COLLECTIONS
OF THE
Committee of Publication.
GEORGE E. ELLIS.
WILLIAM H.
WHITMORE.
HENRY WARREN
TORREY.
JAMES RUSSELL
LOWELL.
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COLLECTIONS
OF
THE
Vol.
VI. -- FIFTH SERIES.
PUBLISHED
BY THE SOCIETY.
M.DCCCLXXIX
UNIVERSITY PRESS:
JOHN WILSON AND SON,
SECOND EDITION.
PRE FACE.
THE Publishing Committee herewith presents
to the Society
the second
volume of the Diary of Samuel Sewall, Printed from
the
Manuscript in its Cabinet. The text of
the volume in-
cludes the
period from January 14, 1699-1700, to April 14,
1714. Another volume in print will complete the
publication
of the
manuscript Diary. The Judge's
Letter-Book will furnish
the
materials for a fourth volume.
The Committee has continued the same
system of annotating
the text
which was adopted in the first volume.
Resisting the
prompting or
opportunity to explain or illustrate the many in-
teresting
references which the Judge makes to matters of his-
torical
importance, to an extent which would expand the notes
beyond the
text, the method pursued, as the reader will observe,
has been
restricted to occasional comments, and to genealogical
and local
particulars and references, without quoting authorities
easily
accessible to the students of our history. The connection
between
Judge Sewall's family and that of Governor Dudley
evidently
embarrassed the former, alike in his official position as
a
magistrate, and in making entries in his diary concerning mat-
ters in
which they were occasionally at variance.
That Sewall
should also
have drawn upon himself the hostility of Cotton
Mather, who,
with his father, the President of the College, was
in violent
feud with
of the
Judge's position and course even when he seems to have
tried to act
as a moderator or an umpire. The
Committee has
therefore
thought it advisable to reprint three very rare pam-
phlets
which, as fully presenting matters of bitter strife in rela-
tion to the
parties just named, will make annotation upon it
unnecessary. A few fragmentary and miscellaneous papers in
Sewall's
hand precede these Tracts.
As the indices of names at the close of
the volumes are neces-
sarily so
crowded, tables of the notes in both of them are here
given for
convenience of reference.
EDS.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS OF
NOTES.
VOL.
I.
PAGE PAGE
1.
Biographical.
3. Urian
Oakes. 70.
King James II. proclaimed.
5. John
Bowles. 71.
Apsoon.
5.
Fessendens. 71.
Francis Bond.
7.
7. Batters. 72.
Sewall's walk around Beacon
8. Sewall's
birth-place. Hill.
8. Thomas
Parker. 76.
Benjamin Eliot.
9. Almanacs.
86.
Veal and Graham, the pirates.
10. "
87.
Colonel Piercy Kirk.
11. " 89.
George Monk and the Blue An-
12. " chor
Tavern.
15. James,
the printer. 92.
Adams and Richards families.
16.
Almanacs. 98.
Rev. Laurence Vandenbosk.
24. " 104.
Lady Alice Lisle and the Ushers.
25. Tempore
post meridian 105.
Thanksgivings and Fasts.
28.
31. John
Reyuer, Jr. 108.
James Mudge.
32.
Almanacs. 108.
Susanna Vertigoose and the
33. " Mother Goose
fable.
37. Coney's
Street or Lane. 108.
Roxbury Gate.
38.
43.
Almanacs. 112.
John Odlin.
45.
Antapologia. 119.
Peter Butler.
47. Robert
Walker. 122.
Mather's " Arrow against Danc-
48. Almanac.
ing."
56. Death of
Mrs. Brattle. 126.
Execution of James Morgan.
59.
60. Governor
Endicott's house. 133.
Warner Wesendunk.
161.
62-65.
Cotton-Hill and other
lands. 143. The form of
taking an oath.
68. Election
day. 145.
William Johnson.
ii TABLE
OF CONTENTS OF
NOTES IN VOL. I.
PAGE PAGE
147.
Cotton's arguments about the 212.
Elizabeth Woodmansey
cross. 213.
Deodat Lawson.
148. Rev.
Samuel Lee and his family. 219. Sir
William Phips's chaplain.
152. David
Jeffries. 221.
Sir William Phips's house.
153. Mr.
Brightman. 229.
Letter to Rev. Increase Mather
155. Charles
Morton. from S. Sewall.
158. Thomas
Jenner. 231.
The King's chapel,
160. Town
House of
162. Madam
Taylor. 250.
Cotton Mather's sermons.
167. Shrove
Tuesday. 251.
Lord Wharton.
168. Elijah
Corlet. 252.
Thomas Papilliori.
168.
Preservation of the Colonial 253.
Lockier's Monument.
Records. 255.
Richard Wharton.
169. Hez.
Usher's house. 256.
"Considerations," &c., a politi-
170. Anthony
Stoddard. cal
pamphlet.
170. Daniel
Gookin. 261.
The revolution at
174. Summary
of
ment. 263.
Penny posts.
177. Richard
Walker. 264.
Thomas Saffin's epitaph.
179. Robert
Walker. 266.
Theophilus Pool.
182. Wan [or
Wanton or Harris]. 269.
"
182.
Allerton's Point. pamphlet.
182. Andrew
Bordman. 270.
The quaternion.
183. Affray
at
186.
Blackstone's Point. 291.
The Faneuils.
186. King
James's first Declaration 293.
Sewall's notes in
of Indulgence. an
almanac.
186.
Benjamin Eliot. 309.
Tho. Johnson, and other pirates.
189.
Hole. 315.
190. Mr.
Gibbs. 315-317.
Commissioners for the war.
190.
Disturbances about taxes. 320.
Sewall's letter about the war.
192. Lady
Andros. 321.
Sir William Props's expedition.
193. Sir
William Phips. 322.
Captain Frary.
193.
Woodcock's
194. The
fort on Fort Hill. 332.
First
196. Wing's
Tavern or the Castle 334.
Indian chiefs.
Tavern. 336.
Governor Menevall, of Acadie.
197. Colonel
Robert Gibbs's house. 340.
Captain Francis Johnson.
198. Edmund
Randolph's suit against 350. John
Nelson.
Increase Mather. 355.
Mrs. Hamlen.
202.
Governor Andros's house. 356.
Mrs. Elisa Pool.
203. Lady
Andros's tomb. 358.
203. Sir
William Phips. 360.
The Council Records.
206. Michael
Shaller. 361.
Captain John Alden.
209. Rev.
Increase Mather's escape 362.
from
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OF NOTES IN
VOL. I. iii
PAGE PAGE
368. Oyer
and Terminer. 439.
Cotton Mather's proclamation
373. Law
relating to ministers. for
a fast.
376.
Mehitable, meaning of the 442.
An act to incorporate Harvard
name. College.
377.
Wheeler's Pond. 442.
The cold winter of 1696.
378.
379. Elisha
Cooke. 447.
Rev. John Harvard.
386.
Non-resident representatives 452.
Richard Wilkins.
forbidden. 453.
Blue
389.
"Whig and Torey;" a pam- taverns.
phlet. 455.
Neals of
394. Phips's
administration. 456.
Hezekiah Usher's will.
395. Sarah;
meaning of the name. 457.
Salt works on Boston Neck.
395. William
Stoughton. 458.
Discovery of limestone.
400. Corunna.
460.
Rev. John Cotton, Jr.
401.
Wheeler's pond and Sewall's 461.
Blue Anchor tavern.
trees. 464.
Rev. John Higginson.
402. Colonel
Archdall. 470.
404. Sir
William Phips's monument.
405. Driving
a nail or pin. 474.
Sewall's town-offices.
406.
Symond's estate called Argilla. 474.
Seth Perry.
407.
Marriage with a deceased wife's 477.
Richard Coote, Earl of
sister. monte
412.
Sewall's house. 478.
The Province House.
414. Thomas
Maule. 480.
An
424.
Shrimpton family. bridge.
425. Eliot
family; estates and suits. 482.
The Wishing Stone on
427. Vagum. Common.
429. Laws to
be accepted by the 482.
Wait-Still
Crown. 488.
Colonel Romer.
430. Dr.
Benjamin Bullivant. 491.
Huguenot church in
430.
Association to sustain King 496.
William Paterson.
William. 496.
John Borland.
430. Rev.
William Veazie. 499.
Nathaniel Higginson.
431.
Navigation Act. 506.
The Virginals.
431. Rev.
George Burroughs. 506.
Brattle Street manifesoo.
432. Mrs.
Martha Oakes. 507.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.
433. Captain
Chubb's surrender. mela.
433.
Association to sustain King 508.
Measurements of Sewall's lands.
William 509.
Flavel's sermons
TABLE
OF CONTENTS OF
NOTES.
VOL. II.
PAGE PAGE
1. Joseph
Arnold. 52.
Thomas Venner.
2. Andrew
Rivet. 55.
3.
3. Andrew
Hamilton. 58.
Thomas Povey.
3. William
Kidd. 58.
George Keith.
5. Mary
Belcher. 60.
Richard Sibbes.
6. Rev.
Thos. Thornton. 61.
Mrs. Rock.
6. James
Gillam. 62.
7. Kidd's
treasure. 68.
Anthony Checkley.
10. Sunday
at
11. Rev.
John Cotton. 72.
13. John
Toland. 74.
Rev. Jabez Fox.
16.
Anti-slavery tract. 76.
Holliston farm.
21.
Love-letter. 84.
College Corporation.
23. Frary
family. 90.
Excise troubles.
23.
24. Guy
Fawkes's Day. 97.
Accord pond.
24. Francis
Hudson. 98.
Gibbs family.
25. Joseph
Eliot. 100.
27. Cushing
family. 104.
Captain Larrimore.
31. John
Usher, 106.
Trial of Pirates.
32. Turell. 113.
Brightman's pasture.
33. Earl of
Bellomont. 117.
Mary Tuthill.
35. Ancient
and Honorable Artil- 117.
Zadori.
lery Company. 118.
Richard Wilkins.
39.
Lieutenant-Governor
40. Council
Supreme. 120.
Emmons family.
40. Colonel
Romer. 121.
Sewall's portrait.
43. Sir
Constantine Phips. 125.
George Lason.
43. Richard
Wilkins. 126.
45. Crown
officers. 128.
Trees planted.
48. John
Joyliffe.
ii TABLE
OF CONTENTS OF NOTES IN VOL. II.
PAGE PAGE
129.
130. Balston
family. 239.
Samuel Clap.
132. Rev.
Michael Wigglesworth. 242.
Thomas Odell.
133.
Captain's islaud. 260.
Acadie.
134. John
Bonner. 261.
Mohawk chief.
140.
142. Colonel
Vetch. 263.
Whiting's oration.
143.
Marriage laws. 264.
Robert Reynolds.
144.
countrymen. 267.
Ashurst family.
148. Roger
Mompesson. 269.
Cold day.
149. Sir
Charles Hobby. 269.
Thomas Lechmere.
154.
Salutation tavern. 272.
John Hubbard.
154. Caucus.
286.
King's Chapel enlarged.
158.
Meeting-house Hill. 288.
Previous question.
159.
Green-Dragon Tavern. 294.
Fifty-eighth Psalm.
169.
Blackstone's river. 300.
Foster family.
169. Simeon
Stoddard. 306.
Marriage with deceased wife's
170. Thomas
Child, painter
sister.
171. Rev.
James Bayley. 308.
North burying-ground.
174.
Bellomont's house. 309.
Old- Fortification on
175.
Spare-rib. Neck,
&c.
176. Banbury
cakes. 313.
Admiral Walker and the Ex-
177. Caryl
on Job. pedition
against
180. Mary
Eliot. 320.
182.
Williams's Captivity.
184.
188. Sir
John Davie. 324.
Mary Ardell.
189.
192. Mrs.
Leverett. 338.
Newbury Episcopalians.
196. John
Jekyll. 350.
Wade family.
197.
198. First
magistrate born in New 355.
William Whiston.
199.
203.
205.
208.
Mather's letters. 371.
Mather's Circular.
210. Mellows
family. 374.
Eunice Williams.
211. Coney
family. 379.
Mock-sermon.
212. Indian
converts. 380.
Import of slaves.
217. Private
fast-day. 384.
Bread-riot.
219. Arthur
Mason. 386.
Anniversary week.
220.
Countryman. 392.
Sewall's book on Prophecies and
225.
232. Quaker
meeting-house. 396.
Salutation tavern.
233. Byfield
family. 399.
Jeffries family.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS OF NOTES IN VOL. II. iii
PAGE PAGE
404. Colonel
Banks. 415.
Phillips fami1y.
406. Mrs.
Cotton Mather. 416.
408. Copp's
Hill. 417.
Bowling-Green.
410. Fitch
family. 419.
Alchitny or occamy.
413. An angel.
419.
Lord's-Day travel.
413. Bowdoin
family. 428.
Sewall's interest in the Indians.
414. Bennet
family. 437.
Richard Sarson.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
[Miscellaneous
Entries on the Cover of the Journal.]
[The reference is to the "Bill"
put up by Sewall on the Fast Day,
Jan., 1697.
See p. 445.]
See p. 159 of this booke.
P. 163. Mr. Rogers, May 1697.
[Sept.
26, 1686.]
[References to his Captaincy of the Artillery Company.]
244. 6.
Mr. Cotton 168.
Comons Address against Profaneness &c
agreed to Nemine con-
tradicente. Feb. 15. 97. pag.
221. Bill about regulating the Press,
rejected, p.
225-21 Feb. 1697, p. 246. Feby. 16. 170 2/3.
A Bill to naturalize the Children of such
officers and Souldiers,
and others,
the natural born subjects of this Realm, who have been
born,
abroad, during the war; the Parents of such children having
been in the
service of this Government, read a 2d time and comitted.
Mr. Eyre's Son dyed Apr. 18. 1700.
1697.
June, 1. Mr. Thomas Graves
buried.
weigh'd
fol. 244 [?]
8* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
July 4. Mr. Moodey dyes.
November 8.
Mr. Saml. Hooker,
Decr 12. Mr. John Baily dies
Brothers children fol. 245 Feb. 3,
Jany 8 dear Unkle Quinsey dies
170 2/3
Febr.
9. Col. S. Shrimpton dies of an
Apoplexy.
March, 1.
Col. Barthol, Gedny dies.
April, 11.
Mr. Morton dies
Decr. 7. 1692. Judges chosen
Ap. 2. 1694.
Judge Richards dyes.
March, 6,
169 4/5 Elisha Cooke Esqr chosen a
Judge.
9r. 5. 1699. Judge Danforth
dyes.
June, 7.
1700. John Walley esqr made a Judge
July 7,
1701. Lt. Govr.
Augt. 1. 1701. John Saffin esqr
made Judge
Augt. 15. 1702. John Hathorne
Leverett Esq made Judge.
An Elegie on Mrs. Alicia Lisle, which for
high Treason was be-
headed at
Let Rebels both and Loyalists draw nigh
And view this Object of Disloyalty,
A Lady which by a Rebellious Crew
Was forc't in hast to bid the World adieu,
And pay her head to Justice for her Crime
Comitted now when she had pass'd her
Prime.
Not zeal blindfolded, nor the CAUSE, the
CAUSE
Can overturn Religion and the Laws.
&c. &C.
EPITAPH.
Here lies Madam Lisle dead,
Which for Treason lost her Head.
She patroniz'd the CAUSE, the CAUSE,
Against the Church and stablish'd Laws,
Let all her Sex; both great and small
Take here Example by her Fall:
And henceforth ever Shunn to be
Entangled by Presbytery;
Which changeth into several shapes
And hath brought forth
1 See Vol. I. p. 104.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 9*
Which have set
But now she is gone off the stage
Then here she is, and Let her Lie
A Beacon unto Loyalty.
This may be Printed R. L. S.
To be sold by Randal Taylor
Survey your Ground first, Jest your great
Design
End in a Quagmire, or a hollow Mine.
Submit to Fate, turn Loyal now (for shame)
And strive no more to swim against the
stream.
Aug. 30, 1686. Speech to the South Company.
GENTLEMEN, -- The reason of my being here,
is not to comand you
my self, but
to commend you for your complying with the command
of the
honourable Council, and our Lieut. Mr.
Elizur Holyoke, which
I earnestly
perswade you to persist in : by so doing you will exceed-
ingly honour
your selves and gratify me. So that if
any of you
study to
shew me respect, let it be in that way.
There are many
Reasons with
me why I inform'd the honourable Council of my in-
ability to sustain
that Character which somtime I have done in this
Company;
which, as it would not be proper, so I have not now
time to
relate. I heartily thank you for the
Respect I have had
from you,
which has been beyond my value. Am truly
sorry for any
inconvenience
I have been the occasion of the last week to our Lieut.
or any of
the officers, and ask your pardon for it.
The Drums have
lately cost
somthing the fitting, which I shall take care to discharge,
that the
Company be not in debt about it. And I
have left with the
Lieut for the refreshment of the privat Souldiers, of which I crave
your
Acceptance.
And so wishing you a good day, I take
Leave.
To JOSEPH
DUDLEY, Esqr., Presdt.
HONOURED Sir, -- My not being at home
when the Messenger
came to my
house yesterday gives the occasion of these Lines. In-
deed I had
then no expectation of any such thing; but suposed on
Thorsday it
might have been. Am truly thankfull to
your Honour
for the
respect you have put on me in nominating me for the keeping
the
Peace: but you shall still further
oblige me in letting of it rest
in a
Nomination. What station I formerly had
in the Government
10* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
of this.
p1ace it hath pleased God to cast me out of it just after
the taking
of a solemn Oath, which probably I had not done so soon
had not some
small Circumstances turn'd the scale.
And many of
the Council
reside in
for one, are
so aged and worthy, that now I am upon even ground,
and in age
his son, shall be perpetually asham'd to take place of him
as a senior
Justice, and shall be pleased to see him have his health
and sit on
the Bench. Besides, my Mother and wife
are incessantly
importunat
with me to accept at least of part of that Retirement
which God
hath dismissed me to. I am glad that my
Unkle Quinsey
hath sworn
and so, for ought I see, his sister is too: wish I may hear
the like of
other good men up and down the Country, which as have
oportunity,
I shall further. On1y as I have serv'd
this People as
a Constable,
and as a Justice of Peace, so now am desirous of mak-
ing an
Experiment, whether standing in the middle between those
two Offices,
be the hapier Life, as I think I have heard K. James the
first should
affirm. Have been willing to signify
thus much, that so
my
non-acceptance may be managed by your Prudence for the best.
I am your
Hons humble
Servt S. S.
JUNE 2,
1686.
To make a Salt-Petre Bed. Imprs. All the sword of the Ground
is to be
taken off or trenched in, and the Stones to be taken clean out
as deep as
the Trench. Then get the best and
richest mould you
can, and
fill up the Trench according as you will make it in great-
ness --
Length or depth, as you see cause. When the
ground is
made clean
and fitting, turn over the ground and trench it in again,
and as you
trench it in mix it with strong Lime about a 10th. or sixth
part; and
the Seed-Petre, or Mother of Petre, and Hen, or Pigeon's
Dung as much
as you can get, the more the better. And
after 'tis
trenched in
as above, Let all the Butchers Blood and Lees of Wine
be mixed
often with the uper part of the mould about half a foot
down, that
it be not lost or run away from the Bed or Bank. Let
the Bank be
made upon rising Ground, and a ditch about it, that the
water rest
not, nor run into the Petre-Bed; with a dry House over it,
to keep it
from Rain.
Jany 24th. 170 6/7 James Bayley
Esqr. Ring and Glov[es]
April, 23.
feria quarta, The Reverd and pious Mr. Samuel
Torrey; Gloves.
86. May,
12,1707. Mrs.
years old
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 11*
69. Decr 4.
1707. The Honble F. J. Winthrop, Governour of Con-
ecticut. Scarf, Ring, Gloves, Escutcheon. Gov. W. Tomb.
Decr. 12.
Mrs. Mary Eliot, widow of my dear friend Capt.
75. Jacob Eliot, and her self a very good
woman. Scarf and
Gloves. 75.
64. March, 22. 170 7/8 Mrs. Sarah Noves; Scarf and Gloves.
54. Augt. 17.
1708. Mrs. Mary Stoddard; Scarf and
Ring.
73. Octobr. 20.
1708. Capt. Anthony Checkley, Scarf and
Gloves.
76. Febr. 11th. 170 8/9 Mrs. Hanah Glover, Scarf and Gloves.
69. April, 30. 1709. James Russel Esqr. Scarf and Gloves.
May, 6. Mrs. Abigail Russel his
widow. Scarf, Gloves.
64. May, 9. Major Thomas Brown, of
80. May, 26. Mrs. Sarah Pemberton, Scarf and
Gloves.
74. June, 8. Mrs. Ruth Wyllys, Scarf, Gloves.
55. July, 26. Mr. Thomas Banister, Scarf and Gloves.
61. January, 10 1709/10 Mr. John Hubbard; Scarf
and Gloves.
63. Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, April, 16, 1710,
Scarf and Gloves.
84. Madam -- Stoddard, July, 19, 1710. Scarf and Gloves.
72. Isaac Goose, Decr. 2. 1710. Scarf and
Gloves.
58. John Foster esqr, Febr. 15. Scarf, Ring, Gloves, Escutcheon.
40. Mrs. Anne Allen, Febr. 28 1710/11, Scarf and Gloves.
68. Mrs. Abigail Foster; March, 8. 1710/11, Scarf, Ring, Gloves, Escut.
57. Mrs. Sarah Banister, July, 3. 1711. Scarf and Ring, Gloves.
60. Mr. Elizur Holyoke, Augt. 14. 1711. Scarf and
Gloves.
72. Mrs. Mary Ardel, Octobr. 20. 1711. Scarf and
Gloves.
Mr. John Pole, Novr. 10. 1711. Scarf, Glove,
Escutcheon.
Mrs. Margaret Corwin Decr. 3. Scarvs and Gloves.
73. Mrs. M. -- Atkinson, Jany. 4. Scarvs and Gloves.
69. Jno
Walley Esqr., Jany. 17.
Scarf, Ring, Gloves, Escutcheon.
77. John Fayerwether, Capt. Scarf and Gloves.
Apr. 14. 1712.
Mrs. Elisa Whetcomb Augt 20. 1712. Scarf and
Gloves.
80. Mrs. Sarah More, Novr. 26. Scarf and Gloves.
70. Samuel Hayman esqr, Decr. 18. Scarf and Gloves.
70. Mrs. Elisa Hutchinson Feb. 7. 1712, 13. Scarf, Ring, Gloves,
Escut. Funl. Sermon.
76. Mrs. Elisa. Addington, March, 5th. Scarf, Ring, Gloves.
6- Mrs. Elisa. Stoddard Apr. 22. 1713. Scarf,
good Ring, Gloves,
Scutcheon.
6 - Mrs. Martha Patteshall Apr. 23. Scarf and Gloves. Old B.
place
Mr. Thomas Brattle May, 21.
Col. Hunt.
12* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
SEWALL'S COMMONPLACE BOOK.
[In our first volume, pp. 56, 57, note, we
called attention to pre-
sumed
extracts from Sewall's Diary for a period (1677-85) for which
we possessed
no original. So also, we learn, there is
a citation in
Palfrey's
History, III. p. 348, 349, about Mrs. Randolph, of this
date.
We are now able to show that all these
quotations are from Sew-
all's
Commonplace Book, a volume in the possession of this Society,
and we are
thus relieved from the fear that some portion of the Diary
might have
been lost of late years. We are yet
unable to trace the
following
quotation from Palfrey, III. 348. "May 2, [1681] Had
discourse
about putting the cross into colors.
Captain Hall opposed,
and said he
would not till the Major [
spoke with
the Major, it seems, that afternoon, and Mr. Mather was
with him,
who judged it not convenient to be done at this time. So
is put a
stop to it at present."
Again, "July 11, Captain Walley,
instead of having no cross at
all, as I
supposed, had it unveiled. . . . Captain Henchman's company
and Townsend
hindered Captain Walley's lodging their colors, stop-
ping them at
the bridge."
Still, we trust, these citations will
prove to be taken from some
almanac or
note-book or letter.]
[Sewall's Commonplace book contains
various extracts from books
arranged
under appropriate heads. Most of the
following are placed
under that
of "De Omene," and contain cross-references. A few
items,
however, occur separately, and we have endeavored to ar-
range them
chronologically.
The book contains the following note of
its beginning: "Samuel
Sewall, his
Booke, Decemb. 29, 1677. Bound by Jno.
Ratcliff."
On the cover is this memorandum: -- ]
March 1, 77-8. Mr. Tho. Walley, Pastour of Barnst. Chh. dyed.
Ap. 16, 1678. Mr. Noah Newman, Pastour of
Rehoboth Chh. dyed.
May 9.
Mr. Joseph Brown, Fellow of Harvard Colledge dyed.
11. An House, 2 Women and 2
Children burnt at
June 22.
Mr. Edm. Brown, Pastour of
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. l3*
Oct. 11.
Sam1 Simons, Esq. Dep. Gr. buried.
16. Mr. Tho. Thacher, Pastr. 3d. Chh.
Bost. dyed.
Nov. 24. Mr. Joseph Rowlandson, Preacher
at
Jany. 4. Mr. Danl.
Russell, Preacher at
23. Mr. Peter Hubbard, Pastour of
Hingham Chh buried.
Feb. 1. Mr. Ami-Ruhamah Corlett, Fellow of
Harv.
[Then we find a family record as follows:
-- ]
(P.87.)
John Sewall, the son of Samuel and Hallah S. was Born
Apr. 2,
1677.1
Was Baptized Ap. 8 in the South-Meeting-House by
the Reverend
Mr. Thomas Thacher. I held the child
when Bap-
tized. Dyed Sept. 11, 1678, and lyeth buried in the
New burying
place, on
the South side of the grave of his great Grandfather, Mr.
Robert Hull.
June 11, 1678. Samuel Sewall, second son of S. and Han. S.
was
Born. Baptized p. Mr. Thomas Thacher June 16. I held him up.
Feb. 3, 1679. Hanah Sewall was Born, just after a great
snow.
Baptized
Feb. 8 in the New-Meeting-House, p. Mr. Samuel Willard.
held her
up. Mr. Thacher dyed in the Autumn,
1678.
May, 21, 1680. I carry Sam. to Newbury, where his
Grandmother
nurses him
till May 81, to see if change of air would help him against
Convulsions;
which hope it did, for hath had none there, nor since
his coming
home.
1681.
Thursday, December 29th, Elisabeth, Daughter of Samll.
and Hanah
Sewall is Born. N. Two of the chief
Gentlewomen in
Town dyed
next Friday night, viz. Mrs. Mary Davis and Mrs. Eliza.
Sargent.
Sabbath-day, January 1, 1681. Elisabeth is Baptized p. Mr. Sam-
uel Willard,
I holding her up. Elisabeth Weeden was
Midwife to
my Wife
bringing forth the four mentioned children.
[We next extract a few notes which are not
in the consecutive
entries: --]
(P.8 ½ .) Mr. Nath. Higginson in a Letter
of 4 Mar. 1679-80
writes Dr.
Godwin dyed about a fortnight agoe.
1 "Mr. Thomas Parker dyes that
April." Marginal note. -- EDS.
14* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
(P.12.) De Autophonia. 1677, Nov. 16. Friday, day after pub-
lick
Thanksgiving, Jno. Tomlin Hanged himself in his Garret in
the
day time,
fastning his Rope to a pin that held the Rafters at the pot.
Nov.
18. Sabbathday one Williams, an old Man,
the Winisimet
Ferry man
cut his own Throat. Via Diar.
Nov. 7, 1680. A Negro Man and Woman murdered themselves.
A certain dweller in the Town of
In his bosom
was a Writing to this effect that God did show mercy
on great,
grievous and desperat Siners; and therefore he said that he
hoped of
mercy though he hanged himself.
(P. 12 ½.) 1678, Apr. 5th.
Mr. Josiah Allen, a young Merchant
of a very
good estate and Account, was slain on board of Benj. Gillam's
ship by the
accidental firing of a fowling piece, out of a Boat of Joss.
Gillam, as
they were going from the jolly Ship.
vid. Diar.
(P. 77 ½.)
Mr. Edmund Quinsey married Mrs. Eliza. Eliot before
Tho.
Danforth, Esq. Dec. 8, 1680.
Decr. 18,
1680. Josiah Winslow, Esq. Govr. of
after sore
Pain with the Gout and Griping. His
flesh was opened to
the bone
on's leggs before he dyed. Thorsday Xr.
23, buried.
Wednesday Xr. 22, '80. John Russell, the Anabaptist minister is
buried,
scarce having time to read his Print in favour of that Sect;
come over in
the last ships, Jener or Foy.
Friday, January 14, 1680-1. Benjamin Thwing, Carpenter, one
of the
South-Church, was goeing from Mount-Hope to Rhode-Island
in a Canoo
with an Indian, was overset by the wind and Ice, drowned.
The Indian
escaped.
Tuesday, Feb. 22. Eclips of the Moon. N. Mr. Samuel Wor-
ster, Deputy
for
he was
within ¼ Mile of the first Houses of Lin, dyed: Mr. Gidney
coming down
from
House where
were two Men that first saw him; so gave a Warrant
for a Jury
and his Burial.
Tuesday, March 8, 1680-1. Mr. Edward Mitchelson,
General is
Buried.
Sabbath-day, March 20, 1680-1. Tho.
Major William Hathorn dyes April --.
The Reverend Mr. Urian Oakes dyeth, July
24, 1681, Sabbath-
day night,
suddainly, as to most, who are startled at the newes, being
just before
the Comencement and he so Learned, Godly, Orthodox a
Man and so
Discerning of the Times.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 15*
[On p. 38 is an account of Mrs. Dyer's
monstrolls birth, Oct. 17,
1638,
"taken out of my Father Sewall's Copy." Also an account of
a similar
birth, Jany 10, 1679-80, to the wife of Samuel Dible, of
[We next transcribe that portion which
is continued through
several
pages, an seems to form a Diary for that period.]
(P. 60.)
Thorsday, June 21, 1677. Mr.
Torrey of Roxbury as he
was in the
Meetinghouse in Selmon-Time gave a Suddain and amaz-
ing Cry,
being taken with a Fit of the Falling Sickness.
It greatly
disturbed
the whole Assembly so that Mr. Allen was fain to cease
from
preaching or a while.
July 8, 1677. Sabbath-Day.
South-Meeting House, mane.
In
Sermon-Time
a female Quaker slipt in covered with a Canvas Frock,
having her
hair dishevelled and Loose, and powdered with Ashes re-
sembling a
flaxen or white Perriwigg, her face as black as Ink, being
led by two
Quakers and followed by two more. It
occasioned a
great and
very amazing Uproar.
June 3, 1680. Mr. Torrey hath another sore Fit in
Lectur-time,
old Mr.
Eliot Preaching.
July 8, two Indians Kill'd and severall
carlied away by the
hauks from
Spy-Pond at
Morn. In the afternoon a Whirlwind ariseth (at
first in a small
Body) near
Sam1 Stones.
Passeth on to Mat. Bridge (P.73).
Pass-
eth by Mat.
Bridges, (taking part of Stones Barn with it) Kills John
Robbins who
was at Hoe, breaking his Arm and jaw-bone.
It hurled
stones and
brake off and transported Trees in an unusual maner.
Vid. Xr.
16. Mis. Rllssell in Sermon-Time.
1680-1.
Jany. 25,1680-1. Tuesday. Thos. Eams drops down
dead in the
Morning at Mr. Pain's stable, as he and others saw Hay
thrown
before their Horses. He was come to
Court about Sherborn
Controversy
with respect to their Meeting House, its Situation.
Feb 1.
Schollars get sooner out of School than ordinary by rea-
son of the
House where
it begun.
Last night one Dyer of Braintrey shot an
Indian to death as he
was breaking
his window and attempting to get into his House
against his
will, Saying he would shoot him a Dogg, bec. would not
let him come
in to light his Pipe. Man was abed. Indian's gun
found
charg'd, cockt and prim'd in his Hand.
Tuesday night Febr. 1. Pet. Codnar an honest Fisherman goeing
to come over
the Draw-Bridge, (as is suposed), missed it and was
16* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Drowned: For Feb. 2, his dark Lantern was taken up out
of the
Crick by the
wharf at Low-water. He is suposed to
have fallen in
about 7. the
Tuesday night. Hath left a wife and
Children.
Feb. 3.
Lectr. Newes is brought of Mr.
Deans son Robinson,
his Killing
a Lion with his Axe at
a young man
at New-Cambridge was Kill'd by a Tree himself Felled.
Thorsday
Feb. 10. See Mr. Eliot's Sermon.
Tuesday Feb. 22. Ecclips of the Moon. Mr. Samuel Worster,
Deputy for
Rode about
¼ Mile short of the House at the end of
the Town next
dead at
Pigeon-Iland near Shelter Iland: 't is
feared it may be Jer-
emiah
Vid. p. 79. Sylvanus Davis went out on Saturday to carry
Corn
and other
necessaryes to the Fort at Casco, is driven on the Sand,
essaying to
put in again in the Sabbath day storm.
So the Corn
lost and
Souldiers disapointed. Men saved.
(P.78 ½.)
Thorsday, Feb. 24, 1680-1. This
morn, the Wife of Mr.
Elias Row is
found dead in her bed; much blood about her, so some
think she
was choak'd with it. A Jury was
impanelled and 6 grave
matrons and
a Chirurg[eon], to view the Corps to see if any Violence
had been
offered her: found none; she and her
Husband seldom lay
together;
she was given to Drink and quarrelling.
Her death puts
in mind of
the Proverb wherein we say such an one hath drunk more
than he hath
bled to-day.
Friday Feb. 18. Mr. Saml Legg
cast away, was bound for Barba-
dos.
Monday March 14. Mr. Noah Floid tells that 3 men essaying to
goe from
Mount-Hope to
about 3
weeks agoe.
Sabbath-day, March 20, 1680-1. Thomas Woodbridge is so burnt
in his own
Fire, that he Dyeth of the insupportable Torment in about
12 Houres
time. Newbury.
Not long agoe an Irish woman living by my
Father Hull's Pas-
ture, was
found dead, without dore, having her forehead on her
hands, as
she lay on the ground. Great Rumours and
Fears of
trouble with
the Indians. Persons to Carry a
competent number of
Arms to
Meeting.
N.
At Conecticot the Noise of a Drumme in the air, Vollies of
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 17*
Shot, Report
of Cannons have been Heard by divers; as pr. Letters
rec'd this
week. Ap. 1. '81.
Mr. Philip Nelson of Rowley wanders away
and is lost from Ap. 5,
to Satterday
Ap. 9. Rowley and Newbury seeking him;
on Satter-
day is
found, having walked out of his place to take the air; it was
between two
Rocks on Crane-Neck. See Bro.
Longfellow's Letter.
Goodwife Everit, Winthrop, and Capt.
Richard Woode dye
suddainly, vid. Diar. P. 102.
Sabbath-day, May the first, 1681. Mr. Angier of Cambridg, his
Tenant dyes
very suddainly and unexpectedly, having been at meet-
ing and
riding home with his Neighbour, Agur &c.
Look in and
smil'd on
his wife through the Window, but sunk down before he
got in at
the doore, and his wife hearing a noise came out; but her
Husband
scarce spoke ten words before he utterly ceased to speak.
The Newes of
it came to us yesterday as we were at Diner.
About
3 weeks agoe
a little Boy of Braintrey playing with a bean,
[P. 84]
in 's mouth,
got it into his wind-Pipe, of which in six or seven dayes he dyed.
Monday, May 2. Mr. Richard Hubbard of Ipswich Farms, dyeth
suddainly in
the afternoon, goeing to ly on's Bed after diner was
there found
dead by his daughter accidentally goeing in thether. teste
Guil.
Gerrish, senr. (p. me?)
Satterday, May 7th, there was a Hurrican
at Newbury, which
blew down
Rich.
at the uper
end of
Sabbath-day-night, July 24, 1681. The Reverend. Mr. Urian
Oakes,
President of the College, and Pastour of
Died; scarce
any Knowing of his Sickness till his Death was sadly
told up and
down the street, Monday July 25. vid.
Diar. p. 109.
Thorsday, Xr. 1, 1681. The well-accomplish'd mercht. and Ac-
comptant,
Mr. Paul Dudley dyed, being little above 30 yeers old.
Xr. 13, '81. Jonathan Jackson's wife hangs herself in the
lower
room of her
dwelling House near my Father's ware-House.
Xr. 17.
Foye arrives, in whom Mr. Randolph and his new wife
and family.
Xr. 25.
They sit in Mr. Joyliff's Pue; and Mrs. Randolph is ob-
served to
make a curtesy at Mr. Willard s naming Jesus, even m
Prayer
time. Since dwells in Hez. Usher's
House, where Ministers
used to
meet.
Satterday, Feb. 11. Is a bloody-colour'd Eclips of the Moon, onely
middle of
the uper part of a duskish dark.
Feb. 15.
Tuesday, 14, past midnight, or Wednesday morn; --
of the Day
the General Court was to sit upon adjournment,-- Major
18* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Tho. Savage
dyeth suddenly, very suddenly, having been well at the
Wedding on
Tuesday, and sup'd well at home afterward, and slept
well till
midnight or past.
Feb. 15, Wednesday. 2 Houses and Barns burnt at
Dept. Govr. hardly escaped. Sometime in the Court's sitting, there is
a child born
near the north Meeting-House, which hath no Tongue at
all; or the
Tongue grown fast to the roof of the Mouth; one finger
too much on
one Hand, and one too little on the other:
And the
Heels right
opposite one to another, the (P. 88 ½) Toes standing to
the Right
and left outward.
Mar. 24, '81-2. Goodw.
Fox dyes suddenly. The Town was
sadly
alarm'd the Tuesday night before at the Fire at Mr. Wing's,
which, had
the Wind promoted, a great part of the Town had been
consumed, it
being near or in the Center.
Thorsday, Novemb. 9, 1682. Cous. Dan1.
Quinsey Marries Mrs.
Anne Shepard
Before John Hull, esq. Sam1 Nowell, esq. and many
Persons
present, almost Capt. Brattle's great Hall full; Capt. B and
Mrs. Brattle
there for two. Mr. Willard begun with
Prayer. Mr.
Tho. Shepard
concluded; as he was Praying, Cous. Savage, Mother
Cake and
drunk Wine and Beer plentifully, we were called into the
Hall again
to Sing. In Singing Time Mrs. Brattle
goes out being
ill; Most of the Compa. goe away, thinking it a qualm or some Fit;
But she
grows worse, speaks not a word, and so dyes away in her
chair, I
holding her feet (for she had slipt down).
At length out of
the Kitching
we carry the chair and Her in it, into the Wedding
Hall; and
after a while lay the Corps of the dead Aunt in the Bride-
Bed: So that
now the strangeness and horror of the thing filled the
(just now)
joyous House with Ejulation: The
Bridegroom and Bride
lye at Mr.
Airs, son in law to the deceased, going away like Persons
put to
flight in Battel.
Satterday night, Novr. 11. Twelve Jurors come
before my Father,
to give Oath
as to the Cause and Manner of one Johnson, a Turnour,
his imature
death; which was by letting a Barrel of Cider into a
Trap-dore
Cellar;1 the Board he stood on gave way, he fell
in, and
the end of
the Barrel upon his Jaw and Kill'd him outright. Jury
came to
swear about eight a clock.
One Blood of Concord about 7 days since or
less was found dead
in the
woods, leaning his
ing some
Creatures. Oh! what strange work is the
Lord about to
bring to
Pass.
1 "Just by Cous. Quinsey's."
Marginal note. -- EDS.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 21*
The Wednesday fortnight before Mrs.
Brattles Death, Mr. Wid-
ener of
after
Lecture to open it, as he was hanging up a net of Cotton-wor.
fell down
dead over his Threshold: which made a great Hubbub.
Novr. 12,
at night or even, Capt. Benj. Gillam's Mate is drowned
off the
outward wharf.
Friday, Novr. 17. one Smith is drowned,
coming up from Mr.
Edwards,
sailing for Lond[on]. Not many weeks
before, a Man fell
into the
Dock, up by my Father's Ware-House, and was drowned:
and Josiah
Belcher, Senr was drowned at
Sabbath-day, Novr. 19. Mr. Edw. Winslow,
Ship Mr., dyed sud-
denly: He took Physick the Friday before and John
Alcock dis-
cours'd with
him, he seeming to him no iller than Men ordinarily are when
taking
Physick. A Woman dyed suddenly at the
North end of the Town.
Tuesday, Novr. 28, '82. One Horton
coming from
the Land
this day, and stands in; but the Rain and Snow take him
so that in
the night drives him over Rocks and Sholes, cast Anchor;
but all
Cables break. So about 3 a clock at
night, that violent Storm
strands the
Ship on
Pulling
Point Gut; the Ship about 100 Tun.
Persons on Board 13,
3 whereof
drowned; 4 perished in the Cold, not being able to grope
out the way
to Mr. Winthrops: and 6 onely escaped: 3
of the above
if not all
four, lay frozen like sticks, in a heap.
One of the six was
of so frozen
that will hardly escape. Very little
goods saved. About
200 £ in P
8/8 lost.
Febr.
9. 1682-3. A considerable deal of
Snow being on the
Ground,
there falls such plenty of warm Rain as that the Waters
swell so as
to do much damage. Ipswich Dam and
Blidge is carried
away by the
Flood and Ice violently coming down; so that they
now go over
in a Boat, Horse, and Men. Rowly Mill
Dam also
spoyled, and
generally much harm done in (P. 90) Dams and Bridges;
so that 'tis
judged many Thousands will scarce repair the Loss.
persons on
it; so that a woman was near drowning.
Satterday; March 22, 1683-4, there was an extraordinary
high
Tide, which
did much hurt at
Houses and
Ware-Houses that stood low. All that I
hear of at
bridge,
Charl. and here, say 'tis higher than ever any was known before.
Wednesday, Octr. 29, a Maid's Brains shot out, her head broke all
to pieces,
at
Friday Novr. 28, 1684. Wm.
Allen, a Plumer, receives a blow by
a piece that
was used for a Scaffold falling on's head, of which he
18* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Tho at
night.
Winary at
and
dies. About that time Jn° Poor of
Newbury perrisheth
in the Snow,
near the Fresh-Meadows, about a Mile from my Father's
Farm.
(P.90 ½) Wednesday, Novr. 15, 1682. Mr. Sherman
Ordains Mr.
Nath. Gookin
Pastor of Cambridge-Church: Mr. Eliot gives the
Right hand
of Fellowship, first reading the Scripture that warrants
it. Mr. Sherman, Eliot and Mather laid on
Hands. Then Mr.
Gookin
ordain'd Deacon Stone and Mr. Clark Ruling Elders. The
Presence of
God seem'd to be with his People. Mr.
Jonathan Dan-
forth, the
Dept. Governours onely Son, lay by the Wall,
having de-
parted on
Monday Morn, of a Consumption. Tis a
comfortable day
and much
People at the. Ordination. I go and come on foot in
Compa. of Mr. Zadori, the Hungarian, whom I find to be an Armi-
nian.
(p.92.)
Wednesday, Apr. 25, 1688. I went
to Govr. Bradstreet,
to enquire
about the Custom of Swearing in
me That of
lifting up the Hand had been the Ceremony from the
begining;
that He and some others did so swear on board the Ship,
1630. And that He never Knew an Oath administred
any other way
after he
came on Shoar.
Sir, it is all one to touch a Book and
swear by a Book. Fox.
Martyrol. Henry the 4th, p. 702 and 701. &c &c &c. [Various au-
thorities
are cited, the passage above being among other citations
under the
head of "De Juramento."]
(P.108 ½.)
Mr. Joshua Gee, sometime Captive in Algeer, tells me
June 11,
1694, that the Turks observe an Hebdomadal Revolution as
we do; Our
first day of the week is their first day of the week; And
they call
the days by their Order in the Week; One, Two &c. If
they have
any notable piece of work to doe, they chuse to begin it
upon the
first day of the Week, bec. God began his Works on that
day.
[There is also a full account of the trial
of Rev. Thomas Chiever,
Jr., of
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 21*
(P 132 of orig.) At
A Council of the, 3 Chhs. of Chrt. in
Mr. James
Allin, Joshua Moody, John Wiswall, Mr. Elisha Cook, Mr.
Isaac
Addington, Mr. Henry Allin, Mr. Increase Mather, Mr. Cotton
Mather,
Major John Richards, Mr. Adam Winthrop, Mr. Daniel Stone,
of Father
Green; Mr. Allin went to Prayer, when discoursed whether should
have 2
Moderators or one; Mr. Allin put it to vote, and carried for one,
being but a
small Company. Then voted for a
Moderator by Papers.
Mr. Increase
Mather was chosen, had more than ten votes and but 15
Persons ill
all. Discoursed of our work, then went
into the Publick.
Mr.
Moderator prayed. When had heard some Debates there, went to our
Quarters,
had the witnesses and Mr. Tho. Chiever face to face. Mr. Chiever,
the Father,
desired to be present, was admitted and bid wellcom, except
when Council
debated in private all alone (Mr. Sam. Parris present
through-out,
though not of the Council).
In the evening Mr. Chiever the Pastor was
sent for, Mr. Moodey
and others
acquainted him how grievous his carriage had been and
that day not
so humble and in such a frame as ought; told him ex-
pected not
an Answer, but that should sleep on't.
Debated consider-
ably what to
do till about 10 at night Mr. Moderator pray'd, went to
Bed. Mr. Moderator and his son to Mr.
Wigglesworth's, some to
Mr. Chiever,
Major Richards and self Kept the House.
In the
Morn,
Thorsday, Ap. 8, Mr. Moderator went to prayer: read over
what was
drawn up, then discours'd about it. Sent
for Mr. Chiever,
to see what
had to say; then not finding satisfaction, all agreed on
the
following Declaration and Advice.
The Elders and Messingers assembled in
Council at Maldon,
April 7,
1686, at the Request of the Church there, after humble Invo-
cation of
the Name of God for his Guidance in the solemn Case
propos'd
unto them, do declare and advise as follows.
1.
We find that Mr. Tho. Chiever, the present Pastor of the
Church in
Maldon, has been accused as Guilty of great Scandals, by
more than 2
or 3 witnesses; and that since his being in Office-Rela-
tion
Particularly, he is by two or three Witnesses charged with
speaking
such words as are scandalous breaches of the Third Comand-
ment, as
apears by the Testimony of Mrs. Eliza.
Wade and Abigail
Russell. He is moreover accused with Shamefull and
abominable,
Violations
of the Seventh Comandment. There are
several who have
testifyed
that they heard him use light and obscene expressions (not
fit to be
named) in an Ordinary at
Samuel
Sprague, Jacob Parker, Isaac Hill; Also as he was travailing
22* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
on the Rode,
as p. the Testimony of Thomas, Esther and Eliza. Newhall.
2.
We find that although Mr. Chiever has been convicted of very
scandalous
Evils since his being a Preacher in Maldon, the Church
there has
declin'd all Testimonies against him as to Scandals comitted
before his
Ordination; as also some other Testimonies respecting
matters very
criminal since that; because they judged the Witnesses
on account
of Prejudices and otherwise, incompetent; upon which
Consideration
we have also waved these Testimonies.
3. We find that in Augt. 9, 1685, Mr. Chiever made an Acknowl-
edgement of
some Evils to the Brethren of that Church, whereto he
stands
related; and that the most part of them were willing to take
up with a
slender satisfaction: But that on the next Lord's-day, he
manifested
before the Congregation so little sense and sorrow for his
great sins,
as that the generality of the Brethren were more dissatis-
fied than
formerly.
We find by our own enquiries since we met
together, that Mr.
Chiever has absolutely deny'd some things,
which are by sufficient Wit-
nesses
prov'd against him. Mr. Chiever's filthy
words testifyed by
Tho.,
Esther, and Elizabeth Newhal, he utterly deny'd to Lt Saml
Sprague,
also to Cornet Green and his son, saying that Thomas
Newhal was
forsworn. Likewise he did to Capt.
Sprague and Tho.
Skiner
utterly deny that ever he spake the words at
prov'd
against him.
Also we find, that as to some particulars
he pretends he does
not remember
them: Nor have we seen that humble penitential frame
in him when
before us, that would have become him: but have cause
to fear that
he has been too much accustomed to an evil course of
Levity and
Profaneness.
These things considered, we conceive it to
be Duty and accord-
ingly advise
the
from the
Exercise of his ministerial Function; and also to debar him
from
partaking with them at the Lord's Table, for the space of Six
Weeks untill
which time the Council will adjourn themselves, to
meet at
fest that
Repentance which the Rule requires, they should confirm
their Love
to him, and (if possible) improve him again in the Lord's
Work among
them.
And this, our Advice, is grounded on
these Scriptures and Reasons.
(1). Among the Lord's People in the dayes of the
O. Testament, no
man might be
permitted to execute the Priest's office that had a
blemish: He might not come nigh to offer the offerings
of the Lord.
Levit. 21,
17, 21, which teaches that Men under moral blemishes, are
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 23*
unfit for
holy ministrations, untill they be, in a way of Repentance,
healed. (2) It is in the New Testament required, that
an Elder
should be
sober and of good behaviour, and moreover he must have
a good
Report of them that are without, 1 Tim. 3, 2, 7. (3) Christ's Dis-
cipline
ought to be exercised impartially, without respect to Persons.
1 Tim. 5,
21. Nor does Mr. Chiever's standing in a
Sacred Office-
Relation any
way lessen, but greatly aggravate his sin.
(4) There is
no
probability that Mr. Chiever's Ministry will be blessed for good
to Souls,
untill such time as his Conversation shall declare him to be
a true
penitent. Mat. 5, 13.
Finally, we exhort and advise our beloved
Brethren of the Church
of Maldon to
set a day apart, solemnly to humble themselves by
Fasting and
Prayer before the Lord under this awfull dispensation,
and for
whatever failings have attended them, as to the management
of their
Differences, in this hour of Temptation which they have
been subject
unto. Particularly, for not observing
the Rules of
Christ, in
endeavouring to prevent Evils by giving seasonable notice
to Mr.
Chiever of their Dissatisfactions. And
for that want of Love,
and for that
bitterness of Spirit, which appears in sundry of them.
So we pray
the God of Love and Peace and Truth to dwell among
you.
INCREASE
MATHER, Moderator,
In the Name, and with the unanimous
Consent of the whole Council.
Note.
Mr. Clriever was ordained July 27,1681, Wednesday, Mr.
Oakes dying
the Sabbath before.
Thorsday, Ap. 8. the
erator
pray'd, read the Council's Report. Mr.
Wigglesworth spake,
thank'd him
and the Council; said had cause to condemn themselves,
as for other
sins, so their sudden laying Hands on Mr. Chiever; and
now God was
whiping them with a Rod of their own making.
Mr.
Chiever the
Father, stood up and pathetically desir'd his son might
speak, but
Mr. Moderator and others judg'd it not convenient, he not
having by
what he said given the Council encouragement.
Mr. Allin
pray'd; went
to Diner; Council adjourned to that day 6 weeks.
Came Home well.
24* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
ZADORI'S LETTER.
[In Vol. T. p. 97, of Sewall's Diary,
mention is made of Zadori." The
reference
was obscure, and no light upon it presented itself to us the
sheets
passed through the press. We have since
received from abroad the
following
letter, which, however, does but little to clear the obscurity attach-
ing to a
scholar of that name who, it seems, made a visit to
text of the
manuscript copied for us seems in some places to be doubtful,
and other difficulties
stand in the way of a confident translation.
We offer
such an one
as may serve the occasion. -- EDS.]
Bodl:
MS. Tanner xxxv. f. 105.
Letter
addressed: --
"To the most Reverend Father in God William, by the grace of
blessed
Jesus Lord Arch-Bishop of
Vir fidelis & Dei timens, Christique
amantissime, Salve!
Non omnes
quos tenus fert mortales despicato terrrae pulveri ad-
haerescunt,
Amplissime Praesul, sed numerosa eorum portio, relictis
rusticanae
turbae flagellis, opificumque instrumentis, altioribus animum
applicat,
potiorisque sui partis, animae puta, perfectionem indefesse
quaeritat. Ingenerasse scilicet Natura hominibus quosdam
Videtur
igniculos,
qui desiderium sciendi stimulorum instar magnopere exci-
tant. Unde fieri consuevit, ut rerum altiorum
avidius cupidi mortales,
nulla
scientia satiari valeant, verum quanto propius in cognitione
rerum, cum
Divinarum, turn humanarum perfectioni accessit animus,
tanto majus
desiderium sciendi capiat incrementum.
Quod maxime
laudabile
esse, non possumus non asserere, cum sui parare perfectio-
nem sit
longe laudatissimum. Puto hinc me facile
impetraturum a
beata Tua
Reverentia excusationem, quod per duos plane annos inter
Vos,
mansuetioribus musis feci rem. Quis enim
adeo excoecatus, qui
tam
religiosissimum Orbis Christiani sidus, & perenne literarum decus,
immensamque
Patriae & saeculi spem, facile relinquat?
Si praesertim
loquar de
memetipso, Proh Deum immortalem! quanta nos Hunga-
ros, in hac
decrepita mundi senecta, ruina literarum operit, quam
1 William Sanicroft was at this time Archbishop of Canterbury.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 25*
turpe &
securum militiae nostrae ocium irrupit.
Videre sic cis puto
nemo posset
oculis. Ubi non nisi Mars gaudet
prreliis, & nos inter
tot tantaque
funesta bella pendemus potius quam sedemus.
Ducimur,
&
portamur per vastam eremum. Rapimur,
dispergimur, in diversa
trahimur:
ita ut nee coeptum opus deserere, nee supra vires ferre
valeamus. Et ipse cum anno hoc ipso Patriam versus iter
facere
meditarer,
intempestive nimis impedivit Hungarim recens conditio,
ut contraria
via coactus sum [?] ire, quasi e tergo Hungariam intueri
plurimum
delectarer. Ego igitur, mi Pater Reverendissime
(quod
solum
possum) Deum Optimum, Maximum, qui Te mihi providit,
obnixe
deprecor, ut quando Tibi talem debitorem dedit, qui nunquam
solvenda sit
futurus, beneficentiam istam quam mihi 29 die Maji, anni
1682, tam
effusus impendebas, ipse Tibi dignetur pro sua benignitate
rependere,
turn ut nos ab hoc aerumnoso & procelloso saeculo in suam
requiem, pro
sua miseratione perducat, ubi non erit opus epistolis,
ubi non
distinebit nos paries, ubi non arcebit a colloquio janitor, sed
gaudio
perfruemur aeterno. Nunc pro tempore
apud Novos-Anglos
in
haec est non
modo pietati addicta, & christiana charitate imbuta,
verum &
Regiae Majestati addictissima.
quibus apud
hos hospitor peregrinus, nil tale quid audivi sicut in
Scotia &
Anglia a quibusdam sceleratissimis, contra Sacrae Regiae
Majestatis
Thronum, blasphemia verba ex impuris palatis eructanti-
bus. Teror corde vehementer quod nil sit in me,
vel penes me, quo
tantam
beneficentiam Sanctae Tuae Reverentiae pensare possem, qui
sum eroque
ad finem usque hujus vitae Tuae dominationi addictissimus
ac fidelis
servus. Is igitur qui Dominationi Vestrm
talem debitorem
dedit, qui
nunquam solvendo sit futurus, Te donis suis locupletet, &
in multos
annos Ecclesiae suae conservet, Serenissimam Sacrae Regiae
Majestatem,
Nobilissimos Proceres, adeoque Omnes Potentissimi
Regni vestri
Ordines protegat, & omni benedictionum genere quam
pinguissime
cumulet; ad verae pietatis & Regni Christi propagatio-
nem aevo
largissimo tueatur. Et tandem post seros
vitae laudabiliter
exactae
annos, ad nunquam intermoritura & desitura caelestis vitae
gaudia,
solenni Angelorum comitatu introducat.
Ubi cum Deo Patre
ingenito [?]
& uniprocedente Paracleto, gaudio perfruemini aeterno.
Ita animitus precatur clam qui haec palam
Vobis peroptat.
Salutis Vestrae avidissimus Stephanus
Zadori Pannonio-Hungarus de S. P.
Scribebam hospes & peregrinus celeri
cursu defessa manu ad lucer-
nam jamjam
lectulo imminens Bostonii Novi-Anglorum, anno vitae
meae 29.
anno vero beatissimi beatae Mariae Virgin is Filii Jesu 1682.
10. 8bris.
26* MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
TRANSLATION.
Faithful and God-fearing man, most loving
of Christ, Health!
Most Illustrious Primate, -- Not all the
mortal men whom the world
sustains
cling to the mean dust of the earth, but a considerable portion
of them,
turning from the vexations of the rustic crowd and from the
tools or the
workshops, devote their minds to higher objects, and
unweariedly
strive for the perfection of their nobler part, namely,
the
soul. For Nature seems to have generated
in men certain sparks
which
intensely rouse as with a goad the craving for knowledge.
Whence it is
wont to happen that men, keenly craving higher things,
can find
satisfaction in no attainment, but the nearer the mind ap-
proaches
towards perfection in the knowledge alike of divine and
human
things, the more does a desire for such knowledge take
increase. We cannot refrain from asserting that this is
greatly
praiseworthy,
inasmuch as it is superlatively laudable to be perfect-
ing one's
self. So I think I may readily claim
from your Blessed
Reverence an
excuse for having for two full years devoted myself
among you to
the more gentle muses. For who would be
so blind
as
slightingly to desert the most devout star of the Christian Sphere,
the
perennial glory of letters, and the loftiest hope or his country
and his
age? If especially I may speak of
myself, By the Immortal
God! what a wreck of literature is visited upon us
Hungarians in
this
decrepit old age of the world, how has a base and confident
ease broken
in upon our military vigor. I think no
one can see this
with dry
eyes, when only Mars revels in battles, and we, amidst so
many and
such direful wars, hang in suspense rather than rest. We
are dragged
and borne over a vast desert. We are
caught up, dis-
persed and
scattered, so that we can neither abandon a work under-
taken, nor
bear it on beyond our strength [?]. And
when I myself
was this
very year contemplating a journey to my country, the recent
condition of
pelled to go
in a contrary direction, as if it were my highest pleasure
to behold
(it is all
that I can do,) earnestly beseech the Great and Good God,
who has
provided you for me, that, since he has given to you such
a debtor as
can never pay his debt, he in his benignity will vouch-
safe to
repay to you that beneficence which you so lavishly bestowed
upon me on
the 29th of May, 1682, and then that in his own mercy
he may guide
us out of this oppressed and stormy era to his own
repose,
where there will be no need of letters, where no wall will sepa-
rate us,
where no janitor will restrain our intercourse, but we shall
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 27*
enjoy
delights forever. Now for a season I am
living as a guest
with the
New-Englanders in
do with me
here. Verily this is a people, not only
devoted to piety
and imbued
with Christian charity, but most loyal also to the Royal
Majesty. For during this whole time, in which [?]1 I, a stranger,
have been
their guest, I have heard nought such as I had heard in
impure lips
blasphemous words against the throne of the Sacred
Royal
Majesty. I am greatly grieved at heart,
that there is noth-
ing in me,
or in my power, by which I can repay such kindness of
your Sacred
Reverence, -- I, who am, and will be even to the end of
this life, a
most devoted and faithful subject of your Lordship. May
He,
therefore, who has made me such a debtor to your Lordship as
can never
pay his debt, enrich you with his gifts, and preserve you
for many
years to his Church; may He also protect the most Serene
Majesty of
his Sacred Royalty, the most noble Lords, and all orders
of your most
potent kingdom, and heap upon them most richly every
kind of
blessing; may he watch over them for the propagation of
true piety
and of the
And at
length, after the late years of a nobly-spent life, may he
bring you to
the never-dying and endless joys of the celestial state
in the holy
fellowship of the Angels, where, with the uncreated God
the Father,
and the one-proceeding [?] Paraclete, you shall find the
fruition of
eternal bliss. So, heartily in secret
prays he who openly
craves for
you such things, Stephen Zadori, of Pannonian Hungary,
de S. P. --
most desirous of your welfare.
As a guest and a stranger, I write with a
running pen, with a
wearied
hand, by lamplight, just before going to bed [?], at
New-England,
in the 29th year of my life and in the year of the most
Blessed
Jesus, son of the Blessed Mary, 1682, October 10th.
1 This conjectural rendering of an
ungrammatical text reads quo for
quibus.
Another conjectural version would be, "Among those with whom
I have been
a stranger-guest."
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
THE three following pamphlets have been
reprinted, because they
deal with a
controversy in which Sewall was deeply interested and
in which he
took a part, and also because of their great rarity. For
a copy of
the first, we are indebted to Colonel Joseph L. Chester, of
Museum; for
the second and third, we are indebted to the courtesy
of the John
Carter Brown Library and the
respectively.
It will be noticed that the first is a
violent attack on Governor
Dudley; the
second, an able defence of him; and the third, a re-
newed
attack.
They are entitled, respectively, "A
Memorial of the Present De-
plorable
State of
"The
Deplorable State of
In view of the charge made in the preface
to the "Modest En-
quiry,"
it may be safely assumed that the first tract was not published
in
in
date of Nov.
1, 1707 (post, ii. 197), "after coming from Council, I
read the
Book printed against the Governour in
seen it
before." So again under date of
Nov. 21, 1707 (post, ii.
200). "Some" (of the Council) "began
to be hot to send for the
Book wherein
the Affidavits are, and Mr. M.'s letter; and to burn it:
others were
for deliberation."
Of the merits of the controversy we say
nothing; a few points of
interest may
be indicated. Thus it is evident that
Rev. Cotton
Mather was
the inciter, and perhaps the compiler, of the first pam-
phlet. The R. A. whose letter is on p. 42*, is
possibly R. Armstrong,
as that name
best agrees with the "Mr. Ar--nge" on p. 81*.
It seems evident that many thought that
Cotton Mather had been
guilty of
duplicity; but at all events the mask was now dropped.
erett"
(as President) "was insupportably grievous to Increase Mather,
30* INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
and his
son. They had anticipated that the
choice would have fallen
upon one or
the other of them. Between them there
was no rivalry.
For the
disappointment of both, they were not prepared.
Their in-
dignation
was excited against Dudley, who, as they thought, had
buoyed up
their hopes until he had arranged measures and agents to
insure their
defeat."
In view of these pamphlets, we may
perhaps conclude that the
dissimulation
was the other way. It looks rather as if
Cotton
Mather,
aspiring to the presidency of the college, had pretended
friendship
to Governor Dudley; and, concluding that the election
would be
settled in 1707, he gave vent to his malice by sending to
At all events, the reception of copies of
it in
terminated
all hopes of further friendship between the Mathers and
ness of
soul. (See Collections, first series,
Vol. III. pp. 126-138.)
The "Modest Enquiry" was the
immediate retort; and the anec-
dote
concerning Cotton Mather, printed on p. 81*, must have been a
bitter pill
to his admirers.
The preface to the third tract is signed
A. H.; possibly, as Palfrey
suggests,
the Alexander Holmes whose name is appended to the
petition on
the last page. He does not seem to have
been a resi-
dent here,
and was perhaps one of the persons "trading thither."
The most
noticeable item therein is Samuel Sewall's protest (on
p. 111*)
against the statement that the Council has passed a vote
unanimously. He dwells upon it in his Journal (post,
ii. 202).
It is Palfrey's opinion (Hist., IV. 310,
note) that Mather was "con-
cerned in
the composition" of this third pamphlet; and, as Sewall
quarrelled
with him some years before (see Journal, post, ii. 45-46),
this may
account for the slurs on p. 124*.
"Nevertheless, we doubt
not but in
the large
an Hundred
Men as fit to be Counsellors, as S. S. or J. C. or P. T."
These names
we interpret to be, Samuel Sewall, Jonathan Corwin,
John Cushing
or Joseph Church, and Penn Townsend.
We
trust our readers will find in these pamphlets a sufficiently
lively
picture of the questions which agitated the colony at that date
to warrant
the space which we have given to them.
EDS.
A
M E M O R I A L
Of the Present Deplorable State of
New-England.
A
M E M O R I A L
Of the
Present Deplorable STATE of
New-
With the
many Disadvantages it lyes under,
by
the Male-Administration of their
Present G 0 V E R N 0 U R,
Joseph Dudley,
Esq.
And his Son P A U L, &c.
TOGETHER WITH
The several Affidavits
of People of Worth,
Relating to several of the said Governour's
Mer-
cenary and Illegal Proceedings, but
particularly his
private Treacherous Correspondence with Her
Ma-
jesty's Enemies the French and Indians.
To which is
Added, A Faithful, but Melancholy Account
of several Barbarities lately Committed
upon Her Majesty's Sub-
jets, by the said French and Indians,
in the East and West Parts
of NEW-ENGLAND.
Faithfully
Digested from the several Original Letters, Pa-
per, and M S S. by Philopolites.
Printed in
the Year, MDCCVII. and Sold by S. Phillips
N. Buttolph, and B. Elliot. Booksellers in
[1]
A
M E M O R I A L
Of the Present Deplorable S TAT E of
New-England.
THE
Inhabitants of New-England had for many years
before the
Late Happy Revolution, Enjoy'd the Lib-
erty and
Property of as Free and Easy a Charter as a
People could
Desire; and this too, with as much
Satisfaction
and Loyalty on their part, as Malice and Envy
on that of their
Enemies; who, from a Persecuting Spirit, looking
upon this
their Charter with an evil Eye, took up an Implacable
Resolution
of Robbing them of it. They had no
sooner Effected
this, but a
vast Scene of Misery appear'd; and they found
among the
principal Instruments of this Mischief, One,* whom
their own
Womb had brought forth, and whose Breasts had
Nourished! But the Unhappy (or
rather Happy) Reign of the
Late K. J.
running Precipitantly upon its own Ruin, made well
for the
deliverance of New-England; without which doubtless
the People
had fell a sacrifice to French and Popish Slavery.
[ 2] We shall not Recriminate here the
Mismanagements of
the then
Governour Sir Edmund Andross, since that Gentleman
is now in a
Necessary to
say some Matters of Fact, of the present Governour
Dudley, who,
(under the said Sir E. Andross) acted as President
of the
Council, and One of the Quorum in all his Affairs.
* The present Governour, J. Dudley, Esq.
is a Native of New England,
Born at or
near a place call'd Roxbury, 2 Miles from
36* A MEMORIAL
OF THE PRESENT
The Behaviour of this Man, as soon as he
arrived, struck in
with the
first
est. Indeed, the People were something Surpris'd
to see the
publick
Offices and Places of Trust snatch'd from them, and
Conferr'd on
Strangers on one hand, and the Avarice and Beg-
on
t'other. But, when the President was
pleased, out of an
Active and
Passive Principle, to tell our Countreymen, in open
Council, That
the People in New-England were all Slaves; and
that the
only Difference between Them and Slaves, was their not
being Bought
and Sold: And that they must not think thePrivi-
leges of Englishmen would follow them to the
end of the World.
I say, when
the People heard this, they lookt upon themselves
in a manner
Lost. On one Hand they saw their Enemies
invested
with a full Power in the Government; on t'other they
saw
themselves not only turn'd out of the Publick Ministry,
but under a
Necessitous Fear of being Quiet, left their Estates
should be
Siezed, and themselves Imprisoned. On
this side they
saw their
Wives and Children, their Fathers, Mothers, &c.
Butchered
daily by a Handful of Barbarous Indians; on t'other
side, little
or no Resistance made by their Armies, which were
Commanded by
those of the Romish Religion; insomuch that it
seem'd
rather an intended Massacre, than a Desire of putting an
End to a
Diabolick and Bloody War. They saw then,
that they
had to their
Cost, brought forth a Prophet, who told them they
were Slaves;
and they then saw his Prophecy fulfilling: In fine,
they saw all
this, but perceiv'd no way to escape; till throw-
ing up their
Cryes to Heaven, they were animated by Divine
Power, to
Rescue themselves and Children from the approaching
Ruin.
[3] Under the Pressure of all these
Grievances, they Unani-
mously
arose, upon the coming in of the late King William, of
Blessed
Memory, Siezed the Government for HIS Majesty's Use;
and, amongst
the rest of the Authors of their Miseries, not un-
justly
Imprison'd this their present Governour.
From that time New-England took Heart,
and concluded
that Heaven
was removing from them all the Plagues in their
Land. They indeed Thankfully Rejoiced to see
themselves Re-
stored to
their Ancient Liberty, as afterwards in a great Measure
they were by
another Ministry.
And thus much for the former Actions of the
Author of the
following
Matters of Fact, which has rendered His Love to his
Native
Country, His Veneration for the
a Free
People, His Fidelity, Justice, and Loyalty; in delivering
the
Oppressed, and detecting the Queen's Prosess'd Enemies,
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
but the
Reverse of Good Mens Actions, and ought to be Remem-
bered only
as so many Monuments of Infamy.
But to come down to our Memorial, and
inform the World of
the modern
Mismanagements of this unhappy Gentleman, we
humbly
Declare, That
THE Trade
with the French and Indians, being so counte-
nanced by
the Governour, that without speedy Remedy,
the Country
is in great Danger of being Ruined, which will
plainly
Appear as follows:
First, In the Year 1705, The
Governour sent his Son William
Dudley, with Captain Vetch, to
Redeeming
Captives; but brought very few back to
those that
were there, and them of the Meanest fort, leaving the
Principal of
the said Captives behind, to give them occasion of
going again,
that they might have a Pretence to Colour their
Treacherous
Design of Trading, as Appears by the said Vetch's
Acknowledgment
of going to Settle a Correspondency with the
Enemy, and
carrying a Cargo out with him of 800 1. which,
according to
their Disposal, [4] might amount to near 3000 1.
as
particularly Shot, which was Sold at 13 Sous per Pound;
whereof they
carried a considerable Quantity; also Rigging,
Pitch, Iron,
and other Necessaries, fit for supplying the Indians
and French,
and this done under a Colour, of the said Vetch's
going to get
in a Debt due to him, from the French, of 800 1.
with the
Governour's Approbation.
Secondly, For Settling a
Correspondency with the French
Governour at
Port-Royal, for Exchange of Prisoners; Whereas
it was
indeed, only a Cover for an Illegal Trade; when, at the
same time,
the French there, were drove to such extreme Hard-
ships, for
want of Ammunition Provision, &c. that most of
their
Principal People were forced to go out a Privateering
on our
Coasts, who were, afterwards taken and brought into
vice among
the Enemy, who had been a Barbarous, Murdering
Fellow, to
the English: He, with all the other French Prisoners,
were sent to
great part
of our People that were Prisoners, were left behind at
the same
time, and that, because our Governour had been false
in his
Promise, to the French Governour, who had restrained the
Indians from
disturbing our Fishery, and indeed would not
allow them
any Ammunition for a considerable time, till our
Governour
taking that
countenanced
a trade with them, and supply'd them by the
Veffels that
were sent as Transports (as aforesaid) to fetch
38* A MEMORIAL
OF THE PRESENT
Prisoners;
when at the fame time they were made Veffels
of
Merchandize, as appears by the Indian Traders on their
Tryal."
Thirdly, The Country are at a vast
Charge, in maintaining an
Army Yearly,
to March several Hundred Miles up into the
Country, to
Destroy the Indians Corn, the better to disenable
them to
Subsist; for they have been so Reduced (as by Infor-
mation of
the Captives) that a great part of them would Perish
for Want,
were it not for the Supply they had from the said
Indian Traders; who particularly, Sold about
Eight Quarts of
Indian Corn for one large Beaver Skin;
which Trade has
been all
along countenanced by the Governour, which suffi-
ciently
Appears, by his being always Unwilling [5] the Prison-
ers taken in
that Trade should be Fined, or Punished, even
owned by
Vetch, as in his Petition more at large, is set forth.
Fourthly, The Country was at a
great Expence, in Erecting a
Fortification
at
for securing
the fame, thereby to suppress the Enemy, and keep
sure Footing
in that part of the Country, and the Governour,
through some
Design or Neglect, did suffer those Soldiers to
remain there
without any Commission Officer, to the great Dissat-
isfaction
and Dread to the Soldiers; insomuch, that they
Declared to
Captain Cally, (a Member of the Assembly at
that when
the Enemy came upon them, they would Surrender
the Fort,
and dare not Resist for want of a Commission.
Then
Captain Cally
made Application to the Assembly, which he
found
Sitting when he came to
the
Governour, that speedy care might be taken, that some Per-
son might be
Commissionated to Command that Fort, which,
with a great
deal of Difficulty, was at last Obtained.
Fifthly, And further, as to the
Governour's countenancing
this Private
and Illegal Trade, the Country has been at vast
Expence
occasioned thereby; insomuch, that at one Sessions
the last
Summer, the Assembly were forc'd to raise 33000 Pounds,
for
Supporting and Maintaining the Charge they were put to,
by the
Enemies Invasions, after they had a Supply; that
whereas, if
things were rightly Managed, and the Enemy kept
back for
want of those Supplies, one Third Part of the said Sum
might have
answer'd the End. The Indians
that were Supply'd
by those
Traders, are the only People that destroyed our Eastern
Parts, the
Fishery, and the Coast of
fame that
were at Destroying of New-found-land; particularly
one
Escombuet, a Principal Commander among them, who is
generally
one that Heads the Indians, when they come to
Destroy the English
in New-England.
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND. 39*
Sixthly, The Governour, with his Son Paul, not being Con-
tent with
what Money they come fairly by, and over greedy of
Gain, are
very Screwing and Exacting upon the People, parti-
ularly upon
sundry Inhabitants, taking away their Priviledge in
catching [6]
of Whales, a Priviledge they have Enjoyed many
years
before; that is, (under a Pretence of drift Fish) what
Whales are
taken by Her Majesty's Subjects, he takes from
them by
Force, not giving them the
Common Law, but for his own Ends, decides the Matter
in
the
Admiralty, where his Son Paul is the Queen's Attour-
ny and
Advocate, thereby Encroaching the whole to them-
selves, a
thing never heard of before, and very much to the
Prejudice of
Her Majesty's good subjects there, and that with-
out Remedy.
Seventhly, As to the Address the
Governour Obtained, pre-
tended to
come over from the General Assembly at
favour, for
his Continuance, it was no more than what he Clan-
destinely
procured, by fending to his particular Friends; such,
who being
either Related to him, or bore Commissions under
him, dare
not deny his Request, and was never approved nor
allowed of
by the Assembly; but on the Contrary, had not the
Majority of
the Country, waited in Expectation of Her Majesty's
Favour, in
fending another Governour, they would largely have
signified
their Resentments and Dissatisfaction, in the Adminis-
tration of
Dudley's Government.
Eighthly, While the Great and
General Assembly at Boston
were
Sitting, there arrived a Flagg of Truce from Canada, with
a haughty
Demand of the Governour, for all the French Prisoners,
charging of
him with breach of Promise, which was the occasion
of the
French Governour's not fending several of the Prisoners,
particularly
a Minister that was taken Captive at Derefield,
detained by
the French, who might have been Discharged with
sundry
others.
Ninthly,
The Lower House, mistrusting the French Flagg of
Truce coming
upon a Trading Design, as well as for Prisoners,
ordered the
Flagg of Truce to be diligently Searched, who found
on Board
their Vessel sundry new Arms and Ammunition, hid in
Private
Places, particularly new Bullets, hid among Pease, and
yet denied
by the Commander, who was an English Renagado,
which
Ammunition being brought before the Assembly, were
generally
concluded to be Bought in
Governour
in-[7] terposing, the Matter was hushed up and Con-
niv'd at, to
the great Dissatisfaction of the Assembly, and Coun-
try in
general.
40* A MEMORIAL
OF THE PRESENT
This being realy the State of New-England,
and its Provinces,
it may very
well be called Deplorable, when it is render'd the
very Scene
of Arbitrary Power, with all that's Miserable:
But to
proceed,
before I come down to, the several Affidavits upon these
Heads, it is
Convenient to Recite some Letters from the Inhabi-
ants of that
Place, who, under a deep Sense of their Approach-
ing Ruin,
have breath'd forth their Complaints in the following
Words,
Boston, New-England October 2: 1706.
SIR!
IN AS MUCH,
as you have Expected from me, a true and brief
Representation
of several Matters, relating to this Province, I
shall, with
all possible Faithfulness, endeavour it.
Our Present
Governour is
not without a number of those, whom he has by
Promotions
and Flatteries made his Friends; but this hinders
not a much
more considerable number, from wishing, that we had
a Governour,
who would put an end unto the horrid Reign of
Bribery, in
our Administration, and who would not infinitely
Incommode
Her Majesty's Service, by keeping the People in con-
tinual
Jealousies of his Plots, upon their most Valuable Interests.
What the disposition of the People towards
him is, you may
guess by
this: There was lately prepared an Address from hence,
to the
Queen, upon many important Articles; but by certain Arts
there was
got into it a Clause, to desire of the Queen, that this
Governour
might be continued, the Representatives Voted all the
rest of the
Address, but this Clause they absolutely Rejected; they
could not
get above Five or Six Votes for it, so the whole Address,
(which was
contrived by a Party for nothing but that Clause) fell
to the
ground.
[8] There happened lately a number of
Persons, namely, Bore-
land, Vetch,
Rouse, Lawson, Philips and Cauplin to be taken
managing an
unlawful Trade with the
French and Indians, the
Commodities
wherein they Traded, were such, that the late Act of
Parliament
made their Crime to be High Treason, and we had no
Act of the
Province relating to that Matter, but was defectively
Expressed. Our merciful Assembly was mighty loathe to
proceed
unto so
severe a Judgment as that of Death, upon these Offenders.
The
Offenders Petitioning for it, the General Assembly were (very
much by the
Governour's influence) drawn into it, to take the
Tryal of
them into their own Hands; and as only Guilty of an
High
Misdemeanour, the Vote for it was obtained in a Thin House,
upon an
hurry at breaking up; and some Clauses in the Charter
were so
Construed, as to Countenance it. Upon
their coming
together
again, they would fain have revoked their Votes, as fear-
DEPLORABLE
STATE OF
ing, that
the very Persons who had been their Tempters into it,
would turn
their Accusers, and improve it by way of Complaint,
for the
Enemies of our Charter to work upon; but the Governour
would by no
means permit the Revocation of that wrong Step, (if
it were one)
so the Tryal proceeded, and the Offenders were Fined
in several
Sums, by an Act of the Governour and Assembly.
It is now laid, that the ingrateful Men
who were saved from the
Gallows, by
the Tenderness of the Government, are now cutting
our Throats,
and Petition home against the Government, for Fin-
ing them
instead of Hanging them; yea, it is also said, that the
very Person
who was the chief Cause of drawing the Assembly
into this
extraordinary Proceeding, intends to make an ill use of
it, against
the Country; if you are sensible of any thing of this
nature
carrying on, we pray you to add unto the rest of your
Offices,
that of an Intercession, that an harmless People, surpriz'd
into any
Error, may not be Punished any otherwise, than by the
removal of
such as have been the Causes of it; and so much for
that.
[9] Sir, You would do a vast Service to
the Crown, if you would
set forward
the designs of reducing
Scotia, a
much less Fleet than what annually goes into the Indies,
coming early
enough in the Spring, may easily do the former, even
in the way
thither, and a Scotch Colony might be of good Con-
sequence to
do the latter; but if any assistance from
should be
expected in this matter, it is of absolute necessity that
the Country
have a Governour whom the People may somewhat
Rely upon.
Sir, You are Born to do the Queen and the
Nation Service,
you are
spirited for great undertakings; you are highly beloved
and esteemed
among our People in this Land, and where-ever you
have come,
'tis wished that you may do some considerable Action
in this
Affair.
I have been earnestly Sollicited to
Address one of the most Illus-
trious
Patriots of the English Nation, my Lord High Treasurer,
with some of
these Intimations: That Noble Person is
known to be
such a
Patron to all good Men, and such a defence of Oppressed
Innocence
and Liberties; that we all fly to him as our unquestion-
able Refuge,
I am well satisfied there would need nothing (to
speak
Humanely) to make this Country Easy and Happy, but for
that
excellent Person to have an exact Representation of our Cir-
cumstances,
nothing hinders me from attempting it,
but the
hazard of
doing what may be thought a presumption in one so
much a
stranger to him, nevertheless, I am desired by some consid-
erable
Persons to move you, that you would wait upon his Lord-
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MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
ship, and
fully acquaint him with the Matters now laid before
you.
May
the Almighty prosper you;
I am, Sir,
Your Obliged Servant, &c.
Sir
I may inform you of one Action lately done
among us, which
I know you
will be pleased withal. Upon the advice
of [ 10] the
extream
Distress whereto the French Invasion had brought St.
Christophers and
Chriftian
manner expressed their Charity towards those, who
perhaps
would have hardly done the like for them, on a like
Occasion. We made a Collection for the Relief of their
Necessi-
ties, the
Collection was, as I am told, between 7 and 800 1. in
this
Collection, there were two Churches in
and the North,
one gave somewhat above a 100 l. the other gave
a little
under it. Certainly, a Country so ready
to serve Her
Majesty, and
to help their fellow Subjects, ought to have a room
in the
Thoughts of all good Men in the English Nation.
The foregoing Letter carrying with it so
many undeniable
Truths, the
World must of consequence concede with the gen-
eral
Exclamations of the now Distressed New-Englanders. Indeed
the publick
had not been allarm'd with there Distant Calamities,
had the
inexorable Authors of them adhered to reitterated
Grievances,
from those who too severely suffer'd under their
Protection. The Author of this Letter, who is a Person of
a
character
beyond the reach of Envy, and one who is a great
Blessing to
his Native Country, had not invoked the protection
and
Assistance of others, without a due sense of the Danger his
innocent
Neighbours and Country-men were expos'd to.
To
Report all
the Letters of Complaint from there Provinces, would
be too
Voluminous and tiresome to the Reader; we will only
mention one
more, which, tho' short and plain, carries nothing
but Veracity
with it.
Sir
ALL the
People here are Bought and Sold, betwixt the Gov-
ernour and
his Son Paul; they are so Mercenary, there is
no Justice
to be had without Money: There is not one Publick
Place in the
Government that is worth Money, but what the
Governour or
Paul goes Halves with: In short, the whole Coun-
try is very
uneasy, and the People here are so universally set
against him,
that Her Majesty can scarce give a greater Instance
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
of Her
tender Care and Regard to them, than by a re-
[11 ] moval
of him, which to my certain knowledge, would be
soon
followed by a Sincere and Hearty Acknowledgment of
Her
Majesty's Singular Favour to them, in that particular.
R. A.
In the foregoing Letters we find several
things Worthy our
Remark; but
I shall only mention the Three following:
(1.) That without Money, there is no
Justice to be had in New-
Condition;
the faces of their Poor being ground to Dust; their
Widows
Houses laid Waste, and the hopes of their Offspring cut
off. From whence we may infer, that New-England
having a
Governour,
whose God is the Mammon of this World; whose
Principles
act Counter to the Design of his Power; and whose
Drift is the
Ruin of his own Country; the Inhabitants thereof
have nothing
but Justice on their part to Petition Her Majesty to
throw him
aside.
(2.) A general uneasiness under, and
opposition to this Gover-
nour, thro'
the whole Country. And this, methinks, might stop
the Mouths
of some People here, (who, not knowing the Nature
of this
affair, no otherwise than as their Interest leads them to
side with
the Governour, or by Virtue of a bare Friendship Con-
tracted with
him whilst he Resided in
Period to
all their Objections in his Behalf; especially One,
unhappily
let slip from the Mouth of a Gentleman too well
known for
his great Learning and Parts, to be thought so over-
sighted, and
that is to this Effect. If a
Governour must be
removed for
every trivial Complaint, there wou'd be no End of
such
Removals; and Her Majesty Ministry would be wholly
taken up
with turning out, and putting in. I will not pretend to
affirm the
Reason that produc'd this hasty Plea for our Criminal
Governour;
but sure I am, the Author of it knows too much
Law, than to
extenuate the like Crimes in others. And
a weak
Argument I
take it to endeavour the influencing our Superiors in
Redressing
Grievances of the Subject, when the several matters
of Fact
Sworn to, are laid down before them: But [12] to say
no more,
this Gentleman has not been the first that has over-shot
himself in
Defending things of this Nature. And
(3dly) A fervent Desire to be eas'd of
Oppression, i:e. That
they might
be capable of acknowledging with Respect and
Gratitude,
the mighty advantages of such a Deliverance to the
Queen of Great Brittain; to a Queen who
is all Justice and Piety,
Peace and
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MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
tions of her
Subjects, but maintain them in their Rights and
Priviledges. Let not New-England doubt then of
finding Re-
dress, from
so Great and Gracious a Mistress, notwithstanding the
subtle
Designs and Evasions of Evil-minded Men.
And so we
come to
present the Reader with a further Account of the said
Mismanagements,
by another Hand.
SOMETIME in the Spring of the Year,
1706, Mr. Dudley, the
present
Governour of the Province of Massachusets Bay,
and New-Hampshire,
writ a Letter from Boston, Directed to Mr.
Richard
Waldron, and my
self, to use our Interest to prevail
with the
Council at an Assembly, to Draw up an Address to the
Queen, That Her Majesty would please to
continue the said
Dudley in the Government of New-Hampshire. Whereupon the
said Waldron
(after he had Communicated the Letter to me)
drew up an
Address, and shew'd it to the Assembly, and pre-
vailed with
them to pass it in Both Houses, with little Alteration.
And this is
the Address that is now come over from the Prov-
ince of New-Hampshire. The Assembly was much against it,
but we
thought it would be best for us to do any thing that
would please
the Governour at that time; considering, that we
were always
in danger of the Enemy, and concluded, it was
much in his
Power, under God, to preserve us, having often
heard him
say, that he would stop the Courier, of the Indians
and French,
(when he pleas'd) in a Month or Six Weeks time;
and I did
then, and do still believe, that he could prevent the
Indians and French from coming upon us,
and Killing us as they
did; for I
know that he had Correspondence with a Fryer or
Jesuit, or one so called, a Frenchman
that Lives among the
Indians, and hath great influence over them, who
writes himself
Galen
Emesary. The Governour to my certain Knowledge, did
order sundry
things that were sent him; [13 ] and considering
the great
Correspondence (he told me) he had with the Gover-
nour of
Port-Royal, it caused a firm belief in me, that he could
do what he
would with the Enemy: These, with other Motives,
press'd us
forwards to get the Address passed, concluding all
these things
would add to our Peace, if rightly improved; and
the Indians,
about that time, and for many Months before, had
done little
or no Mischief, and for my part, I did really believe, that it was
the
Governour's Interest that caused our quiet, but soon found we were Mistaken,
finding out,
that much about the same time that Waldren and myself were
forwarding
the Address to Her Majesty, to continue Mr. Dudley Governour,
he was
countenancing a private Trade with the Indians and French, our
Enemies, as
we found by woful Experience: For soon
after those Traders
went to the
Eastward, the Indians came sharply down upon us about the latter
end of June
last, Killed Six People, Wounded two, and carried away two from
the Town of
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND. 45*
Almsbury; and a little before they Killed
Lieutenant John Shap-
leigh, at the Town of
Wife and
Children, all Killed and Scalped out of the Township
of
ship of
carried out
of the
were
committed before I came from thence, which was about
the
beginning of September last; God knows how many have
been thus
Barbaroufly Murther'd since. Captain Vetch,
and
Captain Lawson,
oftentimes told me, that they had oftentimes
acquainted
the Governour with their design of going to the East-
ward upon
Trade, and had the consent of him, and did solemnly
protest that
they would not have gone without it: And I do
believe, and
it is generally believed in New-England, that the
Governour
did know of this Trade, and no doubt but that he was
to have a
share of the Profit. When there Traders
came from the
French and Indians, one of their Vessels
stopped at the Isle of
Shoals, near the Province of New-Hamshire,
the Master's Name
was Rouse,
who brought to that place from Port-Royal Seven
Prisoners;
and Capt. Jethro Furbur being at the said Isles of
Shoales, at the said time when the Vessel came
in, heard the said
Prisoners
affirm, That the Eastern Indians had no Shot, nor Bul-
lets, nor
Lead to make any, and it was very scarce with the
French, insomuch that they could not supply
them, so that the
Indians were [14] like to Starve for want of
Ammunition; for
great part
of their Livelihood depends on their Guns to Kill
Wild Beasts
and Fowl, &c. whereby we find it was not the
Governour's
Interest he had with the Enemy, to prevent their
coming upon
us, but it was for want of Ammunition: And
those
Prisoners that were brought from Port-Royal, which Capt.
Furber spoke with at the Isles of Shoals, did
further affirm, That
they heard
the Governour of Port-Royal say, That be had given
his Letter
to the Governour of Boston, that he would not supply
the Indians
with Powder nor Shot, but that he would do all he
could to
prevent the Indians coming upon the English, and had
been as good
as his Word; but that the said Governour of
nition than
he was able to do; for the Traders from
Tuns; and
that if this Trade had not been incouraged by the Governour,
we should
have had no Men Killed, nor indeed any Disturbance amongst
us. It is my Belief, and it seems very plain to
me, that the Governour
intends to
forward the French and Indian Enemy to Destroy all they
can, and
keep the Country allarm'd, thereby to put them to such vast
Charges, as
will Ruin the whole Government, by Killing some and Impov-
erishing the
rest. There was never such Taxes on the
Poor
People as
now; 33000 l. being raised a little
before I came away,
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MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
and many
great Sums not long before that. I was
credibly
Informed
that some Persons were forced to cut open their
Beds, and
Sell the Feathers to Pay their Taxes. I
don't remem-
ber that
ever there :was any of the Indian Enemy Kill'd or
Taken since
Mr. Dudley came over Governour, except an Old
Woman, and
two others I took to be Girls by their Scalps; and
some few
taken near Port-Royal taken by Major Church. So
that instead
of being Destroyed, I wish they be not preserv'd:
For, Six
Months before it came to pass, the Governour Mr.
they came
again, and it proved accordingly. He
told me, That
the Indians
would not come in any great Body as they used to
do, but they
would come in small Numbers, no Number above
Thirty, and
so Line the Woods from Dearfield, which is the
South-West
side of the Massachusets Government, and all along
the Woods,
just within the Towns to Casko Bay, which is the
North-East
Part of inhabitants at this time. And
this Method
I am afraid
will be continued till the Country is for a great part
Destroyed,
if Mr. Dudley be continued Governour.
As for the
Address he
ob- [15] tained of the militia of Massachuset's Bay,
it was a
forc'd thing; for the Officers are beholden to him for
their
Commissions, and if any Refus'd to Sign what the Gover-
nour got
drawn, he could put them out, and put in others as he
pleased.
Thus having given the Publick an Exact
Relation of the pres-
ent State of
New-England, it remains only that we Produce a
Confirmation
of all that hath been said. To which end
we will
begin with
the several Affidavits and Depositions already made,
and which
are as follows.
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND. 47*
The several Affidavits as they were laid before the
Q U E E N
and Council, relating to the Governour of New-England's
Mercenary and Illegal Proceedings, but
particularly his
private Correspondence with Her
Majesties Enemies, espe-
cially the French and Indians
The Two Affidavits of Mr. John Calley.
JOHN CALLEY of
Marble-head in the
New-England,
now in
That he doth
and hath good reason to Believe, That Her Majesties
Colonies of New-England are in great Danger of
being Ruined
by reason of
Governour Dudleys
Countenancing a Trade, and
Correspondence
with the French,
and Indian Enemies, and many
other his
Irregular pratices. Also faith, that the
said Governour
did in the
Year, 1705, send his Son William
Dudley with Captain
Samuel Vetch
to
who
accordingly went and brought back only a few of the meanest
of the
English Captives; Leaving the chiefest of them there for an
Occasion of
their returning again to
Correspondence
with the French; and that the said Vetch did
carry out
with him a Cargo of about 800 lib. Value
in Iron, Pitch,
Rigging,
Shot, &c: Which Cargo upon a
Moderate Computation,
might
produce near 3000 lib. And that the said
Vetch did also
pretend that
he went with Governour Dudley's
Approbation to get
in a Debt of
800 lib. Contracted in time of Peace; And due to
him from the
French, of which matters and things he this Depo-
nent, hath
been credibly informed, and Believes them to be true.
And further
saith that it did appear to the General.
As- [17] sem-
bly of the Massachusets Colony in New-England,
that Captain
William
Rouse was (the better to colour a Trade with the French,
and Indians)
sent to Port-Royal
with a Flag of Truce, under Pre-
tence of
settling a Correspondence with the French Governour
there for
exchanging Prisoners; and did Trade not only with his
own Vessel,
but had also at the same Time two other Trading
Vessels with
him, under his own Direction, and did bring back
Furrs,
&c. To above 2000 lib. Value, and that the said
did allow
one Dishey Foe,
a French Prisoner on Parole, to go in
the same
Vessel with the said Rouse,
who acted as Interpreter
between the
said Rouse and
the Indians, in Trading with them
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MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
and that the
said Flag of Truce meeting with one of the two other
Vessels, the
said Foe was
put into the same with several Goods,
and Merchandises,
out of the said Flag of Truce, with which the
said Foe was Trading; and that the said Foe
returned again to
Boston,
and that when the said Furrs, &c. were brought to Boston,
it was
alledged, that they were brought to Pay French Mens Debts
in New-England, but that it was proved
that the said Furrs, &c.
were mostly
purchased by the Goods carried out in the Vessel of the
said Rouse
and were seized, yet cleared afterwards; And the said
Rouse
declared to the said Assembly, that he had done nothing but
by Governour
Dudleys approbation;
and that it appeared to the
said General
Assembly that the Enemies distress through want
of
Ammunition, Provision, &c. before they were by the English
supplied,
occasioned many of them to go out a Privateering on the
English
Coast, some of which were taken and brought into Boston,
and were
afterwards with other French
Discharged and sent to
Canada,
and Port-Royal, and among others one Battis a Prisoner
Kept for
Murders, &c. by him committed upon the English in
cold Blood,
and under a Flag of Truce, and he being a Man of
great note
and Service among the French and usually joyned with
the Indians,
whilst the English Prisoners were still detained,
because
Governour Dudley
had as was alledged, falsified his
Promise to
the French Governour, who had restrained the Indians
from
Disturbing the English Fishery or otherwise; and would not
allow them
any Amunition for a considerable time, nor until they
were
supplied by the English Vessels sent under the pretence of
fetching
Prisoners, about which Letters were produced from the
French
Governour. And this Deponent further
saith, that it
appeared to
the said General Assembly, that the endeavours of the
Country, by
a chargeable maintaining an Army, and sending them
yearly
several hundred Miles to destroy the Indians Corn, thereby
to distress
and subdue them, have (by their being supplied in their
great
Necessities, by such [18] Traders, for great Prices) been in
a great
measure frustrated, and that if the said Indians had not
been so
supplied many more of them must have perished thro' want;
and that
Governour Dudley, generally shewed an unwillingness
that such
Traders when taken, should be punished, or Fined; and
further
saith, that the above said Colony, was at a great Expence
to Erect a
Fort at
Securing the
same to suppress the Enemy, and to keep sure Footing
in that Part
of the Country, yet that Governour Dudley suffered
those
Souldiers to remain there without any Comission Officer, to
the great
dissatisfaction and dread of the said Souldiers, info-
much that
they declared to this Deponent, a Member of the said
Assembly,
that if the Enemy should come upon them they would
Surrender
the said Fort, and dared not Resist for want of a Com-
mission, and
that he, this Deponent coming into the Assembly
then Sitting
at Boston;
and Informing them thereof, the said
DEPLORABLE STATE OF NEW
ENGLAND. 49*
Assembly
Represented to the Governour, the necessity of speedily
Commissionating
some person to command that Fort, which after
some
considerable time was obtained: And this Deponent further
saith, that
the said Colony, hath by reason of such Illegal Trade
been put to
vast Expences to secure themselves from the Invasions
of the
Enemy; and that in one Sessions the last Summer was
raised by
the said Assembly, about 33000 lib. When
as otherwise
one-third
part thereof might have been sufficient.
And further
saith, that
the Indians, that have been thus Supplyed are the only
People,
tltat destroy the Eastern parts of the Countrey; the Fish-
ery and
Coast of
credibly
Informed, and doth believe the very same Indians that
were at the
destroying of
Escombuct,
that usually heads the Indians when they come to
destroy the New-Englanders. And this Deponent further saith,
that he hath
been credibly Informed and hath good reason to
believe;
that Governour Dudley doth several ways Illegally exact
from Her
Majesties Subjects several Sums of Money, and De-
prives them
of the Priviledges in catching of Whales by force,
taking
Whales from the Fishers under Pretence of Drift-fish; and
obstructs
the course of Justice; and Particularly that one Clap
took by
force a Whale from one Newcomb,
upon which the said
Newcomb sued
Clap, and obtained Judgment against him, and for
which he was
cast into Prison, and then was cleared by Governour
this Deponent
further saith, that he is informed that an Address
hath been
sent to Her Majesty, Representing, as if the People of
New-England
Prayed for the continuing the said
Governour;
but that [19] he doth in part know, and hath been
informed,
and hath great grounds to believe, that the far greatest
part of Her
Majesties Subjects in New-England
are very weary
under his
administration, and that the said Governour Dudley did
cause to be
Prepared an Address to Her Majesty, for his Contin-
uance, and the
same to be sent up and down the Country, to get
hands
thereunto, and that the same was only Signed by such per-
sons as were
in Commission under him, or influenced by him.
And
that he this
Deponent doth know that an Address was presented to
the House of
Representatives, to be Sign'd, Praying for several
Favours from
Her Majesty, but because in the said Address a
prayer for
his Continuing Governour was inserted, the whole
Address was
by the said House Rejected: And that he doth believe,
that if an
Address to Remove him hath not been presented, it was
because they
had an Expectation that Her Majesty, would suddenly
favour that
Countrey with a better Governour: And
further saith,
that wilst
the Assembly was Sitting there arrived Flag of Truce
from the French Governour, with a haughty Demand
of the
French
Prisoners, in New-England, and charging Governour
50* A
MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
Trading
Vessels on their Coasts; whereupon the House of Repre-
sentatives
Suspecting the Flag of Truce to come upon account of
Trade,
Ordered the Vessel to be searched, and that there was found
on Board the
same New Arms and Ammunition, hid in private
places,
particularly shot among Peas, yet denied by the Commander
thereof, who
was an English
Renegado; part of which being
brought
before the said House, it was Generally concluded, that they
had been
newly bought in Boston;
but the Governour Interposing,
the matter
was hushed up to the great dissatisfaction of the General
Assembly,
and Country in General, and altho' the Assembly
moved the
Governour for a strict Guard to be kept on the Vessel or
Flag of
Truce, nothing was done. This Deponent
further saith,
that the
House of Representatives, Insisted not only upon far
greater
Fines to be laid on the foresaid Traders, and others Con-
cerned; but
also that they should stand upon the Gallows, and
suffer
Twelve Months Imprisonment, and continued insisting upon
the same
about Three Weeks; but Governour Dudley, not consenting
thereto, by
his Wearying out the said House, and persuading them
to Moderate
[2O] their sentence; to the great dissatisfaction of the
Council, and
the said House; at last the House altered their Sen-
tence; to
the Fines they now Stand Charged with.
John Calley.
Fur. 2 die
Jun. 1707
coram me
Thomas Gery.
JOHN CALLEY,
of Marble-head in the
New-England,
now in
That about
the middle of the Month of May,
1706, This Deponent
was chosen
an Assembly-Man, or Representative for the said Town
of Marble-head, to fit in the Great and
General Court of Assembly
at
land, on the
last Wednesday
of the said Month of May; and
accordingly
this Deponent took the usual
Oath and was a Member
of the said
Court of Assembly, and that in the beginning of the
said
Sessions, the House of Assembly, or Representatives, being
Informed by
some Captives redeem'd out of Captivity from the
French
and Indians That there were some English Persons Trad-
ing in the
Eastern parts of New-England
with the French and
Indians;
and that one Captain Samuel Vetch was returned to
Cape Ann,
from such Trading; whereupon this Deponent was
Authorized
by the Governour, Council, and Assembly, to Search for
the said
Persons so trading as aforesaid, and to Seize their Goods,
Vessels, and
Effects, and in Pursuance of his Commission this
Deponent at Marble-head aforesaid, found one John
Curtys Pilot
of the said
Vessel, Coming privately on shore, to go to Mr. John
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND. 51*
Borland
of
and Goods,
and Seized the said Curtys,
whom this Deponent Carried
Boston,
where he was Examined before the Governour, and Coun-
cil: And there gave an Account upon Oath of the
said Voyage and
Trading, as
by his Testimony, given in upon the Tryal appears,
and
afterwards this Deponent Seized the Sloop or Vessel called the
Flying-Horse,
Archibal Furgison
Master, and the Resolution,
Thomas
Barrow Master; wherin [21] was found sundry Parcels
of Goods
brought back again in the Flying-Horse and not Disposed
of tn the
Trade abovesaid, and this Deponent put the Vessel and
Goods into
the Possession of Mr. William,
Pain, Deputy Collector of
Her
Majesty's Customs at
of Loading,
Orders, and Papers, found on Board the Flying-Horse,
it appeared
that the said John Borland,
Samuel Vetch, and Roger
Lawson were
Owners of the said Sloop Flying-Horse, and the Cargo
put on Board
her for the Voyage aforesaid: Which Amounts to the
Value of
Eight Hundred Pounds, as the find Curtys Informed this
Deponent;
whereupon by a Vote of the House of Assembly, a
Messenger was
sent for the said Vetch,
Borland, and Lawson,
and upon
their Examination before the said House, and other
Evidences
that were Produced against them, the said Borland,
Vetch,
and Lawson, Were Committed to Prison for Treason, in
Aiding, and
Assisting, Her Majesties Enemies Contrary to a Late
Act of
Parliament made in England:
And this Deponent further
faith, that
he was sent in the Province
Galley to look for other
Persons that
had likewise been, and were Trading with the French
and Indians, and it appeared that William
Rouse, John Philips,
and Ebenezer Coffin, had also been
Concern'd for Illegal Trading
with the French and Indians: And upon
their Examinations and
Evidences
Produced against them, they were Committed by the said
House of
Representatives for Treason as the other were, who were
all
Continued in Prison upon their ------- for several Weeks, the
General
Court or Assembly, still Sitting, and that the Prisoners
Petitioned
the said Court, to be Tryed for High Misdemeanours
only: Which the Lower House would not consent to,
for some
Weeks when
the Countrey-men in the General Court being wanted
at Home,
upon present Occasions, and to Guard their Families,
being then
Invested in several Places by the French and Indians,
who had been
supply'd by the laid Traders with shot and other
Necessaries,
as by the Evidence appear'd, but were still detained by
the
Governour from their Lawful business, who was altogether
averse for
Tring them for so Treason, and used Stenuous Arguments,
and his
utmost endeavours to Try them for High Midsdemeanours
Alledging
(amongst other things) that they had Power by the
Charter to
Try them so, and to lay Fines, and Mulcts, and Impris-
onments upon
them, Which would be of much greater advantage to
the Country,
than to Try them for Treason. And the
said Governour
having
Wearied out the Assembly, and Keeping them only on that
52* A
MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
Affair; and
when many of the most Prudent Men of the Assembly
were gone,
to their Respective dwellings, he over perswaded the Re-
mainder
(which [22] could but just make a House) to alter their Vote,
to Try them
for High Misdemeanor's instead of Treason.
As they
were at
first Committed, which by his means was consented unto,
and they
were all afterwards Convicted of High Misdemeanours,
and fined,
as by their Tryal Appears wherein the Govenour still
interceeded
for the moderating thereof; and by his means they were
Reduc'd to
the several Sums, they now stand Fined for.
Collonell Partridges Affidavits.
WILLIAM PARTRIDGE of
of New-Hampshire
In New-England; now in
Esq: Deposeth that Sometime in the Month of January,
1702,
Col. Joseph
Dudley Governour of the said Province, and of the
Massachusets-Bay, did Dispose of two Great Guns out of Her
Majesties
Fort, at New-castle, in the Province of New-Hampshire,
and received
the money for the same: And this Deponent further
saith, that
one Mr. Theodore Atkinson, being an Officer appointed
to Receive a
Duty the General Assembly had laid upon all Boards
and Staves
exported out of the said Province of New-Hampshire,
(and Naval
Officer there) was threatened by Mr. Paul Dudley
the
Governour's Son, and the Queens Attorney to have turned
him out of
his Place, for not paying the Money due the Preceed-
ing Year, as
agreed for. And this Deponent Paid Ten
or
Twelve
Pounds in Part of what was behind, that the said Officer
might not be
turned out of his Place, which Sum the said Atkin-
son afterwards repay'd to this Deponent; And
that a year or
two
afterwards the said Paul Dudley told this Deponent, that the
Governour
should turn the said Atkinson out of his Place, for that
he had not
Pay'd him all that was agreed for, whereupon this
Deponent
acquainted the said Atkinson therewith, who reply'd
that there
was not above Five or Six Pounds behind, and he
would Pay it
the next Post: And that sometime in the
Month of
August last, as this Deponent was coming away,
to his best re-
membrance,
the said Atkinson told him he had Paid [23] Twenty
Pounds a
year, for both his Offices: And this Deponent further
saith, that
having occasion to run the Bounds of a Piece of Land
he had
bought in Portsmouth; he wrote to the said Mr. Paul
Dudley to procure the Governour's Order to the
Sheriff, to accom-
pany the
Persons Appointed to run the Line or Bounds between
this
Deponent, and the Adjacent Freeholder, for fear of any
Disturbance,
and he would be at the Charge thereof; but sent no
Money, and
the said Paul Dudley sent this Deponent word that
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
it could not
be done, or to that Purpose: And the next Post this
Deponent
ordered his Friend in
nent by the
next Post; and the Business was afterwards done in
three or
four Hours time; and the Charge to the Officers and
Sheriff was
not above the Sum of Twelve Shillings: And this
Deponent
further saith, that upon the Fifth Day of August last,
some of the
men belonging to Her Majesties Ship the Deptford,
then Riding
In the River of Piscataqua; came on shore at
the Town of New-Caste,
aforesaid, and took from thence by the
Captains
Order as they said one Jethro Furber Master of the
Ship called
the William and Richard; and forthwith set Sail and
Carried him
to Boston, in another Province; where Captain
Stuckley Commander of the Deptford, and Captain Mathews
Commander of
the Dover, entred a Complaint against the said
Furbur, in
the Court of Admiralty at Boston, for Shipping two of
their Men:
whereupon this Deponent wrote to Col. Dudley the
Governour,
how that Captain Stuckley had Carried away the
Master of
his Ship, Loaded with dry Fish, bound to Leghorn;
having
cleared the Custom-House and obtained the Governours
Pass to the
Fort, and earnestly desired Relief: And Inclosed to
the
Governour a Protest against the said Stuckley, but sent no
Money either
to the Governour, or his Son; neither could he
obtain any
Relief; whereupon this Deponent took Horse and
went to Boston
and applyed himself to the Governour, acquaint-
ing him,
that the Fish on Board his Ship was a Perishing Co-
modity; and
if any Water should come into the Ship the Cargo
would be
utterly lost; for as soon as Captain Stuckley carried
away his
Master, the rest of the Men run away from the said
Ship, into
the Woods; And this Deponent was informed the said
Ship swung
to and again, in the Tyde, and was like to Sink, and
could not
get a Man on Board her: And this [24] Deponent
further informed
the said Governour, that there was a great
Fleet of
English and Dutch Men of War in the Straits, and if
his Master
could Sail before they came out, his Ship would be
out of
Danger of being taken, but if the Master was Detained, he
should Lose
his Ship and Cargo: And that if the Master had
done
anything Amiss he ought to be Tryed at Piscataqua, and
not at
Governour;
and thereupon went to the said Paul Dudley, the
Queens
Advocate, of the Court of Admiralty, and Offered Ten.
Thousand
Pounds Bond, with good security to Pay whatever the
Courts
Sentence should be; Provided his Master and Ship might
go: But all
in vain, and his Vessel was Detained above Three
Weeks, and
when she came into the Straights, the Men of War
was come out
Seven Days before the Arrived there, and after-
wards was
taken, and further saith not.
54* A
MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
[25]
Collonel Partridge's Affidavits,
WILLIAM PARTRIDGE of Portsmouth, in the
Province
of New
Hampshire, in New-England maketh Oath that
he doth
believe that Joseph Dudley Esq; present Governour of
New England,
did Countenance a Trade with the French and
Indian
Enemies, and saith, that he the said Dudley did keep
Correspondence
with one Gallen Emissary, a French Fryar or
Jesuit, that
Lives among the Indians; and the said Dudley
owned to
this Deponent, that he had a great Correspondence
with the
Governour of Port-Royal. And this
Deponent saith,
that Captain
Vetch, and Captain Lawson often told this Deponent,
that they
had acquainted the said
the
Eastward, when they Traded with the French and Indians,
and that he
Consented thereto; and that soon after they had so
Traded, the
Indians came down and Killed Lieutenant John
Shapeley at the Town of
Children in
the
Swan-shot
out of the Township of Hamptown; and Killed Nine;
and Wounded
one out of the
the latter
end of June last Killed Six, and Wounded Two; and
carried away
Two out of the Township of Almesbury; all which
Persons were
Killed and taken in this Deponent's Neighbour-
hood, as
this Deponent hath heard, and verily believes, being
informed so
by those that were at most of their Funerals.
And
this
Deponent further saith, that there was not to his Knowledge,
any of the Indian
Enemies Killed since the said Dudley was
Governour,
except an Old Woman and two others, that seemed
by their
Scalps to be Girls. And this Deponent
further saith,
that the
said Dudley told this Deponent Six Months before the
Invasion by
the Indians, that when they came again they would
not come in
any great Body, as they used to do, but not above
Thirty in a
Company, and so Line the Woods from Dearfield to
Casko Bay, which is above a Hundred Miles, which
Method the
said Indians
did after take in their said Invasion; but how the
said Dudley
came to know that they would so do, this Deponent
knoweth not;
but saith, that the said Dud- [26 ] ley often told
this
Deponent, that he could stop the Career of the French and
Indians when he pleased, in a Month or Six Weeks
time
Will: Partridge.
Jurat
Vicessimo primo die Junij
Anno,
1707, Cor. me
W. Rogers
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
Mr. Thomas Newton's Affidavit.
THOMAS
NEWTON of
in
England for near Sixteen Years last past, and
during that time
has been
well acquainted with Collonel Joseph Dudley, the
present
Governour of the Province of Massachsetts-Bay and
New
Hampshire: And that
since the said Collonel Dudley was
Governour
there, this Deponent was credibly Infomed, that
several
Persons having purchased Lands at Nashobah and Nip-
muck, within his Government, and wanting a
Confirmation of
their
Titles, by an Act of the General Court, (as is usual in such
Cases) they
could not obtain the Governour's assent thereto,
without
giving him Money, and part of their Lands.
And this
Deponent
further saith, that he being Deputed by William At-
wood Esq; to be Deputy Judge of the Court of
Vice Admiralty,
as well as
of the Collony of Rhode Island, as for the Provinces of
Massachusets-Bay,
and New Hampshire, was prohibited by the
said
Governour from going to Rhode Island, and Condemning
some Prizes
brought in there, unless this Deponent would procure
the
Governour One Hundred Pounds, and that his Son should
go Advocate
thither; and threatned this Deponent to raise the
Posse
Comitantus upon him,
if he offered to proceed without
[27] his
Order, or License under his Hand. And
this Deponent
also further
saith, That one Mr. Stephen Minot, having Built a
very
Convenient House for a publick Inn or Tavern, upon a
place called
the Neck, the Governour having a Tennant who
kept a
Publick House near to it, Prohibited the Justice to grant
a License to
the said Minot, tho' it was Requested by the Gen-
eral
Assembly; but the said Minot could not obtain a License
for his
House, until he complied with the Governour upon hard
Terms. And this Deponent moreover saith, that
Sentence in
the Court of
Vice-Admiralty being given by this Deponent for
a Saylor,
against a Master of a Vessel for Wages, from which
the said
Master appealed to the High Court of Admiralty in
Cases,
Process was granted against the said Master, and the
Mareschal
took him into Custody thereupon. Yet the
Governour
abused the
Officer, and discharged the said Master contrary to
Law, and by
that means the Saylor lost his Wages, and his
Charges and
Costs: And lastly, this Deponent saith, that the
people in New-England
in general, are much dissatisfied with the
said Colonel
Dudley, and would rejoyce to have him removed
from his
Government; and further saith not.
56* A MEMORIAL
OF THE PRESENT
[28 ]
Colonel Partridge's Certificate.
WHEREAS an
Address from Her Majesties Assembly, in the
lately sent
over, Praying Her Majesty's Continuance of Colonel
Dudley
Governour of the said Province; Now the Truth and
Occasion of
Procuring and sending the same, was thus:
" Coll. Dudley, who is not only
Governour of New-Hampshire,
"but
also of the Massachusets-Bay, and lives at
"from
New-Hampshire, Wrote to some Principal Gentlemen, to
"Prevail
with the Assembly of New-Hampshire, to Present an
"Address
to Her Majesty for the Purpose aforesaid, and in Compli-
"ance
with this Desire, and in Order to Prevai1 with the Assem-
"bly,
the said Gentlemen Prepar'd an Address accordingly, and
"show'd
it to the Assembly, who, in some time after, though with
"Difficulty
and Reluctancy, were prevailed on to Sign the same,
"with
little Alteration. The Chief, [29] and
indeed the Only
"Inducement
to which, was the Apprehension they were then under,
"that
it was better for them to do anything that would Please the
"Governour;
and that it was in his Power to Contribute much to
"the Advantage
and Security, or to the Mischief and Prejudice
"of
that Province; and not any Opinion they had of the Conduct
"and
integrity of the said Dudley, who is generally Disliked and
"
"has given
too much Reason and Occasion to Suspect his Regard
"to the
Good and Welfare of those Places, especially when his own
"Interest
stands in Competition, or a fair
"his
Profit and Advantage.
All which is humbly Certified and Submitted.
Wm.
Partridge.
[ 30] Thus
far the Affidavits of the Illegal and Disloyal
Practices of
our Governour. Can any Man that loves
not a
French
Interest, call those Trivial; or say, they are not worthy
of the
severest Resentments? With what Face Men
now a-days
can go about
to Justify Crimes that have so near an affinity to
High
Treason, is a wonder to me; and yet pretend at the same
time to be
Loyal and True to their Country. Crimes
of the
most
pernicious Consequence to a State; and which among all
Nations have
been Punish'd with the utmost seventy.
The
Athenians;
notwithstanding the Liberty they gave to some of
their
Rulers, yet they appointed a Reckoning Day among them;
DEPLORABLE
STATE OF NEW
ENGLAND. 57*
so that
those that thought themselves not accountable whilst in
Authority,
found at last a very strict Account to be given to
certain
Auditors, and a worser Punishment inflicted on them if
Criminal,
than the abused Clemency of this Age can produce:
To do Justice
and Right is the most invaluable Jewel in Magna
Charta; and a Blessing which no People in the
World can boast
of, like
those of the Brittish Nation. The
New-Englanders are of
the same
Tribe; have the same
erty in the
Enjoyment of the many Legal Priviledges in that
Charter
contained: They are not Slaves, as their conceited
Governour
once told them; but have still a right Legally to
oppose his
Pride and Covetousness; have still a Right to Petition
for a
Better, that will not be Brib'd to do Evil; they have a
Right to
tell the World, and that loudly, That for a Governour
to furnish
the Enemy with Powder and Shot, &c. to destroy his
own
Country-men, is a Wretch not only fit to be Discarded, but
to be for
ever forgotten among Mankind.
The Cryes sent up to Heaven, by the many
poor Souls lately
most
inhumanely Butchered by the Merciless Indians, with our
own
Instruments, have reached the Ears of the Almighty, and
will
certainly draw down Redress from him, who is not only Rex
Magnus &
Rez Solus, but Judex
Supremus, who hath Imperium
sine Fine, as well as sine Limite, to whom
we commit all that
hath been
already said.
And now to Conclude all, (that our
Readers may have a just
Sense of the
unaccountable Cruelties acted by the Indians, upon
our English
in New-England) we shall present them with the
following
Particulars, lately sent over to us by a very great and
good Man.
[31]
An Account
of several Barbarities lately committed by the
ians in New-England; Intermix'd
with some Memorable
Providences.
ASTONISHING
Deliverances have been sent from Heaven,
to many of
our Captives. They have been many a time
upon the
Point of destruction; but, These poor ones have Cryed
unto the
Lord, and He has
Remarkably delivered them.
'Tis a Wonderful Restraint from God upon
the Bruitish Sal-
vages, that
no English Woman was ever known to have any
Violence
offered unto her Chastity, by any of them:
58* A
MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
'Tis wonderful, that no more of the
Captives have been
dered by
them, neither when they were Drunk nor when the
Caprichio's,
and the Cruelties of their Diabolical Natures were
to be
Gratified.
'Tis Wonderful, that when many of the
Captives have been
just going
to be Sacrificed, some strange Interposition of the
Divine
their being
made a Sacrifice. The Stories are
numberless. T
ake a few of
them.
[32] A Crue
of Indians had been three Days without any man-
ner of
Sustenance. They took an English Child,
and hung it be-
fore the
Fire to Roast it for their Supper; but that these Canibals
might
Satiate their -- I want a Name for it, -- as well as
their
Hunger, they would Roast it Alive. The
Child began to
Swell. A Cannow arrived at that Instant, with a Dog
in it.
The lesser
Devils of the Crue, proposed their taking the Dog
instead of
the Child; they did so, and the Child is yet Living!
Her Name is
Hannah Parsons.
A Man had Valiantly Killed an Indian or
two before the Sal-
vages took
him. He was next Morning to undergo an
horrible
Death,
whereof the Manner and the Torture was to be assigned
by the Widow
Squa of the Dead Indian. The French
Priests
told him,
they had indeavoured to divert the Tygres from ther
bloody
Intention, but could not prevail with them; he must pre-
pare for the
terrible Execution. His cries to God
were hard,
and heard;
when the Sentence of the Squa, was demanded,
quite
contrary to every ones Expectation, and the Revengeful
Inclination
so usual and well-known among these Creatures, she
only said,
His Death won't fetch my Husband to Life,. Do nothing
to him! So nothing was done to him.
A Woman was carried aside, by her Monster
of a Master; he
fastened a
Rope about her Neck; it was in vain for her to; con-
tend, the
Hatchet must presently have dispatched her, if the
Halter had
failed; she had no Remedy but to Cry unto God:
Her Master
throws up the end of the Rope over a Limb of a
Tree; he
ascends to hale her and tye her up; and then a fine
Exploit for
the Wretch! a memorable Name! However
the
Limb happily
breaks down he falls; full of madness he goes to
repeat his
brave action: An Indian Commander just in the Nick
of Time
comes in upon him; Reproaches him very bitterly;
Takes her
away from him; and sends her to
But we ought not to pass over the
marvellous Display of the
Power of
God, in supporting and preserving the poor Captives
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
when they
Travelled thro' the horrid Wilderness, oftentimes
much more
than a score of Miles in a day, and thro' very deep
Snows; [33]
and with vast Loads on their Backs, and griev-
ously
pinched with Hunger, having scarce one bit of any Refresh-
ment, for
whole days together. Poor, Weak, sick
Women have
done so!
One cannot well imagine any other than
Supernatural and
Angelical
assistances, in some of the instances.
The Indians came upon the House of one
and
Captivated the Man and his Wife, and assassinated the chil-
dren;
whereof one who had an Hatchet struck into his Skull,
and was left
for dead, was strangely recovered. The
Woman
had Lain in
about Eight Days. They drag'd her out,
and tied
her to a Post,
until the House was rifled. They then
loosed her,
and bid her
walk. She could not stir. By the help of a Stick
she got half
a step forward. She look'd up to
God. On the
sudden a new
strength entred into her. She travelled
that very
Day Twenty
Miles a Foot: She was up to the Neck in
Water
six times
that very Day in passing of Rivers. At
night she fell
over head
and ears, into a
got out
alive. She got not the least Cough nor
Cold by all this:
She is come
home alive unto us.
Many more such Instances might be
mentioned. We will
supersede
them all, with a Relation of what befel Mrs. Bradley
of
Haverly. Ab una Disce omnes.
This Vertuous Woman had been formerly for
Two Years
together a
Captive in the Hands of the Barbarous Indians; a
subject of
wondrous Afflictions, of Wondrous Deliverances.
Her Husband
at length found her out, and fetch'd her home, and
their Family
went on happily for six years together after it. But
the Clouds
return after the Rain.
On February 6, 1703-4, She with her
Sister, and a Maid or
two, and
some Children, (a Man being also in the Room) were
talking
about the Indians, and behold, one of the Fierce Tawnies
a looked in,
with a Gun ready to Fire upon them. The English-
man pull'd him in, and got him down, and Mrs.
Bradly took the
opportunity
to pour a good quantity of scalding Soap, (which
was then
boyling over the Fire) upon him, whereby he was kill'd
immediately. Another of the Tawnies follow'd at the Heels
of
his [34]
Brother, who stabb'd the Englishman to the Heart.
Unto him she
dispenfed also a quantity of her Sope, which not
killing him,
she with the other Women and Children ran into the
Chamber. The House was fired by the Indians, and Mrs. Bradly
with her
Companions found it necessary to retire behind the
60* A
MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
House. One of the Women fell into the Hands of the
Indians;
and they
that remained were Mrs. Bradly and her Sister; each
of them
having a Child of Mrs. Bradlies with her. The Sister
was
discerned by the Indians, who commanded her to come out
unto them,
and threatned that they would else cut her to pieces.
Mrs. Bradly
very generously bid her sit still, and wait for a better
time to
escape; and offered her, that inasmuch as the Indians
knew of but
one there, she would be that one, and go out in her
stead. She did so, and thereby her obliged Sister
and the Child
with her
were preserved; but Mrs. Bradly was no sooner come
to the
Salvages, but they employ'd a Head-breaker on the Child
that she
brought unto them.
She was not entred into a Second
Captivity; but she had the
great
Encumbrance of being Big with Child, and within Six
Weeks of her
Time! After about an Hours Rest, wherein
they
made her put
on Snow Shoes, which to manage, requires more
than
ordinary agility, she travelled with her Tawny Guardians all
that night,
and the next day until Ten a Clock, associated with
one Woman
more who had been brought to Bed but just one
Week before:
Here they Refreshed themselves a little, and then
travelled on
till Night; when they had no Refreshment given
them, nor
had they any, till after their having Travelled all the
Forenoon of
the day Ensuing; and then too, whatever she took,
she did
thro' Sickness throw it up again.
She underwent incredible Hardships and
Famine: A Mooses
Hide, as
tough as you may Suppose it, was the best and most of
her
Diet. In one and twenty days they came
to their Head-
Quarters,
where they stayed a Fortnight. But then
her Snow-
shoes were
taken from her; and yet she must go every step above
the Knee in
Snow, with such weariness, that her Soul often
Pray'd, That
the Lord would put an end unto her weary Life!
until they
came to another Place, where they stay'd for three
Weeks
together.
[ 35 ] Here in the Night, she found
herself ill, and having the
help of only
one Woman, who got a little Hemlock to lay about
her, and
with a few sticks made shift to blow up a little Fire, she
was in half
an Hour Delivered of the Infant, that she had
hitherto
gone withal. There she lay till the next
Night, with
none but the
Snow under her, and the Heaven over her; in a
misty and
rainy season. She sent then unto a
French Priest,
that he
would speak unto her Squa Mistress, who then, without
condescending
to look upon her, allow'd her a little Birch-Rind,
to cover her
Head from the Injuries of the Weather, and a little
bit of dried
Moose, which being boiled, she drunk the Broth, and
gave it unto
the Child.
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND. 61*
In a Fortnight she was called upon to
Travel again, with her
Child in her
Arms: every now and then, a whole day together,
without the
least Morsel of any Food, and when she had any, she
fed only on
Ground-nuts and Wild-onions, and Lilly-roots.
By the
last of May,
they arrived at Cowesick, where they Planted their
Corn;
wherein she was put unto a hard Task, so that the Child
extreamly
Suffered. The Salvages would sometimes
also please
themselves,
with casting hot Embers into the Mouth of the
Child, which
would render the Mouth so sore, that it could not
Suck for a
long while together. So that it Starv'd
and Dy'd.
There they staid until they Wed their
Corn, but then some of
our
Friend-Indians coming on them, kill'd Seven of them, whereat
away they
fled for
more. But they made a Forty-Days Ramble of it,
before they
reach'd
thither, in which, if at any time, her Heart began to
faint, her
Mistress would be ready to strike the Mortal Hatchet
into her
Head.
[36] The French being thought
more Civil to the English than to
the Indians,
her Mistress thereat Provoked, resolved, that she would
never Sell
her to the French. AccordIng she
kept her a Twelve-
month with
her, in her Squalid Wigwam.
Where, in the following
Winter, she
fell sick of a Feavour; but in the very heighth and
heat of her
Paroxysms, her Mistress would compel her sometimes
to Spend a
Winters-night, which is there a very bitter one, abroad
in all the
bitter Frost and Snow of the Climate.
She recovered;
but Four
Indians died of the Feavour, and at length her Mistress
also. Another Squa then pretended an Heirship unto
her, with
whom she
lived, and saw many more strange Deliverances.
They
had the
Small Pox m the Family; but she never had it.
She
was made to
pass the River on the Ice, when every step she took,
she might
have struck through it if she pleased.
Many more
such
Preservations might come into her Story.
At Last, there came to the sight of her a
Priest from Quebeck,
who had
known her in her former Captivity at Naridgowock.
He was very
Civil to Her, and made the Indians Sell her to a
French
Family, for Fourscore Livers, where tho' she wrought
hard, she
Lived more comfortablyand contented.
She poured out her continual
Supplications to Heaven; Some-
times Two or
Three of her own Sex, would by Stealth, come to
joyn with
her in Supplications to the Glorious LORD.
She had
her Mind
often Irradiated with Strong Perswasions and Assur-
ances, that
she should yet See the Goodness of God, in this Land
of the
Living. Her tender and Loving Husband,
accompanied
Mr. Sheldon,
in his Last Expedition. He found her
out, and
fetch'd her
home, a Second time; She arriv'd with those of the
62* A
MEMORIAL OF THE
PRESENT
Last Return
from the Captivity; and affectionately calls upon
her Friends,
O magnifie the LORD with me, and let us Exalt
his Name
together.
[37] Because of its having some Affinity
with the foregoing
Relations,
and that we may at once discharge ourselves of what
we can
relate concerning our Captives, we will proceed with a
Coppy of a
Letter sent unto one of the Ministers in
[38]
A Letter from a Captive at Port-Royal.
Sept. 18. 1703.
'Reverend Sir,
'THE
Occasion of my now writing to you is because I lye
'under a Vow
and Promise to the Great and Almighty
'God, to
declare and make known his Wonderful Goodness and
'Mercy to
me, and likewise to have His Name Blessed and
'Praised in
your Congregation on my Behalf. I shall briefly
'Inform you.
'Being taken a Prisoner sometime last January
by the French:
'in going to
Port-Royal we met with very Tempestuous Weather,
'and were
fast in an Harbour near
'Frenchmen
had Orders from their Captain to take me with
'them, and
go to Port-Royal by Land. They
took with them
'but little
Bread; and we Travelled one Night in the Woods in
'a miserable
Condition. I had myself no Shoes or
Stockings,
'but a piece
of Skin wrapt about my Feet; and the Snow being
'very deep,
we could not Travel, being Weak for want of Pro-
'vision, and
lost in the Woods, not knowing which way to go.
[ 39 ] ' One of the Frenchmen
Loaded his Gun, and Presented
'at me,
telling me, That it was impossible to find Port-Royal, I
'must Dye,
and they must Eat me. Then I begged Leave to
'Pray unto
God, before he Kill'd me, and he Granted it.
As I
'was at
Prayer, it struck into my Mind, That I had formerly
'heard
yourself declare in your Pulpit, what Great and Wonder-
'ful Things
hath been done by Prayer; particularly, That it had
'stopped the
Mouths of Lions, and that it had Quenched the Vio-
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
'lence of
the Fire. So I earnestly begged of God, that he would
'manifest
his great Power to me, by turning the Hearts of those
'that were
about to take away my Life.
' The Words were no sooner out of my
Mouth, but the French-
'man seeming to have Tears in his Eyes, bid me
rise up; he
'would try
one Day longer. And he bid me go and get
Wood for
a Fire. It presently grew Dark; and then I made an
Escape
'from them,
and hid myself in the Woods, until the next Day
'that they
were gone; and then I found the way out of the
'Woods, unto
the Water-side, where I got Clams.
'These French-men found the way to
Port-royal, and there
told what
they had done. The Governour put them in
Prison,
'and rent
out Two Men, and Charged them not to return, until
'they had
found me, Dead or Alive. In Four Days
after these
'Frenchmen left me, they found me Alive, and brought
me Pro-
vision, and
a Pair of Shoes, and carried-me to Port-royal.
[ 40 ] ' These and many other Favours have
I received from
'my Good God
in the time of my Imprisonment; Blessed and
for ever
Praised be his Holy Name for it. Pray,
Sit, give me
Directions
what I shall do for the Great and Good GOD.
W.C.
[41]
OUR Eastern
Indians had no sooner, with all possible Assur-
ance renewed
their League of Peace with us, but being
moved by the
Instigation of the French, they Persidiously and
Barbarously
Surprised Seven more of our naked and secure Plan-
tations; and
coming at once into the scattered Families, they did,
on August
10-11, 1703: Reward the Hospitable Civilities that
were shown
them, with the Murder of above Seventy English
People, and
the Captivity of near an Hundred. Upon
this there
Ensued
Lesser Depredations, and Captivations, as the Treacher-
ous Enemy
found
About half a year after there Calamities
thus begun on the
Eastern Parts of the Country, the Western
had a taste of the same
Cup given to
them. On Feb. 29, 1703- 4. An Army consisting,
as it was
judg'd, of about 400 French and Indians, made a Descent
upon the
little town of
ment on Connecticut-River,
which had long been a watchful and
64* DEPLORABLE STATE
OF
an useful
Barrier for the rest of the Plantations in the Neigh-
bourhood.
They Surprised the Place about an Hour or
Two before Break
of Day, and
in a little time, not without Loss to themselves,
Butchered
and Captivated above 150 of the People.
Mr. John Williams, the Worthy
Minister of that Pious and
Holy Flock,
was carried into Captivity, with Five of his Chil-
dren; two of
which were Slain; and his Desirable Consort
beginning to
Faint at about a Dozen Miles of the doleful Jour-
ney, they
there, like themselves, cruelly Murdered her, and left
her for the
Funeral which her Friends afterwards bestow'd on
her. Before they reach'd unto Mont Real, a
Journey dispatch'd
by the
Parcels now divided in Twenty Days, more or less, near
Twenty more
of-the Captives lost their Lives; for the manner
was, that if
any found themselves not able to Travel thro' the
Deep Snows
now on the Ground, the Salvages would strike their
Hatchets
into their Heads, and there leave them weltring in
their Blood.
FINIS.
A
Modest Enquiry
INTO
THE
Grounds and Occafions of a Late
P A M P H L E T,
IN TITULED,
A
MEMORIAL
OF THE
Present Deplorable
State
OF
New-
By
a Disinterested Hand.
Printed
in the Year, 1707.
[ I ]
A Modest Enquiry into the
Grounds, &c.
A Pamphlet
call'd, The Memorial of the Present Deplorable
State of NEW
England, having
been received in Town
with various
Opinions, according to the different Inter-
ests, or
capacities of its Readers; Curiosity led me to
look into
it: And first beginning with the
Title-Page,* I find it
made up (as
the Author calls it) of several Original Papers Let-
ters and
Manuscripts, Printed in the year MDCCVII, and Sold
by S. Philips &c. Booksellers in
appear'd in
Town about the Tenth of July last: upon which
finding Mr Cally's
! Affidavit was made the second of June l707
Mr
Partridge's on the Twenty-first of the same Month and Year
(both which
are there Printed) and having seen this Memorial
about the
middle of July following, which does not give a
Months time
for the sending it to NEW ENGLAND, Printing
it there,
and returning it again,) I could not help concluding,
that no
manner of credit ought to be given to it, upon the single
reputation
of the Author. However to act
impartially, I begin
with his
first Page, extolling the former happy state of the Prov-
ince in the Charter they enjoy'd before
the Revolution : + which
sufficiently
shews how they regard the Charter they now have;
and
consequently what an Opinion they retain not only of that
Power that
took from them their Old Charter, but also of K.
William, who was too wise, to return them their Idol,
which he
knew had
been often affrontingly us'd in preceding Reigns. I
know not
what the Author means by the unhappy, or rather
happy reign
of the late K. J. so will
leave it to be explain'd by
himself as
it shall hereafter serve his turn. §
NOW comes a heavy Charge against the late
Governour Sir
Edmond
Andross, made up of
falsity and nonsence; these are his
words, We
shall not recriminate here the mismanagement of the
then
Governour Sir Edmond
Andross, since that Gentleman is
NOW in a
future state. || Which obliges me to give a short
account of
the Revolution in NEW ENGLAND.
The first account of the Revolution in
ENGLAND, came to
NEW ENGLAND
by Merchants Letters from Barbadoes; upon
which the
People (without any regard to Authority) confin'd the
Governour
Sir E. Andros, and Col. Dudley the present Govern-
our; and
would by no means listen to the wholesome advice that
was given
[2] by the Governour, to maintain the Peace of the
*
Title-Page. ! Pag. 16. Pag. 25. +
Pag. I. Lin. 2.
§ Pag. I. Lin. 13. || Pag. 2. Lin. I.
68* A
MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC.
Province; and let all things remain upon the fame
foot they were,
till they had
a more authentick account, and also Orders from
England; to which the Governour declar'd himself
most willing
to
conform. These just Arguments could not
prevail, they had
got the
Government into their own hands; they had formerly
been told by
Hugh Peters, and some such Pastors, that Dominion
is founded
in Grace; and
knowing themselves to be the elect
people of
God, they
resolved to perfect what they had began;
so over
these two Gentlemen are sent Prisoners, who upon a full
hearing
before His .Majesty K. WILLIAM in Councel (to the
mortification
of their Accusers) are Honourably acquited.
In
consideration
of whose faithful Services, and severe Usage, Sir
E. Andross was made by K. WILLIAM Governour of Virginia,
&c, and Col.
Dudley Lieutenant-Governour of the Isle of Wight
since which
Her present Majesty as a Demonstration of the same
good opinion
of Col. Dudley was pleas'd to let his Commission
for
Governour of New-England, be one of the first Acts of her
Reign; and
also very lately to constitute Sir E. Andross's Lieu-
tenant-Governour
of Guernsey; Happy in Her
Majesty's Favour
and good
Esteem of him; Honour'd by the Inhabitants of the
Island, who
wonderfully admire Her Majesties Choice; and blest
with a
considerable Estate, the due reward of his long Ser-vice
and Merit; this is Sir Edmond Andross's present
state, his NOW
future state is to me incomprehensible.
The Legend of Accusations that make up
almost two Pages,
and are laid
down with so much Acrimony against the present
Governour's proceedings, when President of the
Council of New
when Urged
before Her Majesty in Council; I shall only make
this remark
that K. William the Restorer of our Liberties, would
never have
distinguish'd this Gentleman by his Favours, had not
his
Innocency been clearly prov'd, not only from his Accusation at
the
beginning of the Revolution, but also from the Memorial de-
liver'd in
against him by Sir H. A. when K. William had ap-
pointed him
Governour of New England, which Memorial as it
put the
Governour to a large Expense, it was also attended with
the
happiness of her Present Majesty's giving her Sanction, to
what K.
William so Judiciously began.
THUS have I done with the Preamble, and
am now come to
the Memorial
it self, drawn up in Nine Articles, each of which I
in- [3] tend
to speak to separately; but can't do it in any regu-
lar method;
part of some Articles being necessary to explain
others. Therefore I have incerted it Verbatim,
that the Reader
comparing
the Answer with the Memorial, may be better able to
judge of the
Validity of the Accusation.
A MODEST ENQUIRY,
ETC. 69*
The MEMORIAL.
" FIRST
in the year 1705, the Governour sent his Son Wil-
" liam
Dudley with
Captain Vetch, to
" tence
of Redeeming Captives; but brought very few back to
"
"
leaving the Principal of the said Captives behind, to give them
"
occasion of going again, that they might have a Pretence to
"
colour their Treacherous Design of Trading, as appears by the
" said Vetch's
acknowledgment of going to settle a Correspondence
" with
the Enemy, and carrying a Cargo out with him of 800 l.
" which
according to their disposal; might amount to near 3000 l.
" as
particularly Shot, which was sold at 13 Sous per Pound;
"
whereof they carried a considerable Quantity; also Rigging,
"
Pitch, Iron and other Necessaries, fit for supplying the Indians
" and French;
and this done under a Colour of the said Vetch's
" going
to get in a Debt due to him from the French of 800 l.
" with
the Governour's Approbation.
Secondly. "For setling a Correspondency with the French
"
Governour at Port Royal, for Exchange of Prisoners; whereas
" it
was indeed only a Cover for an Illegal Trade; when at the
" same
time the French there, were drove to such extream Hard-
"
ships, for want of Ammunition, Provision, &c, that most of their
"
Principal People, were forced to go out a Privateering on our
"
Coasts, who were afterwards taken and brought into BOSTON;
"
particularly one Battis, a Man of great Note and Service among
" the
Enemy, who had been a Barbarous, Murdering Fellow to
" the English. He with all the other French Prisoners
were sent
" to Canada
and Port-Royal, and Discharged; but great part of
" our
People that were Prisoners, were left behind at the same
" time,
and that because our Governour had been false in his
"
promise to the French Governour, who had restrain'd the In-
"dians
from disturbing our Fishery, and indeed [4] would not
" allow
them any Ammunition for a considerable time, till our
"
Governour taking the opportunity of the Indians, great Want,
"
countenanced a Trade with them, and supply'd them by the
"
Vessels that were rent as Transports (as aforesaid) to fetch
"
Prisoners; when at the same time they were made Vessels of
"
Merchandize, as appears by the Indian Traders on their Trial.
Thirdly. "The Country are at a Vast Charge, in
maintaining
" an
Army yearly, to march several Hundred Miles up into the
"
Country, to destroy the Indians Corn, the better to disinable
" them
to subsist; for they have been so reduced (as by Informa-
70* A
MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC.
" tion
of the Captives) that a great part of them would perish
" for
want, were it not for the supply they had from the said
" Indian
Traders; who particularly, sold about Eight Quarts of
" Indian
Corn, for one large Beaver-skin; which Trade has been
" all
along countenanced by the Governour, which sufficiently
"
appears by his being always unwilling the Prisoners taken in
" that
Trade should be Fined, or Punished, even owned by Vetch,
" as in
his Petition more at large is fet forth.
Fourthly. " The Country was
at a great Expense in Erecting
" a
Fortification at Casco-Bay, and maintaining a number of Sol-
" diers
for securing the same, thereby to suppress the Enemy, and
" keep
sure Footing in that part of the Country; and the Gov-
" ernour
through some design or neglect, did suffer those Soldiers
" to
remain there without any Commission-Officer, to the great
"
dissatisfaction and dread to the Soldiers; Insomuch that they
"
declared to Captain Cally (a Member of the Assembly at Boston)
" that
when the Enemy came upon them, they would surrender
" the
Fort, and dare not resist for want of a Commission. Then
"
Captain Cally made Application to the Assembly, which he
" found
fitting when he came to Boston, and they represented to
" the Governour,
that speedy care might be taken, that some
"
Person might be Commissionated to Command that Fort, which
" with
a great deal of difficulty was at last Obtained.
Fifthly. "And further as to the Governour's
Countenancing
" this
Private and Illegal Trade, the Country has been at vast
"
Expence, occasion'd thereby; insomuch that at one Sessions the
" last
Summer the Assembly were forc'd to raise 33000 Pounds,
" for
supporting, and maintaining the Charge they were put to,
" by
the Enemy's Invasions, after they had a Supply; that
"
whereas if things [5] were rightly managed, and the Enemy
" kept
back for want of those Supplys, one third part of the said
" Sum
might have answered the End. The Indians
that were
"
supply'd by Those Traders, are the only People that destroy'd
" our
Eastern parts, the Fishery, and the Coast of Accady, and
" also
the very same that were at destroying of Newfound-land,
"
particularly one Escombuet, a Principal Commander among them,
" who
is generally one that Heads the Indians, when they come
" to
Destroy the English in New England.
Sixthly. "The Governour with his Son Paul,
not being con-
" tent
with what Money they come fairly by, and over-greedy of
" Gain,
are very Screwing and Exacting upon the People, par-
"
ticularly upon sundry Inhabitants, taking away their Priviledge
" in
catching of Whales a Priviledge they have enjoy many
" Years
before; that is (under the pretence of Drift-Fish;) what
"
Whales are taken by Her Majesty's Subjects, he takes from
A MODEST
ENQUIRY, ETC. 71*
"them
by Force, not giving them the liberty of a Trial at Com-
" mon
Law, but for his own Ends decides the matter in the
"
Admiralty, where his Son Paul is the Queen's Attorny and
"
Advocate, thereby Encroaching the whole to themselves, a
" thing
never heard of before, and very much to the Prejudice
" of
Her Majesty's good Subjects there, and that without
"
Remedy.
Seventhly. " As to the
Address the Governour obtain'd, pre-
"
tended to come over from the General Assembly at Boston in
" his
favour, for his Continuance, it was no more than what he
"
Clandestinely procured, by sending to his Particular Friends;
" such
who being either Related to him, or bore Commissions
"
under, him, dare not deny his Request, and was never approved
" nor
allowed of by the Assembly; but on the contrary had not
" the
Majority of the Country waited in expectation of her
"
Majesty's favour, in sending another Governour, they would
"
largely have signify'd their Resentments and Dissatisfaction, in
" the
Administration of Dudley's Government.
Eighthly. " While the Great
and General Assembly at Boston
" were
Sitting, there arrived a Flag of Truce from Canada, with
" a
haughty demand of the Governour, for all the French Prison-
" ers;
charging of him with breach of Promise, which was the
"
occasion of the French Governours not sending several of the
"
Prisoners, particularly a Minister that was taken Captive at
" Derefield,
detain'd [6] by the French, who might have been
"
discharg'd with sundry others.
Ninthly. "The Lower House
mistrusting the French Flag of
" Truce
coming upon a Trading Design, as well as for the Prison-
" ers,
order the Flag of Truce to be diligently searched, who
" found
on Board their Vessel sundry New Arms and Ammuni-
" tion
hid in private places, particularly New Bullets hid among
"
Pease, and yet denied by the Commander, who was an English
"
Renegade, which Ammunition being brought before the Assem-
" bly,
were generally concluded to be Bought in Boston, where-
" upon
the Governour interposing, the matter was hushed up and
"
conniv'd at, to the great dissatisfaction of the Assembly and
"
Country in General.
The First and Second
Articles are mostly concerning the affair
of the
private Trade, which shall not be medled with by me, it
lying at
present before Her Majesty undetermin'd; but if any
Persons are
curious to know that matter, I presume that Mr
Phips Agent for that Country will fully
satisfie them, if they are
not
perversely bent against whatever makes out the Governour's
Innocency. The Gentlemen that carried on that Trade, was
so
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far from
finding, any Favour from the Governour, (which they
might have
assur'd themselves of, if he had had any concern with
them) that
the Extremity of the Laws of New England were put
in force
against them, and a heavy Sentence passed upon them,
from which
Sentence they Appeal'd to Her Majesty, who refer'd
them to the Lords
Commissioners for Trade, where the cause was
argued in
the behalf of the Petitioners, by that Learned and Ju-
dicious
Lawyer, Mr West
so much to the satisfaction of the Lords
Commissioners,
that a Report was made in their favour.
Upon
which Her
Majesty in Councel, was graciously pleas'd to order all
the Acts
and Proceedings against them to be Repeal'd, and de-
clar'd null
and void.
The Third Article Deplores the miserable
state of the Country
in the vast
Charge they are at by defending themselves against
the Indians. Much can't be said upon this occasion, for as
War
in all
Countries is attended with Expense, it is not to be expected
New England can be wholly exempted from it, but
whoever will
consider the
largeness of the Country to be defended, (the Fron-
tier being
more than 200 Miles) and the number of the Enemys
to encounter
with, must admire the Excellency of the Governours
Administration;
that so much is done with so little Expence,
either of
Blood or Treasure.
[7] The Fortifications at
Article was
repair'd and made Tenable by the present Governour,
who took
care to keep a good Garrison in it, for the Defence of
the Country
on that side; formerly Coll. March afterwards Capt.
Moody commanding in it. How it came to be without a Com-
mission
Officer, or whether it was; so (as this Gentleman complains)
I can't find
upon the strictest enquiry, neither am I obliged to
believe it;
but admitting it; several occasions, as marching out
with a
Detachment, or the like, are not only Justifiable but
necessary. The Summ of this heavy Charge is, that upon
the
first notice
that an Officer was wanting, the Governour sent one,
and the Fort
is still in the possession of the Government.
Either
the Garrison
(admitting they had no Commission Officer) must be
ignorant of Military
Discipline, or inclin'd to Mutiny; otherwise
they ought
to have submitted to the command of a Serjeant,
whose Halberd
was a sufficient Authority for such a Command
upon any Emergency.
The Fifth Article tells you the
Summ that was given last Year
for
supporting the Expenses of the War &c, which the Third
Article
makes very heavy, but does not name. And
here it is
done so
obliquely, that the Author would endeavour to insinuate,
as though
the Summ of 33000 l. was raised more than once last
Year; which
if it had been, he would have told you in plain
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words. If I will believe that so much was given as
above men-
tion'd, 'tis
intirely upon the reputation of the Author, who in
some cases
ought to produce Testimonials. But
admitting it;
consider
what is to be done with it, and the Wonder will be on
the other
side. 33000 l. New England Money,
deducting the
Discount, is
reduced to less than 22000 l. Sterling.
Any Man
that
considers the pay of the Army which consists of 1900 Men;
Maintaining
the Garrisons, Providing Magazeens, The constant
Charge of
the Province Gally, The accidental occasions of hiring
Transport
Ships, together
with the other Incidentals that must
necessarely
accrue; will rather admire how so small a Summ could
answer such
large and expensive Occasions. I am
fearful the
Governour
whose Sallery comes also out of the above mentioned
Summ, is
able to speak fealingly of the frugality of the Country.
If less
Summs had done under preceeding Governours in time
of War, our
Author would not have fail'd letting the World know
it. I acknowledge some damage has been formerly
done in the
Eastern
Parts of New England by the Indians, and that Escom-
buet did command those Indians, who in
conjunction with the
[8] French
made the Descent upon Newfound-Land, and be it
also
remembr'd to the Honour of the Governour, that this very
Escombuet
upon his drawing off from the Fort at Newfound-Land,
released
several English Captives, upon promise that all endeav-
ours should
be us'd at the British Court, for removing Coll.
Dudley from
the Government of New England.
That an Indian
who is a
profess'd Enemy to the English American Settlements,
and these
Gentlemen, should Joyntly endeavour the removal of the
Governour,
is worth observing, I shall only make this remark on
it, that as Escombuet
used formerly to make those Devastations in
New England, which by the Wisdom and Vigilance
of the Gover-
nour are now
Prevented, so these Gentlemen (he being kept at a
distance)
are less capable to carryon any affairs with him, if they
are so
inclined.
The Sixth Article contains a very
Grevious Accusation against
the
Governour and his Son, and if the Facts were true, might
demand
Justice, but as it is, it serves only to demonstrate the
Innocency of
the Governour, and the Malice of the Accusers.
They say he
Decides the Priviledge of Whale Fishing, claim'd by
the People, and yet that it is Decided in the
Admiralty; when all
the World
must know, that the Governour if he has any Interest
in any of
the Courts of Justice, it must be in the Common Law
Courts, and
not in the Admiralty, where the Judge has an Inde-
pendant Commission from England, and no
manner dependency
upon the
Governour. As for Mr. Paul Dudley's
being Advocate,
let Coll. B--ld
the Judge clear himself if he be any ways byass'd
thereby. But it must be allowed far more probable,
that the same
Mr. Paul
Dudley, as the Queen's Attorney General, and the de-
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pendance of
the Courts upon the Governor, could much better
Byass any
other Court than that; so that nothing can better
demonstrate
the Governours innocency, than bringing forth
Groundless
matters in charge against him. If any
Encroach-
ments have
been made upon the People by the Court of Admi-
ralty, let
the Judge answer it; but whether it be so or not this
Article (as
the others) is an abuse upon the Governour.
How it hapened that no Address from the
General Assembly
at Boston
was presented to Her Majesty, by the return of the last
Fleet I know
not; but am certain that the Honourable the As-
sembly are
little beholden to this Author for the Reasons by him
given in the
Seventh Article, so many occasions calling for one;
as
Congratulating Her Majesty upon the Great and Glorious
[9]
Successes of the preceding Year, a Gratefull tender of their
Allegiance
and Duty to Her Majesty, &c. which makes me con-
clude that
some Occasions have interven'd, betides what this
Memorialist
has given. 'Tis wonderful that this
Honourable
Body are
full of Resentments, and Dissatisfaction in the Admin-
istration of
Coll. Dudley,
and yet not write one word of Complaint
against him,
and the Reason that is given is yet more remark-
able,
Viz. They expected Her Majesty would
send another. If the
Governour's
Administration is or has been oppressive, the Assem-
bly are
Deficient in their Duty to Her Majesty, in not making
their Complaints,
as on the contrary to the Governour, in not
giving him
his due praise if merited. The four
Addreisses an-
nex'd to
this, as they recommend the Governour to Her Majesty,
worthy the
Station She has been pleas'd to Honour him with,
and
unanimously beg Her Gracious Continuance of him, so I
must
conclude the delay of an Address from the Assembly, has
not been
thus long retarded by any dissatisfaction to the Gov-
ernour, but
however will not take upon me to be their Advocate
for such a
surprising omission. Having no manner of
reason to
suspect that
the Honourable Assembly have less regard for the
Governour
now, than they had when they presented their last
Address to
Her Majesty, I have also annexed that with the
others.
