History of the early s*'''*™*",||,,'5|,|!l'|SJj(|j||||||| 3 1924 025 963 376 Cornell University Library The original of tiiis bool< is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924025963376 *•' '•.vT ^ * '-. 1 On. L-he 10- of April \??7 The ConLLfienLai Congress appOinLcJ .; a s eph- Vv ard £sq. cf McissachuseLLs "ComTnisE ary General of Mv.'^ters "'.-nLh. Clie. ranlc cf Colonel'! ( See Appendix ) HISTORY OP THE EAELY SETTLEMENT OF NEWTON, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, MASSACHUSETTS, FROM 1639 TO 1800. WITH A §&unlaptKl %tpBUt Off iU Inla&itants, PRIOR TO 1800. BY FRANCIS JACKSON, (07 BOSTO^,) A NATIVE OP NE-WTON. BOSTON: PRINTED BY STACY AND RICHARDSON. 1854. /\7'/^^7^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, BY FRANCIS JACKSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. INTEODUCTION. The object of this humble effort is to seek and save the earliest and most important historical facts of the To-vvn, especially those relating to its first settlement, in 1639. — the organization of its first church, in 1664, — its separation from Cambridge, and organization as an independent Town, in 1679, — the establishment of its first public school, about 1700, — and all that could be discovered relating to the pioneers of the settlement, with some account of the most interesting transactions of their descendants. To which is added, a GtENEalogical Eegister, con- tainiug the names of all persons, as far as known, who T^ere inhabitants of the place prior to the year 1800, with such brief facts concerning them as could be gleaned from the Town and County records, and else- where. A Plan op the Town is also added, showing the approximate location of the homesteads of the early settlers, the dwelling houses they built, and the roads they laid open, from 1639 to 1700, and onward to 1750. This work does not profess to notice facts, which have transpired siace the year 1800 ; in a few instances, how- ever, transactions of a later date have been mentioned. IV INTEODUCTIO:?^' Much labor and research has been bestowed upon the work, and yet many deficiencies exist. Some parents neglected to have the births of their children recorded ; many had them partially done. Large numbers of such omissions have been supplied from the records of neigh- boring towns, and from various other sources. I claim only a diligent and persevering endeavor to collect facts, and multiply copies of them, for safe keep- ing. The book is now published, in the hope that my own leisure, or that of others, may hereafter correct its inaccuracies, and supply its defects. To my brother, "William Jackson, Esq., of Newton, my grateful acknowledgments are due, for the interest he has manifested in the work, and the valuable assist- ance he has rendered. To the inhabitants of Newton, and to those persons, wherever they are, whose birth place, or that of 'their forefathers, was in Newton, the work is respectfully in- scribed. HISTORY OF NEWTON. The settlement of Newtown (Cambridge) began in 1631. Its town records were commenced in November, 1632, and the proprietors' records in 1635. , The origin of the name, " Newtown," or rather its appli- cation to the town, grew out of the facts and circumstances attending its first settlement. Charlestown, Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, Roxbury, and other towns, had become settled, when for greater security from the Indians, it was deemed necessary, for the safety of the Colony, to have one fortified town. For this purpose, the Governor, Deputy Grovernor and Assistants, examined several places, and finally decided to build the new-town on the north side of Charles river, at the place now occupied by Harvard College, with the intention, or expectation, on the part of many, 'that it was to be the cap- itol of the Colony, and fortified at the common expense. , In 1631, a thatched house in Boston took fire from the chimney, and was burnt down ; whereat. Deputy Governor Dudley observed, that "in our new-town, intended to be built this Summer, we have ordered, that no man there shall build his chimney with wood, or cover his house with thatch." In July, 1631, "The Court ordered that there be levied out of the several plantations, £30, for making the Creek from Charles river to the New Town." 1* 6 EARLY HISTORY OF NEWTON. In February, 1632, "The Court ordered a rate of £60 to be levied out of the several plantations, towards making a palisado about the New Town." * Thus it was spoken, written, and recorded; the name grew with the project. The fortification was actually made, and the fosse was dug around the New-Town, enclosing upwards of a thousand acres, " paled in with one general fence, which was -about one and a half miles in length; it is one of the neatest and best compacted towns in New England, having many fair structures, "with many handsome contrived streets ; the in- habitants, most of them, are very rich. Half a mile west- ward of the Town, is a great pond, (Fresh pond,) which is divided between Newtown and Watertbwn, on the north side of ■ Charles river." t At the General Court, May, 1634, those of Newtown complained of straitness for want of land, especially of meadow land, and desired leave of the Court to look out either for enlargement or removal. They soon obtained very large grants of land, north and south, a description of which will be hereinafter stated. On the south side of Charles river, they obtained nearly all of what is now Brighton and Newton. This tract was first called, " The south side of Oharhs Siver," and some- times "Nonantum, (the Indian name,) and after religious meetings were regularly held on the south side of the river, about 1654, it was csJlei " Gambridge Village," until 1679. When Harvard College was established, in 1638, the General Court " ordered that Newtown should henceforward be called Cambridge," " in compliment to the place where so * The project of a fortifled town seems not to have entered the minds of the first settlers, until sometime after their arrival here. But for this after-thought, Watertown and Charlestown -would prohaMy have remained in juxtaposition, for at least two centuries. t Wood's description, made in the Summer of 1633, NAME OF THE TOWN. 7 many of the civil and clerical fathers of New England had been educated." * In 1662, a parish line was established by the Court, between Cambridge and Cambridge VUlage, about four miles from Cambridge meeting-house. On the 27th of August, 1679, Cambridge Village was set off from Cambridge, and organized as an independent town, "by virtue of an order of the General Court." After which it was more often called "New Cambridge," until 1691. This name was not given by the Court, nor is there any vote in relation to it, upon the Town or Court records. It appears to have been assumed by the leading inhabitants, and generally acquiesced in by the public. Capt. Thbmas Prentice, John Ward, Ebenezer Stone, and other leading men, wrote the name New Cambridge in their deeds and other papers, dated between 1679 and 1691. John Ward was chosen Deputy to the General Court, from New Cam- bridge, in 1689, and so entered on the Court records. This change of name from " Cambridge Village " to " New Cambridge," by the public, was gradual, and never became universal ; it produced some confusion, and the inhabitants petitioned the Court, more than once, to give the town a name. On the 8th December, 1691, the General Court passed the following order. "In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, sometime called New Cambridge, lying on the south side of Charles river, being granted to be a township, praying that a name may be given unto the said town, — It is ordered, that it be henceforth called 'New Town,'" very naturally and properly restor- ing the ancient name, which was discontinued by the Court in 1638, for the reason already stated. * James Sftvage, Esq. 8 BAELT HISTOHT OF NEWTON. The name stands upon the Court records in two words, one syllable each, precisely as it does upon the Court records of 1631. This form of writing it was gradually altered to one word with two syllables. All the town clerks of Newtown, followed the Court's order in the spelling of the name, until 1766, when Judge Fuller was town clerk ; he always spelt it on the Town records, " Newton" There was -no vote — usage in the town and by the public had been seventy-five years preparing the way for him to assume the responsibility of making the contraction, by omitting the " w " from the last syllable. FIEST SETTLEMENT. The first settlers of Cambridge Village did not come into the place in a body, as was the case in the first settlement of many of our New England towns, but they came in one after another, from England, and from the neighboring towns so gradually, that from the first permanent settler, in 1639, to its separation from Cambridge, in 1679, a period of forty years, only forty-two freemen came into the village as permanent settlers. During those years, thirty of their sons had arrived at, or past the age of twenty-one years ; five of those settlers had deceased, and two removed. So that at the erection of the village into an independent town, in 1679, the number of freemen was about sixty-five. ■^ John Jackson bought of Miles Ives, of Watertown, a dwelling house and eighteen acres of land. This lot was very near the present dividing line between Newton and Brighton, twenty-four rods wide upon Charles river, and extending southerly one hundred and twenty rods. Same year, Samuel Holly owned a like lot and dwelling house, adjoining Jackson's estate, and Eandolph Bush owned a like lot and house, adjoining Samuel Holly's estate, and Wil- FIRST SETTLERS. 9 liam Bedson or Eedsyn owned four acres and a dwelling house, adjoining Bush's estate, and William Clements owned six acres ' and a dwelling house, adjoining John Jackson's, west, and Thomas Mayhew owned a dwelling house near the spot where Gen. Michael Jackson's house stood. These six dwelling houses were in the village in 1639, and perhaps earlier. Samuel Holly was in Cam- bridge in 1636, and died in 1643, but left no descendants in the town. We cannot tell who occupied the houses of Mayhew, Clements, Bush and Redson ; they were transient dwellers there, and were soon gone. Edward Jackson bought all these houses, and the lands appurtenant, before 1648, and all, except Mayhew's, were in what is now Brighton. John Jackson's purchase is recorded upon the proprie- tors' records, in 1639. His son John's grave stone, still standing, records his death, October 17, 1675, aged 36, which makes his birth the same year of his father's pur- chase. He had five sons and ten daughters, and at the time of his decease, about fifty grand-children. We there- fore begin our list of settlers with John Jackson, senior. Date of SetUe't Set. 'Sa.mts. Where Trom. Time of' Death. Age. 1639 39 1. Dea. John Jackson, London, 1675 75 1639 2. Samuel" Holly, 1643 1640 30 3. Dea. Saniuel Hyde, London, 1689 79 1643 42 4. Edward Jackson, (C 1681 79i 1644 33 5. John Fuller, England, 1698 87 1647 21 6. Jonathan Hyde, London, ,1711 85 1647 7. Kichard Park, Cambridge, Mass. 1665 1649 29 8. Capt. Thomas Prentice, England, 1710 89 1650 27 9. John "Ward, Sudbury, 1708 82 1650 10. Thomas Hammond, Hingham, 1675 1650 35 11. John Parkeri u 1686 71 1650 12. Vincent Druce, ^^ 1678 1650 21 13. James Prentice, England, 1710 81 1650 14. Thomas Prentice, 2d, (( 1654 15. Thomas "Wiswall, Dorchester, 1683 10 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. Where Prom. Time of Death. Boston, 1686 Roxbury, 1708 Watertown, 1712 Dorchester,' 1717 Eoxbury, 1668 WatertowD, • 1717 1691 1720 Bridgewater, 1691 1693 Boston, 1695 Cambridge, (?) 1702 Hingham, 1712 Charlestown, 1697 Watertown, 1732 u 1730 u 1736 (1 1738 Charlestown, (?) 1710 Eoxbiiiy, 1694 1796 Waltham. Watertown, 1678 Roxbnry. u 1692 Brookline, 1695 Charlestown, (?) 1706 Watertown, 1733 li 1754 1697 1740 Cambridge, 1734 1723 Brookline. Dedham. Boston. 1756 Maiden, t736 53 16. 23 17. 34 18. 28 19. 28 20. 34 21. 22. 23. 24. 27 25. 26 26. 27. 26 28. 29. 30. 26 31. 30 32. 33. 31 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 27 41. 42. 58 43. 44. 40 45. 46. 25 47. 24 48. 49. 50. 30 51. 30 52. 53. 38 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. . John Kenrick, . Isaac Williams, . Abraham Williams, . James Trowbridge, . John Eliot, Jr. . John Spring, . Gregory Cook, . Humphrey Osland, . Daniel Bacon,. . Thomas Greenwood, . Samuel Tnisedale, . Joseph Bartlett, 1. Nehemiah Hobart, . Joseph Miller, . Henry Seger. . John Woodward, !. John Mason, . Isaac Beach, . Stephen Cook, . Daniel Ray, . N. McDaniel, (Scotsm'n) . John Alexander, . David Mead, I. John Parker, (South,) . Simon Ohg, . P. Stanchet, (orHanohet) . William Robinson. . Nathaniel Wilson, . Daniel Macoy, . John Clark, . John Mirick, '. John Knapp, . Ebenezer Stone, . Nathaniel Crane. . William Thomas, . John Staples, . Nathaniel Healy, . Thomas Chamberlain, . Joseph Bush, . Ephraim Wheeler. . Abraham Chamberlain, . Nathaniel Parker, . WiUiam Tucker, . John Foot. . Andrew Hall, . William Brown. . Jonathan Green, . Sobrean Carter. FIRST SETTLERS. 11 Date of SetUe't Set Names. Where From. Time of Death. Age. 1696 64. John Smith, Cambridge, (?) 1697 65. Ebeuezer Littlefield, Dedham, 1728 1698 24 66. John Holland, Watertown. 1700 67. Jacob Chamberlain, 1771 1700 68. John Grimes. 1700 69. Samuel Paris. 1700 40 70. Jonathan Coolidge, Watertown. 1700 24 71. Nathaniel Longley, 1732 56 The foregoing are all the names of the nyile settlers in the town, found upon the records, previous to the year 1700, where they came from, the time of their settlement here, their ages at that time, the time of their decease, and their several ages at that time, as far as known. EAELY GEANTS AND BOUNDARIES. The first considerable accession to the New Town, (Cambridge,) appears to have been in August, 1632, when the Braintree company, which had begun to settle at Mount Wallaston, by order of the Court removed to the New Town. These were Mr. Hooker's company ; their names, forty-seven in number, are entered in the proprietors' records, in 1632. It appears evident that these settlers entertained strong hopes that the New Town would be the metropolis of the Colony; that the canal from Charles river to the town, would give commercial facUity ; the forti- fication, safety from enemies ; and the beauty and regularity of its streets, would be strong inducements for emigrants to settle within its walls. But, however sanguine they may have been, of securing these advantages, it soon became more and more apparent, that however beautiful their new ' town may have been in theory, in practice, their canal and palisado were worthless. The shoal waters of the river 12 EAELT HISTOET OP NEWTON. and the canal were no match for the deep water and easy access of Boston harbor. In May, 1634, they complained to the Court of straitness for WMit of land, and desfred leave to look out either for enlargement or removal, which was -granted; whereupon they sent men to examine Ipswich, the Merrimack and the Connecticut rivers. The report of their messengers, who went to examine Connecticut, was very flattering, and pro- duced a strong influence among them ; and at the session of the Court, in., September, they asked leave to remove to Connecticut. This question of their removal was a very exciting one, and was debated by the Court many days. On taking the vote, it appeared that the Assistants were opposed to their removal, and the Deputies were in favor of it. Upon this grew a great difierence between the Gover- nor and Assistants, and the Deputies. "So when they could proceed no further, the whole Court agreed to keep a day of humiliation in all the congregations," and Mr. Cotton, at the desire of the Court, preached a sermon that had great influence in settling Ihe question. The public senti- ment, at that time, appeared to be against their removal. Boston and Watertown had offered them enlargement, and the congregation of Newtown accepted these offers, and concluded not to remove. This enlargement of lands given by Boston and Water- town, to quiet Newtown, were what is now Brookline, Brighton and Newton, excepting only the previous special grants to individuals. At the second Court of Assistants, September 7th, 1630, "The Court ordered that the town upon Charles river be called Watertown." This was but about two months after their arrival in New England. The place was then an un- explored wilderness, and they claimed a large tract on the south side of Charles river, all of which they gave up to EARLY GRANTS. 18 Newtown, except a strip two hundred rods long and sixty jTods wide, enough to protect their fishing privilege, afterr wards called the "Wear lands. "All the rest of the ground on that side of the river, the Court ordered, was to helong to Newtown." This grant, " all the rest," was the earliest made to Newtown on the south side of the river. Boston early obtained a grant of Muddy river, (Brook- line,) where the allotters were authorized " to take a view, and bound out what may be sufficient there." In Boston, the lands assigned within the peninsula were of limited extent; but at Muddy river, and Mount W^.llaston, four hundred acres were sometimes given to a single individual. William Hibbins's allotment at Muddy river, was four Jiundred and ninety-five acres, bounding south-west upon Dedham. How much "Watertown owned on the one side, and Boston on the other, no one can now tell ; probably neither of them ever knew, nor did the Court itself know, as it appears from its own record, in the case of their special grant to Simon Bradstreet, of five hundred acres of land, on the south side of Charles river, with the condition that " he was to take no part of it withiu a mile of Watertown Wear, in case the bomids of Watertown shall extend so far on that .^de the riyer ! " * • CoLOur Eecoeds.— "November, 1646. Whereas, the Court hath formerly granted to Deputy Governor Dudley, two hundred and seventy-four acres land, Bohert Keayne four hundred, Capt. Perkins four hundred, Eichard Parker and John Johnson four, hundred and thirty-six, Capt. Jennison and Richard Brown, Lieut. Hewes, Elder Heath, Jno. Johnson, Wm. Parks, and divers others, several parcels of land, granted' also hy the General Court, hetTveen the lands of Dedham and Waterto-wn, and did also appoint surveyors to lay the same out; notr in this regard so many are intrusted and few look after it, as also for the want of an orderly way of proceeding it hath been neglected these many years, to the prejudice of many. It is therefore ordered, that so many of the grantees as shall meet at the house of Blchard Fairbanks, in Boston, on December 26th, 1646, and there put in their names with the quantity of lands granted io.them, and shall cast lots," &c., &C. This Kote is inserted merely to show the vagueness of many early land grants, and the confusion irhlch often and necessarily followed. 2 14 EAELT HISTOET OF .NEWTON. .The extreme vagueness of these two grants, — " all the rest" on the one hand, and "what may he sufficient" on the other, — we may be sure, covered all that is now Brookline, Brighton, and Newton, except the special grants that had been previously made to individuals, and what belonged to the Indians. However weak these india-rubber grants may have been, in the hands of Watertown and Boston, they became strong enough when transferred to Newtown — as the public senti- ment appeared to be quite ready to acquiesce in very liberal grants to quiet Newtown, as she had set her heart upon being the metropolis of the Colony, and then of going to Connecticut, — two severe disappointments, which were assuaged by large grants of land, conferred upon her in the most liberal manner. On the south, she obtained what is now Brookline, Brighton, and Newton; and on the north and north-west, what is now West Cambridge, Lexington, Billerica, part of Bedford, and" part of Tewks- bury, and extending to the Merrimack river. She began the smallest township in the Colony, and soon became the largest. It should be stated, however, that these donations of land, from Boston and Watertown, to Newtown, were made upon the condition that Mr. Hooker's company should not re- move, as appears upon the records of the Court, in Septem- ber, 1634. — "It is ordered, that the ground about Muddy river, belonging to Boston, and used by the inhabitants thereof, shall hereafter belong to Newtown — the wood and timber thereof growing, and to be growing, to be reserved to the inhabitants of Boston ; Provided, and it is the mean- ing of this Court, that if Mr. Hooker, and the congregation now settled here, shall remove hence, that the aforesaid meadow ground shall return to Watertown, and the ground at Muddy river to Boston." EABLT GRANTS AND BOUNDARIES. 15 After the question was settled, about the enlargement of Newtown, the Court appointed a committee, consisting of Wm. Colbron, John Johnson, and Abraham Palmer, to determine the bounds between Newtown and Watertown ; and Ensign Jenaison to set out the bounds between, New- town and Eoxbury, about Muddy river. April, 1635. " It is a;greed by us whose names ar« under- written, that the boands between "Watertown and Newtown shall stand as they are already, from Charles river to the great Fresh pond, and from the tree marked by Watertown and Newtown, on the north-east side of the pond, and over the pond to a white poplar tree, on the north-west side of the pond, and from the tree, up into the country, north-west by west, upon a straight line by a meridian compass ; and fjirther, that Watertown shall have one hundred rods in length above the Wear, and one hundred rods beneath the Wear, in length, and three s(?ore rods in breadth, from the river on the south side thereof, and all the rest of the ground on that side of the river, to lye to Newtown. Wm. Colbeon, John Johnson, Abraham Palmer." April, 1635. "The line between Roxbury and Newtown is laid out to run south-west from Muddy river, near that .place called ' Nowell's bridge,' a tree marked on four sides, and from the mouth o? the river to that place ; the south side is for Roxbury, and the north for Newtown. Wm. Jennison."., This line was intended to carry out the gift of Boston to Newtown, by which the whole of Muddy river, more or less, became a part of Newtown, and so remained nearly two years. It was nearly, if not exactly, the same line as that which now divides Roxbury from Brookline ; its length is not stated in Jennison's report, but it is about six miles^ 1# EAKLT HISTORY OP NEWTON, Mr. Hooker's company renewed their request to remove to Connecticut, " the strong bent of their spirits was to remove thither." ■ The General Court finally gave theiH leave to remove where they pleased, "on condition that they should continue under the jurisdiction of Massachu- setts." " Early in the Summer of 1636, Mr, Hooker, Mr. Stone, and about one hundred men, women and, children, composing the whole of Mr. Hooker's congregation, left Newtown, and travelled upwards of one hundred mUes, through a trackless wilderness, to Connecticut, and drove one hundred and sixty cattle, horses, and swine, over HUs^ swamps, and rivers, having no guid6 but their compass. They arrived safe, and laid the foundation of Hartford/' Eev, Mr. Hooker's company were the first proprietors of Newtown (Cambridge). "At their departures many of them sold out their buildings and lands in Newtowuj to those of Eev. Mrw Shepard and his company, who thus en- joyed the advantage which fell to the lot of"but few of the early colonists, of entering a settlement abeady cultivated, and furnished with comfortable accommodations." The condition upon which Boston gave Muddy river to Newtown having been broken by the removal of Mr. Hooker's company, that territory reverted to Boston, and the Court appointed a- committee to settle the boundaries between Newtown and Muddy river, who, in April, 1636, made the following report : — " We, whose names are underwritten, being appointed by the Court to set out the bounds of the New Town upon Charles river, do agree, that the bounds of the Town shall run from the marked tree, by Charles river, on the north west side of the Eoxbury bounds, one and a half miles north-east, and from thence three miles north-west, and so from- thence five miles south-west ;" and on the south-west side of Charles river, from the south-east side of Eoxbury BOTTNDAEIES. 17 bounds, to run four miles on a soutt-west line, reserving the proprieties to several persons, granted by special order of the Court. Wm. Spencek, Nicholas Danfoeth, Wm. Jennison." This description is cloudy, with some errors in the points of compass, which may have been made in copying the report. It diflfers from the present bounds of BrookUne, but was intended to restore Muddy river to Boston, or as much of it as the committee judged expedient. At the General Court, 2. 3. 1638, "It is ordered that Newtown shall henceforward be called Cambridge." The line of Spencer, Danforth, and Jennison, of 1636, not being satisfactory, (doubtless because blindly described and variously construed,) Boston and Cambridge mutually chose committees from their own towns, 20. 11. 1639, to form a new boundary line, as follows : — " We, whose names are underwritten, being appointed by the towns to which we belong, to settle th« bounds between Boston (Muddy river) and Cambridge, have agreed, that the partition shall run from Charles river, up along the channel of Smelt brook, to a marked tree upon the brink of said brook, near the first and lowest reedy meadow ; and from that tree, in a straight line, to the great red oak, formerly marked by agreement, at the foot of the great hill, on the northermost end thereof; and from the said great red oak to Dedham line, by the trees marked by agreement of both parties, this 2. 8. 1646. Thomas Olivee, ) e, t, . William CoLBEOT,P'"'^''*''"'- ElCHAED ChAMPNET, John Beidge, Gkegoet Stone, > For Oamhridge." Joseph Isaac, Thomas Maeett, 2* 18 EAELT HISTOBT 6f NEWTON. This line from Charles rivei', following the brook to the northerly end of the great hill, is the same as it now is ; but as the line ends at Dedham, it is plain that there has been an alteriation at the south-west end of Brookline, as no part of that town now comes within one mile and a quarter of Dedham. In 1660) upon the petition of the inhabitants of Cam- bridge Village, to be released 'from paying church rates to Cambridge, the Court granted them "freedom from aU church rates for the support of the ministry in Cambridge, on all lands and estates which were more than four miles from Cambridge meeting-house ; the measure to be in the usual paths that may be ordinarily passed." The inhabitants of the village were not satisfied with this line, and in 1662 they petitioned the Court for a different line. The action of the Court was as follows : ■ — "October, 1662. In answer to the petitaoa of John Jackson and Thomas Wiswall, in behalf of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, as a full and final issue of all things in controversy between the town of Cambridge and the petitioners, the Court judge it meet to order and appoint) aiid fully empowei-. Major "William Hawthorne, of Salem, Captain Francis Norton, of Charlestown, and Captain Hugh Mason, of Watertown, as a committee to give the petition* ers, or some in their behalf, with some invited from the town of Cambridge, opportunity to make their desires known, and Major Hawthorne to apjpoint the time and iplace for the hearing, of what all parties can say, so it be sometime before the next court of elections ; and on the hearing thereof, to issue fully, and absolutely conclude and determine what they shall judge necessaly and just to be ■done, as to the determining the four mile bounds, that so this Court may no more be troubled thereabouts." This committee established the bounds between the BOUNDARIES. 19 village and Cambridge, so far as ministerial taxes were con- cerned, in 1662. It became a town line on the separation of the vUlage from Cambridge, in 1679, and is substantially the same line that now divides Newton and Brighton. In 1705, " The subscribers were empowered to settle the line between Newton and Watertown, and on the 25th Sept., 1705, did mutually agree, namely, beginning at Charles river at high water mark, at the north-east corner of the farm formerly Mr. Mayhew's, and run a straight line south south-west, two degrefes west, to a walnut stump, forty-one and three-qnarter rods ; then turning and running straight north-w€st, five degrees north, two hundred and sixteen rods, across Stephen Cook's land and Smelt brook ; then turning and running straight, north-east by north, eighty rods, to the river. John Spring, ") Edwaed Jackson, ^Newton. Ebenezer Stone, ) Jonas Bond, I Watertown." Joseph Shermatst, j This settlement shortened the easterly line~ a few rods, and lengthened the southerly and westerly lines a few rods each. The settlement of 1635 gave Watertown seventy- five acres on the south side of the river. The settlement of 1705 increased it to about eighty-eight acres, so that New- ton lost the jurisdiction of about thirteen acres, by the settlement of 1705. We have thus traced the origin and settlement of the easterly and south-easterly bounds of Newton ; at all other points it bounds upon Charles river, excepting the two hundred rods upon the river, reserved to Watertown by order of the General Court, in April, 1635. The whole length of the river bounds of Newton, from the time it became a town, in 1679, to 1838, was fifteen miles and fifty- 20 EAKLT HISTORY OF NEWTON. one rods ; the whole length of its land bounds, nine miles less fifty-one rods ; the whole length of its land and water bounds, in 1838, twenty-four miles. In 1838, eighteen hundred acres of Newton, at the extreme southerly part of the town, bounding south-west about two hundred and ninety rods ,upon the river, was set off to Koxbury; and in 1847^ about six liundred and forty acres, at the extreme northerly part of the town, bounding northerly ten hundred and eighty rods upon the river, was set off to "Waltham. The town contained fourteen thousand five hundred and thirteen acres, in 1838. These dimensions arid contents are 'taken from the map of E. F. Woodward and W. P. "Ward, of 1831, revised and corrected by*James B. Blake, in 1848. SPECIAL G-RANTS TO INDIVIDUALS. • GENERAL COURT RECORDS. Nov., 1632. " Mr. Phillips hath thirty acres land granted him, on the south side Charles river, beginning at a creek a little higher than the first Pines, and so upward towards the "Wear." This was claimed by Watertown, but in "1634, the Court ordered that the meadow [marsh] on this side the Watertown wear, about thirty acres, shall belong to Newtown." April 1, 1634. "There is one thousand acres of land, and a great pond, [Wiswall's pond,] granted to John Haynes, Esq. ; five hundred acres to Thomas Dudley, Esq. ; acres to Samuel Dudley, and two hundred acres to Daniel Dennison, all lying and being above the Falls, on the east side of Charles river, to enjoy to them and their heirs forever ; and five hundred acres to Simon Bradstreet, north-west of the land of, John Haynes, Esq. ; he shall take no part of it within a mile of Watertown wear, in case the bounds of Watertown shall extend so far on that side the EARLY CONVEYANCES. 21 river." In 1643, "Bradstreet had liberty to -take his ■five hundred acres in any other place, not yet granted to another." June, 1641. "Mr. Mayhew shall enjoy one hundred and fifty acres of land on the south side of Charles river, by Watertown wear." 1643. "Mr. Mayhew is granted three hundred acres land in regard to his charge about the bridge by "Water- town Mill, and the bridge to belong to the country." 1634. "The Court ordered that the constable and four men, of the chief inhabitants of every town, to be chosen by the freemen, with the advice of ^me one or more of the assistants, shall make survey of the houses and lands im- proved, or enclosed, or granted by special order of the Court, of every free inhabitant there, and shall enter the same in a book, with their bounds and quantity, by the nearest estima- tion, and shall deliver a transcript thereof into Court, within six months next ensuing, and the same so entered and recorded shall be sufficient assurance to every such free inhabitant, his heirs and assigns, of such estates of inherit- ance ; and also, the same course to be had respecting town lots. And every sale or grant, of such houses or lots, shall from time to time be entered in said book, by said constable and four inhabitants, or their successors." EARLY CONVEYANCES. EXTKACTS FEOM SUFFOLK DEEDS. " Thomas Mayhew, of Watertown, merchant, [formerly of Medford,] grants unto Simon Bradstreet, of Ipswich, in consideration of six cows, all that his farm, containing by estimation five hundred acres, lying in Cambridge, with all the buildings thereto belonging ; and this was by indenture, dated 29th September, 1638." 22 EAKLT HISTOET OF NEWTON. 1646. >" Simon Bradstreet, of Andover, gent., granted unto Mr. Edward Jacison, of Cambridge, naylor, in consid- ejation of £140 already paid, his farm of five hundred acres land, which was lately in the tenure of Thomas May- hew, adjoining the Wear lands, bounded with Pastor Shep- ard north. Elder Champney west, [east,] and the Common south and east, with all the rights and privileges, yea, and appurtenances ; and this was by an absolute deed, with war- ranty and bond of £2, to secure it from any claim, either himself or Thomas Mayhew." This deed was acknowledged by Bradstreet, before Gov- ernor Winthrop. ^ 30. 6. 1668. "Thomas Brattle and others-, conveyed to Thomas Hammond and Vincent Druce, of. Cambridge, six hundred acres at Muddy river, called the ' Eoyton Farm,' surveyed by John Oliver, bounded north partly on Roxbury line, and south partly on the Cambridge line ; consideration, £100." September 18, 1643. '.'Thomas Carter, of Woburn, pas- tor, granted unto Edward Jackson, of Cambridge, naylor, his meadow [marsh] at the Pines, which he bought of Rob- ert Feake, which lyeth in Cambridge between the Pines, and a certain piece of meadow now in the hands of Jeremy Norcross, about six acres, more or less, and the greater part abutting on Charles river, and some smallest of it on Mr. Phillips' land, in consideration of £15." 7. 8. 1643. " Samuel Holly, of Cambridge, grants unto- Edward Jackson, of the same town, six acres of land lying on the south side of the way that leads to Roxbury, and joins east to the land now in the tenure of the said Jackson ; it is forty rods long from the highway towards the Common, and twenty-four rods broad ; in consideration of £5 in hand paid by said Jackson." EA.BLT CONVEYANCES. 23 EXTRACTS FROM THE EECOEDS OF THE PEOPKIETOES OP CAMBRIDGE. 1639. " John Jackson bought of Miles Ives, one dwell- ing house with eighteen acres land, on the south side of Charles river, in Cambridge bounds, bounded south-east on Samuel Holly, north-east upon the river, south-west being the upper end of it, joining the Common, and set out by stakes, north-west with a brook, [creek,J and he to reach to the middle of it." 1639. " Samuel Holly, one dwelling house, with eighteen acres of land, south-east on .Randolph Bush, north-east on the river, north-west on John Jackson, and south-west on the Common." 1 639. " Randolph Bush, one dwelling house and eighteen acres of land, westerly on Ssimuel Holly, east on "William Redsen ; common lands, south ; the river, Edward Howe and Abraham Child, north." 1 642. " William Redsen, one dwelling house and four acres land, west by Randolph Bush, south and east by the Common." 1640. "Joseph Cooke was granted four hundred and fifty acres land, beyond Cheese-Cake brook ; Charles river, north ; common lands, south ; and Herbert Pelham, Esq., west ; and four hundred acres to Samuel Shepard, beyond the land granted to Joseph Cooke, bounding east on Cooke." 1641. " Thomas Parish was granted one hundred acres land on the left hand of the great plain towards Mr. Haynes' farm, between two brooks, on the south-east side of Chesnut hill, with a swamp on the south-east." [Both these brooks cross the Dedham highway, one a little south of the Centre Meeting-house, and the other a little north of the old burial place. Thomas Parish sold this, by his attorney Danforth, to James and Thomas Prentice, 1657.] 24: BAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. 1647.. "Laid out, on the south side of the river, 'near Watertown mill, ten acres land to John Jackson ; ten acres to Randolph, Bush ; ten acres to John Kendall, or (Hol- ly's) house; [Kendall married Holly's widow;] and forty acres to Edward Jackson, adjoining that already laid to his brother John Jackson, and to himself for Redsen's house, proyided he satisfy Mr. Corlet for the town's gift to him ; and eleven acres to Richard PaA, abutting on Mr. Jackson's land east and west, and the highway to Dedham runs through it." 1661. " The town do agree and consent, that all the com- mon lands on the south side of the river, on the east side of Dedham path, shall be divided into propriety, to the several inhabitants that have an interest therein." 1664. "At a meeting of the inhabitants and proprietors x>f the town lands, it is agreed among them, that the persons hereafter named, be a committee to draw up a list of the names of such inhabitants as have interest in said common lands, as near as may be, according to the order and agree- ment of the thirteen men, recorded in the town books, or according to any other righteous rule, as they shall see meet, and the proportion to each inhaJbitant aforesaid, their just right for the number of acres in fhe common lands on the south side of the river, yet undivided ; also, in a distinct list, to proportion and allot, in a way of free gift, so much of _the said lands unto the inhabitants of the town that have no interest, with respect to quality, desert, or standing in the town, and bearing public charges, according as said committee shall think equal and just ; and the said com- mittee, having drawn up the list aforesaid, to call all the aforesaid inhabitants together, and present the same unto them, for their final approbation ; at which meeting the major vote, either affirmative or negative, shall be conclu- sive in the matter." DIVISION OF BILLEEICA LANDS. 25 Tne committee are as follows, viz : — " All the selectmen of Cambridge, Deacon Stone, Deacon Bridge, Mr. John Stedman, Lieutenant Winship, Edward Shepard, Richard Eobbins, Philip Cooke, John Shepard, and David Fisk. And if it should appear, that the major vote of the afore- said inhabitants do vote in the affirmative, and agree to what is to them presented, then there shall be a proceeding to draw lots, according to what is agreed to, such a method and manner as shall be proposed by said committee, for the division of all the common lands on the south side of the river, and the committee are desired to despatch the work as soon as conveniently they can ; the townsmen to appoint time and place of meeting. Voted in the affirmative, the day and year above named." By this vote, about twenty-seven hundred acres upon the souih side of the river, were divided among about one hundred proprietors, only four of whom belonged to Cam- bridge Village, namely, Edward Jackson, thirty acres ; John Jackson, twenty acres ; Thomas Prentice, nine acres ; James Prentice, nine acres. About three thousand acres were divided, in 1662, on the south side of the river, to about . ninety proprietors. A large tract of lands, about eight thousand acres, in Shawshin, (Billerica,) were granted to Cambridge, by the General Court, in 1656, which were divided among the proprietors, seven of whom belonged to Cambridge Village, namely, Edward Jackson, four hundred acres ; Thomas Prentice, one hundred and fifty acres ; Samuel Hyde, eighty acres ; John Jackson, fifty acres ; Jonathan Hyde, twenty acres; John Parker, twenty acres, and Vincent Druce, fifteen acres. "The town of Cambridge formerly gave to Thomas Shepard, the late Pastor, three hundred acres land beyond 3 26 EAKLT HISTORY OP NEWTON. Watertown Mill, adjoining that which was Mayhew's ; also, two hundred acres more, near Samuel Shepard's farm." * 1647. "Samuel and Jonathan Hyde bought forty acres land, bounded by Richard Park north, late Mayhew's farm west, Dedham highway south-east, and common lands south west." 1647. "Thomas Danforth sold to John Jackson, twenty acres land, highway to Koxbury north,- William Clemens west, Thomas Danforth south-west, common ' lands south east." 1650. "The common lands recovered of Dedham, not formerly granted or disposed of, are sold to Edw. Jackson, Edward Goffe, John Jackson, and Thomas Danforth, for £20, according to agreement by the Town, 25. 10, 1650." MIDDLESEX DEEDS. riKST VOLUME COMMENCES MARCH 20tH, 1648-9. 6. 6. 1650. "Nicholas Hodgsden and wife Elizabeth, of Boston, [Brookline] to John Parker, for £8, 6». 8d., one third of all the land he bought of Robert Bradish." April 6, 1652. "Administrators of Deacon Nathaniel Sparhawk to Samuel and Jonathan Hyde, two hundred acres land, part of which is bounded with Roxbury hi^- way north, Richard Champney south-east, Stephen Day west, and twenty acres more, part pf which is lying within the Indian fence." 14. 9. 1656. "Esther Sparhawk, daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk, to Thomas Hammond, for £40, three hundred and thirty acres of land, granted by the town of Cambridge * These Ave bnndred acres were probably granted to Shepard at Ms settlemeiit, in 1636. He died In 1649. About whlob time they doubtless passed Into the hands of ElohardParli; the conveyance, liowever, ia not npon record. They are, no donbt, part of the same lands bequeathed by his Will, In 1665, to his son Thomas Park, and ■were divided among the chUdren of Thomas, in 1693-4. EABIT COIITETANCES. 27 to her father, now in possession of said Hammond; John "Ward and Thomas Prentice north, land of Robert Bradish south and west." 1656. "Thomas Woolson, of Cambridge, to Jonathan Hyde, eighty acres of land, being one eighth of the land recovered from Dedham, bounded with Thomas "WiswaU's farm south." [The same land that Cambridge sold to Edward Goffe, and Goffe to Woolson.] 1650. "Nicholas Hodgsden, to Thomas Hammond and Vincent Druce, both of Hingham, joint purchasers of sixty-seven acres of land on Cambridge hill; also, twenty- nine acres more, adjoining John Parker's lafid north-north- west and north east." January, 1658. "Richard Parker and wife Ann, of Boston, to John Kenrick, two hundred and fifty acres of land, which he formerly purchased of Thomas Mayhew ; Charles river west, the Haynes farm north, John Jackson and others east, with farm, house and barn thereon, for £200." December, 1658. "Joseph Cooke, of Cambridge, to John FuUer, for £1 60, seven hundred and fifty acres land north and west by Charles river, the winding part of the river west, east by Thomas Park, and south by Samuel Shepard's farm, being a straight line between." March, 1657. "Thomas Danforth, attorney, to Thomas Parish, of Naylond County, Suffolk, England, to James and Thomas Prentice, Jr., one hundred acres land, for £61, being aU that farm whereon James Prentice now aweUs ; north-west by Dedham highway; south-west by land of Wm. Clemens ; and north-east by land of John Jackson." 1663. ^' Elder Frost, of Cambridge, to Capt. Thomas Prentice, eighty-five acres ; John "Ward east, Samuel Hyde north, William Clemens, James and Thomas Prentice, Jr. west, common lands south." 28 EABLT HISTOKT OP NE-WTON. 1672. "Jeremiah Dummer, of Boston, to Gregory Cooke, one hundred and twelve acres land, partly in Cam- bridge, [Newton,] and partly in Watertown, with house and barn thereon, for £145; highway east, Edward Jackson and Daniel Bacon south, Charles river north, Thomas Park west." 1661. " Edward Jackson, to his son-in-law John Ward, and Hannah his wife, all that tract of land where they have entered and built their house, being forty-five acres, [which he bought of Elder Frost,] bounded by the highway to Hammond's south. Captain Prentice west, John Jackson east, and highway^north." [This deed was not acknowl- edged until fourteen years after its date.] 1678. "Samuel Hyde, deacon, to his son-in-law Hum- phrey Osland, shoemaker, a piece of land upon which said Osland has erected a house ; bounded with highway east, his own land north, and by John Crane west and south." 1669. "William Clemens, Jr. to Daniel Bacon, of Bridgewater, tailor, twenty-five acres of land he lately purchased of Richard Dummer, of Boston ; highway from Watertown to Eoxbury south ; land of said Clemens east j and Charles river north-east, for £60." 1673. " Thomas Hammond to Thomas Greenwood, seven acres land adjoining Captain Prentice and John Ward. Greenwood also bought Isaac Parker's homestead, in 1686, house, barn, and twenty-four acres; east by Thomas Hammond ; south by Nathaniel Hammond ; west by Jonathan Hammond ; and north by John Druce. He also bought about forty acres of others." 1675. "Thomas Danforth to James Trowbridge, the now mansion place of said Trowbridge, with house, barn, out-houses, and eighty-five acres of land ; bounded with the narrow lane north, Samuel Hyde and highway west, high- EA.RLT CONVETAKCES. 29 way south, and land of said Danforth east; the dividing ^ne being straight through the swamp." 1681. " Richard Robbins, of Cambridge, to John Wood- ward, weaver, and his wife Rebecca, daughten of said Robbins ; north by a way leading to the Lower Falls ; south by Charles river ; east by land of 'Squire Pelham ; and west by Thomas CrosweU." 1712. "Mary Eliot, widow of Rev. Joseph Eliot, of Guilford, Connecticut, (brother of Rev. John, of Cambridge Village,) gives to her son. Rev. Jared Eliot, of Connecticut, three hundred acres of land, in Newton, being part of the Grovemor Haynes' farm ; east by land of John and Eleazer Ward ; west by John Hobart ; north by Wm. Tucker and Samuel Hyde ; and south by Joseph Parker and Jonathan Ward," 1703. "Jonathan, Senior, to his son Samuel Hyde, [Jr.,J forty-five acres of land that his dwelling house now standeth upon; south partly by the great pond, called ' Wiswall's pond ; ' and partly by the Haynes' h.vm, with a way one rod wide, on the south side, to come from his house to the great road, on condition not to sell it to strangers, except through want or necessity ; but to one of Jonathan Hyde, Senior's, heirs, by the name of Hyde. In an agree- ment between his father, Jonathan, and brother Eleazer, May, 1703, Samuel binds himself that the rod-wide way shall be free to bring hemp or flax to the pond, and sheep to washing, or such like necessary occasions to come to the pond through his land, from the pond, to the north end of the stone wall, and so along upon the land that his honored father, Jonathan Hyde, left him, with the liberty of the one rod-wide way between the land of Thomas Wiswall and said Jonathan Hyde, to the great road." This agreement was signed by Jonathan Hyde, Senior, and wife Mary; Eleazer Hyde and wife Hannah, and Samuel Hyde. 3* 30 EAKLT HISTOKT OP NEWTON. Witnessed by Samuel Hyde and Thos. Wiswall. Acknowl- edged before Jonas Bond, May 28th,_1703. 1703. "Jonatian and Eleazer Hyde, to their brother Samuel Hyde, of Newton, a tract of land bought of Thos. Wiswall ; east partly on land of Jonathan Hyde, Senior, and partly on land of said Samuel; south by the great pond called Noah Wiswall's Pond, and the Haynes' farm ; west on land of William Wilcox ; north on land of William Hyde, Daniel Hyde, Ichabod Hyde; and the north-east corner by a walnut tree by the drain" * November, 1705. " Samuel Hyde, 2d, of Newton, to Daniel Hyde, ten acres for £10 ; Haynes' farm west, and land of Wilcut ; north-east by his other land. (Signed.) Samuel Htde, Hannah Htde. Witnesses: Aeohibald Magot, Jonathan Htde, Jacob Htde." 1703. " Thomas Wiswall to Samuel Hyde, three quar- ters of an acre on the northerly side of the great pond ; south by the pond ; west by said Hyde ; north by Jonathan Hyde ; and south-east by the stone wall, lying on both sides of the drain, * that runneth out of the said pond." [Hyde bought this for the convenience of himself and brothers to go to the pond.j 1698. Eleazer Hyde to his brother Daniel Hyde, twenty acres land; east by Jonathan Hyde; south by the pond called Haynes' pond ; west by Daniel Hyde ; and ^north by Ichabod Hyde." [All sons of Jonathan, Senior.] February, 1702. "Jonathan Hyde, Senior, sergeant, gives and bequeaths to John Kenrick, Nathaniel Healy, • An QxcibTatlon to obtain water from Wiswall's pond, to Increase the power of Smelt brook. EAELT CONVEYANCES. 31 and "WiUiam Ward, selectmen of Newton, half an acre of land, bounded north-east by the highway to Dedham ; north- west by his own land, being ten rods on the highway, and eight rods wide south-west, for the use and benefit of this school in the southerly part of the town ; to be employed and improved by said Kenrick, Healy, and Ward, or any two of them and such as shall be chosen after them, to succeed in said trust, by a majority of the votes of the families at said south end of the town, for whom said school is now principally accommodated to the ends aforesaid. Jonathan Hyde. Witnesses : John Woodward, Hannah Woodwakd, James Hyde." 1698. "Jonathan Hyde, Senior, and wife Mary, to his son WiUiam Hyde, forty acres of upland and five of mea- dow ; south-west by Thomas Danforth ; north by Ichabod Hyde ; and east by his own land. Also, ten acres more in 1700." 1698. "Also, to his son Daniel Hyde, thirty-five acres, where he hath entered and buUt his now dwelling-house ; north by Captain Prentice ; west by William Hyde ; south by Samuel Hyde ; and east by Ichabod Hyde. Also, ten acres more adjoining Samuel and William." 1698. "Also, to his son Ichabod Hyde, forty-two acres, where he has erected his now dwelling house; north by Captain Prentice ; west by Daniel Hyde ; south by Eleazer Hyde. Also, twenty-four acres more north by the high- way. Also, ten acres more." 1698. " Eleazer Hyde, weaver, to his brother Daniel Hyde, twenty acres ; east by Jonathan, Senior ; south by the pond called Haynes' pond ; west by Daniel Hyde ; and north by Ichabod Hyde." 32 EAKLT HISTOET OP NEWTON. 1703. " Jonathan Hyde, Senior, to his son Jolin Hyde, forty-six acres ; south-east by Jonathan Hyde, Jr. ; north- west by N. Hobart ; and north-east by Boston [Brookline} line. Also, ten acres adjoining." 1705. " Also, to his son Jonathan Hyde, Jr., fifty acres ; west by John Hyde ; south by Benjamin Wilson ; east by Payne's land. Also, another tract in 1709." 1710. "Jonathan Hyde, Senior, to his son Jacob Hyde, aU his now dwelling-house, barn, out-houses, and fifty-six acres land ; north by Thomas Prentice ; west by heirs of Ichabod Hyde ; from the brook to Thomas Prentice's land ; north and north-east by daughter Osland; east by the highway." 1710. " Also, to his daughter Anna, thirty acres ; east by Dedham road ; west by Hannah Hyde, widow of Icha- bod ; north by Jacob Hyde." 1710. " Jonathan Hyde, Senior, to his son-in-law John, Osland, and Sarah his wife, sixteen acres wood land (called Kagland) ; west. by Jno. Spring and John Prentice, Also, twelve acres, east by highway." 1703, " Jonathan Hyde, Senior, to his son Joseph Hyde, forty-five acres, where he has erected his now dwelling . house ; south by Henry Seger ; east by Eleazer Hyde ; and west by the way between the division of lots." " Jonathan Hyde, Senior, grants to his children a cart-way through his house lot, from his east gate, by Dedham high- way, to his west gate, behind his barn, -^ a way with gates, forever." 1713, " Edward Jackson, of London, England, mariner, son of Jonathan Jackson, of Boston, deceased, and grandson of Edward Jackson, Senior, sells to Nathaniel Healy, for £10, the ten acres of land given him by his grandfather Jackson's will" 1689. "Agreement between the proprietors of the great EARLY CONVEYANCES, 33 Ball Pate meadow, to maintain the dam and keep open the ditch, through the meadow, every one doing his part, accord- ing to his- proportion of meadow ; and also, to fence said meadow, against swine and great cattle. Thom^ Prentice, Senior, seventy rods on the south side of the meadow, by his son's house, which is twenty rods more than his propor- tion, because he has a greater advantage in flowing than the others ; Jonathan Hyde, Senior, twenty-five rods ; Jonathan Hyde, Jr., twenty-five rods ; John Hyde, twenty-five rods ; WUliam Hyde, twenty-five rods ; Thomas Sadgrove, twenty- five rods ; Erossman Drew, twenty-five rods. [Signed by the above-named parties.J Witness: Thomas GtEeenwood. Thomas Chambeelain." May, 1716. "Nath'l Parker, to the Selectmen of New- ton, two hundred and sixty rods land for £15, beginning at a chesnut tree in the fence, on the Dedham road, near Jonathan Woodward's house, thence sixteen and a half rods on the road, to a stake and stones in the fence of said high- way ; then turning east and running north sixteen rods, to a stake, and then east, running to a stake in the fence of the aforesaid highway, sixteen rods, to said chesnut tree. Nathaniel Pakkbk." The third Meeting-house was built on thia land. 1717. " Abraham Jackson, to his son' Capt. John Jack- son, a deed of gift, several parcels of land, some partly in Newton and partly in Cambridge, with dwelling house and bam, and thirty acres adjoining, west by town way, south by Indian lane. Also, twenty acres at Chesnut Hill (ex- cept four acres to Isaac Beach, and the land on which the Meeting-house now standeth, so long as the Town shall see cause to improve it for the use they now do). Also, twelve 34 EABLT HISTORY OP NEWTON. acres pasture land, in Cambridge, east on Joseph Champney and Ebenezer Stratton." 1726. " Samuel filler ^ves to the town of Newton four rods pf land, for the west school house,, near his dwelling house, on the proprietors' way, so long as the school house shall be continued there, for the use of school- ing, and for no other use." 1733. " Jonathan Ellsworth, Esq., executor of the estate of John Eliot, Esq.,. of Windsor, Conn., and Mary his widow, petitioned the General Court of Mass., to sell th» plape in Newton, given him by his father's will, for the purpose of raising money to carry his son John (then sev- enteen years old) through college, at New Haven." •"The place was sold to Henry Gibbs, Esq., for £415; bounding east by the Dedham road ; south by John Spring ; west and north by Eev. John Cotton." 1735. " Capt. Joseph Fuller, gent., to my successor, Capt. Ephraim Williams, and the military company now under his command, for love, good will, and affection, freely and absolutely give and grant, unto said Capt. WiUiams and his successors, and to said military foot company forever, for their benefit and use, a certain tract of land in Newton, being one hundred and thirty-six rods, bounded on aU sides by town ways, as may appear by a plan thereof drawn upon this Deed. Witness : John Cotton and John Spring ; and acknowl- edged before John Greenwood." 1715. "Jared Eliot, and wife Hannah, of Killingly, Connecticut, to John Hammond, three hundred and seventy acres of land, in four parcels, for £6000." * 1715. "Eleazer Williams, and wife Mary, [Hobart,] of Mansfield, Connecticut, and Abigail and Sarah Hobart, * Part of Governor Haynes' farm. EARLY CONVETAirCES. 35 of Newton, to Eev. John Cotton, the homestead of their honored father, Nehemiah Hobart, one hundred acres of land, with the buildings thereon, for £850, in Province bills of credit ; east by John Eliot, Esq., Thomas Train, and the County road ; northerly by Thomas Train, Edward, Jona- than, and Joseph Jackson; south by John * Eliot, Esq. and John Spring." 1721. "John "Ward, to his son-in-law "William Trow- bridge, deed of gift ; the west end of his dwelling house, Where said Trowbridge now dweUeth, and thirteen acres of land adjoining, and one quarter part of the Grist MiU and stream." 1722. "Isaac "Williams, of Roxbury, to his brother Ephraim "Williams, of Newton, one quarter part of the Corn MiU, in Newton, which was his honored father's." 1742. ""William Clark to Norman Clark, all his rights in the pond, and one hundred and eighty-five acres land ; * south and west on land of Jared EHot and Francis Blanden." Elder Wiswall, John Spring, Joseph Bartlett, Captain Isaac "Williams, and others, neglected to record the deeds of their farms ; nor is there anything upon record to show how Richard Park, Senior, came by the six hundred acres abut^ -ting northerly upon Charles river, which he willed to his only son Thomas ; nor any record of the homestead of Eev. John Eliot, Jr. He probably never had any deed of his" twenty acres adjoining John Spring ; it evidently belonged to the southerly comer of the Mayhew farm, and doubtless was given to him by Edward Jackson, Senior, who also gave Pastor Hobart twenty-five acres adjoining Eliot, in 1681. * Part of QOTemor Haynes' farm. 36 BAELY HISTOKT OP NEWTON. EARLY LOCATION OF HIGHWAYS. BXTBACTS FKOM THE TOWN BECOEDS OF CAMBEIDGE. • 1653. " Mr. Edward Jackson, Edward Oakes, and Thos. Danforth, were .appointed by the townsmen of Cambridge, to lay out all necessary highways, on the south side of the river, and agree with the proprietors of the land for the same, by exchange for common land or otherwise, according to their discretion." 1656. "The inhabitants of Cambridge consented to pay each his proportion of a rate of £200, towards building a bridge over Charles river." The bridge was built about 1660 ; it was called, and long known, as- " The Great Bridge." 1657. "Mr. Edward Jackson, John Jackson, Richard Park, and Samuel Hyde, were appointed a committee to lay out and settle the highways, in reference to the proprie- tors at that end of the town, otherwise than by crossing upon any part of the Common, as need shall require." 1671. " Samuel Champney, John Jackson, and Thomas Oliver's report to the town, — ' They judge it needful that there should be an open and stated highway laid out and bounded, four rods wide from the Boston [Brookline] bounds, along through Elder Wiswall's farm, through Mr. ' Haynes' farm, (now Willis',) and from thence to pass along through the small lots to the Falls, and so quite through to the Dedham bounds. Also, we judge it most convenient that this way should be stated from Haynes' farm to Elder Wiswall's farm, and other men's proprietary, to Boston [Brookline] bounds.' " 1676. At a town meeting, called "to consider about fortifying the town against the Indians," it was judged necessary "that something be done for the fencing in the HIGHWATS. 37 town with a stockade, or something equivalent." Materials were accordingly prepared; but King Philip's war being soon terminated, the town ordered that the Selectmen should " improve the timber that was brought for the fortification, for the repairing ' The Great Bridge.' " " This bridge was rebuilt in 1690," at the expense of Cambridge and Newton, with some aid from the public treasurj'." * 1678. " The Selectmen went to settle some highways on the south side of the river ; they staked out the County high- way four rods- wide on the south side of goodman Man's lot, [alias John Jackson's,] and marked out a highway two rods wide, at the east end of said lot, up to the County road that leads to Watertown mill, from Eoxbury. Also, tliey set out the highway of two rods wide, on the south side of Na thaniel Sparhawk's land, and the one hundred acres belong- ing to Elder Champney, unto the common land next to Danforth's farm. Also, they laid out the highway that runs between Nathaniel Sparhawk's land and goodman Champ- ney?s land, up to Eoxbury highway." HIGHWAYS. EXTRACTS FROM NEWTON KECOEDS. 1687. "John Ward and Noah Wiswall were joined to our Selectmen, to treat with the Selectmen of Cambridge, to lay out a highway from our Meeting-house to the Falls." 1691. "Renewed the bound-marks of a way from John Mirick's stone wall, over the hill eastward, to Joseph Wil- son's land. Also, from the north-west corner of Thomas Greenwood's orchard wall, over the rocks, to Boston [Brookline] way. Also, renewed the bound-marks of Ded- ham highway." * Holmes' Hist. Camb. 38 EARLY HISTOKT OP NEWTON. 1702. "Voted, that the way fram the Meeting-house to the Lower Falls shall be turned from Henry Seger's hill, along the Country road, by the house of John Staples, and so by the pine swamp." 1713. "The Selectmen and a committee of three were added, to settle and confirm the highways in'the town.'' 1. " "We have laid out . an open highway from Roxbu'ry line, two rods wicle, through lands of widow Bacon, William Ward, John Hyde, Jr., and Thos. Prentice : thence through land of Thomas Hastings, Jonathan Hyde, Senior, Jona- than Hyde, Jr., and John Hyde, and over Pastor Hobart's land, by their consent. 2. "We have renewed the highway marks from Ded- ham road, formerly laid out to Charles river, through land belonging to Rev. Jared Eliot, Samuel Pettis, Joseph Che- ney, and William Clark. 3. "We have renewed the highway marks from Dedham road, at the brook* near Samuel Pettis', until it comes to the farm of Ensign John Kenrick; and thence we have extended, and laid out said way through land of said Ken- rick, and Samuel Truesdale, two rods wide, they having lib- erty to hang two gates on said way, one at the corner of Joseph Ward's land, and the other at the end of said way, next to the house of Isaac Patch. 4. " We have renewed the bound marks from the brook* near the house of Samuel Pettis, to the lines of Eoxbury and Dedham. 5. " We have renewed the bound marks of the highway, from Stake meadow to our Meeting-house, through lands of Mr. Smith, or land commonly called Pains Hill, and through the land of Nathaniel Longley, Nathaniel Parker, and Thomas Wiswall. * South Meadow Brook. SlGH-VVAtS. 39 6. "We have renewed the bound marks of the highway, from the line of Brookline to the house of the widow Mi- riek, through the lands of Nathaniel and Thomas Hammond, Seniors, John Druce, and Isaac Hammond, Thomas Cham- berlain, Jr., and Richard "Ward, and have accepted of their turning the highway through the land of Captain Thomas Prentice : it being done to the full satisfaction of said Pren- tice, and all persons concerned. 7. " We have laid out an open highway through the land of Abraham Jackson, from the house of widow Mirick to our Meeting-bouse, three rods wide, where the path is now trod. 8. " At the request of Archibald Macoy, we have laid out a way through land of said Macoy, and so to and by a fixed rock, along the northerly side of said rock, and to land of Joseph Bartlett, as now trod, and through land of Na- thaniel Longley, north side of his dwelling house, two rods wide. 9. " At the request of Philip White and William Ward, we have opened a highway two rods wide, through the lands from Dedham road, near the brook,* through land of said White as now trodden, to land of Nathaniel Healy and Wm. Ward, to the highway-that goeth to the Eoxbury line. Dec. 14, 1714. Abraham: Jackson, John Staples, Richard Ward, \ Selectmen. Samuel Htde, | John Greenwood, J John Kenrick, ^ Edvtard Jackson, >- Committee." John Htde, ) 1720. " Renewed the bound marks of the highway from John Kenrick's, to land of Andrew Hall, and then to keep Palmer'8 Brook. 40 EARLT HISTOET OF NEWTON. to Dedham road, till it comes near the house of Robert Murdock." 1725. "Voted, that highways shall be mended by rate of £40 ; men to be allowed three shillings a day, and six shillings for man and team." " The Selectmen report, that they have renewed the bound ■marks of a highway, from or near John Staples to the town way laid out to our Meeting-house, through lands be- longing to Eleazer Hyde, two rods wide, running between land of John Taylor and John Staples, and through said Staple's land, and entering on land of Captain Joseph Fuller." 1726. " The Selectmen and a committee have stated out the town ways, beginning at Watertown line, on Ded- ham road, between Jonathan Coolidge and Stephen Cooke, three and a half rods and four feet wide ; between Colonel Bond and John Mason's lands, three and a half rods and two feet 5 between Philip Norcross and Isaac Jackson and Mason's, three and a half rods ; at Deacon Edward Jack- son, Ensign Samuel Hyde, and John Osland, three and a half rods ; Rev. Mr. Cotton's, Mr. Eliot, John Spring, and Captain John Jackson, three and a half rods ; at the corner of said Jackson and Spring's, two rods and five feet ; heirs of James Prentice, three and a half rods ; John Osland, heirs of John Prentice, deceased, three and a half rods by the brook* ; Eleazer Ward, three rods and four feet ; house of Bond, John Clark, John Bartlett, Meeting-house land, Eleazer "Ward, Nathaniel Parker, heirs of Thomas Wiswall, three rods ; Noah Wiswall's barn, and open to the pond, William Clark, through the farm of Jared Eliot, Jonathan Ward, deceased, John Stone, Eleazer Stoddard, John Ken- rick, John Hall, Robert Murdock, Jacob Chamberlain, Causeway and Eliot Farm, school house land, David Richard- * Which crosses the road near the Centre Meeting-hoase. HIGHWAYS. 41 son, Edward Ward and the brook,* Philip White, Nathaniel Healej, Michel Dwight, house of Benjamin Wilson, Edward Ward, to Dedham line." 2. " Brookline to County bridge at Lower Falls, John Seaver, Henry Winchester, Hannah, Sarah, and Elizabeth Prentice, John Osland, Edward Ruggles, Nathaniel Parker, house of Caleb Parker, Noah Wiswall, William Clark, Ebenezer Woodward, Jonathan Woodward, Eleazer Hyde, John Staples, Henry Seger, John Trowbridge, Ebenezer Littlefield, John Parker, and Jonathan Willard." " From Watertown to Lower Falls, through land of Solomon Park to land called ' Fuller's farm,' John Knapp, unto the lane in ' FuUer's farm,' two rods wide.'' 1729. " The Selectmen laid open a way two rods wide, through land of Eiehard Ward, John Grreenwood, Eleazer Hammond, and Josiah Wilson, running on the southerly side of Eiehard Ward's dwelling house, until it comes to Cambridge line.'' " Also, for the petition in Weston, a way from the fording place in Charles river, against the town way in Weston, to the County road that goeth from the Lower Falls to Water- town, beginning at the river, through land of Wm. Eobin- son, Benjamin Child, until it comes to the County road." 1735. " Laid out an open way, two rods wide, from the Dedham road, near the house of Philip Norcross, to the north-west part of the town, by Isaac Jackson, Joseph Jackson, to Edward Jackson's fence, on the west side of the brookjf near to Sebas Jackson, Jr.'s house, as the way is now trod, to Thomas Beals and William Trowbridge, two rods wide." [ Signed by the Selectmen and land holders.] " Also, a new way beginning at the County road, by Thomas Park's bam, through Thomas Beals' land, through » Palmer's Brook. t Smelt Brook. 4» 42 EARLY HISTOET OF NEWTON. Capt. Joseph FuUer's land, on the north-west side of his fence, till it comes to the way at Capt. Fuller's corner ; thence north, on land of Capt. Fuller, till it comes to land of Thomas Beals, and land of "William Trowbridge, two rods wide." 1737. " Voted, to stake out the way that leads from Dedham road to Ensign Spring's mill, called Mill lane." 1741. " Settled the bounds of a way as now trod, begin- ning at John Hill's land, by Thomas Draper's, Timothy "Whitney's, and John Healy's." " Voted, to accept' the way Stephen "Winchester laid out, and he to have liberty to hang two gates." " Voted, to lay out a way through James Cheney, Jr.'s land, from the town road to the bridge, at the Upper Falls, for the use of the town, near Noah Parker's house, and the town to relinquish aU their rights to a way heretofore used, through Stephen Winchester's land, to the Falls." 1742. " Complaint was entered against the bridge at Upper Falls, called Cook's bridge." 1743. "The bridge between Newton and "Weston mentioned." 1750. " The Selectmen laid out a way from the town way that leads to the house of widow Staples, to the roaiTcalled Natick road, beginning on Joseph Fuller's land and Daniel Woodward, to land of Thomas Miller, and through his land to Natick road." ■ Signed by Joseph FuUer, Thomas Brown, Daniel Wood- ward, and Joseph Hyde, land owners. " Also, a way from the County road, near Allen's, to the brook called Cheese-cake brook, thence to Samuel Hastings' wall, and to the County road." Signed by Josiah Goddard, Joseph Morse, Jonathan and Isaac AVilliams, land owners. 1751. " A new way laid out through the ' Fuller farm,' HIGHWATSf 43 beginning at the house of Josiah Fuller, at a rock in said Fuller's fence, on the south side of the way, thence to Cornet John Fuller's land, widow Hannah Fuller, Joshua Fuller, to land of Thomas Fuller, deceased, to Jonathan Fuller and over the brook called Cheese-cake brook, two rods wide, from said Josiah Fuller's easterly to said brook.'' [Signed by the land holders.] 1752. " A new way from the County road through land of Joseph "Ward, Oakes Angier, Jonathan Fuller, leading to the 'Fuller farm.'" 1753. " New bridge between Newton and "Weston com- pleted, ninety-eight and two thirds feet in length." 1754. " A new way through land of William Marean, John Hammond, Stephen "Winchester, Nathan "Ward, John "Ward, "William Marean, Jr., and over south meadow brook, from house of Israel Stowell, at John "Ward's gate." 1756. " A new way laid out, begijoning at the County road near the house of Benjamin Child, and through his land to the house of Jonathan "Williams, two rods wide." " Also, from Joseph Morse to the road leading to Cheese- cake brook." "Also, from Charles river, near the brook called Beaver brook,* to the town way near the house of John Fuller." " Also, from Joseph Morse's, between the lands of Samuel "Wheat and Samuel Hastings, to Cambridge lots, and thence through the land of said "Wheat, and land of Isaac "Williams, to Josiah Goddard, to Dr. John Allen's and Samuel Has- tings, till it meets the town way at the brook called Cheese- cake brook." 1757. " Fuller's way to Charles river, beginning at the river, thence through Capt. Joshua Fuller's land to land of the heirs of Isaac Fuller." •In Waltham. 44 EAELT HfSTORT OF HKWTON. 1758. " Voted, to join with Waltham in building a bridge over Charles river." The bridge was built in 1761, and cost the town only £12, 16s, 5d. Much of the timber was given. 1760. " A new way laid out from Natick road, through land of John Burridge and Isaac Ja6kson, to the County road near the house of Sebas Jackson, two rods wide." 1761. "At the request of Enoch Parker, John Jackson and Samuel Jackson, we have turned the town way, that leads from the road called Indian lane, to the County road near John Jackson's old house." , 1765. " Voted, to build half the bridge over Charles river called Kenrick's bridge." 1787. " A new way laid out and accepted, from Angler's corner, westerly to land of Timothy Jackson, and from the brook westerly to Mrs. Mary Durant's barn." 1788. "The old road, running past the school house, thence south-west across Trowbridge's plain, thence north- west to Mrs. Mary Durant's barn, was discontinued ; and the training field which was given to the town 1^ Judge Fuller's grandfather, in 1735, situated in what is now New- tonville, was discontinued, and the land (nearly one acre) was to revert to Judge Fuller, he paying a reasonable price therefor." EXTEACTS FROM THE TOWN RECORDS. May 8, 1703. " To all people to whom this present Deed shall come, greeting: Know ye, that we, Thomas Wis- wall and Nathaniel Parker, yeomen, of Newton, &c., [heirs of Capt. Noah Wiswall,] for divers considerations, and especially in consideration of a verbal agreement, made between our honored grandfather, Elder Thomas WiswaU, of Newton, deceased, of one part, and John Ward and Jonathatl Hyde, Senior, both of Newtown, on the other HIGHWAY THROUGH THE "FTJLLEE FABM." 45 part, concerning an exchange of land, for a convenience of •ways through, our lands . to their meadows ; and the said John Ward and Jonathan Hyde, Senior, in one writing, hearing even date -with these Presents, having remised and released unto us by writing, may more fully appear. " We, therefore, the said Thomas Wiswall and Nathaniel Parker, have given, granted and confirmed, unto the said Ward and Hyde, forever, free egress and regress to their - meadows, commonly called the ' great meadows,' viz.: one way from the County road by [near] the great pond, along by the door, or before the house of said Nathaniel Parker, until it comes to the ' old field,' and then the said way is to branch out one way southerly, as the way now goeth, so far as the farm extends, and the other way to go through the said old field, unto the place called ' the landing place,' or where the proprietors of said meadows do commonly bring off their hay, where they shall have liberty to stack their hay, if need require, along northerly as the County road now goeth ; and one way more on the north-east side of the great meadows, from the rock called John Ward's rock, until it come to the Boston [and Sherburne] road." May 8, 1703, (Signed.) Thomas Wiswall, his Nathaniel + Paekee. mark. Witness : Samuel Hyde, Eleazek Hyde, .John Staples. Aad acknowledged before Jonas Bond, Justice Peace. 1730. " The undersigned do all and every one of us agree and consent to lay out an open highway, two rods wide, as it is allowed of in the settlement of the farm called 'Fuller's farm,' for the use of and convenience of the proprietors of said farm, down to the town way, at Solomon 46 EARLY HISTORY Or NEWTON. Park's line, marked on a walnut tree and heap of stones in Jonathan Fuller's land : and then a walnut tree, and then a white oak tree, and then a peach tree, on land of Joseph Fuller, and then a white oak tree, on land of ^Teremiah Fuller, and then to a white oak tree, and then to a gray oak tree, and then to a walnut tree, and then over the dam, at the upper end of the wet meadow, and then to a rock, on the land of Jonathan Fuller, and then to the town way, for us. And also agreed to have liberty of passing through gates or bars, from one proprietor's way to the other, where the way is now trod. And we do oblige ourselves,- and our heirs, to mend and maintain the said way forever, from the corner of the line between John Fuller, and down to the town way at Solomon Park's line. " In witness whereof, we set our hands and seals, this thirteenth day of May, Anno Domini in the third year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George Second, of Great Britain, King, &c. (Signed.) Joseph Fuller, ■Joshua Fuxlee, Jeremiah Fuller, John Fuller, Jonathan Fuller, Jonathan Fuller, Jr., Isaac Fuller, Isaac Fuller, Jr., Thomas Fuller, Caleb Fuller. £i presence of us : her * Elizabeth -|- Mirick, mark. MiNDWELL Fuller, her Priscilla -|- Dike." mark. Division of the Fuller farm, 788 acres. The town accepted this way 1751. SEPARATION TEOM CAMBRIDGE CHURCH. 47 SEPARATION FROM CAMBRIDGE CHURCH. The first settlers of the village began very early to mani- fest a stro.ng desire to be independent of Cambridge ; they gently commenced the first movement in that direction, in 1654; about which time they began to hold religious meet- ings for public worship, in the village, when they asked to be released from supporting the church at Cambridge. Their request was answered by the Selectmen, as follows : Meeting of the Selectmen, March 12, 1655. " In answer to the request of some of our beloved brethren and neighbors, the inhabitants on the other side of the river, that they might have the ordinances of Christ among them, distinct from the town. The townsmen not well understanding what they intend, or do desire of the town, nor yet being able to conceive how any thing can be granted in that respect, but the fr9,ction will prove destruc- tive t^ the whole body, do ifot see ground to give any consent for any division of the town. Also, we hope it is not the desire of our brethren so to accommodate themselves by a division as thereby utterly to disenable and undo the church of Christ, with whom they have made so solemn an engagement in the Lord, which is apparent to us will be the effect thereof, and therefore do desire, that we may join both hand and heart, to worship the Lord together in one ^place, until the Lord shall be pleased to enlarge our hands, and show us our way more clear for a division." 1656. " John Jackson and Thomas Wiswall, in behalf of the inhabitants of the village, petitioned the General Court to be released from paying rates for the support of the minis- try at Cambridge church." The town of Cambridge remonstrated against this peti- tion and stated, that " many persons in whose names the 48 EAELT HISTOKT OF NEWTON. petition is signed, although inhabitants, yet not by the approbation of the town, having no right to town privileges, save only the land whereon they dwell, and others rf them do live on the farms of those who as yet never manifested their desire of any such change ; the most of them do live within four miles of our Meeting-house, except two or three farms that lie above the Falls on Charles river, near Dedham, and hardly ever go to meeting, and some of them are not much above two miles off." " If they attain their desire, and set their Meeting-house at their pleasure, sundry of them will be farther from it than many of them now are from Cambridge Church ; and upon the same ground, when they plead for a division, we have need to have at least four Meeting-houses in our town, which now find it difficult to maintain one as it should." The Court's Committee, Richard Russell, of Charlestown, Eleazer Lusher, of Dedham, and Ephraim Child, of Water- town, reported against the petition, — the principal reason in their report was, that " if the petitioners should withdraw their help from Cambridge Church and ministry, it would be overburdensome to Cambridge to provide for the support of their minister." The petitioners had leave to withdraw. , 1661. The inhabitants of the village petitioned the Court again, to be released from paying church rates to Cambridge. The erection of a new Meeting-house in- the village had greatly strengthened their case, and accordingly . the Court " granted them freedom from all church rates for the support of the ministry in Cambridge, and for all lands and estates which were more than four miles from Cam- bridge Meeting-house ; the measure to be in the usual paths that may be ordinarily passed." - The inhabitants of the village were not, however, satisfied with the dividing line, and in 1662, they petitioned the Court for a new line. The action of the Court upon this petition was as follows : SBPAEATION FROM CAMBRIDGE CHtJECH. 49 Oct. 1662. " In answer to the petition of John Jackson and Thomas Wiswall, in behalf of the inhabitants of Cam- bridge Village, as a full and final issue of all things in controversy between the town of Cambridge and the peti- tioners, the Court judge it meet to order, appoint and fully empower M^g*. William Hawthorne, of Salem, Capt. Francis Norton, of Charlestown, and Capt. Hugh Mason, of Water- town, as a committee to give the petitioners, or some in their behalf, with some invited in behalf of the town of Cambridge, opportunity to make their desires known, and Maj. Hawthorne to appoint the time and place for the hear- ing, of what all parties can say, so it be sometime before the next Court of election ; and on the hearing thereof, to issue fuUy, and absolutely conclude and determine, what they shall judge necessary and just to be done, as to the determin- ing the four mile bounds, that so this Court may no more be troubled thereabouts." This committee ran the line, and settled the bounds, between the Village and Cambridge, in 1662, so faS: as ministerial taxes were concemed- SEPAEATION OF CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE FROM THE TOWN OF CAMBRIDGE. 1672. Edward Jackson and John Jackson, in behalf of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, petitioned the Court to be set off from Cambridge, and made an independent town by themselves. In answer to this petition, " the Court, in 1673, doth judge meet to grant to the inhabitants of said Village, annually to elect one Constable and three Selectmen, dwelling among themselves, to order the prudential affairs of the inhabitants there, according to law, only continuing a part of Cam- 5 50 EAKLT HISTOBT OF NEWTON. bridge in paying County and Country rates, as also Town rates, so far as refers to the grammar school, bridge over Charles river, and their proportion of the charges of the Deputies." This action of the Court was not satisfactory to ^ the Village, and they did not accept or act under it. 1677. Further action was had, relative to the dividing line between Cambridge and the Village, both parties agreeing to submit it to referees mutually chosen. The Village chose Capt. Thomas Prentice, James Trow- bridge, Noah Wiswall, and Jonathan Hyde, a committee to settle the line by reference ; two referees to be chosen by the Village, two by Cambridge, and they four to choose a fifth. The referees thus chosen, were Richard Calicot, William Symes, William Johnson, William Bond, and Richard Louden. The result of this reference was, a line described as foUows : " Comer near the widow Jackson's orchard, and a chesnut tree in Mr. Edward Jackson's pasture, and to continue until it comes to the river, then southerly by a heap of stones, four miles from Cambridge Meeting-house ; thence to continue until it comes to Boston [Brookline] bounds." This award was dated July 27, 1677, ■ 1678. Nearly all the freemen of the Village signed the following petition, which was no doubt drawn up by Mr. Edward Jackson, Senior. " To the Honored Governor, Deputy Governor, together with the Son. Magistrates now sitting in Boston : " The humble petition of us, the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, on the south side of Charles river, showeth, that the late war, as it hath been a great charge to the whole Colony, and to us in particular, both in our estates and persons, by SEPAEA.TION FROM CAMBRIDGE. 51 loss of life to some, and others wounded and disabled for their livelihood, besides all our other great charges, in building our Meeting-house, and of late enlargement to it, and also our charge to the minister's house, and as you know the Lord took the worthy person from us in a little time, and now in great mercy hath raised up another in the place, who hath a house in building for him, which reqij^res assist- ance ; as also, we are now, by the great mercy of God, so many families, that a school is required for the education of our children, according to law, besides our public charge of the place ; yet, notwithstanding this, last year the towns- men of Cambridge have imposed a tax upon us, amounting to the sum of three Country rates, without our knowledge or consent, which we humbly conceive is very harsh proceed- ing for any townsmen, of their own will and power, to im- pose fipon the inhabitants what taxes they please, and to what end, without even calling the inhabitants to consider about such charge ; yet, nevertheless, for peace sake, the inhabitants of our place did meet together, and. jointly consent to give the town of Cambridge the sum of £100, and to pay it in three years, without desiring any profit or benefit from them, of wood, timber, or common lands, but only for our freedom, being content with our proprietary, which some of us had before Cambridge had any site there, which tender of ours they having rejected, as also to grant to us our freedom from them. " "VVe do most humbly commend our distressed condition to the justice and mercy of this honored Court, that you will please to grant us our frejpdom from Cambridge, and that we may be a township of ourselves, without any more dependence upon Cambridge, which hath been a great charge and burthen to us, and also, that you will please to give the place a name, and if there should be any objection against us, that the honored Court will admit our reply and 52 EAELT HISTOET OP NEWTON, defence. So, hoping the Almighty will assist you, in all your concerns, we rest your humble petitioners." Mr. Edward Jackson, Jonathan Hyde, Senior, Captain Thomas Prentice, Thomas Park, Senior, John Fuller, Senior, John Kenrick, Senior, Isaac Williams, John Ward, Joseph Miller, Thomas Prentice, Jr., John Kenrick, Jr., John Mason, William Robinson, Thomas Greenwood, John Parker, (south,) Humphrey Osland, Joseph Bartlett, Isaac Ba<;on, Jacob Bacon, Samuel Trusedale, Simon Onge, Jonathan Fuller, John Parker, (east,) Job Hyde, Widow Jackson, Edward Jackson, Jr., Daniel Ray, Thomas Prentice, Jr., 5? James Trowbridge, Noah WiswaU, Thomas Hammond, Jonathan Hyde, Jr., James Prentice, Senior, David Meade, Vincent Druce, John Hyde, Ebenezer Wiswall, Elijah Kenrick, Sebas Jackson, Samuel Hyde, Jr., Neal McDaniel, John Fuller, Jr., Joshua Fuller, John Alexander, John Prentice, Nathaniel Hammond, Abraham Jackson, Stephen Cook, Richard Park, Joseph Fuller, Isaac Beach, Peter Stanchet. in all. Freemen in the- Village who did not sign this Petition. Rev. Nehemiali Hobart, John Woodward, Elder Thomas Wiswall, Henry Seger, Dea..Samuel Hyde, ^ Thomas Park, Jr., EEMONSTRANCE OF CAMBRIDGE. 53 Daniel Bacon, John Park, John Spring, Samuel Hyde, son of Jona., Daniel McCoy, James Prentice, Jr, [12.] The petition was presented to the Court, at the first session, 1 678, and committed, and a hearing of the parties was ordered on the first Tuesday of October, 1678, (2d session,) and all parties to have timely notice. Cambridge presented a remonstrance to the petition, dated October 23, 1678, signed by their Selectmen, containing upwards of fifteen pages ; portions of it are severe and eccentric, as may be seen by the following extracts. " The petitioners say, 'they plead only for their freedom, being content with their own proprieties.' We answer, that the inhabitants of Cambridge, now dwelling on the north side of Charles river, have well nigh three thousand acres of land, that is laid out into lots, some ten, twenty, or forty acres, more or less, that they are at this time seized of, and by them kept for herbage, timber, wood and planting lands, so they shall have occasion to use the same, which is by the petitioners included within that line of division between the town and them, and therefore they do not say words of truth, when they say they are content with their .own pro- ■t-i-mp^ipq *■ flf'^P ^ ^ ^ V *B' tF " We must divide the petitioners into two sorts ; first, those that were dwellers in the town before they went to inhabit on that side ; second, another sort are those that came from other towns. Those that proceeded from the town, who, knowing the straightness and want of accommo- dations to be had among their brethren there, and the lands on that side of the water being then of small value, preved to themselves large and comfortable accommodations for a small matter. We have confidence that those dare not to say, that their being in Cambridge hath been any charge or 5* 54 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. burthen to them. They must and will own, that God hath greatly blessed them ; that whereas, we on the town side, that of £1000 that we or our parents brought to this place, and laid out in the town, for the purchasing, at dear rates, which we now enjoy, cannot divest us, they may speak just the contrary or in proportion. We would, if need, now instance some whose parents lived and died here, who, when they came to this town, had no estate, and some were helped by the charity of the church ; and others, yet living there, well know they may say with good Jacob, 'over Jordan came I with this staff;' and so may they say, over this 'river went I with this spade, plough, or other tool, and now, through God's blessing, am greatly increased ; yet here, we would not be understood to include every particular person, for we acknowledge that Mr. [Edward] Jackson brought a good estate to the town, as some others did, and hath not been wanting to the ministry, or any good work among us, and therefore we would not reflect upon him in the least. " There are another sort of persons that did not proceed from the town, but came from other towns, where there had been much division and contention among them, who, though they knew the distance of the place from the public Meeting-house, the dependency thereof on Cambridge, which they now call a great charge and burden, yet they then did choose, and we are assured will own, generally at least, that they have increased their estates far beyond which the town have, or are capable to do. We might instance also in the inventories of some of them, whose pur- chase at the first cost them a very small matter, and their stock and household stuff we judge to be proportionable, and yetj when they deceased, an inventory, amounting to more than £1100, is given to the Court. (Witness John Jack- son's inventory, £1230 ; Richard Park's, £972 ; and old Hammond's, £1139.) And others that are yet living, we EEMONSTEA.NCE OF CAMBRIDGE. 55 suppose, have advanced in some measure suitable ; they knew beforehand the distance of their new dwellings from Cambridge, yet this did not obstKuct them in their settle- ments there, but before they were well warm in their nests they must divide the town. ***** " Whten the Court, being tired out with their eager pur- suits, and more private fawnings and insinuations, granted them committee upon committee, to hear and examine the ground of their so great complaints ; at last, all issued in a declaration of the unreasonableness of their desire, with reference to the town, as may appear by the return of the committee, made to the General Court, October 14, 1657, yet they rested not. "In the year 1661, they petitioned the Court, and then obtained freedom from the rates to the Ministry, for all lands and estates more than four miles from Cambridge Meeting-fiouse, this being all they desired. "But all this did not satisfy them; the very next year they petitioned the Court again, and another committee was appointed, to come upon the place and determine the divi- ding line between the town and them ; the result thereof was such, that whereas their grant was for all the lands that were above four miles from the town, they now obtain the staking of a line, that generally is (by exact measure) "tried and proved to be, very little above three miles from Cambridge Meeting-house. " All this, notwithstanding those long-breathed petitioners, finding that they had such good success that they could never cast their lines into the sea but something was catched, they resolved to bait their hook again. "In 1672, they petitioned the Court again for the same thing, and in the same words that now they do, viz. : that they may be a township of themselves, distinct from Cam- bridge. And the Court grant them farther liberty than 56 EARLY HISTORY OP NEWTON. before, viz. : to choose their own Constable and three Se- lectmen, among themselves, to order the prudential affairs of the inhabitants there, only continuing a part of Cambridge in paying Country and County rates, as also Town rates, so far as refers to the grammar school, bridge, popular charges, they to pay still their proportion with the town ; and this the Court declares once more to be an issue to the contro- versy between Cambridge and them. « * * " And did not this honored Court, as well as we, conclude that the petitioners having exercised the patience of the Court by their so petitioning, as well as giving trouble to the town, by causing them to dance after their pipes, from time to time, for twenty-four years, as will appear by the Court's records, in which they have petitioned the Court near, if not altogether ten times, putting the town to great charges. * * Yet, notwithstanding all this, we are summoned now again, to appear before this honored Court, to answer their petition, exhibited for the very same thing. * * "The injustice of this their request, which may thus appear, if .it would be accounted instructive for any neigh- boring towns or other persons to endeavor the compassing so great a part of our town limits from us ; it is the same land, in some sense far worse, for those that belong to us so to do ; this we conceive is plain from God's word, that should the child that robs his father to be' the companion of a destroyer, or as some render the word, a murderer, although the child may plead interest in his father's estate, yet he is in God's account a murderer, if he takes away that whereby his father or* mother lives, and this we apprehend not to be far unlike the case now before this honored Court. " All parties of this nature are condemned by the light of nature. {Judges xi, 24.) They who had the gi-ants from the heathen idolaters, did not account it just that they should be / dispossessed by others ; and idolatrous Ahab, although he EEMONSTEANCE OP CAMBRIDGE. 57 was a king, and a very wicked king also, and wanted not power to effect what he desired, and was so burthened for the want of Naboth's vineyard that he would neither eat nor sleep, and when denied by his own subjects, tendered a full price for the same, yet he had so much conscience left, that he did not dare to seize the same presently, as the petitioners would be, so great a part of our possession as this, were it now in their pow«r. • "The liberty and property of a colony, and so likewise in its degree rf a township, is far more to be insisted upon than the right of any particular person, the concerns thereof being obviously far greater in aU respects, both civil and ecclesiastical. "The GAieral Court having forty-flve years since, or more, made a grant of the lands -petitioned for, to Cam- bridge town, the -Court's (it was no dishonor to Paul that he had all church power, that he would do nothing against the truth, nor diminutive to the power of God, himself, yet he is a God that cannot lie) grant being made to ease the town and persons, as His Majesty's royal charter is to this honored Assembly, and the whole colony; we have confidence that such is their wisdom and integrity, that they will not deem it be in their power to take away from us, or any (fther town or person, any part of what they have so orderly granted and confirmed to them. Had we no grant upon record, yet by the law of possession it is ours, and may not, without violation of the law, and faith of the honored Court, be taken from us. Could the petitioners obtain what they dsk, without crossing the law of justice, yet we apprehend it would be very unusual, and that may thus appear. Because Cambridge town is the womb, out of which the petitioners have sprung, and therefore ought in the first place to be provided for ; and the question in equity (Jught to be, not what do the petitioners crave, and might be 58 EAELT HISTORY OF NEWTON. convenient for them, but what may Cambridge spare? Now that Cambridge cannot spare what thej desire, we shall prove : "From the situation of our town, being planted on a neck of land, hemmed about by neighboring towns, "Water Towne coming .on the one side, within half a mile of our Meeting-house, and Charlestown as near on the other side, so that our bounds is not much above a mile in breadth, for near three miles together, and on the south side of the river the petitioners have gained their line (as we before related) to come very near within three miles of our Meet- ing-house. " The most considerable part of the best and most accom- modable of those near lands to our town, are belonging to Mr. Pelham, and others that live not in the town, so that the far greater number of those that live in the town are put to hire grass for their cattle to feed upon, in the summer time, which costs them at least, twelve or fifteen shillings a head in money, for one cow the summer feed ; and corn land they have not sufficient to find the town with bread. Cam- bridge is not a town of trade or merchandise, as the seaport towns be, but what they do must be in a way of husbandry, although never so hard terms, they having no other way of supply. * * * * " Watertown and Charlestown, nipping us up close on each side, so as that we must be no town nor have no church of Christ, nor ministry among us, in case we be clipped and mangled, as the petitioners would have, we conceive there needs no further evidence than our own testimony, we know not why we should not be believed, we conceive that the honor of God, and of this Court, is more concerned in pro- viding against the laying waste our ancient town and church of Christ, settled in this place for more than forty years, than any of us can be, as to our personal interest ; nothing BEMONSTBANCE OP CAMBBIDGE. 59 yet we now enjoy, as to our outward accommodations, being so attractive, as that we should be forced here to continue, if we are disabled, to maintain God's ordinances ; yet for evidence of the truth of what we thus assert, we might allege the moving of Mr. Hooker, and the whole church with him, to Hartford, and that for this very reason, because they foresaw the narrowness of the place was such that they would not live here. Also, the endeavor of Mr. Shep- ard, and the church with him, before his death, to remove in like manner, and that for no other reason but this, be- cause they saw, after many years hard labor and expense of their estates that they brought with them from England, that they could not live in this place. " We do freely own, that as our place is straightened, so the charges are great for the maintenance of the ' Great Bridge,' schools, &c., besides all other charges common to other places. Shall this be an argument, therefore, to countenance any to seek to pluck from us our sight, and to pull away their shoulders, to whom of right it appertains to bear a part with us, and have flir the greatest part of the accommodation that should uphold the same ? We would not speak passionately, but let not this honored Court be offended if we speak a little passionately. » * * " The petitioners have not submitted unto, nor rested in the Court's last grant, made them for the choice of a Con- stable and three Selectmen among themselves, but have carried it forward, one towards another, and in like manner towards the town, from whom they pleaded, and unto whom they of right belong. We humbly entreat, that the said order may be preserved, and they and we, beings all one body politic, may have a joint choice in the Selectmen and Constables of the town, according as the laws doth deter- mine the right and privilege of each town. " Finally, we humbly entreat that this our defence may 60 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. be entered in the Court's register, there to remain for the vindication of our just rights, in perpetuum and memoriam. Praying that the God of wisdom and truth may direct and guide this honored Court in their issuing of this and all other their most weighty concerns, we subscribe ourselves your humble and dutiful servants and supplicants. John Cooper, William Manning, John Stone, Walter Hastings, Francis Moore, Nathaniel Spaehavtk, Gamhridge, 23. 8. 1678." Selectmen Cambridge. 1 678. " In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, the Court judgeth it meet to grant them a hearing of the case mentioned, on the first Tuesday of the next session in October next, and all parties to be timely notified." The result was, that the Court granted the prayer of the petition, and Cambridge Village was set off from Cam- bridge, and made an independent township. The doings of the Court in this case are missing, and have not as yet been found, and therefore we do not know the precise conditions "upon which the separation took place. It is probable that, notwithstanding the separation, Cam- bridge Village was still holden to do its part towards the repairs of " the Great Bridge," and the support of the gram- mar school, and no doubt there was a provision respecting the common lands, which were owned by proprietors living in Cambridge, and perhaps they continued to be taxed together, for County and Country rates, but the Town record is quite sufficient to establish the fact of separation. The very first entry upon the new Town book records the doings of the first Town Meeting, held "27. 6. 1679, Jy virtue of an order of the General Court," at which meeting, the first NEW CAMBEIDOE. 61 board of Selectmen were duly elected, namely, Captian Thomas Prentice, John Ward, and James Trowbridge ; and Thomas Greenwood was chosen Constable. The Town records, and the record of births, marriages and' deaths, commenced with the organization, and all the machinery of an independent town was put -in motion by " an order of the General Court." The second Town Meeting was held on the 80th January, 1681, at which meeting it was voted that the Selectmen should provide weights and measures, for standards ; and John Spring was chosen Sealer. It was also' voted, that Sergeant John Ward and Noah Wiswall should commence a new record book, and copy all that was of moment from the old book ; and several other votes were passed. The firsWnovement of the inhabitants of the Village, for a separation from the church and town of Cambridge, was commenced in 1654, and completed August 27, 1679 — a quarter of a century. During that severe and tedious struggle, to obtain the privileges of an independent town, they exhibited a most determined perseverance and love of freedom. They offered to buy their freedom outright, with pounds sterling; and Cambridge had made several propositions for compromise, one of which was confirmed by the General Court, but the inhabitants of the Village were determined to accept nothing less than an independent town. In the language of the remonstrants, "those long-breathed petitioners rested not, but continued to bait their hooks, and cast their lines into the sea, tiring out the Courts with their eager pursuits, and obliging them to dance after their pipers for twenty-five years." There wdre sixty-five freemen in the Village, when the new town was launched, fifty-two of whom signed the petition which severed the Village from Cambridge. 6 62 EAKLY HISTOKT OF NEWTON. 1688. "Articles of Agreement, made September 17, 1688, between the Selectmen of Cambridge, and the Select- men of the Village, in behalf of their respective towns : " That, whereas, Cambridge Village, by order of the General Court in the late Government, was enjoined to bear their proportion in the charges in the upholding and main- taining of the Great Bridge and school, with some other things of a public nature in the town of Cambridge ; also, there having been some diflPerence between the Selectmen of said townsj concerning the laying of rates, for the end above said, that the Village shall pay to the town of Cambridge the sum of £5 in merchantable corn, at the former prices, at or before the first day of» May next ensuing the date above, in full satisfaction of all dues and demands by the said town from the said Village, on the account above said, from the beginning of the world to the 11th January, 1687. Provided, always, and it is to be hereby understood, that the town of Cambridge, on consideration of £4 in current county pay, already in hand payed to the Village above said, shall have free use of the highway laid out from the Village Meeting-house to the Falls, forever, without any let, molest- ation or denial; also, that the Constable of the Village shall pay to the town of Cambridge, or that is in their hands unpaid, of their former rates due to the town of Cambridge above said. In witness whereof, the Selectmen above said hereunto set their hands, the day and year first above written. John Cooper, Samuel Andrevts, Walter Hastings, David Fiske, Samuel Stone, Jonathan Remington, John Spring, ) Selectmen Edward Jackson, >• of James Prentice, ) New Camhidye. Selectmen Cambridge. EDUCATION. 63 1689. April 30. « Received of John Clark, Constable of New Cambridge, £5 in corn, at the common price ; that is, Rye at four Shillings the bushel, Indian at three shillings, and Oats at two shillings the bushel. By me, Samuel Andrews.'' 1691. December 8. " In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, lying on the south side of Charles river, sometime called New Cambridge, being granted to be a township, praying that a name may be given to said town, — It is ordered, that it be henceforth called New Town." This order of the General Court, for a name only, has been mistaken by historians for the incorporation of the town, whereas the petitioners had been an independent town for twelve years. ' The child was bom on the 27th August, 1679, but was not duly christened until the 8th of December, 1691. EDUCATION. " The first law establishing Public Schools in America, was passed by the General Court of Massachusetts, on the 27th October, 1647." A grammar school was very early established- at Cam- bridge, and appears to have been an object of great care and attention. In 1643, a writer observes: — "By the side of the College is a fair grammar school, for training up of young scholars, and fitting them for academical learning, and as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the College. Mr. Corlet is the master who hath been well approved himself." Some years after, this school received a liberal donation from Edward Hopkins, Esq., Governor of Connecticut, who died in 1657. £500 of his estate in 64 EAKLT HISTORT OP NEWTON. England, was giTen to the College and the grammar school in Cambridge, which was laid out in real estate, in the town of Hopkinton, and constituted a respectable fund. The town of Cambridge was taxed more or less for the support of this school, and the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, according to their ability, were taxed for its main- tenance. In the proposal which Cambridge made to quiet the Village, in 1672, and which the General Court sanc- tioned, in 1673, required the Village to continue their -support to the grammar school. That proposition was rejected by the Village, not because it held them to support the grammar school, but because it refused to accord to them the privileges of an independent town. It is quite probable, however, that if th{j Court's record shall ever be found, that one of the conditions of the separation of 1679 will be, that the Village continue its support to the grammar school. As the inhabitants of the Village contributed to the support of the grammar school at Cambridge, they had an equal right to its advantages, and, although it was somewhat distant from them, it is probable that some of the sons of the early settlers attended that school. 1642. "According to an order of the last General Court, it is ordered that the townsmen see to the educating of children, and that the town be divided into six parts, and a person appointed for each division, to take care of all families it contained." — [ Cambridge Records.'] There does not appear to have been any public or private school in the Village, for sixty years after its first settlement. No doubt many families taught their children to read, write, and cypher, at their own houses, while others of them neglected it. They were in a wilderness, and thought that the lessons of the farm were more important than those of EDUCATION. 65 the school house. The erection of the school house was near half a century behind that of the Meeting-house. The following extracts, relative to schools and school houses, are taken from the Town records. ' 1698. March 7. « The Town voted to build a school house as soon as they can !" 1699. May. "Voted, to build a school house, sixteen feet by fourteen, before the last of November." 1700. January 1. " The Selectmen and inhabitants did hire and agree with John Staples to continue the" keeping of the school, four days in a week, until March, and he to have two shillings per day." " Voted, that the school house be set in the highway, near to Joseph Bartlett's, and that it be finished by the first of October, and agreed with John Staples to keep the school one month, four days in a week, for £1 4s." Nov. 25. " Voted, that the Selectmen shall hire a room, or place to keep school in, and shall agree with John Staples, or some other, to keep and continue the school until the Town Meeting of election in March." 