this change in his profession cannot now be ascertained. - -While a resident in London, he married a lady of an influential -family, by the name of Anna Gouer, by whom, it is understood, he -had no children. She was cousin to Matthew Cradock, the Governor -of the Massachusetts Company in England. If tradition be correct, -the circumstances which brought about this connection were similar -to those which are related of John Alden and Miles Standish. Some -needle-work, wrought by this lady, is still preserved in the Museum -of the Salem East India Marine Society.[5] Mr. Endecott was also a -brother-in-law of Roger Ludlow, Assistant and Deputy Governor of -Massachusetts Colony, in the year 1634, and afterwards famous for the -distinguished part he took in the government of Connecticut. - -But Mr. Endecott's highest claim to distinction rests upon the fact -that he was an intrepid and successful leader of the Pilgrims, and -the earliest pioneer of the Massachusetts settlement under the -Patent. His name is found enrolled among the very foremost of that -noble band, the fathers and founders of New England--those pious and -devout men, who, firm in the faith of the gospel, and trusting in -God, went fearlessly forward in the daring enterprise, and hewed -their homes and their altars out of the wild forest, where they -could worship "the God of their fathers agreeably to the dictates -of their own consciences." Such was the persecution to which the -Non-conformists in England were at this period subjected, that the -works of nature were the only safe witnesses of their devotions. -Deriving no honor, so far as we know, from illustrious ancestry, Mr. -Endecott was the architect of his own fame, and won the laurels which -encircle his name amid sacrifices, sufferings, and trials, better -suited to adorn an historical romance, than to accompany a plain tale -of real life. - -Under the guidance and influence of the Rev. Mr. Skelton, he embraced -the principles of the Puritans; and in the beginning of the year -1628, associated himself with Sir Henry Roswell, Sir John Young, -Simon Whetcomb, John Humphrey, and Thomas Southcoat, in the purchase -of a grant, "by a considerable sum of money," for the settlement -of the Massachusetts Bay, from the Plymouth Council in England. -This grant was subsequently confirmed by Patent from Charles I. Mr. -Endecott was one of the original patentees, and among the first of -that company who emigrated to this country. - -Whatever may have been the objects of the first settlers generally -in colonizing New England, there can be no doubt that _his_ was the -establishment and enjoyment of the gospel and its ordinances, as he -supposed, in primitive purity, unmolested. With him it was wholly a -religious enterprise. - -He sailed from Weymouth, in the ship Abigail, Henry Gauden, master, -on the 20th of June, 1628, and arrived in safety at Naumkeag, the -place of his destination, on the 6th of September following. The -company consisted of about one hundred planters. - -The following extract from "Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence" -will illustrate the estimation in which he was held at this period. -"The much honored John Indicat came over with them, to governe; a -fit instrument to begin this Wildernesse-worke; of courage bold, -undaunted, yet sociable, and of a cheerfull spirit, loving and -austere, applying himselfe to either as occasion served. And now let -no man be offended at the Author's rude Verse, penned of purpose to -keepe in memory the Names of such worthies as Christ made strong for -himselfe, in this unwonted worke of his. - - -"_John Endicat, twice Governur of the English, inhabiting the -Mattachusets Bay in N. England._ - - "Strong valiant John, wilt thou march on, and take up station first, - Christ cal'd hath thee, his Souldier be, and faile not of thy trust; - Wilderness wants Christs grace supplants, then plant his Churches pure, - With Tongues gifted, and graces led, help thou to his procure; - Undaunted thou wilt not allow, Malignant men to wast: - Christs Vineyard heere, whose grace should cheer his well-beloved's tast. - Then honored be, thy Christ hath thee their General promoted: - To shew their love in place above, his people have thee voted. - Yet must thou fall, to grave with all the Nobles of the Earth. - Thou rotting worme to dust must turn, and worse but for new birth." - -To this company, under Endecott, belongs the honor of having -formed the first permanent and legally recognized settlement of -the Massachusetts Colony. We do not say that they were the _first_ -white men who ever trod the soil; for we know when Endecott landed -on these shores, he found here a few fishermen and others, the -remnant of a planting, trading, and fishing establishment, previously -commenced at Cape Ann, under the auspices of some gentlemen belonging -to Dorchester, his native place, but soon abandoned for want of -success. Their leader, the Rev. John Lyford, had already emigrated -to Virginia, and those of that company who removed their effects -to Salem, consisted at that time of some five or six persons, most -of whom were seceders from the settlement at Plymouth. They were, -however, only sojourners, disaffected with the place, and requiring -all the interest and entreaties of the Rev. John White, a noted -minister in Dorchester, to prevent them from forsaking it altogether, -and following Mr. Lyford to Virginia.[6] But higher motives and -deeper purposes fired the souls and stimulated the hearts of Mr. -Endecott and his friends to commence a settlement, and to form -new homes for themselves and their posterity in this wilderness, -before which the mere considerations of traffic and gain sink into -comparative insignificance. It was the love of religion implanted -deep in the heart, that gave impulse and permanency to the settlement -at Naumkeag, and the Massachusetts Colony generally; and the -commencement of this era was the arrival of Endecott with the first -detachment of those holy and devout men who valued earthly pursuits -only so far as they were consistent with religion. It was also at -this period that a sort of definite reality was imparted to this -region. Previously to this it had been viewed as a sort of _terra -incognita_, situated somewhere in the wilderness of America. But -the arrival of the Pilgrims at this time dispelled the uncertainty -in which it had before been wrapped, and at the same time threw -around it the warmest sympathies and most earnest solicitude of -large numbers who had now become deeply interested in its welfare. -We, therefore, consider the landing of Endecott at this place, as -emphatically the commencement of its permanent settlement, as an -asylum for the persecuted and oppressed of the Mother Country. All -previous visitors were comparatively adventurers, with motives and -purposes widely different from those of that little band who first -rested upon this spot on the 6th of September, 1628. On that day, so -to speak, was breathed into the settlement of Naumkeag the breath of -life, and it became as it were endued with a living soul, folding -within its embrace the dearest interests and most cherished rights of -humanity, unrivalled in the interest she will ever excite as the most -ancient town in the Massachusetts Patent. - -On Mr. Endecott's arrival, he made known to the planters who preceded -him, that he and his associate patentees had purchased all the -property and privileges of the Dorchester partners, both here and at -Cape Ann. He shortly after removed from the latter place, for his own -private residence, the frame house, which a few years before had been -erected there by the Dorchester Company. It was a tasteful edifice, -of two stories high, and of the prevailing order of architecture at -that period, called the Elisabethean, which was but of slight remove -from the Gothic. Some of its hard oak frame may still be found in -the building at the corner of Washington and Church streets, Salem, -commonly known at this day as the "Endicott House." - -The alteration which now took place in the affairs of the infant -colony did not meet with favor from the first planters, and for a -while prevented perfect harmony from prevailing in the settlement. -"One of the subjects of discord was the propriety of raising tobacco, -Mr. Endecott and his council believing such a production, except for -medicinal purposes, injurious both to health and morals." Besides -this, they probably viewed with no favorable eye the agreement -in sentiment between Mr. Endecott and the Plymouth Church as to -the propriety of abolishing the ritual forms of worship of the -Church of England; for an adherence to which they had already been -obliged to leave the Plymouth settlement. Mr. Endecott represented -these difficulties to the home government; and in answer to his -communication they say, "That it may appear as well to all the worlde -as to the old planters themselves, that we seke not to make them -slaves, as it seems by your letter some of them think themselves to -be become by means of our patent, they are allowed to be partakers -with us in all the privileges we have with so much labor and -intercession obtained from the King; to be incorporated into the -society, and enjoy not only those lands which formerly they have -manured, but such a further proportion as the civil authorities think -best." They were also allowed the _exclusive_ privilege of raising -their favorite weed--tobacco. - -The Company's Court in London, actuated by that true sense of -justice which ever marked its deliberations, were determined not to -trespass on any of the rights of the aborigines; and to this purpose -in their first two communications to Mr. Endecott, they desired -him to take especial care, "that no wrong or injury be offered by -any of our people to the natives there," and to satisfy every just -claim which might be made by them to the territory of Naumkeag and -the plantation generally. To this record the sons of the Pilgrims -have ever turned with peculiar pride and exultation. And, says -Felt, "From his well-known promptitude and high sense of equity, -there can be no doubt that Mr. Endecott fulfilled every iota of -such instructions." In his first letters to the home government, he -suggested various things to advance the interests of the Colony; such -as the manufacture of salt, cultivation of vineyards, sending over -fruit-stones and kernels, grain for seed, wheat, barley, and rye; -also certain domesticated animals; all of which were shortly after -transported to this country. - -The answer to this letter bears the date of April 19, 1629, wherein -they inform him, that the Company "are much enlarged since his -departure out of England," and for strengthening their grant from -the Council at Plymouth, they had obtained a confirmation of it from -his Majesty by his Letters Patent, under the broad seal of England; -incorporating them into a body politic, with ample powers to govern -and rule all his Majesty's subjects that reside within the limits of -their plantation; and that, in prosecution of the good opinion they -have always entertained of him, they have confirmed him Governor -of the Colony. No adventitious circumstances of fortune or birth -aided him in his appointment to this, even then responsible office; -for although the Colony was at this time few in numbers and feeble -in effort, yet in its success were involved the most momentous -interests, and every thing depended upon the right impulse and -direction being given to its affairs. In the words of the Record, -"having taken into due consideration the _meritt_, _worth_, and _good -desert_ of Captain John Endecott, and others lately gone over from -hence, with purpose to resyde and continue there, wee have with full -consent and authoritie of this Court, and ereccon of hands, chosen -and elected the said Captain John Endecott to the place of present -Governour of said Plantation." They further speak of the confidence -they repose in him, in thus committing the affairs of the Colony into -his hands. Gov. Cradock also compliments him upon his motives and -conduct; and the Company inform him, that they are disappointed of -the provisions ordered to be sent for himself and Mrs. Endecott, but -(God willing,) they purpose to send them by the next vessel. It is -also believed that at this time Mr. Endecott ordered the fruit-trees, -which afterwards constituted his orchard upon the farm granted him in -1632, of which one venerable patriarch, the celebrated old pear-tree, -yet remains, having withstood the "peltings of pitiless storms" for -upwards of two hundred winters, and still dropping down its rich -fruit into the bosoms of his distant descendants. - -In a second letter, dated the 28th of May following, the Company -remark: "Wee have sithence our last, and according as we there -advised, at a _full_ and _ample_ Court assembled _elected_ and -_established_ you, Captain John Endecott, to the place of present -Governour of our Plantation there, as also some others to be of the -Council with you, as more particularly you will perceive by an Act of -Court herewith sent, confirmed by us at a General Court and sealed -with our common seal." - -The model of the Government established by this "Act of Court," -consisted of a Governor, and twelve persons as a Council, styled "THE -GOVERNOUR AND COUNCIL OF LONDON'S PLANTATION IN THE MATTACHUSETTS -BAY IN NEW ENGLAND." They were to elect a Deputy-Governor, for -the time being, from among their number; were authorized also to -choose a Secretary and other needful officers. They were empowered -to fill vacancies in their body, occasioned by death or otherwise. -The Governor, or in his absence the Deputy, might call Courts at -pleasure, and they had power to establish any laws not at variance -with those of England; "to administer justice upon malefactors, and -inflict condign punishment upon all offenders." To make an act valid, -the Governor or his Deputy was always to vote with the majority. A -form of oath was sent over at this time to be administered to Mr. -Endecott as Governor, and one also for the other officers of the -government. He took the oath and was inducted into office. Here, -then, we conceive, is direct and incontrovertible testimony that -Endecott was appointed the _first_ Governor of Massachusetts under -its Colonial Charter from the King. It is so stated by Joselyn, -Hutchinson, and Prince. He received the Charter, and the documentary -evidence of his constitutional authority as Governor, both at the -same time. To Mr. Endecott was given, to act under it, all the powers -which his immediate successors ever exercised. They were conferred -upon him too, by the same body who subsequently elected Mr. Winthrop -to that office. The abolishment of the board of control in England, -and the transfer of "the government of the plantation to those that -shall inhabit there," and instead of choosing the Colonial Governors -in Old England by members of the Company there, to choose them by -members of the same Company who were in New England, could not weaken -the validity of his claim to be considered the _first_ Governor of -the Massachusetts Colony. - -It was well for Mr. Endecott that he possessed an ardent and sanguine -temperament, which nothing could daunt, otherwise the innumerable -discouraging circumstances which met him in this, his new abode, in -every form, amid sickness, death, and privations of every kind, well -suited to appal the stoutest hearts, would no doubt have wrought -their effects upon him, to the prejudice of the whole plantation. -But such was the energy and firmness of his character, aided, no -doubt, by a religious enthusiasm, which induced the belief that it -was the purpose of God to give them the land of the heathen as an -inheritance, that neither his faith nor confidence in the ultimate -success of the undertaking ever for a moment forsook him. In every -crisis, this little band looked to him, as the weather-beaten and -tempest-tossed mariner looks to his commander, next to God, for -encouragement and support; and they did not look in vain. Such was -the great mortality among them, during the first winter after their -arrival, arising from exposure to the rigors of an untried climate, -and their being badly fed and badly lodged, that there were scarcely -found in the settlement well persons enough to nurse and console -the sick. To enhance their distress, they were destitute of any -regular medical assistance. In this painful dilemma a messenger -was despatched by Mr. Endecott to Gov. Bradford, of the Plymouth -settlement, to procure the necessary aid; and Doctor Samuel Fuller, -the physician, who was a prominent member and deacon of the Plymouth -Church, was sent among them. During his visit, Mr. Endecott was -called by Divine Providence to suffer one of the heaviest of earthly -afflictions, in the death of his wife, the partner of all his -sorrows, who had forsaken home, kindred, and the sympathy of friends, -and consented to share with him the cares and privations incident to -a new settlement. Surrounded by savages, and from the circumstances -of the case, placed in a great degree beyond the pale of civilized -society, her sympathy and counsel must necessarily have been very -dear to him. She must have entwined herself about his affections, as -the tender ivy winds itself round the lordly oak. Her slender and -delicate frame was not proof against the rigors of a New England -climate. Born and nurtured in the midst of luxury and ease, she could -not withstand the privations and hardships of her new home, and she -fell a victim to her self-sacrificing disposition. Painful indeed -must have been the parting, and severe the trial to Mr. Endecott. -Under the influence of the feelings which this affliction produced, -he wrote the following letter to Gov. Bradford:-- - - "RIGHT WORSHIPFULLE SIR,-- - - "It is a thing not usual that servants of one Master, and of - the same household, should be strangers. I assure you I desire - it not; Nay, to speak more plainly, I _cannot_ be so to _you_. - God's people are all marked with one and the same mark, and have - for the main one and the same heart, guided by one and the same - spirit of truth; and where this is there can be no discord, - nay, here must needs be a sweet harmony; and the same request - with you, I make unto the Lord, that we as Christian brethren - be united by an heavenly and unfeigned love, binding all our - hearts and forces in furthering a work beyond our strength with - reverence and fear, fastening our eyes always on Him that is only - able to direct and prosper all our ways. I acknowledge myself - much bound to you, for your kind love and care in sending Mr. - Fuller amongst us, and rejoice much that I am by him satisfied, - touching your judgment of the outward form of God's worship: - It is as far as I can gather no other than is warranted by the - evidence of truth, and the same which I have professed and - maintained ever since the Lord in mercy revealed himself unto - mee, being far from the common report that hath been spread of - you in that particular; but God's people must not look for less - here below, and it is a great mercy of God that he strengtheneth - them to go through it. I shall not need at this time to enlarge - unto you for (God willing) I propose to see your face shortly; in - the mean tyme, I humbly take my leave of you, committing you to - the Lord's blessing and protection, and rest. - - Your assured loving friend, - JO: ENDECOTT. - - Naumkeag, May 11, 1629." - -The foregoing epistle is alike honorable to the head and heart of -Mr. Endecott. Humble, devout, and chastened feelings pervade it -throughout. It speaks a mind sensibly alive to religious impressions. -The sentiments here expressed cannot fail to find a response in the -hearts of all reflecting men, in this and succeeding generations. -The magnitude of the undertaking in which they were engaged, the -necessity of union in their efforts, and the impossibility of success -without direct divine assistance, are here represented in language -appropriate and devout. - -Whether Mr. Endecott carried into execution his design intimated in -this letter, of making Gov. Bradford a visit "shortly," is uncertain. -On the 27th of May, 1629, in a communication to the authorities at -home, he complained that some persons in his jurisdiction disregarded -the law of 1622, for the regulation of trade with the Indians, -and "desiring the Company would take the same into their serious -consideration, and to use some speedy means here for reformation -thereof." A petition was in consequence presented to the King, who -in compliance therewith issued a new proclamation, forbidding such -disorderly trading. These steps were no doubt taken in reference -to the associates of one Thomas Morton, whose residence at Mount -Wollaston, or Merry Mount, now Quincy, he visited shortly after his -arrival in this country. This man and his associates had alarmed -all the well-disposed settlers, from Piscataqua to Plymouth, by -selling arms and ammunition to the Indians, indulging themselves -in dissipation, and otherwise endangering the peace and welfare -of New England. The object of Mr. Endecott's visit was to rectify -abuses among the remaining confederates, Morton himself having been -already apprehended, and sent home to England for trial. He went -there, we are told, in the "purefying spirit of authority," and -caused their May-pole to be cut down, to which they had been in the -habit of affixing pieces of satirical composition against those who -opposed their wishes and practices, and "rebuked the inhabitants -for their profaneness, and admonished them to look to it that they -walked better." He also changed the name of the place, and called -it Mount Dagon. The precise period of this visit is not known, and -it is not improbable that Mr. Endecott extended his journey at the -time to Plymouth Colony. However this may be, a warm friendship soon -grew up between Gov. Bradford and himself, which continued without -interruption for the remainder of their lives. - -As yet no steps had been taken in the Colony towards the -establishment of a reformed Church for propagating the gospel, which -they professed above all to be their aim in settling this Plantation. -June 30th, 1629, the Rev. Francis Higginson arrived at Naumkeag, and -the Rev. Mr. Skelton, the early friend and spiritual father of Mr. -Endecott, arrived about the same time. They had been sent over by -the home government. Mr. Higginson thus speaks of his reception by -Mr. Endecott: "The next morning (30th) the Governor came aboard to -our ship, and bade us kindly welcome, and invited mee and my wiffe -to come on shore and take our lodgings at his house; which we did -accordingly." The settlement, we are told, then consisted of "about -half a score of houses, with a fair house, newly built, for the -Governor. We found also abundance of corne planted by them, very good -and well liking. Our Governor hath a store of green pease growing in -his garden, as good as ever I eat in England. * * * * Our Governor -hath already planted a vineyard, with great hopes of increase; -also mulberries, plums, raspberries, currants, chesnuts, filberts, -walnuts, small nuts, hurtleberries, and haws of white thorn, near as -good as our cherries in England--they grow in plenty here." - -Shortly after the arrival of Mr. Higginson and Mr. Skelton, the -necessary measures were taken preparatory to the settlement of a -religious congregation in accordance with the views of the Puritans. -In this they were aided by Mr. Endecott, and the most intelligent -of the colonists. Having first concluded a satisfactory form of -church government and discipline, which was submitted to Mr. Endecott -for approval, the 6th of August, 1629, just eleven months after -his arrival, was the time selected for this "little band of devout -Pilgrims to enter into solemn covenant[7] with God and one another, -and also for the ordaining of their ministers." By Mr. Endecott's -order, a solemn day of "humiliation" had been held on the 20th of -July preceding, for the choice of pastor and teacher. An important -step was about to be taken--a new priesthood was about to be -established--all allegiance to, or alliance with, any other church -on earth was about to be dissolved! It was a subject of momentous -concern with the Colonists, and called into exercise all their moral -heroism and spiritual courage. Mr. Bradford, the Governor of the -Plymouth Colony, came here by sea, and arrived just in season to -give the right hand of fellowship. Of all that little band, gathered -together on this occasion, none felt a deeper interest, or took a -more responsible part, than the subject of this Memoir.[8] - -We now approach an important event in the history of the Colony--the -removal of its entire government to New England. Gov. Cradock, with -whom the idea appears to have originated, acquainted the Proprietors, -at a meeting of the Court, July 28, 1629, that, for the purpose -of advancing the interests of the Plantation, and inducing and -encouraging persons of worth and quality to transport themselves -and their families thither, as well as for other weighty reasons, -it was proposed to transfer the entire government to this country, -and continue it no longer in subjection to the Company in England. -Soon after this communication, an agreement to that effect was drawn -up at Cambridge, and among those who signed it was their future -governor, John Winthrop. It was one of the stipulations that they -should settle their affairs so as to be ready for the voyage hither -by the first of March. This appears to have been the first connection -Mr. Winthrop had with the settlement of this soil. On the 29th of -August following, at a meeting of the Court of Proprietors, in -London, this change in the government was decided upon. On the 16th -of October, at another meeting of the Court, it was conceived "fitt -that Capt. Endecott continue the government there, unless just cause -to the contrarie." But on the 20th of the same month, Gov. Cradock -informed the Proprietors that in accordance with the alteration of -the government now about to take place, it was necessary to elect a -new Governor, Deputy, and Assistants; when John Winthrop was put in -nomination, and unanimously chosen Governor. In like manner, John -Humphrey was chosen "Deputy-Governor," and Sir Richard Saltonstall, -Matthew Cradock, John Endecott, with fifteen others, were chosen a -board of "Assistants." - -On the 12th of June, 1630, the ship Arbella, Capt. Milburne, having -on board Gov. Winthrop and company, and a duplicate Charter of the -Colony, of the same tenor and form as Gov. Endecott's, arrived at -Naumkeag, having sailed from Cowes March 29. Mr. Endecott, who had -already been apprized that he was shortly to be superseded in the -Governorship of the Plantation, repaired on board to welcome the new -Governor, and offer him and his friends the hospitalities of his -house. Among the distinguished personages were Isaac Johnson and his -wife, the Lady Arbella, daughter of the Earl of Lincoln. Speaking -of Mr. Endecott's visit, Gov. Winthrop says, "Wee that were of the -Assistants and some other gentlemen and some of the women, returned -with him to Nahumkeck, where we supped on good venison pastry -and good beer." At the time of the arrival of the new Governor, -wholesome and salutary laws for the government of the Colony had -been instituted by Endecott, under the authority given him by the -Charter, and the settlement had already assumed the condition of a -well-organized and regulated body politic. A church, with faithful -ministers, which they professed to value above all temporal interests -and earthly grandeur, had also been established, and the wheels -of government were moving on harmoniously, upon a safe and sure -foundation. Under this state of things, Endecott now surrendered the -civil power into the hands of Gov. Winthrop, and took upon himself -the more humble appointment of one of the Assistants. Yet "the -principles of Winthrop's administration," says the Annalist of Salem, -"were like those which had directed the course of his predecessor. -The commencement of legislation, which was to have an important part -in promoting social freedom, that has spread and is spreading in the -world, _began_ at Naumkeag, under Endecott, and was _continued_ by -his worthy successor." - -Soon after the arrival of Gov. Winthrop, the new settlers began to -be dissatisfied with Salem, as the capital of the Colony. It did not -combine, in their opinion, sufficient advantages of location, soil, -and natural means of defence. A party, therefore, was sent to explore -the country westward, to discover, if possible, some more suitable -situation. It had been the darling object with Endecott to make -Salem the seat of government; he, however, bowed in submission, and -continued his efforts to advance the common weal. - -On the 18th of August, 1630, Gov. Endecott entered into a new -matrimonial alliance with Elisabeth Gibson of Cambridge, England. -This lady probably came over in the ship with Gov. Winthrop, and -the marriage ceremony was performed by him and the Rev. Mr. Wilson, -afterwards pastor of the first church in Boston. This connection -appears to have been a happy one, although there was a much greater -disparity in their ages than prudence and judgment would seem to -allow--the difference being about twenty-six years. - -Such was his ardent and growing attachment to the place of his -adoption, that when it was decided in December, 1630, to fortify -Newton, now Cambridge, for the seat of government, and to build -houses, and move their military stores to that place next spring, he -could not be prevailed upon to quit his accustomed residence. All the -members, except himself and Mr. Sharp, who was about returning to -England, agreed to do so; but Mr. Endecott excused himself upon the -ground that he had so formed his connections in Salem, that it would -be attended with great inconvenience. - -On the 3rd of July, 1632, the Court of Assistants granted Mr. -Endecott three hundred acres of land, called by the Indians in -English, "Birchwood," afterwards known as his "Orchard Farm." It was -situated between two and three miles in a northerly direction from -the main settlement at Salem, upon a tongue of land bounded on the -north, south, and east by rivers, or more properly inlets of the -sea, and on the west by the main land. Even at that early period, it -was one of the most desirable situations in that vicinity. Though at -some distance from the place which was afterwards selected for the -seat of the government, and where the Court House was erected, yet -he was in the centre of the population, being by land nearer to the -shores than he was to the cultivated farms around him. It was many -years after he established himself at this beautiful place, so near -all the streams which passed through the adjacent country, before any -incorporation separated Salem from the Merrimack. For twenty years -Salem bounded on Andover. The spot then was the best he could have -chosen. On a commanding eminence, which overlooked the country for -some distance around, and about one eighth of a mile from one of the -inlets, he built his house, and commenced in earnest the cultivation -of his farm. Although the ploughshare has frequently passed over it, -yet part of the cellar of this house is plainly discernible at the -present day. It is a romantic situation, and denotes him to have -been a man of much discrimination and taste in matters of this kind. -On his farm he lived in a sort of feudal style, surrounded by his -servants. - -In front of his mansion house, and immediately upon the southern -slope of a gentle declivity, he planted his far-famed orchard, which -gave the name to his farm. The tradition that the Governor always -pointed out his dial, which bears the date of 1630, as denoting the -age of his orchard, seems to indicate that the trees were removed -hither from his town residence. Here, too, it is said, he introduced, -for medicinal purposes, as well as ornament to his garden, the -"white-weed," which has since become so detrimental to the hay-fields -of our farmers. - -His usual mode of transporting himself and family to and from this -place, was at first by water, and he was as often visited by his -friends in this way, as in any other. The inlet before the mansion -house had nothing to interrupt it--the passage was open to the bay, -and at that early period must have been delightfully romantic. The -shores on either side thickly clothed with wood, whose dark images -were reflected in the still waters beneath them, were picturesque -in the extreme. The bold jutting headlands, on some parts of the -passage, lent a sublimity to the prospect, which was continually -varying by the winding and circuitous course of the stream.[9] There -was nothing to break the stillness, or disturb the quiet which -reigned around, save the dashings of their own little boat amid -the waters, or the heavy plunge of some lordly sea-bird, in his -gyratory wanderings in pursuit of prey. The smoke from the humble -and solitary wigwams of the Indians, thinly scattered along the -margin of the waters, with an occasional glimpse at their tawny -inhabitants, as they stealthily watched the passing boat from their -leafy hiding-places, or listlessly reclined under the shadow of some -wide-spreading oak, heightened the effect, and diversified the scene. -Within the last half-century, the ruins of some of these wigwams -might have been seen,[10] and could not have failed to excite most -melancholy reflections respecting the wretched fate of these natural -lords of the soil, throughout our vast country. - -August 2, 1634, Mr. Endecott was called to mourn the death of his -early and particular friend, the Rev. Mr. Skelton, who had become -endeared to him as his spiritual guide, in first opening to his view -the way of truth while in England, and who had followed him to this -country to counsel and direct him in paths of piety and happiness. -This event must have been to him a severe affliction. - -About this time a Military Board of Commissioners, with almost -unlimited powers, was established by the General Court, and Mr. -Endecott was appointed one of its members. - -On the 18th of September, this same year, the Colony was thrown -into consternation, and alarmed for its liberties, by the news from -England, that a commission had been granted to two Archbishops, -and ten others of the Council, conferring on them the authority to -regulate the Plantations of New England; to establish and maintain -the Episcopal Church in this country; to recall its Charter; remove -its Governors; make its laws; hear and decide its legal cases; and -appoint its punishments, even death itself.[11] Intelligence was also -received at the same time, that a new Governor was being secretly -conveyed to Massachusetts, with orders which, if executed, would -prostrate all its civil and ecclesiastical rights. Gov. Cradock had -already informed them that the King's Council had demanded their -Charter. Such was the universal anxiety this news awakened, that the -idea of resistance appears immediately to have possessed the minds of -the inhabitants,[12] and the fortifications were hastened forward, -and an assessment laid of an additional rate of five hundred pounds -for defence. These tidings were received with indignant feelings -by Mr. Endecott. He saw by this step that all their dear-bought -privileges, purchased at such immense sacrifices, which none could -better appreciate than himself, were about to be violently, as with -a ruthless despotism, wrested from them. His independent spirit -could not quietly brook such high-handed infringements upon their -chartered rights, and he resolved in all the affairs of the Colony, -in which he had any share or influence, to pursue that course which -he deemed most for her interests, whether it led him over plains or -mountains, through flowers or thorns. There was exhibited in his -actions, on all occasions, a fortitude, which shows him formed for -great emergencies. Probably under the influence of feelings produced -by this intelligence, and excited by that ardent zeal which marked -his character through life, he shortly after cut the red cross from -the King's colors, deeming it a relic of Popish idolatry. This bold -and daring act was considered an insult, as well to the established -Church of England, as to the King himself; and the Colony dared not -refrain from taking cognizance of it, lest it should call down upon -their heads the vengeance of the whole British hierarchy. There -is ample evidence in the records of the Colony, that most of the -principal men, including Governor Winthrop,[13] agreed with him -on this subject, in sentiment and feeling. "The only difference -between him and others was, he manifested his opinions by his acts, -while they, with more prudence and safety, retained theirs in -secret." Had it not been for fear of the consequences, instead of -being censured, his conduct would have been openly applauded. His -boldness of action was made known in England, and looked upon there -in the light of rebellion. It was the first blow struck in defiance -of royal authority, and would no doubt have cost Mr. Endecott his -life, had it not been for those troubles which were then beginning -to gather thickly, like a tempest, about the devoted head of the -unfortunate Charles I., and which eventually burst upon it with a -fury which nothing could resist, involving in its course the ruin -of his government, and the destruction of his own life. The sword, -with which this rebellious act is said to have been performed by -Mr. Endecott, has been preserved, and is now in possession of one -of the family, to whom it has descended in direct line, by right of -primogeniture. It is a plain, unornamented rapier, emblematical of -the Puritan simplicity of our Forefathers. - -While these events were passing in this country, the Puritans -in England were experiencing the most unmitigated persecution, -at the hand of Archbishop Laud and his confederates. As their -numbers increased, the various modes of punishment were multiplied; -exorbitant fines were imposed; the pillory witnessed bloody scenes -of human agony and mutilation; the scaffold and dungeon had their -victims; the lash, the shears, and the glowing iron were most cruelly -applied to individuals of this proscribed sect.