As to the Eighth Article; upon the
coming of the Flag of
Truce, there
was a general Exchange of Prisoners, when unhap-
pily five or
Six Children were got amongst the more distant In-
dians, so could not be exchang'd so early as
the others, but were
included in
the Article. The Minister taken at Derefield
was
the Reverend
Mr Williams, who also was exchang'd at the same
time with
the other Prisoners, but by a Particular Agreement,
which
obliges me to explain the Story of Battis mention'd in the
Second
Article. This Man after he was taken
Prisoner, was
accused of
several Murders, but no sufficient proof being made
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out against
him, he remained a Prisoner of War; the Governour
who knew him
to be an acceptable Leader amongst the Indians,
not being
willing to part with him though often demanded; till
understanding
that the Reverend Mr Williams could have his
Enlargement
upon no other terms; the Governour in respect to
Mr Williams
submitted to it. This Author that
accuses the
Governour,
for discharging Battis, and at the same time deplores
the hard
Fate of Mr Williams's Captivity, could not be ignorant
of the
Return of Mr Williams, as well as of Mr Battis's Dis-
charge.
[ 10] The Ninth Article as it commends the
Vigilancy of the
Assembly, so
it no ways concerns the Governour, but because
the Reader
may think the Arms and New Bullets that were
found in the
French Ship of Truce, were sufficient to Arm the
whole French
Settlement, take the account as it is.
Upon a
Suspition
that some Clandestine Trade was managed by this
Truce Ship,
the Assembly Deputed some of their Own Body to
search the
Ship, who found in it Five Fuzee's, which they brought
with them,
and fifteen Pounds of Small-shot; enough to shoot a
few Sea
Fowle in their return, (as indeed that was the true mean-
ing) but not
to annoy an Enemy, or defend themselves.
The
Governour's
interposing and getting the matter hush'd up to the
dissatisfaction
of the Assembly, and Country in general, as this
Memorialist
says, is trifling, and needs no other Reply but
Laughter.
I would willingly have omitted reciting
any other parts of this
Pamphlet,
the Author having, as he says, including in the Pre-
ceeding Nine
Articles, all the * Modern Mismanagements of the
Governour,
and also the Particular Grievances that afflict the
Province:
But a little afterwards he tells you that out of the
! Vaste
number of Letters of Complaints that are come over
against the
Governour, the TWO that he has Publish'd are Emi-
nently
distinguishable; the first for the + Character of the Gen-
tleman that
writ it, who is a Great Blessing to his Native Country.
The other
for the || Shortness, Plainness, and Veracity.
There-
fore I
rather submit to let them have a place here, than leave it
to any
Prejudiced Person to say that Partiality Curtail'd such
material
Evidences.
* Pag. 3. Lin. 19. +
P. 10. Lin, 19.
! P. 10. Lin. 24. || P.10. Lin. 26.
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Boston. New England, Octob. 2d, 1706.
SIR ,
IN AS MUCH
as you have expected from me, a true and brief
Representation
of several Matters relating to this Provence, I
shall with
all possible faithfulness endeavour it.
Our present
Governour is
not without a number of those whom he has by Pro-
motions and
Flateries made his Friends; but this hinders not a
much more
cosiderable Number, from wishing that we had a
Governour
who would put [II] an end unto the horrid Reign
of Bribery
zon our Administration, and who would not infinitely
incommode
her Majesty's Service, by keeping the People in con-
tinual
jealousies of his Plots upon their most Valuable Interests.
What the disposition of the People towards
him is, you may
guest by
this. There was lately prepar'd an
Address from hence
to the Queen,
upon many Important Articles, but by certain Arts
there was
got into it a Clause, to desire of the Queen, that this
Governour
might be continued; the Representatives Voted all the
rest of the
Address, but this Clause was absolutely rejected; they
could not
get above five or siz Votes for it, so the whole Address
(which was
Contrived by a Party for nothing but that Clause) fell
to the
Ground.
There happened lately a Number of
Persons, namely, Bouland,
Vetch,
Rouse, Lawson, Philips, and Cauplin, to be taken managing
an unlawful
Trade with the French and Indians, the Commodi-
ties wherein
they Traded were such, that the Act of Parliament
made their
Crime to be High Treason; and we had no Act of the
Province
relating to that Matter, but was defectively exprest
Our Merciful
Assembly was mighty loath to proceed unto so severe
a Judgment
as that of Death upon these Offenders.
The Offen-
ders
Petitioning for it, the General Assembly were (very much by
the
Governour's Influence) drawn into it, to take the Tryal of them
into their
own hands; and as only Guilty of an High Misde-
meanour, the
Vote for it was obtain'd in a Thin House, upon a
hurry at
Breaking up, and some Clauses in the Charter were so
construed as
to Countenance it. Upon their coming
together again,
they would
fain have revoked their Votes, as fearing that the
very Persons
who had been their Tempters into it, would turn their
Accusers,
and improve it by way of Complaint, for the Enemies
of our
Charter to work upon; but the Governour would by no
means permit
the Revocation of that wrong step, (if it were one) so
the Tryal
proceeded, and the Offenders were Fined in several
Sums, by an
Act of the Governour and Assembly.
It is now
said that the Ingrateful Men who were saved from
the Gallows,
by the Tenderness of the Government, are now cutting
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our Throats,
and Petition home against the Government, for Fining
them instead
of Hanging them; yea it is also laid, that the very
Person who
was the chief cause of drawing the Assembly into this
Extraordinary
Proceeding, intends to make an ill use of it against
the Country;
If you are sensible of any things of this nature car-
rying on, we
[12] pray you to add unto the rest of your Offices,
that of an
Intercession, that an harm left People, surpriz'd into an
error, may
not be punish'd any otherwise, than by the removal of
such as have
been the cause of it; and so much for that.
Sir, You would do a vaste Service to the
Crown, if you would
set forward
the Designs of reducing Canada, and Possessing Nova
Scotia, a
much left Fleet than what Annually goes into the Indies,
coming early
enough in the Spring, may easily do the former, even
in the way
thither; and a Scotch Colony might be of good Conse-
quence to do
the latter; but if any assistance from New England
should be
expelled in this matter, it is of absolute necessity that the
Country have
a Governour whom the People may somewhat rely
upon.
Sir, You are born to do the Queen and the
Nation Service; you
are spirited
for great Undertakings, you are highly beloved and
esteemed
among our People in this Land, and wherever you have
come; 'tis
wished you may do some considerable Action in this
Affair.
I have earnestly solicited to Address one
of the Most Illustrious
Patriots of
the English Nation, my Lord High Treasurer, wtih
some of
these Intimations. That Noble Person is
known to be
such a
Patron to all Good Men, and such a Defence of Oppressed
Innocence
and Liberties, that we all fly to him as our Unquestion-
able Refuge,
I am well satisfy'd there would need nothing (to
speak
Humanely) to make this Country easie and happy, but for
the
Excellent Person to have an exact Representation of our Cir-
cumstances;
nothing hinders me from attempting it, but the
hazard of
doing what may be thought a Prisumption in one so
much a
stranger to him: Nevertheless I am
desired by some Con-
siderable
Persons to move you, that you would wait upon his
Lordship,
and fully acquaint him with the Matters now laid
before you.
May the Almighty prosper you,
I am Sir,
Your Obliged Servant &c,
[13 ] Postscript,
Sir, I may inform you of one Action
lately done among us,
which I know
you will be pleas'd withal: Upon the
advice of the
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Extream
Distrest, whereto the French Invasion had brought St.
Christophers,
and Nevis; the People of New England in a most
Christian
manner, express'd. their Charity towards those, who per-
haps would
have hardly done the like for them on a like occasion.
We made a
Collection for the Relief of their Nececsities, the Col-
lection was
I am told, between Seven
and eight hundred Pounds,
in this
Collection there were two Churches in Boston, the South
and the North, one gave somewhat above a 100 1.
the other gave a
little under
it. Certainly a Country so ready to
serve her Majesty,
and to help
their fellow Subjects, ought to have a room in the
thoughts of
all Good Men in the English
Nation.
The Reverend Mr C. M. Author of the
foregoing Letter has
gain'd fo
much upon the blind Obedience of the Inferiour fort of
People in New
England, by his seeming Sanctity, and has so
insinuated
himself into the opinion of some of good Credit here,
under the
notion of a Patriot, that in order to let them see the
Man; it becomes necessary to say a few words
of him in General,
and of this
Letter in Particular. He begins with
promises of
all Possible
Faithfulness in his Relation, and then tells you that
the Friends
of the Governours, by Promotion or Flattery, are
made so
numerous, that one might naturally conclude he must
carry
whatever he proposes; those that oppose the Governours
Proceedings
having as he intimates no other power than Wishes,
whereas in
the second Paragraph the Scene is quite chang'd; for
an Address
being prepared to Her Majesty upon many Important
Articles, it was Rejected for the sake of a
Clause brought in, to
desire Her
Majesty's Continuance of the Governour.
'Tis pitty
the Important
Affairs of the Province should be retarded upon
any Private
Account: But afterwards to thew you
those Impor-
tant
Articles were not of
the last consequence, he tells you the
whole
Address was contrived by a party for nothing but a Clause
about the
Governour. When it best answers the Ends of these
People, then
the Governour's Interest is so great that all things
are
transacted at his pleasure, whereas at other times they wont
allow him to
have Interest enough to support the Dignity of his
Station. I have in the Answer to the Seventh Article
said what
I thought
necessary about the Assembly's not Addressing Her
Majesty.
[ 14] The Third and Fourth Paragraphs are
wholly upon the
Indian Trade, so must expect the fame Answer
that was given to
the Two first
Articles of the Memorial. Be pleas'd
only to ob-
serve that
whereas in several parts of the Pamphlet the Gover-
nour is
censur'd about the Tryal of the Gentlemen accus'd of the
Trade, here
'tis plain 'twas wholly done by the Assembly, for
which reason
this Gentleman calls them the Merciful Assembly,
and speaking
of the Tryal calls it the Tenderness of the Govern-
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ment &c and in truth they ought to take it
all to themselves.
For the
Traders were at first committed by the Lower House of
Assembly upon suspicion &c, and the second
time by the same
House for High Misdemeanour without Col.
Dudley's Knowledge
or Privity,
neither was their any mention of Treason in either
of their
Commitments duly attested: But to be
more clear, the
Laws of New
England then in force could make it no more than
High
Misdemeanour, though
since, that defect is provided against
by the Direction
of the Governour, for an act is past in New
England, declaring such proceedings High
Treason.
'Tis of no signification to insinuate that
the Assembly were
drawn into
this Proceding by the Governour, the Governours
Interest (as
the second Paragraph of this Letter says) not being
able to get
more than fix Voices upon a more Important Occa-
sion.
The Pride and Vanity of the Man is very
remarkable in his
Fourth
Paragraph presuming to Intrench upon the Office of his
Superior's
in laying down Military Scheames, opposite to those
that are now
Transacting in his Native Country, and proposing
the
advantage (upon success) to those that in all probability will
have no hand
in the attempt.
I will not pretend to guess who is meant
by this Paragraph,
Sir, You are
born to do the Queen and Nation Service &c.
But
will assure
you, Sir. that Col. Dudley before he left England had
abundance of Letters from New England fill'd
with the like
Rhetorick, some of them near of kind to the
Gentleman that
writ
this: Therefore let not the Gentleman to
whom this is di-
rected, propose
to himself if ever he becomes Governour, (as I
see no
likelihood of it) to be better used than Col. Dudley and
his
Predecessors have been; If he will be also steady in the
performance
of his Duty to Her Majesty and the Nation.
The same Causes
will always be attended with the same Confe-
quences; and the Hereditary Rancour that
appears in this
[15] Holy
Man's Letter, as well as ill many of his Actions, will
Everlastingly be Opposite to Government, even
though it were
Angelical.
What Mr C. M. says in his last Paragraph
is so exceeding just
that 'tis
surprising to find it from the same Pen. -- All Mankind
must concur
with the Honourable Character that he there gives
my Lord
Treasurer, he is justly by him stiled, A Patron to, all
Good Men. A Defence of Oppressed Innocency and Liberty.
'Tis
for these
and his many other valuable Qualities, that Her Majesty
in Her Consummate
Wisdom, has thought fit to place him in so
exalted a
Station; and 'tis from his Patronage, that all those that
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wish well to
New England; assure themselves that that Province
will Flourish
in spight of Faction, and the Governour be confirm'd
to the
confusion of his Opposers. Whether the
Address (at the
End of this)
from the whole Body of the Clergy of New England,
Gratefully acknowledging Her Majesty's Favour, in Appointing
and Continuing,
Col. Dudley their Govern our, (the like of which
was never
before seen from that Venerable Body under any Ad-
ministration)
ought to be less regarded than the Venomous Letter
of one
Malecontent Priest, let Impartiality determine.
I have done with the Letter, but the
Postscript, though Foreign
to the
Occasion will admit of this remark; That a Body of People
that have
been so liberal in their Charity to their SufferingNeigh-
bours, must (Generally speaking) be better
Christians, (however
Characteriz'd
by Mr C. M.) than to trouble Her Majesty, with
Groundless
Complaints against the present Governour, whose
steady
Loyalty, Great Knowledge, and unparallel'd Clemency, is
endeavouring
to make them Happy, and Flourishing, even against
the Opposition
of some Turbulent Spirits, that can't endure Con-
formlty
either in Church or State.
Mr C. M would have been more ingenuous,
being he thought
fit to
mention this Charity, if he had given a faithful account of
it, and told
you, that the Tenderness of the Governour, (whose
designs of
doing good are very extensive) had by a Brief, (the
Copy of
which you'1 find at the End) excited the People to this
Act of
Charity: And after the Money was Collected, saw it laid
out in
Provisions, and rent to them; which in their unhappy Cir-
cumstances,
was of the utmost consequence. Whilst
this Reverend
Gentleman,
is speaking of this Charity of the Province to St.
Christophers and Nevis in their Distress, be
pleas'd to observe his
own
Charity: The People of New
England in a most Christian
manner
express'd [16] their Charity towards those, who
perhaps
would have
hardly done the like for them upon a like occasion.
A small Tract of Religion coming to my
Hands a few years
since,
Written by the Reverend Mr. C. M I could not without
some remark
take notice of a Passage in the Preface, which is to
this effect,
That being arrived at the Thirty second year of his
Age, he had
also Publish'd Thirty two Volumns; However I con-
cluded that
experience would rectifie a little youthful vanity,
which I
thought was atton'd for; by the ability and inclination
the Man had
to do Good; but I find him in Spirituals as failable
as in
Politicks, or he would not have attempted a Pretended
Vision, to have converted Mr Frasier a Jew,
who had before con-
ceiv'd some
good Notions of Christianity: The
Consequence was,
that the Forgery
was so plainly detected that Mr C. M consest it;
after which
Mr Frasier would never be perswaded to hear any
more of
Christianity.
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The Particular I am now going to speak to,
should have been
omitted, but
without it the Doctors way of Aequivocating could
not be so
well known. The story is this: A Gentlewooman of Gay-
ety, near Boston, was frequently
visited by the Reverend Mr. C. M.
which giving
offence to some of his Audience, he promised to
avoid her
Conversation. But Good intentions
being frustrated
by Vicious
Inchnations, he becomes again her humble Servant;
this Reciprocal
promise being first made, that NEITHER OF
THEM SHOULD
CONFESS THEIR SEEING EACH
OTHER: However it becoming again publick, his Father
accused him
of it, who after two or three HEMS to recover him-
self, (like
Col. Partridge at the Council-Board) gave this Aequivo-
cal Answer, INDEED, FATHER, IF I SHOULD SAY I
DID SEE HER,
I SHOULD TELL A GREAT LYE.
This is the
Gentleman distinguishable for his Character; next
comes the
Letter, Short, and Plain, and nothing in it but
Veracity.
SIR,
ALL the People here are bought and sold
betwixt the Gover-
nour and his
Son Paul;
they are so Mercenary that there
is no
Justice to be had without Money; there is not one Publick
place in the
Government, that is worth Money, but what the Gov-
ernour or
Paul goes halves with. In short, the
whole Country is
very
uneasie, and the People here are so universally set agaznst him,
that Her
Majesty can scarcely give a greater influence of Her ten-
der care and
regard to them, than by a removal of him, which to
my certain
knowledge would be [17] soon follow'd by a sincere
and Hearty
Acknowledgment of Her Majesty's singular Favour
to them in
that Particular.
I am sorry I am obliged to take notice of
Mr Ar--ngs Letter,
but as it is
produced in Evidence, against the Governour and his
Son, and as
the Author of the New England Memorial draws
Inferences from this, and the foregoing Letter, it
becomes neces-
sary upon
this occasion to look into it, but with the utmost ten-
derness and
compassionate regard, for the present Circumstances
of the
Gentleman, which I am told are very contracted, I think
Mr Ar--nge
is very little beholden to his Correspondents in Lon-
don for so publickly exposing a Letter, which
must be attended
with very
uneasie consequences to him, if the Clemency of the
Governour
and his Son is not very remarkable.
Nothing to an
Impartial
Reader can be a greater argument of the Uprightness
of the Governour
and his Son, than to find that the Rancour of
this Man,
has not thought fit to give one particular instance, to
82* A
MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC.
Corroborate
his General Accusation. He should have
told us in
particular
who are the People that are Bought and Sold, and
given some
instances of corruption in Judicial Proceedings, or
any other
parts of the Governour's Administration and have
nam'd the
Sums of Money Criminalty Gain'd and Divided.
Sure I am,
it is not the effects of his good nature, that makes
him forbear
mentioning any of the Particulars by me enquired
after.
His advising: Her Majesty to remove, the Governour,
assuring
Her, that to
his Own certain knowledge twill be very acceptable
to the
People, is such an exceeding instance of the Impudence
of the Man,
that can scarcely be parallel'd even amongst the
whole body
of the Seditious. And then he concludes,
the Prov-
ince will
become sincere and hearty Acknowledgers of Her Majes-
ty's
singular Favour to them in that Particular.
I should injure the respect that's due to
the Honourable the
Council and
Assembly of Massachusetts Bay, to imagine they will
neglect
inquiring into the Authority this Man has, for thus
Saucily
advising Her Majesty, nay even telling Her, that Sin-
cerity and
hearty Acknowledgments, are only to be expected to
Her Majesty
from New England, upon the Terms by Him Pre-
scribed.
The Two preceeding Letters produce three
subsequent In-
ferences,
viz.
[18] I. THAT WITHOUT MONEY THERE IS NO
JUSTICE IN
NEW ENGLAND.*
What a Dismal Character is here given of
the whole People
of that
Flourishing Country, Clergy and Laiety, Merchant and
Peasant
&c, are all involved in this heavy Accusation. If this be
true, no
wonder that a Governour Fearing God and hating Cov-
etousness,
is made uneasie in the Faithful Discharge of his Office.
! II.
A GENERAL UNEASINESS UNDER, AND OP-
POSITION, TO
THIS GOVERNOUR THROUGH THE
WHOLE
COUNTRY.
Speak for your selves ye Collective
Bodies of the People:
The
Honourable the Assembly, the Reverend the Clergy, ye
Merchants
and Traders at Boston, and also ye the Honourable,
the Council
and Representatives of New Hamshire; speak I say,
for your
Selves, and tell the World, that Infatuation hung over
your Heads,
to make you Recommend to Her Majesty a Man
against whom
there is a + General Uneasiness through the whole
Country, to
be continued Governour amongst you. But
if you
* Pa. II. L. 7. ! P. II. L. I7. + P. II. L. 17.
A MODEST ENQUIRY,
ETC. 83*
are sensible
there Accusations are Calumnies and are well affur'd
(as you say
in your several Addresses you are) that your Gov-
ernours
Administration * has and always will have a Tendency to
the
Promotion of Her Majesty's Interest, and also to the Ease and
Satisfaction,
of all Her GOOD Subjects,
that his Wisdom. Dili-
gence
Courage and Fidelity,
are Exemplary, with many other
Qualifications
becoming a Governour: Then speak like your
selves (in
Justification of your Injur'd Governour, and your own
Reputations,
thus barbarously attackt) with a Voice that shall for
the future
silence all those Dispisers of Authority.
III. A FERVENT DESIRE TO BE EASED OF
OP-
PRESSION. !
'Tis for this very End that Her Majesty
and Her Allyes are
now engaged
in War. Let not the People of New
England sus-
pect that
Her Majesty whose Compassionate Assistance is ex-
tended
towards all the oppressed Nations about her, will be
wanting to
her GOOD Subjects of New England neither will I
imagine
they'l (for the FUTURE) neglect any opportunities of
returning
their Duty and Gratitude to Her Majesty.
I am obliged to follow the Steps of the
Author + who Presents
the Reader
with a farther account of the Mismanagements of
the
Governour by
another Hand, that is to say, by Mr P--dge, a
mighty Assistant
in carrying on this work, as appears by this long
account,
(taking up almost four pages) his two Affidavits, his
Certificate, and also his Speech before Her
Majesty in Council.
The reason
that [19] this Gentleman gave for embarking in this
cause shall
be known in its place. This Farther
account tells you
of a Letter
sent to Mr Waldron § and himself, by the Governour;
recommending
it to the Province of New Hampshire, to draw up
an Address
to her Majesty, which was done; and so generally
accepted,
that Mr Waldron had no manner of occasion to use any
art with the
Council, and Representatives, to perswade them to
what they
were so dutifully inclin'd. This Farther
account is almost
full of
Repetitions of what has been spoke to already, which I
shall omit,
only taking notice of his new matter.
The Governours
Correspondence
with || Gallen Emesary was so Beneficial to the
Province, in
foreknowing the intended Designs of the French
and Indians,
which capacitated him to provide against them,
that I doubt
not but the several Presents that the Governour
(to this
Gentlemans knowledge) sent him, are Retaliated by the
Country.
'Tis very wide to draw any Conclusion
from this following
accusation ¶
because Captain Furber told Mr P--dge, that the
French Prisoners told him that they had heard
the Governour of
Port-Royal say, that he had promis'd that he would
not let the
* The Addresses. §
P. II. L. 7.
! P. II. L. 3. || The Addresses. P. 12.
L. 36.
+ P. 12. L. 11. ¶
P. 13. L. 35.
84* A
MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC.
Indians have powder and Shot, that therefore he
did not do it,
when he had
it spare. Those Indians are his
Master's Sub-
jects, or at
least his Allies, and let no Man believe that any of
the Kmg of France's
Governours, are so good natur'd; as not to
put Arms
into the hands of those, that they can depend upon,
will use
them to annoy their Master's Enemies in time of War.
Neither let
it be suspected that the French don't take care to sup-
ply their
Plantations, with Warlike Stores, (without expecting to
buy them of
their Enemies Clandestinely) though sometimes the
Accidents of
the Sea may retard them, which I suppose was the
case when
the Governour of Port Royal (if at all) made these
promises. I know not how many of the Enemy have been
kill'd
once the
present Governours time, having seen no Lift, but I be-
lieve more
than * an Old Woman and two Girls, which is all this
Farther
account allows. !
Several were kill'd at Derefield, + Our
Indians kill'd Seven at Cowstick, §
another kill'd an Indian or two
before he
was taken; || Mrs Bradley scalded one Fellow to Death
with hot
Soap, and also disposed a Quantity of her Soap to an-
other, with the like Heroical intention, but it
not succeeding at
the first,
she ran from him.
These Particulars I find in the Pamphlet
now under considera-
tion; As for
the Governours foreknowing that the Enemy would
not (or to
speak properly durst not) appear in a Body like [20] an
Army; but in
sculking Parties of Twenty, or Thirty, it speaks
so much the
Honour and good Intelligance of the Governour
than nothing
need be said of it. The Address from the
Militia
of Massachusetts
Bay, is a very honourable one, and worthy the
Gentlemen
that sign'd it. they being most of them
the principal
Men of the
Country; let Mr P--dge (who is gone over) tell them
they durst
not do otherwise, and I shall be surpriz'd, if I don't
hear of his
Correction.
Five Affidavits, and one Certificate,
come next; two of them by
John Calley, Manner; one by Thomas Newton,
Gent. and the
other two,
and the Certificate by William Partridge, Esq; all
which are
now before Her Majesty. They are too
mighty things
for me to
meddle with; but a Word or two of the several Occa-
sions, that
may seem to have ruffled these Gentlement, may not
be
improper. Mr P--dge has publickly
given the Reason of his
Anger
against the Governour; which is, because the Governour
did not
interpose his Authority, to discharge Jethro Furber,
Master of a Vessel
belonging to the said P--dge, who was in
Confinement,
and under a Prosecution in the Admiralty Court
at Boston,
at the Suit of Her Majesty; for enticing away several
Sea-men out
of Her Majesties Ship the Deptford, Captain Stuck-
ley Commander. The Governour could act no part in this
Affair,
the Cause
lying in a Court in dependant of him:
But if it had
*P. 16. L. 26. ! P. 41.
Lin. 19. + P. 35. Lin. 94
§ P. 32. L. 10 || P. 33. L 33.
A MODEST ENQUIRY,
ETC. 85*
been never
so much in his Power, it would have given ground
for a very
just Complaint against him, to countenance any Per-
sons,
against whom there is full proof of enticing the Men out of
Her
Majesties Ships of War; the want of whom, may expose
them to
great danger from the Enemy or otherwise.
Mr. John C--y has been serviceable
in taking two Prizes in
directing
the Collector to take them into his Care for Her Maj-
esty's Use,
after Mr C--y appropriated them to his own use, I
leave to
others to determine.
* Mr. N--ton accuses the Governour,
for not permitting him to
go to Rhode
Island, to condemn some Prizes (being deputed there-
unto by W.
At--d Esq.) unless the said Governour had a Hun-
dred Pounds
procur'd him by the said N--n.
The Governour
might have
prevented his going, very justly; but however, if the
Hundred
Pounds had been paid for that leave, it would have
been a
principal part of the Affidavit.
[2 1 ]
From the Affidavits, we come to some Remarks made by
this
Author: First, ! Can any Man that
loves not a French
Interest,
call those trivial? Yes truly, I make no manner of
doubt, but a
Man may be very honest, and a hearty Lover of
Great-Britain,
and also of New England; and yet see through
the Malice,
and Falcity of these Accusations. The
Author need
not have
gone so far back, as to the + Athenians, to have found
out
Presidents for punishing great Officers for Male-Administra-
tion; such
Examples might be seen in the Annals of England;
but we must
not revive the old Abington Law, of punishing Men
before they
are prov'd guilty. Have a little
patience Gentlemen,
there is a
Day appointed for hearing
all that can be said against
the
Governour; Her Majesty is Just, She'll hear both sides, and
then decree
Righteous Judgment. § To do Justice and Right, is
the most
Invaluable Jewel in
Magna Charta. I am not presum-
ing to
question the Righteousness of our Laws; but the Law of
Moses is much older. The Spirit of Perverseness is mighty
visible in
the Gentlemen, or else he would not have gone to
Athens, to
find out Presidents for English Men; or quoted Magna
Charta, to
prove the Necessity of Keeping the Ten Command-
ments.
|| 'The Cries sent up to Heaven, by the
many poor Souls
'lately most
inhumanly butchered by the merciless Indians --
'will
certainly draw down Redress from him, who is not only
REX MAGNUS
& REX SOLUS, but JUDEX SUPRE-
'MUS who
hath IMPERIUM SINE FINE, as well as SINE
'LIMITE.'
Undoubtedly, God Almighty hath heard and re-
garded, the
Cries and Sufferings of those poor People; and also,
* Pag. 26. !
Pag. 30. l. 2. + Pag. 30. l.
9.
§ Pag. 30. l. 15. || Pag. 30. l. 28.
86* A
MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC.
without any
manner of question, the same of the Proto-Martyr
of the
Country, the poor Weaver, whose only Crime was, that he
was not a Cobler. And here the Attributes of God are
express'd
in a
Language, that it may be, some of that Country may call
Popery; but there is something so agreeable, and
melting in the
Chiming of
Words, as Rex Magnus, and Rex Solus, Sine Fine,
(and Sine
Limite, that it could not well be omitted; otherwise the
Author might
from the Common-Prayer-Book, have quoted more
proper
Attributes, and much more intelligible to the People.
* I am now come to the Account of several
Barbarities &c.
committed by
the Indians, intermix'd with some memorable
Providences,
which fill ten Pages to very little purpose, there
being in
them nothing uncommon to Frontiers, that are con-
tiguous to
undisciplin'd barbarous People, such as Tartars, In-
dians, or the like.
! [22] I can't be very much surpris'd,
that when a Crew of
Indians that
had taken an English Child, and had eat no Victuals
for 3 Days,
were rather determin'd to eat the Child, than one
another. This Nature induced them to do, but the
Humanity
of the
Heathens is remarkable, that a Dog falling in their way
they
compassionated the Child; the Dog though but half a Meal
to them,
supply'd that occasion + and Hannah Parsons is yet
living. If an Indian had fallen in the way of half a
Dozen
hungry
Christians, even though they were come to a Fulness of
Grace, and Ripe in the Lord; yet if they
had Eat no Victuals
for three
days, I make no doubt but he would have been dispos'd of,
according to
the Regular Form of Leggs, and Shoulders, for the
more
Expeditiously supplying themselves, by Boyling and
Roasting;
and yet the Deliverance would have remain'd Remark-
able (i. e.)
that Providence threw this Fellow into the way of their
Necessities
-- An § Englishman killing an Indian, and being
taken was to
be murder'd at the direction, and in what manner
the Squa
(i. e.) the Widdow of the Indian was pleas'd to prescribe
but she
(having more Humanity than [some that call themselves
Christians)
forgave him -- || A New England Woman was
going to be
hang'd by an Indian, but the limb of the Tree broke
as the was
tying up and another Indian interposing, she was
likewise
sav'd. I pass over several other
Particular hardships that
some
Christians during their Captivity have endured from Hunger
Weather, and
long Sojourning, but ¶ Mrs Bradly of Haverly's.
Case must be
particularly taken notice of, because 'tis recom-
mended with
an -- AB UNO DISCEOMNES. She poor
Woman, past
through several Varieties of Affliction during her
Captivity. The Story of her delivering her self from
danger by
killing, one
Fellow with scalding Sope, and lathering another
* P. 31. Lin. I. ! Ib. l. 9. ||
Ib. 1. 22.
! P. 32. L. I. § Ib. I. 10. ¶
Ib. 1. 20
A MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC. 87*
has been
told already; afterwards the went through several diffi-
culties, as
Hunger, and the like. Being near her
time in the
midst of
Winter; she had no Habitation but amongst Ice and
Snow; but
the had an * Easie Labour in this hard Weather, and
her self and
child did well after it. I find no other
Particulars
till her
Liberty, which was thus, ! Her good Husband Master
Bradley, accompanying Mr Sheldon in his
last Expedition, unex-
pectedly
found his Wife and brought her home to Haverly;
Even this
Particular is not the most surprizing, it being no un-
common thing
for a Man to find his Wife, where he least
expected
her.
I have purposely omitted several of there
Cases, as the Captives
Wandering in
the Desarts, and going through several Perils by
Land and
Water, enough having been raid of it already.
It be-
hoves [23]
every Man to Compassionate these unhappy Prisoners;
but when
they shall be heap'd together to endeavour to Incense
the People
against their Governour, (to whose good Conduct 'tis
owing that
fewer are in this Distress now than in Former Wars,)
it takes off
from that Humanity that such deplorable Cases call
for.
I can't end this Discourse without taking
a little notice of the
Hard Fate of
the Gentlemen that are Governours of Her Majes-
ties
Plantations abroad, whilst they in their several Stations are
promoting
the Honour of Her Majesty, and the Interest of the
several
Provinces committed to their Care, to have a Malecon-
tented Party
HERE undermining and misrepresenting them.
The Case of CoIl. Dudley is an
Unusual Instance. He (if ever
any
Governour) ought to have expected all due acknowledgments
from the
People of New-England. What
considerable Services
has he done
for the Honour of Her Majesty, and the good of the
Country,
since he has been made Governour.
Piracies that were
formerly so
familiar, and so much a Scandal to the Country, are
now intirely
Rooted out; Naval Stores, by his great Application
exceedingly
encreased, to the benefit of the Province in Particu-
lar, and all
Her Majesties Subjects in General; The Country
more
Effectually Defended now than in former Wars:
And
though the want
of the Spanish Trade has put a Check to the
Great
Increase of Bullion at present; yet New England never
appear'd
more flourishing than at this time.
Justice was never in
that
Province more Impartially administred, Her Majesties Pre-
rogative
preserv'd, (which I hope is not a Crime) and the Subjects
Property
maintained.
To Sum up all, His long Experience and
known Abilities, has
render'd him
fo perfect a Master of all the true Interests of Her
* P. 35. Lin. 4. !
P. 36. Lin. 27.
88* A
MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC.
Majesty, and
the Country; and his Estate and Settlement there
puts it so
much in his Power, that perhaps no Man in the World,
can govern
that Province at a less Charge to the Crown or bur-
then to the
People than he has done.
Thus have I concluded what I intended,
whether it will gain
acceptation,
or accompany the MEMORIAL, in the common
uses of
wraping up Tobacco, and such like necessary Occasions;
as it is not
in my Power to Determine so am I not Solicitous
about it.
[24]
London, Sept. 6.
To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.
The humble Address of the Ministers of the
Gospel, in New
England.
' WE your
Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects, and
' Ministers
of the Gospel, in the several Parts of New
' England
cannot but with utmost Joy and Thankfulness, ac-
' knowledge
and be sensible of your Majesty's great and true
' Zeal, for
the promoting of Religion and Virtue (which are the
' Glory and
Security of any Nation) in your Majesty's Realms at
' Home, and your
Dominions Abroad, ever since your Majesty's
' Accession
to the Throne of your Royal Ancestors: And that
' not only
in your Majesty's own rare and excellent Example,
' your
Majesty's several Proclamations for the Encouragement of
' Piety and
Virtue; but also in there great and just Wars of the
' Lord,
which your Majesty at first undertook, and still are en-
' gaged in,
for those two high and noble Reasons, the Security of
' our Holy
and Precious Religion, and also of our Civil Liberties.
' May it please your Majesty, we do also
in a more especial
' manner,
with all Thankfulness, find and admire your Majesty's
' great
Moderation and Gracious Indulgence, towards such of
' your
Majesty's good Subjects, as diffent from the Church of
' England
as by Law established; and also your Royal Assurance
' from the
Throne, that you will inviolably maintain the TOL-
' ERATION
within your Kingdoms; and we humbly assure your
' Majesty,
that in there Parts of your Dominions, we shall in our
' several
Stations, endeavour, by God's Assistance, to inspire our
' People, as
well with Principles of Peace, Charity, and Loyalty,
' as all
other Christian Graces and Virtues, that under your
' Majesty's
most Auspicious Reign, we and they may lead Quiet
' and
Peaceable Lives in all Godliness and Honesty.
A MODEST ENQUIRY,
ETC. 89*
'We also
take this occasion; with all Thankfulness to ac-
' knowledge
your Majesty's Favour to this People, in appointing
' and
continuing Colonel Dudley, your Captain-General, and Gov-
' ernour
over us, whose Government here has been very much to
' your
Majesty's Honour and Interest, and to the Happiness of
' [25] your
Majesty's Subjects of this Province, most especially
' in this
difficult and diftreffing time of War.
'
May it please your Majesty, we do most humbly and joyfully
' give
Thanks to the God of Heaven, for those many great and
' glorious
Victories and Salvations, which he has been pleas'd to
' blefs your
Majesties Arms withal, more especially under the
' Conduct of
his Grace the Duke of
' great
Enemy of the Protestant Religion, and Liberties of Eu-
' rope, insomuch, that our Nation is now,
through your Majesty's
' Wife and
Happy Influence, become the Head among the Na-
' tions.
'And we most humbly and devoutly pray,
that, that God, by
' whom Kings
and Queens Reign, and unto whom alone belongs
' Salvation,
would preserve your Majesty's Sacred Person, direct
' your Wife
Councils, prosper your Just Arms, and make you
' more and
more victorious, until your Majesties Enemies be
' asham'd
and found Liars: And your People like
' shall
dwell in Safety alone, and be a happy People saved by the
' Lord, and
become a Quiet and Peaceable Habitation, a Name
' and a
Praise in the whole Earth. We are
Your
Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects.
N.B. This is the first Address that was ever made
by the
Clergy of
that Country to the Crown of
To the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty.
The Humble Address of the Principal
Merchants and Traders of
WE Your
Majesty's most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects, Mer-
chants and
Traders in this Your Majesty's Town of
in
New-England, beg leave most humbly and Joyfully to congratu-
late Your
Majesty in those Great and Glorious Successes and Vic-
tories,
wherewith it has pleas'd Almighty God to bless the Arms
of Your
Majesty, and Your Allies, ever since your Majesty's Happy
Accession to
the Throne, more especially the last Summer, against
90* A
MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC,
the great
and inveterate Enemy, not only of the Religion and
Prosperity
of Your Majesty's Kingdoms in especial; but even of the
Protestant
Reitgion and Liberties of Europe
itself.
And we humbly hope and pray, that as Your
Majesty has never
yet been
disappointed in Your firm Reliance and expectation of
the Divine
[26] Favour and Blessing, in prosecuting so just and
necessary a
War, so Your Majesty may quickly see a Glorious
Issue
thereof; and long Live to enjoy the Happy Effects of all Your
Majesty' s
great Designs in the Peace and Prosperity of Your own
Kingdoms,
and the whole Christian World.
We do most humbly, and with all
Thankfulness acknowledge
Your
Majesty's great Care and Favour to ourselves, and Your
Majesty's
People of this Province, in protecting and encouraging
our Trade
and Merchandize, and altho', for the present, by reason
of the War,
it may labour under some Difficulty, yet we doubt not
but when
Your Majesty (which God grant) has prevented the
French
King's engrossing the Trade and Wealth of the World, we
here in Your
Majesty's Dominions Abroad, with Your Majesty's
good
Subj'ects at Home, shall become a Flourishing and Happy
People.
We humbly also beg leave to represent to
Your Majesty, That the
Government
of Coll. Dudley,
Your Majesty's Commander in chief
over this
Province, has been and is yet very acceptable to us, and
Your People
here, and thro' his great Care, Courage and Wisdom,
as well Your
Majesty's Honour and Interest, as the Peace and
Prosperity
of Your Majesty's People of this Province, has been
greatly
secur'd and advanc'd in this time of
War.
We most humbly pray for the continuance
of Your Majesty's
Care and
Favour towards us, and for Your Majesty's long Life
and Happy
Reign over us, and shall endeavour, by all imaginable
Methods, to
approve ourselves, Your Majesty's most Loyal, and
Dutiful
Subjects.
Boston Octob, 18, 1706,
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
The humble
Address of your Majesty's Military Officers in the
several Parts of your Majesty's Province
of the Massachusetts
Bay, in New England.
WEE Your
Majesty' s most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects having
the Honour
to be employed in Your Majesty's Militia in
this
Province, most humbly beg leave among ,the Crowd of Your
Majesty's
Loyal Subjects to Congratulate. Your
Majesty's Glorious
A MODEST ENQUIRY,
ETC. 91*
Success in
your just Wars. And also to represent to
Your Majesty,
that through
the great favour of Almighty God, and the constant
Diligence,
Wisdom, and Courage of Col. Dudley, Your Majesty's
Captain
General and Governour, Your Majesty's People and In-
terest in
this Province, especially [27] in the Frontiers, have been
to admiration
taken care of protected and saved in our late and
yet
continuing heavy and distressing War, even beyond what hath
been in
former Wars. And that his Excellency's
disposal of the
Forces at
all times, and the Charge thereupon necessarily arising
has been with
great Justice and Wisdom, and to the great Ease.
Quiet and
Satisfaction of Your Majesty's People in these Parts.
Under the
sense of which, we are humbly bold to ask the continu-
ance of Your
Majesty' s favour to our Governour, being well assur'd
that his
Government over us, will be for Your Majesty's Honour
and
Interest, and to the Peace and Satisfaction of Your Majesty's
good
Subjects within this Province. We humbly
beg leave to
assure Your
Majesty that we continually wish and pray for Your
Majesty's
long Life and happy Reigign: And that Your Majesty's
great and
Just Wars in Europe, and also in America, may have
a Glorious
and happy issue.
And are Your Majesty's most Loyal and
most Dutiful Sub-
jects.
NB.
This was sign'd by the Field-Officers, and all the Cap-
tains of
Twelve Regiments, being the whole Militia of this
Province.
To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.
The humble
Address of the Council and Assembly of your Majes-
ties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.
Most Gracious Soveraign,
' IT is upwards of two years since the Arrival
of Colonel
' Dudley,
your Majesties Captain-General, and Governour in
' chief
here: For whore Appointment to that
Station, we for-
' merly
humbly Address'd your Majesty, with the Thanks of this
' Province;
and we have been made sensible of his careful Man-
' agement of
your Majesties Interests, and the Government of
' your good
Subjects; partIcularly of his great Application, and
' the Cost
expended, to have stedyed the Eastern Indians In their
' Obedience
to the Crown of England, and your Majesty's Sov-
eraignty
over them, whereof they have formerly made their
92* A
MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC.
' repeated
Recognition and Submission thereto; and more lately
' renewed
the same, in two Attendencies upon his Excellency,
' with
Protestations of all good Fidelity. Yet
notwithstanding,
' thro' the
Influence of the French Emissaries residing among
' them, they
have for Twelve Months past, broken out, and con-
' tinued in
open Rebellion and Hostility; and with the Assistance
' of French
Officers and Souldiers, from the several Parts, have
' committed
divers Outrages, and barbarous Murders, upon many
' of your
Majesties good Subjects.
' Which Irruption of the Indians,
has oblig'd the Governour
' to
Garrison all the Frontiers of more than Two Hundred Miles
' extant;
and to send forth greater and lesser Parties into the
' Desert, in
places almost inaccessible, if [28 ] possible, to find out
' those
bloody Rebels in their obscure Recesses under covert of a
' vast
hideous Wilderness (their manner of living being much
' like that
of the Wild Beasts of the same) and to give Check to
' their
Insolencies.
'And there are not less than Nineteen
Hundred Effective
' Men, now
in Arms under pay, upon our Eastern and Western
' Frontiers;
besides the Vessels and Men, necessarily imploy'd for
' guarding
of the Sea-Coast, against the Infestings of the French
' from Canada,
Port-Royal, and the West-Indies, who indeavour
' to
intercept bur Supplies, and disturb our Fishery: So that we
' are at an
exceeding great, and almost insupportable Charge;
' and see
not the end thereof. We are ready to
think it highly
'
reasonable, That the neighbouring Governments being secur'd
' thereby,
should bear a just Quota of the raid Charge.
Which
' is humbly
submitted to your Majesties great Wisdom to direct.
' We have therefore accounted it our
Duty, by an Express,
' humbly to
represent and lay before your Sacred Majesty, the
' very
distressing Circumstances of your Majesties good Subjects,
' within
this your Province, who have hitherto chearfully under-
' gone the
sore Fatigue and Charge of their Defence and Pur-
' suits,
made after the Enemy and Rebels; and that in the
' greatest
Severities and Heights of the Winter, exposing them-
' selves to
the last Sufferings. Being sensible,
that the Advances
' made by
the Governour in the Service have been absolutely
' necessary;
and that his Care has been, to keep the Expense as
' low as the
Emergencies would bear; And we doubt not of a
' good
Concurrence at all times of the Council and Assembly,
' with the
Governour, to advance both the Men and Money
' necessary,
to the utmost of their Ability.
' We crave also by this Opportunity,
humbly to express to your
' Majesty,
our just Resentment and Detestation of the Piracies
' and
Robberies lately committed by Captain Quelch and Com-
' pany: And
we hope the speedy Justice that has been done upon
' those vile
Criminals, will vindicate the Government from the
' Imputation
of giving any Countenance to, or favouring of such
A MODEST ENQUIRY,
ETC. 93*
' wicked
Actions. A full and particular Account
of the whole
' Process,
and of the diligent Care taken to recover and secure
' the
Treasure so ill gotten, will be humbly laid before your
' Majesty by
our Governour.
' May it please your Majesty, There are
several Articles and
' Stores of
War, necessary for the Safety and Defence of your
' Majesties
Interest, within this Province, that cannot be supply'd
' here;
which we have most humbly offer'd to your Majesty, in a
' Memorial
accompanying this our Address.
' And if your Majesty of your Royal
Bounty, shall be graciously
' pleas'd to
order, That they be supply'd out of your Majesties
' Stores, it
will greatly encourage us in the Service of your Sa-
' cred
Majesty: being always resolv'd to maintain the Honour
' and
Dignity of your Majesties Crown and Government over us;
' and, by
the Favour of Almighty God, to maintain our Station
' in this
Province; which we hope, upon the restoring of Peace,
' will, by
the increase of People and Trade therein, render it self
' a further
Honour and Advantage to your Majesty and the
' Crown of
England; for whose long and prosperous Reign over
' us, and a
happy Succession of Protestant Princes, We shall ever
' pray.
Madam, Your Majesties most Loyal and
Dutiful Subjects,
In the Name, and by order of the Council
Boston, Isaac
Addington, Secretary
July 12th. In the NAME, and
by Order of the Assembly
1704 James
Converse, Speaker
[29]
London, August 9.
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
The humble Address of Your Majesty's
Council and Repre-
sentatives
of Your Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, in New
England
Conven'd in General Assembly. This 25th
day of July
1706.
Most humbly Sheweth,
THAT Your
Majesty's Loyal Subjects, the Inhabitants of this
Province,
having been always Happy since your Majesty's
Accession to
the Crown, under your Majesty's Protection, and Gov-
ernment, are
humbly bold to acquaint your Sacred Majesty.
That
notwithstanding
the very great Troubles this little Province lies
94* A
MODEST ENQUIRY, ETC.
so
immediately expos'd unto, by the barbarous Salvages and French,
our
Neighbours, yet, by the good Providence of Almighty God, the
Courage,
Care and Prudence of Colonel Dudley, your Majesty's
Captain
General, and Governour we have been exceedingly pre-
served,
beyond what has been in former Wars, and are perfectly
satisfied
with the disposal of the People and Arms of the Prov-
ince, and
the just Expense [of?] our Money at all times, under our
present
Governor's Management, and humbly pray, if it may con-
sist with
your Majesty's Pleasure, that he may be continued in the
Government
of this Province, which we are well assured, will
always have
a Tendency to the Promotion of your Majesty's In-
terest here,
as well as the Ease and Satisfaction of all your Majesty's
good
Subjects Inhabitants herein.
And we further pray to be admitted, as the
meanest of your
Majesty's
most dutiful Subjects, humbly to Congratulate your
Majesty's
Glorious Success against the common Enemy, which, that
they may be
perfected, and that your Majesty's Victorious Arms
may give a
happy and lasting Peace to Europe is the Prayer
of, &c.
[30 ]
By his
Excellency JOSEPH DUDLEY Esq, Captain General
and Governour in chief, in and over her
Majefties Provinces of
the Massachusets Bay, and New
Hampshire in New England.
WHEREAS the
Island of St. Christopher's some few Weeks
since, has
been Insulted and Ravaged by the French: And
Her
Majesties good Subjects of that Island reduced to the last
Extremity,
by the Spoyles the Enemy has made in burning of
their Houses
and Mills, destroying and carrying off their Stocks
and Estate;
So that they are left destitute both of Habtitation and
Subsistance,
most having lost everything they had.
I HAVE therefore, at the Desire of the
Representatives in
their late
Session, and with the Advice of Her Majesties
Council,
Issued forth this BRIEF, Hereby Recommending to
the
Commiseration and Pity of all Charitable.
Well disposed
Christians,
within this Province, and the Province of New Hamp-
shire the deplorable
Circumstances and distressing Wants of their
raid
Christian Brethren and fellow Subjects; And Exciting them
to put on
bowels of Christian Compassion and Charity, for the
Relief of
the Pinching Necessities of their distressed Friends and
Countrymen. Which will be very acceptable to GOD,
profitable
to our
Selves, and be remembered with the like grateful Ac-
knowledgment
and Respect from this Island, as formerly.
A MODEST ENQUIRY,
ETC. 95*
The Money that shall be Contributed and
Collected for this
pious Use,
to be put into the Hands of Samuel Sewell, Esq.; and
Andrew
Belcher Esq; by
them to be Invested in Provisions &c,
and
forthwith forwarded by the Direction of My Self and the
Council.
And the Ministers of the several Towns are
Directed to Read
and Publish
this in their Congregations; And to stir up their
People,
notwithstanding their deep Poverty, to a Cheerful and
Liberal
Contribution to this good Work.
Given at the Council Chamber in Boston the 17th. Day of April,
1706.
In the Fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lady QUEEN ANNE.
J. DUDLEY
By Order of
the Governour and
Council.
Isaac Addington, Secr.
FINIS.
THE
Deplorable State
OF
New -
By Reason of a Covetous and Treacherous
Governour
A N D
Pusillanimous COUNSELLORS
With a
Vindication of the Honble Mr. HIGGINSON,
Mr. MASON, and several other Gentlemen
from the
Scandalous and Wicked Accusation
of the VOTES, Or-
dered by Them to be Published in their
News-Letter.
To which is Added,
An A C C O U NT of the Shameful Miscarriage
of
the Late EX P E D I T ION against
P O R T - R O Y A L.
LONDON, Printed in the Year 1708.
To the Right Honourable, the
Earl of Sunderland,
Her MAJESTY'S Principal
Secretary of State.
My LORD
THIS Deplorable Narrative, Contains but a
small Part of the
Grievances
of New-England, under their Present Govern-
our, who is
a perfect Reverse to Our Gracious QUEEN,
whose Person
he Represents.
New-England in K, Charles the First's
Time, was first Inhab-
ited by
Protestants of the Church of England: When several
Learned and
PIOUS Parish Ministers, were Silenc'd here, for Re-
fusing to
Read the Book of Sports on the Lord's Day, and many
of them
Imprisoned: the Love that several Gentlemen of Quality
had for
their Ministers, induced 'em to Sell their pleasant Seats
and Leave
their Native Country, to go to an uninhabited Wilder-
ness, where
they had Cause to Fear the Wild Beasts, and Wilder
Melt. For if Religion be Worth any Thing, 't is
Worth every
thing.
So that this Country (by the Blessing of
GOD, who always
Rewards a
Vertuous People with Temporal Blessings) was lately
become a
Great NATION; but Col: Dudley, in King Charles
the Second's
Reign, was Intrusted with the Precious Depositum,
their
Greatest Treasure, their Religious Priviledges, and Civil
Liberties,
which were conveyed to them by CHARTER, but
were both
Betray'd by him. Yet notwithstanding the
said Dud-
ley has, by
his Cunning Insinuations, Obtained the Favour to be
made the
Present Governour by Her now Majesty, of the Massa-
chuset's
Colony in New-England But his Male-Administration,
hath Caused
several Considerable Merchants and Inhabitants
there,
Believing their Country to be in Imminent Danger by
1 Here
begins the second page. The running
title is: "The Epistle Dedi-
catory | to
the Earl of Sunderland." -- EDS.
100* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
[by] such a
Governour, to Petition Our most Gracious Sovereign
for his
Removal, Charging him with Crimes of the Highest
Guilt; which
the Petitioners did Humbly Hope, would have
soon Removed
him had not the great Piety of the Queen inter-
posed (who
has always had a special Regard to the several Min-
isters in
her Dominions. Upon the said Governour's
Council,
producing an
Address, said to be from the Ministers of New-
England, Commending his Government, and Praying
his Con-
tinuance:
Which Address is a part of his Crime, being Obtained
by the
Threats and Promises of his Agents, and with Difficulty
Subscribed
by some Ministers in the Country, but the most Con-
siderable
amongst them, and the Ministers of Boston, Refus'd it,
who Detest
his Person, and Pray for his Removal.
And this is Apparent; for in their Address
the Ministers
Thank'd the
Queen for the Tolleration Act, and the Assurances of
Tollerating
them in their Religion,
which is the ONLY Estab-
lish'd
Religion of their Country. And 't is
much more Reason-
able That
the Kirk of North Britain, in their Addresses to the
Queen,
should Thank Her Majesty for Tollerating Presbytery
among them,
which is their National Church Government, they
having
formerly had Come Sort of Episcopal Government among
them: But these
People never had any other Church Government
than they Now
have.
Besides what is now Offer'd, there are
several other Reasons
for his
Removal. He is a Native of the
Country: His Relations,
and those he
calls his Friends, are it seems, the fittest Men for all
the Civil
and Military Posts. His Son, whom he
calls, the
Queen's Attorney-General,
being the only Minister of State,
under him,
by which any can have Access to his Person for com-
mon; Justice. . . . . . This is the Third Time that he has
been
Trusted with
Power from the Crown in
stantly
Abus'd it, to the Dishonour of the Government, and almost
Ruin of the
People he was sent to Govern.
My LORD,
YOUR Lordship's Great Abilities have Raised you to
be a
Great
Minister of State, in
this Critical Juncture. Your
Lordship's
Known Hatred of Oppression, and Love of
Liberty, and
the English Government, makes up Your Finish'd
Character. My Lord, New-England is in your
Lordship's Prov-
ince, and under Your Care, 2 and
Flyes to your LordshIp for
Protection;
and Humbly Prays your Lordship to Represent
their Distressed
Case to our most Gracious QUEEN. A
Queen,
that would
have all Her Subjects, (even in the Remotest Parts
1 Here begins the third page, unnumbered. -- EDS.
2 Beginning of the fourth page. -- EDS.
THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND. 101*
of Her
Dominions) Easy and Happy. In doing
which, your
Lordship
will Oblige a whole Country of Protestants, to send up
their
Fervent Prayers to Heaven for your Lordship's Long Life ,
and
Happiness; and lay a Lasting Obligation upon
My LORD, with the utmost Respect,
and Sincerity, your
Lordships most Humble
most
Obliging, and most Faithful Servant,
A.
H.
The Reader is Desired to take Notice,
that the follow-
ing Sheets
being Printed before the Epistle Dedicatory was
Writ, we
could not Conveniently Insert in their proper Place,
these
Material Advices lately fallen into our Hands, viz.
OUR present
General Assembly have Acted like Men.
They
have Turned
out of the Council, several of D--'s
Creatures. And the Country has Chosen better Repre-
sentatives
than they had the Last Year. The present
House of
Commons here
has Voted an Address to the Queen, in which
they
Declare, That they Declined sending a former Address, be-
cause there
was an Article in it, Applauding the Governour's
Conduct, and
Praying his Continuance, &c.
102* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND.
1TO THE
R E A D E R.
IF the
New-England Counsellors, (as well as their Governour)
are
Publickly Exposed in a Land a Thousand Leagues Dis-
tant from
them, they have no Reason to Complain of Hard
Dealing, Lex
Talionis Requires that it should be so; for it is
nothing but
what they themselves have done, by Gentlemen who are
on several
Accounts Superior to them. We Wish they
may be
Sensible of
the great Hurt their Country is like to Suffer by their
Means. They have Discouraged their Friends from ever
Appear-
ing again in
their Behalf, when if they should, they, to Please
their
Governour, will in Print, Brand them for Scandalous and
Wicked
Accusers.
Their Fault is very much Aggravated; in
that after they Saw
an Invoice
which mentions an Hundred Thousand Nails, sent to
the Queen's
Enemies at Port-Royal, Allowed by the Governour
under his
Own Hand; they Called their Abusive Vote to be Printed
Only we
Hear,2 that their Secretary, who is a Prudent
Man,
and one of
their Counsellors, was against the Publication of their
Scandalous
Vote.
But we likewise Hear, that some of them
moved that several
Affidavits,
which had been laid before Her Majesty in Council,
and were
after that Printed here in London, might be Burnt, be-
cause they
Complained of their Governours Notorious Briberies,
and other
Male-Administrations. Probably the same
Persons will
make the
like Proposal again, if a New Governour does not Neg-
ative them
out of his Council, which we Suppose he will, unless
the
Representatives of the Province (as in Duty they are Bound)
shall have
him the Trouble.
The Reader may Depend upon it, that as to
Matter of Fact,
there is
nothing in this Narrative but Exact Truth; what is
therein
Related, is not only Affirmed by Gentlemen Worthy of
Credit
lately come from Boston, but by Letters from as Eminent
Persons as
any in New England.
1 Here begins the fifth page. -- EDS.
2 Here begins the sixth page. --EDS.
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF NEW ENGLAND. 103*
[1]
The Deplorable STATE
OF
New -
SECTION
I.
SOME Late Votes
passed in the Assembly at Boston, and
Printed in
the Boston News-Letter, Cause us to Reflect
with some
Wonder on the Deplorable State of the Planta-
tions.
They that are sent over as Governours
thither, appear as Per-
sons of
Suitable Abilities, and Approved Loyalty. They are in
Favour with
some Ministers of State, who Recommend them to
the King or
Queen for the Time being; and are in Fee with
their Clarks,
by whose Means, their Business is done the more
Effectually. When they arrive with their Commissions,
they Ex-
press
themselves in Obliging Terms; and the Ravish'd People,
who are
quite Giddy with Joy, if they have Governours, which
they may
Hope, will not Cut their Throats, make them Noble
Presents,
and send Home an Address of Thanks for such Admira-
ble
Governours.
Their next Work is, by all possible
Artifices, to get in to all
Offices about the Country, such as are, or they
know, will be,
meer Creatures
to them; or at least, such as are not Furnished
either with Courage
or Conduct, to make any Complaints Home
against
them, in Case of any Male-Administration.
After this, let the Governour do what he
will, either there will
be no Body Strong
enough to Repair unto the Crown with due
Remonstrances;
or if any Body do, the Governour has many
Ways to
Molest him and his, and to Defeat all his Undertakings.
Yea, 'tis
Ten Thousand to One, but at the [2] very Time,
when an
Oppressed Person is Solliciting his own and an Oppressed
People's
Cause, the Governour may have so Modell'd the General
Assembly, that they shall pass wretched Votes
to his Advantage,
104* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND.
and Kiss
the Hand which all the open Eyes in the Country see
Stabbing of
them.
One would have thought, the People of N.
England should
have been
Sensible of their Good Fortune in it, that when they
are Betrayed
in Miserable Circumstances by an Hungry Gov-
ernour, who
has been willing to Enrich himself and his Family,
on the Ruines
of his Country, some Gentlemen of Note, have
Interposed
with Humble Addresses to Her Majesty on their Be-
half. They have no Agent here, but what is
Entirely in the
Interest of
their Governour. When the whole House
of Repre-
sentatives
sent over hither, an Address to the Queen, relating to
Matters of
the Greatest Importance, the Agent whom they had
Imploy'd and
Rewarded with some Hundreds of Pounds, Refused
to Present
the Address, because it would not suit with the Gov-
ernour's
Interest, and Wrote them Word, That no Address must
be
Presented, except Signed by the Governour. And yet after this,
the same
Gentleman could Present Addresses for the Continuance
of the
Governour, which were Signed by Private Hands, and
Procured by Ways
and Means little to the Honour of those Con-
cerned. Some Gentlemen here, knowing the Oppress'd,
and
Betray'd
Condition of that poor People, have Address'd on their
Behalf; and
have said nothing in their Address, but what they
had the Oaths
of several Good Men, to Support the Truth of
what was
Asserted: But, lo! to their Surprize, they find them-
selves in
the Boston News-Letter Exposed, as having been the
Authors of, Scandalous
and Wicked Accusations! The Counsel-
lors of N. England, have done as much
as lyes in them for ever
to
Discourage all Gentlemen here from Appearing for the Coun-
try, let
never such Difficult Circumstances be brought upon it;
but we will
Pity them, as Trapann'd into, they know not what
themselves!
However; if they will allow no Body here to Speak
for their Country,
they can't forbid us to Speak for Ourselves,
which they
have now made but too Necessary for us.
[3] Letters from New-England Inform us,
That the Great
and Only
Reason, why some of the Council there will firmly be-
lieve more Charitably of their Governour
Dudley, than many
others do,
is, Because his Family and Interest is there, and there-
fore 'tis unreasonable to Believe, that he would
do any thing that
should hurt
the Country.
But, Was not his Family and Interest
there in Sir Edmund
Andross's time?
And yet a Book Published here, by the Agents
of New-England,
after the Revolution, Intituled, The Revolution
in New-England Justified, has given
the World a sad Story of
what a
Colonel Dudley may do, towards the Ruining a Country
which has
his Family and Interest in it.
Read that History, and
you will
find, that after Col. Dudley had been an Agent for the
Country, he
Tack'd about, and Join'd with the Instruments that
overthrew
their Charter, and Accepted an Illegal and Arbitrary
THE DEPLORABLE
STATE OF NEW
ENGLAND. 105*
Commission
from K. James, by which he held the Government,
until the
Arrival of Sir Edmund Andross, and then was, as
President of the Council, and Chief Judge of
the Territory, a
Chief Tool of all the ensuing Barbarous, and
Infamous Admin-
istration. They Governed without an Assembly,
when Laws
were
Proposed in the Council, tho' the major part of the Council
should
happen to Diffent, yet if the Governour were Positive there
was a President
at the Board, by whore Allowance the Laws;
were
Immediately Engrossed; Published; and Executed: And
Judge Dudley
did not Contradict it, when some of the Principal
Gentlemen in
the Country were told at the Council Board, You
have no more
Priviledges left you but this, that you are not Bought
and Sold for
Slaves. By the Sequel we shall see not this
neither.
A Juncto,
(wherein how often this Chief Judge, was of the
Quorum, is now forgotten) made a World of Laws,
which Pil-
laged that
Poor People Desperately. They Levied a
Tax on the
whole People
without any Assembly; and when the Principal
Persons, and
some others in Ipswich on that Occasion, with all
possible
Modesty moved, that the King should be Humbly Pe-
tition'd for
the Liberty of an Assembly, they were Committed to
Prison for
an High Misdemeanour, and were Denied an Habeas
Corpas, and
Drag'd many Miles out of their own County, to
Answer it at
a Court [4] in Boston, where Jurors were pickt
for the
Turn, that were neither Free-holders, nor so much as In-
habitants.
They were all Fined severely, and laid under great
Bonds for
their Good Behaviour, besides which, the Hungry
Officers
Extorted Fees of near Two Hundred Pounds, where
they would
not have risen to Ten Pounds, had any Law of Eng-
land, or Justice been Observed. The Townsmen of many other
Places were
served in the like Fashion; and our Judge Dudley
was a
Principal Actor in all this Wickedness.
It was now De-
nied, that
any Man was Owner of a Foot of Land in all the
Colony. Judge Dudley gave it as his Judgment
under his Hand.
Writs of
Intrusion were
presently served upon the Chief Gentle-
men in the
Country, to Compel them, and others by the Terror
of their
Example, to take Patents for the Lands which they had
Quietly
Possessed for Fifty or Sixty Years together.
For there
Patents there were such Exorbitant Prices
Demanded, that
Fifty Pounds
would not Purchase for its Owner, an Estate not
worth Two
Hundred; nor could all the Money and Moveables
in the
Territory, have Defrayed the Charges of Pattenting the
Lands.
If the Harpies were at any time a
little out of Money, they
Invented
Pretences to Imprison the Best Men in the Country,
and tho'
there Appeared not the least Information of any Crime
against
them, yet they were put unto intollerable Expences, and
the Benefit
of the Habeas Corpus was Denied unto them. Judge
106* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
Colonel Saltonstal,
or Major Appleton. Pickt Juries
were com-
monly used,
for the Trouble of Honest and Worthy Men, and
they were
Hurried out of their own Counties to be Tried, when
Juries for the Turn were not likely to be found
there. Judge
Dudley knows this; and we suppose, he Remembers
the Famous
Mr. Morton.
In Short, all things were going to Wreck,
but yet Colonel
Dudley was like to Inrich himself and his Family
in the General
Ship
wreck. There lies the Mystery !
These things, and many more such things,
are Asserted in the
Book
aforesaid, not only by the Oaths of many Honest Gentle-
men, but
also a Declaration Signed by the Honourable Hands of
Judge Stoughton,
and Major General Winthrop, and [5] Colonel
Shrimpton, and other Members of the Council.
The World has Heard how narrowly Col. Dudley
Escaped a
De-Witting for these his Follies, from the Inraged
People in the
Revolution.
Being then sent over a Prisoner to England, he
with the
rest, were there set at
Commission
for the place of Chief Judge in the
Death, the
Lieutenant Governour of the Province, and another
Gentleman,
for not Surrendering the Government before the
Arrival of
Governour Slaughter with his Commission.
The
Condemnation
and Execution of these Two Gentlemen, was a
Bloody
Business: It was afterwards Examined in
the Parlia-
ment, where
Colonel Dudley underwent a Confusion, which will
never be
worn off; and Mr. Constantine Phips, Prosecuted the
Matter with
so much Demonstration, that Eminent Persons in
both Houses,
Declared it, A Barbarous Murder; King, Lords,
and Commons,
did as good as Declare it so, and by an Act of
Parliament
Revoked the Attainder of the Murdered Gentlemen.
On this
Occasion, Judge Stoughton, (who yet was always known
to be as
Partial to Col. Dudley, and his Interest, as any Man in
New-England) said to some of his Friends, what he had
been
heard
formerly to say unto others, Alas, to get a little Money, he
would make
his own Father hold up his Hand at the Bar. There,
Gentlemen,
you have again the Key to Explain the Matter;
which
because you can't see thro', you firmly Believe as you do!
After many Years absence from his Family,
my Lord Bella-
many fair
Promises, both to Gentlemen here, and at his own
Home,
obtains Recommendations for a Succession in the Gov-
ernment. He had not been long in the Government,
before the
following M
E M O R I A L was sent over to
THE DEPLORABLE
STATE OF NEW
ENGLAND. 107*
[6]
A
M E M 0 R I A L,
On the
Behalf of the Province of the Massachuset's Bay,
in NEW-ENGLAND; Relating to the Administra
tion of their Present Governour, Colonel Dudley.
I. ONE Principal Grievance, which Comprehends
many un-
" der
it, is, The Course of Bribery, which runs thro' the
"
Governour's Administration, whereby the Queen's Gov-
"
ernment is greatly Exposed in a Country where Bribery has
"
rarely, if ever before this, been known to be Practised. The
"
Governour having brought in his Son to be Attorney General,
" this
Corruption is more Effectually carried on between them,
" unto
the great Oppression of the People.
" Only Two Instances, among many,
shall be Reported in this
" Memorial.
"I. Certain People having
" tion
called Nashoba, and wanting a Confirmation of their Title,
" by an
Act of the General Assembly, (as is Usual in such Cases)
" they
could not have the Governour's Assent unto the Act,
"
without a Bribe of a Thousand Acres of the best Land, and in
" the
Center of the
[7] " 2. Also, A Tract of Land at Nipmuck,
belonging to
" Nine
or Ten Partners, when Both Houses in the General
"
Assembly had passed the Bill, to Allow their Title, (as was Re-
"
quired by an Old Law of the Country) the Governour would
"
not. Sign the Act, until he had a Bribe
of Twenty Pounds, and
" One
whole Share of the Land, which was Valued at One
"
Hundred and Fifty Pounds more.
" But, if a Commission of Enquiry
could be Obtained, there
" would
be such Practises of this Nature Discovered, as are
"
hardly to be Parallel'd.
" II. The Governour, meerly to
Gratify his own Arbitrary
" Will
and Pleasure, did for some while Refuse to fill up the nec-
108* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
"
essary Number of Judges; by which Means, the Courts dropt,
" and
the Course of Justice was Obstructed; and the Oppressed
"
People were Defeated in their Suits, to the Damage of many
"
Hundreds of Pounds.
" III. There have been odd Collusions
with the Pyrates of
" Quelch's
Company, of which one Instance is, That there was
"
Extorted the Sum of about Thirty Pounds from some of the
" Crue,
for
" and
this
" unto
them, they were again Confined to their former Wretched
"
Circumstances.
" IV. An Army of Volunteers went out, and did Good
Ser-
" vice
upon the French and Indian Enemy at Acady. They were
"
Incouraged by an Act of the Governour and General Assembly,
" which
Promised the Soldiers a Certain Share of the Plunder.
" When
the Soldiers returned, some Officers, without their Con-
" sent
or knowledge, and before the Division of the Plunder,
" made
the Governour a Considerable Present out of it:
Where-
" upon
he so managed the Matter with the said Officers, as to
" Cheat
and Cut off the Soldiers of near One Half that the Act
" of
the Assembly had Promis'd them! When the
House of
"
Representatives Applied themselves to the Governour on this
"
Occasion, they could get nothing from him. By this means,
" no [8
] more Volunteers are like to appear in Her Majesty's
"
Service.
" The Governour's manner is, To
trample on the Assembly
" with
gross Indignities; and such as they never have received
" from
their former Governours. Nor can they
have any Re-
" dress
of Grievances, though many have been from Time to
" Time
Represented.
" And when Bills for the Payment of
the just Debts of the
"
Province, are Presented to him to be Signed, he has Declared,
" he
would not Sign them, except he were himself Gratified with
" Sums
Demanded of them.
" On these, and many more such
Accounts, it is humbly Con-
"
ceived, That it would be much for Her Majesty's Interest, if a
" more
Acceptable Governour were placed over that Province.
This was the Memorial; but because
here was no Body to
Prosecute
it, it fell to the Ground.
Much about the same time, there came to
Light a little more
of Colonel Dudley's
Designs upon the new Charter of the Prov-
ince. It seems, he was as willing to do the same
Kindness for
this, that
he did for the old One; and that he was at this very
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF
time doing
for the Colony of
complished,
would lay the Country Open to an Innundation of
Calamities. HIS Son Paul, (the great Instrument of
his Op-
pressions)
Writes over to his Friend in
are there
following Words.
[9]
Dear
KINSMAN,
I Confess I am Ashamed almost Think, I
should be at Home so
long, and
not let you know of it, till now. Tho'
after all, a
New-England
Correspondence is scarce worth your having.
-- I Refer
you to* Mr. --- for an Account of every thing,
especially
about the Government, and the Colledge;
both which,
are Discoursed of here, in Chimny Cor * See P. Dudley's
ners, and
Private Meetings, as confidently as can be. Original Letter to
If there
should be any Occasion, you must be sure to Mr. W. Wharton
stir your
Self and Friends, and show your Affection Printed at
and Respect
to my Father, who Loves you well, and bid with some Neces
me Tell you
so. -- This Country will never be worth Living sary Queries.
in for
Lawyers and Gentlemen, till the CHARTER IS TAKEN
AWAY. My Father, and I sometimes Talk of the
Queen's Estab-
ishing a
COURT OF CHANCERY [10] in this Country,
I have Writ
about it, to Mr. Blathwayt: If the
Matter should
Succeed, you
might get some Place worth your Return; of which
I should be
very Glad. If I can any ways Serve you
or your
Friends,
Pray Signify it to (Dear SIR)
Your Affectionate Friend,
and Humble Servant,
Paul Dudley.
This Apocryphal Epistle of Paul,
[not a
ye!] needs
no Commentary! ---- But,
These are Old Stories, we must now come to
some New Ones.
110* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
[ 11 ]
S E C T.
II.
By Letters
from New-England; we are Informed how Matters
past in the
last Sessons of their General Assembly, which
was in October
and November 1707. One would have
Im-
agined, that
the Mast-Fleet, which brings us our Letters of Intel-
ligence, had
been the Consolidator, coming back with Intelligence
from the World
in the Moon: For such things could never have
happen'd,
but among a People very Lunatick. -- And, First let
us begin, as
in Good Manners Bound, with the Upper House,
Their Governour Dudley, produced
to the Council, the Copy
of an
Address to the Queen's Majesty, Signed by above Twenty
Gentlemen in
for which
they were more Generously Concerned, than some that
were under
greater Obligations, they Petitioned for
moval from
his Government; Alledging, among other Weighty
Reasons, That
he had Countenanced a Private Trade and Corre-
spondence
with Her Majesty's Enemies, the French, and the Indians
which are in
their Interests. He Required his Counsellors imme-
diately to Clear him from there Imputations. He came upon
them with
his Demand, on the Saturday next, when they were
(as they
usually then are) in the Hurry of Breaking up.
'Tis
the Time,
when the Governour commonly makes any thing to
Pass, that either
House must be either Trick'd or Tir'd into.
Three or
Four of the Council, particularly Brown, Sewal, and
Pain, Pray'd, That since the Thing was both
New and Weighty,
it might be
put off till Monday. The
Governour, with a Boister-
ous Fury,
Required them to do it immediately;
And they did
it immediately: At once they Rushed into a Vote,
wherein they
say,
[12 ] Upon Reading the Address,
Offer'd Her Maj'esty, against
his
Excellency, our present Govemour, Signed, Nath. Higginson,
&c. We firmly Believe, and are of Opinion, the
Allegations
therein, of
the Governour's Trading, or allowing a Trade with Her
Majesty's
Enemies, the French,
and Indians in their Interests, is a
Scandalous
and Wicked Accusation. Paired Unanimously. "
Isaac Addington, Secret.
The Council being Brow-beaten into such a
Vote, one of that
Board,
namely, Mr. Samuel Sewal, who is also a Judge of the Su-
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF
perior
Court; but a Person of Unspotted Integrity, thought him-
self Bound
In Conscience to Exhibit a Remonstrance against this
Rash Vote:
His Relation as a Brother-in-Law to the Governour,
did not get
the Upper-Hand of his Conscience; but he Presented
his
Remonstrance to the Board, and had it Enter'd on File, from
whence one
of our Correspondents has Obtained a Copy,
'Tis as
follows.
Tuesday, November, 25, 1707.
" THE
Reasons of my With-drawing my Vote, from what was
"
Passed in Council upon Saturday, November the First, re-
"
lating to an Address Offer'd to Her Majesty, Sign'd, Nath.
"
Higginson, &c.
" I. Because my Motion, for leaving
the Consideration of it,
" till
the Monday following, was not Admitted; and it was En-
" ter'd
upon, and pass'd about Noon, in a very short Time; being
" a Matter
of great Concernment to our Leige Lady, Queen
" ANNE,
to the Province, to his Excellency our Governour, and
" to
the Council and Representatives.
[13]
" II. The Governour's Personal
Interest was much in it,
" and
therefore I humbly Conceive, the Vote ought to have
" been
Debated and Framed by the Members of the Council;
" apart
by themselves, in the Absence of the Governour.
" III. The Words [firmly Believe] and [always
Apparent]
" were
never Pleasing to me. And now, I do not firmly
Believe,
" that
the Governour did no way Allow Mr. Borland, and Capt.
" Vetch,
their Trading Voyage to Her Majesty's Enemies, the
" French.
" Qui non vetat Peccare, cum possit, Jubet.
" Not that I Suspect, the Governour
design'd to Hurt the
"
Province; but to Gratify Grateful Merchants, And I readily
" and
Thankfully Acknowledge the Governour's Orders for the
"
Defence of the Frontiers, to be truly Excellent; * both respect-
" ing
the Suitableness of the Orders themselves, and the Quick-
" ness
of their Dispatch: And I Bless God for the Success that
" has
Attended them.
* The
Gentleman, with his usual Goodness, is willing to make the Best of any
Good Thing.
His Meaning is, That when the New-Englanders had the Good
Fortune to be Advised of the Approach of the
Enemy, the Governour would
(which was a
wonderful piece of Sagacity) Order a Number of Soldiers to Repair
to the
Frontiers!
112* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
" IV.
I have been Acquainted with Mr. Nathaniel Higginson
" these
Fourty Years; and I cannot Judge, the Offering this
"
Address to Her Majesty, to be in him a Scandalous and Wicked
"
Accusation, unless I
know his Inducements. And I fear, this
"
Censure may be of ill Consequence to the Province in time to
" come;
by Discouraging Persons of Worth and Interest, to
"
Venture in Appearing for them, tho' the Necessity should be
" never
so Great,
" Samuel Sewall,
[14]
Tho' this Gentleman had thus Recalled his Vote, (and
another
Gentleman present in the Council, never had a Vote put
to him) and
he Insisted on it, as we are Informed, that it would
be a Direct
Falsehood in Matter of Fact. Now to
call this, an
Unanimous
Vote, yet we find it was after this Ordered to be
Printed in
the
MOUSLY. We cannot Conceive how the Council could
Order
a Direct
Falshood to be Printed, if their Souls were their own,
Or, if they
would so Misrepresent Judge Sewall and Colonel Hig-
ginson (Brother to Mr. Nathaniel Higginson)
it may be, they did also
Misrepresent
themselves, in saying, they firmly Believe, when
it is
strange if they do really Believe it.
Notwithstanding their News-Letter says,
their Vote was Passed
Unanimously,
Worthy Gentlemen in New-England have given
us such a
Character of their Winthrop, their
Foster, and of some others of them, as that we
cannot Firmly
Believe, that they ever Consented to have the
Honourable Mr.
Higginson so Stigmatized in the Boston
Infamous News-Letter.
Nor, is it
to be Imagined, that they are all so Paradoxical, as we
hear some of
them are; for you cannot with a Beetle, beat it
into some of
them, but that if a Vote obtain a Majority, it is to
be called an
Unanimous Vote, We have been Told, (and we
Thought so,
by hearing them Talk, who came from thence) that
they Speak
as Good English at Boston, as they do in London:
But we
perceive, in the Council Chamber there, they begin to
forget ,the English
Tongue; and they have lost the Sense of the
Word Unanimous.
One may Guess at the Politick Reason,
which Drew too many
of them into
that Undeliberate, Inconsiderate Vote aforesaid;
by what One
of them, (a principal Stickler for Majority being
Unanimity) utter'd in a Barber's Shop, with so much
Openness,
that the
Noise of it has reach'd over hither to London, That It
was Best for
us, to keep this Governour, (tho' he had done very
bad things)
for he had sufficiently Spunged upon the People, and
had now got
Money enough; he was now satisfied; [No, Sir, by
your Leave,
'tis the Thirst of a Dropsy!] And [15
] had pri-
vatety
promis'd the Council, he would do so no more.
Whereas
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF
if another
Governour come, he will come Hungry, and we must be
Squeezed
over again!
Had the Gentlemen of the Council Caused
their Vote to run
in some
Softer Terms; as, That they were Sorry such Eminent
Persons, as
Mr. Higginson, and Mr. Mason, &c. had been Im-
posed upon
by such Informations, as produced their Address to
Her
Majesty. This had been somewhat like
Gentlemen, tho' not
like Counsellors: For some of them Own, they had never seen
any of the Affidavits
made before the Queen and Council, nor
any of those
other Things anon to be produced, when they Passed
their Hasty
Vote. But for them now to run upon these
Eminent
Persons,
with a Clamour of Scandalous and Wicked Accusations.
yea,
Publickly to Stigmatize them in their Infamous News-Let-
ter, as
being Scandalous and Wicked Accusations; Truly therein
they have
not Honoured themselves. The Higginson
they Vilify,
is a Person
every way much
Honour and
Figure he has Obtained by his good Conduct in the
East-Indies, will not be Impaired by any Affronts
from the West-
ber of their
Council, before a great part of them were so; and
Served their
Agents with no small Assistances.
'Tis Unintelligible! Why will the Massachuset Counsellors
permit
themselves to be made the Tools of their Governour's
particular
Designs? Why will Counsellors that are
Chosen by
the People,
be less Concerned for, less Faithful to the People,
than the
Counsellors in the other Plantations, who are not by the
Choice of
the People brought unto the Board; where yet we see,
they often
Prove Thorns in the Sides of Evil Governours?
Will you
give your Friends at a Thousand Leagues distance from
you, Leave
to Advise you? We make no doubt, there
are Wise
and Good Men
at your Board. We make no doubt, you are
often
Over-Voted by some of your Brethren, coming from your
Country
Towns, who are not Over-Stockt with more than One
of those
Qualities. But where is your
Courage? In Truth, 'tis
the least of
your Talents; you must get a little more of it.
You
should be
ready to say before the Governour's Face, [16] what
you Talk so
freely behind his Back, that the Report of it reaches
over the Atlantick.
You know, That when the Governour will
have any thing pass
among you,
all your Humble Intreaties to have a few Hours
Time to
Think upon it, signify nothing; he will have it go just
now, and you let it go. So you are ever now and then push'd into you
know not
what yourselves, and you durst not Lisp your Dissatisfaction.
You know,
That when Officers are to be Elected; the Governour must
issue out a
Notification for a General Council, to come together at the Day;
but on the
Day the thing is rarely done; 'tis put off Two or Three Days till
you are
Dispersed, and a Nick of Time is taken, in which Elections are car-
114* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
ried on,
which we hear, much Disoblige the Publick; and Justices
are Created,
which have brought the Queen's Commissions under
such
Disparagement, that we hear many of the Belt Gentlemen
among you,
Scorn to Accept of them.
You know, that things are managed with
Tric'ks Frauds and
Juggles,
without Numbers; and yet, you durst not Open your
Mouths. You cannot but know, That your Governour ever
now
and then, will
Violently Assert a Thing, and you Assent to it;
Anon, in the
very same Sessions of the Court, he will as Violently
Assert a
Thing Diametrically Opposite unto it, (as the Service of
some ill
Cause may drive him to) and you durst not say, that you
don't Assent
to that also.
We Understand, that your former Governour,
the Earl of
Bellamont,
did not use to Treat you so; and was it for this, that
you offered
such an Indignity unto that Noble Pesron, as to Vote,
The taking
off his Speech from the File, as soon as Colonel Dud-
ley (being one of Tory Principles,
which my Lord was not) at his
first coming
moved you to it, and made you the Tools of his
Malice
against the Earl of Bellamont, for slicking so Close to him
in the
Parliament, upon the Bararous Murder (as he would always
call it) of Leister
and Milburn? Your Governour with
a Tor-
rent of Language,
and Mixture of Coaksing and Bouncing, and,
Confident
Assertions of Things (True or False, 't is all one, you
can't
Disprove them) has been too many for you. We Ad- [17]
vise you, to
Unite more together, a sufficient Number of you,
and present
Strong Remonstrances on such Occasions, if the Suc-
cessor
(which we are Satisfied he will not) should go on in the
late
Methods. And we Advise you, That you
would not be so
monstrously
Afraid of the Governour's putting his Negative upon
you, the
last Wednesday of May.
Should you be Negatived out
of the
Council, for your Fidelity to your Country, it would be a
much greater
Honour to you, than to be there; and no great
Honour to
them that are left behind: But you are
already
Chosen, and
Sworn to Serve till others are Chosen; if the Repre-
sentatives
are not Satisfied in the Reasons of the Governour's
Negative,
they will Declare, That they will not Proceed unto
another
Choice. We would Beg their Pardon, that
we presume
to give them
this Advice: Then do you pluck up your
Spirits:
Nothing but
an Act of the Assembly, can Remove a
Counsellor. You may appear, and Assert your Seat at the
Coun-
cil
Board. And you may do it with such
apparent Evidences of
being Acted
by nothing but a Zeal for the Publick, that you
may do it
without any Dishonourable Charge of being Immodest,
or
Intruders. Without Consulting the Stars,
we can foretell to
ye, That if
you Resolve to keep always in the Obsequious Strain,
you'll at
last Rowse the Representatives, both to Remove several
of you, and
to Dispute several Powers which you pretend unto;
and
especially that of being able to Sit by yourselves in the time
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF
of the
General Assembly; and by your Vote (without the Gov-
ernour's) to
hamper the People with a Third Negative, (besides
the Queen's,
and the Governour's) which your Agent here says,
Your Charter
never intended for you.
[18 ]
S E CT. III.
WE have seen
how the Blanching Business went on in the
Council, Shall we now see how it Proceeded among
the
Representatives?
We have been Told a very Odd
Thing, That
the Counsellors will sometimes Outwardly Comply
with a Vote,
which they Inwardly Approve not, in hopes that it
will never
be Carried in the Lower House. But, if
this were an
Honest, yet
it is no Prudent Experiment: There is
more than
a little
Danger in it. The Story of the Upper
House, has the
Truth of it
enough Confirm'd by Judge Sewall's Instrument of
Revocation,
if we had not had the more Ample Relation, both
from Packets
and Passengers newly Arrived here. For
the
Story of the
Lower House, we have it with a Confirmation (if it
be possible)
more Authentick. For here are come over
Letters
from a great
part of the House, unto that Honourable Friend of
New-England, and of all Good Men, Sir Henry
Ashurst; one
Signed by
Seven, and afterwards another Signed by about
Thrice that
Number; both to the same Effect. By
these we
Understand,
how Notoriously the World is Imposed upon.
On the Fifth of November,
the Plott begun to Operate. A
Message was
brought by Sundry Counsellors, from their Board,
to incite the
House, that they would Concur with Their Vote for
the
Governour's Vindication. But the House
for diverse Days,
declined to
Meddle with it; and then the like Message was
brought
again to the House, by a Greater Number of Counsel-
lors.
The House being thus at Length Drawn in, to Consider
this Dirty
Matter, there Appeared Mr. John Nelson, who having
sent unto Port-Royal,
one Hog's-Head of Dry Goods, a Parcel
of Iron
Potts and Scythes, &c. by a [19] Flag of Truce, whereof
Capt. Rouse
was Commander, now Declared, That he had the
Governour's
Allowance for it, and Capt. Rouse being Examined,
made the
same Declaration.
116* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND.
But this was a Trifle to the Next: The Gentlemen aforesaid,
we Believe
had no Traiterous Design of Supplying the Queen's
Enemies. But, when the Fort at Port-Royal had
no Dry Lodg-
ings for the
Souldiers; nothing but a few Thatch'd things, that
also
Rendered it more Combustible to the Fire of the Besiegers;
Now, to
Supply the Fort with Nails to Shingle and Board their
Barecks!
There Appeared Mr. Samuel Baker, who Produced
unto the
House the Original Invoyce, of things which he Shipp'd
for the
Governour and the Commissary at Port-Royal, with an
Allowance
for them, under Governour Dudley's own Hand.
There is no
need of Transcribing all the Articles; there are
enough.
Eighty Thousand of Shingle Nails.
Twenty Thousand, Ditto, Board.
One Dozen of Black Hafted Table Knives.
One Hundred Weight of Good Butter.
Two Barrels of Mackerel.
One Piece of Good Searge.
One Cask of Passado- Wine.
Some Rice, &c.
I Know no
Inconvenience in the Particulars above; and therefore
Allow it.
J. DUDLEY.
These things were Ship'd on Board a French
Vessel, Ca led
A Flag of
Truce, (Angice, of
Trade) Capt. De Chafeau Com-
mander. It was done at the very time, when the
Governour and
Assembly,
were Fining Veatch, and Company, for a Trade as little
Criminal:
And when an Act of the Massachuset Province had
made it Capital. Some of the Counsel would fain have per-
suaded the
House, that there was a Cyphre (their own Name-
sake in the Council,) Added unto the 8,
and the 2, of the Nails.
But Baker's
Confession, had Spoilt that Idle Whim.
The Gov-
ernour's
Friends, his Ma- [20] jors, Captains, Justices, and
Feather-Caps
in the House, and the Meaner Slaves of the
Trencher, used all Imaginable Artifices to
Vindicate him: And
yet, when it
came to a Vote on November the Nineteenth,
Whether,
after strict Enquiry, the House could Clear his Excel-
lency of
Managing, or Countenancing a Private Trade with the
French and
Indian Enemies, The Vote Paired in the Negative,
with a very
great Majority. About Forty Five
Members, more
than Two to
One, of the House, Voted, That they could not Clear
him. He had, according to the New Massachuset
Sense of the
Word, An
Unanimous Condemnation.
On the Day following, there was a long
Conference of Two
Hours, held
between the Two Houses, and chiefly Manag'd by
THE DEPLORABLE
STATE OF NEW
ENGLAND. 117*
the
Governour. At this Conference there
Occur'd several pretty
little
Things, which might be Diverting enough at the Coffee-
House, but scarce Worthy to be Inserted in a
more Serious
Narrative. We'll Mention only Two of them.
A
Counsellor, who had been a mighty Decrier of the Govern-
our, while
he was under his Negative, upon his Re-admission,
becomes an
Espouser of his Interest. This Gentleman
greatly
Exposed
himself, by raying to the Assembly, There is no Trade,
but there
are some Returns: I Pray, what Returns
were there!
How can you
say, this was a Trade carried on? This became a
By-Word in
the Town. They say, the Merchants of
Boston
often to
their Sorrow, Trade without Returns: And we could
Wish, That
every Body here in London, who has Traded for
Boston,
could say, There had always been Returns.
Again, The Governour in his Flourishes,
tells the Assembly,
To Support
the Queen's Enemies with an Unlawfull Trade, is to
send them
your Beef and your Pork, and not such things as are in
this Invoyce.
An Unlucky Old Man in the House, (they say
from a Town
call'd Woburn) Reply'd 'Tis very True, an't like
your
Excellency, and your
Butter, and your May-krill! -- Which
gave such a
Sting, That the Assembly saw, that if he be an Happy
Man, who
Catches a Mackrel,
yet an Unhappy Man may be
Catched with
a Mackrel.
The next Day after this Conference, and
after the Governour's
Violent
Protestations of his Own Innocence, (as the [21] Let-
ters of the Representatives
Assure us) the following Vote was
again
Press'd upon the House, That we firmly Believe, and are
of Opinion,
that the Allegations in the Addres (to which the
Vote of the
Council referr'd) of the Governour's Trading, or
Allowing a
Trade with Her Majesty's Enemies the French, and
the Indians in their Interests, is a
Scandalous and Wicked Accu-
sation.
Still the Vote Paired, as formerly, in the Negative. The
Squeamish
Representatives, it seems, had not such Stomachs of
Ostriches, as to Digest an Hundred Thousand Iron
Nails at once;
nor would
they Believe (no, tho' Counsellors told them so !) that
Nails were not Iron. The Governour's Friends were now at
their Wit's
Ends; -- And in Humble wise, besought the House,
That they
would Confine their Vote unto the Particular Trade
of Vetch,
Borland and Lawson. And it
was Urged, that Borland
and Lawson,
had Cleared the Governour; (the Sham of the
Grateful Merchants you shall hear anon!) Hereupon the Flexi-
ble Honest
Men, perfectly Worried, and Wearied out of their
Lives, by
Three Week's Alterations, did so many go over, as to
make a fort
of a Vote of it. But the Conclusion of
their Letters
to Sir Henry
Ashurst, (a Gentleman whom New-England can
never
sufficiently Requite) is, Yourself, and all Persons may
judge, how
far the Vote of this House doth extend to the Vindi-
cating of
his Excellency from being a Countenancer of Trade
with the
Queen's Enemies!
118* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND
We have
already Intimated, how the Governour comes to
have so many
Friends in the House; that are so set upon doing
his Justice,
Right or Wrong. Besides the Caresses of
the Table,
which are
enough to Dazzle an Honest Countryman, who Thinks
every Body
Means what he Speaks; The Influence which Pre-
ferments and
Commissions have upon little Men, is inexpressible.
It must
needs be a Mortal Sin, to Disoblige a Governour, that
has Inabled
a Man to Command a whole Country Town, and to
Strut among
his Neighbours, with the Illustrious Titles of, Our
Major, and, The Captain, or, His
Worship. Such magnificent
Grandeurs,
make many to Stagger Egregiously! If it
be but
Proposed in
the Assembly, that any Mismanagements of the Gov-
ernour be
Enquired into, we are Informed, that some of those
Officers [22]
have been so Insolent, as to move, That he who
made the
Proposal should be set in the Pillory! We perceive,
the
well-affected part of the Assembly, take much Notice of this!
And it
seems, there was in this Assembly, one Occasion Odder
than the
rest, to take Notice of it.
There was a Representative of Ipswich,
who formerly falling
in with the
Interests of the Country, so Provoked Colonel Dudley,
that in a
Printed Pamphlet, Published by him, (or, the Person
who Wrote
for him, so as to make it He) he Reproached the
Country. That such a Figure should be made in the
Assembly,
by one who
was then a Practising Sow-Gelder.
This Practising
Sow-Gelder (as Mr. Dudley calls him) was a
Member of this
Assembly,
and unto the Surprize of the Whole House, Tack'd
about, and
gone over to Colonel Dudley's Interests; tho' 'tis not
many Months
ago, that we have (now in London) his Hand with
others, unto
an Honest Letter, to that Honourable Person, Sir
Henry
Ashurst, to Solicit
his Endeavours to Deliver the Country
from a Plot
against the Charter, and all the Courts of Justice in
it, with a
Sham Court of Chancery, (or rather of Bribery) which
Governour Dudley
was then Pursuing. We are told, he has
(for
we know not
what Reasons) a Number in the House, who Resign
themselves
up to him, for him to do almost what he will with
them; they
follow his Dictates. The Main Things
that have
been Carried
in the late Assembly at Boston, otherwise than they
should have
been, were owing to his Dexterous Operations.
Every Body
said, This man has in his Eye, a Bribe, as the Re-
ward of his
Apostacy. He'll certainly be made a Justice, as soon
as his
Drudgery in gaining the Vote aforesaid, is over! It came
to pass; --
As soon as the Sham-Vote, which has Abused the
World in
your Foolish News-Letter yonder, was Gained, the
Governour
draws the Council in, to Consent, unto their own Im-
mortal
Honour, that this Gentleman Sow-Gelder should be made
a Justice
of Peace! Fy, Gentlemen, What d'ye
do? -- And so
the Worshipful
of your County of Essex, have the Practising Sow-
Gelder aforesaid, (it was Mr. Dudley who
taught us to call him
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF NEW ENGLAND. 119*
so !) sit on
the Bench with them. Whether the Cattle
are in less
Danger, or
the People in more, since this Promotion, we who
[23] are
Strangers to the Man, except by hearsay, know not;
we suppose
there never was a Sow-Gelder made a Justice, except
in New
England, and that not till Dudley was their Governour.
But, it were Good Advice for the People of
New-England, in
Chusing
Representatives, to beware of Chusing too many, who
have their
Obligations to their Governours, for their Preferments
and
Employments. The fewer you have in your
Assemblies un-
der such
Temptations, the more Faithfully are your Affairs like
to be
carried on. You will Pardon Strangers,
if their Good Will
to you, make
them so far Meddlers, as to Offer you their Opinion.
[24]
S E C T. IV.
THE House of
Representatives then Firmly Believe, and are
of Opinion, That their Governour was not Concerned
in
Trading with
Veatch, Borland, and Lawson.
Others do
Firmly
Believe the Contrary. Because, diverse
Traders have
Own'd, and
said before many Witnesses, that their Governour
did Know,
and Allow of what they did; Vetch doth himself Con-
fess it, in
his Petition to the Queen. And when One
of them
Swears in
the Governour's Vindication, he only means, that the
Governour
was not Concern'd as a Merchant, or a Partner with
them. He Ship'd nothing; there was nothing Shipp'd
on his
Account. All this is nothing to the Purpose. And tho' Col.
Dudley should be Clear of having any thing to do
with these
Three
Grateful Merchants, yet there is another who is able to
make
Discoveries.
In the same Condemnation with the Three
aforesaid, there was
at this
time, under Imprisonment, by Vertue of the Sentence
which the General
Assembly had Illegally, (and it now appears
Oppressively)
paired upon him, for a part in an Unlawful Trade,
one Captain Roust. The last General Assembly growing Sensi-
ble of his
Condition, Voted his being let out upon Bail, that he
might enjoy
his Liberty. But, for a Reason, which he
will tell
in due time,
the Vote was in a great Measure Eluded.
120* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF NEW ENGLAND.
It is
Reported by some now in London, That the Assembly's
Vote to set Rouse
at Liberty, was made very Insignificant, by
means of one
said to be a Tory Judge, one Leveret. And they say,
that Dudley
has made that Tory Lawyer, to be President of
their Colledge. No Question but the Lawyer will bring up
Hopeful
Young Divines, to be sent hither for my Lord of London
to Ordain
them. We hear that they have Sung the Gloria
Patri in their Colledge-Hall already, and that
several [25] of
their Clergy
flood up at it. An Auspicious beginning
under
their Lawyer
President, who, we also hear, was Chosen a Lieut-
enant of
their Artillery Company at Boston, the last Summer.
Such Reports
as there, make their Friends here, think that the
People in New-England
are running Mad.
But to Proceed with Captain Rouse. Several of his Letters
are come to London,
whereby we Understand, "That he having
" been
sent unto Port-Royal, on a Service for the Publick, in
" which
he did Good Service, returned Home under a Languish-
" ing
Sickness. A way being by this first
Voyage open'd for a
"
Private Trade between Port-Royal and Boston, he was Invited
" into
a New Trading Voyage; being told, He had Eaten the
"
Sowre, he should now Eat the Sweet. Governour Dudley
told
" him, His
main Business was to Steer clear of the Officers of the
"
Custom-House. And the Matter was Proposed so Advantage-
"
ous1y, that some Body pressed him to make the Governour a
"
Present of an Hundred Pounds, for the Liberty and Advantage
" which
was to be Allow'd him. Because he lay
Sick, he had
"
Nothing, and saw Nothing aboard, but what had been Shipp'd
" by
others Concerned in the Voyage. He went
and made the
" Best
of his Goods; and for this, and nothing but this, he under-
" gone
a Fine of Twelve Hundred Pounds.
" Diverse Persons, and especially a
certain Lady, came to him
"
several times in the Prison, before his Trial; and this as from
" the
Governour, to Persuade him and the rest, to Petition the
"
Assembly, to take their Trial into their own Hands; (which
" the
Governour had himself Proposed unto the Assembly) with
" many
fair Promises, that in a Week's time, or very Quickly,
" the
Governour would so Manage the Assembly, as to bring
" them
abroad again, without any further Trouble.
Continual
"
Communications passed between Roxbury and the Prison; and
" those
Good Offices were done, for which Paul Dudley, the Gov-
"
ernour's Son, received of Borland and Lawson, (as they have
"
Affirmed) at one time, a Present of Eighteen Pounds. They
" came
with frequent Messages, to keep Captain Rouse in a Good
"
Pliant, Silent Humour, and prevent his Telling of Tales. Just
"
before his Trial, a Messenger came from the Governour [26]
" to
him, to Desire him, That if the Governour should Speak any
" Sharp
Things to him, he would not Retort any thing, or Mis-
"
construe it; for he might Assure himself, he was his Hearty
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF NEW ENGLAND. 121*
" Friend. He would carry on the General Assembly as far
as
" was
Convenient, but then, at last, bring off the Matter, and
"
prevent their doing any Harm. Capt. Rouse accordingly kept
"
Counsel; the Trial went on, and the Fine anon, proves as we
" told
ye, Twelve Hundred Pounds. The
Governour's Son, could
" not
Demand of Rouse, as he did of Cauphin, a Present of
"
Twenty Pounds to the Governour, for bringing his Fine so low.
" After
this, Capt. Rouse is frequently Sollicited to make the
"
Governour a Present of Five or Six Hundred Pounds, with
"
Assurances, that the Governour would find a way for his Lib-
" erty,
tho' he were now Imprison'd by an Act of the Assembly.
" He
still Refused it: resolving to wait for Her Majesty's Disal-
"
lowance of that Illegal Act. He Wrote
Letters to the Gov-
"
ernour, Intreating him to procure a Mittigation of his Hard
"
Circumstances, because he had done nothing, but with Counte-
" nance
from his Excellency. The Governour told
the Messen-
" ger,
that Rouse must Write another fort of Letter to him;
" which
the Messenger Explained, with telling him, that he must
"
Write, That the Governour had no Concern with what was done.
" But
this he would never do. We hear that he
continues Wait-
" ing
for an Opportunity, to bring more fully to Light, many
" other
things, besides there that have been Mentioned.
These being the main Strokes of what
Captain Rouse has
thought fit
as yet to Declare of his Case; we don't Wonder, that
the
Practising Sow-Gelder thought fit to Castrate the Vindicating
Vote of Rouse's
Name. But we may well Wonder, that the
House would
be drawn into a Vote, that was Design'd for a
Blind, and a
Sham, to Impose on People at a Distance; and yet,
at such a
Distance as we are, we can fee thro' it!
At the same
time, the
Counsellors and Representatives, even the most Antient
Blanchers
among them, would (as we are Assured) freely say to
the
Expostulators of their Conduct, which they every where met
withal, That
if the Governour had put them upon Clearing him
from [27] gross Briberies and Corruptions,
they could not have
Cleared him.
Well, but why don't they Search into those things?
For they
have a Tendency to Debauch and Ruin the Country,
and make it
a Vile, and a Forlorn Country. We are
told, their
Answer is,
'Tis too Big a Thing for them to Manage:
They
Wish the
Queen would Grant a Commission of Enquiry. And
People have
been Afraid to Tell what they Know; for the Gov-
ernour and
his Son, between them, have (thought they) Num-
berless Ways
to come up with 'em; and, 'tmay be, they will
Press their
Sons to the Castle, or elsewhere; from whence they
shall be
Sold unto Merchant-Ships, and sent out of the Country.
Or, they may
shortly have some Cause in Court, where the
Queen's
Attorney (the Governour's Son) Reigns Lord and King;
and will
take Effectual Care that the Cause go against them.
Others go
on, That those are little things; they do so in England;
122* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND.
such things
must be borne with! Which is indeed, a Cruel Re-
proach on
the Queen's Government. And Lastly, the
Sharpest
of all will
tell ye, Oh! the Governour is our Father; we must
not be such
Sons of Cham, as
to Uncover the Nakedness of our
Father.
And thus until the New Governour Arrive, who being
a Man of Integrity,
will Honour himself by a Strict Enquiry
into such
Things, there is like to be no Distinct Account brought
in, to
Inform the World,
What Wicked Bribes, by a Juggling
Management between the
Governour
and his Son, [for, as we Told you before, You must
go to my Son!] are Extorted on all the Occasions in
the World !
How
Prisoners have been let out of Prison for a Bribe!
How Men in the Officers Hands, upon a Judgment
for Debt,
have by the
Governour's Arbitrary Command, been set at Lib-
erty!
How Criminals in the Hands of Justice,
being Frighted with
a Prospect
of their Punishment, into a Willingness to go to Sea,
the
Governour sends an Order to the Keeper to Sell' em for Ten
Pounds; and
so they are rent away to Sea!
What a Wicked Trade is carried on, of Selling
Men from the
Castle,
&c. to Merchant-men; by which, poor Men have their
Sons
Kidnapp'd into the Indies, where the French [28 ] Catch
'em, and
they Perish in their Prisons! And what
intolerable
Pensions are
Paid by Officers for their Places; (by which, and
the like
means, the War, which impoverishes the whole Country,
has Inriched
the Governour) which introduces a World of Mis-
management! And, Whether a Lieutenant, whose Salary is
but
Sixty Pounds
a Year, must not Pay Thirty Pounds a Year Pen-
sion to Son Paul,
or be turn'd out! Cum multis alijs.
What would have been the Punishment of
such things in Old
King Alfred's
Days? These things make a louder
Cry, than
can be
Stifled by the Noise of all your silly Addresses.
We don't Wonder to see Addresses
for such a Governour's Con-
tinuance,
come over hither, Signed by his Commission Officers.
They are but
Addresses for their own Continuance. The
Royal
Wisdom is
not so to be Impos'd on.
But We can't but Smile to see the Clergy
of New-England so
Easily drawn
in to Sign Addresses of this Nature.
We are Glad,
that we
can't see the Hands of the most eminent Ministers, to
these Addresses. By which we gather, That the Governour has
sent his
Emissaries here and there into Country-Towns, and Sur-
prizes their
Honest Ministers alone, and so many Arts of Insinua-
tion are used, that they have not Presence of
Mind enough, to
Refuse a Subscription
unto any thing that is Offered them. We
do not see
the Ministers of Boston, nor the Judicious Minister of
Roxbury, (your Governour's Pastor) to any of
those Addresses
which you
have been Wheedled into, not at all to your Credit
here.
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF NEW ENGLAND. 123*
Certainly, when there Honest Gentlemen come
to see the Prac-
tices of
their Governour. Discovered, they will
with Grief and
Shame. Reflect upon the Addresses, by which they
have too far
made
themselves Parties to such a Governour.
Some of them will
Consider,
Whether they had not best follow the Noble Pattern
which their
Judge Sewall has given them.
Gentlemen, Such
things as by
common Fame, you know to be in the Conduct of
your
Governour, are not things which must needs Render a Man
acceptable to
God; and to all Good Men. That Expression
were fitter
for Pens of Roman-Catholicks, than of New-England
Ministers. You ought, with some Remorse to make a
Retracta-
tion of [29]
such a Passage as that, which we hear (by Letters,
for we have
not seen it) is in one of your Addresses. We hope
you Teach
your People better things!
You are generally, so far as we hear,
Good, Pious, Faithful
Men? and
Blessings to your People. But if we may
be worthy to
Advise you,
we think you would do well to Resolve, that you
will never
Sign Addresses of this Nature, till you have had Oppor-
tunity in
some Convention (if you have such Things, for we are
Strangers to
your Methods) to Discourse with one another, how
far it may
be Convenient.
We have heard, that of Old Time, there
were some Oxen, who
had the
Wisdom to Resolve, that they would no one of them,
have any
Talk with Monsieur the Lyon, apart: Allow us to tell
you, if you
go on Signing such Addresses, you will strangely Un-
dermine your
own Authority among your People, and Sacrifice
your own
Reputation to your Governours. You'll
Tempt 'em to
say, That
you'll set your Hands to any thing!
Your Predecessors
would not
have done, as you have done. And, what a
Sword;
do such Addresses
put into your Resolute Governours Hands!
He may now
Oppress you, or any of yours, to the last Degree,
and you have
Tied yourselves up from Complaining of him.
Were not GOD
Merciful to you, in removing such a Governour,
you had Inslaved
your Country before you are aware of it.
If
you'll
permit such as are no Clergymen, to Address you with
Stories out
of Old Councils, we could tell you, That the First
Council of
Orleans, A. C. 52, made a strange Decree, That if a
Bishop
Ordain a Slave, to be a Priest, knowing him to be a Slave,
shall pay
double the Price of him to his Master. We know not
well, what
sort of a World It was, when this Decree was made.
All that we
move you to, Gentlemen, is, That at your next Gen-
eral
Council, you would make a Decree, That none of you shall
be Slaves,
or, do any thing that shall fasten the Fetters of Slavery
upon your
People. We believe, That if you had known your
Addresses would have come too late, (as some of
them have) and
Exposed you
to be Laughed at, you would have had more Wit,
than to have
done as you have. We suppose you have
heard
what befell
the Lord Verulam for permitting his Servant to take
124* THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF NEW ENGLAND.
a Bribe, and
what we [30] lately done to Sir J. T. because he did
like your
governour take a Bribe to promote the Passing a Bill.
Certainly,
if you had known your Governour had been guilty or
such
Briberies, and other Male-Adminstrations, as not only
Christian,
but Heathen Princes have Punish'd with the greatest
Severity, you
would not have Signed your Ignorant Addreses.
Before we Proceed to give an Account of
the late Shameful
Expedition
of the New-Englanders, against Port-Royal. We
shall take
some farther Notice, of what Gentlemen worthy of
Credit do
Assure us. One Writes, That a Gentleman
in New-
England;
when he first heard, that Colonel Dudley had Obtained
a Commission
to be Governour there, said, That he could not Be-
lieve, that
a Man who had been a Traytor to his Country, and an
Apostate
from the Religion in which he had been Educated; and
that had
Murder'd two Men at New-York, better, and more Right-
eous than
himself, would prove a Good Governour.
Another Letter says, That the Misery of
that People of late,
has been in
their Counsellors, as well (tho' not so much) as in their
Governour.
The Priviledges which they enjoy by their present;
Charter, are Great and Singular: For, no Man, but such as the
People shall
Nominate by their Representative, can be of the
Governour's
Council. Nor, may there be any Judge,
or Justice
of the Peace, but what the Council thus Chosen by the
Repre-
sentatives
of the People, shall Consent unto. So
that they may,
and Ought to
be Shields to the People, by keeping ill Men from
being in
Places of Power. Yet we hear, that their
Governour
has made a
Number of very Unfit Men to be their Justices; and
this with
the Consent of his Council, without which he could
make
none. So that it seems, there Great
Priviledges signify
very little,
through the Pusillanimity, and Unfaithfulness of their
Governour's Counsellors,
who will, too many of them, Consent to
almost any
thing that he would have them. Witness,
besides the
Things
already mentioned, among other innumerable Instances,
so many of
them Consenting to have a Fort Built at Pemaquid,
and a stated
Salary settled upon the Governour, and other Offi-
cers, by
which they had like to have Enslaved their Country at
once.
[31] The Representatives are also to be
Blamed, in that they
do not Change
their Counsellors. We know, that
they want Men
fit for
Government. Nevertheless, we doubt not
but in the large
Province of Massachuset's,
there may be found an Hundred Men,
as fit to be
Counsellors, as S. S. or J. C. or P. T. [we deal more
Tenderly
with them, in giving but the First Letters of their
Names, than
they have Dealt with the Honourable Nathaniel
Higginson, whom they have, by Name at large,
Vilified, as a
Scandalous
and Wicked Accuser.] And others, who by their Ob-
sequiousness
to D. have justly Forfeited the Love of the People.
Had their Representatives the Wisdom
frequently to Change
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF NEW ENGLAND. 125*
their
Counsellors, it would
make them more Careful to Study the
Interest of
their People, and not that so they may Please their
Governour,
and Stigmatize better Men than themselves, in their
Boston News-Letter, only because they Slandred
D. in a matter of
Truth.
We are also Advised from New-England,
That D. has Exposed
himself to
the whole Colony of Connecticut.
They Dislike him
there
more. Universally than in the Massachuset's. For he is not
in a.
Capacity to Bribe Men there with his Commissions, Civil or
Military. But he has joyned a Hellish Malice with the
worst
Men, and
greatest Enemies of the Charter belonging to that
Colony, in
seeking to Disturb them in the quiet Possession of their
Lands. A Commission was Obtained, in which Dudley
was
Chief, but
others, who pretended to have a Right to Great Tracts
of Land,
were put into the Commission, with Power to be Judges
of their own
Pretensions; the like to this has been seldom known.
But when
that Honourable Gentleman, who has Condescended
to be their
Agent, discovered the Fraud of this Affair before the
Queen in Council,
Praying that Her Majesty would put some Re-
markable Discountenance
on said Dudley, that Commission was
soon
Vacated, to his no little Confusion.
[32]
S E C T. V.
THAT Honourable Person before-mentioned, who is
here
Appearing on
the Behalf of one of the N. English Colo-
nies, which
Colonel Dudley has been seeking to Enslave,
saw cause to
Conclude his Petition, with a Complaint against
him in these
Terms; Your Majesty's Name and Authority is
Abused to
Serve some Dark Designs of his own. It seems he is
used to Dark
Designs; but if ever Dark Designs were to be Suf-
pected, it
has been in the Business of that Late Expedition to
Port-Royal, an Expedition, that besides the
everlasting Disgrace
of it, has
entirely Ruined the Country, and made it highly Nec-
essary for
another Governour to be sent thither, to Rescue that
poor People,
if it be possible, from Extirpation. We
have pretty
Broad Hints of an Unlawful Trade carried on
with the Fort at
Port-Royal. And betides the things already mentioned, it
is well
known, that
when Flags of Truce passed between Port-Royal and
Boston, the Officers of the Custom-House at
Boston, were Ob-
126* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND.
structed
from going aboard those Flags of Truce, that so the
Trade
carried on with the Enemy, might be Concealed.
And
when Goods
have been Seized on Board the Flags of Truce, they
have been
again taken out of the Hands of the Officers.
But
we must now
proceed to a Sadder Story. The Short of
the
Story is
this. But the Dark Designs must
be left for another
Judgment.
When the War first broke out, the People
of New-England,
especially
the Trading part of the Country, and those that were
more
Immediately Concerned in the Fishery, were very Uneasy to
see Port-Royal;
which was then of no considerable Strength, ad-
vancing into
a Capacity of Distressing, if not Ruining the Prov-
ince. It is so near, and so Seated, as to have all
imaginable
Advantage to
Animate, and Supply [33] the Indians, by Land;
and by Sea,
with Privateers, to Destroy their Fishery, and Ruin all
their other
Trade, by Intercepting and Taking their Vessels, both
Outward and
Inward Bound. Their Fort was but an Embryo,
and it was
thought they might have been easily Suppressed.
The New-Englanders understood by a
Port-Royaller falling
into their
Hands, that at Port-Royal they had not yet Heard of
the War
broken out. Whereupon Governour Dudley
was earn-
estly
Sollicited, and his Leave Intreated by some, to go and De-
stroy that
Nest of Hornets, which was like to be so Grievous a
growing
Plague to the Country; with Offers to raise Volunteers
sufficient
for that Purpose: But the Proposal was Rejected;
which made
People Suspect some Dark Designs, and that Port-
Royal was reserved for some special Advantages
not Obvious to
the Vulgar.
Afterwards, when the Governour could no
longer withstand the
Cry of the
Country, Colonel Church was allow'd to go, The As-
sembly
procured a Mortar-piece, and provide Bombs, and other
things
Convenient, and had some Eye upon the Fort, which was
not then
finish'd. Yet the said Church had
not only the Taking
of the Fort
left out of his Orders, but was positively Forbidden
to Meddle
with it, And he hath since Affirm'd to many Gentle-
men that he
could with all the Ease imaginable have Taken the
Fort: but
that he had been so Strictly and Menacingly Forbidden
to meddle
with it, that he Durst not; but only Ravaged the Na-
ked Country,
Church's Soldiers were all Volunteers, and an Act
of the
Assembly for their
Encouragement had Promised them a
certain
Share of the Plunder: But the Chief
Commanders first
made a large
Present out of it to the Governour; and then He,
joining with
them, Cut off the Army of Half that the Publick
Faith had Engaged them; which it was feared, would
have
proved a
lasting Discouragement to all Volunteers for the Service
of the Crown
and the Country: And the House of
Representa-
tives
Remonstrated unto the Governour, this among other Griev-
ances but
were Rejected with Obstinate Contempt.
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF NEW ENGLAND. 127*
The Reason Pretended by the Govern our,
for Prohibiting
Church's
meddling with the Fort was, That he had laid the
[34] Matter
before the Queen, and had yet received no Orders about
it.
Tho' the same Objection still continued, yet the People being
extreamly
Desirous that a Period might be put to their Miseries
from Port-Royal,
and a Way open'd for the Deliverance of many
Scores of
Poor English Captives, likely to Languish for ever in
the Indian
Wigwams, Moved for another Expedition above a
Year
ago. The Governour now gives a
Commission for Taking,
the Fort; but whether with any Dark Designs,
we are yet in the
Dark.
After the Instructions were drawn up, there was a Clause
Tack'd at the End of 'em, Which gave the Army
Leave to come
off when
they would, if they should imagine, they could not
presently
Finish their Business to their Minds. It
was the Tack-
ing of this
unobserved Clause at last, that Confounded all, and
brought on a
Story, which all the Letters from New-England we
have yet
seen, say, They Blush to Write it.
And that is the Rea-
son why we
can give but a Short Account of it. In
Short, There
was an Army
of as Likely Men as can be Imagined, the best
part of Two
Thousand of them; and as well provided with Am-
munition,
Provision, and all things Necessary, as a Willing Country
could
Afford. But, when it comes to Execution,
quite Contrary
to the best
Advice of them who Knew the Place, they Landed
several
Miles off the Fort, when they might have Landed close
by, and
probably at once have taken it. However,
Land they
did; and
Drove the Enemy before them, and Chased them into
the Fort
with much Courage and all the Encouragement that
could
be. The Men, to do them Justice, Fought
like Men, and
would have
done any thing in the World. -- But, lo, the Issue !
The Deptford
Man of War, which was Commodore of the Fleet,
had Express
Orders from the Governour, That he should not Ex-
pose the
Queen's Ship. Which Orders he afterwards Exposed in
the Coffee-Houses. An Engineer was fetch'd from New-York,
where the
People from the beginning fore-told what would be the
Conclusion. The Governour's Youngest Son, Wm. Dudley,
was
there too,
in the Quality of a Secretary of War; and tho' he
were little
more than a Boy, yet he was a Son, and the Army
soon Cry'd
out of being Boy-ridden. The
General, a Man of no
Conduct,
having Signaliz'd some- [35] thing of a Belluine Cour-
age in Come Indian
Encounters, the Mob, 't is said, was set upon
having him
to be a Commander. They landed as we
said: but
then they
never made a Formal Demand of the Fort; they never
Threw up a Shovel-full
of Earth. The Business was so managed,
between
certain Persons, that altho' at a Council of War, one
Day it was
Voted, That the Fort should be attack'd, it was by'nd
by, Unvoted
again. The Engineer had wrought upon
sundry
Captains, to
make 'em Believe, That the Taking of the Fort
was
Impracticable. They most of them gave it
under their
128* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND.
Hands to
their Wife General, That it was their Opinion, it was
best for' em
to Draw off. The Soldiers began also to be Dis-
pirited, for
some had Blabb'd among them a Secret, which, when
it came to
be Known, made 'em out of their Witts.
Tho' it was
Known and
Published here in London, before the Fleet was re-
turned from Port-royal. The General Assembly had Agreed,
and Engaged,
That if the Fort were Taken, it should immediately
be
Demolished; and without this Assurance the Army would
never have
Proceeded. But some Body now,
Indiscreetly let 'em
Understand,
that the Governour had some Dark Designs to put a
Trick upon
them, and had given him Orders not to Demolish the
Fort: Whereupon the Inraged Army said, They had
now noth-
ing to do,
but Fight themselves into a Prison! They were mostly
Good Livers
at Home, and could not bear the Thoughts on't,
that Half
the Army, (no Man Knowing, whether it might not be
his own
Share) should be Confined there one long Winter in a
remote
Garrison, and perhaps, Two Winters after that; or until
they should
Buy themselves a Release upon as Hard Terms, as
the poor
Country-Soldiers have, to get out of the Cattle at Boston.
Well: A
Packet is Dispatch'd unto the Governour of Boston, to
Signify
their Opinion, and to Pray his Excellency's further Pleas-
ure. But in Three or Four Days after the Sailing
of the Packet,
and before
it was Possible for them to Hear from Boston, they
drew off in
great Confusion, and Weigh'd Anchor, and came
away. But as they were in the midst of their
Dispersion, there
came Orders
to stop as many of them, as were together, at Casco
Bay.
From thence [36 ] they sent Three Persons to Acquaint
the
Governour with the Miserable Affair; whereof one was the
Engineer
aforesaid. They had a very Melancholly,
and almost a
Tumultuous
Reception by the People; and when they were, at
their first
Landing, upbraided with Cowardice, their Answer still
was, The
Fault was at Home; and they had gone as far as their
Orders would
bear them out! With sundry such Reflections,
which bore
Hard upon the Government. The Council
were In-
formed of
this Discourse; but there was no Notice taken of it.
And tho'
they were Chidden by the Governour, in the Council
Chamber, yet
we understand, they were Hugg'd and Caress'd by
him, below
Stairs, to the great Scandal of the People.
The Peo-
ple were now
in a mighty Ferment. It was the
Universal Opin-
ion, That if
the Army had only staid, and Plaid at Coits in their
Camp (far enough
from the Fort) at Port-royal, the Fort would
have been
within a few Days Surrendered to them.
The Sol-
diers within
were Mutinous to the last Degree; Deserters Daily
came
over. Provisions would have grown Scanty
in a little Time.
[Tho' the
Lodgings of their Men were not now Thatch'd! (the
Reason why,
we told ye before) yet a Red-hot Bullet or Two,
flung into
the Fort, might have set 'em on Fire.]
Ten Thousand
Things might
have happened. But, like Men afraid of
having
THE DEPLORABLE STATE
OF NEW ENGLAND. 129*
the Fort
fall into their Hands, they ran back to New-England as
fast as
their Canvas Sails would carry them.
The Good Women
in Boston,
could not forbear their Outcries, when they met in the
Streets, on
this Occasion Says one of them, Why, our Cowards
imagined
that the Fort at
Port-Royal would fall before them like
the Walls of
Jericho. Another Answers, Why did not
the Block-
heads then
stay out Seven Days to see! What ail'd
the Traitors
to come away
in Five Days time after they got there! The Cry of
the People
must be Satisfied. Another Ship of War
was fitted
out, and
Recruits of Soldiers were sent unto the Fleet, which now
lay at Casco-Bay. Which after Tedious and Expensive Delays
of many
Weeks, set sail from thence again to Port-royal; but with
the greatest
Aversion that ever was in the Hearts of Men: and
not until
they had been further weakened by many and numerous
Desertions. While they were on their Voyage [37] to Port-
royal, a Man of War arrived from Portugal;
the brave Com-
mander (a New-Englander)
was ready to Venture his Ship and
Life too on
this Occasion; and Chearfully Complyed with Orders
which were
with some ado Obtained, for him to go to Port-Royal
after
them. Our Fleet arriving there a Second
Time, found that
in the time
of their withdraw to Casco, the Port-royallers had
much
Recruited themselves; and had Taken and carried in some
English Vessels, laden with Provision; and had
also Dispatch'd
away their
Galley for France.
Therefore, after a little Skirmish on the
opposite Shore, and
some Follies
not to be mention'd, away they come for Boston,
without
Orders, and before Capt. Paddon could have Opportunity
to come up
with 'em. So that the Second Expedition
was as
Bad or more
Worse than the first.
After the Expedition was thus Shamefully
Finish'd, there was
another
Difficult Card to Play: that was, to Satisfy the General
Assembly, which was then Quickly to sit. The way pitch'd upon
was, to make
a Pretended Court-Marshal, to Enquire into the
Cause of the
Mismanagements at Port-Royal.
This Court was
the Ridicule
of Town and Country. No Body was Try'd
at it,
or so much
as Accused. All was carried on in Hugger-mugger.
We can Hear
of nothing done: but the Presenting of the Secre-
tary of War,
Will. Dudley, with all the Plunder which was taken;
and amounted
to between One and Two Hundred Pounds, and
then leave
to go Home! It is plain, the General was
not to be
Impeached
there: 't is well, if it has not Ruined
the Governour, as
well as the
distressed Country, yet we hear the Governour, before
the sitting
of the said Court, gave human Order for an Advanta-
geous Post
at the East-ward; to Build a Fort at Saco, because he
would not
take one at Port-royal; as High and Rich a Post, as
he was ever
capable of.
And so much for Port-royal, until
the dark designs come into
further
Light. And then it will be Known whether
Governour
130* THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND.
D. when he
saw the Country was Violently set upon going, and
so
Interrupting his Trade with the French, had not a Secret De-
sign that
the Fort at Port-royal should have been made (as the
Fort at Pemaquid
would have been) a [38] Convenient Place
for the Fur-Trade
with the Indians, whereby himself, and some
Friends of
his here, in Britain, would have got no little Riches.
In the mean
time, under his Admirable Conduct, an impoverish'd
Country has,
(as we are credibly informed) been put to above
Two and
Twenty Thousand Pounds Charge, only to be Laughed
at by their
Enemies and Pitied by their Friends.
To the QUEEN's most Excellent Majefty,
The Humble Petition of Your Majesty's most
Loyal Subjects,
Inhabitants
in Your Majesty's Dominions, in America, or Trading
thither,
SHEWETH,
THA T Colonel Joseph Dudley, whose Arbitrary and
Tyran-
ical
Proceedings had Exposed him to the just Resentments
of his
Country-men, before the Happy Revolution, hath
been
nevertheless so Fortunate, as to Obtain the Government of the
Massachuset's
Colony, in New-England.
That Your Petitioners are Certainly Informed of
diverse Griev-
ous
Corruptions and Oppressions, and Unjust and Partial Practices
of the said Dudley, on which they might Ground many
Complaints,
against him,
but they are so Sensible of the imminent Danger which
Threatens Your Majesty's Subjects in that and the
Neighbouring
Colonies,
thro' his Male Administration, that they at this time Beg
Leave Humbly
and Singly to represent to Your Majesty,
That the said Dudley hath Countenanced a private
Trade and
Correspondence
with Your
Majesty's Enemies, the French at Canada,
and the Indians which are in their Interest,
Furnishing them with
Ammunition
and Provision,
[ 39] That the Persons managing the said
Correspondence, pre-
tended a
Voyage to New-found-land,
and being Accused of High
Treason, by
the General
Assembly of New-England, the said Gov-
ernour by
his Interest and Power, delayed their Prosecution, till the
Ammunition
which he had furnish'd the Enemy was used by
THE
DEPLORABLE STATE OF
NEW ENGLAND. 131*
them, to the
Destruction of Your Majesty's good Subjects, and
that Colony,
thereby put to Three and Thirty Thousand Pounds
Charge.
That many of the best, and most prudent
members of the Lower
House of
Representatives, being tired with his Delays, and Neces-
sitated to
go Home and defend their Plantations from the Enemy,
he prevailed
with those that remained, who were scarce a House,
that the
Accusations against his Agents, should be changed from
Treason to
Misdemeanour; and they being Convicted, he Laboured
to Mitigate
their Fines. All which was so apparent
to the People
of
New-England, that they threatned to pull down his House.
That he had the Confidence nevertheless,
to Apply to the General
Assembly for
an Address to Your Majesty in his Favour, but his
Application
was received with a general Murmur and Contempt,
and nothing
done therein.
And altho' he hath since Endeavour'd to
obtain Your Majesty's
Good Opinion
by Collecting a Number of Names of Persons under
his Command
and Influence to give him a Character.
Your Majesty's Petitioners who Apprehend
their Wives, Fami-
lies, and
Estates to be in Imminent danger under such a Governour,
do therefore
Humbly Pray, that this matter may be speedily En-
quired into,
and that Your Majesty would Please to give such Di-
rections
thereupon, as to Your Majesty's Great Wisdom shall seem
meet.
And Your Petitioner's shall ever
Pray, &c.
Wm. Partridge, Thomas Newton, Nathan
Higginson, Tho.
Allen, Alex.
Holmes, John Calley, &c. &c. &c.
DIARY
OF
SAMUEL
SEWALL.
1674-1729.
VOL. 11.
1699-1700-1714.
DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL.
Jan 14 1699/1700 Elder Jonas Clark, of Cambridge, dies, a
good man in
a good old Age, and one of my first and best
Cambridge
friends. He quickly follows the great
Patron
of Ruling
Elders, Tho. Danforth, Esqr.
15. This day fortnight Lawrence Copeland
of Braintry
was buried;
'tis counted that he liv'd to be at least one
hundred and
ten years old. Teste Arnoldo 1
octogenario
olim ejusdem
vicino.
Jany 17. 1699/1700. A great fire brake out at Charlestown
last night
though very rainy. Three Houses burnt;
viz.
the widow
Cutlers and two more: on the left hand of the
way as one
goes to Cambridge, upon the side of the hill.
Other Houses
on the oposite side of the Ally very nar-
rowly
escaped. Elder Clark is buried this
day. Snowy
all day
long.
Gave Mr. Willard two volums of Rivets
works.2
Jany 17 about 5 p. m. Dame
Hanah Townsend dies in
the 93d
year of her Age. Cook, Hutchinson,
Sewall, Ad-
dington,
Chiever, Maryon pater, Bearers. Jany 19.
1699-
1700.
1 Probably this was Joseph Arnold, of
Braintree, whose death does not
appear on
our books. He married in 1648, and his
wife died in 1693;
hence we
infer he was alive at this time, and an octogenarian. -- EDS.
2 Andrew Rivet, a Poictevin, born 1572,
died 1647. He was a professor
at Leyden,
D.D. at Oxford, and "three volumes of his devotional and con-
troversial
writings have been published." -- EDS.
VOL. II.
2 DIARY OF SAMUEL SEWALL.
[1699/1700
Jany 24th. The Lt Govr calls me
with him to Mr. Wil-
lards, where
out of two papers Mr. Wm Brattle drew up a
third for an
Accomodation to bring on an Agreement be-
tween the
New-Church [Brattle Square] and Our Minis-
ters; Mr.
Colman got his Brethren to subscribe it.
This day Jany 24. was a Council
at the Governers.
Assembly is
proroug'd to the 13 March.
Jany 25th Mr. I. Mather, Mr. C.
Mather, Mr. Willard,
Mr.
Wadsworth, and S. S. wait on the Lt Govr at Mr.
Coopers: to
confer about the writing drawn up the even-
ing
before. Was some heat; but grew calmer,
and after
Lecture agreed
to be present at the Fast which is to be
observed Jany
31.
Jany 30. Lt Govr., [Stoughton]
Winthrop, Cooke, S. S.
hold the
Court in Somers's great Room below stairs; finish
the Court by
7. at night: Note, good going over the
ferry as in Sumer
almost, no Ice.
Jany 31. Fast at the New Church. Mr. Colman reads
the Writing
agreed on. Mr. Allin Prays, Mr. Colman
preaches,
prays, blesses. p.m. Mr. Willard prays,
Mr. I.
Mather
preaches, Mr. Cotton Mather prays, Sing the 67
psalm without
reading. Mr. Brattle sets Oxford Tune.
Mr. Mather
gives the Blessing. His: Text was,
Follow
peace with
all men and Holiness. Doct. must follow
peace
so far as it
consists with Holiness. Heb. 12. 14.
Mr. Colman's Text was Rom. 15. 29. Mr. Fisk, Ho-
bart,
Belchar and many Ministers and Scholars there.
Mr. Torrey
absent by reason of sickness and the bad
wether
yesterday. Of the Council, Lt
Govr., Mr. Russell, Mr.
Cooke, Col.
Hathorne, Sewall, Addington, Sergeant (Fore-
seat) Col.
Foster, Lynde, Saffin, Em Hutchinson, Walley,
Townsend,
Byfield. Mr. Willard pray'd God to
pardon all
the
frailties and follies of Ministers and people; and that
they might
give that Respect to the other churches that
was due to
them though were not just of their Constitu-
tion. Mr. Mather in's Sermon, and Mr. Cotton Mather
in's
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 3
prayer to
the same purpose. Mr. Willard and C. Mather
pray'd
excellently and pathetically for Mr. Colman and
his
Flock. Twas a close dark day.1
Febr. 1.
A pretty deal of Thunder Rain and Hail the
last night.
Col. Hambleton 2 comes to Town
this day from Pensil-
vania.
Cousin Wm Savil died last night
of a Fever.
Febr. 2.
Cous. Savil is buried. Tis so
very cold that
none of us
venture to goe. Visit my Lord
[Bellomont].
Seventh-day, Febr. 3. 1699, 1700. Capt. Win, in the
Advice, a
4th Rate, arrives from England 6 weeks passage
from the
Spit-head. Govr heard nothing
of him till he
came and
deliver'd his Packets. Came to Nantasket
the
day before;
on Friday. He says, the King redeems all
the Captives
at Maccaness [Mequinez, in Morocco].
Peace.
Tuesday, Febr. 6. A Council is held at my Lord's.
The Advice
of Councillors asked about sending the Pirats
on Board.3 I motioned that by that time the Prisoners
1 We learn, from Lothrop's "History
of the Brattle Street Church," that
the church
records give few more details about this affair. This church was
one
established late in 1699, by a few of the more liberal men of the day.
It was
called the "Manifesto Church," from its printed declaration of prin-
ciples. Rev. Benjamin Colman, a native of Boston,
then in England, was
invited to
become the first pastor, and accepted.
It was necessary to estab-
lish
fellowship with the other churches, and hence the proceedings in which
Sewall
participated. -- EDS.
2 Probably Andrew Hamilton, Governor of
New Jersey, 1699-1701; Dep-
uty-Governor
of Pennsylvania, 1701-1709. He was made
Deputy-Post-
master for
all the Plantations, in 1692. -- EDS.
3 As in the matter of the witchcraft
trials, Sewall here disappoints us by
his silence
in regard to most interesting matters.
This meeting was in ref-
erence to
the famous pirate, Captain William Kidd, whose memory is
stamped
indelibly upon the popular imagination in New England. Kidd
was licensed
May 16, 1691, at New York, to marry Mary, widow of John
Oort (N. E.
Hist. Gen. Register, VI. 63). June 8,
1691, he was commis-
sioned by Bradstreet
to attack a privateer then on our coast.
(Palfrey, IV.
180.) He probably sailed between New York and
England for some years, and
becoming
acquainted with Colonel Livingston, Lord Bellomont, and others,
4 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1699/1700
could be got
from N. York, Conecticut, Rode-Island: the
Assembly
might sit if his Ldship saw meet, and they would
willingly
rid themselves of them. Govr seem'd
displeas'd.
I had ask'd
before, What Pirats, and the Govr said them
and their
Associates. Govr mention'd
Kid, Gillam, Brad-
ish,
Witherly, to be sent aboard presently for better se-
curity. Council voted to leave it to the Govrs.
Discretion
whom to send
aboard: only the Govr had said to some
that
enquired, He intended not [to let] them out upon
Bail. I think only I, Col. Townsend and Capt.
Byfield
were in the
Negative. I said I was not clear in
it. The
grounds I
went upon were because I knew of no power I
had to send
Men out of the Province. Capt. Byfield
said,
He was for
their going aboard: but reckon'd twas not so
safe to send
them presently as to keep them in Goal.
Voted also
the Treasure to be deliver'd to such as the
Govr
should apoint. Govr nominated
Lt Hunt and Capt.
he made an
agreement to go out to the East Indies, as captain of a lawful
privateer,
to suppress piracy. This was in October,
1695. Here he turned
pirate
himself, making his rendezvous on the coast of Madagascar, and cap-
turing
native vessels. He returned to
Hispaniola, where he left his ship,
and came to
New York in a sloop, whence he proceeded to Boston, in Jnne,
1699. After an examination, he was committed a
close prisoner with divers
of his
crew. Sewall has already recorded (I.
498, 503) that, by the aid of
one Kate
Price, two of these men, Joseph Bradish and Tee Witherly, es-
caped in
June, and were recaptured in October. Bellomont says, "We
have found
that the jailer was Bradish's kinsman, and he confessed that he
and one of
his crew went out of the prison door."
Nov. 30, 1699, Bellomont wrote home,
"These pirates I have in gaol
make me very
uneasy for fear they should escape. I
would give £100 they
were all in
Newgate." (N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, VI. 84.) At his re-
quest, as
there was no provincial law for punishing piracy with death, a
frigate was
sent for the prisoners, and they sailed in February, 1699-1700.
Kidd was
tried for piracy and for the murder of one of his crew, and, being
found
guilty, was executed.
The whole affair was brought into
politics. Not only was Bellomont,
one of the
original owners of Kidd's vessel, now in high position, but Lord
Chancellor
Somers and some other distinguished noblemen were sharers in
the
enterprise, and the King was to have a tenth of the profits. Macaulay,
in his
twenty-fifth' chapter, has eloquently described the attack upon Somers
and his
triumphant acquittal. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 5
Win, capt.
of the Advice. Present Mr. Cooke, Col.
Hutch-
inson, Mr.
Secretary, S. S. Mr. Russel, Col. Lynde, Capt.
Foster, Mr.
Sergeant, Mr. Saffin, Mr. Em Hutchinson, Col.
Townsend,
Capt. Byfield, Major Walley. Have
reckon'd
them as came
to mind. Lt Govr,
Majr Genl Winthrop,
Col.
Phillips, not there.
High Wind, and very cold at Nwest.
Febr. 7th Council is called to advise about
the Indians,
being Rumors
of a War by the Maquas. One Tobie, who
murder'd
several at Oxford, stirs them up, and brings
wampam to
our Indians. On Wednesday night, Jany
ult,
the night it
Thundered, Sixteen Men with women and
children ran
away from Woodstock. Govr
Winthrop has
sent 40 Men
thither. Have writt a Letter to answer
his
with Thanks;
and to desire him to surprise Tobie if he
can.
Friday, Febr. 9th. Will, formerly Capt. Prentices Negro,
now living with
Maylem, a Horse run away with him,
threw him
upon the hard frozen Ground, or Timber, near
Houchins's
corner, and kill'd him; died in a little while.
I saw him
panting as came from visiting Capt. Foxcroft.
He was much
delighted in Horses, and now dies by a
Horse. About 1664. he sav'd his Master Prentice from
a
Bear. Went with Col. Townsend and me to
Albany. Rid
Post one
while.
Capt. Belchar was at the Meeting, come
home from
burying his
daughter Vaughan,l who died in child bed.
Child died
first. Wast the most beautifull of all
his
Daughters. I wonder'd to see him at Mr. Bromfield's,
the wether
had been so excessive cold. Said, I was
sorry
for the
croping of his desirable Flower.
Febr. 6, 7, 8. were reputed to be the
coldest days that
have been of
many years. Some say Brooks were frozen
.
1 This was Mary, daughter of Andrew
Belcher, and wife of George
Vaughan, of
Portsmouth. -- EDS.
6 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1699/1700.
for carts to
pass over them, so as has not been seen these
Ten
years. Ground very dry and dusty by the
high
wind.
Febr. 12.
A considerable snow falls.
Jany 11th. was a storm of Snow; which occasiond Mr. C.
Mather to
take for his Text, White as the snow of Sal-
mon: Quickly
melted away. Have not as yet had any
path to make
upon the Lords Day.
Febr. 12.
Justices met with the Selectmen at the
Stone-House,
Davis's, to take away some misunderstand-
ing between
us; and to agree to take Lists of each quar-
ter of the
Town to reform and prevent disorders.
Tuesday, Febr. 13. I got up pretty early, being forc'd
to it by a
laxness. Had sweet comunion with God in
Prayer, and
in reading the two last Sermons I heard in
London,
about Assurrance &c. This came to my
hand by
accident,
the book being fallen upon my wood in the closet.
Had read
before, my own Notes upon Ephes. 5, 15, 16,
7r.
16. 1679. at Mrs. Oliver's. The Lord
inlighten my
Understanding,
and incline my Will.
Febr. 14.
I visit Mr. Tho. Tho:nton in the Afternoon
between 3
and 4. He made a shift to say he was
willing
to dy, but
wanted Patience. Hop'd should dy next
night.
I spake to
him what I could. Holp him up while he
drank
something comfortable.
At three past midnight he alter'd much.
Febr. 1.5,3 p.m. Mr. Tho. Thornton dyes very quietly;
which Mr.
Gee acquaints me with. Is very near 93
years
old.1
Febr: 16.
pleasant wether. Kid, Bradish,
Gillam,2 With-
1 The Rev. Thomas Thornton came to
Yarmouth, Mass., about 1663,
and thence
to Boston, in 1677. --EDS.
2 Of the third of these names, we find
that James Gillam proved to be a
man who
killed Captain Edgecomb, of the Mocha frigate, and persuaded the
crew of that
vessel to turn pirates. In searching his
house a letter was
found from
Kidd's wife to Captain Pain, an old pirate of Rhode Island,
1699/1700.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 7
erly are
sent on board the Advice Frigat. Warrant
was
dated Febr.
13. but no mention of the Council in it.
But
the Govrs
name only, in pursuit of the King's Comand.
Febr. 22.
I had thoughts of sitting up to see the
eclipse: but the cloudy thick sky discouraged me: yet
kept a
candle burning, and went to the Window at two of
the clock;
the wether was still thick with clouds, that I
could see
nothing: only seem'd very dark for a full Moon.
In the evening I visited Mrs. Williams in
her Languish-
ing. Am invited to a Fast there on Friday.
Wednesday, Febr. 28. We ship off the Iron chest of
Gold, Pearls
&c., 40 Bails of East-India Goods, 13 hogs-
heads,
chests and case, one Negro Man, and Venturo
Resail, an
East-Indian born at Ceilon.1
Wether was doubt-
full in the
morning, which made us irresolute: but at
last we set
about it, and accomplish'd it very hapily.
I
look upon it
as a great Mercy of God, that the Store-
house has
not been broken up, no fire has hapend.
Agreed
in the
Weight of the Gold with our former Weight, and
had so
comfortable a day at last to finish our work.
Mr.
Bradstreet,
and Capt. Winn's Clerk took an account at the
Crane; but
Capt. Winn would not give a Rect till had
them on
board the sloop Antonio, which ridd off just
without the
Outward Wharf. Gave a Rect
for the Gold
at Capt
Belchar's' as soon as it was weighed.
Cousin
Wells and
his wife visit us. I went to his Ldship
to
showing that
the latter had some of Kidd's money in his hands. (Register,
VI. 84.) --
EDS.
1 This treasure was of course Kidd's. When he was captured at Boston,
the searchers
found a bag of gold dust and ingots worth £1,000, and a bag of
silver. On information, they sent to Mr. Gardiner, of
Gardiner's Island, in
the Sound,
and obtained gold, silver, and jewels left there by Kidd, worth
£4,500, and
six bales of goods, one valued at £2,000.
The total capture
was thought
to be worth £14,000. Kidd afterwards
told Lord Bellomont
that if he
was allowed to go to the place where he left his ship, and to St.
Thomas and
Curacoa, he would recover £50,000 to £60,000, hid by himself,
which no one
else could recover. See the interesting
notes in N. E. Hist.
Gen.
Register, VI. 77-84, and Palfrey, IV. 184. -- EDS.
8 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1699/1700.
speake to
Him about some paymts to be made of about £16.
March, 4. 1699. Capt. Gullock is sent to
Prison for his
contempt of
the Governmt in giving into the Govr and
Council an
Insolent writing under his hand, and justify-
ing it.
March 5, Tuesday, 1699/1700. Mr. Sergeant, Capt. Frary,
Capt. Hill,
Capt Checkly and myself goe to Cambridge
over the
Ferry, and acquaint Mr.Pemberton with the
Church's
Call, and their desire of his Acceptance. He
makes a very
sensible Answer as to the Weight of the
Work, his
own inability; hop'd God would hear his earnest
Prayer, and
help him to make aright Answer. Din'd at
Remington's,
Mr.Flint, Fitch, and Blower din'd with us:
visited Mr.
Brattle, came home round: Saw a man plow-
ing at Muddy
River; breaking up a Pasture with two
oxen and a
horse.
March7th. Mrs. Williams dies.
March, 11th. 1699. 1700.
Town-Meeting, chose Seven
Select-men;
Mr. Daniel Oliver, Mr. Isa Tay, Mr. Joseph
Prout, Mr.
Jno Maryon junr. Capt. Timo Clark, Mr. Elizur
Holyoke, Mr.
Obadia Gill, Mr. James Taylor Treasurer,
Wm
Griggs Town-Clerk. 5 overseers of the
Poor; Elisha
Hutchinson
esqr. 38, Mr. Sam1 Lynde, 33,
Mr. Jno Eyre,
31, Mr. Nathl
Oliver 30. Capt. Nathl
Byfield, 23. Consta-
bles, Benja
Fitch, 90. Henry Hill, 83. William Man
63.
Wm Welsteed
61. Joseph Billing, 57. Wm Clark junr 45.
James Gooch,
40. Joseph Dowden 67. Jose Winthrop
constable of
Rumney-Marsh.
Surveyors of High Ways. Tho Walker, Stephen Minott,
Jacob
Melyen, Jno Goodwin senr.
Voted to raise Money;
Stock to set poor on work. £500
To maintain impotent poor. 400
Schools, Bells, &c. 300
To mend the Way over the Neck. 200
£1400. 0. 0
1700.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 9
Capt.
Byfield was Moderator; had Candles, broke up at
8. Began at 10 m. Mr. Colman began with Prayer.
Capt.
Byfield dismiss'd the Assembly with Prayer.
Tuesday, March, 19. 1699/1700.
Three young men: viz.
Robert
Cunable, Wm Salter, and Tho Comer, went in a
Canoo a
Guning before day-light, and were drowned.
Wind high,
and wether cold. Only James Tileston was
saved.
March 21.
Mrs. Martha Collins dieth.
March, 23. She is buried between 5 and 6.
p.m. Bear-
ers Lt
Govr Stoughton, Mr. Russel, Sewall, Lynde, Byfield,
Hayman. Mr. Cook was at the funeral. Col Phillips not
well. Had Gloves and Rings. The under-bearers were
honest
men. I took my cousin Moodey, minister
of York,
over with
me. Mr. Leverett there. Mr. Bradstreet the
minister. Snow'd hard as we came home.
Monday, March, 25, 1700. Set out with Mr. Cooke
for
Plimouth, visited Mr. Torrey, staid near 3 hours, then
to Mr.
Norton's where Majr Genl Winthrop came to us
late, so got
late to Sittiate to Mr. Cushings, lodg'd there
just by the
ruins of Mr. Chauncey's house. Majr
Genl.
had apointed
to visit said Cushing. Were so belated
that
fail'd Majr
Thomas, who with some other Gentlemen waited
for us at
the old Ferry on Marshfield side.
Tuesday, March 26. The wind is very bleak that it
was ready to
put me into an Ague, having rid late the
night before. Had a noble Treat at Majr
Thomas's. Mr.
Sheriff and
his Gentlemen were so wearied that they were
afraid of
some Miscarriage at the Ferry. Began the
Court
about
five. Wednesday and Thorsday were
extravagantly
stormy. On Friday Mr. Cooke comes home but the wind
was strong
in my face, and cold that I durst not venture.
Satterday
was also very cold and chose rather to keep the
Sabbath at
Plimouth than by the way. Staid at Plim-
outh. At Noon was a Contribution for one that had
his
house burnt. Mr. Little invited me to sup with him,
which I did.
10 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1700.
Monday, April, 1. I was in a great quandary whether
I had best
to avoid the wind, come home by water and
leave my
Horse, or no. At last I went on board
Elisha
Hedge's
decked sloop laden with Oyle He put in
there
in the storm
from Yarmouth and lay till now for a wind.
Came aboard
about 2 hours by Sun, and landed at Mrs.
Butlers
Wharf before 3 p.m. Having had a very
speedy
and pleasant
Passage, wherein I have experienced much
of God's
parental pity towards me, and care over me.
I
could not
have got home to day by Land: and I fear my
health would
have been much impair'd, if I had come but
part of the
way. Jonathan Wheeler ridd in the Rain
from
Milton. I have now kept one Sabbath with
those
who first
kept Sabbaths in New England!
March, 31. 1700. At coming ashoar I met with the Lt
Govr
at Mr. Secretarys, and had their welcome.
Apr. 8. 1700. M. Turfrey is made Capt of
Saco-Fort,
and
Truck-master with the Indians, in stead of Capt. Hill.
Apr. 9. 1700. Snow covers the Ground.
Sabbath, Apr. 14. I saw and heard the Swallows pro-
claim the
Spring.
Fifth-day, Apr. 18. 1700. Mr. Cooke, Mr. Addington,
Mr. Willard,
Mr. Estabrooks and his Son Daniel come to
my house and
here adjust their Matters in difference re-
lating to
Mrs. Abigail Estabrookes and her Father -- and
brother in
Law. Mrs. Abigail pass'd a Deed to
Daniel.
last Sumer,
and he a Mortgage to her: Abigail being dis-
satisfied in
the Mortgage, makes a Deed of the same Land
to Capt. S.
Checkly and Records it: It was a
surprise to
me to see
it, and I express'd my Dislike of it in Terms
that Mr.
Willard could hardly bear. Said twas
contrary to
all
Goodness, or words to that purpose.
However I press'd
that Daniel
would give up his Deed, and Abigail her
1 We must interpret this remark as merely
meaning that Sewall spent the
Sunday at
Plymouth. To take a literal meaning, we
should infer that he
had met some
survivor of the Pilgrims; but this seems improbable. -- EDS.
1700.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 11
Mortgage;
and that Capt. Checkly should give Daniel a
Deed; that
so this Fraudluency might not remain to be
seen. It rain'd hard, and Mr. Estabrook and his son
lodg'd
here. Ap. 19. I gave Mr. Estabrooks 20s.
to buy
his Grand
son Benjamin a Coat.
Apr. 19.
Sam. is sent for to be a Bearer to Mr. Eyre's
Son, a very
likely child, who dyed yesterday. I had
that
very day, Ap.
18, accidentally lit upon, and nail'd up the
verses on Jno.;
who dyed Novr 30. 1696.
April, 22. 1700. Mr. Sheriff Gookin, by Execution,
deliver's me
and Cous. Ana Quinsey, Mr. H. Usher's House
and Ground
on the Comon, And we Introduce Madam
Usher, mane. Ap.23, 24.
Tenant Wiar goes out. Apr. 26.
Mrs. Usher
removes thither to dwell. I send her a
Cord
of Wood that
came from Muddy-River.
Extract of a Letter from Mr. Hugh Adams
dated at
Charlestoun
m Carolrna Feb. 23. 1699/1700.
I have Scripture Grounds to fear and expect
that Some more terri-
ble
impending Judgments are hovering over Carolina to be rained
down in
snares, fire and Brimstone and an horrible Tempest, as the
portion of
our cup for the yet tolerated and practised abominations,
and Sodom
like Sins of this Land. It is hard to
describe the dread-
full and
astonishing aspect of our late terrible Tempest of Mortality
in our
Charleston; which began towards the latter end of August,
and
continued till the middle of November.
In which Space of time
there died
in Charlestown, 125, English of all sorts; high and low,
old and
young. 37, French. 16, Indians, and 1 Negro. Three
Ministers;
viz. Mr. Jno Cotton 1 dissenter, Mr. Samuel Marshal conform-
ist, Mr.
Preolo French Minister. Mr. Gilbert
Ashly an Anabaptist
preacher,
Mr. Curtice a Presbyterian preacher dyed all in the begin-
ing of the
Mortality for their peoples contempt of their Gospel La-
bours. After whose decease, the Distemper raged, and
the destroying,
Angel
slaughtered so furiously with his revenging Sword of Pesti-
lence, that
there died (as I have read in the Catalogue of the dead)
14. in one
day, Septr 28th. and
raged as bad all October: So that the
dead were
carried in carts, being heaped up one upon another.
1 This was the Rev. John Cotton, formerly
of Plymouth. See Vol. I.
p. 473. --
EDS.
12 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1700.
Worse by far
than the great Plague of London, considering the
smallness of
the Town. Shops shut up for 6 weeks;
nothing but
carrying
Medicines, digging graves, carting the dead; to the great
astonishment
of all beholders. Out of Mr. Cotton's
church there
died
himself, Septr 17th, Mr. Jn° Alexander Mercht, Mr. Curtice
preacher,
Mr. Matthew Bee, Schoolmaster, Mr. Henry Spry (besides
his Serv't
man, his youngest child, and an Indian Woman).
But lastly,
which may
grieve you most of all, our precious godly Mother Avis
Adams
departed this Life Octbr 6th last, being infected by
means of
tending Mr.
Cotton all the time of his Sickness, which was but three
days. --
Dearly beloved Brother, I intreat you to prepare for the near-
approaching
of Temptation and Persecution, which Christ will bring
upon all the
World to try them that dwell upon the earth.
When
the Lord
will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men
that are
settled on their Lees; when Christ will weigh all Professors
in the
Balance of the Sanctuary. Then wo to
them that shall be
found out of
Christ at that day. Take this favourably
as a plain
token of my
Love to your soul and body. I must needs
confess, I
have but
little Comfort in this Life, only what the Lord himself is
pleased to
give my Soul out of his spiritual Brests of Divine Conso-
lation, and
Loving-kindness and favours, which is better than life
itself. --
Although we may see one another no more in this world:
yet I hope
to meet you in Christ with Comfort and Joy at the morn-
ing of the
Resurrection.
To Mr. John Adams Shop-keeper in Boston
Capt. Green Q. D. C.