1701. May 14. " Abraham Jackson, son of John Jack- son, Senior, gave to the town one acre of land, for the setting of the school house upon, and the enlarging of the burial place, and the convenience of the training place." " Voted, that the Selectmen, and Ephraim Wheeler, John Hyde, Nathaniel Healy, and Edward Jackson, treat with and persuade John Staples to keep the school, and if they cannot, then to use their best discretion to agree with and hire some other person." " Voted, unanimously, to build two school houses, one to •be set at the Meeting-house, seventeen feet square, besides chimney room, and the other near Oak-hill, sixteen feet square, besides chimney room ; £25 appropriated for both, and the residue to be made up by supscription ; one master 6* 66 EAKLT HISTORY OF NEWTON. to be hired, to teach two thirds of the time at the Meeting- house school, and one third of the time at Oak-hill ; and those that send children to school, shall pay three pence per week for those who learn to read, and four pence for those that learn to write and cypher, and all may send to either school, as, they choose. Captain Prentice, Lieutenant Spring, and John Hyde,' were joined with the Selectmen, to build the school houses." 1706. " Captain Isaac Williams, Lieutenant John Ma- son, and Abraham Jackson, chosen School Oommittee." They were the first School Committee in the town ; after which a School Committee was chosen annually. 1718. " Voted £10 to the inhabitants in the north-west- erly part of the town, for promoting learning among them, by employing a school master." 1721. " The Town voted not to have more than one school, but Samuel Miller, at the westerly part of the town, . offered a room in his house for a school, and the town accepted it." 1722. " Voted, that the school should be kept two thirds of the time at the Meeting-house, and one third of the time at the south part." 1723. "Voted, that the school be kept in three places ; half the time at the west part, quarter at the north, and quarter at the south." " Voted, to build a school house in the centre of the town, eighteen by twenty-four, six feet joints; reconsidered, and voted to district the town. South district, from Stake Meadow brook to South Meadow brook, and thence to the river, and the school to be kept one third part of the time, or their proportion as to taxes ; the northerly and east- erly district, by the Meeting-house, according to the taxes ; and the westerly district to have £12, 10s. to build a school -house, within forty rods of the house of Samuel Miller, and EDUCATION, 67 they to have their proportion of time, according to the taxes they pay, and any inhabitant to have liberty to send his children to either school." 1733. " Voted, to authorize the Selectmen to use one of the school houses for a work house, during the recess of the school." 1742. "Voted, that the Centj-e school house, by the Meeting-house, be removed to the Dedham road, and placed between the lane that comes from Edward Prentice's and Mill lane, where the committee shall order." "Voted, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the west part be granted, to remove the school house about twenty rods east of John Park'-s, on the County road. 1751. " Voted, to have two more school masters, and to repair the school houses." 1753. " Voted, to have two more school masters." 1754. " Voted, to have three schools in the town, kept from 1st December to March meeting. ^ Judge Abraham Fuller kept a private grammar school, and taught the higher branches of education, previous to 1760. Joseph Ward entered this school as an assistant, in 1757, at the age of twenty. It was here that Colonel Ward, while an assistant, learned the higher branches of education. 1761. "Voted, that the grammar school be kept at the house of Edward Durant." 1762. " The Town was presented for not setting up a grammar school, and the Selectmen were chosen to defend the Town against it, at the Court." " Voted, that the grammar school be kept at the house of Edward Durant, until the further order of the Town." 1763. "Voted, to have four districts and four schools, and all to be provided with wood. Centre, £19, 9s., twenty weeks and two days ; North-west, £13, lis., fourteen weeks 68 EARLY HISTORY OP NKWTON. and two days ; Oak-hill, £10, 10«., ten weeks and six days; South-west, £6, 10*., six weeks and five days." 1765. " Voted, £50, for schools." 1766. " Voted, that the North school house be placed as near as may be to the spot of land formerly occupied by Abraham Jackson's blacksmith shop." 1766. "Voted, £16, to employ a school mistress." — [First woman's school.] " Voted, to have five school districts and five school houses, and one Committee man for each school." 1768. "£50 appropriated for men's, and £16 for* women's school." Proportion for five school districts; west, £11, 14s. 2d; north, £9, 6s. Id.; east, £10, 10s. 2c?. ; south, £10, 4s. 2d. ; south-west, £8, 14s." Charles Pelham, Esq., from Boston, purchased the home- stead of the Rev. John Cotton, in April, 1765, and soon after opened a private academy in his house. He is said to have been a man of very agreeable manners, of good talents and education, and well qualified for his occupation as a teacher. It is probable, however, that most of his scholars came from Boston and other towns." 1769. "Voted, a grammar , school to be kept in such school house as the committee may determine." 1774. The appropriation for schools, for many years, had teen £50 ; was now raised to £60. In 1786 to £80. In 1790 to £85. In 1791 to £100, and six districts, and divided as follows : west, £19, 9s. bd. If. ; north, £21, 16s. Id. If. ; east, £20, 15s. Off. 2/. ; south, £18, Is. Id. 3/. ; south-west, £17, 2s. Id. 3/. ; Lower Falls, £2, 6s. Id. 2/ 1795. The appropriation was one hundred and thirty pounds. 1796. It was five hundred dollars. 1800. It was six hundred dollars. EDUCATION. 69 1794. " The Town voted to choose a committee to pur- chase as many of the present school houses, with the land appurtenant, as can be obtained upon reasonable terms." " Report of the committee on purchasing the* school houses, as follows. The proprietors of the east school house estimate their house at £40 ; the south school house at £90 ; south-west at £100 ; west referred the price to the committee; north £20. Ssptemher 15, 1794. Nathan Fuller, Michael Jackson, Benjamin Hammond, ^ Oommittee." Simeon Pond, Ebenezee Wood-wahd, 1795. " Voted, to allow the proprietors of the south-west school house £100." "Voted, to allow the proprietors of the north school house £30." " Colonel Josiah Fuller, Major Timothy Jackson, Captain William Hammond, Lieutenant Caleb Kenrick, Dr. John King, and Dr. Ebenezer Starr, together with the Ministers of the gospel, were chosen a committee, to prepare rules and regulations for the schools." 1796. " Voted, that five stoves be provided to warm the school houses." The committee chosen in 1795, to mature a plan relative to the regulation and government of schools of the town, not having made any report, another committee was chosen for the same purpose, in 1802, consisting of Deacon Joseph Fuller, Dr. John King, Dr. Ebenezer Starr, Timothy Jack- son, Esquire, Colonel Benjamin Hammond, and Dea. Jere- miah Wiswall, to be joined by the-Ministers of the gospel. 1803. Chose another committee for the same purpose. 1806. Chose another committee for the same purpose. 70 EARLY HISTORY OF NEWTON but no report of any- of the committees is to be found on record. 1 808. The town was divided into seven school wards, viz. : east, west, north, south, south-west, Centre, and the Falls. PROVISION FOR THE POOR. The first entry upon the Town record, relative to the Poor, is March 5, 1711. "Voted, that once a year there shall be a contribution on Thanksgiving day for the Poor, which shall be paid into the town treasury, and given out to the Poor by the Selectmen,- as they see need." Previous contributions were no doubt made, and individ- ual cases of suffering were met by the voluntary acts of their charitable neighbors. The Hyde manuscripts record several instances of this sort, namely : 1703. " A contribution was made for John Parker, when he lost his cows. Also, for Nathaniel Parker ; also, for Samuel Hyde, when his house was burnt, May 7, 1709 ; also, for Daniel Hyde," &c. 1731. " Voted, to build a work house." , 1733. " Voted, that the Selectmen, or Overseers of the Poor, have power to set idle and disorderly persons to work ; and one of the school houses, in the recess of the school, shall be used as a work house." 1734. " Lieutenant "Wm. Trowbridge, Nathaniel Ham- mond, Daniel Woodward, Wm. Hyde, and" Samuel Truse- dale, were chosen the first Board of Overseers of the Poor." 1750. " Chose Henry Gibbs, WiUiam Hyde, and Rob- ert Murdock, a committee to build a work house." 1763. " Voted, to build a work house, twenty-four feet by twenty-six, one story high, upon the town's land, near Dr. King's, or some other place, and appropriated £50 for that purpose." BURriNG GROUNDS. 71 BURYING GROUNDS. 1701. "About the time of the setting up of the first Meeting-house, [1660,] Deacon John Jackson gave one acre of land for the place for the house to stand on, and for a burying place ; and May 14, 1701, Abraham Jackson [son of Deacon John] added and gave, for the setting of the school house upon, the enlarging of the burying place, and the convenience of the training -place, one acre more, which said two acres was then laid out and bounded, west and south Vith the highway, east with the land of Isaac Beach ; marked at the south-east corner with stake and stones ; north-east corner, stake and stones ; north by the land of said Abraham Jackson ; a marked black oak tree near the easterly corner ; and a white oak tree near the middle, by the highway side ; and a white oak at the north-west corner, by the highway side, which marks were stated, and the land measured out, the day and year above written, by Deacon James Trowbridge, Abraham Jackson, Joseph Fuller, and Edward Jackson." This valuable gift of two acres of land, was the south- west corner of a tract of twenty acres, divided, by lot, in 1662, to Deacon John Jackson, as one of the proprietors of the common lands of Cambridge, and which was called Ghesnut Hill. His son Abraham inherited this tract, and was one of the Selectmen, when he gave the second acre, and helped stake it out, in 1701. In 1717, he conveyed Chesnut Hill to his onlyson. Cap- tain John Jackson, by deed of gift, and described it as follows, namely : " twenty acres at Chesnut Hill, except four acres, which in 1686 he conveyed to Isaac Beach, which lyeth within the bounds of the same, excepting also 72 EAELT HISTORT OF NEWTON. the land the Meeting-house* now standeth, so long as the Town shall see cause to improve it for the use they now do." Captain John Jackson died in 1755, and his son John, of the fourth generation, was the executor of his wiU ; and he set up a claim to a part of this ancient gift, in 1765, because it had never been legally conveyed to the town ; but although the town had no paper title, they nevertheless had the " nine, points ;" they had been in actual possession of the first acre more than a hundred years, and of part of the second acre more than sixty years ; but that portion of the second acre which lies between the present burying ground and the Dedham road, was low, sometimes partly covered with water, was unsuitable for graves, and none had bSen dug there, and therefore, it was doubtful whether the town ever fenced it, or had actual possession, or had usfed it for either of the four purposes for which it was given, namely, for a Meeting-house,, burying place, school house, or training place. In consequence of the claim of John Jackson, grandson of Abraham, the town, at its March meeting, 1765, voted to settle the bounds of the burying place. At a subsequent Town Meeting, same year, the Selectmen reported " that they had staked out one and a half acres, where the burying place then was, and John Jackson to give a slifiScient title to the same, on condition that the town fence in the same, and maintain the fence forever."' By this settlement, the town lost half an acre and about twenty rods, of the original gift. The remaining portion now measures one acre, three quarters, and twenty rods. The ancient donors were not only liberal in their gift, but liberal in their measure, also, staking out fuU two and a half acres, and calling it but two acres. • Tho First MeoUng-liousb. BUKTING GROUNDS. 73 From the language of the settlement, we infer that the place was. not fenced in until after 1765. After it was fenced, the Sexton pastured his cattle therein, until about the year 1800 ; and from this practice, doubtless, some of the grave-stones have been displaced or broken by the cattle, and lost. According to the records and monuments, Rev. John Eliot, Jr., and his first wife, Sarah Willett, (daughter of Captain Thomas Willett, of Plymouth Colony, and first Mayor of New York,) were probably the first persons buried here; one in June, 1665, and the other in October, 1668. Eichard Parke died in the Village in 1665; it is uncertain whether he was- buried here, or at Old Cambridge, where he formerly lived. About 1802, the proprietors of the brick tombs on the north-west side, purchased a strip of land one rod wide, adding thereto about nineteen rods, with a view of continu- ing the tombs across that side of the burying place. In April, 1834, the town purchased of Charles Brackett, one acre of land, adjoining the north-east side of the bury- ing place ; the whole contents are now three acres, less seven rods. In September, 1852, a marble monument was erected near the centre of the first acre of land, given by John Jackson, , Senior, upon the spot where the first Meeting- house was erected, in 1660. Upon one side of the monu- ment the names of the earliest settlers of the town are inscribed, with the date of their settlement, time of their decease, and their ages ; upon the other sides of the monu- ment are inscriptions to the memory of the first Minister, the first ruling Elder, and the dpnors of the burying place, It was erected by forty-three of the descendants of those whose settlement and memory it commemorates. At its foundation were deposited some historical facts, in 7 74 EAELT HISTOET OP NEWTON. a printed pamphlet, sufficient to illustrate three historical epochs of the town, namely: its first settlement, in 1639 ; the ordination of its first Minister, in 1664; its separation from Cambridge, and organization as an independent town, in 1679. ■WEST PARISH BURYING GROUND. About the time of the settlement of the Rev. William Greenough, the first Minister of the "West Parish, Colonel Nathan Fuller gave to the Parish one acre and a half of land, for a burying ground, situated about sixty rods north of the Meeting-house. His deed is dated September 21, 1781, and acknowledged January 28, 1782. "In consid- eration of his love and esteem for the Parish, h'e conveys it to their committee, their heirs and assigns, forever, for the sole use and improvement of the precinct, to be improved only as a burying place, for the repository of the dead in said precinct; bounded easterly by land of Nathaniel Greenough, north and west by land of said Fuller, and south by the town way, as the stone fence now stand- eth," &c.* Colonel Nathan Fuller also gave £60 to the church and congregation, in April, 1783.. SOUTH BURYING PLACE. Was laid out in the Summer of 1802. At a meeting of the inhabitants of that part of the town, on the 21st June, 1802, to consider the subje|pt of laying out a new burying place, a committee was chosen, consisting of Edward Mitchell, Ebenezer Cheney, and Jeremiah Wiswall, Jr., who were instructed by the meeting to purchase a piece of ground for a new burying place. * West Parish Kecords. BURTIKG GROUNDS. 75 The committee purchased about three-fourths of an acre of land, of Captain David Richardson, very near the cor- ner of the Dedham and Sherburne roads, part of which was marked off into twenty-nine equal lots, for family burial places, for the original proprietors, namely : Jonathan Bixby, Daniel Richards, Jonathan Bixby, Jr., Solomon Richards, Luke Bartlett, Aaron Richards, Salmon Barney, Thaddeus Richards, Aaron Cheney, James Richards, Ebenezer Cheney, Samuel Parker, Simon Eliot, Jonathan Richardson, Edward Hall, Benjamin Richardson, Samuel Hall, Ebenezer Richardson, Solomon Hall, Jeremiah Richardson, Caleb Kenrick, Jeremiah Richardson, Jr., Edward Mitchell, Jeremiah WiswaU, Joseph Parker, Jeremiah Wiswall, Jr. Jonas Stone, (2 lots.) Amasa "Winchester, These proprietors sold out to the town, in 1833, reserving the right to bury in their respective family lots, as origi- nally laid out. About the same time, Amasa Winchester gave to the town about three-fourths of an acre of adjoining land, for the sole purpose of enlarging the burying place ; making its whole contents about one and a half acres. — \_Proprietors' Records.^ LOWER FALLS BURYING PLACE. In 1813, an act of incorporation was granted by the General Court, to the St. Mary's Parish, at the Lower Falls. About the same time, a valuable lot, of two acres of 76 EAKLT HISTORT OP NEWTON. land, as a site for the cturch, and a cemetery, was presented to the corporation, by Samuel Brown, Esq., an eminent merchant of Boston — extensive estates at the Falls having passed into his possession. — [^Saury's Sermon, 1847.] THE COMMON AT NEWTON CENTRE. This elevated, pleasant, and useful spot, ought long ago to have been shaded by rows of majestic elms. It is bounded west by the Dedham road, about one-fourth of a mile, and contains about three acres of land, after deducting fifty feet in width for the road. The Town records and papers on file, with the volumes of Deeds and Wills, have been examined, with reference to the laying out of this Common, but not a syllable of record has yet been found, public or private, to explain its origin. It appears, on examination, to have been taken from the lands on its westerly side, where there was an ancient private passage way, one rod wide, laid out by Jonathan Hyde, Senior, at the southerly boundary of his farm, and the northerly boundary of Elder Wiswall's farm. The first record of this way is found in the marriage covenant between Jonathan Hyde, Senior, and his second wife, in 1673. In 1703, he confirms this one. rod way to his son Samuel, whose house was the same that Francis Blanden afterwards occupied, and describes it as the one rod wide way that leads from his son Samuel's house to the great road, giving also his son Eleazer and wife Mary a free right in the way, to bring hemp or flax to the Pond, sheep to washing, or such like necessary occasions to come to the Pond.* This rod wide fane has been known for the last one * See Conveyiinces, page 29. COMMON AT NE-WTON CENTRE. 77 hundred years, as Blanden's lane; it has recently been widened and straightened, and called Pond street. The current tradition is, that this Common was given to the town by Jonathan Hyde, Senior, for a training field ; but the land south of the lane, now Pond street, could not have been given by Hyde ; that was Elder Wiswall's, and has always been owned by his descendants, until within a few years. In the absence of all records, we follow the tra- dition, so far as relates to the land north of said Pond street, and believe that nearly two-thirds of the Common was given by Jonathan Hyde, Senior, who died in 1711. And so much as lies south of Pond street, upwards of one third of the Common, we think was given by Elder Wiswall, or by his sons. Captain Noah, and Lieutenant Ebenezer Wiswall. That such a beautiful tract of land should have got into the possession of the town, and no scrap of record found to show how it happened, is a strong indication that it was laid out at a very early day ; it may have been done through the influence of Captain Noah Wiswall, an enterprising and public spirited man, who fell in the defence of Portland, in 1690. A few extracts from the record will show that the town considered it theirs, and used it for the same purposes that other New England towns used their commons. This Common has been used more or less by military companies, as a training field, and for other purposes. In 1700, the Town voted to build a school house upon it. In 1730, the Selectmen staked out a lot there to build a noon* house, twenty-eight feet square, which was built, and the marks where it stood are still visible. Not long after, another noon house was built there, and a small family occupied one of them several years. • • *A smaU hoaso for the accommodation of those cliarch-goers, where at noon they ate their bread and cheese, and drank their cider. 7* 78 EARLT HISTOKT OF NE-WTON. The Town voted to give Dr. King liberty to set out trees on the townh land, near his house. In 1799, the town built a brick powder house there, &c. Jonathan Hyde, Senior, by deed of gift, conveyed to his youngest daughter Ann, thirty acres of land, in 1710, from which tract a large part of the Common was previously taken. Ann sold it in 1715, to Nathaniel Parker, for one hundred and forty pounds, being at the rate of about five pounds per acre ; at that rate, the gift would have been about nine pounds, and Wiswall's gift about five pounds. But if it was given before 1690, which is probable, the gift of both Wiswall and Hyde, would not have been worth then more than six or eight pounds. The next year after Nathaniel Parker bought that thirty acres, he sold about one and a half acres of the same to the town, for a Meeting-house ; being the same spot ever since, and now occupied by the Centre Meeting-house. If the Common was given to the town before 1690, it is quite probable that no deed was ever given, by either Hyde or Wiswall ; the erection of bound marks, or of a fence, and a possession by the town, of about one hundred and seventy years, constitute a sufficient title. At the westerly part of the town, another training Com- mon was laid out, at what is now called Newtonville, by Captain Joseph Fuller, the father of Judge Fuller, in April, 1735.* This Common and the old road that ran to and from it, may be seen upon a plan on the Town files. The town discontinued both the Common and the road in 1787, and laid out a straight road near to it, and the old road and the Common reverted to Judge Fuller, and he paid the town therefor two po\jnds. • • • See Conveyances, page 34. NONANTDM INDIANS. 79 INDIANS. The early settlers of Cambridge found Indians dwelling in wigwams, on Nonantum, at the north-east part of Cam- bridge Village, (who, according to Mr. Gookin, were a sub-division of the once numerous and powerful tribe of Massachusetts,) among whom Waban was their chief man ; with him they "bargained to keep six score head of dry cattle, on the south side of Charles river, and he was to have the fuU sum of eight pounds, to be paid as foUoweth : Thirty shillings to James Cutler, and the rest in Indian Com, at three shillings the bushel, after Michaeltide next. He is to bargain to take care of them twenty-one days of this present month, and to keep them until three weeks after Michaelmas ; * and if any be lost or ill, he is to send word unto the town, and if any shall be lost through his carekssness, he is to pay according to the value of the beast, for his default. his -f "Waban." mark. It was here that the Rev. John Eliot made his first attempt to christianize the Indians. Having previously learnt their language, he went, on the 28th of October, 1646, with three others, (two of whom were, probably, Daniel Gookin and Edward Jackson,) to address them on the subject of Christianity. Waban, a wise and grave man, met him a small distance from their settlement, and welcomed him to a large wigwam on the hill Nonantum. A considerable number of Indians assembled here, from the neighborhood, to hear the new doctrine. After a short prayer, Mr. Eliot delivered a sermon which occupied an hour. He began with the principles of natural religion, acknowledged by themselves, and then proceeded * September 29. 80 EAELT HISTORY OF NEWTON. to the leading doctrines and precepts of Christianity. He repeated and explained the Ten Commandments. He informed them of the dreadful curse attending the violation of the Divine law. He then spoke to them of the person of Jesus Christ, and of the place of His present existence and exaltation, and of His coming to judge the world. He taught them the blessed state of all those who know and believe in Christ. He related the creation and fall of man ; and spoke of the infinite greatness of God, of the joys of Heaven, and the punishment of Hell ; finally, persuading them to repentance and a good life. Having closed his sermon, he was desirous of knowing whether he had conveyed his sentiments intelligibly, in a language so new to himself. He then inquired, whether they comprehended his meaning — to which their unanimous reply was, " "We understood all." Mr. Eliot and his friends then devoted about three hours to familiar .and friendly conference with them, to hear and answer questions which were naturally suggested by the discourse. This first visit was received with cordial and general satisfaction. At his second visit, on the 11th of November, a still . larger number of the Iildians attended. His third visit was on the 26th of November, when some of the Indians absented themselves through fear of their Powaws, or Priests, who had threatened them with their secret power of inflicting the penalty of death upon those who should attend. One of these Priests was, however, immediately and solemnly addressed by the intrepid mis- sionary, who silenced and convinced him. At the next meeting, all who were present offered their children "to be catechised and instructed by the English, who resolved to set up a school among them. To accom- plish this, it was necessary to reduce them from their savage life, and to bring them into a' state of civil society. NONANTtJM INDIANS. 81 This was couformable to a frequent observation of Mr. Eliot, whicli claims our attention in the efforts to convert the aboriginals upon the borders of the United States, namely : " that the Indians must be civilized, as well as, if not in order to their being christianized." Accordingly, the General Court gave the Indians of the neighboring parts, a tract of high land at Nonantum.* Agreeably to the advice of Mr. Eliot, who furnished them, by the public aid, with shovels, spades, mattocks, and iron crows, and stimulated the most industrious with money, they soon built a sufficient number of wigwams, not with mats, as usual, but with the bark of trees, and divided them into several distinct apartments. The houses of the meanest were found to be equal to those of the Sachems, or chiefs, in other places. They surrounded the town with ditches and stone walls. Some of their walls were removed within the memory of Mr. Abraham Hyde, who died in 1794, aged seventy-eight, who informed the Eev. Mr. Homer that he helped to remove them, in very early life. At that time, some fruit trees were still standing, towards the foot of Nonantum, on the south side, which were reported to have been planted there by the Indians, in some remote pgriod of their resi- dence on that spot; probably in the Spring of 1650. "In 1649, Mr. Eliot wrote to a gentleman in England, who had advised him to encourage his christian Indians to plant orchards, and cultivate gardens. This he had already done. He had promised them several hundred trees, which were reserved in nurseries for them, and which he hoped they would plant the next Spring. They were engaged in fencing a large corn field, and had finished two hundred rods • Mr. Shattuct doixbts whether there was any grant of land to the Indiana at Nonantam ; he thinks they lived by sufferance, on lands claimed by the English;— Biiiory of Concm'd* 82 EAKLT HISTOET OP NEWTON. of ditching, securing the banks with stones gathered from the fields. He complains of bad tools, and of a want of tools, and says that a magazine of all necessary implements must be provided for them. He tells his correspondents that they were able to saw very good boards and planks, and that they would do all these things better, and in a more orderly manner, if he could be with them more fre- quently. He found them willing to follow his advice, but was prudent enough not to require a great deal of them at first." " I find it absolutely necessary," he observes, " to carry on civility with religion." — \_Life of Eliot, by Dr. Francis.'\ The Indians thus settled, were instructed in husbandry, and were incited to a prudent and industrious management of their affairs. Some of them were taught trades ; several of them worked with the English, in the vicinity, in hay- time and harvest ; but they were neither so industrious, nor capable of hard labor, as those who have been inured to it from early life. The Indian women of Nonantum soon learnt to spin, and to collect articles for sale at the market, through the year. In "Winter they sold brooms, staves and baskets, made from the neighboring woods and swamps, and turkeys, raised by themselves ; in the Spring, cranberries, strawberries, and fish from Charles river ; in the Summer, whortleberries, grapes, and fish. The success and settlement of Nonantum, encouraged further attempts of Mr. Eliot to extend the knowledge of the Gospel to the aboriginals of other places, which occa- sioned the Parliament of Great Britain, then under the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, to pass an Act, in July, 1649, for the advancement of this good work, by incorpo- rating a company, with a president and sixteen directors, whose duty was to superintend the business of devoting the monies which should be given for christianizing, instructing, NONANTTJM INDIANS. 83 clothing, and civilizing the Indians. A general collection was ordered to be made for these purposes, through all the churches of England and "Wales. The Ministers were required to read the Act in the churches, and to exhort the people to a cheerful contribution to so pious a work. Cir- cular letters were published at the same time, by the Uni- versities of Oxford and Cambridge, recommending the same object. A fund, which in Charles the Second's time produced six hundred pounds per annum, was thus pro- vided, the benefit of which was received till the period of our independence and separation from the mother country.* The first civil laws whi<;h were ever established in this country, for the regulation of the aboriginals, were made for the settlement of Nonantum ; they were designed for the promotion of cleanliness, decency, chastity and industry, and the discouragement of the opposite qualities and vices. In 1651, the "praying Indians came together, and laid the foundation of a town, on the banks of Charles river, which was called Natick ; and thither Waban and the Nonantum Indians removed, in 1651." The foregoing account of the Nonantum Indians, was extracted from the Eev. Mr. Homer's History of Newton. Waban married Tasunsquam, eldest daughter of Tahal- tawan. Sachem of Concord. From documents in this history, and others in my possession, it appears that he originally lived in Concord, where he probably was born. He is called " merchant" in the record, probably on account of his occupation. He was not a Sachem by birth, as some have asserted, but acquired rights in the soil, and assented to its sale, by virtue of his marriage into the " royal family." After the English settled Concord, he removed to Nonantum, • "And a part of the time since the Bevolation; biit remittances from tliat fund ceased for several years before 1797."— [iSes. Mr. Mdger's letter.2 84; EAKLT HISTOET OP NEWTON. where, in 1646, he became the first convert to Christianity, under the instruction of Eliot. He assisted in gathering the church and society at Natick, of which he was chosen chief ruler during life. He is represented as a man of great prudence, piety and useful- ness. He died in 1674, aged 70 ; his widow was living in Natick in 1684. His son, Thomas Waban, received a tolerable education, and was many years Town Clerk of Natick. His name frequently appears in Indian deeds, granting rights to the English, which he acquired rather indefinitely from his father, and like many others, as an associate of the praying Indians.* In 1719, Thomas Waban, Senior, and Thomas Waban, Jr., of Natick, both joined in a deed conveying an orchard to Samuel Umpatowin, of Natick. We have never seen any record of a grant of lands, by the General Court, to the Nonantum Indians, and do not believe there ever was any such grant; nor does there appear to be any conveyance by the .Indians on record, of the lands they occupied at Nonantum ; those lands were no doubt cSnsidered part and parcel of the common lands of the Cambridge proprietors, and were disposed of by them, like other common lands, by sale or division among the proprietors. By the Colony law of 1633, it was declared, that "what land the Indians possessed and improved, hy subduing the same, they have just right unto." At Nonantum, they not only subdued and cultivated, but fenced much of it by walls and ditches, set out trees, &c. Their title was therefore lawful, as well as just, and as they had Eliot, and many other stanch friends, we may be assured they did not surrender their rights, without an * Shattuck's History of Concora. NATICK INDIANS. 85 equivalent. It is probable that the proprietors of Cambridge, or some of them, acquired their title by mutual agreement. The township of Natick was granted to the Indian converts in 1650, at the urgent request of the apostle Eliot, by the ■ inhabitants of Dedh'am, with the sanction of the General Court. The Indians gave to the Dedham people the township of Deerfield, in exchange. The original grant contained about six thousand acres.* The town was laid out in 1651 ; the Indian church was formed in 1660. In 1670 there were between forty and fifty communicants ; in 1698 the number was reduced to ten ; and in 1716 the church was broken up. The Indian town government of Natick outlived that of the church, and continued to a later date, tut finally passed into the control of the white inhabitants. The number of the tribe, in 1749, was one hundred and sixty- six ; in 1763, was thirty-seven ; in 1797, was twenty ; in 1826, was extinct. The principal causes of the decline and extinction of that Once flourishing and celebrated Indian town, were set forth by the Rev. Stephen Badger,! in his letter to theTlHassa- chusetts Historical Society, dated February, 1797, and published in the fifth volume of the Society's Collections, from which the following extract is taken : " The Indians are generally considered, by white people, and placed, as if by common consent, in an inferior and degraded situation, and treated accordingly. This sinks and cramps their spirits, and prevents those manly exer- tions, which an equal rank with others has a tendency to call forth. If they have landed property, and are inter- mixed with white people ; or if these last settle near their * Blgclow's History of Natick. t He was an ordained missionary for propagating the gospel among the Indiana at Natick, from 1753 to 1199. 8 86 EABLT HIS.TOKT OF NEWTON. borders, they encourage their Indian neighbors in idleness, intemperance, and needless expenses, to involve them in debt, and prepare the way for the sale and purchase of their lands, at a very low rate, by which they have been impoverished and disheartened. Near a hundred years ago, they were the exclusive' proprietors of this plantation, which I supposfe contained eight or nine thousand acres ; but at this time, the remnant of them are not owners of so many hundred acres. "At the beginning of the present century, they were embodied into a military corps, were invested with military titles, made choice of town officers, and had the counte- nance and support of the Chief Magistrate, and other persons of distinction. They then held up their heads, - and considered themselves of some importance, and were stimulated to continue in the profession of the Christian religion, and to conform to the manners of their English neighbors ; but their examples of irregularities and excess, (it is to be apprehended,) had too great and predominant effect upon them. This, with that strange propensity in their oenstitutions to excess, brought them into disrepute ; their military parades were followed by drinking frolics, and at length discontinued ; the English were gaining settlements among them, and joined with them in the administration of their prudential affairs. " Some English from the neighboring towns, who, through indolence and excess, had neglected the cultivation of their ■ own farms, were necessitated to sell, purchased small tracts of the Indians, became settlers, and by degrees obtained possessipn of more. " The Indians were dispirited, adopted vicious manners, of which they had too many examples ; became more indolent and remiss in improving their lands ; lost their credit ; their civil and military privileges were gradually lessened, and SLATEBT. 87 finally transferred exclusively to the English, who were become more numerous, and some of whom took every advantage to dishearten and depress them. Under these circumstances, those habits which have a direct tendency to beget and promote bad morals, to injure health and shorten life, were fully indulged, and answerable effects followed." SLAVERY. There were a few Slaves among the first settlers in Massachusetts. The first body of Laws, printed in 1648, contain the following sections relative to the "liberties op servants." 85. " If any servants shall flee from the Tiranny and' crueltie of their masters, to the house of any freeman of the same Towne, they shall be there protected and sus- tained, till due order be taken for their relife. Provided, due notice thereof be speedily given to their masters, from whom they fled, and to the next Assistant or 'Constable, where- the partie flying is harboured. * 86. " No servant shall be put off for above a year to any other, neither in the life time of their master, nor after their death, by their executors, or administrators, unlesse it be by consent of Authoritie, assembled in some Court, or two Assistants. 87. "If any man smite out the eye or tooth, of his man-servant, or maid-servant, or otherwise maym or much disfigure him, unlesse it be by meere casualtie, he shall let them go free from his service. And shall have such further recompense as the Court shall allow him. 88. " Servants that have served diligentlie and faith- fully, to the benefit of their masters, seaven yeares, shall not be sent away emptie. 88 EAKLT HISTORY OF NEWTON. " And if any have bene unfaithful!, negligent, or unprofit- able in their service, notwithstanding the good usage of their masters, they shall not be dismissed, till they have made satisfaction, according to the judgment of Authoritie. 91. "There shall never be any bond slaverie, villinage, or Captivitie amongst us, unless it be, lawfull Captives, taken in just warres, and such strangers as ■willingly selle themselves, or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liberties, and Christian usages, which the law of God estab- lished in Israeli, concerning such persons, doeth morally require. " This exempts none from servitude, who shall be judged thereto, by Authoritie. " If any man stealeth a man or mankinde, he shall surely be put to death." According to the census taken by order of the Government, in the last month of 1754, Aai the beginning of 1755, the number of slaves in Massachusetts was then about two thousand five hundred and seventy, of which one thousand two hundred and seventy were in Boston. The number returned for Newton, was ten males and three females. There are about thirty-six slaves named upon the Wills and Inventories, and the record of deaths, during about fifty years, held by the following persons, viz. : — Names. Died. No. Valae. Edward Jackson, Sen., 1681 2 £10 Capt. Thomas .Prentice, 1710 1. Samuel Jackson, Esq., 1742 1 Eev. Edward Jackson, 1754 2 £430 Capt. John Jackson, 1755 1 Capt. Thomas Prentice, 1730 2 £105 Capt. Caleb Kenrick, 1771 2 Dea. William Trowbridge, 1744 4 SLAVEKT. 89 Names. Died. No. Value. Daniel Cooke, 1754 1 £375 Kev. John Cotton, 1757 2 James Barton, 1729 3 Josiah Hall, 1786 Joshua Flagg, Judge Abraham Fuller, 1794 John Pigeon, Madam Gibbs, ;783 Capt. Joshua Fuller, 1777 Alexander Shepard, Edward Durant, 1740 Ebenezer Bartlett, 1751 Dr. John Allen, 1750 Thomas Brown, 1754 Robert Brown, 1754 Moses Mason, 36 There were, probably, other slaveholders in Newton, whose names do not appear on any record. >- The names of some of the slaves were as follows : Rose, Dimbo, Courtley, Charley, Sam, Phillis, Dinah, Nan- cy, Quartus, Lewis, Jemme, Tidy, Tom, Pompey, Ben, Pete, &c. The ancestors of these slaves, were, doubtless, brought hither from the "West Indies. There was much trade be- tween this colony and Barbadoes, and several families went from Massachusetts and settled there. "William Spring, brother of our first settler of that name, was one of them. It is probable that negro slaves were first introduced here, by means of that connexion. Josselyn, the Englishman, who visited this country, and was here from 1663 to 1673, describing Boston, says, "they have store of children, and are well accommodated with 8* 90 EARLT HISTORY OP NEWTON. servants ; of these, some are English, and others are negroes." From a letter, addressed by Governor Simon Bradstreet, May 18, 1680, to the Lords of His Majesty's privy council, containing answers to their inquiries, the following is ex- tracted : — " There hath been no company of blacks or slaves brought into the country since the beginning of this Plantation, for the space of fifty years ; only one small vessel, about two years since, after twenty months' voyage to Madagascar, brought hither betwixt forty and fifty negroes, mostly women and children, which sold here for ten, fifteen, and twenty pounds apiece, which stood the merchants in near forty pounds apiece, one with another. Now and then two or three negroes are brought hither from Barbadoes, and other of His Majesty's plantations, and sold for about twenty pounds apiece, so that there may be within our government about one hundred or one hundred and twenty ; and it may be, as many Scots brought hither and sold for servants, in the time of the war with Scotland, and most of them now married and living here ; and about half as many Irish brought hither at several times as servants." Judge Tucker, of Virginia, wrote to Rev. Dr. Belknap, of Boston, in 1795, stating that, "he considered the intro- duction of slavery into this country, as among its greatest misfortunes." " He had obser^ted, with much pleasure, that slavery was exterminated in Massachusetts ; that it was the object of his inquiry to know how it had been accomplished, and to learn what methods would be most likely to remove the same evil from Virginia ; " and he adds, " that the question of general emancipation had never i)een brought before the Legislature of Virginia ; but he cherished the hope that the example of Massachusetts would do much to remove the same evil from his own State.'' SL AVERT. 91 Dr. Belknap's reply to Judge Tucker's letter of inquiry, contains many important facts relative to the introduction and abolition of slavery in Massachusetts, which, together with Judge Tucker's letter, may be found in the fourth volume of the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, first series, from which the following extracts are taken. After alluding to the early introduction of negroes from the West Indies, he says, " No other slaves were known here, excepting some of the aboriginals of the country, who had, at various times, submitted themselves to the Govern- ment, and received its protection ; some of these joined with King Philip in the war of 1675. Such as wei'e taken in arms against the country, were adjudged guilty of Tebellion, and a few of them were put to death ; but the greater part were sold into slavery in foreign countries. Some of these latter found their way home, and joined with the hostile Indians, in a severe revenge on the English, in succeeding wars. " By inquiries which I have made of our oldest merchants now living, I cannot find that more than three . ships in a year, belonging to Boston, were ever employed in the African trade. The rum distilled here was the mainspring of this traffic. The slaves purchased in Africa were chiefly sold in the West Indies, or in the southern colonies ; but when those markets were glutted, and the prices low, some of them were brought hither. Very few whole cargoes ever came to this port. One gentleman says he remembers two or three ; I remember one, between thirty and forty years ago, which consisted almost wholly of children. " In 1703, a duty of four pounds was laid on every negro imported, for the payment of which, both vessel and master were answerable. How long this duty was exacted, I know not. 92 EAKLT HISTORY OF NEWTON. "A few only of our merchants were engaged in this kind of traffic. It required a large capital, and was considered as peculiarly hazardous, though gainful. It was never sup- ported by popular opinion, — the voice of conscience was against it. A degree of infamy was attached to the char- acter of those who were employed in it ; several of them, in their last hours, bitterly lamented their concern in it ; and the friends of seamen who had perished by the climate of Guinea, or in the contests with the natives, became seriously prejudiced against the business. " Reflecting persons were divided in their opinions, on the lawfulness of the traffic in slaves. Chief Justice Sewall publicly protested against it, and wrote a pamphlet, entitled " Joseph Sold, a Memorial." (The Judge endeavored to prevent Negroes and Indians being rated with horses and cattle, but did not succeed.) Others disliked it from pru- dential considerations. Many conscientious persons, who would by no means have engaged directly in the trade to Africa, yet, when negroes were brought hither, had no scruple to buy them, because they supposed that an educa- tion in ' a land of gospel light,' was preferable to one in 'heathenish darkness.' They contended that the buying and holding them in servitude, might be justified by the example of Abraham and other good men of antiquity ; and as his servants were circumcised, theirs were baptised. " Laboring people, of white complexion, complained of the blacks as intruders ; and the vulgar reprobated them as the ' seed of Cain,' and wished them back to their own country. Not much^ however, was said in a public and formal man- ner, till we began to feel the weight of oppression from ' our mother country,' as Britain was then called. "The inconsistency of pleading for our own rights and liberties, while we encouraged the subjugation of others, was very apparent ; and from that time, both slavery and SLAVERY. 93 the slave trade began to be discountenanced. The principal cause was public opinion. Pamphlets and newspaper essays appeared on the subject, and it often entered into the conversation of reflecting people ; and many who had, with- out remorse, been purchasers of slaves, condemned them- selves, and retracted their former opinions, so glaring was I the inconsistency of contending for their own liberty, and at the same time depriving other people of theirs. " The Quakers were zealous against slavery and the slave trade. Nathaniel .Appleton, James Swan, merchants of Boston, and others, distinguished themselves as writers on the side of liberty, while the writers on the other side gen^ erally concealed their names. " The controversy began about 1766, and was renewed at various times, till 1773, when it was very warmly agitated, and became a subject of forensic disputation, at the public Commencement in Harvard College. " In 1767, a bill was brought into the House of Represen- tatives, ' to prevent the unnatural and unwarrantable cus- tom of enslaving mankind, and the importation of slaves into this Province.' " In its progress, it was changed to ' an Act for laying an impost on negroes imported.' But the Council were oppQsed to it. "In 1773, another attempt of the same kind was made, grounded on the petition of the negroes ; and again in 1774, when it passed both Houses, but failed for lack of Governor Hutchinson's consent, because, as he alleged, his instructions forbade it. " The negroes had better success in the judicial Courts. A pamphlet, containing the case of a negro who had accom- panied his master from the "West Indies to England, there sued for and obtained his freedom, was reprinted here,* * The celebrated " Somerset case," decided by Lord Mansfield, in 1772. 94 EARLY HISTORY OF NEWTON. which encouraged several negroes to sue their masters for their freedom ; and for their services after they had attained the age of twenty-one years. The first trial of this kind was in 1770, and it terminated favorably for them. -Other suits were instituted, between that time and the Revolution, and the juries invariably gave their verdict in favor of liberty. " During the war of the Revolution, public opinion was so strongly in favor of the abolition of slavery, that in some of the country towns, votes were passed in town-meetings, that they would have no slaves among them. " In New Hampshire, (where I then resided,) those blacks who enlisted into the army for three years, were entitled to the same bounty as the whites. '' The bounty their masters received, as the price of their liberty, and then delivered up their bills of sale, and gave a certificate of manumission ; several of those bill^ and cer- tificatses were deposited in my hands. ."The present Constitution of Massachusetts was estab- lished in 1780. The first article of the Declaration of Rights asserts that ' all men are born free and equal.' " This was inserted, not merely as a moral and political truth, but with a particular view to establish the liberation of the negroes on a general principle, and so it was understood by the people at large; but some doubted whether this were sufficient. " Many of the blacks, taking the advantage of the public opinion, and of this general assertion in the Bill of Rights, asked for their freedom, and obtained it. Others took it without leave. Some of the aged and infirm thought it most prudent to continue in the families where they had always lived. " In 1781, at the Court in "Worcester County, an indict- ment was found against a white man for assaulting, beat- ing, and imprisoning a black man. He was tried at the SLAVKET. 95 Supreme Judicial Court, in 1783. His defence was, that the black man was his slave, and that the beating was the necessary restraint and correction hf the master. " This wqs answered by cjting the aforesaid clause, in the Declaration of Eights. The judges and jury were of opin- ion that he had no right to beat or imprison the negro. He was found guilty, and fined forty shillings. This decis- ion WAS THE MORTAL WOUND TO SlAVEKT IN MASSA- CHUSETTS. " In the next census, no slaves were set down in Massa- chusetts, but the number of black persons was four thousand three hundred and seventy-seven. This return, made by the Marshal of the District, may be considered as the for- mal evidence of the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts, especially as no person has appeared to contest the legality of the return. "In 1788, the slave trade was abolished by law. Tl^ peo- ple of New Hampshire established their Constitution in 1783. The first article of their Declaration of Eights asserted that 'ALL MEN WEKE BOEN EQUALLY FREE AND INDE- PENDENT.' The construction which their Courts put upon this declaration, was, ' that all who have been born since the , adoption of the Constitution, are free,' but those who were in slavery before its adoption, are not liberated by it. And the census of that State continued to return slaves." Such, in brief, was the origin and character of slavery, as it existed in the early history of New England, and such its final termination in Massachusetts. It was never congenial with New England society, or New England character, and consequently never took root, or acquired permanency, among the Puritans or their descendants. That a people so eminently religious and conscientious, according to their light, as were the Puritan ancestors of 96 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. New England, should have been so far blinded to the evil and wickedness of slavery, as to have tolerated it at all, or in any shape, may naturally excite surpi'ise, and lead to the inquiry as to what were the circumstances that influenced them, and how far they may justly be held responsible in this matter. The introduction of slavery into New England, appears to have occurred about the middle of the seventeenth century. If we consider the condition of society at that time, in old England, and also in New England, we shall perceive, even among the more intelligent, that no very liberal or definite notions obtained, regarding religious toleration, or individual liberty. * "When G-od-fearing, upright, and conscientious men, some of the most intelligent of their time, believed it to be their solemn and bounden duty, to publicly scourge women at the cart-tiail, and hang Quakers for theological heresies, we should not experience much surprise, that any other atrocity, however enormous, should prevail, and find favor at their hands, by the supposed command of the Deity, or for the advancement of their present interests and opinions. Indeed, when- we reflect that the religious theory of the Puritans, and- their immediate descendants, was almost entirely derived from the Old Testament, and their moral code exclusively based upon their theological notions, and the laws of Moses, we should be more inclined to think slavery a natural deduction from such premises, than to wonder at its existence, in the early days of New England. Let us be just, however, to the character of the men, and of their times. Under the incubus we have spoken of, which cast its deep and baleful shadow over the whole social, religious, and moral world, they saw but dimly and were blind to much of moral truth and Christian charity, that is now plainly recognized and universally admitted. SLAVERY. 97 Their crowning glory, and strongest trait of character, and in which they far surpassed their descendants of the present time, consisted, not in their clearness of moral vision, or the purity of their theology, but in their inflexible devo- tion to principle, as they understood it, and the require- ments of conscience ; and however darkened that conscience might be, it was the only lawful guide, the rule and measure of duty to them. In regard to slavery, however, we should not confound things essentially different, by classing them under the same name, as is always done by the modern apologists and sup- porters of this abominable system. Thus the bond service of the Jews, so wholly different in many and essential particulars, is placed in the same cate- gory with the plantation slavery of the present time, and so the mildest type of servitude is, by a forced construction, made to justify all the enormities of the modern system. Although the worst feature of slavery, ownership, which destroys moral responsibility in the slave, is everywhere and always similar, yet in other and essential respects, it differs widely and almost wholly. As, for example, no one could fail to mark the extreme difference in the lot of two slaves, who might pertain to the same owner, — one the body servant of the wealthy planter, the other one of a numerous gang who continually toil under the lash of his brutal overseer ; — so, too, where but one or two slaves are owned by an individual, they are in some sense members of his household, with whom more or less of social equality pertains. In this state, slavery may not inaptly be termed patri- archal ; and such we are constrained, from the circumstances, to believe was the slavery that existed with the Puritans, to compare with which, the grosser type of the slave-breed- ing, slave extending, and slave trading system of the present 9 98 EARLY HISTORY OF NEWTON. time, would be to substitute darkness for light, and false- hood for truth. CHAELES EIVER. The Indian name of this river was " Quinobequin." * It rises in Hopkinton and Milford, thence flows through Bellingham, Franklin, Medway, Medfield, Sherburne, Na- tick, Dover, Dedham, Needham, Newton, Weston, Wal- tham, Watertown, Brighton, Brookline, Cambridge, and Charlestown, to Boston harbor. This beautiful river encircles a very large part of New- ton ; the centre of its channel forms the northerly, westerly, and southerly boundary line of the town, being a continuous curving line of upwards of fifteen miles in length. The first mill upon its banks, in Newton, was erected by John Clark, about 1688, at the place called the UPPER PALLS, where the waters of the river fall twenty feet perpendicular, and then descend thirty-five feet, in the course of half a mile. John Clark was the son of Hugh and Elizabeth Clark, of "Watertown; born October, 1641. Hugh Clark removed from Watertown to Eoxbury, and died there, in 1693. ■ His son John settled at Muddy Eiver (BrookUne). His father conveyed to him, by deed of gift, sixty-seven acres of land in New Cambridge, in April, 1681, and he probably removed from Muddy Eiver to New Cam- bridge same year. This land was on the easterly side of the Dedham road, at the training field adjoining Joseph Bartlett's ; his house was on the spot where the house now * Hayward's Gazetteer. MILLS AND FACTORIES AT UPPEK FALLS. 99 stands, which was many years occupied by Deacon Ebene- zer White. He built a saw mill at the Upper Falls, about 1688, and died in 1695, leaving a Will, and bequeathing to his sons, John and William, his saw mill upon the river, and the land adjoining. In his Inventory, the mill and eight acres of land was appraised by John Ward and John Spring, at £180. In May, 1708, John Clark conveyed to Nathaniel Parker one-quarter part of the saw mill, stream, dam, and eel wear, and half an acre of land, for £12, with an open highway from the County road to the mill and eel wear. Soon after, William Clark conveyed to Nathaniel Long- ley one-quarter part of the same ; and John and William Clark, Nathaniel Parker, and Nathaniel Longley, became the equal owners of the mill, stream, and eel wear, and they added thereto.a grist mill and fulling mill. In 1717, John Clark conveyed his quarter of the mills to Nathaniel Parker. In 1720, William Clark conveyed to Noah Par- ker, son of Nathaniel Parker, one-quarter part of the saw mill, fulling mill, grist mill, and eel wear, with the stream and dam, for £95. Same year, Nathaniel Longley con- veyed his quarter part of the same to Noah Parker. Nathaniel Parker conveyed to his son, Noah Parker, all his interest in said mills, being one-half part of the same, valued at £150. Noah Parker, therefore, became the sole owner of the mills and appurtenances, in 1720 ; and he conveyed the fulling mill to Samuel Stowell, of Watertown, in 1725. Nathaniel Parker died in 1747, and his son, Noah Par- ker, died in 1768, and his mills and appurtenances passed into the hands of his son, Thomas Parker, Esq., his admin- istrator ; and he sold the same to Simon Elliot, of Boston, tobacconist, and about thirty-five acres of land, dwelling house, barn, malt house, &c., for £1,700, in 1778 and 100 EARLY HISTORY Or NEWTON. 1782. Elliot erected snuff mills ; and that business, with the grist mill, was carried on by him and his son, General Simon Elliot, to the year 1814, when the screw factory, wire mill, four snuff mills, annealing shop, dwelling house, &c., were sold to the Elliot Manufacturing Company, Fred- erick Cabot, Agent. " This Com-pany remioved the old grist mill, and erected on its site a cotton factory, with the assistance of Mr. Otis Pettee, who remained with them about five years, when he erected extensive work shops, for making machinery for cotton mills. "About the year 1841, Mr. Pettee purchased all the prop- erty of the Elliot Manufacturing Company, including cotton factory, dwelling houses, lands, &c., to which he made im- provements, and carried on the business to the time of his death, in February, 1853. " In the sale of his property to Elliot, Thomas Parker, Esq. reserved about four acres of land below the Falls, to which he added, by purchase in 1781, about one-quarter of an acre, on the Needham side of the river, opposite the small island which he sold to his son in law, Jonathan Bixby, at which place another dam and saw mill was erected, in 1783. In 1799, Mr. Bixby sold this estate and its appurtenances to the Newton Iron Work Company, and they built a rolling mill, and commenced operations in 1800, in charge of Rufus Ellis, as Agent. " In 1809, a new factory was erected for the purpose of manufacturing cut nails. The same year the Worcester Turnpike was constructed, passing through the southerly part of the town, and through this estate, and erecting a bridge over the river. "In 1813, this Company erected a cotton factory upon the same dam, on the Needham side of the river. "In 1821, Mr. Rufus Ellis bought out this Company and MILLS AND FACTORIES AT UPPER FALLS. 101 became the sole owner. In 1823 a new Company was formed, consisting of seven persons, who obtained an act of incorporation, by the name of the "Newton Factories," Rufus Ellis being the Agent. In 1835, Eufus Ellis and David Ellis became the sole owners of this property. "Previous to 1800, the business carried on at the Upper Falls, by water power, was small "; being three snuff mills, a grist mill, and saw mill ; and only about six families resided in the place. "In 1850, there were at the upper dam, one cotton factory with about nine thousand spindles, machine shops sufficient to accommodate three hundred workmen, and a steam fur- nace for iron castings, employing about fifteen workmen. At the lower dam, a rolling mill, working about fifteen hun- dred tons bar iron into various shapes ; a nail factory, mak- ing about five hundred tons cut nails ; a cotton factory, (on Needham side,) with about two thousand spindles, and manufacturing about five hundred thousand yards cotton cloth annually. There were about 'thirteen hundred inhabi- tants in the village." * The first purchase of John Clark, Sen., at the Upper Falls, does not appear upon the record of Deeds. There is a deposition of Ebenezer Ware, an aged man of Needham, dated October, 1763, which states, that seventy years ago, (1693,) he knew the eel wear, just above the Falls, and that John Clark, Sen. told him that he (Clark, Sen.) bought all the Indians' rights to build mills there ; and, also, that John Clark, Jr. told him that his father, John Clark, Sen., bought the eel wear of the Indians, for three pounds, and that the stone walls of the wear were about three feet high from the bottom of the river, when in repair. Also, the deposition of Sarah Tray, an Indian * MS. letter of Bafas EUIs, Esq., stating the facts after Elliot's purchase. 9* 102 EAELY HISTORY OF NEWTON. woman, aged about fifty years, dated in May, 1748, which states that she often heard her husband's grandmother say that her husband, John Maugus, once owned that piece of land on the west side of Charles river, at the Upper Falls, and the rock house, which the Indians improved; and that her husband Maugus, had a wigwam there, and knew it had been used for forty years, for drying fish and eels ; and that the Englishman that built the mills, purchased the land. In 1636, the General Court granted to the proprietors of Dedham, the land on the west side of Charles river, now Needham, Natick, and part of Sherburne. The same year, the proprietors of New Town, (Cambridge,) obtained a grant of the Court, of what is now Newton and Brighton. These two grants covered all the land at the westerly curve of Charles river, on both sides, subject, however, to the Indian title ; and the grantees were bound by a law of the Colony, and by the " higher law," to pay them an equitable consideration for their title. In April, 1680, the proprietors of Dedham agreed to give William Nehoiden, a Sachem, £10 in money, forty shillings in Indian Corn, and forty acres of land, one hun- dred and twenty rods long and fifty-three wide, at the Upper Falls, on Charles river, in exchange for a tract of land seven miles long from east to west, and five miles •wide, (now the township of Deerfield.) The same year, -they gave Magus, another Sachem, eight pounds, for his •lands at Magus hill. Thus was the Indian title to Natick, Needham, and Dedham Island acquired. How or when the Indian title to Newton and Brighton was acquired, is 'Uncertain. In March, 1639, the General Court appointed Edward Gibbons one of the Boston Deputies, to agree with the Indians for their lands within the bounds of Cambridge, Watertown and Boston. It is probable that Mr. Gibbons INDIAN TITLES. 103 succeeded in obtaining their title, although we have seen no report or record of his doings in that mission. In January, 1701, ""William Nahaton, an Indian of Punkapoag, for twelve pounds, conveyed to Robert Cooke, of Dorchester, horn breaker, the surviving son of Robert Cooke, late of Dorchester, horn breaker, forty acres of land on the west side of Charles river, just above the Upper Falls, one hundred and twenty rods long and fifty-three rods wide." * This is the same land which the inhabitants of Dedham conveyed to William Nehoiden, in April, 1 680, and no doubt the same Indian, whose name is diflFerently spelt, William Nehoiden, William Ahawton, and William Nahaton, Nahanton, &c. In the body of the Deed of the Indians to the inhabitants of Braintree, 1665, this Indian's name is spelt " Nahanton," his signature to the same Deed, "Hahatun." In the Indian Deed of the peninsula of Boston, 1685, his name is signed " Hahaton." In his Deed to Robert Cooke, 1701, he signed his name " Nahaton." Cooke's purchase of Nahaton, on the west side of the river, was ten or fifteen years later than Clarke's purchase on the east side. It is probable that Clarke bought his eight acre lot, at the Upper Falls, of some of the Cam- bridge proprietors, or their assigns, and neglected to record his Deed. THE LOWER FALLS are upwards of two miles below the Upper Falls, by the road, and less than two miles by the river. At this place there are two bridges and two dams ; the first fall of water is about sixteen feet, and the second about six feet. The first business commenced here, by water power, was the erection of iron works, forge and trip hammer, in 1704. * Kahaton'fi-DeecL to Cooko, 104: EARLT HISTORY OP NEWTON. June, 1703. "John Leverett, Esq. conveyed to John Hubbard, of Eoxbury, four acres of land upon Charles river, at the Lower Falls, bounded east by a forty acre lot, belonging to Harvard College ; west by the old path that leads to the wading place, formerly the Natick path, and south by Charles river," being the same land which the proprietors of the common and undivided lands in Cam- brige granted to him, and the same which is now occupied by all the mills upon the Newton side of the river. 1705. " John Hubbard, merchant, of Boston, conveyed to his son, Nathaniel Hubbard, clerk, one moiety of the four acre lot, bounded north by the highway and south by the river, together with half of the iron works thereon, with two fire hearths and a hammer wheel, which said John Hubbard and Caleb Church, of Watertown, are now build- ing in partnership upon said land, with as much of the stream as may be necessary for said works, with half the dam, flume, headwares, running and going gear, utensils, and appurtenances, to the forge belonging." John Hubbard died in 1717. June, 1722. " Nathaniel Hubbard, of Dorchester, admin- istrator on the estate of his father, John Hubbard, deceased, in consideration of one hundred and forty pounds conveyed to Jonathan Willard, bloomer, of Newton, part of a tract of land purchased of John Leverett, Esq., with a smith's shop there- on, now in possession of said Willard, with the privileges thereto belonging ; also, all the title and interest, which John Hubbard had to the said four acres of land, formerly of said Leverett, bounding south by the river, and north by the highway, with half the iron works thereon, two fire hearths, hammer wheel, dam, head wares, water-courses, running and going gear, and utensils of said iron works." "Willard had occupied the smith's shop, as a tenant, several years previous to his purchase and partnership with Hub- LOWER FALLS. 105 bard. He was an ingenious, upright and conscientious man, and the first Baptist in the town, — the principal man of the iron works, and the village, for near half a century. He died in 1772, aged ninety-five. Various kinds of mills and business have been carried on here, such as iron works, saw mills, grist mills, snuff' mills, clothing mills, leather mills, paper mills, calico printing, machine shops, &c., but the manufacture of paper has been the principal business for the last half century, during which time some eight or ten paper mills have been in constant operation. John Ware, from Sherburne, brother of Professor "Ware, of H. C, built the first paper mill at the Lower Falls, about 1790. "In 1800, there were about eight or ten families in this village ; 1823, there were four hundred and five inhabitants, and about thirty-three dwelling houses ; 1837, there were four hundred and ninety-three inhabitants, and about eighty eight families ; 1847, there were five hundred and sixty inhabitants, and about one hundred and three families ; 1850, there were six hundred and twenty-seven inhabitants, and about one hundred and twenty-one families, and eighty dwelling houses." * There are ten common bridges crossing the river to the adjoining towns, viz : five to Needham, two to Weston, two to Waltham, and one to Watertown. Also, six railroad bridges, three near the Lower Falls, one near the Upper Falls, and two adjoining Waltham. There are seven dams across the river, viz : two at the Upper Falls, two at the Lower Falls, two at Waltham, and one at Bemis' Factory, built by David Bemis, of Water- town, about 1760, who at the same time erected a paper mill, on the Newton side of the river. ♦Benjamin Ifeale. 106 EAKLT HISTOET OF NEWTON. 1767. "The Town chose Abraham Fuller, Capt. Joshua Fuller, and Ebenezer Parker, a committee to appear before the Governor and Council, to prevent any more of the water of Charles river being turned out of its natural course." This vote of the Town, undoubtedly refers to an act of the first settlers of Dedham, who dug a ditch in 1639, tapped the river near their village, and turned a large portion of the stream from its natural course, into Neponset river. This ancient theft is thus described in Worthing- ton's History of Dedham : " About half a mile north of the new Court house, in Dedham, Mother brook starts out of Charles river, and runs in a proper and direct course round the high lands near the village, and then, at the only place vi'here it could find a passage, goes easterly, and joins the Neponset river, forming in its course between the two rivers, five mill seats of great value. "This stream, thus leaving its principal bed, and running off to join a neighboring stream, has been represented as a natural curiosity ; at least the inhabitants have no knowl- edge of its having been caused by man. When I discov- ered the record of its being an artificial wort, a natural but groundless fear was excited, that it would do harm to pub- lish the truth concerning it. " Abraham Shaw had been encouraged to build a water mill, in the first year of the settlement, 1636, and a com- mittee was appointed to designate the place. Shaw soon after died, but the committee suggested the measure of forming this new stream, which is recorded in these words : '28th day, 1st month, 1639. Ordered, that a ditch shall be dug, at common charge, through Upper Charles meadow, unto East Brook, that it may both be a partition fence in the same, and also may form a suitable course unto a water CHARLES EITER. 101 mill, that it shall be found fitting to set a mill upon, in the opinion of a workman, to be employed for that purpose.' The water mill was soon after built. The source of East Brook was more than one hundred rods east of the Norfolk and Bristol turnpike, where it crosses this stream. At this point, a curious observer may see the truth of this account, in the original state of the ground ; he will in vain seek for any natural bed of this stream. In addition to this evi- dence, the tradition of cutting the canal for this stream has been preserved in one family, which, from fear of conse- quences, have refrained from divulging the fact." Litigation and ill feeling, as usual, followed in the train of this wrong act. About two hundred years after this ditch was dug, the mill owners and all concerned, agreed upon a final settlement, whereby about one-third of the stream of Charles river should forever flow through this artificial ditch, which had from time to time been widened and deep- ened, by day and by night, into Neponset river. Before the lower dams were thrown across the river, shad, alewives, tom-cod, smelts, and other fish from the ocean, went up the river as far as the Upper Falls. Fish Reeves were early and annually chosen, for many years, whose duty it was to take care that the laws and regulations of the fishing interest in Charles river were observed. The first notice of fishing in the river, occurs in April, 1632, when a '?wear was erected by Watertown men, up Charles river, three miles from the town, where they took great store of Shads." In 1738, complaints were made to the General Court, from the people of Newton, Needham, Weston, Medfield, Sherburne, and the Indians at Natick, against the inhabi- tants of Watertown, for stopping the course of the fish in Charles river. 108 EAELT HISTORT OF NETFtoN. In 1798, the General Court passed an Act, authorizing the inhabitants of "Weston, Waltham, and Watertown, to regulate the fishing within said towns, and the proceeds accruing from this source were to be divided among the three towns, according to the proportion which each town bore towards the expenses of supporting the bridge at Watertown. In June, 1802, upon the petition of the inhabitants of Newton, praying the repeal of certain restrictions laid upon the taking of fish in Charles river, by a resolve passed 25th of March, 1781, on the petition of David Bemis, prohibiting the taking of fish with seine or net, between Bemis' dam and the old dam, a distance of about three-fourths of a mile, which petition was granted, and the resolve of 1781 was repealed. 1805. An Act was passed by the Legislature, giving Newton the exclusive right of taking fish in Charles river, within the limits of the town, and the time and manner of taking shad and alewives were regulated. For many years after the passage of this Act, the Town sold the right to take shad and alewives, at public auction, annually, for a considerable sum ; but from the numerous obstacles in the shape of dams and bridges across the river, and other causes, shad and alewives have avoided the river, and the fishing interest has become worthless to Newton. 1807. The Town chose a committee to assist the mill holders on Charles river, to defend their natural rights against any invader that may attempt to turn said river out of its natural course. This vote was passed in consequence of a letter from General Simon Elliot to the Town, which states that "for a great number of years, and under various pretensions, a number of persons of the town of Dedham, under the name of meadow holders, have endeavored to divert the waters of Charles river out of its natural course, PONDS AND BROOKS. 109 through a creek called Mother brook, into Neponset river, which they have already very nearly effected. Some years since, these meadow holders obtained an Act from the Legis- lature, for the purpose of more effectually obtaining (what they called) a redress of grievances, to drain their mea- dows." " The proprietors of mills on Charles river are greatly alarmed for the safety of their property, having already suffered an incalculable loss, in the diversion of the waters from the river, and he asks the Town to adopt measures which may tend to give aid and support in defending their property against further encroachments," &c. This movement ought to have been made one hundred and fifty years sooner. PONDS AND BROOKS. Wiswall's pond, near the Centre, and Hammond's pond, at the easterly part of the town, were so called in remem- brance of two of the early and prominent settlers of the town : Thomas Wiswall, the first ruling Elder of the Church, and the first settler upon the banks of the one, and Thomas Hammond, the first settler upon the borders of the other. Wiswall came into the town in 1654, and died here in 1683. Hammond came in 1650, and died in 1675 ; both were pioneer settlers, and substantial pillars of the Planta- tion. The descendants of both have been numerous in the town, and the country, and highly respectable. For nearly two centuries, these ponds have been naturally and properly known by the name of Wiswall and Hammond ; they have become part and parcel of the historical facts of the place, and ought to be forever known by these names. 10 110 EARLT HISTOKT OF NEVTTON. J The waters of Wiswall's p(^d cover about thirty-three and a half acres, and of Hammond's pond about thirty acres. The natural outjet foi-"" the waters of Wiswall's pond,' was upon its easterly side, crossing the Dedham road a little north of the Wiswall house, thence running through the^Wiswall farm in a southerly direction, across the Sher- burne road and the Worcester turnpike, to South meadow brook. The artificial outlet is a deep excavation, made on the northerly side of the pond, by the mill owners on Smelt brook, previous to the year 1700, to conduct the water of the pond into Smelt brook. It is, however, believed that the quantity of water thus drawn from the pond, was not of sufficient advantage to cover the cost of the excavation and repairs. The natural outlet of the waters of Hammond's pond, was from its south-east side, and was the commence- ment of the brook called " Pond brook," or " Palmer's brook ; " from thence running southerly through the mea- dows in the westerly corner of Brookline, where it received sufficient accessions of water to drive the wheels of a saw mill, which formerly stood very near the dividing line be- tween Brookline and Newton, thence by Bald Pate mea- dow, through the south part of Newton, by Palmer's, and through Brook farm to Charles river. A few years since, an artificial drain was made from the westerly side of Ham- mond's pond, runnmg north-west through the low grounds, to the brook which crosses the Dedham road a little south of the Centre Meeting-house, which stream falls into Smelt brook, near the territorial centre of the town. This cut was made for the double purpose of draining the lands through which it was made, and of increasing the force of Smelt brook. "South meadow brook" rises from several small branch- es in and near the " Great meadows," and formerly from the original outlet of the waters of Wiswall's pond, thence FIRST GKIST MILL. Ill running south-west through fhe "Winchester farm, to Charles river, about one mile above the Upper Falls. Cheese-cake brook rises at the westerly part of the town, within a few rods of the spot where Deacon Staples' house stood, now William Wiswall, 2d, and runs north-east, through the West Parish Village and the " Fuller farm," to Charles river, near the dividing line between Waltham and Watertown. Smelt brook, the largest of the four, issues from a cold spring, in the region of Alcock's swamp, about half a mile north of the south burial place, thence running north-east, is reinforced by several small streams ; thence through the centre of the ancient " Mayhew farm," " Dummer fai'm," and " Wear lands," to Charles river, between the first dam and the first bridge ever built across that river. FIRST GRIST MILL. The first grist mill in the town, was built upon Smelt brook, near the territorial centre of the town, at a very early period of its settlement, by Lieutenant John Spring ; his house stood on the Dedham road, opposite the old burying place ; his farm extended westerly, to Smelt brook, and he laid open a road through it, from the Dedham road to his mill, which, until recently, has been known as " Mill lane." It is now called " Mill street." Thomas Park, Captain Isaac Williams, John Ward, Jr., and John Spring, Jr., each became quarter owners in this mill. In the division of Thomas Park's estate, in 1693-4, his quarter was set ofiF to his son Edward. In the division of Captain Isaac Williams' estate, in 1708, his quarter was set off to his son Isaac, who, on his removal to Roxbury, sold it to his brother Ephraim, in 1722. 112 BAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. John "Ward, Jr. was the son in law of John Spring, from whom he had his quarter. "Ward, by his "Will, 1727, gave it to his son in law, Deacon William Trowbridge, who, by his "Will, gave it to his son, Thaddeus Trowbridge ; from thence it passed to his grandson, Captain Edmund Trow- bridge. Other mills were erected on this brook. Judge Fuller had a mill on his place. There was a grist mill upon Gen- eral Michael Jackson's place, and afterwards a chocolate mill, &c. A few rods before this stream falls into the river in "Watertown, there was an ancient grist mill, owned by Stephen Cooke, Sen. His house was just within the bounds of Newton. He conveyed the mill to his son Stephen, in 1733, and from thence it passed to his grandson, Stephen Cooke. Before this brook was obstructed by dams, smelts and other fish from the ocean, passed up this stream to John Spring's dam. The brook derived its name from this fact. PLAN OF NE"WTON. "We annex a plan of the Town, the outline of which is taken from the survey of Elijah F. "Woodward, Esq., and "William F. "Ward, made in 1831, and so varied as to show the houses of the original settlers, as they were prior to 1700, and the roads they laid open ; also the houses and roads that were built and opened, from 1700 to 1750. These homesteads of the early planters have been ascer- tained from the Town records for laying out and renewing the bounds of highways, by an examination of the early volumes of deeds and wills, and from the recollection of aged persons in different quarters of the town. Much labor PLAN OP NEWTON. 113 has been expended upon this skeleton plan ; nevertheless, under these circumstances, we cannot claim for it much exactness ; it is a proximate location of the ancient dwell- ings and roads, but the bound marks of their acres, except in a few instances, are past finding out ; the stakes, marked trees, and fences, for the most part, have long since dis- appeared. The original grants of land to Jeremiah Dum- mer, Thomas Mayhew, Rev. Thomas Shepard, Joseph Cooke, and Major Samuel Shepard, passed into the hands of Gregory Cooke, Edward Jackson, Richard Park, John Fuller, and Captain Isaac Williams, who were the first actual settlers thereon.- These tracts, containing about two thousand five hundred acres, extending from the northerly part of the "Watertown and Dedham road, to the West Parish Village, can all be traced out now, with a pretty near approach to certainty. A white oak tree, whose diameter at its butt measured four feet, was the bound mark of the southerly corner of the Fuller farm, of seven hundred and fifty acres. It was also the bound mark of the north-east corner of the Williams' farm, of five hundred acres. It also marked a side line of the Park farm, of six hundred acres. This oak tree (which the " woodman ought to have spared ") was cut down about ten years ago ; its stump still remains, about thirty rods north of the house formerly occupied by Deacon Josiah Bacon, but so much decayed that portions of it can be pulled up by hand. The '■^ Haynes farm" of one thousand acres, and the Pond, is another important part of the town. Its location, we think, is nearly right, beginning at the centre of the town, and extending south-westerly, it touched the Ken- rick farm southerly, came near to the Woodward farm west- erly, and joined Jonathan Hydes' northerly, 10* 114 EAELT HISTORY OF NEWTON. This was the earliest and largest grant in the town, and was made to John Haynes, Esq., in- 1634. He came over in company with the Eev. Mr. Hooker, in 1633; in 1635, was chosen Governor of Massachusetts; removed with Hooker's company, to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636; was Governor of Connecticut in 1639; died in 1654, and this tract of land passed to his heirs. This farm, or those portions of it that were not conveyed by him or his heirs, was probably hired by Captain Thomas Prentice many years ; the records several times state that it was a long time in his possession, either as agent or lessee. The jSrst actual settlers upon it were Elder Thomas Wis- wall and sons, (Noah and Ebenezer,) William Tucker, Sam- uel Pettee, Stephen "Winchester, Sen., and John Hammond. We have prepared this Plan, not only to show the pro- gress of the settlement, but also to aid those who may be desirous of finding the spot where their ancestors first erected their habitations, which became the birth-place of many generations. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. The first Church in the New Town, (Cambridge,) was gathered on the 11th day of October, 1633, and consisted mainly of the Rev. Mr. Hooker's company, who landed in Boston, in 1632. They had attended his ministry in England, and upon their settlement here, they sent to him in HoUand, whither he had fled from persecution, entreat- ing him to become their Pastor again. He consented, and came over in 1633, and took up his abode among them. He was one of the most celebrated and influential of the emigrant Puritan clergy. Samuel Stone, also, a man of eminence in his day, and Thomas Hooker, were ordained, the one as Teacher, and the other as Pastor of the Church, in October, 1633. 1636. The members of this first Church, with its Pastor and Teacher, removed to Hartford, Connecticut. On. the first day of February, 1636, a" second Church was organized, and Thomas Shepard was ordained its Pastor. He was called the " faithful and famous Shepard, a preacher of uncommon unction and power." He died August 25th, 1649, aged forty-four years, and was suc- ceeded by Jonathan Mitchell, who was born in 1624, and came to New England in 1635, graduated at Harvard College, in 1647, was ordained August 21, 1650, and died July 9th, 1668, aged forty-four years. He was styled, "Matchless Mitchell." 116 EAELT HISTOKT OF NEWTON. During the ministry of Mitchell, the first settlers of Cambridge Village, in the latter part of the year 1654, or the beginning of 1655, petitioned the Cambridge Church to be released from paying rates to them, on the ground that they were about to establish the ordinances of Clirist among themselves, and distinct from the Town. The reply to this request, by the Selectmen of Cam- bridge, March 12th, 1655, was smoothly, but firmly, in the negative.* Holmes' History of Cambridge states, that " the inhabi- tants of Cambridge Village had become so numerous, by the year 1656, as to form a distinct congregation for public worship, when an abatement was made of one half of their proportion of the ministry's allowance, during the time they were provided with an able minister, according to law." As their petition to the Church found no favor, they tried the General Court next. 1656. John Jackson and Thomas Wiswall, (the Deacon and the Ruling Elder,) in behalf of the inhabitants of the Village, petitioned the General Court to be released from paying rates for the support of the ministry at Cambridge Church. Cambridge remonstrated against this petition, and the Court's committee reported against it. The first Meeting-house in Cambridge Village, was erected in the old burial place, in 1660. Where the meetings for public worship were held during the preceding four or five years, is not known ; there was a hall in Edward Jackson's house, which stood near the present dividing line between Newton and Brighton, and their meetings may have been held there. The next year after the first Meeting-house was built, • See page «. riEST MINISTER, JOHN ELIOT, JR. 117 1661, the inhabitants of the Village renewed their petition to the Court, to be released from paying Church rates to Cambridge. The erection of their new Meeting-house had greatly strengthened their case, and accordingly the Court granted them freedom from Church rates to Cambridge, for all estates over four miles from Cambridge Meeting-house. John Eliot, Jr. took his degree in 1656, and began to preach about 1658. It is probable that he supplied the pulpit of the new Meeting-house, in the Village, much of the time previous to his ordination, which took place on the 20th of July, 1664. "The Elders and Messengers of the Churches of Dorchester and Eoxbury, including Eev. Eichard Mather and Eev. John Eliot, were present, and probably others, and the first Church was organized on the same day. At the same time, and agreeable to the custom of that early period, Thomas Wiswall, lately a member of the Dorchester Church, was ordained Eulihg Elder, or assistant to the Pastor, in inspecting and disciplining the flock." The Newton Church records^ and the Eev. Mr. Mer- riam's house, were all burnt, in 1770. The Eoxbury and Dorchester Church records confirm these facts, and also that " Thomas "Wiswall was dismissed from the Dorchester Church, 5. 4. 1664, for the beginning of a Church at Cam- bridge Village, where Mr. John Eliot doth preach." Also, "11. 7. 1664, was dismissed the wife of Thomas Wiswall, the wife of Goodman Kinwright, and Margaret, the wife of James Trowbridge, to the Church gathered at Cambridge ViUage." The following persons, with their wives, were probably the first members of the Church at its organization. Eev. John Eliot, Jr., Pastor, from Eoxbury Church. Thomas "Wiswall, Euling Elder, Dorchester Church. 118 EAELT HISTOBT OF NEWTON. John Jackson and Samuel Hyde, Deacons. Edward Jackson, from Cambridge Church. Thomas Prentice, " " " Jonathan Hyde, " " " Richard Park, " " " Thomas Park, son of Richard, from Cambridge Church. John Ward, " Sudbury « James Prentice, " Cambridge " John Fuller. Thomas Prentice, 2d. Thomas Hammond, " Hingham Vincent Druce, " " " John Parker,' " " " William Clements, " Cambridge " Isaac Williams, " Roxbury " James Trowbridge, " Dorchester " Abraham Williams, " Watertown " John Kenrick, " Boston " John Spring, " Watertown " Samuel Hyde and Job Hyde, sons of Dea. Samuel Hyde. Noah Wiswall, son of Elder Thos. Wiswall, Dorchester. John Jackson, son of John Jackson, Senior. Sebas Jackson, son of Edward Jackson, Senior. John Kenrick and Elijah Kenrick, sons of John Kenrick, Senior, Boston. William Clements, son of William Clements, Senior. Thomas Hammond and Nathaniel Hammond, sons of Thomas Hammond, Senior, Hingham. John Druce and Vincent Druce, sons of Vincent Druce, Senior, Hingham. Thirteen of the above were sons of the first settlers, and were past the age of twenty-one, at tlie ordination of Eliot. Thomas Oliver, (afterwards Deacon of this Church,) riEST MINISTER, JOHN ELIOT, JE. 119 whose mother was a member of the Boston Church, lived with his father in law, Edward Jackson, in 1664, and was then nineteen years old ; and some other minors may have been members, and as Eliot was a popular preacher, there may have been a few members from adjoining towns. The male members, at the commencement of the Church, may be estimated at about forty, and the female members at about the same number ; and the number of families about thirty. This first Church in Cambridge Village, and the third Church within the limits of Cambridge, was formed during the ministry of Jonathan Mitchell, who has left a list of the members of the Church in Cambridge, in his own hand- writing, with the following heading : " The Church of Christ, at Cambridge, in New England, or the names of all the members thereof, that are in Full Communion ; together with their children who were either baptised in this Church, or (coming from other Churches) were in their minority at their parents' joining ; taken and registered in the 11th month, 1658." Upon this venerable document are the names of about ninety men, one hundred and eight women, and four hundred and ninety children, some of which are twice mentioned. This list contains the names of only two families of the Cambridge Village Church, viz. : Thomas Prentice, wife, and five children, and Jonathan Hyde, wife, and six children. This list of Mitchell's appears to be formal and minute, and yet there are omissions. Edward Jackson was a mem- ber, so says the records of the Boston first Church; and Richard Park was a member. He sent a petition to the General Court, in 1661, praying to retain his membership in the Cambridge Church ; the same year a petition from the inhabitants of the Village was pending, praying to be set off from Cambridge Church. 120 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. It is probable that John Jackson, Samuel Hyde, and James Prentice, were members of Cambridge Church. The Rev. Mr. Eliot died October 13, 1668, about four years and two months after his ordination. As the erection of a new Meeting-house and a new Parish, their release from supporting the Cambridge minis- try, and the ordination of Eliot, were events full of promise for the Village, so his early death, we may be sure, was considered a great calamity. More than six years elapsed before a successor was ordained ; in the meantime, divis- ions sprang up among them, as appears from the County Court Records, volume three. The following letter was sent by the Court to Elder Wiswall : " These, for Thomas "Wiswall, Ruling Elder, to be com- municated to the Church of Christ, on the south side Charles river, within the bounds of Cambridge. " Beloved Brethren : We find a law made 30th May, 1660, empowering the County Court to use the best endea- vor, for the procuring and settling a pious and faithful Minister, in every place within their respective precincts, and understanding (to our great grief) that there are divis- ions among you, about calling and settling a Minister, which thing is scandalous to our profession, and a hindrance to our edification, we, therefore, think it our duty to signify unto you our earnest desires and prayers, for your union and agreement, entreating you to put on the spirit of meek- ness, humility, and self-denial, and to submit one to another, in the fear of God, and either to agree this matter among yourselves, or attend such other means as God hath ap- pointed in such cases,^ for the issue thereof, and acquaint us therewith, at the adjournment of the Court at Charlestown, the 29th inst., April, otherwise we shall take ourselves in duty bound, to use such other means, according to God, as may be expedient for a farther inquiry into your case, and TRANSIENT PREACHERS. 121 , for the healing the breaches in your Zion. So, with love to you, we remaia your loving brethren, in the faith and fellowship of the Gospel. "From the County Court at Cambridge, April 5, 1670." Elder Wiswall's Reply. ''Gambridge Village, 18, (4,) 1670. " To the Honored Court now sitting at Charlestown : "May it please you, yours of April 5th, 1670, I received, and, after serious perusal and consideration, did communi- cate it unto the Church ; but with grief and shame may we say, we had no comfortable return to make ; but so it came to pass, that the 19th of April we gave the former Council the trouble to come again, who, having heard both sides, did confirm your former Council, and yet it will not obtain. But may please you, the next 4th day, if the Lord will, I intend to move the Church again, and in the meantime rest, Your humble servant, Thomas "Wiswall." It appears that those Ministers who had supplied the pul- pit, between the death of Eliot and the preaching of Hobart, sued the inhabitants of the Village for their pay, and a trial was had before the County Court, in 1671. On a full hearing of both parties, " The Court ordered that payment be made to those Ministers that had labored among them, indifferently, to one as well as to another, (all animosity among themselves notwithstanding,) according as the Selectmen of the Town had formerly advised in the case." — [ County Court Records, 3. 6.] 11 122 EAELT HISTOET OF NEAVXON. On the 23d of December, 1674, the Rev. Nehemiah Ho- bart, the fifth son of Rev. Peter Hobart, of Hingham, was ordained Pastor of the Church at Cambridge Village. A receipt of Mr. Hobart, dated 1689, signed by his own hand, shows that he began to supply the pulpit about two years and a half before he was settled, during which time he succeeded in healing the dissensions, and restoring harmony. Hence he was called, the "repairer of breaches." He was born at Hingham, Nov. 21, 1648, graduated at Har- vard College, 1667, married Sarah, the daughter of Edward Jackson, Sen., by his last wife, (widow Elizabeth Oliver,) March 21, 1678; same year, he built a dwelling house in the Village, (on the same spot where the Pelbam house now stands,) which was occupied by his successor. Rev. John Cotton, and burnt in 1720. Hobart's monument states that he preached in the town forty years ; the Church records being lost, but few incidents can be gleaned from other sources. The following extracts are from the Town records. Soon after the settlement of Hobart, the Meeting-house was en- larged, — so states the secession petition, dated 1678, — ^and "January 30, 1681, the Town voted to make a rate for repairing the glass about the Meeting-house, and to pay John Fuller, Sen. what he had laid out for the raising of the new end of the Meeting-house. "Also, that no Barley should be brought in to Mr. Hobart for his rate, after the 16th February." 1681. Edward Jackson, Sen., died, leaving a Will, re- corded in the eleventh volume of Middlesex Wills, and bequeathing to Cambridge Village about thirty-one and a half acres of land, which he says, " shall be for the use of the Ministry in this Village forever." This land was situ- ated at the southerly part of the town, near the " Great meadows." SECOND MINISTER, NEHEMIAH HOBAKT. 123 The following is copied from Judge FuUer's plan, of 1765. Eljeuezet P arlter. Dijubtfiii./ a-*" 0.2.34. pa ■e Contents, 31. 1. 34. 14.50 Moses WWtncy- Aspta-waU- At a Town meeting, May 12, 1766, a committee of the Town reported an agreement with the owners of the adjoin- ing lands, relative to the fence, — that the Town was to erect thirty-eight rods new fence on the northerly side ; and the adjoining owners promised for themselves, their heirs and 124 EAELT HISTOKT OF NEWTON. assigns, to maintain all the other, fences forever, provided it be kept for a wood lot. Signed hj Joshua Fuller, 1 "William Clakk, >• Committee. Noah Wiswall, j November, 1685. " Voted, that there should be added to Mr. Hobart's maintenance, yearly, five pounds, which being added to the former sixty-five pounds, makes his whole salary seventy pounds, and that one-third part of the sev- enty pounds should be paid in money, without abatement." It is probable that Mr. Hobart was imperfectly paid what the Town voted, either in money or merchandise, as will be seen from two of his receipts, viz : " 1689. Whereas, I, Nehemiah Hobart, have for seven- teen years last past labored in the ministry, att Cambridge Village, have from time to time, by their voates, covenanted to raise for mee, yearly, such sums as might be for my main- tenance, I do by these presents, acknowlidge, and accept of all, and several the said sums, and doe hereby, for myself and hairs, acquitt all and severall the said inhabitants, and all such as have ingaged to collect the said sums, them and their heirs, from all dues, debts and demands, from the beginning of my ministry amongst them, unto the first day of June, 1689. In witness whereof, I have sett to my hand, Nehemiah Hobart." "June 1, 1693. I doe hereby acknowledge, that I have received of the inhabitants of New Town, the sum of sixty four pounds, for my maintenance the year past, and the remaining six pounds, due to me for the said yeare, I freely remitt, leaving the same to be collected by the Selectmen, SECOND MEETING HOUSE. 125 and by them laid out for the benefit of said town, according to a regular voate of the inhabitants, when they shall be convened in a Town meeting, orderly warned. Witness my hand, Nehemiah Hobaet." February 23, 1690. Town meeting. " Mr. Hobart sent in an account of £23, 18s. 3d. due him, by the Deacons who declared for him, that if the Town would pay him £10, he would give in the residue to help bear the public charges, which were great and heavy, and which was accepted by the Town." 1696. " Voted, that a new Meeting-house be built and placed near the old one, and Capt. Prentice, John Fuller, Sen., Capt. Williams, John Ward, Sen., Jonathan Hyde, Sen., John Spring and Nathaniel Healy, were chosen build- ing committee. 1697. "Voted, that John Brewer, of Sudbury, be em- ployed as master workman, to build the new Meeting-house. Voted £200, for carrying on the work ; chose John Spring, Jeremiah Fuller, Nathaniel Healy, and John Hyde, to oversee and give directions for getting the timber, so that every quarter of the town may get a part of the timber, if they please. " Voted, that seats for the boys be made from the west door to the north-west corner of the house. Voted, that the vacant room on the east and north side of the house, to the pulpit, is granted for the setting up of pews for women and children, but they shall not be sold to a stranger ! " This second Meeting-house was voted to be built in March, 1696; commenced in the Spring of 1697, and com- pleted in the early part of 1698. It stood on the westerly side of the Dedham road, opposite the burial place, very 11* 126 EAKLT HISTOKT OF NEWTON. near the spot now occupied by the house of Gardner Colby, and once owned and occupied by John Spring, who, it is probable, gave the land to the Town for that purpose.* "It was yoted, that the building committee should seat the Meeting-house, and that age and gifts should be the rule the committee should go by." In a Deed, given by Abraham Jackson to his son John, in 1717,t it appears that the first Meeting-house was then standing ; for what purpose it was then used, is not known ; it may have been used for a Town house, school house, or for military purposes, as the training-field was there. 1703. " Voted, that ten pounds should be -added to Mr. Hobart's salary, making it eighty pounds." 1705. " Seven families, living near to "West Roxbury and Dedham, viz : William Ward, Edward Ward, Philip White, Nathaniel Healy, Daniel Colburn, Benjamin Wilson and Elizabeth Bacon, complain of their great distance from the Meeting-house, and state that they worship, for the most part, in Roxbury, and ask to have the Meeting-house re- moved to a more central place.'' 1707. Thomas Oliver and Edward Jackson were or- dained Deacons, and publicly inducted into office. The one was son in law, and the other son of Edward Jackson, Senior. August 25, 1712. Mr. Hobart died, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He commenced preaching in the town on the 1st of June, 1672, and continued to do so forty years and nearly two months. 1713. Nathaniel Healy, William Ward, Philip White, Edward Ward, Daniel Celburn and Elizabeth Bacon, peti- tioned the General Court to divide the Town into two pre- * After the removal of the Meetlng-houso, the To-mi re-conveyed the land to John Spring. tSeo conveyances, page 33. THIRD MINISTER, JOHN COTTON. 127 cincts, for the worship of God, for the reason stated by the petitioners, that they were four and a half, and some five miles from the Meeting-house. The answer to this petition was, " that the Court saw no cause to divide the Town, or to remove the Meeting-house, and advised the Town to allow the petitioners to worship in Eoxbury ; and directed the inhabitants peaceably to settle a learned Orthodox Minister, of good conversation, among them, as the law directs." (Signed,) Isaac Addington, Secretary. March 22, 1714. "At a Town meeting regularly assem- Jbled, for the choice of a gospel Minister within the nomina- tion, viz : Edward Flint, Edward Holyoke, Jonathan Tufts, Ebenezer "Williams and John Cotton." " John Cotton was chosen, by a clear vote, to be their Minister. Voted, his salary to be eighty pounds, and one hundred pounds for his encouragement. Deacon Edward Jackson, John Staples, Ensign John Kenrick, Captain Jo- seph Fuller, and Abraham Jackson, were chosen a commit- tee to treat with Mr. Cotton, in order to a settlement." In consequence of the dissatisfaction about the standing of the Meeting-house, a committee was chosen to petition the Gen- eral Court to send a committee to hear their differences, as to the place of public worship. Also, to employ Lieutenant Joseph Burnap, or some other person, to survey and find out the centre of the town." May 10,1714. "Voted, to give fifty pounds more, for Mr. Cotton's encouragement to settle amongst us, as our Pastor, besides the one hundred pounds before voted. Also, voted, to add to his salary, at any time, and from time to time, such further supplies as he shall stand in need of, for his honorable support." 128 EAELT HISTORY OF NEWTON. September 28, 1714. " Chose Deacon Edward Jackson, Abraham Jackson, Lieutenant Jeremiah Fuller, Captain Thomas Prentice, Samuel Hyde, Nathaniel Parker, Eleazer Ward, Samuel Truesdale, John Greenwood, John Spring, and Richard Ward, a committee to provide for the ordina- tion of Mr. Cotton. Also, a committee to find a spot for a new Meeting-house, and convenient ways to get to it." November 3, 1714. John Cotton, who graduated at Harvard College in 1710, was ordained as the third Minis- ter of the town, and successor of the Kev. Nehemiah Hobart. He was the son of the Rev. Roland Cotton, of Sandwich, the grandson of the Rev. John Cotton, of Ply- mouth, and great-grandson of the Rev. and celebrated John Cotton, one of the first Ministers of Boston. 1714. The committee appointed to ascertain a suitable and central spot for a new Meeting-house, reported two places, one forty rods south of the Centre, and one twenty- seven rods north-east of the Centre, which report was accepted. March, 1715. "Voted, that the Town do freely and absolutely refer themselves to the Honorable General Court, to fix upon a place to erect a Meeting-house, for the use of the whole Town ; and that they will sit down satisfied with what the Honorable Court shall do and confirm, and that the Town will erect a Meeting-house on said place, within five years, and the Selectmen be a committee to peti- tion the General Court to that effect." June 9, 1715. The Court's Committee viewed the pro- posed spot, on Nath'l Parker's land, " which, in their opinion, was the most suitable spot for accommodating the greatest number of the inhabitants. It being about twenty-eight rods south, south-east, near a quarter of a point east from the centre of the town, according to Joseph Burnap's survey. John Otis, Chairman." THIRD MINISTER, JOHN COTTON. 129 This report was accepted by the Court, who further or- dered that the Meeting-house remain where it now is, for the space of five years, and then a new Meeting-house be erected, in such place, near the centre of the town, as shall be agreed upon. April, 1716. The committee to find a spot for a Meet- ing-house, report, " that considering the unhappy circum- ^ stances they labor under, by reason of the overgrowing contentions there has been in the town, about the place or places for the public worship of God in said town, and there being little or no prospect of its being otherwise, with- out a spirit of condescension and self-denial, &c. " Voted, to purchase 1. 2. 20, of Nathaniel Parker's land, to set a Meeting-house upon. "Voted, to erect and finish a Meeting-house, for the public worship of God, in the town, within the term of four years next ensuing, at the proper cost and charge of the whole town, to be set upon the land now staked out in the field of said Parker. This vote to be laid before the General Court." The Selectmen then reported, "that they had actually laid out and opened a highway, two rods wide, for the northerly part of the town, to the proposed spot for the Meeting house, beginning at the Mill lane, near the head of the Mill pond." March, 1717. " Voted, to build a new Meeting-house, fifty-seven feet by forty-five. Voted £200 for the work, and chose John Spring, Samuel Truesdale, and Captain Thomas Prentice, a committee to procure boards, shingles, clapboards, and long timber, such as cannot be had in the town." 1718. Jeremiah Fuller and Ebenezer Littlefield were added to the building committee, and, " voted a rate of £200 towards the new Meeting-house." 