Essex Town (part 4 of 26)

JohnAitkins of Gloucester ; priv., Capt. Barnabas Dodge's co.. Col. Gerrish's (later Baldwin's) 38th reg. ; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775 ; enl. May 24, 1775 : service, g weeks, 6 dys. ; also, return of men in service Nov. 10, 1775, who are entitled to draw bounty coat.

John Akiss of Newbury ; priv., Capt. Joshua French's co.. Col. Edward Wigglesworth's reg. ; pay abstract for mileage, Albany to Newbury, dated Jan. 30, 1777.

Sawtell Alexander of Haverhill ; descriptive list of men raised to reinforce Continental Army for 6 mos., agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780 ; age, 35 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., 8 in. ; complexion, dark ; arrived at Springfield July i, 1780; marched to camp July 2, 1780, under command of Capt. Phineas Parker ; also, list of men raised for 6 mos. service and returned by Brig.-gen. Paterson as having passed muster, return dated Camp Totoway, Oct. 25, 1780.

Samuel Alinwood of Gloucester ; priv., Capt. Charles' (6th) co.. Col. James AVesson's reg. ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. i, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779.

William Alld of Newbury (also given Massebeseck) ; descriptive Hst of enl. men raised agreeable to resolve of April 20, [778; age, 29 yrs.; stature, 5 ft., 10 in.; complexion, dark ; hair, black ; eyes, blue.

Davis Allem of Beverly ; seaman, ship ''Resource," commanded by Capt. Richard Ober ; descriptive list of officers and crew, dated Sept. 11, 1780 ; age, 29 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., 7 in. ; complexion, dark.

Andrew Allen of Ipswich (also given Gloucester) ; Capt. Gideon Parker's co., Col. Moses Little's reg. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, July 2, 1775 - also, priv.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enl. May 29, 1775; service, 2 mos., 8 dys. ; also, co. return dated Oct. 8, 1775; 3ge, 18 yrs.; also, order for bounty coat dated Prospect Hill, Nov. 28, 1775 ; also, return of men in Capt. Parker's co. ; enl. Jan. i, iTj6 ; also, return of equipments July 10, 1777.

Andrew Allen of W' enham ; priv., Capt. Richard Peabody's co.. Col. Edward Wigglesworth's reg. ; pay abstract for travel from Ticonderoga home, in 1776.

Andrew Allen of Salem ; priv., Capt. Simeon Brown's co.. Col. Nathaniel W^ade's reg.; enl. July 30, 1778; dis. Jan. I, 1779; service, 5 mos., 6 dys., on an alarm at Rhode Island ; stationed at East Greenwich ; reported, a tailor.

Davis Allen of Beverly; descriptive list of men enl. from Essex co. in 1779 to serve in Continental Army ; age, 34 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft,, 8 in. ; complexion, dark ; also, muster-master's receipt dated Boxford, Dec. 8, 1779; returned by John Gushing, muster-master for Essex co. ; enl. for 9 mos. for Beverly.

Glover's reg. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, June 27, 1775; alsoy priv. ; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enl. June 20, 1 775 ; service, i mo., 8 dys. j also, CO. return [probably Oct., 1775]; also, order for bounty coat dated Camp at Cambridge, Dec. 20, 1775.

Edward Allen of Salem ; descriptive list, dated July i, 1780, of officers and crew of ship "Jack," commanded by Capt. Nathan Brown ; age, 24 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., 4 in. ; complexion, hght.

Hooper Allen of Manchester ; priv., Capt. Haffield White's co.. Col. Rufus Putnam's (4th) reg. ; muster return dated Albany, Feb. 9, 1778; mustered by Squire Cushing ; also, Continental Army pay accounts for service from Feb. 19, 1777, to Feb. 19, 1780; enl., 3 yrs.

Isaac Allen of Manchester; priv., Capt. Hart's co., Col. Paul Dudley Sargent's reg.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enl. May 18, 1775; service, 74 dys. ; also, Capt. John Wiley's co., Col. Sargent's reg. ; order for bounty coat dated Dec. 13, 1775.

Jacob Allen of Cape Ann ; Capt. John Row's CO., Col. Ebenezer Bridge's (27th) reg. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, June 28, 1775; also, priv.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enl. June 3, 1775; service, 2 mos., 3 dys.; also, CO. return [probably Oct., 1775].

Jacob Allen of Danvers (also given Salem) ; Capt. Gideon Foster's co., Col. John Mansfield's reg. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, July 4, 1775 ; also, priv.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enl. May 8, 1775 ; service, 3 mos.; also.

Capt. Baker's co.. Col. Mansfield's reg. ; CO. return [probably Oct., 1775] ; also, Capt. John Baker's co.. Col. Israel Hutchinson's (19th) reg.; order for bounty coat dated Winter Hill, Oct. 27,

James Allen of Manchester; priv., Capt. Joseph Whipple's co. ; enl. July 13, 1775; dis. Dec. 31, 1775; service, 6 mos., 3 dys. ; stationed at Manchester and Gloucester.

Jeremiah Allen of Manchester ; Capt. Hart's CO., Col. Paul Dudley Sargent's reg. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, July, 1775; also, priv.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enl. May 15, 1775 ; service, 77 dys.; also, Capt. John Wiley's co.. Col. Sargent's reg. ; order for bounty coat dated Dec. 13, 1775.

John Allen of Manchester; priv., Capt. Andrew Marsters' co., which marched on alarm of April 19, 1775, to Medford ; service, 3 dys. ; also, Capt. Hart's CO., Col. Paul Dudley Sargent's reg.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enl. May 17, 1775; service, 75 dys.; also, Capt. John Wiley's co.. Col. Sargent's reg. ; order for bounty coat dated Dec. 13, 1775.

John Allen of Manchester; priv., Capt. Joseph Whipple's co. ; enl. July 13, 1775; dis. Dec. 31, 1775; service, 6 mos., 3 dys. ; stationed at Manchester and Gloucester.

Contractions In Colonial Writings

Joseph Allen of Newbury ; priv., Capt. Gideon Woodwell's co., which marched on alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge ; service, 6 dys. ; returned home April 23, 1775.

Joseph Allen of Bradford (also given Falmouth and Methuen) ; return of men enl. into Continental Army from Capt. Jones' (2d) CO., Essex co. reg., dated Methuen, Feb. 13, 1778; residence, Falmouth ; enl. for Methuen ; joined Capt. Ballard's co.. Col. Alden's reg. ; enl., 3 yrs., to expire Jan. i, 1780; also, priv., Capt. William H. Ballard's co., Col. Brooks' (late Alden's) 6th reg. ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from March 4, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; residence, Bradford ; credited to Methuen ; also, muster roll for March and April, 1779, dated Cherry Valley; also, Capt. White's co.. Col. Brooks' reg. ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. i, 1780, to March 4, 1780. To be continued.

Will Of John Sanders

The will of John Sanders of Salem was proved in the Salem quarterly court 28 : 10: 1643. The following copy is taken from the originar instrument on file in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem, book I, leaf 18.

new built on the Commons fide right over a gainft it when he Come to the age of one & twentie yeers or at the death of his mother with the Aker And halfe of middow ground adioyning to it and I do be truft my father Jofeph Graften & goodman Hardie to fee this my will & ded performed mad in the yeere 1643 y® 28 of October.*

Contractions In Colonial By Sidkey Perley

Contractions are other than the authorized abbreviations of words. These were common during the first century of our history, and only gradually became obsolete.

A horizontal line written above a letter denoted that one or more letters which should have followed had been omitted. This was the ordinary rule when "mm " or " nn " were written together, and one "m"or*'n" only, with the line above it, would be written. It is rarely or never found written above the full-height letters, such as b, d, t, etc. For example, the word "manner" was written "maner."

the will is written by the clerk of the court: "Teftifyed upon oaths in Court & alfo yt the fd Jno Sandrs Left all the Reft of his eftate to his wyfe."

The article "ye" needs explanation. It is really " the", and should be so pronounced. The y in this word represents the Anglo-Saxon character which was equivalent to the English "th". When the Old English black-letter type replaced the Anglo-Saxon letters in the printing of Enghsh words, from its close resemblance to the Anglo-Saxon character for "th" the Old English Q was substituted for it, and continued to be so used so long that people became accustomed to using the y for " th " in writing the article " the " and some other words.

77. Information wanted of William Peter, said to be brother of the celebrated Hugh. A William Peter had an account with the Plymouth company in 1628.

78. Wanted, to locate the living descendants of John, Nehemiah and George, sons of NehemJah and Eleanor (Porter) Abbott4 of Topsfield, Mass. ; also, of John and Martha (Whiting) Abbott^, and Jeremiah and Polly (Jaqueth) Abbott^, brothers, of Ashby, Mass., about 1 800 ; also, of Sewell and Dorothy (House) Abbott^, Aaron and Martha (Bush) Abbott^

Capt. Pliny and Anna (Gillett) Abbott^ all of New Braintree, Mass., about 1800 ; also, of Nathaniel Abbott^ of Falmouth, Me., about 1800 ; and, also, of Joseph and Anna Abbott^ of Newburyport, Mass., about 1825 ; all of whom were descendants of George Abbott, who was one of the first settlers of Rowley, Mass., in 1639. L. A. A.

79. Abraham Redington, living in Rowley, or Boxford, Mass., in 1645, died in 1697. Any information regarding him prior to the first date, or his birth and parentage, is earnestly desired.

24. Sarah Hart, who married George Norton Oct. 7, 1669, was a daughter of Thomas and Alice Hart, and was born in Ipswich in 1647. Thomas Hart was a tanner by trade, and one of the earlier settlers of Ipswich, being one of the commoners in 1 64 1. He was born in 1606, and died in Ipswich March 8, 1673-4. His wife, Alice, born in 161 2, died June 8, 1682. - ^^.

36. Rev. Hugh Peters^ minister of Salem about 1636, afterwards executed by Charles II., had a brother William^ of Boston, and was a son of Wilham Peters^ of Torrey, Cornwall, England. The young men came over in 1634. William's^ son Andrew3, of Ipswich and Andover, came here some time after the arrival of Mary Beamsley, and an amusing account of Andrew's3 arrival and first experience of Boston mud is given in a private manuscript belonging to Rev. Anson Titus. He is called a young Holland by the lady who was watching, and his notice was attracted, leading to a marriage. Boston records would probably give other facts and dates. - C. H. Abbott, Andover.