Monday, Apr. 29, 1700. Sam. Sewall, Josiah
Willard
Jno
Bayly, Sam. Gaskill, and -- Mountfort goe into
the Harbour
a fishing in a small Boat. Seeing Rich'
d
Fifield
coming in, some would needs meet the ship and
see who it
was: Ship had fresh way with a fair wind;
when came
neare, Capt. call'd to them to beware, order'd
what they
should doe. But they did the clear
contrary,
fell foul on
the ship, which broke their Mast short off,
fill'd the
Boat with water, threw Willard and Gaskill
into the
River. Both which were very near
drown'd;
especially
Gaskill, who could not swim. It pleas'd
God
Fifield's
Boat was out, so he presently man'd it and took
them
in. Gaskill was under water, but
discover'd by his
1700.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 13
Hat that
swam atop as a Buoy. Sam, Jno
Bayly and
Mountfort
caught hold of the Ship and climbed on board
in a
miserable fright as having stared death in the face.
This is the
second time Sam has been near drown'd with
Josiah
Willard. Mother was against his going,
and pre-
vented
Joseph, who pleaded earnestly to go. He
sensibly
acknowledged
the Good Providence in his staying at
home, when
he saw the issue.
1.
A Narrative of the Portsmouth Disputation between,
Presbyterians
and Baptists at Mr. Williams's Meeting-
house.
2. Bp. of Norwich's Sermon of Religious
Melancholy.
3. Amintor, a defence of Milton, with
Reasons for abol-
ishing the
30th Jany. 1
4.
An Account of the first Voyages into America by
Don Barthol
de las Casas 4s.
5. Account of a Jew lately converted and
baptis'd at
the Meeting
near Ave Mary-Lane.
The President desires me to send for the
above men-
tioned
Books.
Monday May 13. 1700. Mr. Wheelwright dies. This
day
p.m. I set out towards Kittery, Lodge at
Salem.
May 14.
Get to Newbury a little before sunset, visit
my sick
Father in bed, call in the Major Genl whom
Father
salutes. Kiss'd my hand, and I his
again. Mr.
Tapan came
in and pray'd with him and us.
May, 15.
Walks into the west end of the house with
his staff,
breakfasts there. I read the 17th Luke,
and went
to
Prayer. My father would have stood up
but I per-
suaded him
to sit still in his chair. Took leave
and went
on to
Portsmouth. Majr Gen1
and I lodge at Col. Par-
kers. Most Gentlemen out of Town, some at Mr.
Wheel-
rights
funeral and som at Business. Mr. Hirst
and
Geoffries
welcom'd us to Town. May 16th goe to Spruce-
1 Written by John Toland. --EDS.
14 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1700.
Crick and
hold Court at Mr. Curtis's. Cousin
Moodey
comes
thither and tells me of his son born that morn when
sun about 2
hours high. Return in the night to
Ports-
mouth.
May, 17th. Benj Moss junr is sent to me to
acquaint me
that my dear
Father died the evening before. It rains
hard. Holds up about 5 p.m. I ride to Hampton, lodge
at Mr.
Cottons, where am very kindly entertained.
May, 18th. ride to Newbury in
the Rain; when breaks
up, Bror
and Sister come from Salem. Bury my
Father,
Bearers,
Col. Peirce, Mr. Nich. Noyes, Mr. Sam. Plumer,
Mr. Tristram
Coffin, Major Dan1 Davison, Major Thomas
Noyes, had 8
Underbearers.
Sabbath, May. 19. Mr. Tapan in the afternoon preach'd
a funeral
Sermon from Prov. 19. 20. Said my Father
was a true
Nathanael: Mention'd 3 or four other
deaths
which
occasion'd his discourse: gave a good
character of
most of
them. May, 20. Rains hard, holds up in the
afternoon. Major Gen1 and Mr. Cooke come to
Newbury
in the
night.
May 21, ride to Ipswich: sheriff, Mr.
Harris, and Ma-
jor Epes
meet us at Rowley. Give no Action to the
Jury
till after
diner. Lodge at Mr. Rodgers's where am
very
kinly
entertain'd.
May 23.
Mr. Rogers preaches very well of the Divine
Efficiency
in Mans Conversion, from Philip. 2. 13.
Invite
the
Ministers to diner, There are Mr. Hubbard, Rogers,
Mr. Gerrish,
Mr. Payson, Mr. Capen, Mr. Green, Mr. Rolf;
last did not
dine.
May 24th. set out for Salem about an hour by sun, Mr.
Joseph
Woodbridge with me, Got to Brothers a little be-
fore Nine,
met there Mrs. Ane Woodbridge. Proved my
Fathers
Will. May 25. 1700 went homeward in
company
Mrs. Anne as
far as Col. Paiges. Got home about 3 '
aclock,
found all well, Blessed be God. My Wife
pro-
vided
Mourning upon my Letter by Severs, All went in
1700.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 15
mourning
save Joseph, who staid at home because his
Mother lik'd
not his cloaths. Sister Short here, came
from
Newbury the
morn father-died, and so miss'd being at the
funeral. It seems about a 14night before, upon
discourse
of going to
Meeting, my Father said, He could not goe,
but hop'd to
go shortly to a Greater Assembly. The
Lord pardon
all my sin of omission and commission towards
him, and
help me to prepare to Dye. Accept of any
little
Labour of
Love towards my dear Parents. I had just
sent
four pounds
of Raisins, which with the Canary were very
refreshing
to him.
Worthy Mr. Hale of Beverly was buried the
day before
my
father. So was Mr. John Wadsworth of
Duxbury,
who died
May, 15th. 1700. I used to be
much refreshed
with his
company when I went to Plimouth; and was so
this last
time. He gave me an account of the
begining
of their
Town, and of his Fathers going over to fetch Mr.
Partridge.
Friday, June, 7th. 1700. mane, the Govr
nominates
Major Jno
Walley for a Judge of the Superr court, gives
time of
consideration till after diner, Then give in Yes
and No in
papers. Said Walley had all present save
his
own and one
No. Col. Hathorne was absent. I think
had 25
Papers written YES. Chose Mr. John Clark
a Jus-
tice Peace
in Boston and many other; Justices of Infe-
rior Courts,
Coroners &c. Mr. Jno
Wheelwright chosen
Justice of
Peace at Wells. Things were carried with
Peace and
comfortable unanimity.
Lords-day, June, 16, 1700. Mr. Daniel Oliver has his
son Daniel
baptised.
June, 17.
Mr. John Eyre makes his Will in the morn-
ing, and
dies in the Afternoon, an hour or 2. before Sun-
set. Born Febr. 19th. 165 3/4.
I visited him on Satterday
in the
Afternoon: He was sitting up in his
little Room,
Took me by
the hand at first coming in, Desired me to
pray for him
when took leave.
16 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1700.
Fourth-day, June, 19. 1700. Mr. Jn° Eyre is entomed
in the new
burying place. Nine of his children are
laid
there to
handsel the new Tomb: Bearers, Sewall,
Ad-
dington,
Townsend, Byfield, Dumer, Davis: Scarvs and
Rings. Lt Govr and many of the Council there. Mr.
Thomas
Brattle led his mourning widowed Sister.
When
I parted, I
pray'd God to be favourably present with her,
and comfort
her in the absence of so near and dear a Re-
lation. Having been long and much dissatisfied with
the
Trade of
fetching Negros from Guinea; at last I had a
strong
Inclination to Write something about it; but it
wore
off. At last-reading Bayne, Ephes.1
about servants,
who mentions
Blackamoors; I began to be uneasy that I
had so long
neglected doing any thing. When I was
thus
thinking, in
came Bror Belknap to shew me a Petition he
intended to
present to the Genl Court for the freeing a
Negro and
his wife, who were unjustly held in Bondage.
And there is
a Motion by a Boston Comittee to get a Law
that all
Importers of Negros shall pay 40s p head, to dis-
courage the
bringing of them. And Mr. C. Mather re-
solves to
publish a sheet to exhort Masters to labour their
Conversion. Which makes me hope that I was call'd of
God to Write
this Apology for them; Let his Blessing
accompany
the same.2
1 Paul Baynes, "Commentary on the
First Chapter of the Ephesians,"
1618. --
EDS.
2 The reference is here to Sewall's
anti-slavery tract, published June 24, 1700.
Although it
was reprinted in the Proceedings of our Society for Octo-
ber, 1863,
from a very rare copy presented by our President, it seems ex-
tremely
proper to reproduce it in this place. We
have been compelled to
expose
Sewall's weakness; let us put equally upon record this proof that on
one most
important subject he was far in advance of his fellows. -- EDS.
"
The Selling of Joseph.
A MEMORIAL.
"
Forasmuch as Liberty is in real value next unto Life: None ought to part with
it themselves, or deprive others of it,
but upon most mature Consideration.
"The Numerousness of Slaves at this
day in the Province, and the Uneasi-
ness of them
under their Slavery, hath put many upon thinking whether the
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SAMUEL SEWALL. 17
July, 8. 1700. Hanah rides in the Coach with her
Mother to
Mr. Thachers at Milton, to stay there awhile.
Foundation
of it be firmly and well laid; so as to sustain the Vast Weight
that is
built upon it. It is most certain that
all Men, as they are the Sons of
Adam, are
Coheirs; and have equal Right unto Liberty, and all other out-
ward
Comforts of Life. GOD hath given the
Earth (with all its Commodities)
unto the
Sons of Adam, Psal 115. 16. And hath
made of One Blood, all Na-
tions of
Men, for to dwell on all the face of the Earth, and hath determined the
Times before
appointed, and the bounds of their habitation:
That they should
seek the
Lord. Forasmuch then as we are the
Offspring of GOD &c. Act 17. 26,
27, 29. Now although the Title given by the last
ADAM, doth infinitely
better Mens
Estates, respecting GOD and themselves; and grants them a
most
beneficial and inviolable Lease under the Broad Seal of Heaven, who
were before
only Tenants at Will: Yet through the Indulgence of GOD to
our First
Parents after the Fall, the outward Estate of all and every of their
Children,
remains the same, as to one another. So
that Originally, and
Naturally,
there is no such thing as Slavery.
Joseph was rightfully no more
a Slave to
his Brethren, than they were to him: and they had no more Au-
thority to
Sell him, than they had to Slay him. And
if they had nothing to
do to Sell
him, the Ishmaelites bargaining with them, and paying down
Twenty
pieces of Silver, could not make a Title.
Neither could Potiphar
have any
better Interest in him than the Ishmaelite had.
Gen. 37. 20, 27,
28. For he that shall in this case plead
Alteration of Property, seems to have
forfeited a
great part of his own claim to Humanity.
There is no propor-
tion between
Twenty Pieces of Silver, and LIBERTY.
The Commodity it
self is the
Claimer. If Arabian Gold be imported in
any quantities, most
are afraid
to meddle with it, though they might have it at easy rates; lest if
it should
have been wrongfully taken from the Owners, it should kindle a
fire to the
Consumption of their whole Estate. 'Tis
pity there should be
more Caution
used in buying a Horse, or a little lifeless dust; than there is
in
purchasing Men and Women: Whenas they
are the Offspring of GOD,
and their
Liberty is,
"' . . . . Auro pretiosior Omni.'
"And seeing GOD hath said, He that
Stealeth a Man and Selleth him, or if
he be found
in his hand, he shall surely be put to Death. Exod. 21. 16. This
Law being of
Everlasting Equity, wherein Man Stealing is ranked amongst
the most
atrocious of Capital Crimes: 'That
louder Cry can there be made
of that
Celebrated Warning,
" ' Caveat Emptor!'
" And all things considered, it
would conduce more to the Welfare of the
Province, to
have White Servants for a Term of Years, than to have Slaves
for
Life. Few can endure to hear of a
Negro's being made free; and. in-
deed they
can seldom use their freedom well; yet their continual aspiring
after their
forbidden Liberty, renders them Unwilling Servants. And there
Vol.
II.
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Sister and
Betty come to Town from Salem: July, 10th.
They go
home. Waited on Mr. Mather this day, at
three
is such a
disparity in their Conditions, Colour & Hair, that they can never
embody with
us, and grow up into orderly Families, to the Peopling of the
Land: but
still remain in our Body Politick as a kind of extravasat Blood.
As many
Negro men as there are among us, so many empty places there are
in our Train
Bands, and the places taken up of Men that might make Hus-
bands for
our Daughters. And the Sons and
Daughters of New England
would become
more like Jacob, and Rachel, if this Slavery were thrust quite
out of
doors. Moreover it is too well known
what Temptations Masters are
under, to
connive at the Fornication of their Slaves; lest they should be
obliged to
find them Wives, or pay their Fines. It
seems to be practically
pleaded that
they might be Lawless; 'tis thought much of, that the Law
should have
Satisfaction for their Thefts, and other Immoralities; by which
means, Holines
to the Lord, is more rarely engraven upon this sort of Servi-
tude. It is likewise most lamentable to think, how
in taking Negros out of
Africa, and
Selling of them here, That which GOD has joyned together
men do
boldly rend asunder; Men from their Country, Husbands from their
Wives,
Parents from their Children. How
horrible is the Uncleanness,
Mortality,
if not Murder, that the Ships are guilty of that bring great
Crowds of
these miserable Men, and Women.
Methinks; when we are be-
moaning the
barbarous Usage of our Friends and Kinsfolk in Africa: it
might not be
unseasonable to enquire whether we are not culpable in forcing
the Africans
to become Slaves amongst our selves. And
it may be a ques-
tion whether
all the Benefit received by Negro Slaves, will balance the
Accompt of
Cash laid out upon them; and for the Redemption of our own
enslaved
Friends out of Africa. Besides all the
Persons and Estates that
have
perished there.
"Obj. 1. These Blackamores are of the
Posterity of Cham, and therefore
are under
the Curse of Slavery. Gen. 9. 25, 26, 27.
"Answ. Of all Offices, one would not begg this;
viz. Uncall'd for, to be
an
Executioner of the Vindictive Wrath of God; the extent and duration of
which is to
us uncertain. If this ever was a
Commission; How do we know
but that it
is long since out of Date? Many have
found it to their Cost,
that a
Prophetical Denunciation of Judgment against a Person or People,
would not
warrant them to inflict that evil. If it
would, Hazael might
justify
himself in all he did against his Master, and the Israelites, from
2 Kings 8.
10, 12.
"But it is possible that by cursory
reading, this Text may have been
mistaken. For Canaan is the Person Cursed three times
over, without the
mentioning
of Cham. Good Expositors suppose the
Curse entaild on him,
and that
this Prophesie was accomplished in the Extirpation of the Canaan-
ites, and in
the Servitude of the Gibeonites. Vide
Pareum. Whereas the
Blackmores
are not descended of Canaan, but of Cush.
Psal. 68. 31. Princes
shall come
out of Egypt [Mizraim], Ethiopia [Cush] shall soon stretch out her
hands unto
God. Under which Names, all Africa may
be comprehended;
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in the
Afternoon. I told him the Honor of
Athanasius,
Maluit sedem
quam Fidei syllabam mutare: Worthies
and their
Promised Conversion ought to be prayed for. Jer. 13. 23. Can
the
Ethiopian change his skin? This shows
that Black Men are the Posterity
of
Cush: Who time out of mind have been
distinguished by their Coiour.
And for want
of the true, Ovid assjgns a fabulous cause of it.
"
Sanguine tum credunt in corpora summa vocato
Aethiopum populus nigrum
traxisse colorem.'
Metamorph. lib. 2.
"Obj. 2. The Nigers are brought out
of a Pagan Country, into places where
the Gospel
Preached.
"Answ. Evil must not be done, that
good may come of it. The extraor-
dinary and
comprehensive Benefit accruing to the Church of God, and to
Joseph
personally, did not rectify his brethrens Sale of him.
"Obj. 3. The Africans have Wars one
with another: Our Ships bring
lawful
Captives taken in those Wars.
"Answ. For ought is known, their Wars are much such
as were between
Jacob's Sons
and their Brother Joseph. If they be
between Town and Town;
Provincial,
or National: Every War is upon one side Unjust.
An Unlawful
War can't
make lawful Captives. And by Receiving,
we are in danger to
promote, and
partake in their Barbarous Cruelties. I
am sure, if some Gen-
tlemen
should go down to the Brewsters to take the Air, and Fish: And a
stronger
party from Hull should Surprise them, and Sell them for Slaves to
a Ship
outward bound: they would think themselves unjustly dealt with;
both by
Sellers and Buyers. And yet 'tis to be
feared, we have no other
kind of
Title to our Nigers. Therefore all
things whatsoever ye would that
men should
do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matt. 7.12.
" Obj. 4. Abraham had Servants bought with his Money,
and born in his
House.
"Answ. Until the Circumstances of
Abraham's purchase be recorded, no
Argument can
be drawn from it. In the mean time,
Charity obliges us to
conclude,
that He knew it was lawful and good.
"It is Observable that the Israelites
were strictly forbidden the buying,
or selling
one another for Slaves. Levit. 25. 39. 46. Jer. 34 8. ... 22.
And GOD
gaged His Blessing in lieu of any loss they might conceipt they
suffered
thereby. Deut. 15. 18. And since the
partition Wall is broken
down,
inordinate Self love should likewise be demolished. GOD expects
that
Christians should be of a more Ingenuous and benign frame of spirit.
Christians
should carry it to all the World, as the Israelites were to carry it
one towards
another. And for men obstinately to
persist in holding their
Neighbours-
and Brethren under the Rigor of perpetual Bondage, seems to
be no proper
way of gaining Assurance that God ha's given them Spiritual
Freedom. Our Blessed Saviour has altered the Measures
of the ancient
Love-Song,
and set it to a most Excellent New Tune, which all ought to be
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of N. E. left their Houses in England, and came
hither
where there
were none to preserve Religion in its Purity.
Put him in
mind how often God had renewed his Call to
this work
which was to be consider'd.l
That were 19 in
the Council;
and had every vote.
Seventh-day, July, 13. My dear Mother comes hither
by water
from Newbury in one of the Poors. Set
sail on
Thorsday
morning, and lodg'd aboard two nights in Mar-
blehead
Harbour: Capt. Norden and others would
have
had her come
ashoar: but the wind was high and chose to
keep on
board. Jonathan Woodman junr
waited on her
to my house
about 5. p. merm. Saw her not
till just
night; when
brought in Mr. Cooke, Mr. Sergeant, Em
Hutchinson
to drink, as they came from the Neck.
July, 17th. The Ld Bellomont our Govr
sets sail for
New-york.
July, 25th. 1700.
Went to the Funeral of Mrs. Sprague,
being
invited by a good pair of Gloves.
Augt. 2. 1700. Betty comes to Town from Salem.
Augt.
3. Bror comes to Town in the morning. I
bring
ambitious of
Learning. Matt. 5. 43, 44. John 13.34
These Ethiopians
as black as
they are; seeing they are the Sons and Daughters of the First
Adam, the
Brethren and Sisters of the Last ADAM, and the Offspring of
GOD; They
ought to be treated with a Respect agreeable.
" , Servitus perfecta voluntaria,
inter Christianum & Christianum, ex parte
servi
patientis sraepe est licita, quia est necessaria: sed ex parte domini agentis
&
procurando & exercendo, vix potest esse licita: quia non convenit regulre
willi
generali:
Quaecunque volueritis ut faciant vobis homines, ita & vas facile en
Matt. 7. 12.
" Perfecta servitus paenae, non
palest jure locum habere, nisi ex delicto gravi
quod ultimum
supplicium aliquo modo meretur: quia Libertas ex naturali resti-
matione
proxime accedit ad vitam ipsam, & eidem a multis prreferri solet.'
Ames. Cas. Consc. Lib. 5. Cap. 23. Thes.
2, 3.
"BOSTON of the Massachusetts;
Printed by
Bartholomew Green, and John Allen, June, 24th. 1700."
1 Quincy (Hist. Harvard University, I.
109) gives some more details. The
Rev. Increase
Mather wished to be president of Harvard without living at
the
college. The Legislature voted £220 per
annum to a resident presi-
dent. -EDS.
"
1700.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 21
him going to
the Ferry. About 2 post merid, Mr. Adam
Winthrop
dies. Between 3 and 4 I receiv'd a
Letter from
the Justices
of Northamptonshire, i. e. Partrig, Parsons,
and Hawley
to notify us that there is no Business requir-
ing our
going to Springfield this hot wether. We
are
very glad to
be thus fairly discharged from this long and
tedious
journey.
BOSTON,
5th Augt 1700.
MADAM, -- I present you with my greatest
Respects and (nothing
unknown
intervening) will wait on you between the hours of eight
and Nine
this evening. Subscribe not my Name, you are not unac-
quainted
with the band: for as formerly, so I will remain an admirer
of your
person and Virtues. I expect the favour
of your presence,
as I am
Madam your humblest Servt STREPHON.1
Augt 7th. 1700.
Mr. Adam Winthrop is buried.
Bear-
ers Col.
Hutchinson, Middlecott, Foster, Elm Hutchinson,
Col.
Townsend, Capt. Dumer. I rode with the Lt
Govr in
his Coach.
Lords day Augt. 18. 1700. Henry Cole, Joseph's School-
fellow, dies
about 3 aclock post mer. of vomiting, Flux and
Fever. Has been sick 12 or 13. days. His Father sent
for me, and
I pray'd with him in the morning. At 2
aclock I
look'd on him and pray'd God to grant him that
Favour and
Loving Kindness of his that was better than
Life. He thank'd me. In the morn, I ask'd him what I
should pray
for, He answer'd, that God would pardon all
his
Sin. Neighbour Cole had two Cows, ,and
one of them
is dead
also. Henry was a forward towardly
Scholar, and
used to call
Joseph every morning to goe to School.
Augt.
30. 1700. A young hopefull Scholar is
buried,
Edward
Mills's son by Minot.
Wednesday, Augt 28. 1700. Mr. E[benezer] Pember-
ton is
ordained [Minister of the South Church]:
He
1 Compare this letter with the following
one under date of Jan. 13, 1700-1.
post, p. 29.
-- EDS.
22 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1700.
preached;
then Mr. Willard Preached: Mr. Willard
gave
the
charge: He, Mr. I. Mather, and Mr. Allen
laying on
Hands. Mr. I. Mather gave the Right Hand of Fellow-
ship. Mr. Wigglesworth and Mr. Torrey were in the
Plupit, Mr.
Hubbard of Ipswich and many Ministers be-
low. A very great Assembly. All was so managed, as I
hope does
bode well, that the Blessing of God will accom-
pany Him and
us.
Septr 4th. 1700.
Capt. Byfield and I took with us Peter
Weare, and
went to Mr. Googe to warn him to leave my
house at
Cotton Hill. He acknowledged I had
spoken to
him about
the 12 of Augt, and he would quit the house
by the 12 or
14th of November next.
Thorsday Sept 26th
1700. Mr. John Wait and Eunice
his wife,
and Mrs. Debora Thair come to Speak to me
about the
Marriage of Sebastian, Negro servt of said Wait,
with Jane,
Negro servant of said Thair. Mr. Wait
desired
they might
be published in order to marriage Mrs. Thair
insisted
that Sebastian might have one day in six allow'd
him for the
suport of Jane, his intended wife and her
children, if
it should please God to give her any.
Mr.
Wait now
wholly declin'd that, but freely offer'd to allow
Bastian Five
pounds, in Money p anum towards the suport
of his
children p said Jane (besides Sebastians cloathing
and
Diet). I persuaded Jane and Mrs. Thair
to agree to
it, and so
it was concluded; and Mrs. Thair gave up the
Note of
Publication to Mr. Wait for him to carry it to
Wm
Griggs, the Town Clerk, and to Williams in order to
have them
published according to Law.
As attests Sam Sewall J.
Lords Day Septr 29th 1700.
Mr. Willard, by reason of
sickness
keeps house, and Mr. Pemberton preaches fore-
noon and
Afternoon.
Note.
from 11 to 2 p.m. it snows hard, covers the
Houses and
Ground, lodges on the Trees. Was very
cold
yesterday
and to day. Octr 2. Hana
comes home.
1700.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 23
BOSTON, 8r 6th 1700.
Sir, -- Speaking with my Son after your
being here, I understand
it will be
inconvenient for you to come abroad this evening by reason
of the
solemnities of the day preceding.
Besides, there is a Meeting
of some of
the South church occasioned by Mr. Willards sickness; at
which I am
obliged to be. Therefore I shall not
expect you, neither
would I have
you come till to morrow night. I thought
good to
signify thus
much to you, who am, Sir, your friend and Servt
S. S.
To Mr. Grove
Hirst, Merch't in Boston, at Capt. Ballentine's.
8r
8th 1700. Is a Fast at the
New-Meetinghouse to
pray for Mr.
Willard's Life. Mr. Colman, Wadsworth
pray. Mr. Pemberton preaches: Philip. 1. 24. Mr.
Allen,
Cotton Mather Pray. 20th Psalm two
staves and ½
sung L. Lt
Govr, Mr. Russel, Cook, Addington, Em
Hutchinson,
Townsend there. Mr. Fisk, Danforth, Wal-
ter,
Brattle, out of Town. Pretty
considerable congre-
gation, it
being so sudden, and first intended in privat.
8r 10th. 1700.
Mr. Hirst asking my pardon, I told him
I could
forgive him, if he would never forgive himself;
He fully
assented to the condition: and said moreover
that if ever
he did the like again he would not expect or
desire to be
forgiven.
Octr 17th 1700. Capt. Theophilus Frary expires about
3 aclock
past midnight!
1 Deacon Frary has been repeatedly
mentioned by Sewall. He married
Hannah,
daughter of the first Jacob Eliot, and his wife inherited a part of the
Eliot lands
at the South End. Eliot's house stood at
the south-west corner
of our
Washington and Boylston Streets, and this part of the estate passed
to the
Frarys. The Frarys also owned on the
south side of Frog Lane, now
Boylston
Street. Theophilus Frary had several
sons, all of whom, undoubt-
edly, died
young, as his will leaves his property to his three daughters.
These were
Hannah, who married first Isaac Walker, Jr., and secondly An-
drew
Belcher; Abigail, who married -- Arnold; and Mehitable, wife of
Samuel
Lillie.
Abigail Arnold had an only: child, Hannah,
who married Samuel Welles.
This estate
remained in the Welles family until it was sold to Joseph C.
Dyer (Suff.
Deeds, Lib. 227, f. 18), who conveyed it to the present proprie-
tor for
$20,560. The Boylston Market Association
was incorporated by
Chap. 48 of
Acts of 1808-9. The building cost about
$37,000 besides the
24 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1700.
In the
following Evening Mr. Grove Hirst and Elizabeth
Sewall are
married by Mr. Cotton Mather. Present I
and ,
my wife, Mr.
Hirst and his wife, Bror St. Sewall of Salem
and his son
Sam, Brothers and Sisters of Bridegroom and
Bride. Madam Usher, Capt. Ephra Savage, Capt. Dumar
and wife,
Capt. Ballentine, Mrs. Mary Clark, Esther
Wyllye,
Margaret Stewart &c. Sung the 128.
Psal. I
set York
Tune, not intending it. In the New
Parlor.
Octr 18. Mr. Pemberton and Mr. Colman and his wife
dine with
us. Sent and Spent 21. Cakes.
Octobr 20. 1700. In the Afternoon I and my wife, Mr.
Hirst and
his Bride, Sam. and Eliza Hirst, Will. Hirst and
Hanah
Sewall, James Taylor and Esther Wyllie, Joseph
and Mary
Sewall, walk to Meeting together.
Octr 30th. Mr. Hirst comes and carries his daughter
Betty to
Salem. Mr. Grove Hirst and his wife
accompany
them.
Novembr 4th. 1700.
A Council was called at the Town-
House. Present, The honorable William Stoughton
Esqr.
Lt
Govr, Elisha Cooke, Elisha Hutchinson, Saml Sewall,
Isaac
Addington, Jn° Foster, Peter Sergeant, John Wal-
ley, Eliakim
Hutchinson, Penn Townsend, Nathanael By-
field,
esqrs. Lt Govr
ask'd Advice whether Benjamin
Bedwell
should be tryed by Comissioners of Oyer and
Terminer; or
at the Court of Assize and Genl Goal De-
livery, to
be held at Plimouth next March. Twas
carried
for the latter. A Proclamation was ordered to prevent
endangering
the Town by Fire-Works.1
Francis Hudson, Ferry-man, dyed last
Lords-Day, Novr
3. Was one of the first who set foot on this
Peninsula.2
cupola,
which was built by subscription. Ward
Nicholas Boylston, for whom
it was
named, gave a clock. The building was moved back eleven feet in
1870. --
EDS.
1 The next day being the anniversary of
the Gunpowder Plot. -- EDS.
2 Francis Hudson, aged sixty-eight years,
made a deposition June 10, 1684,
before
Bradstreet and Sewall, as to the purchase of land from Blackstone.
This
deposition is in Suff. Deeds, XXIV. 406, and has been often printed;
1700.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 25
Novr 10. 1700. Lords-day Madam Elizabeth Sergeant
died in the
Afternoon, half an hour past three. Was
taken last
Thorsday Senight at night. Hath been
deliri-
ous a great
part of the Time, and hardly sensible since
Friday.
Novr 11th. Salem Court is adjourned by reason of Mr.
Cooks
Indisposition of Body.
Novr 12. Last night a considerable Snow fell which
covers the
Ground several Inches thick. This morn
Mr.
Thomas
Broughton expires about 87. years old: once a
very noted
Merchant in Boston, Select-man &c. About 3
years agoe
he join'd to the North church. On
Satterday-
night I was
with him when the President pray'd with him.
Novr 14. Madam Eliza.
Sergeant is entombed, Bearers,
Cooke,
Hutchinson Elisha, Sewall, Addington, Foster,
Walley. She was born Apr. 11. 1660. Majr Genl Win-
throp was at
the Funeral. He came last night from
New-
London.
Novr. 14. 1700. about ½ hour past one in the Afternoon,
Mr. Joseph
Eliot dieth! He was abroad on the Lords
day at
Meeting. I saw him in the street near
his own
house, about
8 in the morning. The Lord fit us for
his
good
pleasure.
Novr 15th.
1700. Mr. Tho. Broughton buried in the
old
burying
place. Bearers, Sewall, Foster, Em
Hutchinson,
Byfield,
Howard, Fayerwether. No scarf. No Gloves.
Went back
again to the house.
Novr. 16. Mr. Joseph Eliot was
buried. Bearers, Capt.
Alford,
Capt. Checkley, Mr. Danl. Oliver, Mr. Benet, Mr.
Cutler, Mr.
Gibbs. 38. years old.
it can be
read in Shurtleff's "Description," pp. 296, 297. The other depo-
nents were,
-- John Odlin, aged eighty-two: William Lytherland, aged
seventy-six;
and Robert Walker, aged seventy-eight.
As to Walker, see
Diary, Vol.
I. pp. 47, 179. -- EDS.
1 This was Joseph, son of Deacon Jacob
Eliot, and grand-nephew of Rev.
John Eliot. His wife, Silence, died June 8, 1744, aged
seventy-eight.-- EDS.
26 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1700.
This day John Soams, the Quaker, dies. Was well this
day senight.
Novr 20th. Mrs. Lynde (formerly Richardson) was
buried: Bearers, Cook, Sewall, Addington, Dumer, Der-
ing,
Gibbs. Scarf and Ring.
Novr 21. 1700. Day of publick Thanksgiving. At 3.
post meridm
Mr. Willard comes abroad and Prays to the
great
Refreshment of the Congregation. This
the first
time since
his sickness. In the evening I made
these
verses on
it, viz,
As Joseph let his brethren see
Simeon both alive, and free:
So JESUS brings forth Samuel,
To tune our hearts to praise Him well.
Thus He with beams of cheerfull light,
Corrects the darkness of our night.
His Grace assists us in this wise
To seise, and bind the Sacrifice.
Monday, Novr 25th. 1700. Prime brot me a horse to
Winisimet,
and I ridd with him to Salem.
Novr. 26th. Sup'd at Mr. Hirst's in company of said
Hirst, his
wife, Mrs. Betty Hirst, Mr. Noyes and my
Brother. Novr 28. Court rose.
Mr. Higginson was not
at Lecture
nor abroad this Court; so miss'd the pleasure
of dining
with Him. Visited him at his house and
his
sick
wife. Madam Bradstreet, Mrs. Batter in
Bed. Mrs.
Jno
Higginson the 2d. Set out to
come home about ½ hour
past two in
the Afternoon: came by Charlestown. Very
cold going,
abiding there, and Returning. Yet hope
have
taken very
little hurt through the Goodness of God.
Major Walley has a swell'd face that keeps
him from
Meeting on
the Sabbath xr. 1. 1700.
Novr. 30th. My Aunt Quinsey dieth of the Jaundice
befor break
of day.
Thorsday, xr. 5th. 1700.
Sam. and I ride to the Fun-
eral of Aunt
Eli. Quinsey. Because of the Porrige of
snow,
Bearers --
Mr. Torrey, Fisk, Thacher, I, Danforth, Wilson,
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Belchar --
rid to the Grave, alighting a little before they
came
there. Mourners, Cous. Edward and his
Sister rid
first, then
Mrs. Ana Quinsey, widow, behind Mr. Allen;
and cous.
Ruth Hunt behind her Husband; then Sam. and
T. None of
the Gookings there. Mr. Torrey prayed.
Bearers had
Rings and Wash-Lether Gloves. I had
Gloves and a
Ring. Cous. Edmund invited us; for I
lodg'd there
all night, with Mr. Torrey, Sam. with his
Cousin. All else went home. Cousin Savil was at Wey-
mouth and
came not. Funeral about 4. p.m.
Decr. 6th. Mr. Torrey and I and Sam. about 12 set for-
ward and
ride home; Find all pretty well, about 2 or 3
aclock, and
good satisfaction as to our Lodging there.
It
Rain'd
quickly after our getting home. Very
foggy thaw-
ing wether.
Justice Cushing of Hingham died on
Tuesday and, as is
said, was
buried this Thorsday.1
Jany. 2. 1700/1701 Went afoot
to Dorchester, carried Mr.
Willard's
Fountain open'd. Eat Yokeheg [yolk of
egg?] in
Milk. Lt Govr orders me to
wait on him next Tuesday morn.
Jany
1. 1700/701 Just about Break-a-day Jacob
Amsden and
3 other
Trumpeters gave a Blast with the Trumpets on
the comon
near Mr. Alford's [in Margin -Entrance of
the 18th
Century]. Then went to the Green
Chamber,
and sounded
there till about sunrise. Bell-man said
these
verses a
little before Break-a-day, which I printed and
gave
them. [in Margin -- My Verses upon New
Cen-
tury.]
1 This was Daniel, oldest son of the
emigrant Matthew Cushing, and
Town Clerk
of Hingham. The nephew of this Daniel
was John, Justice of
the Superior
Court, and father of John, also Justice of same Court, whose son
William was
Judge of the United States Supreme Court, and declined the
Chief-Justiceship. In other lines were Nathan, also of our
Supreme Court;
Caleb, J. S.
J. C., now living; and Luther S., Judge C. C. P., the wel-
known author
of Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, and his
brother,
Edmund L. Cushing, C. J. S. C. of N. Hampshire.
Others of the
family have
been distinguished in other professions, but these examples show
the legal
tendency of the family. -- EDS.
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Once more! our God vouchsafe to shine:
Correct the Coldness of our Clime.
Make haste with thy Impartial Light,
And terminate this long dark night.
Give the poor Indians Eyes to see
The Light of Life: and set them free.
So Men shall God in Christ adore,
And worship Idols vain, no more.
So Asia, and Africa,
Europa, with America;
All Four, in Consort join'd, shall Sing
New Songs of Praise to Christ our King.
The Trumpeters cost me five pieces
8/8. Gave to the
College-Library
Dr. Owens two last Volumes on the He-
brews. Sent them by Amsden. When was about to part
with Dr.
Owen, I look'd, to read some difficult place;
pitch'd on
v. 11th of the 8th Chapter -- Know the Lord--
I read it
over and over one time and another and could
not be
satisfied: At last this came in my mind
Know the
Lord, i.e.
Know the Messiah, to whom the word Lord is
very much
apropriated &c. vide locum.
Now my mind
was at
quiet, and all seem'd to run smooth. As
I hope
this is
Truth, so I bless God for this New-years Gift; which
I also writt
in a spare place, and gave it with the Book to
the College.
Satterday, Jany 4. 1700/1701
Mrs. Thair is this morn taken
with an
Apoplexy after she had been up and employ'd a
while; was
at our pump for water. Dies about six in
the
Evening.
Between 2 and 3 in the Afternoon Mr.
Sergeant,
Col.
Townsend, and I take the Affidavits of Barth[ole-
mew] Green,
Jno Allen and Timo Green.
Present Mr.
T. Brattle,
Mr. Mico, and Tuthill notified. Mr. Nathl
Oliver, Mr.
Hern, Mr. Keeling: Mr. Hirst and my Son.
I do not
remember any more. Mr. Keeling, upon en-
quiry, what
he call'd for pen and Ink for, whether twas
to take
notes or no: He own'd it was. Then I said I
1701.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 29
would also
send for one to write, naming Mr. Barnard; so
he forbore,
and said he would not write.
Jany 7th. Mrs. Thair is buried: By reason of the Court,
Stars were
seen before we went; but comfortably Light
by remains
of the Day. Moon-shine and Snow.
Bearers, Cook, Sewall, Addington, Oakes,
Melyen,
Maryon, Jno
Buried in the new burying place, close to
the
Alms-house Ground. [The Granary.]
Friday, Jany. 10. 1700/1701.
Mr. John Wait came to me,
and
earnestly desired me to hasten consumating the Mar-
riage
between his Bastian and Jane, Mrs. Thair's Negro.
This day I
waited upon the Lt. Governour at Dorchester
and spent
about two hours in looking over and ordering
Corporation
Bonds, but brought none away with me. I
shewed Mr.
Green's paper, and asked his Honor's Leave to
use his
Name. Shew'd it in the morn to Col.
Townsend
at his own
house, and to Mr. Sergeant at his, the night
before. I had promised that nothing should be tack'd
to
their Names,
but they should first have a sight of it.
BOSTON, Jany. 13 1700/1701.
MADAM,-- The
inclosed piece of Silver, by its bowing, humble
form,
bespeaks your Favor for a certain young Man in Town. The
Name [Real]
the Motto [Plus ultra] seem to plead its suitableness
for a
Present of this Nature. Neither need you
to except against
the
quantity: for you have the Mends in your
own hand; And by
your
generous Acceptance, you may make both it and the Giver
Great. Madam, I am
Your Affectt Friend S.
S.
Jany. 14th. Having been certified last night about 10.
oclock of
the death of my dear Mother at Newbury, Sam.
and I set
out with John Sewall, the Messenger, for that
place. Hired Horses at Charlestown: set out about
10.
aclock in a
great Fogg. Din'd at Lewis's with Mr.
Cush-
ing of
Salisbury. Sam. and I kept on in Ipswich
Rode,
John went to
accompany Bror from Salem.
About Mr.
Hubbard's in
Ipswich farms, they overtook us. Sam.
and
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I lodg'd at
Cromptons in Ipswich. Bror
and John stood
on for
Newbury by Moon-shine. Jany.
15th. Sam. and I set
forward. Brother Northend meets us. Visit Aunt North-
end, Mr.
Payson. With Bror and sister
we set forward
for
Newbury: where we find that day apointed
for the
Funeral:
twas a very pleasant Comfortable day.
Bearers, Jno Kent of the
Island, Lt Cutting Noyes,
Deacon
William Noyes, Mr. Peter Tappan, Capt. Henry
Somersby,
Mr. Joseph Woodbridge. I follow'd the
Bier
single. Then Bror Sewall and sister
Jane, Bror Short and
his wife,
Bror Moodey and his wife, Bror Northend and his
wife, Bror
Tapan and sister Sewall, Sam. and cous. Hanah
Tapan. Mr. Payson of Rowley, Mr. Clark, Minister of
Excester,
were there. Col. Pierce, Major Noyes
&c. Cous.
John,
Richard and Betty Dumer. Went abt
4. p.m.
Nathan1
Bricket taking in hand to fill the Grave, I said,
Forbear a
little, and suffer me to say That amidst our
bereaving
sorrows We have the Comfort of beholding this
Saint put
into the rightfull possession of that Happiness
of Living
desir'd and dying Lamented. She liv'd
comend-
ably Four
and Fifty years with her dear Husband, and
my dear
Father: And she could not well brook the
being
divided from
him at her death; which is the cause of our
taking leave
of her in this place. She was a true and
constant
Lover of Gods Word, Worship, and Saints: And
she always,
with a patient cheerfullness, submitted to the
divine
Decree of providing Bread for her self and others
in the sweat
of her Brows. And now her infinitely
Gracious and
Bountiful Master has promoted her to the
Honor of
higher Employments, fully and absolutely dis-
charged from
all maner of Toil, and Sweat. My hon-
oured and
beloved Friends and Neighbours! My dear
Mother never
thought much of doing the most frequent
and homely
offices of Love for me; and lavish'd away
many
Thousands of Words upon me, before I could return
one word in
Answer: And therefore I ask and hope
that
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none will be
offended that I have now ventured to speak
one word in
her behalf; when shee her self is become
speechless. Made a Motion with my hand for the filling
of the
Grave. Note, I could hardly speak for
passion and
Tears. Mr. Tappan pray'd with us in the
evening. I
lodg'd at
sister Gerrishes with Joseph. Bror
and Sam. at
Br.
Tapans. Jany 16th. The two Brothers and four sis-
ters being
together, we took Leave by singing of the 90th
Psalm, from
the 8th. to the 15th verse inclusively. Mr.
Brown, the
Scholar, was present. Set out abt
11. for
Ipswich, got
time enough to hear Mr. Rogers preach the
Lecture from
Luke 1. 76. about ministerial preparation
for
Christ. Sung the nine first verses of
the 132. Psalm.
Mr. Rogers
prai'd for the prisoner of death, the Newbury
woman who
was there in her chains. This is the
last Ser-
mon preached
in the old Meeting-house. Eat Roost Fowl
at
Crompton's. Delivered a Letter to the
Widow Hale;
got very
comfortably over the Ferry to Brothers, whether
Mr. Hirst
quickly came to welcome us and invite us to
dine or
breakfast next day, which we did, the morning
being
cold: Visited Madam Bradstreet and Major
Brown,
and told
them of the death of their fellow-passenger.
Rec'd me
very courteously. Took horse about one
p.m.
Baited at
Lewis's; Stop'd at Govr Usher's1 to pay him a
visit. He and his Lady being from home, we pass'd
on,
and got to
Charlestown about Sun-set, very comfortably.
Found all
well at home through the Goodness of God.
Lords-Day, Jany. 29th. 1700/1701 Ipswich people Meet the
first time
in their New-Meeting-House, as Deacon Knowl-
ton informs
me at Cousin Savages Meeting Jany 22th.
Jany. 29th 1700/1701.
Sam. and I went to Dedham Lecture,
and heard
Mr. Belchar preach excellently from Mat. 9. 12.
1 John Usher, Lieutenant-Governor of New
Hampshire, 1692-7 and 1702.
He lived in
Medford, in a house which was enlarged by Col. Isaac Royal.
An engraving
of it is given in Brooks's History of Medford, p. 49. Usher's
descendants
still continue the name in Rhode Island, -- EDS.
32 DIARY OF
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Dined at
said Belchars. Gave him and some young
men
with him my
New-years verses: He read them and said
Amen. Said twas a good Morning's Work.
Jany. 30. Mr. Willard preaches from Eccles. 9. 2. --
he that
sweareth and he that feareth an Oath.
Spake
very closely
against the many ways of Swearing amiss.
Great Storm.
Febr. 1. 1700/1701 p.m. Waited on the Lt Govr
and pre-
sented him
with a Ring in Remembrance of my dear
Mother,
saying, Please to accept of the Name of one of
the Company
your Honor is preparing to go to. Mr.
Baily,
Oliver, and Chip were there when I came in.
Febr. 3. 1700/1701. Little Richd Fifield, a child of ½ a year
old, died
very suddenly last Friday, and was buried this
day. Mr. Simon Willard, and S. Sewall [the son]
Bear-
ers. Very windy and cold after the Rain.
Satterday, Febr. 15 1700/1701. News comes by Myles from
England in a
Gazett of Decr 2d. of the D.[uke] of Anjou,
the new
K.[ing] of Spain, taking his journey for Spain
setting out.
from Versalles. Cardinal Albani, born
1650,
is made
Pope, takes the name of Clement the Eleventh.
Gazett is
printed here this day. Just about 3 in
the After-
noon I went
to the Majr General's; look'd upon Mingo
who lies
extream sick; then discoursed him in the Hall
on the right
hand where his pictures hang.
Tuesday, March, 4. 1700/1. Mrs. Anne
Woodbridge is
buried at
Roxbury.
Satterday, March. 8. 1700/1. Ballard, from Barbados,
brings News
of the death of James Taylor at Barbados;
Capt. Crow
writes also of the Report they heard that
Jamaica was
Sunk; which much saddens the Town.
Thorsday, March, 13. Turin,1 that was blown off to
Barbados,
arrives. Was at Mr. Taylor's funeral Jany.
the
1 Undoubtedly a Turell. The name of Capt.
Daniel T. is spelled in
the town
records, Turin, Turinge and Turell. -- EDS.
1701.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 33
last,
Friday, (the day little Fifield died) And gives a more
distinct
account of the fears of Jamaica being sunk: and
of Rumors of
Wars between England and France: the
Preparations
at Martinico; and sending six Companies to
St
Christophers.
Satterday, March. 15th.
1700/1 The Town is fill'd with
the News of
my Ld Bellomont's death, last Wednesday
was
senight. The Thorsday after, a Sloop set
sail from
N. York to
Say-Brook; Mr. Clark, a Magistrate, carries it
to
New-London; from thence Mr. Southmayd brought it
by Land last
night, Capt. Belchar acquainted Mr. Secre-
tary with it
about 9 aclock last night. Upon this the
Assembly is
prorogued to Wednesday, the 16th.
April, at 9
mane.
Tuesday, March, 18th. Last night I heard several Claps
of Thunder:
Great Fogg to day.
Wednesday, March, 19. We hear by the way of Vir-
ginia, that
War is proclaimed between England and
France.
Satterday, March 22. 4. p.m. The awfull News of the
Lord
Bellomont's death March 5th.
6. in the morn, 1700/1;
is confirmed
by Letters received by the Posts! The
Town
is sad!
Apr. 7th. 1701.
Last Satterday News was brot by the
Post of my
Lord's Interment, March 27: So 46. Guns
were ordered
to be fired at the Castle, and 22. at the
Sconce: were
fired about 6-. p.m. Have warm discourse
about the
sitting of the Court. Lt Govr would have it
dissolv'd;
most of the Council are for its sitting.
The
Artillery
Company give three Volleys in the middle of
the Town
when they came out of the field, with regard
to my
Lord. Col. Townsend wears a Wigg to day.
1 Lord Bellomont died at New York. Palfrey Wlites, IV. 196, "Per-
haps he died
of sheer disappointment and mortification; for he knew how he
was maligned
in England; and the King's ministers, who should have been
his vindicators,
had given him recently no sort of attention." -- EDS.
34 DIARY OF
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Monday, Apr. 14th. I ride and visit Mr. Trowbridge,
who is still
very feeble, and has been many months con-
fin'd. From thence to Mr. Hobart's, with him to Sud-
bury, where
we dine at Mr. Sherman's. From thence to
Mr.
Brinsmead's. He was much refresh'd with
our com-
pany. Day was doubtfull: But got very well thither,
and when by
Mr. Brinsmead's fire, it Rain'd and hail'd
much. Lodg'd at Mr. How's.
Apr. 15th. Mr. Torrey, Mr. Danforth of Dorchester,
Mr. Swift
came to us from Framingham to visit Mr. Brins-
mead: He
said twas as if came to his Funyal: If he
were ready
wish'd it were so. After diner Mr.
Hobart
and I come
home.
I
staid and baited at the Greyhound, and got home
between 8
and 9 very comfortably.
Satterday, May. 3. Mr. Daniel Olivers little Son is
buried.
May, 28. 1701. Mr. Cooke, Addington, Walley, and
self goe in
my Coach and meet the Lieut Govr. met the
Guard and
his Honor near the first Brook. Mr.
Belchar
preaches; Lt
Govr, notwithstanding his Infirmities, was
an Auditor.
May, 29th. The election [of Councillors, or Magistrates]
is sent
in. Lt Govr
Aproves all but Mr. Corwin, and to
him he
demurrs, taking some time of Consideration.
Mr.
Corwin said
he acquiesced in it, and quickly went away, say-
ing I humbly
take my leave.l Mr. Eliakim
[Hutchinson]
pray'd he
might be excused; he could not accept, He had
sold most of
his Interest in the Province of Main; and per-
ceiv'd there
was a desire among the Deputies that persons
on the place
might serve. In the evening Mr Cooke,
Sec-
retary,
major Brown, Mr. Sergeant and I waited on Mr.
Eliakim
Hutchinson, and perswaded him not to decline
serving. He treated us with Canary."
1 The election of Corwin was, however,
approved June 3d, as the Coun-
cil record
shows. -- EDS.
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SAMUEL SEWALL. 35
All the rest were sworn that were
present. Major Wal-
ley and I
wait on Mr. Belchar at Mr. Wadsworth's and
give him the
Thanks of Lt Govr and Council for his Ser-
mon, and
desire a copy. This day a Burlesqe comes
out
upon
Hull-street, in a Travestie construing my Latin
verses.
Mr. Howard's Daughter [Sarah] is
married. The Pres-
ident1
refused to be among the Ministers at their annual
Meeting.
Monday, June. 2 -- 1701. Mr. Pemberton preaches the
Artillery
Sermon, from Luke. 3-14. Dine at
Monk's.
Because of
the Rain and Mist, this day, the election is made
upon the
Town-house, Sewall. Capt.;2
Tho. Hutchinson
Lieut.; Tho.
Savage junr, Ensign.; Tho. Fitch, 1 Sergt.:
1 The President of Harvard College was at
that time, and long after, re-
garded as
the head of the Ministers of the Province. -- EDS.
2 Sewall was now captain of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Com-
pany, an
organization which is still flourishing.
Although two editions of
its History,
by Z. G. Whitman (1820 and 1842), are in print, a few words
may be given
to this Boston company.
It was founded and chartered in 1638,
mainly by the exertions of Captain
Robert
Keayne, who had been admitted a member of the Honorable Artil-
lery Company
of London, May 6, 1623. Others of the
early members be-
longed to the
same English corps, and the claim of our company to be a
regular
off-shoot therefrom is acknowledged in the recent history of the
London
Company, by Captain G. A. Raikes. (London, 1878.)
During the Andros period, the company
was in abeyance; but in April,
1691,
Colonel Elisha Hutchinson was chosen commander, and Cotton Mather
preacher. From that time until the Revolution, the
company held regular
meetings. Then there was a necessary intermission until
1786, and Major
William Bell
was the commander chosen. The company
has since flourished,
and at
present musters a large number of members.
It enjoys various priv-
ileges, and
it is to be hoped that it will long preserve the remembrance of
the many
distinguished men who have belonged to it.
The sermons annually delivered before the
company have been by emi-
nent
divines, and a large number of them are in print. A copy of Mr.
Pemberton's
is in the Boston Athenreum, with the following title:--
"The
Souldier Defended and Directed: as it was Delivered in a Sermon
Preached to
the Artillery Company in Boston, on the day of their Election
of Officers,
June 2d, 1701. By Ebenezer Pemberton,
Pastor of a Church in
Boston.
Boston: Printed by B. Green and J. Allen, for Samuel Sewall,
Junior,
1701." pp. 42, and one page advertisement.-- EDS.
36 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1701.
Oliver Noyes
2: Hab. Savage 3: Charles Chauncey 4.
Call'd down
the Council out of the Chamber, set their
chairs
below; Col. Pynchon gave the Staves and Ensign.
I said was
surpris'd to see they had mistaken a sorry
pruning Hook
for a Military Spear; but paid such a def-
erence to
the Company that would rather run the venture
of exposing
my own inability, than give any occasion to
suspect I
slighted their call. To Sergt Fitch,
Doubted not
but if I
could give any thing tolerable words of comand,
he would
mend them in a vigorous and speedy per-
formance:
was glad of so good a Hand to me and the
Company (Mr.
Noyes abroad in the Gally). To Hab.
S[avage] The
savages are souldiers ex Traduce,. in imi-
tation of
his honrd father, Uncle, and Grandfather, hop'd
for worthy
performances from him. To Ch. Chauncy,
Had such a
honor for your Grandfather and father, that
was glad was
join'd with me in this Relation. Drew
out
before Mr.
Ushers, gave 3 volleys. Drew into the
Town-
house again;
sent Sergt Chauncy for Mr. Pemberton,
who said he
was glad to see the staff in my hand; pray'd
with
us. Had the company to my house, treated
them
with bread,
Beer, wine Sillibub. -- They order'd Capt.
Checkly and
me to Thank Mr. Pemberton for his Sermon,
which we did
on Tuesday, desiring a copy. June, 4.
Bror
comes to Town, I Treat him at Plyes: goes home.
Tuesday, June, 10th . Having last night heard that
Josiah
Willard had cut off his hair (a very full head of
hair) and
put on a Wigg, I went to him this morning.
Told his
Mother what I came about, and she call'd him.
I enquired
of him what Extremity had forced him to put
off his own
hair, and put on a Wigg? He answered,
none
at all. But said that his Hair was streight, and that
it
parted
behinde. Seem'd to argue that men might
as well
shave their
hair off their head, as off their face.
I an-
swered men
were men before they had hair on their faces,
(half of
mankind have never any). God seems to
have
1701.] DIARY OF
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ordain'd our
Hair as a Test, to see whether we can bring
our minds to
be content to be at his finding: or whether
we would be
our own Carvers, Lords, and come no more
at Him. If disliked our Skin, or Nails; 'tis no
Thanks to
us, that for
all that, we cut them not off: Pain and dan-
ger restrain
us. Your Calling is to teach men self
Denial.
Twill be
displeasing and burdensom to good men:
And
they that
care not what men think of them care not what
God thinks
of them. Father, Bror Simon,
Mr. Pemberton,
Mr.
Wigglesworth, Oakes, Noyes (Oliver), Brattle of Cam-
bridge 1
their example. Allow me to be so far a
Censor
Morum for
this end of the Town. Pray'd him to read
the
Tenth
Chapter of the Third book of Calvins Institutions.2
I read it
this morning in course, not of choice.
Told him
that it was
condemn'd by a Meeting of Ministers at North-
ampton in
Mr. Stoddards house, when the said Josiah was
there. Told him of the Solemnity of the Covenant
which
he and I had
lately enterd into, which put me upon dis-
coursing to
him. He seem'd to say would leave off
his
[Wigg when
his hair was grown. I spake to his
Father of
it a day or
two after: He thank'd me that had
discoursed
his Son, and
told me that when his hair was grown to
cover his
ears, he promis'd to leave off his Wigg.
If he
had known of
it, would have forbidden him. His Mother
heard him
talk of it; but was afraid positively to forbid
him; lest he
should do it, and so be more faulty.
June, 12.
Mr. Willard marries Mr. Pemberton and
Mrs. Mary
Clark. All Mr. Willard's family there,
as I am
informed,
and many others. Come to our Meeting the
next
Sabbath:
Monday, June, 30. Lt Govr said would go
to the Com-
encement
once more in his life-time; so would
adjourn
1 It is to be inferred that the worthies
here named wore no periwigs.
--EDS.
2
The subject of this chapter is, II Comment il faut user de la vie
presente
et ses
aides." -- EDS.
38 DIARY OF
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the Court to
Friday; and did so. But was very much
pain'd going
home. Mr. Nelson, Secretary, and I visit
him on
Tuesday to dissuade him from going, lest some ill
consequence
should hapen. He consented, and order'd
us to
present his Bowl. After Dinner and
singing, I took
it, had it
fill'd up, and drunk to the president, saying that
by reason of
the absence of him who was the Firmament
and Ornament
of the Province, and that Society, I pre-
sented that
Grace-cup pro more Academiarum in Anglia.
The
Providence of our Soveraign Lord is very investiga-
ble; in that
our Grace Cups, brim full, are passing round;
when our
Brethren in France are petitioning for their
Coup de
Grace. President made no oration.
Friday, July 4. The court Understanding the Lt Govr's
growing
illness, were loth to press him with business, and
sent Mr.
Secretary, Mr [Sewall?] Mr. Speaker and Mr.
White to
discourse his Honor, and propound an Adjourn-
ment. He agreed to it very freely. I said the Court was
afflicted
with the sense of his Honors indisposition; at
which he
rais'd himself up on his Couch. When
coming
away, he
reach'd out his hand; I gave him mine, and
kiss'd
his. He said before, Pray for me! This was the
last time I
ever saw his Honor. July 7th, Mr. Cooke,
Walley and I
set out for Ipswich. About the time got
thither the
Lt Govr died.
July 8.
Went to Newbury, eat Sturgeon at Major
Davison's. Went to Hampton; from thence, having time,
Major Walley
and I with our Men, Bairsto and Hasting,
went to
Exeter; eat at Capt. Gilmans, Lodg'd at Mr.
Clark's.
July 9. Mr. Clark. piloted us to
Squamscot,
where saw
Govr Bradstreets daughter, Mrs. Wiggins. To
Portsmouth. Lodg'd at Packers. In the Room where was
told of my
Fathers death, Govr Partridge told me of Mr.
Stoughtons
death Wednesday p.m. Mr. Epaphras Shrinton
writt it by
the post. July, 10. Went to Kittery, Major
Vaughan
accompanied us. Lodge there at Spruce-creek.
1701.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 39
July
11. Major Wally and I ride to the Bank
[Straw-
berry
]. July 12. Bairsto and I alone goe to
Newbury
betime, over
Carr's Bridge. Dine at Bror
Tapans visit
Acch. Woodman; lodge at sister Gerrishes.
July 13.
Lords-day, Major Noyes shews me the Proc-
lamation of
the 10th Publishing the Lt Governours death 1
and
confirming Military officers.
July. 14, p.m. Mr. Cooke and Walley being now come
to Town, rid
towards Ipswich; I turn'd off to Cousin
Dummers,
visited her. Then to the Falls, Bror
piloting
us, lodge in
sister Moodey's Brick House; which has an
excellent
foundation.
July, 15th. Funeral-day of Lt Govr. To Ipswich; Try
Esther
Rogers. Jury next morn ask'd advice, then
after,
brought her
in Guilt of murdering her Bastard daugh-
ter. July, 17.
Mr. Cooke pronounc'd the sentence.
She hardly
said a word. I told her God had put two
Children to
her to nurse: Her Mother did not serve
her
so. Esther was a great saviour; she, a great
destroyer.
Said did not
do this to insult over her, but to make her
sensible.
18.
Rid to Salem in a little time, Sun almost down
when went
from Ipswich; yet got thither before the Bell
rung. Lodg'd at daughter Hirst's. 19th. ride home with
my wife in a
Calash with Joseph. Were in great danger
by the pin
of the Axeltree traping out, but Sam and Bair-
sto spied it
and cried out before the wheel was quite worn
off. 22. rid
to Dorchester Lecture, only I was in the Lt
Governours Pue.
27. Go into mourning for the Lt Govr
30th Court sits.
Augt 1. Choose Major Gen1
[Win-
throp] chief-justice, Mr. Saffin Justice, Mr. Cooke
Judge
1 William Stoughton, Lieutenant-Governor of
the Province, was born at
Dorchester,
in 1632. His career and character will
be found described in
Sibley's II
Harvard Graduates," pp. 194-208. He
was a graduate of Harvard,
and bestowed
upon it the first Stoughton Hall, land in Dorchester, and other
gifts. He
was never married. -- EDS.
40 DIARY OF
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Probats,
without any mentioning the inconvenience of
that
authoritye resting in one mans breast.
Capt. By-
field Judge
of Bristol-Court. Mr. Saffin had
14. They
that sign'd
his Comission are W. Winthrop, James Rus-
sell, Elisha
Cooke, Jno Hathorne, Wm Browne, Elisha
Hutchinson,
Jonathan Corwin, Jn° Higginson, Peter Ser-
geant, Jn°
Foster, Joseph Lynde, Em Hutchinson, Penn
Townsend,
Benja Browne, John Thacher.l
Have much adoe to get a number to sign the
Majr Genls
Comission. If had not withdrawn his paper, supose he
would not
have had a number; 'tis said Several Deputies
have entered
their dissent against the Agency.
Augt 11.
Go down to the Castle to try to compose
the
differences between the Capt. and Col. Romer:
Order
that the
Line next the Chanel be presently finished with
the
Brick-Work.2 I told the young
men that if any in-
temperat
Language proceeded from Col. Romer, twas not
intended to
countenance that, or encourage their imita-
tion: but observe his direction in things wherein
he was
Skillful and
ordered to govern the work: or to that effect.
Lest should
be thought the Council had too much wink'd
at his
cursing and swearing, which was complained of.
1 The Council was placed, by the death
of both the Governor and Lieu-
tenant-Governor,
in supreme control. There were
twenty-seven members,
but many
were residents of places remote from Boston.
The Council held
power from
July 7, 1701, till the arrival of. Gov. Joseph Dudley, June 11,
1702. As Stoughton was also Chief Justice of the
Superior Court, Saffin
was elected
to fill the vacancy, and Winthrop was promoted to be Chief.
-- EDS.
2 We have already spoken of Col. Romer
(Vol. I. 488). Shurtleff, 492,
493, gives
the copy of an inscription which was on a slab placed over the
entrance to
the fort. In the "Description"
he terms it a white slab; but in
the
"Boston Transcript" of Oct. 17, 1861, he calls it a slate stone. He refers
to the fact
that one-half of the stone, divided vertically, was preserved, but
does not say
where it was. Very recently a fragment,
doubtless the one he
means,
although his description is to be taken as the heraldic dexter side,
was
discovered amid some rubbish in the cellars of the Boston Athenreum.
It has been
transferred, for safe-keeping, to the gallery of the Massachusetts
Historical
Society. -- EDS.
1701.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 41
Augt. 19th. Sign an order for Capt. Crow to cruise to
Tarpolin
Cove because of some suspected vessels there, as
Govr
Cranston informs.
Mr. Saffin takes his Oath, Mr. Secretary
administers it,
and Mr.
Russel and Col. Hutchinson attest it.
This morn-
ing, Vae
Malum, Capt. Hunting accidentally shoots him-
self dead.
Mr. Em. Hutchinson cut his hand
last Satterday between
his left
Thumb and fore finger; It bled pretty much to-
day. Came to Council but would not sign, because
his
right hand
was occupied in holding his Left, to prevent
bleeding. Mr. Sergeant sign'd for him at his Request.
Septr. 8. rid to Rehoboth with
Mr Cooke, Major Wal-
ley; Mr.
Saffin went last week.
Sept. 9. to Bristow. Mr. Saffin and others met us near
the
Ferry. Peter Walker charg'd Mr. Saffin
with urging
a man to
swear that which he scrupled to swear.
Septr. 11. Mr. Saffin tampered with Mr. Kent, the
Foreman, at
Capt. Reynold's, which he denyed at Osburn's.
Conived at
his Tenant Smith's being on the Jury, in the
case between
himself and Adam [a negro], about his
Freedom. 7r 12.
Broke fast at Mr. Brenton's. Mr.
Cooke and I
rid to Billinges, near ½ the way in the
night.
7r
13. home between 12 and 1. Vessel arrives from
England that
brings News of Sir Henry [Ashurst] oposing
Col.
Dudley's being Govr: 4 of the Council; viz: Win-
throp,
Cooke, Hutchinson Elisha, Sergeant are said to
have written
to him.
Septr 17th. Wentworth arrives, in whom comes Capt.
Richards and
wife, Dudley Woodbridge, N. Henchman,
Martin,
Bonus, &c. Brings a Letter to the Lt
Govr with
a Bill of
Lading for 50 Barrels powder given by the
King.
Monday, 7r 29. Training of the Foot Company: In
the
Afternoon, I waited on Mr. Mather to desire his
Apointmt
of a Meeting of the Comissioners [of the Society
42 DIARY OF
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for
Propagating the Gospel]. He tells me he
is going to
Lin
tomorrow; and shall not return till next week: I
tell him I
will wait on him then.
Monday, Octr 6. 1701. Very pleasant fair Wether;
Artillery
trains in the Afternoon [Sewall in command].
March with
the Company to the Elms; Go to prayer,
March down
and Shoot at a Mark. Mr. Cushing I think
was the
first that hit it, Mr. Gerrish twice, Mr. Fitch,
Chauncy, and
the Ensign of the Officers. By far the
most missed,
as I did for the first. Were much
contented
with the
exercise. Led them to the Trees agen,
per-
form'd some
facings and Doublings. Drew them
together;
propounded
the question about the Colours; twas voted
very freely
and fully. I inform'd the Company I was
told
the
Company's Halberds &c. were borrowed; I understood
the Leading
staff was so, and therefore ask'd their Ac-
ceptance of
a Half-Pike, which they very kindly did; I
deliver'd it
to Mr. Gibbs for their Use.
They would needs give me a Volley, in
token of their
Respect on
this occasion. The Pike will, I supose,
stand
me in fourty
shillings, being headed and shod with Silver:
Has this
Motto fairly engraven:
Agmen
Massachusettense
est in
tutelam Sponsae
AGNI Uxoris.
1701.
The Lord help us to answer the
Profession. Were
treated by
the Ensign in a fair chamber. Gave a
very
handsome
Volley at Lodging the Colours. The
Training
in Septr.
was a very fair day, so was this.
Thorsday, Octobr 9th. 1701.
Peter Sergeant Esqr. mar-
ries my Lady
Mary Phips.
Octr 10th. Send my wife and me Gloves and Cake. Col.
Hutchinson,
Mr. Addington, Foster, Townsend, Bromfield,
Stoddard,
Burroughs, visit the Bridegroom and Bride, and
1701.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 43
sup there
with Roast-Beef, Venison Pasty, Cake and
cheese. Betty came yesterday to see us. Bror and his
daughter
came, and go home to day. Mr. Sergeant
dwells
at my Ladies
house and Major Hobbie comes into his,
[afterwards
the Province House].
Wednesday Octr 15. Court meets, draw up a new
Address;
send that and their former with the Memorial to
Mr.
Constantine Phips,l with 100£ Sterling Money of
England, for
to recompence his former service.
Octr 18., or thereabout, Mr.
Foster and Cooke had a hot
discourse
about Mr. [President] Mather; Capt. Foster
moving for a
Quarter's Salary. I spake that he might
have it.
8r 18. The Court is prorogued to the tenth of De-
cembr
at 9 mane.
Octr 19. Mr. Sergeant and his Bride come to our
Meeting forenoon
and afternoon.
Octr 20. [In Margin -- Opprobrium. Mr. Cotton
Mather
speaks hard words of me.] Mr. Cotton
Mather
came to Mr.
Wilkins's 2 shop, and there talked very sharply
against me
as if I had used his father worse than a Neger;
spake so
loud that people in the street might hear him.
Then went
and told Sam, That one pleaded much for Ne-
gros, and he
had used his father worse than a Negro, and
told him
that was his Father. I had read in the
morn Mr.
Dod's
saying; Sanctified Afflictions are good Promotions.
I found it
now a cordial. And this caus'd me the
rather
1 Sir Constantine Phips was an eminent
lawyer, Lord Chancellor of Ire-
land in
1714, and died in 1723. His grandson was
made Lord Mulgrave in
the Irish
peerage in 1767; in England, the third baron was made Earl of
Mulgrave in
1812, and his son was created Marquess of Normandy in 1838.
No
connection is known to have existed between Sir Constantine and Sir
William
Phips, despite the fables of the peerages, beginning with Archdat's.
See also
Vol. I. p. 2~4, note. -- EDS.
2 Mr. Richard Wilkins has already been
mentioned in our first volume,
p. 452,
note. -- EDS.
44 DIARY OF
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to set under
my Father and Mother's Epitaph, -- Psal. 27.
10.1
It may be it would be arrogance for me to
think that
I, as one of
Christ's Witnesses, am slain, or ly dead in the
street.
Octr 9. I sent Mr. Increase Mather a Hanch of very
good
Venison; I hope in that I did not treat him as a
Negro. !
8r 20. Mr. Pemberton and his wife visit Daughter
Hirst; pray
with her.
Octobr 22. 1701. I, with Major Walley and Capt. Saml
Checkly,
speak with Mr. Cotton Mather at Mr. Wilkins's.
I
expostulated with him from 1 Tim. 5. 1.
Rebuke not
an
elder. He said he had consider'd
that: I told him of
his book of
the Law of Kindness for the Tongue, whether
this were
correspondent with that. Whether
correspond-
ent with
Christ's Rule: He said, having spoken to
me
before there
was no need to speak to me again; and so
justified
his reviling me behind my back. Charg'd
the
Council with
Lying, Hypocrisy, Tricks, and I know not
what all [in
Margin-Surreptitious]. I ask'd him if it
were done
with that Meekness as it should; answer'd,
yes. Charg'd the Council in general, and then
shew'd my
share, which
was my speech in Council; viz. If Mr.
Mather
should goe
to Cambridge again to reside there with a Res-
olution not
to read the Scriptures, and expound in the
Hall: I fear
the example of it will do more hurt than his
going
thither will doe good. This speech I
owned. Said
Mr. Corwin
at Reading, upbraided him, saying, This is the
man you
dedicat your books to! I ask'd him If I
should
supose he
had done somthing amiss in his Church as an
Officer;
whether it would be well for me to exclaim
against him
in the street for it. (Mr. Wilkin would
fain
1 "When my father and my mother
forsake me, then the Lord will take
me up."
-- EDS.
1701.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 45
have had him
gon into the iner room, but he would not.)
I told him I
conceiv'd he had done much unbecoming a
Minister of
the Gospel, and being call' d by Maxwell to
the Council,
Major Wally and I went thither, leaving
Capt.
Checkly there. 2 Tim. 2. 24. 25. Went to the
Council,
Sign'd Mr. Mather's order for £25.
Hamer'd
out an
Ol'der for a Day of Thanksgiving.
Thorsday, Octr 23. Mr. Increase Mather said at Mr.
Wilkins's,
If I am a Servant of Jesus Christ, some great
Judgment
will fall on Capt. Sewall, or his family.
Octr 24. Rainy Day, yet Judge Atwood comes from
Rehoboth to
Boston. 25. Visits several, and me among
the
rest. This day in the morn. I got Mr. Moody to
copy out my
Speech, and gave it to Mr. Willkins that all
might see
what was the ground of Mr Mather's Anger.
Writ out another and gave it to Joshua
Gee. I per-
ceive Mr.
Wilkins carried his to Mr. Mathers; They seem
to grow
calm. (On Friday received Mr. Fitch's Letter
and
Blessing.) Receive the News of Sister
Sewall's being
brought to,
Bed of a Son, which is the Sixth; and the
fifteenth
Child. Messenger came in when Judge
Atwood
here. Son Hirst comes to Town. Was in danger to be
cast away
coming over the Ferry, the wind was so very
high. Mr. Chiever visits me this Afternoon.
Octobr 28. 1701. Mr. William Atwood Takes the Oaths
and
subscribes the Declaration and Association, to qualify
himself to
exercise his Authority here as Judge of the
Admiralty.l He ask'd for a Bible: but Mr. Cooke said
1
Very little has been written about the officers of the Crown during our
colonial
period. In Washburn's Judicial History
of Massachusetts, pp. 175,
185, it is
stated that the first Judge of Admiralty was Wait Still Winthrop,
commissioned
in 1699. Atwood succeeded him, with
Thomas Newton for
Deputy. In 1703 the district seems to have been
divided, Roger Mompes-
son taking
New York, and Nathaniel Byfield Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
and New
Hampshire.
In 1715 Byfield was; superseded by John
Menzies, a Scotchman, who died
at Boston
Sept. 20, 1728. Robert Auchmuty then
held till Byfield was re-
46 DIARY OF
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our Custom
was to Lift up the hand; then he said no more,
but used
that Ceremony. His Comission was first
read be-
fore the
Council. At going away, he thanked me
for, The
Selling of
Joseph, saying twas an ingenious Discourse.
Thus a considerable part of Executive
Authority is now
gon out of
the hands of New England men.1
Novr 1. 1701. Bastian has a Daughter born, he being
at the
Castle; He calls her Jane. Novr 2. She is bap-
tised by Mr.
Allen; Bastian holds her up. Deacon Isa.
Tay is
Ordained at the same time; Mr. Allen and --
Wadsworth
[Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, colleague minis-
ter of First
Church] lay their hands on him. Joseph
went to that
Meeting in the Afternoon, and brought us
this
word. Hanah Davis, and Bumsteds daughter
are
taken into
Our Church. Monday, Novr 11. 1701. Majr
Genl.
Winthrop, Mr. Cooke, Sewall, Saffin set out for Sa-
lem to keep
Court. Going in the Calash and
benighted,
I lodge at
Hart's and go thence in the morning early.
Major Walley
is released, and promises not to ask to stay
at home
again, till I have had my Turn.
A complaint was prefer'd against
Woodbridge at New-
bury Court,
Jury cleer'd him. James Wise, the Com-
plainant,
Apeals. Action was dismiss'd; because a
man
being
Acquitted by a Jury, ought not to be Try'd again.
Rioters that
were fined Ten pounds apiece, were now fined
twenty
shillings, great pains having been used to bring
them quite
off; but the Jury confirm'd their former Judg-
ment and
were directed by the Court only to say Guilty.
commissioned,
in 1728-29. Byfield held till his death,
in 1733, with Na-
thaniel Hubbard
for Deputy in Bristol for part of the time.
Auchmuty succeeded Byfield until 1747,
when Chambers Russell was ap-
pointed
Judge, with George Cradock, and later with William Reed, Deputy.
Robert
Auchmuty, Jr., was Russell's Successor, and held until the Revo-
lution. --
EDS.
1 A sentence burdened with much sad
feeling for the writer as he marked
the steady
transfer of authority to crown officials, while local government was
impaired. --
EDS.
1701.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 47
The Salem
Justices were much disgusted at this man-
agement and
sentence: I dissented from it as too small a
Plaister for
so great a Sore.
Satterday, Novr 15th Went
home. Major Gen1 Win-
throp, Mr.
Cooke, Saffin, Mrs. Ane, by Charlestown, I
was forced
to go to Winisimet; because my Horse was to
be had back
by Cous. Sam. Sewall. Had very
comfortable
going and
coming home. Find all well. I lodg'd at my
Son and
Daughter Hirst's. Laus Deo.
Boston, N. E. Novr 19.
1701. The Court gave Sentence
that the Law
for Reviews bars Mr. Cooke &c. their Action
against Col.
Paige, Mr. Saffin was of that opinion
also.
Super. Court
adjourn'd to Friday respecting Mr. Pain.
In
the Court
held at Boston July 27. 1686, When Col. Paiges
case was
Tryed: Jury
Gervase Ballard Francis
Foxcroft
Benj. Alford John
Bird
Tho Clark
Tobias Davis
Willm Blake
Joseph Crosby
John Hersey
Tho. Fuller
Edw.Adams
Nathanl Stearns
At the Court
of Appeals, Novembr 2. 1686.
Joseph Lynde
Samson Sheaf Dudley
Francis Burroughs Stoughton
William White Bulkley
Daniel Brewer Wharton
John Breck Gedney
John Minott Randolph
Peter Woodward W.
Winthrop
William Dean Jn°
Usher
Samuel Goff Edw.
Tyng.
John Hamond
John Morse
48 DIARY OF
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Novr 23.1701. John Joyliffe Esqr. dies. He had been
blind, and
laboured under many Infirmities for a long
time.1 Mr. Brunsdon died the night before: and one
Birds-eye a
few days before; 3 men. Jno Arnolds wife is
also
dead. I wish it do not prove a sickly
time after long
Health.
Mr. Nicholas Noyes of Newbury, aoed about
86 years,
died on the
Lords-Day 9r 23. 1701. Mr.
Oliver Purchas,
late of Lin,
now of Concord, is to be buried this week.
Bearers of
Mr. Joyliffe; Mr. Cooke, Addington, Sergeant,
Anth.
Cheekly, Elm Hutchinson, Mr. Saffin.
Sabbath, Novr 30. I went to the Manifesto church to
hear Mr.
Adams; Mr. Coleman was praying when I went
in, so that
I thought my self disapointed. But his
Prayer
was short;
When ended, he read distinctly the 137, and
138th.
Psalms, and the seventh of Joshua, concerning the
conviction,
sentence, and execution of Achon. Then
sung
the second
part of the Sixty ninth Psalm. Mr.
Brattle
set it to
Windsor Tune. Then Mr. Adams pray'd very
well, and
more largely: And gave us a very good
Ser-
mon from
Gal. 4. 18. Doct. It is just and
comendable
&c. Mr. Adams gave the Blessing.
In the Afternoon Mr. Adams made a short
Prayer, read
the 139th.
Psalm, and the six and twentieth chapter of the
Acts; Then
Agripa said -- Sung. Mr. Coleman made a
very good
Sermon from Jer. 31. 33. -- and will be their
God, and
they shall be my people.
Pray'd, sung -- Contribution. Gave the Blessing. I
spent this Sabbath
at Mr. Colman's, partly out of dislike
to Mr.
Josiah Willard's cutting off his Hair, and wearing
1 John Joyliffe was one of the connecting
links with the first settlers.
He married,
in 1657, Anna, widow of Robert Knight, and previously widow
of Thomas
Cromwell, that rich privateer, who settled in Boston. Cromwell
is mentioned
by Winthrop in his Journal, II. 964, as having been, in 1636,
a comnion
seaman in the "Massachasetts," and thus one of the first genera-
tion here.
-- EDS.
170 1/2] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 49
a Wigg: He preach'd for Mr. Pemberton in the morn-
ing; He that
contemns the Law of Nature, is not fit to be
a publisher
of the Law of Grace: Partly to give an
Example of
my holding Comunion with that Church who
renounce the
Cross in Baptisme, Humane Holydays &c. as
other
New-english Churches doe. And I had
spent a
Sabbath at
the Old Church, and at Mr. Mathers. And
I
thought if I
should have absented my self in the forenoon
only, it
might have been more gravaminous to Mr. Wil-
lards
friends than keeping there all day. I
perceive by
several,
that Mr. Coleman's people were much gratified
by my giving
them my Company, Several considerable
persons
express'd themselves so. The Lord
cleanse me
from all my
Iniquity &c. Jer. 33. 8. and 16. which chap-
ter read in
course xr. 5th 1701.
Decr 24. 1701. Sam sets out for Newbury with Capt.
Somersby;
went away about ½ hour past 12.
Jany. 2, 170 1/2. My Wife had some thoughts the Time of
her Travail
might be come, before she went to bed:
But
it went
over. Between 4 and 5 m. I go to prayer, Rise,
make a Fire,
call Mrs. Ellis, Hawkins, Mary Hawkins calls
Mid wife
Greenlef. I go to Mr. Willard and desire
him to
call
God. The Women call me into chamber, and
I pray
there. Jn° Barnard comes to me for Money: I desire
him to
acquaint Mr. Cotton Mather, and Father.
Jany. 2. 170 1/2. My Wife is
well brought to Bed of
a Daughter
just about two p.m., a very cold day:
Was got
into Bed
without a fainting Fit.
Sabbath-day night my wife is very ill and
something
delirious. Pulse swift and high. I call Mr. Oakes about
Two aclock
or before. Grows a little better.
Jany. 6. 170 1/2 Nurse Hill
watch'd last night. Wife had
a
comfortable night.
Vol. II.
50 DIARY OF
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MEMORANDUM.
Sarah Sewall was born Novr 21.
1694. Baptised p Mr.
Willard Novr
25. Died Decr 23. Was buried xr. 25.
1696. A dear amiable Son of Samuel Sewall and Hanah
his wife,
was Still-born May, 21. 1696.
Judith Sewall was born upon Friday, Jany
2. at two in
the
Afternoon, Hanah Greenlef Midwife, Judd Nurse.
Lords-Day,
Jany. 4. p.m., Was baptised
by the Reverd Mr.
Ebenezer
Pemberton. It being his Turn: because The
Revd
Mr. Willard administered the Lord's super just be-
fore. So is a New Midwife, and a New Baptiser. What
through my
wives many illnesses, more than ordinary,
her fall
upon the stairs about 5 weeks before; from which
time she
kept her chamber; her thoughtfullness between
whiles
whether she were with child or no; her Fears what
the issue
would be, and the misgiving of our Unbelieving
hearts, GOD
hath been wonderfully Mercifull to us in her
comfortable
Delivery; which I desire to have Recorded.
Note. This is the Thirteenth Child that I have
offered
up to God in
Baptisme; my wife having born me Seven
Sons and
Seven Daughters. I have named this
little
Daughter
Judith, in Remembrance of her honoured and
beloved
Grandmother Mrs. Judith Hull. And
it may be
my dear wife
may now leave off bearing. For my former
Children,
See p. 124. 125 [in Journal, ante, Vol. I. pp.
383, 384].
Jany. 8. 170 1/2 Mr. Incr. Mather preaches the Lecture
from Gen.
18. 24. Doct. The Wicked many times fare
the better
for the sake of the Godly, Hopes for England
and N. E.
because many Righteous ones in both.
About
4. Alice
Macdonel is buried. Mr. Lynde and I were
there
as Overseers
of the poor. This day agreed with Nurse
Randal to
suckle Judith.
Friday Jany. 9. 170 1/2 Buy a
Wicker Cradle for Judith
of Tho Hunt;
which cost Sixteen Shillings.
1701.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 51
My wife puts on her Cloaths, and sits up
in the Bed.
Jany 10. My Wife gets on to the Pallat Bed in her
Cloaths, and
there keeps, While Linen Curtains are put up
within the
Serge; and is refresh'd by it.
Jany 12. 170 1/2 The Harbour is open acain, and pretty
well freed
from the Ice. Jany 13 m. I pray'd earnestly by
my self and
in the family for a Nurse; Went and ex-
postulated
with Mr. Hill about his daughters failing me;
in the
chamber: In the mean time, one of his
family
went, and call'd the Nurse and, I brought her home
with
me; which
was beyond my expectation. For Mr. Jesse
huff'd and ding'd,
and said he would lock her up, and she
should not
come. I sent not for her, So I hope twas
an
Answer of
Prayer.
Friday, Jany 16. My Wife Treats her Midwife and
Women: Had a good Dinner, Boil'd Pork, Beef, Fowls;
very good
Rost Beef, Turkey-Pye, Tarts. Madam
Usher
carve'd Mrs.
Hanah Greenlef ; Ellis, Cowell, Wheeler, John-
son, and her
daughter Cole, Mrs. Hill our Nurses Mother,
Nurse
Johnson, Hill, Hawkins, Mrs. Goose, Deming, Green,
Smith,
Hatch, Blin. Comfortable, moderat
wether: and
with a good
fire in the Stove warm'd the Room.
Jany. 17. We hear that Mrs. Sam. Brown of Salem is
dead, and
the first child she had. She earnestly
desired
a child,
having been a pretty while married. Col.
Turn-
eris sister.
Jany 18. Storm of snow: but not very cold.
Jany 20. between 11 and
12. Farnum the Father, was
pecking, Ice
off the Mill-wheel, slipt in and was carried
and crush'd,
and kill'd, with the wheel. Elder Copp
and
Mr. Walley
came to call cousin Savage at my house.
Note.
Last night were under awfull aprehensions, lest
the House
was on fire, there was such a smoke and smell
in the
cellar like as of a Colepit. Got Joseph
Clark to view
it and
neibour Cole. Could find nothing. Cole supos'd
twas a Steem
by reason of the cold. Many watch'd but
52 DIARY OF
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found
nothing. And blessed be God, the House
is still
standing.
Jany 22. 170 1/2 Sam. comes home in company of his
unkle
Moodey, Bror and Sister Hirst.
Jany. 23. Bror
Moodey goes
home.
Satterday, Jany. 24. 4 post meridiem. Mary Bowtel of
Cambrige was
burnt to death in her own fire, being in
a Fit as is
supos'd. Her right arm, and left Hand,
were
burnt quite
off; her bowels burnt out, &c.
Coroner Green
told us this
at Charlestown, Jany 27. Tis
very remarkable
that two
such awfully violent Deaths should fall out in
one and the
same week at Boston and Cambridge.
Jany 30. 1701 / 2 Cousin Moodey of York comes to see
me: upon
enquiry about a Hebrew word, I found he had
no Lexicon;
and I gave him my Buxtorf.
Jany 31. 1701 /2 William
Parsons of 88 years, is buried.
Was in the
fifth-monarchy fray in London: 1 but slipt away
in the
Crowd.
Febr. 1.
William Willard and William Blin were bap-
tised by Mr.
Willard. At the funeral Mr. Chiever told
me he
enter'd his 88th. year 25. Janr, and is now the oldest
man in
Boston.
Febr. 2. Very sore storm of Rain and Hail and Snow.
Hunting is
cast away on the Rocks of Marblehead.
Comes
from the
Bay; his company and he lost.
A man dround in the Cellar of the
Queens-head Tav-
ern: went to take out the plug, and dropt in. It seems
had the
falling sickness. No Sun-shine this day.
Wednesday, Febr 11th. The Gazette that Andover
1 This riot in London occurred Jan. 6,
1661. The ringleader was Thomas
Venner,
formerly a cooper at Salem, a freeman in 1638, and a member
of the
Artillery Company. Some time after 1651,
he went to England,
and April 9,
1657, he began a little riot in London in favor of a republic and
against the
assumption of the crown by Cromwell. But
in 1661 he incited
a more
formidable riot; and, after a stout resistance, he was captured and
hanged. See Palfrey, II. 304 and 434. -- EDS.
1701 /2.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 53
Adress
presented Octobr 9th
relating to their Dr. Wales,
I read it at
Col. Hutchinson's in hearing of 12 or 13 of
the Council,
were there waiting for the Majr Genls Rising.
This Gazett
comes by way of New-York. Febr. 14. This
last week
has been a week of extraordinary cold Wether.
Last night I
dream'd I was in company with Mr. Stough-
ton and Mr.
N. Higginson.
Thorsday, Febr. 19. Mr. I. Mather preached
from Rev.
22. 16 bright and morning Star. Mention'd Sign in
the Heaven,
and in the Evening following I saw a large
Cometical
Blaze, something fine and dim, pointing from
the
Westward, a little below Orion.
Febr. 21. Capt. Timo. Clark
tells me that a Line drawn
to the Comet
strikes just upon Mexico, spake of a Revo-
lution
there, how great a Thing it would be.
Said one
Whitehead
told him of the magnificence of the City, that
there were
in it 1500 Coaches drawn with Mules. This
Blaze had
much put me in mind of Mexico; because we
must look
toward Mexico to view it. Capt. Clark
drew
a Line on
his Globe. Our Thoughts being thus
confer'd,
and found to
jump, makes it to me remarkable. I have
long pray'd
for Mexico, and of late in those Words, that
God would
open the Mexican Fountain.
Febr. 21. This day Goodw- Pope, and John Wait dye.
Febr. 22, 170 1/ 2 My Wife goes to Meeting in the After-
noon, after
long Restraint.
Febr. 23. Goodw. Pope is buried. Capt Byfield and I
and the
Select-Men, and about 12 women there; Cowel,
Wheeler, Calef
&c. One or two Bacons, her
Grandsons,
followed
next.
Febr. 25.
Archibald Macquerry has a son born at
Charlestown
without Arms.
Jn° Wait is buried; Genl Court
Sat, and I think none
of the
Council at the Funeral.
Febr. 26.
Sixteen of the Council sign an order for
making
Dracot a Town.
54 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1702.
Feb. 28.
Yesterday Mr. Cookes Petition to enable him
to sue Col.
Paige for his Farm, was brought forward.
I
moved that
Col. Paige might be Notified and 4 more.
Mr. Cooke
seemed displeas'd, and in way of Displeasure
said twas to
delay his Business: was sorry I was so far
engag'd in
it. For this, and because of Sherbourn
case,
I chose to
stay from Council this Forenoon; that might
avoid being
present when suspected, or charg'd with Pre-
judice. Sam. brings word of a Ship from England 19
weeks; last
from Fayall, In whom is Mr. Brenton.
Capt Scott arrives, in whom comes Mr.
Brenton, Febr.
28.
1701/2.
March, 11. 1701 / 2 In the Afternoon, there are great
Southerly
Gusts and Showers; Considerable Thunder and
Lightening. Last night between 10 and 11, A great Fire
brake out in
Mr. Thomson's Warehouse upon the Dock:
Seven or
Eight of the chief Warehouses were burnt and
blown up. 'Tis said the Fire began in that part which
Monsr.
Bushee hires. About half a Ship's
Loading was
lately taken
into it.
Satterday, March, 14. 1701 /2 at 5 p.m. Capt. John
Alden
expired; Going to visit him, I hapened to be there
at the time.
May,
1. Whitehorn arrives: Came from Falmouth
March,
12. Ld Cornbury 1
came out with. Rains in the
Afternoon,
after much Drought. May, 2. Great storm,
very fierce
Wind. A Briganteen is driven up the Har-
bour, and
into the Mill-Crick with such Fury that she car-
rys away the
Drawbridge before her.
May. 4, 1702. Artillery Compa Trains, Rainy day;
So
we exercise
on the Town-House in the morn. Mr. Pit-
kin, Capt
Whiting, Comissioners for Connecticut about
Runing the
Line, Dine with us. Mr. Colman and
Adams,
1 The new Governor of New York. He was grandson of the first Earl of
Clarendon,
and cousin of Queen Anne. -- EDS.
1702.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 55
Major Hobby,
Capt. Pelham, Southack, Ephr. Savage,
Mr. Paul Dudley,
Will Dumer, Edw. Hutchinson, &c. In
the
Afternoon went into Comon; Major Hobby, Will
Dumer, Ned
Hutchinson, Oliver Williams and another,
Listed. Major Hobby was introduced by Col. Hutchin-
son, He and
I vouch'd for him. Mr. Elisha Cooke junr
mov'd to be
dismiss'd, which when he had paid his Ar-
rears, was
granted by Vote with a Hiss. Went to
Pol-
lards to
avoid the Rain. March'd out and shot at
a Mark.
Before they
began, I told the Company that I had call'd
them to
shoot in October, and had not my self hit the
Butt; I was
willing to bring my self under a small Fine,
such as a
single Justice might set; and it should be to
him who made
the best Shott. Mr. Gerrish and Ensign
John Noyes
were the competitors, At Pollards, by a Brass
Rule, Ens. Noyes's
Shot was found to be two inches and
a half
nearer the centre, than Mr. John Gerrishes; His
was on the
right side of the Neck; Ensign Noyes's on the
Bowels a
little on the Left and but very little more than
G. on the
Right of the middle-Line When I had
heard
what could
be said on both sides, I J udg' d for Ensign
Noyes, and
gave him a Silver cup I had provided engraven
May. 4. 1702.
Euphratem Siccare potes.1
Telling him,
it was in Token of the value I had for that
virtue in
others, which I my self could not attain to.
March'd into
Comon and concluded with Pray'r. Pray'd
in the morn
on the Townhouse, Praying for the Churches
by
Name. After Diner, We Sung four staves
of the 68th.
PS. viz.
first Part and the 9. and 10th
verses of the 2d. with
regard to
the plentifull Rain on the 1 and 2 May and
now, after
great Drought; Mr. Dering mov'd we might
1 See Rev. XVI. 12. The drying up of Euphrates, as. a prophetic
symbol,
engaged much
of Judge Sewall's interest. See Vol. I.
p. 69, note. But the cup
was probably
used for other liquids. -- EDS.
56 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1702.
sing. Some objected against our singing so much; I
answer'd,
Twas but Four Deep. Were Treated at
Major
Savages.
Satterday, May 9. 1702. By this days Post we hear
that my Lord
Cornbury arriv'd, a Thorsday was senight,
at New
York. May, 9. This day, several of the Gentle-
men of the
Council go to the Castle. As they came
up,
Miller was
going down. And a little after they
pass'd
him his ship
overset. A Swisse Boy drown'd.
Visit Sister Moodey twice in Kittery
Circuit. May 19th
Mr. James
How, a good Man of Ipswich, 104 years old, is
buried. Died I think on Lords-Day night, just about
the
time the
News of the Kings Death was brought from
Madera.
May, 28.
Burrington from New-found-Land brings
Prints of
the King's death March, 8. at 8 m.
Queen's
Speech to
her Lords at St James's. Lords Spiritual
and
Temporal,
their Address; Queen's Speech to the Parlia-
ment;
Several Addresses; and at last the Gazette con-
taining the
Proclaiming the Queen, came to Hand: Then
we resolv'd
to proclaim her majesty here: Which was
done
accordingly below the Town-house.
Regiment
drawn up,
and Life-Guard of Horse; Council, Repre-
sentatives,
Ministers, Justices, Gentlemen taken within
the Guard;
Mr Secretary on foot read the order of the
Council, the
Proclamation, and Queen's Proclamation for
continuing
Comissions. Mr. Sheriff Gookin gave it
to the
people. Volleys, Guns. Went into chamber to drink,
and there
had the sad news of the Taking of 3 Salem
Catches by
the Cape-Sable Indians; one of them Col.
Higginson's:
David Hills, and one of the Masters kill'd
This arrived
at Salem this day, and was sent per Express,
one of the men
swore it before the Council. Proclama-
tion was
made between 3 and 4. At 5. p.m. Madam
Bellingham
dies, a vertuous Gentlewoman, antiquis Mori-
bus, prisca
fide, who has
liv'd a widow just about 30
1702.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 57
years.1 May, 31. 146.
Ps. sung, and Mr. Pemberton
preaches a
Funeral sermon for the King, from the 3d and
4th verses
of that Psalm.
June, 1, 1702. Artillery election-Day. Mr. Colman
preaches
from Heb. 11. 33. Sermon is well liked
of.
Had much
adoe to persuade Mr. Willard to dine with me.
Said
Ministers were disgusted because the Representatives
went first
at the Proclaiming the Queen;2 and that by
order of our
House. But at last he came: I went for
him, leaving
my Guests. No Mather, Allen, Adams
there.
But there
were Mr. Torrey, Willard, Simes, Thacher, Bel-
char and
many more. No Mr. Myles, Bridge,
[Ministers
of King's
Chapel.] No Capt of Frigat. Tho the last were
invited. June. 10. 1702. Comittee Tryes Powder, and
firing so
much and long distempered me; that partly by
that, and
partly by my Wives intolerable pains, I had a
most
restless night. June, 11. Thorsday, before I was
dress'd,
Sam. Gave the Word that Govr [Joseph Dudley]
was
come. Quickly after I got down, Maxwell
sumoned
me to
Council, told me the Secretary had a Letter of the
Governours
Arrival yesterday, at Marblehead. Mr.
Ad-
dington,
Eliakim Hutchinson, Byfield and Sewall, sent per
the Council,
go with Capt Crofts in his Pinace to meet the
Governour,
and Congratulat his Arrival; We get aboard a
1 This was another of the links to the
first generation. The lady was
Penelope,
sister of Herbert Pelham, and second wife of Governor Richard
Bellingham,
who was himself the last survivor of the patentees named in the
Charter. Winthrop, II. 43, mentions the scandal about
his marriage. She
was
"ready to be contracted to a friend of "Bellingham's," who
lodged in
his house,
and by his consent had proceeded so far with her, when on the
sudden, the
Governour treated with her, and obtained her for himself." Not
only was
there this romance, and a considerable disparity in years, he being
about fifty
years and the lady twenty, but Bellingham also solemnized the
marriage
himself. There is no reason, however, to
conclude that the mar-
riage was
not as happy as less remarkable ones have proved. -- EDS.
2 Mr. Sewall was as ready as were the
Ministers themselves, to take note
of every
token of the curtailment of their prerogatives and privileges with
the changes
which followed upon the administration under the Provincial
charter. --
EDS.
58 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1702.
little
before got within Point Alderton; Capt Heron intro-
duced us;
After had all saluted the Govr. I said
Her Majesty's Council of his Province have
comanded
us to meet
your Excellency, and congratulate your safe
Arrival in
the Massachusetts Bay, in quality of our Gov-
ernour: Which we do very heartily; not only out of
Obe-
dience to
our Masters who sent us; but also of our own
accord. The Cloaths your Excellency sees us wear, are
a
true
Indication of our inward Grief for the Departure of
K.
William. Yet we desire to remember with
Thank-
fullness the
Goodness of God, who has at this time peaca-
bly placed
Queen Anne upon the Throne. And as Her
Majestys
Name imports Grace, so we trust God will shew
Her Majesty
Favour; and Her Majesty us. And we look
upon your
Excellency's being sent to us, as a very fair
First-Fruit
of it, for which we bless God and Queen Anne.
I was
startled at 2 or 3 things; viz. The Lt.
Governour
[Thomas
Povey] a stranger, sent, whom we knew nor
heard
anything of before:1 When the
Govr first mention'd
it, I
understood him of Mr. Addington. I saw
an ancient
Minister,
enquiring who it was, Governour said, twas
G -- Keith,2
had converted many in England, and now
Bp. London
had sent him hether with Salery of 200.
Guineys per
anum. I look'd on him as Helena aboard.3
This man
crav'd a Blessing and return'd Thanks, though
there was
the chaplain of the Ship, and another Minister
on
board. Governour has a very large
Wigg. Drink
Healths,
About one and Twenty Guns fired at our leav-
1 Palfrey, IV. 247, says that Povey was
probably a brother of the Secre-
tary to the
Board of Trade. He was, when now
appointed, captain in the
Queen's own
regiment of footguards, and was selected without notifying the
Board of
Trade. He returned to England in 1705.
-- EDS.
2 George Keith had been a minister among
the Friends, but had con-
formed to
the Church of England. -- EDS.
3 We leave to future commentators the
explanation of this reference to
Helen. Possibly Sewall foresaw in Keith the cause of
ecclesiastical discords
in the
future. -- EDS.
1702.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 59
ing the
Centurion; and Cheers, then Capt Scot and an-
other Ship
fired. Castle fired many Guns; Landed at
Scarlet's
Wharf, where the Council and Regiment waited
for us; just
before came at the North-Meetinghouse Clock
struck
five. Was the Troop of Guards, and Col.
Paige's
Troop. March'd to the Townhouse. There before the
Court;
Ministers, and as many else as could crowd in,
the
Governour's and Lt Govrs Comissions were published;
they took
their Oaths laying their hands on the Bible,
and after
Kissing it. Had a large Treat. Just about
dark Troops
Guarded the Govr to Roxbury.
He rode in
Major
Hobby's Coach Drawn with six Horses richly har-
nessed. By mistake, my coachman stayed in the yard,
and so
Joseph and I went alone. Foot gave 3
very good
Volleys
after the publication of the Comissions, and were
dismiss'd. Mr. Mather crav'd a Blessing and Mr. Cotton
Mather
Return'd Thanks.
June 12.
as Governour came to Town, he alighted
and call'd
at my House, Thank'd me for my Kindness to
his
family. I was much indispos'd by my
Throat being
sore, and I
feverish.
June. 13.
Ships Sail.
June. 28.
Govr partakes of the Lords Super at Rox-
bury: In the
Afternoon goes to Boston to hear Mr.
Myles, who
inveighed vehemently against Scism.
June.
29. Refused to let us give, our Yes and. No in
Papers.
June,
30. War is proclaim'd. Address sign'd a 2d time,
which I
again declined. New Justices are much
talk'd of.
Satterday, July, 4. It is known in Town that the Lt
Governour
has his Comission for Captain of the Castle;
and Charles
Hobby, for Colonel of Boston Regiment.
July,
6. Col. Hutchinson, by order, delivers
the Castle
to the Lt
Govr. In the Afternoon Paul
Dudley esqr.1
is Apointed
the Queen's Attorney. Judges of Middle.
1 Son of the Governor. -- EDS.
60 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1702.
sex and
Suffolk sworn. And Justices of Suffolk
(Mr.
Sergeant,
Hutchinson, Belcher Swear Not.) Lt
Govr
laying his
Hand on, and kissing the Bible. Council
is adjourn'd
to Wednesday. July, 9. Waited on
the Govr
to Marblehead, to Salem. Were Treated at
Sharp's. July. 10.
Went to Ipswich, in the Rain part
of the
Way. Troop met us. I and Mr. White lodg'd at
Mr.
Rogers's, as had done at Son Hirst's the night before.
July
11. about 10. Govr sets out for Newbury, and
I for
Boston; Serene, windy day. Came with B.
Mars-
ton and
Wakefield to Phillips's. Dined there
with Capt
Winthrop,
his lady, Madam Wainwright, Mrs. Belcher of
Newbury. Little Colman; Mrs. Ane Winthrop Lyes in
there. Capt Adam Winthrop accompanied me home.
Find all
well. Laus Deo. July, 14.1702. A man is
killed on
board her Majesty's Ship the Swift, by a Gun
from the
Castle. July, 15. Goe to Dedham Lecture,
come home
with Majr Gen1 and his Son and Daughter
from
Conecticut.
July. 17.
Visit Madam Dudley: Sup with her,
cous.
Dumer and
wife, daughter, Col. Townsend, Bromfield and
wife, and
Kate Dudley.
July 20.
Sam. visits Mrs. Rebecka Dudley.
July, 21.
Mr. Borland's House, the Raising of it is
begun. July, 20.
Mr. Paul Dudley dined with us. I
ask'd him if
he had any service for Sam., to Roxbury:
He told me
he would be welcom there. July, 22. I
went with
the Major Gen1 Winthrop to the Lieut Govr.
At our
privat Meeting I read the first sermon of Mr.
Flavel's
Fountain of Life.
July, 24. 1702. When I had read to Mrs. Mary Rock
the 2d
half of Dr. Sibbs's 3d Sermon1 Glance of Heaven, In
1 Dr. Richard Sibbes, an eminent Puritan
divine, became, in 1618,
preacher to
the Society of Gray's Inn; and. in 1628, Master of Catherine
Hall,
Cambridge. "From the year 1630 onwards for twenty years or so,
no writings
in practical theology seem to have been so much read among the
1702.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 61
discourse
about her father and Mother, She told me her
Mother had
not been with child in eight years 1/2.
Was
very
fearfull about coming to N.-E. but at last had a day
of Prayer,
many Ministers: and she resolv'd to follow
their
advice, come what would. And about
12-moneths
after her
arrival here, she had this daughter viz. 7r 1633.
which was
her last.1 July, 30. I, my wife, Sam. Hannah
visit Madam
Dudley, Mrs. Rebekah to whom Sam. gives
a
Psalm-Booke. Augt 4. 1702. Govr Dudley invites
me and my
wife to Diner and Lecture, Sends his Coach
for us; Mr.
Whiting and his cousin Foxcroft dine there,
Mrs.
Willard. Mr. Walter preach'd a solid
Sermon from
the days of
Darkness. Exhorted to prepare for death.
Augt. 8. 1702. My dear sister Moodey dies a little
before
sun-rise. I and cous. Dumer dine at
Roxbury.
Augt. 9.
I put up a Note. Augt. 10. I goe to Win-
nisimet and
there meet Bror Goe with him to Salem:
lodge at Son
Hirst's. Augt. 11. Set out from Salem as
the
School-Bell rung. Baited at
Crompton's. Note. at
Wenham pond
Reproved David Simons for being naked
about his
Flax; threatened to Fine him. He
submitted.
When came to Rowley, our Friends were
gone. Got
to the Falls
about Noon. Two or three hours after,
the
Funeral was,
very hot sunshine. Bearers, Woodman,
Capt.
Greenlef,
Dea., Wm. Noyes, Jno Smith, Jona Wheeler, Na-
thanl
Coffin. Many Newbury people there though
so buisy
a time; Col.
Pierce, Major Noyes, Davison, Tristram Coffin,
Mr. Tapan,
father and Son, Mr. Payson of Rowley, (though
muffed) Mr.
Hale their Minister, Cousin Dumer and fam-
ily, Mr.
Bennet, Bradstreet. About a mile or more
to
pious
English middle classes as those of Sibbes." His portrait is in Middle-
ton's
"Evangelical Biography." -- EDS.
1 This seems to be the second wife of
Joseph Rock, one of the founders of
the Old
South Church. She died Sept. 13, 1713,
in her eighty-first year.
She was
daughter of Rev. John Wilson. Her first
husband was Rev. Samuel
Danforth, of
Roxbnry. -- EDS.
62 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1702.
the Burying
place. Bror Moodey led his
Mother, Sam,
his Sister
Mary; then Dorothy and Mehetabel went to-
gether
(Sarah was so overpowered with Grief that she
went to Town
and was not at the Funeral.) I led
Sister
Gerrish; Bror,
Sister Short, -- Sister Northend. Aunt
Northend was
there. Bror Tapan, Sister
Sewall and her
son John;
Jacob and Joe Tapan and many cousins: Capt
Boynton.
Our dear sister Mehetabel is the first
buryed in this
new Burying
place, a Barly-earish, pure Sand, just behind
the
Meetinghouse. Bror went home
imediately. I went
back to the
House, lodg'd there all night with Bror
Moodey. Gave Wheelers wife a piece of 8/8 to buy her
a
pair
Shoes. Gave cousin Lydia a piece of
8/8. Augt. 12.
pray'd with
them and sung the 146 Psalm. Went to Jno
Smith's and
took the Acknowledgment of the Deed for
the Land of
the Meeting-house and Burying place. Rid
with Mr.
Woodman and Smith to Andover, which is a
good In-land
Town, and of a good Prospect. Some
warned us
not to goe to the ordinary, because Mr. Peters
was
dangerously sick of the Bloody Flux: So went to Mr.
Woodman's
Daughters, and there din'd on Pork and
Beans: Afterward had Fowls rosted and dress'd very
well. Right conducts me to Wooburn through the Land
of Nod.1 This is the first time I have seen it. Got late
to Fowl's at
Wooburn: Sick there, which made me un-
easy. Augt. 13.
Visit Mr. Fox, view the Hop-yards,
come home,
very hot. Met Mr Converse, the Father,
and
discours'd him under a Shady Tree. Wont
give his
Grand-children
till after his death for fear of giving
1 "The
Land of Nod" is fully explained in Sewall's "History of
Woburn,"
pp. 540-43. See also Vol. I. pp. 190,
191. It consisted of three
thousand
acres of land in Wilmington, and was owned by Charlestown men.
Francis
Willoughby bought enough shares to own eleven hundred acres, and
Lawrence
Hammond, who married his widow, sold them, in 1683, to John
Hull. Thence, of course, Sewall gained the
ownership. Charlestown, in 1704,
claimed the
land, and contested Sewall's right, but ineffectually. -- EDS.
1702.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 63
offence. Express'd his Grief that Govr
Dudley put men
in place
that were not good. Call'd at Mr.
Woodbridges
and drank a
Glass of very good Beer. Told him he had
got so
pleasant a situation he must not remove till he
went to
heaven. Got home in Lecture-time. After Lec-
ture Council
sits. Doe somthing about Judges of
Probat.
Adjourn. Augt. 14.
Nominate Col. Townsend for Infe-
rior Court,
Suffolke; Col. Hathorne for Superiour, Coun-
cil advise
because new: said would always do so.
Adj:
till
Satterday. Note. I said Nomination of Hathorne
pleas'd me I
gave my voice for him in '92., when this
Court was
first erected: And County of Essex had
thought
themselves postpon'd because no Judge of the
Court out of
their County. Govr said that
was one Con-
sideration
made him name him.
Satterday, Augt. 15. p.m. Govr brings home Sam.,
then takes
me into the Calash to the Townhouse.
Col.
Hathorne and
Townsend chosen: Govr delivers him his
Comission,
then me and Majr Walley. Said
would never
insert
himself any way to influence any proceeding before;
which has
many times done with great Vehemency; ex-
horting us
to doe Justice. Addington, Hathorne,
Sewall,
Walley sent
for Mr. Elisha Cooke junr: constituted him
our Clerk,
and gave him the Oaths. So now the
Superior
Court and
Inferior Court Suffolk are both open'd this
day; which
is a considerable celebration of my son
Joseph's
Birth-day. The Lord cause his face to
shine
on us!
See June, 7. 1700.
Augt 19. 1702. I give Mr. Joseph Prout, the Town
Clerk, the
names of my Son and Mrs. Rebekah Dudley to
enter their
Purpose of Marriage.
Augt. 20. Williams publishes them. Mr. Leverett is
Sworn after
Lecture Judge of the Superior Court.
Augt. 21. I gave Madam Cooke a Ring, cost 19s of
Cous. Dumer,
in Remembrance of my dear Sister Moodey,
64 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1702.
whom Mr.
Cooke visited in May last. Madam Cooke
said
had got rid
of Mr. Cooke. I answer'd, we should much
want his
Caution, Discretion, and Constancy. Was
very
thankfull
for the present I made her Husband in the
Ring. Walter Negro has his Thigh cut off; viz. his
Legg
above the
knee.
Satterday, 7r 5. I
set out for Dedham about 3. p.m.
to shorten
my Bristol Journey. Got thither just
about
Sun-set. Lodg'd at Fishers. 7r 7th About ¼
after 7. m.
Mr.
Leverett, Capt Saunders, and I set out (Amos Gates
waits on
me); set forward. Got to Rehoboth when
the
Sun was
¾ of an hour high. Lodg'd at the Bear. Rose
about 2.
past midnight, were on Horseback by 5 because
of the
Likelihood of Rain. Had a very
comfortable jour-
ney. Got to Our Quarters at Osburns before 8 mane.
Govr
was gon over to Narraganset. All the
Justices
there: Mr. Isaac Addington, the Chief Justice, said
had
been no
court open' d in the Queens Reign: so his com-
mission was
read, then mine, then Walleys, then Ha-
thorn's then
Leverett's. Court Treated Govr,
Lt Govr,
Gentlemen,
Council &c. at Osburn's: cost us 15s apiece.
Horses and
Servants were paid for by the Governours
Steward.
7r 9. Col. Byfield Treats at Osburn's.
Septr. 10. Court were of Opinion that Adam's Free-
dom could
not be Tryed by Mr. Saffins complaint, and
Adam being
kept from the court by the Small Pocks, No
proceedings
at all could be had thereupon.
Mr. Mackentash, who bought Col. Byfields
Farm at the
Mount, makes
a noble Treat at Major Church's which is
his hired
house. Got to Rehoboth by dark; Mr.
Lever-
ett and I
Lodged at Mr. Greenwood's; Col. Hathorn and
Sam. at Mr.
Smith's.
7r 11th. Went to Billinges in the Cart-way; Had a
very good
Difier, Venison &c. Got home in good
time.
Capt
Williams with his Red-Coats met us between Ded-
1702.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 65
ham and the
Turning to Fowl-Meadow. Capt Belchar
and sundry
Boston Gentlemen met us at Dedham. Note.
Wednesday,
at Osburn's, about Break-a-day, I heard one
riding as I
lay awake. (Mrs. Sparhawk having miscar-
ried, I
lodged there.) Thought I, I fear there
may be
some bad
News from Boston. The man knock'd, and
when he could
make any hear, he ask'd if Capt. --
were there:
I took it he said me. They answer'd
yes.
He said must
come away presently: for his daughter was
very
bad. Then I said to my self, I must
undertake a
sorrowfull
Journey, as from Salem to Boston, upon the
advice of my
Still-born son: But God dismiss'd me
from
the burden
of that sorrowfull Surprise, having laid it on
Capt Brown
of Swansey. We saw the Funeral as went
over the
Ferry on Thorsday.
7r. 13.
Lords-Day, Mr. Bradstreet baptiseth Simon, the
Jew, at
Charlestown, a young man whom he was Instru-
mental to
convert.
Septr 15.
Mr. Nehemiah Walter marries Mr. Sam1
Sewall and
Mrs. Rebekah Dudley, in the Dining Room
Chamber
about 8 aclock. Mr. Willard concluded
with
prayer, Sung
the last part of the 103 Psalm. Mr. Tho.
Dudley
reading and setting of it out of my Turkey-Leather
Psalm
book. Present Govr, Lady,
family (all save Mr.
Paul, who
was call'd away just then with the news of
Capt.
Larimore's prises, Brothers Letter of it the Govr
read to
us). I and my family, all save Betty and
Judith.
Mr. Willard
and wife, Mr. Lynde and wife, Mr. Jno White,
Mrs. Maloy
Hubbard. Got home about 11 aclock.
Thorsday,
Octr 1. 1702. The Govr
and Council agree
that
Thorsday Octr 22. be a
Fast-Day. Governour moved
that it
might be Friday, saying, Let us be English-men.
I spake
against making any distinction in the Days of the
week;
Desired the same Day of the Week might be for
Fasts and
Thanksgiving. Boston and Ipswich Lecture
Led us to
Thorsday. Our Brethren at Connecticut
had
66 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1702.
Wednesday;
which we ap1auded. Governour, it seems,
told the
Secretary, He himself would draw up the Order,
which he did
at Cousin Dumers by Candle-Light. Some
of the
Council were there, but the Govr did not ask their
voice. I suggested to Majr Genl
that the Drought might
be
mention'd; Mr. Winthrop spake, but the Govr refused:
I think at
our house where the Govr Dined with Mr.
Increase
Mather, and Mr. Timo Woodbridge; the Govr
said was a
better Harvest than had been these Twenty
years.
Octr 6. 1702. Rode with the Govr to Cambridge,
saw
his field on
the Neck, and Hicks &c. building a large sluice
to the
Dam. Drove a Pin. Din'd with Mr. Foxcroft;
only us
three at Table. Mr. Brattle came to us
and
smoked a
pipe. As came home, call'd at Mrs.
Clark's, and
bespake a
Bed for my self during the sitting of the Gen1
Court, in
case I came not home. She granted
it. As
(came home
saw Bastion and the Negro digging the Drain.
Brought home
my Daughter Hirst in the Governour's
Chariot, Mr.
Hirst went to Salem.
Tuesday, 8r 13.
Went with the Govr to Hogg Island,
son and
daughter Sewall, Mrs. Anne, Mrs. Mary Dudley
there, Tho.
Dudley, Capt. Southack, Mr. Paul Dudley, Mr.
Tho.
Richards, Col. Townsend, Mr. Bratt1e, Col. Povey the
Lieut Govr,
Cous. Jer. Dumer had a good Treat there.
I
was sorry
Mr. Addington and Mr. Pemberton, and Mr.
Roberts were
not there, and therefore Returning Thanks
closed thus;
Bring us to thy Entertainment in Heaven,
where not
one of the Company shall be wanting. Son
Hirst got to
the House just as were coming away, Gave
him a good
Plate to Winisimet, where he with Col. Paige
and Chris.
Taylor eat it.
8r 14th. I carry my Daughter Hirst in the Hackney
Coach (Hanah
and Mary in Company) to the Salutation,
ferry over,
and her Husband carryes her to Salem.
Cam-
bridge
Court, 8r 15, 1702.
Mr. Secretary, Mr. Cooke,
1702.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 67
Elm
Hutchinson and I ride in my coach to Roxbury in
Lecture
Time, Goe with the Govr about 2 p.m.
Dine;
into the
College yard. Goe up into Library, one
Deputy
is
sworn. Govr make a speech to
the Council and Assem-
bly about
his visiting the Eastern parts, building Pema-
quid Fort,
settling Salaries for Govr., Judges &c., building
the Govr a House.
Came home in the Coach as went out.
Young Peleg
Sanford, Major Walley's Prentice, was buried
this day at
Boston. Mr. Cotton Mather preached the
Lecture
there.
Monday, Octr 26. 1702. Waited on the Govr to Woo-
burn, dined
there: From thence to Billericay,
Visited
languishing
Mr. Saml Whiting, I gave him 2 Balls of
Chockalett
and a pound Figgs, which very kindly accepted.
Saw the
Company in Arms led by Capt. Tomson.
Went to
Chelmsford,
by that time got there twas almost dark.
Saw
Capt. Bowles
and his Company; Gave a Volley and Huz-
za's. Sup'd at Mr. Clark's; I and Col. Pierce in
his study.
Some went on
to Dunstable by Moonshine. Octr
27.
Went to
Dunstable in the Rain, Din'd and lodg'd at Col.
Tyng's. Saw and drunk of Merrimack. No Indians come
in. Octr 28. Went to Groton, saw Capt. Prescot and his
company in
Arms. (Govr had sent to them
from Dunstable
that would
visit them). Lancaster is about 12 Miles
Southward
from Groton. Concord is 16 Miles 3/4 and
Ten-
Rod from
Groton. Got thither about 2. Horses and
Men almost
tired by our very hard riding. Dine at
Capt.
Prescot's. Lodge at Mr. Estabrooks with Col. Foxcroft.
Their Foot
Company, and Troop, in Arms, Seem'd to be
numerous and
well apointed.
Octr 29. Breakfast at Capt. Minott's, Set out for Cam-
bridge. In Company Col. Pierce, Thomas, Partrigge,
Fox-
croft, Capt.
Cutler, son Sewall, young Mr. Tyng. At
Mr.
Hancocks Mr.
Secretary, Leverett met us. Mr. Dyer,
Col.
Byfield; at Russel's Mr. Dudley. There
the Calash
met the Govr
and weary Major Brenton rid in it with the
68 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1702.
Govr.
to the Town: Col. Hobbey rid his Horse.
Dined
with the Govr
at Mr. Leveretts, Madam Leverett the
Grandmother. Went home with Col. Hutchinson, Walley,
Foster. Col. Foster invited us to drink at his house.
Found all
well, and David Sinclair rocking Judith; he
came to our
house after I was gon my Journey.
Novr. 2. 1702.
John Adams, a very good man, and
John Drury,
a desirable young man, dye of the small
pocks.
Anthony Checkley dyed last week of the same
disease.1
Novr 3. 1702.
Capt. Timo Prout died last night, aged
more than 80
years.
Mr. Chief Justice Addington opens the Court
at Boston.
Mr.
Wadsworth prays. Mr. Sheriff Dyar
officiats with his
white
Wand. Sits on the Bench for want of a
Seat. Col.
Hutchinson,
Hobby, Mr. Wadsworth dine with us. Mr.
Palmer dines
with us of's own accord, and no other Jus-
tice peace
except Mr. Attorney.
Novr 9. 1702.
Go to Salem with Cousin Jane.
Dine
at Lt
Lewes's, where meet Bror Sewall,
Mr. Dudley comes
in
also: Ride in company with them to
Salem. Lodge
at Son
Hirst's.
Novr
10. Mr. Leverett comes from
Cambridge; open
the Court in
the Meetinghouse, because the Townhouse is
very near a
house that has the Small Pocks; so that peo-
ple are
afraid to goe there; and Sharp is not willing to
let us have
his chamber. Sat in the Deacon's seat,
Col.
Hathorne on
my Right Hand, and Mr. Leverett on my
Left. After the Reading of the Queen's
Proclamation, I
1 This was, of course, Anthony Checkley,
Attorney-General of the Prov-
ince, though
Savage puts his death in 1708. All other
authorities seem to
agree on
1702. His daughter Hannah married
Captain John Adams, of
Boston, who,
by a first wife, was grandfather of the patriot, Samuel Adams.
This Captain
John Adams is said (Register, VII. 41) to have died intestate
before Jan.
20, 1712. He may have been the John
Adams mentioned in our
text, or the
one who died may have been his son John, born in 1687, of whom
we hear
nothing. -- EDS.
1702.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 69
spake to the
Grand Jury, having written it down before-
hand in my
Daughters chamber.
Novr 13. 1702. Visit, Mr. Higginson now in his 87th
year. Dine at son Hirst's; Mr. Dudley, and cousin
Elsa
Hirst
there. Set forward in our way home; viz.
Mr. Lev-
erett and
Dudley; visit Mr. Kitchen by the way, who
makes us
very welcome Rain takes us before get to the
Sluice. I had no Boots, and the Southerly wind much
disturbed my
Cloak: so I lodg'd at Lewes's: Mr. Lever-
ett and
Dudley stood on.
Novr 14. 1702. Rid to Winisimmet and so home, very
pleasant
day. Find all well. Laus Deo.
xr.
8. 1702. p.m. writt to Mr. Rd Henchman clause of
my Speech to
the Grand-Jury, Novr 10. at Salem, re-
ferring to
the Lord's-Day. Epitaph of my
Grand-Daugh-
ter. Sence of Rev. 14. 13. Write Lib. Cop. Phaenom.
Enclos'd the
Gazett that had the Queens Proclamation
against
Profaneness.
Novr 30. Rid to Salem to visit my Daughter Hirst,
who was
brought to bed of a dead child Novr 28.
From Lewis's in company of Mr. Lyde. Got thither
about 2
hours by Sun. Daughter very glad to see me.
xr. 1. My Daughter being threatened with the
headache,
I send
Chapman to Cambridge to Dr. Oliver for a Plais-
ter: He follow'd the Dr. to Boston, and brought
word of
Mrs. Mathers
death. Laid on a Plaister; Daughter
grows
better: but then again had an ill turn; yet grew fine
and
well agen by
Satterday and cheerfully dismiss'd me.
Had
a very
comfortable Journey home. Son Hirst
brought me
going to the
Butts. At Lewis's fell in with Majr
Epes,
Major
Wainright and Mr. Fitch, going to Ipswich.
Majr
Wainwright
tells me of the death of Mr. Brakenbury.
xr. 8.
Mr. Robt Gibbs dies, one of our Select men, a
very good
man and much Lamented; died suddenly of
the Small
Pocks. His death, and the death of Jn°
Adams,
the Master,
Isaac Loring, and Peybody, is a great stroke
70 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1702.
to our
church and congregation. The Lord
vouchsafe to
dwell with
us, and Not break up Housekeeping among us!
Xr. 9. Mr. Gibbs buryed.
I first heard of Mr. Calamy's History.1
xr. 16.
I went out early with David to carry two of
Mr. Mathers
History2 to my Bror to Charlestown: Heard
the church
[Kings Chapel] Bell ring for Capt. Crofts.
He dyed last
night.
xr. 19.
Is buried in the New burying place in Capt.
Hamilton's
Tomb. Corps was first had into the
church
and a
Funeral Sermon preach'd. For Debauchery
and
Irreligion
he was one of the vilest Men that has set foot
in
Boston. Tis said he refused to have any
Minister
call'd to
pray with him during his Sickness, which was
above a
fortnight.
xr. 23.
I go to Roxbury, dine with my Daughter Sew-
all, Mr.
Dudley &c in their Chamber, where their Stove is.
Sixth-day, Decr 25. Govr and Lt Govr
partake of the
Lords Super;
the undersheriff Hawksworth's child was
baptised.
Decr 24. Govr din'd at our house, but went
not to
Lecture: it
was very cold: Decr 17. din'd
at Col. Hob-
bies, but
went not to Lecture; was at both places at least
in part of
Lecture time.
xr. 26.
Son Sewall comes to Town, dines with us.
Grows ill,
and, we keep him all night.
1 This may refer to the younger Calamy's
Abridgement of Mr. Baxter's
History of
his Life and Times, which was published in 1702. -- EDS.
2 The famous "Magnalia." Cotton
Mather records in his Diary (see
Proceedings
of Massachusetts Historical Society for December, 1862) the
birth-pangs
by which his folio volume was ushered into life. Under date of
Oct. 30,1702,
he writes: "Yesterday I first saw my 'Church History'
since the
publication of it. A gentleman arrived
here from Newcastle, in
England;
that had bought it there." The
author makes the event the occa-
sion for a
day" for Solemn Thanksgiving unto God for his watchful and
gracious
providence over that work."
Doubtless Sewall availed himself of the
earliest importation of copies. Its
price in
London was one pound. -- EDS.
170 2/3.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 71
xr. 25.
Jonathan Stoddard 7 years and 8 months old:
Subael Dumer
10 years and 8 months old, were buried.
Decr. 30.
1702. I was weigh'd in Col. Byfield's
Scales:
weight One
Hundred One Half One Quarter wanting 3
pounds, i.e.
193 pounds Net. Col. Byfield weighed Sixty
three
-pounds more than I: had only my close coat on.
The Lord
add, or take away from this our corporeal
weight, so
as shall be most advantagious for our Spiritual
Growth. July 31.1721 [in Margin]. I weIghed 228 £
p cous. Sam1 Sewall's Scales.
Friday, Jany. 8. 170 2/3 Between 5. and 6. m. Mr. Ed-
ward Turfrey
dyes of the Small Pocks; was dying all
night in a
maner, having strong Agonies. He was a
per-
son of great
Abilities. His death is a great Loss to
the
Town and
Province: but more especially to Mr. Adding-
ton, to whom
Mr. Turfrey was extraordinarily Serviceable,
having liv'd
with him above Ten years. If real Worth
and
Serviceableness and Youth wont give a discharge in
this
warfare, what shall? He is universally
Lamented.
Lords-day, Jany 17. 170 2/3 Lt Govr calls a Council, about.
5 in the
even. Shews us his Intelligence from
Eastham
of 3 Sloops
and a whale bote or 2, Taken at Cape Cod by
a French
Sloop last Friday. Order Capt. Southack
to take
up a Sloop
and endeavour to come up with them. Send
away an
Express to the Govr. Jany
18. Last light Capt.
Hunt's Son
went to bed well, and next morn not rising at
his usual
hour, his Mistress sent to see what was the mat-
ter, and he
was found stark dead. Just now about Ebene-
zer Bird, a
young man of Dorchester, is kill'd by a fall from
a Horse. Jany. 24.170 2/3 Mr. Simon
Willards Twins, Sam-
uel and
Abigail, were baptised: and Samuel Valentine,
Mr. Lynde's
Grandson, and Richard. Very cold Day.
Jany 26.
170 2/3 Mr. Secretary, Major Walley, and Sew-
all, went to
Charlestown to hold Court. Had good
going
over the
Ferry, notwithstanding the cold wether we have
had. Met Mr. Leverett there. Col. Hathorn is not well
72 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 2/3.
and stays at
home. Chief Justice prays at Opening of
the Court;
Mr. Bradstreet not being well. Mr. Stod-
dard's Son
dyed last night.
Jany 27.
170 2/3 Mr. Timo Woodbridge Prays at opening
of the Court
at Charlestown: but dines not with us.
Jany. 28. 170 2/3 The Chief
Justice prays at the opening of
the
Court. Daughter Hirst comes to
Charlestown.
Jany
29. Joseph goes with the Hakney coach
and
his Sister
Hirst to Boston. Mr. Secretary and I
visit the
Govr and congratluate his safe Return.
Febr.
1. I visit my sick Brother at Salem,
find him
very
ill. Monday Night worse.
Febr.
3. Had a good night, and I return home.
Note,
I carried
the News to Salem that was brought by Andrew
Wilson from
Oporto, Eight weeks, of the extraordinary
success of
our Fleet against the Flota in the River of Vigo
which we
first heard of in part by way of Cork.1 Read it
to Bro. Mr.
-- Burchsted, a German Doctor, adminis-
ters to my
Brother. Jonathan gives me this Account
of
Brothers
children.
Salem, Febr. 3. 170 2/3. The
children of Major Stephen
Sewall are,
Margaret, Samuel, Susana, Jonatha, Jane,
Mehetabel,
Mitchel, Henry and Stephen.
Febr. 5th. 170 2/3. Col. Elisha Hutchinson, Col. Penn Town-
send, Capt.
Andrew Belcher, and Samuel Sewall rid to
Roxbury in
the Hackney coach; Capt. Jeremiah Duller,
Mr. Edward
Bromfield on horseback: Went on purpose
to speak to
the Governour against having Illuminations,
especially
in the Town house; That so the profanation of,
the Sabbath
might be prevented. I said twould be
most
1 The reference is to a great success
gained Oct. 22, 1702, by an English
and Dutch
force under the Duke of Ormond, and an English fleet under Sir
George
Rooke. The Spanish galleons, with a
great treasure on board, had
taken refuge
in Vigo bay. The English attack was
entirely successful; and,
though much
of the treasure was thrown overboard, a great booty was cap-
tured.
(Stanhope's Queen Anne, I. 67.) -- EDS.
170
2/3.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 73
for the
Honor of God; and that would be most for the
Honor and
Safety of Queen Anne. Governour said
twould
be hard for
him to forbid it, considering how good the
Queen was,
what successes God had given her. I an-
swered, It
could not be introduced into the Town-house
without his
Excellency's Order, for under his Excellency
the
Government of the Town was (partly) comitted to us.
Govr answer'd not a word.
Others urged our Law, the
Grief of
Good People, his best Friends. And I
think all
was said
between us, that could be said. Got well
home
about 9 at
night, and had a very comfortable Journey,
and
sufficient Light Notwithstanding the Fogg, and ab-
sence of the
very New Moon.
Febr. 6.
between 8 and 9. m. The Bells begin to
Ring,
to celebrate
Queen Anne's Birth-Day, being the last of
the Week.
Col. John Pynchon died Jany 17. 170 2/3, about Sun-Rise,
as Mr.
Holyoke tells me Sabbath-Day. Ebenezer
Frank-
lin of the
South Church, a male-Infant of 16 months old,
was drown'd
in a Tub of Suds, Febr. 5. 170 2/3.1
Febr. 11th. 170 2/3 The Govr under his hand remits the
Fines of
several sentenced to pay 5s apiece for drinking
at Mrs.
Monk's on Satterday night last about 9 aclock.
Had warn'd
Mrs. Monk an hour before. Said Monk also
remitted her
25s, and the writing given to the Sheriff to
Notifie Col.
Townsend and Mr. Bromfield.
Febr
12. 170 2/3. Carry Daughter Hirst to Salem in Mr.
Austin's
Calash. Visit Bror., Col. Hathorne. Bror Hirst
and sister
and daughter sup with us. Saw not Mr.
Noyes,
but writ to
him.
Febr.
13. Return home very comfortably,
notwithstand-
ing much of
the way was bad. Had like to have
overset
two or 3
times, but God upheld me. When came
home,
1 This child, born Sept. 20, 1701, was an
elder brother of Benjamin
Franklin. –
EDS.
74 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 2/3.
ask'd the
reason of the Gates being open, and am told
Mr. Josiah
Willard had the Small Pocks at Cambridge; our
coach went
to fetch him to Town: but he fainted and
could not
come.
Tuesday, Feb. 16. 170 2/3. p.m.
Town-Meeting at Bos-
ton to chuse
Representatives. Mr. Colman pray'd. Chose
S. Sewall
Moderator, Voters 459. Sam1 Legg Esqr. 451.
Capt. Sam1 Checkley 446. Mr. Tho.
Oakes, 440. Capt.
Ephraim
Savage 435. This was the most unanimous
Election
that I remember to have seen in Boston, and the
most Voters.
Febr. 22.
Mrs. Willard and several of her children
had like to
have been cast away coming from Cambridge
by Water,
wind was so very high; put ashore at last on
Muddy-River
Marsh: Got to the Govrs by that time twas
dark. This morning as I was praying alone, I was
much
affected to
think how concern'd and inquisitive I was in
my
Journeying about my Way; whether I was in the right
or no; and
yet not so constantly and effectually inqusi-
tive about
my Way to Heaven, although I was equally
hastening to
my Journey's End; whether in the right or
wrong
way. May He who is the Way, the Truth,
and
the Life,
bring me into and always keep me in the right
Way.
Lords-Day, Febr. 28. 170 2/3 Mr. Jabez Fox dies of the
Small Pox in
the forenoon. 1
Lords-Day, March. 7. 170 2/3 Nurse Randal is taken with
an Ague in
her Brest, which much indisposes her: Where-
upon my wife
begins to wean Judith though it be a few
days before
we intended. The wether is grown cold.
March, 16. 170 2/3 Though all things look horribly win-
1 The Rev. Jabez Fox, of Woburn, was
connected by marriage with
Sewall, his
wife being Judith Reyner, sister of the Rev. John Reyner, Jr.,
who married
Judith Quincy. See Vol. 1. Introd. p,
xxiii. Mrs. Fox mar-
ried
secondly Colonel Jonathan Tyng, and died June 5, 1756, in her ninety-
ninth year.
-- EDS.
1703.] DIARY OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 75
terly by
reason of a great storm of Snow, hardly yet over,
and much on
the Ground: yet the Robbins cheerfully utter
their Notes
this morn. So should we patiently and
cheer-
fully sing,
the Praises of God, and hope in his Mercys,
though
Storm'd by the last efforts of Antichrist.
March, 20th. A Message is sent in to desire the House
might attend
with an Answer of the Govrs Speech; which
the Speaker,
Majr Converse, Read. Then a Message sent
do desire it
might be printed, which the Govr
readily
assented
to. Only afterward desired to read it
first.
March 22.
Judith is very well weaned, and by a late
addition can
now shew eight Teeth. Little Jane,
Bastian's
daughter,
died last night 2 hours after midnight.
God is
pleased to
dispense himself variously. Our little
daughter
gave us very
little Exercise after 3 or 4 nights.
Then her
cousin Mary
Moodey could receive her without any noise.
March, 22. Mr. Banister and I Lotted our Fence on
Cotton-Hill: He took E, which was prick'd with a pin
on a Label
of paper for East-End; and W. for West end
was left in
my hand for me. He chose to put it to
Lot.
We saw Pits
sail up and fired, laden with Salt.
March, 27. 1703. Have not yet given Sermons to
Lothrop,
Perce, Thomas, Thacher, Appleton, Hamond.
March, 29.
Set out for Plimouth with Major Walley,
and Mr.
Leverett; Get thither a little before night.
The
souldiers
gave us a Volley, and those on board Huzzas, at
our entrance
into Town; kept at Rickets.
Ap. 1.
went into Meetinghouse.1
Note. March ult.
Mr. Russel
preach'cl the Lecture.
Ap. 2.
Came home, dined at Cushings. I
stay'd and
Lodg'd at
Mr. Torrey's. He told me of Bridgewater
Troubles as
to Mr. Brett. Ap. 3. came home alone,
went
with Joseph
Hunt, and viewed part of the 300 Acres.
1
Frequent similar entries in the Journal refer to Sewall's private relig-
ious
exercises when away from home. -- EDS.
76 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1703.
Found all
well at home. Was surprised to find a
Letter
giving
account of the Death of the Rever'd Mr. Israel
Chauncy of a
Fever and Convulsions at Stratford.
March
14. 170
2/3 8 or 9 m. Had not recd my Letter. But am
now thank'd
for it by his son Charles.
April, 12. 1703. I set out with my son S. and Daniel
Allen; meet
with Sherman at Spring's, proceed to Saw-
en's, there
bait, thence to Capt. Mosses, where we dine,
thence to
Kibbee's, look upon the Line next Mr. Lynde,
and assert
my Right; Thomas Holbrook, the Father, and
Capt. Moss
offering to take their Oaths to confirm my
Bounds.
Tuesday Apr. 13. Mr. Sherman lays out my Farm of
150 Acres,
beginning at Mr. Lynde's and extending to
Winthrop's
Pond.1 Tho. Holbrook, sent
Moss and Joseph
Twitchel
with us approving what was done, helping to
carry the
Chain and lay Stones for Bound-Marks.
Wednesday, Apr. 14. Renew'd the Bounds of the
Farm Moses
Adams lives on. Tho. Holbrook, Sergeant
Moss, and
Sam1 Moss with us, also Capt Moss, Sawen,
Deacon
Larned &c.
Thorsday Apr. 15. I heard Mr. Sherman had run a
Line within
mine at Kibbee's; I got Deacon Moss, Tho.
Holbrook,
Ebenezr Leland to go with me:
Fairbank was
also
there. Went to my Bounds, asserted them,
in the
presence of
Mr. Lynde's Tenants whom I sent for, then
ordered
Kibbe to pull up the Stakes. Told Mr.
Lynde's
Tenants what
my Bounds were, and that within them was
my Land;
forwarn'd them of coming there to set any
Stakes, or
cut any Wood. This hinder'd my coming
home
one
day. Sup'd at Cous Gookin's with
Pickerill --
1 This farm was situated in the present
town of Holliston, formerly Bog-
istow. Morse, in his "History of Sherborne and
Holliston," p. 325, says
that John
Hull owned a farm here which was divided among Sewall's
children. In
1728 (History, p. 326), the Sewalls gave eleven acres of land
for the use
of the first minister to be settled there. -- EDS.
1703.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 77
Friday, Apr. 16. My son and I come home: Visit Mr.
Hobart, who
is glad to see us, Dine there, and then come
with him by
Tho. Stedman's; where is a privat Meeting.
Then ride to
Bairstow's and gave Lion 2 Reals, he is ston-
ing the
Cellar; saith he began the day before.
It seems
my daughter
Sewall had been there a little before.
Got
home about 4
aclock, found all well, only Judith had fallen
this day and
hurt her forhead. Laus Dea.
Town-Meeting to chuse Representatives,
April, 27. 1703.
2 p. m. Voters about 244. Capt. Legg had 242. Checkly,
240. Oakes, 238.
Savage, 232.
Meeting was much less; but Voters rather
more unan-
imous than
last time. Feb. 16. Mrs. Ann and Kate
Dud-
ley dined
here to day.
Tuesday, May, 11th. set out for Newbury by Charles-
town, with
Sam Robins. Din'd at Perkins's, Beverly:
Got
to Newbury
about 1 h ½ by sun; Lodg'd at Sister Ger-
rishes.
May, 12.
To Portsmouth with Mr. Leverett.
May. 13.
To Kittery; after our getting thither it
Rain'd
sorely --
May, 14th To Newbury, lodg'd at Bror Tapans. 15th
at sister
Gerrishes. 16. Heard Mr. Tappan
preach. 17.
Visited Mr.
Tapan, Bror Shortt: when there was a
great
and sore
Tempest of Thunder, Rain, Hail. When
over,
ridd to
Ipswich, lodg'd at Mr. Rogers.
18th Held Court, Mr. Rogers prayed. Mr. Hubbard,
Col.
Apleton, and Rogers dined with us.
19.
About an hour before sun-set rode to Salem with
Col.
Hathorne, Cook, Lynde 20. Visited Bror
Hirst
sick of the
Gout: came homeward with Cousins Sam.
and
Margaret. Fain to put in at Hart's and Shelter our
selves
from a
vehement Tempest of Wind, Rain, Hail, Thunder.
Got hom
about 5. p.m. Found all well through the
won-
derfull
Goodness of God. This day Mr. Stoddard
comes
to Town,
being to preach the Election Sermon.
May, 21.
78 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1703.
Companies
are warned to attend on their Election Day.
Note. May, 20.
Barth. Green's New Frame being cover'd
but not
enclosed, was blown down.
Election-Day,
May, 26, 1703.
chosen
Wait Winthrop P.
Townsend
J. Russell. J.
Higginson
Negative Tho. Oakes A.
Belcher
E. Cooke E.
Bromfield
J. Hathorne J.
Thacher
E. Hutchinson J.
Walley
S. Sewall J.
Saffin, Neg.
I. Addington J.
Bradford, Neg.
W. Brown Em
Hutchinson
J. Ph[illips] J.
Hamond
J. Corwm B.
Brown
J. Foster J.
Lynde
Negative, P. Sergeant Saml.
Partridge
D. Pierce S.
Hayman
Not finished till about 9 or 10 at night.
May 27.
Govr sends in for the Deputies; in a speech
shows his
Resentment of their Election, One of the Massa-
chusetts and
three of Plimouth being changed: Saith
he
will expunge
Five; viz. Elisha Cooke, Peter Sergeant,
Tho.
Oakes, John
Saffin, John Bradford. Some poor; one
Superanuated,
Some might have served the Queen better
than they
did.
May 28.
Some Papers being sent to the Deputies, they
decline
Receiving them or entering on other Business till
the Council
be fill'd. Send in a Bill that are ready
to compleat
the Election: consented. Capt. Hayman
sworn,
Chosen, Capt. Samuel Legg, Mr. Sam1 Appleton,
Col. Ephraim
Hunt, Mr. Nathanl Pain, Mr. Isaac Winslow.
Governour
signs his Approbation: Capt. Legg is
sent for
in and
sworn.1
1 It will be noted that five members of
the Council were rejected by the
Governor,
and five new ones chosen. See the vote in "Whitmore's Civil
1703.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 79
Mr. Saml
Shrimpton, who dyed May 25. is now buried
May.
28. By reason of the great Rain, Col.
Phillips,
Capt.
Hayman, and I went not out of the Council Cham-
ber, at
Noon: but din'd together on Bread and
Cheese from
Monk's.
May 31.
Col. Hunt comes to Town and is sworn of
the Council.
June, 1. 1703. Town-meeting is held in the old Meet-
inghouse
because of the Genl. Assembly, 2. p.m. Voters
206. Elizur Holyoke 154: by which was chosen a Rep-
resentative
for Boston. Jno Love
Constable, only one
vote
otherwise. Note. Col. Hobby had 45. votes for a
Representative. Mr. Cooke invited many of the Council
to drink
with him. When came found a Treat of
salmon,
Neat's
Tongues, Lamb &c. 'Twas near Ten
before got
home. Mr. Addington, Legg, Rusel, Phillips, Hayman,
Lynde,
Byfield not there, only Mr. Corwin of Salem.
June,
8. Mr. Pain is sworn in the Afternoon,
This day
there was much
agitation about Nominating a Justice for
the Super
Court, Council pleaded, till there was a Va-
cancy they
could not do it. If any place was vacant
it
was that of
the Chief Justice, and were ready to speak to
that. Govr would have a Justice Nam'd and
consented to
in the first
place; else said he should lose one of the
Court. Nothing was done. Mr. Taylor chosen Treasurer.
Court
adjourned to the last of June 9 mane.
Adam is again imprison'd to be Tryed at
Suffolk Ses-
sions. Trial order'd by the Gen1
Assembly.
Superanuated Squier, wigg'd and powder'd
with pretence,
Much
beguiles the just Assembly by his lying Impudence.
None being by, his bold sworn Attorneys push it on with might and
main
By which means poor simple Adam sinks to slavery again.
List,"
p. 64, and the remarks in Palfrey, IV. 254, 255. This act of the
Governor
was, of course, hostile to the Assembly, and the trivial and unjust
reasons
assigned by him could not have had any soothing effect upon the
friends of
the rejected Councillors. -- EDS.
80 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1703.
June, 9.
1703. Govr and Lt
Govr set out for Ipswich
in order to
goe and meet the Indian sachems.
June, 11th between 12 and 1. Mr. Bromfield is struck
down by the
Boom of a Sloop swinging upon the Dock;
which took
his Left sholuder Blade. The Collar Bone
on
that side is
dislocated or broken. The Concussion
causes
great pain
in his back, is fain to sit in a great Chair not
being able
at present to ly down; between 7 and 8,
Even.
Friday, June, 18. 1703. My sons House was Raised at
Muddy-River; The day very comfortable because dry,
cloudy,
windy, cool. I sent for Mr. Wigglesworth
and his
Wife from
Deacon Barnard's in the Coach; to discourse
with my Wife
about her and Judith's Maladies. After
they were
sent back, being late in the Afternoon, I went
alone in the
Hackney-Coach to Roxbury, took Mr. Walter
with
me. By that Time got there, had just
done their
Work, and
were going to Diner in the new House. Mr.
Walter
crav'd a Blessing, Return'd Thanks. Many
were
there from
Muddy-River, Dedham, Roxbury. I drove a
Pin before
Dinner. After Diner sung the 127th Psal. and
8th v. 28th St. David's Tune, I set and read the Psalm.
Brought home
Madame Dudley and my Daughter.
Thorsday June, 24. I am kept from Mr. C. Mather's
Lecture by
my swoln face. Mr. Secretary visits me.
June,
25. Mr. P. Dudley visits me. Madam Eyre in-
vites me to
her Meeting, by her Daughter; but my
Indisposition
detains me at home. Yet I grow much
better.
June 27.
Goe to the publick Assembly and take no
harm. Laus Deo.
June 28. 1703. I have my son Joseph to Cambridge in
Austin's
Calash, where he is examined by Mr. Jonathan
Remington in
presence of the President and Mr. Flynt.
He Answer'd
well to Mr. Remingtons Critical Examina-
tion -- Mr.
Willard gave him for his Theme. Omnis
in
1703.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 81
Ascanio
chari stat cura Parentis;1 And advised him and
3 others to
be studious, saying, = Wigglesworth, Tuft,
Russel.
Qui Cupit optatam cursu pertingere metam
Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.2
Second-day of the Week July 5th.
1703. I had my son
to Cambridge
again in Austin's Calash. Paid Andrew
Bordman his
Cautionary Three pounds, in order to my
Son Joseph's
being Admitted. Went to Mr. Flynt's
Cham-
ber, where
Col. Wainright's Son and others were upon
Examination. When that was doing, and over, Mr. Wil-
lard call'd
for Joseph's Theme. Read it, gave it to
Mr.
Flynt; Then
in Mr. Flynt's Study, The President and
Fellows
sign'd his Laws; President said, your Son is now
one of us,
and be is wellcom. I thanked him; and
took
Leave. Coming home I order'd Mr. Sheriff 3
to take up a
Scurvy post
out of the middle of the High way, that had
been a
Nusance for many years. Gave his Son a
shilling
for his
pains. Got home well. Laus Deo. Was pretty
much Rain at
Charlestown; yet we went almost quite
dry, being
but a small Sprinkling where we were.
Comencment day July, 7th 1703.
Mr. Secretary, Ma-
jor Walley,
Major Brenton and I went by Charlestown to
the hether
edge of Maldon, and so met the Govr in his
Return
homeward from Casco-Bay. Note; in the
after-
noon Mr.
Wells 4 of Almsbury, is made a Master of Art.
Mr. Belcher
of Newbury Testified his Education under
Mr. Andros
at Ipswich, that he was a good Latin and
Greek
Scholar. Came to Charlestown in company
with
1 Virgo AEn. I. 646. -- EDS.
2 Hor. Ep. ad Pis. 412, 413; with variations.
-- EDS.
3 Samuel Gookin was Sheriff of Middlesex,
1702-1715. -- EDS.
4 The Rev. Thomas Wells leads as the first
on the now lengthened roll of
those whom
Harvard College has in honor adopted among her Alumni, with-
out having
passed through her training. -- EDS.
82 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1703.
Mr. Thomson
and Mr. Webster. Mr. T. tells me his Un-
kle at
Virginia is dead.
July,
8. p.m. Mr. Winslow is sworn and
takes his
place at the
Board. Bombazeen [an Indian Sachem]
comes to
Town as an Express with Rumors of 15.
French-
men landed
near Pemaquid, and of a Frenchman of War.
July 10.
From New-York we hear of a ship arrived
there June
29; that came out with a great Fleet from
Plimouth
May, 2d. in which were five ships bound for
New-England.
July 12 Bombazeen and his companion
before the Coun-
cil with
Serjt Bean.
Monday, July, 19. 1703 my daughter Mrs.
Rebecka
Sewall is
brought to Bed of a son, about six-a-clock in
the
Afternoon. My wife and daughter Hirst
were there,
Madam
Dudley, Hubbard, Roberts &c. Mrs.
Baker Mid-
wife. Mr. Winchcomb first told the Govr.
of it, at the
Council
Table, and then me. Stephen brought the
News
to
Town. I ride home with the Govr.
and send the Hack-
ney-Coach! See my daughter and Grandson: Bring
home my
wife, Madam Roberts, daughter Hirst.
July,
22. Governour, A Gentleman sent from New-York,
Mr.
Mackentosh,
Mr. Dudley, Mr. Belchar, Dedham, Mr. Hirst
dine at our
House.
July, 23.
Deputies after many days Toil, have at last
this day
come off, and let fall that clause in the Act about
restraining
the power of the Govr. and Council as to inci-
dental
Charges, so as they might not exceed Thirty pounds.
Mr.
Secretary obtain'd leave of the Govr to make this
Minute of
Council; viz. Whereas yesterday was
apointed
for chusing
of Officers, and was adjourned to this day, the
Secretary
alleged that through decay of his health, he was
unable to
sustain the place of Chief-Justice any longer,
pray'd to be
dismiss'd and offered his Comission at the
Board;
whereupon the Govr. said he would not expect
any further
service from him at the present, and that he
1703.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 83
with the
Council would Endeavour to fill the Chair so
soon as
conveniently they might. This the
substance.1
Mr. Addington much startled at the words
at present
and urg'd to
have them left out: but the Governour
did
not yield to
it. This was done in open Council, in
the
forenoon.
July, 24. 1703. Joseph takes leave of his Master and
Scholars in
a short Oration.
Bristol Business is Non-concurr'd by the
Deputies.
Governour's note to me to instruct a
Meeting of the
Judges next
Monday is in my Court Book.
Augt. 2 -- 1703. It is said the Colours must be spread
at the
Castle every Lords Day in honour of it:
Yesterday was first practiced. If a ship come in on
the Lord's
day, Colours must be taken down. I am
afraid
the Lord's
Day will fare none the better for this new pre-
tended
honor.
Monday, Augt. 2. Thomas, the Governour's Coachman,
having
offended him, He sends him aboard Capt. Southacks
in order to
make him a Sentinel under Major March at
Casco
fort. I mov'd the Govr to Try
him a little longer:
but would
not; said He might send any man a Souldier.
Abt. 5 p.m. My Wife, Madam Willard, Daughters
Hanah and
Eliza -- visit Daughter Sewall at Roxbury.
Wednesday,
Augt. 4. I carried Mary to
Mr. Wiggles-
worth's and
left her there; to see if he could help her
against her
Sickness and Infirmity.
Augt. 6. I visited Mary as I promis'd her. Mr. Wig-
glesworth
thinks her distemper is of a Convulsive nature.
Augt. 5. Mr. Thomas Bridge preaches his first Lecture-
Sermon from
Hab. 3. 2.
1
This minute is still on the Council records.
But, though Addington thus
obtained
leave of absence, no changes were made until Feb. 19, 1707-8,
when Wait
Still Winthrop was made Chief Justice; and, on the following
day,
Jonathan Corwin was appointed Justice in place of John Leverett, who
became
President of Harvard College. -- EDS.
84 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1703.
Augt. 7. 1703. News comes from N. York that my
Lord
Cornbury has rec'd his comissions, and that the
Militia of
Conecticut and the Jersies is granted him.
From the Eastward, Fear of the French and
Indians
some being
seen.
Augt. 10. 1703. I went to Roxbury and saw my daugh-
ter who is
still in very great pain. Went and saw
the
Drean. Govr. Dudley tells me that Mr.
Usher has got
Partridge's
place; that all Actions Tried here must be
sent over to
England; an account of them. Will have a
Sessions in
September. This day, Augt. 10
-- is a Corpora-
tion-Meeting
at Cambridge; chuse Mr. Josiah Willard a
Tutor: chuse
Mr. Tho. and Wm. Brattle into the Corpora-
tion, in
stead of Mr. Allen and Mr. Walter, who have ab-
dicated as
they reckon.1
Augt. 11. News comes of the Onset of the Enemy.