130 EAKLT HISTORY OF NEWTON. March, 1719. " Chose Ebenezer Stone, Jeremiah Ful- ler, Lieutenant John Greenwood, Ensign Samuel Hyde, and Joseph Ward, building committee for the new Meeting- house." 1720. "Voted, a rate of £200 towards carrying on the work of the new Meeting-house." March 24, 1720. "Rev. Mr. Cotton's dwelling house ■was burnt." * March, 1721. "Voted, that the £200 rate, granted to build the Meeting-house, be sunk, and not collected ; and in lieu thereof, make use of the bills of credit, granted by the General Court, to the several towns in the Province." f "Voted, to build pews in the new Meeting-house, and seats for the boys by the side of the house ; to have the windows glazed with diamond glass, and to sell the old Meeting-house." March, 1722. " Chose a committee to seat the new Meeting-house, according to the peoples' rates and age." 1722. The six families which the General Court allowed to worship and pay taxes to tlje south precinct, in Roxbury, sent a memorial to the Court, complaining that Newton had taxed them for the support of the ministry in Newton, and sued and imprisoned some of them for non-payment December, 1722. Newton petitioned the Court to have those six families come back to Newton, as a new Meeting- house was then erected much nearer to them. Ripley's History of Waltham states, that a committee of that town were authorized to purchase Newton old Meeting- house, at not exceeding eighty pounds, and to have it in the * Hyde '8 MS. t " BitLS or Ckkdit. — Owing to the total failure of the Canada Expedition, In 1690, the Colony issued ^50,000 of Bills of Credit, bearing Ave per cent, interest, to defray the expenses of that disastrous expedition. These -were the first of that species of paper money, which was multiplied to such a ruinous extent at subse- quent periods. THIRD MINISTER, JOHN COTTON. 131 course of the month of October, 1721 ; and that it was purchased and removed to Waltham about that time. March, 1727. The Selectmen were chosen to regulate the sitting in the Meeting-house. March, 1730. The Selectmen staked out land on the hill, near Clark's farm, for the relief of sundry inhabitants on Sabbath days, twenty-eight feet square, for a noon house. 1734. Captain Edward Durant asked leave to build a pew in the Meeting-house, and was refused ! He was a very wealthy man, from Boston, and owned three slaves, — paid eighteen hundred pounds for his farm. Verily, times have altered since that day. 1738. Chose a committee to seat the Meeting-housej and instructed the committee to " give men their dignity in their sitting, in proportion to the Minister's rate they pay, allowing one poll to a rate, making such an allowance for age as they shall think proper, except where there are tenants, and in those cases, to act the best of their judgment." 1744. Chose a committee to seat the Meeting-house according to dignity and taxes. Rev. George Whitefield preached in Newton, in Novem- ber, 1740, to a crowded audience. In September, 1740, he preached at Newbury, in the highway, where a stone was thrown at him, which nearly struck the Bible from his hands. To this assault, he replied, " I have a warrant from God to preach ; my seal (holding up the Bible) is in my hand, and I stand in the King's highway." His religious tenets divi- ded the community ; almost every man was either an ardent advocate, or a decided opponent. The consequence of this state of things was division and contention in all the Churches, and many years elapsed before the storm became a calm."* * Coffin's History of Newbary. 132 EAKLT HISTOKT OP NE-WTON. " Whatever may be thought of the peculiar opinions of Whitefield, certain it is that his eloquence as a preacher was unrivalled, and his zeal for the cause he taught, of the high- est character. The fruits of his ministration were great and striking." * " Same year, he preached in Boston. The Meeting- houses n'ot being large enough to hold his audiences, he preached on the Common, to five thousand persons,, then to eight thousand, and his farewell sermon to twenty-three thousand persons. It is almost needless to observe that opinions were various concerning the benefit achieved by his visit." t "* Among his converts in Newton, was Jonathan Hyde, a great-grandson of Samuel Hyde, Sen. ; and Nathan Ward, a grandson of John Ward, Sen. Both became ordained preachers and followers of Whitefield. Hyde gathered a Church in Brookline, and Ward in Newton. They were called " New Lights," a name given them by their oppo- nents, in derision. They encountered much ridicule and opposition. Hyde was warned out of town by the authori- ties of Brookline, and Ward was taxed by the authorities of Newton, although the law exempted all ordained clergy- men from taxation. Ward remonstrated against this unlawful treatment, and sent the following memorial to the freeholders of Newton, in public Town meeting, assembled March 3d, 1755. " Gentlemen : — It hath pleased a sovereign and all wise God, who is wont to choose the weak things of the world to confound the wise, as I humbly trust and believe, to call me who are less than the least of all saints, to preach His Gospel, and also to take the pastoral care of a Church ,in * Caleb Cushlng's History of Newburyport. t Snow's History of Boston. THIRD JIINISTEK, JOHN COTTON. 133 this town, who, some few years past, embodied into a Church for the carrying on the worship of God, agreeable to His word and their own- consciences, and I have been, as some of you are eye witnesses, ordained, solemnly set apart to the work of the Gospel ministry, by prayer and the laying on of hands. And n6w, gentlemen, you well know that it ever hath been the case, that those that have been ordained to the work of the Gospel ministry, ever have been freed from all taxes or rates, and indeed they are so, both by the Divine and civil law; but yet, notwithstand- ing my calling as a Minister of God's word and ordinances, the Assessors of this town have been pleased, since the time of my ordination, both to rate my person and assess my estate, which I apprehend is not their duty to do, nor indeed mine to pay. And now, gentlemen, as it is in your power to grant me freedom in this matter, my humble petition and request unto you, at this time, is, that you would free me, together with my estate under my particular improvement, from being rated or assessed, so long as I shall act in this public character, that I may enjoy the like privileges of this nature, as do other ordained Ministers ; and in so doing, you will oblige Your most humble servant, Nathan Ward." 1749. Noah Parker and Jonathan Willard presented a certificate of their having joined the Baptist Church, in Boston. 1753. Noah. Wiswall, John Hammond and Thomas Parker, having joined the Baptists, and paid ministerial taxes elsewhere, request to be excused from paying minis- terial taxes in Newton, whereupon it was voted that " they shall not be excused." May 17, 1757. Eev. John Cotton died, in the sixty- 12 134 EARLY HISTORY OF NEWTON. fourth year of his age, and the forty-third of his ministry, having preached in Newton forty-two years, six months, and fourteen days. April, 1740. Deacon John Staples, hy his Will, (volume twenty-two,) did "give and bequeath to the Church of Christ, in Newton, seventeen acres of land for and towards the support of the ministerial fire, from year to year, annually, &c., being part of the land he purchased of William Eobinson." Also, "to the poor of Newton, £25 in public bills of credit, to be paid out of his estate, to. the Selectmen, for the use of said poor." Also, "a silver tankard to the Church," still used for the communion ser- vice, with the fact of its gift engraved thereon. 1757. The Church having made choice of Jonas Meriam to be their Minister, a Town meeting was held, December 9th, to concur with the Church. The Town voted to concur, and £1000 old tenor for his settlement, and £80 yearly salary, and fire-wood from the ministerial wood lot. Mr. Meriam's reply to the call was as follows : " Cambridge, January 21, 1758. " Dearly beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ : ' " Having received your invitation of me, to settle in the work of the Gospel ministry among you, and having had your proposals to me, for my settlement and support, laid before me, by a committee chosen and appointed by you for that purpose, I desire to testify a sense of gratitude to God, who has rendered my labors acceptable, and also to you, whom His providence has disposed to make choice of me for the business aforesaid. " And as it is undoubtedly expected that I should return an answer to your invitation, this is, therefore, by way of reply, to inform you, that after taking the aflfair into the most deliberate consideration, asking the direction of Him who gives wisdom that is profitable to direct, and taking the FOTIRTH MINISTEE, JONAS MERIAM. 135 advice of those who have the Churches at heart, I judge it my duty to comply with your invitation, and accordingly, under a sense of duty hereof, I accept your call and offer. " And as, on the one hand, I desire no more for my sup- port than will enable me to live comfortably, and to discharge the duties of my station without too much worldly incumbrance ; so, on the other, I doubt not that I may depend on your liberality, in case of need, for such further assistance as you shall judge necessary for my comfort. But my greatest concern is, that I may be made an instru- ment of turning many to righteousness, that so both you and I may have abundant reason to rejoice together in mutual edification here, and everlasting fellowship here- after. " And that Divine glory may be advanced, by all your proceedings, that mutual charity, benevolence, and good order may flourish among you, and that the love of God may be shed abroad in your hearts, by the Holy Ghost, is the sincere wish of him who subscribes himself. Tours, in all Christian services, Jonas Mekiam." March, 1758. " Chose Joseph Ward, Abraham Fuller, John Clark, Josiah Greenwood, and Thomas Clark, a committee for the ordination of Mr. Meriam, and appro- priated £13, 6s. 8d., to defray the expenses of the ordi- nation. A committee of fifteen was chosen to seat the Meeting-house, according to rates and age, but not to degrade any. Voted, to have one tier of pews erected in the hind seats, and in the body seats, both on the men's side and on the women's side." March 22, 1758. Jonas Meriam was ordained as the successor of the Rev. Mr. Cotton, he being the fourth and last Minister settled by the whole town. 136 EARLY HISTORY OF NEWTON. 1763. Joseph Bartlett presented a certificate of his having joined the Baptist Church in Leicester. 1764. "Voted, that trees be set out to shade the Meet- ing-house, if any persons wUl be so generously minded to do it." 1767. Jonathan "Williams and others, requested that a sum of money be granted to support preaching in the Meet- ing-house, in the westerly part of the town, during the "Winter season. Not granted. March 18, 1770. Rev. Mr. Meriam's dwelling house was burnt, and the Church records were also burnt. His people afforded him liberal aid in rebuilding, and his house was raised again, in June, 1770. Mr. Meriam commenced new Church records same year ; and Deacon Stone, Stowell, Miller, Capt. "Wood- ward, Joshua Murdock, John Rogers, Joseph Jackson, Capt. Hammond, Joseph "Ward, Joshua Hammond and Josiah Fuller, be a committee to inquire and report who were Church members, to be put on record. This committee reported as perfect a list as they were able, in 1773, and Mr. Meriam entered upon the new Church records the names of the Church members, to the number of two hun- dred and seven ; also, the number of children baptised, as given in by the parents and others, to the number of eight hundred and sixty-four. November, 1770. A committee was chosen to consider a petition, requesting the introduction of Tate and Brady's version of the Psalms, with the Hymns thereto annexed. They submitted a report in favor of their introduction, which was adopted. " Voted, that a medium be observed between old and new tunes. If any uneasiness arise with regard to that medium, that will be hereafter considered ; for the present, the chorister is to be the judge." FOURTH MINISTEE, JONAS MERIAIT. 137 1773. A committee was chosen to examine the Church stocks. * 1778. The Town was divided into two Parishes, east and west. The Act of the General Court, to establish the West Parish, was passed in October, 1778, " beginning at the bank of Charles river, at the south-east corner of a farm possessed by Samuel Woodward, thence by a direct line to the south-east part of land improved by Daniel Fuller, and to continue the same straight course to Water- town line. " The inhabitants on either side of the line, may choose to belong to either Parish, provided they make their elec- tion, and give in their names to the office of the Secretary of State, within six months after the passage of this Act." December 14, 1778. First Parish meeting of the first precinct in Newton ; Abraham Fuller, Esq., Moderator, — Captain John Woodward was chosen Clerk and Treasurer, and held those offices, by annual choice, until March, 1795, when his son Ebenezer succeeded him in those offices. Dr. John King, Aaron Richardson, John Stone, Col. Benj. Hammond, and John Woodward, Standing Committee. John Woodward, Alexander Shepard, and Deacon David Stone, Assessors. William Hammond, Collector of Taxes. "Voted, a tax of £160 for Mr. Meriam's salary, and £100 to support the Gospel, and other necessary charges." * Some of oar readers may mistake the duty of this committee. The Cliurch OTvned no stocks,— neither fancy nor foothall,— such as modem brokers hawk about State St. Those Church stocks did not rise or fall, but were stationary. They rested upon the solid earth, about ten rods from the Church, and were made of two pieces of white oak timber, about eight feet long, clamped together with bar iron, at each end, through which holes were made of various sizes, to fit human legs, for misbe- havior during what was called "divine service." At least disorderly persons were liable to have their legs made fast between that oak and iron, by way of punish- ment. We have often eyed that remnant of the inquisition, when a boy, with a shudder. Those Church stocks, like all human contrivances, often needed repairs, and that, no doubt, was the duty of the committee. 12* 138 EAKLT HISTORY OP NEWTON., 1779. "Voted, that six pews be built, and seats be removed for that purpose." These new pews were leased at vendue, annually, at every March meeting ; the rent to be paid in Indian Corn, not less than half a peck of corn to constitute a bid. The first year they brought twenty-two bushels altogether. At the next and every succeeding March meeting, down to 1797, the Corn was sold at vendue, in lots to suit purchasers, at the following prices : In 1780, it sold from thirty-one and a half to thirty-three dollars per bushel ; and in 1781, for sixty-two dollars per bushel, depreciated currency. In 1782, it sold for-4s. 6d. to 4s. 8d. 1783, (I 6s. 6d. « 7s. 3d. 1784, (1 3s. « 3s. 3d. 1785, a 3s. 3d. " 3s. &d. 1786, 11 is. M. " As. 8d. 1787, (( 3s. M. « 3s. 5d. 1788, u 3s. M. " 3s. dd. 1789,^ u 3s. Id. " 3s. Ud. 1790, K 3s. « 3s. 2d. 1792, U 2s. Id. " 2s. 9d. 1793, it As. " As. 6d. 1794, U Is. 1795, U 4s. 2d. « 4s. Ad. 1796, (I $1.03 " $1.14. 1797. The corn currency was discontinued, and dollars and cents substituted. August 13, 1780. Rev. Jonas Meriam died, aged fifty, having preached in Newton twenty-two years, four months, and twenty-two days. The last year of Mr. Meriam's life, he was unable to preach much. During this time, and that between his death and Mr. Homer's settlement, the pulpit was supplied with various preachers, viz. : Ebenezer Chap- lain, B. Bentley, David Daniels, John Prince, Gannett, FIFTH MINISTER, JONATHAN HOMER. 139 Richard R. Eliot, Edw. Sprague, Guild, Mellen, "Waters, Jacob Coggin, Aaron Smith, Parsons, Moses Damon, Dr. Langdon, Eliphalet Porter, Jonathan Homer, William Greenough, and others. October 8, 1781. Meeting for the choice of a Gospel Minister ; Jonathan Homer had sixty-eight votes, and was chosen ; eight others signified that they were not ready to vote. Two hundred pounds was voted, to encourage Mr. Homer to settle in the ministry ; voted one hundred pounds for his yearly salary, and sixteen cords of wood, annually ; and a committee was chosen to confer with him about salary. His reply : — '^Newton, January 4, 1782. " To the Church of Christ, and Society of the East Parish in Newton : " Brethren beloved, we all stand related to an unalterable eternity ; and the grand end of our existence on earth, is to prepare for it. " We, who enjoy the light of revelation, are favored with distinguishing means for the advancement of our immortal welfare. The great Head of the Church has not only given us the written Word, but has provided Ministers to explain and enforce it ; to proclaim the terrors of the law against the ungodly, and the grace, the surprising grace of His gospel to the chief of sinners. " Impressed, I trust, with the sense of the importance of the means of grace, you have seen fit, in God's holy provi- dence, to choose me as your Pastor, to watch over your souls, to feed, as far and as long as Heaven may enable me, the sheep and the lambs pertaining to this flock of the Divine Shepherd. "I have long and deeply weighed in my own breast the invitation you have given me. I have repeatedly laid my 140 EARLY HISTOKT OF NEWTON. case, and that of this people, at the throne of grace, for direction. I have attentively considered the apparent lan- guage of Providence, and have felt a constant desire to act, as this should finally dictate. I have asked the advice of the reverend fathers and brethren in the ministry, and appealed to the judgment of the serious and judicious, among the private christians of my acquaintance ; at length, I feel myself bound to accept of the invitation of taking the pastoral charge of this Church. " Your peculiar unanimity in electing me, the great cor- diality of sentiment in doctrine and discipline between us, the diligent and solepin attention of this people to the pub- lic services of religion, especially of the youth, in which I have seldom, if ever, found them equalled elsewhere, and who (on account of the temptations to reject seriousness of thought and conduct, peculiarly incident to their age of life) might not so naturally be expected to manifest a regard for eternity, are circumstances of my call which I cannot resist, and would prefer to every other possible consideration. I only wish an increase of ministerial qualifications, that may render me a blessing to this people, and capacitate me to discharge the important duties of my office, to the honor of religion. " I accept your offer for my temporal support, as volun- tarily made by the worthy freeholders and other inhabitants of the first precinct in Newton, and hope that Heaven will excite and enable you and me, uniformly and faithfully, to fulfil 6ur various mutual duties. " I desire the prayers of God's people, that I may have grace given me, to prove a burning and shining light in this branch of the golden candlestick, and that I may have many, as the seals of my ministry, and crown of rejoicing, in the day of my Lord and Master's appearance. To His benediction, I commend this Church and people, resting assured that if we are interested in Him, as our almighty FIFTH MINISTER, JOKATHAK HOMER. 141 friend, you will be happy, and I shall be successful in my ministry. May the great Head of the Church keep us humbly dependent on himself for a blessing, consequent upon the solemn relation of a Pastor and his flock, and may death only perfect and consummate our union to the Lamb and each other, in the city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God. Commending you and myself to the favor of our divine and holy Sovereign, through the all sufficient merits of Jesus, his son, " I remain, dear brethren, your obliged Pastor elect, and well wisher of your souls, Jonathan Homer." A committee was chosen to confer with Mr. Homer, rel- ative to his solemn ordination, &c. Also, that the commit- tee inform him that there are a number dissatisfied with his principles, and desire him to visit them. February 13, 1782. Jonathan Homer was ordained as the Pastor of the East Church and congregation ; Kev. Mr. Eliot, of Watertown, and Eckley, of Boston, prayed ; the Rev. Joseph Jackson, of Brookline, preached the sermon ; Eev. Mr. Greenough presented the right hand of fellow- ship, and the Eev. Mr. Woodward, of Weston, gave the charge. July 14, 1783. " Mr. Homer began to read and expound the Holy Scriptures. * November, 1790. Tate and Brady's version of the Psalms was superseded by that of Dr. Watts. 1792. The Standing Committee were directed to settle the line between the south ministerial wood lot, and land of Dr. Aspinwall. March, 1793. The Baptist Society claimed a portion of * Murdoclt*3 MS. 142 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. the wood in the ministerial wood lots, which was debated, and the question was put : " Will this Parish grant them any part ? " Negatived. 1794. Mr. Homer was voted a settlement of two hun- dred pounds, at the time of the call, but he generously relinquished fifty pounds of the same, for which the Parish voted him thanks. 1796. "Voted, to have a stove to warm the Meeting- house." "Voted, that the Deacons have liberty to sit out of the Deacons' seat, if they choose." 1797. "Voted, that the Church funds, which amounted to thirty-five pounds, one shilling, seven pence, be put out at interest, to accumulate for the purposes of charity, or the promotion of the interests of religion, in any way the Church shall order." The West Parish petitioned the General Court, relative to the dividing line between the Parishes, which was mutually settled in 1799. March, 1800. A committee was appointed to consider the expediency of erecting a new Meeting-house. " Voted, to disannul the ancient mode of seating parish- ioners in the Meeting-house." This ancient custom of seating and reseating the wor- shippers in the New England Churches, was originally intended to be founded in equality. The first settlers meant that all should be equal before the law, and before the altar also. It was democratic in theory, but aristocratic in practice, as the rich men always got the best seats. In parishes where the population increased rapidly, the con- gregations were reseated annually ; where the increase was slow, this operation was performed about every third or fourth year. All the men and women, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, had seats assigned them by committees FIFTH MINISTER, JONATHAN HOMEH. 143 of influential persons, chosen by the Parish for that pur- pose. Our ancient Meeting-houses had long seats ; occa- sionally, special permission was given to noted persons, to build a pew at their own cost. Males were seated sepa- rately from females. The instructions to the seating com- mittees were, first, rank, or as they expressed it, dignity, — meaning the Ministers and Magistrates, or all in authority, — second, those who paid the largest Parish tax, — or the rich men, — third, the most aged persons, and, fourth, they were not to degrade any. Married women took the same rank that belonged to their husbands. The last item, " not to degrade any,'' was impossible, since some must occupy the lowest seats. The office of committee-man was no sinecure ; its exer- cise frequently brought upon him charges of partiality and injustice. This operation of reseating, was rarely if ever accom- plished, without giving oiFence to more or less of the con- gregation ; such, however, was the attachment to the ancient customs in the Churches, that it took about a century and a half, notwithstanding its bitter fruits, to discontinue it. June 6, 1803. Voted, to erect a new Meeting-house, and chose a committee to make plans and estimates. 1804. Authorized the building committee to borrow money. October, 1805. Voted, that the committee proportion the cost of the house upon the pews, at their discretion, and bid for choice, at auction. The old Church clock, formerly given by John Rogers, Senior, not being of modern style for the new Meeting- house, was given back to its original donor, with the thanks of the Society for its many years' use. November, 21. The new Meeting-house (being the fourth) was dedicated. The right of choice among the 144 EARLY HISTOKT OF NEWTON. pews, was set up at auction ; the highest bidder had the right to select, paying therefor the amount of appraisement, and the amount bid for choice. Sixty-five pews were sold, and the choice money amounted to four hundred and sixty dollars. The prime cost of the house was a little more than eight thousand and one hundred dollars. The sixty-five pews sold for about eight thousand dollars ; and the wood upon the ministerial wood lot was sold for one hundred dollai-s, towards paying for the new Meeting-house. CHURCH COVENANT. " Renewed publicly, by the brethren and sisters of the Church, standing, while the Covenant was read by the Pastor, and giving their assent at the close, by the motion of the body, being the same which was entered into by the brethren, and signed in their behalf by their late Pastor, Jonas Meriam, April 9th, 1770. " We do, under an absolute sense of our unworthiness of such a favor, and unfitness for such a business, yet appre- hending we have been called of Gpd to put ourselves, and to keep in a way of Church communion, and to seek the settlement and continuance of all the gospel institutions among us ; and knowing how prone we are to err, abjuring all confidence in ourselves, and relying on the Lord Jesus for help — COVENANT AS FOLLOWETH : " 1. Having perused, or heard, the Confession of Faith put forth by the synod of Churches, held in Boston, New Eng- land, 1680, we do heartily close in with it, for the substance of it, and promise to stand by, maintain, and (if need be) contend for the faith therein delivered to the people of God, FIFTH MINISTER, JONATHAN HOMEE. 145 and if any among us should go about to undermine it, we will bear a due testimony against them. " 2. We do also combine to walk together as a particular Church of Christ, according to all those holy rules of the Grospel prescribed to such a society, so far as God hath revealed, or shall reveal his mind to us, in this respect. " 3. AVe do, accordingly, recognize the covenant of grace, in which we do professedly acknowledge ourselves devoted to the fear and service of the only true God, our supreme Lord, and to the Lord Jesus Christ, the High Priest, Prophet, and King of His Church, unto the conduct of whose spirit we submit ourselves, and on whom alone we rely for pardon, grace, and glory ; to whom we bind our- selves in an everlasting Covenant, never to be broken. " 4. We likewise give up to ourselves, one unto another, in the Lord, resolving, by his help, to cleave to each other, as fellow members of one body, in brotherly love and holy watchfulness over one another, for mutual edification, and to submit ourselves to' all the holy administrations appointed by Him, who is the head of the Church, dispensed accord- ing to the rules of the Gospel, and to give our constant attendance on all the public ordinances of Christ's institu- tion, walking orderly as becometh saints. "5. We who sustain the parental relation, do also acknowledge our posterity to be included with us in the Covenant of the Gospel, and blessing God for such a favor, do promise to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, with the greatest care. " 6. We further promise, to be careful to the utmost, to procure the settlement and continuance among us, of all the offices and officers, appointed by Christ, the chief shepherd, for the edification of His Church, and accordingly to do our duty faithfully for their maintenance and encouragement, and to carry it towards them as becomes us. 13 146 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. " 7. Finally, we do acknowledge and promise to preserve communion with the faithful Churches of Christ, for the giving and receiving mutual counsel and assistance, in all cases wherein it shall be needful. "Now the good Lord be merciful to us, and as He hath put it into our hearts thus to devote ourselves to Him, let Him pity and pardon all our frailties, humble us out of all carnal confidence, and keep it evermore upon our hearts to be faithful to Himself, and to one another, for His praise and our eternal comfort, for Christ's sake, to whom be glory- forever. Amen." From the ordination of Mr. Homer, in February, 1782, to the ordination of his colleague, James Bates, in Novem- ber, 1827, a period of about forty-six years, about three hundred and twenty members were admitted to the Church. The number of children baptised by Mr. Homer, from his ordination, in February, 1782, to, and including the year 1800, a period of nineteen years, was about one hundred and sixty-seven, and two adults. James Bates (Colleague of Dr. Homer) was ordained November 14, 1827. He resigned April 7, 1839. Wm. Bushnell (Colleague of Dr. Homer) was ordained .in May, 1842, and resigned December 13, 1846. Dr. Homer died August 11, 1843, aged eighty-four, having preached in Newton sixty-one and a half years. Daniel L. Furber was ordained December 1, 1847. KBCAPITULATION. 1. John Eliot, Jr., ordained July 20, 1664; died Oct. 11, 1668 ; time, 4 years, 2 months, 21 days. • Death of Eliot to ordination of Hobart, 6 years, 2 months, 12 days. 2. Nehemiah Hobart, ordained December 23, 1774 ; died August 25, 1712 ; time, 37 years, 8 months, 2 days. DEACONS OF THE FIRST CHUUCH. 147 Death of Hobart to ordination of Cotton, 2 years, 2 months, 9 days. 3. John Cotton, ordained November 3, 1714; died May 17, 1757 ; time, 42 years, 6 months, 14 days. Death of Cotton to ordination of Meriam, 10 months, 5 days. 4. Jonas Meriam, ordained March 22, 1758 ; died August 13, 1780; time, 22 years, 4 months, 22 days. Death of Meriam to ordination of Homer, 1 year, 6 months. 5. Jonathan Homer, ordained February 13, 1782; died August 11, 1843 ; time, 61 years, 5 months, 29 days. 6. James Bates, (Colleague,) ordained November 14, 1827; resigned April 7, 1839 ; time, 11 years, 4 months, 24 days. 7. William Bushnell, ordained May, 1842 ; resigned Dec. 13, 1846 ; time, 4 years, 7 months. 8. Daniel L. Furber, ordained December 1, 1847. DEACONS OF THE FIRST CHURCH. Thomas "Wiswall, Ruling Elder, John Jackson, Senior, Samuel Hyde, Senior, Isaac Williams, James Trowbridge, Edward Jackson, Junior, Thomas Oliver, Richard Ward, John Staples, William Trowbridge, Ebenezer Stone, John Stone, 3n Chosen. Died. Age. 1664 1683 1664 1674 1664 1689 79 1707 69 1717 81 1707 1727 75 1707 1715 70 , 1739 73 1740 82 1744 60 1754 92 1769 76 148 EAKLT HISTOET OF NEWTON. Name. Died. Age. John Clark, 1773 Ephraim Ward, 1772 69 Thomas Greenwood, 1774 78 John Woodward, 1801 76 David Stone, 1802 74 Jonas Stone, 1804 82 Ebenezer Woodward, 1806 49 Samuel Murdock, 1814 62 Jeremiah Wiswall, 1836 76 Ebenezer White, 1853 87 Elijah F. Woodward, 1846 60 William Jackson. Luther Paul. Asa Cook. EAELY BAPTISTS. Jonathan Willard, the pioneer of the Baptists in Newton, joined a Baptist Church in Boston, in 1729, and his daugh- ter Esther soon after joined the same Church. 1749. Noah Parker joined a Baptist Church in Bos- ton, and his wife Sarah, and daughter Esther, became mem- bers of the same Church soon after. Willard was one of the earliest settlers of the Lower Falls, and was for many •years the principal man connected with the iron works and the water-power, in that place ; and Parker was the owner of the mills and water-power, at the Upper Falls. These two substantial men petitioned the Town, in 1749, to be released from paying ministerial taxes in Newton, on the ground that they had become members of the Baptist Church in Boston, and paid for the support of the Gospel there. Their request was refused. 1753. John Hammond, Noah Wiswall, and Thomas FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 149 Parker, became members of the Baptist Church in Leices- ter, in 1753, and David Richardson soon after ; they also made a like request of the Town, and were refused. 1756. John Hammond and others, Baptists, petitioned the Town again, to be excused from paying ministerial taxes in Newton. After discussion, the Town voted — no. 1763. Joseph Bartlett made a like request, and received the same answer. August, 1774. John Dana, John Kenrick, Caleb Whit- ney, Thomas Parker, Ebenezer Bartlett, Joseph Hyde, Nathaniel Parker, Thomas Tollman, widow Abigail Rich- ardson, and Elisha Bartlett, produced to the Town their certificate stating " that they were chosen a committee, by the Society of the people called Anti-pedo Baptists, who meet together for religious worship on the Lord's day, in Newton, and they do verily believe are, with respect to the ordinances of baptism, of the same religious sentiments with us," and asked to be excused from paying ministerial taxes in Newton. Their request was refused. 1776. James Richards and Edward Hall made a like request, which was granted ! Toleration, which always travels by a very slow coach, came at last, hurried along somewhat, it may have been, by the fears or the policy of those who had so long and often rejected it. Elhanan Winchester, an eloquent and impressive Baptist preacher, who was born in Brookline, very near the bounds of Newton, often preached in the vicinity of his native place, and in the Spring of 1780, he visited and preached in Newton, and baptised many. His converts increased and became numerous, and were advised to organize them- selves into a Church. On the 6th of June a meeting of his converts and others, was held at the house of Elisha Fuller, to know each other's minds, relative to forming a new Baptist Church. Elder Blood, of Weston, was chosen 13* 150 EAELT HISTOKT OP NEWTON. Moderator, and Thomas Hastings, (of Angler's Corner,) Clerk. Voted, the following articles to be necessary to regulate our walk in Church state, agreeable to the word of God. " 1. We believe that the Church of Jesus Christ, under the Gospel, is to be made up only of persons who are true believers in Christ, and that the design of God, in having a Church in the world, is to show forth His declarative glory, in maintaining His doctrine of worship for the gathering in of His elect, and the mutual edification and comfort of His people. " 2. We believe the manner in which God's people ought to come together in Church state, is, by giving each other a verbal declaration of the work of God's grace upon their hearts, and the same to be required of alj who may here- after join them. " 3, We believe that there are no officers to be ordained in the Church, but Bishops and Deacons ; and their char- acters to be as expressed in Timothy, third chapter, from the first to the eighth verse. " 4. We believe that the work of a Bishop is to attend to reading and studying the Scriptures, and to preach the Word, and to administer the ordinances of the Gospel, and to stand a leader and overseer in the Church. " 5. We believe that the work of a Deacon is to serve tables, in all things that are necessary in the Church. " 6. We believe that it is the Church's duty to support their Minister, so that he may devote himself to the work which he is called, and to submit to him as a leader. " 7. We believe that the manner w« ought to support our Minister is, by a freewill offering, and in case of need, by an equality ; and in like manner to support all other necessary charges in the Church. . " 8. We believe that there are gifts of exhortation to be riEST BAPTIST CHUKCH. 151 improved in the Church, while by no means we would ex- clude the right of any brother's speaking, by way of spe- ciality. " 9. We believe that all the gifts of the Church ought to be in subjugation to each other. " 10. We believe that the Churches are independent of each other, as to the power of action, and therefore have power to elect and ordain their own officers. "11. AVe believe that a woman hath no right to act, either in teaching or governing in the Church, while we would by no means exclude them the right of unbosoming themselves to the Church, either in case of grief or joy. " 12. We believe the Church has a right to call her own members to an account, for not attending public wor- ship, sacraments, and Church meetings. " 13. We believe that in case of a brother or sister's absence from the public worship and sacraments, it is the Minister's duty to visit them, and inquire into the reason of it. " 14. We believe that a brother or sister hath no right to be absent from the sacraments, but only in case they themselves, or the Church, are transgressors of the Divine rules. ■ " 15. We believe that a private offence is to be brought into the Church, according to the rule in Matthew, eighteenth chapter, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth verses ; and a public offence to be taken hold of by the Church, as a body. "16. We believe that no case of difficulty may be con- sidered as public, but^only such as the major part of the Church have knowledge of, without tattling. " 17. We believe that the Church ought to keep all her meetings for settling difficulties as secret from the world as possible, consistent with evidence. 152 EARLY HISTORY OF NEWTON. " 18. We believe that no brother or sister hath a right to go to law with each other, while they remain together in Church state. "19. We believe that no brother or sister ought to make any matter of difficulty with each other, either to their practice or principles, except it be contrary to the word of God. " 20. We believe the Church ought to support their own poor. "21. We believe that any person holding, or not holding, the doctrine of laying on of hands upon private persons, ' ought not to be held as a bar of communion." July 5th, 1780. A number of persons who have been baptised, on profession of faith, having requested several Churches to be present, met at the house of Noah Wiswall. Rev. Mr. Alden was chosen Moderator, and Rev. Mr. Gair Clerk. Messrs. Alden, Gair and Blood, approved of the steps already taken, advised them to embody themselves into a Church, on this occasion. Mr. Alden preached the sermon ; Mr. Gair prayed, and read a summary Confession of Faith, used by Mr. Brown's Church, at Boston, to which the following thirty-nine per- sons assented, in the presence of a numerous congregation ; and the whole services were concluded by an exhortation from Mr. Blood. Thirty-four others were added during the year 1780. Dea. Elhanan Winchester, John Dana, father of the Preacher, Thomas, Hastings, son of Aaron Winchester, son of Samuel, Sen., the Deacon, John Shepai-d, Daniel Winchester, ditto, William Cheney, Jr., FIRST BAPTIST MINISTER, CALEB BLOOD. 153 Henry "Winchester, son of Gulliver, Edward Hall, Jr., Aaron Hall, Nathan Dana, Aaron Dana, Esther Hall, Elizabeth Hastings, wife of Thomas, Olive Beal, Anna Blincowe, Beulah Winchester, Elizabeth M. Winchester, daughter of Dea. Elhanan, Sarah Winchester, ditto, Abigail Wilson, Esther Richardson, Susanna Parker, Lucy Seager, Anna Pond, Abigail Dana, Hannah Hall, Hepsibah JefFerd, Hannah Morse, Dorothy Richards, Deliverance Wiswall, Polly Cheney, Lydia Cheney, Abigail Prout, Sarah Goodspeed, Joseph Hyde, Gersham Hyde, Elizabeth Whitney, Noah Wiswall, William Cheney, David Bartlett, Edward Hall, Abigail Meriam, Sarah Bartlett, Hannah Fuller, Mercy Barton, Lydia Cheney, Silence Davenport, Lucy Shepard, Elizabeth Cheney, Lucy Richardson, Elizabeth Pond, Thomas Griggs, Benjamin Park, Mary Hall, Margaret Griggs, Lydia Winchester, daughter of Deacon Elhanan, Lois Winchester, ditto, Dorcas Richardson, Thomas Parker, Thomas Tollman, Eunice Parks, Elener Dana, Rebecca Hammond, Anna Kenrick, Mehitable Wilson, Elizabeth Beal, Esther Fuller, Anna Ward, Samuel Sampson, 154: EAKLY HISTORY OP NEWTON. Elizabeth Richards, Margaret Hyde, Hannah Gosson, Sarah Jackson. Seventy-three, in 1780. July 15, 1780. "Voted, to give Elder Blood a call, to take charge of this Church for one year." " Voted, to join the Warren Association, and send dele- gates." Elhanan Winchester and John Shepard were chosen. September 21. " Voted, that Elhanan Winchester be a leader in this meeting, and John Dana be a leader in the Church, until Christ shall raise up one to take his place, — to have a collection weekly, and John Shepard and Thomas Hastings take charge of the same, — to give Noah Wiswall forty pounds, quarterly, for the use of his house, — that Abigail Prout be provided for, at the expense of the Church." Elhanan Winchester, David Bartlett, and John Shep- ard were appointed delegates to meet the Warren Associa- tion at Athol, August, 1780. " They stated to the Associa- tion that the number of their Church members was seventy, that they were destitute of a Pastor, and requested to have a supply of preaching the ensuing year." December. Samuel Sampson chosen Clerk, in lieu of Thomas Hastings. John Shepard chosen Deacon. January, 1781. "Voted, to request the brethren at Weston to consent that Elder Blood preach with us a part of the time next Spring." March. " Voted, that the Church assemble themselves in Communion of the Lord's Supper, once in every six weeks." April 20. " Voted, that Elder Blood be Moderator of this, and all other meetings that may be held, while he remains a Teacher among us." John Shepard chosen Treasurer, and David Bartlett, Assistant Treasurer. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 155 1783. Elder Blood and Edward Hall, Jr., were chosen to represent this Church, at the Warren Association. January, 1788. Elder Blood was dismissed at his own request, after having performed the duties of Pastor from January, 1781, to January, 1788. During his ministry, nineteen members were voted in, and fifteen were voted out of the Church ; many of the latter were among the first, most respectable, and zealous founders of the Church. This severe shock to the infant Church, in the early part of Mr. Blood's ministry, was not owing to any unfaithful- ness on his part, but from the fact of the conversion of the Eev. Elhanan Winchester, the celebrated preacher, from the doctrines held by the Baptists, to that of universal res- toration. It was mainly by Winchester's zealous and cap- tivating preaching, that this first Baptist Church was formed, and, by his hands, nearly all its first members had received the ordinance of baptism, and he was called the father of this Church. His father. Deacon Elhanan Winchester, a pillar of this Church, from the first, with his wife, two sons, and four daughters, embraced the new doctrine of Elhanan, the Preacher; so, also, did Thomas Hastings and Samuel Sampson, the two first Clerks of the Church, and others, for which they were denied the Communion, and cast out ; some in 1782-3-4 and 1785. The following edict of the Church, to Aaron Winchester, son of the Deacon, and half-brother to Elhanan, the Preacher, will show the manner in which the Church proceeded. " July 3, 1785. " The Church of Christ, in Newton, to Aaron Winchester : " Dear Brother, — Whereas, you have embraced the doc- trine of the eternal salvation of all men, and also, forsaken .the worship and communion of the Church, contrary to 156 EAKLT HISTOET OF NEWTON. your covenant obligations, and the Church having had labor with you on the subject, and found you to appear in the character of a heretic, and a covenant breaker, and accord- ingly administered an admonition to you, according to Titus, third, tenth, and having waited from September 12, 1784, to this date, and seeing no fruits of repentance in you, we view ourselves bound by the Gospel rules, to administer a second admonition to you, which we think is done in this second letter. " We entreat you to consider of the error of your ways, that you may bring forth fruits of repentance, before God and man. That God would bless this admonition for that purpose, is the earnest prayer of your brethren in grief. In behalf of the Church, Caleb Blood, Glerlc." May 6, 1788. The Church and Society both joined unanimously, to give Joseph Grafton a call. Chose Elder Grafton, Robert Prentice, Abijah Stone and Nathan Dana, delegates to the Association to be held at Sturbi-idge, and the following letter was sent to the Association : " The Baptist Church of Christ, in Newton, holding the doctrines of grace in general, and the following in particu- lar : — Divine sovereignty, particular election, total deprav- ity, efficacious grace in regeneration, justification by the righteousness of Christ, saints' final perseverance, and the eternity of punishment in hell. " To the "Warren Association, to be held at Sturbridge, in September, 1788 : Sendeth Christian Salutation, &c. * * * * SECOND BAPTIST MINISTER, JOSEPH GRAFTON. 157 "Joseph Grafton, a member of our sister Church, a;t Providence, preached seventeen Lord's -days, to the satis- faction of the Church, was, on the 18th June, 1788, or- dained without the noise of axe or hammer." Elders and delegates from the Churches of Middleborough, Boston, Providence, Cambridge, and Medfield. Elder Bachus, -Mod- erator ; Samuel Stillman, Clerk. John Stanford, of Provi- dence, preached the sermon ; Elder Bachus gave the charge, and made the ordaining prayer; Dr. Stillman gave the right hand of fellowship ; Mr. Gair, of Medfield, introduced the solemnity, and Mr. Greene made the concluding prayer. The society passed a vote to build a Meeting-house, in January, 1781, on land given to the society by Noah Wis- wall, adjoining the pond, which bears the name of his great grandfather. Elder Wiswall. The house (thirty-two feet by forty) was a long time in building, and was not fully completed until April, 1795. It was enlarged in 1802, by adding seventeen feet to the west side. The second Meeting-house was erected at the training field, about sixty rods from the pond ; finished in 1836, and had seventy-six pews on the lower floor. The society was incorporated by an Act of the General Court, February 12th, 1821. January, 1835. At the request of the brethren and sisters, at and near the tipper Falls, fifty-five members of the Church (seventeen males and thirty-eight females) were dismissed, with christian affection, to form a new Church at the Upper Falls. December 16, 1836. Mr. Grafton died, aged seventy- nine, having been Pastor of the first Baptist Church, iri Newton, forty-eight and a half years. The whole number of members admitted to the Church, during his ministry,i was about five hundred. Frederic A. Willard was installed as" Colleagtie of Mr. 14 158 EARLY HlSTOnr OF NEWTON. Grafton, November 25th, 1835. He resigned his place, July 10th,. 1838. The number of members admitted to the Church, during his ministry, was thirteen. Professor Ripley, of Newton Theological Institution, was requested to act as Pastor temporarily, and accepted. January, 1842. Rev. S. F. Smith commenced his labors with the Church. He has published the life of Rev. Mr. Grafton, with historical facts relating to the Church and society. KECAPITDLATION. 1. Caleb Blood, April, 1781 to January 24,. 1788, 6 years and 9 months. 2. Joseph Grafton, June 18, 1788 to December 16, 1836, 48 years, 5 months, 28' days. 3. F. Augustus Willard, November 25, 1835 to July 29, 1838, 2 years, 8 months, 4 days. 4. S. F. Smith, January 1, 1842, to the present time. WEST PARISH SOCIETY. Previous to 1764, the inhabitants of the westerly part of the town began ta take measures to obtain occasional preaching in their neighborhood, and more especially in the "Winter season. To that end meetings were held, and a committee was chosen, called "the building committee," consisting of Thomas Miller, innholder, Jonathan "Williams, yeoman, and Samuel Hastings, tanner, who were instructed to solicit contributions, and commence the erection of a Meeting-house, as soon as sufficient encouragement was given. July, 1764. "Phineas Bond, of Newton, innholder, in consideration of £2, 8s., conveyed to the building com- ■WEST PARISH SOCIETT. 159 mittee, their heirs and assigns, forever, about eight rods of land, upon which to erect a Meeting-house or houses ; bounding upon the County road, and land of Isaac Wil- liams, and his own land." This Deed was not acknowledged until March, 1780. The erection of a Meeting-house was commenced in. 1764. 1767. Jonathan "Williams and others, in the westerly part of the town, requested of the Town that a reasonable sum of money should be granted for the support of preach- ing in their new Meeting-house. Their request was refused by the Town. They petitioned the Town again, in 1770, ■"72, '73 and '74. In 1773 they petitioned the General Court for a grant of money from the Town treasury, for four months' preaching. In 1778 they petitioned the Gen- eral Court to be set off as an independent Parish, which was granted ; and their Act of Incorporation was passed in October, 1778 ; their dividing line being described in the Act, with liberty to the inhabitants on either side of the line, to belong to whichever parish they chose, provided they made their election within six months after the passing of the Act. November, 1778. The first meeting was held to organize under the Act. Jonathan Brown, Esq., was chosen Moder- ator, and Alexander Shepard, Jr., Clerk ; Joseph Jackson, Treasurer; Alexander Shepard, Jr., Samuel Woodward, and Nathan Park, Assessors; Phineas Bond, Jonathan Williams, Dr. Benjamin Parker, Nathaniel Greenough, and Alexander Shepard, Jr., Standing Committee ; Colonel Nathan Fuller, Collector, and Joshua Jackson, Jr., Sexton. 1779. The proprietors of the Meeting-house chose Alexander Shepard, Jr., Joseph Hyde, and Phineas Bond, to give a title to the pews of the Meeting-house. 160 EARLY HISTOET OF NEWTON. The first book, wherein to record the doings of tie Parish, was the gift of William Hoogs. The Chureh was organized in 1781. The following per- sons were dismissed from the first Charch, in Newton, and became the first members-of the West Parish Church s Joseph Ward, Josiah Fuller, Joseph Jackson, Jonathan Fuller, Samuel Jackson, Jonathan Williams, Joshua Jackson, Samuel Woodward, Alexander Shepard, Abigail Fuller, Josiah Fuller, Jr., Mary Fuller, Joseph Adams, Jr., EUzabeth Fuller, Jos. Adams, Sen., was received from Brookline Church, Deborah Woodwg.rd, Experience Ward, Lydia Upham, Lydia Knapp, Lois Jackson, Mercy Adams, Ruth Durell, Elizabeth Shepard, Abigail Jackson, Tabitha Miller. Samuel Craft, These twenty-six were the first members of the West Church, which was formed by the Rev. Joseph Jackson, of Brookline, October 21, 1781, who preached a sermon on the occasion. The Covenant was read, the members declared their assent, and voted themselves a Congrega- tional Church, according to the Cambridge platform, and declared their assent to the great or leading doctrines of th^ general assembly's shorter Catechism. " Voted, in order to entitle any person to either of the ordinances of the Christian Scriptures, namely: Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, he shall make a public confession of religion, and dedication of himself to God ; and that every person so doing, shall be entitled to both ordinances, SECOND MINISTER, LYMAN GILBERT. 161 and may come to them without making any other profession of his faith and belief." " Voted, that all Church members be admitted by the major part of the votes. Before any person is admitted, his designs shall be made known in public, by the Pastor, two weeks before admission." November 8, 1781. William Greenough, having been chosen by a unanimous vote, was ordained Pastor of the first Church in the West Parish of Newton. John Lathrop, of the second Church in Boston, preached the sermon ; Mr. Gushing, of Waltham, gave the charge, and Mr. Jackson, of Brookline, the right hand of fellowship. " Voted, that a portion of the Scriptures be read in public, on each Lord's day." " Voted, that brothers Ward, Shepard, and the Pastor, be a committee to form a covenant." The second Church in Boston gave a Bible to the West Church in Newton. Thomas Grreenough, of Boston, (father of the Pastor elect,) presented a Christening Bason, two flagons, and two dishes for the communion service. December. Joseph Ward and Joseph Jackson chosen Deacons. The first Church gave four pewter tankards, and one pewter dish. Petitioned the first Church for a portion of the ministe- rial wood lot, in the West Parish. 1809. Jane Pigeon, by Will, made a bequest to the Church, of thirty dollars. 1793. " Voted, that every person who shall stand pro- pounded the usual time, shall be considered a member of the Church, by assenting to the covenant, if there be no objection. If there be objection, a vote must be taken." 1827. Asahel Bigelow was chosen Colleague Pastor, with Mr. Greenough, but declined the call. 1828. Lyman Gilbert, from Middlebury, Vermont, was 14* 162 EARLY HISTORY OF NEWTON. chosen Colleague Pastor, with Mr. Greenough, and ac- cepted. November 10, 1831. Rev. Mr. Greenough died, aged seventy-five, having been Pastor of the first Church in the "West Parish fifty years. During his ministry, one hundred and two members were admitted to the Church. DEACONS OF THE WEST* PARISH CHURCfl. Names. When Chosen. Died. Age. Joseph Ward, 1781 1784 79 Joseph Jackson, 1781 1803 74 Enoch Ward, 1789 1789 38 Joseph Fuller, 1793 1813 62 Thomas Eustis, 1800 1807 75 Joseph Adams, . 1806 1813 62 Benjamin Fuller, 1818 Joel Fuller, 1818 1848 62 0. F. Woodford, 1853 J. W. Stone, 1853 ST. MART'S CHURCH. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL, LOWER FALLS. April 7, 1812. A meeting of the inhabitants of Newton and adjacent towns, desirous of forming themselves into a society of Protestant Episcopalians, was held in the School House at the Lower Falls, apd organized themselves into a Parish. Solomon Curti? and Thomas Durant were chosen Ward- ens, with such other officers as were usual in Episcopalian Churches. A comniodiQUS Hall was secured in the building, at the west corner of Maine and Church streets, at the EPISCOPAL CHUECH, LOWKE FALLS. 163; Lower Falls, where sermons were read, by several candi- dates for Holy orders ; and the sacraments were successively administered by the Rev. Asa Eaton and J. S. J. Gardner, of Boston, and Bishop Griswold. In April, 1813, Rev. Asa Eaton, of Boston, was called to the Rectorship of this Church, and the General Court granted them an Act of Incorporation, June, 1813. Samuel Brown, Esq., merchant, of Boston, presented to the society two acres of land, for a Church and Cemetery ; and Solomon Curtis, Thomas Durant, Isaac Hager and Nathaniel Wales, were appointed a building committee. September 29, 1813, the corner stone of the Temple was laid. April 29, 1814. The Temple being completed, was con- secrated by the Right Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, D. D., who preached a sermon on the occasion ; and two adults, eight children, and ten persons, received the Apostolic rite of confirmation." Public worship was conducted in the new Church, by candidates for Holy orders, who were principally graduates at the Cambridge University. 1817 to 1820, inclusive. Rev. Addison Searle and Cheever Felch, Chaplains in United States Navy, and Rev. George S. White, Missionary, mainly supplied the pulpit. In the Spring of 1821, the Rev. Samuel B. Shaw, of St. Luke's Church, Lanesboro', officiated several months. During the first ten years of the Parish, there were one hundred and twenty-nine baptisms; twenty-three, per- sons confirmed ; six marriages, and twelve funerals. 1822. Alfred L. Baury officiated for several successive weeks, and William Hurd and Amos Lyon, Jr., Wardens, with Allen C. Curtis, John Nichols and Benjamin Neale, were chosen a committee to confer with Mr. Baury, on the subject of assuming the Rectorship. 164 EAELT HISTOET OP NEWTON. July 8, 1822. Mr. Baury was elected to the Rectorship, and November 28, Bishop Griswold admitted Mr. Baury to the Holy Order of the Priesthood, and preached a sermon on the occasion. The Rev. Dr. Jarvis, of Boston, presented the candidate. The Rev. Mr. Boyle, of Dedham, and Rev. Mr. Otis, of Cambridge, united with the Bishop, in the imposition of hands. October 8, 1823. The ofl&ce of induction was performed. The Rev. Dr. Jarvis, by appointment of the Bishop, acted as Institutor, and Dr. Gardiner preached a sermon on the occasion. The Rev. Mr. Boyle, of Dedham, and the Rev. Mr. Cutler, of Quincy, were present, and assisted. 1838. The Temple was enlarged, by adding sixteen feet to its length, making it seventy feet long by forty-five wide, (exclusive of the tower,) and the basement story was con- verted into a lecture room. 1847. Since the commencement of Mr. Baury's services, in 1822, baptism has been administered to three hundred and sixty-two persons ; one hundred and eighty-eight have been confirmed ; two hundred and thirty-three have been admitted to the communion ; eighty-two couples have been married, and two hundred and fifty persons buried. The number of families under his pastoral charge, exceeds one hundred. The foregoing statements, relative to St. Mary's Church, were extracted from Mr. Baury's sermon, preached in 1847, and printed by J. B. Dow. Rev. Mr. Baury has since been dismissed, and Rev. Andrew Croswell has been settled in his stead. XTNITAKIAN AND METHODIST SOCIETIES. 165 UNITARIAN SOCIETY, UPPER FALLS. "Their Meeting-house was commenced in the Fall of 1827, finished and dedicated February 27, 1828 ; sermon preached by the Rev. William Ritchie, of Needham. "The land upon which the Meeting-house stands, was given by the Elliot Manufacturing Company. The house contains forty-eight pews, and cost about three thousand three hundred dollars ; of this amount the Elliot Manufac- turing Company paid three fifths, and Rufiis Ellis, Esq. paid two fifths. " The society was incorporated by the Legislature, by the name of the " Upper Falls Religious Society," on the petition of Newell Ellis, Otis Pettee, M. P. Sturtevant, David Bushee, J. Sherman, Moses Craft, Elisha Wiswall, Matthias ColKns, Joseph Barney, "Walter McFarland, Caleb Haskell, "Whipple Freeman, Elijah Story, Joseph Daven- port, Benjamin Davenport, Jr., Orrin Calbin, Frederick Cabot, Rufus Ellis, and others. " The pulpit was supplied about five years,, mainly by preachers of the Unitarian persuasion, — by thte Rev. Daniel Kimball, of Needham, Rev. Mr. "Walcott, of Nantucket, Rev. George "Whitney, of Quincy, and Rev. Andrew Bigelow." * 1832. The Meeting-house was sold to Marshall S. Rice, Esq., of the Methodist denomination, and has since been owned and occupied by the FIRST METHODIST SOCIETY IN NE"WTON. " The first class of Methodists was formed in 1826, but in consequence of removals, was dissolved. In April, 1828, • Bufus Ellis, Esq. 166 EARLY HISTORY OF NEWTON. another class was formed, at the Upper Falls, consisting of seventeen members, namely : Brother Marshall S. Rice, Leader, Mary Rice, Mary Boynton, Sarah Livermore, Sarah Willis, Eliza Eager, Rebecca Garfield, Dorcas Smith, Jeremiah Trull, Mary A. Morse, Susan Taverner, Mary Childs, Sarah Brackett, Ann Winslow, Nathan Rice, Mary Fogg, Gardner Rice. The Church was organized November 11, 1832, consist- ing of fifty-three members. The following Preachers have been stationed annually, according to that order. Rev. Charles K. True, July, 1832, " John Parker, Rev. Joseph Dennison, " Nathan B. Spaulding, « Z. A. Mudge, " Charles S. Macreading, " Jacob Sanborn, " Edward Otheman, " M. P. Webster, « Newell S. Spaulding, " Chester Field, " James Mudge, " Putnam, " Joseph A. Merrill, « D. K. Banister, (to April, 1854)." * BAPTIST SOCIETY, UPPER FALLS. In 1832, eleven persons, mostly from the first Baptist Church, associated together and built a Meeting-house. The property was divided into twenty shares. Jonathan * M. S. Eice, Esq. BAPTIST CHURCH, UPPER FALLS. 167 Bixby owned seven shares; Jesse Winslow, Isaac Keyes and John Nicholson, owned two shares each, and Lauren Kingsbury, Asa F. Smith, Ira M. Bullen, Samuel Scott, John BuUough, Jr., Marten P. Sturtevant and Thomas Nicholson, one each; and their Meeting-house was dedi- cated March 27, 1833. The Church was organized February 8, 1835. The names of the original members were as follows, namely : Jonathan Bixby, Isaac Keyes, Lauren Kingsbury, Asa F. Smith,. Sylvester Smith, Lucius Smith, James Taylor, David Scott, Thomas W. Nicholson, Samuel Floyd, Samuel Scott, Charles Scott, Ira M. Baptams, Amariah BuUens, Francis T. Keyes^ William 'Bullough, Samuel Nicholson, Lydia Bixby, Eunice Bixby, Eliza H. Bixby, Sarah S. Kingsbury, Catherine Hyde, Matilda Libby, Betsy S. Smith, Clarisa Smith, Hannah Scott, Eosanna Woodward, Sally Nickerson, Belinda Smith, Susan Willis, Sylva Jones, Lucy Taylor, Levina R. Bullens, Mary S. Cheney, Abigail Cheney, Nancy L. Gardner, Abijah Keyes, Chloe Ray, Angelina Bixby, Martha F. Newhall, Elizabeth E. Keyes, Louisa Peak, Sarah Richards, Abigail B. Clapp, Cleora F. Smith, Hannah Fisk, Olivia Fisk, Sally Kingsbury, Eliza Kingsbury, Hannah Bond, 168 EAELT HISTORY OF NEWTON. Charlotte' H. Smith, Susanna Nickerson, Sarah Priest, Mary Ann Keyes. Martha H. Taylor, Fifty-five in all, who went out from the first Baptist Church. Isaac Keyes and Lauren Kingsbury were appointed Deacons. August, 1839. The proprietors of the Meeting-house sold their interest therein, to the society, for three thousand six hundred dollars. The society was supplied with preachers, from the New- ton Theological Seminary, until 1836, when Origin Crane was ordained its Pastor. In the Summer of 1840, Mr. Crane resigned his pastoral care of the Church, and removed to Weston. In March, 1842, Rev. Charles W. Dennison was installed. He remained with them about one year. In February, 1846, Rev. Samuel S. Leighton settled with them, and remained until the Spring of 1847, when the Rev. Benjamin 0. Ch-afton supplied the pulpit. The Rev. Amos Webster commenced preaching there, in July, 1848, and in October following, became the Pastor, and was ordained November 5, 1848. UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY, UPPER FALLS. This Society was organized in September, 1841. Their Meeting-house was built and dedicated, in May, 1842, and cost about thirteen hundred dollars. The proprietors were as follows : Pliny Bostes, William Cargell, Joshua Gardner, George W. Keyes, ELIOT CHURCH,^ NEWTON CORNEK. 169 Samuel P. Skinner, Thomas Nealey, Henry Billings, William Lyon, Beriah Billings, Ebenezer Kingsbury, Stephen Putnam, James Barney, Richard Boynton, Jason Brayman, John Kingsbury, William H. Nichols, Marten Hunting, William Fairfield, Horace Whitney, Lyndall Grover, Lewis H. Patridge, Harding Partridge. The Rev. Samuel Skinner was settled as Pastor, after the house was dedicated, and preached until October, 1845, when he was succeeded by A. S. Dudley, who supplied the pulpit until July, 1847, when Dr. William F. Teulon began to preach. He was from the British dominions, and also practised medicine. ELIOT CHURCH, NEWTON CORNER. The corner stone of the Church edifice was laid on the 19th of March, 1845, with religious services, in which Rev. Mr. Adams, of Brighton, Whitney, of Waltham, Gilbert and Bushnell, of Newton, and Lovejoy, of Cambridgeport, took part. The Church was organized by an Jlcclesiastical Council, assembled for the pui-pose, July 1, 1845, and the Meeting- house was dedicated at the same time. Introductory Prayer and reading of the Scriptures, by Rev. D. M. Lord ; read- ing of the Confession and Covenant, and constituting the Church, by the Moderator, -Rev. J. R. Adams ; Consecrating Prayer, by Rev. C. Marsh ; Fellowship of the Churches, by the Rev. Wm. Bushnell ; Dedication Sermon, by Rev. E. 15 170 BAELT HISTORY OF NEWTON. N. Kirk ; Dedicatory Prayer, by Rev. J. C. LBvejoy ; Ben- ediction, by Rev. L. Gilbert. THE CONFESSION OF FAITH ADOPTED AT THE ORGANI- ZATION OF THE CHURCH. " 1. Tou believe there is one only living and true God; self-existent, independent, infinite, eternal and unchange- able, in all his attributes and perfections ; the Creator and preserver of all things, and the sovereign and righteous disposer of all events. " 2. You believe that God has revealed himself in the Scriptures as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and that these three are equal in all the divine attributes and perfections. " 3. You believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, were given by inspiration of God, and the only sufficient and infallible rule of religious faith and practice. " 4. You believe that all mankind are by nature lost in sin ; that they have the carnal mind, which is enmity against God, and that they cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven, until renewed by the power of the Holy Ghost ; and that all who are thus converted and saved, must forever owe their salvation to the ft-ee, rich, and sovereign grace of God. "5. You believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is very God, and very man; that He has, by sufferings and death, made a proper and adequate atonement for sin, and thus opened a way of life and salvation, for a sinful world. "6. You believe in the peculiar office of the Holy Spirit to convince of sin, to renew and sanctify the heart, and to bring mankind to comply with the terms of salva- tion. " 7. You believe that justification is an act of God's free ELIOT CHURCH, NEWTOK CORNER. 171 grace, wherein he pardons the penitent sinner, and receives him into divine favor, onlj through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. " 8. You believe that Christ has a visible Church in the world ; that Baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances to be observed in it ; that it is the duty of christians to unite with the visible Church, to maintain and attend to its sacred ordinances ; and that believing parents should devote their households to God in baptism. " 9. You believe in the resurrection of the dead, and the general judgment, when the righteous shall enter into life eternal, and the wicked will go away into everlasting pun- ishment." THE COVENANT. i " In the presence of Almighty God, and this assembly, you do now solemnly avouch the Lord Jehovah to be your God, the Lord Jesus Christ your Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit your sanctlfler and comforter. "You humbly and cheerfully consecrate yourself to His service in an everlasting covenant, and promise, through Divine assistance, to walk according to His commands. " You acknowledge this to be a true Church of our Lord Jesus Christ ; and so long as you continue among us, you promise to walk in communion with it ; you engage faith- fully to attend to all parts of instituted worship, with this Church ; carefully to avoid whatever may encourage error, and whatever may be contrai'y to our purity and peace- You also engage to watch over your brethren with christians fidelity, and to submit to the discipline which Christ has established in His Church. Do you thus covenant and promise ? " [Baptism administered.] 172 EAELT HISTORY OF NEWTON. " We, the members of this Church, do now receive you into the fellowship and communion. We engage to watch over you with christian affection and tenderness, and, through Divinfe aid, to perform all the duties toward you which the Gospel requires towards brethren in Christ." NAMES OF MESIBERS WHO JOINED THE CHURCH AT ITS ORGANIZATION. .. Joseph Bacon, Beulah Bacon, Joseph N. Bacon, Sarah A. W. Bacon, James M. Bacon, Julia Bridges, Andrew B. Cobb, Lydia M. Cobb, Esther Cook, Hannah W. Fuller, Joseph W. Goddard, Mary Goddard, Louisa J. Hall, Elizabeth Hodgden, Europe Houghton, Adeline Houghton, William Jackson, Mary Jackson, Lucretia Jackson, Caroline B. Jackson, Mary B. Jackson, Ellen D. Jackson, Joshua Jennison, Charles Jewett, Lucy A. Jewett, Beulah C. Pulsifer, Mary B. Randall, Sylvia A. Russell, Abigail Spear, Elisha C. Stevens, Anna Trowbridge, James N. Trowbridge, Harriet W. Trowbridge, Otis Trowbridge, Elizabeth F.Trowbridge, William W. Trowbridge, Mary Whitmore. On the 4th of November, 1845, the Church and Society united in extending an invitation to William S. Leavitt to become their Pastor ; and he accepted the invitation, and UNITARIAN SOCIETY, WEST NEWTON. 173 was ordained December 3, 1845, by a council convened for the purpose. Invocation and reading the Scriptures, by Eev. E. N. Kirk ; prayer, by Rev. W. Bushnell ; sermon, by Rev. Ed- ward Beecher, D. D. ; ordaining prayer, by Eev. S. Aiken ; charge to the Pastor, by Rev. Jacob Ide, D. D. ; right hand of fellowship, by Rev. Lyman Gilbert ; address to the peo- ple, by Rev. G. W. Blagden ; concluding prayer, by Rev. Joshua Leavitt ; benediction, by the Pastor. Mr. Leavitt's connection with the Church as Pastor, was dissolved in November, 1853. UNITARIAN SOCIETY, WEST NEWTON. October 10, 1848. A petition, signed by Wm. Parker, Horace Mann, Edward Page, Galen Meriam, John G. Jones, Henry Brigham, Henry H. Hobart, A. G. Morton, William S. Whitwell, and John Mead, was presented to Seth Davis, Esq., requesting him to issue his warrant to the legal voters, habitually worshipping in Village Hall, West Newton, to meet on or before the 17th instant, for the purpose of organizing themselves as a religious society, according to the twentieth chapter of the Revised Statutes. Mr. Davis accordingly issued his warrant, calling a meet- ing of the legal voters aforesaid, on the 17th inst., in which the society was organized by the choice of William F. AVard, as Clerk, and adjourned to 31st instant, when the organization of the society was completed, by the choice of the necessary officers, and the adoption of a name, namely : " The First Unitarian Society in West Newton." November 14, 1848. William 0. White was ordained, and a code of By-Laws adopted. 15* 174 EAELT HISTORY OP NEWTON. BT-LAWS. " The Standing Comtnittee shall hold their meetings by the call of the chairman, thereof, or by adjournment from time to time, provided, that in the event of a call by the chairman, not less than one day's notice be served on each member, by the Clerk, to consult uj)on the affairs of the society, and to prepare business proper to be laid before it ; to examine all accounts against the society, and if correct, to direct the Treasurer to pay the same ; to compute the expenses of the society, and the sums which it may be necessary to raise for defraying the same. " The Treasurer shall also be Collector of the society. He shall keep an account of all the receipts and expendi- tures of the society, and of the debts and credits of every person connected therewith, and shall lay before the society or Standing Committee, when requested, and answer all drafts which may be made upon him by the Standing Com- mittee, provided he has money in his hands belonging to the society. " When not a member of the Standing Committee, the Treasurer shall furnish the Clerk with a written copy of all business that he knows of, to be laid before the Stand- ing Committee, and a statement of the business he may .have transacted for the society, previous to the meetings of -the committee. " The Clerk shall cause the meeting of the society to be warned, by requesting the Minister to notify the same, after Divine service. He shall also notify the committee of their ■meetings, by sending a written or printed billet to each, at least one day previous thereto ; or by leaving said billet in (their usual seats, at the place of worship, the Sunday pre- vious to said meeting. He shall also attend the meetings UNITARIAN SOCIETY, NEWTON CORNER. 175 of the society, and of the committee, and keep a true record of the transactions of each, open to inspection at all times. He shall give notice to any person who may be chosen into office, or upon any committee or sub-committee, when such person shall have been absent at the time of the choice, and furnish the chairman of every committee or sub-com- mittee, with a written list of his associates, and a true copy which dasignates their duty. " A vote was also passed, constituting membership, viz : That during the time that this society shall be depending upon voluntary subscription for its support, every person so subscribing, shall, during the time of their subscription, be considered a member thereof, and shall have a right to vote in any business that may come before them." Edward Page, "William Parker, Cyrus Pierce, George A. Curtis, Samuel B. Coes, Standing Committee. John Mead, Treasurer. "William F. "Ward, OlerL UNITARIAN SOCIETY, NE"WTON COENER. Being the tenth religious society in Newton, was formed September, 1851. The following are the names of the first male members : Calvin Bailey, Samuel G. Simpkins, George T. Lord, Frederick "W. Capen, Charles Hubbard, Sewell Baker, Andrew Cole, "William Thomas, Henry Bigelow, George Clapp, Henry Claflin, Josiah Gilmore, Oliver N. Sherman, Charles Reed, Hartley Lord, Abraham Hews, Jr., 176 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. Darling E. Jewett, William Phillips, Gilman Braekett, Michael Tombs, Samuel S. Mower, Joseph N. Maynard, Langdon Coffin, William Whall. This society, comprising about fifty families, worship at Union Hall, where a Church was organized. In January, 1853, Joseph C. Smith, of Maine, was settled as their Pastor. WAE OF THE REYOLUTION. The inhabitants of this Town, almost to a man, made the most heroic and vigorous efforts, to sustain the common cause of the country, from the first hour to the last, through all the trying events which preceded and accompanied the war. The first recorded action of the Town was on the 21st of Oct-ober, 1765,* in the form of instructions to their Representative to the General Court, Captain Abraham Fuller, from which the following is extracted : " The freeholders, and other inhabitants of Newton, legal- ly assembled, regard the Stamp Act as an unconstitutional tax, laid upon the Colonies, without their consent, in opposi- tion to a standing maxim of English liberty : ' no taxation without representation.' " By the Eoyal Charter, granted to our ancestors, the power of making laws for our internal government, and of levying taxes, is vested in the General Assembly ; and by the same Charter, the inhabitants of this Province are entitled to all the rights and privileges of natural free born subjects of Great Britain : the most essential of which is the right to be represented in the same body which exer- cises the power of levying taxes upon them, and of having their property tried by Juries ; whereas this unconstitutional law admits of our properties being tried by Courts of * Ten days betoie the Stamp Act -was to go Into operation. 178 EAELT HISTORY OP NEWTON. Admiralty, without a Jury, thereby destroying the most valuable privileges of our Charter. " We think it incumbent on you, by no means to join in any public measure countenancing and assisting in the exe- cution of this law, but to use your best endeavors in the General Assembly, to have the unalienable rights of the people of this Province asserted and vindicated and left on public record, that posterity may never have reason to charge those of the present times, with the guilt of tamely giving them away." October 27, 1766. After the riots in Boston, consequent upon the passage of the Stamp Act, much property was destroyed, and Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson's house was sacked. The inhabitants of Newton, being assembled in Town meeting, expressed their abhorrence of all such acts of violence and outrage ; and instructed their Represen- tative to use his influence to have the losses made good to the sufferers, from the public treasury. 1767. "Voted, unanimously, strictly to adhere to the late regulation respecting funerals, and not use any gloves but what are manufactured here, nor procure any new gar- ments upon such occasions, but what shall be absolutely necessary." " Voted, unanimously, that this Town will take all prudent and legal measures to encourage the produce and manu- factures of this Province, and to lessen the use of super- fluities, and particularly the following imported articles : — Loaf sugar, cordage, anchors, coaches, chaises and carriages of all sorts, house furniture, men and women's hats and apparel, gloves, shoes, sole leather, sheathing and dock nails, gold and silver buttons, thread lace, wrought plate, diamond stone, paste ware, snuff, mustards, clocks, watches, jewelry, broadcloths that cost above ten shillings per yard, muffs, furs and tippets, millinery ware, starch, stays, fire engines, THE USE OF INDIA TEA DISCOURAGED. 179 china ware, silk, cotton, velvet, malt liquor, cheese, gauze, pewter, hollow ware, linseed oil, glue, lawns and cambric." January 4, 1772. Town meeting. Chose Edw. Durant, Charles Pelham, Esq., Alexander Shepard, Wm. Phillips, and Noah Hyde, a committee to consider and report what it may be proper for the Town to do, relating to the present unhappy situation of the country. The committee reported the following Resolutions : " Resolved, that no good man can be silent and inactive in the cause of liberty, at this alarming period, when such arbitrary measures are taken as tend to destroy that glori- ous Constitution, which has cost, the labors of ages, and the blood of thousands, and that all who abet tyranny, merit the detestation of this people, and the contempt of man- kind. " Resolved, that no civil officer, who is a servant of the people, can constitutionally or with safety to them, be depend- ent on the Crown for his support, — therefore, any grants made by the Crown to the Judges of our Superior Court, must naturally tend to destroy all confidence in those Judges, and change the courts of justice into engines of slavery. " Resolved, that all taxation imposed on the inhabitants of the Colonies, without their consent or representation in Parliament, for the purpose of raising a revenue, is uncon- stitutional and oppressive," &c., &c. January, 1773. Voted instructions to their Representa- tive, Abraham Fuller, viz : to use his influence against the salaries of the Judges being paid by the Crown, &c., a measure which tends to subvert public justice ; to use your influence to make suitable provision for the support of the Judges, adequate to their merits and station, &c. A circular letter was received from the Selectmen of Boston, to which an answer was voted by the Town, viz : 180 EAELT HISTORY OF NEWTON. " We acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th November last. We greatly applaud you, and think our- selves and the whole Province much obliged to you for your generous exertions, and the patriotic spirit for which you stand distinguished, &c. As far as in us lies, we would encourage your hearts to persevere in all legal, loyal, regu- lar and constitutional methods for the redress of the griev- ances we feel, and for preventing those we have reason to fear. We regret the odium cast on the respectable town of Boston, as being of a factious spirit, &c. It is not a fac- tious spirit, but the cool, dispassionate and just complaining of the generality of His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, in this popular Province," &c. March, 1773. Chose Charles Pelham, Esq., Edward Durant, Captain John Woodward, Joshua Hammond, and Dr. John King, a committee to draft such measures as they shall think best for the Town to adopt at this emergency. Chose Thomas Miller, Captain Ephralm Jackson, Phineas Bond, Lieutenant Jeremiah Wiswall, John Palmer, James Grimes, Deacon David Stone, Deacon William BoUes, Captain Benjamin Hammond, Amariah Fuller, Phineas Cooke, Lieutenant Michael Jackson, Captain John Wood- ward, Joseph Cheney, and Ensign Samuel Craft, a commit- tee to confer with the inhabitants of the town, as to the expediency of leaving off buying, selling or using any India Tea. January 6, 1774. " The freeholders and other inhabi- tants of the town, legally assembled, taking into considera- tion the present difiSculty of our public affairs, are greatly alarmed at the reiterated attempts of the British Parlia- ment to undermine our happy Constitution, and deprive us of those rights and privileges which we justly claim as men, and as members of the British empire, and as chartered Colonists. And although we have, and still do bear true OPPRESSIVE ACTS OP PAKLIAMENT. 181 and sincere loyalty and affection to our most gracious Sovereign, yet we cannot but consider and regret the great and undue influence of his ministry, both in and out of Parliament, which (especially if corrupt and selfish men should be in place) we look upon as a sore scourge to the nation, and all its dependencies. We do, therefore, with firmness of mind, on mature deliberation, establish the following Resolves, namely : 1. " That an Act passed in the last session of Parlia- ment, empowering the Hon. East India Company to export tea to America, subject to a duty upon its arrival in America, is a fresh attack upon our rights, craftily planned by a few of our inveterate enemies in the ministry, in order to establish a tax on us, plainly contrary to the constitution of England itself, and glaringly repugnant to our Charter, which we deem a grievance, greatly aggravated by the cruel partiality therein shown, against millions of His Majesty's loyal and good subjects in America, in favor of a few, very few, opulent subjects in Britain. This we can not brook, and do, therefore solemnly bear our testimony against it. 2. "That, in justice to ourselves, our fellow colonists, and our posterity, we cannot, nor will not, voluntarily and tamely submit to this, or any tax laid ou us, for the express purpose of raising a revenue, when imposed without our consent, given by ourselves or our representatives. 3. "That as part of the Colonies laboring under op- pression, we are determined to join the rest, in all and every lawful and just method of obtaining redress, or pre- venting the oppression, even to the risk of our lives and fortunes. 4. " That all and every person or persons, who have been, Sre, or shall be, advising or assisting in- the aforesaid, or^any such acts, or are active or aiding in the execution of 16 182 EAKLT HlSTOnT OF NEWTON. them, are (so far, at Iggtst) inimical to this country, and thereby incur our just resentment ; in which light we shall view all merchants, traders and others, who shall henceforth presume to import, or sell, any India tea, until the duty we so justly complain of, be taken off. 5. " That we, each and every one of us, will not, directly or indirectly, by ourselves or any for or under us, purchase or use, or suffer to be used, in our respective families, any India tea, while such tea is subject to a duty payable upon its arrival in America. 6. "That a committee of correspondence be appointed, to confer and correspond with the committees of any, or all our sister towns in the Province, as occasion may require." " We, the subscribers, a committee appointed by the Town of Newton, to draft what might be proper for said Town to do, in the present exigency of our public affairs, do report the foregoing, for the consideration of the Town, and do further recommend, that a copy thereof be transmitted to the committee of correspondence in Boston." CHA.ELES PeLHAM, Edward Dctbant, John Woodward, Joshua Hammond, John King, Committee. Attested by the Town Clerk, Abraham Fuller. " Voted, to choose a committee of correspondence, and Edward Durant, William Clark, John Pigeon, Joshua Hammond, and Captain John Woodward were appointed." " Voted, that the committee of fifteen persons lay before the inhabitants of this Town, papers, that each of the inhabitants may have an opportunity to signify it ■■under their hands, that they will not buy, sell, nor use, any India PREPARATIONS FOE THE WAR. 183 tea, until the duties are taken off; and such as *ill not sign, to return their names to the Town, at the adjournment." September, 1774. The report of the Congress for the County of Middlesex, that convened at Concord, on the 30th and 31st of August, was read and accepted. John Pigeon, Captain Jonas Stone, Dr. John King, Alexander Shepard, and Captain Benjamin Hammond, were chosen to prepare instructions to our Representative to the General Court. , " Voted, that the Selectmen use their best discretion ia providing fire-arms for the poor of the Town, who are unable to provide for themselves." John Pigeon and Edward Durant, were chosen delegates to the Provincial Congress, to' be held at Concord, on the second Tuesday in October next. January 2, 1775. Abraham Fuller and Edward Durant, were chosen delegates to the Provincial Congress, to be holden at Cambridge. John Pigeon presented to the Town two field pieces, which were accepted, and the thanks of the Town given him. Nathan Fuller, Amariah Fuller and Edward Fuller, were chosen to obtain subscriptions to mount the two field pieces. Voted, to raise men to exercise the field pieces, and Captain Amariah Fuller, Captain Jeremiah Wiswall, and Major Benjamin Hammond, were chosen a committee for that purpose, and instructed them to raise a company of Minute Men, consisting of thirty-two men, besides the offi- cers ; and that said Minute Men meet once a week, during the Winter season, half a ^ay, for exercise ; and all that attend, shall be paid eight pence each. Samuel Craft, Phineas Cook, Dr. John King, Lieutenant Joseph Fuller, and Captain Jonas Stone, were chosen a 184: EAKLT BISTORT OF NEWTOK. committee to see that all resolves and orders of the Conti- nental Congress, that concern this Town, be strictly observed. " Voted, that the committee of correspondence be allowed their pocket expenses.'' *" January, 1775. " Voted, that each man of the company of Minute Men, be paid one shilling for half day exercising, and eight shillings a day for the eight officers, over and above the one shilling each ; the Minute Men to train once a week, at the discretion of the commanding officer." A Province tax was voted, and Captain Jeremiah Wis- wall chosen the Collector. BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCOED. April 19, 1775. At this time there were three compa- nies of Infantry in the town: the "West ^Company, com- manded by Captain Amariah Fuller ; the East Company, commanded by Captain Jeremiah "Wiswall ; and a company of Minute Men, raised in 1775, commanded by Captain Phineas Cook, all of which were in the battles of that day, and marched twenty-eight miles. The rolls of each company were returned to the Secretary's office, and sworn to by their commanders, as follows : West Company, one hundred and five, — East Company, seventy-six, — Company Minute Men, thirty-seven ;* two hundred and eighteen in all ; beside which, many Newton men, not attached to either of those companies, were in the action. In the "West Company were thirty-seven voluntegl's, called the alarm list, men .who had passed the age for military duty, among whom were — Capt. Joshua Fuller, aged 72 Capt. E. Jackson, aged 46 Dea. Joseph Ward, « 69 Abraham Fuller,' « 55 aged 68 Joshua Murdock,, aged 54 « 68 Peter Durell, " 56 « 62 Thomas Beal, « 58 William Clark, " 69 a, « ■ 51 Henry Seger, « 57 EVACUATION OF BOSTON BT THE BRITISH. 185 Benjamin Eddy, Joseph Adams, Thomas Miller, Alexander Shepard, Capt. John Woodward, " In the East Company were — Noah Wiswall, aged 76 Jonathan Mirick, aged 53 Ebenezer Parker, " 73 Deacon David Stone, Deacon Jonas Stone, " 53 Deacon William Bowles, Joshua Hammond, " 54 Dr. John King, &c. Mr. Noah Wiswall was the oldest man from Newton. His son Jeremiah commanded the East Company, and his sons Ebenezer and John, and some of his sons in law, were in the same company, and he could not be persuaded to stay at home, — " he wanted to see what the Ijoys were doing." He was wounded in the hand by a musket ball, which he very coolly bound up with his handkerchief, and brought home-the gun of a British soldier, who fell in the battle. The Minute Men were commanded that day, by Lieut. Michael Jackson, a courageous man. They came up with the British at Concord, and immediately exchanged shots with them, and hung upon their flank and rear, with good effect, from Concord to Lechmere Point. For their bravery and good conduct on that day, this company received the thanks of General Warren upon the field. Soon after the battles of Lexington and Concord, Capt Phineas Cook and Capt. Nathan Fuller, eadh raised a com- pany, and joined the army at Cambridge, for eight months. Seventy-four Newton men enlisted in these two companies. On the 4th of March, 1776, at the request of General Washington, the West Company, under Captain Amariah Fuller, with sixty-six men, and the East Company, under 16* 186 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. Captain Jeremiah Wiswall, with forty-seven men, marched to take possession of Dorchester Heights, South Boston. This proved to be a short service. On the 17th of March, the British troops evacuated Boston. This event gave great joy to the Americans. Soon after, the American Army commenced its march for New York, where they arrived on the 14th of April, and from thence, Capt. Nathan Fuller's company marched with the expedition to Canada. In this service. Captain Fuller was promoted to the office of Major, and much praise is awarded to him in that expedition. [(See 2d Vol. of Gordon's History of the American Hevolution.'] June 17, 1776. Town Meeting. Captain John Wood- ward, Moderator. The second article in the warrant, was as follows : "That in case the Hon. Continental Congbess SHOULD, foe the SAFETY OF THE AmEEIOAN CoLONIES, declaee them independent op the Kingdom op Geeat Beitain, whethee the inhabitants op this Town will solemnly engage with theie lives and FORTUNES, to SUPPOET THEM IN THE MEASUEE." "After debate, the question was put, and the vote passed UNANIMOUSLY in the affirmative." That solemn and ever memorable vote was not meant for show; those lives and fortunes went along with it, honestly, earnestly, and triumphantly, from the first hour to the last, of that sanguinary struggle for independence. Newton men formed a part of every army and expedition ; fought in almost every battle and skirmish, throughout the contest. Scarce a man in the town, old or young, able or Jinable, but what volunteered, enlisted, or was drafted, and served in the ranks of the army, from the hardest fought EFFORTS TO ENLIST MEN AND RAISE MONET. 187 battles, down to the more quiet duty of guarding Burgoyne's surrendered array, partly by aged men. Captain Joseph Fuller raised a company of ninety-six men, in August, 1777, thirty of whom were from Newton, and marched to Bennington, Skeensboro', and Lake George, to oppose the progress of Burgoyne. Captain Edward Fuller raised a company of sixty-eight men, forty of whom were from Newton, in March, 1778. January, 1777. Sixty-four Newton men enlisted for three years, or during the war. Fifty-four Newton men marched to re-inforee the Continental Army, in 1780, twenty-four of whom marched under Captain Pope. The following extracts, from the Town records, will show the various kinds of military service Newton men engaged in, during the early years of the war, and the great exer- tions made by the Town, to enlist men and raise money, to prosecute the war. July 5, 1776. "Voted, to grant the additional sum of £6, 6s. 8d. to the bounty granted by the General Court, to each person who shall enlist as one of Newton's quota, for the Canada expedition ; that £6, 6s. 8d, be paid out of the Town treasury, to each person who passeth muster, and goeth into the service ; that the Treasurer be directed, in behalf of the Town, to borrow the money to pay the bounty of the soldiers aforesaid." January 6; 1777. . " Alexander Shepard, Col. Benjamin Hammond, Ensign Samuel Craft, Joseph Jackson, Lieut. Samuel Ilicha,rdson, Lieut. Aaron Eichardson, Lieut. Joseph Craft, and Alexander Shepard, Jr., were chosen a com- mittee, on the 18th of December, 1776, to adjust matters relative to an allowance to soldiers, for services done in the war, since April 19th, 1775 ; and also to consider in what manner the war shall be supported by the inhabitants, for the future. Having a'ttentively attended that service, and 188 EAELT HISTOKT OF NEWTON. after mature deliberation, the majority of the committee are of opinion, and humbly conceive it to be just and equitable, that there be paid outof the public treasury of this Town, the several and respective sums, to such inhabitants of the Town as were in the service of their country, in the expe- dition, or tours of duty, which are hereinafter particularly expressed, (excluding such as we think the pay was adequate to the service, proportionately with those to which we have thought it just to add to the pay,) namely : " " To such as enlisted in the first eight months' service, and attended their duty therein, forty shillings each. " To those who were in the two months' service, in the Winter last past, twenty shillings each. " To those who enlisted for the whole year last past, and were ordered to march to New York, and from thence to Canadaj and attended their duty, twenty pounds each. " To those who enlisted for the year last past, and marched to New York, ten pounds each. " To those who enlisted for the said year, and marched to New York in the Summer, eight, pounds each. " To those who enlisted for the said year, and marched for Ticonderoga, in the Summer, eight pounds each. "To those who enlisted in Colonel Craft's and Colonel Whitney's regiments, to man the lines, three pounds each. " To those who were draftedj and marched to New York, for two months, four pounds each. " To those who -were drafted for New York, for three months, and are now at Providence, five pounds each. " That there be also paid' out of the treasury aforesaid, to each and every person who has paid money to hire, or encourage soldiers to enlist in any of the services, since the EFFORTS TO ENLIST SOLDIERS. 189 19th of April, 1775,. the several and respective sums by them disbursed ; excepting such a part (if any) that have been paid more than the fine required by law ; and that such inhabitants as were called forth on any emergency, and were omitted in the muster rolls, and have not received any pay for their services, they shall be paid in proportion to what others have received, vfho were in the same service. " And that the charge of hiring soldiers, that shall from time to time be required of this Town, as- their quota or proportion of men, during the present war, shall be paid out of the treasury aforesaid ; and grants made from time to time, which shall be assessed on the polls and estates belonging to the Town, for the payment of all and every sum, that shall be paid for any of the purposes herein before mentioned. " We also humbly conceive, that it would be most expe- dient for the Town to choose a committee, to be joined with the commissioned officers of the Town, for the time being, to hire such number of soldiers as shall, from time to time, be required of the Town, during the present war." Which report was amended by giving thirty shillings, instead of forty shillings, to those who manned the lines near Boston, in 1776; that five pounds, instead of four, be paid to each of the soldiers who were drafted and marched to New York, for two months, and then the report was accepted. It was then " Voted, that those commissioned officers who went in the Continental service to New York, and thence to Canada, the last year, be paid twenty pounds each ; that there be paid to Colonel Michael Jackson, for going into the Continental service at New York, last Summer, eight pounds ; and to Captain Edward Fuller, in the same ser- vice, two pounds." March 14, 1777. « Voted, that Phineas Bond, Captain 190 EAKLT HISTORY OF NEWTON. Amariah Fuller, Joshua Hammond, Captain Jeremiah "Wis- wall, Samuel Woodward, and Dr. John King, be a commit- tee, to be joined by the commissioned oflBcers of this Town, to hire ssoldiers, (if need be,) to go into the war the ensuing campaign, as cheap as may be, not to give more than twenty- four pounds each. " That the Town Treasurer borrow, for the purpose afore- said, the sum of one thousand pounds, and deliver it to the aforesaid committee, as it shall be needed, "That such as are subjects of the gratuity for said former services, who have, or shall enlist within ten days from this time, into the Continental service for Newton, and pass muster, shall receive of the Town Treasurer a promissory note, on interest, for what they are entitled to, for said service, to be paid in one year, they demanding the same at the treasury." May 13, 1777. "Voted, that three pounds be paid to each soldier that lately went to Providence, by the Town." " That in case any more men be called for, that the com- missioned officers and committee be directed to procure soldiers on the best terms they can." Voted, that Abraham Fuller, Esq., Colonel Benjamin Hammond, and Lieutenant Noah Hyde, be a committee to report instructions to our Eepresentative ; and the following is extracted from their report : "To Thomas Parker, Esq., of Newton, in General Assembly : — Sir, in pursuance of a resolve of the General Court of the 5th of May, current, relative to forming a new Constitution of government — "We, the free holders, and other inhabitants of Newton, in Town meeting legally assembled. May 15th, 1777, judge it proper to impart to you our united sentiments," &c. * » * " We instruct you, that in attempting to set up a new Constitution, you are to use your utmost endeavors, that the EFFORTS TO ENLIST SOLDIERS AND RAISE MONET. 191 legislative powers be not confined (nor rest) in less than two branches, at least, and that each branch have a free and independent exercise of its judgment, and a negative voice in the Legislature — for history sufiiciently evinces, that no government, in any State in the known world, where an absolute power has been lodged in one man, or one body of ~ men, but that it speedily issued in despotism and tyranny," &c. * « * Accepted. " Voted, to abate the poll tax of those men that went to do turns for themselves, at Ticonderoga, last Summer. Account of money borrowed of Newton men, by the Town Treasurer, to pay the Soldiers, in March, 1777, ac- cording to thcreport of the committee, of which Alexander Shepard was chairman, made to the Town, January 6, 1777. Joshua Hammond, £190, 13s. ^d. Joseph White, 100 Cornet Norman Clark, 90 John Wiswall, 20 Dr. John King, 24 Lieutenant Joseph Craft, 200 Aaron Jackson, 24 Abraham Fuller, 286 Benjamin Eddy, 52, 13s. . Samuel Kichardson, 30 Ephraim Williams, 40 Captain Jeremiah Wiswall, 45 Captain John Woodward, 100 Captain Edward Fuller, 3 Thomas Jackson, 24 Elhanan Winchester, 3p0 Cdonel Michael Jackson, 87 192 EARLy HISTOET OF NEWTON. John Ward, £60 John Ward, 3d, 43 Elisha Fuller and others, 432 Oliver Fenno, 74 Widow Tabitha Miller, 13 Miss Abigail Stone, 61 Alexander Shepaird, Jr., 100 Colonel Nathan Fuller, , 133, 6s. Josiah Hall, 24 William Hammond, 46 Stephen White, 70 Satnuel Woodward, 120 Joshua Murdock, 64 Captain Abraham Pierce, 133 £2989 13«. TORIES. 8d. " Voted, that Alexander Shepard procure, and lay before the Court, the evidence that may be had of inimical dis- position towards this, or any of the United States, of any person belonging to this town, who shall be charged by any of the inhabitants, of being a person whose residence in this State is dangerous to the public peace and safety." " Voted, to accept the list now exhibited by the Select- men." "Voted, that John Bogers and Joseph BuUough be added to the list aforesaid." June, 1777. " Voted, that Alexander Shepard, Colonel Hammond, and Deacon Bowles, be a committee to draft a declaration for John Rogers to sign, ,to satisfy the Town. " Voted, that Mr. Rogers be no farther proceeded with, relative to his being charged with being inimical to the United States." ErFOETS TO HIRE MEN AND MONET. 193 After debate, on the fifth, artide in the warrant, relative to petitioning the General Assembly for removing Morris Spillard and Captain McFall, out of the town of Newton,' the vote passed in the aflarmative, and Alexander Shepard, Aaron Richardson, and Captain Jeremiah Wiswall, were appointed a committee for that purpose. September 15. "Voted, that the Treasurer of' this Town be directed, and he hereby is empowered, in the name and behalf of said Town, to borrow the sum of twelve hundred pounds, and ^ve his note, on interest, for the same, for repaying to the commissioned officers, and the committee, to procure soldiers for the Continental service ; and also the sum of six hundred pounds, towards procuring soldiers for said service, for the future." October 17, 1777. General Burgoyne surrendered his army, of nearly six thousand men, to the Americans. December B. " Deacon John Woodward, Joshua Mur- dock) Joseph Jackson, Dr. John ^ing, and Colonel Nathan Fuller, were chosen a committee to make eflfectual pro- vision for the femiMes of the non-commissioned officers and privates, that have engaged in the Continental service, agreeable to a resolve of the General Assembly, on the 10th October last." December. "Voted, that the officers and committee should hire men to replace the late detaghment at Prospect mil ." , 1778. " Voted, a tax of three thousand pounds, towards defraying the Town charges of the war." June. The plan of the Constitution, and form of govern- ment for Massachusetts Bay, as proposed by the Convention^ having been read in Town meeting, debated, and put to the vote — five approved, and seventy-five disapproved of it. November. " Voted, an additional tax of five hundred pounds." 17 194 EARLY HISTOET OP NEWTON. March, 1779. A committee was appointed to audit the accounts of the Military committee. They reported that ■" Captain Edward Fuller had received, as fines, £185, 19«., and has paid out the same sum. ' " Captain Joseph Fuller has received, as fines, £450, and has paid out £384, Is. lOd. ; remaining in his hands, £65, 18s. 2d. "Joshua Hammond, £4,312, 7s. id.; and of Lieutenant Aaron Richardson, £94, 10s.; and of Captain ' Jeremiah Wiswall, £33 ; and of Col. Benjamin Hammond, £4, 13s. — amounting in all to £4,444, 10s. Ad., and has paid out £4,432, 17s. 6d. ; leaving in his hands, £11, 12s. " Mr. Joshua Hammond has also paid, of money he col- lected as taxes, £201, 8s. 6d. " Colonel Nathan Fuller has paid, of money he cq^ected as taxes, £123, 10s. JoNrs Ston^, - I /»^%^ff„ JohnWoodwabd,)^''"*'"*^*^- This report was accepted by the Town, March 1, 1779. August, 1779. The proceedings of the late Convention, at Concord, were read by paragraphs, to the Town, and they Voted to approve the same. Chose Alex'r. Shepard a Delegate to the Convention, to be holden at Concord, on the 6th of October next ; and Dr. John King and Thomas Parker, Delegates to the Convention, to be holden at Cam- bridge, for the sole purpose of framing a new Constitution ; and they were instructed to use their endeavor to cause a printed copy of the form of the Constitution they may agree upon in convention, to be transmitted to the Select- men of this Town, to be laid before the Town for their approbation. CONSTITUTION OF MASSACHUSETTS. 195 " Voted, to raise men, agreeable to the resolve of the Court. Voted, a tax of £3,000, for raising men, and other expenses." " Voted, tb approve the regulation of trade. The pro- ceedings of the late Concord Convention were read, as far as relates to stipulated prices, and approved, except the prices of potatoes, geese, fowls, turkeys, tame ducks, cider,^ all kinds of wood, coal, and teaming, which were referred for further consideration." March, 1780. " The Committee of Safety were re-elected. Chose a committee of fifteen, to consider and report what alterations they judge necessary, in the new form of govern- ment." « " Chose Colonel Benjamin Hammond, Lieutenant John Rogers, James Grimes, Norman Clark, Jr., James Stone, Jonas Stone, Joshua Fuller, Timothy Jackson, and Edward Jackson, a committee to raise men for the war, as called for by the G-eneral Court." " Voted, a tax of £30,000, to defray the charges thereof, and the Treasurer was authorized to borrow money for the use of the Town." September 4, 1780. First Town Meeting under the new Constitution of Massachusetts, which declared " all men to he horn free and equal;" made choice of the first Gover- nor, Lieutenant Governor, Senators, &c. John Hancock had eighty-six votes, and Benjamin Lincoln twenty-six. " Voted, an additional tax of £40,000. Chose a com- mittee to purchase beef for the army, as required by the General Court ; Colonel Benjamin Hammond, Chairman." December. Chose a committee of nineteen, to raise Newton's quota of men, to fill up the Continental army. "Voted, a tax of £100,000, to defray the charges of the Town." January, 1781. " Voted, that the committee of nineteen, 196 BAELX HISTOKT OP NEWTON. to engage soldiers to fill up the Coatinental army, be invested with fall power and authority, to select five or seven out of their number, who shall be invested with the full power given to the whole committee." March. Re-elected the same Committee of Safety ,and Correspondence. " ^ " Voted, that the Treasurer be authorized to give notes to the soldiers, which have, or shall enlist into the Conti- nental army for three years, or during the war." April 2. Second election. John Hancock had all the votes for Governor but four. " Voted, that the several classes in Newton, classed for procuring soldiers for the Continental army, be directed to procure the men assigned to each class, on the best terms they can, and lay their accounts before the Selectmen." May, 1781. " Voted, to choose a committee of five, to assist the commissioned officers in procuring Newton's quota of militia s61diers, that may be called for by the General Court, the present Summer, and that the Treasurer is au- thorized to givQ notes in the name and in beh%lf of the Town, for that purpose. Voted, to procure Newton's quota of Beef, as called for by the General Court, to supply the army with ; chose a committee for that purpose, — Colonel Benjamin Hammond, Chairman. * Voted, that £400, silver money, be raised, in lieu of the £100,000 tax, in bills. September. " Voted, that an additional tax of £450, silver money, be assessed." October 19, 1781. Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army and navy to the combined forces of France and America, beiog upwards of seven thousand men. March, 1782. « Voted, a tax of £800, silver money." * [Colonel Hammond's account books ore In possession of his grandson, Stephen Hammond, of Boxbuiy, wherein his receipts and disbursements of money, are entered in a tiery legible hand.] In 1780, his dlebutsements amounted to £12,270; in 1781, to £12,761, 15>. lOd. TREATY OF PEACE. 197 April. Election: John Hancock had all the votes for Governor. November 30. Treaty of Peace signed. December 23. General "Washington resigned his com- mission, and retired to Mount Vernon. March, 17^. « Voted, a tax of £1000, silver money." April. Election : John Hancock had all the votes but one for Grovernor. -' March, 1784. "Voted, a tax of £1,500," April. Election: Jghn Hancock had all the votes for Governor. December. "Voted, that the assessors for 1780, who made out the seventeen classes for raising soldiers, examine into the state of said classes, and report their opinion to the Town rejecting them. Voted, that John Woodward, Jere- miah "Wiswall and Dr. John King, be a committee to audit the accounts of the commissioned officers, and the Commit- tee for hinng soldiers ; C!olonel Benjamin Hammond, Cap- tain William Hammond, Dr. John King, John Woodward, and Nathan Park, be a committee to devis^ means, whereby a portion of the money can be raised, for the seventeen classes of soldiers, made out in the year 1781." 1785. This committee gave the soldiers a hearing, and listened to their complaints, and reported — 1. "That the Town petition the General Court for liberty to assess non-resident proprietors of lands, lying within the Town, their proportional part of the real cost of the soldiers, procured by the seventeen classes, made out by the assessors in 1781. 2. " That all those that were inadvertently classed, and at the same time were not proper subjects of taxation, and refused to pay, that their taxes be abated. 