By Sidney Perley

The Society of Friends, or Quakers, known Quaker, or any other blasphemous has always been small, probably on ac- heretics" under a fine of one hundred count of the absence of much that at- pounds, or imprisonment until it was tracts people to membership in other paid, and to return such Quakers to religious bodies, and the simplicity and the place from which they were taken, quietness of their lives. They have Quakers that came from without the neither creed, liturgy, clergy, nor sacra- court's jurisdiction were ordered to be ment ; have given to woman a place committed to the house of correction, equal to that of man ; have sought to being severely whipped at their entrance, eliminate war, oaths, and litigation ; and and kept constantly at work, no one behave always been a sober, industrious, ing suffered to speak to them during thrifty, and truth-loving people. the time of their imprisonment, " which

The Society was founded by George shall be no longer than necessity re- Fox, in England, who began to preach in quireth." It was further ordered that if 1648; and about the first of July, 1656, any person knowingly imported into any Quakers first arrived in New England, harbor of the colony " any Quaker books landing at Boston. They were put into or writings concerning their DeviHsh prison as soon as they reached the shore, opinions," they should be fined five and their books burned in the market pounds for each and every such book or place. There was as yet no statute writing ; " and whoever shall disperse or against such believers, but the general conceal any such book or writing and it court convened, and, October 14th, be found with him or her or in his or her passed such an act, the preamble being house, and shall not immediately deliver as follows : - it into the next magistrate " is to be proaching and reviling magistrates and house of correction till there be convenministers, seeking to turn the people lent passage to send them out of the first in Essex county to become interested in the new faith, she being admonished by the quarterly court, June 30, 1657, for absenting herself from the church services. Their home was in the neighborhood of Aborn street, on the present Peabody line ; Mr. Southwick being a manufacturer of glass and earthen ware.

The first missionary of the Friends in Essex county, as far as the writer has learned, was Josiah Hobart, who was preaching at Cape Ann Side (now Beverly) that summer, and there, probably, Mrs. Southwick heard the Quaker evangelist.

In that eventful summer, a Quaker craft, called the "Wood house," sailed from England to Boston, bearing among its passengers, Christopher Holder, William Brend, and a young man named John Copeland, names ever to be associated with the history of Salem. Holder and Copeland came to Salem a few weeks later, and being hospitably received by the Southwick family, the latter were committed to prison. Mr. Southwick was soon released to be dealt with by the church, but his wife served seven weeks and was let out upon paying a fine.

At the close of the church service, Sept. 21, 1657, Holder and Copeland attempted to address the congregation, but were seized and held until the following day when they were sent to Boston, where they received thirty stripes, inflicted with a knotted scourge, left three days without food or drink, and then imprisoned nine weeks.

Samuel Shattuck, whose house is still standing, and numbered 315 Essex street, opposed the arrest of Holder, and he, too, was imprisoned at Boston till he was released on bail.

These two preachers had their right ears cut off in Boston, Copeland was scourged at Plymouth, and in 1659, Holder was banished on pain of death. Soon after his arrival in America, Copeland said, in a letter to his parents, " Take no thought for me. The Lord's power hath over-shadowed me, and man I do not fear ; for my trust is in the Lord who is become our shield and buckler, and exceeding great reward."

Oct. 14, 1657, another law was enacted, providing that if any Quaker should return after having been punished under the former law, he should have one of his ears cut off, and be kept at work in the house of correction till he be sent away at his own charge ; and for a second offence, to have his other ear cut off, and kept at the house of correction as in the first instance ; and every Quakeress to be whipped instead of suffering the loss of her ears ; and for a third offence, whether male or female, their tongue should be bored with a hot iron, and they be kept at the house of correction as in former convictions.

William Brend,* who came in the vessel with Holder and Copeland, was a man of three-score and ten years. He began his missionary labors in Rhode Island, and worked his way toward Boston, preaching the gospel of repentance as he went. While passing through Plymouth he was severely scourged, his age exciting no compassion in the breasts of his persecutors. He continued north, and held meetings in Salem with William Leddra,t who is said to have been a Cornishman, though his home was in Barbadoes, and who, also, had come to New England as a Quaker preacher.

They were welcomed by several famihes in Salem, who sympathised with the new faith, Lawrence Southwick's and Nicholas Phelps' being the most prominent among them. Meetings were held, at which the strangers preached of repentance and forgiveness of sins through Christ, and of the joy of the spiritual life.

parts?" They answered, "To seek a godly seed. The Lord God said, 'Pass away to New England.' " At the same terra of the court, June, 1658, they were presented for being at a " disorderly meeting " at the house of Nicholas Phelps, during the time of the service of the church. Mr. Phelps lived in Salem, near Phelps' crossing (now in West Peabody), arwl about five miles from Salem town. The preachers made their escape from the meeting, but were apprehended and brought to court. Upon their acknowledgment that they were Quakers, they were sent to the house of correction.

This meeting was probably held before May 19, 1658, when a new law was passed, providing that " Quakers and such accursed heretics arising among ourselves may be dealt with according to their deserts, and that their pestilential errors and practices may speedily be prevented." The act provided " that every such person professing any of their pernicious ways by speaking or writing, or by meeting on the Lord's day or any other time to strengthen themselves or reduce others to their diabolical doctrines," shall be fined, every person so meeting ten shillings, everyone speaking in such meeting five pounds, and any such person who has been punished by scourging or whipping under former laws to be kept at work in the house of correction till they give bond with sureties " that they will not any more vent their hateful errors or use their sinful practices," or else shall depart out of the jurisdiction and stay there.

All those present at this Quaker meeting were summoned into court, and a large number of them came in and stood with their hats on, until the officer pulled them off. Nicholas Phelps, Lawrence Southwick and his wife and son Josiah, Samuel Shattuck, Samuel Gaskin* and Joshua Buffum stood up in the open court, in the face of this law and of the magistrates, and made "a good confession " that they were Quakers. Mr. Phelps uttered a few words in defence of the meeting ; and for daring thus to answer was fined. For their connection with the meeting and for professing the Quaker faith, all seven were sent to the house of correction in Boston. Others at this meeting and fined were Mrs. Anthony Needham, Mrs. Nicholas Phelps, Mrs. Joseph Pope, Henry Trask, Daniel Southwick, Thomas Brackett, Mrs. Samuel Shattuck, Mrs. Isaac Page of Salem and Robert Adams of Newbury; and Provided Southwick was sentenced to sit by her heels in the stocks an hour besides being fined. Others present who were not punished were Mrs. Henry Trask, Mrs. George Gardner, John Southwick, Joseph Pope, Anthony Needham, Edward Wharton, Mrs. Robert Buffum and John Hill.

All through the score of years that followed, these people, with new sympathisers from time to time, were brought before the court and fined for " absence from meeting," sometimes heavily, as in the case of Mrs. Phelps, who was fined, in 1659, ten pounds.

The preachers, Brend and Leddra, were confined at Boston. While imprisoned, Brend was so brutally beaten with a pitched rope by the jailer, who had kept him without food for five days and most cruelly fettered him, that he was apparently dying. Endicott was alarmed, and summoned a physician, who concluded that the prisoner was beyond recovery. The floggings in the prison had been repeatedly so cruel, that at the terrible scourging in this instance, the public became so indignant, that the officials released the Quaker prisoners, Brend, Leddra and others, and banished them on pain of death.

But the unseen Healer had more labors in store for the aged Brend, and he rose from his sick cot, and left the colony, afterwards preaching in Rhode Island and the West Indies. In 1662, he was one of the hundreds of Friends confined in of the Lamb, look over all weakness in the heat of the summer, from their husone another, as God doth look over all the bandry. After three weeks' imprisonweakness in every one of us, and doth love ment, they wrote to the Salem court as

Leddra returned into the colony a year ure to commit us, whose names are underlater, was arrested and kept chained in the written, to the house of correction in Bosopen prison in Boston for many months, ton, although the Lord, the righteous notwithstanding the inclemency of a New Judge of Heaven and Earth, is our witness England winter, while awaiting the exe- that we have done nothing worthy of cution of his sentence of death. stripes or of bonds ; and we being com- thirst patiently, be not weary, neither strangers, and not to put us on the acdoubt ; stand still and cease from thy count of one law, and execute another law the season and the time of year, for those them of their errors, that live of husbandry, and what their cat- On this same day (Oct. 19, 1658), the things lie upon us to lay before you. As wife depart out of the jurisdiction " befor our parts we have true peace and rest fore the first day of the court of election

" Lawrence Southick, death, banishment or bonds, or any of Cassandra Southick, the hardships or ignominious punish- Josiah Southick, ments which they had suffered in their Samuel Shattock, persons, besides theloss of a large amount Joshua Buffum." of money and property that had been Whether or not Gaskin had been re- taken to pay fines. The governor was leased, the writer has not learned, but his silenced ; but Major-general Dennison name is not seen again in connection with made this unanswerable reply, that tliey the others. Neither does it appear why stood against the authority of the country Nicholas Phelps did not sign this letter, in not submitting to its laws; that "they Soon after, the prisoners were transferred and the church people are not able well to the Ipswich house of correction. to live together; at present the power is Oct. 19, 1658, the general court, be- in our hand, and therefore the strongest coming convinced that the terrible laws must fend off." The sentence of banishthat had been enacted were insufficient to ment was then pronounced upon them, stop the preaching of the Quakers, and and only two weeks' time was allowed in " for the further prevention of infection which to settle their affairs and bid goodand guiding of people in the truth," by forever to their families and friends passed a law banishing all persons " favor- and home.

cles, the fines of the court having taken much of their estate, secured a boat and sailed southward along the coast. They finally built a little house on Shelter Island, in Long Island Sound ; and there passed the few months of their exile. The privation and exposure that they experienced during the rigorous winter that followed was too severe for their aged and weakened bodies, and both died in the following spring, his wife surviving him three days.

On the day that Lawrence Southwick and his wife and friends were sentenced to banishment, the court ordered that Mr. and Mrs. Southwick's younger children, Daniel, aged twenty-two, and Provided, aged eighteen, be sold into slavery to the English in Virginia or Barbadoes. This was because these young people could not pay the heavy fines imposed upon them " for siding with the Quakers, and absenting themselves from public ordinances," and as a means of satisfaction of the fines. They were offered for sale as slaves to the sea captains who might carry them to the West Indies and dispose of them at a profit. But no one would buy them ; and the brother and sister were released.

Whittier wrote a ballad on this incident, entitling it with the mother's name, *' Cassandra Southwick," instead of the daughter's. He represents Provided as being offered for sale near the wharves in the presence of Endicott, Rawson, Higginson, and many others. An old woodcut illustrating it is reproduced herewith.

