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 INDEX. 
 
 Pagk 
 
 Annals of Sharon -------- 3 
 
 A Surveyor's Song -------- 22 
 
 Origin of the Hisioricai, Socikty ----- 24. 
 
 By-Laws -------- 27 
 
 ChARTKR ----- ----- 29 
 
 Recoro of Mehiings ------- 30 
 
 Gifts to the Society ------- 31 
 
 Historical Scrap Book. ------ 35 
 
 List of Members -------- 34 
 
ANNALS 
 
 OF 
 
 SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS, 
 
 BY 
 
 JEREMIAH (iOULU, 
 1830. 
 
 Mr. Gould was a resident of Sharon, and wrote the Annals in 
 the year 1830 for delivery before the Lyceum then organized 
 there. He afterwards removed to the West and settled in Roches- 
 ter, Indiana. The Annals are now for the first time printed, a 
 copy being used for the purpose which was sent in 1861 to friends 
 in Sharon by the author's son, Vernon Gould, M. D., of Rochester. 
 
 TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION, &c. 
 
 SHARON, situated in the county of Norfolk, is ten 
 miles from Dedham, the county seat, and eighteen 
 miles from Boston, the capital of the state. 
 
 It is bounded on the north by Dedham and Canton, 
 on the east by Stoughton, on the southeast and south 
 by Easton and Mansfield (from which it is divided by 
 the "Old Colony Line") and Foxborough, and on the 
 west by Walpole. 
 
 The surface is generally rough and hilly, affording 
 excellent grass lands. The southwestern portion, more 
 level, with a light loamy soil is better suited for tillage. 
 
 The more remarkable hills are Rattle Snake hill on 
 the east, and Moose hill on the west — the latter being 
 the highest point of land [except the Blue Hills] be- 
 
4 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIKTV. 
 
 tween the waters of Massachusetts and Narraganset 
 bays. 
 
 Directly between these hills lies Massapoag pond, 
 a large collection of water covering about [460] acres; 
 and south of Moose hill lies Wolomolopoag pond, or 
 Billings pond, covering about 30 acres. This pond is 
 very deep, having neither inlet or outlet perceivable. 
 
 The principal brooks are Massapoag brook which 
 runs out of the northeast end of Massapoag pond and 
 thence in a northerly direction about three miles to 
 Canton line, watering in its course a rich meadow 
 bottom. Hobbs brook rises east of Moose hill and runs 
 in a southerly direction about three quarters of a mile, 
 then falls into a meadow bottom where it receives a 
 number of small rills and turns its course northwardly, 
 runnino- throuo'h a rich bottom till it unites with Massa- 
 poag brook near Canton line, and forms the principal 
 stream of the east branch of Neponset river. Taphole 
 brook rises west of Moose hill and runs in a northerly 
 direction three or four miles, and falls into the west 
 branch of Neponset river, forming the line between 
 Dedham and Sharon for a considerable distance in the 
 latter part of its course. 
 
 Two or three considerable brooks rise in the 
 southerly part of the town, and run south and finally 
 find their outlet in Narrao^anset bav. The town is sfen- 
 erally well watered and contains much excellent land. 
 
 MINERALS. 
 
 The town abounds in rich iron ore of the kind 
 called bog ore, a variety of which known as shot ore is 
 collected from Massapoag pond which is very rich, but 
 the iron is rather too hard and brittle for many pur- 
 poses. 
 
 A hill about three fourths of a mile north of the 
 village contains almost an inexhaustible quantity of ore, 
 
SHARON HISTOKICAI. SOCIETY. 5 
 
 thought to contain silver, but no professed mineralogist 
 has to my knowledge ever examined it. 
 
 MAILS AND POST OFFICES. 
 
 A mail is carried over the road which bounds the 
 town on the east, every day, which is opened at the 
 office situated at the northeast corner of the town 
 (Cobb's); and a cross mail is carried once a week 
 through the middle of the town and opened at the Cen- 
 tre office. The population of the town: in 1810 there 
 were 1000 inhabitants; in 1820, loio; and in 1830 there 
 were 1024. 
 
 CIVIL HISTORY. 
 
 The town of Dorchester originally included Milton, 
 Canton, Stoughton, Sharon, Foxborough and a part of 
 Dedham. 
 
 A part of Foxborough was once set off to Wren- 
 tham, but was set back again when that town was incor- 
 porated in 1778. 
 
 All that part of Dorchester south of Blue Hill, or, 
 in the language of the records, "beyond the Blue Hills," 
 was incorporated about 1700 — into a town in 1726, or 
 precinct about 1 707 — which was called Stoughton, from 
 Mr. William Stoughton, one of the Dorchester Com- 
 pany, who was the lieutenant governor appointed by the 
 crown under the charter of William and Mary. 
 
 The first precinct, or parish, in Stoughton was that 
 part of the town now called Canton. What is now 
 Stoughton was the third parish. 
 
 Sharon including a part of Foxborough was the 
 second parish or precinct, and the first settlement was 
 commenced about the time of the incorporation of 
 Stoughton precinct, near Wolomolopoag, or Billings 
 pond, as it has since been called from the first settlers. 
 
 The first house was built on the spot where Mr. 
 
6 Sr-iARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 Enoch Talbot's house now stands, and was for n^any 
 years a noted tavern. 
 
 The Roe Buck tavern was another noted stopping 
 place built soon after the Billings tavern on the spot 
 where Simon Gould lives, near the Dedham line. 
 
 The old post road from Boston to Providence ran 
 by the Roe Buck, over High Plain, west of Moose hill, 
 then turning to the left passed by the Billings tavern, 
 and thence throuo'h Attleborou^'h. Over this road the 
 mail was carried on horseback once a week. There 
 were no post ofiftces betw^een these places, and the mail 
 carrier was not confined to any particular route. 
 
 It appears not to have been more than twenty or 
 thirL\- years fron^ the first settlement before the town 
 became generally settled. In 1740 the inhabitants began 
 to build a meeting house on "Pole Plain," as it was then 
 called, near the site of the present house of the First 
 Congregational Parish. 
 
 In June of the same vear a j^etition was presented 
 to the Council praying that the westerly part of 
 Stoughton might be erected into a separate town or 
 precinct, julv 2nd an order was sent down from the 
 Council to the House of Representatives, and concurred 
 in by them, for erecting a precinct agreeably to the 
 prayer of the petitioners, and approved by Gov. Belcher 
 the same clay. 
 
 July 18 the first precinct meeting was held for the 
 choice of officers. 
 
 August 6. "Voted that the precinct will support 
 preaching in the meeting house where it now stands," 
 and "That a tax of ^100 be granted to support the same 
 and other charges." 
 
 It seems that the location of the meeting house was 
 not satisfactory to all, for the subject was agitated in a 
 precinct meeting December 17th when it was "Voted to 
 confirme the meeting house for the public worship of 
 God where it now stands." 
 
SHARO>f HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 A committee was chosen to petition the Dorchester 
 Proprietors for the use of the ministerial meadow for 
 the use of the ministry in this parish. 
 
 In consequence of this petition, the Proprietors 
 gave the meadow w^hich is now held by the First Parish 
 for the use of the minister of the parish. The commit- 
 tee was empowered "to commence suit in law upon any 
 person or persons who shall trespass on said meadow or 
 improve it to any other purpose than the use of the 
 ministry in this precinct, and to meet a committee that 
 shall be chosen in the First Precinct (if they shall seek 
 therefor) and propose terms of agreement and re])ort at 
 an adjourned meeting." 
 
 At an adjourned meeting August 2nd the commit- 
 tee made a report which was accepted, in substance as 
 follows — That the meadow shall be divided between the 
 first and second precincts in proportion (exclusive of 
 Indian lands) to the quantity of land in each precinct. 
 An agent was chosen on the part of the precinct to 
 measure the Cjuantity of land in each precinct, and a 
 committee to divide the meadow according to the 
 report. 
 
 The committee chosen June 28 procured a vote of 
 the Proprietors to explain their intention in the donation 
 of the meadow, from which it appears to have been the 
 intention that it should be for the use of the ministry in 
 the second precinct only. 
 
 August Sth 1744, the district "vote that in conse- 
 quence of the explanatory vote of the Proprietors con- 
 cerning the meadow at Renolds' Misery meadow, the 
 former proceedings were illegal and null." "Voted to give 
 Rev. Mr. Curtis the production of the meadow." 
 
 The first report of the state of the treasury was 
 read March 12, 1744, when it appeared that the treas- 
 urer had only received ^105, 6s., and this was almost 
 four years after the incorporation of the precinct. 
 
 At the same meeting, "Voted to allow the clerk 
 
SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 40s., old tenor, for his services up to the 24th of March 
 1744"' — less than a quarter of a dollar a year! 
 
 August 8, 1 744, " Voted to get Rev. Mr. Curtis his 
 firewood, and an offer was made to get it for £14, old 
 tenor, and accepted." It is not probable he consumed 
 less than 20 cords per year, which cost only about 33 
 cents per cord delivered. The average cost of wood for 
 the last fifteen years has been three and one half dollars, 
 showing an advance of almost one thousand per cent 
 in the article of wood in about seventy years. 
 
 October 15. The precinct was divided into three 
 school districts ; and voted to divide the school money 
 according to the proportion of the province tax ; and 
 this has been the practice generally since, and is prob- 
 ably the most expedient and equitable method that can 
 be adopted. 
 
 September 1750, was made the first grant that was 
 computed in lawful money, the computation before being 
 in old tenor. 
 
 The new style was adopted in September 1752. 
 
 The precinct continued to increase in wealth and 
 population, and in 1765 the inhabitants became am- 
 bitious of having the precinct erected into a town. 
 
 March 20, " Voted to have an article inserted in the 
 next town meeting warrant, to see if the town will set 
 off the second parish to be a distinct town." 
 
 The consent of the town having been obtained, a 
 committee was chosen May 28, " to solicit the Great and 
 General Court of this province to see if said Court will 
 set off the second precinct to be a distinct township or 
 district, as said Court shall order." 
 
 In June following, an act passed the Council and 
 House of Representatives to incorporate the second 
 precinct in the town of Stoughton into a district by the 
 name of Stoughtonham, which was approved by Gov. 
 Bernard June 21, 1765. 
 
 This act provided that the district should be vested 
 
SHARON HISTORICAr, SOCIETV. 9 
 
 with all the powers and privileges of a town, "excepting 
 only the privilege of sending a representative to the 
 General Court ;" and that the district might join with 
 the town of Stoughton in the choice of representative 
 to the Assembly, who might be chosen indifferently 
 from the town or district. It further enacted that the 
 tow^n of Stoughton shall pay to said district of Stough- 
 tonham, yearly and every year, their proportionable part 
 of the income of all the money that is appropriated to 
 the use of schools in Stoughton, and also the propor- 
 tionable part of said Stoughton's part of the incomes of 
 two farms that were appropriated by the Dorchester 
 Proprietors for the use of schools in Stoughton ; one of 
 w^hich is now annexed to the tow^n of Dedham and com- 
 monly called White's farm : the other is now annexed to 
 to the town of Wrentham and commonly called the 
 Hewes farm. The first district meeting was held July 
 8, 1765. 
 
 The inquiry has often been made, how the school 
 farms given by the Dorchester Proprietors should be 
 without the limits of their grants. In Worthington's 
 History of Dedham, he says, in 1728, "the town vote 
 that if some inhabitants in Stous^hton will unite with 
 those in the south part of the town in a petition to be 
 made a parish, it will consent thereto." In 1730 the 
 second parish is incorporated. This is two years before 
 the incorporation of the second precinct in Dedham. 
 The White farm was situated a little within the limits of 
 the second parish in Dedham, and the words of the 
 statute, "is now annexed" See. seem to imply that it was 
 formerly a part of Stoughton ; and it appears prob- 
 able that this was annexed to Dedham in consequence 
 of the petition of some inhabitants of Stoughton and the 
 .south part of Dedham "to be made a parish." 
 
 The Hewes farm was hardly within the limits of 
 the present town of W>entham. A part of Dorchester 
 had been set off to the town of Wrentham before the 
 
lO SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 town of Stoughton was incorporated, and a portion of 
 this territory was set back again when Foxborough was 
 incorporated in 177^. 
 
 October 13, 1766. The inhabitants chose an agent 
 to treat with the owners of mill dams across the Nepon- 
 set river, about making a way for the fish to pass up and 
 down. 
 
 For a great many years after the settlement of the 
 town, the alewives and shad used to pass up into Massa- 
 poag pond in such plenty that, in the season of running, 
 a horse driven through the brook would kill numbers of 
 them by striking them with his feet. 
 
 When dams were erected across the streams, the 
 people complained loudly that their natural rights were 
 infringed. The legislature passed several laws for the 
 protection of the fishery, and for years great exertions 
 were made to procure a free passage for the fish. But 
 as the mills increased, the difficulties became so great 
 that the people gave up the contest, and for years no 
 alewives have been seen. 
 
 March, 1768. An agent was chosen "to join with 
 agents from Dorchester and Stoughton in defending the 
 title to the school farm near Bridgewater lately sold by 
 said towns." This farm was given, I believe, for the use 
 of the school in ancient Dorchester; but no part of the 
 product of the sale was ever received by Sharon or 
 Stoughtonham, nor can I discover the result of the suit 
 concerning the title. 
 
 The first record of perambulation of lines between 
 towns was May 1768 between Dedham and Stoughton- 
 ham; beginning at the Walpole line near the northerly 
 branch of Taphole brook, and following said brook to 
 Stoughton (now Canton) line. This line included con- 
 siderable land which two years later was annexed to 
 Dedham. 
 
 September 21, 1768. Sundry votes of the town of 
 Boston and a letter from the selectmen of Boston pro- 
 
SHARON HISTORICAF, SOCIETY. II 
 
 posing a convention to be held in Faneuil Hall Septem- 
 ber 2 2 vv^ere read, and a delegate [Job vSvvift] chosen. 
 
 February 23, 1773. After the reading of a circular 
 from the Boston Committee of correspondence, the 
 following votes were passed, — 
 
 "That under God through our forefathers we have 
 enjoyed invaluable liberties and privileges, civil and re- 
 ligious; and when we consider the worth of them and 
 how dear it cost our forefathers to purchase these for 
 themselves and for their posterity, we cannot but esteem 
 them highly, nor wonder to see the people alarmed when 
 they behold their liberties and privileges threatened and 
 invaded. 
 
 "That from what we have heard and seen, we can- 
 not but think that some of our liberties and privileges 
 have been taken from us, and others threatened, and that 
 it is an alarming crisis with us, and we have a loud call 
 in Providence to us, to imitate the prudent man who 
 'foresees the evil and hides himself.' 
 
 "That since we are bid to look to ourselves, not 
 only in spiritual but temporal respects, we look upon it 
 our duty, and it shall be our practice to use all constitu- 
 tional measures to remove the burdens we feel, and pre- 
 vent those we fear respecting our civil and religious 
 affairs and concerns. 
 
 "That our thanks are due to the Town of Boston 
 for espying of our danger and giving us warning, like 
 faithful watchmen. 
 
 "That our Deputy use his utmost interest and influ- 
 ence in Court, in a constitutional way and manner, to 
 recover what liberties and privileges have been taken 
 from us, and secure what remains; and that our clerk in- 
 form him of this. 
 
 "That we own King George the 'I'hird to be our 
 rightful Lord and Sovereign, and promise allegiance to 
 him; but the same time deny the parliamentary power 
 
12 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 of taxing: us, beincr without the realm of England and 
 not represented there. 
 
 "That a copy of these votes be inclosed in a letter 
 and sent to the committee of correspondence in Boston 
 by our clerk." 
 
 These votes breathe the spirit of the times, and 
 show how well the people understood their rights. 
 
 June 30, 1773. A committee was chosen to join a 
 committee from Stoughton to petition the General Court 
 for leave to sell the ministerial lot on Cow hill. This 
 lot called for 75 acres and was granted by the Dor- 
 chester Proprietors February 1 1, 1746 for the use of the 
 Congregational ministers (beyond the Blue Hill) in equal 
 proportions. 
 
 March i, 1774. An act passed giving leave for the 
 sale of the lot, but owing to the troubles of the times, it 
 was not sold till January 29, 1776, when it was sold for 
 38 shillings per acre ; and upon the measurement it 
 proved to contain 104 acres, and the proceeds amounting 
 to ^194, I2S. were lodged with the treasurer of 
 Stoughton. 
 
 Nothing more is heard of this fund till September 
 12, 1793, when a committee chosen for the purpose re- 
 ported that the treasurer of Stoughton had received the 
 principal and interest of this fund and paid it out with- 
 out order, and it could not be ascertained to whom. 
 
 March 3rd of the year [1794] the town voted to 
 bring an action against the town of Stoughton for this 
 fund, if the ministers for whom it was given would pay 
 half of the expense. 
 
 1773. A number of inhabitants of the southwest 
 part of the district petition to be set off as a separate 
 town or district. 
 
 March, 1774. A committee chosen to join a com- 
 mittee of Stoughton to enquire of the treasurer or com- 
 mittee of Dorchester after our part of the incomes of the 
 school farms, reported that they examined the matter. 
 
SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 13 
 
 and find said incomes and rents had been expended in 
 carrying on a law suit with the Hewes, and that there 
 was due to this district and Stoughton about ^3. 
 
 August 29, 1774. The district vote unanimously 
 not to comply with the late acts of Parliament. Voted 
 to send a delegate to the convention for Suffolk at Ded- 
 ham, to deliberate and determine upon all such matters 
 as the distressed circumstances of this Province may re- 
 quire. Also voted to allow the district's proportion of 
 the charge of the Congress at Philadelphia. 
 
 September 19. Agreeably to the recommendations 
 of the convention, the district appointed a committee of 
 correspondence, with power to appoint one or more per- 
 sons to meet with persons appointed by other towns, or 
 the Province convention, if they deem necessary or 
 needful. 
 
 January 2, 1775. Chose Mr. [Job] Swift delegate 
 to meet with the Provincial Congress at Cambridge. 
 
 Voted strictly to adhere to the Resolves of the 
 American Congress. 
 
 Chose a committee of safety to see that the inhab- 
 itants adhered strictly to the resolves of the American 
 Congress ; that the money be collected and paid when 
 it shall be most for the public good, to suppress discords, 
 outrages, disturbances, &c. 
 
 Voted to indemnify the assessors for not making 
 returns to H. Grey, Esq., the province treasurer, and the 
 collector for not paying the money, except they have 
 orders from the Provincial Congress or House of Rep- 
 resentatives. 
 
 February 3. Voted to enlist about one quarter of 
 the muster list for minute men till the first day of 
 December. The minute men to exercise two half- 
 days in a week, and receive one shilling each per half- 
 day. Thirty minute men were enlisted which would 
 give 120 as the number of militia in the district. 
 
 March 13. Voted to give the minute men ten shil- 
 
14 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 lings each towards equipping themselves with bayonets 
 and boxes. 
 
 In March chose a committee to divide the school 
 bonds with the town of Stoughton. 
 
 Voted that the province tax be paid to Henry Gard- 
 ner of Stow. 
 
 The last district meeting was held December 4, 
 1775, and in the winter of 1776 the district was erected 
 into a town. 
 
 March 11, 1776. Voted that the selectmen shall pe- 
 tition to have the name of the town altered to Washing- 
 ton, in honor of George Washington. This petition was 
 not granted. 
 
 Ma)' 30. Voted that if the Honorable Congress 
 shall for the safety of the colonies declare them indepen- 
 dent of the Kincrdom of Great Britain, the inhabitants of 
 this town will pledge their lives and fortunes to support 
 them in that measure. And voted to choose a commit- 
 tee to give instructions to the representative respecting 
 the above vote. 
 
 1777. Twenty five soldiers were hired for the U. 
 S. service with a bounty of ^"17, for three years or dur- 
 ino- the war. The bountv was afterwards increased to 
 £ij, 6s. 8d. annually. 
 
 February, 177S. The representative was instructed 
 to vote for the confederation of the states under the old 
 constitution. 
 
 March, i77<S. The town voted to set off the inhab- 
 itants of the southwest part of the town, provided they 
 pay their proportional part of the town charges until 
 they be incorporated by the General Court. In June 
 following the town of Foxborough was incorporated. 
 
 May 18. The committee to divide the school 
 bonds report in substance as follows, which was accepted, 
 to wit. that the town of Stoughton should retain ^305, 
 19s. lod. for their part of the fund, and that Stoughton- 
 ham should receive ^148, 2s. 6d. for their part of the 
 
SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. I 5 
 
 fund. The town of Stoughton to be discharged from all 
 claims for money &c. arising from the sale of the school 
 lot near Braintree and the Hewes farm in Wrentham. 
 
 Voted that this sum, equal to $460.41, shall be kept 
 as a fund, and the interest only expended for the use of 
 schools in Stoughtonham. The town still held its part 
 of the White farm in Dedham undivided. 
 
 At the same meeting voted unanimously (77 persons 
 present) to disapprove of the constitution and form of 
 government of Massachusetts Bay. 
 
 In 1779 a new levy of soldiers was required, but 
 owing to the depression of the currency and other dis- 
 tresses, it was very difificult to enlist the quota of men. 
 
 At meeting August 4, the town offered a bounty of 
 $15.00 per man for nine months, the town also becoming 
 chargeable with the maintenance of their families while 
 they were in the service; and committees were chosen 
 from time to time to buy and distribute grain and other 
 provisions for the soldiers' families. 
 
 Lieutenant Royal Kollock was chosen a delegate 
 from this town to the convention, to be held at Cam- 
 bridge, September i, to form a new state constitution. 
 
 Attempts were made at this time to fix the prices 
 of merchandise and country produce, in order to pre- 
 vent the evil effects of the depreciation of the currency. 
 A convention was held in Concord in October to effect 
 these objects, but this town voted not to send a dele- 
 gate. 
 
 March 27, 1780. The committee chosen in Novem- 
 ber to settle the affairs with Foxborough report an 
 agreement of a division line, and that the interests of 
 the towns be separate from September i, 1778. That 
 Foxborough pay one seventh of the town expense to 
 that time, and receive one seventh of the ammunition 
 and school money. 
 
 May 27. A committee previously chosen to con- 
 sult on the constitution and declaration of rights re- 
 
l6 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 ported that they had carefully consulted both. That in 
 the declaration of rights they found nothing material 
 against which to object. That the form of government 
 was well formed; but in the details they objected to 
 several sections, and in particular that it did not provide 
 for the holding of probate courts and establishing a reg- 
 istry of deeds in each town. This has been a favorite 
 theme of complaint with the inhabitants of this town, 
 from its first incor]3oration to nearl)^ the present time. 
 
 October, 1780. The currency had so much depre- 
 ciated that it was found necessary to grant a tax of 
 ^'100,000 to defray the town expenses. 
 
 In December, 1781, it was voted to take one hard 
 dollar for taxes in lieu of $150 of paper. 
 
 I will digress here to pay a just tribute to the mem- 
 ory of Mr. Benjamin Gannett, a wealthy farmer, whose lib- 
 erality and 7X'al in the cause of liberty was unparalleled 
 in this town. Whenever an order was received for beef 
 or clothing for the army, Mr. Gannett was always fore- 
 most in procuring it. Many times he bought cattle, 
 killed them, and furnished the quantity of beef required; 
 and \\hen the money was raised and paid him, it would 
 hardly reimburse the tenth part of the cost. He usually 
 raised an abundance of grain, but so liberal was he of it, 
 that scarcely a year passed during the war but he would 
 be oblio-ed to buy for his own family before the end of 
 the season. 
 
 1783. The name of the town was changed to 
 Sharon. 
 
 June, 1784. Chose a committee to view the school 
 farm, and see whether it is best to sell it. This com- 
 mittee reported that it would not be for the interest of 
 the town to sell. 
 
 1787. A new meeting house was erected. In 1790 
 a committee was chosen to sell the school farm in 
 Dedham. 
 
 In the summer of 1790 the Dorchester Proprietors 
 
SHARON HISTORICAF- SOCIKTY. 1/ 
 
 held a meeting and had a settlement of all their con- 
 cerns. This was the last meeting the Proprietors have 
 ever held. Those who lived in Sharon gave their share 
 of the dividend for the purpose of buying a bell. De- 
 cember 13. The town vote to accept the generous 
 donation of the Dorchester Proprietors. 
 
 1799. The town settled the Rev. Mr. Whitaker in 
 the ministry as successor to Rev. Mr. Curtis. 
 
 From this period the public acts are mostly identi- 
 fied with the great political parties of the times, and I 
 shall close this article with a few brief notices. 
 
 1809. ^ number of soldiers having been detached 
 for the U. S. service, the town vote to make up their 
 pay, $12 per month, if called into active service. 
 
 18 1 2. A similar vote was passed. In 1814 the 
 town vote $8 per month to those soldiers who were 
 drafted, in addition to their regular pay. 
 
 1820. The question of the expediency of sending 
 delegates to the convention for amending the constitu- 
 tion was carried in the afifirmative with great unanimity, 
 and the amendment caused little division in the minds of 
 the inhabitants. 
 
 1822. The parish obtained an order from the Leg- 
 islature for choosing officers, and since then the town 
 and parish have been distinct organizations. 
 
 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 
 
 The people of this town had no sooner become suf- 
 ficiently numerous to form a parish, than they erected a 
 house and began to cast about for a minister. Prov- 
 idence sent them the Rev. Philip Curtis of Roxbury, 
 who was settled in December 1741. 
 
 Mr. Curtis was a graduate of Harvard University, 
 a man of respectable abilities, but of severe temper. If 
 w^e may judge from his manuscript sermons, he was an 
 Arminian in principle — more in favor of practical re- 
 ligion than speculative doctrines. 
 
l8 SHARON HISTORICAI. SOCIETY. 
 
 In the course of a very long ministry, he was in- 
 variably respected by his parishioners; and when in 
 1797 be became so feeble and infirm that he could not 
 supply the pulpit, they voted him his full salary for the 
 year, in the course of which he resigned the ministry, 
 having been the faithful pastor of his people for near 
 fifty-six years. 
 
 December, 1798. The Rev. Jonathan Whitaker 
 was invited to settle and accepted the invitation and 
 was ordained February 1 7, 1 799. He also was a grad- 
 uate of Harvard University. His talents were of a high 
 order, and his literary acquirements were very consid- 
 erable, to say the least. In his principles he was liberal, 
 harmonizing with those who have since been styled 
 Unitarians. 
 
 Mr. Whitaker was a high minded man, though of 
 an irritable disposition, but possessing withal many am- 
 iable traits of character. He was for a number of years 
 after his settlement extremely popular with the people, 
 not only of this, but of the neighboring towns. But hav- 
 ing some difficulty with individuals, chiefly on account 
 of political opinions, and being constitutionally impru- 
 dent and free in his remarks, a considerable opposition 
 was at length raised against him. 
 
 In October, 181 5, the town chose a committee to 
 treat with Mr. Whitaker and see upon what considera- 
 tion he would resign the ministry. Mr. Whitaker 
 refused to treat with them till ofiiicially informed that a 
 majority of the people had a disrespect for him. Where- 
 upon the town immediately voted to discontinue him in 
 the ministry. This measure, however, was premature 
 and ineffectual. 
 
 Mr. Whitaker afterwards proposed calling a council 
 to settle the difficulties. This the town refused to con- 
 cur in; and in November, by the advice of his church, 
 Mr. Whitaker invited an ex parte council. 
 
 In December, however, the town united in calling 
 
SHARON HISTORICAL S0CIP:TY. I9 
 
 a mutual council. This council proceeded to examine 
 the charges, and finally gave their opinion that nothing- 
 was proved to injure the Christian or ministerial charac- 
 ter of Mr, Whitaker, but considering the wide breach 
 between him and his people, they advised that he should 
 ask a dismission, which he did; and February 21, 1816, 
 he was accordingly dismissed from his pastoral office. 
 
 Some years previous to this, however, a cHvision 
 was made by the erection of the Baptist Society. 
 
 In November, 1817, the Rev. Thomas Rich was in- 
 vited to become the pastor of the Congregational 
 Society, who being taken sick did not accept the invita- 
 tion. 
 
 From this time until 182 i the difficulties seemed to 
 increase, when the Calvinistic part of the society seceded 
 and formed a separate society, and invited the Rev. Mr. 
 Felt to become their pastor. The original society called 
 to the ministry the Rev. Samuel Brimblecom. Both of 
 these gentlemen were ordained in December. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Felt resigned his ministry about two 
 years after his ordination, and was succeeded by the 
 Rev. Jonathan Curtis who was ordained in 1825 and still 
 {1830) continues. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Brimblecom was dismissed from the minis- 
 try in the first parish November 14, 1825, since which 
 ■time the parish has been without a regular pastor to this 
 time (1830.) 
 
 The Baptist Society, soon after its formation, .set- 
 tled the Rev. Mr. Waitt, who stopped but a short time. 
 The church has since (to 1830) been without an ordained 
 preacher. 
 
 SCHOOLS AND SCHOOT, POUNDS. 
 
 The town is at present divided into five school dis- 
 tricts, in each of which a school is kept from six to nine 
 months in each year. 
 
 The funds arising from the sale of lands amount to 
 
20 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 $850. Ill 1826 a number of persons, who were originally 
 inhabitants of Sharon and now residing in Boston and 
 vicinity, made a donation to the town of $1860 which is 
 called the "Sharon Friend School Fund," and committed 
 to the care of trustees annually chosen by the town. 
 
 The present annual appropriation of the town for 
 the support of schools is S530, which together with the 
 interest of the funds make nearly $700 per year for 
 schools. 
 
 MILLS AND MANUFACTURES. 
 
 In September, 18 10, the town voted to give leave 
 to Mr. Joseph Hewins to build a dam in the road near 
 Mr. Samuel Hewins' house, and the year following was 
 built the first cotton factory in Sharon. 
 
 Two or three years after, a factory was built under 
 the superintendence of Mr. Seth Boyden Jr. for the 
 making of files, which was kept in operation for a few 
 years, but was discontinued; and the building has been 
 successively improved for the manufacture of nails, wool- 
 lens and cotton, which last is now carried on to advan- 
 tage. 
 
 In the south part of the town is a small manufac- 
 tory for nails and pelisse wadding; and another nail and 
 carding manufactory on the Massapoag stream, with two 
 grist mills, constitutes the present mill interest of the 
 town. 
 
 Formerly the manufacture of straw bonnets em- 
 ployed many of the females in town, and the business is 
 still a prominent feature in the business of the time. 
 
 The manufacture of palm leaf hats has engaged the 
 attention of a considerable number of hands the past 
 three years. 
 
 Shoes are also made to a considerable extent, and 
 this branch of business is rapidly increasing. 
 
 The raising of mulberry and rearing of silk worms 
 
SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 21 
 
 are receiving considerable attention, and will probably 
 become a profitable business. 
 
 For many years much bitterness has been manifested 
 in political and religious controversies in the community, 
 which, however, are now happily wearing away. 
 
 The people have always been liberal in the support 
 of schools, and are generally well informed. Societies 
 and associations have been formed to diffuse knowledge 
 and cherish social virtues, which in their little circles 
 have been productive of much good. 
 
 The End. 
 
A SURVB^YOR'S SONG. 
 
 We have given this title to the following lines which are 
 found on an ancient plan ordered to be made by the Dorchester 
 Proprietors in 1713 and completed in 1730. The plan is deposited 
 in the Registry of Deeds in Dedham and covers the southerly half 
 of Sharon with other land to the east and west. James Blake 
 Jr. was the head surveyor, and possibly was the author of the 
 verses. They express the honest endeavor of the Surveyor's party 
 to do their "duly still," and their desire to meet the approval of 
 "after times.'' In one line, where a word is illegible, the word 
 "course" has been conjecturally inserted. 
 Upon our Needle we depend, 
 
 In ye thick woods our course to knov/. 
 Then after it ye Chain Extend, 
 
 For we must gain our Distance so. 
 
 Over ye Hills, through brushey Plains, 
 And hidious swamps where is no track. 
 
 Cross Rivers, Brooks, we with much Pains 
 Are forc'd to travil forth cSc back. 
 
 Briars & Thorns our Flesh Doth Tear, 
 And Stubborn Brush our Garments rend, 
 
 Our Instruments need much Repair, 
 Labour and Toil our Spirits Spend. 
 
 Sometimes with heat we are oppresed, 
 
 Then Flys and Serpents they annoy us; 
 Sometimes for cold we have no rest. 
 
 And Sudden heats & colds destroy us. 
 Our fare is mean, our Sutferint^ great. 
 
 Amidst all which our [course] must keep, 
 And work come Right, our lines run strait, 
 
 Al! Pllotted be before we sleep. 
 
SHAKON mSTOKICAL SOCIIiTY. 23 
 
 When weary Steps has brought us home 
 And Needle, Chain have some respite, 
 
 Scale and Dividers in use come 
 To fit all for next morning light. 
 
 And though we're carefull in ye same 
 
 As hast & obsticles will yield, 
 Yet after times they will us blame 
 
 When Rough wild woods are made a Field. 
 
 'F'hree of ye Gentlemen Improv'd 
 
 Did not survive ye work in hand; 
 One quickly after was removed, 
 
 Through Mercy all ye Rest yet stand. 
 
 May we our Generation serue 
 
 According to God's Holy will; 
 And from his Precepts never svverue, 
 
 Labour to do our Duty still: 
 
 And all be ready for our Death; 
 
 That whensoe're our Change shall be, 
 We may with Joy resign our Breath, 
 
 And from our Labours Rest may we. 
 May 8th, 1730. 
 
ORIGIN OF THE SHARON HISTORICAL 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 The Sharon Historical Society had its origin in the 
 fact that in the year 1886, Mr. WiUiam Richards, who 
 lived in that part of the town called Pigeon Swamp, 
 informed the Selectmen that in his family were many 
 relics of ancient origin which he was desirous that the 
 town should have, care for and save for the pleasure and 
 profit of his townsmen for all time. 
 
 In response to his liberality the Board inserted in 
 the warrant for the annual meeting of that year the 
 following article: 
 
 "To see what action the town will take in relation 
 to the acceptance and preservation by the town of 
 certain historic relics belonging to the Moses Richards 
 family and others now offered as a s^ift to the town." 
 
 Under this article the following vote was passed 
 March i, A. D. 1886. 
 
 "Voted. That the Selectmen are hereby instructed 
 and directed to receive such articles of historic interest 
 as may be offered as a gift to the town, by the Moses 
 Richards family, and also such other gifts of a like nature 
 offered by others, and to make such provisions for their 
 preservation as they in their judgment deem suitable 
 and proper." 
 
 At the annual town meeting of the year 1887, an 
 ancient account book dating from 1762 to 1770, both 
 years inclusive, formerly belonging to Benjamin Hewins 
 who for many years served the town as Clerk, was pre- 
 sented to the town by Mrs. Olive Eleanor (Johnson) 
 Choate of Beverly. The presentation was made by Mr. 
 Solomon Talbot in behalf of Mrs. Choate. The town 
 
SHARON' HISTORICAL SOCIKTY. 25 
 
 voted to accept the same, and a vote of thanks was ex- 
 tended to the donor. 
 
 In this connection it may be well to state that Mr. 
 Herbert L. Hevvins has donated another book written 
 by his grandfather, Mr. Benjamin Hewins, above men- 
 tioned, of accounts kept by him as store keeper in 
 Sharon; also that many other persons followed the 
 example thus set, until the town ofificers felt that some 
 permanent place should be found for their exhibition 
 and preservation. 
 
 At the annual town meeting held March 5, 1888, it 
 was voted — "That a committee of three be appointed 
 by the Moderator to procure the relics and antiquarian 
 articles donated to the town by the Moses Richards family, 
 and that the same be labelled, numbered and recorded in 
 a book, with the history of each article as far as can be 
 ascertained, and the same be deposited in some suitable 
 place in the Town House. Solomon Talbot, Jonathan R. 
 Packard and the town clerk Joel P. Hewins were chosen 
 as the committee. 
 
 Afterwards, at a special town meeting held Novem- 
 ber 9, 1895, it was 
 
 "Voted. To add to the committee the following 
 persons: the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, 
 the Town Clerk, Mrs. Emma M. Bowman, and Mrs. 
 Eliza J. Kempton." 
 
 This committee soon organized with Town Clerk 
 George H. Whittemore as chairman, Mary Ella Hixson, 
 secretary; and Eliza J. Kempton, custodian. Mr. Jona- 
 than R. Packard donated cases for the reception of the 
 articles. Since the committee was thus re-organized, 
 many other valuable gifts have been added to the collec- 
 tion, which is kept in a room on the first fioor of the 
 town hall. 
 
 Among the plans of the Sharon Antiquarian Com- 
 mittee, the matter of an Historical Society has from 
 
26 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 time to time been discussed and also the matter of a 
 written town history. 
 
 In 1903, Mr. Eugene Tappan was chosen by the 
 town a member of the committee. At the annual meet- 
 ing of the committee held April 15, 1903, Eugene 
 Tappan and Loring M, Monk were chosen to formulate 
 plans for the incorporation of an Historical Society. 
 They reported their doings at a subsequent meeting, and 
 their report was accepted and adopted by the Sharon 
 Antiquarian Committee; and through the efforts of the 
 Antiquarian Committee the Sharon Historical Society- 
 was incorporated. 
 
 AGREEMENT OF ASSOCIATION. 
 
 We, whose names are hereto subscribed, do, by this 
 Agreement, associate ourselves with the intention to 
 constitute a corporation according to the provisions of 
 the one hundred and twenty-fifth Chapter of the Re- 
 vised Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and 
 the Acts in amendment thereof and addition thereto. 
 The name by which the Corporation shall be known is 
 the Sharon Historical Society. 
 
 The Corporation is constituted for the purpose of 
 prosecuting antiquarian and historical matters. The 
 place within which the Corporation is established or 
 located is the Town of Sharon within said Common- 
 wealth. 
 
 The Corporation has no Capital Stock. 
 
 In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands 
 this fifteenth day of June in the year nineteen hundred 
 and three. 
 
 Solomon Talbot, William R. Mann, Alice M. Drake, 
 Eugene Tappan, George H. Whittemore, and ninety- 
 eight others. 
 
 At a meeting duly called of the subscribers to the 
 agreement, held in the lower town hall, August 27, 1903, 
 
SHAKON HI.~.TORICAL SOCIETY. 2/ 
 
 the corporation was organized by the adoption of by- 
 laws and election of officers. 
 
 BY-LAWS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 1. The Corporate name shall be the Sharon Historical 
 Society. 
 
 2. The corporation is for historical and antiquarian purposes. 
 
 3. The officers shall be a president, three vice presidents, a 
 recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, a 
 custodian, and a board of nine directors, consisting of the presi- 
 dent, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, treasurer, 
 custodian, and four other members, 
 
 4. The first board of officers elected at the organization of 
 the society shall serve until the annual meeting in April, 1904, or 
 until their successors are elected. After said organization, the 
 officers shall be elected by ballot at the April meeting of the 
 society, and shall serve for one year or until their successors are 
 chosen. All officers shall perform their duties under the direction 
 of the directors. 
 
 5. Vacancies in office during the year may be filled by the 
 directors. 
 
 6. The president, or, in his absence, one of the vice presi- 
 dents shall preside at meetings of the society. The president shall 
 preside at meetings of the directors, 
 
 7. The treasurer shall have charge of the funds o; the soci- 
 ety, collect fees and dues, and pay bills approved by the directors. 
 He shall furnish a bond with surety or sureties satisfactory to the 
 directors: and any premium for surety shall be paid by the 
 society. 
 
 8. The recording secretary shall keep the records of meetings 
 of the society and meetings of the directors, and give notices of 
 meetings of the society. 
 
28 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 9. The corresponding secretary shall attend to the corre- 
 spondence of the society. 
 
 10. The custodian shall have charge of the property, other 
 than funds, of the society. 
 
 11. The board of directors, except as otherwise provided in 
 the by-laws, shall have full power and authority to do all acts and 
 transact all business concerning the society, as they may deem 
 best. 
 
 12. The society shall hold meetings on the last Thursday of 
 January, April, July and October in each year. Notice of each 
 meeting shall be given to the members by the recording secretary 
 five days, at least, before the date of the meeting. Where several 
 members are in one household, one notice shall be sufficient for 
 the household. 
 
 13. Meetings of the directors may be called at any time by 
 the president, or by two directors, on at least two days' notice to 
 each director. 
 
 14. A quorum of the society shall consist of nine members. 
 A quorum of the board of directors shall consist of five members. 
 
 15. Any person of lawful age may become a member of the 
 society upon being proposed by the board of directors and accepted 
 at a meeting of the society. 
 
 16. A membership fee of one dollar shall be required of each 
 member upon joining the society. 
 
 17. Each member shall pay an annual due of fifty cents at 
 the April meeting of the society. 
 
 18. Failure to pay a due for six months, may, at the option 
 of the society, be treated as resignation of the member. 
 
 19. Reports shall be presented by the officers at the April 
 meeting of the society. 
 
 20. The by-laws, or any of them, may be amended or re- 
 pealed by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting at 
 a regular meeting of the society, provided notice of the proposed 
 action is inserted in the notices of the meeting. 
 
 [A proposal is pending to amend the by-laws by adding an 
 
SHAKON HKSTORICAL SOCIETY. 29 
 
 auditor to the list of officers, and by providing that the summer 
 quarterly meeting shall be held on the Thursday in Old Home 
 
 Week.] 
 
 FIRST BOARD O?^ OFFICERS. 
 
 President, John G. Phillips; vice-presidents, Solo- 
 mon Talbot, William R. Mann, D. Webster Pettee; 
 recording secretary, George H. Whittemore; corre- 
 sponding secretary, Eugene Tappan; treasurer, Arthur 
 D. Colburn; custodian, Loring M. Monk; additional 
 directors, Edmund H. Hewins, Timothy F. Ouinn, Alice 
 M. Drake, Emma A. Baker. [Amanda M. Eddy was 
 afterwards chosen a director in place of Alice M. Drake, 
 deceased.] 
 
 CHARTER. 
 
 No. 10202. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
 
 Be it Known, That whereas John G. Phillips, Solomon Talbot, 
 William R. Mann, I). W. Pettee, George H. Whittemore, Eugene 
 Tappan, Arthur Dwight Colburn, Loring M. Monk, Edmund H, 
 Hewins, Timothy F. Quinn, Alice M. Drake, Emma A. Baker and 
 others have associated themselves with the intention of forming a 
 corporation under the name of The Sharon Historical Society, for 
 the purpose of prosecuting antiquarian and historical matters, and 
 have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this Common- 
 wealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certifi- 
 cate of the President, Treasurer and Directors of said corporation, 
 duly approved by the Commissioner of Corporations and recorded 
 in this office; 
 
 Now, Therefore, I, William M. Olin, Secretary of the 
 Commonwealth of Massachusettts, do hereby certify that said 
 John G. Phillips, Solomon Talbot, William R. Mann, D. W. 
 Pettee, George H. Whittemore, Eugene Tappan, Arthur Dwight 
 Colburn, Loring M. Monk, Edmund H. Hewins, Timothy F. Quinn, 
 Alice M, Drake, Emma A. Baker, their associates and successors, 
 
30 SF^ARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 are legally organized and established as, and are hereby made an 
 existing corporation under the name of The Sharon Historical 
 Society, with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the 
 limitations, duties and restrictions, which by law appertain 
 thereto. 
 
 Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, and the 
 seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed this 
 eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 nine hundred and three. 
 
 [seal OF THE Wm. M. OlIN, 
 
 COMMONWEALTH.] Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
 
 QUARTERLY MEETINGS. 
 
 Sharon, October 29, 1903. 
 The first quarterly meeting of the Society was 
 called to order at 8 o'clock p. m. President John G. 
 Phillips in the chair, who made an interesting address 
 and introduced the following speakers: 
 
 I.^ON Gleason Hill of Dedham. 
 "Study and use of Ancient Records." 
 
 Eu(;ene Tappan. 
 "Local History an interesting study." 
 Thomas E. Grover of Canton. 
 "Life in Old Times." 
 Charles S. Curtis read a paper relating to an histor- 
 ical period of Sharon when church and state were very 
 closely connected. 
 
 Visitors were present from Brockton, Dedham, 
 Canton and Stoughton. Thanks were voted to speakers 
 and guests. After a social hour, all joined in singing, 
 "Should Old Acquaintance be forgot." 
 
 Sharon, January 28, 1904. 
 After a social half hour the second quarterly meet- 
 ing of the Society was called to order at 8.25 o'clock 
 p. M. Vice President D. W. Pettee presiding. Record- 
 ing Secretary George H. Whittemore being absent, 
 
SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 3 1 
 
 Arthur P. Fiske was elected Recording Secretary pro 
 tern. The records were read and approved. 
 
 On motion of Eugene Tappan the following resolu- 
 tion was adopted by unanimous vote: 
 
 Resolved. That the Sharon Historical Society having lost 
 one of its Directors, Mrs. Alice M. Drake, who died December 14, 
 1903, hereby expresses its appreciation of a life long citizen of 
 Sharon, who was allied to several of its old families, fond of its 
 history and much interested in the formation and work of the 
 Historical Society. 
 
 Notice of the meeting of the Stoughton Historical 
 Society on Monday, February ist, next, and invitation 
 to the members of the Sharon Historical Societv to 
 attend the meeting, was read. 
 
 Dr. Loring W. Puffer of Brockton gave an address, 
 comparing the manner of living and the morality of the 
 present generation with the past, and suggesting a 
 remedy for some of the present evils. 
 
 Dr. George W. Field gave an interesting lecture on 
 "Sharon Geology" illustrated by charts and photographs. 
 
 Eugene Tappan made a few remarks and sug- 
 gestions in relation to contribution by members to the 
 "Scrap-Book," giving the contribution of President 
 Candage of the Brookline Historical Society as an ex- 
 ample. 
 
 A letter received from President John G. Phillips 
 written at Mentone in France, was listened to with great 
 interest. 
 
 Adjourned after singing "Auld Lang Syne." The 
 meetings of the Society are at present held in the lower 
 hall of the Town House. 
 
 GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY. 
 
 From Alvin R. Alden. Files of Sharo?i Ozone, (newspaper) 
 1889 to 1894, inclusive. 
 
 From Rufus G. F. Candage, Brookline. More Gathered 
 Autumn Leaves. (A book privately printed.) 
 
32 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIKTY 
 
 From Amelia M. Clifton, Stoughton. Ancient Town Docu- 
 ments, namely : 
 
 Petition for annexation to Walpole, 1752. 
 Request for way to Walpole, 1745-6. 
 
 Teachers' pay to Damaris Bird and Elizabeth Capen, 1745. 
 Summons to held drivers, &c., to take oaths, 1729-30. 
 Request to insert article in town warrant, 1729. 
 Request to remove town meetings, 1746-7. 
 Request to lay out road to Morse's mills, 1747-8. 
 Petition of Remember Willis to keep tavern, 1751. 
 Petition to be set off to Norton, 1753. 
 From Florence Deane. My Aunt Deborah. (MS copy.) 
 From Col. Edmund Hart Hewins. Annals of the Massachu- 
 setts Charitable Mechanic Association. 
 
 From Historical Society of Oid Newbury. Brief Biographical 
 Sketches, by Robert x\. 'i'oppan. 
 
 From James P. Mackey, Brookline. 3 pamphlets. 
 From Medford l^istorical Society. Medford Plistorical Reg- 
 ister (quarterly). 
 
 From Nantucket Historical Association. 2 pamphlets. 
 From Mary C. Nye. Marietta. Ohio. The Nye Family of 
 America Association. 
 
 From John G. Phillips. Personal letters from Europe. 
 From Dr. Loring W. Putfer, Brockton. Package of 18 deeds 
 a century old, 2 plans of land, and many receipts, &c. 
 
 From Ezra Otis Swift, Boston. Framed picture of the Job 
 Swift homestead on Mountain St. 
 From Eugene Tappan. 
 
 Sharon wills and Probate Papers, a manuscript book of 
 wills and administrations down to 1793. 
 
 Natick Dictionary, by James Hammond Trumbull (an 
 Indian dictionary). 
 
 Norfolk county manual, 1876. 
 Souvenir medal of Boston Evacuation, 1901. 
 From Robert Tappan. 
 
 A large wall map of Sharon made by him for the Society. 
 From Gilbert Thompson, Washington, D. C. 2 pamphlets. 
 
SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 33 
 
 From George H. VVhittemore. 
 
 Catalogue of library, John M. Bullard, 184.8. 
 
 Memoranda of farm work and products, John M. Bullard, 
 1848. 
 
 Receipt by Niel McKay from Judith Bullard in 1781, of 
 one cow in part of his hire as a soldier. 
 
 HISTORICAL SCRAP BOOK. 
 
 The Society is making a collection of historical 
 items written or furnished by its members and friends. 
 When a sufificient number of items is received, the leaves 
 will be bound as a book, and will form a pleasant volume 
 for readino^ at the meetino^s, or for consultation in 
 private. Each person is desired to write, on the leaves 
 furnished, some interesting fact of Sharon history, or a 
 description of building, tree, landscape, walk or drive. 
 Other subjects might be anecdotes, accounts of old 
 documents, books or letters, pictures or plans, mention 
 of noted visitors and famous citizens. The following 
 articles have already been furnished: 
 
 Massapoag ball club of 1857 .... Alvin R. .-Vldcn 
 
 South Sharon school reminiscence . Elizabeth M. Billingrs 
 
 Sharon, the pioneer town of free text books, S. IngersoU Briant 
 Visit to Sharon in 1855 . . . . Rufus G. V. Candage 
 
 Proposal to change the town name to Massapoag, 
 
 George Willis Cooke 
 Boston Randall ...... Cadwallader Curry 
 
 Perley B. Davis 
 
 Sarah S. Edwards 
 
 Harriet F. Gray 
 
 William L. Haskel 
 
 Mary E. Hi.xson 
 
 Early acquaintance with Sharon 
 
 Winter of 1903-4 (clipping) 
 
 It's all gone by in Sharon 
 
 The Sharon spring .... 
 
 A Sharon widow of revolutionary times . 
 
 Blue Hill seen from the village center H. Rebecca Johnson 
 
 The Sharon Ozone newspaper . . . George Kempton 
 
 Judge Lynde's visit to his timber lands m Sharon, Eliza J. Kempton 
 
34 
 
 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 Ancient Sharon 
 
 A May day in Sharon 
 
 John C. Kimball 
 George F. Leonard 
 
 Rhymes of 187 i about the students in Stoughton- 
 
 Arthur C. Long 
 
 William R. Mann 
 
 . Eliza B. Mills 
 
 Susan G. Moody 
 
 D. Webster Pettee 
 
 John G. Phillips 
 
 ham Institute (copy) .... 
 Personal reminiscences of Sharon . 
 A Yankee Jeanne D'Arc (old clipping) . 
 Deborah Sampson's willow .... 
 Old folks' sleigh rides ..... 
 Bonfires on Moose hill ..... 
 A story of Stoughton in 17 16; also Col. Israel 
 
 Tisdale and family 
 Sharon memories ..... 
 Job Swift of Sharon .... 
 Bags of money in the well . 
 Leap year birthday .... 
 Live moose in Sharon .... 
 Sharon people who joined the Medfield Baptist 
 
 church ..... 
 
 Finding a home in Sharon . 
 Missouri Compromise resolves in Sharon (record), 
 
 George H. Whittemore 
 
 Loring W. Puffer 
 Edward G. Smith 
 . Ezra Otis Swift 
 . Solomon Talbot 
 Eugene Tappan 
 . Muriel Tappan 
 
 William S. Tilden 
 . Eliza L. White 
 
 MEMBERSHIP OF THE SHARON HISTORICAL 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 Marcellus H. Allen, Dennett Building. 
 W. Oscar Arnold, North Main St. 
 Emma A. Baker, Billings St. 
 Abel T. Barnes, Boyden Place. 
 Charles O. Barnes, Summit Av. 
 Abbie C. Billings, Billings St. 
 Elizabeth M. Billings, Billings St. 
 Osmond J. Billings, Billings St. 
 Benjamin S. Bellas, Pond St. 
 John A. Bowman, Wood St. 
 "Winnibel Bowman, Wood St. 
 Frederick V. Brittain, Glendale Road. 
 Marie Hilda Brittain, Glendale Road. 
 
 Charles F. Bryant, Billings St. 
 Frank E. Burbank, South Pleasant St. 
 Bertha M. Campbell, Depot St. 
 W Winthrop Capen, South Pleasant St. 
 A. Alden Carpenter, Depot St. 
 M. Imogene Carpenter, Depot St. 
 Sanford I. Carpenter, Billings St. 
 Erminnie O. Carpenter, Billings St. 
 Harriet M. Chapin, Maskwonicut St. 
 Calvin G. Coggins, South Main St. 
 Arthur Dwight Colburn, Depot St. 
 Emma P. Colburn, Depot St. 
 Floyd C. Coon, Billings St. 
 
SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 35 
 
 Guild A. t'opeland, Pleasant St. 
 Cadwallader Curry, Pleasant St. 
 Charles S. Curtis, Pond St. 
 Clara E. Curtis, Pond St. 
 Lillias C. Davenport, Ames St. 
 Walter H. Delano, Billings St. 
 Gertrude H. Delano, Billings St. 
 Miner R. Deming, Revere. 
 George A. Dennett, North Main St. 
 Elizabeth O. Dennett, North Main St. 
 Charles T. Derry, South Main St. 
 Almira W. Derry, South Main St. 
 Daniel DeVoe, Norwood St. 
 Almon J. Dyer, North Main St. 
 Lizzie J. L. Dyer, North Main St. 
 Amanda M. Eddy, Billings St. 
 May L. Felt, Maple Av. 
 Adelaide M. Fernald, North Main St. 
 Carrie N. Fernald, North Main St. 
 George W. Field, Moose Hill St. 
 Mary Bell Field, Moose Hill St. 
 Arthur P. Fiske, Pleasant St. 
 Mary Adela Fiske, Pleasant St. 
 W. Perry Fiske, Summit A v. 
 George B. Fowler, North Main St. 
 Bernice \V. Fowler, North Main St. 
 Robie G. Frye, North Main St. 
 Edward J. Fuller, Viaduct St. 
 Erastus ( ). Fuller, Canton St. 
 Helen E. Gannett, East St. 
 Louis F. Gates, Highland Av. 
 Eunice L. Gay, Depot St. 
 N. Newton Glazier, Summit Av. 
 Joseph Goddard, V^iaduct St. 
 Faith Goddard, Viaduct St. 
 Mattie H. Green, Pleasant St. 
 Walter A. Griftin, Depot St. 
 Charles E. Hall, South Main St. 
 William F. Hall, Sylvan Road. 
 William L. Haskel, Chestnut St. 
 Agnes P. Haskel, Chestnut St. 
 G. Ashley Haszard, Station St. 
 Edmund D. Hewins, South Main St. 
 Ora A. Hewins, South Main St. 
 
 Edmund H. Hewins, South Main St. 
 
 Kate M. Hewins, South Main St. 
 
 Katharine P. Hewins, South Main St. 
 
 Harry M. Hight, Maple Av. 
 
 Margaret D. Hight, Maple A v. 
 
 Edgar M. Hixson, North Main St. 
 
 Mary E. Hixson, North Main St. 
 
 Theodore W. Hixson, North Main St. 
 
 Fred L. Holbrook, Cottage St. 
 
 Mary F. Estey Holbrook, Cottage St. 
 
 Albert D. Holmes, Summit Av. 
 
 Ellen J. Horace, Maiden. 
 
 George Kempton, Pond St. 
 