I went to Cambridge Augt 11. to
make sure a study for
Joseph in
Mr. Remington's Chamber: came home with
Mr. Torrey,
call'd at the Govrs, where a Master that came
by water
from Black-point, gave account of the Fires
kindled by
the Indians in several places; brought a little
youth that
narrowly escaped the enemies hands.
Augt. 12. at night, News comes
from Wells that have
buried 15.
durst not go to bury their uttermost [outer-
most]: Lost as they fear 60. Enemy numerous.
This morn. the Lt. Govr.
set out for Portsmouth, Capt.
Tuthill goes
to the Castle.
1 President Quiucy, in his History of
Harvard University (I. 150), after
quoting this
passage, adds: "By comparing the names of the seventeen
members of
the Corporation, chosen by virtue of the act which passed 9th of
July, 1700, with
those who, as the records show, attended its meetings dur-
ing the
Vice-Presidency of Willard, it is apparent that Mr. Walker and
Cotton
Mather were the two who were thus construed to have 'abdicated.'
Neither of
them attended any meeting of the Corporation after the exclusion
of President
Mather. But the name of Allen appears
occasionally among
those
present at the board, "quite down to the change introduced by the re-
vival of the
first charter of the College, at the time of the accession of Lev-
erett to the
presidency." -- EDS.
1703.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 85
Augt. 13. Council is call'd to read the sad Letter from
Capt.
Willard and Wheelwright. Capt.. Southack
is sent
away with a
chaplain and chirurgeon.
Augt 9. I read the Transaction of the Govr.
with the
Indians, at
the coffee house. Augt. the
12th borrowed it;
Abstract of
it follows.
CASCO-BAY,
June, 30.1703.
The Queen of England in six months time of
War with French
King and
Spanish King, has Taken more Towns and done more Ex-
ploits, than
the great and valiant King William did in Twelve years.
And besides
all this which she hath don by Land, her Fleet by Sea
hath taken
40. Sails; Taken much Money, the Royal Crown sent the
Spanish King
from N. Spain. Notwithstanding all this
I offer peace.
Twas once
very dark here about 20 or 30 years ago; was great
Troubles,
and also great Troubles among our selves.
New Hundred
now, new
Century, and would have the Old Hundred to be forgotten,
and never
talk'd of any more; New Hundred, new Queen, new Gov-
ernour now
will be all in new friendship. When any
French March
through the
Country, Stop them or give notice to the Fort:
For it is
easy if
there be but Ten Indians in some parts of the Country to fetch
away whole
familyes, and they not able to defend them selves. I
have very
particular Intelligence from Kebeck and Port Royal, they
have two
partys out at this time, would have you keep back those
part yes
according to the Treaty of peace made two years agoe. I do
it not to
boast of my self, but I Trust in God. I
have Twelve
Hundred and
fifty men impress'd in N. England, ready to march at
Six hours
warning: they are enough to disturb all the Indians in the
Country. Indians are able like Wolves to disturb men,
but not to
do them any
damage; they are not able to hurt us in the least, and I
value them
not, no more than the paring of my nails.
And the great
Queen of
England has order'd me 17. sail of Men of War all superior
to the Gosport;
which I may improve to do any thing upon the
French or
any of our Enemies. And I am confident
that time will
come that
nothing, nor no one will remain but English here and In-
dians. For the Indians part they may remain a hapy
people if they
will
themselvs. -- I have the Assistance of the Noble Govr of N.
York, who is
a Kinsman of the great Queen of England. -- I acknowl-
ege have
kept their promise in not passing Saco River. -- If arrest
and stop
French partys will give them a good Reward for it. And
methinks I
see among you some that I know that are fit to be made
Officers to
bear Comission for the Queen of England, to bear Rule
among you,
who shall be my Officers, and shall be Rewarded from
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time to
time, as my other officers at Boston, or any where else are;
every month
they shall be paid off as our own people: -- have noth-
ing more in
the world to say but to persuade them that I am an hon-
est man and
their Brother: -- our boys and youth will go and do
beyond their
prudence or strength; but these old men these Sa-
chems here
present, they and I are old men and should be discreet
and wise, so
as that when we dye we might be carried to our Graves
with
honor. Let them consider two hours and
give me their An-
swer -- Gave
them a good Ox and 20 -- bushels corn for diner: They
return'd
Thanks for their noble diner and all other Kindnesses
offer'd to
them. Then, said his Excellency here is
a Peace, and Sat-
isfaction to
the two Nations.
INDIANS ANSWER.
First breach was at Penobscut, which was
the first thing in the
morning. The 2d was
the Frenchmen and Indians, they broke the
peace in
doing that mischief at Casco: but we do affirm that we did
not know of
their coming, but of their going back we knew of it: but
we calling
to remembrance what was don at Penobscut before, and
so we
thought fit not to meddle of neither side.
TWO
BEVERS.
Again they say that what his Excellency
was pleased to tell them,
was not the
same as their French was, i. e. to make war as the
French would
have them. His Excellency's desire is
that we should
be peaceably
on both sides, for which we return him many a hearty
Thanks and
tell him we resolve to doe it.
TWO
BEVERS.
His Excellency was pleas'd to desire them
in the next place that if
any of the
English should be Taken by the French and carried over
their Ground
or through their Country, that we should bring them
back again,
and not suffer them to be carried through as Captives;
but that we
should do well to bring them back again.
But if we
should do
so, such a thing as that would make us seem guilty, and so
thereby we
might be though't to be concern'd, when we are not.
TWO
BEVERS.
There is about the Mohawks a great many
ready to fight, not cer-
tain of the
number, but hope to know in a day or two, for have sent
scouts to
Albany.
1703.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 87
TWO
BEVERS.
Again they wonder that his Excellency
would be pleas'd to tell
them, or desire
any of them to come upon wages upon any account.
For they
desire it not. But their desire is to be
as Neuters; not to
medle nor
make, nor to stir or act in any thing one way or other.
THREE
BEVERS.
Now they desire to come and pay their
Respects to the Govr, since
have said
all they have to say.
Govr will
have them stay and hear his Answer a little -- Action at
Penabscot
and Casco much alike: But Govr N. E. hated the Action
as to the
Frenchmans death: Govr French nourished and imbraced
the Casco
breach; sent them to do the thing. If
resolve to sit still
and be
quiet, I shall remain perfectly satisfied in all things and desire
to remain as
an entire and dear Brother unto them.
May stop the French from Marching through
their Country and
yet remain
Neuters still; they mistake if think otherwise:
Be call'd
Captains and
Officers; why this is pure honor meant to them not
that they
should be expos'd to march or fight, but to be as my
Brother, as
I am to them. And if I would honor them
so far as to
make them
Captains and to send them a present now and then, why
it is
honor: not that I desire they should be
expos'd to fight upon
any
occasion. Tell Moxes I am willing to
honor Moxes' son that
was with me,
with the place of a Captain here: not that I expect
him to be
expos'd to fight; no not so much as to fire a piece: but
that we may
live as Brothers and that I may send him a piece of
Cloth once a
year. -- Penecook Indians not return till after Har-
vest.
Then the Govr and Sachems repaired to the heaps of stones, and
put up each
man a stone again.
Second-day of the week, Augt.
16, 1703. In the After-
noon I had
Joseph in a Calash from Charlestown to Cam-
bridge,
carried only his little Trunk with us with a few
Books and
Linen; Went into Hall and heard Mr.
Willard
expound the
123 [Psalm]. 'Tis the first exercise of
this
year, and
the first time of Joseph's going to prayer in the
Hall.
Augt 23. 1703. I went to Cambridge to see Joseph
settled in
his study, help'd to open his Chest.
Joseph was
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at home the
Sabbath, and went up on foot by Charles-
town. This day several very unusual Circles were
seen
about the
sun. Mr. Leverett first told me of them,
but I
saw them
not.
Septr. 3. Mr. Banister's eldest daughter is
buried. She
died very
suddenly of convulsions. -- Sept. 4.
Mrs. Emm
Lynde is
buried. Bearers, Majr Genl
Winthrop, Mr. Rus.
sel, Col.
Hutchinson, Sewall, Capt. Belchar, Col. Savage.
Septr. 6. 1703. Artil. Training, I Train'd in the Fore-
noon, As I
was going, Mr. Oakes met me and ask'd if I
had not
heard the News? He said French King; he
had
his Neck
broken by a fall from his Horse, as he was view-
ing an Army
Rais'd to goe against those of the Cevenes.
One Bodwin
brings the Report, who comes from New
Castle, and
had it at Sea from Comodore Taylor.
Tho. Oaltes had a Tin Granado shell broke
in his Hand,
which has
shattered his hand miserab]y, his two last fin-
gers are
already cut off: This was in the
Afternoon, as
came from
Council, was told of it.
Septr. 9. Genl Court is prorogued to
Wednesday, Octr
27, 1703, 9 mane. Great Rain.
Govr. went not to the
Lecture. Septr 11th. 1703.
Col. Hathorn and I set out
for
Wrentham, lodge at Lt. Wear's.
Sept. 12. Hear Mr.
Man. Dine with him. 7r
13 See Wullamanuppack pond,1
out of which
Charles River runs. Dine at Rehoboth, to
Bristow. 7r 16. return to Rehoboth, sup there and ride
in the night
to Woodcock's. Breakfast at
Billinges. Bait
at Dedham,
got home by four p.m. Go to Major Walli-
ces to their
Meeting.
7r 19. Hear of the Taking of Providence2
by the
1 Wrentham was first known by the Indian
name of Wollomapaugh.--
EDS.
2
"New Providence was again recolonized by the British, in 1686, and
continued in
their hands till 1703, when a formidable combined force of
French and
Spaniards effected a landing, carried off the Negroes, destroyed
Nassau, and
drove into the woods the inhabitants, the most of whom, on the
1703.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 89
French;
surpris'd it in the night July 20. 7r
20. Wads-
worth
arrives from Dublin 7 weeks: Brings no
News of
the French
King's death, so that conclude he is alive. I,
my wife,
Joseph, Mary, visit son and daughter at Muddy-
River. I bring Joseph going in his way to Cambridge
from Gates's
into the Highway. Tuesday, 7r
28. very
cold, and
snow to cover the ground. 7r
29th The Snow is
now three or
four inches deep, and a very cold Norwest
wind: a sad face of Winter, to see the Houses and
Ground
so cover'd
with snow, and to see so much Ice.
7r 25. The Beams and Joyce of the old Hall Floor are
laid. 7r 28.
Keats comes to Ground pining.
8r 13. 1703
Capt. Rich'd Sprague is buried.
Mr. Rus-
sell, Capt.
Hayman, Capt. Belchar, Mr. Leverett, Capt.
Cary, Capt.
Fowl Bearers: is buried in Mr. Morton's
Tomb. I was there.
Most of the Scholars, Joseph for
one: My Gloves were too little, I gave them him. Govr.
there.
[Volume III. of the Manuscript Journal.]
[We -- Jany. 19. 170 ¾ Four Men kill'd at Casco-
Bay
belonging to Capt. Gallop; go out of the Boat;
Benet the
Master out of the Sloop; Indians had their
canoes, and
lay there in wait.
Jany.
24. express brings the News.
Ice would not suffer him to go to the
Fort; so lay by
Hog-Island.
By the good Providence of Almighty God,
and the
Prudence,
Courage and Conduct of your Majr Capt. Genl,
the enemy
has hitherto been prevented of making such
Impressions
upon us as sometimes heretofore they have
invaders
having departed, retired to Carolina."
Edward's British West
Indies, IV.
219, 220, fifth ed. -- EDS.
90 DIARY OF
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done: of
whose Conduct we pray the continuance may it
consist with
your Majesties good pleasure.
ELISHA H UTCHINSON
p order of the Comittee.
Augt. 24th unanimously voted p the Council, send down
for
concurrence. [In margin, Not voted by
the Deputies.]
Augt. 28 In the House of Depts
Read Augt 29. read.
Septr 4th Read and voted a Concurrence with the
Amendm't. Sent up for concurrence.
Council unanimously insist on the former die
praedict.
sent
down. Deps. die praedict Read.] 1
MASSACHUSETS; Anno Domini 1703.
Novr. 26 Harrison the
Controller, and Mr. Wm. Pain
are examined
before the Govr and Council by Mr. Rus-
sell's
Motion.2 When mention was
made of putting them
to their
Oath, Harrison said he was ready to swear, but
then it must
be by laying his hand on the Bible: Govr
said, So he
ought, and order'd Mr. Secretary to fetch the
Bible. Mr. Pain also slip'd on his hand. Mr. Harrison
first look'd
into it to see that 'twas the Bible.
When had
sworn,
seem'd to aplaud himself, and said he would have
this
forwarded and upheld. When Questions
were asked
him, he
answer'd, By that Booke it is True.
Sabbath, Novr 28. A very sore storm of snow, which
makes
Assemblys very thin. Not one Woman in
Roxbury
Meeting.
1 These first few entries seem to be out
of their chronological order, and
are
therefore bracketed by us. -- EDS.
2 This refers to a matter recorded in
Massachusetts Archives, Vol. LXII.
f. 446. One Nathaniel Carey, a waiter under James
Russell, Commissioner
of the
Impost, &c., had seized some rum from Michael Shaller, of Boston, a
distiller,
for non-payment of excise. Wishing to
keep it safely, he deposited
it at the
Custom-house, by leave of Mr. Ralph Harrison, comptroller, and
Mr. William
Payne, deputy-collector. But when he went for it these latter
claimed it
as a customs prize, and refused to deliver it. -- EDS.
1703.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 91
Decr 11. Poor little Hull Sewall dies in Mr. Phips's
house at Muddy-River
about 6. in the evening, of Con-
vulsions. About 8. at night the Govr sends
us word of it.
Decr
14th. Corps is brought to
Town in the Governours
Slay. Decr
15. is born to our Tomb, and set upon a Box
that his
great Grandfathers Bones now put into it at Wil-
liams's
desire, some being wash'd out. On the
Box is
made with
Nails, 1683. Bearers were Mr. Nathanl
Oliver
and David
Stoddard. -- Govrs Lady and
my wife rode in
the
Coach. Son and daughter followed the
little Corps
in Mourning: then Grandfathers, Joseph and Hannah,
Mr. Hirst
and his wife. Several of the Council
here, and
Mr. Cotton
Mather, Mr. Nehemiah Walter. Provided
new
oak Plank
for the entrance of the Tomb. Madam Lev-
erett and
Usher there. Gave no Gloves.
Decr. 23. Dr. Mather marries Mr. Thomas Hutchinson
and Mrs,
Sarah Foster. A very great Wedding. Mr. Sec-
retary and I
not bidden, nor Mr. Bromfield. Mr. Hirst
and his wife
were invited; but Mr. Hirst was at Ports-
mouth, and
my daughter being very big with child, ex-
cus'd her
going in Want of her Husband's company. I
knew not she
was invited till the time was past.
Decr. 23. Mr. Brisco, now my son's Tenant, comes to
the
Council-Chamber when I was left there almost alone,
and desired
me to Marrie his Daughter, which I did at
his
house. Sung the 90th. Psalm from the 12th. v. to the
end, with
earnest desires that this Match might prove
better than
the former.
Decr. 30. Col. Hutchinson makes a very great Enter-
tainment: Mr. Bromfield and wife are now invited: Mr.
Secretary
and I pass'd by, and I do not know who beside.
Decr. 26. Sabbath; very sore vehement Storm of Snow;
exceeding
high Tide, which did much hurt in Cellars
and lower
Rooms) and carried many Stacks of Hay quite
away. It seems Roxbury Meeting was held at Mr. Wal-
92 DIARY OF
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ter's
Dwelling-house. The Christmas keepers
had a very
pleasant
day, Govr and Mr. Dudley at Church, and Mr.
Dudley made
a pretty large Entertainment after.
Decr. 20. Five men that were getting home wood at
Saco, are
surpris'd by the enemy, three after found slain.
Seven others
that were at a distance, escaped to Wells:
from whence
the News came to Town.
Decr. 23. Jany. 1.
170 3/4 I carried 2 Duz. Mr. Willard's
Books about
swearing, to Mr. Phillips; Duz. to Buttolp;
Duz. to
Eliott; Duz to Boon.
Jany 5. Meeting at Mrs. Stevens; I pray there. Lind-
sey arrives
at Marblehead this day; came from Isle Wight
29th. Jno Barston in her.
Jany. 7th. Col. Hutchinson's case is put to the Jury of
which Mr.
Hirst Foreman. Jany. 8. They
bring in a con-
ditional
verdict, If Madam Warren had power to alienat
before
Division &c. Court would not accept
of it; but
said that was
it they were to Try: and sent them out
again: Then they brought in for Col. Hutchinson,
costs.
Col.
Hutchinson said upon the Bench, He would not be
Try'd by
Infer. or Sup'or Court; He would be Try'd by
the Jury;
they were his Judges.
Jany. 14th. 170 3/4
Got an Overseers Meeting at Col Fos-
te[r]
[manuscript imperfect] and pass my Account but
could not
get through with it; met with so[ me] gross
mistakes or
such as fear'd were so; and had not time.
Col Foster
offers me to carryall I have done, into Leger
parcells.
Jany. 16. A storm of snow; but not so vehement as
those in Novr
and Dec. In the Afternoon Dr. Jer. Dumer
preaches
from Luke 13, ult. Mr. Pemberton
baptizes Mr.
Daniel
Oliver's son Daniel. My wife not
abroad. The
last Lecture
and this Lord's Day Major Walley apears in
his Wigg,
having cut off his own Hair. Jany.
19. reckon'd
with the
Tenants of the Saw-mill at Braintry, and took
their Bonds
for the Arrears, and cancell'd the Leases.
In
170 3/4.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 93
the morning
walk'd with Major Walley, Capt. Timo Clark,
Mr. Calef,
constable Franklin, to visit disorderly poor;
Met at my
house. Capt Clark took up his Wigg: I
said
would have
him consider that one place; The Bricks are
fallen
&c. But here men cut down the
sycamores.1 He
seem'd
startled.
Second-Day; Jany. 24. 170 3/4 I
paid Capt. Belchar
£8-15-0. Took 24s in my pocket, and gave my
Wife the
rest of my
cash £4.3-8, and tell her she shall now keep
the Cash; if
I want I will borrow of her. She has a
better
faculty than I at managing Affairs: I will assist
her; and
will endeavour to live upon my Salary; will see
what it will
doe. The Lord give his Blessing.
Jany 31. Second day of the week, about four hours
before day,
my Daughter Hirst was delivered of a Living
lively
Daughter. Her mother went to her after
the fore-
noon
exercise Jany 30. Mother
Hirst came the evening
before. We have an Answer of Peace to our many
Prayers. Laus Deo. Mrs. Wakefield was Midwife.
Madam Usher,
Pemberton, Hubbard, Welsteed, Nurse
Johnson
assisted. Nurse is from Salem.
Jany 31. George Pierce brings the News, of a Girl
being kill'd
at Nickawaiiuck; [Berwick, Me.] 30 Indians
assaulted a
Garrison there; were received bravely by the
English, one
of them kill'd, and the rest by Capt. Brown
with a small
party of men 10 or 12, put to flight, sundry
of them
wounded; left many of their own Accoutrements,
for haste,
and carried nothing away of ours. This
was
done last
Friday.
Febr. 1. 170 3/4 Third of the week, I went to Dorchester
Lecture, and
heard Mr. Danforth preach from those words,
All is
vanity. Din'd with Madam Taylor and Mr.
Trott.
1 Isaiah IX. 10. "The bricks are fallen
down, but we will build with
hewn stones:
the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into
cedars."
-- EDS.
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SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 3/4
Before
Lecture, I rid into the Burying place, and read
Mr.
Stoughton's Epitaph, which is very great.1
Febr. 3. 170 3/4 Mr. Neh. Hobart dines with us in the
chamber. Has not been in Town of many weeks before.
I Lent him
Forbes 2 on the Rev. Gave him 4 Quires paper
and box
wafers. Told him I was like to have some
Bick-
erings with
Mr. Noyes;3 and he should be Judge of the
Controversy. I set up this Problem, that Christ set his
Right Foot
on the New-World; his Left, on the Old.
Rev.
10. Pray'd him to assign otherwise if he
saw con-
venient.
Febr. 4th. 170 3/4
I paid Sarah Mountfort her Legacy
with the
Three and Twenty pieces of Gold. Mr.
Secre-
tary took
eight pieces, which 1 ounce and 12d weight, and
gave
£8-11-3. Sarah Mountfort had Fifteen
pieces,
which
weighed -- 16-8-9 Three ounces, 2d,
weight,
and 12
Grains by Cousin Dumers Scales £25-0-0. Mr.
Secretary
took the Acquittance seal'd and Deliver'd in
presence of
her Brother Wadsworth, and Tom Maccarty.
Lord's-Day, February the 6th. 170 3/4
I went to Mr. Col-
man's that I
might see my little Grand-daughter baptised;
Besides me
there were Mr. Brattle, Mr. Clark and Capt.
Anth.
Checkley in the Fore-Seat. Mr. Colman
read the
15th. and 16.
Psalms, and the last chapter of the first
Epistle of
Peter. Text was Mat. 26. 38. Went on with
the
Discourse had begun in the morning for the Lord's
Supper. Pray'd excellently at Baptisme, for the
Child,
Mother,
all. Child is call'd Mary My --
[daughter]
would have
it so for the sake of Mrs. Mary Hirst, her
1 All who desire to do so may verify the
Judge's remark by reading the
still
legible inscription on the stately monument of Stoughton, or in the care-
ful
transcript printed by Sibley, "Harvard Graduates," I. 205, 206. Har-
vard
College, some years since, repaired this memorial of its benefactor. --
EDS.
2 Patrick Forbes, of Corse, Bishop of
Aberdeen, died 1635. -- EDS.
3 On disputed points in the interpretation
of prophecy. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 95
Hnsband's
[Moth]er, who was present, and my little
daughter
Mary. Nurse brought the Child, and Mr.
Grove
Hirst the
father held it up. Though the Child had
cry'd
before, did
not cry at Mr. Colman's pouring on the Water.
Daughter
reckons herself very ill.
Febr. 7.
Nurse Hawkins, who watch'd with her, tells
me my
daughter had a very good night. Laus
Deo.
Febr. 5.
Seventh-day of the week; I fasted and pray'd
to God that
Satan might not be comissioned any longer
to buffet me
and my wife; for my self and family in the
advancing
year: and Province &c. for Daughter Hirst,
and little
Mary to be dedicated to Him the next day.
Lt Tristram Coffin dyed Febr.
4th. 170 3/4. Joseph Frazon,
the Jew,
dyes at Mr. Major's, Mr. Joyliff's old house;
Febr. 5th. Satterday, is carried in Simson's coach to
Bris-
tow; from
thence by Water to Newport, where there is a
Jews-burying
place.1
Febr. 8th. a Garrison-house is surpris'd at Haverhill by
6
or 7
Indians.
Febr. 18. 19. 20. My wife lodges with my daughter
Hirst to
comfort her. Febr. 20. Major William Brad-
ford dies in
the 80th. year of his
Age: He was a Right New-
England
Christian. Mrs. Lewis dies at
Boston. Isaac
Goose junr.
is baptised this day. Febr. 22. A great fun-
eral for
Mrs. Lewis.
Febr. 25.
I went to Charlestown Lecture; heard Mr.
Bradstreet
preach from 1 Cor. 7. 31.; made a good Ser-
mon. As return'd in the Ferry-boat, I was told
Capt.
Stephens had
done nothing. The Lord pity us.
Febr. 24th. 170 3/4
This day the new Parishoners meet in
1 Arnold (History of Rhode Island, I. 479)
says that the Jews peti-
tioned, in
1684, for protection. They contributed
for a century to the
prosperity
of the colony, making Newport their centre.
Not one of their de-
scendants
now remains there, but Abraham Touro (a son of their last priest),
who died at
Boston, in 1822, left a fund of $15,000 for the support of the
synagogue
and cemetery on Touro street, Newport. -- EDS.
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the house
built for their Minister, and call the Precinct
Byfield, as
Bror Moody tells me, March 4th. 170 3/4 before
his going
home.
March, 5.
The dismal News of the Slaughter made at
Deerfield is
certainly and generally known, Mr. Secretary
came to me
in the morning, and told me of it: I
told Mr.
Willard; by
which means our Congregation was made a
Bochim. [Judges, II. 1-5.] Tis to be observ'd that the
great
slaughters have been on the Third day of the week;
our Court
day. This was Febr. 29th. 170 3/4
My Tenant
Kibbee was
arrested this day.
March, 16. 170 3/4
Mr. Dean Winthrop, of Pulling Point,
dies upon
his Birth-day, just about the Breaking of it.
He was Taken
at eight aclock the evening before, as he
sat in his
chair, sunk first, being set up, he vomited, com-
plain'd of
his head, which were almost his last words.
Hardly spake
anything after his being in bed. 81
years
old. He is the last of Govr Winthrop's
children --
statione
novissimus exit.l March,
20. is buried at Pulling
Point by his
son and Three Daughters. Bearers Russel,
Cooke;
Hutchinson, Sewall; Townsend, Paige.
From the
House of
Hasey. Scutcheons on the Pall. I help'd to
lower the
Corps into the Grave. Madam Paige went
in
her
Coach. Majr Gen1
and Capt. Adam Winthrop had
Scarvs, and
led the widow. Very pleasant day; Went
by
Winisimet.
March, 24, 170 3/4 William Daws, Mason, dyes about 2
p.m. A good old man, full of days, is got well to
the end
of his weary
Race.2 Arthur Mason's Negro
dyes this day,
being run
over by his own cart on Tuesday: Is a
great
Loss, being
faithfull and in his full strength.
1 Diffugiunt stellae: quarum agmina cogit
Lucifer et coeli statione novissimus
exit.
OVID, Met. II. 114. -- EDS.
2 He was the progenitor of the noted Boston
family. See Dawes Gene-
alogy, by H.
W. Holland, Boston, 1878. -- EDS.
1704.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 97
March, 25,
1704. Col. Hathorne and I travel to
Brain-
try, lodge
at Cousin Fisk's. March, 26. Hear Mr. Fisk
preach
Forenoon and Afternoon: Note. One Sheffield,
a very good
aged Christian, of about 90 years old, was
there, who,
as was expected, was never like to have come
abroad
more. Was accordingly given Thanks
for. George
Allen waits
on me.
March, 27th. Bait at Mr. Cushing's. He shews us Ac-
cord Pond,1
hardly 1/4 of a mile out of the Rode.
Dine at
Barkers in
company of Major Eels, his son, Mr. Stod-
dard, Dr.
Samsons and others. Sheriff Warren meets
us
there;
before we get away, Major Walley and Leverett
come in. We get to Plimo 1/2 hour before
Sun-set.
March the
Court.
March, 29th. Went into the Meetingh -- in the
Adjourn'd sine
die before Noon. Din'd and got to
Cush-
ings about
sunset. In the evening Mr. Cushing
desired
me to pray,
which I did, and sang three staves of the 137
Psal.
omitting Edom. Mr. Cushing told us, Mr.
Danforth
us'd to
sing. I shew'd Mr. Leverett Accord Pond
as came
along.
March, 30.
Call'd and visited Mr. Torrey.
Call'd at the
Governours,
He told us the particulars of the dread-
full Storm
in England in Novr.2 Came
home about 4 p.m:
found all
well. Laus Deo.
April, 1. 1704. Visited my valetudinarious son at Brook-
lin; gave
Baker a shilling to drive a Nail for me in the
great
Stairs. Call'd at the Govrs
as I came home to con-
dole the
Loss of Mr. Samuel Dudley at Suratt, Febr. 22.
1 Accord Pond is at the angle of Abington,
Scituate, and Hingham, and
is named as
early as 1640. It was one of the points
by which to run the
boundary of
Plymouth Colony. As we write we notice a
petition for leave
to supply
Hingham with water from this pond. -- EDS.
2 This storm, which has been called
"the most terrible storm that had
been known
in England," is described by Defoe, in a volume entitled "The
Storm,"
published in 1704. -- EDS.
VOL. II.
98 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
170
2/3: was taken with the small Pocks
Febr. 16th, of which
he died the
22th. the day Madam Willard had like to have
been cast
away and her family, coming from Cambridge
by
Water. I told the Govr I
hoped this young Gentle-
man might
have been a Suport to his family; for counte-
nance was
one of the Goodliest I had known. Said
to
Mr. William
Dudley that to get more Acquaintance with,
and
Conformity to Christ, as his Elder Brother, was the
best and
only way to Repair such a Loss. Read
Brothers
Letter to
the Govr about a Scout-Shallop: He said South-
ack and
Gallop were hastening. The News of Mr.
Saml
Dudley's
death was inclosed to Col. Foxcroft by Mr.
Shepard, Govr
of the East-India Company: Letter dated
Decr. 3. 1703.
Col. Foxcroft deliver'd it to the Govr the
evening
following, Thorsday, March 30. 1704, 2 or 3 hours
after Major
Walley and I took leave of his Excellency.
April, 2. 1704. Ship arrives from England Seven weeks
passage;
came out with the Fleet that had the King of
Spain1
on board to carry to Portugal. Brings
Prints of the
November
Storm, and the December Mercury.
April, 3.
Artil. Company chuses Mr. Henry Gibbs of
Watertown 2
to preach their Sermon; chuse Capt. Checkley
and me to
join Comiss'd Officers to
acquaint him with it,
and desire
him to undertake it.
April, 5th. Capt. John Ballentine, Lt Tho
Savage and
Ens. Tho.
Fitch, Sewall and Checkly, set out at 2 p.m.
round for
Watertown: Find Mr. Gibbs at home,
Acquaint
him with our
Message, press him earnestly: but can get
no Answer,
He will give an Answer the 13th
after Lect-
ure. I invited him to dine with me. Had comfortable
1 The Archduke Charles, a claimant of the
Crown of Spain, and recog-
nized by the
Allies as King. -- EDS.
2 Rev. Henry Gibbs, of Watertown, H. C.
1685, died Oct. 21, 1723, leav-
ing
issue. His father was Robert Gibbs, of
Boston, who was fourth son
of Sir Henry
Gibbs, and great grandson of Robert Gibbs, of Honington,
County
Warwick. See Heraldic Journal, III,
165-167. -- EDS.
1704.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 99
going and
returning: Call'd at Brooklin as came
home.
Baited at
Remington's. I used Dr. Witsius's1
Title of's
Oration De
Theologo Modesto; told him the more Modesty
we saw the
more vehement we should be in our Assaults.
Apr. 6 & 7th. very cold North-east Stormy Wether, and
Tuesday was
the Catechising: so that we took the only
day could be
had to go in this week.
April, 10. 1704. The Seven and Thirty French priva-
teers are
brought to Town, who were put a-Shore at
Marshfield
last Friday in the vehemency of the Storm.
Feria quarta, Apr. 12.
In the morning I saw and heard
three
Swallows playing over my head. I think I
never
observ'd
them so soon in the year before. Rowse
came
in from
London, 7 weeks passage, Apr. 10. Feria
Sexta,
Ap. 14.
p.m. Tho. Wallis dieth. Feria septima, Apr. 15.
1704. Mr. Nathanl Oliver dieth between 3 and 4 in the
morning. He was born 20 days before me. Joseph
comes to see
us. Feria Secunda, April, 17th.
1704, I go
to Salem to
see my Bror Hirst; Speak with Mr. Noyes,
who
conceives that the Witnesses were slain at the con-
clusion of
the Peace of Ryswick, 1697. Passing away
of
the 2d
Wo. at the conclusion of the Peace of Carlowitz
with the
Turk. [1699.] Resurrection of the Witnesses
by the
Convulsions following the death of Charles 2d K--
of Spain; 2
The 1260 days Expire, and then the
Witnesses
Rise; namely
the 1260 Days of the Ten-horn'd Beast, his
power to
make war. Antichrist's Reign begins at
the
Time of the
great Whore's mounting the Beast, the 10
horned
beast, viz. Ano 1073. Hildebrand
papa. At the
death of
Valentinian, the Ten-horn'd Beast set- up; viz.
anno,
458. Taken from Mr. Noyes's mouth at Bror
Sewall's.3
1 A Dutch Divine: born, 1636; died, 1708.
-- EDS.
2 Charles II. died in 1700. His dying without issue gave rise to the War
of the
Spanish Succession. -- EDS.
3 The "bickerings" which Judge
Sewall, according to his expectations,
100 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
Apr. 18th. Go home in company of Major Brown, Cor-
win,
Higginson, Lynde, Gerrish to the parting way, where
turn'd off
to Mr. Wigglesworth [of Malden], where I din'd:
then home by
Charlestown: Went to the Funeral of Mr.
Nathan1
Oliver: Bearers, Sewall, Walley; Legg,
Dumer;
Cooper, --
Govr was there.
April, 24. 1704. I went to Cambridge to see some
Books on the
Revelation, and there met with Mr. Pignet:1
went into
Hall and heard Mr. Willard expound Rom. 4.9.
10. 11 and
pray. I gave Mr. Willard the first
News-Let-
ter2
that ever was carried over the River. He
shew'd it
the
Fellows. I came home in company with Mr.
Adams.
April, 25.
My daughter Hanah and I carefully re-
moved all
Ebenr Mountfort's Linnen &c out of his crazy,
had with the
Rev. Nicholas Noyes, of Salem, on these prophetical mysteries,
concern such
profound and perplexing matters that the professional attain-
ments of the
Editors do not qualify them to attempt any arbitration in the
case. --
EDS.
1 This is a mysterious name, unknown to
our annals. -- EDS.
2 "The Boston News Letter," the
first Anglo-American newspaper, ap-
peared on
Monday, April 24, 1704, and continued to be published until 1776,
on the
evacuation of Boston by the British troops.
Its first publisher and pro-
prietor was
John Campbell, a bookseller, and also postmaster, in which last
office he
continued till his death, in 1728.
Nicholas Boone was associate
publisher. Bartholomew Green, John Allen, and again
Green, were, suc-
cessively,
its printers. Issued weekly, on Monday,
it answered the needs of
the time,
and even with difficulty secured a supporting constituency. No
price for
subscription or for a single copy is mentioned upon it. It was a
half-sheet,
small folio, "Publisher by Authority," -- i. e., by allowance of
the
provincial authorities. The first number
contained but one advertise-
ment, and
that was the publisher's. He solicits
advertisements of "Houses,
Lands,
Tenements, Farms, Ships, Vessels, Goods, Wares, or Merchandises,
&c., to
be Sold or Lett: or Servants Runaway: or Goods Stole or Lost," to be
"Inserted
at a reasonable rate: from Twelve Pence to Five Shillings, and
not to
exceed." "Reasonable terms" are offered to" All persons in
Town or
Country"
for the Weekly, "agreeing with John Campbell, Postmaster, for the
Same." The publishing office was near the site of
the present Joy's Build-
ing, then
occupied by the First Church. A few
matters of public intelli-
gence, the
announcement of a sermon preached by Mr. Pemberton on
"Doing
one's own business," "which his Excellency has ordered to be
printed,"
and the fact that "The Rev. Mr. Lockyer dyed on Thursday last,"
make up the
contents of this first Boston "News Letter." -- EDS.
1704.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 101
unfaithfull
Trunk, and laid them up orderly in the new
Chest I
bought of Bror Nichols for that purpose. Col.
Perce died
the 22 Ap. in the Afternoon. Son and
daugh-
ter Sewall
lodg'd here last night.
Lord's-Day, Apr. 23. There is great Firing at the
Town, Ships,
Castle upon account of its being the Coro-
nation-day,
which gives offence to many; See the Lord's-
day so
profan'd. Down Sabbath, Up St George.
April, 27, 1704. Little Judith is carried on Horseback,
Jane Green
attending her, unto the house of Mr. Robert
Avery of
Dedham, for to be healed of her Rupture.
Had
Mrs.
Wigglesworth's advice. In the morning,
not thinking
of her
departure, I first got her to say after me, Create in
me a clean
heart, 0 God; and renew a right spirit within
me. It was near sun-set, when they went away,
which
made us
uneasy: But Mrs. Avery was in a
readiness
with Horses
and Company; and the spring advancing
apace made
us consent. I intended 4. p.m. to be the
latest for
their setting out.
May, 13.
I visit little Judith; find her well:
visit Mr.
Belchar.
May, 15th. Set out for Ipswich with Major Walley;
Mr. Leverett
falls in at Lewis's; go by Salem: from
thence Col.
Hathorne goes with us, Sheriff Gedny waits
on us: got thither in season. Lodge at Mr. Rogers'.
When came
away gave Mrs. Martha a Turkey-Leather
Psalm-book.
May, 17.
Made a shift to get to Rowley, Lodg'd at
Bror
Northend's, who came to Ipswich and invited me.
May, 18.
heard Mr. Payson and Hale; No Meeting at
Byfield, had
not timely notice.
May, 19. ride to Newbury; Dine at Sister Gerrishes;
See Cousin
Joseph's wife, give her Mr. Cole's Sermons.1
1 Probably Thomas Cole, Principal of St.
Mary's Hall, Oxford. He was
ejected by
the King's Commissioners, in 1660, and afterwards took charge of
a
congregation in London. -- EDS.
102 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
Knew not of
the Clause about Perriwigs till I got to
Rowley. I read the Discourse of Adoption to my Aunt
Northend. Lodge at Bror Taping's. May, 21.
Goe and
hear Mr.
Belchar; Dine there. After dinner the
aged
Ordway1
comes to see me, complains bitterly of his cousin
John Emery's
carriage to his wife, which makes her leave
him and go
to her Sister Bayly.
May, 22. visit Cousin Joshua Pierce, the
widow Pierce,
widow
Coffin. Went with Bror Moodey
to his house,
dine there,
went to Perkin's in Beverly, lodge there: be-
cause of the
extream heat, I travel'd from Ipswich thither
in the
night. May, 23, went early to Salem,
convers'd
with Mr.
Noyes, told him of the Quaker Meeting at Sam.
Sawyers, a week
ago, profaneness of the young Hoags,
professing
that heresy. Visited Bror
Hirst still confin'd
by the
Gout. Came home with daughter Sewall,
she
rides
single, Sam. Sewall de Stephano, waits on her. Re-
fresh at
Lewis's, where Mr. Paul Dudley is in egre pur-
suit of the
Pirats. He had sent one to Boston; and
seeing me
call'd him back again; At such a sudden I
knew not
what to doe: but charg'd Tom. Cox and one
Jarvis with
him, and order'd them to deliver him to Mr.
Secretary
Addington. For my daughter's sake I went
by
Charlestown,
and parted with her where Cambridge way
turns
off. George Allen and I got home about
Sun-set.
Laus Deo.
Mr. Bridge and Mr. Bridgham welcom'd me
by the New
Burying place, met them there. May, 27th.
Mr. Secretary
and Capt. Belcher, Mr. Em Hutchinson and
Palmer, Mr.
Bromfield and I ride to Cambridge to meet
the Govr.
Staid till about 7, then supos'd would not
come till
Monday, and so came home. But the Govr
came
that
night. I knew not of it till 'twas too
late to visit his
1 Probably James Ordway, of Newbury, said
by Savage to have been
born in
1620, and to have died after 1702. -- EDS.
1704.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 103
with the Govr
there. May, 29th. Govr orders another
Proclamation
to be issued out, respecting the Pirats.
Several
bring in Gold; Capt. Tuttle brings three parcels;
two given
him by Wm Clark de Johane; one by Capt.
Quelch. May, 31, 1704. Mr. Addington, Walley and
Sewall Give
the Depts the Oaths; but one Councellor at
Roxbury,
viz. Capt. Belcher. Mr. Jonathan Russell
preaches. Deputies send in a Resolve that none is to be
accounted
chosen who has not the major part of the
Voters: Election finished about eight: Govr and Lieut.
Govr
went away long before.
June 1.
Govr signs the Allowance of all but Mr. Ser-
geant and
Cook; them He does not allow.1
June 2.
Debated in Council whether or no should not
fill up the
Council: Most seem' d for it. Some against it,
as Col.
Townsend, Foster, Hutchinson.
Wednesday, June 7th. 1704. Col. Nathanl Byfield, Mr.
Palmer and
my self have rec'd an Order from the Govr to
search for
and seize Pirats and their Treasure, and to
hold a court
of Enquiry for this end at Marblehead; be-
cause Capt.
Quelch in the Charles Galley arrived there:
we set
forward this day for Salem, having James Noyes
and Joseph
Gerrish to wait on us. We got to Salem
about 8
aclock There Sam. Wakefield, the Water Baily,
inform'd
Col. Byfield of a Rumor there was that Capt.
Larrimore was
now with the Larramore Gally at Cape-
Anne; and
that two of Quelch's company designed
to go off in
her. Upon this we made out a Warrant
to the said
Wakefield to goe and see into this matter
and seize
the Men if true. Despatch'd him about
mid-
night.
Thorsday, June 8. We went to Marblehead in the
Rain, and
held our Court at Capt. Brown's by the Fire-
1 It seems, by the Council records, that
on the thirteen of June, Simeon
Stoddard and
Samuel Hayman were chosen instead. -- EDS.
104 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
side; took
Major Sewall with us, who return'd to Salem
the same
night.
Friday, June, 9th. about 6. m.
An Express from Cape-
Anne, gives
an Account of 9. or 11. Pirats, double
arm'd,
seen in a
Lone-house there. This Express found us
a-bed.
We rose
imediately, Sent for Col. Legg, and directed him
to send
warrants to the Northward Companies within his
Regiment; to
send such parties as they could raise, to
Cape-Anne
upon this Extraordinary occasion. And writt
to Col.
Wainright to do the Like in his Regiment, inti-
mating that
we were moving thither our selves to be Wit-
ness of
their forwardness for Her Majesties Service.
Sent
this by
James Noyes to shew it to Capt. Fisk of Wenham,
as he went
along. Col. Byfield and I rode to Salem;
there met
Dr. Gatchman, took his Affidavit for some bet-
ter
foundation for our Actions. Sent him
post to the Govr.
Bror
got a shallop, the Trial, and his Pinace, and about a
score of his
Compa to go by water. Mr. Dudley
went by
water from
Marblehead with Col. Legg. Col. Byfield
and
I proceeded
with Sheriff Gedney and Capt. Turner and
part of his
Troop by Land: call'd on Lt Brisco at Beverly;
that Troop
resolv'd to go by Jabacko [Chebacco].
Man-
chester
Company was mustering upon the top of a Rock;
shook hand
with Mr. Webster. When drew nigh the
Town of
Glocester a Letter from Mr. Dudley and Legg
met us, to
acquaint us that Larramore1 Sail'd in the morn-
ing and took
in the Pirats at the head of the Cape. Mes-
senger seem'
d to discourage our going forward.
However,
we sent back
the Sheriff to post their Letter to the Govr,
and as many
of Salem Troops as would go back, persuad-
1 This was, probably, the Captain Thomas
Larrimore mentioned in a
letter
printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, IV.
348. It is from John Leverett to Isaac Addington,
under date of July 11,
1702. He writes: "His Excellency also commands
me to acquaint your
honor that
he hath ordered Capt. Thomas Larrimore with his crew in Mr.
Marston's
Sloop to joyn Capt. Gilbert's in their Cruise." -- EDS.
1704.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 105
ing them to
return. Mr. Dudley had sent to stay Ips-
wich
Regiment and direct their Return. When
came to
Capt.
Davis's, waited Brother's arrival with his Shallop
Trial, and
Pinace: When they were come and had
Din'd,
Resolv'd to
send after Larramore. Abbot was first
pitch'd
on as
Captain. But matters went on heavily,
'twas diffi-
cult to get
Men. Capt. Herrick pleaded earnestly his
Troopers
might be excus'd. At last Brother
offer'd to
goe
himself: then Capt. Turner offer'd to
goe, Lieut
Brisco, and
many good Men; so that quickly made up
Fourty two;
though we knew not the exact number
till came
home, the hurry was so great, and vessel so
small for
43. Men gave us three very handsom
cheers;
Row'd out of
the Harbour after sun-set, for want of wind.
Mr. Dudley
return'd to Salem with Beverly Troop.
Col.
Byfield and
I lodg'd at Cape-Ann all night; Mr. White
pray'd very
well for the Expedition Evening and morn-
ing; as Mr.
Chiever had done at Marblehead, whom we
sent for to
pray with us before we set out for Glocester.
We rose
early, got to Salem quickly after Nine.
Din'd
with Sister,
who was very thoughtfull what would become
of her
Husband. The Wickedness and despair of
the
company they
pursued, their Great Guns and other war-
like
Preparations, were a terror to her and to most of the
Town;
concluded they would not be Taken without Blood.1
Comforted
our selves and them as well as we could.
Call'd at
Lewis's. Col. Byfield went to Cambridge;
Mr.
Dudley and I
to Boston, Joseph Gerrish waiting on us.
June. 12th. Joseph Gerrish comes to my Bed-Chamber-
door and
Tells of Brother's good success. He
dispatched
Chapman in
the night to the Govr. He
came to the Isles
Sholes about
7. m. June 10, kept his men rank'd with
1 It is somewhat surprising that so
little remains on record in regard to
Quelch's
affair. We find nothing worth mention in
the State archives. Yet,
it seems to
have created a very lively scare m Essex county, and Sewall evi-
dently feels
that the capture was a perilous exploit. -- EDS.
106 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
their Arms
on both sides the shallop in covert; only the
four
Fishermen were in view: as drew near saw the Boat
goe ashoar
with six Hands, which was a singular good
Providence
of God. Wormwall and three of the Pirats
were of the
six. When were so near that were
descryd,
Larramores
Men began to run to and fro and pull off the
Aprons from
the Guns, draw out the Tomkins [Tompions],
Brother
shew'd his men. Ask'd Larramore to come
aboard.
He said he
could not, his Boat was gon ashore. Bror
told
him he would
come to him: imediately man'd the Pinace,
and did it
as soon almost as said it, He, Capt. Turner,
Abbot step'd
aboard. Brisco attempted; but one swore
no more
armed Men should come there. Bror
got the
Capt ashore
to discourse him, got him there to sign two
orders; one
to send the Lt and one of the
Pirats ashore;
the other
for Abbot to comand the Galley till they re-
turn'd; and
so quickly finish'd his business thorowly
without
striking a stroke, or firing a Gun. See
the News-
Letter.1 Twas all order'd and 1'irn'd and effected
by the
Singular all-powerfull gracious Providence of
God.
1 As Judge Sewall here refers to the
"News Letter," a file of which he
may have
kept for reference, we extract from the copy in the cabinet of
the
Historical Society all that relates to the capture and trial of the pirates.
The date of
the paper is June 9 to 16, 1704. -- EDS.
"God Save the Queen.
"MARBLEHEAD, June 9. The Honourable
Samuel Sewall, Nathaniel
Byfield, and
Paul Dudley Esqrs. came to this place yesterday, in obedience
to His
Excellency the Governour, his Order for the more effectual discover-
ing and
Seizing the Pirates lately belonging to the Briganteen Charles, John
Quelch
Commander, with their Treasure. They
made Salem in their way,
where Samuel
Wakefield the Water-Baily informed them of a Rumor that
two of
Quelches's Company were lurking at Cape Anne, waiting for a Pas-
sage off the
Coast: The Commissioners made out a
Warrent to Wakefield to
Search for
them, and dispatched him away on Wednesday night. And
having
gain'd intelligence this Morning, that a certain number of them well
Armed, were
at Cape Anne designing to go off in the Larrimore Galley, then
at Anchor in
that Harbour. They immediately sent men
from the several
1704.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 107
June, 27th. feria tertia, Madam Richards dies about 3
hours after
midnight. Heard not of it till at Mr.
Stod-
adjacent
Towns by Land and Water, to prevent their escape, and went thither
themselves,
to give necessary orders upon the place.
"GLOCESTER, upon Cape Anne, June
9. The Commissioners for Seizing
the Pirates
and their Treasure, arrived here this day, were advised that the
Larrimore
Galley Sail'd in the Morning Eastward; and that a Boat was seen
to go off
from the head of the Cape, near Snake Island, full of men, supposed
to be the
Pirates. The Commissioners seeing the
Government mock'd by
Capt.
Larrimore and his Officers, resolved to send after them. Major
Stephen
Sewall who attended with a Fishing Shallop, and the Fort Pinnace,
offered to
go in pursuit of them, and Capt. John Turner, Mr. Robert Brisco,
Capt.
Knight, and several other good men Voluntarily accompanied him, to
the Number
of 42 men, who Rowed out of the Harbour after Sun-sett, being
little Wind.
"SALEM, June 11. This Afternoon, Major Sewall brought in to
this Port,
the
Larrimore Galley, and Seven Pirates, viz. Erasmus Peterson, Charles
James, John
Carter, John Pitman, Francis King, Charles King, John King,
whom he with
his Company Surprised and Seized at the Isles of Sholes the
10th. Instant, viz., four of them on Board the
Larrimore Galley, and three
on Shoar on
Starr Island, being assisted by John Hinckes and Thomas Phipps
Esqrs., two
of Her Majesties Justices of New Hampshire, who were happily
there,
together with the Justices, and the Captain of the place. He also
Seized 45
Ounces and Seven Pennyweight of Gold of the said Pirates.
"Capt. Thomas Larrimore, Joseph
Wells Lieutenant, and Daniel Worm-
mall Master,
and the said Pirates are Secured in our Gaol. .
"GLOCESTER, June 12. Yesterday Major Sewall passed by this place
with the
Larrimore Galley, and Shallop Trial, standing for Salem, and hav-
ing little
wind, set our men ashore on the Eastern Point, giving of them notice
that William
Jones, and Peter Roach, two of the Pirates had mistook their
way, and
were still upon the Cape, with strict charge to search for them,
which our
Towns People performed very industriously.
Being strangers and
destitute of
all Succours, they surrendered themselves this Afternoon, and
were sent to
Salem Prison.
"BOSTON, June 17. On the 13 Instant, Major Sewall attended with
a
strong guard
brought to Town the above mentioned Pirates, and Gold he had
Seized, and
gave His Excellency a full Account of his Procedure in seizing
them. The Prisoners were committed to Goal in order
to a Tryal, and the
Gold
delivered to the Treasurer and Committee appointed to receive the
same. The service of Major Sewall and Company was
very well Accepted
and Rewarded
by the Governour.
"His Excellency was pleased on the
13 Currant to open the High Court
of Admiralty
for Trying Capt. John Quelch late Commander of the Brigan-
teen Charles
and Company for Piracy, who were brought to the Barr, and
the Articles
exhibited against them read. They all
pleaded Not Guilty,
excepting
three viz. Matthew Primer, John Clifford and James Parrot, who
108 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
dard's noble
Treat in the evening. Mr. Secretary in-
vited the
Govr, Lt Govr, several of the Council to Diner
at
North's, the
Stone-house. I there. In the morning I
heard Mr.
Cotton Mather, Pray, preach, Catechise excel-
lently the
Condemned Prisoners in the chamber of the
prison.
June, 29. Madam Richards buried, in her Husbands
were
reserved for Evidences, and are in Her Majesties Mercy. The Prisoners
moved for
Council, and His Excellency assigned them Mr. James Meinzes.
The Conrt
was adjourned to the 16th. When met
again, Capt. Quelch pre-
ferr'd a
Petition to His Excellency and Honourable Court, craving longer
Time, which
was granted Monday Morning at Nine of the Clock, when said
Court is to
Sit again in order to their Tryal."
An extract from "The Boston News
Letter" of June 26, 1704.
"BOSTON, June 24. On Monday last, The 19. Currant, The High Court
of Admiralty
Sat again, when the Tryal of John Quelch late Commander of
the
Briganteen Charles, and Company for Piracy and Murder, Committed by
them upon
Her Majesties Allies the Subjects of the King of Portugal, was
brought
forward, and the said Quelch was brought to the Bar, being charged
with nine
several Articles of Piracy and Murder whereupon he had been
Arraigned
and Pleaded, Not Guilty: The Queen's
Attorney opened the case,
and the
Court proceeded to the Examination of the Evidences for Her Maj-
esty. And the Council for the Prisoner, and the
Prisoner himself being
fairly
heard, The Court was cleared, and after Advisement, the Prisoner
was again
brought to the Bar; and the Judgment of the Court declared.
That he was
guilty of the Felony, Piracy and Murder, laid in said Articles:
Accordingly
Sentence of Death was pronounced against him.
"The next day being Tuesday, John
Lambelt, Charles James, John
Miller and
Christopher Scudamore, were brought to the Bar, who pleaded
Not
Guilty: And were severally tryed as
Quelch was, and found guilty and
Sentenced to
Dy in like manner.
"Then was brought to the Bar,
William Whiting and John Templeton
being Arraigned,
They pleaded Not Guilty, and the Witnesses proving no
matter of
Fact upon them, said Whiting being Sick all the Voyage, and not
active, and
Templeton a. Servant about 14 years of Age, and not charged with
any action,
were acquitted by the Court, paying Prison Fees. Next 15. more
being
brought to the Bar and Arraign'd, viz. Will. Wilde, Benj. Perkins,
James
Austin, Nich. Richardson, Rich. Lawrence, John Pitman, Will.
Jones,
Erasmus Peterson, John King, Francis King, Charles King, Peter
Roach, John
Dorothy, Denis Carter and John Carter, who severally pleaded
Guilty, and
threw themselves on the Queen's Mercy.
And Sentence of
Death was
past upon them, in like manner as those above named. 'Tis said
some of them
will be Executed the next Friday, and the whole proceeding be
put out in
Print."
1704.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 109
Tomb at the
North-burying place. Bearers, Russel,
Cook;
Hutchinson
Elisha, Sewall; Sergeant, Foster. Scarls
and
Rings,
Scutcheons on the Coffin.1
Feria Sexta, Junij, 30, 1704. As the Governour sat at
the
Council-Table twas told him, Madam Paige was dead;2
He clap'd
his hands, and quickly went out, and return'd
not to the
Chamber again; but ordered Mr. Secretary to
prorogue the
Court till the 16th of August, which Mr. Sec-
retary did
by going into the House of Deputies.
After
Diner, about
3. p.m. I went to see the Execution.3 By
the way
(cous. Ephr. Savage with me) James Hawkins
certifies us
of Madam Paiges death; he was to make a
Tomb. Many were the people that saw upon
Broughton's
Hill. But when I came to see how the River was
cover'd
with People,
I was amazed: Some say there were 100
Boats. 150 Boats and Canoes, saith Cousin Moody of
York. He told them.
Mr. Cotton Mather came with
Capt. Quelch
and six others for Execution from the
1 This was Anna, daughter of Governor
John Winthrop, of Connecticut,
and second
wife of John Richards, of Boston, whose first wife was widow of
Adam
Winthrop. The reference to escutcheons
reminds us that in Gore's
Roll of Arms
(Heraldic Journal, I. 117) is a description of Richards's arms
impaling
Winthrop, and ascribed to this lady. -- EDS.
2 She was his niece, wife of Edward Lane,
and then of Col. Nicholas Paige,
being the
daughter of Benjamin Keayne and Sarah Dudley.
Savage points
out an error
in Hutchinson's History, I. 375, where she is called sister, in-
stead of
niece, of Governor Joseph Dudley. -- EDS.
3 This execution took place on the Boston
side of the Charles River flats. It
is thus
described in the "Boston News Letter" three days afterwards. -- EDS.
"On Friday was carried to the Place of
Execution Seven Pirates to be
Executed,
viz.; Capt. John Quelch, John Lambert, Christopher Scudamore,
John Miller,
Erasmus Peterson, Peter Roach and Francis King: all of whom
were
executed except the last named, who had a Reprieve from his Excellency.
And
notwithstanding all the great labour and pains taken by the Reverend
Ministers of
the Town of Boston ever since they were first Seized and brought
to Town,
both before and since their Trial and Condemnation, to instruct,
admonish,
preach and pray for them: yet as they led a wicked and vitious
life, so to
appearance they dyed very obdurately and impenitently, hardened
in their
sin. His Excellency intends to send an
Express to England, with
an account
of the whole matter to her Majesty."
110 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
Prison to
Scarlet's Wharf, and from thence in the Boat to
the place of
Execution about the midway between Han-
son's point
and Broughton's Warehouse. Mr. Bridge
was
there
also. When the scaffold was hoisted to a
due height,
the seven
Malefactors went up; Mr. Mather pray'd
for
them
standing upon the Boat. Ropes were all
fasten'd to
the Gallows
(save King, who was Repriev'd). When the
Scaffold was
let to sink, there was such a Screech of the
Women that
my wife heard it sitting in our Entry next
the Orchard,
and was much surprised at it; yet the wind
was
sou-west. Our house is a full mile from
the place.1
July, 1, 1704. Feria Septima. News is brought from
New-york of
Trade to be had with the American Span-
iards. This comes in seasonably upon Quelches
Spight-
full
admonition yesterday.2 Melyen
told me of it on the
Lords Day.
1
The painful particularity with which Judge Sewall describes this scene,
of which he
was a spectator, suggests to us, by contrast, the great change in
our modern
views and usages in the execution of the sentence of the law in-
flicting
capital punishment. All that the civil
and religious acts and exer-
cises of
those times could effect to give publicity to the final scene, closed the
whole series
of similarly demonstrative and distressing spectacles and observ-
ances which
preceded it. The processes connected
with the indictment and
the trial in
court were intended to be made very solemn and awful by devo-
tional
services. The Judges prayed, and, in
passing sentence, often preached,
as we have
noticed on a previous page (p. 39), when the Judge reminded
Esther
Rogers of quite another Esther mentioned in the Bible. On the
Sunday
preceding an execution, or on the day of the Thursday lecture, the
doomed
culprit, heavily chained, was the subject of direct and special prayer
and
exhortation, and often of sharp objurgation, in the meeting-house,
crowded with
curious, excited, and morbid spectators.
Then followed the
public
procession with the dread ministrations of law through the streets, the
criminal
being drawn in a cart, with his coffin behind him. Women, shriek-
ing and
swooning, as we read in the text, mingled in the hurrying and
gazing
throng which extended from the foot of the scaffold as far as the
wretched
spectacle was visible, and then a broad-side, in the style of gallows
literature,
was peddled abroad. -- EDS.
1 In what we should call an
"Extra," of the "News Letter," we find an
account of
the behavior, and last, dying speeches, of these pirates. In this
it is
said: "There were Sermons Preached
in their Hearing Every Day:
And Prayers
daily made with them. And they were
Catechised. And
1704.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 111
July, 2d Lords Day, Madam Paige
is buried from her
own house,
where Mrs. Perry is Tenant, between 6 and 7.
p.m. Bearers Lt Govr Povey,
Usher; Sewall, Adding-
ton; Col.
Phillips, Foxcroft. Rings and
Scarves. The
Tomb was
near Messengers. The Govr,
his Lady and
family
there. Note. By my Order, the diggers of Mm
Paiges Tomb
dugg a Grave for Lambert, where he was
laid in the
Old burying place Friday night about mid-
night near
some of his Relations: Body was given to
his
Widow. Son and others made Suit to me.1
July, 3,
Feria Secunda, I read the three first sheets of
the Trial of
the Pirats. July, 4. Send David to Cam-
bridge with
Joseph's cloths. July 15. Feria quarta. Last
night very
refreshing Thunder shower. Rains this
morn-
ing. Goe to Cambridge with Mr. Tho. Brattle in
Sted-
man's
Calash. Spent the forenoon in the
Meetinghouse.
Waited on
the Govr from Dinner Time till the last Ques-
tion: Then follow'd the Govr in. Mr. Gibbs 2 was holding
the last
Question. Dr. Dumer 3 rose up
and in very fluent
good Latin
ask' d Leave, and made an oposition; and then
took Leave
again with Comendation of the Respondent.
Came home
with Col. Townsend.
Mr. Dudley 4 made a good
Oration in the morning. men-
they had
many occasional Exhortations." The exhortation of the minis-
ters on the
scaffold is given, and the prayer of one of them, of considerable
length, is
reported verbatim. In Captain Quelch's
dying speech, there appears
none of the
bravado to which Sewall alludes, though he warned the by-stand-
ers to
beware" how they brought Money into New England to be hanged for
it. -- EDS.
1 We do not know why Lambert should thus
have been allowed burial
apart from
the other pirates. He may have had
respectable connections
here. --
EDS.
2 Perhaps Henry Gibbs, who graduated in
1685. -- EDS.
3 Jeremy Dummer, of the Class of 1699, in
Harvard College, had received
the degree
of Philosophiae Doctor, at Utrecht, in 1703. -- EDS.
4 Probably William Dudley, of the Class of
1704. It was an old custom
to honor, by
mention at the annual commencement, the benefactors of the
College. --
EDS.
112 DIARY OF SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
tion'd
Benefactors, Harvardus, Stoughtonus, Spragus,1 De-
cease of
Col. Pierce. Captivity of Mr.
Williams. Judges
as at the
first, Councellors as at the Beginning, [Isaiah i.
26.]
July, 10th. 1704.
Went to Benj Child beyond the Pond,
to bespeak
his driving my wife to Brooklin to morrow.
As came home
visited my old friend Mr. Bailey, who has
been
confin'd some Moneths bv the Stone. He
was very
glad to see
rue. Mr. Stoughton's Executors have made
offers to
him for compliance, which he has taken up with
Rid over the
neck with my Brother.
July, 11th. 1704.
Son and daughter Hirst, Joseph and
Mary, rode
with me in the coach to Brooklin, and there
dined at my
Son's with the Governour, his Lady, Mr. Paul
Dudley and
wife, Mr. Neh. Walter and wife, Dr. Dumer,
Mrs. Anne
Dudley, Mrs. Mary Dudley, Mr. Flint and
others. Call'd in as went to Hartford. Sung a Psalm.
July, 12.
feria quarta, went to Dedham in company of
Mr. Gray,
and David Jeffries; find Judith well, carried
her a little
Basket and some Cakes. Mr. Belcher
preach'd
from Lam.
3. Why doth living, man complain. Din'd at
Mr. Avery's
with Judith. Harvest begun.
July, 13. 1704. Thin Lecture at Boston by reason of
the Heat. In the afternoon Jenkyns arrives, 9 weeks
from
England; brings News of the Arrival of all our
Fleet there.
July, 16.
Lords-day morn, Miles arrives, who came out
with
Jenkins.
July, 21, 1704. Mr. Thomas Weld, who proceeded
Master of
Arts this Comencement, July 15th , died this day
at his unkle
Wilson's at Braintry. July, 22, Feria
sep-
tima, is buried from his unkle Weld's at
Roxbury. Mr.
Bromfield
and I were there, rode with Madam Bromfield
1 Richard Sprague, of Charlestown, who
bequeathed to Harvard College
£300,
Massachusetts currency. He died in 1703. See Quincy's History
of Harvard
University, I. 409. -- EDS.
1704.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 113
in the
Calash. Mr. Walter prayed in the
Orchard. Mr.
Bromfield
and I follow'd the Relations; then Mr. Dan-
forth and
Mr. Walter. Mr. Bailey is very bad and
in his
chamber; as
Mr. Bromfield told me, who went to see him.
Govr
is gon to Dedham. It begins to be known
that the
Bills of
Credit are counterfeited, the Twenty-Shilling
Bill.1
July, 24, 1704. Mrs. Zachary,2 the Quaker's wife,
who
died in
child-bed, is brought in a black Walnut Coffin to
the
South-end of the Town, carried down the 7-Star Lane,3
and then
into Bishop's Lane, and buried in the inner Cor-
ner of Mr.
Brightman's Pasture4 and
Orchard. It seems
1 See Province Laws, Vol. II. pp. 503,
666. -- EDS.
2 Probably this was the wife of Daniel
Zachary, whose will, dated
March 10,
1704-5, proved Jan. 16,1705-6, is in Suff. Wills, Lib. XVI. f. 97.
He was a
merchant, mentions a lot of land in Philadelphia worth £120, and
names his
son, Lloyd Zachary, and sisters Elizabeth Stephens and Winifred
Brabins. The boy was to be with his uncle and aunt
Hill until ten years
old, when he
was to go to the testator's brother, Thomas Zachary, in London.
It will be noted that the Quaker
meeting-house was, at this time, in
Brattle
Square. In 1709, the Quakers bought a
lot on Congress Street, oppo-
site Lindall
Street, where afterward the Transcript building stood. Here
was their
cemetery; the first, probably, used by them.
Shurtleff doubts if
they had any
earlier one, and this burial on Hawley Street confirms this idea.
-- EDS.
3 Now Summer Street. Bishop's Alley is now
Hawley Street. -- EDS.
4 In regard to Brightman's pasture, we
learn, from the "Book of Posses-
sions,"
that Robert Reynolds owned the southerly corner of Milk and
Washington.
Streets. Thence southerly on the latter street came Edward
Fletcher,
Richard Waite, Chanty White, Francis East, Nathaniel Eaton,
Richard
Hogg, John Marshall, and Nathaniel
Woodward on the corner of
Summer and
Washington Streets.
East, on Milk Street, from Reynolds, were
John Stevenson, Nathaniel
Bishop,
Nicholas Parker, James Pen, John Kemick, &c.
East, on Summer Street, from Woodward,
were John Palmer, Jr., Amos
Richardson,
John Palmer, Sen., Gamaliel Waite, &c.
In the centre were William Hudson, Robert
Scott, and others; but Bishop
and Parker
bounded south on Hudson, and Richardson bounded north on
Hudson.
Oct. 5, 1695 (Suff. Deeds, Lib. XVII. f.
150), Jonathan Curwin, of
Salem, and
wife, Elizabeth, and Sampson Sheaffe, with wife, Mehitable,
sold Henry
Brightman one and three-fourth acres of land, undoubtedly part
of Hudson's
lot. It was bounded, north, by land late
of Nathaniel Bishop;
114 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
one spake
much at the Grave. Proclamation is
issued out
against the
Forgers of the Bills &c.
July, 25, 1704. Major Walley and I rid together in
Heton's
Calash to Cambridge Court: there met Col.
Hathorne and
Mr. Leverett. Major Walley and I came
home
together. Old Bell rung 9 as we got to
the Ferry.
Gave Heton 6
shillings. Between 10 and 11 by that
time we got
home. The Forgers are discover'd.
Mr. Barnard of Andover married Lydia Goff
last week
and din'd
with us.
July, 31, 1704. Capt. Ephr. Savage, Mr. Antram and
I ride to
Dedham, Dine there with Capt. Barber, I visit
Judith. From Dedham to Medfield. There I meet Mr.
Gookin, his
wife and Son. Have Mr. Gookin for our
Pilot to his
house. Call at Capt. Mors's about an
hour in
night; and
he tells us of the Indians assaulting Lancaster.
This was
very heavy News to us now in a Fronteer Town;
yet we went
on, lodg'd at cousin Gookin's, and were kept
safe. Tuesday and Wednesday did our business, and
came home on
Thorsday.
Augt 25th. feria Sexta, Mr. Richard Wilkins being blind
south, on
Amos Richardson; west, on Bishop's Lane (now Hawley Street);
east, on
Thomas Marshall and Robert Keayne. This
was Brightman's great
pasture.
March 7,1705-6. (Suff. Deeds, Lib.. XXll.
f. 475) Joshua Eaton, of
Reading, and
wife, Ruth, sold Henry Brightman the little pasture of thirty-
eight rods
six feet, being land formerly Nathauiel Bishop's, bounded, south,
by
Brightman; west, by Bishop's lane; north, by Joshua Davis; east, by
Mumford.
Henry Brightman left a widow, Abiel, and
sons, Henry and Joseph, both
victuallers. By Suff. Deeds, Lib. XXX.. f. 98, and Lib.
XXXII. f. 49, it
seems the
Little pasture was 110 feet on the south line, 150 ½ feet on Bishop's
alley, 40
feet on Davis, 137 ½ feet east, on
Brown.
Also Brightman's widow had a house which
was 27 feet on Marlborough
(Washington)
Street, north, 25 feet on John Gray, and with it a yard and
another
house and lot, which came to the west side of Bishop's Alley, there
measuring 15
feet.
We conclude, then, that Brightman's
pasture was on the east side of
Hawley
Street, the second lot from Summer Street, and reached, probably,
across
Franklin Street. -- EDS.
1704.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 115
and
helpless, goes to Milton to live and dye there with his
daughter
Thacher. Mr. Gray and others ride after
the
coach. He call'd and took leave as he went along: I
and
my wife went
to him as he sat in the Coach.
Augt -- at the South Church,
Mr. Tho. Bridge pray'd,
Mr.
Pemberton preach'd: just as had done his Sermon
and stood up
to pray, a Cry of Fire was made, by which
means the
Assembly was broken up, but it pleas'd God
the Fire was
wonderfully Quench'd. The wind was
South-
wardly, so
that if it had proceeded from the Tavern Ancor,l
probably the
old Meeting, House and Townhouse must
have been
consumed and a great part of the Town beside.
Ministers
express'd great Thankfullness in the Afternoon
for this
Deliverance. Dr. Incr. Mather pray'd,
Mr. Wil-
lard
preach'd and then pray'd. Mr. Thacher
and Mr.
Danforth
sup'd with us.
Augt. 29. rode to Roxbury Lecture. Visited Mr. Bay-
ley. Mr. Walter preach'd from [Psalm] 119-71. It is
good for me
that I have been Afflicted: Kept from
sin,
made more
fruitfull, shew me wherefore Thou contend-
est with
me. Waited on Madam Dudley home,
presented
her with Mr.
Fowl's Books for Govr. and self.
Saw my
Daughter
there. Son was getting in Hay.
Feria septima, Septr 9.
1704. Col. Hathorne and I set
out for
Bridgewater, Sam. Moodey waits on me.
Bait
at
Braintry. A Taunton man, Mason,
overtakes us and
becomes a
very good Pilot to us through the wilderness.
Dine late at
Waldo's upon the edge of Bridgewater.
Got
to Howard's
about a quarter of an hour before Sun-set.
Septr.
10. Mr. Keith administred Baptisme and
the Lords
super,
whereby my Missing the Administration of it at
home, was
supplyed.
Septr.
11 Rode to Taunton; from thence Capt.
Lenard
1 We have mentioned (Vol. I. pp. 89, 461)
the Blue Anchor Tavern. As
was on
Washington Street, the second estate north of Little, Brown, & Co.'s
book-store,
a south wind would have carried the flame as Sewall says. -- EDS.
116 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
and Mr. King
accompanied us through very bad way.
Dined at
Luther's. I was threaten'd with my sore
Throat:
but I went
to Bed early at Mr. Sparhawk's, pin'd my
Stocking
about my Neck, drunk a porringer of Sage Tea,
upon which I
sweat very kindly. The pain of my Throat
was the more
painfull to me, for fear of my being ren-
dred unable
to goe to Court next morning; and then the
Court must
have fallen, for was only Major Walley with
us. Septr. 12. I was so well recover'd as to go to the
Court, not
losing any time. Septr.
13. grew very well.
Septr.
14. Adjourn'd the Court sine die. Dined at Col.
Byfield's
with the Justices at Papasquash.1 From thence
the
Gentlemen accompanyed us to the Ferry: Lodg'd at
Mr. Smith's
at Rehoboth. Septr. 15. Baited at Slack's;
Dined at
Billenges. At Dedham met the Comisioners
going to
New-York, Col. Townsend, Mr. Leverett: Gave
Mr. Leverett
my Letter to Mr. Williams: In it was a Let-
ter of
Credit for some Money not exceeding Ten Ounces.
Visited my
Dear little Judith. Got home about
Sunset
or a little
after. Laus Deo.
Monday, 7r. 11th. Mr. Robert Hawkins dies in the
Afternoon. 7r. the 12th buried; Hill, Williams, Check-
ley,
Belknap, Cole, Emory, Bearers. Great
Funeral.
Septr. 12th. Mrs. Tuthill falls through a Trap Door into
the cellar,
breaks her right Thigh just above the knee, so
that the
bones pierce through the skin.
Septr. 19. Mrs. Tuthill
dies.
Thorsday, 7r 14th. Mr. William Hubbard,2 of Ipswich,
goes to the
Lecture, after to Col. Apletons: Goes home,
sups, and
dyes. that night.
Thorsday, 7r 21. 1704. Mrs. Mary Tuthill, widow,
buried; Govr,
Lt Govr, Capt. Smith at the Funeral. Bear-
1 A part of the town of Bristol, R. I.
-- EDS.
2 Rev. William Hubbard, born in England,
1621. By request of the
Colonial
authorities he wrote a history of New England, his compensation
being
£50. He published other historical and
biographical works. -- EDS.
1704.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 117
ers, Elisha
Hutchinson, Sewall; Addington, Em Hutchin-
son; Legg,
Belchar. Laid in a brick Grave of the
South
Burying
place,1 southwest corner of it.
Mr. Neh. Hub-
bard dined
with us this day.
Wednesday, Octobr 4.
1704. Went to Dedham Lecture
in company
with Mr. Danl. Oliver. Mr. N.
Hobart fell in
with us two
miles before we got to Town. Visited
Judith.
Text, Wisdom
is the principal thing. Grace is Glory
in
the Bud;
Glory is Grace full-blown. Din'd with
Mr.
Belchar. Got home about 7 at night.
Octobr 12. Mr. Cotton Mather prays for the College
and other
schools. Mr. Ezk. Lewis marries the
widow
Kilcup,
Octobr 12.
Octobr 13. Deacon Dyer of Weymouth, Mr. Torrey's
Right Hand,
is to be buried to-day. Dy'd with a Fall
from's
Horse.
Octobr 14th. 1704. visited Col. Savage. He has kept house
7
weeks. Mr. Wigglesworth came to Town the
9th Instt
and administers
to him. I pray'd God to bless his sick-
ness to him;
and his Physick for his Restauration. He
seem'd
refresh'd with my company.
Octr. 24. Went to Roxbury Lecture. Mr. Walter,
from Mat. 6.
1. Shew'd we should have a care of Wrong
Ends in
doing Duties. Led my daughter Sewall
home.
Then visited
Mr. Walter; told Mr. Mather of Alcasar,
Dan. 12. 7; 2
and scattering power of the Holy people; not
1 The tombstone of Mary, relict of John
Tuthill, is still in the Granary,
bearing a coat
of arms, as is shown in the Heraldic Journal, II. 132. She
was
sixty-seven years old, and was probably the mother of Zechariah Tut-
hill,
Lieutenant of Castle William. Of her
daughters, Sarah married James
Gooch,
Susanna married Abraham Blish, and Mary was the wife of Deacon
Thomas
Hubbard. -- EDS.
2 The text is, "Blessed is he that
waiteth and cometh to the thousand
three
hundred and five and thirty days."
And here, a propos of prophecies,
we would say that, in Vol. I p. 97,
Sewall
mentions Zadori, and we inserted in the text the words [it may be a
writer on
Prophecies]. But we find that the late
Rev. Samuel Sewall printed
in the
"American Quarterly Register" for 1838, p. 180, the following extract
118 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1704.
to be
understood of the Jews, as he had set it in his Pro-
blema
Theologlcum.
Novr 13. set out for Salem
with Major Walley; Lodg'd
at Lewis's,
being taken with a Storm of Rain.
Novr. 26. Major Davis dies of a Flux about 6. in the
evening
after the Sabbath. I knew not that was
sick till
about 24
hours before.
Novr. 30 Major Davis buried; Bearers, Elisha Hutch-
inson
esqr: Sewall, Addington, Foster,
Jeffries, Joseph
Parson. Mr. Torrey lodg'd here last night, and went
home this
day, Novr. 30.
Decr 1. Went to Charlestown Lecture. After Lecture
discoursed
with Capt. Chamberlain, Phillips, and Mr. Aus-
tin, all of
the Comittee could meet with, to persuade them
not to go on
with their Action against me.1
Decr
2. Visited my son and Daughter at Brooklin.
Decr 7th. Mr. Clark of Chelmsford dies of a Fever;
was taken
very suddenly the Friday before, after he had
been at a
Funeral; buried the 11th.
Decr. 10th. Mr. Richard Wilkins 2 dies at Milton;
is
from
Sewall's "Common-place Book," p. xc. verso, now in our
possession,
distinguishing
it from the "Journal:" --
"Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1682. Mr. Sherman ordains Mr. Nath. Gookin,
Pastor of
Cambridge Church; Mr. Eliot gives the Right Hand of Fellowship,
first
reading the Scripture that warrants it.
Mr. Sherman, Eliot and Mather
laid on
Hands. Then Mr. Gookin ordain'd Deacon
Stone and Mr. Clark
Ruling
Elders. The presence of God seemed to be
with his People. Mr.
Jonathan
Danforth, the Deputy Governours onely Son, lay by the wall, having
departed on
Monday Morn of a Consumption. 'Tis a
comfortable day, and
much People
at the Ordination. I go and come on foot
in Company of Mr.
Zadori, the
Hungarian, whom I find to be an Arminian." -- EDS.
1 About Sewall's claim to the "Land
of Nod," see p. 62 ante. -- EDS.
2 Richard Wilkins and his "daughter
Thatcher" (referred to, ante, p.
115) have
caused us some trouble. Undoubtedly she
was Susanna, second
wife of Rev.
Peter Thatcher, and widow of Rev. John Bailey or Bayley.
Bailey's
first wife, Lydia, died April 12, 1690, and he died, as his tombstone
in the
Granary witnesses, Dec. 12, 1697. His
widow, Susanna, mentioned
in his will,
married, Dec. 25, 1699, Rev. Peter Thatcher, of Milton. Her
tombstone,
at Milton, bears the following inscription: "Here lies the re-
mains of
Mrs. Susanna Thacher, second wife of the Rev. Peter Thacher,
1704.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 119
brought in
the coach to Boston, Decr 12; buried Decr 13
in the uper
end of the South-burying place.1
I went to
the Burying
as I came from Charlestown Court. Son
who died
Sept. 4, 1724, aet. 59 yrs." She was, therefore, younger than
Comfort, if
we are to trust Dunton. Her will (Suff.
Wills, lib. 23, fol. 380)
mentions her
dear kinsman, MI.. John Baily, of
Boston; sister, Madam Re-
becca Brown;
kinswoman, Mrs. Margaret Pain; sons, Oxenbridge and Peter
Thatcher;
daughters, Gulliver and Niles; nieces, Elizabeth, Ann, and Com-
fort Alison;
kinswoman, Susanna Glover.
Her children named were her
step-children, being Thatcher's children by
his first
wife. Her sister, Rebecca Brown, was
undoubtedly Rebecca Bayley,
who married
William Brown, of Salem, as Savage reports, and as undoubt-
edly was
sister of Rev. John Bayley.
Her kinswoman, Mrs. Margaret Pain, was
unquestionably Margaret
(Stewart),
wife of William Payne" (see Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, for
January,
1875, p. 415), and this gives us the necessary proof. For, as
has been
shown in Dunton's Letters, published by the Prince Society, Mrs.
Wilkins and
Mrs. Stewart were sisters; and, therefore, Mrs. Payne and Mrs.
Thatcher
were first cousins.
As to her three nieces; Elizabeth, Ann,
and Comfort Alison, who gave a
release for
their bequests, to be seen in Suff. Deeds, lib. 38, fol. 212, less
can be
found. Dunton has much to say about
Richard Wilkins, who was his
landlord at
Boston, and his daughter, Comfort, who was born about 1660.
From the
name of the niece, Comfort Alison, we may presume that Comfort
Wilkins was
their mother. The name of Alison is very
uncommon here.
Savage
records that James Allison, of Boston, by wife, Christian, had James
in 1650, and
John in 1653. Nov. 27,1690, Samuel
Veazie, of Boston, in his
will (Suff.
Wills, lib. 11, fol. 243), mentions kinswoman, Christian Allison,
daughter of
James Allison, of New York, mariner.
Dec. 1, 1701, James Allison, of Jamaica,
merchant, having died intestate
at Boston,
administration was granted to William Clarke. (Suff. Deeds,
lib. 14,
fol. 420.) -- EDS.
1 It may be convenient to note that there
were then three grave-yards in
Boston; the
Copp's Hill, the King's Chapel, and the Granary. The last
was
established about 1660, and was, in the early part of the eighteenth
century,
called the South Yard. In 1754, the more
southerly one, on the
Common, was
established (called, in 1810, the Central Yard); and, in 1810,
the South
Burying-ground, on Washington Street, between Newton and Con-
cord
Streets, was laid out. The name of the
"South Yard" has thus been
migratory. Probably there were other private yards at
the South End, for
it seems
that, some five years ago, in widening Eliot Street near Carlton
Place, there
were found a number of tombstones, which, though not in situ,
probably had
not been removed far. One of these
stones was for the infant
son of
Edmund Perkins, dated in 1682; the latter being the progenitor of the
very
distinguished Boston family of the name. -- EDS.
120 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 4/5
Samnuel
there. Several of the Council and
Ministers, Mr.
Chiever,
Williams, Gloves [to ?] Bearers.
Decr 25. Monday, a Storm of Snow, yet many Sleds
come to
Town, with Wood, Hoops, Coal &c as is usual.
Decr
30. Satterday, Daughter Sewall of
Brooklin is
brought to
Bed of a Daughter, Rebeka. 31. is
baptised.
Jany. 2. Madam Leverett dies; was taken with an Apo-
plexy last
Thorsday, 2 or 3 Hours after her coming from
Lecture. Mrs. Mason dies also this night.
Jany 3 Tedman, the Brazier,
opens his Shop and dies.
Emons, the shomaker, dies; is older
than Benj Emons,
his Brother.1
1 Little is in print concerning the
Emmons family, though it is still
flourishing
in Boston.
The first of the name was Thomas, of
Newport and Boston, according to
Savage, who
had three sons, Obadiah, Samuel, and Benjamin.
From the
dates of
their children, they probably stood in this order. Samuel was a
shoemaker;
but as administration was granted to his widow Oct. 27, 1685
(Suff.
Wills, Lib. IX. f. 251), this could not be the man. Probably it was
Obadiah,
whose death we do not find.
In the next generation Benjamin, son of
Benjamin, had a wife, whose
obituary is
as follows: --
"Boston News Letter," Oct. 16,
1740. "On the 8th inst. at night, died
Mrs. Mary
Emmons, wife to Mr. Benjamin Emmons, in the 67th Year of her
Age, and had
lived with her Husband 46 Years. She was
the only Daugh-
ter of Capt.
Simon Amory, of Barnstable, in Old England, a worthy Gentle-
man, Member
of the first Church in Boston. Her
parents dying when she
was very
young, her Uncle Drinker, who was for some time Teacher of the
Baptist
Church here, took the care of her and brought her up in a religious
manner. She was a Member of the First Church in
Boston about 40 years.
She was a
loving wife, a tender mother, a quiet and peaceable neighbour,
and a good
Christian; one who walked with God, and whose Life and Con-
versation
was very inoffensive. She has left one
only Son and two Grand-
sons."
Another branch claims especial notice.
Samuel Emmons, by wife, Mary
Scott, had a
son, Nathaniel, born Feb. 9, 1669-70, who doubtless married
Mary
Warmall, Sept. 15, 1698. He had three
children, a son, Nathaniel,
born in
1699, who died young; and a second Nathaniel, born in November,
1703. Administration was granted to the widow,
Mary, Feb. 1, 1721.
The son, Nathaniel Emmons, was one of the
early portrait-painters in
Boston. He died May 19, 1740, aged thirty-six years
and seven months, and
was buried
in the Grauary. Administration on estate
of Nathaniel Emmons,
painter-stainer,
was granted to the widow, Mary, June 3, 1740 (Suff. Wills,
170
4/5.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 121
Monday, Jany
1. 170 4/5 Col. Hobbey's Negro comes
about 8 or 9
mane and sends in by David to have leave to
give me a
Levitl and wish me a merry new year.
I ad-
mitted it:
gave him 3 Reals. Sounded very
well.
Jany 5th. I dine at Mr. Paul Dudley's with the Govr,
Lt
Govr, Capt. Sam. Appleton, Mr. Colman, Mr. White,
Mr. Antho.
Stoddard.
Jany 6. Begins to be some heat between the Govr
and
the
Deputies. At last the Govr
sends in Mr. Secretary,
Mr. Em
Hutchinson and Mr. Stoddard, to prorogue the
Assembly to
the 21. Febr. at 10. m. At first the
Depu-
ties seem'd
to be against Prorogation; afterward sent in
Capt.
Checkly to say, That by reason of the thinness of
their House,
Shortness and Coldness of the days, inclined
to a
Prorogation. Speaker intimated their
Desire of a
Fast.
Monday, January, 8. I went to the Funeral of Mrs.
Johana
Mason. She was a vertuous, pious woman,
in the
70th. year of her Age. Then went to the Council-Cham-
ber, and
from thence with the Governour to the Funeral
of Madam
Sarah Leverett; Bearers, Govr Dudley, W
Winthrop;
Elisha Hutchinson, S. Sewall; Peter Sergeant,
Em
Hutchinson. Had very warm discourse with
the Govr
about Philip
Morse, after came from the Tomb, at Mr.
Cook's.
Thorsday, Jany. 11th. The Govr and his Lady essay-
ing to come
from Charlestown to Boston in their Slay,
4 Horses,
two Troopers riding before them, First the
Troopers
fell into the water, and then the Govr making a
Lib. XXXV.
f. 32, 392). The inventory amounts to £634:
among the items
are eight
mezzotint pictures, 648.; two pictures, 20s.; one hundred brushes,
£8.10; two
pictures, 15s.; sundry picture frames, 10s.; sundry colours, ground,
£5; and the
Hon. Judge Sewall's picture, £20. This
was, of course, the
portrait now
in possession of Samuel Sewall, of Burlington, Mass., which
has been
engraved, and is quite familiar to collectors. -- EDS.
1 Levet -- a blast of a trumpet. -- EDS.
122 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 4/5.
stand, his
four Horses fell in, and the Two Horses behind
were
drown'd, the Slay pressing them down.
They were
pull'd up
upon the Ice, and there lay dead, a sad Specta-
cle. Many came from Charlestown with Boards,
planks,
Ropes
&c. and sav'd the other Horses. Tis
a wonderfull
Mercy That
the Govr, his Lady, Driver, Postilion, Troopers
escaped all
safe.
January, 19. 170 4/5; The Govr coming to Town, the way
being
difficult by Banks of Snow, his Slay was turn'd upon
one side
against the Fence next Cambridge, and all in it
thrown out,
Governour's Wigg thrown off, his head had
some hurt;
and my Son's Elbow. The Horses went away
with the
foundation and left the Superstructure of the
Slay and the
Riders behind.
Jany 26.
Mr. Hirst and I went to Brooklin to see my
Little Grand
Daughter, Rebeka Sewall: He and I were
on
Horseback; in Simson's slay were Madam
Willard,
daughter
Hirst, Hanah, and Mrs. Betty Hirst. Had
some
difficulty
in going because of some deep descents between
Banks of
Snow. But went and came very well. Blessed
be God. Din'd there.
Before we came away, we sung
the 113th Psalm.
W.[indsor?] While we were gon,
Mr.
Edw. Gouge
was buried; Mr. Em Hutchinson call'd at
our
House to
take me with him to the Funeral. The
poor
Man Liv'd Undesired,
and died Unlamented.
January, 29. I buy the two Folios of Mr. Flavell's
works for
£3.10-0 and gave them to Mr. Foster for his
helping me
in my Account last winter, to send to the
Corporation
[for Propagatmg the Gospel].
Jany 30. Major Walley and I ride to the Ferry in Sim-
son's Slay,
and at Charlestown, with Mr. Leverett, hold the
Super
Court. At Somers's I mention Justus
Heurnius;1
Mr. Leverett
told me he would bring one if in the Li-
1 Probably his "De Legatione
Evangelica ad Indos Capessenda Ad-
momtio." Leyden, 1618. -- EDS.
170 4/5.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 123
brary; I
promised to Lend him Judge Hales's1 Origination
of
Mankind. Jany 31. We interchange those two Books;
which is the
first time I ever saw Amiable Heurnius: I
first found
him quoted by Alsted 2 in his Treatise De Mille
Annis.
Febr. 6. Tuesday, Many go to the
Council Cham-
ber and
there drink Healths on account of its being the
Queen's
Birth-Day. Maxwell did not call me, and
I even
staid at
home, and went and heard Mr. Willard's Cate-
chising
Lecture. It seems the Govr
order'd the Inferiour
Court to be
Adjourn'd upon the Account of it. Cousin
Jer. Dumer,
Philosophiae Dr., going out of the Town-
house about
8 at night, fell by reason of the Ice, hit his left
Temple
against a piece of Brick-batt, Cut a great Gash at
which much
blood Issued: He was so stun'd as to be
as
dead when
Mr. John Winthrop took him up. I dont
re-
member that
I knew the Govr was in Town till next day.
Febr. 11th. Mr. Pemberton preaches of the undoubted
Interest
children have in the Covenant, and baptiseth his
son
Ebenezer, who was born Febr. 6th.
Mrs. Hanah Sav-
age, Mr.
Phillip's daughter, is taken into the Church,
though next
Sabbath be the usual Season. It seems
she
desired it,
as being likely then to be detain'd at home by
child-birth.
Tuesday, Febr. 13th. Last night I had a very sad Dream
that held me
a great while. As I remember, I was con-
demn'd and
to be executed. Before I went out I read
Dr.
Arrowsmith's 3 Prayer p 274 -- which was a comfort
1 Sir Matthew Hale: "The Primitive
Origination of Mankind, considered
and
explained, according to the Light of Nature. London, 1677."-- EDS.
2 Johann Heinrich Alsted, a German
Protestant divine, 1588-1638. He
was
Professor of Philosophy and Divinity at Herborn, in Nassau, and was at
the Synod of
Dort. His "De Mille Annis Apocalypticis" appeared in
London, in
1630. -- EDS.
3 John Arrowsmith, D. D., Master of St.
John's and Trinity Colleges,
successively,
and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cam-
bridge. He died in 1659. Neal says of him: "He was an acute
disputant
and a
judicious divine, as appears by his 'Tactica Sacra,' a book of great
reputation
in those times." -- EDS.
124 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 4/5.
to me. A Council was warn'd to meet at Noon. I was
there one of
the first: Governour came in and quickly
put
Capt.
Lawson's Petition into my hand; and upon my
speaking somthing
to it, He fell to a vehement chiding
about Philip
Morse's business, and then with great Loud-
ness and
passion spake to the affair of Capt. Lason's; sev-
eral times
said He would dy if ever any such thing was
done in
England except in case of Felony or Treason, or
the
like. I objected against that ridiculous
part of the
Petition of
his being forc'd by Mr. Clark or me to retire
into the
neighbouring Province; as being a great Re-
proach to
the whole Govemmt. No body
apeared, I ex-
pected my
Accuser face to face. Govr
moy'd that a day
might be set
for a Hearing: but the Council being but 7,
besides my
self, declared they did not understand what
was
contain'd in the Petition belong'd to them to deal in,
i. e.
settling a Maintenance. Govr
said, then it must be
left to
another time.
Febr. 14. I got a copy: Mr. Secretary told me he had
no Money
paid for entring of it. Febr.
14. Mrs. Odlin
buried; I
went to the Funeral.
Febr. 17. Richardson tells me that the Charlestown
Gent have
sued me again. Here is Wave upon
Wave.
The Good
Lord be With me when so many, almost all, are
against
me. Hern tells me the Petition was first
in Mr.
Dudleys
hand, and Mr. Secretary tells me 'tis Weavers
writing. When I ask'd Hern who drew it, He answer'd
all, i. e.
Dudley Newton, Valentine and he. Newton
denys
it; but I
perceive will stand Neuter. Febr.
23. Jer.
Dumer, Dr.
Philosoph., went with me to Col. Lynde's at
Charlestown:
I pleaded first to the Jurisdiction of the,
Court; then
to the writ, that it could not ly, because I
was in
Possession. [In margm, -- Land of Nod.] Went
to
Lecture. Din'd at Col. Lyndes with Mrs.
Everton,
Major
Davison.
Febr. 24.
Singing of Birds is come.
170 4/5.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 125
March,
2. Deputies present the Govr
with Two Hun-
dred
pounds. Towards night the Govr
called upon the
Council to
consider George Lason's Petition;1 If he might
have a
Protection, he was ready to come. [In
margin, --
Great
Dispute.] Council excepted against their
meddling
with
settling estates of Maintenance; knew not that it
was his
Petition. Spoke pretty much to it.
March, 3.
Govr said he would now take their vote
whether they
would hear Lason: Twas carried in the
Negative,
not one that I observ'd, speaking for it.
I read
a Clause out
of Dalton2 shewing when an officer might
break open a
House. Mention'd the Act of Parliamt
about
cutting Poles where the Fine is but Ten shillings;
yet a
suspected person's house might be entred.
In pres-
ence of 2
Justices Peers house might be broken up and
yet peer
must not beattach'd or imprison'd.
Because
the Govr
had said, Must be Treason or Felony. And
up-
braided me,
because had broken up the house, and then
taken his
parol till morning. Should have sent him
to
Prison with
20 Halberts. No Law for a man to live
with
his
wife. I said Govr [Thomas]
Dudley's saying was, A
bargain's a
Bargain and must be made Good; If we look'd
to the Form
of Marriage should find twas a great deal
Lason had
promis'd. Govr seem'd to
reject it with dis-
dain, and
ask'd Col. Hutchinson when be lay with his
wife? Col. Hutchinson answer'd, The Question should
not have
been when he lay with his wife; but when he
1 A search of the remaining records fails
to disclose any particulars as to
Lason's
case. George Lason, described as a
mariner, and once termed "late
commander of
the Baron Frigate," had several suits about this time for
money
alleged to be due him. May 10, 1706,
Martha Lason, wife of George
L.,
represented to the Superior Court that her husband had gone to England,
and that he
intrusted all his property to David Josse, of Boston, who was to
pay her six
shillings per week for her subsistence.
She could not collect this
allowance,
and so prayed for relief, which was granted. -- EDS.
2 Doubtless the law book entitled
"The Country Justice," by M. Dalton,
published
first in the time of James I., and often reprinted; or else a work by
the same
author, on "The Office and Authority of Sheriff." -- EDS.
126 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 4/5.
lay with
another woman. I said, The people were
ready
to pull down
Lason's house, high time for the Government
to
interpose. Mr. Henchman had not
complain'd of the
Watch for
knocking him up the other night. Lason'
s
house was on
fire, and he was not aware of it; high time
for the
Government to awaken him. Last night
men-
tion'd the
Queen's Proclamation, and Governours to do to
the utmost
to supress Imorality and profaneness:
None
had yet
shew'd me any Law I had broken. Govr
mention'd
Dalton.
March, 4.
Lord's-Day. A great deal of snow
falls after
a great deal
of Rain the night before.
March, 9.
Govr sails for Piscataqua in a Briganteen
belongrng to
Capt. Belchar and Mr. Pepperil.
March, 13. I go to Charlestown Court. Col. Phillips
tells me his
wife could not sleep for thinking of the Dan-
ger the Govr
was in by reason of the vehement storm on
Satterday
night.
March, 14. go to Charlestown Court: take David with
me to carry
my Books.
March, 15. between 10 and 11. m. I rec. Brother's Let-
ter giving
an account of the extraordinary danger the
Govr
had been in, and their wonderfull Deliverance that
was at
Glocester, and were going to fetch him to Salem.
March, 17. Mr. Em Hutchinson carrys me in his
chariot
to meet the
Govr; was got home and at Diner:
After
Diner were
call'd in: Told the Govr I did congratulat His
Excellency
and the Province upon the great Salvation
God had
wrought for him.1 Went and
visited Mr. Bayly
who was very
glad to see us.
1 "The governor, in the month of
March this year [1705], returning by
water from
his other government of New Hampshire, before the brigantine
in which he
had taken his passage came up with Cape Ann, was surprized
with as
violent a storm as had been known and of as long continuance.
There being
advice brought to Boston of his sailing from Portsmouth and no
further
intelligence of him, it was generally apprehended that the vessel
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 127
Satterday,
March, 24. 170 4/5. Between 1 and 2 p.
m. I
set out with
Sam. Robinson for Weymouth. Call at
Cousin
Quinsey's and carry Shepard of the Virgins,1 and
take Dalton
away with me to Weymouth, where I made
use of it in
convicting Ichabod Holbrook for Drunkenness.
whom I saw
drunk as rode into Town the 24th, and con-
victed and
sentenced him at Capt. Frenches. March
26,
1705. Lodg'd at Mr. Torrey's, He was full of grief
by
reason of the
dangerous illness of Mrs. Torrey's eldest
daughter,
the wife of his Nephew Torrey. Lord's
Day,
March 25,
1705. p. m. Mr. Torrey after sermon
baptised
two
children, pray'd that God would fit us by this Ordi-
nance for
the Other. Administred the Lord's Super,
did
not pray
after his delivering the wine, but only sung a
Psalm. When came home said he was never so weary
before;
could neither speak or stand any longer.
Col.
Hunt was in
the seat with me.
March, 26.
set out for Barker's, a souldier from Deer-
field
accompanied us with his Fusee.2 At Barkers the
Sheriff met
us, and Major Walley and Mr. Leverett came
up: So went cheerfully along, and got to the
sheriff's
House in
good season, where were entertain'd.
March, 28. I got up betime and begun my Birth-day
in the
Meetinghouse. Finished the Court this
day.
March, 29. Thorsday, came homeward, Din'd at Cush-
ing's: Call'd at Mr. Torrey's, Took my Dalton. Mr. Lev-
erett and I
visit Madam Shepard. Got home in good
must have
fouudered. At length came news of his
arrival in the harbour
of
Glocester, having been four days at anchor on the back of the cape, ex-
pecting
every hour to perish. In a proclamation
for a public thanksgiving,
a few days
after, notice is taken of his wonderful preservation from ship-
wreck."
Hutchinson's History, II. 148. -- EDS.
1 Parable of the Ten Virgins, opened and
applied by Thomas Shepard,
late worthy
and faithful pastor of the Church of Christ, at Cambridge, in
New England.
-- EDS.
2 Notwithstanding this mention of a
soldier from Deerfield, it is clear that
Sewall was
leaving Weymouth, probably for Plymouth. -- EDS.
128 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
season, and
found all well; never had a more comfortable
Journey.
March, 30.
Went to the Funeral of young Mr. Allen,
Mr. Darnel
Allens son, a very hopefull youth, Mr. Georges
Aprentice. Govr and his Lady there. Bearers Willard,
David
Stoddard; Bronsdon, Colman; Banister, Foxcroft.
Mr.
Willard's Meeting was diverted by it, to a Moneth
hence. After Funeral, call'd at Mr. Clark's; I
congratu-
lated her
Recovery. Mr. Winthrop and Madam Eyre
and
many more
there.
Lord's Day, April, 1. My daughter Hirst is join'd to
Mr. Colman's
Church. The good Lord Accept her in
giving up
her Name to his Son.
April, 12, 1705. Thanksgiving Day. The Night was
so cold that
was a very great Frost, thick Ice, and the
street
frozen like winter. Remain'd frozen at
Noon in
the shady
places of the street. Mr. Melyen had a
great
Tub of water
frozen so hard, that it bore two men stand-
ing upon it
in his sight.
April, 17. Council; Capt. Tuthill's Allowance of 80.£
would not
pass: so Govr would pass none of the Quarter-
Roll for the
Castle.
April, 18. 1705. Govr sets out for Piscataway, his
Lady in the
Calash with him. Brother met his Excel-
lency at
Lindsey's. Got to Town that night and
lodg'd
at son
Hirst's.
April, 18. 1705. Sam. Robinson planted 8 Trees at
Elm pasture,
one white-oake.1 Three Trees
at Phipenys;
Elm, White
oak, Ash; one Elm at Morey's pasture.
1 The following extracts are from the
Town. Records of Boston. -- EDS.
March 11,1700 [0. S.]. Town Records, Vol II.
"It was voted That all the land on
both sides of the way, between the
oak and
Walnut and the Fortification, the Town's right and title therein, be
given to
such persons as shall undertake sufficiently to make and maintain
the highway
for ever, not less then fifty foot wide; and that Samll Sewall,
esq. and
Capt. Bozoon Allen be a Committee to agree with persons accord-
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 129
Monday, April, 23. Sam. Robinson sets four Poplars
in the
Foreyard, to shade the windows from the Western
sun in
Sumer. Remov'd the little
Peach-Trees. As were
setting the
Trees, heard and saw several Swallows; which
are the
first. I remember to have seen this
year. Widow
Holland
visits us. Guns fired about Noon: Flags,
and
Ships
Colours flying.
April, 26. 1705. Mr. Paul Dudley buries his little son
Thomas: He was taken with a swelling in's Groin and
stop age of
his Water. On the coffin was nail'd a
little
Plate of
Lead with with this Inscription
Thomas Dudley.
Pauli Dudlaei Armigeri1 et
Luciae uxoris Filius primogenitus,
Nepos
Josephi Dudlaei Gubernatoris Novae Angliae.
Natus est 13.
Aprilis
1705. Obi't 25 ejusdem.
ingly; and
to make application to the proprietors for their approbation and
Consent,
that if any appear to accept of the Land upon these Conditions,
they may
have an unquestionable Title.
"Do.
Elisha Cook esqr., Isaac Addington, esq, Samu Sewall, esqr., Penn
Townsend,
esq~ ,Capt. Samli Checkley, were by a Vote of the Town, chosen a
Committee to
draw up instructions for the Selectmen and Overseers of the
poor, and
present the same to the Town (the next Genll.
Town meeting) for
their
Approbation. And it was further voted,
That the same Committee,
together
with the Selectmen, shall consider about repairing or building or
hiring a
House for Mr. Ezekl. Cheever, which they judge may be
best."
March
20th, 1701 [0. S.]. Town Records, Vol. II. p. 253.
"Samuel Sewall, Esqr and Hannah his
wife grants unto the Town of
Boston, a
certain strip or slip of land fenced and layd out for a High way or
Street,
running through their field or pasture at the northerly end of Boston,
called by
the name of Hull Street, containing in Length about thirty rodds, in
breadth at
the easterly end Twenty two foot next the Green Lane, and at
the westerly
end Twenty five feet. Reserving liberty to fence in two foot in
breadth
thereof upon the southerly side. As p.
a deed under their hand and
seales doth
more fully appear, and Entred with the Records of deeds for the
county of
Suffolk, Lib. 20, pa. 265."
1 The inscription describing Paul Dudley
as "armiger," reminds us that,
though
Governour Thomas Dudley and Governour Joseph Dudley both used a
coat-of-arms,
it has thus far been found impossible to connect the emigrant with
any English
family of the name. Much has been
writtten on the subject,
but no
satisfactory conclusion has been obtained.
See Aldard's "Sutton-
Dudley's,"
and the Heraldic Journal. -- EDS.
130 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
Only Mr. Addington and I of the Council
were at the
Funeral. Mr. Colman, Mr. Woodward, Mr. Williams
Ministers. Mr. Brattle, Mr. S. Lynde Justices.
April, 28.
Went to the Funeral of Sarah Benet, her
Maiden Name
Was Harris: Mr. Perry her uncle. Then to
the Funeral
of Capt. Bozoon Allen's wife, Mr. Balston's
Daughter.1 A pretty many Graves are open'd; The Lord
grant that I
may be cloathed upon, and so ready to be un-
cloath'd.
Friday, May. 4, 1705. I visited my Son and daughter
at Brooklin;
Little Grand-daughter. Came home in the
Rain.
May, 8.
Went to Roxbury Lecture; visited Mr. Bayly;
join'd with
Mr. Torrey in praying for him in his Chamber.
His Sister
Doggett of Marshfield there. Col. Allen
died
last
Satterday night. Persons kill'd and
carried away at
York and
Spruce Crick last Friday.
New-found-Land;
Many of the
people kill'd and captivated there.
May, 30, 1705. Election.
Mr. Secretary, Sewall and
Walley Gave
the Representatives the Oaths, &c. 64.
Councillors
26. Winthrop, 82. Russell, 84.
Hathorne,
71. Elisha Hutchinson, 79. Sewall, 83.
Addington, 77.
Brown,
86. Phillips, 84. Corwin, 78.
Foster, 81. Hay-
man,
42. Townsend, 80. Higginson, 80. Belcher, 74.
1 As Savage's account of the Balstons is
incorrect in part, we submit the
following
sketch: There were three settlers of the
name, William, who left
no son,
James, and Jonathan. The last was a
merchant, and, by his wife
Mary, had
sons John, Nathaniel, and Jonathan, daughters Mary, wife of
Isaac
Vergoose, or Goose, Lydia Allen, and Prudence, wife of John Marion.
His wife
died July 19, 1699, aged seventy-five, and he died June 6, 1706, aged
eighty-seven;
both buried in the Granary. His will
(Suff. Wills, XVI. 156)
mentions all
these children, John being deceased, leaving issue. He seems
also to have
had children, -- Elizabeth, born Aug. 12, 1659; Elizabeth, born
Sept. 18,
1660; Robert, born Dec. 3, 1662; Benjamin, born Feb. 8,1663-64;
all,
probably, dying young.
As Captain Bozoun Allen had a wife, Lydia,
we may safely consider her to
be the
daughter of Jonathan Balston. A grandson
of Jonathan Balston
married
Sewall's grand-daughter, as we have shown in the introduction to
Volume I. --
EDS.
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 131
Legg,
70. Hunt, 53. Bromfield, 69. Stoddard, 56.
Plimouth;
Walley, 54. Thacher, 81. Winslow, 75.
Pain,
80. Main; Hutchinson, 66. Ramond, 71. B.
Brown,
71. Zag; 1 Lynde 53.
Within the Province, Par-
tridge 62,
Samuel Appleton, 63. Debate about the
Gov-
ernour's
Authority to Aprove or refuse the Speaker, made
it late; so
that twas past Eleven at night before the
Election was
finished. I advised the Govr
again and
again to
intermit the Debate, and considering the war, to
let the
election go on with a Salvo Jure, as to his Au-
thority
respecting the Speaker; Gave my Opinion, that in
the clause
of the Governour's Negative, General Court or
Assembly,
was no more than if it had been said Gen1
Court: and
that the Rouse of Representatives was no
where in the
Charter, call'd Assembly. Govr
urg'd the
Council to
give their votes whether He had Authority to
refuse the
Speaker or no. Council pray'd it might
be
defer'd: But at last the Govr
prevail'd: And all were in
the Negative
except Higginson, Thacher, Lynde; 3 or
four: and
Higginson seem'd not to own his afterward.
I
said it was
a point of great moment, and desired longer
time; at
present inclin'd to the Negative.
Several sent
in to the
Deputies, I was almost forc'd in with them to
persuade the
Depts to an Accomodation.
First, Govr told
them He
refus'd and directed them imediately to choose
another. After an hour or more; Depts. sent a written
vote
asserting their Authority by Law and persisting, and
shewing were
ready to go on with the Election.2
After
this
Message, sent to desire this Debate might be laid
aside at
present, and that might go on with the Election.
1 This is Sewall's usual abbreviation of
Sagadahoc. -- EDS.
2 Hutchinson, and other writers, mention
this ill-advised attempt of
Dudley to
disallow the election of a Speaker by the House of Representatives.
Hutchinson
(Hist. II. 152) writes: "The prejudices against him [Dudley]
were
great. The people, in general, looked
upon him as an enemy, even to
the privileges
of the new charter." -- EDS.
132 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
Govr
assented and wish'd us well with our work.
Now
twas
Candle-Lighting: for went into
Meetinghouse about.
12. Mr. Easterbrooks made a very good
Sermon. Twas
four, or
past, before went from the Anchor to the Town-
house.
May, 31. 1705. Govr, Major Brown, Sewall,
Higginson,
dine at Mr.
Willard's with the Ministers. Brown,
Sewall,
Lynde go to
Thank Mr. Easterbrooks for his Sermon and
desire a
Copy: He Thanks the Govr and
Council for their
Acceptance
of his mean Labours and shews his unwilling-
ness to be
in print. When return'd found this paper
on
the Board:
GENTLEMEN, -- I am very well satisfied of
her Majs just Right and
Prerogative
to Allow, or disallow the Speaker of the Assembly of
this
Province, as well as the Council; being all elected by the As-
sembly. Therefore have proceeded as I have done, and
as far as I
can at
present in that matter. But I have that
just sense of the
pressing Affairs
of the War, that demand a very sudden Dispatch of
this
session, that will not consist with long Debates of any thing:
And
therefore shall not delay the Affairs necessary for the Security
of the
Province; which I desire may be first attended, Saving to
Her most
sacred Majesty Her just Rights as abovesaid, at all times.
This was comunicated to the Council and
Assembly May, 31, 1705.1
per J. DUDLEY.
Note.
Body was written by a scribe; Signing was the
Governour's
own Hand-writing.
In
the forenoon pretty near Noon, Deputies sent in the
Election by
Major Converse, Capt. Checkly, Savage, Ma-
jor Brown,
Gardener. Govr gave us a very hearty
well-
com to the
Board, Sign'd the Bill, and 23. Took the
Oaths
before went
to Diner at Mr. Willard's.
Lord's Day, June, 10. 1705. The Learned and pious
Mr. Michael
Wigglesworth2 dies at Malden about 9. m.
1 The original is in Mass. Archives, Vol.
CVIII. p. 30. -- EDS.
2 The Rev. Michael Wigglesworth was one of
the most honored, eminent,
and useful
men of the early years of Massachusetts.
Frequent mention is
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 133
Had been
sick about 10. days of a Fever; 73 years and 8
moneths
old. He was the Author of the Poem
entituled
The Day of
Doom, which has been so often printed: and
was very
useful as a Physician.
July, 2. 1705. Lt Col. Thomas Savage dies about
6.
p.m.
July, 4.
Comencment Day. I go by Water,
with
Neighbour
Deming, Green, Judd. Sail'd pleasantly till
came about
the Capts Island,1 then the wind and Tide
being
against us, we went ashore and got over the Marsh
to the
Upland; and so into the Rode and comfortably to
made of him
in these pages in his twofold capacity as minister and physi-
cian. His gravestone, in the burial ground at
Malden, commemorates him
in both
these forms of professional service. In
the time and circumstances
under which,
both in Old and New England, the clerical and the healing
professions
were often combined in the same person, Mr. Wigglesworth ap-
pears to
have devoted himself, with equal earnestness and success, to each.
Though he
was himself a life-long invalid, suffering from a mysterious dis-
ease, which
compelled him for a season to suspend his ministry and to go to
the West
Indies, he is credited with being a most helpful medical adviser to
others. Born in England, in 1631, he was brought,
with his family, to Con-
necticut, in
1638. After graduating at Harvard, in
1651, he was a tutor
and a fellow
of the College. Later in his life, in
1684, he declined the proffer
of the
Presidency, on account of his health. He was ordained pastor of the
Church in
Malden, which office he held nearly fifty years, till his death,
at the age
of seventy-four. His son, Edward Wigglesworth,
his grandson,
of the same
name, and his great grandson, David Tappan, successively held
the Hollis
Professorship of Divinity at Harvard for a period of more than
seventy
years. Mr. Wigglesworth employed his
leisure as an invalid in la-
bors of the
pen, especially in verse. The most
famous, and at the time
popular and
highly valued, of his productions, was his remarkable poem,
"The
Day of Doom;" which, while it was the reward, must also have been
the terror,
of the children of Puritan households, for whose use it was re-
produced in
many editions, first published, in 1662.
Another poem, which
he left in
manuscript, was printed in the Proceedings of the Society for 1871.
"God's
Controversy with New England" An
elaborate memoir of Wiggles-
worth, by
John Ward Dean, of Boston, is in print, the second edition bear-
ing the date
of 1871. -- EDS.
1 Captain's Island is to be seen on
Pelham's map of Boston and vicinity,
and is
mentioned by Paige in his History of Cambridge, p. 13. It lies at
the westerly
bend of the Charles River, below the Colleges, at the end of
Magazine
Street. All the district was marshy, and
perhaps overflowed at
high-water.
-- EDS.
134 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
Town. Gave Gershom Rawlins a 20s Bill. Capt. Courte-
maruh1
was there and din'd in the Hall. In the
morn.
Holyoke
began that part of his oration relating to Mr.
Wigglesworth
with, Maldonatus Orthodoxus. Mr. Hutch-
inson 2
in his valedictory Oration Saluted the Justices of
the Superiour
Court, and Councillors. Came home in a
Calash with
Col. Hutchinson and Mr. Penhallow: In
the
Boat with
Mr. C. Mather, Mr. Bridge.
July, 5.
Mr. Sol. Stoddard preaches the Lecture.
Col.
Savage
buried about 7. p. m. Companies in
Arms: Bear-
ers, Sewall,
Foster; Walley, Lt Col
Lynde; Townsend,
Belchar. The Street very much fill'd with People all
along.
July, 16. 1705. Mr. Barnabas Lothrop, of Barnstable,
visits me,
with whom had much pleasant Discourse. I
gave him Mr.
Cotton Mather's sermon of the Lords Day,
and Letter
to Govr Ashurst about the Indians, Mother
Hull's
Epitaph.
July, 17. 1705. I go a fishing in Capt. Boners 3
Boat,
Joseph, Edw.
Oakes and Capt. Hill with us; went out at
Pulling
Point, between the Graves and Nahant, Catch'd
but 3
Cod. I was sick and vomited; As came
back went
to the
Castle. Neither Lt Govr
nor Capt. Tuthill there;
yet view'd
the Works: Went to Governour's Island;
home.
July, 18. The Deptford arrives.
July, 19.
Govr had a New Comission read relating to
Pirats, and
Queens Pleasure read for pardoning the sur-
1. This name is utterly strange and
mysterious. We have no clew to the
person
intended. -- EDS.
2 William Hutchinson, A.B., 1702; A.M., 1705. -- EDS.
3 From the rarity of this surname we are
inclined to think that this was
John Bonner,
father of the more famous Captain John Bonner (born in 1693),
whose map of
Boston is well-known. It has been
thought that the father
died abroad;
but in the Heraldic Journal, II. 121, it is suggested that he
died in
Boston, Jan. 20, 1725, aged eighty-four.
The reference in the text
confirms
this surmise. -- EDS.
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 135
viving
Pirats; and they in prison were sent for, and their
Pardon
declared in open Court, Chains knock'd off; but
must go into
the Queens service.
18.
I visited the widow Hanah Glover, who is blind, is
just as old
as Mrs. Rock to a few days. Father and
Mother Eliot
[were?] married here.
July, 25.
I went to Reading, and heard Mr. Pierpont
preach.
July, 27. I, my wife, Mary, Judith and Jane go to
Brooklin. Govr and Mr. White came to us
there. July,
29. Rimes apulit.
July, 3l. Went to Cambridge to keep Court. Augt. 1.
Lodg'd at
Mr. Brattles.
Augt. 2. Court is finish'd. I visit Cousin Fessenden,
and dying
Deacon Hasting. Augt. 7. Joseph goes to
Cambridge. Augt. 8.
I and Mr. Em Hutchinson go to
Noddles
Island, visit Madam Shrimpton. Ride in
the
Calash to
Mr. Goodwin's: return to Madam
Shrimpton.
Sup, Come
home. Augt. 10. I visit poor Mr. Baily, sick
of the
stone. Mr. Walter pray'd with him. Shew'd me
his new
House which he goes into next week.
Cousin
Moodey of
York comes to us.
Augt. 15.
I carry Mrs. Willard to Watertown Lec-
ture and
hear Mr. Gibbs preach excellently from John, 9.
4. -- While
it is Day-Din'd at Mr. Gibb's. When came
away were
going to see Mrs. Sherman, and the Calash
fell
backward and we both tumbled down; and twas long
ere could
fit it again: so came directly
home. Laus Deo.
Augt. 16.
Mr. Walter preach'd the Lecture at Boston
in his Bror
Mather's stead. Augt. 17th. Cous. Moodey
goes away, I
give him some folio of Calvin's Exposition.
Gave him a
pair new Slipers.
Augt. 20.
Went to Roxbury to wait on the Govr at
his going
away to Connecticut, din'd there; went to Ja-
maica; Took Leave; went to Brooklin, to Cambridge,
To
North Farms
[Lexington] with Mr. Bordman and spoke
136 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
with Mr.
David Fisk about Land of Nod: Came home
late.
Augt. 22.
Eliezer Moodey comes to us. Augt.
23.
Judith is
once thrown into the dirt above the stone-
bridge; and
the same day run over by a Horse; yet
through
God's. Goodness receives little
hurt. Mr. Sam.
Melyen and
his wife dine with us. I give him about
4.
L. day, and
4. Baptistes.1
Augt. 24.
I gave Mr. Rich'd Henchman Cooper's2 Dic-
tionary,
cost 158, and Calvin on the Psalms cost 10s, with
these
verses;
Mitto tibi Psaltem CHRISTUM et sua
Regna canentem ;
Non erit ingratum dulce Poema tibi.
Musicus hic lapides
cithara sapiente trakebat;
Et trahit: hinc Solymae moenia celsa Novae.
Little Sam Green is buried; Bearers Sam.
Gerrish, Mr.
Eliott's
Prentice, Mr. Campbell's Prentice, Sam. Smith. I,
Hanah, Mary,
Jane, at the Funeral.
Augt. 24. 1705. Mr. Samuel Myles3 comes with his
Bror before
me; I bid him, Sam., sit down: but he quickly
fell upon
Nichols [the constable), the complainant against
his Bror,
and said by his Looks one might see the Gallows
groan'd for
him; I check'd him, and said it did not be-
come a
Minister so to speak. The constable
ask'd me
what weight
the Money must be, 15. or 17. I answered
there was no
Money but 17d wt: but if Capt. Myles
offer'd
Bills of Credit he must take them. Mr.
Saml
Myles told
me he complain'd of Nichols, but withall told
me he was
not ready to pursue it.
1 We understand this to mean four copies
of Mr. Mather's sermon on the
Lord's Day,
and four of "Baptistes, or a Conference about the Subject and
Manner of
Baptism," by the same author, published in 1704. -- EDS.
2 Probably "Thesaurus Linguae Romanae
et Britannicae," by Thomas
Cooper, or
Cowper, Bishop of Lincoln, and afterwards of Winchester, who
died in
1594. -- EDS.
3 Rector of King's Chapel. -- EDS.
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 137
Augt.
27. I sent Mr. Walter, Calvin on Hoseah
by
young
Everden. Gave Mr. Pemberton Mr. Cotton
on
Ecclesiastes,
and the Vials, having their double. He
told
me the
evening before, He had little or nothing of Mr.
Cotton.
Seventh-day; Septr. 8.
1705. Mrs. Mary Lake was
buried at
the North; Bearers, Sam. Sewall, Jno
Foster;
Eliakim
Hutchinson, Sam. Checkley; John Ballentine,
John Coney;
Mr. John Cotton and his wife, Mrs. Lake's
daughter,
principal mourners: They got not to Town till
the day
after their Mother's death. Enock
Greenlef
dyed this
day about 11 oclock.
Septr. 10. 2d.
day. This morning I made this verse.
Oceani
fluctus ANNA moderante superbos,
Euphrates cedit; 1 Roma Relicta
cadit.
Faxit Deus! (See 8r 15.)
[In margin, ut majestas tua palam
apareat atque ejus
sensu
perculsa elementa cedant ac obtemperent. Calvin,
Isa. 63.
ult. ]
Septr 10. In the Afternoon I went to speak to Mr.
Allen that
the Lord's Super might be celebrated once in
four weeks,
as it was in Mr. Cotton's Time and Mr. Wil-
son's: He was just come out of his house with Elder
Bridgham,
Elder Copp, Deacon Marion and Deacon Hub-
bard: I pray'd them to go back again, and open'd my
mind to
them. All save Mr. Hubbard plainly
remem-
ber'd how it
was in Mr. Wilson's days; and the Altera-
tion upon
the coming in of Mr. Davenport, upon his de-
sire because
he had it so at Newhaven: and seem'd
inclinable
enough to alter it. Then I went to Mr.
Cooke,
both he and
Madam Cooke remember'd' the change, and
seem'd not
displeas'd with my proposal. I
discours'd
with Mr.
Pemberton, and told him it would be a Honor
1 See Revelations, XVI. 2.
138 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
to Christ,
and a great Privilege and Honor to Boston, to
have the
Lord's Super administerd in it every Lords
Day: we having nothing to do with moneths now;
Their
Respect now
ceases with the Mosaical Pedagogy. [Gal.
III.
24.] It seems odd, not to have this
Sacrament ad-
ministred
but upon the first day of each Moneth; and the
rest of the
Sabbaths always stand by.
Third-day 7r. 11th.
1705. The Deputies send in their
Answer to
the Governour's speech dated this day, which
begins, May
it please your Excellency, and doth not end
with, Sent
up for Concurrence.l
This day 7r. 11th. mane, Her Majesties Letter of the
Third of May
1705. from St James's, is read at the Board,
wherein a
new seal is order'd, and the old one to be de-
fac'd: John
Dixwell, the Goldsmith,2 being sent for, cut it
in two in
the middle, with a Chisel.
In the evening I met with Mr. Cotton
Mather's Letter
which begins
thus; Sir, your Distich entertains me.
Both
the Poetry
and the prophecy of the vates, is very enter-
taining. I hope it begins to be a History &c. He had
rather read
CHRISTO, which I heartily agree; which
besides
Wars, takes in Storms and Tempests which Christ
makes great
use of in Governing the World; and in this
He only is
Moderator.
Friday, 7r. 14. I go to Newton, and hear Mr. Hobart.
He has a
Lecture once in Eight Weeks. Text was
Levit.
26. 11. Doct. Obedience unto God, is the way to have
the
continuance of his Tabernacle; and to avoid the ab-
horrency of
his soul.
Tuesday, 7r. 18. 1705. I went to Cambridge Court,
where Col.
Hutchinson, Tyng, Foster, Higginson, by a
1 Apparently the document printed by
Hutchinson. History, II. 150-152.
-- EDS.
2 This was the son of the regicide, John
Dixwell. This John left no male
issue but
the name has been revived in his descendants in the female line,
who changed
their name from Hunt to Dixwell. -- EDS
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 139
special
Comission, sat Judges of the cause between Charles-
town and me
[in margin, Land of N od]; Jury brought in
for me Costs
of Court: Court order'd judgment to be
entred: --
Charlestown Comittee Apeal'd. Mr. Dudley
was my Attorney;
Hern and Valentine for Charlestown.
The chief
plea they made was to the Jurisdiction of the
Court.
Septr. 20th. Mary has a very sick turn, complains much
of the
palpitation of the Heart.
Septr. 22. Set forward on my Journey towards Bristol,
with Col.
Hathorn. Got to Wrentham an hour before
Sunset. Kept the Sabbath there.
Septr. 24. To the ship at Rehoboth, where din'd. Mr.
Newman
piloted me to George Bairsto's, where saw him,
his wife,
sister Gates. From thence Mr. Newman led
us
the next way
through the Neck. Then Mr. Pain accom-
panied us to
Bristol. At Mr. Sparhawk's met with Col.
Byfield, his
wife, Col. Taylor and wife, Madam Lyde and
her
children. Major Walley and Leverett came
late next
day; which
made us almost lose the Forenoon. Thors-
day din'd
with Mr. Mackentash, Lt Govr
there, who came
up with Mr.
Lyde. Col. Hathorne desired excuse, and
went
homeward.
Friday broke up the Court and got to
Rehoboth. Lodge
at Smith's,
I got cold, and ventured not with the Com-
pany next
morning being Rainy. But set out with
Sam1
Robinson
about 11. m. when wether broke up. Dined
at
Slack's: Got comfortably to Medfield, lodg'd at Mr.
Bax-
ters, tho he
not at home. Heard Mr. Jn° Veasy of
Brain-
trey.
Octobr 1. Got home
pretty early, about 12 or 1. (Mrs.
Fyfield and
her daughter were at Medfield.) Drove a
Pin in the
Ministers House which I found Raising; bolted
on the
Raisers out of Bishop's Lane before I was aware.
Found my
Family better than I left them. Laus
Deo.
My horse
fell with me this Journey, broke my crooper:
140 DIARY OF
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but I had no
harm. Found Joseph at home, who on Sat-
terday was a
Bearer to Mr. Banisters child with Mr. Fos-
ter
Stoddard. Heard of the childs death at
Slack's.
Octr. 15. Three men are carried away from Lancaster
from Mr.
Sawyers Sawmill [by Indians]. This day I
made
this
Distich;
Roma inhonesta jacet.l
Sanctre gaudete puellae
Vindicis et vivi Vivitis Urbe DEI.
Gave
them and two more to Mr. Phips at Charlestown
Octr
16. Hear the bad news from
Lancaster. Neighbour
Deming's
House-is Raised. Rainy day.
Octobr. 17. very Rainy day.
Octobr. 18. Dark and Rainy day.
Octobr. 21. Several of the Fleet came in from Barba-
dos. About Noon between Meetings, were several
Claps
of Thunder,
and Hail and Rain.
Feria tertia, Octobr. 25. 1705. My Daughter Hirst is
Deliver'd of
a Son, a little before Sun-rise. I staid
there
till about
12 at night, then Mr. Hirst importun'd me to
come
home. I prevail'd with my wife and Mary
to go to
Bed (wife
not well to go to her daughter.) Hanah
and I
sat up to be
in a readiness if ,any Messenger should come.
But the
first we heard was this good News of a Son.
Laus
Deo.
As I sat up towards morning, I turn'd my Distich
thus
CHRIST governing the mighty waves of the tempestuous Main:
Euphrates turns,2 and
leaves old Rome to court Recruits in vain.
1 Mortua Moecha senex;* &c. written
8r. 21. 1715. on occasion of the
French
King's death on the Lord's Day A.ugt. 21. 1715. [Sept. 1. N. S.]
Some say, he
stunk alive.
2 We copy, from Sewall's
"Common-place Book," the following notes
which he had
collected concerning this topic: --
"DE EUPHRATE. 'Dry up Euphrates and Babylon is taken with a
wet
Finger.' Cotton's Vials, p. 96.
"Ye shall have many Men serious of
Reformation when the Lord shall
*This is the
beginning of a Latin verse. The
allusion, of course, is to the Eighteenth
Chapter of
Revelations. -- EDS.
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 141
At last I fix'd upon beginning, While
CHRIST Comands
that,
according to our use, carrying more of the likeness
of a
Military Phrase: as our Governour is Comander in
Chief.
Seventh-day 8r 27th. These verses are printed off upon
the side of
the Almanack. This day we hear that
James
Blin is cast
away. It seems the Castle is ordered to
be
call'd Fort
William; and the Governour went down yes-
terday, and
caus'd the inscription to be set up, a pretty
many Guns
fired. 8r 27. as I was
writing to my Brother,
I ask'd the
Govr; told me 'twas so, and directed me to
(tell my Bror.
that when he writt his account of Storey, he
should style
Salem Fort Fort-Anne. My wife
went in
the coach to
see her daughter; 6th day, which is the first
time since
she Lay in, her Cold is so hard upon her.
Octobr 28. Little Samuel Hirst is Baptised by Mr.
Colman; tis a very Rainy day.
Novembr. This Distich finished
Desine Belshazzar Templo Omnipotentis
abuti:
Proxima fatalis nox sine fine tua est.
Afterward
this English
Sound! Sound! the Jubilean Trumpet sound;
Spread the Glad Tidings, Give the Word all
round.
dry up the
River Euphrates, that makes glad the City of Babel.' 116, 112,
127,
133. 'Some say that it's meant of
Nations and People.' 89. 'Untill
they have
dryed up this River Euphrates, Hardness lyeth upon the Jews, but
then all
Israel shall be saved.' 94. 'This may serve to provoke us all ear-
nestly to
call upon the Lord, that He would stirr up the Hearts of Princes to
consider,
and open their eyes to see how needfull their Attempts are to rise up
against the
Pope.' 95, 96.
"2 Esdras, 41, 42, 43. 'And they entered in at the narrow passage of
the River
Euphrates.' This place caused Mr. Ward,
the Father, to conject-
ure that the
Aborigines of America were descended from the ten Tribes; as
Mr.
Rowlandson told me Jany. 22, 1696.
" ' By this time (it may be) we might
have dried up Euphrates, I mean
possessed
the whole West Indies; which with little time and help from these
parts may be
accomplished.' H. Peters, Ap. 2, 1645, Sermon, p. 30."--
EDS.
142 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
Novr 6th. Super. Court. Novr 9th. Tho. Odell Sen-
tenc'd to
pay a Fine of £300; suffer a years Imprison-
ment. Rochester, a Negro, sentenced to dye for
firing
Madam
Savages Dwelling House in the night.
Novr 10. Ambrose Daws buried. Gillam and Mason
arrive at
Cape-Anne.
Novr
11th. Hear of the Arrival, of
Col. Hobbey being
Knighted.1
Novr 12th. New Comission for the Indian Affairs comes
to
hand. Brooklin is pass'd to be a
Township by the
Council. I go to Salem with Major Walley's Man. At
Lewis's
overtake Mr. Dudley, and have his company to
Salem.
Novr 14. After the Court adjourned sine die,
visited
Reverd
Mr. Higginson, Madam Bradstreet, Bror Hirst.
Novr
15. Had a very pleasant fair day to come
home in.
Baited at
Sprague's. Visited Mr. Usher. He not at
home, his
wife entertain'd us. Found Mr. Willard
at our
house: He pray'd excellently with us. Have had a very
comfortable
Journey out and home.
Novr 21. Capt. Vech2 and Mr. Wm
Dudley come to
Town from
Canada; came from thence last Friday was
five
weeks. Govr would not let
them come till the Fleet
sail'd for
France.
Novr 24th. Snow falls and covers the Ground. Has
been very
cold wether this week.
The College at Quebec was burnt the third
time when
1 Hutchinson writes (History, II. 152) of
Hobby, that he "had been
knighted, as
some said, for fortitude and resolution at the time of the earth-
quake in
Jamaica, others for the further consideration of £800 sterling."
-- EDS.
2 Samuel Vetch (born in Edinburgh, says
Drake) was charged soon after,
with others,
with supplying ammunition and stores to the French in Canada.
The governor
himself was accused of being concerned in this unlawful and
treasonable
traffic. In 1709, Vetch was colonel in
the expedition against
Canada, and
became governor of Nova Scotia. He died
in London, April 30,
1732. --
EDS.
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 143
they were
there; that set a small chapel at a distance, on
fire; the
chapel fired a high Cross with a Crucifix on it,
so that it
bowed and fell down. [Judges V. 27.]
Novr. 25. Mrs. Allen dies, 28, buried, 29. Snow. This
(day hear of
Capt. Samuel Clark's death very suddenly at
Sea, about 3
weeks ago: Sail'd from St. Thomas 2 or 3
days
before. Was a good man, liv'd in our
house more
than Ten
years, left one Son. The Lord fit me for
my
change. Dec; 1. made this Distich on the burning of
the
Quebeck
Cross:
Crux
atrox tandem flammam sentire jubetur:
Ipsa Salus fallax igne probata perit.
The bawdy bloudy Cross, at length
Was forc'd to taste the flame:
The cheating Saviour, to the fire
Savoury food became.
Decr. 1. Deputies send in a Bill against fornication,
or
Marriage of
White men with Negros or Indians; with
extraordinary
penalties; directing the Secretary to draw
a Bill
accordingly. If it be pass'd, I fear
twill be an
Opression
provoking to God, and that which will promote
Murders and
other Abominations. I have got the
Indians
out of the
Bill, and some mitigation for them [the Negroes]
left in it,
and the clause about their Masters not denying
their
Marriage.1
Decr 7. Went to Brooklin, set out about Noon, saw
the Govr
at his Fence, who invited me in to Diner,
1 The act to which Sewall refers was
passed, and is chapter 10 of Acts of
1705-6. By it fornication between whites and blacks
or mulattoes was for-
bidden, and
the colored offender was to be sold out of the Province. Mar-
riage
between them was forbidden. A duty of
four pounds per head was
laid upon
all negroes imported by vessel into the Colony, with a drawback if
they were
exported within one year. Sewall's
benevolent clause is the fifth
section. It reads: "And no master shall
unreasonably deny marriage to, his
negro with
one of the same nation, any law, usage, or custom to the con-
trary
notwithstanding." -- EDS.
144 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
stood with
his Son Wm. But I fear'd should lose
visit-
ing Mr.
Bayley, and so pass'd on. [in margin
Carters
affront
Governor]. After Diner met the Govr
upon
the Plain
near Sol. Phip's; told me of what hapend
on the Road,
being in a great passion; threaten'd to
send those
that affronted him to England.1
As I went
1 We need hardly apologize for the length
of this note since the subject-
matter
occupies so much of the text. The
trivial occasion of the dispute only
brings out
more fully the almost insane rage of Dud!ey, and presents us with
a lively
picture of colonial life. The two
offending farmers belonged to
well-known
and respectable families. Thomas Trowbridge, we presume,
was the son
of Deacon James Trowbridge, of Newton. His son Edmund
was one of
our most distinguished lawyers prior to the Revolution, and his
daughter
Lydia was the mother of Chief Justice Dana. John Winchester, Jr.,
of
Brookline, died in 1718, leaving issue.
Jackson, in his "History of
New-
ton,"
traces the descendants of Stephen, son of this John; among them was
the late
Colonel William P. Winchester.
Both were reputable citizens, and the
Judges evidently felt that justice was
on the side
of the defendants. Dudley was probably
aware of his unpopu-
larity, and
evidently took a morbid view of a presumed insult. At this time
the evidence
seems to show that no offence was meant, but that a casual ac-
cident in a
public road was rendered a serious matter solely by the position
of one of
the parties.
We are indebted to the kindness of Henry
G. Denny, Esq., for copies of
the
following affidavits in the case, the originals of which are in his posses-
sion. --
EDS.
ROXBURY 23 Janu: 1705.
REVERED AND DEAR SIR, -- That you may not
be imposed upon I have
covered to
you my memorial to the Judges referring to the ingures offered mee
upon the
road, which I desire you will communicate to the ministers of your
circle whose
good opinion I Desire to mayntain, and have not in this matter
by any means
forfeited.
I
am Sir Your humble servant
J. DUDLEY.
The Governour informs the Queen's Justices'
of her majestys Superior
Court that
on friday, the seventh of December last past, he took his Journey
from Roxbury
towards newhampshire and the Province of mayn for her
majestys
immediate service there: and for the ease of the Guards had di-
rected them
to attend him the next morning at Rumney house, and had not
proceeded
above a mile from home before he mett two Carts ill the Road
loaden with
wood, of which the Carters were, as he is since informed, Win-
chester and
Trobridge.
The Charet wherein the Governour was, had
three sitters and three ser-
vants
depending, with trunks and portmantles for the journey, drawn by
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 145
back, Jno
Bartlet, the middlemost Carter, shew'd me
the Ground
where the three carts stood, which was a
four horses one
very unruly, and was attended only at that instant by Mr.
William
Dudley, the Governours son.
When the Governour saw the carts
approaching, he directed his son to
bid them
give him the way, having a Difficult drift, with four horses and a
tender
Charet so heavy loaden, not fit to break the way. Who accordingly
did Ride up
and told them the Govr. was there, and they must give way:
immediately
upon it, the second Charter came up to the first, to his assist-
ance,
leaving his own cart, and one of them says aloud, he would not goe out
of the way
for the Governour: whereupon the Govr.
came out of the Charet
and told
Winchester he must give way to the Charet.
Winchester answered
boldly,
without any other words, I am as good flesh and blood as you; I
will not
give way; you may goe out of the way:" and came towards the
Governour.
Whereupon the Governour drew his sword,
to secure himself and com-
mand the
Road, and went forward; yet without either saying or intending to
hurt the
carters, or once pointing or passing at them; but justly supposing
they would
obey and give him the way: and again commanded them to give
way. Winchester answered that he was a Christian
and would not give
way: and as
the Governour came towards him, he advanced and at len [g]th
layd hold on
the Govr. and broke the sword in his hand.
Very soon after came a justice of peace,
and sent the Carters to prison.
The Justices
are further informed that during this talk with the carters,
the Govr. demanded their names, which they would not say, Trobridg par-
ticularly
saying he was well known, nor did they once in the Govrs. hearing
or sight
pull of their hatts or say they would go out of the way, or any word
to excuse
the matter, but absolutely stood upon it, as above is sayd; and
once, being
two of them, one on each side of the fore-horse, laboured and
put forward
to drive upon and over the Governour.
And this is averred upon the honour of the Governour.
J. DUDLEY.
I, Thomas Trowbridg of Newtown, being upon
the seventh day of Decem-
ber 1705
upon the Road leading to Boston, driving my team, my cart being
laden with
cordwood, as I passed through the town of Roxbury, in the lane
between the
dwelling house of Ebenezer Davis and the widow Pierponts, in
the which
lane are two plaine cart paths which meet in one at the descent of
an hill: I
being with my cart in the path on the west side of the lane, I see-
ing the
Governors coach where the paths meet in one, I drave leisurly, that
so the coach
might take that path one the east side of the lane, which was the
best, but
when I came near where the paths met, I made a stop, thinking
they would
pass by me in the other path. And the
Governors son, viz.
Mr. William
Dudley, came rideing up and bid me clear the way. I told
him I could
not conveniently doe it, adding that it was easier for the
coach to
take the other path then for me to turn out of that: then did he
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146 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
difficult
place to turn; and the Govr had a fair way to
have gon by
them if he had pleas'd. Upon the
Meeting-
strike my
horse, and presently alighting his horse, drew his sword, and told
me he would
stab one of my horses. I stept betwixt
him and my horses, and
told him he
should not, if I could help it: he told me he would run me through
the body,
and made severall pases at me with his sword, which I fended of
with my
stick. Then came up John Winchester, of
Muddyriver alias Brook-
line, who
was behind me with his loaden Carl, who gives the following
account.
I, John Winchester, being upon the road
in the lane above written, on the
year and day
above said, hereing Mr. William Dudley give out threatening
words that
he would stab Trowbridge his horse, and run Trowbridge himself
through the
body if he did not turn out of the way, I left my cart and came
up and laid
down my whip by Trowbridge his team. I
asked Mr. Wm Dud-
ley why he
was so rash; he replyed "this dog wont turn out of the way for
the
Governour." Then I passed to the
Governour with my hat under my
arm, hopeing
to moderate the matter, saying" may it pleas your Exelency,
it is very
easie for you to take into this path, and not come upon us:" he
answered,"
Sirrah, you rouge or rascall, I will have that way." I then told
his Exelency
if he would but have patience a minute or two, I would clear
that way for
him. I, turning about and seeing
Trowbridge his horses twist-
ing about,
ran to stop them to prevent damage; the Governour followed me
with his
drawn sword, and said "run the dogs through," and with his naked
sword stabed
me in the back. I faceing about, he
struck me on the head with
his sword,
giveing me there a bloody wound. I then
expecting to be killed
dead on the
spot, to prevent his Exelency from such a bloody act in the heat
of his
passion, I catcht hold on his sword, and it broke; but yet continueing
in his
furious rage he struck me divers blows with the hilt and peice of the
sword
remaining in his hand, wounding me on the hands therewith: in this
transaction
I called to the standers by to take notice that what I did was in
defence of
my life. Then the Governor said"
you lie, you dog; you lie, you
divell,"
repeating the same words divers times.
Then said I, "such words
dont become
a christian;" his Exelency replyed "a christian, you dog, a
christian
you divell, I was a christian before you were born." I told him
twas very
hard that we who were true subjects and had bene allways ready
to serve him
in any thing, should be so run upon; then his Exelency took up
my cart whip
and struck me divers blows: then said I "what flesh and blood
can bear
this' " his Exelency said "why dont you run away, you Dog, you
Divell, why
dont you run away."
I Thomas Trowbridge, further declare that
I seeing and hearing the fore-
mentioned
words and actions, between his Exelency and said Winchester,
and seeing
Mr. William Dudley make a pass at Winchesters body, with his
naked sword,
I with my arm turned him aside, and he recovering himself, he
stabed me in
my hip; then the Governer struck me divers blows with the
hilt of his
sword; then takeing Winchesters driveing stick and with the great
end there of
struck me severall blows as he had done to Winchester afore.
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 147
house hill
met Mr. P. Dudley: I ask'd him how he got the
men along,
he said he walk'd them along. Upon
Satter-
day just at
night Mr. Trowbridge and Winchester came to
speak to me
that their sons might be released out of
Prison. It being so late, I refer'd them to
second-day
Morning Decr
10. to meet at the Secretary's office.
Ma-
jor Walley
and I met there and Mr. Attorney, who de-
sired Mr.
Leverett might be sent for, being so near; and
writt a
Letter accordingly in our Names, which was given
to Mr.
White. Mr. Leverett came not till 3d
day xr. 11th.
Then in the
Afternoon, we agreed to grant a Habeas
Corpus, and
I sign'd it, but Mr. Cook being at Charles-
town-Court
twas not seal'd till Wednesday morning.
The
writt
comanded them to be brought to the Court-Chamber
in Boston on
Friday morn, 9. aclock. Twas put off
till
then that
might have Mr. Leverett's company, whose
business
allow'd him not to be here sooner: And
that Mr.
Attorney
[Paul Dudley] who was attending Charlestown-
Court, might
have oportunity to be present.
Sixth-day, xr. 14. Mr. Leverett came, and Mr. Sheriff
order'd the
Prisoners to be brought: Mr. Attorney
spoke
against
them: They had no council, could procure
none.
Justices
Withdrew into the Counsil Chamber, and agreed
to Bail to
the Superr Court, 300£ Prisoners and 3 Sureties
Winchester
told his Exelency he had bene a true subject to him, and served
him and had
honoured him, and now he would taked his life away for noth-
ing. The Governer replyed "you lie, you dog,
you know that I intended you
no
harm." When we spake of tarrying no
longer but of driveing along our
teams, his
Exelency said "no, you shall goe to Goale, you Dogs;" when
twas askt
what should become of our teams his Exelency said, "let them sink
into the
bottom of the earth."
JOHN
WINCHESTER, junr.
THOMAS TROWBRIDGE.
The sequel to the matter seems to be given
in the following extract from
the Court
records: --
At a session of the Superior Court Nov. 5,
1706, present Sewall, Hathorne,
Walley and
Leverett, both Winchester and Trowbridge "being bound by
recognizance
to this court, was discharged by solemn Proclamation."
148 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1705.
each
100£. Examin'd the first and put it in
writing.
And I sent
Mr. Cook to Mr. Secretary to desire his Assist-
ance, or
presence, which he declin'd. Some would
have
had five
Hundred pounds and more sureties. I
urg'd the
words of the
Act, that saith regard is to be had to the
quality of
the person; These men were not worth so
much. At last came to Three Hundred pound. I pro-
pounded Two
Hundred, and Two sureties. Thomas
Trowbridge
300.£ James Trowbridge 100. Abraham
Jackson 100.
and Capt. Oliver Noyes 100. John Win-
chester
300£, John Winchester the Father 100£, Josiah
Winchester,
unkle, 100. Mr. John White £100. I
could hardly
be brought to their being bound to their
Good
Behaviour, because there was no Oath to justify
the charge
laid in the Mittimus; and the Prisoners
pleaded
their Inocence. No Complaint in
Writing. A
little after
Two aclock all was finish'd. I am glad
that I
have been
instrumental to Open the Prison to these two
young men,
that they might repair to their wives and
children and
Occasions; and that might have Liberty to
assemble
with God's People on the Lord's Day. I writt
earnestly to
Col. Hathorne to desire him, an experienced
Traveller,
to help us to steer between Scylla and Charib-
dis: I
mentiond it in Court. Mr. Willard sung
72 PS.
from the 4th v. two Staves -- Poor of the People. -- While
we were
deliberating in the Council-Chamber, P. Dudley
writt a
Letter, that would not Bail them yet; that would
be an error
on the right hand; he would write to his
father
Mompresson,l Mr. Secretary was not Settle in his
1 This reference by Paul Dudley to
"his father Mompresson" is inex-
plicable. Undoubtedly the person meant was Roger
Mompesson, Judge of
the
Admiralty Court for the northern district. Dudley married, in 1703,
Lucy,
daughter of Colonel John Wainwright, by his wife Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of
William Norton. Wainwright died July 30,
1708. As Dudley's
father and
father-in-law were both living at this date.
Little can be found about the Mompessons in
England. Sir Giles Mom-
pesson is
said to be the original of Sir Giles Overreach, in Massinger's play
1705.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 149
opinion, Not one Gentleman present but thought they
would not be
Bail'd. Mr. Leverett shew'd me the
Letter,
writt an
Answer and copied it on Mr. Dudley's. In
publick
I offer'd
Coke's pleas of the Crown to be read, especially as
to that
clause of High Treason for killing the Chancel-
lor
&c. He declined having it read. I had the Statute
Book there,
Coke pleas Crown, and Reading on the Stat-
utes, stuck
to 31. Car. 2d., that Comands
all to be Bail'd
that are not
Committed for Felony or Treason.
Tuesday, Decr 18; Great Rain, which hinders my going
to
Roxbury-Lecture. This day Mr. Colman's
sloop ar-
rives; came
from Plimo Octobr 25th. Brings news of a
kind of
Certainty that Sir Charles Hobby is to be our Gov-
ernour!
Decr. 21. Cousin Noyes brings the News of Mrs.
Coffin's
death the 15th instt,
to be buried the 19th. Went
away
suddenly and easily. A very good Woman of
New-
bury.
Decr. 22. Very great snow.
xr. 24th. I could not persuade Mr. Campbell to print
my addition
to the Quebeck Article, last [News] Letter:
but now he
does it:
of "A
New Way to pay Old Debts." In Le
Neve's Catalogue of Knights
we find that
Sir Thomas Mompesson was knighted in 1661, and was one of
the
Commissioners of the Privy Seal in 1697.
In 1700-7 Charles Mompes-
son
represented Old Sarum, and the family seems to have been settled in
Wiltshire. Roger Mompesson was the adviser of Lord
Cornbury, when
Governor of
New York, and left with his patron for fear of the results of his
actions. --
EDS.
1 Hutchinson writes (History, II. 153)
that Dudley's enemies prevailed
upon Sir
Charles Hobby to go to England and solicit for the government.
"He was
recommended to Sir H. Ashurst, who at first gave encouragment
of
success. Hobby was a gay man, a free
liver, and of very different beha-
viour from
what one would have expected should have recommended him
to the
clergy of New England; and yet, such is the force of party prejudice,
that it
prevails over religion itself, and some of the most pious ministers
strongly
urged, in their letters, that he might be appointed their governor
instead of
Dudley; for which Ashurst himself, after his acquaintance with
Hobby,
reproves and censures them." -- EDS.
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Gallica Crux aequam flamman sentire coacta est:
Ista salus fallax, igne
probata perit.
Iddum nihil est, restat de stipite longo
-- Nescio quid cineris, quem capit urna
brevis.
As soon as Mr. Green's daughter brought me
a proof, I
deled the
Title, In Obitum Crucis;
though I my self had
put it in:
because the English introduction seem'd to
suffice.
I sent a Letter to Mr. Henchman, desiring
we might
pray that
God would make the proud French Helper of
the
Antichristian Faction to stoop as Low as Quebeck
Cross. Visited Mrs. Maccarty, sick Mr. Tho. Downs,
and
the solitary
widow of Mr. Sam1 Clark. Were
very thank-
full to me;
especially Mr. Downs.
Writ to Govr Winthrop [of
Connecticut], advising the
Rect
of the Bond; enclos'd Letters of the day, Athenian
Oracle,
Selling Joseph.
Tuesday, Decr 25. Very cold Day but serene Morn-
ing, Sleds,
Slays, and Horses pass as usually, and shops
open.1 I just went into Town and visited Mr.
Secretary,
whose
Indisposition has increased so much by a pain in
his Back or
side, that he has kept House from Satterday.
Then went to
Mr. Treasurers and Rec'd Bills of Credit for
my Council,
Attendance. I think the Govr
was not in
Town to-day;
though tis said his Excellency came to
Roxbury the
night before. Capt. Belchar buried a
Negro
this day;
his Coachman, a very good Servant. He
was a
Bearer to
Cousin Savages Hagar. The Governour came
not home
till Tuesday, a very cold day; some think the
coldest has
been these many years, by the Vapor taken
notice of at
Nantasket. Decr 27. Govr warns a Council;
reads the
Letter that orders a Thanks-giving here:
I
mention'd
the Thanksgiving in October had in general
1 Every token of secular business in the
Puritan town on the Church festi-
val of
Christmas was welcome to the Judge. -- EDS.
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mention'd
the same thing: but the Govr would not hear
of any thing
but apointing a Day in obedience to the
Queen. Before went out of the Council-Chamber --
Capt.
Belchar
invited me to his Thanksgiving on account of his
Son's
preservation.
Sixth-day, Decr. 28. Mr. Pemberton prays excellently,
and Mr.
Willard Preaches from Ps. 66. 20. very excel-
lently. Spake to me to set the Tune; I intended Wind-
sor, and
fell into High-Dutch,l and then essaying to set
another
Tune, went into a Key much too high. So
I
pray'd Mr.
White to set it; which he did well, Litchf.
Tune. The Lord humble me and Instruct me, that I
should be
occasion of any Interruption in the Worship of
God. Had a very good Diner at three Tables. Had the
Meeting; and
few else except Relations in Town, and
me. The Lord accept his Thank-offering.
Jany. 9. Guns are fired at Boston upon the suposal of
Mr.
Belchar's 2 being married at Portsmouth yesterday:
very cold
wether.
Jany 10. I corrected David for his extravagant stay-
ing out, and
for his playing when his Mistress sent him of
Errands.
Jany 11th. I visited languishing Mr. Bayley, carried
him two
pounds of Currants, which he accepted very
kindly. Is in a very pious humble frame in submitting
to
the
afflicting hand of God.
This day I met Mr. Leverett in the street
at Boston,
who told me,
he had by the Governour's direction, written
to Col.
Hathorne to come to Town. I ask'd him,
whether
as a
Councillor, or Judge; he said both; the Governor
had drawn up
a Declaration relating to Winchester and
1 From the context, we infer that to fall
into High-Dutch was to sing at
too low
pitch. -- EDS.
2 This was Jonathan Belcher, Governor of
Massachusetts from 1730 to
1741. He married Mary, daughter of Lieutenant-Governor
William Par-
tridge, of
New Hampshire, who died Oct. 6, 1736. -- EDS.
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Trowbridge: I enquired whether it might not as well be
let alone
till the Trial: It seems Mr. Leverett's
Letter
went by the
Post.
I call'd at the Governour's, only his
Lady at home.
Slander. It seems some have reported that I should say
I saw Quarts
of blood that run out of Trowbridges-Horses.
I answered,
I had never seen, nor thought, nor reported
any such thing. Seventh-day, Jany 12th. 170 5/6.
A Coun-
cil is
call'd to meet at eleven aclock. Govr
call'd Max-
well, bid
him go to Major Walley, and tell him the Govr
and Council
were sitting, and would have him there also.