Josiah Southwick and Joshua Buffum went to Rhode Island, the home of many an exile from the Massachusetts Bay colony. Southwick returned from banishment, and, Sept. 9, i65i, was ordered by the court of assistants to be stripped from his girdle upwards, tied to a cart's tail, and whipped ten stripes in each of the towns of Boston, Roxbury and Dedham. When sentenced to a severe scourging, he said : " Here is my body ; if you want a further testimony to the truth I profess, take it and tear it in pieces ; your sentence is no more terrifying to me than if you had taken a feather and blown it in the air."

Samuel Shattuck and Nicholas Phelps took advantage of an opportunity that offered, four days later, to sail for England, with the intention of laying the whole matter before parliament ; and, late in 1 66 1, Shattuck secured and brought to New England a letter from the king requiring the colony to cease proceedings against the Quakers.

This letter caused a suspension of the obnoxious laws, and the prisoners were set at liberty. Simon Bradstreet and two other representatives of the colony were sent to England to inform his majesty of the prisoners' release, and to deprecate his displeasure. In 1675, however, the law was so far revived that persons attending Quaker meetings could be punished therefor ; and the death penalty was not repealed until 1681.

Other laws than those mentioned were in force. In Miy, 1657, the law forbidding hospitality to Quakers was passed ; and under it several persons were convicted. Among them was Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield, and Thomas Macy of Salisbury, in 1659, and John Emery of Newbury, in 1663. The Quakers whom they entertained were generally those that were on their way to the more hospitable wilderness of Maine. May 22, 1661, was enacted a law providing that Quakers without homes in the colony should be punished for the first offence by whipping, second, by branding, and third, by death.

It cannot seem strange that some of the sufferers under the Quaker laws should become so insane as to appear naked in public, under an idea that it was their duty to thus declare the lack of spiritual apparel of New England's established church.

Descendants Of Arthur Abbot Of Ipswich The Ancestor

While I meander in and out The labyrinth of ancient date, Sometimes I catch him on the fly ; Sometimes he goes sedately by, Or scans me closely with his eyes; Or greets me with a glad surprise That I should know him - strangers we. Where did we meet before? says he.

Descendants Of Arthur Abbot

Arthur Abbot' came from Totness, near the Ivy bridge, Devonshire, England, with the early settlers of Salem, and probably resided at Marblehead till 1633, when John Winthrop, jr., with twelve others (one of whom Mr. Abbot is said to have been) commenced the settlement of Ipswich. He died there between 1671 and 1679.

Arthur Abbot^, born about 1639. He was made a freeman in 1671. He was a farmer, and lived in Ipswich. He married Elizabeth White April 26, 1669. She was fined in 1675 ^o^ " wearing silk." He died after 1 7 1 6 ; and his wife survived him, dying, his widow, Feb. 17, 1738, aged ninety.

Philip Abbot3, born in Ipswich Aug. 30, 1672. He was a house-carpenter, and lived in Ipswich. He married Mary . He died after 1701 ; and his wife tit is probable that Moses Abbot of Boston was one of the children. He was the father of Rev. Hull Abbot of Chariest© wn. There was also, perhaps, a daughter Susannah.

Arthur Abbot4, born in Ipswich Feb. 3, 1693-4. He is called in his deeds, successively, cordwainer, innholder, yeoman, and gentleman. He lived in Ipswich, where he was a constable in 1729. He married, first, Widow Mercy (Appleton) Smith Sept. 16, 1 7 1 6. She died Sept. ii> 1733 ^ ^'^d he married, second, widow Priscilla Burnham of Ipswich May 23, 1734. He died in Ipswich, "advanced in years," June 16, 1767. She died there, his widow, June - , 1774.

4, 1766, when he is called a " sojourner "), and had the following children born in Gloucester: I/ull, born Aug. i, 1766; Mary Burr el, born July 12, 1768; married Vinery Parsons; Rachel, born Feb. 2, 1770; married Richard Whitridge ; 2in6. Bethiah, born Aug. 13, 1772; married Josiah Parsons. Hull's widow, Bethiah, was living in Gloucester in 1796.

Philip Abbot^, born in Ipswich April 5, 1752. He was a housewright, and lived in Ipswich. He married Sarah Hovey of Ipswich Dec. 6, 1773; and died Sept. 20, 1805. She died July 25, 1838.

Will Of Robert Andrews

The will of Robert Andrews of Ipswich was proved 26 : i : 1644. The following copy is taken from the record contained in Ipswich Deeds, volume i, leaf 6, the original being missing.

the firft of March 1643. In the name of god amen I Robert Andrewes of Ipfw^^ in New England being of pfect vnderftanding & memory doe make this my laft will & Teftament Imprmis I coment my foule into the hands of my mercifuU Creator & redeemer & I doe comitt my body after my departure out of this world to be buried in feeraly manner by my frends &c concerning my eftate Imprimis I doe make my eldeft fonne John Andrewes my executor Item I give vnto my wife Elizabeth Andrews forty pounds and to John Griffin the fonne of Humfry Griffin fixteene pounds to be paid vnto him when he fhalbe Twenty one yeares of age, & if he fhall dye before he comes to that age it fhall returne to my two fonnes John & Thomas Andrewes Item concerning my fonne Thomas Andrews my will is that he fhall live with his brother John Andrews three yeares two of which he fhalbe helpfuU to his brother John Andrewes in his hufbandry and the laftof the three yeares he fhall goe to.fchoole to recover his learning and if he fhall goe to the vniverfity or fhall fet himfelfe vpon fome other way of living his brother John fhall allow him ten pounds by the yeare for foure yeares & then fifteene pounds by the yeare for two years fucceeding after. Item concerning the fourefcore pounds which is to be paid vnto my fonne in lawe ifrancklins daughter Elizabeth ifrancklin my grandchild my will is that if fhe die before the debt is due it fhalbe thus difpofed ten pounds of it fhall goe to my fonne Daniell Hovies Child Daniell Hovey my grand child and the other feav[en]ty pounds fhalbe divided betweene my two fonnes John & Thomas Andrews and if thofe my Two fonnes fhould dye then thirty pounds fhould be divided betweene my kinfmen

John Thomas & Robert Burnum by equall porcons, & Twenty more fhould goe to Humphry Griffins Two other fonnes & the other Twenty fhall goe to Daniell Hovey. And becaufe my Ibnne John Andrewes is yet vnder age I doe comend him vnto Thomas Howlet as his Guardian vntill he fhall come of age.

Her Age

23'^ i ^77^^ in y^ j-j^ Year of his Age, My flesh and Heart, has faild And the spirit returned to God who did it give And Nothing cati I plead but mercy Purchest by the Lamb of God

See here the youth, whofe cheerful bloom Promis'd a train of years to come : When death derides th'' expected joyes. And all her Jiatf ring hope deftroyes.

IN memory of Lieu*. Ezekiel Goodridge who was killed at the capture of Burgoyne Oct. 7, 1777. ^t. 37 and of Molly his wife who died March 29, 1814. ^t. 65. . and of 6 of their children Elizabeth died Mar. i, 1778

Her Age

This In Memory of the REVd M^ ELISHA ODLIN the 3rd pastur of the First Church of christ In Almsbury Who After He Had Faithfully Discharg'd the pastural office For near a Daee of 8 Years Departed This LiFe January 21. 1752 In the 41 Year

Prepare To Die

Inventory of estate of George Habone, late of Hampton, deceased, dwelling house and land, live stock, etc., amounting to ;£i26. Appraised by Tho : Levitt his S mark and Robert Smith his R mark. Filed in court at Hampton 3 : 8 mo : 1 654.

Will of John Pike, sen., of Salisbury, weak in body ; dated May 24, 1654. I give my land in Newbury to my grandchild John Pike (under age), son of my eldest son John Pike. My land at y® new tdwne called by the name of the pitt,both upland and meadow, I give my grandchild John Pike (under age), son of my son Robert Pike. Gives to his daughters Dorothy, Ann, and Israeli, and their children. To my daughter-in-law, wife of my son John, and to her children, Joseph, Hanna, Mary and Ruth. To my daughter-in-law Sarah, wife of my son Robert, and to her children, Sarah, Dorathie, Mary and Elizabeth. To my tenant, Samuell More. My two sons, John and Robert, executors. Wit : Henry Mondey and y^ mark R of Jn° Ralfe. Proved in court at Hampton 3 : 8 mo : 1654.

Inventory of estate of John Pike, sen., deceased May 26, 1654, taken May 29, 1654, by Henry Mondey, John Ralfe (his i^/mark) and George Goldwyer (his o mark). House and land at old town in Newbury ; land at new town ; etc. Total amount, ;£2 3o 6j'. 10^. Sworn toby the executors.

Dorothy, daughter of abovesaid John Pike, and wife of Daniell Hendrick of Haverhill, acknowledged the receipt of her legacy, etc., June 10, 1654. Wit : Robert Clements and Henry Palmer.

Same, of Israel, daughter of said John Pike, and wife of Henry True of Salisbury, May I, 1655. She acknowledged it May I, 1655, and he 15 : 9 : 1655, before Tho : Bradbury, commissioner of Salisbury.

The marshall of Salem is directed to levy on goods of Richard Ormsby, in favor of John Godfrey, Aug. 10, 1662. Samuel Archard, the marshall, assigns it to Robert Lord, marshall of Ipswich, 24 : 7 : 1662. Oct. II, 1662, Robert Lord levied on the farm of Richard Ormsby, etc., the appraisers being John Severans of SaUsbury, John Emerie of Newbury, and said Lord.

John Wheelwrite of Hampton, conveyed to John Redman of Hampton, smith, 33 acres of land, bounded by Robert Page, Tho : Nudd (formerly Tho : Moulton's), Christopher Palmer, Nathaniel Batcheller, Henry Dowe, William ffifeild and Henry Moulton, 10 : 6 mo : 1654. Wit : Samuell ffogg and Stephen Samborn. Ack. before Willi : Estow and Jeffery Mingay, commissioners of Hampton.

Martha Sadler (her o mark) deposed that her husband Anthony Sadler, late of Salisbury, deceased, sold to Robert ffitts of Salisbury, land formerly Sam^ Hall's. Sworn to in court at Salisbury 12:2 mo : 1651.

Jn** Hoyt deposed that he heard Anthony Sadler say that he had received of Willi : Hooke full pay for some meadow sold to him. Martha Sadler deposed to the same effect. Sworn to in court at Salisbury 15 : 4 : 1653.