 Eliza J. Kempton, Pond St. 
 
 John C. Kimball, Chestnut St. 
 
 M. P. Woldeniar Kreutz, Depot St. 
 
 Geo.P. Lawrence, 53 Tremont St., Boston. 
 
 Lizzie N. Leonard, Summit Av. 
 
 Dora M. Leonard, Depot St. 
 
 H. Frank Leonard, Depot .St. 
 
 Mary J. Leonard, Pond St. 
 
 George B. Lockwood, South Main St. 
 
 Frank P. Long, Cottage St. 
 
 Carrie A. Long, Cottage St. 
 
 Albert W. Lyon, South Main St. 
 
 John W. Mackintosh, Walnut St. 
 
 George R. Mann, East St. 
 
 William R. Mann, East St. 
 
 Julia A. Mann, East St. 
 
 John W.McCanna, Deborah .Sampson St. 
 
 John D. McLaughlin, North Main St. 
 
 Edmund F. Merriam, North Main St. 
 
 Loring M. Monk, East St. 
 
 Laura D. Monk, East St. 
 
 Rodney E. Monk, East St. 
 
 Susan G. Moody, East .St. 
 
 Bushrod Morse, Harvard St., Brookline. 
 
 Velina F. Myrick, Pleasant St. 
 
 Herbert F. Nelson, Maple A v. 
 
 Cyrus A. Noyes, Cottage .St. 
 
 Bernard L. Paine, Plighland .St. 
 
 D. Webster Pettee, Pleasant St. 
 
 Myra F. Pettee, Pleasant St. 
 
 John G. Phillips, I'leasant St. 
 
36 
 
 SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 Mary W. I'hillips, Pleasant St. 
 Anna G. Phillips, Pleasant St. 
 Mary N. Phillips, Pleasant St. 
 Eugene C. Plimpton, South Walpole St. 
 Helen L. Plimpton, South Walpole St. 
 Amelia H. Pollard, Pond St. 
 S. Frank Poole, North Main St. 
 James W. Pringle, Summit A v. 
 Timothy F. Quinn, South Main St. 
 Elizabeth L. Quinn, South Main St. 
 Benjamin Kaynolds, South Main St. 
 Ruth A. Raynolds, South Main St. 
 Lydia G. Richards, Stoughton. 
 Horace S. Shepard, Ames St. 
 Anna M. Shepard, Ames St. 
 Silas A. Stone, Billings St. 
 Ezra Otis Swift, P.O.Box 2587, Boston. 
 Solomon Talbot, Maskwonicut St. 
 
 Edmund H. Talbot, 27 State St., Boston. 
 Eugene Tappan, South Pleasant St. 
 Muriel Tappan, South Pleasant St. 
 Gorham M. Taylor, Chestnut St. 
 Willis Thompson, North Main St. 
 L. Robert Tidd, Summit Av. 
 Otis Tolman, Pond St. 
 Elizabeth W. Trafton, North Main St. 
 Frank M. Trafton, North Main St. 
 Ida A. Tuck, South Main St. 
 Alice M. Tuck, South Main St. 
 Margaret H. Walton, Moose Hill St. 
 Mille Louise West, Summit Av, 
 Sidney A. Weston, Bridgeport, Conn. 
 Eliza L. White, Chestnut St. 
 George H. Whittemore, Chestnut St. 
 Elsie A. Whittemore, Chestnut St. 
 Total, 149. 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
 
 SHARON 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 No. 2— April, 190^ 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 Press of H. M. Hight 
 
 76 Summer Street 
 
 1905 
 
I N DEX. 
 
 Introduction to Reprint, - - . - - - 3 
 
 Reprint of Deborah Sampson Gannett's Address, 13 
 
 Historical Society Gatherings, - - - - 33 
 
 Miscellaneous Notes, - - . - - - - t^j 
 
 Officers of the Society, - - - , - - 40 
 
 Gifts to the Society, ------ 40 
 
 List of Members, - - - - - - - 45 
 

PUBLICATIONS 
 
 SHARON 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 No. 2 — April, 190^ 
 
 BOSTON 
 Press or H. M. Hight 
 
 76 Summer Street 
 1905 
 
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 .uJ'fiRy or 
 
 Vwo Ooyies 
 
 APR -Al jyUD j 
 
 Copyright, 1905 
 By Sharon Histukicai. Socikty 
 
INTRODUCTION TO REPRINT. 
 
 A reprint is here given of the pamphlet published in 
 Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1802, containing an address 
 delivered by Mrs. Deborah Sampson Gannett of Sharon, 
 Massachusetts. The pamphlet is now rare, and thanks are 
 due to the Dedham Historical Society for the loan of its 
 copy. The courtesy also is acknowledged of Miss Frances 
 M. Mann of Dedham, for the use of the original copper 
 plate from which was printed in 1797 the portrait of 
 Deborah Sampson in the somewhat fanciful biography 
 entitled "The Female Review, or Memoirs of an American 
 Young Lady." Miss Mann is the librarian of the Dedham 
 Public Library, and the granddaughter of Herman Mann, 
 who wrote the Female Review. 
 
 The address was delivered by Mrs. Gannett in 1802, 
 in many towns in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New 
 York. It treats of her experience as a soldier of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution. 
 
 Deborah Sampson was born in Plympton, Massachu- 
 setts, December 17, 1760. Plympton is near old Plymouth, 
 of which it was formerly a part, and Deborah's ancestors 
 were some of the foremost Pilgrim settlers. In a note in 
 John A. Vinton's edition of the Female Review (1866), 
 pp. 45, etc., the descent of Deborah is traced from Abraham 
 Sampson, Miles Standish. John Alden and William Brad- 
 ford, as well as from Alice Southworth and Bathsheba 
 Le Broche. 
 
 Under the name of Robert Shurtlefif, Deborah Samp- 
 
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 son enlisted in the Continental army as a soldier, and 
 served in Capt. George Webb's Company in the 4th Massa- 
 chusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Shepard, after- 
 wards by Col. Jackson. She was wounded in an engage- 
 ment at Tarrytown, New York, and was honorably 
 discharged in the fall of 1783. 
 
 In the following spring she was married to Benjamin 
 Gannett, the son of a patriotic citizen of Sharon, Massa- 
 chusetts. Here she lived until her death, April 29, 1827, 
 and reared a family of three children, Earl Bradford, Mary 
 and Patience. Mary Gannett was married to Judson 
 Gilbert and Patience Gannett to Seth Gay. 
 
 In recognition of her military service, the Massachu- 
 setts Legislature in 1792 granted her thirty-four pounds. 
 The resolve recites "that the said Deborah exhibited an 
 extraordinary instance of female heroism by discharging 
 the duties of a faithful, gallant soldier, and at the same 
 time preserving the virtue and chastity of her sex unsus- 
 pected and unblemished, and was discharged from the 
 service with a fair and honorable character." On the nth 
 of March, 1805, she was allowed a pension of four dollars 
 per month at the pension ofitice in Washington. The 
 pension commenced from January i, 1803, and 
 was increased in 1816 to $6.40 per month. From 
 1819 she drew a pension of eight dollars per month during 
 her life. 
 
 Eleven years after her death. Congress passed a 
 special act (Statutes at Large, vol. 6, page 735), directing 
 the secretary of the treasury to pay to the heirs of Deborah 
 Gannett the sum of $466.66. The committee in reporting 
 the bill, remark: "As there cannot be a parallel case in 
 all time to come, the committee do not hesitate to grant 
 relief." The act reads as follows: — 
 
 Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury 
 
Erratum. — The reference in the text to the time of the 
 marriage of Deborah Sampson was based on Mr. Vinton's notes 
 in the Female Review ; but the original town records of 
 Stoughton give April 7, 1785, as the date. 
 
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 be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in 
 the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the heirs of 
 Deborah Gannett, a revolutionary soldier, and late the 
 wife of Benjamin Gannett, of Sharon, in the State of 
 Massachusetts, now deceased, the sum of four hundred 
 and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, being an equiva- 
 lent for a full pension of eighty dollars per annum, from 
 the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, 
 to the decease of Benjamin Gannett in January, eighteen 
 hundred and thirty-seven, as granted in certain cases to 
 the widows of revolutionary soldiers by the act passed the 
 fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled 
 "An act granting half pay to widows or orphans where 
 their husbands or fathers have died of wounds received in 
 the military service of the United States in certain cases, 
 and for other purposes." 
 
 Approved July 7, 1838. 
 
 In preparing the foregoing facts concerning Deborah 
 Sampson's military service, use has been made of the intro- 
 duction to Vinton's Edition of the Female Review already 
 referred to. 
 
 Deborah Sampson Gannett first delivered her address 
 in the Federal Street Theatre in Boston, in March, 1802. 
 Advertisements of the performances are found in the 
 "Columbian Centinel," in the issues of March 20, 24 and 27. 
 The places and times of some other deliveries of the 
 address by her in the same year were : Providence, May 5 ; 
 Worcester, July 22; Holden, July 30; Brookfield, August 
 9; Springfield, August 13; Northampton, August 18; 
 Albany, August 31 and September i ; Schenectady, Sep- 
 tember 7 ; and Ballston Springs, September 9. 
 
 On her lecturing tour Mrs. Gannett lodged at the 
 following places : — Robert Williams, Liberty Square, Bos- 
 ton; Widow Jones, Providence; Capt. John Seamons, 
 
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 Wharf Lane, Newport Ferry: Herman Mann, Dedham ; 
 Capt. James Tisdale, Medfield ; Jacob Miller, Worcester; 
 Capt. George W^ebb, Holden ; William Howes and Capt. 
 Draper, Brookfield ; Eleazer Williams ("son to Dr. Wil- 
 liams, formerly of Roxbury"), Springfield; Mr. Pomeroy, 
 Northampton ; Alfred Pomeroy and Mr. Whitemore, 
 Chesterfield; Mr. Allen, Pittsfield ; Capt. Keeler. Green 
 Street, Albany: James Rogers, Schenectady; Mr. Mac- 
 Master, Ballston: Capt. Ashleyeo, Troy; Mr. Booth, Hud- 
 son; Mr. Streets, Catskill: Mr. Bosticks, Easton; and Gen. 
 John Paterson, Lisle. 
 
 The fact of the W'orcester address w^as furnished by 
 Hon. Alfred S. Roe of that city, who discovered in the 
 "Massachusetts vSpy" of Worcester, in its issue of July 21, 
 1802, the advertisement of the proposed address "in the 
 Court House, tomorrow, at 5 o'clock P. M." The other 
 names and dates above given, later than the Boston 
 engagement, appear in a short diary kept by Mrs. Gannett, 
 containing entries from May 3, 1802, to January 6, 1803. 
 They are given here, partly with the hope that some 
 readers may follow up a clew thus afforded, and from 
 diaries, newspapers or family traditions may reach results 
 of interest to be communicated to the Sharon Historical 
 Society. For such communications the thanks of the 
 Society will be given. 
 
 The longest entries in Mrs. Gannett's diary relate to 
 Providence, and are as follows: — 
 
 "1802, May 3d. I took stage in Dedham. Rode to 
 Providence in company with Mr. William Billings and 
 lady. This polite gentleman and lady showed every mark 
 of genuine friendship. They invited me to take tea with 
 them at our arrival. I informed these generous people of 
 my wishes in making a public appearance, either in Mr. 
 Amidon's hall or in the theatre. Mr. B. informed me that 
 
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 he wished to do everything that lay in his power to assist 
 me, and appeared to be much pleased in reading the bill 
 of my performance in the theatre at Boston. 
 
 "I conveyed my letters of recommendation to Mr. 
 Wheeler, and this gentleman — Mr. Wheeler — came imme- 
 diately, and he advised me to perform in Mr. Amidon's 
 hall ; and finally I gave him my bill of the performance in 
 Boston. He printed my bill, and they were set up in the 
 most public places in the town, and Wednesday evening 
 was to be the first of my performance. But I was quite 
 unfortunate, indeed, for I was taken quite unwell, and of 
 course was obliged to postpone my exhibition until Thurs- 
 day evening. 
 
 "May 5. When I entered the hall, I must say I was 
 much pleased at the appearance of the audience. It ap- 
 peared from almost every countenance that they were full 
 of unbelief — I mean in regard to my being the person that 
 served in the revolutionary army. 
 
 "Some of them which I happened to overhear swore 
 that I was a lad of not more than eighteen years of age. I 
 sat some time in my chair before I rose to deliver my 
 address. When I did, I think I may with much candor 
 applaud the people for their serious attention and peculiar 
 respect, especially the ladies." 
 
 The animated, flowing style and love of incident dis- 
 played in the foregoing extracts make one wish that Mrs. 
 Gannett had penned her own address, and not "procured" 
 it to be written, as stated in her editor's introduction. 
 
 In the Albany Register for August 31, 1802, was the 
 following notice, a copy of which was furnished by Miss 
 May Childs Nerney, who is in charge of the history division 
 of the State Library in Albany. 
 
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 "MRS. GANNET'S EXHIBITION 
 "The ladies and gentlemen of Albany and its vicinity 
 are respectfully informed that Mrs. Gannet, the celebrated 
 American Heroine, who served nearly three years with 
 great reputation in our Revolutionary Army, will, at the 
 request of a number of respectable characters, deliver an 
 Address to the inhabitants of this city and vicinity, in the 
 Court House, this evening at Yz past seven o'clock. 
 
 "Tickets may be had at the Court House from 5 
 o'clock till the performance begins. Price 25 cents, children 
 half price. 
 
 "Albany, August 31, 1802." 
 
 Under the caption of "My Expense in Albany" are 
 the following bills in the diary, which show the curious 
 detail work of the lecturer: — 
 
 D. c. 
 
 "To old key keeper 2 00 
 
 To Mr. Barber for printing 3 00 
 
 To Mr. Lester for filling ])lank and finding 
 
 candles i 34 
 
 To Mr. Giles for attendance 2 67 
 
 To sweeping the court house o 48 
 
 For cleaning the candle sticks o 20 
 
 For brushing the seats o 17 
 
 For the dressing my hair, 2 even 1 00 
 
 To boarding 6 00 
 
 To washing i 34" 
 
 Mrs. Gannett visited her captain (George Webb) in 
 Holden, near Worcester, where she staid three weeks. 
 She also visited her general (John Paterson) in Lisle, 
 New York, where she staid a month. Of the latter visit 
 she says: — "November 11 [1802] I arrived at Judge Pat- 
 erson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with 
 
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 every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all 
 the people did the same. I really want for words to 
 express my gratitude. They often met together in the 
 neighborhood and had the most social meetings. They 
 seemed to unite in hearty congratulations with my old 
 friend, Judge Paterson, on our happy meeting." 
 
 As General Paterson, now Judge Paterson, was a 
 member of Congress, 1803 to 1805, and as Mrs. Gannett's 
 pension was obtained in 1805 and ran from 1803, it would 
 seem probable that he had a hand in procuring it. If so, 
 it was a good pecuniary result of her lecturing venture. 
 She also obtained from her lectures enough money to 
 enable her to forward some to Sharon, "which I hope," 
 she writes, "my family will make a good use of." 
 
 Concerning the contents of the address, it must be 
 admitted that it contains little narrative, being largely 
 apologetic. The speaker alludes to adverse criticism of 
 her act in enlisting as a soldier, which she owns to be an 
 act of presumption. But she had pondered on the injustice 
 of the war, and wished to be an avenger. Seizing an 
 opportunity, she enlisted, and then determined to stay to 
 the end. A few scenes of the war are named. Of the 
 engagement of White Plains, she says: "I was there." 
 The motive that caused her to enlist is referred to. which 
 she seems to decide by attributing it to her fate. If a 
 man had done it, he would have achieved immortal glory 
 and fame. But she was a woman, and so contents herself 
 with claiming her hearers' indulgence, as she is conscious 
 of the approbation of God. She closes the address with 
 expressing her high respect for her own sex — -a respect 
 increased by her rough experience. 
 
 To make the reprint more exact, the spelling of the 
 original is preserved, such as the careless omission of a 
 letter in the word "ADDRSS" on the title page. This 
 
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 particular mistake was afterwards corrected, as is skown 
 in another copy. 
 
 The lecturing- tour of Deborah Sampson Gannett in 
 1802 forms a most interesting chapter in her life, as it 
 shows her to be a pioneer in this field. It may be diflficult 
 to name a woman before her time who earned money by 
 travelling alone from town to town, attending to her own 
 business details and delivering an address. The writers of 
 her career, however, have scarcely touched upon this sub- 
 ject. The first public notice of Mrs. Gannett as a lecturer 
 appears to have been taken in her own town of Sharon, 
 April 3, 1902, at a banquet in the town hall commemorative 
 of the centenary of the event. On this occasion, after- 
 dinner speeches were made by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore 
 of Melrose, Hon. Alfred S. Roe of Worcester, Mrs. Myra 
 B. Hatch of Whitman, Edmund H. Talbot and Rev. Almon 
 J. Dyer of Sharon. Frank E. Burbank of Sharon read an 
 address written by Rev. A. A. Berle, D. D., now of Salem. 
 Selections from Mrs. Gannett's diary were read by Mrs. 
 Susan G. Moody, a great-granddaughter, who resides in 
 the old homestead. 
 
 1'he house where Deborah Sampson Gannett lived, 
 somewhat changed, still stands in good preservation on 
 East street, a mile from Sharon village, and her grave is 
 in Rockridge cemetery, on the same street, one mile south- 
 w'esterly from the house. A street near by is named 
 Deborah Sampson street. Many of her descendants reside 
 in Sharon and the adjoining towns. The honored name 
 of their ancestress is often pronounced, and visits are 
 often made to her home and her grave. A new tribute to 
 the memory of Mrs. Gannett will appear on the soldiers' 
 monument soon to be erected a short distance from her 
 grave, from funds bequeathed for the purpose in the will 
 of her grandson, George Washington Gay, late of Sharon. 
 
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 He was son of Seth and Patience Gay above mentioned. 
 After providing for the monument, the testator says: "I 
 further request to have the name Deborah Sampson Gan- 
 nett, with proper reference to her service in the war of the 
 revolution, inscribed on the same memorial stone." 
 
 EUGENE TAPPAN. 
 Sharon, April, 1905. 
 
A N 
 
 A D D R S S, 
 
 delivered with applause, 
 At the Federal-Street Theatre, Boston, 
 
 FOUR SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS OF THE DIFFERENT 
 PLAYS, BEGINNING MARCH 22, l802; 
 
 AND AFTER, AT OTHER PRINCIPAL TOWNS, A 
 
 NUMBER OF NIGHTS SUCCESSIVELY 
 
 AT EACH PLACE ; 
 
 By Mrs. DEBORAH GANNET, 
 
 THK AMERICAN HEROINE, 
 
 Who served three years with reputation (undiscovered as a 
 Female ) in the late American Army. 
 
 PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THK AUDIENCES. 
 
 Cop^ IRiabt Secured. 
 
 Dcbbam : 
 
 Printed <7«^Sold by H. Mann, /<:»/■ Mrs. Gannet, 
 a/ //^<r Minerva Office, — 1802. 
 
INTRO D UCTIO N. 
 
 The character and achievements of Mrs. Gannett, late 
 Deborah Sampson, the Americajt Heroine^ have excited niucJi 
 curiosity in the United States. At the close of the revolution, 
 she retired to an obscure part of Massachusetts, selected, or rather 
 was selected, a partner of an indtistrious farmer. From her 
 Memoirs, since published, and the best, nearest information., she 
 continues to support, with reputation, the offices of Wife., MotJier 
 and Friend — affable in her disposition, courteous in her man- 
 ners,, and universally benevolent. 
 
 It is from her naturally ambitious disposition, and taste 
 for a more elevated stile of life, that she is ifiduced to re-visit 
 some of the principal places, zvhich were the theatre of her per- 
 sonating the soldier — to appear in public, to open the eyes of the 
 incredulo7is, and to wipe off any aspersions, which the whispers 
 of satire, caprice, or jnalevolence may have zvantonly thrown 
 upon her. 
 
 This resolution being communicated to a tiumber of re- 
 spectable Character's, she received invitations from thevi, to make 
 her appearance oji the Boston Theatre, and to give a recital of 
 some of the principal traits of her life. This proposal caught 
 both herfaticy and her wishes, honorably to enhance the pecuniary 
 interest of her family ; zvhich she is said industriously to econ- 
 omize. 
 
 She accordingly procured the following., which she re- 
 markably soon committed, verbatim, to memory, except an ad- 
 
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 dition since of about three pages. Under the superititendence of 
 Messrs. Powell a)id Harper, she was ushered on to the Stage 
 in a very polite manner ; luhere, before a croudcd assembly, per- 
 fectly unabashed, she very audibly recited her Jiaration. In the 
 Manual Exercise, being in complete uniform, and during the 
 Soldier's Festival, she acquitted lierself with peculiar ease and 
 grace. — An attendant has since introduced her to the Audience by 
 the follozving 
 
 pvospcctug. 
 
 Ye Guardian Friends of Liberty and Peace, 
 Our surest hope of merit, power, increase, 
 Mark here those traits so rare in Female's name ; 
 She does not speak, nor do I ^x'\\.e:, for fame. 
 Her boldest claim is simple, geninc Truth ; 
 Her humblest plea is for her Sex and Youth. 
 May not base calumny her deeds supplant ; 
 
 Your Patronage as from a Parent, grant. — 
 E en Britain's Fair, though proud, this truth must own — 
 
 When Liberty's at stake, a FEMALE storms the Throne ! 
 
aD2) TRESS. 
 
 N, 
 
 OT unlike the example of the patriot and philan- 
 thropist, though perhaps perfectly so in effect, do I 
 awake from the tranquil slumbers of retirement, to 
 active, public scenes of life, like those which now sur- 
 round me. That genius which is the prompter of curi- 
 osity, and that spirit which is the support of enterprize^ 
 early drove, or, rather illured me, from the corner of 
 humble obscurity — their cheering aspect has again pre- 
 vented a torpid rest. 
 
 Secondary to these are the solicitations of a number 
 of worthy characters and friends, too persuasive and 
 congenial with my own disposition to be answered with 
 indifference, or to be rejected, have induced me thus to 
 advance and bow submissive to an audience, simply and 
 concisely to rehearse a tale of truth; which, though it 
 took its rise, and finally terminated in the splendor of 
 public life, I was determined to repeat only as the solil- 
 oquy of a hermit, or to the visionary phantoms, which 
 hover through the glooms of solitude. 
 
 A Tale — the truth of which I was ready to say, 
 but which, perhaps, others have already said for me, 
 ought to expel me from the enjoyment of society, from 
 
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 the acknowledgment of my own sex, and from the 
 endearing friendship of the other. But this, I venture 
 to pronounce, would be saying too much : For as I 
 should thus not respect myself, should be entitled to 
 none from others. 
 
 I Indeed recollect it as a foible, an error and pre- 
 sumption, into which, perhaps, I have too inadvertantly 
 and precipitately run; but which I now retrospect with 
 aiiojuish and amazement — recollect it, as a Thomson, or 
 any other moralizing naturalist, susceptible to the like 
 fine feelino^s of nature, recollects the howlinor blasts of 
 wiiiteT-, at a period when Floi^a has strewed the earth 
 with all her profusion of delicacies, and whose zephyrs 
 are wasting their fragrance to heighten our sensations 
 of tranquility and pleasure; — or, rather, perhaps, I 
 ought to recollect it, as a marriner, having regained his 
 native shore of serenity and peace, looks back on the 
 stormy billows which, so long and so constantly had 
 threatened to ingulph him in the bowels of the deep! 
 And yet I must frankly confess, I recollect it with a 
 kind of satisfaction, which no one can better conceive 
 and enjoy than him, who, recollecting the good uLteutions 
 of a bad deed, lives to see and to correct any indecorum 
 of his life. 
 
 But without further preliminary apologies, yet with 
 every due respect towards this brilliant and polite circle, 
 I hasten to a review of the most conspicuous parts of 
 that path, which led to achievements, which some have 
 believed, but which many still doubt. Their accomplish- 
 ment once seemed to me as impossible, as that I am 
 
THEATRICAL ADDRESS. I9 
 
 author of them, is now incredible to the incredulous, or 
 wounding to the ear of more refined delicacy and taste. 
 They are a breach in the decorum of my sex, unquestion- 
 ably; and, perhaps, too unfortunately ever irreconcilable 
 with the rigid maxims of the moralist; and a sacrifice, 
 which, while it may seem perfectly incompatible with 
 the requirements of virtue — and which of course must 
 ring discord in the ear, and disgust to the bosom of 
 sensibility and refinement, I must be content to leave to 
 time and the most scrutinizing enquiry to disclose. 
 
 Unlettered in any scholastic school of erudition, 
 you will not expect, on this occasion, the entertainment 
 of the soft and captivating sounds of eloquence; but 
 rather a naration of facts in a mode as uncouth as they 
 are unnatural. Facts — which, though I once experi- 
 enced, and of which memory has ever been painfully 
 retentive, I cannot now make you feel, or paint to the 
 life. 
 
 Know then, that my juvenile mind early became 
 inquisitive to understand — not merely whether the prin- 
 ciples, or rather the seeds of war are analagous to the 
 genuine nature of man — not merely to know why he 
 should forego every trait of humanity, and to assume 
 the character of a brute; or, in plainer language, why 
 he should march out tranquilly, or in a paroxism of rage 
 against his fellow-man, to butcher, or be butchered? — for 
 these, alas! were too soon horribly verified by the mas- 
 sacres in our streets, in the very streets which encom- 
 pass this edifice — in yonder adjacent villas,* on yonder 
 
 *Lexington, and the adjacent towns and hamlets, when the 
 British marched out of Boston to destroy the military stores at Co?uord. 
 
20 THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 memorable eminence,* where now stand living monu- 
 ments of the atrocious, the heart-distracting, mementous 
 scenes, that followed in rapid succession ! 
 
 This I am ready to afifirm, though it may be deemed 
 unnatural in my sex, is not a demoralization of human 
 nature. The sluices, both of the blood of freemen and 
 of slaves, were first opened here. And those hills and 
 vallies, once the favorite resort, both of the lover and 
 philosopher, have been drunk with their blood ! A new 
 subject was then opened to the most pathetic imagina- 
 tion, and to the rouzing of every latent spark of human- 
 ity, one should think, in the bosoms of the wolves, as 
 well as in those of the sheep, for whose blood they were 
 so thirsty. 
 
 But most of all, my mind became agitated with the 
 enquiry — why a nation, separated from us by an ocean 
 more than three thousand miles in extent, should en- 
 deavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most 
 unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman, in their opera- 
 tions, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of 
 the wilderness .f* Perhaps nothing but the critical junc- 
 ture of the times could have excused such a philosophi- 
 cal disquisition of politics in woman, notwithstanding it 
 was a theme of universal speculation and concern to 
 man. We indeed originated from her, as from a parent, 
 and had, perhaps, continued to this period in subjection 
 to her mandates, had we not discovered, that this, her 
 romantic, avaricious and cruel disposition extended to 
 murder, after having bound the slave! 
 
 *}5RKKn's Hill — ivrongly called Bunker Hill. 
 
THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 21 
 
 Confirmed by this time in the justness of a defen- 
 sive war on the one side, from the most aggravated one 
 on the other — my mind ripened with my strength; and 
 while our beds and our roses were sprinkled with the 
 blood of indiscriminate youth, beauty, innocence and 
 decrepit old age, I only seemed to want the lice^ise to 
 become one of the severest avengers of the wrong. 
 
 For several years I looked on these scenes of 
 havoc, rapacity and devastation, as one looks on a 
 drowning man, on the conflagration of a city — where 
 are not only centered his coffers of gold, but with them 
 his choicest hopes, friends, companions, his all — without 
 being able to extend the rescuing hand to either. 
 
 Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an 
 ethusiasm and phrenzy, that could brook no control — I 
 burst the tyrant bands, which held 7ny sex in aiue, and 
 clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, 
 which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a 
 natural priviledge. And whilst poverty, hunger, naked- 
 ness, cold and disease had dwindled the American 
 Armies to a handful — whilst universal terror and dismay 
 ran through our camps, ran through our country — while 
 even WASHINGTON himself, at their head, though 
 like a god, stood, as it were, on a pinacle tottering over 
 the abyss of destruction, the last prelude to our falling 
 a wretched prey to the yawning jaws of the monster 
 aiming to devour — not merely for the sake of gratifying 
 a fecetious curiosity, like that of my reputed Predeces- 
 sor, in her romantic excursions through the garden of 
 bliss — did I throw off the soft habiliments of my sex, 
 
22 THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 and assume those of the ivarrior, already prepared for 
 battle. 
 
 Thus I became an actor in that important drama, 
 with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the 
 last scene; when we might be permitted and acknowl- 
 edged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would 
 possess, or lose with our lives — Freedom and Indepen- 
 dence! — When the philosopher might resume his re- 
 searches unmolested — the statesman be disembarrassed 
 by his distracting theme of national politics — the divine 
 find less occasion to invoke the indis^nation of heaven 
 on the usurpers and cannibals of the inherent rights 
 and even existence of man — when the son should again 
 be restored to the arms of his disconsolate parent, and 
 the lover to the bosom of her, for whom indeed he is 
 willing to jeopard his life, and for whom alone he wishes 
 to live! 
 
 A NEW scene, and, as it were, a new world now 
 opened to my view; the objects of which now seemed 
 as important, as the transition before seemed unnatural. 
 It would, however, here be a weakness in me to mention 
 the tear of repentence, or of that of temerity, from 
 which the stoutest of my sex are, or ought not to be, 
 wholly exempt on extreme emergencies, which many 
 times involuntarily stole into my eye, and fell unheeded 
 to the ground: And that too before I had reached the 
 embattled field, the ramparts, which protected its internal 
 resources — which shielded youth, beauty, and the deli- 
 cacy of that sex at home, which perhaps I had forfeited 
 in turning volunteer in their defence. Temeritis — when 
 
THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 23 
 
 reflections on my former situation, and this new kind of 
 being, were daggers more frightful, than all the imple- 
 ments of war — when the rustling of every leaf was an 
 omen of danger, the whisper of each wind, a tale of woe! 
 If then the poignancy of thought stared me thus hag- 
 gardly in the face, found its way to the inmost recesses 
 of my heart, thus forcibly, in the commencement of my 
 career — what must I not have anticipated before its 
 close! 
 
 The curtain is now up — a scene opens to your 
 view; but the objects strike your attention less forcibly, 
 and less interestingly, than they then did, not only my 
 own eyes, but every energetic sensation of my soul. 
 What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short, and 
 leave to your imaginations to pourtray the tragic deeds 
 of war? Is it not enough, that I here leave it even to 
 unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the 
 danarers.even of the best life of a soldier? And were it not 
 improper, were it not unsafe, were it not indelicate, and 
 were I certain I should be intitled to a pardon, I would 
 appeal to the soft bosom of my own sex to draw a 
 parallel between the perils and sexual inconveniences of 
 a girl in her teens, and not only in the armour, but in 
 the capacity, at any rate, obliged to perform the duties 
 in the field — and those who go to the camp without a 
 masquerade, and consequently subject only to what toils 
 and sacrifices they please : Or, will a conclusion be 
 more natural from those who sometimes take occasion 
 to complain by their own domestic fire-sides; but who, 
 indeed, are at the same time in affluence, cherished in 
 the arms of their companions, and sheltered from the 
 storms of war by the rougher sex in arms? 
 
24 THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 Many have seen, and many can contemplate, in the 
 field of imagination, battles and victories amidst gar- 
 ments rolled in blood: but it is only one of my own sex, 
 exposed to the storm, who can conceive of my situation. 
 
 We have all heard of, many have doubtless seen, 
 the meteor streaming through or breaking in the hori- 
 zon — the terrific glare of the comet, in its approach 
 towards, or in its declension from us, in its excentric 
 orbit — the howling of a tempest — the electric fluid, 
 which darts majesty and terror through the clouds — its 
 explosion and tremendous effects! — Bostonians, and 
 you who inhabit its environs, you who have known from 
 experience your houses and your hills tremble from the 
 cannonade of Charlestown, — your ears are yet wounded 
 by the shrieks of her mangled and her distressed — your' 
 eyes swimming in a deluge of anguish at the sight of 
 our butchered, expiring relatives and friends; while the 
 conflagration of the town added the last solemnity to 
 the scene! 
 
 This idea must assimulate with the progress of this 
 horrid delusion of war. Hence you can behold the 
 parched soil of White-Plains drink insatiate the blood 
 of her most peaceful and industrious proprietors — of 
 freemen, -d^wdi oi slaves! I was there! The recollection 
 makes me shudder! — A dislocated limb draws fresh 
 anguish from my heart! 
 
 You may have heard the thunderings of a volcano 
 — you may have contemplated, with astonishment and 
 wonder, the burial of a city by its eruption. Your ears 
 
THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 25 
 
 then are yet deafened from the thunderings of the in- 
 vasion of York Town — your eyes dazzled, your imagina- 
 tions awfully sublimed, by the fire which belched from 
 its environs, and towered, like that from an eruption of 
 Etna, to the clouds! Your hearts yet bleed, from 
 every principle of humanity, at the recollection of the 
 havoc, carnage and death that reigned there! 
 
 Three successive weeks, after a long and rapid 
 march, found me amidst this storm. — But, happy for 
 America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the World, 
 when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the 
 illustrious, the immortal WASHINGTON, or rather 
 by his order, to the brave Limcoln, the sun of Liberty 
 and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his 
 benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our 
 remotest corners! The phalanx of war was thus broken 
 through, and the palladium of peace blossoming on its 
 ruins. 
 
 I WILL not hence urge you to retrace with me 
 (tranquilly you surely cannot) all the footsteps of our 
 valient heroic Leaders through the distraction both of 
 elements and of war. I will not even pourtray an at- 
 tempt to reinforce the brave Schuyler, then on the 
 borders of Canada; where, if the war-whoop of infernals 
 should not strike you with dismay, the tommahawk 
 would soon follow! 
 
 Nor need I point you to the death-like doors of the 
 hospital in Philadelphia, whose avenues were crouded 
 
26 THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 with the sick, the dying and the dead; though myself 
 made one of the unhappy croud! 
 
 You have now but the shade of a picture; which 
 neither time nor my abiHties will permit me to show 
 you to the life. The haggard fiend, despair, may have 
 stared you in the face, when giving over the pursuit of 
 a favorite, lost child: And it is only in this torture of 
 suspense that we can rightly conceive of its situation. 
 
 Such is my experience — not that I ever mourned 
 the loss of a child, but that I considered myself as lost ! 
 For, on the one hand, if I fell not a victim to the infuri- 
 ate rabble of a mob, or of a war not yet fully terminated 
 — a disclosure of my peculiar situation seemed infinitely 
 worse than either. And if from stratagem and persever- 
 ance, I may acquire as great knowledge in every respect 
 as I have of myself in this, my knowledge, at least of 
 human nature, will be as complete as it is useful. 
 
 But we will now hasten from the field, from the 
 embattled entrenchments, built for the destruction of 
 man, from a long, desolating war, to contemplate more 
 desirable and delightful scenes. And notwithstanding 
 curiosity may prompt any to retrace the climax of our 
 revolution, the means, under a smiling, superintending 
 providence, by which we have outrode the storms of 
 danger and distress — what heart will forget to expand 
 with joy and gratitude, to beat in unison, at the pro- 
 pitious recollection.? And I enquire, what infant tongue 
 can ever forget or cease being taught to lisp the praises 
 of WASHINGTON, and those of that bright constella- 
 
thp:atkical address. 27 
 
 tion of WORTHIES, who swell the list of Columbian 
 fame — those, by whose martial skill and philanthropic 
 labors, we were first led to behold, after a long and 
 stormy night, the smiling sun of Peace burst on our be- 
 nighted World! And while we drop a tear over the 
 flowery turf of those patriots and sages, may she unriv- 
 alled enjoy and encrease her present bright sunshine of 
 happiness! May agriculture and commerce, industry 
 and manufactures, arts and sciences, virtue and decorum, 
 union and harmony — those richest sources of our worth, 
 and strongest pillars of our strength, become stationary, 
 like fixed stars in the firmament, to flourish in her 
 clime! 
 
 Hail dearest Liberty! thou source sublime! 
 
 What rays refulgent dart upon our clime! 
 
 For thee the direful contest has been waged, 
 
 Our hope, and all that life held dear engaged. 
 
 Thee the prime offspring which my thoughts employ, 
 
 Once sought with grief — -now turns that grief to joy. 
 
 Your beatific influence extend 
 
 O'er Africa, whose sable race befriend. 
 
 May Europe, as our sister-empire, join. 
 
 To hail thee rising with your power divine. 
 
 From the lone cottage to the tyrant's throne. 
 
 May Liberty, ethereal guest, be known! 
 
 Be thou preserved for nations yet unborn, 
 
 Fair as the shining Star that decks the morn. 
 
 But the question again returns — What particular 
 ijiducenient could she have thus to elope from the soft 
 sphere of her own sex, to perform a deed of valor by way 
 of sac rile s;e on unhalknved oround — voluntarily to face 
 the s tor 7ns doth of clcniciits and war, in the character of 
 
28 THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 kim, who is more fitly made to brave and endure all 
 danger ? 
 
 And dost thou ask what fairy hand inspired 
 A Nymph to be with martial glory tired ? 
 Or, what from art, or yet from nature's laws, 
 Has join'd a Female to her country's cause? 
 Why on great Mars's theatre she drew 
 Her/z-w^z/^ pourtrait, though in soldier's hue? 
 
 Then ask — why Cmcinnatus left his farm ? 
 Why science did old Plato's bosom warm? 
 Why Hector in the Trojan war should dare? 
 Or why should Homer trace his actions there? 
 Why Newton in philosophy has shown? 
 Or Charles, for solitude, has left his throne ? 
 Why Locke in metaphysics should delight — 
 Precisian sage, to set false reason right ? 
 Why Albion's Sons should kindle up a war ? 
 Why Jove or Vulcan hurried on the car ? 
 Perhaps the same propensity you use, 
 Has prompted her a martial course to choose. 
 Perhaps to gain refinements where she could, 
 This rare achievement for her country's good. 
 Or was some hapless lover from her torn— 
 As Emma did her valient Hammon mourn ? 
 Else he must tell, who would this truth attain, 
 Why one is formed for pleasure — one for pain : 
 Or, boldly, why our Maker made us such- 
 Why here he gives too little — there too much! 
 
 I WOULD not purposely evade a a pertinent answer; 
 and yet I know not, at present, how to give a more par- 
 ticular one than has already been suggested. 
 
 I AM indeed willing to acknowledge what I have 
 done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error 
 
THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 2C) 
 
 and presumption, because I swerved from the accus- 
 tomed flovvry paths of female delicacy, to walk upon the 
 heroic precipice of feminine perdition! — I indeed left 
 my morning pillow of roses, to prepare a couch of 
 brambles for the night ; and yet I awoke from this re- 
 freshed, to gather nought but the thorns of anguish for 
 the next night's repose — and in the precipitancy of pas- 
 sion, to prepare a moment for repentance at leisure! 
 
 Had all this been achieved by the rougher hand, 
 more properly assigned to wield the sword in duty and 
 danger in a defensive war, the most cruel in its measures, 
 though important in its consequences ; these thorns 
 might have been converted into wreaths of immortal 
 glory and fame. I therefore yield every claim of honor 
 and distinction to the hero and patriot, who met the foe 
 in his own name ; though not with more heartfelt satis- 
 faction, with the trophies, which were most to redound 
 to the future grandeur and importance of the country 
 in which he lives. 
 
 But repentance is a sweet solace to conscience, as 
 well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme 
 Judge of our offences: notwithstanding the tongue of 
 malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing 
 its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a 
 crime which has already received more than half a 
 pardon. 
 
 Yet if even this be deemed too much of an exten- 
 uation of a breach in the modesty of \.\\^ fe77iale world — 
 humilized and contented will I sit down inglorious, for 
 
30 THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 having unfortunately performed an important part as- 
 signed for another — like a bewildered star traversing 
 out of its accustomed orbit, whose twinkling beauty at 
 most has become totally obscured in the presence of the 
 sun. 
 
 But as the rays of the sun strike the eye with the 
 greatest lustre when emerging from a thick fog, and as 
 those actions which have for their objects the extended 
 hand of charity to the indigent and wretched — to re- 
 store a bewildered traveller to light — and, to reform in 
 ourselves any irregular and forlorn course of life; so, 
 allowing myself to be one or the greatest of these, do I 
 still hope for some claim on the indulgence and patron- 
 age of the public; as in such case I might be conscious 
 of the approbation of my God. 
 
 I CANNOT, contentedly, quit this subject or this 
 place, without expressing, more emphatically, my high 
 respect and veneration for my own sex. The indul- 
 gence of this respectable circle supercedes my merit, as 
 well as my most sanguine expectations. You receive at 
 least in return my warmest gratitude. And though you 
 can neither have, or perhaps need, from me the instruc- 
 tions of the sage, or the advice of the counsellor ; you 
 surely will not be wholly indifferent to my most sincere 
 declaration of friendship for that sex, for which this 
 checkered flight of my life may have rendered me the 
 least ornamental example; but which, neither in adver- 
 sity or prosperity, could I ever learn to forget or de- 
 grade. 
 
 I TAKE it to be from the greatest extremes both 
 
THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and 
 reformed in Hfe can derive the greatest and most salu- 
 tary truths and impressions, — Who, for example, can 
 contemplate for a moment, tho. prodigal — from the time 
 of his revelry with harlots, to that of his eating husks 
 with swine, and to his final return to his father — with- 
 out the greatest emotion of disgust, pity and joy? And 
 is it possible to behold the effects of the unprincipled 
 conduct of the libertme, the bacchanalian, the debauchee, 
 and what is more wretched of all, of the emaciated, 
 haggard form of a modern baggage in the streets, 
 without bringing into exercise every passion of abhor- 
 rence and commisseration? And yet, happy, those, who 
 at the same time receive a monitor which fixes a resolve, 
 never to embark on such a sea of perdition; where we 
 see shipwreck of all that is enobling to the dignity of 
 ■man — all that is lovely and amiable in the character of 
 woman ! 
 
 I CANNOT, indeed bring the adventures, even of the 
 worst part of my own life, as parallels with this black 
 catalogue of crimes. But in whatever I may be thought 
 to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now 
 my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impres- 
 sion on you — and on me, a penitent for every wrong 
 thought and step. The rank you hold in the scale of 
 beings is, in many respects, superior to that of man. 
 Nurses of his growth, and invariable models of his hab- 
 its, he becomes a suppliant at your shrine, emulous to 
 please, assiduous to cherish and support, to live and to 
 die for you! Blossoms from your very birth, you be- 
 come his admiration, his joy, his eden companions in 
 
32 THEATRICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 this world. — How important then is it, that these blos- 
 soms bring forth such fruit, as will best secure your 
 own delights and felicity, and those of him, whose every 
 enjoyment, and even his very existence, is so peculiarly 
 interwoven with your own! 
 
 On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the ac- 
 knowledgment, that the field and the cabinet are the 
 proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our 
 Lords; may we, also, deserve the dignified title and 
 encomium of Mistress and Lady, in our kitchens and 
 in our parlours. And as an overruling providence may 
 succeed our wishes — let us rear an offspring in every 
 respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of 
 their predecessors. 
 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY GATHERINGS. 
 
 April 19, 1904. At the invitation of the Canton 
 Historical Society, some members of the Sharon Society 
 and of the Stoughton Society joined in a Patriot's Day 
 outing. The forenoon was spent in a walk down Bill- 
 ings street and East street to Rockridge cemetery, and 
 thence to McElroy's grove near Massapoag pond. Here 
 a lunch was served and the company then walked 
 through Gun House street to take the electric car 
 homeward on South Main street. Remarks were made 
 by Eugene Tappan at the site of Gen. Benjamin Tup- 
 per's birthplace, and by Solomon Talbot at the supposed 
 grave of Edmund Ouincy. The day was warm, but in 
 the evening a small blizzard covered the ground with 
 one or two inches of snow. 
 
 April 2<S, 1904. Quarterly meeting of the Society. 
 Vice President D. Webster Pettee in the chair. Twenty- 
 five new members joined. The by-laws were so changed 
 as to hold the summer meeting on the Thursday of Old 
 Home Week, and also to create the office of auditor. 
 Annual reports were received, and the annual election 
 of officers took place. The first publication of the 
 Society was distributed, consisting of a pamphlet of 36 
 pages, entitled "Publications of the Sharon Historical 
 Society of Sharon, Massachusetts, No. i, April, 1904." 
 
34 HISTORICAL SOCIETY GATHERINGS 
 
 Its leading article is "Annals of Sharon, by Jeremiah 
 Gould, 1830." William R. Mann read a paper giving 
 reminiscences of Sharon, 183 1- 1850. James N. Pringle 
 read a communication to the Society from President 
 John G. Phillips about an Italian passenger whom he 
 met on his voyage to Europe. Tea was served at the 
 social half hour. 
 
 April 30, 1904. The Corresponding Secretary at- 
 tended, as delegate, a meeting of the Bay State Histor- 
 ical League at 12 Somerset street, Boston. 
 
 June 4, 1904. Several members attended the out- 
 ing of the Bay State Historical League at Lexington. 
 An address was delivered in the Unitarian Church by 
 Prof. Hart of Harvard College. Rev. C. A. Staples 
 escorted the assembly over the Common and to the 
 house of the Lexington Historical Society, and ex- 
 plained matters of interest. 
 
 Aug. 4, 1904. Old Home Week, outing in the fore- 
 noon to Moose Hill. Forty-five persons were in the par- 
 ty, having 7 carriages besides a barge. An abandoned 
 burial ground (Lothrop) was examined. At the cellar 
 of the old Morse house, Henry F. Talbot read a de- 
 scription of the place, and of the Smith place on Moose 
 Hill, w^ritten by Solomon Talbot. Leonard Billings 
 came out on to his piazza at the foot of the hill and 
 played on a violin manufactured by himself. 
 
 In the evening, the quarterly meeting was held in 
 the upper Town Hall. Vice-President D. Webster Pet- 
 tee in the chair. Sixteen new members joined. Resolu- 
 tions were passed on the deaths of two members, Fred- 
 erick L.Holbrook, who died June 1 6th, and William Oscar 
 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY GATHERINGS 35 
 
 Arnold, who died July i8th. Henry F. Talbot read 
 a description of old Sharon homesteads written by his 
 father, Solomon Talbot. Miss Elmira S. Winship read a 
 a paper written by her mother, Mrs. Adaliza A. (Johnson) 
 Winship, entitled "Trip over Moose Hill Road." Both 
 writers were in the audience. Rev. T. Frank Waters, 
 President of the Ipswich Historical Society, delivered 
 an address on the value of an historical society. Music 
 was furnished by Reach's orchestra of Boston. 
 
 September 22, 1904. The ofificers of the Society 
 called in the evening upon Vice-President Solomon 
 Talbot, at his house on Maskwonicut Street, to congrat- 
 ulate him on reaching the age of ninety years. Timothy 
 F. Quinn made an address presenting a Doulton 
 ware pitcher marked " Solomon Talbot, 1904." On 
 the side is a picture of a vessel sailing, and Mr. Quinn 
 referred to Mr. Talbot's still being at the helm. Re- 
 sponse was made by Mr. Talbot, who afterwards spoke 
 about the ancient families of the town. Refreshments 
 were served by the ladies of the family. 
 
 October 27, 1904. Quarterly meeting of the So- 
 ciety in the upper Town Hall. President John G. 
 Phillips in the chair. Fourteen new members joined. A 
 resolution was passed on the death of a member, Mrs. 
 Eunice L. Gay, who died September 5th, aged 86 
 years, 9 months, 19 days. During the intermission, 
 Eugene Tappan, addressed the President in a congratu- 
 latory manner on his return home with his family from 
 a prolonged visit in Europe, at the close presenting him 
 with a gavel made from the newel post of the staircase 
 in the house of his birth. Mr. Phillips responded in a 
 
36 HISTORICAL SOCIETY GATHERINGS 
 
 feeling manner, and testified to his joy in once more 
 being present with his friends in Sharon. 
 
 Rev. Anson Titus of Somerville, delivered an ad- 
 dress on Old Provincial days with especial reference to 
 Madam Sarah Knight of Boston, who 200 years ago 
 rode on horseback throusrh Sharon and lodoed at Eben- 
 ezer Billings's tavern on her trip from Boston to New 
 York. Singing was furnished by a double quartet with 
 Cassius C. Stearns, director, who rendered "Ode on 
 Science," "Invitation" and "Keller's American Hymn." 
 
 January 18, 1905. By invitation of the Somerville 
 Historical Society, the Corresponding Secretary at- 
 tended a meeting of that Society, in the Oliver Tufts 
 house on Sycamore street, and spoke of the work being 
 done by the Sharon Society. 
 
 January 26, 1905. Quarterly meeting of the So- 
 ciety. President John G. Phillips in the chair. Tea 
 was served, with music by Everett C. Stanton, pianist, 
 and Robert Tappan on the mandolin. Seven new 
 members joined. John G. Phillips delivered an address 
 on Pole Plain, an ancient name for the vicinity, giving 
 some reasons for referring the origin of the term to 
 connection with William Pole and his sister P21iza- 
 beth Pole, early settlers in Dorchester and later in 
 Taunton. A short discussion followed. There had 
 been a blizzard the previous day with cold and drifts of 
 snow. Thirty-three persons, however, attended the 
 meeting. A gift presented by Charles E. Hall was ex- 
 plained by the president, being a section of wall paper 
 taken from the Capen house on Massapoag street. The 
 paper on which the design was printed proved to be 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 37 
 
 sheets of an ancient French pamphlet. All the meet- 
 ings of the year were closed with singing "Auld Lang 
 Syne." 
 
 February 25, 1905. The President attended a 
 meeting of the Bay State Historical League at 12 
 Somerset street, Boston. 
 
 MLSCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
 
 The plan of an historical scrap book was explained 
 in Publications No. i of the Society, and 3 1 contributions 
 were there acknowledged. Thirty of these with ad- 
 ditional articles have been substantially bound in half 
 morocco, making a book 8^ inches by io| inches, and f 
 inch thick. The additional articles are, — 
 
 Philip Curtis's Firewood ..... Clara E. Curtis 
 Sharon Hydraulic Water Works - - - Charles S. Curtis 
 My early school days at North Sharon - - Amanda M. Eddy 
 Trip to Sharon after forty years - - - George F. Leonard 
 The Tisdales of Easton and others - - Loring W. Puffer 
 Uncle Daniel Fuller ----- Catherine A. Shedd 
 Sharon Land Owners in 1798 - - - Eugene Tappan 
 
 Drawing of a Sharon front door - - - - Robert Tappan 
 First acquaintance with Sharon ... - Rufus B. Tobey 
 A little Rebellion history - - - George H. Whittemore 
 Trip over Moose Hill road - - Adaliza A. (Johnson) Winship 
 Our Calendar, Baptist Church . . - - Emma A. Baker 
 How they earned the Dollar . . - - Eliza L. White 
 
 First Episcopalian service in Sharon - - William W. Doherty 
 Massapoag Pond in Lunenburg - - - William H. Putnam 
 
 An index is added containing 500 names of persons 
 besides other references. The book is entitled "Scrap 
 Book, Volume i." Volume 2 is nearly ready, and a 
 
38 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 
 
 table of its contents will be given in the next number of 
 the Publications. 
 
 In continuation of the purpose of the Society to 
 encourage the practice of getting acquainted with the 
 historic and natural features of Sharon, an Outing 
 Committee has been appointed consisting of the follow- 
 ing gentlemen: — Col. Edmund H. Hewins, chairman, 
 A. Alden Carpenter, Charles S. Curtis, Benjamin Ray- 
 nolds, and Henry F. Talbot. 
 
 The Society considers Old Home week to be an 
 ideal occasion for holding one of its quarterly meetings. 
 This week in Massachusetts is appointed by statute law 
 to commence on the last Sunday of July in every year. 
 The next quarterly meeting of the Sharon Society will 
 be held on Thursday evening of that week, August 3, 
 1905, in the town hall. An outing will also be taken 
 during the same week. 
 
 Other meetings of the Society will be held Octo- 
 ber 26, 1905, January 25 and April 26, 1906. As the 
 next January meeting falls on the anniversary of the 
 birthday of Robert Burns, due recognition will then 
 be taken of that event. 
 
 The Sharon Historical Society is deeply grateful 
 for the appreciation shown by its sister societies and 
 many friends, and for the valuable aid and encourage- 
 ment given. The purpose of the Society to issue a 
 printed annual publication has been warmly commended, 
 and the Society is cheered in continuing this important 
 line of work. To meet the anticipated call for the re- 
 print of Deborah Sampson Gannett's address, the prin- 
 cipal article in the present annual, there has been pre- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 39 
 
 pared for sale a special edition of the reprint of the 
 address and the secretary's introduction. This forms a 
 thin book bound in calf back and boards, with gilt top 
 and uncut edges, the price of which is seventy-five cents, 
 postage prepaid, 
 
 A full program of each quarterly meeting is issued 
 before the meeting, and will be sent to societies and 
 friends who request it Their attendance on the Sharon 
 meetings would be highly appreciated. 
 
 The Sharon Historical Society needs a Home for 
 its records and collections and for a place of meeting 
 for members and visitors. Held in lasting remembrance 
 will be the honored name of that man or woman who so 
 loves Sharon as to build an historical house for the 
 Society. 
 
 Friends of Sharon are requested to forward to the 
 ofificers of the Society any information they acquire 
 concerning the town. Early documents and letters, old 
 newspapers references, and diaries are desired. Infor- 
 mation will also be acceptable respecting the former 
 existence of moose, and the origin of the names "Pole 
 Plain" and "Sharon." Accounts are wanted of migra- 
 tions of Sharon families to Maine loo years ago and to 
 the west 75 years ago. The exact identification and 
 proof of the birthplace of Deborah Sampson in Plymp- 
 ton, information as to the site of Wainman's Ordinary, 
 memoranda about Jonathan Billings, Rev. Philip Curtis 
 and other forefathers of Sharon, would be gladly re- 
 ceived. The corresponding secretary, on request, will 
 furnish suitable sheets prepared for the Scrap Book. 
 While asking the assistance of others, the Sharon society 
 
4© GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY 
 
 is willing to respond, as it is able, to inquiries received 
 from others also. 
 
 Officers of the Historical Society. 
 
 President, John G. Phillips. 
 
 Vice-Presidents, Solomon Talkot, William R. Mann, D. Webster Pettee. 
 
 Recording Secretary, George H. Whittemore. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary, Eugene Tappan. 
 
 Treasurer, Arthur D. Colburn. 
 
 Custodian, Loring M. Monk. 
 
 Auditor, John A. Bowman. 
 
 Additional Directors, Edmund H. Hewins, Timothy F. Quinn, Amanda 
 
 M. Eddy, Emma A. Baker. 
 
 GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY. 
 
 Alvin R. Alden, Sharon. Newspaper clippings. 
 Francis E. Blake, Boston. 
 Dorchester Neck. 
 
 Lucy Keyes, the lost child of VVachusett Mountain. 
 Increase Blake. 
 All written by Mr. Blake. 
 Mrs. Ellen A. Bond, Sharon. Photographs found in the stump 
 of a tree. 
 
 George Ernest Bowman, Boston, llie Mayfloiver Descendant,, 
 (quarterly) January, 1905. 
 
 Abram English Brown, Bedford. Flag of the Minute Men, by 
 Mr. Brown. 
 
