CS 71 .P97 190 ■■*'■ 1 »4 & -^'T;.^. ''A«^ ■ ■ v>. ■ - Class __B^S7_L.. Book - F97/ Copyright N" |i^o / COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT. .*• ^ -^ ^. /.•^ .:«?^' .V V ■ ■^^•^' '\i:^ The Memorial Bridge at ISIilford. PETER PRUDDEN A STORY OF HIS LIFE AT NEW HAVEN AND MILFORD, CONN. WITH The Genealogy of Some of His Descendants AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING COPIES OF OLD WILLS, RECORDS, LETTERS, AND PAPERS ^ "• > I r I - I . » , I, , t, ' *• > I I » » t > . BY LILLIAN E. PRUDDEN M 1901 THE LIBRARY O CONGRESS, Two CoHEs Recsiveo APR. 9 1901 Copyright entry CLASS (XXXC. N». COPY 3. '' Copyright, 1901 by Lillian E. Prudden. • • c • • •» c » * • • • * • THE TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE St TAYLOR COMPANY NEW HAVEN: CONN. PREFACE. In the leisure hours of a busy Hfe Mr. Henry J. Prudden, of New Haven, Conn., collected material for a History of the Prudden family, and, had he lived to continue his investigations, he would doubt- less have produced a complete and valuable book. The present volume is, largely, a compilation from his note books of the results of his careful researches into old records, papers and other sources of histori- cal and genealogical information in this country and in England. It has been arranged in appreciation of his labor, and with the hope of stimulating some future family historian to carry the work further. The characterization of the Rev. Peter Prudden is inserted as Mr. Henry J. Prudden gave it at the 250th anniversary of the First Church in Milford, Conn., when he presented, on behalf of the donor, Mrs. Susan Prudden Beardsley, a tablet in memory of its first Pastor. This is done because it is so clear a picture of the qualities that marked the man, 4 PREFACE. although it involves a measure of repetition in the more amplified sketch of Peter Prudden prepared for this book. The genealogical lists are complete only in the line of descent which includes the writer's own family. Copies of such old wills, papers and tomb- stone inscriptions as it is of interest to preserve, but which have no place in the historical account, are found in the Appendix. PETER PRUDDEN. The veil which obscures the Prudden name prior to the time when the Rev. Peter Prudden came to this country in 1637, is lifted once in the chronicles of the latest Danish kings of England. Here we learn that in the year 1042, King Hardi- canute died at a carousal in Lambeth Palace, where one of his nobles was celebrating the mar- riage of his daughter to *'Tovi, surnamed Prudan, a noble and powerful Dane."* Most of the histories of that time spell the name of this person "Pruden," but by some it was written 'Truda." It is impossible now to say whether this name continued during the next three hundred years, or those who bore it were descendants of this ''Tovi" or "Tobi" Prudan, or even, whether the 'Truddens" that began to be found in the sixteenth century are descendants of his. At different periods the English records so vary the manner of spelling the same name * Florence of Worcester's Chronicle. "Bohn's Library, p. '^ 144, Manning & Pray," History of Surrey, Vol. Ill, p. 461. O PETER PRUDDEN. that it would not be surprising if as time passed this one had been completely altered. A con- tinuous line of descent may have followed down through the names of Prudde, Prudow, Prothowe, Proddehowe, Prudhon, and a dozen other similarly sounding names. "^ The derivation and meaning of the name is uncertain. One writer says it means the ''proud." Another,! interpreting English Surnames, says, ''We now talk of a 'prude' as one who exag- gerates woman's innate modesty of demeanor. Formerly it denoted the virtue pure and untrav- ested. The root of the Latin 'probiis,' excellent, still remains in our Prudhommes, with those more commonly corrupted forms, Pridham, Prudames or Prudens, a sobriquet which formerly referred simply to the honest and guileless uprightness of the owners." The first distinct record of the name which has been found, since that of 1042, is in some early wills in Her Majesty's Court of Probate, in Somerset House in London, where it is spelled, * As an example of the transformation made in names, the following are nine different ways in which the same writer in the same paper has spelled the name of one Christopher Prewen — Prewne, Pruen, Pruene, Prowne, De Prune, Prunnen, Prowen and Prowyne. t Bardsley's English Surnames. I PETER PRUDDEN. 7 as now, "Prudden."* All of these earlier Prud- dens seem to have been inhabitants of a district on the borders of Hertfordshire and Bedford- shire, twenty-five miles from London. The will of Thomas Pruddenf of Kingswal- den| mentions his three sons Peter, William and Edward. It also mentions John Prudden of New Wyle End,§ and further, Thomas Prudden of Breechwood Greene. || The parish register of Kingswalden gives the name of Prudden from its commencement to about the beginning of the seventeenth century. The latest record is 1620. Thereafter the name disappears. It is, however, found later in the neighboring parish of Hitchin Hestor, and in the nearer part of the adjacent county of Bedford, and has continued on there until now, giving ground for the surmise, that as this Kingswalden family disappeared about the time that Peter * Appendix III. t Appendix IV. i King's Walden is a scattered parish in Hertfordshire, four miles south of Hitchin, in the bounds of Hitchin and near the borders of Bedfordshire. § New Wyle End is a parish in the township of East Hyde in Bedfordshire just over the borders from Hert- fordshire. II Breechwood Greene is a parish is the town of Being's Walden. 8 PETER PRUDDEN. Prudden and his brother James came to this country, the disappearance may be due to their emigration. There is on the records of Kingswalden* the memorandum of the death of (''name illegible, but looks like Elizabeth") wife of James Prudden. As James Pruddenf of Milford, Conn., had a daughter Elizabeth, who married in 1648, and another daughter who married in 1640, and as the wife of James Prudden is never mentioned in Milford records, it is possible that he came to this country a widower, with daugh- ters of marriageable age, and that the record at Kingswalden chronicles the death of his wife. While we know little of the life of Rev. Peter Prudden before he arrived in Boston, in com- pany with Mr. John Davenport, Mr. Theophilus Eaton, and the other founders of the New Haven Colony, we can easily conjecture some of the influences that surrounded his boyhood, and early manhood. Born three years before the death of Queen Elizabeth, while Shakespeare was still writing plays, and while the Protestant Reforma- tion was not yet a century old, the political, intel- lectual and religious ferment of the times must * Appendix II. t Appendix I. PETER PRUDDEN. 9 have been felt in his environment. History was being made in those days. The Gunpowder Plot was discovered when he was five years old. The first settlement was made in Virginia when he was six. Imprisonments, fines, mutilations and martyrdoms for teaching and preaching outside the National Church sent the Pilgrims secretly across the Channel to Holland, when he was seven. The Mayflower sailed from Southamp- ton when he was nineteen. He grew to manhood during the years of alarm and despair because of the follies and tyrannies of James. The spirit of adventure was in the air. The stories of Drake, Raleigh and Smith had already thrilled many English hearts with romantic ideas of the un- known sea and the unexplored wilderness of the new world. Probably the Bible, in the Geneva version, the "Breeches Bible," * was the strong- est literary and moral influence of his life. As Cambridge was near his home and Puritan in its tendencies, he may have been educated there, though his name does not appear in any lists of graduates of that University. f * So called from its rendering of Genesis 3:11, where Adam and Eve sewed fig leaves together and "made them- selves breeches." This Bible was in general use for half a century after the King James version was issued in 161 1. t Appendix III. lO PETER PRUDDEN. For sixteen years after Peter Prudden reached maturity, he remained in England, preaching, according to tradition, in both Yorkshire and Herefordshire, and, Hke many other ministers who came to this country during the great Puri- tan emigration between 1 629-1644, acquired such influence as a preacher that a company of his own people were willing to emigrate with him. These ministers were men of ^'fidelity, ability and learning,"* the best stock of the mother country, not fanatics, but practical Eng- lishmen of good-sense, and brave hearts, who had gained from their Bibles both religious fer- vor and a longing for freedom. Civil and relig- ious liberty were more and more menaced. A standing army, burdensome taxation, and a government without Parliament, created increas- ing anxiety and alarm. There is no good reason for supposing that Mr. Prudden was a Separatist (or Congrega- tionalist) until he reached America. He had probably known Mr. Davenport and watched his struggle for freedom of thought in the estab- lished church. He may not have been involved in the same persecution, but similarity of calling * "Genesis of New England Churches," by Leonard Bacon. PETER PRUDDEN. II and views gave him knowledge of the plans of Messrs. Davenport and Eaton, which he naturally- shared with his Herefordshire friends.* That Mr. Prudden had thought of some such enterprise for two years, at least, and that he was esteemed fitted for leadership, is indicated by the record of a committee for the settlement of Providence Island (one of the Bahamas), which is now kept among English State papers of 1635 in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, and which says, "We have hope of Mr. Prudden, a minister consenting to go over," and later it mentions "A minister and three servants." It should be remembered that the motives of Mr. Davenport's company were different from those which had led men for forty years to brave the perils of the sea and the wilderness. Neither hunger for gold, thirst for conquest, desire for adventure, nor even religious separation alone was their object. Unlike earlier settlers, they sought no charter, or grant of land from the * Atwater's "History of New Haven" says of the men from Herefordshire: "The particular events that moved them to leave their homes at this time are yet to seek; but it is known that they left under the influence and guidance of Peter Prudden, a clergyman, well-known to them by reputation, if not by personal knowledge of him as preacher and pastor." 12 PETER PRUDDEN. crown. Theirs was a commercial enterprise undertaken by men who desired also to form a Christian Commonwealth. In seeking a new home in America they were not trying- a new experiment, for the possibility of successfully battling with the dangers of the ocean, the forest, and the Indians, had already been demonstrated. The ship ''Hector," which was first engaged, was a vessel of only 250 tons, and since she could carry but 100 passengers, was altogether too small for the large number which, owing to Laud's persecutions, wished to emigrate with this company ; therefore, a consort which was said to have been called the ''Martin," was secured. Even then, however, some of the shareholders were unable to sail until two years later. It was no light undertaking to make their arrangements in secret consultations, and so adjust financial affairs as to secure transportation for themselves and their goods, without attract- ing the attention of those who would gladly have hindered them. Since several were men of posi- tion and wealth, and a royal edict prohibited emigration to holders of property without permits, many probably embarked under assumed names. Mr. Atwater says,* "If ever lists of the passengers * Atwater's "History of New Haven," page 54. PETER PRUDDEN. 13 of the 'Hector' and her consort are found, they will probably not contain the names of John Davenport or Samuel Eaton"; nor, we may add, the name of Peter Prudden. Shortly afterwards, a proclamation was made requiring more care- ful certificates from all emigrants, particularly men of wealth, and this new proclamation is supposed to be due to the knowledge that so many such men went on these ships. We know nothing of their voyage, save that they sailed in the spring of 1637, but we can imagine some of the discomforts of the crowded cabins in the small vessel, the limited variety of fresh food, the seasickness, the homesickness, and danger of disease during the six weeks, which was the shortest possible time of crossing the ocean. The cost of the passage was £5 for each individual and £4 for each ton of goods. Coming, as they did toward the end of "the Puritan exodus,"* during which 26,000 people reached New England, they had no such hard experiences as many of their predecessors. Well established colonies already existed at Plymouth, Salem and about Boston, in which dwelt many old friends with hospitable homes. Two years before, Hooker, following pioneers at Windsor * John Fiske, "Beginnings of New England." 14 PETER PRUDDEN. and Wethersfield, had founded the Connecticut colony at Hartford ; Roger WilHams had started his plantation on Narragansett Bay; while farther away were the thriving Dutch trading posts at Albany and New York, and the English settle- ment in Virginia. There was as yet no jealousy of the English Colonies on the part of either Spain or France. Only a few feeble French out- posts existed on the Bay of Fundy and the St. Lawrence. The brave Spanish missionaries and explorers, who had already for a century enacted some of the most romantic chapters in American history, were too busy with their own discov- eries, conquests and colonies, from Mexico north- ward over nearly half the present territory of the United States, to care what Anglo-Saxons were doing on the Atlantic seaboard. Only the Indians, just defeated in the Pequot War, and the primeval forests barred the way to their free choice of a place for settlement. Naturally a company so well equipped, and containing so many citizens valuable for any community, received a hearty welcome at Bos- ton, where they landed June the 26th, 1637. The Colony of Massachusetts Bay at once offered them opportunities and inducements to settle. As regards those in whom we are particularly PETER PRUDDEN. 15 interested we find in the town records of Dedham, Mass.* "nth of Ye 6th month 1637." "It is ordered yt if Mr. Peter Prudden, with fifteen more of his company shall please to come unto us, they shall have enterteynment, and lotts accordingly, to be lay'd out to them, bringing stiffcat from the magistrates, as is required." Also, "Ye 28th of ye ninth month, 1637." "Whereas, Mr. Prudden, with fifteen more of his company, had liberty given to come and have lotts in our towne yf they soe pleased, but not having since understood anything of their acceptance, we nowe hold ourselves noe longer to stand engaged to them therein." As this record was made only about six weeks after the arrival of the "Hector," it is probable that Mr. Prudden preached in Dedham during that summer. We are not sure whether the invi- tation to locate in Dedham was declined because of a desire to avoid the religious controversy that was disturbing Massachusetts, regarding the peculiar doctrines of Ann Hutchinson, or because of dissatisfaction with the "lotts" offered them, or, as is more likely, because of a cherished hope *Vol. I, p. 41. l6 PETER PRUDDEN. that they might better carry out their own ideas elsewhere. It is certain, however, that the colo- nists who came by the Hector soon sent out an exploring party whose report of the sheltered bay and level meadows of Quinnipiac (afterwards New Haven) decided them to locate there in the following spring. There they secured the de- sired harbor for commerce, and land that could be made habitable without great effort in clearing forests. Mr. Prudden, like most of his compan- ions, must have spent that first winter in or near Boston. The date and place of Peter Prudden' s mar- riage are unknown, and it may have been one of the events of those winter months. Mr. Savage* affirms that his marriage occurred at Edgton, Yorkshire, a hamlet reached by a pleasant walk of two miles through the fields from Kirby Moor- side. This conclusion, for which there are no proofs, was probably based on the fact that the descendants of Peter Prudden and Joanna Boyse * Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary of New England," speaking of Peter Prudden, says, "We know nothing of his parentage or education. He left good estate here besides land in Edgton, County York, England, where perhaps he was born and it is certain that there he married his wife Joanna Boyse." See Fell's "Ecclesiastical History of New England," Vol. H, p. 88. PETER PRUDDEN. 17 held inherited property at Edgton for more than one hundred and fifty years. The Parish register, which has been carefully searched, contains no record of the birth or marriage of either Peter Prudden or Joanna Boyse, indeed the name 'Trud- den" is not found in it. Certainly Peter Prud- den never preached there. Since, however, the name "Boyse" is frequent, it is probable that Edgton was the home of Mrs. Prudden's ances- tors, though the wills of her parents indicate that they lived in Halifax, Yorkshire, where John Boyse, her father, was a clergyman.* That the Boyses were a family of means, is shown by the wills, which provide a dowry of £200 for each daughter in addition to ''Landed Estate.'' From the mother's will we infer that Joanna Boyse was not married before 1631, and from the names of her two brothers mentioned in the will, we find a reason why the names ''Samuel," and "John" were given to her sons. One of her sisters was the wife of Rev. John Raynor, pastor of the church at Plymouth, Mass., from 163 7- 165 5, and later of Dover, New Hampshire.! In the absence, therefore, of any evidence that Joanna Boyse w^as married before leaving England, and * Appendix, V and VI. t Lane family papers. Appendix XIV. l8 PETER PRUDDEN. from the fact that her eldest child was born in 1640, it seems probable that she crossed the ocean with her sister, Mrs. Raynor, before her mar- riage, and married Mr. Prudden in New England, though no record of their marriage has thus far been found. The next mention we find of Peter Prudden is at the time of the departure of the New Haven Company from Boston in April, 1638.* The voyage around through Long Island Sound, although occupying fourteen days, was far easier than the journey would have been by land through the forests. At New Haven the set- tlers sailed up the creek, which formerly flowed down through the valley traversed by Com- merce and Oak Streets, entering the harbour near where the Union Depot now stands. They dis- embarked not far from where they assembled on the 1 8th of April for their first Sabbath service. The site of the oak tree under which they met close by their landing-place is now marked by a tablet on the nearest house, at the corner of * Winthrop says, "Mr. Davenport and Mr. Prudden went by water, and with them many families moved out of this jurisdiction, to plant in these parts, being much taken by the fruitfulness of that place, and more safety, as they conceived, from a general governor who was feared to be sent out that summer." PETER PRUDDEN. I9 George and College Streets. Mr. Davenport preached the sermon in the morning, and the his- torians, Hollister* and Lambert,t both state that Mr. Prudden preached in the afternoon, using as his text, Matt, iii, 3, ''The voice of one crying in the wilderness." Lambert says, "He insisted on the temptation offered by the wilderness, made such observations, and gave such directions and exhortations as were pertinent to the then state of his hearers." The number of persons in Mr. Prudden's family is recorded at this time as four, but as none of his children were born before 1640, his household probably included his wife and two servants. Since he and the Rev. Samuel Eaton as well as Rev. Mr. Davenport were in the New Haven Company, it is difficult to imagine any plan whereby they should all three have expected to be associated permanently in the ministry, although it was not unusual for a church to have one minister as pastor and another as teacher, but, as both Peter Prudden and his brother James received house lots in New Haven in the section assigned to the Herefordshire people, when the * HolHster's History of Connecticut, p. 94, Vol. I. t Lambert's History of New Haven Colony, p. 44. 20 PETER PRUDDEN. original nine squares were laid out, it would seem that they, at first, intended to locate there.* During the summer of 1635, Mr. Prudden preached at Wethersfield, Conn., probably walk- ing or riding through the woods, or going by boat around through Long Island Sound and up the Connecticut River. It is not unlikely that the project of a separate settlement, which led a year later to his removal from New Haven, grew out of this Wethersfield visit. f When Mr. Prudden found new friends in Weathersfield ready to join old friends in New Haven, in start- ing another plantation, he would naturally prefer a church of his own. It has been suggested that this movement showed a desire for harmony quite consistent with Mr. Prudden's reputation as a "peacemaker," since troublesome disagreements were liable to occur in the conflict of opinions while a new state was being formed on the basis of allowing civil power to none but church mem- bers.'! * This house lot of Peter Prudden's was on George St., near where the Trinity Church "Old Ladies Home" now is. James Prudden's lot was near and the Herefordshire people were a little west. (For James Prudden, see Appen- dix I.) t See Atwater's History of New Haven, pp. 90, 91. X Mr. F. S. Cogswell of New Haven, in a lecture on John Davenport delivered January 9, 1898, said : PETER PRUDDEN. 