[14] But the faith of -the Puritans rose superior to oppression, and could not be overcome. -The most bloody persecution served only to add new converts to their -cause. - -In 1636, Mr. Endecott was appointed an Assistant, and was also -sent on an expedition against the Indians on Block Island and in -the Pequot country, he acting as General of all the forces in the -detachment. During this year his views relative to the cross in the -King's colors triumphed over all considerations, and the Military -Commissioners ordered it to be left out. On the ensigns at Castle -Island, in Boston harbor, they substituted the King's arms for the -cross. - -During the year 1641, Mr. Endecott was chosen Deputy-Governor, -and was continued in office for the two succeeding years. He was -also appointed one of a committee to dispose of all lands or other -property belonging to the company at Cape Ann; and was commissioned -by the Court, in conjunction with two others, Mr. Downing, the -brother-in-law of Gov. Winthrop, and Mr. Hathorne, to procure the -transcription of nineteen copies of the laws, liberties, and forms of -oaths, and to subscribe them with their own hands, the Court having -decreed that no copies should be considered authentic which were -without their signatures. - -In 1642, he was chosen one of the Corporation of Harvard College. - -Passing over some minor things in the life of Governor Endecott, -we arrive at the year 1644, when his increasing influence and -popularity ensured his election as Governor, and Mr. Winthrop was -chosen Deputy-Governor. The claim of Salem to be made the seat of -government, was now again revived, and it would be fair to infer from -his well-known attachment to the place, that the project met with -his hearty coöperation. But the effort was not successful, and Boston -still continued to be the capital. The Governor's salary was one -hundred pounds. - -During this year of his administration, improvements in the mode -of transacting business in the Legislature were introduced. The -Magistrates and Deputies, for the first time, now held their sessions -apart, and it required the concurrence of both bodies, to make an act -valid. The office of a speaker to the Deputies was also this year -ordained, and filled by an Essex man, Mr. William Hathorne. - -The conflicting claims of D'Aulney and La Tour, two Frenchmen at -Acadia, which had produced considerable excitement, were finally -settled during this year, by the government of France supporting -the claim of D'Aulney. His deputy came to Boston, and concluded a -treaty with Gov. Endecott, which was subsequently ratified by the -Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England. - -The year following, (1645) Mr. Endecott was succeeded as Governor by -Mr. Dudley. Other offices of honor and trust, however, awaited him. -He was this year appointed Sergeant Major-General of Massachusetts, -the highest military office in the Colony. He had previously held -a commission of Colonel in the first regiment formed in Salem, -Saugus, Ipswich, and Newbury, in 1636, when John Winthrop, Jr., son -of the Governor, was his Lieutenant-Colonel. He was also elected an -Assistant, and one of the United Commissioners. - -In 1648, he was continued an Assistant, Sergeant Major-General, and -Commissioner for the Province. - -Upon the death of Governor Winthrop, which took place on the 26th -of March, 1649, at the age of 61, Mr. Endecott was again chosen -Governor, to which office he was annually elected until the time of -his death, with the exception of the years 1650 and 1654, when he -held that of Deputy-Governor. This was an eventful period in the -history of the Colony, as well as of the Mother Country. The violent -death of Charles I., the usurpation of Cromwell, and the restoration -of the Stuart family, took place while he was at the head of public -affairs. The difficulties and perplexities of his situation during -this period were very great. But all his public acts were marked -with a moderation and wisdom which do honor to him as an experienced -statesman. Had he possessed less integrity or firmness, had his mind -been at all vacillating, the consequences might have been affectingly -disastrous to the best interests of the Colony. - -In the year 1652, under his administration, a mint was established in -the Colony, for coining shillings, six-pences, and three-pences. No -other of the American Colonies, it is believed, ever presumed to coin -metal into money. Though unlawful, it was passed over by Cromwell and -the Parliament, and continued after the Restoration, for more than -twenty years. - -About the year 1655, Gov. Endecott removed from Salem to Boston, upon -the request of the General Court that he would do so, "if his own -necessary occasions would permit." Although the reasonableness of -this request must have been apparent to him, the step could not have -been taken without strong feelings of repugnance. It must have been a -severe struggle for him to have separated himself from the place of -his adoption, towards which he had ever felt and exhibited the most -ardent attachment. His residence in Boston was on the beautiful lot -lately owned and occupied by Gardner Green, now Pemberton Square.[15] - -Governor Endecott had now (1657) entered upon his seventieth year, -with a shattered constitution, and health seriously impaired, as we -learn by the following letter to Mr. John Leverett, the Colonial -Agent in England. - - SIR, - - I cannot write unto you by a more faithful friend[16] than I - have done, who is able at large, to relate to you how things in - general stand here. And that doth save mee some labour which - at this tyme is a favor to mee. For in the extremity of heate - and after a long sickness, I am very faint; not fitt to doe - any thing, yet I cannot but by these heartilie salute you in - the Lord, giving you many thanks for what you sent me. For all - good newes is welcome to us as you know full well. Yet I cannot - for the present answer your expectations touching Road Island - and Clarke and Holmes, but I have acquainted the rest of the - Magistrates with your letter, who were already to gather up - sufficient testimonie to prove what you spoke to the Protector, - and enough to satisfy (we doubt not) your opponent, if he be a - lover of truth. Only we would have the General Court act with us - therein, which will not meet till September next, when I hope I - shall procure a full answer to your former and last letters. - - What the end is of that point of State to make the Protector - King, I cannot fathom it; unless their proffering and his - deniall thereof ingratiate him the more in the hearts of the - people. The Lord in mercie guide all to his glory, and the good - of those commonwealths over whom he hath sett him. If there - be any opportunitie I pray you write mee a word about it, and - other occurrences that may fall out. I cannot be sufficientlie - thankefulle for what you wrote me last. Great motions there are - in the world which the Lord direct and turn to his glorie, the - overthrow of his enemies and the peace and welfare of his own - people. Which is the prayer of Sir, - - Your verie loveing friend and servant, - JO: ENDECOTT. - - Boston, the 29th 4th mo., (June,) 1657. - -During the principal part of Gov. Endecott's administration, and -particularly from 1655 to 1660, the Colony, "under his prudent and -equal government," made rapid progress in all things necessary to -its respectability and importance. Its population and wealth rapidly -increased; its trade flourished; and its foreign intercourse became -every day more widely extended. Free admission was allowed to vessels -of all nations, and the importations of all commodities was subject -to no incumbrance or restraint. The Colony took no notice of any -act respecting navigation, or other laws made in England for the -regulation of trade. They were never recognized as in force here, -unless required by their own legislature. - -In 1658, the Court granted Gov. Endecott, "for his great service, -the fourth part of Block Island." At this time he was also elected -President of the body of Colonial Commissioners. He now held the -double office of Governor of Massachusetts and President of the -United Colonies. - -His conduct towards the aborigines, that much abused and injured -people, was always marked with forbearance, lenity, and mildness. To -his eldest son John, the Indians in 1660 gave a tract of land, which -grant he applied to the Court to confirm. The Court declined taking -such power on itself; but at the same time, however, it passed the -highly complimentary resolve: - -The Court, "considering the many kindnesses which were shown the -Indians by our honored Governor in the infancy of these Plantations, -for pacifying the Indians, tending to the common good of the -Planters; and in consideration of which the Indians were moved to -such a gratuity unto his son, do judge meet to give the petitioner -four hundred acres of land." - -Though Governor Endecott removed from Salem to Boston in 1655, yet -neither he nor Mrs. Endecott removed their connection with the Salem -church, until November, 1664. A large and brilliant comet made its -appearance on the 17th of November of this year, and continued to the -4th of February following. It was the general belief of that period, -that comets were omens of great evil. One appeared just before the -death of that distinguished divine, the Rev. John Cotton; and the -death at this time of their aged Governor, and the troubles with -which the Colony met the next year from the King's Commissioners, -Hutchinson informs us, tended to confirm the people in their opinion. - -We are told that "old age and the infirmities thereof coming upon -him, he fell asleep in the Lord on the 15th of March, 1665," at -the age of 77, "and was with great honour and solemnity interred -at Boston," on the 23rd of the same month. His death was easy and -tranquil. Tradition has handed down the fact, that the "Chapel -Burying-Ground" was the place of his interment. But the exact spot -is not now known. No stone marks the resting-place of this intrepid -Father of New England.[17] Yet his name alone will ever be a monument -to his memory, more enduring than marble, and as imperishable as the -granite hills of his adopted country. - -Gov. Endecott came to this country in 1628, at the age of 40, and -died in 1665, at the age of 77. During these thirty-seven years he -was nearly all the time in public life, and for about seventeen -years, or nearly half the whole period, he was Governor of the -Colony. He was longer at the head of the administration than any -other Governor of Massachusetts. - -He was a man of highly respectable natural talents, good education, -a zealous Puritan, a brave man, a decided patriotic republican, a -friend of learning and religion, a lover of God and his country. - -We frankly acknowledge that the conduct of Gov. Endecott in the -religious intolerance of his day, may be considered a stain upon his -escutcheon. Yet, while we admit that those severe measures which were -adopted, especially when contrasted with the present unrestrained -exercise of religious freedom in our country, were great blemishes on -his administration, we think they certainly ought not to be regarded -as such on his moral character. It was not the cause of religion -alone, which was thought to be endangered by the dissemination and -triumph of such principles as were then advanced; but the overthrow -of all civil government was looked upon as the ultimate result. -Besides, the _whole_ responsibility and obloquy of this dark page in -our early history, should not be thrown upon him. True, he was the -official organ through which was carried into effect the established -laws of the Colony, and _vox populi_ was believed to be _vox Dei_. -But so far as he was individually concerned, we think his motives -were pure and elevated, and that all his actions were based upon -principle. Without doubt he partook largely of the prevailing -prejudices of the day; and the wild spirit of fanaticism found in him -a strenuous and energetic opponent. But we hold that all men should -be judged according to the light of the age in which they live, and -the influences with which they are surrounded. In this dread of -unlimited toleration he was not alone; it was the prevailing temper -of the times, and the errors in this respect, in which he shared in -common with the wise and good of his day, arose rather from an error -in judgment than any obliquity of heart. - -It has been remarked by a recent writer, that "Governor Endecott -was undoubtedly the finest specimen to be found among our Governors -of the genuine Puritan character,--of a quick temper, which the -habit of military command had not softened,--of strong religious -feelings, moulded on the sterner features of Calvinism; resolute to -uphold with the sword what he received as gospel truth, and fearing -no enemy so much as a gainsaying spirit." "He was a very virtuous -gentleman," says Secretary Morton, "and was greatly beloved of the -most, as he well deserved." "In his public and private relations," -says the Annalist of Salem, "he was a man of unshaken integrity. _For -my country and my God_, was the motto inscribed upon his motives, -purposes, and deeds. That he had his imperfections, there is no -doubt; but that he exhibited as few of them under his multiplied -duties, as the most excellent men would in his situation, is equally -correct. His many exertions for the prosperity of Salem, and his -ardent attachment to it, should impress his name and worth upon the -hearts of its inhabitants, so long as its existence continues." - -Thus lived and thus died, one of the principal founders and firmest -pillars of New England. - -At his decease he left a widow and two sons. The elder son left no -children;--the younger was a physician, and resided in Salem. He was -twice married; and a family of five sons and five daughters survived -him. His second wife was Elisabeth, daughter of Governor Winthrop, -and widow of the Rev. Antipas Newman of Wenham. - -There exists a perfect genealogy of the Governor's family, so far as -relates to his descendants in New England. We hope to publish it in -our next number. - -The Governor, and all his descendants, to the third generation, -(1724,) spelt their names _Endecott_; since then an _i_ has been -substituted for the _e_ in the second syllable. - -There is an original portrait of the Governor in possession of -one of the family, taken the year he died. By this we learn that -his countenance was open, energetic, and independent, possessing -much individuality of expression, and in perfect harmony with the -character of the man. According to the custom of the age, he wore -mustaches, and a tuft of hair upon his chin. The miniature likeness -which accompanies this Memoir was engraved from this portrait, and is -considered an excellent resemblance, and was presented by the family -to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, at their -solicitation. - - NOTE. The Charter posesssed by Gov. Endecott, and which is now in - the Salem Athenæum, and the Charter possessed by Gov. Winthrop, - and which is now in the State House, Boston, appear to be - duplicate original Charters, provided for in the Charter itself, - and neither of them copies. They are precisely alike in all - respects--the same in phraseology and chirography, and the same - in dates. Each Governor was elected and commissioned by the same - Company, and by the same Colony, acted under the same Charter, - with the same authority, and each alike entitled to the official - designation of Governor, whether he was elected Governor by the - Company in London, or by the Colony here, for both were elected - Governor by each. - - - - -ORIGINAL COVENANT OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN SALEM.[18] - - -We Covenant with our Lord, and one with another; and we do bind -ourselves in the presence of God, to walk together in all his ways, -according as he is pleased to reveal himself unto us in his blessed -word of truth; and do explicitly, in the name and fear of God, -profess and protest to walk as followeth, through the power and grace -of our Lord Jesus Christ. - -We avouch the Lord to be our God, and ourselves to be his people, in -the truth and simplicity of our spirits. - -We give ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ, and the word of his -grace, for the teaching, ruling, and sanctifying of us in matters of -worship and conversation, resolving to cleave unto him alone for life -and glory, and to reject all contrary ways, canons, and constitutions -of men, in his worship. - -We promise to walk with our brethren, with all watchfulness and -tenderness, avoiding jealousies and suspicions, back-bitings, -censurings, provokings, secret risings of spirit against them; but in -all offences to follow the rule of our Lord Jesus, and to bear and -forbear, give and forgive, as he hath taught us. - -In public or private, we will willingly do nothing to the offence -of the church; but will be willing to take advice for ourselves and -ours, as occasion shall be presented. - -We will not in the congregation be forward, either to show our own -gifts and parts in speaking or scrupling, or there discover the -weakness or failings of our brethren; but attend an orderly call -thereunto, knowing how much the Lord may be dishonored, and his -gospel and the profession of it slighted, by our distempers and -weaknesses in public. - -We bind ourselves to study the advancement of the gospel in all truth -and peace, both in regard to those that are within or without; no way -slighting our sister churches, but using their counsel as need shall -be; not laying a stumbling-block before any, no, not the Indians, -whose good we desire to promote; and so to converse as we may avoid -the very appearance of evil. - -We do hereby promise to carry ourselves in all lawful obedience -to those that are over us, in Church or Commonwealth, knowing -how well-pleasing it will be to the Lord, that they should have -encouragement in their places, by our not grieving their spirits -through our irregularities. - -We resolve to approve ourselves to the Lord in our particular -callings, shunning idleness as the bane of any state; nor will we -deal hardly or oppressingly with any, wherein we are the Lord's -stewards. - -Promising also unto our best ability to teach our children and -servants the knowledge of God, and of his will, that they may serve -him also; and all this not by any strength of our own, but by the -Lord Christ, whose blood we desire may sprinkle this our Covenant -made in His Name. - - - - -HERALDRY. - - -In preparing this article we have consulted various writers on the -subject of Heraldry, and not only selected our thoughts from theirs, -but used their language when it appeared best adapted to our object. -For a more full account of Heraldry in all its branches, we refer -our readers to Guillim's Banner Displayed, Camden's British Remains, -Kent's Grammar of Heraldry, Edmonson's Complete Body of Heraldry, -Leigh's Accidence of Armorie, Playfair's British Baronetage, -Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, Noble's History of the College -of Arms, Lower's Curiosities of Heraldry, Dallaway's Inquiries, -Newton's Display of Heraldry, Broun's Baronetage, Collins's Peerage -of England, Betham's Baronetage of England, and the various -Encyclopædias. - - -DEFINITION. - -HERALDRY is the science of conventional distinctions impressed on -shields, banners, and other military accoutrements; or it is the art -of armory and blazoning, or the knowledge of what relates to the -bearing of arms, and the laws and regulations appertaining thereto. -Arms in heraldry are ensigns armorial or marks of honor borne upon -shields, banners, and coats of mail, in order to distinction. The -science of Heraldry consists particularly in the appropriation of -figurative representations, designed, by suitable emblems, to exhibit -the achievements of valor, the descent of hereditary honors, and the -distinctions appertaining to nobility. - -The Degrees of Honor existing in England in 1597, were nine; of which -five were _noble_, as Gentleman, Esquire, Knight, Baron, and Lord; -and four were _excellent_, as Earl, Marquess, Duke, and Prince.--The -Degrees of Honor existing in the British nation in 1847 are eleven; -namely, Gentleman, Esquire, Knight, Baron, Baronet, Lord, Viscount, -Earl, Marquess, Duke, and Prince. - - -ORIGIN AND HISTORY. - -Arms may belong to individuals, to families, or to countries. Badges -and emblems on shields and helms occurred in the earliest times. -In Numbers, (_chap._ i: 52,) the children of Israel are enjoined -to pitch their tents, "every man by his own camp and every man by -his own standard," with the ensigns of his father's house. The -Greek and Roman poets speak of paintings and devices on shields and -helmets. These symbols were, moreover, hereditary. Thus Xenophon -relates that the kings of the Medes bore a golden eagle on their -shields. Suetonius asserts that Domitian had a golden beard for -his coat of arms; and Tacitus says of the ancient Germans, that -they marked their shields with brilliant colors, and that certain -standards were borne before them in battle. Notwithstanding these -traces of armorial bearings in the ancient world, our heraldry is -no older than the tournaments. That armory first became common and -regulated by certain rules at these solemn festivals, is corroborated -by the following reasons. In the first place, we find no tomb or -monument with escutcheons, older than the eleventh century. The -most ancient monument of this kind is said to be the bearings of a -certain Varmond, count of Vasserburg, in the church of St. Emmeran, -at Ratisbon. The shield is _coupé_ of argent and sable; over it is a -lion, with the words "_Anno Domini_ MX." On most of the other tombs, -even of the eleventh century, no arms are found; and the use of them -seems to have first become common in the twelfth century. The first -pope who can be proved to have had a coat of arms, is Boniface VIII., -who filled the papal see from 1294 to 1303. All the earlier papal -arms are the fanciful inventions of later flatterers. On coins, also, -no armorial ensigns are found till the thirteenth century. A second -proof of our assumed origin of coats of arms is the word _blason_, -which denotes the science of heraldry in French, English, Italian, -and Spanish. This word has most probably its origin in the German -word _blasen_, (to blow the horn;) for whenever a new knight appeared -at a tournament, the herald had to sound the trumpet, and, because -all appeared with close visors, to proclaim and explain the bearing -of the shield or coat of arms belonging to each. Because this was -performed by the herald, this knowledge was called heraldry; and -because, in doing so, he blew the trumpet, it was called _blazoning -the arms_. That this was a prevailing practice at tournaments, may -be proved from the poetry of the Troubadours of the twelfth and -thirteenth centuries. Thence it came, that those knights, whose right -to appear at tournaments had already been announced by blazoning -their arms, bore two trumpets on their crest. From the Germans, this -custom was transmitted to the French; for there is no doubt, that -tournaments were usual in Germany much earlier than in France. But -the French carried to far greater perfection the tournament, and the -blazon or heraldry connected with it, as they did the whole system -of chivalry. Since, moreover, the French language prevailed at the -court of the Norman kings in England, pure French expressions have -been preserved in British heraldry. Thus the green tincture, (color,) -in a coat of arms, is termed _vert_, (though in French _sinople_, -which originally denoted a _reddish brown_;) bright red is termed -_gueules_, probably with an allusion to the bloody revenge of wild -animals, which play so conspicuous a part in heraldry; the divided -shield is, moreover, called _coupé_; and _passant_, _regardant_, -_dormant_, _couchant_, &c., are used. German heraldry, on the -contrary, contains almost pure German expressions. In a coat of arms, -the helm is placed upon the shield, and the latter is surrounded -by the wreath. At a tournament, the mantle of the knight, with the -helm and shield, was suspended in the lists. The colors or tinctures -of the shields had their foundation in the custom of the most -ancient Germans, of giving their shields various colors--a custom -which received a tender meaning in the tournaments of the middle -ages; the knight, bound to defend the honor of dames, and devote -himself to their protection, wearing their colors on his shield. -By degrees, the partitions or sections on shields came into use; -for when, as often occurred, a knight was the champion of several -ladies, he bore several colors on his shield, which had therefore to -be divided into fields. When the martial youth of almost all Europe -left their homes, about the end of the eleventh century, inspired -with religious enthusiasm, to conquer the Holy Land, the use of arms -became still more general and necessary. In order to distinguish the -nations, armies, and families, the princes and commanders chose their -symbols, sometimes in commemoration of the exploits and events of the -campaign, or of the dignity of the commander, and sometimes from mere -fancy or passing humor. - - -BLAZONING, HISTORIFYING, AND MARSHALLING ARMS. - -Blazoning is the methodical description of a bearing. In the first -place, the shield is described according to its tinctures, figures, -and partitions. The inferior parts of an escutcheon are then -blazoned--the helm, with its insignia, which are trumpet, wings, and -plumes, men and animals, or their members; then the wreath and its -tinctures; after which the coronet cap, &c.; finally the supporters, -the mantle, the device, and other secondary things. Such terms for -the color must be used as are agreeable to the station and quality -of the bearer. All persons below the degree of noble must have their -coats blazoned by colors and metals; noble men by precious stones; -and kings and princes by planets. - -In emblazoning shields of arms, metals, colors, and furs are -used to depict the device, the technical terms of which are -these;--of metals, gold, called _or_, and silver, _argent_, only -are employed;--of colors, red, called _gules_, blue, _azure_, -black, _sable_, green, _vert_, and purple, _purpure_;--and of furs, -principally the skin of the little animal called _ermine_, and a -combination of grey and white squirrel skins, called _vair_. - -In blazoning arms it is an established rule with heralds, that -animals are always to be interpreted in the best sense, that is, -according to their most noble and generous qualities, that the most -honor may redound to the bearers. Thus the fox, being reputed witty -and given to filching for his prey, if this be the charge of an -escutcheon, we are to conceive the quality represented to be his wit -and cunning, and not his theft. - -All savage beasts are to be figured in their fiercest action: as -a lion erected, his mouth wide open, his claws extended; and thus -formed he is said to be _rampant_. A leopard or wolf is to be -portrayed going as it were _pedetentim_, which form of action suits -their natural disposition, and is called _passant_. The gentler kinds -are to be set forth in their noblest and most advantageous action, as -a horse running or vaulting, a greyhound coursing, a deer tripping, a -lamb going with smooth and easy pace. - -Every animal is to be represented as moving or looking to the right -side of the shield; and it is a general rule, that the right foot be -placed foremost, because the right side is reckoned the beginning -of motion. The upper part is nobler than the lower, and things -that are constrained either to look up or down, ought rather to be -designed looking upwards. We observe however that notwithstanding -such precepts of Guillim and other masters of armory, there are -lions _passant_, _couchant_, _dormant_, as well as _rampant_, and -most animals in arms look down and not up. Birds are esteemed a -more honorable bearing than fish, and wild and ravenous birds than -tame ones. When their bills and feet are of a different color from -the rest, they are said to be _membered_. Birds of prey are more -properly said to be _armed_. In the blazoning of fowls much exercised -in flight, if the wings be not displayed, they are said to be borne -_close_, for example, he beareth an eagle, a hawk, or a swallow, -_close_. Fish are borne different ways, upright, embowed, extended, -endorsed, surmounted of each other, fretted, triangled. Those borne -feeding should be termed _devouring_. Those borne directly upright -are termed _Hauriant_, and those borne traverse the escutcheon, -_naiant_. - -To historify, in heraldry, is to explain the history of a coat of -arms, its origin, and the changes it has undergone. If the herald -is to explain a bearing historically, he must show that this figure -is the proper emblem of the family or country. He derives, for -instance, from historical sources, the proof that the double-headed -eagle of the Roman king was first introduced in the beginning of the -fourteenth century, under Albert I., and that previously, from the -time of Otho II., the royal eagle had but one head; that the three -leopards in the English arms were first derived in 1127, under Henry -I., from the Norman house.--The marshalling of arms consists in the -preparation of new escutcheons. In this matter, the herald either -follows the orders of a sovereign, or he invents the idea, and makes -the plan of the escutcheon according to his own judgment, or he -composes a new escutcheon from several coats of arms. - - -DIFFERENT KINDS OF ARMS. - -In heraldic science, arms are distinguished by different names, to -denote the causes of their being borne, such as _arms of dominion_, -of _pretension_, of _concession_, of _community_, of _patronage_, of -_family_, of _alliance_, of _succession_, and of _assumption_. Those -of _dominion_ and _sovereignty_ are those which emperors, kings, -and sovereign states constantly bear, being, as it were, annexed to -the territories, kingdoms, and provinces they possess. Thus there -are the arms of England, of France, of the United States, &c. Arms -of _pretension_ are those of kingdoms, provinces, or territories, -to which a prince or lord has some claim, and which he adds to his -own, although such kingdoms or territories are possessed by another -prince or lord. Arms of _concession_, or _augmentation of honor_, -are entire arms, as the fortress of Gibraltar on the escutcheon of -Lord Heathfield. Arms of _community_ belong to bishoprics, cities, -companies, &c. Arms of _patronage_, to governors of provinces, lords -of manors, &c. Arms of _family_ are the property of individuals; -and it is criminal in any persons not of the family to assume them. -Arms of _alliance_ show the union of families and individuals. Arms -of _succession_ are taken up, by those who inherit certain estates, -manors, &c., either by will, entail, or donation, and which they -impale or quarter with their own. This multiplies the titles of -some families from necessity, and not from ostentation. Arms of -_assumption_, or _assumptive arms,_ are taken up by the caprice or -fancy of persons who assume them without a legal title. They are also -such as a man of his proper right may assume, with the approbation of -his sovereign and of the king of arms. - - -PARTS OF A COAT OF ARMS. - -The parts of arms are the escutcheon, the tinctures, charges, and -ornaments. Heralds distinguish nine different points in escutcheons, -in order to determine exactly the positions of the bearing they are -charged with, as in the figure. - -[Illustration: (The nine points of escutcheons.)] - - +-----------------+ - | A B C | - | | - | D | - | | - | E | - | | - | F | - | | - | G I | - \ H / - \ / - +-----------+ - -A, dexter chief; B, precise middle chief; C, sinister chief; D, honor -point; E, fess point; F, nombril point; G, dexter base; H, precise -middle base; I, sinister base. The _tinctures_ mean the variable hue -common both to the shields and their bearings; and there are seven -tinctures--yellow or gold, expressed by dots; white or argent; red, -by perpendicular lines; blue or azure, by horizontal lines; purple, -by diagonal lines from right to left; green, by the same from left -to right; black by horizontal and perpendicular lines crossing; and -orange and blood colors are expressed by diagonal lines crossing -each other. The charges are the emblems occupying the field of the -escutcheon, or any part of it. All charges are distinguished by -the name of _honorable ordinaries_, _sub-ordinaries_, and _common -charges_. Honorable ordinaries, the principal charges in heraldry, -are made of lines only, which, according to their disposition and -form, receive different names. Sub-ordinaries are ancient heraldic -figures frequently used in coats of arms, and which are distinguished -by terms appropriated to each of them. Common charges are composed -of natural, artificial, and even imaginary things, such as stars, -animals, trees, ships, &c. The ornaments that accompany or surround -escutcheons were introduced to denote the birth, dignity, or office -of the person to whom the arms appertain. They are used both by -clergy and laity. Those most in use are of ten sorts; namely, -crowns, coronets, mitres, helmets, mantlings, _chapeaux_, wreaths, -crests, scrolls, and supporters. The crest is the highest part of -the ornaments of a coat of arms. It is called _crest_ from the Latin -word _crista_, which signifies a comb or tuft, such as many birds -have upon their heads, as the peacock, &c. Crests were anciently -marks of great honor, because they were worn only by heroes of great -valor and high rank, that they might be the better distinguished in -an engagement, and thereby rally their men if dispersed. They are -at present considered as mere ornaments. The scroll is an ornament -usually placed below the shield and supporters, containing a motto or -sentence, alluding to the bearing or to the bearer's name. - - * * * * * - - _Explanation of the Plate on the following page, taken from - Brande's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art._ - - - I. LINES. - - 1. Horizontal or straight. 2. Angled. 3. Bevelled. 4. Escartele. - 5. Nowy or Franche. 6. Arched or enarched. 7. Double arched. 8. - Wavy or undee. 9. Invected. 10. Engrailed. 11. Battled-embattled, - or crenellee. 12. Battled-embattled. 13. Nebuly. 14. Potent. - 15. Indented. 16. Dancettec. 17. Dove-tailed. 18. Urdee. 19. - Rayonnee, or radiant. - - - II. POINTS OF THE ESCUTCHEON, COLORS, AND FURS. - - 20. Escutcheon, points of. 21. Or. 22. Argent. 23. Gules. 24. - Azure. 25. Sable. 26. Vert. 27. Purpure. 28. Tenne. 29. Sanguine. - 30. Ermine. 31. Ermines. 32. Erminois. 33. Peau. 34. Vair. 35. - Varry cuppy. - - - III. DIFFERENCES, OR FILIATIONS. - - 36. (First son) Label of three points. 37. (Second) Crescent. 38. - (Third) Mullet. 39. (Fourth) Martlet. 40. (Fifth) Annulet. 41. - (Sixth) Fleur-de-lis. - - - IV. ORDINARIES, &C. - - 42. Chief. 43. Pale (between two annulets.) 44. Pallet. 45. Party - per pale. 46. Border. 47. Bars. 48. Fess. 49. Bend. 50. Bend - sinister. 51. Border. 52. Chevron. 53. Cross. 54. Cross of St. - John of Jerusalem, or Malta. 55. Cross patonce. 56. Cross moline. - 57. Cross of St. Andrew. 58. Crosses humettee. 59. Cross moline - in saltier. 60. Cross bottonee or trefoil. 61. Cross crosslet, - fitchee. 62. Cross flory. 63. Cross mascle. 64. Cross fitchee. - 65. Lozenge, fleury. - - - V. MISCELLANEOUS BEARINGS. - - 66. Lion, statant guardant. 67. Passant. 68. Passant guardant. - 69. Rampant. 70. Rampant guardant. 71. Rampant reguardant. 72. - Sejant. 73. Couchant. 74. Stag at gaze. 75. Stag's head caboshed. - 76. Tiger, heraldic. 77. Dragon. 78. Griffin. 79. Dragon's - head erased. 80. Wivern. 81. Eagle displayed, with two heads. - 82. Boar's head erased. 83. Water budgets. 84. Snake, bowed - debruised. 85. Quatrefoil. 86. Trefoils. 87. Fleur-de-lis. 88. - Clarion, or rest. 89. Mullets. - - - VI. CROWNS, CORONETS, &C. - - 90. Crown of England. 91. Coronet of the Prince of Wales. 92. - Coronet of a duke. 93. Marquis. 94. Earl. 95. Viscount. 96. - Baron. 97. Mitre of a bishop. 98. Eastern, or antique coronet. - 99. Celestial crown. 100. Crown of Edward I. 101. Mortier, or - cap of state. 102. Chapeau, or cap of maintenance. 103. Crown of - France. 