3. " That the class of which the late Phineas Cook was the head, be abated." ' 17* 198 EAELY feSTOBT OF NEWTON. We have thus given an abstract of the doings of the Town, froip the date of the Stamp Act to the close of the war of the Bevolntion, from which it will be seen what manner of spirit actuated the entire population of the Town, and what sacrlQces they cheerfully made, to sustain the principles they held. , The census of the Town, taken in 1765, was thirteen hundred and eight ; that taken in 1790, was. thirteen hun-,. dred and sixty. The loss of life, and aU that sustained life,* * was very great during the war, and man^ years of peace and industry would be required, to'bring the Town up to as prosperous condition as it was at the commencement of the Revolution. We think the population, in 1775, could not have been less than fourteen hundred. The number of men who served more or less in the Con- tinental army, and in the Militia, during the war, was about four hundred and thirty. If we deduct from this number those who were in the battles of Lexington and Concord — the East and West companies of Militia, who, at the request of General Wash- ington, marched to man the lines at Dorchester Heights, and served until the British troops evacuated Boston^ those who volunteered to guard the surrendered troops of General Burgoyne, at Cambridge, &o., we shaU then have iwo hundred and seventy-five men from Newton, 'who actual- ly enlisted in the Continental army for a longer or shorter term. Of 'this number, sixty-four enlisted in January, 1777, for three years, or during the war, and many of the others, then in the army, who did not at that time enlist during the war, did, nevertheless, continue in the service to the end of the war. The amount of money raised by the Town, for the pur- poses of the war, cannot be coniputed, for lack of the proper accounts and vouchers, and from the depreciation of END OF THE WAE. 199 the currency ; but from the abstracts we have already given, of the votes of the Town, it may be readily seen, that very large sums of money were raised, and the credit of the Town used to its utmost tensioif, for procuring men and money, to carry on the war with vigor. From these long continued and exhausting exertion^, the resources of the country had been drained, heavy debts accumulated, and business and credit prostrated. In comparison , with the wealth of the pr'esent day, the property of the inhabitants then was paltry in the extreme, and yet, those large sums of money were cheerfully voted, and soon paid. June 17, 1776. In open Town meeting, the freeholders of Newton voted unanimously — "That in case the Hon. Continental Congress should declaee the american colonies independ- ENT OP" THE Kingdom op Great Britain, the in- habitants OP this Town solemnly engage, with their lives and portitnbs, to support them in the MEASURE." ^ These records of the Town, and the facts here grouped together, will serve to prove how fuUy, and at ■{rhat sacri- fices, the pledge of 1776 was redeemed. History, we think, will be searched in vain, to find a parallel to the indomita- ble and long continued exertion and devotion, which, in common, doubtless, with New England generally, the in- habitants of this town exhibited — and were the occasion pertinent to moralize, the devotion to liberty, and to princi- ple, then displayed, might, with great propriety, be pressed upon theif descendants of the present day, as an example worthy of some attempt, at least, to honor, by imitation, however humble, and efibrts, however feeble — and if the rare devotion to liberty displayed by their forefathers, should contrast painfully with the efforts of their descend- 200 EAKLT HISTORY OP NEWTON. ants, to extend and perpetuate slavery, "the spectacle thus presented, would not be without its use, and might exert an influence in favor of the principles of the Eevolution, and ' of the sentiments of the Declaration of Independence. OFFICERS OF NEWTON WHO SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. Colonel Joseph Ward, Aid-de- Gamp, and Secretary of Major General Ward, in 1775, and afterweCrd& Muster Master General of the Army. Michael Jackson, Colonel of the 8th Regiment. . Ephraim Jackson, lAetit. Colonel of the 10th Regiment. William Hull, lAeut. Colonel of the Sith Regiment. Nathan Fuller, lAeul. Colonel of the 13ih Regiment. Amariah Fuller, Captain. Jeremiah Wiswall, " Joseph Fuller, " Benjamin Dana, " Phinbas Cook, " , * Edward Fuller, " Simon Jackson, John Marean, Lieutenant. Isaac Jackson, " Joseph Craft, " Samuel Richardson, " Michael Jackson, Jr., " Daniel Jackson, " Aaron Muedock, " Caleb Kenrick, " Ebenezer Jackson, "' « Amasa Jackson, Ensign. Charles Jackson, " SOI.DIEBS OF TH£ BETOLUTION. 201 NEWTON MEN WHO SERVED MORE OR LESS IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANfiED. Copied from the Towtt Records and Muster Bolls, at the Secretary of State's Office. Those in Italics, did volunteer duty, either at the battles of Lexington and Concord, or manned the lines at Dor- chester Heights, or by guarding the surrendered troops of General Burgoyne, &c. The others enlisted in .the army, for various terms of service. Those marked thus: * enlisted for three years, or during the war, commencing January 1, 1777. Adams, Joseph Adams, Joseph, Jr. Adams, Roger Adams, Smith Adams, Benjamin Adams, Jonas Adams, John Armstrong, John Abbot, Nehemiah Ackers, Jeremiah Ackers, Jeremiah, Jr. Ash, Phineas Bartlett, David Bartlett, Elisha Bartlett, Jonathan Bartlett, Luke Bartlett^ 'Moses Barber, Silas Barber, John Burrage, Ephraim Burrage, John Burrage, Simon Burrage, Samuel, Jr. Bogle, Thomas * Bogle, John Bogle, William Bacon, George Bull, Robert BuUough, Joseph Brown, John Brown, John, Jr. Brown, Amos Brown, Jonathan Brown, George 202 EABLT HISTOHT OF NEWTON. Beale, Thomas Beale, Moses Beale, Jolm BJanden, Francis Blanden, Francis, Jr. Blandeo, Phineas Blanden, Jonas Blanden, Joseph Blanden, Jonathan Bond, Phineas Bond, Phineas, Jr. Bond, Joiias Bond, Aaron Bixby, Jonathan Bixhf, John Bowles, William Bryan, Kichard Burt, Alexander * Boylston, Thomas Blackington, Israel Bigelow, Samuel * Barnard, "William * Bridge, John * Clark, Norman Clark, Norman, Jr. Clark, Benjamin Clark, Peter Clark, David Clark, Samuel Olarle, William Cl%rk, Daniel Clark, Jonathan Child, Aaron * Ghild, Josiah Child, Moses Child, Timothy Child, Jonas Child, Jonathan * Child, Samuel, Jr. Cheney, William •Cheney, William, Jr. Cheney, Daniel Oheney, Elisha Cheney, Ebenezer Craft, Joseph Craft, Moses draft, Samuel Cook, Phineas, Capt. Opok, Josiah Oook, Josiah, Jr. Cook, Daniel Cook, Jonathan Colby, David Goggin, Samuel Coggin, James Chub, Silas Converse, Edward Ghauncy, Elisha, Drum'r. Crosby, Asa Cole, Abraham * Chamberlain, Simon Dana, Benjamin Dana, Eichard Dana, Ezra Dana, Nathan Davenport, Joseph Davenport, Josiah * Davenport, Abner SOLDIERS OF THE KBVOLTJTION. 203 Durant, Thomas Durant, Nathaniel * Durant, Allen Durant, James Durell, Peter Durell, Peter, Jr. Durell, John Downing, James Downing, Robert Dalrymple, Robert De Granville, Francis • Donovan, Jeremiah Daniels, John Davis, Ebenezer Draper, Samuel Eddy, Benjamin Eddy, John Elliot, Samuel Ellis, Andrew Fuller, Nathan, Col. Fuller, Edward, Capt. Fuller, Amariah, Capt. FuUer, Joseph, Capt. Fuller, Joshua Fuller, Joshua, Jr. Fuller, Aaron Fuller, James Fuller, David Fuller, Joseph Fuller, Richard Fuller, Oliver Fuller, John Fuller, Elisha Fuller, Moses Fuller, Samuel Fuller, Elias Fuller, Daniel Fuller, Abraham, Esq. Fuller, Asa, Fifer Fuller, Josiah Fuller, Josiah, Jr. Fisk, Thomas Fisk, William C. Fitch, Thomas * Feacham, George Fillebrown, John Fenno, Ephraipi Fenno, Oliver Flagg, Joshua Flagg, Timothy Fay, Thomas Guild, Samuel Godwin, Henry Gosson, Joseph * Greenwood, Thomas Gfreenwood, Joshua Greenwood, Jackson Greenwood, Ebenezer Greenwood, Isaac Gilmore, Robert Gioring, Prince * Godlip, Daniel * Gregg, John Hyde, Samuel, Sergeant Hyde, Daniel Hyde, William Hyde, John Hyde, Amos 204 EABLT HISTORY OF NEWTON. Hyde, Thaddeus Hyde, Joseph, Jr. Hyde, Noah Hyde, Elisha, Jr. Hyde, Gershom Hyde, Job Hyde, Noah, Jr. Hyde, Philip Hyde, Amos Hyde, Samuel, Jr. Hammond, William, Ser- Hammond, Mioch Hammand, Daniel Hammond, Jonathan Hammond, Samuel Hamm,ond, Joshua Hammond, Thomas Hammmid, Benjamin Hall, Edward Hall, Edward, Jr. £[all, Samuel Hall, John Hager, David Hager, Isaae Healy, John Howard, Jonathan Hodges, Francis Hinds, Ebenezer Hoogs, Francis Hill, Thomas * ' Hunt, Daniel * Hamilton, John * Hildreth, Isaac H. >[ Jackson, Michael, Col. Jackson, Michael, Jr., Lt.* Jackson, Simon, Capt. Jackson, Amasa, Ensign * Jackson, Ebenezer, Lt. * Jackson, Charles, Ensign * Jackson, Jonas Jackson, Aaron * Jackson, Moses * Jackson, David Jackson, Gershom * Jackson, William * Jackson, Enoch Jackson, Jonas, Jr. Jackson, Ephraim, Col, Jackson, Ephraim, Jr. * Jackson, Edward Jackson, Joshua Jackson, Joshua, Jr. Jackson, Daniel, Lt.* Jackson, Nathaniel * Jackson, Josiah * Jackson, Jonathan Jackson, Moses Jackson, Nathaniel Jackson, Jonathan * Jackson, Jonathan, Jr. Jackson, Thomas * Jackson, Phineas * Jackson, Oliver * Jackson, Joseph Jackson, Joseph, Jr. Jackson, Timothy ■) IS? f "-^ ) Bo oW SOLDIERS OF THE EEVOLUTION. 205 /-fc ysg Jackson, Edward Jackson, J^se Jackson, Nathan * Jackson, Thaddeus Jiackspn, Asa Jackson, Abraham Jackson, Isaac Jackson, Edward Jackson, Caleb Jackson, Samuel, Sergeant, son of Samuel, Esq. Jackson, Samuel, son of Edward, Jr. Jackson, Daniel, son of Sebas Jennisim, Phineas Jennison, Samuel Kelly, Ghristoplier * Kenrick, John Kenrick, John, Jr. Kenrick, Caleb King, Dr. John King, John, Jr. King, Hepry Knapp, Samuel Lyon, Eliphalet lAvermore, Jonathan Marean, William Marean, John, Jr. Marean, Samuel Murdoek, Joshua, Sergeant Murdock, Joshua, Jr. Murdoek, Aaron Murdock, Samuel, Corporal 18 Murdock, Elisha Murdock, John Mirick, Jonathan Mirick, Samuel Mcintosh, William Miller, Thomas Miller, Samuel * Miller, John * Miller, Job Miller, Timothy Marshall, Francis Marget, John Morse, Joseph * Morse, Nathan Mills, Jonas McCoy, James * Maier, Luda * Mendon, Nathan * Magus, Pomp McFarlan, H. Mudge, Newell, Solomon Owen, Thomas * Ocher, Jeremiah * Perkins, Aaron Pierce, Benjamin * Payker, Josiah Parker, John, Jr. Parker, Francis Parker, Benjamin Parker, Henry Parker, Abraham Parker, Elisha Parker, Jackson * 206 EAELT HISTOET OF NEWTON. Parker, Samuel Parker, Samuel, Jr. * Parker, Jonathan Parker, Peter Parker, Aaron Parher, Ebeneeer Parker, Nathan Parker, Nathaniel Park, Richard Park, William, Jr. Park, John * Park, Joseph Prentice, Robert Prentice, Joshua Prentice, Benjamin Prentice, James Pratt, Cyrua * Pratt, Silas Palmer John Pond, Simeon Pillsbury, Nathan * Pulsifer, Charles Richardson, Samuel, Lt. Sichardson, Aaron Richardson, Solomon ^ Richardson, Peter Richardson, Thomas Richards, Daniel Richards, Aaron Richards, Solomon Richards, James Richards, James, Jr. RobMns, Nathaniel RobUns, Solomon RobMns, Phineas Robbins, John RobMns, Elisha RobMns, Isaac Rogers, John, Jr. Rogers, Isaac Rogers, Aaron Robinson, Asa Robinson, Obediah * Robinson, Thomas * Ross, Benjamin * Russell, William Roster, Anthony * Shepard, Alexander, Jr. Shepard, Jonathan Shepard, John * Shepard, Edward Seger, Nathaniel Seger, Henri/ Seger, Samuel Seger, John Seger, Ebenezer, Serg't.* Seger, Edmund Spring, Samuel, Drum'r. Spring, Thaddeus StoweU, Abijah Stevens, James Stone, Jonas Stone, Jonas, Jr. Stone, David Stone, Ebenezer Stone, James, Jr. Stone, Nathaniel Stone, Amos SOLDIERS OP THE REVOLUTION. 207 Stone, Jonathan Stone, John, Sergeant Stone, Moses Stone, Samuel Stearns, Silas Stearns, Willis ScoUay, John * Spencer, Jonathan * Sibley, John * Savage, John Trowbridge, Edmund, Sergeant Trowbridge, Samuel Thwing, John Thwing, Nicholas Upham, William, Jr. TJpham, Daniel Wiswall, Jeremiah, Copt. Wiswall, Noah Wiswall, Ebenezer Wiswall, Samuel Wiswall, John Woodward, John Woodward, Ebenezer Woodward, Samuel Ward, John, Jr. Ward, John, 3(f -I Ward, Joseph, Colonel Ward, Samuel Ward, Enoch White, Daniel White, Stephen White, Joseph White, Samuel Winchester, Stephen Winchester, Jonathan * Winchester, Charles Wilson, John Wilson, Thomas Wilson, Nehemiah Williams, Jonathan Williams, Jonathan, Jr. Williams, Isaac Williams, Ebenezer, Cor* poral Williams, David * Williams, Enoch * Williams, Ephraim * Whitney, Andrew Whitney, Reuben * Whitney, Abner Whitney, Thaddeug Whitney, Ephraim Whitney, Timothy Whitney, Caleb Whitney, Stephen Whitney, Abraham Whitney, Elnathan Whiting, Ephraim Whiting, Andrew Wheaton, Caleb Woodcock, Nathaniel Wheeler, William Willard, Nathan * •' Worcester, Christopher G. 208 EARLY HISTOET OF NEWTON. INSTRUCTIONS TO REPRESENTATIVE. May, 1786. Hon. Abraham Fuller chosen to represent the Town in the General Court. A committee was chosen to report instructions to him ; Timothy Jackson, Chairman, whose report was accepted, and from which the following is extracted : "To the Hon. Abraham Fuller, — " Being sensible of your zeal and fidelity for promoting the public good, we remind you that we labor under some grievances, which, upon proper representation to the Gen- eral Court, we have good right to expect, will be removed. " We find, by experience, that we cannot obtain justice and right, ' promptly and without delay,' as the Constitution provides, without being obliged to purchase it. " One great cause of this deficiency, we apprehend to be the multiplicity and ambiguity of our laws, and their being blended with' the British codes, whereby it becomes impos- sible for the people in gener?il to understand them, or to form from them a rule of conduct. " Great numbers of actions are brought at every Court, which, together with the pernicious practices of some of our lawyers, occasion delays, appeals, protraction of judgment, loss of time, travel, attendance, intolerable expenses, and great grievances ; so much so, that, unless the sum in dis- pute be considerable, it is better to lose it, than to seek its recovery at law. " These grievances, we humbly conceive, may be greatly alleviated, if not remedied, by a revision of our laws, reducing their bulk, and expressing them in the most plain and easy terms, conformable to our republican government. By establishing a Court of Record in each town, consisting DEPRESSING EFFECTS OF THE "WAE. 209 of three or five persons, drawn as jurors now are, before wliom all civil actions shall be brought ^ the defendant to lodge his plea a sufficient time before the sitting of the Court, or be defaulted. The Town Clerk to grant writs and summonses ; make up judgment ; give out executions, and keep the records. From this Court let there be an appeal to the Supreme Court of Judicature. "In cases of arbitration, specified in writing, by the parties, the award to be final, and the execution to be issued by the Town Clerk. "We deprecate the establishment of a paper currency, and desire you to use your influence against it, having long felt its evil tendency, and observed the pecuniary xuin of many people, especially widows and orphans. " We think it would answer a salutary purpose, to have the yeas and nays taken in the Hon. House of Representa- tives, on every important question, and published, and desire you to use your influence to accomplish that end. " We are of opinion, that the importation and consump- tion of many articles of luxury among us, are detrimental to our prosperity, and the use of which ought to be dis- couraged." May 22, 1786. These instructions to their Bepresenta- tive were intended to alleviate some of the most prominent evils under which the community were suffering, from the exhausting effects of an eight years' war, during which the country had been drained by taxation ; public credit was nearly extinct ; trade and manufactures languishing ; paper money depreciated and worthless ; oppressive debts restiiig upon the nation, commonwealth, towns, and citizens. " The first reviving efforts of commerce overstocked the markets with foreign luxuries and superfluities, sold to 18* 210 EAELT HISTOKT OF NEWTON. many who trusted to the future to supply the means of payment. " The temporary Act of 1782, making property a tender, in discharge of pecuniary contracts, instead of the designed remedial eflfect, enhanced the evils of general insolvency, by postponing collections. " The outstanding demands of the royalist refugees, who had been driven from large estates and extensive business, enforced with no lenient forbearance, came in to increase the embarrassments of the deferred pay day. Af length a flood of suits broke out. " In 1784, more than two thousand actions were entered, in the County of Worcester, then having a population of less than fifty thousand. In 1785, seventeen hundred actions were entered, in the same County. Lands and goods were seized, and sacrificed on sale, when the general difficulties drove away purchasers. Amid the universal distress, inflammatory publications, seditious and exciting appeals, were circulated among the people. The Constitu- tion was represented as defective, the administration as corrupt, the laws as unequal and unjust." * Out of this state of affairs grew the Insurrection, headed by Daniel Shays, whose first overt act of rebellion, in September, 1786, was to prevent the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas, in Worcester, by armed soldiers, who, ■with fixed bayonets, threatened the lives of the Judges. This movement of the disaffected persons to the govern- ment, was brought before the Town, by a circular letter, addressed to the Selectmen, dated June 29, 1786, signed by 'Captain John Nutting, as chairman of a committee from the towns of Groton,. Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend, and Ashby, inviting the Town to choose a committee to attend • Lincoln's History of Worcester. INSURRECTION DENOtrNCED. .211 a Convention, to be holden at Concord, to consult on matters of public grievances and embarrassments, and devise a remedy therefor. "Whereupon, the Town voted not to join in the proposed Convention, and chose a com- mittee to reply to Captain Nutting's letter, of which Colonel William Hull was Chairman. On August 21, 1786, Colonel Hull reported an answer to Captain Nutting's letter, from which the following extracts are taken : ''Newton, August 21, 1786. " To Captain John Nutting, Chaiirman, &c. " Sir : — In consequence of your letter of the 29th of June last, this Town has been legally assembled, for the purpose of considering its contents. They have declined your invitation to take part in the proposed Convention, to be held at Concord, and have instructed us to communicate to you the following answer : " Your movement appears to be involved in uncertainty. We would not entertain uncharitable sentiments of any of our fellow-citizens, yet we are constrained to observe, that this movement has created suspicions in our minds, rather unfavorable to its authors. The particular circumstances of the towns assembled at Groton, and the particular time of their meeting, induce us to fear that their designs and intentions were not altogether coincident with constitutional government. We would ask, whether either of those towns had complied with their duty, in electing Representatives to the General Court? Whether the Generd Court was not sitting, at the very time of your meeting at Groton ? "If these towns labored under any real grievances, why did they neglect the proper mode of represei^ng them ? " Why did they not elect Representatives, and instruct them to use their influence in obtaining redress ? 212 EARLY HISTOBT OF NEWTON. " We feel a pride in having men of our own choice, to administer our affairs, and who depend on us for their seats in our councils. " We have been conducted through the dangers of a long and obstinate war; have obtained the object 'of our wishes, and have safely arrived at the haven of peace, being totally freed from the influence of foreign power. We have entered into a solemn compact with each other, under a Constitution of civil government, for ourselves and our posterity. ^' By this Constitution, the people have the privilege of annually electing every firanch of the Legislature, which body is abundantly authorized to remove every real griev- ance, which their constituents suffer ; and we are strongly inclined to believe, that had your grievances been such as ought in justice to have been redressed, you would have made your application to this constitutional authority. "The grievances you complain of, mainly, are public taxes, which are occasioned by the public debt, and the pay- ment of private debts, which result from private obligations. " We cannot consider pubhc taxes grievances ; they are a burden, it is true, which bear heavy upon us, but the pub- lic debt which we have voluntarily contracted, is the price of our freedom and independence, and we feel ourselves bound, by every principle of justice, and every tie of gratitude, honorably to discharge it. "Is it a grievance to pay the debts we have voluntarily contracted, and for which we have received a valuable consideration ? " Is it a grievance for a man, after having had the use of his neighbor's property, to return it to him ? Is it a griev- ance that the? fruit of a man's labor and industry are se- cured to him, by the laws of the community ? " Is it a grievance that the idle and profligate are not INSDEEECTION CEtJSHED. 213 permitted to riot on the hard-earned property of the frugal a,nd industrious ? Is it a grievance that the courts of jus- tice are open to all ranks and classes of people ? " Is it a grievance to you, Mr. Nutting, and the people for whom you appear to act, that your lives, your freedom, and your property, are secured to you, by the laws of our country ? " We counsel you to desist from measures which w6 con- ceive to be unwarrantable, and instead of assembling a County Convention, which will have a tendency to create dissentioUj and weaken the government, it will conduce infinitely more to the public advantage, and private emolu- ment, peaceably and industriously to pursue our several employments, to practise frugality, economy, and support the government of our own choice ; in this way, we shall soon relieve ourselves from our burthens, be happy at • home, and respected abroad. In this way, shall we pre-* serve the liberties we have acquired, and transmit them inviolate to posterity." January 1 6, 1787. Town Meeting. "Voted, to raise men in defence of the government ; and to give every soldier that shall enlist, twenty shillings, as a bounty." January 29. " Voted, that the men who volunteer in the government service, at this time, shall have the same pro- portion of bounty from the Town, according to the time they may be in the service, as the Town voted on the 16th instant, to those soldiers that marched from Newton to "join G-eneral Lincoln's army." Daniel Shays, the leader of the Insurrection, marched into the streets of Worcester, on the 6th of December, 1786, at the head of a column of eight hundred troops. His force never, at any time, exceeded one thousand men. The government raised an army of four thousand four hundred men, from the Counties of Suffolk, Essex, Middle- 214 EAELT HISTOBT OF NEWTON. sex, Hampshire, and Worcester, for thirty days' service, commanded by General Benjamin Lincoln. On the 21st of January, the army took up its line of march from Eox- bury, reached Worcester the next day, and quartered upon the inhabitants. Here they were joined by the regiments of the Country. The rapid marches and energetic conduct of General Lincoln, surprised the Insurgents, put them to flight, and crushed the rebellion. January, 1788. The Massachusetts Convention assem- bled in Boston, consisting of three hundred and sixty members, to consider the Federal Constitution. After a discussion of several weeks, the question of its adoption' was taken, on the 6th of February, and one hundred and eighty-seven voted for it, and one hundred and sixty-eight against it. Judge Fuller was the Delegate from Newton, Snd he voted for its adoption. 1795. Pursuant to a Eesolve of the General Court, requesting the freeholders to vote upon the question of revising the Constitution pf Massachusetts, the question was put to the Town, and fifty-five Voted for revision, and eight against it. May 14, 1798. At a general meeting of the freeholders, after the envoys of the United States had been denied a hearing, by the government of France, the following Reso- lutions were unanimously adopted : 1. " That the wisdom and justice of our National Gov- ernment, in their past efforts to preserve the neutrality and independence of the United States of America, meet our warmest approbation. 2. "That, whereas the citizens of this Town did, at the. ever memorable era, when the great question of Independ- ence was decided by the American people, unanimously TOTfTN CLERKS AND TREASURERS. 215 pledge their lives and fortunes, to support the absolute sovereignty thereof, they now repeat the solemn pledge, and wiU exert every power they possess, to support the Constitution and the Grovemment, against the claims and aggressions of any foreign power, and aU open and secret enemies to the Government and people of these United States." TOWN CLERKS AND TREASURERS. % Years. Thomas Greenwood, (?) 1679 to 1693, inclusive, 15 Deacon Edward Jackson, Deacon John Staples, Samuel Jackson, Esq., ■ Deacon Thomas Greenwood, Captain Abraham FuUer, Deacon Ebenezer Woodward, Deacon Samuel Murdock, Obediah Thayer, Joseph Jackson, Esq., Deacon Elijah F. Woodward, Marshall S. Rice, Esq., At a Town Meeting, held 30th January, 1681, it was voted, " that what had been recorded in the old book, that was of moment, should be transcribed into the new book, and that Sergeant Ward and Noah WiswaU should see that it be done accordingly." Neither the " old book," nor the book commenced by Ward and Wiswall, can now be found. It is, therefore, not known who officiated as Town Clerk, from 1679 to 1694. Probably John Ward, Captain' Noah Wiswall, or Thomas Greenwood, Senior, one or the other of them, doubtless filled that office, for the first fifteen years. 1694 « 1713,^ ii 20 1714 « 1734, u 21 1735 « 1742, 11 8 1748 « 1765,. u 23 1766 « 1792, u 27 1793 1 1794 « 1814, (I 21 1815 " 1816, iC 2 1817 « 1825, ti 9 1826- « 1845, u 20 1846 « 216 EAELT HISTORY OP NKWTON. SELECTMEN. . Captain Thomas Prentice, 9 years, from. 1679 Sergeant John Ward, 9 " 1679 Deacon James Trowbridge, 9 " 1679 Lieutenant John Spring, 8 " 1684 Captain Noah WiswaU, 1 « 1685 Thomas Prentice, 2d, 3 " 1686 JohnFuUer, 5 'i 1686 Thomas Greenwood, 4 " 1686 James Prentice, 2 " 1688 Deacon Edward Jackson, 7 " 1687 Lieutenant Ebenezer WiswaU, 1 " 1689 Captain Isaac Williams, ' 3 " 1691 Sergeant Jonathan Hyde, 1> " 169.1 Abraham Jackson, 12 " 1688 Ensign John Kenrick, 9 " 1689 John Mason, 5 " 1689 Jonathan Fuller, 1 " 1696 Stephen Cook, 4 « 1697 Captain Joseph Fuller, 5 « 1700 John Ward, Jr., 5 « 1701 John Woodward, 2 « 1701 Deacon John Staples, 8 « 1701 Lieutenant Jeremiah Fuller, 16 " 1702 John Hyde, 3 « 1704 Nathaniel Healy, 3 " 1704 Hon. Ebenezer Stone, 10 « 1705 Ephraim Wheeler, 1 " 1706 Lieutenant Thomas WiswaU, 2 " 1706 WiUiamWard, * 3 " 1707 Deacon Richard Ward, 8 « 1710 John Greenwood, Esq., 18 " 1711 SELECTMEN. 2; Samuel Hyde, 5 years, from 1711 Thomas Hammond, 1 (( 17-13 Captain Thomas Prentice, 5 ii 1713 Eleazer Ward, 3 (( 1714 Nathaniel Parker, 2 u 1714 Ensign John Spring, 12 ii 1717 Samuel Truesdale, 2 <( 1717 John Trowbridge, 2 ii 1720 John Clark, Jr., 1 , " 1722 Colonel Ephraim WiUiams, 7 IC 1724 Lieutenant Robert Murdock, Jr., 9 (f 1724 Edward Ward, 1 ii 1725 Nathaniel Hammond, 3 I( 1732 Daniel Woodward, 3 it 173.2 Samuel Jackson, Esq., 3 ii 1733 Isaac Williams, Jr., 1 (( 1734 Jonathan Dyke, 3 ii 1734 William Robinson, 1 r BEALS, ISRAEL, (s. of Thomas, Sen., prob.,j m. Eumce Elagg, 1748, and had Israel, June 22, 1749 ; Eunice, Mfch 6, 1752 ; Joshua, Dec. 27, 1753 ; Susarma, March 28, 1756 ; Eleazer, July 9, 1758 ; Isaac, Sept. 10, 1763. BEALE, JOHN, (s. of Thomas, Sen.,) m. Elizabeth Hall, 1755, and had John, Jan. 5, 1756 ; Moses, Aug. 31, 1758 ; Asa, Dec. 6, 1761 ; Elizabeth, Aug. 21, 1764; Mari/y Nov. 13, 1766. Elizabeth m. John Cookson, 1785. He d. 1772. BEALE, De. LAZAEUS, a physician, (c. of Lazarus, of Hingham, prob., who represented Hingham, in the General Court, in 1719 and '20,) m. Lydia Wheat, 1749, and had Zyrfjo, July 6, 1751; Lazarus Andrews, Sept. 30, 1753; Samuel, March 7, 1758; W^iam, Ms.y 6, 1760; iVoiZw, July 6, 1762. , BEALE, LAZABTJS A., (s. of Dr. Lazarus,) m. Bethiah , and had Samuel, Aug. 29, 1777 ; Jonathan,, Dec. 25, 1779. BEALE, GBRSHAM, bought five acres of land of Joshua Euller, at the Upper Ealls, in Newton, in 1712, and d. 1723. i'^'^ ' " ' ' ' • BEALE, ISAAC, d. Eeb. 1736, se. 88. ^. , -;'-/' ' ' BEALE, THOMAS, Je., d. Nov. 29, 1815. BEALE, THOMAS, d. 1818, se. 48. His gravestone is in the West Parish burial place. He was prob. s. of Israel, or John; or of Dr. Lazarus. BOND, JOSIAH, (was the youngest s. of Col. Jonas Bond, Esq., of Wat. Col. Jonas m. for his 2d w. Elizabeth, the wid. of John Prentice, who was the s. of Capt. Thomas Prentice, dr. of Edward Jackson, Sen.,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Capt, Joseph Euller, 1720, and had Elizabeth, March 6, 1721 ; Jonas, March 6, 1723, d. 1723 ; Josiah, June 21, 1724 ; Jonas, Sept. 23, 1725 ; Sarcli, Sept. 21, 1727 ; Lydia, Anna, Esther, Henry. She d. January 1, 1741, se. 83. BOND, PHESEAS, (s. of Josiah, prob.) m. ThantfiU Puller, 1749, and had Elizabeth, Sept. 22, 1750) d. 1756 ; Martha, April 16, 1752 ; Phineas, Dec. 3, 1753, d. 1756 ; Aaron, July 21, 1755 ; PMtleas, July, 1757 ; Nathan, Joly 19, 1759 ; Elizabeth, July 15, 1762 ; Patty, and 21 242 BIXBT — BOWMAN— rBLANDEN. John. Martha m. Joseph Morse, Jr., 1775 — Elizabeth m. Samuel Trowbridge. The Bonds lived upon the " Fuller farm." BIXBY, JONATHAN, m. AngeUna , and had Jonathan W., 1846 ; Joseph, 1839. BIXBY, JONATHAN, (sup. s. of Joseph and Sarah, of Boxford,) m. Rachel Hobome, 1709 ; lived at the Upper Palls, and had Bachd, and prob. others. Eachel had Hannah, April 30, 1715. He d. 1714, and Henry Seger, Jno. Woodward, and John Staples, appraised his estate. BrXBT, JONATHAN, m. Eunice, dr. of Thomas Parker, and had Jonathan, Sept. 24, 1774, d. 1835; Samuel, Feb. 24, 1777. 2d w. Elizabeth Hammond, 1777. Eunice the 1st w. d. 1777, £e. 30. Elizabeth, the 2d. w. d. April, 1830, se. 81. He was Selectman in 1783 and- 1784, and d. Jan. 23, 1819. BIXBY, HIRAM, m. Elener Gardner, 1828, and d. 1838, se. 31. BOWMAN, JOSEPH, m. Hannah Butter, 1720. BOWLES, Dea. WILLIAM, came from Box., was Dea. of the ch. there ; Selectman, in Newton, two years ; owned the place at the E. part of the Town, since possessed by Obediah Curtis. Had by w. Sarah, Elizabeth, Sept. 1, 1772; William, Aug. 9, 1774; Nathaniel, May 13, 1776 ; Josiah, May 24, 1777. BOWKER, MICHAEL, had by w. Experience, JbsioS, July 6, 1707. BULL, ROBERT, from Cambridge, had by w. MiUisent, Jsaao, July 17, 1772 ; Rkoda, Nov. 23, 1774. BULLOUGH, JOHN, d. 1772. BULLOUGH, JOHN, (s. of Abigail Hyde,) Dec. 19, 1801. BULLOUGH, GEORGE, d. 1746. BULLOUGH, JOSEPH, d. 1835, re. 64. BLANDEN, ERANCIS, of Erench descent, came ftom Canada; his house was upon the N. bank of Wiswall's pond, the same spot where Samuel Hyde, Jr., lived, and is now occupied by a more costly mansion. He had by w. Elizabeth Hyde, dr. of Daniel Hyde, Francis, Oct. 19, 1718 ; Elizabeth, d. 1721 ; Abigail, March 24, 1726 ; Hannah, Sept. 24, 1722. Abigail»m. Phineas Eames, of Eraming- ham, 1751. Hannah had s. OaU, 1752. He d. 1754, and w. Eliza- beth, 1763. BLANDEN — BOTLSTON — BCNCE. 243 BLAITOEN, FRANCIS, Jb., m. Susanna Bailey, of Brookline. She d. March, 1747. 2d w. AbigaU Toser, 1749, and had Susanna, July 13, 1750 ; John, June 17, 1752 ; Francis, Mar. 24, 1754 ; Samuel, Feb. 17, 1756; Jonathan, Jan. 30, 1758; Elisha, Oct. 20, 1759; Jonas, July 3, 1761; Elizabeth, March 9, 1763; Abigail, Dec. 19, 1764; Mary, March 20, 1766; Phineas, Oct. 7, 1770, d. 1831. Abi- gail m. Eobert Fuller, 1794 — Mary m. Benjamin Williams — Eliz- abeth m. Isaac Nichols — Elisha went to Sutton — Jonathan went to Vt. — Susanna m. Learned — John, Francis, and Samuel d. in the army — Phineas m. Johnson. He d. 1775, ae. 57. BLANDEN, FEANCIS, (s. of Francis, Jr.) m. Mary , and had Jane, Aug. 2, 1782 ; BorodeU, Feb. 10, 1784 ; George, July 20, 1785 ; DoUy, Nov. 6, 1786. BLANDEN, JONAS, (s. of Francis, Jr.) m. Esther , and had Phineas, June 7, 1798; Gilbert, Oct. 3, 1800; George TF., Feb. 14, 1803. HANNAH, (dr. of Francis Blanden, Sen.,) had Caleb,* Aag. 27, 1752. ELIZABETH, (dr. of Francis, Jr.) had Sally Durant,* Aug. 15, 1781 ; Harriet Morse,* June 7, 1785; Nathanid,* Jan. 25, 1788; Nancy,* May 6, 1791 ; Charlotte,* Aug. 19, 1792. ABIGAIL, (dr. of Francis, Jr.) had Allen Ward,* June 4, 1792 ; Abi- gail,* Nov. 6, 1787. MAEY, (dr. of Francis, Jr.) had Charles Pdham,* April 25, 1792. BLAVEB, NANCY,* dr. of SybU Lovelock, July 8, 1793. BLISS, LUCIUS, m. Khoda , and had Silas, Dec. 7, 1800. BOYLSTON, DUDLEY, had by w. Elizabeth , Richard, Feb. 17, 1721 ; Dudley, Ann, John, RSecca, Martha, Joshua, Caleb, and Edward. His will is in Suffolk, 1 748, son Eichard, executor. His ancestor was Thomas Boylston, who came to this country at the age of twenty years, in 1635, in ship Abigail, Eobert Hackwell, master. Dr. Thatcher's Biography states that he obtained the degree of Dr. of Medicine, at Oxford ; settled in Brookline, and was g. f. to the celebrated Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, F. E. S. BUNCE, JAMES, had by w. Betsy, Elisha, Feb. 4, 1802 ; Caroline, Oct. 10, 1803. •megiUmate. 244 BpitRA.aB-F-Bnsa— BLOOD. BUERAGE, JOHN, m. Lydia, dr. Pe», Eichard Ward, 1718. Sha d. 1745. He d. 1765. BUREAGE, SAMUEL, (snp. s. of John and Lydia,) m. Mary Drar per, 1754, and had Jifary, July 19, 1756; &mi(eZ, Mar. 6, 1759 ; and Catherine, April 2, 1763. She d. 1778. 2d w. Hannah Draper, 1780. Mary m. Samuel Sanger, of Wat, 1787. BTJRRAGE, WILLIAM, (sup. s. of John, and Lydia,) m. Hannah Osland, 1744. BUEEAGE, JOHN, (sup. 8. of John and Lydia,) m. Sarah , and had John, Samuel, T!i'»nas, Ephraim, Mary, Anna, and SirmaL BUEEAGE, EFHEAIM, (sup. s. of John and Lydia,) sa. Elizabeth Serer, 1767. The Burrage family liyed N. of Samuel Trowbridge. BUZZAUB, WILLIAM, m. Eebecca Whitney, 1780, and had' 6er^ sham, April 28, 1782 ; Bet^y, July 4, 1785 ; Asa, July 3, 1787 ; C^r- iso, March 30, 17iC0. BUSH, JOSEPH, (s. of John and Elizabeth Bush, and b. in Camb., Aug. 16, 1654,) m. Fraiiah , and had Lydia, Sept. 17, 1692 j ^hariah, Sept. 2C, iaBJ, d. 1717; Joseph d. 1723; w. Hannah d. 1736. He d. befcrs IVCj, and his f. John, in Camb., 1662. BEIDGB, JEEEMIAE, (s. of Joseph, of Lex., prob.,) m, Sarah ^ and had John, Aug. 4, 1780. BLOOD, Eldek CALEB, was bom in Charlton, County of Wor^ cester, Aug. 18, 1754. At the age of twenty-one years, ho was con^ yerted to the Baptistfssct, and commenced as an itinerant Baptist I*reacher ; was ordained at Marlow, N. H., 1777, and preached in that region about two years ; removed to Weston, Mass., and supplied the Baptjst oh. ia that town, about eighteen months. On the 5th of July, 1780, tihe fiyst Baptist ch., in Newton, was formed at the house of Noah Wiswall, and Mr. Blood made an address on the occasion. On the 15th of July, 1780, this new ch. " voted to give Elder Blood a c^ to take charge of the ch. for one year." He accepted, and removed to Newton, ia March, 1781, and continued to preach there nntU Jan., 1788. He was the teacher of the Town school, in the south district, two Winters. He removed to Shaftsbury, Vt, and preached there nearly twenty years. In Sept., 1807, he removed to the third Baptist ch. in Boston, and continued there to June, 1810. He then removed to the first Baptist ch., in Portland, Me., where he BEACKETT — BEEWEE — BEOTVN. 245 d. March 6, 1814, se. 60. He was much beloved by his people, in Newton. His preaching is said to have been "plain, bold, faithful, and able." He had, in Newton, by w. Sarah, Betsy, April 23, 1781 ; Ekner, Nov. 20^ 1783; Martha, Oct. 13, 1786. BEACKETT, WILLIAM, m. Ann Babcock, of BrooUine, and had Ann, June 25, 1814; Glarisa B., Dec. 23, 1815; Sarah, April 1, 1818 ; Mary E., June 12, 1823. BREWEE, PHILEMON, (s. of John and Hannah Brewer,) d. 1736. BROWN, WILLIAM, had by w. Rebecca, Eliiaheth, Nov. 14, 1695. BROWN, JOHN, w. d. May 4, 1733. BROWN, EBENEZEE, (sup. s. of Jonathan and Mary, of Wat._) d. March 3, 1739, and his w. Mary d. 1743. BROWN, THOMAS, (sup. s. of Ebenezer,) m. Abigail , and had Joseph, July 5, 1723 ; Thomas, Dec. 5, 1724 ; Ebenezer, Sept. 3, 1726, d. 1739; AUgail, Sept. 10, 1728; Mary, Jan. 31, 1730; Susanna, A.pril 7, 1732, d. 1740; Bebecca, Oct. 5, 1734; Nathaniel, March 1, 1737, d. 1740; John, May 26, 1739, d. 1754; Nathaniel, Aug. 13, 1741 ; and Aaron, May 1, 1744. His Negro girl d. 1754. BROWN, JONATHAN, (sup. s. of Ebenezer,) m. Hannah , and had Nathaniel, July 24, 1732; Jonathan, Oct. 27, 1733; Philemon, May 24, 1736 ; Lois, Dec. 29, 1739 ; Philemon, Feb. 11, 1742 ; Enoch, March 13, 1744 ; Lemvd, Aug. 21, 1746 ; Danid, Oct. 2, 1750, d. 1750 ; Lucy, d. 1749. BROWN, ROBERT," (sup. s. of Ebenezer,) m. Maty Fowle, 1728, andhadZjfrfio, Feb. 11, 1729; Lois, Sept. 15, 1734; Samuel, Nov. 16, 1736; Babert, d. 1732. Lydia m. Richard Knight, of Boston, 1763. Wid. Mary d. 1743. BROWN, ABRAHAM, (sup. s. of ,) m. Abigail Dyke, 1730. BROWN, JONATHAN, jR.,m. Elener Hammond, 1747. He d. 1750. BROWN, WILLIAM, (sup. s. of ,) m. Atiti Moulton, of Wat., 1746, and had Daniel, Oct. 30, 1749. 2d w. Lydia — — . BROWN, THOMAS, Jh., m. Maiy Pettis, 1747, and had Elizabeth, Sept. 8, 1748; Enoch, March 13, 1749; Cfeorge, April 3, 1752. Abi- gail (prob.) m. Josiah Hall, 1741 —Mary (prob.) m. Ephraim Bacon, 1752 —Elizabeth m. Nathaniel Wilton, Aug., 1775. She d. 1819. 21* 2M. BBOTTN — OAFBI,. CAKTEE. BEOWN, IiiEUT. EBENEZEK, from Quinoy, m. Bannali Parker, of 'Box.., F&b., 1789, i)iid had Elizabeth; Frederick, 1792 ; and Catherine. Frederick was the Master of Signals in Boston Harbor, twenty-five years, and d. July, 1850. Catherine d. young. 2d w. Nabby, dr. of Elisha PuUer, 1817. He entered, as a private, in the Co. of Minute Men, commanded by Peter Boylston Adams, brother of President John Adams, in Dec. 1774. He joined the army, as Corporal, in a Co. commanded by Jacob Loud, of Wfeymouth, in Col. John Greaton's.Eegiment. In 1776,, he was transferred to Col. Whitney's Eegiment, with the Braintree Co., commanded by Capt Thayer. In 1777, he cnlistod for the war, as Serg't, with Capt. Judah Alden, in Col. Bailey's Eegiment. He was in several battles, preceding the capture of Burgoyne's crmy, where he was wounded by a musket ball, in his right sh.o>.i?.Vr, which, passing through the shoulder blade, lodged in his bade, be '. ,T^3n the shoulders. Nine days after the battle, he received an !Ei.:ign's commission, signed by Gen. Washing- ton's own hand, which he kept folded and enveloped with great care, sixty-seven years. After the surrender of Burgoyne, he was' trans- ferred to Col. Voce's Eegiment, which was under La Eayette, in the Virginia campaign. He was in several skirmishes, and in the battles of Hot Water Springs, Green Springs, and Yorktown. Soon after the capture of Comwallis, he received a Lieut.'s commission. He d. at Newton Qomer, Sept. 1, 1844, se. 87 1-2, BEOWN, JOSEPH, (s. of Thomas,) m. Sarah Ireland, 1750. 2d w. Abigail , and had Joseph, April 16, 1756; Abigail, Feb. 17, 1758 i and Benjamin, May 3, 1761. BEOWN, SAMUEL, (s. of Kobm,) m. Lois Coolidge, 1765. BROWN, Eev. SAMUEL, of Reading, d. 1732. BROWN, Eev. COTTON, d. April 13, 1751. CAPEL, JOHN, from Waltham, m. Thankftd, dr. of John Child, 1752, and had Elizahah, July 12, 1752 ; John, Jan. 24, 1754 ; Thomas, May 9, 1755 ; ThatJcfvl, April 7, 1757, d. 1759. 2d w. Hannah , and had Sarah, April 6, 1758. Elizabeth m. William Salter, Jr. of Eox., 1773. He was out ia the French war, and d. 1758, at Brook- field, on his return from Lake Gteorge. Sbe.d. 1757. CARTER, SEBEBAIT, had by w. Elizabeth, Ammi, July 13, 1696 ; Louisa, Aug. 3, 1698. CABTEB — COLLIMS — COOKB. 24T CAETER, ABRAHAM, had by w. Elizabeth , Abraham, Oct. 16, 1693. CARTER, JOAJSTNA, (dr. of Hannah Clark,) Aug. 11, 1720. SLAVES. C-ffiSAR, a negro servant of Caleb Dana, of Camb. m, ROSE, a negro servant of Capt. Caleb Kenrick, March 1, 1750. She d. 1756. C^SAR MINGO, d. May 1, 1742, very aged. COMOCHO, JOB, m. Leah Thomas, both of Natick, Dec. 11, 1754. [Indians.] CHARLEY, (Capt. Joshna Fuller's negro man,) d. 1755. COLLINS, MATTHIAS, (a. of Matthias, of Marblehead,) m. dr. of Ebenezer Davis, of firookline, and had Matthias. He came, in 1778, and bought one hundred acres of land, of Joseph Craft, upon the Sherburne road, adjoining John Woodward. He d. 1785. She d. 1819, SB. 85. COLLINS, MATTHIAS, Je., m. Hannah, dr. of Edward Jackson, Nov., 1798, and had Mira, Dec. 4, 1798; Davis, June 23, 1800; Amasa, April 7, 1802; Charles, Oct. 14, 1804; Abigail, Mardi 19, 1808 ; Edward J., April 24, 1811 ; Ann Maria, Sept. 23, 1816 ; Frederick A., Sept. 27, 1818. She d. 1852. L COOKB, GREGORY, purchased of Samuel Hyde sixteen acres of land, in 1668, bounded E. by the Dedham highway, w. by land of Edward Jackson, Sen., and b. by land of said Hyde. This place was the homestead of some of bis descendants, to about the- time of the Revolution. It was prob. occupied by liis s. Stephen. Capt. PMneas Cooke was the last of the name who possessed it. Capt. Nutting lived there many years. It is now owned by Nathaniel Bracket. In 1665, Abraham WiUiams conveyed to Gregory Cooke his late Mansion place, and about six acres of Umd, bounded e. by the highway leading from Wat. to Rox. ; s. by land of Edward Jackson, SeiL, and n. and w. by the Dummer farm. This Mansion house of Abraham WiUiams, was at Newton Comer, very near the Wat. bne. In 1672, Jeremiah Eummer, of Boston, conveyed to Gregory Cooke, shoemaker, one hundred and twelve acres of land, with a house and bam thereon, lying partly in Camb, and partly in 248 COOKE. Wat., bounded e. By the highway, s. by land of Edward Jackson, Sen. and Daniel Bacon ; w. by land of Thomas Park, and u. by Charles river. This old sharps roofed Cooke house, which stood where Henry Fuller's house now stands, was about one hundred and fifty years old, when it was puUed down, about 1823. Gregory was a Constable in Camb. Village, in 1667. Was Selectman, in Mendon, 1669 and 1670, and was a proprietor of forty acres of land there. He was of Wat., in 1673 .and 1684. His 1st w.'s name was Mary ; the death of theic d. Susanna, is upon the Wat. records, Nov. 13, 1674. His w. Mary d. Aug. 17, 1681. He m. 2d. w. wid. Susan Groodwin, Nov. 1681. He d. intestate, Jan. 1, 1690 ; and Stephen, sup. to be his son, admin, on his estate, which, according to the inventory, amounted to £191, lis. His wid. Susanna m. Henry Spring, Sept. 15, 1691. n. COOKE, STEPHEN, (prob. s. of Gregory,) m. Rebecca, dr. of Thomas Flagg, of Wat., 1679, and had Rebecca; Stephen, 3sca. 9, 1683; Jsaac,28. 2. 1685; Afti^rm/, Mar. 31, 1688 ; Susanna; Hannah; Mary, Feb. 17, 1681 ; John, March .15, 1687 ; James, Jan. 23, 1689 ; Samud, Dec. 3, 1690 ; Peter, Aug. 10, 1696 ; and Daniel, 1692. Abi- gail m. Gorge, of Wat. — Hannah m. Blake — Maory m. John Dix. He was a signer of the secession petition, of 1678 ; he was a partner in business, in 1693, with John Briscoe, of Wat., Selectman 1697, 1698, 1708, and 1716. His w. Eebecca d. 1721, se. 60. He d. 1738, se. 91 (gravestone). m. COOKE, STEPHEN, Jk., m. Hannah, dr. of Joshua Fuller, Sen., settled in Wat., and had Mary, Jan. 9, 1706 ; Hannah, Oct. 3, 1709 ; James, March 3, 1714 ; Peter, April 26, 1716 ; Susanna, Oct. 23, 1717 ; Abigail, Aug. 7, 1721 ; John, March 31, 1724. Mary m. John Dix, Sept. 28, 1726 — Hannah m. Samuel Dix, Nov. 20, 1729 — Susanna m. Eben'r Warren, of Springfield, Sept. 25, 1741 — Abigail m. Wm. Gamage, Jr. He was a miller. His will, dated 1757, proved 1761, confirms to s. John, land, house, giist mill, in Wat., described in his deed of gift ; and to s. James, a farm in Framingham, — son John, and son in law, John Dix, executors. IV. COOKE, JAMES, (s.of Stephen and Hannah,) m.in Newton, Nov. 24, 1737, Lydia Fiske, and had, in Framingham, Jonathan, Dec. 3, 1738; Lydia, Jan. 22, 1740 ; Stephen, June 24, 1741 ; Mary, June 1 6, 1 7 50 ; Enoch, Jan. 4, 1 744 ; Zebediah F., Feb. 26, 1 746 ; Eliza- beth, July 6, 1748, at Newton ; Rebecca, June 18, 1753 ; Esther, May 4, 1755 ; James, Jan. 8, 1758. 2d w., Mary Foster, 1759, and had COOKE. 249 iTannai, June 8, 1760; and Peter, Dec. 10, 1764. Elizabeth m. ■William Badlam, of Sherburne — Bebecca m. William Hagg. Mary d. Nov. 8, 1750. He d., in Newton, Nov. 1750, and his wid., 1759. in. COOKE, SAMUEL, m , and settled at Windham, Conn., andhadPMnms; Samuel; John, July, 1685; Philip, March, 1687; Abigail, March, 1688, and prob. others. (See Probate Records.) in. COOKE, JOHN, (s. of Stephen and Rebecca, or of Dea. Ste- phen, of Wat.,) m. Ruth, dr. of James Barton, Dec. 6, 1715, and settled in Preston, Conn. rn. COOKE, DANIEL, (s. of Stephen and Rebecca,) m. 1st, Abi- gail, 2d, Mary, dr. of Abrabam Jackson, April, 1722, and had Caleb, March 5, 1725, and d. 1749 ; Mary, Sept. 1, 1727 ; Isaac, Sept. 27, 1730. His f. gave him the homestead, by deed, in 1735, partly in Newton and partly in Wat. He d. Feb. 22, 1754, ss. 62. His wid. Mary d. Mar. 3, 1 770. By his will, ha bequeafcs to Phineas Cook, s. of his -deceased brother Samuel, of T^indham, Ct., his estate, after the decease of his w. Mary, and in ciiso Phiaeas die before his wid., then to his brother Samuel. His inventory states his personal property at £2,363, of which his bonds mounted to £477 ; plate, £122, and negro man, Pompey, £375. Wid. Mary's wiU, dated 1769 ; inven- tory, £409. Judge Fuller, executor. It was prob. Daniel Cooke that buUt the tomb in the old burial place, so long out of repair. COOKE, JOSEPH, of Weston, (s. of ,) m. MmdweU Hyde, 1726, and had Joseph, Aug. 26, 1729, d. 1730 ; Josiah, Sept. 9, 1732 ; SannakjMaxch 5,1733; Oliver, June 1, 1735; Solomon, July 16, 1738 ; Thomas, May 17, 1740. 2d w., Elizabeth Stratton, 1739. He d. 1749. She d. 1786, se. 83. rV. COOKE, Capt. PHINEAS, (s. of Samuel,) m. AbigaU Durant, 1759, and had Mary, May 18, 1759 ; Daniel, Sept. 13, 1761, d. 1763 ; and Daniel; Artemas; Ann, May 8, 1764, she d. young; Artemas; Sukey, wha m. Dr. Walter HunneweH, May 12, 1800. Abigail m. 1st, Howard, and 2d, Leathe — ^Artemas m. Nutting, and went to N. H. — Mary m. John Fowle. His uncle, Daniel Cooke, left him a large estate. He buHt the house at Newton Cor- ner, near the Wat. line, owned and occupied by Gen. HuU, after the war. He was Captain of a company of Minute Men, raised in 1 773. This company was commanded by Michael Jackson, and did good service in the battles of Lexington and Concord, and received the thanks of Gen. Warren, for their brave conduct. He d. Jan. 1 2, 1 784. 250 COOKE — COLLET. COOKE, OLIVEE, (s. of Joseph,) m. Huldah Knapp, 1757, and had Caleb, Feb. 19, 1759 ; Hannah, March 13, 1758. 2d w. Beulah . COOK, JOSIAH, (s. of Joseph,) m. Mary Oldham, 1753, and had JosiaA, Mary, Elizabeth, Joseph, John and Samud. He d. 1776. COOKE, STEPHEN, (s. of ,) m. Mary MiUer, 1767. COOKE, JONAS, (s. of ,) m. Mary Kenrick, 1745, and had Jlforyarei, Aug. 11, 1746; Nathan, Oct. 27,1748.; Marji, June 16, 1750, and Solomon, 1753, in Needham. She d. 1770. He was drowned, 1773. COOKE, ROBERT, (s. of ,) m. Sarah Davis, 1722. COOKE, ENOCH, (s. of James,) m. Mary Poster, 1765, and had Lydia, Jan. 29, 1765 ; Samud, March 12, 1767, and Mary, March 26, 1769. COOKE, JONATHAN, (s. of James,) m. Lydia Bacon, of Need- ham, March 8, 1768, and had Lydia, Sept. 21, 1768, and d. 1775; Mary, Jan. 23, 1770 ; Jonathan, June 4, 1771 ; Lydia, Sept. 22, 1776 ; Nancy, Jan. 1780; Mary, April 7, 1783; Esther, Dec. 5, 1786. He d. Jan., 1821, aa. 82. COOKE, JONATHAN, Jk., m. Temperance "Whitney, 1795, and had Nancy, Sept.,25, 1795; Asa, June 3, 1797. COOK, ELISHA, (s. of ,) m. Betsy Parker, 1791, and had Mira, Feb. 13, 1793. COOKE, Eky. SAMUEL, Minister of Menotomy, ordained 1739, m. Ann, dr. of Kev. John Cotton, and had Sarah, Samud, Hannah, Rebecca, and Atm. He d. June 4, 1783, se. 75, and the forty-fourth of his ministry. His w. Ann d. 1761. COOK, WILLLAM A., (s. of Benjamin,) m. Ann , and had William A., Not. 7, 1793 ; Nancy, Feb. 3, 1795 ; Myranda, Nov. 8, 1800; CAaries, Nov. 21, 1802. COOK, ASA, (s. of Jonathan, Jr.,) m. Eoxanna , and had Aaron, Nov. 26, 1824, and d. 1850, ». 26. COOK, GEOEGE, m. Sarah Hoogs, Nov. 17, 1801. COLLEY, JOHN, had by w. Rebecca , John, Jan. 16, 1726. COLBUEN — COOLIDGE — COTTON. 251 COUBTJEN, or COBITRN, DAiJIEL, from Dedham, had by wife Elizabeth , Ebmezer, May 23, 1711 ; Bethia, Aug. 23, 1713 ; Winiam, May 1, 1716 ; Elizabeth, Nov. 9, 1720. COOLIDGE, JONATHAN, (s. of Nathaniel and Mary, of "Wat., and g. s. of John, who represented Wat., 1658,) m. Mercy , and had Annable, May 26, 1701 ; Adam, Oct. 8, 1704, d. 1708; Eunice, Ang. 4, 1706; Abigail, Jan. 16, 1703; Seth, May 5, 1708, d. 1708; Hannah, Aug. 6^1710. Annable m. Thos. Harback, 1723 — Hannah in. Samuel Mirick, 1741. Wife Margaret d. Jan. 1724. 3d w. Experience Wakefield. COOLIDGE, EICHABD, (s. of Eichard and Mai-y, of Wat.,) m. Mary, dr. of Dea. Wm. Trowbridge, 1729, and had Elizabeth, Nov. 23, 1729 ; Richard, d. July, 1745 ; Mary, Nov. 4, 1731 ; Abigail, Jan. 3, 1734. Elizabeth m. James Hay. Wife Mary d. 1734. He next m. Hajmah Coolidge, 1743, she d. 1745. He d. Aug. 13, 1755, ae. 56. COOLIDGE, ISAAC, m. Sarah Stratton, 1796, and had Mary; Hep- sibah, Oct. 14, 1797; Lois, Aug. 16, 1799; Sarah, Aug. 12, 1800; Abigail, July 24, 1802. Sarah the mother, and these four children, all d. in 1802. He next m. Eebecca Hastings, 1804. 3dw. Mehit- able Seger, July 2, 1809. COOLIDGE, JONAS, m. Elizabeth Thornton, Wat., 1743, and had Jonas, Eeb. 1, 1744; Elener, May 21, 1747; Mary, Mar. 26, 1749 ; Samuel, Aug. 31j 1756. Jonas m. Anna Harrington. COOLIDGE, LUTHEE, d. 1814, se. 36, and w. Louisa d. 1816, se. 37 (gravestone). rV. COTTON, Eev. JOHN, the third Minister of Newton, was bom in 1693. (He was the s. of the Eev. Eoland Cotton, of Sandwich, g. s. of the Eev. John Cotton, of Plymouth, and g. g. s. of the cele- brated John Cotton, one of the first Ministers of Boston, who was a Preacher at Boston, in Lincolnshire, England, a place of note in the annals of the persecuted Puritans ; It is a Borough town, seated on both sides of the river Witham, near its mouth, and one hundred and seventeen miles north of London. It is universally agreed that the name of the capitol of New England was selected, in compliment to that eloquent Preacher, as soon as it was known that he had em- barked for this country.) He was grad. at H. C, in 1710. On the 14th of July, 1714, he first preached in Newton, as a candidate for the pulpit, made vacant by the death x>f the Eev. Nehemiah Hobart; 252 COTTON. and " SO high was the respect cherished for the virtues and accom- plishments of this youth of twenty, that the Town in general went in procession, met and gave him a joyful welcome, npon his first entrance into it." The recorded votes and doings of the Town show a great anxiety, on the part of its inhabitants, to secure his services. He was ordained Nov. 3, 1714. " He was faithful, fervent, and suc- cessful, in his labors, and was particularly happy in seeing the atten- tion of his people to religions truth, in 1729 and in 1740." He pub- lished, with other discourses, a sermon, on the death of his brother, the Bev. Nathaniel Cotton, of Brxtol, in 1729; a sermon, at the ordination of his brother. Ward Cotton, in 1734, Minister, of Hamp- ton, and four sermons, addressed to youth, in 1739." He purchased of the heirs of his predecessor, Rev. Nehemiah Hobait, in 1715, about one hundred acres land, with the dwelling honse and bam thereon. This dwelling honse (built by Hobart, in 1678) was burnt on the 24th of March, 1720 ; and a new one was erected on the same spot, the si^me year, and is still in a good state of preservation. It was since owned and occupied by Charles Felham, Esq., and was known as the Pelham house, and is now owned by John Cabot. Mr. Cotton m. Mary, the dr. of Robert Gibbs, of Boston, Feb. 19, 1719, and had Mary, Dec. 7, 1719; Elizabeth, Jan. 21, 1722; Anna, Oct. 9, 1723; Rebecca, Nov. 3, 1725; Martha, Sept. 28, 1727, d.; John, Dee. 22, 1729 ; Nathaniel, July 6, 1731 ; Samuel Gibbs^ Feb. 7, 1734, d. 1734 ; Henry, Oct. 28, 1735, d. 1736 ; Samuel, Jan. 24, 1738, and Martha, Nov. 30, 1739. Mary m. Rev. Thomas Cheney, of Brookfield, May, 1746 — Anna m. Rev. Samuel Cook, of Menotomy, 1742 — Rebecca m. Capt. Samuel Baldwin, of Weston, March, 1762 — Martha m. Ebenezer Thayer, of Camb., Oct. 1766 — Elizabeth m. Jonathan Hastings, of Camb., Oct. 1750. He d. in 1757. She d. Sept. 1761. On his tombstone, in Newton, the following epitaph is inscribed : " Here lies the mortal part of the Rev. and truly vener- able JoHSf Cotton, lately the very faithful, prudent, and skilful pastor of the ch. of Newton. He was eminent for the faculty of praying and preaching ; was respected for his piety, and held in high and universal esteem for his pure and attractive virtues. His loss is especially deplored by his flock, to whom, even dead, he ceases not to preach. Fame shall spread his endearing name more loudly, extensively, and permanently, thou the most durable marble. Broken by disease, not by the infirmities of age, he departed this Ufe, May 17, a. d. 1757, in the 64th year of his age, and the 43d of his ministry." ' COTTON CHAMBERLAIN. 253 The following extracts are from his will, dated 1734, and proved in 1757. "In the name of God, amen. I, John Cotton, of Newton, Co. of Jliddlesex, in N. E., Clerk, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, and considering the certainty of my death, and the uncertainty of tlie time when, do make and publish this, my last will and testament, as follow.s : that is to say, first and principally, I commend my sonl into the hands of Almighty God, my Heavenly Father, in hopes^pf eternal life, through the merits and passion, and prevailing intercession of his only begotten son Jesus Christ, my Redeemer ; and my body I desire may be decently interred, at the disposal of my loving wife, in hopes of a joyful resuirection at the last day." Gives his books and mss. to his sons, if they should take to the ministry, or to those of them that may become ordained Ministers. Gives his w. Mary, ^ouse and land in Boston, and the improvement of his homestead in Newton, containing house, bam, and 121 3-4 acres of land, appraised at £926, 13s. 4d. Library, £20, 15s. Plate, dE21, 16s. Clock, £6, 10s. Qnartus, a Negro man, that went into His Majesty's sei-vice, and it is uncertain whether he is alive or not. Phillis, a Negro woman, upwards of sixty years old, an incumbrance to the estate. Thos. Greenwood, Thos. Hunt, and Abram Eoller, appraisers. Wife Mary, executor. COTTON, De. JOHN, a physician. Grad. at H. C, 1747, (s. of Rev. John,) m. Mary Clark, July 8, 1750, d. 1758, ss. 29, prob. without issue. Jonathan Richards admin, the estate, and sold six and a half acres of land, and house, to Samuel Cook, boimded w. by Dedham road. Prob. the same place soon after possessed by Dr. John King. COTTON, Rev. NATHANIEL, grad. H. C, 175Q. (s. Rev. John.) He mortgaged his share inTiis father's real estate, in 1759, consislipg of mansion house, bam, one hundred and twenty acres land, and two acres marsh, for £80. In the deed, he styles himself Rev., of Newton. COTTON, SAMUEL, grad. H. C, 1759. (s. Rev. John.) He d, 1819, ee. 81. CHAMBERLAIN, THOMAS, of Camb., m. Elizabeth, dr. of Thos. Hammond, Jr., April 18, 1682, and had, in Camb., Thomas, Sept. 10, 1683; Elizabeth, Aug. 1, 1686; Rebecca, March 11, 1689; Mary, Feb. 11, 1693; Sarah, Oct. 18, 1695; John, Sept. 26, 1698. Eliza- bethm. George AJlen, 1717— Mary ly. Isaac Hammond, 1717 — Sarah m. Eleazer Chamberlain, of Brookline, 1730, and built the 22 254 CHAMBERLAIN. John Thwing house. He was exeeator of John Clark's will, 1695. He piirchased land, in Newton, of Isaac and Ann Hammond, in 1693 and 1694. .. CHAMBERLAIN, JOHN, (s. of Thomas,) m. Elizabeth , and had John, March 28, 1721. CHAMBERLAIN, ABRAHAM, (sup. s. of Abraham, of Brookline,) m. Elizabeth , 1692, and had Abraham, Oct. 16, 1693. CHAMBERLAIN, JACOB, (sup. of Brookline, and s. of Jacob and Experience, he d. 1712,) m. Susanna , and had Jason, Eeb. 26, 1701; Ebenezer, July 31, 1704; Jacob, Not. 28, 1719; Josiah, Not. 13, 1721 ; Susanna, Sept. 27, 1724, d. 1749; Isaac, April 6, 1728; Simon, Sept. 5, 1739; William, Sept. 22, 1730; Sarah, Sept. 19, 1733 ; Margaret, Sept. 20, 1736. He was Selecbuau in 1746, and d. 1771. CHAMBERLAIN, JASON, (s. of Jacob,) m. Hannah Clark, 1725, and had John, Sept. 6, 1728; Staples, Sept. 2, 1730. Dea. John Staples, in his will, gaT6 these two sons £100 each, when they came of age. CHAMBERLAIN, EBENEZER, (s. of Jacob,) m. Mary, dr. of Thomas Trowbridge, 1733. CHAMBERLAIN, JACOB, (s. of Jacob,) m. Lydia Stone, 1744, and settled in Worcester. CHAMBERLAIN, SIMON, (s. of Jacob,) m. Rebecca CleTcland, of Needham, 1763, and had Susanna, July 3, 1765; William, Dec 3, 1767. CHAMBERLAIN, WILLIAM, (s. of Jacob,) m. Ann Hyde, 1754. CHAMBERLAIN, SAMUEL, m. Esther Hammond, 1727, and had Ann, Aug. 31, 1729 ; Samuel, April 16, 1732. CHAMBERLAIN, ELEAZER, of Brookline, m. Sarah Chamber- lain, 1730, and had Elizabeth, March 30, 1736 ; John, Feb. 9, 1739, d. 1749 ; and SaraJi. 2d w. Abigail Chadwick, 1756. 3d w. Patience Hammond, she d. 1780. Elizabeth m. Ebenezer Thwing, of Camb., 1756. He d. 1769. CHAMBERLAIN, WILLIAM, m. Mary , and hM WOlim, July 6, 1725 ; Experience, July 26, 1727. He d. 1760. CHAMBEKLAIN — CHENEY. 255 CHAMBEELAIN, JOSIAH, m. Mary Chengy, 1777, and went to Petersham. CHAMBERLAIN, ELISHA, m. Susanna Brown, 1784. I. CHENEY, JOHN, and Martha, settled at Box., and were members of the ch. in 1635. They removed to Newbury, in 1636, and had Daniel, Peter, Nathaniel, John, and five daughters. n. CHENEY, DANIEL, m. Sarah Bailey, 1665, and had Danid, Josq>h, and James. Peter m. Hannah Noyes, 1663, and had Peter, Nicholas, John, Nathaniel, and Ichabod. m. CHENEY, JOHN, (s. of Peter or John, of Newbury,) m. Eliza- beth , and had John, Jan. 19, 1704 ; Sarah, Oct. 7, 1706 ; Daniel, Dec. 28, 1710, d. 1743 ; Timothy, April 18, J713 ; Moses, Oct. 20, 1715. 2d w. Elizabeth Currig, Oct. 1717, and had William, July 8, 1719 ; Elizabeth, Nov. 2, 1721 ; Elener, Feb. 6, 1524 ; Samuel, Jan. 31, 1726, d. 1761 ; Abigail, Aug. 20, 1727. Sarah m. Isaac Shepard, 1727 — Elizabeth m. Stephen Hunting, Needham, 1750. He lived near the Upper EaUs. His 1st w. d. 1715. rV. CHENEY, JOHN, Je., m. Xydia Burrage, 1729, and had Lt/dia, Dec. 1731. IV. CHENEY, Ensign TIMOTHY, (brother of John, Jr.,) m. Sarah Prentice, 1737, and had Thomas, Oct. 9, 1738; Ephraim, Oct. 1, 1741; Timothy, Be^t. 28, 1743, d. ; Timothy, Oct. 18, \1ih;Mary, Edward, Elizabeth, Sarah, Abigail, and Borodell. Mary m. Josiah Chamberlain, of Petersham, June, 1777 — Elizabeth m. Isaac Wil- liams, 1764 — Sarali m. Isaac Jackson, Jr., 1765. He d. 1772 ; she d. in 1787. HL CHENEY, JOSEPH, (s. of Daniel, of Newbury,) m. Sarah, dr. of Capt. Noah Wiswall, 1702, and had Sarah, Sept. 30, 1704, d. 1718 ; Jvdaox Judith, March 22, 1705; Hannah, June 13^ 1711; Joseph, Eeb. 15, 1714; James, May 1, 1716. Judith m. Henry Tucker, of Box., 1732 — Hannah m. Caleb Whitney, 1736 — Sarah m. Israel Stowell. His 2d w. was Abigail . He inherited a, portion of his wife's father's lands, and lived in the s. w. part of the town. He bought a tract of land of John Hammond, for £500, in 1748, N. w. on John Woodward. He was Selectman in 1741, and d. May, 1749, je. 73. His 1st w. d. 1718. His will is dated 1747. His wid. Abi- gail d. April 12, 1771, se. 84. IV. CHENEY, JOSEPH, Jk., m. Margaret, dr. of Nathaniel Ham- mond, Jr., Nov. 173*7, and had Ebmezer, Sept. 14, 1738, d. 1750; 256 CHENEY. Margaret, March 10, 1742. Wife Margaret d. March, 1742, ae. 26. 2d w. Mary Toser, Dec. 1747, and had Mary, Nov. 9, 1748 ; Mary, Aug. 31, 1750 i Joseph, May 9, 1754, d. 1754 ; Abigail, May 9, 1754, d. 1754 ; Mary, June 11, 1755 ; Elisha, July 18, 1757 ; Ann, Oct. 27, 1764 ; Ebenezer, May 22, 1759. Margaret m. Robert Murdock, 1768 — Mary m. Alexander Shepard — Ann m. Jonathan Parker, Feb. 1792. He was Selectman two years, and d. 1792, se. 78. III. CHENEY, JAMES, (s. of Daniel, of Newbury,) m. Lydia Mirict, Aug. 1732, and had Aaron, Oct. 8, 1734 ; Elizabeth, July 3, 1736 ; Natlianiel, March 16, 1738 ; James, July 19, 1740 ; Lydia, Jan. 15, 1743. Elizabeth m. Isaac "WiUiams, 1765 — Lydia m. Josiah Knapp, Sept. 1772. His will, proved March, 1746, names w. Lydia and chil. Aaron, Elizabeth, Nallianid, James, and Lydia. He d. Feb. 3, 1746, K. 61. She d. Nov. 23, 1766, a;. 64. IV. CHENEY, James, (s. of Joseph, Sen,,) m. Sibil Littlefield, Jan. 10, 1740, and had Sarah, June 13, 1741 ; Lydia, Jan. 15, 1743. 2d w. Elizabeth Toser, March, 1745, and had Jonathan, March 25, 1746, d. 1754; Sibil, Aug. 30, 1747; Jam£s, June 28, 1749; Elizor beth, June 27, 1751 ; Esther, July 10, 1753 ; John, April 6, 1755 ; OKve, Jan. 31, 1757; Abigail. 3d w. Joanna Williams, Oct. 1765. Sarah m. Samuel Hall, 1782. His 1st w. d. May 9, 1743. IV. CHENEY, MOSES, (s. of John and Elizabeth,) m. Abigail, dr. of Nathaniel Whitmore, Aug. 1738, and had Moses, March 3, 1739, d. 1758 ; John, Aug. 26, 1740. 2d w. Hannah Woodward, Apr. 1755, and had Submit, June gj 1755 ; Moses, Feb. 28, 1764. His 1st w. d. March, 1748. IV. CHENEY, WILLIAM, (s. of John and EUzabeth,) m. Lydia Flagg, March, 1745, and had Lydia, Nov. 21, 1746, d. 1748 ; Eliza- beth, June 27, 1748, d. 1750 ; Danid, Oct. 30, 1749 ; William, April 11, 1752 ; Folly. Polly m. Asa Flagg, of Hinsdale, 1782. V. CHENEY, AAEON, (s. of James, Sen.,) m. Thankful, dr. of Stephen White, Nov. 1767, and had Amos, Sept. 18, 1771, d.. 1792, a!. 21. His will, 1810, gave s. w. School Disti-ict one hundred dol- lars, to be kept as a, fund forever; the interest to be expended annually, towards teaching young children in the Summer. Gives his two brothers, Nathaniel and James, two hundred dollars each, and his sister, Lydia Knapp, one hundred dollars. Gives his nephew, Asa Cheney, the homestead, after the death of his w. Ho d. Oct. 3, 1814, SB. 80. She d. 1817. CHENET CLARK. 257 V. CHElirEY, ELISHA, (s. of Joseph, Jr.,) m^ Elizabeth Eddy, Jan. 1781, and had Mary, Dec. 26, 1781; Sarah, June 29, 1783; Joseph, Oct. 19, 1784. 2d w. Sarah Stone, July, 1791. "Went to Eoyalston. y. CHENEY, DAIJIEL, (s. of Wmiam,) m. Mary , and had Betsy, March 17, 1781 ; Betey, March 3, 1782 ; PoVy, June 12, 1786. He d. Dec. 27, 1831, se. 84. V. CHENET, WHiLIAM, Je., m. Sarah Bartlett, April, 1782, and had Jmathan, 1784. He d. 1786, se. 34. V. CHENET, Gen. EBENEZEB, (s. of Joseph, Jr.,) m. Elizabeth , and had Ebenezm; ifay 12, 1784, (m. and settled in Charles- ton, S. C.,) and Lucretia, May 15, 1786. 2d w. Abigail Wood, and had Elizabah K, April 24, 1806 ; Julia Maria, July 11, 1807 ; Sen- riettaR., April 25, 1809; Jonathan Somer, Aug, 21, 1811; Nancy Curtis, March 26, 1813 ; Abigail Hall, March 26, 1815 ; Susan, June 3, 1817; Mra, March 16, 1819; JRoyal, July 6, 1822; Rufiis Ellis, July 22, 1824. Lucretia m. Charles Hastings. He was Represen- tative to the Gen. Court, five years, from. 1812 to 1817. He d. in 1853, se; 94. CHENET, Ret. THOMAS, of Brookfield, m. Mary, dr. of Eve. John Cotton, May 22, 1746. He d. Dec. 11, 1747. She d. 1784. CHENEY, JONAS, m. Clarisa Cnnuingham, Nov. 15, 1818. n. CLARK, JOHN, was bom in "Wat., Oct. 13, 1641, s. of Hugh and Elizabeth, who conveyed to their ». John, then of Muddy River, sixty-seven acres of land, in New Camb., in 1681. He was in New- ton as early as 1681. His 1st w. Abigail , by whom he had John, d. 11. 10. 1682. He next m. Elizabeth Norman, of Boston, 1684, and had William, June 20, 1686 ; Ann, May 18, 1688 ; Martha, Jan. 11, 1690; Esther, March 1, 1692; Hannah, 1693, d. ; Moses, June 20, 1695. He d. 1695, se. 54. His will states, that "being under great affliction, by reason of sore sickness," &c., bequeaths to his sons John and "William, all his lands on the river, towards the saw mill, and the residue of his property to remain in- the hands of his executor, to bring up his small chUdren. His will was witnessed by his brother, Uriah Clark, John Staples, smd Hannah Spring. John "Ward and John Spring, appraisers. Eight acres of laud at the riveri with the saw mill, appraised at £180. Total amount, of inventory, £660, 13s. 7i. He was the first person who, erected a 22* 258 CLAKK. mill on Charles river, in Newton. His homestead, with house and thirty acres of land, was conveyed by his wid., to her brother, Wm. Norman, of Boston, and bounded w. by the Dedham highway, and s. by Joseph Bartlett. This was near the Baptist Theological Sem- inary. The County Court Records state, that Joseph Bartlett sued John Clark for pulling down a frame house, and obtained a verdict of ^1.14. ^^^y in. CLARK, JOHN, Je., Selectman, 1722, m. Ann iSercE, of Dor., 1697, and had Mary, Jan. 9, 1698 ; Join, Sept. 22, 1700 ; Ann, Jan. 12, 1702 ; Thomas, May 29, 1704 ; Isaac, Oct. 19, 1707 ; and Ather- ton, April 16, 1711. 2d w. May 11, 17y|. Ann m. Ebenezer Bart- lett, 1736 — Mary m. John Ball, of Wat., 1730. He d. 1730, a;. 50. She d. 1747. He conveyed to his brother William, thirty five acres land, B. by Stephen Winchester, ir. by Ebenezer Woodward, and e. by highway to Lower Falls, and w. by Wm. Clark's land. IIL CLARK, WILLIAM, (s. of John,) m. Hannah Kee, Feb. 1708, and had ^KsaJetA, Aug. 23, 1709; Norman, Feb. 13, 1711; Sarali, Mar. 26, 1714^ TFffiam, Dec. 10, 1716; Cofeft, Oct. 3, 1717, d. 1717 ; Hannah, Dec. 3, 1719 ; and Joanna. Sarah m. Samuel Hilton, 1735 — Hannah m. Thomas Steams, 1 744. He conveyed to Noah Parker, in 1725, seven acres land, w. by river, e. and s. by land of his own, N. by Ggrsham Beale's ; also, 'ond^ourth pai-t of saw mill, fulling mill, and grist mUl, stream, and danls, at Upper Falls. His dwelling touse was burnt Mar, 18, 1729. He d. 1737, se. 51. She d. 1756, ■se. 78. IV. CLARK, Capt. THOMAS, (s. of John, Jr.,) m. Mary Bowen, 1728, and had Peter, Mar. 20, 1729 ; Jcmas, Dec. 14, 1730, H. C, 1752, Minister, of Lex.*, Thomas, June 8, 1732; Penud, March 18, 1734, d. 1736; Uary, Feb. 5, 1736, d. 1736; Mary, Oct. 17, 1737, d.; JPmvd, July 5, 1739. Penuel and Sarah d. 1742. Elizabeth, May 25, 1752, and m. Thomas Durant, July 23, 1775. He was Select- man in 1749, and d. at Hopkinton, June, 1775, as. 71. IV. CLARK, ISAAC, (s. of John, Jr.) m. Experience Wilson, 1729, and had John, July 21, 1730, and then settled in Hopkinton, and was father of John, Abigail, Isaac, Samuel, Stephen; and by 2d w., Lemuel, William, and Avis. €LARK, Capt. JOHN, (s. of John, Jr.) m. Hannah Cuttin, of Wat., 1734, and had Sarah, Mar. 9, 1736; John, Jan. 12, 1738 ; Hannah, Jan. 15, 1740 ; Danid, Mar. 1, 1742, d. 1742 ; Margaret, J-uly 7, 1743 ; CLAHK. 259 Esther, Nov. 11, 1744, d. 1744 ; Lydia, Feb. 24, 1746 ; ElizahOh, June 3, 1747 ; Bxibert, May 28, 1750, d. 1751 ; Susanna, April 24, 1752, d. 1775 ; Cuttin, Peb. 24, 1754; Ann, Not. 30, 1757. Sarah m. Sam'l. Phipps, Jr., of Camb., 1760. Ho was Selectman 1746, '47, and '58, .'and Eep. to General Court 1758, '59, and '60. He built the Harbach house, on the Capt. Prentice lot ; remoyed to "Waltham, and died there, 1773, jb. 73. f IV. CLAEK, WILLIAM, Jk.. m, Mary Marean, 1740, and had Mary, April, 1741 ; William, July 12, 1742 ; Norman, Dec. 12, 1743 ; Daniel, Mar. 5, 1745, d. May, 1825 ; Jonathan, Mar. 28, 1747 ; Samuel, July 8, 1750, d. 1750 ; Elizabeth, 1752 : and Samud, Peb. 27, 1754. She d#787, £6. 73. IV. CLAEK, Dea. JOHN, (s. of Isaac, or of Capt. John,) m. Alice, dr. of Josiah Greenwood, 1762,' and had Hannah, Mar. 8, 1763 ; Mary, Jan. 16, 1765 ; and John, Nov. 26, 1766. IV. CLAEK, NOEMAN, (s. of William,) m. Hannah Bird, of Dor., April, 1749, and had Hannah, May 21, 1750, d. 1771 ; Norman, Oct. 17, 1751 ; Susanna, May 25, 1753, d. 1775; Benjamin, Nov. 1, 1754, d. 1755; Elizabeth and Either, (twins,) June 25, 1756; Cafc6, Peb. 5, 1758, d. 1758; Benjamin, April 3, 1759 ; Joseph, May 24, 1761, d. 1761 ; and Moses, Oct. 26, 1763. Esther m. Seth Stone, Nov. 1775 — Elizabeth m. Samuel Stone, 1774. He was Selectman 1759, '60, '70, '71, and d. 1787, as. 77. •2d-wr Sarahs. 1783; se. 32; V. CLAEK, SAMUEL, (s. of WilUam, Jr.,) m. Elizabeth Duran"t, 1776, and had William, Dec. 9, 1776 j Mary, Mar. 10, 1779 ; and Ed- vjard. May 26, 1782. William went to Barre, and d. 1801. V. CLAEK, WILLIAM, (s. of William, Jr..) m.Phebe PuUer, 1765. They settled in Barre, and had Jonathan, and others. V. CLAEK, ATHEETON, Je., m. Patience , and went to Barre ; had Atherton; Peter, Jan. 10, 1762 ; Penvd, Feb. 21, 1764 ; and Ann, Apr. 18, 1670. Peter m. Elizabeth Wilson. V. CLAEK, GIDEON, m. Hannah , and had John, Nov. 16, CLAEK, Capt. NOEMAN^ni. Sarah Hammond, 1769, and had, in Princeton, Nathaniel, April 21, 1770 ; William, Mar. 31, 1772 ; Ben- jamin, April 19, 1774; and Sarah, April 28, 1776. Sarah m. Joseph Wiswail, • 260 cla;rk — Clements. A' "VT. CLABK, NOEMAUj^m. Alethina, dr. of John Rogers, 1787, and had Jos^h, Aag. IS, 1788; Norman, Jan. 21, 1790, d. 1835; John, Dec. 10, 1796 ; Eliza, June 26, 1799 ; Clarisa, Feb. 16, 1792; William, Feb. 25, 1794 ; Esther, July 31, 1795., 2d JW^.-*r«e9.->««* w. Isabel Mclntire, 1808, and had Thomas, Feb. 13, 1809. He was Selectman three years, and d. April, 1815, se. 64. "V. CLARK, BENJAMIN, (a. of Norman, Sen.) wen{ to Bethel, Me., about 1780. In Aug. 1781, he and his cousin Jonathan Clark, and Nathaniel Seger, were taken prisoners, in Bethel, by a party of In- dians, and carried to Canada. Their inhuman treatment and suffer- ings were very distressing, during the fifteen months they were pris- oners j they were released soon after the capture of Lord Com-^llis, and arrived at Boston in Nov. 1782. After stopping at Newton sometime, he returned to Bethel, and m. Betsy Mason, of Bethel, andhadiVorman, Dec. 18, 1784; Susanna, Sept. 26, 1786, d. 1789; Betsy, Aug. 20, 1789 ; Achsah, Dec. 12, 1791 ; Amasa, Feb. 13, 1794, d. 1837 ; Hannah B., Apr. 22, 1796 ; Lydia K., June 25, 1798 ; Moses, Mar. 6, 1801, d. He d. Mar. 1802. She d. Jan. 1846. V. CLARK, Lieut. JONATHAN, (s. of WilUa^, Jr.) m. Esther Parker, and settled in Bethel, Me., and had chil. and g. c. there. [See Seger's Narrative, in Appendix.J YI. CLARK, MOSES, (s. of Norman, Sen.) m. Martha, dr. of John Rogers, 1788, and had Hannah, Dec. 15, 1788, and went down east. V. CLARK, WILLIAM, (s. of William, Jr.) m. Phebe Fuller, 1765, and settled in Barre. He d. 1801, se. 59. CLARK, JAMES, m. Delight Gardner, 1794. CLARK, ARTHUR, m. Hannah Pratt, 1754, and went to Sherburne. GfcA»EHNORMAN, (s.-t)f Normanf^'hacHjy-vr-isailKei- i-3*e«Mwr EekJ,arJl809- Hed.-Jan.l835,8e.-^."8h»-dr4'8«6. CLARK, De. SAMUEL, from Boston, m. Rebecca, dr. of Gen. Wm. Hull., and had Samud C, Feb. 27, 1806 ; William H., Sept. 25, 1«12; Abraham F., Oct. 25, 1814 ; and James F. He d. TSon 12, 1830. CLEMENTS, WILLIAM, a member of the Artfllery Comp., owned house and six acres land, in 1639, near the line of Comb., which he sold to Edward Jackson, Sen,, in 1647. Also owned the Cook house, which he sold to Ab'm Williams, 1662. He owned other lands. CLEMENTS — CHILD. 261 CL'eMENTS, WILLIAM, Jr., owned house and land adjoining Capt. Prentice, near Chesmit hill ; he bought twenty-fire acres land, of Richard Bummer, and sold it to Daniel Bacon, 1669. He d. 1691, and Capt. Prentice admin, on his estate. CHILD, JOHN, (s. of Joseph and Sarah, of "Wat.,) m. Thankful , Oct. 1715, and had Betsy, J.in. 13, 1717, d. 1717; Ephraim, Sept. 6, 1718; Robert, Feb, 28, 1720; Caleb, Sept. 10, 1721 ; Thankful, Sept. 4, 1726 ; Hannah, Jan. 27, 1728 ; Josiah, April 14, 1731 ; Sarah, Feb. 6, 1733; Lydia, April 3, 1736. 2d w. Tabitha Seger, June, 1738, and had Tabitha, Feb. 14, 1742. Thankful m.,John Capel, of "Wal- ' tham, 1752 — Lydia m. Thomas Williams, Jr., 1754. He d. 1761. CHILD, ROBERT, (s. John and Thanlrful,) m. Margaret Woodstock, of jSfeedham, 1758, and had John, May 16, 1762 ; and Margaret. CHILD, JOSIAH, (s. John and Thankful,) m. Rebecca Seger, 1759, and had Rebecca, May i 8, 1 760. 2d w. Lucy , and had Elizabeth, July 4, 1766; Fanny, Mar. 9, 1768; Spencer, May 2, 1770; David, Aug. 27, 1772; Lucy, Sept. 18, 1774, d. 1775; Abner, Sept. 19, 1776. He d. 1779. 2d w. d. 1784, as. 90. CHILD, CALEB, (s. of John and Thankful,) m. and his w. d. 1770. .He d. 1773. ,,,..- CHILD, BENJAMIN, (sup. s. of Benjamin, who d. July, 1734,) m. Elizabeth Greenwood, 1722, and had Samuel, April 28, 1723 ; Baija- min, Sept. 25, 1727, d. 1733 ; Elizabeth, Feb. 3, 1729, d. 1732 ; Han- nah, Jan. 3, 1732 ; Elizabeth, Jan. 4, 1733 ; Benjamin, March 23, 1734 ; Aaron Sini Miriam, Sept. 14, 1736; Jonas, April 6, 1735, d. 1735. Hannah m. William Mason, 1750 — Elizabeth m. Samuel Bacon, 1756. He was Selectman, and d. 1774, ae. 90. She d. 1769, ». 72. CHILD, SAMUEL, (s. of Benjamin and Elizabeth,) m. Elizabeth Winchester, Feb. 1745, and had Benjamin, Dec. 24, 1745 ; Isaac, June 17, 1747, d. 1747; Miriam, Aug. 10, 1748, d. 1752; Mary, Nov. 6, 1749 ; Samuel, June 13, 1751, d. 1753 ; Isaac, Jan. 20, 1753, d. 1757. Samuel, Nov. 3, 1754; Jonathan, Nov. 6, 1756; Moses; Elizabeth, ' July 27, 1760 ; Susanna ; Simeon, Aug. 25, 1767. Susanna m. Moses Perry, of Sherburne, 1767. He d. 1777. She d. 1767. CHILD, AARON, (s. of Benjamin,) m. Phebe, dr.^f Michael Jackson, Sen., 1761, and had ^manaA; July 28, 1765; Phebe, Oct. 22, 1775; Miriam, Feb. 26, 1762. He d. in the Army, 1778. 262 CHILD CEAFT. CHILD, WILLIAM, (s. of Ann Fisher,) Nov. 25, 1767. * • CHILD, JOHN, (s. of John and Hannah, of Wat.,) m. Experience Fuller', Jan. 27, 1715, and had Richard, Jan. 16, 1716, d. 1716 ; John, Oct. 6, 1717 ; Joshua, Jan. 9, 1719. Abigail m. Jonas Ward. He d. 1761. His w. d. 1770, se. 84. CHILD, MOSES, had by w. Mary , Luke C, March 16, 1811, and Elizabeth, Dec. 22, 1812. * CHILD, SAMUEL, (s. of Samuel,) m. Esther Parker, Nov., 1750. Child, JOHN, m. Experience , and had John, Jan. 19, 1769. CHILD, ASA, m. Hannah , and had Mary Flagg, Feb. 19,1750. 2d w. Phebe , and had Miriam, Feb. 26, 1762. CHILD, DANIEL, (s. of Isaac, Jr., Brookline, great grandson of Joshua, of Brookline, and g. g. grandson of Benjamin, of Eox.) m. Eebeoca Richards, lived near Brook farm, and had Betsy ; Richards ; Joshua; John R.; Isaac, d. young; Isaac; Hannah, d. eb. 15 ; Catha- rine R.; Juiia, d. young; David, d. *. 25 ; Danid; Hannah, d. m. 16. IV. CEAFT, MOSES, (s. of Samuel, Jr., of Eox.; his g. g. f. was Griffin Craft, one of the first settlers of Eox.) He purchased ninety three and a half acres land, of Nath'l Parker, in Newton, 1729, on the Sherburne road, and lived with Dea. John Staples, who, by his will, in 1740, made him the residuary legatee of his estate, and be- queathed to his son, John Staples Craft, £400, and directed that " he should ho brought up to learning, and fitted for the ministry of the Gospel." He, however, preferred the healing art, studied meditine, and was a physician, in North Bfidgewater. He m. Esther, dr. of Daniel Woodward, Nov. 15, 1729, and had Samud, Nov. 23, 1729 ; Mary, April 11, 1731 ; John Staples, Jan. 9, 1733; Abigail, Dec. 15, 1734; Joseph, June 12, 1736 ; Esther, Dec. 4, 1738, d. 1749; Martlia, June 4, 1743; Beulah, June 5, 1745. Mary m. Thaddeus Trow- bridge, Nov. 20, 1750 — Abigail m. John Ward, May, 1761 — Martha m. John Stone, Jr., 1763 — Beulah m. Col. Nathan FuUer, July, 1763. He was Selectman four years, and d. 1768, se.-64. ^ (■ , ^.}i^ { V. CEAFT, SAMUEL, (s. of Moses,) m. Eebecca, dr. of Ebenezer and Sarah Parker, 1753, and had Moses, Aug. 11, 1754; SaraJi, Oct. 30, 1755, d. 1756;_Jl/ary, Jan. 11, 1757, d. 1757; Samuel, Aug. 26, 1759, d. 1760; Oaty, Nov. 30, 1760, d. 1763 ; Esther, April 10, 1763; Samud, June 12, 1765 ; Ckty, March 11, 1767, d. 1767 ; Henry, Apiil CKAFT. 263 26, 1768; Nathan, Aug. 6, 1770; EKsha, July 6, 1773, d. young. Esther m. John Bently Hoogs, Feb. 1785. He was Selectman three years. V. CBAET, JOSEPH, (s. of Moses,) m. EUzabeth Davis, 1762, and had SaraTi, June 14, 1764; Betsy, Oct. 16, 1766; JosepJt, March 10, 1769; Ebenezer, Eeb. 1, 1771 ; Amasa, Nov. 1, 1773. Wife Elizabeth d. 1776, se. 33. 2d w. Sarah Fuller, Jan. 1777, and had Beulah, Oct. 14, l777; Margaret, Jan. 24, 1779; Elias, May 5, 1781 ; Anna.'Eeti. 27, 1783; Ekner, 'Soy. 23, 1785; Jonatlum, June 18, 1787; Ifoses, June 28, 1789 ; Martha and Mary, March 7, 1792 ; Nathan Fuller, Feb. 22, 1795. Beulah m. Jonathan Alden, 1797 ; Ebenezer d. 1796, ae. 24. He was Selectman, and d. April 21, 1821, se. 85. His wid. d. 1829. CRAFT, Db. JOHN STAPLES, (s. of Mos6s,) m. Elizabeth Park, May, 1758, and settled in N. Bridgewater, and had Thomas, Samuel, John, Moses, Edward, Zibeon, Patty, and Polly. Patty m. Rev. Zachariah Howard, 1785 — Polly m. Rev. Naphthali Shaw, 1798. The Dr., with four sons, Samuel, Moses, Edward ,and Zibeon, went to Maine. Thomas grad. at H. C, 1783, and m. Polly, dr. of Rev. John Porter, 1786, settlad at Princeton, and 'had Thomas, Erederich, ElipKcUet Porta; Mary, Betsy, Sophia; and d. 1819, se. 60. VI. CRAFT, Lieut. MOSES, *(s. of Samuel,) m. Hadassa Mills, 1778, and had Moses, June 27, 1780; John, Jime 1, 1782; Elisha, Sept. 14, 1787, d. 1788. VI. CRAFT, HENRY, (s. of Samuel,) m. Ann, dr. of Amariah Fuller, 1797, took his homestead, and had jMenW, Sept. 10, 1798; Polly, Aug. 5, 1801; Myra, ifbv. 2, 1802; Anna, Aug. 7, 1805; Henry, Not. 29, 1807; Nathan, July 31, 1811. He d. 1834, se. 66. She d. 1840, se. 71. ' VI. CRAFT, NATHAN, (s. of Samuel,) m. Anna, dr. of William Hyde, 1793, and had Nathan. VT. CRAFT, ELIAS, m. Mary Lock, 1806, and had Elias, Jan 31, 1807. Vn. CRAFT, MOSES, Je., m. Sophia Bam^, 1814. Vn. CRAFT, NATHAN, Je., m. Serena Houghton, 1835, and had Walter, 1839. CRAFT, AMASA, m. Sarah P. , and had William B., 1847 ; Amasa, 1845. 264 CRAFT CURTIS DANA. CRAPT, SAMUEL, m. Susan Mero, 1835. CRANE, NATHANIEL, m. Msxy , and had Thxmas, Feb. 27, 1686. CRANE, CBtARLES, m. Lucretia , and had Stephen ; Orlando, Aug. 14, 1823; Charles Adolphus, \S2i; Mary Elizabeth, July 4, 1828; Emeline Elizdbeih, Aug. 1, 1832. CRANE, ORIGIN, m. Bridget , and had Emeline E., Aug.'l, 1832. CUNNINGHAM, CYRUS, m, Rebecca , and had Rebecca, Nov. 27, 1812; Abigail, J^jne 13, 1814; Mary, Feb. 9, 1817; Cyrus, April 20, 1820 ; Lvther T., Not. 28, 1821 ; Susan, Aug: 18, 1823 ; Geo. W., Nov. 12, 1824; Ellen TF., Aug. 8, 1826; Lucy Ann, Sept. 17, 1827; George C, Hoc. 20, 1829. CURTIS, SOLOMON, from Bridgewater, m. Esther, dr. of Capt. Jeremiah "Wiswall, 1789, settled at Lower Falls, and had Allen C, Eliza, William, Edward, Hester, Warren, Melville, Martha, George B., Frederick A., Walter C, Hannah, and Solomon M. 2d w. Rebecca Wiswall, 1802. Eliza m. Leonard Walker, of Hopk. — Hannah m. Peter Howard, of Barre. — Edward d. at N. Y. — Warren and Mel- ville went to New Jersey — Martha d. unmar. — Frederick A. and Solomon M. went to Delaware — j^Uen C. and William settled at Lower Falls — Walter C. d. in Newton. CURTIS, OBEDIAH, a wheelwiight, from Boston, d. Nof. 8, 1811. His dr. Anna m. Rev. Jonathan Homer. DALRYMPLE, ROBERT, m. Sarah Fuller, Oct. 1768, and had Samuel, Nov. 18, 1768. (Samuels, of Sally, 1799; William, s. of Ann, 1799.) DANA, RICHARD, (s. of Thomas and Maiy, of Camb.,) m. Mary, dr. of Jonathan and Jemima, Aug. 1763, and had Edward, May 18, 1764; John Trovbbridge, May 18, 1768 ; Elisabeth, July 28, 1770 ; Ann, Nov. 9, 1773 ; and Benjamin. He d. in the Army, 1776, se. 41. She d. 1776. DANA, JOHN, (s. of Benjamin, Jr., of Camb., g. g. s. of Richard, the common ancestor of all the Dana's.) He lived at the s. part of the town ; was a " New Light," and one of the founders of the Bap- tist ch., of which he and Dea. Elhanan Winchester were chosen the first leaders. His chil., Capt. Benjamin, an officer in the Revolution, d. unm. in Boston ; Moses, a ship carpenter, lived in Maine, unm. ; DATBNPORT. 265 Enoch, d. mim. ; Rev. Nathan, a Baptist Minister, in Vermont ; Capt. John, a carpenter, liyed in Princeton ; Aaron, carpenter, m. Norcross, in Wat. ; Isaac, carpenter, m. Hannali Ksher, lived in "Wat., d. 1837, se. 93 ; one dr. m. Whitney, of Newburyport, and one dr. m. Blake, of S. Boston. He d. 1793. His brother, Col. Stephen, of Brighton, d. 1837, sd. 93. DANA, Eev. NATHAN, (s. of John,) m. Beulah, dr. of Stephen Winchester, 1782, and had Beulah, Feb. 11, 1785 ; Stephen W., Not. 7, 1786 ; Samuel, Dec. 23, 1788 ; Anderson, Sept. 17, 1791, Francis, Aaron, William. He was one of the founders of the first Baptist ch. ; was Clerk, Jan. 1781; Dea. 1788; received a call, and was ordained to the work of the minisliy, Nov. 20, 1793. m. DAVENPORT, JOSEPH, a clothier, at the Lower Falls, (s. of John and Naomi, and g. s. of Thomas and Mary,) early settlers of that part of Dorchester now Milton. ""He m. Sarah Ware, of Need- ham, 1731, and had Sarah, March 30, 1732 ; John, June 7, 1733 ; Abigail, Feb. 4, 1737 ; Benjamin, Aug. 16, 1738, d. ; Abigail, Jan. 15, 1740; Mary, March 30, 1742; Benjamin, June 16, 1743; Enoch, June 25, 1744 ; Martha, June 12, 1746 ; Sarah. His will, dated 1751, mentions all the above chil. but two. Gives wife Sarah the improvement of all his property, until s. John comes to the age of tvyenty-one, and legacies to all his children. Abigail m. Michael Bright, of Needham, 1768 — Mary m. Lyon — Martha m. Ebenezer Day, 1775 — Sarah m. Benjamin Mills, Feb. 1757, and Nathaniel Richards, of Dedham, 1760 — Benj. m. Sarah Wilson. He d. March 12, 1752. His f. John d. 1725, and his g. f. Thomas, in 1685. ' IV. DAVENPORT, JOHN, (s. of Joseph,) m. SUence Bigelow, and had Joseph, May 22, 1756 ; John, Sept. 1, 1757 ; Ajbner, Oct. 1, 1760 ; Ephraim, May 22, 1762 ; Lot, Sept. 20, 1763 ; Elijah, July 11, 1765 ; and Jomah. This family removed to Bridgeton, Me., about 1760. Josiah enlisted in the army, and John, Abner, and Lot, entered the sea service — John was taken prisoner, and carried into Halifax, and died in prison — Lot was taken prisoner at Halifax, exchanged, and sent home sick, but never reached home ; he went by the way of Rhode Island, and sent home word that he was sick ; his brother Abner sent to the place where he had been, to assist him, but found that he had become convalescent and had started for home. He was never heard from afterwards. It was supposed that he had a relapse, 23 266 DAVENPORT. and died among strangers. [Davenport Family.] Ephraim was stationed some time at Bethel, Me., witli a Tolunteer company, to protect the inhabitants from Indian outrages, for which services he drew a pension, as also did Abner, for Revolutionary services. IV. DAVENPORT, ENOCH, (s. of Joseph,) m. Priscilla Parker, and had Moses, 1771, d. 1777; Benjamin, 1774, d. 1777; Aaron, 1776, d. 1777; Moses, 1778, d. 1805; Benjamin, 1780; Priscilla; Enoch, 1786, d. 1823; Isaac, 1791. Priscilla m. Elijah NeweU — Benjamin m. and went to HaUowell. Wid. Priscilla d. 1837, se. 84. V. DAVENPORT, JOSEPH, (s. of John,) m. and went to N. Y., and had Silence ; Elizabeth ; Joseph, d. young ; Benjamin, physician, setfledinN. Carolina; Mary; Damon; Mary; John, went to Mich- igan; Joseph, went to MUwaukie and m. He d. 1831. V. DAVENPORT, ABNER, (s. of John,) m. Burnhara, and settled in Bridgeton, Me., and had Darius, 1789, a teacher in Cincin- nati ; Seneca; 4rta6en«s, d. young ; Olive; Eunice; Frederick; Gus- tavus; Adolphus; and Cyrus, a teacher in Cincinnati. He d. 1830. V. DAVENPORT, EPHRAIM, (s. of John,) m. Sarah Pierce, 1790, and settled in Bridgeton, and had John, Silence, Frances, Nancy, Serena, Ephriam, Elias, d. 1822 ; and Harriet Pierce. Frances m. Daniel Chapen, Esq., of "Waterford — Serena m, John L. McGinnis — Harriet P.m. Thomas H. Read. He d. at N. Bridgeton, 1838, 83. 76. V. DAVENPORT, ISAAC, (s. of Enoch,) m. Eunice Barney, 1823, and had Griffin B., 1824 ; Eliza A. He went to Richmond, Va. DAVENPORT, BENJAMIN, m. Mehitable Beard, 1811, and had Evelina, Feb. 25, 1814. DAVENPORT, JOSEPH, («up. s. of Enoch,) m. Susanna , and had Elvira, July 9, 1805 ; Alvan, Nov. 4, 1806 ; Maria, Dec. 16, 1808; Martha, ¥eh. 22, 1810; Cliarles, May 25, 1812; Jos^h, Oct. 25, 1815; James, Jan. 22, 1817; Nancy, April 4, 1819; Lot, June 18, 1820. DAVENPORT, BENJAMIN, (s. of Enoch,) m. Mehitable , and had Emeline, Feb. 25, 1814 ; Leiodin D.; Benj.; Saily, May 2, 1827. DAVENPORT JOSIAH, m. Naacy , and had Jane B., 1836; Harriet Ann, 1840. She d. 1844. DAVENPORT — DASCOMB — DAVIS. 267 DAVENPORT, BENJAMIN, Jr., m. Sarah Simmons, 1826. DASCOMB, JAMES, had s. Tfiomas, who m. Mary Shepard, 1762. DAVIS, SETH, m. Mary Durell, 1810. DAVIS, THOMAS A., of Brookline, m. Sarah, dr. ofWm. Jackson, Esq., Nov. 11, 1824. DAVIS, [Davie] OLD GOODY, d. Sept. 23, 1752, sup. to be 116 years old. — (Hyde mss.) " She lived at the south part of the town, and cultivated her ground with her own hand, till extreme old age. She used the hoe and scythe with considerable agility. She was visited by Judge Dudley, of Eox., about two years before her death, when a likeness of her was drawn by a portrait painter, who accom- panied him. She sustained a good character, and retained her facul- ties, bodily and mental, to a very considerable degree, until within about two years of her death. She was supported, in her declining years, at the expense of the Town, with peculiar cheerfulness. She lived through half the reign of Charles 1st. ; through the pro- tectorate of Oliver Cromwell ; the reigns of Charles 2d, James 2d, "William and Mary, Queen Anne, George the 1st, and died in the old age of George 2d," * In Bradford's History of Wiscassett, it is stated that " George Davie purchased a tract of land at Wissacassett. of the Sheepscot Sagamores, in 1663, and settled there. He lived on an eminence, about half a mile north of the point, and about fiftv rods from the river ; a brother, and two others, lived there at the same period. After Philip's war, the Indians became disaffected and hostile, and the settlement was broken up in 1680. The widow of one of the Davie's, d. in Newton, in 1752, se. 116." The portrait of this woman is in the Library of the Mass. Hist. Soc, presented by Dr. Bentley, of Salem, with this endorsement thereon. " Portrait of Mrs. Davis, aged 117 years." "This picture is a venerable curi- osity ; time has touched the colors with a clay-like dingy tinge ; from her great age, the face is wrinkled and rugged ; the features are strongly delineated, the eyes blue and smiling, the lips full and rosy, the forehead honest and open ; and a white plain cap surrounds the head, face, and chin, which gives a death-like look to the picture, as though it had been taken from some living being who had already entered the valley of the shadow of death ; yet the expression is benevolent ; but, if the original was ever handsome, this is a sad memorial of withered beauty." * Homer's History. 268 DOLBEAE DKAPBK DURANT. DESHORN, JAMES, had a. Thomas, Oct. 1741. DOLBEAE, BENJAMIN, (sup. o. of Benjamin and Hannah, of Boston,) m. Hepsibah, lived near Upper Falls, and had James, Nov. 5, 1760; Timothy, March 24, 1762. DOWNING, Lieut. ANDREW, d. Nov. 1745. DOWNING, ROBERT, (sup. b. of Lieut. Andrew,) m. Sarah , and had &raA, Eeb. 22, 1762; iJo5ert, Eeb. 6, 1764, d. 1830; JbAn, Nov. 15, 1766 ; Susanna, July 19, 1769, m. John McLean, of Boston, 1790; ^nn, July ,30, 1777. Robert and John both d. unm. The homestead was upon the B. side of the Dedham road, near the old burial place. DOWNING, JAMES, (sup. a. of Robert,) m. Nabby , and had James, May 2, 1798. 2d w. Susanna, and had Augustus, Dec. 10, 1801. DIMBO, ROBERT, m. Rose Caesar, March 30, 1749. DIX, SAMUEL, d. Nov. 25, 1823, se. 84. DIX, SAMUEL W., m. Elizabeth Craft, 1819. DIX, BENJAMIN, had by w. Mary , Jabez, April 29, 1728. DRAPER, Capt. THOMAS, lived at the s. part of the town, near the Rox. line. He was s. of Capt. Jonathan and Sarah, of Rox., and was bom March 14, 1709 — m. Relief , and had Thomas, Oct. 30, 1732 ; Moses, May 26, 1738, d. 1738 ; Thomas, Dec. 19, 1739, d. 1739 ; AUgail, June 2, 1741 ; Phebe, Oct. 27, 1742, d. 1751 ; Eliza- beth, March 26, 1744; Catharine, Nov. 29, 1745; William, June 1, 1747, d. 1748 ; Anna, July 28, 1749 ; Rebecca, Sept. 6, 1750, d. 1751 ; William and Rebecca, Mai-ch 7, 1752, d. 1755. He d. 1769, as: 60. His w. d. 1758. DREW, JONATHAN,* d. 1700, se. 20. DREW, ERASANAN,* d. 1700, «. 22. His mother d. 1719, ae. 70. DREW, EBENEZER,* d. 1715, se. 26. DREW, ABIGAIL,* d. 1717, £e. 28. DURANT, Capt. EDWARD, asked leave to build a pew in the M. H., in 1734, which was refused. In 1732, he bought of Daniel Rob- bins and Daniel Trowbridge, ninety-one acres land, in Newton, for XI ,800, bounded e. and w. by highway ; ir. by land of Capt. John • They were of Brookllne, but Uielr gravestones are in Newton. DURANT. 269 Jackson. He came into Newton, from Boston, with w. Jndith, and sons Edward, Thomas, Cornelius, and dr. Elizabeth. He d. Oct. 13, 1 740, leaving a great estate, which was appraised by Samuel Jack- son, Esq., Joha Hill, Thomas Foster, Samuel Sparhawk, and Thos. Greenwood, in Aug., 1741. He had, in Newton, ninety-seven acres land, house, and two bams, westerly on the town road, e. by John Jackson, s. w. by Murick, Bobbins, and Ward; three dwelling houses in Boston ; one hundred and thirty acres of land, with house and bam, in Worcester, and township in New Boston, and three slaves, amounting in all to £10,277, 10s. Son Thomas had house in Boston ; Cornelius, the place in Worcester ; Elizabeth, house in Boston ; wid. Judith, house in Boston, and Edward, the homestead in Newton. DUUANT, EDWARD, Je., (s. of Capt. Edward,) took the home- stead, in Newton, and m, Anne, the dr. of Capt. John Jackson, and g. d. of John, Sen., Sept. 15, 1735, and had Anne, Jan. 5, 1736 ; Abigail; Edward, March 31, 1738 ; Nathaniel, July 13, 174g, d. 1751 ; Catharine, Dec. 28, nU; Thomas, March 18, 1746; John, Dec. 19, 1749; Elizabeth, Nov. 17, 1753. Ann the mother, d. Nov. 1753. 2d w. Mary Allen, 1754, and had Allen, May 11, 1757 ; Martha, Oct. 22, 1755 ; Nathaniel, June 28, 1760. Abigail m. Capt. Phineas Cook, 1759 — Catharine m. William Parker, s. of Master Parker, and 2d, Samuel Hastings — Elizabeth m. Samuel Clark, s. of Wm., 1776 — Martha m. Eliphalet Eobbins, 1777. He was Moderator of Town meetings, from 1765 to 1775; Selectman four years, and was a leading, influential, and patriotic man, in Newton, in opposing the arbitrary measures of the British Government, for more than ten years preceding the Eevolutionary war; and was chairman of a committee to report instructions to the Representative to the Gen. Court, in 1765, upon the passage of the Stamp Act. He was chair- man of a committee, in 1772, and a member of the committee, in 1774, to report resolutions upon the state of public affairs, and instructions to their Representative, and an answer to a Circular of the Selectmen of Boston. [See page 179.] He was chairman of the committee of Correspondence, in 1774, and a Delegate to the Provincial Congress, in 1774 and 1775. He d. April 10, 1782, x. 67. DUBANT, Dk. EDWARD, (s. of Edward, Jr., and Ann,) m. Maty Park, dr. of Edward, Nov. 1762, and had Henrietta, May 17, 1762 ; Adolphus, Sept. 15, 1764; Edtvard ; Polly, Oct. 21, 1772; Esther, March, 1774 ; Elisha, May 6, 1776 ; Charles, July 16, 1777 ; Jackson; 23* 270 DUEANT DURELL. Thomas, 1768; and Mary. Henrietta m. Thomas Jackson, 1785, and 2d, Eeuben Moore, 1 793 — Samuel and Adolphus d. young. Dr. Edward went privateering, during the Keyolutionary war, and was never heard of afterwards. DUEANT, THOMAS, (brother of the Dr.) m. Elizabeth Clark, 1775, and had William, Sept. 21, 1775 ; Edward, July 12, 1779 ; Ann, Oct. 21, 1777. He removed to Camb., thence to Partridgefield. DUEANT, JACKSON, mariner, (a. of the Dr.) m. Dorcas EuUer, dr. of Edward, and had Maria, April 7, 1793 ; Charles, 1795 ; Jackson, William, Augustus, Julia, Eliza, Dorcas, Nancy, and Ruth. Maria m. Payson Williams, of Eox. — Julia m. Gage, N. H. — Dorcas m. Gibbs — Euth m. Adams — Eliza m. Willard — Nancy m. Toby. DUEANT, EDWAED, (s. of Dr. Edward,) m. Nabby Fuller, 1790, and had Potty, May 6, 1791 ; Eliza, Samuel, Thomas, and Edward. DUEANT, THOMAS, carpenter, (s. of Dr. Edward,) m. Nabby Starr, and had Nabby, William, Adolphus, Horatio, Harriet, Caroline, Soplfronia, and Louisa. Harriet m. Foster — Caroline m. Dench — Sophronia m. Dewing — Louisa m. Wal- lace. He d. Aug. 1829, 86. 61. DUEANT, CHAELBS, (s'. of Dr. Edward,) m. N. L. Williams, and had Nabby, Charles, Mary, Atby, Henrietta, Augustus, and Mary. DUEELL, PETEE, of French descent, came from St. Johns ; was sent here a boy, to Dr. Allen, in the West Parish, to be educated, but was suffered to grow up without much education. Nevertheless, he was an upright man, with a strong mind and good judgment. He m. Euth, dr. of Isaac Fuller, 1751, and had Susanrui, Dec. 25, 1752 ; Hannah, April 12, 1755 ; Peter, Aug. 1, 1757 ; John, March 7, 1760; isoac, July 25, 1762 ; Susanna, April 2, 1765; Samuel, Dec. 8, 1767; David, Sept. 9, 1770. Hannah m. Joshua Jackson, Jr., 1773. He d. 1810, a;. 91. She d. 1798, se. 69. DUEELL, JOHN, (s. of Peter,) m. Mary , and had Mary, Dec. 27, 1789 ; Henry GuUiver, April 1, 1792; Juliet, June 9, 1801. He d. June 15, 1820, SB. 66. DUEELL, SAMUEL, (s. of Peter,) m. Ann, dr. of Sam'l Jackson. DUEELL, DAVID, (s. of Peter.) m. Mai^ , and had WiUiam, Feb. 10, 1795 ; Charles, June 5, 1797 ; Ruili, Feb. 4, 1799. DDRELL — DYKE — DRUCK. 271 DUEELL, TRISTEAM, and w. Susanna, had EUjah A., 1834; Lydia E., 1838. DYKE, JONATHAif ; his w. Experience d. 1712, se. 83. " She was formerly the w. of Jacob Chamberlain, by whom she had fire sons, all living at her death." ( Gravestone. ) DYKE, ABIGAIL, m. Ab'm Brown, 1730. DITKE, JONATHAN, (sup. s. of Jonathan,) m. Hannah, dr. of Joseph and Mary Hyde, 1742, and had Hannah, Jan. 16, 1744 ; Jonathan, d. 1746, and Benjamin. Hannali m. John Adams, 1762, and lived on the old Jonathan Hyde homestead. He was Selectman thi-ee yeaa-s, and d. 1759, leaving a will, dated 1750. His brother, Gideon Dyke, of Norwich, admin, the estate. Wid. Hannah d. 1790. DYKE, BENJAMIN, (s.of Jonathan,) m. Mary Hastings, 1724, and had Jahez, April 29, 1728 j and Sarah, 1729. I. DEUCE, VINCENT, one of the first settlers of Camb. Vil. He was of Hingham, and had land granted to liim there in 1636 and '37. His s. John was baptized in Hingham, April, 1641. In 1650, Nich- olas Hodgden, of Boston, (Brookline,) conveyed to Thomas Ham- mond and Vincent Druce, of Camb., a tract of land in the easterly part of Camb. Vil., adjoining John Parker's land, n., n. w. and s. E., which land was granted by the to^vn of Camb. to Eobert Bradish. Hammond and Druce held this land in common until 1664, when a division was made between them, the dividing line was one hundred rods in length, running over the ^eat hill. The pond was in Ham- mond's part, and has been called by his name ever since. The road through these lands to Muddy river, (Brookline,) was laid out in 1658. John Ward conveyed to Druce one hundred and thu-ty acres of woodland, Eox. Kne, e., Muddy river line, n., and other land of Ward, s. and w. His dwelling house was near the line of Muddy river, (Brookline.) He had two sons, Vincent and John. His will, dated Nov. 1677, and proved Jan. 30, 1778, is upon the Suffolk Eecords, vol. 6, in wliich he bequeaths to his son Vincent, his dwelling house and fifty-six acres of land in Camb. Village, and one hundred and thirty acres which he bought of John Ward, &c. And to his s. John's wid. Mary and children, his house, bam and lands in Brookline ; and to his son in law, Eozman Drew, and his s. John's wid. his movable estate. 272 DRtrcE. n. DRUCE, VmCENT, Jr., and w. Elizabeth ,had John, Feb. 25, 1668; Vincent; MA'taftZe, Sept. 26, 1670; Mary, Aug. 9,1672; and Deliverance, March 15, 1674, named in his will, -which gives his wife Elizabeth all she had when she became his w. ; and the improvement of his house and lands so long as she continues to be his wid., and no longer, until his son John comes of age. John shall be subject to his mother, and diligent in his place until he comes of age, and then to have his house and lands, and shall pay his three sisters £25 each, at then- marriage day or before. n. DEUCE, JOHN, (s. of Vincent, Sen.,) m. Mary , and lived wilhin the bounds of Brookline, and had one son and two daughters. He was a soldier in Capt. Prentice's troop of horse, which rendered such important services in Philip's war, in 1675. On the 26th of June, a company of Cavalry, under Capt. Prentice, of Camb. Village, marched towards Mount Hope. On the 28th, they arrived at the Eev. Mr. Miles' house, in Swanzey. The next day they reconnoitred Mount Hope, and found that Philip and his Indians had retreated to the east side of Taanton river ; the iiight following, they retired to Eehoboth, about six miles, to lodge for the night. As they returned to Swanzey the next morning, (July 1st,) Capt. Prentice divided his company, giving half to his Lieut. Oakes, and keeping the other half himself, each taking different routes, the more effectually to scour the country and capture Indians. Capt. Prentice's party espied a party of Indians burning a house, to which he gave chase, but they fled into a swamp. Lieut. Oakes' party had the like discovery ; they fell in with some Indians upon a plain, and gave chase to them, killing four or five, one of which was known to be Thebe, a sachem of Mount Hope, and another was Philip's chief. In this affair Lieut. Oakes lost but one man, John Druce, who was mortally wounded in his bowels, to the gi-eat grief of his companions. He was brought home to his house at Muddy river, near the line of Camb. Village, and died the next day, (July 2d,) se. 34. Previous to his death, Joseph Dudley, Esq. was called in, before whom he dictated his will, stating that he was in partnership with his father Druce. He be- queathed one half his estate to his son, and the other half to be equally divided between his two daughters ; his wife to have the improvement of the whole, during her life. Capt. Prentice and Mr. Dudley he appointed executors. Mr. Dudley made oath to these dying requests, before Symon Bradstreet and Edward Tyng, on the 16th of Aug. 1675, and recorded the same in the 6th volume in DEUCE — EDDT. 273 SufFolk. To his wid. Mary, administration was granted on Nov. 15, 1675. In a petition to the Genl. dourt in 1678, signed by nearly all the freemen of Camb. Village, to be set oflf from Camb., it was sta- ted, " that the late war had been a great charge to the whole Colony, and to us in particular, both in our estates and persons, by loss of life to some, and others wounded and disabled," &c. It is believed that John Druce was the first person from Camb. Village, that fell in Philip's war. III. DEUCE, JOHN, (s. of Vincent, Jr.) m. Elizabeth Bishop, 1700, and had Prudence, William, Ebenezer, John (1) ni. DEUCE, VINCENT, (s. of Vincent, Jr.,) m. Elizabetli , andhad Pn«/ence, Aug. 21, 1701 ; William, June 1, 1707, d. Feb., 1730; Ebenezer, March 13, 1709, d. 8. 11. 1715. IV. DEUCE, Dk. JOHN, grad. at H. C, 1738, (sup. s. of John HI.) m. Margaret, dr. of Dea. Wm. and Sarah (Fullam) Trowbridge, in April, 1749; settled in Wrentham, and had John, Oliver, Samuel, Nancy, Margaret, and Patty. Nancy m. John Guild, of Wrentham, and is now (1853) living, at the age of ninety-nine years — Margaret m. David Holbrook, Esq., of Wrentham, an officer in the Revolu- tion — Patty m. Spurr — John, unm., was one of Washington's life-guard, and was killed in the war — Oliver was m. and had one dr., and d. young — Samuel m. Hepsibah Shepard, and had two sons, Albert and Lyman, and four daughters — Albert went to New Jersey, and had one s. and one dr. — Lyman, unm., lives in New Jersey. Dr. John d. ce. 55, and his wid. Margaret m. Blake. IV. EDDT, BENJAMIN, bom Nov. 30, 1707, was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Eddy, of Wat. ; the g. s. of Samuel and Sarah (Mead) Eddy of Wat., and the g. g. s. of John Eddy, whom Gov. Winthrop called " a Godly man of the Wat. Congregation." He and his brother Samuel came from Boxted, a village in Suffolk co., England ; they were the sons of the Eev. William Eddy, of Crainbrook, co. of Kent. They sailed from London in the ship Handmaid, John Grant, Master, on the 10th of August, 1630, and arrived at Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1630, "having been twelve weeks at sea, and spent all her masts." Samuel settled in Plymouth, and had lands granted to him there. His descendants have been numerous in the old Colony' and in E. I. John settled in Wat, in 1633, and m. Amy , and 2d, Joanna . Joanna d. 1683, £e. 80. John d. in Wat, Oct- 12, 1684, SB. 90. Benjamin, great grandson of John, of Wat., bought 274 EDDY EDMUNDS. six and one half acres of land, in Newton, in Aug. 1731, a little n. of the centre M. H., and there settled. In 1756, he bought eight acres on the plain, near the centre M. H. and School house. He m. Elizabeth Truesdell, Nov., 1733, and had Tabitha, Aug. 27, 1734, d. 1736 ; Elizabeth, March 6, 1736, d. 1737 ; Benjamin, Oct. 21, 1739 ; Tahitha, July 19, 1738; Hannah, July 3, 1741 ; Samuel, April 29, 1744 ; John, Sept. 25, 1745 ; and Ward, Feb. 5, 1748. Elizabeth the mother, d. 1751. 2d w. Hannah Day, April, 1753 — Tabitha m. W. BlacMngton, of Needham. He was a tailor, removed to Royalston, and d. there 1798, £e. 91. V. EDDY, BENJAMIN, (s. of Benjamin,) m. Sarah Holland, Dec, 1760, and had Elizabdh, April 29, 1761; Hannah, Dec. 23, 1762; Benjamin, Sept. 13, 1764 ; Mehitable, April 9, 1767 ; Abraham, Sept. 28, 1768; 4%ai7, Dec. 4, 1770; Sarah, Sept. 25, 1772, d. 1838; 4m, July 28, 1776, d. 1838; Lucretia, Feb. 3, 1779, d. 1809; Samuel, March 4, 1784; and Sukey, Feb. 27, 1781. Elizabeth m. Elisha Cheney, 1781 — Mehitable m. William Foster, of Boston, 1792 — Abigail m. George Brimmer, of Brookline, 1791. He was a soldier in the Revolution, thirty-six months, in Capt. Benson's Company, Col. Putnam's Regiment. V. EDDY, BENJAMm, (s. of Benjamin and Sarah.) m. ZeUda Pierce, Dec, 1785, and had PoUi/, May 25, 1786, d. 1788 ; Benjamin. July 1, 1787 ; Zelida, May 7, 1791, d. 1835; John, Feb. 11, 1793; Alexander Shepard, June 29, 1797, d. 1820 ; Mary Ann, June 20, 1805. 2d w. Mary Stone, of Ringe, 1821. 3d w. wid. Martha Jackson, 1827. Zelida m. Luke Hayward, 1821. He d. 1852, se. 88. 2d w. d. Oct., 1846. EDDY, JOHN, s. of Hannah Ward, b. March 1, 1773. VI. EDDY, BENJAMm, (s. of Benjamin and Zelida,) m. Esther Cap- ron, of Royalston, and had Benjamin, who went to Winchendon ; Otis A., to Illinois ; Nelson, to Millbury ; George, to Winchendon ; John, to Winchendon ; and six daughters. EDDY, JOHN, (s. of Benjamin and Zelida,) m. Ann Wadsworth, and had Gibbs Wadsworth, Aug. 28, 1783 ; John, March 5, 1787. EAGER, ABIGAIL, d. Dec. 1, 1824, se. 101. EDMUNDS, AMOS, m. Esther Hyde, Sept. 13, 1773. EDMUNDS ELIOT. 276 EDMUNDS, JONATHAN, had by w. Hannah , Aaron, April 8, 1739 ; Esther, Jan. 6, 1741 ; John; Estlier, Feb. 19, 1743 ; Amos, April 27, 1744 ; Ann, Oct. 2, 1746. Amos, Esther, Esther, and John, all d. young. EDMUNDS, JONATHAN, Jr., m. Huldah Hyde, Oct. 31, 1765. 2d TV. Hannah "Ward, June, 1776. n. ELIOT, Kev. JOHN, Jk., (s. of Key. John, of Box., the cele- brated Apostle to the Indians,) was bom in Rox., Aug. 31, 1636, grad. H. C, 1656 ; A. M., 1659. He m. Sarah "Willet, dr. of Capt. Thomas "WiUet, of Plymouth, about 1661, and had Sarah, bapt. 21. 7. 1662. Eirst w. d. 13. 4. 1665. Second w. Elizabeth, dr. Daniel Gooken, Esq., May 23, 1666, and had John, April 22, 1667. Sarah m. John Bowles, Esq., Box., Speaker of the House of Representa- tives, and d. 1687. He began to preach 1658, in his 22d year. Un- der the direction of his father he obtained considerable proficiency in the Indian language, and was an assistant to him in missionary employment, until his settlement. On the 20th of July he was ordained first Pastor of the first ch. in Camb. Village, which was organized the same day. After his ordination he preached once in two weeks to the Indians at Stoughton, and sometimes at Natick. He d. Oct. 13, 1668, se, 33, and was buried within a few feet of the pulpit where he preached. The following extract is taken from his will, dated Aug. 6, 1668 : " I desire to commit my precious soul to God, Eather, Son, and Holy Spirit, three glorious persons, but one only infinite eternal being, in whom I have believed, and whom I have (through his grace) chosen to be my only and everlasting por- tion ; relying and trusting only in the merits and satisfaction of the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal son of God and yet very man, who was made sin and death for me, that I might be made the righteous- ness of God in him ; and who was dead but is now aUve, sitting at the right hand of God, whom I trust to see with these eyes, and to be ever-with him through eternity." He is said to have been " an accomplished person, comely proportion, ruddy complexion, cheer- ful countenance, and quick apprehension ; a good classical scholar, and possessed considerable scientific knowledge, for one of his age and period." A tender and inviolable affection subsisted between him and his people. His wid. Elizabeth, m. Col. Edmund Quincy, Esq., of Braintree, Dec. 8, 1680, by whom she had two children, Edmund and Man/, and d. Nov. 30, 1700. His son John was brought up and educated at H. C., by his g. f. Gookin, and m. Mary, 276 ELLIOT ELLIS ESTT. dr. of John Wolcott, and settled at Windsor, Conn. Eliot's home- stead of twenty acres was the southerly comer of the Mayhew farm, and was situated on the westerly side of the Dedham road, about sixty rods n. of the burial pla,ce. The well where he drew up his cold water, very near the spot where his dwelling-house stood, is stiU in use, and is now the property of Mrs. Edmands. By his will, he desired that his house and laud should be preserved for his son John, for his inheritance, to enter upon, after his mother's decease. It continued to be the property of his son John, as long as he lived. After his death, it was sold to Henry Gibbs, Esq., for ^15, in Oct., 1733, by order of the General Court, on the petition of Jonathan Ellsworth, Esq., and Mary, the wid. of Eliot, executors of his will. Their petition states that the place was given to him by his father's wiU, and they pray that it may be sold for the purpose of raising money to carry his son John (then seventeen years old) through College, at New Haven. It was bounded, by the deed, e. by the Dedham highway ; s. by lands of John Spring; n. and w. by lands of Rev. John Cotton. Col. John Chandler, of Wor., acted as Attorney for the executors. — [Middlesex Deeds.] Henry Gibbs, Esq., sold the Eliot homestead to the Rev. John Cotton, in 1736, for £300. The heirs of the Rev. John Cotton sold it to Charles Pel- ham, Esq., in April, 1765. ELLIOT, Gen. SIMON, from Boston. His f. was a tobacconist of Boston, and erected snuff mills at the Upper Ealls, about 1780. He was a large owner of mills, lands and water power, at the Upper Falls, where for many years he carried on a large business, and lived in the house formerly Noah Parker's. He was a Maj. General of the Militia in Suffolk, and d. 1810. ELIOT, EBENEZER, and w. Margaret , had Margaret, March 1, 1718; Ebenezer, June 27, 1720, and Experience, March 22, 1722. Ebenezer m, Susanna Soden, 1745, and settled in Camb. Margaret, the mother, d. Dec, 1752. ELLIS, ANDREW, m. Rebecca Shepard, 1802, and had Lucretia E., Oct. 5, 1802 ; George, April 28, 1804 ; Rebecca, Mar. 29, 1806. ELVE, WILLIAM, and w. Margaret . He d. Dec. 17, and she d. Dec. 21, 1694. ESTY, REUBEN, a butcher, lived in West Parish, m. Grace , and had Dexter, Oct. 2, 1791 ; and PoUy, Sept. 1, 1794. ETJSTIS — FENNO — FISKE. . 