21 Whatever the real reason may have been, no unpleasantness seems to have been created by the decision to remove, and, apparently, Mr. Prud- den and Mr. Davenport agreed in their plans for an ideal state in which righteousness should pre- vail because its laws should be ''according to the rules of the Scriptures." This was the prelimi- "Mr. Prudden was inclined to the view of Davenport, but was anxious that whatever was done should be in the interests of harmony between all factions. He had come from Herefordshire with quite a company of followers who were devotedly attached to him. The Herefordshire men were agreed as to the form of government that would be most acceptable to them, but were inclined to go elsewhere and establish a colony of their own rather than remain and be party to a lasting disagreement. They went so far as to purchase a tract of land in what is now the town of Milford, but delayed removing until it was certain that such a step would be necessary. It was something more than a year before these con- flicting interests could be so adjusted as to permit of the / formation of a government, or even a church, which would meet the approval of a majority, though services were regularly held. It was finally decided by the Herefordshire men that they would prefer a separate existence at Milford, with Mr. Prudden as their minister. I do not know exactly what Mr. Prudden's sentiments were, but I surmise that by this time he had become so well acquainted with Mr. Davenport's tendency to prefer his own way to all others, that he came to the conclusion that Milford would be none too far away from New Haven for comfort, in case a theological war should break out." 22 PETER PRUDDEN. nary agreement that all had signed on their first arrival in New Haven. Land for a new settlement was formally pur- chased of the Indian sachem in February, 1639, when the sagamore placed a twig on a piece of turf and gave it to the English as a token that hereby he surrendered to them the land with all its trees and appurtenances. This purchase included all the region between New Haven and Stratford (now Hoosatonic) River, the Sound, and the brook that divides Orange and Derby. The price paid was six coats, ten blankets, one kettle, twelve hatchets, twelve hoes, two dozen knives, and a dozen small mirrors.* The Indian name Wepawoge was soon changed to Milford, because a convenient stream afforded facilities for a mill. No movement was made to occupy this territory until the next autumn, and the Here- fordshire people seem to have labored a second summer on their fields in New Haven, where three divisions of land had already taken place, in each of which a share was allotted to Mr. Prudden. The Milford church was organized at New Haven some weeks before the change of residence * Lambert's History of the Colony of New Haven, pp. 85, 86. PETER PRUDDEN. 23 was made.* The First Church of New Haven was also organized at the same time and place fourteen months after the arrival of the colonists. The leaders showed wisdom in thus waiting until the community, which included both conforming and non-conforming Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Separatists or Congregationalists, was fairly settled, before deciding so important a matter as the form of church to be established. Each company chose seven of their numbers as "pillars," to whom was entrusted the prepara- tion of a covenant, which others must sign for admission to membership in the church. Mr. Prudden's name heads the list of the "seven pillars" of the Milford church as Mr. Daven- port's that of the New Haven church. Mr. Newman's barn, probably the most com- modious building yet erected, and standing near the corner of Grove and Temple Streets, was the meeting place for the large gathering that this occasion called out. The Milford Church Covenant, doubtless drafted by Mr. Prudden, may still be read in his fine but legible handwriting in the Milford * The account given by Cotton Mather of this event makes it appear that this ceremony may have lasted two days. Extract from Magnalia, page 39. 24 PETER PRUDDEN. Church Records. See facsimile of which the following is a transcript : ''The Church of Christ at Milford was first gathered at New Haven upon Aug 22, 1639. The persons first enjoyn- ing in the foundation were those whose names are next under mentioned. Peter Prudden, Zachariah Whitman, William Fowler, John Astwood, Edmund Tapp, Thomas Buckingham, Thomas Welsh. "The church covenant y* they entered into is hereunder written : " Since it hath pleased y® Lord of his infinite goodness and free grace to call us (a company of poor miserable wretches) out of y® world unto fellowship with himselfe in Jesus Christ, and to bestow himself upon us by an everlast- ing covenant of his free grace sealed in y® blood of Jesus Christ, to be our God, and to make and avouch us to be his people, and hath undertaken to circumcise our hearts, that we may love y® Lord our God, and feare him, and walk in his wayes : we, therefore, do this day, avouch y* Lord to be our God, even Jehovah, the only true God, the Almighty maker of heaven and earth, the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ : and wee do this day enter into an holy cove- nant with y* Lord, and one with another, through y* grace and help of Christ strengthening us (without whom we can do nothing), to deny ourselves and all ungodliness and worldly lusts, and all corruptions and pollutions, wherein in any sort wee have walked. And do give up ourselves wholly to y* Lord Jesus Christ, to be taught and governed by him in all relations, conditions and conversations in this world ; avouching him to be our only prophet and teacher, our only '■« -itiSH ■K-.'r /•*> gm^ >.* ««!,%.'? tnii' / l'^ /(A% 4-"W^.\ ftUffif^ ^i^ •r-.W ►■■. ' / , j^ ; ' ?• y* ." '_ I ^~ ,>? ■f^^'' T.'*'H^ ^.'ttiMJ ?rt -^ ,'.;-•;<-• i-^ _t^««* *^/A'/« ,*«•><'* ,^ J,' ^ ^'**»<; v-ti3^?/- .1^ Caff *»»5^4«fe=^ /r' rVjr.o o ■ ^ «1l..W» *•»!.» * •'•W «•• Al"- -'"■ A4 ^ ^♦.^•y.^- - V^^ ^,,,,A.i..' ;^.^.4 -^-^e ^^ ^ /.,/^J^.~.V Facsimile of Peter Prudden's Handwriting. PETER PRUDDEN. 25 Priest and Propitiation, our only King and Lawgiver. And we do further bind ourselves, in his strength, to walk before him, in all professed subjection to all his holy ordinances, according to y^ rule of the gospell, and also to walk together with his church and y® members thereof in all brotherly love and holy watchfulness, to y^ mutual build- ing up one another in Fayth and Love. All which y« Lord help us to perform, through his rich grace in Christ, accord- ing to his Covenant. Amen. > > This new colony of forty-five free planters with their families, in all about two hundred persons, started in September, 1639, through the woods west of New Haven, toward the place selected for beginning again their life as pioneers in the wilderness. The path they followed for ten miles was, at best, but an Indian trail, beset by sufficient difficulty to lead them to reward their guide, Thomas Tibbals, for his helpfulness with a ''free gift" of twenty acres of land. It is not difficult to picture the company of soberly dressed men, women and children; a few on horseback, but most of them on foot, filing along under trees just turning with autumn color, taking a last look at the familiar "Red Rocks"* and the waters of Quinnipiac harbor; shouting * The Dutch gave the name Rodenburg to New Haven from the marked reddish tint that appears in both East and West Rocks. 26 PETER PRUDDEN. or running forward to keep the cattle from stray- ing; halting for rest by some brook, calling to each other or to venturesome children; discussing plans, and at length arriving weary, but hopeful at the site chosen for their new home. Here was a small harbor and salt meadows, and an abun- dant supply of clams and oysters for food. Such simple advantages as these determined the loca- tion of many early Connecticut towns. House- hold goods and farming implements had been sent by boat with the material for the ''common house" which was doubtless the first residence of both pastor and people. As the "Wepawoge" or "Mill river" and the West End brook furnished convenient water for the settlers and their cattle, their house lots were laid out in parallel narrow stripes on either side of these two streams. Each man paid his share of the expense of the purchase and settlement of the plantation, and, as in New Haven, all divi- sions of land were made in exact proportion to the sum paid by each planter. The first assignment gave about three acres to each one, with the exception of Mr. Prudden and three others, who had double lots comprising a little more than seven acres, as seen by the accompanying map. Each planter was to erect upon his lot a good PLAN OF The ORJGINALTCWN PLOT ILFOR PETER PRUDDEN. 2/ house within three years or it would revert to the town. At first the house lots were enclosed in a common palisade for security against the Indians, and no division fences were made until 1645, when most of the planters had built houses. For the next sixteen years the history of Peter Prudden is that of the town and church of Mil- ford, of which he remained the honored head until his death, in 1656. The home in which his nine children were born stood on a hillside sloping towards the little river. Here the well, which he doubtless dug, remains to-day as the only trace of his occupancy. The unpainted, peaked-roofed church, thirty feet square which was erected in 1640* on the rising ground upon the opposite side of the river, was near enough for him to hear the drum that called the people together for service, or the voice of the sentinel who from the church turret warned them of impending danger. His garden furnished a place for the first interment which was necessary before a burial plot had been * Mr. Scranton in his manuscript history, see p. 29, tells us one way in which the expense of the meeting house was met was that, "The proprietors of the flock voted that all the money that the sheep let for, over the expense of the committee and the sheepmaster, should be paid into the town treasury towards building the meeting house." 28 PETER PRUDDEN. selected.* In this same garden his brother James, his infant son Peter, and he himself, as well as many others, were buried. Land near by was afterwards purchased as a burying ground, and with various additions, still remains the Mil- ford cemetery. It is bounded on the south by the tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Railroad, which formerly made a curve here to pass around it. Some of the old tomb- stones may be easily seen at the left just after the trains leave Milford station going East. Mr. Prudden received in addition to his first assignment, ''Thirty-three and a half" acres of "upland" and "twenty" of meadow, and later at different times, "twenty-five," "seven," "nine," "thirty-three," "six and a half" acres of meadow and each time he was given his choice of land. In 1649 ^^^- Prudden was granted liberty to take up as much land as he wanted adjoining his "half division." These allotments indicate the pro- portionate amount of his investment and show that it was neither the liberality of his people, nor his wife's English inheritance, that enabled * "Sarah, wife of Bro. Camp, died in childbed, 1645, being the last day of the week in the morning, and was buried in the evening in my garden." Peter Prudden in records of 1st Church, Milford. PETER PRUDDEN. 29 him to make comfortable provision for his family and have an estate among the largest in the New Haven Colony.* In the list of Milford planters, of whom seven were older, and thirty-five younger than the min- ister, who himself was thirty-nine years of age, we find that the prefix "Mr." a special term of respect, was given only to Mr. Prudden and two others. A manuscript history of the settlement of the town, written in the early part of the nine- teenth century, by the Rev. Erastus Scranton, pastor of the church in North Milford, or Orange, and kept by the direction of his will with the town records, is particularly definite in items regarding the Pruddens, of whom his wife was one, and may have been based on family traditions. In a note, apparently quoted from an unknown writer, Mr. Scranton says of these original settlers, "They were eminent for their strict piety toward God; their strong and living faith in God; their fervent love, their flaming zeal for the Divine honor and interests; their watchfulness, prayer- fulness and patience; their conscientious regard for His Sabbath and institutions ; their delight in His word and ways; their frequent days of * Appendix XI. 30 PETER PRUDDEN. humiliation and readiness to attend religious meetings; for sobriety, temperance and chastity; mortification and self-denial in regard to them- selves; their strict justice and righteousness in all their public and private concerns, their care in bringing up their families in the way of the Lord; their diligent and faithful discharge of relative duties in the family, the church and the commu- nity. Their single-heartedness and sincerity were such that their word was reckoned equiva- lent to a bond or written obligation, hence they took less care to tie one another by hand and seal." It was not until April 8, 1640, three years after he sailed from England and about seven months after the settlement, that Mr. Prudden was ordained pastor of the Milford church. He had been previously ordained in England, but it suited better the purpose and spirit of those who com- posed the new colony that the ceremony of ordi- nation should be administered by the church which he was to serve, rather than by any bishop or other ecclesiastical power. This ceremony was performed at New Haven, probably also in Robert Newman's barn, and in the presence of all his ministerial brethren, with the usual long ser- vice of preaching and prayer. As Puritan pre- PETER PRUDDEN. 31 judice against ecclesiastical vestments did not condemn the scholar's gown, although it did the surplice as savoring of popery, we may imagine our ancestor and the other ministers present as wearing the plain black gown in which they ordi- narily preached. Mr. Prudden's own handwrit- ing, in which all the early Milford records were kept, has preserved for us a brief account of what must have been a solemn and important event in his history. "I, Peter Prudden, was called to the office of pastor of this church, and ordayned at New Haven, by Zachariah Whitman, William Fowler, Edmund Tapp, designed by ye church to that work: Zachariah Whitman being ye moderator for that meeting in a day of solemn humiliation, upon ye third Wednesday in April, 1640, being, I remember, ye i8th day of ye month."* Something of a student Mr. Prudden must have been, for even "boiling zeal" without mental labor could not satisfy a Puritan congre- gation which depended on its pastor for its chief intellectual and spiritual food. He was, how- ever, a man of affairs, rather than a scholarly recluse, or a theologian meditating only on prob- lems of divinity. He was a leader of men in an * Milford Church Records. 32 PETER PRUDDEN. enterprise not wholly religious, a magistrate, till he declined holding that office longer, as well as the pastor of a church which was itself a state. Like his neighbors, Mr. Prudden was an investor in a company, and a settler, with his own farm and stock to care for, and his living to gain from the soil, though his people, instead of giving him a salary, are said to have planted and gathered his crops, and hauled his wood. Therefore, instead of poring over books, he had to wield the axe, and hoe, and plow, as did many New England clergymen more than a century later. The week-day life at Milford was that of a hard-working, and thrifty people, ambitious to have good homes, and profitable farms, no less than an ideal community centering about the church and its meetings. Though English views of rank formed an aristocracy at whose head were the governor, minister and the magistrates and their families, yet common interests and universal acquaintance united all classes. The monoto- nous life was broken not only by church-going on Sunday and Lecture days, but by corn-husk- ing, house-raisings and house-warmings, spin- ning bees, gatherings at weddings and funerals, and by training and election days with their sports of cudgel, back-swords, fencing, running, PETER PRUDDEN. 33 wrestling, nine-pins and quoits. At these times everybody present, including the minister, par- took more or less of the liberally provided strong drinks. Soldiers were on duty every night, and men went armed to their work in the fields, — ^but there was never any serious attack upon this quiet village. With others, Mr. Prudden shared the common burdens, paid his portion of taxes, kept his fire- arms and ammunition in good order, though he was excused from standing guard, and set an example of a good citizen. Not merely the affairs of the church and the sorrows of his neigh- bors were his business, but the success of Bro. Fowler's mill, the quality of Jas. Rogers' bread, the raising of Mr. Treat's new house, the pro- gress of Dr. Gunn's patients and the means of public defense. When his friend George Alsop* has such ''weighty occasions in England" as to necessitate a "winter journey into the Bay," Mr. Prudden gives him a letter to his friend, John Winthrop, that he may help him with a guide to conduct him in the best and safest way "on his uncomfortable undertaking." When poor Hanna Spencerf is convicted at New Haven, Mr. * Appendix XII. Letter to John Winthrop, Jr. t Appendix VII. Records of New Haven Colony. 3 34 PETER PRUDDEN. Prudden is there and pays the fine of ten pounds, perhaps deeming it sufficient punishment for her that she must be present at the whipping post when her lover, WilHam Elhtt, is corrected. No doubt the farm, the hunt, the varied duties of the working day frequently required him to wear the homely garb of the pioneer, though at other times, this thrifty citizen preacher donned the clerical costume and appeared with his heavy gold seal ring on his finger and his silver-headed cane in his hand. Whether Joanna Boyse, the wife of Peter Prudden, left England already married to a man about to risk everything in a new enterprise, or crossed the sea unmarried with her sister, she was a woman of courage, and, as her subse- quent history shows, of energy and thrift. Some one has called the ministers' wives of that time the ''saints of the Puritan calendar." When one reflects upon the labor and hardship entailed upon women, who were responsible not only for making the garments of the family, but for the spinning and perhaps the weaving of the cloth ; who made the candles of bayberry or wax or tallow, the butter and the soap; who learned to prepare savory food from such hitherto unknown articles as clams, Indian corn and pumpkins, one PETER PRUDDEN. 35 realizes that robust health and "faculty" must have been added to patience in the making of such "saints." Perhaps Mrs. Prudden had to make her Thanksgiving mince pies, as a later pioneer did, "with a filling of bear's meat and pumpkin sweet- ened with maple sugar and with a crust of corn- meal." Unstinted hospitality was expected from the minister's wife whether the guest was a pass- ing stranger or a friendly Indian, a visiting Colonial dignitary or one of the neighbors. She must therefore have had many duties besides those belonging to the mother of nine children. The household equipment was necessarily limited. The cooking was all done at an open fire-place and the window lights were only oil paper until the small diamond-shaped panes of glass began to be used in the homes of the wealthy. The floor of the kitchen, which was also dining and living room, was sanded and its furniture probably consisted at first of the unpainted table, settle and stools made by the Milford carpenter, the handy spinning wheel and the cradle. There was no tall clock, for even in New Haven we know of none until after Mr. Prudden's death. Some housewifely strength must have gone into the polishing of the pewter platters, basins and porringers that hung on the 36 PETER PRUDDEN. wall together with the brass ladle, skimmer and warming-pan. The bread was baked at a com- mon bake house, and the huge oven was heated only for feasts. There was as yet neither tea- kettle nor tea. Milk, which the Rev. John Cotton said was ''the only cheap thing in New England, excepting ministers," and beer made by each family in its own brew-house, took the place of tea and coffee. The Milford planters were, at first, quite inde- pendent of any other part of the Colony, although their civil code was essentially similar to that of New Haven. The power of selecting magis- trates, dividing the land and managing the com- mon interests of the plantation, was in the church only. Finding themselves too weak, however, to lead an independent existence, they sought admission to the New Haven Colony. But dis- approval of their ''laxity" caused opposition to their admission because they had "taken in as free burgesses six planters, not in church fellow- ship." The difficulty was only adjusted when the Milford deputies promised that these unchurched free burgesses should not at any time be chosen deputies, nor vote at the election of magistrates, and that in future, no one should be admitted to citizenship except "according to the PETER PRUDDEN. 3/ New Haven plan." It is difficult to suppose that this "laxity" could have existed, if a tolerant spirit had not guided ministerial authority in widening the bounds of citizenship. There is more than a hint of such a spirit in a letter from Mr. Prudden to Richard Mather in 1651, in which he says on the subject of baptism, ''Touch- ing the desire of such church-member's children as desire to have their children baptized, it is a thing I do not yet hear practised in one of our churches. But, for my own part, I am inclined to think it cannot be justly denied, because their next parents (however not admitted to the Lord's supper) stand as complete members of the church within the church covenant, and so acknowledge that they might have baptism. Their children are also members by virtue of their parent's cove- nant and membership. Baptism cannot be denied them." Thus the dangerous heresy of "The half-way covenant" seems to be asserted. We know from the Cheever letter''' that Mr. Prudden took the long journey to Boston in 1 65 1, for Mr. Cheever makes it the occasion of an appeal to his well-known kindly interest in the affairs of the whole Colony, bespeaking his influ- ence as a broad-minded and trustworthy man in securing fair judgment for him in New Haven. * Appendix XIII. 38 PETER PRUDDEN. Like all people of Connecticut, Mr. Prudden was doubtless interested in the founding and maintenance of Harvard College, and it is worthy of note that three of the five graduates of the Class of 1668 were his son John, Zachariah Whitman, the son of his ruling elder, and Abra- ham Pierson, and first President of Yale, son of the Branford minister. No doubt he saw to it that the people of his parish paid the tax of corn, with which Harvard was first supported. Other ministers of the time were more promi- nent, and more noted than he, but the little we know of Peter Prudden warrants us in ranking him among the worthiest of the honored founders of New England. As visible fruit of his minis- try of sixteen years in Milford, we find the record of 204 baptisms, and 106 added to the church. The size of the church, however, in a community of 500 souls would by no means represent the extent of his influence. A man marked in those days of strong Puritan Divines as ''zealous," "pious," "able," and "peaceable," the best years of whose life were given to the new settlement, must have furnished assistance and encouragement, example and counsel that went far to secure the quiet and prosperous existence of the plantation. The cause of Mr. Prudden's premature death PETER PRUDDEN. 