104. Cardinal's hat. 105. Crown triple, or tiara of the - pope. - -[Illustration] - - - - -RATIFICATION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION BY MASSACHUSETTS. - - [The following account of the Ratification of the Constitution - of the United States by the Convention of the Commonwealth of - Massachusetts convened at Boston on the 9th day of January, - 1788, and continued until the 7th of February, was printed in - the Massachusetts Gazette of Feb. 8th, 1788, published by John - Wincoll Allen of Boston. It is here inserted as a historical - document of those times that tried men's souls, which will, - we think, be read with deep interest by those of the present - generation. In this way, too, it will be preserved, as it should - be, for posterity. It is printed as we find it in the Gazette, - with only the addition of the names of the towns, in which the - individuals of the Convention resided. Of the Convention, John - Hancock was President, William Cushing, Vice-President, and - George Richards Minot, Secretary.] - - -With the highest satisfaction we announce to the publick, that the -Convention of this commonwealth, on Wednesday last, at five o'clock, -P. M. _ASSENTED TO_ the CONSTITUTION, proposed by the late federal -Convention. On this pleasing event, WE DO HEARTILY congratulate -the publick, and do express our sincere wishes, that the general -joy which it has diffused through all ranks of citizens, may be an -auspicious omen of the superiour advantages which will undoubtedly -result from the establishment of such a federal government as this -constitution provides. - -Immediately on the news of this joyful decision being announced, the -bells in every publick building in this metropolis began to ring, and -continued to sound the glad tydings for two hours. At sun set the -Convention adjourned: after which, a multitude of people, from all -quarters, moved into State-Street, where they manifested the joy they -felt from this event, by incessant tokens of approbation, and loud -huzzas. The bells of the North church continued to chime harmonious -peals of gratulations the whole night, and part of the next day. -Illuminations were made and other insignia of joy exhibited. - -The yeas and nays, on the question of adoption, being taken, -agreeably to the orders of the day, were as follows, viz. - - -YEAS. - - His Excellency JOHN HANCOCK, Esq. President, Hon. James Bowdoin, - hon. Sam. Adams, hon. William Phillips, hon. Caleb Davis, - Charles Jarvis, esq. John C. Jones, esq. John Winthrop, esq. - Thomas Dawes, jun. esq. rev. Samuel Stillman, Thomas Russell, - esq. Christopher Gore, esq. _Boston_, hon. William Heath, hon. - Increase Sumner, _Roxbury_, James Bowdoin, jun. esq. Ebenezer - Wales, esq. _Dorchester_, rev. Nathaniel Robbins, _Milton_, - hon. Richard Cranch, rev. Anthony Wibird, _Braintree_, hon. - Cotton Tufts, _Weymouth_, hon. Benjamin Lincoln, rev. David - Shute, _Hingham_, rev. Joseph Jackson, _Brookline_, rev. Thomas - Thacher, Fisher Ames, esq. _Dedham_, col. William M'Intosh, - _Needham_, capt. John Baxter, jun. _Medfield_, hon. Elijah - Dunbar, esq. _Stoughton_, mr. Thomas Mann, _Wrentham_, mr. - George Payson, _Walpole_, hon. J. Fisher, _Franklin_, mr. Thomas - Jones, _Hull_, rev. Phillips Payson, _Chelsea_, mr. Ebenezer - Warren, _Foxborough_, Richard Manning, esq. Edward Pulling, - esq. mr. William Gray, jun. mr. Francis Cabot, _Salem_, hon. - Michael Farley, J. Choate, esq. Daniel Noyes, esq. col. Jonathan - Cogswell, _Ipswich_, hon. Tristram Dalton, Enoch Sawyer, esq. - E. March, esq. _Newbury_, hon. Rufus King, esq. hon. Benjamin - Greenleaf, esq. Theophilus Parsons, esq. hon. Jonathan Titcomb, - _Newburyport_, hon. G. Cabot, mr. Joseph Wood, capt. Israel - Thorndike, _Beverly_, Isaac Mansfield, esq. Jonathan Glover, - esq. hon. Azor Orne, John Glover, esq. _Marblehead_, Daniel - Rogers, esq. John Low, esq. capt. W. Pearson, _Gloucester_, - John Carnes, esq. capt. John Burnham, _Lynn_ and _Lynnfield_, - mr. William Symmes, jun. _Andover_, Bailey Bartlett, esq. capt. - Nathaniel Marsh, _Haverhill_, mr. Israel Clark, _Topsfield_, - dr. Samuel Nye, mr. Enoch Jackman, _Salisbury_, capt. Benjamin - Lurvey, mr. Willis Patten, _Amesbury_, Daniel Thurston, esq. - _Bradford_, mr. Jacob Herrick, _Wenham_, mr. Simeon Miller, - _Manchester_, hon. Francis Dana, esq. Stephen Dana, esq. - _Cambridge_, hon. Nathaniel Gorham, esq. _Charlestown_, hon. - Joseph Hosmer, _Concord_, hon. Abraham Fuller, _Newtown_, - capt. Lawson Buckminster, _Framingham_, Benjamin Brown, esq. - _Lexington_, Daniel Whitney, esq. _Sherburne_, capt. Asahel - Wheeler, _Sudbury_, capt. Benjamin Blaney, _Malden_, capt. - Abraham Bigelow, _Weston_, maj. gen. John Brooks, _Medford_, - dr. Charles Whitman, _Stow_, Leonard Williams, esq. _Waltham_, - hon. J. B. Varnum, _Dracut_, hon. J. Pitts, _Dunstable_, hon. - E. Brooks, _Lincoln_, W. Pynchon, esq. _Springfield_, hon. C. - Strong, mr. Benjamin Sheldon, _Northampton_ and _Easthampton_, - capt. Lemuel Pomeroy, _Southampton_, brig. gen. Elisha Porter, - _Hadley_, hon. Noah Goodman, _South Hadley_, hon. J. Hastings, - _Hatfield_, John Ingersol, esq. _Westfield_, mr. Ebenezer James, - _Northfield_, Abner Morgan, esq. _Brimfield_, capt. David - Shepard, _Chester_, mr. Jesse Reed, _Charlemont_, Nahum Eager, - esq. _Worthington_, col. Benjamin Bonney, _Chesterfield_, major - Thomas J. Douglass, _Northwick_, mr. Aaron Fisher, _Westhampton_, - mr. Edmund Lazell, _Cummington_ and _Plainfield_, capt. Thomas - Maxwell, _Buckland_, mr. Elihu Colton, _Longmeadow_, Joshua - Thomas, esq. mr. Thomas Davis, mr. John Davis, _Plymouth_, hon. - William Cushing, hon. Nathan Cushing, hon. Charles Turner, - _Scituate_, hon. George Partridge, _Duxbury_, rev. William Shaw, - _Marshfield_, Daniel Howard, esq. mr. Hezekiah Hooper, capt. - Elisha Mitchel, mr. Daniel Howard, jun. _Bridgewater_, rev. - Isaac Backus, Isaac Thompson, esq. _Middleboro'_, capt. John - Turner, mr. Josiah Smith, _Pembroke_, William Sever, jun. esq. - _Kingston_, hon. Joseph Cushing, _Hanover_, rev. Samuel Niles, - _Abington_, mr. Freeman Waterman, _Halifax_, col. Israel Fearing, - _Wareham_, Shearjashaub Bourn, esq. _Barnstable_, David Thacher, - esq. capt. Jonathan Howes, _Yarmouth_, hon. Solomon Freeman, - capt. Kimball Clark, _Harwich_, rev. Levi Whitman, _Wellfleet_, - capt. Joseph Palmer, _Falmouth_, James Williams, esq. _Taunton_, - hon. Elisha May, capt. Moses Willmarth, _Attleboro'_, col. - Sylvester Richmond, hon. William Baylies, _Dighton_, hon. Thomas - Durfee, Israel Washburne, esq. _Freetown_, hon. Walter Spooner, - rev. Samuel West, _New Bedford_, mr. William Almy, _Westport_, - Nathaniel Barrel, esq. _York_, rev. Moses Hemmenway, hon. - Nathaniel Wells, _Wells_, Thomas Cutts, esq. _Pepperelboro'_, - Jacob Bradbury, esq. _Buxton_, capt. John Low, _Coxhall_, mr. - William Mayhew, _Edgartown_, mr. Cornelius Dunham, _Tisbury_, - hon. John Sprague, _Lancaster_, capt. Seth Newton, _Southboro'_, - hon. Samuel Baker, _Bolton_, major David Wilder, _Leominster_, - mr. Matthew Patrick, _Western_, mr. Josiah Goddard, _Athol_, - capt. Ephraim Wilder, _Sterling_, John K. Smith, esq. _Falmouth_, - mr. John Fox, capt. Joseph M'Lellan, _Portland_, David Mitchell, - esq. Samuel Merrill, esq. _North Yarmouth_, William Thompson, - esq. _Scarboro'_, capt. John Dunlap, _Brunswick_, capt. Isaac - Snow, _Harpswell_, mr. Joshua Dyer, _Cape Elisabeth_, rev. - Samuel Perley, _Gray_, Thomas Rice, esq. mr. David Sylvester, - _Pownalboro'_, mr. Nathaniel Wyman, _Georgetown_, mr. David - Gilmore, _Woolwich_, William M'Cobb, esq. _Boothbay_, capt. - Samuel Grant, _Vassalboro'_, Moses Davis, esq. _Edgecomb_, - David Fales, esq. _Thomaston_, Dummer Sewall, esq. _Bath_, John - Ashley, jun. esq. _Sheffield_ and _Mount Washington_, hon. Elijah - Dwight, _Great Barrington_, hon. T. Sedgwick, _Stockbridge_, hon. - Jonathan Smith, _Lanesboro'_, hon. T. J. Skinner, _Williamstown_, - mr. Elisha Carpenter, _Becket_, capt. D. Taylor, _New Marlboro'._ - TOTAL _Yeas_ 187. - - -NAYS. - - Capt. Jedediah Southworth, _Stoughton_, mr. Nathan Comstock, - _Wrentham_, mr. Benjamin Randall, _Sharon_, mr. M. Richardson, - jun. _Medway_, rev. Noah Alden, _Bellingham_, hon. Israel - Hutchinson, _Danvers_, capt. Peter Osgood, jun. dr. Thomas - Kittredge, _Andover_, capt. Thomas Mighill, _Rowley_, hon. - A. Wood, _Boxford_, capt. Ebenezer Carlton, _Methuen_, dr. - Marshall Spring, _Watertown_, capt. Timothy Winn, _Woburn_, - mr. William Flint, mr. Peter Emerson, _Reading_, mr. Jonas - Morse, major Benjamin Sawin, _Marlboro'_, William Thompson, - esq. _Billerica_, col. Benjamin Ely, capt. John Williston, - _West Springfield_, capt. Phinehas Stebbins, _Wilbraham_, Mr. - Daniel Cooley, _Amherst_, Mr. Benjamin Eastman, _Granby_, Mr. - Josiah Allis, _Whately_, mr. William Bodman, _Williamsburg_, mr. - Samuel Field, _Deerfield_, mr. Moses Bascom, _Greenfield_, mr. - Robert Wilson, _Shelburne_, capt. Consider Arms, mr. Malachi - Maynard, _Conway_, capt. Zacheus Crocker, _Sunderland_, mr. - Moses Severance, _Montague_, capt. Asa Fisk, _South Brimfield_, - mr. Phinehas Merrick, _Monson_, mr. Adam Clark, _Pelham_, capt. - Nathaniel Whitcomb, _Greenwich_, mr. Timothy Blair, _Blanford_, - mr. Aaron Mirrick, _Palmer_, mr. John Hamilton, Mr. Clark Cooley, - _Granville_, mr. John Chamberlain, _New Salem_, mr. Justus - Dwight, _Belchertown_, mr. Samuel Eddy, _Colrain_, mr. Isaac - Pepper, _Ware_, capt. John Goldsbury, _Warwick_ and _Orange_, - capt. Agrippa Wells, _Bernardston_, mr. Ephraim Williams, - _Ashfield_, mr. Asa Powers, _Shutesbury_, capt. Silas Fowler, - _Southwick_, mr. John Jennings, _Ludlow_, mr. Jonathan Hubbard, - _Leverett_, mr. Benjamin Thomas, mr. Isaac Soul, _Middleboro'_, - mr. Nathaniel Hammond, mr. Abraham Holmes, _Rochester_, capt. - Francis Shurtliff, mr. Elisha Bisbee, jun. _Plympton_, dr. Thomas - Smith, mr. Thomas Nye, _Sandwich_, col. Nathaniel Leonard, mr. - Aaron Pratt, _Taunton_, capt. Phanuel Bishop, major Frederick - Drown, William Windsor, esq. _Rehoboth_, mr. Christopher Mason, - mr. David Brown, _Swansey_, hon. Holder Slocum, mr. Melatiah - Hathway, _Dartmouth_, hon. Abraham White, _Norton_, capt. - Ebenezer Tisdell, _Easton_, capt. John Pratt, _Mansfield_, - capt. Esaias Preble, _York_, mr. Mark Adams, mr. James Neal, - _Kittery_, capt. Elijah Thayer, dr. Nathaniel Low, mr. Richard - Foxwell Cutts, _Berwick_, mr. Thomas M. Wentworth, _Lebanon_, - major Samuel Nasson, _Sanford_, mr. Moses Ames, _Fryeburg_, Mr. - Jeremiah Emery, _Shapleigh_, rev. Pelatiah Tingley, _Waterboro',_ - mr. David Bigelow, _Worcester_, Edward Thompson, esq. _Mendon_, - major John Minot, _Chelmsford_, capt. Gilbert Dench, _Hopkinton_, - mr. Jonathan Keep, _Westford_, dr. Benjamin Morse, Joseph Sheple, - esq. _Groton_, mr. Obadiah Sawtell, _Shirley_, mr. Daniel Fisk, - _Pepperell_, capt. Daniel Adams, _Townsend_, capt. John Webber, - _Bedford_, capt. Sta. Chamberlain, _Holliston_, mr. Asa Parlin, - _Acton_ and _Carlisle_, capt. J. Harnden, _Wilmington_, mr. - Newman Scarlet, _Tewksbury_, mr. Samuel Reed, _Littleton_, - mr. Benjamin Adams, _Ashby_, major Hezekiah Bread, _Natick_, - capt. Jonathan Green, _Stoneham_, mr. Phinehas Gleason, _East - Sudbury_, mr. Daniel Forbes, mr. N. Jenks, _Brookfield_, capt. - Jeremiah Learned, _Oxford_, mr. Caleb Curtis, Mr. Ezra M'Intier, - _Charlton_, mr. David Harwood, hon. Amos Singletary, _Sutton_, - col. Samuel Denny, _Leicester_, mr. James Hathua, _Spencer_, mr. - Asaph Shermon, _Rutland_, mr. Abraham Smith, _Paxton_, capt. - Jonathan Bullard, _Oakham_, capt. John Black, _Barre_, capt. John - Woods, _Hubbardston_, capt. Benjamin Joslyn, _New Braintree_, - capt. Stephen Maynard, _Westboro'_, mr. Artemas Brigham, - _Northboro'_, capt. Isaac Harrington, _Shrewsbury_, capt. John - Fuller, _Lunenburg_, mr. Daniel Putnam, _Fitchburg_, dr. Samuel - Willard, _Uxbridge_, Josiah Whitney, esq. _Harvard_, mr. Jonathan - Day, _Dudley_, capt. Thomas M. Baker, _Upton_, capt. Timothy - Parker, _Sturbridge_, major Martin Kingsley, _Hardwick_, rev. - Joseph Davis, _Holden_, hon. John Taylor, _Douglass_, dr. Joseph - Wood, _Grafton_, Jonathan Grant, esq. capt. Samuel Peckham, - _Petersham_, John Frye, esq. _Royalston_, mr. Stephen Holden, - _Westminster_, capt. Joel Fletcher, _Templeton_, mr. Timothy - Fuller, _Princeton_, mr. Jacob Willard, _Ashburnham_, mr. Moses - Hale, _Winchendon_, capt. Josiah Wood, _Northbridge_, mr. Joseph - Stone, _Ward_, mr. David Stearns, _Milford_, mr. Jonas Temple, - _Boylston_, Daniel Ilsley, esq. _Falmouth_, mr. S. Longfellow, - jun. _Gorham_, William Widgery, _New Gloucester_, capt. David - Murry, _New Castle_, hon. Samuel Thompson, _Topsham_, mr. Jonah - Crosby, _Winslow_, mr. Zacheus Beal, _Bowdoinham_, William Jones, - esq. _Bristol_, capt. James Carr, _Hallowell_, mr. Joshua Bean, - _Winthrop_, mr. Valentine Rathbun, _Pittsfield_, mr. Comstock - Betts, _Richmond_, mr. Lemuel Collins, _Lenox_, capt. Jeremiah - Pierce, _Adams_, Ephraim Fitch, esq. _Egremont_, major Thomas - Lusk, _West Stockbridge_, mr. John Hurlbert, _Alford_, capt. - Ezekiel Herrick, _Tyrningham_, mr. Joshua Lawton, _Loudon_, mr. - Timothy Mason, _Windsor_, Ebenezer Pierce, esq. _Partridgefield_, - mr. David Vaughan, _Hancock_, capt. Jesse Bradley, _Lee_, mr. - Zenas Noble, _Washington_, mr. John Picket, jun. _Sandisfield._ - TOTAL _Nays_ 168. - -The open, manly and honourable conduct of the gentlemen who -composed the minority, in the great question on Wednesday, taken in -the honourable convention, was very different from the turbulent -opposers of the constitution in Pennsylvania, who, not content with -their declamatory and odious protest against its adoption, are now -endeavouring to involve their country in all the horrours of a civil -war, by exciting tumult and insurrection. On the vote of adoption -being declared, - -Honourable mr. WHITE rose, and said, that notwithstanding he had -opposed the adoption of the constitution, upon the idea that it would -endanger the liberties of his country, yet, as a majority had seen -fit to adopt it, he should use his utmost exertions to induce his -constituents to live in peace under, and cheerfully submit to it. - -He was followed by mr. WIDGERY, who said, that he should return to -his constituents, and inform them, that he had opposed the adoption -of this constitution, but that he had been overruled, and that he had -been carried by a majority of wise and understanding men: that he -should endeavour to sow the seeds of union and peace among the people -he represented--and that he hoped, and believed, that no person would -wish for, or suggest the measure of a PROTEST; for, said he, we must -consider that this body is as full a representation of the people, as -can be conceived.---- After expressing his thanks for the civility -which the inhabitants of this town have shewn to the convention, and -declaring, as his opinion, that they had not in the least influenced -the decision; he concluded by saying he should support, as much as -in him lay, the constitution, and believed, as this state had adopted -it, not only 9, but the whole 13, would come into the measure. - -General WHITNEY said, that though he had been opposed to the -constitution, he should support it as much as if he had voted for it. - -Mr. COOLEY, (_Amherst_) said, that he endeavoured to govern himself -by the principles of reason, that he was directed to vote against -the adoption of the constitution, and that in so doing, he had not -only complied with his direction, but had acted according to the -dictates of his own conscience; but that as it has been agreed to by -a majority, he should endeavour to convince his constituents of the -propriety of its adoption. - -Doctor TAYLOR, also said, he had uniformly opposed the constitution, -that he found himself fairly beat, and expressed his determination to -go home, and endeavour to infuse a spirit of harmony and love, among -the people. - -Other gentlemen expressed their inclination to speak, but it growing -late, the convention adjourned to Thursday morning, at ten o'clock. - -_Let this be told to the honour of Massachusetts; to the reputation -of her citizens, as men willing to acquiesce in that republican -principle, of submitting to the decision of a majority._ - -Yesterday, A. M. the Convention met, according to adjournment, when -a vote was passed for proceeding in procession to the state-house, -and there to declare the ratification of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, -which that honourable body, on Wednesday last, by a majority of -NINETEEN assented to, in behalf of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. -About 12 o'clock, the procession moved from their place of session, -preceded by the honourable vice-president of the Convention. His -excellency the president being seated in an elegant vehicle, was -drawn by THIRTEEN patriotick and publick spirited MECHANICKS, who -thus expressed their love and respect for a man who ever loved and -respected his country. - -The procession having arrived at the state-house, entered the -senate-chamber, from which his excellency the president, the -vice-president, secretary, high-sheriff of the county of Suffolk, -and other respectable characters, went out upon the balcony of the -state-house, from whence his excellency the president addressed the -multitude who had assembled below, in a short speech, preparatory to -what they were about to hear declared. The high-sheriff then declared -the federal constitution adopted and ratified by the Convention of -the commonwealth of Massachusetts. - -After which the whole assembly testified their approbation by the -loudest huzzas. - -An elegant repast being provided for the occasion in the -senate-chamber, the Convention, and a great number of other -gentlemen, partook thereof, and exhibited such marks of satisfaction, -as fully evinced, that this joyful event would tend to give vigour -and energy to our future continental administrations. After dinner -the following toasts were drank, viz. - -1. His excellency the president and convention of Massachusetts. - -2. The president and members of the late continental convention. - -3. The states that have adopted the federal constitution. - -4. A speedy accession to the union by those states who are yet to -deliberate upon the proposed constitution. - -5. May the same candour, and liberality, which has so conspicuously -distinguished the minority of Massachusetts, prevail thro' every -state in the union. - -6. May the United States of America be as distinguished for their -increase in agriculture, arts and manufactures, as they are for their -attachment to justice and the liberties of mankind. - -7. The great and magnanimous ally of the United States of -America--his most Christian majesty. - -8. The United Netherlands. - -9. May the States of America be the asylum of every distressed son of -liberty, throughout the world. - -10. May the flag of American commerce be displayed in every quarter -of the globe. - -11. May the landholders of America soon experience the happy effects -intended by the proposed constitution. - -12. May the nations of the world, who would be our rivals in trade, -soon find their disappointment in the energy of our councils. - -13. May peace, liberty, and safety, be the perpetual birthright of an -American. - -It seems that the joy which the adoption of the proposed constitution -has diffused, is not only general, but sincere and grateful.--The -rising sun of yesterday's morn, by its brightness and refulgent -beams, seemed to break forth, from the dusky horizon, with uncommon -grandeur, partaking, as it were, of the joy in which an event so -propitious immersed the souls of the people. The bells of all the -churches, &c. in town, began ringing at early dawn, and continued, -most of them without intermission, thro' the day, and part of last -evening. - -The hardy sons of Neptune, seemed not to be insensible of the -importance of this great event; for having procured a boat, which -they fixed on a sled, they continued to draw it through the town till -near the close of the day, frequently huzzaing, and loudly exulting -in the anticipation of reviving and flourishing commerce. In the boat -was displayed the flag of the United States, and musick, which kept -continually playing. - -In a cart, drawn by five horses, the British flag was displayed, -and insulted by numbers placed in the cart, armed with muskets, who -repeatedly discharged the contents of them through the tattered -remnant, in contempt of that faithless nation, whose exertions have -been unremitted since the peace, to cramp our commerce and obstruct -all our nautical proceedings. - -Repeated marks of joy were exhibited during the course of the day by -the lovers and well wishers of our country, but we believe none will -exceed the exhibition which is to take place this day, as will appear -by the following - - -NOTICE - -TO THE TRADESMEN. - -THE COMMITTEE of MECHANICKS appointed at their meeting the 7th. ult. -present their compliments to the several TRADESMEN, MECHANICKS, and -ARTIZANS of every description in the town of Boston, and request -their attendance at Faneuil Hall, this morning, at NINE o'clock, in -order to form and proceed in GRAND PROCESSION therefrom, to testify -their approbation of the ratification of the Federal Constitution, by -the Convention of this commonwealth the 6th instant. - -They recommend that the procession be formed as follows--First, -a plough, drawn by a horse, with husbandmen carrying proper -utensils--Then the tradesmen, &c. of the town, each with some tool, -decorated; to proceed by trades; each trade with one person at its -head. With the ship-builders, &c. will be a boat, drawn by horses, -properly manned. They request that the procession may be as full as -possible; that the several drummers, fifers, and other musicians in -the town, will join the procession, with their instruments. - -The rout of the procession will be mentioned at the Hall. - -Boston, February 7, 1788. - - - - -LETTER OF CHIEF-JUSTICE SARGEANT OF MASSACHUSETTS. - - [The following are extracts from a letter of Judge Sargeant to - the Hon. Joseph Badger of Gilmanton, N. H., who was a Delegate - to the Convention of that state for the adoption of the Federal - Constitution.] - - - I make no doubt but you have carefully compared y^e old - confederation with y^e new constitution and I wish you to review - them again. Can there be such a thing as Government without - Power? What is advice, recommendation, or requisition? It is not - Government.--Congress has a right to raise an army, to make war - and Peace, of entering into Treaties and alliances to borrow - money and appropriate y^e same--to ascertain y^e sums necessary - to be raised for y^e Service of y^e United States--to emit bills - of credit--to build and equip a navy, and to make requisitions - on y^e states for their quota of men, to Cloath, arm and equip - them. But who will lend Congress Money when they have not Power - to raise a Single Shilling to repay them? Who will take their - bills of Credit when every Body knows they can never redeem them? - Who will enlist into their army when Congress has no money to - pay them a Bounty or their wages or find them in Provisions? Who - will build and equip a navy for them without money? Who will - trouble themselves about Congress' making war or Peace when they - can't command a Shilling to support a war? To what Purpose is - it to appropriate money when they can't get it?--What end does - it answer for other nations to make treaties and alliances with - Congress when any one State by its obstinacy, fraud or some - Paltry private interest may defeat y^e treaty or by main force - break through it? - - What good end will be answered by ascertaining y^e Sums necessary - to be raised when thirteen independent Legislatures are to judge - whether those sums are necessary or not and whether they will - raise them or not and if one State won't raise their quota, y^e - other states are more than foolish, they are distracted if they - raise theirs.--What effect will a requisition on y^e states - for raising, cloathing, arming, and equipping their quotas of - men have, when y^e 13 Legislatures are left to judge of y^e - expediency, or necessity of this equipment, whether they are - not charged above their proportion--whether it won't do as well - sometime hence? What security is it possible to have under such a - Government? A Government without energy, without power. Zeal and - enthusiasm carried us thro' y^e last war without any Government - till March 1781, when y^e Confederation was compleated and then - we hobbled along 21 months longer under it until peace took - place, and since y^e Peace, Requisitions from Congress have had - no more effect than y^e Pope's bulls wou'd have had. The old - Confederation is just y^e same to y^e United States as a people, - as a milk and water diet wou'd be to a labouring man, both wou'd - grow weaker and weaker till they were not able to crawl. Nothing - ever gave us any respectability abroad but y^e readiness and - chearfulness with which we complied with all y^e recommendations - of Congress when we had no Government at all. That enabled us - to form treaties with other nations, to hire money, and their - hatred to Great Britain engaged them to join in y^e war against - her. The nations in Europe discovered this weakness long before - we did. Great Britain for 5 years has refused to make any Treaty - of commerce with us, has shut all her Ports against our shipping, - while our Ports are filled with their shipping and seamen and - are picking up our seamen for their employ--they bring their - Produce and manufactures to us to buy but won't let us carry - our own to them. They have embarrass'd our commerce with other - nations by setting y^e Algerines upon our shipping and thereby - obliged us to give 5 per Cent. to them for insurance against the - Algerines--all this while we have not had y^e power to retalliate - upon them in one Single Article. The other Powers viz: France, - Holland, Spain and Portugal have now taken y^e hint and are - imposing duties upon our Produce and Manufactures to y^e great - encouragement of their own and discouragement of ours, and we - can't make any Regulations to counterwork them. Massachusetts - some years ago took y^e lead and made some very advantageous - Regulations. New Hampshire followed, and Rhode Island adopted a - small part. Soon y^e People in New Hampshire grew restive and - obliged y^e Government to repeal y^e same. Rhode Island followed - and Massachusetts was obliged to follow them, so that you see - what a rope of sand we are. This conduct of y^e European nations - will in time, if it produces good Government, prove of eminent - advantage to us. They drained us of almost all our Cash. This put - People upon being industrious and frugal. Industry has occasioned - great improvements in agriculture and in manufactures. The first - has rendered Provisions plenty and so cheap that we sell them - to almost all nations. The latter has supplied us with many - necessaries which we used to send cash for, and we remitted to - other nations pay for what necessaries we wanted. Frugality has - prevented us from sending our Cash abroad for many Superfluities - which we can do as well or perhaps better without; so that now it - is an undoubted fact that y^e exports from America greatly exceed - y^e imports; consequently Cash may now become as plenty as it - wou'd be best it shou'd be. - - The old Confederation without Power or Energy destroyed y^e - Credit of y^e United States. The scarcity of Cash, and y^e - embarrassments of y^e Government, for want of some fixed - System of finance has destroyed y^e credit of y^e individual - States--different Tender acts in different States, different - sorts of paper money in different States, (for almost all y^e - States have either paper money or tender acts,) have destroyed - private Credit; so that we are now as a people and as individuals - totally without either public or private Credit. Under these - circumstances money never can circulate in plenty, let y^e - advantages for importing it be what they may-- - - Is it now possible for a Government, under these disadvantages, - whether it be continental or particular, to support itself any - length of time? Will not private industry be discouraged? Can - such a Government protect y^e industrious from y^e hands of - invaders or y^e more savage hands of violence among ourselves? - Anarchy will soon rear its head and y^e Tyranny of some ambitious - Demagogue will soon tread on its heels. Suppose for a moment y^e - General Court of New Hampshire or Massachusetts were to agree - that such a sum of money was necessary to be raised for y^e - building and maintaining of a colledge for supporting schools - in different Parts, for supporting ministers, for encouraging - y^e Iron manufactory, y^e manufactory of cloath, for repairing - y^e highways, for training and disciplining y^e militia, and - procuring a stock of guns and ammunition and building forts for - y^e defence of y^e State and then send a recommendation to y^e - several towns desiring them to raise their quota of that sum, - being so much. - - Wou'd not this be a laughable way of raising money for y^e public - exigences? One town wou'd say there was no need of building - a Colledge; others wou'd say there is no need of Schools or - ministers; let them that work Iron and cloath get their own pay; - our highways will do well enough without repairs; y^e militia - are good gunners already, there is no need of forts, and there - is no war at hand, and we can do without Guns and ammunition a - little longer; besides all they have rated our town too high. - Wou'd not this be y^e common language? A precious little money - wou'd be raised, I trow. Let me ask, if y^e People in our town - meetings are competent Judges of y^e necessity and advantage of - raising money for these purposes? You will instantly answer me, - no not one in six. Can they have large and extensive views of - y^e interest, of y^e essential and important interests of y^e - whole state? No, perhaps, not one, thô many of them when they - had met with other persons from all parts of y^e state, and had - freely conversed with them might be good Judges afterwards. How - absurd and impolitic then is it to trust y^e great affairs and - interests of a continent, 1500 miles long and 1000 miles wide to - y^e determination of 2600 men deputed from some little spots of - 6 miles square y^e greatest part of whom never went further than - y^e next market town perhaps, or at y^e outside to y^e shire town - of y^e state and never expects to go again after his year is up, - or if he does, it is only to get his 3_s._ 6_d._ a day without - labour or at y^e most to have y^e honour of saving a small Tax - upon his own town--and these men are not to meet altogether where - they might, if disposed, get y^e necessary information to form a - Judgment by,--but in thirteen different places where they have - different interests, different leaders and different information. - How much more ridiculous is it then, that all these men are to - determine of y^e necessity of Peace or War--of y^e sums of Money - necessary to be raised, of y^e best and easiest mode of raising - it thro' all y^e states, regulating y^e value of money thro' all - y^e states, of defining and punishing Piracies and felonies on - y^e high seas and of Offences against y^e law of nations--when - it is necessary and proper to grant Letters of Marque and - reprisal--what are y^e rights and duties of Ambassadors, Consuls - and public ministers, what are proper rules respecting captures - where other nations are concerned with us in y^e capture or are - interested in y^e vessel captured, what regulations of Trade may - be carried into effect in other nations so as not to injure our - own commerce. These and a thousand other matters respecting our - intercourse with other nations and other great national concerns, - must be determined by some Body of men with decision and be - carried into effect too. How preposterous is it then for us to - think of going on under y^e old Confederation where y^e several - states or some of them wou'd hiss any Law that might be proposed - on those matters out of Doors. - - Now let us consider y^e new Constitution. Are there any - objects, of Legislation in this, which were not left to y^e - decision of Congress under y^e old Articles? Very few, save - that of Regulating commerce with foreign nations for want of - which we have suffered enough already--also to form a rule - for naturalization Laws about Bankruptcies--fix y^e standard - of weights and measures--to promote y^e progress of arts - and Sciences--to prevent counterfeiting y^e Securities and - current coin of y^e states, to provide for organizing, arming, - disciplining and calling forth y^e militia on necessary - occasions; to exercise exclusive Jurisdiction over 10 miles - square of land where Congress may sit, if so much is ceded to - them by any state to their satisfaction and such other places - where continental arsenals are kept. Our People are taught y^e - necessity of this provision for if a man of less penetration - and decision had been in y^e chair y^e year before last--they - would have lost their most useful and costly magazine. Is it not - reasonable that these matters shou'd be done with uniformity - thro' y^e states? Can these great objects ever be accomplished - without making laws to bind all persons in y^e Jurisdiction? - Who are to make those Laws but y^e Representatives chosen - by y^e People at large every two years, and where an equal - representation is provided for, and a Senate chosen by y^e state - Legislatures, one third of which are to be chosen every two - years. When Laws are made they are nonsensical unless they can - be carried into execution; therefore it is necessary somebody - shou'd have a Power of determining when they are broken, and to - decree y^e forfieture in consequence of such breach. This shows - y^e necessity of y^e Judicial Power--and an executive with y^e - necessary officers are requisite for carrying those decrees into - execution--and without all this y^e whole parade of making laws - wou'd be idle. - - That these parts, y^e Judicial and executive, shou'd be - appointed by congress is necessary in order that y^e proceedings - may be uniform and to prevent one state from conniving at or - disregarding y^e laws made for y^e benefit of y^e whole. If they - are to raise money they must have officers to collect it. These - must be appointed by Congress or such men will be appointed by - particular states as will shew y^e most favour--and look thro' - y^e whole, I believe you will not find a Single Power given but - what would maim y^e constitution if it was left out. Perhaps it - may be said this will be an expensive Government. The Legislative - will not be more expensive, if so much, as y^e present congress - for after they have got matters a going properly, they may - be at home half their time. The other officers must be paid - it is true, but when we consider y^e advantages of a steady - uniform Government with proper energy, I believe we shall find - y^e Benefits purchased at a cheap rate. Perhaps some may say - that this annihilates our own state Governments, and our own - Legislatures will have nothing to do; but y^e Laws respecting - criminal offenders in all cases, except Treason, are subjects - for Legislation. We may increase, lessen, or change punishments - for crimes as we think best, and make any act criminal or pœnal - as far as Law can make it so at our pleasure. The regulating - Towns, parishes, Providing ministers, schools, looking after - Poor persons, punishing Idlers, vagabonds &c. &c. regulating - Highways, bridges, fisheries, common fields &c. are also matters - pertaining to y^e General court--but above all y^e great rules - for regulating inheritances, descent of estates, Partition of - them, last wills and Testaments, executors, Administrators, and - Guardians are subjects for our own Legislation--y^e appointment - of all courts, and y^e rules of Proceeding in them and of - determining all controversies between our own citizens, Rules - of Legitimacy, marriage and divorce and in fine all matters not - expressly given to congress are still to be the subjects of our - own Legislation to be carried into Effect by our own courts and - officers. Over what things does y^e constitution give congress - a Power only those of great national concern, which require a - large comprehensive view and which, Heaven knows, our Houses of - R-p-s-t-tives were never capable of comprehending or of judging - whether they were acting right or wrong.--I write very freely to - you, without any reserve. Y^e regard I have for my Children, my - Kinsmen, my friends, my Neighbours, Posterity and my country, - makes me bless God that those objects are likely for ever to - be taken out of such hands, two thirds of whom were never from - their fire side before, and never comprehended in their view more - than their own farms and their own little private interest. I - cou'd write a volume on this subject, but thus much must suffice - for y^e present. I believe you are tired now as well as your - affectionate - - Kinsman and sincere friend and Serv^t - NATH'L PEASLEE SARGEANT. - - - - -A COMPLETE LIST OF THE MINISTERS OF BOSTON OF ALL DENOMINATIONS, FROM -1630 TO 1842, ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF THEIR SETTLEMENT. - -BY JAMES C. ODIORNE, M. A. - -(Continued from page 136.) - - - TABLE LEGEND: (Part 1 of 2) - A = _Order of Settlement._ - B = _Names of Ministers._ - C = _Denomination._ - D = _Churches._ - E = _Graduated._ - - -----+-----------------------+-------+---------------+----------- - A | B | C | D | E - -----+-----------------------+-------+---------------+----------- - 91 |David Annan |Pres. |Federal St. |Scotland - 92 {|Claudius Florent |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross| - {| Bouchard de La Poterie| | | - 93 |Peter Thacher |Cong. |Brattle St. |Harv., 1769 - 94 |Jeremy Belknap, D. D. |Cong. |Federal St. |Harv., 1762 - 95 |William Montague |Epis. |Christ Chh. |Dart., 1784 - 96 |Thomas Gair |Bapt. |2nd Bapt. |Brown, 1777 - 97 |Samuel West, D. D. |Cong. |Hollis St. |Harv., 1761 - 98 |Louis de Rousselet |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross| - 99 |John Thayer |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross| - 100 |Thomas Baldwin, D. D. |Bapt. |2nd Bapt. |---- ---- - 101 |Jesse Lee |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 102 |Daniel Smith |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 103 {|John Sylvester John |Epis. |Trinity Chh. | - {| Gardiner, D. D. | | | - 104 |William Walter, D. D. |Epis. |Christ Chh. |Harv., 1756 - 105 {|Francis Anthony |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross| - {| Matignon, D. D. | | | - 106 |Jeremiah Cosden |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 107 |Amos G. Thompson |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 108 {|John Thornton Kirkland,|Cong. |New South |Harv., 1789 - {| D. D., LL.D. | | | - 109 |Christopher Spry |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 110 |Evan Rogers |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 111 |John Harper |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 112 |Joshua Hale |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 113 |George Pickering |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 114 {|John de Cheverus, D. D.|Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross|Coll. Louis - {| | | | Le Grand, - {| | | |Paris, 1786 - 115 |Elias Hull |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 116 |Daniel Ostander |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 117 |William Beauchamp |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 118 {|John Snelling Popkin, |Cong. |Federal St. |Harv., 1792 - {| D. D. | | | - 119 |William Emerson |Cong. |1st. Chh. |Harv., 1789 - 120 |Joshua Wells |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 121 |Thomas F. Sargent |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 122 |George Pickering |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 123 |Samuel Haskell |Epis. |Christ Chh. |Yale, 1790? - 124 |Thomas Lyall |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 125 {|William Ellery |Cong. |Federal St. |Harv., 1798 - {| Channing, D. D. | | | - 126 |Epaphras Kibby |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 127 {|Joseph Stephens |Cong. |Brattle St. |Harv., 1800 - {| Buckminster, | | | - 128 |Asa Eaton, D. D. |Epis. |Christ Chh. |Harv., 1803 - 129 |Peter Jayne |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 130 |Reuben Hubbard |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 131 |Charles Lowell, D. D. |Cong. |West Chh. |Harv., 1800 - 132 |Samuel Merwin |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 133 |Thomas Paul |Bapt. |African Bapt. | - 134 |Daniel Webb |Meth. |2nd Meth. | - 135 {|Joseph Clay |Bapt. |1st Bapt. |Coll. N.J., - {| | | | 1784 - 136 |Caleb Blood |Bapt. |3d Bapt. | - 137 |Joshua Huntington |Cong. |Old South |Yale, 1804 - 138 |Martin Ruter, D. D. |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 139 |Elijah R. Sabin |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 140 |Phillip Munger |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ---- - 141 |Samuel Cary |Unit. |King's Chapel |Harv., 1804 - 142 |Horace Holley, LL.D. |Cong. |Hollis St. |Yale, 1803 - 143 |Greenlief Norris |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ---- - 144 |Edward Mitchell |Univ. |1st Univ. |---- ---- - 145 |Samuel Cooper Thacher |Cong. |New South |Harv., 1804 - 146 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 147 |Erastus Otis |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ---- - 148 {|Edward Dorr Griffin, |Cong. |Park St. |Yale, 1790 - {| D. D. | | | - 149 |Daniel Sharp, D. D. |Bapt. |3d Bapt. |---- ---- - 150 |Paul Dean |Univ. |1st Univ. |---- ---- - 151 |William Stephens |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 152 |William Hinman |Meth. |1st and 2nd |---- ---- - | | | Meth. | - 153 |John Lovejoy Abbot |Cong. |1st Chh. |Harv., 1805 - 154 |Francis Parkman, D. D. |Cong. |New North |Harv., 1807 - 155 |Edward Everett, LL.D. |Cong. |Brattle St. |Harv., 1811 - 156 |Joseph A. Merrill |Meth. |1st and 2nd |---- ---- - | | | Meth. | - 157 |James Manning Winchell |Bapt. |1st Bapt. |Brown, 1812 - 158 |George Pickering |Meth. |1st and 2nd |---- ---- - | | | Meth. | - 159 {|Nathaniel Langdon |Cong. |1st Chh. |Harv., 1811 - {| Frothingham, D. D. | | | - 160 |Daniel Filmore |Meth. |1st and 2nd |---- ---- - | | | Meth. | - 161 |Henry Ware, Jun., D. D.|Cong. |2nd Chh. |Harv., 1812 - 162 {|Sereno Edwards Dwight, |Cong. |Park St. |Yale, 1803 - {| D. D. | | | - 163 |Timothy Merritt |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 164 |Enoch Mudge |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ---- - 165 |Hosea Ballou |Univ. |2nd Univ. |---- ---- - 166 |Phillip Larisey |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross| - 167 {|John Gorham Palfrey, |Cong. |Brattle St. |Harv., 1815 - {| D. D., LL.D. | | | - 168 |Samuel Snowden |Meth. |African Meth. |---- ---- - 169 {|Francis William Pitt |Cong. |New South |Harv., 1814 - {| Greenwood, D. D. | | | - 170 {|James Sabine |Cong. |Essex St. |England - {| | | | - {| | | | - {| | | | - {| | | | - 171 |John Pierpont |Cong. |Hollis St. |Yale, 1804 - 172 |Benjamin R. Hoyt |Meth. |1st Meth. | - 173 |V. R. Osborn |Meth. |2nd Meth. | - 174 |Simon Clough |Christ.|1st Christ. |---- ---- - 175 |Patrick Byrne. |Cath. |Chh. Holy | - | Assistant | | Cross | - 176 |D. Kilburn |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ---- - 177 {|Samuel Farmar Jarvis, |Epis. |St. Paul's |Yale, 1805 - {| D. D., LL.D. | | | - 178 {|Benjamin Blydenburg |Cong. |Old South |Union, 1813 - {| Wisner, D. D. | | | - 179 |William Taylor, D. D. |Cath. |Chh. Holy | - | | | Cross | - 180 |Shipley W. Willson |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 181 |Ephraim Wiley |Meth. |2nd Meth. | - 182 |Francis Wayland, D. D. |Bapt. |1st Bapt. |Union, 1813 - 183 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 184 |Samuel Green |Cong. |Essex St. |Harv., 1816 - 185 |Paul Dean |Univ. |Bulfinch St. |---- ---- - 186 |John Lindsey |Meth. |1st Meth. | - 187 {|James Sabine |Pres. |Church St. |England - {| | | | - 188 |Prince Hawes |Cong. |Phillips | - 189 |Sebastian Streeter |Univ. |1st Univ. | - 190 |Solomon Sias |Meth. |1st Meth. | - 191 |Isaac Bonney |Meth. |2nd Meth. | - 192 {|Ezra Stiles Gannett, |Cong. |Federal St. |Harv., 1820 - {| D. D. | | | - 193 |John Lauris Blake, D.D.|Epis. |St. Matthews |Brown, 1812 - 194 {|Francis William Pitt |Unit. |King's Chapel |Harv., 1814 - {| Greenwood, D. D. | | | - 195 |Alexander Young, D. D. |Cong. |New South |Harv., 1820 - 196 |Samuel Barrett |Cong. |Chambers St. |Harv., 1818 - 197 {|Benedict Fenwick, D. D.|Cath. |Chh. Holy |Georget'n, - {| | | Cross | D.C. - 198 |Aaron D. Sargent |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ---- - 199 |Timothy Merritt |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ---- - 200 {|James Davis Knowles |Bapt. |2nd Bapt. |Col'b. D.C. - {| | | | 1824 - 201 {|Charles Mortgridge |Christ.|1st Christ. |---- ---- - {| | | | - 202 |James Lee |Meth. |Indep. Meth. |---- ---- - | | | Afr. | - 203 |Lyman Beecher, D. D. |Cong. |Bowdoin St. |Yale, 1797 - -(To be concluded.) - - - TABLE LEGEND: (Part 2 of 2) - A = _Order of Settlement._ - B = _Names of Ministers._ - F = _Settled._ - G = _Died or Resigned._ - - -----+-----------------------+----------------------+-------------------- - A | B | F | G - -----+-----------------------+----------------------+-------------------- - 91 |David Annan |Inst. 1783|Dism. 1786 - 92 {|Claudius Florent |Com. 1784|Left - {| Bouchard de La Poterie| | - 93 |Peter Thacher |Inst. Jan. 12, 1785|Died Dec. 16, 1802 - 94 |Jeremy Belknap, D. D. |Inst. April 4, 1787|Died June 20, 1798 - 95 |William Montague |Induct. June 1787|Left May, 1790 - 96 |Thomas Gair |Inst. April 23, 1788|Died April 27, 1790 - 97 |Samuel West, D. D. |Inst. March 12, 1789|Died April 10, 1808 - 98 |Louis de Rousselet | | - 99 |John Thayer |Com. June 10, 1790| - 100 |Thomas Baldwin, D. D. |Inst. Nov. 11, 1790|Died Aug. 29, 1825 - 101 |Jesse Lee |App. 1790|Left 1791 - 102 |Daniel Smith |App. 1791|Left 1792 - 103 {|John Sylvester John |Induct. April 22, 1792|Died July 29, 1830 - {| Gardiner, D. D. | | - 104 |William Walter, D. D. |Induct. May 28, 1792|Died Dec. 5, 1800 - 105 {|Francis Anthony |Com. Aug. 20, 1792| Sept. 19, 1818 - {| Matignon, D. D. | | - 106 |Jeremiah Cosden |App. 1792|Left 1793 - 107 |Amos G. Thompson |App. 1793|Left 1794 - 108 {|John Thornton Kirkland,|Ord. Feb. 5, 1794|Dism. Nov. 4, 1810 - {| D. D., LL.D. | | - 109 |Christopher Spry |App. 1794|Left 1795 - 110 |Evan Rogers |App. 1795|Left 1796 - 111 |John Harper |App. 1795|Left 1796 - 112 |Joshua Hale |App. 1796|Left 1797 - 113 |George Pickering |App. 1796|Left 1797 - 114 {|John de Cheverus, D. D.|Com. Oct. 3, 1796|Left Sept. 26, 1823 - {| | | - {| | | - 115 |Elias Hull |App. 1797|Left 1798 - 116 |Daniel Ostander |App. 1797|Left 1798 - 117 |William Beauchamp |App. 1798|Left 1799 - 118 {|John Snelling Popkin, |Ord. July 10, 1799|Dism. Nov. 28, 1802 - {| D. D. | | - 119 |William Emerson |Inst. Oct. 16, 1799|Died May 12, 1811 - 120 |Joshua Wells |App. 1799|Left 1800 - 121 |Thomas F. Sargent |App. 1800|Left 1801 - 122 |George Pickering |App. 1801|Left 1802 - 123 |Samuel Haskell |Induct. May, 1801|Dism. Sept. 1803 - 124 |Thomas Lyall |App. 1802|Left 1804 - 125 {|William Ellery |Ord. June 1, 1803|Died Oct. 2, 1842 - {| Channing, D. D. | | - 126 |Epaphras Kibby |App. 1803|Left 1805 - 127 {|Joseph Stephens |Ord. Jan. 30, 1805|Died June 9, 1812 - {| Buckminster, | | - 128 |Asa Eaton, D. D. |Induct. Oct. 23, 1805|Dism. May, 1829 - 129 |Peter Jayne |App. 1805|Left 1807 - 130 |Reuben Hubbard |App. 1805|Left 1806 - 131 |Charles Lowell, D. D. |Ord. Jan. 1, 1806| - 132 |Samuel Merwin |App. 1806|Left 1807 - 133 |Thomas Paul |Ord. Dec. 4, 1806|Died April 13, 1831 - 134 |Daniel Webb |App. 1807|Left 1809 - 135 {|Joseph Clay | Aug. 19, 1807|Dism. Oct. 27, 1811 - {| | | - 136 |Caleb Blood | Oct. 5, 1807| June 5, 1810 - 137 |Joshua Huntington |Ord. May 18, 1808|Died Sept. 11, 1819 - 138 |Martin Ruter, D. D. |App. 1808|Left 1809 - 139 |Elijah R. Sabin |App. 1809|Left 1811 - 140 |Phillip Munger |App. 1809|Left 1810 - 141 |Samuel Cary |Induct. Jan. 1, 1809|Died Oct. 22, 1815 - 142 |Horace Holley, LL.D. |Inst. March 9, 1809|Dism. Aug. 24, 1818 - 143 |Greenlief Norris |App. 1810|Left 1811 - 144 |Edward Mitchell |Inst. Sept. 12, 1810|Dism. Oct. 6, 1811 - 145 |Samuel Cooper Thacher |Ord. May 15, 1811|Died Jan. 2, 1818 - 146 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |App. 1811|Left 1812 - 147 |Erastus Otis |App. 1811|Left 1812 - 148 {|Edward Dorr Griffin, |Inst. July 31, 1811|Dism. April 27, 1815 - {| D. D. | | - 149 |Daniel Sharp, D. D. |Ord. April 29, 1812| - 150 |Paul Dean |Inst. Aug. 19, 1812|Dism. April 6, 1823 - 151 |William Stephens |App. 1812|Left 1813 - 152 |William Hinman |App. 1812|Left 1813 - | | | - 153 |John Lovejoy Abbot |Ord. July 14, 1813|Died Oct. 17, 1814 - 154 |Francis Parkman, D. D. |Ord. Dec. 8, 1813| - 155 |Edward Everett, LL.D. |Ord. Feb. 9, 1814|Dism. March 5, 1815 - 156 |Joseph A. Merrill |App. 1814|Left 1815 - | | | - 157 |James Manning Winchell |Ord. March 13, 1814|Died Feb. 22, 1820 - 158 |George Pickering |App. 1814|Left 1815 - | | | - 159 {|Nathaniel Langdon |Ord. March 15, 1815| - {| Frothingham, D. D. | | - 160 |Daniel Filmore |App. 1815|Left 1817 - | | | - 161 |Henry Ware, Jun., D. D.|Ord. Jan. 1, 1817|Dism. Oct. 4, 1830 - 162 {|Sereno Edwards Dwight, |Ord. Sept. 3, 1817|Dism. April 10, 1826 - {| D. D. | | - 163 |Timothy Merritt |App. 1817|Left 1818 - 164 |Enoch Mudge |App. 1817|Left 1819 - 165 |Hosea Ballou |Inst. Dec. 25, 1817| - 166 |Phillip Larisey |Com. May, 1818|Left June, 1821 - 167 {|John Gorham Palfrey, |Ord. June 17, 1818|Dism. May 22, 1830 - {| D. D., LL.D. | | - 168 |Samuel Snowden |Inst. Sept. 18, 1818| - 169 {|Francis William Pitt |Ord. Oct. 21, 1818|Dism. Dec. 1820 - {| Greenwood, D. D. | | - 170 {|James Sabine |Inst. Jan. 27, 1819|Withdrew with } - {| | |a majority of } - {| | |the Ch., } 1822 - {| | |March 6. } - {| | |(See 187.) } - 171 |John Pierpont |Ord. April 14, 1819|Dism. May 10, 1845 - 172 |Benjamin R. Hoyt |App. 1819|Left 1821 - 173 |V. R. Osborn |App. 1819|Left 1820 - 174 |Simon Clough | 1819|Left 1824 - 175 |Patrick Byrne. |Com. March 18, 1820|Left July 11, 1830 - | Assistant | | - 176 |D. Kilburn |App. June, 1820|Left 1821 - 177 {|Samuel Farmar Jarvis, |Induct. July 7, 1820|Dism. Aug. 22, 1825 - {| D. D., LL.D. | | - 178 {|Benjamin Blydenburg |Ord. Feb. 21, 1821|Dism. Nov. 12, 1832 - {| Wisner, D. D. | | - 179 |William Taylor, D. D. | April, 1821|Left Dec. 17, 1825 - | | | Cross | | - 180 |Shipley W. Willson |App. June, 1821|Left 1822 - 181 |Ephraim Wiley |App. June, 1821|Left 1823 - 182 |Francis Wayland, D. D. |Ord. Aug. 22, 1821|Dism. Sept. 10, 1826 - 183 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |App. June, 1822| - 184 |Samuel Green |Inst. March 26, 1823|Dism. Mar. 26, 1834 - 185 |Paul Dean | May 7, 1823|Dism. May 3, 1840 - 186 |John Lindsey |App. June, 1823|Left 1824 - 187 {|James Sabine |Inst. Nov. 26. 1823|Epis. June, 1829, - {| | | (See 170.) - 188 |Prince Hawes |Inst. April 28, 1824|Dism. April 18, 1827 - 189 |Sebastian Streeter | May 13, 1824| - 190 |Solomon Sias |App. June, 1824|Left 1825 - 191 |Isaac Bonney |App. June, 1824|Left 1826 - 192 {|Ezra Stiles Gannett, |Ord. June 30, 1824| - {| D. D. | | - 193 |John Lauris Blake, D.D.|Induct. July 18, 1824|Left June 24, 1832 - 194 {|Francis William Pitt |Induct. Aug. 29, 1824|Died Aug. 2, 1843 - {| Greenwood, D. D. | | - 195 |Alexander Young, D. D. |Ord. Jan. 19, 1825| - 196 |Samuel Barrett |Ord. Feb. 9, 1825| - 197 {|Benedict Fenwick, D. D.| May 10, 1825|Died Aug. 11, 1846 - {| | | - 198 |Aaron D. Sargent |App. June, 1825|Left 1826 - 199 |Timothy Merritt |App. June, 1825|Left 1827 - 200 {|James Davis Knowles |Ord. Dec. 28, 1825|Dism. Oct. 7, 1832 - {| | | - 201 {|Charles Mortgridge |Rec. as Pas. |Left Jan. 1, 1827 - {| | Jan. 1, 1826| - 202 |James Lee |Ord. March 18, 1826|Left ---- 1828 - | | | - 203 |Lyman Beecher, D. D. |Inst. March 22, 1826|Dism. Sept. 26, 1832 - -(To be concluded.) - - - - -COMPLETE LIST OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS IN THE EASTERN PART OF -ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, FROM ITS SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT -TIME; TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON THE MINISTERS AND CHURCHES. - -BY THE REV. JONATHAN FRENCH OF NORTH HAMPTON. - -(Continued from page 157.) - - - (Part 1 of 2) - ------------------+--------------------+------------------+------------- - _Towns._ | _Ministers._ | _Native Place._ | _Born._ - | | | - ------------------+--------------------+------------------+------------- - Exeter }|Daniel Rogers |Ipswich, Ms. | 1707 - A New Church was }|Joseph Brown |Chester, England |Feb. 8, 1762 - formed in 1744. }| | | - A New Church was |Isaac Hurd |Charlestown, Ms. |Dec. 7, 1785 - formed in 1813. | | | - Gosport |Joseph Hull, s.s. |England | - |John Brock, s.s. |Shadbrook, Eng. | 1620 - |Samuel Belcher, s.s.|Ipswich, Ms. | - |John Tucke |Hampton |Aug. 23, 1702 - |Josiah Stevens, s.s.|Killingworth, Ct. | 1740 - |Samuel Sewall, s.s. |Bath, Me. | - |Origen Smith, s.s. | | - |A. Plumer, s.s. | | - Greenland |William Allen |Boston, Ms. | 1676 - |Samuel Macclintock, |Medford, Ms. |May 1, 1732 - | D.D. | | - |James A. Neal |Londonderry, N. H.| 1774 - |Ephraim Abbot |New Castle, Me. | 1779 - |Samuel W. Clark |Hancock, N. H. |Dec. 15, 1795 - - - (Part 2 of 2) - --------------------+------------+---------------+----------------- - _Ministers._ |_Graduated._| _Settled._ | _Dismissed_ - | | | _or died._ - --------------------+------------+---------------+----------------- - Daniel Rogers |Harv., 1725 |Aug. 31, 1748 |d. Dec. 9, 1785 - Joseph Brown | | 1792 |dism. 1797 - | | | - Isaac Hurd |Harv., 1806 |Sept. 11, 1817 | - | | | - Joseph Hull, s.s. | | | - John Brock, s.s. |Harv., 1646 | |d. June 18, 1668 - Samuel Belcher, s.s.|Harv., 1659 | | - John Tucke |Harv., 1723 |July 26, 1732 | Aug. 12, 1773 - Josiah Stevens, s.s.| | | July 2, 1804 - Samuel Sewall, s.s. | | | March 16, 1826 - Origen Smith, s.s. | | | - A. Plumer, s.s. | | | - William Allen |Harv., 1703 |July 15, 1707 | Sept. 8, 1760 - Samuel Macclintock, |Coll. N. J.,|Nov. 3, 1756 | April 27, 1804 - D.D. | 1751 | | - James A. Neal |---- ---- |May 22, 1807 | July 18, 1808 - Ephraim Abbot |Harv., 1806 |Oct. 27, 1813 | Oct. 28, 1828 - Samuel W. Clark |Dart., 1823 |Aug. 5, 1829 | - - -NOTES. - - EXETER. _"Exeter New Church," afterwards called "The Second - Church of Christ in Exeter."_[19] A considerable number of the - members of the First Church seceded, and "embodied into a New - Church, on a day of Fasting and Prayer, June 7, 1744." There is - an error in several publications, giving 1748 as the date of the - formation of that church. This error is found on the monumental - stone of Rev. Daniel Rogers, in the graveyard, in Exeter. It is - not strange that, in so long an inscription, there should have - been, through inadvertency, an omission, by the engraver, or in - his copy, of the word _installed_, immediately after the name. - The words, _Pastor of a church gathered in Exeter_, should have - been marked by a parenthesis. The inscription on the gravestone - was copied by Alden, into his Collections, and thus currency has - been, unintentionally, given to the error. Original documents - show the facts in the case. - - The causes of the _secession_, which issued in the establishment - of a New Church in Exeter, were of a religious nature, but the - presentation of them does not come within the scope of this work, - and besides, we have not space for their discussion. - - The _Rev. Daniel Rogers_ was born in Ipswich, Ms., in 1707, and - graduated H. C. 1725. He received ordination, without a pastoral - charge, by a council, which met at York, July 13, 1742. The - ministers of the council were Rev. Messrs. Jeremiah Wise of - Berwick, Me.; Nicholas Gilman of Durham, N. H.; John Rogers of - Kittery, (now Eliot,) Me.; and Samuel Moody of York, Me. Rev. - Daniel Rogers "had been many years a tutor in Harvard College, - was a pious faithful minister of Jesus Christ, and a worthy son - of Rev. John Rogers, pastor of the first church in Ipswich, who - died, Dec. 28, 1745, in his 80th year. _He_ was a son of John - Rogers of the same place, a physician, and preacher of God's - word, and President of Harvard College, who died, July 2, 1684, - aged 54 years. _He_ was eldest son of the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, - who came from England, in 1636, settled at Ipswich, colleague - pastor with the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, and died, July 2, 1655, aged - 57 years. _He_ was son of the Rev. John Rogers, a famous minister - of God's word at Dedham, in England, who died Oct. 18, 1639, aged - 67 years. _He_ was grandson of John Rogers of London, Prebendary - of St Paul's, Vicar of St. Sepulchre's, and Reader of Divinity, - who was burnt at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1555, first martyr in Queen - Mary's reign." [_Monumental Stone; Alden's Epitaphs._] Rev. - Daniel Rogers died, Dec. 9, 1785, aged 79. When the Covenant of - the 2nd church was adopted, it was signed by 30 males and 11 - females. During Mr. Rogers' ministry, 22 males and 39 females - were added. It is well known, that Mr. Whitefield preached a few - times at Exeter. During the last week in September, 1770, he - preached four times in Portsmouth. On Saturday morning he rode to - Exeter, and preached to a large concourse of people, assembled - in the open air. It was his last sermon. In the afternoon, he - rode to Newburyport, where he died the next morning, on the 30th - of September. He was interred on the 2nd of October. Of his - pall bearers were Rev. Dr. Haven of Portsmouth, and Rev. Daniel - Rogers of Exeter. "When the corpse was placed at the foot of the - pulpit close to the vault, the Rev. Daniel Rogers made a very - affecting prayer, and openly confessed that under God, he owed - his conversion to that man of God whose precious remains now lay - before them. Then he cried out, O my father, my father! Then - stopped and wept, as though his heart would break; and the people - weeping all through the place. Then he recovered, and finished - his prayer and sat down and wept." [_Dr. Gillie's Memoirs of - Whitefield._] - - The _Rev. Joseph Brown_ was educated at Lady Huntingdon's - Seminary, and was settled in the ministry at Epping, Essex, - England, until he came to this country. When dismissed at Exeter, - he removed to Deer Isle, Me., where he was installed, 1804, and - where he died, Sept. 13, 1819, aged 57. From the death of Mr. - Rogers to the close of Mr. Brown's ministry, in the 2nd church in - Exeter, there were added fourteen males, and twenty-four females. - During Mr. Brown's residence at Deer Isle, he was engaged in - soliciting aid for some charitable enterprise. For that purpose - he called on some of the people of Portsmouth. They received - him kindly, and only objected that they had just been doing for - _this_,--_that_,--and _the other_ objects of benevolence. His - reply is worthy of notice for the sentiment it contains: "I love - to come among these _have been doing_ folks." On the church - book are the baptisms of his son Americus, in 1793; his son - Charles Moulson, in 1794; and his son Daniel Rogers, in 1797. - Rev. Charles M. Brown has been a zealous and useful Seamen's - Chaplain. From the close of Mr. Brown's ministry, in the 2nd - church in Exeter, to 1802, there were admitted three males, and - nine females. There is then a chasm in the records, till Sept. - 18, 1823, when a majority of the members remaining in Exeter, - and they females, met at the house of Mrs. Martha Poor. Their - proceedings are regularly entered in the church book, the last - date being May 22, 1824. - - They had no pastor after Mr. Brown. For a few years they had - occasional preaching. They never formally disbanded; but most - of them united, or mingled in the observance of religious - ordinances, with other churches. Their meeting-house stood where - Maj. Waddy V. Cobb's house now stands, on Front street. - - _A New Church was formed Dec. 24, 1813_, which is now styled - "_The Second Church in Exeter_." The ministers invited on - the occasion by Letters Missive from "several members of the - Religious Society, in the Upper Congregational Society in - Exeter," were the Rev. Messrs. Porter of Rye, Holt of Epping, - Abbot of Hampton Falls, Webster of Hampton, and French of North - Hampton. - - Mr. Hosea Hildreth, professor of mathematics and natural - philosophy, in the Academy, and who was also a preacher, - supplied the pulpit for some time. Mr. Hildreth was ordained in - Gloucester, Ms., in 1825; and installed in Westborough, Ms., in - 1834. He died in Sterling, Ms., his native place, July 10, 1835, - aged 53. - - _Rev. Isaac Hurd_, pastor of the present Second Church, was born - in Charlestown, Ms., Dec. 7, 1785; graduated H. C. 1806; studied - theology with Rev. Dr. Osgood of Medford, Ms.; and afterwards at - Divinity Hall, in Edinburgh, Scotland; and commenced preaching in - the city of London. He was ordained pastor of the First Church - in Lynn, Ms., Sept. 15, 1813, resigned May 22, 1816, and was, by - the unanimous invitation of "The Second Congregational Church, in - Exeter," installed their pastor, Sept. 11, 1817. The sermon was - preached by the Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D., of Newburyport, from 2 - Tim. i: 7. - - The father of Mr. Hurd was Joseph Hurd, Esq., of Charlestown, - Ms., whose brother, Isaac Hurd, M. D., graduated at H. C. in - 1776, and was a physician of celebrity, in Concord, Ms. The Rev. - Mr. Hurd married, March 16, 1819, Mrs. Elisabeth Emery of Exeter, - whose maiden name was Folsom. One of the sons of Mr. Hurd died in - early childhood. His other son, Francis Parkman Hurd, graduated - at H. C. in 1839, and received the degree of M. D. from the - University of Pennsylvania, in 1845. - - GOSPORT, or Star Island, is one of a cluster of eight small - islands usually called The Isles of Shoals, composed of beds of - rocks, partly covered with soil. They are about nine miles from - Portsmouth Light House, and twenty-one from Newburyport Lights. - Five of these islands are within the limits of Maine. Of these, - Hog Island is the largest of the whole group, and contains about - 350 acres. Of the three in New Hampshire, Gosport, or Star - Island, formerly called Appledore, is the largest, and contains - 150 acres. White Island, on which the Light House is located, - is only one acre. These islands were visited, as early as 1614, - by the celebrated navigator, John Smith, who gave them his own - name; but they have long been called "The Isles of Shoals." They - invited settlement, merely by the advantages they furnished for - fishery. This business was prosperous, for about a century, - previous to the American Revolution. The population varied from - 300 to 600, employing a number of schooners and other craft. A - meeting-house, previous to 1641, was erected on Hog Island, where - the people from the several islands used to assemble. There was - also a Court House on the same island. At a subsequent period, a - meeting-house was built on Star Island, where the greater part of - the inhabitants have resided. - - _Rev. Joseph Hull_ came from England, and settled in Weymouth, - Ms., in 1635. He resigned in 1639, and afterwards preached at the - Isles of Shoals. He is mentioned as "of the Isle of Sholes," by - Dr. Cotton Mather, in his list of the first class of New England - ministers. [_Magnalia_, Vol. I., B. 3.] - - _Rev. John Brock_ came to New England in 1637. He commenced - preaching in Rowley, and afterward labored, a number of years, - at the Shoals. He was esteemed eminently pious. The celebrated - Mr. Mitchel of Cambridge said of him, "He dwells as near heaven - as any man upon earth." Rev. John Allin of Dedham observed, "I - scarce ever knew any man so familiar with the great God as his - dear servant Brock." There were several remarkable coincidences - between Mr. Brock's prayers and providential occurrences - afterward. A man, whose principal property was his fishing-boat, - and who had been very serviceable in conveying to the place of - meeting the inhabitants of other islands, lost his boat in a - storm. He lamented his loss to Mr. Brock, who said to him, "Go - home, honest man, I'll mention the matter to the Lord, you'll - have your boat to-morrow." Mr. Brock made the matter a subject - of prayer. The next day the anchor of a vessel fastened upon the - boat and drew it up. - - The people were persuaded by Mr. Brock to observe one day in - each month, as an extra season of religious exercises. On one - occasion, the roughness of the weather had for several days - prevented fishing. On the day of meeting, the weather was fine, - and the men wished the meeting put by. Mr. Brock, perceiving that - they were determined not to attend, said to them, _If you will - go away, I say unto you, catch fish if you can. But as for you - that will tarry and worship the Lord Jesus Christ this day, I - will pray unto him for you, that you may take fish till you are - weary._ Thirty men went away, and five tarried. The thirty caught - but four fishes. The five, who tarried, went out afterward and - took about five hundred. - - Mr. Brock continued at the Shoals till 1662, when he removed to - Reading, Ms., where he was settled, as successor of Rev. Samuel - Hough, whose widow he married, and where he continued till his - death, in his 68th year. For other particulars of Mr. Brock see - Magnalia, Vol. II., B. 4, and Am. Quar. Reg., Vol. VIII., p. 140, - and Vol. XI., pp. 176, 190. - - _Rev. Samuel Belcher_, who graduated H. C. in 1659, was preacher - at the Shoals in 1672. From 1698 to 1711, he was pastor of the - 2nd church in Newbury, which became the 1st in West Newbury. He - died in Ipswich, his native place, Aug. 13, 1714, aged 74. "He - was a good scholar, a judicious divine; and a holy, humble man." - [_Am. Quar. Reg._, Vol. VII., p. 259.] - - _Rev. John Tucke_ is understood to have been the only pastor - ever ordained at the Shoals. The writer of this article has not - been able to ascertain how the people were supplied, during the - forty years immediately preceding the settlement of Mr. Tucke. - Mr. Tucke was the son of _John_, who was the son of _Edward_, who - was the son of _Robert_, who emigrated from Gorlston, Suffolk, - Eng., about the year 1636, and was among the first settlers in - Hampton, N. H. Mr. Tucke's ordination sermon was preached by Rev. - Jabez Fitch of Portsmouth, from Matt. iv: 19--_I will make you - fishers of men._ It is said that Mr. Tucke was furnished with a - large library, and was, notwithstanding his isolated situation, - extensively acquainted with the affairs of his times. He was one - of the forty-five ministers, whose attestations, by letter, to - the revival in 1743, were published. His remains rest in Gosport. - The following inscription on his monumental stone, has been - considered a just tribute to his memory. - - Underneath - are the remains of the - Rev. John Tuck, A. M. - He graduated at Harvard - College A. D. 1723--was ordained - here July 26. 1732 - and died August 12. 1773. - Æ. 72. - He was affable and polite in his manners; - amiable in his disposition; - of great Piety and Integrity; - given to hospitality; - Diligent and faithful in his pastoral - office, well learned in History and - Geography, as well as general - Science, and a careful Physician - both to the bodies and - The souls of - his people. - - Mr. Tucke married, Nov. 26, 1724, Mary Dole of Hampton, a - descendant of Richard Dole of Newbury. - - Rev. John Tucke, son of Mr. Tucke of the Shoals, was born in - 1740, graduated H. C. 1758; ordained at Epsom, Sept. 23, 1761, - married, March 4, 1762, to Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel Parsons - of Rye. Love M., daughter of Mr. Tucke of Epsom, married Simeon - Drake. These last mentioned were the parents of Samuel G. Drake, - M. A., of Boston. Mr. Tucke of Epsom remained in that place till - the time of the Revolution. While on his way to join the army as - Chaplain, he was taken with the small-pox, of which he died in - Salem, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1777, in the 37th year of his age. - - Not long after the death of the Rev. Mr. Tucke of Gosport, the - war of the Revolution commenced. The inhabitants were exceedingly - exposed; business was arrested, and many left the Islands not - to return. The population for the last half century, has varied - from 66 to 103. The preachers who have resided there have also - instructed the school, and have been supported in part, by - the inhabitants, and in part by contributions from benevolent - societies, and individuals. Near the beginning of the present - century, _Rev. Josiah Stevens_ was located at the Shoals. There - was at that time, a comfortable parsonage house, and a stone - meeting-house, which was also the school-house, on Gosport. Mr. - Stevens was much respected and beloved, and very useful as a - minister and teacher. He was born in Killingworth, Ct., about - 1740. In mature age, he removed, with his wife and five or six - children, to Newport, N. H. He aided in founding the church in - that place, and was one of its deacons. He served two short terms - in the Revolutionary war; and was in the battle of Bennington. - A fellow-soldier spake of him, as a man of decided piety, who - amidst the bustle of the camp, was constant in his morning and - evening devotions. Immediately after the adoption of the State - Constitution, he received a civil commission, and transacted much - business, as a magistrate. He was often engaged in teaching. - After commencing to preach, he labored for a time in Goshen. His - father was Josiah Stevens. A son of Rev. Mr. Stevens, Maj. Josiah - Stevens, was also a deacon of the church in Newport, where he - died, in 1844, aged 81. _He_ was father of Hon. Josiah Stevens of - Concord, who was born in Newport, Jan. 28, 1795, and was in 1838 - elected Secretary of State. _His_ eldest son is Josiah. The Rev. - Mr. Stevens died in Gosport, where the following inscription is - found on his gravestone: - - In memory of the Rev. Josiah Stevens, a faithful instructor of - youth, and pious minister of Jesus Christ, (supported on this - Island, by the Society for propagating the gospel,) who died, - July 2, 1804, aged 64 years. - - _Rev. Samuel Sewall_, who labored several years as pastor in - Edgecomb, Me., removed in 1824 to the Isles of Shoals, "being - employed by a benevolent society in Newburyport and vicinity, as - a missionary, and continued in this employment until the time - of his death." He died in Rye, N. H., after a short sickness, - March 16, 1826, leaving the character of an exemplary Christian, - and a devoted and useful minister. _Rev. Origen Smith_, of the - Free-will Baptist denomination, preached there in 1837. Recently, - the Society for Propagating the Gospel have employed _Rev. A. - Plumer_ as preacher, and Mrs. Plumer, as teacher. - - GREENLAND. It is not ascertained when the church was gathered - at Greenland. It consisted of nineteen members when the _Rev. - William Allen_, their first minister, was ordained. He was born - in Boston, Ms., in 1676, graduated H. C. in 1703; ordained July - 15, 1707; died, Sept. 8, 1760, aged 84. Rev. Dr. Langdon, in his - sermon at the ordination of Mr. Macclintock, as colleague, said - to the people. "Let not your affections be withdrawn from _him_, - who has spent his strength in your service; and now, bowing - under his infirmities, is no longer able to perform his public - work; but is preparing to leave _you_, that he may join the - church triumphant. Remember he is still your pastor; and, tho' - he cannot minister to you as formerly, he is still concerned for - your spiritual welfare, pouring out his soul the more earnestly - in prayer for you, as he sees the time of his departure is at - hand." During Mr. Allen's ministry 293 were added to the church. - In 1728, forty-four were added; in 1735, thirty; in 1742, thirty; - in 1756, the last year of his active ministry, thirteen. Mrs. - Eleanor Allen, his consort, died Jan. 16, 1734-5, aged 52; "an - early convert, eminent for holiness, prayerfulness, watchfulness, - zeal, prudence, weanedness from the world, self-denial, - faithfulness, and charity." Mr. Allen is said to have married, - for his second wife, Elisabeth Weare of Hampton Falls. - - _Rev. Samuel Macclintock, D. D._, second pastor, was a son of - Mr. William Macclintock, who came from the north of Ireland, and - settled in Medford, Ms.; was a respectable farmer, the husband - of four wives, the father of nineteen children, and died aged - 90. His third wife accompanied him to this country. She was - the mother of Samuel, who was born at Medford, May 1, 1732. He - was religiously educated, from early childhood. His classical - education, which commenced in the grammar-school, at Medford, - was continued under the instruction of the celebrated Master - Minot, at Concord, Ms.; and, afterward, under the preceptorship - of the Rev. Mr. Abercrombie, a clergyman, eminent for piety and - learning, in an Academy, near Northampton, Ms. Mr. Macclintock - graduated at the College of New Jersey, 1751. Before the - expiration of his senior year, he was invited, by Pres. Burr, - to accept an appointment to a tutorship, which, on account of - other plans, he declined. He was ordained at Greenland, colleague - with Mr. Allen, Nov. 3, 1756. The strain of Dr. Macclintock's - preaching was evangelical, serious, instructive, plain, and - practical; his style manly and nervous; his delivery solemn - and unaffected. His sermons were always the fruit of close - application, and finished with a degree of accuracy, that few - attempt, and fewer attain. - - He ardently espoused the cause of his country; and was repeatedly - with the army in the Revolution, in the capacity of Chaplain. - Three of his sons fell in the contest. He had fifteen children by - his first marriage, and one by his second. His last preaching was - on the annual Fast, April 19, 1804. He died of a pulmonic fever - on the 27th of the same month. His funeral sermon was preached - by Rev. Dr. Buckminster of Portsmouth, from 1 Cor. iii: 22. The - executor of Dr. Macclintock's will was directed by him, to place - only a plain stone at his grave, for which he had prepared the - last sentence of the following inscription. - - "To the Memory of Samuel Macclintock, D. D. who died April 27, - 1804, in the 72d year of his age, and the 48th of his ministry. - _His body rests here in the certain hope of a resurrection to - life and immortality, when Christ shall appear, the second time, - to consummate the great design of his mediatorial kingdom._" - [_Alden's Epitaphs; Dr. Buckminster's Serm._] - - Dr. Macclintock's publications were, a Sermon on the Justice - of God in the Mortality of Man, 1759; the Artifices of - Deceivers, 1770; Herodias, or cruelty and revenge the effects - of unlawful pleasure, 1772; Sermon at the commencement of the - new Constitution in New Hampshire, 1784; Correspondence with - Rev. John Cosens Ogden, 1791; Sermon, The Choice, occasioned by - the drought, the fever, and the prospect of war, 1798; Oration, - commemorative of Washington, 1800. [_Allen's Biog. Dic.; - Piscataqua Evan. Mag._ Vol. I.] - - _Rev. James Armstrong Neal_, third pastor in Greenland, was a - son of John Neal of Portsmouth, afterward of Londonderry, who - married Mary Leavitt of North Hampton. Their other children were - Moses Leavitt, Esq., of Dover, N. H.; John, superintendent of - the Orphan house, Charleston, S. C.; Mary, wife of Maj. Gershom - Cheney, of Rutland, Vt.; Sarah B.; Sophia W., who married Capt. - Samuel F. Leavitt of North Hampton; Joseph, of Hampton; and - Nathaniel P., of New Sharon, Me. Rev. Mr. Neal was born in 1774. - He had a good academical education, and was some years preceptor - of a young ladies' school, in Philadelphia. He was patronized - by Rev. Dr. Green, to whose church he belonged, and under whose - direction he commenced his theological studies. Although he - had not been a member of any college, such were his literary - attainments, that Dr. Nesbit, President of Dickinson College, - conferred upon him the degree of M. A. in 1802. Mr. Neal received - license from the Piscataqua Association. He was ordained at - Greenland, May 22, 1807. The exercises were, Prayer by Rev. - Peter Holt of Epping; Sermon by Rev. Jesse Appleton of Hampton, - from Hag. ii: 6, 7; Ordaining Prayer by Rev. William Morrison - of Londonderry; Charge by Rev. Timothy Upham of Deerfield; - Fellowship by Rev. J. French of North Hampton; Prayer by Rev. - H. Porter of Rye. Mr. Neal possessed popular talents, and died - much regretted, after suffering greatly, from an organic disease - of the heart, July 18, 1808, aged 34. He married Christiana - Palmer, a lady from Kelso, Scotland. They had two sons. The - oldest, John P., died Nov. 14, 1806, aged 2 years. Their other - son, Joseph Clay Neal, has resided in Philadelphia, and is known - to the public, as the editor of the Philadelphian; author of - the Charcoal Sketches. [_Piscat. Ev. Mag._; _Alden's Epitaphs_; - _Graham's Mag._] - - _Rev. Ephraim Abbot_, fourth pastor in Greenland, was of the - Concord branch of the Abbot family. He was born in New Castle, - Me., in 1779. His father was Benjamin, who was son of Benjamin - of Concord, who was son of Thomas, who was son of George, who - settled in Andover, Ms., in 1647, and who is said to have - emigrated from Yorkshire, England. Rev. Mr. Abbot of Greenland - graduated H. C. 1806, and at And. Theo. Sem. 1810, and was - ordained at Greenland, Oct. 27, 1813. The sermon was by Rev. - Eliphalet Pearson, LL. D., from Matt. x: 16. Mr. Abbot married - Mary Holyoke, daughter of Dr. Pearson, who, after he resigned - his professorship in the And. Theo. Sem., resided in Mr. Abbot's - family, in Greenland, where he deceased, in 1826. For some - account of Mr. Abbot's missionary labors, before he was settled - at Greenland, see "The New Hampshire Repository," Vol. II., No. 2. - - Mr. Abbot's health becoming infirm, in consequence of a wound in - his side, and not being able to confine himself entirely to the - labors of a pastor, he became the first preceptor of the Academy - in the place, established by George Bracket, Esq. He resigned - his ministry, Oct. 28, 1828. The _church_, at his ordination, - consisted of nineteen members. During his ministry thirty-seven - were added. He removed to Westford, Ms., and took charge of - the Academy in that place. His second marriage was with Miss - Bancroft, daughter of Amos Bancroft, M. D., of Groton, Ms. - - _Rev. Samuel Wallace Clark_ was born in Hancock, N. H., Dec. - 15, 1795, graduated D. C. 1823; ordained at Greenland, Aug. 5, - 1829. His father, John Clark, was grandson of Robert Clark, who - emigrated from the north of Ireland to Londonderry, N. H., in - company with the early settlers of that place; though not among - the first. Rev. S. W. Clark was the second of ten children, and - the eldest of four sons. His brother, Rev. William Clark, was - several years pastor of the 1st church in Wells, Me., and has - since been extensively known, in his agency for the A. B. C. F. - M. Rev. Mr. Clark of Greenland married Frances M., daughter of - Dea. Robert Clark, for many years an elder of the Presbyterian - church, in New Boston. She deceased July 12, 1832, leaving one - child, Frances Wallace. Mr. Clark's second marriage was with - Rebecca Elisabeth Howe, a descendant of the Pilgrim, John Alden. - She is a daughter of Josiah Howe, M. D., of Templeton, and - afterwards of Westminster, Ms. The children of Mr. Clark, by - the second marriage, were John Howe, Lucy Barrow, and William - Wallace; the last of whom deceased Aug. 19, 1846. - - When Mr. Clark was ordained, his church consisted of twenty-eight - members. In 1846, there were forty communicants. - - - - -GENEALOGIES. - - - - -THE WOLCOTT FAMILY. - - -INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. - -HENRY WOLCOTT was the first of the Wolcott Family who settled in -New England. He owned a considerable landed property in his native -country, which he held _in capite_, part of which he sold about the -time he left England; the rest of the estate was sold at sundry -times by himself and his descendants; the last remains were sold -since the Declaration of Independence, by Henry Allen, Esq., of -Windsor, who claimed it by female descent. From circumstances it -seems probable that the family are of Saxon origin. Mr. Wolcott, to -avoid the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the English Church, was induced -to come into this country. He first settled at Dorchester, where he -continued till 1636, when he came with the first settlers to the town -of Windsor, and with four other gentlemen, namely, Mr. Ludlow, Mr. -Newberry, Mr. Stoughton, and Major Mason, undertook the settlement -of that town, to which they gave the name _Dorchester_. The towns -of Hartford and Wethersfield were settled the same year, though the -town which is now called Windsor was, upon the first emigration, by -far the most considerable. Previous to this settlement on Connecticut -River, one had been made at Springfield, under the patronage of Mr. -Pynchon; and an earlier settlement, with commercial views, had been -made at Saybrook, by Mr. Fenwick, agent to Lords Say and Seal and -Brook. Those who settled on Connecticut River, in the year 1636, -were united with the people of Massachusetts in religious and civil -polity, and seem to have been much under their influence till 1638, -when they adopted a civil constitution for themselves, and Mr. Ludlow -was chosen their first Governor, and Mr. Wolcott a magistrate, then -called an Assistant, to which office he was annually chosen till his -death, in 1655. His eldest son Henry was one of the Patentees, whose -name is inserted in the Charter granted by Charles II. Mr. Ludlow -went to the West Indies, and left no posterity in this country. Major -Mason, it is said, had no male posterity. The descendants of the -others are well known in Windsor. - - -GENEALOGY. - -Henry Wolcott, Esq., was born A. D. 1578; and on or about the year -1607, married Elisabeth Sanders, who was born in 1589. He lived in -Tolland, near Taunton in Somersetshire, England, till the year 1630, -and then to avoid persecution, came with his family into New England, -and settled at Dorchester. In the year 1636, he went with his family -to Windsor in Connecticut. Mr. Wolcott, Mr. Ludlow, Mr. Newberry, -Mr. Stoughton, and Major Mason, were the five gentlemen that -undertook the settling of the town. Mr. Wolcott was one of the first -magistrates in the Colony of Connecticut; he lived in that post in -Windsor, till he died, May 30, 1655. His wife died July 7, 1655, and -she and her husband lie buried in one tomb in Windsor. Their children -were - - 1. Anna, who m. Matthew Griswold and d. at Lyme. 2. Henry - Wolcott, Esq., b. 1610, d. at Windsor, July 12, 1680. 