Martha Sadler alias Burbie deposed that she heard her husband Anthony Sadler, late deceased, say that he had sold to John Gill a house and lot in Salisbury, bounded by Jn° Bayly, sen., and Rodger Eastman and land formerly of Jn*' Hoyt. Sworn to in court at Salisbury 14 : 4 : agone Anthony Sadler and Jn° Gill were together at said Isaac's house when Sadler sold to Gill a house and a i-acre lot bounded by Rodger Eastman, Tho : Bradbury (sometimes Jn° Baylies), and Henry Browne (sometimes Willi Holdridgs) ; also, his right of commonage. Sworn to in court at Salisbury 17:4: 1653. Whereas Master Thomas Savage of Boston, merchant, at request of Richard Leader of Strauberry banke, gent., is bound with and for said Leader, to pay William Davis of Boston, apothecary, for Maj. Nehemiah Burne, - to secure said Savage Leader mortgages to him, house, land, etc., in Boston, and house and land at Strawberry bank in Pascatoquack, lately purchased of Ambros Lane. Dec. 18, 1652. Wit: W"^ Tinge, Robt Oateshall, Rhad Ridden and Nathaniel Souther, not pub cas.

Thomas Rucke of Boston, drap, for ;^7o, conveyed to Anthony Stanion of Hampton, planter, one-third of a mill work at Exeter falls, sometimes belonging to James Wall, and sold to Edward Colcord, and conveyed by Edward Colcord to the grantor. Dated Nov. 27, 1654. Also signed by EHsabeth Rucke (her E mark). Wit : William Lumpkin and Samuell Rucke. Ack. before Tho : Wiggin Nov. 28, 1654.

Joseph Merrie conveyed to Tho : Lilford of Haverhill March 17, 1648, 5 acres of land. Signed by mark of Joseph Merry -| and mark )r of Tho : Lilford. Wit : Jn° Ward and John Cass (his ^ mark).

Christopher Batt of Boston, tanner, with consent of my wife Ann, for ;^45, conveyed to Lt. Robert Pike of Salisbury, 20-acre planting lot in Salisbury, bounded by Mr. William Worcester, little river, and town common, 11:9 mo: 1651. Wit: John Sanders and Ann Batt. Ack. by *' Chriftopher Batt late of Salifbury & his wyfe m'" Ann Batt" before William Hibbins 14 : 4 : 1654.

Christopher Batt of Salisbury, gent, with consent of my wife Ann, for ;£^45, conveyed to Robert Pike of Salisbury 14- acre meadow lot in Salisbury, on north side of little river, and bounded by Edward ffrench, Oct. 10, 1650. Wit: John Sanders, Jn^ Rudduck and Georg Manig. Ack. by " Chriftopher Batt late of Salifbury & his wife m'" Ann Batt " before William Hibbins 14 : 4 : 1654.

M"^. Sam^ Dudley leases to Humphrey Wilson saw-mill on lessee's creek in Exeter, and saws in the hands of George Halsie, for 5^ years, for rent of 10,000 feet of pine boards per annum, 14 : 2 : 1654. Ack. in court at Salisbury, before Robert Clements, April 14, 1654.

Whereas, in 1645, two judgments were granted against Edward Colcord and Robert Tucke of Hampton, at the suit of William Paine of Ipswich, the execution issued thereon being served by deputymarshall Walter Roper upon said Colcord's house and all of his lands in Hampton^ including commonages, at request of said Tuck, - WilHam Paine of Ipswich, march*, conveyed said property to Robert Page of Hampton Oct. 16, 1654. Signed: Will Payne. Wit : Robert Lord and Willi : Howard. Ack. before Daniell Denison Oct. 16, 1654.

Timothy Dalton, "teacher of the Church of Chrift att Hampton," for^^so, conveyed to Isack Pirkins of Hampton, planter, farm in Hampton, on Salisbury line southerly, northerly on the farm sometimes John Moulton's but now Jn'^. Brown's, westerly to a tree belonging to a farm sometimes m^. Steven Batcheller's but now m^. John Wheelwrit's, easterly on farm of John Browne, a creek and the river; also, 70 acres of meadow, 18 : 4 : 1652. Wit: Sam: Dalton and Tho : Nudd. Ack. before Willi : Estow and Jeffery Minge, commissioners of Hampton. June 19, 1654, Robert Codnam of Saibrooke fort, mariner, conveyed to Isack Buswell of Salisbury, 2 acres of land in SaHsbury, bounded "southward by y* high way, which goeth towards the Bay," east and north by the green by the meeting house, and land of Isack Buswell. Signed by mark. Wit : Jonathan Negus and Samuel Buswell. Ack. before Richard Parker, commissioner, 28 : 8 : 1654. To be continued.

Ipswich Soldiers

Among the papers on file in the probate office at Salem in the settlement of the estate of Daniel Rogers, of Ipswich, who died about 1722, is the following: -

"July: 7*^ 1724. "A List of Those Souldiars on the North Side of y® River In Ipswich under the Command of Colo^ John Denison ordered to Go out into his mages* Service "Joseph Wait John Knowlton Dan^. Griffin Richard Pearce Tho«. Gofs."

Non-Importation Agreement

Salem, Sept. 6. "The Merchants and Traders in this Town having had feveral Meetings to confult Meafures for the better Regulation of the Trade, which at prefent labours under great Difficulties and Difcouragements ; and being convinced that a further Importers of unneceffary Goods from Great-Britain would involve the Importers in ftill greater Difficulties and render them unable to pay the Debts due to the Merchants in Great- Britain, they unanimoufly VOTED not to fend any further Orders for Goods to be fhipped this Fall ; and that from the firft of January 1769 to the firft of January 1770, they will not fend for or import, either on their own Account or on Commiffions, or purchafe of any Factor or others, who may import any Kind of Goods or Merchandizes from Great- Britain, except Coal, Salt and fome Articles neceffary to carry on the Fifhery. They likewife agreed not to import any Tea, Glafs, Paper or Painters Colours until the Acts impoiing Duties on thofe Articles . are repealed." - Essex Gazette, Sept. 6y iy68.

Notes On Abbe Genealogy

John Abbe (2) had two wives, - John, John, Thomas, Joseph, Obadiah and Abigail being children by the first wife, and Richard, Mary, Mercy, John, Hannah, Lydia and Sarah by the second.

85. Information wanted of William Peter, said to be brother of the celebrated Hugh. A William Peter had an account with the Plymouth company in 1628.

46. Mary Cross, who married Benjamin Carrill, in Ipswich, March 3, 1 701-2, was daughter of Robert and Martha (Treadwell) Cross of Ipswich, and granddaughter of Robert and Hannah (Jordan) Cross of the same place. The first Robert Cross was born about 16 13, and was living in Ipswich as early as 1637. His wife Hannah was daughter of Stephen Jordan. She died Oct. 29, 1677 ; and

Both Mr. Cross and his wife Mary were living in 1697. His son Robert was born about 1 64 1, and died about 17 13. He married Martha Treadwell Feb. 19, 1664. She was born March 16, 1643-4 ; and died March 3, 1738, aged ninety-three. - Ed.

1732, was the eldest daughter and third child of Solomon and Mercy (Chaplin) Nelson. Her great-grandfather, Thomas Nelson, born in England in 1638, was brought by his father Thomas to Salem in December of that year. Thomas, the father, was very prominent in the settlement of Rowley in the following spring. Solomon Nelson, the father of Jane, was born in Rowley, but for a few years previous to her birth was a resident and original settler of that part of Mendon, Mass., now Hopedale, but returned and settled, in 1730, on what is now Nelson street, in South Georgetown, on the farm where the writer resides. Jane Nelson married, about 1750, William Chandler of Andover, a cousin of Rev. James Chandler, the first minister of the Congregational church in Georgetown. William Chandler was of sedentary pursuits, and a school teacher in Georgetown a century and a quarter ago. Late in life he lived in Salem, and after his death his widow returned to Georgetown, dying of cancer in the house of her brother, Maj. Asa Nelson (the writer's great-grandfather), where she was born about seventy-eight years before. William, her son, to whom this query refers, lived in Salem, was a goldsmith, and prominent in the Masonic order, but unfortunately addicted to the excessive use of intoxicants. Jeremiah, the only other son, was a soldier of the Revolution, and in service in Pennsylvania. He outlived the war, but never returned, settling in that state or in the South, and leaving a wife and family in Rowley. - Henry M. Nelson, Georgetown.

The Charm Of Research

To weave together the fading dates of old manuscripts with the traditions that have survived sleeping generations, until the joy and the tears, the quaint speech and early piety, stand out upon the tapestry in the semblance of a living man - this gives a pleasure which he only who has stood at the loom can feel and understand. - Charles Knowles Bolton.

Hussey, whose wife's father was Rev. Stephen Bachiler. Mr. Bachiler was born in England in 1561, and received orders in the established church. He had acquired a good reputation, when he became dissatisfied with some of the religious ceremonies, and refused to observe them. He was then deprived of his benefice. Following John Robinson, meeting house, 1632-1682. he removed with his family and a number scribe it as a basement. This was probof his parishioners to Holland, where they ably done to protect it as much as possiresided for several years. Returning to ble from cold winds. London, they sailed for New England After preaching here about four March 9, 1632, and arrived in Boston months, Mr. Bachiler's ways and manners June 5 th. They at once came to Lynn, became such that he was cited before the and with such other of the inhabitants court, and forbidden to preach any more as chose to join with them they organ- in public in the colony, " till some scanized the first church in Lynn, which was dais be removed." He was finally disthe second in the county. Without in- missed at his own request ; but immedistallation, or invitation of the settlers ately renewed the covenant with the six even, Mr. Bachiler entered upon the du- members who came with him, and conties of minister. This was all done by tinned his ministrations. The other mem- June 8th, just three days after Mr. Bach- bers complained to the court, which foriler landed in America ; and it indicates bade him proceeding, and later obliged his vigor at the age of seventy-one. bim to leave the town, he having been in Mr. Bachiler immediately began the Lynn about four years in all. He reconstruction of a house of worship, which moved, in February, 1636, to Ipswich, was built probably within the year. It where he had some prospect of settling stood near the northeasterly corner of in the ministry; but some difficulties Shepard and Summer streets, and was arose, and his opportunity was lost. In about twenty feet square, probably with the rigorous winter of 1637, with some a common pitch roof, without cupola or of his friends, he went on foot to Yarmouth, about a hundred miles distant, *In the preparation of this sketch the editor ^^ ^^e purpose of planting a town and has been greatly assisted by Mr. Frankhn Bach- ^ ,,. , . ^ , ^ ,^ i^- eller, of Lynn, who is better acquainted with estabhshmg a church, but difficulties removed thither the following summer, 1656 Mr. Cobbett relinquished his conthe six church members that had come nection with the Lynn church, and refrom England with him accompanying moved to Ipswich, where he afterward church, and was dismissed. He returned other of the early ministers of New Engto England in 165 1 ; and died at Hack- land. He preached the election sermon