39 in July, 1656 is unknown, but that it was a seri- ous loss to the young colony is abundantly evi- dent from contemporary history. In the lan- guage of Fell's Ecclesiastical History of New England,* ''his course had been dutiful and its termination blessed." The elaborate eulogy of him which Mr. Cotton Mather gives in the pon- derous English and Latin phrases of his Mag- nalia has furnished so many suggestions in regard to his character that we reprint it here. Extract from Mather^s Magnalia^ Book III, Chapter 6. ^'Prudentkis The life of Mr Peter Prudden "That greatest of peacemakers, the Son of God, has assured us, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall he called the children of God. I am sure then, 'tis a blessed child of God, whose name is now before us; {Prudden shall we call him?, or, Prudent F), who besides his other excellent qualities, was noted for a singular faculty to sweeten, compose and qualify exasperated spirits. and stop or heal all contentions. Whence it was that his town of Milford enjoyed peace zvith truth all his days, notwithstanding some dispositions to * Vol. II, p. 88. 40 PETER PRUDDEN. variance, which afterwards broke forth among them. God had marvellously blessed his ministry in England, unto many about Herefordshire, and near Wales; from whence when he came into New England, there came therefore many considerable persons with him. At their arrival in this country, they were so mindful of their business here, that they gathered churches, before they had erected houses, for the churches to meet in. There were then two fam- ous churches gathered at New Haven; gathered in t\NO days, one following upon the other; Mr Davenport's, and Mr Prudden's. And this with one singular circumstance, that a mighty ham was the place, wherein the duties of that solemn- ity were attended. Our glorious Lord Jesus Christ Himself being horn in a stable, and laid in one of those moveable and four-squared little ves- sels wherein they brought meat unto the cattel, it was the more allowable, that a church, which is the mystical hody of that Lord, should thus be born in a ham. And in this translation, I behold our Lord, with his fan in his hand, purging his floor, and gathering her wheat into the garner. That holy man Mr Philip Henry, being re- proached by his persecutors, that his meeting PETER PRUDDEN. 4 1 place had been a ham, pleasantly answered, No new thing, to turn a threshing floor into a temple. So did our Christians at New Haven. The next year Mr Prudden, with his church, removed unto Milford; where he lived many years an example of piety, gravity, and boiling zeal, against the growing evils of the times. And though he had a numerous family, yet such was his discretion, that without much dis- traction, he provided comfortably for them, not- withstanding the difficult circumstances, where- with an infant-plantation was encumbred. He continued an able and faithful servant of the churches, until about the fifty-sixth year of his own age, and the fifty-sixth of the present age; when his death was felt by the colony as the fall of a pillar, which made the whole fabrick to shake. Like that of Piccart, now^ let our Prudden lie under this Epitaph. Dogmate non tantum fuit Auditoribus Idem Exemplo in Vita; jam quoque morte praeit." It remained for the eighth and ninth genera- tions from these first Milford planters to per- petuate their memory in a handsome bridge of 42 PETER PRUDDEN. stone on the two hundredth and fiftieth anniver- sary of the settlement of the town. This bridge near the old mill, which spans the little steam that determined the locality of the town, is shown in our frontispiece. The inscriptions to Peter Prudden prominent on the right, and to Robert Treat, later Governor of Connecticut, on the tower on the left, commemorate the strongest secular and religious influences of the early days. Each of the massive stones that form the parapet of the bridge bears the name of some one of the families who under the guidance of these two men built themselves into the life of the historic old town. The Church celebration which occurred at the same time, was the occasion of the following address summarizing the character of the first pastor, by Henry J. Prudden, a descendant of the ninth generation. "At the celebration of this town held in the centennial year of 1876 the orator* of the day in closing a reference to Peter Prudden as the first pastor and leader in founding this colony of Milford, after quoting that portion of the epitaph before you that speaks of the death of Mr. Prud- den as 'the fall of a pillar which made the whole fabrick to shake,' said: Tt is a sad com- * A. L. Train of New Haven. n PRUDDEN IH MttroRO !SS8 ; H!S PATHS $TBA1GHT_ The Prudden Tablet, PETER PRUDDEN. 43 mentary on one generation that the place where so mighty a pillar lies is unmarked and un- known.' No stone, no epitaph, no sign desig- nates the grave of Peter Prudden and no man knoweth his grave to this day. It is that what- ever of just reproach this thought may convey to the church he founded and to the descendants he left may be removed, one of those descendants has placed in this church this tablet bearing his name and has commissioned me to present it to you for your care and as a memento of him. It would be pleasant in doing this if we might bring the man before us this morning. No painted portrait of him, as in the case of Daven- port, exists, or it might have been copied on the tablet; yet better not, perhaps, for the body we are not so much interested in. It has too long ago gone to dust. But of the heart, mind, character and work we may with profit try to draw a portraiture, for their results still remain. It must necessarily be meagre and imperfect, with to some of you little that is new, a thing of shreds and patches, strung together with somewhat of justifiable conjecture, for fire and time and death have removed many of the means of knowing about him. Many first things and people are noted only for \ 44 PETER PRUDDEN. their priority. He was the first pastor of this church, but he had much more, than simply being a pioneer minister, for which he should be remem- bered. He was in the first place a mature man when coming here — nearly forty years old — after a worthy service elsewhere in the earlier years of his life. He was an educated man. From what college or university he graduated we do not yet know, but we have the evidence not only of one who says that 'he received a thorough college course/ and of another who speaks of him as 'learned in the dead languages,' but also of his letters and other Avritings. He was a man of a certain influ- ence and position in England. We know of him as in orders in the church of England and as dis- turbed by the Ecclesiastical Courts for non-con- formity.* He is said to have 'comprised among his hearers in Herefordshire many persons of dis- tinction and wealth.' It is probable that shortly before coming here he was offered, and had urged upon him government appointment as a minister in the British colony at Providence Island. f He was a talented preacher and his sermons had great effect. One speaks of 'the remark- * Neal's History of New England, p. 214. t Calendar of State Papers at Her Majesty's Public Record office, for 1635. PETER PRUDDEN. 45 able results of his pious labors and of his being driven from his station by persecution, whence he fled into New England/ 'His ministry was attended with uncommon success/ 'The Lord blessed his preaching to the conversion of great numbers of his hearers.' 'He was an animated and fervent preacher/ There are other verdicts of the same nature. He was a man who made and held warm per- sonal friends and followers. 'When he came into New England there came many considerable persons with him.''^ When he came into this country many good people followed him.' This band of followers seemed to have remained united through their affection for him. They were invited to various places in Massachusetts to settle. The records of Dedham show that land was apportioned there for Mr. Prudden and fifteen followers, which they did not accept. When they came to New Haven the same band seem to have settled together in and about the Herefordshire quarter and together they removed here. Atwater says: 'After they had belonged to the association for two years, after they had resided for some months in the new plantation, after some of them had built for themselves * Mather's Magnalia. 46 PETER PRUDDEN. houses, and had left behind them the hardest of the hardships incident to such an enterprise, that they separated themselves from their associates, removed to Milford and settled in a town by themselves, with Prudden for their minister, evinces the strength and permanence of their attachment to the man whom they followed in leaving their homes in England.' Thus came the Herefordshire part of the founders of the town; but the other part were drawn here by an attachment to him, which though not so old was none the less strong. During the waiting for the settlement with the spirit that, even if it were not recorded that he w^as full of 'boiling zeal,'* would cause us to think him a zealous man, unwilling to be idle; he preached in Wethersfield, where again the attachment to him became so strong that many, leaving the homes they also had established, came from there to settle with him here. It is said; *Mr. Prudden brought with him to Milford, in addition to those who accompanied him from England, many who united themselves with his fortunes in this country;' and again: 'He was followed to Milford from Wethersfield by many, that they might enjoy his pious and fervent medi- * Extract from Mather's Magnalia. Appendix. PETER PRUDDEN. 47 tations;' and still again: 'He had made such an impression on the people of Wethersfield during his short stay there that many of his hearers went with him to Milford and were among the princi- pal settlers of that town.' It was thus that Gov. Robert Treat, John Astwood, Jasper Gunn, Rev. John Sherman and others came here. It was an evidence of the attachment of Mr. Sherman, a minister himself of no mean attainments, that when invited to become colleague and teacher here he declined out of 'motives of delicacy' to Mr. Prudden."*" He was a public-spirited man. Winthrop says: 'He was useful in his place and of high esteem in the colonv.' He was elected one of the judges of the colony in 1640 and con- tinued until as is said : 'He excused himself from serving any longer in that capacity.' He is recorded as one of the deputies and spokesmen for the Milford Colony in their successful protest against the settlement of Derby. We find in the records of New Haven Colony invitations from the general court for him to preach on public occasions there, and when the request is made to settle the difference between Pequonnock Plantation and Milford, it is suggestively ad- * Frances* Hist, of Watertown, Mass. 48 PETER PRUDDEN. dressed to ^Mr. Prudden and that plantation.' His advice was sought and highly valued outside his own and the New Haven colonies. A letter of Mr. Davenport's speaks of a council composed of the elders of the Hartford Colony and Mr. Prudden of New Haven Colony chosen to settle some of the differences of the Hartford Colony.* Mr. Hooker, in writing of a church trouble between minister and people, as far away as Ply- mouth, writes that both parties to the quarrel, officially and by private letter, invited Mr. Prud- den to come to them; and adds: 'I gave warn- ing to Mr. Prudden to bethink himself what he did, and I know he is sensible and watchful.' Cheever the famous schoolmaster who, when dis- ciplined by the church at New Haven, had removed to Ipswich, Mass., writes to him for friendly counsel and to justify himself in his opinion. He was a methodical man; whence it comes that the record in his own hand of the early estab- lishment of this church preserves dates, that sup- ply their loss at New Haven and in other ways as well make the records of this town a model. The first covenant of the infant colony of Mil- ford, which he drew, is still preserved and reads * Collection of Conn. Hist. Soc. PETER PRUDDEN. 49 as if, though divorced from it, there still rang in his ears the rituals of his English home and his mother church. That he was a man of thrift and business capacity is evinced by his will, which bequeaths a handsome property for those days, accumulated mainly in this country, and by the record that, *'He had a better faculty than many of his cloth to accommodate himself to the difficult circum- stances of the country so as to provide comfort- ably for his numerous family without indecent distraction from his study.* The payment of fines for impecunious crimi- nals and the use of his garden for the graves in the sadness of the earliest deaths hint at his kindheartedness. f The establishment of this colony, not alone for political independence, but to try the experiment of different ideas of church polity; his peculiar position with regard to the baptism of infants; his advanced notions of allowing others than church members to participate in the town gov- ernment, the relinquishment of which was made a condition of union with New Haven, mark him as a man of individual, perhaps liberal ideas, * Hubbard's Hist, of New England, p. 328. t Records. Appendix VH. 4 50 PETER PRUDDEN. quite likely one of the men a little "tainted with the new theology" of that day. He is spoken of as 'the amiable and useful Prudden.' Hubbard says : 'He was a man of great zeal, courage, wisdom and exemplary gravity in his conversation.' Another says : *His course had been dutiful and its termination blessed,' for we must remember that after only seventeen years of pastorate here he died at the relatively early age of fifty-six years. In the Memorial Hall at Hartford, among the numbers of early clerical fathers of this state are selected three for special honors, in a memorial window — Hooker, Davenport and Prudden — but of these Davenport had fifteen and Hooker five more years of life work than Prudden. Doubtless with a later autumn he might have shown even riper fruit. But the quality that not only his biographers, but what little of public record and correspond- ence remains give most prominence to in him, is that referred to in these words on the tablet, where Cotton Mather says : 'He was noted for a singular faculty to sweeten, compose and qualify exasperated spirits, and to stop and heal all con- tentions, whence it was that his town of Milford enjoyed peace with truth all his days, notwith- PETER PRUDDEN. 5 1 standing-/ he mildly continues, as if the task had not been altogether an easy one, 'some disposition to variance that afterwards broke out among them/ Yes, he was preeminently a peace- maker — perhaps the divinest quality with which we can credit a man. 'Blessed are the peace- makers for they shall be called the children of God.' He was greatly missed and mourned by the people here and elsewhere. 'Mr. Prudden, of blessed memory,' is the entry on your church record. The church four years without a pastor, widowed as they termed it, is perhaps another way of indicating their sorrow. The churches in this colony, speaking there, as here in this epitaph, of his death being a loss not alone to this church but to the churches, 'are sensible of the afflicting hand of God in the death of Mr. Prudden;' and the refusal of the General Court to join with the Massachusetts people in a synod 'because weakened by the death of Mr. Prudden/ are other references to his loss. And so this tablet to him, your first pastor, is left with you with the request, that it may be suitably preserved and cared for during the future of this building and its successors, so that the memory of him who took so prominent a part in 52 PETER PRUDDEN. its earliest moments may be preserved in honor and esteem to his latest hours." PETER PRUDDEN. FOUNDER AND PASTOR of this church from its establishment in 1639 till his death in 1656. "I am sure tis a blessed child of God whose name is before us; who besides his other excellent qualities was noted for a singular faculty to sweeten, compose and qualify exasperated spirits and stop or heal all contentions — whence it was that his town of Milford enjoyed peace with truth all his days. He continued an able and faithful servant of the churches until the fifty-sixth year of his age : when his death was felt by the colony as the fall of a pillar which made the whole fabrick to shake." Cotton Mather. The inscription given above is on a brass tablet which is set on a polished, dark Tennessee marble background. The inscription is in illu- minated colors, surrounded with ornamental cor- ners and lines engraved on the Brass Tablet. The marble is 3 ft. 5 in. high and 2 ft. 10 in. wide. The brass is 2 ft. 9 in. high and 2 ft. 2 in. wide. The tablet was the gift of Mrs. Susan Prudden Beardsley. PETER PRUDDEN. 53 Descendants of Peter Prudden have continued to reside in Milford or vicinity until the present day, although few still bear the name. The Pruddens were among those who, in 1805, formed the church in North Milford or Orange, and continued to be for many years residents of that section. A fire in the Orange homestead in 1790 destroyed nearly all of the important Prudden papers and relics. The personal relics of Peter Prudden known to exist, aside from the Milford records in his handwriting, are now in the posses- sion of Rev. T. P. Prudden of West Newton, Mass. These are a heavy gold signet ring, bear- ing the letters 'T. P." with a floral device, the impress of which is on the cover of this book; a silver-headed cane, handed down by tradition through the clergymen of the family, and the original letter written to Mr. Prudden by Mr. Ezekial Cheever, now loaned to the New Haven Colony Historical Society. 54 PETER PRUDDEN. Joanna Prudden^ Widow of Peter Prudden. The larger proportion of Mrs. Prudden's life in America (twenty-five or thirty years) was yet before her, when she was left a widow, with eight children, the oldest sixteen and the youngest three years of age. She neither returned to England, nor sought relatives living two hundred and fifty miles away in Massachusetts, but remained among old friends at Milford, finding in her young family abundant cares, duties and com- panionship. As her husband had received no salary, and his estate was inventoried at £924. I OS. and 6d., aside from the property in York- shire, which was her own, her means of living were little affected by his death. So, when John wanted to go to college and become a minister the means were provided, and he was prepared, perhaps, at the new Colony school in New Haven. The scattered farms, which included nearly 160 acres, and were increased by each later division of land, were made to yield their utmost. She displayed unusual capacity for business. She directed not only her household, and the farming, but kept posted about the horses and cattle and crops, learned how to make bargains, and to bring and defend lawsuits. JOANNA PRUDDEN. 55 The Milford records show that the "Widow Prudden," as one of the proprietors, continued to receive allotments of land, whenever they were made. We find her bringing suit against the estate of one man for £4. 15s., due for "300 of bread" furnished by her husband, which had never been paid. The Court decreed that it be paid her, provided her attorney, Mr. Robert Treat, gave security to have it repaid "if any just cause therefore arise thereafter." Before the New Haven Court of Magistrates, May 27, 1 66 1, she is the defendant in a suit brought against her by John Davenport, Jr., for the recovery of a horse, which Mrs. Prudden had detained. The horse had a mark on his back "P. P." with "M" on his "near shoulder." We are glad that Mr. Thomas Betts supported the evidence of Sergeant Fowler that the mark Qould not be "J. D.," but it might possibly be "P. P.," by the horse starting forward when the brand was setting, or might turn it off one side." Nevertheless, she seems to have been beaten in this suit, but power to appeal was given her, though no record of further action is found. The Milford records also note that she applied to the town for satisfaction about land that should have come to her in a certain grant, but 56 PETER PRUDDEN. for which there was not room in the assigned place, and she is allowed to have her division in some other place, which she may ''chuse." At another time, the town grants her eight acres more ''in full satisfaction for a highway through her land to the Indian side bridge" in response to a request from her son Samuel. Evidently she was a woman who looked out for her own and her children's rights, and meant to maintain them ; who appreciated property, and knew how to care for it and increase it; who ruled her home and had a mind of her own. For fifteen years after her husband's death she remained at Milford, while her children grew up. John settled at Jamaica, L. L, Samuel married and managed the farms. One by one the daugh- ters married and went to homes of their own, except the youngest, Mildred. In Mildred's eighteenth year she too was married and the date, Sept. 20, 1 67 1, is marked on the records by a double wedding, when Mrs. Prudden became Mrs. Willett. Capt. Thomas Willett had lived some years in Leyden and was a fluent speaker of the Dutch language, before he emigrated to Plymouth in 1632, where he succeeded Miles Standish as cap- tain of the militia. He filled honorable positions JOANNA PRUDDEN. 57 as a magistrate, and, as a trader with the Indians, was the trusted friend of Wamsutta (son of Massasoit). A personal friend of Governor Stuyvesant, he was appointed by one of the com- missioners to settle the disputed boundary be- tween New Amsterdam and Connecticut; he accompanied the Dutch Governor on his famous treaty-making trip to Albany in 1662, and when the British fleet sailed from Boston to capture New York sent a private messenger to warn Stuyvesant of the impending danger. Although living at Plymouth, he was a tax-payer and ship owner in New York. He was rich enough to have his bond for £3,000 accepted at one time and to loan the West India Co. 1,500 guldens at another.* His character and ability were held in such esteem in New York that he was appointed the first mayor after the English occupation, and again, after a year, during which he served as alderman, mayor for a second term. Such is the man, but recently become a widower, who secured the hand of the Widow Prudden. She may have met him thirty-four years earlier at Plymouth and we can hardly doubt that he had often been her guest during his frequent journeys from Massachusetts to New York. * Paper read by Thomas C. Cornell. New York Gene- alogical Society, June 13, 1890. 