3. George, - who d. at Wethersfield, Feb. 12, 1663. 4. Christopher, who d. in - Windsor, Sept. 7, 1662. 5. Mary, m. Job Drake, and d. in Windsor, - Sept. 6, 1689. 6. Simon, b. 1625, d. in Windsor, Sept. 11, 1687; - his wife d. Oct. 13, 1719. - -The children of Henry, son of Henry, by his wife, Sarah Newberry, were - - 1. Henry, b. Jan. 6, 1643, d. in Windsor. 2. John, b. Feb. 28, - 1646, d. in Windsor, Jan. 11, 1712. 3. Samuel, b. Oct. 8, 1647, - d. June 14, 1695. 4. Sarah, b. July 5, 1649, m. Walter Price and - d. at Salem. 5. Mary, b. Dec. 8, 1651, m. James Russell, Esq., - and d. at Charlestown. 6. Hannah, b. March 8, 1654, d. Sept. 4, - 1683. 7. Josiah, b. July 22, 1658, d. at Salem, Feb. 9, 1729. - -The children of Henry, son of Henry, son of Henry, by his wife -Abigail Goss, were - - 1. Elisabeth, m. Matthew Allyn, Esq., Windsor. 2. Abiah. 3. - Henry. 4. Sarah, m. Charles Chancey, d. at Stratfield. 5. Samuel, - d. 1707. - -The children of John, son of Henry, son of Henry, by his wife, Mary -Chester, were - - 1. John, d. 1750. 2. Charles. 3. George. 4. Benjamin. 5. Mary, m. - John Elliot, Esq. - -The children of John, son of John, son of Henry, son of Henry, by his -wife, Hannah Newberry, were - - 1. Mary, b. Sept., 1704. 2. Hannah, m. Uriah Loomis of Windsor. - 3. John, m. Mary Hawley. 4. Anne, b. Dec. 10, 1711. 5. Abigail, - b. Sept., 1717. 6. Jerusha, b. Jan. 18, 1719, m. Erastus Wolcott, - Esq. - -The children of John, son of John, son of John, son of Henry, son of -Henry, by Mary Hawley, were - - 1. Mary, b. Dec. 9, 1736, m. Abiel Grant. 2. Lorana, b. June 5, - 1739, m. Jonathan Bement. 3. Hope, b. Dec. 29, 1742, m. Nathaniel - Drake. 4. Benjamin, b. Oct. 26, 1744. 5. Anne, b. March 6, 1747, - m. ---- Vansant. - -The children of Benjamin, the son of John, son of John, son of John, -the son of Henry, the son of Henry, by Abigail Pinney, were - - 1. Miriam, b. Aug. 26, 1766, d. May 29, 1773. 2. Caroline, b. - Aug. 29, 1769. 3. Eleanor, b. Dec. 18, 1770, d. Oct. 18, 1776. - 4. Talcot, b. Oct. 1, 1772. 5. Chester, b. Jan. 23, 1775. 6. - Eleanor, b. Nov. 2, 1776. 7. Benjamin, b. Dec. 15, 1778. 8. - Clarissa, b. June 16, 1781. 9. James, b. June 23, 1784. 10. John, - b. July 23, 1786, d. May 21, 1787. - -The children of Charles, the son of John, son of Henry, son of Henry, -were - - 1. Sarah. 2. Elisabeth. 3. George. 4. Mary, m. Jonathan North. 5. - Eunice, m. Benoni Olcott. - -The children of Samuel, son of Henry, son of Henry, were - - 1. Samuel, b. 1679, d. at Wethersfield, Sept., 1734. 2. Josiah, - b. Feb., 1682, d. Oct. 8, 1712. 3. Hannah, b. March 19. 1684. m. - William Burnham. 4. Sarah, b. Aug. 14, 1686. 5. Lucy, b. Oct. - 16, 1688. 6. Abigail, b. Sept. 23, 1690, d. Sept. 9, 1714. 7. - Elisabeth, b. May 31, 1692. 8. Mary, b. May 14, 1694. - -The children of Samuel, son of Samuel, son of Henry, son of Henry, -were - - 1. Abigail, b. June 3, 1707. 2. Oliver, b. Oct. 2, 1709, d. 1734. - 3. Samuel, b. April 13, 1713. 4. Mehetabel, Aug. 12, 1715. 5. - Elisha, b. Sept. 26, 1717. 6. Josiah, b. March 26, 1720. - -The children of Josiah, son of Henry, son of Henry, were, by Penelope -Curwin, his wife, - - 1. Elisabeth, b. March 30, 1688, d. July 12, 1702; - -by Mrs. Mary Treat, - - 2. Josiah, b. Dec. 21, 1690, d. Jan. 4, 1691. 3. Treat, b. March - 26, 1696, d. July 7, 1696. 4. Thomas, b. June 23, 1697, d. Sept. - 13, 1697. 5. Mehetabel, b. Aug. 3, 1698, d. July 6, 1721. 6. - Josiah, b. July 11, 1700, d. July 31, 1700. 7. John, b. Sept. 12, - 1702. 8. Elisabeth, b. April 1, 1705, d. June 24, 1716. 9. Mary, - b. July 13, 1706, d. July 29, 1706. 10. Treat, b. Oct. 9, 1712. - -The children of John, son of Josiah, son of Henry, son of Henry, were - - 1. John, b. Nov. 2, 1721, d. Nov. 27, 1731. - -The children of George, son of Henry, were - - 1. George. 2. Elisabeth. 3. John. 4. Mercy. - -The children of Simon, son of Henry, by Martha Pitkin, his wife, were - - 1. Elisabeth, b. Aug. 19, 1662, m. Daniel Cooley, d. Jan. 30, - 1707. 2. Martha, b. May 17, 1664, m. Thomas Allyn, d. Sept. 7, - 1687. 3. Simon, b. June 24, 1666, d. Oct. 30, 1732. 4. Joanna, - b. June 30, 1668, m. John Cotton. 5. Henry, b. May 20, 1670, d. - Nov., 1746. 6. Christopher, b. July 4, 1672, d. April 3, 1693. 7. - Mary, b. 1674, d. 1676. 8. William, b. Nov. 6, 1676, d. Jan. 6, - 1749. 9. Roger, b. Jan. 4, 1679, Governor of Connecticut, d. May - 17, 1767. - -The children of Simon, son of Simon, son of Henry, by Sarah Chester, -were - - 1. Sarah, m. Samuel Treat. 2. Martha, m. William Stoughton. 3. - Simon. 4. Christopher. 5. Eunice. 6. James, b. 1700, d. in 1748. - -The children of Henry, son of Simon, son of Henry, were - - 1. Henry. 2. Thomas. 3. Peter, d. Dec. 1735. 4. Rachel, m. Joseph - Hunt. 5. Gideon. - -Henry, son of Henry, son of Simon, son of Henry, had - - 1. Henry.--Peter, son of Henry, son of Simon, son of Henry, had - Giles. - -The children of Gideon, the son of Henry, son of Simon, son of Henry, -were, by Abigail Mather, - - 1. Abigail, b. April 15, 1741, m. Charles Rockwell; - -by Naomi Olmsted, - - 2. Samuel, b. April 4, 1751. 3. Naomi, b. Sept. 28, 1754, m. Rev. - William Robison. 4. Gideon, b. Nov. 28, 1756. 5. Elizur, b. April - 12, 1760. - -The children of Samuel, son of Gideon, son of Henry, son of Simon, -son of Henry, by Jerusha Wolcott his wife, were - - 1. Jerusha, b. Oct. 8, 1775. 2. Naomi, b. Oct. 10, 1777. 3. - Samuel, b. Dec. 12, 1781. 4. Elihu, b. Feb. 12, 1784. 5. Sophia, - b. March 29, 1786. 6. Ursula, b. Nov. 17, 1788. - -The children of William, son of Simon, son of Henry, by Abiah Hawley, -his wife, were - - 1. Abiah, m. Samuel Stoughton, Windsor. 2. Lucia, m. Stephen - Olmsted, Hartford. 3. William, b. July 21, 1711. 4. Martha, m. - ---- Chapin, Springfield. 5. Ephraim. - -The children of William, son of William, son of Simon, son of Henry, -by Abigail Abbot, his wife, were - - 1. Eunice, b. Dec. 11, 1747. 2. Eunice, b. March 1, 1750. 3. - Abigail, b. Dec. 25, 1751. 4. William, b. Feb. 10, 1753, m. - Esther Stevens at Castleton. 5. Abigail, b. Feb. 8, 1755, m. - Oliver Ellsworth, Esq. of Windsor. 6. Martha, b. April 23, 1757. - 7. Abiel, b. Aug. 10, 1761. - -The children of Ephraim, son of William, son of Simon, son of Henry, -by Mary Kellogg, his wife, were - - 1. Sarah, b. Feb. 25, 1760, m. Josiah Bissell, Windsor. 2. - Ephraim, b. Feb. 25, 1762. - -The children of Roger, son of Simon, son of Henry, by Sarah Drake, -his wife, were - - 1. Roger, b. Sept. 14, 1704, d. Oct. 19, 1756. 2. Elisabeth, b. - April 10, 1706, m. Roger Newberry, Windsor. 3. Alexander, b. Jan. - 20, 1708, d. Oct. 18, 1711. 4. Samuel, b. Jan. 9, 1709, d. Dec. - 27, 1717. 5. Alexander, b. Jan. 7, 1712. 6. ---- (still-born,) - b. Dec. 10, 1712. 7. Sarah, b. Jan. 31, 1715, d. Jan. 5, 1735. - 8. Hepsibah, b. June 23, 1717, m. John Strong, E. Windsor. 9. - Josiah, b. Feb. 6, 1719. 10. Erastus,[A] b. Feb. 8, 1721, d. May - 12, 1722. 11. Epaphras,[20] b. Feb. 8, 1721, d. April 3, 1733. - 12. Erastus, b. Sept. 21, 1722. 13. Ursula, b. Oct. 30, 1724, - m. Matthew Griswold, Esq., Lyme. 14. Oliver, b. Nov. 20, 1726, - Governor of Connecticut, d. at Litchfield, Dec. 1, 1797. 15. - Maryanna, b. Jan. 1, 1730, m. Thomas Williams, Esq., Brookline. - -The children of Roger, son of Roger, son of Simon, son of Henry, by -Mary Newberry, his wife, were - - 1. Roger, b. Sept. 18, 1729, d. Dec. 15, 1729. 2. Mary, b. Oct. - 15, 1730, d. Aug. 15, 1737. 3. Roger, b. June 16, 1733, d. Nov. - 1, 1736. 4. Sarah, b. June 7, 1735, m. Elisha Steel, Esq., of - Tolland. 5. Roger, b. Nov. 10, 1737. 6. Epaphras, b. May 2, 1740. - 7. Mary, b. April 4, 1742, m. John Goodale. 8. Emelia, b. Oct. - 20, 1744, d. Feb. 25, 1745. 9. Parmenio, b. April 17, 1746. 10. - Emelia, b. Oct. 27, 1750, m. Marvin Lord of Lyme. 11. Martha, b. - April 23, 1753, d. May 9, 1753. - -The children of Roger, son of Roger, son of Roger, son of Simon, son -of Henry, by Dorcas Burnham, his wife, were - - 1. Martha, b. Oct. 29, 1777, (?) m. Samuel Treat, Windsor, d. - April 27, 1781. 2. Roger, b. May 25, 1760. 3. Abner, b. March - 12, 1762, d. May 11, 1762. 4. Jemima, b. May 14, 1763, m. James - Steel. 5. Cornelius, b. July 12, 1765. 6. Hannah, b. Aug. 1, - 1769, d. Dec. 31, 1769. 7. Abigail, b. Dec. 11, 1770. 8. Seth, b. - Oct. 11, 1773. 9. Emelia, b. July 17, 1776, d. July 29, 1776. 10. - Emelia, b. Feb. 2, 1779. 11. Oliver, b. March 6, 1780, d. April - 24, 1781. 12. Rhoda, b. April 13, 1785. - -The children of Roger, son of Roger, son of Roger, son of Roger, son -of Simon, son of Henry, by Mary Steel, his wife, were - - 1. Maryann, b. Nov. 11, 1784. 2. Mehetabel, b. May 19, 1786, d. - July 13, 1787. 3. Mehitable, b. March 20, 1788, d. April 30, - 1788. 4. Oliver, b. May 25, 1789. - -The children of Epaphras, son of Roger, son of Roger, son of Simon, -son of Henry, by Mabel Burnham, his wife, were - - 1. Sarah, b. July 10, 1765. 2. James, b. April 19, 1767. 3. - Mabel, b. March 17, 1771. 4. Mary, b. July 26, 1773. - -The children of Parmenio, son of Roger, son of Roger, son of Simon, -son of Henry, by Mary Ballard, his wife, were - - 1. Alfred, b. April 14, 1769. 2. Parmenio, b. Dec. 17, 1770. 3. - Prudence, b. Aug. 21, 1772, d. Aug. 2, 1776. 4. Josiah, b. April - 20, 1776. 5. Mary, b. Oct. 27, 1778. 6. Pruda, b. May 10, 1789. - -The children of James, son of Epaphras, son of Roger, son of Roger, -son of Simon, son of Henry, by Miriam Munsell were - - 1. Anson, b. April 9, 1787. 2. Epaphras, b. April 7, 1789. - -The children of Alexander, son of Roger, son of Simon, son of Henry, -were, by Lydia Atwater, his wife, - - 1. Jeremiah, b. Nov. 14, 1733. 2. Alexander, b. 1735, d. 1756. 3. - Lydia, b. 1737, m. Samuel Austin of New Haven; - -by Mary Richards, - - 4. Esther, b. Sept. 16, 1746, d. Oct. 9, 1746. 5. Simon, b. Aug. - 9, 1747. 6. Esther, b. July 17, 1749, m. Samuel Treat of E. - Windsor. 7. George, b. May 23, 1751, d. Oct. 17, 1751. 8. George, - b. Oct. 17, 1752. 9. Christopher, b. Oct. 1, 1754. 10. Mary, b. - Aug. 7, 1756, m. Elihu Griswold of Windsor. 11. Alexander, b. Sept. - 15, 1758. 12. Guy, b. Aug. 7, 1760. 13. Elisabeth, b. Jan. 13, - 1763, m. Elizur Wolcott of E. Windsor. - -The children of Jeremiah, son of Alexander, son of Roger, son of -Simon, son of Henry, by Sarah Goodsale, his wife, were - - 1. Martha, b. Aug. 18, 1762. 2. Thomas, b. Aug. 17, 1764. 3. - Sarah, b. May 7, 1767. - -The children of Simon, son of Alexander, son of Roger, son of Simon, -son of Henry, by Lucy Rogers, his wife, were - - 1. Emelia. 2. ----. 3. ----. 4. Alexander. 5. Lucy. 6. Mary. 7. - Lucy. 8. Martha. 9. Sophia. 10. Catharine. 11. Elisabeth. - -The children of George, son of Alexander, son of Roger, son of Simon, -son of Henry, by T---- Rowland were - - 1. Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1777. 2. Lucy, b. Jan. 31, 1780. 3. Henry - Rowland, b. March 22, 1783. 4. William Frederick, b. June 9, - 1787. 5. Elisabeth, b. Nov. 14, 1790. - -The children of Christopher, son of Alexander, son of Roger, son of -Simon, son of Henry, by Lucy Parsons, his wife, were - - 1. Laura, b. May 7, 1783. 2. Elisabeth, b. Jan. 20, 1784. 3. - Christopher, b. June 20, 1786. 4. Laura, b. Oct. 3, 1789. - -The children of Alexander, son of Alexander, son of Roger, son of -Simon, son of Henry, by Frances Burbanks, his wife, were - - 1. Frances, b. Aug. 9, 1786. 2. Henry, b. March 16, 1788. 3. - Alexander, b. Feb. 14, 1790. - -The children of Guy, son of Alexander, son of Roger, son of Simon, -son of Henry, by Abigail Allyn, his wife, were - - 1. Abigail. 2. Abigail, b. Oct., 1786. 3. Guy, b. Oct., 1788. 4. - James, b. Nov., 1790. - -The children of Erastus, son of Roger, son of Simon, son of Henry, by -Jerusha Wolcott, his wife, were - - 1. Erastus, b. Dec. 24, 1747, d. Aug. 16, 1751. 2. Fluvia, b. - May 27, 1750, d. Aug. 23, 1751. 3. Erastus, b. July 6, 1752. - 4. Fluvia, b. Jan. 5, 1754, m. Roswell Grant of E. Windsor. 5. - Jerusha, b. Nov. 29, 1755, m. Samuel Wolcott of E. Windsor. 6. - Aiodi, b. Sept. 29, 1759. 7. Albert, b. Dec. 19, 1761. - -The children of Erastus, son of Erastus, son of Roger, son of Simon, -son of Henry, by Chloe Bissell, his wife, were - - 1. Erastus, b. Oct. 7, 1784. 2. Chloe, b. April 19, 1786. 3. - Edward, b. Oct. 12, 1788. - -The children of Albert, son of Erastus, son of Roger, son of Simon, -son of Henry, by Hannah Loomis, his wife, were - - 1. Hannah, b. May 19, 1786. 2. Albert, b. Nov. 20, 1787. 3. - Cynthia, b. Sept. 15, 1789. - -The children of Oliver, son of Roger, son of Simon, son of Henry, by -Lorana Collins, his wife, were - - 1. Oliver, b. Aug. 31, 1757, d. Sept. 13, 1787. 2. Oliver, - b. Jan. 11, 1760, m. Elisabeth Stoughton, was Governor of - Connecticut, died in New York City, June 1, 1833, and was - interred in Litchfield, Ct., his native place. 3. Lorana, (or - Laura,) b. Dec. 15, 1761, m. William Moseley, Esq. of Hartford. - 4. Mary Ann, b. Feb. 15, 1766, m. Chancey Goodrich, Esq., of - Hartford. 5. Frederick, b. Nov. 2, 1767, m. 1. Betsey Huntington - of Norwich, b. Nov. 8, 1774, d. April 2, 1812; 2. Mrs. Sally W. - Cook, b. Aug. 7, 1785, d. Sept. 14, 1842. By his first wife, he - had six children; namely, 1. Mary Ann Goodrich, b. Aug. 9, 1801. - 2. Hannah Huntington, b. Jan. 14, 1803. 3. Joshua Huntington, - b. Aug. 29, 1804. 4. Elisabeth, b. March 6, 1806. 5. Frederick - Henry, b. Aug. 19, 1808. 6. Laura Maria, b. Aug 14, 1811. By his - second wife, he had four children; namely, 7. Charles Moseley, - b. Nov. 20, 1816. 8. Chauncey Goodrich, b. March 15, 1819. 9. - Henry Griswold, b. Nov. 24, 1820. 10. Mary Frances, b. July 9, - 1823.--He d. May 28, 1837. - - * * * * * - - [The above Family Genealogy was found among the papers of - the late Hon. Frederick Wolcott of Litchfield, Ct., and was - transmitted to us for publication, by George C. Woodruff, Esq. - We purpose to publish at some future time, a brief Memoir of - the Wolcott Family, accompanied with an engraving of one of the - Governor Wolcotts.] - - - - -THE MINOT FAMILY. - -BY LEMUEL SHATTUCK, ESQ. - -(Concluded from page 178.) - - -FIFTH GENERATION. - -(23) V. George Minot [57--3] d. in Dorchester, Nov. 10, 1744, a. 41. -He m. Abigail Fenno, Dec. 24, 1729. After his death she m. William -Tucker of Milton. They had - - 133--1 John, bapt. Dec. 6, 1730, m. Martha Wild of Milton. (51) - 134--2 Jerusha, Jan. 13, 1733, m. Col. Lemuel Robinson of Dorchester. - 135--3 Abigail. - 136--4 Samuel, 1742. - -(24) V. Dea. George Farrar m. Mary Barrett [61--1] and lived in -Lincoln. He d. of the small-pox, May 28, 1777, a. 73. She d. Sept. -25, 1778, in her 73d year. The children were - - 137--1 George, b. Nov. 23, 1730, gr. H. C., 1751, d. Sept. 17, 1756. - See notice of him in History of - Concord, p. 247. - 138--2 Mary, b. July 6, 1732, m. Nathan Brown of Lincoln. - 139--3 Sarah, b. Aug. 11, 1733, d. July 28, 1736. - 140--4 Sarah, b. Oct. 4, 1736. - 141--5 Elisabeth, b. Feb. 2, 1739, m. Stephen Hosmer, Jr., May 3, 1743. - 142--6 Humphrey, b. Feb. 28, 1740, m. Lucy Farrar, April 26, 1770. - [195--6] - 143--7 Joseph, b. Jan. 20, 1744, gr. H. C., 1767. See History of - Concord, p. 314. - 144--8 Love, b. June 13, 1749, d. young. - -(25) V. Oliver Barrett [64--4] lived in Bolton, where he d. April 4, -1788, a. 76. He m. Hannah Hunt of Concord, Dec. 8, 1738, who d. April -7, 1774, a. 57. They had - - 145--1 Rebecca, b. Jan. 1, 1739, m. David Nurse, June 3, 1762, a - farmer who settled in Bolton, had 9 children, d. March 26, 1823. - - 146--2 Hannah, b. Feb. 19, 1742, m. William Sawyer, Jan. 18, - 1764, a farmer of Berlin, had a family, d. Feb., 1830. - - 147--3 Bathsheba, April 2, 1744, m. Aholiab Sawyer, June 5, 1769, - a farmer of Templeton, and had a family. - - 148--4 Oliver, b. July 22, 1746, m. Sarah Whitcomb. Settled on - his father's farm. Had 5 children. He d. May 11, 1817, a. 70. She - d. Feb. 5, 1834, a. 80. - - 149--5 Ruth, b. Dec. 24, 1749, m. Jonathan Nurse, Oct. 20, 1772, - a farmer of Bolton, had 10 children, d. Dec. 16, 1841. - - 150--6 Abigail, b. Aug. 8, 1752, m. Calvin Sawyer, a farmer of - Bolton. She had 8 sons and 2 daughters, d. Nov. 24, 1839, a. 87. - -(26) V. Capt. Humphrey Barrett [65--5] lived in Concord, where he d. -March 24, 1783, in his 68th year. He m. his cousin, Elisabeth Adams, -[86--2] Dec. 9, 1742. She d. June 5, 1791, in her 70th year. The -children were - - 151--1 Elisabeth, b. April 10, 1745, m. Dea. Geo. Minot. (111--5.) - 152--2 Rebecca, b. Feb. 13, 1746, m. Reuben Hunt, Jan. 18, 1770. - 153--3 Mary, b. Nov. 18, 1748, m. Jonas Lee. - 154--4 Sarah, b. Sept. 8, 1750, d. Aug. 14, 1751. - 155--5 Humphrey, b. May 23, 1752, m. Rebecca Heywood, July 6, 1780. - He d. without issue, March 18, - 1827, a. 74. - 156--6 Sarah, b. Feb. 16, 1754, m. Stephen Barrett, June 22, 1775. - [187--7] - 157--7 Martha, b. May 21, 1756, m. Dea. Joshua Brooks, Feb. 27, - 1780. - 158--8 Ruth, b. Dec. 25, 1760, m. Jonas Haywood, Esq., Feb. 3, - 1786. - 159--9 Abel, b. Oct. 28, 1764, m. Lucy Minot, Dec. 1, 1796. - (21--3) He was a merchant; d. - in England. She d. Sept. 25, - 1798, a. 28, leaving one son, - b. Sept. 18, 1797, who d. Jan. - 2, 1818, a. 20. - -(27) V. Col. Charles Prescott m. Elisabeth Barrett, [66--6] and lived -in Concord. He represented the town nine years, was Justice of the -Peace and intrusted with many important offices. He d. Feb. 2, 1779, -a. 68. She d. April 23, 1799, aged 82. They had 7 children; - - 160--1 Elisabeth, b. Aug. 31, 1737, m. 1. Jesse Hosmer. 2. Aaron Jones. - 161--2 Lucy, b. Dec. 21, 1738, d. single, Dec. 22, 1819, a. 81. - 162--3 Mary, b. Aug. 9, 1742, d. single, May 4, 1797, a. 55. - 163--4 Charles, b. Sept. 24, 1744, d. single, May 10, 1810, a. 65. - 164--5 Rebecca, b. Sept. 19, 1746, m. Joseph Hayward. - 165--6 John, b. Oct. 18, 1748, d. Sept. 12, 1753. - 166--7 Anne, b. June 7, 1760, m. Amos Baker of Lincoln. - -(28) V. John Barrett [67--7] lived in the north part of Concord as a -farmer. He m. Lois Brooks, Nov. 15, 1744, and had - - 167--1 Joseph, b. Jan. 5, 1745, lived in Mason, N. H. - 168--2 John, b. Aug. 2, 1748, lived on his father's farm. He m. - Experience Ball, Nov. 29, 1780, and was father to Rev. Joshua - Barrett, who graduated at Dart. Coll. in 1810, and to Rev. John - Barrett, who graduated at Williams Coll. in 1810. - 169--3 Lydia, b. m. 1. Silas Mann. 2. Dea. George Minot. - [111--5] - 170--4 Rebecca, b. m. Samuel White. - -Another daughter m. a Chamberlain, another m. a Boynton, and another -d. single. - -(29) V. Benjamin Barrett [61--1] lived in Concord, where he d. Oct. -23, 1738, having had three children, names given below. He m. Rebecca -Jones, who, after Mr. Barrett's death, m. Jonas Prescott of Westford, -Dec. 25, 1740. - - 171--1 Rebecca, b. Feb. 19, 1731, m. Nathaniel Boynton of Westford. - 172--2 Benjamin, b. Jan. 9, 1735, m. Sarah Miriam of Lexington. - 173--3 Jonas, b. Sept. 24, 1737, m. - -The last two settled in Ashby. - -(30) V. Dea. Thomas Barrett [70--2] d. in Concord, June 20, 1779, -a. 72, on the place where his father lived. He and his brother Col. -James, did a large business and left a large estate. He m. Mary -Jones. They had 7 children, as follows; - - 174--1 Thomas, b. Nov. 17, 1731, m. Dorcas Minot, [110--4] Jan. 15, - 1761. - 175--2 Ruth, b. Oct. 19, 1734, m. Capt. Charles Miles. - 176--3 Charles, b. Jan. 13, 1740, m. Rebecca Minot, [112--6] and - lived in New Ipswich, N. H.; - had 2 sons and 2 daughters. - 177--4 Samuel, b. m. Sarah and lived at the mill - east of the old place. He had - one son, Samuel, b. Dec. 24, - 1773, d. Aug. 1, 1825; and - 2 daughters. - 178--5 b. m. David Hubbard of Hanover, N. H. - 179--6 Amos, b. April 23, 1752, m. and lived where his - father did, and had 2 sons and - 4 daughters. - 180--7 Mary, b. Nov. 21, 1756. - -(31) V. Col. James Barrett [71--3] was the distinguished commander -of the Provincial troops in the battle of Concord, when the first -forcible resistance was made to the British, at the commencement of -hostilities in the American Revolution, on the 19th April, 1775. -He died April 11, 1779, a. 68. The following epitaph is on his -gravestone in Concord. - - Here rests - in hope the body of - Col. James Barrett - who departed this life - April 11th, 1779, in the 69th year of his age. - _Sudden the summons came and quick the flight; - We trust to be with Christ in relms of light._ - In public and private life he was courteous, benevolent, - and charitable. His fidelity, uprightness and - ability in various offices and employments, justly - procured him esteem. For many years he represented this - Town in General Court. He early stepped forward in - the contest with Britain and distinguished himself in the - cause of America. His warm attachment to and careful - practice of the religion of Christ compleated his worth as - a Christian and with his other virtues preserve his memory - and keep it with that of the just which is blest. - -He m. Rebecca Hubbard, Dec. 21, 1732. Her mother was Rebecca -Bulkeley, a daughter of Capt. Joseph, granddaughter of Hon. Peter, -and great-granddaughter of Rev. Peter Bulkeley the first minister -of Concord. She d. Oct. 18, 1806, a. 90. They had the following -children; namely, - - 181--1 James, b. Jan. 4, 1734, m. Melicent Estabrook, July 4, 1758. - 182--2 Nathan, b. Dec. 30, 1735, m. Miriam Hunt, May 22, 1761. - 183--3 Lydia, b. Jan. 6, 1738, m. Josiah Melvin. - 184--4 Rebecca, b. Nov. 19, 1741, m. Dea. George Minot. (111--5) - 185--5 Ephraim, b. March 3, 1744, d. single, March 3, 1761, a. 26. - 186--6 Perses, b. Sept. 25, 1747, m. Jonas Patten. She d. Sept. 5, - 1781, a. 34, leaving one son and - 4 daughters. - 187--7 Stephen, b. Jan. 29, 1750, m. Sarah Barrett. [156--6] - 188--8 Peter, b. April 16, 1754, m. Mary Prescott, July 8, 1779. - [219--8] - 189--9 Lucy, b. July 20, 1761, m. Noah Ripley, April 8, 1783. He - was brother of Rev. Dr. Ripley - of Concord. She d. Dec. 19, 1787, - a. 26, leaving 2 sons and one - daughter. - -(32) V. Dea. Samuel Farrar of Lincoln m. Lydia Barrett, [72--4] Jan. -12, 1732. He d. April 17, 1783, a. 75. She d. Children, - - 190--1 Lydia, b. Sept. 2, 1736, m. William Bond, March 6, 1755. - 191--2 Samuel, b. Feb. 14, 1737, m. Mary Hoar, Feb. 10, 1772. - 192--3 Stephen, b. Sept. 8, 1738, m. Eunice Brown. - 193--4 James, b. July 21, 1741, d. in 1767, single, in New Ipswich. - 194--5 Rebecca, b. Aug. 13, 1743, m. Dr. John Preston, Nov. 29, 1764. - 195--6 Lucy, b. April 27, 1745, m. Humphrey Farrar, April 26, 1770. - [142--6] - 196--7 Timothy, b. June 28, 1747, m. Nancy Bancroft. - 197--8 Mary, b. July 5, 1754, d. Sept. 2, 1756. - -(33) V. Dr. Timothy Minot [77--1] gr. H. C., 1747. He was a physician -in Concord, where he d. July 25, 1804, a. 78. He m. Mary Martin, -daughter of Rev. John Martin of Northborough. She d. Dec. 23, 1801. -Children, - - 198--1 Timothy Martin, b. Aug. 16, 1757, m. Hannah Austin, Jan. 27, 1804. - Lived in Boston. He d. Nov. 18, - 1837. She d. March 17, 1820, aged - 59. - 199--2 Mary, b. May 20, 1759, m. Ammi White, Aug. 12, 1788. - 200--3 Abigail, b. Aug. 20, 1761, d. Aug., 1830, unmarried. - 201--4 Stephen, b. Jan. 30, 1763, d. single, in Concord, April, 1821. - 202--5 Susannah, b. Aug. 4, 1765, m. Col. John Parker of Billerica. - 203--6 James, b. Jan. 28, 1767, d. single in Ohio. - 204--7 Sarah, b. Sept. 2, 1769, m. Tilly Merrick, Esq. - 205--8 John, b. Sept. 26, 1771, m. Thomasine Elisabeth Bond. - 206--9 Beulah, b. June 28, 1773, m. May 17, 1807, Professor Ebenezer - Adams of Dartmouth College. - -(34) V. Tilly Merrick m. Mary Minot, [78--2] and settled in Concord. -They had - - 207--1 Tilly, b. Jan. 29, 1755, m. Sarah Minot, his cousin. - 208--2 John, b. Feb. 7, 1761, d. single, Aug. 15, 1797, a. 36. - 209--3 Stephen, b. Aug. 8, 1767. - 210--4 Augustus, b. July 5, 1759. - -(35) V. Maj. John Minot [80--1] m. Sarah Stow of Marlborough, Jan. -26, 1744, lived in Concord, where he d. July 31, 1802, a. 85. She d. -Feb. 11, 1796, a. 75. They had - - 211--1 John, b. m. Hannah Hubbard. - -(36) V. Benjamin Prescott, Esq., of Salem, who gr. H. C., 1736, m. -Rebecca Minot, [81--2] Nov. 26, 1741. He d. Aug. 18, 1778, a. 61. She -d. Oct. 8, 1761, a. 41. They had the following children; - - 212--1 Rebecca, b. May 20, 1742, m. Hon. Roger Sherman, May 12, 1763. - 213--2 Martha, b. Nov. 23, 1744, m. Stephen Goodhue, Esq., of New - Haven. - 214--3 Benjamin, b. March 14, 1747, d. May 15, 1751. - 215--4 James, b. March 16, 1749, m. Rebecca Barrett, Oct. 28, 1783, - daughter of James Barrett, Jr. - [181--1] - 216--5 Elisabeth, b. Dec. 1, 1752, m. Henry Daggett, Esq., Nov. 26, - 1771. - 217--6 Mercy, b. Feb. 5, 1755, m. Henry Gibbs, Oct. 29, 1781. - 218--7 Benjamin, b. Oct. 22, 1757, m. Hannah Blakely of New Haven. - 219--8 Mary, b. May 9, 1760, m. Peter Barrett, July 8, 1779. - [188--8] - -(37) V. Capt. James Minot [82--3] m. for his 1st wife Rebecca Stow -of Merrimac, and for his 2nd wife, a daughter of Col. Blanchard of -Tyngsborough. He d. Aug. 2, 1773, a. 47. She d. Feb. 9, 1767, a. 37. -They had the following children, of whom I have not been able to -obtain many particulars. - - 220--1 Rebecca, m. Isaac Newton; - 221--2 Rachel, m. ---- Anger and d. without issue; - 222--3 Joseph, d. about 1776, a. 20; - 223--4 James, d. about 1776, a. 18; - 224--5 Sarah, m. ---- Upton; - 225--6 Hannah, m. Darly; - 226--7 Elisabeth, m. Smith; - 227--8 Martha, m. ---- Squiers. - -(38) V. Rev. Josiah Sherman, minister of Woburn, m. Martha Minot, -[83--4] Jan. 24, 1757. A biographical notice of Mr. Sherman is in the -American Quarterly Register, Vol. XI., p. 188. They had the following -children, born in Woburn, and perhaps others. - - 228--1 Roger Minot Sherman, b. Dec. 9, 1757, settled in Fairfield, Ct. - 229--2 Martha, b. Dec. 8, 1758. - 230--3 Elisabeth, b. March 26, 1761. - 231--4 Mary, b. Feb. 3, 1763. - 232--5 Susanna, b. April 7, 1765. - -(39) V. Lt. Ephraim Minot, [84--5] d. in Concord, Sept. 30, 1794, a. -53. He was an officer, and was wounded in the battle of Princeton. He -m. Abigail Prescott, who d. Feb. 27, 1825, a. 78. Their children were - - 233--1 Abel, b. July 10, 1765, m. Lydia Shed. He d. in Lincoln, - Aug. 6, 1809, having had 6 - children. - 234--2 Abigail, b. Jan. 30, 1778, m. William Bowers, May 12, 1797. - 235--3 Mary, b. Jan. 10, 1781. - 236--4 George, b. Jan. 31, 1783. - 237--5 Louisa, b. Feb. 10, 1787. - -(40) V. Capt. Daniel Adams [85--1] removed from Lincoln, the place -of his birth, to Townsend, where he d. Oct. 10, 1795, in his 75th -year. He represented the town in General Court, and held many -important civil and military offices. He was thrice married. 1. To -Kesia Brooks, daughter of Benjamin Brooks of Townsend, previously of -Concord, March 1, 1744. She d. in childbirth, Aug. 21, 1754, having -had 6 children, 5 of whom survived her. 2. To Mehitable Crosby of -Townsend, by whom he had 10 children. She d. April 4, 1783, a. 49. -3. Widow Sarah Phelps of Lancaster, Jan. 30, 1784. His children were -as follows; - - 238--1 d. in infancy. - 239--2 Daniel, b. July 29, 1746, m. Lucy Taylor. May 21, 1772. He - d. June 10, 1827, a. 80. She d. - Sept. 12, 1836. He was father to - Dr. Daniel Adams of Mont Vernon, - author of several valuable - school books. - 240--3 Abner, b. Oct. 22, 1748, m. 1. Mary Sawtell. 2. Sarah - Sawtell. - 241--4 Rebecca, b. July 6, 1750, m. James Campbell, Dec. 21, 1769. - He lived in Brookline, N. H. She - d. at an advanced age, leaving - several children. - 242--5 Benjamin, b. Oct. 15, 1752, m. Mary Stone of Ashly, July 16, - 1778. He d. in Cavendish, Vt.; - had 7 children, 4 sons and 3 - daughters. - 243--6 Ephraim, b. Aug. 14, 1754, m. Lydia Knowlton, lived in - Jaffrey, N. H. Had one child, - who died without issue. - 244--7 Kesia, b. m. John Sherwin. She d. May 25, - 1782, a. 23, a few days after - her marriage. - 245--8 Elisabeth, b. d. unmarried, Jan. 9, 1782, a. 19. - 246--9 Mehetabel, b. m. John Smith; lived in Brookline - and had 4 sons and 2 daughters. - 247--10 Mary, b. m. Dea. John Giles, May 6, 1789. He - had been previously m.; and his - first wife d. Oct. 17, 1788, a. - 24, by whom he had 5 children. - By his 2nd wife he had also 5 - children. He d. Aug. 14, 1825, - a. 62. - 248--11 James, d. young. - 249--12 Phebe, b. Dec. 18, 1770, m. Solomon Jewett, lived in - Townsend and had 4 children: - Solomon, Phebe, Kesia, and - Rozella. - 250--13 James, b. April 15, 1773, m. Sybel Gasset, lived in Townsend, - and had 3 daughters. - 251--14 Joseph, b. m. Polly Brooks. - Two other children d. in infancy. - -(41) V. Capt. Joseph Adams [87--3] d. in Lincoln, March 28, 1807, a. -83. He m. 1. Mary Eveleth of Stow, 1746. She d. July 10, 1791, a. 66, -having had 11 children. He m. 2. Mrs. Priscilla Reed Martin, July 23, -1795. Children, - - 252--1 Mary, b. April 29, 1747, d. Jun. 4, 1748, a. 1 y., 1 m., 6 d. - 253--2 Joseph, b. Jan. 4, 1749, m. Love Lawrence, Sept. 4. 1770. He - was a physician; d. in England, - Feb. 2, 1807, a. 58. He had 12 - children. [303--2] - 254--3 Charles, b. Nov. 8, 1750, was a physician, and loyalist, d. at - Annapolis in Nova Scotia. - 255--4 Nathan, b. Nov. 11, 1752, d. Aug. 11, 1756, a. 3 y., 9 m. - 256--5 Mary, b. Oct. 11, 1754, d. Aug. 17, 1756, a. 1 y., 10 m., - 6 d. - 257--6 Sarah, b. Sept. 13, 1756, m. Robert Eames, Sudbury, Aug. 14, - 1783. - 258--7 Mary, b. July 14, 1758, m. Elisha Wheeler, Sudbury, May 4, - 1779. - 259--8 Nathan, b, March 1, 1760, m. Hannah McCarty, d. in Charlestown - without issue, Sept. 25, 1830, a. - 70. - 260--9 Martha, b. July 15, 1763, m. Dea. David Lawrence of Littleton, - Dec. 23, 1790. - 261--10 Daniel, b. April 14, 1766, m. Sarah Goldthwait of Boston. - 262--11 Love, b. March 21, 1749, m. Henry Willard of Keene. - -(42) V. Capt. Nathan Brown m. Rebecca Adams, [88--1] March 10, 1749. -He d. in Lincoln, Oct. 13, 1781. She afterwards m. Solomon Foster, -Nov. 15, 1790. She d. Dec. 24, 1811, a. 84. Children, - - 263--1 Mary, b. m. Benjamin Allen. - 264--2 Rebecca, b. April 8, 1751, d. unmarried, April 27, 1773. - 265--3 Elisabeth, b. Oct. 1, 1752, m. Dr. Richard Russell, Jan. 28, - 1777. - 266--4 Nathan, b. April 16, 1755, m. Lucy Garfield, 1775. He was - killed in Concord, by a load of - wood passing over him, Dec. 12, - 1814, a. 60. - 267--5 Daniel, b. Sept. 13, 1757, d. in the West Indies. - 268--6 Eunice, b. Feb. 13, 1761, m. William Lawrence of Lincoln, - Nov., 1780. - 269--7 Lydia, b. Nov. 12, 1763, m. Daniel Weston of Lincoln, 1793. - 270--8 Kezia, b. Feb. 28, 1769, m. Solomon Foster of Lincoln. - -(43) V. James Adams [89--5] m. 1. Kezia Conant, Jan. 15, 1756, by -whom he had 3 children. She d. Aug. 22, 1765, in her 37th year. He -m. 2. Delia Adams, daughter of Edward Adams of Sudbury, June 5, 1766, -by whom he had 12 children. She d. in Boston, Dec. 9, 1813, a. 70, -and was buried in Lincoln. He d. in Lincoln, March 10, 1805, a. 71. -His children were - - 271--1 Betsey, b. Jan. 22, 1757, m. Benjamin Adams of Sudbury, Nov. - 20, 1777. - 272--2 James, b. Jan. 14, 1759, m. Nancy Tarbell of Lincoln, Nov. - 15, 1796. - 273--3 Kezia, b. Nov. 6, 1762, d. March 30, 1769, a. 6 y., 4 m., - 24 d. - 274--4 Delia, b. May 26, 1767, m. Ebenezer Woodward of Hanover, - N. H., Feb. 26, 1795. - 275--5 Andrew, b. Oct. 9, 1768, m. Polly Hartwell of Lincoln, Sept. - 10, 1795. - 276--6 Eli, b. March 14, 1770, m. Sarah Swift of Boston. - 277--7 Samuel, b. June 7, 1771, m. Margaret Austin of Charlestown, - Sept. 15, 1797. - 278--8 Kezia, b. Feb. 19, 1773, m. Ephraim Jones of Boston, Dec. 6, - 1827. - 279--9 Joseph, b. Nov. 7, 1774, d. July 7, 1775, a. 8 m. - 280--10 Rebecca, b. April 4, 1776, d. Sept. 23, 1780, a. 4 y., 3 m., - 19 d. - 281--11 Joseph, b. June 17, 1778, d. Sept. 13, 1780, a. 2 y, 2 m., - 26 d. - 282--12 John, b. Nov. 13, 1780, d. in Havana, Oct. 15, 1809, a. 29. - 283--13 Mary, b. July 9, 1782, m. Silas P. Tarbell of Boston, - March 10, 1808. - 284--14 Joseph, b. May 6, 1784, m. 1. Betsey Archibald of Maine. - 285--15 Daniel, b. Feb. 20, 1789, d. Nov. 20, 1789. - -(44) V. Abel Miles m. Lydia Adams, [90--6] Feb. 26, 1756. He removed -from Concord to New Ipswich, N. H., where he d. Dec. 6, 1814, a. 81. -She d. March 20, 1804, a. 68. He had the following children, all born -in Concord; - - 286--1 Lydia, bapt. Feb. 20, 1757, m. David Rumrell, Feb. 20, 1800. - 287--2 Elisabeth, b. Dec. 4, 1758, m. John Shattuck, Dec. 11, 1783. - 288--3 Polly, b. July 8, 1760, d. unmarried in N. Ipswich, Nov. - 14, 1804. - 289--4 Rebecca, b. Jan. 3, 1762, m. Levi Mansfield, Jan. 21, 1781. - 290--5 Abel, b. Oct. 17, 1768, m. Betsey Shipley, Nov. 10, 1794. - -(45) V. John Adams [91--1] lived in Lincoln. He m. 1. Lucy Hubbard, -Dec. 12, 1749, who d. Dec. 24, 1791, and 2. Beulah Baker, Feb. 20, -1794. He had the following children, - - 291--1 John, b. April 15, 1751; - 292--2 Edward, b. March 27, 1753; - 293--3 Abel, b. March 8, 1755, d. July 9, 1756; - 294--4 Abel, b. Feb. 20, 1757; - 295--5 Thomas, b. March 22, 1761; - 296--6 Bulkeley, b. March 14, 1759, m. Persis Stone of Framingham, - 1785; - 297--7 Lucy, b. June 2, 1763; - 298--8 Ephraim, b. Feb. 24, 1765, d. Dec. 24, 1765; - 299--9 Rebecca, b. Feb. 28, 1767; - 300--10 Ephraim, b. Aug. 16, 1769, m. Susanna Flagg, 1789; - 301--11 James, b. June 8, 1772. - -(46) Rev. William Lawrence, minister of Lincoln, m. Love Adams, -[94--2.] He d. April 11, 1780, a. 56. She d. Jan. 3, 1820, a. 95. -(See Hist. Concord, p. 304.) They had children, - - 302--1 William, b. April 10, 1752, m. Eunice Brown, Nov., 1780. - 303--2 Love, b. April 18, 1754, m. Dr. Joseph Adams, Sept. 4, - 1770. [253--2] - 304--3 John Prescott, b. Dec. 24, 1755, m. Abby Kaine, d. Jan. 28, - 1808. - 305--4 Susanna, b. Jan. 4, 1758, d. March 12, 1836, unmarried. - 306--5 Sarah, b. May 12, 1760, m. Samuel Bass, Esq., of - Randolph, Oct. 29, 1783. She - d. Oct. 12, 1822. He gr. - H. C. 1782, d. Feb. 1, 1842. - 307--6 Phebe, b. Jan. 2, 1762, m. Rev. Edmund Foster of - Littleton, Oct. 29, 1783. - 308--7 Anna, b. March 15, 1764, m. James De Wolf, d. Dec. 8, 1807. - Mary, b. Nov. 1, 1767, m. Asa Brooks, d. Sept., 1812. - 309--8 Abel, b. Aug. 23, 1771, m. Mary Hodge, d. Sept. 1, 1800. - -(47) Capt. Jonas Minot [108--2] m. 1. Mary Hall, daughter of Rev. -Willard Hall of Westford. She was b. July 30, 1738, and d. Nov. 3, -1792, in her 49th year. He m. 2. Mrs. Mary Dunbar, widow of Rev. Asa -Dunbar of Salem. She d. in Boston, Aug. 2, 1830, a. 82. He d. in -Concord, March 20, 1813, a. 78. A great part of Wilmot, N. H., was -granted to him. - - 310--1 Mary, b. Feb. 21, 1761, m. Rev. Laban Ainsworth of Jaffrey, - Dec. 4, 1787. - 311--2 Sarah, b. Jan. 14, 1763, m. Josiah Melvin, Jan. 28, 1790. - 312--3 Jonas, b. Feb. 13, 1765, m. Miriam Barrett, Nov. 18, 1790. - She was the dau. of Col. Nathan - Barrett. [182--2] - 313--4 Elisabeth, b. Aug. 22, 1767, m. Daniel Page, Jan. 25, 1791. - 314--5 Abigail, b. Sept. 3, 1769, m. John Stanyan, Oct., 1818. - 315--6 Martha, b. Oct. 17, 1771, m. Charles Barrett, Jr., of New - Ipswich, Oct. 15, 1799. He was - the son of Charles Barrett. - [176--3] - 316--7 Samuel, b. April 1, 1774, m. Hannah Stow of Concord. - 317--8 Stephen, b. Sept. 28, 1776, m. Rebecca Trask, Nov. 9, 1809. - 318--9 James, b. July 4, 1779, m. Sally Wilson of Nelson, Feb. 8, - 1809. - -(48) Dea. George Minot [111--5] settled in the eastern part of -Concord. He commanded a company in the Revolution, at Saratoga, (the -taking of Burgoyne,) and in several other places; and was a highly -meritorious officer. He was chosen deacon of the church, Aug. 3, -1779, and continued in office until his death, which took place April -13, 1808, a. 65. He m. 3 wives, all by the name of Barrett. His 1st -wife was Rebecca, daughter of Col. James Barrett, [184--4] whom he -m. Jan. 17, 1765, and who d. March 3, 1775, a. 33. His 2nd wife was -Elisabeth, daughter of Humphrey Barrett, [151--1] whom he m. Dec. 12, -1776, and who d. April 10, 1789, a. 45; and his 3d wife was Lydia, -daughter of John Barrett and widow of Silas Mann. [169--3] He had the -following children all by his first wife; - - 319--1 Rebecca, b. Feb. 4, 1768, m. William Heywood. - 320--2 Dorcas, b. April 19, 1769, m. James Barrett, a grandson of - Col. James B. [181--1] - 321--3 Lucy, b. April 27, 1770, m. Abel Barrett [159--9]. - -(49) V. Stephen Minot [115--1] m. Sarah Clark, only daughter of -Jonas Clark, Esq., of Boston, June 10, 1736. He d. Sunday, Jan. 14, -1787, a. 75. He graduated H. C. 1730, and was a merchant of Boston. -His wife d. June 10, 1783, in her 64th year. They had the following -children; - - 322--1 Jonas Clark, b. Aug. 20, 1738, m. Hannah Speakman. - 323--2 Stephen, b. Feb. 14, 1740, merchant in Jamaica, d. single. - 324--3 William, b. Feb. 7, 1743, m. Mary Collson, July 1, 1773, - one of the first settlers in - Camden, Me., d. in Boston, - Nov., 1773. - 325--4 John, b. Oct. 21, 1744, m. Mary De Rue of Boston; was - master of a vessel in the West - India and Surinam trade, d. of - fever at sea, leaving one child, - Stephen. - 326--5 Francis, b. Aug. 9, 1746, d. single in Marlborough, where he - had been for his health. He was - a merchant in Boston. - 327--6 Sarah, b. Nov. 7, 1749, m. Gilbert Warner Speakman, by whom - she had 6 children. She d. Aug. - 29, 1786. - 328--7 James, b. Dec. 5, 1751, m. Mary Deming of Boston. - 329--8 Christopher, b. March 8, 1754, m. Elisabeth Mayhew of - Plymouth. - 330--9 George, b. Sept. 6, 1756, d. March 2, 1758. - 331--10 George Richards, b. Dec. 22, 1758, He grad. H. C. 1778, and was - the historian of - Massachusetts. He d. Jan. - 2, 1802. He m. Mary - Speakman. - -(50) V. Jonathan Minot [130--4] lived in Westford, where he d. Feb. -7, 1806, a. 83. He married Esther Proctor of Chelmsford, who d. March -30, 1808, a. 83. They had - - 332--1 Esther, b. May 23, 1747, m. Samuel Wright of Westford. - 333--2 Jonathan, b. Aug. 23, 1749, m. Hannah Eastman, Sept. 3, 1771. - He d. in Westminster, Ms. - 334--3 Joseph, b. Jan. 13, 1751. He was killed in the battle of - Bunker Hill. - 335--4 Olive, b. Jan. 14, 1753, m. William Reed of Westford. - 336--5 Elisabeth, b. Jan. 13, 1755. - 337--6 John Marston, grad. H. C. 1767, lived in - Castine, Me. - 338--7 Jesse, b. Nov. 5, 1759, m. Betsey Adams. - 339--8 Joash, b. m. ---- Hildreth of Westford. - 340--9 Patty, b. m. John Clark. - - - - -THE PARSONS FAMILY.