277 EUSTIS, Capt. THOMAS, of Eutland, and w. Catherine Wheat, had Thomas, Samuel W., William, Moses, George W., Joseph G., Mary, Abigail, Catherine, Hannah, and Sarah. Abigail d. 1821, se. 46. Thomas m. Dana. EUSTIS, GEORGE W., (s. of Capt. Thomas,) m. Elizabeth Stone, 1813, and had Samuel S., Oct. 30, 1815. ETJSTIS, SAMUEL W., (s. of Capt. Th.) m. Esther Hoogs, Oct. 1792. EUSTIS, WILLIAM, (s. of Capt. Thomas,) m. Anna Morse, Nov. 1794, and had Polly. EUSTIS, DANIEL, m. Elizabeth Park, 1822. EENNO, JONATHAN, (s. of John, of Boston,) m. Esther Hunt, of Eox., 1749, and had Mary, Sept. 19, 1750 ; Jonathan, 1753, d. 1761 ; Elizabeth, Ephraim, Oliver, and Joseph. EENNO, EPHRAIM, (sup. brother of Jonathan,) cordwainer, from Boston, purchased thirty-three acres land in Newton, 1736, for £150 ; " E. by Dedham road, with a way of one rod wide ; s. by the drain and Jonathan Murdock, always excepting the lands sold to the Town, where the M. H. now stands and the way to it, as it was staked out." This place was recently the homestead of the late Rev. Joseph Grafton. He m. Martha , and had Sarah, Aug. 8, 1737, d. 1744; Mary, d. 1745. He d. 1767, sd. 86. His w. d. 1781, se. 89. FISHER, ANN, had s. William, Nov. 25, 1767. EISKE, JONATHAN, (s. of John' and Abigail (Parks) Eisk, of Wat.,) m. Lydia Bemis, of Wat., 1716, and had Lydia, July 21, 1717 ; Zebediah, April 3, 1719, and d. 1746. Lydia m. James Cooke, of Wat., 1737. He d. 1777, x. 87 1-2. EISKE, SAMUEL, (sup. brother of Jonathan,) m. Rebecca Green, 1722, and had Bethia, Jan. 11, 1725 ; Abigail, Feb. 16, 1727 ; Lucy, Feb. 15, 1729; Mary, Jau. 11,1732; Bebecca, Jan. 15, 1733; John, Aug. 11, 1735 ; Samud, Jan. 19, 1744; Aaron, Aug. 12, 1741 ; Tlum- as, Aug. 1742; Ann, Sept. 28, 1738, d. 1776. Lucy m. Joseph Whiting, of Ded., 1751. He d. 1770, se. 78. She d. 1767. FISKE, AARON, m. Abigail Richardson, 1765, and had John, June 27, 1765 ; Rebecca, Nov. 27, 1767 ; Sarah, Oct. 2, 1769 ; Samud, Dec. 19, 1770. FISKE, SAMUEL, of Weston, m. Abigail Murdock^ 1774. 24 278" FLAGS — FOOT FULLEK. FEACHAM, GEORGE. Sen., d. 1780. FLAGG, WILLIAM, m. Rebecca Cook, 1772. FLAGG, ASA, had by Hannah CMd, Mary, Feb. 19, 1750. FLAGG, JOSHUA, m. AbigaU Ward, 1793. He was Selectman three years. He d. Jan. 1802, se. 81. She d. 1826, as. 86. FLAGG, SOLOMON, d. 1830, se. 69. FLAGG, WILLIAM, m. Hepsibah Serems, 1803, and had Hepsibdli, Jan. 14, 1808. FOSTER, WILLIAM, m. Mehitable Eddy, 1790, and had William, Oct. 3, 1792. FOOT, JOHN, m. Mary , and had Elisabeth, Feb. 6, 1694. FOWLE, EDMUND, m. Mercy , 1718, and had Edmund, Sept. 23,1719; Mercy; Mary, May 21, 1721; Mary, 1724. Mercy m. Joseph Adams, 1740. He died Oct. 14, 1726. FREEMAN, Ret. JAMES, of King's COiapel, Boston, d. here, Nov. 14,1835,85.75. Hiswid.d. July 24, 1841. FULLER, JOHN, one of the first settlers of Camb. Village. He was bom in 1611, and settled in Cambridge Village about 1644. In Dec, 1658, he purchased of Joseph Cooke, of Camb., seven htm- dred and fifty acres of land, for £160, bounded n. and w.'Jby Charles river, the winding part of the river w. ; e. by land of Thomas Park, and s. by Samuel Shepaxd's farm, being a, straight line between. His house stood on the s. side of the road, and w. side of the brook, and within a few rods of both road and brook. By subsequent purchase, he increased his tract to upwards of one thousand acres. Cheese-cake brook ran through it. This tract was long known as the " Fuller farm." He divided it among his five sons, by his will, dated 1696, (s. Isaac having d. in Oct. 1691,) with the proviso that they should not sell to any stranger, until they, or their next relative, should have the offer of it. These five sons lived to the following ages : John 75, Jonathan 74, Joseph 88, Joshua 98, and Jeremiah 83. He and Edward Jackson were the largest land owners in the village. They divided their lands among their children, in their life time, confii-ming the division by theu' wills, and have had a far greater number of descendants than any other of the early settlers of the town. Twenty -two of his descendants went into the army of the Revolution, from Newton. He m. Elizabeth , and had John, 1645; Jonathan, 1648; Elizabeth; Joseph, Feb. \0, 1652; Joshua, FULLER. 279 April 2, 1654 ; Jeremiah, Feb. 4, 1658 ; Betlda, Not. 23, 1661 ; and Isaac, Dec. 2, 1665, and d. Oct. 6, 1691, prob. unmarried. Elizabeth m. Job Hyde, 1663 — Betbia m. Lt. Nathaniel Bond, of Wat., Feb. 27, 1685.. He d. Feb. 7, 1698-9, se. 87. Wife Elizabeth d. April 13, 1700. It was said by the late Henry H. Fuller, Esq., of Boston, that our John Fuller was a sou of Dr. Samuel Fuller, of Plymouth, who came in the Mayflower; but that statement is erroneous. Dr. Samuel d. 1633, leaving an only s. Samuel — no other son is named in the will, or in the division of cattle, in 1627. This only s. Samuel, was Minister of Middleboro', and died there 1695, se. 71. Edward FuUer, also a Mayflower man, d. 1621, leaving an only s. Samuel, who settled on the Cape. n. FULLER, JOHN, Jk., m. Abigail Boylston, 1682, and had Sarah, 5.8.1683; John, Sept. 2, 1685; AUgail, March 8, 1688; James, Feb. 4, 1690 ; Hannah, Aug. 31, 1693 ; Isaac, Nov. 22, 1695 ; Jona- than, Feb. 13, 1698; Jonathan, March 28, 1700; CoZe6,Feb. 24, 1702. He m. 2d w. Margaret Hicks, Oct. 14, 1714, and d. 1720, se. 75. n. FULLER, JONATHAN, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. MindweU, dr. of James Trowbridge, Sen. — no issue. By his wiU he bequeathed his estate to Jonathan, s. of his brother Joseph; £10 to Jonathan Hyde, s. of Job, Sen. ; £2 to the chil. of EUazer Hyde ; £5 to Rev. John Cotton ; and £2 to the wife of Nathaniel Oliver. He was Selectman one year. He lived on same spot now occupied by Capt. Ezra Fuller. He d. Aug. 12, 1722, se. 74. His wid. MindweU d. 1758, se. 96. n. FULLER, JOSEPH, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Lydia, dr. of Edward Jackson, Sen., 13. 12. 1680, and had John, 15. 10. 1681 ; Joseph, July 4, 1685; Jonathan, Jan. 7, 1686; %rf!a, Feb. 15, 1692; Edward, March?, 1694; Isaac, Mar. 16, 1698 ; iJ&'safteiA, July 1, 1701, and m. Josiah Bond, 1720 — Lydia m. Strattou. His father in law, Edward Jackson, gave him twenty-three acres of land, out of the westerly end of the Mayhew farm, which he bought of Gov. Brad- street, upon which he erected his mansion house, upon the same spot where his g. s., Judge Fuller, livedo He was Selectman five years. His w. Lydia d. Jan. 12, 1726, £e. 70. His will, 1732-3. He d. Jan. 5, 1740, se. 88. n. FULLER, JOSHUA, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of John Ward, Sen., June 7, 1679, and had Elizabeth, Feb. ■22, 1680; Han- nah, July 8, 1682 ; Experience, Nov. 5, 1685 ; Mercy, March 11, 1689; 280 FULLER. Abigail, about 1697 ; Sarah, and Ruth. Eliaabeth m. Isaac Shep- ard, 1702, and settled at Norton; 2d husband, Allen — Han- nah m. Stephen Cook, Jr., and settled in Wat. — Experience m. 1st, Mason, 2d, John or Joshua Child — Sarah m. Richard Park, 1717, and settled in Framingham — Mercy m. Cady — Abigail m. Joseph Garfield — Kuth m. Chenery. His will, 1742, states that he brought up Eleazer Ward, Jonathan Shepard, Joshua Child, Nathaniel Shepard, Joshua Garfield, Nathaniel Pond, Isaac Dana, Jonathan Morse, Edward Rainsford, and David Eainsford. To the first named five he gave five pounds apiece, and to the others forty shillings each. His sons in law, Stephen Cooke and Joseph Garfield, and Samuel Jackson, Esq., were his executors. His 1st w. Elizabeth d. Sept. 6, 1691, x. 31. When in his 88th year, he m. Mary Dana, of Camb., then in her 75th year, July 19, 1742. He d. June 27, 1752, je. 98. II. FULLER, Lieut. JEREMIAH, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. 1st, Mary , 2d w. Elizabeth , and had Elizabeth, April 14, 1694, d. 1694 ; Jeremiah, July 3, 1697, d. 1703. ^ w. Thankful , and had Thomas, Sept. 12, 1701 ; Joshua, April 12, 1703 ; Thankful, Dec. 23, 1704; Jeremiah, Nov. 1, 1707, d. 1711 ; Elizabeth, Aug. 24, 1709, d. 1711 ; Josiah, Dec. 2, 1710. Thankful m. Noah Wiswall, 1720. He was Selectman sixteen years, and Moderator of Town meetings for many years. His will, 1742, gives s. Thomas ninety-two acres of land ; s. Joshua the homestead, a hundred and twenty-five acres ; and s. Josiah, sixty-six acres ; his books to be equally divided among his children. His first w.'d. 1689, the second 1700, the third 1729, and the fourth 1742. He d. Dec. 23, 1743, se. 85. ni. FULLER, JOHN, (s. of Joseph, Sen.,) m. Hannah, wid. of James Trowbridge, Jr. and dr. of Ab'm Jackson, Feb. 25, 1716, and had Joseph and Lydia, Sept. 21, 1716, d. 1716; Lydia, Dec. 8, 1717, and m. Nathaniel Felch, of Wat. He d. 1718, le. 38 years and 10 months. She d. before 1740. in. FULLER, ISAAC, (s. of John, Jr.,) m. AbigaU , and had Isaac; John, July 3, 1722, d. in infancy; Abijah, June 1, 1723; Samuel, 'Soy. 26, 1724; Richard and Priscilla, 1728. Priscilla d, single, 1 763, and left will. Samuel m. Lydia Steams, of Waltham. He d. 1755, as. 61. III. FULLER, Capt. JONATHAN, (s. of Joseph and Lydia,) m. Sarah, dr. of John Mirick, 1717, and had Elisha, Marcli 15, 1719; FULLER. 281 Sarah, Oct. 20, 1720; Elisha, Oct. 11, 1725 ; Jonathan, Ja\y 13, 1723; Esther, Sept. 28, 1727; Amariah, July 17, 1729; and Edward, Dec. 31, 1735. Esther m. Parker — Sarah m. Learned. He was Selectman seven years. By his will, 1759, gives Edward the homestead. He d. Dec. 1, 1764, ss. 64. His wid. Sarah, Sept. 21, 1772. m. FULLER, CALEB, (s. of John, Jr.,) m. Temperance Hyde, 1725, and had Ephraim, Dec. 31, 1725 ; Nehemiah, Sept. 16, 1727, d. 1735 ; William, June 2, 1732 ; Bethia, Nov. 13, 1734 ; Ann, March 31, 1739, d. 1745. Bethia m. John Murdock, of Uxbridge. 1st w. d. 1740. 2d w. Mary Horey, 1750. He d. 1770, se. 68. HL FULLER, JOHN, (s. of John, Jr.,) m. Sarah , Aug. 1709, and had Elizabeth, June 27,1712; James, Feb. 9, 1715; Abigail, April 9, 1717 ; Mary, June 2, 1720 : Jemsha, Oct. 16, 1722 ; Eunice, Aug. 6, 1725; Rebecca, Sept. 21, 1730; Sarah, July 8, 1733 ; Elisha, Oct. 11, 1735. m. FULLER, LiETJT. JOSEPH, Jr., m. Sarah, dr. of Ab'm Jackson, May 11, 1719, and had Abraham, Maxch 23, 1720; ani Elizabeth, Oct. 28, 1722, and m. Rev. Isaac Jones, of Weston, 1749. He was chosen Representative, 1749, but declined serving. He d. April 23, 1766, se. 81. Will, 1764. "Wife Sarah d. Nov. 21, 1764, se. 81. Abraham took the homestead. ni. FULLER, JONATHAN, (s. of John, Jr.,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Daniel Woodward, Jan. 2, 1725, and had Keziah, Oct. 7, 1725,4. 1741; Jonas, April 23, 1727; John; Sidda, Feb. 10, 1729; Eliza- beth, lHoy. 10, 1730; Daniel, Aug. 13, 1732; Grace, June 14, 1734; Elenor, March 14, 1736 ; Amos, Feb. 7, 1738 ; Thaddeus, Feb. 17, 1740; and Mary, Sept. 1744. Hulda m. Joshua Jackson, March, 1749 — Elizabeth m. Samuel Gooding, of Wat., Sept. 1756. He d. March 31, 1783, se. 97. FUliLER, EDWARD, (s. of Joseph, Sen.,) m. Esther Cowdin, Sept. 21, 1726, and had iMcy, May 13, 1729. He d. Nov. 23, 1732, ss. 37. in. FULLER, ISAAC, (s. of Isaac and Abigail,) m. Hannah, dr. of John Greenwood, Esq., Sept. 17, 1722, and had Susanna, July 13, 1725, d. 1748; Joseph, Aug. 15, 1727; Ruth, Sept. 18, 1729; Lois, Dec. 12, 1732, d. 1749; Tahiiha, Sept. 7, 1734; Hannah, Nov. 11, 1735 ; Lydia, Oct. 23, 1737 ; AJbigaU, d. 1753. Ruth m. Peter Durell, 1751 —Lydia m. Daniel Fuller, Jtme, 1756. He d. June, 1745, SB. 47. His wid. Hannah d. 1769. 24« 282 FULLER. III. rULLEE, THOMAS, (s. of Lieut. Jeremiah,) m. Elizabeth Ball, of Wat., April, 1728, and had Thankfid, July 26, 1730 ; Bachd, July 12, 1734, d. 1737 ; Jeremiah, May 14, 1736 ; Thomas, Sept. 25, 1738 ; Natlian, June 3, 1741 ; and Benjamin, Not. 15, 1743. He d. Nov. 13, 1748, se. 47. III. FULLEE, Capt. JOSHUA, (s. of Lieut. Jeremiah,) m. 2d, Anna Steams, of Waltham, May, 1746, and had Joshua, March 2, 1747 ; Ann, June 18, 1749 ; David, April 18, 1751 ; Moses, April 1, 1753 ; Eunice, Eeb. 15, 1756 ; and Rachel, April 29, 1760, d. 1761. Ann m. Ephraim Whitney, 1774. He d. Aug. 23, 1777, se. 75. His wid. Ann d. 1778, se. 61. 1st w. d. Nov. 28, 1739. in. EULLEE, Ensi&n JOSIAH, (s. of Lieut. Jeremiah,) m. Abigail Williams, 1739, and had Josiah, Oct. 24, 1739 ; David, Oct. 13, 1741, d. 1742 ; Phebe, Jan. 29, 1744 ; Ann, June 4, 1746 ; Abigail, Nov. 5, 1747; Mary, Oct. 24, 1747; Thanifd, Feb. 21, 1750; Joseph, July 29, 1751; Susanna, June 2, 1753; Martha, Aug. 21, 1755; and Patty. Phebe m. William Clark, Jr., 1766 — Mary m. Thomas Miller, Jr., 1769 — Abigail m. 1st, John Barber, Feb. 1765, and 2d, Samuel Jenks, Esq., — Anna m. Benjamin Richards, of Rox- bury — Susanna m. Stephen Hastings, 1771 — Martha m. Daniel Stratton, of Wat., 1775. He d. 1793, se. 83. His wid. Abigail d. 1796, se'. 86. IT. FULLER, ELISHA, (s. of Jonathan and Sarah,) m. Esther, dr. of David Richardson, 1750, and had Esther, Sept. 2, 1751 ; Elisha, Aug. 10, 1753, d. March, 1773; Aaron, Feb. 26, 1756 ; Hannah, Feb. 28, 1759; Ekoda, June 19, 1761 ; Patty, Aug. 12, 1763; Silas, Dec. 21, 1765; Caiy, Sept. 10, 1768; Caty, Nov. 25, 1770, d. in infancy; Nahby, May 5, 1773. Esther m. Edward Hall, Jr., 1772 — Patty m. Sylvanus Lowell, J791,. He lived near the hill, now the Baptist Seminary, and d. 1794, se. 75. IV. FULLER, JONATHAN, (s. of Capt. Jonathan,) m. Elener Hammond, 1748, and had Margaret, Nov. 21, 1749 ; Sarah, Mar. 26, 1752; Beulah, May 22,1153; Enoch, Oct. 6, 1754; Elias, Oct. 26, 1756 ; Edmund, Feb. 23, 1758 ; Olive, Dec. 1, 1759 ; Elener, Sept. 12, 1761 ; Liicy, March 5, 1763. Sarah m. Joseph Craft, Jan. 1777. IV. FULLER, Capt. AMARIAH, (s. of Capt. Jonathan,) m. Anna, dr. of Dea. John Stone, 1757, and had Catherine, Sept. 14, 1759; Elijah, June 12, 1762, d. 1775; Meriel, April 17, 1764; and Anna, Jan. 29, 1770. Catherine m. Dea. Ebenezer Woodward — Anna m. FULLER. 283 Henry Craft, 1797. He was Selectman two years — was Capt. of the West Co. of Militia. He and his Co., one hundred and iive strong, were in the tattles of Lexington and Concord, and inarched twenty-eight miles, in those battles, out and home ; also at Dor- chester Heights. He d. Feb. 2, 1802, se. 73. She d. Jan. 1813. IV. FULLER, Capt. EDWARD, (s. of Capt. Jonathan,) m. Ruth, dr. of Isaac Jackson, Sen., 1759, and had Ruth, July 19, 1762 ; Oliver, Not. 12, 1764, d. 1846; Jonathan, April 23, 1767; Ezra, Sept. 16, 1769 ; Dorcas, Oct. 26, 1771 ; Jerusha, March 9, 1774 ; Edward, Aug. 7, 1776; Simon, Eeb. 9, 1779; Charles, March 5, 1781. Ruth m. Capt. Edmund Trowbridge. 2d w. Abigail, wid. of John Marean, and dr. of John Hammond, 1789. 1st w. Euth d. 1784, ss. 43. 2d w. Abigail d. 1826, se. 85. He d. Dec. 1810, se. 75. He was Select- man seyen years, and Representative one year, 1787. He was Lieut, at the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Capt. at the capture of Burgoyne's army. IV. FULLER, JEREMIAH, (s. of Thomas,) m. Sarah Robinson, 1759. IV. FULLER, THOMAS, Jk., m. Hannah Kingsbury, 1763. IV. FULLER, Col. NATHAN, (s. of Thomas,) m. Beulah, dr. of Moses Craft, July 4, 1763 ; no children. He was active, influential, and patriotic, at the preparation and commencement of the Revolu- tion. He entered the army, at Cambridge, as Capt. of a Co. in Col. Gardner's Regiment. He was promoted to a Major, and was in the Canada expedition, in Col. Bond's Regiment, in 1776. In the 5th letter, 2d vol., of Gordon's History of the American Revolution, the ■ conduct of Maj. Nathan Fuller is stated in a most favorable light ; and on one important occasion, in the retreat of the American troops from Canada, he acquitted himself well, and much praise was awarded to biTi for his activity and energy. He was Representa- tive in 1795. He gave to the West Parish one and a half acres of laud, for a burying place, in 1781. Also, £60 to the Church and congregation there, in 1785. His wiU, in 1817, gave his estate to his nephew, Benjamin FnUer, after paying some small legacies. Inven- tory, $3,267. Homestead, fifty-five acres, appraised at $2,890. He d. Sept. 21, 1822, se. 81. She d. Nov. 16, 1818, ;e. 73. IV. FULLER, BENJAMIN, (s. of Thomas,) m. Hannah Child, 1768; settled in , and had Benjamin, Leonard, Nathan, and Beulah. 284 FULLER. ry. FULLER, DANIEL, fsonof Jonathan and Elizabeth,) m.Lydia, sister of Capt. Joseph Fuller, and had Isaac, Not. 4, 1756 ; Miriam, March 6, 1759 ; Lydia, Jemima, Grace, Nancy, Luq/, and Hannah. Miriam m. George ElUs, of Medfield, Dec. 1795. He d. 1786, se. 54. She d. Oct. 1806. IV. rULLBE, Judge ABKAHAM, (s. of Joseph, Jr.,) m. Sarah Dyer, of Weymouth, 1758, and had Sarah, April 27, 1759 ; Josq>h, Aug. 8, 1765, d. 1765. Sarah m. Gen. Wm. Hull, 1781. He kept a private Grammar School, in Newton, previous to 1760. He was Selectman four years ; Town Clerk and Treasurer twenty seven years, commencing in 1766 ; Eepresentative to the General Court eighteen years ; Delegate to the Provincial Congress ;- Senator ; Councillor; and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. By his will, (July, 1793,^ he left £300 "for the purpose of laying the foundation of an Academy in Newton." He d. April 20, 1794, £e. 74, She d. April 7, 1803. The following extract from a letter on the Town Records, from a committee of the Town to the heirs of the Judge, on receiving the bequest in his will, is here inserted. " The inhabitants of Newton have always felt and manifested uni- form and unshaken confidence in the integrity and discretion of Judge Fuller. There have been few instances, where, for such a series of years, and such a variety of services rendered by an indi- vidual for his native town, with such unlimited confidence on the one part, and such integrity and disinterestedness on the other ; he was universally esteemed and venerated. His native town and country are largely indebted to him. His public services wiU, by future generations, most assuredly be justly esteemed and univer- sally acknowledged." IV. FULLER, Lieut. JOHN, (sup. ». of Jonathan and Elizabeth,) m. Jerusha , and had Joseph; and John, Jan. 7, 1747. He d. 1786, SB. 63. IV. FULLER, JOSIAH, Jr., m. 1st, Anna Priest, of Waltham, 1761. 2d w. Eunice, dr. of Capt. Joshua Puller, and had Eunice and Rachel, twins, Sept. 3, 1778 ; they and their mother d. 1778. 3d w. Mary Dana, 1779, and had Ann, July 12, 1783 ; Sally, Mar. 9, 1781. 4th w. Mary "Woodward, and had Josiah, Sept. 18, 1785. 5th w. Mary Periy, 1808. Ann m. William Winchester, of Rox., Nov. 1800 — Sally m. Amasa Winchester, of Boston, May, 1800. He was Selectman three years, and Col. in the MUitia. He d. March 22, 1825, se. 84. FIJLLEK. 285 IV. PyiXER, SAMUEL, (s. of Isaac and Abigail,) m. Lydia Steams, of Waltham, 1746, and had Samuel, May 2, 1748; Samh, Oct., 1749; Lydia ani Lois, Oct. 23, 1752; Samuel, Jan. 1747, d. 1752. Lydia m'. Silas Steams; of Weston, 1772. Lydia the mother, d. 1753. IV. FULLER, Capt. JOSEPH, (s. of Isaac and Hannah,) m. Miud- TTell, dr. of Dea. John Stone, 1756, and had Asa, June 17, 1757; ioi's, 1758, inBrookline; Susanna, Oct. 9, 1760; Abigail, July 14, 1765; Mindwdl. Lois m. Joshua Park, 1784 — Susanna m. John Cook, of Wat. — Abigail m. Edward Durant — Mindwell m. Dea. Ebenezer White, 1793. Mindwell the mother, d. 1777, se. 46. 2d w. Mehitable Craft, 1781. He raised and commanded a Co. of ninety-six men, in Col. BuUard's Regiment, and marched to Ben- nington, thence to Skeensboro' and Lake George, to oppose the pro- gress of General Burgoyne, who surrendered Oct. 17, 1777 ; thence to Cambiidge, to guard the captured ti'oops of Burgoyne. He d. 1807, £6. 80. IV. DULLER, ABUAH, (s. of Isaac and Abigail,) m. Lydia Rich- ardson, 1755, and had S^fij'Z, May 27, 1756 ; Moda, Oct. 31, 1758; Lemuel, Jan. 26, 1761 ; Estlier, June 9, 1763 ; Elijah, Feb. 11, 1766 ; Ezekiel, Feb. 2, 176S; Amasa, Oct. 23,1770. He d. March, 1798, 86.75. IV. FULLER, LiEtjT. JOSHUA, (s. of Capt. Joshua,) m. Cathe- rine, sister of Col. Michael Jackson, 1773, and had Hem-y, June 21, 1773, d. 1777 ; Joshua, Sept. 16, 1774 ; Jacch, March 30, 1776 ; Moses, A. young. The mother d. 1777, £e. 30. 2d w. wid. Mary White, (for- merly Mary Brewer,) and had Catherine, Rebecca, James, Elijah, Uriel, and other drs. Catherine m. Chas. Jackson — Elijah m. and liyed at S. Boston, d. Oct. 1835. He d. Not. 1817, x. 70. IV. FULLER, EPHRAIM, {s. of Caleb,) m. Esther Warren, 1746, and had Lucij, March 30, 1747 ; Esther, Sept. 24, 1749 ; Anna, 1751 ; Elisabeth; Ebenezer W. Elizabeth m. Thomas Bogle, 1778. Anna d. 1813, iE. 62. Hed. 1772, «. 47. IV. FULLER, WILLIAM, (s. of Caleb,) m. Elizabeth , and had Nathaniel, Dec. 25, 1760 ; Caty, Feb. 23, 1763, and m. Nahum Smith, of Needham, Nov. 1794. He d. Dec. 12, 1802,38.70. She d. 1784. IV. FULLER, Dea. JOSEPH,, (son of Josiah, Sen.,) m. Joanna Spring, 1776, and had Josg>h, 1777; Betsey, Aug. 15, 1782, d. 1807. 286 FULLER. 2d w. Elizabeth Bacon, March, 1785, and had Jod, Aug. 10, 1786; Nobby, Sept. 14, 1791; George, Aug. 21,1793, d. 1802; Edmund, Nov. 23, 1794; Mindwell, Jnne 19, 1796 ; Jeremiah, Sept. 9, 1797, d. 1828 ; Sumner, June 3, 1799 ; Maria, Dec. 12, 1800 ; Jane, Feb. 1, 1803 ; Mary Ann, June 26, 1805 ; and Seth, July 16, 1807. He was Selectman three years; His first w. d. 1784, se. 33; 2d in 1819, se. 55. He d. Feb. 23, 1813, se. 62. IV. FTJLLEE, JOSEPH, (s. of ,) m. Abigail , and had Joseph', Sept. 2, 1751 ; and Nancy. IV. PULLEE, DAVID, (s. of Capt. Joshua,) m. Sarah WiUiams, and had Eunice, 1779, d. num. 1799. David d. unm. Sarah m. Dea. Joel Fuller. Martha d. unm., se. 28. Hannah m. Good- rich, and settled in Fitchburg. Wid. Sarah d. Aug. 1812. IV. FTTLLEE, PHINEAS, (s. of ,) m. EUzabeth , and had Rachel, July 12, 1735. V. FULLEE, AAEON, (s. of Elisha,) m. Hannah Pond, 1784. V. FULLEE, EOBEET, Je., m. Anna Bixby, 1794. V. FULLEE, JONATHAN, (s. of Capt. Edward,) m. Betsy , went to "Warren, Me., and had Sally, Edward, and 2d w. V. FULLEE, CHAELES, went to Fairhaven. FULLEE, ELISHA, had by w. Sarah , Sally, Dec. 8, 1796. FULLEE, JOSEPH, had by w. Sarah , Nathan, Feb. 22, 1795. FULLEE, EICHAED, m, Eunice Child, 1757, and had Eunice, Dec. 24, 1766. V. FULLEE, ASA, (s. of Capt. Joseph,) m. Betsy, dr. of Stephen Winchester, 1786, and had JbAn, 1794; Eliza, 1796; Fanny, 1799; Joseph, 1804; Mariett P., 1805; Mary Ann, 1810. Eliza m. Seymore, and had seven chil. — Fanny went to Kentucky — Mariett went to Ohio — Mary Ann m. Booth, and went to the West— John m. Mary Smith, no chil. — Joseph m. ,Jane Hennessy, and had Edmund, Asa, Elizabeth, and Mary Jane. He d. at St. Albans, Vt. V. FULLEE, NATHANIEL, (s. of William,) m. Elizabeth Jackson, 1786, and had Nathaniel, Aug. 1, 1788. He d. Dec, 1817, £e. 57. V. FULLEE, Dea. OLIVEE, (s. of Capt. Edward,) m. Polly Eustis, 1792, and settled in Jay, Me., and had Oliver, Jackson, Catherine, Edward, and Hannah. He d. June, 1848, to. 83. FULLER. 287 PUXLEE, CAXEB, m. Mary Hovey, Dec, 1750. V. rULLEE, SILAS, (s. of Elisha,) m. Ruth, dr. of "WiUiam Hoogs, 1793, and had Luanda, Dec. 22, 1793; JoTin B. H., Eeb. 2, 1795; fienry, Aug. 16, 1796, d. 1802; Luanda, Eeb. 15, 1799; William, June 10, 1803; Mm-y W., July 6, 1807; Henrt/, April 11, 1812; Sarah W., Sept. 10, 1815. She d. 1837, ae. 63. V. PULLER, JOSHUA, (s. of Lt. Joshua,) m. Hannah Greenwood, March 20, 1800, and had Henry, d. ; Stephen ; and Catherine, who m. Charles Capen, and went to Eram. Wid. Hannah m. Daniel San- ger, of "Wat., and d. Sept., 1808, se. 29. He d. July 12, IgbS, ffi. 31. IV. EULLER, JOSIAH, (s. of Col. Josiah,) m. Sarah, dr. of Rev. Wm. Greenough, 1809, and had Wm. Griffin, May 2, 1810; Sarah, Not. 30, 1811 ; Mary, Nov. 19, 1813 ; Josiah, Dec. 25, 1815. He d. April, 1838, £e. 30. She d. Dec, 1815, 3d. 28. V. FULLER, Dea. JOEL, (s. of Dea. Joseph,) m. Sarah EuUer, dr. of Darid E., 1815, and had Winslow, Oct. 29, 1816; Henry, May 30, 1818 ; David, June 28, 1822 ; Martha, July 3, 1825. He was Repre- sentative four years. Selectman, and d. Dec. 18, 1848, £e. 62. VI. EULLER, NATHANIEL, (s. of Nathaniel,) m. Sarah Pool, 1810, and had George, Oct. 22, 1812 ; Mary Ann, Jan. 10, 1815 ; Gil- man, Oct. 7, 1818; Gustavus, Dec. 2, 1821 ; Harriet, Sept. 25, 1825.' VI. EULLER, BENJAMIN, m. Susanna , and had Enoch and £rfwm, March 16, 1808 ; Abraham, April 20, 1810; Cold) S., April 7, 1812 ; Susanna S., Sept. 15, 1814 ; Mary J., April 23, 1817 ; Ann Eliza, Aug. 19, 1820. EULLER, JOHN, m. Nancy , and had Naruy G., Oct. 5, 1813 ; John M., March 6, 1816; Chauncy G., May 17, 1817. FULLER, ABIJAH, m. Eunice Morse, 1820, and had Eunice, May 29, 1821. She d. 1821. FULLER, RODNEY G. m. Sarah , and had Catherine W., 1837 ; Maria L., 1844; Mary F., 1845. FULLER, JOSIAH m. CordeUa U. , and had John, S., 1838; William E., 1841 ; George G., 1845. FULLER, EDMUND, m. Maiy Ann Howard, 1818. FUIiLEB, NATHAN, m. Rebecca Brown, 1819.. FULLER, JEREMIAH, m. Fanny Knight, 1821. 288 FULLER GKEEN GREENWOOD. FTJLLER, ASA, m. Sarah How, of Eox., 1818. VI. FULLBIl, JOHN B. H., (s. of SUas,) m. Mary, dr. of Robert Murdock, 1822. FULLER, AliVnSf, m. Lydia S. Adams, 1836, and 2d, Mary A. Lu- cas, 1838. VI. FULLER, HENRY, (s. of SUas,) m. Hannah, dr. of William Jackson, Esq., and had WiUiam, J., L-uarelia J., and Ruth. V. FULLER, Capt. JAMES, (s. of Lt. Joshua,) m. Beulah Green- wood, and Ijpd James G. and Mary B. Mary m. Samuel F. Dix — James G. m. and settled in Charlestown. He was Representative three years, and Senator one year, and d. Aug. 6, 1850, se. 66. FULLER, HENRY, m. Eliza J. Pike, 1842. FULLER, HEZEKIAH, m. Emeline Jackson, 1843. GREENE, JONATHAN, from Maiden, came to Newton, 1697. He was a carpenter, and lived near the Falls. He m. Mary , and had ilfory, Feb. 9, 1702; Jonathan, May 31, 1707, d. 1732; Am, March 4, 1713. He d. 1736, and she d. 1732. GREEN, BARTHOLOMEW, m. Hannah Hammond, 1724. GRANT, CALEB, had by w. Elizabeth , Caleb, April 13, 1711 ; Ruth, Aug. 28, 1715. n. GREENWOOD, THOMAS, a weaver, (parentage not ascer- tained,) one of the early settlers. He came into the Village about 1667, then twenty-four years old, and m. Hannah, the oldest dr. of John Ward, Sen., July 8, 1670. Upon the organization of the town, Aug. 27, 1679, he was elected Constable, same day. In 1673, he bought seven acres of land, of Nathaniel Hammond, bounding s. E. by H's land, N. by Capt. Prentice and John Ward ; same year, he bought seven acres and forty rods of Edward Jackson, adjoining the meadow of Elder Wiswall, and e. by John Ward. In 1691, he bought of Isaac Parker, twenty-four acres, with the dwelling house thereon, bounding B. by Thomas Hammond, w. by John Hammond, s. by Nathaniel Hammond, and n. by John Druce, being part of the same land which John Parker, Sen., bought of Nicholas Hodgden, in 1650. He was Selectman four years, 1686, '87, 1690 and '93, and is supposed to have been the first Town Clerk. Thomas and Hannah (Ward) Greenwood had Thomas, Jan. 22, 1671, d. ; Thomas, July 15, GREENWOOD. 289 1673; John. 2d w. Abigail , and had James, Dec. 19, 1687; William, Oct. 14, 1689. He d. Sept. 1, 1693, £6. 50. Intestate. Wid. Abigail, admin. John Spring, James Trowbridge and John Sta- ples, appraisers. Inventory, £481, 13s. 6d. III. GREENWOOD, JOHN, (s. of Thomas and Hannah,) m. Hannah, dr. of Dea. James Trowbridge, and had Tfumas, Jan. 28, 1696 ; Elizabeth, Sept. 20, 1697; Hannah, March 4, 1699; Ruth, Oct. 12, 1701 ; Daniel, Not. 27, 1704 ; Susanna, Dec. 7, 1707 ; Josiah, June 21, 1709. Hannah m. Isaac Fuller, 1722 — Kuth m. Isaac Jackson, 1729 — Susanna m. George Bacon, L729 — Elizabeth m. Child. He was Selectman eighteen years, commencing 1711 ; Justice of the Peace, and consummated nearly aU the marriages in town for many years; Eepresentative, three years. His w. Hannah d. June 21, 1728, se. 56. 2d w. Alice Lyon, of Rox., 1729. He d. Aug. 29, 1737, leaving a will, dated 1737, bequeathing w. Alice £66. John Staples, Richard and James Ward, witnesses. Son Josiah, exeo'r. m. GREENWOOD, Eev. THOMAS, (s. of Thomas and Hannah,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Capt. Noah Wiswall, 1693,-and had Hannah, Feb. 5, 1694; John, May 20, 1697; Noah, April 20, 1699, d. 1703; Esther, Aug. 20, 1701, d. 1701 ; Elizaheth, April 5, 1704 ; Esther, June 25, 1709, d. unm. 1731. Hannah m. Gushing. He graduated at H. C., 1690, and was ordained Minister of Eehoboth, 1693. He d. Sept. 8, 1720. His wid. Elizabeth d. 1736. His wiU, dated 1720, gives wid. Elizabeth half his house and furniture, and best English bible, and his drs. Elizabeth and Esther, the other half of the house. _His brother, Lieut. John Greenwood, and his son John, executors. In- ventory, £472, 10s. His s. John grad. at H. C., 1717, ordained at Seekonk, 1721, was successor to his father in the ministry, and had fourteen children. m. GREENWOOD, JAMES, (s. of Thomas and Abigail,) m. Thankful Wilson, April 13, 1713, and had James, Jan. 27,1714; Abigail, 1715. Wife Thankful d. Feb. 4, 1714. 2d w. AbigaU , Jan. 5, 1716. His s. James settled in HoUiston and had nine ch., and removed to Framingham, where he died.* He d. in Rox., 1720, 88. 33, and wid. Abigail and William Trowbridge, admin. m. GREENWOOD, Dea. WILLIAM, (s. of Thomas and Abigail,) m. Abigail, dr. of John Woodward, Sen., June 21, 1715, settled in * Barry's History of Framingham. 25 290 GBEENWOOD. Sherburne, bought twenty-three acres of land near the M. H., in 1728, for ;£157, and had William, Caleb, Jonas, Samud, Joseph, and others. IV. GREENWOOD, Dea. THOMAS, Esq., {s. of John, Esq.,) m. Lydia , Aug. 3, 1719, and had Joseph, Jan. 9, 1723 ; John, Mar. 7, 1725; Thomas, May 9, 1727; Hannah, May 21, 1729; AUjali, April 6, 1731, d. 1745. Hannah m. Capt. John Woodward, 1747. He was Capt., Dea., Justice Peace, Selectman four years, Eepresen- tatiye thirteen years ; Town Clerk tWenty-three years. He d. Aug. 31,1774,86.78. Hiswid.Lydiad. 1777, 33. 85. His will, proved 1774. Homestead, eighty-six acres. West Parish. Wife, s. Joseph, and s. in law Capt. Jno. Woodward, executors. IV. GREENWOOD, DANIEL, (s. of John, Esq.) m. Sarah Adams, of Eramiagham, May 6, 1728. IV. GREENWOOD, Lieut. JOSIAH, (s. of John, Esq.) m. Phebe Steams, April 1, 1731, and had Esther, Oct. 7, 1731 ; Nathanid, July 21 , 1 733 ; John, Dec. 3, 1 735, d. in army, 1 760 ; Sarah, July 6, 1 737 ; Alice, March 12, 1739 ; Elizabeth, Nov. 21, 1740; Josiah, Sept. 20, 1742 ; Phebe, May 20, 1744 ; Hannah, June 8, 1746 ; Moses, Aug. 14, 1748; Nevinson, Oct. 22, 1751 ; Ebenezer, Oct. 1, 1753; Isaac; and Joshua. Esther m. Joshua Murdock, 1755 — Sarah m. Joseph Greenwood, of Sherburne, 1758 — Alice m. John Clark — Elizabeth m. Asa Norcross, of Camb., 1760 — Phebe m. David Bartlett. Hannah d. 1762. Istw. d. 1763. He m. 2d w. wid. Prudence , 1769, and had Isaac and Joshua, with a marriage covenant on record ; she d. March 19, 1795, se. 80. He was Selectman, and d. May, 1792, se. 83. V. GREENWOOD, JOHN, (s. of Dea. Thomas,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Capt. John Jackson, March, 1748, and had John, Sept 2, 1750 ; Elizabeth, 3iin. SI, 1755; Thomas Jackson, May 17, 1757; Elizabeth, Feb. 17, 1760. Elizabeth m. Capen. He d. 1763, ». 38. His wid. Elizabeth m. Alexander Shepard. Thomas Jackson Green- wood's name was changed, by the General Court, to Alexander Shepard, in 1781 ; he entered H. C. and d. a student in the Sopho- more class. V. GREENWOOD, NATHANIEL, (s. of Lieut Josiah,) m. Eliza- beth Bowen, 1756, and had Joshua, July 26, 1757 ; Isaac, Aug. 13, 1759. This family removed to Hubbardston, where he d. Feb. 1761, se. 28. His -father Josiah, admin. GREENWOOD. 291 V. GREENWOOD, NEVINSON, a carpenter, (s. of Lieut. Josiah,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of John and Anna (Dana) Kenrick, settled in Little Camb., and had Elizabeth, Mary, John, Thomas, Sally, James, 1784 ; WiUiam, Freeman, Abigail, and Jonathan. He d. 1805, s&. 55. She d. 1834, £6. 82." V. GREENWOOD, THOMAS, of Holden, (s. of Dea. Thomas,) m. Esther Hanxmond, 1750. T. GREENWOOD, EBENEZEE, (s. of Lient. Josiah,) m. Hannah, dr. of Stephen Winchester, 1778, and had Hannah, March 25, 1779 ; Joseph, Dec. 16, 1780; Stephen, April 6, 1782; and BeiUah, June 5, 1 783. Hannah m. Joshua Fuller," Jr. — Beulah m. James Fuller — Joseph and Stephen d. unm. She d. Jan. 1803, se. 52. V. GREENWOOD, JOSEPH, {s. of Dea. Thomas,) m. Sarah, dr. of Lieut. Josiah Greenwood, -and went to Sherburne. V. GREENWOOD, JOSEPH, (s. of ,) m. Sarah Stone, 1747, and went to Holden. VI. GREENWOOD, JOHN, (s. of John and Elizabeth,) m. Lucy Whittemore, 1775, and settled in Maine, on Alexander Shepard, Jr's grant of land. VI. GREENWOOD, ISAAC, (s. of Nathaniel,) m. Abigail, dr. of Dea. Joseph Jackson, 1784. VI. GREENWOOD, JAMES, (s. of Nevinson,) m. Ehoda Larrabee, of Charlestown, April, 1809, and had, in Brighton, James, John, Susan, Samuel, Ann, Mary, Martha, Eliza, Caroline, Sarah, Frederick, and Otis. The two oldest sons and the six oldest daughters are married. GREENWOOD, JOSEPH, m. Lydia Pratt, 1835. GREENWOOD, MILES, (s. of Miles, of Boston,) m. Charity Bemis, 1782, and had Miles, Charity, Mary, Nancy, Melinda, Rebecca, who m. Banks, of Waltham, and had s. N. P. Banks, Speaker of House Representatives, 1851 and 1852, and President of. the State Convention of 1853, now member of Congress from Middlesex District ; and Thomas, XJniversalist Minister, Dover, N. H. He d. 1824, se. 67. She d. 1819, a. 62. GREENWOOD, SAMUEL, Sen., of Boston, (whose will, on Suffolk Records, is dated 1721, names w. Elizabeth and sons Samvd, Isaac, and Joseph,) may have been a brother of Thomas, Sen., of Camb. Village. 292 GAT — GBBBLT — GIBBS. GAY, ARCHIBALD, had by w. Margaret , WiUiam, Dec. 25, 1695 ; John, Sept. 22, 1698. GAY, ELIPHAIiET, from Dedham, m. Dorothy, dr. of Andrew Hall, 1732, and had Ephraim, Sept. 13, 1734 ; Mepsibah,. GEE, EBENEZER, from Boston, m. Thankful, dr. of Capt.. Noah 'Wiswall,.1750, and had Thankful, March 20, 1751 ; Ebenezer, Jan. 25, 1753. GAEDNEE, THOMAS, from Brookline, m. Rebecca , and had Sarah, May 24, 1720; Lucy, Oct. 28, 1722; Elizabeth, Peb. 11, 1725; Daniel, March 5, 1727. John Kenrick sold house and sixty acres land to Samuel Gardner, 1715. He may have been the father of Thomas. GREELY, ELIAS, had by w. Lydia , Lydia, ^Jaa. 30, 1727; Elias, Dec. 27, 1729. He d. 1730. GREENLEAE, WHiLIAM, from Lancaster, schoolmaster in the North District, several Winters, m. Sarah Ruggles, 1796, and had John, Aug. 24, 1797 ; and Ann Maria, March 1, 1800. GHiBERT, Rev. LYMAN, from Middlebury, Vt., m. Eugenia , and had Eugenia, July 3, 1830. Wife Eugenia d. Nov. 1832. 2d w. Marian, dr. of William Jackson, Esq., and had WiUiam J., Sept. 16, 1834; /&raA D., April 30,1837; Susan, April 25, 1839; Mary L., March 31, 1841. Eugenia m. Henry B. Williams. He was or- dained colleague Pastor with the Rev. WiUiam Greenough, of the West Parish, 1828. GOHEATE, SAMUEL, had by w. Hannah , Samud, Nov. 2, 1727. GORSON, JOSEPH, had by w. Hannah , Samuel, Jan. 2, 1772. GORTON, JOSEPH, m. Mary Whipple, 1746. GIBBS, HENRY, was a g. s. of Robert Gibbs, an eminent merchant, of Boston, who was bom in 1639, known in England as Sir Henry Gibbs, came to this country as early as 1660 ; he bmlt an elegant house upon Fort Hill, about 1665, which cost about dE3,000. [Snow's Hist. Boston, page 158.] His wharf was near or the same now called Fort HiU Wharf. Married Elizabeth, dr. of Jacob Sheafe, and had Benry and Bobert. Robert m. Mary Shrimpton, and had Henry, Nov. 7, 1694. GIBBS — GODDAED. 293 GIBBS, HENRT, Jr., m. Hannah , and had, in Boston, Gilhert, William, Rebecca, Ann, andTemoved to Newton about 1742, and purchased of Kev. John Prentice, of Lancaster, sixty acres land on the B. side of the Dedham highway, upon which he buUt the large house now owned and occupied by the present Town Clerk, Mar- shall S. Bice, Esq., being part of the same laud purchased by James and Thomas Prentice, in 1657. Also, fourteen acres on the plain B. on the Dedham highway, lying between the farms of John Spring N., and Jonathan Hyde, Sen. s., being the same land owned by John Jackson, Sen., and then by his s. in law, Capt. Noah "Wiswall ; and the same which was laid out into house lots and offered at auction, in Sept. 1852. The Bev. Mr. Cotton being his brother in law, was doubtless an inducement for him to remove to Newton, where he was a Selectman six years, Bepresentative three years, and Justice of the Peace. He d. May 15, 1761, se. 67. His will bequeaths to his nephew, Bobert Gibbs, Jr., the only s. of his brother Eobert, of Providence, a silver sugar box, which belonged to his grandfather, Sir Bobert Gibbs, having his arms upon it. To Henry Gibbs, eld- est s. of Henry Gibbs, Esq., late of Salem, two brick houses, in CorahiU, and two brick houses near to Eaneuil Hall, after the de- cease of his w. Hannah. In case Henry should die before his wife's decease, then to the next oldest s. of his brother. If both should die before his said w., then to William Gibbs, the 3d s. of his brother Henry, Esq. Gives his estate in Newton to his wife, and directs that his mansion house in Newton, should not be taken for a, tav- ern, but for some gentleman to reside there, of the dissenting inter- est, that shall help support the dissenting Minister in Newton. Makes a bequest towards preaching the Gospel to the poor Indian natives, but not in the Church of England forms. Directs that no inventory of his estate should be taken or rendered to any Judge of Probate. Appoints his w. sole executrix, desiring that she would not forget his relatives. His wid. outlived him twenty-two years, and was said to be a kind and benevolent woman, and furnished medicine, gratis, for the poor people of the town. She was highly respected, and long known as Madam Gibbs. She d. May 26, 1783, SB. 84. She left the homestead to John Eddy, who m. her dr. Ann. GODDABD, JONATHAN, had by w. Patience , Margaret, June 14, 1714. GODDABD, JOSIAH, bom 1701, (s. of Josiah and Rachel, andg. s. of WiUiam and Elizabeth,) m. Mary Bigelow, 1730, and settled in 25* 294 GODDARD — GIBSON — GRAFTON. Newton. He was Selectman in 1758. He had brothers, Ebenezer and William. He was of Wat., and bought of Jonathan Parka, Jr. twenty-five acres land, N. E. by the ruUer farm. He d. Oct. 21, 1758, se. 58. GODDAUD, EGBERT, bom 1694, (s. of Joseph and Deborai, of BrookUne,) m. Mehitable Spring, of Wat., Sept. 1, 1717, and had JSZisAa, July 13, 1719; Mehitaile, March 8, 1721; ifory, March 1, 1725; Eobert, Oct. 29, 1727. Mary m. Ebenezer Parker, 1759. This family went to Sutton. GODDARD, JOSEPH, had by w. Mary , Elbridge, Sept. 16, 1818; Marian, July 16, 1822; Margaret A., March 1, 1824. GIBSON, JOHN, d. Dec. 2, 1694. His g. s. John was killed by the Indians, at Casco Bay Fort, Nov. 26, 1711. GIBSON, JAMES, had by w. Lydia , Mary Ann, Dec. 22, 1799. GRAFTON, Ret. JOSEPH, was b. at Newport, R. L, June 9, 1757. (s. of William Grafton, a native of Salem, Mass., mariner, and for several years master of a vesspl in the West India trade. At the age of fifty years he relinquished the sea, devoted himself to sail making, and removed from Salem to Providence. His ancestor was one of the early settlers of Salem.) Joseph went to school until he was about fourteen years of age. His only school books were the bible and spelling book, and his only studies were writing, reading, speUing, and arithmetic. On leaving school, he learnt the trade of a sail-maker. He made a public profession of religion, and united with the Congregational ch., in Providence, in 1775. In 1785, he began to preach in Plainfield, Conn., to the Congregational ch., where he continued fifteen months. In 1787, he was dismissed from the Congregational ch. in Providence, and united with the Baptist eh. there, and preached in the Baptist ch. in Hampton, Conn., sev- eral months, and was invited to settle, but declined. After preach- ing sixteen Sabbaths in the Baptist ch. in Newton, he was invited to become its Pastor. He accepted, and was ordained June 18, 1788. ,[See Rev. S. F. Smith's life of Grafton, from which some of the above statements were extracted.] Ec was m. Dec. 12, 1779, to Ruth, dr. of Capt. Barnard Eddy, of Providence, and had two chU. Ruth, the mother, d. 1784, £e. 27. 2d w. Sally Robinson, by whom he had seven children, the mother of which d. 1804, te. 41. 3d w. Hannah Parker, who d. 1835, sa. 73. His s. Joseph Dana Grafton, GEEENOUGH — GEIMES — HALL. 295 was bom July 23, 1793; William, Aug. 7, 1796; Sally, Feb. 15, 1791, and the only cM. on Ne-wton Eecord. He was the Pastor of the Baptist ch. in Newton, forty-eight and a half years, and d. Dec. 16,1836,88.79. Last w.d. 1835, £6. 73. GREBNOUGH, Rev. WILLIAM, from Bostgn. His great grand- father m. Ruth Swift, of Dor., Oct. 10, 1660, and d. 1693, se. 52. [See gravestone on Copp's HUl; some mischievous person has altered the figure 9 into a 2, so that his deathrnow reads 1623.] His grand- father John was bom Feb. 17, 1672, m. Elizabeth Gross, and d. 1732, se. 60. His father Thomas, was b. May 6, 1710, m. Martha Clark. 2d w. Sarah Stoddard. His birth was June 29, 1756, — graduated at Tale CoUege, 1774 ; was dismissed from the 2d ch. in Boston, Rev. John Lathrop, Pastor, and ordained the first Pastor of the west ch. in Newton, Nov. 8, 1781, and continued Pastor of that ch. fifty years and two days. He m. Abigail, dr. of Rev. Stephen Badger, of Natick, June 1, 1785, and had Sarah, Aug. 24, 1787 ; Abigail, April 24, 1790 ; William, Sept. 14, 1792 ; Ann, Sept. 23, 1794, d, 1816. 2d w. Lydia Haskins, of Boston, 1798, and had Hannah, April 6, 1799 ; Martha S., Aug. 22, 1801 ; Thomas, June 11, 1803; Fanny, Dec. 7, 1805, d. 1837 ; Elizabeth, Sept. 13, 1807. Sarah m. Josiah Fuller, Jr. — Abigail m. Robert H. Thayer — Martha S. m. Joseph H. Thayer — Elizabeth m. Isaac R. Barbour. He d. Nov. 10, 1831, £e. 75. GRIMES, JOHN, had by w. Hannah , John, July 28, 1700. GRIMES, JAMES, (sup. s. of John,) m. Keziah CSiadwick, Nov. 23, 1739, and had in Wat., Samuel, Sept. 2, 1740 ; Sarah, Feb. 25, 1743 ; and in Newton, Mary, April 25, 1747 ; Keziah, Sept. 28, 1749 ; Elisa- beth, 1751. Samuel settled in Whately, Mass. Jam£S, Charles, and Paid, sons of James, went to Canandaigua, N. Y. Elizabeth m. Thaddeus Hyde, 1782, and d. 1849, x. 99. Keziah m. Luke Bartlett, 1789. He d. Aug. 1805, se. 92. II. HALL, ANDREW, a weaver, came into the south part of Newton about 1695, purchased forty-three acres of land in 1705, of Thomas Wiswall, s. of Capt. Noah, for £22, botmded E. by Dedham highway, w. by John Kenrick and the wid. of Joseph Parker, n. by John Woodward, Jr., Samuel Truesdale, and John Kenrick, Jr., and s. by Dea. James Trowbridge. His parentage has not been ascertained. He had by w. Susanna , John, Jan. 11, 1695; Susanna, Jan. 1, 1697 ; Sarah, Dec. 11, 1699 ; Dorothy, Edward, Andrew, and Hannah. Susanna m. Eliznr Stoddard, Jan. 1719 — Dorothy m. Eliphalet 296 HALL. Gay, of Dedham — Hannah m. "Woodcock. 2d w. Mary Ben- nett, 1737. 1st w. d. 1736. He d. Dec. 1756. Hie will, =. Edward, executor, settled the estate and paid the legacies, in 1757. Edward had the homestead, Andrew, John, Dorothy, Hannah, and the wid. Mary, all receipted to Edward for their portions under the will, and yet the will does not appear to be on record. ni. HAIiL, JOHN, (s.of Andrew,) m.Hopestill , and had JbsW, Aug. 26, 1723 ; Nehemiak, March 29,'l725 ; Thomas, Nov. 22, 1727 ; David, Dec, 2i, 1732; Jokn, May 31, 1736; Rebecca, Aug. 1, 1729. 2d w. AbigaU HaU, 1739. 1st w. d. 1738. He d. 1791, Be. 96. m. HALL, BDWAKD, (s. of Andrew,) m. Mary MiUer, May 21, 1730, and had Eliadbeth, July 23, 1732; Mary, March 7, 1734; Ephraim, July 31, 1736; Elisha, Sept. 14, 1738; Dorcas, Eeb. 28, 1741 ; Esther, July 24, 1746; Edward, Jan. 16, 1^49; Rebecca, Sept. 10, 1753. Dorcas m. Jeremiah Richardson, 1761. He d. 1794. ni. HALL, ANDREW, Jb., m. , settled in Boston, and had An- drew, and others. IV. HALL, JOSTAH, (s. of John,) m. Abigail Brown, 1747, and had Jfary, March 3, 1755, Samuel, March 3, 1757; Susanna, April 30, 1749 ; AbigaU, Sept. 27, 1751 ; Hannah, May 6, 1760; Sarah, Nov. 22, 1763. Mary m. John Rogers, Jr., Dec. 1772 — Abigail m. Eoyal Wood, 1772 — Hannah m. Ezra Dana, of Camb., 1782 — Sarah m. John Rogers, Jr., 1787. 2d w. Elizabeth Brown, of CambT 1776. 1st w. d. 1775. He d. Aug. 23, 1786, se. 63. IV. HALL, JOHN, (s. of John,) m. Hannah Clarke, of Dedham, 1760, and had Hannah, June 14, 1762; Solomon, Nov. 22, 1763; Aaron, April 1, 1768; David, May 6, 1773; Betsey, Eeb. 21, 1770. She d. 1780. He d. 1799, se. 63. IV. HALL, EDWARD, Je., m. Esther Fuller, 1772, and had PoOy, Oct. 21, 1772 ; Esther, March 21, 1774 ; Elisha, May 6, 1776 ; Caroline; Catlierine, Oct. 19, 1782 ; George, Jesse, and Lucy. Lucy m. Samuel Hyde. He was Selectman three years, and d. Nov. 1812, se. 64. She d. 1817. IV. HALL, EPHRAIM, (s. of Edward,) m. Elizabeth Carter, 1756, and had ifecW, May 4, 1759; Sarah, ApiS. 23, 1762, and d. Sept 1842. HALL, STEPHEN, m. Abigail Spring, 1769. HALL — HAGEE. 297 HALL, JOHN, m. Elizabeth Pike, of Dedham, 1764, and had Sohmon and Aaron. HALL, JOSEPH, of Sutton, m. Mary Trowbridge, 1769. V. HALL, SOLOMON, (s. of John, Jr.,) m. Abigafl Miller, of Need- ham, 1792, and had Miller, Feb. 3, 1793. He d. Oct. 12, 1809, se. 45. V. HALL, AAEON, (s. of John, Jr.,) m. Sarah Jackson, 1793. V. HALL, SAMUEL, (s. of Josiah,) m. Sarah Cheney, 1782, and had Salli/, 1785, d. 1802 ; Samuel; hade, 1789, d. 1839, ffi. 50. He d. Not. 1828, je. 72. V. HALL, ELISHA, (s. of Edward, Jr.,) m. Hannah Munroe, 1814. He d. 1833, se. 55. VI. HALL, SAMUEL, Je., m. Sophia King, 1813, and had Samuel, May 12, 1813. He d. 1828. VI. HALL, ISAAC, (s. of Samuel,) m. Mehdtable King, 1816, and d. Dec. 1839. V. HALL, JESSE, (s. of Edward, Jr.,) m. Sarah D. Wiswall, 1816, and had Lewis, William A., FranJclin, and Sarah F. 2d w. Sarah E. m. Edwin Locke. V. HALL, GEOEGE, (s. of Edward, Jr.,) m. Mary , and had George, April 3, 1821 ; Francis, Oct. 10, 1823. 2dw. Sarah Webber, 1833. VI. HALL, DA VCD, (s. of Solomon,) m. Eunice J. Alden, 1820. HALL, WILLIAM, (s. of ,) m. Martha , and had WiMiam, Aug. 7, 1813 ; Edwin, Jan. 29, 1815 ; Charles, Nov. 24, 1818; Josiah P., Oct. 1, 1820 ; AMgail A., Dec. 24, 1827, d. 1832. VI. HALL, LEWIS, (s. of Jesse,) m. Louisa, dr. of Wm. Jackson, Esq. ; settled in Camb., and had Mary Lcmisa, Lewis A., and Caroline. She d. 1853, se. 37. HAGEE, DANIEL, had by w. Esther , David, March 29, 1763. Darid m. Catherine Carts, 1782. HAGEE, JOHN, m. 1st, Sarah Whitmore, 1760, and 2d, Mary Chubb, 1763. HAGEE, ISAAC, had by w. Eunice , Eunice, March 8, 1810; Jane, Feb. 2, 1807; Mary, Eeb. 9, 1809; Calvin, Nov. 20, 1813; Leafy, Dec. 21, 1817; Daniel, April 22, 1820. Isaac, the f., d. 1828. 298 HAGBK — HAMMOND. HAGEE, AAEON, m. Betsy Parmenter, 1809. I. HAMMOND, THOMAS, was one of the first settlers of Hingham, and had land granted to him there, in 1636 ; took the freeman's oath there, March 9, 1636-7. Two of his clul. were baptised in Hingham. Thomas Hammond, Vincent Drnce, John Parker, Nicholas Hodg- den, and John Winchester, all had land granted to them in Hing- ham, in 1636, and were probably there in 1635. They aU removed from Hingham about the same time. The three first settled m Camb. Village, and the two last within the bounds of Boston, (now Brookline,) but all five were in the same neighborhood. Hodgden first purchased sixty-seven acres of land on Camb. Hill, in Camb. Village, but he and w. Elizabeth, then of Boston, (Brookline,) eon- yeyed the same to Thomas Hammond and Vincent Drnce, (then both of Hingham, ).on the 4. 12, 1650 ; also, thirteen acres more, which was granted by the town of Camb. to Eobert Bradish ; and also sixteen acres more, in Muddy river, next to Camb. hill, ad- joining John Parker's land n. n. w., and n. e. Hammond and Druce bought, 1658, of Thomas Brattle and others, six hundred acres at Muddy river, (Brookline,) called the Boyton farm, for jElOO, N. partly on the Eox. line, and s. partly on the Camb. line, surveyed by John Oliver. Hammond sold his place in Hingham to William Sprague, in March, 1656, for £60. Hammond and Drnce's purchases were held in common until 1664, when a division was made ; " the dividing line was one hundred rods long, running over the great hiU," the pond being in Hammond's part. Hammond also bought of Esther Sparhawk, dr. of Nathaniel Sparhawk, three hun- dred and thirty acres, for ^0, in 1656, being the same land granted by the town of Camb. to her father, " bounding s. and w. on land of Eobert Bradish, and n. by land of Elder Erost, now in the pos- session of John Ward and Lieut. Prentice." It is not known whether his W. Elizabeth came to this country with him, or whether he was m. at Hingham. Hobart's Diary states that his dr. Sarah was baptised Sept. 13, 1640, and s. Nathaniel, March 12, 1643. His will is on record, but is neither signed nor dated ; was exhibited to the Court by his wid. Elizabeth, Sept. 30, 1675, and was in his own handwriting. It was set up, and Elder Wiswall and John Spring were appointed to appraise the estate ; and their inventory, amount- ing to £1,139, 16s. 2d., dated Oct. 25, 1675, states that he d. Sept. 30, 1675. His will names but two sons and two daughters, Tliamas and Nathaniel, and Sarah Stedman and Elizabeth Wbodivard, w. of HAMMOND. 299 George Woodward, and divides his estate between these four, and his wid. Elizabeth, to whom he gave his dwelling house and a portion of his land. To Thomas, the house he then lived in, and portions of laud. To Nathaniel, the house he then occupied, with the land adjoining, and the cranberry meadow, from the comer of the pond to " Troublesome swamp.'' In his division of the farm, the orchards and the barn were put into his son Thomas' part, and so he added the following item, which is the last clause in his will : — " Purther- more, my wiU is that my son Nathaniel have one-third part of the fruit of the orchards with my sou Thomas, year by year, till he have an orchard of his own, and use of the barn till his brother Thomas help him build one." Appoints his w. sole executrix, and his friends Jonathan Hyde and James Trowbridge, overseers. The maiden name of his w. Elizabeth was Cason, of Lavenham, Eng. There is a tradition in the family relative to this mother of the New- ton Hammonds. It is said that when a young woman, in England, she took a walk with a party of young folks and went into the Mint, to see how money was coined. The master of the Mint was pleased with her appearance and chat, and gave her an invitation to try her hand in the operation. She had evidently made some impression upon him, and he was desirous to know if she could make as good an im- pression upon the coin ; so he placed a piece of silver coin upon the die, about the size of half a crown, — she came forward and grasped the lever, and stamped a fair impression upon the coin, whereupon he presented her with the silver piece, which she bore off in triumph ; and from her fair hand, it has passed through those of her descend- ants, to the seventh generation, and is now possessed by Stephen Hammond, of Roxbury, whose s. William, of the eighth, is looking wishfully for it. n. HAMMOND, THOMAS, (s. of Thomas, Sen.,) m. Elizabeth Stedman, 1662, and had Elizabeth, 3. 9. 1664; Thomas, Dec. 16, 1666; Isaac, 2Q. 10. 1668; Nathaniel, 3. 12, 1670; John, April 30, 1674 ; Eleazer, 13. 9. 1677. Elizabeth m. Thomas Chamberlain, 18. 2. 1682. He d. of small pox, Oct. 20, 1678, ». 48. His wid. Eliza- beth d. 1715. n. HAMMOND, NATHANIEL, (s. of Thomas, Sen.,) m. Mary , and had Esther; Mary, 15. 10. 1672 ; Sarah, 3. 8. 1675 ; Na- thaniel, Jan. 26, 1678 ; Elizabeth, 11. 1. 1682 ; Thomas, Peb. 27, 1686 ; Hannah, March 31, 1689, d. 1700. Esther m. Samuel Prentice, and settled in Stonington — Elizabeth m. Samuel Truesdale, Jr. He d. 300 HAMMOND. May 29, 1691, se. 48. His wid. Mary admia., and she m. Wil- liams, 1708-9. His estate was divided, in 1702, between his sons Nathaniel and Thomas, and daughters Esther Prentice, Elizabeth Truesdale, Mary, and Sarah Hammond, and their honored mother, Mary Williams. in. HAMMOND, THOMAS, (s. of Thomas, Jr.,) m. Mehitable , and had Mehitable, Jan. 29, 1695; John, March 16, 1696; Thomas, July 10, 1698 ; CaUb, July 4, 1700. 2d w. Mary Bacon, of Box., 1705, and had Mary, Eeb. 13, 1707, d. 1710; Samuel, July 9, 1709. Mary m. Samuel Benjamin, of Rox., 1!®2. He was Select- man one year, and d. March 15, 1738, se. 72. ni. HAMMOND, ISAAC, (s. of Thomas Jr.,) m. Ann, dr. of EHjah Kenrick, 1692, and had Margaret, Aug. 25, 1694; Isaac, July 31, 1698 ; Josiah, 1700 ; Hannah, April 19, 1703 ; Jona&an, Feb. 1704-5 ; Esther, Feb. 3, 1708; Elijah, Oct. 7, 1711. Margaret m. Joseph Cheney, 1737 — Hannah m. Bartholomew Green, 1724. He d. Jan. 1, 1716, se. 48. His wid. Ann left a will, dated 1719 — names her chil. Isaac, Josiah, Jonathan, Elijah, Esther, and Hannah. m. HAMMOND, NATHANIEL, Jk., m. Mary, dr. of John Hyde, Sen., and had NatJianid, Nov. 9, 1707 ; Benjamin, July 9, 1709. Mary the mother, d. Feb. 7, 1710, se. 25. 2d w. Margaret, dr. of Hon. Ebenezer Stone, Jan. 31, 1711, and had Jonas, Nov. 11, 1711 ; James, Jan. 24, 1713, d. young; Ebenezer, Sept. 19, 1714; Margaret, March 4, 1716; Mary, Nov. 15, 1717, d. young; Keziah, Jan. 23, 1720; James, Nov. 14, 1721, d. young; Benjamin, June 7, 1724; Elener,Jan. 12, 1725; Mary, Aug. 1, 1727; Mary, Oct. 23, 1730; Mercy, 1732, d. 1748; David, Aug. 10, 1733. Margaret m. Joseph Cheney, Jr., 1737 — Keziah m. Timothy Parker, 1743, went to Hol- liston — Elener m. Jonathan Fuller, 1748. He was Selectman three years. He owned a tract of land in Charlton, and his sons Jonas and Ebenezer settled upon it. His will is dated 1749. He d. April 4, 1749, £6. 70. His wid. Margaret m. Ebenezer Woodward, and she d. 1776, se. 88. III. HAMMOND, ELEAZER, (s. of Thomas, Jr.,) m. Hannah Har- rington, of Wat., 1703, and had Eleazer, Oct. 1, 1705 ; Elizabeth, Jan. 12, 1707; Sfeazer, May 26, 1711; Abigail, Jan. 31, 1712; Patience, Sept. 8, 1717 ; Ephraim, March 15, 1720; Lydia, Feb. 5, 1726; /Su- sanna. Lydia m. John Hammond, May, 1745 — Susanna m. Francis HAMMOND. 301 EuUam, Dec, 1740. He was Selectman in 1741, and d. 1760, se. 83. His wid. d. 1775, £e. 95. m. HAMMOND, Lieut. THOMAS, (s. of Nathaniel, Sen.,) m. Sarah Grifan, of Box., Dec. 30, 1714, and had iSaraJi, Oct. 16, 1715 ; Joseph, April 15, 1717 ; Elizabeth, Feb. 14, 1719 ; Martha and Eunice, April 27, 1721 ; Hannah, AprU 26, 1723, d. 1725 ; Hannah, Oct. 22, 1726; Estiier, Ang. 28, 1728; Moses, Jan. 23, 1731, d. 1741. She d. Sept. 30, 1732. 2d w. Ann Farley, 1734, and had Aaron, Jan. 9, 1735 ; Benjamin, Aug. 17, 1737 ; Ann, June 5, 1741 ; Elizabeth, June 14, 1744. Sarah m. Josiah Parker, 1739— Eunice m. Thomas Par- ker, 1741 — Martha m. John Shattuck, 1749 — Esther m. Thomas Greenwood, of Holden, 1751. His will, proved 1753, names but one son, Joseph, and six daughters. He d. March 15, 1753, se. 66. His wid. Ann d. 1758, se. 81, leaving a will, Hemy Gibbs, Esq., executor. IV. HAMMOND, ISAAC, Jk., m. Mary Chamberlain, Feb. 11, 1716, and hadiVbirf, Feb. 14, 1718; jimariaA, April 18, 1719 ; Jason, Jun 16, 1720. This family removed to New London, Ct, where their s. Noah became a Baptist Preacher. rV. HAMMOND, DAVID, (s. of Nathaniel, Jr. and Margaret,) m. Kebecca Ormes, of Spencer, settled in Charlton, and had Rebecca ; Delight. IV. HAMMOND, EBENEZEE, (s. of Nathaniel, Jr. and Margaret,) m, Esther Stone, and settled in Charlton. IV. HAMMOND, NATHANIEL, (s. of Nathaniel, Jr. and Marga- ret,) m. Sarah Farley, Aug., 1734, settled in Stoughton, and had Nathaniel, and others. He d. 1770, afld wid. Sarah admin. IV. HAMMOND, JONAS, (s. of Nathaniel, Jr. and Margai-et,) m. Elizabeth Miller, 1739, and settled in Charlton. IV. HAMMOND, JOHN, (s. of Thomas and Mehitable,) m. Mar- garet Wilson, Dee. 11, 1718, and had John, July 25, 1719 ; Joshua, March 10, 1721; Thomas, April 23, 1723, d. 1738; Mary, Oct. 1, 1725; Margaret; Daniel, Oct. 18, 1727; Samuel, June 14, 1730; Abijah, Nov. 5, 1732; Enoch, Oct. 29, 1734; Ann, Sept. 23, 1736; Martha, April 10,1738, d. 1757; Abijah. Margaret m. Thomas Marean, 1751 — Abigail m. John Marean, 1764 — Ann m. Gulliver Winchester, 1758. He bought of Eev. Jared Eliot, of Conn., three hundred and seventy acres of the Gov. Haynes' farm, in 1746, and 26 302 HAMMOND. gave X6,O0O, and mortgaged it to James Bowdoin, for £3,000. He was baptised 1754, and d. 1763, se. 67. She d. 1788. His inventory amounted to £687, Is. 8c?. His will, vol. 23. IV. HAMMOND, SAMUEL, (s. of Thomas and Mehitable,) m. Eunice , and had Eunice, Jan. 14,1733; Mary, Oct 4,1734; Isaiah, Nov. 13, 1735. He d. Oct. 1736, je. 27. V. HAMMOND, ABUAH, (s. of John,) m. Mary Marsh, and had Abijah, Feb. 22, 1757 ; Martha, Isaac, Mary, George, Abigail Mary m. Simon Pond, 1782. IV. HAMMOND, EPHRAIM, (s. of Eleazer,) m. Martha Steel, 1741, and had Hannah, Aug. 8, 1742; Martha, Dec. 9, 1743; Ephraim, Dec. 31, 1745 ; Samud, Eeb. 2, 1748 ; HamwJi, Sept. 20, 1749; Ed- ward, Sept. 20, 1752; Thankful; Catherine; Henry, July 27, 1757; Patience, Elizabeth, Jemima. Patience m. Nath'l Parker, Jr., 1778 Elizabeth m. Jonathan Bixby, 1777. He d. 1775, as. 55. She d. 1771. V. HAMMOND, DANIEL, (s. of John,) m.Lney Jones, 1751, and ■ had Luoj, 3a.u. 25, 1752; Thomas,3waB 6, 1753, d. 1763 ; Phineas, June 4, 1755; Bedah, May 11, 1757; Jonathan, Nov. 21,1761; Thomas, Eeb. 20, 1762 ; Anna, June 28, 1764 ; Sarah, Dec. 19, 1766, and m. Josiah Beed, of Lex., 1793. He d. 1777, se. 50. V. HAMMOND, JOHN, Jb., m. Lydia Hammond, 1745, and had Lydia, June 17, 1746 ; Elizabeth, June 16, 1749. He d. April 27, 1785. She d. 1802, se. 65. HAMMOND, JACOB, had by w. Mary , Amariah, April 18, 1719. V. HAMMOND, JOSHUA, (s. of John,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Capt. Thomas Prentice, who was the grandson of the old Capt, May 15, 1739, and had William, July 15, 1740. He was Selectman five years, and d. 1792, se. 72. His wid. Elizabeth d. April 12, 1798, se, 84. Mr. Homer says " she was acknowledged to be one of the most virtuous, amiable, and sensible woman who ever adorned New- ton." She is supposed to have written the verse, on the foot stone of her father's grave. V. HAMMOND, SAMUEL, (s. of John,) m. Mary Kske, 1755, and had Mary, May 5, 1755; Rebecca, Jan. 17, 1757 ; Samuel, Sept SO, 1758; JbeZ, July 13, 1778; -4.rfe?nas, April 3, 1782; Nathaniel, Aag. 14, 1784; Jonathan, Nov. 21, 1761 ; Margaret, ApiH 1, 1764 ; Asa, HAMMOND. 303 July 12, 1766. Samuel d. and Asa took the name of Samuel. Ma- ry m. Ebenezer Fairbanks — Margaret m. John Pritchard. He d. Jan. 28, 1770, se. 40. V. HAMMOND, ENOCH, (s. of John,) m. Lucy Fiske, of "Wal- tham. May 10, 1764, and had Lucy, April 17, 1765 ; LtKy, Dec. 24, 1766 ; Enoch, Sept. 7, 1768 ; Samuel, Aug. 16, 1770; Jeremiah, Aug. 20, 1772 i Ann; Artemas, Jan. 1, 1775; Charles, March 3, 1777. IV. HAMMOND, JOSEPH, (s. of Lieut. Thomas,) m. Mary Gore, 1744, and had Thomas, Nov. 12, 1744; Mary, March 10, 1746; Sarah, Sept. 7, 1747 ; Bebecca, Dec. 14, 1748 ; Ann, Feb. 25, 1750. Mary m. Isaac Jackson, Jr., 1777 — Sarah m. Norman Clark, Jr., 17«9. He d. 1786, se. 69. rV. HAMMOND, Col. BENJAMIN, (s. of Nathaniel, Jr.,) m. Sarah Brown, of Waltham, Oct. 7, 1749, and had Nathaniel, May 22, 1750; Sarak, Not. 30, 1751; Am, Dec. 16,1754; Jonathan, Dec. 19, 1756, d. 1760; Benjamin, Angr^l9, 1759, d. 1759; Abigail, Oct. 17, 1761 ; Elizabeth, May 26, 1764 ; Benjamin, June 12, 1768 ;' Lucretia, Dec. 11, 1771. Abigail m. Dea. Jonas Heed, of Rutland — Sarah m. Wiswall — Ann m. Clark. Elizabeth had da. Lucretia, 1793. Ann m. Rev. Joseph Pope, of Spencer, 1777. He was in the battles of Lexington and Concord, and was chairman of the Committee of Safety, in Newton, 1777 and 1778. ^e pur- chased the Town's quota of beef, for the army, &c. He d. Aug. 1809, se. 85, and his estate, amounting to about five hundred dollars, was settled in 1810. She d. 1800. rV. HAMMOND, EBENEZER, (s. of Nathaniel, Jr.,) m. Esther Stone, 1743, and. went to the Co. of Gore. HAMMOND, ISAIAH, (s. of Samuel,) m. Lydia Healy, 1763, and had Samuel, Jan. 1, 1765; David, May 28, 1766 ; Jeremiah, Aug. 20, 1772. v. HAMMOND, SAMUEL, (s. of Ephraim,) m. Mary Rogers, 1770, dr. of John Rogers, and had Samuel, May 25, 1772 ; Peter, April 9, 1776 ; Joel, July 13, 1778 ; Artemas, April 3, 1782 ; Nathaniel, Aug. 14, 1784. VI. HAMMOND, Capt. "WILLIAM, (s. of Joshua,) m. Mary Liv- ermore, of Waltham, April, 1770, and had Elizabeth, Sept. 26, 1770; William, Jan. 27, 1772 ; Joshua, Nov. 2, 1773. 2d w. Relief, dr. of 304 HAMMOND. Henry Baldwin, and had Charles, Sept. 6, 1779 ; Elisha, April 14, 1781 ; Mm-y, Oct. 11, 1782 ; Anna, May 29, 1784 ; Harriet, March 3, 1786 ; Leafy, Nov. 27, 1787 ; Marinda, and Sophia. Elizaheth m. Joshua Marean, 1793 — Mary m. Dr. Abbot, of Bangor — Ann m. Taylor — Harriet m. Taylor. First w. d. 1775, se. 28. He was Selectman four years. He and his family remoTed.to Bangor, Me., where he d. about 1834, £6. 94. VI. HAMMOND, THOMAS, (s. of Joseph and Mary,) m. Sarah Winchester, of Brookline, 1788, and had Joseph, June 23, 1789; Thomas, Aug. 8, 1791 ; Sarah, Nov. 30, 1793 ; Mary, Sept. 22, 1795; Moses TF., June 6, 1799; Lucy, July 2, 1797; Elharnn W., May 1802 ; Benjamin F., Oct. 1803; Sarah W.; Charles, June 22, 1805; Hannah ; Esther. This family remoyed, and joined the Shakers, at Harvard, Mass. VI. HAMMOND, JONATHAN, (s. of Samuel and Mary,) m. Beu- lah Hyde, 1790, and had in Brookline, Samud, Mia, George and Maria. Julia m. s. of Gen. Crane, of Canton ; the others d. single. VI. HAMMOND, DAVID, (s. of Isaiah,) m. Mary Hyde, 1789, and had David, April 25, 1792, and went to Charlton. V. HAMMOND, BENJAMIN, Je., m. Mary Hovey, 1793, and had William H, Sept. 27, 1794; Matilda, July 23, 1796; Stephen, Dec. 31, 1798; Sally B., Feb. 14, 1801 ; Maria P., Sept 14, 1803; and Josiah H, Oct. 20, 1806. Josiah settled in Grafton. V. HAMMOND, EPHEAIM, Jk., m. Sarah Parker, 1768, and had Hannah, Oct. 12, 1768. Vn. HAMMOND, Capt. JOSHUA, (s. of Capt. WiUiam,) m. Eliz- abeth, dr. of Caleb Kenrick, and had Elisha L., Dec. 29, 1799 ; Eliz- aheth, 1798; Emily, 1801 ; Mary L., 1803 ; Sarah T., Susan, Harriet, William, Jane, and Albert. VI. HAMMOND, first named ASA, but altered to SAMUEL, mer- chant, of Boston, (s. of Samuel, and Mary Fiske,) m. Sarah Dawes, of Boston, June 4, 1794, and had in Boston, John Lucas, Feb. 21, 1795, d. 1846 ; Charles; Hannah D., Not. 4, 1797; Mary Ann, Jan. 15, 1800; Samud, Oct. 17, 1801; Sarah, Feb. 21, 1803, d. 1820; Catherine, May 20, 1804 ; Wm. Dawes, April 13, 1806, d. 1835 ; and Almira, Dec. 13, 1809. Hannah D. m. Nathaniel P. Russell, 1822 — Mary Ann m. John G. Palfrey, 1823 — Catherine m. John G. Gibson — Almira m. Walter C. Greene. HAMMOND — HAEBACK — HASTINGS. 305 Vn. HAMMOND, JACOB, m. Caty Adams, 1800. VI. HAMMOND, STEPHEN, (s. of Benjamin and Mary,) m. Sarah M. Haskell, Oct. 1831, and liad in Box., Sarah E. and Mary E., Aug. 6, 1836; and William i., May 1.5,1839. Mary E. d. 1841. HANCHET, PETEB, from Box., see Stanchet. HABBACK, THOMAS, m. Anable CooUdge, of Wat., Dec. 1723, and had John, Feb. 25, 1725 ; Esther, Aug. 29, 1728 ; Senry, Eeb. 9, 1724. HARBACK, JONATHAN, from Sutton, m. Mary Durant, 1797. HAEBACK, THOMAS, m. Charlotte, dr. of John Wilson, and had Thomas, May 26, 1797, d. 1828, as. 31 ; Charlotte, Aug. 29, 1798, d. 1822 ; Nathaniel R., April 22, 1800 ; Betsy, Jan. 30, 1802, d. 1824 ; John W., Dec. 15, 1803; Caroline, Sept. 22, 1805; i^f^M /S., Nov. 3, 1807, d. 1824; Sally, Dec. 31, 1809, d. 1823; Ann W., Oct. 5, 1811 ; Adeline, Jan. 7, 1813; Mehitahle M., Oct. 24, 1814, d. 1824. He d. 1839, se. 68. HATEIELD, JOSEPH, had by w. Margaret , William, Feb. 14, 1734 ; Joseph, March 4, 1733 ; Elizabeth, Dec. 12, 1737. IV. HASTINGS, SAMTJEIi, a tanner, and oldest s. of Stephen and Hannah (Stacey) Hastings, of Camb., bom April 16, 1710 ; g. s. of Samuel and Mary (Mean) Hastings, great g. s. of Dea. John, an early settler in Braintree, who removed to Camb. 1656. He settled and had a tan yard near the West Parish M. H., and m. Hepsibah, dr. Thomas Dana, of Camb., and had Hepsibah, April 1, 1737 ; Samuel, Aug. 1, 1738 ; Hannah, July 20, 1740 ; Mary, Dec. 1, 1742; Joseph Stacey, Feb. 9, 1745 ; Stephen, Jan. 29, 1747 ; Danid, May 12, 1749; Thomas, July 12, 1751; Aaron, Mny 2, 11 54,; JbAra, July 28, 1 756. Hepsibah m. Alexander Sampson, 1754 — Hannah m. Caleb Aspin- waU, 1763 ; 2d, Stephen Winchester. Joseph Stacey grad. at H. C., 1762, and was a Sandemanian Clergyman, d. 1807, se. 62. Aaron grad. at H. C, 1780, and was a physician. He removed to Angler's Comer, and d. 1776, se. 65. V. HASTINGS, SAMUEL, Jb., m. and had Caleb; and Elizabeth, who m. Shove Howland, 1785. Caleb d. unm., 1815. 1st w. d. 1776. 2d w. Catherine, dr. of Edward Durant, and wid, of Ab'm Parker, 1797. 26* 306 HASTINGS. V. HASTINGS, STEPHEN, (s. of Samuel,) m. Susanna Fuller, 1771, and had Susanna, Aug. 9, 1773 ; and Stephen, who removed to Vermont. V. HASTINGS, DANIEL, graTestone cutter, (e. of Samuel,) m. Mary Morse, 1772, and had Bebecm, March 25, 1774 ; Danid, April 1, 1775; Marn, April 15, 1777; Henry, Sept.'lO, 1780; Nathan, Aug. 20, 1782 ; Joseph Stacey, June 25, 1789 ; Deborah, April 8, 1785; iVoncy, May 15, 1791 ; George, Nov. 18, 1792, d. 1817; Zeiois, Nov. 20, 1795; Elizabeth, May 20, 1800. Mary m. HunneweU — Deborah m. George Hill — Rebecca m. Isaac Coolidge. He was Selectman five years. Daniel m. and settled in Boston, and was a crockery ware merchant. Joseph S. settled in Cambridge, and was a crockery ware merchant. V. HASTINGS, THOMAS, grocer, (s. of Samuel,) m. Elizabeth Morse, 1777, and had Thomas, June 12, 1778 ; Se%, March 2, 1780 ; Hepsibah, Sept. 1, 1782; Charles, Sept. 10, 1783; Josq)h S., Dec. 2, 1784 i Mhlinda, March 2, 1789 ; Fanny, July 20, 1793, d. 1801. Betsy m. Jonathan Balch, 1800 — Hepsibah m. James Hyde. 2d w., Betsy Jackson. 3dw. wid. Mehitable Watson, and had JMbses C. PT., ' July 17, 1803; Jonathan B., Jan. 28, 1805; Joseph W., April, 1806. 1st w. d. Dec. 1799, £b. 42. He was one of the founders of the Bap- tist ch., and was their first Clerk and Treasurer, 1780. He after- wards embraced the doctrine of universal salvation, and was cast out of the church. v. HASTINGS, JOHN, baker, (s. of Samuel,) m. Sarah , and had Sophia, April 7, 1793; Sarah, June 19, 1794; Matilda, June 29, 1796 ; and Sophia. 2d w., Elizabeth Hale, 1802, and had John, Feb. 12, 1802 ; Sewall, March 21, 1803. 1st w. d. 1802. VI. HASTmGS, THOMAS, Jk., (nurseryman,) m. Mehitable , and had several children. VL HASTINGS, HENRY, (s. of Daniel,) had by w. Martha H., Selen, July 19, 1805. VI. HASTINGS, NATHAN, (s. of Daniel,) m. Abigail, dr. of Sam- uel Hyde, 1804, and had Mary Ann, Oct. 2, 1804; Jane, Jan. 28, 1810. Went to Cincinnati. Vr. HASTINGS, CHARLES, (s. of Thomas,) m. Lucretia, dr. of Gen. Ebenezer Cheney. HASTINGS — HAEEINGTON — HEALT. 307 HASTINGS, JOSIAH, s. of Lydia Steams, Oct. 20, 1796. HASTINGS, THOMAS, from Wat., lived near Bald-pate hill, at the s. part of the town, and had t)avid, Josiah, Ebenezer, Sarah and Man/. Sarah m. Pond — Mary m. Dyke. HASTINGS, TIMOTHY, had by w. Eebecca, Mary and Timothy. Mary m. Joseph Whitney, 1749. HARRIS, THOMAS, had by w.. Elizabeth^ , Rebecca, Aug. 26, 1760. HARKNESS, JOHN, from Eox. His will, 1746, names w. Margaret and sons William, James, and John; they had land in Walpole. Ann d. March 26, 1748. He d. March 15, 1747, as. 57. HARRINGTON, SAMUEL, had by w. Sarah , Samuel, AprU 27, 1726. HEAI/T, NATHANIEL, (s. of WilUam and Grace, who first settled in Rox., and moved to Camb.,) He was bapt. in Camb., Feb. 6, 1658 ; he pm-chased of Jona. Jackson, Sen., twenty-six and a half acres land, and lived near Brook farm. He was Selectman three years, 1704, '05 and '10. He m. Rebecca , and had Nathaniel, bom in Camb., Sept. 28, 1686 ; Mary, Nov. 25, 1688 ; Samuel, May 9, 1690; Eben- ezer, Nov. 14, 1691 ; Martha, Sept. 25, 1694; William; Lydia, Feb. 16, 1697 ; John, Jan. 8, 1699 ; Joshua, Rebecca, Abigail and Hannah. Nathaniel was slain by the Indians, 1706. His will, 1731, names w. Rebecca, sons Ebenezer, John and Joshua, and daughters Rebecca Thwing, AbigaU Bracket, Mary Mayo, Martha Badcock, Lydia Avery, Hannah Young, and chil. of his s. Samuel, deceased. He d. June 2, 1734, a!. 76. Inventory, £1,233, 4s. 9d. Wid. Rebecca d. January 7, 1735. HEALY, JOHN, (s. of Nathaniel,) m. Hannah , and had John, Dec. 21, 1728, d. 1729 ; Nathaniel, April 1, 1730, d. 1734 ; Aaron, Oct. 7, 1735; Nehemiah, Oct. 25, 1737; Samuel, July 18, 1739; Lydia, June 29, 1741 ; Rebecca, Nov. 28, 1743. 2d w. Susanna Bacon, 1753. 3d w. Jemima Davis, Eox,, 1761. Istw. d. 1751. 2d w. d. 1760, se. 52. He was Selectman two years, and d. May 29, 1783, se. 84. HEALY, JOSHUA, (s. of Nathaniel,) m. Sarah Davis, of Eox., and had SaraJi, March 7, 1723 ; Rebecca, Eeb. 19, 1725. HENRY, JOHN, (s. of John and Hannah,) m. Mary , and had Catherine, Nov. 10, 1764; Rebecca, July 3, 1766; Ebenezer, Eeb. 3 1768; Jesse, Nov. 3, 1769; Hannah, Sept. 24, 1771 ; John, July 2, 1773. 308 HILL HILTON HOBAET. HILL, BENJAMIN, had by w. Hannah , Benjamin, Oct. 3, 1762, HOLDBN, JAMES, from Sherburne;- had by w. Lois , James, Dec. 20, 1779. 2d w. Abigail Dix, 1791. HILTON, SAMUEL, m. Sarah Clark, 1735, and had Samud, Jan. 4, 1739; Hannxh, March 21, 1741, d. 1741 ; TTi'Kiam, June 21,1742; ■Hannah, Aag. 16,1744; Mary, Jan. 20, 1747; Elizabdh,'Dee. 20, 1749. mCKS, JONATHAN, from Camb., had by w. Mary , WiUiam Greenough, Dec. 10, 1795. He d. 1795. His wid. m. Jonathan Hunnewell, Esq., of Boston, April 12, 1796. m. HOBAKT, Kev. NEHBMIAH, was the fifth sou of the Eey. Peter Hobart, the first Minister of Hingham, and g. s. of Edmund Hobart, who came from Hingham, Eng., with his w., s. Joshua, and two daughters, and arrived in Charlestown, in 1633. The Eey. Peter was bom in 1604, and educated at the University in Camb., Eng. ; taught a grammar school, and preached at Hingham, Eng., nine years. The impositions of the prelatical party, induced him to come to this country. Several of his friends from Hingham, Eng., had already settled in Charlestown. Mr. Hobart, and his friends and former parishioners, removed from Charlestown to Bare Cove. In Sept. 1635, the Greneral Court gave that place the name of Hing- ham, because their Pastor and most of his fiock, came from Hing- ham, Co. of Norfolk, Eng. Rev. Peter had five sons educated at H. C, Joshua, Jeremiah, Gersham, Japhet, four of which became Ministers. Peter and Nehemiah were bom at Hingham, Mass., Nov. 21, 1648. Neliemiah was grad. at H. C, 1667. After preaching two years at Camb. Village, was ordained Pastor of that ch., Dec. 23, 1674. He m. Sarah, dr. of Edward Jackson, Sen, by his last w. Elizabeth, wid. of Rev. John Oliver, and dr. of John Newgate, mer- chant, of Boston, Mar. 21, 1778. His f. in law, Ed. Jackson, gave him ' thirty acres of land, on the N. w. side of the Dedham highway, adjoining the twenty acres 8., which he also gave to Rev. John Eliot, Jr., his predecessor. He built his mansion house on the same spot where the PeUiam house stands, now owned by John Cabot, which house was occupied by his successor, Rev. John Cotton. It was burnt in 1720, and rebuilt same year. Mr. Hobart had by w. Eliza- beth, Elizabeth, June 27, 1679; Rehecca, 'Feb. IS, 1680; J/ary, Jan. 16, 1682 ; Abigail, Jan. 22, 1684 ; Sarah, March 13, 1686 ; and Han- HOLLY — HOLBEN ■'— HOWLET. 309 nah, Jan 19, 1689. Rebecca m. Samuel Eastatrook, of New Lon- don, Conn. — Mary m. Eleazer "Williams, s. of Capt. Isaac and Martha (Park) "Williams. In 1711, he conveyed to his four daugh- ters, Rebecca, Mary, Abigail and SaraJi, his then dwelling house, out- houses, and one hundred acres of land adjoining, reserving to him- self the right to enjoy it while he lived, with other reservations, together with the land he owned at Stake meadow. This deed was no doubt intended as his last will. His oldest and youngest daugh- ters, Elizabeth and Hannah, not being named in the deed, had probably deceased. His w. Sarah d. 1711, Ee. 62. Abigail and Sarah, (then single,) sold their rights in the homestead, in 1715, to Kev. John Cotton. The inscription upon his monument is in Latin. The English translation is as follows : — " In this tomb are deposited the remains of the Eev, and very learned teacher of divinity, Nehe- miah Hobart, an estimable fellow of H. C, a highly faithful and watchful Pastor of the ch. of Newtown, for forty years. His singu- lar gravity, hnmiUty, piety, and learning, rendered him the object of deep veneration, and ardent esteem, to men of science and religion. He was born Nov. 21, 1648, and d. Aug. 25, 1712, in the 64th year of his age." Rev. John Barnard, of Marblehead, in a letter dated Oct. 16, 1767, says, " The Rev. Nehemiah Hobart, sometime a Vice President of the College, was an excellent scholar in the Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and a most pious, humble, prudent and benevo- lent man." HOLLY, SAMUEL, was in Camb. 1636, owned a house and eighteen acres of land in Camb. Village, adjoining John Jackson, in 1639 ; six acres of which he sold to Edward Jackson, in 1643, for £5, and died the same year. His wid. Elizabeth m. Kendall. His in- ventory, amounting to £15, 3s. 2d., is entered on the Suffolk Record, in the hand-writing of Edward Jackson, who admin, on his estate. John-HoUy, sup. s. of Samuel, sold to Edward Jackson, the residue of the place, with house thereon, to have possession after the decease of Elizabeth Kendall, late wife of Samuel Holly. HOLDEN, JAMES, from Sherburne, had by w. Lois , James, Dec. 20, 1779. 2d w. Abigail Dix, 1791. HOLTOKE, JOHN, d. 1775, bs. 92. HO"WLET, MICHAEL, had by w. Experience, -DamW, Sept 7, 1709. HOWLET, JOHN, had by w. Patience, John, Dec. 29, 1710. 310 HOWLET HOLLAND HOMER. HOTTGHTON, BLUAH, m. AbigaU Woodward, 1765, and had Com- fort P^ Aag.U, me ; iV"a%, Feb. 18, 1768 ; iVbnc^, Dec. 5, 1769. He d. 1781. HOUGHTON, Cam. JOEL, 1st w. Betsy Pigeon, d. Oct. 1802, a. 39; 2d w. Peggy, dr. of Maj. Samuel Mtudock, 1806, and had Nancy, Ang. 20, 1807; Samuel M., Dee. 25, 1808; Silas, May 20, 1812 ; John, April 9, 1814 ; Jod, June 30, 1816. He d. 1839, se. 60. HOUiAKD, JOHN, b. 1674, (s. of Nathaniel and Sarah, and g._ s. of John and Judith, of Dor.) His f. resided a short time in Charles- town, and removed to Wat. about 1662. He m. Elizabeth, dr. of Thomas Park, Sen., and had John, Dec. 25, 1699 ; Josq)h, Jan. 19, 1702, d. 1728; John, April 5, 1704; Elisabeth; Abigail, May 18, 1709; Jonas, May 12, 1711; EpKraim, Jan. 11, 1714; Sarah, Sept. 11, 1716 ; Ruth, Samuel, and Abigail. John m. Elizabeth Angier, 1726. Jonas went to Marlboro', and had seven chil. HOLLAND, JOHN, Jr., had by w. EUzabeth Parks, Elizabeth, March 1, 1746. HOLLAND, EDWARD, had by w. Mary , Ephraim, July 31, 1736 ; Elisha, Sept. 14, 1738; Edward, Jan. 16, 1749. HOLLAND, ANXIPAS, m. Priscilla Parker, and went t» Sutton. HOWARD, EBENEZEE, m. Mary Hastings, 1763. HOOGS, WILLIAM, ship carpenter, from Boston, came to Newton, 1775, m. Elizabeth Stoddard, and had John B., Elisabeth, William, Ann M., Margaret, Ruth, Sarah, 1776; William, 1777; Hannah, Elizabeth, Francis, Henry, George W., Thomas S. Ann m. Capt. Henry Cook — Margaret m. Capt. Amasa Porter — Euth m. Capt. Silas Fuller — Sarah m. Geo. Cook — Hannah m. Samuel Skinner —Elizabeth m. Seth Gay— John B. m. Esther Craft, 1784— Wil- liam m. Polly Adams — Francis m. Elizabeth Adams — Henry d. young — George W. m. Faith Seaverns — Thomas S. m. . He was Selectman three years, and d. Sept. 1802. She d. 1819. iV. HOMER, Kev. JONATHAN, was born in Boston, April 15, 1759, son of Michael, Jr., g. s. of Michael and Sarah (Kneeland) Homer, and g. g. s. of Capt. John, who was bom in the Co. of War- wick, west of England, 1647, a mariner, Capt., and part owner of a ship, trading between London and Boston ; connected in business HOTET. 311 with Andrew Belcher, father of Got. Belcher. Capt. John m. in Boston, Sept. 1, 1692, Mary Stevens, and had six sons, John, Benj., William, Michael, Robert, Thomas, and three daughters ; and d. in Boston, Nov. 1, 1717, se. 70. Rev. Jonathan, (s. Michael,) grad. at H. C, 1777 — invited, Oct. 8, 1781, by a vote of the Bast Parish, ia Newton, sixty-eight to eight, to become its Pastor. His letter of acceptance was dated Jan. 4, 1782 — Ordained Pek 13^ 1782. The Mnrdock mss. states, that " he begun to read and expound the Holy Scriptures, July 14, 1783." He m. Anna Curtis, dr. of Obediah Curtis, of Boston, wheelwright, by whom he had but one child, Jon- athan, Aug. 20, 1783, who d. unm. Sept. 7, 1804, m. 21. His w. Anna d. Sept 4, 1824. He d. Aug. 11, 1843, in the 62d year of his ministry, and the 85th of his age. His wUl contains nine bequests, amounting to $5,600, — "If there be not so much of his estate, then each legatee must abate pro-rata." He preached and published a Century Sermon, dedicated to Joseph Ward, Esq., in Dec. 1791, with notes and historical facts. Soon after he published a " Descrip- tion and History of Newton," with an account of the Apostle Eliot's first lecture at Nonantum, and subsequent labors to propagate the Gospel among the Indians ; which he says is " the most important article of the history of the place." He also published a sermon " upon the occasion of the decease of Samuel Hammond, of Brook- line," in Oct. 1816. rV. HOVEY, CAIiEB, (s. of Caleb and Mary, g. s. Joseph and Han- nah, of Hadley, and g. g. of Daniel, an early settler of Ipswich,) m. Margaret Eliot, 1737, and had Abigail, June 6, 1741 ; Ebenezer, May 12, 1743; Caleb, March 21, 1746; Moses, May 11, 1753; Ex- perience. V. HOVET, EBENEZER, (s. Caleb and Mary,) m. Elizabeth Bald- win, Nov. 1767, and had Henry, Jan. 23, 1769; Sarah and Abigail, Sept. 29, 1770 ; Francis, Aug. 3, 1772 ; Patty, March 14, 1774; *Sb- rah, Sept. 29, 1779. V. HOVET, Major THOMAS, (s. of Ebenezer and Elizabeth, of Camb., g. 8. of John and Abia, g. grandson of Joseph and Hannah, of Hadley, and g. g. grandson of Daniel, of Ipswich,) m. Elizabeth Brown, of Camb., 1763, and had Josiah, 1763 ; Mary, 1765 ; Thomas, 1766; James, 1768; Ebenezer, 1769; Phineas B., 1770; Elizabeth, 1772; Stephen, 1774; Washingtm, 1777; Ekner, 1779; John, 1781; Sarah, 1782 ; Anna, 1784 ; William, 1786 ; Susanna, 1791 ; and two 312 HOVET HULL. others. He was an officer in the army of the Revolution, and d. 1807, 33. 68. V. HOVEY, Dea. THOMAS, (s. of Maj,,) was kiUed 1829, x. 63. VI. HOVEY, JAMES, (s. of Maj. Thomas,) m. Anna Hoyey, and had William, Sept. 1795. III. HULL, Gen. WILLIAM, was bom at Derby, Conn., June 24, 1753. His father, Joseph, Jr., d. 1775. His grandfather, Joseph, emigrated from Derbyshire, England, and settled in Derby, Conn. He grad. at Y. C, in 1772, studied law at Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar in 1775. He entered the army of the Eevoln- tion, at Camb., in 1775, as Capt. of a Connecticut Co. of Tolunteers, and was promoted to a Major in 1777, and to Lieut. Col. in 1779; was inspector of the army under Baron Steuben. His services, dur- ing the whole of the war, were constant and valuable ; and from all the historical accounts of the war, we cannot learn that his patriot- ism or cotirage was ever doubted. After the war he was Maj. Gen. of the 3d Division of Mass. Militia ; Senator from Middlesex Co. ; appointed Gov. of the Michigan Territory, in 1805. At the com- mencement of the last war with England, he was appointed, in 1812, to the command of the north-western army, for the conquest of Can- ada. He surrendered the army of about two thousand men, to the British Gen. Brock, same year, for which act he" was tried by a court martial, and sentenced to be shot, which decision was accom- panied by a recommendation to the mercy of the President of the U. S., who remitted the execution of the sentence, " in consequence of his age and revolutionary services." From tliis decision he ap- pealed to his countrymen to do him justice, and published a defence of his conduct, relative to the surrender of the north-western army. His memoirs of that campaign have had a most favorable effect upon impartial and disinterested men. [See also his life, published by Maria Campbell and Jas. E. Clarke, in 1848.] He m. Sarah, the only dr. of Judge Ab'm Fuller, 1781, and had Sarah, Jan. 20, 1783 ; Eliza, June 22, 1784 : Ab'm Fuller, March 8, 1786 ; Namy Biiimy, June 19, 1787 i Maria, June 7, 1788 ; Rebecca Parker, Feb. 7, 1790; and Caroline, April 30, 1793. Abraham F. was Capt. in the Army, 9th U. S. Regiment, and was slain in the battle of Bridgwater, Upper Canada, July 25, 1814, sa. 28. Eliza m. Isaac McLeUan, 1805 — Rebecca m. Dr. Samuel Clark — Sarah m. John McKesson, 1802 — Nancy B. m. Hickman — Maria m. '■ Campbell. He d. Nov. 29, 1825, se. 72. She d. Aug. 1, 1826, se. 67. HYDE. 313 I. HYDE, Dea. SAMUEL, was bom 1610. He embarked in the ship Jonathan, at London, bound for Boston, in April, 1639. He was the 2d settler in Camb. Village, about 1640. In 1647, he and his brother Jonathan bought of Thomas Danforth, forty acres of land. In 1652, they bought two hundred acres, of the heirs of Nathaniel Sparhawk. They held this land in common until 1661, when a di- vision was made between them. The Dedham highway was laid out through their lands. Ho was one of the proprietors of Billerica lands, and had eighty acres in the division of 1652. His descendants, Capt. Samuel of the sixth generation, and his son George, now own and occupy a part of the original homestead. His wife Temperance probably came in the same ship with him. They had Samuel ; Joshua, March 12, 1642 ; Job, 1643 ; Sarah, May 19, 1644 ; and Elimbeth. Samuel, no record of his marriage, witnessed a deed in 1703 ; no chil. on record; he d. July, 1725. Joshua d. 21. 2. 1656 — Sarah m. Thomas Woolson, of Wat., Nov., 1660 — Elizabeth m. Humphrey Osland, 7. 1. 1667. He d. Sept. 12, 1689, se. 79, leaving a will dated same year, which states that he owned a farm in Wat., of 124 acres, — provides for the comfortable maintenance of his w. Temperance, makes her sole executrix, and his brother Jonathan, overseer. His grandson Samuel to take the homestead, and manage and improve the same, for his w. Temperance ; after her death the Wat. farm was to be divided between three of his s. Job's chU. viz : Samuel, John and Sarah ; and confirms what he formerly gave to his son Samuel, and his son in law Thomas Woolson. His son Samuel's house was burnt. May 21, 1709, and with the assistance of his neighbors, raised again in fourteen days. n. HYDE, JOB, (s. of Dea. Samuel,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of John Fuller, Sen., andhad Elizabeth, Aug. 29, 1664 ; Samud, March 5, 1667 ; Job, May 6, 1669, d. young; Mary, June, 21, 1673; Sarah, 2. 8. 1675; Bethia, Eeb. 24, 1678 ; Hannah, 20. 3. 1680; John, 1. 12. 1681 ; Jona- than, 22.3. 1684. Elizabeth m. William, the s. of Jonathan Hyde, Sen,, and d. 1743 — Maiy m. Capt. Abm. Brown, of Wat. — Sarah m. Daniel, s. of Jonathan Hyde, Sen., 1696 — Bethia m. Jacob, s. of Jonathan Hyde, Sen. — Hannah m. Eleazer, s. of Jonathan Hyde, Sen. Job and wife Elizabeth both d. Nov. 1685, and Samuel Hyde, Sen., and John Euller, Sen., provided for Job's children. Job's estate was divided among his chil., March, 1694-5, Samuel took the land, forty acres, given him by his father, and paid his brothers and sisters .£64. 27 314 HYDE. in. HYDE, Ensign SAMXJEL, (s. of Job,) m. Deliverance , and had Deliverance, Oct. 8, 1689 ; Patience, June 18, 1691 ; Prudence, April 29, 1693, d. in infancy; Lydia, Jan. 8, 1695; Abigail, Jan. 9, 1698; Temperance, Jrdj 16, 1700; Nehemiah, Oct. 8, 1704; Josiah, d. 1718 ; Ann, Aug.' 17, 1710. Margaret m. Noah Shepard — Deliver- ance m. "William Hyde, Jr., March 26, 1713 — Patience m. Joseph Jackson, o. of Sebas, Sen., Nov. 28, 1717 — Lydia m. Dea. John Stone, Dec. 17, 1717 — Abigail m. Robert Murdock, Dec. 9, 1725 — Temperance m. Caleb Fuller, Jan. 20, 1725. He was Selectman five years, and d. May 27, 1741, as. 74. His will, 1738, gives Nehemiah the homestead, thirty-thi'ee acres, and pasture on the hill, eight acres, after the decease of his w. ; and his grandson Samuel a fowling piece. His wid. Deliverance d. 1754. m. HYDE, JOHN, (s. of Job,) m. Sarah, dr. of Thomas and Rebecca Prentice, May 15, 1707, and had Relief, Jan. 1, 1709; Sarah, Dec. 10, 1710; Jonathan, July 13, 1711. Sarah the mother d. March 8, 1713. 2d w. Hannah, dr. of Capt. Isaac Williams. He d. before 1 739. His wid. Hannah left a famous vrill, giving Bibles to all her own brothers and sisters and their children, and appropriating £30 for their purchase ; gave her brother Isaac Williams' oldest son £10, WiUiam Williams' oldest and youngest sons £10 each. To Amos, Ichabod and Hannah, chil. of Joseph and Mary (Williams) Hyde, ieiO each; two daughters of her sister Martha (Williams) Hunt, £10 each ; Elizabeth, dr. of Isaac Williams, £15 and a gold necklace ; and all her books to those who have their names written therein, — appoints John Hyde, her cousin, in whose house she then dwelt, and Rev. WUliam Williams, executors -~ says nothing about the chil. of her husband by his first, w., and therefore they probably were not liv- ing — nothing about her own, probably she had none, as she was about forty-four when m. She d. April 28, 1739, a;. 68. ni. HYDE, JONATHAN, (s. of Job,) m. Elizabeth, di-. of Capt. Isaac Williams, Jan. 3, 1700, and had Isaac, Nov. 11, 1700 ; Enoch, Nov. 14, 1704; Ephraim, Aug. 3, 1707; Nathaniel, Nov. 29, 1708; Jonathan, 1709 (?); Elizabeth, Nov. 6, 1711. This fanuly removed to Canterbury, Conn., and there had Ehenezer, and other chil; and from this family, very many of the name, in Conn., have descended. Jonathan, Jr., b. in Conn., returned and settled in Brookline, 1751, and became a Baptist Preacher, and was called a " New Light." He baptised the celebrated Preacher, Elhanan Winchester; was ordained at his own dwelling house, in Brookline, Jan. 1750, HYDE. 315 and was warned out of Brookline, in March, 1751, — douttless this was the manifestation of a sectarian spirit. He lacked a college education, but was an honest, eai'nest, loud spoken preacher, and an early friend of the iirst Baptist ch. in Newton. He m. Mrs. Abigail Hyde, 1762, and d. June 4, 1787, a;. 78, leaving sons Ccdeb, Thad- deus and Nehemiah, who were born in Canterbury, Thaddeus in 1739, and d. 1808, and who had in Brookline, son Arba, 1783. IV. HYDE, JONATHAN, (s. of John and Sarah,) m. Elizabeth , Oct. 21, 1731. Jonathan Hyde and w. Thankful, sold fire acres of land to Benjamin Eddy, 1754, south by road leading to the M. H. IV. HYDE, ENOCH, (s. of Jonathan and Elizabeth,) m. Elizabeth , and had David, about 1743; JEphraim, 1746; JBannah, 1750; Esther, 1752; Lucy, 1755; and Calvin. rV. HYDE, NEHEMIAH, (s. of Samuel and Deliverance,) m. Han- nab, dr. of Eobert Murdock, Sen., Nov. 14, 1729, and had Lydia, Not. 2, 1729 ; Samuel, Oct. 8, 1731 ; Ann, July 24, 1734. Lydia m. Kichard Truesdale, 1754 — Ann m. William Chamberlain, 1754. He d. March 21, 1736, se. 32. Wid. Hannah admin. Inventory, il,987, 14s. V. HYDE, DAVID, (s. of Enoch and Elizabeth,) m. Bnlfinch, of Boston, and had in Monson, Mass., William, David, Elizabeth, Lucy, and one other. William and David were both m., and lived in Mass. V. HYDE, EPHRAIM, (s. of Enoch and Elizabeth,) m. Sarah Lan- phear, 1781, and had, in Monson, Solomon, 1781 ; Enoch, 1783 ; Cal- vin, 1784, Oren, 1787; Ephraim, 1789; Lucius, 1791; Sarah, 1793; Ruby, 1795 ; and Tertius, 1799. Solomon m. Sally Ellis, of Boston — Enoch m. Eunice Haynes, and went to Somerset, N. Y. — Calvin m. Pamelia EUis, and settled in Monson — Orenm.LurancyWiUard, 1829, who grad. at Middlebury Coll. 1812, Minister at Springfield, N. Y. — Ephraim m. Harriet Green, 1813. V. HYDE, SAMUEL, (s. of Nehemiah,) m. Mary , King, of Camb., 1765, and had Mary, Jan. 5, 1767 ; Fanny, Sept. 26, 1772; Samuel, Sept. 20, 1774; James, Oct. 24, 1780; and Abigail, Aug. 16, 1784. Mary m. Eobert Murdock, 1792 — Abigail m. Nathan, s. of Daniel Hastings. He d. 1790, as. 59. His wid. Mary d. March, 1834, ». 90 3-4. 316 HYDE. VI. HYDE, Capt. SAMITEIi, (g. of Samuel and Mary,) m. Lucy, dr. of Edward Hall, Jr., Oct. 1, 1800, and liad Samud. Jan. 6, 1801 ; Fanny, April 5, 1803; Parthena, Aug. 1, 1805; Edward, April 6, 1808; George and Mary. Fanny m. George Boutwell — Parthenia m. Jonas Wilder ; 2d, Jacob Daseomb — Mary m. Walter Bigelow — Samuel d. unm. 1849. VI. HYDE, JAMES, (s. of Samuel and Mary,) m. Hepsibah Hast- ings, Sept. 1803, and had in Medford, Elizabeth, d. young; Charles, m. and now in California ; Thomas H., d. young ; two Mary Anns, both d. in infancy ; Henry, m. Sprague, and settled in Maiden ; Hden ; Lucy ; William m. and settled in New-Orleans ; Nathan, d. ; Nathan, d. He d. 1848, se. 68. She d. 1833, se. 51. VH. HYDE, EDWAED, (s. of Samuel and Lucy,) m. Fanny A. Lu- num. 2d w. Sarah C. Gregory, and had in Camb., Samuel E., Charles P., and William G. VIL HYDE, GEORGE, (s. of Samuel and Lucy,) m. Rebecca Child, and had Alzea F., 1840 ; Charlotte W., 1846 ; and Samwd. r. HYDE, JONATHAN, Sen., was born 1626, came to Camb. Vil- lage, 1 647, and purchased two hundred and forty acres of land ia the village, with his brother, Dea. Samuel, in 1652, which they owned in common until 1661. In 1656, he bought of Thomas Woolson, eighty acres of land, more or less. Woolson bought it of Edward Goffe, 1653 ; probably there was more in this tract, being one-eighth of the tract recovered by Cambridge from the town of Dedham, in a law suit. He settled upon this land, and increased it by subsequent purchases, to about three hundred and fifty acres. His dwelling house was about seventy rods N. of the present Centre M. H. He bought and sold much land in the village, and in some of his deeds was styled " Sergeant." He had twenty-one children, fourteen by Mary French, dr. of WUliam French, of Billerica, and seven by Mary Rediat, dr. of John Rediat, of Marlboro'. He made a mar- riage covenant, in 1673, with her father and brother, in which it was stipulated that he should m. Mary Rediat, and in case he should die before her, she should have his house, barn, and about one hna- dred acres of laud. In case she had no children by him, then the one hundred acres was to pass to the children of his first w., after the decease of said Jonathan and Mary. This interesting document was dated 2. 11. 1673, nearly three months before the marriage cer- emony. It was vritnessed by the Rev. Nath'l Gookin, of Camb., HTDE. 317 and his sister Elizabeth, the wid. of the Eev. John Eliot, Jr. This part of his homestead was bounded easterly by the highway from Watertown to Dedham, one hundred and sixty rods, and one hun- dred rods deep ; w. by his other lands ; northerly by land of John Jackson, Sen., and southerly by the farm of Elder Wiswall ; reserv- ing a way one rod wide next to Wiswall's, to go to his other lands. This way ran from the Dedham road, at the training field, by the north bank of Wiswall's pond, and for the last century has been known by the name of " Blanden's iane," now called Pond street. The front of this grant extended from this lane, northerly one hun- dred and sixty rods, to about opposite to the commencement of the road leading to the easterly part of the town. This farm, therefore, was very near the centre of Newton, and included the spot where the Centre M. H. now stands. In 1702, he gave to John Kenrick and others. Selectmen of Newton, and their successors in office, " half an acre of land near Oak hill, abutting ten rods on the Ded- ham road, and eight rods wide, N. "W. by his own land, for the use and benefit of the school at the south part of the town, to be em- ployed by said Selectmen to the ends aforesaid." This half acre of land was sold many years ago, and a small fund accumulated from the proceeds, which was divided among the inhabitants of the south school district, a few years since, by vote of the Town, pro rata, ac- cording to the taxes each one paid. It is supposed that he also gave part of the land at the wide part of the Dedh%m road, near the centre of the town, and Eld. Wiswall or his heirs the other part, for a training-field, but no record of such a gift has yet been found in the deeds or wills. He was Selectman in 1691. He and his first w. were admitted members of the Camb. eh., in 1661, and his chil. Jonathan, Samuel, John, and Elizabeth, bap. there, in 1661 ; William, 1662, and Eleazer, 1664. A few years before his decease, he settled his own estate by making deeds of gift of his real estate to eleven of his chil. ; the first was dated 1698, and the last 1710, conveying in all about four hundred acres, with several dwelling houses thereon. The other twelve children had probably deceased before him ; the deaths of seven are recorded, and the other five were either dead or other- wise provided for. In 1705, he deeded to his chil. a cart way through then homestead, to the Dedham highway, " to be used with gates forever." That cart way is now the highway, and N. w. boundary of the triangular place, formerly the homestead of Eev. Joseph Grafton, now of Michael Tombs. In his deed to his s. Samuel, he put a condition that he was not to sell it to. a stranger, except 27* 318 HYDE. through want or necessity, but to one of said Jonathan, Sen.'s heirs, - hy the name of Hyde. He had by 1st w., Mary French, Jonathan, April 1,1651; Samuel and Joshua, 23. 3. 1653; Joshua, April 4, 1654; Jonathan, 1. 2. 1655; John, April 6, 1656; Abraham, Maxeh 2, 1657 ; Elizabeth, Sept. 4, 1659 ; Daniel, Aug. 2, 1661, d. 3. 8. '61 ; William, Sept. 12, 1662; Eleazer, bap. March 11, 1664; Danid, baptised, 1665; Ichabod, 22. 7. 1668; Joseph, May 27,1672. 1st ■w. Mary d. May 27, 1672, ae. 39. 2d w. Mary Rediat, Not. 11, 1673, and had Hannah, 14. 8. 1677, d. 1679 ; Sarah, 1. 2. 1679 ; Ruth, 3. 8. 1682, d. '82; Isaac, Oct. 31, 1685; Jacob, April 9, 168-; Lydia, March 1, 1689; Ann, Aag.2S, 1692. Sarah m. John Osland — Ann m. Richard Barnes, of Marlboro', 1715, and had three sons and two daughters. Mary the 2d w. d. Sept. 5, 1708. He d. Oct. 5, 1711, se. 85. Left no will or inventory. n. HYDE, JONATHAN, Jr., had by w. Dorothy Kidder, Jona- than; Dorothy; Hannah, 1. 2. 1677 ; Mary, 6. 7. 1678; Elizabeth, 23. 3. 1680; Ebenezer and Sarah, Oct. 17, 1685; Abigail, Aug. 8, 1688; Ebenezer, d. 1691 ; James, April 20, 1683 ; Ann, Ang. 18, 1690, d. in infancy ; and Isaac, Dec. 17, 1693. Dorothy m. Joseph Peckham — Mary m. Jonathan Hunt, and d. 1710 — Elizabeth m. Isaac Farwell — Sarah m. John Pike — Abigail m. Joseph Cleveland — James m. Maiy , and settled in Canterbury, Ct. Hannah m. John Wood- ward, Jr., 1698. He d. Aug. 2, 1731, se. 76. II. HYDE, JOHN, (s. of Jonathan, Sen.) m. Hannah, dr. of John Jackson, Sen., and wid. of Elijah Kenrick, (by whom she had six cMl.) 20. 11. 1682, and had Relief, 10. 8. 1682; Ifary, 7. 12. 1684; John, Jan. 16, 1686; Timothy, June 25, 1689. Relief m. Nathaniel Thayer — Mary m. Nathaniel Hammond, Jr. She d. May 1, 1737, «e. 91. He was Selectman three years, and d. Sept. 22, 1738, se. 82. His will, dated 1732, confirms what he had already given his son Timothy, by deed, and gives his son John the homestead, and ap- points him sole executor. II. HYDE, DANIEL, (s. of Jonathan, Sen.) m. Sarah, dr. of Job Hyde, 1696, and had Sarah, Dec. 17, 1697, d. 1698; Daniel, Jan. 23, 1700, d. 1716; Sarah; .4nios, April 29, 1705, d. at Lebanon, Aug. 21, 1742, leaving three sons ; Job, May 6, 1707 ; Enos, June 26, 1711, d. 1713; Nathan, Oct. 26, 1713; Abraham, Oct. 16, 1715; Ezra, d. 1719. Abraham died a bachelor, Jan. 1794, aj. 79 — Sarah d. nnm., 1754, leaving a will. He d. March 13, 1736, oc. 75. She d. 1754, 88.79. HTDE. 319 n. HYDE, WILLIAM, (s. of Jonathan, Sen.) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Job Hyde, and had William, Oct. 30, 1690; two drs. d. 1693 ; Eb'en- ezer, May 14, 1694 ; Caleb, Oct. 8, 1699, d. 1700. He d. Dec. 1699, OS. 63. Inventory, £193, Is. His wid. Elizabeth admin, on the es- tate. In rendering her account, she states that a yearling calf had been killed by the wolves. She d. April 7, 1743, Be. 79. II. HTDE, ELEAZER, (s. of Jonathan, Sen.) m. Hannah, dr. of Job Hyde, and had JBannah, Eeb. 7, 1701 ; Mindwell, AprU 5, 1703 ; Elea- zer, May 19, 1706, d. 1707 ; Eleazer, May 26, 1710. 2d w. Mercy Bird, 1722. Mindwell m. Joseph Cook, 1726. 1st w. d. 1720, a. 52. He d. 1732, ce. 68. Left a will, only s. Eleazer, executor. Inventory, £62, lis. II. HTDE, ICHAEOD, (s. of Jonathan, Sen.) m. Hannah , and had /cAa5o(f, April 18, 1695, d. 1714; Hannah; Martha, Eeb. 23, 1698. He d. 1700; see will. Inventory, £1,880, 2s. IL HYDE, JACOB, (s. of Jonathan, Sen.) m. Bethia, dr. of Job Hyde, April, 1708, and had Abraham, Eeb. 22, 1709, d. July 17, 1711. He went to Canada, a soldier, and d. there, leaving a wUl, giving his estate to his w., during her life, and if she die without any chil. by him, then to his brother Joseph, Jonathan, and Eleazer. Will proved July, 1712. He d. July 17, 1712, le. 25. n. HTDE, JOSEPH, (s. of Jonathan, Sen.) m. Mary, dr. of Capt. Isaac Williams, and had Esther, April 24, 1704 ; Amos; Joseph, Nov. 16, 1714; Ichabod, Aug. 24, 1717; Eunice, May 26, 1720; Hannah, April 21, 1724. Esther m. Jonas Livermore, 1735 — Eunice m. Thaddens Bond, of Needham, 1741 — Hannah m. Jonathan Dyke, 1742. She d. March 31, 1749, se. 67. He d. April 24, 1759, ge. 87. n. HTDE, SAMUEL, (s. of Jonathan, Sen.,) m. Hannah Stedman, 1673 ; no chil. recorded. His father conveyed land to him by deed of gift, in 1703 and 1710. His house was on north side of Wiswall's pond, afterwards occupied by Blanden. In 1705, he called himself Samuel Hyde, 2d. Samuel binds himself that the rod wide way shall be free to bring hemp or flax to the pond, and sheep to wash- ing, or such like necessary occasions to come to the pond. in. HTDE, SAMUEL, (s. of Jonathan, Jr. and Hannah,) m. Sarah, dr. of Jacob Dana, of Camb. 320 III. HY_DE, JOSEPH, (3. of Joseph and Mary,) m. Susanna Liver- more, of "Wat., 1740, and had Amos, May 8, 1742 ; Mary, July 7, 1745, d. ; Enoch, Aug. 25, 1747 ; Joseph, Feb. 25, 1749 ; Susanna, April 23, 1752; Moses, March 27, 1754; Ephraim, Dec. 26, 1755; Mary, June 28, 1759 ; Eunice, Nov. 22, 1761. Mary m. Ebenezer Brown, of Camb., 1781 — Eunice m. Edward Shepard, Nov. 1778 — Ephraim d. 1801. He d. Sept. 28, 1786, s&. 72. m. HYDE, JOB, (s. of Daniel,) m. Prudence, dr. of Wm. Hyde, Jr., 1736, and had Prudence, Sept. 24, 1737 ; EuUa, Jan. 16, 1740, d. ; Hulda, April 29, 1741; Esther, April 18, 1743; Martha, Oct. 10, 1744; Daniel, July 29, 1746; Ezra, Oct. 1748; Job, Feb. 28, 1750, d. 1751 ; Job, Feb. 20, 1752, d. 1754; Mabod, Feb. 20, 1754; Ebene- zer, April 30, 1755; Lydia, May 18, 1759. Prudence m. John Vose, of Southboro', 1766 — Hulda m. Jonathan Edmands, Jr., of Fra- mingham, 1765 — Esther m. Amos Edwards, of Framingham, 1773. He d. 1768, se. 61, and his wid. Prudence m. Josiah Greenwood, 1769, and d. 1795. m. HYDE, NATHAN, (s. of Daniel,) m. Anna Prentice, 1740, and had Anna, March 4, 1745, d. 1754 ; Amos and Sarah, Aug. 14, 1751, Amos d. 1776. 2d w. Bethia Dyke, 1757, and had Jonathan, April 26, 1761; Anna, July 17, 1763: Bethia, Aug. 1, 1765, d. 1778; Nathan, April 4, 1769 ; Elizabeth, May 18, 1773 ; Hulda, May 7, ' 1776, d. 1778. He d. Sept. 27, 1780. She d. 1782. .1st w. d. 1754. m. HYDE, Lieut. WILLIAM, (s. of William,) m. Deliverance, dr. of Samuel and Deliverance Hyde, March 26, 1713, and had Otheneil, March 30, 1714, d. 1714 ; Prudence, June 27, 1715 ; Noah, Sept. 26, 17X7; Sarah, d. 1776. Prudence m. Job, s. of Daniel Hyde, 1736, and 2d, Josiah Greenwood, 1769. He was Selectman in 1740. He kept a record of the deaths in the town, commencing in 1713, the year of his marriage, at the age of twenty-three, and continued the record to his death, in 1754, excepting about twelve years, between 1717 and 1729. His record also contains several earlier deaths and marriages, and some facts, which he probably copied from family records. His son Noah continued to record the deaths in the town, from his father's death to his own, in 1786. These records contain more than double the number of deaths that are entered upon the Town Records for the same years ; tliey are very important, and ought, by all moans, to be owned and copied for the use, and at the expense, of the Town. He was one of the sixteen men drafted from HYDE. 321 Newton, Aug. 1710, to go in the expedition to Port Eoyale. He d. Feb. 9, 1754, lE. 64. His will, in 1754, bequeaths to his son Noah, Mather's Magnalia, Neal's History, Prince's Chronology, Eussell's Seven Sermons, and Samuel Mather's Book of Types ; names his grandsons, William and Daniel, and appoints Noah his executor ; no other s. named. .1 . f . i » « .. -i III. HYDE, ELEAZER, Jr., m. Mary Beale, and had two chil., d. 1770. He d. 1771, se. 61. She d. 1767. '^ III. HYDE, Ensign TIMOTHY, (s. of John and Hannah,) m. Eebecca Davis, of Rox., 1718, and had Gersham, Nov. 1, 1719; Rebecca, Sept. 23, 1720; Martha, Eeb. 23, 1723; Timothy, May 16, 1724, d. 1724. 2d w. Sarah Whitmore, and had Mary, Aug. 11, 1728; Elisha, Sept. 6, 1730. Rebecca m. Moses Whitney, 1739 — Martha m. Jonas Jackson, 1744 — Marym. Abraham Jackson, 1745. 1st w. d. May, 1724. 2d w. d. 1732. He d. 1756, ss. 67. Inventory, £80, 14s. III. HYDE, JOHN, (s. of John and Hannah,) was a bachelor; took his father's place, and Elizabeth, dr. of Isaac Williams, Jr., kept his house. He d. 1760, sa. 74. His will, dated 1760, gives his estate to his brother Timothy's cliildren ; Elisha to have the homestead, and makes a bequest to his housekeeper, Elizabeth Williams. m. HYDE, EBENEZER, (s. of WiUiam, Sen.) m. Dorothy , and had Daniel, Ezra, and Job, baptised by Rev. Mr. Merriam, no date. He d. 1754, os. 60. Wid. Dorothy admin, on his estate. HYDE, JOHN, s. of Elizabeth Hyde, b. Oct. 24, 1704, prob. d. Jan. 8, 1768. III. HYDE, JONATHAN, (s. of Jonathan and Dorothy,) m. Hannah Dana, April 4, 1706, and had Josiah, Nov. 7, 1708; Caleb, 1713; Samuel, Sept. 7, 1719; Joshua, Oct. 12, 1722; and Mary, 1724. He d. 1731. Wid. Hannah admin. Inventory, £157, 19s. 6(i.; one hun- dred and twenty-five acres land in Canterbury, Conn. Caleb Dana, guardian of Mary, and Edward Park, guardian of Joshua, 1739. 1731, Timothy, a minor, se. 15, Nath'l Longley appointed guardian; he was prob. s. of Jonathan and Hannah. III. HYDE, JAMES, (s. of Jonathan and Dorothy,) m. Mary , settled in Canterbury, and had James, April, 1 709 ; Jonathan, Nov. 1711 ; Abraham, Oct. 1713 ; Jabez, May, 1716 ; Ebenezer, April, 1719 ; Mary, 1722 ; and James, Dec. 1732. 322 ,HTDE. in. HYDE, ICHABOD, (s. of Joseph and Mary,) m. Mary Haskins, Oct. 1741, went to Conn., and .had^Joseph, 1742 ; Mary, 1744 ; Bar- nabas, 1747; Irene, 1751; Enoch, 1755; Polly, 1761; Hannah, 1764. Joseph m. Abigail DimmbckJ and had five soils and two drs. — Enoch m. and had two sons and four drs. — ^Barnabas m. Lydia Armstrong, and had two sons and two drs. IV. HYDE, CAJLEB, (s. of Jonathan and Hannah,) m. Lydia Osland, 1738, and went to Canterbury, Corm., and had Temperance, 1139 ; Benjamin, 1741; Esther, 1743; Susanna, 1745; Mary, 1748; Tem- perance, 1749 ; Isaac, 1750; and Lydia, 1754. Benjamin and Isaac m. and settled in Canterbury, Conn. IV. HYDE, Lieut. NOAH, (s. of Lieut. William,) m. Ruth Seger, 1739, and had Ruth, Dec. 24, 1740; William, Eeb. 24, 1743 ; Deliv- erance, March 17, 1745; Noah, Sept. 5, 1747; IJucy, Oct. 30, 1750; Temperance, April 1, 1753; and Daniel. Deliverance m. Shubael Seaver, 1763 — Temperance m. Thaddeus Whitney, 1772 — Daniel m. Rebecca Erost, of Eramingham. He was Selectman two years, and d. Nov. 9, 1786, se. 69. She d. Nov. 1787, x. 74. IV. HYDE, AMOS, (s. of Joseph and Susanna,) m. Susanna , and had Amos, Oct. 1, 1769 ; Benjamin, Jan. 21, 1772 ; Charles, Feb. 18, 1774; Susanna, July 9, 1775; Abigail, Aug. 15, 1778; Betsy, Julys, 1783; Joseph, Sept. 25, 1787; Irene, Eeb. 28, 1789. Amos, Jr. d. 1795. He d. Eeb. 1795, as. 53. She d. 1801. IV. HYDE, JOB, (s. of Job and Prudence,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of George Ward, 1779, and had Abigail, Nov. 15, 1782; Elizabeth, Sept. 19, 1784; Job, Nov. 21, 1786; George Ward, July 4, 1790; Reuben, and Lucretia. TV. HYDE, ELEAZER, m. Rachel Goddard, in 1768. She d. 1772, se. 37. IV. HYDE, JOSEPH, (s. of Joseph and Susanna,) m. Anna, dr. of Sebas Jackson, Jan. 1778; went to Me., and had /Seios. He d. 1787, 83. 38. IV. HYDE, JOSIAH, (s. of Jonathan and Hannah,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of John Osland, settled in Canterbury, Conn., and had Lydia, July 22, 1734; Jacob, Jan. 24, 1738; Sarah, Sept. 12, 1732; Nehe- miaJi, July i, 1736 ; Josiah, June 10, 1745; Nathan, June 10,1747. Nohemiah and Nathan m. and settled in Canterbury, Conn. 323 rV. HYDE, CALEB, (s. of Jonathan and Hannah,) m. Lydia, dr. of John Oslaud, settled in Cantb., Conn., and had Temperance, J'eb. 1739 ; Benjamin, Sept. 1741 ; Esther, March, 1743 ; Susanna, March 25, 1745 ; Mary, Ma^ch, 1748 ; Temperance, 1749 ; Isaac, Teh. 1750 ; Lydia, Jan. 1754. IV. HYDE, JONATHAN, (s. of James, of Cantb.) m. Thankful, dr. of John Osland, settled in Cantb. and had Mary, 1735; Benjamin, 1736; Tliankful, 1737; Abigail, 1739; Tliaddeus, 1742; Elizabeth, 1745; Jonathan, 1748. IV. HYDE, ABRAHAM, (s. of James, of Cantb.) m. Experience , settled in Cantb., and had Samuel, 1738; Jonathan, 1740; Benjamin, 1743; Mercy, 1745; Lucy, 1747; Ichabod, 1749; Asliael, 1755; Amasa, 1757 ; Sarah, and. Jedediah, 1752. IV. HYDE, JAMES, (s. of James, of Cantb.) m. Miriam "Woodward, ^ 1752, settled in Cantb., and had Pkebe, 1755 ; James, 1756. IV. HYDE, JABEZ, (s. of James, of Cantb.) m. Hannah Bacon, 1740, settled in Cantb. and had Jabez, 1741 ; James and Mary, 1748; Alary, 1746; Jabez, 1750; Persis, 1752; Priscilla, 1757. IV. HYDE, EBENEZEK, (s. of James, of Canterbury.) m. Mercy Thacher, 1742, settled in Cantb. and had Ebenezer, 1743; Timothy, 1745 ; John, 1747. IV. HYDE, ELISHA, (s. of Timothy,) m. Mary Knapp, 1751, and had Tliaddeus, Jan. 10, 1751 ; Mary, Not. 20, 1753; Gersham, Dec. 2, 1755 ; Elisha, Sept. 13, 1757 ; John, April 30, 1760; Lydia, Dec. 15, 1762; Anna; Aaron, Feb. 15, 1770; and Beulah. Mary m. Timothy Whitney, 1773 — Beulah m. Jona. Hammond, of Brook- line — Anna m. Joseph Leighton — Lydia m. Ethridge. He took the homestead of John Hyde, Sen., and d. 1781, se. 51. V. HYDE, GEKSHAM, (s. of Timothy,) m. Grace Norcross, 1744, and had Rebecca, Aug. 27, 1745; John, April 11, 1747; Timothy, March 5, 1749 ; Grace, Feb. 16, 1751 ; Philip, May 1, 1753 ; Rebecca. John m. Joanna Reed, of Lexington, 1768. He d. Feb. 24, 1754, as.M. V. HYDE, WILLIAM, (s. of Noah,) m. Lydia Bruce, of Fram., Dec. 1767, (she distilled and sold mint water, which grog sellers and buy- ers called " Mother Hyde^' and mixed it with their toddy ; this inven- tion to please the palate, outlived \\s mother, but was finally killed in 324 HYDE. Newton, by the glorious Temperance reformation,) and had Olive, Nov. 10, 1768 ; William, July 2, 1770 ; Lavina, I'eb. 2, 1772 ; Anna, May 31, 1774 ; Freedom, Aug. 19, 1776 ; Oliver, Sept. 5, 1778 ; Mary, Aug. 9, 1780; iJirfA, May 28, 1782 ; and Temperance, Oct. 2, 1783. Annam. Nathan Craft, 1793 — Euth d. March, 1816 — Freedom d. 1798 — Olive m. George Pole, of Camb., 1793 — William m. Eunice Steams, 1795. He d. 1802, je. 59. V. HYDE, CHAELES, (s. of Amos and Susanna,) m. Sarah Jackson, 1801, and had Charles, Aug.li, 1801 ; ^fisafom, Dec. 20, 1803 ; Emch; and Samud J. He d. May, 1821. V. HYDE, JONATHAN, (s. of Jonathan and Elizabeth,) m. Expe- rience Dana, settled in Camb., and had Jonathan H. V. HYDE, AMOS, (s. of Jonathan and Elizabeth,) m. Elizabeth Ray, and settled in Lowell. V. HYDE, NOAH, (s. of Lieut. Noah,) m. Eachel , and ha* Noah, March 28, 1775 ; Eachd, Aug. 13, 1776 ; Michael, May 2, 1778; Mhoda, April 6, 1780; Charles, July 15, 1784; Henry, Aug. 1, 1786; Sarah, April 22, 1788, d. 1792; Deborah, July 15, 1790. He d. 1793, as. 46. V. HYDE, DANIEL, (s. of Job or Lieut. Noah,) m. Rebecca Erost, 1776, and had Abraham, April 22, 1777 ; Lydia, Feb. 6, 1780 ; Han- nah, Jaae 8, 1782; Luther, Jan. 20, 1784; Asenath, July 10, 1786; Rebecca, April 1, 1788 ; Patty, Feb. 3, 1790 ; Prudence, April 9, 1794. Abraham d. 1794 — Hannah d. 1833. Ho d. Sept. 1804. She d, 1795, ae. 40. V. HYDE, JOHN, (s. of Elisha,) m. Abigail WiswaU, 1782, and had Artemas, Feb. 6. 10. 1783 ; Asa, March 24, 1789; John; and Elim- beth, who m. Woodward. She m. 2d husband, Jackson, of Brookline, and d. 1852, sb. 90. He d. 1802, as. 42. V. HYDE, GEESHAM, (s. of Elisha,) m. Caty Wilson, 1784, and had Harriet, William, John W., Nancy, Mary, and Charlotte. Nancy m. Benjamin White, of Brookline — Mary m. Stephen Gore, of Boston. He d. 1836, ae. 80. She d. 1844, se. 80. IV. HYDE, JONATHAN, (s.ofNathan,)m. Elizabeth Mullen, 1784, and had Adolphus, d.; Amos; SuldaJi, Aug, 21, 1788; Elijah, July 4, 1790; Zacheus, d. 1815, sd. 22; Lucretia; Jonathan, 1795, d. 1853; Elizabeth, Urena, Betsy E. Ho d. March, 1827, 83. 66. HYDE. 325 V. HYDE, ELISHA, (s. of Elislia,) m. Hannah Smith, 1'784, and had Charlotte, May 30, 1785 ; Elisha and Hannah, June 25, 1790 ; Mickad S., Aug. 28, 1793. Charlotte m. William Palmer — Hannah m. Elijah Adams. He d. Jan. 16, 1838, se. 79. She d. 1833, se. 53. V. HTDE, AAHON, (s. of Elisha,) m. Patty, dr. of Ebenezer Hovey, 1794, and had Aaron, Eeb. 15, 1795 ; Henry H, Feb. 6, 1796 ; Hosea, July 20,1797; Martha, May 14, 1800; John, Aug. 3, 1803; Mary, April 15, 1805 ; Elizabeth, Sept. 15, 1807 ; Francis H., Feb. 26, 1809 ; Ebenezer, Dec. 9, 1810 ; Horatio N., Jan. 26, 1814. V. HYDE, THADDEUS, (s. of Elisha,) m. Elizabeth Gfrimes, 1782, and had James, Dec. 21, 1782 ; Easy, June 29, 1785 ; Leonard, April 25, 1788; Thaddeus, AprU 10, 1791. He d. Jan. 9, 1821, ie. 70. She d. 1849, sd. 98. VI. HYDE, PHHilP, (s. of Gersham,) m. Huldah , and had Betsy, Oct. 25, 1777. VI. HYDE, JAMES, (s. of Thaddeus,) m. Clarisa, dr. of Noi-man Clark, 1818, and had JbsepAine, Jan. 11,1819; Thaddeus IT., Dec. 23, 1820 ; Ann E., Jan. 24, 1823 ; James F. C, July 26, 1825 ; George N., Sept. 29, 1828; Miry A, Aug. 25, 1831 ; d/ama J., Aug. 14, 1833; and John N., June 25, 1836. VI. HYDE, LEONARD, (s. of Thaddeus,) m. Jerusha Lethbridge, settled in Kox., and had in Eox., Elizabeth, Leonard, William, Mary, and Joseph W. VT. HYDE, THADDEUS, (s. of Thaddeus,) m. Sarah D. White, dr. of Dea. White, 1816, and had George D., March 18, 1817; Wil- liam M., Nov. 22, 1818; Warren H, Feb. 3, 1821 ; Henry F., July 13, 1825 ; Sarah E., March 2, 1823. HYDE, EPHRAIM, (s. of Joseph and Susanna,) m. Abigail , and had George, March 26, 1779; Charlotte, Jalj 31, 1781; Henry, July 27, 1783 ; Amelia, Aug. 25, 1785 ; Amelia, Aug. 29, 1788 ; Ann P., Jan. 1, 1794 ; Abigail, May 31, 1790. V. HYDE, BENJAMIN, (s. of Amos,) m. Mary , and had Potty, April 18, 1802 ; Stephen N., Sept. 12, 1806 ; Amos N., July 1, 1809. He d. July, 1825. HYDE, ISAAC, m. Polly Morse, 1802. V. HYDE, AMOS, (s. of Amos and Susanna,) m. Lydia Hyde, 1805. 