 William Child, M. D., Bath, N. H. History of 5th N. H. 
 Regiment, by Dr. Child. 
 
 Rev. A. R. Crane, I). D., Hebron, Maine. Centennial of Maine 
 Baptist Convention (Allusion to Rev. Oliver Billings, a native of 
 Sharon.) 
 
 Alton Crosby, Willmar, Minn. Reprint of Chrtnick, (VVask- 
 ington) Feb. £, 1864. 
 
GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY 4I 
 
 Charles S. Curtis, Sharon. Transactions of Norfolk Agricul- 
 tural Society, 1850-1861, and old newspapers. 
 
 Alfred Morton Cutler, Somerville. Historic Festival in Som- 
 erville, 1898. 
 
 William R. Cutter, Woburn. 
 
 By-laws of Rumford Historical Association. 
 Dover Historical and Natural History Society, Dover. 
 
 Old Home Day in Dover, 1903. 
 George Francis Dow, Salem. Essex Institute Hist. Collec- 
 tion, July, 1904. 
 
 Mrs. Isabelle F. French, Dedham. 
 
 Manual on Mulberry tree and Silk culture, by Mrs. 
 French's father, Jonathan Holmes Cobb, fomerly of Sharon. 
 
 Petition to straighten North Main Street, 1831, with 25 
 signatures. 
 
 George W. Gay Estate, Sharon. 
 
 Torch light carried by Mr. Gay in the Lincoln campaign. 
 Old kitchen utensils. Set of iron skewers. 
 Old papers and magazines. Godey's Lady's Book, 1841. 
 National Reader, 1827, marked "Eunice L. Dewing, Sharon, 
 Dec. 20th, 1827." 
 
 The Young Orator, 1833. 
 Mrs. Harriet F. Gray, Walpole. Sermon at ordination of 
 Rev. Jonathan Whitaker in Sharon, Feb. 27, 1799, by Rev. Abiel 
 Holmes of Cambridge. 
 
 Charles E. Hall, Sharon. French wall paper of curious 
 workmanship from the old Capen house. 
 James Hewins, Medfield. 
 
 Celebration of 250th anniversary, 1901. 
 A visit to an early Homestead. A Sunday in the old meet- 
 ing house. The last two written by William S. Tilden. 
 
 Col. Edmund H. Hewins, Sharon. Old psalm tune book. 
 Don Gleason Hill, Dedham. Old Dedham Days and Ways, 
 1904. 
 
 Mrs. Eliza J. Kempton, Sharon. History of Unitarian church 
 ia Nantucket. 
 
 Edward M. Lancaster, Boston. A Manual of English History. 
 
42 G!FTS TO THK SOCIETY 
 
 Miss Dora M. Leonard, Sharon. 
 
 Deed, Thayer to Johnson, 1797, Massapoag iron mine. 
 Deed, Johnson to Savels, 1808, house lot on road to Massa- 
 poag pond. 
 
 Deed, Humphrey to Hixson, 1724. 
 William R. Mann, Sharon. Badge of Medway Old Home 
 Week, 1904. 
 
 Medford Historical Society, Medford. Historical Register, 
 published quarterly. 
 
 Rev. Edmund F. Merriam, D. D., Sharon. 
 
 American Baptist Missionary Union, by Dr. Merriam. 
 Also pamphlets by him, on missionary subjects. 
 Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket. 
 Nantucket Lands and Land Owners. 
 Proceedings of annual meeting, 1904. 
 National Shawmut Bank, Boston. 200 year calendar. 
 New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston. 
 Librarian's report, 1904. 
 
 New York Historical Society, New York. By-laws, etc. 
 John Noble, Boston. Record of Court of Assistants, 1630- 
 1644. 
 
 Miss Mary C. Nye, Marietta, Ohio Brig. Gen. Benjamin 
 Tupper. 2 sketches. 
 
 Walter Gilman Page, Boston. Register of Society of Sons of 
 the Revolution, 1903. 
 
 John G. Phillips, Sharon. 
 
 4 tickets, Providence Street Lottery, 1761. 
 3 tickets, Providence Great Bridge Lottery, 1790. 
 James N. Pringle, Sharon. History of United States, by 
 John H. Hinton, 1834. (vol. i.) 
 
 Dr. Loring W. Puffer, Brockton. 
 
 Reminiscences of Easton, in The Parish Visitor. 
 Town Records of Bridgewater, entered by John Gary. 
 Copy of deed from Charles Josiah, Indian Sachem, indorsed, 
 "This deed is not valed nor valebel in law the lawers say." 
 
 Three pence bill, 1778. Old $3.00 bill of Vermont State 
 Bank. 
 
GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY 43 
 
 Receipts given by Capt. F.dward Bridge Savell to John 
 Drake, Jr , and Archippus Drake, July ii, 1776, for £t^ each, 
 "towards paying soldiers for the present expedition." 
 
 Collection of old deeds and legal papers, 1 740-1816. 
 Nathan P. Sanborn, Marblehead. 
 
 Gen. John Glover and his Regiment, by Mr. Sanborn. 
 By-laws of Historical Society of Marblehead, 1899. 
 Sharon Club, Sharon. Souvenir programs of annual enter- 
 tainments, 19021905. 
 
 Rev. Amos N. Somers, Sharon. Photograph of Decatur & 
 Alden's real estate office. Central Square. (1885.) 
 
 Somerville Historical Society, Somerville. Historic Leaves, 
 Jan. 1904. Quarterly published by the Society. 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Tamblyn, Sharon. Old fire shovel. 
 Eugene Tappan, Sharon. 
 
 Suffolk Registers of Probate by John T. Hassam. 
 Address on 250th anniversary of incorporation of Maiden, 
 by Arthur H. Wellman. 
 
 "Sharon Collections, No. i," containing the following 
 pamphlets: Publications of Historical Society, No. i; History 
 of First Parish, by George Willis Cooke ; Translation of Arabic 
 MS, by Sidney A. Weston, Ph. D.; History of Baptist Church in 
 Sharon, by Rev. Lyman Partridge ; First Anniversary celebration 
 of Stoughtonham Institute, 1864 ; Reunion of Pupils of same 
 Institute, 1889 ; Herbert Spencer, by Rev. John C. Kimball ; Last 
 survivor of the Six Hundred, by Blair Irwin (who died in Sharon, 
 Jan. 27, 1904) ; St. John's Cook Book, recipes by Sharon house- 
 wives : Sharon, the healthiest town in New England, by W. B. 
 Wickes, 1884 ; The Freak, a monthly paper edited by Edmund R. 
 Brown, "the youngest editor in America" ; The humanitarian 
 side of Religion, by Rev. John C. Kimball ; C'atalogue of books in 
 Congregational Sunday School, 1899 ' '^"^ miscellaneous circulars. 
 Roger Tappan. Sjundea, Finland. Finland newspapers. 
 Gilbert Thompson, Washington, D. C'. 
 
 Register of the Society of Colonial Wars, I). C, 1904. 
 Historical Military Powder-Horns. 
 Some U. S. topographical maps. 
 
44 GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY 
 
 Rufus B, Tobey, Boston. 
 
 Photograph frame carved by a Boer prisoner at Bermuda. 
 
 $1000, Confederate bond, 1863. 
 
 Confederate paper money, 50 cts., JJi.oo, $5.00, $10.00, 
 J20.00. 
 
 The Gam, whaling stories, by Capt. Charles H. Robbins. 
 
 Photograph of Edward Everett Hale, with autograph. 
 
 The Man without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale, with 
 autograph. 
 
 The Man with the Branded Hand (Prize essay in Harwich 
 high school). 
 
 Mrs. Mary F. Randall Washburn, Worcester. 
 
 Warrant to tax collector of Sharon, 1832. 
 
 Promissory note, 1802, with 2 four-cents revenue stamps. 
 
 Warrant to John F. Randall as musician in Capt. Friend 
 Drake's company, 1824. 
 
 Two accounts, 1826. John Randall's highway tax, 1801. 
 
 Old Newspaper clipping about Roxbury, "There is not a 
 house in the town that is numbered." 
 Thomas F. Waters, Ipswich. 
 
 Hotel Cluny of a New England Village. 
 
 An Old Ipswich House. 
 Thomas Weston, Newton. History of Eliot Church in New- 
 ton, by Rev. Joshua W. Wellman. 
 George H. Whiitemore, Sharon. 
 
 Independent Chronicle and Unwersal Advertiser^ Boston, May 
 2, 1777 (newspaper). 
 
 Report of Medtield town officers, 1885, with valuation list. 
 
 Report of Trustees of Public Reservations, 189 1 and 1892. 
 
 War Revenue Tax, 1898. 
 
 Reports of town of Sharon, 1892. 
 
 Memorial day in Canton and Sharon, 1884, 
 
 Essay on Man, 1832 ; Hymns for Infant minds, 181 5 ; Ser- 
 mons to the rich and studious on Temperance and Exercise, 1772; 
 Faith and Covenant of Baptist Church, 1838 ; Sunday School 
 Class Book, 1859. 
 
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LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 45 
 
 Appraisal of estate of Widow Judith BuUard, iSio. 
 Letters of administration on estate of Benjamin Bullard, 1779. 
 Woburn Public Library, Woburn. Trustees' Report, 1903. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP OF THE SHARON HISTORICAL 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 Marcellus H. Allen, Dennett bldg. 
 Arthur A. Bailey, Highland St. 
 Minnie C. Bailey, Highland St. 
 Emma A. Baker, Billings St. 
 Abel T. Barnes, Boyden PI. 
 Charles O. Barnes, Summit Av. 
 Mary E. Barnes, Summit Av. 
 Elizabeth M. Billings, Billings St. 
 Abbie C. BilHngs, Billings St. 
 Osmond J. Billings, Billings St. 
 Ella F. Boehm, South Main St. 
 Benjamin S. Belles, Pond St. 
 John A. Bowman, Wood St. 
 Winnibel Bowman, Wood St. 
 Frederick V. Brittain, Glendale Rd. 
 Marie Hilda Brittain, Glendale Rd. 
 Charles F. Bryant, Billings St. 
 Frank E. Burbank, South Pleasant St. 
 Sarah C. Burbank, South Pleasant St. 
 W. Winthrop Capen, So. Pleasant St. 
 A. Alden Carpenter, Depot St. 
 M. Imogene Carpenter, Depot St. 
 Sanford L Carpenter, Billings St. 
 Erminnie O. Carpenter, Billings St. 
 Harriet M. Chapin, Maskwonicut St. 
 Calvin G. Coggins, South Main St. 
 Gertrude M. Cobb, Bay St. 
 Arthur Dwight Colburn, Depot St. 
 Emma P. Colburn, Depot St. 
 Floyd C. Coon, Billings St. 
 Guild A. Copeland, Pleasant St. 
 Jennie S. Copeland, Pleasant St. 
 Cadwallader Curry, Pleasant St. 
 Charles S. Curtis, Pond St. 
 Clara E. Curtis, Pond St. 
 
 Lillias C. Davenport, Ames St. 
 Marion A. Davenport, Ames St. 
 Walter H. Delano, Billings St. 
 Gertrude H. Delano, Billings St. 
 Miner R. Deniing, Revere. 
 George A. Dennett, North Main St. 
 Elizabeth O. Dennett, North Main St. 
 Charles T. Derry, South Main St. 
 Almira W. Derry, South Main St. 
 Daniel DeVoe, Norwood St. 
 Lucy W. Dinsmore, South Main St. 
 Almon J. Dyer, North Main St. 
 Lizzie J. L. Dyer, North Main St. 
 Amanda M. Eddy, Billings St. 
 May L. Felt, Maple Av. 
 Adelaide M. Fernald, North Main St. 
 Carrie N. Fernald, North Main St. 
 George W. Field, Moose Hill St. 
 Mary Bell Field, Moose Hill St. 
 Arthur P. Fiske, Pleasant St. 
 Mary Adela Fiske, Pleasant St. 
 W. Perry Fiske, Summit Av. 
 George B. Fowler, North Main St. 
 Bernice W. Fowler, North Main St. 
 Robie G. Frye, North Main St. 
 Edward J. Fuller, Viaduct St. 
 Erastus O. Fuller, Canton St. 
 Helen E. Gannett, East St. 
 Louis F. Gates, Highland At. 
 N. Newton Glazier, Summit Av. 
 Joseph Goddard, Viaduct St. 
 Faith Goddard, Viaduct St. 
 Mattie H. Green, Pleasant St. 
 Walter A. Griffin, Depot St. 
 Charles E. Hall, South Maia St. 
 
46 
 
 L?ST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Carrie M. Hall, South Main St. 
 Mary A. Hall, South Pleasant St. 
 William F. Hall, Sylvan Road. 
 William L. Haskel, Chestnut St. 
 Agnes P. Haskel, Chestnut St. 
 G. Ashley Haszard, Station St. 
 Edmund D. Hewins, Highland St. 
 Ora A. Hewins, Highland St. 
 Edmund H. Hewins, South Main St. 
 Kate M. Hewins, South Main St. 
 Katharine P. Hewins. South Main St. 
 Harry M. Hight, Maple Av. 
 Margaret D. Hight, Maple Av. 
 Arthur S. Hixson, Brook Road. 
 Florence Hixson, Brook Road. 
 C. Augustus Hixson, North Main St. 
 Mary L. Hixson, North Main St. 
 Edgar M. Hixson, Brook Road. 
 Mary E. Hixson, Brook Road. 
 Theodore W. Hixson, Brook Road. 
 Mary F. Estey Holbrook, Cottage St. 
 Albert D. Holmes, Summit Av. 
 William B. Holmes, Bay St. 
 Ellen J. Horace, Arlington. 
 Harriet A. Johnson, Depot St. 
 George Kempton, Pond c^t. 
 Eliza J. Kempton, Pond St. 
 John C. Kimball, Greenfield. 
 Charles H. Kittredge, Depot St. 
 Elizabeth F. Kittredge, Depot St. 
 M. P. Woldemar Kreutz, Depot St. 
 George P. Lawrence, 53 Trcmont St.. 
 
 Boston. 
 James E. Leach, South Pleasant St. 
 Lizzie N. Leonard, Summit Av. 
 Dora M. Leonard, Depot St. 
 H. Frank Leonard. Pond St. 
 Mary J. Leonard, Pond St. 
 Marcus E. Lincoln, Pleasant St. 
 George B. Lockwood. Walnut St. 
 Frank P. Long, Cottage St. 
 Carrie A. Long, Cottage St. 
 Albert W. Lyon, South Main St. 
 John W Mackintosh, Walnut St. 
 
 George R. Mann, East St. 
 
 William R. Mann. East St. 
 
 Julia A. Mann, East St. 
 
 Fred W. Mansfield, Belcher St. 
 
 Sarah M. Mansfield, Belcher St. 
 
 Henry F. Maxwell, Bay St. 
 
 John W. McCanna, Deborah Samp- 
 son St. 
 
 John D. McLaughlin. North Main St. 
 
 Edmund F. Merriam, North Main St. 
 
 Percy R. Middleton, Pond St. 
 
 Dora Middleton, Pond St. 
 
 Eliza B. Mills, Pleasant St. 
 
 Loring M. Monk, East St. 
 
 Laura D. Monk, East St. 
 
 Rodney E. Monk, East St. 
 
 Susan G. Moody, East St. 
 
 Bushrod Morse, Harvard St., Brook- 
 line. 
 
 Velina F. Myrick, Pleasant St. 
 
 Herbert F. Nelson, Maple Av. 
 
 Cyrus A. Noyes, Cottage St. 
 
 John O'Brien, Last Foxboro St. 
 
 Alvin D. Packard, Walnut St. 
 
 Bernard L. Paine, Highland St. 
 
 Carrie L- Perkins, Summit Av. 
 
 D. Webster Pettee, Pleasant St. 
 Myra F. Pettee, Pleasant St. 
 John G. Phillips, Pleasant St. 
 Mary W. Phillips, Pleasant St. 
 Anna G. Phillips, Pleasant St. 
 Mary N. Phillips, Plea.sant St. 
 Eugene C. Plimpton, So. Walpole St. 
 Helen L. Plimpton, So. Walpole St. 
 Amelia H. Pollard, Pond St. 
 
 Ralph L. Pollard, Depot St. 
 Bertha M. Pollard. Depot St. 
 James N. Pringle. Summit Av. 
 Timothy F. Quinn, South Main St. 
 Elizabeth L. Quinn, South Main St. 
 Benjamin Raynolds, South Main St. 
 Ruth A. Raynolds, South Main St. 
 
 E. Gilmore Richards, South Main St. 
 Gertrude F. W. Richards, So. Main St 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 47 
 
 Lydia G. Richards, Stoughton. 
 Laura A. Sage, Moose Hill St. 
 Alfred C. Sampson, Glendaie Road 
 Carrie C. Sampson, Glendaie Road 
 Catherine A. Shedd, Roxbury. 
 Horace S. Shepard, Ames St. 
 Anna M. Shepard, Ames St. 
 A. T. Smith, Oakland Road. 
 Amos N. Somers, Pond St. 
 Mabel Somers, Pond St. 
 Silas A. Stone, Billings St. 
 Amanda Sussman, South Main St. 
 Ezra Otis Swift, P. O 
 Boston. 
 
 Muriel Tappan, South Pleasant St. 
 Gorham M. Taylor, Chestnut St. 
 Willis Thompson, North Main St. 
 Minnie Hushee Thompson, N. Main 
 
 St. 
 L. Robert Tidd, Summit Av. 
 Otis S. Tolman, Pond St. 
 Elizabeth W. Trafton, N. Main St. 
 Frank M. Trafton, North Main St. 
 Ida A. Tuck, South Main St. 
 Alice M. Tuck, South Main St. 
 Margaret H. Walton, Moose Hill St. 
 Box 2587, Benjamin Welch, South Main St. 
 Dora Welch, South Main St. 
 
 Solomon Talbot, Maskvvonicut St. Mille Louise West, Summit Av. 
 Edmund H. Talbot, 27 State St., Bos- Sidney A. Weston, Summit Av. 
 
 ton. Eliza L. White, Chestnut St. 
 
 F. Adelaide Talbot, Canton. John B". White, Maple Av. 
 
 Eugene Tappan, South Pleasant St. George H. Whittemore, Chestnut St. 
 Crosby Tappan, South Pleasant St. Elsie A. Whittemore, Chestnut St. 
 
 Total 192. 
 
APR 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
 
 SHARON 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 No. 3 —April, 1906 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 Press of H. U. II n; ii i 
 
 76 Summer Street 
 
 1906 
 
INDEX 
 
 Review of the past Twelve Months 
 Massapoag Pond Bank .... 
 A Fire-Proof Historical Society Building 
 List of Outings for 1906 .... 
 Historical Scrap Book .... 
 Gifts to the Society .... 
 Officers of the Society, and Notes 
 List of Members 
 
 3 
 
 14 
 20 
 24 
 
 25 
 
 27 
 
 30 
 30 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
 
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 SHARON 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 OF 
 
 SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 No. 3 — April, 1906 
 
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Copyright, 1906 
 By Sharon Historical Society 
 
REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS, 
 By JOHN G. PHILLIPS, 
 
 President of the Society. 
 
 A review of the year, while it shows in a frank 
 manner what has been done, also encourages the society 
 in its efforts to do another year's work. The study of 
 the work done will lead to discrimination in the choice 
 of suitable work for the future. 
 
 In closing the records of three years of continued 
 growth, the Sharon Historical Society feels that it has 
 passed the experimental period of life and may justly 
 claim a right to enter the ranks with those which are 
 looked up to, as entitled to speak with some authority. 
 But this comparative maturity by no means indicates 
 that its full growth has been reached or its final work 
 accomplished. On the contrary, it is the work that has 
 not been done, but for which the experience of the past 
 serves as an inspiration, that may well be our cause for 
 congratulation. 
 
 Starting in 1903 with limited numbers and modest 
 enthusiasm, our society has never been a precocious 
 child to attract the wonder and at the same time the 
 fears of its friends; but we feel that its devolopment 
 has been, in every respect, a normal one, steady and 
 
4 REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS. 
 
 sure, giving promise of a long existence and a well 
 rounded character. 
 
 While we take just satisfaction in viewing the past, 
 our expectations for the coming years are even more 
 deserving of interest. We have undoubtedly learned 
 much that has been of assistance from the experiences 
 of sister organizations. It has been our aim, not to 
 imitate other societies, but to appropriate from them 
 only that which seemed to us of especial value in a 
 general way, while making a careful study of our own 
 individual condition and environment, and marking out 
 such a course as seemed best for ourselves. 
 
 In some respects we may have pursued a somewhat 
 unusual, if not altogether original, course for an 
 historical society; but this experience has taught us 
 that novelty is not only not incompatible with usefulness 
 but may even be a potent means to that desired end. 
 
 Having in mind the familiar adage that " All work 
 and no play makes Jack a dull boy," we have adopted at 
 our quarterly meetings the method of mingling exercises 
 of a popular, though not inharmonious character, with 
 those which indicate the serious purposes of our society; 
 and the results seem to show good judgment. 
 
 Our earlier meetings were held in the small hall of 
 the town house, but of late the growing attendance has 
 justified us in making use of the main hall for the quar- 
 terly meetings of the past year. These meetings have 
 been held in April, August, October and January. The 
 times for holding these proved to be acceptable. The 
 fourth Thursday in January is much better than a date 
 earlier in that busy month ; the fourth Thursday in 
 
REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS 5 
 
 April and in October are in settled weather and do not 
 conflict with other gatherings ; and the meeting on 
 the Thursday of Old Home Week is one of the best of 
 the year, being very appropriate to the time. 
 
 The meeting of April 27th, 1905, was the annual 
 meeting at which the reports of the several of^cers were 
 read, and the president gave a general review of the 
 work of the year. Nine new members were admitted 
 and the previous officers of the society were re-elected. 
 Mr. Frederic Endicott, of Canton, the guest of the eve- 
 ning, presented a paper giving a description of the 
 shores of Massapoag, and Mrs. Mann read an account 
 of life in Sharon sixty years ago, written by our vice- 
 president William R. Mann. The exercises were inter- 
 spersed with music ; the Concord Hymn of Emerson, 
 set to original music by Mr. C. C. Stearns, who on this 
 occasion played the accompaniment, was sung by a local 
 quartette, and during the intermission refreshments were 
 served. This meeting was of a distinctly local character. 
 
 Quite different was the meeting of August third in 
 Old Home Week. After the usual business meeting, 
 at which eleven new members were admitted, his Honor 
 Lieutenant-Governor Guild delivered a most entertain- 
 ing and appropriate address, which was followed by an 
 informal reception. During the evening there was 
 singing by a picked quartette. The society invited the 
 public to attend and join in the reception to the distin- 
 guished guest, and the occasion was a popular event. 
 
 The October meeting was held as appointed with 
 Hon. James H. Flint, Judge of Probate Court of Nor- 
 folk County, the guest of the evening, who delivered an 
 
6 REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS 
 
 interesting address. A list of gifts to the society was 
 read and also a record of the doings for the last quarter. 
 Instrumental and vocal music was rendered. Tea was 
 served during the intermission, which was followed by a 
 paper by the president of the society on the origin of 
 the several historic names of the town. Eight new 
 members were admitted. This meeting was mainly one 
 of local interest. 
 
 At the mid-winter meeting of January 25th, 1906, 
 six new members were admitted ; and after the usual 
 business had been transacted, the popular exercises were 
 in order. The date of this meeting happened to fall 
 upon the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, and 
 was appropriately celebrated as the " Burns Festival." 
 Rev. Edward A.Chase of Wollaston delivered a scholarly 
 address upon the life and works of the poet, and that 
 bonny son of Scotland, Mr. John R. Anderson, delighted 
 the audience with Burns recitations and dialect stories. 
 A fine quartette sang Scotch songs. The refreshments 
 consisted of tea and Scotch scones, served by yonng 
 ladies clad in Scotch plaids ; and every one of the large 
 audience present, including the public which was gener- 
 ously invited, was an enthusiastic son or daughter of one 
 or another Scottish clan for the evening. 
 
 The town of Sharon is of ordinary historical in- 
 terest, and of average size as to territory, presenting 
 perhaps rather more than the usual diversity of surface, 
 and geological interest and scenic beauty for eastern 
 Massachusetts, with few markedly interesting features; 
 but to the careful observer, much may be discovered to 
 attract the attention of the student of science or of 
 history. 
 
REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS 7 
 
 The old abandoned iron mines and foundry sites 
 which mark the chief claims to historical recognition, 
 the lakes and beds of primitive lakes, the geological 
 eskars and glacial hills and boulders, are an interesting 
 -Study; and the ancient cellars and family grave yards, 
 eloquent of the life and the succession of generations of 
 our original settlers, and the forgotten paths of our 
 ancestors, are all worthy of the attention of the sons and 
 daughters of today. The unusual variety of forest trees 
 is also worthy of notice. 
 
 All these considerations invite the members of the 
 Sharon Historical Society to take rambles from time to 
 time over the domains of their own town. The Histor- 
 ical Society last year conducted nine interesting out- 
 ings. Such excursions are admirably fitted to inculcate 
 town patriotism, as they promote appreciation and love 
 for the rocks and rills and woods of the home environ- 
 ment and give the opportunity of study at first hand in 
 local history. Books do not teach all. 
 
 "One impulse from a vernal wood 
 
 May teach you more of man, 
 Of moral evil and of good. 
 
 Than all the sages can." 
 
 On May 13th, 1905, eight persons, our two vener- 
 able vice-presidents among the number, started from the 
 Square and walked about a mile to the saw-mill. The 
 special objects of interest were the old Savel's Tavern; 
 the site of the school house, the next to the oldest in the 
 village, near the corner of the lot where now stands the 
 Congregational Church; the house occupied by Rev. 
 Philip Curtis, the first minister of the first parish, built 
 
8 REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS 
 
 about 1754; the cellar of the old Deacon Estey house; 
 the site of the first school house v^^here the old men and 
 the women and children gathered on June 17th, 1775, 
 to watch the smoke and hear the booming of the cannon 
 from the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 
 On May 27th, a walk was taken by a party of 
 twelve, who visited the old dam and the ruins of the old 
 hydraulic works near the railroad station, and several 
 ancient houses of interest, returning by a romantic 
 path through the pines. 
 
 The third ramble on June loth was enjoyed by 
 twelve ladies and gentlemen. The party took the elec- 
 tric cars to Cobb's Corner where the historical Cobb's 
 Tavern was viewed. From there the walk began, past 
 the beautiful grove of hemlock trees, up Bay Street to 
 the old Belcher homestead, thence to Devil's Rock and 
 Devil's Bridge on Massapoag Brook, where a lady of 
 the party sang the song, " Meet Me by the Running 
 Brook." 
 
 Sixteen persons made up the party for the ramble 
 of June 24th, through North Main, Maskwonicut, Rich- 
 ards and Canton Streets. Mr. Solomon Talbot was the 
 leader, who gave an interesting description of the old 
 saw-mill which stood in 1737 near the present railroad 
 bridge. Chestnut Tree Cemetery was then visited and 
 the epitaphs on the ancient headstones deciphered. A 
 stop was made at the Talbot home where refreshments 
 were hospitably served and the party returned by the 
 trolley cars. 
 
 The Old Home Week outing of August 4th was 
 the chief undertaking in the line of rambles, when the 
 
REV^IEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS 9 
 
 Historical Society conducted a large party of members 
 and guests to the ruins of the Revolutionary foundry of 
 1770, situated near the Foxborough line. The trip was 
 made in barges. An interesting historical paper was 
 read. 
 
 The sixth ramble on September 9th was under- 
 taken part of the way on foot and partly by carriages. 
 A party of twenty-one persons paid a visit to Rock 
 Ridge Cemetery where are located the graves of 
 Deborah Sampson and Edmund Quincy, and to the site 
 of the birth place of General Benjamin Tupper, all of 
 Revolutionary renown. From here the top of the ridge 
 was followed through the woods a mile or more to 
 Massapoag Pond. A letter from George W. Field, 
 Ph. D., was read, giving a scientific account of the 
 formation of this geological eskar. The return was 
 made by carriages through Pond Street. 
 
 On September 23d a party of twenty-four took a 
 trip to Massapoag, and Mr. Frederic Endicott of Canton 
 explained the peculiar formation of the banks at the 
 north end of the pond. A sail about the pond was en- 
 joyed in the launch, " Marion," and several interesting 
 historical houses and sites were visited on the way home 
 through Gunhouse and South Main Streets. 
 
 On October 14th thirty-six people took a drive 
 northerly to the site of the old Roebuck Tavern and 
 from there over the old Post Road of Colonial days, five 
 miles, to the site of the old Billings Tavern in the ex- 
 treme south part of Sharon. On the way home a stop 
 was made by invitation at the club house near Wolomol- 
 opoag Pond. 
 
lO REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS 
 
 Thirty-seven people took a walk on October 28th, 
 the last ramble of the season. A visit was made to the old 
 Ellis place and to the ruins of the dam and iron forge, 
 across the railroad track on Beaver Hole Brook. On 
 the return across the fields, once a part of the farm of 
 the first minister, a pause was made at the house of the 
 president of the society, where afternoon tea was served 
 and a pleasant half hour passed. 
 
 Both the quarterly meetings and the field days of 
 the society are improved in a literary way by a narrative 
 of the occurrence, written by a member and published 
 in the town newspaper. 
 
 As long as the interest continues in these rambles, 
 it seems wise to conduct them. Last year two rambles 
 a month in May, June, September and October, with 
 another ramble in Old Home Week, were well patron- 
 ized; and the directors have planned for the present 
 year a list of eleven outings which is printed elsewhere 
 in this number. All persons living on the routes taken 
 in these outings are especially asked to join in the 
 excursions and give to the ramblers the peculiar informa- 
 tion which they possess of points of interest on the 
 routes. The interest in these rambles increased very 
 noticeably during the season of 1905, passing from the 
 experimental stage to that of assured success. 
 
 Volumes two and three of the Scrap Book have been 
 bound during the past year. Volume four is nearing 
 completion. Thus permanancy is reasonably secured 
 for the books, which, although not published as the cost 
 is too great, are substantially bound and ought to last 
 for generations, furnishing a rich store house for future 
 
REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS II 
 
 historians, as well as matter for occasional readings in 
 meetings and on outings. 
 
 We urge members and friends to investigate some 
 subject of town interest and make a written report in 
 the form of a contribution to the Scrap Book. Will 
 members please notice that what is desired is not neces- 
 sarily what they already know, but a narrative of some- 
 thing desirable to be investigated and perhaps now 
 quite unknown, but remaining to be investigated and 
 then wTitten up. The historians work is not the 
 machine work of writing from memory or copying 
 merely, though that is valuable, but it is the investiga- 
 tion, the search for sources of information, the compari- 
 son of different accounts, and the sifting of evidence, 
 and finally the logical arrangement and interesting 
 manner of writing the narrative. Apart from the value 
 of the result obtained will be the delight in the search 
 of truth, and the pleasure in the exercise of the mental 
 operations of comparison, judgment and luminous ex- 
 pression in composition. 
 
 Our society has joined the Bay State Historical 
 League within the past year. This tends to the stabil- 
 ity of the local society and gives a broader outlook. 
 Federation has proved useful in other lines, and will no 
 doubt prove so in historical lines. New England is 
 peculiar in having historical societies in its small towns. 
 Federation is the more necessary here to promote life 
 and good work. 
 
 In this connection, it is to be noted that the Amer- 
 ican Historical Association, a highly respectable body 
 incorporated by Congress, in whose printing office its 
 
12 REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS. 
 
 reports are printed, holds its national meeting this next 
 December in the near-by city of Providence. The zeal 
 of our society should be exhibited in a considerable at- 
 tendance at the meetings which cover several days ; and 
 we would be glad to entertain in our homes some of the 
 guests of that gathering if we can secure their good 
 company. The society is indebted to our efficient Con- 
 gressman, Hon. John W. Weeks, for the gift of annual 
 reports of this national association containing over 
 twenty-four hundred pages. 
 
 The subjects mentioned in this paper by no means 
 include all the work that our society could do. Without 
 neglecting the interesting matter already begun and 
 still in progress, such as enthusiasm in attendance upon 
 the meetings, and participation in the historical excur- 
 sions, and contribution in writing and gifts, there are 
 other interesting lines of work for the future. A collec- 
 tion of plans of lands, history of titles of estates such 
 as an examiner of titles could compose, and abstract of 
 probate proceedings at Dedham in Sharon estates from 
 1793 to 1S78, for which an index of names is already 
 furnished in the Scrap Book, photographs of houses in 
 Sharon, copies of family registers in old Bibles, are to 
 be desired. Another piece of work which the busiest 
 or the idlest person can, without much trouble, furnish, 
 is to inform the officers of the society of the existence 
 and whereabouts of historical matter, of letters, diaries, 
 account books, memoranda and relics. It is not infre- 
 quently the case that some fact of importance, well- 
 known to a few, is unknown to all others. 
 
 Each member can help the society by some effort 
 
REVIEW OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS I3 
 
 to enlist the interest of natives of Sharon residing out- 
 side the town and many other non-residents who, for 
 one reason or another, are connected with Sharon. 
 
 Association with neighboring historical societies by 
 the interchange of visits at the meetings has been 
 thought of by the officers, but remains to be carried out. 
 A simple plan to effect this association would be to in- 
 vite specially to each regular meeting a delegation from 
 some one kindred society and to send delegations from 
 our own society, from time to time, to the meetings of 
 other societies. In this way, as the clergy phrase it, we 
 could do good and get good. 
 
 The Sharon Historical Society does not exist for 
 the mere purpose of work, but for the purpose of doing 
 its appropriate work. A considerable share of such 
 work concerns this town alone, but there is also a line of 
 work in town history which is a part of national history. 
 To thoroughly understand the life, character and 
 achievements of the fore-father, of the soldier in the 
 Colonial, Revolutionary and Civil wars, of the minister, 
 the school master and the yeoman of olden time, is to 
 understand in a most vital way, the history of our glori- 
 ous country. 
 
 The president desires to express indebtedness to 
 the corresponding secretary for his substantial encour- 
 agement in the preparation of this paper, and feels him- 
 self in honor bound to recognize and publicly acknowl- 
 edge, his very material assistance and contribution, 
 without which, this review could not have been written. 
 
MASSAPOAG POND BANK. 
 
 Bv Frederic Endicott, of Canton. 
 
 When the town of Dorchester received the " New 
 Grant beyond the Blew Hills," the most prominent top- 
 ographical features of the newly acquired territory were 
 Blue and Moose hills, and Ponkapoag and Massapoag 
 ponds. The iron mines, several of which were near Mas- 
 sapoag pond, were supposed to be very valuable. The 
 lands next in value were the meadows all ready to furnish 
 hay, and the cedar swamps heavily wooded with large 
 trees suitable for splitting up into posts and rails. 
 
 You will occasionally see a white cedar rail from this 
 old growth, but they are now scarce. The second growth 
 cedars are not nearly as good, as even fifty years of 
 growth only give a soft tree without wearing qualities. 
 I do not remember more than two or three of the pri- 
 meval cedars, and they were cut long since. 
 
 As a consequence of the value of these swamps, 
 meadows and iron mines, the surveys and plans of them 
 were carefully made and coincide very closely with sur- 
 veys of the same lands made at the present time. The 
 maps of the two general partitions of common landsv 
 called the Twelve Divisions and the Twenty-five Divis- 
 ions were necessarily more roughly made. Massapoag 
 pond was situated between these two sections and is 
 only roughly sketched on either of them; but several 
 
MASSAPOAG POND BANK. 1 5 
 
 ■of the swamps and small lots which were accurately 
 surveyed and shown by plans on a much larger scale, 
 adjoin the pond at its northwesterly and southeasterly 
 portions. Ponkapoag and Massapoag ponds, in common 
 with other great ponds (that is, natural ponds of over 
 ten acres in extent), were surrounded by pond banks of 
 which I shall speak later. 
 
 In December, 1870, I made for the Revere Copper 
 Company a survey of Massapoag Pond showing the line 
 of the water as it then stood, and the ancient line of the 
 pond at the edge of the pond bank. At this time only 
 the first ripple of the real estate wave had reached its 
 shores, so that the pond bank was nearly in its original 
 state. There were only a few houses near the pond. 
 On the east side was the Boyden house; at the north- 
 east was the Lake House, and near it Mr. Otis Johnson's 
 house. On the north shore were Mr. Stillman Morse's 
 and two others; and, near where the Boston Ice Com- 
 pany's ice-houses stood at a later time, were Mr. Warren 
 M. Holmes's and the Snow house. 
 
 The streets were mostly built upon the beach of the 
 pond. In the records of the Proprietors of Common 
 Lands in the New Grant, we find that Mr. John Capen, 
 (and I think others,) petitioned for liberty to use the 
 shores of the pond for a way from his house to the rest 
 of the town. The Proprietors kindly granted his re- 
 quest, although they had no rights in the matter at all, 
 as the land below high water mark belonged to the 
 province or state, and all above high water mark had 
 already been granted to individuals. As the beach was 
 dry enough to be used as a roadway, it appears likely 
 
l6 MASSAPOAG POND BANK. 
 
 that the pond had at that time been drawn somewhat 
 lower than its natural level. 
 
 At the time of my survey, one of the objects was 
 to get the lines of the pond bank; and from that cause 
 I took much more notice of its formation than I other- 
 wise should have done. Where high land came down 
 close to the pond, the bank was merely pushed up 
 against the hill, as is seen near the site of the Boston 
 Ice Company's ice-houses, now burned down. Where 
 the land adjoining the pond was low, the bank was a 
 ridge or bank ten feet more or less wide at the top and 
 two or three feet high, with slopes both toward the pond 
 and away from it. This was the case where the road 
 to the hotel passes over the pond bank at the Sandy 
 beach, and also where the swamp adjoins the pond at 
 its northwest corner. 
 
 At the northeast corner of the pond the bank had 
 been obliterated by the streets running from the pond 
 in three directions and by the building of Mr. Morse's 
 house. In 1871 the town widened the road along the 
 east side of the pond, beginning the work about the 
 first of November, and this obliterated nearly or quite 
 all the bank on that side. From the gate house to Mr. 
 MorreJl's house (then Boyden's), there was almost a 
 continuous bank, sloped on both sides ; and upon the 
 top of the bank were several large chestnut trees, one 
 of them whose rings I counted being 128 years old. 
 There were also several large hemlocks, one of them 98 
 years old, and a so-called hornbeam, properly a tupelo. 
 These trees were cut down, and the material composing 
 the bank was used in grading the street. 
 
MASSAPOAG POND BANK. 1/ 
 
 The improvements around the hotel have smoothed 
 out the distinctive characteristics of the bank at that 
 place, and filled in a gap which existed in the original 
 bank, where in 1870 there were a dam and flume hold- 
 ing back the waters of the stream which flows from the 
 swamp back of the hotel. The building of the Burk- 
 hardt ice-houses and railroad swept away the most in- 
 teresting part of the bank, as at this point were the 
 largest boulders on the borders of the pond. These 
 were shattered by dualin, one of the nitroglycerine 
 compounds made, I think, by Carl Dittmar. The bould- 
 ers were six or eight feet high, as I recollect them, and 
 composed of the peculiarly crystallized white and green- 
 ish stone so abundant in the neighborhood. There have 
 also been smaller changes in several places. The ques- 
 tion naturally arises, — what are the causes of pond 
 banks.'* They all have the same general characteristics, 
 showing that they are pushed up by some mighty force. 
 If there are boulders even of considerable size, they are 
 pushed along to high water mark, and sand and gravel 
 are thrown up at the borders of the pond. The force 
 of the waves of a small pond could not move even the 
 smallest of these boulders. We know that the freezing 
 of water in the joints of a rock will split it to pieces, 
 and that the same effect would be produced in the 
 strongest cannon ; but in these cases the water is con- 
 fined in every direction. Glaciers carry along every 
 thing before them and deposit rocks and gravel as ter- 
 minal moraines, but their motion is supposed to be due 
 to the force of gravity acting on ice capable of flowing 
 very slowly down hill. 
 
l8 MASSAPOAG POND BANK. 
 
 Those of us who have lived within hearing of a 
 large pond in winter are familiar with the booming of 
 the ice in a very cold night ; and, if skaters, may have 
 found by sad experience that great cracks are formed in 
 the ice at such times. Passing over the pond next day 
 we shall find that the water in these cracks has frozen 
 solid, and the day after that we may find more cracks 
 filled up in the same way, some of them perhaps cross- 
 ing the first. The fissures are caused by the unequal 
 contraction of the ice, some parts cooling faster than 
 others. 
 
 On a bright sunshiny day following one of these cold 
 nights, if we are on the ice at the edge of the pond we 
 may hear it grinding over the pebbles as it expands by 
 the heat from the sun's rays. By fastening one end of a 
 pole upon the shore with stones, and letting the other 
 end extend out over the ice, we may perceive the 
 motion of the ice under the end of the pole. This action 
 of contracting, filling the cracks with ice and then ex- 
 panding, keeps on as long as freezing weather lasts. 
 The net expansion of the ice is equal to the sum of the 
 widths of all the cracks ; and as some of these will 
 measure three or four inches, the expansion is consider- 
 able. As the ice sometimes attains a thickness of i8 
 inches or more and lies in a uniformly flat sheet, it can 
 push a very large rock before it. In this way the bould- 
 ers, sand and gravel are carried along, and as the pond 
 in its natural state maintained a nearly uniform level, 
 the pond bank was gradually formed. 
 
 The original bank was probably finished years be- 
 fore the country was settled; but since the water has 
 
MASSAPOAG POND BANK. I9 
 
 been drawn down, boulders which were before too low 
 to be taken, have been caught by the ice at a lower level 
 and moved along many feet. As they were carried 
 along they cut a furrow in the bottom of the pond, and 
 this may be seen at several places when the pond is 
 down, the furrow running from the boulder towards the 
 centre of the pond. 
 
 As will be seen from the map, there were two 
 breaks in the pond bank both showing that they were 
 caused by a force acting from the direction of the centre 
 of the pond. At the extreme southerly end of the 
 pond where the old flume stood, the bank which curves 
 around to the south protected the land up towards the 
 swamp and made the break which is seen. Also, where 
 the pond makes in towards the swamp behind the Burk- 
 hardt ice-houses, there is a break at each side of the bay, 
 and we find a piece of a bank with many boulders sev- 
 eral hundred feet further inland. This bank still exists 
 in its natural state and can be easily found. 
 
 At the present time many natural features are dis- 
 appearing, more or less rapidly. Streams are being 
 taken up as water supplies; ridges or glacial moraines 
 are used for filling up land or building roads, and many 
 other changes are taking place. Historical societies 
 have a peculiar interest in preserving a memory of those 
 things that are passing away, and in this paper I have 
 endeavored to record a remembrance of one of these 
 minor features which has been nearly destroyed. 
 
A FIRE-PROOF HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 BUILDING. 
 
 By Robert Tappan. 
 
 In recent years many historical societies have been 
 formed in New England country towns, and it is a 
 matter of great concern with them where to bestow 
 their goods. In some cases an old-time wooden build- 
 ing is appropriated, which, while fit for such use on 
 account of its antiquity, is not safe for its contents, ex- 
 cept as some valuables are specially secured in safes or 
 vaults. The town hall may afford accommodation, 
 though town halls, like city halls, are none too large for 
 usual municipal purposes; and there is the chance that 
 as the needs of the town increase, the historical society 
 may have leave to withdraw. Moreover, the rural town 
 hall is constantly let for fairs, plays, dances and other 
 assemblies, rendering it less secure from fires. 
 
 Owning a handsome fire-proof building of its own 
 would contribute to the growth and perpetuity of the 
 society. Choice relics will more readily be given to the 
 society when it is seen that they can be thus kept more 
 safely than their owners can keep them. Such a struc- 
 ture would confer distinction upon the society. While it 
 would be a museum of great interest to the townspeople 
 and returning sons and daughters, it would afford a 
 proper place for study on the part of officers and his- 
 
A FIRE-PROOF BUILDING. 21 
 
 torical students, and form a centre of interest in the 
 village where it is erected. 
 
 This historical building is wanted now, while the 
 society is young and flourishing and doing good work. 
 The most serious objection is the supposed cost. But 
 if it can be shown that a practicable structure can be 
 built for a few thousand dollars, a young society might 
 take heart and get the building, doing all it could itself 
 and receiving assistance from its friends outside the 
 town. For those living in many an old country settle- 
 ment are not as numerous as those living away from the 
 old homesteads and still interested in the town's welfare 
 from reasons of kinship or former residence. 
 
 The frontispiece and plan here given are presented 
 with the above statements in mind. Concrete is chosen 
 as the buildins: material on account of its streno:th and 
 ease of handling, and also because the entire house, 
 walls and floors, may be built of it. The style is colo- 
 nial, very appropriate for the use to which the building 
 will be put, as it suggests at once the earlier period of 
 our nation's history. The familiar Holden Chapel at 
 Harvard College was in mind when this sketch was 
 made, as its design made it both appropriate and possi- 
 ble to be followed in a small structure of this sort. The 
 white arcaded walls and red tile roof, with a background 
 of foliage, would make an interesting picture in any 
 country town. 
 
 Stepping inside the building, we enter a small hall. 
 On each side is a door. The one on the right leads into 
 a little ofifice, big enough, however, for a desk, chair and 
 a small safe. Visitors might register here. The room 
 
22 
 
 A FIRE-PROOF BUILDING. 
 
 on the left of the hall gives access to the basement by a 
 small circular stairway. The walls of this room may be 
 used for hanging coats and wraps. 
 
 At the end of the front hall is the principal apart- 
 ment, the reading room. This room is about i8 feet 
 wide by 20 feet long. Space is arranged on three sides 
 of the room for drawers, with exhibition or other cases 
 above reaching to the sills of the windows. At the end 
 of the reading room is a great four-feet fireplace of con- 
 crete. This serves a double purpose, for besides its 
 use for warmth and cheer, it affords ventilation for the 
 
 room. In the centre a large reading table may be 
 placed. There is ample wall space for pictures above 
 the cases and on the front wall of the room. 
 
 In the basement several thinsrs misfht be done. 
 The whole floor space could be one large room used for 
 storage of the more bulky gifts ; or it might be divided 
 into three rooms, a storage room, a heating room and a 
 large vault for valuables. The basement would be 
 lighted, in either case, by small area windows not show- 
 
A FIRE-PROOF BUILDING. 2$ 
 
 ing above grade. The entire structure is small in area, 
 covering about 600 square feet. 
 
 Below is printed an estimate of the cost of this 
 building. It is interesting as it shows in a detailed way 
 how thoroughly fireproof a small historical society build- 
 ing could be built for a comparatively little sum. Cer- 
 tain items might for economy's sake be omitted, reducing 
 somewhat the cost. 
 
 Boston, April 11, 1906. 
 We estimate the cost of an Historical Society Building and 
 according to sketches submitted to us to be built entirely of re- 
 enforced concrete, to be the sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000). 
 We have estimated on the following items of work for the building : 
 Excavations, footings, foundation wall, basement floor with grano- 
 lithic top, areas around basement windows, entrance steps of gran- 
 olithic finish, the base course with a hammered finish, the walls 
 and cornice of cinder concrete with cement plaster finish, the first 
 floor with granolithic surface, roof supported on steel trusses and 
 having neat tile finish, furring, lathing and plastering of interior 
 partitions, ceilings and inside of walls, chimney with fireplace, 
 cement base around all rooms, windows and doors and circular 
 stairs to basement ; the outside door to be of wood covered with 
 sheet copper, panelled about as shown; the interior doors to be of 
 wood covered with copper-plated sheet steel panelled to suit. We 
 have not included any electric wiring, piping, heating, interior 
 -decorating or other work except as mentioned above. 
 
 Yours very truly. 
 Eastern Expanded Metal Co., 
 
 WILLIAM T. REED, Engineer. 
 
LIST OF OUTINGS 
 
 IN Sharon, in 1906, to be Conducted by the Sharon 
 Historical Society. 
 
 Saturday, May 5. 
 Walk to Devil's Bridge, going by way of Billings street, and 
 returning by Glendale road. 
 
 Saturday, May 19. 
 Cobb's Corner and site of Lieut. Holmes' house, going and re- 
 turning by electric car. 
 
 Saturday, June 2. 
 Ride to ancient house site on Old Post road, with a walk over 
 "Uncle Amasa's path" at Wolomolopoag pond. 
 
 Saturday, June 16. 
 Drake cemetery and the grave of a revolutionary soldier, in 
 the rear of Mansfield street, in the extreme south part of Sharon. 
 Take 12.15 steam cars from Boston for East Foxborough. Walk 
 one and one-half miles through Willow street to Mansfield streets 
 Return by the 4.53 train from East Foxborough. 
 
 Saturday, June 30. 
 Farquhar's plants and flowers on Garden street at Sharon 
 Heights. Take electric car. 
 
 Friday, August 3. (Old Home Week.) 
 Coach ride over North Main, Bay, and Mountain streets, with 
 lunch on Rattle Snake hill. 
 
 Saturday, September i. 
 Ride to Biological Farm, and walk to "Robbers' Cave." 
 
 Saturday, September 15. 
 Ride around Massapoag pond. 
 
historical scrap book. 2$ 
 
 Saturday, September 29. 
 Old John Randall farm, and Benjamin Randall tavern on South 
 Main street. Take electric car. 
 
 Saturday, October 13. 
 Drive to Viaduct street farms, with walk to old stone bridge. 
 
 Saturday, October 27. 
 Walk to Beaver brook, and through the woods to Upland road. 
 
 On August 3, the coach ride will commence at 10 a.m.; the 
 other outings will be in the afternoon of the days assigned. The 
 start, generally, will be made from the Central square. A narrative 
 of each ramble will be written by one of the company. All per- 
 sons interested are welcome to join in the excursions. 
 
 HISTORICAL SCRAP BOOK. 
 
 The following is an alphabetical list, with authors' 
 names appended, of the articles included in volumes 2 
 and 3 of the Scrap Book. These volumes have been 
 substantially bound during the year, and are in size 
 about 8 J inches by 1 1 inches, and one inch thick, with a 
 full index to each volume: 
 
 Alger, Rev. William R., reminiscences of, Nath'l Seaver,Jr.,Scituate 
 Aunt Lucy and Aunt Sally's ride . . Mrs. Warren Johnson 
 Backward Glances . . . Mrs. Adeliza A. Winship, Lynn 
 
 Baker homestead . P. Howard Baker and Miss Emma A. Baker 
 Billings,Osmond J.,His ordination, Eugene Tappanand John F.White 
 Cannon, casting of the first, Henry F. Talbot, Waterville, Kansas 
 Center School Association, with picture . . John G. Phillips 
 
 Church bells, town William R. Mann 
 
 Epidemic of 1816 Miss Isabella Raynolds 
 
 Gannett, Deborah Sampson, visit to Albany, 
 
 Miss May Childs Nerney, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 visit to Providence, Clarence S. Brigham, Providence, R. I. 
 
 notices of reprint of her address, Newspaper clippings 
 
26 HISTORICAL SCRAP BOOK. 
 
 Hewins, Amasa, sketch of life . . . Eben N. Hewins, Boston 
 
 Copious selections from his diary, 
 
 Arranged by Eugene Tappan 
 High School examination questions, 1879. . Sidney A. Weston 
 
 Home, Song of Cassius C. Stearns 
 
 Kimball's Rev. John C, Good-Bye . John C. Kimball, Greenfield 
 
 Meetings of the Society Eugene Tappan 
 
 Massapoag pond bank . . , Frederic Endicott, Canton 
 Moose and other wild animals formerly in this vicinity, 
 
 Miss G. E. Holbrook, Sherborn 
 Music in Sharon, history of . . Miss Harriet C. Billings 
 
 Octagon house on Beach street . . . Mrs. Warren Johnson 
 
 Old Home Week in Sharon, 1905 . . . Eugene Tappan 
 
 Perambulation of town boundary lines . . Edward J, Fuller 
 
 Probate cases. Sharon, 1793 to 1878 . . . Eugene Tappan 
 
 Rambles conducted in 1905 by the society. Miss Mattie T. Eddy, 
 
 Miss Carrie W, Fernald, William L. Haskel, Miss M. Adele 
 
 Haszard, John G. Phillips, Eugene Tappan, George H. 
 
 Whittemore. 
 Revere bell in Sharon, picture of . . . Robert Tappan 
 
 Revolutionary incident on the Bay road, Mrs. H. Rebecca Johnson 
 Robert Raikes' Sunday School scholar in Sharon, 
 
 Mrs. H. Rebecca Johnson 
 Sabbath-day, a typical Sharon . . . John G. Phillips 
 
 School, on my way to . . Mrs. F. Adelaide Talbot, Canton 
 Sewing circle at the parsonage . . Mrs. Catherine A. Shedd 
 Sharon artillery company, roster of, Samuel Dalton, Adjutant General 
 
 the best town to live in . . . William B. Wickes 
 
 early history of . 
 
 hydraulic company 
 
 rich in historic interest . , 
 
 spring ...... 
 
 Smith, John, in Sharon .... 
 
 Social life in Sharon, 1840 to 1850 . 
 Stoughtonham Furnace .... 
 
 Solomon Talbot 
 William B. Wickes 
 Frank E. Burbank 
 William L. Haskel 
 Newspaper clipping 
 William R. Mann 
 Solomon Talbot 
 Stoughtonham Institute, history of, Miss Elmira S. Winship, Lynn 
 
GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY. 2/ 
 
 Sunday in Sharon, June 30, 1889 .... Elia Leslie 
 
 Tax, ministerial, with list of persons taxed . Eugene Tappan 
 
 Temperance in Sharon, history of . . Mrs. Agnes P. Haskel 
 Tomb, the village ...... John G. Phillips 
 
 Tupper, Benjamin. Letter from his granddaughter. 
 
 Miss Mary C. Nye, Marietta, Ohio 
 Tupper, Mrs. Remember .... Solomon Talbot 
 
 Wickes, William B. boyhood of. By his sister, 
 
 Mrs. L. Whiting, Westwood 
 
 GIFTS TO THE SHARON HISTORICAL SO- 
 CIETY DURING THE YEAR 1905-6. 
 
 S. Warren Bullard. Fowling piece used by him for 61 years. 
 
 Mrs. O. a. Cheney, Natick, Package of old Morse deeds. Com- 
 mission to Ezra Morse, Jr., as captain of 3d foot company in 
 Dedham of ist regiment of militia, 1745. Review of first 
 fourteen years of South Natick Historical Society, 1884. Natick 
 manual. 
 
 Congressional Library, Washington. Report of librarian, 1905. 
 
 George Willis Cooke, Wakefield. History of the Clapboard Trees, 
 or third parish in Dedham. [Westwood.] 
 
 Charles S. Curtis. Programme of rhetorical exercises of Stough- 
 tonham Institute, March 28, 187 1. Subscription list to Sharon 
 library association, 1857, with constitution and by-laws. Ser- 
 mon against duelling, by Lyman Beecher. 
 
 Rev. Miner R. Deming, Revere. Boston Institute Seashore Messen- 
 ger, with picture of new building at Massapoag pond. 
 
 Edward Denham, New Bedford. Old Dartmouth Historical sketches, 
 Nos. I to 12, 1903 to 1905. 
 
 Arthur P. Fiske. Money draft, dated July 23. 1764, accepted by 
 John Hancock. New York Herald, revolutionary extra edition, 
 April 19, 1875. Boston, a souvenir paper, September 17, 1880. 
 
 Albert A. Folsom, Boston. Orderly book of Jeremiah Fogg at 
 the siege of Boston. 
 