[21] - - -As it respects the _origin_ of the name of Parsons, some have -supposed that it was derived from the word _parson_, a clerical -title, given from the fact that a clergyman is the principal person -in the church. Hence in law he is termed _ecclesiæ persona_, and has -full possession of all the rights of a parochial church. The _s_ is -added for euphony's sake, or from the fact that the individual was -the parson's son. - -Others have derived it from the word _parish_, as parish-son, meaning -the son of some parish, one supported or educated by the parish. - -And others again have supposed that the name is the same with -_Person_, _Peerson_, _Pierson_, and _Pearson_, modified in the -spelling. - -_Peirson_ or _Peerson_ is derived, according to Camden, from _son of -Peter_ or _Peterson_, the former coming originally from the French -word, _Pierre_. - -It does not appear that there has ever been any attempt to collect -even the materials for a history of the English family of Parsons, -so far as has come to our knowledge, notwithstanding there have -been many individuals among them of great distinction; as knights, -baronets, and noblemen. Those of the name are, and have been -for a long period, found in several counties; as Devonshire, -Buckinghamshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, &c. - -Prior to 1672, Andrew Parsons, gent., was of Somersetshire, and -Philip Parsons, gent., of Worcestershire. But the earliest record we -have noticed is in - -1290. WALTER was then a resident of Mulso in Ireland. How long -before this he or his ancestors went there we know not. The name -is still extant there, and something above one hundred years ago, -Bishop Gibson remarked, (in his edition of Camden's Britannia,) "The -honorable family of Parsons have been advanced to the dignity of -Viscounts, and more lately, Earls of Ross." - -1481. SIR JOHN was Mayor of Hereford, who had for his armorial -bearings, _Gules, a leopard's head between three crosses patee, -fitched in the foot ar._--Crest, _a halberd headed az. embued gules_. - -1546. ROBERT, afterwards the noted Jesuit, was born this year, and -died April 18, 1610, a. 64. He appears to have been the first of note -of his family. His father lived near Bridgewater, Eng., at a place -called Netherstoway. Robert was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, -and was early distinguished for his abilities, but being accused of -some irregularities he forsook his country and resided for a time -at Antwerp, Louvain, Padua, Rome, Paris and Valladolid. Becoming a -convert to the Romish faith, he propagated that doctrine with all his -ability, and was no small instrument in stirring up the benighted -vassals of Philip II. to attempt the conquest of his native country. -The event of that attempt will always be viewed with an intensity of -interest. - -How much Father Parsons had to do in circulating the Pope's bulls and -inflammatory tracts in England at the period of the Armada can never -be known, but from his knowledge of the country, the people, and -their language, it is not unlikely that his agency was by no means -inconsiderable. Fuller, in speaking of the fierceness of the battle -between the fleets observes, that "bullets did not fly about so much -at sea, as bastardly libels did by land; so fitly called, because -none durst father them." - -He established an English college at Rome and another at Valladolid, -for such of his countrymen as might follow him, or come otherwise -into exile. He published several works, but that by which he is -best known is entitled "Leicester's Commonwealth," which, though -abounding with misstatements, vague rumors, and base insinuations, -was nevertheless a work of great ability. And although the pen of Sir -Philip Sidney was exercised in its refutation, he is not considered -to have completely effected his object. This most singular book of -Father Robert was first printed in 1641, and in less than 70 years -had become so rare that an edition of it was published, purporting to -have been printed from a _newly discovered manuscript_, and passed -current as such without detection, it is believed. To the original -edition is appended a poem, entitled "Leycester's Ghost," a great -literary curiosity. An extract from the poem is as follows: - - Let no man think I exercis'd the Ghost - Of this great Peere that sleepeth in the dust,-- - Or conjur'd up his spirit to his cost - To presse with dispraise or praise unjust, - I am not partiall but give him his due, - And to his soule I wish eternall health, - Ne do I thinke all written tales are true, - That are inserted in his Common-wealth; - What others wrot before I do survive, - But am not like to them incenst with hate, - And as I plainely write, so do I strive - To write the truth, not wronging his estate. - Of whom it may bee said and censur'd well, - Hee both in vice and vertue did excell. - -1556. FRANCIS was vicar of Rothwell in Nottinghamshire. There is a -wood called Parsons' wood, in the hundred of Nassaburgh, in the same -county. - -1618. BARTHOLOMEW appears as the author of three sermons--"First -Fruits of the Gentiles," 4to. In 1616, "Assize Sermon," 4to. 1631, -"Dorcas, or a Perfect Patterne of a True Disciple," Sermon, 4to. -Oxford. - -[Illustration] - -1634. About this year Thomas Parsons was knighted by Charles I. The -foregoing engraving represents his arms, still retained in the family -in the United States, and by his descendants in London, among whom -were Sir John and Sir Humphrey; the former, Lord Mayor of that city -in 1704, the latter, in 1731 and 1740. The same coat of arms is also -retained by the branch of the Parsons family now long resident in -Barbadoes. - -Langley in Buckinghamshire was long a seat of a family of the name, -but they seem to have abandoned it about the end of the 17th century -for a residence in Nottinghamshire. The first of this family whose -descendants we can trace appears to have been - -RALPH, of Northampton, who had a son - -JOHN, who lived at Boveney, Co. Bucks, who had by his wife, dau. of ----- Cutler, Esq., - -JOHN of Boveney and Langley, who m. Elisabeth, the sole heiress of -Sir John Kidderminster, and had, - - 1. Charles, b. 1625, d. without issue. - 2. William, and three daughters. - -This WILLIAM, the only surviving son, m. Elisabeth, dau. and heiress -of Sir Lawrence Parsons, by whom he had two sons; one a Colonel, d. -without issue, and John, his successor. WILLIAM PARSONS (the father) -was made a baronet by Charles II. for his adherence to the cause -of his father, Charles I. He was somewhat conspicuous during the -_interregnum_, as may be inferred from his granting a pass to one -of the gentlemen of the privy chamber, to proceed to Ireland. The -gentleman, however, having been taken by the parliament officers, -was, Carte says, put to the rack, "to make him confess." This -circumstance is supposed to have given Butler the ground he has taken -in these lines in his _Hudibras_: - - "Rack 'em until they do confess, - Impeach of treason whom they please, - And most perfidiously condemn, - Those that engaged their lives for them." - -SIR THOMAS PARSONS of Great Milton in Oxfordshire, (before -mentioned,) m. in 1614, Catharine, a dau. of Edward Radcliff of -London, son of Alderman Radcliff, by whom he had ROBERT, THOMAS, -RICHARD, ANTHONY, and six daughters. He was the son of THOMAS of the -same place, by his first wife, Judith Garbrand of the city of Oxford, -who also had a daughter Amy, m. to Richard Alworth of Turford, -Buckinghamshire. His second wife was Sarah, dau. of Edmund Waller of -Costell, by whom he had three sons, JOHN, EDMUND, FRANCIS, and two -daughters, Elisabeth, m. Anthony Radcliff of Chalford, Co. Bucks, and -Ann, wife of Richard Baldwin of Beaconsfield, in the same county. - -The grandfather of SIR THOMAS was THOMAS of Great Milton, who m. -Catharine, dau. of Hester Sydenham, by whom he had THOMAS, HUGH, and -RICHARD. - -RICHARD m. Miss ---- Pierpont, and had a son JOHN of London, who m. -1. a dau. of Joshua Whistler, by whom he had a daughter Catharine; -he m. 2. Mary Gualter of London. Some of this family were among the -early emigrants to America. - -The first of the name we find in New England is JOSEPH, Springfield, -1636, where he appears as a witness to the deed from the Indians -of the lands of that place and vicinity to William Pynchon and -others, on the fifteenth of July. There appear, however, soon after, -at the same place, HUGH and BENJAMIN. And family tradition relates -that JOSEPH and BENJAMIN were brothers, that they were born in -Great Torrington, near Exeter, Devonshire, England, who, with other -children, accompanied their father to New England, about the year -1630. It is probable that they came over with Mr. Pynchon. - - (1) JOSEPH PARSONS,^1 as has been mentioned, was at Springfield in - 1636, where he probably remained until 1655, in which - year he removed to Northampton. On the records of the - latter town is this entry: "Joseph Parsons did at a Court - in Northampton, holden March, 1662, testifie that he was - a witness to a deed of the lands at Springfield, and a - bargain betweene the Indians and Mr. Pynchon, dated - July 15, 1636, for 18 fathoms of wampom, 18 coates, 18 - hatchets, 18 hoes, 18 knives." - - As soon as the town was incorporated he was elected - "Townsman," (or selectman,) though he subsequently - paid the town 20 shillings not to elect him to any office - during the second year of its incorporation. After that - we find him serving the town as "Townsman" for seven - years. He was a principal founder of Northampton, was - extensively engaged in the fur trade, and acquired a large - estate. - - He m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Bliss of Hartford, (afterwards - of Northampton,) Nov. 26, 1646. They resided in - Northampton till 1679, in which year they returned to - Springfield, where they both died. Among the records - of deaths of that town we find, "Cornet Joseph Parsons - was sick and died, Oct. 9, 1683." She outlived him - near 19 years, dying Jan. 29, 1712. Their children were, - - (2) I. Joseph,^2 b. 1647, m. Elisabeth, dau. of Elder John Strong, - (11) whose father was ancestor of the late Caleb Strong, - Governor of Massachusetts. He d. Nov. 29, 1729. She - was b. at Windsor, Ct., Feb. 24, 1648, d. at Northampton, - May 11, 1736, a. 88. - - (3) II. John,^2 b. 1649, m. Sarah, dau. of Lieut. ---- Clarke, at - Northampton, Dec. 23, 1675. - - (4) III. Samuel,^2 b. 1652, settled at Durham, Ct., 1706. - (21) - - (5) IV. Ebenezer,^2 b. 1655, served against the Indians in Philip's - war, and was killed fighting under Capt. Beers at - Northfield, Sept. 8, 1675, with his commander and many - more. He was the first white child born in Northampton. - - (6) V. Jonathan,^2 b. June 6, 1657, d. Oct. 19, 1684. - - (7) VI. David,^2 b. April 30, 1659. - - (8) VII. Mary,^2 b. June 27, 1661, m. 1. Joseph Ashley of - Springfield, Oct. 15, 1685; 2. Joseph Williston, March 2, - 1699. - - (9) VIII. Hannah,^2 b. 1663, m. Rev. Pelatiah Glover of Springfield, - Jan. 6, 1687. - - (10) IX. Abigail,^2 b. Sept. 3, 1666, m. John Colton, Feb. 19, 1689, - d. soon after, leaving a dau. who m. Francis Griswold of - Windsor, Ct. - - (11) X. Hester,^2 b. 1672, m. Joseph Smith of Greenwich, Ct. - -Joseph,^3 (2) who m. Elisabeth Strong, had, - - (12) I. Joseph,^3 b. June 28, 1671, graduated at H. C. 1697, being - (26) the first of the name who had graduated there. He m. - Elisabeth, dau. of Dr. Benjamin Thompson of Roxbury, - Ms., (who was son of Rev. William Thompson of Braintree, - Ms.,) in 1701. He settled in the ministry, 1st, at - Lebanon, Ct., 2nd, at Salisbury, Ms., in 1718, where he - d. March 13, 1739, a. 69. His wife d. at Kensington, N. H. - - (13) II. John,^3 b. Jan. 11, 1674. - - (14) III. Ebenezer,^3 b. Dec. 11, 1675, m. Mercy Stebbins, Dec. 15, - 1703, d. 1744. - - (15) IV. Elisabeth,^3 b. Feb. 3, 1678. - - (16) V. David,^3 b. Feb. 1, 1680, at Northampton, grad. H. C. 1705, - minister of Malden, 1708, of Leicester, 1721, where he - d. 1737, having been dismissed two years before. His - son David^4 graduated at Harvard College in 1729, and - was ordained as the first pastor of the church in Amherst, - Nov. 6, 1739. He m. Eunice Wells of Wethersfield, - Ct., had 9 children, and d. 1781, a. 69. He was the - father of the Rev. David^5 Parsons, D. D., of Amherst, - who was b. Jan. 28, 1749, H. C. 1771, settled Oct. 2, - 1782, d. 1823, a. 74. Dr. Parsons had eleven children; - namely, Ezekiel Williams,^6 a physician in Colchester, - Ct.; David^6 of Amherst, an artisan; Prudence Stoddard,^6 - m. Rev. Marcus Smith,^6 Rensselaerville, N. Y.; - Thomas,^6 a merchant, New York city, d. a. 41; Harriet,^6 - m. 1. Rev. Royal Washburn, and 2. Hon. David Mack of - Amherst; Francis,^6 an attorney at Hartford, Ct., and - Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; Mary,^6 m. Rev. - William Williams, formerly a clergyman, but now a - practising physician at Salem; Caroline,^6 d. a. 22; - Sophia,^6 m. Rev. Silas Aiken of Boston; William,^6 a - physician of Canaan, Ct., d. a. 27; and James,^6 a - graduate and an instructor of youth at Savannah, Ga., - d. a. 29. - - (17) VI. Josiah,^3 b. Jan. 2, 1682, m. Sarah Sheldon, June 22, 1710, - d. April 12, 1768, a. 86. - - (18) VII. Daniel,^3 b. Aug., 1685, at Northampton, m. Abigail Cooley - of Springfield, June 17, 1709, resided in Springfield. - - (19) VIII. Moses,^3 b. Jan. 15, 1687, at Northampton, m. Abigail Ball - of Springfield, Jan. 20, 1710, about which time he removed - to Durham, Ct. - - (20) IX. Abigail,^3 b. Jan. 1, 1690. - - (21) X. Noah,^3 b. Aug. 15, 1692, left descendants. - -Samuel,^2 (4) who settled in Durham, Ct, had, - - (22) I. Timothy,^3 b. 1694, d. Jan. 28, 1772. - - (23) II. Simeon,^3 b. 1701, d. Jan. 6, 1784. - - (24) III. Phinehas,^3 b. 1703, d. May 6, 1724. - - (25) IV. Aaron.^3 - - (26) V. Ithamar,^3 b. 1707, d. Jan. 21, 1786. He and probably all - his brothers left male posterity. David^4 and Nathan,^4 - sons of Ithamar, removed to Granville, Ms., about 1760. - David^4 of Granville, Ms., had a son Joel,^5 who was - father to the Hon. Judge Anson V.^6 Parsons of - Philadelphia. - -Joseph,^3 (12) who m. Elisabeth Thompson, had, - - (27) I. Joseph,^4 b. in Salisbury, 1702, grad. H. C. 1720, ordained - at Bradford, Ms., June 8, 1726, d. there May 4, 1765, a. - 63. His wife was Frances, dau. of John Usher, Lieut. Gov. - of New Hampshire, who was son of Hezekiah Usher, - by Elisabeth, dau. of the Rev. Zachariah Symmes of - Charlestown, Ms. His publications were an Election - Sermon, an Ordination, and an Artillery Election Sermon, - 1744. Their children were, 1. Frances,^5 b. 1730, d. at - Epping, N. H., Oct. 7, 1808, unmarried, a. 78. 2. - Elisabeth,^5 b. 1731, d. 1733. 3. Joseph,^5 b. Oct. 5, - 1733, minister of Brookfield, Ms., d. Jan. 17, 1771, a. - 38. His wife was Sarah, dau. of Rev. Warham Williams of - Waltham, Ms., by Abigail, dau. of Col. George Leonard of - Norton. Rev. Warham Williams was son of Rev. John Williams - of Deerfield, the "Redeemed Captive," and grandson of - Deacon Samuel Williams of Roxbury and Rev. Eleazer - Mather of Northampton, great-grandson of Robert Williams - and Deacon William Park of Roxbury. 4. Thomas,^5 - b. 1735, who went to Parsonsfield, Me. 5. Samuel,^5 b. - 1737, of Cornville, Me., d. 1807. 6. Dr. John,^5 b. 1740, - of S. Berwick, Me., d. 1775. 7. William,^5 b. 1741, d. - 1742. 8. William,^5 of Alfred, Me., b. 1743, d. Aug. 4, - 1826, a. 83. 9. Sarah,^5 b. 1745, d. at Parsonsfield, - 1800. 10. Edward,^5 b. 1747, went in the Revolutionary - army, as Adjutant in Col. Poor's regiment, and d. 1776. - - Rev. Joseph Parsons^5 of Brookfield left an only dau., - who m. Samuel Pitkin, Esq., of E. Hartford, Ct. William,^5 - who d. at Alfred, Me., had nine children, among whom - was Usher,^6 M. D., of Providence, R. I., a professor in - Brown University, a surgeon in the war of 1812, and in - Perry's fleet at the battle of Lake Erie. He m. Mary, - dau. of Rev. Abiel Holmes, D. D., author of "American - Annals." Dr. Parsons is himself author of several medical - treatises of great merit. - - Thomas^5 was the proprietor of Parsonsfield, Me., and - left a numerous posterity--19 children, by two wives. - His first wife was Mary Poor. - - (28) II. Samuel,^4 b. at Salisbury, Ms., 1707, grad. H. C. 1730, - ordained at Rye, N. H., Nov. 3, 1736, m. Mary, only child - of Samuel Jones, Esq., of Boston, Oct. 9, 1739, d. Jan. 4, - 1789, a. 82, in the 53rd year of his ministry. - The grandfather of Mary Jones was Capt. John Adams of - Boston, grandson of Henry of Braintree, who was among the - first settlers of Massachusetts, and from whom a numerous - race of the name are descended, including two Presidents - of the United States. Gov. Samuel Adams (the patriot) - was cousin to Mary who m. Samuel Jones. - - Rev. Samuel Parsons^5 had four children; namely, 1. - Mary, m. Rev. John Tucke of Epsom, whose dau. Love - M. m. Simeon Drake, late of Concord, N. H. 2. Joseph, - M. D., a captain in the Revolutionary army, who d. in - Rye, N. H., in 1832, a. 86. 3. Hannah, d. unmarried. 4. - Betsey, m. Lieut. Samuel Wallace of Rye, whose dau. - m. the late Isaac Waldron, Esq., of Portsmouth, N. H. - - (29) III. William,^4 b. at Salisbury, April 21, 1716, grad. H. C. - 1735, settled over the church in South Hampton, N. H., - 1743, from which he was dismissed after a ministry of - about twenty years. He m. Sarah Burnham of Durham, N. H., - May 16, 1743. In 1763, he removed to Gilmanton with - his family, that town being then a wilderness, though by - the end of the year about twenty families had arrived - and commenced settlements.[22] Mr. Parsons was - employed by the proprietors to preach to the inhabitants. - He also instructed the youth of the place, and continued - these services after his labors as a minister ceased. He - d. Jan. 31, 1796, and his wife followed him to the grave, - Feb. 28, 1797. His children were Sarah, William, - Elisabeth, John, Joseph, and Ebenezer. Elisabeth m. Gen. - Joseph Badger, Jr., who was the father of Hon. William - Badger of Gilmanton, late Governor of New Hampshire. - - (30) IV. Elisabeth,^4 b. 1718, m. Rev Jeremiah Fogg of Kensington, - N. H. She d. March 5, 1779, a. 61. He d. Dec. 1, 1789, in - the 78th year of his age, and the 52nd of his ministry. A - descendant of Rev. Mr. Fogg is the consort of Rev. James - Farnsworth of Boxboro', Ms. - - (31) V. John,^4 b. Oct. 15, 1725, d. Sophomore in H. C., Oct. 28, - 1740. - - * * * * * - - (1) BENJAMIN PARSONS,^1 younger brother of Cornet Joseph, whose - descendants are above traced, was like him among the - first settlers of Springfield, and a prominent citizen, a - gentleman of exemplary moral character, of great worth - and respectability. He was Deacon of the church, and a - chief instrument in its formation in Springfield, as - appears from his correspondence with the Rev. Dr. Increase - Mather. In the civil affairs of the town, no one held - more responsible offices, or discharged them with greater - fidelity. - - Mr. Parsons m. 1st, Sarah, dau. of Richard Vore of - Windsor, who was a member of the Rev. John Warham's - church in Dorchester, and accompanied him to - Windsor in 1635. She d. at Springfield, Jan. 1, 1676. - He m. 2nd, Sarah, relict of John Leonard, Feb. 21, 1677. - Her father having settled in Springfield in 1639. Deacon - Parsons d. August 24, 1689, and his wife in 1690. - - His children by his first marriage were, - - (2) I. Sarah,^2 b. at Springfield, (as were probably all his - children,) Aug. 18, 1656, m. James Dorchester. - - (3) II. Benjamin,^2 b. Sept. 15, 1658, m. Sarah, dau. of John Keep - (10) of Springfield, Jan. 17, 1683. He d. at Enfield, Ct., Dec. - 28, 1728, a. 60. She d. July 8, 1729. Her mother was - Sarah, dau. of John Leonard of Springfield, and her - father was killed by the Indians at Long Meadow, 1676; - probably on the 26th of March; as on that day, six men - were killed at Springfield, three of them near Pecowsick - - brook, as they were passing from Long Meadow to the - town, with an escort under Capt. Nixon. The circumstance - was long perpetuated by the following distich, - but with how much truth we pretend not to say. It is - this: - - "Seven Indians, and one without a gun, - Caused Captain Nixon and forty men to run." - - (4) III. Mary,^2 b. Dec. 10, 1660, at Springfield, Jan. 27, 1662. - - (5) IV. Abigail,^2 b. Jan. 6, 1662, m. 1. John Mun, Dec. 23, 1680; - 2. John Richards, Oct. 7, 1686. - - (6) V. Samuel,^2 b. Oct. 10, 1666, m. Hannah Hitchcock, March 18, - (14) 1683, d. in Enfield, Feb., 1736, a. 70. - - (7) VI. Ebenezer,^2 b. Nov. 17, 1668, m. Margaret, dau. of Samuel - (24) and Katherine Marshfield of Springfield, and - granddaughter of Thomas Marshfield, who came from - Exeter, England, with Rev. Mr. Warham, and settled in - Windsor, Ct. Mr. Parsons d. at Springfield, Sept. 23, - 1752, a. 84. His wife d. June 12, 1758, a. 87, as is to be - seen on her tombstone in West Springfield, together with - these lines: - - The hope of life immortal - bloom, Dispel y^e grave's - most hideous gloom - Christ on y^e Resurection - day his Saints with glory shall array. - - Mr. Parsons was highly respected, was Deacon of the - Congregational church in West Springfield _fifty-two_ - years, which terminated at his decease. - - (8) VII. Mary,^2 b. Dec. 17, 1670, m. Thomas Richards, Oct. 21, 1691. - - (9) VIII. Hezekiah,^2 b. Nov. 24, 1673, m. Hannah, dau. of Eliakim - Cooley of Springfield, Feb. 20, 1701. [There is a curious - entry on the Springfield records concerning this - match.] They resided in Enfield and Suffield, Ct. He - d. July 11, 1748. - - (10) IX. Joseph,^2 b. Dec., 1675, m. Abigail Phelps, Sept. 15, 1697. - He resided in West Springfield. - - Benjamin,^2 (3) of Enfield, who m. Sarah Keep, had, - - (11) I. John,^3 b. in Enfield, Nov. 19, 1684, d. there May 9, 1717, - a. 33. - - (12) II. Benjamin,^3 b. March 1, 1688, was of Enfield, Ct., where - he d. unmarried, July 4, 1734, a. 46. - - (13) III. Christopher,^3 b. Jan. 28, 1691, m. Mary Pease of Enfield, - April 22, 1714, d. Sept. 10, 1747, a. 56. They had twelve - children, born between March 1, 1715, and Dec. 23, 1740; - eight sons and four daughters. The sons were John,^4 - Christopher,^4 Benjamin,^4 Joseph,^4 Ebenezer,^4 - Benjamin,^4 Jabez,^4 Noah,^4 John,^4 m. Ann Colton at - Enfield and had John,^5 Ebenezer,^5 Jabez,^5 and Oliver,^5 - who d. at Peekskill in 1777, in the Revolutionary war. - - Christopher,^4 m. Mary, dau. of Samuel Pease, and had - among other children, Asahel^5 and Christopher.^5 - - Benjamin,^4 m. Sophia Pease, and had Simeon,^5 Mary,^5 - and John.^5 He lived at Enfield. - - Joseph,^4 m. Rebecca Allen of Enfield, Ct., and had - Joseph,^5 and Jabez,^5 and three daughters. Joseph^5 had - a large family in Enfield. - - (14) V. Sarah,^3 of whom we have no account but of her death, July - 8, 1729. - -Samuel,^2 (6) of Enfield, who m. Hannah, dau. of Luke Hitchcock of -Springfield, had, - - (15) I. John,^3 b. July 23, 1693, m. Thankful Root of Enfield, June - 20, 1716. They had seven children, among whom were - John,^4 Moses,^4 and Thomas.^4 - - (16) II. Luke,^3 b. Jan. 4, 1696, m. Sarah Osborn, Sept. 13, 1716, at - Enfield. They had seven children, one of whom was - a son, Luke,^4 b. April 17, 1724. - - (17) III. Hezekiah,^3 b. April 13, 1698, m. Rebecca Burt, Nov. 15, - 1723, d. 1751. He had, besides other children, Hezekiah,^4 - David,^4 Eldad,^4 and Charles.^4 - - (18) IV. Hannah,^3 b. Aug. 2, 1700, m. Nath'l Horton, March 3, 1720. - - (19) V. Nathaniel,^3 b. Dec. 28, 1702, m. Mary Pease, Dec. 18, 1725. - He had Nathaniel,^4 Chadwell,^4 who m. Ruth, dau. of - Josiah Ward of Enfield, and Stephen.^4 - - (20) VI. Moses,^3 b. June 10, 1707, m. Hannah, dau. of Samuel - Stebbins of Springfield, Jan. 13, 1736, d. at Enfield, - 1786. He had 8 children, 4 sons and 4 daughters. Warham^4 - m. Mary Pease, and had, besides other children, Martin,^5 - Warham,^5 and Moses.^5 - - (21) VII. Miriam,^3 b. April 9, 1710, m. Caleb Jones, Nov. 10, 1730. - - (22) VIII. Samuel,^3 b. Nov. 23, 1690, (at Springfield) m. Abigail - Randall, Dec. 4, 1713, and had sons, Samuel^4 and - Aaron.^4 - - (23) IX. Sarah,^3 b. Nov. 10, 1704, m. Thomas Jones, June 10, 1742. - - (24) X. Daniel, of whom, as yet, nothing appears. - -Ebenezer,^2 (7) of West Springfield, who m. Margaret Marshfield, had, - - (25) I. Ebenezer,^3 b. at Springfield, Jan. 12, 1691, m. Martha Ely, - 1714, d. 1742, leaving 10 children; namely, Martha,^4 m. - John Taylor; Eunice,^4 m. Daniel H. Phelps of Upper - Housatonick; Margaret,^4 m. Daniel Foot of Colchester; - Mary,^4 m. William Clark of Colchester; Diana^4; - Ebenezer^4; Naomi,^4 m. Asaph Leonard; Stephen^4; - Abigail^4; and Seth.^4 - - (26) II. Margaret,^3 b. Sept. 19, 1693, m. Rev. Daniel Elmer of - Newark, N. J. - - (27) III. Jonathan,^3 b. July 15, 1695. Drowned, July 1, 1703. - - (28) IV. Benjamin,^3 b. Dec. 15, 1696, m. Martha Bliss, Aug. 15, - 1723; went to Kingston, thence to Palmer, Ms., d. at - Swansey, in the house of his son, Aaron.^4 His wife d. at - Palmer, Ms., July 17, 1760, a. 56. They had 12 children. - Eleanor,^4 m. Elizur Fitch of Monson; David^4 of Palmer, - Ms.; Tabitha,^4 m. Robert McMaster of Palmer, 1766; - Moses,^4 d. at the Havanna in the French war; Israel,^4 d. - in the same war, at Fort Harmer; Aaron^4 of Swansey; - Jonathan,^4 m. Mary, dau. Deacon Joseph Merrick of - Springfield, d. at W. Springfield, May 2, 1810, a. 75. She - d. March 15, 1817, a. 84. Joshua,^4 m. Eleanor Allen, - lived in Palmer, Ms. Abigail,^4 m. Ebenezer Bliss of - Belchertown. Martha,^4 m. Daniel Worthington, Vt.; - Benjamin,^4 d. in the French war. - - (29) V. Caleb,^3 b. Dec. 27, 1699, m. Miriam Williston, Oct. 4, - 1749. She d. at W. Springfield, July 24, 1760, a. 53, - leaving one son, Caleb,^4 b. 1755, d. 1760. - - (30) VI. Sarah,^3 b. Feb. 4, 1703, m. Pelatiah Hitchcock of - Brookfield, Ms. - - (31) VII. Jonathan,^3 b. at Springfield, Nov. 30, 1705, grad. at Y. C. - (33) 1729, studied theology with Rev. Elisha Williams, - President of Y. C., and Rev. Jonathan Edwards of - Northampton, ordained at Lyme, March 17, 1730, m. Phebe, - dau. of John Griswold of Lyme, and sister of Gov. Matthew - Griswold. - - In March, 1746, Rev. Mr. Parsons removed to Newburyport, - Ms., where he preached until his decease. He - d. July 19, 1776, a. 71, and was interred in a tomb under - his pulpit, by the side of Rev. George Whitefield, who - had died at his house not long before. His wife d. at - Newburyport also, Dec. 26, 1770. He m. 2. Mrs. Lydia - Clarkson, widow of Andrew Clarkson, Esq., of Portsmonth, - N. H. She survived him, and d. April 30, 1778. - - Mr. Parsons was author of several occasional and other - sermons in pamphlet form, and two volumes of sixty - sermons in 8vo., advertised as in press at Newburyport, - in 1781, by J. Mycall. As extended memoirs have been - published of him in several works, it is unnecessary to - be more particular at this time. - - (32) VIII. Abigail,^3 b. Oct. 21, 1708, m. Thomas Day of Springfield, - March 19, 1735. - - (33) IX. Katherine,^3 b. Oct. 16, 1715, m. Aaron Taylor of Upper - Housatonick. - -Rev. Jonathan Parsons^3 (31) of Newburyport had 13 children, 6 of -whom d. in infancy. Those who married were, - - (34) I. Marshfield,^4 b. Feb. 7, 1733, lived at Lyme, Ct., d. there - Jan. 13, 1813, a. 80. He m. 1. Lois, dau. of Richard Wait, - Sen., of Lyme. He m. 2. Abigail Marvin, Nov. 20, 1766. - She d. Aug. 22, 1782, a. 35. He m. 3. Abigail Waterman - of Norwich, Jan. 15, 1783. She d. March 14, 1793, a. - 53. He m. 4. Phebe Griffin, Oct. 10, 1793, widow, and - dau. of Pardon Taber of Lyme. He had children only - by his first wife. His son John^5 m. Joanna, dau. of - Joseph Mather of Lyme. By a second wife, Lois, dau. of - Richard Wait, Jr., he had 12 children. - - (35) II. Jonathan,^4 b. April 25, 1735, m. Hannah, dau. of Samuel - Gyles of Salisbury, Aug. 26, 1756. They had 10 children, - 4 of whom were sons, and all d. unmarried. Elisabeth^5 - m. 1. Samuel Chandler. 2. John Mycall. Hannah^5 - m. Abraham Jackson, and had Ellen^6 and Isaac Rand^6; - the latter d. July 27, 1842, at Copenhagen, while U. S. - Chargé d'Affaires, a. 37. He m. Louisa C. Carroll of - Philadelphia, granddaughter of Charles Carroll of - Carrolton, Md., one of the signers of the Declaration of - Independence. - - (36) III. Samuel Holden,^4 b. May 14, 1737, at Lyme, Ct., grad. - H. C. 1756; in 1781 he received an honorary degree from - Y. C., studied law at Lyme in the office of his uncle, - Gov. Matthew Griswold, admitted to the bar in New - London county, 1759, settled at Lyme, was elected - Representative to the General Assembly in 1762, and - successively for eighteen sessions, which brought him - to the year 1774, when he received the appointment of - King's Attorney, and removed to New London. In 1775 - he was appointed Colonel of the sixth Connecticut - regiment, and a Brigadier-General by Congress in 1776, - Major-General in 1780. In 1779 he succeeded Gen. - Putnam in the command of the Connecticut line of the - Continental army, and served in the Revolutionary army - as Major-General until the close of the war. He was - an active member of the Convention of Connecticut in - January, 1788, which ratified the Constitution of the - United States, and was elected President of the "Society - of Cincinnati" of Connecticut. In 1785 he was appointed - by Congress a Commissioner to treat with the Indians - at Miami. In 1788 he was appointed and commissioned - by President Washington, first Judge of the North West - Territory, which included the present States of Ohio, - Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan; and while holding that - office, was, in 1789, appointed by the State of - Connecticut a Commissioner to hold a treaty with the - Wyandots and other tribes of Indians on Lake Erie, for - extinguishing the aboriginal title to the "Connecticut - Western Reserve." While returning to his residence at - Marietta from this service, he was drowned by the - overturning of his boat in descending the rapids of the - Big Beaver river, Nov. 17, 1789, a. 52. - - Gen. Parsons m. Mehetabel, dau. of Richard Mather - of Lyme, (a lineal descendant of Rev. Richard Mather of - Dorchester,) Sept. 10, 1761. She was b. in Lyme, March - 7, 1743, d. Aug. 7, 1802, and was buried at Middletown, - Ct. The children of Gen. Parsons were, 1. William - Walter,^5 b. July 5, 1762, m. Esther, dau. of Thompson - Phillips of Middletown, d. Jan. 24, 1801, leaving - children, Esther Phillips,^6 m. to William Hammet of - Bangor, and Thomas,^6 who d. young. 2. Lucia,^5 b. Nov. 8, - 1761, m. Hon. Stephen Titus Hosmer, Chief-Justice of - Connecticut. They had 4 sons and 6 daughters. All the sons - d. young, except Oliver Ellsworth,^6 who m. Ann P. Hawes - of N. York. 3. Thomas,^5 who d. young. 4. ENOCH,^5 - whose biography was given in the April number of this - work. He was b. Nov. 5, 1769, m. 1. Mary Wyley - Sullivan, May 19, 1795. She was dau. of John Sullivan - of London, and b. in Philadelphia, Nov. 9, 1772, d. - at Middletown, July 2, 1807. He m. 2. Mrs. Sarah - Rosecrants, dau. of Nehemiah Hubbard of Middletown, by - whom he had one son, Henry Ethelbert,^6 who m. Abby - C, dau. of John Welles of Ann Arbor, Michigan; and a - dau., Mary Sullivan,^6 m. James, son of Robert Dickson - of London, Eng., d. at Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1841. The - next of the children of Gen. Parsons was, 5. Mehetabel,^5 - b. Dec. 21, 1772. m. William B. Hall, M. D., of - Middletown, d. Nov. 1, 1823, a. 51, leaving, 1. William - Brenton^6; 2. Samuel Holden Parsons^6 of Binghampton, - N. Y. 6. Phebe,^5 b. Jan. 25, 1775. at N. London, m. - Samuel Tiffen, had a dau.,^6 m. to L. T. Clark of - Philadelphia. 7. Samuel Holden,^5 b. Dec. 31, 1777, m. - Esther, dau. of Giles Page of Middletown, d. in the West - Indies, leaving a dau., Mary Ann,^6 m. to William C. - Hammet of Howland, Me. 8. Margaret Ann.^5 9. Margaret,^5 - b. 1785, m. 1. Stephen Hubbard of Middletown, who settled - at Champion, N. Y., where he d. 1812. 2. Alfred Lathrop^6 - of Champion and W. Carthage, N. Y. - - (37) IV. Thomas,^4 b. April 28, 1739, m. 1. Mary Gibson, and had one - son, Jonathan G.,^5 who d. without issue. He m. 2. Sarah - Sawyer of Newbury, and had, 1. Sarah,^5 m. to Gorham - Parsons, late a merchant of Boston, whose father was - brother to the late JUDGE THEOPHILUS PARSONS of Boston, - descended from that branch of the family settled at - Gloucester, Ms., the ancestor of which was Jeffrey - Parsons, whose pedigree we propose to trace hereafter; 2. - Ann,^5 m. Fitz-William Sargent of Gloucester, Ms.; 3. - Mary,^5 m. Ignatins Sargent; 4. ----,^5 m. Samuel Torrey - of Boston. - - (38) V. Phebe,^4 b. at Newburyport, March 6, 1748, m. Capt. Ebenezer - Lane of Boston, had no children, d. 1781. - - (39) VI. Lucia,^4 b. at Newburyport, Dec. 23, 1752, m. Capt. Joseph - Tappan of that place, d. there in 1815, a. 63, leaving 7 - children; 1. Thomas P.^5; 2. Phebe Griswold^5; 3. Sarah^5; - 4, John Pike^5; 5. Richard^5; 6. Joseph^5; and 7. Thomas - Parsons.^5 - - (40) VII. Lydia, 4 b. April 3, 1755, m. Moses, son of Hon. Jonathan - Greenleaf of Newburyport, Sept. 17, 1776, and had - children. 1. Moses,^5 2. Clarina Parsons,^5 3. Ebenezer,^5 - 4. Simon,^5 b. Dec. 5, 1783, the distinguished attorney - and professor of law in II. C., 5. Jonathan,^5 a clergyman - of Brooklyn, N. Y, and author of a memoir of Rev. Jonathan - Parsons in the American Quarterly Register, also - of Ecclesiastical Sketches of Maine. - - * * * * * - -HUGH PARSONS appears on the town records of Springfield, 27. 8, -(27 Oct.) 1645. How long before that he was resident there does -not appear, though it is quite probable he was among the first -inhabitants. Whether HUGH were a brother of Benjamin and Joseph, or -what relationship he may have borne to them, nothing has yet come -to our knowledge to enable us to determine; yet he was probably the -older brother of those, and so we shall consider him until we are -otherwise assured. Mr. Parsons married _Mary Lewis_ on the date above -mentioned, by whom he had, - - I. SAMUEL, b. Oct. 4, 1648, d. Oct. 4, 1649. - II. JOSHUA, b. Oct. 26, 1650, d. June 4, 1651. - -About this point of time began the troubles and trials of this -devoted family, and here, on the Springfield town records stands the -following sad entry: - - "_Joshua Parsons_, son of Hugh was killed by Mary Parsons his wife, - 4. 1. 