Maxwell
answer'd that Major Walley was sick.
Twas
said also
that Mr. Bromfield was sick. Mr.
Leverett was
call'd in,
and bid to sit down. The Governour's
Declara-
tion was
read as to the fray xr. 7th
with Winchester and
Trowbridge,
Carters. The Govr said he did
not know
whether he
should live to the time of the Court; bid Mr.
Secretary
keep it for the Court. Govr mention'd
the
Story of the
blood, I said before the Council, as had
said
before. Govr said some
Minister, mentioning Mr.
Allen, had
reported that he swore; whereas he said he was
as free from
Cursing and Swearing vainly, as any there.
Made a
Ridicule of Winchester's Complaint about Mr.
Dudley's
striking him last Monday. I mention'd
Mr.
Taylor's
striking, which was inconvenient for a Justice of
Peace. The Govr Answer'd, he did
well. Brought that
as an
Argument for himself, his drawing his sword; A
Justice of
Peace might punish several offences against the
Laws upon
view. After diner I went and told Mr.
Wil-
lard what
was Reported of himself and me. He said
he
knew nothing
of it. Col. Hutchinson was not at
Council.
I laid down
this as a position, That of all men, twas
most
inconvenient for a Justice of Peace to be a Striker.
[Titus, 1,
7.]
Jany. 12. Capt. Belchar apears
at Council in his new
Wigg: Said
he needed more than his own Hair for his
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Journey to
Portsmouth; and other provision was not suit-
able for a
Wedding. Jany 13th apears at Meeting in his
Wigg. He had a good Head of Hair, though twas grown
a little
thin.
Jany. 18. Sister Stephen Sewall, Son Hirst and his
wife,
dine with
us; Major Walley droops with his Cold and
Cough: He was not abroad on the Lord's Day, nor Lec-
ture-day;
wears plaisters or Poultices to his right side to
ease the
intolerable pain his Coughing causes him.
Lord's Day, Jany 20th. My Dame Mary Phipps, Lady
Sergeant,
alias. Phipps, dies about Sun-Rise; Majr
Genl
tells me She
was Dying from Satterday Noon. Has Bled
excessively
at the Nose. Mr. Sergeant was at Meeting
in
the
Afternoon. Mr. Butchers son Alwin taken
into Church
and a woman;
Mr. Ezek. Lewis dismiss'd from Westfield,
and enter'd
into Covenant with them.
Major Walley not at Meeting.
Jany 20. Mrs. Jane Pembrook dies in the afternoon,
was taken on
Wednesday. Her Husband is at Conecticut.
Tuesday, Jany
22. Mrs. Jane Pembrook buried in the
New Burying
place. Saw no Minister there but Mr.
Col-
man and Mr.
Dallie [the French Minister]. I and Mr.
Em.
Hutchinson
went together; Capt. Legg was there.
Wednesday, Jany. 23. Storm of snow, for which reason
the funeral
of my Lady is put off to Friday.
Jany 23. Mr. Jonathan Belcher and his Bride dine at
Lt
Govr Usher's, come to Town about 6. aclock: About 20
Horsmen,
Three Coaches and many Slays. Joseph
came
from College
to visit us, and gave us notice of their com-
ing before
hand.
Jany 24th. Comfortable day: Mr. Willard not abroad
in the
Forenoon by reason of pain; but preaches excel-
lently in the
afternoon. Mr. Broadhurst of Albany, Mr.
Hirst and
family, cousin Sam1 and Jonathan Sewall, dine
with us
&c.
Jany 25th. Friday, My Lady Phipps is laid in Mr. Ser-
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geant's Tomb
in the New Burying place. Bearers, Mr.
Winthrop,
Cook; Elisha Hutchinson, Addington; Foster,
Belcher. Govr and Lt Govr
there. Mr. Russel ,and I go
together. I had a Ring.
Mr. Corwin and B. Brown
there from
Salem. Mr. Hohnan married Cousin Ann
Quinsey a
week ago.
Jany 26. I visit Mr. Sergeant, who takes my visit very
kindly,
tells me, my Lady would have been 59 years old
next March,
and that he was two Moneths older. It
seems
Mr. Chiever
buried his daughter Abigail, about an hour
before my
Lady was entombed.
Jany. 29th. 170 5/6.
Col. Hathorn, Leverett, and S. hold
the Court at
Charlestown; storm began by Noon; yet I
got home at
night with difficulty. Jany
30. Extraordi-
nary Storm;
yet at Noon I rode to Jn° Russel's with very
great difficulty
by reason of the Snow and Hail beating
on my
forehead and Eyes hindering my sight, and the
extravagant
Banks of Snow the Streets were fill'd with.
Waited 3
hours or more, and at last the Charlestown Boat
coming over,
I went in that very comfortably; got thither
a little
before four. Lodg'd at Capt. Hayman's
with Mr.
Leverett.
Jany 31. Got not home till six at night, by reason of
much Ice in
the River; fain to Land at the
Salutation,1
having got
below the Ice on Charlestown side. , ,
Feb.
11. Mr. Jn° Marion, the Father, buried;
Bearers,
Mr. Cook,
Col. Townsend; Elder Bridgham, Copp; Dea-
1 S. A. Drake, in his "Old Landmarks of Boston," states
that the Salu-
tation
Tavern was on the corner of Salutation Street and North Street. The
tavern was
the rendezvous of the North End Caucus in Revolutionary times.
As Mr. Drake
repeats the Idea that the term "caucus" was a corruption of
"calkers'"
meeting, we annex the more plausible statement of Mr. J. Ham-
mond
Trumbull, made in 1872 to the American Philological Association.
He finds that the Indians have various
words allied in sound and sense.
Thus
"cau-cau-asu" means "one who advises," "a
promoter," and he con-
siders it
most probable that our word is thus of Indian origin. In 1763, John
Adams spoke
of the "Caucus-Club" and "those caucuses," showing that at
that date no
one entertained the "calkers" derivation. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 155
con Tay,
Hubbard. Great Funeral. I think Mr. Chiever
was not
there.
Feb. 27.
My Neighbour Deming came to me, and
ask'd of me
the Agreement between himself and Joana
Tiler; I
told him I was to keep it for them both and could
not deliver
it; he said he was going to Cambridge to ask
Mr.
Leverett's Advice, he would bring it safe again. When
he still
urged and insisted, I told him I would not
have him
lose his time, I would not deliver it; I would give
him a copy
if he pleas'd. He said he was in haste
and
could not
stay the writing of it. I said, You would
not
take it well
that I should deliver it to Tiler; no more
could I
deliver it to him. He said some what
sourly, I
am sorry you
have not more Charity for him. And going
away,
murmuring said, passing out of the Stove --
Room into
the Kitchen, I have desired a Copy, offered
Money and am
Deny'd: I was then more mov'd than
before, and
said with some earnestness, Will you speak
false to my
face? He went away, and came not again,
but his son
came, and I gave him a Copy of the Agree-
ment,
written with my own hand. I thank God, I
heartily
desired and endeavoured a good Agreement be-
tween him
and his Neighbour as to the Bounds of their
Land:
although he be thus out of Tune, upon my deny-
ing to grant
his Unjust Petition.
Satterday, March, 2. I visit my son and daughter at
Brooklin and
little Rebecka: Visited Mr. Bayley as I
came
home. Most of the way over the Neck is good Sumer
Travelling.
March. 4th. Cousin Dumer and I take Bond of Mr.
Rust 30£, to
prosecute his Sons Master, Jn° Staniford, for
misusing and
Evil entreating his Servant; Left Robert
Rust with
his father in the mean time. The
invincible
fear of the
Mother, who came from Ipswich on purpose,
and the high
hand wherewith Staniford carried it, did in a
maner force
it. Mr. Jn° Colman said, If his Servant
should
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answer so,
he would trample him under his feet; after-
ward
mention'd that Scripture, Obey in all things.
Stan-
nord said
scoffingly before us: The Boy would do
well
with good
Correction; words were directed to the Mother.
Wednesday,
March, 6. Council of Churches held at
Mr.
Willard's. They advise that after a
Moneth, Mr.
Joseph Morse
cease to preach at Watertown farms. Ad-
journ'd to
the First of May. Sharp Thunder the
night
following. Mr. Gookin, Capt. Morse and Deacon Larned
dine with
us. Cousin Noyes lodges here, and tells
of
many Sheep
being drown'd by the overflowing of
Merri-
mack
River. At the breaking up of the River,
which was
furious by
the Flood in Febr. The Ice jam'd and
made a
great Dam,
and so caus'd the River to Rise so much and
suddenly.
March, 6. 170 5/6. At night, a great Ship, of 370 Tuns,
building at
Salem, runs off her blocking in the night and
pitches
ahead 16 foot. Her Deck not bolted off,
falls in;
and opens at
the Bows; so that twill cost a great deal to
bring her
Right agen; and Capt. Dows thinks she will be
Hundreds of
pounds the worse.
March 13th. Mr. Torrey comes to Town; on Thorsday
even, Mr. Wadsworth
came to visit him. Mr. Torrey told
him of his
Elder Rogers's Carriage towards him; and
crav'd his
pardon for chusing him; acknowledged his fault
and plainly
seem'd to renounce that office.
March, 16. A Storm of Snow.
Friday, March, 22. Michael Gill arrives from Lisbon,
came out 11th. Febr. By him have News from London of
the 1. of
Jany. This day Mr. Jer.
Cushing dyes at Scituate
Jno
Turner dies there suddenly p. m. -- the same day:
He has the
Character of a Drunkard, and Striker of his
Wife.
March, 23.
Set out for Weymouth with Sam Robbi-
son stop'd
at Gibbe's to shelter our selves from a Gust of
Wind and
Rain. Twas dusk before got to Mr. Torrey
s.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 157
I ask'd Mr.
Torrey about laying the hand on the Bible in
swearing: He said he was against it, and would suffer
anything but
death rather than do it.
March, 24. Mr. Torrey preach'd out of Amos, 8. 11.
Four
children baptised in the Afternoon.
March, 25, 1706. Din'd at Barker's; surpris'd the
Sheriff and
his Men at the Flat-house: Got to Plymouth
about 1 1/2
by Sun.
March, 26. Major Walley and Leverett come from
Barker's.
March, 27th. I walk in the Meetinghouse. Set out
homeward,
lodg'd at Cushing's. Note. I pray'd not with
my Servant,
being weary. [A few lines unsuitable for
publication
are here omitted. In these Sewall
relates a
mortifying
accident which befel him in the night.
He
regards his
humiliation as a judgment upon him because,
being weary,
he had retired without calling his servant to
prayer.] How unexpectedly a man may be expos'd!
There's no
security but in God, who is to be sought by
Prayer.
March, 28, mihi natalis, got home
about 1/2 hour after
12, dine with
my wife and children.
Apr. 1. 1706. Col. Townsend, Mr. Bromfield, Burroughs
and I went
in the Hackny Coach and visited Mr. Thacher,
din'd with
him and Mrs. Thacher. Mrs. Niles is
there to
ly in; but
saw her not. Got home well. Laus Deo.
Apr.
4, 1706. Last night I dream'd I saw a
vast num-
ber of
French coming towards us, for multitude and Hud-
dle like a
great Flock of Sheep. It put me into a
great
Consternation,
and made me think of Hiding in some
Thicket. The Impression remain'd upon me after my
Waking. GOD defend!
Friday, Ap. 5. I went and visited Mr. Baily whose par-
oxisms are
return'd to once every hour. Carried him
two pounds
of Currants which he accepted with wonder-
ful
kindness. When left him, went forward
for Brooklin,
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and going up
the Meetinghouse Hill fell in with the Gov-
ernour's
Coach with two Horses: in it were his Excel-
lency and
Lady, Madam Paul Dudley, and Madam Thomas
Dudley. I follow'd the Coach mostly, especially at
Mitti-
mus Hill,1
and observed, that the Coachman of his Own
accord took
the Road next Boston, which was refus'd De-
cembr
7, and nothing to incline to it but the goodness of
the
way. Took it also returning. Mrs. Kate Dudley,
little
Allen, and Capt. Gillam's little Maiden daughter
rode in a
Calash. Capt. Thomas Dudley rode on
horse-
back.
Tuesday, Apr. 9. Mr. Danl Oliver and I ride to Mil-
ton, and
there meet with Mr. Leverett, and as Spectators
and Auditors
were present at Deacon Swifts when Mr.
Leverett
discours'd the Punkapog intruders. Dined
at
the said
Swift's with Mr. Thacher. Seth Dwight
waited
on us.
Ap. 8.
Monday, poor little Sam Hirst went through
the Valley
of the Shadow of Death through the opression
of Flegm.
Ap. 9.
Wife takes Physick, has a comfortable night
after
it. Laus Deo. Brother visits us.
Ap. 14.
Capt. Belchar is kept at home by the Gout.
Ap. 15. Abraham Hill arrives; makes us believe the
Virginia
Fleet is arriv'd.
Ap. 16.
I first hear and see the swallows: They are
now
frequent. Mr. Banister says they were
seen by him
2 or 3 days
ago. Mrs. Gates lodg'd here last
night. At
1 "The elevation beyond the Dudley
estate has, from time immemorial,
been known
as 'Meeting-House Hill.' It was also
called 'Roxbury Hill,'
and just
before the Revolution, from the fact of Isaac Winslow and other
friends of
the British government residing on or near it, it received the
name of 'Tory Hill.'
Putnam Street, its eastern limit, was given to the
town by the
First Church. Its western slope touched
Stony River." F. S.
Drake's
History of Roxbury, p. 265.
As to Mittimus Hill, we find no other
mention of it. Can it be a jocular
perversion
of Meeting-house Hill -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 159
night the
Aer being clear, the Eclipse of the Moon was
very much
Gaz'd upon.
Tuesday, Apr. 23. Govr. comes to Town guarded by
the Troops
with their Swords drawn; dines at the Dragon,1
from thence
proceeds to the Townhouse, illuminations at
night. Capt. Pelham tells me several wore crosses in
their
Hats; which
makes me resolve to stay at home; (though
Maxwell was
at my House and spake to me to be at the
Council-Chamber
at 4. p. m.) Because to drinking
Healths,
now the
Keeping of a Day to fictitious St. George, is
plainly set
on foot. It seems Capt. Dudley's Men
wore
Crosses. Somebody had fasten'd a cross to a Dog's
head;
Capt.
Dudley's Boatswain seeing him, struck the Dog, and
then went
into the shop, next where the Dog was, and
struck down
a Carpenter, one Davis, as he was at work
not thinking
anything: Boatswain and the other with
him were
fined 10s each for breach of the peace, by Jer.
Dumer Esqr:
pretty much blood was shed by means of
this bloody
Cross, and the poor Dog a sufferer.
Thomas Hazard came in from Narragansett
about the
time should
have gon to the Townhouse, said he came on
purpose to
speak with me; so 'twas inconvenient to Leave
him.
Midweek; Apr. 24. Privat Meeting at our House;
Read out of
Mr. Caryl 2 on those Words, The Lord gives,
and the Lord
Takes, Blessed -- preface my Reading
with saying,
I will read now what read in course to my
1 This may be the famous Green Dragon
Tavern mentioned ante, Vol. I. p.
I .163. It was the property of Governor Stoughton,
and, in 1704, went to his
niece,
Mehitable Cooper. The Castle Tavern
(Vo1. I. p. 196) was on the
corner of
Elm Street. The Green Dragon, on Union
Street, was famous in
our local
history, and its site is now indicated by a tablet set in the wall of a
store. --
EDS.
2 Mr. Joseph Caryl, preacher at Lincoln's
Inn, a member of the West-
minster
Assembly, and one of the Triers for Approbation of Ministers. He
was ejected
from St Magnus, London, in 1662, and died in 1673. He wrote a
copious
Exposition on the Book of Job. -- EDS.
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family
because of the great and multiplied Losses, --.
Cousin
Savage and Capt. Hill pray'd, had a pretty full and
comfortable
Meeting notwithstanding the much Rain and
Dirt. Sung 1 part and last v. of 48th. Ps. 119.
7th day, Apr. 27th. Joseph visits us, it seems he had a
Tooth pull'd
out by Madam Oliver's Maid, on Mid-week
night.
Lords-Day, April, 28. Brief is Read. Bowditch Arrives.
Monday, Apr.
29. Cousin Gookin, his wife and son
Richard
lodge here.
Tuesday, Apr. 30. I carry Capt. Belchar my Letter to
Mr. Bellamy,
and he sends me the Comons votes. Note,
Lords Resolution
is dated Decr. 6. Comons conferr'd with,
them about
it the 7th. Agree to it
Satterday xr. 8. Ad-
dress upon
it agreed to by the Comons xr. 14th.
Mercurii [Wednesday]. 19. die. Xr's 1705. [The Bill
for the
better Security of Her Maj's person and Government,
and of the
Succession to the Crown of England in the prot-
estant Line,
was read a second Time. And Charles
Cresar
Esqr, upon
the Debate of the said Bill, standing up in his
place,
saying the Words following (which were directed
by the House
to be set down in writing at the Table)
There is a noble Lord, without whose
Advice the Queen
does
nothing, who in the late Reign was known to keep a
constant
Correspondence with the Court at St Germans.
Resolv'd, That the said words are highly
dishonorable
to Her
Majestys person and Government. Resolv'd
that
the said
Charles Cresar esqr. be for his said offence
comitted
prisoner to the Tower during the pleasure of this
House.]1
May, 1. 1706. Eclipse of the Sun, not seen by reason
of the
cloudy wether.
May, 2d Mr. Penn Townsend junr dies about
10 m.
1 The passage enclosed in brackets seems
to be an extract from an
English
journal. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL.
161.
May 3. is
buried; Bearers Mr. Nathanl Williams, Major
Adam
Winthrop, Capt Oliver Noyes, Capt. Jno Ballen-
tine junr,
Mr. Habijah Savaoe. Mr. Elisha Cooke;
all
scholars.
May, 2d, 1706. Capt. Stukely arrives from Barbados
in the
Deptford, 3 weeks passage; was suffer'd to
bring the
Fleet with him can they go for Salt
but are
embargod at Barbados. Tis much
fear'd that
Nevis is
Taken.
May,
4th. Mr. Brattle and I
send the School and Col-
lege Deeds
by Mr. N. Niles to be Recorded. Niles
tells
me that
Monotocott [Braintree] Meetinghouse is Raised;
he came that
way, and saw it.
Mid-week, May, 15th. 1706. Went to Brooklin, visited my
Daughter and
little Grand-daughter. Visited Mr.
Bayley.
May,
16. Capt. Benja Gillam buried
about 7. P. M.
May,
20. Set Out for Ipswich with Major
Walley by
Winisimet; Rid in the Rain from Lewis' to Salem; staid
there, and
assisted at the Funeral of Mrs. Lindal, Capt.
Corwin's
only daughter, a vertuous Gentlewoman.
Was
buried in
the Tomb in a Pasture: Bror was one of the
Bearers.
May, 21.
Set Out early for Ipswich; got thither sea-
sonably. Twas late ere Mr. Leverett came. Sarah Pils-
bury, Try'd
for murdering, her young Child, was Acquitted.
May,
23. Mr. Fitch preaches the Lecture: Companys in
Arms, Govr to view them; much fatigued
by the Wet.
May, 24th. Set out for Newbury with Major Davison:
visit Mr.
Payson, and deliver him my wives present;
I
hope he is
recovering. Dine at Sister
Northend's; Bror
Northend
brings us going as far as Capt. Hale's. At
Sis-
ter
Gerrishes dismiss Major Davison: visit Bror and Sister
Tapan,
Cousin Swett, cousins Jno, Henry, and Saml Sewall.
Lodge at
Sister Gerrishes.
May 25th. Saw the sheep shearing,,visited Cousin Rolf.
May, 26th. Mr. Tapan
preaches. Deacon Cutting Noyes
162 DIARY OF
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Catechises
in the Afternoon. In the evening visit
Mr.
Tapan.
May, 27th. Col. Noyes invites me to his Training Diner:
Mr. Tapan,
Brown, Hale and my self are guarded from
the Green to
the Tavern, Bror Moodey and a
part of the
Troop with a
Trumpet accompany me to the Ferry. Sam.
Moody waits
on me. Get to Brother's in the night
after
nine
aclock. Mr. Noyes had left his Verses
for Mr. Bay-
ley, which I
carried with me next morning. Rested at
Lewis'
during the Rain.
Got home well, Laus Deo.
May, 29.
Election-day, Winthrop 83.
Russel, 80.
(Cooke
50) Hathorn 68. Elisha Hutchinson, 80. Sew-
all,
83. Addington 79. Brown 76.
Phillips 80. Cor-
win 75. Foster 75.
Townsend, 78. Higginson, 69.
Belcher,
89. Bromfield 55. Legg, 65.
S. Apleton, 47.
Partridge,
58. Thacher 79. Pain, 79.
Winslow, 86.
Cushing,
47. Em Hutchinson, 75. (Hamond 62.) Plais-
ted,
46. Leverett, 42. Walley, 37.
Jn° Apleton, 34.
June, 6.
In stead of the Negativ'dl were chosen B.
Brown, 55.
Ephr. Hunt, 42.
Mr. James Taylor, Treasurer; James Russel
esqr Com-
issr
of the Customs.
This Court Mr. Lillie Prefer'd a Petition
about his Reals
not accepted
by the Super. Court to go by Tale, which
was untrue
in one material Article as to matter of fact,
and the
Justices much reflected on. Mr. Paul
Dudley
was Attorney
for Mr. Lillie. I pray'd the Petition
might
be
dismiss'd, or those Reflections abated: the Govr brake
forth into a
passionate Harangue respecting the Roxbury
Carters. He might be run through, trampled on, &c
no
care taken
of him. -- Finally, at another time it was agreed
that there
should be a Hearing, only Mr. Lillie should
1 Elisha Cooke and Joseph Hammond were
the two negatived. Sewall
has put
their names in parentheses. -- EDS.
1706.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 163
first come
into Council, make some Acknowledgment,
withdraw
that Petition, and file another. The Govr was
very hot and
hard upon me at this time, insomuch that I
was provok'd
to say, It was a Hardship upon me that the
Governour's
Son was Mr. Lillie's Attorney. At which
the
Govr
Storm'd very much. Some days after Mr.
Lillie
came into
Council. The Govr presently
said, Sir, shall I
speak for
you, or will you speak for your self, and so fell
a speaking
-- at last Mr. Lillie said with a low voice, I
have
prefer'd a Petition which I understand is not so sat-
isfactory; I
did not intend to reflect upon the Judges, and
desire that
petition may be withdrawn, and this filed in
the room of
it. Withdrew, Govr ask'd it
might be so, and
that the
first petition might be Cast and Null.
Secretary
whisper'd
the Govr that the Petition had been read twice
in Council,
whereupon the Govr took the pen and obliter-
ated the
Minute of its having been read on the head of
the
Petition. And then after the Hearing
before the
whole Court,
when the Deputies were Returned, the Govr
bundled up
the papers and sent them in to the House of
Deputies,
without asking the Council whether they would
first go
upon them, with whom the Petition was entered.
After many
days, the Deputies return'd the papers agen
by Mr.
Blagrove, expressing, their desire that the Council
would first
act upon them, seems, the Petition was entred
with the
Secretary.
Some time after, the Govr sent
in the Papers again, and
then the
Deputies voted upon them and sent it in, but
before any
thing was done in Council, the Court was pro-
rogued to
the 7th. of August, &c., &c.
Major Walley sick,
staid at
home two Sabbaths. came out agen July 27th.
July, 28.
1706. Col. Hathorne comes to
Town, Dines
and lodges
at our House.
July, 29.
Col. Hathorne, Major Walley, Sewall, ride
to Cambridge
in the Hackney Coach. Mr. Sheriff, his
son, and the
Steward of the College met us at Brooklin,
164 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1706.
drank a
Glass of good Beer at my son's, and pass'd on.
My case [In
margin, Land of Nod] was call'd in the After-
noon and committed
to the jury. I would have come
home but
then Major Walley also would come; which
made me stay
and send the Coach to Town empty.
Lodg'd at
Mr. Brattles. July, 30. College Hall at Cam-
bridge, The
Jury brought in for me costs of Courts.
Charlestown
Gentlemen and their Attorneys said not a
Word that I
could hear. Col. Hathorne with Mr.
Valen-
tine,
Charlest. Attorney, examined my Bill of
cost and so
did the
Clerk, and afterward Col. Hathorne shew'd it to
Majr Walley
and Leverett, and then Allow'd it, subscrib-
ing his
Name.
Augt 7.
Gen1 Court meets. Augt
10, 1706. A Con-
ference is
held in the Council-Chamber, at the desire of the
Deputies. Mr. Speaker, The House is doubtfull whether
they have
not proceeded too hastily in calling that a Mis-
demeanour,
which the Law calls Treason; and are doubt-
full whether
this Court can proceed to Try the Prisoners.
Mr. Jewet,
Comittee that were appointed to prepare for
the Trials,
were doubtfull and unsatisfied that they had
called the
crime of the Prisoners a Misdemeanour:
If any
wrong steps
had been taken, tis fit they should be re-
triev'd. Mr. Blagrove, If that which the Prisoners are
charg'd
with, be made Treason by the Law of England;
this Court
must not make Laws repugnant to the Law of
England.
The Governour answer'd, He had not seen
the Papers,
and could
not say that what they had done was Treason.
After this
the Deputies sent in the Papers. And
about
Augt
13. Govr put it to vote in
the Council, whether the
prisoners
should be Tried by the Gen1 Court according to
the order of
last sessions: There were 17. at the
Board
Nine Yeas,
and Eight Nos. Secretary was in the
Nega-
tive as well
as I.
Friday Augt.16. Capt. Vetch was brought to his Trial
1706.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 165
in the
Afternoon, in the Court Chamber.
Note. I came
home on
Wednesday morn, and went not again till the
Govr
and Council sent for me by Mr. Winchcomb Friday
morn. I went though I had a cold; spake that a suit
of
Cloaths
might be made here for Mr. Williams.1 Depts
would have
had Mr. John Eliot, and Cousin Dumer M. A.
to have
assisted Mr. Attorney: Govr did not consent:
they
insisted so long that the Forenoon was spent, and I
fairly got
home. Augt. 17. I am told Mr. Borland and
Lawson are
brought to their Trial. Mr. Borland
pleads
that he was
a Factor in the management of this Affair.
Note.
Govr would have had the Judges manage the
Conference,
I declin'd it because was against the proced-
ure. And so declin'd joining with the Judges to
prepare
for it
because I was against it. Col. Hathorne
was at
Salem with
his sick Son; so that only Majr Walley, and
Mr. Leverett
were active in the matter. And Mr.
Lever-
ett said at
the Board that he did not interpret that Clause
in the
Charter of imposing Fines &c. as if it did impour
the Genl
Court to Try delinquents.2
Feria secunda, August 19th. 1706.
Went and visited
my son and
daughter at Brooklin, and Dined there:
Went to
Cambridge; Gave Mr. Bordman, Town-Clerk,
Seven pounds
in two Bills of Credit to help build the New-
Meetinghouse;
fourty shillings of it upon Consideration
of my
ancient Tenant, the widow Margaret Gates, and her
family,
going there to the publick worship of God.
Gave
him also Ten
Shillings for Mrs. Corlett, widow.
Visited
Joseph, Mr.
Flint, congratulated Mr. Whiting upon his
being chosen
a Fellow. Went into Hall and heard Mr.
Willard
expound excellently from 1 Cor. 7. 15, 16.
It
1 Rev. Mr. Williams, of Deerfield, then
held as a captive by the French
and Indians,
in Canada, for ransom. -- EDS.
2 The words in the Charter are, "The
General Court, or Assembly, shall
have full
power and authority -- to impose fines, mulcts, imprisonments, and
other punishments."
-- EDS.
166 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1706.
was dark by
that time I got to Roxbury, yet I visited Mr.
Bayley, and
gave him the Fourty shillings Mr. John Eliot
sent him as
a Gratuity: He was very thankful for the
Present, and
very glad to see me. I told him, coming
in
the night, I
had brought a small Illumination with me.
Rid home;
twas past Nine by that time I got there.
Found all
well; Laus Deo.
Augt. 26. 1706. feria secunda. About 2 p. m. Mr.
Bromfield
and I set out for Martha's Vinyard; got well to
Cushing's
about Day-light shutting in. 27, to Morey's.
28, To
Sandwich, 29, to Lecture at Pompesprisset;1 on
the way
thither, a small stump overset the Calash, and
Mr.
Bromfield was much hurt, which made our Journey
afterwards
uncomfortable. 30. rested: saw the
Harbour,
Burying-place,
Mill-pond. 31. Went to Succanesset but
could not
get over.
Septr. 1. Mr. Danforth preach'd there. Lodg'd at Mr.
Lothrop's.
Septr. 2. embarked for the Vinyard: but by stormy
rough wether
were forc'd back again to Wood's Hole.
Lodg'd at B.
Skiff's, he shew'd me the Bay, and Mr.
Weeks's
Harbour. Septr. 3. Went to the Vinyard with
a fair wind,
and from Homes's Hole to Tisbury and I to
Chilmark, to
Mr. Allen's. Septr. 4. to
Gayhead, Mr. Dan-
forth, I,
Mr. Tho. Mayhew, Major Basset. Septr.
5.
Din'd at Mr.
Mayhew's: went to Homes's Hole to wait
1 Pompresprisset was, probably, some part
of Marshpee. Sewall was, be-
fore this,
at Sandwich, and later at Succanesset or Falmouth. In Mass.
Hist. Soc.
Coll., I. 231, we find it noted that there is a place in Marshpee
called
Popponessit, and that "the place where Doctor Bourn's house stands,
about two
miles up Manumit River, and near the Herring Pond, is called
Pumspisset."
Sewall next goes to Martha's Vineyard;
stops at Holmes's Hole, in Tis-
bury;
tarries at Tarpaulin Cove, in the island of Nausbon, and thence goes
to
Acushnet. Then, en route to Taunton, he
stops at Assowamset, by which
we are to understand
that part of Middleboro' called Lakeville since 1853. --
EDS.
1706.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 167
for a
Passage to Rode-Island, or Bristol.
There lay wind-
bound. Septr. 8. Mr. Danforth and I go to Tisbury
Meeting, Mr.
Josia Torrey preach'd forenoon: Mr. Dan-
forth after
Noon. Return'd to Chases to Mr.
Bromfield.
Septr.
9. Monday, embark'd with a scant wind;
put in to
Tarpoling
Cove: Mr. Bromfield not yielding to go
to
Cushnet. There spake with Darby who shew'd us the
prisoners
Fines: Spake with Mr. Weeks.
Septr. 10. Gave the Squaw that has lost her feet, Ten
pounds of
Wool. When the Tide serv'd, sail'd for
Cush-
net, had a
good passage; lodg'd at Capt. Pope's; he not.
at home:
borrowed six pounds of Mr. Pope; were well
entertain'd
there. Septr. 11. Wednesday, Five Indians
carried Mr.
Bromfield in a chair from Spooner's, to Asso-
wamset, and
so to Taunton. Twas near midnight by
that
time we got
there, where by Leonard, whom we acci-
dentally met
late at night, we were inform'd the Bristol
Court was
not held for want of Justices; and that Majr
Walley and
Mr. Leverett adjourn'd de die in diem;
Jury-
men
murmur'd. This put me upon new Straits:
but I
resolv'd to
go to Bristol, and so did, next day, Septr 12.
Thorsday,
Capt. Hodges's son waiting on me: got thither
about
2. Saved the Afternoon. Mr. Blagrove is cast,
Asks a
Chancery1 in writing; Major Walley and Leverett
will by no
means suffer it: I earnestly press'd for
it. 13,
14. Court held, and then adjourn'd sine die. But twas
so late,
there was no getting out of Town.
Septr. 15. Lord's Day, Mr. Sparhawk preaches forenoon;
Mr. Severin
the Afternoon. Sup at Mr. Pain's.
Septr. 16. By Mr. Niles's Importunity, I set out with
him for
Narraganset. Din'd at Bright's: while
Diner
was getting
ready I read in Ben Johnson, a Folio:
1 See Province Laws, I. 373 (Sect.
4). Compare Province Laws, I. 285,
356. -- EDS.
168 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1706.
Wake, our Mirth begins to dye:
Quicken it with Tunes and Wine.
Raise your Notes; you'r out; fie, fie
This drowsiness is an ill sign.
We banish him the Quire of Gods
That droops agen:
Then all are men
For here's not one but nods. Fol. 13.
Sejanus
-- great and high
The O [world] knows only 2, thats Rome and I,
My Roof receives me not, 'tis Aer I tread
And at each step I feel my advanced head ,
Knock out a Star In Heaven --
f. 144.
Howere the Age she lives in doth endure
The vices that she breeds above their Cure.
211.
I went to wait on Govr
Cranston: but found him not at
home. Ferried over, got to Narraganset shoar a
little
before
sunset. Twas in the night before we got
to Our
Lodging
about 5. miles off the Ferry. Tuesday
and
Wednesday
spent in settling Bounds between Niles and
Hazard; and
the widow Wilson; at last all were agreed.
I was fain
to forgo some Acres of Land to bring Niles and
Hazard to
Peace and fix a convenient Line between them.
Thorsday 7r 19. Forenoon I got Mr. Mumford, the
Surveyor, to
goe with us, and we found out and. renew'd
the Bounds
of an 80 Acre Lot, just by Place's.
Place
went with us
and assisted. After Diner, went to Point
Judith, was
pleased to see the good Grass and Wood, there
is upon the
Neck. Just as we came there the Triton's
Prise Pass'd
by, all her sails abroad, fresh Gale, S. S. W.,
standing for
Newport. News Letter, 7r 30.
-- 8r 4. Wo-
man of the
house sick; House miserably out of Repair.
Twas night
by that time we got home. Friday, Septr
20.
go into the
Quakers Meeting-house, about 35. long 30 wide,
on Hazard's
Ground that was mine. Acknowledge a Deed
1706.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 169
to Knowls,
of Eight Acres, reserving one Acre at the Corner
for a
Meetinghouse. Bait at Capt.
Eldridges. From
thence to
the Fulling-mill at the head of Coeset [Coweset]
Cove, and
there dine; a civil woman, but sorrowfull,
dress'd our
diner. From thence Niles brings me to
Tur-
pins at
Providence, and there Bait: From thence
over
Blackston's 1
River, and there I send him back, and travail
alone to
Freeman's, where I meet with Piriam, the under-
Sheriff, and
Capt. Watts, whose company was helpfull to
me.
Satterday, Septr 21. Baited at Devotion's, who was very
glad to see
me. Din'd at Billinges; by Piriam and
him
was inform'd
of Mr. Bromfields being well at home.
Baited at
Dedham. Was Trim'd at Roxbury; my Barber
told me the
awfull News of the Murder of Mr. Simeon
Stoddard,2
in England, which much saddened me. Got
home a little
before Sunset: found all well, Laus Deo.
Septr 25. Mr. Bromfield and I took the Hackney
Coach to
wait on the Govr: met his Excellency on this
side the
Gate; went out of the Coach and Complemented
him, and
then went on and visited Mr. Bailey.
Novr
7th 1706. I invited the Govr.,
Col. Tyng, Mr. Sol.
Stoddard,
Simeon, Mr. Pemberton, Capt. Belchar, Mr.
Bromfield,
Capt. Southack. I supos'd Mr. Stoddard
had
1 It is to be remembered that Blackstone's
River, at Attleborough Gore,
was named
after William Blackstone, the first settler at Boston. In 1849,
the late L.
M. Sargent printed some notes showing that, very probably, de-
scendants of
the emigrant, bearing the name of Blackstone, still survive. --
EDS.
2 Simeon Stoddard, Jr., was born Oct. 20,
1682. The following sermon
is in the
Society's library: --
"The Just Man's Prerogative, a Sermon
preached privately Sept. 27,1706,
on a Solemn
Occasion; for the Consolation of a Sorrowful Family, Mourning
over the
Immature Death of a Pious Son, viz, Mr. Simeon Stoddard, who was
found
Barbarously Murdered, in Chelsea-Fields near London, May, 14, 1706.
By. S.
Willard. Boston, N. E. Printed by B.
Green. Sold by Nich-
olas Boone
at his Shop, 1706." 16mo. pp.
28. It contains no information
about Mr.
Stoddard, or the circumstances of his death. -- EDS.
170 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1706.
preach'd the
Lecture. Mr. Cotton Mather preach'
d. He
did not pray
for the Super. Court, or Judges in his first
prayer, that
I took notice of: but in his last,
mention'd
the Gen1
Court, and any Administrations of Justice.
I
invited him
to dine by Mr. Cooke; He said he was
engag'd.
Novr. 8. There is a Hearing of Roxbury, Spring Street,
about
another Meeting-house, and of Billericay proprie-
tors and
Farmers. Deputies Treat the Govr
at Homes's.
Lords-Day, Novr. 10. Andrew Belchar, Nicholas Bows,
Debora
Green, and Sarah are baptised by Mr. Wil-
lard.
Tingitur Andreas, Nicolaus, Debora,
Sarah.
This morning Tom Child, the Painter,1
died.
Tom Child had often painted Death,
But never to the Life, before:
Doing it now, he's out of Breath;
He paints it once, and paints no more.
Thorsday 2 8r 17. Son and daughter Sewall and their
little
Rebeca, son, Hirst and his family, dine with us: all
here but
Joseph. He keeps his Thanksgiving at
Cam-
bridge.
Friday, 8r 18. I visit Mr. Baily: as I enter, he saith,
I am even
gon, even gon! said he had a Fever; the
night before
and that day had subdued his Nature. In
his Paroxism
said, Cutting, Cutting, Cutting all to pieces:
My Head, my
Head; could not bear the Boys choping
without
door.
1 Thomas Child's will (Suff. Wills, lib.
16. f. 200) is dated Jan. 14,
1702, 1703;
proved Oct. 13, 1706. He is termed
painter-stainer. He makes
his wife,
Katherine, his executrix, mentions his mother, Alice Martin,
"now
living in Fryer Lane in Thames Street, London," and his brother-
in-law, John
Martin, now in Boston." Sewall's
lines evidently imply that
he was a
portrait-painter; and here may be the long sought-for artist who
preceded
Peter Pelham. -- EDS.
2 These few entries in 8br., i. e.,
October, seem to be misplaced. -- EDS.
1706.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 171
Tuesday, 8r 22. I go to Roxbury Lecture, Mr. Cotton
Mather
preach'd from 1 Jno 5. 13.
Concerning Assurance,
with much
affecting Solidity and Fervor. Went to
see
Mr. Baily,
whose Mouth and Tongue were so furr'd, he
could hardly
speak at first: said he had been a long time
in a storm
at the Harbours Mouth, hop'd he should not
be swallow'd
on Quicksands, or split on Rocks. God
had
not yet
forsaken him, and he hop'd He never would.
Said, Here I
Wait!
Wednesday, 8r 23. Court meets; but the Govr has
signified
his pleasure that nothing be done till he come
from
Piscataqua: Adjourn till 3 p. m. after
Lecture to-
morrow. After Diner I go and take the Acknowledg-
ment of Mr.
Nathan1 Henchman and Ana his wife to a
Deed to
their Brother, the schoolmaster: She was
lying
on the Bed
sick of a Fever; yet very sensible and set her
hand to the
Receipt.
Thorsday, 8r 24. Mr. Wadsworth apears at Lecture in
his
Perriwigg. Mr. Chiever is griev'd at
it. Court meets,
read Mr.
Secretary's Letter to Mr. Constantine Phips;
adjourn to
Ten in the morn. This day I am told of
Mr.
Torrey's
kinswoman, Betty Symmes,l being brought to
Bed of a
Bastard in his house last Monday night.
I visit
Mr. Chiever.
Feria Sexta, Novr 8,
1706. I visited Mr. Bayley; find
his sister
Cheyny 2 with him. He was
very low at first;
1 We refer to this misadventure merely to
note the name. It seems that
the widow of
Captain William Symmes married Rev. John Torrey, of Wey-
mouth, whose
death is noted a few months later. -- EDS.
2 Daniel Cheney, of Newton, married Sarah
Bailey in 1665, according
to Jackson's
History. Savage seems to be somewhat ill
doubt about this
Rev. James
Bayley, but from the names of his relatives it seems clear that
he was the
son of John Bailey, of Salisbury, by his wife Eleanor Emery.
Sewall says
he was born July, 1642; while Savage says Sept. 12, 1650,
H. C.
1669. Sewall's date is hard to reconcile
with the other births, and
the year of
graduatiug. Savage also considers that
he was ordained at Wey-
mouth, in
1703, and notes that the Roxbury record calls him Esquire. He
seems to
have never been settled long in any place, and perhaps was hardly
recognized
as a full "reverend," though Italicised. -- EDS.
172 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1706.
but after
awhile revived and Spake freely; has been very
ill this
Moneth; especially last Satterday and Sabbath day
night. Desired his service to Bror,
Sister, Mr. Noyes,
with much
Thanks for his verses which had been a great
Comfort to
him: To Mr. Higginson, Mrs.
Higginson. I
gave him 2
five shilling Bills of Credit to buy a Cord of
Wood, which
he accepted with great thankfullness. I
told him it
was a time of great expense; he was in prison,
and Mrs.
Bayley, in Fetters. Upon my coming in,
Mrs.
Bayley went
to Sol. Phip's wife, who was hurt by a fall
out of her
Calash. I staid with him about 2 hours
or
more, went
from home at 3 and return'd past seven.
Novr. 11th. 1706.
Went to Salem with Mr. Dudley.
Novr.
14th. Return'd with Mr.
Leverett, Mr. Dudley.
Had very
comfortable Journey out and home.
Novr 15th. Midnight, Mrs. Pemberton is brought to
Bed of a
dead daughter. Her Life was almost
despair'd
of, her
Bleeding was so much, and Pains so few.
Novr. 27. Mr. John Hubbard comes in and tells me
Mr. Bayley
is very sick, and much chang'd as he thinks;
is desirous
of seeing me.
Novr 28, 1706. Visited Mr. Bayley after Diner; went
in the
Coach. I mention'd Heaven being the
Christian's
Home: Mr. Bayley said, I long to be at home; why
tarry thy
chariot wheels? Told me twas the last
time he
should see
me. Was born, July, 1642.
Decr. 3. I went with Col. Townsend, and Mr. Em
Hutchinson,
and visited Capt. Legg: He is in a low
and
languishing
Condition. Then went and talk'd
thoroughly
with Mr.
Cotton Mather about selling Henchman's House;
He seem'd to
be satisfied; tells me Mr. Williams is to
preach the
Lecture. Yesterday Mrs. Walker of the
Neck
was buried,
I follow'd for one; I saw none else of the
Council
there. Mrs. Hanah Oliver is to be buried
to-
morrow.
Decr 4, 1706. I was at the, Burial of Mrs. Hanah
Oliver.
1706.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 173
Decr 5th. Mr. John Williams 1 Preach'd the
Lecture.
Decr 6. I went to Mr.
Sergeant's and heard Mr. Pem-
berton
preach from Ps. 4. 6. .
Decr. 7. 1706. The Genl Court is prorogued to
Wed-
nesday the
12th of February, at 10. mane. I invited the
Govr
to dine at Holms's. There were the Govr
Col.
Townsend,
Bromfield, Leverett, Williams, Capt. Wells,
Shelden,
Hook, Sewall.
Midweek, Decr 11th. I yisited Mr. Bayley, find Mr.
Walter with
him; I moved that seeing Mr. Walter and I
seldom met
there together, Mr. Walter might go to
prayer;
which he did excellently; that Mr. Bayley and
we our
selves might be prepared to dye. Mr.
Bayley is
now, the
night before last, taken with Pleuretick Pains,
which go
beyond those of the stone; New Pains: Cryes
out, My
Head! my Head! what shall I doe? Seems
now
to long, and
pray for a Dismission. At parting I gave
his Sister
Cheyny a Ten-Shilling Bill for him, to help to
buy some
Necessaries; I could not help them to watch.
Mr. Bayley
said he thought he should dye of a Consump-
tion of the
Lungs; by's Cough he found they were
touch'd. When he mention'd the pain in his side: I
said,
twas sad for
a Man to be circumvented with his Enemies:
He answered
pretty readily, He hop'd there were more
with him
than against him. He desired me to write
to
his Brother
Joseph to come and see him. Decr
13. I gave
my Letter to
J. Bayley to Mr. Simkins, who said he had
one to send
it by. Note. By reason of the Storm yes-
terday, the
council met not; Govr was not in Town: but
writt a
Letter to the Secretary that the Council was ad-
journ'd to
Friday; See Jan. 1, 1713/14. I told the
Secretary,
the Council
that met not, could not be adjourn'd; yet,
1 Mr. Williams, who had been taken
captive by the Indians in the burn-
ing of
Deerfield, Feb. 29, 170 4/5, was carried to Montreal, and being re-
deemed
returned to Boston Oct. 25, 1706. -- EDS.
174 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL [1706.
Govr
nominated Mr. Plaisted to be a Justice of peace in
Yorkshire,
and drove it throw, though he be a Dweller in
Hampshire;
and has a Brother Ichabod Plaisted, that is
of the
Council.
This day Mr. Melyen dies. AEtat. 67.
Mrs. Mary
Pemberton is
very low, dangerously ill.
Decr. 14th. Joseph comes to see us, brings word that
Wyth, the
Mason, dyed yesterday at Cambridge.
Good-
man Swan is
in a fair way to be Receiv'd into the Church
again; was
cast out in Mr. Oakes's time, in a very solemn
maner, in my
sight and Hearing.
Decr 18. 1706. Bastian Lops the Elm by my Lord's
Stable;1
cuts off a cord of good wood. Mr.
Sergeant came
up Rawson s
Lane as we were doing of it. Decr.
19. mane,
Maxwell
comes in the Governour's name to invite me to
Dine at
Roxbury with his Excellency at one aclock to-
morrow. Mr. C. Mather preaches the Lecture in Mr.
Bridges. Turn, from Gal. 3. 27 have put on Christ.
Preach'd
with Allusion to Aparel; one head was that
Aparel was
for Distinction.
Mr. Walter dines with us, and leaves with
me £13.10.9.
Roxbury
Money. Mr. Sergeant marries Mrs.
Mehetabel
Cooper.2
Decr
20, feria sexta, very Rainy day; Mr. Winthrop,
Russel,
Elisha Hutchinson, Em Hutchinson, Mr. Foster,
Sewall,
Townsend, Walley, Bromfield, Belchar Dine at the
Governour's,
Mr. Secretary. Go in Coaches. After Diner
I visit Mr.
Bayley; Is in great Extremity, Paroxisms
return
1 We have a1J:eady mentioned (Vol. 1. p.
203, note) that Lord Bellomont,
in 1699, was
at a charge for a stable, besides his house.
See Sewall's refer-
ence (I.
500) to Bellomont Gate. May it not be
that Bellomont's stable
kept its
title, and that it was near the present Tremont House, towards the
rear of
Sewall's land? Rawson's Lane is now
Bromfield Street. -- EDS.
2 Peter Sargeant, a very prominent
citizen of Boston, married, secondly,
the widow of
Sir William Phips, and, thirdly, Mehetable (Minot), widow of
Thomas
Cooper. He died Feb. 8, 1714, and his
widow married, thirdly,
Simeon
Stoddard. (See V 01. 1. p. 163, note.)
-- EDS.
1706.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 175
in about 1/2
hour; seem'd to desire death; and yet once I
took notice
that he breath'd after some space and recovery
of strength
before went hence: leave all to God's unerring
Providence. He told me he heard Sister Short was dan-
gerously
sick: heard of by Jona Emery. Came home to
the Meeting
at Mr. Bromfield's, Mr. Williams of Deerfield
preach'd: very Rainy, and dirty under foot. When came
home, or a
little after, had a Letter brought me of the
Death of
Sister Shortt the 18th. Inst.
which was very sur-
prising to
me. Half are now dead. The Lord fit me for
my
Departure. Decr.21. Not having other Mourning,
I look'd out
a pair of Mourning Gloves. An hour or 2
after, Mr.
Sergeant, sent me and my wife Gloves; mine
are so
little I cant wear them. See Jan. 20.
170 5/6. Mr.
Cooper's Son
brought them, I gave him Dr. Mather's
Treatise of
Tithes.
Decr. 23. I visit Mr. Sergeant and his Bride; had Ale
and
Wine. Mr. Cook, Col. Hutchinson, Mr.
Colman,
Adams, Capt.
Hill, Mr. Dering were there. After came
in Mr.
Bromfield, and Cousin Dumer.
Decr 24. Feria Tertia. My wife and I execute a
Lease to Mr.
Seth Dwight, for 21. years, of the House he
dwells
in. Mr. Eliezer Moodey writt the Leases;
and he
and David
Sinclair were Witnesses: Twas transacted in
our
Bedchamber.
Feria tertia, Decr. 24.
1706. I went to Brooklin, and
visited my
son and Daughter Sewall and little Rebekah;
Paid my son
30s in full, and he is to send me 15. Foun-
tains, which
are paid for in the mention'd Sum. He
has
been ill,
and is not very well now. Mr. Read, with
whom
he has been,
tells him he is Melancholy. Din'd on
Salt
Fish and a
Spar-Rib.l
1 There seems to be something peculiar
about the word now spelled
"spare-rib."
In the Cutter Genealogy, p. 325, in a 1ist of gifts to Rev.
William
Brattle, in 1697, by his parishioners, we find: Mrs. Amsdal gave
"ribspair
of pork," a1so "Ribspaires of pork." May not this suggest an
176 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1706.
Visited Mr. Bayley as I came home; he has
a very sore;
Mouth. He tells me he has left off observing the
distance
of his Fits,
is tired and done; I gave him a Banberry
cake,l
of which he eat pretty well, complaining of his
Mouth.
Mid-week.
Decr. 25. Shops open,
carts come to Town
with Wood,
Fagots, Hay, and Horses with Provisions, as
usually. I bought me a great Tooth'd Comb at Dwight's;
6s.
Feria septima, Decr. 28, 1706. A large fair Rainbow
is seen in
the Morning in the Norwest. Madam Walley
call'd her
Husband into the Shop to see it. The Govr
being
indispos'd with the Gout, call'd a Council to meet
at Roxbury;
and by that means I gain'd an Oportunity
to see my
friend Bayley once again: He is now
brought
very low by
his Stone, Fever, Sore Tongue and Mouth;
could hardly
speak a word to me. But he said, sit
down.
His wife
ask'd him if he knew me? He answer'd,
with
some
quickness, He should be distracted, if he should not
know
me. He Thank'd me when I came away. I said
Christ would
change his vile body, and make it like his
glorious
body. And when the Coachman call'd,
saying
the Company
staid for me, I took leave, telling him God
would abide
with him; Those that Christ loves, he loves
original
form with which "spare" has no connection; and, if not, what
does
"spare" mean in this place?
Possibly it is a secondary form, suggested
by these
being lean ribs, and may yet be a modern attempt to give sense to a
perverted
and forgotten original. -- EDS.
1 Banbury, in Oxfordshire, has been long
renowned for cheese, cakes, and
ale. Chambers (Book of Days) says that its cakes
"are exported to the
most distant
parts of the world, one baker alone, in 1839, disposing of
139,500
twopenny ones." Banbury was also
famous for its Puritanism, and
this savor
may have extended to its cakes.
It was in reference to this town that
Braithwaite wrote the well-known
lines: --
"To Banbury came I, 0 profane one!
There I saw a Puritane one
Hanging of his cat on Monday
For killing of a mouse on Sunday."
EDS.
170 6/7.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 177
to the
end. He bow'd with his head. His wife and sister
weep over
him. He call'd for Mouth-Water once
while I
was there,
and then for his little pot to void it into:
I
supos'd it
was to enable him to speak. Though he
doth
not eat at
present; yet I left the Banbury cake I carried
for him,
with his wife: And when came away,
call'd her
into next
chamber, and gave her two Five-Shilling Bills:
She very
modestly and kindly accepted them and said I
had done too
much already: I told her No, if the
state of
my family
would have born it, I ought to have watch'd
with Mr.
Bayley, as much as that came to. I left
her
weeping. Mark the perfect Man &c. When return'd to
the
Governour's, I found the other Coaches gon; the sun
down some
time. Major Walley, Col. Townsend, Mr.
Bromfield
and I came home well together in the Hackney
Coach;
though the ways are very deep by reason of the
long, strong
southerly wind and Thaw. Serene
day.
Wind W.
Decr.
31. 1706. Madam Dudley, and Mrs. Anne
Dudley
visit my
wife just a little before night, and inform of our
Son's
illness, which they were told off at midnight:
Will
send us word
if he grow worse.
Mr. Salter makes us a little Chimney in my Chimney,
make a Fire
in it to try it.
Midweek, Jany. 9th. visited Mr.
Bayley. He is very low,
and the skin
of his Hip now broken, and raw, which
is very
painfull to him. He said I long to be
gon, yet
with
Submission to God's holy will: What I writt
to him
out of Mr.
Caryl was a cordial to him.1 Met Sam, who
came to see
us.
Feria Sexta, Jany. 10th. Capt. Legg buried. Bearers,
1 Of course Caryl's Exposition on Job,
which was in two volumes folio,
consisting
of upwards of six hundred sheets. "One just remark has been
made on its
utility, that it is a very sufficient exercise for the virtue of pa-
tience,
which it was chiefly intended to inculcate and improve." -- EDS.
VOL. II.
178 DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWAL. [170
6/7.
Govr.,
Mr. Winthrop; Mr. Cooke, Addington; Col. Byfield,
Capt.
Belchar. Councillors had Gloves, and
many others.
Tuesday, Jany. 14th. Govr calls a Council, Propounds
Mr.
Danforth, Dorchester, and Mr. Belchar of Newbury to
Preach the
Election Sermon; Mr. Samuel Belchar is agreed
on, Mr.
Danforth having preach'd before.
Midweek, Jany. 15th. A great Storm of Snow; yet Danl
Bayley
breaks through, and brings us a Load of Walnut
Wood. I had transcribed some choice sentences out
of
Calvin's
.Exposit. Mat. 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. and sent
them by
Daniel;
Letter was just seal'd before he came, written
and dated
today. The Storm prevail'd so, that not
one
of our
Meeting ventured to come to our House where it
was to
be. Mrs. Deming, and her daughter-in-Law,
and
Mrs. Salter
came over; waited till six-a-clock, and then
sung the 2
last Staves of the 16. Ps. Eat some
Bread and
drank. Gave Mr. Deming one of Mr. Higginson's
Election
Sermons;
Daughter-in-Law, Greek Churches: Mrs.
Salter,
Greek
Churches.
Friday, Jany. 17. Mr. Tho. Bridge visits me. In Dis-
course I
gave him my opinion that the Witnesses were
not
slain. Gave him one of Mr. Higginson's
Election
Sermons.
Satterday, Jany. 18. Going down in the morning, I find
David sick: tells
me had been sick and vomited in the
night: We have the Stove-room-Chamber fitted for
him,
and place
him there; send for Mr. Oakes. Lords-day
at
even, Mrs.
Plimly comes to nurse him.
Saturday morn, Jany. 18th. James Robinson, the Baker,
coming from
Roxbury, tells me Mr. Bayley dyed the last
night 2
hours after midnight; one in Roxbury-street bid
him tell me
so.
Jany. 20. Mr. Prentice gives me notice that the Fun-
eral was to
be on Friday, not before, because Mr. Bayley's
Bror
at Newbury, was to order it. Gave me
notice to be
a Bearer,
Mr. Bayley had apointed it.
170 6/7.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 179
Friday, Jany 24. 170 6/7. I and Mr. John Clark, Mr.
Francis
Burroughs, and Mr. John Bolt rode together in
Simson's
Slay to the Funeral of Mr. Bayley. Were
there
at One: Went about 3.
Bearers Sewall, Bond; Fisk,
Walter;
Clark, Noyes. Govr was there;
intended Mr.
Thacher, but
the wether was bad over head, and under-
foot by
reason of the snow in the Night, and Hail and
Rain now,
and he was not there. Saw not Mr.
Denison
there. Mr. John Hubbard, Mr. Daniel Oliver, and Mr.
Justice
Lynde was there; Mr. Bowls. His Brethren
Isaac
Bayley, and
Joshua Bayly followed the Herse. The
Widow and
her daughter Prentice rode in a slay.
The
wether being
bad, I took Leave at the Grave, our slay
being just
at hand went into it, and got home by Four;
Laus Deo. I
did condole and congratulat the Relations
upon our
parting with our Friend, and his being gon to
Rest after a
weary Race. Mr. Walter gave a very good
Character of
Mr. Bayley. He was with him the evening
before he
dyed, and pray'd with him: He answer'd
perti-
nently, by
Yes and No: thought he should dy that
night,
of which was
not afraid. Mr. Walter pray'd before we
went to the
Grave.
Jany. 26th. I dream'd last night that I was chosen Lord
Maior of
London; which much perplex'd me: a strange
absurd
Dream!
Febr. 9th. Lord's Day; The latter part of the Night, and
this morn,
we had great Lightening, and Thunder, Rain
and Hail.
Febr. 10.
A pleasant, Serene, sun-shiny Day; sweet
singing of
Birds.
Febr. 16, at night, Mr. Thacher of Milton
is taken very
sick. Febr. 20, Sister Hirst, Sister Sewall of
Salem, Mr.
Flint, Son
and daughter Hirst, dine with us after Lecture.
Febr.
25. Mr. Colman, Sister Hirst, Sewall,
Mr. Elisha
Coke junr and wife, I and Mary dine at Son Hirst's.
180 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 6/7.
After that I
visit the widow Eliott, who dwells with her
daughter
Davis.1
26th. A Fast is kept at Milton.
27th. Dr. Mather was not at Lecture. Mr. Cotton
Mather
preached, Sung 10 -- 14th. 27th.
Ps. Mr. Dwight
is much
troubled about digging his Cellar; I get Mr. Cook
and Capt.
Clark to go to him after Lecture, and view the
work and
speak to Mr. Gibbins; they seem'd to be offended
at Mr.
Dwight's smart Replyes to Mr. Gibbins and his
wife; and
spake a little coldly, and told me it were best
to
agree. I went again near night, and Dwight
told me,
Mrs. Gibbins
intended next day to make another Gate-
way, and
hinder'd the workmen from digging home at
that corner:
whereupon I order'd the Men to digg it
down, which
they quickly did, at which Gibbins storm'd
and ask'd me
why I did not bid him pull down his House,
if I did,
they would do it. And Mrs. Gibbins spake
many
opprobrious
words: But the men went on vigorously.
Febr.
28. Gibbins orders Mr. Bernard's men to
cutt an-
other
Gate-way, and with the Boards cut out nail'd up
her own
former Gate-way: then laid a Board, a door,
over from
the Cutt Gate-way over the Corner of the Cel-
lar and pass
that way, and the Negro said, This is our
passage-way. I said little to it, but went in, and talk'd
with Mr.
Gibbins, his wife and son; and were ready to
put it to
Men to determin what should be; Mr. Dwight
came in: and
said he would not agree to put it to Men:
I told Mr.
Gibbins I would speak to him, and come again
after
Diner. I went accordingly, and when I
return'd
found they
had been Pumping Tubs of Water, and throw-
ing them
into my new-dug Cellar, to soften the Work-
men's Corns,
as they said, so that the men were forc'd to
1 This was Mary (Wilcox), widow of Jacob
Eliot, Jr., whose daughter
Abigail
married William Davis, and had a daughter Abigail, wife of Henry
Lowder. --
EDS.
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 181
leave off
working. Several Tubs of water were
thrown in
while I sat
in the House: I only call'd to Mrs. Gibbins
and told her
I saw she could not wait till I came.
Dur-
ham came and
dug through the Stone-wall into this little
new Cellar,
and I think that quell'd our antagonists: for
our Cellar
being a little higher than theirs, all the water
would have
run upon themselves. And after, the
Select-
Men, several
of them viewing it, countenanc'd my Tenant;
Mr.
Secretary also look'd in, upon us: and the workmen
went on
peaceably.
Friday, March, 7. 1707. Several Ministers prayed at
the desire
of the Court; began a little after Ten; Mr. Wil-
lard,
Wadsworth, Bridge, Colman, Pemberton, C. Mather,
Dr. I.
Mather. Prayers were made with great
Pertinency
and Variety;
I hope God will hear. Several pray'd
that
God would
speedily, by some Providence, or one way
other, let
us know what might doe as to going against
Port-Royal. Gave Thanks for the News of the 18. Indians
kill'd, and
one Taken last Tuesday; which heard of just
after the
Apointment of this Day. Sung the two
first
staves of
the 20th. Psalm, York Tune,
which I set, Mr. Wil-
lard used my
Psalm-Booke. Left off about 1/2 hour
past
Two. Council gave the Govr and
Ministers a Diner at
Homes's.
Feria Septima, Martij 8o. 1707. Anno Regni Annae
Reginae
Angliae &c. Sexto.
Nobilibus, causas quid praefers Angle
latentes?
Annae principium, Casaris annus habet.
'Till Annre's Equal Reign begun,
We ne'r could well begin the year:
But now the Controversy's done;
The Eigth of March can have no peer.
This day is rainy and dark, and the Govr
came not to
Town. Deputies sent in for going to Port-Royal to
take
it; if what
was necessary in order to it might be provided
182 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
March, 8th. Having got Mr. Joseph Marion to write the
verses fair,
I gave them to Mr. Winthrop, in the Gov-
ernour's
absence, saying, I can't drink the Queen's Health,
parvum parva
decent 1
-- Accept of a small essay for the
honor of my
Soveraign.
In the Afternoon Mr. Williams visits us,
tells me he
goes to
Dearfield 14 nights hence, next Tuesday.
I gave
him a copy
of the foremention'd verses. He tells me
Quebeck
Seminary was burnt the 20th
of 7r. 1705. our
Style,
Library burnt. His Narrative is now in
the Press.2
Feria tertia, March, 18th. Mr. Pemberton removes into
the Churches
House. March 20. I visit him, and wish
him and her
joy. March, 21. I give him a 20s Bill to
help towards
his House-warming, which he accepts kindly.
Joseph comes
to Town. March, 20. feria quinta, Mrs.
Gibbs's
Warehouse was burnt down in Lecture time.
Meeting was
disturb'd just as was coming to the particu-
lars of
Fighting against our Enemies and praying against
them. After Mr. Colman had sat awhile, the people
were
quiet, and
went on again.
March, 21.
The Governour, Capt. Saml Apleton, Mr.
Jn° Williams,
Mr. William Williams, dine with us in the
new Hall.
Feria secunda, March, 24th. I set out in the storm with
Sam
Robinson, got to Barker's about 5, and there lodg'd,
and dry'd my
Coat, Hat, Gloves.
Feria tertia, March 25, 1707. Went to Plimouth, got
thither
about 10. m. Major Walley and Mr.
Leverett
came in
after six; so that could only Adjourn the Court.
March,
26. Mr. Josiah Torrey preaches the
Lecture.
March,
27. I go into the Meetinghouse. Hanah Parker
is found
guilty of Adultery. I spake with two of
the
1 Horace, Epis. I. vii. 44. -- EDS.
2 This is, of course the well-known
narrative by Rev. John Williams,
entitled
"The Redeemed Captive returning to Zion," &c., Boston, 1707;
often since
reprinted. -- EDS.
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 183
Middlebury
Men at Mr. Little's about Mr. Palmer, who is
impos'd upon
them as their Minister. Gave Mr. Little
a
pound of
Chockalat. March, 28. 1707. Baited at Bair-
sto's; Din'd
at Cushing's: Then I left the Company
and
went to
Hingham; visited Mr. Cobb, Mr. Norton, cousin
Hobart: Got to Mr. Torrey's just before sunset; He
was
very glad
to, see me. Read 17th Rev. Pray'd excellently.
Pray'd
excellently in the Morn. Visit Cousin
Hunt,
Quinsey; Got
home about One and Dine there. Am well
notwithstanding
my journeying in the Rain, and find mine
well; Laus
Deo! March, 29. Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. Loth-
rop's
Sister, is found dead in her apartment.
March, 30.
My wife goes
out in the Afternoon. March, 31. feria
secunda, I visit my Son, and dine with hi,m; He
is all
alone. Visited Mr. Gibbs, presented him with a pound
of
Chockalett,
and 3 of Cousin Moodey's sermons; gave one
to Mrs.
Bond, who came in while I was there.
Visit
Joseph; He
pronounc'd his valedictory Oration March
28th. Heard Mr. Willard Expound from 1 Cor. 13. 8,
9,
10. Came home by the Ferry. Shall be Language in
Heaven; but
no need to Learn Languages as now; which
is a fruit
of the Curse, since the Confusion. Mr.
Metcalf
comes in
late, and I ask him to lodge here; which he ac-
cepts: is going to Falmouth, where he preach'd last
winter.
April, 5.
Eclipse of the Moon: is seen in a serene Aer,
Moon is of a
Ruddy Colour when Eclipsed. April, 7.
Mr.
Sparhawk is
again chosen to preach the Artillery Sermon.
April,
8. I go to Cambridge and carry Joseph a
small
piece of
Plate to present his Tutor with, Bottom mark'd,
March, 5,
170 6/7 which was the day his Tutor took
Leave
of them;
price 39s. 2d. View'd his Chamber in the
Pres-
ident's
House, which I like. Came home and went
to the
Funeral of
little Mary Bastian. Isaac Marion walk'd
with
me.
Midweek Apr. 9. I waited on Col. Hutchinson, Check-
184 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
ley, and
others of the Comittee, as far as the last house
of Roxbury;
came home by Mr. Wells's. Din'd at Mr.
Brewer's,
about 3 p.m. It was a Frost, and Ice of
half an
inch, or
inch thick in the morn. Cold wind that I
was
fain to wear
my Hood. I got well home about Sun-set;
David stood
at the Gate to take the Horse, and told me
the amazing
News of Mr. Willard's dangerous Sickness.
He was taken
at Diner in his Study, so that he quickly
grew
delirious. Some think he took cold at
the Funeral
of Mr.
Myles's child, the evening before. This
day Mr.
Noyes
preached his Lecture from Heb. 11th
32. 33. 34,
encouraging
the Expedition to Port-Royal. April, 10,
1707. Mr. Bridge preaches our Lecture, from Psal.
149.
9. Encouraging the Expedition.
Feria, Sexta Apr. 11th. I see a Swallow or two. 'Tis
Capt.
Belchar's Meeting; Mr. Pemberton and he
come to
propose to
me, the begining at 3. aclock, and inviting the
Ministers to
spend the Time in Prayer. Mr. Pemberton,
Colman,
Wadsworth, Mather, Bridge. Dr. Mather pray'd
Excellently,
Copiously. Dr. Mather, speaking of the
Port-Royal
Affair, call'd it the uncertain Expedition;
Pray'd God
not to carry his people hence, except He pros-
per'd them.
Apr. 12, feria septima, I see three
Swallows together.
Mr. Willard
grows more compos'd. Lydia [wife of]
Wil-
liam Lowder,1
a young woman of 16 years, is deliver'd of
1 The identification of this Lydia, wife
of William Lowder, has been
difficult,
owing to some remarkable coincidences of names.
By Suff. Deeds,
lib. 24, f.
154, it is clear that she was the daughter of John Balston, who
had left, in
1709, a widow, Martha. This was Martha
Bullard, whom he
married
March 16, 1703. But there were two John
Balstons; one a son of
James, the
other a son of Jonathan. Each had a
daughter Lydia. John,
son of
James, had a Lydia born Aug. 25, 1691; but she must have died soon,
as he had a
second Lydia born Nov. 16, 1695. John,
son of Jonathan, was
a mariner,
and by first wife, Anne, had Lydia, born June 22, 1688. This
must be the
person meant in the text, although her age would be nineteen
instead of
sixteen.
Prudence Balston, sister of this John,
married John Marion; whilst his
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 185
a daughter,
and dyes this morning; I think in the room
where her
Mother Balston dyed, and as suddenly.
Friday, April, 18. 1707. Just before Sun-set there is a
Small piece
of a Rainbow in the South-east and by south:
I saw it out
of our Chamber-window. Mr. Fisk tells me
he saw it.
Monday, Apr. 21. Mr. Bromfield and I set out about
9. mane,
to visit Mr. Torrey. Twas hot, and when
were
got to
Braintrey, Mr. Bromfield grows weary, and chose
to call at
Cousin Fisk's, which we did; He is gon to Wey-
mouth. This was about. 11. m. Cousin Fisk would have
us Dine; and
while we were at Table, Mr. Fisk came in
and told us
Mr. Torrey was gon to Rest, dyed about Eleven
aclock. So our journey was sadly determined. It seems
the
Souldiers go to Hull this day from Weymouth, there
to imbark in
the Port-Royal Expedition; Mr. Fisk pray'd
with
them. The Death of Mr. Torrey, a
Laborious, Faith-
full Divine,
Excellent in Prayer, is a sad epocha for the
Comencment
of this Expedition.
Coming home, I turn'd off at Roxbury, and
went to
Brooklin;
found my son and daughter gon to Boston.
Look'd upon
his Sheep and Lambs, and came home. Met
Mr. Roberts
on the Neck going to the Governour, I told
him of Mr.
Torrey's Death as had told the Govrs Maid
before. His Excellency was gon to his Farm towards
Dedham; and
his Lady to Boston with my Son, but came
not to our
House.
Feria quarta, Apr. 23. 1707. Capt Nathl. Williams and
I ride to
Weymouth, to the Funeral of Mr. Torrey: When
were at
Braintrey, the Guns went off; overtook Mr. Dan-
forth, got
to Cous. Hunt's about one, Din'd there at Two;
went to the
House of Mourning: Sam1 Sewall, Zech Whit-
man; Peter
Thacher, John Norton: John Danforth, Joseph
sister,
Sarah Marion, married the other John Balston. Hence numerous
perplexities
in trying to unravel these relationships.
Probably these John
Balstons
were own cousins. -- EDS.
186 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
Belchar,
Bearers. Had a Table spread, which could
not
leave
without offense. Mr. Whitman pray'd before
the
Funeral. Mr. Fisk craved a Blessing, Mr. Thacher Re-
turn'd
Thanks. Mr. Fisk led the widow. Grave was
caved in,
Mr. Thacher and I let down the Head, Mr. Hugh
Adams also
put to his Hand under ours. Stood a
pretty
while before
any apeared to fill the Grave, some words
and enquiry
was made about it: At length two Hoes
came, and
then a Spade. Set out to come home at
1/2 hour
after
Six: Baited at Miller's, Got home a
little before
Ten, before
the Moon went down; Laus Deo.
Besides
Relations, I
saw none at the Funeral from Boston, save
S. S., P.
Dudley, esqr. Capt. Williams, Seth Dwight.
May, 12. 1707. Mrs. Lydia Scottow buried; Bearers,
Sewall,
Addington; Hill, Williams; Ballentine, Coney.
May,
13. Mr. Danl. Oliver, Capt.
Tho. Fitch and I ride to
Natick, and
hear Mr. Gookin preach and pray to the In-
dians there:
Din'd at Capt. Fuller's as came back: got
home
well. Laus Deo. May, 15.
Govr moves in Council
that Mr.
Willard might be spared, because of his late sick-
ness, and
continued weakness; and that Mr. Will Brattle,
and Mr.
Flint might regulat the Comencement. Govr
said, Sundry
had spoken to him about it. Major
Walley,
Capt.
Belcher, Mr. Bromfield and I were desired to go
and speak to
Mr. Willard.
May, 16.
Mr. Bromfield and I wait on Mr. Willard:
I took a fit
oportunity to enquire when he would go to
Cambridge;
and He said next week, without any hesi-
tancy: so
reckon'd we were not to enquire any further.
We went to
Mr. Pemberton first, and his opinion was, we
should not
express our desires, or the desires of any other,
of Mr.
Willard's imediat giving over College-work, except
he himself
inclin'd to it.
May, 16. visit Madam Coke, Mr. C. Mather,
Mr. Gibbs,
who came to
this Town this day senight to see if the
change of
Aer would mend him.
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 187
May, 19.
Went with Robinson to Salem: got thither
late by
reason of Robinson's late coming from Cambridge,
and Madam
Leverett's illness. Neither Col. Hathorn
nor
the Sheriff
did accompany me; went with Mr. Attorney
Dudley to
Ipswich, got thither a little before Nine aclock.
Mr. Harris
came to meet us, but heard we came not till
next day,
and went back. May, 20th. Court rises about 7.
Visit the
widow Apleton. May, 21. Looks like a storm;
but breaks
up; I ride to Rowley, dine at Bror Northend's.
Essay to
visit H. Sewall, who was gon from home.
Bror
and Sister
Northend go to the Causey, and then return.
Visit the
poor Orphan Shortts, hear Jane and Mehetabel
read; gave
them Five Shillings. Went to sister Ger-
rishes; to
Mr. Brown, but he was not at home, saw Cous.
Noyes, Mr.
Woodbridge.
May, 22.
Thorsday, Mr. Coffin Trims me, reckon with
Mr. Brown
and take fourty shillings of him in full.
Went to
Cous.
Pierce, and there eat sturgeon with Mr. Pike, Abr.
Adams,
Cousin Jn° Tapin's wife. Went to Bror
Tappin's,
visited
Cousin Sweet, they have a lovely Son. To
Jn°
Sewall, saw
his new House where he now dwells; saw the
Ashes of the
old House. Bror Tapin tells me of the death
of Col.
Saltonstall on Wednesday after Lecture.
Went to
Joshua
Bayley, discours'd him about his Brothers debt, staid
a long time
there, then went to Byfield across the Woods.
Bror
Tapin left me. I desired him that if
heard Col. Sal-
tonstall was
to be buried on Friday he should send an
Express to
me of it. Friday, 23. Bror. Moodey and I see
Mr. Hale, on
Horseback, drink a Glass of Cider; look on
Sister
Mehetabel's Grave; ride to Topsfield, visit Mr.
Capen who is
very glad to see me. Went to Phillip's,
dined
there. Parted with B. Moodey at the
Fulling-mill.
Baited at
Lewis's. Got over Charlestown Ferry
about 8.
Note, as
came down Winter Hill saw a Rainbow, was so
much Rain as
to oblige me to put on my Riding Coat, but
it prov'd
very little Rain.
Midweek, May
28, 1707. Mr. Samuel Belcher preached,
188 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
from Mat. 6.
10. Thy Kingdom come. Shew'd it was
the duty of
all to promote the Kingdom of Christ. At
Diner Mr.
Belcher crav'd a Blessing, Mr. Jn° Danforth
return'd
Thanks. Sir John Davie1 dined
with the Govr.
In the morn,
Mr. Secretary, major Walley and I gave the
Deputies the
Oaths, 66. and after, five more were sworn
in the
Council-Chamber, which made 71. and Councillors
24. 24
71
95 votes.
1 Wait Winthrop 2 88
Plimouth
2 James Russell 90
John Thacher 53
3 Jn° Hathorn 60
Isaac Winslow 84
4 Elisha Hutchinson 91
Nathan1 Pain 81
5 S. Sewall. 92
John Cushing 80
6 Isaac Addington 92
7 Wm Brown 82
Main
8 Jn° Phillips 75
Eliakim Hutchinson 69
9 Jn° Corwin 75
Benja Brown 72
10 Jn° Foster 79 Ichabod Plaisted 59
11 Penn Townsend 90 At Large
12 John Appleton 61
Zagadahock
13 John Higginson 78
Joseph Lynde 54
14 Andrew Belcher 78
[Leverett 30]
15 Edw. Bromfield 82
At Large
16 Saml Apleton 53
Simeon Stoddard 44
2d Stroak 2d
Stroak.
17 Saml Partridge 53
Ephraim Hunt 47
3d Stroak [Walley
18]
18 Peter Sergeant 45
[Leverett 12]
1 Sir John Davie was one of three
prominent New England baronets, the
others being
Sir George Downing and Sir William Pepperell.
Sir John Davie
was son of
Humphrey Davie, who was an assistant here in 1679-86. Hum-
phrey was
the fourth son of Sir John Davie, of Creedy, county Devon, who
was made a
baronet in 1641. The oldest son, John,
was succeeded by his
son
John. Then the title passed to William,
son of William, second son of
the first
baronet. On his death it passed to his
cousin, then a resident in
Groton,
Conn. The male line ended in England, in
1846; but the heiress
married
General Henry R. Ferguson, who assumed the name of Davie, add
a new
baronetcy was created in his favor. -- EDS.
2 The Council records show that all the
twenty-eight, to whose names are
appended the
number of votes, were duly elected. Jno Corwin should be
Jonathan
Corwin, and John Cushing was the second Councillor of those names.- EDS.
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 189
Lord's Day, June, 15th. I felt my self dull and heavy
and Listless
as to Spiritual Good; Carnal, Lifeless; I
sigh'd to
God, that he would quicken me.
June. 16.
My House was broken open in two places,
and about
Twenty pounds worth of Plate stolen away,
and some
Linen; My Spoon, and Knife, and Neckcloth
was
taken: I said, Is not this an Answer of
Prayer? Jane
came up, and
gave us the Alarm betime in the morn. I
was helped
to submit to Christ's stroke, and say, Well-
come CHRIST!
June, 19th. The measuring Bason is found with Mar-
garet Barton
just carrying of it to Sea, to Hingham; said
she had it
of James Hews, he gave it her to sell for him.
Mr.
Secretary sent her to Prison.
June, 21.
Billy Cowell's shop is entered by the Chim-
ney, and a considerable
quantity of Plate stolen. I give
him a
Warrant to the Constable, they find James Hews
hid in the
Hay in Cabal's Barn, on the Back side of the
Comon; while
they was seising of him under the Hay, he
strip'd off
his Pocket, which was quickly after found, and
Cowell's
silver in it. At night I read out of
Caryl on
Job, 5.
2. The humble submission to the stroke
of God,
turns into a
Kiss -- which I thank God, I have in this
Instance
experienced. Laus Deo. See Jan. 10, 1717/18.
July, 1.
A Rainbow is seen just before night, which
comforts us
against our Distresses as to the affairs of the
Expedition,
and the Unquietness of the Souldiers at Casco,
of which
Gideon Lowel brings word, who came thence
yesterday.l
1 This refers to the abortive
expedition against the French. Massachu-
setts, Rhode
Island, and New Hampshire sent a force on the 13th May,
1707, under
command of Colonel March, to attack Port Royal.
The naval
force was
only the "Deptford," man-of-war, Captain Stukeley, and the
"Province
Galley," Captain Southack. They
arrived May 26th, had some
skirmishes,
and by June 7th re-embarked. Colonel
Redknap (the engineer)
and Colonel
Appleton went to Boston for further orders, and the rest of the
army to
Casco Bay. (Hutchinson, Hist. II. 166,
167.) -- EDS.
190 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
Midweek, July 2, 1707. Comencement Day is fair and
pleasant. Jane and I go betime by Charlestown; set out
before
5.; had a very pleasant journey; went
from
Charlestown
in a Calash, Harris. Got Joseph a Table,
and Bread,
which he wanted before. Went into the
Meetinghouse
about 11. Mr. Willard pray'd. Mr. Wig-
glesworth
began to dispute; before he had done, the Govr
came; when
the first Question was dispatch'd, the Orator
was call'd
forth: His Oration was very well
accepted; I
was
concern'd for my son, who was not well, lest he should
have fail'd;
but God helped him. His Cous. Moodey of
York had
pray'd earnestly for it the night before; and
gave Thanks
for it in prayer the night after. My Son
held the
first Question in the Afternoon; Anima non fit
ex Traduce.;
by reason of the paucity of the Masters,
being but
two, Russell, and Mighill; for Mr. Dudley was
in the Fleet
bound for Port-Royal. Had oportunity to
pronounce
his Thesis. My Son was the first that
had a
Degree
given, him in the New Meetinghouse. The
Desks
were adorned
with green curtains, which it seems, were
Wainwrights. I could not hear one Word while the De-
grees were
giving. My wife durst not go out of
Boston.
Got home in
good season, Jane and I by Charlestown
again. Daughters in the Coach. Mr. Russell, Mr. Win-
throp,
Sewall, Major Walley, Col. Lynde, Mr. Eliakim
Hutchinson,
Mr. Bromfield, Mr. Stoddard, were there in
the
morn. Mr. Secretary and Capt. Belcher
were there
p. m. Mr. Willard made an excellent Prayer at
Conclu-
sion. Ladies there, Governours Lady, Madam Shrimp-
ton, Madam
Usher, Madam Walley, Madam Bromfield,
Madam
Stoddard &c. Mr. Whiting, Bilerica, Mr.
Belcher,
Newbury. Mr. Easterbrooks not there.
July, 3.
Feria sexta Mr. Stoddard preached excellently
from Mica,
1. 5 What is the Trangression of
Jacob? is
it not
Samaria? and what are the high places of
Judah?
are they not
Jerusalem? Said he could see no reason
why
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 191
a papist
might not cross himself Ten times a day, as well
as Minister
cross a child once. -- Spake plainly in Sev-
eral
Articles against Superstition. Spake
against excess
in Comencem't
entertainments. Govr call'd
at night
with Mr.
Stoddard and told me I should cause them to
conclude.
July, 4. 1707. I printed
Feria Sexta, Quintilis quarto, 1707.
CLAUDITE jam rivas, Pueri; sat prata biberunt.l
Gave to
several Scholars, and order'd one or two to be
nail'd upon
the Out-Doors. Brought home my Son,
Plate,
Cloths in
Stedmand's Calash, 4s. Gave
his Son a piece of
eight and
bid him take the overplus to himself.
Did it in
remembrance
of his Father's hard Journey to Martha's
Vinyard. In the Ferryboat, heard the sad News from
Spain,2
by Grant and the Loss of English ships.
Got home
before 9.
Laus Deo. This day I visited Mrs. Corlet who seems
dying: Mrs. Wigglesworth, who has the Jaundice;
Madam
Oliver who
is not well. Note. Mr. Veazy [H. C. 1693]
of Braintry
died the day after the Comencment, a young
hopefull
Minister.
July, 5th. Go to Col. Hutchinson's to wait on him, Mr.
Leverett and
others to the Water side. Go off at
Scarlet's
Wharf. Gave three cheers, they 3. one from us. After
Col.
Townsend went off alone; -- did the like by him. The
Lord prosper
them.
Feria tertia, July, 8. 1707. I bring Mr. Solomon Stod-
dard going
as far as Watertown Mill; and there staid at
Churches
till the Rain was over; then took Leave.
Mr.
Sampson
Stoddard and I dined there. In returning
call'd
1 Virgil, Eel. III. 111. -- EDS.
2 This probably refers to the Battle of
Almanza, in which the Allies were
defeated by
the Duke of Berwick, April 25, N. S. -- EDS.
192 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
upon Capt.
Tho. Oliver, and drunk of his Spring in his
Orchard. Look'd upon N. Sparhawk's Family; Call'd at
my Son's at
Brooklin; from thence Mr. Stoddard went to
Cambridge,
and I home. Note. In the morn, going down
Roxbury
Meetinghouse Hill, my Horse stumbled, fell on
his Knees
and there struggled awhile, broke his Crouper:
I kept on
and had no harm, not so much as a strain, Laus
Deo.
I gave Mr. Stoddard for Madam Stoddard two
half
pounds of
Chockalat, instead of Comencment Cake; and
a Thesis.
Feria secunda, July, 14th.
1707. Mr. Antram and I,
having Benj.
Smith and David to wait on us, Measured
with his
Wheel from the Town-House Two Miles, and
drove down
Stakes at each Mile's end, in order to placing
Stone-posts
in convenient time. From the Town-House
to the Oak
and Walnut, is a Mile wanting 21 1/2 Rods.
Got
home again
about Eight aclock.
July, 23. 1707. Midweek, visited Madam Leverett;
her son,
Thomas Berry,1 is afflicted with a sore under his
left Arm
ready to break: all else are well.
July, 29. 1707. Feria tertia, Major Walley and I walk
to the
Ferry. From Charlestown, Heaton carries
us in
his Calash,
the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, Mr. Bordman, Capt.
Henry
Phillips accompanying us. Finish'd the
Court.
Visited
Madam Leverett, visited Mrs. Corlett, look'd upon
her
Grand-daughter Minott. Left a copy of
Mr. Noyes's
verses on
Mr. Bayley; two Banbury Cakes, and a piece
1 This lady was Margaret, first wife of
President John Leverett. She was
the daughter
of John Rogers (President of Harvard College), and widow of
Captain
Thomas Berry, of Boston. Her son, Thomas Berry, was born in 1695;
H. C. 1712,
says Savage. John Leverett had a brother
Thomas, called a barber
on our town
records. A curious attempt to mystify
this statement is in the
Leverett
Genealogy (Boston, 1856), p. 149. The
step-mother of John and
Thomas
Leverett, Sarah, widow of Hudson Leverett, was alive at this time,
as she died
in Roxbury, Dec. 16, 1714. -- EDS.
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 193
of eight,
with Mrs. Champney; Gave her a piece on Com-
encem't day;
both for her Mother.
Feria quinta, Augt. 7th. 1707.
Peter Weare set up the
Stone Post
to shew a Mile from the Town-House ends:
Silence
Allen, Mr. Gibbons's Son, Mr. Thrasher, --
Salter, Wm
Wheelers -- Simpson and a Carter assisted,
made a
Plumb-Line of his Whip. Being
Lecture-day, I
sent David
with Mr. Weare to shew him where the second
should be
set; were only two little Boys beside.
Monday, Augt. 11. 1707. Mr. Willard goes to Cam-
bridge to
Expound, but finds few scholars come together;
and moreover
was himself taken ill there, which oblig'd
him to come
from thence before Prayer-Time.
Tuesday, Augt. 12. between 6
and 7. I visited Mr. Wil-
lard to see
how his Journey and Labour at the College
had agreed
with him; and he surpris'd me with the above-
account;
told me of a great pain in's head, and sickness
at his
stomach; and that he believ'd he was near his end.
I mention'd
the business of the College. He desired
me
to do his
Message by word of Mouth; which I did, Thors-
day
following, to the Govr and Council.
Quickly after I left Mr. Willard, he fell very
sick, and
had three
sore Convulsion Fits to our great sorrow and
amazement.
Thorsday, Augt. 14th. When the Govr enquired after
Mr. Willard,
I acquainted the Govr and
council that Mr.
Willard was
not capable of doing the College work, an-
other year;
He Thank'd them for their Acceptance of his
service and
Reward. Govr and Council
order'd Mr. Win-
throp and
Brown to visit them Revd Mr. Willard, and Thank
him for his
good service the six years past. Sent
down
for
Concurrence, and Depts to name persons to join in
the Thanks
and Condolence. Depts concur and nominat
the Rever'd
Mr. Nehemiah Hobart to officiat in the mean
time till
Octr. next. This the Govr
and Council did not
accept, and
so nothing was done. VOL. II.
194 DIARY OF SAMUEL
SEWALL. [1707.
Satterday, 7r.
6. 1707. Col. Hathorn and I go to
Wrentham,
Lodge at Wear's.
7r. 7th. Sat down at the Lord's Table with Wrentham
Church.
7r. 8th. Went to Rehoboth, din'd at Mr. Smith's, in-
vited Mr.
Greenwood, who came and din'd with us; told
us that Mr.
Goodhue was sick of a Fever at his house:
went to
Bristol by the Bridge; at Carpenter's heard of
the French
Privateer in Marthas Vinyard Sound, and
Rode-Islanders
gon after him. Lodge at the ordinary
with Capt.
Lenard, Mr. Sparhawk's Indian Boy being sick
of a
Fever. 7r. 9th. at Diner had the good News brought
of the
French privateer being Taken. Mr.
Leverett came
from
Billinges just as were going to Diner.
7r. 10th. Mid-
week,
sentenced a woman that whip'd a Man, to be whip'd;
said a woman
that had lost her Modesty, was like Salt that
had lost its
savor; good for nothing but to be cast to the
Dunghill: 7 or 8 join'd together, call'd.the Man out of
his
Bed,
guilefully praying him to shew them the way; then
by help of a
Negro youth, tore off his Cloaths and whip'd
him with
Rods; to chastise him for carrying it harshly to
his
wife. Got out of Town to Rehoboth.
7r. 11th. feria quinta, rid home very well. Laus Deo.
Col. Hathorn
and Mr. Leverett turn' d off to Cambridge
from
Jamaica.
7r. 12. Mehetabel Thurston tells me Mr. Willard was
taken very
sick. I hop'd it might go off, and went
to
Diner; when
I came there, Mr. Pemberton was at Prayer,
near
concluding, a pretty many in the Chamber.
After
Prayer, many
went out, I staid and sat down: and in a
few minutes
saw my dear Pastor Expire: it was a little
after Two,
just about two hours from his being taken.
It
was very
surprising: The Doctors were in another room
Consulting
what to doe. He administred the Lord's
Sup-
per, and
Baptiz'd a child last Lord's Day: Did it
with
suitable
voice, Affection, Fluency. Did not
preach: 7r. 11th.
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 195
went to
Lecture and heard Mr. Pierpont. At even
seem'd
much better
than had been lately. Tis thought
cutting
his finger,
might bring on this tumultious passion that
carried him
away. There was a dolefull cry in the
house.
Feria
secunda, 7r. 15th. Mr. Willard is laid by his Tutor
in my Tomb,
till a new one can be made. Bearers, Dr.
Mather, Mr.
Allen; Mr. Tho. Bridge, Mr. C. Mather; Mr.
Wadsworth,
Mr. Colman. Fellows and students of the
College went
before. Mr. Pemberton Led Madam Wil-
lard. Govr and his Lady had Rings: Bearers Scarvs and
Rings. The Lady Davie, and Lady Hobbie were there.
Son Sewall
led his Sister Paul Dudley; 1 he being gon to
Plimouth
Court. Very Comfortable Day.
Octobr 1. 1707. The five stone posts are set up in our
Front. Feria quarta, I went to Brooklin, and
chose some
Aple-trees
from which my Son is to send me Apples:
Din'd with
my Son and Daughter and little Grand-daugh-
ter; went to
Amos Gates's; Went into the Cedar-Swamp
Meadow. Govr makes a Treat to day for Govr
Winthrop,
Major Genl
Winthrop and Madam Eyre. Col. Paige,
Madam Usher,
Mr. Paul Dudley and wife.
Feria quinta, Octr. 2. Fast at the South church. Mr.
Wadsworth
prays, Mr. Pemberton preaches: Mr.
Bridge
prays and
give the Blessing. Capt. Atwood, Bernard,
Gooding, Atkins
go home with me at Noon. I give each
of them one
of Mr. W. Williams's [H. C. 1683] Sermons.
p. m. Mr. Cotton Mather Prays, Dr. Mather Preaches,
prays, gives
the Blessing. Was a great Assembly.
Octr. 3. had a Meeting of the Church and Congregation:
But very
thin, Several came not because Mr. Pemberton
said
Gentlemen of the church and Congregation; affirmed
they were
not Gentlemen and therefore they were not,
1 Sewall, of course, means "his
sister, Madam Paul Dudley; he [P. D.]
being
gone," &c. This phrase of
"Madam Paul" occurs a few pages later.
-- EDS.
196 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
warned to
come. Mr. Pemberton prayed, upon debate
apointed
this day senight for the meeting.
Feria quinta, Octobr.
2. 1707. John Sewall, Sam.
Moodey, and
Abrah. Tapin brought home Hanah Sewall,
Mary Sewall,
and Jane Tapin from Newbury. Tis a fort-
night since
they went. Had a good passage thither by
water. Laus Deo.
Feria sexta, Octobr. 24th. 1707.
Capt. David Mason, Hol-
berton,
Seers and Winter arrive from London in Boston
Harbour: Began to be in great fear about them lest
they
were Taken;
because they might have been expected be-
fore the
Mast-Ships. Thanks were given on this
account
at Mr.
Willard's Meeting, which was kept at his widows
House this
Afternoon; began between 1 and 2. Mr.
Wadsworth,
Colman pray'd, Mr. Pemberton preach'd
and pray'd
excellently.
Tuesday, Octr. 28. 1707. The Fellows of Harvard Col-
lege meet,
and chuse Mr. Leverett President: He had
eight votes,
Dr. Increase Mather three, Mr. Cotton Mather,
one, and Mr.
Brattle of Cambridge, one. Mr. White did
not vote,
and Mr. Gibbs came when voting was over.
Thorsday, Octr. 30. The Man of War, and Physick ar-
rive from
Lisbon, bring News that the siege of Tholoun
[Toulon] was
Raised.
Octr. 31. Mr. John Jekyl was sworn Collector, and Mr.
Thomas
Newton Controller: The Governour call'd
for the
Bible for
them to swear on.1
Novr. 1, just about Noon the Govr produces
the Petition
sign'd by
Mr, Higginson and others for his Removal: And
urges the
Council to vote an Abhorrence of it. I
pray'd
1 This John Jekyll married Margaret,
daughter of Edward Shippen, Jr.,
of
Philadelphia, and probably left issue in Pennsylvania. In the Shippen
Family
Papers, edited by the late Thomas Balch, it is stated (I, 19) that he
was a
younger brother of Sir Joseph Jekyll, Master of the Rolls. But in the
annual
register of the Sun Fire Office, London, where his death is re-
corded under
date of 1733, he appears as a nephew of Sir Joseph. -- EDS.
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 197
that it
might be consider'd of till Monday, which the Gov-
ernour would
not hear of, but order'd Mr. Secretary to
draw up a Vote: which with some alteration was pass'd.
Said He had
no Gall. After coming from Council I
read
the Book
printed against the Governour in London.
I
had not seen
it before.
Novr. 8th. Mr. Coffin of Nantucket is apointed by the
Govr
and Council to have an oversight of the Indians there.
I had
mention'd Capt. Gardener, whom Capt. Belchar
withstood
about a week ago. Govr
mention'd Gifts as
piety. Mr. Benja. Brown said Capt. Gardener was pre-
fer'd before
Mr. Coffin for Piety: then the Govr
said no
more. I now mov'd that both might be apointed;
Capt.
Belcher
said; then let there be three. I said
Capt. Gar-
dener was
already apointed to receive what was sent from
the
Comissioners. The Govr said
it was all the better;
they would
be a Check upon each other.
Novr. 7. Mr. James Allen stood up, and said I was a
Party, and
therefore ought not to be a Judge in the Cause
of Govr
Bellingham's Will. I had got of that
Land in a
wrong way;
which I resented; for no Land on this side
the water is
mentioned except for Life, and my Fragment
on the Hill
is not mention'd at all!
1 This reference or excuse is not very
plain, since Governor Belling-
ham's will
had been set aside, as we will show; and any title from his only
son would
seem to be free of flaw. The facts, as we find them, are as fol-
lows: --
Governor Bellingham's will (Suff. Wills,
VII. 271) gives to his wife the
rent of a
farm, and also his dwelling-house, yard and field adjoining, "during
her natural
life." To "my only son and his
daughter during their natu-
ral
lives." Rents of two other farms to
the relief of the daughter of Colonel
William
Goodrich, &c. After his wife's
death, the farm she hath for life,
and "after the death of my son and his daughter,
my whole estate in Winni-
simet"
to church purposes, as set forth quite fully.
His inventory mentions
a pasture of
2 1/2 acres at the south end, butting upon Angola's house, and
joining the
land of Mrs. Colburn, valued at £250; ground upon the hill, be-
hind Mr.
Davenport's, £30; dwelling-house, and ground belonging to it, and
shop before
it, £600. The four farms at Winnisimett
were valued at £1,920.
The total
estate was £3,244 3 7. The General Court
(Rec. V. 105) gave
198 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
Novr. 10th. I received a Letter from Bror,
who says
Doctr
Tapan fell off Mr. Titcomb's Wharf last Tuesday,
was found by
it on Wednesday morn: buried Thorsday
in the Rain.
Feria Secunda Novr. 10.
1707. I set out for Salem with
Capt. Benet;
at Lewis's overtook Mr. Dudley, Valentine,
Hern; from
thence went together, had a very good Jour-
ney; got to
Salem so early as to anticipat the sheriff; the
wind being
fair, went by Winisimet.
judgment
"that said will is illegal, and so null and voyd in law," Sept. 6,
1676.
But the estate seems to have been the
cause of much discord. Samuel,
only son of
Governor Bellingham, married in April, 1695, Elizabeth Savage,
who came
over here to arrange his affairs. She
was drowned on her return
voyage, and
the following record 18 found here: --
Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Bellingham, made
her will Nov. 1697, being
bound on a
voyage to London. (Suff. Wills, VIII. 283.)
Her husband
having
conveyed to trustees for her use and disposal all lands, &a., in New
England
formerly belonging to Richard Bellingham, she gives her husband,
for life,
the rent thereof. Bequests then follow
to Harvard College, Benja-
min
Woodbridge, Increase Mather, Samuel Willard, Cotton Mather, Na-
thaniel
Thomas, Joseph Hiller and wife Susanna, Benjamin Hiller, all of
Boston,
Thomas Danforth, Samuel Sewall, Edward Mills.
Mentions brother
Edward
Watts, of London, and sister Rebecca Watts, his wife; also their
children,
Samuel, Rebecca, and Elizabeth Watts.
Sister Mary Smith, Rev.
Samuel
Slaughter, Edward Hull and John Shelton, all of London. Aunt
Banniard,
cousin Elizabeth Skibbow, cousin Elinor Bird, uncles Samuel and
Edmund
Hermer. Edward Watts, alias Bellingham
Watts, the residuary
legatee, to
be succeeded by his brother Samuel, and sisters Rebecca and
Elizabeth.
We have already shown (Vol. I. p. 61, note)
that Sewall bought his lot
from Mrs.
Bellingham and her trustees.
The land at the south end of Boston,
less the lot which Governor Bel-
lingham gave
to an Indian slave named Angola, for saving him from drown-
ing in
Boston Harbor (see Suff. Deeds, VIII. 298), were sold Jan. 7, 1710-11
(Suff.
Deeds, lib. XXVI. f. 100), by Edward Watts, late of St. Buttolph's,
Aldgate, London;
Sawyer, and Rebecca, his wife, claiming to be the heir to
Andrew
Belcher. But July 8, 1712, Belcher
thought it best to establish his
title by
also buying the same from Elizabeth Bellingham, of London, spinster,
daughter and
sole heir of Samuel Bellingham. The land
was bounded east
on Orange
Street, south on land of Robert Sanders and of Thomas Walker,
west by
Benjamin Eliot, north by Benjamin Eliot, Andrew Belcher, Thomas
Chamberlain,
John Clough, and William Payne. (Suff. Deeds, lib. XXVII.
f. 21.)
-- EDS.
1707.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 199
Novr. 13. Adjourn a little before night sine die. Visit
Mr.
Higginson the aged Minister; He can well and sensi-
bly speak to
us still, call'd me by my name; Mr. Lever-
ett he did
not hit off. Said he was sorry that his
son
should
petition against the Govr. Speaking of the Union
he repeated
very well a verse of K. James.
Jam cuncti gens una sumus; sic simus in aevum.
His wife very decrepit and in pain; glad
to see me.
Visit Madam
Bradstreet, Bror Hirst.
Novr. 14. very good wether;
Mr. Noyes Breakfast, prays
with us: at
taking Leave, I gave him a 20s Bill in a paper
writ on Scalpellum
-- and verses on Mr. Goodhue. Had
a very good
Journey home by Charlestown, Mr. Leverett
in company
till parting.
Novr 15. Majr Genl sends my wife and me a pair of
Gloves on
account of his wedding the 13th.
Novr. 17 I
and others
visit Mr. Winthrop, and his Bride.1
See 7r. 19,
1707 in my
Justices Book.
Novr. 18. Daughter Sewall is brought to Bed of a Son
at Brooklin
between 5 and 6. mane. Danford
told me of
it; I gave
him a shilling.
Novr. 20. 1707. The Deputies not having voted as the
Council did
Novr 1., a Conference is agreed on: Col.
Hathorne,
Col. Hutchinson, Mr. Secretary Addington, Mr.
Comissary
Belchar are apointed to be Managers: others
may speak as
they see occasion.
Govr made a long speech
begining from his father, who
laid out one
Thousand pounds in the first adventure, was
Governour. He himself the first Magistrat born in
New England.2 Managers all spake in their order: Mr.
1 Wait Still Winthrop, the major-general
and chief-justice, married, sec-
ondly, Nov.
13, 1707, Katherine, daughter of Thomas Brattle and widow of
Mr. John Eyre
(see p. 16). -- EDS.
2 Palfrey writes (History IV. 308, note)
that Sewall reports that Dudley
calls
himself "the first Governour born in New England." Palfrey adds:
"If he
did so, he must have flattered himself that the Court had forgotten
200 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
Blagrove
spake on the part of the Deputies; said twas
before the
Queen and Council, not fit for us to intermed-
dle; Mention'd some Trade, as Nails, Pots,
Sithes. Govr
deny d the
quantity of Nails.
The Govr took an oportunity to
say, he heard some
whisper'd as
if the Council were not all of a mind:
He with
courage said that all the Council were of the
same mind as
to every word of the vote. This gall'd
me; yet I
knew not how to contradict him before the
Houses.
Novr 21. Depts vote again as to the Councils vote,
and tis
carried in the Negative. Conference
about Vetch
and Borland
trading with French &c. Draw up a
vote
themselves
shorter than ours, and vote it and send it in.
[Upon this,
some began to be hot to send for the Book 1
wherein the
Affidavits are, and Mr. M's Letter; and to
burn it:
others were for deliberation. Note. At the
Conference
the Govr had the Extract of many of Mr.
C( otton] M[
ather] Letters read, of a later Date than that
in the
printed Book and Observator, giving him a high
character. See Decr. 12. Novr 22. In
the morn, I went
Sir William
Phips. But I nave observed no other
report of such a declara-
tion of
his." But we have two other
suppositions to make before convicting
Sewall of
error. The word in the text is
"magistrate," not "governour."
Did Dudley
refer to the magistrates or assistants under the old charter? If
so, the
statement may be true, but the inquiry would be tedious and profit-
less. Or, again, is it certain that Phips was born
in New England? We
believe that
there is no authentic record of Sir William's birth, and he may
have been
born before his father emigrated. -- EDS.
1 The reference is to a "Memorial of
the Present Deplorable State of
New
England," to which there was a reply entitled "A Modest Enquiry,
&c. 1707, and later, "The Deplorable State
of New England," London,
1708. All these are fully described in the preface
to the present volume.
Palfrey, IV.
305, refers to the latter only. It is
sufficient to state here that
Governor
Dudley was accused of connivance or participation in illegal trade
with the
enemy, the French, in Canada. Sewall's
position was delicate, his
son being
the husband of Dudley's daughter. He
took a manly part; but
it is rather
amusing to read his disgust at being praised therefor by the
opposition.
-- EDS.
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 201
to Mr.
Borland, and enquired of him whether the Govr
knew of
their Trade with the French. He said he
order'd
Capt. Vetch
to acquaint him. I enquired whether he
did
it or
no: Mr. Borland said, he did not hear
him acquaint
the Govr
with it. By this I gather'd that Capt.
Calley's
Affidavit
was true; and that the Govr did conive at their
Trading with
the French, which has open'd a Tragical
scene that I
know not when we shall see the close of it.
Went to the burying of Mrs. Busby the
widow.
Novr 23. Mr. Pemberton preaches more fully and ve-
hemently
against being cover'd in Sermon Time. p.
m.
Simeon
Stoddard, the Son of A. Stoddard, is baptised.
David
Stoddard and others taken into Church.
Before family prayer, went to the burying
of Capt.
Thomas
Dudley's Daughter: Sir Wainwright, and
Capt.
Southack's
son Bearers. Govr was at the
Funeral. About
the middle
of this Novr I dried up the Issue in my Left
Arm;
trusting to that of my Legg only.
Novr 23. 1707. My Son Samuel has his Son Samuel
Baptised by
Mr. Walter at Roxbury: Col. Partridge,
who
was present,
inform'd me of it, Novr 24th.
Novr. 25. 1707. The Govr read Mr. Cotton Mather's
Letter to
Sir Charles Hobby in Council, the Copey being
sign'd by
Mr. Povey, and animadverted on several para-
graphs; When
the Govr came to the horrid Reign of
Bribery.
His Excellency said, None but a Judge or Juror
could be
Brib'd, the Governour could not be bribed, sons
of Belial
brot him no Gifts. Mov'd that Col.
Hutchinson,
Mr.
Secretary, Col. Townsend and Mr. Cushin go to Mr.
Cotton
Mather with the Copy of his Letter to Sir Charles
Hobby, and
his Letters to the Govr, and speak to him
about
them: this was agreed to. I shew'd some back-
wardness to
it, fearing what the Issue might be; and hint-
ing whether
it might not be better for the Govr to go to
him
himself: That seem'd to be Christ's
Rule, except the
Govr
would deal with him in a Civil way.
202 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707.
Novr 25. 1707. p. m. The Govr mov'd that Mr. Newton
might be
sent for; which was done; and the Govr minded
him of the
Confession he had made for signing the Peti-
tion against
him; and Mr. Newton renew'd his acknowl-
edgment of
his misdoing, in some measure, and excus'd it
by saying
that he was surpris'd by being told that the
Govr
had written against his being Collector.
When he
was gon, the
Govr order'd the Secretary to make a Minute
of it, which
was done. When this was over, I desired
the
Governour's
patience to speak a word: I said I had been
concern'd
about the Vote pass'd Novr.
1. "At the Confer-
ence his
Excellency was pleas'd to say, that everyone of
the Council
remain'd steady to their vote, and every word
of it: This Skrewing the Strings of your Lute to
that
height, has
broken one of them; and I find my self under
a Necessity
of withdrawing my Vote; and I doe withdraw
it, and
desire the Secretary may be directed to enter it in
the Minutes
of the Council." And then I
delivered my
Reasons for
it, written and sign'd with my own Hand;
which were
read. The Govr directed that
it should be
kept
privat: but I think Col. Lynde went away
before
that Charge
was given! The Govr often
says that if any
body would
deal plainly with him, he would kiss them;
but I rec'd
many a Bite, many a hard Word from him.
He said I
valued Mr. Higginson's Reputation more than
his
Life. When Mr. Newton was call'd in, Govr
told him
that the
Court at N-Hampshire had voted an Abhorrence
of the
Petition; and the Council and Representatives here
had voted it
a scandalous and wicked Accusation. Just
after our
uncomfortable Discourse was over, and to help
terminat it,
a Master comes in from Virginia, who brings
News that
both Tholoun and Marseilles are Taken.2 Note,
before I
Withdrew my Vote: The Govr took occasion to
1 See these reasons printed in "The Deplorable State,"
&c. -- EDS.
2 The siege of Toulon was raised in
August. Marseilles was not besieged.
-- EDS.
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 203
speak thus;
"To say the best, The House of Deputies is
out of
Humour, though after all their search, all is as white
as Chalk, as
clear as the Driven snow; yet.
Novr. 26. Mr. Secretary reports the Discourse with
Mr. Cotton
Mather favourably; It seems they stay'd there
more than
two Hours; and Dr. Mather was present.
Mr.
Mather
neither denys, nor owns the Letter:
Think his
Letters to
the Govr, and that to Sir Charles Hobbey, not
so
inconsistent as they are represented.1 By Candle-Light
before they
went, It was debated whether Mr. Mather
should be
sent for before the Council; or whether the
Gentlemen
should go to him. Then I that had been
backward to
meddle in it before, plainly declar'd my
mind that
twas best for the Gentlemen to go to him; and
so twas
carried when put to the Vote. Mr.
Secretary is
well pleas'd
that he went.
The Council invited the Govr
to Diner to day; I drank
to his
Excellency, and presented my Duty to him.
Col.
Townsend
drank to me. At Dinner Col. Hutchinson
in-
vited us to
drink a Glass of Wine at Mr. Eliakim Hutch-
inson's by
his order. We went some of us. And between
7. and
8. His son William and his Bride came;
and Mr.
Phips and
his Bride; they were married privatly last
Thorsday
morn: and now both weddings are kept to-
gether.2 Had Musick, Cake and Cheese to eat there, and
bring
away. They had a hard Journey from
Rehoboth to
Billenges
yesterday in the Rain. Mr. Hutchinson
told us
1 The Council sent four of its members to
confer with Cotton Mather.
Council
Record, quoted by Palfrey, IV. 319. -- EDS.
2 Eliakim Hutchinson was son of Richard
Hutchinson, of London, and
thus cousin
of Colonel Elisha Hutchinson, of Boston.
Eliakim died in 1716,
when his
will mentions only son William, grandson Eliakim Palmer, son of
Thomas, and
the children of daughter Elizabeth Phips.
William had wife,
Elizabeth,
and died in 1721, leaving seven children.
It seems quite evident
that
Elizabeth married Spencer Phips, though her surname is not given in
Paige's
History of Cambridge. His second child
was born in 1710, and his
fourth and
eighth child received the name of Eliakim. -- EDS.
204 DIARY OF
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the Bride
was gon ill to Bed. Govr
Winthrop had a very
bad night.
This day the Govr apoints
Wednesday Decr. 3. for Nom-
inating
Officers; says He has only a Justice of Peace or
two on Essex
side.
In the evening by Candle-Light I fell
asleep in the
Council-Chamber:
and when I waked was surprised to
see the Govr
gone.
Col. Townsend ask'd me to withdraw my
Paper, and put
it in my
Pocket, pleasantly: I answered
pleasantly, I
could as
easily put him in my Pocket.
Friday, Novr. 28.1707. The Govr puts forward to have
the vote of
July 9. 1706. of the Representatives,
the vote
of the
Council of Novr 1., the vote of the Representatives
Novr
21., Printed, to prevent spreading false Reports: I
said I could
not vote to it because I had withdrawn my
vote. The Govr said, I pray God judge
between me and
you! Col. Townsend told me I was a
Temporiser; I
hop'd Mr.
Higginson would be Govr, and endeavour'd to
procure his
favor. Prayer. Lord, do not depart from me,
but pardon
my sin; and fly to me in a way of favourable
Protection! Capt. Phips brings in Mr. Leverett Non-
Concurr'd. Moves from the House that a suitable person
be thought of
to take care of the College till May Sessions.
Col.
Townsend tells me that my purpose to withdraw my
Vote was
known a week ago; Mr. Oaks mention'd it in
the House;
He was my Counsellor. Whereas he really
knew nothing
of it; and now tells me, he never mention'd
my Name.
Decr. 1. Our children visited their Sister at
Brooklin.
Decr. 4. Mr. C. Mather preaches a very good Funeral
sermon. Govr [Fitz John] Winthrop is
buried from the
Council
Chamber, Foot-Companies in Arms, and Two
Troops. Armor carried, a Led Horse. Bearers, Govr., Mr.
Russell; Mr.
Cooke, Major Brown; Col. Hutchinson,
Sewall; Mr.
Secretary, Mr. Sergeant. Father, Son,
and
1707.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 205
Grandson ly
together in one Tomb in the old burying
place.1 Was a vast concurse of People.
Decr. 5, Dine at Holm's. I supos'd the Council had
Treated the
Govr, But the Govr would pay. A Message
is sent in
to the Deputies about the College; whereupon
they
withdraw their Non-concurrence; rase out (Non)
and turn it
to Concur'd; And vote Mr. Leverett a Salary
of One
Hundred and Fifty pounds per anum out of the
publick
Treasury.
Decr. 6. Some desire that it may be put in the Bill
that
Mr. Leverett
Lay down all his Civil offices; as Judge of
Probat, and
judge-of the Superiour Court. And
entirely
to attend
that service, was inserted, and Mr. Secretary car-
ried it in
to the Deputies, and took their Consent.
Govr
has Two
Hundred pounds given him. Col. Jno
Appleton,
Hunt and I
ate sent in to speak to the Deputies about
their
denying any Reward to the comissioners to Port-
Royal; Told
them, denying all Remuneration was in a
maner to
make them Criminals: Twas a burden God
in
his
providence had laid on us, and to go about thus to
shake it
off, would be to his Dishonor. Spake
also in be-
half of
Salem Fort and Marblehead. Upon this a
Resolve
was sent in
to leave the consideration of it to another Ses-
sions, being
now a very thin House. Deputies had sent
in a long
Roll of Grievances to be Reform'd, as their
Advice: Govr would have had the Council
advis'd the
contrary in
the whole: I oposed it, as inconvenient
to
vote against
all together: and it was staid. And yet
when
the Deputies
were come in, the Govr took the paper and
spoke to it;
said he could not go according to it without
having the
Frontiers defenceless; said the Council were
unanimously
against it. Court is prorogued to the
fourth
of February.
1 This is, of course, the well-known tomb
in the King's Chapel yard, very
near the
building of the Massachusetts Historical Society. A full descrip-
tion is
given in Bridgman's Epitaphs. -- EDS.
206 DIARY OF
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Decr . 10. Married-Hayward and Susana Mills.
Feria quinta, Decr. 11th. 1707. Thanks-giving-day, very
serene,
moderate, comfortable Wether. Mr.
Pemberton
preaches
forenoon and afternoon. Yesterday I was
told
of a vast
number of Pigeons in the Woods this Moneth.
Capt. Mills
at his Sister's Wedding says he saw an incredi-
ble Number
at Woodstock last Friday.
Madam Usher, son and daughter Hirst and
their family,
Cousin Sam
and Jonathan Sewall, Bror Wheeler and his
wife, M --
and her daughter, dine with us. Feria
sexta,
Decr.
12. 1707. Just before the Funeral of
Mrs. Eliot, I
went to Mr.
Borland, told him he had been at my House
and I was
not at home, so I now call'd at his. He
seem'd
to express
some Concern that the Govr was troubled; and
said they
gave the Govr nothing. I told
him what my
discourse
with him was the 22d Novr. He owns the sub-
tance of it
now; and is confirm'd in it because he saw it
in Capt.
Vetches Petition at home. I desired to
see the
Petition but
he declin'd it.
Bearers to Mrs. Eliot, widow of D.[eacon]
Jacob Eliot:
Sewall,
Bromfield; Hill, Williams; Checkly, Mr. John
Hubbard. Was buried from her daughter Davis's. At
the Return
to the house, I said to Mr. Holyoke, it was a
happiness
that our Condolance for the departure of our
friend, was
join'd with Congratulation for her being gon
to her Rest
and Reward. At parting with the Bearers,
I
told them we
were often concern'd in Funerals; it would
be well for
us to pray one for another that God would
prepare us
for our own Dissolution.
Joseph return'd to Cambridge before the
Funeral, last
mention'd.
Feria septima, Decr. 13. 1707. I enquir'd of Mr. Jno
Winthrop
whether he had seen his Sister Sewall; he said
not since
her Lying in; I told him I would not impose
upon him;
but if he pleas'd, we might go together (he
told me must
go to Roxbury with the Coach and back
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 207
again); we
rid together, call'd at Roxbury and took in
Madam Paul
Dudley, and Mrs. Anne. Found my daughter
and her
little Samuel well; his Father has a Cold.
Little
Rebekah
well. When return'd, went in again to
the Gov-
ernour's,
his Lady only now at home. Madam Paul
Dudley came
home with us; had a comfortable Journey.
Laus Deo.
Feria Secunda, Decr. 15.
1707. The Governour calls a
Council,
Reads a Letter of Mr. Bridger complaining of
Trees cut
contrary to Charter and of a great Mast ship'd:
Now it seems
Mr. Collins deals for Masts by the Royal
Authority,
though his Powers are not shewn here: The
Govr
press'd for a Proclamation as is emitted this day; I
express'd my
self unready to vote for it; because twas
only Mr.
Bridger's naked complaint, Without any Affidavit
to justify
it. He had been here above a 12 moneth;
and to
set forth a
proclamation now, would be but to serve a Turn.
Ichabod
Plaisted esqr. is of the Council, and, dwelling
in those
parts, might inform the Board. I mov'd
that Mr.
Mico might
be sent for, who transacts for Mr. Collins: but
the Govr
would not hear of it. I feared lest this
procla-
mation should
prejudice rather than forward the Queens
Interest,
and therefore was against setting it forth.
The
Govr
was displeas'd, and said twas due to a Tinker, much
more to Mr.
Bridger.
Feria tertia, Decr. 16. 1707. Mr. John Winthrop mar-
ries Mrs.
Anne Dudley. Roxbury Lecture-Day.
Feria quinta, Dec: 18. Mr. Bridge apoints the 15th.
Psalm to be
sung: and takes Job. 15. 34. for his Text;
especially
that clause, -- Fire shall consume the taberna-
cles of
Bribery: From which he preach'd an
excellent
sermon. Mr. Pemberton's Cold suffer'd him not to be
abroad; Dr.
Mather not at Lecture. Governour, and
Majr
Genl Winthrop were there, notwithstanding the
Wedding.
Feria sexta, Decr. 19. 1707. Went to the Meeting at
208 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707/8.
Mr.
Bromfield's. Mr. Nathl.
Williams preach'd from 1 Cor.
7. 29. The Time is short. Mr. Stoddard tells me the
Govr
has the Gout, and bespeaks my Company to visit
him to
morrow. Sent a Letter to my Bror
to day by Mr.
B. Marston.
Feria septima, Decr
20. Mr. Bromfield, Mr. Stoddard
and I ride
together in Mr. Briggs's Hackney Coach and
visit the
Govr, who weeps his Chamber; was taken ill on
Thorsday. Wish his Excellency Joy of his Son and
Daughter
Winthrop; gave the Bride Mr. Willard's, Blessed
Man. Mr. Paul Dudley came home with us and fill'd
up
the Coach.
Receive a Letter from my Bror.,
who says, the gener-
ality of
thoughtfull people there aprove of my Mount
Etna
Eruption: That's his expression. Hopes
to see us
in 10
days. Mary is taken ill.
Decr. 30. Joseph goes home. Brother comes to Town.
Jany 2. Bror goes home in very cold windy
wether,
lyes at
Lewes's, then home 3. Jany.
8. 17 7/8. The Govr
apoints a
Council to meet at Cambridge the 14th. Inst for
the
Installment of Mr. Leverett:1 warns the Ministers of
the Six
Towns 2 mention'd to be overseers of the College.
Midweek, Jany.
14. 170 7/8. Went to Cambridge in Mr.
Brigg's
Coach, with Col. Townsend, Mr. Bromfield, and
Mr.
Stoddard. Mr. Em. Hutchinson went in his own
Charet,
taking Mr. Wadsworth with him. Capt.
Belchar
carried Mr.
Secretary in his Calash. Mr. Pemberton
car-
ried his Bror
in his Slay over the Ice; Mr. Mico carried
Mr.
Treasurer Brattle. Mr. Colman
there. Majr Genl
Winthrop,
Col. Elisha Hutchinson, Mr. Foster, Mr. Ser-
1 This was the end of a long contest in
which the Mathers, Increase and
Cotton, were
very prominent. They never forgave
Dudley, and the reader
is
especially desired to peruse the virulent letters addressed to him Jan. 20,
1707-.8,
printed in Mass. Hist. Society's Collections, 1st series, III. 126-134.
-- EDS.
2 Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown,
Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester:
Sex vicinis
oppidis. -- EDS.
170 7/8.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 209
geant, Dr.
Mather, Mr. Cotton Mather, Mr. Bridge, Mr.
Allen were
not there. The day was very pleasant;
Col.
Phillips,
Mr. Russel in his black cap, Col. Lynde met us
from
Charlestown; Mr. Bradstreet, Angier, there, Mr.
Woodbridge
of Meadford, Mr. Neh. Hobart. In the
Library
the
Governour found a Meeting of the Overseers of the
College
according to the old Charter of 1650, and re-
duced the
Number to seven; viz. Mr. Leverett President,
Mr. Neh.
Hobart, Mr. Wm. Brattle, Mr. Ebenezer Pember-
ton, Mr.
Henry Flint, Mr. Jonathan Remington, Fellows;
Mr. Tho.
Brattle, Treasurer. The Govr
prepar'd a Latin
Speech for
Installment of the President. Then took
the
President by
the hand and led him down into the Hall;
The Books of
the College Records, Charter, Seal and Keys
were laid
upon a Table running parallel with that next
the
Entry. The Govr sat with his
back against a Noble
Fire; Mr.
Russel on his Left Hand inermost, I on his
Right
Hand; President sat on the other side of
the Table
over against
him. Mr. Neh. Hobart was called, and
made
an excellent
Prayer; Then Joseph Sewall made a Latin
Oration. Then the Govr read his Speech, and
(as he told
me) mov'd
the Books in token of their Delivery.
Then
President
made a short Latin Speech, importing the diffi-
culties
discouraging, and yet that he did Accept:
Govr
spake
further, assuring him of the Assistance of the Over-
seers. Then Mr. Edward Holyoke1 made a
Latin Oration,
standing
where Joseph did at a Desk on the Table next
the Entry at
the inside of it, facing the Govr. Mr. Dan-
forth of
Dorchester pray'd. Mr. Paul Dudley read
part of
the 132 ps.
in Tate and Bradey's version, Windsor Tune,
clos'd with
the Hymn to the Trinity. Had a very good
Diner upon 3
or 4 Tables: Mr. Wadsworth crav'd a
Bless-
ing, Mr.
Angier Return'd Thanks. Got home very
well.
Laus Deo.
1 A graduate of 1705. President in 1737. -- EDS.
VOL. II.
210 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1707/8.
Jany. 15th. 170 7/8.
Mr. Bridge preaches; (Govr not at
Lecture.) He speaks against Levillism, Buying and Sell-
ing
Men. Council after Lecture: Col. Redknap
had a
Muster-Roll
offer'd which the Council Refus'd. It
seems
he had
Thirty pounds allow'd him at his embarking.
This
day Mr.
Belchar brings me Squash-Seeds from Dedham.
Jany. 16. 170 7/8. Snow.
I had a hard fall coming from
daughter
Hirst's, yet through the goodness of God, had
little or no
hurt. Tis very slipery under the Snow.
Jany. 22. 1701. Mrs. Winthrop,l vida of Mr. Dean Win-
1 This reference brings up a formidable
genealogical problem. Martha,
second wife
and widow of Deane Winthrop, was Martha Mellows. She was
clearly the
widow of John Mellows, Sen., because. (Suff. Deeds, XX. 501),
as Martha
Winthrop, she released her interest in son John Mellows's house
to her
daughter-in-law, Sarah, relict of John, Jr. She is, probably, the
Martha
Mellows mentioned in 1652, in Reverend John Cotton's will, though
there were
then living her daughter Martha, and also Martha, widow of
Abraham
Mellows, of Charlestown.
The will of John Mellows, dated Sept. 15,
1674 (Suff. Wills, VI. 79),
mentions
wife Martha, sons John and Oliver, daughters Martha and Sarah,
son John
Chanterell. Witnesses to the will:
Daniel Turell and John Conney;
to a
codicil, Conney and Martha Lue, who signs with a mark.
Jan. 21, 1703-4. Thomas Messinger, of Boston, and Elizabeth,
his wife,
one of the
daughters of John Mellows, mariner, deceased, mortgage (Suff.
Deeds, lib.
21. f. 458) "one full third (the
whole in three parts to be equally
divided) of
the property of her late father John Mellows," between land of
late Samuel
Shrimpton and widow Turell, and the remainder therein, after
the decease
of Martha Winthrop, wife of Deane Winthrop, and mother of
said
Elizabeth. (Note. Martha Winthrop signs a deed July 31, 1678, in
Suff. Deeds,
XX. 225; an approximate date of her marriage.)
March, 19, 1706-7 (Suff. Deeds, lib.
XXIII. f. 94), the Messingers sell
this lot to
Robert Ware, who also buys one third of the same of Thomas
Winsor,
"being land which I lately bought of Mary Chanterill, Martha
Winthrop,
and others." A third part, being
one third of a lot in Coney's
lane,
forty-four feet front and sixty feet deep, bounded north on land of
Mrs. Turell,
deceased, east on :Mr. Knox, south on the lane, and west on
land of
Samuel Shrimpton, deceased, was bought by Ware of Thomas Lee
and Martha
Winthrop.
We are sure that Mary Chanterell was a
daughter of Mellows, and that
Elizabeth
Messinger was. The inference is
unavoidable that Thomas Lee
represented
a third daughter. He was not the husband
of a Mellows; for he
married, at
Salem, Deborah Flint, and had Martha baptized here in 1701.
170 7/8.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 211
throp, I
supose, dines with us after Lecture. Govr
was at
Lecture.
Jany. 23. I go to the Funeral of Anne Needham who
died in
Child-bed: her former Husband was
Lawson: her
first, Airs,
to whom I married her Novr. 5. 1690.
At first
I walk'd
next the women with Mr. Wentworth: when had
gon a little
way Mr. Cotton Mather came up and went
with
me. Funeral was from Coney's Lane,1
to the new
His wife
died in 1764, aged ninety years, seventy of which she "had employed
in the
marriage state," as the newspapers stated.
Probably, then, Martha, the daughter of
John Mellows (born Feb. 8,
1654),
married a Lee, and was the mother of Thomas Lee. A Henry Lee
was admitted
an inhabitant of Boston in 1655; Thomas
Lee was taxed there
in 1681;
John Lee, in 1687, 1688, 1691, 1695; and Joshua Lee, in 1688.-- EDS.
1 In regard to. Coney's Lane, we
suggested, in our first volume, p. 37,
note, that it might be a part of Sudbury
Street. We are indebted to Newton
Talbot,
Esq., for the following references. (Suff. Deeds, lib. XXV. f. 116.)
Feb. 28,
1707-8. Thomas Odkins and Elizabeth, his
wife, the only child
of John
Turill, mariner, deceased, and heir-in-law to the estate of said
Turill,
sold, for £90, to James Codnor, all that old dwelling-house and land
situated
towards the northerly end of the town, on Coney's Lane, being the
same lately
belonging to Turill. It was bounded
south on said Lane, forty
feet; west
on land of John Mellows, deceased, now occupied by one Ware,
and Abiel
Lawrence, sixty feet; north by Thomas Breden and George Bur-
rill, forty
feet; and west on John Phillips, deceased, seventy-one and one-
half feet.
But new heirs appeared, and July 14, 1711
(Deeds, lib. XXVI. f. 42),
Daniel Oliver
and William Welstead, attorneys for John Turill and William
Turill, sons
of Samuel Turill, deceased, and grandson of John Turill, de-
ceased, sell
the same land to Codnor, by the same bounds, except that the
land fronts
(south) on Cross Street, forty feet.
Cross Street was named in the Selectmen's
vote of May, 1708, which date
is between
the dates of these two deeds.
In our last note, we showed that the
Mellows lot sold to Robert Ware was
bounded
south on Coney's Lane, east by Knox, west by S. Shrimpton's, north
by Mrs.
Turill's land, and was forty-four feet front and sixty feet deep.
(Suff. Deeds, lib. XXIII. p. 156.)
Jonathan Gatchell, and wife, Martha,
only child
of John Mellows, Jr. (having bought out the claims of her mother,
Martha
Winthrop, in a house and land left to John Mellows by his father,
John
Mellows, Sen.), sell the same to Abiel Lawrence, widow. It was
bounded N.
W. by the tour foot passage, running forty-one feet thereon
from the
house of John Mellows, Sen., to land of Colonel Shrimpton, de-
ceased, S.
E. on the house and land of widow Turill forty-one feet, and is in
212 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 7/8.
Burying-place. There Mr. Mather ask'd me to go with him to
Madam
Usher's, where we staid till past six.
Speak-
ing of
death, I said twas a Hapiness to be so Conform'd to
Christ, And
it was a pleasure to take part with God in
executing a
righteous Sentence upon one's self, to aplaud
his Justice
-- Mr. Mather said that was high-flying; he
would have
such High-fly'ers be at his Funeral. Had
been
mentioning
Mr. Dod s Will. As went thence told me
of
his Letter
to the Govr of the 20th Inst. and Lent me the
Copy;
intends to send another to Mr. Paul Dudley.
Dr.
Mather it
seems has also sent a Letter to the Govr.1 I
wait with
Concern to see what the issue of this plain home-
dealing will
be! I desir'd Mr. Mather to promote Col.
Thomas's
being brought into the Superior Court, if there
was
oportunity: the 12th. Febr. is apointed for a Nomina-
tion.
Jany 30. 170 7/8 John Neesnummin [Indian Preacher]
comes to me
with Mr. R. Cotton's Letters; I shew him to
Dr.
Mather. Bespeak a Lodging for him at
Matthias
Smith's: but
after they sent me word they could not doe
it. So I was fain to lodg him in my Study.2 Jany 31
width, from
said Turill's house towards said
passage-way, eighteen and one-
half feet;
S. W. on land late of John Mellows, Sen., now held by one Ware;
N. E. on
land late of S. Shrimpton, now of Anthony Blount.
In
the Selectmen's order of May, 1708, "the way leading from the Mill
Pond
south-easterly by the late Deacon Phillips's stone house, extending
down to the
sea, Cross Street." "The way
leading from the north-westerly
end of Cross
Street, passing northerly by Vearing's house, near the Mill
Pond, Old
Way." -- EDS.
1 These letters are noticed in our
previous note. -- EDS.
2 There is a significance in this entry
in the Journal which may not be
obvious to
the reader. It is illustrative of the
strong antipathy felt by all
those of
English blood here, at that time, against coming into any close rela-
tion with
the Indians on terms of social equality.
The feeling of repulsion,
which the
first settlers brought with them, regarding the natives as heathens,
was strongly
intensified by subsequent relations with them, whether peace-
ful or
hostile, till it generally resulted in contempt or disgust. Those who
are well
versed in our history are familiar with the many evidences of this
antipathy,
presenting themselves as long as any of the native race survived
in this
neighborhood. It was quite otherwise
with the French, who came
170 7/8.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 213
p. m. I send him on his way towards Natick, with a
Let-
ter to John
Trowbridge to take him in if there should be
occasion. About half an hour by sun I went to the
Funeral
of my
neighbour Sam Engs: I went first with Mr. Meers,
and then
with Mr. Pemberton, who talk'd to me very
warmly about
Mr. Cotton Mather's Letter to the Govr,
seem'd to
resent it, and expect the Govr should animad-
vert upon
him. See Feb. 6. Said if he were as the
Govr
he would
humble him though it cost him his head;
Speak-
ing with
great vehemency just as I parted with him at his
Gate. The Lord apear for the Help of his people.
Second-day, Febr. 2. Council for passing Muster-Ro1ls.
Somebody
said, I think Capt. Belchar, That no man
was
admitted to
be a Captain without giving the D. of Marl-
into terms
of very free association and intimacy with the Indians, and never
manifested,
even if they felt, this antipathy of race.
But" English stomachs"
revolted
from such fellowship. The same strong
repugnance was indulged
by them
against social intimacy with the Indians, with which we are more
familiar as
felt towards negroes. The Jesuit Father
and the French bush-
ranger
freely shared the loathsome lodging and food of the Indian, and came
into hearty
fellowship with him. Roger Williams,
more than any other
Englishman,
struggled against this race antipathy.
He says that he forced
himself to
lodge "in the filthy, smoky holes" of savages, that he "might
win their
language." But the wife of the good
John Eliot, apostle as he was,
carefully
prepared some food for him to take with him when he mounted his
horse to
visit his red flock at Natick, and he tells us that he had partitioned
off a
lodging place and a bed in the loft of the Indian meeting-house for his pri-
vate
use. He reserved the closest fellowship
with his converts till they should
meet in
heavenly regions, and would "all be changed," appearing in
"celes-
tial
bodies." Judge Sewall, in his
gentle kindness of spirit and his humanity
of
righteousness, proved himself far in advance of his contemporaries in his
sympathy
with negroes and Indians. Yet, as we
read the above entry in his
Journal, we
present to ourselves his evident embarrassment.
An approved
Indian
convert and preacher, on his way to professional service at Natick,
calls on
Sewall with letters from his friend Reverend Roland Cotton, of
Sandwich,
also a friend of the Indians, and a preacher to them. Sewall
shifts off
the intended lodger upon the keeper of a tavern open to very promis-
cuous
guests. "They could not do
it," writes the good Judge; "so I was
fain to
lodge him in my study." The
hospitable guest chamber in the house
was reserved
for another class of lodgers. However,
most of the citizens of
Boston, at
the time, would, if compelled to entertain an Indian, have given
him a couch
of straw and horse blankets in a barn. --EDS.
214 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 7/8.
borough, or
his Dutchess five hundred Guinys: the Govr
took it up,
and said, What is that! Speaking in a
favour-
able,
diminutive way. And said that there had
not been
any admitted
these thousand years but in a way like that;
mentioning
his own experience in the Isle of Wight.1 His
Excellency
seems hereby to justify himself against those
who charge
him with Bribery. Govr seem'd
backward to
grant, or
say he would not grant the Chaplains &c, Unless
Col.
Hutchinson &c, had wages allow'd them.
Febr. 3.
Went to the Funeral of Capt. Timothy Ste-
phens of
Roxbury. Mr. Walter pray'd, and tells me
was
a very good
Christian, usefull Man, had great Assurance
of the Love
of God to him before he died; though he had
much
darkness before. Govr and all
his family there.
Capt.
Belchar, Mr. Bromfield, Mr. Stoddard and I there.
Febr. 4. Mr. Townsend, Bromfield, Stodard, I, went
and visited
Mr. Leverett the President: I wish d Madam
Leverett Joy
of the new Employment of her Husband.
First din'd at Capt. Parker's. Visited Col. Foxcroft, who
is abed with
the Gout. When had paid our Reckoning at
Capt.
Parkers, rode to my sons chamber, sat awhile by his
fire, Mr.
Flint came to us. From thence came home
slowly,
which made us late. At Col. Foxcroft's
was Col.
Byfield,
Taylor, Mr. Brattle, Cambridge. At
coming from
the
President's Col. Townsend said he hop'd he should
hear of his
being in the Hall every day. He
expounded
the first of
Matthew yesterday; Moderated the Bache-
lours
Dispute to day. But we hear as if he
intends to go
into Hall
but on some certain days.
Febr. 5.
Mr. Colman preaches the Lecture in Mr.
Wadsworth's
Turn, from Gal. 5. 25. If we live in the
Spirit, let
we also Walk in the Spirit. Spake of
Envy
1 It will be remembered that Dudley, on
his third visit to England, in
1693, was
made Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Wight, and was a mem-
ber of the
House of Commons for the borough of Newton in that island. He
seems to
have obtained his title of Colonel at the same time. -- EDS.
170 7/8.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 215
and Revenge
as the Complexion and Condemnation of the
Devil; Spake of other walking: it bloted our
sermons,
bloted our
Prayers, bloted our Admonitions and Exhorta-
tions. It might justly put us upon asking our selves
whether we
did live in the Spirit, whether we were ever
truly
regenerated, or no. 'Tis reckon'd he
lash'd Dr.
Mather and Mr.
Cotton Mather and Mr. Bridge for what
they have
written, preach'd and pray'd about the present
Contest with
the Govr. I heard not of it
before, but yes-
terday Col.
Townsend told me of Dr. Mather's Prayer
Jany
25, Wherein he made mention of One in
Twenty-
Eight being
faithfull; which makes many look on me with
an evil eye:
supposing Dr. Mather ment my withdrawing
my vote of
the first of Novr. Febr.
6. Queen's Birthday,
I could not
find in my heart to go to the Town-House;
because
hardly anything is professedly there done but
drinking
Healths. And Mr. Maxwell left his
Message
with David;
I saw him not. And I was entangled that
I
could not,
conveniently go. I had written to Mr.
Borland
earnestly
desiring to see the Copy of Capt. Vetches Peti-
tion: and he
sent me word he would wait on me this day;
which did in
a manner bind me at home, lest I should be
out of the
Way.1 He came and told me
with an air of
Displeasure,
that I had made a bad use of what he had
told
me. Afterward I ask'd upon what head he
intended
I had made a
bad use: He said little, but talk'd of
making
a
Flame. I had said in my Letter, I hop'd
he should not
have cause
to complain that I had made a bad use of his
lending me
the Petition till morning, or a less while, if he
pleas'd. Thus my neighbour Borland can take an oath
which is
made use of to hide the Truth, and cause men to
believe a
Lye; but he, with unjust reflection, refuses to
shew a Copy
of a Petition for clearing the Truth of a con-
1 There is an exquisite naivete in the
Judge's accumulations of the reasons
which made
it proper for him to stay at home instead of going where he did
not wish to
go. -- EDS.
216 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 7/8.
troverted
matter of Fact: though the petition be
pub-
lickly lying
before the Queen and Council, and anyone
may have a
Copy for their Money. I said little to
him;
but gave him
the last of Mr. Wm Williams' Sermons.
Master
Chiever his coming to me last Satterday Jany 31.
on purpose
to tell me, he blessed God that I had stood up
for the
Truth; is more Comfort to me, than Mr. Borland's
unhandsomeness
is discomfort. But, above all, I hope I
have a good
Conscience, and a good GOD to bear me out.
Second-day, Febr. 9. 170 7/8. Mr. D. Oliver, Capt. Keel-
ing,
Constable Loring and my self wallr'd in the 7th Compa
to inspect
Disorders. Found this to our Comfort,
that the
widow
Harman's daughter Ames is gon to her Husband at
Marshfield,
which was a gravamen for many years, I used
constantly
to visit them and expostulat with them.
I car-
ried 1/2
Duz. Catechises in my Pocket, and gave
them to
such as
could read, Orphans several of them; Harman,
Hanah
Dinsdal, Tho. Watson, Jno Phips, Hallowell, Odel
That might
not fail of meeting again, Din'd. at. Hobins's;
gave the
Constable his Diller, so it cost us 2s apiece. Had
a very
comfortable day overhead. The Apointment
of a
Judge for
the Super. Court being to be made upon next
Fifth day,
Febr. 12, I pray'd God to Accept me in
keep-
ing a privat
day of Prayer with Fasting for That and other
Important
Matters: I kept it upon the Third day
Febr. 10.
170 7/8 in
the uper Chamber at the North-East end of the
House,
fastening the Shutters next the Street. -- Perfect
what is
lackmg in my Faith, and in the faith of my dear
Yokefellow. Convert my children; especially Samuel
and Hanah;
Provide Rest and Settlement for Hanah:
Recover
Mary, Save Judith, Elisabeth and Joseph: Re-
quite the
Labour of Love of my Kinswoman Jane Tappin,
Give her
health, find out Rest for her. Make
David a
man after
thy own heart, Let Susan live and be baptised
with the
Holy Ghost, and with fire.
Relations. Steer
the
Government in this difficult time, when the Governour
170 7/8.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 217
and many
others are at so much Variance: Direct,
incline,
overrule on
the Council-day fifth-day, Febr. 12. as to the
special Work
of it in filling the Super. Court with Justices;
or any other
thing of like nature; as Plimo infer Court.
Bless the
Company for propagation of the Gospel, espe-
ciall Govr
Ashurst &c. Revive the Business of
Religion at
Natick, and
accept and bless John Neesnumin who went
thither last
week for that end. Mr. Rawson at
Nantucket.
Bless the
South Church in preserving and spiriting our
Pastor; in
directing unto suitable Supply, and making the
Church
unanimous: Save the Town, College;
Province
from
Invasion of Enemies, open, Secret, and from false
Brethren: Defend the Purity of Worship. Save Con-
necticut,
bless their New Governour : Save the Reforma-
tion under
N. York Governmt. Reform all
the European
Plantations
in America; Spanish, Portuguese, English,
French,
Dutch; Save this New World, that where Sin hath
abounded,
Grace may Superabound; that CHRIST who
is stronger,
would bind the strong man and spoil his
house; and
order the Word to be given, Babylon is
fallen. Save our Queen, lengthen out her Life and
Reign. Save France, make the proud helper stoop
[Job.
IX. 13],
Save all Europe; Save Asia, Africa, Europe and
America. These were genl heads of my
Meditation and
prayer; and
through the bounteous Grace of GOD, I had
a very
Comfortable day of it. 1 The reading of Mr. Tho
Horton's
Sermon upon a Monethly Fast, before the House
of Lords xr.
30. 1646. was a great furtherance of me,
which was
hapily put into my hand by Major Walley the
1 We believe this is as minute and full a
record -- unless Cotton Mather's
Diary may
furnish more specific ones -- of the method and use of a private
fast-day, as
observed by the devout worthies of the old time. The poet
Whittier, in
his beautiful ballad on Judge Sewall, represents him as annu-
ally setting
apart such a solemnly kept day for mourning over his share in
the dread
proceedings about witchcraft. But, as
there is no trace of any
thing of the
sort in the Journal, we must refer the conception to the imagi-
nation of
the poet. -- EDS.
218 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [170 7/8.
latter end
of last Moneth. I rec'd a Letter from
Mr.
Rawson at
Nantucket about 2 p. m.
Febr. 12. 170 7/8. Mr. Bridge preaches from Hebr. 12.
17. In his Explication and Exhortation put a
great Em-
phasis upon
Afterward, to stir up all presently to embrace
Christ,
Instanc'd in the Misery of Judas returning his 30
pieces. The Govr was at Lecture.
The Business of the Council was not
attended because
the Stormy
Wether had prevented the Justices coming,
so that had
but about 13. None but from Boston and
Charlestown. Adjournment is made to next Thorsday,
and persons
to be Notified.
I went to the Govr at Major
Winthrop's after Lecture
and told him
I could be glad Mr. Higginson might be
brought into
the Superior Court. Advis'd that Mr.
Wins-
low 1
might be brought into the infer. Court
at Plimo and
Mr. Otis
left out; Col Tho. son-in-Law. Told him
of the
fraudilent
Deed complain'd of by Mr. Tomson of Middle-
borough; and
that the said Otis's hand was to the fraud-
ulent Deed
as a Witness, has now a part of what was
granted by
it: and probably was the Adviser in the whole
matter. Told the Govr I intended to waite
on his Excel-
lency on
Wednesday: but was hindered by the
Storm.
Note. The Govr us'd to Tell the
Councillors how accept-
able 'twould
be to him to be discours'd in privat about
such
matters.
Febr. 13. 170 7/8. Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
thou wilt
revive me; thou shalt stretch forth thy hand;
against the
wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand shall
save
me. 138. 7. I read the 137, 138 Psalms in course
this morn,
and have noted this for Memory.
Feria Septima, March, 6. 170
7/8. Having the Company's
1 Probably Isaac, son of Josiah, and
grandson of Edward. The Mr. Otis
mentioned
seems to be Joseph Otis, of Scituate, who married, according to
Savage, in
1670, Dorothy, daughter of Nathaniel Thomas, of Marshfield. --
EDS.
1707/8.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 219
Account [for
Propagating the Gospel] written out; I went
to Col.
Foster to pray him to be present to examin it;
went to the
Majr Gen1 to acquaint him that I design'd a
Meeting at
my house which he consented to: Then I went
to Maxwell
to order him to warn the Comissioners; which
he imediatly
took in hand. Then going up the prison-
Lane I met
Mr. Sergeant, who told me of Mr. Arthur
Mason's
Funeral,1 which I knew nothing of before; neither
did I
suspect it; thinking it would be defer'd till next
week for
sake of Mr. Norton and his wife. But now
I
could not go
back for fear of losing my oportunity of fin-
ishing and
sending my Accounts. As soon as ever had
Sign'd, left
other important Business; and went all away
to go to the
Funeral; but when we came to the School-
house Lane
end, we saw and heard the Funeral was gon;
and so came
back. I even despair'd of finishing my
Ac-
count the
Ships threatn'd to sail so soon; and I was taken
up so much
with my Inventory. But by the Kindness
of
God, I got
well through it, made two fair Copies of the
Original,
and had them Subscrib'd by the Comissioners
attesting
their examination and Allowance of them.
Not
one error
discern'd. Laus Deo Adjutori.
Midweek, March, 10, 170 7/8. The privat Meeting was at
Mr. Cole's,
where Mrs. Noyes was, I read a Sermon of Mr.
Willard's. I went away a little before her but she over-
took me near
the New Meetinghouse; I saw the Glimpse
of her Light
and call'd to her; spake a few words and
parted;
feeling in my self a peculiar displeasure that our
way lay no
further together.
March 12.
She was at the Meeting of Majr Genl Win-
1 From the notes to "Dunton's
Letters from New England," pp. 90,106,
we learn
that Arthur Mason, a baker, died March 4, 1708, aged seventy-
seven
years. He was the father of Joanna, who
married, first, Robert
Breck, and,
secondly, Michael Perry, and who was celebrated by Dunton as
"the
very Flower of Boston." Mason lived
on School Street, and left seven
children. --
EDS.
220 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1708.
throp, where
Mr. Adams preached. Presently after her
getting
home, she was seised with the Palsie, which took
away her
Speech. I heard of it at Scarlet's
Wharf,
March 13, as
I was taking Leave of Mr. Jonathan Belcher,
and Mr. Sam.
Banister going aboard the Fleet ready to
sail. Midweek, March, 17, 170 7/8. my Country-man,1
Mr.
Josiah
Byles, dyed very suddenly. Feria
quinta, March
18th.
the Fleet sails, though the Skie cover'd with Clouds.
Feria sexta Reginald Odell dies
suddenly. Heard of
it at Mr.
Byles Funeral. About Candle-lighting,
the day
senight after her being taken my old cordial
Christian
dear friend,
Mrs. Sarah Noyes,2 Expires. I
saw her on
Wednesday,
she knew me, and ask'd how Madam Sewall
did. She was Laborious, Constant at Privat
Meeting,
Lecture,
Lords-Day. I am much afflicted for the
Loss of
her. Capt. Brattle tells me that a vertuous young
Woman
at
Marblehead died in 4 or 5 Minutes after taken.
Feria secunda, March, 22, 170
7/8. Mr. Zechariah Symmes,
pastor of
the church of Christ at Bradford, died in the
morning. He was born at Charlestown, January 9. 1637.
He was a
Worthy Gentleman, Scholar, Divine. Feria
quinta, March, 25, 1708. Intending to set out for Plim-
outh the 27th. I went to the Major Genls and to
Mrs. Ser-
geant's to
Receive their Bills if they pleas'd to pay them:
found
neither at home, and so went not in.
Coming back,
in the
prison-Lane I met Mr. Sergeant. He ask'd
me
where I had
been, I told him at his house: He said, What
for,
Money? I said Yes. At which he was angry, and
said I was
very hasty, I knew very little of that nature.
1 We have here an example of
"countryman," used for one of the same
county. Josiah Byles, a saddler, came from
Winchester, in Hampshire, mar-
ried for his
second wife Elizabeth Mather, and was father of the famous
Reverend
Mather Byles. -- EDS.
2 Probably this was Sarah, daughter of
Peter Oliver, and wife of John
Noyes, of
Boston. Their son Oliver, H. C. 1695,
was a prominent citizen.
-- EDS.
1708.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 221
He would
enquire how others paid me &c. I
told him I
was going
out of Town, this was the day,l and I thought it
convenient
to offer the Bills; he said he should not break;
and at last
call'd out aloud, he should not break before I
came back
again! I know no reason for this Anger;
the
Lord sanctify
it to me, and help me to seek more his
Grace and
favour. This day was very stormy with
Rain,
and then
with Snow; a pretty deal of Thunder. Majr
Cutler
was with me
in the morning.
March, 27. 1708. Rode with Mr. Nehm. Hobart to
Hingham, visited
Madam Shepard by the way at Cousin
Holman's,
visited Mr. Fisk: visited Mr. Norton, who in-
vited Mr.
Hobart to preach next day. Lodg'd at
Cousin
Hobart's.
March, 28.
See the Sermons in one of my Cover'd
Almanacks. Din'd at Mr. Norton's. March 29. by 6. m.
Gaml.
Rogers, the son, who had been sent Express in the
night, came
to my Lodging with an Adjournment of the
Court to the
20th of April. This as desired, I
forwarded
to Plimouth
by Cous. David Hobart, who accompanied his
Brother Mr.
N. Hobart. I agreed with Major Thaxter
to
run the Line
of my 300. Acres of Land at Braintrey
just
by
Milton. Din'd with Cousin Quinsey, and
engag'd him
to meet me
at Milton next Monday: Spake to Mr. Swift
to assist
me. Call'd at the Governour's; came home
well.
Laus Deo.
April, 1.
Great Rain with Thunder. Mr.
Wadsworth
preaches: Work out your own Salvation with Fear.
Feria Sexta, April, 2. Last night I dream'd that I had
daughter
Hirst in a little Closet to pray with her; and
of a sudden
she was gon, I could not tell how; although
the Closet
was so small, and not Cumber'd with Chairs
or
Shelves. I was much affected with it
when I waked.
Feria septima, Apr. 3. I went to Cous. Dumer's to see
1 The first day of the year, old style.
-- EDS.
222 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1708.
his
News-Letter: while I was there Mr. Nathl Henchman
came in with
is Flaxen Wigg; I wish'd him Joy, i. e. of
his
Wedding. I could not observe that he
said a Word to
me; and generally
he turn'd his back upon me, when
none were in
the room but he and I. This is the
Second
time I have
spoken to him, in vain, as to any Answer from
him. First was upon the death of his Wife, I
cross'd the
way near our
house, and ask'd him how he did; He only
shew'd his
Teeth.
Feria secunda, Apr. 5. Great Rain, whereby I am
prevented
meeting Major Thaxter at Milton to run a Line,
as I
intended.
Feria secunda, Apr. 12, 1708. I went and met Major
Thaxter at
Miller's at Milton to run the Lines of the 300.
Acres bought
of Mr. Stoughton; Cousin Quinsey, Mr.
Swift,
Miller, White, Hunt, assisted us. Mr.
William Raw-
son, having
Land adjoining, was with us all day; Billing
a
considerable while. Capt. Culliver and
others peram-
bulating for
Braintrey and Milton, went with us from B.
to C. which
was measured, whereby the place we set out
from was
ascertain'd to be the North Corner, of which
there was
some doubt before: At C. the old white
Oak
mark with
H., we drank a Bottle of Madera together,
read the
Queens Speech to the first Parliament of great
Britain,1
and so took leave of the perambulators.
Major
Thaxter,
Cous. Quinsey, and White went quite through
the Swamp,
marking Trees: southward of the Swamp is a
small
Chestnut White-Oak; a little after that the Line
brushes by a
Ledge of Rocks, touches them. At D. the
Oak upon the
Rock is cut down injuriously, there it lyes
and no use
made of it: by the Stump grows up a fine
little
Chestnut Oak, which was prun'd; twas double and
one is cut
away to make the other grow the better.
In
1 The first United Parliament of Great
Britain (England and Scotland)
met Oct 23,
1707. -- EDS.
1708.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 223
the Line
from D to A found several Trees mark'd with H.
At A. we
enlarg'd the Heap of Stones upon the Rock and
from thence,
as all along, run by Compass and the an-
ciently
marked Trees to C., where we begun; which
prov'd all
the Work to be Right: There we made a
large
heap of
Stones upon the Stump of a Tree burnt down.