58 PETER PRUDDEN. Capt. and Mrs. Willett first resided in New York, and then removed to Rehoboth and Swan- sea, Mass., where he died in 1674. The record of the letter which received her again into the fellowship of Milford church shows that Mrs. Willett returned shortly after Capt. Willett's death to Milford. Although past sixty years of age Mrs. Joanna Prudden Willett was again sought in marriage and became the wife of the Rev. John Bishop, for fifty years pastor in Stamford, Conn.* He was a few years her junior, a widower with several grown-up children, and with him she lived until her death. Neither the date of this mar- riage, nor of her death, nor of the place of her burial is known. In a letter from Rev. John Bishop to Increase Mather, written in 1681, he sends his "Greetings" and those of his wife, *Vho was Mrs. Willet, to good Mrs. Mather." The following is a copy of "Last Will of Joanna, wife of Rev. Peter Prudden." The last will and testament of Mrs. Joanna Bishop, some- time Prudden, late of Milford, now of Stamford in the * Rev. John Bishop walked all the way from Boston to Stamford with his Bible under his arm accompanying two men who had been sent to invite him to become pastor of the Stamford church. This Bible is still owned by his descendants. JOANNA PRUDDEN. 59 colony of Connecticut, being of sound understanding and perfect memory, not knowing, how soon my great change may be, doo make this my last will in manner and form as followeth, all just debts being first payd by my Executors. Imprimis. I doo give to my eldest Son Samuell Prudden and his heyres all my right title and interest in my dwelling house, barns, yards, garden, orchard with ye remainder of my houselot, all but two acres of it that is to lye crosse the whole lott in the reare of it, which is two acres, I doo give and bequeath to my second son John Prudden and his heyrs forever. Item. I doo give and bequeath unto my two loving sons, vid. Samuell and John Prudden aforesaid the remainder of my parcell of upland lying in the barenocks, not yet disposed of to my eldest son, I pay the remainder thereof with my parcell of meadow there alsoe, to be equally divided between my two sons. Item. In like manner my will is, that the remainder of my upland and meadow lying in the point not formerly dis- posed of shall be equally divided between my two sons. Item. My will is, in like manner my sd. two sons shall equally divide my parcel of meadow lying in the fresh meadow and the remainder of my upland lott lying on ye indyan side shall in like manner be so divided between them. Item. My will is, that my son John Prudden shall have the whole other halfe of all my late halfe division of land already laid out & the one halfe of all that shal be layd 6o PETER PRUDDEN. out hereafter, I having given my Son Samuell his halfe before in a deed bearing date 14th of February 1670 makes soe appeare. Item. My will is that my two Executors shall equally pay or cause to be payd to my five daughters and my late daughter Mary Walkers two children equall, as if she had been alive, five pounds apiece in all to be for thirty pounds, to be paid to them or their children sur- viving within one yeare after decease. Item. My will is my five daughters now living shall have all my wearing apparrell after decease to be equally divided between them or theirs. Item. My will is, all my plate and the rest of my moveable estate shall be these equally shared and divided amongst all my children, & my will is my daughter Mary Walkers' children shall have an equall share therein with the rest, meaning all yt. I shall dye possessed of in New England, and concerning the revenue that I shall dye possessed of in Yorkshire in housing and lands in old England comonly called by the name of Edgton Kerbye Moreside & Southfields now in my behalf one Mr. John Dickinson looks after it for me my share and proportion of which revenue and annuity is ten pounds by the yeare out of which ten pounds my will is, my two sons Samuell and John Prudden shall each of them have forty shillings apiece, and to my five daughters vid. Joanna, Mary's two children Elizabeth, Abigail, Sarah and Mildred, to each of them of theirs the sum of twenty shillings yearly, free from all charges of transportation, save only each one is to beare all the hazards of the season other losses by providences, as for other charges, looking after it and transportation of their sister's parts annually, my two sons shall beare yt out of their double shares which belong to them and their heyrs for ever. Item. My Will is, to nominate and appoint my two living sons vid. Samuell and John Prudden to bee my executors of JOANNA PRUDDEN. 6 1 this my last will and testament which is to stand good after decease, and in testification that what is above written is my last will and testament, I have this eighth of November 1681 set to my hand and seale Joanna Bishop. My seale [seal]. Signed, Sealed and declared to be the Mrs. Joanna Bishop's last will and testament ye day and year above said. Robert Treat, Junior Witnesses. Samuel Buckingham. Further my will is that my silver tankard shall bee delivered to my deare husband Mr. John Bishop to him and to his heyres or assigns forever. Item. My Will is yt my Son Samuell Prudden shall have my best feather-bed as also my silver beaker yt was his fathers and my mind is yt if the feather-bed and beaker amount to more than his proportion of the moveables that he shall pay to some of the rest, farther my will is that my son John Prudden shall have my other feather-bed and part of his proportion of moveables, the bed is that I have removed with me where I am, Joanna Bishop. Testified to by Elder Buckingham. GENEALOGY. It may be said in explanation of the plan adopted for the arrangement of the genealogies that the small figures at the right and above each name indicate the generation counting from Peter Prudden as the first. The Roman numerals at the left of the names indicate the order of the children in each family. The bracketed figures also at the left indicate that the names following are to be again referred to with the same figure to mark them. The plus sign at the end of an entry indicates that the genealogy is to be continued. The genealogies of daughters have in no case been carried beyond the first or second genera- tion and have been inserted immediately after the name of the mother. GENEALOGY. Second Generation. The children of Peter Prudden^ and Joanna BoYSE^ — daughter of Rev. John Boyse and Joanna Boyse of Halifax,* England: I. Joanna^, born August, 1640, married Chittenden. II. Mary-, born Jan., 1641, married Zacheriah Walker as his first wife. Mr. Walker was a minis- ter, at Jamaica, L. I., then at Stratford and later the first pastor at Woodbury, Conn., where he went with a company of followers from Stratford. We find no mention in Cothren's History of Woodbury of Mr. Walker's wife Mary, but Orcutt's History of Stratford mentions her and their children Zachariah and Abigail, twins, born May, 1670, and Elizabeth, born March, 1674. Her mother mentions in her will her "late daughter Mary Walker's two chil- dren" and in an extract from an Almanac found in the Washington headquarters at Morristown there is a memorandum of John Prudden's payment to "Zechary Walker," of the proportion of revenue from England, due to his sister Mary. (i) III. Elizabeth^, born Feb., 1642, baptized 4th of March, 1643. Married, name unknown. ^Appendix, Wills of John & Joane Boyse. 64 PETER PRUDDEN. (2) IV. Samuel^ born Feb., 1643, <^ied 1685; lived in Milford. + V. JoHN^ born Nov., 1645 in Milford, died Dec. II, 1725, graduated at Harvard College in 1668. Minister in Newark, New Jersey — founder of the New Jersey branch of the family. + VI. Abagail^^ baptized Dec, 1647, married Joseph Walker of Stratford, Nov. 14, 1667. Mar- ried, second, Richard Hubbell, in 1688. Her children were: 1 Robert Walker', b. Aug. 15, 1668, bap. May 22, 1670. 2 Sarah Walker^ bap. May 22, 1670, 3 Abagail Walker^ Feb. 1671. 1 Joseph Hubbell', d. 1700. 2 John Hubbell', b. 1691. VII. Sarah^ born May 12, 1650, married Gideon Allen. VIII. Peter^ born May 26, 1652, died June 10, 1652. IX. Mildred^, born March, 1653, married Lieut. Sylvanus Baldwin, 20th of Sept., 1671, died Jan. 6, 1712. Children : 1 Elizabeth Baldwin', b. March 29, 1673. 2 Richard Baldwin', b. Dec. 1674. 3 Sarah Baldwin', b. Aug. 15, 1677. 4 Sylvanus Baldwin', b. Nov. 30, 1679. GENEALOGY—SECOND GENERATION. 65 Lieutenant Baldwin's name occurs frequently in the town records in places of trust and responsibility. He was a surveyor, and was one of the agents to buy land from the Indians for Milford, which included part of the present town of Woodbridge. In 1720 he was one of the patentee proprietors of Waterbury, but continued to reside, and died, in Milford. See Baldwin family book, p. 87. (i) Samuel, oldest son of Peter, was but thirteen when his father died. He inherited the homestead and adjacent land besides receiving also from his mother, about the time of her marriage with Capt. Willett, a considerable portion of land. He married Grace, daughter of Lieut. Jos. Judson of Stratford, whose wife was Sarah, daughter of John Porter of Wethersfield. "John Porter was born A.D. 1598 in Kenil worth, War- wickshire, Eng. at Wraxhall Abbey, the ancient seat of the family. He was descended in the twelfth generation from a Norman Knight in the train of Duke William, who bore the name of William de la Porte, as may be seen upon the rolls of Battle Abbey. The name soon became transformed into Porter. John Porter and his wife Rose sailed from London in the ship "Anne,"- arriving at Dorchester, Mass., May 30, 1627, where they remained until the summer of 1635, when they were of the com- panies who settled at Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield." Samuel Prudden shared with his mother in such allotments of land as were made after his father's death, as is shown by Milford records, p. 157. 5 66 PETER PRUDDEN. ^'Samuel Prudden hath for his half share," 1677, ten acres. "Samuel Prudden and Mrs. Willett have their last division in one lot together in all 20 acres." He died at 42, but his widow Grace survived him many years, and the records show her as trans- acting business with her brother-in-law John Prud- den of Newark. In 1669 she purchased land of him "for a valuable consideration in hand received." May, 1686, she received from John "two parcels of land."— In this line has descended the branch of the family interested in compiling this family history. It is the only line in which our genealogical lists are complete. For seven successive generations the name Samuel has been preserved in it, and until recently some of Samuel Prudden's descendants have been owners of land in Milford or North Milford, now Orange. The only land still held (in the family) is the summer home of Mrs. Susan Prudden Beardsley in Orange. + John Prudden^, the second son of Peter, gradu- ated from Harvard College in 1668. Drake's His- tory of Roxbury, Mass., reports an engagement with Mr. Prudden to teach in the Grammar School there, in the same year, probably immediately after gradu- ating. In this engagement, he promises, "to use his best skill and endeavor, both by precept and example, to instruct in all scholasticall, morall and theologicall discipline the children (soe far as they GENEALOGY—SECOND GENERATION. 6/ are or shall be capable) of those persons whose names are hereinunder written, all A. B. C. Darians excepted." The names of 58 persons were signed to this agreement. For this large and beneficent labor the ''prudential consideration" was £25 per annum, "three quarters in Indian corn or pease and one quarter in barley of good merchantable quality and at the current rate^ to be delivered at the upper mills in Roxbury." Probably the marriage of his sister Mary to Mr. Walker, who was at one time minister at Jamaica, L. L, led to his settlement there as pastor of the church in 1671. The early history of this church gives considerable detail of the business relations between pastor and people.* He was called by a town meeting which ordered at the same time, that "A convenient new pew be made for the minister to preach in," and that "he receive forty pounds a yeare in Corent county paye of the townd." The town allowed him to build a house on the minister's lot, and agreed to reimburse him for his expense, if he left through their failijre to pay the forty pounds a year. After four years he left and preached for a time in Rye and Bedford, N. Y. (In some records his. -name is erroneously given as "Peter.") A year later he returned to Jamaica, and the church permitted him to use the house and lot, * History of the Presbyterian Church at Jamaica, L. I Published in 1862. 68 PETER PRUDDEN. provided he agreed, "to continue in this towne, dis- charging the work of a minister in this towne for the terme of ten yeer, according to the rules of the gospel in this town." For this he received his fire- wood in addition to the forty pounds, nineteen men agreeing to bring him a load "a pese yerely." He served the church for more than the stipulated time, but there is reason to think they failed in doing their part. In a petition, in 1688, in which he styles himself "quondam minister of Jamaica," he states that a considerable portion of his salary has been withheld, and ends by asking liberty to form a separate assembly of the Congregational persuasion, thus giving a possible reason for the failure of the church to fulfill its part of the contract since the "waye of the churches" in New England, where he had been reared, was not the same as the "waye" of the Presbyterians on Long Island. The fact that he resumed his charge indicates that instead of making his people Congregationalists, he became a Presbyterian. He accepted, in 1692, a pressing invitation to become the pastor of the church in Newark, New Jersey, as successor to Abraham Pierson, whose son, Abraham Pierson, Jr., the first President of Yale College, had been his classmate at Harvard College. Since Milford families were among the first settlers of Newark, it is legitimate to suppose, that they were pleased to secure as pastor, the son of GENEALOGY— SECOND GENERATION. 69 the beloved first minister of Milford. The settle- ment of Newark had been an effort to carry out the same ideas of a theocratic state that had been tried for twenty-eight years in New Haven Colony, but was now practically abandoned. Some of those who had been disappointed at New Haven had the courage to believe that they could, as Dr. L. W. Bacon says, ^'Lifting the Ark of the Covenant by the staves, set themselves down by the Passaic, calling their plantation the 'New Ark,' " and thus carry out their principle of restricting the franchise to the members of the church. Mr. John Prudden remained pastor of this church for seven years, at a salary of £50 a year and his firewood; he is spoken of by one of his successors as sustaining a "worthy character as a man of sense and religion, though he does not seem to have been a popular preacher."* He continued to reside in Newark, after his resignation as pastor, enjoying the confidence and esteem of the people, until his death at the age of eighty. His relationship with the church was so harmonious that whenever a vacancy occurred in the pulpit, he was appointed one of the committee to procure another minister, and was uniformly employed to supply the pulpit during the interval. His estate was sufficient to enable him to live on his own means, but he occupied his later years by taking boys into his family for * "History of First Church in Newark." Stearns, pp. 97-104. 70 PETER PRUDDEN. instruction. An old Almanac belonging to John Prudden, published in London in 1680, is to be found at Washington's Headquarters in Morris- town, N. J. This Almanac has alternating blank pages, which were used by him as a sort of memo- randum book. In it are records of money or goods receiAT-ed for "schooling" or "board and schooling" from 1705 on, and among household items we find "linen warp and woolen heft to be woven into curtains," 31 yards of woolen cloth, 288 lbs. of beef worth £2, 8s." Here too, we find the memorandum of the division of the annual revenue from the English estate after his mother's death, which gives a valuable record of the married names of his six sisters. Extract from an Almanac belonging to the Rev. John Prudden, and now in Washington Headquarters, at Mor- ristown, New Jersey. "Anno Dom. 1692, June 24. This — by John and Grace Prudden executoris of their mother's will to each of their sisters Joanna, Mary, Abigail, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mildred, of their annual revenue from England for the four years next preceding 91, viz. 90-89, 88, 87, as followeth. To Joanna Chittenden 3. lo-o being the full of each one's proportion by mutual agreement of their own until '91. To Zachery Walker, . . . 3-10-0 To Pastor Beve (name uncertain), 3-10-0 " Abigaul Hubbell, . . . 2-10-6 rest due her, .... 19-6 To Sarah Allen, .... 4-5-6 being 15 s. more of hers to be deducted out of her part next voyage. To Mildred, 3-10- GENEALOGY— SECOND GENERATION. 7 1 which may appear by particulars in a paper at sister Prudden's." In 1748 his body was removed from the old burying ground to the rear of the First Church of Newark, with the following epitaph: "Here lyes ye Body of ye rev'd Mr John Prudden, minis- ter of ye Gospel, who departed this life Dec. nth, 1725, aged 80 years." "^ "Nor grace nor favour fill my reins Soe room for yt there still remains." John Prudden's descendants are numerous in New Jersey, but it has not been within the scope of this work to attempt to secure genealogical records beyond the following taken from the Bi- centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Newark, published by the New Jersey Historical Society in 1866. Children of John- Prudden (son of Peter^) were: I John Prudden^ born in Milford in 1675, whose children were : i. Abagail Prudden*, m. Samuel Ailing, ii. Joanna Prudden*. Children of Abagail* and Samuel Ailing ' were : John®, Joseph^ and Prudden^ tA^l <2 Joseph Prudden"*, a deacon, who died in Morris Co., \^t''' "' Sept., 1776, aged 84. Children: Joseph*, Isaac*, Peter*, Moses*, Adoniram*, Benjamin*, Keziah*, Rachel*, and Sarah Miller*. 3 Joanna Prudden\ m. Nathaniel Moore. 4 Kezia Prudden^ m. Elnathan Baldwin. 5 Sarah Prudden^ m. James Nutman. \ 72 PETER PRUDDEN. Third Generation. married Mary Jennett Bassett of North Haven, Conn., Sept. 18, 1889; died July 2, 1890, in New Haven, Conn. This is the Henry J. Prudden who collected the material of this book. He was a successful busi- ness man, who nevertheless found leisure for wide reading and travel. He gave valuable service to the church and community, particularly in the line of Sunday School and missionary work. While his 94 PETER PRUDDEN. preference would have led him through college into professional life, the failure of his father's health turned him into a business career, which he pursued with conscientious fidelity, though never forgetting the higher values of culture and usefulness. At the time of his death he was President of the State Sunday School Association of Connecticut. His influence will long be felt among those who came in contact with his earnest, unselfish spirit, in business, in society, in the Church of the Redeemer of which he was deacon, and whose Sunday School he super- intended for fifteen years, and in the work of the Welcome Hall Mission in New Haven, which he inaugurated, as well as through the legacies which he left in aid of many benevolent enterprises. (27) HI. Theodore Philander^, born in Middle- bury, Conn., March 14, 1847; married first, Oct. 24, 1877, Harriette Collins Terry of Hartford, Conn., who died Jan 28, 1886; married second, Oct. 20, 1887, Margaret H. Bull of Quincy, Ills. Had six children. He is a Congregational clergyman, and was grad- uated from Yale College in 1869, and from Yale Theological Seminary in 1873, having spent a year in teaching in Branford, Conn. After a year and a half of travel and study abroad, he was ordained pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Lansing, Mich., Dec. 20, 1874. He remained in Lansing until May, 1885, when he became pastor GENEALOGY— EIGHTH GENERATION. 95 of the Leavitt St. Church in Chicago, Ills. In March, 1894, he removed to West Newton, Mass., where he still lives and is pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Newton. He received the degree of D.D. from Illinois College in 1890. + IV. Theophil Mitchell^, born in Middlebury, Conn., July 7, 1849 j graduated from the Yale Scien- tific School in 1872. He taught Chemistry in the Scientific School while he pursued medical studies at Yale for two years. After a year of study in New York, he took his degree in medicine at Yale in 1875. Following a year of hospital practice, he studied abroad for two years and on his return became an Instructor in the Pathological Laboratory of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York (the Medical Department of Columbia Col- lege), where he has now held for several years the chair of Professor of Pathology. He has pub- lished a series of researches on medical and sanitary subjects, as well as articles of popular interest. He received the Honorary Degree of LL.D. from Yale College in 1897; is unmarried. V. Lillian Eliza^, born in Southbury, Conn., Dec. 3, 1852, graduated from Vassar College in 1875. Lives in New Haven, Conn. ; unmarried. (22) Children of James Davis Prudden^ (son of Peter^, SamueP, Samuel^, SamueP, SamueP, Peter^ ) and Elizabeth A. Bristol were : PETER PRUDDEN. (28) I. James Elihu Burritt^ born March 8, 1846; married Francelia Fitch of Wilson, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1872, who died July 5, 1897; had five children. + Married second, July 2y, 1899, Emma McCollum. II. Frances Edna^ born Sept. 27, 1848; mar- ried first, Jonathan Hill of Provincetown, Mass. Married second, William Quinby Seawel, April 25, 1889. Had one child, Mabel Prudden SeaweP, born Jan. 5, 1890. Children of Henry Prudden^ (son of Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, SamueP, Samuel^, Peter^ ) and Sarah Hulbard were : I. Emily Nancy^ born Aug. 20, 1845; "^^^" ried E. P. Searle of Medina, N. Y., May 3, 1865 ; lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Had four children : 1 Robinson Prudden Searle®, b. June 19, 1866; m. Marie Antoinette Baxter of Adam's Basin, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1889. Has two children. i. Edward Baxter Searle'", b. Sept 21, 1890. ii. Genevieve Searle'", b. June 23, 1898. 2 Henry Allan Searle^ b. April 21, 1870; m. Edith Smith of Council Blufifs, Iowa, Dec. 25, 1895. Has two children. i. Henry Allan Searle, Jr.^°, b. Nov. 12, 1896. ii. Donald Albert Searle'", b. Oct. 5, 1899. 3 Charles Edward Searle^ b. Nov. 9, 1872. . 4 Fred. Howard Searle", b. Feb. 7, 1874. GENEALOGY— EIGHTH GENERATION. 