28 326 HTDE — JACKSON. Vn. HTDE, ABRAHAM, (s. of Daniel and Rebecca,) m. Catherine Hall, 1806, and had Rebecca, April 24, 1807 ; Danid, May 8, 1809 ; Asenath, Sept. 5, 1811 ; went to Ashhurnham and d. there. HYDE, STEPHEN, (s. of Benjamin,) m. Catherine Peck, 1828. VI. HTDE, ENOCH, (s. of Charies and Sarah,) m. Dorothy A. Tucker, 1840. VII. HTDE, JOHN W., (s. of Gersham,) m. Hannah , and had William, 1833; Elizahetli, 1836; Caroline, 19,39; Emdine, 1843; CAarfes, 1845; Adeline, liil . He d. about 1847, and his wid. m. Harris. vn, HTDE, MICHAEL S., (s. of Elisha and Hannah,) m. Maria Parker, and had, in Boston, Ann M., Albert, George S. and Franklin. VI. HTDE, SAMUEL J., (s. of Charies and Sarah,) m. Mariah , and had George S., 1839 ; Martlia F., 1841 ; Mary C, 1843 ; Ruth W., 1849. vn. HYDE, ERANCIS H, (s. of Aaron,) m. Catherine Eeadhead, 1832. vn. HTDE, HORATIO N., (s. of Aaron,) m. OUvia "W". Eiske, 1836, and had Horatio N., 1840 ; Rosea, 1842 ; Andelina, 1844. vn. HYDE, ELISHA, (s. of Elisha and Hannah,) m. Eunice Eloyd, 1820, and had Julia and Caroline. He d. 1851. JACKSON, Dea. JOHN, was bap. in the Parish of Stepney, London, June 6, 1602 ; the first settler of Camb. Village, who remained and d. in it. He brought a good estate with him,* from England. He bought a dwelling house and eighteen acres of land, of Miles Ives, of "Wat., in 1639. This estate was situated on the Eox. road, very near the line which now divides Newton from Brighton. He took the Freeman's oath, in 1641, — was one of the first Deacons of the Church, — gave one acre of land for the Church and burial place, upon which the first M. H. was erected, in 1660, and which is now the oldest part of the Centre Cemetery. He was the b. of Christopher Jackson, of London, who was buried on the 5th of Dec. 1633.* He had, in this country, by two wives, five sons and tsn daughters, and at the time of his decease, about fifty grandchildren. There may have been, and probably were, some transient dwellers in the * Whitecliapel and Stepney Beglster. Copied by H, G. Somerby, 1851. JACKSON. 327 Village, before he came, but they were not known to the record, and left no descendants there. The coming of John Jackson, in 1639, may properly be considered the first settlement of Newton. He d. Jan. 30, 1674-5. Counting from the record of his baptism, in J5ng- land, his age was 73.* How old he was when baptised, is imcertain. He left an estate, valued at ^1,230. His widow Margaret d. Aug. 28, 1684, SB. 60. — (Gravestone.) She could not, therefore, have been the mother of his s. John, who was born in 1639. His old mansion house was pulled down about 1800 ; it stood on the same spot now occupied by Edwin Smallwood's new dwelling house. The old pear trees now standing there, are supposed to have been planted by his s. Abraham, who also gave one acre of land adjoining that given by his father, for the Church and burial place ; which two acres now form the ancient part of the Centre Cemetery. He was a proprietor of the Cambridge lauds. In the division of 1662, he had three acres ; in 1664, he had twenty acres. In the division of the Billerica lands, in 1652, he had fifty acres. He left eight hundred and sixty- thi-ee acres of land. His estate was settled by agreement, among the surviving chEdren, in Dec. 1676. His brother Edward Jackson, Thomas Prentice, Isaac Williams, and Joseph Tayntor, appraised the estate. He had labored long and earnestly, by petitioning the General Court, and otherwise, to have Camb. Village erected into an independent town, but did not live to see it accomplished. He had by a former w., JbAn, 1639, and perhaps others. By w. Margaret, Caleb, 12. 10. 1645, d. 12. 10. 1645 ; Hannah, June 7, 1646 ; Abigail, Aug. 14, 1647; Margaret, June 20, 1649; Edward, Jan. 14, 1650; Ann; Abraham, Aug. 14, 1655; Deliverance, Nov. 5, 1657; Joshua, Sept. 15, 1659; Isabel, d. 1661; Mary; Grace; Theodocia; Sarah, June 10, 1662. Abigail m. Daniel Preston, of Dorchester, Dec. , ; ^693 — Hannah m. Elijah Kenrick, and 2d, John Hyde — Margaret m. James Trowbridge, Sen. — Mary m. Samuel Trusedale — Theo- docia m. Capt. Noah "Wiswall, 1664, and 2d, Dea. Samuel Newman, of Kehoboth. n. JACKSON, JOHN, Jk., was bom 1639, prob. the first bom of the permanent settlers of Newton, and the oldest son of John, Sen. He d. unm. Oct. 17, 1675, £e. 36. — (Gravestone.) His father d. about ten months before him. His will states that his double portion is not yet received out of his father's estate ; bequeaths to his mother * Whitechapel and Stepney Beglster. Copied by H. G. Somerby, 1851. 328 JACKSONf in law, £10 ; sister Sarah, £50 ; and liis otlier sisters, £5 each-, Eey. Mr. Hobart, £5 ; and to his two brothers, Edward and Abraham, fthe residue, and appoints them his executors, and his brothers in law, James Trowbridge and Elijah Kenrick, overseers. Inventory, £216, 17s. Thomas Prentice and John Vard, appraisers, 4, 2. 1776. II. JACKSON, EDWAUD, (s. of John, Sen.,) prob. unm.; was a soldier in Philip's war, and was slain by the Indians, in their attack on Medfield, Feb. 21, 1676, se. 25. His brother Abraham admin. II. JACKSON, ABRAHAM, (the only s. of Dea. John in this coun- try, who left chil.,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of John Bisco, of Wat, 1679, and hai EKzabelh, Aug. S,USO; John, 25.2. 1682; Sarah, 1683; Margaret, 1685; Mary, Dec. 2, 1686; Hanndk; Mary, Jan. 19, 1689; Abigail, March 21, 1690; AUgail, 1692, d. Jan. 26, 1703, se. 12 3-4; Abraham, March 12, 1693, d. in infancy; Thomas, Sept. 6, 1694, d. 1703. Elizabeth m. Ephraim Williams, and her first bom was the fotmder of Williams' College — Sarah m. Joseph Fuller, Jr., May 11, 1719, and her first born was Judge Fuller, an able and upright benefactor to his generation — Margaret m. Henry Bright, of Watertown, and had eight chil. -^ Mary m. Daniel Cook, April, 1722, s. of Stephen and Ilebecca Cook — Hannah m. James Trow- bridge, Jr., 1712, and 2d, John Fuller, s. of Joseph, Sen., Feb. 22, 1716. His sons Abraham and Thomas, both d. in childhood. John was the only s. to bear his name to the next generation. He con- veyed to John, in 1734, all his real estate in Camb. and Newton. He had conveyed to John, in 1717, several parcels of land, one of which was "forty acres at Chesnuthill, (except four acres sold to Isaac Beach, in 1686, bounded w. by the burial place, and the land given for the burial place on which the Meeting-house now standeth, so long as the town shall see cause to improve it, for the use they now do.) " Of this excepted land, his father gave one acre in 1660, and he gave one acre in 1701, for a burial place, M. H., school house, and training place. He was one of the executors of his f. in law Bisco's will, who gave his w. a farm on Cherry plain, in Wat. He was Selectman twelve years. School Committee man, one of the first chosen in the town. He served on various other committees. He d. June 29, 1740, se. 85. His w. Elizabeth d. Sept. 12, 1737. His will was dated Jan. 1738-9, in which he says, " I have given my s. John his full double portion already. I further give him my clock." Bequeaths to his g. sons Ephraim and Thomas Williams, £200, and says he has ah-eady spent considerable sums for their bringing JACKSON. 329 up and education. Ephraim Williams, the f. of these two boys, m. again, ahout one year after their mother's death, and removed to Stockbridge, leaving them with their g. f., who brought them up under the paternal roof of his own mansion, and gave them a good education for the time. Through his liberality, they freely drank at the spring of learning, and knew how to estimate its value. Eph- raim became the mtmificent founder of WiUiams' College, and Thomas an eminent surgeon and physician. It is quite apparent, that the first sprouts of "Williams' College were germinated in the family of Abraham Jackson, the s. of the first settler of Newton. in. JACKSON, Capt. JOHN, (s. of Abraham,) m. Hannah Staun- ton, of Stonington, Conn., Oct. 3, 1708, and had Thonms, March 19, 1709 ; Borodell, Aug. 1711. 2d w. Ann , Eeb. 15, 1712, and had Ann, June 15, 1714 ; Abigail, Jan. 9, 1717 ; Elizabeth, Nov. 20, 1728; John, 1724. Borodell m. Samuel Jackson, Esq., s. of Dea. Edward, Feb. 1738 — Ann m. Edward Durant, 1735 — Abigail m. Enoch Parker — Elizabeth m. John Greenwood, and 2d, Alexander Shepard, Jr. Thomas d. in College, 1747. John was the only s. who had children. He was the richest man in town, paid the lar- gest tax, and had the highest seat in the M. H. The estate which his g. f , Dea. John, brought from England, the industrious accumu- lations of his f., and the share of his mother from the estate of his g. f. Bisco, mainly centred in him, — a slave-holder. Built a fine house for the time, lived luxuriantly, and he and the succeeding generation scattered the estate. The house he built was pulled down in 1833. He d. Sept. 9, 1755, £e. 73, leaving a will; dated 1747-8, which gives w. Ann, ilOO, and thirds during her. life ; drs. Ann, wid. of Edward Durant, i£20, with what she has already re- ceived; Borodell, wid. of Samuel Jackson, Esq., ^£250. Abigail, w. of Enoch Parker, £250, with what she has already had. Eliza- beth, w. of Jno. Greenwood, £400. His g. chil., Thomas and Mary Durant, £100, and the residue to his only s. John, his executor. Will proved, Oct. 1755. His wid. Ann d. 1780, as. 95. IV. JACKSON, JOHN, (s. of Capt. John,) m. Mary Ellis, and had Zucy, July9, 1759; Thomas, June 16, 1761; Jam, Aug. 24, 1763; Betst/. Xucym. Josiah Spear, of Boston — Jane m. Wm. Spear, 1784, no chil. — Betsy m. Daniel Bobbins, of Camb., Sept. 1791. He d. 1791, se. 85. She d. 1786. His will, proved 1792, bequeaths his fui-niture to his two drs., Lucy Spear and Betsy Bobbins, equally. Hi.-! g. dr., Caroline, the natural dr. of his said dr. Betsy Bobbins, is 28* 830 JACKSON. to be considered in the same light as though bom in wedlock. His real estate to be equally divided between " my two drs. and my g. s. John, so far as respects the use, income and improyement of the same, during ^heir natural lives." His acknowledged g. dr. Caro- line, to be entitled to the same right as though legitimate, and to descend to their legal heirs forever. Dr. Marshall Spring, executor and trustee for dr. Lucy Spear. Caroline was brought up in Col. Stephen Dana's family ; she obtained a portion of the estate, by agreement, and m. Aaron Richards, Jr., and settled upon it. The settlement under this will was the final distribution of what was left of the estate of the first settler of Newton, and of his s. Abraham, and his g. s. Capt. John. Inventory, — Personal, jE760, 9s. 9rf. Real, 2,010. Total, £2,770, 9s. 9d. V. JACKSON, THOMAS, (only s. of John and Mary,) m. Henrietta, dr. of Dr. Edward Duraut, 1785, and had JoJm, their only child, Jan. 6, 1785. He d. 1787, se. 25, and his wid. m. Reuben Moore, Jan. 1792, and had five chiL VI. JACKSON, JOHN, (s. of Thomas,) had by Abigail Penniman, Lysander B. He also had, by Elizabeth Luce, of Martha's Vineyard, John. He d. in Maine, Dec, 1805, se. 21. VH. JACKSON, LYSANDER B., (s. of John and Abigail,) m. Adeline Jennison, 1829, settled in Templeton, and had Crem-ge A., May 6, 1836 ; Ellen M., Deo. 7, 1839 ; Jane i, March 4, 1842; Wil- liam J., Jan. 10, 1845. Vn. JACKSON, JOHN, (s. of John and Elizabeth Luce,) m. , and had only two chil., both da,ughters. Lysander B. Jackson, of Templeton, and his two sons, George A. and "William J, are the only surviving descendants of John Jackson, Sen., the first settler of Newton, that bear his name. JACKSON, EDWARD, Sen., was bom in London, England, about 1602, according to his gravestone. Recent examinations of the Par- ish Register of Whitechapel, (where he lived, and followed the trade of nail-maJker,) and of the Parish Register of Stepney, it appears that he was the son of Christopher Jackson, and was baptised Feb. JACKSON. 331 t 3, 1604.* His first wife's name was Frances, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. There is a tradition in the family, that the youngest son, Sebas, was bom on the passage to this country ; if so, Frances the mother died on the passage, or soon after their arrival here. His second marriage, in March, 1649, was with Eliza- beth, dr. of John Newgate, and wid, of Eev. John Oliver, H. C. 1645, the first Minister of Kumney Marsh, (Chelsea,) by whom he had four daughters and one son. He purchased land in Camb. Vil- lage, of Samuel HoUey, in 1643. Took the Freeman's oath in 1645. In 1646, he purchased a, farm, in Camb. Village, of five hundred acres, of Gov. Bradstreet, for £140, long known as the Mayhew farm, — Bradstreet having purchased it of Thos. Mayhew, of Wat., in 1638, with all the buildings thereon, for six cows. This five hun- dred acre farm, commenced near what is now the division line be- tween Newton and Brighton, and extended westward, including what is now Newtouville, and covering the site where Judge Fuller's man- sion house once stood. The site where Gen. Michael Jackson's mansion house stood, was near the centre of the Mayhew farm ; and a few*rods nearer the brook, stood the old dwelling house conveyed with the farm, in Mayhew's deed to Bradstreet; — of course it was built previous to 1638, and therefore highly probable that it was the first dwelling house buUt. in Newton; the cellar hole — now almost filled — a few rods from the brook, is stUl visible. In the laying out ■ of the old highway, in 1708, (long since discontinued,) which passed by the old house, the description is, " crossing the brook near where the old house stood." The house which was erected before 1638, was gone before 1708 ; it had stood about the allotted space of three score years and ten. It may have been the first residence of Ed- ward Jackson, Sen., in Camb. Village, from his first coming until his mamage, in 1649, and perhaps for many more years. At his death, in 1681, his then dwelling house stood about three-quarters of a mile easterly, near the line of Brighton, and aboat twenty rods northerly, from the road to Box. It is described in his inventory as a spacious mansion, with a hall, — designed, no doubt, for religions meetings. He was chosen one of the Deputies (Representative) from Cambridge, to the General Court, in 1647, and continued to be elected to that ofiice annually, or semi-annually, for seventeen years in all, and was otherwise much engaged in public life. One of the Selectmen of Camb., 1665 ; Chairman of a committee, with Edward » H. G. Somerby. 332^ jAcfesoN. Oakes and Lieut. Gov. Danforth, appointed by the town of Camb., 1653, to lay out all necessary highways in Camb., on the s. side of Charles river ; Chairman of a committee, with John Jackson, Kich- ard Park, and Samuel Hyde, " to lay out and settle highways, as need shall require, in Camb. Village ; " one of the Commissioners to end small causes, in Camb., several years. He was constantly pres- ent with the Eev. John Eliot, at his lectures to the Indians, at No- nantum, to take notes of the questions of the Indians, and of the answers of Mr. Eliot. He was one of the proprietors of Camb., and in the division of the common lands, in 1662, he had four acres ; and in 1664, he had thirty acres. He was also a large proprietor in the Billerica lands, and in the division of 1652, he had four hundred acres, which, by his will, he gave to Harvard College, together with ' other bequests. He was the author and first signer of a petition to ' the General Court, in 1678, praying that Camb. Village might be set off from Camb., and made an independent town by itself, — ^which petition was granted, in 1679, notwithstanding the powerful opposi- tion of Camb., which, in its bitter remonstrance, voluntarily bears strong and honorable testimony of Edward Jackson. Aftei* saying many hard words about the petitioners, it adds : " We would not be understood to include every particular person, for we acknowl- edge that Mr. Jackson brought a good estate to the town, as some others did, and hath not been" wanting to the ministry, or any good work among us, and therefore we would not reflect upon him in the least." Capt. Edward Johnson's History of New England contains a short notice of the characters of many of the leading men of his time, among whom he classes Edward Jackson, and says, " he could not endure to see the truths of Christ trampled under foot, by the en-oneous party." He had ten children in this country, and upwards t of sixty grandchildren. He d. Juno 17,1681, se. 79 years and 5 months (gravestone). His inventory contained upwards of sixteen hundred acres of land, and amounted to £2,477, 19s. 6d. It also included ,two men servants, appraised at £5 each. He was probably the first slave-holder in Newton. His w. outlived him twenty-eight ■ years, and d. Sept. 30, 1709, aj. 92. He divided his lands among his ' children, in his life time, putting up metes and bounds. It is a remarkable fact, in relation to these- two brothers, John and Edward Jackson, that while Edward had but three sons, and John five, there are multitudes of Edward's posterity, who bear his name, and only five of John's. Eorty-four of Edwai-d's descendants were in the Revolutionary army, from Newton, and not one of John's. Now JACKSON. 333 there are but three familres in town, of Edward's descendants, that bear his name. L Children of Edwakd, Sen. (s. of Christopher, of London,) and Frances , born in London: — Israel,* bapt. March 9, 1631, d.-in infancy ; Margaret,* bapt. Jan. 1 , 1633 ; Hannah^ bapt. May 1, 1634 ; . Rebecca,* bapt. Oct. 12, 1636; Caleb,* bapt. Oct. 10, 1638^ Joseph,* bapt. Sept. 13, 1639; Frances, d. in Camb., 1648; Jonathan; Sebas, sup. born on the passage. 2d w. Elizabeth Oliver, 14. 1. 1649, and had Sarah, 5. 11. 1649 ; Edward, Dec. 15, 1652 ; Lydia, 1656; Eliza- beth, April 28, 1658; Ruth, Jan. 15, 1664. Hannah m. John "Ward, 1650 — Rebecca m. Thos. Prentice, 2d — Sarah m. Eev. Nehemiah Hobart, March 21, 1677 — Lydia m. Joseph Euller, Sen., 1679 — Elizabeth m. John Prentice, b. of the Capt., 1677, and 2d, Jonas Bond, Esq., of Wat. — Ruth d. unm., 1692 — Israel, Mapgaret, Caleb, and Joseph are sup. to have d. before he embarked for this country. n. JACKSON, JONATHAN, (oldest s. of Edward, Sen.,) m. Eliza- beth , settled in Boston, and had EKaaheth, Feb. 16, 1668 ; Mary, Dec. 3, 1670; Jonathan, Dec. 28, 1672; Edward, Jan., 1675 ; Sarah, Oct. 12, 1679. He was a trader in Boston, was burned out by the great fire of 1679. He sold the land in Newton, left him by his father's will in 1688, to James Barton, one hundred and three acres, and thirty acres to Rev. Mr. Hobart, and twenty-six and one half acres to Nat. Healey. He bought his lot in Boston, of William Brenton, twenty-seven feet front, on s. side Town St., (old Cornhill,) 1670, for £55, adjoining John Leverett, Esq, He d. Aug. 28, 1693, his age is unknown. He served his time with John Newgate, an English goods merchant, who made him a bequest in his will, 1664. He was admitted a member of the Old South ch., in Boston, July, 1670. in. JACKSON, JONATHAN, (s. of Jonathan and Elizabeth,) m. Mary, dr. of Jabez Salter, June 26, 1 700, and had Jonathan, April 28, 1701 ; Mary, April 4, 1702 ; Jonathan, June 14, 1704; Elizabeth, Nov. 26, 1705 ; Edward, Jan. 3, 1706 ; Edward, Feb. 26, 1707 ; Jabes, March 25, 1715. Maiy m. Thomas Hubbard — Elizabeth m. Webb. He was a brazier, and a partner in business with John Dol- bear ; they purchased of John Wiswall, s. of Elder John, the estate then occupied by said Wiswall, formerly his father's, at the head of the Town Dock, sometime called BendaU's Dock — against the house * Copied from the Parish Register of Whitecliapel, London, by H. G. Somerby, in 1851. 334 JACKSON. of Benjamin Pemberton, . formerly of WiUiam Hudson, n. w. by' Pore street, n. js. by the wharf occupied by E. Huchinson, s. e. and s. upon the Dock, being forty-six feet in breadth, and about seventy- five feet deep, for £700. He purchased of his father in law, Jabez Salter, blacksmith, an estate in Queen St., (Court,) formerly Prison lane, in 1709, for ^£150, formerly Simon Messinger's, forty and one half feet front, by about one hundred and seventy-three deep. Also of Sarah and Nathaniel Rogers, of Portsmouth, in 1722, for £265, the adjoining estate on the easterly side of said Jackson, fronting n. on Queen street, 30.10, and bounding partly on the Prison yard, on Dr. Creese, and Jacob "Wendell, which two estates gave him a front on Queen street, of seventy one and a quarter feet, extending from the corner (now Tudor's stone building) towards State street. In 1728, he purchased of Jeremiah Belcher, and of David Colson, of Milton, forty-five and three-quarters acres land in Milton, including house, barn, com mill, two fulling mills, cider mUl, dam, water course, &c., on the Neponset river, for £2,350. He also purchased water power in Pembroke, and sent a memorial to the General Court, in Jan. 1727, representing " that he had undertaken to build a slitting mill in Pem- broke, for making nails, to supply the inhabitants of the Province ; that it was the first projection of the kind that had been tmdertaken in the Province, and would be very expensive, therefore praying a premium for a term of years, for every ton of nails made, the better to enable him to carry on the design for the public good, as well as for his own private interest." In answer to this memorial, the House of Representatives passed a resolve, extending encouragement for the space of seven years, as follows : That a bounty be allowed and paid out of the public treasury, of half a penny for every thousand well wrought 4d nails, weighing four pounds, — and the same for 6d nails, weighing seven and a half pounds per thousand ; one fifth of a penny per thousand for 8d nails, weighing ten pounds per thou- sand ; and one-sixth of a penny for every thousand of lOd nails, weighing thirteen pounds per thousand ; and one-tenth of a penny for every thousand of 20d nails, weighing twenty-one pounds per thousand, all of which to be surveyed and marked by persons under oath, to be appointed by the Court, who shall certify to the Treas- urer the amount, quality, &c. In the Council this resolve was read and concun-ed, but the Council afterward reconsidered the vote, and non-concurred, whereupon the House of Representatives passed a resolve, loaning to said Jackson £10,000 out of the publicireasury, for seven and a half years, without interest — he giving sufiicient security JACKSON. 335 for the repayment thereof, &c., and obligating himself to make not less than forty tons, in each and every year, &c. The Council non-concm-red in this resolye, also. He went forward, however, with the manufacture, without any aid from the General Court, and the g. s. of the nailer of Whitechapel, London, became the pioneer manufacturer of nails in this country. He was an importer of hard ware, from England, and was several years a partner in business with his brother Edward, who became a citizen of London, and commanded a packet ship trading between London and Boston. Edwai-d owned ten acres of land in Newton, bequeathed to him by his g. f. Edward, Sen., which he sold to Nathaniel Healy, in 1713, and in his deed conveying the ten acres, styles himself, " Mariner, of London." Jonathan was admitted a member of the Old South ch., July, 1703. He left that ch. and joined the First ch., Jan. 1717 ; was chosen Treasurer of that ch., and d. in that office 1736, se. 64. His vrill was proved. May, 1736. Bequeaths to Thomas Foxcroft and Charles Chauncy, Pastors of the first ch., fifty pounds each, and twenty pounds for the poor of said ch. To w. Mary, his brick dwelling house in Queen street, and also, the brick house which he improved for a warehouse, adjoining ; also, the house near the Town Dock, which he improved for a shop and work house. Also, lands, houses and mills, in Milton and Dorchester, and after her decease, to his s. Edward, and the farm in Braintree. His w. and s. Edward, executors. His inventory covers more than twenty pages, and amounts to upwards of ^0,000. rV. JACKSON, EDWARD, a merchant, (s. of Jonathan and Mary,) grad. at H. C, 1726, m. Do;-othy Quincy, Dec. 7, 1738, and had Jonathan, June 4, 1743, and 3Ianj, who m. Oliver Wendell^ Samuel Sewall was appointed Jonathan's guardian, in 1762. He had his father's farm, in Braintree, of two hundred and eighty acres, and buildings, appraised at £2,390. Two slaves — named Cato, 13, 13s. id. and Boston, 30, 13s. id. Personal, 5,895. 6,195 acres of land, in Shutesbury, 1,568. . £9,897, 6s. 8c?. He d. 1757, leaving a will. V. JACKSON, JONATHAN, (s. of Edward and Dorothy,) grad. at H. C, 1761, m. Hannah Tracy, 1772, and had Robert, March 4, 336 JACKSON. 1773, d. 1800 ; Henry, Jan. 12, 1774, d. 1806; Charles, May 31, 1775, grad. H. C, 1793, L.L. D., Judge S. J. C ; Hannah, July 3, 1776, m. Francis Lowell; James, Oct. 3, 1777, grad. H. C, 1796, M.D.; Sarah, June 26, 1779, m. Capt. Gardner; Patrick, Aug. 14, 1780; Merchant, d. 1847 ; Harriet, Jan. 20, 1782 ; Mary, Oct. 3, 1783, m. Henry Lee. He was a member of the Provincial Congress early in the war; M. C., 1781 ; State Senator for the Co. of Essex; ap- pointed by Washington first Marshal of Mass. Dist. ; Inspector of Excise, Supervisor, Treasurer of Mass., and Treasurer of H. C. He took an early and zealous part in the Revolution, was an ardent friend of liberty, and the owner of a slave. Seeing his inconsist- ency, he placed on record, in the Suffolk Probate office, the follow- ing document — i. noble TESTiMONr. " Know all men by these presents, that I, Jonathan Jackson, of Newburyport, in the County of Essex, gentleman, in consideration of the impropriety I feel, and have long felt, in holding any person in constant bondage, — more especially at a time when my country is so warmly contending for the liberty every man ought to enjoy, — and having sometime since promised my negro man Pomp, that I would give him Ms freedom, — and in further consideration of five shillingSj paid me by said Pomp, I do hereby liberate, manumit, and set him free ; and I do hereby remise and release unto said Pomp, all demands of whatever nature I have against Pomp. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 19th of June, 1776." "Jonathan Jackson." [Seal.] " Witness, Mary Coburn, Wm. Noyes." This document is dated just two weeks before the glorious Declara- tion of Independence was issued, proclaiming all men to be born free. Pomp enlisted in the army, as Pomp Jackson, served through the war of the Revolution, and received an honorable discharge. He afterwards settled in Andover, near a pond, still known as " Pomp's pond." Pomp d. in 1822, je. about 94, leaving two daughters, Rosa and . Jonathan Jackson d. 1810, as. 67- n. JACKSON, SEBAS, sometimes written Seaborn upon the old records ; (some confirmation of the tradition that he was born on the passage of his parents to this country,) s. of Edward, Sen., m. Sq,rah, di-. of Thomas Baker, of Rox, 19, 2. 1671, and had Edward, Sept. 12, 1672; Sebas, March 12, 1673, d. young; John, March 1, 1675 ; Sarah, Nov. 8, 1680 ; Elisabeth, March 2, 1683 ; Jolm, March JACKSON. 337 15, 1685; Jonathan, Sept. 10, 1686; Maiy, Dec. 27, 1687; Joseph, March 6, 1690. Elizabeth m. Grant, and 2d, John Taylor — Sarah m. John Draper, of Rox. — Mary m. Timothy Whiting, of Dedham, 1714. Extract from Edward, Senr's will, — "I do give and bequeath to my sou Sebas, his heirs and assigns forever, that my house in which he at present dwelleth, with one hundred and fifty acres of land adjoining, as it is already laid oat and bounded ; also two gilded silver spoons." That house was eighteen feet by twenty- two, with two stories, and stood on the same spot now occupied by the mansion of William Jackson, Esq., a cold water man, who con- tinues to draw from the old well, a pure fountain, which has served seven generations, and is none the worse for wear. The old house was built about 1670, and enlarged before 1 690, which increased its length to thirty-nine feet. It was demolished in 1 809, having with- stood the tempests of about one hundred' and forty years. He d. Dec. 6, 1690. If born upon the passage, he was but 48 ; none of his children were then of age, and the youngest only nine months. His wife Sarah outlived him thirty-six years, and d. March 25, 1726, se. 84. He left a will, giving all the estate to his wife, for her main- tenance, and the well bringing up of his children, during her life, or so long as she continues to be his widow. In case she marry, she shall have the west end of his house, a small orchard behind the house, fire wood, and £5 yearly, &c. His oldest son Edward to have sixty acres of land, and the remainder, one hundred and ten acres, to be equally divided among his other three sons. His three daughters to have equal shares, less ;£10 each ; and s. Edward to have a double portion. If any of his sons choose a trade, they shall abate i£10 of their portion. His sons to have a convenient way through each other's lands. If any of his sons choose to sell their lands, their brothers to have the refusal, giving as much a^ another. His inven- tory amounted to about ^600. The estate continued in the hands of the wid., seventeen years after his death, when it was divided and settled by agreement, among the hehs. He had but four sons and three daughters living, at his death. In 1714 his son Jonathan went to sea, on a voyage to the bay of Campeachy, and never returned. in. JACKSON, EDWAED, (s. of Sebas, Sen.,) m. Mary , and had Erperience, Aug. 9, 1696 ; Edward, Oct. 1, 1698 ; Isaac, Eeb. 2, 1701; Sarah, Oct. 28, 1703; &ias, April 20, 1706; Michael,'£€b. 28,1709; Jonathan, Swrve 25, 1713; .4nna, Aug. 1714. Experienco m. John Toser, 1718 — Sarah m. Philip Norcross, of Wat. — Jona- 29 338 JACKSON. than grad. at H. C. 1733, and d. at Kittery, Me., June 26, 1736, se. 23. In 1734, he gaye half his homestead to his s. Edward, being sixty acres, which he had from his father Sebas ; and the other half to s. Michael, being house and seren acreSj g. by the highway, n. by heirs of Barton, and E. by Joseph Jackson. He d. intestate, March 27, 1748, X. 76. She d. 1733, x. 88. in. JACKSON, JOHN, a tanner, (s. of Sebas, Sen.,) m. Mary Curtis, and had John, July 24, 1701, d. 1712 ; Mary, Nov. 23, 1702 ; SanmJi, July 1, 1704; Amos, Oct. 31, 1706; Abigail, Teh. 8, 170S. 2dw. Mary Bettis, of Watertown, Oct. 3, 1712, removed to Woodstock, Conn, and had Elizabeth, Oct. 16, 1713; Margery, June 1,1716; Jonathan, June 9, 1718. Abigail m. Nathaniel Perrin, of Conn., 1730 — Hannah m. Jno. Gary, 1731 — Mary m. Eleazer Sanger, 1731 — Jonathan m. in Woodstock, and his descendants are in that vidnity. ni. JACKSON, JOSEPH, (s. of Sebas, Sen.,) m. Patience, dr. of Samuel Hyde, the g. s. of Dea. Samuel, Nov. 28, 1717; took the homestead and had Lydia, Sept. 20, 1718 ; Timothy, April 20, 1726 ; Joseph, Aug. 2, 1729; Patience, April 21, 1734. Patience m. Thad- deus Spring, April, 1762, and settled in Weston. He d. June 28, 1768, se. 78. She d. Oct. 25, 1775, se. 84. He lefl a will, but aU the heirs joined in a memorial to the Judge of Probate, to have it set aside, because he sold the greatest part of his real estate, after mak- ing his will. It was set aside, and the estate was settled by agree- ment, among the heirs. The wid. to have the improvement of all the real estate, and Timothy to have it after her decease, paying out to the other heirs as agreed, &c., all agreeing that if their honored mother stand in need of any thing more to support her comfortably, that each- one bear an equal part. Joseph and Edward had a long and expensive law suit between them, relative to the settlement and division of the estate of their brother Jonathan, who was lost at sea ; his estate amounting to near £500, which law suit produced much bitter fruit. Joseph was so much in the Court house, that he acquired considerable law knowledge, was called a quack lawyer, and was often consulted by his neighbors about law matters. It, however, proved to be a dear school, as he had to part with most of his farm, to pay for the schooling. He was a clothier, worsted comber, self- taught lawyer and farmer, a very good penman, and a pretty well informed man for his day. He was famous for raising honey bees, and sweetened his Minister and neighbors with large donWons of honey. Parson Cotton came annually for his pot of honey ; he had JACKSON. 339 much company in " honey time," and treated them with bread spread with both butter and honey, and had matheiglin and cider to wash it down. He was so lame during his last years as to be unable to walk, but could use his arms with much vigor j whereupon, a large armed chair was constructed for him, in which he sat, to cut wood, plant, hoe, and weed his garden, and do many other useful things. This old chair is still preserved in the family with much carej its value seems to double with every succeeding generation. One of his accomplished female descendants, of the fifth generation,"*^ who had often graced the venerable seat, thus moralized on beholding the ancient relic. " That chair, that chair, that good old chair. Which nestles la the corner there I Where did it hide this many a year? And now, what chance has hroaght it here 7 A hroad, old-fashioned, polished thing. With velvet seat, H woold salt a king I Ah, never a king was seated there — *Tis a thorough-going republican chair. That lived in its beauty and pristine worth. When our grandsire'a grandsire walked th« earth. :Not walked, alas E affliction came. And fell disease her iron chain Clasped on his limbs, and bade him stay — An idler all the livelong day I Oh, how for wearing toll he sighed; But, no, this boon must be denied; In tedious rest, the lengthened day. Chained to his chair, he dragged away. Willie through the casement stretching wide, He saw the lab'rers side by side, Their cheerful toils with joy prolong. And with the breezes blend their song. Sitting one morn, with sadness pressed, A cheering thought waked in hi8*breast — To ask some kind, supporting aid. And seek the cooling garden shade,— There, in a chair, made large and wide. To sit, and hoe around the side. A happy thought; the purchase made, A kindly neighbor lent his aid ; And when the day was bright and fair^ And breezes stirred the morning air, You 'd see the good man seated there. The deep, dark forests, round him stand; The yellow com is close at hand ; • Mrs. Marian Gilbert, wife of Bcv. Lyman Gilbert. 340 JACKSON. While fields of waving wheat and rye, In TlTalshlp of beauty vie. The fleecy clouds float through the sky, The happy birds sail softly by; With music's thrill, the gentle breeze Sifts through the ever varying trees. His heart its grateful incense brings. And silently, upon the wings Of the clear, heaven-pervaded air. Goes up his heart-felt morning prayer.*' ** Then to his toil, with arms stretched wide. He 'd hoe around on every side ; Then rest lilmself, and sit and sing Until he made the forests ring. That good old song, * God save the King 1 ' " His toils are o'er, his labor done. The chair, forsaken and alone, Stands in some distant corner, where It patient waits the future heir." The above lines are but the commencement of this Poem, which ingenionsly brings this venerable chair and its surronndings, through each successive generation, down to the present time. IV. JACKSON, Lieut. TIMOTHY, (s. of Joseph,) m. Sarah Smith, of Camb., Feb. 20, 1752, lived in the e. part of the old mansion which then measured eighteen by thirty-nine ft., and had Lucy, Jan. 22, 1753; Sarah, Nov. 9, 1754; rmo%, Aug. 3, 1756; Mary,3&n. 22,1760; Abigail, June 10, 1763. Lucy m. Moses Souther, and settled in Marlboro' — Mary m. Caleb Gardner, of Brookline, 1781, d. 1851, SB. 91 — Sarah d. unm., 1788, se. 34 — Abigail d. nnm. Dec. 5, 1851, se. 88. He was a soldier in the French war. His w. carried on the farm, and worked on the land, in his absence. He d. of consumption, June 18, 1774, ae. 48, intestate and insolvent. His inventory, personal, £59, 10s., real, £314 ; in all, £373, 10s. The estate was considerably in debt. His wid. Sarah paid off the debt, by legacies which she received from her father Smith's estate. She was a woman of great courage and perseverance. The inventory specifies nine and a half acres of land, N. side of the road, with part of the dwelling house and barn, and twenty-one acres of pasture land, on the s. side of the road. She d. Nov. 27, 1797, a;. 81. IV. JACKSON, JOSEPH, (s. of Joseph,) m. Abigail, dr. of Jona- than and Elizabeth Brown, April 11, 1754 ; settled in West Newton, and had Joseph, Jan. 19, 1755, d. 1756 ; Lydia, Oct. 12, 1756; Joseph, JACKSON. 341 Nov. 12, 1758 ; Amos, Nov. 16, 1760 ; Abigail, April 21, 1763 ; AUjah, April 5, 1765, d. 1792 ; Elizabeth, Jan. 13, 1767. Lydia d. uum. 1792 — Abigail m. Isaac Greenwood, Feb. 1784 — Elizabeth m. Fuller — Amos went out of town — Abijai m. Fuller, and d. Oct. 11, 1792. He d. Nov. 16, 1803, se. 74. Slie d. 181.5, S9. 84. IV. JACKSON, EDWARD, (s. of Edward and Mary,) m. Abigail Gale, and had Ahraham, Dec. 4, 1721 ; JotMs, March 12, 1723 ; Ed- ward, Oct. 28, 1724 ; Joshua, April 26, 1726 ; Jonathan, April 29, 1727 ; Ephraim, Oct. 12, 1729 ; Mary, Oct. 25, 1731 ; Sarah, Jan. 5, 1734; Samuel, April 16, 1737; Jonathan, Sept. 29, 1740. Mary m. Nathan Morse. He d. July 1, 1738, se. 40. Wid. Abigail and Isaac Jackson, admin, on the estate. Inventory, i560. Abraham took the land s. side highway, paid his brothers and sisters, and heirs of his bro. Jonathan, deceased. Edward and his sou Abraham, both lived near the house built by Col. William Trowbridge. Wid. Abigail m. Joseph Morse. IV. JACKSON, ISAAC, (s. of Edward and Mary,) m. Ruth, dr. of John Greenwood, Esq., July 10, 1729, and had Josiah, April 23, 1730; /saac. May 29, 1732; Oliver, Sept. 15, 1734, d. unm. 1757; Elisha, Feb. 12, 1737; Edward, Sept. 3, 1739; Ruth, Oct. 17, 1741. Rnth m. Capt. Edward Fuller, 1759. He was a carpenter, served his time with Isaac Beach, who gave him four acres land with house, adjoining the burial place. He was Selectman five years, and d. Feb. 5, 1769, se. 68. He owned a large tract of land in Westminster, which by his will, (1765,) he gave to his sons Josiah, Edward, and Elisha, who settled upon it, and they were among the first settlers of Westminster, with four others from Newton, viz : John Hall, Dea. Joseph Miller, Nathaniel Norcross, and one other. IV. JACKSON, SEBAS, (s. of Edward and Mary,) m. AbigaQ Patten, Dec. 1731, and had Abigail, March 22, 1733 ; Sdias, May 27, 1735; Sebas, July 10, 1737; Mary, (?) Sept. 13, 1738; Jonathan, Aug. 28, 1739, d. 1745 ; Daniel, Aug. 14, 1742 ; Ann, July 19, 1746. Abigail m. F. Learned, 1759 — Mary m. John Kidder— Ann m. Joseph Hyde, Jr., 1778. He d. 1771, se. 65, and s. Daniel admin, on the estate. IV. JACKSON, MICHAEL, tanner, (s. of Edward and Mary,) m. Phebe Patten, Oct. 1733, and had Michad, Dec. 18, 1734 ; Nathaniel, April 13, 1736, d. 1742; Phebe, March 28, 1738; Mary, Sept. 13, 1739; Deborah, June 15, 1741; Elisabeth, Feb. 17, 1743; Nathaniel, 29* 842 JACKSON. Aug. 7, 1744, a. 1745; Patten, Dec. 19, 1745, went to the South ; Catherine, Oct. 29, 1747 ; Jonathan, Sept. 27, 1749 : Thomas, Jnne 21, 1751, settled in Maine; Priscilla, Dec. 19, 1753; Phineas, Nov. 3, 1755 ; Oliver, Dec. 13, 1756. Phebe m. Aaron Child, 1761 —Mary m. — Deborah in. Samuel Woodward, 1764 — Elizabeth m. Nathan- iel Fuller, 1786 — Catherine m. Joshua Fuller, Jr., 1773— Priscilla m. Samuel Woodward, 1786. He took the homestead, and d. Aug. 27,1765,86.56. She d. 1776. Inreutory, £453. IV. JACKSON, JONAS, (s. of Edward and Abigail,) m. Martha Hyde, Aug. 1744, and had William, Jan. 11, 1745; Gersham, Nov. 16, 1746; Paity; Enoch, March 3, 1749, d. in infancy; Jonas, Jan. 24, 1751 ; David, Jan. 12, 1753; Aaron, Aug. 11, 1755; Hannah, Dec. 21, 1757; and Moses. Patty m. Solomon Newell — William m. Sarah Hastings, 1768 — Gersham m. Sarah White, 1769. All these sons went into the army. IV. JACKSON, EDWARD, (s. of Edward and Abigail,) m. Susan Dana, of Camb., May 29, 1755. He kept the Cattle Fair Tavern, in Little Camb., and had Samuel, Sept. 2, 1759 ; Susan, who m. John Fowle, of Wat. ; and Mar>/, who m. Dickinson, of Deerfield. Samuel m. Betsy Curtis, and had two sons, George and Samuel. V. JACKSON, ABRAHAM, blacksmith, (s. of Edward and Abi- gail,) m. Mary Hyde, Nov. 1745, and had Abraham, March 1, 1746 ; Esther, Dec. 3, 1748; Sarah, Aug. 5, 1750; Thaddeus, 1752; Jesse, April 13, 1754; Nathan, Feb. 19, 1758; Asa, Nov. 21, 1761 ; Ezra, Mary, and Molly. Wife Mary d. 1768. 2d w., wid. Margaret jMarean, 1769, and had one s. Boyal, 1773. Esther m. Abner Whit- ney, of Rox.; 1768 — Sarah m. Samuel Draper, of Rox., 1771. 3d w., wid. Hannah Woodward, of Brookline. This family removed to Brookliae, and were warned out. Thaddeus settled in Brookline, and the other sons went into the anny. V. JACKSON, JOSHUA, tailor, (s. of Edward and Abigail,) m. Huldah Fuller, March, 1749, and had Joshua, Oct. 8, 1751 ; Danid, July 23, 1753; Nathaniel, 3a\j 8, 1755; Josiah, March 3, 1757; Eezekiah, Nov. 27, 1758; Jonathan, Nov. 8, 1760 ; Moses, Aug. 23, 1763 ; Kesiah, Grace, Ruth and Luaretia. Keziah m. Thomas Hill, of Hebron — Grace m. Reuben Hastings — Ruth m. Amos Thwing — Lucretia m. Thomas Allen — Josiah m. Mary Woodward, went to sea, as first mate, and never returned — Jonathan m. Abigail Cut- ting, of WalUiam, and had John and Luther. He d. 1810, as. 84. JACKSON. 343 V. JACKSON, Col. EPHRAIM, (s. of Edward and Abigail,) m. Mary Davis, of Rox., 1753, kept tavern at Lower Ealls, and had Edward, April 26, 1755; Aaron, 1758; Ephraim, Aug. 19, 1759; Nathan, 1763; and PoUy, who m. Abm. Hall, of Vt. — Ephraim m. Martha Little, and 2d, Phebe Titus — Aaron m. Lucy Dewing, had two chil., and d. in Vt. 1802 — Nathan m. McBoberts, and settled in Vt. He was a Lieut, in the old French war, in 1755 and '56. He was one of the Newton alarm list, in 1775, and was in the battle of Concord, — Lieut. Col. in Col. Marshall's regiment, attached to the Northern army, and was in the several battles that preceded the capture of Burgoyne, and d. in the camp at Valley Forge, Dec. 19, 1777, se. 48. His wid. Mary m. Capt. Caleb Kingsbury, of Needham, April 25, 1782. V. JACKSON, SAMUEL, (s. of Edward and Abigail,) m. Lois Woodward, 1763, and had Samuel, Feb. 16, 1764; Xoi's, Aug. 17, 1765 ; Mhoda, Feb. 21, 1767 ; Ann, March 30, 1769 ; Mary, May 30, 1771 ; Antipas, Nov. 20, 1772 ; Esiker, Nov. 24, 1774 ; Ephraim, Feb. 3,1780; and /SaraA, July, 1781. Lois m. John King, Jr., 1784 — Ehoda m. Grout, of Sherburne — Ann m. Samuel Durell, 1793 — Esther m. Bennett — Sarah m. Charles Hyde. He d. July, 1801, ffi. 64. She d. Sept. 1811, ae. 71. V. JACKSON, JONATHAN, (s. of Edward and Abigail,) m. Fuller. V. JACKSON, Col. MICHAEL, (s. of Michael,) m. Ruth, dr. of Ebenezer Parker, Jan. 31, 1759, and had Michael, Sept. 12, 1759; Simon, Nov. 20, 1760; Ebenezer, Dec. 18, 1763; Amasa, June 5, 1765 ; Charles, Jan. 4, 1767, and d. unm., in Georgia, 1801. He was a Lieut, in the French war. At the breaking out of the Revolution- ary war, he was a private in a volunteer company of Minute Men, in Newton. At the early dawn of the 19th of April, 1775, the sig- nal was given that the British troops were on their march for Lex- ington. The company of Minute Men were early upon their parade ground, but none of the commissioned officers were present ; the orderly Sergeant had formed the company, and there was a motion made to choose a Captain for the day, when Michael Jackson was nominated, and chosen by uplifted hands. He immediately stepped from the ranks to the head of the company, and without a word of thanks for the honor, or the slightest formality, he ordered the com- pany to shoulder arms — platoons to the right -wheel — quick time — 344 JACKSON. forward march ! These three words of comnumd were nttered, and the company were on the march to join the regiment at Watertown Meeting-house. On their arrival there, the commissioned officers of the regiment were holding a council in the school house, and he was invited to take part in their deliberations. He listened to their dis- cussion, but soon got the floor, and made a moving speech. He told them that there was a time for all things, but that the time for talk- ing had passed, and the time for fighting had come ; not now, the wag of the tongue, but the pull of the trigger. This pro-tem. Capt. accused the officers of wasting time, through fear of meeting the enemy. He told them " if they meant to oppose the march of the British troops, to leave the school house forthwith, and take up their march for Lexington. He intended that his company should take the shortest route to get a shot at the British," and suiting the action to the word, left the council, and took up his march. This blunt speech broke up the council, without any concert of action, and each company was left to act as they chose. Some followed Jackson, some lingered where they were, and some dispersed. Jack- son's company came in contact with Lord Percy's reserve, near Concord Village, and were dispersed after exchanging one or two shots, but they soon rallied and formed again, in a wood near by, and were joined by a part of the Watertown company. They hung upon the flank and rear of the retreating enemy, vrith much effect, until they reached Lechmere Point, at nightfall, and took boat for Boston. After the British had rowed beyond the reach of musket shot, this CO. received the thanks of Gen. Warren, upon the field, for their bravery. Soon after, he received a Major's commission in the Con- tinental army, then quartered at Cambridge, and was subsequently promoted to the command of the eighth regiment in the Massachu- sett's line, than which no regiment was more distinguished for bravery and good conduct, during the war. In an action with the British, on Montressor's Island, in 1^. Y., he received a severe wound in the thigh, by a musket ball, from which he never entirely recovered. Lieut. Col. John Brooks then took the command of Jackson's reg- ment, and William Hull was Major. During the sanguinary bat- tles which preceded the surrender of Burgoyne, Jackson's regiment, under Col. Brooks, behaved most gallantly, and nearly half of the regiment were either killed or wounded. He was a man of good judgment and great courage. He d. April, 10, 1801, as. 66. At his funeral, Gen. Henry Jackson, Dr. Eustis, Col. Joseph Ward, Gen. Brooks, Gen. Knox, and Joseph Blake, were the pall bearers. A JACKSON. 345 battalion of Infantry, under Maj. Cheney, performed the escort duty, and a company of Artillery fired minute guns, during the march of the funeral procession, — a tribute of respect due to a man who de- serred well of his country, fought her battles, and bled for her inde- pendence. He had five brothers and five sons in the army of the ReTolution. V. JACKSON, JONATHAN, (s. of Michael, Sen.,) m. Mary Stone, 1790, settled in Brookline, and had Jonathan, Mary, and Phebe. He d. 1822, iB. 73. She d. 1841, se. 78. V. JACKSON, PHINEAS, (s. of Michael, Sen.,) m. Euth Wood, 1778, and had Patten, Sept. 10, 1779 ; Artemas, Feb. 29, 1781 ; Caty, Jan. 24, 1783; Sukey, 'Sov. 25, 1785; Ruth, March 28, 1789; Salti/, April 29, 1792. V. JACKSON, OLIVER, (s. of Michael, Sen.,) m. Lucy Fuller, and had Amasa, Esther, Mary, and Anna. Amasa m. . "V. JACKSON, Lieut. ISAAC, (s. of Isaac, Sen.,) m. Jemima Jones, 1758, and had Caleb, April 16, 1760 ; Oliver, June 29, 1762 ; Elisha, Jan. 9, 1765, d. in infancy; Jemima, Oct. 3, 1166. She d. April, 1 767. 2d w. Sarah Cheney, and had Sibel, and Sally. 2d. w. d. Sept., 1776. 3d. w. Mary Hammond, 1777. Jemima m. Bicknell, of Eox. — Sibel m. — — Fox, went to Fitzwilliam, N. H. He was a soldier in the old French war — Lient. in the.w'est co., and was in the battles of Lex. and Concord, at Dorchester heights, &c. He d. 1795, ae. 63. . V. JACKSON, JOSIAH, (s. of Isaac, Sen.,) m. Mary , was one of the first settlers of Westminster, and had Oliver, Nov. 22, 1757 ; Isdac, Aug. 30, 1768. V. JACKSON, ELISHA, (s. of Isaac, Sen.,) m. Beulah , was one of the first settlers of Westminster, and had Sullivan, Jan. 19, 1777 ; Elisha, March 28, 1779 ; Josiah, May 23, 1781 ; Ebenezer, July 9, 1793; Abel, Aug. 29, 1788; and five daughters. Josiah settled in Westminster, and had Alexander, and three daughters. V. JACKSON, EDWARD, (s. of Isaac, Sen.,) m. Jemima, dr. of James Trowbridge, Jr., was one of the first settlers of Westminster, a leading man in the settlement, built the first house there, and had John,3a\j 19, 1767; Oliver, May 9, 1776; Edward, Aug. 8, 1780; Josiah, March 28, 1787, went to New York ; Levi, March 12, 1790. V. JACKSON, SEBAS, (s. of Sebas and Abigail,) m. Mary Bacon, 1767, settled in Westminster, and had four daughters. 346 JACKSON. V. JACKSON, DANIEL, (s. of Sebas and Abigail,) m. Fanny TTp- ham, 1773, lived near Weston bridge, and had Sebas, Fanny, Daniel, Abigail, 1780, Joel, Walter, Betsy, William, Thomas, Marshall, and Mary. Fanny m. Bigelow — Daniel, a baker, went to Chelsea, Vt. — Abigail m. Aaron Sanger, July, 1801 — Joel m. and had six chil. — Walter went out of town — Betsy, single — William m. and went to Canada — Thomas, single — Marshall went to Peru — and Mary m. Ira Crawford, of Boston. V. JACKSON, Maj. timothy, (s. of Timothy,) m. Sarah, dr. of Stephen Winchester, Nov. 28, 1782, settled on the homestead, and had by w. Sarah, William, Sept. 2, 1783; Lucretia, Aug. 16, 1785; Stephen W., March 19, 1787 ; Francis, March 7, 1789 ; George, April 22, 1792; and Edmund, Jan. 9, 1795. Lucretia m. Enoch Wiswall, and d. Dec. 28, 1812, se. 27. He d. Nor. 22, 1814, sd. 58. She d. March 13, 1815, ae. 60, He was distinguished for energy, judgment, integrity, and firmness. A further notice of him may be found in the Appendix. V. JACKSON, JOSEPH, (s. of Joseph,) m. Martha Ward, 1788, no chil. He was Town Clerk and Treasurer seven years — Eepresenta^ tive six years, and d. 1 826, as. 68. His wid. Martha m. Dea. Ben- jamin Eddy, 1827, and d. 1844, x. 79. VI. JACKSON, EDWARD, (s. of Col. Bphraini,) m. Abigail Smith, and had John, Nov. 14, 1776 ; Hannah, Feb. 5, 1779 ; Ephraim, Jan. 31, 1781 ; Abigail, May 24, 1783 ; Mary, July 31, 1789. 2d w. Judith Bacon, and had Edward, April 2, 1797; Rebecca, Feb. 14, 1799. 3d w., wid. Sally Stevens, she d. Nov. 1819. 4th w., wid. Claflin; and 5th w. Hannah m. Matthias Collins — Abigail m. Nathaniel Wales — Rebecca m. Ephraim Williams, of Deerfield — Mary m. Joel Ware, and 2d, Page — John went to Vt. — Edward m. Nancy M. Hyde, and settled in Brandon, Vt. VI. JACKSON, THADDEUS, (s. of Abraham and Mary,) m. Woodward, of -Brookline, Oct. 1673; settled in Brookline, and had Amasa; Thaddeus, d. July, 1824, as. 42; and several drs. Amasa lives in Randolph. 2d w., wid. of John Hyde and dr. of Capt. Jere- miah Wiswall, 1782. He d. Oct. 12, 1832, te. 80. VL JACKSON, JESSE, (s. of Abraham,) m. Elizabeth White, 1773, and went to the South. JACKSON. 347 VI. JACKSON, SAMUEL, (s. of Edward and Susan, of Camb.,) m. Betsy Curtis, — kept the Cattle Market Tavern, in Little Camb., and had Samuel, Jan. 11, 1784, m. Mary Kimball | Edward, 1788, d. at Sandwich Islands; Josq)h C, m. Poster; Elizabeth; Ann; George. He d., and his wid. m. Thos. Hastings, at Angler's Comer. VI. JACKSON, JOHN, (s. of Edward, of "Westminster,) m. Susanna , and had, in Westminster, John V., May 14, 1806 ; Jonathan M., Dec. 14, 1812 ; and three drs. VI. JACKSON, EDWAED, (s. of Edward, of Westminster,) m. Dolly , and had, in Westminster, Levi, Oct. 10, 1804; Edward L., April 17, 1807 ; Levi, Dec. 14, 1809 ; C^rus B., Jan. 12, 1812. VL JACKSON, JOSEPH, of Westminster, had by w. Eunice, Aaron ; and two daughters. VL JACKSON, ELISHA, Jr., of Westminster, had by w. , Elisha S., Charles W., Joseph L., Leonard F., and five daughters. VI. JACKSON, SULLIVAN, (s. of EUsha, of Westminster,) had by w. Sally , one son and three daughters. VL JACKSON, MICHAEL, (s. of Col. Michael,) m. Sarah, dr. of Kev. Stephen Badger, of Natick, and had Stephen B., May 16, 1793, m. Harriet C. Russell, and d. 1817 ; James L., Dec. 20, 1794 ; Abi- gail IJ., Eeb. 23, 1797. William Kenrick m. Stephen B.'s wid. She d. Sept. 1825. VL JACKSON, Capt. SIMON, (s. of Col. Michael,) m. Borodell, dr. of Alexander Shepard, Jr., Eeb. 1786, and had Alexander S., June 5, 1789; Charles A., Aug. 10, 1790, m. two wives, in N. Y., and had a lai'ge family ; Michael, d. young ; Borodell, March 7, 1787; Ann Maria S., June 13, 1792. 2d w. Sally Spring, of Wat., and had Susan, Sept. 13, 1805 ; Sarah S., Nov. 8, 1809. He d. Oct. 17, 1818, £6. 58. VI. JACKSON, Ensign AMASA, (s. of Col. Michael,) m. Lander. 2d, Phelps, and settled in N. Y. City, and had Zfary C. ; Charles, m. Elizabeth Castle, and had two sons ; Oliver P., Harriet, Caroline M., Emily, Amasa, Ebenezer, Eliza, and Julia W. He was President of one of the N. Y. City Banks. VI. JACKSON, Lieut. EBENEZER, (s. of Col. Michael,) m. Charlotte Pierce, of S. C, and settled in Savannah, Geo., and had Edward F.; Mary C, m. Francis J. Oliver, of Boston; Ebenezer; 348 JACKSON. Harriet M. ; Charles S. ; Harriet F, ; Amasa ; Mary S. ; George W., and Michael. Ebenezer was Member of Congress — Charles H. m. C. T. Sheddau, and had one son. VI. JACKSON, WILLIAM, Esq., (s. of Timothy, Esq.,) m. Han- nah, dr. of Ebenezer Woodward, Esq., 1806; took the homestead, and had Sarah, Oct. 14, 1807 ; Marian, July 9, 1809 ; Timothy, April 15, 1811 i Lucretia, Dec. 3, 1812; Hannah W., July 23, 1814. Han- nah the mother d. July 23, 1814, sB. 30. 2d w. Mary Bennett, and had Zfluisa, July 11, 1816; William, Oct. 14, 1817, d. in infancy; Caroline B., March 1, 1819; Adeline B., Sept. 2, 1820, d. 1821; William W., Not. 10, 1821, d. 1822 ; Mary B., May 4, 1823 ; Elka D., April 27, 1825; Edward, June 14, 1827 ; Elizabeth F., April 20, 1829 ; William W., Aug. 9, 1831 ; Stqihen W. D., April 7, 1834 ; Cornelia W., March 31, 1836. Sarah m. 1st, Thomas A. Davis, Mayor of Boston, and 2d, Lewis Tappan, Esq., merchant, of N. Y. City, April, 1854 — Marian m. Kev. Lyman Gilbert — Lucretia m. Henry B. Williams, and d. March 4, 1848 — Hannah W. m. Henry Fuller — Louisa m. Lewis Hall, and d. 1853 — Mary B. m. Charles A. Curtis, 1847. He was Representative to the General Court, and Member of Congress. VL JACKSON, STEPHEN W., (s. of Timothy, Esq.,) m. Lucretia, dr. of Ephraim Thayer, and had, in Boston, George S., Feb. 16, 1814; Charles, Oct. 19, 1817; Rebecca, 1816, d.; Bebetxa, Nov. 3, 1819; Stephen VT., Nov. 23, 1822, d.; Lucretia, Dec. 16, 1825; Ste- phen W; 1829, d.; Sarah, 1830, d.; Frands E., Nov. 17, 1834. Rebecca m. Gideon Reed — Lucretia m. Charles Briggs. VI. JACKSON, ERANCIS, (s. of Timothy, Esq.,) m. Eliza Copeland, of Quincy, and had, in Boston, Eliza Frances, Jan. 13, 1816; James, Nov. 14, 1817; Harriette Marlineau, March 31, 1825; /Susan Gardner, Sept. 6, 1826, d. 1828; Francis, June 21, 1829, d. April 20, 1830 ; Francis, Nov. 9, 1831, d. Sept. 18, 1832. Eliza F. m. Charies D. Meriam, Nov. 3, 1836, and 2d, James Eddy, Sept. 21, 1848 — Harriette Ml m. Charles Palmer, Dec. 16, 1848. VL JACKSON, GEORGE, (s. of Timothy, Esq.) m. wid. Mary Clapp, and had, in Boston, George E., Jan. 29, 1816 ; Mary C, Nov. 6, 1817 ; William H., Feb. 24, 1820; Emetine C, Oct. 9, 1822; Saroi W., Dec. 6, 1824 ; EUen, Dec. 5, 1826, d. 1830. VI. JACKSON, EDMUND, (s. of Timothy, Esq.) m. Mary H. Hewes, 1827, and had, in Boston, Charles E., Dec. 17, 1827, d. 1828; JACKSON. 349 Harriet W., Dec. 3, 1828; Edmund, May 26, 1830; Henry, Sept. 5, 1831, d. 1832; Ellen, June 30,1833; Sarah, Sept. 25, 1835, d. ia infancy ; Mary F., April 4, 1837, d. 1842 ; diaries, Aug. 24, 1839, d. 1842; Frederick, May 9, 1841 ; Anna Louisa, Feb. 12, 1844; Lewis, Sept. 27, 1847, d. in infancy. Harriet W. m. Theodore A. Simmons, of Boston. VI. JACKSON, EPHEAIM, (s. of Col. Ephraim,) m. Martha Little, and had Ephraim; Martha. 2d w. Phebe Titus, and had George D., Feb. 2, 1822, lives in Lowell ; and Henry, who went to Hancock, Vt. VI. JACKSON, NATHAN, (s. of Col. Ephraim,) m. McKoberts, and had Nathan, Aaron, John, Mary, Abigail, and Hannah. Mary m. Chatterton — Abigail m. Hays — Nathan m. Chat- terton — Aaron entered Iiliddlebury College — John went West. VI. JACKSON, JOSHUA, (s. of Joshua and Huldah,) m. Hannah Durell, 1773, and had Hannah, March 8, 1774 ; Joshua ; George, Oct. 4, 1777 ; Peter, Aug. 27, 1775, d. 1796 ; diaries, Oct. 3, 1779 ; Suhey, Dec. 6, 1782; Hannah, and Josiah. George was Deputy Sheriff, in Boston. VI. JACKSON, Maj. DANIEL, (s. of Joshua and Huldah,) m. Lucy Eemington, and had Henry, 1783 ; Daniel, 1785, d. 1835 ; Francis, March 27, 1787, grad. H. C, 1810; Leonard, July 26, 1791, grad. H. C, 1812 ; Mary H, 1789 ; Lucy E., 1794; Polly, 1798. 2d w., wid. Davis, d. 1813. He was in the battles of Concord and Bunker Hill, and at Dorchester Heights, in Capt. Foster's company of Artillery, and Sergeant in Capt. Bryant's company of Artillery. He was stationed at Fort Washington, N. Y., and commanded a small redoubt, which was attacked by a column of Hessians, and he was taken prisoner, but exchanged in about six months. He then went on a recruiting expedition to Boston, and returned to New York with one hundred and seventy recruits, joined Conway's Brig- ade in N. J., with two field pieces, and had several skirmishes with the enemy. He pointed the cannon which blew up a British vessel on the North river, which procuired him a promotion to Lieut. Capt. Bryant was mortally, wounded at th& battle of Brandywfne, and left within the enemies' lines, at a small farm house; and after he fell, Lieut. Jackson took command of his company. This battle lasted four hours. All the officers, and more than half the men, of Bryant's company, were killed or wounded. At midnight he went, with four men, (Ebenezer Seger being one of them,) and 30 350 JACKSON. brought off Capt. Bryant upon a litter, who died the next day. Lieut. Jackson, for his bravery and good conduct in that battle, received the thanks of Gen. Knox ; was promoted to a Captain, and commanded the company to the end of the war. He was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth, and the seige of Yorktown, where he had charge of the Laboratory. He left the army a Major by brevet. After the war, he was appointed commander of Tort Independence, in Boston Harbor ; and subsequently Warden of the State Priten, in Charlestown. He d. in Wat. about 1832. VL JACKSON, Lieut. JONATHAN, (s. of Joshua and Huldah,) m. Abigail Cutting, lived in Waltham, and" had iMther. He was an officer on Port Independence, in Boston Hivrbor, under his brother, Maj. Daniel. VI. JACKSON, NATHANIEL, (s. of Joshua and Huldah,) m. Lucy Allen, 1781, settled in Lincoln, Me., and had Lucy, July, 1782 ; John, April, 1784, d. 1789 ; Eunice, Oct. 1786 ; Am, Aug. 1790 ; Nathaniel. Oct. 1793, and three other chil., who d. young. Lucy m. Elijah- Stone, of Newton — Eunice m. Joseph Dunn, of Jay, Me. — Ann m. Thos. Hiscock, of Wilton, Me. — Nath'l m. Nancy Goodwin, of Jay, Me. VL JACKSON, ABEL, (s. of Elisha, of Westminster,) m. Betsy , and had David F., Nov. 14, 1815 ; Abel, Nov. 12, 1823, and three daughters. VL JACKSON, CALEB, (s. of Isaac, Jr.,) m. Ehod» Pratt, 1782, and settled in Westminster. VL JACKSON, OLIVER, (s. of Isaac, Jr..) m. Mary , settled in Westminster, and had Josiah, Sept. 7, 1789 ; Isaac, Nov. 24, 1792 ; Horace, April 1, 1800, and five daughters. VL JACKSON, SAMUEL, (s. of Samuel and Lois,) m.-— Hough- ton, settled in Jay, Me., and had Benjamin, Henry, Elijah, Nancy, Samuel, Abijah, Mary, Rhoda, Sarah, Elizabeth. Died 1843, je. 60. VL JACKSON, ANTIPAS, (s. of Samuel and Lois,) m. Hannah Kichards, Aug. 30, 1795, settled in Eox., and had AtUipas, Jan. 30, 1796; William, Jan. 19, 1798; Samud, and Danid. VI. JACKSON, EPHRAIM, (s. of Samuel and Lois,) m. Betsy Cheney, April, 1803, and had, in Waltham, Mary, Nov. 9, 1805 ; Edxoin, Jan. 9, 1807; Elixa, Dec. 9, 1808; Lois, May 21, 1810; Dan- iel C, Dec. 13, 1811. Betsy the mother, d. 1813. 2d W.Abigail Park, 1814, and had Abigail, Dec. 29, 1814 ; Ephraim, July 29, 1816 ; JACKSON. 351 mWoui, Feb. 23, 1818; William, Nov. 23, 1819; Emdine, 1S21 ; Samuel W., April 26, 1824. Lois m. William Davis — Emeline m. Hezekiah Fuller — Mary m. Asa Barnham — Eliza d. — Edwin d. unm., 1841 —Daniel C. m. Veazie, and d. 1841 — Abigail m. Isaac Smith — Ephraim m. Harriet Newell — Winslow m. and went to New Jersey — William m. Hannah Harris. — Samuel W. m. Sarah Morse. VI. JACKSON, WILLIAM, (s. of Jonas,) m. Sarah Hastings, 1768. YL JACKSON, GERSHAM, (s. of Jonas,) m. Sarah White, 1769. Vn. JACKSON, EPHRAIM, (s. of Edward and g. ». of Col. Eph- raim,) m. Beulah Murdock, and had Emeline, Oct. 13, 1821 ; Sam- uel W., March 7, 1823 ; Edward G., Nov. 5, 1827. 2d w. wid. Hay- den, formerly Griggs. 1st w. d. 1849, ae. 60. ! vn. JACKSON, JOHN, (s. of Edward and g. s. of Col. Ephraim,) m. Kingsbury, settled in Vt., and had three daughters. 2d w. ' ' Horton, and had two sons and two daughters. VII. JACKSON, CHARLES, (s. of Joshua, Jr.,) m. Catherine Ful- ler, Aug. 1806, and had Renry F., Oct. 17, 1808; Charles D., Oct. 17, 1810 ; George H., Jan. 19, 1812 ; Nathan H., Jan. 14, 1814. 2d w. Ann , and had Walter C, 1816. vn. JACKSON, TIMOTHY, (s. of William and Hannah,) m. Han- nah M., dr. of Josiah Stedman, Esq., and had Henry S., 1838 ; Fred- erick S., 1840; Mirian S., 1844; Sarah B., 1847. VIL JACKSON, LEONARD, (s. of Maj. Daniel,) m. Eliza M., and had Thomas L., 1834; Mary H., 1836; Menry A., 1845; GilbeH M., 1843; and Lucy R. vn. JACKSON, ARTEMAS, (s. of , m. Polly Stimpson, April, 1803, and had Susan, Sept. 4, 1805. VII. JACKSON, WILLIAM, (s. of Ephraim and Abigail,) m. Han- nah Hams, 1842. JACKSON, ZEBEDEE, (s. of ,) m. Susan Gosson, 1835. VII. JACKSON, GEORGE S., (s. of Stephen W.,) m. Laura Ann Fitch, 1841, and had, in Boston, Laura Ann, 1842 ; George S., 1843; Senry W., 1844 ; Mary Lucretia, 1846; and Ella Thayer, 1853. VII. JACKSON, CHARLES, (s. of Stephen W.,) m. Maria Louisa Heed, and had, in Boston, Selen Lucretia, Lucy Reed, Stephen W., Rebecca Louisa, Lewis and Horace. 352 JACKSON. Vn. JACKSON, GEORGE E., [a. of George and Mary,) m. Eliza M. Kice, 1846. No chil. He d. Jan. 25, 1851, se. 35. vn. JACKSON, WILLIAM H., (s. of George and Mary,) m. Eliza H. Norris, 1846, and had, in Salem, Kate and Eliza. She d. 1852. vn. JACKSON, EDMUND, (s. of Edmund and Mary,) m. Anna Woodward, and settled in Boston. IL JACKSON, Dea. EDWARD, (the only s. of Edward, Sen., by his last w. Elizabeth (Newgate) Oliver,) m. Grace , and had Edward, Dec. 25, 1681, d. Aug. 22, 1691, a; 9 2-3. Wife Grace d. April 8, 1685, ad. 30. 2d w. Abigail, dr. of Nathaniel Wilson, Sen., and had Elizabeth, Feb. 23, 1687 ; Abigail, May 13, 1690 ; HamaJi, Aug. 10, 1692; Samud, May 13, 1695; Alice; Edward, April 3, 1700; Abigail, Sept. 14, 1705. Abigail m. Daniel Robbing, 1738— Elizabeth m. Capt. Thomas Prentice — Hannah m. Joshua Loring of Rox., and had a son who was Commodore in the British Navy. He was Dea, ; Selectman six years ; Clerk and Treasurer twenty years ; Representative 1702, and d. Sept. 30, 1727, se. 75. His wid. Abigail d. March 16, 1746, ae. 83. His will is dated 1726. Gives his son Samuel the homestead, thirty acres adjoining the bnildings, and all the land on the south side of the highway. To s. Edward the pasture formerly of Reynold Bush, about twenty acres, on the north side of the highway, and between it and the marsh. Makes bequests to his daughters Elizabeth Prentice and Hannah Loring, and appoints his w. Abigail and sons Samuel and Edw., executors. in. JACKSON, SAMUEL, Esq., (s. of Dea. Edward,) m. BorodeU, dr. of Capt. John Jackson, Feb. 1738 ; settled upon the homestead, and had Samuel, March 6, 1739; Abigail, June 26, 1740, d. 1750; BorodeU, Oct. 13, 1742, who m. Maj. Thomas Cheever, 1768, and 2d, Oliver Mnnroe. He was Selectman 1 733, '34, and '36. Town Clerk and Treasurer eight years, 1735 to 1742. Representative 1738, '39, '40, and '42. He d. Dec. 3, 1742, se. 48, " greatly lamented." His wid. BorodeU m. Thomas Prentice, Esq., of Lunenburg, June 27, 1751, s. of Rev. John Prentice, of Lancaster, and he was appointed guardian of Samuel, Abigail, and BorodeU, chU. of Sam'l, Esq., 1758. BorodeU, the m., d. 1766, and her son, Capt. Samuel Jackson, admin, on her estate. In his inventory, the ancient homestead of Edward, Sen., was appraised at £670. III. JACKSON, Rev. EDWARD, (s. of Dea. Edward,) a bachelor, boxn AprU 3, 1700, grad. H. C, 1719, ordained Minister of Wobum, JACKSOK. 353 1729. The following items of expenses at liis ordination, are re- corded upon the Wobum Town Records. 'Tor subsisting the Min- isters, Messengers and Gentlemen, at the time of Mr. Jackson's ordi- nation. Four hundred and thirty-three dinners, at 2s. 6d., jE54, 2s. M; one hundred and seventy-eight suppers and breakfasts, £8, 18s.; keeping thirty-two horses four days, £3 ; six and a half barrels cider, £4, Us. ; twenty-five gallons wine, £9, IGs. ; two galls, brandy and four of rum, £1, 16s. ; loaf-sugar, lime juice and pipes, £1, 12s.; keeping the Ministers' and Messengers' horses, £2. Total, £85, 9s. 6c?." His inventory amounted to £2,458, 10s. 8d. His negro man and wife, £430. Library, £124, 10s. Joshua Loring, his brother in law, admin. The following is a schedule of his library, viz : Bal*** Works, 9 — Bishop Hopkins, 6 — Dr. Scott, 2 vols. 10 — Bishop Hillifleet's Sermons, 6, 10 — Dr. Edwards' Theology, 2 vols. 8 — Pembroke's Acadia, by Sir PhUip Sidney, 2 —Dr. Morse's Sermons, 8 vols., 16 — Life and Sermons of Dr. Bull, 4 vols., 7, 10 — Dr. South's Sermons, 2 vols., 4 — Hopkins on Sacrament, 2, 10 — Hop- kin's Sermons, 2 — Maynard's Sermons, 4, 10 — Pemberton's do., 2, 10 — Bishop Durham's do., 1, 10 — Roman Antiquities, 2, 10 — Dr. Dodridge on Regeneration, 1,10 — Quincy's Dispensatory, 2, 10 — Hopkins on the Covenant, 3 — Dr. Stradley's Sermons, 1,10 — Henry on Prayer, 10— Dr. Watts' Poems, 1, 10— Freeholder, 12— Henry's Method of Prayer, 8— Preaching Bible, 12 — Con- greve's Works, 1— Homer's Iliad, 1, 5 — Atterbury on English Convocation, 1, 10 — Saytor's Decimas Junius, &c., by Dryden, 1, 10 — Letters of a Nobleman to his Sister, 6 — Results of Three Synods at Camb., 5 — A Specimen of Papal and French Persecu- tion, 4 — Commentary on Luke, 10 — Secretaries' Guide, 3 — Wil- son's Christian Dictionary, 3 — Heylin's History of the World, 2 — Pamphlets, 1, 5. He d. Sept. 24, 1754, 3d. 54. IV. JACKSON, Capt. SAMUEL, (only s. of Samuel, Esq^) m. Mary Baldwin, of Sudbury, had no chil. He d. Oct; 1806, and the male descendants of Edward, Sen., by his last w., became extiucfc Capt. Samuel inherited a large property. He pulled down the old mansion, built by Edward, Sen., and built a splendid house for that day, (the same recently possessed by Jonathan Hunnewell, Esq.) He was indolent and intemperate, and the ancient and beautiful homestead passed out of the hands of the Jacksons', and himself and wife were finally supported in part by. the town. 30* 354 JENK8 — JENNISON — KENEICK. JENKS, SAMUEL, Esq., (Sd s. of Capt. John'Jenks, of Lynn, bom March 12, 1732, and g. s. of Joseph Jeuks, who came from Eng., settled in Lynn abont 1643, and d. 1683, se. 81.) He served in the French war, as a subaltern officer, in the campaign of 1758 and 1760, in which latter year he was appointed Capt. Same year, he m. Mary Haynes, dr. of Samuel Haynes, of Boston, by whom he had twelTO chil., eight of whom lived to an adult age. He came into Newton, 1776, where four of his chil. were bom, viz. : Henry G., July 29^1776; WSliam, Nov. 25, 1778; ec. 28, 1782; Elizabeth, Feb. 2, 1784 ; Lucretia, April 2, 1785; Dorothy W., Feb. 2,1788; Caroline, Feb. 11, 1791; iTenry, Feb, 13, 1792; Martha B., March 31, 1796, "and several others, who d. in infancy. Mary m. Samuel Dilaway — Elizabeth m. Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw — Xucretia, unm. — Dorothy W. m. Samuel Dow — Caroline m. Dr. George Hayward — Martha B. m. Philip Marett — John, Esq., unm. — Capt. Charles, unm. — Henry m. and had Charles H., George -E. and Lucretia Ann. He d. May 13, 1843, se. 90. KEE, JACOB, had by w. Rachel, Daniel, Jan. 27, 1703 ; Sarah, May 26, 1707; Bahia, Aug. 13, 1708. KIMBALL, EICHAED, from Natick, had s. Richard, Tliomas and Edmund, and d. about 1795. KIMBALL, EICHARD, (s. of Richard,) m. Lydia , and had Samuel, Mar. 2^, 1800. He was a Methodist preacher and exhorter. KIMBALL, BEIJJAMIN, m. Abigail Thwing, Sept. 1811. KIMBALL, JOHN, m. Betsy Wright, 1815. KNOWLES, Rev. JAMES D., d. May 9, 1838-9. KIDDER, NATHANIEL, d. 1714, and w. Rachel d. 1709. LITTLEFIELDj EBENEZER, (s. of John, of Dedham,) m. Lydia , lived near the Lower Palls, and had Jemima, Aug. 19, 1697, d. 1773 ; Ezra, M^rch, 1699, d. 1703 ; Ebenezer, May 2, 1701, d. 1727 ; Pdaiia, s. Oct. 12, 1703; Lydia, Feb. 15, 1706, d. 1717; Jerusha,Api. 15, 1708 ; Frailer, May 15, 1710, d. 1774 ; Susanna and Ephraim, Not. 21, 1712 ;. Sybil, Nov. 1, 1714 ; Lydia, and Sarah. Jerusha m. John Taylor, 1730 — Sybil m. John Emmes, 1741 — Sarah m. Elia- kim Cook, 173^ — Ebenezer m. Abisih Morse, of Medfield, 1728, and had four sons and four drs. — Pelatia m. Alice , and settled in Hopkinton — Ephraim m. Sarah Bollard, of Holliston, 1735, d. 1778. He bought a ^lace near the Lower Falls, of Thos. WiswaU, 1727 ; was on the committee to build the M. H., 1718. He d. 1727-8, se. 59. She a. 171;r, se. 44. LONGLEY, NATHANIEL, parentage not ascertained. He came into Newton abSnt 1700, and m. Mary WiswaU, dr. of Capt. Noah. Hia place adjoihed Bartlett's. His house was near Seminary Hill, on the southerly side, where he bought thiuty-fonr acres of latid, of 31 3 62 LEARNED LENOX • — MAEEAN. Nathaniel Hancock, of Camb., in 1703, and nine acres of land in Newton, of Capt. Thomas Prentice, in 1713. He also bought of Nathaniel Parker and William Clark, half of the saw miU, fulling mill, grist mill and eel wear, at the Upper Palls, in 1725 ; a member of the School Committee, in 1721 ; was guardian to Judge Trow- bridge's sister Mary, 1724. He d. July 23, 1732, se. 56. LEARNED, THOMAS, had by w. Mary , Mary, May 13, 170-. LOVELOCK, "WILLIAM, had by^ w. Sybil , William, Jan. 18, 1784 ; Nancy B., July 8, 1793. LOWELL, SYLVANTJS, had by w. Patty FuUer, Caty, March 8, 1791. LENOX, COENELIXJS, from Boston, m. Susanna Perry, settled on the bank of Charles river, near the Wat. line, about 1783, and had (Jharles, Susan, Penny, Nancy, Cornelius, John, Nathaniel and William. Susan m. William Butler — Penny m. and went to De- troit — Cornelius went to Detroit with Gen. Hull — Nathaniel d.. nnm., se. 16 ^William d. num., se. 41 — Nancy m. John Eemond, settled in Salem, and had Nancy, Susan, Charles Lenox, Maricha Juan, John Lenox, Cecelia, Sarah P. and Caroline. LENOX, JOHN, (s. of Cornelius and Susanna,) ip. Sibel Dickerson, of Salem, settled in Wat., and had Fanny, Caroline, Louisa, Caroline Augusta, Charles W., John M., Cornelius and Sybil. LENOX, CHARLES, (s. of Cornelius and Susanna,) m. Aseneth Rogers ; 2d, Martha Ann Dickerson, and had three children. LYON, SAMUEL, lived at the s. part of the town ; one of the peti- _ tioners to divide the town into two Parishes, in 1713. MAREAN, WILLIAM, and Elizabeth Clark, were m. in Rox., Jan. 7,1702, and had, in Rox., Philip, 1703; William, 1707; Thomas, 1712. Removed to Newton, and lived near Kenrick's bridge. He d. 1761, se. 83. She d. 1747. MAREAN, EBENEZER, had by w. Elizabeth , Esther, Nov. 28, 1727 ; John, Jan. 14, 1733. MAREAN, WILLIAM, (s. of William and ElizabeUi,) m. Hannah Stone, 1737, and had Catherine, Dec. 9, 1737, d. 1749 ; John, Eeb. 6, 1739 ; William, Dec. 19, 1740; Mary, 1741, d. 1760 ; WUUam, Dec. 12, 1742; Samud, Dec. 9, 1744, d. 1745; Hannah, Dec. SO, 1745. Wife Hannah d. 1749. 2d w. Elizabeth , and had ElixabA. MAEEAN — MAKION — MACOT. 363 Hannah m. Capt. Jeremiah Wiswall, Nov. 1770, his 2d w. — William m. Sybil Parker, 1767, and went to Rutland. MAEEAN, THOMAS, (s. of William and Elizaheth,) m. Margaret Hammond, 1751, and had Thomas, Oct. 17, 1753; Samuel, Oct. 7, 1755 ; Martha, Oct. 6, 1758 ; William, 1764. He d. 1767, se. 55. MAREAN, Lieut. JOHN, (s. of William and Hannah,) m. Abigail, dr. of John Hammond, Feb. 1764 ; kept the tavern, (since Mitchel's,) and had JbsAuo, May 12, 1765; Moses, Jan. 19, 1767; Lydia, July 23, 1769; Jonas, April 4, 1773; Esther, Nov. 29, 1775; Hannah, June 13, 1778 ; Silas, Sept. 26, 1780 ; Thomas, July 19, 1784. Lydia m. Nathaniel Murdock, 1793. He was Lieut, of the Co. of Minute Men, in the battle of Concord, and signed the roll of that day's work, as Lieut, commanding, and sworn to before Judge EuUer. There was a John Marean, Jr., in the army, from Newton. He d. Feb. 1, 1786, se. 47. His wid. Abigail m. Capt. Edward Fuller, 1789, and d. May, 1826, ^. 85. • MAREAN, JOSHUA, (s. of Lieut. John,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Capt. William Hammond, 1793, and had Joshua, Feb. 8, 1793 ; Elisabeth, Oct. 10, 1794; Moses, Oct. 18, 1796. MARION, EDWARD, (probably Marean ; he may have been s. of Ebenezer and Elizabeth, or of William and Hannah, as Marean was sometimes spelt Marion,) had by w. Anna , Elizabeth, Sept. 25, 1751 ; Man/, Sept. 22, 1753 ; Isaac; Anna. McDANIEL, NEAL, signed the secession petition, 1678, and d. Dec. 3, 1694. MACOY, [or MACKAY,] DANIEL, from Eox., a Scotchman, bought land in Camb. Village, (of Daniel Preston, of Dor.,) adjoining land of Elder Wiswall and Capt. Noah Wiswall, in 1679, also of John Jackson, Sen., in 1673, and had by w. Sarah , Mary, 25. 7. 1673 ; Jacob, 14. 1. 1675 ; Hannah, 29. 1. 1677 ; Ebeneser, 20. 8. 1680. MACOY, ARCHIBALD, (sup. s. of Daniel,) m. Margaret , 1692, and had Hannah, Feb. 24, 1693 ; William, Dec. 25, 1695 ; John, Sept. 22,1698; Nathaniel, Jan. 5, 1701; Abigail, Jan. 6, 1704; Edward, July 21, 1706 ; Elizabeth, Feb. 20, 1712, d. 1716 ; Nehemiah, Feb. 14, 1714; Mary, Jan. 14, 1720. Hannah m. John Welch, 1718 — Wil- liam m. Mary Clark, of Fram. — Nath'l m. Sarah Eames, of Fram., 1726. He lived on same land Daniel Macoy bought of Daniel Pres- 364 MACpT -^ MASON — MAEGABET. ton and John Jackson. 1696, Thomas Wiswall conveyed to him two acres, N. w. by John Clark, and s. by Thomas Prentice. MACOT, NATHANIEL, (snp. s. of Daniel,] sold lanfl to Capt. Thomas Prentice, in 1713. ItlARSHAI/L, THOMAS, a blacksmith, bought shop and six acres land, in 1715, adjoining John Park's land, and m, Esther Xeamed, of Wat., Nov., 1715, and had Aseph, Jan. 4, 1717 ; Thomas, Oct. 8, 1719; Ebenezer, Sept. 18, 1721 -, John, 1723; Dinah, 1725; Ezra, 1729; Nakum, 1732; James, 1734. This family removed to Hol- liston, where he was Dea. of the ch. thirty-eight years. MARSHALL, FRANCIS, from Boston, a victualler, bought the place anciently Brown's, at Newton Comer, which was kept as a tavern many years ; m. Catherine Learned, and had Leariied, Francis, and William. William keeps a paper store in Boston. " MARROW, DANIEL, d. Eeb. 8, 1776. IL MASON, JOHN, a tanner, s. of Capt. Hugh Mason, of Wat — one of the signers of the secession petition, 1678 ; he was a Constable in Camb. Village, 1679, Selectman five years. His father owned land in England,- and in Camb. VUlage. He m. Elizabeth , lived near the Ealls, and had John, 22. 11. 1676; Elizabeth, 10. 9. 1678; Abigail, 16. 10. 1679 ; Daniel; Samuel, Jan. 22, 1689 ; Hannah, Jan. 26, 1695. She d. 1714. m. MASON, DANIEL, (s. of John,) m. Experience Newcomb," 1717, and had Daniel, April 10,1717; Samuel, Jan. 24, 1 720 ; Abigail, Nov. 23, 1721; Hannah, Feb. 4, 1724; John, Dec. 23, 1725; William, Nov. 21, 1727. IV. MASON, SAMUEL, {s. of Daniel,) m. Esther Mirick, 1?45, and had Esther, July 12, 1746; ElizabeBi and Mary, Sept. 25, 1750; Samuel, Feb. 15, 1754, d- 1756 ; Abigail, June 2, 1756. V. MASON, WILLIAM, (s.of Daniel,) m. Hannah Child, 1750, and had Hmmak, Aug. 4, 1751 ; William, Sept. 23, 1753 ; Olive, Dee. 21, 1758. MASON, JOHN M., s. of WiUiam Mason, Feb. 10, 1841. ^ MASON, MARY, dr. of Ichabod, May 12, 1838. MARGARET, [or MYGATE,] JOHN, m. Elizabeth Bartlett, 1743, and had Samuel, Sept. 13, 1744; Hannah, Aug. 4, 1749; Elizabeth; MATO — MILLEE. 365 Sarah; and Mary. Hannah mrBenj. Smith, 1783 — Sarah m. Oli- ver Hunt. He was a Scotchman, and sold himself for a term of years, to pay his passage to this country, and Judge Fuller's estate was holden to maintain him. MATO, THOMAS, from Eoxbury, lived on Brook farm, and had by w. Elizabeth , EUzaieth, March 26, 1735 ; Hannah, Nov. 16, 1736. U. MILLER, JOSEPH, sup. from Charlestown, was a signer of the secession petition, 1678, m. Mary Williams, lived on the Stimpson place. West Parish, and had Tliomas, April 9, 1675 ; Samuel, Sept. 24, 1678; J"osg3A,d. 1711; J"anc, d. 1719. He d. 1697. She d. 1711. IIL MILLER, SAMUEL, (s. of Joseph,) m. EUzabeth Child, Nov. 11, 1708, and had Man/, April 26, 1710; Elizabeth, Jan. 20,1711 ; Elizabeth, Aug. 22, 1713, d. 1713; Joseph, July 29, 1716; Sam- vd, Dec. 20, 1718; Ephraim, June 21, 1725, d. 1731. Mary m. Edward Hall, May 21, 1730 — Joseph was one of the first settlers of Westminster. He generously offered a room in his dwelling house to the Town, for a school, which they accepted, 1721; and in 1726, he gave to the Town four rods of land, for a school house, near his house. Was Selectman 1743, and d. at Worcester, 1759, se. 81. in. MILLER, THOMAS, (s. of Joseph,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Joshua Fuller, March 23, 1710, and had Elizabeth, Jan. 20, 1711. Wife Elizabeth d.- 2d w. Experience, dr. of Joshua Fuller, and had TAwnos, May 5, 1713. He d. Nov. 4, 1713, se. 38. Wid. Experience, admin. Inventory, £224 15s. 6rf. He had land in Charlestown. She m. John Child, Jan. 27, 1715. IV. MILLER, SAMUEL, (s. of Samuel and Elizabeth,) m. Elizabeth Hammond, 1743, and had Ephraim, June 4, 1744; Moses, Dec. 5, 1745 ; Josiah, May 2, 1748 ; Elizabeth, Sept. 25, 1750. IV. MILLER, JOSEPH, (s. of Samuel and Elizabeth,) m. Mary Williams, 1741, and had Jos^h, July 27, 1741. IV. MILLER, THOMAS, Jk., (s. of Thomas and Experience,) m. Mary Whiting, of Dedham, 1740, and had Tliomas, Nov. 15, 1741, d. 1744; Timothy, May 24, 1743, d. 1744; Mary, Aug. 10, 1745; 2^omas, March 9, 1747; Timothy, July 15, 1750; Joseph, July 16, 1754, d. 1756 ; Sarah, June 18, 1752, d. 1756 ; Samuel, May 12, 1756 ; Sarali, Aug. 20, 1760. Mary m. Stephen Cook, June, 1767. He d. 1775, ». 62. Shed. 1769. 31* 366 MILLER — MIEICK. V. MILLER, THOMAS, (s. of Thomas and Mary,) m. Mary Fuller, 1770, and had Joseph, Oct. 5, 1770; Mart/, July 24, 1772; Sarah, July 20, 1774. 2d w. Tabitha Puller, Nov. 10, 1774. MILLER, JOSEPH, m. Hepsibah Bartlett, 1803, and had Thomas, Sept. 10, 1809. n. MIRICK, JOHN, a turner, (sup. from Charlestown,) m. Eliza- beth, dr. of James Trowbridge, Sen^ 1682 ; owned the place adjoin- ing Obediah Curtis, and had Thankful, April 24, 1685 ; Sebecca, April 20, 1687; Li/dia, Feb. 18, 1689, d. 1694; Samud, March 1, 1690; John, Nov. 30, 1694; Margaret; James, Oct. 26, 1696; Deborah; Elizabeth, Aug. 1699; Elisha, March 5, 1700; iyrfto, July 7, 1704. Thankful m. Jonathan Woodward, 1720 — Sarah m. Capt. Jonathan FuUer, Oct. 1718 — Margaret m.Wm. Whitney, April, 1717— Deb- orah m. James Livermore, Oct. 1718 — Elizabeth m. Benoni Wood- ward, Nov. 1716 — Lydia m. James Cheney, Sen., 1732, d. 1766 — Rebecca m. , Oct. 1718. He d. July 11, 1706. She d. 1734, se. 74. His will, dated April 29, 1706, says, — "being weak in body, under a languishing sickness ;" names his brs. in law, Jona. FuUer and Richard Ward, and his kinsman, Thomas Wiswall ; gives direc- tions about the bringing up of his small children, &c. Jona. Fuller, Richard Ward, and Ebenezer Stone, executors. Inventory, £348 15s. Id. [Homer's History states that "John Myriek, of Newton, was killed by the Indians, at Groton, July 21, 1706." That could not have been the Newton John, or either of his sons, and Newton Records mention no other John Mirick.] * m. MIRICK, SAMUEL, (s. of John,) m. Mary Stratton, of Wat., May 14, 1718, and had Samuel, April 21, 1719, d. 1744 ; Mary, July 15, 1721 ; Sarah, Dec. 19, 1722 ; Esther, Feb. 27, 1726; Ann, Aug. 3, 1729 ; Elizahelh, March 20,. 1732, d. 1744 ; Abigail, pec. 23, 1734 ; Hannah, Sept. 17, 1738, d. 1744; Lydia, Jan. 7, 1740; d. 1744; and Jdnat&an. Maiy m. Samuel Smith, Nov. 1738 — Sarah m. Ichabod Robinson, 1744 — Either m. Samuel Mason, Sept. 1745 — Abigail m. George Ward, Jan. 1755. He d. April 29, 1749, se. 59. MIRICK, JOHN, Je., had by w. Sarah , James, March 15, 1738, and by w. Elizabeth , Lydia, July 7, 174-. IV. MIRICK, SAMUEL, (s. of Samuel,) m. Hannah CooUdge, 1741, and had Abijah, Feb. 10, 1742, A. 1744. He d. 1744. , IV. MIRICK, JONATHAN, fs. of Samuel,) m. AbigaU Brown, of Waltham, Oct. 1749, and had Mary, Aug. 10, 1750 ; Hannah, June 1, 1757; Samuel, Feb. 6, 1759; Abigail, Nov. 6, 1751 ; 4nno,Feb. 17, MEEIAM. 367 1753; Susanm, March 4, 1756; Patty; Jonathan, May 31,1761. Anna m. Jno. Searer, of Camb. 1783. In the three preceding fami- lies, there were seven deaths in 1744. Wid. of Jonathan d. 1813. V. MERIAM, Rev. JONAS, the fourth Minister of Newton, was the s. of Jonas Meriam, of Lincoln, Mass., g.-S. of John Meriam, same place, g. g. s. of John Meriam, of Lexington, and the g. g. g. s. of Joseph Meriam, of Concord, who m. Sarah Stone, in 1653. He grad. H. C, 1753, ordained in Newton, March 22, 1758. His dwelling house and the Ch. Records were burnt 1770. Married Mehitable Toxcraft, of Camb., Not. 1758, and had Mehitable, June 5, 1 760. His w. d. April 22, 1770, £6. 47. 2d w^ Jerusha Ktch, of Brookline, 1771. Shed. 1776. 3d w. Sarah Chardon. His only chUd, Mehit- able, m. John Kenrick, Esq. He was Pastor of the Ch. twenty-two years and five months, and d. Aug. 13, 1780, se. 50. His successor in the ministry states that Mr. Meriam "was reputed a scholar of considerable talents. He had a happy skill in composition. His natural temper was mild and amiable. Charitable to the distressed, and studied peace through life." He d. of a consumption, and his remains were entombed in Boston ; and a monument was erected to his memory in Newton. After his marriage to Miss Fitch, her m. came to reside with them at Newton, and brought with her a female slave, named Pamelia, whom she received as a present from her s. Eliphalet Ktch, Esq., then residing on the island of Jamaica; the treatment of which slave, by her mistress, sorely troubled Mr. Mer- iani. One day, on seeing his m. in law strike and otherwise maltreat the slave, he asked at what price she would sell her to him ; she replied, " one hundred dollars.'' He immediately paid the price, and thereupon gave Pamelia her freedom ; but Pamelia chose to reside with him, and did so until his death, in 1 780 ; after which she went to live in Little Cambridge, [Brighton,] where she m., and d. a few years since, at very great age. Pamelia often said that she was bom in Africa, and was called by her parents Loqvassidmb Dm, and that she was stolen from her parents when a child, and carried to Jamai- ca, where she became the property of Mr. Pitch, who brought her to this country and gave her to his m., while on a visit here. This act of Mr. Meriam's was communicated by a very intelligent g. s. of Mr. Meriam's, who had it from the lips of his own mother, who was the only dr. of Mr. Meriam; which act we record with much pleasure. It is due to his memory, and from it we may be sure that he did not omit to preach by example. Wheresoever the gospel of humanity 368 MITCHEL — MOBSE — MOORE. shall be preached or written, such acts as this wiH be remembered as long as the act of " breaking the alabaster box of precious ointment upon the head of Him who came to open the prison door and set the captive free." MITCHEL, EDWARD, carpenter, from Brookline, kept the tavern, formerly Marean's, at s. part of the town, and had by w. Elizabeth , iVancy, Jan. 11, 1790; Sukey, Nov. 6, 1792, d. 1796; Sally, May 3, 1795 ; Sukey, Sept. 9, 1799. He d. Sept. 1807, se. 48. She d. Sept. 2, 1827, SB. 68. MORSE, JOSEPH, (s. of Joseph and Elizabeth, of Wat., g. s. of John, g. g. s. of Joseph, and g. g. g. s. of Joseph, an early settler of Wat.,*) m. Elizabeth Park, 1720, lived on the Williams' farm, and had Joseph, July 5, 1721 ; Solomon, June 8, 1722, d. 1722; Nathan, July 16, 1728; Abigail, Sept. 20, 1733 ; David and Jonathan, Jan. 24, 1736; Lucy, May 2, 1743. David d. 1736. Wife Elizabeth d. 1744. He d. 1780, se. 87. John and Solomon Park conveyed land to him, 1721. MORSE, JOSEPH, (s. of Joseph and Elizabeth, of Newton,) m. Abi- gail Jackson, 1746, and had Nathaniel, Daniel, Ebenezer, Joseph and Samuel. MORSE, NATHAN, (s. of Joseph,) m. Mary Jackson, dr. of Edward, Jr., 1750, and had Joseph, July 16, 1750; Edward, Jan. 13, V52; Nathan, April 21, 1759; Mary, Jan. 2, 1754; Abigail, March 28, 1755; Sarah, 1761 ; Rachel, June 2, 1763 ; Nathan, April 1, 1766; Hannah, April 8, 1768; Hetty, Jane 1, 1770; and Anna, Jan. 23, 1773. He d. 1783. MORSE, DANIEL, m. Sarah Prentice, 1767. MORSE, EBENEZER, m. Sarah Parker, 1768. MORSE, SAMUEL, m. SaUy Dix, 1794. MORSE, JOSEPH, Je., m. Martha Bond, 1775. MORSE, GEORGE, had by w. Esther, Adelia M., June 15, 1830 ; and Edmund A., June 11, 1832. MOORE, REUBEN, bricklayer, m. Henrietta, wid. of Thomas Jack- son, and dr. of Dr. Edward Durant, Jan. 1792, took the John Jack- son place, and had Harriet, Augustus, Catherine, Maria and James. He d. 1837, 83. 83. * Dr. Bond. MUEDOCK. 369 n. MUEDOCK, ROBERT, and Hannah Stedman, were m. in Rox., April 28, 1692, and had in Rox., Hannah, 1693 ; Rdberl, Feb. 1, 1694 ; John, March 25, 1696 ; Samud, March 24, 1698 j Benjamin, May 4, 1700 ; in Newton, Hannah^ May 22, 1705, Robert (sap. from Old Colony) is the only one of the name on the Rox. Records, previous to 1700. This name is sometimes written on the Plymouth Records, Murdo, Murdow, and Murdock. John, Jr., of Duxburyj m. Ruth Bartlett, 1725 — Thomas, of Plymouth, merchant, will, 1751 — John, Esq., of Scituate, will, 1756, sons James and Bartlett ; they may have been related to Robert, of Eoxbury. Robert, of Rox., and family, removed to Newton, 1703, bought house and one hundred and twenty acres of land, for £90, of Jonathan Hyde and John Woodward, bounded E. by school land and. Dedham road, s. by Jacob Chamberlain, and w. by John Hyde — same place since owned by Capt. Jeremiah WiswaU. "Wife Hannah d. 1727, se. 60. 2d w. Abigail. He d. April, 1754, ae. 89. ni. MUEDOCK, Lieut. ROBERT, (s. of Robert and Hannah,) m. Abigail Hyde, dr. of Samuel Hyde, Nov. 5, 1719; took the home- stead which he bought of his father, 1 754, one hundred and twenty acres for £1,500, and had Joshua, Dec. 31, 1721 ; Hannah, May 22, 1725; Samuel, May 28, 1726, d. 1742; Elizabeth, May 27, 1731. Elizabeth m. Dea. Jeremiah Wiswall, 1750. He was Selectman nine years. Representative two years, and d. 1762, ss. 68. His will, proved 1762 ; w. Abigail, and s. Joshua, executors. m. MUEDOCK,.JOHN, (s.of Eobertand Hannah,) m. Sarah , and had .ffanna^, July 17, 1723, d.; J.61W, Eeb. 21, 1724; Jb^w, Dec. 24, 1727 ; Ephraim, April 18, 1729, d.; Atoos, Aug. 7, 1730; Elisha, Aug. 25, 1732, d. 1749 ; Aaron, Aug. 28, 1735 ; Ephraim, March 19, 1737 ; Jame&, March 15, 1738 ; Sohert, Sept. 1, 1739^ Sarah, Sept. 17, 1741 ; Hannah, Eeb. 21, 1744. James m. Deborah Williams, Oct. 10, 1765 — Hannah m. Nathaniel Sparhawk, of Camb., 1768 — Ephraim m. Sarah Sever, 1761, settled in Rox., was Dea. there. 2d w. Charity Davis, 1768, and had s. William C, 1777. He bought twenty-two acres land in Newton, 1721, of Wm. Hyde, for £200, e. on the road, n. by James Prentice, and w. by Daniel Hyde. He d. March, 1744, se. 48. She d. 1779, se. 76. in. MUHDOCK, BENJAMIN, (s.of Robert and Hannah,) m. Mary Hyde, 1725, and had JbAn, Jan. 9, 1727; Benjamin, Sept. 28, 1729; Hannah, d. 1734; Mary, June 19, 1731 ; Abigail, Sept. 11, 1733. 370 MUEDOCK. IV. MUBDOCK, JOSHUA, (s.of Robert, Jr.,) m. Esther Child, of Brookline, March, 1745. Bought sixty acres of land for £350, in 1754"; N. by Ephraim Fenno, and adjoining James Allen, Lient. ■William Hyde, Abraham Hyde, and Nathan Hyde; built house thereon, about sixty rods w. of Centre M. H., and had Abigail, Sept. 18,1746; William, Jan. 14, 1748; Ann, April 25, 1749; Elizabeth, Sept. 14, 1750; Samud, March 4, 1752; Joshua, Oct. 15, 1753. Wife d. 1755, SB. 30. 2d w. Esther Greenwood, 1756, and had Eli'sha, Feb. 19, 1757 ; Jonathan, May 17, 1759; Esther, April 28, 1761 ; Robert, Nov. 30, 1763 ; Nathaniel, March 16, 1768 ; Phebe, Dec. 5, 1765 ; Asa, Dec. 31, 1772; Elizabeth, Sept. 14, 1770; Artemas, Feb. 2, 1771. Abigail m. Samuel Fisk, 1774 — Ann m. Elisha Woodwara, 1773 — Esther m. Samuel Ward, 1790 — Phebe m. Nathan Bond, 1790. He was Selectman two years, and d. July 3, 1797, se. 76. He probably bought his homestead near the Centre M. H., of John Murdock, his uncle, who bought it of William Hyde, 1721. IV. MURDOCK, JOHN, Jk., m. 1st, Bethia Fuller, 1750. 2d, Mary Ward, April, 1760, and had John, March 6, 1761 ; Mehitable, May 22,1763; Mart/, Feb. 29, 1765, d. young; Sarah, Aug. 30, 1766; John, Aug. 21, 1768 ; Amasa, July 28, 1772; George, Feb. 21, 1775 ; Mary, Dec. 27, 1778. Mehitable m. Daniel Eaton, of Framingham. This family removed to Uxbridge. John took the name of Eobert Pierpont, of Box., by act of General Court, 1795. IV. MUEDOCK, AAEON, (brother of John, Jr.,) ra. LydiaWard, May, 1759, and had, in Camb., Samuel, March 29,^1761 ; Lois, March 17,1763; Caty, May 2, 1765; Jos^h, March 17,1767. Caty m. Nathan Parker, of Fram. V. MUEDOCK, WILLIAM, (s. of Joshua,) m. Achsa Woodward, 1775, settled in Westminster, and had Joshua, John, Artemas, Sam- uel, Hannah, Lydia, Lucy, Ann, and Catherine. Ann m. Dea. E. F. Woodward. IV. MURDOCK, ABIEL, (s. of Eobert, Jr.,) m. Eebecca Watson, of Camb., 1770. in. MURDOCK, SAMUEL, (a. of Eobert, Sen.,) m. Hannah Wood- ward, 1749. V. MURDOCK, Maj. SAMUEL, (s. of Joshua,) m. Beulah Fuller, and had Margaret, Dec. 13, 1781 ; Nancy, Nov. 10, 1783, d. 1792; Esther, June 19, 1786 ; Beulah, July 2, 1788 ; SopUa, April 12, 1791. Esther, unm. — Margaret m. Capt. Joel Houghton — Beulah m. MTJSDOCK. 371 • Ephraim Jackson — Sophia m. Jonathan Stone, 1814. Wife Beu- lah d. Dec. 7, 1804. 2d w., Jane Bacon, 1806, and had Nancy, June 30, 1811. Selectman two years, Town Clerk and Treasurer twenty one years ; d. Nov. 20, 1814, sb. 62. V. MURDOCK, ROBERT, (s. of Joshua,) m. Mary, dr. of Samuel Hyde, 1792, and had Asa, June 2, 1792 ; Robert, July 10, 1794 ; George, Jan. 1, 1800 ; Mary ; Martha; Walter, Feb. 5, 1806. Mary m. John B. H. Euller, 1822 — Martha m. Washburn. Wife Mary d. Aug. 17, 1823, se. 60. 2d w. Ann, wid. of Asa Rogers, 1824. He d. 1846, se. 82. V. MURDOCK, ELISHA, (s. of Joshua,) m. Lucy Beal, 1793, and had Elisha, March 28, 1794, d. 1822. He d. Dec. 1, 1815, se. 58. She d. Nov. 1, 1815, ss. 67. V. MURDOCK, NATHANIEL, (s. of Joshua,) m. Lydia Marean, 1793, and had, in Brookline, Nancy, Dec. 8, 1793 ; Eliza, 1795 ; George, 1799; Maria, 1801 ; Nathaniel, 1806, d. single ; Thomas M., 1809, d. 1836. Nancy m. Clark — Eliza, unm. — George m. Sally Kenrick, 1828. He d. 1837, ss. 69. V. MURDOCK, JONATHAN, (s. of Joshua,) m. Joanna Wait, 1785, and had Sarah, Sept. 16, 1796 ; Joanna, May 9, 1800 ; Jonathan, Oct. 31, 1810, d. 1834. He d. Jan. 8, 1838, se. 79. V. MURDOCK, ARTEMAS, (s. of Joshua,) m. SaUy, dr. of Gov. Eustis, 1797, and had Artemas, d. 1821 ; Thomas J., Sarah, Julia, Caroline, Adeline, and one more. Sarah m. William Curtis. He d. Jan. 1825, se. 54. V. MURDOCK, JOSHUA, (s. of Joshua,) m. Mindwell Parker, 1783, settled in Hubbardston, and had only one dr., who m. Earle. She d. Jan. 1809. VI. MURDOCK, JONATHAN, (s. of Jonathan and Joanna,) m. Wait, of Maiden. VI. MURDOCK, ASA, (s. of Robert,) m. Sabrina Lowell, Oct. 1824. VI. MURDOCK, GEORGE, (s. of Robert,) m. Mary Bacon, 1824, and 2d, SaUy Kenrick, 1828. VI. MURDOCK, ROBERT, (s. of Robert,) m. MURDOCK, AMASA, m. Harriet Green, 1834. 372 MUNROE — NEWELL — NORCEOSS. MUNBOE, OLIVER, taUor, m. wid. Borodell Cheever, and dr. of Samuel Jackson, Esq. NEWELL, JOHN, Jr., m. Elizabeth Davis, of Eox., 1767, lived near Brook farm. Selectman 1761. NEWELL, JOSHUA, had by w. Sarah , John, Dec. 30, 1778. NEWELL, EBENEZEB, m. Catherine Richards, 1765. NEWELL, NANCY, dr. of Elizabeth Grimes, b. 1779. NORCROSS, PHILIP, (s. of Nathaniel and Susanna, of Wat., g. s. of Richard, Jr., and g. g. g. s. of Jeremiah, one of the early settlers of Wat., *) m. Sarah, dr. of Edward and Mary Jackson, lived where the Eliot ch. stands, and had Grace, March 27, 1724; Thankfd, Aug. 23, 1726; Samuel, Oct. 18, 1729; PMip or Bdmf, July 23, 1732; Jonathan, Eeb. 7, 1735; Sarah, Nov. 21, 1739; Susanna, March 31, 1742; Seth, May 21, 1744; Nathaniel, Jan. 30, 1747; Philip, March 16, 1750. Thankful m. Samuel Spring, 1795, and 2d, Dea. Joseph Adams, 1782 — Sarah m. Daniel Spring, 1760 — Su- sanna m. Amariah Learned, of Wat. He d. Jan. 18, 1748, se. 50. Wid. Sarah, admin. ; house, bam, shop, and fourteen acres land. Inventory i£l,659, 1 5s. She d. 1 754. NORCROSS, SAMtJEL, (s. of PhUip,) m. Mary, dr. of Capt. Noah Wiswall, May 1752,and had Samuel, Dec. 23, 1752; Philip, March 16, 1754; 3£aty, Sept. 24, 1755; Elijah, Feb. 16, 1757; JosiaJi; and Daniel, 1761. NORCROSS, NATHANIEL, (s. of Josiah, of Wat.) m. Anna Ward, 1783, and had Mary, April 11, 1783 ; Nathaniel, Dec. 5, 1785 ; Anna, July 13, 1788 ; Jemima, Aug. 17, 1790, d. 1807 ; James W., Aug. 23, 1792; .Amy, Nov. 14, 1795; Abigail, Nov. 28, 1797; Martha, pec. 11,1799; <7on)Kne, Dec. 18,1802. Mary m. Edward Fisher, of Sud- bury — Anna m. Isaac Gale, of Eox. — Abigail m. Harvey James — Caroline jn. James Whittemore, of Eox. — Nath'l m. Mary Elkms — James W.m. Esther Clark. Wife Anna d. 1805, te. 44. 2dw. Eanny, dr. of Stephen Winchester. ; NORCROSS, JOSEPH, m. Hannah Shepard, 1730. •Dr. Bond. NOECROSS — OLIVER. 373 NOECROSS, MOSES, (s. of Josiah, of Wat.) m. Mary "Winchester, May 6, 1799, settled in Northboro', Mass., and had Mary, Ermina, Stephen W., Fanny W., and Harriet. NOECROSS, JOSIAH, m. Betsy Corkham, 1798. NOECROSS, NATHANIEL, m. Mary Elwing, 1809. NORCEOSS, JAMES W., (s. of Nathaniel,) m. Esther Clark, 1816, and had Jho. C, 1817; George N., 1818; Ann J., 1820; James H., 1822; George F., 1824 ; Edward G., 1826 ; Eliza Jane, 1828; Sarah A., 1830 ; Thomas C, 1831 ; Maiiha A., 1834 ; Clarissa M., 1838. III. OLIVEE, Dea. THOMAS, Esq., (s. of Rev. John and EUza- beth (Newgate) Oliver, g. s. of Elder Thomas Oliver, who came to N. E., 1631,) was bom in Boston, 1646. His f. d. 1646, and Ed- ward Jackson, Sen., m. his mother, in 1649. He followed his moth- er and f. in law, who was also his guardian, to Camb. Village, where, at the age of twenty-one years, he was m. to Grace, dr. of the cele- brated Capt. Thomas Prentice, 1667. In 1670, he purchased dwell- ing house and sixty-seven acres land, being part of the homestead of Richard Dana, Sen., in what is now Brighton, (now owned by Samuel Brooks,) near the place late of Gorham Parsons, on the road leading to the College, bounding w. by the road running N. E. to the marshes ; n. by the ancient highway upon the bank of the river, which was the original way from the Great bridge to Nonan- tum, long ago discontinued ; on the B. by land formerly of Richard Oldham, then of Richard Dana, and after to Thomas Cheney. He had by w. Grace Prentice, Grace, 9. 15. 1668, d. 16. 9. 1680; Eliza- beth, April 11, 1670, d. 22. 4.1674; 2%omas, d. 22. 3. 1683; John, Nov. 22, 1671, d. 20. 10. 1673; Sannah, Ang. 16, 1674; Peter; Samuel, May 18, 1679, d. Dec. 2, 1729 ; and Thomas, July 22, 1676. Wife Grace d. 31. 7. 1681, se. 33. She was born and baptised in England. 2d w. Mary, dr. of Nathaniel Wilson, Sen., 19. 2. 1682, and had John, 9. 5. 1683 ; Sarah, 14. 9. 1690 ; Nathaniel, Eeb. 1, 1685 ; Thomas, July 17, 1700, grad. H. C, 1719 ; Samuel, Jan. 12, 1702 ; Mary, March 20, 1688. She d. Dec. 2, 1729. Sarah m. Rev. Ca- leb Trowbridge, 1715. Although he lived in Camb., about one mile from the line of the Village, yet he was in fact one of the villagers, where his own mother, and three fathers in law resided. He was a member and Dea. of the Village Ch. His gravestone, with the title of Capt, is still standing, within fifty feet of the spot where the first Ch. stood, in which he was ordained Deacon, May 18, 1707. Dur- 32 374 OHVEK ONGE. ing Philip's war, the praying Indians were removed to Deer Island, in Boston harbor. After which, he gave them a temporary resi- dence upon his land on Charles river, where they found a, conve- nient place for fishing, &c. He was Capt., Dea., Bepresentative, Jnstice of the Peace, and Councillor of the Province. He d. Nov. 1, 171.'), SB. 70. Will dated Oct. 30, 1715, and proved Jan. 31, fol- lowing, in which he says, " I give up my precious soul to God — Pather, Son and Holy Ghost, relying alone upon the blood and righteousness of Christ, for pardon of sin, and everlasting life and salvation." Gives w. Mary, ilO a year, to be paid by his sons Peter and Samuel ; also, house room, furniture, and land adjoining ; what apples and milk She needs, with cider, pork, and the use of a horse to ride to meeting, and elsewhere, during her life, or so long as she remains his wid. If she marry again, sons Peter and Samuel shall each pay her forty shillings yearly, and household stuff for her necessary use, &c. He left in the hands of his loving consin, (nephew.) Daniel Oliver, some estate for the support of his s. Thom- as, at College, until he takes his first degree, to be laid out in books, &c., for him. To dr. Abigail, £80 ; dr. Sarah Trowbridge, £5, to what she has already had ; to s. Nathaniel, all the housing and land he purchased of Eleazer Williams, in Newton ; to sons Peter and Samuel all his lands not before disposed of, to be equally divided by Samuel Oldham, Joshua Fuller, and John Greenwood j they to be allowed five shillings a day for that service. His two onion yards to be equally divided between sons Peter and Samuel, s. Peter to have all the housing and buildings, and he to pay s. Samuel £50 for his half of the buildings. Inventory, £1,632, Is. lOd. IV. OLIVER, THOMAS, (s. of Thomas and Grace,) m. and had Samuel, 1703 ; a guardian was appointed for him in May, 1719 1 he d. Dec. 2, 1729, se. 26 years and 10 months.— (Gravestone.) Hed. May 12, 1745. IV. OLIVER, NATHANIEL, (s. of Thomas, Sen.,) m. Bethia Ful- ler, or Bond. (?) IV. OLIVER, Capt. PETER, (s. of Thomas, Sen.,) m. Mary , and took the homestead. He d. Dec. 7, 1729, and his wid. sold part of the homestead. ONGE, SIMON, was a proprietor in Wat, 1642, and s. of Frances. He signed the secession petition, in 1678, d. the same year, and his brother Jacob, of Wat., admin, on his estate. OSLAND — PATCH — PALMER. 375 n. OSLAND, HUMPHREY, shoemaker, m. Elizabeth, dr. of Sam- uel Hyde, Sen., 7. 1. 1666-7 ; built a house on his father Hyde's land, which by will he bequeathed to his s. Osland, being part of the same land on which Israel Lombard has recently erected a valuable house. He signed the secession petition, 1678. He had by w. Eliza- beth, ElUabeth, 25. 1 1. 1667 ; John, Oct. 10, 1669 j Hannah; Sarah, 23. 9. 1683. Elizabeth m. Nathaniel Wilson, his 2d w., March 11, 1693, and went to Framingham — Hannah m. Dr. John Prentice, 1696, and d. 1704 — Sarah m. Edward Prentice. He d. June 19, 1720. She d. March 13, 1723. m. OSLAND, JOHN, (s. of Humphrey,) m. Sarah, dr. of Jonathan Hyde, Sen., and had Mary, June 6, 1699; Sarah; Esther, March 8, 1704, d. 1725; Lydia; Elizabeth; Thankful; Jonathan, Ja.n. 30', 1706. Mary m. Philip Pratt, Jr., of Framingham, 1726 — Esther d. 1725 — Lydia m. Caleb Hyde, of Canterbury, 1738 — Elizabeth m. Josiah Hyde, settled in Canterbury — Thankful m. Jonathan Hyde, settled in Canterbury. He d. 1740, se. 71 ; his will names only s. Jonathan. She d. 1753, se. 76; her will is dated 1753. IV. OSLAND, JONATHAN, (s. of John,) m. Temperance Stowell, 1736, and had Esther, Aug. 25, 1738 ; and Hannah, who m. William Burrage. OSBORN, EPHRAIM, had by w. Elizabeth , Jane, April 6, 1733. PATCH, ISAAC, had by w. Eddeth , Sarah, Dec. 11, 1711 ; Thomas, April 15, 1713 ; Lydia, Nov. 24, 1714 ; Isaac, Feb. 27, 1716. PARIS, SAMUEL, had by w. Dorothy , Dorothy, Aug. 28, 1700. PALMER, JOHN; his father came to this country about 1740, and settled in Warren, Me. He was m. in Warren, removed to s. part of Newton, and had Thomas, William, John, Mary, and Anna. Mary m. Noah Wiswall, Jr., 1769 — Anna m. Samuel Parker, 1770 — William d. before 1796, leaving two drs., Mary and Ann. , He kept the s. school many winters, and d. June, 1809, leaving a will, proved 1809, s. Thomas, executor. PALMER, THOMAS, (s. of John,) m. Margarett, dr. of Capt. Noah Wiswall, 1766, took homestead near Brook farm, and had Mary, Thomas, John, William, Margaret, Sarah, Ann, Alice, Francis, and Joseph. Ann m. Samuel Parker, 1770. 376 PALMEB PAKKEK. PALMER, JOHN, Jk., m. Margaret Newell, 1782, and had Laura, and removed to the State of New York. PALMER, WILLIAM, (s. of Thomas and Margarett,) m. Charlotte, dr. of Elisha Hyde, 1811, took the homestead, and had William S, Aug. 12, 1812 ; Catherine E., Ang. 29, 1816 ; Charlotte A., Jane 16, 1818 ; Thomas W., June 12, 1820 ; Lavina, George, and Caroline. I. PARKER, JOHN, was one of the earliest settlers of Hingham. He had land granted to him there, in 1636 and 1640. He left Hingham with Nicholas Hodgden, John Winchester, Thomas Ham- mond, and Vincent Druce, all of Hingham, about 1650, and all settled in the same neighborhood. Hodgden and Winchester settled within the bounds of Boston, (Brookline,) and the others in the east- erly part of Camb. Village. Hodgden was the first purchaser of a large tract of land, partly in Camb. Village, and partly in Boston, " (Brookline,) and he no doubt induced the others to take portions of it, which they did, in 1650. He had by w. Joanna , Mary, christened at Hingham, 28. 11. 1647; Martha, 1. 3. 1649; John, Camb. Village, 15. 12. 1651 ; Joanna, Jan. 16, 1653 ; Thomas, 1. 12. 1657 ; Sarah, 6. 11. 1659 ; Isaac, 15. 1. 1662 ; Jonathan, 6. 9. 1665 ; Lydia, 15. 3. 1667. Mary m. Peter Hanchet, of Rpx. — Martha m. James Horsley — Sarah m. Samuel Snow, of Wobum, 1686 — Thomas d. 1679 — Jeremiah d. young — Joanna m. Stone. He d. 1686, se. 71. She d. March 14, 1688. His will is in Suffolk Registry, proved Oct. 1686. Gives s. Isaac the homestead, (twenty eight acres,) and his w. to have a maintenance out of it ; to s. Jona- than, forty-six acres of woodland, lying near where Capt. Prentice dwelleth, and £% in money ; to 'James Horsely, the only s. of his dr. V' Martha, £5 ; to dr. Joanna Stone, £5 ; to dr. Sarah, £i ; to dr. Lydia, £& ; to son in law Peter Hanchet, twenty shillings in com ; to daughter in law Margaret Atkinson, five shillings ; (wid of s. Thomas m. Atkinson ;) to s. John, eleven acres land whereon he has erected his now dwelling house, and seven acres meadow and woodland, and one cow. His s. Isaac and his w. appointed executors. John Ward, Sen., and Thomas Greenwood, overseers. Inventory, £404, 3s. dd. House and twenty-eight acres land adjoin- ing, and about ninety acres elsewhere. Appraised by Lieut. Isaac Williams and John Spring. IL PARKER, JOHN, Jk., m. Mary , and had John, Aug. 17, 1687 ; Mary, March 3, 1690 ; Deborah, Feb. U, 1693 ; Sarah, March 24, 1695 ; Thomas, Jan. 9, 1699. Mary m. Robert Fuller, of Need- PAEKEB. 377 ham, 1713 — Sarah d. 1724, left a will — Thomas went to 'Worces- ter. He d. Oct. 1713, se. 62. She d. March, 1715. Son John, ad- min. Inventory, £412, 2s. n. PARKER, ISAAC, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Mary Parker, both of Camb. Village, May 4, 1687, and had Man/, Feb. 4, 1689, d. 1689; Benjamin, Oct. 8, 1702; Martha, and probably others. He sold his place to Thomas Greenwood, and removed to Needham. He was in the Canada expedition, 1690, and the General Court granted him land for his services, which land his s. Benjamin sold to Norman Clark, 1742. 11. PARKER, JONATHAN, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Deliverance , and had Mary, Sept. 25, 1701 ; Jonathan, July 21, 1711, in Needham, and probably others. Sarah, sup. 2d w., d. March, 1721. He removed to Needham. II. PARKER, THOMAS, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Margaret . He d. 1679, se. 22, and his wid. m. Atkinson. III. PARKER, JOHN, (s. of John and Mary,) m. Esther , and had JbsioA, July7, 1715; rimo%, Peb. 14, 1717; ^oAn,May 1, 1719; Phineas, Oct. 16, 1721 ; Esther, Feb. 4, 1724 ; Mary, June 8, 1726 ; Sybil, May 14, 1729 ; Sarah, A. 1724; Ezra, June 13, 1731. Esther m. Samuel Child, of Weston, 1750 — Mary m. Josiah Knapp, 1745 — Sybil m. WUliam Marean, of Rutland. 2d w. Hannah Pierce, of Weston, 1753. He d. . Will 1761, proved 1762. PARKER, STEPHEN, (s. of ,) m. Elizabeth , and had /Ste;)/ien, Aug. 20, 1714; Elizabeth, March 13, 1716; Ann, May 18, 1717. PARKER, JOHN, d. March 21, 1718 ; prob. he who signed the seces- sion petition, in 1678. III. PARKER, BENJAMIN, (s. of Isaac,) m. Mary ; no chil. recorded. He d. July 23, 1752. She d. May 13, 1751. PARKER, JOSEPH, (s. of ,) m. Elizabeth ; no chil. re- corded. He was survgyor of highways, 1703. Conveyed land with w. Elizabeth, in 1715. He d. 1783. in. PARKER, JOHN, (sup. s. of Isaac,) m. Abigail , and had John, May 8, 1723 ; Sarah, May 4, 1724. PARKER, EPHRAIM, had by w. Abigail , Nathaniel, Dec. S, 1736. 32* 378 PARKER. IV. PARKEE, JOHN, (s. of John and Abigail,) m. Abigail Eobbins, March 4, 1748, and had Hannah, Dec. 7, 1748, d. 1755; Phineas, April 19, 1751 ; Timothy, Sept. 20, 1754 ; John, July 23, 1756 ; Naiby, Jan. 19, 1763 ; Hannah, Dec. 30, 1758. IV. PARKER, TIMOTHY, (s. of John and Esther,) m. Keziah Hammond, 1743, and had, in Holliston, John, who m. Mary , and went to Marlboro' ; William, went to Sudbury ; Joshua, went to Sudbury ; Jacob, m. Lydia Park, and went to Hopkinton, and had several drs. He d. 1754, £e. 37. IV. PARICEE, EDWARD, had by w. Eunice , Mary, Jan. 17, 1738. IV. PARKER, NATHAN, m. Sarah Cheney, of Rox., 1753. IV. PARKER, JOSIAH, (s. of John and Esther,) m. Sarah Ham- mond, 1739. He d. in the army, at Lake George, 1758, se. 43. She d. 1758, se. 43. IV. PARKER, EZRA, (s. of John and Esther,) m. Sarah Pratt, 1755, and had Sarah, Dec. 4, 1756; lAicy, April 12, 1761 ; Farniy, Sept. 28, 1762 ; Jtdia, Eeb. 26, 1767 ; Ezra, April 19, 1770; Fanny, March 16, 1765. PARKER, BENJAMIN, (s. of ,) m. Jemima, dr. of Dr. Wheat, 1763, and had Benjamin, May 11, 1765, who grad. H. C, 1784; was a physician in Weston, and d. there, 1807. PARKER, DAVID, m. Lois Pierce, 1792. PARKER, EPHRAIM, m. Relief WelUngton, 1794. PARKER, JONATHAN, m. Ann Cheney, 1792, d. 1830, ». 70. He d. 1836-7. PARKER, ISAAC, m. Deborah WiUiams, of Rox., 1776. PARKER, JONATHAN, m. Hannah Weld, of Rox., 1774. PARKER, NATHANIEL, Je., m. Patience Hammond, 1778. n. PARKER, SAMUEL, (s. of Samuel and Sarah (Homan) Parker, of Dedham,) m. Ruth , and had in Newton, Mary, Nov. 12, 1695. Wife Ruth d. 1698. 2d w., Mercy , and had Bdhia, Jan. 24, 1701. HI. PARKER, EBENEZER, (sup. s. of Samuel and Mercy,) m. SarahSeverns,Dec. 17, 1724, andhad jBZisAo, Sept. 30, 1725; Mar- PABKEE. 379 garet, April 15, 1727 ; Rebecca, May 8, 1729 ; Ruth, May 24, 1731. She m. Col. MichaelJackson, Jan. 1759. Wife Sarah d. July 31, 1736. 2d w., Mindwell Bird, of Dor., 1739, and had Sarah, Aug. 27, 1740 ; Samuel, Oct. 25, 1742. 2d w. d. 1756, se. 45. 3d w., Mary Goddard, Oct. 19, 1759. He d. April 14, 1783, se. 81. m. PARKER, ENOCH, (sup. s. of Samuel and Mercy,) m. Abi- gail, dr. of Capt. John Jackson, about 1735, and had Catherine, Deo. 5, 1736, d. young ; Nathaniel, Nov. 26, 1737, d. 1742; William, Eeb. 20, 1742 ; Abigail, Elizabeth, Jackson, Henry, Abraham, Susanna, Francis, Priscilla. He grad. H. C, 1733, kept the Town school many years, and was long known as Master Parker. He d. March, 1801, £6. about 95. IV. PARKER, "WILLIAM, (s. of Enoch Parker,) m. Catherine Durant, 1764, and had Charles, Not. 1, 1784. He d. 1795, se. 52. His wid. Catherine m. Samuel Hastings, Jr., 1797. IV. PARKER, ELISHA, (s. of Ebenezer and Sarah,) m. Esther Euller, 1751, and had Ebenezer, 1752, d. 1775, £e. 23 ; EsUier, Mind- well, Caleb, Elisha, Jonathan, Ephraim, Sarah, Reuben, Betty. XV. PARKER, SAMUEL, (s. of Ebenezer and Mindwell,) m. Ann Palmer, 1770, and had Mindwell and Hannah. Mindwell m. Jolm Pigeon, 1790. He d. April, 1822, ». 