Mr. Bachiler's successor was Rev. Sam- the care of temporal things by his disuel Whiting, son of Sir John Whiting, creet and frugal wife. She was a sister of mayor of old Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng- Oliver St. John, chief-justice of England land, where he was born Nov. 20, 1597. during the commonwealth, and Oliver He graduated at Emanuel college in Cromwell was her own cousin. Mr. 16 1 6, receiving the degree of A. M. in Whiting lived nearly opposite the meet- 1620, and subsequently that of D. D., ing house on Shepard street, and both and took orders in the Church of Eng- himself and wife lie buried in the old land soon after his graduation, becoming cemetery. They did all they could to chaplain in a family in Norfolk. After refine the manners and tastes and elevate three years he became colleague to the the condition of every class, and to adrector in Lynn Regis. He remained vance all material interests. Mr. Whiting there three years, and then became a was a man of innate goodness and pernon-conformist, subjecting himself to the sonal control, being noted for his pacensure of the bishop of Norwich. He tience. His style of preaching was mild was induced to resign, and remove to the and persuasive, though ardent ; and his parish of Skirbick, near his native place, countenance was always illumined with where he again came under censure for a smile. He was a man of learning, the same cause. In 1636 his situation being an excellent Hebrew scholar, and became so uncomfortable that he re- the author of several books. He died signed, and emigrated to America, arriv- Dec. 11, 1679, at the age of eighty-two, ing at Boston May 26th of the same year, and after a ministry in Lynn of forty- Nov. 8th following, at the age of thirty- three years.

The next year Rev. Thomas Cobbett, "the gracious" Rev. Thomas Shepard who had been a friend of Mr. Whiting of Cambridge, formerly of Towcester, in England, was made his colleague. Mr. England. He was born in Cambridge Cobbett was born in Newbury, England, Aug. 11, 1648; graduated at Harvard of poor parents, in 1608. He entered college in 1669 ; and preached, first, in Oxford college, but left during the great Rowley, from 1673 to 1677, and then in sickness of 1625, and became a pupil of Chebacco parish, in Ipswich, where he Doctor Twiss in his native town. He remained a year or two. He came to became a minister of the Established Lynn to preach for Mr. Whiting during Church, but, after suff'ering for non-con- his illness in 1679 ; ^^^ ^^^^^ ^'^r. Whitforming opinions, emigrated to New ing's decease was ordained pastor of the England, arriving May 26, 1637. He church, Oct. 6 t68o. Rev. Joseph

Historical Sketch Of The First Church In Lynn

Whiting, son of his predecessor, was also installed as his colleague on the same day. He graduated at Harvard college in 1661. The next year after his installation he removed to Southampton, L. I.

The little old meeting house as it was nearing its fiftieth year was becoming too small for the increasing congregation. In it, probably, town meetings had always been held; and in 1641 the town voted that the meeting house be used as a watchhouse. The erection of a new building was contemplated soon after the settlement of Mr. Shepard. It was erected in 1682 ; and the old building was sold and

The new meeting house, known as the " Old Tunnel," because of the likeness of its roof to an inverted cone, stood on the common, about a hundred feet west of Whiting street, in front of the present residence of Doctor Holbrook. It was forty-four by fifty feet. It had folding doors on three sides, without porches; and the top of each door was formed into two semi-circular arches. The windows consisted of diamond-shaped panes set in lead. In the northeast corner of the gallery was the " negro pew." The pulpit was large enough to seat ten persons. The floor was at first supplied with seats, removed entire to the northwest corner of Sea and Market streets, fronting on Sea street, where it was at that time or subsequently raised and added to at the end, together with a leanto in the rear. This thus became the house in which the late Timothy Alley lived and died. The house was afterward removed to the northerly side of Harbor street ; and after being a tenement house for many years was taken down in April, 1896. The old church was the chamber at the right-hand of the picture, running to the left as far as the door.

then from time to time, as the town gave permission, pews were built by individuals, who were left to their own devices as to material, style and position. After a while the effect was extraordinary. Some of the pews were square, others oblong, some of oak, others of pine, some were large and some small. Galleries were on three sides, supported by six oak columns, and guarded by a turned balustrade, and reached by two flights of stairs, one in each corner. Overhead it was unceiled for many years, and exhibited enormous beams of oak traversing the roof in all directions. A small bell swung in the little tower, and was rung by a rope in the centre of the meeting house floor. This bell was sent to England in

1699, in exchange for a new one. In 18 1 6 another bell was obtained of Paul Revere and Sons. In 1716 porches were added to the doors, and a curiously carved and paneled oak pulpit was imported from England. Town meetings were held in this building until 1805.

Mr. Shepard resided at first in Shepard street, and afterward built a house, which was burned, on the north side of the common, between Mall and Park streets. He was a plain, honest man, of unvaried piety, and was indefatigable in his exertions for the spiritual welfare of his people, as well as for their temporal prosperity. He was much interested in public affairs, an excited leader of the people of Lynn against Andros, and a member of the general court in 1689, upon the resumption of the old colonial government. He was successful in his ministry, which continued in Lynn for forty years. He died June 3, 1720, aged seventy-two; and his death was deeply mourned.

Mr. Shepard's successor was Rev. Nathaniel Henchman of Boston. He was son of Nathaniel Henchman, a bookbinder, and deacon of a church in Boston, where Nathaniel was born Nov. 22,

1700. He graduated at Harvard college in 1 7 1 7 ; and was ordained over this church in December, 1720, at the age of twenty. He resided on North Common street, between Mall and Park streets, and in 1855 his house (which he built) was removed to Park street, a few rods south of the brook. He was genial in his manners, and a man of extensive learning, of integrity and virtue. He early secured the esteem and confidence of his people ; though, being strongly attached to regularity and order, and disincHned to entertain any species of enthusiasm or innovation, and having peculiar notions of ministerial rights and duties. Under his charge the church membership ran down to eighteen. After a service of forty-one years, Mr. Henchman died at his house on North Common street Dec. 23, 1761, at the age of sixty-one.

Meeting House, 1827-1837

His successor was Rev. John Treadwell, who was born in Ipswich, Mas&., Sept. 20, 1738, and graduated at Harvard college in 1758. He was ordained over this church March 2, 1763. Mr. Treadwell had genial manners, and he delighted to indulge in pleasantry, being possessed of considerable wit. He was a lover of New England, and of its government, and upon the general recommendation of the provincial congress in June, 1775, he always carried his musket and miUtary accoutrements into the pulpit on Sundays and other days of religious worship. He resigned his pastorate in 1782, after nineteen years of service, and, returning to his native town, taught school there for two years, subsequently

The next pastor was Rev. Obadiah Parsons, who was born in Gloucester April 5, 1747, and graduated at Harvard college in 1768. He was at first pastor of the Squam parish in his native town, and was settled over the church in Lynn Feb. 4, 1784. In 1791, the deacons and some other members of the church joined the Methodist church, carrying with them the communion plate, which was subsequently returned. The church was thus reduced to three male members. One deacon and some others came back three years later. Mr. Parsons left Gloucester on account of charges of im- morality against him ; and some scandals in Lynn hastened his removal from the church here. He was dismissed July i6, 1792, after a service in Lynn of eight years. He returned to Gloucester, where he subsequently taught school, as he had done at Lynn while preaching there, and died in December, 1801. He was a man of talent and learning, and possessed

Mr. Parsons' successor was Rev. Thomas Gushing Thacher, son of Rev. Peter Thacher, minister of the Brattle street church in Boston. He was born in Maiden Oct. II, 1 77 1 ; graduated at Harvard college in 1790; and installed Aug. 13, 1794. He was affable in his social relations, though inclined to asperity in his controversial writings, and was well esteemed by his people. After a service in Lynn of nineteen years, he was dismissed Feb. 3, 1 813, and he removed to Cambridge, where he died Sept. 24, 1849, ^t the age of seventy-seven.

The next minister was Rev. Isaac Hurd of Charlestown, where he was born in December, 1785. He graduated at Harvard college in 1806, and was ordained over this church Sept. 15, 181 3. His religious views were inclined toward Unitarianism, and soon the church was similarly affected by his preaching. Its condition became so low that, at the time of his dismissal, May 22, t8i6, the matter of disbanding was agitated. He removed to Exeter, N. H., and was there installed over the Second church Sept. II, 18 1 7, remaining there till his death, Oct. 4, 1856, at the age of seventy.

Mr. Hurd's successor was Rev. Otis Rockwood, who was ordained July i, 1818. In him the church secured a sound Trinitarian preacher of the high Calvinist type ; firm in his faith and denominational attachments ; being an earnest man, ardently interested in education, and sound rather than brilliant, though always popular.

In the spring of 1827, the " Old Tunnel " meeting house was taken down, and reerected, with changed form and a steeple, on the southerly corner of South Common and Commercial streets. The new building was dedicated Oct. 17, 1827.

Mr. Peabody was succeeded by Rev. Parsons Cooke, who was born in Hadley, Mass., Feb. 18, 1800, being son of Solomon Cooke, a farmer. He graduated at Williams college in 1822 ; and subsequently received the degree of D. D. He was installed over the East Evangelical church at Ware in June, 1826, and remained there till April, 1835, when he accepted a call to Portsmouth, N. H., where he stayed six months. He then came to Lynn, and was installed May 4, 1836.

After Mr. Cooke's installation, the society at once began a new house of worship on the eastern corner of Vine and South Common streets, where their present church stands. The new church was dedicated Feb. I, 1837. The old one was sold to the Second Universalist society, who have occupied it as a church ever since.