 RoBiE G. Frye. Manila Cable News. 2 copies of Philippine 
 newspaper. 
 
28 GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY. 
 
 Vernon Gould, M. D., Rochester, Indiana. The original copy of 
 declaration of independence, read by the minister in the church, 
 and copied in the town records, 1776. Autographs of several 
 governors. 
 
 Eben N. Hewins, Boston. Framed photograph of "Uncle Amasa's 
 Path" at Wolomolopoag pond. 
 
 Col. Edmund Hart Hewins. Elements of War, by Isaac Maltby, 
 1813. Geography made easy, by Jedidiah Morse, 1804. Amer- 
 ican first class book, by John Pierpont, 1831. Writings of 
 Miss Fanny Woodbury, 181 5. Cradle belonging for successive 
 generations to the Hewins family. 
 
 Miss Louisa Hewins, Boston. Card of Amasa Hewins, portrait 
 painter. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Hinckley, Milton. Framed sketch of Blind 
 Ellis and his house, [Edward Ellis, Sharon,] by Thomas Hinck- 
 ley, her husband. 
 
 Richard C. Humphreys, Boston. Dorchester celebration, 1889. 
 Dorchester Day, 1905. Historical tablets in first church in 
 Boston. Historical sketch of Norfolk Conference of Unitarian 
 churches, 1900. 
 
 Ipswich Historical Society. Publications XIV, containing re- 
 print of "The Simple Cobler of Aggawam." 
 
 Mrs. Louisa Jones, Stoughton. Piece of cotton cloth printed in 
 colors by Benjamin Hewins about 1773. Mounted and framed 
 by Mr. and Mrs. George Kempton. 
 
 Mrs. Eliza J. Kempton. Copy of "Annals of Sharon" sent to 
 Sharon in 1861 by Dr. Vernon Gould. Reprint of Boston 
 Gazette^ containing account of Boston Massacre. 
 
 Lincoln N. Kinnicutt, Worcester. Indian names of places in 
 Worcester County, 1905. 
 
 Medford Historical Society; Historical Register (a quarterly). 
 
 LoRiNG M. Monk. Newspaper clipping, Robert Burns. 
 
 Nantucket Historical Association. Proceedings of annual 
 meeting, 1905. 
 
 New York Historical Society. Report for 1904, 
 
 John Noble, Boston. Record of Court of Assistants, 1 673-1 692. 
 
GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY. 29 
 
 Arthur W. Peirce, Franklin. Program of bi-centennial of Benja- 
 min Franklin's birth. Souvenir number of Franklin Sentinel. 
 
 Miss Sarah E. Pettee, East Walpale. Framed photograph of the 
 Fales house in East Walpole in which the peace ball was held 
 at the close of the revolution. Framed by Mr. and Mrs. 
 George Kempton. 
 
 John G. Phillips. Plan of land [Curtis farm] in Sharon formerly 
 owned by the Congregational Church. Bird's-eye view of 
 Sharon. 
 
 Charles F. Pidgin, Boston. Aaron Burr Memorial, 1903. 
 
 Dr. Loring W. Puffer, Brockton. The New Yorker (Greeley's 
 newspaper), 1837. The National Gazette and Literary Register. 
 Philadelphia, 1835. Deed given by Zebediah Kinsley of 
 Easton, 1772. Old printing of rhymed will of Mathew Abbey, 
 janitor at Harvard, and Yale janitor's proposal to the widow. 
 
 Benjamin Raynolds. Sharon tax lists. U.S. taxes. Impeachment 
 of Judge James Prescott, 182 1. Plan of Henry Flint's land. 
 
 Miss Isabella Raynolds. Abiel Holmes's sermon at ordination of 
 Rev, Jonathan Whitaker in Sharon, 1799. Ordination in 
 Stoughton with right hand of fellowship by Rev. Philip Curtis 
 of Sharon, 1792. A lot of printed sermons and addresses. 
 Oath book kept by Benjamin Raynolds. 
 
 State Historical Society of Missouri. Proceedings of annual 
 meeting, 1903. Biennial report, 1904. Catalogue of publica- 
 tions of Missouri authors. 
 
 Eugene Tappan. Bound volume of Boston Evening Transcript 
 (notes and queries, and genealogical notes). 
 
 Robert Tappan. Old etching on painted glass made with the 
 point of a pin. 
 
 William S. Tilden, Medfield. Ye Fayerbanke Historical^ Nov. 1904. 
 
 RuFUS B. ToBEY, Boston. Pine board from North Carolina. Petri- 
 fied wood. Civil-war exchange certificate ($1.00). Writs and 
 officer's returns, Thomas Sweetser vs. Supply Dean, 1783, and 
 Samuel Nutting vs. Ebenezer Howard, 1773. Tobey Geneal- 
 ogy (limited edition). Twelfth report of Boston Floating 
 Hospital, 1906. 
 
30 
 
 OFFICERS AND LIST OF MEMBERS. 
 
 John W. Weeks, M. C, Washington. Reports of American His- 
 torical Association, 1903, 1904. 
 
 Westborough Historical Society. Story of the cotton gin, by- 
 Edward Craig Bates, 1S99. 
 
 Officers of the Sharon Historical Society, 1905=6. 
 
 President, John G. Phillips. 
 
 Vice-Presidents, Solomon Talbot, William R. Mann, D. Webster Pettee^ 
 
 Recording Secretary, George H. Whittemore. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary, Eugene Tappan. 
 
 Treasurer, Arthur D. Colburn. 
 
 Custodian, Loring M. Monk. 
 
 Auditor, John A. Bowman. 
 
 Additional Directors, Edmund H. Hewins, Timothy F. Quinn, Amanda M. 
 
 Eddy, Emma A. Baker. 
 
 The board of directors consists of the president, secretaries, treasurer, 
 custodian and the four additional directors. 
 
 The next four quarterly meetings of the society will be held in Sharon town 
 hall on the evenings of August 2 and October 25, 1906, January 31 and April 25 
 1907. 
 
 Mr. W. A. Butterfield, bookseller, 59 Bromfield St., Boston, is the authorized 
 selling agent of the Society's reprint of Mrs. Deborah Sampson Gannett's 
 address delivered by her in various places in 1802. The reprint is neatly bound 
 and sells at 75 cents a copy. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP OF THE SHARON HISTORICAL 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 Marcellus H. Allen, South Main St. 
 Arthur A. Bailey, Highland St. 
 Minnie C. Bailey, Highland St. 
 Emma A. Baker, Billings St. 
 Abel T. Barnes, Boyden PI. 
 Cynthia Bates, Upland Road. 
 William H. Bense, Canton. 
 Elinor M. Bense, Canton. 
 Abbie C. Billings, Worcester. 
 Osmond J. Billings, Worcester. 
 Ella F. Boehm, South Main St. 
 Abner H. Bowman, Station St. 
 Kate E. Bowman, Statio« St. 
 John A. Bowman, Edgewood Road. 
 Winnibel Bowman, Edgewood Road. 
 Thomas W. Bradshaw, Upland Road. 
 
 Frederick V. Brittain, Glendale Road. 
 Marie Hilda Brittain, Glendale Road. 
 Charles F. Bryant, Billings St. 
 Frank E. Burbank, South Pleasant St. 
 Sarah C. Burbank, South Pleasant St. 
 W. Winthrop Capen, South Pleasant St» 
 A. Alden Carpenter, Upland Road. 
 M. Imogene Carpenter, Upland Road. 
 Sanford I Carpenter, Billings St. 
 Erminnie O. Carpenter, Billings St. 
 Harriet M, Chapin, Maskwonicut St. 
 Calvin G. Coggins, South Main St. 
 Gertrude M. Cobb, Bay St. 
 Arthur Dwight Colburn, Depot St. 
 Emma P. Colburn, Depot St. 
 Floyd C. Coon, Billings St. 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS. 
 
 31 
 
 ■Guild A. Copeland, Boston. 
 Jennie S. Copeland, Boston. 
 Cadwallader Curry, Pleasant St. 
 Charles S. Curtis, Pond St. 
 Clara E. Curtis, Pond St. 
 Lillias C. Davenport, Ames St. 
 Marion A. Davenport, Ames St. 
 Walter H. Delano, Billings St. 
 Gertrude H. Delano, Billings. 
 Miner R. Deming, Revere. 
 George A. Dennett, North Main St. 
 Elizabeth O. Dennett, North Main St. 
 Charles T. Derry, Washington PI. 
 Almira W. Derry, Washington PI. 
 Daniel DeVoe, Norwood St. 
 Lucy W. Dinsmore, South Main St. 
 James M'E. Drake, Upland "Road. 
 Maria Upham Drake, Upland Road. 
 Dorothy Drake, Upland Road. 
 Almon J. Dyer, North Main St. 
 Lizzie J. L. Dyer, North Main St. 
 Amanda M. Eddy, Billings St. 
 May L. Felt, Maple Av. 
 Adelaide M. Fernald, North Main St. 
 Carrie W. Fernald, North Main St. 
 George W. Field, Moose Hill St. 
 Mary Bell Field, Moose Hill St. 
 Arthur P. Fiske, Pleasant St. 
 Mary Adela Fiske, Pleasant St. 
 W. Perry Fiske, Summit Av. 
 George B. Fowler, North Main St. 
 Bernice W. Fowler, North Main St. 
 Robie G. Frye, North Main St. 
 Edward J. Fuller, Viaduct St. 
 Erastus O. Fuller, Canton St. 
 Helen E. Gannett, East St. 
 Louis F. Gates, Highland Av. 
 Lillian C. George, Scituate. 
 Mary F. Giberson, Belcher St. 
 N. Newton Glazier, Summit Av. 
 Joseph Goddard Viadnct St. 
 Faith Goddard, Viaduct St. 
 Mattie H. Green, Pleasant St. 
 Walter A. Griffin, Everett St. 
 Charles E. Hall, South Main St. 
 Carrie M. Hall, South Main St. 
 Mary A. Hall, South Pleasant St. 
 William F. Hall, Sylvan Road. 
 William L. Haskel, Chestnut St. 
 Agnes P. Haskel, Chestnut St. 
 G. Ashley Haszard, Station St. 
 Eben N.Hewins,85 Francis St.,Roxbury, 
 Edmund D. Hewins, Highland St. 
 Ora A. Hewins, Highland St. 
 
 Edmund Hart Hewins, South Main St. 
 
 Kate M. Hewins, South Main St. 
 
 Katharine P. Hewins, South Main St. 
 
 Louisa Hewins, 4 Hamilton PL, Boston. 
 
 Martha M. Hewins, Norwood. 
 
 Harry M. Hight, Maple Av. 
 
 Margaret D. Hight, Maple Av. 
 
 Arthur S. Hixson, Brook Road. 
 
 Florence Hixson, Brook Road. 
 
 C. Augustus Hixson, North Main St. 
 
 Mary L. Hixson, North Main St. 
 
 Edgar M. Hixson, Brook Road. 
 
 Mary E. Hixson, Brook Road. 
 
 Theodore W. Hixson, Brook Road. 
 
 Albert D. Holmes, Auburn Ct., Brook- 
 line. 
 
 William B. Holmes, Bay St. 
 
 Ellen J. Horace, 32 Longwood Av., 
 Brookline. 
 
 C. Elbert Howard, Mansfield St. 
 
 Harriet A. Johnson, Depot St. 
 
 Louisa Jones, Stoughton. 
 
 George Kempton, Pond St. 
 
 Eliza J. Kempton, Pond St. 
 
 John C. Kimball, Greenfield. 
 
 Charles H. Kittredge, Upland Road. 
 
 Elizabeth F. Kittredge, Upland Road. 
 
 Arthur C. Kollock, 12 Equitable Bldg., 
 Boston. 
 
 M. P. Woldemar Kreutz, off Depot St. 
 
 George P. Lawrence, 53 fremont St., 
 Boston. 
 
 James E. Leach, Boston. 
 
 Lizzie N. Leonard, Summit Av. 
 
 Dora M. Leonard, Depot Street. 
 
 H. Frank Leonatd, Pond St. 
 
 Mary J. Leonard, Pond St. 
 
 Marcus E. Lincoln, Pleasant St. 
 
 Frank P. Long, Cottage St. 
 
 Carrie A. Long, Cottage St. 
 
 Albert W. Lyon, Boston. 
 
 John W. Mackintosh, Walnut St. 
 
 William R. Mann, East St. 
 
 Julia A. Mann, East St. 
 
 Fred W. Mansfield, Belcher St. 
 
 Sarah M. Mansfield, Belcher St. 
 
 Nelson L. Martin, Viaduct St. 
 
 Mary E. Martin, Viaduct St. 
 
 Henry F. Maxwell, Rindge, N. H. 
 
 John W. McCanna, Deborah Sampson 
 St. 
 
 John D. McLaughlin, Boston. 
 
 Edmund F. Merriam, North Main St. 
 
 Percy R. Middleton, Pond St. 
 
32 
 
 LIST OF MEMBERS. 
 
 Dora Middleton, Pond St. 
 Eliza B. Mills, South Main St. 
 Loring M. Monk, East St. 
 Laura D. Monk, East St. 
 Rodney E. Monk, East St. 
 Susan G. Moody, East St. 
 
 Elmer B. Shaw, Brook Road. 
 Maud E. Shaw, Brook Road. 
 Catherine A. Shedd, Roxbury. 
 Horace S. Shepard, Ames St. 
 Anna M. Shepard, Ames St. 
 Willis A. Shepherd, Oakland Road. 
 
 Bushrod Morse, Harvard St.,Brookline. Alice M. Shepherd, Oakland Road. 
 Velina F. Myrick, Pleasant St. A. T. Smith, Oakland Road. 
 
 Herbert F. Nelson, North Main St. Jennie P. Snow, North Main St. 
 
 Cyrus A. Noyes, Cottage St. Fred D. Stanley, Pleasant St. 
 
 John O'Brien, East Foxborough St. Isabella H. Stanley, Pleasant St. 
 Mary A. O'Brien, East Foxborough St. Silas A. Stone, Billings St. 
 Gertrude G. O'Brien, East Foxborough Amanda Sussman, South Main St. 
 
 St. 
 Alvin D. Packard, Walnut St. 
 Bernard L. Paine, Highland St. 
 Carrie L. Perkins, Summit Av. 
 
 D. Webster Pettee, Pleasant St. 
 Myra F. Pettee, Pleasant St. 
 John G. Phillips, Pleasant St. 
 Mary W. Phillips, Pleasant St. 
 Mary N. Phillips, Pleasant St. 
 Anna G. Phillips, Pleasant St. 
 Amelia H. Pollard, Pond St. 
 Ralph L. Pollard, Depot St. 
 Bertha M. Pollard, Depot St. 
 James N. Pringle, Billings St. 
 Thomas S. Prouty, Chestnut St. 
 Timothy F. Quinn, South Main St. 
 Elizabeth L. Quinn, South Main St. 
 Benjamin Raynolds, South Main St. 
 Ruth A. Raynolds, South Main St. 
 Isabella Raynolda, South Main St. 
 B. Frank Rhoades, County St. 
 Bessie F. Rhodes, County St. 
 
 E. Gilmore Richards, South Main St. 
 
 Ezra Otis Swift, Box 2587, Boston. 
 Solomon Talbot, Maskwonicut St. 
 Henry F. Talbot, Waterville, Kansas. 
 Edmund H. Talbot, 35 Congress St.,. 
 
 Boston. 
 F. Adelaide Talbot, Canton. 
 Eugene Tappan, South Pleasant St. 
 Crosby Tappan, South Pleasant St. 
 Muriel Tappan, South Pleasant St. 
 Robert Tappan, South Pleasant St. 
 Willis Thompson, Summit Av. 
 Minnie Bnshee Thompson, Summit At^ 
 L. Robert Tidd, Summit Av. 
 Julia F. Tidd, Summit Av. 
 Otis S. Tolman, Pond St. 
 Elizabeth W. Trafton, North Main St. 
 Frank M. Trafton, North Main St. 
 Ida A. Tuck, South Main St. 
 Alice M. Tuck, South Main St. 
 Margaret H. Walton, Moose Hill St. 
 Benjamin Welch, South Main St. 
 Dora Welch. South Main St. 
 Sidney A. Weston, Maple Av. 
 
 Gertrude F.W.Richards.South Main St. Mille Louise Weston, Maple Av. 
 
 Lydia G. Richards, Stoughton. 
 Mary T. Safford, Pond St. 
 Laura A. Sage, South Main St. 
 Alfred C. Sampson, Glendale Road. 
 Carrie C. Sampson, Glendale Road. 
 
 Eliza L. White, Chestnut St. 
 John F. White, Maple Av. 
 George H. Whittemore, Chestnut St- 
 Elsie A. Whittemore, Chestnut St. 
 Eva C. Woodbridge, Billings St. 
 
 Total, 217. 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
 
 SHARON 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 No. 4 — April, 1907 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 Press or H . M . H i r, ii r 
 
 76 Summer Street 
 
 1907 
 
INDEX 
 
 Virginia Folk lore About George Washington 
 
 Work of the Society 
 
 List of Outings for 1907 . 
 
 Historical Scrap Book 
 
 Gifts to the Society 
 
 Officers of the Society 
 
 List of Members . . . '. 
 
 iingtOn 
 
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 23 
 
 
 30 
 
 
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 32 
 
 
 35 
 
 
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GEORGE WASHINGTON 
 From TrunibuU's paintings owned by the Yale Schoo 
 '' Fine Arts, reproduced by Randall of Hartford. 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
 
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 No. 4 — April, 1907 
 
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 Press of H. M. Hight 
 
 76 Summer Street 
 
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USRARY of CONGRESS 
 Two C»oles Received 
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 Copyright, 1907 
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VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE ABOUT GEORGE 
 WASHINGTON. 
 
 BY JOHN SARGENT WISE OK NEW YORK CITY. 
 
 The following address was delivered by Capt. John S. Wise 
 iDefore the Sharon Historical Society, at its celebration in Sharon, 
 February 22, 1907, of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary 
 of the birth of Washington. Capt. Wise is the well known author 
 of "The End of an Era" and "Recollections of Thirteen Presi- 
 dents." As a lover of all sections of the land, and having an 
 intimate knowledge of his native state of Virginia and her regard 
 for Washington, with skill as an author and speaker and a special 
 interest in the theme, Capt. Wise adds to the common knowledge 
 of the subject a welcome exhibition of the attitude towards Wash- 
 ington of those who dwell on the soil where he lived and died. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: — 
 
 It is a great pleasure, I assure you, to meet and 
 greet the people of Massachusetts on the anniversary of 
 the birth of the great and good man whose name and 
 fame are so identified with her early career. Massachu- 
 setts began the bloody work of the Revolution before 
 her sisters. Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill pre- 
 ceded the appointment of a commander-in-chief of the 
 forces of the united colonies. Washington's prominence 
 as a national military character began when he took 
 command of the army at Cambridge; and throughout 
 
4 VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE 
 
 the whole struggle he found his warmest and most 
 affectionate support among the northern generals, 
 Greene of Rhode Island, the two Putnams, Lincoln and 
 others, even when officers from his own section failed 
 him or were in a cabal for his overthrow. No wonder 
 then that this day tends to revive the long and traditional 
 friendship between Massachusetts and Virginia — a 
 friendship which has ever been strong save when it was 
 interrupted by the episode of civil war, and which is 
 today revived by the determination of the people of 
 both these commonwealths that their dear old states 
 shall not become mere weak instruments for the con- 
 venient enforcement of the universal mandates of a 
 grreat centralized orovernment. 
 
 Considering the character of the address I should 
 make to the citizens of Sharon to-night, I came to the 
 conclusion that an attempt to deliver an elaborate ora- 
 tion must result disastrously among a people so familiar 
 with American eloquence on the subject of George 
 Washington. For over a hundred years his life and 
 career have been an open book to the civilized world. 
 He has been the inspiration and great examplar of 
 youth, and the subject of the loftiest flights of oratory 
 at home and abroad. Even the names of those who 
 have made him the subject of their eloquence would fill 
 volumes. The orations of Webster, Everett and Win- 
 throp of your own state are unsurpassed. It was my 
 inestimable|:-privilege to hear the two latter, and I would 
 not dare to tempt their people to a contrast of an oration 
 of mine with theirs. 
 
 I have therefore felt that I may more effectively 
 
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON 
 
 approach you, not with a set speech with rounded 
 periods, but in simple conversational way repeating to 
 you some of the folk-lore of his fellow citizens in the 
 state where he was born and lived and died. Those 
 people knew him and loved him and honored and 
 mourned him as did no others on earth. The task is 
 peculiarly grateful to me for I am a descendant of one 
 of his most devoted soldiers, was reared in a family 
 where veneration of Washington was placed next to 
 faith in God, and have but recently, by the strange 
 mutations of life and by the death of a great number 
 entitled ahead of me, become entitled to membership in 
 the Society of Cincinnati of which he was the founder. 
 
 Washington has been dead over a century. Precious 
 as are his name and character and deeds to the whole 
 country, he is more or less an idealized abstraction to 
 the people at large outside of his native State, but is 
 still a concrete entity to the older class of Virginians, 
 and, to a less degree possibly, to her rising generation. 
 
 No man ever left every feature of his personality, 
 every incident in his long public and private career 
 more indelibly impressed upon the people among whom 
 he lived. He died childless, it is true. To him this 
 was a bitter disappointment, but among Virginians we 
 are disposed to be proud of the fact that Nature, despair- 
 ing of reproducing so matchless a type, broke the die in 
 which he was cast, and left his fame unmarred by any 
 injurious effects of inferior progeny. The name, too, is 
 almost extinct in the old State, having migrated to the 
 North, South and West. I recall but one Washington 
 family still resident in Virginia, and they are distant 
 
VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE 
 
 collaterals. But his collateral kindred, bearing other 
 family names, and the descendants of his adopted chil- 
 dren, the Custis offspring of his wife, are numerous, and 
 among them are preserved all the things pertaining to 
 him not in public places. In one way or another, nearly 
 every prominent family in the State is connected with 
 him, or feels identified with him by some service or cir- 
 cumstance in the life of its forbears. For example: I 
 have no blood relationship to the Washingtons, but my 
 grandmother, through John Custis of Arlington, was 
 cousin of the two adopted Custis children of Washing- 
 ton, and her father was a field-ofificer under his command 
 at Brandywine, Germantown, Valley Forge and Mon- 
 mouth. Those circumstances alone make people "near 
 kin" in Virginia. His sister Betty, who married Fielding 
 Lewis, was the most prolific of his family, and, to this 
 day, Piedmont and Tide-water and the Valley of Vir- 
 ginia are filled with her descendants, the Lewises and 
 Taylors and the rest of them, all preserving and cher- 
 ishing the minutest incidents of his great life, with the 
 charm peculiar to oral tradition. But, if Washington 
 had left no kinsfolk, it would be the same. 
 
 His public career began at such an early age that, 
 although he died comparatively young, it really extended 
 over a period of fifty years, and led him into every sec- 
 tion of the Commonwealth which had then been settled. 
 The result was that his personal acquaintance extended 
 not only to the men of prominence but to men of all 
 stations, and to their families; for in the days when men 
 traveled about they lodged at private houses. 
 
 It requires an effort of memory to realize how 
 
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON 
 
 young he was when he first became a pubHc character 
 in Virginia, We are so accustomed to think of him as 
 the mature or venerable man depicted as the father of 
 his Country, He was born in 1732. In 1750 he was not 
 only doing work as a surveyor for the immigrant Lord 
 Fairfax, but a work that made him acquainted with every 
 settler in that section, and they with him. Lord Fairfax 
 became very fond of him. With all his sedateness and 
 exterior calm, Washington, both as boy and man, loved 
 life, was full of manly ardor, and passionately fond of 
 field sports. These tastes he never indulged until his 
 work was done, but the way he went at them in leisure 
 moments endeared him to Lord Fairfax, who found him 
 not only an ardent and bold fox-hunter, but a congenial 
 and respectful young companion at his solitary home. 
 No doubt this constant companionship with an English 
 gentleman at the most plastic period of his youth did 
 more to fix the manners and bearing of Washington, for 
 which he was so distinguished throughout life, than 
 anything else. For, while the Washingtons were just 
 as good as anybody else in Virginia, it was a period of 
 very simple living throughout the Colony ; and the 
 dignity and reserve of Washington in after life were so 
 exceptional as to be constantly remarked upon in the 
 community, and sometimes he was adversely criticized 
 for manners above those of the masses, 
 
 Washington was decidedly above the average of 
 his Colonial associates, and even perhaps above the other 
 members of his own family in his observance of social 
 etiquette. The tradition runs that his fine old mother 
 smoked a pipe, and refused to visit him on a certain 
 
a VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE 
 
 occasion because he regarded this habit as beneath the 
 dignity of his home. The story is probably true, for I 
 remember seeing the widow of a Revolutionary General, 
 as late as 1851, sitting by her fire in a split-bottomed 
 chair, on a rag carpet, with a lawn cap and a kerchief 
 crossed upon her breast, smoking her pipe with great 
 satisfaction, with no thought that it was "infra dig."; and 
 she was as high-bred a dame as any of them, had been 
 a reigning beauty in her day, and had no doubt trod a 
 minuet with Washington. 
 
 Father inherited his veneration for Washington 
 and eagerly gathered and remembered every piece of 
 folk-lore he heard. His love was transmitted undimin- 
 ished to our whole family, and we are provincial or 
 bigoted enough, or whatever you may choose to call it, 
 to think even in this day that George Washington was 
 the greatest man that ever lived. As General Von 
 Moltke seems to have thought likewise, we may be right 
 after all. Of course we know what has been written 
 about him in books, but the things we know better are 
 those which we have heard by oral tradition, through 
 reliable mediums, during the course of our lives, from 
 hearing them at the family fire-side until they were as 
 familiar to us as the Lord's Prayer and the Creed and 
 the Ten Commandments; things vastly more entertain- 
 ing than what books contain, often too insignificant for 
 historical record, yet frequently shedding a flood of 
 light on character and making a lasting impression on 
 memory, focusing up to us, as no book can do, the 
 figures of the past. 
 
 When Braddock came, Washington was greeted as 
 
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON 9 
 
 a volunteer aide to accompany him on his expedition to 
 Fort Duquesne. Braddock was a high Hver. The story is 
 told concerning him that he always insisted that twoof his 
 aides should be invited to any dinner he attended, because 
 he expected to require their assistance to reach his quar- 
 ters after the festivities. Washington was not a total ab- 
 stinence man. Throughout life he was not averse to a 
 social glass of wine with friends, but he was prudent 
 and abstemious, with little taste for the indulgences and 
 frivolity of his young companions on the staff. They 
 were society men and dandies of the highest British 
 circles. The Headquarters baggage of Braddock was 
 more than that of a Continental Regiment ten years 
 later. The contrast between the simple outfit of Wash- 
 ington and any one of these young British of^cers was 
 most striking. So much so indeed that, with a person 
 less dignified, they would have been disposed to look 
 down upon him. Washington appreciated the maxim of 
 "doing like the Romans in Rome," and he ordered a lot 
 of finery from England, but it never came in time to 
 use it on the staff. One thing he had, and that he 
 always had throughout his life. It is part of a true 
 Virginian's necessary outfit. That was a good horse. 
 No man loved a good horse or was a better judge of 
 him than Washington. He was so young that Braddock 
 paid little attention to his wise advice at first. Indeed 
 the old campaigner not only ignored Washington's 
 warnings, but was disposed to resent them. Meanwhile, 
 by his enterprise, his courtesy, and his prompt attention 
 to every duty, Washington made friends of the members 
 of the staff; friends who kept up correspondence with 
 
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 him until the Revolutionary War, and even during the 
 war sent him messages of affection and respect through 
 the lines. When it was too late Braddock himself was 
 brought to confess the wisdom of Washington's advice, 
 to declare that he had been conspicuously reckless on 
 the battle-field, and that Washington had done more 
 than any officer on the field to save the remnant of the 
 British forces. But for him the Massacre would have 
 been complete. He took charge of the retreat and of 
 the wounded General, and, when Braddock died a few 
 days later, thanks of the most touching kind to Wash- 
 ington for his care and tenderness were among his last 
 utterances. 
 
 Another instance of the innate loyalty to friendship 
 in Washington's temperament is found in his treatment 
 of Bryan Fairfax while the Revolutionary War was in 
 progress. Fairfax was a loyalist. He was perfectly 
 sincere in believing that in the pending crisis his allegi- 
 ance was due to the King. The feeling against all such 
 was very intense and the disposition of the authorities 
 was to oppress and banish Fairfax. Washington knew 
 him, had faith in him and great respect for him. He 
 gave him protection papers and stood by him, upon his 
 simple assurance that he would be neutral. Fairfax re- 
 paid him with devoted friendship and perfect fidelity to 
 his pledges. 
 
 No man ever lived who possessed to a greater de- 
 gree the quality of making devoted personal friends, 
 than did Washington. This old forbear of mine of 
 whom I have spoken was a striking instance of the de- 
 votion which Washington inspired. He survived until 
 
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON II 
 
 182 I. My father was born in 1806. My father's mother, 
 died in 181 2, and my grandfather Wise in the following 
 year, so that my orphaned father spent much of his boy- 
 hood in the home of General John Cropper, his maternal 
 grandfather, at "Bowman's Folly," the family seat in 
 Accomac County, Virginia, It is on the seaside near 
 Drummondstown, the County seat. 
 
 In the autumn of 1776 John Cropper, aged nine- 
 teen, marched from Accomac to Philadelphia, as Captain 
 of a company in the 9th Virginia Regiment (Col. Flem- 
 ing) on Continental establishment to join Washington's 
 Army. He had been married but six weeks to Margaret 
 Pettitt, a granddaughter of John Custis, of Arlington, 
 and a cousin of General Washington's adopted children. 
 Cropper never saw^ his wife again until some time in 
 1778, when her first child, Sarah Corbin Cropper, my 
 grandmother, was over a year old. Few of us stretch 
 patriotism that far nowadays. During his absence he 
 had fought under Washington at Brandywine and Ger- 
 mantown, had passed the winter in camp at Valley 
 Forge and fought at Monmouth. He had received suc- 
 cessive promotions as Major of 7th Virginia and as 
 Lt.-Col. of iith Virginia (Daniel Morgan's) Regiment. 
 Morgan was serving in the South with a detached force 
 and Cropper commanded his regiment. Those two 
 years were the cream of that boy's life. Washington 
 was his God. His whole career as a soldier had been 
 under Washington's eye. True it was a career of de- 
 feats and suffering, but what else draws men so near 
 together or makes them know each other so well ? 
 
 The winter of 1777-8 at Valley Forge brought 
 
12 VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE 
 
 Washington into more intimate relations with his offi- 
 cers than at any other period of his career. The Army 
 grouped about those hills was like a great family of 
 poor people hugging up close to each other to keep 
 warm. Washington was more like a father to them 
 than a general. Every day he was among the men 
 begging them to preserve their beef hides to make hut- 
 roofs, and hoofs and horns to make combs, and tallow to 
 make itch-ointment, and doing a thousand other things 
 showing his concern for others. 
 
 The orderly book, still preserved, reads like the 
 record of a careful guardian over his improvident wards. 
 What infinite care and solicitude, down to the minutest 
 details, it all displays. With him was his pet, young 
 Lafayette, now a Division Commander, and Cropper's 
 Brigade was under him. I have the original order of 
 Lafayette assigning Col. Crooper (as he wrote it) to 
 command the iith Regiment, and a note in his own 
 hand-writing, written on thin French letter paper, tell- 
 ing Col. "Crooper" he would be over the following day 
 to talk about "those coats for the men." These things 
 bring us pretty close to the old fellows, do they not ? 
 Then came Baron Steuben. 
 
 Think of it! A distinguished soldier in European 
 Armies. An aide-de-camp on the Staff of Frederick 
 the Great. What must have been his impressions of 
 that mob ? Washington was quick to utilize his partic- 
 ular talent for organization. He could not have come 
 at a better time or place. He designated him Inspector 
 General and the old Baron entered cheerfully on the 
 task of drilling an Army that never had been drilled. 
 
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON I3 
 
 He began by calling for details of men from all the 
 commands, and these he undertook to drill until they 
 were fit to be drill-masters of their comrades. The 
 scenes that followed were immense. The Baron could 
 not speak or understand English, and the men could not 
 speak or understand French or German. Neither could 
 understand or explain to the other, and the result was 
 indescribably ludicrous. Many a day have 1 heard my 
 father repeat Cropper's descriptions of all this and the 
 polyglot swearing of the Baron Steuben. A New York 
 officer acted a sthe Baron's interpreter. Some times 
 the old fellow would lose his temper and explode "Sacre 
 G-t D-n Mein Gott. Ach ! mein friend Mon bon Ami. 
 Tell them what they do not understand. Tell me what 
 they, blockheads, say." But great good came from it 
 all, and the Army was drilled as never before. It was 
 doubtless through the Baron that Washington received 
 the sword of Frederick the Great, the sword which a 
 hundred years later John Brown "appropriated" from 
 the possession of Col. Lewis Washington when he made 
 his famous raid on Harper's Ferry. 
 
 The Virginians were encamped on the hill just 
 above Washington's headquarters. Not far from them 
 were the Pennsylvanians commanded by General Cad- 
 walader who shot General Conway in a duel for speak- 
 ing disrespectfully of Washington. Cropper loved 
 Cadwalader for that and deeply regretted that the job 
 had not fallen to his lot. And there with him, as a 
 Captain in his regiment, and his devoted friend, was 
 young black-haired, diamond-eyed John Marshall, the 
 same who afterwards became the great Chief Justice, but 
 
14 VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE 
 
 in those days was chiefly prominent as the best quoit 
 pitcher in the Revolutionary Camp. There, too, was 
 Light Horse Harry Lee, the son of Washington's first 
 lady love, beloved of Washington for her sake and his 
 own ; that Light Horse Harry, who, in Congress when 
 his great Commander died, sobbed forth his grief in the 
 immortal resolutions presented by Marshall which de- 
 clared that he was "First in War, first in Peace and 
 first in the hearts of his Countrymen. ' 
 
 How these men all worshipped Washington! — In 
 my day I have known descendants of them all, and with 
 all exchanged our family traditions concerning the great 
 Father. Heth's and Cropper's Virginia Regiments were 
 hutted next to Cadwalader's. The three men were 
 devoted friends. Within the past twenty years in New 
 York, John L. Cadwalader, Richard C. Selden and I 
 dined together at my house, great-grandsons of those 
 three old worthies from whom we were taught our 
 veneration for George Washington. 
 
 When I was a small boy, my step-mother (only so 
 in name, for she was my own mother, in love) had two 
 old aunts, Aunt Belew and Aunt Claiborne. They 
 were all three related to Mrs. Washington through the 
 Dandridge connection. One of these old ladies lived 
 many years at a place called "Cumberland" on the 
 Pamunky River, adjoining the "White House" where 
 their cousin the widow Custis lived when Washington 
 married her. They always referred to her as Martha 
 Dandridge, and they knew her and General Washington 
 just as we do our cousins now-a-days. I remember one 
 of them commenting upon a handsome colored print of 
 
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON 1 5 
 
 Gilbert Stuart's painting of Washington which was then 
 extensively circulated in aid of the Mount Vernon pur- 
 chase and saying the eyes were too "soulful" and the 
 color too delicate. They said Washington's eyes were 
 smaller, and not so deep in color as the pictures show 
 them; and that there was a look about them not exactly 
 of cunning but very quick and knowing, by no means 
 so gentle as the ox-eyed expression transmitted to pos- 
 terity by the artist. Then too, concerning his com- 
 plexion, their criticism was that while Washington's 
 complexion was healthy, it was not so delicately pink 
 and childlike as it is shown, for he had a few scars of 
 small-pox on his face, and his skin showed that thick- 
 ening which so often follows the disease, although, in 
 his case it was to a slight degree. Once when I was 
 duck-shooting on the Potomac I had pointed out to me 
 a spot where the General is said to have thrashed a 
 fellow for poaching on his ducking grounds. All the 
 details are well remembered in the neighborhood. The 
 Potomac is a famous place for canvas-back and red head 
 ducks. It seems Colonel Washington, as he then was, 
 had carefully baited a certain feeding ground with corn, 
 and that the ducks were coming in finely. But this of- 
 fender had poached on the place and had been warned 
 away. One morning Washington, who had been absent 
 but had just returned home, went down before day to 
 enjoy the sport of which he was very fond, when, lo I 
 there in the very spot which he expected to occupy, was 
 the same old intruder. He had ascertained that the 
 Colonel was absent and thought he might trespass with 
 impunity. It is said that he tried to push off his boat 
 
l6 VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE 
 
 and escape, but Washington dashed into the water after 
 him, seized his boat and, towing it to the shore, gave 
 him a sound pommelHng. Washington's temper was 
 well known to every one who was intimate with him. 
 He had it under control generally, and no doubt often 
 concealed it with his dignified demeanor, but occasion- 
 ally he gave his friends an exhibition that they never 
 forgot. History records what he said to Lee at Mon- 
 mouth. And I for one am glad he said it. It shows he 
 had good red blood in his veins, and it is comfort to 
 feel that great as he was, he was not above the infirmi- 
 ties of us weak mortals. This eternal representation of 
 Washington's extreme goodness and his praying out in 
 the snow at Valley Forge, etc., gets to be namby-pamby 
 after a while. 
 
 The sinful world is gratified to know that now and 
 then he wrestled with the old Adam. One of the Carys 
 told my father of an experience he had as a boy on a 
 visit to Mount Vernon. The family chariot was full on 
 a certain Sunday, and the General allowed young Gary 
 to ride to church a favorite mare that was in foal. All 
 were very devout during the services, particularly the 
 General. The family coach started home at once, but 
 Mr. Gary lingered a while. The mare, as is usual with 
 high-bred horses, chafed for her companions, and the 
 moment she was headed homeward bolted. The boy 
 lost control of her. She overtook the General's carriage 
 going like a shot. "Stop that ! Stop that !" shouted 
 the General as she passed him. He thought the boy 
 was speeding her. His commands receiving no atten- 
 tion, he forgot the sermon and the prayers, and Gary 
 
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON ly 
 
 said that as long as he was in ear-shot he heard very 
 sulphurous imprecations from his host. Washington 
 designed the National Capital upon a scale which has 
 rendered it unnecessary to enlarge his plans and has 
 made possible, on the very plan he devised, the most 
 beautiful city in the world. Even I remember when I 
 thought there was great waste of space there, but the 
 innumerable buildings erected there in my day, grand 
 as many of them are, find ready for them all that the 
 foresight of Washington discovered would be necessary 
 to display them to best advantage. How in contrast 
 with the crowded spaces in all our other larger cities 
 which had no seer planning for the distant future when 
 they were founded. It is difficult to spend a day any- 
 where in lowland Virginia, of which Washington was so 
 fond, without meeting with some reminders of him, for 
 he was all-pervading in his day, and nothing could be 
 further from the facts than the old saying touching the 
 departed, "the places that knew him know him no more." 
 Even on my own country-place on the point of Cape 
 Charles, a spot which, so far as I know, he never visited, 
 there are things suggestive of him. A little wild pea 
 known as the partridge pea is indigenous to the whole 
 Eastern shore peninsula. It grows luxuriantly and in 
 that sandy section is regarded, for lack of the sturdier 
 grasses on limestone soils, as an excellent hay and good 
 restorer of the land. I never walk out in the spring 
 time and behold its pretty yellow bloom, without recall- 
 ing a most interesting correspondence between Mr. 
 Custis, who lived at Arlington, seven miles above my place, 
 and General Washington, concerning the merits of the 
 
l8 VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE 
 
 partridge pea. Mr. Custis took the trouble to secure 
 some seeds for General Washington, and the General 
 planted them at Mount Vernon and reported the results. 
 He said that it might serve its purpose fairly well in a 
 light soil like that of the peninsula, but on the stronger 
 lands of Piedmont there was a plenty of products of 
 better substance both as feed and fertilizers. Washing- 
 ton was unquestionably a scientific farmer in his day, 
 and while far behind the discoveries of the present, he 
 was first in this as in other things. 
 
 The old great-grandfather of whom I have spoken^ 
 simply idolized Washington, as well he might. Mr. 
 Custis referring to him says that Cropper had but one 
 toast for all Companies, banquets. Fourth of July, 
 Twenty-second of February, marriages, funerals, and 
 that was "God bless the memory of George Washing- 
 ton." On a certain occasion soon after the War, CoL 
 Cropper was in the coffee-room at Mammy Peterkin's, 
 a famous tavern in Delaware, on the road between his 
 home and Philadelphia. An Englishman present made 
 some disparaging remark about Washington. Cropper, 
 who was a large, powerful man and of quick temper, 
 seized the chair on which he sat and broke it over the 
 man's head. In later years, he was in the Virginia 
 Senate. He was then a General, for Washington had 
 proposed him as Commander of the Virginia troops 
 when the troubles arose with France in '98. At a ban- 
 quet at the Swan tavern in Richmond a speaker reflected 
 upon Washington. When his remarks had proceeded 
 to a certain point. General Cropper arose, seized a carv- 
 ing knife and started towards him swearing he would 
 
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON I9 
 
 ■"have his ears*' for such language concerning the great- 
 est and best man that ever lived. It was with great 
 difficulty that he was restrained and pacified. At the 
 surrender of Yorktown Washington presented twelve 
 French cannon captured from the British to the Mar- 
 quis de Lafayette for distribution to the favorite officers 
 of his division. One of these he gave to Colonel 
 Cropper who took it with him to his home and placed it 
 on the Court House Green at the County Seat. There 
 it remained until the civil war when it was captured by 
 federal troops and removed to Fortress Monroe. A 
 grandson of General Cropper who lived in New York 
 and was loyal to the Union, made personal application 
 to Mr. Lincoln for a return of the gun, and it was deliv- 
 ered to him and remained in his possession until his 
 death which occurred in the present year. 
 
 Every year of his life until shortly before his death 
 in 182 1 when disease disabled him, General Cropper 
 celebrated Washington's birth-day and July 4th at the 
 County Court House, by firing that cannon, and by 
 speeches, the reading of the Declaration of Independ- 
 ence, Washington's Farewell Address, and patriotic 
 songs. 
 
 These scenes were of course part of the youth of 
 my father. Nothing pleased him more than to describe 
 his grandfather speaking upon Washington. The old 
 man would be moved by his own eloquence to defiance, 
 exultation and tears. 
 
 When the old Revolutionary hero became too in- 
 firm to appear in public, he would on patriotic days 
 assemble his children and grandchildren about him, 
 
20 VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE 
 
 have them read the old documents and sing the old 
 songs, while he joined in with all his remaining fervor, 
 the tears streaming down his cheeks. I have a letter 
 written by William Wirt to his daughters when General 
 Cropper died and it is one of his most beautiful produc- 
 tions. 
 
 If General Washington slept in all the houses in 
 Virginia which have been pointed out to me, from time 
 to time, as his lodging places, he must have done a good 
 deal of napping in day-time; for in his brief lifetime he 
 could not have done the sleeping in the night-time re- 
 quisite to fill all these beds. 
 
 Some of the houses he occupied were very small 
 and very primitive. Indeed it is hard to realize how 
 little of domestic comfort satisfied even the grandest 
 people of his time. Many of the abodes of the wealth- 
 iest and most important people of that day in Virginia 
 were not up to those of the humblest today in space 
 and comfort. There were a few handsome houses in 
 Williamsburg and Fredericksburg in Gloucester and 
 upper Potomac and on the lower James, but outside of 
 these the Colonial Mansions of Virginia never were very 
 numerous, or at all up to modern standards. 
 
 A hundred years ago the fame of Washington in 
 future ages, elsewhere than in Virginia, may have been 
 problematic. It never was so there. The surroundings 
 of every Virginian born then or since have been such 
 that he was as sure to worship this immortal man as 
 were the goats bred by Jacob to be "ring-streaked, 
 speckled and grizzled." 
 
 Just as pre-natal influences in the animal kingdom 
 
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON 21 
 
 affect the progeny, and long-continued habits of thought 
 in a whole community of human beings descend from 
 father to son — so generations of Virginians breeding 
 together in a common faith about Washington have 
 produced a Commonwealth of two million citizens to 
 whom his every act and almost every breath he breathed, 
 have been made familiar since they were old enough to 
 comprehend anything. There may be found here and 
 there a Virginian who will reluctantly admit that at 
 one time or another in the tide of time, individuals have 
 lived who in this or that particular quality may have 
 equaled Washington; but it were rank heresy in any 
 man to contend in the presence of a true bred Virginian 
 that any man ever existed on this planet who had com- 
 bined in him, the same number of pre-eminent qualities, 
 to the same degree or so happily blended, as they 
 appeared in Virginia's peerless Son. 
 
 Thus, fellow-citizens, have I attempted to lay before 
 you, in simple phrase, the real George Washington, in 
 his daily and private life and in his relations to his 
 neighbors and fellow-citizens. It may have been prob- 
 lematical with the rest of mankind, a hundred years ago, 
 how he would rank in History. It was never so with 
 Virginians. To them he was, even in his lifetime, "the 
 immediate jewel of their souls." A century has rolled 
 by since he died — a century filled with great events that 
 have revolutionized and changed, almost daily, the map 
 of the world, with hosts of great men, from Napoleon 
 and Wellington, down to now, filling Fame's trumpets 
 with their deeds. Yet, there stands the Colossal figure 
 of Washington, his fame enhanced rather than dimin- 
 
22 VIRGINIA FOLK-LORE 
 
 ished by comparison with them, and likely to increase 
 for a thousand years to come. Our Washington. Not 
 Washington of Virginia or of Massachusetts. Not 
 Washington of the North or of the South. Not even 
 Washington of America. But Washington of the whole 
 world, embodying and expressing the ideas of Liberty, 
 and Justice and Valor and Moderation as the world had 
 never known them before he lived. Quoted to describe 
 him, the oft repeated words are no longer thread-bare. 
 "As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, 
 Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, 
 Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, 
 Eternal sunshine settles on its head." 
 
 Thank God that in our past there was one great 
 father, at whose tomb we may meet in common brother- 
 hood for all time to come and there forget the differ- 
 ences of intervening years. 
 
WORK OF THE SOCIETY. 
 
 BY ELKiKNE TAPPAN. 
 
 A review of the year is due to the members and to 
 other historical societies. Such a record is a part of 
 current history. The study of what has been done is 
 important for a proper prosecution of the work to be 
 done. Certain Unes of effort may be desirable for 
 further work in the coming year, and on the other hand, 
 it may be found that certain lines or methods should be 
 omitted. Again, so far as the past shows success, it will 
 be an encouragement to continue. The year thus re- 
 viewed extends from April, 1906, to March, 1907. 
 
 QUARTERLY MEETINCxS. 
 
 The quarterly meetings are held in Old Home 
 Week and in the latter part of October, January and 
 April. The place is the town hall, which on several 
 occasions was ornamented by a Boston decorating com- 
 pany. In Old Home Week the society also arranged 
 an antiquarian concert by the Old Stoughton Musical 
 Society, and on Washington's Birthday celebrated the 
 175th anniversary of that event witli an address by Capt. 
 John S. Wise. This address is printed for the first time 
 in this issue. 
 
 The president of the Society, Col. Hewins, has 
 occupied the chair at each meeting, as well as at each 
 session of the board of directors. Praise is due to the 
 
24 WORK OF THE SOCIETY 
 
 singers and musicians, and to the matrons and assistants 
 who have contributed inspiration and good cheer. At 
 the April and January meetings the leading address 
 was given by Mr. John G. Phillips, followed at the last 
 meeting by Messrs. Hewins, Whittemore and Tappan. 
 Mr. Kempton has often given historical readings. Some 
 speakers who came from out of town were Dr. Loring 
 W. Puffer, the president of the Bridgewater Historical 
 Society, in April, Ex-Gov. John D. Long in August, and 
 Dr. William H. P. Faunce, the president of Brown Uni- 
 versity, in October. A customary feature of the meet- 
 ings is a social half-hour with service of tea and cakes. 
 
 RAMBLES. 
 
 The year's outings were limited, as previously, to 
 the territory of the town, and took place on Saturday 
 afternoons in alternate weeks of May, June, September 
 and October with an all-day outing in Old Home Week. 
 The attendance was greater than in the previous year, 
 50 or 60 being the number in the last two months. On 
 longer distances carriages are used. Often times a light 
 lunch is carried by the ramblers, or served to them by 
 the kindness of those living in the places visited. Care- 
 ful attention is given to antique objects and the history 
 and traditions of the families connected with the places. 
 There was always held on such occasions an informal 
 historical conference, at which some of the speakers 
 were Messrs. Britton, Deming, Drake, Dyer, Field, 
 Fuller, Haskel, Kempton, Mackintosh, Martin, Perry, 
 Pettee, Phillips, Raynolds, Talbot, Tappan, Mrs. Eddy, 
 Miss Felt, Mrs. Mann, Mrs. Talbot, Mrs. Washburn, 
 
WORK OF THE SOCIETY 25 
 
 Mrs. White and Miss Winship. Frequent visitors from 
 abroad attend the outings as well as the regular meet- 
 ings. A scholarly gentleman, while walking with the 
 ramblers in a beautiful grove, expressed his feelings by 
 the remark, "I'd rather walk in these woods than read 
 the best book that ever was written." 
 
 OLD HOME WEEK. 
 
 The Society gave unusual attention to the holiday 
 week, called Old Home Week, conducting as already 
 stated the three events of antique concert, quarterly 
 meeting and outing, and also issuing an illustrated pro- 
 gram pamphlet for all the exercises of the week, of 
 which 1500 copies were distributed, and a profit realized 
 from the advertisements furnished by friends. 
 
 WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS. 
 
 Each of the meetings and rambles has its historian 
 whose full narrative is printed in the Sharon Advocate, 
 filling one or two columns of that village newspaper. 
 These articles with others are included in the Society 
 Scrap Book, the fourth volume of which has just been 
 bound, its contents being given on another page. These 
 volumes are substantially bound and will last as long as 
 any printed book, and be read with increasing interest 
 as time goes by. Sometimes on a ramble a selection 
 from the Scrap Book has proved appropriate. The 
 Sharon Advocate, by the courtesy of its publisher, con- 
 tains notifications and historical items concerning the 
 Society as well as the above named narratives. Bound 
 volumes of the Advocate are kept in the Sharon Public 
 Library. 
 
26 WORK OF THE SOCIETY 
 
 HISTORICAL BUILDING. 
 
 A goodly number of gifts has been received, as 
 shown on other pages and in the preceding numbers of 
 the PubHcations. "Where shall we put these valuables?" 
 is a natural question frequently asked. A sufficient 
 answer is found in Publication No. 3 issued a year ago, 
 containing as frontispiece a perspective view of a suita- 
 ble historical building with an article describing the 
 structure and a reliable builder's estimate that the cost 
 would be }$6ooo. A generous contribution for the be- 
 ginning of a building fund would attract other similar 
 contributions, resulting at last in a building erected, 
 alike an ornament to the town and a safe deposit of 
 valuable papers and relics. This building would be of 
 great value to the life and prosperity of the Society. 
 
 ASSOCIATED WORK. 
 
 As a member of the Bay State Historical League, 
 the Society sends representatives to the meetings of the 
 League. Meetings of historical societies have been at- 
 tended in Somervalle, Roxbury, Canton, Hyde Park, and 
 also meetings of the Bridgewater Historical Society, 
 and the American Historical Association. The Sharon 
 Society has been glad to welcome at its meetings the 
 presidents and members of sister organizations. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 A large membership has been the desire of the 
 Society. Greater interest and more assistance are thus 
 secured. At the beginning one hundred subscribers 
 signed the application for incorporation, and at every 
 
WORK OF THE SOCIETY 2/ 
 
 regular meeting accessions have been made to this 
 number, the total being now 245. While noting with 
 regret the recent loss by death of three members — Mr. 
 Jay Gould of Norwood Street at the age of 50 years, 
 Mr. Horace S. Shepard of Ames Street at the age of 74 
 years, and Mr. William F. Hall at the age of 55 years, 
 the society recalls with gratitude that during the calen- 
 dar year of 1906, there was not a single loss. 
 
 SOME RESULTS. 
 
 Interest in local history has been stimulated and 
 diffused by the good attendance upon the meetings and 
 rambles, and by the published accounts of these gather- 
 ings. Mr. John G. Phillips, with considerable labor, has 
 prepared what with present means of knowledge is an 
 exhaustive list of sources of Sharon history. Mr. Solo- 
 mon Talbot, the Nestor of the Society, is constantly 
 aiding in local memoranda. The written contributions 
 to the Scrap Book preserve historical incidents for the 
 use of the future historian. The society's printed annual 
 from its interest as a record, is a pleasant means of ex- 
 change with other historical societies and antiquarians. 
 This annual is deposited in the principal libraries of the 
 state, and in many libraries outside the state. The So- 
 ciety will gladly receive from other associations any of 
 their publications that can be spared. 
 
 THE NEAR FUTURE. 
 
 The best work is often the work that is nearest at 
 hand. A complete study of the topographical features 
 of the town, a full list of the names of brooks, hills and 
 
28 WORK OF THE SOCIETY 
 
 tracts of land that have distinctive names, the recovery 
 of Indian names now dropping out of memory (as 
 Sconcumpenshen swamp in South Sharon), are instances. 
 A diary of natural events might be kept, noting the first 
 appearance of different kinds of birds, insects, leaves 
 and flowers. The pursuit of genealogy, little attended 
 to at present by the Society, might be as interesting and 
 useful in Sharon as in other towns. Repeated requests 
 in the Advocate to search old attics and report results, 
 and to furnish copies of family registers in old Bibles 
 have hitherto elicited no response, yet such registers ex- 
 ist and attics are not often empty. 
 
 A list has been made of the cases in the Probate 
 Registry at Dedham from 1793 to 1878 relating to 
 Sharon, and the additional work has been commenced of 
 making an abstract of each case. A member who can 
 spend a day, or several days, in continuing this work 
 would be doing a good service. Another opening for 
 historical work is to edit the records of the Sharon 
 Lyceum in the years 1844 to 1846, presented by Mr. 
 Charles S. Curtis. Such an editor could procure a brief 
 biographical mention of each member of the Lyceum, 
 besides writing a history of such organizations in the 
 town. The building of the railroad in Sharon is an- 
 other theme toward the preparation of which Mrs. 
 William B. Wickes has contributed a copy of a report 
 in 1829 to the Legislature on the practicability of the 
 road, with plans of several proposed routes through the 
 town. Some members of a practical turn might ac- 
 complish the task of setting up a monument on the 
 Randall place, using therefor the stone door step pre- 
 
WORK OF THE SOCIETY 2g 
 
 sented by a descendant. A similar work would be the 
 placing of a boulder at the grave of William Tolman, 
 with perhaps this inscription, "William Tolman requested 
 to be buried on this spot, from which he had often 
 watched the wild geese fly over the pond." Wood paths 
 and historical sites need to be marked. A more am- 
 bitious undertaking might be the publication of a small 
 book of the geography and history of Sharon for use in 
 the public schools. There is none of the members who 
 cannot write a page for the Scrap Book. 
 
 The habit of historical research gives a pleasant 
 purpose to one's leisure hours, and a local historical 
 society may add materially to the happiness and refine- 
 ment of the community. By cultivating the loving 
 study of the town, it will do a substantial part in inter- 
 esting the people in one another and in promoting good 
 citizenship and good fellowship. 
 
HISTORICAL OUTINGS IN 1907. 
 