80. HL PARKER, NATHANIEL, (s. of Samuel and Sarah (Homau) Parker, of Dedham, born March 26, 1670,) m. Margaret, dr. of Capt. Noah Wiswall, settled on part of the Wiswall land and bought the house and land of Lieut. Ebenezer Wiswall, 1694, and had Noah, Jan. 20, 1694; Caleb, Not. 9, 1696. 2d w., wid. Mary (Marett) HoTey, of Camb., Dec. 1736. i"irst w. d. July 30, 1736. 2d w. d. Sept. 10, 1758. He d. Feb. 28, 1747, SB. 77. An enterpris- ing man. In 1708, John Clark sold him quarter part of saw mill, stream eel wear, and half an acre of land, at Upper Falls, for £12, and in 1717, another quarter part same mill, with one and a half acres land, for i£45. IV. PARKER,NOAH, (s.ofNathaniel and Margaret,) m. Sarah Cnm- mings, of Tyngsboro', April 21, 1715, settled at Upper Falls and had Thomas, March 26, 1716 ; David, March 10, 1718 ; Peter, April 23, 1720; Esther; Joseph, d. 1722; Josiah, May 7,1722. His f. Nathaniel, by deed of gift, conTeyed to him (1725) half the saw mill, grist miU, falling mill, with the lands appurtenant, at the Upper 380 PARKER. Falls, valued at ^£150. Same year, "William Clark sold him one quarter part of the same mills, and seven acres land adjoining, for i95 i and same time, Nathaniel Longley sold him the remaining quarter part of the same mills, and he became the sole owner of the whole of the first and oldest mills, in 1725, with the dam, stream, eel wears, &c. Was one of the early Baptists. He d. March 18 1708, se. 74. She d. Sept. 10, 1758. IV. PARKER, CALEB, (s. of Nathaniel,) m. Abigail Stedman, of Brookline, 1721, and had Joshua, Sept. 5, 1722 ; Caleb, June 7, 1726. V. PARKER, THOMAS, (s. of Noah,) m. Eunice Hammond, 1741, and had Moses, June 9, 1742; NcUhaniel, May 15.1744; Josiah, May 13, 1746; Eunice, March 17, 1748; Prisdlla, Nov. 9, 1749; Tlwmas, Aug. 4, 1751 ; Samuel, Sept. 2, 1753 ; Joseph, April 4, 1755 ; ^iMonna, Jan. 19, 1757; Aaron, Feb. 26, 1759; Benjamin, "Sov. 5, 1760; Sarah, May 24, 1764; Hadassa, May 27, 1766, d. young. Eunice m. Jonathan Bixby — Priscilla m. Enoch Davenport, 1771 — Susanna d. unm., 1 834 — Sarah m. Ithama Ward, 1796 — Josiah d. in the army — Benjamin d. unm., March 12, 1836, se. 76. He was n. Selectman and Representative six years from 1777, a leading and influential man in the town, and occasionally a preacher or exhorter of the Baptist persuasion, and d. March 27, 1812, SB. 91. She d. 1812. v. PARKER, DAVID, {s. of Noah,) m. Sarah Trusedale, 1738, and \ia.i Anna, May 2, 1739 ; Elizabeth, July 9, 1742 ; Sarah, March 14, 1746; Noah, July 12, 1749. Sarah m. Ebenezer Morse, 1768. He d. 1797, IE. 79. V. PARKER, PETER, (s. of Noah,) m. Saiah Ruggles Payson, July 1751, and had in Pox., John, 1756 ; Peter, 1759 ; Sarah, Mar- tha, Elizabeth, and Mary. Sarah m. Joseph Tilden — Martha m. William Shattuck — Elizabeth m. Caleb Kenrick — Mary m. Wil- liam Dall, of Boston. He d. Nov. 1765, re. 45. She d. 1802. VI. PARKER, MOSES, (s. of Thomas and Eunice,) m. Mary Mills, of Needham, 1773, settled in Standish, Mc. Drowned in Saco river, Oct. 1809. VI. PARKER, NATHANIEL, (s. of Thomas and Eunice,) m. Hannah Whitney, Nov. 19, 1772, and had Caleb, April 29,1773; Hannah, March 18, 1775 ; Eunice, d. young. Hannah m. David Scott. PAEKEE. 381 VI. PARKEE, THOMAS, (s. of Thomas and Euniee,) m. Esther Gridley, of Eox., April 29, 1777, and had Thomas, Sept. 21, 1777 ; Abigail, 1779, d. 1787; Samuel G., 1781 ; AKgail, Jan. 22, 1788. Abigail m. Stephen Eairbanks, of Boston. He d. June 22, 1800, se. 49. She d. Dec. 1824, is. 77. VI. PAEKEE, AAEON, (s. of Thomas and Eunice,) m. Hannah Eobinsou, of Natick, and settled in Standish, Me. VI. PARDEE, JOSEPH, (s. of Thomas and Eunice,) m. Lois Carver, of Natick, Nov. 18, 1776, and had Samuel, June 3, 1777 ; Rebecca, March 20, 1779 ; Zois, Oct. 24, 1781 ; Rebecca, Jan. 17, 1784; Abigail, July 21, 1786 ; Joseph, Feb. 8, 1790 ; JonatJtan C, Oct. 3, 1791. Lois m. Jonathan Eichardson, July, 1804 — Kehecca m. Nathaniel Dean, June, 1807 — Abigail m. John H. Handy, June 21, 1812 — Joseph d. in N. Y., 1 81 2 — Jonathan C. went to Ohio. 2d w. Eebecca "Ward, July 16, 1801. 1st w. d. April 6, 1799, iE. 47. 2d w. d. Oct. 19, 1840, s,. 86. He d. April 30, 1810, se. 55. VI. PAEKEE, JOHN, Esq., (s. of Peter and Sarah,) m. Phillips, and had in Boston, John, Peter, Charles, James, George, and Eliza. Eliza m. 'WiUiam Shimmin. He was "one of the solid men of Boston," a merchant, capitalist. President of U. S. Branch. Bank, Eepresentative from Boston, &c. VI. PAEKEE, CALEB, (s. of Nathaniel and Hannah,) m. Tanny Scott, and had Caleb, March 12, 1798; Caleb, Sept. 19, 1803, at Brookline. VI. PAEKEE, JOSEPH, m. Eebecca Ward, July, 1801. VT. PAEKEE, SAMUEL, (s. of Joseph and Lois,) m. Eusebia Moore, and had in Eox., John W., April 21, 1809 ; Benjamin F., Nov. 21, 1810, d. 1844; Joseph C, Eeb. 7, 1813. He d. June^9, 1831, as. 54. Vn. PAEKEE, CALEB, ( s. of Caleb and Eanny,) m. Susan Eich- ards, March, 1826, and had Harriet; (adopted) Susan M., 1826, d. 1831 ; Luther, 1828 ; Edwin, 1830 ; Alfred, 1832, d. 1848 ; Susan M. R., 1834 ; Caleb G., 1837. Harriet m. Eev. E. G. Eobinson, Ohio. PAEKEE, SAMUEL, m. Abigail Adams, 1822. PAEKEE, WILLIAM, m. Hannah Steams, 1835. PAEKEE, CHARLES P., m. Ellen Boyle, 1843. PAEKEE, THOMAS M., m. Mary Ann Thomas, 1843. 382 PAEK. I. PARK, RICHARD, was a proprietor in Camb., 1636, and of Camb. farms, (Lexington,) 1642. His house was near the Cow Common, in Camb. In a division of lands, in 1647, he had eleven acres in Camb. Village, bounding w. on Mr. Edward Jficksons land, and the highway to Dedham was laid out through it, in 1648. The very ancient dwelling house upon this lot, which was pulled down about 1800, was supposed to have been built by him. It stood within a few feet of the spot now occupied by the Eliot Ch.* Previous to 1652, he owned a large tract of land in the u. w. part gf the Vil- lage, bounded w. by the Fuller farm, n. by Charles river ; e. by the Dummer farm, and s. and E. by the Mayhew fai-m, (Mr. Edward Jackson's,) containing six hundred acres, which he probably bought of Pastor Shepard or his heirs. By his will, 12. 5. 1665, witnessed by Elder Wiswall and Hugh Mason, he bequeathed to his only s. Thomas, all his houses and lands, after the decease of his w. Sarah. By his inventory, dated 19. 8. 1665, taken by John Sherman and John Spring, the dwelling house, barn, out houses, and six hundred acres of land adjoining, whereof twenty acres is broken up, is ap- praised at £660, and twenty-nine acres elsewhere at £100. The whole amount of inventory was £972. In 1657, he was one of a committee, with Mr. Edward Jackson, John Jackson, and Samuel Hyde, to lay out and settle highways in the Village. During tlie contest between the Village and Camb., to be set off, he sent a peti- tion to the Court, in 1661, praying to retain his connection with Cambridge Ch.t In 1663, he was released from training, on ac-' count of his age. He d. 1665, leaving wid. Sarahj son Thomas, and two daughters. One of the daughters m. Francis Whittemore, of Camb. All his property (except the six hundred acres and build- ings) was equally divided between the two daughters. Thirteen years after his decease, Thomas bought the life estate of the wid. • * This place was afterwards owned by Dea. Ebenezer Stone, shoemaker, who sold It to John Jackson, tanner, son of Sebas Jackson, 8en., In 1700, John Jackson sold it to .Stephen Parker, of Reading, tanner, In 1713 ; Stephen Parker sold it to ilatb'l Parker, yeoman, and Nath'l Parker, cooper, both of Iteading; the Parkers sold it to Harbuttle Dorr, of Roxbury, and Dorr sold it to Philip Nurcross, a shoemaker, in Nov. 1720. Norcross m. Sarah, a dr, of Edward Jackson, son of Sebas, lived there many years, and brought up a family of ten children. It was next owned by Capt. Joseph Fuller (then a butcher) many years ; then by others. + The Cambridge Church owned a farm in Billerica, of one thousand acres, and other property. And in 1648 It was "Voted," by the Church, " that every person that from time to time, hereafter removed from the Church, did thereby resign their interest to the remaining part of the Church property." This .vote may have been the reason of his sending that petition to the Court. PARK. 383 for £45, 15s. Her release is dated Sept. 26, 1678, in which she calls herself of Daxbury. in the Colony of New Plymouth, relict of Rich- ard Parke, late of Camb. "Village. This transaction would seem to indicate that she was his mother in law. Dea. Wm. Park, of Eox., Samuel Park, of Medford, and Thomas Park, of Stonington, Conn., were brothers, as appears from the will of Dea. Wm. Parke. It is supposed that Kichard was also a brother, and probably Edward and Robert, * who were also proprietors in Camb. Edward had seventy-two acres in 1648, bounded u. by the highway to Concord. In 1650, Henry Park, merchant, s. and heir of Edward Park, mer- chant, of London, deceased, conveyed land in Camb. to John Sted- man, in 1650. Edward, Sea, of London, may have been the f of them all. n. PARK, THOMAS, (s. of Richard,) m. Abigail Dix, of Wat., 1653, settled upon the six hundred acre tract, (his house was near to Bemis' Mills, on the banks of Charles river,) and had Thomas, Nov. 2, 1 654 ; John, Sept. 6, 1 656 ; Abigail, March 3,1658; Edward, April 8, 1661 ; .Richard, Dec. 21, 1663 ; Sarah, 21. 1. 1666 ; Rebecca, 13. 2. 1668; Jonathan, Aug. 27, 1670 ; and Elizabeth, 28. 5. 1679. Abigail m. John Fiske, 1679 — Sarah m. John Knapp — Rebecca m. John Sanger, of Wat., 1686 — Elizabeth m. John Holland — Thomas d. 28. 6. 1681, a;. 27. He d. Aug. 11, 1690, si. about 62. She d. Eeb. 3, 1691. His estate was divided 1693-4, among the heirs; there being seven hundred and twenty-two acres of land, and part of a corn mill upon Smelt brook, erected by Lieut. John Spring. III. PARK, JOHN, (s. of Thomas,) m. Elizabeth Miller, his 2d w., and had Elizabeth, Feb. 24, 169.5, d. young; John, Dec. 20, 1696; Solomon, Oct. 16, 1699; Elizabeth, Feb. 27, 1701 ; Abigail, April 20, 1702; Joseph, Ma.rch 12, 1705, grad. H. C. 1724; Mart/, March 17, 1808. Elizabeth m. Joseph Morse, 1720 — Abigail m. Nathaniel Whittemore, 1724 — Mary m. Isaac Sanger, 1727. He d. 1718, se. 63, and wid. Elizabeth, admin. The estate was divided 1720. ni. PARK, EDWARD, (s. of Thomas,) m. Martha Piske, 1679, and had Martha, May 16, 1699 ; Edward, April 18, 1701 ; Thomas, 1703 ; and Nathan. Nathan went to tJxbridge. He d. March 1, 1745, £e. 84. * Eobert Parke removed to Conn., was at "Wethersfleld, and took Freeman's oath 1640, Deputy to the General Court, 1641 and '42, removed to Pequot, l(i49. died at Kew London, 1665. His will, 1660, names sons William, Samuel and Thomas. Thomas, son of Robert, settled at Wethersfleld, and Thomas, Jr., at New London Conn. — CCaulkln's Hist. New London.J 38i PAKE. in. PARK, Lieut. BICHAED, (s. of Thomas,) m. Sarah Cutter, and had WiUiam; Thomas, Feb. 7, 1690, d. 1703; Abigail, July 25, 1693; Richard, Marchl,1696; Sarah, Meuy 11, 1699, d. 1699. 2dw. Elizabeth Billings, of Concord, settled there, and had Joseph, Josiah, Jonathan, Isaac, Ephraim, Elizahelh, Sarah, Rebecca, Daniel, and ZacJieus. He was Eepresentatiye of Concord, and d. there, June 19, 1725, se. 62. His will, dated 1725, w. Elizabeth sole executrix. m. PARK, JONATHAN, (s. of Thomas,) m. Ann Spring, of Wat., 1690. 2d w. Elizabeth , and had Jonathan, March 30, 1695; Jonas, Jan. 1, 1697 ; Lydia, Mindwell, Margery, Eunice, Hannah. 3d w. Hannah Kemball, of "Wat., June, 1715, and had Hannah, Feb. 25, 1718. 2d w. d. April 10, 1713. He d. Jan. 23, 1719. His will, Feb. 1719. Wid. Hannah, and s. Jonathan, executors, a^ IV. PARK, JOSEPH, (s. of Lieut. Richard, of Concord,) m. and settled in Concord, and had sons Benjamin, Stephen, David, George, Joseph, and daughters I/>\ds, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Sarah. IV. PARK, JOSIAH, (s. of Lieut. Richard, of Concord,) m. Thank- ful Coolidge, 1730, settled in Weston, and had Elisha, Beidah, Josiah, Nathan, Lucy, James, Lydia, and James. IV. PARK, EPHRAIM, (s. of Lieut. Richard, of Concord,) m. Mary Hobbs, of Weston, and had Ephraim, John, Isaac, Jacob, and Josiah. rV. PARK, DANIEL, (s. of Lieut. Richard, of Concord,) m. and had Elizabeth, Daniel, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Hannah. 2d w. Rebecca, and had Daniel, Sybil, Zobel, Isaac, and Rebecca. — [Dr. Bond]. IV. PARK, JOHN, (s. of John and Elizabeth,) m. Esther , and had John^ May 1, 1719. 2d w. Abigail Lawrence, 1720, and had John, May 8, 1723, d. 1741 ; Samuel, April 14, 1725, d. 1741 ; Gideon, Sept. 10, 1729, d.; Abigail, April 15, 1731; Gideon, April 7, 1734 ; Lois, Aug. 28, 1732. Lois m. Moses Prince, 1753. His will, 1741, mentions w. Abigail and only s. Gideon and dr. Lois. He d. May 21, 1747. Wid. Abigail's will gives all to Gideon. IV. PARK, JOSEPH, (s.of John and Elizabeth,) m. Abigail Greene, 1732, and had Jonathan, Oct. 30, 1733. IV. PARK, Ensign RICHARD, (s. of Lieut. Richard,) m. Sarah Ful- ler, 1717, and had William^ Feb. 16, 1718 ; Tltomas, Nor. 15, 1719 ; Je- rusha, Nov. 22, 1722; Hulda, Dec. 18, 1724; PrisciUa, April 5, PARK. 385 1726; and 46ijat7, June 28, 1728. Jerusha m. James Trowbridge, 1739, and went to Wore. — William m. Lucy Fuller, 1745, and set- tled in Lincoln. Sarah the mother d. March 20, 1737, SB. 42. 2d w. Esther Fuller, 1738, and had Edward, 1740, she d. Dec. 28, 1746, as. 42. Son William, admin. He d. Not. 28, 1746, se. 50, gravestone says 52. IV. PARK, JONATHAN, (s. of Jonathan and Elizabeth,) m. 1st, Sarah Coolidge, 1720, and had Oliver, Feb. 5, 1721, d. 1721. 2d w. Abigail , and had Jonathan, Aug. 1, 1722 ; Sarah, May 8, 1724 j Abigail, Oct. 30, 1725 ; Lucy, March 27, 1727, d. 1730 ; Phineas, June 8, 1729. IV. PARK, SOLOMON, (s. of John and Elizabeth,) m. Lydia Law- rence, and had Keziah, March 16, 1723 ; Lydia, May 6, 1725 ; Mary, Aug. 8, 1727; Elizabeth, April 27, 1729; Solomon, May 21, 1732, gi-ad. at H. C. 1753, d. 1753 ; and Samud. IV. PARK, EDWARD, (s. of Edward and Martha,) m. Eunice Barnes, 1730, and had Elizabeth, May 12, 1731 ; Elisha, Not. 22, 1733 ; Mary, Jan. 17, 1738. 2d w. Elizabeth , and had Samud, July 6, 1 744 ; Martha, June 14, 1 749. , Elizabeth m. Dr. John Staples Craft, of Bridgewater, 1758 — Elisha, physician, -went to Wellfleet, d. 1770 — Mary m. Dr. Edward Durant, 1762. IV. PARK, THOMAS, weaver, and Selectman, (s. of Edward and Martha,) m. Elizabeth Harrington, 1748, and had Elizabeth, Jan. 18, 1749 ; Jonathan, Nov. 6, 1750 ; Sarah, June 4, 1752 ; Thomas, March 8, 1754; Ann,¥e.h. 5, 1756; Joshua, Aug. 17, 1757; Susanna, Oct. 10,1760. He d. 1775, ffi. 72. Shed. 1767. V. PARK, CALEB, had by w. Abigail , Joshua, Sept. 5, 1722. V. PARK, WILLIAM, (s. of Richard and Sarah,) m. Lucy Fuller, 1745, and had Penitel, May 12, 1746 ; Richard, Feb. 23, 1748 ; Esther, Dec. 25, 1749 ; William, Aug. 25, 1751 ; Cornelius, Lucy, John, Joseph, Nathan, Jerusha, Hannah. V. PARK, GIDEON, (s. of John and Abigail,) m. Hannah Fuller, 1758, and had, in Framingham, John, Nov. 16, 1759 ; Lois, Oct. 24, 1761; Abigail, Not. 28, 1763; Samuel, Aug. 9, 1766; Joseph, June 30, 1768; Hannah; March 10, 1770; Moses, March 2, 1772; Sarah, Dec. 1773; Esther. Abigail m. Obed Metcalf, 1790 — Sarah m. Joseph Whitney — Esther m. Reuben Fay — Moses d. sb. 10. He d. 1794, se. 60. She d. 1805. 33 386 PAKK PBLHAM. v. PARK, JOSHUA, (s. of Thomas and Elizabeth,) m. Salome Hammond, 1778, and had iVoifty, April 29, 1780; Thomas, Oct. 2, 1782. 1st w. d. 1782. 2d w. Lois Fuller, 1784, and had Charles, Dec. 15, 1784; Joseph, Sept. 14, 1786 ; Joshua, March 2, 1788 ; Asa, Aug. 16, 1790 ; Sukey, Aug. 2, 1792 ; Salome, Dec. 3, 1794 ; Daniel H., Feb. 10, 1797. He d. Jan. 1813. VI. PARK, NATHAN, Jr., m. Mary Dacres, 1791. VI. PARK, NATHAN, tertius, m. Sarah , wid. of Enoch Ward, 1793, and had Abigail, Not. 29, 1803. PARK, AMASA, m. Lucy Whitwell, June, 1796. He d. 1813. VL PARK, NATHAN, (s. of William,) m. Mary ', and had Liaher, Dec. 18, 1793 ; Mary, Jan. 20, 1796 ; John D., Sept. 20, 1797 ; Abigail, May 26, 1800, d. 1803 ; Elizabeth W., June 2, 1802 ; Elener, July 2, 1804 ; William, Eeb. 7, 1807 ; and Nathan. VI. PARK, JOSHUA, Jr., m. Lois , and had William A., Dec. 5, 1815. VIL PARK, WILLIAM, (s. of Nathan,) m. Aseneth , and had Elener M., 1833 ; William W., 1837. PARK, NATHAN, (s. of ,) m. Ruth , and had Thomas, Nathan, Amasa, Chloe, and Calvin. PELHAM, CHARLES, came to Newton, April, 1765, and purchased the homestead of the Rct. John Cotton, house, bam and cider mill, with one hundred and three and three-quarters acres land adjoining, for £735, bounding E. by Dedham highway. In the deed he is Btyled, " schoolmaster, of Medford." He was a man of talents and education. He was chairman of a committee, and supposed to be the author of sundry resolutions passed by the Town, in 1774. (See page 180.) His parentage has not been ascertained; by some he is supposed to haye descended from Herbert Pelham, Esq., * an • HERBERT PELHAM, Esq. , pat i:iOO into the common stock of the Colony, and was a proprietor in Oamb. He had land granted Mm there, 1637. His house was tumt, in 1640. Treasurer of H. C, 1643; took the Freeman's oath, in 1645; same year, he waa chosen surveyor of highways, Selectman, and Assistant, and contin- ued in that ofttce to 1649. Ho had a dr. h. 1643 ; s. Herbert, 1645. His chU., so fat us we know, were Waldegrave, Nathaniel, Edward, Ueiiry, Pmelope, and Herbert. Penelope m. Gov. Winslowj of Plymouth — Waldegrave prob. did not come to this country; he d. in England, 1699, leaving s. Herbert— Nathaniel grad. H. C, 1661, was lost at sea, 1657— Edward grad. H. C, 1673, m. and settled atNewport, K. I.— Herbertid. in infancy. He returned to England, and d. there, July 1, 1673, leaving a will, dated 1672, and (bur chll., as will appear from the following extract ftom Middlesex Deeds, 69, 236.-1761. PELHAM. 387 early settler in Cambridge, He m. Mary , and had Helen^ April 2, 1767 ; Charles, Aug, 10, 1769 ; Peter, June 27, 1771, "Wife Mary d. 1776. 2d w., Mehitable Gerrish, 1778, and had 5enry, March 23, 1779 ; Harriet, Feb. 22, 1781. He was represented by bis neigh- bors to have been a very polite and intelligent man. Opened an academy at his own house, and fitted scholars for College. He was " Court of St. James, March 22, 1738-— Petition and appeal of Herbert Pelliam, of Bures Hamlet, Co. Essex, Esquire, setting forth tbat the petitioner's grandfather, Herbert Pelham, Esq., died about 1673, leaving "Waldegrave, his eldest son, Ed- ■ward, his 2d son, Henry, his 3d sod, and dr. Penelope. By his -will, he devised to said Edward, for life, all his lands in Massachusetts Bay, but did not devise the re- version of the same, but left the reversion as an intestate part of his estate ; that said Edward lived and enjoyed said estate until Sept. 20, 1730. His lands descended to the heirs of said Herbert, the testator; and particularly two third parts, and two fifth parts of the same, by law descended te the petitioner, as the only son of said Waldegrave." He then commenced his action against Samuel Banister, mer- chant, and Thos. Soden, (heirs of said Edward,) who were in possession, to recover said shares, viz : Forty-four acres in Goffs pasture ; Pelham's great lot, about one hundred and four acres, vrith the dwelling house and bam thereon; and about sixty acres marsh, called Pelham's island. The petitioner sued out his writ, and brought his action against the defendants. He was unsuccessful in our Courta, and appealed ; pe-titioned the Court of St. James, and was unsuccessful there ; his petition was dismissed in Oct. 1761. The facts it contains are valuable, Capt. Ed- ward deeded the above described lands to his two s., Edward and Thomas, 1711.* PELHAM, Capt. EDWARD, (s. of Herbert, Esq.) m. Godsgift, dr. of Gov. Bene- dict Arnold, of R. I., settled at Newport, ajiA.h&d Elizabeth, Edward, anA Thomas. 2d w. Freeiove . He d. Sept. 20, 1730. PELHAM, EDWAKD, Je., m. Arrabella , and had Harmonie, Dec. 3, 1718; Eliz- aheth, Oct. 20, 1721 ; Penelope, May 23, 1724. Harmonie m. John Banister, mer- chant, of Boston, and had s. John, Thomas, and Samuel. PELHAM, THOMAS, (s. of Edward, of Newport,) m. Abigail , What chil.,if any, by this marriage, has not been ascertained. He was a merchant. In April, 1713, he constituted his bro. Edward his lawful Att'y. If Chas. Pelham, Esq. waa a descendant of Herbert, It must have been through Waldegrave, of Eng., or of Thomas and Abigail, of Newport, as Edward, Jr. had no sons. PELHAM, Capt. WILLIAM, was early In Sudbury; Selectman 1645 and '46, and represented that town in 1647. He may have been a br. of Herbert; but there is nothing upon the Sudbury Records showing that he left any descendants. PELHAM, THOMAS, of Boston, had by w. Hannah , Elizabeth, Aug. 2, 1758; Penelope, March 6, 1760 ; Thomas, June 4, 1762 ; Mary, Nov. 17, 1766. PELHAM, PETER, schoolmaster, of Boston, had by w. Martha , TFiWzam, 1729, d, at Medford, Jan. 23, 1761. 2d w. Mary , and had Henry, 1748. PELHAM, JOSEPH, of Boston, m. Rebecca Barber, 1697. PELHAM, JOHN, of Wobum, bad by w. Abigail , Abigail^ Sept. 23, 1699 ; /oAfi, d. 1699. * Viddlesex Deeds, 16, 412. 388 PAUL — PARIS PKATT. . an Episcopalian, and was supposed to have been educated in Eng. He was a staunch friend of the Colony, as will appear by the resolu- tions he prepared for the Town. He d. 17S3. PAUL, LTJTHER, had by w. Rebecca , Sarah, May 25, 1823 ; Henri/, Aug. 3, 1826 ; Luther, June 16, 1829 ; Harriet, Oct. 30, 1834; Mary, Jan. 15, 1837. He purchased the ancient Wiswall homestead. He was a Representative from Newton, Selectman, and is now (L854) Town Treasurer, which office he has held for several years. PARIS, SAMUEL, had by w. Dorothy , Noyes, Aug. 22, 1699; Dorathji, Aug. 28, 1700. POND, SIMON, had by w. Esther , Sarah, July 17, 1770. POOL, RUFUS, had by w. Mary , Sarah, March 6, 1792. PATRICK, JOHN, m. Sarah, dr. of Jonathan and Jemima (Bright) Trowbridge, 1760, and had Sarah, Sept. 5, 1762; Andrew, 1764. PATSON, ASA, m. Elizabeth "Whitney, 1777. PRATT, PHILIP, Jr., m. Mary Osland, 1726. PRATT, ZEBEDIAH, had by w. Sarah , Zebedidh, Aug. 14, 1733 ; Sarah, d. Jan. 23, 1735 ; Jeremiah, March 22, 1736. PRATT, Db. henry, m. Ruth Learned, Dec. 1709, and d. 1745. PRATT, HENRT, m. Sarah Fuller, 1741, and had Henry, 1746. He d. 1769. PRATT, EPHRAIM, m. Lois Fisher, 1761. PRATT, HENRY, m. Elizabeth Murdocb, 1769. PRATT, OLIVER, ra. Sarah Willard, 1734, and had Oliver, 1740, d. 1767. He d. 1763, se. 53. PRATT, SAMUEL, had s. Samuel, d. 1769, se. 24. PRATT, JEREMIAH, m. Sarah Newton, 1770. PRATT, LEMUEL, m. Lydia Willard, 1750. PRATT, HENRY, d. Nov. 1750. PRATT, OLIVER, had by w. Sybil , Oliver, Feb. 6, 1763 ; Lois, Aug. 16, 1764; Sybil, Sept. 16, 1766. PRENTICE. 389 I. PRENTICE, Capt. THOMAS, was bom in Eng., 1621, came to this country in 1649, joined the Camb. Ch., 1652, took the I'l-eeman's oath same year. [A further notice of this celebrated man will be found in the Appendix.] He m. Grace , and had Grace, in Eng- land, 1648; Thomas and Elizabeth., 22. 11. 1649; Mairy ; John, 2. 12.1653, d. 1654; John, 10. 5. 1655; Hannah, 1661, d. April 28, 1738, ae. 77. Grace m. Capt. Thomas Oliver, s. of Rev. Jno. Oliver, 29. 9. 1667 — Elizabeth m. Thomas Aldrich, of Ded., 4. 3. 1675. Wife Graced. Oct 9,1692. He d. July 6, 1710, se. 89 or 90, and was buried under arms, by his old company of Troopers, on the 8th of July, 1710. The Town Records and the Hyde MS. both have his death July 6, 1710. His gravestone has it July 7, 1709, se. 89. n. PRENTICE, THOMAS, (s. of Capt. Thomas,) m. Sarah Stan- ton, 20. 1. 1675, and had Thomas, 13. 11. 1676; Grace; Samuel, about 1680 ; John, 1682. He d. 1684, se. 36. Wid. Sarah and Papt. Thos., admin. Inventory : house, bam, &c., £120 ; pistols, carbine, cutlass, belt, saddle, boots, and other furniture for his horse, £6 ; (a trooper in his father's co. of horse ;) one hundred acres land in the King's Province, £15 ; two hundred and thirty acres in Stonington, £109, 5s.; total, £354, 5s. Appraised by John Ward and Thomas Thomas Prentice, 2d. n. PRENTICE, JOHN, (s. of Capt. Thomas,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Edward Jackson, Sen., 28. 4. 1677. He d.March 4, 1689, se. 35, leaving will, giving w. Elizabeth all his property during her life, and to dispose of one half of his estate at her death ; the other half, at her death, he bequeathed to his cousin (nephew) John, son of his deceased brother Thomas, and a legacy of £10 at his marriage (meaning Rev. John Prentice, of Lancaster). Inventory: musket, two guns, sword belt, &c. ; books, £2. Total, £316, Is. Id. W^ijl. Elizabeth m. Jonas Bond, Esq., of Wat., Nov. 13, 1699. She d. Jan. 25, 1741, se. 83, leaving will, giving her property to her cousin (nephew) Rev. John, of Lancaster, and to Elizabeth, wid. of Capt. Thomas Prentice, dr. of Dea. Edward Jackson. Rev. John, of Lan- caster, therefore had all his uncle John's land in Newton, at the death of his aunt Elizabeth, in 1741, being seventy-five acres on the Plain, with house and bam, which he sold in 1742, to Henry Gibbs, Esq., for £1,420, being nearly the same land which James and Thomas Prentice, Jr. were the joint ptirchasers, in 1657. 33* 390 PRENTICE. ^« III. PRENTICE, Capt. THOMAS, (s. of Thomas and Sarah,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Dea. Edward Jackson, and had Deliverance, May 19, 1704 ; Abigail, June 4, 1707 ; Ebenezer, March 3, 1708 ; Jerusha, Oct., 1710 ; Elizabeth, Aug. 26, 1714 ; Sarah, Not. 3, 1719. AbigaU m. Samuel Wilson, 1734 — Jerusha m. Isaac Bowen, 1733 — Eliza- beth m. Joshua Hammond, 1739 — Sarah m. Timothy Cheney, 1737. He took the old Captain's homestead, was a slave-holder. Selectman, and Captain — Chairman of " committee for building new M. H., 1718. He d. Feb. 6, 1730, se. 54. His wid. Elizabeth, and her brother Samuel Jackson, Esq., admin, on his estate. Inventory : negro slave, £90; servant boy, £15; real estate, £2,988; books, £7, 15s.; gun and sword, £1, 8s.; personal, £513, 12s. 6d.; grave- stones, £7. Total £3,631. "Wid. Elizabeth d. Oct. 19, 1753, x. 67. Upon the foot-stone of his gi-ave the following verse was inscribed : ^' He that's here interr'd needs bo versifying, a vertuos life will keep ye name ft-om dying, he'il live, though poets cease the'r scrib'ling rime, when y't this stone shall mouldred be by time." This verse has been erroneously stated to be for his grandfather, the old Captain. It is supposed-to have been written by his daughter Elizabeth, w. of Joshua Hammond, of whom Dr. Homer writes, — " she was one of the most virtuous, amiable, and sensible women, who ever adorned Newton." Capt. Thomas was supposed to be the last male descendant of the old Captain, in Newton ; they have been perpetuated elsewhere, through his grandsons, Rev. John, of Lan- caster, and Samuel, of Stonington, whose descendants have well done much of the world's work. HL PRENTICE, SAMUEL, (s. of Thomas and Sarah,) m. Esther Hammond, dr. of Nathaniel, Sen., and had Samuel, Nov.- 25, 1702; Grace, Jan. 16, 1705 ; Mary, April 12, 1708 ; removed to Stonington, and had Jonas, Sept. 28, 1710 ; Esther, 1713 ; Oliver ; Eunice, 1717 ; Thomas, 1719; Dorety, 1723. Old Capt. Prentice conveyed to Samuel, by deed of gift, one hundred acres of land, with dwelling house thereon, in 1705, lying between Bald Pate hill and meadow. He d. in Stonington, Conn., April 24, 1728, ». 48. [For a long and noble line of his descendants, sec C. J. F. Binney's Genealogy of the Prentice family.] PRENTICE. 391 ni. PRENTICE, Rev. JOHN. (s. of Thomas and Sarab,) m. in Rox., Mary, wid. ofeRer. Jehu Gardner, Dec. 4, 1703, and had Mary, 1708; John, grad. H. C, 1761; Thomas, 1709, grad. H. C, 1761 ; Stanton, 1711 ; Elizabeth, 1713 ; Sarah, 1716. Wife Mary d. about 1716. 2d w., wid. Prudence Swan, and bad Z)oro%, 1718; Pru- dence, 1719; Relief; Rebecca, 1727. Mary m. Rev. Job Cashing, of Shrewsbuiy, 1727, and bad six cbil. — Elizabeth m. Daniel Robbins, of Lancaster, and 2d, Curtis, of Worcester — Sarah m. Dr. Joshua Smith, of Shrewsbury, 1742, and 2d, Col. Timothy Brig- ham, of Southboro' — Prudence m. Josiah Brown, of Lancaster — Relief m. R^v. John Rogers, 1750, of Leominster, and had seven chil. — Rebecca m. Rev. John Mellen, of Lancaster, 1749, and had eight chil. — John m. Ann Bailey, of Rox., 1 748, and had three s. and one dr. — Thomas m. Abigail Willard, of Lunenburg, 1737 ; and 2d, Mrs. Borodel, wid. of Samuel Jackson, Esq., of Newton, Mai-ch 14, 1757 ; he was a schoolmaster, and removed to Newton, 1750. Stan- ton was a, physician, in Lancaster, was twice m., and had twelve sons and three drs. He d. Jan. 1748, se. 66. " Highly esteemed for his piety, probity, and peaceableness ; of great dignity and severity of manners." [Binney's Prentice family.] I. PRENTICE, JAMES, Sen., and Thomas Prentice, 2d or Jr., were joint purchasers of four hundred acres of land in Cambridge, on " 1st day of 1st month, called March, 1650," of Thomas Danforth, Attorney to Thos. Parish and w. Mary. Also, in 1657, one hundred acres in Camb. Village, being " that farm that James Prentice now dwells on," bounded by land of John Jackson N. e., part of which is now the ancient M. H. lot and burial place. This Prentice farm was upon the B. side of the Dedham highway, and extended from the burial place s. w. beyond the house now occupied by Marshall S. Rice, the present Town Clerk, to John Clark's land, near the brook. James, and Thomas, 2d, supposed to be brothers, buUf the ancient sharp-roofed dwelling house which stood a few rods from the Dedham road, and the burial place, and which was palled down about 1 800 ; they occupied this place in common many years ; sixty acres of the s. w. part of this farm, passed into the hands of John Prentice, Sen., s. of the Capt, who by his will, in 1689, bequeathed half of it to his nephew, Rev. John, of Lancaster. At the decease of John, Sen.'s wid., 1740, then Madam Bond, she by will: bequeathed 392 PRENTICE. the other half to Kev. John, and he sold the whole to Henry Gihbs, Esq., in 1742 ; also, fifteen acres on the w. side of the Dcdham high- way, lying between the farms of John Spring and Jonathan Hyde, which John Jackson gave to his s. in law, Capt. Noah Wiswall, and he conveyed it to John Prentice, Sen., 1678. He m. Susanna, dr. of Capt. Edward Johnson, of Wobum, and had James, 11. 1.1656; Susanna, 29. 4. 1657 ; Hannah, 24. 2. 1659 ; Elizabeth, 25. 6. 1660 | Sarah, 1662 ; and Rose. He was Selectman in 1694, and d. March 7, 1710, se. 81. Wid. Susanna and s. James, admin, the estate, in 1711. James m. Elizabeth , sold out his interest in his father's estate, April, 1711, for £60, to his five sisters, " all single women," and probably left Newton. He appears to have been the only male heir of James, Sgn., in Newton ; what became of him is yet un- known ; nor is there any record of the marriage of either of the daughters. They aU agreed, in April, 1711, to leave their portions together, until the decease of their mother. I. PRENTICE, THOMAS, 2d, was a joint purchaser of lands with James Prentice, in 1650 and 1657, and prob. his brother, as stated in the preceding notice. When he came into the Village, he was called Thomas, Jr. When Capt. Thomas Prentice's s. Thomas was grown np, he was called Thomas, 2d ; when his own s. Thomas was grown np, he was called Thomas Prentice, while Capt. Thomas was called and widely known by his military title. Mr. Edward Jackson, by his will, makes bequests to both these Prentices ; the one he styles Capt. Thomas Prentice, and the other Thomas Prentice. Towards the latter part of his life he was called Thomas Prentice, Sen. He appears to have had a great horror of records ; no where does his name appear, except where he could not help it. He was Selectman four years, 1686, '90, '99 and 1700, and his s. Ebenezer was Consta- ble, in 1687. The Town Clerk was obliged to record that; so also of the Register of Deeds. There is not a scrap of record about him among the births, marriages or deaths, nor in the Probate office ; had it not been for the deeds, he could not have been penetrated. By Edward Jackson, Sen's wiU, (1681,) we learn that he m. his dr. Rebecca, by the first w., and that he gave her a gold ring with this motto, — " Memento Morex," — that he bequeathed to her husband, Thomas Prentice, one hundred acres of land at the s. part of the Town, near " Bald Pate meadow," where he built a house, and re- PKENTICE. 393 sided during the latter part of his life, and two other tracts of land. In 1688, Thomas Prentice, Sen., a. in law to Edward Jackson, con- sented that Jonathan Jackson, of Boston, might sell the lands be- queathed to him by his father's will, Edward Jackson, Sen. In 1694, Thos. Prentice, Sen., and Rebecca, his w., conveyed lands to Rev. N. Hobart. In 1 706, he conveyed land to his grandsons, Thomas and Samuel. In 1714, Thomas, Sen. conveyed, by deed of gift, to his s. Thomas, Jr., (after his decease,) his homestead, at Burnt hill, in Newton, adjoining to the new dwelling house of said Thomas, ex- cept what he had allowed to his son in law John Hyde, — reserving two-thirds of the cedar swamp to his s. John and Edward. This deed was acknowledged May, 1714, and recorded Jan. 24, 1724, prob. the year he died. He also conveyed land to his loving son John, a, cordwainer, in 1714. There is an affidavit of his, dated 1713, re- corded with the deeds, stating that " about sixty years ago he held one end of the chain to lay out a highway over Weedy hill, in New- ton." Supposing him to have been twenty-one years old at the time of his first purchase of land with James, Sen., in 1650, would make his birth in 1629. He lived to a great age, very near to 100, but the. time of his death is unknown. His heirs, however, sold his dwell- ing house and farm, in June, 1728, and said, " of Thomas Prentice, late of Newton." His w. Rebecca was bap. in Loudon, Oct. 10, 1 638, according to the Parish Register of Whitechapel ; the time of her death is also unknown. With this data, and some other scraps of record, we conclude that he had by w. Rebecca , Frances, Thom- as, John, Edward, James, Ebenezer, Enos, Rebecca and Sarah. Fran- ces m. Joseph Palmer, of Stonington, Conn., Nov. 13, 1687 — Sa- rah m. John Hyde, s. of Job, and g. s. of Dea. Samuel, May 15, 1707. n. PRENTICE, THOMAS, (s. of Thomas and Rebecca,) m. Eliza- beth , and had JoJin, March, 1691 ; Rebecca, Dec. 22, 1693; Thomas ; Ebenezer, 1 706. John Parker sells land to Thomas Pren- tice, Jr., 1719 — Ebenezer was a blacksmith in Newton, in 1728 ; he prob. went to llxbridge. John, of Preston, Conn., and Ebenezer, of Newton, blacksmith, conveyed to Timothy Whitney, of Newton, land and dwelling house, in Newton, being the last residence of their grandfather, Thomas Prentice, Sen., for ^615, s. w. by Thomas Hastings, s. by John Hyde, and s. e. by Edward Prentice. Their mother Elizabeth joins in the deed, and Edward Prentice was to have a way through the land. John Hyde, witness, June 12, 1728. 394 PEENTICE. He d. Dec. 11, 1724. His wid. Elizabeth admin, on his estate, June 9, 1725 — Nathaniel Healy and William Ward, were her sureties. n. PRENTICE, JOHN, (s. of Thomas and Eebecca,) m. Hannah Osland, 1696, and had Hannah, Oct. 25, 1697, d. 1704 ; Experience, Sept. 26, 1700; Rebecca, March 27, 1704. Wife Hannah d. May 2, 1704. 2d w. Bethia , and had Elizabeth ; Belhia, Aug. 16, 1713 ; Anna, Nov. 17, 1717. Hannah m. Thomas Soden, March 19, 1724, and d. 1761 — Elizabeth m. John Knapp, 1727 — Anna m. Nathaff Hyde, 1740. He bought eighteen acres land, in Newton, of John Parker, 1703 ; in the deed he was styled cordwainer. In 1718, John Prentice, of Newton, physidan, and Bethia his w., conveyed to Na- thaniel Longley, part of the same land, same boundaries ; so, between 1703 and 1718, he laid aside the last and lap-stone, and began with physic. He petitioned the General Court, in 1710, " for payment of his services in the war at the eastward." He probably went with the troops as a physician. He d. Jan. 4, 1721, leaving a will, giving w. Bethia one third of his estate, and the improvement of the whole while she remained his wid., and names six daughters. Thirty acres of land, and some books and surgeon's instruments, in the in- ventory. Total amount, £321, 7s. n. PEENTICE, EDWAED, (s. of Thomas and Eebecca,) m. Sarah Osland, sister of Dr. John's 1st w., and had Edward, Nov. 19, 1706. He d. Sept. 16, 1724. Wid. Sarah admin, on the estate. Inventory, ^£619. He was Constable at his death. The estate was divided in 1728 ; one-third to the wid., and two-thirds to Edward, the only child. His house was a few rods w. of the house now occupied by Capt. Ebenezer D. White ; an ancient pear tree marks the place where the house stood. Wid. Sarah, vrith her grandchil. Edward, John, and Abigail, conveyed this homestead of fifty acres to Ebenezer Davis, in 1764, n. on highway and land of Nathan Hyde, s. by John Clark and Henry Gibbs, w. by Robert Prentice. II. PRENTICE, JAMES, (s. of Thomas and Eebecca,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Henry Bartlett, of Marlboro', Mass., March 8, 1709, and had Rhen, and Charles. SAMPSON, ALEXANDER, had by w. Hepsibah , Stephen, Aug. 10, 1756. SANDERS, RICHARD, m. Sarah Chamberlain, 1786. SADGROVE, THOMAS, householder in 1693. 406 SEWALL SPEAK — ■' STAPLES. SEWALL, MAEY, w. of Hon. Samuel Sewall, d. 1746, se. 79. (Gravestone.) ^\ ^ /^' _ SHATTUCK, JOHN, (s. of Joseph, of WaA,) m. Martha Hammond, and had William, Dec. 14, 1749. SPEAK, JOSIAH, from Boston, m. Lucy, dr. of John and Mary (Ellis) Jackson, no chil. SPEAK, WILLIAM, m. Jane, dr. of John and Mary (Ellis) Jack- son, Aug. 10, 1784. STAPLES, Dea. JOHN, weaver, came to New Cambridge about 1688; his parentage has not been ascertained. Samuel and Mary Staples had three drs. bom in Braintree, 1655 to 1660. Edward was early in Braintree, and John in Weymouth. Abraham Staples removed from Dor. to Weymouth, 1660; thence to Mendon. Will of Thomas Staples, Sen., of Fairfield, in Suffolk, dated 1688, names two sons, Thomas and John. He m. in Newton, Mary Craft, July 24, 1690, had no chil. He was the first public Schoolmaster in the town; many years Dea. of the Ch.; Town Clerk, from 1714, to 1734 ; Selectman eight years. His name often appears upon the Becords, as Witness, Appraiser, Committeeman, &c. He and Jolin Woodward, Sen., were near neighbors and joint purchasers of lands. They divided lands in 1705. He bought thirty-six acres of wood- land of William Robinson, a neighbor, in 1737, for £405. By his will, April 4, 1740, he gave seventeen acres of thia purchase "for and towards the support of the Ministerial fire, from year to year, annually ; '' also, £25 to the poor of the town ; £20 to James Pike, whom he brought up." To Joseph Lovering, whom he brought up, all that was due on bond from him, both principal and interest. To John and Staples, sons of Jason and Hannah Chamberlain, £100 each, when they come to the age of twenty -one years. " John Sta- ples Craft, s. of Moses Craft, shall be brought up to learning, so far as to St and prepare him for the Ministry of the Gospel, if he be capable of learning, and is willing to it; but if he cannot learn, or is not willing and free to learn, he shall have £400 in money, when he shall' come to the age of twenty-one years." * Gives to w. Mary the improvement of all the remainder of his estate. To Moses Craft, who then dwelt under his roof, all his housing and lands, after * He became a physician, m. EUzabetli Park, and settled In ^. Brldgewater, thence to Mqine, Had six sons and two drs. STANCHET — STKATTON — STODDAED. 407 the decease of his wife, and the payment of the legacies, and ap- pointed his w. Mary, sole executrix. He d. Nov. 4, 1740, se. 82. She d. 1763, se. 93. STANCHET, [HANCHETT] PETER, (s. of Jno. audElizaheth,of Eox.,) m. Mary, dr. of John Parker, Sen. He signed the secession petition, 1678, removed to Kox. ahd had Mary, March 13, 1687. STARR, De. EBENEZER, (s. of Dr. Josiah Starr, of Weston,) m. Sylria Ware, Jan. 22, 1794, settled at Lower Palls, and had Ean- nah, Sept. 15, 1794; Horace, Sept. 2, 1796; ffekn, 1798; Hector, 1801 ; Henry, 1807. Horace m. Ellen C. Briggs, 1826 — Hector m. Mary Craft, 1821, and d. 1846. He was Representative two years, and d. Aug. 24, 1830, se. 62. She d. March, 1834. [Dr. Comfort Starr was of New Town, [Camb.,] 1636, and Dux. 1643, and was prob. the ancestor of Dr. Josiah Starr, of Weston.] STRATTON, EBENEZER, (s. of John and AbigaU, of Wat.) m. Lydia , 1716, d. 173.5. STRATTON, JOHN, d. 1735. STRATTON, NATHANIEL, m. Esther Parker, 1728, and had Abiel, Jan. 28, 1729. She d. 1775, se. 74. STEARNS, SH/AS, had by w. Lydia , Silas, Jan. 17, 1784. STEDMAN, CALEB, m. Hannah, dr. of Capt. Noah WiswaU, 1697, and had Caleb, Peb. 5, 1699. Settled in Brookline. STEDMAN, ISAAC, m. Hulda, dr. of Dea. Wm. Trowbridge, 1738. STEDMAN, JOSEPH, d. July, 1709. STEDMAN, MART, w. of Thomas, d. 1704, ss. 60.— (Gravestone.) STEWART, JONAS, m. Mary Grimes, 1766, and had Samuel, Mar. 12, 1767. SOUTHER, MOSES, of Marlboro', m. Lucy, dr. of Timothy Jack- son, March 15, 1774, and had Moses; Polly, Sept. 24, 1778; Aaron; and Joseph. STODDARD, ELIEZEE, m. Susanna Hall, 1719, and ha.A Eliezer, March 11, 1719; Ebenezer, March 8, 1721 ; Phineas, Feb. 27, 1723; Daniel, Nov. 27, 1726 ; Susanna, April 1, 1729 ; Joshua, April 3, 1732. STODDARD, Capt. ASTOK, d. 1793, se. 86. His w. Ruth d. at Lower Palls, 1794, se. 83. 408 STODDAED STOTTELL SHEPARD. STODDAED, THOMAS, d. 1821, se. 72.— (Gravestone.) STOWELL, JOHN, bought of James Barton, one hundred an4 three acres land, in 1722, being part of the Mayhew farm, bequeathed by Edw'd Jackson, Sen. to his s. Jonathan. He had by w. Sarah , Sarah, Aug. 14, 1723 ; removed to Wat, and had James, Benjamin, Hezekidh, Jerusha, and David. STOWELL, DAVID, from Wat., m. Patience , 1716, and had Elizabeth, Aug. 21, 1719 ; Jerusha, Sept. 22, 1721 ; Ebenezer, Sept 26, 1724. She d. Oct 21, 1724. STOWELL, ISRAEL, m. AbigaU , d. 1718. 2d w. Sarah Che- ney, 1729, and had Israel, Nov. 16, 1732; Sarah, Dec. 27, 1733; Joseph, Eeb. 1, 1736 ; Daniel, May 20, 1738 ; Enoch, July 16, 1740 ; Abigail, Jan. 29, 1743 ; Abijah, May 12, 1745. Abigail m. Jacob Packard, of Bridgewater, 1770. He was Selectman 1741. She d. 1775, SB. 71. STQWELL, SAMUEL, m. Sarah , 1714, and had Tharikjul, Jan. 25, 1722. STOWELL, DAVID, from Wat., m. Mary Dilloway, Dec.,-1724. She d. 1724. STOWELL, ISAAC, m. AbigaU Hyde, Feb., 1732. STOWELL, JONATHAN, m. 1719. Wife d. 1722. 2d w.Margarett Hewitt, 1723. STOWELL, ABIJAH, (s. of Israel and Sarah,) m. Rhoda , and had ^6yaA, 1772; JacO), Dec, 1774. 2d w. Mary Stowell, 1778, and had David, May 30, 1779 ; and Sally, April 23, 1781. STOWELL, BENJAMIN, d. Nov. 29, 1739. SHATTUCK, JOHN,had by w. Martha , William, Dec. 14, 1749. SHEPAED, ALEXANDER, was a man of talents and education ; a leading man in the town, for many years, and especially during the revolutionary struggle for independence, as the Town Records will abundantly show ; two letters of his, are inserted in the Appendix — the one, giving some statement of the afifairs of the town, ten years before the war of the Revolution commenced ; and the other, men- tions the general poverty and distress, at its close. His parentage has not been ascertained. Ho removed to J^y, now Canton, Me., SHEPAED — SHEEiVIAN. 409 about 1790, and d. ttere. He m. Mary, sup. dr. of Jonathan Wil- lard, and had Alexander, Sept. 9, 1741 ; Mary, Dec. 8, 1742 ; Edward, Aug. 29, 1744 ; .4.7m, April, 19, 1746 ; Abigail, Dec. 1, 1747 ; Daniel Willard, May 5, 1751; Catherine, May 25, 1753; John, Nov. 26, 1754. Mary m. Thomas Dascomb, 1762 — Ann m. Wm. Upham, Jr., 1770 — Edward m. Jane McCarty, 1762, and 2d, Eunice Hyde, 1778 — John, one of the founders of the Baptist Church, and its first Deacon and Treasurer, m. Lucy Child, of Wat., 1777, and d. 1785. 1st w. d. 1756. 2d w. Anna Pratt, of Needham, 1758, d. 1762. 3d ■w. Abigail Draper, of Dedham, 1762, d. 1779. 4th w. Mary Cheney, 1780. He d. 1785. SHEPARD, ALEXANDER, Jb., surveyor, m. wid. Elizabeth Green- wood, dr. of Capt. John Jackson, and had Borodell, Oct. 25, 1765 ; Alexander, Jan. 26, 1769, d. 1774. Borodell m. Capt. Simon Jackson, 1786. He built the house now owned by Craft, near Auburn- dale, and was employed by the Government of Massachusetts, to survey the public lands in Maine ; he obtained a large grant of the lands for his services, which was called Shepardsfield, now Hebron ; he removed and settled there, with John Greenwood, Jr., Dr. God- dard, and other Newton men. His only son being dead, he adopted Thomas J. Greenwood, the youngest son of John and Elizabeth Greenwood, sent him to College, and by an act of the Legislature, 1781, his name was changed to Alexander Shepard, but he d. when a student in the University, 1783, se. 26. He d. 1788, se. 47. Shed. 1782. SHEPAED, ISAAC, m. Sarah Cheney, 1729. SHEPARD, NATHANIEL, m. Mindwell "Woodward, 1736. SHEPARD, NOAH, m. Margaret Stone, July, 1739, and had Benoni, Dec. 10, 1739. She d. 1746. SHEPARD, JONATHAN, m. Susanna Bacon, 1761, and had Jona- than, April 13, 1763, d. 1792; Samuel, Oct. 19, 1765; Zenas, Dec. 9,1767; Jonas, April 18, 1770; Susanna, June 15, 1773; Mary, Oct. 26, 1777. SHEPARD, NATHANIEL, m. Phebe Williams, 1762, and had Phebe, March 7, 1763. SHERMAN, WILLIAM, a cordwainer, of Wat., (s. of Joseph, and g. s. of Capt. John, one of the early settlers of Wat.,) m. Mehitable Wellington, in Wat., Sept. 3, 1715, and had seven chil. They lived 35 410 SHERMAN. in Charlestown, then at Newton, and thence to Stoughton. Roger, the third s., was bom in Newton, April 19, 1721, and learned his father's trade. He went from Stoughton to New Milford, 1743, and to New Haven, 1761.* He was Dea. of the Ch.; Judge of S. J. C, in Conn., twenty-three years j a member of the Continental Con- gress, 1774; signer of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the committee who drew up that important document ; an honorary degree of A. M., from Yale College, conferred on him, 1786; an influential and conspicuous member of the Convention that formed the Constitution of the U. S. ; Representative in tjie first Congress under the Constitution ; a member of the TJ. S. Senate, and d. at New Haven, July 20, 1 793, ae. 72. He was a self-taught man, pur- suing his studies with great diligence. He is said to have been dis- cerning and prudent, with talents solid and usefuL The following short extracts from his speeches in the Convention that formed the Constitution of the IT. S., are taken from the " Madison papers." On the subject of the three-fifths representation of the slaves, he said, " He did not regard the admission of the negroes into the ratio of representation, as liable to such insuperable objections. It was the freemen of the Southern States who were, in fact, to be represented according to the taxes paid by them, and the negroes are only in- cluded in the estimate of the taxes." This was his idea of the mat- ter. * * * * "He disapproved of the slave trade ; yet, as the States were now possessed of the right to import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, and as it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government, he thought it best to leave the matter as we find it." * * * * "It was better to let the Southern States import slaves, than to part with them, if they made that a a sine qua non. He was opposed to a tax on slaves imported, as making the matter worse, because it implied that they were prop- erty." A very notable and ruinous instance of compromising moral principle for the sake of political expediency. SHERMAN, GEORGE C, had by w. Nancy, George P., 1844 ; Eunice M., 1846 ; Harding B., 1848. SHERMAN, JAMES M., had by w. Joanna , James H, 1833 ; Alfred A., 1836 ; George B., 1839 ; Lmy M., 1841 ; ObediaJi, 1844. • Dr. Bond's Hist, of Wat. SMITH — STONE. 411 SMITH, JOHN, had by w. Sarah , John, March 2, 1768; and Tliankful. 2d w., Susanna , and had Jemsha, May 8, 1695, Margaret, July 29, 1698; Daniel, Aug. 16, 1700; Esther, July 20,1703; Ephraim, Oct. 5, 1704; Josiah, May 27, 1707; Silas, drowned at Upper Falls, 1729. He was a tanner, and bought of Nathaniel Parker twenty-seven and a half acres land, in Newton, with dwelling house thereon, in 1694-5, for £90, bounded E. by land of Samuel Parker, s. by land of John Trowbridge. SMITH, SAMUEL, m. Mary Mirick, 1738, and had Mary, Dec. 25, 1738 ; LiKy, April 28, 1740 ; Samuel, April 8, 1742. SMITH, BENJAMIN, m. Hannah Morse, 1783, and iiaA Benjamin ; and Henry, who was a mercbant, in Boston. SMITH, SHUBAL, had by w. Grace , Nelson, Aug. 9, 1801. SMITH, ENOCH, blacksmith, m. Elizabeth , and had Nancy, Nov. 11, 1793 ; Eliza, Jan. 9, 1796 ; Adolphus, Eeb. 20, 1798 ; Enoch, May 6, 1800; Mary, March 17,] 1802; William, April 20,1804; Sarah, Aug. 5, 1806 ; Sylvanus, Aug. 2, 1808. SMITH, ADOLPHUS, (s. of Enoch,) m. Sarah , and had Sarah, June 4, 1825. SMITH, ENOCH, Jr., m. Catherine Eustis, 1826, and had Elizabeth, 1827 ; Thomas E., April 2, 1829. SMITH, HENHY, m. Eliza "Ware, 1823. ni. STONE, Hon. EBENEZEE, (s. of Simon Stone, Jr., of Wat.,) b. 1663. His grandfather Simon, and w. Joan, with five chil., came from Old Eng. to N. E., in the ship Increase, Robert Lee, Master, in 1634, and settled in Wat. He bought thirty acres of land in New Camb., 1686, of Thomas Croswell. He owned the house supposed to have been built by Eichard Parke, very near the site now occu- pied by the Eliot Ch. This was probably his first residence in the town. In 1700, he sold this place to John Jackson, s. of Sebas, Sen., and removed to the easterly part of the town, and built the house now owned by John Kingsbury. He was m. March 18, 1686, to Margaret, dr. of James Trowbridge, Sen., and had Ebenezer, Dec. 21,1686; Margaret, Aug. 1, 1688; Samuel, July 1, 1690; John, Sept. 18, 1692; Nathaniel, Sept. 6, 1694; Mindwell, Sane 26, 1696; DavidyMaj 15, 1698 ; Mary, April 19, 1700 ; Simon, Sept. 14, 1702 ; 412 STONE. James, June 8, 1704 ; Eoiffenence, Jaly 1, 1707. 2d w. Abigail Wil- son, June 12, 1711. 3d w., Sarah liivermore, April 8, 1722. Mar- garet m. Nathaniel Hammond — Mindwell m. Ebenezer Woodward, 1716 — Mary m. Ephraim Ward, 1732 — Experience m. Dea. Joseph w Ward, 1733 — Nathaniel d. 1713, se. 19 ^^^TJavid d. 172571^177" He was Selectman ten years, Dea., Representative nine years, and Councillor. His 1st w. d. 1710, se. 44. 2d w. d. 1723, «. 57. 3d w. d. 1741, se. 70. He d. Oct. 4, 1754, se. 92. His will was proved 1754, and names sons Ebenezer, Nehemiah, James, John, and heirs of Samuel ; and drs. Margaret Hammond, Mindwell Woodward, and Experience Ward. IV. STONE, Ensign EBENEZER, Je., (s. of Hon. Ebenezer,) m. Sarah Bond, 1713, and had in Wat., Josiah, 1717; William, 1719; Nathan, 1721; Elizabeth, 1723; Sarah; Hannah; Margaret, 1728; Keziah, 1731. Hannah m. Robert Goddard, 1752 — Margaret m. David Goddard. He d. 1784, sb. 98. She d. 1754, se. 66. IV. STONE, SAMUEL, (s. of Hon. Ebenezer,) m. Hannah Searle, of Rox., 1716, and had, in Eramjngham, Hannah, April 29, 1717; Mary, Jan. 23, 1719 ; Esther, Aug. 3, 1721 ; Matthias, Oct. 21, 1723 ; Nehemiali, Oct. 24, 1724 ; Samuel, Oct. 5, 1727. Hannah m. William - Marean, Jr., 1737 — Mary m. Daniel Woodward, Jr., 1739 — Esther m. Ebenezer Hammond — Matthias m. Susan Chadwick, of Wor- cester, 1749 — Nehemiah m. Hannah Lock, 1748 — Samuel d., se. about 20.* IV. STONE, JOHN, (s. of Hon. Ebenezer,) m.Lydia Hyde, 1717, and had, in Eramingham, Margaret, Oct. 24, 1718. 2d w. Abigail Stratton, of Wat, 1719, and had Abigail, Sept. 2, 1720; Jonas, S^t. 5,1722; in Newton, Lydia,n2i; Abigail, Apxil 2i, 1726; David, Sept. 24, 1728; Mindwdl, Jan. 25, 1731; SaraJi, March 30, 1733; Anna, 1734; John, Jan. 12, 1737. Margaret ni."Noah Shepard, 1739 — Lydia m. Jacob Chamberlain, of Worcester, 1744. 1st w. d. 1718. 2d w. d. 1788, se. 90. He was Selectman nine years, and d. 1769, 83. 77. His will (1765) gives his right in the noon house to his s. Jonas. He first settled in Eramingham, returned to New- ton, 1724, and bought the farm of Rev. Nathan Wai-d, and built a house near Oak hill ; the first of the name that settled there. * Barry's History of Framlngham, STONE. 413 IV. STONE, SIMON, (s. of Hon. Ebenezer,) m. Priscilla Dyke, 1732, and had Mkry, June 6, 1733, d. 1735 ; Experience and Mary, July 10, 1735 ; Mary, June 8, 1737 ; Ephraim, May 12, 1741 ; Bethia, Oct. 9, 1743 ; James, Dec. 15, 1744. He d. 1760, ». 58. She d. 1760. V. STONE, Capt. and Dea. JONAS, (s. of Dea. John,) m. Ann Stone, 1745, and had Samuel, Sept. 15, 1747 ; Jonas, July 13, 1749 ; Seth, May 5, 1751 ; Amos, May 6, 1753; Ann, June 20, 1755; Eben- eser, Sept. 19, 1757; Sarah, April 3, 1760; and Aaron. Ann m. Thomas Stowell, of "Worcester, and d. 1846, se. 91 — Sarah m. Elisha Cheney, of Royalston, 1791 — Seth m. Esther Glark, 1775, settled in Petersham, and d. 1801, se. 50 — Samuel m. Elizabeth Clark, 1774, and settled in Petersham — Amos m. and settled in Petersham, was Dea. there, and d. 1802, se. 49; his wid. d. 1819. He was Selectman six years, and d. 1804, se. 82. She d. 1794, £6.72. V. STONE, Dea. DAVID, (s. of Dea. John,) m. Mary Herring, 1754, took homestead, and had Aaron, Oct. 21, 1757 ; Moses, Dec. 4, 1759; Mary, Sept. 27, 1762; Betsy, Eeb. 13, 1765; Isaac, Oct. 9, 1767. He d. 1802, se. 74. She d. 1826, se. 92. , V. STONE, JOHN, (s. of Dea. John,) m. Martha, dr. of Moses Craft, June, 1762, and had Oliver, March 24, 1763 ; Asa, May 15, 1765 ; Esther, Dec. 14, 1767 ; I^dia, April 20, 1771 ; Hannah, April 6, 1773 ; Martha, March 20, 1775 ; John, May 2, 1777 ; Asa, Aug. 1, 1779 ; Anna, Oct. 28, 1781 ; and Aaron, Jan. 1, 1784. Lydia m. John Thompson, of Wat., 1793 — Hannah m. Solomon Alden, 1795. He was Selectman, and d. 1797, se. 60. She d. 1816, se. 73. V. STONE, JAMES, (s. of Simon,) m. Saar3.h Billings, 1767, and had 5araA, June 7, 1769 ; Timothy, March 6,1771; iwcy, Nov. 21, 1772 ; Danielf Dec. 7, 1 774 ; Eunice, July 14, 1776 ; Mary, March 2, 1778; Elizabeth, Aug. 12, 1780; Abigail, June 21, 1783; Ephraim, Sept. 28, 1784; James,, Jan. 20, 1786; Jonathan, March 3, 1788; Catherine, Aug. 9, 1791.' Sarah m. Phineas Hovey — Lucy m. Eli Pierce, of Hopkinton, 1796 — Eunice m. John Trowbridge, 1794 — Mary m. Edmund Trowbridge — Ephraim d. 1832, se. 47 — James d. young — Daniel settled in Portland. He was Selectman, and d. Nov. 24, 1836, se. 92. She d. 1825. VI. STONE, JONAS, Js., (s. of Capt. Jonas,) m. Martha, fc of Stephen Winchester, 1775, and had Elijah, March 27, 1777 ; Charles, 35* 414 STONE. April 16, 1778 ; Reuben, May 14, 1780 ; Artemas, May 4, 1782; £eu- lah, June 11, 1785; Stephen, Dec. 21, 1786. Beulah m. Lemuel Eichards, of Rox., 1814, d. 1818 — Elijah m. Lucy, dr. of Nathan- iel Jackson, and took the homestead — Charles m. Eunice Whiting, of Franklin, 1816, and d. 1822 — Stephen m. Sabra Ward, 1816, settled in Brighton, and d. 1832. 2d w., Abigail Winchester, 1807. He d. Feb. 4, 1835, SB. 85 1-2. 1st w. d. May 3, 1806, se. 54. 2d w. d. Jan. 1847, ffi. 87 1-2. VI. STONE, EBENEZEE, (s. of Capt. Jonas,) m. MindweU Rich- ardson, 1788, and had Nancy, Feb. 26, 1791 ; Samuel, Aug. 21, 1793 ; Sally, July 7, 1797. He d. 1800, se. 42. She d. 1806, se. 43. VL STONE, TIMOTHY, (s. of James,) m. Mary Morse, 1798, and had Mehitable, J&n. B, 1800; Abigail, March 5, 1802. 2d w., wid. Elizabeth Edes, and had Cordelia S., July 22, 1815 ; Caroline H., June 1, 1817 ; Darius D., May 15, 1820. He d. 1825, x. 54. 1st w. d. 1802. VL STONE, MOSES, (s. of Dea. David,) m. Olive Ward, 1787, and had Eliska, Nov. 17, 1789 ; Maria, Jan.Sl, 1792 ; Ephraim W., March 24, 1794; Augustus, June 29, 1796 ; William, May 17, 1798; Martha J., March 19, 1800; David, May 25, 1802. Maria m. Isaac Alden, 2d w. Sarah Peters, 1811. He d. 1813, £b. 53. VL STONE, SAMUEL, (s. of Capt. Jonas,) m. Elizabeth Clark, 1774, settled in Petersham, and had Hannah, Samuel, Clark, Betsy, Sally, Gardner, Esther, Asa, Levi, Jonas, SuJcey, Lot, a,n&- John. He d. 1828, se. 78. She d. 1821. VL STONE, SETH, (s. of Capt. Jonas,) m. Esther Clark, 1775, settled in Petersham, and had Norman, Ebenezer, Moses, Aaron. 2d Vf. Zervia Bragg, 1784, and had Lydia, and Ebenezer. 3d. yr. SaUy McFarland, and had Daniel, Jonas, and Seth. VL STONE, AMOS, (s. of Capt. Jonas,) m. Anna Miller, and had Samud, and Nancy. 2d. w. Susan Hawes, 1789. He d. 1802, se. 49. VIL STONE, Dea. REUBEN, (s. of Jonas, Jr.,) m. Sally Richard- son, May, 1805, and had Ebenezer, May 26, 1806 ; Martha, May 12, 1809. Martha m. David, s. of Moses Stone. He d. Aug. 3, 1828, ro. 43. STONE — SPRING. 415 VI. STONE, JONATHAN, (s. of James,) m. Sophia, dr. of Major Samuel Murdock, 1814, and had Daniel, Dec. h, 18U; Haniet N., Aug. 21, 1816; BeuM. F., Jan. 6, 1819; Sophia, March 10, 1822; George F., Dec. 20, 1827. VU. STONE, ARTEMAS, (s, of Jonas, Jr.,) m. Catherine Baker, and had Thomas B., Feb., 1810; Charles, Sept., 1811 ; Catherine F., Aug., 1813, d. 1838 ; Stephm W., July, 1823. Thomas B. m. Elvira "Walker, settled at Dixdeld, Me.— Charles m. Mary E. Spear, and settled in "Wilton, Me. — Stephen "W. went to Ohio. He d. 1827, SB. 45. VII. STONE, SAMUEL, (s. of Ebeuezer and Mindwell,) m. Lucinda "White, 1818, and had Nancy, Oct. 17, 1819; Sarah R., Oct. 1, 1821 ; Ebenezer, April 12, 1823 ; Samuel R., April 9, 1830 ; Harriet M., Deo. 7, 1835. He d. 1849, se. 56. "VII. STONE, DA"VID, (s. of Moses,) m. Martha, dr. of Reuben Stone, and had Reuben, David, and George. Tin. STONE, Capt. EBENEZEE, (s. of Dea. Reuben,) m. Mary- Howe, and had Samuel R., April 9, 1830; Jonas, May, 31, 1831 ; Grafton Willard, Sept. 22, 1835. STONE, JOHN, (s. of John and Martha,) m. Lucy Munroe, and had Julia, March 22, 1803 ; Eunice, July 9, 1807 ; Imoj, July 23, 1805 ; Elmira; Jlenry, Dec, 1808. STONE, JOSEPH, (s. of "William, of "Wat.,) m. Nancy Smith, 1815, and had Nancy E., 1816; Joseph W., 1818; Charles, 1820; Henri/, 1822; Hiram H., 1825; Maria L., 1830; Arthur W., 1836; Addison H., 1839. STONE, JOSIAH, m. Mary King, 1820. STONE, JOEL, m. Juliet DureU, 1826. STONE, SILAS, m. Sarah "W. Smith, 1841. STONE, JOSEPH D., m. Sarah E. "Wales, 1842. n. SPRING, LiETTT. JOHN, was the s. of John, Sen., and Elener, of "Wat., who came to this country with his parents, in the ship Elizabeth, "William Andrews, Master, in 1634, (then four years old,) with two brothers, Henry and "William, and one sister, Mary. Henry took the homestead at Wat. — John removed to Camb. Village, about the time of the ordination of its first Minister. — His bro. "WiUiam 416 SPHING. went to Barbadoes, and d. there, leaving a s. John, who was here when his father William d. in Barbadoes, about 1695, then eighteen years old. On hearing of the death of his father, he chose his uncle John, of Camb. Village, his guardian i made his will, dated 1698, giving all his estate to Jonathan Green, carpenter, of the Village, and appointed him his executor, and sailed for Barbadoes, to obtain the portion of goods that had fallen to him, by the death of his father. His will says that, he " gave his estate to Green, in token of his gratitude to him, for his kindness and care, in his straits and difficulties, &c., in which others, of whom he might have expected help, deserted him, &c., from which we may infer that Green loaned him money, — and he made him the executor of his will, as the only security he could give him, in case of his loss at sea. He prob. did not return to this country. Lieut. John, (s. of John, Sen.) m. Hannah, dr. of William and Anable Barsham, of Wat., 1656, and had Hannah, Oct. 1, 1657 ; Mary, June 10, 1659 ; Susanna, April 16, 1661; Sarah, 1662; Rebecca, 10. 12. 1664; Abigail, 20. 12. 1666; Susanna, 18. 6. 1670, d. young; Mary, 19. 12. 1672; Elizabeth, 7. 2. 1675 ; and John, 1678. Hannah m. Daniel Trowbridge, (s. of James, Jr.) 1734 — Mary m. John Ward, Jr., 1681 — Abigail m. William Ward, Dec. 1689 — Elizabeth m. John Mason. His house stood on the N. w. side of the Dedham road, opposite the old burial place, and very near to the house now owned and occupied by Gardner Colby. He built the first grist mill in Newton, situated on Smelt brook, near the centre of the town. He was Selectman eight years, from 1686 ; Eepresentative three years ; Sealer of weights and measures ; Lieut. ; Pound-keeper ; Tithingman ; sweeper of the M. H., &c. It is sup. that he gave the land for the second M. H., 1796, which stood very- near his own house, and the Town afterwards reconveyed it to his s. John; but he never thought it worth his while, it seems, to put any deeds on record. He d. May 18, 1717, ro. 87. She d. Aug. 18, 1710, SR. 73. — Gravestones. in. SPRING, Ensign JOHN, (s. of Lieut. John,) m. Joanna Rich- ards, of Ded., March 8, 1703, took the homestead, and had William, Dec. 24, 1704; John, 1706; Ephraim, May 30, 1708, grad. at H. C. 1728; Mary,'SoTr. 20,110%; Hannah, Feb. 2, 1712; Deborah, Feb. 29, 1714; iVaiAam'cZ, Aug. 26,1715; /SamueZ, June 17, 1723. Mary m. Ebenezer Stearns, of Wore, 1737 — Deborah m. Jonathan Wil- liams, 1735 — Hannah m. Daniel Trowbridge, 1734 — Nathaniel m. Martha Williams, 1741, and went to Wore. In 1753, he conveyed SPRING. 417 to his s. Samuel the homestead, fifty-two acres, s. by Mill lane ; E. by the County road ; n. by land of Rev. John Cotton and Thaddeus Trowbridge ; and w. by land of his s. WUliam. In 1754, he sold to Eev. John Cotton, six and a half acres land, for £71, on the e. side of the County road, being part of the estate of the late John Spring, and formerly of John Jackson, Sen. He was Selectman twelve years, and d. intestate. May 5, 1754, se. 76. Inventory, £2,684, 16s. Id. She d. May 6, 1747. IV. SPRING, WILLIAM, (s. of Ensign John,) m. AbigaU Squier, 1730, and had Thaddeus, April 9, 1731 ; William, June 24, 1732, d. 1744; Daniel, April 28, 1734; Simeon, Jan. 31, 1737, d. 1745; Abi- gail, Jalj 31, 1139, i. 11 ii; Joanna, June 21, 1743, d. 1745; Wil- liam, March 15, 1746 ; Abigail, July 9, 1748 ; Simeon, Jan. 20, 1752; and Joanna. Abigail m. Stephen Hall, 1769 — Simeon was a Lieut, ia the Revolutionary army. He d. April 22, 1754, as. 50. IV. SPRING, SAMUEL, (s. of Ensign John,) m. Thankful Nor- cross, 1745, took the homestead, and had er, Sept. 3, 1748; Lucy, June 9, 1750; Enoch, Feb. 17, 1752 ; Mindwell, Nov. 4, 1753. Sarah d. unm. 1766 — Ann m. James Ryan, 1763, and d. WARD. 433 1770 — Esther d. unm., June 14, 1766 — Margaret m. Nathaniel Cheney, 1770 — Elener m. Solomon Wheeler, of Sutton, d. 1785 — Lucy m. Caleb Morse, of Sutton, 1777 — Mindwell d. unm. 1780 — Nathaniel m. Hannah Batchelder, settled in Grafton, and had six ehil. He was a blacksmith, lived in the West Parish, bought twenty nine acres of land of Solomon Park, in 1732, called " the Plain," e. by County road, N. b. and N. by Jeremiah Puller, and N. w. by Town road. Also, twenty acres, n. by Town road, n. w. and w. by Capt. Puller, for ^30. He was the first Deacon in Rev. Mr. Greenough's Ch., and d. Dec. 23, 1784, ». 79. She d. Dec. 26, 1798, ffi. 91. Dea. Ward's will gave to his w. all the household furniture, half the stock and movables, and the improvem^t of half the farm during her life. His farm was appraised at £341 . Pine lot, 30. Oak Hill lot, 54. Personal Estate, 80, 5s. \0d. £505, 5s. lOd. Debts and deductions on sales for less than the appraisal, 305, 5s. Id. £200, Os. 9d. By his will the four sons were to have one- third more than the four daughters, cal- culating what the daughters had received ; but in the settlement, 1785, the brothers gave to the sisters, £116, 17s. Oii. and only took for themselves, 83, 3s. 9d. £200, Os. 9d. " He spent his life in the practice of religion and virtue, and de- lighted in the happiness of mankind." " She possessed and returned the tender affections of her husband, children and friends, and passed a long life, cheered with the glorious hope of meeting them in that world, 'where God shines forth in one eternal day.' " — [Monumental extract. V. WARD, GEORGE, (s. of James,) m. Abigail Mirick, 1755, and haiElisha, April 8, 1755; Mary, July 14, 1757, d. 1758: Elizabeth, Aug. 24, 1759; Anna, Peb. 11, 1762 ; James, Dec. 29, 1767. Eliza- beth m. Job Hyde, 1779 — Anna m. Nath'l Norcross, of Wat., 1783. He d. 1773, se. 42. Wid. Abigail, admin. 37 434 WARD. ' V V^ WARD, JOHN, (3. of Ephraim,) m. Abigail Craft, 1761, and had Samud, Dec. 5, 1762; Olive, Feb. 25, 1764; Martha, Feb. 5, 1766 ; Moses, July 6, 1768; Ephraim, Septl, 1771; Beulah, March 10, 1778, d. 1793 ; William, May 18, 1780. Olive m. Moses Stone, 1787 — Martha m. Joseph Jackson, Jr., 1788, and 2d, Dea. Benjamin Eddy — William m. Mary Bennett, of Boston. He d. 1781, se. 46. His wid. mi Joshua Flagg, 1793. V. WARD, EDWARD, (s. of Timothy,) m. Desire Whitney, of Eox., 1769, and had .dmos, Not. 24, 1769; Sarah, 1771, d. 1st w. d. 1778. 2d w. Dolly Twichell, and had in Athol, Sarah, June 26, 1780; Nathan, March 28, 1782; Dolly, Feb. 11,1785; Susan, Eeb. 2, 1787 ; Ehoda, Oct. 28, 1788, d. 1789 ; Jonas, Oct. 24,'l790; Royal, Sept. 25, 1792; Edward, Aug. 15, 1797. Sarah m. Calvin Mayo, of Orange — Dolly m. Oliver Ward — Susan m. Levi Ward — Amos m. Sarah Burnett — Nathan m. Clarisa Abbee — Jonas m. Polly Goddard — Royal m. Nancy Temple — Edward m. Polly Steams. He d. 1817, se. 73. 2d w. d. 1842, se. 83.* V. WARD, JONATHAN, (s. of Timothy,) m. Mary Pond, of Eox., 1772,,went to Athol, and had Mary, March 8, 1773 ; Esther, May 8, 1775, d. young. 2d w. Sarah Twichell, 1777, and had Samuel, ■ March 2, 1779 ; Margaret, Aug. 16, 1780. Mary m. Josiah Tay, of Athol — Margaret m. Dr. Benjamin Bullard. He d. 1797, se. 50. 1st w. d. 1777. 2d w. d. 1790.* V. WARD, Dea. NEHEMIAH, (s. of Timothy,) m. Sarah Whitney, of Eox., 1773, went to Orange, and had Danid, July 11, 1774 ; Han- nah, July 15, 1776 ; Desire, July 13, 1779; Nehemiah, Sept. 9, 1783, d. 1787_; Nehemiah, Jan. 2, 1788. Hannah m. Ethan Allen — Desire m. Thomas Lord — Daniel m. Sarah Jones — Nehemiah m. Lucy Newhall. He d. Jan. 18, 1831, se. 80.* v. WARD, JOHN, (s. of Samuel and Meriam,) m. Martha Shed, of Rox., 1771, settled in Brookline, and had Samud, Sept. 13, 1772 ; Olive, May 24, 1774; James, Dec. 5, 1775, d. 1778; Martha, July 7, 1779, d. 1787; Elizabeth, June 5, 1785, d. 1785; Martha, June 18, 1789 ; Mary W., Oct. 15, 1791 ; John, July 8, 1794. Olive m. Eben- ezer Pool — Mary W. m. Nathaniel Fisk — Samuel m. Joanna Bird, and had fourteen chil. — John m. Mary Thomas. 2d w. Elizabeth Brewer, 1807. He d. 1828, se. 80. 1st w. d. 18d6, se. 53.* • A. H. Ward, Esq. WARD. 435 V. WARD, DBA. ENOCH, (s. of Dea. Joseph,) m. Sarah Allen, 1784, took the homestead, and had Asa, June 2, 1786 ; Charles, Oct. 26, 1788, d. unm. 1819. Asa altered his name to Lauristou,jind m. J. A. Cook. He d. Oct. 1789, se. 38. His wid. Sarah m. Nathan Park, 3d, 1793. V. "WARD, ColJOSEPH, (s. of Dea. Joseph,) m. Prudence, dr. of Jacob Bird, of Dor., i7'84, and had Elizabeth, Dec. 24, 1785; Joseph, Aug. 21, 1787, d. 1792 ; Myra, Not. 3, 1789 ; Joseph, Nov. 11, 1793 ; Prudence, Oct. 6, 1795; Caroline, Nov. 15, 1797; Dennis, Nov. 1, 1799; George W., Aug. 8, 1802. Elizabeth d. unm. 1813 — Myra d. unm. 1812 — Joseph d. unm. 1833, at Boston — Pradence, num. — ^ • (^TOling.m. Rev. Edmund Q. Sewall, 1820,jiud settled at ScituatCo — Dennis m. Mary Watson, 1831, and settled in Spencer — George « _V£. m. Susan C. Dehanne, 1841, dr. of Edward T. A. Schwachhopef, e a native of Germany, and settled in Brookline, N. Y. He^as a member of the first CH. in Newton, and of the Old South Ch., in Boston. He d. in Boston, Feb. 14, 1812, se. 75. She d. in Concord, March 9, 1844, se. 79. The likeness of this kind friend and just man, makes the frontispiece of this book. A further notice of his life may be found in the last article in the Appendix. V. WARD, JOHN, (s. of John and Rebecca,) m. Mary Kingsbury, of Needham, 1806, (then 54 years old,) and had Rebecca P., Oct. 2, 1808 ; Joseph, Aug. 20, 1810 ; John, Aug. 8, 1812. He d. Oct. 1814, 86.62. v. WARD, Dea. RICHARD, (s. of Dea. Ephraim,) m. Margaret Chandler, of Brookline, settled in Amherst, N. H., and had William, 1765; Margaret, 1767; Mary, 1768; Sarah, 1772; Richard, 1774; Ephraim, 1777 ; Zachariah C, 1781 ; John, 1784 ; Thcmias, 1788. Mary m. Caleb Barton — Richard m. Hannah Smith —Ephraim m. Patty Snow— Zachariah C. m. Betsy Willard— John m. Sally Lord — Thomas m. Rebecca Gerald. He d. 1794, se. 56.* V. WARD, Rev. EPHRAIM, (s. of Dea. Ephraim,) grad. at H. C. 1763, ordained at Brookfield, 1771, and m. Mary, dr. of Rev. Sam'l Dexter, of Dedham, and had Samud D., Jan. 16, 1773; William, April 4, 1775, d. 1777. 1st w. d. 1775. 2d w. Mary, dr. of Benj. Coleman, Esq., of Boston, 1777, and had Pemhertm, Jan. 15, 1778; Mary, Nov. 20, 1779; Susan; Susan, Jan. 30, 1781 ; Ph^he, Oct. 7, • A. H. Ward, Esq. 436 -WARD. 1783 ; Benjamin C, Nov. 18, 1784 ; William H., Dec. 10, 1786 ; John G., June 19, 1791. Mary in. Thomas Stickney — Susan m. Elijah ^ Dayenporf— Phebe m. Joseph CutlerA J., March 4, 1828 ; Martha J., Jan. 25, 1834. "WARE, JOHN, from Sherburne, (brother of Professor "Ware, of H. C) m. Hannah Leland, and had Sylvia, 1776 ; Walter, 1777 ; Sophia, 1781 ; Elener, 1783 ; ESnidge, 1785 ; Emily, Peb. 23, 1794 ; and Pa- mdia. Sylvia m. Dr. Ebenezer Starr, 1794. He built the first paper mill at the Lower Palls, about 1790. "WARE, AZARIAH, had by w. Sarah , Mira, Dec. 15, 1792 ; Otis, San. 19, 1796. "WARE, "WALTER, (s. of John and Hannah,) m. Patience, dr., of EUsha Sevems, 1798, and had Albert, May 27, 1799 ; Elisha, May 29, 1801 ; Elizabeth, July 3, 1803 ; Martha, d. ; and Elisha S. He d. 1822- "WARE, LE"WIS, m. Matilda Morse, 1803. WARE, ELBRIDGE, (s. of John and Hannah,) m. Betsy Bridge, 1807. *37 438 ■WARE WELD "WILLIAMS. • WARE, JOEL, m. Mary Perry, 1803, and had Harriet; i. 1822. WELD, NOAH, had by -w. Elener , Elizabeth, Jan 8, 1752. II. WILLIAMS, Capt. ISAAC, (s. of Eobert Williams, of Box., -the common ancestor of very many distinguished men who have hon- ored this country,) was born in Rox., Sept. 1, 1638, m. Martha, dr. of Dea. William Park, of Eoxbury, born Aug. 28, 1639. He re- moTed to the w. part of Camb. Village, about 1660, and purchased the tract of land which was granted 1640, to Maj. Samuel Shepard, by the proprietors of the town of Cambridge ; bounded n. by Charles river ; s. by the common lands ; w. by land of Herbert Pelham, Esq. ; and E. by lands granted to Joseph Cook. Maj. Shepard had erected a dwelling house and barn upon this tract, before 1 652, in which year Robert Barrington obtained judgment against Shepard, for £590, and this tract of land was appraised at £1 50, and set off to satisfy the execution in part. Dea. William Park took this land at the appraisal, for his son in law, Isaac Williams. The house stood about ten rods n. of Cheesecake brook, and about thirty rods N. E. of the West Parish M. H. ; it was taken down by Williams, who built another very near the same spot, which was pulled down in 1818. He had by Martha Park, Isaac, Dec. 11, 1661 ; Martha, Dec. 27, 1663; William, Feb. 2, 1665; Johri, 31. 8. 1667; Eleazer, Oct. 22, 1669; Eannah, Oct. 8, 1771; Elizabeth; Thomas, 23. 10. 1673. 2d w., Judith Cooper, and had Peter, 31.6.1680; Mary; Sarah, Oct. 2, 1688; Ephraim, Oct. 21, 1691. Martha m. John Hunt — Hannah m. John Hyde, s. of Job — Elizabeth m. Jonathaa Hyde, s. of Job, Jan. 3, 1700 — Mary m. Joseph Hyde, ». of Jona- than, Sen. — Sarah m. John Marsh, Oct. 9, 1718, 2d, Gray. He was a weaver, Dea., Capt, Selectman and Representative, 1692, '95, '97, '99, 1701 and 1705. In March, 1704, he conveyed to his youngest s. Ephraim, (then 12 years old,) " in consideration of the love, good will, and endeared affection, his then dwelling house and barn, -with the land and meadow adjacent, being all the land under my improvement, and all the land on the e. end of my farm, called the ' new field,' and half the land in the ' old field,' i. e., all on the N. side of the cart way, now occupied' by my s. Eleazer, and all the wood land at the w. end of Eleazer's line, being the whole tract of land between the Fuller line and the causeway over the meadow, leading to the Island, only reserving half my said dwelling house, and fire wood, for my dear and loving w. Judith, during her life ; also, a piece of meadow on the s. side of the land, called ' the Island,' WILLIAMS. 439 containing about six acres, and one acre of salt marsh in Camb." "Witnessed by Jeremiah Fuller, Jonathan Hyde and Elizabeth*t!hild. He also made a will confirming this conveyance. It seems apparent from the record, that the influence of the second wife prevailed in this transaction, to secure the most of the estate to her darling Eph- raim ; that, although he held a Captain's commission, she probably acted in this instance in that capacity, with the assistance of some lawyer, who was willing to take fees for helping enact injustice ; which will appear the more glaring when we know that a large part of the estate came by the grandfather of the first wife's children, whose portions were thus attempted to be wrested from them. * Of course the first wife's chDdren remonstrated to the Judge of Probate against the will, as being " imperfect and insensible," stating that the lands of their grandfather, William Park, in Newton, were never so alien- ated from him, as to' cut ofi' their descent to them, &c., and praying that the whole of these lands of their grandfather Pstrk, may be divided amongthe children of the first wife, as is their right, and as the law directs. If not, they will proceed in their suit before the Gov. and Council, &c. The will was set aside, and is not upon record, and the attempted injustice signally failed, and the estate was finally settled by mutual agreement among all the children. By this agreement, dated March, 1708, Isaac, Eleazer, and Ephraim took all their father's land in Newton, five hundred acres, paying and providing for the other heirs, as stipulated in the agreement, which also provided for the laying out of two or three highways through the lands. He d. Febr 11, 1707, se. 69, and was buried under arms by the company of Eoot, Eeb. 14, 1707. Widow Judith d. 1724, 35. 76. m. WILLIAMS, Capt. ISAAC, (s. of Capt. Isaac and Martha,) m. Elizabeth Hyde, dr. of Jonathan Hyde, Sen., and had Isaac, Nov. 1, 1686 ; Jonathan, Nov. 5, 1687 ; Mary, Feb. 27, 1688 ; John, April 30, 1689; William, Sept. 19, 1690 ; Ebenezer, Oct. 16, 1691 ; Samuel, Feb. 11, 1693 ; Martha, Sept. 12, 1694 ; Danid, Oct. 22, 1695 ; Eliz- abeth, Sept. 23, 1697. Mary m. Payson — Martha m. , Nov. 15, 1716 — Elizabeth unm., housekeeper for John Hyde, Jr., who made her a liberal bequest in his will, 1760. 1st w. Elizabeth d. 1699, SB. 40. 2d w. wid. of Nathaniel Hammond, Jr. 3d w. Han- nah . He was Selectman 1734, and removed to Eox. soon *"The Inventory ol Dea. William Park, of Koxbury, was ;£1,751, 19s. 6d. 440 ' WILLIAMS. after, and bought Eev. Mr. Walter's place, and d. 1739, se. 78. His will, proved July, 1739, names sons Isaac, John, WiUiam, Samuel, and daughters Mary Payson, and Elizabeth Williams ; Jonathan and Martha were probably dead ; gives Isaac the family Bible, — " Dan- iel took care of him in his last sickness, and was helpful to him in his age," gave him the homestead formerly Mr. Walter's ; w. Hannah to have the w. end of the house — books to be equally divided among his chil. In the settlement of his father's estate, 1708, the quarter part of the com mill was set to him, which he conveyed to his brother Ephraim, in 1722. ni. WILLIAMS, Eev. WILLIAM, (s. of Capt. Isaac and Martha,) grad. H. C, 1683, ordained as Minister of the Gospel, at Hatfield, 1685; m. dr. of Eev. Dr. Cotton, and had William, May 11, 1688 ; Martha, Oct. 10, 1690 ; Elisha, Aug. 26, 1694 ; Solomon, June 4, 1700. 2d w. dr. of Eev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, and had Israd, Nov. 30, 1709 ; Dorothy, June 20, 1713 ; Elizabeth; and one other dr., bom Jan. 1, 1707, who m. Barnard, of Salem — Martha m. Edward Partridge — Dorothy m. Eev. Jonathan Ashley, of Deerfield — Eev. Solomon, D. D., Lebanon, Conn., m. Mary Porter, and had ten chil., one of whom, WiUiam, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence — Eev. WiUiam, of Weston, m. Stoddard, and had nine chU. — Col. Israel, H. C, 1729, m. Sarah Chester, and had eight chil. — Eev. EUsha, Eector of Tale College, H. C, 1711, m. Eunice Chester, and had seven chil. He d. at Hatfield, Aug. 29, 1741, se. 76, and the 56th of his ministry. m. WILLIAMS, JOHN, (s. of Capt. Isaac and Martha,) m. Martha Wheeler, dr. of Isaac Wheeler, of Stonington, and had in Stonington, Isaac, April 10, 1689 ; John, Oct. 31, 1692 ; Martha, Aug. 3, 1693 ; Deborah, AprU 2, 1695; WiUiam, March 29, 1697 ; Nathan, Dec. 11, 1698 ; Benajah, Aug, 28, 1703. He d. Nov. 15, 1702, se. 35. m. WILLIAMS, ELEAZEE, (s. of Capt. Isaac and Martha,) m. Mary, dr. of Eev. Nehemiah Hobart, and had Nehemiah, Eeb. 4, 1696 ; Martha, March 11, 1700, d. 1703 ; Mary, Jan. 18, 1704. Ne- hemiah m., and had two sons. He signed the agreement to settle his father's estate, 1708, and sold part of his land same year, to Capt. Thomas Oliver. This family removed to Conn, before 1715. Eleazer, and w. Mary, conveyed their rights in the homestead of her father, in Newton, containing one hundred acres, to the Eev. John Cotton, in March, 1715 ; in the deed he caUs himself of Mansfield, Conn. WILLIAMS. 441 III. WILLIAMS, THOMAS, (s. of Gapt. Isaac and Martha,) did not sign the agreement under which the father's estate was settled, 1708, but he sold part of his land to Gapt. Thomas Oliyer, same year. UI. WILLIAMS, PETER, (s. of Gapt. Isaac and Judith,) was non compos mentis, and d. 1732. III. WILLIAMS, Col. EPHEAIM, (youngest s. of Gapt. Isaac and Judith,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Ab'm Jaekson, April 1, 1714, took the ancient mansion and one hundred acres of the homestead, and had Ephraim, Teb. 24, 1715; Thomas, April 1, 1718. Elizabeth the mother d. April 12, 1718. 2d w. Abigail Jones, May, 1719, and had Abigail, April 20, 1721 ; Josiah, April 17, 1723 ; Elizabeth, July 2, 1725, d. 1729; Jydith, July 13, 1728; Elizabeth, Nov. 28, 1730; Elijah, Nov. 15, 1732 ; Enoch, March 3, 1735, d. 1738. Abigail m. Bev. Mr. Sergeant, Missionary to the Housatonic Indians, 2d, 'Gen. Joseph Dwight — Eliz. m. Eev. Dr. West, and d. 1804 — Judith m. Eev. Mr. Thayer, of Ware. [Ephraim, Jr., the founder of Williams' College, was taken at the death of his mother, then three years old, by his grandfather Ab'm Jackson, who brought him up, and gave him a good education. He went several voyages to sea, when young ; was never married. He removed to Stockbridge, represented that town in the General Court, thence to Hatfield, where he purchased several tracts of land. He was Col. in the French war, and was killed in a battle with the French and Indians, Sept. 8, 1755, se. 40. A more full account of this distinguished man, may be seen m the Appendix.] Thomas was taken when an infant, brought up and educated by his grandfather Ab'm Jackson, was A. M., Yale College, physician and surgeon, settled at Deei'field, m. Ann Childs, and 2d Esther Williams, and had fifteen children — Josiah m. Sargent, and went to N. J. — Elijah m. Sophia Partridge, and d. 1815. Gol. Ephraim was Justice of Peace, and Selectman seven years, the last year was 1736; sold the ancient mansion and seventy acres of land, to Jonathan Park, in 1717, for £300, bounded n. e. by a white oak tree marked by the line of the Fuller farm. He removed from Newton, 1739, and d. 1754, se. 63. IV. WILLIAMS, ISAAC, (s. of Isaac, Jr.,) m. Martha Whitman, 1709, andhad Jiijrat/, Oct. 4, 1710; Jbna^Aan, Dec. 16, 1711 ; Eliz- abeth; Martha, March 8, 1714 ; Mary, June 14, 1717 ; Phebe; Han- nah, Oct. 9, 1723 ; Isaac, July 15, 1725. Abigail m. Josiah Fuller, 1739 — Elizabeth m. Josiah Eeed, 1729 — Martha m. Nathaniel 442 WILLIAMS- Spring, 1741 — Mary m. Joseph Miller, 1741 — Hannah m. John Eogers, 1745. His will names w. Martha, sons Jonathan and, Isaac, drs. Elizabeth Eeed, Abigail Fuller, Mary MiUer and Hannah Eog- ers, and g. chil. Ephraim, Nathaniel and Martha Spring. He was Selectman 1741, '45 and '49, a;nd d. 1757, £e. 72. IV. WILLIAMS, "WILLIAM, (s, of Isaac, Jr.,) m. Experience , and had Abijah, July 8, 1722, d. 1722; William, Aug. 3, 1723; Anna ; Abijah, July 19, 1726, d. 1726 ; Elisha, Oct. 12, 1727. Anna m. Eev. Jacob Gushing, of Waltham, Nov. 8, 1753. Abigail m. Eev. Samuel Woodward, of Weston, Jan. 11, 1753. He was a housewright, of Wat., 1737, and sold fifty-five acres of land to Dr. Samuel Wheat, for £300, b. by the gangway through the farm of the late Capt. Isaac Williams, adjoining land of the College, of Eichard Coolidge, and of Dr. Wheat. IV. WILLIAMS, DANIEL, (s. of Isaac, Jr.,) m. Hannah Holbrook, of Eox., 1724, took his father's homestead in Eox., and had Daniel, Aug. 15, 1725 ; Isaac, Aug. 5, 1728 ; Benjamin, Jan. 9, 1730; Phebe; Mary. Phebe m. Deane — Mary m. Hodges — Benja- min m. Elizabeth Boylston, 1756. V. WILLIAMS, JONATHAN, (s. of Isaac and Martha,) m. Debo- rah Spring, dr. of Ensign John Spring, 1735, lived at the N. w. part of Newton, on the same spot now covered by Collier's house) and had Jonathan, July 1, 1737, d. 1737 ; Deborah, July 20, 1738; PAe5e, Apr. 18, 1740 ; Joanna, Oct. 20, 1741 ; Martha, Aug. 27, 1743 ; Jonathan, Nov. 5, 1744. Deborah m. James Murdock, 1765 — Phebe m. Nathaniel Shepard, 1762. Joanna m. James Cheney, 1765 — Mar- tha m. Thomas Upham, of Weston, 1772. She d. 1777, se. 64. V. WILLIAMS, ISAAC, (s. of Isaac and Martha (Whitman,) m. Sarah Stratton, 1748, and had Isaac, Sept. 7, 1748 ; Sarah, Aug. 27, 1750 ; Abigail, July 10, 1752 ; Ebenezer, Nov. 28, 1756 ; Ephraim, Feb. 25, 1760 ; PaUy, Nov. 2, 1763. 2d w. Elizabeth Cheney, 1765, and had Amariah, d. ; Elizabeth, Aug. 25, 1765 ; Asa, June 7, 1773 ; ,and Lydia. Sarah m. David Fuller. 1st w. d. 1763. WILLIAMS, THOMAS, had by w. Lydia , Lydia, July 22, 1754. VI. WILLIAMS, JONATHAN, Je., m. Mrs. Sarah Spring, Jan. 1767, took the homestead, and had Jonathan, d. 1767 ; Samuel, April 20, 1768 ; and Sarah. He d. 1776, se. 39. This is the last family of WILLIAMS — "WALES — WAEDIN. 443 Capt. Isaac's descendants, who bore his name, upon the Newton record. [The births, marriages, and deaths of the Williams's, not recorded in Newton, have been copied from " The Williams' Family, byStephen Williams, Esq., of Deerfleld.'i] I. WTLLIAMS, ABRAHAM, took the Freeman's oath in 1652. He purchased, in Aug. 1654, a dwelling house and twelve acres of land, in Wat., of John Callow. In 1662 he purchased a dwelling hoiise and six acres of land, in that part of Cambridge Village now Newton Comer, very near the Watertown Hue. He m. Joanna, sister of John Ward, Sen., about 1660, and had, in the Village, Elizabeth and William. He sold his place, in the Village, to Gregory Cook, March, 1665, (deed acknowledged 1668, in which he calls it his late " Mansion place, " highway to Watertown e., Edward Jack- son s., Dummer farm N. and w.,) and removed to Marlboro', and had Lydia, 1669, and John. He lived in the Village about eight years. He was Col. and Representative from Marlboro', to the Gen. Court. His will is dated Deo. 1711. He d. Dec. 29, 1712, se. 84. Wid. Joanna d. Dec. 8, 1718, se. 90. • WILLIAMS, RALPH, m. Parmelia Ware, 1814. WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN, m. Mary Blanden, 1804, and had Lucy, Oct. 22, 1804 ; Mary, June 21, 1806 ; George, March 15, 1809. WILLIAMS, ASA, m. Amelia Warren, 1812. WILLIAMS, DAVID, m. Julia Sargent, 1817. WILLIAMS, EPHRAIM, m. Becca Jackson, 1822. WINCH, EBENEZER, (s. of Samuel and Mary, of Eramingham,) d. 1831, se. 78, and w. Esther (Brinley,) d. 1830, sd. 75. WALES, NATHANIEL, m. Sally MiUs, 1801, and had Nathaniel, Sept. 27, 1803. 2d w. Abigail, dr. of Edward Jackson, 1803, (Lower Ealls,) and had Emdine, March 20, 1808 ; Edward, Feb. 4, 1809. WARREN, EBENEZER, m. Elizabeth Hyde, 1727, and had Esther, Nov. 28, 1727 ; Samuel, July 2, 1730 ; John, Jan. 14, 1734. WARREN, Mes. TABITHA, d. 1840, se. 82. WARDIN, -JUDAH, m. Rebecca Prentice, 1725. 444 'WED GE -WILLAED WILTON. WEDGE, JOHN, m. Hannah Macoy, 1718. WELCH, MICHAEL, came from Ireland, and d. 1812, re. 77. Wife Martha d. 1801, se. 65. [Lower Ealls.] Only s. Walter, m. Elener Thompson, and settled in Boston, kept provisions many ye^s in Eaneuil Hall Market, had one child, Jane, who m. . Walter d. 1853. WILLAKD, JONATHAN, blacksmith, (his parentage has not been ascertained,) m. Sarah Bartlett, Dec. 20, 1708, settled at Lower Ealls, and had Jonathan, April 29, 1710; Sarah, Sept. 3, 1711 ; Eph- raim, Jan. 14, 1713, d. 1714; Ephraim, Aug. 29, 1714; Samuel, March 12, 1717, d. 1719; Zachariah, Feb. 23, 1719, d. 1720; Han- nah, Dec. 6, 1720, d. 1722; Lydia, May 12, 1723; Esther; Seth, April 20, 1726; Nathan, June 17, 1728. Sarah m. Oliver Pratt, 1734 — Lydia m. Lemuel Pratt, 1750 — Ephraim m. Lydia Fuller, 1737. His house and iron works were at the Lower Palls. He bought the iron works, forge, dam, &c., of Nathaniel Hubbard, in 1 722. He was probably the first person in Newton, of the Baptist denomination. He was baptised 1729, and joined the first Baptist Ch. in Boston, 1732. For many years he appears to have been alone in that faith. Of course " he was not a little wondered at, on account of his religious sentiments." He d. May 22, 1772, se. 95. She d. Oct. 1767. WILLARD, JONATHAN, (s. of Jonathan, Sen.,) m. Perthene-^, and had Jonathan, July 2, 1738 ; Heaekiak, Nov. 30, 1740; Ephraim, April 20, 1743; John, July 1, 1745. Jonathan settled in Dudley, and d. there, se. about 100 — Ephraim m. Sylvia Albee, of Sutton, 1781. He d. Feb. 28, 1 749, se. 39. WILLAKD, NATHAN, m. Violet Dlx, 1752. He d. in the army, 1778. WILLAED, Rev. FREDERICK A., m. Mary W. Davis, 1836, and had Harriet D., Oct. 1, 1836. He was installed as colleague Pastor with Rev. Joseph Grafton, Nov. 1835. WILLINGTON, DAVID, (s. of WiUiam and Mary, of Wat.,) had by w. Ruth , Charles, Dec. 13, 1800. WILTON, WILLIAM, m. Mary Beals, 1741, and had William, May 14, 1743; Samuel, May 7, 1745, d.; Samuel, May 6, 1747 ; Nathaniel, May 2, 1750, m. Elizabeth Brown, 1775. He d. 1751. WILSON. 445 I. WILSON, NATHANIEL, of Eox., m. Hannah Craft, 1645, and had in Kox., Hannah, May, 1647 ; Nathaniel, April 30, 1653; Joseph and Benjamin, Jan. 31, 1655 ; Isaac, Aug. 24, 1658 ; Mary, at Mud- dy Riyer, May 22, 1661; Abigail, 1663; Samuel, Rebecca, Susanna, and one other dr. This family removed to Camb. Village, where he purchased about one hundred and fifty acres of land. His h. Joseph, a wheelwright, also bought of heirs of Eichard Park, six acres land, in 1678, N. by land of Capt. Noah Wiswall and Daniel Preston, w. by James Trowbridge and Deliverance Jackson, heirs of John Jackson, Sen., the previous owner. He built his house very near to the West Eox. line. Mary m. Capt. Thomas Oliver, his 2d w., 1682 — Abigail m. Dea. Edward Jackson, (s. of Edward, Sen.,) his 2d w., 1687 — Eebecca m. Shubael Sever, of Eox. — Susanna m. Thomas Gill. He d. in Newton, Sept. 17, 1692, se. 70. She d. Aug. 18, 1692. Their sons, Nathaniel and Samuel, admin, on the estate, and in that capacity sold a part of Bald Pate meadow, to Thomas Prentice, 2d or Sen., in 1692. Nathaniel, Sen.'s estate was divided by Thomas Prentice, Sen., Jno. Ward and Jno. Spring, 1693. Benjamin had forty acres on N. side ; Isaac w. end, forty-seven acres, with the house ; the e. end, seventy-four acres, being the resi- due, he paying £19. Amount of inventory, £219, 14s. n. WILSON, NATHANIEL, (s. of Nathaniel, Sen.,) m. Hannah, dr. of Rev. John Oliver, first Minister of Chelsea, and had Nathaniel, Dec. 4, 1682; Elizabeth, Nov. 9, 1684; Hannah, Oct. 18, 1686; Susanna, Nov. 6, 1688 ; Edward, Oct. 3, 1689. Edward was a brick- layer, and went to Shrewsbury. Hannah the 1st w., d. Sept. 26, 1690, SB. 49. Her mother, the wid. of Edward Jackson, Sen., by her will, proved Nov. 14, 1709, bequeaths to the chil. of her deceased dr. Hannah Wilson, £6, whereof her g. s. Nathaniel had already received forty shillings, being his full share ; the remaining four chil. to have twenty shillings each, with other bequests. Edward Jackson, Sen., by his will, dated June, 1681, bequeathed to his s. in law, Nathaniel Wilson, one-fifth part of his long marsh at the Pines. 1st w. Hannah d. Sept. 1690. 2d w. Elizabeth, dr. of Humphrey Osland, March 11, 1693, removed to Pram., and had Mary, who m. Gideon Bridges, 1723 ; Rdief, who m. John Stacey, and 2d, Dea. Moses Pike, 1737 ; Thankful, who m. Isaac Gleason, 1725 ; Abigail, who m. Eichard Mellen. He was surveyor of highways, at Newton, 1686 and 1691. 2d w. Elizabeth d. March 10, 1715, se, 48. He d. Dec. 26, 1721, X. 68. 38 446 "WILSON. n. WILSON, BENJAMIN, (s. of Nathaniel.Sen.,) m. Sarah , and had in Eox., Benjamin, Oct. 6, 1678. 1st w. Sarah d. in New- ton, April 15, 1689. 2d w. Grace , and had in Newton, John; Benjamin; Joseph; Sarah; Mary; and William, Oct. 14, 1697. 3d w. Esther . He d., and his estate was settled 1705. Dea. Edward Jackson, admin. His s. Joseph d. at Cape Breton, Sept. 1745. * n. WILSON, JOSEPH, (s. of Nathaniel, Sen.,) m. Deliyerance , and had Hannah, June 10, 1685 ; Deliverance, Oct. 11, 1687 ; Margor ret, Feb. 27,1689; Sarah; Thankful, March 24, 1692; Mary,j3.n. 24, 1694; Experience, Nov. 10, 1696; Elizabeth, May 30, 1703; Abi- gail ; Josiah, Oct. 31, 1704. Hannah m. Turner — Deliverance m. at Wat. Daniel Squier, 1710 — Margaret m. Pitt — Sarah m. John Trowbridge, 1708 — Experience m. Wilkins — Eliza- beth m. WiUiam Ward, 1722 — Abigail m. Smith. She d. Jan. 18, 1718. n. WILSON, ISAAC, (s. of Nathaniel, Sen.,) m. Susanna Andrews, July, 1685, and had Isaac, May 14, 1686 ; Samuel, Ebenezer, Susanna, Hannah and Abigail. Hannah m. John Harris, of Brookline, 1718. n. WILSON, SAMUEL, (s. of Nathaniel, Sen.,) m. Experience Trowbridge, and had Experience, Sept. 21, 1697, d.; Margaret, Aug. 28, 1699; Samuel, March 18, 1701; TT^mos, May 8, 1703 ; Expe- rience, Aug. 2, 1705. Margaret m. John Hammond, Dec. 1718 — Experience m. Isaac Clark, Aug. 1729. She d. Oct. 10, 1705. in. WILSON, JOHN, (s. of Benjamin,) m. Mehitable Mayhew, and had JoTm, Aug. 18, 1714 ; Mehitable and Catherine. ni. WILSON, SAMUEL, Je., m. Abigail Prentice, 1734, and had 27i(»7ia«, May 19, 1735. He d.Feb. 1771, ss. 71. 2d w., Martha Wyman, 1764. 1st w. d. 1755. m. WILSON, BENJAMIN, m. Mary Ward, Sept. 1739. in. WILSON, NATHANIEL, (s. of Nathaniel, Jr.,) m. Elizabeth Eeed, 1709, and settled in Fram., and had Phineas, Mary, Elizabeth, and Benjamin. WILSON, THOMAS, bap. at Newton, m. EUzabeth WUte, 1759, and had Thomas, June 23, 1760; and Abigail, March 7, 1762. WILSON — ■WINCHESTEK. 447 WILSON, "WILLIAM, m. Betsy Harris, of Dracut, April, 1765. IV. WILSON, JOHN, (s. of John and Mehitable,) m. AbigaU , and had John, Jan. 7, 1738; William, Sept. 3, 1741 ; Rebecca, Oct. 3, 1743; Sarah, Feb. 15, 1747; Anna, Oct. 25, 1751. 2d w., prob. Mehitable Metcalf, and had Mehitable, June 3, 1762 ; and Lucy, Jan. 14, 1764. He d. 1772, se. 58. WILSON, MOSES, d. Dec. 1834, ss. 85, and -sr. Unity d. 1834, se. 84. — [The record of the Wilson family is very broken.] m. WINCHESTER, STEPHEN, (was the s. of John Winchester, Jr. of BrooMine, bom Eeb. 1686, and g. s. of John Winchester, Sen., * who embarked for this country in ship Elizabeth, of London, William Stagg, Master, in 1635, then 19 years old, and settled at Hingham, Mass. Had one and a half acres of land granted to him there in 1636, and twelve acres in 1637 ; and took the Freeman's oath in 1637. His dr. Mary was bap. in Hingham, 1640. He re- moved to Muddy Eiver, (Brookline,) about 1650, had three sons and one dr. His wUl, 1691, bequeaths his estate in Brookline to sons John and Josiah, and d. 1694. Inventory, £307, 10s. John, Jr., had in Brookline, by two wives, Hannah and Joanna , six sons and four drs., and d. 1718, leaving a will. Inventory, £1,006, 9s.) Stephen purchased- land in Newton about 1720, being the s. w. part of the Haynes' farm. Built a house, m. Hannah , and had Stephen, Aug. 11, 1723; CSarZes, Aug. 21, 1726; Hannah, March 30, 1730, d. 1743 ; • Gulliver, March 4, 1733. He sold seven acres of land to John Hyde, Jr., for £44, in 1724, the highway run through it, bounded s. e. by John Hyde, Sen.; N. E. by Nathaniel Longley and Paul Dudley, Esq. ; N. w. by John Winchester, and s. w. by his remaining land. In 1750, he and w. Hannah conveyed to their s. Stephen, fifty-seven acres, with the mansion house and bam, s. by * Alexander ■Winchester was the only other of the name, among the early settlers of N E. He came in the same ship with Sir Henry Vane, and may have been a hrotlier'of John. He settled in Braintrec, and was Kepresentatlve from that town, in 1641 • Ensign of the Braintree company, and a member of the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery company. He had at Braintree, Elizateth, 28. 1. 1640; SamaJt, 10 10 1S42 Bemoved to Kehoboth, 1643, and was Selectman there in 1645, '46 and •47 and was one of the proprietors of that township. He had dr. LyOia in Eeho- both bat there is no record of any son at Braintree or Kehoboth. He d. July 16, 1647 ' His will is at Plymoath, dated 4. 4. 164T. Proved Jane 8, 1648 ; no son men- tioned. It is therefore highly probable that all the -Winchesters of N. E. have descended from John, of Hingham, afterwards of Brookline. 448 -WINCHESTEE. William Marean ; B. by Jno. Hammond ; w. by wid. Lydia Che- ney ; and N. by his own land. In 1723, he and others signed a pro- test against the doings of an informal Town meeting in Newton. He d. Sept. 6, 1751, te. 65. His wid. Hannah d. 1768, leaving a will, giving family Bible to s. Stephen. Her inventory, ^£307, 16s. IV. WINCHESTEE, STEPHEN, (s. of Stephen, Sen.,) m. Beulah, dr. of Dea. William Trowbridge, Oct. 9, 1750, at King's Chapel, in Boston, and had Hannah, Eeb. 1, 1751; Martha, Peb. 14,1752; Charles, Aug. 26, 1753; Sarah, Jan. 22,1755; Jonathan, April 5, 1756 ; Beulah, May 25, 1758 ; Abigail, Aug. 18, 1759 ; Stephen, Oct. 22, 1760, d.; William, 1761, d. ; Stephen, March 12, 1762. Beulah, 1st w., d. March 21, 1762, se. 36. 2d w., wid. Hannah Aspinwall, of Brookline, and dr. of Samuel Hastings, Sen., of Newton, Feb. 19, 1764, and had Elizabeth, Jan. 20, 1765 ; William, July 8, 1766 ; Fan- ny, March 4, 1768; Mary, March 24, 1770; Edmund, March 27, 1772; Amasa, Aug. 2, 1775, and Cai!/, April 12, 1778, d. young. Hannah m. Ebenezer Greenwood, 1778 — Martha m. Jonas Stone, Jr., 1775 — Beulah m. Kev. Nathan Dana, 1782 — Abigail m. Jonas Stone, his 2d w., 1807 — Elizabeth m. Asa Fuller — Eanny m. Nathaniel Norcross, his 2d w. — Mary m. Moses Norcross, 1799 — Jonathan d. unm., 1822, £e. 66 — Stephen d. unm. 1786, se. 24. He purchased seventy-two acres land of John Hammond, 1758. He was Selectman, 1764, and d. July 8, 1798, £e. 75, leaving an unjust will, viz. : — To his chU. by first w. he gave Charles and Jonathan, (both destitute,) four dollars each ; to Hannah, poor and sick, with four chil. and an intemperate husband, forty-five dollars per annum, " on account of her uncommon ill health ; " to Beulah, Martha and Sarah, all m., thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents each ; to AbigaU, unm., two hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. 2d wife's chU., to Elizabeth, m., thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents ; to Eanny and Mary, unm., one hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-three cents, with a room in the house so long as they remain unm. ; to William, all his lands in Jeffrey, N. H. ; to Edmund, one thousand dollars ; to Amasa, all his lands in Newton and Needham, and all his estate, he paying the legacifes and maintaining his wid. (who outlived him three years.) Wit- nessed by John Parker, David Eichai-dson and Dr. John King. Proved Nov. 1798. Appraised by Dr. King, Joseph Parker and Joseph Puller, Jr. Homestead, one hundred and fifty-one acres with buildings, $6,145. Total inventory, $7,000. WINCHESTEE. 449 TV. "WINCHESTEE, GULLIVER, (s. of Stephen, Sen.) m. Ann Hammond, 1758, and had Elizabeth, Feb. 13, 1759 ; Senry, Aug. 10, 1761 ; Anna, July 26, 1762 ; William, June 25, 1765 ; Mary, Oct. 28, 1767; Susanna, May 15, 1769; Artemas, Aug. 7, 1770; Lwyretia, Aug. 13, 1773. Elizabeth m. Edward Mitchell, and kept a tavern in Newton — Mary m. John Durell — Anna m. James Foster — Susanna m. Abijah Seavems, of Eox. — Lumetia m. Jabez Lewis, of Eox. — Henry, a schoolmaster, d. unm. 1801 — "William m. Anna Fuller, 1800, and settled in Eox. — Artemas d. unm. 1812. He d. at Brookline, Nov. 1811, se. 78. She d. at Brookline, 1797, se. 60. V. WINCHESTEE, CHAELES, (s. of Stephen, Jr.) m. Mary "WH- kins, at King's Chapel, Boston, 1780, and had Fhebe, May 16, 1787 ; Mary, Nov. 20, 1799. She d. March, 1810. V. "WINCHESTER, "WILLIAM, (s. of Stephen, Jr.,) m. SaUy Graves, 1792, and settled on the land his father gave him, at Jeffrey, N. H., and had William, Martha, and Fanny. V. "WINCHESTER, EDMUND, a provision merchant, in Boston, (s. of Stephen, Jr.,) m. Prudence SkiUings, and had WiUiam P., 1801 ; Edmund; Edmund; Nancy ; Stephen S., 1805, d. 1847 ; and Joseph C. Nancy m. Samuel Dana, of Boston — "William P. m Bradlee, of Boston, and d. 1850, se. 49. He d. Feb., 1839, 83. 67.. Y. "WINCHESTEE, AMASA, provision merchant, in Boston, (s. of Stephen, Jr.) m. SaUy, dr. of Coir Josiah FuUer, May, 1800, and had Harriet, Stephen, Amasa, and Josiah. Harriet m. Grosvenor. He, by his father's will, took the homestead, and gave three-fourths of an acre of land for the South burial place. Soon after, he removed to Boston, and became a partner in the provision business with his br. Edmund. He d. Dec. 18, 1846, se. 72. IV. "WINCHESTEE, Dea. ELHANAN, may be considered a New- ton man, although his house was in Brookline, a few rods from the E. line of Newton (s. of Elhanan, b. 1692, g. s. of Josiah, and g. g. s. of John, who came to this country in 1635, and believed to be the ancestor of aU of that name in N. E). He was b. 1719, thrice m., and had eight sons.and six drs. His first bom was Elhanan, Sept. 19,1751; David; Jonathan, Aug. 13, 1756; Silas, Sept. 5, 1758; Benjamin, Jan. 4, 1760; Sarah; Moses, 1763; Aaron, 1766; Daniel, 1769; Elizabeth. M., Mary, Phebe, Lydia, and Lois. He owned a small farm in Brookline, on the border of Newton, from which he supported his large family, by the double employment of agriculture 38* 450 WINCHESTER. and shoemaking, to which he occasionally added that of preaching, but without any pecuniary compensation. His economy and pat- riotism must have been largely developed, for he loaned to the town of Newton £300, to pay the soldiers, in March, 1777. Being an ad- mirer of the celebrated Whitefield, he united with a small company of " New Lights," in his neighborhood, among whom he was distin- guished for his zeal and influence, and was chosen their Deacon ; their Minister was the Eev. Jonathan Hyde, a Pedobaptist and sepa- ratist, who was the g. g. s. of Dea. Samuel Hyde, Sen. The " New Lights " encountered much ridicule and opposition ; their preacher was warned out of town, by the Selectmen of Brookline, and served with the following summary notice : " Jonathan Hyde is warned to depart out of this town, unto the colony and town he last resided in, to wit, Canterbury, Conn." Dea. Winchester's son Elhanan, Jr. having been baptised by the Rev. Mr. Hyde, was, in the language of the " New Lights " then, and of the Orthodox now, " convicted and converted," and began, in his nineteenth year, to preach lectures, at his father's house and in the vicinity ; and he soon became a Bap- tist, and was a fluent and captivating preacher ; he preached often in Newton, and with great success. His father also became a Bap- tist, and most of the " New Lights " congregation followed him and his son, whose successful labors prepared the way and laid the foun- dation of the first Baptist Ch. in Newton. While the Deacon was among the foremost in building up the Baptist Ch. in Newton, and while he and his wife and sister, and several of his children, had joined this new church, his son Elhanan was about leaving the Bap- tists and embracing the doctrine of Universal Kestoration. Again the father and his family followed the son, and became Eestoration- ists, — ^for which they were disowned and cast out of the church they had worked so zealously to establish. His son Moses also became a .preacher of Universalism. After having been successively a Con- gregationalist. New Light, Baptist, and Eestoratiouist, he joined the Shakers, at Harvard, where he died, in 1810, se. 91. V. WINCHESTER, Rev. ELHANAN, (s. of Dea. Elhanan,) m. Alice Rogers, of Rowley, 1770, she d. 1776. 2d w. Sarah Peck, of Eehobotb, 1776, she d. 1777. 3d w. Sarah Luke, of S. C, 1778, she d. 1779. 4th w.wid. Mary Morgan, 1781, she d. 1783. 5th w. Maria Knowles, about 1784. He had four children by 1st w., two by 2d w. and two by 4th w. He d. April 18, 1797, !E. 46. His brother Moses entered the Ministry, 1784, at the age of 21 ; he had three children. ■WISWALL. 451 and d. in PhUadelphia, Feb. 17, 1793, eb. 30. He became a, very celebrated and brilliant preacher of the doctrine of Uniyersal Res- toration i for a more particular account of which, see Appendix. I. WISWALL, Eldee THOMAS, was brother to Elder John Wis- waU, both of whom were prominent men, among the early settlers of Dorchester. They came from England, in 1635, leaving brothers Adam, Abiel, and Jonathan, in England. (John was admitted Free- man, 1636 i Selectman in Dorchester, 1638 ; a subscriber to the school fund, 1641; Representative, 1646; he removed to Boston previous to 1666, and became Ruling Elder of the first ch. there. His will is dated 1687, names only s. John, and seven daughters. His gravestone, stiU standing in the Granary burial place, gives his death 1687, and his age 86, therefore born 1601.) Elder Thomas subscribed to the school fund in Dorchester, 1641 ; Selectman in Dorchester 1644. Elder John was a few years earlier in office than Elder Thomas, and he is supposed to have been the oldest of the two. There is no monument for Thomas ; his death happened Dec. 6, 1683 ; his age is unknown. The Dorchester record of births are lost. The gravestones of three of Thomas' sons, Ichabod, Enoch and JEbenezer, are still standing, which makes the birth of Enoch, 1633 ; Ichabod, 1637; and Ebenezer, 1646, and the Dorchester ch. record says Noah was baptised 1638. Elder Thomas was a, Selectman in Dorchester, 1652. In 1656 he signed a petition to the General Court, with John Jackson, in behalf of the inhabitants in Camb. Village, to be released from the support of the ministry at Camb. He re- moved to the Village between 1652 and 1656, probably in 1654. In 1 657, he and w. Elizabeth made the following conveyance : " This writing witnesseth that I, Thomas Wiswall, of Cambridge, do prom- ise, in case of my son Enoch's marriage, that I wUl give him, my aforesaid son Enoch, all my lands and houses in Dorchester, both unto him and his heirs forever, viz : The house that formerly be- longed to Mr. Maverick, and the land appropriated thereunto ; the house sometime of Abraham Dyke's, and the land properly pertain- ing thereunto ; the land once belonging to Richard Williams, yea, all my land in Dorchester, more or less, whether already enclosed or not, and all my marsh thereunto belonging justly to me, the above said Thomas Wiswall. In witness hereunto, subscribe my hand." Thomas Wiswall, her Elizabeth + Wiswall. mark. 452 WISWALL. Thomas and Elizabeth both acknowledged this to be their free act, 20. 5. 1657. Eccorded April 16, 1658. His farm in the Village consisted of about four hundred acres, in- cluding the pond which has long borne his name, being the northerly part of the grant of one thousand acres, made by the General Court to Got. Haynes, in 1634. His house stood upon the southerly bank of the pond ; a delightful spot. The front part of the house now owned and occupied by Luther Paul, Esq., was built in 1744, by the Elder's great grandson, Capt. Noah WiswaU, who m. Thankful Euller, 1720, and stands upon the same spot chosen by the Elder. The Elder's mansion is thus described in the inventory of his estate : " lower lodging room — chamber over — fire room — chamber over — and the cellar." On the day of the ordination of John Eliot, Jr., as Pastor, (July 20, 1664,) he was ordained as Ruling Elder, or As- sistant Pastor, in inspecting and disciplining the flock. In 1668, he was appointed by the authorities of Camb., to catechise the children. His children by w. Elizabeth , were Enoch, 1633 ; Esther or Hes- ter, about 1635 ; Ichabod, 1637 ; Noah, bap. 1638 ; Mary; Sarah, bap. 1643; Ebenener, 1646. Esther m. Maj. WUliam Johnson, s. of Capt. Edward Johnson, of Wob., 16. 3. 1655, and d. Dec. 27, 1707, se. 52. — Mary m. Samuel Payson, of Dor. — Sarah m. Nathaniel Holmes, Jr., of Dor. Last w. Isabella Earmer, wid., from Ansley, England. She * d. in Billerica, May, 1686. He d. Dec. 6, 1683, £e. about 80, intestate. Inventory, i£340, two hundred and seven acres land, and four Bibles. His sons, Capt. Noah and Ebenezer, admin. There is no monument to his memory, unless the pond be such, — surely none could be more beautiful and enduring. n. WISWALL, ENOCH, (s. of Elder Thomas,) m. Elizabeth, dr. of Kev. John Oliver and Elizabeth Newgate, (whose last husband was * There was some difference between lier and his children, in the settlement of the estate, as appeal's by the Probate Record. In answer to the petition of Mrs. Isabel Wlswall, of Camb. Village, relict wid. of Elder Wiswall, the Court appoints Capt Thos. rrentice, Wm. Bond, and Lieut. James Trowbridge, a committee to propor- tion the dowry, aa the law directs, and to endeavor a mutual agreement between the children and the widow. Ifext, the Court appoints Dea. Samuel Hyde, Lieut. John Cutler, and Corp'l Wm. Bond, to set out the wid. Isabel's allowance, which was to be paid at Boston, or Bedham, as she may prefer; and Edward Farmer, of Billerica, was appointed her guardian. Dr. Farmer says, " she was originally Isabel Barbage, of Great Packington, County of Warwickshire, a woman of masculine courage and spirit. She had a controversy with old Capt, Prentice, but he, with more regard to justice than gallantry, obliged her to retract some of her asseverations, and to prom- ise that in future she would ' set a watch before her mouth, and keep the door of her lips.'" WISWALL. 453 Edward Jackson, Sen.,) 25. 9. 1657, took the homestead, in Dorches- ter, and had John, bap. 10. 10. 1658; Enoch, bap., d. 1660 ; Hannah, 6. 2. 