Paid to Major Thaxter £0-8-0
To White 3s Hunt for formerly, and now 3s 0-6-0
To Miller for entertainment and Help 0-15-0
To the Widow Gray for my Horse 0-5-0
£1-14-0
To Cousin Quinsey, Mr. Swift, and Mr.
Lawson I am
oblig'd.
It is a Mercy that our work succeeded so
well. Got
home before
eight, and found all well. Laus Deo.
Apr. 11, 12, 13. Swallows proclame the Spring.
Feria Sexta, Apr. 16. I visit my daughter Hirst, and
finding her
alone in her Chamber, pray with her.
After-
ward by Majr
Genl Winthrop's direction I carry her a vial
of Spirits
of Lavender. And of my self I join with
it a
pound of
Figs, that food and Physick might go together.
Leave her
with Mrs. Hubbard.
Apr. 17. 1708. Col. Hathorne, Mr. Corwin and I set
out for
Scituate. Lodg'd at Job Randall's. Apr. 18.
Heard Mr.
James Gardener of Marshfield.
Apr. 19.
To Plimouth, stay at Mr. Bradford's till Mr.
Attorney
Cook came up. There the sheriff meets
us.
Lodge at
Rickard's. Apr. 22. Return'd.
May, 4.
Daughter Hirst Deliver'd of a Daughter.
May, 7.
Boston: Upon the Special Verdict,
between Wats
and Allen,
Sewall, Hathorne, Corwin for Watts; Walley
for Allen.
Feria secunda, May, 17, 1708. Major Walley and I set
out with a
Coach and 4 Horses from Charlestown; Dine
224 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1708.
at Lewis's;
bait at Phillips's, Wenham, got to Mr. Rogers's
before
Sun-set.
Major Walley had a Fit or 2 of his
Cholick, and yet by
God's
Goodness, came away about 3 p. m. May
21, got
comfortably
to Salem. Lodg'd at Brother's. .
May, 22.
set out about Eight m. Baited at
Lewis's:
Din'd at
Cambridge, call'd at Brooklin, lighted at the
Governour's. Got home well about 6. Laus Deo.
Midweek, May, 26. 1708. Mr. Secretary, Sewall, Elia-
kim
Hutchinson administer the Oaths to the Representa-
tives: 72 at
first, and 2 more. 74 in all. Mr. Jno.
Norton
preaches a Flattering Sermon as to the Govern-
our. Dine at the Exchange. Number of Councillors 25.
Together,
99. Election.
Wait
Winthrop 95 Plimouth Cook and Pain Negatived.
James
Russell 95 Nathan1 Pain 88
Elisha Cook 57 Isaac Winslow 86
Jn° Hathorn 93 Jn° Cushing 74
Elisha Hutchins[on] 81 Jn°
Otis 65
S. Sewall 98 Main
I. Addington
94 Em Hutchinson 85
W. Brown 71 Ichabod Plaisted 86
J. Phillips 86 John Wheelright 45
J. Corwin 89 _____________________________
[J ohn]
Foster 95 Zagadahock
John Apleton
85 Joseph Lynde 65
[John]
Higginson 91 _____________________________
Peter
Sergeant 82 At Large
Sam1
Partridge 69 1 Vote None chosen.
2d
voting 2
Vote
Ephraim Hunt
61 Edw. Bromfield 64
Nathanl
Norden 52 3d. vote Sam. Apleton 41
3d
vote which
brought him in; the voters
Andrew
Belchar 54. being now less in number.
For Col. Townsend had 42. in the first
voting for the Massachu-
sets. Finished about 1/4 past Ten.
May, 27.
I was with a Comittee in the morn at Mr.
Em
Hutchinsons, apointed the 10. of May; and so by
1708.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 225
God's good
providence absent when Mr. Corwin and
Cushing were
order'd to Thank Mr. Norton for his ser-
mon and
desire a Copy. About 6. p. m. The Govr bid
the
Secretary swear the Council: About 20.
were sworn;
Then the
Deputies were sent for in, and the Govr made
a
speech. When court was adjourn'd I enquired of Mr.
Secretary
what the Govr had done with the Election; and
he inform'd
me that He had Negativ'd Mr. Cooke and Mr.
Pain,1 which was never done in this secret way before that
I remember:
but used to be done openly in Council.
May, 27.
Mr. Joseph Noyes lodg'd at our House; I
gave him the
Broad Side of Boston streete, which came
out this
week: to shew him that he was in Newbury
Street.2 He pray'd with us very
well. Is in the 71 year
of's Age.
May, 31.
The Govr call'd a Council in the Morning,
and had
Capt. Chandler's Letter from Woodstock concern-
ing
Nenemeno, an Indian that went away ten years ago;
He said the
Govr has a Crooked heart, he has taken away
our Land,
and now would send us to Salt Water. He
first
enquired
after Ninequabben, who it seems was sent to sea
upon Wages
with his own Consent, and Taken. Govr and
Mr.
Secretary writ what was convenient.
In the afternoon the Govr went home indispos'd. Cou-
cil pass'd
an Act for altering the Style.3
1 Sewall has given us the detail of the
voting for members of the Council.
In the place
of Elisha Cooke and Nathaniel Paine, negatived by the Gov-
ernor, there
were chosen Daniel Epes and Joseph Church. -- EDS.
2 This broadside was doubtless an
official description of the "streets, lanes,
and
alleys" of the town as bounded and named by the Selectmen May 3,1708.
The first
item is "The broad street or highway from the old Fortification on
the neck,
leading into the town as far as the corner of the late Deacon Eliot's
house,
Orange Street." That is to say,
Washington Street, from a little
above Dover
Street, to Boylston Street. -- EDS.
3 This was not to mark the change in
dating the year from old style to
new style,
which was not to happen for nearly half a century, but only to
notice the
union of England and Scotland. The
Queen's title was declared
to be,
"Anne, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland,
Queen,
Defender of the Faith," &c. See
Province Laws, II. 622. -- EDS.
VOL. II.
226 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1708.
Deputies sent in Capt. Savage, Capt.
Hutchinson, Mr.
Patch, with
a Motion for a Comittee of both Houses to
prepare a
draught of an Address to Her Majesty; on sev-
eral heads;
viz. To Apologize for neglecting to
Address
so long,
&c.
This day, May, 31, Mr. Crease removes to
his' own new
shop next
Mr. Sergeant's: Nothing now to be seen
in his
former empty
place. Cousin Fisk must get a new
Tenant.
About the 23
or 24th. of June, Mr. Bromfield Rec'd a
Letter
without a name, putting him upon enquiring after
Debaucheries
at North's, the Exchange Tavern, and that
he should
ask my Advice. At last, June, 28. he got
in
writing what
North's Wife and Maid had to complain of.
I went to
Mr. Sill. Stoddard's; he put it into my hand,
and I read
it first, being surpris'd to find my self unac-
countably
abused in it: I told Mr. Bromfield, I
should not
meddle in
it, I must not be a Judge in my own Cause.
At last when
the matter was heard before Mr. Bromfield,
Townsend,
Dumer, by Mr. Banister's procurement, sundry
Gentlemen
were present, Capt. Tho. Hutchinson, Capt.
Edw. Winslow, and others, at Mr. Bromfield's; They gave
Mrs. North
and her Maid their Oaths, fin'd Mr. Tho. Ban-
ister junr 20s for Lying; 5s Curse, 10s Breach of the
peace for
throwing the pots and Scale-box at the maid,
and bound
him to his good behaviour till October sessions.
At the
latter end of the Court, I think about the first of
July, the
Dept's sent in for the Govr £200.; for Mr.
Treasurer
£225: at which the Govr was very angry, and
said he
would pass none of them, they would starve to-
gether. Sent for Mr. Taylor, Govr told him his Salary
would not be
pass'd, enquir'd whether he were ready to
serve.
July, 2.
Capt. Joseph Shelden dyes by reason of the
great Heat.
July, 3, is buried at the publick charge,
£21.6.1. Corps
was set in
the Depts Room.
In the afternoon I and Mr.
1708.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 227
Comissary
and one more were sent in with a Message to
shew the
Indignity of the Treasurer being above the Govr,
and carried
in both the Bills, and left them. In the
way
of argument
I mention'd the vastness of the Govrs Au-
thority; we
could not lift up hand or foot or step over a
straw; at
which the house was mightily heated and said,
They were slaves;
I explain'd my self, that nothing could
be pass'd
but what the Govr Sign'd.
Tuesday, July, 6. The Treasurer is sworn; the Depts
return the
Bills without any alteration. The Govr orders
the
Secretary who draws up a vote to shew that the
Council,
having done all in their power to increase the
Govrs Salary: but by reason of the length of the Sessions
were
necessitated to break. It was a Surprise
to me. I
said, I
could not tell what Benefit it would be of.
But
when it was
driven, I got it alter'd in the begining, to,
having used
the proper Means. Court is prorogued to
the first of
September.
July, 7.
I go to Cambridge by Water with Mr. Tapan
in Capt.
Boner; had a pleasant passage, wind and Tide
for us. Boston Troop waited on the Govr, and Cambridge
Troop, Capt.
Goff, met his Excellency. Exercise was
well
entered
before he came. Then the orator was
call'd.
At Diner I was surpris'd, being told my
Son was ill and
desired to
speak with me. I went to him in a Garret
in
the old
College, got Mr. Addington to us. After,
Mr.
Cooke came;
cheer'd my son and staid with him; they
left
us. Note. Heard not a jot of the Singing
in the
Hall. I got a Calash, and brought my son home by
Charlestown:
so I saw nothing of the Afternoon Exer-
cise,
Disputes, Presidents Oration, Degrees.
The Lord
prepare me
for Disapointments, Disgraces, Imprisonments.
July, 8.
Mr. Pemberton comes with Mr. Stoddard into
the
Pulpit. Mr. Stoddard preaches a good
Sermon against
building on the
Sand. Col. Foxcroft is made Judge of
Probats in
the room of Mr. Leverett.
228 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1708.
Feria secunda, July, 12, 1708. Mr. Sol. Stoddard re-
turns
home. In the Afternoon the Govr holds a Council,
and reads
Two Letters from White-Hall, dated May, 1707,
ordering the
Union to be published in the most solemn
maner; and
the Govr accordingly apointed Thorsday, the
22th Instt, for it. In the
former part of the Letter, the
Govr is
order'd to write to the Lords an Account of Things
here and
persons; sign'd Stamford, Dartmouth, Herbert,
Ph.
Meadows, J. Poultney.
May, 3.
The Queen gives an Instruction, that in ab-
sence of the
Govr and Dept. Govr, the eldest Councillor
shall
execute the Powers of the Governour. In
passing
the
Muster-Rolls, It apeared that Capt. Turfrey was al-
low'd for
wages at Saco when absent so as could not be
answer'd:
Govr said must be allow'd except would pull
his Teeth
out: Pleaded how many dead Souldiers, Mili-
tary
officers) were allow'd. I pleaded
against that Lying
way; and
pleaded the poverty of the Country.
Majr Genl Winthrop came home from N. London July,
10. and was
sworn and took his place at the Board this
day July 12.
1708. He pleaded that what the Queen
now orders,
was so before: But I cant understand the
Charter in
that maner. I believe we practis'd
right.
July, 24, 1708. Mrs. Anna Fisk dy's a little before
Sun-set.
July, 27. is buried at Braintrey in her
Husband's Tomb.
Govr and his Lady there. Bearers
Mr. Peter Thacher,
and Mr.
Peter Thacher of Weymouth; Mr. B. Tomson,
Mr. Belcher;
Mr. Danforth of Dorchester, Mr. Flint.
By
reason of
Cambridge Court I was not there. The
wether
was
vehemently hot, My Coach was there. I
rode to
Cambridge
with the Majr Genl. in
his Coach. Finis'd
the Court;
being but one Civil Action; viz. Ephraim
Savage
against Major Swain: Savage Cast in his
Review.
Court held
in the College Hall. Adjourned sine
die.
Visited Mr.
President's Sick Anne; twas almost dark, and
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 229
then staid
so long at the Govrs that twas about 11. at
night before
got home; Madam Winthrop staid at the
Govrs and came home with her Husband as went thither.
Govr carried her to the Funeral.
Monday, Augt. 9. 1708. I went to
Brooklin, and Din'd
there with
my Son and Daughter; Saw little Sam well.
Then went to
the Funeral of Mrs. Wigglesworth. The
Govr met me at my Sons Gate and carried me in his Char-
iot to
Cambridge, in his way to Col. Paiges, and so to
Ipswich. Bearers of Mrs. Wigglesworth, The President
and Mr.
Hobart; Mr. Thacher, Mr. Danforth Dolchr; Mr.
Brattle, Mr.
Walter. Only Col. Phillips and I of the
Council were
there: Mr. Speaker was there.
Feria tertia, Augt.
10. Mr. Fiske dies about Noon.
Feria quinta, Augt. 12. I rode with Cous.
Savage to
Mr. Fisk's
Funeral. Lighted at Cous. Quinsey's,
whether
came Mr.
Wadsworth, Mr. Colman, and Mr. George.
There we
din'd. Bearers Mr. Whitman, Mr. Thacher;
Mr. Danforth
of Dorchester, Mr. Belchar; Mr. Wads-
worth, Mr.
Thacher of Milton. There was little
Thunder;
and Rain;
but near and at Boston, much Rain, Thunder;
at
Dorchester a Barn was burnt by the Lightening.
Got
home well
about 8 a'clock, found all well; Laus Deo.
Feria sexta, Augt. 13. Mrs. Mary Stoddard dies;1 The
hot Wether
occasion'd her being open'd, and two great
Stones were
taken out of her Bladder. She was a
vertu-
ous
Gentlewoman, and one of the most kind Friends I and
my wife
had. Augt. 17th. Feria
Tertia. Mrs. Stoddard is
buried;
being the day of Genl Council, they accompanied
the Govr to the House of Mourning: Bearers, Sewall,
Addington;
Foster, Sergeant; Walley, Townsend. Was
buried in a
Tomb in the New-Burying place.
Feria quarta, Augt. 18. Yesterday the Govr comitted
1 This was Mary, first wife of Simeon
Stoddard, and mother of the young
man whose
death we have noticed, ante, p. 169. – EDS.
230 DIARY OF
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Mr.
Holyoke's Almanack to me; and looking it over this
morning, I
blotted against Febr. 14th. Valentine;
March, 25.
Annunciation
of the B. Virgin; Apr. 24,
Easter; Septr.
29. Michaelmas; Dec: 25.
Christmas; and no more.
(K. C. mart)
[King Charles Martyr] was lined out, before
I saw it; I
touched it not.
Feria quinta Augt.
12. Mr. Chiever is abroad and hears
Mr. Cotton
Mather preach; This is the last of his going
abroad: Was taken very sick, like to die with a
Flux.
Augt 13. I go to see him; went
in with his Son Thomas,
and Mr.
Lewis. His Son spake to him, and he knew
him
not: I spake to him, and he bid me speak again:
Then
if he said,
now I know you, and speaking cheerily men-
tion'd my
Name. I ask'd his Blessing for me and my
family; He
said I was Bless'd, and it could not be Re-
vers'd. Yet at my going away He pray'd for a Blessing
for me.
Feria quinta, Augt. 19. I visited Mr. Chiever
again,
just before
Lecture; Thank'd him for his Kindness to me
and mine;
desired his prayers for me, my family,
Boston,
Salem, the
Province. He rec'd me with abundance
of
Affection,
taking me by the Hand several times. He
said,
The
Afflictions of God's people, God by them did as a
Goldsmith,
Knock, knock, knock; knock, knock, knock,
to finish
the plate: It was to perfect them not to
punish
them. I went and told Mr. Pemberton, who preach'd.
Feria sexta, Augt. 20.
I visited Mr. Chiever, who was
now grown
much weaker, and his Speech very low. He
call'd,
Daughter! When his daughter Russel came,
He ask'd
if the
family were compos'd: They aprehended He
was
uneasy
because there had not been Prayer that morn;
and
solicited me to Pray; I was loth, and advis'd them to
send for Mr.
Williams, as most natural, homogeneous:
They
declin'd it, and I went to Prayer.
After, I told him
The last
Enemy was. Death; and God had made that
a
friend
too: He put his hand out of the Bed, and
held it
1708.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 231
Up, to
signify his assent. Observing, he suck'd
a piece of
an Orange,
put it orderly into his mouth, and chew'd it,
and then
took out the core. After dinner I
carried a few
of the best
Figs I could get, and a dish Marmalet. I
spake not to
him now.
Feria septima, Augt. 21. Mr. Edward Oakes
tells me
Mr. Chiever
died this last night.
Note.
He was born January, 25. 1614.
Came over to
N-E.
1637. to Boston: To New-Haven 1638. Married
in the Fall
and began to teach School; which Work he
was constant
in till now. First, at New-Haven, then
at
Ipswich; then
at Charlestown; then at Boston, whether
he came
1670. So that he has Labour'd in that
Call-
ing
Skillfully, diligently, constantly, Religiously, Seventy
years. A rare Instance of Piety, Health, Strength,
Ser-
viceableness. The Wellfare of the Province was much
upon his
Spirit. He abominated Perriwigs.
Augt. 23.
1708. Mr. Chiever was buried from the
School-house. The Govr,
Councillors, Ministers, Justices,
Gentlemen
there. Mr. Williams made a handsom Latin
Oration in
his Honour. Elder Bridgham, Copp,
Jackson,
Dyer,
Griggs, Hubbard &c. Bearers. After
the Funeral,
Elder
Bridgham, Mr. Jackson, Hubbard, Dyer, Tim.
Wads-
worth, Edw. Procter, Griggs and two more came to me,
and
earnestly solicited me to speak to a place of Scripture
at their
privat Quarter-Meeting in the room of Mr. Chiever.
I said,
'twas a great Surprise to me; pleaded my inability
for want of
memory, Invention: Said, doubted not of my
ability;
would pray for me. I pleaded the
Unsuitable-
ness,
because I was not of that Meeting. They
almost
took a
denial. But said one would come to me
next night.
Time is
near, Lords-day Senight. Argued much
because
thereby a
Contribution for poor Widows would be for-
warded.
Augt. 23.
mane, at Council, A Petition for building a
232 DIARY OF
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Quaker
Meeting house1 with Wood, pass'd by the Select-
men and
Justices of the Town; was now offer'd to the
Govr and Council: I oppos'd it; said I would not have a
hand in
setting up their Devil Worship. I
pleaded that
Mr. Dudley
had been at great Charge to Slate his House
Roof and
Sides; Govr listen'd to that, and said, we always
enquired of
the Neighbourhood to gain their Consent: so
Mr. Dudley
should be spoken with.
Augt 23. 2. p. m. Go to Cous. Dumer's, where Mr.
Wadsworth,
Mr. Cotton Mather pray'd excellently: then
Mr. Bridge
and Dr. Mather pray'd for Cous. Jer. Dumer
going to
England. Sung the 121 Ps. I set York
Tune.
Went from
thence to the Funeral. Mr. Allen and Mr.
Pemberton
did not pray. Few there; their little
Room
not full.
Augt. 26.
Mr. Henry Flint, in the way from Lecture
came to me
and mention'd my Letter, and would have,
discoursed
about it in the Street: I prevail'd with him to
come and
dine with me, and after that I and he discours'd
alone.
He argued that saying Saint Luke
was an indifferent
thing; and
twas comonly used; and therefore, he might
use it. Mr. Brattle used it. I argued that 'twas not
Scriptural;
that twas absurd and partial to saint Matthew
&c. and
Not to say Saint Moses, Saint Samuel &c. And
if we said Saint
we must goe thorough, and keep the Holy-
days
apointed for them, and turn'd to the Order in the
Comon-Prayer
Book.
1 Shurtleff shows that the Quakers first
had a brick meeting-house,
Oil
twenty-four by twenty feet, on a lot sold in 1694 by Thomas Brattle to Wil-
liam
Mumford. It was put into the hands of
trustees, who sold it July 27,
1709. It was in "Brattle's Close," near
the spot now covered by the Quincy
House. Jan. 5, 1708, Mumford bought of the heirs of
Governor Leverett a
lot of land
In Congress Street, Opposite Lindall Street, about fifty by one
hundred and
fifty feet in area. Here was their
meeting-house and cemetery"
till
1828. The Transcript building afterwards
occupied the site. --EDS.
1708.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 233
Augt. 27.
Mrs. Sarah Taylor, wife of Col. William Tay-
lor, died
last night. Col. Byfield gave her to him
in
Marriage.1
March, 2. 169 8/9 He has now only one Child living;
viz. Mrs.
Lyde who has Children.
Feria Septima, Augt.
28. 1708. Mrs. Taylor is buried
in Mr.
Stoughton's Tomb: Bearers, Col.
Foxcroft, Mr.
Palmer; Mr.
Newton, Mr. Mico; Mr. Pain, Mr. Harris.
Col. Byfield
there and Mr. Lyde with three Children.
Mr. Leverett
and wife; Mr. Brattle and wife; Mr. Angier
and
wife. Mr. Sergeant and Col. Hutchinson
were there
with their
wives as Relations.2 Govr
and his Lady, Majr
Genl Winthrop and his Lady, Mr. Secretary,
Sewall, Mr.
Em.
Hutchinson, Belchar, Mr. Bromfield there; and many
others. There was no Prayer at the House; and at the
Grave Mr.
Myles Read Comon-Prayer; which I reckon an
Indignity
and affront done to Mr. Stoughton and his
Friends: There apears much Ingratitude and Baseness in
it because
twas Mr. Danforth's Parish, and Mr. Danforth's
wife is
Cousin German to Col. Taylor: and Col. Byfield
and his
deceased daughter dissenters as I supose.
I was
much
surpris'd and grieved at it, and went not into the
burying
place. Majr Genl
said, Mr. Stoughton heard
them
not. Mr. Leverett went not in. He spake to me
about his
Letter, desiring a Copy of his Memorial.
I an-
1 Concerning Nathaniel Byfield, the
reader is referred to the Heraldic
Journal, II.
126. He was born in 1653, at
Long-Ditton, came to New
England in
1674, married Deborah Clark, and had two daughters. One
married
Lieutenant-Governor William Tailer, and had no issue; the other
married
Edward Lyde; and her son, Byfield Lyde, inherited most of his
grandfather's
estate. -- EDS.
2 The text throws some light on various
genealogies. Mrs. Deborah By-
field was
daughter of Thomas Clarke, Sen., and his son, Thomas Clarke, Jr.,
had a
daughter, who married Elisha Hutchinson.
Peter Sargent's third
wife (living
at this time) was Mehitable (Minot) widow of Thomas Cooper.
See ante,
p. 174. We have already shown that
Mehitable, and her sister
Elizabeth
Danforth, were own cousins of Lieutenant-Governor Tailer, on his
mother's
side. See Vol. I. p. 163, note. -- EDS.
234 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1708.
swered, I
knew not who brought the Letter. I writt
out
a Copy; but
he neither came for it himself, nor sent any
body. He ask'd not for it now: but said he intended
to
lay it
before the Company. The Govr
seem'd to haste
into the
burying place, when Mr. Miles's voice was heard.
Coming home
Mr. Belchar told me that the widow Park,
a very good
woman, in her 94th year, was buried last
Thorsday, at
Roxbury.
Lords-day, Augt. 29. 1708. about
4 p. m. An Express
brings the
News, the dolefull News, of the Surprise of
Haverhill by
150. French and Indians. Mr. Rolf and his
wife and
family slain. About Break of Day, Those
Words
run much in
my mind, I will smite the Shepherd, and the
Sheep shall
be scattered: What a dreadfull Scattering is
here of poor
Havarill Flock, upon the very day they used
to have
their solemn Assemblies. Capt.
Wainwright is
slam.
Augt. 31.
Feria tertia, I ride with Joseph, and visit Mr.
Hobart. I drove through Dana's Brook 1 to
let the Mare
drink, and
she lay down in it; so that Joseph and I were
fain to jump
into the Water up to the ankles; and then
had much
adoe to get her out. Din'd with Mr.
Hobart,
Mrs. Hobart,
Mrs. Jackson, Mr. Hobart's Daughter. Got
home with
difficulty: but our Wellcome there at Newton
made amends
for all. This day, Augt. 31. Mr. Rolf, his
Wife and
Child, and Capt. Wainwright were buried in one
Grave,
Several Ministers were there [Haverhill].
1 Although we have not located Dana's
Brook, it must have been in
Cambridge,
Brighton, or Newton. Undoubtedly it took
its name from some
member of
the family descended from Richard Dana.
The family history
states that
tradition says that the emigrant was the son of a Frenchman who
had been
driven to England to escape religious persecution, and that the
name Dana is
always a dissyllable, and distinct from Dane.
As a strong
confirmation
of this, we would state Agnew's "Protestant Exiles from
France"
(London, 1871) mentions (II. 207, 208) that Elias Daney, advo-
cate in the
Parliament of Bordeaux, had a daughter, Anne, born in 1669,
who became a
Huguenot refugee, and married in England.
Other members
of the same
family may well have shared her faith and preceded her in exile. -- EDS.
1708.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 235
Septr. 1. Went to the burial of Mr. Simson's only
daughter, 2
years and a few days old. Septr.
2. Mr. Col-
man preach'd
from Numb. 14. 19. pardon -- the iniquity
of this
people. -- Mr. Colman said he would not declare
what our
iniquities were; but propos'd that a Synod Might
be call'd to
do it. At 3. p. m. the Council meets,
from
thence they
goe to the Funeral of Mrs. Lyde, Col. By-
field's
eldest daughter. Remembring what I had
met with
at her
Sister's Burial at Dorchester last Satterday, I slipt
from the
Company up to my daughter's, and so went
home, and
avoided the Funeral. The office for
Burial is
a Lying,
very bad office; makes no difference between
the precious
and the vile. Jer. XV. 19. They ought to
return to
us, and not we go to them by sinfull Compli-
ances. Mrs. Lyde was in the Thirtieth, and Mrs.
Taylor
in the 26th
year of her Age: born in January and Febru-
ary.
7r. 3. I
went to the Funeral of Mrs. Whetcomb's Grand-
daughter;
who is also Grand daughter to Col. Townsend.
I used to go
to the same Room for the Sound of Mr. Brat-
tle's
Organs.
7r. 5. Mr. Pemberton preaches, and administers the
Lords
Supper. 7r. 6. I
Train under Capt. Fitch, and by
that means
dine with Majr Turner at North's.
He was, I
think, the
only Guest. Mr. N. Williams pray'd in
the
field in the
morn; and Mr. Allen at his own Gate, p. m.
As were
Shooting at the Mark, the Rain oblig'd us to put
on our
Cloaks. Went to Capt. Lieut.
Ballentines; made
an excellent
Volley at Lodging the Colours, Mada Bal-
lentine
rec'd them in at window. Mr. Hirst
brings word
that Mr. La
Bloom has set up another Window on the
partition-wall
behind him and me, that stands half on my
Ground. 7r. 7th. I view it, and advise about it; all say
tis
unjust. 7r. 8th. Last night we were alarm'd by Fire be-
tween 2 and
3. in the night. I look'd out at our
South-east
Window, and
fear'd that our Warehouse was a-fire:
But
236 DIARY OF SAMUEL SEWALL. [1708.
it proves a
smith's shop, Hubbard's by Mr. Dastom's, and
a
Boat-builders Shed; 'Tis thought a Hundred pounds
Damage is
done. Blessed be God it stop'd
there. Mr.
Pemberton's
Maid saw the Light of the Fire reflecting
from a Black
Cloud, and came crying to him under Con-
sternation;
suposing the last Conflagration had begun.
7r. 8
or 7th.
I order, Mr. Hirst to speak to Mr. Labloom
to take away
his Window. 7r. 9th. I
meet the Workman
by Mr.
Pemberton's Gate, and forewarn him from making
of it; and
warn him off the Ground, and threaten to take
away his
scaffolding if he proceed. I speak to
Mr. Pem-
berton that
a Day of Prayer may be kept respecting his
Health. It was mov'd last night at Mr. Josiah
Franklin's
[Father of
Benjamin] at our Meeting, where I read the
Eleventh
Sermon on the Barren Fig-Tree.
Tis the first time of Meeting at his House
since he
join'd.
7r.
9. Mr. C. Mather Preaches from 2
Tim. 3. 15. In
the end of
his sermon gives a great Encomium of his Mas-
ter
Cheever. Mr. Hirst goes to Salem to-day.
Satterday, 7r. 11th.
Mr. Corwin and I set out for
Wrentham. David waited on me. Visited Mr. Belchar
who is
Recovering. At Meadfield, Capt. Wear's
son met
with us in
his way from Sherburn, and accompanied us to;
Wrentham,
which was a great comfort to us; got thither before
sun-set.
7r. 12.
Heard Mr. Mann preach excellently.
Mr. Cor-
win is much
Taken with him. At Noon are told of Mr.
B. Ruggles's
death.
7r. 13.
Capt. Weare accompanied us; At Rehoboth I
visited
Capt. Peck, who was very glad to see me; so much
of the flesh
and bone of his uper Jaw is eaten away with
the Canker,
that he has much adoe to speak so as to be
understood;
the want of the uper part of his Mouth dis-
ables him
from making articulat Sounds. Din'd at
Smith's;
where Mr.
Greenwood was, but could not stay, because of
1708.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 237
Sick he had
to visit. Before got out of the Green,
Mr.
Cooke
overtook us. Lodge at the Ordinary.
7r. 14th. Mr. Corwin, Dudley and I
visited Col. Byfield
and Lady in
a way of Condolance on account of the Death
of their
Daughters. Major Walley came not to Town
till
past One; By
that time had din'd, being a little hindred
by Col.
Byfield's employing the Sheriff to send Express of
the
Privateer, was four p. m. before the Court was open'd,
which the
people murmur at. This Express brought
News
of Major
Brenton's Death; in a Hospital, it seems, at Cam-
peche, where
he was a Captive. Col. Byfield, Mr.
Spar-
hawk, Mr.
Fisk dine with us.
7r. l5th. Mr. Sparhawk, Mr. Church, the Councillour,
Capt.
Fyfield dine with us. Court holds so
late, that we
lodge at
Bristol.
7r.
16. The Sheriff and Capt. Davis bring us
going to
the Ferry.
Dine at Rehoboth; Bait at Devotion's: get
to Bil-
linges a
pretty while after Sun-set, where we lodge; viz.
Walley,
Corwin, Sewall, Dudley.
7r. 17.
Friday, bait at Dedham, get home about One,
and dine
with my wife and family, all well. Laus
Deo.
7r. 18.
Visit Cous. Dummer's wife, who lyes speechless,
was taken
last Wednesday night; which we heard of at
Billenges.
7r. 19.
Mary Winthrop is baptised, her Father held
her up: She bears the name of his Mother, who dyed in
June,
1690. The child was born yesterday. Madam
Dudley was
hastening to the Travel as we came home;
and was at
our Meeting this afternoon, and Mr. Paul
Dudley.
Feria secunda, Sept: 27.
1708. I went to the Funeral
of Mr. John
Wainwright, son of Col. Francis Wainwright;
He was a
Senior Sophister, in the 18th year
of his Age.
What cause
of humble Thankfullness have I, who liv'd 7.
years of my
Life at the College; had Leave to come away;
238 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1708.
and have
liv'd 34. years since that! The Corps
was set
in the
College Hall. Gentlewomen in the
Library: Bear-
ers, Major
Epes, Mr. Holyoke &c. Twas in a
mailer dark
before got
out of the burying place; yet I got home very
well in a Calash
with the Wainwright that is prentice
with Mr.
Harris. Laus Deo.
Septr.
28. A very pretty Boy of 4 years old,
Son of
Saml Rand, grandson of Wm
Pain, was flourishing at Train-
ing this
day; fell into a scurvy open Privy before night;
of which
loathsom Entertainment he died in a day or two.
Septr.
30. Mr. Pemberton preaches the
Lecture. Coun-
cil for
Appointmt of a Judge for Bristol. The
Govr gets
2000£ past
for Capt. Belchar. Nominats Col. Church:
I said there
was a letter: Govr said he could not name
him: He went from house to house to get Mr.
Blagrove
chosen
Deputy; that was the reason. The Govr made a
motion that
the Genl Court might be prorogued further, past
the time of
the Superiour Court's sitting: See News Let-
ter, Oct.
25, 1705. Some objected the wether would
grow
cold. Then the Govr mov'd that Boston Superiour
Court might
be adjourn'd to the last Tuesday of Novr, and
Salem Court,
to the first of Decr.
Said he could not miss
the Judges
in the Genl Court: So at the Governours Im-
portunity
the Council advis'd to it. Majr Genl is indis-
pos'd and
keeps his Chamber, I wait upon him with the
order the
same Evening: He puts me in mind of the
Trial of Mr.
Borland: and that Capt. Vetch is expected
with my Lord
Lovelace: so that now I supose I see through
the
Governour's Dissimulation. Major Genl seems to de-
cline
signing a Writt for Adjournment because he shall be
absent at
Connecticut during the time of the Court's Sit-
ting.
Tuesday, Octr. 5. Went to Dorchester
Lecture. This
day Cousin
Elizabeth Noyes is buried at Newbury, died of
a Fever
yesterday; is under 26 years of Age: Has left
3 sons and a
daughter.
1708.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 239
Octr. 7th. Mr. Cotton Mather preaches from Job, 37.14.
on occasion
of the victory 1 which heard of the 5th Inst.
Sister
Hirst, Mrs. Betty Hirst, Mr. Thacher, Mr. Clap dine
with us.
8r. 8th. Went to Newtown Lecture,
din'd at Mr. Hub-
bard's; then
Walked with him; Mrs. Jackson went on
foot. In sermon-time Govr and his Lady, Capt.
Belchar
and his, Mr.
Pemberton, Mr. Colman and theirs, came in.
Mr. Hobart
preached excellently, from Luke, 17. 10.
Say, we are
Unprofitable Servants. – 113th.
psalm sung,
Y.[ ork?]
then 122 L. to delay the Sermon; the speaker
having
conferr'd with Mr. Hobart just as was going to
begin. I got home before Eight, about an hour before
the Coaches;
I think twas before 7.
Feria Sexta, Octob: 15, 1708. In the Afternoon I vis-
ited Capt.
Nathan1 Green, who is near 80. years old. Has
been a
Prisoner in his house almost two years by reason
of
Sickness. He was refresh'd with my
Company. He is
a Suffolk
man. His Mother brought him over about
9.
years old:
serv'd his Time with old Mr. Graften of Salem;
has been
married one and Fifty years.
Octr.
15. Mr. Hirst, Sister Sewall, and
daughter Susan;
my Daughter
Hanah, and Cous. Betty Hirst go to Cam-
bridge to
see Joseph.
Octobr. 18th. Mr. Bromfield, Stoddard,
Sewall, Joseph,
ride in the
Coach to Dorchester, to the Funeral of Elder
Samuel Clap,
who is much lamented. He was the first
man born in
Dorchester, 74 years old.2
Saw Mrs. Wing
by the way;
she lies in a very sad distracted condition.
1 Probably the Battle of Oudenarde, July
11, N. S. -- EDS.
2 Concerning him, see the Memoirs of
Captain Roger Clap, published
first in
1731, and several times since. The
Dorchester Antiquarian and His-
torical
Society printed an edition in 1844) in which we read that Mr.
Samuel Clap
was born the eleventh day of October, 1634, when his mother
was but in
the eighteenth year of her age. He
roamed Mrs. Hannah
Leeds,
daughter of Mr. Richard Leeds, of Dorchester.
He died about
eight days
after his wife, on Oct. 16, 1708, being about seventy-four years
old."
-- EDS.
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Octobr. 20. Capt. Anthony Checkley buried in a Tomb
in the New
Burying place. Bearers, Winthrop, Cook;
Elisha
Hutchinson, Sewall; Addington, Lynde of Charles.
town.
Octobr. 22. Feria sexta, I mentioned in full
Council the
Adjournment
of the Super. Court to the last of
Novem-
ber; That when twas advis'd by the Govr and Council
Septr. 30. I was not aware that
the Trials of Mr. Borland
were to be
brought on by order of Her Majesty; that
May-Court
was pass'd over already, and I doubted the
Conveniency
of adjourning the Court to a further day:
especially
because the Super. Court of Boston did not use
to be
adjourn'd by reason of the Genl
Court's Sitting.
The Govr
seem'd earnest that we should Adjourn; Sev-
eral of the
Council back'd the Govr. and no body Spake
for holding
the Court at the usual Time. Col.
Hutchin-
son and
Foster particularly, spake that the former Advice
might
stand. So that we saw if we held the
Court, we
must in a
maner do it Vi and Armis.
And the Govr said
plainly,
that if we would not Adjourn the Super. Court,
He would
Adjourn the Gen1 Court.
And it was consid-
ered, that
the Governour was ordered by the Queen to
bring
forward the Trial of Mr. Borland; and if any thing
should fail,
the Governour would lay the blame upon the
justices of
the Super. Court, for not observing his Advice
in
adjourning the Court: and Mr. Attorney being his Son,
He had
advantage in his hand to cast that blame upon us.
So all, but
Major Walley, agreed to adjourn the Court.
He was not
present at our Consultation. I advis'd
Mr.
John Clark
of this a day or two before; to see if the
Deputies
would move. I mov'd that the Deputies
might
be advis'd;
it concern'd them; that the Gen1
Court might
give order
about it; or at least the Deputies might signify
their Liking
of it. The Govr utterly refused.
Octr.
22. Mr. Saml Phillips's daughter of about 7 years
old, is
buried: Six Bearers. Mr. Sergeant and I walk'd
together to
the Funeral.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 241
Octobr. 23. We adjourn the Super.
Court: Chief J us-
tice and I
sign for Salem Court, and send it by Mr. Epes
to be sign'd
by Col. Hathorne, and Mr. Corwine; they
were slipt
away. Chief Justice, Sewall, Walley sign
for
Boston
Court; and about 3. p. m. I give the
Warrant to
Mr. Sheriff;
and send an Advertisement to Mr. Campbell.
Wednesday, 8r. 27, 1708. My wife is taken very sick
as she was
last April; taken with Shaking and intolerable
pain in her
Brest. Majr Genl visits her and she takes
some of his
powder; but is cast up so soon, that it works
little. Great Rain.
Dr. Noyes visits and administers:
on Friday
grows better, Laus Deo.
Monday, Novr. 1. Govrs best Horse dyes in his Pasture
at Roxbury
as goe to Dedham. Bouroughs, a worsted-
comber, was
at Mr. Colman's Meeting on the L. day p. m.,
went
homeward towards Roxbury in the night; got be-
yond the
Salt-ponds, and fell down a-cross the Cart path
in the Mud,
and there perished; was found dead on Mon-
day morn,
Novr 1.
And tho the Coroner did his Office
in the
Morning; yet the Corps lay as a sad spectacle,
gazed on
till late in the Afternoon.
Govr
calls and smokes a pipe with my wife at night
9r. 1.
Novr. 4. Mr.
Cotton Mather preaches from Jno 20.
19.
Govr not in Town. In the
Evening Col. Checkly, Lt Col.
Winthrop,
and Major Savage came to me, and acquainted
me that the
Guards for the Prison would be dismiss'd to
morrow; the
Govr sent them to tell me so. Now I ob-
jected to
the Bill about Odell, that no mention was made
in it of any
Person at the Castle to receive him, and that
might be
oblig'd to have him forth-coming when the
Court should
demand him.
Friday, Novr. 5. At the Conference this
day about
weighing
Hay, Measuring Boards, Searching Turpentine,
&c. As the Majr Genl had desired, the Govr
mentioned
Odell's
business before the whole Court; and the chief
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Justice said
nothing could be done upon that Act, it did
not direct
the Justices what to do. I said I could
not
have a hand
in sending a man to that place where a Ha-
beas Corpus
could not demand him. Deputies seem'd to
incline to
laying the Bill aside, and having him kept in
the prison
where he is; it should be made more strong.
The Govr plainly said before that the Justices might not
send him
thither; nor send for him thence: and he had
them words
added in the Margin -- (in order to his being
sent) -- for
fear it should be interpreted that the Justices
sent him by
the sheriff: The Govr would give his order,
without
which it could not be. Chief Justice
said at the
Conference,
The man would be put out of the Law; which
he and I had
discoursed of before.
Novr. 15.
16: Our Malt-House by the Mill-Crick is
Raised.
Second-day, Novr. 15. 1708. Mr. Attorney
Genl en-
quired
whether Odel might not have the Liberty of the
yard upon
Bail. I answer'd, I supos'd the Law was
made
only in
favour of Debtors, not Criminals. And
calling for
the
Law-Book, it plainly apear'd so to be by the preamble,
and body of
the Law, and Mr. Davenport also observ'd
the Law was
now Expired. It is to me amazing, that
Mr.
Attorney
should speak of Bailing such a man as Odel,l who
is in a
maner Hostis Humani Generis! Quid non
mor-
talia
pectora cogit Auri sacra fames? 2 Me thinks now I
see the
reason why the Govr desired to have Odel at the
1 The warrant now preserved in Mass.
Archives, lib. LXXI. f. 474, is "to
commit to
Castle William, Thomas Odell, now a prisoner in the Gaol under
a sentence
to twelve months imprisonment, and to pay a fine of £300, for
being
concerned, with others, in counterfeiting and uttering false bills of
credit on
this Province." It seemed, also,
that he had once broken prison and
escaped, and
was charged with since committing various thefts, and "being
a very
dangerous person." It was suggested
"that some ill-minded persons
were
contriving again to work his escape."
Hence he was to be sent to
Castle
William, "there to be straitly confined until he perform the above
sentence,"
&c. -- EDS.
2 Virgil, AEn. III. 56. In the original it is cogis. -- EDS.
1708. ] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 243
Castle of
his own sending thither; and so as a Habeas
Corpus might
not affect him there.
Novr. 20.
1708. Sent by Aspinwall of Brooklin,
Three
Bushels of
Salt; one for Madam Oliver, one for Mr. Brat-
tle, one for
the President. Writt to Col. Higginson
about
the Salt
sold him, expecting an Answer by Monday.
Gave
Madam Brown
one of the Verses on Mr. Clap, for her-
self,
another for Mr. Benj. Brown.
Novr.
19. Visited Madam Saffin, and rec'd of
her 20s.,
towards
Tiverton Meetinghouse.
Novr.
19. A Ship wherein Mr. Bromfield is much
con-
cern'd is
taken by a Sloop from Port-Royal, as she was
Turning out
of the Cape-Harbour. Had not notice of
it
till Tuesday
about 10. m: Order'd Capt. Southack to go
out after
them in a sloop that outsail'd the other.
Novr.
24. Joseph comes to Town. 25. Mr. Pember-
ton preaches
excellently. Dine in my wives Chamber at
the great
Oval Table; Sat. down, My wife, Mrs. Betty
Hirst,
Hanah, Elisa H., Mary, Mr. Hirst, Capt. Nathl
Niles,
Joseph, Sam
and Jonathan Sewall, my self; Eleven in all.
Novr. 26. is so windy, and Cold, that Joseph goes not
home till
27. with Sir Oakes. I give Sir Oakes 20s Cash
to buy some
Necessaries, his father is so far off.
Novr.
28. Mrs. Anne Winthrop is propounded, in
order
to be rec'd
into the Church.
Novr.
30. Feria tertia, Last night Sir
Charles Hobbey
comes home
to his own house about eleven at night;
Came from
Portsmouth about the 7th.
of Octobr.
Lisle
not Taken;
Sir William Ashurst and Mr. Higginson are
well. Came out with the Queen of Portugal; and my
Lord
Lovelace for New York. I call'd upon Sir
Charles
in the
mornin and bad him Wellcom.
Decr. 5.
1708. Mr. Nathanael Gookin preaches in
the
forenoon; I
think every time he mention'd James, twas
with
prefixing Saint: about 4 or 5 times that I took no-
tice
of. I suppose he did it to confront me,
and to assert
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his own
Liberty. Probably, he had seen the
Letter I
writt to Mr.
Flint. Spake also of Reverence in Gods
Worship; he
may partly intend being Cover'd in Sermon-
Time: It had better becom'd a person of some Age
and
Authority to
have intermeddled in things of such a nature.
Quadam
Confidentia non est virtus, at audacia.
Decr.
6. Major Genl and I set out for Salem; had a
good passage
over Winnisimet Ferry, and Comfortable
Journey: yet
setting out late, got not. thither till about
6. in the
evening.
Decr. 7th. Hold the Court. Note.
Mr. Benjamin Brown
dyes just
about three aclock p. m., Mr. Noyes being call'd
to him,
Major Genl Winthrop and I followed, and heard
him pray
with him, as he lay groaning. In the
evening
were invited
to see his Will open'd, and hear it read;
which we did
at his house.
Wednesday, Decr. 8. The Court is adjourned
sine die.
Were fain to
use Candles before we got out of Pratt's
Chamber. Note.
This evening Mr. Noyes pray'd last,
and spake
last, with the aged and excellent Divine, Mr.
John
Higginson.
Feria quinta, Decr. 9. Snowy stormy Wether. The
Majr Genl comes to Brothers, and tells me he would
not
take his
Journey that Wether, so I also agree to stay.
As
we were at
Diner at my Brother's Paul Doliver calls Mr.
Noyes,
saying his Grandfather slept so they could not
Wake
him. Mr. Noyes answer'd, He would come
as soon
as he had
dined; (Wedin' d late) He and I went together:
but before
we got thither, the good man was got to a
blessed
State of Rest. He expired 2 or 3 Minutes
before
we got into
the room. Note. A good Christian Woman
of Salem, 92
years old, died the same day Mr. Higginson
did. I had sent home David in the morning with Mr.
Dudley, and
Cook; and now I began to resolve to stay the
Funerals. I consider'd I had order'd my Brother to be
sure to send
me Word of Mr. Higginson's Death; and now
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 245
I my self
was one of the first Witnesses of it. Col. John I p
Higginson is
at Boston, to whom an Express is sent.
Feria tertia, Decr. 10. a very Cold day, and the snow
fiercely driven
with the Wind. Majr Genl calls at my
Brother's,
and tells me he was going home; he thought his
Children
would hardly come else: I told him he
might
write to Mr.
Sergeant, and he would bring them. When
I saw he
would needs go, I told him his Courage exceeded
mine as much
as the title of a Major Genl did
that of
a
Captain. He had a very hard difficult
Journey, and
told some he
met, he would not have undertaken it for
£100. if he
had known it had been so bad.
Feria Septima, Decr. 11th.
Bror Hirst invites me to
Diner, there
dine also Mr. Noyes, Mr. Woolcot, and my
Brother. Sister Hirst, and Cousin Betty sat down. Bror
Hirst kept
in the warm end of the House by the fire,
being sick
of the Gout. Note. This day my dear Grand-
son, Samuel
Sewall, was taken sick at Brooklin.
Lord's day, Decr. 12. Mr. Noyes preaches in
the fore-
noon from a
Text he formerly had taken He that sets
his hand to
the plough and looks back. -- Spake consider-
ably of Mr.
Higginson especially; and of Mr. Brown.
Mr. George
Corwin preaches in the Afternoon from Rev.
14.13. Blessed are the dead. -- Mr. Noyes put him
upon
giving the
Blessing. I dined at my Brother's.
Feria Secunda, Decr. 13th. Had Fish for diner at
Broth-
er's; which
was put by the 7th. day.
I call'd for Honey,
and Mr.
Noyes and all, seem'd to aprove of it.
Mr. Ben-
jamin Brown
is buried; Tho. Bernard came in the morn-
ing from his
Master, Major Brown junr, and invited me to
be a
Bearer. Bearers, Hathorne, Sewall; Corwin,
Jno
Appleton;
Col. Higginson, Majr Stephen.
Sewall. The
(Ministers
present had Scarvs. Was laid in his
father's
Tomb at the
Burying Point. Mr. John Winthrop told me
of my
Grandson's illness.
Feria tertia, Decr. 14. The Apletons, Mr.
Rogers, and
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SAMUEL SEWALL. [1708.
Mr. Fitch
dine at my Brother's. In the afternoon,
the
aged and
Excellent Divine Mr. John Higginson is laid in
Govr Bradstreet's Tomb: Bearers, Mr. Chiever, Mr. Noyes;
Mr.
Shepherd, Mr. Gerrish; Mr. Blowers, Mr. Green.
Are all of
that Association, and wear their own Hair.
Was laid in
the Tomb a little before Sunset, had a very
Serene, and
very Cold Aer; And yet the Ipswich Gentle-
men went
home, having lodg'd in Salem the night before.
Mr. Shepherd
lodges with me.
Feria quarta, Dec: 15. I take leave of my Brother;
gave
Margaret 10s., Susan, 5s., Jane 3s., Mehetabel, 1s.,
Mitchel, 1s, Henry; 1s., Stephen, 1s., Nurse, 3s., Scipio, 2s. 6d.
I and Mr.
Corwin rode in Mr. Kitchen's slay to the Butts; :.
the Curtains
defended us from the most Sharp, and Oppo-
site
Wind. At the Butts took our Horses and
got com-
fortably to
Lewis's, where Capt. Norden fell in with us; a
good fat
tender Goose was ready rosted. Capt.
Norden,
Mr. Jno.
Winthrop and his Sister, Col. Taylor, Mr. Lich-
more
there. Note. I crav'd a Blessing, and return'd
Thanks, not
thinking of Mr. Corwin till had begun to re-
turn Thanks,
then I saw him, and it almost confounded;
me -- I
crav'd his pardon, and paid his Club, saying I had
defrauded
the Company. I intended to go by
Cambridge;
but by the
way I was told the Ferry was passable; and so
I alter'd my
mind; and went with Capt. Norden, and Mr.
Bayly to
Charlestown: the Boat was ready, and had as
comfortable
a passage over, as if it had been September;
entred my
own House about an hour before Sun-Set, found
all well, Laus
Deo. Privat-Meeting at our
House. The
Condition of
my Grandson was comended to God. Capt.
Hill
return'd Thanks for my safe Return home.
Decr. 16.
very Cold and Lecture day, that I could not
tell how to
travail over the Neck so soon after my former
Journey. Decr.
17. Court sits and only 3 JustIces,
which
hindered my
going to Brooklin. And Alas! Alas! sev-
enth-day Decr. 18,
News is brought that the poor Child is
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 247
Dead about
an hour by sun mane. Alas! that I
should
fail seeing
him alive! Now I went too late, save to
weep
with my
Children, and kiss, and mourn over my dear
Grandson. My son desired me to pray with his family;
which I
did. Madam Dudley, the Govrs Lady, Mrs. Kath-
arin, and
Mrs. Mary came in while I was there; and
brought my
little Rebekah with them. Call'd at the
Gov-
ernour's as
came home. Seem to agree to bury the
child
next fourth
day. I mention'd its being best to bury
at
Roxbury, for
my son to keep to his own parish. Govr
said I might
put the Child in his father's Grave if I pleas'd.
Got home
well in my slay, had much adoe to avoid Slews.
Laus Deo.
My son perceiving the Governour's
aversion to have the
child buried
at Roxbury, writes to me of it. I go to
the
Governour's
on Tuesday, and speak about Bearers, He
leaves it to
me; so does my son; as I come home I speake
for Sir
Ruggles, Timo Ruggles, son of Martha Woodbridge,
my ancient
acquaintance and townswoman; and Col.
Checkley's
son for the other. Wednesday, Decr 22,1708.
My dear
Grandson, Saml Sewall, is buried; Son and daugh-
ter went
first: Then Govr and I; then Madam Dudley
led by Paul
Dudley esqr; Then Joseph and Hanah; Then
Mr. Wm. Dudley and daughter Hirst -- Major Genl and
his Lady
here with their Coach -- Mr. Bromfield, Stoddard
&c. Gave Mr. Walter a Lutestring scarf, Bearers,
Capt.
Noyes, Mrs.
Bayley, scarves. Decr. 30. Daughter Hirst
is much
oppress'd with a Fear of Death; desires to speak
with me: I
go to her presently after Lecture, and dis-
course with
her, and she seems better compos'd.
Seventh-
day, Jany 1. Is a very pleasant
day. Jany 2. Cloudy
cold
day. Mr. Bromfield is pray'd for, who is
in much
pain by
reason of his disorder'd great Toe; was very ill
last
Lecture-day. Elder Bridgham lyes
sick. Dr. Mather
is kept in
by the Gout.
xr. 31.
Feria sexta, Comittee meets for incorporating
248 DIARY OF
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8/9.
the
Town. Mr. Bridgham was absent, being
taken sick
that day.
Midweek, Jany. 5. Mr. Cotton Mather
visits me, then
(Mr. Mather
not gon) Sir Charles Hobby visits me: While
they were
[here] Capt. Chandler tells me in the entry
that elder
Bridgham was dead; I come in and tell it the
Company.
Jany. 6th. presently after Lecture, the Act of Parliament
regulating
Coin,l is published by Beat of Drum and Sound
of
Trumpet. In Council a Spaniard's
petition is read
praying his
Freedom. Govr refers it to the Judges.
Mr.
Cook
notifies Capt. Teat to apear to morrow.
Jany. 7. Pe-
tition is
read, Capt. Teat pleads the Govr told
him he was
a Slave;
Capt. Teat alledg'd that all of that Color were
Slaves:
Obliges to have the man forth-coming at Charles-
town Court.
Jany
8. My worthy friend Mr. Bridgham is
buried:
Bearers Mr.
Cook, Col. Hutchinson; Elder Cop, Deacon
Jn° Marion;
Deacon Isaiah Tay, Deacon Thomas Hub-
bard. Is buried in the Old burying place: Went up by
Mr. Dudley's
House into King street, and so up between
the
Town-house and Mr. Phillip's. He was a
Righteous,
Mercifull,
publick-Spirited man, very usefull in the Town:
was born the
17th Jany 165
½ The Lord sanctify this awful
sudden
Stroak; and help us duly to lay it to heart.
Note.
Mr. Bridgham buried a Carolina Indian Man last
Monday; and
another the Monday before; One about 30.
the other 40
years of Age, which he bought not a year
ago.
Feria tertia, Jany. 11. Dr. John Chip is
buried in the
New burying
place. Bearers, Deacon Hubbard, Mr.
Pitts;
Dr. Clark,
Foyes; Dr. Stephenson, Groundsill.
Feria quinta, Jany 13th. 170 8/9 Mr. Bridge
preaches
1 Probably 6 Anne, c. 30, "An act for
ascertaining the rates of foreign
coins in her
Majesty's plantations in America."
This was to have effect
after the
first day of May, 1709. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 249
from Gen.
12. 2. Seem'd to make it with respect to
Elder
Bridgham;
112. Psalm sung; part of it. Use. Its a frown
of God when
such remov'd. Should not succumb, but be
more
active. Note. Mr. Colman went and sat in the
pulpit this
day. It seems Deacon Avery, a very
worthy
man, died
the last Moneth.
Jany.
24th. I propound to
Joseph to pray with his
Mother and
me for his Sister Mary; he declines it and I
pray, and
was assisted with considerable Agony and Im-
portunity
with many Tears. The Lord hear and help.
Jany. 28.
I went to Mr. Hubbard's Lecture.
He preach'd
from Philip.
3. 3. Excellently. It begun to rain as came
out of the
Meetinghouse. So I took leave of Mr.
Hub-
bard and
came home well by Day-light, though there was a
great
Fogg. Laus Deo. John Trowbridge assisted me
in setting
up my Horse and helping me to him again
when I came
away.
Satterday, Jany 29. Our Tenant, Nurse Smith, is taken
sick.
Jany 31.
Mr. Spensar calls here, and I enquire of him
about Mr.
Gerrish of Wenham, what he should say; He
answer'd not
directly; but said his Cousin would come if
he might
have admittance. I told him I heard he
went
to Mr.
Coney's daughter. He said he knew
nothing of
that: I
desired him to enquire, and tell me. I
under-
stood he
undertook it; but he came no more.
Febr. 2. Note.
Smith dyes. 3d. Sore Storm of Snow;
Mr.
Pemberton preaches.
Febr. 4th. Nurse Smith buried. Coming from the Grave
I ask'd Mr.
Pemberton whether S. Gerrish courted Mr.
Coney's
daughter; he said No; not now. Mr. Coney
thought his
daughter young.
Febr. 5. Storm of Snow, and I goe not out.
Febr.
6. is a Comfortable day. Febr. 7th. I deliver a Let-
ter to S.
Gerrish to inclose and send to his father, which
he promises
to doe.
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Febr. 8th. Sub-Comittee meets about drawing up a
Charter. Febr. 9th.
Midweek, Mrs. Hanah Glover dies
in the 76th year of her Age; was widow of Mr. Habakkuk
Glover,
daughter of Mr. John Eliot, who married here,
and this
daughter was born at Roxbury in the Fall 1633,
just about
the time Mrs. Rock was born. So that
this
Gentlewoman,
though born in N. E. pass'd not only 60.
but 70.
years, and became a Great Grandmother in our
Israel.
Feria Sexta, Febr. 11th. 170 8/9 Mrs. Hanah Glover is
buried in a
Tomb in the New burying place. Bearers,
Winthrop,
Sewall; Addington, Sergeant; Fayerwether,
Checkly: Very Cold day.
Febr. 17. I receive Mr. Gerrishes Letter just at night.
Febr. 18th. I leave Word at Mr. Gerrishes shop that I
would speak,
with him after Mr. Bromfield's Meeting was
over. He came and I bid him wellcom to my house as
to
what his
father writt about. So late hardly fit
then to
see my
daughter, apointed him to come on Tuesday, in-
vited him to
Super; I observ'd he drunk to Mary in the
third
place. Febr. 23. When I came from the Meeting
at Mr.
Stephens's I found him in the Chamber, Mr. Hirst
and wife
here. It seems he ask'd to speak with
Mary
below; her
Mother was afraid because the fire was newly
made: and
Mr. Hirst brought him up. This I knew
not
of: He ask'd me below, whether it were best to
frequent
my House
before his father came to Town: I said
that
were the
best introduction: but he was wellcom to come
before, and
bid him come on Friday night. Febr. 24.
Mr.
Hirst tells
me Mr. Gerrish courted Mr. Coney's daughter:
I told him I
knew it, and was uneasy. In the evening
daughter
Hirst came hether, I supose to tell that Mr.
Gerrish had
courted Mr. Coney's daughter: and if she
should have
Mr. Stoddard, she would mend her market.
Friday,
Febr. 25. Madam Winthrop, Oliver, and
Mico
visit my
wife. In the evening S. Gerrish comes
not; we
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expected
him, Mary dress'd her self: it was a painfull
disgracefull
disapointment. Febr. 26. Satterday, Sam
Gerrish goes
to Wenham unknown to me, till Lords-day
night Capt.
Greenleaf told me of it. He was not seen
by
us till
Wednesday March 2, David saw him. March,
5.
Satterday, I
go to Brooklin, and visit my son and daugh-
ter Sewall,
who is sick. March, 7. I pay Mr. Minott his
Account. March, 8.
I visit Mr. Cotton Mather.
March, 9.
Meeting at Mr. Stoddard's. Mr. B.
Pember-
ton
dyes. March, 10. Go to Mr. C. Mather's. March, 11th.
S. Gerrish
calls here. March, 12. Mr. B. Pemberton bur-
ied;
Bearers, Capt. Fitch, Mr. Harris; Mr. Cutler, Mr.
Noyes; Mr.
Edw Winslow, Mr. Wentworth.
Simson, the
Brickmaker,
dyes. March, 14. The Reverd Mr. Joseph
Gerrish
comes to our house in the evening. Dines
with
us March
15th Tuesday. At night his Son comes,
and
Mary goes to
him. Mr. Gerrish goes home on Wednes-
day. His son comes and is entertain'd then
also. Friday
March
18. last night Mr. Thomas Downs fell
into his own
fire in the
night and was burnt to death. Both his
hands
burnt off,
and burnt to Ashes: His face so burnt
away,
that what
remain'd resembled a Fire-brand.
Friday-night. S. Gerrish comes. Tells Mary except
Satterday
and Lord's-day nights intends to wait on her
every night;
unless some extraordinary thing hapen.
Satterday, March 19. I call at S. Gerishes shop; he
was not
within: but came in presently: I desired him to
Bind me a
Psalm-Book in Calv's Leather.
Lord's Day March, 20. Mr. Downs is buried in the
old Burying
place; Bearers Capt. Dumer, Dyer; Capt.
Fayerwether,
Foy; Mr. Tho. Walker, Tlmo Clark.
March, 21.
Mr. Cutler pulls out a Cheek Tooth of my
right uper
Jaw. It was loose and corrupted, and
hurt
me.
Satterday, March, 26. Col. Hathorne, Mr. Corwin, Mr.
Taft and I
set out for Plimouth, get to Job Randall's
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about
Sun-setting. March, 27th. Mr. Eels preaches in the
Forenoon;
Mr. Toft in the Afternoon, sup at Mr. Eels.
March, 28. Set out for Plimouth. Got thither before
any stress
of Rain. Mr. Dudley and Cook came in
very
wet. March, 30.
I go into the Meeting-house.
March, 31.
Col. Church
goes with us p. m. Between Jones's River
and the old
Rode my Horse falls; yet I fell not off; neither
had I any
hurt. Lodge at Bairstos's.
April, 1. Breakfast at Cushings: Got home well about
3 p. m. Laus Deo. Mrs. Barthol. Green died the day
we begun our
Journey.
Monday, April, 4. Genl Council, which prevented my
Training in
the Artillery. I sent my Pike, and went
my
self; and
the Secretary follow'd me into Shrimpton's
Lane, and
took me off. Mr. Pemberton had
discouraged
me before,
but I had thought to have Train'd this once;
had I not
been thus call'd away.
Tuesday Apr. 5. I went to Roxbury Lecture.
Thorsday, Apr. 7. Mr. Neh. Hobart dines, and prays
with
us. Friday, Apr. 8th. Guns are fired at the Castle
76. Sconce, 24, and Flags hoisted half way the
Staff on
account of
the death of Prince George, the Queen's Con-
sort. The Secretary had an Address of the Lord's to
Her Majesty
on that head, dated Novr. 20th. Govr is abed
sick of the
Gravel. The Taking of several Vessels
laden
with
Provisions on the back of the Cape over against
Eastham last
Wednesday, Apr. 6. 11. mane,
makes the
Town very
sad. Writts are gon out for an Assembly,
dated April,
6.
Apr. 8.
Joseph takes purging Physick, which works
kindly.
April, 12.
Joseph goes home. April, 11. Capt. Roger
Lawson dies.
Apr. 13. buried; Bearers; Mr. James
Smith, John
Campbell; Mr. George, Colman; Capt. Steel,
Mr. Joseph
Wadsworth. Aged about 45. years. Mr.
Cook and I
went together, next the Relations; then Mr.
Addington,
Sergeant.
1709.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 253
April, 15.
Madam Winthrop sends Mingo to invite me
to the
Meeting at her House. Mr. Pemberton
preach'd
from Ps. 71.
16. I will go on in the strength of the
Lord
God. Doctrine Believers sensible of the Danger and
difficulties
that are in their Christian Course, Trust only
to the
Strength of God. Ps. 73. 23, 24. 25,
26. Sung
St. David's Tune, which I set.
Drunk Ale, Tea, Wine.
Apr. 22. 1709. Went to Braintrey, visited Cousin's
sick wife:
rid with him to Copeland's; to the farm he
hires. Din'd with him, Mrs. Flint, Mr. Flint of the
Col-
lege: Came home to Mrs. Kate's Funeral.
Apr. 23.
Went to the Castle, and dined there upon
Col.
Winthrop's Invitation. Went from
Scarlet's Wharf,
and Landed
there agen about 5. Mr. Russel,
Hutchinson,
Addington,
Sewall, Townsend, Hutchinson, Belchar, Stod-
dard, sat
down with the Govr and Col. Winthrop. Capt.
Tuthill, and
Mr. Cutler, the Chaplain, sat at a little Table
by
themselves. Came away about four p. m.
Tuesday, April, 26th. 11
visited Mr. Cotton Mather, who
has been
indispos'd.
Wednesday, Apr. 27. Mr. Cooke and I visited Mr.
Russell, who
is very sick; was taken on the Lord's Day.
He was glad
to see us, and Thankfull; Visited Mr. Jenner.
Thorsday,
April, 28. Mr. Russell dies about 11. a.
m. He
was a good
Christian, and right New-England Man; is I
think the
last of them chosen in the year 1680: about 68.
years old.
Friday, April, 29. 1709. Town-Meeting to choose Rep-
resentatives. I was chosen Moderator. Voters -- 204.
John Clark
esqr. 173. Mr. Isa Tay 53. 3d
voters 159.
Capt. Tho.
Hutchinson 142. Mr. Wm Clark 42. Fitch--82
chosen.
Mr. James
Barns 128 Wm
Clark 35.
2d.
voters 181.
Capt. Tho.
Fitch 73. Fitch. 78.
Capt. Ephr.
Savage 68 Savage 47.
Col. Checkly
57 Checkly 45.
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Voted £100
to our Brethren of Rumney-Marsh to help
build them a
Meeting-house. Chose Jury-men for the
Superr. Court. I pray'd that God
would not destroy the
Town, twas a
New Town: -- dismissed about 2. p. m.
Mr.
Pemberton
begun with Prayer.
Friday, Apr. 29. 1709. about 4. post m. the Dragon
Frigat
arrives at Nantasket, in whom come Col. Nicholson,
Col. Vetch,
Mr. Jonathan Belchar, Mr. Giles Dyer, Mr.
Bill, Mr.
Walley, Capt. John Alden and others.
First
Mr. Dier
tells me that Mr. Higginson was dead of the
Small Pocks;
but as to the time incongruously. Though
it was now
about 9. at night, I go to Mr. Belchar, who
Confirms
this Melancholy News. Saith he died in
Novem-
ber, was
buried in the night in Bow-Church: He was at
his
Funeral. Alas alas! that he should
escape 1000.
deaths in
going to the East-Indies, dwelling there, and
returning;
and now to die so soon in London of the Small
Pocks! The Lord help me not to Trust in Man; but in
GOD.1 They tell us St. John's in
New-found-Land was
Taken by the
French last Decr. which is like to prove a
great and
surprising Evil to this place.
April, 30.
The Queen's Letter is read in Council about
the Canada
Expedition, and Col. Vetch's Instructions, to
which exact
Obedience is comanded. Dine at North's.
From thence
go to Mr. Russell's Funeral. Bearers,
Govr
Dudley, Govr. Nicholson; Mr. Cook, Hutchinson Elisha;
Sewall, Addington;
Phillips, Lynde. was buried in a
Grave.
May, 2.
Being Artillery day, and Mr. Higginson dead,
I put on my
Mourning Rapier; and put a black Ribband
into my
little cane. When I enter'd the
Council-Chamber,
the Govr with an Air of displeasure said, You are Chid-
den!
pretending my late coming; though I think I was
1 Sewall had heartily desired that Mr.
Higginson should have been ap-
pointed
Governor of this Province. -- EDS.
1709.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 255
there before
eleven, and am, I think, the most constant
attender of
Councils.
I dined with the Artillery at Powells,
whether Maxwell
came and
warn'd me to Council at 3. There I
waited
all alone,
as many times I doe. At length the Govr came.
When Col.
Hathorne had his Quota 76. given him, he ex-
postulated a
little; upon which the Govr was very angry,
and took him
up with very smart words. I was on the
same side of
the board, and saw his Warrant. Then I
went to my
own, and seeing a number of Letters ly under
the
Secretaryes hand, I made a motion to see one which
the
Secretary declin' d: and the Govr
taking notice of it
with a very
angry Air said to me, I will not be Govern'd
by You!
May, 6th. 1709.
Mrs. Abigail Russell, widow of James
Russell
esqr. was buried. Bearers; Mr. Cook,
Hutchinson
Elisha;
Sewall, Addington; Phillips, Lynde.
May, 7, 1709. About 6. or 7. p. m. Col. Lynde of
Charlestown
has his Malt-House and Dwelling house burnt
down, Wind
blowing hard at South-West, and very dry.
One house
more burnt. Mr. Leverett returns from
New-
York.
Monday, May, 9. 1709. Major Thomas Brown esqr, of
Sudbury, was
buried in the Old Burying place; Bearers,
Cook,
Sewall; Elm. Hutchinson, Townsend; Jer. Dumer,
P.
Dudley. Scarvs and Gloves. Company Train; And a
Declaration
is read to encourage the Expedition to Canada.
In the
evening Mr. Williams of Derefield comes in to see
me.
May, 16. 1709. Set out with David for Ipswich, Mr.
Harris went
over the Ferry with us, and went through.
Dined at
Salem, at Brother's. May, 19. Went to New-
bury;
visited Mr. Payson, sister Northend, Nelson, Mrs.
Phillips. Got into the house of Abraham Adams where
we staid
during the Thunder shower. Lodg'd at
Sister
Gerrishes.
256 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1709.
May,
20. visited Cousin Jacob Topan, laid a
stone in
the
Foundation of the Meetinghouse at Pipe-staff Hill.
3s. Went home in the Rain to
Sister Gerrishes; visited
my Cousin
Gerrish, Pierce, Topan, Sweet; dined at Bror
Topan's. May, 21. visited Cousin Rolf: went with Bror
Moodey to
Byfield, and lodg'd there.
May, 22.
Went to Meeting at Byfield, din'd with
Cousin Hale:
lodg'd at Bror Moodeys.
May, 23. Set out
for Boston;
Rid from Ipswich to Wenham in the Rain.
Din'd with
Mr. Gerrish; and went not thence because of
the
Rain. May, 24. it Rains much harder so
lodge there
again. May, 25.
Rise early, and set out for Boston.
A
little
before we came to Phillips's the Ipswich Gentlemen
overtook me;
had the pleasure of their Company. At
Winisimet
overtook Mr. Corwin, went over together; got
to Boston
about ten. Heard Mr. Rawson preach the
Election
sermon -- Before your feet stumble upon the
dark
Mountains. Dine at the Green
Dragon. Mr. John ,
Clark chosen
Speaker.
ELECTION.
Winthrop 82 Plimonth
Hathorne 73 Winslow 82
Elisha Hutchinson 82 Pain 54
Sewall 84 Cushing 45
Addington 82 Otis 79
Brown 69
Phillips 76 Main
Corwin 77 Em Hutchinson 66
Foster 70 Plaisted 71
Sergent 50 Wheelright 65
Townsend 51
Jn° Apleton 74 Zagadahock
Higginson 82 Lynde 56
Partridge 69
Belcher 54 At Large.
Bromfield 57 Walley 42
Hunt 59 Norden 37
Epes 37
1709.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 257
Note.
The number of Voters at first was 86. council 19 86
Tuesday, May, 31. Mr. S. Stoddard marries
Madam Dep 67
Shrimpton
privatly. See Aug. 13. 1708. This week Mrs.
Blower dies,
then her Husband: Capt. Sill, Mr. Lemon,
and Alas,
alas! June, 3. The Reverd Mr. Pierpont dies at
Reading; a
very great Loss!
June, 3.
Mary returns well from Wenham.
Laus Deo.
May. 26.
Mrs. Sarah Pemberton buried.
Bearers
Sewall,
Sergeant; Walley, Checkly; Hill, Williams.
June, 6.
Artillery-day. I went with Mr.
John Wil-
liams, of
Dearfield, to the Funeral of Mr. Pierpont at
Reading. His Bearers were Leverett, Brattle; Wads-
worth,
Colman; Green, Fox. Mr. Jonathan Corwin and
I followed
next after the Relations: None else of the
Council
there.
Mrs. Wyllys dyed this day.
June 8.
Mrs. Wyllys buried. Bearers Cook,
Sewall;
Phillips,
Lynde; Hill, Marion.
June, 22, 1709. Going to visit sick Mr. Gerrish, Sam-
uel; I met
Dr. Mather, who tells me that yesterday, he
was 70.
years old; so was born June, 21. 1639.
June, 17. 1709. Friday, I treat the Govr at Homes's:
had two
dishes of Green pease: Sir Charles
Hobbey, Mr.
Comissary,
Mr. Leverett, Lt Col. Ballentine, Mr. Pember-
ton, Major
Pigeon, Capt. of the Matroses, Eleven in all:
paid 36s. June, 24. Elisa. Davis, Widow, is buried; Mr.
Dering,
Hill; Williams, Meers; Blish, Draper, Bearers.
They invited
me and my wife by sending us good Gloves.
June, 27.
Col. Hutchinson, Townsend, Mr. Speaker,
and Col.
Checkley meet at my house in the Afternoon to
discourse
with Mr. Allen about Imprinting the Bills.
He
offers to
doe it for 2d a Plate; he had 1 ½ last.
Midweek, July, 13. 1709. N.B.
Last night, between 2
or 3 hours
after midnight, my wife complain'd of Smoak; I
presently
went out of Bed, and saw and felt the Chamber
very full of
Smoak to my great Consternation. I slipt
on
258 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1709.
my Cloaths
except Stockings, and run out of one Room
into another
above, and below Stairs, and still found all
well but my
own Bed-chamber. I went into Garret and
rouz'd up
David, who fetch'd me a Candle. My wife
fear'd the
Brick side was a-fire, and the children endan-
gered. She fled thither, and call'd all up
there. While
she was
doing this, I felt the partition of my Bed-Cham-
ber Closet
warm; which made me with fear to unlock it,
and going in
I found the Deal-Box of Wafers all afire,
burning
livelily; yet not blazing. I drew away
the pa-
pers nearest
to it, and call'd for a Bucket of Water.
By
that time it
came, I had much adoe to recover the Closet
agen: But I
did, and threw my Water on it, and so more,
and quench'd
it thorowly. Thus with great Indulgence
GOD saved
our House and Substance, and the Company's
Paper. This night, as I lay down in my Bed, I said
to
my Wife,
that the Goodness of God apeared, in that we
had a
Chamber, a Bed, and Company. If my Wife
had
not waked
me, we might have been consumed. And it
seems
admirable, that the opening the Closet-Door did not
cause the
Fire to burst forth into an Unquenchable Flame.
The Box was
18 inches over, Closet full of loose papers,
boxes,
Cases, some Powder. The Window-Curtain
was of
Stubborn
Woolen and refus'd to burn though the Iron-
Bars were
hot with the fire. Had that burnt it
would
have fired
the pine-shelves and files of Papers and Flask
and
Bandaliers of powder. The Pine-Floor on
which the
Box stood,
was burnt deep, but being well plaister'd be-
tween the
Joysts, it was not burnt through. The
Closet
under it had
Hundreds of Reams of the Company's1
Paper
in it. The plaistered Wall is mark'd by the Fire so
as to
resemble a
Chimney back. Although I forbad mine to
cry Fire;
yet quickly after I had quench'd it; the Cham-
1 Probably the paper belonged to the
Society for Propagating the Gospel,
for printing
the Indian Bible. -- EDS.
1709.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL.
259
her was full
of Neighbours and Water. The smell of
Fire
pass'd on me
very much; which lasted some days. We
imagine a
Mouse might take our lighted Candle out of the
Candle-stick
on the hearth and dragg it under my closet-
door behind
the Box of Wafers. The good Lord sanc-
tify this
Threatening; and his, Parental Pity in improving
our selves
for the Discovery of the fire, and Quenching it.
The Lord
teach me what I know not; and wherein I have
done amiss
help me to doe so no more!
July, 21.
A Council is warn'd to meet presently after
Lecture
before Dinner. The Govr took up Col. Vetch
with him,
who sat at the end of the Table leaning his
Elbow on the
Arm of the Govrs Chair; They both urg'd
the sending
a Flagg of Truce to Port-Royal, to fetch off
Capt. Myles
and others. Mr. Secretary and I oposed
it as
that that
would expose us to be ridicul'd by our Enemies;
they would
detain our Flagg during their pleasure; the
Canada
Expedition being known to them. I
mention'd
the
Suddeness of the Council. So the Govr adjourn'd it
to Friday at
2. p. m.
Friday, July, 22. Maxwell warns me again to attend
the Govr at 11. mane in Council. Govr and Co1. Vetch
sat as
yesterday, and vehemently urged the sending a
Flagg of
Truce for poor Myles, as the Govr
often spake.
Mr.
Secretary and I opos'd it. Mr. Em Hutchinson said
would doe no
good. I mention'd that it might be laid
before the
Genl Court that was to sit on Tuesday. But
the Govr first order'd that to be prorogued to the next
week;
however that was not so far gon but it might have
been stay'd;
for nothing was entred. I considered
also
the daily
Expectation of the Fleet's arrival, where we
might have
further direction. I mention'd the
parting
with Men,
Sloops, Provisions in vain. Col. Foster,
with
some Heat,
said, He was asham'd to hear any mention
Charge! Mr. Secretary hinted they would by our Flagg
have notice
the Fleet was not come. But all was re-
260 DIARY OF
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jected with
disdain. Col. Vetch urg'd once and
again,
that if
Capt. Myles were not sent for, it might tempt him
to turn to
the French, as Du Bart did. Twas urg'd
that the
Flagg was going when Col. Vetch, arrived; and
that caused
us unanimously to surcease, and to dismiss
Col.
Taylor. That was blown off as
nothing. I spake
against
sending the Strong Beer to Supercass,1 he
had dealt
basely at
New-found-Land and at Port Royal. Col.
Vetch
urg'd, that
if they deny'd to send our Captives, they should
know how to
Treat the French Prisoners: I answer'd, we
knew
already: The French had broke their Faith in not
sending the
Captives. Capt. Tuthill's Accounts.
In the evening, Mr. Mayhew and I bath our
selves in
Charles
River behind Blackston's point.
July, 23.
Mr. Mayhew goes to Natick to preach there
to
morrow. Between 4 and 5. p. m. is a
great Gust of
Wind and
Rain.
July, 25.
Mr. Banister dyes.
July, 26.
Go to Cambridge Court with Major Walley
by
Charlestown, got thither before Col. Hathorne.
Got
home to the
Funeral.
July, 27th. lodge at Mr. Brattle's.
July. 28.
Finish the Court, and get to Boston so as to
hear great
part of Mr. C. Mather's Fast-Prayer, and Dr.
Mather's
Sermon out of PS. 72. Amen, and Amen.
Augt 5.
The Gernsey arrives 4 weeks from New-found
Land, in
whom comes Col. Moodey, the Govr he
brought
thither. This morn, Madam Shepard dies, which I heard
of at
Charlestown, whither I went to Lecture.
Mr Brad-
street
preached from PS. 46. 1. a Present help &c.
Augt. 6.
Saturday, Madam Shepard is laid in the
1
Brouillan succeeded Villebon in the government of Acadie in 1702, and
was himself
succeeded., at his death, by M. Subercase.
The latter success-
fully
defended Port Royal from the Provincials under Colonel Marsh; but,
as we shall
see, was obliged, in 1710, to surrender to a new expedition. --
EDS.
1709.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 261
Tomb with
her Excellent Husband and Son. Bearers
Mr.
Neh. Hobart,
Mr. Peter Thacher; Mr. Angier, Mr. John
Danforth;
Mr. Colman, Mr. Bradstreet. She died at
her
Grandaughter
Holman's at Milton and was brought thence
to
Charlestown by Water, and buried from her own House.
I and Col.
Phillips followed the Mourners, Capt. Belchar
and the
President next. But very few there
besides Re-
lations.1
Augt. 9th. Col. Hobbey's Regiment musters, and the
Govr orders the Maquas 2 to
be there and see them; and
acquainted
them there was not one of those Men in Arms
they had
seen at Roxbury. At night Sir Charles
had a
great Treat
for the Govr, 5 Maquas, &c.
Augt 11th. The Govr
has the 5 Maquas to the Castle
and
Nantasket to shew them the strength of the Fort and
of the Five
Men of War. They spread all their Finery
to
set out
their Ships. Note. As I came from Charlestown
1 This was Anna (Tyng), widow of Rev.
Thomas Shepard. Her daugh-
ter Anna (or
Hannah) married Daniel Quincy, cousin of Mrs. Sewall. (See
Vol. I. p.
xxiii.) -- EDs.
2 These were, evidently, the five chiefs
of the Maquas [Vol. I. 329] or
Mohawks,
then en route for England. Neal (Hist. of New England, p. 602)
says they
were Teeyeeneenhogaprow and Sagayeanquaprahton of the Maquas,
Elowohkaom and Ohneeyeathtonnoprow of the
River Sachem, and the Gan-
ajohahore
Sachem. He calls them, "four Indian
Kings of the; Six Nations
that lye
between New England and Canada." In
England considerable at-
tention was
paid them, and the Queen promised to send missionaries. In
New York
Documents, V. 224, is a note of a
council held Aug. 19, 1710, at
which
Kaquendero was the orator, and he mentions "those of our nation who
have lately
been in England." In Notes and
Queries, 2d S. VIII. 417, 455,
we find
mention of a letter Written by these chiefs, dated Boston, July 21,
1710,
directed to Archbishop Tenison, on occasion of their safe arrival. Two
of the names
are Sagayouquaraughta and Etawacom. Addison, in No. 50
of the
Spectator, refers to them, and makes the third chief E Tow 0 Koam,
"King
of the rivers." It is mentioned
that Matthew, Lord Aylmer, enter-
tained them
on board the Royal Sovereign in 1710; and that they were re-
ceived by
Her Majesty, Queen Anne, April 19, 1710,
"in great ceremony."
Major
Pigeon, one of the officers who came over with them, read a speech,
printed by
Neal, p. 603. They sailed from Plymouth,
in the "Dragon,"
May 7, 1710.
-- EDS.
262 DIARY OF
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Lectm'e I
met Mr. Bernon 1 in Sudbury Street; he turn'd
from me and
would not have seen me; but I Spake to
him. Quickly after I saw Col. Vetch in the Council
Chamber, and
said to him, Mr. Bernon is in Town, as I
told you he
would: He made light of it, and said he had
bought Cider
of him; he suppos'd he had business here.
I observ'd
he was at Sir Charles's Muster, and went round
the Body
with his Sword by his Side, follow'd the Govrs
Attendants. Augt.
12. At Council 'twas enquired whether
Blew should
go to Edgartown to convoy vessels there
loaden with
Bread: Col. Foster much opposed it, and
some others;
pleading we had Bread enough. I argued
the Benefit
of having Bread in time of War; and the
great Hurt
twould be to us, if it should fall into the Ene-
mies
Hands. At last it was agreed, that if at
the foot of
the Shoals,
whether his cruise led him, he had a fair wind,
he might
goe. I had urg'd the Certainty of doing
good if
Blew went.
'Twas mention'd in Council, that 300
Eastern Indians,
Men Women
and Children, were gon to the 5 Nations to
pray leave
to dwell with them; and that others refusing
them, they
were gon to the Senecas: The Govr mention'd
that the
Gentlemen of Albany might be written to that
they might
be with the Maquas where they might [be]
under
Inspection. But the Council were of the
mind,
The further
off the better; would more easily be apt to
forget their
own Country, and Less ready at so great a
distance to
anoy. And that twas best for us (they
being
Rebels) to
say nothing about it.
1 Gabriel Bernon was one of the Huguenot
exiles who came to Boston,
and was one
of the commissioners of the English Corporation for Propagat-
ing the
Gospel here. He was one of the persons
naturalized Jan. 5, 1688,
as recorded
in a list published in Agnew's "Protestant Exiles" (London,
1871),1. p.
46-48. The same list was entered on our
Suffolk Deeds, Lib. 14,
£01. 212,
"at the desire of Gabriel Beman," July 20, 1688. The names of
Abraham
Tourtelot, Rev. Peter Fountain, and Isaac Converse, occur therein.
-- EDS.
1709.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 263
Midweek,
Augt 24. In the evening Mr. Pemberton
marrys Mr.
Samuel Gerrish, and my daughter Mary: He
begun with
Prayer, and Mr. Gerrish the Bridegroom's
father
concluded: Mr. Mayhew was present.
Augt.
25. Mr. Cotton Mather, Mr. Pemberton and
wife,
and others,
dine with us after Lecture. In the even
I in-
vited the
Govr and Council to drink a Glass of Wine with
me; About 20
came; viz. Govr., Winthrop, Hathorne,
Elisha
Hutchinson, Addington, Brown, Foster, Sergeant,
Walley,
Phillips, Townsend, Bromfield, Eliakim Hutchin-
son, Corwin,
Higginson, Jno Apleton, Lynde, Hunt, Cush-
ing, Norden,
Epes. Gave them variety of good Drink,
and at going
away a large piece of Cake Wrap'd in Paper.
They very
heartily wish'd me Joy of my daughter's Mar-
riage.
Septr.
10. Mr. Mayhew takes his Journey
homeward,
John Neesnumin,
and James Printer 1 being gon before.
Septr. 17.
Mr. Green finishes printing Mr. Whiting's
Oration.2 Septr. 21. When the Depts colud not be brought
into the
Congress of the Governours; at last by some
aplication
they gave 80£ to bear the charges of the
Govr and them that should go. I
got away to the privat
Meeting at
C. Savages, when this was transacted.
Gen-
eral Court
rises.
Septr.
24. Col. Hathorne, Mr. Corwin and I set
out for
Taunton. David waits on me. Dine at Morey's at Punk-
apog. There Mr. Crossman meets us, and conducts us
in
the new
Rode; rid near 14 miles without a house.
Saw
pleasant
Winnicunnet Pond, and the River issuing out of
it.3 Got to Mr. Danforth's
about 6. where we lodged.
1 See Vol. I. p. 15, note. -- EDS.
2 We presume this to be a Latin oration
which Rev. Samuel Whiting,
pastor of
Lynn, delivered at Harvard in 1649. The
copy in our Society's-
Library
contains sixteen pages, but lacks the title. -- EDS.
3 Winneconnet Pond is in the easterly part
of the town of Norton, and
receives the
waters of Canoe River and Leach's Stream.
It spreads over
about one
hundred and twenty-two acres. (Gazetteer.) -- EDS.
264 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1709.
Septr. 25th. Lord's
Day Mr. Danforth preached from Ps.
90. 14, 15,
16, 17, verses. Work. The Church-State,
Worship and
Ordinance, which were brought out of Egypt
into Canaan
to enjoy, are chiefly intended. Doct.
1. The
great, and
chief desire of the people of God, that which
lyes upermost
in their hearts is, that God's work may
flourish in
their Generation, and in succeeding Genera-
tions. Doct. 2.
Every Christian should account it his
Duty to put
to his helping Hand, to forward God's Work
in the
World. Everyone should do something in
bring-
ing others
home to Christ.
Septr.
26. We went to Bristol with Capt.
Lenard, Mr.
King. Col. Byfield, Mr. Makentash, with the Sheriff
and
others, met
us at Mr. Baffin's. I lodg'd at Peter
Rey-
nolds's.1
Septr. 27.
Open'd the Court, empanel'd the Jurys,
heard one
Cause. When came to Diner found Major
Walley come
from Devotion's.
Septr.
28. Indians are Try'd for Murder and
found
Guilty.
29. Mr. Baffin is Cast in his Action of
Review
against Mr.
George. Indians are condemned. Court ends.
Friday, 7r. 30. Col. Hathorn, Mr.
Corwin, Cook ride
out of Town
early, near an hour before Sun-rising.
Ma-
jor Walley
and I set out about 9. a-clock. Daniel
and
David
waiting on us. Call at Mr. Greenwood's,
who is
dangerously
sick of a malignant Fever, to our great sur-
prise. Mrs. Greenwood at parting, with Tears,
desired
prayers, for
him; and that would leave word at Caleb
Stedman's at
Roxbury, to acquaint his Bror at
Newtown.
1 Robert Reynolds was one of the early
settlers in Boston, and left only
one son,
Nathaniel, who moved to Bristol, R. I.
Peter was, doubtless, the
son of the
latter, born in 1670. A century later a
branch of this family re-
turned to
Boston; and one of them, Dr. Edward Reynolds, has been espe-
cially noted
for his professional skill and his connection with public charities.
-- EDS.
1709.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 265
Dine at
Smith's; Bait at Devotion's. Lodge at
Billinge's;
Many stars
were to be seen before we got thither. Cor-
nil, a
Quaker, in company. From Billings's
writt to Mr.
Man,
enclosing an Oration. Left ten with Mr.
Sparhawk
and a 10s Bill: a Douz ditto with Mr. Danforth. 8r. 1.
Bait at
Dedham. I go to Mr. Belcher's, where I
drink
warm
chockelat, and no Beer; find my self much refresh'd
by it after
great Sweating to day, and yesterday.
Got
home to
Diner about One. Laus Deo. My Horse went
very hard,
which made me strain hard on my Stirrup and
contract a
Lameness on my Left Hip of a Week's continu-
ance, or
more. If I might with Jacob prevail with
GOD
for his
Blessing; and be surnamed Israel, how happy
should I be!
though I should go limping.
Octr. 2.
Lords Super. Mrs. Rock and my
wife there.
I hope
Christ welcomed us. Mr. Pemberton said
he was
glad to see
me come home, 8r. 1. when I went to him to
acquaint him
with Mr. Greenwood's Sickness.
8r 3.
Govr. calls a Council.2 I acquainted the Govr
with the
Condemnation of the two Indian Men at Bristol
for Murder,
and the time intended for their Execution.
Col. Vetch
mutter'd somthing as if there was no malice
prepense: I
told him of the man's kicking his wife into
the
fire. He said he heard not of that.
Capt. Blackmore
1 The reference is, of course, to Genesis
xxxii. 24-31. -- EDS.
It may be
well to mention here that, during 1709, the Colony had been
kept excited
by warlike preparations. Colonel Vetch
came over with in-
structions
for a grand expedition against the French.
Five regiments of
regulars
were to be sent over; Massachusetts and Rhode Island were to raise
fifteen
hundred troops, and the southern colonies twelve hundred men.
Quebec and
Montreal were to be attacked. The
Massachusetts men were
ready by May
20th, and were kept ready till September, while the southern
troops,
under Nicholson, were encamped at Wood Creek.
October 11 a ves-
sel arrived
at Boston with advices that the English troops had been sent to
Portugal,
but allowing the Americans to attack Port Royal if they judged
proper. The fleet refused to join, and the
Legislature desired the Governor
to discharge
the transports and disband the troops. (Hutchinson, Hist. II.
178, 179.)
-- EDS.
266 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1709
arrives this
day and brings the Well com Orders for going
on to print
the Bible [Indian] and countermanding the
selling any
more of the Genoa Paper, with a considerable
Remittance.
Octr. 4th. I shew the Letters to Dr. Mather and Mr.
C. M.
Octr. 5. Midweek, Mr. Hirst and I take a Calash and
meet. Mr. Gerrish with John behind him. Son Gerrish,
his wife and
Hannah in a Calash. It was a little
beyond
Newhill's,
who now keeps the Swan, that we met them.
Din'd there,
and there Mr. Gerrish would return, deliver-
ing up his
Charge to me. As came homeward went over
Charlestown
Hill on the Neck of Land; and came into
the Rode
again by Mr. Emerson's. Got home very
well,
and I went
to our Meeting at Mr. Thornton's. Laus
Deo.
Octobr. 6. 1709. Mr. C. Mather preaches from Prov.
14. 14. Backslider in heart shall be filled with his
own
Wayss. Mention'd the indulgence of Adonijak; the
prophet
Micajah; not
the prophet, but the King was hurt by his
Estrangement.
Octobr. 7. I read to Mrs. Rock; Mr. Allen came in and
said I was
Eyes to her. Octobr. 28,
1709. In Council,
Govr
said, They know nothing by me but what is of Honor.
I have great
faults, but they do not know them. Col.
Nicholson is
not yet Governour here, nor none of them,
i. e. the
Deputies. Said the Letter 1
sign'd by himself, Col.
Nicholson,
Vetch, was as good as that the Court had given
to Col.
Nicholson.
Friday, Novr. 4. 1709. The Govr invites the Council
and
Representatives to Diner at the Dragon.
Mr. Secre-
tary, and
Mr. Wadsworth were at the other Table; The
Govr
order'd Maxwell to say that he drunk to Wadsworth
1 Palfrey (IV. 276) states that this
letter, directed to Lord Sutherland, is
in the
British Colonial Papers. It is signed by
Colonel Moody also. -- EDS.
1709.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 267
and his
Brother Addington. And awhile after, in
like
maner, drank
to Mr. Pemberton, and Capt. Belchar, coup-
ling them
together; saying Capt. Belchar should answer
for him, as
I understood it. Just before the
Council, after
diner, Mr.
Comissary, and Mr. Pemberton walked together
upon the
pavement below the Townhouse.
Novr. 5.
I walk'd' at night with Col. Townsend, Mr.
Bromfield,
Constable Williams, and a Man or two.
Find
the Town
quiet and in good order. Were jealous
the 5th
Novr.
might have occasioned disturbance.
Novr. 6th. Lord's day; Mr. Rowland Cotton preach'd in
the
forenoon; Mr. Corwin in the Afternoon.
Mr. Pem-
berton had
propounded Hanah Butler to renew her Bap-
tismal
Covenant; and now mention'd it, and said she had
sin'd
scandulously against the 7th Comandment; read her
Confession
imediatly, and by the silential vote restored
her. I think it is inconvenient, when persons have
so
fallen, not
to give the Church some previous notice of it;
that the
Brethren may have Oportunity to enquire into
the
Repentance. An ignorant Consent is no
Consent.
And I
understood Mr. Pemberton that he would not go in
that way
again. Once before he did it, saying he
knew
not of it
when the party was propounded.
Novr. 17. 1709. Deputies send in a Bill that the Secre-
tary draw up
an Address to the Queen, and that it be
presented by
Col. Nicholson, or in his absence by Sir
William
Ashurst.l The Govr
was much displeas'd at it,
1 The Ashursts were for a long time connected
with our political affairs.
Henry
Ashurst, of Ashurst in Lancashire, came to London in the seven-
teenth
century, and was eminent for great benevolence, humanity, and piety.
He was
treasurer of the Corporation for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign
Parts. He acquired a large property as a merchant,
and died in 1680, leaving
four
sons. The oldest son was Sir Henry
Ashurst, Bart., of Waterstock,
County
Oxford, M. P., whose son was the last baronet.
A daughter of Sir
Henry
married Sir Richard Allin, and had, with a son whose line soon ex-
pired, a
daughter Diana, wife of Thomas Henry Ashurst.
Sir William
Ashurst,
Knight, brother of the first baronet, died January, 1719-20, leaving
268 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1709.
and said, No
Ashurst should doe any Business for him.
Mr.
Secretary drew forth an Address he had prepared;
The Govr
inserted Canada, interlining it: Twas
for Nova
Scotia and
Port-Royal before, I spake against Canada;
but twas
carried and sent in. The Deputies sent
it up
concur'd,
and to be presented as they had signified in
their vote
this day. The Govr express'd his
Resentments
that should
mention his Enemy: and put it not to vote.
Court is prorogued to the first of February.
Novr. 18th. Council meets about Capt. Hayman's Estate,1
Gives 30.£
more to Grace, and 12. to her Brother, to
come out of
their Mothers Thirds now to be divided.
Capt. Teat, by his Letter, desired a
License of the Govr
to work on
his Ship on the Lord s day; the Ship was on
the Ground,
and fear'd he should be nip'd: Govr argued
hard for
it: Captain was Judge of the Necessity:
I ar-
gued against
it: He had time enough before, and had
time enough
to come before the sailing of the Mast-fleet.
At the last
the Govr collected the voices, and said it was
two sons,
Robert, of Heveningham, County Essex, and Henry, Town Clerk
of London in
1700, who had two sons.
William Ashurst, uncle of Sir Henry and
Sir William, was a member of
the Long
Parliament, whose son Thomas had a son Thomas Henry Ashurst,
already
noticed as marrying Diana Allin, grand-daughter and eventual heir-
ess of Sir
William. By this marriage Waterstock
remained in the family
name. A son of this marriage was Sir William Henry
Ashurst, a distin-
guished
lawyer, whose grandson is now the representative of the family at
Waterstock. It seems extremely probable that valuable
documents relating
to our
history may be preserved in this family.
We see by the text that Dudley was at
this time opposed to the Ashursts
Sir Henry
was in feeble health, and his brother, Sir William, refused the
agency,
recommending Jeremiah Dummer. Dudley
preferred Henry New-
man, the
agent for New Hampshire; but Dummer succeeded in 1710.
(Hutchinson,
Hist. II. 182, 183.) -- EDS.
1 From Wyman's Charlestown Records we
learn that Major John Hay-
man, by
wife, Grace, had a daughter Grace, wife of Thomas Berry, and
sons Samuel
and Nathan. But Samuel lived till Dec.
15, 1712, and Nathan
died July
27, 1689. Hence this Captain Hayman was
probably a son of
Nathan, as
he had two sons, and a daughter Grace, who married Richard
Otis. --
EDS.
1709.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 269
carried by
one: when I was ask'd, I said, I am dissatis-
fied, he
ought not to be Licensed.
Novr 19. Very Cold;1 Have the News of the great
Battel,
eleventh 7r. N-style; Confederats beat
the French.2
Novr. 21.
I visit Mr. Lechmere and his Bride, Mrs.
Anne
Winthrop.3
Feria guinta, Novr. 24.
1709. Thanksgiving Day, Mr.
Pemberton
preached forenoon and Afternoon, from Psal,
29. 3 latter
part of the verse. In the afternoon he
ex-
press'd his
dislike of the Guns fired by the Ships and Cas-
tle, as not
sutable for a Day of Thanksgiving.
Novr. 25. Theopolis Americana is finished, the
last
half-sheet
printed off.4 I stitch'd me
up a Book, and sent
the Revd
Author one to compleat his. And then Mr.
Mayhew and I
went to the Funeral of his little Nathanl,
1 Hutchinson writes (Hist. II. 176) that
"Tuesday, the 14th December,
was remarked
as the coldest day ever known in the country from its first set-
tlement."
-- EDS.
2 This was the battle of Malplaquet, won
by Marlborough and Prince
Eugene, over
Marshal Villars. Lord Stanhope adds
(Hist. II. 123) that a
rumor spread
through France that Marlborough had fallen at this battle, and
that from
the rumor appears to have sprung the famous ditty of
"Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre."
-- EDS.
3 This was Thomas Lechmere,
Surveyor-General of the Customs for the
Northern
District of America. He was brother of
Nicholas, Lord Lech-
mere, of
Evesham, a famous lawyer. He married
Anne, daughter of Wait
Still
Winthrop, and died June 4, 1765, leaving two sons and two daughters.
(See N. E.
H. G. Register, XIII. 302, and Heraldic Journal, IV. 43.) His
son Richard
married Mary, daughter of Lieutenant Governor Spencer Phips,
and gave his
name to Lechmere Point, in Cambridge. (See Paige Hist.
Camb. 168,
169, 173-178). -- EDS.
4 This is one of Cotton Mather's sermons,
the full title being "Theopolis
Americana. An Essay on the Golden Streets of the Holy
City. Publishing
a Testimony
against the Corruptions of the Market-Place.
With some Good
Hopes of
Better Things to be yet seen in the American World. In a Sermon
to the
General Assembly of the Massachusetts Province in New England.
3d. 9m. 1709. . . . Boston: Printed by B. Green. Sold by Samuel Gerrish
at his Shop,
1710." 12mo. Two pages dedication to Judge Sewall. pp.
4-51
"Pure Gold in the Market Place."
Appendix, p. 2. The copy in the
Boston
Athenreum is imperfect; but the Brinley Catalogue mentions a fine
copy. --
EDS.
270 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL.
[17 09/10.
who dyed in
the time of the Forenoon Exercise, which
made his
Father, Mr. Cotton Mather, take his Text from
1 Sam.
.10, therefore she wept and did not
eat. At the
Funeral I
saw Mr. Bridge, and desired him to come to me
at 7
a-clock, which he did. And I fully
communicated to
him my sense
of Rev. 13th. 18. desiring he would not
disclose it
without my Consent, which I apprehend he
granted.
Decr. 20. 1709. I went to Brooklin with my daughter
Hanah in a
Calash, and visited my little Grand-daughter
Hanah Sewall
who is this day eight weeks old; Had very
comfortable
Wether. Find all well there, and at
home.
Decr. 28. Midweek, Govr apoints Mr.
Mackentash Judge
of the
inferiour Court of Bristol in the Room of Capt.
Brown
deceased.1 Mr. Bromfield had
a check for men-
tioning Mr.
Pain, though of the Council, and a much fitter
man. Col. Foxcroft's son is made his Register, as
he is
Judge of the
Probat; which seems to me inconvenient.2
I was not at
the Council; my Cold kept me at home.
Feria septima xrs. 31o. I read Mr. Brightman's Excel-
lent Epistle
3 to the British, German, and French Churches,
out of Mr.
E. Mayhew's English Book which lay in view.
I was so
pleased with it, that I read it in my Latin Book,
nec sine
lachrymis. This day Mr. Hubbard is taken sick
after diner.
Lords-day, January, 1. 170 9/10. I read in course Mr.
1 Henry Mackintosh succeeded John Browne,
and held office till 1725. --
EDS.
2 The reader of this Journal will have
noted with what a range of mean-
ing and
application Sewall uses the word inconvenient. It is made to signify.
the
disability or pain coming from various bodily maladies; the impropriety
of an act or
a course of conduct; the wrongfulness of some measure of pub-
lic policy,
and various other disagreeable and objectionable matters. It is
evident,
too, that by its use he often softens the expression of very strong
dissent or
offence at what displeases him. The
compass of the definition of
the word in
the dictionary, however, is a wide one. -- EDS.
3 This epistle was introductory to the
author's "Revelation of the Apoca.-
lypse."
Brightman died in 1607. -- EDS.
17 09/10.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 271
Caryl on
Job. 12. 22. from p. 311 to p. 319. The
great
Notice this
great Divine takes of the Discovery of Colum-
bina; 1
his Corollaries; Gloss on Mat. 10. 25, Encouraged
me to
publish, what I have long intended, on Rev. 10.,
Especially
being usher'd in by Mr. Brightman's Epistle;
and
presently follow'd with Mr. Pemberton's Exhortation
to a
faithfull improvement of the talents God has comitted
to us,
because He sees us -- p. m, from Heb. 4. 13.
The
good Lord
help me not to mistake! not to delay any
thing He
would have me now doe! Though the day
were
Cold, yet I
found no Inconvenience by going to the Solemn
Assembly.
Jany 2. Morat Salutes me with the Sound of the
Trumpet. Govr warns a Council; but there
was not a
number: I go to Cous. Dumer's, where I read Cous.
Jer.
[Jeremy
Dummer's] Letter of the 13th.
7r. He writes that
Col. Hunter
is made Govr of New-York.
Sixth.,day, Jany. 6. James Hawkins dyes very sud-
denly, about
56 years old.
7th day, Jany 7th Mr. Exp. Mayhew goes to Natick.
Lords-day Jany 8. My old Friend Mr. John Hubbard
dyes, in the
forenoon, just before the Exercise began.
Mr.
Pemberton
makes a pathetical mention of it in his Prayer,
and that we
might follow him so far as he followed Christ:
mention'd
him as a real Christian. Madam Hubbard
put
up a
Note. Alias Leverett.
Jany 1. 170 9/10. Mr. Gerrish was Bearer to a young
hopefull
Man, Hunt, the Turner's Son, who had been mar-
ried about
6. weeks. The Lord help us to prepare to
meet Him!
Jany 8. Lords day.
The Matrosses apear in their Red
Coats, 6 or
8 of them, at our Meeting.
1 Caryl makes no reference to Columbina
by name. It is probably a con-
structive
inference by Sewall from Caryl's notice of the discoveries at the
Antipodes.
-- EDS.
272 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [17 09/10.
Third-day,
Jany. 10. Mr. John Hubbard is buried in
the New
Burying place in a Grave near the Northwest
Corner of
it.l Bearers, Sewall,
Sergeant; Eliakim Hutch-
inson, Jer.
Duroer; Capt. Thomas Fitch, Capt. Edward
Winslow. Govr was there, and the President
and his
Lady: I saw none from Ipswich. Snow'd hard all the
way to the
Grave and back.
January, 15, 17 09/10. Mr. Benja Woodbridge died at
Medford: Thorsday, 19th buried.
Mr. Parsons of Malden
preach'd the
Funeral Sermon. Bearers, President, Mr.
Hubbard of
Newton; Mr. Brattle, Mr. Bradstreet; Mr.
Parsons, Mr.
Ruggles of Billericay. By reason that it
was
Lecture-day, and Mr. Colman preach'd; and the Wind
very high
and Blustering, not one Boston Minister was
there.
January, 24th. I visited Mr. Habberfield about 5. p. m.
He is
smitten with the Palsy on his right side.
Was very
glad to see
me, as I saw by his taking me by the hand;
but could
hardly speak a word.
Jany. 28. 17 09/10. I waited on the Govr and his Lady;
they
entertain'd me very placidly. While I
was there,
my daughter
Sewall came in with her two little daughters,
Rebekah and
Hanah. Hanah had never been there be-
fore. I supose tis meant, not since the day she was
bap-
tised. I discours'd the Govr about giving
a Deed of
Brooklin. Before I was got out of the House, Col. Vetch
1 This was John, son of Rev. William
Hubbard, of Ipswich, the histo-
rian. He married Ann, daughter of Governor
Leverett, and had four sons,
three
graduates of Harvard. Of them, Nathaniel
was a Judge of the Supe-
rior Court
from 1746 to 1748. Hutchinson (Hist. II.
147) refers to him;
but, as
Savage remarks, makes him son, instead of grandson, of Rev. William.
It is worth
notice that in the northwest corner of the Granary Yard there is
the tomb of Thomas
Hubbard, 1742, with a coat-of-arms. He
was, doubt-
less, son of
Captain John Hubbard, who, with a brother, Zechariah Hub-
bard, were
sons of Deacon Thomas Hubbard, by his wife, Mary Tuthill
Deacon
Thomas Hubbard died Nov. 17, 1717, aged sixty-three. As Savage
says that
Rev. William may have had other children than he notes, this may
have been
one of them. -- EDS.
17 09/10.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 273
and Schyler
came in. The Govr told me of
News from
Albany, as
if the French of Canaday were coming against
us. The good Lord stop them!
Febr. 1.
The Court meets, but the Deputies make not
a
House. Febr. 2. Make not a House.
Febr. 3. Friday, The Representatives have a Number,
the Govr
sends for them in the Forenoon, and makes a
Speech to
them. Just at the time, I was taken with
an
irksome
Flux, and was fain to go abroad: so that I saw
nor heard
any thing of this Solemnity.
Febr. 4. Now about the Govr introduces Col.
Schyler,
and Major
Pigeon to take Leave of the Council, as going
for
England. It was a Surprize to me; and I
could not
find that
any body knew that Major Pigeon was going to
England.
Febr. 6. the Queen's Birth-day. The Council Treat the
Govr
at the Green Dragon, with Col. Vetch and several
others. Mr. Tho. Bridge, Mr. Wadsworth, and Mr. Col-
man were
there. Cost us 5s
apiece. After our Return to
the
Council-Chamber, Burnt near Six Thousand pounds of
decay'd
Bills. When the Candles began to be
lighted, I
grew weary
and uneasy, and even slip'd away without
drinking. When I came home, it was a singular Refresh-
ment to me
to read 2 Cor. 6. especially from the 14th. to
the
end. See Mr. Pemberton's Sermon, March,
5th. &c.
Febr. 7. Third-day, Col. Foster spake to me about a
Bill for an
Agent. I said I knew of none. He said there
was
one. It seems twas pass'd and sent in
Febr. 6th. as we
had our
Fire; and deliver'd to the Govr who read it, and
put it into
the Secretary's hand, who laid it away, not
knowing what
it was. At last on this day it was read;
and the Govr
spake against the thing largely and earnestly.
Were now but
a bare House. Refus'd an Agent the last
Session when
were full. To chuse Sir Willm
Ashurst was
to cut him
down, &c. Sir Wm little at
Court. I said He
was
Parliament Man for London. Govr
put it not to
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Vote. In the Afternoon the Govr had a
great deal of
warm
discourse upon the same Theme. Said, Sir
Henry
had injuriously
pursued him these twenty years; Some-
times no
body follow'd him save Sir William; could pro-
cure none
else. There were a great many men in
England. Mr. Constantine Phips was their Agent had
done them
much good Service; would none serve but Sir
William
Ashurst? So the day was spent, and no
Vote.
Midweek, Febr. 8. was Stormy with Snow:
The Coun-
cil meet,
and show their Resolution to vote the Bill.
Mr.
Secretary
receives a Letter from the Govr that he could
not come to
Town: possibly he might in the Afternoon.
Upon this
the Question was put whether the Bill should
be voted to
in the forenoon, or wait till the Afternoon;
and twas
carried to waitt till the Afternoon, to see if the
Govr
would come. Col. Hutchinson and Foster
dine at
Homes's.
Febr. 8. p. m. The Council met,
but the Govr came
not. Maxwell was sent for the Secretary, who came
and
brought a
large paper he had drawn up for Instructions,
which was
read at the Board. Then Col. Hutchinson
and
others spake
that the Bill the Deputies had sent up, re-
ferring, to
an Agent, might be put to vote which was
done about
four a-clock: There were Sixteen at the
Board;
Fifteen were in the Affirmative. Mr.
Secretary
said with a
low voice so that I heard him, I canot be of
Advice in
the matter. Representatives had often
sent in
to enquire
what was done with the Bill for an Agent:
Wherefore
now the Council sent a Message to them to ac-
quaint them
the Council had pass'd it. Col. Townsend
and Hunt
were chosen by the Council; and about 4.
of
the
Representatives to wait on the Govr for his Consent.
Capt.
Buckminster went to Roxbury the night before, and
brought a
Letter from the Govr next morning; upon
which Mr.
Secretary and Comissary went to Roxbury.
Febr. 9. 17 09/10. mane.
Soon after the Messengers from
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the Court
went with the Bill, the Govr declin'd signing it;
and sent a
Letter, which follows.
ROXBURY, Febr. 9. 17 09/10.
GENTLEMEN, -- I have just now your Vote of
yesterday referring
to the
Choice of the Honble Sir William Ashurst Agent for this Prov-
ince. I am surpris'd at it, because this present
House of Represent-
atives,
consisting of about 70 Gentlemen or more, in their last
session,
about three Moneths since, refused the Return of their own
Committee
recommending the Use of an Agent. And in
this Ses-
sion, which
I understand consists of forty-one, this Vote was carried
but by a
Small Majority. So that I have not
therein the Advice of
the Majority
of that House; three Counties being wholly absent;
and two
other Counties have but three between them, as I am in-
formed. I am also sensible that it will be a great
hardship upon Sir
William
Ashurst to stand against his Brother Sir Henry, who is
Agent for
Connecticut, who are at this time Complainants against us,
to take away
two or three Towns from us, and to lower their Quota
of Men for
the publick Service. Which Complaints
are now lying
before Her
Majesty, as that Governour informs us.
If the matter
might be
reconsidered, I am of Opinion it were better left to the
Advice of a
full Court; which if you desire [left incomplete].
March, 4, 17 09/10. I went to Brooklin, and visited my
son.
March, 10. I visit Bror Emons, who not only is kept
within by
his illness, but kept up; he canot go to bed,
but is
oblig'd to sit in his Chair all night.
Mr. Addington
tells me of
Mr. Pike's death, a good Man, and my particu-
lar
friend. It seems he died March, 7.
Feria secunda, March, 13. 17 09/10.
General Town-Meet-
ing. Mr. Cotton Mather went to Prayer; I stood in
the
Lobby, then
went into the Council-Chamber; Constable
-- came to
me and surprised me with telling me that I
was chosen
Moderator. I went in; and they would
have
me sit in
the Seat, which I did; After reading the
Warrants,
Law, Town-order, Chose Select-Men; Daniel
Powning,
119. Isaiah Tay, 118. Samuel Marshal, 117.
Richard
Draper, 116. Capt. Ephraim Savage,
114. Joseph
Wadsworth,
113. Jonas Clark, 108. James Barns, 109.
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C. Timothy
Clark, 86. Constables, Capt. Wentworth
Pax-
ton, AEneas Salter, John Pierce, John Savil, John
Bulkley,
Timothy
Prout, Joseph Kallender, Samuel Burnel; to
whom I
administered the Oath belonging to their Office;
7 the first
day, and Burnel, the 2d.
Seventh-day, March, 25. 1710. I set out for Plimouth
in Mr.
Steadman's Calash, about ½ hour after
9. Lodg'd
at
Cushing's.
March, 26. Went to Hingham to Meeting, heard Mr.
Norton from
Psal. 145. 18. Setting forth the
Propitious-
ness of
God. In the afternoon Lydia Cushing, and
Paul
Lewis were
baptised. Din'd with Major Thaxter,
Sup'd
with Mr.
Norton, Mrs. Norton, and their sister Shepard,
who he says,
is perfectly well. Return'd to Cushing's
in
the night;
it began to snow by that time we got thither.
March, 27.
Am much disheartened by the Snow on
the ground,
and that which was falling, there being a dis-
mal face of
Winter. Yet the Sun breaking out, I
stood
along about
10. m. Every thing look'd so wild with
Snow
on the
Ground and Trees; that was in pain lest I should
Wander: But it pleas'd God graciously to direct, so
that
I got well
to D. Jacobs, and then call'd his Tenant Riply
to guid us
over the Rocky Swamps to Curtis's. Din'd
at
Bairstow's;
from thence had the under-Sheriff Briant.
At Cook's
the Sheriff met me. Mr. J. Cotton, Otis
and
others with
him. Got to Rickard's about
Sun-set. Laus
Deo.
Mr. Mayhew and Jno Neesnumin were got thither
before me by
water. Mr. Little came to my Chamber
and Mr.
Mayhew that evening.
Gave Mr. Little and his wife each of them
a good pair
of
Gloves. Little did I think that my
worthy friend, Mr.
John Cotton
of Hampton, was then dying.
Third-day, March, 28. 1710. I saw the Sun pleasantly
rising out
of the Sea. Went to the Meetinghouse as
I
had done in
former years; but found it shut, to my dis-
apointment. But quickly after my Chamber at Rickard's
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was free;
where I had Oportunity of solemn Secret
Prayer; Two
of the Articles were my Tenants and the
Agency. Wrote out Mr. Moodey's Copy of Verses on a
Minister's
Imprisonment; and gave them to Col. Thomas.
About Noon, the Chief Justice Winthrop,
and Major
Walley came
to Town from Bairsto's. Open'd the
Court,
and Swore
the Grand-Jury before we went to Diner.
Mr.
Little,
Mayhew, Josiah Cotton, Shurtlif dine with us.
And Mr.
Rowland Cotton, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Thacher
of
Middlebury, at another time. March, 30,
adjourn'd
Sine die.
March, 31. 1710. Set out homeward, Din'd at Bair-
sto's; I
lodg'd with Major Walley, at his Cousin Jacobs's;
Mr. Winthrop
went on to Weymouth.
April, 1.
Visited Mr. Thacher at Weymouth, wish'd
him Joy of
his new House. Visited Cousin Hunt in
her
changed
Habitation. Met Mr. N. Hubbard in
Monotocot;
ask'd, but
he told me no News: As I was getting up
Pen's
Hill, Major
Walley overtook me, and told me the dread-
full News of
Mr. Cotton's Sudden Death; which was very
surprising
to me. Bait at Mills's; where I hear of
Cousin
Quinsey's
being about 8 that Morning brought to Bed of
her Son
Josiah! Mr. Smith and Walley told us of
Madam
Oliver's
death, at Weymouth; The two Cousin Germans 2
were buried
the same day; March, 31. Hampton, Cam-
bridge. Got home about 2 p. m. found all well. Laus
Deo.
Took Leave of the Chief Justice, and Major Walley,
at the
Gate.
Lord's day, April 2, 1710. Mr. Pemberton finish'd his
Discourse on
2 Cor. 6. 18. Took occasion to bewail
the
1 This was the first of six successive
Josiah Quincys, five of them being
noteworthy,
and three conspicuously so. The youngest
is yet a youth --
EDS.
2 The cousins were Rev. John Cotton, of
Hampton, whose mother, Dor-
othy
Bradstreet, "as aunt to Mercy Bradstreet (daughter of Samuel Brad-
street),
wife of Dr. James Oliver, of Cambridge.
They died only two days
apart. --
EDS.
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death of Mr.
Pike, and Mr. Cotton; of the last gave a
very August
Character. Brought it in thus: If Believers
be God's
Sons and Daughters, then their Death is to be
Regretted;
especially the death of Ministers.
Preached
forenoon and
Afternoon.
Second-day, April, 3. The Govr
calls a Council. Mr.
Man's1 2d Letter of Refusal is read; The Choosing
another
Minister is
propos'd by the Govr. I thought twas not con-
venient now
to go out of Town, or at least not far off.
I
mention'd
Mr. Brattle; Mr. Em. Hutchinson, [mentioned]
Mr. Bridge;
Govr said he was a stranger. I think twas
Col. Lynde
mention'd Mr. Angier. I did not think
him
so Square
and Stable a Man; and therefore propounded
Mr.
Wadsworth, and. Mr. Pemberton: The Govr said
Mr.
Pemberton, and all agreed to it. And
finding a diffi-
culty in
apointing who should address Mr. Pemberton;
the Govr said would have the Council meet there at 3.
Between 3
and 4. The Govr, Mr. Secretary, Sewall, Ser-
geant, Em Hutchinson, Major Walley, Mr. Comissary Bel-
char being
there, the Govr intimated that the Secretary
had a
Message, would have him do it. He
complemented
me; I
replied, you are the most proper person.
Then
Mr.
Secretary did the Message. Mr. Pemberton
disabled
himself: Mr. Secr. Answer'd. Then Govr
seem'd to beckon
me to speak. I said, The Council generally had regard to
Age in their
Choice: We had a 1 and 2 Denial from Mr.
Man. It was Condescension in the Boston Gentlemen
to
help us,
when disapointed elsewhere: It would not be well
to venture
abroad again; lest, being balk'd we should give
those at
home just Reason to say: Cum nulli
obtrudi
potest, itur
ad me. Mr. Pemberton said, not much
after.
I said I
thought he had a clear Call. As we look
towards
1 Probably Rev. Samuel Man, of
Wrentham. The sermon referred to
seems to
have been the annual Election Sermon. In
1709 it was preached by
Grindal
Rawson; in 1710, by Ebenezer Pemberton. -- EDS.
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the
Artillery passing by, I said to Mr. Pemberton the pas-
sage of Ulysses,
Si mea cum vestris valuissent vola
Pelasgi, --
Before we went away, word was brought that
Dr.
Mather was
chosen to preach the Artillery Sermon.
Mr.
Pemberton
said Must choose agen.
Third-day, Apr. 4. I had some Vines set by Bastian.
April, 13. 1710. Capt. Ephraim Savages wife dyes,
about an
hour after Lecture, to our great Surprise.
She
was at our
Meeting at Capt. Hill's.
April, 14. I went to Charlestown Lecture, and din'd
there with
Mr. Hobart, and Mr. Brattle.
April, 16.
About Sunset Mrs. Elizabeth Savage is bur-
ied. Bearers Winthrop, Sewall; Addington,
Sergeant;
Walley,
Belchar.
April, 21. 1710. Sixth-day, I went to Newtown to Mr.
Hobart's
Lecture; and there met Son Sewall and his wife.
This day
Lydia Goose dyes after 14 weeks languishing.
Joseph came
home this day.
Apr. 23.
Lord's Day Lydia Goose is buried; Bearers,
Mr. Josiah
Willard, Benj. Eliot; Jno Foy, Joseph Sewall;
Josiah
Oakes, Sam. Clark.
Apr. 27.
Mr. Cooke and I spake to Dr. Mather after
Lecture to
goe to the Schoolhouse on the 10th of May.
He declin'd
it. Understanding he went to dine at the
Major
General's, I hastn'd thither after I had din'd, and
urg'd it
there: He declin'd it; but mention'd Chimham.1
As was going
away, mention'd a Fast next Lecture for
Rain. I said I was glad, or should be glad of it.
April, 30. Lord's day; In the Evening before the dis-
mission of
the Assembly; Mr. Pemberton said, The Min-
isters of
the Town had appointed next Thorsday to be
kept as a
Fast for Rain; to turn the Lecture into a Fast;
1 The reference is to 2 Samuel, xix.
37-40. -- EDS.
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and God's
beginning to send Rain would not be a disc our- :: agement.
Note.
Last night the Rudder of Capt. Rose's Ship was
cut; The
reason was Capt. Belchar's sending of her away
Laden with
Wheat in this time when Wheat is so dear.
Second-day, May, 1, 1710. Fourty or fifty Men get
together and
seek some body to head them to hale Capt.
Roses Ship
ashoar: but they were dissuaded by
several
sober Men to
desist, which they did. This was about
5. m.
I heard of
it as I was going to Hog-Island to see my Ten-
ant's Loss
of Sheep. Went off about Nine, and
return'd
between 2
and 3.
May, 2.
Mr. Pemberton prays; 5 Judges there.
First
Lieut Sam.
Johnson was made Foreman of the Jury.
May, 3. He pray'd to be dismiss'd by reason of
sickness,
which was
granted while I was withdrawn into the Coun-
cil-Chamber,
and writing to Mr. C. Mather to dine with
us; and Mr.
Cumby was made Fore-man. At Noon Mr.
Attorney
objected against Cumby that he should say, Sure
they cut the
Rudder themselves, that is, Capt. Roses Men.
Upon this
Mr. Cumby was spoken to by the Court, and
he in open
Court desired dismission, or at least from being
Fore-man. He was dismiss'd; and Mr. William Torrey
was put
in. Mr. Attorney and Capt. Belchar went
to the
Grand-Jury
to forward the Bill against those that made
the
unlawfull Assembly. Just after Mr. Cumby
was dis-
miss'd,
Capt. Belchar made a motion that he might be
sworn as a
Witness. I look'd upon it as an
indignity,
having been
hardly enough dismissed from the Grand-
Jury: and
nothing led to the calling him forth but his Sit-
uation. So I opos'd it, and it was not done. I insisted it
most
convenient to proceed with a few and not seek to
inflame the
Reckoning by multiplying, Articles. And
Col.
Foster
complain'd that twas almost like an Inquisition;
the maner of
Capt. Belchars pursuing it in Council.
This Midweek morn, Mr. Pemberton stood in
his Gate,
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and
occasion'd my going in with him. He
spake very
warmly about
the Unlawfull Assembly: I said such mo-
tions ought
to be supress'd; the thing should be thorowly
and
effectually dealt in. I said twas an ill
office in Capt.
Belchar to
send away so great a quantity of Wheat
(about 6000
Bushels besides Bread) in this scarce time.
Mr.
Pemberton said I cherish'd those evil seditious Mo-
tions by
saying so. I said he unjustly charged
me. He
that
withholds Corn, the people will curse him, though I
did not
affirm that Scripture Justified the Rioters.
I men-
tion'd
something of God's people, that though they brought
themselves
into Straits by their own fault; yet God pitied
and help'd
them. Mr. Pemberton said, with much
fierce-
ness, They
were not God's people but the Devil's people
that wanted
Corn. There was Corn to be had; if they
had
not
impoverish'd themselves by Rum, they might buy
Corn. I was stricken with this furious
Expression. Mr.
Pemberton
also spake very sharply and upbraidingly, that
he was
invited to Diner, and then not sent for at Diner-
time; was
sick with waiting; lost his own Diner; knew
not where we
din'd; 'twas indecent to ly lurking at the
ordinary;
wanted not a Diner.
Mdweek, May, 3. p. m. the Grand-Jury bring
in Igno-
ramus, to my surprise. No order for the accused to pay
Costs.
Mr. Cotton Mather din'd with us to day;
Mr. Gookin
of Sherbourn,
yesterday. Spake not a word to Mr.
Mather of
any of the Causes, save of a Widow's that was
Past.
May, 15, 1710. Set out for Ipswich with Daughter
Gerrish in
my son's Calash, from Charlestown. At
Lewis's
Mr. Timo Thornton overtook us, and accompanied us to
Mr.
Gerrishes at Wenham. There I leave my
Daughter
and proceed,
Mr. Attorney rode with me from thence,
Mr. Harris
met me, and conducted me to Mr. Rogers's;
find all
well there. May, 17. I and Mr. Rogers visit Sis-
282 DIARY OF SAMUEL
SEWALL. [1710.
ter
Northend, Mr. Rogers prays with Cousin Mehetabel
Moodey, who
was hapily there. To comfort her, I told
her, God had
given her a Visit: for Mr. Rogers and I
came to give
her Aunt a visit; not knowing of her being
there. Went to Mr. Payson's Gate, and talk'd with
him
a little,
drank Cider, went to Ipswich; Night before we
got thither.
May, 18.
Set out for Boston, Mr. Thornton in Com-
pany. Call'd at Bror Gerrish's; They expected
son and
daughter
Hirst, so went on to Salem, din'd at Bror
Sewall's
who had a
good Treat. Madam Hirst, Madam Colman,
Son Hirst
and wife, Mrs. Betty, Mr. Sever there; we
join'd our
selves to them, and made a good Diner.
Then
Mr. Thornton
and I set forward, parted at the Winisimet
Road, met
Mr. Colman at Lin. Got home well; in the
night took
Tom my driver with me. Laus Deo.
May, 31.
Election-day; Major Walley, the Secretary
and Sewall
gave the Representatives their Oaths; 70. be-
fore
Sermon. Mr. Pemberton preached. Dine at the
Green
Dragon. Election as last year.
Midweek July, 5th Comencement-day. I ride from
Charlestown
with Cousin Hale in a Calash; Mr. Mayhew
has much
adoe to get Mr. Short along; his Melancholy is
so
prevalent. President is indispos'd, so that Mr. N. Ho-
bart begins
with Prayer. Sir Denison makes the
Oration.l
The
Bachelours Questions, and two of the Masters, were
dispatch'd
in the forenoon. My son 2 concluded his Thesis
thus ideoque
etsi inautdiatur Lugduni Battavorum; etsi
enarretur Lutetia
Parisiorum etsi audiant Nostrates
doctissimi,
sive Oxonienses, give Cantabrigienses atta-
men Clamabo,
Sabbatismus Septenarius existit jure Di-
vino, et
immutabili.
1 John Denison, A. B. in 1710. He was Librarian of the College 1713-14.
-- EDS.
2 Joseph Sewall, A. B. 1707, would
regularly take his Master's degree in
1710. --
EDS.
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Mr. Sol. Stoddard craved a Blessing in
the Hall, and
Mr. Williams
of Hatfield return'd Thanks.
I
came down a-foot in company of Mr. Wadsworth, and
Mr. Hale; no
Calash being to be hired: Neither Son
Sewall, nor
Hanah nor Betty were at the Comencement.
Sam and
Betty were sick. Note. The day was cool and
pleasant,
very little Dust by Reason of the Rain the day
before.
July, 10. Mr. Jno
Marion and I went to Rumney-
Marsh to the
Raising of their Meetinghouse. I drove a
Pin, gave a
5s Bill, had a very good Treat at Mr. Chiev-
ers's; went
and came by Winisimet.
July, 16.
Mrs. Stoddard, Widow, is pray'd for.
July
18th dyes about 7. m. Extream hot Wether. Mr. Cook,
Bromfield
and I goe to Rumney-Marsh in a Boat, to agree
with Workmen
to finish the Meetinghouse. Stowers is
to
make the
windows. Got home well; Laus Deo. Several
died of the
Heat at Salem.
July, 19. Madam Stoddard buried, Bearers, Winthrop,
Cook;
Sewall, Corwin; Lynde, Cutler. Buried in
the
old burying
place in Major Savage's Tomb.
Seventh-day, July, 15. 1710. As I was setting up a
Column of
Psalters, the 12th Column, about 11. m. I heard
a Gun, and a
while after another. Mr. Mayhew and
Joseph run
up to the top of the House, and saw two Flags
hoysted at
the Castle. Quickly after I went up, and
saw
the Flag
hoysted at the Sconce, and two Guns fired; then
presently
the Drums beat and Alarm went through the
Town. Some said, there was a Flag in the Main-Top;
others said
twas a broad Pendant. Twas Candle-light
be-
fore Col.
Nicholson got to the Council Chamber; where
the Govr and Council waited. Col.
Nicholson gave me a
Letter from
Cous. Jer. Dumer: and two more Packets
were
deliver'd me by an Unseen hand, from Sir William
Ashurst,
wherein was a Letter to Mr. Secretary, Mr.
Speaker, and
Dr. Mather, wherein Sir William declines
284 DIARY OF
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our Agency,
his Health being precarious; and saith he
has
introduc'd Mr. Dumer into our Service, and Rec-
omends him
to us as fit to be our Agent.
July, 16.
Mr. Jno Emerson of New-Castle preaches for
Mr.
Pemberton in the Forenoon. Teach us so
to number
our days.
July, 17th. I deliver Sir Wms Letter with my own
hand.
Now about a child of about 2 years old,
having just
suck'd, was
drown'd in a Tub of Water it toppled into.
In Council 'tis now mov'd that the
Marines might be
brought
ashore. Col. [manuscript torn] the Castle be-
cause there
might be more easily k[ept toge]ther. I
mov'd that
might be Landed at Hull where would have
much better
Accomodation; and one of the Officers seem'd
to incline
to it, and alleg'd a Guard might easily be kept
at the
Neck. I understood that was agreed to,
and desired
Col.
Townsend might go to facilitat their Reception; but
it seems the
Officers would Land them at the Castle, as
Col.
Townsend told me.
July, 24, 1710. The Council Treats the Govr., Col.
Nicholson,
Col. Vetch, Sir Charles Hobbey, Col. Taylor,
Col.
Redding, and the Sea-Captains at the Green Dragon.
July, 28.
Deputies Treat at the Green Dragon.
Govr
Saltonstall
came to Town yesterday. This day the
Dep-
uties send
in a Bill to chuse Mr. Jer. Durner junr
their
Agent. Dated July 27. Govr
says, He will be drawn
asunder with
wild Horses before he will be Thrust upon
as last
year. W. Winthrop esqr, much against Mr.
Dumer
being Agent.
July, 28. Mr. William Clark, Mariner, who served his
Time with
Capt. Nathanl Green, made a Justice of peace
by Govr Dudley: 1 is buried, Bearers, Mr. Cook, Sergeant;
1 William Clark was made a justice of the
peace June 18; 1706, with
Edmund
Quincy, Samuel Sewall, Jr., and two others.
Hence, probably,
this
mention. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 285
Walley,
Stoddard; Dummer, Mico. Govr Dudley, Col.
Nicholson,
and many of the Council there; being the
time of the
Genl Court.
I think all of the Government
had Gloves;
I had a pair. Conference with the
Council
of War,
which lasted till 10. at night.
Satterday, July, 29th. last night John
Saffin esqr. died.
He express'd
to Mr. Pemberton an Assurance of his good
Estate 2 or
3 hours before his death.
Fifth-day, Augt. 3. 1710. Our little
Grand-Daughter
Rebekah
Sewall, born xr. 30. 1704. at Brooklin, died
about Eight
or Nine this morn. We knew not of her
being Sick,
till Dr. Noyes, as he returned, told us she was
dead. The Lord effectually awaken us by these
awfull
Surprising
Providences. My son and daughter got
thither
before their
Child dyed, and had Mr. Walter to pray with
her. She was sensible to the last, catching her
breath till
she quite
lost it.
Sixth-day, Augt 4th. Rebekah Sewall is buried in at
Roxbury in
the Governour's Tomb. Bearers, Daniel
Allin,
Samuel
Wainwright; Thomas Berry, Increase Walter.
White
Sarsnet Scarvs and Gloves. Son and his
wife fol-
low'd next
the Corps; then the two Grandfathers; then
Madam Dudley
and her son, Paul Dudley esqr; then Jo-
seph and his
sister Hanah &c. Mr. Hirst and Gerrish were
there: their Wives were not well. Brother Sewall led
Madam
Willard; his Son Sam. and Susan were also there.
Mr.
Secretary Addington, Mr. Comissary Belchar, Mr.
Jno Leverett, president, and his Lady, Madam Rogers.
Mr. Walter,
Mr. Mayhew, and many of Brooklin and
Roxbury.
This day, Augt 4. Nurse Elizabeth Johnson
dyes.
Seventh-day,
Augt. 5.
Is buried near the Entrance of
the old
Burying-place; about 60. years old. I
and Major
Walley
follow'd next the Women, Mr. Pemberton, Hanah
and Cousin
Jane Green were there.
Augt.
10. Thanksgiving: Rainy morn [manuscript
im-
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perfect] at
the beginning of exercise. Mr. Pemberton
prea[ched]
Madam Usher, Cousen, her Maid, son and
daughter
Hirst and their children and Nurse; son and
daughter
Gerrish and his Bror Paul and wife, cousins Sam,
Jonathan,
Susan Sewall, Jno Gerrish dine here. Hill,
Pierce,
Johnson, Cornish, Wheeler, Plimly Co Green,
Frost,
Eaton, Hubd; £1-4-6.
Augt.
11. Sixth-day, I visited Mr. Tho.
Brattle, who is
very low and
languishing; He express'd great respect to
me: yet
plainly told me, that frequent visits were preju-
dicial to
him, it provok'd him to speak more than his
strength
would bear, would have me come seldom.
He
told me his
Thigh was no bigger than my Wrist. I
said
I hop'd as
the Wether grew Temperat, he might recruit
which he
seem'd to assent to.
Augt. 12.
Mr. E. Mayhew carries his daughter Reli-
ance to
Braintry; intends to preach for Mr. Marsh to-
morrow.
Monday, Augt 14. 1710. At a
Town-Meeting, warn'd
for that
purpose, Fifteen feet of the old burying place
Northward,
and Ten feet Eastward, are granted to enlarge
the Church.1 Samuel Lynde esqr. was
chosen Moderator.
1 The records of the town have the
following items Aug. 14, 1710:-
"A
motion or Request in writing being presented and distinctly read at
this
meeting, and is as followeth, viz.
"The Request of the Honble. Coll. Francis Nicholson
together with the
Ministers,
Church Wardens, and others of the Church of England in Boston,
sheweth --
That the Church being too small to accomodate the congrega-
tion and
Strangers that dayly Increase. And are
desirous to Enlarge the
same with
the Approbation of the Selectmen and Inhabitants, but wanting
Ground on
the North Side and East end, Request that they may have a
Grant of
fifteen foot wide on the North side and Seventy four foot in length.
And ten foot
at the East end of the Church in Length, which is included in
the said
Seventy four foot. Reserving the same
Liberty to all persons who
have had any
friends buryed in said ground which they enjoyed heretofore.
Which
Request being granted shall be ever acknowledged &c."
"Voted a grant to the said Gentlemen
of this above said Request."
In the
margin -- " Grant of part of the Burying place for Enlargmt. of
the
Church." -- EDS.
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Col.
Nicholson made a Speech before; And came in after-
ward and
gave the Town Thanks for their Vote. Mr.
Prout, the
Town-Clerk, made some Oposition, because the
Graves of
his Ancestors would be thereby hidden.
Augt. 15. p. m. I pray'd with Joseph in Cous. Dumer's
Chamber,
respecting his being call'd to preach for Mr.
Pemberton
the next Lord's Day at the South-Meeting-
house. Then I read the 13th. of Matthew,
and Joseph
concluded
with Prayer. I hope God heard us.
Augt. 18. Major Tyng is buried at Concord, where he
had lien
some time to be cured of his Wound.
Augt. 19. Mr. Comissary Belchar tells me The news of
the Taking
Doway 1 is confirm'd. The
Triton's Prize came
out of
Plimouth the 27th of June, and was spoken with at
Sea.
Lord's Day, Augt 20. Mr. Joseph Sewall preaches for
Mr.
Pemberton, from Ps. 73. 28. But it is
good for me
to draw near
unto God: stood a little above an hour.
Before we went
out of the seat, Majr Genl congratulated
me on
account of my Son; said he had done Pie et Docte.
In the
Afternoon, Mr. Pemberton traced much of his Dis-
course in
his Prayer.
Augt. 21. The Deacons come and deliver him 20s. Col.
Checkley very
cheerfully Congratulated me on account of
my Son's
very good Sermon. Capt. Hill
congratulated
me, coming
in first. In the Afternoon I visit my
Daugh-
ter Sewall
at Brooklin, and her little Hanah. I met
my
Son at
Roxbury; and met him again with Mrs. Bayly be-
hind him as
I came home. Govr tells me of
Genl Cod-
drington's
Magnificent Legacies to pious uses.
Friday, 7r. 8. Col. Hathorn, Mr. Corwin, and Sewall
set out for
Bristow, by way of Punkapog: dine at Morey's;
Get to
Billinges before Sun-set.
1 Douay capitluated to the allies on the
25th or 26th of June, N. S. --
EDS.
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7r. 9th.
ride in company with Mr. Henry Mackintosh junr
Mr. Jn°
Mills, undersheriff; his daughter; his Sister the
Schoolmasters
Wife, and their Son. We took up at the
Ship; they
went on to Bristol. Keep the Sabbath at
Seaconk. Dine at Smith's, sup at Mr. Greenwood's.
Monday, 7r. 11th. proceed to
Bristol, are met at the Ferry
by the
Sheriff, Mr. Pain, Mr. Mackintosh, and others.
Col.
Byfield not
there. Lodg at Peter Reynold's. 7r. 14. Jour-
ney
homeward, Dine at the Ship with Mr. Newman.
Note.
The Mother
of a Bastard Child condemn'd for murthering
it. Lodge [manuscript imperfect] call at the
Governour's
[imperfect]
him.
Octobr. At the first bringing in the Vote to make Mr.
Dumer Agent,
the Govr grew very warm, and said he
would be
drawn asunder with wild Horses before he would
be driven as
last year.
Novr. 3.
Friday Mr. Comissary Belcher and I are sent
to visit the
Govr, being Sick, and to present the Council's
Service. I carried the Vote for Mr. Dumer's Agency.
Govr
was now more calm, being brought on anew.
Said
Mr. I.
Mather was against it. Was by a Fire in
his Cham-
ber-closet. Went and came in Capt. Belchers Coach.
Just as were
ready to goe, Col. Higginson call'd earnestly
for the
Petition of Capt. Gardener and others, about a
middle
precinct for the Ministry, to be brought forward;
which caused
me to stay; and after reading papers and
debates, at
last they who were against the precinct, mov'd
that a
previous Vote might be put; whether would vote
it now, or
no; 1 and the Council was divided, so nothing
was
done. This many would have improv'd to
hinder its
being
brought forward this Session. Whereas
there was
1 This is the old form of the Previous
Question, which is still in use in
England. Its object is, not to bring on a. decisive
vote, but to stave it off;
the emphasis
was on the word now. It was recognized
in Jefferson's Manual,
but is now
out of date in this country. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 289
no Vote, and
if there had been a Negative, twas only re-
specting
that very evening intended.
Novr. 10. 1710. Daughter Gerrish is brought to bed of
a daughter
about 6. m. My wife being with her, I
sat up
late and lay
alone. This day with much adoe twas
voted
that would
Salem Middle precinct put to vote; and in the
Afternoon
twas carried clear in the Affirmative.
Mr.
Secretary
stood firm for this. Though the Salem
Gentle-
men would
not suffer Capt. Gardener and Company to
voted in
Salem Town Meeting; they made no bones of
voting
against them in the Council.
Novr. 13. 1710. I visit Daughter Gerrish, and then
ride alone
to Lewis's. From thence had Company, and
was met by
the Sheriff.
Novr. 14. Finished the Business of the Court, sitting a
little by
Candle-light. Visited Madam Bradstreet,
Bror
Hirst, Major
Wm Brown.
Novr. 15. Came home, fair Wether, and not very Cold.
Enquired of
Mr. Gerrish as I came along concerning his
wife: He said she was something disorder'd; but I
apre-
hended no
danger, and being just come off my journey,
went not to
see her that night.
Novr. 16.
Thanksgiving. My wife sent my
daughter
Gerrish part
of our Diner, which as I understood she eat of
pleasantly. But twas a Cold Day and she was remov'd off
her Bed on
to the Palat Bed in the morning. After
the
Evening
Exercise my wife and I rode up in the Coach:
My daughter
ask'd me to pray with her, which I did;
pray'd that
God would give her the Spirit of Adoption to
call Him
Father. Then I went away with Mr. Hirst
to
his House,
leaving my wife with my daughter Gerrish, till
she call'd
to go home. After our coming home, the
north-
ern Chimney
of the New house fell a-fire and blazed out
extreamly;
which made a great Uproar, as is usual.
An
hour or two
after midnight Mr. Gerrish call'd me up ac-
quainting us
of the extream illness of his wife; All the
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family were
alarm'd, and gather'd into our Bed-Chamber.
When I came
there, to my great Surprise my Daughter
could not
speak to me. They had try'd to call up
Mr.
Wadsworth;
but could not make the family hear. I
sent
for Mr.
Mayhew, who came and pray'd very well with her.
I put him
[manuscript imperfect] again; Mr. Cutler the
Physician
said he [imperfect]. (Joseph pray'd at
home
with the
family). [Near] four a clock after
Midnight my
dear child
expired, being but Nineteen years, and twenty
days
old. When this was over, I advis'd them
to take
Mrs.
Hubbard's Assistance; left Mr. Mayhew there and
went
home. When I entred my wife's
Bed-Chamber, a
dolefull Cry
was lifted up.
Seventh-day, Novr. 18th. was
the Funeral; Son Gerrish
went first,
then the two Grandfathers. Bearers, Paul
Dudley esqr.
Mr. Danl Oliver; Mr. Saml Phillips, Mr. Jno
Winthrop;
Mr. John Smith, Mr. Giles Dyer junr.
Scarfs
and
Gloves. Note. Madam Pemberton was brought to
Bed of a Son
on the Thanksgiving-day during the Fore-
noon
Exercise.
Novemr. 19. Mr. Pemberton preaches from Gen. 33. 5.
And he said,
The children which God hath graciously
given thy
Servant. Baptis'd his Son, having Named
him.
William.
7th day, Novr. 25th. Increase Mather lays before me
the first
Libel, the Copy being of Sam. Sewall's writing;
and mentions
Mr. Bromfield, for me to consult with what
to doe. When at Charlestown Lecture Novr.
26th. I writ a
Letter to
the president to invite him to Diner the 28. that
night goe to
the Comissioners Meeting together.
Novr. 27. Mr. Bromfield and I grant a Warrant to
bring John
Banister before us at 9. m. 9r. 28.
Novr. 28. I send my Son to invite Mr. Pemberton to
dine with me
and the President.
Novr. 28. John Banister apears, sumond by Constable
Kallender. I had desired Col. Townsend to be with us,
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 291
who
came. Mr. Tho. Brattle came of himself
and pleaded
much in
favour of the Libellers (for Aaron was brought in
too) and
against the injured Doctors, which was the Cause
I invited
him not to Dinner. Fin'd Jno
Banister 20s for
each Libel,
Aaron Stuckey 20s for publishing the 2d. Bound
them to
their good Behaviour. Mr. Brattle argued
hard
to issue it,
and not Bind them over to the Sessions: and
had Dr.
Cotton Mather's Letter in favour of Banister.
But he
offer'd no Acknowledgment of his Crime in wri-
ting; so we
took this middle way.
Novr. 28. p. m. When the President and Mr. Pember-
ton came to
Diner, I was in my Apartment, Mr. Mayhew
and my Son
with me. The President and Mr. Pemberton
being come
to us; Mr. Pemberton quickly begun to say,
What you
have been holding a Court to day! Had it
over again;
I was a little amus'd at the word Court; how-
ever, I
began to relate what had been done. Mr.
Pem-
berton with
extraordinary Vehemency said, (capering with
his
feet) If the Mathers order'd it, I would
shoot him
thorow. I told him he was in a passion. He said he was
not in a
Passion. I said, it was so much the
worse. He
said the
Fire from the Altar was equal impartial.
Up-
braiding me,
very plainly, as I understood it, with
Partiality. The President said, The Governour was bar-
barously
Treated (meaning Dr. Cotton Mather's Letter to
his
Excellency). I answered; That was put to
the Coun-
cil. Mr. Mayhew told me afterward, that I said his
Car-
riage was
neither becoming a Scholar nor Minister.
The
Truth is I
was surpris'd to see my self insulted with such
extraordinary
Fierceness, by my Pastor, just when I had
been
vindicating two worthy Embassadors of Christ (his
own usual
Phrase) from most villanous Libels. And
I
dont know
any syllable intimating that I had done Well.
As for the
Letter, the Govr was not in humor to trust me
about it;
because I just then Fil'd my Reasons for with-
drawing my
Vote. [In margin] Mr. Pemberton speaks
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hard Words,
and very reflecting. We went to Dinner,
I sat
next Mr.
Pemberton and ask'd him to crave a Blessing;
He also
Return'd Thanks, the President declining it.
Mr.
Sergeant
came into our Company. The President
walked
on his right
hand to the Council-chamber; I and Mr.
Pemberton
went next. In the Way Mr. Pemberton
charg'd me
again, I was griev'd and said, What in the
Street! He answer'd, No body hears. But Mr. Sergeant
heard so
much, that he turn'd back to still us.
Mr. Pem-
berton told
me that Capt. Martin, the Comadore, had
abus'd him,
yet I took no notice of it: I answer'd, you
never laid
it before me. He said, You knew"
it. I said,
I knew it
not. (For every Rumor is not ground
sufficient
for a
Justice of Peace to proceed upon; and Mr. Pember-
ton never
spake word of it to me before). He said
Capt.
Martin
call'd him Rascal in the Street, and said had it not
been for his
coat, he would have can'd him. Mr. Pem-
berton said
I excluded him, or he was excluded from
Dining with
the Superiour Court by the Invitation of
Capt.
Martin. I said 'twas with difficulty
that his Com-
pany was
obtain'd at our Diner. The matter of
Fact was
this: Upon Midweek Novr. 8., as I take
it, twas nois'd that
General
Nicholson was going out of Town to Pascataqua,
in order to
his Voyage home: Hereupon the Justices
agreed to
wait upon his Honor at his Lodgings; to take
Leave of him
if going, to invite him to Diner if he staid
in Town so
long: (The Chief Justice was at New London),
Sewall,
Hathorne, Walley, Corwin went in the morning to
the House of
Mr. John Borland; When the Genl came,
and we had
Saluted him, and understood his Honor staid
in Town that
day; We invited him to Diner to the Green
Dragon; and
Mr. Myles being there, I invited him; and
enquired of
the Genl if there were any we
should ask to
Dine with
him? He mention'd Capt. Martin, the
Coma-
dore. Accordingly we sent, and for Major
Handy. When
Mr.
Pemberton had Pray'd, I desir'd him to Dine with the
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 293
Court, the
Genl was invited. Mr. Pemberton
ask'd whether
Capt. Martin
was to be there, I said yes; Then said Mr.
Pemberton,
you must Excuse me! I reply'd, His
Invita-
tion was not
of my proposal. And yet this was now
thus
brought over
again: Mr. Pemberton said the Council
took
so little
notice of Capt. Martin's Abusing him (though it
had been
talk'd of in Council) that they invited him to
their Treat
at the Return from Annapolis Royal.1
This
concerns the
whole Council and therefore I have nam'd
it last, as
in which I am least concern'd. But this
is to be
said for the
Council. The Fleet was a chief Mean of
Taking Port
Royal; Capt. Martin was Comadore of that
Fleet, and
therefore could not be separated from the Genl.
A personal
Resentment of what had pass'd before the
going to
Port-Royal, ought not to make a Balk in a Pub-
lick
Invitation after God's granting Success; which had
been so much
and Publickly pray'd for; and Thanks to
God
Return'd. And if the Justices had [not?]
sent for
Capt.
Martin, I cant tell what could have been made of the
Offence. Tis difficult medling with Captains of
Frigats.
Reasons of
State require the overlooking many grievous
Things. The Sons of Zerviah were too hard for David,
his calling
them to Account. He was fain to leave
Joab
to the Reign
of Solomon.
These Things made me pray Earnestly and
with great
Concern,
that God would vouchsafe to be my Shepherd,
and perform
for me what is mention'd in the 23.
Psalm,
that He
would not leave me behind in my Straglings; but
bring me
safely to his Heavenly Fold.
Decr. 1. 1710. Mr. Neh. Hobart having invited Joseph
to Preach, I
took him and his Sister Hanah in the Coach
and went to
Lecture, and left Joseph there. The ways
1 This name was substituted by the
English for Port Royal at the
time (1710)
of Nicholson and Vetch's Conquest. Hutchinson, II. 167. -- EDS.
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were heavy;
but being moderat wether, Hanah and I got
home
comfortably, though late.
Decr. 2d. Isaac Goose is buried; Bearers, Sewall, Bel-
cher; Oakes,
Checkley; Cutler, Welsteed. He was a
very
diligent and laborious man in his Calling, and I hope
a
Christian. I have heard he had a good
Gift in Prayer;
though his
Speech at other times was something abrupt.
Just at the
same time a Considerable person that came
from
Barbados for his health, and died suddenly, was
buried.
Lord's Day, Decr. 3.
1710. I was enlarged in blessing
God for
answering my Prayer in Mr. Henry Flint's Ser-
mon from
Mat. 7. 24. In the Afternoon Mr.
Pemberton
order'd the
5 first verses of the 58th Psalm to be sung. I
think if I
had been in his place and had been kindly and
tenderly
affectioned, I should not have done it at this
time. Another Psalm might have suited his Subject
as
a well as
the 5th verse of this. Tis certain, one
may make
Libels of
David's Psalms; and if a person be abused, there
is no
Remedy: I desire to leave it to God who
can and
will Judge
Righteously.1
1 In doubt whether Mr. Pemberton used the
Bay Psalm Book, or Tate
and Brady's
version, we give the reader the benefit of both.
The Bay Psalm Book renders verses 4 and 5
of Ps. 58, thus: --
"Their poyson's like serpents poyson;
they like deafe Aspe,
her eare
that stops. Though Charmer
wisely charme,
his voice she will not
heare."
Tate and Brady's version is as follows:
--
"Speak, 0 ye Judges of the Earth
if just your Sentence
be:
Or must not Innocence
appeal
to Heav'n from your
Decree?
"Your wicked Hearts and Judgments are
alike by Malice
sway'd;
Your griping Hands, by weighty Bribes,
to Violence betrayed.
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Decr. 12. I went to Mr. Pemberton and Expostulated
about his
Treatment of me.
Novr.
28. Ask'd him whether the Mathers were
not
Embassadors
of Christ and therefore ought to be vindi-
cated; I
might have expected his Escape.1
As to Capt.
Martin, the
Comadore, when I had related the matter of
Fact, he
said he knew it not before. I visited
Madam
Pemberton,
and gave the Nurse 3s.
Decr. 14. Mr. Samuel Newman of Rehoboth dies; He
sat in one
Court as a Justice of Peace; was a very good
Man: He
dined with us at Smiths, as were coming home.