 1. Spring Outing, Saturday afternoon, April 27. Stone bridge 
 on Puffer's or Maskwonicut brook, in rear of Richards street. Take 
 electric car to Canton street, thence walk along Canton street to 
 Chestnut Tree cemetery, and thence across the fields. 
 
 2. Rock Ridge, Saturday afternoon. May 25. Ride as far as 
 Rockridge cemetery, thence walk along the summit of Rock Ridge 
 to George P. Lawrence's house, and from there ride back to the 
 village. 
 
 3. Sharon Incorporation Day, Friday afternoon, June 21. 
 The district was incorporated June 21, 1765. Out-door meeting 
 with special speaker and music. 
 
 4. Plimpton Pines, on South Walpole street, near Walpole 
 line, Saturday afternoon, July 13. A ride. 
 
 5. Old Home Week Outing, Saturday, August 3. Ride to 
 Moose hill, lunch on the summit, walk down the west slope to 
 Walpole line at Baker street, and from there ride back to the 
 village. 
 
 6. Devil's Rock, Saturday afternoon, September 14. Walk 
 by way of Brook road, homeward by another route. A climb on 
 top of the rock. 
 
 7. Apple Day (the new holiday), Wednesday afternoon, 
 October 16. Ride to the town farm, giving an entertainment to 
 the inmates, thence across country to Bertram's and home. 
 
 The foregoing list of outings was approved by vote of the 
 Historical Society at the last January meeting. A narrative of 
 each outing will be written by one of the company. All persons 
 interested are welcome to join in the excursions. 
 
HISTORICAL SCRAP BOOK 
 
 THE HISTORICAL SCRAP BOOK. 
 
 31 
 
 The following is a list of the articles, with names 
 of writers appended, contained in the fourth volume of 
 the Society's Scrap Book, just completed and bound. 
 Contributions are requested for future numbers, and 
 stationery for the purpose will be supplied on applica- 
 tion to the corresponding secretary. 
 
 John G. Phillips 
 
 Dea. Samuel Tolman 
 
 May L. Felt 
 
 Rev. Amos N. Somers 
 
 Mary E. Hixson 
 
 Dr. Walter A. Griffin 
 
 Mrs. Frank L. Gould 
 
 George H. Whittemore 
 
 Moses W. Mann 
 
 Sources of Sharon History 
 
 History of the Tolman Family (Copy) 
 
 Selections from a little girl's diary. 
 
 The Robbers' Cave in Sharon . 
 
 Some of the Earlier Tanneries 
 
 Sharon, a healthful place 
 
 The Gould Family . 
 
 Shoemaker Valley . 
 
 Sharon Street in West Medford 
 
 San Francisco Earthquake, (newspaper clipping) Wallace S. Shaw 
 
 San Francisco Earthquake, (newspaper clipping) Nellie L. Harvey 
 
 Poor Job Almanac, 1752, furnished by . . Rufus B. Tobey 
 
 Extracts from Judge Samuel Sewall's Diary, 
 
 Copied by Eugene Tappan 
 Extracts from Judge Benjamin Lynde's Diary, 
 
 Copied by Eugene Tappan 
 Going to Pigeon Swamp, a sketch, . 
 The Burns Festival ..... 
 Historical Meeting, April 26, 1906 . 
 Old Home Week, 1906 .... 
 Historical Meeting, August 2, 1906 
 Historical Outing, August 3, 1906 . 
 An Evening in Sicily, October 25, 1906. 
 Historical Meeting, January 31, 1907 
 Washington Celebration, February 22, 1907 
 Results of the Celebration. 
 The Brook Un visited (outing) . . . Eugene Tappan 
 
 Elizabeth B. Hinckley 
 
 . Carrie W. Fernald 
 
 . Dana Tappan 
 
 Newspaper Clippings 
 
 Emma A. Baker 
 
 May L. Felt 
 
 Mary N. Phillips 
 Eugene Tappan 
 
32 GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY 
 
 Ramble No. 2, May 19, 1906 .... Muriel Tappan 
 
 Sharon Outing, June 2, 1906 .... George Kempton 
 
 A Soldier of the Revolution (outing) . . . Eugene Tappan 
 
 Visit to Sharon Heights (outing) 
 
 A September Afternoon (outing) 
 
 Real Diary of a real Bad Man. 
 
 Outing of the Historical Society, September 15, 1906, 
 
 George Kempton 
 An Afternoon Tea on the Randall Farm (outing), 
 
 Rev. Almon J. Dyer 
 An Aged Friend (outing) .... Eugene Tappan 
 
 The Last of the Rambles (outing) . . . John G. Phillips 
 
 Some Benefits of Historical Rambles . . Eugene Tappan 
 
 GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY DURING THE 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 Charles F. Adams, Boston. Copy of his Address at the Lee 
 
 Centennial in Lexington, Va. 
 Bay State Historical League. List of lectures before historical 
 
 societies. 
 Cambridge Historical Society. Publications I of that Society. 
 Capt. Rufus G. F. Candage, Brookline. Historical Sketches of 
 
 Bluehill, Maine. 
 Mrs. O. Augusta Cheney, Natick. 2 ancient pewter platters 
 
 (Morse family). Reunion of descendants of John Eliot. 
 Dr. Francis Collamore, North Pembroke. Old Quaker Meeting 
 
 House, 1706. 
 Charles S. Curtis. Constitution, by-laws and records of the 
 
 Sharon Lyceum, 1844-6. Program of lectures in the Ladies 
 
 Library Association, 1879. 
 Edward Denham, New Bedford. The Colonel and the Quaker 
 
 (No. 554 of limited edition). Views of New Bedford. 
 Dorchester Historical Society. Old Dorchester burying Ground, 
 
 History of the old Blake House, and Catalogues of special 
 
 collections. 
 Mehetabel B. Fairbanks. Parentage of Nathaniel Coney of Boston. 
 
GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY 33 
 
 W. Perry Fiske. Massachusetts of Today (1892). 
 
 George S. Godard, Hartford, Conn. Trumbull's Notes on Consti- 
 tutions of Connecticut. Notes on Town Representation. 
 Journal of Constitutional Convention (1818). 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. William K. Hawes, Canton. Mortar and pestle 
 and riding stick formerly belonging to Dr. Elijah Hewins. 
 
 Eben N. Hewins, Boston. Framed portrait of his father, Amasa 
 Hewins. Business card of Amasa Hewins. 
 
 Col. Edmund H. Hewins. Papers of the California Relief Com- 
 mittee of Sharon (relief of earthquake sufferers). 
 
 Martha M. Hewins. Governors' proclamations for thanksgiving 
 on restoration of peace (1783 and 1865). 
 
 Richard C. Humphreys, Boston. Records of the First church at 
 Dorchester, 1 636-1 734. 
 
 Edward F. Johnson, Woburn. Capt. Edward Johnson of Woburn. 
 
 Eliza J. Kempton. Pencil drawings of Sharon houses by Alvin 
 R. Alden. 
 
 George Kempton. The first mess of tea made on Nantucket 
 Island (1735). 
 
 Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. Reports of the librarian, 
 1902, 1903. 
 
 Littleton Historical Society. Proceedings of the Littleton 
 Society, No. i (containing article on Littleton Lyceum, 1829), 
 No. 2. 
 
 Arthur C. Long. Photograph of house formerly standing on site 
 of present water works (given at request of his deceased 
 brother). 
 
 Marblehead Historical Society. The P'ountain Inn, Agnes 
 Surriage and Sir Harry Frankland. 
 
 Medford Historical Society. The Historical Register, a quarterly 
 published by that society. 
 
 Mrs. Amanda M. Morton. Oracles of Reason by Col. Ethan 
 Allen. Works of William E. Channing, Vol. II. (Slavery, 
 Texas, etc.). Columbian and European Harmony or Bridge- 
 water Collection of Sacred music, 1802. 
 
 Nantucket Historical Association. Proceedings of Annual 
 Meeting (1906). Nantucket Lands and Land Owners. 
 
34 GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY 
 
 Ernesto Nelson, Argentine Republic. Atlas of Norfolk County^ 
 1876. 
 
 New England Catholic Historical Society, Boston. Fr. Sebas- 
 tian Rasle (missionary of Abenaquis Indians). 
 
 Old Dartmouth Historical Society, and Edward Denham. Old 
 Dartmouth Historical Sketches, Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16. 
 
 Dr. Loring W. Puffer, Brockton. The Delhi Gazette (News- 
 paper) Dec. 27, 1852, "published on the latest safe date of 
 despatch of the overland mail." Atlas of pictures relating to 
 George Washington. 
 
 Herbert Randall, Hartford, Conn. Trumbull's Declaration of 
 Independence (picture). Portrait of Roger Sherman (framed 
 by the Society). Portraits of George and Martha Washington 
 by Sharpless (reproduction). Portrait of Washington by 
 Trumbull (reproduction). Picture in memory of Washington. 
 
 Alfred S. Roe, Worcester. Life and services of William Henry 
 Bartlett, 1904. 
 
 F. A. Sampson, Columbia, Mo. Missouri Historical Review, a 
 quarterly published by the State Historical Society. Third 
 biennial report of executive committee. 
 
 Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D. C. Annual Reports of 
 American Historical Association, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1904 (7 
 volumes). Report on methods of work in local historical 
 societies (including the Sharon Society). Annual Report of 
 American Historical Association (1905) vol. i. 
 
 State Street Trust Co., Boston. State Street, a brief account 
 of a Boston way. 
 
 Eugene Tappan. Letters No. i (bound volume of letters of his- 
 torical interest). Series of plans of Boston, 1630-35-40-45, by 
 George Lamb. 
 
 Rev. Anson Titus, Somerville. Proceedings of the Bostonian 
 Society, 1906, containing Mr. Titus's paper on Franklin. 
 
 RuFUS B. ToBEV, WoUaston. Passport, 1868, signed by William 
 H. Seward. Shipping paper of ship Bowditch, 185 1. English 
 bill of lading for 2818 rails, 1870. Dominican shipping doc- 
 ument, 1846. Fac simile of Washington letter. Parchment 
 
OFFICERS AND LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 35 
 
 probate letter, 1784. Donation committee, 1861. Original 
 letters to Williams College, 1826, 1835, ^^c- 
 
 Mrs. George H. Tucker. Two old Bibles. 
 
 Westborough Historical Society. Story of the Rice Boys cap- 
 tured by the Indians, 1704. Some old houses in Westborough. 
 
 Mrs. William B. Wickes. Legislative report on the practicability 
 of railroads, 1829. 
 
 Officers of the Historical Society, 1906-'07. 
 
 President, Col. Edmund H. Hewins. 
 Vice-Presidents, Solomon Talbot, William R. Mann, D. Webster Pettee. 
 Recording Secretary, George H. Whittemore. 
 Corresponding Secretary, Eugene Tappan. 
 Treasurer, Eliza L. White. 
 Custodian, Loring M. Monk. 
 Auditor, John A. Bowman. 
 The Directors consist of the president, the secretaries, treasurer and custo- 
 dian with the following additional members, Timothy F. Quinn, Amanda M. 
 Eddy, George Kempton, Eliza J. Kempton. The above named officers were 
 elected at the annual meeting, April 26, 1906. 
 
 PRESENT MEMBERSHIP OF THE SHARON 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 If errors are noted, please 
 ing secretary. 
 
 Wilhelm Albrecht . 
 Marcellus Houghton Alien 
 Oakes Ames . 
 Arthur Allen Bailey 
 Minnie Caroline Bailey 
 Emma Aurilla Baker 
 Abel Tuttle Barnes . 
 William Barry 
 Agnes Gertrude Barry 
 Cynthia Bates 
 William Henry Bense 
 
 inform the correspond- 
 
 Glendale Road 
 
 Walpole 
 
 Mountain Street 
 
 Highland Street 
 
 Highland Street 
 
 Billings Street 
 
 Boyden Place 
 
 Walnut Street 
 
 Walnut Street 
 
 Upland Road 
 
 Canton 
 
36 
 
 LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Elinor Maria Bense 
 Abbie Caroline Billings 
 Osmond Jesse Billings 
 Emma Fredericke Boehm 
 Abner Hunt Bowman 
 Kate Ellen Bowman 
 John Augustus Bowman 
 Winnibel Bowman . 
 Thomas W. Bradshaw 
 Frederick Victor Brittain 
 Marie Hilda Brittain 
 Charles Franklin Bryant 
 Angle Aldana Bullard 
 Frank Elwood Burbank 
 Sarah Caroline Burbank 
 Warren Winthrop Capen 
 Albert Alden Carpenter . 
 Mary Imogene Carpenter 
 Sanford Irving Carpenter 
 Erminnie Olive Carpenter 
 Harriet Maria Chapin 
 Oliver Smith Chapman . 
 Olive Augusta Cheney 
 Gertrude Madeleine Cobb 
 Arthur Dwight Colburn . 
 Emma Pettee Colburn 
 Floyd Clarke Coon . 
 Guild Anderson Copeland 
 Jennie Sarah Copeland . 
 Cadwallader Curry . 
 Charles Stone Curtis 
 Clara Emma Curtis 
 Walter Herbert Delano . 
 Gertrude Hewins Delano 
 Miner Rudd Deming 
 George Alfred Dennett . 
 
 Canton 
 Worcester 
 Worcester 
 South Main Street 
 . Station Street 
 . Station Street 
 Edgewood Road 
 Edgewood Road 
 ^;^ Broad Street, Boston 
 Glendale Road 
 . Glendale Road 
 . Billings Street 
 Depot Street 
 South Pleasant Street 
 South Pleasant Street 
 South Pleasant Street 
 . Upland Road 
 . Upland Road 
 . Billings Street 
 . Billings Street 
 Maskwonicut Street 
 North Main Street 
 39 1-2 Pond Street, Natick 
 Bay Street 
 Depot Street 
 Depot Street 
 Billings Street 
 Boston 
 Boston 
 Pleasant Street 
 Pond Street 
 Pond Street 
 Billings Street 
 Billings Street 
 515 Tremont Temple, Boston 
 . North Main Street 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 37 
 
 Elizabeth Osgood Dennett 
 Charles Thomas Derry 
 Almira Wilds Derry 
 Hervey Tolman Billings Derry 
 Gertrude M. Derry . 
 Daniel Elijah Devoe 
 Lucy Williams Dinsmore 
 James M'Ewen Drake 
 Maria Upham Drake 
 Dorothy Drake 
 Almon Jesse Dyer . 
 Lizzie Lovell Dyer . 
 Amanda Maria Eddy 
 May Lawrence Felt 
 Adelaide M. Fernald 
 Carrie Wilbar Fernald 
 George Wilton Field 
 Mary Bell Field 
 Arthur Perry P'iske 
 Mary Adela Fiske . 
 William Perry Fiske 
 Ruth Tucker Fiske . 
 George Bailey Fowler 
 Bernice Welton Fowler 
 Robie G. Frye 
 Edward Jarvis Fuller 
 Erastus Otis Fuller . 
 Mary Josephine Fuller 
 Helen Eliza Gannett 
 Louis Francis Gates 
 Lillian Carver George 
 Mary Frances Giberson 
 Nelson Newton Glazier 
 Joseph Goddard 
 Faith Goddard 
 Mattie Hilda Green 
 
 North Main Street 
 Washington Place 
 Washington Place 
 - Billings Street 
 . Billings Street 
 Norwood Street 
 South Main Street 
 . Upland Road 
 . Upland Road 
 . Upland Road 
 North Main Street 
 North Main Street 
 . Billings Street 
 Main Street 
 North Main Street 
 North Main Street 
 Moose Hill Street 
 Moose Hill Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 Summit Avenue 
 Summit Avenue 
 North Main Street 
 North Main Street 
 North Main Street 
 . Viaduct Street 
 . Canton Street 
 Canton 
 East Street 
 02 Barristers Hall, Boston 
 . Scituate 
 . Belcher Street 
 Summit Avenue 
 . Viaduct Street 
 . Viaduct Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 
38 
 
 LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Walter Alden Griffin 
 Charles Edgar Hall 
 Carrie Matilda Hall 
 Kate Melville Hall . 
 Mary Abbie Hall . 
 Arthur Carter Haradon 
 William Lewis Haskel 
 Agnes Payne Haskel 
 George Ashley Haszard 
 George Adam Herath 
 Eben Newell Hewins 
 Edmund Dunbar Hewins 
 Ora Achuff Hewins 
 Edmund Hart Hewins 
 Kate Minerva Hewins 
 Katharine Potter Hewins 
 Louisa Hewins 
 Martha Morse Hewins 
 Harry Mason Hight 
 Margaret Deering Hight 
 Arthur Scott Hixson 
 Florence Hixson 
 Charles Augustus Hixson 
 Mary Louisa Hixson 
 Edgar Mace Hixson 
 Mary Ella Hixson . 
 Theodore William Hixson 
 Albert Doane Holmes 
 William Bradford Holmes 
 Ellen Jane Horace . 
 Charles Elbert Howard 
 Alfred Henry Johnson 
 Joanna Johnson 
 Harriet Amanda Johnson 
 Louisa Jones . 
 George Kempton 
 
 . Everett Street 
 
 South Main Street 
 
 South Main Street 
 
 . Maple Avenue 
 
 South Pleasant Street 
 
 47 Hollywood Street, Worcester 
 
 Chestnut Street 
 
 Chestnut Street 
 
 . Station Street 
 
 . Maskwonicut Street 
 
 85 Francis Street, Roxbury 
 
 Highland Street 
 
 Highland Street 
 
 South Main Street 
 
 South Main Street 
 
 South Main Street 
 
 4 Hamilton Place, Boston 
 
 Norwood Street 
 
 . Maple Avenue 
 
 . Maple Avenue 
 
 Brook Road 
 
 Brook Road 
 
 . North Main Street 
 
 . North Main Street 
 
 Brook Road 
 
 Brook Road 
 
 Brook Road 
 
 23 Commercial Street, Boston 
 
 Bay Street 
 
 2 Longwood Avenue, Brookline 
 
 Mansfield Street 
 
 . South Main Street 
 
 South Main Street 
 
 Depot Street 
 
 Stoughton 
 
 Pond Street 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 39 
 
 Eliza Jane Kempton 
 John C. Kimball 
 Charles Henry Kittredge 
 Elizabeth Frances Kittredge 
 Arthur Cornelius Kollock 
 Max Paul VVoldemar Kreutz 
 Jennie Sophronia Kreutz 
 George Porter Lawrence 
 James Edward Leach 
 Lizzie Nora Leonard 
 Dora Maria Leonard 
 Henry Frank Leonard 
 Mary Jane Leonard 
 Marcus Eugene Lincoln 
 Albert W. Lyon 
 John William Mackintosh 
 William Rufus Mann 
 Julia Adeline Mann 
 Fred W. Mansfield . 
 Sarah M. Mansfield 
 Nelson Lansing Martin 
 Mary Evalyn Martin 
 Henry F. Maxwell . 
 John William McCanna 
 John Dwyer McLaughlin 
 Edmund Franklin Merriam 
 Percy Richards Middleton 
 Dora Middleton 
 Eliza Burnham Mills 
 Loring Morton Monk 
 Laura Delphine Monk 
 Rodney Elijah Monk 
 Susan Gay Moody . 
 Bushrod Morse 
 Henry Allen Myrick 
 Clara Pratt Myrick 
 
 Pond Street 
 
 Greenfield 
 
 . Upland Road 
 
 . Upland Road 
 
 12 Equitable Building, Boston 
 
 off Depot Street 
 
 off Depot Street 
 
 53 Tremont Street, Boston 
 
 35 Congress Street, Boston 
 
 Summit Avenue 
 
 Depot Street 
 
 Pond Street 
 
 Pond Street 
 
 Pleasant Street 
 
 Boston 
 
 Walnut Street 
 
 East Street 
 
 East Street 
 
 Belcher Street 
 
 Belcher Street 
 
 Viaduct Street 
 
 Viaduct Street 
 
 Rindge, N. H. 
 
 Deborah Sampson Street 
 
 730 Tremont Building, Boston 
 
 . North Main Street 
 
 South Pleasant Street 
 
 South Pleasant Street 
 
 Pleasant Street 
 
 East Street 
 
 East Street 
 
 East Street 
 
 East Street 
 
 23 School Street, Boston 
 
 Morse Street 
 
 Morse Street 
 
40 
 
 LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Velina Frances Myrick 
 Herbert Frank Nelson 
 Cyrus Adolph Noyes 
 Edmund Horatio Noyes 
 Florence Fleming Noyes 
 John O'Brien . 
 Mary Ann O'Brien . 
 Gertrude Genevieve O'Brien 
 Dennis O'Leary 
 Alvin Dexter Packard 
 Bernard Leonard Paine 
 Carrie Luthera Perkins 
 Charles Albert Perry 
 Daniel Webster Pettee 
 Myra Frances Pettee 
 John Goddard Phillips 
 Mary Williams Phillips 
 Mary Nightingale Phillips 
 Anna Goddard Phillips 
 Amelia Hannah Pollard 
 Ralph LeSeur Pollard 
 Bertha Campbell Pollard 
 James Nelson Pringle 
 Thomas Stephen Prouty 
 Timothy Francis Quinn 
 Elizabeth Loyola Quinn 
 Benjamin Raynolds 
 Ruth Adala Raynolds 
 Isabella Raynolds . 
 Benjamin Francis Rhoades 
 Bessie Frances Rhoades . 
 Edwin Gilmore Richards 
 Gertrude F. Williams Richards 
 Lydia Gay Richards 
 Mary Tolman Saflford 
 Laura Arnold Sage . 
 
 Pleasant Street 
 North Main Street 
 . Cottage Street 
 Summit Avenue 
 Summit Avenue 
 East Foxborough Street 
 East Foxborough Street 
 East Foxborough Street 
 . Tolman Street 
 . Walnut Street 
 Highland Street 
 North Main Street 
 . Cottage Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 Pond Street 
 Depot Street 
 Depot Street 
 . Billings Street 
 Chestnut Street 
 South Main Street 
 South Main Street 
 South Main Street 
 South Main Street 
 South Main Street 
 . County Street 
 . County Street 
 South Main Street 
 South Main Street 
 Stoughton 
 Pond Street 
 South Main Street 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 41 
 
 Alfred Colby Sampson . 
 
 Carrie Choate Sampson . 
 
 Charles Forrest Sanborn 
 
 Louise Peterson Sanborn 
 
 Elmer Bartlett Shaw 
 
 Maud Evelyn Shaw 
 
 Catherine Amelia Shedd . 
 
 Anna Maria Shepard 
 
 Willis Ames Shepherd 
 
 Alice Mary Shepherd 
 
 Abram T. Smith 
 
 Jennie Poole Snow . 
 
 Fred Dunmore Stanley . 
 
 Isabelle Rowland Stanley 
 
 John Warren Stearns 
 
 Charlotte Ladd Page Stearns 
 
 Silas Allen Stone 
 
 Amanda Sussman . 
 
 Ezra Otis Swift 
 
 Solomon Talbot 
 
 Henry Francis Talbot 
 
 Edmund Hawes Talbot . 
 
 Fannie Adelaide Talbot . 
 
 Eugene Tappan 
 
 Crosby Tappan 
 
 Muriel Tappan 
 
 Robert Tappan 
 
 Gilbert Thompson . 17 12 
 
 Willis Thompson 
 
 Minnie Bushee Thompson 
 
 Lyman Robert Tidd 
 
 Julia Frances Tidd . 
 
 Rufus Babcock Tobey 
 
 Otis Swift Tolman . 
 
 Elizabeth Walker Trafton 
 
 Frank Marion Trafton . 
 
 Glendale Road 
 Glendale Road 
 South Pleasant Street 
 South Pleasant Street 
 Brook Road 
 Brook Road 
 517 Warren Street, Roxbury 
 Ames Street 
 . Oakland Road 
 . Oakland Road 
 . Oakland Road 
 North Main Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 Pleasant Street 
 North Main Street 
 North Main Street 
 . Billings Street 
 South Main Street 
 Box 2587, Boston 
 Maskwonicut Street 
 Waterville, Kansas 
 35 Congress Street, Boston 
 Canton 
 South Pleasant Street 
 Chambersburg, Penn, 
 South Pleasant Street 
 . Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 
 Corcoran Street, Washington, D. C. 
 Summit Avenue 
 Summit Avenue 
 Summit Avenue 
 Summit Avenue 
 Wollaston 
 Pond Street 
 North Main Street 
 North Main Street 
 
42 
 
 LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Ida A. Tuck . 
 
 Alice Mary Tuck 
 
 John Tuck 
 
 Edward Augustus Warren 
 
 Evalyn Naomi Warren 
 
 Azel Washburn 
 
 Mary Frances Washburn 
 
 Benjamin Welch 
 
 Dora Welch . 
 
 Sidney Adams Weston 
 
 Mille Louise Weston 
 
 William Dexter Wheeler 
 
 Alice M'Lellan Wheeler 
 
 Eliza Lucretia White 
 
 John Francis White 
 
 George Hamilton Whittemore 
 
 Elsie Alden Whittemore . 
 
 Eva St. Clair Woodbridge 
 
 Total, 
 
 . South Main Street 
 
 . South Main Street 
 
 . South Main Street 
 
 135 Lincoln Avenue, Fall River 
 
 135 Lincoln Avenue, Fall River 
 
 25 Jaques Avenue, Worcester 
 
 25 Jaques Avenue, Worcester 
 
 South Main Street 
 
 South Main Street 
 
 , Maple Avenue 
 
 . Maple Avenue 
 
 . Glendale Road 
 
 , Glendale Road 
 
 Chestnut Street 
 
 . Maple Avenue 
 
 Chestnut Street 
 
 Chestnut Street 
 
 . Billings Street 
 
 245- 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SHARON 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 OF 
 
 SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 No. 5— APRIL. 1908 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 Cbc araftcli^an press 
 
 368 Congress Street 
 1908 
 
 PRICE, 50 CENTS 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SHARON 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 OF 
 
 SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 Containing the Church Records of T^ev. Philip Curtis of Sharon 
 
 1742-1797 
 
 JOHN G. PHILUPS. Editor 
 
 No. 5— APRIL, 1908 
 
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 (CnmpUmpiita uf 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 Zbc Hrahclsan presa 
 
 36)8 Gsngress Street 
 1908 
 
Copyright 1908 
 The Sharon Historical Society 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 The Minister's Record of the Second Parish of Stoughton (later 
 the First Parish of Stoughtonhani, now Sharon) is the property of 
 Mr. Charles S. Curtis of Sharon, the great grandson of Rev. Philip 
 Curtis the first minister, who has kindly loaned the manuscript for 
 copy and publication. 
 
 In form the Record is a little book 6 1-2 by 4 1-2 inches in size, 
 bound in thick brown paper covers and contains nearly 100 pages; 
 the hand writing, originally distinct, is now much faded, blurred in 
 many places, and often can be deciphered only with considerable 
 difficulty; the leaves are stained with much use, yellowed and crumb- 
 ling with age, and in spite of the watchful custodianship now ex- 
 ercised over it, the Record must inevitably soon become a relic of 
 sentimental value only. 
 
 A study of the contents will reveal many items of V'ital Statistics 
 from 1 74 2- 1 797 not appearing in the town records which were not 
 begun until 1765. The foot-notes will throw light upon some mat- 
 ters otherwise obscure, but in addition it should be understood that 
 throughout the book, in almost every instance, the dates in the col- 
 umns headed "Deaths'" are really those of burials, usually three days 
 later than the actual dates of deaths as given in the town records. 
 
 As evidence of the progressive characteristics of Rev. Mr. Curtis 
 it is interesting, and worthy of note, that the first entry in the Rec- 
 ord, a baptism Jan. I7'^''- 1742, shows that he was using the new style 
 of dating. It was not until September 1752 that January i**'- was 
 legally adopted as the beginning of the year and double dating be- 
 tween January i^*- and March 2^^^- was continued by many until an 
 even later date. 
 
 A special eft'ort has been made to reproduce the spelling, punctua- 
 tion, abbreviations, and the general arrangement of the records, as 
 they appear in the original manuscript. Although other copies have 
 already been made it is believed that no such exactness of detail 
 
 3 
 
has been heretofore attempted. A full index is appended. At the 
 close of the records several pages were devoted to a review of 
 the principal events in his own life by the minister and these have 
 also been copied and included with the rest. 
 
 In publishing the Minister's Record of Rev. Philip Curtis the 
 Sharon Historical Society feels that it is performing a duty not only 
 to its members and fellow citizens of the town but also to that in- 
 creasing number of students all over the country who are actively 
 at work, and to a still larger number of persons who are at least 
 interested, in historical and genealogical investigation. 
 
 To all such friends and co-workers this copy is dedicated in the 
 hope that it may add a little that is of value to the large stock of 
 already a\ailable sources of information, and be the means of sup- 
 plying an occasional missing link to the many incomplete chains of 
 New England family history. 
 
 J. G. P., Editor. 
 
 Sharon. January 6th 1908. 
 
Book of i ] 
 
 From the \'ear 174 [ ] 
 
 For the Year 1742. 
 
 [1] 
 Baptisms 
 January. 17. W". Richards. Jeremiah. 
 Feb: 14 John PhilHps Adult 
 March-28 Mr. Fullers Rebeccah 
 Aprill Jcabod Clarks Nehemiah & W". Woods John 
 July. Benj" Estys Lydia 
 August [ ] saac: Belchers Mary 
 Sep''. 19. Isaac Cuming Noah. & John Smiths Hannah 
 
 Marriages 
 January. 28 J married Sam". Coney. & Rebecah Guild 
 October 4 J married Jer''. Willis & Remember Tupper * 
 
 For the Year 1743 
 
 Baptisms 
 March 6. Kb''. Stearns Zekill : Robins 
 May. S.th Job Swift Patience 
 May 15. S". Cumings Nathaniell 
 May 22. J^. — Everets Catherine 
 June. T". Randall Joseph 
 June. E. Hewins Hannah 
 August Jer"^. Clark Silvanus 
 Sep^. 4. J. Jordan John. 
 October 2. Benj°. Esty Benjamin 
 
 October 9 Oba*^. Haws Nathaniell < 
 
 Novem'". 13 D". Richards John 
 
 Marriages 
 March. 30*^ J married Eleazer May & Esther Wadsworth. 
 Sep''. 2^ J married Elijah Capen & Eli*^: Bird 
 December. J married John Hawse & Amey Morgan 
 
 [2] 
 For the Year. T744 
 Baptisms 
 Jany. 22. J^. Gould. Joh [ t 1 Keziah 
 Feb^. 29. Step". Hawse. Hannah 
 
 March. 11. Joshua Johnson & Mat^ : Puffer^ Mary & Matthias 
 May. 21. E. Esty Solomon 
 June. Ephraim Pay son Henry 
 June 28. Elijah Capen. Elijah. 
 July I. W™. Woods. Deborah. 
 July 8. J" Noise John. 
 
 * Remember Tupper, by her former marriage, was the mother of Gen. Benjamin 
 Tupper, a native of the territory now .Sharon, who served throughout tbe Revolution- 
 ary War and was a pioneer in the settlement of Marietta, Ohio. 
 
 •f Partly erased. 
 
July 29. Deacon Fuller Lemuell 
 
 September 2. John Smith & Job Swifts Samuell & Joshua 
 
 October 7**^. Clifford Belcher Preserved. 
 
 Marriages 
 Aprill g^^. day J married John Hixson & Sarah Bird 
 July. 11^*'. J. Married Benjamin Harlow & Abigail Hobbs. 
 Novem'". i day. J Married William Tolman & Mary Savell. 
 Nov''. 6. day J Married Josiah Hodges & Mary Coolledge 
 
 For the Year 1745. 
 
 Baptisms 
 March. 3**. W". Richards Ebenezer 
 
 March 31^^. Nathan Clark & Sam". Gould Thomas & Mary 
 May 5 Ebene'". Stearns Mary. 
 May 26. Woodcock. Abigail. 
 June 30. Eli : Capen. Damaris 
 Ebe". Capen Ezekill 
 John. Whites David 
 Mats. Puffer. Rebeccah 
 Sam". Cumings Mary 
 September 19 Tho^ Randell Benjamin 
 Octo^". 6. Jer^. Clarks Asa. 
 Oct. 13 Clifford Belcher. Clifford 
 Oct. 20. Benj". Harlow. Hannah 
 
 Oct. 27. Jo*^ Everet & E''. Hewins luKva [torn] Joseph 
 No [torn] [ torn ] 
 
 Nov. 18. Stev"^ Howse twins Joseph & Benj a", 
 [torn] Tolman [ torn ] 
 
 Marriages 
 May 9*^^ J Married Ephraim Pay son. i'' & Margaret Morgan. 
 June 27*^'^. J Married Ebenezer Bacon. & Rebecah Blackman 
 Septem''. 12 day J Married Jsaiah Tolman & Hannah Fuller 
 
 [3] 
 For the Year. 1746 
 
 Baptisms 
 February. 2. Elijah Bakers Hannah 
 February. 16. Nathaniell Holmes Benjamin 
 March. 9. Nath". Coney & Jer : Gould William & Louis. 
 May. II. J Baptised my first child. Samuell 
 May 25^'!. Daniell Richards. Noah. E. Estys Mary. And Sam". 
 
 Coneys Samuell 
 June j^^. John. Gilberts Joim. 
 July. 2*^. John Jordan Mary 
 September 7"^. day Job. Swift. Job. 
 
 Marriages 
 January 9*^^. day I Married Stephen Holland & Sarah Stone 
 Nov"". 20**^. day I Married Jonathan Capen, & Jerusha Talbot. 
 
 6 
 
For the Year 1747. 
 Baptisins 
 January. 17. John Hawse Joseph 
 March. 8. Elij^. Capen. Mary. 
 March. 29. Deacon. Fullers Deborah. 
 Aprill 12. Jos'*. Johnson. Rebecah 
 May. 25. Eb"". Hewins. Elijah.* 
 June 21. Benj° Hewins. Benja". 
 July 5. Stephen Holland. Natha" : 
 July 12. Clifford Belcher. Love 
 July. 26. Stephen Hawse. Elisabeth 
 August. 23 Jcabod Claries twins, Billy & Salle. 
 
 September. 6. My Second child, Samuell & Nathan Clarks William. 
 September. 13 Benj". Harlows Abigail / 
 
 October. 19 D". Richards Hannah 
 October 26. Natha". Coney Thomas. 
 December. 13. Eb°. Capen Lemuell 
 December 27 Elijah Baker [torn] ah 
 
 Marriages 
 January i. I Married Ebenezer. Robins & Priscella Covill 
 February 12. I Married Benjamin Hewins & Sarah Bacon. 
 February 27. I Married Nicolas Harris & Lydia Covill 
 Aprill 23. I Married Ebenezer Dickerman & Lydia Gould 
 July. 9**^. day I married Benjamin Roads & Anna Gould 
 September 22^^. day. I Married John. Phillips & Mary Blancher. 
 December lo**". day J Married Joseph Roads & Sarah Barns. 
 
 The Number of those Admitted into the chh : for the Six Years past. 
 
 Sarah, Bird. Sam"., Coney. & his wife. 
 
 Damaris, Bird. Matthias Puffer 
 
 Ebenezer, Capen. & his wife. Elijah. Capen 
 
 Mary, Pay son. Abigail Harlow 
 
 Sarah, Pay son. W"*. Tolman & his wife 
 
 W"., Drake. Ephraim Pay son ^"". 
 
 Amey, Hawse. John. Hixson J"". & his wife. — 
 
 Mary, Drake. 
 
 The Number of those Voted into the chh : y*. belonged to other chh : 
 John Hixson Benj°. Johnson. 
 
 Ephraim, Pay son. Sarah Hawse 
 
 Ebenezer. .Stearns Elisabeth Randall 
 
 Richard. Hixson & his wife W"". Bacon 
 
 The Number of those y^ have Owned the Covenant for Six Years 
 
 past. — 
 John Phillips Benj°. Hewins & his wife. 
 
 Elijah Baker. 
 
 * Dr. Elijah Hewins. Surgeon in .Xrmy 1775-177Q 
 
The Number of those y' liave fallen into ... & made Confession.* 
 John HixsonJ"'". & his wife Benj°. Hewins & his Wife 
 
 Sarah Pay son 
 
 The Number of those y'. have dyed for the Six Years past. — 
 
 Mehitable Hixson John. — Richards 
 
 Edward Belcher Elijah — Capen 
 
 Eleazer Puffer Sam^^ Smith 
 
 Hannah Fuller & son Seth Preserved Belcher 
 
 W.~ Drake Sam" Curtis 
 
 Sarah Stone Noah Richard 
 
 Love Belcher [torn torn] 
 
 Josiah Blackman t T^. : Tupper t 
 
 Jeremiah. Richards Ab^ Wood t 
 
 [5] 
 For the Year 1748 • — 
 Baptisms 
 January. 24 Nat'^ Holmes [ $ J Sarah 
 February. 28. Tho^. Randall Samuell 
 March the 6. Jsaiah Tolman Mary. 
 March. 13. W™. Tolman. Mary 
 March 29. Jer: Gould Anna. 
 Aprill 3. Matthias Puffer Abigail 
 Aprill 10 Joseph Everet Elisabeth 
 Aprill 17 E: Pay sonJ*". Asa 
 May I. John Hixson Ju"". Mary 
 June 12. Job. Swifts Jirah & John Phillips Mary 
 September 18 W~. Whoods Benjamin 
 October t6 Sam" Cuming. Rebecca 
 November. 6 Jcabod Clark Sarah 
 Novem"". 20 Sam". Bird Sam". 
 Nov: 24. My third Child Hannah 
 
 Confessions 
 June 12. John Phillips & his wife made confession . . . 
 November 20. Sam" : Bird & his wife made confession . . . 
 
 Marriages 
 Sep'". I. I married Joseph Coney, & Sarah Savell 
 November i^*. I married Jonathan Billing Ju''. & Sarah Guild 
 
 Admitted into the Chh: 
 Aprill 17 Admitted Bathshaba Esty. — 
 June 12 Admitted John Philips & his wife 
 Nov: 20 Admitted Sam" Bird & wife. 
 
 * This entire paragraph has been blurred over with iiik, but is distinctly legible, 
 f These names are crowded into the margin. The name missing at the bottom of 
 the page probably began with S. 
 I Mary, crossed out. 
 
 8 
 
For the \'ear 1749 [6j 
 
 Baptisms 
 Jan: 15. John Haws John 
 March 5 E''. Hewins Ruth 
 March 26. Sam". Coneys Priscilla 
 Aprill 2. Ben: Hewins. Sarah 
 Aprill i6 John Drake child. John. 
 
 May 14 Clifford Belchers & W= Woods, both Joseph*. 
 May 28. Stephen Haws child Susannah 
 June II. Elijah. Capen child Elijah 
 August 6. Eben'". Stearns children Sarah & Joshua & Jacob Hewins 
 
 child Damaris 
 August 13. W™- Toleman's child Experience 
 August 16. John Whites. Jonathan 
 October i. Uriah Leonard child Hannah & 15 Elijah Baker child 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Marriages 
 January 26 I marryed Benj*^. Dean & Mary Witherton 
 March i I married Jacob Hewins & Damaris Bird 
 March 14. I married Abraham Prible & Elizabeth Roads. 
 March 30. J marryed Caleb. Johnson & Judith Tuckir. 
 June 13. I marryed Thomas Nason & Mary Campernall. 
 July 18. I marryed Sam". Roads & Mrs Thorp. 
 August 17. I marryed W™. Pitten * & Rebecah Covill. 
 
 Confessions 
 Jacob Hewins & his Wife made confession . . . July 2." 
 
 Deaths 
 May 17 T^ : Coney buried 
 
 May 18 Daniell Richards child hannah. was buried. 
 Aprill 16 The Widow Blackman was buried 
 August 17. John Whites child Jonathan was buried 
 October 19 Nath": Woodcock was buried & 20*''. Solomon Leonard. 
 
 Admitted into clih: 
 Benj°. - Drake Oct. 21 from Easton chh. 
 Nov: 19. Nat: Conev & wife admitted into chh. 
 
 [7] 
 For the Year 1750 
 
 Baptisms 
 Jan''''. 21 Nat: Holmes child 
 Feb : 4 : D" : Richards Child Hannah 
 
 Mar*^!": 4 Eb*": Capen & Lewis children Susannah & Mehitable 
 Aprill 15 Joseph Everet & Sam": Bird children Oliver. & John 
 Aprill 22 W"- Smith & Benj : Harlow children Jesse & Matthew 
 
 Hobbs 
 May 13 Pelatiah Esty* child Keziah 
 July I Jer : Gould child Jere^ : 
 
 * Or : Fitter. 
 
 9 
 
July 15 Matthias Puffer Jsaac 
 
 July 22 E. Pay son dau''. Anna 
 
 Aug: 19 my 4*'^ child Eliz : & John Hixsons Jacob 
 
 Sep*"- 16 Eb: Esty child Ebenezer 
 
 October 7. Stephen Hillers child. Eben'' : 
 
 Nov. II Job. Swifts Charity & Jcabod Clark. Samuell 
 
 Deaths 
 January i. day W. Tolmans child Mary 
 March 25 : Eb''. Capens child Susannnli 
 March 20. Benj". Esty 
 Ap. 29 Samuell Billings child Livit 
 May. I. Mrs. Esty 
 June 4 Ebe"': Billings child 
 Decern'": 10 Mat: Puffer^ Child 
 
 Marriages 
 May- 10. I marryed Lemuell Lyon of Walpole & Lydia Perry of 
 
 Stoughton And Obadiah Haws & Tabitha Richardson both of 
 
 Stoug : 
 Aug^ 2 I married Sam". Lovett & Mary Hewins 
 Octo: 18 I married John Holmes & Mehitable Hewins 
 Dec"-: 31. I mar: D " : Morse & Kizia Turner Elisha Morse & Jo- 
 
 hannah Rogers 
 
 Confessions 
 
 Admitted info Chh 
 March 25 Jane Phillips Admitted & was Bap*'. 
 September 16. Judith Johnson Admitted 
 
 [8] 
 For the Year 1731. — 
 
 Baptisms 
 January 20^''. Caleb Johnson child. Caleb. 
 Feb: 3. Nat: Coneys child Elizabeth 
 Feb: 17. W". Toleman child Elisabeth 
 Feb : 24. Sam'' : Cumings, Richard 
 March. 31. Clifford Belcher's Supply 
 Aprill 7. Jacob Hewins : Mary 
 Aprill 14. John Phillips John 
 Aprill 28. John Drakes. Mary 
 May 26. Elijah Baker. Abigail 
 
 June 20. W~. Wood Sarah. & Jonathan Willis*. Jonathan & Mary. 
 July 8. Stephen Haws children Jonathan & Johannah. — 
 Sep: I. Elijah Capen. Sarah 
 Sep: 15. Sam". Bird. Enoch 
 Sep : 22. Ebenezer Capen. Susannah 
 Sep: 29. Sa". Lovell. Mary 
 Nov : 3. W~" : Coney^. Oliver 8c Nathan Ruben Tupper child Anne 
 
 Deaths 
 Feb. 24 Cap^ Eben'': Billings Wife 
 March 17 Josh'': Johnson son 
 
 10 
 
May 14 John Hixson. — 
 July 23 Ebenezer Hewins 
 October 31. John Phillips 
 
 A'farriages 
 Aprill 3''. I married Nat'"'. Holmes jnn"". & Hannah Smith 
 Aprill 4<^. I Married Benj : Esty & lonnah Amsbury 
 June 3*^. I married Royall KoUock & Mary Randall 
 
 Ad*^: chh: 
 September 22. Mary Lovell was taken into the chh : 
 Nov"". 3 William Coney & his wife, made confession ... & The Same 
 
 day Shee was .Admitted into y^ Chh 
 
 [9] 
 
 For the \ ear 1752. 
 
 Baptisms 
 March i. Nathaniell Holms Mary 
 March 26. Jcabod Clark loshua 
 May 10. My Twins Mary & Snsannah & Stephen Hollons Child 
 
 Sarah 
 June 14. Benjamin Esty*" Child loannah 
 July 12 Ephr"*. Pay son**. Jun'". child Mary 
 Sam". Coney Child John 
 August 9*^ 
 
 Augitst 23 Benj ; Gannet Child. Hannah 
 
 October 4. Clifford Belcher's Mehitabel & \\'^. Toleman's Mary. 
 October 25 Job. Swift Unity. — 
 December 24 John Hixson's Hannah 
 
 Deaths 
 March 7 was buried Mary Belcher 
 Aprill 2 was buried Widow Rogers 
 Aprill 4 was buried Mrs. Harlow 
 Aprill 7 W.- Coney Child. Nathan 
 Aprill 18 W'idow Esty was buried 
 May 29 Mrs. Curtis * dyed 
 
 Marriages 
 January i. I married Aaron Guild & Sarah Coney 
 Aprill 2 t 
 
 Ad: into Chh: 
 August 23 Benjamin Gannet & his Wife was Admitted into the Chh : 
 Nov: 15 Elijah Baker & his wife was admitted into the Chh: 
 
 [ID] 
 
 For the Year 1753 
 Baptisms 
 Jan : 7. Jere*^ : Gould^. Priscilla 
 March 11. Royall Kollock Ebenezer 
 Aprill 15. Will~: Coney. Abigail 
 May 20. Elijah Bakers. Elijah 
 
 * Eliza Bass, wife of Rev. Philip Curtis, 
 t This date is crossed out. 
 
 II 
 
May 2"]. Eleazar Haws. William 
 
 June 3. Sam". Billings j"»". Levit. 
 
 June 10. Sam". Birds child. Elijah 
 
 June 24. Sam". Cumings child John & John Drakes child Archippus 
 
 July 8. Stephen Haws child Ann. 
 
 July 15. Jacob Hewins child Jacob. 
 
 August 21. Rubin Tuppers child. Remember. 
 
 Sep: 9. Natha": Coney child Mehitable & Matthias Puffers Child 
 
 Benjamin 
 October 8. Elijah Billings Elizabeth 
 Dec"": 9. Daniell Richards. Jeremiah 
 
 Deaths 
 Aprill 2&^. Mrs. Pierce was buried 
 Aprill 28. Jacob Esty® Negro child was buried 
 
 Marriages 
 Feb: 8 Benjamin Pitte & Hannah Morse was Married 
 October 25. I married Ezekiel Pierce & Rachel Copp: And Josiah 
 
 Wentworth & Hannah Pettingal 
 
 Ad: into Chh: 
 January y^^ Mary KoUock was taken into the Chh : 
 Aprill 15. Nathan Clark was Received into the Chh: from the i* 
 
 Chh: in this Town at Stoughton 
 September 23. Elisabeth Randal J'"". was taken into Chh : 
 
 [II] 
 For the Year 1754 
 
 Baptisms 
 March 24 Nat: Holmes Child Benjamin 
 
 Aprill 21, Eben''. Stearns Child. Abigail. & M"". Savage Child. Nathan 
 Aprill 28 Benj : Estys Child Patience 
 June 16. Sam" Coneys child Jacob. & Ephraim Payson's child 
 
 Ephraim. 
 June 30. W": Tolman^ Child Samuel 
 July I. Benj°. Gannets child Benjamin. 
 July 14. Sam": Lovel Child Joseph 
 July 21. Jonathan Willis - Child. Rebecca 
 Sep"": I Job Swift child Philip & Pelatiah Esty child Samuell 
 Sep'': 8 Sami: Birds Child Anna 
 Nov : 24. Ebe*"- Capen. Sam". 
 
 Deaths 
 April 29 Stephen Hollands Infant Child was buried 
 July 19 Sam". Coney's Child was buried 
 Octo. 17. Job Swift's Child Philip was buried 
 Nov: 13 Job Swifts Child Charity was buried 
 
 Marriages 
 March. 7 I married Edward Bullard & Abigail Coney. 
 Aug: 13 I married Simeon Tupper & Anna Capen 
 
 Ad: into Chh: — 
 March 10. Hannah Everet was Admitted into the Chh: 
 March 31. Susannah Swift was Admitted into the Chh 
 
 12 
 
June i6. Elisabeth Wood was Admitted into the Chh : 
 October 27. Edward Bollard & wife made confession ... & owned 
 the Covenant 
 
 [12] 
 I'or the Year 1755. 
 Baptisms 
 
 January 13 Elijah Baker Child Mary 
 
 January 20. Royall KoUock Child Cornelius 
 
 April 13. John Comey Child Jerusha 
 
 May 18. Stephen Hawse & Simion Tupper Children. Patience & John 
 
 June 8. Simeon Tupper & John Sumner Children Elisabeth & Wil- 
 liam 
 
 June 22. Jacob Hewins' Child Sarah 
 
 June 29. John Draks Twins Will-. & Joanna John Hixsons Child. 
 Mehitable 
 
 July 3. Stephen Hollans child Huldah 
 
 July 20. Jere*'. Gould'^ Child Ezra. 
 
 August 10 my Son Philip was baptised 
 
 August 24. Lieu^ Billings Child. Jacob. 
 
 Nov : 9. Sam" : Cony Child Susannah. 
 
 Deaths 
 Feb. 19 Peletiah Esty Child was buried. 
 Feb. 20. Eb'". Billing Child was buried 
 Feb. 25 Elder Hewins was buried 
 March 18. John Whites Son Simeon was buried 
 April 13 W.- Whood Child was buried 
 April 18. John White oldest dau was buried 
 May 3 Widow Hewins was buried. — 
 May 12 John White Son Levi was buried. — 
 June 6 Mrs Gilbirt was buried 
 June 8 W™- Tolman Child was buried 
 June 29. Massah Gilbert was buried. — 
 July 5. Mrs. Tolman was buried 
 July 18. Eben : Capen's Son, was buried. 
 
 Marriages 
 March 13. I married, John Johnson & Sarah Swift 
 April 30 I married George Forrest, & Esther Nichols 
 Decem'": 8 I married Sam'. Stacey & Elis'^''. Woods 
 
 Ad: into Chh. 
 May 18. Simeon Tupper & wife made confession ... & owned the 
 
 Covenant, & He was admitted into the Chh : 
 June 8*'' Margret Payson & Hannah Sumner were Admitted into 
 
 the Chh. — 
 
 [13] 
 For the Year 1756 
 Baptisms 
 January 25 Mr. Guild"*' Children. Lois & Moses. 
 March 7. M"". Ephraim Payson jur. Child Judith 
 
 13 
 
March 21. Sam' Birds Child EHsabeth & Benj". Hewins Child Me- 
 
 hitable 
 April 4.^'' Sam'. Cumings Child Joseph 
 May 2 Nat : Holmes Child Ann 
 August 29 Da". Richard Child Anna & Solomon Gilberts Child 
 
 Solomon 
 September 12 Jsaac Johnson Child Benjamin 
 October 3 Stephen Holland's Child. MarA\ 
 November 30 Jcabod Clark's Child. Elisabeth 
 
 Deaths 
 Jan: 15 Simeon Tupper Child burycd. 
 May 16 Widow Haws dyed- 
 May 22 Lieu'^. Holms wife was buried 
 August 20. Sarah Belcher was buried 
 
 Marriages 
 August 19. I married Seth Pierce & Angelot Clark 
 November 25. I married D°. Bedlow & Hannali Belcher 
 
 Ad: into Chh : 
 January 25 Moses Guild & his wife Admitted into the Chh. 
 August I Lydia Gilbert was Admitted into the Chh. 
 Sep*". 12. Hannah Johnson's [ * ] owned the Covenant. 
 October 31. Martha White Benj": Savel j"'. & his wife & Hannah 
 
 Belcher Admitted into the Chh : 
 
 [14] 
 For the Year 1757 
 
 Baptisms 
 Sam^ Lovel^ Child Ebenezer January 2. 
 My Son Oliver January 30 
 March 13. Elijah Baker Child Susannah & Simeon '["upper's Child 
 
 Thomas. 
 April 24- Isaac Johnson** Child Ruth. 
 
 May 23. Elijah Capen's Child Sam': & Benj°. Savels Child Hannah. 
 July ID. Mr. Gannet Child. Benjmin. t 
 July 24. M"" Comey's Child Oliver 
 August 7. M^ John Hixson's Child, Joseph. 
 Sep: 4. M^ Sam'. Cumings •'"'■. Child Elisabeth 
 Sep': 18 M'". Jacob Hewins Child Hannah 
 Sep*-. 25. M"-. Jacob Esty ■^"°. Child Jacob 
 October 17. M*". Benj^. E.sty Child tjnity. 
 December 25 Stephen Haws child Stephen 
 Dec: II John .Sumners Child Hepzibah 
 
 Deaths 
 Benj". Gannets Son Benj°. Febr. 7 
 March. 7 Two Children of the Morses 
 October 13 M'". Jer: Belcher's Jnfant Child was buried 
 
 * The word wife has been blotted out. 
 
 j Benj. Gannet who married Deborah .Sampson the Revolutionary Heroine. 
 
 14 
 
Marriages 
 October 6. I married David Man & Anna Randal 
 Nov: 17 I married Zebulon Holmes & Abigail Savel 
 Nov. 24 I married Nat : Clark & Mary * Coney. — 
 November 29. I married Edward - Bridge Savel t & Mary Richard.s 
 December 22. I married William Billing & Sarah Xason 
 
 Add: into Chh: 
 July 10. Admitted Sam'. Cumings Jur. & his wife 
 September 25 Admitted lacob Esty '""''. & his wife 
 
 [15] 
 Tor the 'i ear 1758. — 
 Baptisms 
 Feb: 12. Sam^: Coney ''^. Child Jacob. 
 Feb: 26. J baptised Moses Guild Child. Abnah. 
 May 17 I baptised M''. Gould Child Zeppurah 
 April 4. Isaac Johnsons Child Hannah. 
 Jcabod Clark Child Eben''. July 5. 
 July 9. Nathaniel Holmes Child Stephen 
 August 13. Stephen Holland's Child Massa 
 August 27. Ephraim Pay son Child Samuell 
 Sep*". 17. John Johnson Children Joshua & Benjamin. 
 Nov : 5. Edward bridge Savil Child William 
 December: 3 My Son Edward was baptised. 
 December 31. David Richards Son Elijah. 
 
 Deaths 
 January 30 Pelatiah Whittemore was buried 
 Feb: i Solomon Gilbert Child was buried 
 June 12 Eben''. Billings Child was buried 
 October latter end Cap*^ Eb'". Billings was buried 
 December 4. Tim: Morse Child was buried 
 
 Marriages 
 February 9. I married Ezekiel Peirce & Patience Copp. — 
 March 30 I married Nat : Morse & Susannah Bacon 
 August 24 — I Married Comfort Why ton & Grace M^-Faden 
 Nov : 14 I married W". Richards & On : Cummings 
 
 Add: Chh: 
 June II. Admitted Jeremiah Belcher Ju"'. & wife 
 August 27. Elisabeth Hixson was Admitted into the Chh : 
 November 5 t Edward Bridge Savel & his wife made Confession . . . 
 
 & Owned the Covenant 
 Nov: 12. Elisabeth Capen made Confesion ... &- owned the 
 
 Covenant. 
 
 * Written over Sarah. 
 
 t Edward Bridge Savel was Captain of the ist Company of Stoughtonham Militia, 
 under Colonel Robinson. They marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. He was 
 captain of other companies, serving seven years. 
 
 I This figure has been marked over. It may be a 6. 
 
 15 
 
[i6] 
 For the Year 1759 
 
 Baptistns 
 January. 7^1 Nat'. Clark ■'"°'- Child. Mary 
 Feb: 4. W.- Billings Child- Oliver 
 Feb: 11. Jacob Esty's Child Oliver 
 March 4. Elisabeth Capin's child Unis 
 March* 8. VV". Savage Child Jesse. & Elijah Baker's child Me- 
 
 hitable 
 April 15. Benj" Savil child Sarah. 
 