9/ II. Harriet Eliza^^ born Sept. 25, 1847. Un- married. III. Mary Goodrich^ born Aug. 15, 1850; married Charles Finney Curtiss Dec. 30, 1872 ; lives in Rochester, N. Y. Had four children. 1 Mary Elizabeth Curtiss', b. Oct. 13, 1873. 2 Charles Lyell Curtiss^ b. Sept. 18, 1876, d. Jan. 16, 1892. 3 Florence Eglantine Curtiss', b. March 28, 1878. 4 Ethel Loraine Curtiss', b. May 5, 1890. IV. James Henry^ born April 26, 1854, died April 29, 1855. V. Edward Hulbard^ born Sept. 28, 1859; married Addie Morton of Barre, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1880. Has two children;, lives at Beaver Crossing, Nebraska. + VI. Sarah Loraine^, born Sept. 9, 1868, died Dec. I, 1895. (24) Children of Giles Prudden''' (son of Peter^, SamueP, Samuel^, SamueP, Samuel^, Peter^) and Susan Scovell were : I. Edna L.^ born Nov. 26, 1849 ; married Wil- liam H. Allen, Jan. 12, 1882. Has three children. 1 George Allen', b. April 5, 1883. 2 Lee P. Allen', b. Jan. 12, 1885. 3 Susan Edna Allen', b. May 8, 1888. 7 98 PETER PRUDDEN. (30) II. AsHER MooN^ born Dec. 23, 1850; married Lottie Wilson of Carleton, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1876. Lives in Duluth, Minn. Had four children. + (31) III. Halsey B. S.^ born Nov. 11, 1853; mar- ried Nellie V. George at Atchison, Kan. Dec. 11, 1884 Lives in Chicago, Ills. Has three chil- dren. + (32) IV. Arthur E.^, born Sept. 22, 1855; married Florence E. Davis of Duluth, Minn., Oct. 13, 1884. Lives in Duluth, Minn. Has four children. + (33) V. DeWitt Clinton Scovill^, born Oct. 2, 1857; married Jennie B. Letts of Frankfort, Ills. Lives in Kansas City, Mo. Has two children. + (34) VI. Willis Giles^, born Jan. 29, i860; mar- ried Ida Jane Ferris of Millville, N. Y. Lives in Millville, N. Y. Has one child. + (ZS) VII. George Henry^ born April 9, 1864; mar- ried Annie M. Bywater of Buffalo, N. Y. Lives in Duluth, Minn. Has two children. + VIII. Hiram McCullom^^ born Aug. 25, 1865, died Aug. 15, 1867. (25) Children of Lewis Prudden''^ (son of Peter^, SamueP, Samuel^, SamueP, Samuel-, Peter^) and Elizabeth Bristol Prudden were: (2,^) I. Orrin Dwight^ born Oct. 3, 1851; married Ida A. Quade of Lockport, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1878. Lives in Lockport, N. Y. Has four children. + ;; -• # GENEALOGY— NINTH GENERATION. 99 (37) II. Albert Bristol^ born Nov. 30, 1854; mar- ried Henrietta H. Hopkins of Wilson, N. Y., July 12, 1876. Lives in Lockport, N. Y. Has three children. + {l'^) III. Walter LEWIS^ born March 3, 1858; mar- ried E. Stella Field June 23, 1887. Lives in Lock- port, N. Y. Has two children. + Ninth Generation. (26) Children of William Keith Prudden^ (son of Nathan^, Samuel^, SamueP, Samuel"^, SamueP, SamueP, Peter^) and Jennie E. Whitney are: I. Amy^ born Aug. 31, 1885. II. Edwina^ born April 19, 1887. (27) Children of Theodore P. Prudden^ (son of George''^, Peter^, Samuel^, Samuel*, SamueP Samuel^, Peter^) and Margaret H. Bull are: I. George Gold^,^' | born in Chicago, Ills., II. Elinor^ I Dec. 23, 1889. III. Theodore Mitchell^ ) born in Chicago, IV. Lilian Margaret®, 3 Ills., Feb. i, 1891. — V. Edith®, born July 31, 1893, in Camden, Me. VI. Elizabeth Bull®, born in Camden, Me., Aug. 29, 1895. * Died Dec. 2Z, 1893. IL«fC 100 PETER PRUDDEN. (28) Children of James Elihu Burritt Prudden® (son of James Davis^, Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, SamueP, Samuel", Peter^) and Francelia Fitch are: I. Grace L.^, born Feb. 11, 1874. II. Burritt F.^, born Aug. 16, 1875; graduated from Williams College in 1897. III. Florence E.^ born May 16, 1877; mar- ried July, 1899. IV. Clara E.^, born Feb. 7, 1883. V. Dennis^ born June 3, 1884. (29) Children of Edward Hulbard Prudden^ (son of Henry''', Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, Samuel^, SamueP, Peter^) and Addie Morton are: I. Willis Edward^, born Oct. 20, 1883. II. Earle Hulbard^, born Feb. 11, 1891. (30) Children of Asher M. Prudden^ (son of Giles*^, Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, SamueP, Samuel^, Peter^ ) and Lottie Wilson are : I. Edna May^, born May 30, 1879. II. Roy Asher^, born Nov. 15, 1882. III. Wilson Hiram**, born June 5, 1884. IV. Benetia Pearl^ born Oct. 2, 1891, died May 15, 1892. GENEALOGY— NINTH GENERATION. lOI (31) Children of Halsey B. S. Prudden^ (son of Giles^, Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, Samuel^, Samuel^, Peter^) and Nellie George are: I. Gladys^, born April 12, 1886. II. Halsey George^, born Sept. 23, 1889. III. Mildred^, born Aug. 26, 1893. (32) Children of Arthur E. Prudden^ (son of Giles'^, Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, SamueP, Samuel^, Peter^) and Florence E. Davis are: I. Elsie^, born June 12, 1886. II. Clyde Edward^ born Jan. 2, 1888. III. Mildred Anita^, born Aug. 18, 1892. IV. Weston Davis^, born Sept. 24, 1894. ^'hi) Children of DeWitt C. S. Prudden^ (son of Giles'^, Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, Samuel^, SamueP, Peter^) and Jennie B. Letts are: I. Laura^ bom May 31, 1895. II. Victor^ born Aug. 21, 1899. (34) Children of Willis Giles Prudden^ (son of Giles^ Peter^ SamueP, Samuel*, SamueP, SamueP, Peter^ ) and Ida J. Ferris are : Ferris Giles^ born April 9, 1888. 102 PETER PRUDDEN. (35) Children of George H. Prudden^ (son of Giles^, Peter^, SamneP, Samuel'*, Samuel^, Samuel-, Peter^) and Annie M. Bywater are: I. George H.^ born Feb. 8, 1893. II. Earl DeWitt^^ born April 6, 1895. (36) Children of Orrin Dwight^ (son of Lewis''', Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, Samuel^, Samuel^, Peter^) and Ida Ouade are: I. Alice Maud^ born July 10, 1880. II. Paul Irwin^, born Sept. i, 1881. III. Orrin Niel^ born Nov. 11, 1883. IV. Sarah Helen^^ born March 22, 1886. (37) Children of Albert Bristol Prudden^ (son of Lewis'^, Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, Samuel^, Samuel-, Peter^) and Henrietta Hopkins are: I. Helene Maud^, born Oct. i, 1877. II. Frances Mabel^, born April 15, 1879. HI. William Hopkins^ born June 15, 1882. (38) Children of Walter Lewis Prudden (son of Lewis'^, Peter^, SamueP, Samuel*, Samuel^, Samuel^, Peter^) and Stella Field are: I. Russel Field^, born Oct. 4, 1892. II. Dorothy Elizabeth^, born Jan. 27, 1897. APPENDIX. JAMES PRUDDEN. I. It has always been assumed that James Prudden, one of the first planters of Milford, was a brother of Peter Prudden, from the fact that in the part of the church records written by Peter Prudden he speaks of "Bro. James Prudden." As he alludes to other Milford pioneers by the same brotherly title, this is no conclusive evidence of relationship. James Prudden's name first appears in the assign- ment of land in New Haven_, and later in the allot- ments in Milford. He was admitted to the Milford church October 13, 1639, and died in 1648. He had two daughters, who both married soon after the Milford settlement. Ann married Samuel Coley of Milford, February 14, 1640; died October, 1689. Her will may be found in the New Haven Probate Records, Vol. II, page 45. She had seven children: Peter, born 1640; Abilene, born 1643; Samuel, born 1646; Sarah, born 1648; Mary, born 1651 ; Hannah, born 1654; Thomas, born 1659. Elizabeth married first in 1643, William Slough, She married second, Roger Prichard in 1653, and removed to New Haven. 104 PETER PRUDDEN. 11. The following extract from the parish register at Kingswalden is the basis of the inference on page 3, that the "James" whose wife died there in i6i8, is James Prudden of Milford. Register Book of Burials for the parish of Kings- walden — county of Hertford. 1560 Petrus Prudden, Sept. 27th. Jan'y A. D. 1560. 1566 Prudden, filia Eli Prudden, 19 1566. 1600 Sara Prudden filia Eli Prudden, Apertha 18, 1600. 1600 filia Eli Prudden 28 Die Monti 1600. 1606 Elizabeth Prudden uxor Eli Prudden Seputh 15, 1606 1612 Joan Prudden buried last day of May, 1612 1616 Edw. Prudden both buried first day of Julie, 1616 1618 Eiz wife of James Prudden buried 27 May, 1618 1620 Thomas son of Edw'd Prudden buried 17 of A. D. 1620 I hereby certify that the above nine entries are true and correct copies of the burials of the above as entered in the Register Book of burials in parish of Kingswalden in county of Hertford. Alexander Buchanan^ Incumbent of Kingswalden. III. We find memoranda in Mr. Henry J. Prudden's note books of the inspection of Directories in some thirty English towns and shires, and of letters written to all residents who bore the name of Prud- APPENDIX. 105 den, asking for information in regard to the early- history of the family. The replies failed to throw any further light on the source of the family in England. Similar efforts in searching for informa- tion in the Doomsday book, in the Calendar of State Papers for 1638, in the Chancery proceedings, and the matriculation lists of Cambridge University were fruitless. The Oxford list covering the years from 1 53 1 to 1659 ^^^ ^^ot been deciphered and arranged for publication when his notes were taken. The search of probate records, parish registers and Star Chamber proceedings all failed to give definite information, but furnished him with the data for some inferences, and the following old wills. IV. Will of Thomas Prudden. Extracted from the Principal Registry of the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Thys Will made the xiiiith day of Auguste in the j'-eres of the reignes of Philipp and Marye by the Grace of God Kinge and Queue of Englande Spayne Fraunce both the Sicilies Jerusalem and Irelande, defendours of the Faith, Archduke of Austriche Duke of Burgundye Millayne and Brabant, Counties of Haspurge Flaunders and Tyroll the — . . . witnesseth That I Thomas Prudden wholle of mynde and memorye make my Testamente and last Will I06 PETER PRUDDEN. in maner and fourme folowinge that is to saie I bequeth my Sowle to Almightie God and to all the holie Companye of Heaven and my bodye to be buryed in the Parishe Churche yarde of Kings Walden. Also I bequethe to the Mother Churche of Lincolne mid and to the Highe Aulter in Kinge Walden iid. Also I will to Christyne my wif twelve poundes six shillings and cighte pence and that she shall have the one end of the plor and two cofers and the bedde that we lye on and the sixe payre of shets and eighte pewter platters and a cowe and tenne sheepe and the keepeing of theym so longe as the lease lasteth and two stone of Wolle for one yere to make her rayment withall and meate and drinke of theym so longe as the lease lasteth and foure hyves of bees liable to hyve and if the said Christyne do marye then she shall have none of the parlor. Also I will to evy God childe mid, and they will sett it and also to evy childes childe an ewe all the rest of my goodes and my lease I do will unto Petur Prudden Willm Prudden and Edward Prudden my sonnes whiche I have chosen to be my Executours of this my last Will payeng my legacys and detts and Petur and Willm to have three parts between theym and Edwarde to have the fourth parte. And the thre to kepe house all togither till suche tyme as one of theym canne agree to bye forthe an others parte And loke whiche of theym wt out a lawful cause stryve first for theire portion shall lose the fourthe parte of yt. And also I will that if the said Willm or Edwarde marrye that then the saide Petur and Willm and Edwarde shall beare ev'y one according to theire portion. Also I have chosen Richarde Cowp to be myne Oversear and he shall have five shillings for his paynes And yf the saide Richard Cowpe take any journeys of my busynes that Petur Willm and Edward shall pay his chardge. Also I will to John Rudde xi s of money or sixe quarters of barlie whiche of theym he will and he to be paied at suche tyme APPENDIX. 107 as he entreth of his farme in Kynge Walden. And if the saide John Rudde die his wif to have yt neverthelesse. Also I will to Richarde Cowp xi s. John Siblye Thomas Cowp and Edwarde Cowp be witnesses of this Will wt other moo. Memorand. That this bill witnesseth that I Thomas Prudden do owe to John Prudden of Newe Wyle Ende £vi whereof he is paid £1111 of theym. And also to Thomas Prudden of Brechwoode Grene tenne pounds. Also to John Newman in 11. Also to John Samme fourtie shillings. Also to Sister Samme xxvi s. viii d. Also to John Cooste x s. and also to Olive Prudden xx s. the whiche mony to be paid at the discretion of the Executours to theym that have most nede furst and the other to tarye the longer. Probatum fuit suprascriptum testamentu cora Magro Gwaltero Haddon begun Doctore Curie Prerogative cant custode sive comissario sede Archiepati otm iam vacante duodecimo die mensis Februari Anno Dni Willimo quin- (1558) gentesimo quinquagesimo octavo Jurament Petri et Willmi Prudden psonati pntm et Xpoferi Smythe pocuratoris Edwardi Prudden executor in hmoi testamento noiatore Ac approbatu et insumatu Comissaqs fuit Administratio om et singlor boroz juriu et prefat executoribus de bene &c. Ac de pleno et fideli Inventario Neenon de vero et piano compot reddend &c Jurat. V. Will of John Boyse 1619. Extracted from the Registry of the Exchequer Court of York. In the Name of God Amen the XIII day of Julie in the seventeenth yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord James by the grace of God King of England France and I08 PETER PRUDDEN. Ireland Defender of the faith &c. and of Scotland the L Ilth and in the year of or Lord God according to the course and computacon of the Church of England 1619 I John Boyse of Hallifax in the County of Yorke Preacher of God's word and being of sound mynde and pfect mem- orie (praised be God) doe declare make and publish this my last Will and Testament in writing contej'^ning herein my full will and mynde in manner and forme following that is to say first and principallie I commend my soule into the hands of Almightie God trusting and believing by the death and obedience of Christ Jesus to have full and free remission of all my synnes and life evlasting and my bodie I comitt to the earth from whence it came and touching my worldie estate first my will and mynde is that Johan my wife shall have her rights of in and forth of my landes and tents goods and chattells according to the laws of this Realme and the custome of the Province wherein I dwell. Item, I give the some of Vlllf to be lent to the poor of Hallifax at the discretion of my Overseers — hereafter named or the greater pt of them and I request that the best pvision that may be, be made for the contynuance thereof from tyme to tyme for ever. Item I give to the poore of Edston where my land lyeth. fortie shillings. The residue and remainder of all my goodes chattells creditts and debts after my true debts paid funrall expenses discharged and the legacies before or after in this my will given deducted I do give devise and bequeath to and amongst my five daughters equallie to be devided, and touching my landes and tents my will and mynde is that one full and cleare third .pt of all and singular my mes- suages landes tcntcs rents revcons and hereditamts what- soever lyeing and being in Welburne and Edston in the said Countie of York or elsewhere shall ymediatlie after my decease discend and come unto Samuell Boys my eldest Sonne and also one other third pt. thereof, ymediatlie APPENDIX. 109 after the decease of the said Johan my wife wch. said second pt. my will and mynde is that my said wife shall have and enioj'S during tearme of her life in lieu and recompence of her dower of and in my landes and tents and further my will and mynde is and I doe give devise and bequeath out of that her and last third pt. of my said messuages lands tents and premisses unto my said five daughters one annuitye or yearly rent of VI £ XIII s III d of lawful English money in the feast of St.Martin the Bishopp in Winter and Penthecost by even porcons for and during the tearme of ten years .next and ymediatlie enseuing my decease and I will that for non paymt of the said yearlie rent or any pt. thereof it shalbe well lawfull to and for my said Daughter to distreyne in and upon the same third pt. of my said lands and tents and the distresses to impound or retaine until the said yearlie rent of VI li XIII s nil d they be fully satisfied and paid and wch. said last third pt. and remainder of all my said messuages, lands, tents, rents revcons and hereditamts wth. the appurteunces charged wth. the said yearly rent of VI li XIII s nil d as aforesaid, I doe give devise and bequeath unto John Boys my younger sonne his heires and assignes to his and their onelie and pp use and behoof for ev and further my will and mynde is that if it happen the said Samuell my sonne to dye before he accomplish the full aige. of XXI tie yeres whereby such pt. of my said landes and tentes as after my decease shall discend unto him shall come or fall unto the said John my Sonne then I doe give devise and bequeath unto my said five Daughters (ov and besides their form yearly rent of VI £ XIII s. IIII d. one other anuitie or yearly rent of X i of lawful money of England for and during the tearme of ten yeares next ensewing the decease of the said Samuell my Sonne soe dyeing wthin aige as aforesaid and to be levied or pceived of in or forth of the said third pt. of my said messuages no PETER PRUDDEN. lands tents and pmisses lymitted unto the said Samuell my Sonne ymediatlie after my decease and for which said yearly rent of X i it shalbe well lawfull to and for my said daughters to distreyne in manner and forme aforesaid and if it happen any of my said Daughters to dye before their aige of XXI ty yeares or mariage then my will and mynde is that the pt. or porcon of him or them soe dyeing shall remain and be devided as well of and in my goods as of and in the said sevall yearly rents to and amongst the residue of my Daughters then living. Item, I give to my Brother Willm Boys £ V. Item, I give to John Stucoe of Biddingden my wives Brother i X if and when he shall come to Halifax to the comforting of my said wife and I do name make and appointe the said Johan my wife sole and whole Executrix of this my last Will and Testamt. The Tuicon and govment of all my children I doe comitt unto my said wife and I do request my loving friends Mr, Dcot Favour, Vicar of Hallifax Willm Boys, my Brother John Boys of Hallifax Humfrey Ducke of the same, Samuell Lister of Southowrome, John Whitley of Over- deen and Wm. Whittaker of Hallifax to be the Overseers or supervisors of this my last Will and Testam'y praying them to be assistants to my executor and children wth. their best countenance consent and counsell concerning this my will as my trust is in them. It Witnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal the day and yeare first above written. This Will was proved in the Exechequer Court of (13) York on the eighth day of February, 1620 by Joane Boyes Relict of the deceased the sole Executrix in the said Will named. H. A. HUDSON, Deputy Registrar. APPENDIX. 1 1 1 VI. Will of Joane Boyse wife of John Boyse 1630. Extracted from the Registry of the Exchequer Court of York. In the Name of God Amen the one and twentith day of June in the sixte yeare of the Reign of our Sovereigne Charles — by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the fayth etc. and in the yeare of our Lord according to the — compatacon of the Church of England one thousand sixe hundred and thirty I Joane Boyes of Hallifax in the County of Yorke Wid- dowe, being of sound mynde and pfect memory, praysed, be God, calling to mynde the certenty of death and the uncertenty of the tyme thereof, for more quietnes to be had and continued amongst my children after my decease doe make declare and publish this my last Will and Testa- ment in writing conteyning herein my full will and mynde in mann and forme following, that is to say, first and principally, I give and comend my soule into the hands of Almighty God my most loving Creator touching and assuredly believing by the death and obedience of Jesus Christ my alone Saviour to have full and free remission of all my sins and life evlasting and my body I comitt to the earth from whence it came and — touching my worldly estate wherewth God hath blessed me — first my will and mynde is and I doe devise assigne appoynt and comitt the wardeshipp marriage tuicion and govnement of John Boyes my Sonne and of his lands tents and hereditants and all my interest and right thereunto my loving sonne in lawe Mr. Robert Symonde of Sowerby my loving Brother in lawe Willm Boyes and to my loving Frends Thomas Bynnes of Halifax, Humprey Ducke of the same and John Mitchell of Boothestowne hartyly requesting them to be 112 PETER PRUDDEN. carefull for his religious educacon and bringing upp for the pservacon of his estate and for the disposicon of the rents and pfitts of his lands as in and by this my will I shall expresse. Now my mynde is that the some of fowerscore pounds — wch. I owe unto my said sonne Symonds and wch. I pmised to pay him in marriage wth his wife my daughter shall be paid him by twenty pounds ayeare att evy Christtide during fower yeares now next coming out of the rents yssues and pfitts of the said lands and tents. Item, my will and mynde is and I doe give and bequeath unto Sylence Boyes, Anna Boyes, and Joane Boyes my three daughters so much money as together wth their porcons left unto them by their Father shall amount to each of them the some of two hundred pounds, the same to be taken out of my goods chattells and debts so farre as the same shall extend and that wch remaineth to be taken out of the rents and pfitts of the said lands and tents as the same shall come in after the discharge of the said fowerscore pounds and above the maintenance of my said sonne concerning whome my will and mynde is that he shall be brought upp att learning. If that by and att the discretion of my said five frends before named hee shalbe found capable and fitt thereunto, to whose wisdome and religious care I referre the same and my will mynde and meaning is that the surplusage and remainder of the rents yssues and profitts of the said lands and tents during the mynoritie of my said sonne after the dischardge of the said somes of money limitted to my said sonne Symonds and my daughters as aforesaid and above the educacon and maintenance of my said sonne att learning or other- wise shalbe equally devided to and amongst my said fower daughters each one a rateable pte thereof and my will and mynde is that my said sonne shal att his age of twenty one years if hee soe long live enter unto his lands and APPENDIX. 