Decr. 17. 1710. Mrs. Jane Lindal, Mr. John Pole's only
Child is
buried.2
Decr. 29. Sister Jane Gerrish returns. My wife in-
vited her
earnestly to have staid all Winter. She
came
before
Daughter Gerrish was brought to Bed. My
wife
gave her a
Mourning Suit.
Second-day, Jany 1.
1710/11. Mr. Mayhew returns, hav-
"To Virtue, strangers from the Womb
their Infant Steps went wrong:
They prattled Slander, and in Lyes
employ'd their lisping Tongue.
"No Serpent of parch'd Afric's Breed
doth ranker Poison bear;
The drowsy Adder will as soon
unlock his sullen Ear.
"Unmov'd by good Advice, and deaf
as Adders they remain
From whom the skilful Charmer's Voice
can no attention gain." -- EDS.
1 His way of evading the censure. -- EDS.
2 This was the first wife of Timothy
Lindall, of Salem and Boston, H. C.
1695,
Speaker and of the Council, Judge of the Common Pleas, &c. In his
will he
mentions his great-grandson, Thomas Lindall Winthrop, an exam-
ple of the
few links required to connect Sewall's times with our own. A
good sketch
of the Lindall family is in the N. E. Hist. Genealogical Reg-
ister, VII.
15-24. -- EDS.
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ing with
great Patience staid the finishing that Excellent
work of
Setting forth the Psalms and Gospel of John in
English and
Indian. He was abundantly Laborious in
Skillfully
revising the Translation, and Correcting the
Press.l
Jany. 4. Mr. Wadsworth preaches Excellently, Doctr:
They that
are not Upright in heart are Rebels against
God. I was much affected with the Sermon. About 4
weeks before
at -- Bligh's Funeral, [I asked] whether
Mr. Bridge
and he administred the Lord's Super alternatly?
He answer'd,
they did, He did it last; which, as I take
it, was the
Lord's day before; I was inclin'd to go to the
first church
as sometime I had done, and partake with
them; and
this Sermon forwarded me in my design.
Lord s Day, Jany. 7. I goe to the first Church, and par-
take
there. Mr. Wadsworth's Text was, 1 Cor.
10. 3 --
And that
Rock was Christ: made a good Sermon to my
great
Refreshment. Went also in the Afternoon
and
heard Mr.
Bridge. It seems the Governour's Lady
was
very much
affected with Mr. Wadsworth's Lecture Ser-
mon,
mentioned before; and fell sick; on the 9th of Jany.
Mr. Paul
Dudley told me they fear'd they should have lost
her.
Jany. 11th I met Madam Willard
going; she desired me
to speak to
Mr. Bridge to pray for her. I met with
him
in Mr.
Buttolph's Shop, and did it; He pray'd for the
Governour's
Consort. After Sermon a Bill was read
for
her; so she
was praid for twice Expressly.
Jany. 12th. I goe to visit the Governour's Lady, sat with
the Govr
awhile; Mr. Patti Dudley, Capt. Chandler; Capt.
Oliver
Noyes, I should have mention'd before.
Mr. Noyes
spake so
much of Madam Dudley's mending, that he said
1 Massachusee Psalter, &c. See
Brinley's Catalogue, Vol. T. No. 798.
Printed by
B. Green and the Indian, James Printer, 1709.
Brinley had
two good
copies, and one imperfect, and at his sale, March 10-14, 1879, they
brought
large prices.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 297
She was
well; he had given her the Febrifuge several
times. I went Into Chamber and spake to her; She
thank'd me
for speaking to Mr. Bridge to pray for her:
Hop'd she
should praise God upon her Recovery.
January, 14. Lord's day, Mr. Sergeant tells me that
the
Governour's Lady was taken distracted, raving, in the
night, and
that she was dying.
January, 15th. Lt. Col. Qmnsey's Barn is burnt
down
and all in
it, as the Military Officers were taking the
Oaths at
Mills's. It came by a man's blowing out
his pipe,
who was
swingling 1 Flax. 17. Widow
Jnoson buried.
Jany. 18th. 5th. day.
Mr. Secretary and I give the Oaths
to 24. Military officers of this Regiment, viz. Col.
Check-
ley, Lt
Col. Savage, Major Fitch, Capt. Jn° Ballantine,
Capt. Samuel
Keeling, Capt. Habijah Savage, Capt. Edw.
Martyn,
Capt. Edward Winslow -- Capt. Jonathan Bill &c.
Jany. 20.
Benj Larnell comes to my house at 3 or 4.
p. m. with a
Letter from Mr. Rawson, dated Jany. 15th. No
man came
with him to me, or gave any account of him.
Presently
after his coming I went to the Funeral of Mrs.
Boner.
Jany. 20. I was going to Brooklin, and Son Sewall came
hither which
prevented me. I sent the Govr. ½ Duz. Con-
solations. Gave son ½
Duz. Sent daughter Sewall a Let-
ter, and in
it a 20s. Bill to buy her
little Hanah a Coat.
Very fair
Warm day: Joseph went to Charlestown a little
before B.
Larnell came hither, to preach for Mr. Brad-
street to
morrow.
Jany. 22. Mr. Williams comes and examines Benjamin
Larnell, and
likes him.
Jany. 25. I goe with him to School: in the way I meet
Capt.
Williams, who tells me of the death of Mr. Stod-
dard's Son,
Solomon, last night.
1 A good old English word for beating,
the instrument used being called
a swingle.
-- EDS.
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Jany.
23. Mr. Pemberton visits us, and prays
Excel-
lently. Jany 26. Council, which is adjourn'd to the first
of February.
Jany 27. I cut down the Elm that anoy'd the Coach-
house
Stable. Mr. Solomon Stoddard
buried. Bearers,
Major Dudley,
Joseph Sewall; -- Hunt, Saml Shrimp-
ton; Jno
Walley, -- Borland. White Scarfs and
Gloves.
Tuesday, Jany. 30. The Chief Justice, Sewall and Wal-
ley goe to
Charlestown to keep Court; pleasant day, and
wit no more
sign of Ice in the River or Banks, than in the
begining of
April. Mr. Corwin met us there. Col. Hath-
orne came
not. Gave away about 34. Consolations.
Fin-
ish'd the
Court by Candle-light.
Mid-week, Jany. 31. Went and heard Mr. Bridge, and
Dr. Cotton
Mather pray and preach, at the said Dr's
House. Mr. Bridge's Text was about God's lifting up
a
Standard,
when Enemy breaks in as a Flood. Dr.
Math-
ers, The
whole world lyes in Wickedness. Had Cake
and
Butter and
Cheese, with good Drinks, before parting. As
I went home,
I heard Col. Vetch was arriv'd from An-
apolis.
Febr. 1. As I go to Lecture, I wait on Govr
Vetch and
congratulat
his Safety; He thanks me for my Respect to
him and to
his Spouse.
At 3. p. m. The Council meets according to Adjourn-
mente. Upon Conference with Col. Vetch, the
Expedition
is set
forward by Water. Mr. Secretary reads a
paper
given him by
Col. Vetch, Certifying that the Government
of Anapolis
Royal had not Traded with the Indians as
they were
aspers'd, but with all in a vile maner loading
New-Engld
with Calumnies; a spirit of Witchcraft, and
now 7 fold a
Spirit of Lying, haters of Monarchy, regret-
ting Her
Majesties success in Taking Port-Royal.
I took
it of the
Secretary, and read it, and mov'd several of the
Council that
they would speak to it. I told them it
would
otherwise be
taken as a tacit License to print it.
When
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no body
spake, and Col. Vetch was going away, I pray'd
him to stay
a little; and said I fear'd the reading that
paper
without being spoken to, would be taken as a tacit
Licensing of
it. I was for the Certificat so far as
it vindi-
cated their
innocency; but was against the Reflections on
New-England,
they would be dishonorable to Nova Scotia,
and
New-England. I was against printing it
with them.
Col. Vetch
said, if it could not be printed here, he would
have it
printed elsewhere; Copies of it were sent to Eng-
land, I said
it was Raillery unbecoming a Government.
When Col.
Vetch was gon, I pray'd the Govr to forbid the
printing it
unless those Reflections were first taken out.
The Govr
said, he could not hinder it; they might take their
own
way. And yet own'd twas Raillery. I don't know
but Col.
Vetch may reckon that he has a tacit License to
print the
Certificat just now read in Council. I
am very
free the
Substance of the Certificat, relating to their own
inocency,
may be printed: But to print the bulky
Re-
flections
would be dishonorable to Anapolis, and Boston.
And I can no
way consent to it. I think it should be
spoken to.
Seventh-day, Febr. 3. 1710/11. Col. Foster was taken with,
an
Apoplectick Fit as he was at the privat house about 8.
m. When he staid long they call'd, none
answer'd; so
they burst
open the door, and found him fallen down, and
Speechless.
Lords-day, Febr. 4th. Mr. Joseph Sewall preaches for
Mr. Colman
p. m: prays for Col. Foster. Mr.
Pemberton
Prays for
him.
Febr. 5.
Joseph returns to the College. I
visit Deacon
Atwood, went
to Col. Foster's and sat awhile with Mr.
Edw.
Hutchinson, and Mr. Ruck; visited Elder Copp, Mr.
Gee.
Febr. 6.
Maxwell calls not, so I go not out.
Febr. 7.
A great Storm of Snow; yet I get to Bror
Thornton's,
to the Meeting, and there read an excellent
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Sermon out
of Mr. Shepard, on the Ten Virgins; against
Hypocrisy:
should search for some Work wrought in us.
Sung part of
the 45th PS. Bror Manly invites for the
first
time; by
which means it comes not to us till this day
Moneth.
Febr. 8.
Madam Usher and Cous. Rolf dine with us;
by whom I
sent 70 odd Sermons to Rowley and Newbury.
Febr. 9.
Seventh-day, between 11 and 12 m.
Col. John
Foster
expires.1 His place at the Council
Board and Court
will hardly
be filled up. I have lost a good
Left-hand
man.2 The Lord save New-England! Now just half the
Counsellours
mention'd in the Charter, are dead; The
good Lord
prepare the rest, and me especially to follow
after.
Now
about I dream'd of being at the Comencment and
seeing Mr.
Leverett in Scarlet.
Thorsday, Febr. 15. John Foster esqr. is entombed.
Bearers, Govr
Dudley, Waitstill Winthrop esqr; Sewall,
Addington;
Walley, Belchar. Scarfs and Rings,
Escutch-
eons. All of the Council had Scarfs; Col.
Vetch. Many
1 This was Colonel John Foster, an eminent
merchant from Aylesbury,
County
Bucks, not to be confounded with any of the other distinguished
families of
the name here. His arms are given in Gore's
Roll' (Heraldic
Journal, I.
120), and those of his widow, Abigail, whose death is noted
under date
of March 15th, following. She was
Abigail, daughter of Cap-
tain Thomas
Hawkins, and sister of Hannah Hawkins, who married Elisha
Hutchmson,
and had a son Thomas, whose wife was Sarah, daughter of
Colonel
Foster.
Mrs. Foster had been married twice
before, first to Samuel Moore, -- then
to Thomas
Kellond, who died July 12, 1686. As
Foster's daughter married
Thomas
Hutchinson Dec. 24, 1703, it is possible that she was the child of
this
marriage, and thus own cousin to Hutchinson.
Edward Hutchinson,
half-brother
of Thomas, married Lydia, the other daughter of Colonel John
Foster, Oct.
10, 1706. It seems more probable that
both were Foster's
daughters by
a first wife. By a curious blunder in N.
E. H. G. Register,
XIX. p. 16,
line one, this Abigail Hawkins is included among the children
of Elisha
Hutchinson, when really she was his sister-in-law. Increase
Mather
preached a funeral sermon on the death of the Fosters. -- EDS.
2 The expression of a "good
left-hand man" seems rather strange.
At
present the
phrase would be a "right-hand man." -- EDS.
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great Guns
were fired. Joseph Sewall came to town,
and
was at the
Funeral, had a pair Gloves sent him to our
House. Son Samuel was at the Funeral, coming to Town
to Lecture.
Febr. 18.
Joseph preaches at the North [Meeting
House].
Febr.19.
Returns to Cambridge. Capt.
Atwood comes
after his
going away, brings 20s; speaks very favourably
of my
Son. It was night when had sat a little
at the
House of
Mourning after return from the Grave.
Mr.
Stoddard
carried me in his Coach, with Major Walley, Mr.
Em.
Hutchinson.
As I went to the Funeral, I call d at Lt
Joseph Gallop's
and left a
Sermon with him for his wife. He
surprises
me by
telling me she is very sick.
Febr. 20.
Mrs. Elisabeth Gallop (first Alcock, then
Dwight) dies
last night. Bearers, Mr. Speaker, Capt.
Southack;
Capt. Giles Fifield, Jno Alden; Mr. Nichols,
Wm
Alden. Mr. Pemberton and I went next the
Women,
Febr. 22.
Febr. 21. Mr. Jonathan Russell died last night, about
55. years
old; an Orthodox Usefull Man: My ancient
Friends and
Acquaintance dye; tis not a year since excel-
lent Mr.
Cotton of Hampton dyed. Let GOD be my
bosom Friend
and Familiar, my Amicus Necessarius!1
Febr. 26. 1710/11 Mrs. Wisewall widow, and Mrs. Allen
dye. This day p. m. the Govr has the
French Messengers from
Canada in
Council; Had the Councillors on his Left
hand,
Col. Vetch
and them on his right; on the right also were Mr.
Secretary
and Mr. Comissary. Read their
Credentia1s by
Mr. Weaver
the Interpreter. Reprimanded one Anthony
Oliver for
going to them at Meers's, and to the Frier
without
leave; made him take the Oaths, and subscribe
1 This was, probably, Rev. Jonathan
Russell, of Barnstable, H. C. 1675,
four years
after Sewall, and son of that Rev. John Russell, of Hadley, who
concealed the
regicides Goffe and Whalley for so many years. -- EDS.
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the
Declaration.1 Told the
Messengers they should depart
that day
senight, as had told the Council with some
Spirit, last
Satterday: at which time Col. Vetch said the
people of N.
E. were generally given to Lying; to which
the Govr
said not a word.
Febr. 28. 1710/11 Midweek:
This being my Marriage-
day, and
having now liv'd in a married Estate Five and
Thirty
years, notwithstanding my many Sins and Temp-
tations, I
spent some time in Meditation and Prayer in the
Castle-Chamber. I was much encouraged by reading in
Course the
32d Psalm at family prayer without any fore-
sight of
mine. And when I came to pray I was much
heartened to
ask Forgiveness of God for my multiplied
Transgressions,
seeing He had directed Peter a sinfull Mor-
tal to
forgive to 70. times 7. I hope God will
forgive and
do as the
matter may require. While I was thus
employ'd
Maxwell
warn'd me to Council; but I ventur'd to keep in
my Closet;
and I understand by the Majr Genl they did
nothing in
Council. Majr Genl
and his Lady visited us
just before
the Funeral. Bearers of Mrs. Allen were,
Elisha
Hutchinson, Saml Sewall; Giles Dyer, Saml Check-
ley; John Cutler,
Saml. Phillips: Scarves and
Gloves.
Whiles I was
Spending a little Fewel in privat Devotion
was suply'd
with a great Peniworth of Bast2 by Bastian,
and a Load
of black Oak by Nathl Sparhawk.
March, 2. 1710/11 Joseph comes to Town; this morning
Mr.
Pemberton's desire that he should preach for him was
told him by
Mr. Flint, which he comply'd with, though he
was to
preach at Mrs. Bridgham's in the evening.
March, 4.
Lord's Day; To my aprehension God assists
my Son
remarkably in prayer and preaching I hope tis
an Answer of
my prayer last Midweek. Preaches again
in the
Evening."
1 See May 30, below. -- EDS.
2 The bark of the bass or lime tree. --
EDS.
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March, 5th. Second-day.
Mrs. Abigail Foster dyes be-
tween 11 and
12 at Noon.
March 6th. Joseph visits Mr. Pemberton, dines at his
Sister
Hirst's, returns to Cambridge.
At the Meeting for the free School at Mr.
Pemberton's;
Mr. Bridgham
declining to sign, saying it was not fit for
him to sign
with persons so much above him; I said pleas-
antly, Weare
at Foot-ball now; and then he presently
Sign'd.
Fifth-day, March, 8th.
1710/11. Mrs. Abigail Foster is bur-
ied at the
North, in the Tomb of Mr. Kellond, her former
Husband.1 Bearers, Govr., Mr. Winthrop Chief
Justice;
Sewall,
Addington; Walley, Belchar: the same that were
for Col.
Foster this day was three weeks. Scarvs,
Rings,
Escutcheons. Councillours and Ministers had Scarvs. Mr.
Bridge made a
funeral Sermon. (Those that weep as if
they wept
not.) Gave a honorable Character of Col.
Fos-
ter and his
Lady.
Lords-day, March, 11. 1710/11 Mr. Pemberton baptiset
Catharina
Winthrop, Lucy Lechmere, Richard Hitchbourn.
Takes Mrs.
Elisabeth Partridge into the Church.
Feria secunda, March, 12.
1710/11 Aniversary Town-
Meeting, Mr.
Colman prays, and Col. Townsend is chosen
Moderator: Will chuse Assessors distinct. 7 Select-men;
viz.
Assessors.
Mr. Joseph Wadsworth 86
Mr. James Barns 65
Daniel Oliver 82
Timo Clark 48
Addington Davenport 62
Francis Thrasher 46
Oliver Noyes 1 Danl
Powning 41
Thomas Cushing 57 Nathanl Oliver 41
Edward Hutchinson 48
Saml Greenwood 39
Isaiah Tay 46
Jonas Clark 38
Martyn,
Savage, Marshal quite left out. Thomas
Lee,
and George
Bethune fin'd 2 for Constables. Eleazer
Dorby
1 See note on Colonel Foster, ante, p.
300. -- EDS.
2 Fined for refusing to serve. -- EDS.
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only
Sworn. Past 8. at night adjourn'd to 9.
next morn-
ing.
About 150£ received for Constable Fines.
March, 17.
Geni Court rises.
March, 22.
Council for Nomination of Officers apointed
this day:
but the Govr came not to Town; Secretary ac-
quainted us
from his Excellency's Letter, that twas ad-
journ'd to
Friday, Mar. 23. at 3 p. m. Friday, Mar.
23.
About 10.
m. Maxwell comes to my house and warns
me
to meet his
Excellency in Council at 3 p. m. About
an
hour after
comes again, and warns me to meet the Govr
presently. After some other Business, the Govr
nom-
nated Mr.
Tho. Brattle a Judge of the Infer. Court
in the
room of Col.
Foster; this pass'd in the Negative.1 All
was over
before the Arrival of the Time apointed for the
Council.
Seventh-day, March, 24. 1710/11
Mr. Corwin, Mr. At-
torney and I
set out for Plimouth about 1 p. m. Got
to
Weymouth a
pretty while before Sun-Set: I lodge at
Counsin
Hunts.
March, 25. 1711. Hear Mr. Peter Thacher of Wey-
mouth, who
prays and preaches well; though he had been
at Boston to
see his new-married Sister, which might
occasion his
preparations to be less full. Sup. at
Mr.
Thacher's.
March, 26. proceed to Plimouth, Joshua Kibbe waiting
on me. From Cushin's with Mr. Attorney, who kept the
Sabbath at
Hingham. Din'd at Bairstow's. Were met
by the
Sheriff a little on this side Cook's; got to Plimouth
before
5. Quarter'd at Witherell's. March, 27. Major
1 After Brattle's rejection, the
Governor nominated, for the fourth justice
of the
Common Pleas of Suffolk, Samuel Lynde, April 2.
He was rejected,
and the
Council added: "It is their unanimous opinion That the three sur-
viving
Justices, being a Quorum according to the Law, are legally qualified
to hold the
said Court, and ought to hold the same accordingly, that the ser-
vice of the
Queen nor subjects be prejudiced for failure thereof." Finally,
June
11,1711, Thomas Palmer was nominated and confirmed. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 305
Walley, who
lodg'd at Cook's, comes to us seasonably.
Open the
Court.
Martij 28. mihi natalis, in AEdes intravi et ibidem
Preces
effudi.
March, 29. Col. Byfield argues the Case of Prohibi-
tion;
between Mr. Attorney and him, about three hours
were taken
up, from 11 to 2. Indian man charg'd
with
Ravishing an
Indian Girl of 3 years old, was brought off,
the
principal Evidence being dead. Col.
Thacher came to
us; I gave
him a Consolation to Mr. Lothrop.
Artillery
Sermon of
Dr. Mather; to Mr. Little, and Mr. Sheriff
Consolations. To many Question about marrying ones
Wives own
Sister.
Sixth-day, March, 30. Set out about 8. m: baited at
Bairstow's,
dined at Cushing's. Mr. Corwin rode away
alone, and
went out of his way towards Bridgewater; but
got to
Cushings. Baited at the half Moon at
Miller's,
came all
together into Town; found all well. Laus
Deo.
God is the
more to be acknowledged because I had more
misgivings
than at some other times.
Second-day, April, 2. Mr. Walter is chosen to Preach
the
Artillery Sermon. At a Council, the Govr Nominats
Mr. Saml
Lynde to be a Judge in stead of Col. Foster.
I
desir'd time
of Consideration as Col. Foster us'd to doe.
Council is
adjourn'd to the 19th. of April.
April, 3.
I dine with the Court at Pullin's.
Mr. At-
torney
treats us at his house with excellent Piping, An-
chovas,
Olives, Nuts. I said I should be able to
make no
Judgment on
the Pipins without a Review, which made
the Company
Laugh. Spake much of Negroes; I men-
tion'd the
problem, whether should be white after the
Resurrection: Mr. Bolt took it up as absurd, because the
body should
be void of all Colour, spake as if it should be
a
Spirit. I objected what Christ said to
his Disciples after
the
Resurrection. He said twas not so after
his Ascension.
April, 4.
Wadlin comes in from Salt-Tertuda [Tortugas], 1
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in whom
comes Mr. Josiah Willard,1 who has been twice
taken. Used civilly at first by the Privateer; but
suffer'd
hardship in
Prison at Martineco. After, was going to
Barmudas,
was taken, Strip'd, and us'd Roughly.
Capt. Jn° Rainsford and Pulcifer are
dead.
April, 13. Dr. Mather visited me, I return'd his little
Book out of
which I reprinted the Case of Conscience
against a
man's marrying his Brother's [?] sister.2 He
went into
Chamber and Pray'd with my wife and family,
particularly
for Joseph, who was there. Joseph
returns
to Cambridge
in the afternoon.
About 5. p. m. Richard Hobby, Son of Capt. John
Hobby, a
desireable youth of about 13 or 14 years old,
was kill'd
with the overthrowing of a Cart upon him near
the N[orth]
Meetinghouse.
April, 15. Mr. Pemberton is indisposed as was admin-
istring the
Lords Super. Had so much of a Fever as
to
keep him at
home in the afternoon, by which means Mr.
Holyoke was
alone.
April, 19. 1711. Council, present his Excellency the
Gov:
Winthrop Penn
Townsend
Elisha Hutchinson Joseph
Lynde
S. Sewall Em
Hutchinson
Isa. Addington Andrew
Belchar
Petr Sergeant Edw.
Bromfield
John Walley Nathanl.
Norden.
1 This seems to be Josiah Willard, born
1681, H. C. 1698, for many
years
Secretary of the Province. The Willard
Memoir, p. 369, says: "After
leaving
college, Mr. Willard became a tutor at that institution, pursued his
studies in
divinity, and began to preach; but, on account of an unconquer-
able
diffidence, he soon relinquished the profession. He travelled abroad, to
the West
Indies and Europe; and, at one time, commanded a ship in the
London
trade." -- EDS.
2 In Brinley's Catalogue we find the
following title: "An Answer of
Several
Ministers in and near Boston, to that Case of Conscience, Whether
it is
Lawfull for a Man to Marry his Wives own Sister?" pp. 8, 8vo.
Boston:
Bartholomew Green, 1695. Signed by
Increase Mather, Charles
Morton,
James Allen, Samuel Willard, James Sherman, John Danforth,
Cotton
Mather, and Nehemiah Walker. -- EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 307
The Govr Nominated Mr. Saml
Lynde for a Judge of
the Inferr
Court; which pass'd in the Negative. I
ob-
serv'd but
one for him; and that was Capt Norden in a
mean way; as
far as I could hear, he said he knew noth-
ing against
him. The Browns of Attleborough, Reho-
both,
Swanzey pleaded before the Govr and Council about
Wills and
Lands bequeathed in Narraganset. I
enquired
what we had
to do, to judge of Lands in the Narraganset
Countrey? Mr. Secretary said, I was in the right. How-
ever, the
Petition was dismiss'd, upon the head of the
young men
having offer'd equal Terms of Accomodation.
April, 20. 1711. Mr. S. Gerrish goes to Wenham.
April, 21. Plenty of Swallows. Note.
Hannah Ger-
rish was
taken very sick last night.
April 22.
Lords Day, B. Gray calls me up at 1. at
night: I find poor little Hannah Gerrish in an
Agony, I
went to
Prayer; afterwards B. Gray read the 5th Rom. I
found the
Chapter so full of Comfort that, awhile after
I read it
over again. About 6. m. Mr. Wadsworth came
and pray'd
with little Hanah. Mr. Gerrish her
Father
came home at
½ hour past Nine: put up a Note in the
Afternoon,
which Mr. Pemberton read coming out in his
Gown.
April. 23. I was call'd up between 2 and 3 at night,
but my
little Hanah Expired before I got thither.
How-
ever, She
had the Respect of one visit after death.
She
Expired
about ½ hour after 2 at night. The Lord
prepare
me for my
great Change.
Third-day, April, 24. Hanah Gerrish is buried. Bear-
ers, Gillam
Phillips, and Benj. Gray: white Scarvs. Was
put into the
Tomb just before Sun-set, several of the
Council, Dr.
Cotton Mather, Mr. Wadsworth, Colman there. :
Note. This day, about noon, John Kent, of the
Island had
his Barn
burnt by Tabacco, and Six oxen and four calves
in it, and a
Goose bringing young ones. The Oxen were
heard to
roar afar off: but the Flame was so
rapid, the
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Owners could
not help them. Carts, and Instruments of
Husbandry
burnt.
Friday, May, 4. Mr. Charles Chauncey dyes. Mr.
Evans's Jury
Acquit Pastre of Fornication, and Maria,
Mr. Wm
Hutchinson's Indian woman, of Murdering her
Child, by
letting it fall into the House of Office.
Seventh-day, May, 5; Capt. Oliver prevails with Joseph
to preach
for Mr. Bradstreet to morrow p. m, that so Mr.
N. Williams
may be releas'd to Succour Mr. N. Hobart of
Newtown, who
is taken Sick yesterday.
May, 7. 1711. Mr. Chancy buried; Bearers, Mr. Daniel
Oliver, Mr.
Francis Clark; Mr. Wm Welsteed, Mr. Grove
Hirst; Mr.
Oliver Noyes, Mr. Anthony Stoddard. Many
of the
Council there. His Excellency sets out
for Pas-
cataqua.
May, 8.
The chief Justice Winthrop sets out for
New-London.
May, 9.
Midweek. Town-Meeting to chuse
Repre-
sentatives; n° of Voters 173. Major part 87. Mr. John,
Clark
161. Mr. Tho. Hutchinson 157. Major Tho. Fitch, 106.
Davenport
74. Barns 68. 2d Stroke, Voters 167.
Major part
84. Mr. Addington Davenport, 95.
The Town accepted my Proposals, and
bought the upper
part of my
Pasture to enlarge the North Burying Place!
Agreed that the Select-men be impowered
to Sell the
1 Town Records, II. 325. "Voted that
the proposall made by the Honble
Samll Sewall, Esq. for sale of a parcell of Land for Enlargeing the
North
burying
place, at the price of One hundred and Twenty pounds, to abate
seventy
pounds of the said purchase money, so that the Town please to Re-
lease au
Annual Quit claim of Forty Shillings, Issueing out of a Ceadar
Swamp in his
possession situate in Brooklyne, appropriated to the use of the
Grammar-School. Reported by the Comittee, Be accepted. And that the
said Quit
Rent of Forty shillings p. Annum be abated.
The aforesaid
Sume of
Seventy Pounds to be drawn out of the Town Treasury and In-
vested in
some Real Estate, or otherwise improved by the direction of the
Select men
for the time being. The Yearly Rent or
Profit thereof to be ap-
propriated
to the use of the Free Grammar School, in liew of the aforesaid
Quit
Rent." See also Suffolk Deeds, lib.
26, fol. 97. -- EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 309
Neck to
Half-way pond to them that shall maintain the
way; leaving
an Interval of 100. yards for Fortification;
and Mr.
White propos'd this; Mr. Paul Dudley opos'd
It much and
got these words inserted, (or for other use):
reserved
also a high way between the former Grant and
this.1 Mr. Wadsworth prayed; First I was Moderator;
which I
declin'd, because of the Treaty that was to be
about the
Burying Place.
Then Major Fitch was put up by the
Select-men and
voted. Not being present, he was sent to, and
declin'd.
Then Col. Checkly was voted and serv'd.
May, 11.
Went to Charlestown Lecture: and then to
1 The following entries explain this
matter: --
Town Records, II. 326. "Voted, that
it is left to the Selectmen to
grant, sell,
or dispose of the Townes Land on each side of the Highway on
the Neck, from
the place where the Fortification formerly stood, as far as
the halfe
way Pond, either by lease for term of years or by Grant of the Fee
thereof, as
they shall think best; In order to secureing the Highway there,
(which is
"proposed to be left of a considerable breadth) Reserving a space of
about one
hundred yards in breadth, across from sea to Sea, sutable for a
Fortification
or any other use for the Service and benefit of the Town, Re-
serving also
a Space for a Cross Highway next to the land formerly Granted
to Capt.
Oliver Noyes and Company: and the said Selectmen are fully im-
powered to
make and execute proper Instruments or Deeds for the same."
We infer, from the document next printed,
that the grant to Oliver Noyes
and his
associates began at Castle Street and extended south for some nine
hundred and
sixty feet. That would bring the
southern limit to Dover
Street, or
near that line, where there had been an old fortification, which was
then (1711)
quite decayed. In that year, another
fort was placed there
(Shurtleff,
p. 140) which stood "precisely in front of the southwest corner
of the
Williams Market House." This line of the "old fortification " is
on
the maps
down to the present century.
In 1785, Stephen Gore, John May, and
others, had a grant of land and
flats,
bounded south, on Malden Street, 900 feet, then north, on a causeway,
1400 feet
long to a point 125 feet from Dover Street, then west on this line,
parallel to
Dover Street, to the highway (now Washington Street), 132 1/2 feet.
Also a
similar strip, on the west side of the highway, 200 feet wide, the street
being 80
feet wide (Shurtleff, p. 141).
This limit, 125 feet from Dover Street,
was, probably, the south line of
the strip of
100 yards reserved as above, within which the fort was placed.
During the siege of Boston, the British
troops strengthened this fort, and
also built
an advanced work, of which a view is in Drake's "Landmarks,"
310 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711
Mr.
Pemberton's Meeting: To me to live is
Christ. Mr.
Bradstreet
Prov. 3. 34 -- but he giveth Grace to the Lowly.
May, 13, 1711. Mr. Pemberton's Text, Beware of the
leven of the
Pharisees, which is Hypocrisy, was awfull to
me; The Lord
Create a Clean heart in me, and Renew a
Right
Spirit.
May, 14.
Set out for Ipswich with Son Thomas.
By
reason of
Letters from New-York by the Pacquet, I set
out late,
near Noon. Din'd at Brother's; Lodg'd at
Mr.
p. 425. This stood between Dedham and Canton Streets,
and crossed Wash-
ington
Street from sea to sea.
The grant to Oliver Noyes is as follows
(Buff. Deeds, lib. 24, f. 239): --
"Indenture made 30 Sept., 1709, between
1 Samuel
Phillips, bookseller (10) 6 Eliz. Pemberton, exr of Benj.
2 David Jeffries,
merchant (9) P.,
brewer (4)
3 Thomas
Savage do (8) 7
Dr. Oliver Noyes (2)
4 William
Clark do (5) 8
Elisha Cooke, gent (7)
5 William
Payne do (3) 9
Stephen Minot, tailor (1)
10 John Noyes, goldsmith (6)
holding, in
common, upland, beach and flats to low water mark, and meadow,
on both
sides the highway to Roxbury, upon the Neck; extending from the
northerly
end of the pasture land now or late of John Bennett on the east
side, and
the land of Daniel Epes on the west side -- so far south towards
Roxbury as
24 feet beyond the new pavement on the said highway as it now
is. Together with all right &c., on condition
of keeping off the sea on both
sides of the
highway; as appears by an Indenture from the Selectmen of
Boston,
dated 31 Jany. 1708." [This is in vol. 24, f. 106; and adds that
Bennett's
land was bought of him by Samuel Lynde.
The land reaches to
the old
fortification.]
They now make a division, reserving 48
feet for Orange Street, and lay
out the lots
across the territory from low-water mark.
Stephen Minot has
the first
lot, "adjoining to the new highway called Castle Street laid out by
the
proprietors across the said neck on the north -- the rest as above noted
in the order
of figures in parentheses. Lots to be
971 feet broad on the east
end on the
flats, 96 feet on the east side of Orange street, 95 ft. 4 in. on west
Ride of
Orange street, except Minot's lot varies a little as specified. We also
find that
Castle Street was laid out in 1709, crossing Orange Street, and
having, on.
the east side, the land of John Bennett, which he bought of
Samuel Lynde, and on the west side, land of Daniel
Epes. Epes bought,
April 17,
1708 (Deeds, lib. 24, f. 147), of William Payne, his land being
bounded
south by the common, west by the sea or river, north by laud of
John Clough,
and east by the highway. -- EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 311
Gerrishes at
Wenham. Sun was down by that time I got
over the
Ferry. Note. When had enter'd Salem
Bounds,
a few Rods,
my Horse being on a Hand-Gallop, fell upon
to his Nose
and threw me off before him: There was
danger
of his
falling upon me: but I freed my self as
well and
fast as I
could; one Leg being under the Horse; Through
By the
Goodness of God I had little or no hurt, when as
set
[whereas] my Horse's Nose bled for it, and the Bitt of
the Bridle
was broken.
May, 15.
Col. Hathorne and Mr. Corwin call me at
Mr.
Gerrishes; get to Ipswich seasonably.
Govr comes to Town from
Pascataqua; In the evening
the Court
waits on his Excellency at Madam Wainwright's.
Went with
Mr. Rogers to our Lodging about Nine.
Great
Hail this
day.
May, 16.
Adjourn sine die. After
the Rain set out
for Salem;
visited little Betty Hirst; went to Brother's;
Saw the
Funeral of Deacon Marston's daughter pass by
the
Gate. Sup'd with Mr. Noyes and Mr.
Attorney on
Pickerill. Meet Mr. Leverett's Letter encouraging Jona-
than's
procedure in Learning; and Mr. Rogers told me Mr.
Payson had a
Son as old or older, that was now return'd
to School at
Ipswich; upon this I encourage Brother, and
tell him
God's Time is the best Time, God's way the best
way. Left Jonathan my Distich transcribed by him
at
my bidding.
Vive,
doce, regna, semper, mihi CHRISTE Sacerdos;
Pendet ab Officijs Spes mea tota tuis.
May, 17.
Ride home with Mr. Attorney; Have a fair
Wind over
Winisimet Ferry. Find all well. Laus Deo.
Daughter
Hirst lodges at our House to promote her Re-
vival and
strengthening.
Lords-Day, May, 20. Rainbow about Six p. m.
May,
21. Fair Serene wether after many days
of Rain,
Showery
afterwards from transient Clouds.
312 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
May, 22, May, 23. Fair Wether and Warm.
May, 24.
Great Rain.
May, 30.
Midweek, By a Dedimus, Col. Phillips, Major
Walley and
my self gave the Dept's the Oaths1 and saw
them and
heard them Repeat and subscribe the Declara-
tion: 72
before the Sermon. Election as last
year, save
that Col.
Noyes is put in the room of Col. Foster, deceased.
May, 27.
Mr. Pierpont preaches for Mr. Willard; Pem-
berton in
the Afternoon. Sung 2 last Staves 81
Ps. Even
I was much
affected to think how we were fed with the
finest of
the Wheat, and Honey out of the Rocks Christ
exhibited in
the Gospel. And coming home I look'd
[in]
Austin [St.
Augustine], and found he allow'd the Medita-
tion.
May, 30.
Col. Partridge brings News that Capt. Jos
Hawley died
the 19. May, and was buried the 21. at
Northampton. Same time with Mr. B. Pierce.
May 31.
Govr dines with Mr. Wadsworth, And the
Counsellours
of the South Church, Dr. Mather, Dr. C.
Mather, and
many Ministers, and Mr. White; Mrs. Wil-
lard; Mrs.
Cotton, widow, Mr. Belcher, Dedham, Mr. Jos-
eph Sewall,
and many young Students.
June, 3.
I goe to Mr. Bridgham's Quarter-Meeting and
hear Bridge
preach. 1 Cor. 8. 19. Five pounds odd
Money
Collected.
Midweek, June, 6. 1711. Col. Thomas Noyes Took the
Oaths and
subscribed the Declaration and then took his
place at the
Board. When I went to salute him, the
Govr
an told him
I was his father; Mr. Secretary was between me
and the Govr,
and I did not hear plainly and so could not.
take notice
of the Complement; but I enquired of Mr.
1 These are the oaths (of allegiance and
supremacy) and the declaration
(against
transubstantiation) prescribed by the Province Charter, and borrowed
from 1
William and Mary, Sess. I. c. 1. The
writ of Dedimus potestatem
empowered certain
persons to perform certain acts, as, for instance, to ad-
minister
oaths in certain cases. -- EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 313
Secretary,
and did it at Holm's where we Din'd. I
crav'd
a Blessing
and return' d Thanks.
Col. Jn° Appleton moves it, and we agree
to invite the
Govr,
Friday, to dine with us at Holms's. June
7th. Col.
Apleton
invites the Govr Sixth-day, June 8th. m. At
the
Hearing
between Dorchester and Bridgwater, Col. Town-
send comes
in, and says there was an Alarm at the Castle.
Enter'd on
another Hearing about a new precinct for
Reading to
the Northward of Ipswich River; but the
Drums put us
to Silence, and oblig'd the Govr to break
off. At Dinner at Holms's in the lower room, one
comes
in, and says
that Col. Nicholson was come; Two Men of
War, two
Transports, eight Weeks passage.1
Comes up in
1 This was the first part of the expedition
destined for an attack on Que-
bec. The fleet consisted of fifteen men-of-war and
forty transports, under
the command
of Sir Hovenden Walker, Knt., recently created an admiral.
The troops
were commanded by Brigadier-General John Hill (brother of
Abigail,
Mrs. Masham, the Queen's favorite), Colonels Charles Churchill,
William
Windresse, M. Kempenfeldt, Jasper Clayton, Percy Kirk, Henry
Disney, and
Richard Kane, of the British army; and Samuel Vetch and
Shadrach
Walton led two regiments of New England troops.
In all, there
were some
seven thousand soldiers. The fleet was
delayed by the difficulty
in procuring
stores, though the inhabitants alleged that it was no fault of
theirs, but
arose, mainly, from the secrecy preserved before the arrival of
the
forces. Captain Andrew Belchar, a rich
merchant and contractor, was
blamed,
perhaps wrongly, as a speculator in these necessaries.
The fleet sailed July 30, and arrived at
the mouth of the St. Lawrence, a
river of
which their Boston pilots knew little.
The leaders became dis-
heartened, a
part of the vessels, with about eight hundred men, were lost in
a storm,
and, on September 16th, a council-of-war was held, which, as usual,
decided to
retreat. Soon after arriving at
Portsmouth, England, the admiral's
ship the
"Edgar," was blown up; and, although he was saved by being
ashore, he
lost, as he says, his books, journals, and charts, and the original
of Sir
William Phips's Journal of his Canada expedition.
In 1714, Admiral Walker was called upon,
by the officials, for his accounts;
soon after
he was dropped from the lists entirely, and he died at Dublin, in
January,
1726. His indignation prompted him to
issue an account of the
abortive
expedition, entitled "A Journal, or full Account, of the late Expe-
dition to
Canada," &c. London, 1720, p. 304.
We extract therefrom a few items
concerning New England. He lodged,
at Boston,
with Captain Southack (p. 67); he employed " two extraordinary
divers"
to examine the keel of one of his ships (p. 69); he visited the Gov-
314 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
a Barge, and
Lands at Butler's Wharf, where the Govr re-
ceives him
with the Council. Enters the
Council-Cham-
ber between
5 and 6 p. m. Lays the Orders for the
Canada
Expedition before the Govr and Council. Regi-
ment
dismiss'd. I observ'd that has Authority
to draw
Bills on the
Massachusetts Treasury, and Col. Vetch is to
Comand our
Men, and leave whom of them he pleases at
Anapolis, to
Relieve that Garrison. Gracious Queen
Anne
pays the
charge of the Garrison since the Taking of Port-
Royal. Col. Nicholson comes in the Leopard, Capt.
Cooke.
Monday June 11. Mr. Palmer is propounded and voted
a
Judge. I voted not, but said I knew not
that twas a
Council for
such a purpose.1
Tuesday, June, 12. No prayer is in the Council. Mr.
Bromfield
tells me he sent to Mr. Pemberton and he says,
Tis not his
Turn; sends to Mr. Colman, and he says, Tis
not his
Turn; so none comes. I told Govr
of it about 11.
m. This day the proclamation for the War is
pass'd. I
carried it
to the Printer at Noon. Vessel from
Annapolis.
Between 6
and 7., A very glorious Rainbow appears,
be-
ing
compleat, and of long continuance.
Midweek, June, 13. Serene.
June, 14.
Dr. Cotton Mather Preaches from those
words, That
which is Crooked canot be made Streight.
Genl
Nicholson sat in the Gallery: Govr
not at Lecture.
June,
17. Great Heat, Much Rain p. m.
ernor, at
Roxbury (p. 75); and he consulted "Mr. Nelson, of Long-Island,
a person of
good sense." He was much troubled
by desertions, and he
prints (pp.
229-234) various proclamations issued against harboring such
criminals. He gives on p. 245, a list of vessels taken
for the service as trans-
ports; on
pp. 264-266, a list of deserters; and, in various places, he mentions
the names of
the Massachusetts men engaged as pilots.
Palfrey (IV. 280-287) says that this
unfortunate expedition was the fa-
vorite plan
of Secretary St. John, afterwards Lord Bolingbroke. He refers
to a series
of letters, still preserved, showing St. John's "interest in what he
hoped to
make the crowning exploit of his administration, and a title to his
permanent
supremacy in the national councils." -- EDS.
1 See note, ante, p. 304. -- EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 315
June, 18. I waited on his Excellency to take Leave at
his
Departure; excus'd my not being at Council on Sat-
terday: Not discerning when his Excellency went away,
I knew not
of the Adjournment. There was told of
the
death of the
Emperour, and Mr. Harley's 1 being made
Treasurer,
and Lord Mortimer. Col. Partridges Son
that
came now
from England, was there. We are told
also
that the
Dauphine is dead.2 The
Monmouth and Swiftsure
that came
from Spit-head the 2d May, arriv'd at Nantas-
ket this day
June, 18th. 1711. are part of
the Fleet for
Canada. Mr. Partridge came from Torbay the 26. April.
Are told
also that Col. Taylor is our Lt Govr. Dr. C.
Mather said
twas impossible. I read to Mrs. Rock of
the
Greatness of
GOD. "The Vine and Figtree think it
no
great matter
to reign over the trees: but to the
Bramble
this seems a
great matter. Jud. 9. 8-15. Great minds
are not much
affected with injuries, Gal. 5. 12."
P. 138.
Abridgem't. Towards night Mr. Berry acquaints us Joseph
was very
sick; desired to have the Coach sent for him.
June, 19.
I goe in the Coach my self; set out at Six
and got home
between 11 and 12. In the afternoon
[Joseph] had
a Tooth drawn and is better. Mr. Pember-
ton visits
us and prays. This day Mr. James Oliver
and
Sam Banister
come to Town from Piscataqua; came in
Chr.
Taylor. I went over at night, Mr.
Banister says he
saw Col.
Taylor's Comission for Lieut Govr.3 says he came
to Town with
Col. Partridge. Reports that Sir Henry
Ashurst is
dead.
1 The Emperor .Joseph died Apri1 17 (N.
S.), 1711. Harley was created
Earl of
Oxford and Earl of Mortimer on the 24th May (0. S.). He is better
known by the
former peerage. -- EDS.
2 This was not true. -- EDS.
3 William Tailer was appointed during this
year, and arrived Oct. 3., 1711.
Nov. 9,
1715, he became acting Governor, and held till the arrival of Gov-
ernor Samuel
Shute, Oct. 4, 1716. Then he was
superseded, as Lieutenant
Governor, by
William Dummer. He was appointed a
second time, April 14,
1730, and died
in office, March 1, 1731-32, aged fifty-five. -- EDS.
316 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
June, 22.
Sixth-day, Mrs. Mary Dyer is brought, to
Bed of a
Son.
June, 23.
Tis known in Town, that the Fleet were seen
off of Cape
Sable upon Wednesday the 20th Instt. Coun-
cil agree
that Mr. Secretary, Mr. Comissary and I should
goe down to
meet Brigadeer Hill. Sabbath, June,
24. I
read Isa.
40. Comfort ye, Comfort ye, my
people. After
the Forenoon
Exercise the Signal is given, Mr. Secretary
sends for
me; As I was going I meet with that sad News
from
Anapolis which much damp'd me.1
Went down from
Butler's
wharf; Mr. Maryon went in another Boat;
order'd the
Col. not to make an Alarm till we sent to him,
or made a
Signal. Went on board the Dunkirk, Capt.
Butler, just
come to an Anchor; He could give little
news of the
Fleet. Met two Transports full of
Souldiers.
Return'd,
saw the other Ships coming in. Gen. Hill
arrives.
June 25, 1711. Went down again; Mr. Secretary, Mr.
Comissary,
Borland, Sewall; Mr. Maryon. At the
Castle
sent for
Capt. Tuthil, who told us the Devonshire and
Dunkirk were
arrived. we saw a Boat going up in which
was Col.
King, Hail'd him: He came to us, who
told us he
was going
from the Genl to the Senat; we told him we
were sent by
them; then he came into our Boat and sent
up his
own. Went on Board the Devonshire,
saluted and
wellcom'd
the Genl. Gave us Bread and
Sack. After
awhile came
off Genl and Flagg in one Pinace; we in our
own. Finding the Tide not made, we Land at the
Castle;
eat Rusk and
drank. Saluted at Landing and Returning
with
21. Guns. By Capt. Tuthill. Landed at Scarlets
Wharf, went
into Town, Turn'd by the Dock, and went
up
King-street in the Front of the Regiment to the Coun-
cil-Chamber. Then to Johns's to Diner. Mr. Wadsworth
1 This probably refers to the loss of a
part of the garrison, cut off, on an
expedition
from the fort, by the Indians. -- EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 317
crav'd a
Blessing; Mr. Colman return'd Thanks.
Note.
When Spake
with Col. King order'd Capt. Tuthill to give
the
Signal. Tuesday, June, 26. 1711. Mr. Secretary, Mr. Comis-
sary
[Belchar] and I wait on the Genl at Mr. Borland's, to
pray his Excellency's
assistance in sending a Man of War
to Anapolis,
apprehending the Garrison to stand in need
of it; the
enemy being flush'd, and grown insolent and
daring since
their late Success.
Midweek, June, 27. Govr Dudley comes to Town, be-
ing return'd
from New-London. About Two aclock p. m.
the
Transports come up, which make a goodly, charming
prospect. A Sailer beaten last night, and threatened to
be carried
on Board the Weymouth; which the Watch
prevented.
June, 28. 1711. Mr. Bridge preaches from Psal. 72.
17. mostly
from the latter part of the verse; draws it
down to the
present Canada Expedition. Govr
Dudley
not at
Lecture, nor I think any of the Fleet or Army.
After
Lecture the Govr had up the Genl, Admiral, Quarter-
master Gent,
Paymaster Genl Govr set the Genl at his
right hand
at the end of the Table; Admiral sat above,
Mr.
Secretary next the Govr, Paymaster upermost on
the other
side. Admiral had sharp discourse about
the
Merchants
offering but Twenty per cent for exchange,
threaten'd
to be gone somewhere else with the Forces.
At last the
Govr call'd for a vote of the Council to Lend
Two Thousand
pounds at the Representation of the Pay-
master Genl. I mov'd it might be at the Motion of the
Genl:
which was conceded: and Mr. Secretary mov'd that
something
might be done in writing, which was agreed.
Mr.
Secretary drew it and the Genl sign'd it, with a Prom-
ise to give
his Bills. The whole was a surprise to
me, and
the vote
call'd for in the presence of the mentioned Gen-
tlemen. Govr would make the Genl
goe out before him;
though he
much resisted it.
318 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
June, 29.
Govr Treats the General.
June, 30.
Seventh-day, Govr sets the Genl and Ad-
miral at the
Council-Table, as yesterday.
Mrs. Sarah Banister, widow, dyes between 3
and 4.
p. m, being
drown'd with Dropsie. News comes that
Capt. Carver
is Taken by two Privateers. Just as had
written this
I went to look of the Rain at my East-Cham-
ber window,
and saw a perfect Rainbow. I think the
setting, of
the Sun caus'd its Disappearance. Laus
Deo.
July, 3. 1711. Mrs. Sarah Banister, aoed about 57., is
buried. Bearers, Sewall, Belchar Draper, Kilby; Capt.
Timo 3
Clark, Mr. Colman.
July, 4. Went to the Comencem't
by Water in a
sloop; cous.
Hale with me; Mr. Shepard, Mr. Myles,
Chaplain of
the Humber, one that was a Fellow of New-
College
&c. had them to my Son's
chamber. The Friar
sat with the
Fellows. I dined at Fissenden's because
there
were many
Strangers. Rains hard p. m. The President
makes an
Oration, wherein he highly aplauds the Govr,
his
Integrity &c., the Genl, Admiral:1 makes a honorable
mention of
Col. Nicholson though absent. This night
his
little son
dyes.
July, 7. The Govr sends in Mr.
Secretary and me to
the House of
Deputies, and there by the Govrs order Mr.
Secretary
Prorogues them to the 18th current.
Mr. Shove
comes to our
house.
July, 8.
Joseph preaches at Charlestown.
Mr. Williams,
of Hatfield,
with us. Cous. Shortt, at Attleborough.
1 Admiral Walker mentions this visit
(Journal, p. 83); he adds, under
date of July
7, that Captain Bonner came to him with a chart of Canada
River; and
as he had "the general character of the best Pilot, as, indeed,
he appeared
to me to be, I told him he should be abord that Ship when I
hoisted my
Flag; notwithstanding he was very instant with me to be dis-
pensed with,
and for an Excuse alledged his Age."
July 18, Walker was visited by General Nicholson,
who had with him a
Sachem and
several other Indians from Connecticut, who performed their
war-dance.
-- EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 319
July, 12.
I send the Genl 12.
Salmon Trouts by Jane
Boston.
Dr. Cotton Mather preaches on the
Rainbow, from Rev.
10. 1. Many Chaplains at Meeting.
July, 13.
Capt. Nathanl Holms is buried:
Bearers,
Capt.
Fayerwether, Capt. Williams; Mr. Tay, Darby; Mr.
Gallop Mercht,
Tilly. I and Mr. Deringe went to-
gether
first; then Mr. Pemberton went with me.
None
of the
Council there but I. But a very few
days, are
pass'd since
he came from the Lee-ward Islands.
July, 16. 1711. m. Two Proclamations order'd; one
for a Fast
July 26, and Augt. 30.
In the afternoon was great Thunder,
Lightening, Rain.
The
beginning of it put in Mr. Jno Williams into our
house. The discourse of Capt. Torrey put me upon
ask-
ing Mr.
Williams to pray with us, who did it excellently,
and thank'd
God for the Opportunity.
July, 17. 1711. I go to Brooklin and visit my son and
Daughter;
Gave my little Grand-daughter an English
shilling,
Cakes. The Rain seems to have been more
ve-
hement at
Roxbury than at Boston, has much confounded
the High way
near Capt. Ruggles, Stop'd up the Mill
Canal that
could not Grinde: Were clearing of
it. Light-
ening burn'd
the widow Drapers Barn with a considerable
quantity of
Hay in it. Barn might be 40. feet long.1
Augt. 3. 1711. Col. Francis Wainwright dies at his own
house at
Ipswich. Left Salem for his last July
25, the
day before
his first-apointed. Wedding-day; which Ap-
pointment
was remov'd to the last of July. He was
1 Walker notes (Journal, p. 104), under
date of July 23, that General
Nicholson
came on board with some chiefs of the Five Nations, called Mo-
hocks. They danced in their fashion, viz.:
"each in his turn sung a Song
and danced,
while the rest sate down and hum'd and hollow'd at distinct
periods of
his Dance, with a Tone very odd and loud, but yet in Time."
They
expressed themselves as hostile to the French.
Walker then reprints the "Boston
News Letter," No. 379, giving an
account of
his forces. -- EDS.
320 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
taken Sick
at Ipswich on the Lords-Day, July, 29. and
died on the
Friday following at 10. m; his Bride being
with him.1 Tis the most compleat, and surprising Dis-
apointment
that I have been acquainted with.
Wedding-
Cloaths, to
a Neck-cloth and Night-Cap laid ready in the
Bride-Chamber,
with the Bride's Attire: Great Provision
made for
Entertainment; Guests, several come from Bos-
ton, and
entertain'd at Mr. Hirst's; but no Bridegroom,
no
Wedding. He was laid in a new Tomb of
his own
making
lately; and his dead wife taken out of another,
and laid
with him.
Tuesday, Augt. 7. Bearers, John Apleton esqr., Col.
John
Higginson esqr; Daniel Epes esqr., Stephen Sewall
esqr; Lt
Col. Savage, and Mr. Daniel Rogers. Mrs.
Betty
Hirst, the
Bride, was principal Mourner.
Augt. 9.
Mr. James Barns buried.
Augt. 11.
Mr. Elizur Holyoke dies; 2 Tuesday, Augt
14th. buried:
Bearers, Sewall, Addington; Townsend, Dr.
Clark; Col.
Checkley, Mr. La Bloom. As were passing
along in
Middlestreet; One of the Porters stoop'd to take
1 Wainwright was the son and grandson of
distinguished citizens bearing
the same two
names. The lady he was to have married
was, doubtless,
Elizabeth,
sister of Grove Hirst, Sewall's son-in-law.
If so, she married,
in1711,
Walter Price, as his second wife, according to Savage. -- EDS.
2 Elizur Holyoke is often mentioned by
Sewall, being a son-in-law of the
second Jacob
Eliot, and thus one of that south-end neighborhood for which
Sewall seems
to have had a special affection. He was
sixty years old at his
death, and
his widow died Feb. 2, 1720-21; both being buried in the Granary
yard. Their
children were: John, Rev. Edward, of Marblehead, Samuel
(a brewer),
Jacob (a merchant), Hannah (Charnock), Mary (wife of Wil-
liam
Arnold), and Sarah, who married her cousin, Deacon John Eliot, sta-
tioner. These children all owned parts of the old
Eliot estate.
June 4, 1740 (Suff. Deeds, lib. 69, f.
63), the Eliot heirs laid out Eliot
Street,
still known to us, and also a street at right angles thereto, from Frog
Lane (now
Boylston Street) to Hollis Street, to be called Holyoke Street.
This was the
beginning of our Tremont Street. But in
Price's map, of
1743, it was
called Clough Street, from John Clough, who owned the land
where the
Hotel Boylston stands; and this name, continuing for some fifty
years,
entirely extinguished the pious intentions of the first projectors. --
EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 321
up his Hat,
by which means the Corps was lower'd so that
the Head of
the Coffin jounc'd upon the Ground; but
was
retriev'd; the widow was much disturb'd at it; went
to the
South-burying place.
Friday, Augt. 10. Alarm is made by reason of advice
from
Plimouth, Marble-head, Man-of- War at Nantasket.
Had apointed
this day to visit my daughter at Brooklin,
whose little
daughter Mary is now 3. weeks old. My
wife goes
with Hanah and Judith. Augt. 11. Satterday,
I fetch her
home. Augt. 19. 1711. Mrs. Perry is buried,
a good
woman, aged 68. Augt.
21. Samuel Greenwood,
an honest
christian; North-burying place. 65. Midweek,
Augt
22. Mrs. Abigail Whippo, after the Rain
and Rain-
bow; she was
Capt. Hamond's daughter; Mr. Collins
was her
Grand father. New Burying place. See her
Marriage
Febr. 25, 169 ½. She was Luke
Greenough's
widow.1
Augt. 24. 1711. Sharp debates about the Province
Gaily. Deputies sent in a first vote Earnestly to
desire
the Govr
to send her out in defence of the Coast infested.
Afterward
sent a 2d, wherein twas Resolv'd that the Gal-
ley, being
built at the Province charge, for defence of the
Coast, cant
be put to any other use without Consent of
the Genl
Court. No forwardness in putting either
of these
to
vote. But Mr. Secretary suddenly drew up
a vote,
That it being
Her Majesties express and positive Comand
that the
Galley should go in the Expedition; a Sloop
should be
taken up and Man'd. This was
non-Concurr'd
in the House
of Deputies. Rejected Fire-Ships, and
Hulk
to Sink.
1 Savage says that she was the daughter
of Captain Lawrence Hammond
by his
second wife, Abigail (Willet), daughter of Deacon Edward Collins, of
Medford. She married Luke Greenough In 1690, by whom
she had an only
daughter,
and then married, in February, 1692, at Boston, James Whippo,
or Whipple,
of Barnstable, as his second wife. By
him she had nine chil-
dren. --
EDS.
VOL. II.
322 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
Seventh-day, Augt 25. about one a-clock,
Govr sent in
Mr.
Secretary, Phillips, Sewall to Prorogue to Septr 26. at
10 m., which
was done.
Capt. Matthews arrives Augt. 25., a
little before
Sunset.
Monday, 7r. 10. 1711. Major Walley; Mr. Pemberton
and I set
out in the Coach for Bristol, Lion drove: Daniel
Hasting rode
by us; intended for Rehoboth; but our
Axel-tree,
that complain'd before, and we mended at
Calef's,
broke quite off by that time we got to Caperons:
Lodg'd
there: Fish'd 1 on a piece in
the morning; set out
about 10.
m., got to Bristol about 4 or 5. p. m. open'd the
Court and
put the Grand-jury upon Business.
Friday, 7r. 14. Went to Newport to speak with Mr.
Brentoll. Twas night before I got thither: Sent Mr.
Brenton word
by his Housekeeper, but he neither came
nor sent to
me, though I staid there till 3 or past.
Mr.
Clap and
Pemberton dine with me at Mr. Melvills, where
I
lodg'd. I visited Capt. Ellary, he not
at home; gave
Mrs. Ellary
one of Mr. Willard's Meditations of the Lord's
super. Saw Mrs. Pelham s Grave, burled a few days
be-
fore. From the Ferry sail'd in Burden's Boat to
Bristol.
7r.
16. Lord's Day, Mr. Sparhawk preaches a.
m. Mr.
Pemberton p.
m. Dine at my Land Lords. 7r. 17th. Mon-
day, set out
for Boston: Mr. Mackintosh, Col. Pain, Capt.
Davis,
accompany us to the Gate. Dine at
Miller's,
Rehoboth,
where we are stun'd in hearing the Defeat
of the
Canada Expedition.2 Baited at
Caparon's; got
1 This word, in the sense of
strengthening, or splicing, is still in use
among
seamen. -- EDS.
2 Hutchinson says (Hist. II. 199): "Although the principal object of
this
expedition was not obtained, yet, in all probability, Annapolis-royal
was saved by
it from falling into the hands of the French."
The garrison had become very small, and
the people were rebellious and
daring. Walker (Journal, p, 147) left four hundred
troops there, under
Colonel
Vetch, Governor, and Colonel Cawfteld, Lieutenant-Governor. The
Admiral,
just before leaving Spanish River (Journal, 150) finding a cross set
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 323
well to
Billenges about an hour after Sun-set, where we
lodg'd.
7r. 18th. Third-day, set out tor Boston; Baited at Ded-
ham. Refresh'd our selv's at Mr. Belcher's: Got
well
home a
little after Diner time: we recreated
our selves
with Mr.
Watt's Poems, going and coming. Laus
Deo
Servatori.
About 7 or 8 aclock of the night between the
2d
and 3d of October, a Dreadfull Fire hapens in Boston; 1
broke out in
a little House belonging to Capt. Ephraim
Savage, by
reason of the Drunkenness of -- Moss: Old
Meeting
House, and Town-House burnt. Old
Meeting-
up by the
French, while "the island had been always in the times of Peace,
used in
Common, both by the English and French for lading Coals, which are
extraordinary
good here, and taken out of the Clifts with Iron Crows only,
and no other
Labour," set up a cross in opposition, claiming the country for
the
English. Then he sailed away. -- EDS.
1 The great fire of 1711 is fully
described by our historians. "It broke
out in an
old Tenement within a back Yard in Cornhill, near the First
Meeting-house,
occasioned by the carelessness of a poor Scottish Woman, by
using Fire
near a parcel of Ocum, Chips and other combustible Rubbish."
(News
Letter; Drake, Hist. p. 541.) Drake adds
that the woman was called
Mary
Morse. Hutchinson (II. 200) says it
began in or near Williams's
Court;
"All the houses on both sides of Cornhill, from School Street to what
is called
the stone-shop in Dock-square, all the upper part of King-street on
the south
and north side, together with the Town-House, and what was
called the
Old Meeting-house above it, were consumed to ashes."
Drake says the "stone-shop in
Dock-square" was probably" Colson's
stone House,
"at the intersection of Brattle Street and our Cornhill. The
old Cornhill
was a part of our Washington Street, and the fire reached School
Street.
Increase Mather improved the occasion in
a sermon entitled "Burnings
Bewayled, In
a Sermon Occasioned by the Lamentable Fire which was in
Boston,
October 2nd, 1711. In which the Sins
which Provoke the Lord
to Kindle
Fires are Enquired into." In it he
revealed the cause as fol-
lows: --
"But has not God's Holy Day been
Prophaned in New England? Has it
not been so
in Boston this Last Summer, more than ever since there was a
Christian
here? Have not Burdens been carried
through the Streets on the
Sabbath
Day? Have not Bakers, Carpenters and
other Tradesmen been
employed in
Servile Works on the Sabbath Day? When I
saw this. . . .
my heart
said, Will not the Lord for this Kindle a Fire in Boston?" --
EDS.
324 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
house had
stood near 70. years. I had a house
burnt,
wherein Mr.
Seth Dwight was Tenant, who paid me
Twenty
pounds per anum. Oct. 3. The Lt. Govr. Taylor
arrives. He saw the Fire 20 Leagues off.
Octobr. 11. Fifth-day, Fast. A Collection was made
for
sufferers by the Fire; Two Hundred Sixty odd pounds
gathered at
the South church, the oldest Meetinghouse in
Town.
Note.
Octobr. 7. Mr.
Pemberton stays the Church, who
vote to have
the Pastors of the First Church to officiat
with us
alternatly in Preaching and administering the
Sacraments:
and to be recompenced as Our Minister.
Octobr. 17. Genl Court meets. About the 24.
The
Govr.
will have it voted that one instruction to the Comit-
tee be that
they Address the Queen to bring forward a
New
Expedition to Canada. I spake against
it, but the
Govr
press'd it vehemently; said with a Hectoring Aer,
that he must
bring in the Frontiers; put the Vote him-
self. I think but two besides my self in the
Negative.
Col.
Townsend said twas a matter of such moment, and
so sudden to
him, he could not vote.
Octobr 23. Mrs. Mary Ardel buried; 1 Bearers,
Elisha
Hutchinson,
Sewall; Mr. Oakes, Capt. Hill; Mr. Baker.
1 Her tombstone, in the Granary yard, is
inscribed: "Here lyes buried
the body of
Mary Ardel, Aged 72 years, Died October the. .1711." In the
Lane Papers
(N. E. H. & G. Reg. xi. 234), Job Lane writes, in 1695, to his
correspondent
in England: "I have received the ten pound you paid Mrs.
Arden's
sister, viz. Frances Thompson." . . . "Direct your letters to me,
to be left
for me at Mrs. Mary Ardell's, at her house in the Town Dock,
over against
Mr. Thomas Clark, brazier, in Boston."
Savage notes that William Ardell, Boston,
1687, merchant, removed to
Portsmouth,
and was made, in 1699, sheriff of New Hampshire.
We learn, from Suff. Wills, lib. 22, f.
15, that Captain John Barrell mar-
ried Abiah,
only daughter of Mrs. Mary Ardell, and had children. He states
that Mrs.
Ardell gave them three tenements on Cornhill, which he had
mortgaged to
build brick houses upon. Then he sold
them, and had a bal-
ance of £165
in hand for his children. To secure
them, he mortgaged, to
the probate
judge, certain land of his own at the south end. It was between
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 325
Octobr. 28. 1711. Joseph preaches for Mr. Colman,
who is at
Salem; Reads the Scripture. Mr.
Pemberton
prays
largely for the Lieut Govr, that God would make
him a
Blessing like his predecessor, meaning Mr. Stough-
ton. Mr. Wadsworth p. m. pray'd for the Govr,
Lt Govr,
and all in
Authority; Baptis'd 2 children; Charles and
Mary.
Octobr. 26. a Man falls from a
Scaffold at the church of
Engl'd 1
into the Street, and is stricken dead.
Octobr. 27.
Mrs. Bridge
is buried; Sam. Bridge the carpenter's
wife.
Octobr 26. Treated Col. Nicholson at the Dragon:
Treated Lt
Govr there about a week before.
Midweek, 8r. 31. Mr. Sheriff Dyer Treats the Govr.,
Col.
Nicholson, Capt. Wade, Justices at his house.
In
Council I
mov' d for Direction where to hold the Superiour
Court. Govr aprov'd of Mr. Pullin's.
Fifth-day, Novr 1. Col. Nicholson sits in the Gallery,
Lt
Govr in his Pue.
Govr not at Meeting because
Dr. C. Mather preach'd.2
Feasted Col.
Nicholson, Lt Govr., C. Studly at his house:
They went
after Lecture.
Second-day Novr. 5. Major Genl Winthrop came to
Town with
Madam Winthrop and her Daughters, from
Dedham,
having kept Sabbath there. See May, 8.
Seventh-day, Novr. 10.
1711. Mr. John Pole died.
Novr. 7th., Was buried this day in a Tomb in the old
Bury-
ing place.3 Bearers, Winthrop, Sewall; Addington, Cor-
his barn and
Mr. Sheaf's Lane, bounded west, in front, on a lane twelve feet
wide, to be
forthwith laid out, one hundred and fifty-seven feet; from front
to rear,
fifty feet, seven inches; bounded south on William Pollard, and
north in
said lane. -- EDS.
1 This was in connection with the
enlargement of the original chapel,
an edifice
of wood. The work was protracted from
1710 to 1713. -- EDS.
2 The bitterness continued between the
Governor and the divine. -- EDS.
3 This was, doubtless, John Poole, son of
William Poole, of Boston,
whose
tombstone is in the old., i. e., the King's Chapel Yard. We give a
326 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711
win; Walley,
Higginson. The Govr and many
of the
Council,
there. Mrs. Rebekah Clark, Mr. Eliott's
Grand-
daughter, is
dead.
Lord's day, Novr. 11. Mrs. Sarah Walley, wife of John
Walley
esqr., died last night.
Novr. 12. Mr. Attorney and I set out for Salem in Mr.
Austin's
Calash, overtake the President and his Lady in a
Calash: Sit together a pretty while at Lewis's.
Novr. 13th. Third-day, only I and the Salem Justices at
the opening
the Court.
Novr. 14th., Mr. Noyes made an excellent Sermon from
PS. 77.
20. Thou leddest thy people like a
Flock, by the
hand of
Moses and Aaron. Mr. President
mistrusted the
cloudy
Lowering day, and return'd before Lecture.
Had
the
councillors and Ministers at Diner. Mr.
Noyes crav'd
a Blessing,
Mr. Green return'd Thanks excellently.
That we might finish, we held the Court
by Candle-
Light, and
adjourn'd sine die: When came out
found a
Considerable
Snow on the Ground. Went to Pratt's and
made up
Accounts. Visited Madam Bradstreet.
Novr. 15. 5th. day, Stormy morn, but set out about
Ten, got
home Comfortably. Made up at Austin's
before
Sun-set. At the Mill-bridge met Col. Lynde with a
Scarf;
transcript
of what can be read, from a copy made by the late Thomas B.
Wyman, as
Bridgman's copy is imperfect: --
"[Illegible] of John Poole aged 7 .
. . . .
"Here lyes ye body of aged. 0
years. . . . .
"Here lyes ye body of Elizabeth
Poole, late wife to John Poole, daugh-
ter of
Governor Brenton, esqr. aged 44 years died Octr. ye 17, 1694."
"Here lyes ye body of Jane Lendall,
late wife to Timothy Lendall,
daur. of John and Elizabeth Poole, deceased December ye 15th.
1710 in ye 29
year of her
age."
"William Poole, aged 2 months, died
March. . . . William Poole,
aged 8
months, died Sepr. 12, 1679, children of John and Elizabeth
Poole."
"Mary Lendall aged 3 weeks, died Aug.
ye 1. 17. .
Elizabeth Lendall
died Decr ye . . 1710 in ye 5th year of her
age. Poole Lendall died June
1710 in ye second year of his age.
Lendall aged 3 months and
. . . . Died . . . . 1710, ye children of Timothy and Jane Lendall." -- EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 327
I ask'd him what Funeral, he said Mrs. Walley. Novr. 16.
Major Walley
sends Jn° Roberts to me with a good Lute-
string Scarf
and Ring, Gloves. Madam Walley's Bearers
were, Wait
Winthrop esqr, Elisha Hutchinson esqr; Ad-
dington,
Sergeant; Belchar, Stoddard. All the
Council-
lors had
Scarvs. Novr. 19. Capt.
Thomas Matthews beats
Alexander
Tulloh, Capt. John Alden's Mate; sends him
by force
a-board the Chester and there whips him twenty
Stripes;
which lawless action greatly disturbs the Inhabi-
tants of the
Town.
Novr. 29. Thanksgiving; Madam Usher, .Mr. Odlin,
Mrs. Kay,
and her daughter dine with us. Mr.
Bridge's
Prayer and
Preaching was excellent. Mrs. Hanah
Walley
died last
night, aged better than 30. years.
Novr. 30. Mrs. Margaret Corwin died last night. Decr. 1.
Mrs. Sarah
Walley buried. Bearers, Major Wm
Dudley,
Mr. Joseph
Sewall; Mr. Benj. Walker, Mr. Jn° Foy;
Mr. David
Stoddard, Mr. James Walker. White Scarvs
and Rings.
To day or yesterday, Mr. Bromfield in
Council again
moved the
Govr in behalf of Alexander Tulloh.
The
Govr
answered him sharply, and Comanded him to speak
no more
about it. Because The Chief Justice and
Major
Walley did
not agree with me to write it as I desired; I
now said to
the Govr in Council, It highly concerns the
Honor of the
Government, the Safety and Wellfare of
Her Majs
Subjects of this Province, that your Excellency
suffer not
your Order in Writing under your hand to
Capt.
Matthews, for bringing Alexander Tulloh a-shore,
to be
disobey'd, and your Authority as Govr of this Prov-
ince and
Vice-Admiral, to be contemned.
I said also, That confining Capt. Matthews
for this Con-
tempt was
not Suspending him. At this the Govr
was
touch'd, and
said with some displicency, you come with
your Logical
Distinctions!
Second-day, Decr. 3. Mrs. Margaret Corwin, Mr. Jno
328 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
Corwin's
Widow, Maiden name Winthrop, is buried in
Govr
Winthrop's Tomb.1 Bearers,
Cooke, Sewall; Ad-
dington,
Joseph Lynde esqr; Eliakim Hutchinson esqr.,
Andr.
Belchar esqr. Neither Govr
Dudley, nor Govr Sal-
tonstall
there. They came to give me a visit, and
were
here when
the Time call'd me to the Funeral, upon ac-
count of
which I was oblig'd to go away. Govr
said What
Funeral? I would have had them stay; but they went
away
also. Gave each a Rainbow.2
Decr. 5th. Lt Govr returns from visiting
the Fronteers.
Decr. 6. Cousin Moodey dines with us and his son
Joseph, whom
he brings to send to school at Cambridge.
Cous.
Fissenden, the Schoolmaster, dines too.
I give
cousin
Moodey 3. silver spoons, marked S. S/L.
1711. of Mr.
Edwards,
cost 41s. Cousin married
Lydia Storer.
Novr 7th. Gave Cous. Moodey a Rainbow, and one for
Cous.
Lydia. Cousin goes to Cambridge.
Sixth-day, Decr. 7th. Mr. Hirst and son Joseph set out
for Salem in
Brothers Calash, Jonathan drives; get
thither
about 6..; comfortable moderat Wether.
Sabbath, xr. 9th. Serene moderat Wether. Margaret
Smith is
baptised; I supose for sake of her Grand-mother
Corwin.
xr. l0. 1711. I read Major John Livingston's account 3
of the number
of Frenchmen and Indians in Canada;
1 John Corwin, or Curwin (son of George
Corwin, who came from Work-
ington
County Cumberland), married Margaret, daughter of Governor John
Winthrop, of
Connecticut. -- EDS.
2 Probably the sermon by Cotton Mather:
"Thonghts for the Day of
Rain: Two
Essays, I. The Gospel of the
Rainbow. II. The Saviour with
his
Rainbow." B. Green, 1712, pp. (2)
VI. 64. See Brinley's Catalogue,
Nos. 1246.
1220. -- EDS.
3 Hutchinson says (Hist. II. 185) that he
had Livingston's journal.
Walker says
(Journal, 88) that Livingstone was to go, in July, to Quebec,
carrying
copies of the manifesto to scatter around; then to await, near Que-
bec, the
arrival of the fleet, arid bring it all the news he could. He went to
Port Royal,
thence to Castine's house, on the Penobscot, and finally to
Quebec. He brought back only a disclaimer from
Vaudreuil of any unusual
atrocity in
conducting the war. -- EDS.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 329
Frenchmen,
4070: Indians 830. Great Guns, 145. Pet-
tararos,l 22.
Went from Anapolis to Penobscot by water.
Octobr.
15. 1710. Reach'd the first houses of
Canada,
Decr.
5. 1710. Got back to Albany, Febr. 3d
following;
and at
Boston, 23.
Fifth-day, xr. 12. Son Joseph, and Mr. Hirst return
from Salem
very comfortably in a Slay. Joseph
Preach'd
on the
Sabbath at the new Precinct; and yesterday, Mr.
Noyes's
Lecture, My Peace. Laus Deo. This day, xr.12.
Mr. Bridge
preached excellently from Heb. 11. 33., who
through
Faith wrought Righteousness; shewing that work-
ing
Righteousness in our several stations -- was a very
noble Effect
of Faith. Mr. Chiver of Rumney-Marsh,
Mr.
Josiah
Oakes, and Cousin Margaret dined with us: The
Governour
not at Meeting.
Decr. 15. 1711. Mr. Josiah Oakes goes to Needham to
preach. I visit Major Walley, who has his left foot
bound
up in a
cloth, tells me he went not to Bed the two nights
before but
sat up by the fire in a chair, by reason of the
Twinging
pain. Visited Mr. Pemberton, who spake
to me
that it
might be well to come to a choice of some person
for the
South-Church, notwithstanding the Pastors of the
Old Church
were with us.
Lord's-day xr.16. Four persons were taken into church.
Mrs. Frances
Bromfield and Marshal's Negro woman, two
of
them. Their Relations very
acceptable. Mr. Went-
worth's son
dies at --
Decr. 17. visit Mrs. Beatrice
Bosworth, 88. years old.
At her
daughters Request I pray'd with her: She enter-
tain'd me
with great Respect, and enquired after my wife
and Son.
Decr. 19. Mr. Shurtliff tells my Son that the Lt
Govr
has a
Comission to be Capt. of the Castle; goes thither
to morrow.
1 Pederero, a kind of swivel gun, used
for discharging stones. -- EDS.
330 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
Decr. 20. Meet with the Justices and Selectmen to de-
termin what
they shall have that had their houses blow'd
up: 1
voted 230£ and the enlarging the Highway where
the Houses
have been burnt down.
Decr.
21. Bror calls in to see us,
goes over with his
Daughter to
Mistick.
Decr. 22. I visit Major Walley, who is now in a
maner wholly
confin'd to his chair. Visit Mr. Joseph
Parsons.
Decr. 23. very sharp Weather;
yet Serene, and had a
comfortable
day: Mr. Pemberton administred the Lords
Super. Mr. Bridge baptised John Grice.
Third-day Decr. 25. 1711. I took with me Joseph,
Hanah, and
Judith; and went to Brooklin in Mr. Simson's
slay to see
little Mary, 5. Moneths old; taken with Con-
vulsions
last Lords day night: comforted my Son and
daughter
what I could, pray'd with them and took leave;
got home a
little after sunset, Laus Deo. We
had much
ado to get
along for the multitude of Sleds coming to
Town with
wood, and returning. Sixth-day,
xr.28. Went
with Mr.
Daniel Oliver to Newtown, Isaac Williams drove
the
Slay. Visited Mrs. Hobart, very sick
a-bed; went to
Lecture, and
so home. Din'd at Mr. Hobart's. Mrs.
Elizabeth
Parrot, Mr. Bridge's eldest daughter, about 24.
years old,
dyes in child-bed xr. 29th.
1711.
xr. 30.
Joseph preaches for Mr. Walter at Roxbury.
xr. 31.
Joseph returns to College. Major
Walley has
Prayer at
his house respecting his Foot; began between
2 and 3 p.
m. Mr. Pemberton first, Mr. Bridge, Mr.
Col-
man, Mr.
Wadsworth. Dr. C. Mather. Mr. Wadsworth
insisted
pretty much, that several in the room might dy
before Major
Walley; all of them might. Dr. C. Mather
very near
the Conclusion of his Prayer, said, Probably,
some
remarkable person in the room might dye before
1 To arrest the progress of the fire, on
October 2 previous. -- EDS.
1711] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 331
Major
Walley. Major Walley was easy all the
time of
the
exercise, had not one Twinging pain.
Jany 2. 1711/12. Set up the Clock in our Bed-Chamber.
Jany. 4th. Sixth-day; Joseph and I retired into the
Castle for 3
or 4 hours, to ask direction from GOD about
his Call to
the new Precinct at Salem.
Decr. 31. 1711. When I return'd to my own Chamber
I met with
Brothers Letter of Jany. 3.
This sixth-day, Jany 4th. Major Walley's Left foot is
opened
underneath, and found to be very hollow, and
spungy: Mr. Pemberton told me of it at the Funeral of
Mrs. M.
Atkinson,1 born in New-England, aged 73. years,
buried in a
Tomb in the New-burying place, from her son,
Mr. Lyde's
house, Jany. 4. Bearers, Col. Elisha Hutchin-
son, Sewall;
Addington, Stoddard; Dumer, Col. Checkley.
Jany 5th. I went to Cambridge and consulted with the
President
and Mr. Brattle; who treated me very candidly,
and told me,
they at first propounded to Capt. Gardener
-- Mr.
Flint, Mr. Whiting, Mr. Stephens. They
objected
against
Wiggs, and upon their motion, as I understand,
Consented to
my Son's going, cautioning them with the
difficulty
might hapen in obtaining him; If they would
have it so,
they must run the venture of that Neither of
them advised
my Son's going to them.
Jany. 7th. A considerable Snow fell last night. I visit
Major
Walley, who seems much impaired since the open-
ing of's
foot; the taking away so much dead or rotten
flesh, Loss
of blood do weaken him. One of the
Servants
told me he
was Light headed the day before.
Third-day, Jany 3. Capt.
Gardener Junr, Mr. Holton,
and Mr.
Foster come to see Son J. from the new pre-
cinct of
Salem, to receive his Answer, which he gives with
Regrett in
the Negative; and they receive with great sad-
1 Theodore Atkinson married, as second
wife, Mary, daughter of Rev.
John
Wheelwright, and widow of Edward Lyde. -- EDS.
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ness. Dine with us on boil'd Beef and Roasted Pork.
I
gave each of
them a Rainbow, and one for Capt. Saml
Gardener.
Midweek, Jany 9. I visit Major Walley, who is much
worse, and
seems to be hastening to his Long home.
De-
sired of Mr.
Wadsworth the continuance of his Prayers.
Rec d of
Col. Checkley £83-13-3. for my proportion, for
my Labour in
signing and numbring Bills of Credit. Re-
ceiv'd in
the small plate, No. 1600, £55.
Sixth-day, Jany. 11.
1711/12. Major John Walley dies. I
was at
prayer with him last night. Mr.
Pemberton pray'd
excellently. He was a good Neighbour, a publick spirited
Man, a
Purchaser and principal Settler of Bristol.
Mrs. Beatrice Bosworth is buried, aged
89. years.1 Her
first
husband's name was Joclin, by whom she had her
daughter
Stephens.
Second-day, Jany. 14th.
1711/12 William Pain, Joyner, dies
in his Chair
of the Tissick. Writ to Dr. Increase
Mather,
and inclos'd
three 4s Bills, Thanking him for his many
Favours. To Dr. C. Mather two 5s Bills, ditto.
Fifth-day, Jany. 17. There is an overseers Meeting in
the Council
Chamber after Lecture, and Mr. Joseph Ste-
vens is
confirmed Fellow of Harvard College.
Order'd a
Hundred Men
to strengthen Derefield and other Fron-
teers.
Went to the Funeral of Major Walley;
Bearers, Win-
throp,
Sewall; Addington, Sergeant; Belchar, Mico.
Tomb in the
new Burying place.
Jany.
18th. Went to the Funeral of
Wm Pain. Bearers, Col.
Checkley,
Capt. Jn° Alden; Capt. Mason, Mr. Mills;
Mr. Eustace,
Mr. Ellis Chirug[eon.]
Jany 21. Second-day, Gave Mr. Bridge, Pemberton,
1 She married, first, Abraham Jocelyn, and,
secondly, Nov. 16,1671, Ben-
jamin
Bosworth, of Hull, as his second wife.
Her daughter, Rebecca, mar-
ried,
successively, John Croakham, Thomas Harris, and Edward Stevens.
(See
Savage.) -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 333
Colman, Wadsworth,
each of them, a Rainbow with 10s
Bill
inclos'd.
Third-day, Jany 22. Council, Mr. Chiever, of Marble
head,
order'd to preach the Election-Sermon; the Govr
seem'd to
decline Mr. Walter and begin to hover over Mr.
Anger. Visited the Major Genl sick of a Cold.
Jany. 29. Went with the Chief Justice in a Slay to the
Ferry, went
over comfortably. Mr. Justice Corwin
com-
ing this day
from Salem, twas about an hour after Noon
before he
got to Charlestown, yet Gave the Grand-Jury
their oaths;
Mr. Saml Sparhawk Foreman.
Found the
Bill against
Mingo, alias Cocke Negro, for forcible Bug-
gery,
Arraign'd. As came over at night,
Pendleton, the
Japaner,
making more haste than good, from the Stairs to
the Causey,
where the boat lay, jumping from a Sloop
broke his
Legg; twas sad for us to see him and hear his
Cryes.1
Midweek, Jany. 30. Rode again with the Chief Justice,
met Jn°
Usher esqr. who insulted us about keeping the
30th Jany2 Try'd the Negro, GOD furnish'd the Court
with such a
series and Frame of evidence that was brought
in
Guilty. Not one word spoken on his
behalf. Con-
dem'd.
Jany 31. Mr. Pemberton preaches from Job, 31. 14.
Govr
not at Lecture.
Febr. 2. Are invited to dine at the Governour's next
Midweek, by
Maxwell. Govr said nothing to
me.
Febr. 6. Went in Capt. Tho. Hutchinson's Coach, with
Col.
Hutchinson. The Lt Govr., Sir Charles Hobby, Col.
Vetch, and
many Officers there. I saw not Mr.
Bromfield,
1 This was, probably, Roger Pendleton,
japanner, who seems to have died
of his
injury, as administration on his estate was granted to Richard Pullen,
innholder,
of Boston, Feb. 9, 1711, 1712. (Suff. Wills, lib. 17, f. 388.) --
EDS.
2 This was, of course, the anniversary of
the execution of King Charles I.
a day
devoutly commemorated by Cavaliers, and as strongly repudiated by
Puritans. --
EDS.
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[I71 1/2.
Col. Adam
Winthrop, Mr. Jn° Clark. No
Chaplain. Got
home
seasonably to go to the Meeting at Capt. Savages.
I carried a
Rapsodie, and spake to Capt. Savage to read
Dr. J.
Mather's Sermon on the Fire and then gave him
the book,
Meditations Lords Super, &c Two Legs
broken
in Town this
day, Frank Homes, by his Horse falling on
him, and
Labourer, by a Lump of frozen Earth falling on
his Legg as
was digging in C. Jn° Gerrishes Cellar; I met
him carried
in a Chair and crying out, as I went to the
Meeting. Brother comes hither. Febr. 8th.
returns.
Febr. 8.
I read the death of pious Mr. Brett
"Bridgewater; Jany. 14.
1711-12. Last Sabbath, yesterday, we
had a solemn
breach made upon us here: our Justice Brett got up
well,
by,what apear'd, early in the morning; and having been at his
barn upon
necessary occasions, came into his dwelling house, sat down
in a chair,
being about to take some repast, fell down dead, dead in
an
instant. 0 that this very sudden and
awfull death may be sancti-
fied to this
people, and to me in particular, who have so many Warn-
ings of the
near approach of death. -- James Keith." 1
And, after a postscript,
Jany. 28. 1711/12.
Inclosed in the same Letter to Dr.
Cotton
Mather. -- "have not dared to make any apear-
ance for a
vindication. But having now some
confidence
of my Son's
innocence; I am willing to venture for him,
as far as
may be lawfull and expedient" --
Friday, Febr. 8. A Duel is fought between Lt James
Douglas, and
Lt James Alexander, near the new Burying
place.
Friday, Febr. 15th. Went to Charlestown, and heard
Mr.
Bradstreet from Prov. 24. 32. He brought
it down
to the
Condemned Malefactor then present; had pray'd
excellently
for him before: executed presently after Lect-
1 Rev. James Keith, of Bridgewater,
educated at Aberdeen, was settled
here in
1664. He had a large family, and
numerous descendants. We are
unable to
trace the reference in the next paragraph to his son's troubles, but
suspect it
may have been ecclesiastical. -- EDS.
1711/2.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 335
ure. Mr. Brattle pray'd at the place of
Execution. This
day before
Noon a man falls between the new wharf and
a ship, and
with the blow on's head dyes instantly; buried
at
night. This day Mr. Howell's child
buried. Joseph
was at
Charlestown Lecture, and comes over to preach for
Dr. Incr.
Mather.
Satterday, Febr. 16. Mr. Jonathan Belchar comes to
me with Mr.
Bromfield, and tells me the near approach of
Lt
James Alexander's Death; I think this was after Noon.
I went to
the chief Justice who declar'd his opinion, that
twas fitter
for other Justices to meddle with than the
Judges. I went to Dr. Clark as the next Justice and a
Chirurgeon,
whom I found indispos'd and keeping house.
Lt
Alexander Douglass, the Dueller, lodg'd at Barnsdell's
near Scarlet's
Wharf. I call'd again at Mr. Bromfield's
who inform'd
me, Alexander, aprehensive of death, was
just going
to receive the Sacrament. I went home,
(twas
now Sun-set)
and writ a Letter to Mr. Attorney, telling
where I had
been and what I had heard; and desir'd him
to take some
order about it. About 7 aclock he sent
for
me, I went
to the chief Justice, and there sign'd War-
rants to the
sheriff &c., and Mr. Weaver, an Admiralty
Warrant;
Franklin made Constable Oliver his Deputy.
Sent Mr.
Deputy Dyer and him to Barnsdell's; and
order'd him
to go to Nantasket as soon as the Wether
would admit
(for the wind now was intolerable as to its
height and
cold). Came home, Benj. Larnell lighting
me.
Monday, Febr. 18. 'Twas mention'd in Council, that
Govr
Vetch might be spoken to to send Douglass from
Anapolis
hither. It was reported he was gon
thither in
Capt. John
Alden. Lt James Alexander dyed, on Satter-
day night
about 10. aclock. The Govr's
Answer was, Let
Warrants be
first granted out; and then 2 or 3 days
after, Let a
Motion be made to Govr Vetch from the
Council-Board. A Warrant was drawn by Mr. Secretary
to all the
sheriffs and Constables in the Province, and
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given to
Dept. Dyer. Mr. Joseph Gerrish comes to
Town;
I write to
him to invite him to Diner to morrow. A
Let-
ter is
written to the Govr to regulat the Funeral of Lt
Alexander,
and prevent its being Great.
Tuesday Febr. 19. I go to Charlestown and visit Col.
Phillips,
who was very glad to see me.
Write to Jonathan Kendal to pay 6s.
for his Ferry-
man that
swore profanely Febr. 15th.
and would add no
more
charge. Dine with Mr. Gerrish, son
Gerrish, Mrs.
Anne. Discourse with the Father about my Daughter
Mary's
Portion. I stood for making £550. doe:
because
now twas in
six parts, the Land was not worth so much.
He urg'd for
£600. at last would split the £50.
Finally
Febr.
20. I agreed to charge the House-Rent,
and Differ-
ence of
Money, and make it up £600.
Febr. 21.
I buy two caps at Mr. B. Walker's and give
Mr. Gerrish
one. Cost 7s. apiece. Mr. Addington draws
Mr.
Gerrisbes Release.
Febr. 22.
Mr. Gerrish comes, Signs, Seals, and delivers
it to me in
presence of Barthol. Green and Thomas
Crump: I
then put it into Mr. Gerrishes hand to Ac-
knowledge it
before Mr. Secretary Addington, and give it
me
again. Before Executing it, I gave him
Cousin Quin-
sey's Bonds,
offering to do any thing that might be neces-
sary for his
demanding what was due on them, and, gave
him my Note
to pay the Remainder.
Gave Cous. Wm Gerrish 10s
to buy a Candlestick, with
Exhortation
to imitate his Grandmother who dyed in the
house he is
to live in. Be diligent in General and
partic-
ular Calling;
Save himself and his intended wife.
Febr. 22.
p. m. Mr. Pemberton comes to see
me, and
comunicats
to me the Mock-Sermon and mentions my
going to Mr.
Secretary, which I doe; but twas night be-
fore could
concert Measures. He not being at home
at
first. Agree to goe to Dr. Clark's, his house being
in the
midst of the
Persons concern'd.
1711.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 337
Febr. 23. Mr. Secretary and I go to Dr. Clark's be-
tween 8 and
9. m. in the Rain; Recover three copies
of
the Mock
Sermon which was pronounced the Tuesday 4
night
before, in presence of Col. Townsend, Capt. Savage
and others;
I motion'd and prevail'd to send away Russel
for an
Original and his own Copy; before Green came:
He happily
recover'd both, and brought them in with
which we
stop'd Green's Lying Mouth. Bound him
over
to the
Sessions in £50. to answer for making and pro-
nouncing a
Mock-Sermon full of Monstrous profaneness
and
obscenity. Got home about one
a-clock. I heard
nothing of
this till Mr. Pemberton shew'd it me.
Febr. 26.
I go to the Town-Treasurer, from him to
Dr. Clark,
and propounded to send for the other persons,
we sent not
for on Satterday. He declin'd it; said
twas
in
vain: he knew not but there might be
40. Copies, one
gon to
New-york.
Midweek, Febr. 27. Fast at the South-church in order
to call a
Minister. Mr. Colman began with Prayer,
Mr.
Pemberton
Preach'd excellently; Mr. Wadsworth pray'd.
p. m.
Dr. Cotton Mather pray'd Excellently: Dr. Incr.
Mather
preach'd a very good sermon, Mr. Bridge pray'd,
Sung 2 first
Staves 6.7. Ps. Dr. Mather gave the Bless-
ing. Great Auditory. Mr. Pemberton very sharply Re-
prov'd the
Mock-Sermon, pronounc'd in the face of
Government.
Son not in Town, nor any from Cambridge
that I took
notice of. Mrs. Hobart was buried
yesterday.
Bearers, Mr.
Leverett, Brattle; Mr. Thacher, Anger; Mr.
Danforth,
Belchar. Both my Sons were there. I heard
not of her
death till Monday-night, and then had apointed
Business on
Tuesday p. m. that held me in Town; to hear
Capt. Joseph Swaddle, as to his being accessory to
the
death of
John Johnson one of his Sailers.
This day, Midweek, Febr. 27. Joseph Bailey of New-
bury,
introduc'd by Mr. Myles, Mr. Harris, and Mr.
Bridger,
Presented a Petition to, the Govr, sign'd by Abra-
338 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [171 1/2.
ham Merrill,
Joshua Brown Sam. Bartlett, John Bartlet,
Sam. Sawyer,
Joseph Bayley &c., 22. in a.1l, declaring that
they were of
the pure Episcopal Church of England, would
no longer
persist with their mistaken dissenting Brethren
in the
Separation; had sent to their Diocesan, the Bp. of
London, for
a Minister, and desired Protection.1
Fifth-day, Febr. 28. Great Storm of Rain: This day
the Govr
Dates his Letter to the Episcopal church of New-
bury. At night the Rain falls vehemently with
Thunder
and
Lightening.
Sixth-day, Febr. 29th. The Govr orders this Petition to
be read in
Council: and ask d the Council's Advice upon
it. It was answer'd, It was not directed to the
Council.
Govr said He must have our Advice
notwithstanding. I
said, for my
part I would say nothing to it; Others
were
so far of
the same opinion, that Nothing was said to it.
I ask'd the
Govr to take a Copy of it. He
said No, It
should
remain yet in Petto, and so took it off the Council-
Table and
put it in his Pocket, and carried it away.
Midweek, February, 27. 1711/12 Cous. John Sewall, a
very pious
young Man, is buried at Newbury. He died
the Monday
before.
March, 3.
Joseph comes, to Town.
March, 5.
returns. We have our privat
Meeting, I read
out of Mr.
Flavel, his preparation for Sufferings.
Sung
27, 28, 29,
30, 39, 40, 41, 42, 55, 56.
March, 6.
Mr. Hobart of Newtown visits us in the
1 Coffin (Hist. Newbury, 175-184) has
much to say about this a
copies of
the petition and Dudley's reply. It
seems that a minority in the
parish
wished to build a new meeting-house in. a spot disliked by the majority.
The General
Court forbade, though not until the house was built. Then,
"in a
pet," the minority took the advice of John Bridger, "surveyor of the
King's
woods," an Episcopalian, and said that they would also conform.
Dudley
promised his countenance, and they wrote to the Bishop of London
for a
minister. A Mr. Lampton seems to have
been sent accordingly.
When, as is
proposed, Sewall's Letter Book is printed, more will appear on
this
subject. -- EDS.
2 Probably verses of a Psalm. -- EDS.
171 1/2.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 339
morning, and
din'd with us after Lecture, and Cousin
Moodey of
York. Cousin Moodey left a Guiney with
me
to buy him a
Booke.
Seventh-day, March, 8. 1711/12 Went to the Castle and
din'd with
the Lieut Govr. Many Healths
were drunk,
and Guns
fired at drinking them: Ld
Treasurer, Col. Nich-
olson. Last of all, I think, the Govr
said, call Capt.
Campbell, we
will drink the Duke of Argyle's Health; 1
when Capt.
Campbell was found twas done. When came
off, The Govr,
Col. Vetch, Sir Charles Hobbey, Capt.
Campbell
went in one Boat to the Neck; There the Govr
took Col.
Vetch and Capt. Campbell into his Coach, and
left Sir
Charles to goe up in the Boat alone.
Col. Hutch-
inson, Mr.
Secretary, Mr. Sergeant, Mr. Em Hutchinson,
Capt.
Belchar, Mr. Bromfield, Col. Townsend, and Sewall,
went in the
other Boat. Gave the Cock-swain 18d
apiece,
12s
all.
Before I came off, I gave Capt. Tuthill
Mr. Tompson's,
Heaven the
best Country, with my Distich;
Auris, mens, oculus, manus, os, pes,
munere fungi
Dum pergunt, praestat discere velle mori.
Gave Mr. Shurtliff, the Chaplain, a
Rainbow.
Midweek, March, 19th. Church Meeting; each gave in
one
vote: I alleg'd twas fit to give two
votes, seeing Two
were to be
Nominated; But Mr. Pemberton stood for
the
first, and
twas carried: Mr. Joseph Stephens had 19.
Written
Votes; Mr. Joseph Sewall 44. Mr, Flint,
4. Mr.
Holyoke,
2. Before Voting, Capt. Belchar mov'd it
might
be kept
secret what Number each had; I opos'd it as a
1 The Duke of Argyle is, of course, the
head of all the Campbells. In
1712, the
peer was John, second duke, a soldier of distinction. He left five
daughters,
and was succeeded by his brother, Archibald, who died sine prole
in
1761. The title passed to John Campbell,
son of his cousin John Camp-
bell, of
Mamore. This John had other children,
and, possibly, Captain
Campbell was
of this branch. -- EDS.
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Novel
[novelty]; and should not know whether any had
above two
votes; some others seconded me; and that was
best.
7th. day, March 22. 1711/12
Daniel Hasting waits on me;
Col.
Hathorne, Mr. Corwin, with Capt. Cushing set out for
Plymouth.
Majr Genl stays at home.
Set out between
10 and
11. Din'd at Mills's, Baited at
Cushings, Got to
Job Randal's
about Sunset, where we were kindly re-
ceiv'd.
Lords Day March 23. Heard Mr. Eels. Rain'd hard
last night
and somthing this day; Thin Meeting.
2d day, March, 24. The under-Sheriff, Joseph Briant,
being Our
Guide, we went over Bisby's Ferry, 2d Horse,
and Man,
the. North River Bridge being down.
Rain'd at
our first
setting out. Got comfortably to Cook s
where
we
din'd. While there it Hail'd pretty
much, Thunder'd,
though I
heard it not. When had been there about
2
Hours, Mr.
Sheriff came with his Guard. Went to
Plim-
outh: Snow'd all the way. Got to Mr. Witherel's about
4 p. m. Laus
Deo.
3d day, March, 25. 1712. About 10. m. Col. Thomas
arrives, and
brings a Letter and Packet from Mr. Cooke
over,
shewing his incapacity of attending the Court;
whereupon
the Justices apointed Major Russel, Clark; Mr.
Little was
in doubtfull circumstances by reason of the
Gout and
sickness of which was scarcely recover'd.
John.Rickard, Ordinary-keeper, our
quondam Landlord
dyes this
day.
Midweek March, 26. Oyster Island is by Review Con-
firmed to
Nathan and Zacheus Wicket, Indians, &c.
Hittee, an Indian Girl, found Guilty of
Burning her
Master
Little's Dwellinghouse. Adjourn'd to the
Meet-
inghouse by
reason of the Press of people, and there the
Negro Betty
was Try'd for Concealing the death of her
Bastard-Child:
Found Guilty.
March, 27. 5th. day, Col. Byfield and Mr. Valentine were
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 341
heard upon
the Prohibition to the full before Diner.
Col
Thomas, Col.
Byfield, Col. Otis, Capt. Cushing, being in-
vited, Din'd
with us. Ministers. Col. Byfield would have
some time set
for attendance next Court: I said should
not be
call'd before Noon of the second day of the Court:
could not
before hand fix a day.
Betty Condemn'd. Hittee's Master pray'd she might
not be
Condemn'd; was under sixteen years old.
Upon
this she was
remanded to Prison, and the Court adjourn'd
to Six
a-clock next morning.
Sixth-day, March, 28. Court met: order'd Oyster-
Island not
to be sold; but the Attorney, Mr. Parker, to
represent
the state of it at the next Term. Upon
read-
ing Hittee's
Indenture (which was now brought), Left her
in Prison
uncondemned; and order'd Col. Otis her first
master, and
Major Basset, to take Affidavits concerning
her
Birth. Adjourn'd sine die. Left my Statute Book
with Capt.
James Warren. Came homeward; Rain'd hard
quickly
after setting out, went by Mattakeese Meeting-
house,
"and forded over the North-River.
My Horse stum-
bled, in the
considerable body of water, but I made a shift,
by GOD'S
Help, to sit him, and he recover'd and carried
me out. Rain'd very hard that went into a Barn
awhile.
Baited at
Bairsto's. Din'd at Cushing's. Dryed my Coat
and Hat at
both places. By that time got to
Braintry,
the day and
I were in a maner spent, and I turn'd in to
Cousin
Quinsey, where I had the pleasure to see GOD in
his
providence shining again upon the persons and Affairs
of the
Family after long distressing Sickness and Losses.
Lodg'd in
the chamber next the Brooke.1
7th. day March, 29. Rode home, Mr. Rawson overtook
me and accompanied
me on the Neck; Got well home
1 This old Quincy mansion is still in
good preservation. "The chamber
next the
Brooke" -- which still flows, is known as Tutor Flint's chamber.
-- EDS.
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about Noon;
found all well. Laus Deo. Mr. Colman,
the father;
died last Thorsday night.1
Lords-day March, 30. Wrote Mr. Pemberton some
passages of
my Journey, and of Lt Wood, of Little
Compton, his
burying Six children in Eight days, two and
two in a Grave;
youngest twelve years old.
Midweek, April, 2. Congregational Meeting at South-
Church. What the Church had done in their Nomina-
tion, was by
a Silential Vote Approved. The Money
left
in AEneas
Salter's hand, is to be improv'd in making a
Tomb for the
South-church Ministry. I was not at the
Meeting;
because Some had given out they would have
both the
persons Nominated. I went to Mr.
Pemberton's
before-hand
and intimated to him; that Such debates
might hapen 2
that I might not know well how to de-
mean my
self, and therefore had thoughts of not being
at the
Meeting. Speaking of Mr. Eels, and
enquiring how
he
preach'd, I Comended him; and Mr.
Pemberton upon
it, with a
very remarkable Aer Said, his Pupils could do
worthily, he
was one of them. I gave no occasion at
all
for that
Air.3 Mr. Colman was entombed
after the Meet-
ing, I went
to it. The Rain and Snow of Monday, and
Tuesday
hindred it's being done before.
Seventh-day, April 15. I visited Mr. Comissary Bel-
cher, sick
of the Gout. Capt. Papillon arrives.
1 William Colman, of Boston, father of
the well-known clergyman, Rev.
Benjamin
Colman, was the son of Matthew and Grace Colman, of Satterly,
near
Beccles, County Suffolk. Baptized there, Aug. 31, 1643. In Turell's
"Life
of BenJamin Colman" (p. 210), It is
stated that, "after the Decline
of his
Father's worldly Estate, he cheerfully afforded him all needful Assist-
ance, and
did every Thing that lay in his Power, to render his Age easy and
agreeable. His father's life was "continued down to
the year 1712." He
came from
London, and settled in Boston not long before Benjamin's birth,
Oct. 19,
1673. -- EDS.
2 His son Joseph being a candidate. -EDS
3 It will be noticed, in subsequent
references in the Journal, that Mr.
Pemberton
was not earnest, at least, for having Joseph Sewall as his col-
league in
office, and that the father was sensitively observant of the fact. --
EDS.
1712. ] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 343
Midweek,
April, 9th. Capt. Paxton
reviles Mr. Jona-
than Belchar
upon the Parade, calls him Rascal, many
times,
strikes him with his Cane: Mr. Dudley upon his
view fines
him 5s. He carried it
insolently, and said, He
would doe so
again. Twas about Noon.
Feria quinta, April, 10. Mr. Wadsworth preaches very
Seasonably
and Excellently from 2 Cor. 1. 9. After
Lect-
ure was a
Council; and the Govr hankered after its being
agreeable to
the Charter. Not to have a new Court at
the
Election-day. I spake against that
Notion. Govr
pleaded, he
could not be 40 days without a Court, Her
Majesties
Affairs might be such. Col. Hutchinson
said,
Writs might
go out for the New Court, sitting the Old.
Mr.
Secretaryexpress'd him self of a Contrary Opinion.
Finally the
Court was further prorogued to the 24th April,
the day of
the Genl Council. Madam
Gerrish dines with
us. Benj. Larnel and I prune the 4. Elms set this
Spring,
and the
other Trees at Elm-pasture.
Sixth-day, April, 11. I saw Six Swallows together fly-
ing and
chipering very rapturously.
Went to Charlestown Lecture, heard, Mr.
Bradstreet
from Ps. 71.
3. Shew'd what an invaluable privilege
twas
to have GOD
our strong Habitation: None but the
Rege-
nerat, God's
Children, had it. Din'd at his house with
Mr. Flint,
Madam Brattle, Mrs. Martha Foxcroft.
Visited
Capt. Timo
Phillips, very dangerously' sick of a Cancer;
about a week
since tis broken out into a large Sore on the
left side of
his Neck, hollow'd like a Saucer in his Swell'd
Neck; can scarce
speak. Visited Adam Winthrop as I
went; and
Capt. Fayerwether as I came home. Had
quite lost
it that the Meeting was at Mr. Stoddard's.
I
rather
thought it had been at Mr. Sargent's. I
was
invited
after I went out which was at 11. I met
the
Scholars. I was weary and the time past when I got
home.
Lord's Day, April, 13. Joseph preaches for Dr. Incr.
344 DIARY OF
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Mather, and
in the Evening for young men who meet at
Matthias
Smith's.
Second-day, April, 14. I lay'd a Rock in the North-
east corner
of the Foundation of the Meetinghouse. It
was a stone
I got out of the Comon.1 Gave
Kates a 3s
Bill. Tis the first stone is laid. This day Capt. John
Fayerweather
dies, born in Boston, Septr. 1634.
A good
Christian
Member of the old Church.
April, 15th. 1712. Go to Hog-Island to view the old
Barn, blown
down yesterday, and to Consider of building
a new
one. Had a very Comfortable passage
thither, and
home. Joseph returns to College before I come home.
Cousin, Mrs.
Moodey, of York, here. Gave Mrs. Belcher
Mr.
Willard's Meditations on the Lords Super: young
Mrs.
Belcher, Dr. C. Mather s Sermon of Children Walk-
ing in the
Truth. Her Son Joseph, 14 years old, Mr.
Quick's
Answers.
Fifth-day, April, 17. Dr. Mather mentions Capt. Fayer-
weather 2
with Honor; He has been a Select-man, Comis-
sioner, and
Captain of the Castle. Buried between 6
and
7. Bearers, Cooke, Elisha Hutchinson; Sewall,
Bromfield;
Howard,
Burroughs.
April, 18. Went with Mr. Daniel Oliver to Mr. Ho-
bart's
Lecture; visited Deacon Trowbridge, who was very
glad to see
us, overcome with Affection. At Mr.
Hobart's
after
Lecture, Mr. Porter told me of Joseph's indisposi-
tion. April. 19.
Send Ben. to him.
Apr. 20. Lords-Day, send David.
Apr. 21.
I visit him my self, go by Charlestown.
Apr. 22.
His bror Gerrish visits him, by whom he inti-
1 There are many intimations in our old
records that Boston Common
once
afforded boulders and foundation stones, which were turned to account
for cellars
and walls. -- EDS.
2 John Fairweather was a very noted
citizen, and, by his will, mentions
children and
grandchildren. It seems that he was
quite rich. He com-
manded the
Castle at the time of Andros's overthrow, and had charge of the
prisoners
sent there by the victorious rebels. -- EDS.
1712.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 345
It mats some
inclination to have a Coach sent for him;
which
Message Madam Clark also brings. This day
last
Capt. Rouse,
in the Saphire, brings in his Spanish Prize,
which has a
Considerable quantity of ps. 8/8 [Spanish milled
dollars] and
Silks.
23.
Midweek, Mr. Hirst and I visit him [Joseph].
24.
Saml Sewall, de Stephano, goes with the Coach
and brings
him home; has a bad night.
Sixth-day, April, 25th. Church-Meeting in the After-
noon: Mr. Pemberton enquired whether were ready to
proceed;
Answer'd Affirmatively. Whether would
goe by
a Majority,
or two Thirds: were for a Majority as the
usual
way. Voted by papers; Mr. Joseph Stevens
had
Twenty
votes; Mr. Joseph Sewall, Forty Seven.
Mr.
Pemberton
pray'd earnestly for them both. Mr.
Comis-
sary sent
his vote seal'd up. Major Genl
is at New-
London.
April, 26. Mr. Pemberton prays with Joseph.
April, 27. Mr. Wadsworth prays very much for him as
Elected; and
Mr. Pemberton p. m.
28. 29.
Joseph sleeps well: Mr. Bridge
steps in to see
him. Mr. Thair, Oakes. 29. Went to the funeral of Mr.
Peter Oliver. Apr. 30.
Sent Dr. I. Mather a Psalter
bound in
Turkey Leather, which He sent me from Web-
ber; The
French that took him gave him my Booke again.
Essay'd to
goe to Brooklin, but was stop'd by the Rain.
May, 1. 1712. Capt. Williams (79 PS.) reads The ven-
geance of
thy Saint's blood shed, too soon skiping the
foregoing
Line; and consequently omitted it in its proper
season; so
that I was forc'd to Read it, to prevent a
Blunder. Mr. Bridge from Isa 4. 4. Exhorts to the
study of
prophetical Scriptures: Fall of Babylon
certain:
Jews shall
be call'd.
Mr. Thacher dines with us. Mr. Hobart visits Joseph
and prays
with him. Treats him with great Respect
and
346 DIARY OF
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Kindness. I give him Virgil on account of the Poem he
has
gratify'd me with. Virgil with an Index,
in usu'm
Delphini.
Friday, May, 2. The Govr sets sail for Portsmouth.
Seventh-day, May, 3. The Lt Govr holds a
Council,
wherein Lt
Brett is order'd to goe in the Province sloop.
(Capt.
Matthews will furnish 100. Men) and convoy the
Provision
Fleet. p. m. I go to Brooklin, and
invite my
Son and
Daughter to come next week and perfect the
Deeds.
Lord's Day, May, 4th.
1712. Mr. Pemberton speaks to
the
congregation, and by a Silential Vote, Mr. David
Jeffries,
Col. Thomas Savage and Capt. John Gerrish are
apointed to
join with the churches Messengers to acquaint
Mr. Joseph
Sewall with his Election.l
Monday, May, 5th. I lay a stone at the South-east
Corner of
the Town House and had Engraven on it S. S.
1712.
May, 6,
Col. Hathorne, Mr. Corwin and I hold the
Court.
May, 7th. Col. Townsend, Mr. Bromfield and Mr. Dan-
forth of
Taunton, dine with us.
Between 6 and 7. Mr. Sergeant, Mr. Bromfield, Capt.
Hill, Capt.
Williams, Col. Checkley, Major Fitch, Lt. Col.
Savage, and
Capt. Gerrish, come and acquaint my Son
with the
Churches Election. He acknowledges the
Honor
done him,
sensible of the weightiness of the Work, and
asks time to
consider of it.
May, 8th. Mr. Cooke, Col. Hutchinson, Mr. Secretary,
Mr.
Sergeant, Mr. Belchar of Dedham, Capt. Moss, dine
with
us. I also paid for the Sheriff and Mr.
Dudley. I
told Mr.
Dudley, I invited him as the Governour's Eldest
son. Could not have the Lt Govr. Capt. Paxton had en-
1 The members of a church, that is, the
communicants, according to the
usage of the
time, took the initiative in the election of a minister, and the
members of
the congregation voted subsequently. -- EDS.
1712.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 347
gaged
him. At night, Dr. Increase Mather
married Mr.
Saml Gerrish, and Mrs. Sarah Coney; 1
Dr. Cotton Mather
pray'd
last. PS. 90. 13 -- 2 ½ staves, I set Windsor
Tune. Had Gloves, Sack-Posset, and Cake. Mr. Gerrish,
the
Minister, and Mr. Pemberton were there.
Joseph
went to
Lecture, but was somewhat faint after it, being
the first of
his going abroad after his sickness, and was
not
there. The whole family was Invited.
May, 9.
Sixth-day Rainbow --
May, 10.
Went a-foot to Roxbury, and bought Mr.
Tomson's
rave, an discours'd Mr. Dimond.
May, 13. 1712. My Wife visits the Bride and Bride-
groom at Mr.
Coney's;, and visits Madam Checkley, who
has been so
long confin'd.
Midweek, May, 14. I goe to Concord in Austin's Ca-
lash. Set out from my own house at five m., got to
Mr.
Whitings, at
Ten. Exercise began about half an hour
past eleven,
ended about ¼ past one. Great Assembly,
Mr. Whiting
pray'd, and preach'd from 1 Tim. 3. 1.
Mr.
Nehemiah
Hobart Ask'd if any had to object, 1. of the
Church. 2.
of the Congregation. 3 of all the
present
Assembly. Declar'd that the Elders and Messengers of
Churches had
apointed him to give the charge; Mr.
Anger,
Brattle, Hancock to join in laying on Hands.
Mr. Hobart
pray'd excellently, and so gave the Charge,
one Word in
it was Diligence or Labor, or to that pur-
pose; pray'd
again. Declar'd that Mr Anger was to
give
the Right
Hand of Fellowship; which he did. Sung
the
Forty-Seventh
Psalm, G. Mr. Whiting Bless'd the peo-
ple. Went and Din'd at young Mr. Prescott's. Set out
to come home
about half an hour after three; went and
told Mr.
Hutchinson of his Daughters having, by a fall
1 It seems (ante, pp. 249-251)
that Mr. Gerrish had been attentive to Cap-
tain Coney's
daughter before his marriage with Sewall's daughter. It appears,
however,
that this second marriage was countenanced by the Sewalls.
(See Vol. I.
p. xxxviii.) -- EDS.
348 DIARY OF
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from her
Horse, broken her Arm, one of the bones just
above the
Wrist.
Return'd into my own House a very little
before Nine.
Laus
Deo. Govr returns this day.
Fifth day, May, 15th. Dr. Cotton Mather preaches from
PS. 51.
18. Build thou the Walls of
Jerusalem. Sung
the 147th. PS.: the six first verses of it, O. I could not
perceive
that in either of his prayers he did one jot men-
tion the
Building the South-church has in Hand in Settling
another
Minister. Let the Gracious GOD be in the
way,
to be found,
Near at hand; And even be found before
we
Seek, Hear
before we call! Let the Bountifully
Gracious
GOD take
away the filthy Garments from me, and from
my Son, and
give us Change of Rayment! 1
May, 19.
Set out for Ipswich from Charlestown with
Daniel
Hasting; Had the company of young Mr.
Stephen
Minot. Din'd at Lewis's: By Mr. Gerrishes importunity,
I lodg'd at
his House, and rode in the Rain next morning
to Ipswich;
only 3 Judges, Hathorne and Corwin.
Midweek, May, 21. Adjourned sine die.
May, 22. The morning being Rainy till
about 11., I
resolv'd to
stay Lecture; and visited the languishing
Widow
Appleton, who was very glad to see me, as she
was
bolster'd up in her Bed. After Lecture
went to Sa-
lem; Lodg'd
at Brother Hirst's.
May, 23.
Went home by Winisimet, Brother brought
me
going.
May, 26.
The Govr invites Col. Hutchinson by name
to come and
eat Salmon with him Election-day morn, and
all
generally invited.
May, 28.
Election-day, the Governour not having
apointed me
to give the Deputies their oaths as for many
years
formerly, I went with my Coach to Roxbury. Col.
1 Sewall's sensitiveness to every
seeming lack of sympathy in any of his
clerical friends
to the new relation of his son, which so engaged his own
paternal
feelings, is significant of some disturbed tranquillity. -- EDS.
1712.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 349
Vetch, and
Bror went with me. Col. Hutchinson sur-
prises us by
bringing Mr. William Dumer, whom I knew
not Arrived
May 27. at Marblehead, about 4 Weeks pas-
sage from
Milford Haven. Tells me of Cousin
Stork's
death, last
winter. Coming to Town the Govr
took Govr
Vetch; and I
had Bror, Mr. Williams of Dearfield, Mr.
Sam. Lynde.
Note.
Before Sermon was done, My Son Joseph was
by Sickness
oblig'd to go home! which I knew not of
till
between 9,
and 10, when went home after the Election.
Which holds,
vomiting grievously, hinders his preaching
June, 1. as
was apointed, and hinders his giving his An-
swer to the
Church. This Disapointment is very hum-
bling.
June, 2.
Mr. Thacher of Weymouth preaches: I re-
frain going
to Diner; because of my Son's incapacity to
feed, I
refus'd to Feast. Mr. Sam. Cartel din'd
with us at
home.
Midweek, June 4th. Council day for Apointment of
officers: Col. Hathorne resigns his Judge's place. I went
to the
Governour a. m. at Mr. Dudley's.
Acquainted Him
that Col.
Townsend, Col. Higginson, and Mr. Jn° White
would be
acceptable to me. And so far as I was to
be con-
cern'd hop'd
the Government would provide better for
me, than I
for my self; chose to be at home; Had a Con-
sultation of
Physicians for my Son; viz. Mr. Cooke,
Oakes,
Cutler;
Williams, Noyes. Col. Thomas and Mr.
Thomas
Brattle are
Apointed Judges.l Mr. Brattle
denys serving,
had not rid
20 miles in 20 years.
June, 5.
Mr. Pemberton preaches from Kings being
1 The two vacancies on the Supreme
Bench were caused by the death of
John Walley,
and the resignation of John Hathorne "by reason of his great
hardness of
hearing." Brattle declined,
requesting the Secretary "to return
his thanks
to the Governor and Council for their respect shown him, and,
withall, to
acquaint them that his bodily infirmities and unacquaintedness
with the
Law, will not allow of his acceptance of the office of a Justice of the
Superior
Court." Council Records. -- EDS.
350 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1712.
Nursing
Fathers, &c. [Isaiah, 49. 23.] Mr.
Benjamin
Lynde of
Salem is made Judge, although the Govr ob-
jected to me
yesterday that twas not convenient to have
so many
Judges from Salem. Mr. Epes acquainted
me
with it,
said all the Council except his father Brown, voted
for him:
Gave a good Comendation of him as a good Man,
of the
church, keeping good Order in's family.
June 11th. Mrs. Mercy Wade sends her complaint against
Jonathan
Willis,1 her daughter Dorothy's Husband, for his
Inhumane
Actions; Hatefull Expressions, as well as Mur-
derous
Threatenings towards his wife. Order for
Willis's
Apearance
was dated June, 5th serv'd June, 9th. I mov'd
twas fit the
person complaining should be present. At
last several
Witnesses were Sworn, and Dorothy Willis,
the wife,
her Declaration sign'd with her Hand was read;
Mr. Wade
mov'd a Justice of peace might give her her
Oath; At
last the Govr order'd an Adjournm't to Friday,
and that
then she should apear. Willis gave in an
An-
swer against
the Complaint, it should have been his wive's
Complaint;
Crimes general &c. and therefore pray'd it
might be
dismiss'd.
June, 12. Govr not in Town. Dr. C. Mather preaches
from [Psalm]
110. ult. Sam Takes a Vomit. He was
taken sick
of the Fever and Ague last Tuesday; was fain
to leave the
Court and come home.
June, 13. 1712. The Govr is very hot in his Nieces
Cause. I would have had it put whether the petition
should be
dismiss'd, as the Respondent pray'd; several
seconded me
but the Govr refus'd. Council
carried it
against
Dorothy, the wife, taking her oath; Col. Apleton
1 Maj. Nathaniel Wade (brother of Maj.
Jonathan Wade, Jr., of Ipswich
and Medford,
whose second wife, living at the date of this "complaint," was
Elizabeth
daughter of President Dunster) m. Mercy, youngest daughter of
Governor
Simon Bradstreet, and niece of Governor Joseph Dudley and her
youngest
daughter. Dorothy, m Jonathan Willis, of Medford. He was the
son of
Stephen and Hannah (Eliot.) Willis. His
mother was the daughter of
Francis Eliot,
and he was thus the second cousin of Joseph Eliot, of Boston,
whose
daughter Mary he married for his second wife, according to Morse's
genealogy.
-EDS.
1712.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 351
alleg'd they
did not admit Abigail Emery to her Oath.
The wife
Dorothy is admitted to indorse the Complaint of
her Mother,
Mrs. Mercy Wade. Hearing is adjourn'd to
this day
Moneth.
I am put upon a Comittee about Volunteers;
Col.
Pynchon
pleads mightily for it: 12s. a week besides Sub-
sistence: I
argued, I fear'd it might become a Trade.
what we did
now might be drawn into Example after-
ward; knew
not who might be our Capt. General. If
persons
should not be spirited by Love to their wives,
Children,
Parents, Religion, twas a bad Omen: fell below
the heathen
Romans. At last brought it to 12s.
6d. Wages
and
Subsistence; and I prevail'd that stand, forces, March-
ing and in
Garrison might have the same Encouragement
as to Scalp
Money, their danger being as great or greater.
Skin for
Skin. I sign'd as Chair-man. Council would have
had
Subsistence and £100 Scalp-money.1
But Deputies
insisted on
their own vote; till this Return of the Comit-
tee of both
Houses, which they comply'd ,vith. As
soon
as twas
pass'd, the Govr propos'd to set up two Captains
in each
County; which startled me; I said, Will not that
be too
much? His Excellency Laugh'd, and said,
would
drop those
that could not raise a company. Said
among
others, My
Eaton!
June, 14. Depts. brought it £200. for the Judges, to be
proportion'd
according to their Attendance. When
Depts.
brought in
£50. for the Dep. Govr., Governour said, I
wish it had
been £150. Govr apoints Mr.
Secretary and
me to
Prorogue the Court to July, 16. Midweek
10. m.
Col. Thomas accepts of a Judges place, by
Letter.2
June, 17.
I ride home with my Eldest Son, find all
well at
Brooklin. Tom brings me back almost to
the
1 The exigencies of Indian warfare had
induced the authorities to allow a
scale of
bounties for the bringing in of Indian scalps. -- EDS.
2 The editors have received the following
letter, by Judge Sewall, from
Mr. Edward E
Salisbury, of New Haven, Ct. It was
copied by him from
352 DIARY OF
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Fullingmill;
I visit Mrs. Ruggles, who tells me her Sister
Apleton dyed
the 9th June. About Calef's, Mr. Comissary
took me into
his Chariot, Mr. White Condescending to ride
before,
sitting hardly. Carried me to Mr.
Pemberton's,
where paid
10s to the Charity School.
Midweek, June 18. Danl Hasting brings Joseph's
Books,
a Trunk,
Desir &c. from Cambridge. Just
before Sunset
is a very
noble Rainbow, one foot was between the Wind-
the fly-leaf
of a manuscript volume of theology in the Library at Yale
College. --
EDS.
"BOSTON, June 14th, 1712.
"REVEREND SIR, -- I have yours pr.
Mr. Ashly, for which I thank you.
I herewith
send you Sermons just come out of the Press, which I doubt not
but you will
find valuable, and specifick for you, in your high Calling. I
understand
you have the News-Letters at Westfield, and so I can send you
little
News. The Act of Parliament tolerating
Episcopacy in Scotland is a
matter of
great Consequence. The General Assembly
of Scotland in their
Recesses
apoint a Comittee to obviat any Evil during that time. This
Comission
(as they call it) made a very thorow and close Representation to
Her Majesty,
to prevent the passing of it. But it did
not prevail. One
thing they
complain of is that the Draught for the Act gives up the Church
of Scotland
Authority over those of their persuasion, which imports an Ex-
emption of
the Episcopalians; which they fear will
tend to very pernicious
Confusion
and Disorder.
"My Son Joseph Sewall should have
preached at the South-Church the
first of
June; but on the Election-day he was seised with an intermitting
Fever, which
oblig'd him to quit the Meetingh. before the Sermon was
done. Has been followed with vomiting, is now
slowly recovering. On
Tuesday last
my e1dest was taken here with the Fever and Ague. I hope he
grows
better. I desire your Prayers for them
Respectively. They both pre-
sent their
humble Service to you, desiring your Prayers.
Tis a very weighty
work Joseph
is called to, and especially need your Remembrance of him to
the giver of
all grace. The Major Genl who was lately
the first of our Coun-
cil, was
taken sick at New-London the 5th cur't.
If he should dye, New
England
would lose a very worthy Patriot. Madam
Winthrop took her
journey
towards him last Thorsday. Desiring your
Earnest Prayers that I
* "The official changes following the
Union brought a few English families to Scotland
who were
desirous of attending Episcopal Service after the forms to which they had been
accustomed.
. . . Gradually clergymen of the Church of England crept into the
country."
But these
are not to be confounded with the remnant of the deposed Scottish hierarchy.
The act
mentioned by Sewall was intended to protect the new Episcopal clergy in the
per-
formance of
their ceremonies. See Burton's History
of Scotland, VIII, 218-221. Edition
of 1813. --
EDS.
1712.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 353
mill, and
the Lazar house; 1 other, on Dorchester Neck.
This
Afternoon rode with Joseph and his Mother in the
Coach round
the Comon. Note. In the Address to Her
Majesty this
Court, the Committee had said these Words,
We are well
satisfyed 1.oith the Laying out of our Money.
These words
the Deputies obliterated, which the Govr re-
sented, and
order'd Mr. Secretary to go in and expostulat
with the
Deputies; saying, The Council were surpris'd at
it. If it had never been in, it had not been so
much.
But I think
it was not alter'd.
June, 19. 1712. There was a great uproar in the S.
Meetinghouse
just as Mr. Colman was opening his Text,
because he
was zealous for his GOD. Col. Townsend's
Kitchen fell
a-fire. But twas presently out, and the
As-
sembly
rallyed. I was not got out. Had an excellent
Sermon. After Lecture, before Diner, the Govr
held a
Council;
ordered the payment of the G. Court's Allow-
ances,
Several Muster-Rolls. Just before night
I visited
Cousin
Dumer, and wish'd her Joy of her Son's safe Ar-
rival.
Sixth-day, June, 20. rode with my wife
and Joseph in
may be
strengthened in Watching and keeping my garments, that my Walk-
ing naked,
and men seeing my shame may be prevented, I take Leave who
am Sir, Your
loving friend and humble serv't
"SAMUEL SEWALL.
"My service to Madam Taylor."
[In another hand.]
"SIR,-- I have as I see sent you
enclosed Things which you sent for and
hope they
will suit you.
"For the Reverend Mr. EDWARD TAYLOR
At Westfield."
1 We find no distinct reference to a
lazar or pest house. Aug. 19, 1702,
in a case of
sailors taken with small-pox, the Selectmen voted to quarter
them"
in the house of widow Salter, at the sign of the Roebuck, nigh the
South
Battery." Again, April 17, 1710,
they voted to instruct "the nurses
to attend
the man sick of the small-pox at the house on Fort Hill," evi-
dently the
one which the town owned there. Probably
the reference in the
text is to
one of these. -- EDS.
VOL. 11.
354 DIARY OF
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our Coach
Dorchester Road, almost as far as the first
Brook. Brigs's Indian drove us.l Mr. Pemberton, and
Mr. Abiel
Walley visit Joseph.
June, 21. Plentifull Rain.
June, 22. Wallis's House was in danger of being
burn'd down
last night by a candle.
The Post brings word that the Majr
Genl is better.
Mr.
Pemberton joins him and Joseph together in his
Prayer. My Wife at Meeting p. m.
Midweek, June, 25. I go in a Calash with Mr. Josiah
Oakes to,
Reading, to the Ordination of Mr. Richard
Brown. Mr. Green, of Salem Village, began with
Prayer,
Mr. Brown
preach'd well from Act. 20. 28., pray'd.
Mr.
Jer. Shepard
ordain'd, pray'd. Mr. Tappan Gave the
Right Hand
of Fellowship. Mr. Parsons of Maldon
pray'd,
sung the 122
psalm, York Tune, Mr. Brown gave the
Blessing. Got home before 9. Laus Deo.
Midweek, July, 2, 1712. Went with Mr. Hale to the
comencement;
at Charlestown fell in with Dr. Cotton
Mather, went
above a Mile before we got a Calash, and
then paid
full price. Intended to have staid a
Consider-
able time at
Sir Berry's Chamber: but as were going in
were
inform'd that the President -- were gon into the
Meetinghouse:
upon this I went directly thither: was in
the Pue
before the President begun his Prayer.
Dispute,
when the Govr
and Govr Saltonstall came in the Orator
was call'd
for, Sir Cooper, who Saluted very well, Govr, Govr
Saltonstall,
Lt Govr his Kinsman.2 At Diner Col. Waldron
1 This phrase strikes us strangely. Sewall had left college four years be-
fore King
Philip's war broke the power of the Indians, and yet he lives to
write:
"Brig's Indian drove us." It seems a most sudden change in the
character of
the dreaded savage enemy to find him installed as the family
charioteer.
-- EDS.
2 Lieutenant-Governor Tailer, as we have
shown (Vol. I. p. 63), was
own cousin
of Mrs. Mehitable Cooper, mother of Rev. William Cooper,
the graduate
of 1712. (Register, Vol. 18, 289.) Mr.
Cooper published afune-
ral sermon
on his kinsman in 1732. -- EDS.
1712.] DIARY OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 355
sat next me
on the out-side. Mr. Shepard was call'd
by
the Govr,
and Return'd Thanks. Mr. P. Dudley set
the
Tune: At Gloria Patri, our Lt Govr
stood up, alone.
P. meridiem. After the Dispute was over Mr. Barnard
made an
Oration in Latin. And the President made
a
Latin
Speech, taking the Whistonian Notion about the
Flood.1 Gave the Degrees, Pray'd. Went to the Presi-
dent's
house, came home with Mr. Cooke and Mr. Brattle,
got over the
Ferry very well, being early: Saw a man
play Tricks
on a Rope on board the Man of War.
July, 5.
Mr. Solomon Stoddard, Mr. Williams, [of] Hat-
field, Mr.
Pemberton Dine with us. Mr. Stoddard
crav'd
a Blessing,
Mr. Pemberton return'd Thanks, Mr. Williams
pray'd
Excellently; Joseph came down and was present.
July, 9, 1712. Daughter Hirst is brought to Bed of
her son
William.
13th. Baptis'd by Mr. Colman. Joseph intended to
have gone
abroad to day; but was prevented by his Ague
that seis'd
him quickly after Diner, which also was a means
to hinder my
presence at my little William's Baptisme.
July, 15. I and Mr. Gerl'ish went to Hog-Island and
saw the Barn
Rais'd, Twas a very Hot Day, yet accom-
plish'd the
work comfortably. I carried over a Jugg
of
Madera of
Ten Quarts. Went in Langden's Boat. We
took water
to come home when twas almost dark: past
Nine before
we Landed; having a Contrary Wind.
I drove a Pin, and gave a 5s
Bill in Mr. Thacher and
Danforth's
Book.2 Gave a Book to my
Tenant Belchar,
1 Probably the work of Rev. William
Whiston (born in 1667, died in
1752), an
able scholar both in theology and science.
He is now, perhaps,
best known
as the translator of Josephus. For
several years he was profes-
sor of
mathematics in the University of Cambridge.
Before his appointment
to that
place he had published "A new Theory of the Earth, from its Origi-
nal to the
Consummation of all things." This work contains " A Solution
of the
Phaenomena relating to the Universal Deluge." -- EDS.
2 This mention may serve for a note to
identify the book on Consolations,
which Sewall
gave away so freely the previous year. (Ante, p. 298.) It was,
356 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1712.
his Brother
Bill, Mr. Baker of Linn. Mr. Chiever
Crav'd
a Blessing and
Return'd Thanks.
July, 17. Thunder and Lightening: about
4. p. m.
The House of
Wm Morean at Brooklin was miserably Shat-
ter'd and
Maul'd, Timbers broken yet no person kill'd.
Comissioners
met at Dr. Cotton Mather's; Rain'd hard
going and
coming.
July, 21.
Rain falls very plentifully which I hope
Soakes the
Ground. Gave Govr Saltonstall
18. Cata-
logues.
July 22.
Dr. C. Mather, Sir Charles Hobby, Major
Fitch and I
set out for Natick. At Mills's the
President
meets us,
Fisher conducts us, Mr. Deming in company,
Benj.
Larnell waited on us. Murat was there
with his
Trumpet.
[This volume
of the original Journal closes with the following memoranda.]
July, 13, 1709. Fire in my Closet.
Mitto tibi P Augt. 1705.
Oceani fluctus -- 7r. 10. 1705.
Saml Hirst born Octobr.
23. 1705.
The bawdy bloody Cross at length -- Novr.
25, 1705. Decr. 24.
Tingitur
Tom.
Child had often painted death Novr. 10. 1705.
Mr. Jacob Melyen dyes Decr.
13. 170 6/7.
Sister Short dyed xr. 18. 1706.
Mr. James Baily moritur Jany
18. 1706/7.
Nobilitus March, 8. 170 6/7.
House broken up, June, 16, 1707.
Mr. Willson dies 7r. 12 1707.
Jno Jekyl esqr sworn 8r. 31.
M. Winthrop marries Mrs. Eyre Novr. 13.
1707.
French Trade, Novr. 20.
doubtless,
the one entitled "Nehemiah. A Brief
Essay on Divine Consola-
tions, how
great they are; and how great the regards to be paid unto them,
with an
application thereof to some frequent cases, especially the Death of
Relatives. Offered at the Lecture in Boston, 30 d.,
9. m., 1710. By Cotton
Mather, D.
D. Boston in New England. Printed by
Bartholomew
Green,
1710." sm. 4to, pp. 24. It is
dedicated to Sewall. -- EDS.
1712.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 357
Govr.
Fitz John Winthrop's Funeral Decr.
4.
Mr. President Leverett Decr.
5. Install'd Jany 14th.
Marriage Mr. Jn° Winthrop, Mrs. Ane Dudley xr. 16, 1707.
Arthur Mason buried March, 6. 17 6/7.
Dr. Dumer
Indifferent Flynt, Augt. 23-27-1708
Col. Tailer's wife buried Septr.
2. Madm. Lyd
Haverhill insulted Augt. 29.
Mr. Chiever's Funeral Sermon, 7r.
9th.
Mary Winthrop baptised, 7r. 19. 1708.
Cous. Elisa Noyes dies Octr. 5. Maiden name was Tapan.
Elder Clap buried Octr. 18.
Capt. Checkly, 20--1708.
Friday, July, 25. 1712. Went to Cambridge in the
Castle Barge
with the Lt Govr, Mr. Sergeant, Mr. Eliakim
Hutchinson,
Mr. Benjamin Lynde; to a Corporation Meet-
ing. In the Library the said Lynde disabled
himself in a
Speech; and
then took the Oaths and subscribed the Dec-
laration. Rec'd his Comission, and Mr. Secretary admin-
istred the
Oath belonging to a Judge of the Superiour
Court, to him.
Barnard, Eustace and others view'd the
Roof of the
Colledge which S. Andrews built, and judg'd it
necessary to
be taken down, by reason of the Rain and
Rottenness
the Gable-Ends had convey'd to the Timbers.
His
Excellency held a Council to hear Stimson com-
plaining of
Col. Foxcroft, the Judge of Probat; Present,
Lieut. Govr,
Sewall, Addington, Sergeant, Townsend, Em
Hutchinson,
Joseph Lynde, Andrew Belcher Esqrs. Had
a very good
Dinner; Mr. Justice Lynde din'd with the
Overseers. Mr. Colman went down with us in the Barge:
only Mr.
Bridge and he were there of the Boston Minis-
ters: Mr. Bridge return'd Thanks.
Seventh-day, July 26. I went to enquire whether Col.
Thomas was
come to Town, and his daughter-in-law Thomas
inform'd me
that he was sick, like to dye the last Lord's
Day.
Lord's Day July, 27. Mr. Joseph Sewall goes to Meet-
358 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1712.
ing in the
Fore-Noon: Note was, Joseph Sewall
being,
after long
Sickness, in some good measure Restored, de-
sires Thanks
may be given to GOD: and begs Prayers,
that he may
profit by the Affliction; and may have his
Health
perfected and Confirmed.
July, 29.
Went alone to the Ferry in the Coach, Capt.
Saml
Gookin, the under-Sheriff, met me at Charlestown,
and Mr.
Bordman the Steward. Before Mr. Lynde's
Comission
was read I said, Although the Court be not so
full as we
could have desired, yet through the good prov-
idence of
GOD there is a Court, a Court consisting en-
tirely of
such as have been brought up in the Society
happily
founded in this place by our Ancestors:
Our Alma
Mater will
Grace us; it behooves us that we do not dis-
grace our
Alma Mater. One worthy Member of this
Court has
been removed by death. Another has given
us a further
Instance of his Integrity by resigning his
place
because he apprehended himself incapable of sus-
taining it
by reason of the Infirmities of his Age, (hard-
ness of
hearing). The Government have appointed
two
worthy
Gentlemen to sustain these places; Col. Thomas,
last Lord's
Day was Senight, was Sick likely to dy, which
prevented
his Attendance. In the Gentleman present
I
hope we
shall have an Instance of the Advantage of an
Inns of
Court education superadded to that of Harvard
College.1
To shew that he has Right to sit here, his Com-
mission
shall now be read to you. Note. Mr. Brattle
pray'd
Excellently.
July, 29.
The Adjournment was so late, that I lodg'd
at Mr.
Brattle s.
July, 30.
Mr. Steadman brought me home round: I
1 Benjamin Lynde, who was graduated at
Harvard in 1686, studied law
at the
Temple. He succeeded Sewall, as chief
justice, in 1728, and held that
post till
his death, January 28, 1744-45. His son
Benjamin was appointed
to the bench
at that date, became chief justice in 1771, but resigned the
same year.
-- EDS.
1712.] DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. 359
visited my
Son and Daughter, and Grand-Children at
Brooklin. This day Mr. Wm Pain's Negro Woman
cast
her self
from the Top of the house above, 40. foot high.
I went to
the old Church Lecture: Mr. Bridges Text
--
we are
members one of another.
July, 31.
Williams calls me to the Tomb, I go into it
to view the
order of things in it. Mr. Willard was
taken
out
yesterday, and laid in the new Tomb built by the
South-Congregation.
Augt. 1.
Enlarge the number of Steps by adding one
more. Dug a hole in the North-East Corner and there
buried the
scattering bones, and buried the pieces of Cof-
fins in Mrs.
Willard's Grave.
Augt 2.
Shut up the Tomb. Went to the
Funeral of
Rebekah
Dudley, not a fortnight old; laid in Mr. Allen's Tomb.
Wednesday, Augt. 6. Meeting at Bror Cole's: I con-
cluded with
Prayer. Went from Mr. Comissary's; he
offered me
his Chariot for my Son to ride out.
Augt. 7.
Dr. C. Mather preaches a sermon on occasion
of the Heat,
out of Rev. -- sun nor heat. Cousin
Storke dines
with us and Mr. Webb.
Friday, Augt. 8. p. m. Very hot words pass'd between
the Lt
Govr and Mr. Comissary; each said he was barba-
rously
Treated. Mr. Comissary said he sat in
Council upon
equal terms
with the Lt Govr, which Col. Tailer took very
hainously. Govr
said Queen had but 3 officers here; Govr,
Lt.
Govr, and Secretary. Council
is to meet again next
Monday.
Lord's Day, Augt. 10.
1712. Joseph goes to Meeting
forenoon and
p. m. Mr. Pemberton prays very particu-
larly for
him. No Baptisme.
Augt. 16.
I bring daughter Hirst to her Mother in a
Calash, and
carry her home. When return, I visit Mr.
Wadsworth,
desire his Prayers for Joseph, D[aughter]
Hirst, Jn°
Stuckey. Give a verse to him and to Mr.
Pem-
berton of
Mr. Wadsworth.
360 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1712.
Augt. 17.
Mr. Pemberton goes to the Castle to preach;
Hear nothing
particular in Mr. Wadsworth's prayer, only
for this
Flock. On Satterday Mr. Pemberton spake
of
my Son's
riding in Mr. Comissary's Charret; Mr. Comis-
sary had
spoken to me of it; spake as if he would go
with him to
Cambridge. Augt. 19. I visit my little
Grand-daughter
Mary Sewall at Brooklin; sick of a Fever
and Flux;
had Mr. Bridgham's company; From thence
to
Roxbury
Lecture; Mr. Walter's Text, Mat. 26. 28.
Many
of Boston
there: visited the Govr. Mr.
Paul Dudley and
his Sisters,
Mrs. Katha and Mary, set out this morn for
New-London. Left the Govr two of Mr. Hobart's
verses.
Went to go
to the Funeral of Mr. Wm Pain's Son, about
4 years old;
but when I came to B. Walker's Corner un-
derstood the
Funeral was gon to the North-End; so de-
sisted. Mr. Pemberton and Mr. Comissary and son
walk'd
a
considerable time together on the Parade; 1 I went to
them to see
if Capt. Belchar would say any thing of riding
out; said
nothing.
Augt. 20. 1712. Madam Elisa.
Whetcomb, 57. years
old, buried;
2 Bearers, Cook, Sewall; Addington, Belchar;
Bromfield,
Borland. Neither Govr nor Lt
Govr there.
1 Of course this was not our Parade Ground
on the Charles Street Mall,
that being
but recently recovered from the sea. But, as B. Walker's corner
was on
Boylston Street, we may fairly presume that some neighboring part
of the
Common had already obtained the name. -- EDS.
2 Mrs. Elizabeth Whetcomb was,
presumably, the second wife of the
James
Whetcomb whose will, dated Nov. 7, 1686, is in Suffolk Wills,
Vol. XI.
fol. 55. He was a merchant, and, by wife
Rebecca, had James,
born Nov.
30, 1662; Peter, March 1, 1664; Peter, Dec. 7, 1666; Joseph,
Nov. 26,
1667; Rebecca, June 20, 1671; Richard, May 3,1673. By wife
Elizabeth he
had William, born April 21, 1680;
William, Sept. 9, 1681;
Elizabeth,
April 2, 1683.
His will mentions son James, daughters
Jane and Rebecca, wife Eliza-
beth, and
"those dear babes, Wilham and Elizabeth, which God hath given
me by
her." Also he bequeaths "my
father's and mother's pictures."
Also he
mentions his uncle Edward Willys.
Thomas and Rebecca Whetcomb had James,
born Aug. 31, 1669; Samuel
Whetcomb
married Abigail Champney, April 24, 1701. --EDS.
1712.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 361
Went as soon
as ever the Court rose. Gave Mr. Colman
one of Mr.
Hobart's verses. Augt. 21. Could not per-
ceive that
Mr. Bridge pray'd for my Son.
Augt. 22.
Finish the Act that in part takes off the en-
tail of Jno
Clark esqr. his estate. Augt. 21. My Son
brings us
word that Mr. Hobart was dangerously sick.
I
tell Mr.
Bridge and Pemberton of it and he was pray'd
for
publickly. Augt. 33. The Govr speaks with some
earnestness
that we should not give the Ordinary Court
the go-by,
in taking off Entails; it was in their power to
take off
Entails.
Augt. 24.
Son sends Tom with a Letter to acquaint
me that his
daughter Mary died about I, or 2 aclock last
night; his
wife sick.1 p. m. I send the
Letter to Mr.
Pemberton. Both Mr. Bridge and Pemberton pray very
Expressly
for my Son as call'd to the south-church.
I
goe to the
Funeral of Capt. Oliver's child.
Bearers, Mr.
Jno Walley,
Mr. David Jeffries. Mr. Pemberton deliver'd
me my Son's
Letter at the house of Mourning.
Second-day, Augt. 25. Between Roxbury, and Brook-
lin I met a
youth of Newtown, who told me Mr. Hobart2
dyed about
Sun-rise this morning. Proceeded and
waited
on Madam
Dudley in her Charret to Brooklin. So
soon
as I could
get the Coffin, I had little Mary nail'd up in it,
and brought
my dear Grand-Child to Town in my son's
Calash,
leaving my Horse for him. The Rain
overtook
me near the
Governour's, yet I proceeded, and got to my
1 From the note-book of Samuel Sewall,
Jr., we extract the following: --
"Dec.
23, 1711. Daughter Mary had a convulsion
fitt and continued to
have them
till Tuesday noon following, being 25th. instant; in which time
she had 14
fitts. January 29. Daughter Mary had a fitt about sundown and
continued to
have them till Thursday afternoon following, being 31 of Janu-
ary; in
which time she had 22 fitts. Feb. 1.
1711-12, putt daughter Mary
to neighbour
Gleason for to suckle her: suckled her a month. March 2 had 4
fitts; April
4th, four fitts at nurse Pike's; April 16 brought her from nurse
Pike's after
been there a month, and April17th had 2 fitts." -- EDS
2. Rev. Nehemiah Hoban, H. C. 1667. He was a Fellow of the College.
-- EDS.
362 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1712.
House, just
about Two a-clock. About sun-set, or a
little
after,
little Mary Sewall, born July, 20, 1711, was born to
the Tomb by
Mr. William Cooper, and Mr. Appleton, Mr.
Dan1 Oliver's Aprentice. The Father follow'd alone, then
the Govr
and I. The Grandmothers rode in the
Govern-
our's
Charret.
Tuesday, Augt. 26. I went with my Son and Mr.
Nichols in a
Calash to the Funeral of Mr. Hobart. Mr.
Comissary
carried Mr. Pemberton in his Charret.
The
Govr
went with four Horses. Bearers,
President, Mr.
Thacher of
Milton; Mr. Danforth of Dorchester, Mr. Brat-
tle of
Cambridge; Mr. Belcher of Dedham, Mr. Pernber-
ton; Mr.
Flint, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. Stephens led the
three
Daughters. Govr, and Sewall;
Mr. Comissary and
Bromfield
follow'd next after the Mourners. A
great
many people
there. Supose there were more than Forty
Graduates. Was inter'd a little more than an hour before
Sun-set. Mr. Danforth went to Prayer; mention'd his
having been
there more than Forty years. Got home
well about
eight.
Midweek, Augt. 27. I went to Hog-Island with Lath-
erby to see
how the Workmen finished the Barn. Saw
two. Sloops go away with Hay; Turn'd down with them
against the
Wind. Visited Dr. Increase Mather. He is
touch'd with
the Gravel. Benj. Larnell kick'd Joshua
Gee.
Augt. 28. I went to his Father an ask'd his pardon.
Mr.
Pemberton preaches a Funeral Sermon on Mr. Hobart,
My father
-- [2 Kings, 13. 14.]
Augt. 29.
My Son and I go to, the Meeting at Mr.
Phillips's. Mr. Pemberton preach d excellently. Mr.
Phillips
spake very kindly to Joseph. Yesterday
visited
Mrs. Hatch
and her new married daughter, Davis; Went
to the
Funeral of Mrs. Lillie's Son, about 8 years old.
Tuesday, 7r. 23. 1712. Had a Meeting of the Com-
issioners at
my house to adjust the Affairs of the Journey
1712.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 363
to Martha's
Vinyard; That very night I fell sick of
a
Fever.
7r. 25.
Am kept at home by my illness: go to Bed,
Vomit: p. m
am visited by Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Clap,
Dr. C.
Mather and others.
7r. 27th. It plainly shews it self to be the Fever and
Ague. Madam Wharton died last night, 2 hours past
midnight.
7r. 28. Sit up all the night after the Sabbath and
take
a vomit,
which works well. Mr. Oakes sits with
me. My
Fits do not
yet leave me but are only Burning without
any
discernible preceding Cold. 7r.
30. Madam Wharton
buried;
Bearers, Mr. Cooke, Sergeant; Em Hutchinson,
Belchar; Mr.
Nelson, Borland. I was sent [for] to be
a
Bearer, but
my sickness disabled me. Octobr.
4. Satter-
day, About 4
p. m. Cousin Green is brought to Bed of
a
Son. Sam. Kneeland told me of it, to whom I gave a
shilling. Octobr 5. Mr. Pemberton baptiseth this little
son, whom
his Father named Samuel. Now about my
Fever
ceaseth.
Monday, Octobr 6th. Mr. James Meers 1 dieth, about 67.
years old,
born in Boston. I have eaten many a
Diner of
his
Dressing.
Octobr. 7th. The Govr sets out for Pascataqua.
Octobr 8th. Mr. Meers buried: Bearers, Dering, Capt.
Williams;
Mr. Cutler, George, &c.
Satterday, Octobr. 11. The Mast Fleet arrives, in which
comes Capt.
Keeling, Mr. Newton's son, Mrs. Vallentine.
William my
Barber told me of it first. Mr. Clark of
the
Comon,
[Commissioner] Mr. Alford.
Lord's-day, 8r 12. The Norwest Wind blows so hard,
and Cold,
that I venture not abroad. This day Mr.
Jo-
seph
Sewall's Answer to the Church and Congregation's
Call, was
read to them.
1 James Meers, or Meares, was a caterer
in the town. He was one of
the original
members of the Brattle Street Society. -- EDS.
364 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1712.
Midweek, 8r. 15th. 1712.
Mr. Pemberton visits us, staid
a good
while, was very placid. This day the Lt
Govr,
Col.
Townsend, and my Son S. S. come home from the
Vinyard.
Sabbath, Octobr. 19. I am restored from sickness to the
publick
Celebration of the Lords day; for which I put up
a Note, that
GOD may have the Praise, and that He would
teach me to
profit by my Afflictions. Mr. Wadsworth
pray'd
Excellently for me and Mr. Secretary recovering.
Third-day, 8r.
21. Dr. Mather, Mr. Walter, I and my
Son Joseph
ride in the Coach to Newtown, to assist in
keeping a
Fast there, to Pray GOD'S Direction of them
in Calling a
Minister. Mr. Walter prays, Dr. C.
Mather
Preaches and
Prays. Sup with Mr. Hobart's Daughters.
Got home
well. Laus Deo.
Octr. 22. Court sits.
Octr. 23. Mr. Colman
preaches
from [Ps.]
132. 7. Dr. C. Mather, Mr. Bridge,
Brother,
Mr. Rawlins
&c, dine with us.
Sixth-day, Octobr. 24,
1712. The Queen's Proclama-
tion 1
for Cessation of Arms, is brought by Capt. Thacher
from
Newfoundland; Read in Council, and in the House
of Deputies;
sent to the Press. Note. 8r.
23. at night,
if Bror
Sewall, Sister Northend, Cousin Hanah Moodey of
York, Cousin
Pain of the Great Island, Son Sewall of
Brooklin,
cousin Jno Northend Sup with me, my wife, Son
Joseph
Sewall and Daughter Hanah.