Dr. Cooke was a high Calvinist and loved controversy; was a man of quick perceptions and good reasoning powers, and rapidly arrived at conclusions, which he held tenaciously, and not always with gentleness toward those who differed from him. He had an abundance of natural wit, which often became sarcastic. He

Century of its Opposite," and other books; and for twenty years was editor of " The Puritan," a rehgious and secular newspaper, published first in Lynn, and subsequently in Boston. His literary style was that known as "elegant;" his sentences being terse and concise. He was tall and symmetrical in form. His appearance in the pulpit was dignified ; and his delivery rapid, in a high tone, and with httle intonation. He was industrious and faithful, though he did little parish work. His sedentary habits occasioned a long and painful illness, of which he died, in Lynn, Feb. 12,1864, at the age of sixty-t h r e e . His ministry was successful ; and his parishio n e r s were strongly attached t o him. His portrait here presented was made from a photog r a p h taken about three years before his death. In the sorrow of his widow, consequent upon his death, she wrote the well-known hymn, entitled, '- The Lord will provide.'

Soldiers And Sailors Of The Revolution

The next settled pastor was Rev. James M. Whiten, who was ordained May 10, 1865. He was dismissed April 13, 1869, and subsequently became pastor of the North church.

Joshua Allen of Gloucester ; descriptive list, dated June 9, 1780, of officers and crew of ship " America," commanded by Capt. John Somes ; age, 20 yrs. ; stature, 6 ft.

JosiAH Allen of Manchester; Capt. Joseph Whipple's co. ; muster return dated Manchester, Sept. 19, 1775 ; mustered by Michael Farley, muster master ; also^ priv., Capt. Whipple's co. ; enl. July i3> 1775; dis. Dec. 31, 1775; service, 6 mos., 3 dys. ; stationed at Manchester and Gloucester.

of Manchester (also priv., Capt. Haffield Rufus Putnam's reg. ; Continental x^rmy pay accounts for service from March 3, 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779 ; cilso, muster return dated Albany, Feb. 9, 1778; also, Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. i, 1780, to March 3, 1780 ; enl., 3 yrs.

Lemuel Allen of Lynn ; serg., Capt. David Parker's (ist) co., which marched on alarm of April 19, 1775, to Concord; service, 2 dys. ; also, 2d It., Capt. John Pool's (2d) CO., ist Essex co. reg.; list of officers of Mass. militia ; commissioned April 26, 1776.

Nehemiah Allen of Manchester ; priv., Capt. Joseph Whipple's co. ; enl. July 13, 1775; clis. Dec. 31, 1775; service, 6 mos., 3 dys. ; co. stationed at Manchester and Gloucester ; also, Capt. Daniel Warner's (ist) CO. ; pay rolls for service from May 31, 1776, to Dec. 31, 1776, 7 mos. ; stationed at Gloucester.

Solomon Allen of Gloucester; priv. Capt. Abraham Dodge's co., Col. Moses Little's (12th) reg. ; muster roll dated April 24, 1776 ; enl. Feb. 9, 1776.

Solomon Allen of Rowley ; descriptive list of men raised to reinforce Continental Army for 6 mos., agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780; age, 21 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft., 8 in. ; complexion, light ; arrived at Springfield July 10, 1780; marched to camp July 11, 1780, under command of Capt. George Webb.

Thomas Allen of Marblehead ; Capt. Joel Smith's co., Col. John Glover's reg. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, July 28, 1775; also, priv.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775 ; enl. May 27, 1775 ; service, i mo., 9 dys.; reported, killed June 17, 1775; also, order for bounty coat dated Camp at Cambridge, Dec. 30,

Thomas Allen of Gloucester; corp., Capt. Nicholas Blasdel's co.. Col. Wigglesworth's reg. ; pay abstract for travel allowance from Albany home, in 1776.

Thomas Allen of Salem ; boy, brig " Union " (privateer), commanded by Capt. Jonathan Gardner; descriptive list of officers and crew, dated Nov. 3, 1780, age, 15 yrs. ; stature, 4 ft., 5 in.; complexion, light.

Thomas Allen, jr., of Marblehead ; priv., Capt. Joel Smith's co., Col. John Glover's reg. ; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; ^'^' M^ay 22,1775; service, 2 mos., 14 dys.; also, receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, July 28, 1775; also, CO. return [probably Oct., 1775] ) reported, transported to a privateer.

William Allen of Gloucester ; priv., Capt. Nathaniel Wade's co.. Col. Moses Little's (i 2th) reg.; enl. Jan. i, 1776; reported, died Sept. 8, 1776; also,XQceipt for wages dated Long Island, June 9 and July 14, 1776; also, pay abstract for equipments, etc., dated Prospect Hill, 1776.

William Allen of Cape Ann ; seaman, brigantine " Defence," commanded by Capt. John Edmonds ; descriptive list of officers and crew, dated July 21, 1781 ; stature, 5 ft., 10 in. ; complexion, dark.

Zerubbabel Allen of Gloucester ; priv., Capt. Nathaniel Warner's co.. Col. Moses Little's (17th) reg.; muster roll dated Aug. I, 1775 ; enl. May 4, 1775 ; service, 3 mos., 5 dys. ; also, co. return [probably Oct., 1 775] ; age, 1 7 yrs. ; also, order for bounty coat dated Prospect Hill, Nov. 25, 1775.

Samuel Allenwood of Cape Ann ; descriptive list of enl. men ; Capt. Child's CO. ; age, 29 yrs.; stature, 5 ft., 6 in. ; complexion, light ; hair, dark ; occupation, mariner; rank, priv.; enl. Jan. i, 1777 ; joined Capt. Edes' co.. Col. Henry Jackson's reg. ; enl., during war ; also, priv., Lt.-col.'s CO., Col. James Wesson's reg. ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. i, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; also, Capt. Watson's (light infantry) CO., Col. Wesson's (9th) reg. ; return of clothing for 1 780 ; reported, taken prisoner Dec. 28 [year not given].

Ephraim Alley of Lynn ; list of men who served as privates at Concord battle and elsewhere, belonging to Lynn, now called Lynn, Lynnfield and Saugus ; also, matross, Capt. Jonathan W. Edes' (4th) CO., Col. Thomas Crafts' (artillery) reg. ; enl. May 20, 1776; dis. Aug. i, 1776; service, 2 mos., 16 dys.

James Alley of Lynn; priv., Capt. Joseph Hiller's co.. Col. Jonathan Titcomb's reg.; enl. May 5, 1777; dis., July 5, 1777; service, 2 mos., 6 dys., on an alarm at Rhode Island. Roll dated Providence, R. I.

The will of Robert Muzzey of Ipswich was proved May i6, 1644. The following copy is taken from the record contained in Ipswich Deeds, volume i, leaf 40, the original being missing.

Menfisvndecimi fen Januarij 5° AD 1642. I Robert Muffy of the Towne of Ipfwich in New England expecting my change approaching though at p'^fent of firme memory & vnderftanding And defiring feafonably to fett in order my eftate of earthly goods that the lord hath gracioufly given me doe thus difpofe thereof in particulars as follow : ffirlt I give & bequeath vnto Bridgett my wife the howfe & howflott that lyes in the weft ftreet of the Towne neare ioyning to the howfe of John Dane the elder w**^ the out howfen ptainyng vnto it during her life, and fhe to keepe it in fufficient repayring But the comonage ptayning to to my howfe & land I leave to be divided betwixt my wife & children according to the difcretion of my overfeers Alfoe the free vfe of a peece of land that I bought latly of John Newman which of the quantity of fix acres whether more or leffe ioyning to my farme on the fouth fide of it at Egipt River and this for the terme of her widdowes eftate. Likewife I give vnto her one of the bedds that I lye vpon (which fhe fhall like beft) the rugg one paire of blanketts and one paire of fheets one pillow & bowlfter & two pillowbeeres to inioye them for the tyme of her widdowhood. I likwife give vnto my wife a morter bell metde fkillett an iron pott & pott hangers a Coltrell or tramell & a braffe kettle during her widdowhood moreover I give her two Ewe goates only willing if they profp fhe give two Ewe -goates to my daughter Mary I alfoe give her the biggeft cheft but not to be carried out of my howfe alfoe the table but both to be ftanding in the howfe for my daughter Mary afterward : And as for fuch things as fhe brought with her I leave them wholly w*^out any intermeddling therewith. Item I bequeath to Jofeph my eldeft fonne my farme w*^ all the app^'tances belonging vnto it lying on the other fide of Egipt river only referving a peece of land called the Cowleas and a peece of meadow adioying to it called the rocky meadowes all which may containe Twenty acres Alfoe I give to him my mulkett & what belongs to it Alfoe I give to him foure pewter platters And a felling axe two dubble hookes and my biggeft fowling peece alfoe a firepan & tongs. And one bed & a paire of fheets a couerlett & a blankett the fecond biggeft cheft alfoe a paire of cobirons and a plowchaine & a fpitt & three wedges & a warming pan two narrow howes & one filver fpoone Alfoe I give vnto him my dun mare, one diap napkin & two hoUan napkins one of the beft hollan pillowbeeres all which I give to him & his heires for ever. Item I give vnto my fonne Beniamin the Cowleas & the Rocky meadowe both adioyning to my farme alfoe a peece of land which was foremenconed to be my wives during the tyme of her widdowes eftate & noe longer that I bought of John Newman containyng the quantity of fix acres whether more or leffe that I give to my fonne Beniamin after her widdowhood likwife two filv fpoones alfoe a Covvple of young fteers and one flock bed a paire of fheets a coverlett alfoe two hollan napkins & one hollan pillowbeere foure pewters platters & a felling axe. Item I give to my daughter Mary the howfe & howlott that lyes in the weft ftreet of the Towne neare adioyning to the houfe of John Dane the elder with of the beft fheets & two diap napkins Item I give & bequeath vnto Jofeph foure peuter platters the broad box with my eldeft fonne one yoake of two yearlall her mothers wearing linen. Item I ing fteers with my beft yoake & a chaine give to my daughter Ellen a dripping pan with my cart & plough Alfoe I give a braffe candleftick a braffe fkillett & a vnto him my dun mare Alfoe I give spitt Alfoe I give vnto my daughter vnto him my gru^ axe alfoe I give to my Ellen one yoak of oxen. Item I give to fonne Joseph one fpade & fhovell the vfe of the poore one Ewe goate to be Alfoe I give vnto him three bills alfoe I difpofed of by the overfeers of my will to give vnto him one yoake & a chayne alfuch as are godly onely the firft yeares vfe foe I give vnto him my hand fawe a long I appoynt to my brother Dane the elder faw alfoe I give vnto him the practice jf fhe brings kidds or elfe longer and of piety alfoe I give vnto him my little when the goat growes old I will that one hamer Alfoe I give vnto him my pefof the yonge ones be referved for fuch a terill fhott mould alfoe a pitch forke alfoe vfe. I likwife intreate & appoynt m"^. a draught fhave and a hatchett alfoe a Bradftreet m^. Dumer m^. Rogers & m"". fword & a fowling peece. Alfoe I give Norton overfeers of this my will to fee vnto my fonne Jofeph m^. Preftons the fame faithfully pformed & leave what works I alfoe give to him my beft hamis doubtfull & defective by them to be mer alfoe I give vnto my fonne Joseph ordered & difpofed morover I defire m^ 2 Sbullett moulds Alfoe I give to him Dumer to take Jofeph m'^. Norton to take my horfe booke alfoe a pitchforke alfoe Beniamine & my daughter Mary if it I give to him my phizike booke I give pleafeth him when the overfeers fhall to him my broad axe & frow alfoe I give ioyntly fee meet to take them from my to him a fword & a fowling peece Alfoe wife my will likewife & meaning is that I give to my daughter Mary m"^. Downthe ftock which I give to my children hams works & m^. Dods works Alfoe I fevally fhalbe in the hands. & vfe of each give to her my great butter churne alfoe of thofe freinds that take them into their I give vnto her the fecond beft gowne & governm* giving affurance for the payment a greene waftcote with all her owne thereof vnto my children when they fhall mothers wearing linen And I give to come to convenient age as to my two my daughter Mary foure of the beft ewe fonnes when they come to the age of one goats &a ram. Alfoe I give to my wife & twenty yeares & my daughter Mary Bridget one of my form'^ wives beft at the age of eighteene yeares and for any gownes and two of the beft petticotes. addicon to be made to the p^fent ftock I And I give vnto my two fonnes Jofeph leave it to the good will of thofe my & Beniamin all my wearing cloathes & my frends on whom I repofe the truft of their boptes & ftockins and fhoes. educacon. t¥ineally I appoynt Bridgett 18*^ of this firft month 1643. my wife the fole executrix of this my laft My will is that whereas I gave vnto my will & teftament And after all this what wife two ewe goates that now fhe fhall ever my overfeers fhall fee remaining have in the lieu of them one milch cowe meet to be divided I will that they dif- vntill the tyme of her death and after her deceafe to returne to my daughter Mary. Item my will is that whereas I gave to my two fomies Jofeph & Beniamin either of them a pillow-beere now my will is that my daughter Mary fhould have them Item whereas I gave to my daughter Ellen a yoke of oxen now my will is that my eldeft fonne Jofeph fhould have them & that he in confideracon of them after the terme of feven yeares after my deceafe fhall pay vnto my daughter Ellen fixteene pound in Cuntry paye Item whereas I gave vnto my daughter Mary foure Cowes & a Bull now my will is that ftie fnall have two cowes one bull & three yearling heffers & one two yearling heffer.