113 tents wthout paying any thinge for his wardeshipp or mar- riage to any the psons before named to whom I have comitted him and my will and mynde is that if my sonne Symonds shall have occasion to lay out the said money wch I owe him as aforesaid before the same shalbecome payable by this my will that then the same shalbe paid to him out of my goods and chattells and I doe name make and appoynt the said Sylence my Daughter sole and whole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament. Jn Witnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand -and seall the day and yeare abovesaid. Signed Testatricis (L.S.) Sealld and signed in the psence of us John West — Mich; Ward — Hufr : Drake. This Will was proved in the Exchequer Court of York on the twenty eighth day (11) of April, 1631 by Silence Robinson wife of Thomas Robinson, Daughter of the deceased the sole Executrix in the said Will named. Ent'd. J.D. 21/9/85. VII. Extracts from New Haven Colonial Records. "At a court of magristrates held at New Haven for ye Jurisdiction the 28th of may 1655. Hanna Spencer being convicted of immodest connection with Wm. Ellit on a boat between Milford, & Stratford, was fined ten pounds, and to be present at the whipping post when Ellit was corrected, for Hannah Spencer's fine of ten pounds, Mr Prudden now engaged to ye court to see it paid." 8 114 PETER PRUDDEN. VIII. In 1656 the question of the planting of Paugaset (Derby) being under discussion at the General Court, Mr. Prudden, in behalf of the town of Milford, objected to it. "The business aboute the planting of Paugaset, pro- pounded at ye Generl Court in October last, & in some pt assented to, & now again in question & what then passed being read, the Magistrates, & Deputies for Milford objected against it, & Mr Prudden, on behalf e of the towne declared that it would be very predjudiciall to Milford severall ways ; so much as they could not comfortably cary on their occasions there by reason of the straightness of accommodations for comonady for their cattle, wh they should suffer, by reason that Stratford river & New Haven bounds doe confine you to so narrow a compass." IX. 1653, March 22, at Gen'l Court, "The Deputies of Milford were desired to speak to Mr Prudden from ye Court, to desire him to preach here at New Haven upon ye Election day next." X. 1656, 25th of the I2th month, "The churches in these colonies are sensible of an afflicting hand of God, in the removal of Mr Whitfield, the removal of Mr Hook, & the death of Mr. Prudden." XI. 1657 (page 133) "Was presented to the General Court, the last will, & testament of Mr Peter Prudden, late pastour of the church at Milford, made the 26th day of July 1656, witnessed by his own hand, & declared to be in the presence of Timoth Baldwin, Richard Piatt, & John Brown." APPENDIX. 1 1 5 "An inventory of the estate of the said Mr Peter Prudden, was also presented amounting to £924, 18 s, & 5d, prized by Alexander Bryan, & James Roggers, & by them testified upon oath to be a just apprismt according to their best light, at a court at Milford ye 4th of Decem- ber 1656, & Mrs Joanna Prudden, ye widow, & executrix of ye desease upon oath affirmed that it is a full, & true inventory according to her best knowledge except some reconing betwixt the town of Milford that at — present could not be cleared." (This inventory was taken the 2nd of September 1656.) XII. Letter of Peter Prudden to John Winthrop Jr. To the Wop', his much honored friend, John Winthrop Esq. at Pekoct d d. Worthy Sir. This Bearer, George Alsop, being neces- sitated to take this winter journey, into ye Bay, that he may pass for England in the ship wt is now preparing for yt voage, and being altogether a stranger to the way, I am bold to intreat you to show him what favor you can, and helpe him withe a guide to conduct him in the best, and safest way, whom, he will satisfy for his paynes, and I shall acknowledge myselfe obliged unto you for any kind- ness you show to him, he being a friend of myne, whom I should have dissuaded from such an uncomfortable journey, but yt I conceived the weightiness of his occasions in England, call him to undertake it. This not doubting of your best furtherence of him herein wth remembrance of my best respects, and service, I commend you to ye Lord, and rest ' Yours to be commanded to his power, Peter Prudden. Endorsed by John Winthrop Jr Mr Prudden of Milford the pastor" Il6 PETER PRUDDEN. XIII. The oldest paper in the possession of the Prud- den family is the letter here reprinted, written by Ezekiel Cheever to Mr. Prudden in his own defense. Ezekiel Cheever^ famous as the "Great School- master" throughout New England, came with the first settlers to New Haven. He was one of the twelve men chosen as "fitt for the foundaco work of the church." After twelve years of service in the ''better trayning upp of youth in this towne" (N. H. Col. Rec), he went to Ipwich, Mass., and successively to Charlestown, Boston, Salem, and finally the Boston ''Latine School" secured his ser- vices. His Latin Grammar was used for more than a century in the schools of New England. He lived until 1706. Mr. Cotton Mather used his flowery genius to its utmost in his sermon and poetical essay in memory of Mr. Cheever. "Ink is too vile a liquor; Liquid Gold Should fill the pen, by which such things are told. A Learned master of the languages, Which to Rich Stores of Learning are the Keyes; He taught us first Good Sense to understand And put the Golden Keyes into our hand. Were Grammar quite extinct, yet at his Brain The Candle might have well been lit again, If Rhetrick had been stript of all her Pride She of his Wardrobe might have been Supplied. Do but Name Cheever and the Echo straight Upon that Name, Good Latin will Repeat." APPENDIX. 117 He left New Haven under the cloud of a difficulty with the church, the account of which is an interest- ing picture of the course of a church censure in 1649. There were charges against him of "offensive carriage" in church and of refusal to vote when action was taken to clear the Church Elders of the censure of partiality. His "offensive gestures" seem to have been the wrapping of his handkerchief around his head — which he claimed was due to a headache — and "smiling or laughing" aggravated his offense, but he failed to give any "satisfying reason why he could not clear the Elders of usurpation," although he said it was because "the brethren had not due liberty to act according to the light of their own consciences" and "being loth to disturb the peace of the Church, he held up his hand to neither vote." After long debate the church proceeded to censure him and cast him out. "Witnessing against his contradicting stiff and proud frame of spirits," in the hope that he be brought into a more "member- like frame." It was small wonder that he was glad to avail himself of the kindly offices of a man who was dis- tinguished by success in the office of peacemaker. Reverend & Worthy S"" I understand by M" Wakemans letter that y" are now in y* Bay, which gives me opportunity of presenting a few II 8 PETER PRUDDEN. lines to you, to acquaint y" with y® grounds of my wright- ing to y^ Church as I did, & my private letter to M"" Atwater, of which last M"" Davenport, or y® Elders joyntly have wrote to y^ R. M"" Rogers, & jVP Norton here, that it is distasted by y* plantations about them. M"" Higginson hath beene here since, who sayes no such thing. I am represented, & interpreted at N. Haven to deal guilefully, & to speake one thing in my writing to y'^ Ch: another in my private letter. For my letter to y* Church it was drawne by y® advice & approbation of y® R. M"" Rogers, & M'' Norton, to whom I have constantly opened my mind fully, that I could not justify y® Ch; censure, & being jealous of what came to passe, I expressed to them my feare of using any expressions that might give them occa- sion so to thinke, & they apprehended with myself, both then, & do so still, y* there is no expression in my letter that doth in a true Grammaticall or Logicall construction hold forth any justification of y'' Ch: censure. And indeede they & my selfe did apprehend ye** Ch: would require it of me, from an expression in a letter from y* Ch: subscribed by M"" Hooke, & M"" Newman, thus [for this cause y® brethren judge it necessary, that either he justify y* ch: censure, or at least judge himselfe for condemning it] this last I choose, & could willingly doe, & being willing to aggravate it as much as I could, & to carry it in a peace- able way, I said thus, I acknowledge my sin in unjust, dis- orderly condemning y* censure ; w'^'' I conceive is true, it was unjust for me in y* way & manner as I did before legall conviction to censure y® Church: The Elders here have wrote to free me from any guile, & Mr. Higginson told me, they told him, they must take it upon themselves. Now for my wrighting to M"" Atwater, y* I did not justify y" censure, & giving him liberty to declare it if need were; it was upon this ground. I had intimation from a friend it was much looked at, y* I should justify y* Ch: censure, & APPENDIX. 119 reported as if I must, or did, so I feared, they might take occasion, if any could be found from my writing, to appre- hend I justified y® Ch: censure . . . y* then they would presse hard upon some, whose consciences . . . . not justify it: therefore y' y® truth might not suffer, & I be abused as an instrument in it, nor any friend of mine unjustly for my sake, I was willing to beare the burden of it my selfe, & y* y* truth might be understood: You will say, why did I not write plainly to y* Ch: ? I answer, for peace sake. I knew it would not be borne. I did not certainly know, y® thing would come in question, but would be let fall on both sides for peace sake, & had I then openly expressed my selfe, it would have beene taken for an open opposition of them, & needlesse striving con- tention For because I did but use this expression in my confession prepared for y^ Church, & sent to M"" Davenport in y* Bay for his advice, [I am sorry there should remaine any diflference betweene y* Ch: & my selfe, but am willing to hearken to any meanes of conviction] &c. M'" Daven- port much distasted it, saying Cui bono is such an expres- sion, & that a man coming to hold forth repentance to y* Church should make an open profession of difference, was not to be borne, & y' y® Ch: would impute it to my pride &c. Had I now done so, he might justly have replied, w* needed mentioning this, but for contention, did not y* Church open a doore & a faire way for you, in their former expression, not requiring any such thing at your hand. My aimes & ends were good to attaine y' which is obtained by it, & I do not yet see y* I have broke any rule in it; if your selfe judge otherwise, I shall thankfully receive any light from you. Had I not written to M'' Atwater, y* truth had suffered, & I had beene delivered but upon such termes as I never did desire it, & therefore laid in to prevent it, though I conceive I gave no just occasion to y® Ch: so to thinke, & had beene blamelesse in y* particular. I entreat I20 PETER PRUDDEN. y° to conceale my wrighting to y", & repose in you for it, knowing it will be offensive, yet withall to put forth a helping hand for my deliverance if it lye in your power; for I know not what to doe more to y*' Ch: & I thinke few or none will advise me to do what they require of me. I pray enforme my friends at N. H. how it stands, for I perceive they are not desirous of any letters from me, & therefore I do forbeare, only entreating y" to deliver this enclosed to M""' Wakeman about my child. Thus beseeching your prayers, I am An afflicted outcast Ipswitch s: 16:51. E. Cheever. (Address.) To the Reverend his much esteemed friend M"" Peter Prudden Pastour of y® Church of Christ at Milford these Present. XIV. THE LANE FAMILY PAPERS. In his preface to the small volume of Lane family papers, published in 1857, Mr. W. H. Whit- more says : ''We find that Rev. John Reyner, Rev. Peter Prudden^ Mr. Simonds and Mr. Robinson married four coheiresses, whose property lay in Edgton and Welburn." ''The property remained with the Lanes until 1796, a case I believe, without parallel in New England." As Anna, the daughter of Rev. Mr. Raynor, mar- ried Job Lane, some extracts from the Lane papers APPENDIX, 121 are of interest to the Prudden family, as they refer to the same English property which the Pruddens held for one hundred and fifty years. Under the date of 1660 we find the son of John Reyner signing a receipt to Job Lane for £55 for "one-fourth part of a certain parcel of land lying in Yorkshire in England, which in the whole be- longs to the said Mr. Reyner, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Pryden and one Symonds;" .... "the said land lyes in Edgston in Yorkshire, now in occupa- tion of Thomas Boyse." In other papers, the "housing and lands" are spoken of as "lying within the townships of Edgton and Welburn^ now in the possession of Matthew Boyse of Edgton." A foot note explains that "Edstone and Welburn are near Kirkby Moorside, in the East Riding of York, about forty miles north- east of Leeds." Another paper which mentions the names of the other owners of the property gives them as "Mr. Robinson, Mr. Prudden^ and one Symonds." A letter from John Dickinson at Gildersome in 1670, to his "Cozen Laine" speaks of Mr. Samuel Boys as receiving rent and sending it through a Mr. Harwood in London, who failed to forward it. "Your mother Reyner and Mrs. Prudent, I fear, loseth most of iioo by him; if he was able to pay he would; they must have patience until God enable him. With suit they cannot get because its not to be had. His wife died 122 PETER PRUDDEN. 12 months since; it may be, he may light of some rich widow, that may make him capable to pay; except God some way raise him, he cannot pay you or any else. To trouble him with suit, it will bring nothing into your pocket, but loss to yourself and trouble to him ; so pray acquaint your aunt Reyner (I mean your mother-in-law Reyner) and Airs. Prudent. He owes me money, that I expect not a penny (of), except God some way aid him; besides I am bound with him for money I must pay myself, I remembered you to John Robinson, and acquainted him you would sell that land that's beyond York, that came by Mr. Reyner's first wife ; he having one part of it, it would be fit for him ; but he is not fit for buying, but saith it was never divided, and that will much hinder your sales. If Mrs. Prudent, you, and John Robinson, and the other that's the fourth, could all agree to sell, it would sell best; but no division being served on it, it may fall on longest lives. Robinson stood upon that; but if you can find a way to sell and make good assurance, and join Mrs. Prudent with you, it's like I might find you a chapman. I do not know it, but I perceive there's mean housing on't, and tenants fail on't as they do in many places; also land is much cheaper now than it hath been; it would have given more by i30 at iioo, ten years since than now. Trading is bad ; it's stolen out of England into Ireland, Germany and Holland, that mightily impover- isheth England. Besides there hath been great teynts and taxing in this land, that hath disabled tenants in too much money." ... I perceive the rent is about iio a year, but teints and charges take of, that it's bout clear, a little above £9 a year; and that hath not been paid, it's a loss to you and a shame to them that should have made you a better account and return. When you write you need but direct to John Dickinson at Gildersome near Leeds, and to be left with Mr. Timothy Cloudsby at the new APPENDIX. 123 postman near Cripplegate in London, and it will come to me. If it comes to Mr. Cloudsby at London, it will come to me; I deal in oil and dye-stuffs, (and) I have them from London." . . . "John Dickinson's letter, says he can do nothing about dividing the land, as Mr. Symonds' children are so young. Mentions aunt Willett." GiLDERSOME^ yc ist April, 1679. Coz. Job Layne, . . . Your Uncle Boyes was slain in the war at a fight between the Lord Fairfax and the King's forces called Seacroft Fight, or Club Fight. It was called so because many of the countrymen went with the Lord Fair- fax with clubs, and no other weapons. (The) Parliament- party your uncle was in, and they was put to the run, and he slain, between Seacroft and Leeds, within 2 miles of Leeds, in April, 1643, now 36 years since. . . . One letter is dated London, May ist, 1679, from John Dickinson, jr., — "My father now writes to Mrs. Reyner and Mrs. Willett under cover to Mr. Joseph Walker of Boston." July 21, 1765. John Dickinson's letter shows the rent of the 4th share of an estate at Edstone in Yorkshire, occupied by John Fisher, to be £20 for 2 years, less collect- ing, I— 19. Sept. 9, 1783. From same. We have never received a line from Mr. John Dickinson of Beverly, or any remit- tances from him on account of your estate in Yorkshire, since the beginning of this unhappy war. Sept. 12, 1790. I. Garbett, Phila., offers to buy the estate. March 9, 1791. From same: offers £400 stg. for the estate. 124 PETER PRUDDEN. 26, 3 mo., 1792. Joseph Dickinson writes from Beverly to Lane, Son & Fraser, that Charles Fisher, the tenant at Edstone, informs him of the burning of his house and barns. XV. PRUDDEN PAPERS Relating to the English Property from 1758-1815. Letter addressed to Mr. John Dickinson at Gilder- some near Adwalton by Ferry Bridge in Yorkshire, by way of London. MiLFORD, Oct. nth, 1758. Mr. John Dickinson : In June 1755 I had occasion to Go to my cozen Mr. Prudden, who Liveth in Mores Town in New Jersey where I Saw your Letter directed to Mr. Joseph and Samuell Prudden, if Living, if not to Let you know who were by right owners to ye one half of ye 4th part of an Estate that you have ye Care of Collecting, ye rents of and order- ing ye. money by orders &c at Edstone in Yorkshire in Old England at 50 £ ann. These may serve to let you know that my kins man Joseph Prudden is now living for ought that I know, and I the Subscriber hereunto Samuell Prudden, am heir to that part of the above Estate given by Mrs. Joanna Prudden of Milford, Decs'd. ye, will bearing date Nov. 8th, 1861 by which her Estate was dis- posed of. Note my Grandfather Samuel Prudden was ye oldest brother, that ye Estate was given to; and my father by his Last will gave ye above (that is his part of the estate) to me, I being his oldest Son and I have now Living two Sons and one Daughter which I hope will have the Estate after me, my oldest son's name is Samuel. Invoice of Goods Dated London August 1743 came APPENDIX. 125 marked I -}- P &c and Invoice dated London Aug. 4th, 1750 amounting to 66£-6s-3d and charges in all amounting to 68i-i9-5 as per Copy Sent to me Marked I } P which mark makes it appear that in Giving you your orders ; they that is, my kinsman and M. Uzal Ogden to whom the Goods Comes Directed doth not let you know of me which I Dislike if it be so; Now Mr. Joseph Prudden Liveth about one hundred and fifty miles from me which makes it unhandy for me to get my Goods and must take them at their dividing Let it be as it will . . . S. the Last Goods that I rec'd was in Aug. loth 1755 which Came Safe to hand; I have had thoughts of giving Mr. Uzal Ogden orders in Company with my kinsman to have him Send for what is due Since Aug. loth 1755, but as they Live at a Great Distance from me and I Live about 60 miles from New York. I would have you Lay out my part, that is five pounds per year in Dutch goods as I shall give orders for from time to time and pack them up by themselves and Direct them for me or my orders; as per orders from me; from time to time; my kinsman hath not Sent as I Supoze, for I have M. Uzal Ogden Letter Dated Newark Sept. 12th 1758 and which Gives me to understand that he waits for my orders to Send ; but as I have Said ; I would have you send what is due to me as I shall order you. Please to send me one Neest of Brass kettles Sised from- one Gallon to twenty-two Gallons, 6 Copper Tea kettels, three quart or better each. Ye remainder of money if any please to Lay out in an Assortment of Pewter viz. in plates, porengers Quart poots, tankerds, pint pots, and platters and Bassons. Let the platters fail if any; but the whole is left to your discretion to do the best you Can for me in Laying ye money out in the above to ye best Advantage and if you Can send them to New York to the care of Mr. Gerard G. Beekman, 126 PETER PRUDDEN. Mech't. there to be forwarded to me in Milford in the County of Newhaven and Colony of Connecticut, New England, if these Come to your hand and you Cannot Send them directly and have any opportunity of writing to me please to write and let me know when to Expect the Goods above Said; these with Love and Respect from Yr Kinsman, Samuel Prudden. Shipped by the Grace of God, in good Order and Condi- tion, by Thomas Cornell in and upon the good Ship call'd the Edward whereof is Master under God, for this present Voyage William Davis, and now riding at Anchor in the River Thames and by God's Grace bound for New York, to say, One Cask of Merchandise _ being mark'd and number'd as in the Margin, and are to ^ ^ be deliver'd in the like good Order and Condition, at the 2' ^ aforesaid Port of New York (the Danger of the Seas only excepted) unto Gerald G. Beekman, Merch't. there or to his assigns, paying Freight for the said Goods ten shillings Current money of New York. In Witness whereof the Master or Purser of the said Ship hath affirm'd to two Bills of Lading, all of this Tenor and Date; the one of which two Bills being accomplished, the other Bill to stand void. And so God send the good Ship to her desired Port in Safety. Amen. Dated in London June 29th, 1761. Contents unknown, to W. J. Davis. Beverley^ 14th of June 1763. Loving Cousin Sam'l. Prudden. I have thy Favour dated 19th of Jan'y, 1763 and am glad to hear that the Goods sent in June 1761 was got safe to hand. I have rec'd five pounds of the Prents due No. 3 a APPENDIX. 127 to thee and expect to receive five pounds more about the forend of next Month and when thou pleases to send Direc- tions how or in what Goods thou would please to have yr. Money return'd shall take care to observe them. I am very glad to hear of the Wellfare of thy Family and thro' Mercy have my health pritty well at present considering my years but in some Measure find in myself not that ability for Business as in my Younger Years which indeed by the Course of Nature one can't expect. I have a Nephew here with me of my own Nam.e who writes this but no Children and my youngest Brother Wm. Dickinson is now in America at Philadelphia and hath been for some time there with one Preese Merridyths and hath at times of late talk'd of coming over into this Country again sometime this year and also talk'd of taking a journey to Boston before his coming therefore desired in case that should happen to endeavour to pay thee and thy Cousin Joseph a visit and some others I have receiv'd Rents for in this Country which I hope he will also (if opportunity offer) endeavour to do. I am with kind Love and Respects to Myself and Family, Thy Loving Kinsman, John Dickinson. 