 May II. I baptised Reuben Tuppers children Abigail & Reuben 
 Aug. 5. Benj. White Children baptised. Mehitable, Mary & Moses. 
 Sep: 23. Cap^ Sam'. Billings Spencer & Simeon Tapper'^. Elisabeth 
 Sep"". 30. Benj. Gannits Joseph & M'". Belchers Sarah. 
 Dec: 30. John Hixsons Child Jeremi. 
 Octo: 14. Moses Guild Samuel 
 
 Nov: 18. Royall Kollock Mary & Sol: Gilbert^ Eben'. 
 Nov. 25. Jacob. Hewins Child John 
 
 Deaths 
 Feb. 22 M'^ Whittimore was buried 
 May 7. Josiah Morse Child buried 
 May 12 Ezekiel Pierce's wife was buried 
 May 21 Joseph Ingraham** Child buried 
 Elisabeth Capen's Child buried 
 Ezekiel Peirce 
 
 Marriages 
 January 4 I married Nat: Capen & Susanna Swift. — 
 June 26 I Married Jsaiah Tolman, & Margaret Robins 
 July ^^^ I married Lieu*^. Timothy Bacon of Natick & Sarah White 
 
 Widow of Stoughton And Joshua Whittemore & Susannah Pay 
 
 son. 
 Nov. 27. I married W.~ Hewins & Ruth Cumings 
 Nov : 29. I Mar''. Josiah Blackman & Experience Fuller. 
 December, I married Thomas Manley & Experience Swift. 
 
 Add: Chh: 
 Jan-^'. 7. Nat : Clark & his wife Addmitted into y*" Chh : 
 February. 4 W."^ Richards Ju"". & his wife Sarah Billing wife of W.~ 
 
 Billings, & Daniel Bacon Admitted into the Chh : — 
 March 18 Judith Payson Addmitted into the Chh. 
 Aug: 5. Benjamin White & wife Ad: into the Chh: 
 Sep : 9 SuSannah Whittemore Admitted into y*" Chh 
 Oct 28- Experience Fuller Admitted into the Chh : 
 
 [I/] 
 For the Year 1760. — 
 
 Baptisms 
 January 2y. juditli Jngrahani 
 Feb: 3. W^. Tolman, child. Daniell. &- W-. Richards child Ann. 
 
 * Written over -il^ril. 
 
 16 
 
Feb: lo. Nat: Capen^ Child Ebenezer 
 Feb. 24. John Rhodes. Zebulon 
 April 26. John Drakes Zalpha 
 June 8. Jeremiah Gould Seth 
 July 6 Natha'. Holms. Abagail 
 July 13. Joshua VVhittemore Sam' : 
 July 20. Benj". Hewins. Experience 
 August ID. Edward Savil Child Mary 
 Aug*. 24. Josiah Blackman Children Josiah & Experience 
 * 
 
 Sep: 7. M"". Comey'^. Spencer 
 Oc : 5. Benj : Esty's Child Job. 
 
 Oc: 12. Sam: Rhodes children [torn] m*. Adam. A[bi]gail & Elisa- 
 beth 
 John Holms Twins Kesiah, & Hannah 
 Nov : 23 Job : Rhodes Joshua 
 Nov: 28 John Johnson Child Lydia 
 
 Deaths 
 April I Cap*. John son Was buried 
 April 6 W-'^. Warrin was buried 
 May 6 M"". Deberiks buried 
 June. 4 M"^. Boyden 
 June 28 Elisabeth Capen Buried 
 July 25 M"^ Ingraham buried 
 Nov: 28 M™ Capen buried 
 
 Marriages 
 Feb: 7. I Married Benjamin Carril & Judith Ingram 
 March 6. I married Sam^ Payson t & Sarah Noys. — 
 March 27 J married Elisabeth Savel & Ensign Robins 
 June 26. I Married Joseph white & Sarah Drake 
 July 3. I married Sam'. Lovel & Mary Smith. 
 August 5 J married Nathan Clark & Hannah Everet. 
 October 2. J Married Elijah Hawse & Abigail Everet. — 
 
 Ad — Clth: 
 Judith Jngraham. Ad: into Chh: Jan>'. 27. 
 Josiah Blackman Add: into Chh: 
 Feb the 24 
 
 October 12 Abigail Rhodes Admitted into Chh: 
 December 21. John Everet made Confession ... & was Admitted 
 
 into Chh 
 
 For the Year 1761 
 Baptisms 
 March 15: Solomon Gilbert's Child Lydia. 
 March 21. Sam Coney Child David 
 
 * Sep: 7. Joseph Rhodes Spencer. [This entry has been ruled out.] 
 I Captain Stoughtonhain Company 1775. 
 
 17 
 
 [18] 
 
March 22 Nat. Capeii"s Child. Elisabeth 
 
 March 29. [ * ] Ephraim Payson : Susannah 
 
 April 5. Zehulon Hohnes Children. Zebulon & Abigail 
 
 Aprill 19. Eh'' Billings Child Hepzihah & Widow Lewis Child Ben- 
 jamin. 
 
 Aprill 26. Sam'. Payson Child Sanniell 
 
 May. 17. Sam'. Bird^ Child Ebenezer. 
 
 June 20. \V"'. Coney's Children Wille & Molle 
 
 July 4. Jer: Belcher jun''. Amey & Ben. SaveP. Oliver 
 
 July 20. Jacob Johnson. Oliver 
 
 Sep: 6. Jacob Esty J'". [torn]anuiel & | t ] [tornjoses Guild Luce. 
 
 Aug* 30 W.~ Richards Jeremiah 
 
 Sep: 20 Jsraell Smith:!: Child Jsraell 
 
 Nov: 8 Elij. Hawse Child Cloe 
 
 Nov: 29. John Sumners Child John 
 
 Sam: Cumings Child. Sam^. 
 
 Nat: Clarks Child Elisabeth 
 Deaths 
 
 March 21. Sam': Coney* Child David Dyed 
 
 May 12 Solomon Gilbert's Child dyed Lydia 
 
 May 29 M''. Noise buried.. 
 
 Sep: [blot]. M'' Payson buried 
 
 Sep: 15 James Field buried 
 
 December 15. Sol: Gilbert Child buried. 
 Marriages 
 
 January 8 J married Seth Boyden & Mary Patten 
 
 January 29 I married John Oliver & Huldah Rhodes 
 
 Feb : 5. I Married Ezekiel Pierce & Phebe Farrington 
 
 Feb: 16. I Married John Forrest & Susannah Perry 
 
 Aprill 16 I married Jonathan Belcher & Sarah Richards 
 
 Nov: 12. T married Tho"-: Whitney & Mehitable Bacon. 
 Add: CItli. 
 
 March 28 Abigail Holmes Ad: into the Chh 
 
 April 26. Sani^ : Pay son Admitted into the Chh 
 
 June 6. Sarah Payson wife of Sam'. Pay son Admitted into Chh 
 
 July 20 Eben'. Hewins. Tacob Johnson & wife Admitt : into Chh. 
 
 Sep^ 6. Elijah Hawse & wife Ad: into y*'. Chh. 
 
 Nov: 13. The wiie of John Everet was Ad. into. Chh: 
 
 For the "W'ar 1762. 
 Baptisms 
 Feb; 28 E''. Hewins Child Mihitable 
 March 28 Royall Kollock Child Zeruiah 
 April 18. Jsaac Johnson Child Obed. 
 June 20 Bcnj". Billings Child. Beniamin 
 
 ' Solon. Gilbert's fblotted out.l 
 
 I W. Wlioofl (blotted out.l 
 
 i Captain of .Mann Co. .\]pr. tq, 1775. 
 
 18 
 
 [19] 
 
June 2"/ Joshua WhitteniDrc Joshua 
 July 18. Nat. Morse Child Nalhaniell 
 Aug: 15. John Hixson, Child Olive & Elijah Baker Child Mary, 
 
 Anna 
 Aug: 29 My Child Calvin; Gannets Jonathan Z: Holms Olive. 
 Octo: 16. John Comey. Abigail & Nathan Clark Etheridge 
 Nov : 13. W~. Coney, Priscilla 
 December 5 |worn|t Morey 
 
 Deaths 
 Jan-^. 14 M'-. Hobbs Buried 
 March 9. M''. Harlow Child Buried 
 June 2 VV" Billing Child Oliver was buried 
 May 25 John Sumncrs Child was buried 
 Sep''. 4 Ezikiel Peirce Child was buried 
 Nov : 22 M''*'. Whittimore buried 
 December 3. Nat : Morse Child buried 
 
 Marriages. 
 January. 14 J Married W". Marshall & Phebe Wclmau 
 October 7 I married Solomon Coming & Rebeccah Coney. 
 October 19 J married Philip Withington & Rebccah Fuller 
 Nov: 8. I Married Thomas Nason & Jemima Clark. 
 December 2 J married Sam'. Holmes & Susannah Cumings. 
 December 28. I married John Estv & Abigail Gould. 
 
 Add. Chh :' 
 June 20. Benj". Billings & wife made Confession ... & & Admitted 
 
 into the Chh : 
 Nov: 13. Jon"* : Belcher & wife Ad: into Chh: 
 
 [20] 
 
 For the Year 1763- 
 
 Baptisuis 
 Sam : Payson Child John. 
 
 March 13. Na*^- Capen Child Susanna &• Jonathan Belchers Olive 
 March 20. John Johnson Child John. 
 March : David Fisher Children David Moses & Aaron- 
 April 3. fere''. Belcher jun^ Child Edward. 
 April. E^. Bridge Save! child Olive 
 May I. Sam'. Bird. Oliver 
 May 30. Tho : Fisher : Mary 
 June 12. Jacob Hewins. Joseph 
 
 June 19. W~. Richards Jun''. William & John Sumner Child Jsese 
 July 17. D"'. Hewins Child, Catherine 
 
 Aug 7. Moses Guild. George Jacob Esty. Child Mehitable. 
 Sep'": 12. Benj". Savel Child Renjannin. Elijah Hawse Elijah John 
 
 Holmes Keziah 
 Sep'': 19 Eben''. — Billing Child Jonas. 
 Octo : 9. Joseph Rhodes Child A.sa. 
 Octo : 30. Isaac Johnson Child Josiah 
 December 25. Jacob Johnsons Child Jacob. 
 
 19 
 
Deaths 
 March Ruso French man 
 April 5. M'". Gilbert 
 August 3 Cap*. Tolenian was buried 
 Decern'": 5. Jere: Belchers Child Buried 
 
 Marriages 
 Aprill 19 J married John Coney & Kesia Holmes 
 Aprill 22 Nat. Fisher & Hannah Baker. — 
 May 5- I Married W~": Withinton & Elisabeth Richards. 
 Octo: 13. I Mar: W"~. Bacon & Kizia Gould 
 Nov: 29. Binjamin Richards & Mary Belcher. — 
 
 Add: into Chh: 
 May 12. Add: into the Chh: Damaris Capen 
 July 17. Add: D'". Hewins & his Wife. 
 October 9 Admitted into Chh : Rebecah Cumings 
 October 30. Admitted into Chh ; Sarah Hewins 
 
 [21] 
 For the Year 1764. 
 
 Baptisms 
 Feb: 19. Israeli Smith Child Levi 
 March 11. Philip Withinton Child Rebeccah 
 March 18. Silas Morse. Child Silas 
 
 Aprill I. Eb"". Hewins. Susannah & Benj". Billings Sarah. 
 April 8. Sam^: Holmes Child. Sam^: 
 April 15. Nat: Clark'« Child Abigail 
 April 29. John Esty Child John 
 May 8. John Coney Child Sarah. 
 May 12. M"". Gay Children Abigail & Louis 
 May 20. John Everet Child Susannah. & W". Withinton Child 
 
 William 
 May 28. Nat : Kingsbury Child Oliver 
 June 10. M"". Whittemore Child Susannah. — 
 July 29. Royal! Kollock Child Thomas. 
 Sep"-. 9 Benj°. White Child. Saml 
 Oct: 29. Sam^ Holmes Child Elijah. 
 
 Deaths 
 March 25 Philip Withinton Child Rebeccah was buried 
 May 9*'' Zebulon Holms Child was buried 
 May 19 Elisabeth Esty was buried. 
 May 24 Benj°. Billings wife was Buried 
 July I. Daniel Bacon buried 
 July 8 Nat : Capen Child buried 
 July 13 Sam: Bird Child buried 
 W: Billings Child buried Aug: 23 
 E: Baker October 15 
 Nov: 10: Eb"". Esty's wife 
 
 Marriages 
 January 11 J Married Jonathan Clark & Mary Ingram 
 
 20 
 
January 20 J Marryed Eleazer Blackman & Mary Tupper 
 Feb: 7. J Married Jacob Hawse & Elisabeth Hewins. — 
 Aug*. 9- J married Nehemiah Clark & Judith Pay son 
 Sep"". 27. J married Noah Woodward & Mary Fuller 
 Octo. 4 I married Jacob Gould & Unity Holmes 
 Octo 24. I Married Micah Allen & Catherine Everet 
 Nov: 7 Mat Puffer & Olive Bo [den] 
 
 Add: Chh: 
 January 15 Philip Withinton & his Wife Ad: into Chh: 
 March 11. Wife of Silas Morse Add. into Chh: 
 March 18 Add. Jo: Jngraham 
 
 April 8. — Ad: Sam': Holmes & wife & William Withinton & his wife 
 Aprill 29. Ad: John Esty & Wife & Abigail Gay. 
 May 8. Add : John Coney & his wife 
 May ID. Add. Hannah Kingsbury. 
 July 8. Mary Savell Add : 
 July 29. Deliverance Morse was Add : 
 
 [22] 
 For the Year 1765 
 Baptisms 
 Feb: 11. P: Witthington: Hannah 
 Feb: 17. John Johnson Mary 
 March 10. Sam' Payson'^ Sarah 
 Joseph Morse'^ Child Charlotte & Na*. Morses Child Hannah. March 
 
 17- 
 March 21. Jer. Belchers. Susannah 
 April 14. Josiah Blackman. Mary 
 May 5. E. Baker Child. John. & D''. Hewins^. Mary 
 May 25. Sam': Bird Child. Mary 
 
 June 2. W~. Richard Child. John. & Nehemiah Clark'" Olive 
 June 23. Zebulon Holmes Child Olive 
 July 21. Benj. Richard Child Mary 
 July 28. John Drake's Child Andrew. 
 Aug: II. Benj: Savel Child. John. 
 Sepf. 8. Edward Savil Child Edward 
 [worn]"". 16. John Coney Child Ellenor. 
 June John Holmes Child Enoch 
 Decern: 29 John Esty Child Elisabeth 
 Nov. 17 Tho^ Fisher Child Lucee 
 Dec: I Benj. Gannet Mary. 
 Gill Morse Esrom 
 Micah Allen Micah 
 E. Blackman Submitt. 
 
 Deaths 
 Jan: 6. M"". Allins Child buried 
 June II. Mr Nehemiah Clark Child Buried 
 June 24: D"". Hewins Child buried 
 June 25. Nat: Capen was buried 
 
 21 
 
Marriages 
 
 Alarch 28 I niarrieu John Dunbar & Esther Pioyden 
 
 & Jacob Boyden &: Sarah Patten 
 
 April 16 J Married Gay & Mary Esty. — 
 
 April. 25. J married James Field & Mary Wood Cock 
 
 May 7. I married Ezra Marsh & Susannah Guild 
 
 Aug: 30 I marryed Consider Osyer & Deliverance Rhoads. . 
 
 Dec''. 19 I Marryed David White & Louis Morse And Daniel Rich- 
 ards & Ann Coney 
 Add: Chh 
 
 March 31 Admitted into y'' Chh Benjam": Richards & his Wife 
 
 Aug^ later End The Widow Noise Received f- the Chh of Taunton 
 
 Nov 12 Ad: Mary Tupper 
 
 Decem: 1 Micah Allen & his Wife Admitted into the Chh. 
 
 i:-'3] 
 
 For the Year 1766. 
 Baf'tisms 
 
 Jan''. 26. E'". Capen Child Nathaniel 
 
 Feb: 24. Nathan Clark'*. Thacher 
 
 March 30. Joshua Whittemore Child Joseph : W^. Withinton : Na- 
 thaniell 
 
 April: 6. Sol: Gilbert. Child Ruth & \\ \ Billings Jun'.* Child. 
 William 
 
 Aprill 13. John Everet"* Elisabeth 
 
 May 28 Jacob Esty'*^ Samuell & E''. Billings Mary 
 
 June 3 Lev*. Guild [ t ] Nath". Joseph Rhodes Drucilla & M''. 
 Fairbanks. Benj". 
 
 July 27. Jacob Johnson : David 
 
 Aug: 3. Ruben Tupper Thomas 
 
 Sep: I D"*. Hewins Child Mary. 
 
 Sep: 15. J. Sumner Hanah. J. Coney Eunice. Royall Kollock Elisa- 
 beth J. Johnson. Abigail. — 
 
 Sep: 21. Jo: Morse Javin. Ne: Clark .\sa. Nat: Morse Lucee. ■ — 
 
 Sep : 28 E. Hewins Child Flannah 
 
 Oct: 10 Moses Guild. Charles 
 
 Nov : 30 Jer : Belcher Elisabeth 
 
 Decem''. 15 Sam': Holmes Child Susannah 
 
 D--. 28. Ben. Richard Child Elisabeth 
 Deaths 
 
 March 28 Josiah Morses Wife buried 
 
 May 20. Micah Allen Child buried 
 
 June 17. Nathan Clarks Child buried 
 
 June 22. Nathaniel Clarks Child buried 
 
 Aug: 4. Ruben Tupper Thomas Child buried 
 
 De : 8 John Smith Ju" & Child buried 
 
 D''. Cap' [stained] Child & Job [ rj: ] child buried 
 
 * Capt. William Billings under Cnl. Gill. Feb. i6. 1779. 
 
 t Drucilla [ruled out. | 
 
 I .'^ta^ned. Probably Tiipl'cr. 
 
 22 
 
Marriages 
 Aprill 3 J married Benj". Jngrahani & Abigail Ivhods 
 Aprill I J J Marryed Jacob Leonard & Molly llillings 
 Aprill 23 J married Joseph Evens & Amey Payson 
 Aprill 30 I married Elkanah Hixson & Hannah Hew ins 
 Aug*^. . 7 Married Ezekiel Capen & Mary Cumniings 
 Oc. 30 I marryed Sam'. Hixson & Hannah Harlow 
 Nov: 3 I married Henry Payson & Mary Johnson And \V . Price & 
 
 Susannah Capen 
 D'". 18 I marr^'ed Enoch llewins & Sarah Hewins 
 
 Add: Chh: 
 Feb 24. Add: W~. Hewins Wife 
 Aprill 6 W-. Billings & Wife Ad : into Chh : 
 May 12 Add M^-" Fairbanks 
 
 June 16 Deacon Fuller's Wife Add: f- Dorchester Chh. 
 1)''. 15 Susannah Price made Confession ... & the Chh manifested 
 
 y''. forgivness. — 
 
 [24] 
 I "or tli.c I Year 1767] 
 Baptisms 
 
 Feby 15. P. Withertons Child Philip 
 
 Feb: 22. Ruth Tisdall was Baptised 
 
 March i. D". Richards Ju''. Child Ba])tised. Edward. • 
 
 March 15. Sam'. Payson Child Meletiaii. 
 
 March 22. Micah Allen Child Catherine 
 
 April 5. Sol: Gays Child Joell. — 
 
 April. 19. Sam'. Bird'" Child Sarah; Jacob Hawse Jacob & Eze : 
 Capen : Ezekiel. 
 
 April 25. John Johnson : Job. 
 
 May 3. Wi : Price Nancy 8i Jsraell Smiths Joel 
 
 Alay 26. Gilead Morse : Gilead 
 
 June 21. W~. Richard: Sarah 
 
 July 5. Oliver [blot] Children Huldah. Mary. Susannah 
 
 .A^nd Jo: Belcher's Hannah 
 
 Sep'". 14. W~^. Billings Child. C'liver 
 
 Sep''. 27. Na^ : Kingsbury Child Hannah: Rcnjamin Fairbanks Jere- 
 miah Mat: Puffer^ John & Olive 
 
 Nov : 8. Bap : Zeb : Holmes Child. Jesse. — 
 
 Nov: 15. Lem: Fuller's Child Jeremiah. 
 
 December 27. I Baptised Henry Payson''' Child. Patience- 
 Dcaths 
 
 Aprill 30 was Buried Stephen Holland. 
 
 Aug-*. 23. Eliz. Tolman Buried 
 
 Dec : 2. lohn Smith was buried 
 
 * Children Baptised to End of this Year 441. 
 Deaths in the Same time 117 in Number. 
 
 " Tliis item was written lengthways of the pasre. 
 
 ^3 
 
[25] 
 
 Marriages 
 January. 12. J Married Uriah Atherton * & Mary Savage: So Called. 
 
 1 
 
 March 12. I Married Lem: Fuller & Ruth Tisdall 
 
 * 
 April. 30 J Married Edmund Quincy t & Hannah Gannet 
 June 25. I Married Nath : Coney -^"r & Mary Clark. 
 July 9. I Married W~. Ornisbey & Jane Ripley 
 Aug'. 28. I Married Daniel Allen & Sarah Baker 
 Dece*": 2. I niarryed Richard Hixson-^"". & Mary Stickney 
 
 Add: into Chh: 
 Feb: 8. Daniel Richard Ju"". & wife Add: into Chh: 
 Feb. 22. Ruth Tisdall Ad: into the Chh: 
 March 15. Ad. Ezekiel Capen & his Wife 
 March 30. Ad: Mary Atherton. 
 April 19. Ad : Jacob Hawse & his wife. 
 May. 3. Ad Rebecah Tupper. 
 July 5. Ad: Huldah Oliver 
 Sep*". 21. Ad. Matthias Puffer Ju"-. & his Wife 
 Oct: II. Ad. Mary Johnson 
 
 [26] 
 For the [Year 1768] 
 
 Baptisms 
 Feb: John Oliver Child John 
 March 13. W". Coney^., Child Daniel. Benj : Hewins Child David. 
 
 Nathan Clark's Child Etheridge. Benj: Richard. Binjamin. — 
 
 Jacob Haws Child Sarah. 
 March 27. W". Witherton Child Name Elisabeth. 
 April 3 Jsaac Johnson Child Daniel. 
 
 •Superintendent of the StoughtDnham forge for the manufacture of cannon for 
 the Revolutionary War. 
 
 f Here the baptisms of Ruth Tisdall, Edward Richards and Meletiah Puffer were 
 entered and crossed out. 
 
 J Edmund Quincy V., oldest son of Edmund Quincy IV. of Braintree and Boston 
 and his wife Elizabeth, (Wendell), was born in Boston Apr. 15, 1725. His sister 
 Dorothy was the wife of Gov. John Hancock. Hannah Gannet, dau. of Benjamin 
 and Mary (Copeland) Gannet, was the third wife of Edmund Quincy V. About the 
 time of his marriage to her, he bought a farm of 150 acres in Stoughtonham (now 
 Sharon). On June 6, 1770, in company with Col. Richard Gridley and Joseph Jack- 
 son, he purchased 450 acres, including Massapoag Pond, for the purpose of extract- 
 ing iron ore for the manufacture of war supplies. They bought a furnace, partially 
 drained the pond, built roads, dug and prepared the ore, and had the product in 
 readiness to supply the Committee of Safety, who on Jan. 24, 1774, ordered cannon, 
 ball and shot, in certain quantities, to be carried to storehouses in Worcester, Sud- 
 bury, etc. From these stations, supplies were distributed to the colonists, who were 
 thus made ready for the Lexington alarm and the raids that were to follow. Mor- 
 tars also were made and tested at the Pond, sent in to Roxbury, and used for the 
 fortification of Dorchester Heights. 
 
 The part thus played in Colonial History by Edmund Quincy \'. was no less im- 
 portant than that of his brother-in-law, John Hancock, the Governor-to-be, and their 
 friend Samuel Adams, whose names, however, are better known to posterity. 
 
 24 
 
April II. Benj : White. Bulah 
 
 May I. Atherton Child .Susannah 
 
 May 22. Ed. Savil Child Elisabith 
 
 May 27. Elijah Baker James 
 
 June 5. Elk: Hixson. Hannah 
 
 Jun. 12. M"". Raynolds Benj : 
 
 July 31. Benj : Savil. Susannah. 
 
 August 14. Moses Guild Nat' 
 
 Aug*^. 21. Sol: Gay*. David 
 
 Sep. 4. Benj. Billings James Eleazer Blackman: Philip Nehe'^. Clark. 
 
 Elkanah 
 Sep"". II. W~. Hewens Ruth, William, Eben"". Amasa & Rebeccah 
 Sep*". 2. Was Baptised My Son Francis & Lemuel Hixsons Child 
 
 Lucee 
 Oct. 15. R. Kollocks. Esther Nat. Morse's Nancey Henry Payson- 
 
 Mary 
 October 23. John Hixsons Eunice & Gate 
 De"": Sam': Hixson Child Cloee * 
 
 Deaths 
 April 19 M" Payson was Buried 
 June 8. John Everets Child 
 Nov*". M" Tupper 
 
 [27] 
 
 Marriages 
 March 29. I Married Josiah Morse & Dority Wood. — 
 March 31. I Married Benj : Bats & Abigail Billings. 
 Aug: 25 I Married Zephiniah Wood & Mary Lyon 
 Sep"". 14. Married Job Swift & Rebeccah Cummins 
 
 Ad: into Chh: 
 May 22. Ad: into Chh: Hannah Hixson & Catharine Raynolds 
 December. 10. Ad: Sam': Hixson 
 
 [28] 
 For the [Year 1769] 
 
 Baptistns 
 Jan: i. Sam': Hixson^. Cloe 
 Jan. 29. Jer : Belcher's Child Andrew. John Johnson^ Child Dina. 
 
 Gilead Morses John 
 March 19. Sam' Hixs: Zilpah 
 March 26. Jos : Morse. Joseph 
 April 2. W— . Richards Jun"". Child Susannah & P: Witherton. Eben- 
 
 ezer 
 April 9. Sylvanus Clark Oliver 
 
 April 23. Micah Allin's Child Name. Micah Sam'. Payson'" Unice 
 May 8. D"". Hewins Sam' : 
 May 13. J". Belchers Mary. 
 May 20. Lem. Fuller^. Eben"". 
 May 27. Nat : Clark. Hosea 
 June 4. Dan : Richards Jabez. 
 
 • This item has been crossed out. 
 
 25 
 
June 17. W". Billing'^ Joseph 
 
 July 9. D" Birds Hannah 
 
 July 9. Jos : Black". Adam 
 
 Aug. 13. John Coneys Elijah. 
 
 Aug. 27. E. Hewins Marcy & Elij. Hawse Silence 
 
 Sep: 25. W-. Price. Susannah. - 
 
 Nov : 6. T^ Fisher Child Ezra. 
 
 D'-. 3. Sil : Clark Mille 
 
 IX 10 W: Billing Raihell 
 
 Deaths 
 Jan>'. 6 M'« Payson Buried 
 Jan^'. 18. Solomon Willis Child buried 
 Feb^. 18. The Widow Randal Was buried 
 April 12. M'' Eben''. Esty buried 
 April 15. Marg. Esty buried 
 April 29. Sam. Holms Child buried 
 May 8. M'' Stearns buried 
 May 18 Jo. Clark Child buried 
 June 29. Damaris Capen Buried 
 July 3. D°. Bird Twin Child buried 
 Sep''. 24. M'-'^ Capen buried 
 Oct: ID Elijah Haws buried 
 No: 6. Widow Hixs : Buried 
 Nov: 12. The Widow Hawse Child Elij- buried 
 Decem''. 28 M'-r Ruso : 
 
 [29I 
 Marriages 
 
 June 14. J Married Joshua Swift & Mary Hewins 
 
 July 31. I Married Jira Swift & Waitstill Lyon 
 
 December 14. I Married Solomon Esty & Hannah Leonard. - 
 
 Ad. into Chh. 
 
 April 3. Add : Rachel Clark 
 
 [30] 
 For the | Year 1770] 
 Baptisms 
 Feb. 18. Lois Gould, Lucee 
 
 Feb: 25 Jsaac Johnson. Matthias , 
 
 April 8. Jacob Hawse Louis 
 April 22. Elij : Bakers Bathsheba 
 Nathan Clark Child. Nathan 
 April 29. Cor: Hixson. Zube. 
 May. Neh : Clark. Catee. 
 
 June 3. John Sumners Children Roger & Sarah. 
 July 8. Sam'. Holms Susannah 
 July 22. Elea^'. Blackman Ruth 
 Augt. 5. Mos: Guild. WMlliam 
 & W-. Witherton Sarah. 
 Aug*. 26 W-. Coneys child. Ellis 
 
 26 
 
Sep''. 9. S: Gilbert Child, Delight 
 
 &• Henry Payson'** Child Cloe. — 
 
 Sep''. 3. Nat: Morse child Nat: 
 
 Oc'. 14. G. Morse Urbane. 
 
 Sol : Gay Child Jason. 
 
 D''. 2. M''. Whittemore Child, i^dunnid. & Jos: Randal. John cv Polle. 
 
 D''. 23. Benj : Savil Unicc 
 
 Deaths 
 lan^' 9. Wid Hawse Child Silence Buried. 
 Feb: 17. M'". Gannet Negro Child 
 March 5. M'' Ouincy child Buried 
 April 8 D". Bird Child buried 
 May, 4. Ornisby & M'". Belchers Child. — 
 May. Jsaac Johnson Child buried 
 June 18 Jacob Esty wife buried: 
 Aug'. 28 Leni : Capen Child buried 
 Sep''. 1 5. Sam. Hixs". wife buried 
 
 [31] 
 
 Marriages 
 Nov: 15. Married Nat: Cuuimings & Cloe Forrest. 
 Dec'". 5. Married Cap'. Nat : Curtis & my daughter Elisabeth. — 
 December 20. I married Sam'. Randal & Elisabeth Everett. 
 
 Add: Church 
 Feb: 18. Lois Gould Ad: into Chh : — 
 Sep: 30. Sarah Hewins Ad: into Chh 
 Nov: 18. Ad: into the Chh: Asa Clark & his wife. Hannah Johnson. 
 
 & Esther Randal. 
 
 [32] 
 For the [Year 1771] 
 Baptisms 
 F"eb : 24. Jer : Belcher's Edwa"' 
 And John Johnson : Sarah. 
 March 4. M'■^ Kollock Sarah 
 April 8. Ezra Smith. John 
 & Eze^. Capen — Anna 
 Lem : Fuller Child. Flannah April 28 
 May 12. .Sol. Esty Mary 
 May 20. M : Allen Mary 
 June 2. Sam : Payson Joseph 
 June 23. John Holmes two children. 
 July 16. Zeb: Hoi: Benj". 
 July 30. Nat". Kings : Zibble 
 Aug'. 25. Ned : Savil. Jeruslia 
 Oct: 27. P: Wither: Elijah 
 Nov 24. John Bird. Abner. 
 D"". 9. S. Esty. Nancy. 
 D''. 15. Jo. Belcher. Jonathan 
 D'". 29. En: Hewins Sarah 
 
 27 
 
May 
 
 16 
 
 May 26. 
 
 Augt 
 
 . 18. 
 
 Aug: 
 
 22. 
 
 Sep'-. 
 
 28. 
 
 Add. 
 
 April 
 
 28 
 
 June 
 
 9- 
 
 Nov: 
 
 10. 
 
 Nov: 
 
 24. 
 
 Deaths 
 Feb: begining Moses Guild Two Children Buried 
 March 4. M^. Kollock Twin Child buried 
 Oc: 13. Henry Payson was buried 
 D"-. 4. Sam': Randal Child buried. 
 
 . . f33] 
 
 Marriages 
 
 Aprill 10 J married John Bird & Joanna Esty. — 
 
 I mar: E"". White & Deborah. Fuller 
 
 William Randal & unity Swift Married 
 
 . Ezekiel Keith & Mary Drake — 
 
 Abiel Drake & Charity Hewit. 
 
 Elijah Billing. & Huldah Cobb. 
 
 Chh: 
 
 Stephen Hawse M™ Drake Sol : Esty & Wife 
 
 Elisabeth Fisher Add. in Chh 
 
 Ad: Sam'. Randal & wife. & John Bird & wife. — 
 
 Add. Sarah Hewins 
 
 [341 
 
 For the [Year 1772] 
 
 Baptisms 
 Jany. 12. J. Johnson Esther 
 Jany. 19. J. Randal Child Ammi Ruhamah. — 
 Mar: i. W-. Bill:». Jessee 
 March 25 Gilbert child°. Moses & Aaron 
 April 12. Zeb. Holmes Mary 
 Ap: 19. S: Gay. Jeremiah 
 Ap: 26. J. Coney. Elisabeth. 
 May II. Sil: Clark Rachel 
 May II. W-: Payson. Silence 
 May 18 Athertons Otis 
 
 June 8. Job Swift Children Job & Samuel. — 
 June 17. Jira Swift Child™. Jira & Cypha & 
 June 14. Benj° Richds Child Luke 
 Augt. 2. D°. Bird Sarah 
 & J" Everits. Jasan 
 Nov: 16. Sam': Holms Oliver 
 Df. 13. E*-. Black": Olive 
 
 Deaths 
 Jany. 4: D". Savel wife buried. 
 Sam'. Holms Child buried 12. Feb^. 
 March 30. Gilberts Twins Buried 
 April II. M"" Price Child buried. 
 May 16. D". Fuller was buried 
 Nov: 19. Sam'. Payson Child Buried 
 Nov: 25. Sam". Randal Died 
 [June 3. Jacob Fisher's Wife] * 
 [Aug*. 26 Lemuel Fuller Child Buried] * 
 
 * These two items have been blotted out. They belong in the next year. 
 
 28 
 
July Buried Meridith Esty 
 
 [351 
 
 Marriages 
 January 2 I married Aaron Esty & Meridith Leonard 
 Jany. 14. Tho^: Baker & Elisabeth Coney. 
 Sep"". 24. I mared Aaron Lewis & Sarah White 
 Oct: 6 Mared Esq: Hewins & Widow Fuller 
 D'". ID Married Benj°. Hewins & Anna Rhodes. 
 [May 20 Married Caleb Johnson & Elisabeth Pribble.] * 
 
 Add: Chh: 
 May ID. Ad: Job Swift & wife. — 
 May latter End Jira Swift & wife 
 June 20. Ad: Mehitable Holmes 
 July 26. Ad: Jemima Toleman & Mary Capen 
 
 [36] 
 For the [Year 1773] 
 Baptisms 
 Jany. 17. W: Rich: Oliver 
 Feb. 7. W~ Witherton Catee 
 March 10 L: Fuller. Daniel 
 March 28. B. Savel Joseph 
 Ap: 18 J. Bird Bettee. — 
 May I. Ez : Capen. Susannah 
 May. 9. Neh: Clark Luther 
 E"". Capens Oliver 
 Asa. Clark Prudence 
 Jo: Swift Mary 
 
 French: Asa Jo: Johnson. Hezkiah Jacob Johnson, Massa 
 Lem: Lyon Child Marrineda. 
 . Sol: Esty. Merideth 
 Ebcn"". Hewins Child. Ebenezer 
 Oct : 20. Nat°. Clark :'^ Child Spencer 
 D''. II Roy: Kollock. Hannah 
 D 19. Micah Allen Elijah 
 Oct: E: Payson Child Rhalf. 
 
 Deaths 
 March Nat: Cummings wife — Buried 
 April 23 George Allin^ W^ife buried 
 April 28. Clifford Belcher buried 
 May 8. Eli : Capens Wife buried 
 June 3. Jacob Fisher^. Wife buried 
 June 12 John Everets Child buried 
 June 19. Mrs Everett buried 
 Aug*. 13 Mrs Hewins buried 
 Aug*- 26. Lem : Fullers Child buried 
 Sep"". 8 Benj°- Bullards Daugh''. Buried 
 John Holms Daugh^ Buried. 
 
 * This item has been crossed out. It belongs in the next year. 
 
 29 
 
 July 15- 
 
 July 15. 
 
 July 25. 
 
 Aug*. 2. 
 
 Aug*. 8. 
 
 Aug*. 15, 
 
 Sep"". 19. 
 
i^7^ 
 
 Marriages 
 
 Jan-^. 14. Married. Ephr : Payson & Lydia Esty 
 
 Feby. 18. I married Jer: Gore & Hannah Richards 
 
 May 20. Married Caleb Johnson & Eli : Pribble 
 
 Oct 7. I married Jacob Fisher & Sarah Hodges 
 
 Octo 14. T married W^. Rhodes, & Sarah Thor]). 
 Deaths 
 
 Sep'". 18. Benj Savel Child, 
 
 Sep: 31. Benj Savel wife buried 
 
 Nov : M''. Billiard 
 
 D'-. 4. John Holms Child.— 
 
 Add: Chh. 
 vpril Ti. Ad: Benj". — Farebanks 
 
 June 13 Ad: Joseph Witherson &- Lydia Lyons 
 
 Sep"". 29. Ad: John Flolmes & Elisabeth Billings 
 Marriages 
 
 })'. 16. Jacob Hewins & Abigail Hawse 
 Marriages 
 
 Nov''. 15. Daniell Gould & Hannah Hixson. Oliver Everet & Su- 
 sannah Capen 
 
 Nov: 18. John Richardson & Dorithx X'ining. 
 
 D''. 0. John Drake & Hannah Ti^ daf (^- J". Ev' & Jsabcl Hodges 
 
 [38] 
 For the Year | 1774I 
 
 Baptisms 
 Jan'*'. 2. En''. Hewins Seth 
 Feb: 28 J'\ Randal Child Elisabeth 
 Mar: 20. Jer: Belcher Cliild Theodore 
 Jo : Coneys Oliver 
 Ap: 10 VV-. Hewins Elkanah. G: Morse Luther & Job. Swift Re- 
 
 becah. 
 May 9: Lem : Capen. Lem' : 
 May. 2Q. Jirah Swift Wiot '* 
 June 1 8. W"". Clark Child Jemima 
 July 31. Zeb: Flolmes Child Jacob. 
 Aug^^ 7. D". Rich". Jacob 
 Augf. 14. L: Fuller: Ruth 
 Sep'-. 18. D". Bird Child Atherton 
 Jacob Hewins, Elijah 
 Jo: Morse, Lewis & Sarah. 
 Nov''. 28 W~-. Richard Tu''. Luther 
 
 D'. 5. W- Billings J'-. Elkanah X- Tho^ Clark. Abigail. 
 D''. 18: Oliver Everet Hrmnah 
 rv'. 25: Tho". Baker's Child Sarah. 
 
 Deaths 
 Jany 12. Cap^ Sam'. Billings wife buried 
 
 * Town Records sive Wyetli. 
 
 30 
 
laii-^'. 19. Neh: Clark Child buried 
 
 Feb: 11. Benj". Hawse wife buried 
 
 Feb: 19. M'". Joseph Everet buried 
 
 March 7. Nat: Kingsbury Child buried. 
 
 March 18 Levi Wood 
 
 March 26. Jo: Black: Child buried. 
 
 March E'". Billings Child buried 
 
 March 13. El: Capens Ser*. (iirl. 
 
 April 28. Ste: Hawse buried 
 
 May 8. I". Hawse buried 
 
 D''. 10. Buried Elijah Cai)en [''. 
 
 [39] 
 
 . Marrca^cs 
 
 ]an>'. 13 Married. Ephr"' : Pribble & Sileney * Lyon 
 
 Feb: 17 Married W". Lewis & Abigal .Swift 
 
 Aprill 4. Married Elkanah Hixson & Abig'. Rogers 
 
 April 7. Married Joseph Smith 2'^ & Rebecah Puffer 
 
 May 25 Married Elijah ''■ Capen & Priscilla Tisdall 
 
 July 7. Married David Forrest & Abigail Morse 
 
 July 13. David Xewland & Huldah Morse. 
 
 Nov. 3. Married Joseph Turner & Ester Noise : .And W"^. Savage 
 
 & Cloe Cobb. 
 D''. 15 I married George Fergusson & My daughter Mary & 22. Lem- 
 uel Pain [& Rachel Carpenter.] t 
 
 Add: into Chh : 
 Hannah Clark June 5. 
 Add: into Chh: Abigail Lewis Sej:)'' 18. 
 /\dd. into Chh : Elisabeth Baker 
 Add: into Chh: D''. 11. Oliver Everet ."l- wife. 
 
 [40] 
 For the "S'ear. | 1773] 
 
 Baptisms 
 JanJ'. 8. Silv. Clark Child Experience 
 
 March 5 Sani^ Hixson Unice & Eb''. Blacknian Cliild Susee. 
 March 11. D: Fisher Child Mary 
 May. Sam' Holmes Amos 
 July Ez : Capen. Abigail 
 Aug*^. 13. Asa Clark Child Xnia'^a. 
 Sep : 10. E''. Capen 
 Sep. 25. Ja : Hewins Clifford. 
 John Esty. Jeremiah, 
 
 December 10 — Lem' : Lyon, .\ranna. & D". Richards, Xancw 
 D'\ 17. Joses Hill 
 D'". 31. Cap*. Nathaniel Curtis^ Child Baptised Named ITenrv Bass 
 
 & Sam': Bird** Child Named Rebecah.— 
 
 * Town Records give Celenia. 
 
 t Tlie lower part of this name is worn off, supplied from Town Recorris. 
 
 3T 
 
Deaths 
 Jacob Hewins Child 
 M"^. Bacon Feb. 26. 
 March 11 D Fisher Child died. 
 April 6. Atherton Child buried 
 May 6. D°. Savel 
 June 7. P. Rhodes wife buried. 
 
 July 13, Nehemiah Clark buried & 14 The wife of Benj°. Hewins 
 July 23. Jer: Belcher wife buried. — 28 Benj. Richard Child buried. 
 July 31. Jer: Belchers Ju''. Child Buried. 
 Aug*. 9 Jer: Belcher was buried. 
 Aug*. 10 J°. : Coney Daugh : buried 
 Aug*. 12. Jon: Belcher Child buried 
 Aug*. I. 15. Clifford Belcher, & Son. 
 Ag: 23, his 2\ Son 
 Aug: 26, his daugh*'. & 28. his wife. 
 Sep : 3. Sarah Wood 
 
 [41] 
 
 Marriages 
 
 D"". 5. Ben: Hawse & Mary Sumner. 
 
 Janu^. 12. Eben'". Esty & Lucy Fuller 
 
 April 6 E^. Tisdal & Ruth Harlow 
 
 Ap^ 27. Nat'. Cumings & Elisabeth white. 
 
 July 31. Jeremiah Richards & Patience Hawse. 
 
 Aug. 22. Levi Tuttle & Huldah Allin 
 
 & Sam^ Capen & Cloe Pitcher. 
 
 Tho^. Clark & Sarah Lewis. 
 
 Oct: 24. Asa Lewis & mary White & 31. Joshua Cory & Cloe Cole- 
 well 
 
 Nov. 21. Jo: Belcher & Mary Baker* 
 
 Deaths 
 Sep: 28. Howard Child 
 29. D°. Birds Child 
 John Holms wife 
 Soloman Gould 
 Elijah Billings Child. 
 
 W"~. Witherton two Children. 
 
 D"". 30. Nathan Clark Son buried. — 
 
 Sep: 4. D". Richard Child 
 
 Sep: 5. Jacob Leonard Child. And. Jacob Cooks wife 
 
 Sep: 6. M"^ Copeland 
 
 Sep: ID. P. Drakes. Child. 
 
 Sep: 18. Nat: Corev^. Child 
 
 19 D". Richards. Child 
 
 20 D". Richards Child 
 & D°. Bird Daughter 
 
 21. Jo: Morse & N: Clark Child 
 
 22. D". Richard Son Elijah. 
 
 * Tliis marriage is recorded in the margin of the page. 
 
 32 
 

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 ]-.\l SIMIIJ-: l'.\(.I-. OK 'I'lIK CURTIS KICCOKDS 
 
Add: Chh.— 
 Add: Nov 26 Elijah Bird & Sister Elisabeth. 
 Add: D"-. 3. Sam^: Bird Ju"-. & his wife 
 Add: D''. 17. Joses Hill. 
 
 [42] 
 
 For the Year [1776] 
 
 Baptisms 
 Jan^. 20. Sol : Gays David 
 Ditto. J". Randal Frances. 
 
 Jan^ 27. John Holmes Ju"". Jeremiah. W'^. Clarks Child Cloe. 
 Feb: 5. Lem: Capen's Child. Elijah. Mr. Jer: Gore Child Hannah. 
 
 Jsrael Smith Nabby. 
 March 3. Micah Allen name Nancy 
 
 March 20. Atherton Child Abner & Enoch Hewins Philip. 
 Aprill 14. Ruben Tupper child". Azuba & Edward. 
 April 21. Gannet. Warren 
 Ap: 28. Gilead Morse. Irine 
 May. 3 Jira Swift. Azuba 
 May. 10. Benj : Richard Bernice 
 June 16. J. Hewins Child Ann. 
 July 4. Lem Fuller. Abigail 
 
 July 21. Zeb: Holmes Sarah & D: Fisher's Mary. 
 Aug^ Han : Tupper 
 Aug*^. 21. O: Everet Oliver 
 Sep: I. Fairbanks. Sarah 
 
 Births 
 Sep"-. 15. John Coney Child Edw : & Will"". Lewis Child William 
 Sep"" 29. Jos: Hewins Child Joseph. 
 John Johnson : Edmund 
 
 Deaths 
 Feb: 11. Cap: Bacon. 
 Feb: 22. Lieu*. Hixson. 
 May 12. Widow Smith 
 July 23. R: Tupper 
 Sep'". 8. Josiah Blackman 
 Sep"". John Rhode's Wife. 
 Oct : 3. Jos : Rhodes Ju^ Child. 
 Oct: 6. M"". Bradshaw Son. 
 Oct. Asa Clark Son 
 Oct. Wid: Johnson 
 P : Witherton Child 
 
 [43] 
 Marriages 
 Feb. 12. Jonathan Hawse & Lucy Tour * 
 Nov: 14 D": Coney & Susanah Curtis 
 D*". 12. Joshua Howard & Priscilla Capen. 
 Jany. Amos Boyden & Mary Pain 
 
 •Town Records: Tower. 
 
 33 
 
Add: Chh: 
 January y^^. John Holms Ju'". & his wife. 
 Fib^. 20. Lem : Fuller Ad : into the Chh : 
 March 3 : Han''. Tupper Admitted into Chh : 
 May, 19. Add: Sarah Clark. 
 June 2. Joseph Hewins & his wife Add: — 
 Aug^ II. John Cumings & his wife Add. — 
 D*". Abigail Puffer Ad: into the Chh: 
 
 [44] 
 
 For the Year [1777] 
 Baptisms 
 Feb: 25. Sam^: Hixsons Child, Samuel. — 
 Solomon Estys Child Lovana. 
 
 May 18. W-. Witherton William & D". Richards Son Edward. 
 June I. Jos: Swift. Joshua & Ep: Payson's Margaret 
 June 22. Sol : Gay. Luther 
 
 Aug*^. 3. Jo: Morse Child & Nat: Comings, Cloe 
 Sep'". 29. Jacob Hewins Child. Abigail. 
 Oct. 20. Mary Smiths Child Rebecca. 
 Nov: 16. Nat Clark Spencer 
 
 Deaths 
 M*". Fisher Son 
 Mrs Puffer 
 
 April. John Holmes Child 
 April. Jacob Esty. 
 
 May. W~. Billings & 16^1^. Jacob. Johnson 
 Aug*^. Lem : Capen'® Child buried. 
 Oct: 31: Nat: Coney Child. 
 D"". Eze: Capen Child 
 
 Children Baptised To the End of this Year Six hundred & Fifty 
 [Nine*] Three. 653. 
 
 Deaths in the Same time [116 and 117 equals 2^2>-'\ * ^2>2) Till now. 
 
 [45] 
 
 Marriages 
 April 13. Married lacob French & Bathsheba Esty. 
 May 8. Married Richard Billings & Mary Smith 
 May 29. Joses Hill Mary Clark. 
 June 3 Jacob Cook & Esther Jndicot 
 June 30. Jacob Billing & Hannah Hewins 
 Sep: 4. Nath". Guild & Ann Rhods. — 
 Oct: 6. Sam": Frost & Sarah Rhodes 
 Nov. 9. I married My daughter Hannah to James Porter 
 D"". 12 Mared Elij. Bird & Sarah Prat. 
 D"" 18 Mar'^. Dan" Rhodes & Lydia Rhodes. 
 
 Add: into Chh: 
 July 6. Add: Elisabeth Comings. 
 
 * The fig:ures in the brackets have been crossed out. These two entries are written 
 lengthways of the page. 
 
 34 
 
Sep'. 29. Add. Mary Smith. — 
 Nov : 16. Add : Lucy Gilbert. — 
 
 [46] 
 For the Year [1778] 
 
 Baptisms 
 Feb: D'' Billings Child Ruthe. 
 March 15. Th: Fisher Child Oliver 
 April. 5 Jo: Randal Child Samuel. . 
 Lem: Capen's. Elijah 
 
 May 10. Gilead Morse Child & Levi Fuller Child Lemuel. 
 May 24 E^. Hewins Savel & W— : Lewis Child Hittee. 
 June 14. Uriah Atherton. Child Lemuel. 
 June 7. W~ Clark; Child. Mary. 
 July 5. D"". Hewins Child. Sarah. 
 Benj. Richards Child Prudee 
 
 July 12. E"". Richards Child". Moses, Aaron Levi, & Anna. 
 July. My Daughter Hannah Child Peter 
 July 26. M''. Whittemore Child Jessee. 
 Sep''. 6 Ezra Morse Child Lewis & my Daughter Coney Child Nancy 
 
 Bass. 
 
 Deaths 
 
 Feb: Silvanus Clarks Child. 
 
 April 19. Eben"": Estey. 
 
 April 29. Bezaleel Billings 
 
 May II. David Whites Child. 
 
 July 7. Benj : Richards Child buried Prudee 
 
 luly 12. M". Write buried. 
 
 July 27. Abial Drake Child. &. July 29. Patience Esty. 
 
 Augst 13. M"". Write. 
 
 Aug*. M-". Whittemore Child 
 
 Sep"". 7 Lieu*., Hixson & Child, buried - - 
 
 Sep"-. II. M"" : Whittemore 
 
 [crossed out] *. M*". Lewis'^ Child. 
 
 Sep"". 12. Jon°: Gannett 
 
 and Warren Gannett 
 
 Sep"-, latter End. W". Lewis Child. Phi : Witherton's & Ned : Tisdale 
 Child. — 
 
 Oct : 5. Jo : Billings wife. — 
 
 Oct: 17. Beriah Billing Child. 18. M"". Randals Bess. 19. M--. Sav- 
 age Son. 20. Joseph Coneys Daughter. 
 
 [47] 
 Marriages 
 Feb: David Witherby & W"^. Kingman's Daughter Eunice 
 Feb: 27. David Rhodes & Elisabeth Rhodes. 
 April 5. Married Eben''. Lovel & Zip'' * Drake. 
 June 25. Amos Richardson & Mehitable Rhodes 
 July 8 Ezekiel Fisher & Experience Blacknian. 
 
 * Town Records: Zilpha. 
 
 35 
 
Octo: 20. Benj°. Puffer & Nancy Whitney. — 
 Nov"-. 30. W-. Holms & [ * ] Smith. Sabel 
 
 Deaths 
 Ocf. 21. Benj°. Bullard. 
 Oct 26 M'". Farebanks Child 
 M'-s Bullard Child 
 Hannah Esty. 
 D--. 28. D"-. [ t ] Child. 
 
 Ad: into Church 
 June 14. Admitted Eben^ Richards & his Wife. & Mary Everet wife 
 
 of Edward Everet 
 June 21. Admitted My Daughter Hannah 
 Aug*. 30. Admitted my Daughter .Susannah 
 Oct: II. Jacob Hewings Admitted into y*. Chh. 
 
 56 
 
 Births 
 Births. Sam'. Hixson Child 
 Zeb: Holmes Elisabeth 
 T: Bakers Francis-" 
 Jos*". Hewins. James. 
 
 [48] 
 For the Year. — [1779] 
 
 Baptisms. 
 Feb: 21. lohn Toleman** Child Sarah. — 
 E''. Richards Nabbee Elijah Bird. Anna. — 
 April 4. W~ Richards Ju"". Child Solomon. 
 W~ Tolman'^ Spencer. 
 April 20. Sol: Gays Child Timothy 
 April 13. Sol: Gilbert. Child 
 May 2. W*!. Swift Child Eben. . 
 May 16. Joshua Swift. Damaris 
 May 23. Jsrael Smith : Jacob 
 June 27. Asa Clark Unice 
 July 4 Philip Witherton Child Esther 
 Oct: 17. Cap'. Sam': Payson Child Noise 
 Ocf. 31. Beriah Billings Child". Beriah, Parker. Brinten. Bradish, 
 
 Otis Charlotte. 
 W™. Lewis. William 
 Nov: 14. J*>. Esty. Lucy 
 
 Deaths 
 Jan^^. 19. Jo". White buried 
 
 Sam': Bird 
 
 Nat: Coney 
 
 Jir: Belcher Daugh"* 
 
 Benj°. White 
 D*". n Ephraim Payson - Child. 18 
 
 * Isabel, crossed out. Town Records: Sibel. 
 t Worn; probably Hewins. 
 
 36 
 
 TanJ-. 
 
 30- 
 
 Feby. 
 
 16. 
 
 Feb: 
 
 20. 
 
 Aug«' 
 
 '■■ 13 
 
D". Birds Wife & 25. Sanii. Esty's * 
 About 6 weeks after his wife * 
 
 [49] 
 Marriages 
 
 Jan:' 14. Married Jeremiah Rhods & Mehitable Coney. 
 
 Feby. 5. Married Philip Barns & Phebe Basset. 
 
 Feb-: 24. Married Elijah Baker & Olive Rogers. 
 
 April 5. Married Job Swift & Elisabeth Guile, & Russel Oliver & 
 
 Abigail, Puffer 
 June 24. Married Matthias Puffer & Priscilla Hubbard 
 Oct: 21. Married Jason Richardson & Lovis Smith, also Nathan" 
 
 Clark & Elisabeth Allen. 
 Ocf. 28. Married Wolley Leonard & Anna Richards 
 Ocf. 31. Married Oliver Drake & Ruth t Drake. 
 Boston t 
 
 Married Nov : 2^ losiah Talbot, & Susannah Morse 
 Decern"": 23. Married Lewis De Maresquettc § & Polly Wimble = 
 
 Ad. Chh 
 Aug**, i^*. Admitted Nathan Savage & his Wife. 
 
 [50] 
 For the Year [1780] 
 Baptisms 
 P. Randal: Esther 
 Job: Swift. Amos. 
 June Sil: Clark Jacob. 
 July 2. E*". Blackman Child. Adam. 
 July 23 Jer: Belcher'* Child. Walter Spooner 
 Benj : Richard^ Child Tho«. Pownal 
 Uriah Atherton, Jessee 
 
 Aug*. 26. Enoch Hewins Hittee & Gilead Morse Child Abner. 
 Sep*. 15 Nat: Cumings Child Nabbee 
 Sep"". 17. J**. Hewins Child Lucee 
 Nov: 6. J*'. Toleman'' Child Joseph. P. Coneys Child Jeremiah 
 
 * Town Records of deaths: Mr. Samuel Estey, Dec. 23, 1779. Widow Rebecca 
 Estey, Feb. 18, 1780. 
 