Thefe alteracons vnder the date of the 1 8*^ ofy® firft month 1643 were made & written by the appoyntraent of Robert Muffy being of pfect memory witneffed by vs whofe names are herevnder written

Aborn Genealogy

The name of Adorn is variously spelled in the early records as Aberne, Aberoriy Abort, Abor?i, Aborfte, Abourn, Abourne, Abron, Aburn, Abiirne^ Eaborn, Eaborne, Eabourn, Eabourne, Eaburn, Eaburne, Ebborn, Ebborne, Eborn, Eborne, Ebourn, and Ebourne.

Samuel Aborn' was an early settler of Salem Village. He was born about 1 6 1 1 ; made a freeman in 1665 ; and died in the winter of 1699-1700, his will being dated July 20, 1699, ^^^ "^^^ allowed, but administration granted on his estate Feb. 5, 1 699- 1 700. He married Catherine Smith of Marblehead, who survived him, and was living in 1701.

Samuel Aborn^, born in Salem (?) about 1639. He was a yeoman, and lived in Salem. His will is dated April 18, 1720; and it was proved June 29, 1 72 1. He married Susanna Trask of Salem Feb. 19, 1663-4.

Moses Aborn^, born in 1645-6 (?); baptized in First Church, Salem, 6:6: 1648. He was a husbandman; and lived in Marblehead in 1666-7, 3,nd then in Salem until about 1678, when he removed to Lynn, where he afterward lived. He married, first, Sarah Haines, 9 : 7 mo : 1671. She died in Salem i : 9 mo : 1676; and he married, second, Abigail Gilbert of Ipswich, who was living in 1723. Mr. Aborn made his will May 8, 1723, "being stricken in years"; and it was proved Feb. 17, 1735-6.

Moses Aborn3, born in Salem 14 : 12 : 1672-3. He was a yeoman, and lived in the Danvers part of Salem. He made his will Jan. 10, 1753, being "advanced in years " ; and it was proved Nov. i, 1756. He married Mary Tarbox of Lynn (pub. March 7, 1752), who married, secondly, Robert Howard of Reading (pub. July i,

Joseph Aborn3, born in Salem 24 : 2 : 1674. He was a husbandman ; and lived first in Lynn, and subsequently in Marblehead. He was living in Lynn in 1708. Administration was granted on his estate Dec. 27, 171 1. He married Elizabeth

John Aborn3, born in Lynn April 1 7, 1690. He was the miller in the South mill in Salem, where he resided, and was by trade a ship-carpenter. He also lived in Marblehead in 1711, and in Charlestown from 1715 to 1717. Administration was granted on his estate March 26, 1722. He married Union ; and both himself and wife had lately died of small pox, leaving three small children, in 1722.

Ebenezer Aborn3, born in Lynn Jan. 31, 1694. He was a yeoman, and lived in Lynn. His will, dated Sept. 4, 1778, was proved Oct. 5, 1778. He married,

Aborn Genealogy

Danvers part in 1759). He had ten negroes at his decease, which were lost to the estate by emancipation. His will, dated July 12, 1771, was proved June i, 1772. He married, first, Jane Pickering July 17, 1723; second, Margaret Massey Sept. 30, 1742. His wife Margaret survived him, and was living in 1800.

See below (^40). 41 - II. Samuel', bapt. June 23, 1728, in First Church, Salem ; lived in Salem ; husbandman ; and d. between 1790 and 1800; administration granted on his estate March 31, 1801; was probably unmarried.

Ebenezer Aborn4, baptized in Lynnfield March 22, 1724. He was a yeoman, and lived in Lynnfield. His will, dated March 12, 1789, was proved April 12, 1792. He married Mary Goodale of Danvers Nov. 9, 1752.

Joseph Aborn^, baptized in Lynnfield Sept. 26, 1725. He lived first in Lynnfield, and removed to Danvers in 1757-8. He died before Dec. 9, 1759. He married Lydia Nourse of Lynn (pub. June 14, 1747). She survived him, and was living in 1782.

53--IV. JosEPH^ bapt. Dec. 9, 1759; lived first in Danvers, and subsequently in Lynnfield; yeoman ; m. Sarah Silver of Danvers July 17, 1777; and was living in 1785.

Dr. John Aborn4, baptized in Lynnfield April 9, 1727. He was a physician ; and lived in Lynn. He died Nov. 8, 1768. He married Rebecca Bancroft Nov. 22, 1758. She survived him, and married, secondly, Thomas (?) Dodge in or before 1773. She died June 20, 1798, aged sixty- four.

Joseph AbornS, born in Salem April 10, 1726. He was a cordwainer and farmer, and lived in that part of Salem which is now Peabody. He married Sarah Derby of Danvers Dec. - , 1753. He died in Peabody (then Danvers) Sept. 5, 1800; and she died there, his widow, Aug. 2, 1804.

Aaron AbornS, born in Lynn Oct. i, 1757. He married Phebe Pope of Danvers Dec. 31, 1779 (when he was of Lynn) ; and died before 1789. She married, secondly, Francis Sheldon Sept. 20, 1788, in Salem.

Till Chrst Apears

So Jeftts flept, Gods dying f on Paft through the grave and blefl the bed Reft here fair faint, till from his throne The morning breaks and pierce the

87"' year of his 62^ of his Miniftry, his Generation by the will of GOD, he fell on sleep, and (we trust) enjoys a Prophets reward, for tho' Israelshould not be Gathered; yet would the faithfull minifters of the Gospell be glorious in the Eyes of the Lord.

Of His

94. Wanted, ancestry and place of birth of Francis Norwood, who settled in Annisquam, Gloucester, in 1662, or any exact knowledge of him or his family previous to 1662. s. n. torrey.

99. Sarah White, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Fiske) White, born in Wenham, Mass., Sept. 20, 1700, married, June 15? 1727, Nathaniel Brown. Wanted, some knowledge of their descendants.

100. Wanted, ancestry of Emma and Sally Knowlton, said to be cousins. Emma married Benjamin Leach of Manchester about 1747, and Sally married their son Capt. Benjamin Leach in 1 798.

104. Wanted, date of birth and father's name of James Burnham, who married Sarah Whittemore Nov. 5, 1772, and sailed from Salem in 1773, never being heard from. a. w. b.

75. Elizabeth Beauchamp, who married Zachariah Goodale in 1666, was daughter of Edward and Mary Beauchamp of Salem, and born 9 : 5 mo : 1648. Edward died in 1684. His father is considered to have been Robers Beauchamp, a resident of Ipswich at early as 1 642. - C, H. Abbott^ Andover.

Salisbury Plains Cemetery

This burying ground is first mentioned, as far as has been learned, in 1705. It was included in the limits of Salisbury until 1886, when it was annexed to Amesbury. The following are all the inscriptions to be found therein with dates prior to 1800.

Sleep lovely faint ^ take thy reft, Thy work is done thy bed is dleft, For Chrift will raife this mouldr''ng clay Tahe fint to ever la/ting day.

God Did Lend

E LIZ A BETH DAUGHTER OF SAMU EL & MARY BROWN DIED JANUARY Y« II 1727 AGED ONE YEAR & 4 DAYS GOD DID LEND & THEN DID SEND & GOO IT MUST FOR GOD IS JUSt

So Died This Pious Youth

HIS CARRIAGE UNTO ALL WAS COURTEOUS & KIND HIS LOUE IT DID EXCELL MOST THAT ARE LEFT BEHIND HIS PATIENCE WAS ADMIERRED BY ALL THAT DID HIM KNOW THERE IS NO TONGUE CAN TELL WHAT HE DID UNDER GOE SO DIED THIS PIOUS YOUTH HE DID OBAY & FIND Ye TRUTH

"The D. Poftmafter-General has appointed Mr. Edward Norris to be D. Poftmafter for this Town. He has removed the Office from School-Street, where it was lately kept, to his Houfe in the main Street, oppofite the Houfe of Francis Cabot, Efq." - Essex Gazette (Salem), Oct. II, 1768.