128 PETER PRUDDEN. INVOICE of sundry Goods or Merchandise Shipt on board the Ship Polly, Thomas Williamson Master, bound for Philadelphia, on the proper Account and Risque of Samuel Prudden of Milford in Connecticut and consigned to Van Home and Lott, Merchants in New York marked and numbered as in the Margin (viz) £ s D § p A Case No. I 10-1/2 yards 3/4 Scarlet unpress'd Cloth, at 9 p y. 8 6 27 Yards dark Blue Plain at 4/1 do 5 10 3 I Piece of Black Durant, i n 26 Yards of brown shattoon, at 13 p y i 8 2 36 do double Weft & Warp green Camblet, at 17 do 2 II 27-1/2 do purple Callico, fast Colour, at 2/1-1/2 2 10 5 I Dozen black Barcelona Handkerchiefts 211 9 Bordered Muslin ditto, at 3/10 p i 14 6 3 Ditto, at 3/6 P 10 6 22-1/2 Eus 3/4 black, at 2/4 p Eu 2 12 6 I Doz. of Black Worsted Mitts 9 1 Doz. of Black Silk do i 10 2 Pieces of Yd. wide Irish pty 50 yards, at 10 p 3 15 2 Pieces of do 49 yards, at 2/ 4 18 I Piece of Superfine Chintz, 28 do, at 3/6 4 18 I Doz. of Light spotted Handkerchiefs, at 2/2-1/2 166 9-3/4 Yards Clear Lawn, at 3/8 i 15 10 3 Doz. 4 8 Calkings, at 8/ i 4 12 Bibles, 24 mo., at 2/3 i 7 3 Doz, of Cuttoe Knives, at 4/ i 12 Brought over 71/13/4/ July 13, Paid Carriage to Hull 6/ 4/ Horse Hire & Expenses to Hull 2/ 6/ APPENDIX. 129 Beverly, 7th mo. 20th, 1765. Respected Friend: — I was favoured with thy Letter of the 29 of April, 1764, since which time I have been under difficulties to find out a good and safe conveyance for the Goods now shipt on board the Polly, Thomas Williamson Master from the Port of Hull to that of Philadelphia consigned to Van Hone and Lott in New York. I have desired the Master, and he has engaged to ship them on board a Coaster in the Deleware for New York without the expense of landing them at Philadelphia, this Ship was advertised for the last mentioned Place but the 2-1/2 P cent upon all English Bottom's taking goods for New York altered the Plan and they therefore proceed to Philadelphia. I wish them safe and acceptable all the Articles required in said Letter are now sent, save the Corn Machines and the Nutmegs, now very dear. ... I have been in by death's door and a variety of concerns falling to my share on that Acc't. as well as a long corporeal indisposition, the experience of this and that last year for so long a delay which I am sorry for — John Dickinson. Beverley, August 31, 1766. Loving Cousin, Samuel Prudden. I had thy Favour of the 14th June last, and as to the Trust mentioned, as I grow into years thought it better to have some other acquainted with the Affair, and had none when I writ last, but my Nephew that I thought so proper to transact that Affair; but since that time my Brother who hath resided many years in Philadelphia is returned into this state and county, and in case of my decease, one or other of them will take care to look after that Estate. 9 I30 PETER PRUDDEN. Samuel Prudden's Account with John Dickinson, Dr. 1761. June 30. To Ballance due to me per Acc't, of this date sent him, i 19 9 1766. Aug. 6. To my Salary for receiving and paying the Dontra Rents amounting to i25— at 5 P- C I 5 23. To Cost of Goods ship't by Harford and Powell per my Order on his Acc't. in the New York, Effing, Lawrence, Mr 37 7 lO To Postage of Letters 3 4 ^39-15-11 1761. Dec. By return of Premium on Goods, insured P. the Edward, Cap't. Davis £ 15 1763. June By two year's rent of 1/8 share of an Estate at Edston, due at Candlemas 1763 10 1765. June By two years ditto due at ditto, 1765. . . 10 1766. June 23. By one year's ditto due at ditto, 1766. . 5 Aug. 23. By Ballance due to J. Dickinson 14 11 £39 15 II Beverley Septem'r. 13, 1766. Errors Excepted. (Being a Copy of the Acc't. sign'd for me in London 23d Aug. last by Harford & Powell,) John Dickinson. APPENDIX. 131 Beverly, September 19th, 1767. Esteemed Friend & Kinsman. Samuel Prudden : — I have thy Favors of the 4th July last, and am glad to hear the Goods ship't for thy use got safe to hand. As I received a Discount on the said goods after thy Account was sent, have therefore underneath drawn out the Account as it now stands betwixt us. Being advanced in years and the State of my Health precarious, think it would not be improper, that thy Affairs were put into some other hand, therefore, if it be agreeable to thee to entrust my Bro'r. Will'm. with the care of them who is now with me at Beverly, I believe he will take all proper care in a faithful Transaction of them. Thy Relation Joseph Prudden of Newark in the Jersey Sent an order on me dated 2 December last 1766 for the Ballance due to him in my hands, payable to Joseph Miro Merch't. in London, to . . . the same, and I have only one years Rent of his in my hands due at Midsummer last. I am glad to hear of thy Health and that of thy Family and am with my best Respects and wishes for your welfare. Thy sincere Friend and Obliged Kinsman, John Dickinson. Dr. Samuel Prudden's Acc't. with John Dickinson, Cr. 1766. Sept. 13, To Ballance of Acc't. sent £14 11 i8th. By a discount on Goods ship'd by Harford & Powell, in the New York Capt. Lawrence i 15-2 1767. June 25th. By cash received for one year's Rent of thy 1/8 share of the Estate at Edston and at Candlemas last 1767 5. Ballance due to Mr. Dickinson 7.5 9. ii4 II. Errors excepted Sept. 19th, 1767. 132 PETER PRUDDEN. Evidently the first draft of a letter which was copied and sent. Connecticut, New England, January 6th, 1772. Esteemed Friend & Kinsman. John Dickerson : — I have thy favor of the 19th September 1767 and am glad to hear of your Life and health and that God in his providence is continuing your Life so long in the world, may it be for your good & yours is desire of your Sincere friend Sam'l. Prudden. I take this opportunity to tell you that I and mine are in health and Comfortable circum- stances and that my only Daughter Sarah Prudden is married and to the Likeing of all friends as to what you have written me concerning your resigning the care of my interest. I must and do entirely leave it with you trusting that you will do that which you think will be best for me only beg you would let me know who the person is that you commit it to that I may not be at uncertainty who I am to look to for the future. Sam'l, Prudden. Kindsman as there is now something due. I take this opportunity to let you know that I should be glad you would send me 24 m ten penny brass nails 20 m 4 penny ditto at 3. 3/4 3 half Boxes of Crown glass 6 by 8. and let them come consigned to G. Beekman in New York. No more at present from your Sincere friend and humble servant, Sam'l. Prudden. APPENDIX. 133 Esteemed Friend & Kinsman : — My Uncle had thy favour of the 6th of January last on the 13th of March following enjoins me to make the acknowledgment; he is pleased to hear of the welfare of thee and thine and wishes you a long continuance in the like salutary enjoyment. Consonant to thy imparted order — I have this day shipt on board the Beaver the Goods as P invoice herewith fur- nished consigned to Gerard Geo. Beekman, New York under cover to whom this goes. I wish them safe to hand, and satisfactory, the certainty of which will be grateful, and when I have any future orders, be pleased to be as particular as may be with regard to the kinds of goods wanted, have been under some difficulty in the procurement of these now sent. I am on Uncle's behalf as well as on my own acc't. Thy Sincere and Respectful Kinsman, John Dickinson^ Junior. Beverly 7th mo. 7th. i'772. Shipped by the grace of God in good order and well conditioned by John Dickinson in and upon the good Ship called the Polly whereof is Master under God for this present Voyage, Thomas Williamson now laying in Hull Dock and by God's grace bound for Philadelphia to say two Cases and two Corn Machines, being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned, at the aforesaid Port of Philadelphia (New York) (the danger of the seas only excepted) unto Messrs. Van Home and Lott, Mrchts. on or to their assigns, they pay- ing freight for the said Goods one shilling and three half pence per foot sterling with 5 p. Cent primage payable to the Course of Exchange on London and average accus- tom. In witness whereof the Master or Purser of the said Ship hath affirmed to three bills of loading all of this 134 PETER PRUDDEN. tenor and date, the one of which three bills being accom- plished, the other two to stand void ; And so God send the good Ship to her desired Port in safety. Dated in Hull, the 14th day of July 1785. Contents unknown. Thos. Williamson. Street in Gildersome, July 7th, 1789. Respected Friend Samuel Prudden. On the 17th of September, 1787 I wrote to Job & John Lane of Beverley near Boston New England acquaint- ing them that an Inclosure of Edston Common was then in hand, and sent them a sketch of your Estate there, also the number of acres it contains, being sixty three Acres one Rood and twenty-six perches, with what charges had then accrued respecting the Inclosure, but could not ascer- tain what the whole charge would be for your Estate but that is now fully settled which amounts to £35.. 3. 3, one fourth of which thy account is charged with, being £8.15.9-3/4. The Estate or Farm is now let at Forty pounds clear yearly Rent to Charles Fisher the old Tenant, which commenced at Lady day 1788. Hope what I have done herein will be satisfactory to all the owners, as your yearly income will be double what it has been ; believe it is an equitable Rent, thy Tenant paying all assessments, and Taxes, and is to keep the Buildings in repair. Not- withstand it is now near two years since I wrote to Job and John Lane, I have not yet been favoured with an answer. I desired they would communicate what I wrote to them to thee and Silas Condict of Morris-town in near Jersey Esq., Guardian to Joseph Prudden Junior — My Nephew John Dickinson who sent thee the last goods is dead, and as he left me his Executor and Guardian to his son, it seemed to become my place to take care of your Affairs after his decease, but as I am far advanced in APPENDIX. 135 years wish as soon as it can be done to be discharged therefrom; and I recommended to Job and John Lane my Nephew Joseph Dickinson of Beverley Parks near Beverley Yorkshire, who is capable of serving you and I hope he will do it to your satisfaction. I think it would be neces- sary for you to give him a proper power to act for you, but as you live at so great a distance one from another it may be some trouble to get it done; yet whoever acts for you, he should have something to show that he acts by your approbation, which would give him more power over the Tenant in case he should not use the Farm according to good Husbandry. I am with due respect. Thy assured Friend, William Dickinson. ART The old Inclosure 50 2 10 New Allotment on the Common. . 3 3 10 83 I 26 Direct to William Dickinson. Street in Gildersome near Leeds, Yorkshire. Wrote Willm. Dickinson & Joseph & Joseph Dickinson yr., i6th October, 1789. Philadelphia Oct 4 1790 Sir, ^ I wrote you word some time ago of property which I supposed you were Intitled to in Yorkshire in Old Eng- land which am douteful that you never received. As I never received an answer if you are in mind to dispose of it I would be your Chape as I have partly agreed with some of your partners and Can Make you an advantageous 13^ PETER PRUDDEN. Bargain in that Afare. which I would be glad to hear from you and let me have the Sentiments of your mind on the value you set on it which I should be glad to be your Chape for it and you may have land or Money here for it to a great advantage. So Sir your Hble Servt. I. Gar butt Please to direct to me at Philadelphia to the care of John Ingle Store keeper on Front St. Beverley, Park, 20th of 8th Month, 1801. Esteemed Friend, Sam'l Prudden. I received thy Letter dated the 14th of April last in due course and agreeable to thy Order have ship't on board the Sally Capt. Will'm. Gallop for New York the goods as by Invoice to the amount of the money in my Hands which are consigned to James De Witt agreeable to thy request. Below is the state of my Acc't. which I hope will be found right. There are some extra charges on Acc't. of my extraordinary trouble in going over to Kirbymoorside and taking an Attorney with me, when the Estate was sold, in order to prevent Garbutt the purchaser for getting an unfair advantage of the Owners, which I was apprehen- sive he wished to do, and which are entered in thy Acc't. because I had not any Money in my hands of any of the other owners, and which I think ought to be paid by the several Owners in proportion to their several Interests in the Estate. The sums alluded to are ^4-19.6 and £2.15-2-1/4 makes together the sum of £14-8-1/4, which I trust the other Owners will have no objection to allow. Shall be glad to hear of the safe Arrival of this and the goods sent herewith and that they are to satisfaction and remain with much respect. Thy Obliged Friend, Joseph Dickinson. APPENDIX, 137 Sam'l. Prudden of Milford, in Connection with New England in Acc't. with Joseph Dickinson, Dr. 1799. To ballance due as by last Acct. 12 £ 18 s. 9-3/4 d. May To Cash pd. Sam'l. Hall for going to Kirbymoorside as P. Bill I" 19" 6 To his and my expenses this journey being out 3 days.. 3" 15" 2-1/4" To my Comm'n. on 60 £ for receiving and paying the Rents 3 " To postage 4 " i To Cash pd. for Sundry goods, as p. Invoice to Ballance... 36" 2" 5 i6o — — Invoice of sundrys ship't. in the Sally, Cap't. William Gallop for New York on Account and Risk of Samuel Prudden of Milford in Connecticutt by order of Joseph Dickinson of Beverley Park and goes Consigned to James DeWitt at New York. £ s. D. 3 pieces of 7/8 Irish, 17 — 77 — 18, 5 15 6 3 " " " " 14 — 74 — 21 6 96 II — 80 — 2/5 8 00 3 3 I I 8 — 78 — 2/3 8 15 6 9 — 26 — 2/6 350 10 — 25 — 2/5 3 5 Carriage from Leeds to Hull o 56 Shipping and o 2 3 6 yds. Inside Wrapper 5 3 Outside & Cord o i 6 Box o 3 o P. Gilbert. £36 — 2 — 5 D. J. Lyon, 138 PETER PRUDDEN. Beverley Park, 19th of 9th Mo. 1802. Esteemed Friend, Sam'l. Prudden. I rec'd thy Letter dated 26. Dec. 1801 in answer to which must inform thee that I remitted all the Rents I received namely up to Lady 1797, Josh. Garbutt the pur- chaser of the Estate said he was intitled by his agreement to all the Rents from that time but I objected for some time to his having them due at Lady 98 and wod not give him possession of the Estate upon which he wrote to Isaac Prudden and I had a Letter from him and Tum Prudden requesting I would give upon possession of the Estate to Garbutt as they were likely to be sufferers by my not doing it. Garbutt threatened to sue me if I did not pay him one year Rent, I had in my hand belonging to Isaac Prudden due Lady day '97 therefore was under the necessity of paying him upon Garbutt engaging to return it if it was not his due, and as I have heard nothing to the contrary suppose it was his due. I am sorry there should be any misunderstanding at the winding up of this business but can assure thee I have kept nothing back. I am very respectfully Thy Sincere Friend, Joseph Dickinson. Invoice of Sundries shipt in the Beaver Pierre de Poystre Master for New York, on Account & Risk of Samuel Prudden by order of John Dickinson of Beverly and goes consigned to Gerard Geo. Beekman of New York, viz. Three Boxes of Crown Glass containing £ s D 300 ft. at 4 P. 5 Boxes 20 d cash, 5 55 APPENDIX, 139 Two Bags of Nails containing together ;^ s D 20 m 4 d. 5 & 4-1/2 2 10 20 m 10 d. 14 4 15 2 bags 2 12 12 Be it known that I Samuel Prudden of Milford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, Yeoman, have for and in Consideration of the agreement hereinafter made and do hereby covenant and agree to and with Isaac Prudden of Morristown in the State of New Jersey, Yeo- man, that I will, Release, Quit Claim, and Convey without any Covenants of Warranty — All my right, Title, Interest, Estate, Claim and Demand into and out of a certain Fourth part of a Farm and Estate lying and being in Edstone and Southfield in the County of York and Kingdom of Great Britain, Containing about Sicty-three acres more or less as soon as and whensoever the s'd. Isaac Prudden shall fulfill his agreement below made. And the S'd Isaac Prudden doth hereby Covenant and Agree to and with the S'd. Samuel Prudden that on the first Day of May next he will pay or cause to be paid to the s'd. Samuel Prudden or his Assigns, Three Hundred and Twenty Five Pounds, Sterling money of Great Britain, & also the sum of Forty-seven Pounds One Shilling & 2d like money it being the sum due sd. Samuel Prudden on last Candlemas for Rent in Arrears. On Receipt of the Deed aforementioned and that the Sd. Samuel shall have & Receive the proceeds and profits of Sd. Farms untill the s'd Deed shall be given as aforesaid. In Witness whereof the Sd. Parties have hereunto set their hands and seals this Fifth Day of July 1797. Signed & Sealed & Delivered in Presence of Isaac Prudden Ab'm. W. H. DeWitt. Samuel Prudden. 140 PETER PRUDDEN. Samuel Priidden seems not to have sold his part of the English property until several years after the first request made him by Garbutt, for we have another letter from the purchaser dated in 1795, saying that in the meantime the "housin" had been burned and asking him if he would accept 200 lbs. for his share. The last of the Dickinson letters in 1 80 1 shows that the new owner took possession in 1798, but either because the purchaser was shifty or because the death of Isaac Prudden in New Jersey about this time prevented a righteous divi- sion of the land that was taken in payment, neither Samuel Prudden or his heirs ever received any return for this sale. The matter remained in liti- gation for some years. A letter from a lawyer in Morristown dated 1814, hints at a possibility of compromise ''between the various claimants of the Garbutt tracks on Scroobey mountain" and men- tions that Samuel Prudden's claim is for $1,778.07 with interest from December, 1804. In May of that same year Samuel Prudden gave his son Peter power of attorney to go to Morristown and act for him in settling the matter, but he accomplished nothing, and reported the matter as not likely to be settled. The letter from the lawyers relating to it is dated in 181 5, and reports the case as continued till the next ''circuit" because the plaintiffs were not ready. The claim at this time seems to have been against the estate of Isaac Prudden. APPENDIX, 141 XVI. Samuel Prudden's' Will^ 1742. In ye name of Our Lord God Everlasting Amen, October ye i2th, Anna Dom. one thousand seven hundred and forty tv/o, I Samuel Prudden of ye town of Milford in ye County of New Haven in his Majesties colony of Connecticut in New England, being under weakness of body, and in daily expectation of my great change, But Blessed be God I am of sound mind and memory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament as in ye manner following; viz.) As for my worldly estate which God hath been pleased to Bestow upon me, I give, Bequeath and dispose of in ye following way and manner. My Will is yt all my just debts which I owe to any person and my funeral charges be first paid out of my estate by my executors hereafter in this may last will nomi- nated and appointed by me. Item. I Give, Bequeath and Dispose unto my dear and loving wife, Hannah Prudden and to her heirs for her and their proper use, benefit and improvement forever, the one- third part of all my personal and moveable estate what- soever ; and for her use and improvement during her life one third part of all my housing and lands in the Town- ship of Milford. Item. I Give, Bequeath, and Dispose unto my oldest Son Samuel Prudden and to his heirs and assigns forever, all my estate, right and Inheritance whatsoever, that, I now have in Housing and Lands situate and being in York- shire in Old England commonly called by ye name of Edgton Kerbie Moorside and Southfield. Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Hannah Piatt and to her heirs and assigns forever ye sum of Two Hundred and Twenty pounds, to be esteemed and accounted 142 PETER PRUDDEN. according to ye old Tenner Bills of ye colony aforesaid, and one Silver Spoon, always accounting and Reckoning what she has always had given her by me before my death as a part of ye summ of Two hundred and Twenty pounds, to be paid to her or her heirs by my executors out of my estate. Item. — I give, Bequeath and Dispose unto my daughter Sarah Camp and to her heirs and assigns forever, ye Sum of Two Hundred and Twenty lbs. to be accounted, Reck- oned and esteemed according to ye former Tenner Bills of Publick Credit, of ye Colony afores'd, and one Silver Spoon always accounting and Reckoning what she hath already had given her by me before my Death as a part of ye s'd sum of 220 lbs. to be paid to her out of my estate by my executors. Item. Ditto to Daughter Grace Prudden. Item, I give unto my Daughter Grace Prudden so long as she shall live and remain unmarried ye use and improve- ment of ye Back Room of my house y^ is called ye Kitchen and ye Cellar underneath yt. room, and so much of yt. Garden at ye North end of my house and joining at ye North end of my house and joining to my brother John's House lot, as shall extend from ye street eastward within half a rod of ye Pump and ye use and benefit of ye well with free liberty to pass to and from ye well and ye garden when and as often as she shall have occasion. Item. — I give to my Son David Prudden and to his heirs for ever ye Sum of Twenty pounds to be paid in cattle. Item. — All ye rest and remainder of my estate whatso- ever which I have not in this my will heretofore disposed of both real and personal, moveable and immovable, I give Bequeath and Dispose of unto my three sons Samuel, Peter, and David and to their heirs and assigns, equally APPENDIX, . 143 to be divided between them, always accounting and reckon- ing ye house and barn and house lot which I gave to my son Sam'l. afores'd as a part to make him equal with his older brethren viz. To my son Sam'l. Prudden and his heirs and assigns forever, with ye house, barn and house lot land in Milford as afores'd which I have already given him one third part. Item — One 3rd part thereof to my son Peter Prudden and to his heirs and assigns to have and to hold forever — ye other to David Prudden. Item. — My will is that that 3rd part of Real Estate which I have in this my will given to ye use of to my wife Hannah Prudden during her life, after her decease shall go to my three sons, Samuel, Joseph and David, equally to be divided between them. Item. — My will is to hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my dear and loving wife Hannah and my three sons Samuel, David and Peter Prudden to be ye only and sole executors to this my last Will and Testament whom I appoint, order and ordain to pay all my debts, funeral charges and legacies which I have in this will disposed to my children, and I do hereby make void all other wills and every will heretofore made by me and do notify, con- firm and establish this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness Whereof^ I Samuel Prudden have hereunto set my hand and seal ye Day and Date being first written. Signed, Sealed, Pronounced and Declared by Sam'l. Prudden to be his last Will and Testament Samuel Prudden. in ye presence of Joseph Treat. Enoch Prudden. Johnathan Prudden. 