1651." - -Singular as it may now seem, and notwithstanding the above entry, -fair and legible at this day upon the records, an attempt was soon -after made to throw the cause of the death of the son upon the -father, and that he had effected it by witchcraft! We will not now -enlarge on this subject, as we propose to publish at some future time -an article on witchcraft in our country, and its unhappy effects. - - -P. S. We originally intended to have given in this number the -genealogy of the branch of the family of Parsons settled at -Gloucester, but for want of room, and some materials, are obliged -to defer it to a future one; meanwhile we hope the descendants of -JEFFREY PARSONS, (the progenitor of this branch,) will forward us -all the facts they possess concerning it, that it may be rendered as -complete as possible. For the information of those concerned, it may -be proper to state, that we have a copy of the pedigree which was in -the possession of the late William Parsons, Esq., of Boston, which, -though extensive as it respects the names of the descendants, is -very defective in dates and names of places. In these particulars we -especially want information. - - - - -ANCIENT BIBLE IN POSSESSION OF WIDOW LUCY WATERS OF SHARON, MS. - - -It is said that this Bible was brought from England to America by the -Pilgrim Fathers, who landed from the ship Mayflower, at Plymouth, -Ms., December 22, A. D. 1620. - -The title-page of the Testament[23] part of this Bible is in the -following words, viz.-- - - - =NEW TESTAMENT= - OF - OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. - - Confered diligently with the Greeke and best approved - translations, in divers Languages. - - Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer - to the Queens most excellent Majesty. - - =A. D. 1592.= - - _Cum gratia privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis._ - - -_Family Record in the Bible._ - -We Elisha Bradford and Bathshua Le-brocke, were married, September, -y^e 7th, Anno Domini 1718. (?) - -Account of the births, of all our children. - - Our Daughter Hannah, was born April y^e 10th 1719 - Joseph was born December y^e 7th day 1721 - Silvanus was born July y^e 6th day 1723 - Nehemiah was born July y^e 27th day 1724 - Laurana was born March y^e 26th day 1726 - Mary was born August y^e 1st day 1727 - Elisha was born October y^e 6th day 1729 - Lois was born January y^e 30th day 1730-31 - Deborah[24] was born November y^e 18th day 1732 - Allis was born November y^e 3d day 1734 - Azenath was born September y^e 15th day 1736 - Carpenter was born February y^e 7th day 1738-9 - Abigail was born June y^e 20th day 1741 - Chloe was born sixth day of April 1743 - Content was born twenty-first day of May 1745 - Content dec^d May 22 1745 - Silvanus dec^d the twelfth day of July 1723 - -The foregoing title-page and Family Register were transcribed for and -at the request of Alden Bradford, Esq., Feb. 22, 1842, - - By his humble servant, - WILLIAM ELLIS. - - - - -BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PHYSICIANS IN ROCHESTER, N. H. - - [For the account of the following medical gentlemen we are - indebted to Dr. Samuel Pray.] - - -_Dr. James Jackson_ was the first physician who settled in Rochester. -He went from Connecticut, but in what year he went and how long he -lived in the town, is not known. - -_Dr. James How_ was the son of Deacon How of Methuen, and brother of -David How, Esq., of Haverhill, Ms. He went to Rochester about the -year 1777, and practised in his profession till near the time of his -death, in 1807. He was a Representative to the State Legislature -several years, and was elected a member of the N. H. Medical Society -in 1791, soon after the Charter was granted. He was also surgeon's -mate in the army of the Revolution. He died at the age of 53. - -_Dr. Samuel Pray_ was born at South Berwick, Me., July 3, 1769. He -received his preparatory education at Dummer Academy, Newbury, Ms., -in the years 1784, '85, and '86, studied medicine with Dr. Jacob -Kittredge of Dover, three years, and commenced the practice of his -profession in September, 1792, at Rochester, where he has resided -about fifty-five years. He united with a number of physicians in -the old County of Strafford in 1811, who constituted the Strafford -District of the N. H. Medical Society, of which he was Secretary -several years. He was elected a Fellow of the N. H. M. Society in -1816, and has been one of the Censors for Strafford District. Dec. -14, 1821, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Medical Society at -Dartmouth College. - -_Dr. Timothy F. Preston_ went to Rochester in the year 1807, and -resided in town about a year, and then returned to New Ipswich, his -native place. - -_Dr. John Perkins_ went to Rochester in 1807, and resided there till -1815, when he moved with his family to Jaffrey. It is not known where -he received his education. - -_Dr. Asa Perkins_ went from Dover, his native place, to Rochester, in -1816, and resided there two years, and then returned to Dover, where -he now resides. He is the son of William Perkins, who was a merchant -in Dover, and who died several years since. The Doctor studied -medicine with Dr. Jabez Dow of Dover. He was born April 5, 1793. -Having abandoned his profession, he entered into mercantile business. - -_Dr. James Farrington_ went to Rochester in August, 1818, and has -resided in town, to this time [1847]. He was born at Conway, October, -1791, and is the third son, now living, of Jeremiah Farrington, -late of Conway, who emigrated when a young man from Concord, N. -H., and with several others formed a settlement upon the banks of -the Saco river, in that section of the country then called by the -Indians Pequawket, now Conway and Fryeburg; and grandson of Stephen -Farrington, who was one of the first settlers of Concord, and whose -wife was a sister of Jonathan and Samuel Bradley, who, with Obadiah -Peters, John Bean, and John Lufkin, were massacred by the Indians, -Aug. 11, 1746, between Concord and Hopkinton, and to whose memory a -granite monument has been erected on the spot where the massacre was -perpetrated, by their surviving relatives. He received an academic -education at Fryeburg Academy, where in 1814 he was prepared to enter -college. He commenced the study of medicine under the tuition of -Dr. Moses Chandler of Fryeburg, Me., February, 1815, and concluded -his term of study under the instruction of Dr. Jabez Dow of Dover, -in February, 1818. He was examined in the science of medicine and -surgery by the Censors of the N. H. Medical Society, Drs. Crosby and -Pray, July 18, 1818, and commenced practice in Rochester on the 9th -of August following. He is a Fellow of the N. H. Medical Society, -and has been Censor and a Counsellor of the Society, and for several -years President of the Strafford District Society. He has been a -Representative and Senator in the State Legislature, and in 1837 was -elected a member of the 25th Congress of the United States. In 1845 -he was appointed by the Executive of the State one of the Trustees of -the N. H. Asylum for the Insane. - -Dr. Farrington was married, in 1827, to Mary D., eldest daughter of -Mr. Joseph Hanson of Rochester, and has four children living; three -sons and one daughter. Formerly he had students in medicine, among -whom were Dr. Joseph H. Smith, now a successful practitioner in -Dover, Dr. Timothy Upham, an eminent physician, late of Waterford, N. -Y., and a son of the Hon. Nathaniel Upham, late of Rochester, also -Dr. Alfred Upham, now a physician in the city of New York. - -Dr. Farrington has had an extensive business in his profession -for twenty-five years, and has performed many difficult surgical -operations. - -_Dr. Calvin Cutter, Dr. Theodore Wells, and a Dr. Turner_ from -Massachusetts, went to Rochester and tarried a short time in 1832 and -1833, and then returned to their native towns. - -_Dr. Rufus K. Pearl_ was born at Farmington, Feb. 6, 1815, attended -Medical Lectures at Bowdoin and Dartmouth Colleges, and studied -medicine with Dr. Wight of Gilmanton. He commenced practice in -Rochester in 1840, and being out of health, he left the profession, -and has gone into trade in the village of that place. - -_Dr. John W. Pray_ is the son of Dr. Samuel Pray of Rochester, -with whom he studied medicine. He was born in Rochester, August, -1814, attended Medical Lectures at Dartmouth College, commenced the -practice of his profession in Barrington, in 1840, and continued at -that place three years, when he returned to Rochester and went into -practice with his father. - -_Dr. Richard Russel_ moved from Great Falls village to Rochester, -about the year 1841, and resided in town about three years, and then -returned to Great Falls, in 1844. It is not known when he began the -practice of his profession, nor what was his education. - -_Dr. Jeremiah Garland_ was born at Strafford, Sept. 23, 1815, and -commenced the practice of his profession at Rochester, in 1844. -He attended Medical Lectures at New York, in the old medical and -surgical institution, and obtained the degree of M. D. at that -institution. He studied medicine with Drs. Chadbourne and Haynes of -Concord. - - - - -SKETCHES OF ALUMNI AT THE DIFFERENT COLLEGES IN NEW ENGLAND. - - -HON. NATHAN WESTON OF AUGUSTA, ME. - -JOHN WESTON, from whom the subject of this memoir is the fourth in -descent, came from Buckinghamshire in England to this country, in -1644, at the age of 13. After residing a few years in Salem, he -purchased a tract of land in what is now South Reading, Ms., to -which he removed, and where he spent the residue of his days. He -died in 1723; being more than 90 years of age. It is noted on his -gravestone, that he was one of the founders of the church in Reading. -A part of his estate remained in the hands of his posterity for over -one hundred years. Stephen, his son, was a pious, industrious, and -respectable man. He had a farm in Reading, where he died in 1753, at -the age of 88. - -Stephen, his son, became the owner of a farm in Wilmington, Ms. He -was a leading man there, distinguished for his piety, and was for -many years Deacon of the church in that town, where he died in 1776, -in his 81st year. Nathan, his fifth son, was born at Wilmington, in -1740. He married Elisabeth, the mother of the subject of this Memoir. -She was the daughter of Samuel Bancroft, Esq., of Reading, who -represented that town for many years in the General Court, and sister -of the late Rev. Dr. Bancroft of Worcester. He (Nathan) removed to -that part of Hallowell which is now Augusta, in Maine, then a part -of Massachusetts, in 1781. He was for several years in the State -government of Massachusetts, being, at different times, a member of -the House, Senate, and Council of that Commonwealth. He died in 1832, -at the advanced age of nearly 93 years. - -NATHAN WESTON, his son and the subject of this Memoir, was born -at Hallowell, now Augusta, July 27, 1782. He pursued his studies, -preparatory to his entering college, at Hallowell Academy, under the -direction of the late Preceptor Moody. He was graduated at Dartmouth -College, in 1803. He went immediately into the study of the law. -After reading a few months with Benjamin Whitwell, Esq., of Augusta, -he entered the office of George Blake, Esq., Attorney for the -United States, for the Massachusetts District, at Boston, where he -prosecuted his studies, until his admission to the bar, in the county -of Suffolk, in July, 1806. - -He soon after opened an office at Augusta, but in March, -1807, removed to New Gloucester, in the county of Cumberland, -where he continued in full practice in his profession three -years, representing that town in 1808, in the General Court of -Massachusetts. In June, 1809, he married Paulina B., daughter of the -Hon. Daniel Cony, and returned to Augusta, in March, 1810, where he -now (1847) resides. He continued the practice of the law until the -fall of 1811, when he was made Chief-Justice of the Circuit Court -of Common Pleas for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, in -which he continued to officiate until the separation of Maine, in -1820. He then became one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, -and in October, 1834, he was appointed Chief-Justice of that State, -which office he held till October, 1841, when his term of office -expired. In 1831, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred -upon him at Dartmouth College, and afterwards at Waterville and -Bowdoin Colleges, Maine. - -In February, 1825, at a general meeting of the members of both houses -of the Legislature, then sitting in Portland, without distinction -of party, he was with great unanimity nominated for the office of -Governor, but preferring to remain on the bench, he declined the -nomination. - -Judge Weston has four sons; Nathan, Daniel Cony, who married Mary -C. North, granddaughter of the late General William North of New -York, George Melville, and Charles. The first three were educated -at Bowdoin College, and are now in the practice of law; one in -Augusta, one in Orono, and one in Vassalborough, in Maine. His third -son, George Melville, is Attorney for the State for the county of -Kennebec. Charles, his fourth son, has been a midshipman in the Navy -of the United States. Of his daughters, Paulina Cony died in 1820, -aged two years. Two survive, namely, Catharine Martin and Louisa -Matilda. - -Chief-Justice Weston is not known as the author of any published -work, beyond an occasional oration or address, in his younger days; -but the decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine, now extended to -about twenty volumes, are filled with legal opinions drawn by him, -which will remain a monument of his learning and industry. - - -HON. RICHARD LAW OF NEW LONDON, CT. - -[This memoir was obtained through the instrumentality of Prof. -Kingsley of Yale College.] - -RICHARD LAW was a son of the Hon. Jonathan Law, Governor of -Connecticut, and was born at Milford, on the 17th of March, 1733. -He was educated at Yale College, where he was graduated in 1751, -and where also he received the degree of LL. D. Immediately after -graduating, he entered upon the study of the law, in the office and -under the instruction of that able jurist and accomplished lawyer, -the Hon. Jared Ingersoll; and after a course of studies usual at that -day, he was, soon after the age of 21, admitted to the bar, at New -Haven; and immediately removed, and settled at New London, where he -became highly distinguished in his profession. As an advocate at the -bar, his style was pure and correct, but not copious and flowing. He -was distinguished more as a learned lawyer, a close logician, a fair -special pleader, than an eloquent orator. His talents were better -adapted to a court than a jury. He possessed a discrimination, and -power of seeing and seizing the great point in the case--the point on -which it must turn; and by a course of special pleadings--by drawing -on the "_heartstrings of the law_," he had a faculty of presenting -his point, by forming an issue in law for the decision of the court, -most favorably for his client; and on such issues, from the logical -structure of his mind, he was powerful. He was thoroughly read in -the ancient English law authorities; and few American lawyers or -jurists, of his day and age, better understood the great principles -of the English common law, or could better discriminate between such -of those principles as were applicable to the genius of a republican -government, and such as were not, than Judge Law. Those which he -adopted formed, as it respected the common law, the polestar of his -judicial decisions. - -After a full and lucrative practice of several years, in consequence -of ill health, he was induced to relinquish the bar, and accept a -seat as Chief-Judge on the Bench of the County Court for the county -of New London. This office he held until May, 1784, when he was -appointed one of the Judges of the Superior Court. - -In May, 1776, he was chosen an Assistant, a member of the Council or -upper house of Assembly, which office he held by annual elections of -the freemen, until May, 1786, when an act was passed excluding Judges -from a seat in the Legislature. - -In 1777, it is believed that at May session, he was appointed by the -General Assembly a member of Congress; and continued with little, if -any intermission, a member of that body until 1782. - -On granting the charter to the city of New London, he was by the -freemen in March, 1784, unanimously chosen Mayor; which office he -held until his death--a period of nearly twenty-two years. - -On the return of peace, after the Revolution, he was appointed with -the Hon. Roger Sherman, to revise the code of Statute Laws of the -State. This code had not been revised for thirty years, and had -accumulated to a great size, from the great variety of statutes -enacted in the emergencies of the Revolution. In its subjects of -correction, a work of great interest and importance, it required no -small ability so to select and discriminate as to give universal -satisfaction. In the discharge of which duty he discovered great -knowledge of the science of legislation, and the true principles of -national government. - -In May, 1786, he was appointed Chief-Judge of the Superior Court; -and continued in that office until the adoption of the Constitution -of the United States; when being by President Washington appointed -District Judge of the District of Connecticut, in October, 1789, he -resigned the former and accepted the latter, which he held until his -death, which occurred at New London, Jan. 26, 1806, in the 73rd year -of his age. - -Judge Law lived in an eventful period of his country, and of the -world; and the many and various important offices which he held -and honorably sustained through the course of a long life, better -bespeak, than language can express, the character, the worth, and -merits of the man. - - -REV. NAPHTALI SHAW OF BRADFORD, VT. - -NAPHTALI SHAW was born at Bridgewater, Ms., June 20, 1764, and was -the fourth son of his parents. His father, who was by occupation a -tanner and shoemaker, was William Shaw, who lived in Bridgewater, -and married Hannah, daughter of Samuel West, who was a Deacon of -the Congregational Church in that place, and lived to be more than -eighty years of age. He had five sons and six daughters. At the age -of fifteen the subject of this Memoir enlisted as a soldier in the -Revolutionary army, and went with others to take Rhode Island, which -was in 1779 in possession of the British, but he did not continue -long in the service, the object being accomplished. He prepared for -college under the instructions of Dr. Crane, a physician of Titicut -Parish, and the Rev. Dr. Reed of West Bridgewater. In 1786, he -entered the Freshman Class of Dartmouth College, and graduated there -in 1790. After receiving his bachelor's degree, he taught school at -Easton, Ms., and at Boston, as an assistant of Mr. Caleb Bingham, an -instructor of much celebrity. His theological course of study was -pursued under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Sanger of Bridgewater, -who was in the habit of educating young men for the ministry. He -was approbated to preach the gospel, as it was then called, by the -Plymouth Association of Ministers, Aug. 1, 1792. Jan. 30, 1793, he -was ordained Pastor of the church in Kensington, N. H., where he -remained till Jan. 13, 1813, when he was dismissed on account of -ill health. His ministry was pacific and useful; peace and harmony -were restored, and the cause of education, morals, and religion -promoted. His health was such, that upon resignation, he retired from -the ministry, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, having -purchased a farm in the town of Bradford, Vt., where he still lives -in the enjoyment of his bodily and mental powers, to a good degree, -at the age of 84 years. - -Mr. Shaw married, June 10, 1798, Mary Crafts, daughter of Dr. John -Staples Crafts of Bridgewater, who was to him a great blessing. -"The greatest blessing," said Martin Luther, "with which a man can -be favored is a pious and amiable wife, who fears God and loves her -family, with whom he may live in peace, and in whom he may repose -confidence." The wife of Mr. Shaw died Jan. 14, 1840. Their children -were four;--Thomas Crafts, living in Bradford, Vt., a farmer, and a -deacon of the church in that place, who married Sarah Jenkins, by -whom he has two daughters, Sarah Jane and Mary Ann; Eliza Park, who -married Dea. Randell H. Wild of West Fairlee, who died in Bradford, -Dec. 22, 1841, leaving two daughters, Elisabeth and Emily; Samuel -West, who married Jerusha Bliss of Fairlee, and died March 12, 1832, -leaving no child; Mary Ann, who died July 12, 1808, in childhood. - - -HON. NAHUM MITCHELL OF PLYMOUTH. - -NAHUM MITCHELL was born in East Bridgewater, Feb. 12, 1769. His -father was Cushing Mitchell, son of Col. Edward, grandson of Edward, -and great-grandson of Experience, who was one of the Pilgrim -forefathers, and arrived at Plymouth in the third ship, the Ann, in -1623. They all lived and died in East Bridgewater, on the spot which -their descendants now occupy. His mother was Jennet, daughter of the -Hon. Hugh Orr, from Lochwinioch, County of Renfrew, Scotland, who -married Mary, daughter of Capt. Jonathan Bass of East Bridgewater, -whose father was Dea. Samuel Bass of Braintree, whose father was -John, who married Ruth, daughter of the Hon. John Alden, the Pilgrim; -and John's father was Dea. Samuel Bass of Braintree, (now Quincy.) -Capt. Jonathan Bass's wife was Susanna, daughter of Nicholas Byram -of East Bridgewater, whose wife was Mary, daughter of Dea. Samuel -Edson of West Bridgewater, and whose father, Nicholas Byram, married -Susanna, daughter of Abraham Shaw of Dedham. - -Cushing Mitchell's mother was Elisabeth, daughter of Elisha Cushing -of Hingham, a descendant from Matthew Cushing, one of the first -settlers in Hingham, and ancestor of all of the name in this part -of the country, and whose father was Peter Cushing of Hingham in -England. Matthew's wife was Nazareth, daughter of Henry Pitcher. -Matthew's son Daniel married Lydia, daughter of Edward Gilman, -ancestor of all the Gilmans in New England. Daniel's son Daniel, -father of Elisha, married Elisabeth, daughter of Capt. John Thaxter -of Hingham, son of Thomas, the ancestor of all the Thaxters in this -vicinity. Capt. John Thaxter's wife was Elisabeth, daughter of -Nicholas Jacob, or Jacobs, of Hingham. - -Col. Edward Mitchell's mother was Alice, daughter of Maj. John -Bradford of Kingston, son of William, Deputy-Governor, and grandson -of William Bradford, the Governor. The Governor's wife was widow -Alice Southworth, her maiden name Carpenter. William the Deputy's -wife was Alice, daughter of Thomas Richards of Weymouth. Maj. John's -wife was Mercy, daughter of Joseph Warren, son of Richard Warren, -and his wife Elisabeth, from London. Joseph's wife was Priscilla, -daughter of John, and sister of Eld. Thomas Faunce of Plymouth. Col. -Edward Mitchell's mother, after the death of his father, married Dea. -Joshua Hersey of Hingham. - -The subject of this Memoir prepared for college with the Hon. -Beza Hayward, in Bridgewater, and entered Harvard College, July, -1785, where he graduated in 1789. He kept school at Weston, while -in college, and a few times after graduating, in Bridgewater and -Plymouth; and was engaged in instructing part of the time while -attending to his professional studies. He read law with the Hon. John -Davis, Judge of the District Court of Massachusetts, lately deceased -in Boston, but then living in Plymouth, his native place. He was -admitted to the bar, Nov. 24, 1792, and settled in the practice of -the law in East Bridgewater, his native place. - -Judge Mitchell was Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas -for the Southern Circuit, from 1811 to 1821, inclusive, being -Chief-Justice during the last two years of that time. He was -Representative to General Court from Bridgewater seven years between -1798 and 1812; Representative in Congress from Plymouth District two -years, from 1803 to 1805; Senator from Plymouth County two years, -1813 and 1814; Counsellor from 1814 to 1820, inclusive; Treasurer -of the Commonwealth five years, from 1822 to 1827; Representative -to General Court from Boston, 1839 and 1840, in which place he then -resided. He was appointed by the Governor one of the Commissioners -for settling the boundary lines between Massachusetts and Rhode -Island; and afterwards, for settling the line between Massachusetts -and Connecticut; and was Chairman of the first Commissioners for -exploring and surveying the country from Boston to Albany for a -railroad route, 1827, and is a member of the Massachusetts Historical -Society, and has been Librarian and Treasurer of that institution. -He was also several years President of the Bible Society in Plymouth -county. - -Judge Mitchell married, in 1794, Nabby, daughter of Gen. Silvanus -Lazell of East Bridgewater, and has 5 children, Harriet, Silvanus L., -Mary Orr, Elisabeth Cushing, James Henry. Harriet married the Hon. -Nathaniel M. Davis, Esq., of Plymouth; Silvanus L. married Lucia, -daughter of Hon. Ezekiel Whitman of Portland, Me., Chief-Justice of -Court of Common Pleas; Mary O. married David Ames, Jr., Esq., of -Springfield; Elisabeth C. married Nathan D. Hyde of East Bridgewater; -James Henry married Harriet Lavinia, daughter of John Angier of -Belfast, Me., and is a merchant in Philadelphia; Silvanus L. was -graduated at H. C., 1817, and he and his brother-in-law, Hyde, went -into business as merchants at East Bridgewater, and thence removed to -Boston. - -Judge Mitchell wrote a short History of Bridgewater, which was -published in 1818, in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical -Society, Vol. VII., 2nd series. He has since published an enlarged -History of the Early Settlement of that Town, with a particular -Genealogy or Family Register of the Early Settlers. - - - - -ADVICE OF A DYING FATHER TO HIS SON. - -Dated January 27, 1716. - - [The following article was addressed by the Rev. William Brattle - of Cambridge to William Brattle, his son and only child who lived - to maturity, while he was preparing for college. The father was a - man distinguished for "piety, wisdom, and charity;" and the son - "was a man of extraordinary talents and character, acceptable - as a preacher, eminent as a lawyer, celebrated as a physician." - He was a Major-General in the militia, and much in public - office. May it not be supposed that this paternal Advice from an - affectionate father to a son of filial affection and an obedient - disposition, had great effect in making him what he was? For - this and several other articles of an antiquarian nature we are - indebted to Charles Ewer, Esq.] - - -1. Agreeably to what is written 1 Chron. xxviii, 9, My dear Son, know -thou the God of thy father, & serve him with a perfect heart, and -with a willing mind. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but -if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. - -2. Think often of thine own frailty, and of the uncertainly and -emptiness of all Sublunary Enjoyments. Value not Self upon riches. -Value not thy Self upon any worldly advancement whatsoever. Let faith -and Goodness be thy treasure. Let no happiness content and Sattisfie -thee but what secures the favour and peace of God unto thee. - -3. Remember thy baptism, acquaint thy Self well with the nature -and obligations of that Ordinance. Publickly renew thy baptismall -Covenant. Renew it Seasonably in thy early Days with humility and -thirsty desires to enjoy Communion with God in the ordinance of the -Lord's Supper and in all Approaches before God therein bringing -faith and Love and a Self abasing Sence of thine own Emptiness and -unworthyness. - -4. Prize and Esteem the holy word of God infinitly before the finest -of Gold. Reverence it with thy whole heart, read it constantly with -seriousness, and great delight. Meditate much upon it, make it thy -Guide in all thy wayes, fetch all thy Comforts from thence, and by a -religious and holy walk, establish thine Interest in the blessed and -glorious Promises therein contained. - -5. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Reverence God's -Sanctuary. In prayer, in Singing, in hearing God's word Read or -preached, and in every public administration Wait upon God with -outward Reverence and true devotion in thine heart, Remembering that -holyness for ever becomes God's house. When in thy more private -retirements, Still let it be thy Care to Sanctifie God's Sabbath. Be -watchfull therefore over thine heart and over thy thoughts. Call to -mind and run over what thou hast heard in God's house. Read Savoury -books. Catechise thy Self, and others too when God gives Opportunity. - -6. Take care of thy health, avoid all Excess in eating and in -drinking, in taking thy pleasure, and in all innocent Recreations -whatsoever. Let not immoderate heatt and Colds needlessly Expose thy -body. - -7. Beware of Passion. Let not Anger and Wrath infect thine heart, -suffer wrong with Patience, Rather than to right thy Self by -unchristian methods, or by suffering thy spirit to be out of frame. - -8. Labour to establish thy Self and begg of God that he would -Establish thee in the grace of Chastity, keep thine heart clean and -Chast, keep thy Tongue clean and Chast, keep thine hands clean and -Chast, keep thine Eyes clean and Chast. Never trust to thy Self to -be thy keeper, avoid temptations to uncleaness of every nature, be -watchfull over thy Self night and day, but in the midst of all Let -thine heart be with God, and be thou much in prayer, that God would -be thy keeper. Let all the incentives to Lust as farr as may be, be -avoided by thee. - -9. Speak the Truth alwayes. Let not a Lye defile thy Lips, be content -with Suffering rather than by telling the Least Lie to Save thy Self. -Beware of Shuffling off by disimulation. - -10. Let Pride be an abomination in thy Sight. Cloth thyself with -humility. Let humility be thine under Garment. Let humility be thine -upper Garment. - -11. Despise no man, let the State of his Body or mind or other -circumstances of his, be what they will, still reverence humanity, -consider who made thee to differ. - -12. Be just to all men; be thou courteous and affable to all men; -render not Evil for Evil, but recompense evil with Good. Owe no man -any thing but Love. - -13. Be thou compassionate, tender hearted, and mercifull; do good -to all men, be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to -communicate; for with such sacrifices God is evermore well pleased. - -14. Avoid sloth and idleness, give thy Self to thy Studys; converse -with such Authors as may tend to make thee wise and good and to -forward thy growth in true wisdom and goodness. - -15. Acquaint thy Self with History; know something of the -Mathematicks, and Physick; be able to keep Accompts Merchant like -in some measure; but let Divinity be thy main Study. Accomplish thy -Self for the worke of the Ministry, begg of God that he would incline -thine heart therto, and accept thee therin, and if it shall please -God thus to Smile upon thee, aspire not after great things; let the -Providence of God chuse for thee, and let the Flock have the Love of -thy heart; be Solicitous for their Spirituall good, and for the glory -of God; and let thy Aims be this way in all thy private meditations, -and public administrations, all the dayes of thy Life. - -My dear Child, be of a Catholick Spirit. - - - - -RELATIONSHIP. - - In old wills and other old documents the word _cousin_ is - sometimes used for _nephew_, and thus many errors may occur in - tracing out genealogies. Many curious cases of relationship - will be found to exist by those that investigate the descent of - families, some of which cannot be described by the terms we now - use to designate consanguinity. It is surprising, that among the - many words that have been coined, some new terms have not come - into use as substitutes for the awkward way we now have of naming - some of our relatives; such as great-great-great grandfather, - great-great-great-uncle, &c. The following curious case was taken - from a newspaper; whether the account is correct or not, the - reader may see that it may be true. - - "_A man can be his own grandfather._ - - "A widow and her daughter-in-law and a man and his son--the widow - married the son, the daughter the father; the widow was mother - to her husband's father and grandmother to her husband; they had - a son to whom she was great-grandmother. Now as the son of a - great-grandmother must be either a grandfather or great-uncle, - the boy must be one or the other. This was the case of a boy in - Connecticut." - - - - -DECEASE OF THE FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND. - -Chronologically arranged. - -(Continued from p. 74.) - - - 1648. - - Oct. 11, Rev. Henry Green of Reading. - - - 1649. - - March 26, Gov. John Winthrop of Boston, b. Jan. 12, 1588, d., a. 61. - - Aug. 25, Rev. Thomas Shepard of Cambridge, b. Nov. 5, 1605, d., a. 44. - - - 1650. - - Sept. 11, Atherton Hough of Boston, an Assistant. - - - 1651. - - Aug. --, William Thomas, an Assistant of Plymouth Colony, d., a. 77. - - - 1652. - - Aug. 24, Adam Winthrop, Esq., of Boston, d., a. 33. - - Sept. 14, Capt. Bozoun Allen of Boston, formerly of Hingham. - - Dec. 23, Rev. John Cotton of Boston d., a. 67. (The old "Boston Book" - says, Mr. Cotton d. 15th of 10th month.) - - - 1653. - - Jan. 18, Capt. William Tyng of Boston, Treasurer of the Colony. - - July 31, Gov. Thomas Dudley of Roxbury d., a. 77. - - Rev. Nathaniel Ward, first minister of Ipswich, d. in England, - a. 83. - - Nov. 8, Rev. John Lothrop of Barnstable. - - Oct. 8, Hon. Thomas Flint of Concord. - - - 1654. - - Jan. --, John Glover of Dorchester, an Assistant. - - Gov. John Haynes of Hartford, Ct. - - July 23, William Hibbins, an Assistant, d. at Boston. - - Dec. 9, Gen. Edward Gibbons of Boston. - - - 1655. - - May 8, Edward Winslow of Plymouth d. on board the Fleet, a. 61. - - July 3, Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich d., a. 57. - - Rev. Daniel Maud of Dover, N. H. He had taught a school for - some years in Boston before he went to Dover. - - Henry Wolcott, the ancestor of the governors of Connecticut - by this name, d., a. 78. - - - 1656. - - Capt. Miles Standish of Duxbury d., a. ab. 72. - - Capt. Robert Bridges of Lynn, an Assistant. - - 1668? Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, Ct., d., a. 56. - - March 23, Capt. Robert Keaine, merchant in Boston. - - Oct. 22, Rev. James Noyes of Newbury d., a. 48. - - - 1657. - - Jan. 7, Gov. Theophilus Eaton of Connecticut d., a. 66. - - March --, Gov. Edward Hopkins d. in London, a. 57. - - George Fenwick, the first settler of Saybrook, d. in England. - - May 9, Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth, d., a. 69. - - - 1658. - - Rev. Ralph Partridge of Duxbury. - - John Coggan of Boston. - - - 1659. - - Feb. 27, Rev. Henry Dunster of Scituate d., (buried at Cambridge.) - - March 9, Rev. Peter Bulkley of Concord d., a. 77. - - April 10, Rev. Edward Norris of Salem d., a. ab. 70. - - Sept. 29, John Johnson of Roxbury. - - - 1660. - - Oct. 16, Rev. Hugh Peters executed in England, a. 61. - - - 1661. - - Jan. 23, Rev. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, a. 70. - - Sept. 17, Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton of Dorchester. He was - killed by a fall from his horse on Boston Common, - when on his return from a military review on the - Common. Mr. Savage and the inscription on his tombstone - say, that he died on the 16th, but other authority,[25] - and incontrovertible, says, on the "17th at about 1 - o'clock, after midnight." - - Dec. 28, Rev. Timothy Dalton of Hampton d., a. ab. 84. - - - 1662. - - March 1, Rev. Ralph Smith d. at Boston. - - March 30, Rev. Samuel Hough, minister of Reading, d. in Boston. - - June 14, Sir Henry Vane executed in England, a. 50. - - Oct. --, William Pynchon d. at Wraisbury, Bucks, a. 72. - - - 1663. - - ----, Thomas Camock, nephew of the Earl of Warwick, d. in - Scarborough, Me. If he is the same who is named in - the 2nd charter of Virginia, 1609, he was quite - advanced in years. - - Rev. Richard Denton of Stamford, Ct., [ab. 1663.] - - April 5, Rev. John Norton of Boston, a. 57. - - June 12, Rev. John Miller d. at Groton. - - July 5, Rev. Samuel Newman of Rehoboth, a. 63. - - July 20, Rev. Samuel Stone of Hartford. - - - 1665. - - Jan. 9, Rev. Samuel Eaton of New Haven. - - March 15, Gov. John Endecott of Boston, a. 77. - - July 15, Capt. Richard Davenport, killed by lightning at Castle - William, a. 59. - - Rev. Adam Blackman of Stratford. - - Dr. John Clark of Boston, a. 66. - - - - -NEW ENGLAND. - - -The following is an extract from "A NEW DESCRIPTION OF THE -WORLD,--London, printed for Hen. Rhodes, next door to the Swan -Tavern, near Brides-Lane, in Fleet-Street, 1689." - - _NEW ENGLAND_, an _English_ Colony in America, is bounded on - the North-East with _Novumbegua_, on the Southwest with _Novum - Belgium_; and on the other parts by the Woods and Sea coast; - scituate in the middle of Temperate Zone, between the degrees - of 41 and 44, equally distant from the Artick Circle, and the - Tropick of _Cancer_; which renders it very temperate and very - agreeable to the Constitution of _English_ Bodies, the Soil being - alike Fruitful, if not in some places exceeding ours; all sorts - of Grain and Fruit trees common with us growing kindly there; The - Woods there are very great, wherein for the most part the Native - _Indians_ dwell Fortefying themselves as in Towns or places of - defence, living upon Deer and such other Creatures, as those vast - Wildernesses whose extents are unknown to the _English_ abound - with; there are in this Country store of Ducks, Geese, Turkies, - Pigeons, Cranes, Swans, Partridges, and almost all sort of Fowl, - and Cattle, common to us in _Old England_; together with Furs, - Amber, Flax, Pitch, Cables, Mast, and in brief whatever may - conduce to profit and pleasure; the Native _Indians_, in these - parts are more tractable, if well used, than in any other; many - of them though unconverted, often saying, that our God is a good - God, but their _Tanto_ evil, which _Tanto_ is no other than the - Devil, or a wicked Spirit that haunts them every Moon, which - obliges them to Worship him for fear, though to those that are - converted to Christianity he never appears. - - This _English_ Colony after many Attempts and bad Successes was - firmly Established 1620, at what time _New Plymouth_ was Built - and Fortified; so that the _Indians_ thereby being over-aw'd, - suffered the Planters without controul to Build other Towns, the - chief of which are _Bristol_, _Boston_, _Barnstaple_, and others, - alluding to the Names of Sea Towns in _Old England_; and are - accommodated with many curious Havens commodious for Shipping, - and the Country watered with pleasant Rivers of extraordinary - largeness; so abounding with Fish, that they are not taken for - dainties; and for a long time they were all Governed at their own - dispose, and Laws made by a Convocation of Planters, _&c._ but of - late they have submitted to receive a Governor from _England_. - - _NOVUM BELGIUM_, or the _New Neitherlands_, lies in this tract - on the South of _New England_, extending from 38 to 41 degrees - North Latitude; a place into which the _Hollanders_ intruded - themselves, considerable Woody; which Woods naturally abound with - Nuts and wild Grapes, replenished with Deer, and such Creatures - as yield them store of Furrs, as the Rivers and Plains do Fish - and Fowl; rich Pastures, and Trees of extraordinary bigness, - with Flax, Hemp, and Herbage; the ground very kindly bearing - the Product of _Europe_; and here the Natives, such as live in - Hutts and Woods, go clad in Beasts Skins, their Household goods - consisting of a Wooden dish, a Tobacco Pipe, and a Hatchet made - of a sharp Flint Stone, their Weapons Bows and Arrows; though - the _Dutch_ unfairly to their cost, out of a covetous Humor, - traded with them for Guns, Swords, _&c._, shewing the use of them - which the _Indians_ turning upon their quondam Owners, found an - opportunity to send 400 of their new Guests into the other World; - and here the chief Town is _New Amsterdam_, commodiously Scituate - for Trade, and the Reception of Shipping. - - - - -TIME OF THE ARRIVAL IN NEW ENGLAND OF THE FOLLOWING MINISTERS. - - - 1630. - - Rev. John Maverick. - Rev. John Warham. - Rev. John Wilson. - Rev. George Phillips. - - 1631. - - Rev. John Eliot. - - 1632. - - Rev. Thomas Weld. - Rev. Thomas James. - Rev. Stephen Bachiler. - - 1633. - - Rev. John Cotton. - Rev. Thomas Hooker. - Rev. Samuel Stone. - Rev. William Leveredge? - - 1634. - - Rev. John Lathrop. - Rev. John Miller? - Rev. James Noyes. - Rev. Thomas Parker. - Rev. Zechariah Symmes. - Rev. Nathaniel Ward. - - 1635. - - Rev. Peter Bulkley. - Rev. John Avery. - Rev. George Burdet? - Rev. Henry Flint. - Rev. Peter Hobart. - Rev. John Reyner? - Rev. Richard Mather. - Rev. Hugh Peters. - Rev. John Norton. - Rev. Thomas Shepard. - Rev. William Walton. - Rev. John Jones. - - 1636. - - Rev. Ralph Partridge. - Rev. Samuel Whiting. - Rev. Nathaniel Rogers. - Rev. John Wheelwright. - Rev. Thomas Jenner. - Rev. Samuel Newman. - - 1637. - - Rev. John Allin. - Rev. Edmund Brown. - Rev. Thomas Cobbet. - Rev. Timothy Dalton? - Rev. John Davenport. - Rev. John Fiske. - Rev. John Harvard. - Rev. George Moxon. - Rev. William Thompson. - Rev. John Prudden. - Rev. Samuel Eaton. - - 1638. - - Rev. Ezekiel Rogers. - Rev. Robert Peck. - Rev. Edward Norris. - Rev. Charles Chauncy. - Rev. Thomas Allen. - Rev. Henry Phillips? - Rev. Marmaduke Matthews. - - 1639. - - Rev. John Knowles. - Rev. Henry Whitfield. - Rev. Richard Denton? - Rev. Jonathan Burr. - Rev. Ephraim Hewett. - Rev. Henry Smith. - Rev. John Ward. - Rev. William Worcester. - Rev. Abraham Pierson? - - 1640. - - Rev. Henry Dunster. - - 1641. - - Rev. Richard Blinman? - - - - -GENEALOGIES AND THEIR MORAL. - - -We were carelessly looking over a genealogy of the "Minot Family" in -the second number of the "New England Historical and Genealogical -Register," when suddenly our eyes were suffused with tears, as they -rested on the following sentence in the catalogue of the children of -Capt. John Minot, who died in Dorchester, 1669: - - "Martha, born Sept. 22, 1657; died, single, Nov. 23, 1678, aged - 21. She was engaged to be married, but died unmarried, leaving - a will in which she directed that at her funeral her betrothed - husband, 'John Morgan, Jr. be all over mourning, and follow next - after me.'" - -What a history is there in these few words about Martha Minot, who -lived almost two centuries ago! The mind runs back in a moment to -those times, when almost all New England was a wilderness--to those -days of the old Indian wars, when no man could be a "captain" without -being a man of some rank and consequence. Just after the close of -King Philip's war, when the villages of New England were all in -peace, Capt. John Minot's daughter Martha, twenty-one years of age, -and having come into possession of her share of her father's estate, -had plighted her troth to one she loved, and was expecting to be -married too, when disease fastened upon her young frame, and would -not be repelled. In the chill November air, when - - "The melancholy days were come, the saddest of the year," - -she faded like a leaf. And at her burial there followed, nearer -than brother or sister, nearest to the hearse, the one whom, of all -the living, she loved most, from whom to part had been to her more -painful than the death-pang, and who had been in her thoughts till -"the love-light in her eye" was extinguished. That single item in -her directions for her funeral, that "John Morgan, Jr., be all over -mourning, and follow next after me," tells the whole story. - -Nothing seems, at first sight, less interesting or less instructive, -than a genealogical table, a mere register of names and dates. But -such a passage as that which we have quoted--so picturesque, so -suggestive, so touching, so dramatic--when it occurs in the midst -of these dry records, throws out an electric light at every link -in the chain of generations. Each of those names in the table is -the memorial--perhaps the only memorial--of a human heart that once -lived and loved; a heart that kept its steady pulsations through some -certain period of time, and then ceased to beat and mouldered into -dust. Each of those names is the memorial of an individual human life -that had its joys and sorrows, its cares and burthens, its affections -and hopes, its conflicts and achievements, its opportunities wasted -or improved, and its hour of death. Each of those dates of "birth," -"marriage," "death,"--O how significant! What a day was each of those -dates to some human family, or to some circle of loving human hearts! - -To read a genealogy then may be, to a thinking mind, like walking in -a cemetery, and reading the inscriptions on the gravestones. As we -read, we may say with the poet-- - - "To a mysteriously-consorted pair, - This place is consecrate--to Death and Life." - -The presence of death drives the mind to thoughts of immortality. -Memorials of the dead are memorials not of death only, but of -life. They lived, and therefore they died; and as the mind thinks -of the dead gathered to their fathers, it cannot but think of the -unseen worlds which they inhabit. All these names are memorials of -human spirits that have passed from time into eternity. Ready or -unprepared, in youth or in maturity, in childhood or in old age, they -went into eternity, as we are going. - - "The nursling, and the tottering little one - Taken from air and sunshine when the rose - Of infancy first blooms upon his cheek; - The thinking, thoughtless schoolboy; the bold youth - Of soul impetuous, and the bashful maid, - Smitten when all the promises of life - Are opening round her; those of middle age, - Cast down while confident in strength they stand, - Like pillars fixed more firmly, as might seem, - And more secure, by very weight of all - That for support rests on them; the decayed - And burthensome; and lastly that poor few - Whose light of reason is with age extinct; - The hopeful and the hopeless, first and last, - The earliest summoned and the longest spared, - Are here deposited." - -The genealogical chapters in Genesis and Chronicles are commonly and -very naturally regarded as being almost if not quite an exception -to the testimony, "All Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for -reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." But the -story is told of a man who had long been irreligious and thoughtless, -that in some vacant hour he happened to open his Bible, and began -to read the catalogue of antediluvians, in the fifth chapter of -Genesis. As he read that one lived so many years and he _died_, and -another lived so many years and he died, the uniformity of the record -arrested his attention, his mind was awakened to new thoughts of the -significancy of death and life, and thus he was led to realize the -ends of his existence, and to dedicate himself, in penitence and -trust, to a forgiving God.--_New York Evangelist._ - - - - -FIRST SETTLERS OF RHODE ISLAND. - -BY THE LATE JOHN FARMER, ESQ. - - - Roger Williams, - John Thockmorton, - William Arnold, - William Harris, - Stukeley Westcot, - Thomas Olney, Sen. - Thomas Olney, Jun. - John Greene, - Richard Waterman, - Thomas James, - Robert Cole, - William Carpenter, - Francis Weston, - Ezekiel Holleman, - Robert Williams, - John Smith, - Hugh Bewitt, - William Wickenden, - John Field, - Thomas Hopkins, - William Hawkins, - William Hutchinson, - Edward Hutchinson, Jun. - John Coggeshall, - William Aspinwall, - Samuel Wildbore, - John Porter, - John Sandford, - Edward Hutchinson, - Thomas Savage, - William Dyre, - William Freeborn, - Philip Sherman, - John Walker, - Richard Carder, - William Baulston, - Henry Bull, - William Coddington, - John Clark, - Edward Cope, - Chad. Brown, - Daniel Brown, - Henry Brown, - John Brown, - Samuel Bennett, - Hugh Bewett, - Adam Goodwin, - Henry Fowler, - Arthur Fenner, - Henry Reddock, - Thomas Sucklin, - Christopher Smith, - Richard Pray, - Nicholas Power, - Stephen Northup, - Edward Hart, - Benjamin Herenden, - Edward Inman, - John Jones, - James Matthewson, - Henry Neale, - William Man, - ---- Jinckes, - Roger Mawry, - Edward Manton, - Shadrach Manton, - George Shepard, - Edward Smith, - Benjamin Smith, - John Smith, (the Mason.) - John Smith, (Sen.) - John Smith, (Jun.) - John Smith, (Jamaica,) - Epenetus Olney, - Lawrence Wilkinson, - Daniel Williams, - Christopher Onthank, - Joshua Verin, - John Sayles, - Richard Scott, - Joan Tyler, - Joshua Winsor, - Valentine Whitman, - George Way, - William White, - Thomas Walling, - John Warren, - John Whipple, - Matthew Waller, - Robert Williams, - Joseph Williams, - William Wickenden, - Robert R. West, - Pardon Tillighast. - - - - -MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. - - [Our authorities for most of our records of Marriages and Deaths - are the newspapers. These may not always be correct.] - - -MARRIAGES. - - BATES, JOHN S., ESQ., of Canandaigua, N. Y., to ANNIE M., - daughter of Gen. Timothy Upham of Boston, late of Portsmouth, N. - H., May 19. - - BIGELOW, H. J., M. D., to SUSAN, daughter of William Sturgis, - Boston, May 8. - - BROWN, ABNER HARTWELL, M. D., of Lowell, Prof. of Chemistry in - Willoughby Medical College, O., to SUSAN AUGUSTA, daughter of - Rev. Dr. Shurtleff, late Prof. in Dartmouth College, April 13. - - BURLINGAME, ANSON, Attorney, of Boston, to JANE CORNELIA, - daughter of Hon. Isaac Livermore of Cambridge, June 3. - - COFFIN, REV. EZEKIEL W., Minister of the Universalist Society in - Attleboro', to MISS MARY ELIZA WEBBER of Boston, May 30. - - FOSTER, FORDYCE, M. D., to MISS ADELINE JANE TOWER, Cohasset, - March 24. - - GILMAN, WOODBURY, M. D., to MISS C. W. HAYES, only daughter of - Lewis Hayes, Esq., Kittery, Me. - - HARDING, SPENCER S., of Boston, to LOUISA T., daughter of Prof. - Joseph Dana of Athens, O., April 6. - - JOHNSON, REV. JOHN, appointed missionary to China, to ARETHUSA - ANNA, daughter of Abel Stevens, Esq., of Eastport, Me., May 30. - - LEMON, JOHN J., of Boston, to MISS EMMA L. BADGER of - Philadelphia, daughter of the late George Dier Badger of Windham, - Ct., March 20. - - RUSSELL, BRADFORD, Attorney, Groton, to MISS MARIA PROUTY of - Sterling, March 25. - - SEEGER, EDWIN, M. D., of Springfield, to ELIZABETH A., daughter - of Hon. John H. White of Lancaster, N. H., May 31. - - SHATTUCK, JOEL, ESQ., of Pepperell, to MRS. NANCY PARKER of - Boston, April 14. - - STEARNS, REV. OAKHAM S., of Southbridge, to ANNA JUDSON, daughter - of Rev. B. C. Grafton of Medford, June 8. - - TERRILL, CHARLES FREDERICK, to HANNAH WILLIAMS, daughter of W. - Warland Clapp of Boston, Editor of the Evening Gazette, May 28. - - -DEATHS. - - ADAMS, MRS. MEHITABLE T., May 9, a. 79, widow of the late Dea. - Nehemiah Adams of Salem, and mother of Rev. N. Adams of Boston. - - AIKEN, DANIEL, Wexford, Canada West, a. 120. He had contracted - seven marriages, and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren - were 570--370 males and 200 females.--_New York Observer._ - - BLAKE, REV. CALEB, Westford, May 11, a. 85. He gr. H. C. 1784, - and was settled in Westford forty-five years. - - BRIMMER, HON. MARTIN, Boston, April 25, for some years Mayor. H. - C. 1814. - - BURNHAM, BENJAMIN, Essex, April 14, a. 92, a soldier of the - Revolution. Twelve persons have died in Essex since Jan. 12, - whose united ages amount to 970 years. - - CARPENTER, REV. CHESTER W., Sinclairville, N. Y., April 17, a. - 35. He died at Beaver, Pa., while returning home from Mobile. He - gr. A. C., 1839. - - CARPENTER, MRS. HANNAH, Chichester, N. H., April 21, a. 80, wife - of Rev. Josiah Carpenter. - - COTTON, JOHN, M. D., Marietta, O., April 2, a. 86. Dr. Cotton - was a lineal descendant of Rev. John Cotton of the first church, - Boston, and was a man of literary and scientific attainments and - deep piety. - - DAGGETT, HON. TIMOTHY, Edgarton, April 26, a. 79. - - DAY, ORRIN, ESQ., Catskill, N. Y., Dec. 25, a. 80. He was one of - those philanthropic men who formed the American Bible Society, - was a corporate member of the A. B. C. F. M., and a patron of all - good institutions. - - DUNBAR, ELIJAH, ESQ., Keene, N. H., May 18, a. 88. D. C. 1783. - Attorney. - - ELLSWORTH, MRS. NANCY G., Lafayette, La., Jan. 15, a. 54. She - was the wife of Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, late Commissioner of - Patents, and dau. of Hon. Elizur Goodrich of New Haven, Ct. - - FISK, DEA. EBENEZER, Shelburne, Dec. 21, a. 62. He was a brother - of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, Missionary to Palestine. - - FITCH, DEA. ELIJAH, Hopkinton, April 27, a. 68. He was a son of - Rev. Elijah Fitch, second pastor of the church in that town. - - FULLER, ABRAHAM W., ESQ., Boston, April 6, a. 63. Counsellor at - Law. - - GOULD, MRS. SALLY MCCURDY, May 19, widow of the late Hon. James - Gould of Litchfield, Ct. - - GRAY, REV. THOMAS, D. D., Pastor of the Congregational Church, - Roxbury, (Jamaica Plains,) June 1, a. 75. H. C. 1790. - - HARVEY, REV. BENJAMIN, Frankfort, N. Y., March 18, a. 112. He - was of the Baptist denomination, and had been a preacher more - than seventy years. - - HODGDON, ALBERT E., Barnstead, N. H., May 20, a. 25. D. C. 1842. - Attorney. - - HOLMAN, GEN. SILAS, Bolton, March 25, a. 86. He was connected - with the State Legislature between 20 and 30 years, and was one - of the Governor's Council during the administrations of Strong - and Brooks. - - KELLOGG, MRS. SUSAN C., Williamstown, April 8, a. 48, widow of - the late Prof. Kellogg. - - MEIGS, MRS. ELISABETH, New Britain, Ct., March 5, a. 92, widow of - the late Major John Meigs of the U. S. Army in the Revolution. - - MOORE, REV. GEORGE, Quincy, Ill., March 11, a. 35, H. C. 1834, - minister of the Unitarian Society in that place. - - NEVERS, GEN. JOHN, Northfield, March 30, a. 74. - - PARKER, MRS. MARTHA L., Lancaster, April 30, a. 23, wife of - Dr. J. O. Parker of Shirley, and daughter of Dr. C. Carter of - Lancaster. - - PATTEN, JEAN, Bedford, N. H., Feb. 16, a. 78, daughter of Hon. - Matthew Patten. - - PEABODY, REV. WILLIAM B. O., D. D., Springfield, May 28, a. 47. - H. C. 1816. - - REVERE, JOHN, M. D., New York, April 29, a. 60. He gr. H. - C. 1807, and was a Prof. in the Medical Department of N. Y. - University. - - ROBINSON, REV. CHARLES, Lenox, March 3, a. 45. He was a - missionary at Siam, and died on board the barque Draco, on his - return home. - - SAFFORD, CHARLES G., M. D., Rutland, April 27, a. 42. He was a - native of Exeter, N. H., gr. D. C. 1825, and Andover Theo. Sem'y, - and was a minister in Gilmanton, N. H. Having lost his health, he - gave up the ministry, studied medicine, and practised till his - death. - - SANBORN, MRS. MARTHA, Reading, May 2, a. 59, wife of Rev. Peter - Sanborn. - - SAVAGE, MRS. LUCY W., May 16, a. 57, wife of Rev. James Savage of - Bedford, N. H. - - SHURTLEFF, BENJAMIN, M. D., Boston, April 12, a. 72, B. U. - 1796, M. D. H. U. He was an honorary member of the New England - Historical and Genealogical Society, and a brief memoir of him - may be expected in our next number. - - SMITH, REV. ELI, Hollis, N. H., May 11, a. 87, B. U. 1792. - Minister in Hollis. - - STEWART, ENOS, ESQ., Davenport, Iowa, formerly of Boston, a. 48. - He was a native of Coleraine, H. C. 1820. - - STRONG, REV. CALEB, Montreal, Canada, Jan. 4, pastor of the - American Presbyterian Church. He was a son of Hon. Lewis Strong, - and grandson of Gov. Strong of Northampton. Y. C. 1835. - - THAYER, DEA. SHADRACH, South Braintree, May 4, a. 71. - - THOMAS, REV. DANIEL, Abington, a. 67. - - TUCK, MRS. SARAH A., Exeter, N. H., Feb. 20, a. 36, wife of Amos - Tuck, Esq., an attorney, and daughter of David Nudd, Esq., of - Hampton, N. H. - - UPHAM, ALBERT G., M. D., Boston, June 16, a. 29, B. C. 1840. He - was a member of the N. E. Historical and Genealogical Society. A - brief memoir of him may be expected in our next number. - - WIGGLESWORTH, SAMUEL, M. D., Boston, April 7, a. 35. H. C. 1831. - - WORCESTER, DR. NOAH, Cincinnati, O., April 4, a. 36. H. C. 1832, - M. D. at D. C. 1838, Prof. in Medical College, Cincinnati, O. - - WRIGHT, MRS. ELEANOR, Dec. 20, 1846, a. 85. She was the widow - of the late Silas Wright of Weybridge, Vt., and mother of Gov. - Wright of New York. Mr. Wright died in May, 1843, a. 84. This - couple lived together as husband and wife 61 years. - - - - -NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. - - -_The American Loyalists, or Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the -British Crown in the War of the Revolution; alphabetically arranged; -with a preliminary Historical Essay. By James Sabine._ Boston: -Charles C. Little and James Brown. MDCCCXLVII. - - Mr. Sabine, it is believed, is a merchant at Eastport, Me., but - still has been in the habit of composing for the press. He has - written articles for the North American Review, and is the author - of the Memoir of Commodore Preble in Prof. Sparks's American - Biography. - - The subject of his present work is both novel and interesting, - and one upon which we are too ignorant. The most intelligent and - best informed among us have but little knowledge of the names - and characters of the Loyalists, or Tories of the Revolution, - (probably twenty thousand in number,) and of the reasons which - influenced, of the hopes and fears which agitated, and of the - rewards or miseries which awaited them. Separated from their - homes and kindred, outlaws, wanderers, and exiles, they have - left but few memorials to their posterity. The difficult task - of collecting and arranging fragmentary events and incidents - relating to them, scattered here and there, we think the author - has succeeded admirably in accomplishing. We find among the - sketches, notices of many distinguished and influential men, - and while some were notorious for their want of principle, - there were many who, we cannot doubt, were true and honest in - espousing the cause of the mother country. Then, though we cannot - justify any, let us not censure all. "The _winners_ in the - Revolutionary strife are now twenty millions; and, strong, rich, - and prosperous, can _afford_ to speak of the losers in terms of - moderation." - - The Historical Essay, containing one hundred and fourteen pages, - which precedes the "Biographical Sketches," indicates much - acquaintance with the Revolution and its causes, and is very - valuable and highly appropriate. - - The work makes a handsome volume of 733 pages, and is well worthy - of being perused, and of a place in the library of the historian. - - -_A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name and Family of -Stetson; from the year 1634 to the year 1847. By John Stetson Barry. -"Virtus nobilitat omnia."_ Boston: Printed for the author by William -A. Hall & Co. 1847. - - The name of Stetson is spelt differently in old records; as - Stitson, Sturtson, Studson, Stedson, Stutson, and Stetson. The - last is the usual method of spelling the name, though some - families spell it Stutson. The first of the name and the ancestor - of all in this country was Robert Stetson, commonly called - _Cornet_ Robert, because he was Cornet of the first horse company - raised in Plymouth colony, Ms., in the year 1658 or '9. He - settled in Scituate, Ms., in the year 1634, but it is not known - satisfactorily whence he originated, though tradition says he - came from the county of Kent, England. - - Among his descendants are many who have held offices of trust and - responsibility, and who have stood high in public esteem. - - The pamphlet contains 116 pages, and gives a pretty full account - of the Stetson family. We hope it will be an additional incentive - to others to prepare memorials of their ancestors. - - -_An Oration delivered before the New England Society in the city -of New York, December 22, 1846. By Charles W. Upham._ New York: -Published by John S. Taylor, Brick Church Chapel, 151 Nassau Street. -1847. - - This is an excellent address, written in a clear, graceful, and - forcible manner. After describing the influences, both in the Old - World and in the New, which were at work, and the combination - of which resulted in the advent of our fathers to these desert - shores, the orator remarks upon the Puritans, and the chief - elements of their character and the result of their labors. The - blessings of a free government and religious liberty are largely - descanted upon, and the address closes as follows: "If the sons - of New England rear the school-house and the church wherever - they select their homes; if they preserve the reliance upon - their own individual energies, the love of knowledge, the trust - in Providence, the spirit of patriotic faith and hope, which - made its most barren regions blossom and become fruitful around - their fathers, then will the glorious vision of those fathers be - realized, and the Continent rejoice, in all its latitudes and - from sea to sea, in the blessings of freedom and education, of - peace and prosperity, of virtue and religion." - - -_A Sermon preached at Northwood, N. H., March 12, 1847, on the death -of Dea. Simon Batchelder. By Elliot C. Cogswell, Pastor of the -Congregational Church. Published by request._ Concord: Printed by -Morrill, Silsby, & Co. 1847. - - The text on which this discourse is founded is contained in Acts - viii: 2. "And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made - great lamentation over him." It is divided into six heads. When - the good man dies the people of God lose, 1. His society. 2. His - sympathy. 3. His counsels. 4. His prayers. 5. His coöperation. 6. - His admonitions. The subject is well treated, and the language - affectionate and appropriate. Dea. Batchelder was born, March - 5, 1758. He was the son of Davis Batchelder of Northampton, who - moved to Northwood about 1770; who married, 1. Mary Taylor of - Hampton, by whom he had four children; 2. Ruth Palmer; and 3. a - Widow Marston; by whom, (the last two wives,) he had fourteen - children, four of whom survive. Dea. Batchelder at the age of - eighteen enlisted in the war of the Revolution, in 1776, and - served in Capt. Adams's company and Col. Poor's regiment at - Winter Hill in Charlestown, Newport, R. I., and Ticonderoga, N. - Y. April 4, 1778, he married Rachel Johnson, daughter of Benjamin - Johnson, with whom he lived about fifty-two years, she dying Jan. - 5, 1830, aged 73. By her he had seven children, five of whom - still survive. He died March 10, 1847, aged 89 years and 5 days. - - -_A Discourse delivered before the Rhode Island Historical Society, -on the evening of Wednesday, January 13, 1847. By Hon. Job Durfee, -Chief-Justice of Rhode Island. Published at the request of the -Society._ Providence: Charles Burnett, Jr. 1847. - - The subject of this discourse is "Rhode Island's Idea of - Government." Judge Durfee speaks of the "origin of this idea--of - the various forms which it took in its progress towards its - realization in that state, in minds of much diversity of - character and creed; and of that 'lively experiment,' which it - subsequently held forth, that 'a most flourishing civil state may - stand, and be best maintained, with a full liberty in religious - concernments'--a liberty which implied an emancipation of reason - from the thraldom of arbitrary authority, and the full freedom of - inquiry in all matters of speculative faith." - - Though to the founders of Rhode Island, and particularly to Roger - Williams, belong the fame and glory of having realized this idea - in the form of a civil government, they were by no means the - first to maintain it. Long before the Reformation it originated - among the Waldenses in the valleys of Piedmont, and by means of - the crusade against them by Innocent III., it was spread far and - wide. The Reformation and the coming of the Puritans to America - tended to confirm it, but never was it fully realized till Roger - Williams and his followers came to "the forest-shaded banks of - the Mooshausic," and established a government on the principle - that "the State has no right to interfere between conscience and - God." - - After dwelling largely on the early history and influence of - Rhode Island, the author passes to the time of the Revolution. We - find that this little state, though royally armed in her Charter, - stood among the foremost in the great struggle for independence. - She was the first to direct her officers to disregard the Stamp - Act, and to assure them indemnity for so doing; the first - to recommend the permanent establishment of a Continental - Congress; the first to adopt the Articles of Confederation; the - first to brave royalty in arms; the first to enact and declare - independence; the first to establish a naval armament of her own; - and the first to recommend to Congress the establishment of a - Continental Navy. The oration closes with an eloquent appeal to - preserve the history and early records of the State. Appended is - a Poem by Sarah Helen Whitman, recited before the Rhode Island - Historical Society, previous to the delivery of the address. - - -_A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, -from 1635 to 1845. By Joshua Coffin, A. B. S. H. S._ - - "_For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe, - Cometh the new come from yere to yere, - And out of old bookes in good faithe - Cometh this new science that men lere._" - - _Chaucer._ - - "_Lives there a man with soul so dead, - Who never to himself hath said, - This is my own my native land?_" - - _Scott._ - -Boston: Published by Samuel G. Drake, No. 56 Cornhill. Printed by -George Coolidge. 1845. - - This is an exceedingly valuable and highly interesting work, and - appears to have been written with great labor, and _con amore_. - The author seems, as he says, "to have made a broad distinction - between fact and tradition, and to have related nothing as fact, - which he did not believe to be true." The representation of the - character of the inhabitants of Newbury and their transactions, - we think is accurately given, and seems to have been given "_sine - ira, sine studio_." Copious extracts are made from the town - records, and many from the church records, which latter exhibit - more fully the peculiar traits of our ancestors. - - The town of Newbury was originally one of the largest towns in - the county, being about thirteen miles long, and about six miles - broad in the widest place, and containing about thirty thousand - acres, of which nearly two thousand were covered with water. In - 1764 it was divided into two towns, Newbury and Newburyport, and - in 1819 West Newbury was set off and incorporated as a separate - town. - - This volume is embellished with portraits of Dr. John Clarke, - the physician in Newbury from 1637 to 1651, who died in Boston - in 1664, aged 66, Chief-Justice Sewall, Rev. Mr. Whitefield, and - Rev. Dr. Parish, and also with a map of the town and engravings - of the old-town meeting-house which stood one hundred and six - years, from 1700 to 1806, and of a house which "was infested - with demons" in 1679, and where, "before the devil was chained - up, the _invisible_ hand did begin to put forth an astonishing - _visibility_!" The Appendix, containing among other things a List - of Grantees, and Genealogies of the First Settlers from 1635 - to 1700, is a very important part of the work. The conclusion, - comprising about fifty pages, is also valuable. - - -_Brookline Jubilee. A Discourse delivered in Brookline, at the -request of its Inhabitants, on 15 March, 1847, the day, which -completed half a Century from his Ordination, by John Pierce, D. D., -fifth minister of the first Congregational Church and Society in said -town._ Boston: James Munroe and Company. MDCCCXLVII. - - The text on which this discourse is founded is in Psalm xxxvii: - 25. "I have been young and now am old." - - It is indeed pleasant in these "moving times," when ministers - are not settled during even good behavior, but only so long as - they please the fastidious taste of their people, to behold a - pastor who has remained with his flock a long series of years, - who stands among them, a relic of a former generation, to guide - them by his counsels and guard them with his watchful care. It - is alike honorable to the pastor and his people to meet in one - common jubilee, to thank the bounteous Giver of all things for - his mercies, and strengthen the ties which have so long bound - them together. In the present case, however, not a church merely, - but a whole town have united to honor one who may be regarded as - their father, and whose name is identified with the town. - - The sermon contains, as might be expected from Dr. Pierce, an - immense amount of historical facts, some of them of a general, - but most of them of a local character. The town of Brookline was - incorporated Nov. 13, 1705, O. S., and the first Congregational - church was gathered Oct. 26, 1717, O. S., of which Dr. Pierce - is the fifth pastor. Since his settlement nearly all who were - then around him have departed this life, while he, now enjoying - a "green old age," stands almost alone. The discourse is very - valuable for the history it contains, and is written in a - candid and an affectionate manner. Appended is an exceedingly - interesting account of the proceedings of the day, which was - published in the Christian Register, and other papers in Boston. - We regret that we have not room to insert extracts from it. Dr. - Pierce will go down to the grave beloved and respected by all - ministers and people who knew him, whether of his own or other - denominations. - - -_A Discourse on the Cambridge Church-Gathering in 1636; delivered in -the First Church, on Sunday, February 22, 1846. By William Newell, -Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge._ Boston: James Munroe and -Company. 1846. - - The text is from Psalm xliv. 1-3. "We have heard with our ears, - O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their - days in the times of old. How thou didst drive out the heathen - with thy hand, and plantedest them.... For they got not the land - in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save - them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy - countenance, because thou hadst a favor unto them." - - This discourse contains an account of the formation of the church - in Cambridge, and of some of the events preceding it, and brief - notices of the principal actors. It contains also many other - valuable facts. There is an appendix containing nineteen pages of - great value, embracing among other things a list of the members - of the church, "taken and registered in the 11 month, 1658," - and brief genealogical notices of one hundred and seventeen - individuals. In giving this sermon to the public, Mr. Newell has - rendered an important service. - - - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] This Memoir is an abstract, (taken by permission,) of a "Memoir -of John Endecott, First Governor of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, -by Charles M. Endicott, a descendant, of the seventh generation;"--a -work well prepared, and handsomely printed in folio form, containing -116 pages, and just issued from the press, solely for the private use -of the family. Our Memoir will be introduced with a few preliminary -remarks, and, occasionally, will be interspersed with passages -respecting the early history of the country. - -[2] See Morton's New England Memorial. The Planter's Plea notices the -event as rather the effect of accident from the prevailing winds, -than any design on the part of the master. - -[3] Letter to the elder Adams, among the MSS. of the Massachusetts -Historical Society. - -[4] The Rev. Mr. Felt has recently found among some papers at -the State House, Boston, a bill made out in Gov. Endecott's own -hand-writing, and presented to the General Court, for the cure of a -man committed to his care. He there styles himself "Chirurgeon." - -[5] Deposited there by C. M. Endicott, Esq., in 1828. - -[6] Perhaps Roger Conant and two or three others, in some respects, -might have been exceptions. - -[7] See Covenant, p. 221. - -[8] The Rev. Mr. Upham, in his Dedication Sermon, in 1826, thus -speaks of him: "John Endecott, (a man, who to the qualities -which have rendered him illustrious, as an effectual leader of -colonization, as a gallant soldier, as a skillful statesman, added -a knowledge of the Scriptures, and a devout piety, which will ever -hallow his memory,) early in the year 1629, before the formation of -this church, wrote to Gov. Bradford respecting a conference he had -held with a gentleman sent to him from Plymouth, (Dr. Fuller.) on the -subject of church institution and government. In this letter we find -no acknowledgment of any other authority in such a matter than his -own private judgment, and no desire expressed, or attempt exhibited, -to force his judgment upon others." The letter here referred to is -the one already cited, of May 11, 1629. "The standard," says Mr. -Upham, "by which Mr. Endecott made up his judgment in this matter, -was certainly no other than the standard of Protestantism--the -Scriptures, as they were opened to his understanding." - -[9] "Kernwood," the summer residence of Francis Peabody, Esq., is -situated on the borders of this stream, and for beauty of location is -not surpassed in that part of the country. - -[10] Charles M. Endicott, Esq., distinctly recollects his visiting, -when quite a boy, one of these ruins on the borders of this stream, -situated in the midst of a locust grove, in the vicinity of the -"Endecott Burying-Ground." - -[11] Mass. Hist. Coll., I., iv., p. 119. - -[12] The General Court, in January, 1635, unanimously agreed, that if -such a Governor should come to this country, the Colonists ought to -resist his authority, and maintain their rights. - -[13] The very next year, only two of the Council, Vane and Dudley, -would consent to spread the King's colors even in the fort, on -account of the cross in them.--_Winthrop's Jour._, Vol. I., p. 189. - -[14] Neal's History of the Puritans, Vol. II., chap. 5. - -[15] Snow's History of Boston. - -[16] This "faithful friend" was none other than Mrs. Leverett, the -wife of the Agent. - -[17] According to tradition, his tombstone was in a good state of -preservation down to the commencement of the American Revolution, -when it was with many others destroyed by the British soldiers, at -the time they occupied Boston. - -[18] The Church, (the first in Massachusetts Colony,) was established -Aug. 6, 1629. - -[19] This is not the church of which the Rev. Mr. Hurd is pastor. - -[20] Twins. - -[21] This account of the antiquities and pedigree of the Parsons -Family was prepared principally from manuscripts in the possession -of Samuel H. Parsons, Esq., of Hartford, Ct., by the Corresponding -Secretary of the New England Historic, Genealogical Society. - -[22] For minute and interesting particulars of this now important -town, the reader is referred to the history of it by REV. DANIEL -LANCASTER. In that work the author has given pedigrees of many of the -early settlers. - -[23] All the fly-leaves are gone from the beginning of the Old -Testament, as well as the title-page. - -[24] This Deborah was the mother of the American Heroine, _Deborah -Sampson_, who, under the name of _Robert Shirtlieff_, served about -two years as soldier in the army of the Revolution, in Capt. Webb's -Company, Col. Jackson's Regiment, and General Patterson's Brigade, -and after an honorable discharge from the Continental army, returned -home to her mother at Plimpton in the Old Colony; assumed her female -habiliments, and was married to Benjamin Gannet of Sharon, Ms., in -1784, where she died about ten years ago, and where three of her -children reside at the present day. - -[25] MS. Memorandum of Capt. John Hull, made at the time and -preserved among the Sewall papers. The Boston Records also say Sept. -17. - - - - - TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE - - Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. - - Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. - - Superscript letters are denoted by ^, for example y^e and Serv^t. - A number following the ^ indicates the generation of the family, for - example Joseph,^3 is in the third generation of the (Parsons) family. - - Missing names and dates were usually indicated by a blank space in the - original text, a few times by ----, and this is retained in the etext. - - Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been - corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within - the text and consultation of external sources. - - Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, - and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. 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