Earthquakes are always fearful and impressive, but at the time this one occurred the people were possessed of manyfears. They were not only superstitious, but this was a new and unknown world, which but a few years before was said to be associated with the most awful terrors.

Friday, June i, 1638, was a very clear and beautiful day, with a gentle wind from the west. After the settlers had eaten their noon meal, they proceeded to their various labors in the field. Before two o'clock acute ears heard a faint murmur of distant sound, which became louder and clearer until every one heard that which seemed to be the far- a- way rumble of thunder. In a minute or two it increased in volume and sharpness until it resembled the rattling of many carriages fiercely driven over granite pavements. The people were alarmed, and discontinued their labors to discover the source and nature of the sound. Above, the sky was perfectly clear. They became perplexed. Not many moments elapsed, however, before the earth began to tremble, and terrified they threw down their tools and ran reeling like drunken men, with blanched countenances, to the first group of people they could find, for men like animals will flock together when they are afraid. The

Not only the mainland, but the islands along the coast were shaken violently, and the vessels that rode in the harbors and those saiUng without were jostled as though a series of tidal waves had passed under them.

People in the houses were greatly alarmed, for they not only heard the awful sound but felt the trembling of the earth. The houses over them shook to their foundations, and it seemed as if they must collapse. The chimneys, being imperfectly built on the outside of the house, of rough and uneven stones, without mortar, except for filling the chinks, readily yielded to the general shaking, and the tops of many of them fell off, striking on the house or on the ground. The noise of the falling stones without and the rattle of pewter platters and dishes upon the shelves within seemed the precursor of danger.

The first shock died away and the noise ceased. The people resumed their labors. Half an hour passed, when to their surprise and terror, the horrible rumbling and quaking were renewed. But it quickly passed, being less violent than the first shock. For twenty days the earth remained in an unquiet condition.

At Newbury, a town meeting was being held, and during the discussions the sound of the on-coming earthquake burst upon their ears like " a shrill clap of thunder." The building was violently shaken ; and amazement and fear filled the minds and hearts of the people. After the tumult it had caused had ceased, before proceeding, the assembly voted to make a record of the fact of the earthquake, concluding it, " wherefore taking notice of so great and strange a hand of God's providence, we were desirous of leaving it on record to the view of after ages to the in-

The summers for several years after the earthquake were too cool for the sufficient ripening of corn and other crops, as compared with those of a number of years preceding it. They were subject to unseasonable frosts, and on this account but little of the Indian corn matured. What connection this fact had with the earthquake, if any, is unknown.

This, the greatest earthquake of the seventeenth century, marked an epoch in the lives of the settlers, and for many years afterward it was common for them to compute dates as "so long since the

The Abraham Family

Woodward Abraham,^ born about 1727, was living in Marblehead as early as 1753. He kept a shop, and was called a merchant in 1755, 1763, 1772 and 1779 ; ^"^ gentlemen in 1769, 1785 and 1786. He was one of the Salem custom-house officers, being commissioned Sept. 26, 1762 ; was an attendant at the services of St. Michael's church in Marblehead, having bought a pew in it in 1774 ; was at one period in the Revolutionary era regarded as unfriendly to the American cause, but was proven to be loyal thereto. He performed services in the army in the early part of the Revolution, when he was called of Salem ; and afterward was for a long time postmaster of Marblehead, dying in office, Nov. 17, 1 81 3, at the age of eighty-six.

He married Tabitha, daughter of Joseph Smethurst, a merchant of Marblehead, Nov. 28, 1 75 1. She was living in 1788. Their children were born in Marblehead, as follows : -

7 - VI. Woodward,^ b. July 14, 1762; was short of stature, being only four feet and eight inches tall; and had a light complexion. He served in the Revolution as one of the crew of the ship Jiafnbler, Capt. Benjamin Lovett, commander ; and married Eunice Gallison May 4, 1788. 8 - VII. Hannah Hill,^ b. Dec. 4, 1764.

The Abram Family

John Abrams,^ with his wife Mary, first appear in Amesbury in 1766. He is supposed to have been a Jew, from Palestine. It is said that he had a brother William, with whom he came from Palestine to New England at an unknown date, and that William fell into the sea and was drowned. John moved from Amesbury to Salisbury in 1771, and after 1775 probably settled in Sanbornton, N. H.

John, 2 b. May 3, 1766, in Amesbury; m. Mehitable, daughter of Laban and Mehitable (Putnam) Harriman, and niece of Gen. Israel Putnam; and settled in Sanbornton. He d. Aug. 29, 1841 ; and his wife d. July 26, 1844, aged eighty-two. They had four children. William,^ b. April 7, 1768, in Amesbury.

4 - III. BETSEYj^b. Jan. 15,1770, in Amesbury ; m. Joshua Copp of Warren, N. H. Mary,2 b. Feb. 13, 1775, in Salisbury; m. George Washington Copp of Warren, brother of her brother-in-law ; and d. in Warren Oct. 6, i860.

On the back of a copy of the inventory of the estate of John Abbey, s'r, of Wenham, taken in 1703, and on file in the probate office at Salem, is written the following : " Lydia, dau. of Caleb & Mary ffoster 14 May 1703 ; David son to W"^. & Mary Goodie born 26 Apr. 1703."

By Chakles Knowles Bolton

To copy a manuscript letter for letter, is, in the minds of some, the mark of pedantry ; to modernize it is, in the estimation of others, the source of all inaccuracy.

Whether we copy letter for letter or give the words as they should be we should at least know just what was intended by each character in the manuscript before copying. Thus this word : .^^ should be recogi ^ ^ X- y nized as "desesed" C/Y^rrrP^ before it becomes

" deceased." Some of the early handwriting shows a lack of training which is to be expected in an agricultural community like that in the New England of the seventeenth century. The callous hand was not always under control. A quaintness, too, was given to the page by the spelling which at best allowed some liberty to follow one's taste, originaHty, and manner of pronunciation. A man who spelled " son " with a double "o " would now be writing his own death warrant.

But there were certain forms characteristic of the writing of our emigrant ancestors which were due neither to paper, pen nor lack of training. These are after all few, but they appear with sufficient frequency to puzzle one unfamiliar with the subject. They may be traced in part to the teaching of the schoolmaster and in part to the influence of the printed forms of letters.

Capital " C," in many cases looks' like a copy-book "O," in which the returning stroke, instead of meeting the point of starting runs down inside the downward stroke. The whole is crossed M^ by a horizontal line. Sometimes ^^ it is an *' 0 " open at the top and \J' crowned with a cup or semicircle. Cd The small " c " is usually much like f"- the small printed "r" - a down- .^ ward heavy stroke with a horizontal ^ hne at the top. *''

Capital '< E " is commendably individual. In officially prepared documents it is the common capital " C " with a small "z" just inside the downward stroke, or, as in the signature of Jacob Eliot, brother of the apostle, the '' z " crossed back and forth over the downward stroke of the " C ' It is so written by Madit Engs of Boston, whose peculiar name is among those of the early setders.

The small " e " is an imperfect surmounted by a dash or cup. In ordinary writing it became an " o " with the last stroke looped at the top. This form is frequently misleading. Often, however, the loop comes above the starting point of the letter, which then looks like one form of the Greek "th."

The double ** if" was used occasionally, as in the surnames ffirench and ffarrington, but hardly more often in the seventeenth century than as an affectation in the nineteenth.

Capital "G" is usually very intelli gible. A curious form, however, is that of a backward inclining capital ^' C " with the last stroke running down into a loop across the center of the " C," and returning ^ to form a smaller loop some dis- V tance above the character. The >J small " g " is often a " y " crossed at the top or mouth.

Capital "H" is often simple. One form appears as a written "S " (looped at the top) with an inverted cap below and a tail starting at its right and running downward. The small "h" is a very curious transformation Q of a simple letter. The /^O main part of the letter de- > creases to little or nothing, ^~~ while the final downward

Stroke becomes a large loop. Both this form and the present *' h " appear in the same signature as written by John Winthrop, governor of Connecticut. The old *- h " was a common form and with

Capital " O," as written by the Olivers and others, has parallel perpendic- j. ular lines across it. Small " o " is /ifs often disconnected, to distinguish V/ it, perhaps, from the " e " which, when looped at the top, is very similar.

Capital " P " is a heavy downward stroke, crossed by a line which forms a small loop at the right, and runs up to form a semicircle or inverted cups opposite the head of the initial stroke. Small "p" is an "x" P p p

Small "u" (or **v") is very often a diagonal upward stroke with a small cup at the end. Z, ^J When combined with other / letters it nearly disappears. "

Deaths In Rowley

*' Rowley, Sept, 13. This Day was buried in the Firft Parifh in this Place, M.I. Jeremiah Hopkinton, ^tatis 90. And there have been buried in that Parifh, within 39 Years laft paft, forty-one Perfons above 80 Years of Age each ; one of them died aged 103, one 95, one 94, one 93, two 91, two 90, two 89, two 87, four 86, three 84, one 83. And befides thefe there were two Perfons died there in the

Andover In The First Louisburg Expedition

Years 17 17 and 1719, that were reckoned to be above 100 Years old a Piece. And there are yet living in the Town twenty Perfons beyond 80 Years of Age ; two of whom are near 90, three above 85, and three above 84 Years of Age. - Perhaps there is nothing wanting, but Time and Obfervation, to fhew that People live as old in New as they do in Old England." - Essex Gazette, Sept. 27,1768.

By Frank A. Hutchinson

The following names occur in the Records of Deaths of Andover. In a few cases for the sake of brevity the transcriber has omitted the words "in the King's Service at Lewesburg." As the State has no list of men who took part in this siege, the names here given are the more valuable.

Isaac, son of Thomas & Hannah Abbott, died with -Sickness in the King's Service at Lewesburg Aged 28 Years 8 Months & 21 days, Nov. 3, 1745.

Jacob Mastin, Son of Jacob & Mary Mastin, who was in the King's Service at Lewesburg came sick from thence to Boston and died April 26, 1746.

Will Of Hugh Churchman

The will of « ould " Hugh Churchman, as he was called, of Lynn, was proved in the Salem quarterly court 9 : 5 mo : 1644. The following copy is taken from the original instrument on file in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem, book i, leaf 20.