 •f Written above Mary, which is crossed out. 
 
 ^ This word is partly erased; it does not appear to refer to any entry, but as if 
 he began to write something else and stopped. 
 
 § Col. Louis de Maresquells (Marie Louis Armand Anstart de Maresquclls) signed, 
 Dec. 6, 1776, a lengthy and important contract with the Colonial Government, for 
 the manufacture of a superior kind of cannon. The peculiarity of their construction 
 was that they were cast solid and then bored out by a process learned from his 
 father, the Marquis of Montelurbert. The Marquis had since 1750 been manufactur- 
 ing such cannon for the supply of the French Government. The cannon for the 
 colony were to be cast at the Stoughtonham Iron Foundry, proved by de Maresquells 
 in the presence of the Commissioners of the State, and to be furnished by him 
 throughout the war. In return, he was to receive a large sum of money annually 
 during the war and an annuity for life, and was to have the honorary rank of 
 Colonel. 
 
 27 
 
Deaths 
 April M'^. Wormwell 
 April 10. Widow Holland 
 [ * ]11« M-^. Hill. July 28 
 Joseph Wood Child Buried. 
 Oct: 2 Mehetable Leonard & her Twins. 
 
 [51] 
 
 Marriages 
 
 July s'*". Married Ezra Gould & Lois Smith. 
 
 Augt. Married Sam'. Toleman & [Elisebeth t] Hannah Rogers 
 
 Sep'". 9. Married Sam* : Holes t & the Widow Tilden 
 
 Sep'". 14. Married Joshua Johnson & Hannah Johnson 
 
 October: 2 Moses White & [ § ] Allin Susannah 
 
 [July s'*". Married Sam'. Thompson. & Elijah Johnson to Sarah 
 
 Hewins & Unity Esty. — ] 1 1 
 
 Add: Chh: 
 July 2 M.^- -Morse wife of Ezra Morse 
 Nov"". Jo: Wood. & his wife. — 
 
 [52] 
 For the Year [1781] 
 
 Births ** 
 Jany 28 Oliver Everet Child Moses & Joseph Wood Child David 
 Jan^. Zeb: Holmes Child Edward. 
 March 25. Joshua Swift Joshua 
 April 15. Sol: Gay Child. Hannah — Ens: Everet Twins Elis: & 
 
 Mary. 
 May 20. D°. Jacob Hewins Child Nathan. 
 May Jacob Hawse Child Ebenezer. 
 July 22 Beriah Billings Child. Anna. 
 John Holms J"^. Child Dana 
 Aug*^. 19. Nathan Savage Child James 
 Sep"". 9. W"~. Toleman Child, James. 
 Sep"". 22. D». Richard Child Elijah. 
 Oct. 14. Eben"". Richards Child Eben"". 
 Oct. 20. W: Lewis Hitteett 
 Oct: 28 Job: Swift Child. Philip — 
 Oct. 28: Mary Payson Child Elisabeth 
 
 Deaths 
 April I Sarah Johnson. 
 April 9 M'"^. Gannet 
 
 * Mrs. Wormells, the first part of the name having been crossed out. 
 
 f Crossed out. 
 
 \ Town Records: Holmes. 
 
 § Crossed out — undecipherable. 
 
 j{ This paragraph has been crossed out; it belor.gs in the record of 1781. 
 ** Reference to the dates of the births of these children in the Town Records show 
 that this heading should be Baptisms. 
 ft Very indistinct. Town Records: Hettee. 
 
 38 
 
June 9 D°. Esty 
 
 June 27 D°. Jacob Hewins Wife. 
 
 Oct. Jordan Child 
 
 Oct. 17. Parkman Bradshaw 
 
 D"". 23. D°. Hewins Child buried. 
 
 D"". 24. Jos^. Hewins Child buried. 
 
 [53] 
 
 Marriages 
 Feby. 12. Married Asa Harlow & Elisabeth Rhodes 
 June 6. Married Stephen Hawse & Mary Gannett 
 July 5. Married Sam': Thompson & Sarah Hewins. And Elijah 
 
 Johnson & Unity Esty. — 
 Aug. 20 Married Benj°. Gannet & Anna Everson 
 Oct. 17. D°. Jacob Hewins & Ruth Armstrong. 
 Oct: 25. George Holms & Rachel Allen 
 Nov: I. Ed: French & Judith Bullard. 
 Nov : 8. Job Esty & Ruth Coney. — 
 Nov. 29. David Fisher Ju^ & Mehitable Hewins. 
 D'. 6. W-. Clap & Mary Rhod 
 D*". 10. Jonathan Billings & Mary Fisher. 
 Married De*'. 27. Lem^ Wintworth & Susannah Whittemore 
 
 Add: into Chh 
 December 30. Ad : Jacob Hewins Wife Deacon. 
 
 [54] 
 For the Year [1782] 
 
 Births * 
 April I. Philip Witherton Newil 
 June 9. Benj°. Richards Child Joel. & Ep™. Paysons Child Benj°. 
 
 Esty. 
 
 June 30. Gilead Morse Child Luther. — 
 July 20. Jo. Hewins Son James. 
 July 25 Lem: Fullers Child, Louis. 
 Sep"-. 8. JO. Randal Jos''. 
 Sep''. 26. Sol : Gilbirt child Solomon. 
 Oct: 6. Nat Cumings Child. Betsy 
 
 Deaths 
 Jan^. Edward Everets Child 
 Jan^. 31. M"*. Whittemore 
 Feby. 28. Capt. Sam'. Billings 
 June 7. Wid: Hawse 
 July 17. E"". Bird. Child buried. 
 Sep*. 6, John Esty Daughter Drowned 
 Nov 18. Cap*. Billings Jnfant Child buried 
 D"". Begining: M"". Em*^. Quincy 
 
 [55] 
 
 Marriages 
 June 24. Oliver Bird & Lois Gay. 
 
 * i. e. Baptisms. 
 
 39 
 
Sep''. 19 Joshua. Whitteniore, & Widow Sarah Mackintosh 
 
 Oct. 6 Joseph Man & Mehitable Billings 
 
 D'". 12. Married Snell Babbet & Betsy Blanchard. 
 
 D"". 17. Married Zebulon Holmes & Rachel Tompson 
 
 D"". 26. Married Elias Edee & Mary Savel 
 
 [Aug*. 28. Married Zebine Lyon & Rachal Hooper] * 
 
 Add: into Chh: 
 March 25. Add : Eben'' : Hill. — 
 Nov : 22. Mary Fisher. Admitted 
 
 [56] 
 For the Year [1783] 
 Births t 
 
 Jan^. 8. Oliver Everet Child Aaron. 
 
 Silvanus Clark April 10. Susannah 
 
 April 27. Lem: Capen child Nathaniel & Sol: Gay Child, Betsie 
 
 Aug*. 24. Enoch Hewins Child Zibble 
 
 Oct: 5. Cap*. Gannet Child Warren. 
 
 Decemb"". 7. M"". Rapkey's X Child, Sallee. — 
 
 Deaths 
 Feb: 10. M'', Th^ Randal buried 
 April 19. Priscilla Smith buried 
 Aug*. 14. M"". Bradshaw 
 Oct: II. Sol: Gilbert Child buried. 
 Joseph Morse Child buried 
 
 [57] 
 Marriages 
 
 Jan^. I. Married Joseph Ellis & Phyle Boyden 
 Jan^. 8 Married John Hewins & Rnth Hewins. 
 Jany 30. Married Benj Bullard & Hannah Holmes 
 May 6. Married W~. Drake & Susannah Harlow 
 Aug*. 28. Mar'^. Zebine Lyon & Rachel Hooper. 
 Oct: 5. Married Ephraim Smith & Ame. Withington 
 Nov"". 13. Married Thaddeus Clap & Mary Billings 
 Nov : 20. Married Liffe Smith & Hepzibah Clap. 
 December 1 1 Married J**. Cumings & Mehitabel Esty 
 
 Ad^: into Chh: 
 Tune 8 Admitted Sarah Whittemore 
 
 [58] 
 For the Year. [1784] 
 Baptisms 
 March 27. Lem; Fuller Child Adam 
 
 * This entry has been crossed out. It belongs in 1783. 
 
 •f i. e. Baptisms. 
 
 J Town Records: Reupeke. John Christian Reupke was a native of Hesse, in Ger- 
 many. He was a soldier in the British army with Gen. Burgoyne at the surrender 
 at Saratoga in 1777. Not being allowed to return to his own country, he settled 
 in Sharon, marrying at Foxboro a Miss Clark of this town. 
 
 40 
 
Aprill II. John Holmes Child Esther 
 May 2. Samuel Birds Anna 
 May 9'*^. Major Morse *. Susannah 
 May 20 Zebulon Holmes Child David 
 Junet 13 Eben''. Richards Child David. — 
 July II Solomon Gilbert Child, Daniel. 
 July 25. Asa Clark Child Nancy. — 
 Tho**: Glover's Child, Unice 
 Aug**'. 22. Joshua Swift. Patience 
 
 Sep''. 5. D"". Sam^: Hewins Thomas. & Wintworths Lydia 
 Sep"". 7. M'". Cumings G-daughter. Susannah 
 Ocf. 10. Job Swift Child John. 
 
 Baptisms. Ezekiel Capens Child. Nancy & Eph : Payson's. Amasa. 
 Baptisms Oc*. 24. Jer : Richards Children Kattee. Jeremiah 
 
 Betsy. & Sallee 
 Nov: 7. Benj. Richard^. Child Nancy. 
 
 Deaths 
 April 17. J''. Hewins Buried. 
 May 25. M'"^. Noise was buried 
 
 June 17. My Grand-Daughter Nancy Curtis was buried. 
 June I Sam': Bird •f"'": Child buried & 14*'^ Another of his Children 
 
 was buried. 
 
 Sep*". 6 The Widow Hobbs buried 
 D--. 6 D». Richard Wife buried. — 
 
 [59] . 
 
 Marriages 
 James Paine & Anna Richards Married. Jan'y 15 
 July ith Benj. Randal & Patty Wares t & 
 Benj"*. Johnson & Charlottee Morse Married July i**". 
 Tho». Tolman & Esther Tolman. November 4**^. — 
 Nov"". 24. William Tribou, & Amy Belcher. & 25*^ Elias Drake & 
 
 Polly Harlow. 
 December 23. Ralph Tomson, & Mary Billings 
 
 Add: into Chh: 
 July II Admitted Jeremiah Richards & his Wife. And Tho^. Glover 
 
 & his wife. 
 The Same day Joseph Coney & his Wife had their Cov^ Relation 
 
 transferred from the Chh : of Walpole to this Chh. 
 December s^^. . Ad : The widow Keziah Gould & Zibble Holmes 
 December 26. Add: Elijah Baker & wife 
 
 [60] 
 For the Year [1785] 
 
 Baptisms 
 March 6^*>. Oliver Everet Child Susannah. 
 April 24. Elij. Bakers Child". Nabbe, Olive & Elijah.— 
 
 * Col. Ezra Morse b. Dedham 1741; d. Sharon 1807. 
 t May, crossed out. 
 
 I Town Record: MoUey Ware. The date of this marriage is an addition, but in 
 Mr. Curtis's hand. 
 
 41 
 
Joseph Randal's Child Thomas. 
 
 May I. John Esty's Child, Elijah.— 
 
 May 15. Enoch Hewins Child Susannah. 
 
 May 28. Wil-: Tolenian Child. Otis. — 
 
 June 5. Sol: Gay's Child, Seth — 
 
 June 27 Joses Hill Child. Etheridge & 
 
 John Repuchee * Child Bettee 
 
 July 3. Nat : Cumings Child Police 
 
 W- Holmes Children Sibble & Nabbee — Ellis 
 
 & Job Esty Children Ruthee & Ebenezer. 
 
 Sep"". II. Jer: Richards Child Polly. 
 
 Oct 2. Th«. Clark Children Amity Rhoda Nathan John & Lewis 
 
 John Holmes Child Anna. 
 
 [&] Thos Glover Lois 
 
 Baptisms. Ocf. 30 Lem: Capens Hittee. 
 
 December 4. Capt. W~. Billings Child Lewis. 
 
 Deaths 
 March 15. Tribou'^ Child buried 
 March 22. M"" Deveruk. buried 
 April 5. Eze: Capen's Child buried 
 May 29. Lieu*^ Tisdal t buried 
 June II Eb"". Lovel was buried 
 Sep'". 4. M". Bird wife of Oliver Bird Buried. — 
 October 10. Gilead Morses Wife buried 
 
 [61] 
 
 Marriages 
 Feb:^ 3. Married Jabez Eaton & Mary Hixson. 
 Feb^. 10. Married Joseph White & Lydia Johnson 
 All back Returned 
 
 March 3. Married Eliphalet Morse & Marcy Gilbert 
 April 5. Married Joshua Whittemore Jun"". & Louis t Morse. — 
 June 30. Married Seth Fisher & Hannah Hewins 
 July 18 Married Nathaniel Billing & Miriam Bullard & Levi White 
 
 & Mella Capen 
 Sep"*. 29. Sam". Holms •'"'■. & Susannah Hewins. Married. 
 Oct: 24. Married. Tho*. Fisher & Lucey Ballard. 
 27. Benjn. Ide & Mary Kollock. — 
 
 Add: into Chh. 
 June 12*'^ Add: Ruth Esty. — 
 July 17. Add: Mary Clark wife of Thomas Clark 
 
 For the Year [1786] 
 
 Baptisms 
 Born i.s^h day Aprill 30. J"-. Philip Curtis'^ Child Philip. & Solomon 
 
 Gilbert Child Nancy 
 July 9. Silvanus Clark Child Elijah. 
 
 * Town Records: Reupeke, Betsey. 
 
 ■f Perhaps Ebenezer Tisdale, Capt. Stoughtonham Co. Apr. 19, 1775. 
 
 J Town Records: Lois. 
 
 42 
 
October 8 Job Swift Child. David. 
 Octo''. 29. Joseph Hewins Child Frances 
 Billings & Jng™. child", died of Throat Distemper 
 
 Deaths 
 Jan^. 5. Sam^: Billings Child buried. Male 
 Jan^ 24. J**. Jngraham child. 8 m'*. Male. 
 Jany. 24. Wid : Everet of Rhumatism between 75 & 80 Age 
 Jany 25. D°. loseph Hewins. 85. Age. of Cancer 
 Feb^. 19. Mat : Harlow Child died of Th : Dis''. 5 years old female 
 March 5. M""*. Richard 75. old, died of Complicated Disease. — 
 March 22 Job Esty'^ Child**, died. Ruth 2 years old, by worms, & 
 
 23*^ Ebenezer by Throat Distemper i year old. 
 March. 31. Mrs Johnson 80 years old. died 
 Lem. Capen. Child Aug* female i year old 19 died of Quincy 
 Aug*. 23. Wid : Clark died *° 46 year of her Age of Jaundice & 
 
 Scurvy. 
 Aug: 30. M"^. Wood, 70 years She died of Astma. 
 October 19. Sam^: Holmes J*". Child girl 1-2 year old, Died with 
 
 worms 
 Nov: 12. Benj°. Savel Jun*". 23 age died of Nervous fever 
 
 [63] 
 
 Marriages 
 March 16. Married Jsaac Johson Jun'". & Olive Hixson *. And Oliver 
 
 Bullard & Abigail Gay. 
 June I. Married William Dean & Abigail Harlow 
 July 27. Married Sam'. Waters & Sarah Richards 
 August S***. Married Luther Thomson & Beulah White 
 Nov"". 2. Married Nathaniel Bradshaw & Mehetabel Hewins 
 Nov"". 16. Married Thompson Maxfield t Judith Johnson. 
 Nov''. 27. Married Jsaac Felch & Rachel. Brown 
 
 Add^. to Chh; 
 March 12. Add: Philip Curtis & his Wife. 
 December 3 Add. Unity Johnson. 
 
 [64] 
 For the Year [1787] 
 
 Baptisms 
 January 28. Joseph Randall'* Child Benj°. 
 April 8. W- Toleman Child. Betsy. & John Repueke Child. Hannah 
 
 April 21. Elij^. lohnson Children. Unity, Elijah & Jossee. 
 
 May 27. Cap*. Elijah Billing's Children Hannah, Betsy, Esther, Cloe. 
 
 & Unice- Bowdoin. 
 Joses Hill Child. Bettee. 
 Sami : Billings Jun-". Child. Ruth. — 
 June 24. Sol : Gilbert Twins. Moses & Aaron. 
 Aug*. 5. Tho^ Clark Child- Susee- — 
 Sep'". 9. Jer: Richards Child Zibiah 
 
 * Written over Esty, which has been crossed out. 
 f Town Records: Maxwell. 
 
 43 
 
December 2^. Asa Clark Son Asa. & Eben^ Richards Son. Joel 
 
 Deaths 
 January y^^ Eben''. Capen buried. 
 Jan^. 17 D°. Bird was buried. — 
 Feby. 12. Elijah Capen wife was buried. — 
 Aprill 3. Ezra Gould Child was buried. 
 May 18. Sam': Capen wife was buried. — 
 June 18. D". lacob Hewins Wife buried 
 Nov"". 20. Oliver Bird Child buried. 
 Decern'". 20. Nathaniel Billings Child Buried. — 
 
 [65] 
 Marriages 
 
 March 8.t*». John Richards & Mary Bird. Married. 
 
 All back returned to the Clerk 
 
 April 26. Married Gilead Morse & Mary Fisher & 
 
 Obed Johnson & Lucy Holmes. 
 
 June 14. Married Oliver Bird & Eunice Drake. — 
 
 Sep"". 9. Married Cyrus Drake & Mehitable M<^.Mullcn. 
 
 Nov"". II. Married Atherton Belcher & Abigail Morse 
 
 Add: into Chh: 
 Aprill 14. Add: Huldah Billings wife of Cap*. Eli''. Billings 
 Sep"". 23. Add : Mary Hill, wife of Joses Hill 
 
 [66] 
 For the Year [1788] 
 
 Baptisms 
 Jan^. 13. D". Oliver Everetts Child, Elisabeth. 
 March 10 My son Philip's Child. Thomas. 
 March 16. Elij : Johnson Child. Sophia 
 Aprill 27. Col : Ezra Morse Child Name Hartford. 
 Elijah Baker's lohn. 
 
 Joshua Whittemore Jun"". Joshua & Lois. 
 Aug*. 10. Jo. Cumings Joseph & Oliver 
 Oct*". 12 Widow Lovel's Children. Cyrus & Eben"". Mary & Zilphe. — 
 
 Job Swift's Child Asa. 
 
 Deaths 
 * 
 
 March 14. Eleanor Coney buried. 
 April 19. M"". Eaton Child 
 July 9. Solomon Gilbert Child. — 
 D"-. 6. D». Richard Jun"". Child buried. 
 
 [67] 
 Marriages 
 
 Jan^. I Elijah Fisher & Susannah Hixson — 
 Feb 10. Ebenezer Harlow & Mary Johnson 
 
 * The marriage of Elijah Fisher & Susannah Hixson was entered here and crossed 
 out. 
 
 44 
 
All Back Returned 
 
 Nov"". 6. Aaron Fisher & Elisabeth Esty. — 
 
 Add^. into Chh. 
 April 20. Ad : into Chh : Joshua Whittemore & his Wife. 
 Mehitable Cumings Add: into Chh. May about i8">. day 
 
 Aug*. 17. Admitted into Chh: Zilphe Lovill Widow 
 
 Ocf. 12. Admitted into Chh: Anna Leonard & Elisabeth Richards. 
 
 [68] 
 For the Year. [1789] 
 
 Baptisms 
 April 19. Sam^: Bird's Child Hannah 
 May 24. Jos: Cumings Child Sallee. 
 June 21. Sol: Gilbert Child. Lucy. — 
 July 5. Wolley Leonard Child". Baptised- Viz Anna. Hittee, William 
 
 & Unice — 
 Augt. 16 Cap'. William Billing Child. Hitte 
 
 Deaths 
 Aug^ II. Joshua Johnson buried. 
 De: 19. Lieu* Benj. Billing wife buried 
 
 [69] 
 
 Marriages 
 March 14. Married John Rhodes & Molley Haden. 
 April 16. Married Andrew Capen & Hannah Richards 
 May 22. Married Elijah Capen & Massah Johnson. — 
 Sep"". 24. Married Jsrael Smith & Zipperow Bullard 
 All Back Returned to the Clerk. 
 
 Add: into Chh: 
 Jan^. II. Admitted into the Chh: Mary & Hannah Richards. — 
 
 [70] 
 For the Year [1790] 
 Baptism 
 Jan?. 4**^ Joshua Whittemore Child Baptised Name Jessee 
 June 28. Jeremiah Richards Child. Hannah 
 July II. W^ol: Leonard Child lohn. 
 luly 25. Lemuel Capen Child Jessee. 
 Aug*. I. Job Swifts Child Susannah & 
 Tho«. Clark's Child, Molley 
 Oliver Everet Child Joseph Sep'". 19. — 
 Ocf. 3. Enoch Hewins Child Whiting. 
 Ocf. 17. Eben"". Holms Child Nathaniel. 
 Baptised 841. Since my Settlement 
 
 Deaths 
 Jan^. 27. Caleb Johnson Buried 
 Feb: 5. Tim. Billings wife buried. — 
 Feb:^. 16. Matthias Puffer's Wife buried. 
 March 13. D''. Smith'' Child buried 
 March: 10. Wid: Allen". Daugh''. buried. 
 March 16. William Woods, Wife buried 
 
 45 
 
April. I. Beriah Billings Son buried. 
 April 7. Jon: Billings Ju'". Child buried. 
 April 28. Luke Richards buried 
 May 9. M"". Maxfield's. Child buried 
 M''. Felch & M"-*. Kingsbury 
 May 12. Fisher« Child. 
 May 13. M"^. Nock. 
 May 31, Jacob Esty. 
 June 2. Rebecah Hewins 
 
 [71] 
 Marriages 
 
 May. 18 Married Matthias Puffer & Bathsheba French. 
 
 Oc*. 19. Married loshua Clap Esq. & Deborah Hewins 
 
 Oct: 20. Nat: Adams & Zebiah Kollock. 
 
 Oc*^. 21. Doctor Jerre Lyon & Mary Richards 
 
 All Back Returned to the Clerk 
 
 Deaths 
 Aug*. 25. Danii; Richards Wife 
 Nov. I Elisabeth Holms buried 
 
 Add into Chh: 
 
 [72] 
 For the Year [1791] 
 Baptisms 
 April ID. Elijah Johnson Son. Marcus 
 May I. My Son Philip^ Son was Baptised. Willard 
 July ID. Wolly Leonard Child Lewis. 
 July 24. Joseph Cumings. Hitte 
 Aug*^. 21. Thomas Glover Child, Sukee 
 Oc"". 2. Benj'". Hodges Child. Anna. 
 
 Deaths 
 Jan5'. 23 My Scipio Dyed. 
 Feb^. 13. J**. Hewins Daughter Lucy Dyed 
 March 11 P. Witherton Daughter buried 
 March 29. Jacob Fisher® Child buried 
 April I. Joshua Whittemore buried 
 April 15. Cloe Payson'^ Child buried. 
 May Last. My Grand Son Willard Curtis was buried. 
 Ocf. 26. Isaac Johnson buried 
 
 * 
 
 Decem'". 31. Mary Keith, Buried 
 
 {.7Z\ 
 Marriages 
 
 July 25. Married Amasa Hewins & Esther Kollock. 
 
 Aug^ 4. Married James Billings & Massa Hewins 
 
 Oc"". 27. Maried Sam^ Holms Ju''. & Hannah Morse 
 
 Ad^. into Chh. 
 
 * The burial of Joshua Whittemore's wife, crossed out. 
 
 46 
 
[74] 
 For the Year. 1792. — 
 
 Baptisms 
 Philip Curtis Ju"". Child Born April s^^. Obadiah 
 May 2o'*> Solomon Gilbert. Child. John. 
 June 8th- Josiah Talbots Children. Enoch Josiah. Susannah Hannah 
 
 & Betsy- 
 July 22. Josiah Talbot Child Nathaniel 
 Sep^ 16. Tho^. Glover Son Thomas. 
 Sep"". 23. Tho^. Clark Tom & Etheredge 
 Ocf. 14 Elijah. Johnson'^. Ansel. 
 Oct^ 28. Job Swift. Elisabeth & Jere*". Richard Joseph. 
 
 Deaths 
 
 t *] . 
 
 Jan^. r. Joshua Whittemore wife Buried. 
 
 Jan^. 9 Beriah Billings Buried 
 
 Jan^. 25 Joshua Whittemore Child buried 
 
 April 9*"^. Jcacod t Clark wife buried 
 
 April 16. Ephraim Payson's wife Buried. 
 
 June 3 D°. Hill was buried. 
 
 Sep"" 23 Philip Witherton was Buried 
 
 Nov"". 22 Jacob Fisher's wife & Child buried 
 
 [75] 
 
 Marriages 
 April 24 Married Enoch Hewins •'''■. & Hannah Kingsbury 
 July 18. Married. Ebenezer Alger & Mary Capen 
 July 23. Married Nathaniel Gould & Elisabeth Kollock. 
 August 30. Married Lemuel Esty & Hannah Belcher 
 Ocf 30 I Married lohn Morse & Lucy Fisher. 
 OC. 31. Married Benj°. Harlow & Ruth Brown 
 Nov. 6. Married Leonard Billing & Lucy Morse 
 Nov*". II Married Barzillai Fuller & Betsey Tisdall. & Nov'". 18. D^ 
 
 Sam' Capen & Sally Savel 
 Nov. 28. Joh Coney & Susannah Comings 
 Nov. 29. Tho^ Shepherd & Betsey Richards 
 
 Ad: into Chh 
 June § 3. Adm**. The wife of Josiah Talbot 
 October 14. Ad: Hannah Witherton 
 & Rebeccah Witherton 
 
 For the Year [1793] 
 Baptisms 
 June 27. Ezra Goulds Children. Nancy. Luke. Hannah. & Ezra 
 Aug*. II. Nat". Bradshaw Child Levi 
 
 • Marriages, crossed out. 
 •f Town Records: Ichabod. 
 J Changed from 29. 
 § Written over May. 
 
 47 
 
Aug'. 31. My Son Philip^ Child was Born & Baptised Sep"". 22. Al- 
 
 ford. 
 
 Deaths 
 Feby. 5. Matthew Harlow Child Buried. 
 March 8. Ephraim Payson Buried. 
 
 Marriages 
 April 2. Married. Joshua Whittemore & Ruth Johnson. 
 All Back Returned to Town Clerk 
 De"". 15. Marrid Eben''. Fuller. & Esther Johnson. 
 
 Ad: into Chh. 
 
 June 23 Lois Gould. 
 
 Nov: 10 Susanna Richards 
 
 Nov"". 24. Add: Eben'". Witherton, Without A Relation 
 * 
 
 [78] 
 For the Year [1794] 
 Baptisms 
 May 4''^. Benj". Fairbank Children. Benj" & Sophia 
 June I Edward Everits Children. Leonard. Hannah. Nabby & Betsy. 
 June 8 labez Richard's Benjamin 
 June 22. Sol : Gilbert Child. Frank- 
 
 Sep'". 6. W. Leonard. Sukey. Sep''. 13. Ben. Hodges. lames. 
 Oct. 12. D''. Capen Child Esther. 
 Nov. 2 Ezra Gould Child. Jesture t 
 Nov : 23. Jer : Richards Achsa. 
 
 Deaths 
 Feby. Anna Tisdal. & Sol°. Gay's Child 
 April 18. D'". Sam'. Hewins Buried. 
 May 14. Mary Payson Buried 
 July. Deacon Everet Child was buried 
 Also. Caleb Johnson Child. 
 Nov : 22. Asa Harlow Child 
 
 [79] 
 
 Marriages 
 March 18 Married Zebulon Waters & Zilpha Lovel. 
 April 6'^^ Married, David Johnson & lerusha Buck. 
 Nov: 6. Married. Benj. Rynolds & Hannah Everet 
 Nov*". 27. Married Pompy Allen & Annis. Ring 
 D"". 3 Married Jacob Fisher & Elisabeth Brooks & Peter Thayer & 
 
 Unity Hixson 
 
 Add. into Chh 
 Feb^. 23. Add*^. Benj". Fairbanks & his Wife. And Jeremiah Fair- 
 banks & his Wife 
 
 * Here the record of Feb. 23, 1794 was entered and crossed out. 
 f Town Records: Chester. 
 
 48 
 
March 2. Edward Everet's Wife. — 
 Sep''. 13. Ad: D''. Capen«. Wife 
 
 [80] 
 
 For the Year [1795] 
 
 Baptisms 
 May 10. Josiah Talbot Child. Lucee 
 July 19. Natha'. Bradshaw Child. Jessee. & D''. Sam'. Capen^ Child 
 
 Elisabeth. 
 Sep*". 16. Nathan Drake's Children Nathan. Lucy. Esther. Jane. 
 William Toleman Child. Joel. 
 
 Deaths 
 May 14. M''. Josiah Talbot Lucee buried 
 June 26. D: Hewins wife Buried. 
 June 29. Melzur Drake Child Buried 
 July 17. Ruben Clap. Buried 
 July 24. William Witherton Wife Buried. — 
 
 [81] 
 
 Marriages 
 Feb. II. Noah Barden & Sarah Bullard. 
 March loth loel Bullard & Charlotte Billings 
 All Back Sent to the Town Clerk 
 luly 2. Thomas KoUock & Abigail Fairbanks 
 Aug^. 2. Zelotas Thrasher, & Mary Hixson. 
 Octo: 4. John Savel & Anna Hewins 
 Of: 7. Nat: Witherton & Zilpah Hixson 
 Of. 8 Elijah Briggs & Susannah. Richards. 
 Dc*": 31. Francis Curtis & Mary Billing 
 
 [ *] 
 
 Oct. 18. Enock'' Tolbot & Catherine Rynolds 
 Nov 8 Nat: Leonard & Susannah Savel 
 No. 19. Willis Alger & Sukee Capen 
 
 Add into Chh. 
 July 19. Add: Nathan Drake & his Wife; Jane Drake. 
 Nov: 15. Add: Hannah Esty. 
 
 [82] 
 
 For the : Vear [1796] t 
 
 Baptisms 
 Feby, 7 Joshua Whittemore Child Name Hannah. 
 May 15 Lem: Esty^ Children Olive & Hannah 
 May 19. Sami. Holms I""-. Child^ Oliver, Otis & Hannah. 
 July 3. Elijah Baker Child Salle. 
 June 19$ Nathan Drakes Child Jeremiah 
 luly 17. Wol: Leonard lessee. Sam". Homs ■'''. Amos. Jer**: Fuller 
 
 Jeremiah Aug^ 28. Jere: Richards Francis. 
 
 * Marriages, erased. 
 
 •f 1796, erased. 
 
 f Written over (or under) is. 
 
 49 
 
Sep"". 4. Tho^ Clark Marquis 
 
 Deaths 
 March 23 Ezra Gould Child buried Also. The Child Lived, with 
 
 Tho*. Coney 
 April. 2^. Benjn. Johnson Child buried. 
 April 17 Widow Harlow Child Buried 
 Another of her Children Buried April 20. 
 July 12. Jos'\ Cumings Child Buried. 
 Another of his Children buried 
 Sep"". 4. Tho : Kollock Child buried. 
 
 [83] 
 
 Marriages 
 ]an7. 7. Eben*" Fisher. & Nancy Morse. — 
 April 25. My Son Calvin was Married 
 Aprill 26. Joseph Billings & Sible Kingsbury 
 April. 2y. Nat''. Morse Rebeccah. Fisher 
 All Back Returned to the Clerk 
 luly 24. Oliver Shepherd & Susanah Baker 
 Decern: 15 Jncrease Hewins & Sarah Toleman. 
 
 Add into Chh. 
 March 6 Add: Hannah Holms. Wife of Sam'. Holms 
 July. 3. Add: Widow Keziah Drake & her Daughter Fuller. 
 Aug*. 14 Add : Zipporah Smith : 
 No. 13. Abigail Kollock Add: 
 
 Buried. 
 
 Nov: Lem: Esty Child 
 
 [Nov: 9. Francis Curtis Child Buried] * 
 
 & 13. Obid Johnson's. 
 
 [& 16. Frank's Wife Buried.] * 
 
 [84] 
 
 Baptisms 
 Sep--. 8. 1796 Jsell Smith J'". Child". Ellis. Jrena. Zibble, Jane & Levi. 
 1796. Solomon Gilbert^ Levi. 
 
 Deaths 
 Sep*". 18. 1796 Hannah Witherton Buried 
 Oct. 3. 1796 M'^ Shephard Buried 
 Melzar Drak Child Buried. Sep: 30. 1796. 
 Oct: 8. 1796 Philip Witherton was buried 
 Nov. 30. 1796 Widow Coney was Buried 
 Nov: 13. 1796 Francis Curtis'^ Wife & Child Died- 
 December 26 1796. Philip Curtis Child Obadiah was buried 
 
 [85] 
 Marriages t 
 
 Add: into Chh. t 
 
 • These items have been crossed out — they are entered later, 
 t No entries on this page. 
 
 50 
 
[86] 
 For the Year. [1797] 
 
 Baptisms 
 Fefay. 5 Eben'- Holms Child Ruthe 
 
 April 23 Zelotes Thresher: Richard & Js : Smith. J*". Name Molley 
 May 4. Nat. Bradshaw'** Child Eunice 
 May 7. Jo: Cuming** Child Otis 
 May 22 Leonard Billings Children Leonard Joel & Chester. & Wid: 
 
 Payson''' grand Daug^ ter Polly. 
 June 25 Jeremiah Fairbanks Child Unity. 
 D'-. Capen Child Sally. 
 
 Deaths 
 March 6*^ Widow Harlow Son 
 March 12. lohn Coney Buried 
 June 19 M''. Wil. Richard Died 
 
 June 22. Hittee Leonard Died Daugh^. of Woll : Leonard 
 November ye 22 Died the Rev«» M'". Curtis- * 
 Baptism Aug* 27. Tho. Glover Child Elijah * 
 Thomas Kollock Child * 
 
 [87] 
 Marriag. 
 Jan^: 19 Benj°. Richards & Ruthe Billings 
 Jan^. 25 Eben'". Brown & Hannah Billings 
 All Back Returned to the Clerk 
 April 27. Lewis Fisher & Polly Randal 
 May II. lohn Randal & Prudee Clark 
 May 18. Sam Swift & Anna Hewins 
 Total Married Three Hundred & thirteen pair t 
 
 Ad: into Chh. 
 March 12 Leonard Billings & his wife & Mary Thresher. 
 
 [88] 
 For the Year [1798] 
 
 Baptisms 
 Benja". Richd«. J«. Child polly 
 Philip Curtis Child Nabby may ye 14 
 Samuel Holms J"". Child Hannah 
 Lemuel Estey Child Lemuel 
 Josiah Taulburt Child Warren 
 Woll Leonard- Child George 
 Samuel Capen Child Sarah 
 
 Death 
 Mrs Whitemore 
 ^'^. Hodges 
 ^^. Solomon gilbirt 
 Silence Howard- 
 Joshua Johnson- Child Died 
 
 • These items are by another hand. 
 I By another hand. 
 
 51 
 
Zelotus Thracher Child Ma'v — 
 
 [89] 
 
 Marriag 
 
 Ad: into Chh. 
 Catarine Clarck aded into the C!ih 
 Benjamin Riciiards •''. & wife aded to the Church. — 
 Total Added into the Church two hundred & Sixty-four 
 
 [90] 
 The Rev''. . Mr. Phihp Curtis was Ordained over the second church 
 in Stoughton in January 1742. and died Nov. 22'^. ly^^y in the 81 Year 
 of his age and 56 Year of his Ministry. 
 
 During which time he Baptized 92O 
 
 Married in the Same time 313 pr 
 
 Died in the Same time 403 
 
 Added tf) Church in the time 264 
 
 [91J 
 March ye 11 1823 Elizabath Curtis Dec'd age — 91 
 
 [The rest of this page is blank, as are the five remaining" pages in 
 the book. The upper third of the last leaf has been cut out. A frag- 
 ment of a letter remaining on the margin on the binding side shows 
 that it had been written upon, probably by the writer of the summary 
 on page [90]. Three more leaves have also been cut out. The "Ac- 
 count" of Rev. Mr. Curtis's family, following, is written on two of 
 the leaves evidently cut out long ago. The "Account" is in Mr. Cur- 
 tis's hand through the twenty-second item.] 
 
 [Record of the Family of Rev. Philip Curtis.] 
 An Account of Severall Events that have befallen me. & my family 
 
 1. J was born * October 4^^. 171 7. — 
 
 2. J was Admitted into Harvard College July 1734. And look my 
 Degree in the Year 1738. 
 
 3. J preached my fir^t Sermon at the 2''. chh in Stoughton t in the 
 month May 1741. & was ordained to the work of the ministry 
 there January 13*'^. 1741.2 
 
 4. J was married September G"'. 1744. 
 
 5. My wifei liorn May 5, 1721.— 
 
 6. My first child, Samuel by name was horn. May u"^. 1746.— & 
 died January 22 following. 1746, 7 
 
 7. My Second child. Samuell by name was born September i'*". 1747. 
 
 8. My Third child, Hannah by name was born Novetnl)er. 21. 
 1748.- 
 
 9. My fourth child Elizabeth by name, was born, August 14 1750. 
 10. My Twins, Mary & Susannah, were born May 4. 1752.— 
 
 ' lu Roxbury, Mass., the son of Samuel Curtis and Fl.annah Gore. 
 t Later Stoughtonham, now Sharon. 
 { Eli^a Bass of Newburyport. 
 
 52 
 
I J. My wife dyed May 29. 1752. 
 
 12. Tis my mind & will, that the Apparell & hou.sc furniture of my 
 first wife, be owned & injoyed by the children which J had by 
 her. 
 
 13. J was married the 2^. time October, 31. 1754. My ("o)i.sort * born 
 November 14. 1731. 
 
 14. My Son Philip was born August 8"*. 1755. 
 
 15 My Son Oliver was born January 26. 1757. 
 
 16 My Son Edward was born November 28, 1758. — 
 17. My Son Calvin was born Augtist 26. 1762. — 
 
 18 My Son Francis was born Sep*". 26. )768 
 
 19 My Daughter Elisabeth was Married to Cap'. Nat: Curtis. De- 
 cember. 5. 1770. — 
 
 20 My Daughter Mary was married to George Fergusson Dcember 
 
 J 5- 1774 
 21. My Daughter Susannah was married to Daniel Coney Nov. 14. 
 
 1776. 
 22 My Daughter Hannah was Married to James Porter November 
 
 9. T777 
 
 Ml 
 [An Acount of my Fathers r'amily t] 
 23''^ My Daughter Elizabeth Dyed march - 1794 — 
 24*^- November 22- T797 Died the Rev^- M'' Curtis — 
 
 25 His Daughter Hannali Died December- 1805 
 
 26 [His Son Ed +] His Son Edward Died 27 Alarch 1807 — 
 
 ■* Elizabeth Randall of Sharon. 
 
 ■f This has been rvilcd out. U is written by a ^ccoIld liand, and tlic remaining 
 items by a third. 
 
 J This has beco partially erasod — it was begun where a fold is in the leaf. 
 
Adams 
 
 Nat 46 
 
 Samuel 24 
 
 Zebiah (Kotlock) ...46 
 
 Alger 
 
 Ebenezer 47 
 
 Mary (Capen) 47 
 
 Sukee (Capen) 49 
 
 Willis ...4^ 
 
 Allen 
 
 Annis (Ring) 4S 
 
 Catherine 23 
 
 Catlierine (Evcret) .21 
 
 Daniel 24 
 
 Elijah 29 
 
 Elisabetli 37 
 
 M 27 
 
 Mary 27 
 
 Micah .21-23, -5. 29, 33 
 
 Nancy 33 
 
 Pompy 48 
 
 Rachel 39 
 
 Sarah (Baker) 24 
 
 (Wid.) 45 
 
 Allin 
 
 George 29 
 
 Huldali 32 
 
 Mr 21 
 
 Susaniiaii 38 
 
 Amsbury 
 
 Jonnah 1 r 
 
 Armstrong 
 
 Ruth 39 
 
 Atherton 
 
 — 25. 28, 3^ 
 
 Abner 33 
 
 Jessee 37 
 
 T^muel 35 
 
 Mary 24 
 
 Mary (Savage) ....24 
 
 Otis 28 
 
 Susannah 25 
 
 Uriah 24, 35, 37 
 
 Babbet 
 
 Detsy (Blanchard) .40 
 Snell 40 
 
 Bacon 
 
 Capt 33 
 
 Daniel 16, 20 
 
 Ebenezer 6 
 
 Kizia (Gould) 20 
 
 Mehitable 18 
 
 Mrs 32 
 
 Rebeccah (Blackman) 6 
 
 Sarah 7 
 
 Sarah [Wliite] i6 
 
 Susannaii 15 
 
 Timothy 16 
 
 W 20 
 
 Wra 7 
 
 Baker 
 
 Abigail 10 
 
 Anna 19 
 
 Bathsheba 26 
 
 E 20, 21 
 
 Elijah ... .6, 7, 9-n, 
 13, 14. 16, 19, 25, 
 26, 37, 41, 44, 40 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Elisabeth 31 
 
 Elisabeth (Coney) ..29 
 
 Francis 36 
 
 Hannah 6, 20 
 
 James 25 
 
 John 21, 44 
 
 Mary 13, iq, 32 
 
 Mehitable 16 
 
 Nabbe 41 
 
 OHve 41 
 
 Olive (Rogers) 37 
 
 Salle 49 
 
 Sarah 24, 30 
 
 [ ]ah 7 
 
 Susannah 14, 50 
 
 T 36 
 
 Thomas 9, 29, 30 
 
 Ballard 
 
 Lucey 42 
 
 Barden 
 
 Noah 49 
 
 Sarah (JiuUard) ... .49 
 
 Barnes 
 
 Phebe (Basset) ....37 
 Philip 37 
 
 Barns 
 
 Sarah 7 
 
 Bass 
 Eliza II, 52 
 
 Basset 
 
 Phebe 37 
 
 Bats 
 
 Abigail (Billingb) ..25 
 Cenj 25 
 
 Bedlow 
 
 Dn 14 
 
 Hannah (Belciier) ..14 
 
 Begining 
 
 Dr 30 
 
 Belcher 
 
 Abigail (Morse) ...44 
 
 Amey 18 
 
 Amy 41 
 
 Andrew 25 
 
 .\therton 44 
 
 Clifford 6, 7. 
 
 9-11, 29, 32 
 
 Edward 8, 19, 27 
 
 Elisabeth 22 
 
 Hannah 14, 23, 47 
 
 [ Isaac 5 
 
 Jeremiah .14, 15, 18- 
 22, 25, 27. 30, 32, 37 
 
 Jir 36 
 
 Jo: 23. 2$. 27. 32 
 
 Jon 32 
 
 Jonathan ...i8, 19, 27 
 
 Joseph o 
 
 Love 7, 8 
 
 Mary .... 5, 11, 20, 25 
 
 Mary (Baker) 32 
 
 Mehitable n 
 
 Mr 16, 27 
 
 Olive 19 
 
 Preserved 6, 8 
 
 Sarah 14, i6 
 
 Sarah (Richards) ..18 
 .Supply "> 
 
 54 
 
 Susannah 21 
 
 Theodore 30 
 
 Billings [Billing] 
 
 Abigail 25 
 
 Anna 38 
 
 Benjamin 18-20, 25, 45 
 Beriah 35, 36, 38, 46, 47 
 
 Betsy 43 
 
 Bezaleel 35 
 
 Bradish 36 
 
 Brinten 36 
 
 (Capt.) 39, 43 
 
 Charlotte 36, 49 
 
 Chester 51 
 
 Cloe 43 
 
 l^n 35 
 
 Ebenr 10, 13, 
 
 15, i8, 19, 22, 31 
 Elijah ... 12, 28, 32, 43 
 
 Elih 44 
 
 Elisabeth 30 
 
 Elizabeth 12 
 
 Elkanah 30 
 
 Esther 43 
 
 Frances 43 
 
 Hannah 43, 51 
 
 Hannah (Hewins) ..34 
 
 Hepzibah 18 
 
 Hitte 45 
 
 Huldah 44 
 
 Huldah (Cobb) 28 
 
 Jacob 13, 34 
 
 James 25, 46 
 
 Jessee 28 
 
 Jo 35 
 
 Joe! SI 
 
 Jon 46 
 
 Jonas 19 
 
 Jonathan 8, 39 
 
 Joseph 26, so 
 
 Leonard 47, 51 
 
 Levit 12 
 
 Lewis 43 
 
 Lieut 13 
 
 Livit 10 
 
 Lucy (Morse) 47 
 
 Mary ...22, 40, 41, 49 
 
 Mary (Fisher) 39 
 
 Mary (Smith) 34 
 
 Massa (Hewins) ...46 
 
 Mehitable 40 
 
 Miriam (FJullard) ..42 
 
 Molly 23 
 
 Nathaniel 42, 44 
 
 Oliver 16, 19, 23 
 
 Otis 36 
 
 Parker 36 
 
 Raihell 26 
 
 Ricliard 34 
 
 Ruth 35. 43, S( 
 
 Samuel 10, I2, 
 
 16. 30. 39, 43 
 
 Sarah 16, 20 
 
 Sarah (Guild) 8 
 
 Sarah (Nason) 13 
 
 Sible (Kingsbury) ..50 
 Spencer 16 
 
Tim: 45 
 
 W— i6, 19, 
 
 20, 22, 23, 26, 
 28, 30, 34, 42 
 
 William ... .15, 22, 45 
 
 Bird 
 
 Abner 27 
 
 Anna 12, 36, 41 
 
 Atherton 30 
 
 Bettee 29 
 
 Damaris 7, 9 
 
 Dn 26-28, 
 
 30, 32, 37, 44 
 
 Ebenezer 18, 39 
 
 Elih 5 
 
 Elijah 5, 12, 
 
 33, 34. 36 
 
 Elisabeth 14, 33 
 
 Enoch 10 
 
 Eunice (Drake) 44 
 
 Hannah 26, 45 
 
 J 29 
 
 Joanna (Esty) 28 
 
 John 9, 27, 28 
 
 Lois (Gay) 39 
 
 Mary 31, 44 
 
 Mrs 42 
 
 Oliver 9, 19, 39, 42, 44 
 
 Rebecah 31 
 
 Samuel 8-10, 
 
 12, 14, 18-21, 23, 
 31. 32, 36. 41, 45 
 
 Sarah 6, 7, 23, 28 
 
 Sarah (Prat) 34 
 
 Black 
 Jo 31 
 
 Blackman 
 
 Adam 37 
 
 E 21 
 
 Ebr 31, 37 
 
 Eleazer 2i, 25, 26 
 
 Experience 17, 35 
 
 Experience (FuHer) 16 
 Josiah 8, 16, 17, 21, 33 
 
 Mary 21 
 
 Mary (Tupper) ....21 
 
 Philip 25 
 
 Rebeccah 6 
 
 Ruth 26 
 
 Submitt 21 
 
 Susee 31 
 
 Widow 9 
 
 Black n 
 
 Adam 26 
 
 Er 28 
 
 Jos 26 
 
 Olive 28 
 
 Blanchard 
 
 Betsey 40 
 
 Blancher 
 
 Mary 7 
 
 Bo [den] 
 (Dlive 21 
 
 Bowdoin 
 
 Unice 43 
 
 Boyden 
 
 Amos 33 
 
 Esther 22 
 
 Jacob 22 
 
 Mary (Pain) 33 
 
 Mary (Patten) 18 
 
 Mrs 17 
 
 Phyle 40 
 
 Sarah (Patten) 22 
 
 Seth i8 
 
 Bradshaw 
 
 Eunice 51 
 
 Jessee 49 
 
 Levi 47 
 
 Mehetabel (Hewins) 43 
 
 Mr 33, 40 
 
 Nathal. . .43, 47, 49, 51 
 Parkman 39 
 
 Eriggs 
 
 Elijah 49 
 
 Susannah (Richards) 
 49 
 
 Brooks 
 
 Elisabeth 48 
 
 Brown 
 
 Ebenr 51 
 
 Hannah (Bidlings) ..51 
 
 Rachel 43 
 
 Ruth 47 
 
 Buck 
 
 Jerusha 48 
 
 Bullard 
 
 — 30 
 
 Abigail (Coney) ....12 
 
 Abigail (Gay) 43 
 
 Benjn 29, 36, 40 
 
 Charlotte (Billings) 49 
 
 Edward 12, 13 
 
 Hannah (Holmes) ..40 
 
 Joel 49 
 
 Judith 39 
 
 Miriam 42 
 
 Mrs 36 
 
 Oliver 43 
 
 Sarah 49 
 
 Zipperow 45 
 
 Burgoyne 
 
 Gen 40 
 
 CampernaH 
 
 Mary 9 
 
 Cai)en [Capin] 
 
 Abigail 31 
 
 Andrew 45 
 
 Anna 12, 27 
 
 Qoe (Pitcher) 3- 
 
 Damaris 6, 20, 26 
 
 Dr 48, 49. 5' 
 
 Ebenezer ... .6, 7, 9, 
 10, 12, 13, 17, 
 22, 29, 31, 44 
 
 El 31 
 
 Eli 6, 29 
 
 Elih. (Bird) s 
 
 Elijali 5, 7-10, 
 
 14. 31. 33, 35. 44. 4? 
 Elisabeth ....15-18, 49 
 
 Ephraim 41 
 
 Esther 48 
 
 Ezekiel ... .6, 23, 24 
 
 27. 29, 31, 34. 41. 42 
 Hannah (Richards) .45 
 
 Hittee 42 
 
 Jerusha (Talbot) ....6 
 
 Jessee 45 
 
 Jonathan 6 
 
 55 
 
 Lemuel . ...7, 27, 30, 
 33-35. 40, 42. 43. 45 
 
 Lewis 9 
 
 Mary 7. 29, 47 
 
 Mary (Cumings) ...23 
 Massah (Johnson) ..45 
 
 Mehitablc 9 
 
 Mella 42 
 
 Mrs 17. 26 
 
 Nancy 41 
 
 Nat i6-2i 
 
 Nathaniel 22, 40 
 
 Oliver 29 
 
 Priscilla 33 
 
 Priscilla (Tisdall) ..31 
 
 Sally $1 
 
 Sally (Savel) 47 
 
 Samuel 12. 14, 
 
 32, 44. 47, 49, 5t 
 
 Sarah 10, 51 
 
 Sukee 49 
 
 Susanna 19 
 
 Susanna (Swift) ...16 
 
 Susannah 9, 10, 
 
 23, 29, 30 
 Unis i6 
 
 Carpenter 
 
 Rachel 31 
 
 Carril 
 
 Benjamin 17 
 
 Judith (Ingram) ...17 
 
 Clap 
 
 Deborah (Hewins) .46 
 
 Hepzibah 40 
 
 Joshua 46 
 
 Mary (Billings) 40 
 
 Mary (Rhod) 39 
 
 Ruben 49 
 
 Tliaddeus 40 
 
 W— 39 
 
 Clarck 
 
 Catarine 52 
 
 Clark 
 
 Abigail 20, 30 
 
 Amasa 31 
 
 Amity 42 
 
 Angelot 14 
 
 Asa 6, 22, 27, 
 
 29. 31. 33, 36. 4J. 44 
 
 BiHy 7 
 
 Catee 26 
 
 Cloe 33 
 
 Ebenr ij 
 
 Elijah 42 
 
 Elisabeth 14, 18 
 
 Elisabeth (Allen) ..37 
 
 Elkanah 25 
 
 Etheridge . . 19, 24, 47 
 
 Experience 31 
 
 Hannah 31 
 
 Hannah (Evcrct) ...17 
 
 Hosea 25 
 
 Icabod s, 7, 
 
 8, 10, II, 14, IS, 47 
 
 Jacob 37 
 
 Jemina 19, 30 
 
 Jerh S. 6 
 
 Jo 26 
 
 John 43 
 
 Jonathan 30 
 
Joshua 1 J 
 
 Judith (Payson) ...si 
 
 Lewis 4- 
 
 Luther ■:9 
 
 Marquis 50 
 
 Mary . 16, 24, 34. .^5. 4- 
 
 Mary (Coney) 15 
 
 Mary (Ingram) ....lo 
 
 Milk -6 
 
 Miss 40 
 
 Molley 45 
 
 N 3a 
 
 Nancy 4> 
 
 Nat 15. 16, 
 
 18, 20. 25, 34 
 Nathan .6, 7, 12, 17, 
 19, 22, 24, 26, 32, 42 
 
 Nathaniel 22, 37 
 
 Natn 29 
 
 Nehemiah . . . . s. 21, 
 22, 25, 26, 39, 31, 3:: 
 
 Olive 21 
 
 Oliver 25 
 
 Prudee 5 > 
 
 Prudence 20 
 
 Rachel 26, 28 
 
 Rhoda 42 
 
 Salle 7 
 
 Samuel 10 
 
 Sarah 8, 34 
 
 Sarah (Lewis) 32 
 
 Sil 26, 28, 37 
 
 Silv 31 
 
 Silvanus 35. 4°. 42 
 
 Spencer 29, 34 
 
 Susannah 40 
 
 Susee »3 
 
 Sylvanus 5, 25 
 
 Thacher ^^ 
 
 Thomas 30, 32. 
 
 42, 43. 45. 47. 50 
 
 Tom 47 
 
 Unice 36 
 
 W— 35 
 
 (Wid.) 35, 43 
 
 WiHiam 7 
 
 Cobb 
 
 Ckvc 31 
 
 Huldah 28 
 
 (x)lcwell 
 Qoe 32 
 
 Comey 
 
 Abigail It) 
 
 Jerusha '3 
 
 John 13, 19 
 
 Oliver 14 
 
 Mr 14. J7 
 
 Spencer ' 7 
 
 Coney [Cony] 
 
 Abigail n, 12 
 
 Ann 22 
 
 ( - ) (Curtis) 35 
 
 Daniel 24, 33, 53 
 
 David 17. 18 
 
 Edw 33 
 
 Eleanor 44 
 
 Elijah 26 
 
 Elisabeth ... 10, 28, 29 
 
 Ellenor 21 
 
 Ellis 26 
 
 Eunice 22 
 
 lo 37 
 
 J 22, 28 
 
 Jacob 12, 15 
 
 Jeremiah 37 
 
 Jo 30, 32 
 
 Joh 47 
 
 John II, 20, 
 
 21, 26, 33, SI 
 
 Joseph 8, 35, 41 
 
 Kesia (Holmes) ....20 
 
 Mary 15 
 
 Mary (Clark) 24 
 
 Mehitable 12, 37 
 
 Molle 18 
 
 Nancy Bass 3 s 
 
 Nat 9, 10, 34, 36 
 
 Nath 24 
 
 Nathall 6, 7, 12 
 
 Nathan 10, 11 
 
 Nathaniell 5, 32 
 
 Oliver 10, 30 
 
 Priscilla 9, 19 
 
 Rebeccah 19 
 
 Rebeccah (Guild) ...5 
 
 Ruth 39 
 
 Samuel 5-7, 
 
 9, 11-13, 15, 17, 18 
 
 Sarah 11, 20 
 
 Sarah (Savell) S 
 
 Susannah 13 
 
 Susannah (Comings) 47 
 .Susannah (Curtis) .. 
 