144 PETER PRUDDEN. XVII. Bill of sale of a slave bought by Samuel Prudden' IN 1776. Know all men by these Presents. That we, Jabez Hamlin and Susanna his wife, Chauncey Whittlesey and Martha his wife all of the Colony of Connecticut for the considera- tion of the sum of Fifteen pounds lawfull money rec'd. to our full satisfaction of Sam'l. Prudden of Milford in Sd. colony. Do give, grant, bargain, set over and deliver unto him the said Samuel Prudden, his heirs and assigns one negro man named Rock for and during the term of his natural life, To have and to hold the above named negro man for and During the Term aforsd to his and their own proper use benefit and Behoof free from all Incum- brances whatsoever. And we the Sd Grantors Do for our Selves and heirs hereby promis and engage to Defend the Title of the Said Negro to him the Sd. Sam'l. Prudden his heirs and Assigns against the Claim and Demand of all persons whatsoever. In Witness whereof we have here- unto sett our hands and seals this 9th day of July, A. D. 1776. Signed, Sealed and Del'd Jabez Hamlin (Seal) in the presence of Susanna Hamlin^ " Joseph Whitmore, Chauncey Whittlesey^ " Jasper Walling. Martha Whittlesey^ " XVIII. Inventory of the Real and Personal Estate of Samuel Prudden late of Milford deceased taken by us the sub- scribers as follows : — viz : — (This was Samuel* who died in 1774.) I blue Cloth Coat & Vest £ 2. 15 I brown Camblet Coat and a remn't Camblett IS APPENDIX. 145 I black Flow'd Pnissell Vest 6 I black do Breeches 3 I blue Qoth Breeches 2 6 I blue Cloth great coat 10 I Mixed Flannel Coat 12 I do, Vest 6 I brown flannel, do 2 6 I black Calliminco, do i 6 I Leather Breeches 4 I Toe Cloth, do i 3 I Deerskin, " 16 I pr. Old shoes I I Holland shirt. 8 I do 4 6 1 check shirt 5/ & i do. 2/ 7 2 Toe Cloth shirts, a. 3/ 6 I Old Beaver Hatt 3 I pr. black stockings 3 1 pr. blue yearn d 2 6 2 pr. mix'd yern do. at 2/6 5 I blue spotted Handk'f 9 1 silk odl, do 9 7 platters & 2 Basons Pewter 22 lb. at 15 d. i 76 3 do, 7 lb. at 1/ 7 10 Pewter Plates, 7-1/2 lb. at 1/6 11 3 4 do. 2 lb. at 1/ 2 5 do. narrow Rim'd, 4-1/2 lb. at 16 d. . . ,6 5 do. Plates, 3-1/2 lb. at 11 d 3 2-1/2 2 Pewter Porringers, at 10 d i 8 3 Old Basons, 3 lb. at 1/ 3 I Qt. Pewter Pott 3 6 I ditto 2 6 I pint, do I 4 lb. Old Pewter, at 9 d 3 £ 12 7 10. 10 146 PETER PRUDDEN. I silver Tankard w't. 28 oz. 11 pw't. at 8/2 in 13 I do cup, 3 oz. 8 pw't. at 6/8 i 6 do spoons, 8 oz. 12 pw't. at 7/8 3 I pr. silver buckles I Gold seal Ring, w't. 5 pw't. 22 Gr i I large brass Kettle, w't. 35-3/4 lbs. at 1/3 2 I Old do, w't. 24 lb. at gd I do. do w't. 15-1/4 lb. at 9 d I " do w't. 9-3/4 lb. at 15 d I do. w't. 2 lb. 60 oz. at 15 d I small do I Tea Kettle I small Iron kettle I larger do. crack'd I Frying Pann I Iron Bason I Porridge Pott I small Iron do '. I pr. Tongs I Peal I pr. Tongs brass head I Trammell, w't. 6-1/2 lbs. at 6 d I do, 9-3/4 lb. at 6 d I pr. brass head andirons I pr. Iron do I large Elbow Chair 6 black Slat back chairs, at 2/6 6 Rail back do. at 3/ 6 White Chairs, at 1/ I Warming Pan I Tobacco Tongs I box Iron & Heaters 1 Iron Spit 2 Old pr. sheep shears, at 9 d I small Iron skillet 2 8 5 I 12 10 6 4 8 18 II 5 12 2 2 II 6 12 2 4 2 2 I 6 6 I 4 I 6 4 2 3 3 4 10 12 7 3 6 15 18 6 3 6 I 6 4 I 6 I 6 I APPENDIX, IA7 I Tin Lanthorn 2 6 I Wooden Gallon bottle 2 1 do. 1/2 gall'd. do i 6 2 do. 2 gall'd. do. at 1/ 2 £ 28 19 3 I Dressing Table, Cherry Tree £ 16 I Round dining Table 12 I Square table 4 6 I smaller do 4 6 I Chest Drawers Cherry Tree 2 I large Chest 6 I Trunk 6 1 ditto 6 2 Chests at 6/ 12 I Chest with i Drawer 16 I small stand i I Old glass & 6 small Pictures 3 I small Bed Goose feathers, 15-1/2 lb. ati/6 133 I Bed, do, 43-1/2 lb. at 1/ 2 3 6 I Boulster hens feathers, 8-1/2 lb 4 1 do do. 8-1/2 lb 4 2 Pillows goose feathers, 4-3/4 lb. at 6 I black & white Coverlid 12 I black & white Check'd 8 I white Blankett 5 I black & white spotted Coverlid 10 I white Blankett at S. Pruddens 3 I under bed Pigeons' Feathers, 45 lb. at 5 d. 18 9 I second bottom Bedsted 6 I Trundle Bedsted 3 6 I Bed goose Feath'rs, 53-1/2 lb. at 9d.. .. 2 o 1/2 I Boulster 2 6 I Bedstead Cord & Under Bed 12 148 PETER PRUDDEN. 2 Pillows, 3-1/2 lb 4 6 I Red & White Counterpin 12 I set Red & White Bed Curtins, & Vallins i 4 I bed Pigeon's Feathers, 62 lb. at 4 d i o 8 I Boulster, do, 8 lb 2 I Pillow goose Feathers 3 I Do. hens do. 3-1/2 lb i 2 1 Bedsted & Underbed 6 2 Old Blankets 3 6 £20 5 11-1/2 I black & white Strip'd Colverlid i 6 I Cotton table Cloth 5 I do. do , 3 4 I large Diaper, do 6 I do 12 I d. Linnen, do 4 I small Diaper, do 3 1 Linnen bed Cloth 9 4 Diaper Napkins, at 1/6 6 2 Linnen do. with 2 Strips thro Each at 1/6. . 3 1 Cotton do 2 2 Linnen, do i 6 3 Diaper Toweles, at 1/6 4 6 I do I I Linnen do 9 I pr. Holland Pillow Bears 4 6 20 Linnen & Cotton do. at 1/ i I pr. Cotton sheets i I pr. Sheets, No. i i5 I pr. do. 2 14 I pr. do. 3 15 3 sheets, 4 at 6/6 19 6 I pr. do. 5 IS APPENDIX. 149 I pr. do. 6 14 I pr. do. 7 12 I pr. do. 8 13 I pr. do. 9 13 I pr. do. 10/ 14 I pr. do. II 13 I pr. do. 12 13 I pr. do. 13 12 I pr. do. 14 13 I pr. do. 15 12 I pr. do. 16 12 I pr. do. 17 II I pr. do. 18 7 I pr. do. 19 7 I pr. do. 20 9 I pr. do. 21 9 I sheet 6 6 30 yrs. Linnen Cloth, at 20 d 2 10 i2I 10 142 lb. Praw Brass Kettles, at 2/1 £14 15 10 30 lb.' Brass Rim'd. & bail'd, at 1/9 2 12 6 214 lb. 10 d. Nails, at 7 d 6 4 10 40 lb. 4 d. do. at 10 d i 13 4 half Box, 6 by 8 Grass 2 6 2 part, do II 6 3 Tea kettles, 12 lb. at 4/ 2 8 9 yds. blue Cloth, at 14/ 6 6 1-1/2 yds. do. at 12/ 18 14 yds. black silk Crape, at 1/10-1-2 i 6 3 9-1/2 yds. black Bussell, at 2/ 19 10 yds. brown Allopeen, at 3/6 i 15 12 spotted blue & white handkerchiefs, at 2/6 i 10 7 pr. black silk gloves, at 5/6 i 18 6 150 PETER PRUDDEN. I pr. Worst'd stockings 4 6 8 yellow silk handk'fs., at 5/3 2 2 5 fine tooth combs, at 13 d 5 5 1/4 lb. thred, No. 45, at 40/ 10 1/2 lb. do. 24, at 18/ 9 1/4 lb. do. 13, at 9/9 2 5 5 black knives & forks 3 4 5 horn handle do 3 4 5 white bone do 3 4 1 large Bible 15 1 1 Jack knives, at 5 d 4 7 5 horn handle knives & forks 3 4 3 yds. Princess Linnen, 13 d 3 3 6 yds. do. at 10 d 5 i 2 Remnants Dowlas, 9 yds. at 18 13 6 3 do. 16 yds. at 15 d i 17-3/4 yds. Long Lawns, at 4/6 3 19 10 3-1/2 yds. Holland, at 2/8 9 4 S-1/2 yds. checks, at 18 d 8 3 2-1/2 yds. brown shalloon, at 2/ 5 4-3/4 yds. brown Flow'd Bussell, at 2/6 11 10 5-1/2 yds. Green Shalloon, at 2/ 11 3 Sythes, at 1/6 4 6 i59 2 6 yds. Check Flannell, at 2/6 i 15 5 yds. Bearskin (narrow) at 3/ 15 7 yds. brown Flannell, at 3/6 I 4 3 yds. do. at 4/ 12 6-1/2 yds. whitned Toe Cloth, at 16 8 6 yds. brown Toe Cloth, at 1/ 6 2 black gall'n. glass bottles, at 2/6 5 I stone Jugg I Earthen Plates, glass, &c. on Mantlepiece, Parlows 3 APPENDIX. 151 1 Two Qt. delph bowls 2 Qt. do. at 9 d 1 Old Carbine 10-1/2 barr's. Porks, at 48/ 25 2 M. 3 foot shingles, at 55/ 1 hhd 1/2 do 16 Syder barr's. at 1/6 5 Meat do. at 1/6 15 bush. Wheat, at 4/ 58 bushs. Messlin, at z/^ 25 bush's. Rye, at 2/6 2 Toe Cloth Sacks, at 4/ 9 do. Baggs, at 1/ I Old Loom & Slays I Churn I great Wheal 30 bush's. Corn, at 2/6 30 Flax Old, at 6 40 bush's. Oats, at 1/4 24 lb. Wool, at 1/6 5 New Milk, Trays, at 1/ I Real I small Wheel 155 lb. hogs fatt, at 4 d I half Bushell I Adds I Broad Ax I Old spade I Maltesing Ax I Wood Ax , I Beetle & 5 Wedges I 4 I 6 4 25 4 5 10 4 2 I 4 7 6 3 10 3 3 2 6 8 9 12 2 2 3 15 2 2 13 I 16 5 3 6 2 II 2 8 i68 19 6 .. £ 4 4 I 2 4 7 6 8 152 PETER PRUDDEN. I Drawing Knife i 6 I Inch & half Augre i 9 I half inch do i I Old Chizells 2 I Hammer & spike Gimblet i I Saddle i I Old do 7 I do. do 5 I Bridle 2/ & i do. 1/ 3 I Crosscut Saw (Old) 2 6 1 Grind Stone 5 7 shoates wt. 490 lbs. at 2 4 i 8 2 Sows (white) at 16/8 i 13 4 8 small shoats, at 24 lb. Ea'h. at 4/ i 12 17-3/4 lb. linnen yearn, at 1/ 17 9 5-1/2 lb. Toe yearn, at 6 d 2 9 8-1/4 lb. Woolen do. at 15 d 10 4 I draft Chain 2 hooks, 12-3/4 lb. at 6 d 6 4 I do. do. Old 2 do. 7-3/4 lb. at 4 d 2 7 1 do. do. 8-1/4 lb. at 5 d 3 5 2 pr. Traces, at 3/6 7 1 Leather Coller 3/6 & i d. 2/ 5 6 2 Ring Yoaks, at 2/ 4 I draft do i 6 I pitch fork 1/6 & i do. 7 d 2 i I Coarse Hetchell 4 I finer do 4 IS Harrow Teeth, 30 lb. at 2 d 5 I Ox Coart Teackling &c 3 10 i 18 ID I Plow & Plow Irons £ o 12 I ditto do. 8 250 lb. Flax, at 6 d 6 5 a Parcell old books 6 APPENDIX, 153 I Plain Looking glass 18 I silver head Cane 12 I Note of hand & Jnt. from Barnab & Baldwin, Jun'r 4 I3 I ditto & Jnt'r. from and 'w. Baldwin 14 4 I do. & Jnt. from Landa Beach i 8 I Corn Fan 6 I Iron Shovell 4 I Old Corn Baskett i I Old Ax 3 30 bush's. Com (New House) at 2/6 3 IS I pr. Oxes, I brown, & i Ryed 10 10 I pr. do. I Stag, & i white back Ox 9 I Crook back'd. Steer 3 I Red 3 I Steer, — a Starr on forehead 2 13 I Cow. Red, white back 3 5 I Ditto, Yellow back, white tail 3 7 I Ditto, Red, white tail 3 7 I Ditto, Red, speckle back 3 I Ditto brownish 3 I Heifer. Yellow, white Belly & tail 2 16 I Ditto, Red, white back 2 10 I Farrow Cow, brown 2 15 I Ditto, Red 2 15 I Ditto, Red white face 3 I Ditto, Pyed, white face 2 12 3 Calves, I black, i Red, i Red, white face & tale 4 10 3 Ditto, I whiteback, i red, & i red, white face, at 26/ 3 18 I pr. Steers, dark Red, 3 years old 5 5 3 Steers, i brown, i red, & i red, white back 2 years old at 43/ 6 9 8 6 5 iii4 8 7 154 PETER PRUDDEN. 2 Heifers, i Red, & i Red, white tal 3 yrs. old £ 5 I Steer, small Red, 2 years Old .... 113 I black Bull i 17 4 Heifers, 2 years old, at 34/ 6 16 3 score Sheep, at i 6 18 I Old Roan Mare 3 I Brown Horse white slip in face. ... 7 I Old black Mare 4 I Old brown ditto 2 1 Four year Old ditto 5 10 2 Colts at 40/ 4 Brought from page i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 i58 16 12 7 10-1/2 28 19 3-1/4 20 5 11-1/2 21 10 7 59 2 7 68 19 6 18 10 1/2 114 8 7 i 403 4-3/4 I ps. Land 1-1/4 Acres home Lott with Old house & Barn £ 140 o I ps. ditto 30 acres at Adam Plain, at i 4 120 I ps. ditto I Acres, at Mile Bridge, is 35 I ps. ditto 10 Acres at the Point, i 8 80 I ps. ditto, 2-1/2 Acres at Little Bridge, i 8 20 I ps. Meadow, 4 Acres, at Indian Side, £ 5-10 22 APPENDIX, 155 I ps. Meadow, 4-1/2 Acres at Ditto, £ 5 22 10 I ps. Land, 1-1/4 Acres, at West End Neck, £ 12 15 I ps. ditto 9-1/2 Acres at Town plain with House, & Barn 275 I ps. ditto, 18 Acres, at Town plain at £ 6-10 117 I ps. ditto, 8 Acres, at Long Hill, £ 2-10 20 I ps. ditto, 18 Acres, at Bace, £6 108 I ps. ditto, 28 Acres, at Grassy Hill, £ 6 168 I ps. ditto, 6 Acres, at Turkey Hill adjoying John Prudden's Land, at i 4 24 I ps. ditto, 12 Acres at Turkey Hill adjoyning Josiah Nortrip's Land, at i 5 60 I ps. ditto, 9 Acres at Turkey Hill Adjoyning Derby Road, at £ 3 ... . 27 I ps. ditto, 4 Acres at Turkey hill adjoyning Deacon Smith, at 40/ . . 8 I ps. ditto, 16 Acres at Buck Hill, at £ 5 80 I ps. ditto, 8 Acres at George's Cellar, ^3 24 I ps. ditto, 6 Acres, at Cramberrt, £ 4 24 1 ps. ditto, 12 Acres at Horam hill £ 3 36 21 Pieces, 215 Acres Land & Meadow 2 Rights in the Two bitt Purchase. ... 40 £ 46s 10 Milford April i, 1775, Amount movable 403 o 4-3/4 £ 1868 10 4-3/4 A true Copy of the Original Examined by John Whiting & Clerk. 15^ PETER PRUDDEN. XIX. Reprint of inscriptions upon tombstones in the Milford Cemetery, bearing the name Prudden, taken from the pamphlet of inscriptions prepared by Nathan G. Pond of Milford, Conn., in 1899. Here lyes buried ye body of Mr Samuel Prudden* who departed this Life Octo^'' 17^^ A. D. 1742. Aged 69 years & 2 mos. Here lyes ye body Grace Pruddenf Daugh^ of Mr Samuel & Mrs Hannah Prudden who died Nov^'' 18. 1742 aged 20 years & i month. Here lyes buried ye body of John Prudden$ who departed this Life Jany 16**' A. D. 1762 in y« g2nd yg^j. Qf J-jis ^gg^ * Son of SamueP and Grace (Judson) Prudden, t Dau. of SamueP and Hannah Clark. $ Son of SamueP and Grace (Judson) Prudden; ; m. Mary, dau. of Samuel and Mary (Clark) Clark. APPENDIX, 157 Here lyes intere'd the body of the Rev Mr Job Prudden* late worthy Pastor of the Church of Christ in the second society Milford. He had his education at Yale College in New Haven & continued in the work of the Minist ry almost 27 years. A bountiful benefactor to mankind well belo ved in his Life and much lamented at his death which happened on the 22,''^ day of June Anno Domni 1774 in the 59'^^ year of his age Here lyes ye body of Sibella Prudden daugh"- of Mr John & Mrs Mary Prudden who died June 4*^ 1740 aged 7 years 10 months & 4 day^ In memory of Samuel Pruddenf who in prospect of a better world departed this mortal Life August 14*^ 1774. in the Gy^^ year of his age. Unshaken as the Sacred hill And firm as mountains be Firm as a rock the soul shall rise That leans O Lord on thee. * Son of John Prudden^^ and Mary Clark; m. Esther, dau. of Nathaniel and Rebecca (Burwell) Sherman, whose sister m. Joseph Bellamy. t Son of SamueP and Hannah (Clark) Prudden ; m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Smith) Beard. 158 PETER PRUDDEN. In memory of Hannah Prudden wife of John Prudden who died Oct y^^ 1790 aged 72) years. In memory of John Prudden* who died Sept. 3. 1786 in the 79*'^ year of his age. This monument is erect- ed to perpetuate the memory of Mr Joseph Pruddent who departed this Life January 16*'' 1775 in the 30*'' year of his age. Death is a debt to nature due Which I must pay & so must you. In memory of Sarah Prudden who with a happier world in view depar ted this mortal state July 27^^ 1788 in the 80*^ year of her age. Our age to seventy years is set How short the term how frail the state And if to Eighty we arrive We rather sigh & groan than live. * Son of John^ and Mary (Clark) Prudden. t Son of Samuel Prudden"* and Sarah Prudden APPENDIX, 159 In memory of Sarah and Anne Prudden daughters of Mr. Samuel & Mrs Anne Prudden They were lovely & pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided Seized by a distemper which baffled human efforts they suddenly departed this Life on the 26*^ of January 1788 the former in the 6*'' & the latter in the 4*^ year of her age. Sacred to the memory of Mrs Anne Prudden the amiable consort of Mr Samuel Prudden who departed this Life May 15*^ 1794 aged 35 years. Death thus hast conquered me I by thy dart am slain But Christ will conquer you & I shall rise again. INDEX. Alsop, George 33, ii5 Bill of sale of negro slave 144 Bishop, Rev. John 58, 61 Boyse, Joane, will of 111-113 Boyse, Joanna 16, 17, 34, 35, 54-61 Boyse, John 17, 107-1 10 Coley, Samuel 103 Coley, Samuel, children of 103 Cheever, Ezekiel 37, 48, 1 16-120 Davenport, Rev. John 13, 21, 43, 48, 50 Davenport, John, Jr 55 Dedham records iS Dickinson, John 121-124 Dickinson, Joseph 136, 138 Dickinson, William 133 Edgton 17, 60 Halifax ^ 17, 108, 1 1 1 Hector, the ship 12 Inventory of estate of Samuel Prudden in 1774 144-155 Inscriptions on tombstones in Milford cemetery. .. .156-159 Jamaica, L. 1 67, 68 Kingswalden 7 Kirby Moorside 16, 60 Lane Family Papers 120-124 Letter of Peter Prudden to Richard Mather 37 Martin, possible name of ship 12 Mather's Magnalia, Extract from 39, 40, 41 Milford Church Covenant 23, 24, 25 Milford, laxity in allowing votes to non-church mem- bers 36, 37 i62 PETER PRUDDEN. Milford, manner of life 32, 33 Milford, purchase of land 22 Milford, settlement of 25 Names of descendants of Peter Prudden who have borne the surname Prudden 163 Names of descendants of Peter Prudden who have had other surnames 166 Names of those who have married Pruddens 168 Newark 69 Porter 65 Providence Island 11 Prudden, James 8, 19, 28, 103, 104 Prudden, James, children of, Anne, Elizabeth 103 Prudden name, first mention of 6 Prudden name, derivation of 5 Prudden, Peter 5-53 Prudden, Thomas 7 Prudden, Thomas, will of 105-107 Prudden, Tovi 5 Quinnipiac 16 Raynor, John 17, 120 Slough, William 103 Southfield 60 Tibbals, Thomas 25 Treat, Robert 42 Wethersfield 20 Willett, Thomas 56, 57 INDEX. 163 Names of Descendants of Peter Prudden who HAVE BORNE THE SURNAME PrUDDEN. Abagail' 64 Abagail* 71 Adoniram* 71 Agnes' 82 Albert Bristol" 99, 102 Alice Maud' 192 Amy' 99 Annabelle' 92 Anne' 78 Arthur Bailey' 93 Arthur E.* 98 Asher Moon' 98, 100 Augustus' 93 Benetia Pearl' 100 Benjamin* 71 Burritt R' 100 Catherine Newton^ 91 Charles Eliot' 85 Charlotte' 87 Qara E 100 Clyde Edward' loi Cornelia Ann' 88 David* 73 Dennis' 100 Dewitt C. S.' 98, loi Dorothy Elizabeth' 102 Earl Dewitt' 102 Earle Hulbard' 100 Edith' 99 Edna L.' 97 Edna May* 100 Edward Hulbard' 97 Edward Payson' 93 Edwin' 87 Edwina' 99 Elinor' 99 Elizabeth' 63 Elizabeth' 81 Elizabeth Bull' 99 Elsie' loi Emily' 87 Emily Nancy' 96 Enoch* 75 Ephraim Pease' 82 Eunice (or Emma?)' ....83 Ferris Giles' loi Fletcher'' 7^, 77, 81 Fletcher Newton' 81, 91 Fletcher' 91 Florence E.' 100 Frances Edna' 96 Frances Mabel' 102 Frank' 93 George Henry' 98, 102 George H.' 102 George Gold' 99 George Peter' 88, 93 Giles' 90, 97 Gladys' loi Grace* 73, 156 Grace Ann' 92 Grace L.' lOO 164 PETER PRUDDEN. Halsey B. S.' 98 Halsey George® loi Hannah* y2) Hannah' 81 Hannah' 83 Harriet Eliza^ 97 Helene Maud" 102 Henry'' 90, 96 Henry Johnson^ I, 42, 93, 94, 104, 105 Hiram McCollum^ 98 Isaac* 71, 139 James Davis^ 90 James Edwin'' 86 James Elihu Burritt^ 96 James Henry® 97 Jane Almira^ 87 Joanna^ 63 Joanna^ 71 Joanna* 71 Job* 7Z, 74, 75, i57 John* 64, 66-71 John' 72, 72,, 156 John* yz, 76, 158 John-^ 78, 83 John' 83 John Andrew^ 90 Johnathan* 75 John Newton'' 91 Joseph' 71 Joseph* 71 Joseph* 72) Joseph' 75, 158 Joseph' 79, 86 Joseph' 84, 91 Joseph' 86 Joseph' 87 Joseph Strong'' 91 Julia Maria' 86 Julia Maria® 92 Keziah' 76 Kezia* 71 Laura' loi Lillian Eliza® 95 Lilian Margaret' 99 Lewis' 90, 98 Mary* 63 Mary' 72 Mary* 75 Mary E.' 83 Mary Caroline' 87 Mary Goodrich® 97 Mary Jane® 93 Mary Strong' 83 Mildred* 64 Mildred' loi Mildred Anita' loi Moses* 71 Nancy' 81 Nancy' 89 Nathan Sherman' ....85, 92 Nehemiah'' 77, 78, 82 Newton' 78, 83 Newton Alphonso' 91 Orange Dwight' 89 Orrin Dwight® 98, 102 Orrin Neil' 102 Paul Erwin' 102 Peter* 62 Peter' 72 INDEX. 165 Peter* y2) Peter' 79, 88 Rachel* 71 Roy Asher' 100 Russel Weld* 102 Samuel' 64, 65, 66 Samuel' y2, 156 Samuel' y2 Samuel* yz, i44 Samuel" 75, 76, 78 Samuel' 78, 79. 84 Samuel Bailey' 92 Samuel Smith^ 84 Sarah* 64 Sarah' 71 Sarah* 71 Sarah* jT) Sarah' 75 Sarah' 78 Sarah^ 92 Sarah Elizabeth^ 85 Sarah Jane' 92 Sarah Helen® 102 Sarah Loraine' 97 Sarah Treat^ 81 Sidney Clark^ 84 Susan'^ 85 Sybilia* 75, I57 Theodore Mitchell" 99 Theodore Philander* 53, 94, 99 Theophil Mitchell' 95 Victor® loi Walter Lewis' 99, 102 Weston Davis® loi William Carey^ 87, 93 William Hopkins' 102 William Henry'' 92 William Kieth' 93 Willis Giles' 98 Willis Edward® 100 Wilson Hiram® 100 i66 PETER PRUDDEN. Names of Descendants of Peter Prudden who HAVE HAD other SURNAMES. Allen, Edna (Prudden)*, George', Lee P.', Susan Edna'. .97 Allen, Sarah (Prudden)^ 64 Ailing, Abagail (Prudden)^ 71 Ailing, Carolyn E.' 85 Ailing, Charles Booth^ Charles H.' 86 Ailing, John^ Joseph^ 71 Ailing, Julia Maria (Prudden)^ 86 Ailing, Kenneth Slade' 86 Ailing, Louise Maria* 85 Ailing, Prudden' 71 Ailing, Sarah (Prudden)' 85 Ailing, Susan* 86 Baldwin, Charles Booth' 86 Baldwin, Elizabeth' 64 Baldwin, Harold Ailing', Helen', Julia Prudden' 86 Baldwin, Mildred ( Prudden) ==, Richard', Sarah', Syl- vanus' 64 Baldwin, Susan (Ailing)* 86 Beardsley, Ailing Prudden', Elizabeth Coley', Louise M. Ailing* 85 Beardsley, Susan (Prudden) (Smith) i, 52, 66, 85 Brown, Jewett Scranton*, Mary E. (Prudden)', Mary S.*.84 Carpenter, Angeline (Parsons)' 83 Colton, Jane Almira', Edward Prudden*, Jane Jeanette*..87 Curtiss, Charles Lyell', Ethel Loraine', Florence Eglantine' 97 Curtiss, Mary Elizabeth', Mary G. (Prudden)* 97 Davis, Anson Riley', Delia M.', Harpin', Homer', Marcus' 80 Davis, Martha E.', Samuel Prudden', Sarah A.', Shel- don', Sophia' 80 INDEX. 167 Ezelle, Annabelle (Prudden)^ Marie Belle", Percy Powell' 92 Hart, Edith Brainard', George Prudden', John Prudden^.po Hart, Nancy (Prudden)', Nancy Eglantine', Seth C.^ Susan E." 90 Hart, Percival Churchill' 90 Hale, Mary S. Brown' 83 Hubbell, Abagail (Prudden)', John', Joseph' 64 Mills, Addison', Harriet (Parsons)' 83 Parsons, Angeline'', Harriet^ Nehemiah Prudden^ Philo\83 Seawel, Frances Edna (Prudden), Mabel Prudden 96 Searle, Charies E.', Donald A.'^ Edward B.'\ Emily N. (Prudden)' 96 Searie, Fred H.', Genevieve''', Henry A.', Henry A., Jr.'", Robinson Prudden' 96 Scranton, Jewett', Mary', Mary E. (Prudden)' 84 Smith, David Prudden', Susan (Prudden) 85 Thompson, Charles P.', Catherine N. (Prudden)', Fletcher A.', Newton Prudden' 91 Walker, Abagail (Prudden)', AbagaiP, Robert', Sarah'.. 64 i68 PETER PRUDDEN. Names of those who have married Pruddens. Allen, Gideon 64 Allen, W. H 97 Ailing, Amos H 85 Ailing, Charles B 86 Ailing, Samuel 71 Beard, Sarah Jz, 75, 158 Baldwin, Charles T 86 Baldwin, Elnathan 71 Baldwin, Sylvanus 64 Bassett, Mary J 93 Baxter, Marie Antoinette. 96 Beard, Sarah ....74, 75, 158 Beardsley, George L 85 Beardsley, Lucius N 85 Bicknell, Almira 81 Booth, Margaret 94, 99 Bowman, Elizabeth 91 Bristol, Elizabeth 95 Bulkley, Emma Brainard.90 Brown, G. S 84 Bull, Margaret H 94, 99 By water, Annie M. . .98, loi Camp, Gideon 73 Carpenter, Justus 83 Clark, Anna 75, 78, 156 Clark, Hannah 7Z Clark, Mary 72, 72, Chapman, Luman 80 Chatfield, Mary 80 Church, Mariette 80 Col ton, Erastus 72, 7Z Coxhead, John 80 Crane, Eleazur 81 Curtiss, Charles Finney . .97 Davis, Anson 80 Davis, Charity 79, 88 Davis, Florence E. . .98, loi Davis, Martha E 80, 86 Deming. Clarissa 91 Ezelle, Evan 92 Ferris, Ida 98 Field, Peter 81 Field, Stella 99, 102 Fitch, Francelia 100 George, Nellie V 98, loi Green, Sarah M 80 Hale, William E 84 Hart, Seth C 89 Hemenway, Charlotte. 79, 87 Hill, Johnathan 96 Hill, Josephine Slade ....86 Hine, Sarah, 75 Hopkins, Henrietta 99 Hubbell, Richard 64 Hubbell, Johnathan 81 Hulbard, Sarah 96 Hunt, B. W 92 Johnson, Eliza 93 Judson, Grace 65, 72 Kieth, Amelia 92 Learned, W. P 92 Letts, Jennie P 98, loi Moore, Nathaniel 71 Morse, Clara 88 INDEX. 169 Morton, Addie 97 Munger, Anna 79, 87 Newton, Eunice 78 Newton, Hannah 76, 158 Northrop, Elizabeth. . .78, 83 Nutman, James 71 Parsons, Anne 91 Parsons, Roswell 82 Parmalee, Moses 81 Pease, Agnes 82 Piatt, Samuel yz Powers, Helen 90 Prichard, Roger 103 Quade, Ida 98 Rogers, Enoch E 88 Savage, G. F. S 82 Scovell, Susan L 90 Scranton, Erastus.27, 29, 83 Searle, Edward P 96 Seawel, W. Q 96 Sherman, Esther 73 Simonton, Isabella 92 Southwick, Laura 91 Smith, David 85 Smith, Edith 96 Stone, Naomi 79, 86 Stoughton, Juliette 91 Strong, Mary 78 Strong, Nancy 91 Terry, Harriette C 95 Treat, Sarah 76 Thompson, George 91 Walker, Joseph 64 Walker, Zecheriah 63 Whitney, Jennie E 93 Wilson, Lottie 98 Apr -17 1901 %' ) 1901 .M '■ k":^- ■■ ^^■ ^•^■^■^■^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 009 159 645 3 #