1662 i Oliver, bap. 1664 ; Elizabeth, bap. 1667 ; Hester, bap. 1669; Susanna, 1672; Enoch, 1675; Mary, 1677; Samuel, 1679; Enoch and Ebenezer, Feb. 25, 1682. Oliver m. Sarah , and had seven sons, viz : Thomas, Enoch, Ebenezer, Oliver, Ichabod, John, and Samuel — Samuel grad. at H. C, 1704, Minister, of Edgartown, 1713, d. 1746. He d. Nov. 28, 1706, se. 73. (Gravestone at Dor- chester.) She d. May 31, 1712, se 73. n. WISWALL, Eev. ichabod, (s. of Elder Thomas,) m. Pris- cilla Pabodie, settled in Duxbury, and had Mary, Oct. 4, 1680; Hannah, 1681 ; Peleg, Eeb. 5, 1683; Perez, Nov. 22, 1686; Merci/, Prisdlla, and Deborah. Mary m. EUsha Wadsworth, 1704 — Mercy m. John Wadsworth — Hannah m. Eev. John Eobinson, who suc- ceeded her father in the Ministry at Duxbury — PriscUla m. Ger- sham Bradford, 1716 — Deborah m. Samuel Seahury, 1717 — Peleg m. Elizabeth Sogers, of Ipswich, and had Daniel, John, Elizabeth, and PrisciUa, and grad. at H. C, 1702, was master of the North Eree Grammar School in Boston, from 1719 to , and d. Sept. 2, 1767, Ee. 84; wUl 1767. Farmer says, Eev. Ichabod entered H. C, 1644, and left without a degree, in 1647, whereas he entered in 1654, and left in 1657. This error of ten years has led many to suppose that he was a brother of Elder Thomas, instead of his son. He was ordained Pastor of Duxbury Church in 1676, was agent for Ply- mouth Colony, in England, to obtain a new charter, in 1689, — at the same time, Eev. Increase Mather was agent of Massachusetts, in England, to obtain a new charter for Massachusetts, — two clergymen, exerting their diplomacy to the fullest extent, for their constituents. Wiswall doing his best to obtain a distinct charter for - Plymouth Colony, and strenuously endeavoring to prevent the union of Plymouth with either New York or Massachusetts ; while Mather exerted himself to prevent a union with New York, and to obtain a charter for Massachusetts, Maine and Plymouth united, in which he succeeded. Being baffled by the endeavors of Mather, some slight feeling of animosity, it is said, arose between them. During the progress of the negotiations in England, " Mather wrote to Hinckley, then Gov. of Plymouth Colony, informi n g him of the danger of Plymouth's being annexed to New York, and intimating that it was in consequence of WiswaU's zeal and perseverance to obtain a separate charter for Plymouth Colony, and that if he found 454 WISWALL. himself thereby plunged into manifold miseries, he had none to thank for it but one of his own." This was probably a diplomatic cut at Wiswall, which he doubtless expected would reach him via Got. Hinckley, with greater effect than the cut direct. As soon as Wiswall found out that Mather had succeeded in obtaining a charter for Massachusetts, with Plymouth under its wing, Wiswall writes home to Gov. Hinckley in the following strain : — " All the frame of Heaven moves upon one axis, and the whole of New England's in- terest seems designed to be loaden on one bottom, and her particu- lar motions to be concentric to the Massachusetts tropic. Tou know who are wont to trot after the Bay horse ; * * the rash- ness and imprudence of one, at least, who went from New England in disguise by night, * hath not a little contributed to our general disappointment." There is no doubt but that Wiswall was a most devoted and true representative of the interests of Plymouth, and that he deservedly stood high in the esteem of that Colony, for his ability and integrity. Although Wiswall was appointed agent to England by Plymouth Colony alone, yet the Gen. Court of Massa- chusetts did, in June, 1694, vote him £60, as a gratificatiou for his services in a voyage to England. He d. July 23, 1700, se. 63, (grave- stone at Dux.,) having ministered at Dux. twenty-foijr years. His will is dated 1700. Inventory, £351, 15s. Books, £60. It is said that he was famous as an astrologer, and to have predicted the death of one of his children, while in Eng. His s. Peleg Wiswall, peti- tioned the Gen. Court for a grant of land, in consideration of the suffering and services of his father, the Kev. Ichabod Wiswall, in the cause of the Province, which, petition was granted, and three hundred acres were assigned to him accordingly. n. WISWALL, Capt. NOAH, (s. of Elder Thomas,) was bap. in Dor., 1638, m. Theodocia, dr. of John Jackson, Sen., Dec. 10, 1664, and had Thomas, 29. 2. 1666 ; Elizabeth, 30. 7. 1668 ; Caleb; John? Margaret, 1. 1. 1672 ; Hannah, 1. 2. 1674 ; Mary ; Esther, 1. 2. 1678 ; Sarak, 5. 11. 1680 ; Thomas, 2. 29. 1686. Elizabeth m. Kev. Thomas Greenwood, of Eehoboth, Dec. 28, 1693. Hannah m. Caleb Sted- man, of Eox., 1697 — Margaret m. Nathaniel Parker — Sarah m. Joseph Cheney, at Newbury, 1702. He signed the secession petition in 1678. In 1681, Sergt. John Ward and Noah Wiswall were cho- sen to transcribe the Town Eecords from the old book into the new • Mather, WISWALL. 455 book. He was Selectman in 1685, Assessor in 1686. In 1687, he and John Ward were joined to the Selectmen to treat with the Se- lectmen of Camb., to lay ont a highway from the M. H., through the lauds of the Camb. proprietors, to the Tails. In 1689, the General Court appointed Capt. -Prentice and Noah "WiswaU to gather up the arms belonging to the Indians, at Natick, which had been pawned to several persons. In the Spring of 1690, depredations were perpe- trated by the I"rench and Indians, in the eastern part of Massachu- setts, Maine and New Hampshire. In the beginning of May, about five hundred ^French and Indians were discovered around Casco (Portland). Casco was attacked, and Maj. Davis carried captive to Canada. Capt. Noah Wiswall, Lieut. Gersham Flagg and Ensign Edward Walker, with a company of Infantry, marched for the secur- ity of Casco. They arrived at Portsmouth July 4, where a court was called, and it was agreed to send Capt. Wiswall to scour the woods as far as Casco, with one other Captain and four Sergeants. Several Captains desired to go with Capt. Wiswall, and they cast lots to know who should go, and the lot feU to Capt. Eloyd ; and Lieut. Davis, with twenty-two men from Wells, joined them. They took up their march from Cocheco, into the woods. On the 6th of July, Capt. Wiswall sent ont his scouts early in the morning, found the trail of the enemy, and overtook them at Wheelwright's pond, and a bloody engagement followed. Capt. Wiswall, Lieut. Elagg, and Serg't Walker, and fifteen men, were slain, and others wounded. Capt. Eloyd continued the fight for several hours ; his tired and wounded men drew off, and he soon foUowed them. * There is a tradition that Capt. Noah had a son John, who belonged to his Co., and fell with him in that action. His estate was appraised by Capt. Th'omas Prentice, James Trowbridge, and Ebenezer WiswaU. In- ventory, £A37, Is. Wid. Theodocia, and son Thomas, admin. Wid. Theodociam.Dea. Samuel Newman, of Eehoboth, and d.Nov. 1725, upwards of 80. Son Thomas bought out the other heirs, and took the homestead of Capt. WiswaU, in 1698, and bought the widow's thirds, ip 1703; this homestead was probably the southerly part of Elder WiswaU's farm; the wid. of Capt. Noah had ninety acres, and son Thomas, ninety-five acres. In 1733, Nathaniel Parker, and the other heirs of Capt. Noah WiswaU, petitioned the General Court for a grant of land, in consideration of the services of their father m the Indian war. The House of Represent, voted that fifteen hundred * NUes' Indian Wars. 456 wiswALt. acres be appropriated in Lunenburg and Rutland, east of 'Waohusett hUl, to be divided among the ofiScers and soldiers who were in the fight on liamphrey river, and to the representatives of Capt. Noah WiswaU ; fonr hundred acres to Lieut. Gersham Tlagg ; three hun- dred acres to Ensign Edward Walker ; and one hundred and fifty acres to each of the soldiers. The Council voted to non-concur with the doings of the House, but finally reconsidered their vote, and con- curred in Dec, 1733. n. WISWALL, Lieut. EBENEZER, (s. of Elder Thomas,) m. Sarah . He was Surveyor of Highways, 1685 ; Selectman, 1689. He made a will, January, 1689, giving all his estate, after the decease of his w. Sarah, to his cousins, (nephews,) John, Oliver, and Samuel WiswaU, sons of his brother Enoch, of Dorchester. His brother Enoch, and brothers in law Samuel Payson and Nathaniel Holmes, Jr., of Dorchester, were his executors. No chil. are named in the will. He d. Jtme 21, 1691, se. 45. His house, bam, and ninety-five acres land, appraised at £230. (This was prob. the residue of the Elder's homestead.) The whole amount of inven- tory, £325, 13s. Wid. Sarah d. 22. 6. 1714, a. 67. John, Ohver, and Samuel WiswaU, of Dorchester, sold his estate to Nathaniel Parker, 1694 — one himdred and twenty acres more or less, with bam and out houses thereon, w. and n. w. by land of Thomas Wis- waU; s. by land now in possession of Mrs. Sarah WiswaU, (the widow). Eecorded in 1714, after her death. m. WISWALL, LiETTT. THOMAS, (s. of Capt. Noah,) m. at New- bury, Hannah Cheney, July, 1696, took the homestead of his father, and had Hannah, Oct. 15, 1697 ; Noah., Sept. 7, 1699; Sarah, March 4, 1701 ; Mary, Oct. 1, 1702 ; Elizabeth, Aug. 25, 1704 ; Thomas, and Ichabod. Sarah m. John Newman, 1730 — Elizabeth m. Nathan- iel Longley, Jr. He was Highway Surveyor in 1694 ; Constable in 1699; Selectman, in 1706 and 1707. He d. 1709, se. 45. Wid. Han- nah m. David Newman, of Eehoboth, June, 1719. Caleb Stedman, of Eox., admin. Estate : Inventory, £672. Ifinety-five a;Cres land divided to wid. Hannah Newman, her thirds, and to Thomas, Icha- bod, Noah, and Nathaniel Longley. To oldest s. Noah, the build- ings and thirty-seven and a quarter acres ; to Thomas and Icha- bod, sixteen and a half acres, on the N. side partly by Great pond ; Mrs. Hannah, eighty and a half acres on the n. side of the road and house. Nathaniel Parker bought out the heirs and widow's thirds, and took part of the land of Capt. Noah WiswaU. WIS"WALL. 457 IV. WISWALL, Capt. NOAH, (s. of Lieut. Thomas,) m. Thank- ful, dr. of Jeremiah Fuller, 1720, took down the ancient house built by Elder Wiswall, and built the front part of the house, in 1744, now- owned and occupied by Luther Paul, Esq. He had Thomas ; Eliza- beth ; Jeremiah, Oct. 27, 1725 ; Thankful, Sept. 1, 1 727, d. 1728 ; John ; Thankful, Aug. 11, 1729 ; Mary, AprU 1, 1731 ; Sarah, Dec. 23, 1734; Esther, Dec. 2, 1737 ; Noah, July 7, 1740 ; Samuel; Ebenezer, 1742 ; Margaret, Feb. 25, 1744 ; Hannah, March 31, 1745. 2d w. Deliver- ance, dr. of Ebenezer Kenrick, of Brookline, 1752. Elizabeth m. William Baldwin, Dec. 17, 1741 — Thankful m. Ebenezer Gee, 1750 — Maa-y m. Samuel Norcross, 1752 — Sarah m. Dr. John King, 1761 — Esther m. Benjamin White, 1768 — Margaret m. Thomas Palmer, 1766 — Hannah m. Ebenezer Richards, Jr., of Dedh., 1769. 1st. w. d. 1745, as. 41. He was Selectman three years; one of the early Baptists in Newton, haying been bap. 1754, and one of the founders of the Baptist Ch. in Newton, 1780. The first meetings of the C!h. were held at his dwelling house. He gave the land on which their first M. H. was erected. S. F. Smith's Life of Eev. Mr. Grafton, (page 211,) states that Capt. Noah was in the battle of Lex. Three of his sons, and some of his sons in law were in the East Newton company, commanded by his son Capt. Jeremiah. " After the company had marched for Lex., he started on foot and alone, to follow them, saying, ' / wish to see what the hoys are doing.' Standing with some Americans not far from the field, three British soldiers came in sight ; he immediately pointed them out to his companions, saying, ' If you aim at the middle one, you will hit one of the three.' They did so, and were successful ; the other two fled. As he held out his hand, pointing towards the Britons, a mus- ket ball passed through it. He coolly bound up the hand with his handkerchief, picked up the gun of the fallen regular, and brought it home as a trophy." He was then 76 years old. It may seem incredible that a man of his years could have performed the march and endured the fatigues of that day, but the roll of the East New- ton company, in the battle of Lexington, now in the ofSce of the Sec. of State, of Mass., and sworn to by the Capt. of that company, before Judge Fuller, shows that he was with the company, and not only he, but Ebenezer Parker, then 73 years old, and Dea. Jonas Stone, Dea. David Stane, Dea. William Bowles, and several other aged men, were volunteers in the ranks of the company on that day. Their sons were there, and they could not stay at home. His sons 39 458 -vris-wAi-i.. Samuel, Ebenezer and John, were in the army. Capt. Noah d. June 13, 1786, 86. 86 3-4. Intestate ; ». Capt. Jeremiah, admin. IV. WISWAIiL, THOMAS, hlacksmith, (s. of Lieut. Thomas,) m. Sarah Daniel, of Needham, Dec. 20, 1733, settled in that part of Men- don now Milford, and had Hannah, Nov. 3, 1734 ; Lydia, Oct. 7, 17— ; Noah, Henry, and Timothy. Noah m. wid. Susanna Tenney, 1764 — Henry m. Joanna Thayer, 1 774 — Timothy m., and had sons Joseph, Sampson, Lot, and Jasper. Wid. Sarah d. in Milford, Jan. 1798, se. 86. Son Noah d. 1804. IV. WISWALL, ICHABOD, turner, (s. of Lieut. Thomas,) m. Mary , settled in Attleboro', and had David and Hester. He d. 1750. His will, in Probate office at Taunton, proved April, 1750, gives s. David three-fourths of his estate, and dr. Hester one fourth. V. WISWALL, Capt. THOMAS, (s. of Capt. Noah,) m. Eunice . 2d w. Dorothy Williams, and had Phineas, May 18, 1749. V. WISWALL, Capt. JEREMIAH, (s. of Capt. Noah,) m. Eliza- beth, dr. of Lieut. Robert Murdock, Jr., Dec. 1750, took the home- stead of Murdock, at Oak Hill, and had Samuel, Nov. 15, 1751 ; Elizabeth, Mnich. 20, 1753; Thankful, June 3, 1756; Jeremiah, Aug. 23, 1760 ; WiUiam, 1765 ; and Abigail. 2d w. Hannah, dr. of Wm. Marean, Nov. 1770, and had Esther, Aug. 15, 1771 ; Thomas, Jan. 5, 1775 ; Enoch, Eeb. 9, 1777 ; Noah, and Hannah, Dec. 18, 1779. Eliza- beth m. Capt. Edmund Trowbridge, 1774 — Thankful m. Aaron Rich- ards, of Needh., 1778 — Abigail m. John Hyde, 1782 — Esther m. Solomon Curtis, 1789 — Samuel d. unm. Feb. 1815, se. 63. He was Capt. of the East Co. of Infantry, at the commencement of the-Rev- olution.; was in the battle of Concord, and at Dorchester Heights, and loaned the Town ^5, to pay the soldiers, in 1777. Istw. d. Aug. 19, 1769, se. 38. 2d w. d. Nov. 1811, se. 66. He d. Jan. 26, 1809, SB. 84. V. WISWALL, JOHN, (sup. s. of Capt. Noah,) m. Esther, dr. oif Thaddeus Trowbridge, and had Henry, June 3, 1775 ; John, Aug. 8, 1776 ; Mary, June 18, 1778 ; Beulah, May 29, 1780 ; Sarah, June 21, 1783 ; Henry, June 3, 1785. He was in the army, and loaned £20 to the Town, to pay the soldiers, in 1777. WISWALL, EBENEZER, m. Ann Parker, June, 1803. ■WISWALLi 459 V. WISWAIili, NOAH, (s. of Capt. Noah and Thankful,) m. Mary Palmer, Dec. 1769, and settled in Fltchburg. By an act of the Gen. Court, his estate was set off from Ktchburg and annexed to West- minster, 1796. VI. WISWALL, Dea. JEREMIAH, (s. of Capt. Jeremiah,) m. Sarah, dr. of Joseph Craft, and had Joseph, Dec. 2, 1786 ; Artemas, Sept. 15, 1788 ; Elisha, May 19, 1791 ; Jesse, Dec. 2, 1793 ; William, March 11, 1796; Ebenezer 0., AprE 28, 1799. 2d w. PoUy , and had (SaraA C, March 6, 1810; Jeremiah, July 26, 1812; /Sam- uel, March 30, 1814; Ebenezer, Jan. 11, 1816. He d. 1836, se. 76. VT. WISWALL, WILLIAM, (s. of Capt. Jeremiah,) m. Eliza Craft, 1788, and had Eliza, June 12, 1789, d. 1813; CTarfoKc, April 20, 1791, d. 1830; Sarah D., Feb. 1, 1794; Nancy, March 12, 1796; William, Dec. 28, 1798. VL WISWALL, Col. ENOCH, (s. of Capt. Jeremiah,) m. Lucre- tia, dr. of Timothy Jackson, Esq., settled in Wat., and had ^arriet, and Lucretia. Lucretia m. Samuel L. Alien, had James H., Harriet, ajid Lewis, and d. April 25, 1854, 3d. 43. She d. Dec. 28, 1812, K. 27. He d. 1842, £e. 65. VI. WISWALL, THOMAS, (s. of Capt. Jeremiah,) m. Elizabeth Trowbridge, 1803. VI. WISWALL, NOAH, (s. of Capt. Jeremiah,) m. Elizabeth Stone, 1806. Vn. WISWALL, JOSEPH, (s. of Dea. Jeremiah,) m. Sarah Clark, of Princeton, 1807, and had Benjamin C, June 10, 1808; Joseph P., May 1, 1810. VII. WISWALL, ELISHA, (s. of Dea. Jeremiah,) m. Julia Rich- ards, 1817, settled in Boston, and had Jidia Ann, Sept. 19, 1818; Gec^ge B., Jan. 22, 1821 ; Elisha, Sept. 23, 1822 ; Edward P., March 26, 1829. vn. WISWALL, WILLIAM, (s. of WilUam,) m. Knth , and had Letitia C, 1821 ; Edmund T., 1824; Harriet, 1S25 ; Eliza P., 1827 ; Charlotte, 1829 ; Edmund T., 1831 ; Charlotte P., 1832 ; W-d- Ham, 1833. vn WISWALL, WILLIAM C, m. AbigaU , and had William a, 1823; Artemas, 1825; Henry M., 1827; Aiby M., 1830; George, 1832. 460 WISWALL WHEAT -WHEELBE . VII. "WISWALL, BENJAMIN C, (s. of Joseph and Sarah,) m. Susan Sanger, 1831. WHEAT, Db. SAMUEL, came from Boston to Newton about 1713 ; his house was near the West Parish M. H. He was s. of Moses Wheat, of Concord, Mass. His will, in Suffolk, states that he was a physician, of Newton ; names sons Samud, of Boston ; Salmon ; Benjamin ; and Solomon, at Norwich and Seabrook, Conn. Ephraim Williams, Esq. witnessed his will, dated 1735, and proved 1770, d., SB. 67. He bought land in Newton, of Jona. Park, in 1703. His s. Samuelj also a physician, removed to his father's place, in Newton, about 1733. Same year he bought land of his father, then of Box. In 1737, William Williams, housewright, of Wat., s. of Isaac, Jr., sold to Dr. Samuel Wheat, Jr., fifty-fire acres laud, for £300, e. by the gangway running through the farm of the late Capt. Isaac Wil- liams, and adjoining laud of Richard Coolidge. WHEAT, De. SAMUEL, Jk., (s. of Dr. Samuel,) m. Hannah — -, and had, Samuel, Nov. 2, 1727, d. 1745; Lydia, Nov. 14, 1729 ; Jona- than, Nov. 21, 1731 ; Mary, Eeb. 15, 1733 ; Hannah, July 24, 1735 ; Jonathan, Aug. 14, 1737; Ann; Moses, July 20, 1739; William, Aug. 21, 1741 ; Patty; Catherine, 3vlj 11, 1743; Jemima, July 6, 1745; Samuel, March 13, 1747; Martha, April 11, 1749; Mary; John, July 31, 1751, d. ; John, July 31, 1754. Hannah m. Gil- bert — Jemjmaj^l)r. Benjamin Parker, 1763 — Lydia m. Dr. Laz- arus Beale,^— Mary m. Shepard — Catherine m. Capt. Thomas Eustis, of Rutland. WHEAT, MOSES, (s. of Samuel, Jr.,) m. Susanna Brown, and had Susanna, Jan. 10, 1761 ; Mary Ann Brown, March 1, 1763 ; Hannah, April 5, 1765 ; Hannah, July 12, 1767. Mary Ann B. m. William Beale, of Wat., 1781. WHEAT, SAMUEL, (s. of Dr. Samuel, Jr.,) m. Jerasha Allen, July, 1766, and had Jerusha, John, and AUen. WHEELER, EPHRAIM, m. Abigail , d. 1687. 2d w. Sarah , and had Sarah, Oct. 28, 1689; Mary, Jan. 6, 1692; Josiah, Dec. 13, 1693 ; Elizabeth, Jan. 6, 1695 ; Samuel, May 11, 1699. He was Selectman in 1706. WHEELER, JOSEPH, of Boston, m. Margaret Ward, 1743, and went to Plymouth, N. H. WHEELER, SALLY, (dr. of Wm. and Sarah,) b. July 18, 1778. WHITE. 461 WHITE, STEPHEN, from Wat., Uved on part of the Puller farm, and had, in Wat., by w. Thankful , Stephen, Benjamin, Daniel, Thankful, Mary, Sarah, and Ruth. Thankful m. Aaron Cheney, 1767 — Mary m. Samuel Whitney, and settled in Wore. — Sarah m. Benjamin Whitney — Euth m. John Gleason — Mary (his dr.inlaw) m. Joshua Fuller, 1778 — Daniel m. Lois , and d. before 1784, leaving sons Daniel and Asa, who settled in Holden, Mass. He loaned the Town i70, to pay the soldiers, in 1777. His wiH, dated and proved 1784, gives Benjamin the homestead, and makes him and Aaron Cheney his executors. WHITE, JOSEPH, (s. of Joseph, and g. s. of Benj., Jr., of Brookl.) ni. Sarah Davis, 1762, and had Sarah, Oct. 20, 1764; Hannah; Ebeneza-jTiec. 6, 1166; Joseph, Jan. 10, 1769 ; Sannah, Aug. 2, 1772, m. Ebenezer Eichards, 1793. He loaned the Town £100, to pay the soldiers, in 1777, and d. 1817. WHITE, BENJAMIN, had by w. Mary , Benjamin, Nov. 14, 1727. WHITE, Dea. EBENEZEE, (s. of Joseph and Sarah,) m. Mind- well Fuller, 1793, and had Sarah D., Feb. 7, 1794 ; Joseph, Sept. 5, 1795 ; Lucinda, Feb. 14, 1797 ; Ebenezer D., Dec. 20, 1798 ; Marian, March 14, 1800, d. 1842 ; Mindwdl, Dec. 28, 1801 ; WiUiam, June 5, 1804; Asa, Dec. 8, 1810. 2d w. wid. Anna King, 1826. 1st w. d. Aug. 3, 1823. 2d w. d. 1842, ss. 61. He d'. 1853, «. 87. WHITE, BENJAMIN, (s. of Stephen,) m. and had Benjamin and Abigail. Abigail m. Jacob Adams. He d. 1799, x. 55. WHITE, JOSEPH, (s. of Dea. Ebenezer,) m. Lucy King, 1826, and had Lucy Ann, Feb. 20, 1827 ; Ebenezer, 2d, Jan. 8, 1833. WHITE, Capt. EBENEZER D., (s. of Dea. Ebenezer,) m. Martha, dr. of Aaron Hyde, 1824, and had Bosea H., Nov. 18, 1825 ; Ebene- zer D., AprU 24, 1833. WHITE, BENJAMIN, m. Ann Hyde, 1810. WHITE, WILLIAM, m. Clarisa Danforth, 1812. WHITE, ANDEEW, had by w. Mary , Samuel, Aug. 12, 1717 ; Philip, Nov. 20, 1718; Mary, Feb. 27, 1720 ; John, March 18, 1725. 39* 4C2 WHITE WHITMOKE ■WHITWELL. WHITE, PHILIP, had by w. Anna , PMKpy'Dec. 5, 1731 ; Ann, Nov. 12, 1733 i Jacob, Dec. 28, 1735. WHITE, DANIEL, m. Mary Brewer, and had Daniel, May 30, 1773; Patty, Sept. 7, 1774; Asa, Nov. 12,1775. Patty m. Levi Morse, of Wat., 1795. He d. and his wid. Mary m. Lieut. Joshua Fuller, 1778. WHITE, ELISHA, m. Juda Rogers, 1818. WHITE, JOHN, m. AbigaU Wilson, 1787. WHITE, SAMUEL, m. Hannah Taylor, 1798. WHITE, CALVIN, m. Betsy Foster, 1807. "White, barney L., had by w. Mary E. , Edivin L., 1833 ; Senry K., 1836 ; George R., 1840. WHITMORE, NATHANIEL, (s. of Samuel and Rebecca, of Cam- bridge,) m. Abigail , and had Abigail, Dec. 31, 1724 ; Rebecca, April 30, 1726; Moses, Jan. 17, 1731. WHITMORE, BENJAMIN, (s. of Samuel and Rebecca, of Camb.,) m. Elizabeth Cheney, 1729, and had John, June 28, 1730; Joseph, Oct. 13, 1732; Sarah, July 29, 1735. Sarah m. John Hiiger, 1760. He d. 1754. WHITMORE, JOHN, (s. of Benjamin,) m. Beulah , and had .John, June 11, 1758 ; Abigail, April 25, 1760 ; Elisha, Feb. 17, 1763; Caty, Feb. 7, 1765 ; and Isaac. WHITMORE, JOSEPH, (s. of Benjamin,) m. Susanna , and had Enoch; Joseph, d. 1766. He d. 1766. WHITMORE, MOSES, had by w. Rebecca , Margaret, May 8, 1741. WHITMORE, JAMES, m. Susan Chick, 1755. WHITMORE, JONATHAN, m. Maiy Rogers, 1797, and had Mary, June 18, 1798 ; Elisabeth, July 18, 1800, d. 1801 ; Charles R., Aug. 28, 1802 ; Julia K. H., March 10, 1805 ; Emdine F., May 29, 1807; Isabella M., April 21, 1809, d. 1811. WHITWELL, Dk. SAMUEL, of Boston, had by w. Lucy , at West Newton, Lucy; John Tyng, Nov. 22, 1784; Samud, July 28, WHITNET. 463 1786; Elizabeth, "^ov. 27, 1788. Lucy m. Amasa Park, 1797 — Samuel settled in Boston, and was of the fii-m of WhitweU, Bond & Co., auctioneers. He d. 1791, se. 37. WHITNEY, "WILLIAM, m. Margaret Mirick, 1717. WHITNEY, TIMOTHY, from Roxbury, m. Margaret Bacon, 1706. He bought of John Prentice, of Preston, Conn., and Ebenezer Prentice and w. Elizabeth, of Newton, grandsons of Thomas Pren- tice, Sen., the farm and buildings of said Prentice, at the south part of the town, in 1728, for £615, being the last residence of Thomas Prentice, Sen. WHITNEY, CALEB, (s. of Timothy and Margaret, of Eoxbnry,) b. April 2, 1711, m. Hannah Cheney, 1736, and had Hannah, March 3,1737; CaZc6, June 17, 1740; /SaraA, Oct. 23, 1743; Thaddeus, July 10, 1747. Hannah m. Nath'l Parker, 1772 — Sarah m. James Eich- ards, Jr., 1769. WHITNEY, CALEB, Jk., (s. of Caleb,) m. Elizabeth Hyde, and had Oliver, March 9, 1766 ; Amariah, Nov. 18, 1767 ; Ruth, May 31, 1773 ; Sarah, June 4, 1774; Abigail, Sept. 10, 1775. WHITNEY, THADDEUS, (a. of Caleb,,) m. Temperance Hyde, 1772, and had Temperance, Sept. 2, 1774 ; Hannah, April 9, 1779 ; Thaddeus, Sept. 1, 1788, d. 1823. Temperance m. Jonathan Cook, Jr., 1795. He d. 1832, si. 85. She d. 1842, as. 89. WHITNEY, MOSES, (s. of Timothy, of Roxbury,) b. 1714, m. Re- becca Hyde, 1739, and had Margaret, May 8, 1741 ; Moses, April 9, 1743 ; Mart/, Feb. 1, 1745 ; Timothy and Stephen, Eeb. 12, 1747 ; Eliz- abeth, May 30, 1749; Ephraim, June 16, 1751 ; Rebecca, March 17, 1754 ; Relief, Dec. 29, 1756 ; Gersham, July 25, 1758, d. 1759 ; Persis, Feb. 19, 1760; John, April 8, 1762. Mary m. Edward Richards, of Camb., 1765 — Elizabeth m. Asa Payson, 1777 — Rebecca m. Wm. Buzzard, 1780 — Relief m. John Woodward, of Brookline, 1783 — Persis m. James Richards, 1797 — Moses d. in the Army — Timothy m. Mary Hyde, 1773, and d. 1821; she d. 1828 — Stephen d. in the Army — Ephraim m. Ann Fuller, 1774, and d. in the Army, 1776 — John m. Polly Pope, 1785. He d. 1805, se. 91. WHITNEY, JOSEPH, (s. of Timothy and Margaret, of Rox.) b. 1716, m. Mary Hastings, and had Abigail, Dec. 18, 1749; 464 WHITNEY — -WOODCOCK — -WOODWAED. Martha, May 31, 1752; Arm, Eeb. 10, 1755; Samuel, Aug. 7, 1758; Lois, Sept. 5, 1761. WHITNEY, AMASA, had by w. Abigail Blanden, Rdief, Not. 4, 1794; Nancy, Not. 6, 1796; Mit^^, April 3, 1798; Catherine, May 5, 1800; Amasa, May 6, 1802; Caroline, May 31,1804; Laring, May 11, 1806 ; Leonard, March 20, 1808. He d. 1824. WHITNEY, AAEON, m. Margaret Comet, 1757. WHITNEY, TIMOTHY, m. Margaret Thayer, 1824. WOOD, NATHANIEL, m. Hannah Hall, 1737. WOOD, ROYAL, from Sharon, m. Abigail Hall, and had John, Na- thaniel, and Abigail, who m. Gen. Ebenezer Cheney, 1805. She d. 1831, SB. 80. WOODCOCK, SAMUEL, m. Hannah Warden, 1742. WOODCOCK, NATHANIEL, m. Elizabeth BeaTerstock, 1765, both of Needham, and had in N., Susanna, March 30, 1766 ; Reuben, July 18, 1769; Hannah, Not. 5, 1771; Nathaniel, Feb. 8, 1775 ; JbAn, Oct. 6, 1776. HL WOODWARD, JOHN, a weaTer, (s. of George and Elizabeth (Hammond) Woodward, of Wat.,) was bom March 28, 1649. (His grandfather, Eichakd Woodwakd, embarked at Ipswich, Eng., April 10, 1634, £6. 45, in the ship Elizabeth, William Andrews, Master ; w. Rose, se. 50 ; s. GSorge, se. 13 ; and s. John, se. 13. His name is on the earliest list of the proprietors of Wat. Took Free- man's oath, Sept. 1635. Wife Rose d. Oct. 6, 1662, se. 80, and he soon after m. Ann Gates, of Camb. ; their marriage settlement dated April 18, 1663. He d. Feb. 16, 1665, a. 76. Hiswid. Annd. 1683. His sons George and John, admin. His father, Geokge Woodward, of Wat., was admitted Freeman, May, 1646. By his 1st w. Mary , he had eight chil. He m. 2d, Elizabeth, dr. of Thomas Hammond, Sen., of Camb. Village. Her father's will, proTed Not. 1675, gaTe her one hundred acres of land in Muddy RiTcr, probably the same land upon which her son George after- wards settled. He d. May 31, 1676. luTcntory, il43, 10s. His wid. Elizabeth and s. Amos, admin. Wid. Elizabeth m. Samuel Truesdale.*) He m. Rebecca, dr. of Richard Eobbins, of Camb, * Dr. Bond, page 657. "WOODWARD. 465 who conveyed to him and his w. Rebecca, thirty acres of land in Camb. Village, near the Upper Falls, bounded s. by Charles river; N. by a way leading to the Lower Tails ; e. by land of Squire Pel- ham. This deed was dated 1681, and witnessed by Thomas Green- wood and John Hall. Upon this tract he built a dwelling house, which is still standing, and occupied by his descendants of the 5th and 6th generations. He bought twenty acres of Theodore Atkinson, of Boston, in 1695, adjoining his other land, H. w. and e. by Gov- Haynes' farm, then leased to Capt. Prentice. Another tract of Dr. Thomas Oakes, in 1699, s. by the river, and w. by Edward Pelham. Also, of Jonathan Hyde, Sen., thirty-eight acres, e. by the Dedham road, and w. and n. by his own land. Also, purchased with John Staples, forty-seven acres, which they divided in 1705, and Staples had thirty and Woodward seventeen acres. He was Highway Sur- veyor, 1686, Constable, 1694, Selectman, 1701 and 1712. He had by w. Rebecca Robbins, in Camb., John, 7. 7. 1674, d. 22. 7. 1674 ; John, July 18, 1675, in Camb. Village; Susanna, d. 22. 7. 1676 ; Richard, 26. 7. 1677 ; Rebecca, 29. 8. 1679, d. March 1682 ; Danid, Sept. 24, 1681 ; Rebecca, Feb. 2, 1683 ; Mary, Oct. 6, 1684, d. 1689 ; Jonathan, Sept. 28, 1685; Joseph, Nov. 26, 1688; Ebeneser, March 12,1691; Abigail, May 25, 1695. Wife Rebecca d. 1696. Abigail m. William Greenwood, 1715, and settled in Sherburne — Rebecca m. Stephen Hunting, of Dedham. 2d w. Sarah Goodenow, d. Sept. 22, 1723. He d. Nov. 3, 1732, se. 83. His will, dated 1728, proved 1732, names sons John, Richard, Ebenezer, Daniel and Jonathan, and drs. Rebecca Hunting and Abigail Greenwood ; those not named prob. d. before the will was made. Inventory, £133, 9s. Id. Ebenezer was executor. IV. WOODWARD, JOHN, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Hannah, dr. of Jonathan Hyde, Jr., Jan. 1698, and had Hannah, Jan. 20, 1699 ; Man/, Feb. 1, 1700 ; John, March 21, 1702 ; Ephraim, in Canterbury, Jan. 8, 1710; Deliverance, 1713. John m. Abigail, wid. of Jonathan Ward, 1732, and went to Canterbury, Conn. Ephraim m. Hannah WilHams, and 2d, Huldah . She d. Jan. 1725. IV. WOODWARD, DANIEL, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Elizabeth Greely, Jan. 27, 1704, and had Esther, Nov. 30, 1704 ; Elizabeth, Nov. 1, 1706 ; Mary, Oct. 7, 1708 ; Jonas, Feb. 8, 1712 ; Daniel, Sept. 14, 1714. Elizabeth m. Jonathan Fuller, 1725 — Esther m. Capt. Moses Craft, 1729 — Mary m. James Richards, 1735 — Jonas m. 466 -WOODWAKD. Mary Cook, of Needham, 1734. He wag Selectman three years, and d. 1749, se. 68. She d. 1750. IV. WOODWARD, JOSEPH, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Elizabeth SUsby, of Canterbury, 1714, and had Abigail, 1715 ; BetMa, 1717; Elisabeth, 1724 ; Joseph, 1726. He and she both d. in Conn., May 1727. He migrated from Newton, with his brothers John and Eich- ard, and purchased land in Canterbury, Conn., 1710. His house was near the boundary line of Canterbury and Windham, and both towns claimed him as an inhabitant. His s. Joseph m. Elizabeth Perkins, 1748, and had eleven chil. in Windham. — [Dr. Bond.] rV. WOODWARD, RICHARD, (s. of John, Sen,) m. Mary , and had Amos, April 2, 1702j Caleb, Eeb. 29, 1705. Removed to Canterbury, Conn., and had (Simeon, 1708;'7sckic, 1711; Dorcas, 1716; Noah, 1718; Samuel, 1725. Amos m. Hannah Meacham, settled in Canterbury, and had eight chil. His will, 1739, s. Noah, executor. rV. WOODWARD, JONATHAN, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Patience Damon, March 26, 1712, and had Rebecca, March, 11, 1713 ; Marga- ret, Jan. 14, 1715; Jonathan, July 7,1718; SuZrfoA, 1721, d. 1726. Wife Patience d. 1719. 2d w., Thankful Muick, 1720, and had HuMah, Oct. 31, 1721, d. 1756 ; Hannah, May 6, 1726. Rebecca m. John Ward, 1738. He was Selectman two years, and d. 1745, se. 59. 2d w. d. Feb. 1744. IV. WOODWARD, EBENEZEE, (s. of John, Sen.,) m. Mindwell, dr. of Hon. Ebenezer Stone, Jan. 1716, took the homestead, and had Mindwdl, Feb. 26, 1717 ; Elener, June 20, 1720 ; John, Feb. 4, 1724 ; Samuel, Feb. 1, 1727 ; Mary, Feb. 28, 1733. 2d w. Margaret, wid. of Nath'l. Hammond, Jr., and sister of 1st w. Mindwell m. Nathaniel Shepard, 1736 — Elener m. Jones — Mary m. Jonathan Rich- ardson, 1751 — Samuel grad. at H. C. 1748, m. Abigail Williams, 1753, and had twelve children, and was Minister at Weston, ordained 1751. He was Selectman two years, and d. Jan. 1, 1770, ffi. 79. Istw.d. 1774, 86.78. His will, dated 1760, proved 1770; son John, executor. Wid. Margaret d. 1776, se. 88 V. WOODWARD, DBA. JOHN, (s. of Ebenczer,) m. Hannah, dr. of Dea. Thomas Greenwood, 1747, took the homestead, and had Lydia, May 13, \7i9 ; Aclisah, M&j 29, 1151; Hannah, June 5, 17 5i, d. 1754; Lucy, June 20, 1755; Ebenezer, Feb. 3, 1758; Artemas, March 27, 1761 ; John, Nov. 24, 1764, d. 1765. Lydia m. Ba- con — Achsah m. Wm. Murdock, 1775 — Artemas m. Mehitable "WOODWAED. 467 Whiting, and settled in Medfield, 1787 — Lucy d. unm., 1820. je. 65^ He was Captain, Selectman seyen years, and Representative two years. He was Moderator of the Town meeting, in 1776, that passed the unanimous vote requesting Congress to declare the Colo- nies independent. He was in the battle of Concord, and loaned the Town £100, to pay the soldiers, in March, 1777. He d. May 11, 1801, se. 77. His wiU makes provision for dr. Lucy, who was an invalid ; son Ebenezer, executor. V. "WOODWARD, JONAS, (s. of Daniel,) m. Mary , and had Jonas, d. 1764. V. WOODWARD, JONATHAN, (s. of Jonathan,) m. Mary Brown, of Wat, and had Joseph, Nov. 16, 17^3 ; Jonathan, Jan. 27, 1747 ; Thankful, May 2, 1745 ; Jonas, Dec. 12, 1748, d. 1758 ; Mary, Dec. 30, 1750; Ann, June 9, 1753; Amos, Sept. 5, 1755; JBulda, Sept. 1757 ; Seth, Dec. 2, 1759 ; and Kkoda. Wife Mary d. 1764, se. 43. 2d w. Patience Damon, 1765. V. WOODWARD, DANIEL, Je., m. Mary Stone, 1739, and had Lois, Oct. 6, 1740; Samuel, Sept. 25, 1742; Elisha, July 13, 1744; Majy, Oct. 21, 1746, d. 1749; Philemon, Dec. 17, 1749 ; Mary, Dec. 6, 1755 ; Daniel, March 23, 1760; Esther, May 21, 1762. Lois m. Samuel Jackson, 1763 — Philemon m. Mercy Whitney, 1772. He d. 1774, SB. 60. She d. 1776, ffi. 57. VI. WOODWARD, SAMTJEL, (s. of Daniel, Jr.,) m. Deborah, dr. of Michael Jackson, Sen., 1763, and had Asa, May 26, 1764 ; Caty, Dec. 25, 1765, d. 1766 ; Samuel, Aug. 8, 1767 ; Moses, Dec. 18, 1768, d. ; Moses, Oct. 30, 1770, d. 1770; Matthias, June 20, 1772; Joseph and Benjamin, Jan. 20, 1774 ; Daniel, Feb. 24, 1776 ; Caty, Aug. 25, 1778 ; Mary, March 10, 1780 ; Michael, Feb. 20, 1782. Wife Deborah d. 1785. 2d w. PrisciUa, sister of 1st w., 1786. He was in the bat- tle of Concord, at Dorchester Heights, and loaned the Town £120, to pay the soldiers, in 1777. VI. WOODWARD, ELISHA, (s. of Daniel, Jr.,) m. Ann Murdock, 1773. VI. WOODWARD, Dea. EBENEZER, (s. of Dea. John,) m. Cath- erine, dr. of Amariah Fuller, took the homestead, and had Ann, Jan. 5, 1782; Hannah, April 23, 1784; Elijah F., Oct. 10, 1786. Ann m. Col. William Trowbridge — Hannah m. WiUiam Jackson, 468 -WOOD-WAKB. Esq. He was Town Clerk, and Treasurer, and d. March 11, 1807, * se. 49. She d. Dec. 1828, se. 69. VII. WOODWAED, Dea. ELIJAH T., (s. of Dea, Ebenezer,) m. Ann Murdock, 1810, took the homestead, and had Ebenezer, July 3, 1811 ; Emily, March 29, 1814 ; Samuel N., Jan. 24, or June, 1819 ; Maria, Dec. 27, 1821 ; Harriet, June 16, 1824 ; Sarah Ann, Sept. 23, 1826; Helen L., March 26, 1832, d. 1833. He was surreyor, Kepresentatlve four years. Town Clerk and Treasurer twenty years, and d. April 17, 1846, se. 60. VHI. WOODWAED, SAMtlEL N., (s. of Dea. Elijah,) m. Marian G. Bacon, 1842, and had Maria L., June 17, 1843 ; Frederick Newell, March 14, 1845. Vm. WOODWARD, EBENEZER, (s. of Deacon Elijah,) m. Lucy B. Livermore, 1839, and had Francis H., Sept. 9, 1839, d. 1840 ; Emily F., May U,lSil; Ann Louisa, May 18, 1844; Mary Ellen, Feb. 10, 1851. Vni. WOODWARD, ELUAH W., m. Almira Flanders, 1839. vm. WOODWARD, WILLIAM, m. Maria Dickerson, 1834. WOODWARD, BENONI, from Needham, m. Elizabeth Mirick, Nov. 1716, and had Eunice, Aug. 13, n 17 ; Ephraim, Sept. 1, 1719 ; Josiah, Sept. 18, 1721. In Needham, Elisha, Sept. 3, 1726 ; Moses, Oct. 5, 1728; Elizabeth, 1730; Esther, 1732; Bedah, 1734; Sarah, 1736; Abigail, 1737; Hannah, 1739. He d. in Needham, 1745. WUl in Suffolk, s. Josiah, executor. WOODWARD, NATHANIEL, had by w. Dorcas , Dorcas, Feb. 11, 1719; Moses, June 7, 1721. WOODWARD, DANIEL, m. Margaret Hammond, 1751. APPENDIX CAPT. THOMAS PRENTICE. [See Page 389.] Capt. Thomas Prentice was born in England, in 1620 or 1621. The earliest record of his being in this country, is the birth of his son Thomas and daughter Eliza- beth, (twins,) 22. 11. 1649. This doubtless means Jan. 22, 1650. The Rev. Jonathan Mitchell's list of Camb. Church members, states that "Thomas Prentice and Grace his wife, and daughter Grace, baptised in England, and about four years old at her parents' joining." This daughter Grace married Capt. Thomas Oliver, in 1667, and died in 1681, se. 33, therefore born in 1648. At her birth and baptism they were in England. At the birth of Thomas and Grace, they were in this country. They probably came in 1648 or 1649. Mitchell's list also states that their chil- dren, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary and John, were baptised at the Camb. Church. They joined in 1652, and he took the Freeman's oath same year. He settled at the easterly part of Camb. Village. His house was near the spot where the house of Harbach now stands. In 1653, he hired Gov. Haynes' farm, in the s. "W. part of Newton ; and according to the deeds, he occupied part of it in 1694. In 1656, he 40 470 CAPT. THOMAS PKENTICB. was chosen Lieut, of the company of Troopers, in the lower Middlesex division, and in 1662, Capt. He was chosen one of the Deputies (Representative) from Camb. to the Gen- eral Court, in 1672, '73 and '74; and Chairman of the first board of Selectmen of New Camb., in 1679, and forpiany years after. He administered on the estate of Robert Prentice, of Rox., who died in 1665 ; and from his inven- tory it appears that some of Robert's property was in Capt. Prentice's possession, which facts lead us to believe that they were related to each other. Capt. Prentice purchased three hundred acres of land in the Pequod country, bounded w. by L. I. Sound, and N. e. by the College land. Two hundred and thirty acres of this tract is probably the same that was appraised in his son Thomas' inventory, (1685,) at £109, and on which Thomas, Jr.'s son, Samuel Prentice, settled, in Stonington, Conn., about 1710. In 1663, he purchased eighty-five acres of land in the easterly part of Camb. Village, adjoining the land of John "Ward. This was his homestead for upwards of fifty years. He was a proprietor in the Camb. lands, and also in the Billerica lands, where he had a division of one hundred and fifty acres, in 1652. In the will of Roger Harlakenden, dated 1638, there are some small bequests to his domestics, among whom was Thomas Prentice. If this was our Capt. Thomas, which is probable, he doubtless came to this country with Harlaken- den, and returned after his death, in 1638. There is a tradition that Capt. Prentice, James Prentice, and Thomas Prentice, 2d, of Camb. Village, were in Crom- well's army, and belonged to his body guard. If Capt. Prentice was in Cromwell's antay, it must have been pre- vious to 1 648-9. Cromwell turned Parliament out of doors in April, 1653, and died in Sept. 1658. It can be shown from records here, that Capt. Prentice was in this couatry CAPT. THOMAS PEENTICE. 471 during all those five and a half years, and onward to the end of his life ; and if he were in Harlakenden's family, he probably came over with him in 1635, then fifteen years old. In the same ship came Capt. George Cook, whom we know went back and joined Cromwell's army. Harlaken- den was himself a Lieut. Col. In such company it would be very natural to conclude that Prentice imbibed some of the military spirit he so brilliantly developed during Philip's war, which broke out in June, 1675. Six companies of troops were raised in Massachusetts to prosecute that war. On the 26th of June, a company of Foot, under Capt. Henchman, of Boston, and a company of Horse, under Capt. Prentice, of Camb. Village, marched towards Mount Hope. On the 28th they arrived at the Eev. Mr. Miles' house, in Swanzey, and within a quarter of a mile of the bridge leading into Philip's lands. Twelve of the troopers immediately rode over the bridge for discovery, within the enemy's territories. They were fired upon by a party of Indians, who were concealed in the bushes, killing William Hammond,* and wounding Corporal Belcher. The troop- ers returned the fire and the Indians fled. The next day, (29th,) they reconnoitred Mount Hope, and found that Philip and his Indians had retreated to the east side of Taunton river. The night following, Capt. Prentice's troop retired to Rehoboth, about six miles distant, to lodge for the night; as they returned to Swanzey the next morning, Capt. Prentice divided bis company, giving half his men to his Lieut. Oakes, and keeping the other half himself, each taking different routes, the more effectually to scour the country and capture the enemy. Capt. Prentice discovered a party of Indians burning a house, to which he gave chase, and they fled into a swamp. Lieut. Oakes' party had a like • He was not of Camb. Village. 472 CAPT. THOMAS PRENTICE. discovery. T^ey fell in with some Indians upon a plain, gave chase to them, and killed four or five, one of which was known to be Thebe, a sachem of Mount Hope, and another was one of Philip's chiefs. In this affair, Lieut. Oakes lost one man, John Druce, who was mortally wounded, to the great grief of his companions ; he was brought home to his house, near the bounds of Camb. Village, and died the next day. Previous to his death he made a will, by word of mouth, in the presence of Joseph Dudley, Esq., and re- quested that Capt. Prentice should see that his will was executed. John Druce was the son of Vincent Druce, one of the early settlers of Camb. Village. On the 16th of Dec, Capt. Prentice received advice that the Indians had burnt Jeremiah Ball's house, at Narragan- sett, and killed eighteen persons, men, women and children, who were sheltered within. He immediately marched in pursuit, overtook and killed ten Indians, captured fifty-five, and burnt one hundred and fifty wigwams, with the loss of four men killed and four wounded. On the 21st of Jan., 1676, Capt. Prentice's company of Troop, being in advance of the Infantry, met with a party of Indians, captured two and killed nine. On the 18th of April, 1676, the Indians made a vigorous attack on Sudbury. Capt. Wadsworth's and Capt. Brocklebank's companies fought bravely in de- fence of the place, but were overpowered ; a remnant of their men took refuge in a mill. The alarm was given and reached Capt. Prentice, who started immediately for Sud- bury, with as many troopers as could readily be notified. The men in the mill fought the Indians until night, and were rescued by Capt. Prentice, who rode into the town at great speed, having but few troopers that could hold way with him. He was soon reinforced by Capt. Crowell, from Quabog, with thirty Dragoons. * • Ihcse facts were o:stractod from the History of Indian Wars. CAPT. THOMAS PRENTICE. 473 Capt. Prentice's presence and bravery contributed largely to check tbe progress of Philip's troops, and he rendered invaluable services throughout the war. He was constantly on the alert, and by his bold and rapid marches, put the enemy to flight wherever he went. His name had become a terror to the hostile Indians. After Philip was slain, terms of peace were ofiFered, in July, 1776, and a pardon to all Indians who would come in and surrender themselves. A Nipnut sachem, called John, with a number of his men, came in, and they were given in charge of Capt. Prentice, who kept them at his house for some time. Capt. Prentice had been an officer of the company of Troop about twenty years when Philip's war broke out, at which time he was 55 years old. That he was hardy, ath- letic, and robust, and of unbounded courage, we may safely conclude. It is said that a servant of his was attacked by a bear, in haying time, and kept the animal at bay with a pitchfork, until the old Capt. hastened to his assistance with an axe, and killed the bear outright. * During Philip's war, the Indian converts discovered un- shaken fidelity to the English ; neither the persuasions, promises, nor threats of their hostile countrymen could draw them from their allegiance to the English. They suffered much by their peculiar position, both from their own coun- trymen and from the prejudice entertained against them by many of the English. In consequence of the prevalent excitement and their dangerous position, the General Court passed an order, at the breaking out of the war, for the immediate removal of the Natick Indians to Deer Island, in Boston harbor; and Capt. Prentice was appointed by the Court to superintend their removal, with a party of Horse. He took a few men and five or six carts, to carry * Homer. 40* 474 CAPT. THOMAS PRENTICE. away such commodities as would be indispensable for their comfort. "When he arrived at Natick, to enter upon that service, he made known to them the order of the General Court, and they sadly but quietly submitted, and were soon ready to follow him. Their number was about two hun- dred, including men, women and children. They were ordered to the Pines, a place on the southerly bank of Charles river, about one mile above the great Cambridge bridge, where boats were in readiness to take them to the Island. After the war, they were removed from the Island, and landed near the same place where they had embarked, and where a temporary residence was afforded them, on the lands of Thomas Oliver, Esq., where they found convenient employment by fishing. The Winter of 1776-7 being past, they returned to their old settlements at Natick, and other places. The General Court had early appointed a ruler or magis- trate to manage, advise and watch over them, and to whom they could appeal to settle their controversies. Maj. Daniel Gooken had acted in that capacity for many years. After his death, the Indians residing at Natick, Punkuppaog, "Wamessik, Hassanameskok and Keecummooch9og, sent a petition to the General Court, in 1691, requesting that Capt. Thomas Prentice might be appointed their Euler. This petition was signed by Daniel Takawomplait, Jacob, Deacon, Nathaniel and Thomas Waban, in behalf of the Indians of those places. Capt. Prentice was a terrible enemy to the hostile In- dians, but was ever a friend and counsellor to the Indian converts. Capt. Prentice settled his own estate, by deeds of gift, to hi^ grand children, his own children having died before him. He conveyed his homestead in the easterly part of Newton, to his grandson, Capt. Thomas Prentice. Mr. COL. EPHRAIM WILLIAMS. 475 Edward Jackson's will, made in 1681, contains this item: " I bequeath to my honored friend, Capt. Thomas Prentice, one diamond ring." Capt. Prentice was a most substantial, efficient, and val- uable man for the settlement of Camb. Village, and for the country. He continued to ride on horseback to the end of his long life, and his death was occasioned by a fall from his horse. He died on the 6th day of July, 1710, so says the Town Record ; but his gravestone has it July 7, 1709, 86. 89. The Hyde MS. states that he was buried under arms, by his old company of Troopers, on the 8th of July, 1710. COL. EPHRAIM WILLIAMS. [See Page 441.] [Extracts from the life and character of Col. Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams' College, taken from the 8th vol., 1st series, of the Collections of the Mass. Historical Society. Published in Jan. 1802.] Col. Ephraim "Williams was born at Newton, near Boston, Feb. 24, 1715, and was the oldest son of Col. Eph- raim and Elizabeth (Jackson) Williams, who afterwards was one of the first settlers of Stockbridge, and a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in the County of Hamp- shire ; grandson of Capt. Isaac and Judith (Cooper) Wil- liams, of Newton, great grandson of Robert and Elizabeth (Stratton) Williams, early settlers of Roxbury. Col. Eph- raim, the son, for several years in early life, followed the seas, but, by the persuasion of his father, he relinquished that business. In his several voyages to Europe he visited England, Spain and Holland, acquired graceful manners, and a considerable stock of useful knowledge. He possessed 476 COL. EPHKAIM WILLIAMS. uncommon military talents ; and in the war between Eng- land and France, from the year 1740 to 1748, he found opportunity to exert them. He was appointed Capt. of a company in the army, raised in New-England, in what was called the Canada service. Afterwards he commanded the line of Massachusetts Forts, on the west side of the Con- necticut river. During this command, his principal place of residence was Hoosac Fort. This stood on the bank of the Hoosack river, in Adams, about three and a half miles east of Williamstown. He had also under his command a small fort in Williamstown, which stood on an eminence, a few rods north west of the Meeting-house. Under the pro- tection of these forts, the first settlers in this part of the country began their improvements. CoL Williams was much conversant with them, and witnessed with humane and painful sensations the danger, difficulties and hardships which they were obhged to encounter. To encourage them, he intimated his intention of doing something liberal and handsome for them. After the peace concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748, he resided chiefly at Hatfield, in the County of Hampshire. When war again broke out between England and France, in 1755, he had the command of a regiment in the army, raised in this then Province, for the general defence. While at Albany, and on his way to join the army, he, on the 22d of July, 1765, made his last will. Early in Sept. following, he fell, — being shot with a musket ball through the head, in the memorable battle fought with the French and In- dians, near Lake George. He was then a little more than forty years of age, and had always lived a single life. In his person, he was large and fleshy. He had a taste for bookf, and often lamented his want of a liberal education. His address was easy, and his manners pleasing and concil- iating. Affable and facetious, her could make himself agree- COL. EPHRAIM -WILLIAMS. 477 able in all companies ; and was very generally esteemed, respected and beloved. His kind and obliging deportment, bis generosity and condescension, greatly endeared him to bis soldiers. By tbem he was uncommonly beloved while he lived, and lamented when dead. When Capt. at Fort Massachusetts, he frequently entered into the pastimes of bis soldiers, upon an equal footing with them, and permitted every decent freedom ; and again, when the diversions were over, with ease and dignity he resumed the Captain. His politeness and address procured him a greater influ- ence at the Gen. Court, than any other person at that day possessed. He was attentive and polite to all descriptions and classes of men, and sought the company and conversa- tion of men of letters. His property, at the time of his death, was not very con- siderable. It consisted principally in notes, bonds and obli- gations ; and in new lands in the two western counties of the Commonwealth. Yet, as far as his circumstances ena- bled him, he generously made provision in his will, to an- swer the expectations which he had raised in the minds of the first settlers of "Williamstown. After several small bequests to his relatives and friends, he willed " that the remainder of his lands should be sold, at the discretion of his executors, within five years after an established peace ; and that the interest of the moneys arising from the sale, and also the interest of his notes and bonds, should be ap- plied to the support of a Free School, in a township west of Fort Massachusetts, provided the said township fall within Massachusetts, upon running the line between Mass- achusetts and New York, and provided the said township when incorporated, be called Williamstown." Both of these conditions took place. John Worthington, Esq., of Springfield, and Israel Wil- liams, Esq., of Hatfield, the executors of the will, sold the 478 COL. EPHKAIM WILLIAMS. lands, agreeable to the direction of the testator. The mon- eys arising from the sale were loaned to responsible men, and mortgages taken to secure the payment of principal and interest. The yearly interest was again loaned, and thus, by the provident and faithful management of the exec- utors, the fund was annually increased. In the year 1785, they applied to the General Court, for an Act to enable them to carry into effect the benevolent intention of the testator. An Act was accordingly passed, incorporating " William Williams, Theodore Sedgwick, Woodbridge Lit- tle, John Bacon, Thompson J. Skinner, Israel Jones, David Noble, Esq., Kev. Seth Swift and the Rev. Daniel ColUns, trustees of the donation of Ephraim Williams, Esq., for maintaining a Free School in Williamstown." In the year 1788, the Trustees voted to erect a building for the accommodation of the Free School. A lottery was granted them by the General Court, to raise the sum of four thousand dollars ; and the inhabitants of Williamstown raised by subscription two thousand dollars more, towards the expense of the building. In 1790, a brick building, eighty-two feet long, forty-two feet wide, and four stories high, was erected, containing twenty-eight rooms for the accommodation of the students, and a chapel, which occu- pies the space of four rooms. The expense of the building when finished, was estimated at about eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. The funds then remaining at inter- est amounted to about the same sum. In Oct., 1791, this Free School was opened, under the direction of a preceptor, and an English schoolmaster. An usher was soon after- wards appointed. This school consisted of two departments, a grammar school or academy, and an English free school. The latter was almost wholly composed of boys from the higher classes in the common schools in Williamstown. They were taught reading, writing and arithmetic. In the COL. EPHRAIM WILLIAMS. 479 former, all the arts and sciences, which compose the usual course of education in the N. E. Colleges, were taught. This department rapidly increased in numbers. Youth resorted to it, not only from the country and vicinity, but from New York, Canada, arid other distant parts of the country. Its usefulness, in several respects, and especially in one, was soon experienced. Many young men came to this academy to qualify themselves to become useful and reputable instructors of common schools. Not a few of them had before taught school, though very imperfectly qualified for the business. The happy consequence was, that many of the common schools in this part of the country were soon furnished with much more competent instructors than had before been employed. In this situation, as to officers and instruction, and in a state of increasing reputation and usefulness, the free school and academy continued until Sept. 1793. In June of that year, the General Court incorporated the institution into a College ; and, in honor to Col. Williams, whose liberal dona- tion laid the foundation of the funds, they called it Williams' College. All the gentlemen who were Trustees of the Free School, were made Trustees of the College ; and to them were added the Rev. Stephen West, D. D., (elected Vice President at the first session of the Board,) Henry Van Schaack and Elijah Williams, Esqs., and the President of the College for the time being. The charter, or act of incorporation, allowed the Board of Trustees to consist of seventeen members, including the President, — empowered them to fill all vacancies which might take place, by death or resignation, — to confer the usual academic degrees and doctorates, after the 1st of January, 1800, and to hold property to the clear annual amount of six thousand pounds. The General Court accompanied this charter with a liberal 480 COL. EPHKAIM WILLIAMS. grant of four thousand dollars, payable out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, at four annual instalments. To the gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, whose names are inserted in the charter, three have since been added by election. These are the Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, of Albany, (late Lieut. Governor of the State of N. Y.,) Rev. Job Swift, of Bennington, Vt., and the Rev. Ammi R. Rob- bins, of Norfolk, Conn. In October, 1793, the College was duly organized, and three small classes were admitted. The English free school was discontinued ; but the Grammar school or acad- emy was continued, in connection with the College. The General Court, at their session in January, 1796, granted to the President and Trustees of Williams' College, the right of locating two townships in the District of Maine. One of these was sold in May following for about ten thou- sand dollars. The situation of the College, in a decent thriving country town, is found by experience to be highly favorable to the improvement and morals of the youth. Comparatively few temptations to dissipation and vice are presented to them ; and the happy consequence has been that close application to study, due observance of the laws, good manners, and good morals, have, with very few exceptions, characterized the youth who have resorted to the College for education. The following notice of Col. Williams, is extracted from an oration delivered before the Union Society of Williams' College, at the Commencement, in 1837, by the Hon. Ed- ward Everett : — " My friends," we might conceive he would say to a group of settlers, collected about old Fort Massachusetts, on some fit occasion, not long before his marching to his place of rendezvous, "your hardships, I am aware, are COI-. EPHBAIM -WILLIAMS. 481 great. I have witnessed, — I have shared them. The hardships incident to opening a new country are always severe. They are heightened in our case by the constant danger in which we live, from the savage enemy. At pres- ent, we are more encamped than settled ; we live in block houses — we lie upon our arms by night — and like the Jews who returned to build Jerusalem, we go to work by day with the implements of husbandry in one hand and the weapons of war in the other. "We have been bred up in the populous settlements on the coast, where the school house and the church are found in the centre of every vil- lage. Here, as yet, we can have neither. I know these things weigh upon you. You look upon the dark and im- penetrable forests, in which you have made an opening, and contrast them with the pleasant villages where you were born and passed your early years ; where your parents are yet living, or where they have gone to their rest ; and you cannot suppress a painful emotion. You are more espe- cially, I perceive, disheartened at the present moment of impending war. But, my friends, let not your spirits sink. The prospect is overcast, but bright days will come. In vision, I can plainly foresee them. The forest disappears, the corn-field, the pasture, takes its place ; the hill sides are spotted with flocks ; the music of the water-wheel sounds in accordance with the dashing stream. Yon little group of log cabins swell into prosperous villages. Schools and churches spring up in the waste ; institutions for learning arise, and, in what is now a wild solitude, libraries and cab- inets unfold their treasures, and observatories point their tubes to the heavens. I tell you that not all the united powers of the French and Indians on the St. Lawrence, — no, not if backed by all the powers of darkness which seem at times in league with them to infest this howling wilder- ness, will long prevent the valleys of the Hoosic and Hoosa- 41 482 COL. EPHEAIM WILLIAMS. tonic from becoming the abodes of industry, abundance and refinement. A century will not pass before the voice of domestic wisdom and fireside inspiration, from the vales of Berkshire, will be heard throughout America and Europe. " It is my purpose, before I am taken from you, to make a disposition of my property for the benefit of this infant community. My heart's desire is, that in the picture of its future prosperity, which I behold in mental view, the last and best of earthly blessings shall not be wanting. I shall deem my life not spent in vain, though it be cut off" to-morrow, if,at its close, I shall be accepted as the humble instrument of promoting the great cause of education. " My friends, as I am soon to join the army, we meet, many of us, perhaps for the last time. I am a solitary branch ; I have no wife to feel my loss, no children to follow me to the grave. Should I fall by the tomahawk, or in the front of honorable battle, on the shore of the stormy lake, or in the infested wood, this poor body may want a friendly hand to protect it from insult ; but I must take my chance of a soldier's life. " When I am gone, you will find some proof that my last thoughts were with the settlers of Fort Massachusetts ; and perhaps, at some future day, should my desire to serve you and your children be not disappointed, my humble name will not be forgotten in the public assembly, and posterity will bestow a tear upon the memory of Ephraim WilKams." ALEXANDER SHEPAED, SEN. 483 LETTERS OF ALEXANDER SHEPARD, SEN. [See Page 408.] To the Inhabitants of the Town of Newton, regularly assem- bled, this 27th day of October, ^. Z>. 1766 : — Gentlemen, — In the first place I would humbly beg that my belonging to the westwardly part of the town may not prejudice any one against hearing and duly considering the truth ; and I trust it will not, for I do n't desire in the least to be regarded in anything I shall here offer, any far- ther than it be agreeable to truth, and which many of you, by your own experience, know to be so. Is it not very obvious that peace and unanimity has for a considerable time threatened to depart from amongst us, — and unhappy strife, contention and divisions greatly prevail in every quarter ? — the which (though by some thought to be but trifling) are alarming, and much to be lamented ; and all just and serious endeavors should be used, to pre- vent the increase thereof, and to obtain a restoration of our former peace and harmony, otherwise the Town is in a fair way for ruin, — for oftentimes has the contention of par- ticular persons only, proved the ruin of towns, and even the destruction of whole kingdoms. From whence did these sad things proceed ? Were they not, in a great measure, owing to our expending large sums of money needlessly, to gratify the desires of some, while others were deprived of their just rights and privileges ? Pray consider the extraordinary charges, that have, one time after another, for a number of years past, been brought upon the Town. I think they have been suflScient to wean 484 ALEXANBER SHEPAED, SEN. US from expending aay more needlessly, and from running any farther risks of expending large sums, in endeavoring to seek redress under our burthens, when there is not the least probability of obtaining it. Cast but your eyes upon your own records, and there you may view the entries of many extravagant sums, which have been expended (chiefly by the obstinacy of a few leading men) for presentment, fines, court charges, and for the expenses of committees and their service, in order to prevent repairing and building bridges, and rather than Tom Parker and some others should obtain their will. I know not but that, in the whole sum, was sufficient, with the interest, to have repaired all the bridges in the town, to the end of time ; and after aU, what bridge have we been freed from the charge of? Like to these proceedings were some part of the trans- actions of last May meeting. In order to oblige a few fam- ilies, (in a mere trifle,) you voted to a long harangue con- cerning the County way lately laid out through the land of Thomas Beal and others, the which, together with the inad- vertent managements of some of the committee, will inevit- ably bring several hundred pounds (0. T.) needless charge on the Town, provided said way be accepted by the honor- able Court, — and I think there is very little reason to doubt it, — or that another way, more costly, wUl be laid out ; for it can 't be expected that several hundred of His Majesty's subjects will be deprived of a convenient way, for the sake of obliging a few families in this town, or for the sake of the charge that will accrue thereby. I therefore humbly conceive — let others think as they please — that in order to do justice to the Town in general, and to the poor in particular, and to avoid repentance when too late, you will do well to reconsider said vote, as soon as conveniently may b^, and to pass another to discontinue that part of the old way leading by land of Messrs. Beal ALEXANDER SHEPAED, SEN. 485 and Burridge, and to agree with them on as good terms as may be, for the benefit of the Town, — provided the new way be accepted as aforesaid ; and I am well assured that it will not be for the advantage of the Town to oppose the acceptance thereof, nor to oppose the laying out (or opening) the way leading from the house of Joshua Jackson, near the house of John Whitmore. As to other matters this day depending, I humbly con- ceive that as each one does, or should, bear a just and equal proportion, according to what he possesseth, so he ought likewise to enjoy an equitable right in all privileges, both civil and ecclesiastical. And as to my affairs, relative to my guardianship over Eobert Child and wife, — without any long preamble thereon, I would propose, for the sake of peace and to prevent any further cost, to leave the final settlement of my account to the gentlemen Selectmen, or to Capt. Abraham Fuller only, and request that you would appoint one or the other of them accordingly. I am, with all good wishes for the peace -and prosperity of the Town, Gentlemen, Your very humble serv't, Alex. Shepaed. To the Inhabitants of the Town of Newton, in Town Meet- ing assembled, this bth day of April, A. P. 1784 : — GrENTLEMEN, — As you were pleased to choose me as one of your committee to meet in Convention, in order to lay before the great and General Court such grievances as should be thought the good people of the Commonwealth labor under ; and inasmuch as I have not the least knowl- edge of what is contained in the warrant for the present 41* 486 ALEXANDER SHEPAED, SEN. meeting, by being warned, or by any other information, and don't so much as know the Constable that neglected his duty ; nor shall I make the least uneasiness in the aflPair, no farther than that it is my opinion that no Constable should have any pay for his service, in warning a meeting, who neg- lects the warning of sundry persons in the execution of one warrant, which has been too often the case, and might have been the means of setting aside several meetings, if the people who have been thus neglected were inclined to be factious ; nor have I the least inclination to hurt the Town for the neglect of an individual, for if every vote that should be passed this day, were disagreeable to my mind, I would not use any means to set the meeting aside. You will, therefore, permit me to give you something of a detail of the proceedings of the late Convention, which I shall endeavor to do in as concise a manner as my abilities will admit of, and if I should presume to advise in the affair, in any particular article, you will pardon me. I need not here particularize all the grievances which it is thought we labor under, but refer you to the proceedings of the Convention, which will herewith be exhibited to you ; more especially to the report of a committee chosen by the Convention. As to the two first articles in said report, relative to the commutation of half pay to the officers of the army, and granting the impost into the hands of the Hon. Congress, — the commutation, for my part, I am very easy therewith ; but as to granting the impost for so long a time, I can 't be so well reconciled thereto. If the commutation is not altogether justly due, (which I do not pretend to dispute, if there be any truth in mankind,) yet it cannot be so aggra- vating, when we calmly consider how the officers, together with the common soldiers, who have in general behaved so valiantly, have been (or like to be) turned off with such ALEXANDER SHEPAED, SEN. 487 securities, that those who are obliged to part with them, (as the greater part of the soldiery are,) they must lose more than three-fourths of them, according to the best informa- tion I can obtain ! Cruel and oppressive such treatment to those, especially, who are deserving of the best of treatment. The other article of grievance mentioned in the report aforesaid, as to the multiplicity of law suits, &c., the want of a suiEcient currency of money, with some other smaller grievances, but more particularly the cruel treatment of the soldiery, just mentioned, I think ought to be redressed ; tad were I to advise thereon, I could not advise any to set down contented therewith, but like restless spirits, (as they are pleased in general in Boston to term such as are in any way dissatisfied with the proceedings of Government,) to seek redress by incessantly petitioning, pleading and pray- ing, to the great and General Court, and to remonstrate, if necessary, till all hopes of redress were over ; and if redress could not be obtained in that way, to take better care for the future who they send to Court. But my advice, (if I dare give it,) as to the two first articles, would be, for every individual in the State to set down contented with them, relying entirely on the wisdom and fidelity of the Congress, in doing justice to each State, in the expenditure of the money that shall come into their hand by way of impost, hoping that it may finally prove for the benefit of all the United States. Sure I am, that the granting the money into their hands, (if it should have no other good tendency,) will serve to raise our credit abroad, which is no trifling matter, when it is got to so low an ebb at home. However, it is yet to be hoped that the time in the grant will be lim- ited to a shorter period, if no other alteration therein. I have been informed, since my confinement, that several gentlemen in the Town seem anxiously desirous that the Town grant (to be made this day) should be sufficient to 488 ALEXANDEE SHEPAKD, SEN. discharge the whole of the Town debt, and all other neces- sary charges ; the which I hope will be thbught too cruel and oppressive to obtain a vote for. The General Court are become sensible that the burthen that yet remains on the people, by taxes already granted, is too heavy, and seem inclined to ease them, or at least not to burthen them any more at present ; and can any one in this Town be desirous to distress the distressed poor of their Town, who are now spending considerable part of their time in pursuit after money to discharge their taxes and keep out of gaol, and cannot obtain necessaries for the children and the collector at the same time, put to great straits and difficulties by wearing on them, and by their lenity to such as can scarcely keep out of gaol themselves. Cruel indeed would it be to lay heavier burthens on such. There is the greater reason to let them have a little time to breathe, after they have been harrassed and distressed by their taxes. They are often told, by way of contempt or derision, to go to work ; poor encouragement for such to go to work, (though needful and expedient,) when all they have must be taken from them, work or play. The families of many must unavoid- ably become a Town charge, if their burthens be much increased. It must, therefore, be for the interest of the Town to make a grant sufficient only to pay their interest and defray the necessary charges of the Town ; and I think none but such as have not a proper sense of feeling for the poor, and came by their own estates very easily, and have been, or now are, in a very easy way of making money, that can desire that any more should be granted. I intended to have added, but have not strength nor time, shall therefore only add, that I wish you a peaceable meet- ing, and that I am, with due respect. Gentlemen, Your very humble serv't, Alex. Shepakd. NATHANIEL SEGEE. 489 NATHANIEL SEGEE. [See Page 404.] Nathaniel Segee was the son of Josiah Seger, grand- son of Job Seger, and the great-grandson of Henry Seger, one of the early settlers of Newton. He published a Nar- rative, at Paris, Me., in 1825, written by himself, of his revolutionary services, and his capture by the Indians, from which the following extracts are taken : — " I, Nathaniel Seger, was born in Newton, and resided there until the Spring of 1774, when I went to Sudbury, Canada, (now Bethel, Me.,) on the great Androscoggin river. I worked here during that season, returned in the Fall, and remained at Newton during the Winter. On the 19th of April, 1775, the British troops made an excursion from Boston to Concord, and a battle ensued between the British and Americans. After this battle, a regiment was called out to guard Boston ; I enlisted, and marched to Cambridge. Soon after, I enlisted as a soldier for eight months, in Capt. Nathan Fuller's company, Col. Gardner's regiment. On the 17th of June, this regiment was ordered to Bunker HiU, after that bloody battle had commenced, — but not having correct information, we were too late to re- inforce those on the Hill, who were retreating when we arrived at the Hill. One of our company (James Walls) was wounded ; Col. Gardner was mortally wounded, and died soon after. We retreated with the rest from the Hill, and were met by a party who were bringing refreshments for those who had been in the battle, which were very acceptable to us, as the day was very warm, and we much 490 NATHANIEL SEGEK. fatigued. After the battle of Bunker Hill, our regiijieiit was stationed on Prospect Hill, under the command of Lieut. Col. Bond, where we served out our eight months. I re-enlisted in the same company and regiment for one year. " In the Spring of 1776, when the British had evacuated Bunker Hill, I, with a number of other soldiers, went to the Hill, and found bottles on their tables, as though they had left in great haste. " Soon after the British troops had left Boston, our regi- ment, with the rest of the Continental troops, were ordered t9 New York. We marched to Norwich, Conn., where we embarked in sloops, and soon arrived at New York. In two days after our arrival, fifty men were called for, from our regiment, two of which were detailed from our com- pany, (I was one of them,) to march up the North river, to erect a Fort, at Montgomery. "We worked on this Fort about three weeks, and got the Fort in a good way before we left it. " Our regiment was ordered.up the North river, for Can- ada. We sailed to Albany, then marched to Lake George, took batteaux and rowed forty-five miles to the landing, hauled our boats and baggage about one mile and a half by land, to the waters of Lake Champlain, and from thence we rowed to Ticonderoga. Some days after we arrived here, we marched to Crown Point, and from thence to St. Johns, at the outlet of Lake Champlain. Here we hired a Frenchman to pilot us to Chamblee, about twelve miles. In a few days we took batteaux, and went down the river St. Lawrence, for Quebec, rowing forty or fifty miles, to a place called Sorel. Here we met the enemy, and were obliged to reti-eat to Chamblee, where we made our stand for some time ; many of the soldiers caught the small pox, and orders were given that every man might inoculate. NATHANIEL SEGEE. 491 We continued here till the army had recovered from this terrible distemper. After the army had recovered from the small pox, the army retreated to St. Johns, and from thence over Lake Champlain, to Crown Point, rowing day and night, and fired upon by the Indians. The army was very feeble and much debilitated, for want of proper medicines to carry off the relics of the small pox ; many have died, and but few were fit for duty. The waters of Champlain were, at this season of the year, extremely unwholesome. On reaching Crown Point, the army were worn down by hard labor and sickness, which increased until the hospitals could hold no more. At Fort George it became so sickly, that our regiment were exempted from duty ; there were scarce well men enough to take care of the sick. Col. Bond died. The sickness abated, so that in the month of August our regiment were again fit for duty. I marched under the Lieut., Col. and Major, to Albany, and from thence, under the command of Capt. Hatch, sailed down the North river and marched to Morristown, New Jersey, arriving there in December. Here, on the 3d of January, 1717, 1 received my discharge and a passport to Boston. After a most fatiguing journey, I arrived at my father's house in Newton, the last of January, very much to my own and their great joy. I received no pay or provisions, to bear my expenses on my long and tedious journey home. I sold what clothing I could possibly spare, and begged on the way. I regained my health and strength ; when the enemy appeared at Bennington, Vt., and orders were out to raise men to go there. I again enlisted for this service, in a company under the command of Capt. Joseph Fuller, of Newton. We marched to Bennington, then to Skeensboro', where we were stationed as a guard. Col. Brown, with a party of men, and Capt. Ethan Allen, with his Eangers, were ordered to Lake George landing, where we destroyed 492 NATHANIEL SEGEE. the enemy's batteaux, took about two hundred Hessians prisoners, which, with considerable plunder, we brought into camp. " We were ordered to Stillwater, where we arrived not long before the battle at that place commenced ; I was not in that battle, having turned out in a volunteer company of fifty men, who were ordered to guard the swamp, where it was thought the Indians would approach, and harrass our army. We continued here until the battle was over, when the company were ordered in. Our company were ordered to White Plains, where the time for which I enlisted was out, and I was discharged, and returned home. " In Aug., 1778, men were called for to march to Rhode Island. I enlisted again for this service, and marched to Rhode Island, thence to Newport, then in possession of the British, where great preparations were made for a battle ; when suddenly we were ordered to retreat from the Island. The enemy being informed of our design, closely pursued us ; we retreated to Fall River, where, in January, 1779, 1 was again discharged, and again returned home to Newton. I was one year and ten months in the Continental service, in 1775 and 1776 — six months in 1777, and five months in 1778 ; in all, two years and nine months." Thus far this narrative of Seger's not only gives his own experience of soldiering in the Revolution, but describes the fare and fate of very many other Newton men. "In the Spring of 1779, I went again to Sudbury, (Bethel,) in company with Jonathan Bartlett, of Newton, and carried kettles to make sugar. The next Spring, Thad- deus Bartlett, of Newton, and a boy named Aaron Barton, joined us at Bethel, and we employed ourselves making sugar, clearing the land, and planting. The Indians ap- NATHANIEL SEGER. 493 peared friendly ; we gave them corn and sugar, and received from tliem wild meat, tallow, and fur, and lived together on amicable terms. We had no roads ; we went by marked trees, and hauled our necessaries on hand sleds. There were but few families in the place, and no neighbors near. We ground our corn with a hand mill. "In 1781, there were ten families in the town, but the nearest was six miles from us, and some were ten miles from us. The Indians were often among us ; we traded with them, and labored to live in good fellowship with them. After a while they grew morose and surly ; at length they became very much emboldened, and painted themselves in a hostile manner. " On the 3d of August, 1781, there came six Indians from Canada, armed with guns, tomahawks, and scalping knives. They took me, Benjamin Clark, Lieut. Jonathan Clark, of Newton, and Capt. Eleazer Twitchell, prisoners, bound us and plundered our dwellings. They loaded us with heavy packs filled with plunder, from our own dwellings, and ordered us to march with our hands bound. We were ordered to travel up the river, and came to a place called Peabod/s Patent, now Gilead, where they took James Pettingil prisoner, plundered his house, and ordered him to march to Canada. He having no shoes, could not travel, and they murdered him. We pursued our journey through Shelburn, N. H., and fording the Androscoggin river, came to the house of Hope Austin, plundered the house, shot a man by the name of Peter Poor, and took a colored man named Plato, prisoner, when Lieut. Jonathan Clark was released and allowed to go back. We pursued our way through the woods towards Canada with heavy packs, trem- bling limbs, and aching hearts, not knowing what would befall us. We came to a large mountain and ascended to its summit, where we had a very extensive prospect of that 42 494 NATHANIEJ- SEGEK. mountainous country. We hurried on till we came to the height of land between the Androscoggin ajid the Umbagog lake, from whence that river takes its rise. We arrived at St. Frangois and were permitted to sit down and rest. On the fifth day after we were taken prisoners, we came to Umbagog lake. Here the Indians had three canoes, made of spruce bark, in which we crossed the lake. They now unbound us, and we pursued our way for Canada in canoes. From the lake we came to a small river called the Magal- loway ; went some ways on this river, shot a moose, boiled and roasted the meat ; although very hungry could eat but little, having no salt or bread. " We continued our journey towards Canada, over rough high mountains and through dismal swamps, day after day, weary and faint, our strength failing and spirits sinking. At length we struck upon the waters of the St. Fran5ois. It was at first but a small brook. On the second day it grew larger, and at night we came to the main branch of the river. On the third day, at night, we came to three canoes, weary, tired and almost worn out. In the morning we took the canoes and went down the river St. Francois ; there were many carrying places over which we had to lug our canoes, and continued our journey down the river to a village in Canada, where there were seventy Indian war- riors. As we touched the shore an Indian clinched me violently by the arm, and threatened he would kill me. There was great rejoicing among them over their prisoners, scalps, and plunder. A man crowded in among the Indians and took me by the arm, and bid me go with him to the guard house ; and Benjamin Clark was soon brought to the same place. The next morning the Indians requested Clark, and the guard let him go with them. They cut off his hair, painted him, and put their dress upon him, like an Indian chief, and gave him his liberty among them. It NATHANIEL SBGEE. 495 was fourteen days after we were captured before we arrived in Canada. "We were two days at this guard house, and then were given up to the Indians, with an interpreter, to carry us in their canoes to Montreal. The Indians took my shoes and shirt from me, and sold them for pipes. I upbraided them for their misconduct, but they told me the king would find me shoes ; these were the last things they could take from me. At length we arrived at Montreal and were conducted to the commander, who examined us and asked us many questions, particularly how long we had been in the Ameri- can service. " The Indians requested that they might keep Mr. Clark, but the commander would not consent ; they then took off all the ornaments they had put upon him, and every rag of clothes except his shirt. They now received their bounty money for the prisoners and scalps. Clark and myself were conducted to the gaol, and delivered up to the guard, where were ten prisoners, some of whom were confined in irons. Our -allowance of food was not half sufficient for us ; we were kept in this terrible condition forty days ; we were then sent up the river St. Lawrence, with forty or fifty prisoners, forty-five miles, to an island, with a guard house and barrack, and a guard of thirty men ; this was in October, the same year that we were taken prisoners. Other prisoners were brought in, which increased the num- ber to one hundred and eighty. "We were guarded by men who had deserted from the States; they were cruel and abusive to the prisoners, and cheated them out of part of their allowance. We continued here till the next Spring, 1782, where we endured a very hard Winter ; none can know our sufferings and distress, but those who endured it. " In the Summer of 1782, Lord Cornwallis and his army were taken prisoners by Gen. Washington, This informa- 496 NATHANIEL SEGEE. tion greatly rejoiced our hearts, and gave us a lively hope that deliverance was at hand. Soon after this, we were taken down to Quebec and put on shipboard, and detained there in anxious suspense twenty days, and then sailed for Boston about the 10th of Nov. After a pleasant passage, we landed at Castle WiUiam, in Boston harbor, crossed the channel in a boat, and landed at Dorchester point, same evening. Benjamin Clark, my fellow prisoner and sufferer, and myself, went to Newton before we slept, to the great astonishment and joy of our friends and relatives. They had never heard a word from us since our capture in Bethel, until they saw our faces. We approached them as though we had risen from the dead. They could hardly believe their own eyes. It was indeed a joyful meeting, and we all rejoiced together with glad hearts. We tarried at Newton sometime to refresh ourselves, and then returned to Bethel. " I ought to state that when the Indians were on their way from Canada to Bethel, they passed through Newry, and entered the house of Capt. Benjamin Barker; Miss Mary Eussell and Miss Betsy Mason were at Capt. Barker's, on a visit; the Indians plundered the house of many articles, some of which belonged to these young ladies. On our return to Bethel, we found these young ladies there, and married them ; I married Mary Eussell, and Mr. Clark married Betsy Mason ; both of us have had and reared up large families by them. " I have undergone aU the hardships and denials incident to those engaged in settling a new country, and have lived to see the town rise from a howling wilderness to fruitful fields and a flourishing condition." Benjamin Clark, who was the fellow prisoner and towns- man of Soger, was the son of Norman Clark and Hannah TIMOTHY JACKSON, ESQ. 497 Bird, the grandson of "William Clark and Hannah Kee, and the great-grandson of John Clark and Elizabeth Nor- man, who were among the early settlers of Newton. Lieut. Jonathan Clark, of Bethel, was made prisoner by the Indians, with Soger, but released in three days ; he was from Newton also. His father was William Clark, Jr. ; he was born in March, 1747, and was twelve years older than Benjamin Clark. Probably the Indians thought he was too old to carry their packs through the forests to Canada, and so released him, after a three days' march. Jonathan, Thaddeus, Enoch, Moses, Stephen, and Pere- grine Bartlett, brothers, and sons of Ebenezer Bartlett, of Newton, grandsons of Joseph, Jr., and great-grandsons of Joseph, Sen., an early settler in Newton, all went to Bethel ; Jonathan and Thaddeus went with Seger, and the others soon after. TIMOTHY JACKSON, ESQ. [See Page 346.] Timothy Jackson, Esq. was bom in Newton, August 3, 1756. He was the son of Timothy and Sarah (Smith) Jackson, grandson of Joseph and Patience (Hyde) Jack- son, great-grandson of Sebas and Sarah (Baker) Jackson, and great-great-grandson of Edward Jackson, Sen., of Lon- don, England, one of the first settlers of Newton. He owned part of the same estate, and dwelt under the same roof, that successively covered all his forefathers, in this country. This ancient house was demolished in the Spring of 1809. It stood on the same spot now covered by the 42* 498 TIMOTHY JACKSON, ESQ. mansion house of his eldest son, William Jackson, Esq., who draws up his cold water from the same well that has slaked the thirst and washed the faces of eight generations. He was an only son. Of his early years, nothing of note is known to have occurred. He was athletic and rohust in person, and possessed an active and vigorous intellect. His opportunities for school education, like most others of his time and rank, were exceedingly limited, yet his attain- ments in after life were quite respectable, and sufficient for all the practical purposes of private life, and of most public stations. Of books, his knowledge was very limited ; but of men and things, it was sufficiently accurate for all the prac- tical purposes of his time. His sound judgment, sterling integrity, and superior address, caused him to be perpetu- ally employed in public life, and enabled him to take a leading part in every situation in which he was placed ; in fact, among his townsmen, and more immediate acquaints ance, his influence was very great, and the confidence reposed in him may truly be said to have been unsurpassed, in regard to sagacity, judgment and integrity. The leading incidents only of his life, we purpose briefly to note. At the age of fifteen, (one year before the requirements of the law of that day,) he voluntarily joined one of the Newton companies of Militia. At the age of eighteen, he joined an independent company of " Minute Men," in New- ton, raised in January, 1775, in accordance with the military spirit of the time, and in view of the expected struggle with the Mother Country. This company of Minute Men verified their claim to the name they assumed, on the morn- ing of the Lexington fight, to the letter. He was a Cor- poral in the company ; on the morning of that ever memorable day, he heard the signal guns, which announced that the British troops were in motion. He went to the Captain's house at the break of day, and received orders to TIMOTHT JACKSON, ESQ. " 499 warn the company to meet upon their parade ground forth' with, which order he promptly executed on horseback, and before eight o'clock, the company were on the march to join their regiment at "Watertown Meeting-house; and from thence took their march for Lexington and Concord. They encountered Lord Percy's reserve at Concord, and con- tinued to hang upon the flank and rear of the British . troops until night-fall, when they took boat for Boston, at_ Lechmere Point, where, after they had rowed beyond the reach of musket shot, and that bloody day's work was ended, this company of Minute Men publicly received the thanks of Gen. Warren, for their zeal and bravery through- out the day. Soon after the battle of Bunker Hill, a company was raised to serve eight months, mostly of Newton men, com- manded by Capt. Nathan Fuller, of Newton, and joined the Continental army under Gen. Washington, at Camb- ridge. During the last four months of this term, he joined the company and was appointed orderly Sergeant, by Capt. Fuller. In Sept. 1776, he entered on board a privateer fitted out at Salem, which sailed on a cruise, on the 19th of that month. Ten days after, the privateer was captured by the British Frigate Perseus, after a running fight, (in which he was wounded in the neck by a musket ball,) and carried into New York, then in possession of the British, and con- fined in one of those floating hells, called prison ships. After six months' torture in that loathsome place, he was impressed into the English Naval service, and placed on board a large Indiaman, pierced for thirty-six guns, as a convoy to a fleet of transports to England. Of the thirty six men composing the crew of this ship, ten were im- pressed Americans. After a rough and boisterous passage of eighty days, they arrived in London, when he was put 500 • TIMOTHY JACKSON, ESQ. on board a Spanish built guard ship of one hundred and twenty guns, in the Thames ; from this ship he was trans- ferred to the Frigate Mxperiment, bound for Lisbon. On his return from Lisbon, he was put on board Lord Howe's flag ship, and sailed with the fleet to the West Lidies. While on that station he was transferred to the Frigate Grasshopper. From the cruel treatment he had uniformly received in all those ships, he determined to make his escape at all hazards. While the Grasshopper lay at anchor in the harbor of Antigua, about half a mile from the shore, he took advantage of a severe shower of rain, which drove the sentinel below, passed over the stem of the ship at midnight, unobserved, and safr upon the bow chains untU the storm had abated, when he let himself down into the water, and swam for the land, which he reached in about half an hour, landing upon a rocky shore, quite ex- hausted, and much bruised among the rocks and surf; from thence he travelled to St. Johns, where he shipped on board an English sloops Capt. Clark, who traded among the Eng- lish islands, but was ultimately bound to New York. Capt. Clark afterwards changed his voyage from New York to Cork, Ireland. In consequence of this change of voyage, he left the sloop at St. Vincent ; from thence he went to St. Kitts, where he succeeded in engaging a passage to North Carolina, in a pilot boat, which arrived safe, and from thence he shipped in a vessel bound to Boston. On this voyage he was again captured by the British, and car- ried into New York. While the vessel was furling sails, and hauling alongside the wharf, he made his escape unob- served, and travelled by land two days and nights, and had nearly reached the American lines, when he was captured by an advance guard of Hessian troops, and carried back to New York, and cast into prison with hundreds of his countrymen, in January, 1778. i He was kept in this loath- TIMOTHY JACKSON, ESQ. 501 some prison about six months. His sufferings in this hor- rid place were truly appalling ; the small pox was among them, and scarcely a day passed that he did not witness some poor prisoner writhing in the agonies of death. Soon after the battle of Monmouth, he was exchanged with many others, and passed over to the American army in July, 1778, in a state of perfect destitution, upwards of two hundred miles from home, and without a penny to sustain himself through so long a journey ; fortunately he met with a townsman, Daniel Jackson, (then a Sergeant in Capt. Bryant's company of Artillery,) a kind hearted man, who loaned him money enough to pay his expenses home, where he arrived in the Autumn of 1778, after having been absent one year and ten months. After a few months' visit to the army at Rhode Island, he returned home again, in the Spring of 1779, took the homestead at the age of 23, and settled as a farmer. At the annual Town meeting in March, 1780, he was chosen a member of the school committee, and also of a committee to raise men for the army. From that time until his last sickness, in 1811, he was continually serving in various Town and State offices. He was Adjutant and Brigade Major in the Militia ; kept the Town school in the north district two Winters ; was Deputy Sheriff ten years, from 1791 ; Selectman many years; Mod- erator of nearly all the Town meetings, from 1795 to 1810, inclusive, and Eepresentative to the General Court fifteen years in succession, from 1797; the duties of all which he most ably and faithfully discharged. He was disabled by a stroke of .the palsy, in 1811, from which he never recovered, and died in Nov. 1814, at the age of 58. 502 EEV. ELHANAN WINCHESTEK. EEV. ELHANAN WINCHESTER. [See Page 450.] Rev. Elhanan Winchestee was the oldest son of Dea. Elhanan and Sarah "Winchester, grandson of Dea. Elhanan and Mary "Winchester, great-grandson of Josiah and Mary "Winchester, and great-great-grandson of John "IWinchester, who came from England in ship Elizabeth, "William Stagg, Master, in 1635, then nineteen years old; settled in Hingham, and removed to Muddy river [Brook- line] about 1650. Rev. Elhanan was a remarkably eloquent and success- ful preacher of the Gospel, and is said to have been the father of the Baptist Church in Newton ; nearly aU of its first members having been baptised by him. He was born in Brookline, very near the line of Newton, Sept. 19, 1751. At the age of five years he was called a good reader ; his taste for study was soon observed, and he often astonished his instructors by the suddenness of his acquirements. His opportunity for education was small; only a "Winter's schooling each year, till he arrived at the age of sixteen years ; yet with this slight advantage, he added some ac- quaintance with the Latin, to the branches taught in com- mon schools. Books, of all kinds, that fell in his way, were read with avidity. His memory was prodigious. ' The sect caUed "Mew lAghts," among whom he was brought up, naturally cherished and increased the enthusiasm to which his temperament was predisposed. He began preaching in the Autumn of 1770, in his 19th year. He visited Canter- bury, Conn., 1771, and was baptised and admitted to the Baptist Church there, on the plan of open communion. REV. ELHANAN TTINCHESTEB. 503 His youth, extraordinary memory, eloquence and zeal, drew multitudes to Ms meeting. He gathered a Church of about seventy members, in Kehoboth, and was ordained over it. In less than a year, he adopted the plan of close commu- nion, which change of sentiment produced commotion, and divided his Church, and he was excluded for breach of cov- enant. He took a journey into New Hampshire and Ver- mont, and on his return stopped at Grafton, Mass., where he preached. On returning to Rehoboth, and finding that the difficulty had not subsided, he called a council to medi- ate between him and his Church. The result was, the council decided that " he had left an error to embrace the truth ; " and the people declared the contrary. Mr. Winchester left the church in Kehoboth, and joined the Baptist Church in Bellingham. About this time he re- nounced his Armenian sentiments, and avowed the system of the celebrated Dr. GiU, and became a thorough Calvin- istic preacher. He went to Grafton early in the year 1772, and preached there through the Summer ; his hearers were gathered from Grafton, Upton, and Northbridge ; many of whom made a profession of religion. From this town he soon removed to Hull, a peninsula about nine miles east of Boston, and spent the year 1773, and part of 1774, preach- ing there, and in sundry other places. From the beginning of his ministerial career, he had often preached in Brookline and Newton, with much success. His father, who was Deacon of the " New Light " congre- gation, in Brookline, became a Baptist, and was one of the founders of the first Baptist Church in Newton. In the Autumn of 1774, he set out for the Southern States, and there accepted an invitation to preach, at a Baptist society at Welch Neck, on the great Pee Dee river, in South Carolina. In four months he returned to New England, for his wife. In Oct. 1775, he set out with his 504 KEY. ELHANAN WINCHESTER. wife, for South Carolina. On reaching Virginia, she was unable to proceed any farther ; and leaving her in Virginia, he proceeded on, and spent the Winter at "Welch Neck. In April, 1776, he went to Virginia, to conduct his wife to Carolina ; but she was in her grave. Instead of going back to Carolina, he continued his journey to New England, and supplied the pulpit of the first Baptist Church in Bos- ton, for the Rev. Dr. Stillman, who was in Philadelphia. In the Fall of 1776, he returned to his people at Welch Neck, where he was seized with a fever, that brought him to the verge of the grave. Early in 1778, a friend on whom he called, showed him " The Everlasting Gospel," a small book by Paul Seigvolk, and requested to be informed what the author meant. Mr. Winchester, by looking into it, soon perceived that its de- sign was to prove what was entirely new to him, "the final salvation of all men." But though struck with some argu- ments that he glanced over, he readily decided that the scheme could not be true ; laid the book aside, and deter- mined to think no more of the subject ; still, however, it would at times court his attention. He spent the following Summer travelling and preaching in Virginia, and in the Fall, returned to his people at Welch Neck. Here a bitter cup of sorrow that he had twice drained, awaited him; his third wife sickened and died. Amid the consuming pain of ten days, her mind rose to a high state of devotional joy ; her example and conver- sation served to abstract her husband from the common ob- jects of life, and to concentrate all his powers on the work of the ministry. He preached and exhorted with a zeal and singleness of motive that could not fail of effect. A revival commenced, and in a few months, about one hun- dred and forty whites were added to the Church. He also addressed himself to the poor slaves ; his known opposition REV. ELHA.NAN WINCHESTER. 505 to slavery recommended him to their favorable attention, and before the next June, (1779,) one hundred of the slaves were baptised. This (says he) was a Summer of great success, and I shall remember it with pleasure, while I live. In September, 1779, he left Welch Neck for New Eng- land, journeying slowly, and preaching as he went. He arrived in New England in the latter part of Autumn, where he travelled extensively, and preached with much applause and success about nine months. Early in the Autumn of 1780, he set off with the intention of returning to South Carolina. On his way he tarried awhile at Paw- ling's Precinct, near the east boundary of the State of New York, and arrived at Philadelphia on the 7th of October. The Baptist Church in that City being destitute of'a Min- ister, requested him to stop and preach to them, and he consented. Much excitement was 'produced by his labors, and great additions were made to the church. His congre- gation grew too large for the Meeting-house, and St. Paul's (the Episcopal Church, and largest in the City) was pro- cured, and was filled to overflowing ; and most of the Clergy of all denominations embraced every opportunity to hear him. It was here, and when he was about thirty years of age, that Mr. Winchester changed his religious views, and openly embraced the doctrine of Universal Restoration ; and during the rest of his life, was an avowed and devoted advocate of that doctrine. A majority of his Church was opposed to him, and he was dismissed. As he and his ad- herents were destitute of a house for public worship, the Trustees of Pennsylvania University magnanimously al- lowed them the use of their hall. It was here that Mr. Winchester preached openly his first sermon, from Genesis, iii, 15, the doctrine of Universa IRestoration. The opposi- tion to his meeting was general and bitter. He found him- 43 506 EEV. ELHANAN ■WINCHESTER. self, however, attended by a respectable congregation. Nearly half of his late Church followed him, and with him sustained the indignity of excommunication. Accessions were made from other quarters, and a new Church was soon formed. Unpopular as he was, there were some men of eminence in Philadelphia who were not afraid to coun- tenance him, among whom were Dr. Eedman, and the cele- brated Dr. Rush. After meeting in University Hall about four years, Masonic Hall was fitted up for a place of meet- ing, on the spot now occupied by the Pennsylvania Bank. Afterwards a new Meeting-house was built, in Lombard street, which is still improved by the first Universalist so- ciety of that City. He spent most of his time in the City, preaching occasionally in Germantown, and sometimes in- dulging his favorite gratification of travelling. It was a strange fatality that attended his matrimonial connexions, making him, at the age of 32, four times a wid- ower. He visited South Carolina in the latter part of 1784, and there, it is believed, married his fifth wife. He had no stated salary, but derived his support chiefly from contributions taken at the close of his meetings. These were often sufficient not only to meet his necessities, but also to supply him with means to bestow charities. Simple in his dress and appearance, his wants were few and his expenses small, though no great economist. His society in Philadelphia prospered under his ministry for about six yearsr when he determined to visit England- He engaged his brother Moses to supply his pulpit in Phil- adelphia. He embarked for England, arriving in London in Sept. 1787, -and commenced preaching, as opportunity offered. Soon, however, he preached Sunday mornings at the Meeting-house in Worship Street, and in the evening at Glass House Yard. His hearers continued to increase, and his friends engaged the Chapel in Parliament Court, where REV. ELHANAN ■WINCHESTER. 507 he held meetings till his departure for America. He re- tained his itinerant habit during the six and a half years he spent in England. He often made excursions to a consid- erable distance from London ; frequently visited Chatham, Birmingham, Wisebeach, Fleet, and preached in nearly all the Meeting-houses of the general Baptists in the County of Kent. Several Dissenting preachers openly professed the doctrine of Universal Restoration, and some who discoun- tenanced it, patronized him, as he retained many of the notions and considerable of the language of the lower sects. Among those who embraced Universalism, the most distin- guished was the Rev. William Vidler, a Calvinistic Baptist Minister, who assisted "Winchester in his labors, and after- wards supplied his place in London. He left England May 19, 1794, and arrived at Boston July 12, following, and immediately repaired to his native town. During the remainder of the Summer, and succeed- ing Autumn, he preached almost constantly in the vicinity of Boston, and other parts of New England. In Septem- ber, he attended the General Convention of TJniversalists, at Oxford, Mass., in which he presided as Moderator. Writing to London, he says, " I have the greatest door open that I ever saw, insomuch that I am surprised at the alteration since I was last here. I have preached in a great many Meeting-houses of different denominations, and to great numbers of people, as often as eight or nine times a week, with greater acceptance than I ever did." Mean- while, he was writing his answer to Paine's " Age of Rea- son," which was published in Boston, in December. The next year (1795) he travelled extensively, in almost all parts of the country, especially to the southward, though his constitution was broken, and an increasing asthma fore- told a fatal termination. He visited his old Society, in 508 EEV. ELHANAN WINCHESTEE. Philadelphia, to which he ministered for awhile, prohahly in the latter part of 1795 and the beginning of 1796. It was about this time that the celebrated Dr. Priestly delivered a course of lectures in the Universalist Meeting- house there, at the conclusion of which, he informed the Society that he agreed with their Minister in the doctrine of Universal Restoration. Mr. Winchester went to Hartford, Conn., where he made his first ap|)earance before the public, on the 11th of Octo- ber, 1796, at the funeral of a young man. The people were assembled around the grave, when they were surprised at the voice of a stranger, who, unasked, had taken the freedom to address them on the occasion. His language and manner were very affecting, and excited a general wish to hear him again. Accordingly, he gave one or two lec- tures during the week, and preached the next Sunday in the Theatre. A respectable congregation was soon gath- ered, among whom were some gentlemen of influence. He continued to preach in the Theatre on Sundays, and in one of the Meeting-houses on Wednesday evenings, till the beginning of December, when the inclemency of the weather induced them to assemble in a large hall, which they occu- pied till Mr. Winchester's death. About the 1st of April, 1797, he delivered a sermon, under a strong impression that it was his last, from St. Paul's farewell address to the Ephesian Church. He never entered his desk again. His death was fast approaching, and he contemplated it with serenity and joy, and died on the 18th of April, 1797, aged forty-six years and five months. His funeral was attended by a numerous concourse of aflfiicted friends and sympathizing spectators. The Rev. Dr. Strong, a Hopkinsian Minister of a Congregational Church, in Hartford, an opponent of Universal Salvation, COL. JOSEPH WAKD. 509 preached the sermon at his funeral; gave Winchester an excellent character, and bore a frank testimony to his final constancy in the doctrine which he had preached. Of Mr. Winchester it may be said what can \}e asserted of few men so much exposed to obloquy, that his moral character was never impeached, and his piety universally admitted. His practical confidence in God, his uniform cheerful serenity, and his unconquerable benevolence and charity, form a halo of glory around him, which will pre- serve his very imperfection? from willing censure. [The foregoing facts from the life of Winchester, have been extracted from the Uhiversalist Magazine, of May, 1825.] COL. JOSEPH WARD. \See Page 435.] Col. Wakd was bom in Newton, on the 2d of July, 1737. He was the son of Dea. Joseph and Experience (Stone) Ward, grandson of Joseph and Esther (Kenrick) Ward, great-grandson of John and Hannah (Jackson) Ward, all of Newton ; and great-great-grandson of William Ward, who came from England and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1639. He received the usual education of that day, and worked on his father's farm, (who was a blacksmith as well as a farmer,) until he was twenty years old. He then became an assistant teacher in a private grammar school, kept by his neighbor, Abraham Fuller, (afterward Judge Fuller,) where he studied the higher branches of education ; and 43* 510 COL. JOSEPH -WAKD. continued in the occupation of a schoolmaster until the battles of Lexington and Concord, teaching in Newton, Newcastle, Needham, Arundel, "Wells, Chelsea, Marble- head, Portsmouth, N. H., and Boston.* For ten years or more, prior to the commencement of the Revolutionary war, he was in the constant practice of writing for the newspapers, on Education and other sub- jects ; but the course the mother country was pursuing towards her colonies in America, was, above all others, the subject which aroused his mind to its highest efforts, to in- fluence his fellow countrymen to throw off their allegiance to the Crown of England. He was an early, able, and ardent son of liberty ; to this end he commenced his essays in the public newspapers, many years before the war, and followed them up without intermission, until the breaking out of the Revolution, and occasionally during the war, and long after. They were addressed to the King — the Min- istry — Parliament — the people of England — the patriots of Great Britain and Ireland, &c., but mostly to his own countrymen. A few short extracts from his volumnious essays, will be hereinafter inserted, as a specimen of his touching appeals to rouse his countrymen to do their duty. i Col. "Ward was the Master of a public school in Boston, when the first blood was shed for independence at Lexing- ton ; he was intimate with the leading men who were engaged with him in bringing about that great event, — Samuel Adams, James Otis, John Adams, John Hancock, * The following extract from an., advertisement, is copied from the Boston Qaeettb, published by Edes & Gill, September, 1772. *' The subscriber Informs the gentlemen and ladies of Boston, that he purposes to open an English Grammar School, for the instruction of youth, in a house adjoining the Treasury OfHce, fi-ora 8 to 11 in the morning, and from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. He -wlii teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Logic, Composition, Polite Letter Writing, on business, friendship,