 33. S3 
 
 Tliomas 7, 9, 50 
 
 (Widow) 50 
 
 W. . . 10, II, 19, 24, 26 
 
 Wille 18 
 
 William 11, 18 
 
 Cook 
 
 Esther (Indicot) ...34 
 Jacob 32, 34 
 
 (Toolledge 
 
 Mary ■ 6 
 
 Copeland 
 
 Mary 24 
 
 Mrs 3- 
 
 Copp 
 
 Patience 15 
 
 Rachel 12 
 
 Corey 
 
 Nat 32 
 
 Cory 
 
 Cloe (Colewe!!) ... 32 
 Joshua 32 
 
 CoviM 
 
 T-ydia 7 
 
 Priscella 7 
 
 Rebeccah 9 
 
 Cumings [Coming. Com- 
 ings, Cuming, Cumins, 
 Cummings] 
 
 Betsey 39 
 
 Cloe 34 
 
 Cloe (Forrest) 27 
 
 Elisabeth 14, 34 
 
 Elisabeth (White) . .32 
 
 Hitte 46 
 
 Isaac 5 
 
 Jo 40, 44. 51 
 
 56 
 
 • John 12, 34 
 
 Jos. ., 45 
 
 Josh 50 
 
 Joseph 14, 44, 46 
 
 Mary 6, 23 
 
 Mehitabel (Esty) .. .40 
 
 Mehitable 45 
 
 Mr 41 
 
 Nabbce 37 
 
 Nat 27, 29, 
 
 34. 37. 39. 42 
 
 Nathaniel 5, 32 
 
 Noah s 
 
 Oliver 44 
 
 On IS 
 
 Otis SI 
 
 Police 42 
 
 Rebecca 8, 20, 25 
 
 Rebeccah (Coney) ..19 
 
 Richard to 
 
 Ruth 16 
 
 .Sallee 45 
 
 Saml 5, 6, 8, 
 
 10, 12, 14, IS, 18 
 
 Solomon 19 
 
 Susannah ...19, 41, 47 
 
 Curtis 
 
 Alford 48 
 
 Calvin 19, so, S3 
 
 Charles S 3 
 
 Edward is, 53 
 
 Elisabeth 27, 53 
 
 Elisabeth (Curtis) .. 
 
 27, S3 
 Eliza (Bass) ....11, 52 
 
 Elizabeth S2, S3 
 
 Elizabeth (Randall) 53 
 Francis ..25, 49, 50, S3 
 
 Frank so 
 
 Hannah ... .8, 34-36 
 
 52, S3 
 Hannah ((jore) ....52 
 
 Henry Bass 31 
 
 Mary . ..11, 31, 52, 53 
 
 Mary (Billing) 49 
 
 Mrs II 
 
 Nabby 51 
 
 Nancy 41 
 
 Nat 27, S3 
 
 Nathaniel 31 
 
 Obadiah 47, so 
 
 Oliver 14, 53 
 
 Philip . .3, 4, II, 13, 
 42-44, 46-48, 50-53 
 
 Rev. Mr 51-53 
 
 Samuel 6-8, 52 
 
 Susannah .... 11, 33, 
 
 36. 52. 53 
 
 Thomas 44 
 
 WiHard 46 
 
 Dean 
 
 Abigail (Harlow) ..43 
 
 Benja 9 
 
 Mary (Witherton) ...9 
 William 43 
 
 Deberick 
 Mr 17 
 
 Deveruk 
 
 Mr 4 
 
Dickerman 
 
 Ebenezer 7 
 
 Lydia (Gould) 7 
 
 Drake (Drak] 
 
 Abiel 28, 35 
 
 Andrew 21 
 
 Archippus 12 
 
 Benjn. 9 
 
 Charity (liewit) ...28 
 
 Cyrus 44 
 
 Elias 41 
 
 Esther 49 
 
 Eunice 44 
 
 Hannah (Tisdal) ...30 
 
 lo 3-2 
 
 Jane 49 
 
 Jeremiah 49 
 
 Joanna 13 
 
 John 9, 10, 12, 
 
 13. 1". 21, 30 
 
 Keziah 5° 
 
 Lucy 49 
 
 Mary 7, 10, 28 
 
 Mehjtable (McMul- 
 
 len) 44 
 
 Melzar 50 
 
 Melzur 49 
 
 Nathan 49 
 
 Mrs. ., 23 
 
 Oliver 37 
 
 Polly (Harlow) 4s 
 
 Ruth 37 
 
 Ruth (Drake) 37 
 
 Sarah 17 
 
 Susannah (Harlow) 40 
 
 W— 8, 40 
 
 Wm 7, 13 
 
 Zalpha 17 
 
 Ziph. [Zilpha] 35 
 
 Dunbar 
 
 Esther (Boydcn) ...22 
 John 22 
 
 Eaton 
 
 Jabez 43 
 
 Mary (Hixson) ....42 
 Mr 44 
 
 Edee 
 
 Elias 40 
 
 Mary (Savcl) 40 
 
 Ellis 
 
 Joseph 40 
 
 Phyle (Boyden) 40 
 
 Esty [Estey] 
 
 Aaron 29 
 
 Abigail (Gould) 19 
 
 Bathsheba 8, 34 
 
 Benjamin ..5, 10-12, 
 
 14. 17 
 
 Dn 39 
 
 E 5. 6 
 
 Ebenezer ....10, 20, 
 
 26, 32. 35. 42. 43 
 
 Elijah 42 
 
 Elisabeth 20, 21, 45 
 
 Hannah 36, 49 
 
 Hannah (Belcher) ..47 
 Hannah (Leonard) .26 
 
 Jacob 12, 14-16, 
 
 18, 19. 2*. =7. 34- 46 
 Jeremiah 3 ' 
 
 Jo 36 
 
 Joanna 11, 28 
 
 Job 17, 39, 42. 43 
 
 John 19, 20, 
 
 2'. 31. 39. 42 
 Jonnah (Amsbury) .11 
 
 Keziah 9 
 
 Lem 49, 50 
 
 Lemuel 47, 51 
 
 I-ovana 34 
 
 Lucy 36 
 
 Lucy (Fuller) 32 
 
 Lydia 5, 30 
 
 Marg. 26 
 
 Mary 6, 22, 27 
 
 Mehitable 19, 40 
 
 Meredith 29 
 
 Meredith (Leonard) 29 
 
 Mrs 10 
 
 Nancy 27 
 
 Olive 49 
 
 Oliver 16 
 
 Patience J 2, 35 
 
 Pelatiah 9, 12, 13 
 
 Rebecca 37 
 
 Ruth 42, 43 
 
 Ruth (Coney) 39 
 
 Ruthee 42 
 
 S 27 
 
 Samuel 12, 18, 
 
 22, 36, 37 
 Solomon . . 3, 26-29, 34 
 
 Unity 14, 38, 39 
 
 (Widow) ii 
 
 Evens 
 
 Amey (Payson) ....23 
 Joseph 23 
 
 Everet [Everett, Everit] 
 
 Aaron 40 
 
 Abigail 17 
 
 Betsy 48 
 
 Catherine 5, 21 
 
 Deacon 48 
 
 Edward .36, 39, 48, 49 
 
 Elis 38 
 
 Elisabeth .8, 22, 27, 44 
 
 (Ens.) 38 
 
 Hannah ... 12,17, 30, 48 
 
 Jasan 28 
 
 Jh 5 
 
 Jo 28 
 
 John 17. '8, 
 
 20, 22, 25. 20 
 
 Joh 6 
 
 Joseph ... .8, 9, 31, 45 
 
 Leonard 48 
 
 Mary 36, 38 
 
 Moses 38 
 
 (Mrs.) 20 
 
 Nabby 48 
 
 33 
 
 Oliver 30, 3^> 
 
 33, 38. 40, 41. 44. 45 
 
 Susannah 20, 41 
 
 Susannah (Capcn) ..30 
 Widow 43 
 
 Everson 
 
 Anna 39 
 
 Evt. 
 
 Isabel (Hodges) ...30 
 
 57 
 
 Jo 3" 
 
 Fairbanks [ Farebanks, 
 Fairbank] 
 
 Abigail 49 
 
 Benjamin 22, 
 
 23, 30, 48 
 Jeremiah . . .23, 48, 51 
 
 Mr 32, 36 
 
 Mrs 23 
 
 Sarah 33 
 
 Sophia 48 
 
 Unity 51 
 
 i'arrington 
 
 Phebe )8 
 
 Felch 
 
 Isaac 43 
 
 Mr 46 
 
 Rachel (Brown) ....43 
 
 Fergusson 
 
 George 31, S3 
 
 Mary (Curtis) . .31, 53 
 
 Field 
 
 Janios t8, 22 
 
 Mary (Wood Cock) 22 
 
 Fisher 
 
 — 34, 46 
 
 Aaron 19, 45 
 
 D— 31-33 
 
 David 19. 39 
 
 Ebenr so 
 
 Elijah 44 
 
 Elisabeth 28 
 
 Elisabeth (Brooks) .48 
 Elisabeth (Esty) ...45 
 Experience (Black- 
 man) 35 
 
 Ezekiel 35 
 
 Ezra 26 
 
 Hannah (Baker) ...20 
 Hannah (Hewins) ..42 
 
 Jacob 28-30, 46-48 
 
 I^ewis 5' 
 
 Lucy 21, 47 
 
 Lucey (Ballard) ...42 
 
 Mary 19. 3'. 
 
 33. 39. 40. 44 
 Mehitable (Hewins) 39 
 
 Moses 19 
 
 Nancy (Morse) ....50 
 
 Nat 20 
 
 Oliver 35 
 
 Polly (Randal) 51 
 
 Rebeccah So 
 
 Sarah (Hodges) 30 
 
 Seth 42 
 
 Susannah (Hixson) 44 
 
 Thos 19. 21, 
 
 26, 35. 42 
 
 Forrest 
 
 Abigail (Morse) 31 
 
 Cloe 27 
 
 David 3« 
 
 Esther (Nichols) ...13 
 
 George '3 
 
 John 18 
 
 Susannah (Perry) ..18 
 
 French 
 
 Asa 29 
 
 Bathsheba 46 
 
 Bathsheba (Esty) ...34 
 
Ed 39 
 
 Jacob 34 
 
 Judith (BuUard) ...39 
 
 Frost 
 
 Samll 34 
 
 Sarah (Rhodes) ....34 
 
 Fuller 
 
 Abigail 33 
 
 Adam 40 
 
 Barzillai 47 
 
 Betsey (Tisdall) ...47 
 
 Daniel 29 
 
 (Dau.) (Drake) 50 
 
 (Deacon) . .6, 7, 23, 28 
 
 Deborah 7, 28 
 
 Ebenr 25, 48 
 
 Esther (Johnson ...48 
 
 Experience 16 
 
 Hannah 6, 8, 27 
 
 Jeremiah 23, 49 
 
 L 29, 50 
 
 Lemuel ..6, 23-25 27- 
 
 29. 33-35. 39. 40 
 
 Levi 35 
 
 Louis 39 
 
 Lucy 32 
 
 Mary 21 
 
 Mary (Savage) 24 
 
 (Mr.) 5 
 
 Rebeccah 5, 19 
 
 Ruth 30 
 
 Ruth (Tisdall) 24 
 
 Seth 8 
 
 (Widow) 29 
 
 Gannet [Gannett, Gannit] 
 Anna (Everson) ...39 
 Benjamin .. . . 1 1, 12, 
 14, 16, 21, 24, 39 
 
 (Capt.) 40 
 
 Deborah (Sampson) 14 
 
 Hannah 11, 24 
 
 Jonathan 19 
 
 Jonn 35 
 
 Joseph 16 
 
 Mary 21, 39 
 
 Mary (CopelanJ) ..24 
 
 Mr 14. 27 
 
 Mrs 38 
 
 Warren 33, 35, 40 
 
 Gay 
 
 — 22 
 
 Abigail 20, 21, 43 
 
 Betsie 40 
 
 David 25, 33 
 
 Hannah 38 
 
 Jason 27 
 
 Jeremiah 28 
 
 Joell 23 
 
 Lois 39 
 
 Louis 20 
 
 Luther 34 
 
 Mary (Esty) 22 
 
 Mr 20 
 
 S 28 
 
 Seth 42 
 
 Sol 23, 2S. 
 
 27. 33- 34. 36, 
 38, 40, 42, 48 
 Timothy 36 
 
 Gilbert [Gilbirt] 
 
 ( — ) 28 
 
 Aaron 28, 43 
 
 Daniel 41 
 
 Delight 27 
 
 Ebenr 16 
 
 Frank 48 
 
 John 6, 47 
 
 Levi so 
 
 Lucy 35, 45 
 
 Lydia 14, 17, 18 
 
 Marcy 42 
 
 Massah 13 
 
 Moses 28, 43 
 
 Mr 20 
 
 Mrs 13 
 
 Nancy 42 
 
 Ruth 22 
 
 S 27 
 
 Solomon 14-18, 
 
 22, 36, 39-45. 
 47, 48, so, SI 
 
 Gil! 
 
 Col 22 
 
 Glover 
 
 Elijah 51 
 
 Lois 42 
 
 Sukee 46 
 
 Thomas 41, 42, 
 
 46. 47. 51 
 Unice 41 
 
 Crore 
 
 Hannah 33, S- 
 
 Hannah (Richards) .30 
 Jer 30, 33 
 
 Gould 
 
 Abigail 19 
 
 Anna 7, 8 
 
 Daniell 30 
 
 Elisabeth (Kollock) 47 
 
 Ezra 13, 38, 
 
 44, 47. 48. so 
 
 Hannah 47 
 
 Hannah (Hixson) ..30 
 
 Jacob 21 
 
 Jeremiah 6, 8, 
 
 9. II. 13. 17 
 Jesture [Chester! ...48 
 
 Jh 5 
 
 Joh [ ] 5 
 
 Keziah 5, 20, 41 
 
 Lois 26, 27, 48 
 
 Lois (Smith) 38 
 
 Louis t 6 
 
 Lucee 26 
 
 Luke 47 
 
 Lydia 7 
 
 Mary 6 
 
 Mr 15 
 
 Nancy 47 
 
 Nathaniel 47 
 
 Priscilla 11 
 
 Samll 6 
 
 Seth 17 
 
 Soloman 32 
 
 Thomas 6 
 
 Unity (Holmes) ....21 
 
 William 6 
 
 Zeppurah i ^ 
 
 58 
 
 Gridley 
 
 Richard 24 
 
 Guild 
 
 Aaron 11 
 
 Abnah 15 
 
 Ann (Rhods) 34 
 
 Charles 32 
 
 (jcorge 19 
 
 Levt 22 
 
 Lois 13 
 
 Luce 18 
 
 Moses 13-16, 
 
 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, 28 
 
 Mr 13 
 
 Natl 22, 25, 34 
 
 Rebeccah s 
 
 Samuel 16 
 
 Sarah 8 
 
 Sarah (Coney) 11 
 
 Susannah 22 
 
 William 26 
 
 Guile 
 
 Elisabeth 37 
 
 Haden 
 
 Molley 45 
 
 Hancock 
 
 Dorothy (Quincy) ..24 
 John 24 
 
 Harlow 
 
 Abigail 7. 43 
 
 Abigail (Hobbs) 6 
 
 Asa 39. 48 
 
 Benjamin ...6, 7, 9, 47 
 
 Ebenezer 44 
 
 Elisabeth (Rhodes) .39 
 
 Hannah 6, 23 
 
 Mary (Johnson) ....44 
 
 Mat 43 
 
 Matthew 48 
 
 Mr 19 
 
 Mrs II 
 
 Po'lly 41 
 
 Ruth 32 
 
 Ruth (Brown) 47 
 
 Susannah 40 
 
 (Widow) so, 51 
 
 Harris 
 
 Lydia (Covill) 7 
 
 Nicholas 7 
 
 Hawse [Haws, Howse] 
 
 Abigail 30 
 
 Abigail (Everet) ...17 
 
 Amey 7 
 
 Amey (Morgan) 5 
 
 Ann 12 
 
 Benjamin ... .6, 31, 32 
 
 Cloe «8 
 
 Ebenezer 38 
 
 Eleazar 12 
 
 Elijah 17-19. 26 
 
 Elisabeth 7 
 
 Elisabeth (Hewins) .21 
 
 Hannah S 
 
 Jacob 21, 23, 
 
 24, 26, 38 
 
 Jo 31 
 
 Johannah 10 
 
 John 5. 7. 9 
 
 Jonathan 10, 33 
 
 Joseph 6, 7 
 
Lucy (Tour) (Towcrl 
 
 3,? 
 
 Louis 26 
 
 Mary (Gannett) 39 
 
 Mary (Sumner) ....32 
 
 Nathaniel! 5 
 
 Obadiali 5, 10 
 
 Patience 32 
 
 Sarah 7, 24 
 
 Silence 26, 27 
 
 Susannah 9 
 
 Stephen 5-7, g, 
 
 10, 12-14, 28. 31, 39 
 Tabitha (Richardson) 
 
 10 
 
 (Widow) .14, 26, 27, 39 
 
 William i_' 
 
 Hcwins [Hewens, Hew- 
 
 ings] 
 
 Abigail 34 
 
 Abigail (Hawes) ...30 
 
 Amasa 25, 46 
 
 Ann 33 
 
 Anna 49, 51 
 
 Anna (Rhodes) ....29 
 
 Benjamin 7-9. 
 
 14, 17. 24, 29, 32 
 
 Catherine 19 
 
 Clifford 31 
 
 D. 49 
 
 Damaris 9 
 
 Damaris (Bird) 9 
 
 David 24 
 
 Deborah 46 
 
 Dn 39 
 
 Dr 19-22, 25, 35 
 
 E 5. 22, 26 
 
 Ebenezer ... 6, 7, 9, 
 
 II, 18, 20, 25, 29, 35 
 
 Edwa [torn] 6 
 
 (Elder) 13 
 
 Elijah 7, 30 
 
 Elkanah 30 
 
 En 27 
 
 Enoch 23, 33 
 
 37, 40, 42, 45, 47 
 
 Ens 30 
 
 (Esq.) 29 
 
 Esther (Kollock) ...46 
 
 Experience 17 
 
 Frances 43 
 
 Hannah 5, 14, 
 
 22, 23, 34, 42 
 Hannah (Kingsbury) 
 
 47 
 
 Hittee 37 
 
 Increase 50 
 
 J 33 
 
 Ja 3 1 
 
 Jacob . . .9, 10, 12-14, 
 16, 19, 30, 32, 
 34. 36, 38. 39. 44 
 
 James 36, 39 
 
 Jo — 37. 39. 41. 46 
 
 John 16, 40 
 
 Jos 33 
 
 Joseph 6, 19, 
 
 33- 34. 43 
 
 Josli 36. 39 
 
 Lucy 37. 46 
 
 Marcy 26 
 
 Mary ...10:21, 22, 26 
 
 Massa 46 
 
 Mehitable ... 10, 14, 
 
 18. 39. 43 
 
 Mrs 29 
 
 (Mrs.) [Fuller] 29 
 
 Nathan 38 
 
 I'hilip 33 
 
 Rebeccah 25, 46 
 
 Ruth 9, 25, 40 
 
 Ruth (.\rmstrong) .39 
 Ruth (Cumin.Ks) ...16 
 
 Ruth (Hewins) 40 
 
 Saml 25, 41, 48 
 
 Sarah 9, 13, 20, 
 
 ^ 23, 27, 28, 35, 38, 39 
 
 Sarah (Bacon) 7 
 
 Sarah (Hewins) ....23 
 Sarah (Toleman) ...50 
 
 Save] 35 
 
 Seth 30 
 
 Susannah 20, 42 
 
 Thomas 41 
 
 W — 16, 23. 25, 30 
 
 Whiting 45 
 
 (Widow) 13 
 
 William 25 
 
 Zibble 40 
 
 He wit 
 
 Charity 28 
 
 Hill 
 
 Bettee 43 
 
 Dn 47 
 
 Ebenr 40 
 
 Etheridge 42 
 
 Joses .■,!, 33, 
 
 34, 42-44 
 
 Mary 44 
 
 Mary (Clnrk) 34 
 
 Mrs 38 
 
 Hiller 
 
 Ebenr 10 
 
 Stephen 10 
 
 Hixs [Hi.xsn, Hixson] 
 Abigl. (Rogers) ... .31 
 
 Cate 25 
 
 Cloe 25 
 
 Cor 26 
 
 Elij 26 
 
 Elisabeth 13 
 
 Elkanah ....23, 25, 31 
 
 Eunice 25 
 
 Hannah ....ii, 25. 30 
 Hannah (Harlow) ..23 
 Hannah (Hewins) ..23 
 
 Jacob 10 
 
 Jeremi 16 
 
 John 6-S, 10, 
 
 II, 13, 14, 16, 19, 23 
 
 Joseph 14 
 
 Lemuel 25 
 
 Lieut 33. 35 
 
 Lucee 25 
 
 Mary 8, 43, 49 
 
 Mary (Stickncy) ...24 
 
 Mehitable 8, 13 
 
 Olive 19, 43 
 
 Richard 7, 24 
 
 59 
 
 4iamuel ...33, 25, 27, 
 
 3«. 34. 36 
 
 Sarah (Bird) 6 
 
 Susannah 44 
 
 Unice 31 
 
 Unity 48 
 
 (Widow) 26 
 
 Zilpah 25, 49 
 
 Zube 26 
 
 Hobbs 
 
 Abigail 6 
 
 Matthew 9 
 
 Mr 19 
 
 Widow 41 
 
 Hodges 
 
 Anna 46 
 
 Benjin 46, 48 
 
 Isabel 30 
 
 James 48 
 
 Josiah 6 
 
 Mary (CooUedge) ...6 
 
 Mr 51 
 
 Sarah 30 
 
 Hoi. 
 
 Benjn 37 
 
 Zeb 27 
 
 Holland [Hollans, Hol- 
 lons] 
 
 Huldah 13 
 
 Mary 14 
 
 Massa 15 
 
 Nathall 7 
 
 .Sarah 11 
 
 Sarah (Stone) 6 
 
 Stephen 6, 7, 
 
 "IS. 23 
 (Widow) 38 
 
 Holmes [Holms, Holes, 
 Homs] 
 
 Abigail 17, 18 
 
 Abigail (Savel) ....15 
 
 Amos 31, 49 
 
 Ann 14 
 
 Anna 42 
 
 Benjamin 6, 12 
 
 Dana 38 
 
 David 41 
 
 Ebenr 45, Si 
 
 Edward 38 
 
 Elijah 20 
 
 Elisabeth 36, 46 
 
 Ellis 42 
 
 Enoch 21 
 
 Esther 41 
 
 George 39 
 
 Hannah ..17,40,49-51 
 Hannah (Morse) ...46 
 Hannah (Smith) ...ii 
 
 Jacob 30 
 
 Jeremiah 33 
 
 Jesse 23 
 
 John 10, 17, 19, 
 
 21, 27, 29. 30. 32f 
 33. 34. 38, 41. 42 
 
 Keziah 17, 19, 20 
 
 Lieut 14 
 
 Lucy 44 
 
 Mary 11, 28 
 
 Mehitable 29 
 
 Mehitable (Hewins) 10 
 
Nabbee a~ 
 
 Nat 9, 12, >4 
 
 Nathaniel 6, 8, 
 
 II, IS, 17, 45 
 
 Olive 19, -2 1 
 
 Oliver 28, 49 
 
 Otis 49 
 
 Rachel (Alku) 30 
 
 Rachel (Toinpson) ..40 
 
 Ruthe 5 ! 
 
 Sabel (Smith) .16 
 
 Samuel . . . 19-22, 26, 
 28, 31, 38, 42. 
 43. 46, 49-5' 
 
 Sarah 8, 33 
 
 Sibble 4- 
 
 Stephen is 
 
 Susannah 22, 26 
 
 Susannah (Ciimings) 
 
 10 
 
 Susannali (Hcwins) 43 
 
 Umty 21 
 
 W— 36, 4-- 
 
 [Widow] (Tildcn) ..38 
 
 Z 19 
 
 Zebulon 15. 18, 
 
 20, 21, 23. 28, 30, 
 3i, 36. 3S. 40. 41 
 Zibble 41 
 
 Hooper 
 
 Rachel 40 
 
 Howard 
 
 Joshua 33 
 
 PrisciJla (Capcn) ...33 
 Silence 5' 
 
 Hubbard 
 
 Priscilla 37 
 
 Ide 
 
 Benjn 4- 
 
 Mary (KoUock) ....42 
 
 Indicott 
 
 Esther 34 
 
 Ingraham 
 
 — 43 
 
 Abigail (Rhods) 23 
 
 Benjn 23 
 
 Jo 21, 43 
 
 Joseph 16 
 
 Judith 16, 17 
 
 Mrs ) 7 
 
 Ingram 
 
 Judith 17 
 
 Mary 20 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Joseph 24 
 
 Johnson 
 
 Abigail 22 
 
 Ansel 47 
 
 Benjamin 7, 14. 
 
 IS. 4', SO 
 
 Caleb 0, 10, 
 
 29, 30. 45. 48 
 
 Capt 17 
 
 Chanloue (Morse) ..41 
 
 Daniel 24 
 
 David 22, 48 
 
 Djna 25 
 
 Edmund 33 
 
 Eli (Fribble) 3° 
 
 Elijah 38, 39, 
 
 43. 44, 46, 47 
 Elisabeth (Pribble) .29 
 
 Esther 28, 48 
 
 Hannah . 14, 15. 27, 38 
 Hannah (Johnson) .38 
 
 Hezekiah 29 
 
 Isaac 14, 15, 18, 
 
 19, 24, 26, 27, 43. 46 
 
 J ^8 
 
 Jacob 18, 19, 
 
 22, 29, 34, 34 
 
 Jerusha (Buck 48 
 
 Jo 29 
 
 Job 23 
 
 John 13, 15, 17. 
 
 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 33 
 
 Josa 7 
 
 Joshua S, 10, 
 
 15. 38, 45, 51 
 
 Josiah 19 
 
 Jossee 43 
 
 Judith 10, 43 
 
 Judith (Tuckir) o 
 
 Lucy (Holmes) ....44 
 
 Lydia 17. 4- 
 
 Marcus 4^ 
 
 Mary . . .21, 23, 24, 44 
 
 Massali 29, 45 
 
 Matthias 26 
 
 Mrs 43 
 
 C^bed 18, 44, 50 
 
 Olive (Hixson) ....43 
 
 Oliver 18 
 
 Rebccah 7 
 
 Ruth 14. 48 
 
 Sarah 27, 38 
 
 Sarah (Swift) 13 
 
 Sophia 44 
 
 Unity 43 
 
 Unity a-sty) ...38, 39 
 (VVid.) 33 
 
 Jordan 
 
 — 39 
 
 J S 
 
 John 5. ti 
 
 Mary 6 
 
 Kcitii 
 
 Ezekie! 28 
 
 Mary 46 
 
 Mary (Drake) 28 
 
 King 
 
 N.-it -7 
 
 Zibble ^7 
 
 Kingman 
 
 Eunice 33 - 
 
 (Wd.) 35 
 
 Kingsbury 
 
 Hannah ... .21, 23, 47 
 
 Mrs 46 
 
 Nat 20, 23, 31 
 
 Oliver 20 
 
 Sible so 
 
 Kollock 
 
 Abigail 50 
 
 Abigail (Fairb^nk.,) 40 
 
 Cxirnelius 13 
 
 Ebenezer ' ' 
 
 Elisabeth 22, 47 
 
 Esther 25. 46 
 
 60 
 
 Hannah 29 
 
 iMary J2, 16, 43 
 
 Mary (Randall) 11 
 
 Mrs 27, 28 
 
 R 25 
 
 Roy 29 
 
 RoyaM 11, 13, 
 
 16, 1 8, 20, 32 
 
 Sarah 27 
 
 Thomas 20, 49-5 1 
 
 Zebiah 46 
 
 Zeruiah 18 
 
 Leonard 
 
 Anna 45 
 
 Anna (Richards) ...37 
 
 George 51 
 
 Hannah 9, 26 
 
 Hittee 45, 5> 
 
 Jacob 23, 32 
 
 Jessce 49 
 
 John 45 
 
 Lewis 46 
 
 Mehctable 38 
 
 Meredith 29 
 
 Molly (Billings) ....23 
 
 Nat 49 
 
 Solomon 9 
 
 Sukey 48 
 
 Susannali (Savel) ..49 
 
 Unice 45 
 
 Uriah 9 
 
 W 48 
 
 William 45 
 
 Wolly 37, 45, 46, 49. 51 
 
 Lewis 
 
 Aaron 20 
 
 Abigarl 3 ' 
 
 Abigail (Swift) 31 
 
 .Asa 32 
 
 Benjamin 18 
 
 Hittee [HeltceJ .35, 38 
 
 Mary (White) 3~ 
 
 Mr 35 
 
 Sarah 32 
 
 Sarah (White) 29 
 
 W— 3". 35. 38 
 
 Widow 18 
 
 William 33, 36 
 
 Lovel [Lovell, Lovill] 
 
 Cyrus 44 
 
 Ebenezer 14, 35, 42, 44 
 
 Joseph 12 
 
 Mary 10, 11, 44 
 
 Mary (Smith) 17 
 
 Saml. ... 10, 12, 14, 17 
 
 (Widow) 44 
 
 Zilphe 44. 45. 48 
 
 Ziph. [Zilpha] 
 
 (Drake) 35 
 
 Lovett 
 
 Mary (Hewins) .... 10 
 Samuel 10 
 
 Lyon [Lyons] 
 
 Aranna 3' 
 
 Jerre 46 
 
 Lemuel 10. 29. 3^ 
 
 Lydia 30 
 
 Lydia (Perry) 10 
 
 Marrineda 29 
 
 Marv 25 
 
Mary (Richards) ...46 
 Rachel (Hixjper) . . .40 
 Silciiey [Celenia] ...31 
 
 Waitstill ct. 
 
 Zebinc 40 
 
 McFaden 
 Grace 15 
 
 McMuUen 
 
 Mchitable 44 
 
 Mackintosh 
 
 Sarah in 
 
 Man 
 
 Anna (Randal ) 15 
 
 David 15 
 
 Joseph 40 
 
 Mehitable ( liillings) 40 
 
 Manley 
 
 Experience (Swift) 16 
 Thomas 1 C> 
 
 Maresquells (Mares- 
 quette] 
 
 Louis de 37 
 
 Marie Louis Armand 
 
 Ansart de — 37 
 
 Polly (Wimble) 37 
 
 Marsh 
 
 Ezra 22 
 
 Susannah (Ouild) ..2_' 
 
 Maishall 
 
 Phebe (Wolman) ...19 
 \V 19 
 
 Maxlield [Maxwell] 
 
 T!ioni()son 43 
 
 Tudilh (Johnson) ...43 
 Mr 46 
 
 May 
 
 Eleazc-r 5 
 
 Esther (VVadsworth) 3 
 
 Montelurbert 
 
 Marquis of 37 
 
 Morey 
 
 [ ]t .9 
 
 Morgan 
 
 Ainey 5 
 
 Margaret 6 
 
 Morse 
 
 Abigail 31, 44 
 
 Abner 37 
 
 Charlotte 21, 41 
 
 DH ID 
 
 Deliverance 2 c 
 
 Dority (Wood) 25 
 
 Eliphalet 42 
 
 Elisha TO 
 
 Esrom 21 
 
 Ezra 35, 38, 41, 44 
 
 G- 27, 30 
 
 Gilead 23, 25, 
 
 33. 35. 37. 39. 42. 44 
 
 Gill 2t 
 
 Hannah . . . . t2, 21, 46 
 
 Hartford 44 
 
 Huldah 31 
 
 Irine 33 
 
 Javin 22 
 
 Jo 22, 30, 32, 34 
 
 Johannah (Rogers) 10 
 
 John 25, 47 
 
 Joseph Ji, 25, 40 
 
 Josiah 1 6, 22, 25 
 
 Ki7.ia (Turner) ....10 
 
 Lewis 30, 35 
 
 Louis 22 
 
 Ix)uis [Lois] 4 J 
 
 Lucee 22 
 
 Lucy 47 
 
 Lucy (Fisher) 47 
 
 Luther 30, 30 
 
 Major 41 
 
 Marcy (Gilbert) . . .4:. 
 Mary (Fisher) ... .44 
 
 Mrs 38 
 
 Nancy 25, 50 
 
 Nathaniel .... 15, 19, 
 
 31, 22, 25, 27, so 
 Rebeccali (Fisher) ..50 
 
 Sarah 30 
 
 Silas 20, 21 
 
 Susannah 37. 41 
 
 Susannah ( liacon) ..15 
 
 Tim 15 
 
 Urbane 27 
 
 •N'ason 
 
 Jcmina (Clark) ....19 
 Mary (Cainpernall) ..9 
 
 Sarah 15 
 
 Thomas 9, 19 
 
 N'ewland 
 
 David 31 
 
 iluldah (Morse) ...31 
 
 Xichols 
 
 Esther 13 
 
 .\'ock 
 
 Mrs 46 
 
 Noise [Noys] 
 
 Ester 31 
 
 John 5 
 
 Jn 5 
 
 Mr 18 
 
 Mrs 41 
 
 Sarah 17 
 
 (Widow) 22 
 
 Oliver 
 
 Abigail (Puffer) ...37 
 
 Iluldah 23, 24 
 
 Huldah (Rhodes) ..18 
 
 John 18, 24 
 
 Mary 23 
 
 Russel 37 
 
 Susannah 23 
 
 Ormsbey [Ormsby] 
 
 Jane (Ripley) 24 
 
 Mr 27 
 
 W 24 
 
 Osyer 
 
 Consider 22 
 
 Deliverance (Rhoads) 
 22 
 
 Paine [Pain] 
 
 Anna (Richards) ...41 
 
 James 41 
 
 Lemuel 31 
 
 Mary 33 
 
 [Rachel Carpenter] 31 
 
 Patten 
 
 Mary 18 
 
 Sarah 22 
 
 Payson 
 
 .-Xmasa 41 
 
 61 
 
 Amey 23 
 
 Anna 10 
 
 Asa 8 
 
 Benjn. Esly 39 
 
 Cloc 27, 46 
 
 E 8, 10. 29 
 
 Elisabeth 38 
 
 Ephraim ..5-7, 11-13, 
 15. 18, 30, 34, 
 36. 39, 41. 47, 48 
 
 flenry 5, 23, 
 
 25. 27, 28 
 
 John 19 
 
 Joseph 27 
 
 Judith 13. 16, 21 
 
 Lydia (Esty) 30 
 
 Margaret 13, 34 
 
 Margaret (Morgan) 6 
 
 Mary 7, 11, 
 
 25, 38, 48 
 Mary (Johnson) ...33 
 
 Meletiah 23 
 
 Mr iS 
 
 Mrs 25, 26 
 
 Noise 36 
 
 Patience 23 
 
 Polly SI 
 
 Rhalf 29 
 
 Samuel ... is, 17-19, 
 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 36 
 
 Sarah 7, 8, 18, 21 
 
 Sarah (Noys) 17 
 
 Silence 28 
 
 Susannah 16, 18 
 
 Unice 25 
 
 W 28 
 
 (Wid.) 5. 
 
 Perry 
 
 Lydia so 
 
 Susannah 18 
 
 Pettingal 
 Hannah 12 
 
 Phillips 
 
 Jane 10 
 
 John ... .5, 7, 8, 10, II 
 
 Mary S 
 
 Mary (P.lancher) 7 
 
 Peirce [Pierce] 
 
 Angelot (Clark) ....14 
 
 Ezekiel 12, 15, 
 
 16, 18, 19 
 
 Mrs 12 
 
 Patience (Copp) ...15 
 Phebe (Farrington) 18 
 
 Rachel (Copp) 12 
 
 Seth 14 
 
 Pitcher 
 
 Cloe 32 
 
 Pitte 
 
 Benjamin 12 
 
 Hannah (Morse) ...12 
 
 Pitten or Fitter 
 
 Rebeccah (Covill) ...9 
 Wm 9 
 
 Porter 
 Hannah (Curtis) . . . 
 
 34. 35, 53 
 
 James 34, 53 
 
 Peter 35 
 
Pownal 
 
 Thos 37 
 
 Prat 
 
 Sarah 34 
 
 Pribble [Prible] 
 
 Abraham g 
 
 Eli 30 
 
 Elisabeth 29 
 
 Elisabeth (Roads) ...9 
 
 Ephrm 31 
 
 Sileney [Celenia] 
 
 (Lyon) 31 
 
 Price 
 
 Mr 28 
 
 Nancy 23 
 
 Susannah 23, 26 
 
 Susannah (Capen) ..23 
 
 W 23, 26 
 
 Wi 23 
 
 Puffer 
 
 Abigail 8, 34, 37 
 
 Bathsheba (French) 46 
 
 Benjamin 12, 36 
 
 Eleazer 8 
 
 Isaac 10 
 
 John 23 
 
 Mary S 
 
 Matthias ...5-8, 10, 12, 
 21, 23, 24- 37. 45. 46 
 
 Meletiah 24 
 
 Mrs 34 
 
 Nancy (Whitney) ..36 
 
 Olive 23 
 
 Olive (Bo[den]) ...21 
 Priscilla (Hubbard) 37 
 
 Rebeccah 6, 31 
 
 Quincy 
 
 Dorothy 24 
 
 Edmund 24, 39 
 
 Elizabeth (Wendell) 24 
 Hannah (Gannet) ..24 
 
 Mr 27 
 
 Randall [Randal, Ran- 
 dell] 
 Ammi Ruhamah ....28 
 
 Anna 15 
 
 Benjamin ....6, 41, 43 
 
 Bess 35 
 
 Elisabeth . .7, 12, 30, 53 
 Elisabeth (Everett) 27 
 
 Esther 27, 37 
 
 Frances 33 
 
 J 28 
 
 Jo 30. 33, 
 
 35. 37, 39 
 
 John 27, 51 
 
 Jos 27 
 
 Joseph s, 42, 43 
 
 Josh 39 
 
 Mary it 
 
 Mr 35 
 
 Patty (Wares) 41 
 
 Polly 27, SI 
 
 Prudee (Clark) ....51 
 Samuel ...8, 27, 28, 35 
 
 Thomas 5, 6, 
 
 8, 40, 42 
 
 Unity (Swift) 28 
 
 (Widow) 26 
 
 William 28 
 
 Raynolds [See Rynolds] 
 
 Benj 25 
 
 Catharine 25 
 
 Mr 25 
 
 Reupeke [Rapkey, Re- 
 puchee, Repueke, 
 Reupke] 
 
 Betsey 42 
 
 Bettee 42 
 
 ( — ) (Clark) 40 
 
 Hannah 43 
 
 John 42, 43 
 
 John Christian ....40 
 
 Mr 40 
 
 Sallee 40 
 
 Rhodes [Rhoads, Rhod, 
 Roads, Rhods] 
 
 Abigail 17, 23 
 
 [ ]m 17 
 
 Adam 17 
 
 Ann 34 
 
 Anna 29 
 
 Anna ((jould) 7 
 
 Asa 19 
 
 Benjamin 7 
 
 Danll 34 
 
 David 35 
 
 Deliverance 22 
 
 Drucilla 22 
 
 Elisabeth ..9, 17, 35, 39 
 Elisabeth (Rhodes) 35 
 
 Huldah 18 
 
 Jeremiah 37 
 
 Jo 32 
 
 Job 17 
 
 John 17, 33, 45 
 
 Jos 33 
 
 Joseph 7, 19, 22 
 
 Joshua 17 
 
 Lydia 34 
 
 Lydia (Rhodes) ....34 
 
 Mary 39 
 
 Mehitable 35 
 
 Mehitable (Coney) .37 
 Molley (Haden) ...45 
 
 (Mrs.) (Thorp) 9 
 
 Samll 9, 17 
 
 Sarah 34 
 
 Sarah (Barns) 7 
 
 Sarah (Thorp) 30 
 
 W— 30 
 
 Rich 
 
 Dll 30 
 
 Jacob 30 
 
 Oliver 29 
 
 W 29 
 
 Richards [Richard] 
 
 Aaron 35 
 
 Achsa 48 
 
 Ann 16 
 
 Ann (Coney) 22 
 
 Anna . ..14. 35. 37, 41 
 Benjamin ..20-22,24, 
 28, 32, 33, 35. 27, 
 39, 41, 48, 51, 52 
 
 Bernice 33 
 
 Betsey 41, 47 
 
 Daniel 5-7, 9, 
 
 12, 14, 22-25, 31. 
 
 32, 34. 38, 41. 44. 46 
 62 
 
 David 15, 41 
 
 Ebenezer 6, 35, 
 
 36, 38, 41, 44 
 Edward ....23, 24, 34 
 
 Elijah 15, 32, 38 
 
 Elisabeth ...20, 22, 45 
 
 Francis 49 
 
 Hannah ...7, 9, 30, 45 
 
 Jabez 25, 48 
 
 Jeremiah ... 5, 8, 12, 
 
 18, 32, 41-43. 45.47-49 
 
 Joel 39, 44 
 
 John 5, 8, 21, 44 
 
 Joseph 47 
 
 Katee 41 
 
 Levi 35 
 
 Luke 28, 46 
 
 Luther 30 
 
 Mary . . .15, 21, 45, 46 
 Mary (Belcher) ....20 
 
 Mary (Bird) 44 
 
 Moses 35 
 
 Mrs 43 
 
 Nabbee 36 
 
 Nancy 31, 41 
 
 Noah 6, 8 
 
 On (Cumings) 15 
 
 Patience (Hawse) ..32 
 
 Polly 42, 51 
 
 Prudee 35 
 
 Ruthe (Billings) ...51 
 
 Sallee 41 
 
 Sarah 18, 23, 43 
 
 Solomon 36 
 
 Susannah ...25, 48, 49 
 W— 15, 16, 18, 
 
 19, 21, 23, 25, 30, 36 
 William ... 5, 6, 19, 51 
 Zibiah 43 
 
 Richardson 
 
 Amos 35 
 
 Dorothy (Vining) ..30 
 
 Jason 37 
 
 John 30 
 
 Lovis (Smith) 37 
 
 Mehitable (Rhodes) 35 
 Tabitha 10 
 
 Ring 
 
 Annis 48 
 
 Ripley 
 
 Jane 24 
 
 Robins 
 
 Ebenezer 7 
 
 Elizabeth (Savel) ..17 
 
 Ensign 17 
 
 Margaret 16 
 
 PrisceUa (Covill) ...7 
 Zekill 5 
 
 Robinson 
 
 Colonel 15 
 
 Rogers 
 
 Abigl 31 
 
 [Elisabeth] Hannah 38 
 
 Johannah 10 
 
 Olive 37 
 
 (Widow) II 
 
 Ruso 
 
 Mr 20 
 
Mrs 26 
 
 Rynolds [See Raynolds] 
 
 Benj 48 
 
 Catherine 49 
 
 Hannah (Everet) ..48 
 Sampson 
 
 Deborah 14 
 
 Savage 
 
 Cloe (Cobb) 31 
 
 James 38 
 
 Jesse 16 
 
 Mary 24 
 
 Mr 12, 35 
 
 Nathan 12, 37, 38 
 
 W— 16, 31 
 
 Savcl [Savell, Savil] 
 
 Abigail 15 
 
 Anna (Hewins) . . . .49 
 
 B 29 
 
 Benjamin .14, 16, 18, 
 19, 21, 25, 27, 30, 43 
 
 Dn 28, 32 
 
 Ed. 25 
 
 Ed. Bridge 15, 19 
 
 Edward 17, 21 
 
 Elisabeth 17, 25 
 
 Hannah 14 
 
 Jerusha 27 
 
 John 21, 49 
 
 Joseph 29 
 
 Mary ... .6, 17, 21, 40 
 Mary (Richards) ...15 
 
 Ned 27 
 
 Olive 19 
 
 Oliver 18 
 
 Sally 47 
 
 Sarah 8, 16 
 
 Susannah 25, 49 
 
 Unice 27 
 
 William 15 
 
 Scipio 
 
 ^— 46 
 
 Shepherd [.Shcphard] 
 Betsey (Richardb) ..47 
 
 Oliver 50 
 
 Mrs SO 
 
 Susannah (Baker) .50 
 
 Thos 47 
 
 Smith 
 
 Ame (Withingtoii) .40 
 
 Dr 45 
 
 Ellis 50 
 
 Ephraim 40 
 
 Ezra 27 
 
 Hannah 5, 11 
 
 Hepzibah (Clap) ...40 
 
 Irena 50 
 
 Is 51 
 
 Iscll 50 
 
 Israel 18, 20, 
 
 23. iZ, 36, 45 
 
 Jacob 36 
 
 Jane 50 
 
 Joel 23 
 
 John .. .5, 6, 32, 23, 27 
 
 Joseph 31 
 
 Levi 20, 50 
 
 LiflFe 40 
 
 Lois 3S 
 
 Lovis 37 
 
 Mary 17, 34, 35 
 
 Molley 51 
 
 Nabby ^:^ 
 
 Priscilla 40 
 
 Rebecca 34 
 
 Rebeccah (Puffer) ..31 
 
 [Sabel] 36 
 
 Samll 8 
 
 (Widow) 33 
 
 Wll 9 
 
 ZibWe 50 
 
 Zippcrow (Bullard) .45 
 
 Zipporah 50 
 
 Spooner 
 
 Walter 37 
 
 Stacey 
 
 Elisth (Woods) 13 
 
 Saml 13 
 
 Stearns 
 
 Abigail 12 
 
 Ebenezer ....5-7, 9, 12 
 
 Joshua 9 
 
 Mary 6 
 
 Mr 26 
 
 Sarah 9 
 
 Stickney 
 
 Mary 24 
 
 Stone 
 
 Sarah 6, 8 
 
 Sumner 
 
 Elisabeth 13 
 
 Hannah 13, 22 
 
 Hepzibah 14 
 
 J 22 
 
 Jesse 19 
 
 John 13, 14, 
 
 18, 19, 26 
 
 Mary 32 
 
 Roger 26 
 
 Sarah 26 
 
 William 13 
 
 Swift 
 
 Abigail 31 
 
 Amos 37 
 
 Anna (Hewins) ....51 
 
 Asa 44 
 
 Azuba 33 
 
 Charity 10, 12 
 
 Cypha 28 
 
 Damaris 36 
 
 David 43 
 
 Eben 36 
 
 Elisabeth (C.uile) ...37 
 
 Elisabeth 47 
 
 Experience 16 
 
 Jereh 47 
 
 Jirah . .8, 26, 28-30, zi 
 
 Jo 29 
 
 Job 5, 6, 8, 
 
 10-12, 25, 28-30, 
 37, 38, 41. 43-45. 47 
 
 John 41 
 
 Jos 34 
 
 Joseph 47 
 
 Joshua 6, 26- 
 
 34. 36, 38, 4« 
 Mary (Hewins) ....26 
 
 Patience 5, 41 
 
 Philip 12, 38 
 
 Rebeccah jo 
 
 63 
 
 Rebeccah (Cummins) 
 
 „ 25 
 
 Richard 47 
 
 Samuel 6, 28, 51 
 
 Sarah 13 
 
 Susannah ...12, 16, 45 
 
 Unity II, 28 
 
 WaitstiM (Lyon) ....26 
 
 (Wd.) 36 
 
 Wiot (Wyoth) 30 
 
 Talbot [Taulburt, Tol- 
 bot] 
 
 Betsey 47 
 
 Catherine (Rynolds) 49 
 
 Enoch 47, 49 
 
 Hannali 47 
 
 Jerusha 6 
 
 Josiah ...ZT, 47, 49, 51 
 
 Lucee 49 
 
 Nathaniel 47 
 
 Susannah 47 
 
 Susannah (Morse) ..Z7 
 
 Warren 51 
 
 Thayer 
 
 Peter 48 
 
 Unity (Hixson) 48 
 
 Thompson 
 
 Saml 38, 39 
 
 Sarah (Hewins) 38, 39 
 Thomson 
 
 Beulah (White) 43 
 
 Luther 43 
 
 Thorp 
 
 (Mrs.) 9 
 
 Sarah 30 
 
 Thresher, [Thracher, 
 Thrasher] 
 
 Mary 51, 52 
 
 Mary (Hixson) ....49 
 
 Richard sr 
 
 Zelotes 51, 52 
 
 Tilden 
 
 [Widow] 38 
 
 Tisdal [Tisdale, Tis- 
 dall] 
 
 Anna 48 
 
 Betsey 47 
 
 Ed 32 
 
 Hannah 30 
 
 Lieut 42 
 
 Ned 35 
 
 Priscilla 31 
 
 Ruth 23, 24 
 
 Ruth (Harlow) 32 
 
 Tolman [Toleman] 
 
 [ - ] 6 
 
 Betsey 43 
 
 Capt 20 
 
 Daniell 16 
 
 Elisabeth 10, 23 
 
 Esther 41 
 
 Esther (Tolman) ...41 
 
 Experience 9 
 
 Hannah (Fuller) ....6 
 Hannah (Rogers) ..38 
 
 Isaiah 6, 8, 16 
 
 James 38 
 
 Jemima 29 
 
 Jo 37 
 
 Jo«I 49 
 
John 36 
 
 Joseph 37 
 
 Margaret (Robins) .16 
 
 Mary S, lo, 11 
 
 Mary (Savell) 6 
 
 Mrs 13 
 
 Otis 4- 
 
 Sarah 36, 5° 
 
 Samuel 12. 38 
 
 Spencer 3<> 
 
 Thos 4' 
 
 W — 10, II, 
 
 16, 36. 38. -13 
 
 William 610, 
 
 12, 13, 4-. 49 
 
 Tomson [Tompson] 
 
 Mary (Billings) 41 
 
 Rachel 40 
 
 Ralph 4f 
 
 Tour [Tower J 
 
 Lucy 33 
 
 Tribou 
 
 — 4- 
 
 Amy (Belcher) 41 
 
 William 41 
 
 Tuckir 
 
 Judith 9 
 
 Tupper 
 
 Abigail '6 
 
 Anna (Capon) i- 
 
 Anne '» 
 
 Azuba 33 
 
 Benjamin S 
 
 Edward 33 
 
 Elisabeth »<> 
 
 Ilanh 33. 34 
 
 John '3 
 
 Mary 21, 22 
 
 Mrs 25 
 
 Patience ^3 
 
 R 33 
 
 Rebeccah -4 
 
 Remember 5. ' - 
 
 Reuben 10, 12, 
 
 16, 22, 33 
 
 Simeon 12-14. 16 
 
 Thomas 8, 14. 22 
 
 Turner 
 
 Ester (Noise) 3' 
 
 Kizia •" 
 
 Joseph 3 ' 
 
 Tuttle 
 
 Huldah (Allin) 3^ 
 
 Levi 32 
 
 Vining 
 
 Dorothy 3o 
 
 Wadsworth 
 
 Esther 5 
 
 Ware [Wares] 
 
 Molley ■»' 
 
 Patty 'i' 
 
 Warrin 
 
 Wd '' 
 
 Waters 
 
 Saml ''3 
 
 Sarah (Richards) ..43 
 
 Zebnlon 48 
 
 ZJlpha (LoveO 48 
 
 Welman 
 
 Phebe '^ 
 
 Wendell 
 
 Elizabeth 24 
 
 Wentworth 
 
 Hannah (Pettingal) 12 
 
 Josiah 12 
 
 White 
 
 Benjamin 16, 20, 25, 36 
 
 Beulah 25, 43 
 
 David 6, 22, 35 
 
 Deborah (Fuller) ..28 
 
 Elisabeth 32 
 
 £r 28 
 
 John 6, 9, 13 
 
 Jonathan o 
 
 Jos 36 
 
 Joseph 17, 42 
 
 Levi 13, 42 
 
 Louis (Morse) 22 
 
 Lydia (Johnson) ...42 
 
 Martha 14 
 
 Mary i6, 32 
 
 Mehitablc 16 
 
 Mella (Capen) 42 
 
 Moses 16, 38 
 
 Saml 20 
 
 Sarah 16, 29 
 
 Sarali (Drake) 17 
 
 Simeon 13 
 
 Susannah (Allin) ...38 
 Wliitney 
 
 Mehitablc (Kacon) .18 
 
 Nancv 3t' 
 
 Thos." 18 
 
 Whittemore [Whitemore, 
 WhittimoreJ 
 
 Edmund 27 
 
 Hannah 49 
 
 Jessee 35. 4S 
 
 Joseph 22 
 
 Joshua 16, 17, 
 
 19, 22, 40, 42, 44-49 
 
 Lois 44 
 
 Louis [Lois] (Morse) 42 
 
 Mr 20, 27, 35 
 
 Mrs 16, 19, 39. 51 
 
 Pelatiah 15 
 
 Ruth (Johnson) 48 
 
 Saml 17 
 
 Sarah 40 
 
 Sarah (ilackintosh) 
 
 40 
 
 Susannah ...i6, 20, 39 
 Susannah (Payson) 16 
 
 Whyton 
 
 Comfort 15 
 
 Grace (McFaden) ..15 
 
 Willis 
 
 Jerh 5 
 
 Jonathan 10, 12 
 
 Mary 10 
 
 Rebecca 12 
 
 Remember (Tupper) .5 
 Solomon 26 
 
 Wimble 
 
 Polly 37 
 
 Wintworth 
 
 Leml 39 
 
 Lydia 4' 
 
 Susannah (Whitte- 
 more) 3^ 
 
 64 
 
 Wither 
 
 Elijah 27 
 
 P 27 
 
 Witherby 
 
 David 3S 
 
 Eunice (Kingman) .35 
 
 Witherson 
 
 Joseph 30 
 
 Witherton 
 
 Catee 39 
 
 Ebenr 25, 48 
 
 Elisabeth 24 
 
 Esther 36 
 
 Hannah 47, 50 
 
 Mary 9 
 
 Nat 49 
 
 Newil 39 
 
 P 23. =5. 33. 46 
 
 Philip 33, 25, 
 
 35. 36, 39. 47, 50 
 
 Rebeccah 47 
 
 Sarah 26 
 
 W— 24. 26, 
 
 29, 32, 34 
 
 William 34, 49 
 
 Zilpah (Hixson) ....49 
 
 Withington [Witthing- 
 ton, Withinton] 
 
 Arae 40 
 
 Elisabeth (Richards) 20 
 
 Hannah 21 
 
 Nathaniell 22 
 
 P 21 
 
 Philip 19, 20, 31 
 
 Rebeccah 20 
 
 Rebeccali (I'uller) ..19 
 
 W 20, 22 
 
 William 20, 21 
 
 Wood [Whood] 
 
 Abh 8 
 
 David 38 
 
 Deborah 5 
 
 Dorrity 25 
 
 Elisabeth 13 
 
 Jo 38 
 
 John 5 
 
 Joseph 9, 38 
 
 Levi 31 
 
 Mary (Lyon) 25 
 
 Mrs 43 
 
 Sarah 10, 32 
 
 W 9, 10, 13 
 
 William 5, 45 
 
 Zephiniah 25 
 
 Woodcock 
 
 Abigail 6 
 
 Mary 22 
 
 Nathll 9 
 
 Woods [Whoods] 
 
 Benjamin 8 
 
 Elisth 13 
 
 W 8 
 
 Woodward 
 
 Mary (Fuller) 21 
 
 Noah 2 1 
 
 Wormwell 
 
 Mrs 38 
 
 Write 
 
 Mr 35 
 
 Mrs 35 
 
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