Octobr. 24th. Son J. S. and I go to Mr. Pemberton's
privat
Meeting. Made a good Thanks-giving
Sermon
from PS
116.9.
Octobr.
25. Mrs. Wells, widow, of Salem,
dies 70. years
1 In August, " Bolingbroke and
Torcy signed a suspension of arms
four months,
-- a term afterwards prolonged, -- and which was not, like the
former
confined to the armies in the Netherlands, but extending to all parts
of the
world, both by land and sea. From this
moment, it may be said that,
in effect,
peace was re-established between the two nations." Stanhope's
Reign of
Queen Anne, Ch. XV. The proclamation was
issued on the 18th
of August.
-- EDS.
1712.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 365
old . Octobr.
28. Tuesday, at Noon, Mr. Robert Kitchen
dies, aged
56.
Octobr. 29. Hearing before the Court as to Salem mid-
dle
precinct.
Octobr. 30. Council voted in favour of the Precinct,
asserting
their having worthily performed their Promise
in Building
a Meeting House &c. Deputies
Concur.
Day of very
sore Rain. Dr. Cotton Mather preaches
from Luke
21. 36. That you may be accounted worthy
to escape.
Octobr 31. Order for Thanksgiving is past. The Sec-
retary writ
Peace; the Govr added Happy; which I ob-
jected
against; because we saw but one side, we saw not
what the
French had reserved for themselves.1
Voted it
not. I would have had it plentifull later
Harvest; be-
cause the
Wheat and Rye were much blasted; the Barly
much
diminished: but I prevail'd not. Sister
Northend
returns.
1712, Novr. 1. Govr Saltonstall comes to Town.
Novr. 2d. Lords-Day; Govr. Saltonstall and
Col. Thomas
come to the
South Assembly: Mr. J. Sewall preaches
a. m. Mr. Bridge p. m.
1712, Novr. 3. I procure Col. Thomas to be sent for
before the
Govr and Council, where he takes the Oaths,
Subscribes'
the Declaration, and receiv's the Comission
from the
Governour. The Bill 2 for
forcing, the Bills of
Credit to be
accepted in all payments for the future, was
again read,
debated: and a Conference order'd upon it on
Tuesday
morning. Tuesday, Nov: 4. Mr. Jonathan Bel-
char comes
to me and speaks very freely for passing the
Act about
Bills of Credit; said I should do well to be out
of the way
rather than hinder so great a good! I
went
1 Referring to the famous Peace of
Utrecht. See note 1, p. 392. -- EDS.
2 See Palfrey, Hist. of New England, IV.
333, 334, and the authorities
cited by
him. -- EDS.
366 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1712.
to the Court
at Pullin's; when we were busy in our
Work Maxwell
was sent to call us to the Conference,
which was
unexpected. When came there the Govr sur-
pris'd me by
saying that I and Mr. Em Hutchinson were
apointed to
manage the Conference. However, I, after
many had
spoken, Spake to this effect. "I
was at mak-
ing of the
first Bills of Credit in the year 1690:
They
were not
made for want of Money; but for want of Money
in the
Treasury. If the Government pass this
Act, they ,
Comand and
Compell men to Lend them that value.
None are
oblig'd to take them. He that has Bills
may
want every
thing else. Mr. Comissary gave me
occasion
to mention
the sad effect such a like Act had at Barbados.
Govr
said they were ready to knock one another in the
head.
"The Government may make a vast
Quantity of Bills
of Credit,
and leave them with us in Exchange for our
Estates.
"If money be wanting, Twere a better
expedient to
oblige
Creditors to take Wheat, Indian Corn, Salt, Iron,
Wool at a
moderat valuation, as twas of old: Then
there
would be Quid
pro Quo; whereas now privat Creditors
are fore'd
to take the publick Faith for payment for their
Comodity. The Merchants that complain of the scarcity
of Money,
tis they that have sent it away, and do send it
away."1
Return'd to the Superr
Court; Dr. Cotton Mather dines
with us.
Thorsday, Novr. 6. Make a considerable Entertainment.
1 This act will be found on pp. 700,
701, of Vol. I. of the reprint of
the Province
laws. It is Chap. VI., and is entitled
"An Act to prevent the
oppression
of debtors." Referring to "the
great scarcity of money and the
want of
other adequate media," it provides that all debts incurred between
Oct. 30,
1705, and Oct. 30, 1715, "specialties and express contracts in writing
always
excepted," may be paid in "good and lawful bills of credit on this
province." It was a "legal-tender act." --
EDS.
1712.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 367
Have the Govr,
Govr. Saltonstall, Lieut Govr, Major Pigeon,
Mr. Whiting
out of Captivity; Mr. Secretary, Mr. Comis-
sary, Mr.
Pemberton.
Friday, Novr. 7th. Bill passes, was read 3 times this day
with the
Deputies. This is the date of Mr.
Harris's pref-
ace against
Dr. Increase Mather.
Satterday, Novr. 8. I went not to Court because I was
unwilling to
be present at Reading the Engrossed Bill.
Friday Novr. 7. I visited Bror Belknap on his
Sick-
bed; said he
was hoping in the Free Grace of GOD. Mr.
Wadsworth
Dines with us, Mr. Speaker, Col. Hutchinson,
Townsend.
Novr. 9. Lords day.
Mr. Wadsworth couples Mr. Pem-
berton and
my Son in his prayer.
Novr. 10. Ride to Salem in a Calash with Mr. Dudley.
Novr. 11. Col. Thomas comes to us. Capt. Norden
and Mr.
Speaker were Justices specially assign'd for the
cause
between Marston and Brown.
Midweek, Novr. 12. Mr. Blower preaches a very good
Sermon
whether present or absent may be Acceptable
to
Christ. Ministers dine with us, Major
Brown, Higgin-
son, Epes.
Thorsday, adjourn sine die, just
at night. A great
Snow falls,
that were fain to leave our Calash at Lewis's.
Spar'd Mr.
Corwin our Horse back; met him at Lewis's
going and
coming. Got home comfortably. Laus Deo.
Met with my
Wedding Gloves and Bride-cake from Govr
Saltonstall.1
Novr. 17. My Son and I visit Govr Saltonstall and his
Bride.
19.
Midweek, very high Tide.
18.
Tuesday. Mr. Belknap buried. Joseph was in-
1 Bond says that Governor Gurdon
Saltonstall, of Connecticut, was thrice
married. His second wife, Elizabeth Rosewell, died
Sept. 12, 1710; and he
married,
thirdly, Mrs. Mary Clarke, daughter of William and Mary (Law-
rence)
Whittingham, and relict of William Clarke, of Boston. -- EDS.
368 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1712.
vited by
Gloves, and had a scarf given him there, which
is the
first. Mr. Pemberton is not well.
20.
Joseph preaches in the Forenoon, Mr. Pemberton
not abroad.
22.
Satterday. About 30 Horsmen come
and accom-
pany Mr.
Thair1 to Roxbury: He is to
be ordain'd next
Wednesday.
Novr. 22. My desire of seeing foreign Countries was in-
comparably
abated, by considering that at Home I might
visit GOD,
in whom all Perfection of Goodness is Centred.
Midweek 9r. 26.
Mr. Thair is ordain'd; Mr. Danforth,
Dorchester,
gave the Charge, Mr. Walter the Right Hand
of
Fellowship. Mr. Short tells us he was
ordain'd the 12.
9r. Mr. Gr[indall] Rawson gave the Charge, Mr. S.
Dan-
forth Right
Hand Fellowship.
Novr. 26. 1712. Mrs. Sarah More
died last Satterday
night, was
buried this day. Bearers, Elisha
Hutchinson,
Sewall;
Oaks, Barnard; Gilbert, Shipreve. Aged
80
years. Dr.
Incr. Mather said her death was like a Trans-
lation,
wish'd he might dye so. She was a very
loving
familiar
friend of ours. Buried in the Old,
burying place.
27.
Dr. Cotton Mather preaches from Heb. 13.
In a
few
words. Mr. Thacher, Blower, Shortt
&c dine with us.
In the evening in the Street Mr.
Pemberton spake to
me whether
some further step should not be taken about
Joseph. Spake of the church's Thanking him for his
An-
swer and
desiring his readiness to assist. I told
him, I
left it to
him. Three persons buried to day; Capt. Oburn,2
Mr.
Edwards's infant Son, widow Flack.
1 Ebenezer Thayer, H. C. 1708. -- EDS.
2 James Oborn, of Boston, made his will
Nov. 15, 1712, which is not
recorded,
but is on the files (No. 3460). In it he mentions his wife Abigail
(he married
Abigail Winslow May 11, 1702), and gives £100 to his daughter
Abigail when
eighteen or married. He uses as his seal
one bearing the
Sheaffe
arms, and Jacob Sheaffe was one of the witnesses. See the Heraldic
Journal, IV.
81, where the name is wrongly printed Osborn. -- EDS.
171 2/3.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 369
Novr. 28. Major Livingston and Armstrong arrive in
Waters from
Anapolis. Weeks passage.
Friday, Decr. 12. Govr., Mr. Pemberton,
Brother, his
son Sam,
dine with us.
17.
Sam sails in Capt. Sunderland for Barbados.
18.
Mr. Wadsworth preaches of the Talents, and our
Accountableness.
A little while ago Capt. Belchar presents
me with half
a Quintal of
Fish.
Decr. 18. After Lecture, and Diner I go to the Funeral
of Capt. Saml.
Hayman, aged 70. years. Bearers, Col.
Elisha
Hutchinson, Sewall; Addington, Sergeant; Em
Hutchinson,
Belchar. He was at Boston Lecture this
day
Senight, and
died on the Lords-day night. He was a
Lover of
New-England.
Decr. 19. Benj. Larnell's Books and Bedding are car-
ried to
Cambridge by Tho. Hutchins.
20.
He visits the School, presents his Master, Sub-
master, and
the Scholars, each a copy of verses. I
added
two to the
last.
Erroresque meos mihi condonate perosos ;
Absentique mihi precibus succurrite semper.
Very cold blustering day; we have 3 cords
wood
brought into
yard that came from Hog Island yesterday.
Febr. 3. 1712/13 Madam Elisa. Hutchinson dies about 9.
mane; Suddenly.
Febr. 4.
privat Meeting at our house, pretty number
of Men; Mr.
Tilly here; tis the first Meeting he has been
at since his
Sickness. Sung 3 Staves 27th
Ps. W[indsor]
v. 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, and the last 4 Lines of the 9th verse.
Cousin
Savage was here with his new wife.
Febr. 5th. Mr. Bridge gives Madam Hutchinson a great
Character,
as to her Piety and Charity, Exact Walk.
Febr. 6.
My son visits us from Brooklin.
Febr.7.
7th day. Madam Hutchinson is
buried; Bear-
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370 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1711.
ers, Cooke,
Sewall; Addington, Townsend; Bromfield,
Belcher;
came to the South-burying place. Col.
Hutch-
inson by
reason of his Sore Toe was fain to ride in the
Coach. Mr. Edward Hutchinson, and Madam Woolcot
were the
principal Mourners; Son and Daughter by Freak,
and
Hutchinson.l
Febr. 9.
Council at Roxbury; Mr. Secretary, Bromfield,
Sewall,
Belchar ride in his coach.
Tuesday, Febr. 10. A vehement storm of Snow. Mr.
Stoddard
sent his Coach to fetch me to the Comissioners
Meeting at
his House. When return'd could scarce
get
in at my
door for a great Drift of Snow blown up there;
were fain to
Shovel it away first.
Wednesday, Febr. 11. Mr. Aaron Porter2 is ordain'd
pastor of
the church at Meadford. Mr. Angier gave
the
charge; Mr.
Hancock, the Right Hand of Fellowship.
The storm
foregoing hinder'd my Son from being there.
And Mr.
Jonathan Belchar made a Splendid Treat for Mr.
Wainwright,
to which my Son was invited on Tuesday;
were many
more people there than the Meetinghouse
would hold.
Febr. 12.
Sam. comes not to Town as he intended. In
the
Afternoon Devotion informs my wife of his very un-
comfortable
Circumstances, and of the Necessity of fetch-
ing him to
Boston.
Friday, Febr. 13. Joseph and I ride in Mr. Stoddard's
Coach to
Brooklin, got thither at Eleven a. m: find Sam
abed. In a little while got him up, din'd there,
came
away. I was somwhat afraid, by reason his
[Joseph's]
Pulse was
disorder'd. But the Coach being close,
Harry
drove us
home well about 4. p. m. At Brooklin I
saw the
Lambs,
encourag'd Tom. to be faithfull in his Masters bus-
iness, which
he promis'd. Told him he could not obey
1 This was Elizabeth, second wife of
Elisha Hutchinson. She was daugh-
ter of Major
Thomas Clark, and married, first, John Freke. -- EDS.
2 Graduated H. C. 1708. -- EDS.
171 2/3.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 371
his Master
without obedience to his Mistress; and vice
versa; bid him take that as a Rule. Gave him a Two-
shilling
Bill of Credit. When my daughter alone,
I asked
her what
might be the cause of my Son's Indisposition,
are you so
kindly affectioned one towards another as
you should
be? She answer'd, I do my Duty. I said no
more.1 At parting I pray'd God to be with us going,
and
with them
staying. Son gave Hanah a piece of
Silver.
Satterday, Febr. 14. Cousin Moodey of York comes
in the
night; which made me think of those words; The
Lord that
comforteth all those that are cast down, com-
forteth us
by the Coming of Titus.
Febr. 16.
Mr. Moodey departs about noon.
Brill calls
just at
night, From the Govr. enquires of my Son's Well-
fare.
Febr. 17.
Great Snow. Tom comes for
Meal. I give
him half a
Bushel of pease home with him, of our best.
All well at
Brooklin. I enquired of my daughter,
Hanah,
and the
whole family.
Febr. 19. Lecture-day, son S. goes to Meeting, speaks
to Mr.
Walter. I also speak to him to
dine. He could
not; but
said he would call before he went home.
When
he came he
discours'd largly with my Son; I also spake to
him: His advice was, that Ilsly should be put
away;
some Friends
talk to them both and so come together
again. My Son was very helpfull to me in copying out
Dr. Mather's
Circular Letter.2
Febr. 21. Satterday, Daughter Sewall calls and gives
us a visit;
I went out to carry my Letters to Savil's, that
1 In our first volume (Introd. p. xxvii)
will be found the result of this
domestic
disturbance. It culminated, two years
later, in a separation which
lasted for
three years. Judge Sewall's delicacy, in
his references to the alien-
ation
between his daughter-in-law and his son, exhibits one of the winning
traits of
his character. -- EDS.
2 This Circular Letter probably was not
printed, as it does not appear in
Sibley's
list of the works of Dr. Increase Mather, nor in the brief list of
Cotton
Mather's publications. -- EDS.
372 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [171 2/3.
were to be
carried by Mr. Crocker to Barnstable.
While
I was
absent, My Wife and Daughter Sewall had very
sharp
discourse; She wholly justified her self, and said, if
it were not
for her, no Maid could be able to dwell at their
house. At last Daughter Sewall burst out with Tears,
and
call'd for
the Calashe. My wife relented also, and
said
she did not
design to grieve her; Son carried his
daughter
to the
Calash, and desired her to send Tom with the
Horse for
him on Friday.
Febr. 25. Sore Storm of Rain. Brill comes to Town,
and
acquaints that the Govr. was taken with a sore Fit of
the Gravel
last night; so cant be a Council to day.
Febr. 27. Friday, A Council is held at the Governour's,
who is now
below Stairs. Saw my Son, but spake not
to
him. When the business of the Council was over,
and
pipes were
call'd for, I slipt into Kitchen; but my Son
was gon; sat
with Madam Dudley alone a pretty while;
She said
nothing to me; I gave her my Silk-Hand-kerchief,
which I
bought last Satterday for my daughter, but was
prevented
giving it to her, she being just gon before I got
home. Yet this occasion brought her not to speak;
Ask'd
kindly after
my Wife. Went to the Govr
agen, Took
leave, came
home as went, with Capt. Belchar, Bromfield, ,
Norden.
Febr. 28. Amos Gates comes to Town, and says my
Son is
better.
March 2.
Monday, Madam E1isa. Addington
dyes,
aged 76
years; died ¼ after one p. m. By accident I
call'd in
and pray'd God to accompany him in his Soli-
tude. Went to meet Col. Townsend and go with him to
Col.
Hutchinson to certify about a Counterfeit Bill; know-
ing nothing
of this Death. Had been married 46.
years.1
1 This was Elizabeth (Bowen), wife of
Secretary Isaac Addington. He
married
again, Nov. 19th following, Elizabeth, widow of Hon. John Wain-
wright. --
EDS.
171 2/3.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 373
Note. James Peniman was buried last Lord's-day
night;
Bearers, Mr.
Cutler, Creese; Beiiet, Brisco; Ellis, Steward.
Mr. Bridge
and Wadsworth were there, being I supose in-
vited, and
to comfort the Relations. He had been
such a
Drunkard and
Idler that I went not to the Funeral, hav-
ing no heart
to it. My son preaches at Mr. Bridgham's
Meeting
Lord's day night.
March 3. m. Am sent for to Mrs. Fifield, as dying. I
went, staid
some time, and Mr. Pemberton came and
pray'd with
her; spake very little, Breath'd hard. I
came away,
Quickly after was told she was dead.
Died
between 9
and 10 in the morning; a good friend of ours,
as her
Ancestors before her. She was a
diligent, frugal,
Chaste
Woman.
March, 4.
Capt. Whiting tells me of his Father's death
last
Satterday, an hour before Sun-set. To be
buried on
Thorsday.
March, 5.
A very severe cold Night and day.
Mr.
Bridge
preaches from Isa. 63. 5: show'd that
when the
set time was
come, GOD would destroy Babylon, though
expected
helpers fail'd. Before, last prayer,
acquainted
the
Congregation with Mr. Whiting's death, to be be-
wail'd, and
the Church sympathiz'd with. After
Lecture,
Madam
Addington buried. Bearers, Lt.
Govr. Tailer, Sewall;
Sergeant, Em
Hutchinson; Belcher, Bromfield. Buried
in a brick
Grave in the Old burying place.
March, 6.
Mr. Sever calls in to see us. p.
m. Mrs.
Mary Fifield
is buried in the New burying place; 1 Bearers,
Oakes,
Howard; Timo Clark, Cutler; Tilly, Jn° Foster.
Aged 45.
years the 11th February. Gave
my son a Scarf.
1 In the Granary Yard is a broken stone,
probably of this person. It
reads:
"Here lyes ...body of M . . . Fifield, wife. . . Richard Fifie . . .
Aged 45 yea
22 dayes."
Richard Fifield married Mary Drew Aug.
25, 1701. A Richard Fifield,
of Boston,
mariner, made his will July 18, 1716 (Suff. Wills, Vol.. XXI.
fol. 386),
and leaves his estate to wife Maria. -- EDS.
374 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
After this
son and I visited Govr Saltonstall's Lady. Mrs.
Laurence was
there. Mrs. Mary Saltonstall came in
after,
and sat with
us.
March 17th. Govr. Saltonstall comes to Town.
March, 24, 1712/13. Spake to Mrs. Chaney.
March 25, 1713. J. S. went to visit Mr. Walley, but
found him
not at home. Went to Neighbour Fifield;
Mrs.
Mehit. Thurston not within.
March, 26. Mr. Pemberton preaches 1 Pet. 1. 17--
pass the time
of your sojourning here in fear. Made a
very good
sermon. 2d pt.
39. Ps. sung, M. Mr. Saml
Danforth
visits us in the evening. Has hopes of
Mr. Jno.
Williams's
daughter at Canada; may be as when Samson
married a
Philistin. I mention'd the Omen of her
Name
Eunice, Bene
litigans.1
1 Eunice Williams, daughter of Rev. John
Williams, of Deerfield, was
carried to
Canada in 1704, at the age of ten years.
She married an Indian,
probably
named De Rogers, by whom she had a son and two daughters.
Sarah, her
daughter, married Dr. Williams, said to be a son of a Bishop of
Chester, and
their son Thomas was father of the notorious Rev. Eleazer Wil-
liams, the
"Dauphin." At least, this is
the story told by him and printed
in the "Williams Genealogy," pp. 92-96.
The case of Eunice Williams was one which,
at the time, excited
much
interest in this community, and engaged a warm sympathy for her
father. If she was ten years old when she was taken
by the French and In-
dians as one
of the captives in the destruction of Deerfield, in 1704, O. S.,
she was at
this time eighteen. Her father, in his
famous book, "The Re-
deemed
Captive," and other writers of that period, give very full accounts
of the
zealous efforts made by the Jesuit priests in Canada to convert pris-
oners,
especially young persons, taken thither after the furious raids on our
frontiers. Eunice Williams yielded to the influence
exerted upon her for
this
purpose, and became a convert. She was
left at Montreal when many
of the
captives were ransomed and brought to Boston in 1706, and she could
not be
induced to return to her home and friends.
Some time after, dressed
in the full
Indian garb, she made a visit, with her husband, to Deerfield,
where her
father had resumed his ministry, but no entreaties would prevail
with her to
resume a civilized life. She was one
among very many of those,
born in New
England, in Puritan families, as well as of a much larger num-
ber of the
French, who were so fascinated by the charms of a wild life with
the natives
in the woods as to renounce their own race and homes. A more
famous
example of this "reversion" was that of Mary Jemeson, the so-
called "White Woman." Competent authorities tell us that, in all
the
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 375
Court prorogued to the 15th. April.
March, 28, 1713. Mr. Justice Corwin, Lynde, and
Sewall set
out on our Plimouth Journey. Baited at
Mill's;
Din'd at Cushings. Baited at
Bairstow's. From
thence got
to Capt. Joshua Cushing's a little before
Sun-set. Pembrook.
Mr. Daniel Lewis, their Minister,
preaches
twice.
March, 30. Visit Abigail, Momontaug's widow, at Mat-
takeese,l a pleasant Situation by great Ponds. Din'd at
Cook's,
whether came Mr. Justice Thomas, Mr. Attorney,
Cook,
Vallentine. Mr. Sheriff Lothrop, with
his Guard,
conducted us
to Plimouth, where we Arriv'd early.
March, 31. Held the Court.
April, 1.
Went into the Meetinghouse and Spent some
Time in
Prayer in the new Addition, in the Gallery.
April, 2.
Court adjourns by Candle Light, sine die.
Note. Mr. Thacher of Milton din'd with us twice.
April, 3d. 6th day. Rain keeps us at Plimouth. Only
just before
night rode to Cook's to shorten our Journey.
April, 4th. Pleasant serene weather; bait at Bairstow's.
Dine at
Hingham, Cushing's; Bait at Mill's; Got well
home about
an hour by Sun. Laus Deo.
April, 5.
Mr. Wadsworth preaches Excellently, on the
sovereignty
of God.
April, 6.
Little Billy Hirst dyes 10 at night, 9 months
old.
April, 8.
I visit Mrs. Betty Walley; 2 thank her for her
relations,
peaceful or hostile, between Indians and Europeans on this conti-
nent, more
than one hundred of the whites have been "Indianized" to each
single
Indian who has been civilized. -- EDS.
1 Duxbury was called Mattakeeset by the
Indians; but Winsor's history
says nothing
of this Abigail. The nearest sachem was
Josiah, or Chicka-
tabut, whose
son was Josiah, father of Jeremy, father of Charles Josiah,
the last of
the race. (Winsor, p. 75.) -- EDS.
2 This is about the beginning of the
courtship of Rev. Joseph Sewall,
who married
Elizabeth, daughter of John Walley. A
brief sketch of the
family is in
Bridgman's "Granary-yard Inscriptions," pp. 34-35. Samuel
376 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
favour to my
son, desire the continuance of it. She
Treats me
with Apples and Wine. Son goes at night
and
presents her
with a Portuguese piece of Gold, 4000. [reis?]
1704. I had given her Dr. C. Mather's Treatise
against
Antinomianism
[Adversus Libertinos], just come out.
April, 9.
Mr. Colman goes on with 1 Jno 3. 1. How
unreasonable
are we; that God should make offers of his
Son to us,
to be our Husband; and we no more fill'd with
Humble
Thankfull Admiration! O that I could
Loath
my self for
this Criminal Omission so long as I Live!
Friday, April, 17. Madam Elizabeth Stoddard dyes
about 4.
m: reckon'd a vertuous Gentlewoman; Has
lan-
guish'd a
long time.1
April. 18. I visit Mada Cooke, who seem'd very glad
to see
me. Has been confin'd a long time; tells
me she
accounts her
self older than Madam Stoddard rather than
else. I told her in pleasancy She and I were in the
same
year of our
Age. She was born. Apr. 26. 1651. I was
born March
28. 1652.
Lords Day, April, 19. Mr. Wadsworth preaches at the
South,
Excellently; and with Great and very obliging
Affection
Took Leave of the South church. Pray'd
for
Joseph in
the 2d Prayer. Post
meridiem, Dr. Increase
Mather
preaches 1 Timo. 2. 1.
Excellently, vigorously.
Prays, for
Joseph, mentioning his having been made a
Blessing. Pray'd not a 2d time because was
Baptisme.
Mr.
Pemberton preach'd for the Dr. in the Forenoon, by
which means
Mr. Wadsworth was alone; but now had all
Three. Mr. Pemberton pray'd for Govr
Saltonstall re-
moving with
his family; and very largly for his Lady,
that God
would bless her, and make her a Blessing.
Dr.
Hurd Walley
was a member of Congress in 1854 and 1855, Speaker of the
(State)
House of Representatives, 1844-46, &c. -- EDS.
1 This was Elizabeth, second wife of Col.
Simeon Stoddard. Much gene-
alogical
information about the family is to be found in Sumner's " History of
East
Boston." See Vol. I. p. 424, note.
-- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 377
Mather and
Mr. Wadsworth pray'd expressly for Govr
Salstonstall
as removing. I visited Mr. Pemberton in
the
Evening;
told him I endeavour'd to visit him before I
went to
Plimouth, and after my return. Said he
heard
not of
it. The Swallows have come; I saw three
together,
April
19. Backward spring.
Tuesday, Apr. 21. Govr. Saltonstall sets out for
New-
London; Col.
Townsend, and I on Horseback. Mr. Com-
issary and
Pemberton in his chariot. Mr. Rogers and
many others
accompany to Dedham. Madam Saltonstall,
Mrs. Mary
Saltonstall, and Mrs. Martha Rogers ride in the
Coach. Govr goes from Roxbury. After Diner set out
for
Meadfield, rather before four. Very good
day. Mr.
Comissary
paid the Reckoning; of which the Govr paid
40s. I paid 15s. Twas in all £4. odd. Got home very
comfortably.
Midweek, Apr. 22. Madam Stoddard buried; Bearers,
Govr
Dudley, Lt. Govr. Tailer; Lt. Govr
Usher, Sam1 Sewall,
Peter Sergeant
esqr. All the Ministers had Scarves, and
Joseph had
one. It seem'd inconvenient presently to
throw off
Mr. Stoddard's Scarf, and not wear it once as
was like to
be, if had gone to Salem.
Apr. 23.
I went to the Funeral of Mrs. Martha Patte-
shall; 1
Bearers, Cooke, Sewall; Dumer, Treasr. Taylor;
Col.
Checkley, Capt. Hill. This took me off
from going
to the
Castle, which I was glad of. No body
ask'd me to
go to Salem,
I consider'd Madam Bradstreet had been a
Widow there
Sixteen years, and was loth to intercept any
Respect
might be now shown to the Gentlemen there.
Five of the
Council at Salem; Col. Apleton is of Ipswich,
of which
Town the Relations are, Madam Wainwright, &c.
This
Invitation fell in
Thorsday morn unexpectedly.2
Mr.
1 She was the wife of Richard
Patteshall, of Boston. By her son
Robert she
was grandmother of Rev. Richard Patteshall, who died in 1768.
(See N. E.
Hist. and Gen. Register, Vol. XVII. p. 237.) -- EDS.
2 There is some confusion in this paragraph. The explanation may be
378 DIARY OF
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Wadsworth
preached Excellently from Ps. 146. 10.
Con-
cluded with
Philip. 1. 21. To me to live is Christ,
and to
dye is
Gain. Sung the last Two Staves and half
of the
146 Ps.
Mr. Marsh, Wigglesworth, Tuft, Rawlings
dined with
us.
Friday, Apr. 24. Mr. Pemberton calls at my house;
Hanah went
to the door, and suposing me at the Town-
meeting said
I was not within; whereas indeed I was, but
in the
Chamber. Mr. Pemberton said his business
was
with me, and
declin'd coming in. When I understood
it,
I went to
Mr. Pemberton's the same morning. He not
within, I
sat some time with Madam Pemberton: Ask'd
her what
people thought of my Son's Courtship; She
spake well
of it; Said Mr. Alford had done ungentlemanly
by her, and
she thought at the time of it, she would have
a better
Husband; comended Mrs. Betty. I told her
I
would call
again about 3. p. m. I went again, she
crav'd
my pardon,
said she had forgot to tell Mr. Pemberton
what I had
said of calling. He was gon out.
April, 25. Satterday, About 4 p. m. as soon as I could
get my book
finish'd, I went to Mr. Walley's.
Neither of
the Sisters
within. At last Mrs. Lydia came in, and
sat
with
me. I gave her. Mr. Walter of CHRIST, very well
bound in
Calvs Leather, to give Mrs. Betty. I had
written
her Name in
it. When had staid about half an hour or
little more,
I came away.
April, 26. Mr. Bridge 1 signifies to the
scattered Flock
their intention
to meet in their new built Meeting-house,
that Sewall
was glad of an excuse for not going to the Castle for the celebra-
tion of
Queen Anne's Coronation Day, by the firing of cannon, the drinking
of healths,
&c. He had expected, but did not
receive, an invitation to attend
Mrs.
Bradstreet's funeral, at Salem, so he accepted the invitation to be a
bearer to
Mrs. Patteshall. -- EDS.
1 Rev. Thomas Bridge was minister of the
First Church from 1705 to 1715.
Their
building was destroyed by the fire, and was succeeded by a brick one
the same
site. -- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 379
the next
Lords-day; Took Leave in very pathetical,
obliging
Terms. Pray'd much for Mr. Pemberton,
ac-
knowledging
the Gifts with which God had adorn'd him.
In second
Prayer pray'd for that other worthy person
call'd to
assist [Joseph Sewall] -- that his Settlement
might be
hasten'd, might be a lasting Blessing.
April, 27.
The first Court was open'd in the New
Townhouse. I was present. Mr. Colman pray'd Ex-
cellently. It was a damp to me that the first thing was
done was the
calling out the monstrously profane John
Green.l p. m.
Waited on the Court at the Green Dragon,
with Capt.
Timo Clark, to inform against Richard Vince,
who is more like
a wild-Cat than a man. From thence
went to Dr:
Increase Mather. Thank'd him for the
Per-
severance of
his Love to my Son Joseph: agreed to call a
Meeting of
the Comissioners at the Town House at 4. p. m.
next
Thorsday.
Tuesday, April 28. I waited on Mr. Pemberton. Mr.
Wisewall was
there. Mr. Marsh of Braintry came in.
Mr.
Pemberton spake very fiercely against the Govr and
Council's
meddling with suspension of Laws, respecting
Church of
England men not paying Taxes to the dissent-
ing
Ministers. Spake very fiercely in
dislike of the over-
seers,2
that nothing had been done; would chuse others.
I think this
was before Mr. Marsh came in. At the
Gate
said what I
did twolud be reckon'd my Son did; intimat-
1 Doubtless this was the Green previously
mentioned (ante, p. 337) as
concerned in
the matter of the Mock Sermon. By a
comparison of dates
that sermon
seems to have been delivered on Shrove Tuesday, and the whole
matter was
perhaps exaggerated by Sewall's immoderate fear of popery or
prelacy. --
EDS.
2 By the "Overseers" seems to
be meant the committee who had charge
of annually
assigning the seats in the meeting-house.
This was sometimes a
perplexing
and invidious duty, exciting personal jealousies. The hint given
to Sewall to
release himself from the responsibility implied that he might be
charged with
being influenced by his son, the new pastor, if any charge of
favoritism
was made. -- EDS.
380 DIARY OF
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ing as I
conceive, twere best for me to lay down my Over-
seers
place. Post m went to Roxbury Lecture
with Mr.
Thair and
Josiah Oakes. Mr. Walter preach'd
excellently
from Ps. 41.
4. I saw Samuel; It is yet dark wether
at
Brooklin.1 Came home with Thair and Oakes. Thair
went off at
his Brother's; Oakes and I visited the Bride
Adams, they
were married last Tuesday morn before Govr
Saltonstall
went out of Town.
Midweek, April 29. Council held at 11. a. m. ordered
so many to
attend the Govr Eastward as to make a Coun-
cil
there. Sam1 Penhallow's
Petition read,2 as to importing
Indians
contrary to Law, craves relief; Govr. urged the
Council
vehemently: Mr. Comissary question'd the Coun-
cil's
power. I said if Mr. Secretary would
admit him to
his oath, I should
not blame him. If he could not do it
lawfully,
the council could not make it Law. Voted
not
for it. Govr would have had the Council
order'd the
Sheriff to
have Took them out of the hands of those they
were sold to
at Plimouth. p. m. Son and I visit Mr.
Stoddard,
who treats us kindly; speaks with great Affec-
tion of his
deceased wife. I go to the Meeting at
Mr.
1 Referring to the unhappy domestic
relations of his son. -- EDS.
2 This refers to the Act passed in 1712,
"prohibiting the importation or
bringing
into this Province any Indian servants or slaves." Province Laws,
I. 698. The preamble to this Act is so emphatically
worded that we here
copy it: --
"Whereas divers conspiracies,
outrages, barbarities, murders, burglaries,
thefts, and
other notorious crimes and enormities, at sundry times, and espe-
cially of
late, have been perpetrated and committed by Indians and other
slaves
within severall of her majestie's plantations in America, being of a
malicious,
surley and revengeful spirit, rude and insolent in their behaviour,
and very
ungovernable, the over-great number and increase whereof within
this
province is likely to prove of pernicious and fatal consequence to
her
majesties subjects and interest here, unless speedily remedied, and
is a
discouragement to the importation of white servants, this province
being
differently circumstanced from the plantations in the islands, and
having great
numbers of the Indian natives of the country within and about
them, and at
.this time under the sorrowful effects of their rebellion and
hostilities.
. . . " -- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 381
Franklin's.1 Pray, read Mr. Doolittle's Morning Lecture
about
Leading of the Spirit. Visit daughter
Hirst who
has a
Swell'd face. The Lord Heal her!
Note.
At the Council an Order was made to restore
the Lecture
to the new built Meetinghouse, as accustomed;
and the
place most Central.2
Lord's-Day, May 3. 1713. In the forenoon Mr. Wads-
worth
preaches the first Sermon in their New-built Meet-
inghouse,
from Haggai 2. 9. The glory of this
latter
House.3
Monday, May 4. I wait on Mr. Pemberton at his de-
sire. Mr. Sergeant and Col. Checkley there: Mr.
Pem-
berton
declares a Necessity of adding to the number of the
Seaters. Would have us nominat at least. I said I would
venture to
mention one, Mr. Daniel Oliver; then Major
Fitch was
nam'd, whom Mr. Pemberton much applauded;
I and all
lik'd him very well. Then Mr. Pemberton
en-
quired whether
it might not be convenient to apoint one
of the
Congregation; we came into it. Mr.
Jeffries was
mention'd,
whom all approv'd. I desired Mr.
Pemberton
to assist at
opening the Court to morrow; He wholly de-
clin'd it
upon the account of his Lecture this week, and
his great
Indisposition. Mention'd my son. But I chose
to call Dr.
Cotton Mather in the evening. He,
readily
undertook
it, and appointed to be at Mr. Phillips his shop.
Tuesday, May
5, 1713. mane. Dr. Cotton Mather makes
an Excellent
Dedication-Prayer in the New Court-Cham-
ber. Mr. Pain, one of the Overseers of the Work
well-
com'd us, as
the Judges went up Stairs. Dr. Cotton
1 The son, Benjamin, was then in his
eighth year, and may have had the
privilege,
then enjoyed by children, of sitting quite still at the meeting.- -
EDS.
2 We notice here the official character
and sanction attached to the famous
Thursday
Lecture, established by John Cotton, and which faded away into
a shadow
before its quite recent disuse. -- EDS.
3 There appear to have been no special
dedication services on the occu-
pancy of a
new meeting-house in those days. -- EDS.
382 DIARY OF
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Mather
having ended Prayer, The Clark went on and
call'd, the
Grand-Jury: Giving their Charge, which was
to enforce
the Queen's Proclamation, and especially against
Travailing
on the Lord's Day; God having return'd to
give us
Rest. [In the margin. My speech to Grand
jury in new
Court House.] I said, You ought to be
quickened to
your Duty, in that you have so Convenient,
and August a
Chamber prepared for you to doe it in.
And what I
say to you, I would say to my self, to the
Court, and
to all that are concern'd. Seeing the
former
decay'd
Building is consum'd, and a better built in the
room, Let us
pray, May that Proverb, Golden Chalices
and Wooden
Priests, never be transfer'd to the Civil or-
der; that
God would take away our filthy Garments, and
cloath us
with Change of Raiment; That our former Sins
may be buried
in the Ruins and Rubbish of the former
House, and
not be suffered to follow us into this; That a
Lixivium may
be made of the Ashes, which we may fre-
quently use
in keeping ourselves Clean: Let never
any
Judge
debauch this Bench, by abiding on it when his own
Cause comes
under Trial; May the Judges always discern
the Right,
and dispense Justice with a most stable, perma-
nent
Impartiality; Let this large, transparent, costly Glass
serve to
oblige the Attornys alway to set Things in a
True Light,
And let the Character of none of them be Im-
par
sibi; Let them Remember they are to
advise the
Court, as
well as plead for their clients. The
Oaths that
prescribe
our Duty run all upon Truth; God is Truth.
Let
Him
communicat to us of His Light and Truth; Let
the Jurors
and Witnesses swear in Truth, in Judgment,
and in
Righteousness. If we thus improve this
House,
they that
built it, shall inhabit it; the days of this people
shall be as
the days of a Tree, and they shall long enjoy
the work of
their hands. The Terrible Illumination
that
was made,
the third of October was Twelve moneths, did
plainly shew
us that our GOD is a Consuming Fire: but
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 383
it hath
repented Him of the Evil. And since He
has de-
clar'd that
He takes delight in them that hope in his
Mercy, we
firmly believe that He will be a Dwelling place
to us
throughout all Generations.
The Church Meeting was begun before I
could get to it;
Major Fitch
and Mr. Oliver Nominated. Then were
chosen by
lifting up the Hand. Then Mr. Pemberton
call'd on
them to Nominat another; Som body said,
Capt.
Savage (I
understood it of Ephraim); but Capt. Habijah
Savage stood
up and disabled himself because of the Dis-
pute between
his Unkle and him about the Pue. Then
some body
mentioned Mr. Phillips. After awhile, I
said,
Some have
thought it might be convenient to have one of
the
Congregation. Mr. Pemberton
assented. Mr. Jeffries
was
Nominated and voted. Mr. Pemberton said,
Mr. Phil-
lips was
Nominated; but I had carried it over to the Con-
gregation:
whereas 'twas what he himself had introduc'd
at the
Meeting of the Overseers at his House.
And I
reckon'd Mr.
Phillips not so fit because of the Controversy
about the
Pue. Concluded with Prayer: Pray'd that my
son now
call'd to more Constant Work might be blessed
of GOD.
May, 6.
Dr. Cotton Mather Pray'd again.
Sir Ch.
Hobby dines
with us. Court adjourns without Day.
May, 7.
Mr. Pemberton preaches the First Lecture in
the
New-built Meeting-House, from 2 Chron. 6. 18.
But
will God in
very deed dwell with Men -- very good
Discourse.
10.
Lord's day. Joseph preaches
again.
Tuesday, May, 12, 1713. Joseph prays at the head of
the
Regiment: entertain Mrs. Elisa. Walley,
her Bror. and
Sisters,
Mrs. Kath. and Bethiah Eyre and Mr. Jeffries &c.
May, 14.
Dr. Cotton Mather preaches the Lecture
Excellently.
May, 18, 1713. Col. Thomas and I set out for Ipswich
by
Winnissimmet, Benj. Smith waits on me.
In the Butts
384 DIARY OF
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Brook 1
my Horse lies down, but I kept on his back, and
had no hurt
but wetting my feet, and breach of the
Crooper. Din'd at Brother's; visited Col. Hathorne,
who
seems not to
expect to go out of Salem any more. Vis-
ited Bror
and Sister Hirst. Call'd at Brother
Gerrishe's
and
refresh'd till company came up. Got well
to Ipswich
in Season.
May, 19.
Mr. Rogers prays at opening of the Court.
Din'd at
Smith's. At Noon Brother and I persuaded
them
of Artichoke
precinct,2 to Agree. I gave Lt.
Moodey Five
pounds, and
Jno Emery gave five pounds, and Moodey
and others
let fall their Review; went into Court, and
said, They
are Agreed. The Agreem't was made in
Smith's
Garret. Adjourned sine die. As the Post went
along, he
told us of Mr. Brattle's Death. He died
be-
tween 11 and
Twelve, 2d day a. m.
Midweek, May 20. The Rain hinder'd my Return.
Visited Dr.
Hale at Beverly who, opress'd with Melan-
choly, was
a-bed at. 5. p. m. Visited Mr.
Blower. Got
to Brother's
at Salem about 7. and lodg'd there. By
this
means I was
not Entangled with the Riot 3 Comitted that
night in
Boston by 200 people or more, breaking open
Arthur
Mason's Warehouse in the Comon, thinking to
find Corn
there; Wounded the Lt. Govr and Mr. Newton's
Son; cry'd
Whalebone. Were provoked by Capt. Bel-
char's
sending: Indian Corn to Curasso. The Select-men
desired him
not to send it; he told them, The hardest
1 We have not been able to identify this
brook. It was, evidently, on the
road from
Chelsea to Salem. -- EDS.
2 Artichoke River is in Newbury, and the
reference is obviously to the
dispute
about the Episcopal Church there. (See ante, pp. 337, 338.) -- EDS.
3 We find no other mention of this
tumult, the only "bread riot," proba-
bly, that
Boston has ever witnessed. Belcher had
exported grain before in
a time of
scarcity, just previous to the arrival of Admiral Walker's fleet.
Oct. 14,
1713, the Selectmen voted to petition the Legislature for an act pro-
hibiting the
export of grain; and when a cargo arrived, December 10, it was
apportioned
among the bakers. So the scarcity was
real. -- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 385
Fend
off! If they stop'd his vessel, he would
hinder the
coming in of
three times as much.
May, 21.
Went to Boston, Lit at the Meeting-house
door, and
heard Mr. Colman's Lecture; had just begun
Prayer.
May, 24.
Joseph preaches again.
May, 27.
Col. John Appleton and I administer the
Oaths
&c. to the Deputies. Mr. Samuel
Treat preaches
the Election
Sermon from PS. 2. 8. Ask of me. --
Encourag'd
Rulers to be Faithfull; Christ would
meet
them with
better Revivals and Refreshm'ts than Melchize-
dec met
Abraham with. Gave this advice as to
choice of
Rulers,
whatever other accomplishments were; yet, Si
profanus is to be avoided. Din'd at the Green Dragon.
Went late to
the Election. 102 Voters at first: Mr. Ad-
dington had
all but his own, 101. Col. Hutchinson
and I
had 97.
each. But tis to be lamented that Majr Gen1 Win-
throp had
but 46. and was left out. He was the
great
Stay and
Ornament of the Council, a very pious, prudent,
Couragious
New-England Man. Some spread it among
the
Deputies, that he was out of the province, and not
like to
Return. (Has been absent ever since
April, 1712.
but through
Sickness.) Lieut Govr said he
was a Non-
Resident. Staid the Election; but voted not, said 'twas
against his
principles; the Councillors ought not to vote.
Said of
voting by papers, It was a Silly way! I
took no
notice of
it. Thus Mr. Winthrop is sent into Shade
and
Retirem't
while I am left in the Whirling Dust, and
Scorching
Sun.
So
falls that stately Cedar I whilest it stood
It was the truest Glory of the Wood.l
May, 28, 1713. The Four Churches 2 Treat the
Minis-
1 It will be seen that Mr. Winthrop was
soon restored to his place. See
August G. --
EDS.
2 The four churches were the First (Mr.
Bridge's), Second (the Mathers'),
VOL. II.
386 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
ters, and
Councillors in Town at the Exchange Tavern.
Mr Marion
invited me.
Thorsday, May, 28. All the Councillors are sworn
except Major
Brown, who was not in Town. In the
Afternoon I
declar'd to the Council, that Prayer had been
too much
neglected formerly; we were now in a New
House, we
ought to Reform; without it I would not be
there. Mr. Secretary assented, and I was desired to
see
it
effected. I rode with Col. Hutchinson in
his Coach,
and
earnestly solicited Dr. Increase Mather to begin, and
give us the
first Prayer: He disabled himself by his
In-
disposition;
He must take Pills. I press'd him, and
came
away with
some hope; obliged Cuffee to call for him;
Col. Hutchinson
promised me; I went to his Master also,
Capt. Thomas
Hutchinson, for fear of failing.
May, 29.
Dr. Increase Mather prays Excellently in the
Council. Lt. Govr, at ~he
Castle. Went to Dr. Cotton
Mather, and
engag d him.
May, 30. 1713. Dr. Cotton Mather prays very Ex-
cellently. Adjourn'd to June, 2. because of the
Artillery.
June,
1. Mr. Stoddard of Chelmsford preaches
the
Election
sermon, 1 Sam. 2. 30. Them that honor
Me,
will Honor:
made an Excellent Discourse.
June, 2.
Mr. Veisy 1 of Braintry, and Constable Owen
the South
(Pemberton and Sewall), and Brattle Street (Colman's). The
Quakers',
King's Chapel, and Baptist, were not counted.
We find here the recognition of a usage
which gave origin to what is
known in
Boston as "Anniversary Week," though it is now but the shadow
of what it
once was. The May meeting of the General
Court was chosen as
the occasion
on which the ministers of the country towns, thawed out from
the
isolation of a long winter, made an annual visit to Boston, where they
found genial
hospitality in friendly homes. "The Convention of Congrega-
tional
Ministers" was formed to bring the pastors together mainly for a
sermon and
for a charitable collection for the widows and orphans of the
brotherhood. On a day of
"Election Week" the Congregational societies
"treated"
the ministers to a public dinner. This
generous courtesy was
continued
till less than forty years ago. -- EDS.
1 Mr. Veazie claimed to be of the Church
of England, and objected to
being taxed
for the support of the Congregational Minister.
He had been
fined, in
1696, "for plowing on the day of Thanksgiving, &c." -- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 387
are heard;
about his distraining for a Rate of 26s. toward
Mr. Marshes
Salary, when the Govr and Council had
order'd him
to forbear, till the Genl Court, which order
was sent by
Veisy himself, who would not Jet Owen take
a copy of
him, and provok'd him, whereupon Owen took
a Cow of
Veisy pris'd at £4.0-0., offer'd Veisy the over-
plus before
Witnesses, which Veisy refus'd. The Govr
put
the Vote
whether the Cow should be returned, which pass'd
in the
Negative. I said, The Govr
and Council had not
Authority to
rescind the Laws, by nulling an Execution.
Mr.
Secretary seconded me. Then the Govr
put it whether
he should be
bound over to the Sessions; which was Voted.
Govr
directed £50. But 'twas brought to. £10.
and £5
each Surety.
It was afterward thought advisable to
dismiss this Bond,
Chide him
and let him go, which was done next day, upon
his
Submission and petition to be dismiss'd.
June, 4.
Mr. Wadsworth preaches an excellent Ser-
mon 1
from Mal. 2. 16. -- therefore take heed to your Spirit,
that ye deal
not Treacherously. Apointment of
Officers
was
adjourn'd to Friday 2. p. m.
June, 5.
Govr. Nominates Officers before Diner; Lt.
Col. Spencer
Phips made a Justice, and Capt. Cary of
Charlestown. Mr. Daniel Parker is made Justice of the
Inferiour
Court instead of Col. Thacher deceased.
Mr.
Jewet a
Coroner. Done of Billings-Gate; 2
Worth of Ed-
gartown,
Justices. Charlestown Lecture being
over, Col.
Phillips
came p. m. and found the Nomination over.
He
had spoken
for my Classmate Capt. Saml Phips to the
Govr,
that would Nominat him for a Justice.
Supos'd it
1 The first Monday in June is now, and
has long been the occasion, in
Boston, for
the preaching of a sermon before the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery
Company. -- EDS.
2 Billingsgate precinct, in Eastham, was
incorporated in 1763 as a town,
and named
Wellfleet. The origin of the first name
is patent, but that of the
second has
remained a profound mystery. -- EDS.
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had been
done; and the Govr in a bantering way extorted
Thanks from
him.
Satterday, June, 6. The Rain-water grievously runs
into my son
Joseph's Chamber from the Window above.
As went out
to the Barber's I observ'd the water to run
trickling
down a great pace from the Coving. I
went on
the Roof,
and found the Spout next Salter's stop'd, but
I could not
free it with my Stick. Boston went up,
and
found his
pole too big, which I warn'd him of before;
came down a
Spit, and clear'd the Leaden-throat, by
thrusting
out a Trap-Ball that stuck there.1 Thus a small
matter
greatly incomodes us; and when God pleases, tis
easily
remov'd. The Rain that fell the two
Nights and
Lords-day
following was in such Abundance, we had been
almost
Drown'd, if the Spout had not been cleared.
Satterday, June, 6. Am Chair-man of the Comittee
for Lt.
Tuthill's Accounts: I express'd to him
my dislike
of his
reflecting on Capt. Homes; if he were dead he
would not be
willing to be so serv'd. From 3s.
9d. ad-
vanced his
allowance to 4. 6d ¼ per week for a man. Note.
He said he
did not reflect; and yet when I mention'd the
drinking
water, Tuthill
answer'd, it was sworn by two
men.
June, 7.
Lord's Super, I could not discern that Mr.
Pemberton
pray'd for my son; observ'd not so much as
the ordinary
prayer for him that is to preach in the After-
noon. The Lord Help! 2
June, 8.
Mr. Bridge comes to our house, I accompany
him to the
Council-Chamber, and there he prays 3 p. m.
After
Adjournment, Govr. goes to Mr. Comissaries, who
1 It is refreshing to be able to presume
that the small boy of Puritan
times played
ball, and then, as now, threw or struck the same into places
not intended
to receive it; but how many householders of to-day would be
moved
thereby only to a strictly pious reflection? -- EDS.
2 We note again the sensitiveness of
Sewall on a matter which so engaged
his paternal
and his devotional feelings. -- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 389
Treats with
Wine, Walnuts, Raisins. I was
there. It
seems the
Provinces Sloop is stricken with the Lightening,
Mast, and
two Planks of the Deck; They write from Pis-
cataqua,
that the Indians will not meet the Govr. Govr.
Vaudrel
advises them to the contrary.1 Third day, June, 9.
June, 10. Last night Mr. Sergeant and I Walked about
the Town
from about 10. to 2. Had Constable
Howell
with us,
Sam. Greenlef, and Mat. Smith's Dupee.
This
day Mr.
Pemberton comes to our House, desires me to
take my
Letter again; would not have me resign my
Seaters
place now. I took it. Would have Joseph or-
dain'd in
August; Marry first, that might lose no time. I
again
express'd myself desirous that it might be before
changes from
England. Best to be fix'd before such
Temptations
arrive.
As
I came from Mr. Stephens's Meeting, Mr. Pember-
ton join'd
himself to me. Told me of the
Governour's
vehement
pressing that Col. Wm Dudley might be made
College-
Treasurer.
June, 11th. Thorsday, Dr. C. Mather preaches the Lect-
ure. Govr dines with the Lieut-Govr. I at Mr. Hirst's,
where was
Mr. Willoughby. Now about the Govr
pro-
cures a
Letter to be written to the Govr of Rhode-Island,
that
Comitties might from this Governmt and Conecticut,
with one
from Rode Island Layout the Rodes in the Nar-
raganset.2 Spake of his being president there once.
June, 12.
Capt. Moodey of Casco-Bay is in Town, and
1 Though this was a time of peace between
the home governments, the
influence of
the French in Canada and in Acadia, under the prompting of
the Governor
(and of some of the Jesuit Priests, as was, with apparent good
reason,
believed), was strongly employed to inflame and excite the eastern
Indians
against the English settlements. There
is no question. but that the
"infamous"
Father La Loutre was an effective agent of mischief in the
years that
followed. -- EDS.
2 Hutchinson (Hist. II. 201-206) dwells
upon the settlemeut, which was
made in
1713, of the boundary between Massachusetts and Connecticut. --
EDS.
390 DIARY OF SAMUEL
SEWALL. [1713.
contradicts
what Mr. Penhallow writ about the Indians
refusing to
come and meet the Govr.
June, 13.
Court is adjourn'd to Monday 15. p. m.
Tom brings a
load of Faggots from Brooklin, and tells us
of their
Health.
Lords-day, June, 14. Dr. Incr. Mather preaches for
Mr.
Pemberton p. m. Prays very much for Mr.
Pember-
ton that God
would continue him long a great Blessing:
for Joseph
thus, that other Servant upon whom their
eyes are
that God would fit him and furnish him.
Friday, June, 12. I went to Mrs. Betty Wally1 to
per-
suade her to
marry before ordination. Madam Pemberton
was at our
House this day, staid a considerable time which
I knew not
of till I came home at night.
June, 29.
Went with Mr. Bromfield to the Funeral of
Col.
Hunt. Bearers, Govr, Sewall; Townsend,
Bromfield;
Cushing,
Quinsey.
June, 26.
Mr. Stoddard of North-Hampton, and Mr.
Jn°
Williams. About 9 Captives come from
Canada by
way of
Albany. Mr. Schyler could not prevail
with Mr.
William's
daughter to come away.
July, 1.
Went to Comencement with my son and
Cousin
Hale. I observ'd no strangers save Mr.
Pitkin,
and Col.
Whiting, the Connecticut Comissioners.
Sir
Hall made
the Oration very well. President crav'd
a
Blessing in
the Hall, and Mr. Stoddard return'd Thanks.
Came home
with Dr. C. Mather, and his Son Increase2 in
a
Calash. Son came over in the same Boat.
July 2.
Mr. Thair marries his Unkle Townsend's eld-
est
Daughter. Mr. Secretary thinks Col.
Townsend Mar-
ried them,
July 2d. Mr. Stoddard preaches the Lecture. Dine
1 Joseph Sewall's intended bride. --
EDS.
2 This was the youth whose ill courses
were so grievous a sorrow to the
father, and
of whom, when the father hears of his death abroad, he makes
in his Diary
the pathetic entry: "Increase, My
Son! My Son!" -- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 391
with us, Mr.
Webb, Mr. Moses Hale, Mr. Lorin, Mr. Met-
calf, Mr.
Rawlins, Cous. Tho. Sewall.
July, 4. 'Tis known that Lt Saml
Williams died at
Derefeld
last Tuesday night to the great grief of his
Father.
July, 5.
Thunder and Rain at Noon. Mr.
Stoddard
preaches p.
m. Prays for my Son that God would pre-
pare him,
and that he might live long to be a Rich Bless-
ing. At the close apoint 1 ½ staff in the first part 40th. PS.
I try'd to
set Low-Dutch Tune and fail'd. Try'd
again
and fell
into the tune of 119th Psalm,
so Capt. Williams
read the
whole first part, that he might have Psalm to the
Tune. Partial Rainbow in the evening.
July, 6.
Major Genl Winthrop comes to Town being
sent for by
Express by reason of Madam Winthrop's
Sickness.
July, 12.
Comes to Church p. m., puts up a large
Note, and
Mr. Pemberton prays accordingly. Was not
at
Church in
the Forenoon, when my Son preached.
July, 28.
At the Superior Court at Cambridge, the
Chief
Justice, and the four other Justices were present;
made a full
Court. Mr. Brattle pray'd. I gave the Pres-
ident and
him the reading of Mr. Sewell's Answer to the Bp.
Salisbury's
new preface; 1 which Answer is very sharp.
Gave each of
them Maroll's2 Martyrdom, Marbled.
Con-
cluded the
Court that day, went and came in the Chief
J.'s
Coach: Col. Thomas accompanied on
Horseback.
Call'd at
the Governour's and my Son's going; and at the
1 The then Bishop of Salisbury was Gilbert
Burnet. The "new preface"
seems to be
that to the Third Part of his History of the Reformation. The
answer was
by William Sewel, the historian of the Quakers.
Possibly this
Sewel ,vas
one of the family connections mentioned by the journalist on his
trip to
England. -- EDS.
2 Louis de Marolles, a persecuted
Huguenot. The history of his suffer-
ings
(translated from the French) appeared in 1712.
It was republished by
Dr.
Priestley, and may be found among the tracts in the collection of his
works. --
EDS.
392 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
Governour's
again coming home, though late at night.
Govr., Mr.
Comissary and others went to Notimy [Menot-
omy, now
Arlington] this day a-fishing.
Augt. 5. Genl Court meets, Makes not a House.
Augt. 6. Govr makes his Speech. In the Afternoon
Majr.
Genl Winthrop is chosen into the Council in the
room of Col.
Hunt, deceased.
Augt.
7. Takes the Oaths, and his place at the
Board,
which I look
at as a great Blessing of GOD. The Depu-
ties will
not vote an Address on the head of the Peace,1
but only to
be finished and Signed, when it is here pro-
claimed.
Augt. 8. Court Rises.
Augt. 12. Wednesday, Mr. Sheriff [Giles] Dyer dies,
after long
Languishing, about 6. M. Church-Bell
rings just
before the
School Bell, so both ring together. I
went to
Dr. Increase
Mather to ask when he would have a Com-
issioners Meeting; He inclin'd to Monday. Dr. Cotton
Mather not
having answer'd my Letter nor look'd upon
me on his
Lecture day last Thorsday; I was in a strait
to know what
to do, as to the disposal of my Proposals;
and let none
go.2 Now Dr. Incr. Mather
spake pleasantly
1 Of the treaties which collectively bear
the name of the Peace of Utrecht,
that which
was concluded between France and Great Britain bears date of
March 31,
1713, O. S., and April 11, N. S. -- EDS
2 This was Sewall's book entitled "Proposals
touching the accomplish-
ment of
Prophesies humbly offered by Samuel Sewall, M. A., and sometime
Fellow of
Harvard College, in New England. . . . Massachusetts; Boston,
Printed by
Bartholomew Green, 1713. Pp. 12."
At the end are certain
verses upon
the new century, a part of which we have already printed (ante, .
p.28); but
as Sewall here adds three more stanzas we reprint the whole: --
"Weduesday, January 1, 1701, a little
before Break-a-Day., at Boston of
the
Massachusetts.
"Once more! Our God, vouchsafe to
Shine:
Tame Thou the Rigour of our Clime.
Make haste with thy Impartial Light,
And terminate this long dark Night.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL.
393
to me; of
his own accord thank'd me for my book, said
his Son had
shew'd it him; I was fond of America.
After
I came home
I sent him Two Duz. by Bastian about 2
a-clock. At 3. or 4. p. m. Council was held. Mr. Sturgis
and Thacher
made Justices at Yarmouth, Mr. Hubbard at
Braintrey,
Col. Wm Dudley at Roxbury.
Thorsday, Augt. 20. is apointed for
another special
Council for
Nomination of a Sheriff; and the Capt. Sav-
age, the
Coroner, is directed to officiat in the mean time.
I accompany
Mr. Addington to the Funeral of Col. Win-
throp's
John, 6 months old. After this I went to
Cous.
Dumer's. He not being at home I gave his wife 6 Pro-
posals: She gave her sister Coney one; 1 I
gave her an-
other for
Mr. Coney. Then went to Mr. Pemberton
and
"Let the transplanted English Vine
Spread further still: still call it Thine:
Prune it with Skill: for yield it can
More Fruit to Thee the Husbandman.
"Give the poor Indians Eyes to see
The Light of Life: and set them free;
That they Religion may profess,
Denying all Ungodliness.
"From hard'ned Jews the Vail remove;
Let them their Martyr'd Jesus love;
And Homage unto Him afford,
Because He is their Rightfull Lord.
"So false Religions shall decay,
And Darkness fly before bright Day;
So Men shall God in Christ adore;
And worship Idols vain, no more.
"SO Asia and Africa,
Europa with America:
All Four, in Consort join'd, shall Sing
New Songs of Praise to Christ our
King." -- EDS.
1 Jeremiah Dummer married Hannah Atwater,
and her sister Mary
(widow of
John Clark) married John Coney, of Boston. -- EDS.
394 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
give him
four; prayed his favourable Acceptance; He
might have
as many more as he pleas'd. Copia
errandi.
Mr.
Pemberton spake of some Genl Meeting to morrow
night in
order to call a Church Meeting referring to
Joseph's
ordination, said I need not expect any other
Notice: I said I needed not.
Augt. 13. Mr. Colman preaches from PS. 132. 8., his
2d
Sermon: Shew'd that a due worshiping of
God was a
people's
Strength and Safety. Spake much of the
Sab-
bath. Bewail'd that the Word of GOD was not
publickly
honoured by
being Read to the Assemblies on the Lords
Day.l A little after 7. Met at Mr. Pemberton's,
Winthrop,
Sewall,
Sergeant, Bromfield, Stoddard, Sim. Hill, Williams,
Checkley,
Mr. N athanl Williams, Schoolmaster, Major
Fitch, Mr.
S. Phillips, Mr. Borland, Mr. Danl. Oliver, Capt.
Winlow, Mr.
Campbell. Conferred about the Ordination
in order to
have the Churches' Aprobation.
Propounded
Wednesday,
the Sixteenth of September, That Mr. Pem-
berton
should give the Charge, as Mr. Willard gave him.
Twas debated
whether Joseph should preach, or some
other. Some thought it was better for some other to
tell
Joseph and
the people their Duty: Others said, His
Duty
would be
told him by the Charge. Finally, twas
left to
the Church
Meeting which is to be next Tuesday at 10.
m. in the
Meetinghouse. One Bell to be Rung. Churches
to be sent
to, Old, North, Colman, Cambridge, Charles-
town,
Roxbury, Dorchester, Milton, Weymouth.
Augt. 14.
Am invited to be a Bearer to the Sheriff.
enquired of
Mr. Secretary, who was a Bearer, whether
there was a
Sermon, he told me yes, Mr. Harris was to
1 It will be remembered that one of the
distinctive principles on which
Mr. Colman's
church in Brattle Street was founded was that the Scriptures
should be
read at each service. This was not the
usage in the other churches,
in which the
Scriptures were read only in connection with comments. --
EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 395
preach; 1
and seem'd to make no doubt of [my] going to
hear him: I
now begun to be distress'd: Jno
Roberts told
me the
Governour excus'd himself from being a Bearer
because of
his inability to go. In the evening, I
sent one
to callout
Jno Roberts, and told him it so fell out, I could
not be a
Bearer; and bid him drop such a word that I
had rather
wear a pair of Gloves for his sake.
Augt. 14. Joseph and Jn° Gerrish bring home Hanah
and
Judith. Are both well. Laus Deo.
Augt. 15. I have a pair of
Gloves sent me. Bearers
are Sir
Charles Hobby, Col. Hutchinson; Mr. Secretary,
Mr. Edward
Lyde; Mr. Robt Howard, Mr. Thomas New-
ton. Col. Hutchinson was put in stead of the Govr,
and
Mr. Lyde in
stead of me. Govr went in his
Coach. Lt.
Govr
and Major Genl Winthrop follow'd the Relations;
Mr. Cooke
and I next. All seem'd to be, for going
to
hear the
Sermon, except the Major Genl and I.
Went in
to Col.
Townsend's; when had drunk, the Majr Genl and
I went
away. I call'd at the Majr
Genl, and read the
order for
holding a Special Court. Then went and
visited
Capt.
Belchar, sick of a Fever.
Lord's Day, Augt. 16. In the Afternoon, after Sermon
and Prayer
and Contribution, Mr. Pemberton Warn'd a
Church-meeting
next Friday, at Ten in the morning at
the
Meetinghouse, One Bell to be rung. To
agree about
Mr. Sewall's
Ordination, the Time and Circumstances
of it.
Augt. 17. Went to the Funeral of Mr. Elisha Cook's
little
Daughter, near a year and half old. In
the fore-
noon, the
Chief Justice, Mr. Lynde, Sewall apointed Wed-
nesday Augt.
26. for the Trial of David Wallis, comitted
for Murther,
Mr. Cook, our Clerk, and the Attorney Gen1
were with
us.
1 Giles Dyer was a warden of King's
Chapel, and the funeral sermon was
by Rev.
Henry Harris, of that church. Hence
Sewall's desire to avoid
attendance
thereon. -- EDS.
396 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
Tuesday, Augt. 18. 1713. Mr. Hirst, his wife, daugh-
ters Mary
and Hanah, went to Salem; I tooke leave of
them at the
Salutation.l
Augt. 19. The president visited me, and discours'd
about
Mogungug Lands; 2 I gave him Six Proposals. He
says Mr.
Flint Studies the Revelation. When I got
home
from Mr.
Tilly's Meeting, I found B. Larnell there: Mr.
Rawson sent
him with a very pathetical Letter, sent his
son John
with him. Mrs. Elisa. and Lydia Walley
were
here to see
my wife, intending to journey towards Bristol
next day.
Augt. 26. A Special Court of Assize is held at Boston
by all the
Justices, and Dr. Cotton Mather pray'd at open-
ing the
Court. Grand-jury brought in Billa
vera against
David Wallis
in the Morning, he was arraign'd and re-
manded to
prison till after Dinner; and then Tried; Capt.
Thomas
Gilbert foreman of the Jury; as Mr. Joshua Gee
was of the
Grand-Jury. They brought David Wallis in
Guilty. Being ask'd what he had to say, He Beg'd a
little
Time. The Chief Justice pronounced the
Sen-
tence.
Septr. 5. Mr. Justice Corwin, Lynde, Sewall set out for
Bristol. The two former lodge at Frenches, I at
Dagget's.
In the
morning I ride to Attleborough Meeting and hear
Mr. Shortt,
who preaches well. I dine, and lodge at
his
house.
7r. 7th. I ride with Hasting to Rehoboth; from thence
with Corwin
and Lynde, to Carpenter's at Swansey.
Dine
there. Was met at the Gate by the Sheriff, Col.
Pain,
Mr.
Mackintosh, Capt. Davis, and others.
1 This tavern was on the corner of
North Street and Salutation Alley.
The sign,
usually representing two friends accosting each other, is common
in England,
and has been traced back to some Biblical scene as the original.
-- EDS.
2 Undoubtedly in Hopkinton, formerly
called Quansigomog. A hill there
was named
Megonko. See post, p. 416. -- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 397
7r. 8.
Mr. Sparhawk prays Excellently at opening the
Court.
7r. 11th. Mr. Mackintosh has us in his Coach to his
house to
Super: had a splendid Treat. Adjourn'd till
morn.
7r 12. Capt. Churches Review goes against him. Ad-
journed
since die. Breakfast at Mr.
Newgate's. We set
out for
Rehoboth about Noon. Mr. Mackintosh,
Sheriff,
Mr. Pain;
son and one or two more accompanied us part
of the
way. Baited late at Rehoboth. Twas dark before
we got to
Dagget's.
7r. 13th. Rode to Wrentham, and there kept the Sab-
bath. Mr. Man Preach'd upon the Subject of the high
Wind, from
Ps. 107. 25. For he comandeth, and
raiseth
the Stormy
Wind. To stir us up wisely to observe
and
improve this
providence of God. PS. 28. 5. Dine at
Mr. Man's.
7r. 14th. went home; had Mr. Belchar's company at
Fisher's. Got home about 5. p. m. found all well, Laus
Deo.
Just about Sun-set Mr. Secretary brings me
the Govrs
Letter about
David Wallis, Chief Justice being sick.
7r. 15.
Cloudy, raw Wether, so that I fear'd a sore
N. E. Storm
next day: but it Rain'd great part of the
Night, and
clear'd in the morning, and was a very com-
fortable
day. 7r. 16th. for the Ordination. Began a little
after Ten m.
Dr. Cotton Mather begun with Prayer,
Excellently,
concluded
about the Bell ringing for Eleven. My
son
preached
from 1 Cor. 3. 7. So then neither is he
that
planteth any
thing, nor he that Watereth; but God that
gives the
Increase. Was a very great Assembly;
were
Elders and
Messengers from 9 Churches viz. North, Old
[First],
Colman, Cambridge, Charlestown, Roxbury, Dor-
chester,
Milton, Weymouth. Twelve Ministers sat
at
the Table by
the Pulpit. Mr. Pemberton made an
398 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
August
Speech, Shewing the Validity and Antiquity of
New English
Ordinations. Then having made his way,
went on,
ask'd as Customary, if any had to say against
the
ordaining the person. Took the Churches
Handy
vote; Church
sat in the Gallery. Then declar'd the
Elders and
Messengers had desired the Ministers of Bos-
ton to lay
on Hands, (Mr. Bridge was indispos'd and not
there
). Dr. Increase Mather, Dr. Cotton
Mather, Mr.
Benjamin
Wadsworth, Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton and Mr.
Benjamin
Colman laid on Hands. Then Mr. Pemberton
Pray'd,
Ordain'd, and gave the Charge Excellently.
Then
Dr. Increase
Mather made a notable Speech, gave the
Right Hand
of Fellowship; and pray'd. Mr. Pemberton
directed the
three and Twentieth Psalm to be sung.
The
person now
Ordain'd dismiss'd the Congregation with
Blessing. The chief Entertainment was at Mr. Pember-
ton's; but
was considerable elsewhere. Two Tables
at
our House,
whereat were Mr. Gerrish of Wenham, Mr.
Green, Mr.
Graves, Mr. Holyoke, Mr. Robie, &c. &c. At
night Mr.
Pemberton was taken very ill with his old dis-
temper, that
could not sit down, took little or no[thing].
On the
Sabbath 7r 20. Mr. Rowland
Cotton preaches for
Mr.
Pemberton, and will preach in the Fore-noon, that may
preach at
the North p. m. Felix trembled
&c. J. S.
preach'd p.
m. from Jno 1. 29. Behold the
Lamb of God
which taketh
away the Sin of the world. Spake well to
the
Condemned prisoner, who was in the Assembly.
Bap-
tiseth
Thomas Robinson,1 great Grand-son of Mr. John
Woodbridge
by his daughter, Martha Ruggles; this was
the First;
baptis'd also Deborah Simson, and John Merri-
wether.
1 Rev. John Woodbridge, according to
Savage, bred at Oxford, came
here in
1634, and died in 1695. His daughter
Martha married Samuel Rug-
gles, July
8, 1680, and her daughter Patience married James Robinson,
July 3,
1711. These were the parents, we
presume, of the child here men-
tioned. Mrs. Ruggles lived until 1738. -- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 399
Tuesday, 7r. 22. I go to Roxbury, wait on the Govr
with the
Letter of Mr. Justice Corwin, and Lynde.
Govr
tells me a
sad story of Sam, as if he were disguis'd with
Drink in the
Salt-Marsh; His wife comes in with little
Hanah: I sit a little while, and go away to
Brooklin, find
Sam very
hard at Work mowing up Stalks.
7r. 23. Sam. comes to our house, goes home late after
the Rain
that Tom might come to the Execution as tis
promised
him.
7r. 24. Very vast Assembly. Mr. Colman preaches
excellently,
PS. 51. Deliver me from
Blood-guiltiness.
Condemned
Wallis present. In the Fore Seat were
only
Sewall,
Sergeant, Lynde of Charlestown. Mr.
Peter Thacher
of
Milton. Mr. Mix and White of Glocester
dine with us.
About 3 or 4. p. m. Wallis is executed to general Satis-
faction. Training warn'd.
7r. 25. A great number of Guns fired on account of
Mr. Jno
Geffries marrying Mr. Clark's daughter.1 p. m. I
walk a-foot
to Roxbury and talk largly with Mr. Walter
about Sam.
Lord's Day, 7r. 27. a. m. Mr. Pemberton still kept in
by Sickness,
his Collegue preaches from Philip. 2. 8.
Be-
ing found in
fashion as a Man, he humbled himself to
death, even
the death of the cross. Administred the
Lords Supper
to good Satisfaction. Mr. Bromfield and
Mr. Sergeant
congratulated me upon it: p. m. Mr. Flynt
preaches. Thomas Hatch baptised.
1 John Jeffries, son of the emigrant
David Jeffries, married Anne,
daughter of
Thomas Clarke, by his second wife. Her
half-sister, Jane
Clarke,
married Rev. Benjamin Colman. Mr. Clarke
was very wealthy, and
Mr.
Jeffries, by Inheritance and otherwise, acquired a large estate. He was
town
treasurer for many years, and lived on Tremont Street, where the
Albion is;
being, of course, a near neighbor of Sewall.
He had an only
daughter,
who died young, and his heir was his nephew, David Jeffries, in
whose line
the name is perpetuated. A few years
ago, a number of papers
belonging to
this John Jeffries were discovered in the ceiling of a room in
Faneuil Hall. -- EDS.
400 DIARY OF
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Octobr. 1. Fifth-day, Dr. C. Mather preaches Mrs. Rock's
Funeral
Sermon, from PS. 25. 13. His Soul shall
dwell at
ease.1 Sam was here, I invited him to come to us on
the
Lords Day;
The Lords Super being administred at both
churches in
Roxbury, and he under disadvantages to par-
take.
Octobr. 4. Mr. Jno
Barnard2 preaches a Sermon too
much
savoring of Arminianisme. p. m. Son preaches
from ps. 37.
37. on occasion of Mrs. Rock's death.
Sam-
uel Eliot,
son of Andrew Eliot, Baptis'd. Sam. here
all
day. Sup'd here. went home about 7.
Second-day, 8r. 5th. I goe to Brooklin, meet my daugh-
ter Sewall
going to Roxbury with Hanah, to dine with
her Bror
Winthrop. Sam. and I dined alone. Daughter
return'd
before I came away. I propounded to her
that
Mr. Walter
might be desired to come to them and pray
with
them. She seem'd not to like the motion,
said she
knew not wherefore
she should be call'd before a Minister!
I urg'd him
as the fittest moderator; the Govr or I might I
be thought
partial. She pleaded her performance of
Duty, and
how much she had born. Mr. Hirst came in
and smok'd a
pipe and we came away together. I gave
Sarah a
Shilling. Hallah ditto and cake, the
sick Indian
Boy a cake,
Tom. a Shilling.
Got home a little before 7.; visited Mr.
Sergeant con-
fin'd to his
house: was not abroad on the Lords Day.
8r. 6. Sam. comes to Town on
account of his Sick Boy.
1 This sermon was printed. In S: Mather's list it is called "An
Essay
upon a Soul
at ease; a funeral sermon for Mrs, Mary Rock." -- EDs.
2
This eminent man, one of the first of the New England clergy who re-
laxed the
rigidness of its Calvinism, was born in Boston, in 1681, For a
while he
assisted Dr. Colman, in Brattle Street, was chaplain and historian
of the
expedition to Port Royal, in 1701 went to London, where he received
much
respect, and declined, as a non-conformist, a chaplaincy offered him
by Lord
Wharton, returned home, was ordained Minister of Marblehead in
1716, and
died in 1770, seventy years after he had graduated at Harvard. --
EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 401
8r. 8th. Din'd with the Court which sits the longest
of
any; had
147. Actions, 98. New. Jury not dismiss'd till
Satterday
8r. 10th. near Sun-set.
Octobr. 12. Col., Townsend and I prepare to set out in
our Journey
to the Vinyard. But my Horse is taken
out
of the
Stable and gon; and cant be recover'd: and the
day
doubtfull. While were thus Bustleing,
Capt. Wade's
Guns were
heard, in whom comes Col. Nicholson: and are
by Maxwell
warn'd to Council. I call to see sick
Mr.
Sergeant by
the way. While there it Rain'd very
hard;
was held
there by it awhile. Then proceeded, and
with
Col.
Townsend, Stoddard, Capt. Moodey went to the Gov-
ernour, who
was waiting upon the New wharf, and waited
hours in a
Warehouse. At last Col. Nicholson came
ashor;
Cheers, Guns from Capt. Wade, Capt. Brown,
Ships,
North, South Battery. Capt. Clark's Guns
spake
very
audibly, and the wind favour'd their Report.
Went to the Town-House; From thence to
Homes's, to
Diner. None with him that I see but Mr. Net-maker,
who
is his
Secretary. At my motion Mr. Colman was
sent for,
and crav'd a
Blessing. Mr. Myles came in, and the Govr
desired him
to return Thanks. Col. Nicholson said to
me, He was
glad that I held out so well.
Octobr. 13. 1713. Feria tertia. Last night was very
Tempestuous,
with Lightening, Thunder, Rain. Morning
Cloudy: A Council was warn'd, which made us too late
to
Charlestown. Mr. Stevens ordained. Mr. Stephens was
in his
Sermon -- from Dan1 12. 3.
The Seats were so I
fill'd that
I went into Col. Phillips Pile, and Mr. Secretary
follow'd,
where had good Hearing and View. Mr.
Brad-
street
Pray'd; and declar'd that Dr. Increase Mather was
desired to
Ordain, and be Moderator in the Affair, which
he
perform'd. He, Dr. Cotton Mather, Mr. Bradstreet,
Mr. Brattle,
Mr. Barnard of Andover laid on Hands.
Dr.
Incr. Mather
pray'd, Ordain'd, Charg'd, pray'd; Declar'd
Mr. Stephens
to be a Minister of Christ and a pastor of
402 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
the Church
in that place. Dr. Cotton Mather made an
August
Speech, shewing that the Congregational Churches
early
declar'd against Independeney, that all the Reform-
ation of the
Continent of Europe ordain'd as New England
did; shew'd
that their Ordination had no other Foundation.
Declar'd
what was expected of the Ordained person, what
of the
church, and then gave the Right Hand of Fellow-
ship. 3 last Staves of the 32d PS.
sung. Capt. Phips set
the Tune,
and read it. Col. Hutchinson and
Townsend
sat in the
Pue next Col. Phillips. Capt. Belchar,
and Mr.
Bromfield in
the Deacon's Seat. Govr came
over after-
ward, He and
Genl Nicholson went into the Fore-Seat,
Govr
Taylor into the Fore-Seat.
Wednesday, Octobr. 14th.
Genl Court meets About
4. p.
m. Govr sends for the
Deputies in, makes his
Speech.
Thorsday, 8r. 15th. About 9. m. a portentous Birth at
the
North-end in Prince street. Mr Bridge
preaches, 112.
PS. To the Upright Light ariseth out of Darkness.
Pray'd for
Col. Nicholson, who sat in Mr. Addington's
Pue. Govr not at Meeting. p. m.
Govr propounds
me, Col. Jno
Apleton, and Col. Higginson to join with
Capt.
Hutchinson, Capt. Oliver and Mr. Mather, a Com-
ittee to
consider of Grain, to prevent its Exportation.
I
shew'd it
the Govr when he came in, who aprov'd.
The Deputies made a Motion to
Congratulate Genl
Nicholson's
safe Arrival. Govr Nominated
Mr. Adding-
ton, Mr.
Eliakim Hutchinson, Col. Higginson, Capt. Bel-
cher To
Congratulate, and to say they were ready to re-
ceive Her
Majesties Comands, and to do their Duty so soon
as they knew
them.
But the Deputies drew up another, leaving
all out but
Congratulations. Their Names were, Mr. Clark: Daven-
port, Gill,
Porter. I observ'd Two Leather Chairs
were
set at the
end of the Council Table, and the Elbow Chair
set
aside: But when Genl
Nicholson staid not to sit down
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 403
they were
remov'd, and the Governour's Arm'd Chair
took place
again.
Octobr. 16. 1713. I went to see the portentous Birth;
it seems to
be two fine Girls to whom an unhapy Union
has been
fatal. The Heads and Necks, as low as a
Line
drawn from
the Arm-pits, are distinct. A little
below the
Navel,
downward again distinct, with distinct Arms and
Legs; Four
of each. I measured across the perfect
Union
about the
Hips and found it to hold about eight Inches.
Oh the
Mercies of my Birth, and of the Birth of Mine!
Laus Deo!
Dr. Cotton Mather introduc'd me and Mr.
John
Winthrop to this rare and awfull Sight.1
Octobr. 19. Mr. Winslow of Marshfield comes to Town;
Set out so
long before Sun-rise that he was here about 3.
p. m. and in
the Council-Chamber, in his own Hair.
Octobr. 20. He appeal's with a Flaxen Wigg, I was
griev'd to
see it, he had so comly a head of black Hair.
Octobr. 21. Now about two Leather Chairs are set at
the end of
the Council Table, and Genl Nicholson sits at
the
Governour's Right Hand. Govr speaks of
sending
Mr. Williams
and Mr. Stoddard to Canada.2
Octobr. 22. I go to Salem, visit Mrs. Epes, Col.
Hathorne.
See Mr.
Noyes marry Mr. Aaron Porter and Mrs. Susan
Sewall, at
my Brother's. Was a pretty deal of
Company
present; Mr.
Hirst and wife, Mr. Blower, Mr. Prescot,
Mr. Tuft Senr.
and junr, Madam Leverett, Foxcroft, Goff,
Kitchen; Mr.
Samuel Porter, Father of the Bridegroom,
I should
have said before. Many young Gentlemen
and
Gentlewomen. Mr. Noyes made a Speech, said Love was
the Sugar to
sweeten every Condition in the married Re-
lation. Pray'd once.
Did all very well. After the
Sack-
1 A more prosaic generation has in these
days, this year, exhibited for
money, a.
few rods from Sewall's door, a. similar combination, under the
name of the
"Double-headed Nightingale, Millie." -- EDS.
2 About negotiating the redemption of
prisoners. -- EDS.
404 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
Posset,l
&c. Sung the 45th. Psalm from the 8th verse to
the end,
five staves. I set it to Windsor
Tune. I had a
very good
Turky-Leather Psalm-Book which I look'd in
while Mr.
Noyes Read: and then I gave it to the Bride-
groom
saying, "I give you this Psalm-Book in order to
your
perpetuating this Song: and I would have you pray
that it may
be an Introduction to our Singing with the
Choir above." I lodg'd at Mr. Hirst's.
Octobr 23. I set out for Boston a little before noon,
If Cousin
Henry accompanys me to Lewis's; gave him half
a
crown. Mr. Leverett and Pemberton at the
head of
Schoolstreet. Mr. Pemberton welcom'd me from the
Wedding. Mr. President enquired after his wife. Got
home a
¼ of hour before Sun-set. Being weary with
Journy, I
went not to the Meeting at Madam Willard's,
where my Son
preached. Meeting was Thin.
Octobr. 24. I go to Council. I help'd Mr. Secretary
to compare
the Bill for Medway, the new Town on the
West of
Charles River.
Octobr. 25. In the Night after 12. Susan comes, and
knocks at
our chamber door, said she could not sleep, was
afraid she
should dye. Which amaz'd my wife and me.
We let her
in, blew up the Fire, wrapt her warm, and
went to bed
again. She sat there till near day, and
then
I return'd;
and was well in the morning. Laus Deo.
was the more
startled because I had spilt a whole Vin-
yard Can of
water just before we went to Bed: and made
that
Reflection that our Lives would shortly be spilt.
Octobr. 26. I visit Dr. Increase Mather, who is sick
upon his
Bed, has not been abroad since Mr. Stephens's
Ordination. Tells me he hears Col. Banks is like to be
our Governour.2
1 "Sack-Posset" appears not to
have been a beverage to be drank from
a glass, but
a compound of milk, spirit, and other ingredients, partaken of
with a
spoon. -- EDS.
2 We are unable to identify this Colonel
Banks. There was, at the time,
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 405
Octobr. 27. Have a Meeting of the Comissioners in the
Evening at
the Council Chamber. This day Joseph
Homes,
father of
Capt. Nathl. Homes, is buried with a very thin
Funeral.
Octobr. 28. Privat Meeting at Bror Thornton's
joining
to the
Draw-Bridge that was. I think have not
Met at
his House
since the Fire till now.
Octobr. 29. Ipswich Hamlet petitions the Genl
Court to
give them
the Powers of a Precinct. Dr. Cotton
Mather
preaches. Genl Nicholson not at Meeting;
Judg of Ad-
miralty at
New-found-Land sits in Mr. Addington's Pue.
In the
Evening Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton marries my Son
Joseph
Sewall, and Mrs.l Elizabeth Walley.
Wait
Winthrop
esqr., and Lady, Samuel Porter esqr., Edmund
Quinsey
esqr., Ephraim Savage, esqr. and wife, Madam
Usher, Mr.
Mico and wife, Jer. Dumer esqr., Cousin Sam.
Storke,
Cous. Carter, and many more present.
Sung
out of the
115th. Ps. 2 ½ staves from the 11th to the end.
W. which I
set. Each had a piece of Cake, and Sack-
Posset. Mr. Pemberton craved a Blessing and Return'd
Thanks at
eating the Sack-Posset. Came away
between
9 and
10. Daughter Sewall came in the Coach
with my
Wife, who
invited her to come in and lodge here with
her Husband;
but she refus'd, and said she had promis'd
to go to her
Sister Wainwright's, and did so.
Friday 8r. 30. Sam. and his Wife dine here, go home
together in
the Calash. William Ilsly rode and
pass'd by
them. My son warn'd him not to lodge at his house;
Daughter
said she had as much to doe with the house as
a family of
the name settled at Revesby Abbey, co.
Lincoln, the head of
which was
Joseph Banks, M. P. for Grimsby. His
great-grandson and rep-
resentative
was Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., the distinguished president of the
Royal
Society. -- EDS,
1 It hardly needs to be mentioned that
the appellation of "Mrs."
"Mistress."
was, by courtesy, attached to, the names of maidens of high
social
station, as well as to those of married women. -- EDS.
406 DIARY OF
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he. Ilsly lodg'd there.1 Sam. grew so ill on Satterday,
that instead
of going to Roxbury he was fain between
Meetings to
take his Horse, and come hither; to the sur-
prise of his
Mother, who was at home. Lord save him
and
us! Mr. Jn° Williams preached for my son in the
morn,
and went at
Noon to preach for Mr. Walter. About
9. on
Satterday night, Mr. Bridge was taken with another
paralytick
Fit, was in danger of falling into the fire.
Joseph and his Bride satin Mr. Walley's
Pue.
Novr. 2. Sam. is somthing better, yet full of pain; He
told me with
Tears that these sorrows (arising from dis-
cord between
him and his wife) would bring him to his
Grave. I said he must endeavour to be able to say, 0
Death, where
is thy sting? 0 Grave, where is thy vic-
tory? He is refresh'd by discoursing with Simon
Gates
of
Marlborough, and Amos Gates. They tell
us that Mr.
Saml.
Sparhawk is litre to dye at Cambridge. I
visit the
Bride-Groom
and Bride, and Mr. Bridge.
Novr. 5. I first see Col. Tho. Noyes in a swash Flaxen
Wigg; At
Dinner I told him, in going home he must keep
Ipswich Rode
and not goe to Salem; his cousin would
take him to
doe.
Novr. 6. The Council invite Col. Nicholson to diner at
Mr.
Davenport's, house ½ Mile from the Town
House; so
the
Super-Court kept their Diner at the Exchange Tavern.
Novr. 8. Mr. Flint preaches for my son.
Novr. 9. I set out for Salem with David about 10. m.
Had a very
good passage to Winnisimet; Got to Salem
near an hour
before Sunset; At the parting of the
ways
Mr. Attorny
fell in with me.
Novr. 10. Finish'd the Business of the Court by Candle-
light;
visited Major Brown, Bror Hirst.
1 We seem to get a hint here that
jealousy had something to do with the
junior
Sewall's domestic troubles. The Isleys
were a Newbury family,
the emigrant
being a William. We have no means of
identifying the one
named in the
text. -- EDS.
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 407
Novr 11. Came home, Visited Cousin Porter
sick of
the
Measles. Got home about 4 p. m. Went to the Fun-
eral of Mrs.
Mather,1 who died last Monday; Bearers,
Col.
Hutchinson, Mr. Em Hutchinson; Mr. Dallie,2 Wads-
worth;
Pemberton, Colman. Visited Hanah Parkman.
Novr. 12. Mr. Pemberton
preaches Forenoon and After-
noon.
Between Meetings, Mr. Bromfield and I go to
Genl
Nicholson, and desire him to forbear the intended
Bonfire: He Treats us very Civilly, and sends for Col.
Redknap, who
he said was the Engineer, and agreed to
it; we took
leave with Thanks. When I came home
from Salem
found Mr. Mayhew here, come from New-
London. Goes to Roxbury to keep Thanksgiving for fear
of the
Measles. Govr sends his Coach
for his sons Dudley,
and
Wainwright to Dine with him. Sam went to Meeting.
Novr 15. Sam. goes to Meeting, Mr. Mayhew also goes.
Tuesday, 9r. 17. Sam. rides home though the wether
were bad.
9r. 19th. Mr.Mayhew goes homeward before Lecture.
Mr.
Wadsworth preaches. Elder Cop pray'd for
as dan-
gerously
sick. Mr. Addington marries Madam
Wainwright
at Col.
Winthrop's before Mr.Colman.
1This was the second wife of Rev. Cotton
Mather, of whom his son
Samuel writes: "She was one of finished
Piety and Probity, and of an un-
spotted
Reputation; one of good sense, and bless'd with acompleat Discretion
in ordering
an Household; one of singular good-Humour and incomparable;
Sweetness of
Temper; one with a very handsome engaging Countenance;
and one
honourably descended and related. 'Twas
Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbard,
who was the
Daughter of Dr. John Clark. She had been
a Widow four
Years, when
Dr. Mather married her, which was Aug. 18, 1703. He re-
joiced in
her as having great spoil, and in finding her found great Favour of
the
Lord. They lived together in perfect
Content and Harmony ten Years:
She died
Nov. 8, 1713, with Willingness: the Fear of Death was extin-
guished in
her: She committed herself into the
Hands of her Saviour, and
in the same
gracious Hands She left her Children.
She was much beloved
and greatly
lamented." -- EDS.
2 It is pleasant to notice that the
minister of the Huguenot congregation
in the town
was in such fraternal relations with the other pastors as to be
asked to
this service. -- EDS.
408 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
9r. 20 p. m. Elder Cop dies. Meeting at Mr. Pember-
ton's.
9r. 21. Very Cold;
Sam. comes to Town on foot. Capt.
Arthur
Savage arrives, 5 weeks passage.
Novr. 22. Very Cold Wether; Sam. partakes at the
Lord's
super.
Novr. 23. I visit Mr. Addington and his Bride at Col.
Winthrop's.
Novr. 24.
Went to the Funeral of Elder David Cop,
aged 79
years; was buried in the North.l
Bearers, Mr.
1 It would be inexcusable to pass over
the name of Copp without a note.
Copp's Hill
is a part of the history of the town; and, though we cannot enter
upon full
details, the following facts may be of use:
The emigrant was Wil-
liam Copp,
whose wife is called Goodith by Drake (Hist. p. 549), and Judith
by
Savage. His will (Suff. Wills, Vol.
VIII. f. 32), dated 1662, proved 1670,
mentions
sons David and Jonathan, daughters Lydia and Ruth, and
daughter
Tewksbury. Undoubtedly a daughter Joanna
married Samuel
Norden; Ann
married Herman Atwood, and Martha married, first, William
Harvey, and
secondly, Henry Tewksbury.
Of these Jonathan left issue probably; and
David certainly, by wife,
Obedience
Topliff, had four sons, David, Jr., and Samuel, of Boston, and
Jonathan, of
Stonington, and John, of Norwalk, who divided his estate,
March 29,
1714. (Suff. Deeds, Vol. XXIX. f. 118.)
William Copp had, originally, as appears
by the Book of Possessions,
"one
house and lot of half an acre in the mill field, bounded with Thomas
Buttolph
south-east, John Button north-east, the marsh on the south-west,
and the
river on the north-west."
May 1, 1706 (Suff. Deeds, Vol. XXII. f.
531), certain depositions were
made by
David Copp, David Copp, Jr., and David Farnum, to the effect that
about 1614
or 1615, Jacob Willett, merchant, of London, took into his hands
all the
estate of Mr. Thomas Broughton, except & part of a house and gar-
den actually
occupied by said Thomas Broughton. When
Willet went away,
he left
these affairs in the hands of said David Copp,
Sen.; and this estate
"is now
and has been for some years in the use and possession of Joshua
Gee,
shjpwright."
June 13, 1689 (Suff. Deeds, Vol. XXII. f.
1), Joseph Osborn, of East
Hampton,
Long Island, and wife, Elizabeth, sold to David Copp land at the
north end of
Boston, bounded north-east on the street from the North
Meeting-house
towards Centre Haven, 103 feet; north-west, on the old high-
way, next
the Mill-Pond, 150 feet; south-west, by Osborn, 27 feet; south-
east, by
Osborn, 101 feet. This land David Copp
gave, Aug. 31, 1704
(Suff.
Deeds, Vol. XXII. f. 2), to his grandchildren, William and Anne
Cobb
children of son William, deceased, mariner; he gives the same
1713.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 409
Thomas
Oakes, Mr. Thornton; Capt. Atwood, Mr. Maryon;
Deacon Tay,
Deacon Hubbart. Follow'd the Mourners,
Mr. Cook,
Hutchinson; Sewall, Col. Lynde; Em Hutch-
inson, Col.
Townsend; Dr. C. Mather, and Mr. Wadsworth
there. A pretty many Men but few Women. Mrs. Boon
and Feno
buried this Afternoon. I could be at
neither of
the
Funerals, because of this.
Tuesday, 9r. 24. Joseph visits us after his sickness of
the Measles;
dines with us. David brings Susan's
Mother
from
Braintrey to tend her.
25th. Henry Farwell of Dunstable talks with me
about
a Meeting at
Woburn of the Non-residents.
Decr. 23. at Noon. Great Rain, I went not to the Meeting.
26.
Dr. Mather preaches. I could not
discern that he
return'd any
Thanks for Joseph's Recovery, though he
knew he was
at Lecture. Return'd Thanks Expressly
for
Mr.
Bridge. Mr. Thacher of Milton, Son of
Brooklin,
and Cousin
Quinsey din'd with us.
27.
I get a Grist of Wheat among the many that were
pressing for
it.1 I think tis this day
that Mr. Edw. Hutch-
inson buries
his only child, a daughter of 1/2 year old:
The
Lord comfort
him and his wife. Very cold day.
28.
Sam. comes to Town from Brooklin, dines with
us, comes to
keep the Sabbath with us. I visit Mr.
Pem-
bertoll. Very cold day. John Gerrish has the Measles
at Mr.
Lowder's.
Decr. 6. Sam. keeps Sabbath with us.
bounds,
except that the Osborn land appears to be ill the hands of Joshua
Gee.
We do not learn when the name of Copp's
Hill first appears in use. It
is on Page's
map, of 1775, and is there applied to the whole elevation, over
which
various streets extend; but forty years later it seems restricted to the
triangle
bounded by Snow-hill, Prince, and Commercial Streets. The deeds
of David
Copp and his sons (Suff. Deeds, Vol. XXIX. ff. 118-121, and
Vol. XXX. f.
170) do not give us sufficient data to establish the oldest
limits. --
EDS.
1 We have already noticed the scarcity of
wheat at this time. (Ante, p.
384.) --
EDS.
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Decr. 6. 1713. Still is Eclipsed just about the begin-
ning of the
Fore noon Exercise; when well enter'd many
Guns are
Fired by Capt. Brown Going down to Nantasket.
Mr. Holyoke
observes the Eclipse in the Town House
Turret. Very clear day. I saw it plain as I came home
at Noon.
xr.
8. Major Fitches son Thomas died
last night, of
a Relapse
after the Measles.
xr. 9.
Nurse Hanah Cowell buried, Bearers, Mr. Odlin,
Tho. Walker;
Deacons Maryon, Hobart; Brother Wheeler,
Foreland. Was a very pious Woman, and a true Lover
of the first
Ways of New-England. Col. Hutchinson,
Sewall, Em
Hutchinson, Townsend, Mr. Wadsworth, Col-
man,
followed after the Mourners.
Thorsday, xr. 10. Mr. Wadsworth preaches in Mr.
Bridges
Turn; PS. 69. 5. Mr. Bridge not
abroad. Mr.
Francis
Burroughs1 buried after Lecture; Bearers, Mr.
Winthrop,
Townsend; Belcher, Bromfield; Checkley, Bal-
lantine. He is Lamented as having been an intelligent
Exemplary
Christian. Buried in Mr. Heath's Tomb,
New
burying
place.
Decr. the Eleventh. Mr. Thomas Fitch his son Thomas
buried: 2
Great Funeral; Bearers, Major Wm Dudley, Capt.
1 This was the merchant from London whom
John Dunton found here,
and who
furnished the necessary security that Dunton should not "be charge-
able to the
town." He married here, as his
second wife, Dec. 29, 1709,
Elizabeth
(Gross), widow of -- Heath. His daughter
Sarah married Cap-
tain John Brown,
of Salem. -- EDS.
2 Thomas Fitch, who died June 23, 1736, vide
"News Letter," was a
very
distinguished citizen. He was Colonel of
the Boston Regiment, Cap-
tain of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Representative and
Councillor for
nearly twenty years. His name is also
closely connected with
Boston
Common. May 21, 1714 (Suff. Deeds, Vol.
XXVIII. f. 107), he
bought, of
George Waldron, land at the south end of the Common or Train-
ing Field,
bounded east by land of Edward Bromfield 300 feet, north by the
Common 261
feet, west by the Common 361 feet, south by Frog Lane 438
feet. June 9, 1757, Andrew Oliver, Jr., and wife,
Mary, sold (Suff. Deeds,
Vol. LXXXIX.
f. 64) to the town land east 320 feet on land of Mrs. Martha
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 411
Josiah
Willard, Mr. Borland. White Scarves and
Rings;
Govr,
Lt Govr, Genl Nicholson, Col. Vetch had
Scarves.
Ministers. I had Gloves sent. Was laid in Mr. Wilson's
Tomb old
Buryjng place.
Allen; south
on Frog Lane 321 feet, north on the Common 189 ½ feet, west
on the
Common, on a bevelling line, 355 feet.
Oliver also bought, May 5, 1755, from Mrs.
Allen (Suff. Deeds, Vol.
LXXXVII. f.
21) her lot, bounded east, on the highway, 324 feet; north,
on the Common,
324 feet, 5 inches; west, 302 feet, 3 inches; south, 281
feet, 9
inches. This Fitch's heirs must have
bought all the land on the
north side
of Boylston Street. As we have seen,
Oliver sold the burying
ground lot
to the town, and the remainder he sold to William Foster,
March 25,
1780; and Foster, Oct. 6,1787 (Suff. Deeds, Vol. CLXII. f. 125),
sold it to
the town.
As to Thomas Fitch's pedigree, we find,
by his will (proved June 30,
1736, Wills,
Vol. XXXII, f. 459) that he left a daughter, Martha Allen, and
grandson,
Andrew Oliver, alias Thomas Fitch Oliver; daughter-in-law,
Martha
Fitch; wife, Abiel; sister, Sarah Warren; nephew, Jabez Hunt;
nieces,
Priscilla and Mary Hunt, and Sarah Watts.
These Hunts were the
children of
Thomas and Mary Hunt; Thomas Warren married Sarah Fitch,
Dec. 14,
1694.
Hence we conclude that he was the son of
Thomas and Martha (Fiske)
Fitch, of
Boston, who had Martha, born Nov. 9, 1650; Mary, Feb. 17,1658;
Sarah, June
14, 1661; Elizabeth, Aug. 2, 1664; and Thomas, Feb. 5,
1668-6.9. Administration was granted to Martha, widow
of Thomas Fitch,
Aug. 21,
1678. He left considerable property, his
house being valued at
£250.
Colonel Thomas Fitch married Abiel,
daughter of Rev. Samuel Danforth,
of Roxbury
(Suff. Deeds, Vol. XXI. f. 537), and had Mary, born April 21,
1695;
Thomas, Sept. 21, 1697; Samuel, Aug. 31, 1703; Martha, Sept. 25,
1704; Mary,
Oct. 28, 1706; John, Oct. 19, 1709. The
sons seem all to have
died before
him, administration being granted July 1, 1735, to James Allen
and Andrew
Oliver, on estate of their brother-in-law, John Fitch, merchant.
(Suff.
Wills, Vol. XXXII. f. 197.) Mary Fitch
married, June 20,1728,
Andrew
Oliver, afterwards Lieutenant Governour, and had three children,
of whom only
Andrew lived. This Andrew, Jr., was the
progenitor of the
Salem line,
which took the popular side, and remained here at the Revolu-
tion; the
children of Lieutenant-Governor Oliver, by his second wife (Mary
Sanford,
sister of Mr. Hutchinson), nearly all were refugees. Dr. Fitch
Edward
Oliver has a good portrait of his ancestor, Thomas Fitch.
We have not been able to trace the Fitches
back of Thomas Sen., but it is
very
probable that he was son of Zachary Fitch, of Reading, and brother of
Jeremiah and
Benjamin, both of Boston. They seem not
to be related of
the Norwalk
family, of which one Thomas Fitch was Governor of Connecti-
cut,
1754-1766. -- EDS.
412 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
Decr. 12. Great storm of Snow.
Decr. 13. Mr. Bridge preaches again.
Decr. 14. Several Ministers pray with and for Mr. Ser-
geant; Mr.
Danforth of Dorchester, Mr. Wadsworth, Pem-
berton,
Colman, Sewall. Began between 1 and 2 p.
m.
Candles were
lighted before Mr. Pemberton had ended.
This
Afternoon Mr. Matthew Skinner (A young Mer-
chant of
about 32 years old, Capt. Keeling's partner, Mr.
Em
Hutchinson says has Good Friends in London), was
buried. Died by a Fall from his Horse, Novr.
11th, near
Lyndsey's,
coming from Salem. Was brought to Town
last
Friday. That very day I Travelled from
Salem home
by
Charlestown, and rec'd no Hurt. Laus
Deo!
The widow Gibs's Eldest Son was buried
this day.
Novembr. 17. Thorsday is a Cloudy and very Cold
Day, which
made the Fast-Assemblies the thinner in the
4. Congregations in Boston; yet the Work was
carried
on. Two Sermons.
In the Afternoon £103. was gather'd
at the South
Church, 68. at the old, about 70. at Mr. Col-
man's, £126.
at the North.
Satterday, Novr. 19. A Council is call'd; Sit round the
Fire: Genl
Nicholson blames the observing a Fast without
the order of
Authority; the Queen was Head of the
Church:
seem'd to be Warm. The Lieut Governour
seem'd to
intimat that their Church [King's Chapel], the
members of
it, were Treated as if they were Heathen.
Genl
Nicholson mention'd it as graviminous that the Shops
were shut
up. The Governour said, Twas voluntary;
none was
order d to shut up his Shop. Country-men
brought
wares to Town as on other days; that he himself
came to Town
as supposing the Episcopal Church had
observ'd the
Fast: when he saw they did not, he went to
Mr.
Colman's; I was surpris'd with this uncomfortable
Talk, and
said Nothing! At length a Motion was
made,
I think by Genl
Nicholson, that there might be a Genl
Fast. I was of Opinion there was great need of it,
and
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 413
readily
voted for it. The Govr
pitch'd upon the 14th Jan-
uary.
Decr. 20. The weather is much more moderat: my
Son
administers the Lord's Super.
Decr. 22. Mr. Secretary reads the Order for the Fast,
which is
pass'd in Council, and bears Date this Day.
Decr. 23. Midweek I went to Cambridge in a Calash,
visited Mr.
Brattle, who has been very sick. Gave
him
an Angell
to buy him and Madam Brattle a pair of Gloves.
I din'd
there in his Study.
xr.24.
Dr. C. Mather preach'd of God's Punishing Sin
with
Sickness. After Lecture I went to the
Funeral of
Mrs. Bodin,2
Mr. Jn° Campbell's eldest Daught,
of about
26 years
old: a vertuous Woman.
Decr. 25. Being moderat weather, A great abundance
of
provisions, Hay, wood, brought to Town; and Shops
open as at
other times. In the Afternoon I went to
the
Funeral of
Mr. Francis Clark's daughter Hanah, between
9 and 10
years old, a desirable Child. Were 3.
Funerals
in the
South-burying place together.
Decr. 31. Stormy Weather; the Govr not at
Lecture,
nor
Lieut-Govr. No Council for
Nominating Officers.
Friday, Jany 1. There is a Council. Govr propounds
Officers. --
Goreham, a Sheriff for Barnstable. I
humbly
offer'd my
Advice that there was not a Council to such
1 The angel was a coin whose value,
probably, differed at times. Wor-
cester
pronounces it worth six shillings, eight pence; but Coles, in 1701,
called it
worth ten shillings. -- EDS.
2 This enables us to make certain
Savage's conjecture that Sarah; wife of
James
Bowdoin, was the daughter of John Campbell.
The first of the name
was Pierre
Baudouin (see Andros Tracts, III. 79, 80), a Huguenot refugee.
The oldest
son, James, settled in Boston, and his descendants have been
famous here,
though the name is now extinct in the male legitimate line.
Another son
of the emigrant was John, who went to Virginia, where his de-
scendants
continued the name. As additional proof of this branch, it may
be noted
that in Massachusetts Archives, Vol. LXIII. f. 210, 224, are busi-
ness
letters, &c., from John Bowdoin,
of Williamsburg, Va., dated in 1712,
in which he
refers to his brother, James Bowdoin, of Boston. -- EDS.
414 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713/4.
purposes. Govr said He had adjourn'd the
Council.
answer'd,
The Council did not, meet yesterday, and there-
fore could
not be adjourn'd. However the Govr
went on.
I think were
but just 7. I mention'd Lothrop as a fit
person: but I voted for no body, as knowing there was
no Council
for that purpose.
Tuesday, Jany 5. I go to the Funeral of Capt. Benet's
daughter
Butler;1 is said to be the most desirable of his
daughters,
but about 25 or 6. years old. Cousin
Moodey
strikes in,
and I go in the middle between him and Joseph
S. Mr. Sam1 Moodey of York lodges
here.
Jany 6.
I visit Cous Mrs. Anna Dumer. In
the even-
ing, Mr.
Walter, Cousin Moodey and I had discourse about
my son at
Brooklin, his Circumstances. Yesterday
after
Mrs.
Butler's Funeral, I visited Mr. Pemberton, who has
Sore Eyes.
Fifth-day, Jany 7th, Son J.
Sewall preaches the Lecture,
which is the
first Sermon he has preached in the old
church. 1 Cor. 6. 19. 20. Was invited, and din'd with
the Court at
Holms's. Was a very great Fogg all day.
Rain'd
toward night. Visited Mr. David Stoddard
2 and his
1 The Boston records say that Joanna,
wife of Stephen Butler, died
Jan. 3, 1713
(i. e., 1713-14). When Stephen died a
few years later, admin-
istration
was granted (Suff. Wills, Vol. XIX. f. 145, 175) to John Bennet,
gent., on
the estate of "his son-in-law," Stephen Butler, blacksmith, at the
request of
the widow, Mary Butler. The only
relative mentioned is his
mother,
Tabitha Butler; but we may presume that he was a grandson of
Stephen
Butler, of Boston, who had several sons.
John and Joanna Bennet had Peter, born
June 17,1687; Joanna, Jan. 7,
1688-89; James, Sept. 4, 1694. There were, at least, two Johns, at this
date, in
Boston. One John married Hannah Denison,
June 17, 1703 (per-
haps he had
married Elizabeth Gilman, May 15, 1701), and had Mary, born
June 23,
1707; William, March 19, 1709-10. But
John and Sarah Bennet;
had
Jonathan, born May 14,1701; and John and Ruth had Jonathan, Oct. 16,
1701, and
Mary, July 5, 1704. A John Bennet died
Nov. 17, 1717, but left
no
will. Very possibly these are
grandchildren of Samuel Bennet, of Lynn
and Chelsea.
-- EDS.
2 David Stoddard married Elizabeth
(Richardson), widow of Samuel
Shrimpton,
Jr., and had three daughters. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 415
Bride, who
was married privatly last Wednesday was 14
night, by
Mr. Colman. Visited Mr. Sergeant, who is
very
feeble and
lame of his Right foot and Thigh.
Sixth-day, Jany 8th. Went to the Funeral of Mrs. Mary
Phillips,1
widow, who was born at Sea, is within a few
Moneths of
80: a good Woman. Bearers, Mr. Cooke,
Elisha
Hutchinson; Mr. Addington, Townsend; Mr.
Dumer,
Ephraim Savage.
Seventh-day, Jany 9th. very
great Storm of Wind and
Snow last
night, and today. About 1/2 hour past 8
m. was
considerable
Thunder and Lightening.
Jany 14th. Fast-day, Mr. Sergeant is so weak that he
keeps his
Chamber; where to my surprise I find him at
Noon. Mr. Saml Moodey takes Leave in the
evening, in-
tending to
sup at Mr. Hirst's, and Lodge at Timo Green's
that may be
near the Ferry, and forward the folding and
Stitching
100. of his Sermons now wrought off.
Jany 15th. Goes homeward by Charlestown. Now about
Mr.
Secretary reads a Petition in Council upon the Act for
shortening
the years for Marriage from 7. to 3.2 whereas
1 The will of widow Mary Phillips, dated
July 2, 1709, proved Jan. 30,
1713-14
(Suff. Wills, Vol. XVIII. f. 233), mentions her daughters Mehita-
ble, wife of
Thomas Savage, and Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Sweetser, her
sons Timothy
and Samuel (but Timothy did not live to administer), grand-
sons Henry
Phillips, Eleazer Phillips, and John Phillips, Jr., grand-daughter
Anne Bly,
and all her great-grandchildren who should be alive at her death:
cousin Sarah
Fausdicke. House and land in Pudding Lane
are bequeathed.
These data enable us to identify her as
Mary, daughter of John Dwight,
and third
wife of Henry Phillips, butcher, of Dedham and Boston, who died
in February,
1686. The above items also add
considerably to Savage's note
on this
family. The Dwight Genealogy, I. 97;
states that Mary is called, on
the Dedham
record, "the first child born in Dedham," which conflicts with
Sewall's
statement that she was born at sea. -- EDS.
2 This Act, passed in 1698, "in
addition to and explanation of" an act
of 1694,
reduces, from seven to three years (in the sole case of the supposed
loss of a
vessel bound on a voyage of not more than three months), the term
of absence
of either husband or wife, after which the remaining party may
marry
again. In such case the Governor and
Council are authorized to grant
a
license. Sewall's point seems to have
been that the clause "or shall only
416 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [171 3/4.
the Man
sail'd from hence but November was 12 Moneths
I quasht it,
saying our Laws must not be so sham'd; Sec-
retary said
was more in the Law; viz. or so heard of.
But I said
the 3 years must precede: The Govr and Coun-
cil had
nothing to doe with it. It was
dismiss'd. Lord's
Day, Jany 17.
Mr. Sergeant makes his Will.
Jany 18. Great Snow falls last night. I pay Sir
Charles
Hobby Fifty pounds. He asks to see the
Com-
mission from
the Corporation, I shew'd it him. Then
he
asked to
carry it away to copy it; that I refus'd, saying
it was
comitted to me. He began to huff; but I
per-
sisted.
Jany 14. Tuesday.
There is a Meeting of the Trustees
for Mr.
Edward Hopkins's Legacy,1 upon due Warning.
Present
Joseph Dudley esqr. Wm Tailer esqr. Isaac Ad-
dington
esqr. Wait Winthrop esqr. S. S. Bromfield, Em
Hutchinson,
P. Townsend, S. Stoddard, Dr. Cotton Mather,
Mr. John
Leverett, Jer. Dumer Esqr. Mr. Dan1 Oliver,
Mr. Thomas
Fitch, Mr. John Burhil. A Letter to my
Lord
Chancellour,2 and another to Sir William Ashhurst,
pen'd by the
President, were voted with some Amend-
ments. After this Meeting I consluted with the
Comis-
sioners
about giving Sir, Charles the mentioned Comission;
a copy of
it: None appear'd to allow it save Dr.
C. Mather;
be heard of
under such circumstances as may rather confirm the opinion,
commonly
received, of the whole company's being utterly lost," could not
have the
effect to reduce the period of three years, even if such circumstances
became known
before the end of that time. (Province
Laws, I. 171, 354.) --
EDS.
1 Quincy (Hist. Harvard College, I. 205)
states that, after more than fifty
years from
the death of Edward Hopkins, the college took steps, in 1709, to
claim the
legacy left it. In March, 1712-13, a
decree in Chancery gave it
£800, which
was placed m the hands of trustees. "Then Quincy wrote, the
fund,
despite various accidents, amounted to nearly thirty thousand dollars.
-- EDS.
2 The letter to Lord Chancellor Harcourt
is probably the one printed in
Quincy's
History, I. 521. -- EDS.
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OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 417
many spake
against it; all concluded twas not to be done
without
calling a meeting.
Jany 20. 1713/14. Mr. Sergeant speaks very passionately
against
Capt. Timo Clark and his judgm't for storehouse
Room of 100. Barrels of powder; and against Mr. Dudley
and Novell's
Arbitration concerning his wives portion in
her Bror.
Shrimpton's Hands. Desir'd me to deal
hon-
estly as to
the Stable he had built; he had laid out Sixty
pounds. I have many times ask'd for the Writing I
gave
him, the
Agreement; that I might take a Copy of it:
But it canot
yet be found. When I first went in, he
said
he was just
going; I answer'd, I hope to Canaan.
Meet-
ing, that
has been a Considerable time discontinued by
the sickness
of the Widow Emons, was now held at Mr.
Stevens's
beyond the, Bowling Green.1 I
read the Priestly
and
Prophetical offices of CHRIST out of Mr. Jer. Bur-
roughs,2
which Discourses were very refreshmg to me.
Christ can
teach the heart, teach them that are of Weak
Understandings.
Jany 21. Dr. Cotton Mather preaches; 1 Jno. 5. 16.
Sin no more
-- tells us will finish this time Six weeks.
Govr
not at Meeting. Mr. Secretary Sick
a-bed, was taken
about 9.
last night when had scarce finish'd Essecombewit's
Submission. In Council I spake against the Submission in
my Ld
Bellomont's time, Autumn 1699.
Jany, 22. Mr. Secretary Recovers.
1 Drake says the Bowling Green was, in
1722, the space between Cam-
bridge
Street, the Mill Pond, and Sudbury Street.
That is, the space
bounded by
the present Bowdoin Square, and Court Street line, extending to
Pitts
Street, and extending northerly to the water's edge as it then was. In
the lists of
street in 1708, we find "the way leading from Emmons's corner,
passing by
Justice Lynd's pasture, extending from thence westerly to the sea,
Cambridge
street." -- EDS.
2 Rev. Jeremiah Burroughs, who died in
1646, was an eminent non-con-
formist,
"an excellent scholar, a good expositor, a popular preacher." He
was one of
the small number of "Dissenting Brethren" in the Westminster
Assembly. --
EDS.
VOL. II.
418 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713.
Jany 24. Mr. J. Sewall baptiseth John Butler; the
Grandfather,
Capt. Ephra. Savage, holds it up.
January, 25. I watch'd last night with Mr. Peter Ser-
geant; was
with him from 9. at Night to Seven in the
morning.
He slept a great part of the night: is pretty free from
pain. Takes only Liquids; and them he presently
Vomits
up. Madam Sergeant sat up till past one; and from
thence Nurse
Wheeler and I manag'd the Task.
January 25. 17113/14. Judge Thomas visits me; he came
to Town last
week. I gave him Cousin Moodey's Warn-
ing.
Jany 26. 1713. Rode in Wardell's Slay with the Chief
Justice, Mr.
Justice Lynde, and Mr. Attorney, to the
Ferry;
pleasant comfortable Weather for holding the
Court; Mr.
Bradstreet and Stephens dine with us.
This
day my son,
Mr. Joseph Sewall, Removes into the Church's
House and Lodges
there.
Midweek, Jany 27. As I pass along I call at my Son's,
and wish the
Blessing of Winthrop, Norton, Willard, Pem-
berton to
come upon him.1 Judge Lynde
was with me,
coming out
from Mr. Sergeant's just as I came by in the
Coach; says
Mr. Sergeant had a Fainting Fit yesterday.
Issue the
Court by Candle-Light and get over well and
home in the
Coach.
Jany. 28. Mr. Bridge preaches from PS. 27. 11. -- be-
cause of my
Enemies, Observers. Capt. Belcher and I
write a
Letter to Genl Nicholson, giving Account of the
Contribution
for St. Christophers.
Jany 29. Great Storm of Snow began about 3. p. m.
yesterday: Last night, about Midnight, was a dreadfull
Cry of Fire;
was stop'd at Mr. Blunt's Work-house where
it
begun. Laus Deo. This day I sent Joseph my Pole's
Synopsis
Criticorum. I have enjoy'd them one and
Thirty
1 All of whom had resided on the site.
-- EDS.
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OF SMAUEL SEWALL. 419
years; and
now have the pleasure to bestow them on a
worthy
Minister, my Son. O the patience, Longe
Suffer-
ing, and
Goodness of GOD!
Jany 30. 1713/14. Serene Cold Weather. Last night
Ephraim
Becon, going over the Neck ,vith his Sled, Wan-
dered to the
Left hand, towards Dorchester, and was fro-
zen to
Death. One of the Horses is found
dead. I
presented my
Son and daughter with six silver spoons,
cost about
218 a piece, bought of Capt. Winslow this day:
and 6.
Alchimy1 spoons, of Mr. Clark, cost 3. 6d. Before
diner, the
chief justice, S. S. and Mr. Em Hutchinson
sign'd the
Letter to my Ld Chancellor, and another to Sir
William
Ashhurst. About 4 p. m. I procured Mr.
Sergeant
to Sign
them, after I had read them to him. Went
to the
Funeral of
Mr. Calf's only son, about 2 years old.
Last
night Dr.
Noyes's House was in danger of being burnt.
Seventh-Day, Febr. 6. I went to the Town-house on
the occasion
of the Queen's Birthday; Mr. Bromfield and
I sat
a-while in one of the windows, Table being full;
afterward
sat in. A little before Sun-set I went
away.
Mr. Eliakim
Hutchinson seeing me about to rise up, Said
we would go
and see Mr. Sergeant; I went with him.
Mr. Sergeant
took my Hand and held it with great Affec-
tion. My neighbour Colson knocks at our door about
9.
or past to tell
of the Disorders at the Tavern at the South-
end in Mr.
Addington's house, kept by John Wallis.
He
desired me
that I would accompany Mr. Bromfield and
Constable
Howell thither. It was 35. Minutes past
Nine
at Night
before Mr. Bromfield came; then we went.
I
took AEneas
Salter with me. Found much Company.
They refus'd
to go away. Said were there to drink the
Queen's
Health, and they had many other Healths to
drink. Call'd for more Drink: drank to me, I took
notice
1 Alchimy or occamy is a term for an
inferior mixed metal, probably
alloyed with
copper. -- EDS.
420 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1713/4.
of the
Affront to them. Said must and would
stay upon
that Solemn
occasion. Mr. John Netmaker drank the
Queen's
Health to me. I told him I drank none;
upon
that he
ceas'd. Mr. Brinley put on his Hat to
affront me.
I made him
take it off. I threaten'd to send some
of them
to prison;
that did not move them. They said they
could but
pay their Fine,l and doing that they might stay.
I told them
if they had not a care, they would be guilty
of a
Riot. Mr. Bromfield spake of raising a
number of
Men to Quell
them, and was in some heat, ready to run
into
Street. But I did not like that. Not having Pen
and Ink, I
went to take their Names with my Pensil, and
not knowing
how to Spell their Names, they themselves
of their own
accord writ them. Mr. Netmaker,
reproach-
ing the
Province, said they had not made one good Law.
At last I address'd my self to Mr.
Banister. I told him
he had been
longest an Inhabitant and Freeholder, I ex-
pected he
should set a good Example in departing thence.
Upon this he
invited them to his own House, and away
they went;
and we, after them, went away. The Clock
in the room
struck a pretty while before they departed.
I went
directly home, and found it 25. Minutes
past Ten
at Night
when I entred my own House. About 5. in
the
Morning
there was a cry of Fire; Bells rung. Son
J.
Sewall came
to our Chamber door and acquainted us.
1
Referring to Chap. XXII. Province Laws, Acts of 1692-93, an Act "for
the better
observation and keeping the Lord's Day." It inflicts a fine of
five
shillings on every person remaining in a public house, "drinking, or
idly
spending his time on Saturday night, after the sun is set, or on the
Lord's Day,
or the evening following." Other
provisions prohibit travelling
on that day
by any persons " except they were belated and forced to lodge in
the woods,
wilderness, or highways, the night before, and in such case to
travel no
further than the next inn or place of shelter."
Also magistrates were "to restrain
all persons from swimming in the
water,
unnecessary and unseasonable walking in the streets or fields in the
town of
Boston or other places, Keeping open their shops or following their
secular
occasions or recreations," on the Lord's Day, the evening before, or
that
following that day. -- EDS.
171 3/4.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL.
421
But quickly
after our rising, the Bells left off ringing, and
I saw no
Light. Mr. Webb's Mrt.lt-house, near Mr.
Brons-
don's, was
burnt down. Twas a great Mercy that the
Fire was not
spread allover the North-End. Part of
the
house of Mr.
Bronsdon, the Landlord, began to burn.
Lord's Day, Febr. 7. A Note is put up for Mr. Ser-
geant in the
morning, to pray for him as near his End,
which my Son
read, and pray'd Excellently for him.
Monday, Feb: 8. Mr. Bromfield comes to me, and we
give the
Names of the Offenders at John Wallis's Tavern
last
Satterday night, to Henry Howell, Constable, with Di-
rection to
take the Fines of as many as would pay; and
warn them
that refus'd to pay, to apear before us at 3.
p. m. that
day. Many of them pay'd. The rest appear'd;
and Andrew
Simpson, Ensign, Alexander Gordon, Chi-
rurgeon,
Francis Brinley, Gent. and John Netmaker, Gent.
were
sentenc'd to pay a Fine of 5s each of them, for
their Breach
of the Law Entituled, An Act for the better
Observation,
and Keeping the Lord's Day. They all Ap-
peal'd, and
Mr. Thomas Banister was bound with each of
them in a
Bond of 20s upon Condition that they should
prosecute
their Appeal to effect.
Capt. John Bromsal, and Mr. Thomas Clark
were dis-
miss'd
without being Fined. The first was
Master of a Ship
just ready
to sail, Mr. Clark a stranger of New York, who
had carried
it very civilly, Mr. Jekyl's Brother-in-Law.
John Netmaker was fin'd 5s for
profane cursing; saying
to ----
Colson, the Constable's Assistant, God damn ye;
because the
said Colson refus'd to drink the Queen's Health.
This he paid
presently. Then Mr. Bromfield and I de-
manded of
the said Netmalter to become bound in a Bond
of Twenty
pounds, with two Sureties in Ten pounds
a-piece, to
Answer at the next Genl Session of the Peace
for Suffolk,
his Contempt of Her Majesties Government
of this
Province and vilifying the same at the house of
John Wallis,
Innholder in Boston, last Satterday night.
Mr. Banister
declin'd being bound; and none else offer'd
422 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [171 3/4.
(To
imbarrass the Affair as I conceiv'd).
Upon this Mr.
Netmaker was
dismiss'd, giving his Word to apear on
Tuesday. at
10. m. that he might have Time to provide
Sureties.
Tuesday, March, 9th. Mr. Bromfield and I waited till
past 11. and
dismiss'd the Constables Howell and Feno,
suposing No
body would come. Constable met Mr. Net-
maker at the
door, and came back again with him: He
came all
alone. Mr. Bromfield and I spent much
time with
him to bring
him to some Acknowledgment of his Error, but
all in
vain. Offer'd not so much as his own
Bond: which
constrain'd
us to Write a Mittimus, and send him to Prison.
Angry words
had pass'd between him and Const. Howell;
he Threatn'd
Const. Howell what he would do to him;
or his
Servants for him. For this reason I
dismiss'd Consta-
ble Howell;
sent for Mr. John Winchcomb, and gave him
the
Mittimus, out of respect to Mr. Netmaker; and he
took it
kindly. This about ¼ past 12. at Noon by my
Clock. Went into Town; Mr. Wm Pain spake
with me
near the
Townhouse; express'd himself concern'd that
Mr. Netmaker
was in prison; he could pay his Fine that
he might be
releas'd. I told him there was no
Fine.
Went on,
visited Hanah Parkman, saw the place, where
the
Malt-house was burnt down. As I
return'd, went to
the Funeral
of Mrs. Green. There, Mr. Secretary (who
was a
Bearer), Told me, a Council was Warn'd to meet
after the
Funeral. Accordingly I went. Present, Govr, Lt
Govr.,
Winthrop, Elisha Hutchinson, Sewall, Mr. Adding-
ton,
Townsend, Em Hutchinson, Belchar, Bromfield. It
was late and
Duskish, and Col. Elisha Hutchinson went
away before
any thing was Voted. Sat round a little
Fire; I
hapen'd to sit next Genl Nicholson.
He aply'd
himself to
me and Mr. Bromfield, ask'd whether did not
know that he
was here with the Broad Seal of England?
I answer'd,
Yes! Ask'd whether did not know that Mr.
Netmaker was
his Secretary? I answer'd, Tis generally
so
receiv'd. Then with a Roaring Noise the
Genl said, I
171 3/4.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 423
demand
JUSTICE against Mr. Sewall and Bromfield for
sending my
Secretary to prison without acquainting me
with
it! And hastily rose up, and went down
and walk'd
the
Exchange, where he was so furiously Loud, that the
Noise was
plainly heard in the Council-Chamber, the door
being
shut. The Governour vehemently urg'd the
Dis-
charge of
Netmaker; argued that Genl Nicholson was as
an
Embassador; his Servant ought to have been delivered
to him. I said, Mr. Netmaker was upon his Parole from
Monday to
Tuesday; in which time he might have ac-
quainted Genl
Nicholson with his Circumstances; The
Govr
said, Mr. Bromfield and I ought to have acquainted
him our
selves. Would have had the Vote so
Worded.
Would have
had us that committed Mr. Netmaker to have
released
him. I objected to that; saying, we had
comit-
ted him: but
I did not know that we had power to re-
lease
him. Then the Keeper was sent for with
the
Mittimus,
which Mr. Secretary read by Candle-Light, in
these words;
MASSACHUSETTS,
Seal. SUFFOLK SS.
To the Keeper of Her Majesties Goal in
Boston,
Seal. Greeting,
We herewith send you the body of John Netmaker, Gent:
who being
Order'd by our selves, two of Her Majesties Justices for
Suffolk, to
give Bond with Sureties, to appear at the next General
Sessions of
the Peace to be held for the County of Suffolk, to make
Answer for
his Contempt of Her Maj' Government of this Province,
and
Villifying the same at the house of John Wallis, Innholder, in
Boston in
the Night Between the Sixth and Seventh of this Instant
February: Refus'd so to doe;
You are therefore in Her Majesties Name
required to receive the
said
Netmaker, and him safely keep till he be discharged by due
course of
Law.
Given under our Hands and Seals in Boston,
this Ninth day of
February
1713/14 Annoque Regni Annae, Reginae Magnae Brittanicae
&c.,
Duodecimo,
SAMUEL SEWALL.
EDW. BROMFIELD.
424 DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. [171
3/4.
Upon reading this, Mr. Secretary drew up
an Order,
Importing
that those general Words would not hold him,
and order'd
his Discharge. The Governour Ordered the
Keeper to
discharge Mr. Netmaker, and the Secretary
should give
him a Copy of the Council's Order. And
order'd Mr.
Secretary to Copy it out, and wait upon Genl
Nicholson
with it in the Morning. They that voted
being
hardly drawn
to it. Some of them, were Lt
Govr, Mr. Ad-
dington,
Eliakim Hutchinson, Penn Townsend, Andrew
Belchar; Mr.
Winthrop was in the Negative; said he un-
derstood not
how it belong'd to the Council to meddle
with
it. Sewall and Bromfield were the
parties complain'd
of. If they had withdrawn, there had been no
Council
left; but
the Govr charg'd that none should withdraw.
This was pretty
hard, seeing a General Council was to
meet the
next day; and the Bond required, was but
Twenty
pounds the principal, and Ten pounds a piece two
Sureties.
Lords-Day, Febr. 7th. My son preaches the first Ser-
mon after
the New Watch being set up. Mr.
Pemberton
Preach'd not
by reason of his Lame Legg.
Fourth-day, Febr. 10. The New Capt., Stephen Minott,
new Lieut,
Gyles Dyer, &c. bring the Govr to Town. Mr.
Banister
open'd his sashes, to whom the Govr made a deep
bow as he
rode along. The Genl and
Lieut. Govr visited
the said
Banister last Lords-Day when the Afternoon Ex-
ercise was
over.
Febr. 11th. Mr. Colman prays.
Sixth-day, Febr. 12. The Storm of Snow is so violent,
that Jn°
Roberts gives notice Mr. Sergeant's Funeral will
not be
to-day.
7th day, Febr. 13. Serene pleasant Weather. Mr. Ser-
geant
interr'd. Bearers, Winthrop, Elisha
Hutchinson;
Sewall,
Addington; Townsend Belcher; Scarvs, Rings,
Gloves
Escutcheons. Laid in his Tomb in the New
Bury-
ing place
a-while before Sun-set.
1714.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 425
Third day, Febr. 16. My Son, Mr. Joseph Sewall,
Prays at the
opening of the Council, which is the first
time
[Prays?], 17. 18. 19. 20.
Febr. 23. 24. Dr. Cotton Mather prays. This Court a
large
Township, of 12 miles square, is granted near Wad-
chuset, out
of which my 1000. Acres are
excepted. I
was
surpris'd, not having seen it, till twas pass'd by the
Deputies. Govr is uneasy till the Word Associats
be
inserted. Will have it call'd Rutland: I objected
because
that was the
name of a shire. The chief Justice said
'twas not
convenient except the Land was Red. But
the
Govr
would not be diverted. I supose the
Quantity might
I be one
thing inclin'd his Excellency to this Name.
West-
field
Petition is granted as to a small addition of Land for
the sake of
Wood, and Building-Stone.
March, 27. 1714. Mr. Corwin and I Set out for Plim-
outh: David waits on me. Mr. Lynde meets us at Brain-
trey. Rode in the Rain from Weymouth to Cushing's.
Mr. Corwin
was so weak and faint with his Cold that he
kept in his
Quarters on the Lords Day, March, 28.
March, 29. Mr. Corwin returns homeward, Mr. Thacher
accompanying
him. We pass on to Plimouth.
March, 30. Court open'd.
March, 31. AEdem intravi.1
April, 3.
Set out for Sandwich.
April, 5th for the Vinyard with Major Thaxter, had a
very
prosperous Journey through the Goodness of God.
See my
Journal.
[Among the MSS. of Judge Sewall in the
Cabinet of the Society
is a small
parchment bound volume, with a strong brass clasp, on
the cover of
which is inscribed, "Magunkaquog, Octob. 11, 1715."
1 It will be noticed that it was Sewall's
custom, when away from home,
at some hour
on his birthday, March 28, or on one as near to it as was con-
venient, to
go alone into the meeting-house of the place where he might
be, for a
private religious exercise. We
cannot suppose that he regarded
the edifice
as peculiarly sacred; but that he merely sought privacy. -- EDS.
426 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1714.
The word is
the Indian name of Hopkinton. It
contains a most mis-
cellaneous
collection of entries, chiefly abstracts of sermons which he
heard while
absent from home, also sketches of conversations, brief
references
to cases before the courts, accounts of money loaned, or
disbursed,
&c. Probably he carried this little
volume with him, on
his longer
journeys, instead of his larger volume of journal for the
time being,
in which to make entries, though he did not transfer them
to the
latter on his return home. It is
evidently to this ltttle supple-
mentary
volume that he refers in the words: "See my Journal."
We are thus
enabled to supply from it the narrative of his very
interesting-journey
for the performance of his official duties as a
commissioner
of the English Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel among
the Indians.
The extracts made from the Magunkaquog
volume will begin and
close between
asterisks. Some entries made previous to
the account
of the
journey are copied as they stand on the pages.]
*April 3. 1714, Expended,
At Morey's. 0.
4. 2.
At Newcomb's, Sandwich 0.
8. 6.
7r. 11th. 1714. Bristol Circuit
Dedham 0. 4.
0.
7r. 12. Billings. 0.
5. 6.
Contribution. 0. 5. 0.
7r. 13. Wear. 0.
6. 4.
Rehoboth, Millar. 0. 1. 4.
Swanzy, Carpenter. 0. 2. 10.
7r. 15. Bristol Barber 0. 1. 2.
" 16. Postage 2 Letters and the News Letter. 0. 1. 2.
" "
Lantern. 0.
0. 5.
" 17. Mrs. Osburn 1. 13. 0.
Mr. Hale. 1.
0. 0. Lantern. 0. 0. 6.
" 18. Mrs. Osburn. 0.
2. 0.
Barber. 0.
1. 0.
Reynolds 0.
13. 4.
Ferriage to Febt 0. 0. 6.
19. Attleborough 0.
7. 8.
20. Slack 0.
12. 6.
25. To John Cornish for himself and Horse. 3. 0. 8.
1 9. 1. 5.
9.
1. 5.
3. 13.
4. Received.
5.
8. 1. *
1714.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 427
* Dr. Calamy, 2d volume of the Ejected Ministers, p. 222. Plym-
outh: Mr. George Hughes, B. D. Born in Southwark, 1603. His
Mother was
then 52 years of age, and had never a child before,
though she
had three Husbands before Mr. Hughes's Father.
And
her Age was
as remarkable afterwards: for she lived to her 96th
year. He was entred in Corpus Christi College, in
Oxon, 1619.
The Elector George Lewis born May, 28.
1660; Hanover. The
Electoral
Prince George Augustus, Duke and Marquis of Cambridge,
Earl of
Milford Haven, Viscount Alerton and Baron of Tewksbury,
born Octob.
30. 1683. He gives the greatest Hopes of
himself that
we or any
people on Earth can desire. The present
Prince of Bruns-
wick, his
son, born Jan. 30, 1706.
HONBLE
SIRS, His Excellency has intimated a General Council to
meet at the
Council Chamber in Boston upon Thursday, the Seventh
of April
next, for Consideration and Settlement of Civil Officers, and
other the
important necessary Affairs of Government.
Your Pres-
ence in
Council is then expected and desired, and that you will not
fail of
attending on this extraordinary occasion accordingly.
I am your Honor's most Humble Servt.
Jos.
HILLER, Cler. Coun.
Jno
Cushing and Isaac Winslow, Esqr.
on His
Majesty's Service. To the honorable Jno.
Cushing, Esq. Situate. To be communicated.
Instructions for the Honourable Samuel
Sewall, Esq. and Penn
Townsend,
Esq. Agents for the Company for Propagating Religion
among our
Indians, employed now by their Commissioners in a
Journey to
Martha's Vinyard for the Regular Disposing of the Land
lately
purchased by the Honourable Corporation for the Service of
the Indians
there.
The Gentlemen are to enquire of them, whom
they take to be
the most
capable of advising them, among the Inhabitants of the
Island, and
bear what Advice they may offer concerning the best
Methods for
the Settlement and Improvement of the Laud at Gay-
Head and
elsewhere; that it may answer the Ends of the Honour-
able Company
in Purchasing it.
II. Competent and Convenient Portions of
this Land, are to be
by them
assigned unto the Indians for to be Inhabited and Cultivated
by the
Indian Families. Each of the Families to
know their own
Allotments. But whether they shall be Equal Allotments,
or pro-
portioned
unto the Condition of the several Families, tis left unto
the
Discretion of the Agents when they arrive upon the place.*
428 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1714.
* III. That part of the Land which will
remain after the Indians
have their
Portions allotted unto them, shall be Leased out unto Ten-
ants, at
such Rates and for such Terms, as by the Agents may be
thought most
Reasonable, that so there may be something of a Rev-
enue from
thence towards the Support of Schools, and other good
Interests
among the Indians of that Island. And
the Indians are to
be fully
informed that what Revenues doe arise from this Land Will
be wholly
applyed for their Benefit and Advantage.
IV.
There should be some suitable Factor for the Commissioners
left on the
Spot, who may after the Return of the Agents go on with
such Things
as they may be forced for want of time to leave un-
finished;
and pursue such Directions as the Commissioners may from
time to time
Transmit unto him, about agreeing with Lessees and
receiving of
Rents, and: other Points that may call for the Manage-
ment of some
Discreet person there. The Commissioners
will rely
on the
Nomination which these their Agents may make for this
purpose.
By Order of the Commissioners,
PETER SERGEANT.1
BOSTON, September the 21st 1713.*
1 In Judge Sewall's Letter Book, the
publication of which it is proposed
by the
Society shall follow that of the Journal, will be found abundant evi-
dence of the
interest, zeal, and devotion which he gave to his official duties as
a
commissioner of the corporation having in view the civilizing and convert-
ing of the
Indians. He took a most warm, humane,
and Christian interest in
every thing
that was attempted or done for the welfare of the natives. As
he came into
manhood just at the period when the havoc, desolation, massa-
cres, and
burnings on our frontiers in King Philip's War," threw all the
colonists of
New England into a panic of dismay over the horrors and appre-
hensions of
the times, he, of course, sympathized with, and took part in, the
measures and
warlike acts to which the community had recourse, either for
protection
or vengeance. But he still reserved a
place in his feelings for con-
siderate
pity, and for works of mercy. The
Benjamin Larneill mentioned in
previons
pages was an Indian young man in whom Sewall took such an interest
as to
provide for his education and to send him to Harvard College; but he
proved a
failure, and died early in his course.
From the experiences of that
fearful
crisis in the almost desperate fortunes of New England, is to be dated
a manifest
change in the feelings of the great mass of the people towards the
Indians,
precisely like that which showed itself, nearly a century afterwards,
among the
frontier settlers of Pennsylvania and Virginia, during the dire-
ful
atrocities of Pontiac's war. A degree of
toleration and commiseration
had
previously been exercised towards the Indians.
The General Court of
Massachusetts
had proposed and enacted some measures for their protection
and just
treatment. Some considerable interest --
but by no means so
1714.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 429
* Feria sexta, April 2, 1714. Plimouth. I
went up the Burying
Hill to take
a Prospect, 6. m. and saw the Land all round about cov-
ered with
Snow. The Quantity of it on the Ground
everywhere*
considerate,
extensive, sympathetic, and practically generous, as has been
often
supposed -- was taken in the attempts to civilize the Indians. Eliot,
Gookin, and
others of the most devoted laborers in this work, do not conceal
their regret
that so few of their brethren were ready and hopeful in it, and
that from
many they received slight and discouragement.
Still the work
had progressed,
-- advanced, mainly, as is soon to be stated, by aid from
abroad, --
and showed some fair prospect of success, till the dread crisis just
referred to
came with its appalling shock upon the people, especially those in
the farming
towns of our frontiers. From that period
an embitterment of
feeling,
contempt, disgust, and rage, became widely entertained here against
the Indians;
and, as has since been noticed on our frontiers, with each suc-
cessive belt
of advance of civilization over our continent, those who had had
experience
of Indian warfare came to regard the natives simply as vermin
and wild
beasts, to be exterminated.
From Sewall's Letter Book, from the
Records of the Commissioners of
the United
Colonies, from the small publications by Eliot, the Mayhews,
Gookin, and
others, relating to their labors in behalf of the Indians, may
be gathered
information which might, perhaps, surprise some who are but
slightly
informed about the history of those times.
They might learn,
from those sources,
to how great an extent a work which was done here
for the
Indians, and for which our own colonists have had the credit, was
prompted,
encouraged, sustained, and actually paid for, by influence and
funds from
abroad. In fact, no earnest and vigorous
efforts were made here
in behalf of
the Indians till rebukes and reproaches from friends of the colo-
nists in
England, censuring the indifference and neglect of our magistrates
and
ministers in the cause, had provoked them to action. Then the Corpora-
tion, formed
in England in Cromwell's time, and revived by Charles II.,
furnished
wise counsels and generous pecuniary grants and salaries to carry
on the
work. Incidentally, too, the New England
Colonies, and Harvard
College
especially, received valuable helps from the Corporation in objects
not always
limited to the Indians. The first
edifice of brick in the College
Yard was
built from the funds of the Society, intended for the accommoda-
tion of
twenty young Indian scholars; but it very soon served other uses. A
printer,
fonts of type, and paper, were sent over by the Society, for printing
Eliot's
Bible, Primers, catechisms, tracts, &c.
Eliot, and other preachers
and
schoolmasters to the Indians, received regular salaries from England.
As the Indian
village in Natick was about reaching its most hopeful stage,
the Society
sent over a cargo of tools, household and farm implements, &c.
The vessel
was cast away on Cohasset Rocks, but some of its valuable cargo
was saved,
The pious and strong-hearted Eliot cheered his neophytes in
their dismay
over such a baffling providence, by telling them that, though
Satan, in
his rage, to withstand a holy enterpise, had wrecked the vessel,
God, in his
mercy, had saved some of her lading. -- EDS.
430 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1714.
* makes the dismal face of Winter like
February. Major Thaxter,
who came to
us yesterday, says he saw a man Sledding.
The Out
[East]-Wind
has prevented a hard Frost.
Last night at Mr. Thomas's had Discourse
about the Body. Mr.
Dudley
maintained the Belly should not be raised, because he knew
no use of
it. I maintained the Contrary, because
Christ saw no Cor-
ruption. Saints shall be conformed to Him. The Creator in his
infinite
Wisdom will know what use to make of them.
Dudley. What use of Tasting, Smelling?
Sewall. Tis possible the bodies of the Saints may
have a Fra-
grancy
attending them.
Dudley. Voice is Laborious.
Sewall. As much Labour as yon please, the more the
better, so it
be without
Toil, as in-Heaven it will be. I dare
not part with my
Belly,
Christ has Redeemed it; and there is danger of your breaking
in further
upon me, and cutting off my Hand or Foot.
Obsta Princi-
piis. Wee'l Continue this, Action to the next Term.1
This morning comes to my mind. I can't believe the blessed
Womb that
bore our Saviour, will always be buried.
Her Son, her
Father, her
God will Redeem it from the prevailing power of the
Grave.
David Toby, Brother-in-Law to Amos Sipson,
moves to have their
Charges that
they may go home.
To Jocelyn -- Twenty Shillings, £1. 0: 0.
Seventh-Day, April 3, 1714. Mr. Thomas' Daughter Mary, of 3
years old:
his only Daughter, died last night, a little before Break of
Day. We saw her ill her Mother's Lap last Thorsday
night when
we were
there. It grieves me the more that it
should be just after
we had been
so kindly Treated there. Cloudy
Morning. When left
Plimouth,
about 9 or 10 m, I had in my Bills of Credit --
£35. 7. 0.
Major Thaxter and I rid to Sandwich
accompanied by Mr. Justice
Parker,
Capt. John Otis, our Pilot, Mr. John Denison our Chaplain.
It did not
Rain, but Wet, being an Out-Wind. But
part of the Way
the Sun
appeared through the Clouds, and the Weather was Com-
fortable. Got to Newcomb's, where we Dined. I treated the Barn-
stable
Gentlemen. Mr. Cotton came to us and
invited Major Thaxter
and me to
his House. He had invited me at
Plimouth. Mr. Justice
Lynde
returned homeward, having Mayo for his Pilot. Mr. Cooke *
1 We have in the biographies of English
and American judges and lawyers
many graphic
sketches of the manner in which they occupied leisure hours
on a
circuit. But this discussion between
Judge Sewall and the Attorney of
the
Province, Paul Dudley, Esq., may be regarded as unique -- EDS.
1714.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 431
* intended to keep the Sabbath with his
Kinsman, Counsellour Winslow.
In the Evening Mr. Cotton made a short
Speech of God's Mercies
in the Week
past, Sung part of the 103 Ps. W. Pray'd.
Lord's Day, April 4. Mr. Cotton [in the family] reads the 29th
of Dent.,
sings the 12. 13. 14 verses of the 19 Psalm, Y[ork] memoriter.
[As Judge
Sewall wrote in his little book abstracts of the two
Sermons
which his host, the Rev. Rowland Cotton, Minister of Sand-
wich,
preached on this day, one of them, that of the afternoon, is
here
copied.]
Post meridiem. Ps. 118, 4th part, D.
2 Corin. 4. 4. In whom, the god of this O [world], Man is
undon
by Sin. Christ is the only Helper; the Gospel directs
how we may
come at it;
yet men don't; men won't regard it.
Doct.
That the reason why the Gospel is hid to many to whom
it is
revealed, is, because the god of this O has blinded their Eyes.
First, though the Gospel be granted, many
do not believe. All
men have not
Faith. Who hath believed our Report?
Use.
To persuade all to take care that it may not be said of them,
They believe
not.
2. They that live under the Gospel and
yet don't believe. The
reason is
because the god of this O has blinded their Eyes. Query,
Who is the
god of this O? Answer. It is certain the Lord Jehovah
is the God
of the whole Earth. He made all, and is
the Proprietor.
What men's
desires rest in is said to be their god.
But the Devil is
here
intended. This World is usually in
Scripture taken in an ill
sense. John 12. 41.
Prince of this world: 14. 40.
Prince of this--
Ephes. 6.12.
96 [Psalm?] 5. Idols, 106 [?] 47. Idols,
Devils, 1 Corin.
10. 20. Sacrificed to Devils, 1 John, 5. 19. He rules in the Children
of
Disobedience. Ephes. 1. 2. Men of this O
prefer him before
Jesus
Christ. Is not any god by right of
Creation, but by the
Wickedness
that is in the hearts of men. Taken
Captives by him at
his will.
Query.
How comes he to blind men?
God may permit men to he blinded. Isai. 6. 10.
Make the O
(heart of
this people fat) 1 Kings 22. 2 Thess. 2.
11. God sends
them strong
Delusions, to believe a Lye. Devil
blinds several ways.
(1) By keeping men in Ignorance. Men are naturally gone out
of the
Way. Hinders Children from learning
their books. Keeps
men from
attending the public worship.
(2.)
By leading men into Error. Revel.
16. 14. 2 Corin. 11.14.
Into an
angel of light: his suggestions are
taken for great beams of
light:
presents men with errors suiting their Constitutions.*
432 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1714.
* (3).
By taking advantage of what mens Affections are set on.
Matt. 19.
22. rich young man. How can you believe
who seek honor
one of
another? What to think of parting with
all for Christ!
Covetous,
Ambitious, Voluptuous.
(4) By prejudicing men against those that
teach them the Truth.
Undervaluing
the Ministers of the Gospel.
Use 1.
Those under the Gospel, who do not believe may tru1y be
said to be
under the dominion of the Devil. Isai.
49. 4. Christ
delivers the
Lawfull Captive. In Baptism God becomes
the Guardian
of the
Baptised. All are naturally under the
Kingdom of Satan,
till rescued
by Christ. Covenant for Substance is the
same. Not a
word said to
forbid the baptising Children. Suffer
little children to
come to Me.
Use 2.
Since not ignorant of this let us beware we be not deceived
with the
Devices of Satan.
Eldad Tupper and John Osburn were
baptised. 103 [Ps.] 17.18. W.
Second-day. April 5. 1714. We pass on to Fisbe's by a brave
Pond, where
we bait our Horses. Then proceed to
Falmouth, to
Capt.
Lothrop's. Got thither about Noon. William Basset was our
Pilot. Din'd there on Bacon and Eggs. Mr. Metcalf with us. Mr.
-- Butler;
but I neither saw him nor knew him, and so missed
speaking
with him. He lost his Anchors in the
Sound. Went to
the
Ferry. Mr. Metcalf and Capt. Lothrop
accompanied us, and our
pilot. At Weeks' I saw Mr. John Robinson, who waits
there for the
calling of a
sloop to take a family and him in to carry them to Con-
ecticut. Is about 74 years old. I gave him my Ten Biskets and 5s.
In
our Passage we were becalmed, and the Tide against us [so]
that were 2
½ hours getting over. Were fain to row to the west side
of Oukakemy
Bay, where we landed, the Sloop coming to an Anchor.
Our Horses
were forced to leap into the Sea. By that
time had
tackled them
was duskish.
Major Thaxter discovered some men and
Horses, as he thought,
upon the
Beach, at a distance. When came to them
found Thomas
Paul, a Lame
Indian, on Horsback with his Net on his shoulder, to
catch Fish
by Night. Upon my speaking to him to
Pilot me, he left
his Net and
did it very well. We were ready to be
offended that an
Englishman,
Jonathan Lumbard, in the Company spake not a word
to us, and
it seems he is deaf and dumb. Got to Mr.
Allen's a little
before 9. at
night.
Third-day, April 6. I am somthing indispos'd; resolved not to
goe
abroad. Mr. Thomas Mayhew, Mr. Allen,
Father, Mr. Haws,*
1714.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 433
* and others
come in to see us. Mr. Mayhew writes a
Letter in In-
dian to
Saul, which I subscrib'd, to notify the. Indians of the Gay
Head to come
together somthing before Noon. I would
speak with
them after
Mr. Mayhew's Lecture. I writ a Letter to
Mr. Mayhew
of the same
import. Sent them by Mr. Haws, who is
going to No-
mans
Land. Discours'd Mr. Mayhew largely of
the Indian Affairs.
I was glad
to hear that the Gay Head Indians had of their own ac-
cord met
together and run a Fence across the Neck.
Mr. Mayhew
had advised
them to it many years agoe, but they did it not till this
Spring. Mr. Mayhew was with them at their
Consultation. He
a tells me
that a Ditch four foot wide and two deep which he effected
the last,
will cost but 6s per Rod. Mr. Torry and
Cathcart dine with
us, and Mr.
Homes, who boards at Mr. Allen's, to teach School.
In the Evening Mr. Ralph Thacher and his
son Ralph call in and
Wellcom me
to the Island. They tell us of a
Governour coming
over for us;
had been gone three Weeks: to take Ireland in his
way. They had this News from Mr. Otis, of
Sandwich. They
reckon a
Ship is come in from England. Mr. Otis
read the Letter.
They lodg'd
at Fish's last Monday Night. After they
were gone,
Mr.
Experience Mayhew came in to see me, and invited us to Dine
or Sup with
him after the Lecture, in our Return home.
Mid week, April 7. 1714. Very Serene, Sunshiny Morning, the most
pleasant we
have had since we came from home.
Memorandum. If any of the Gay Head be to be Leased out,
Mr.
Ebenezer
Allen, our Landlord, desires he may have the first Refusal
of some
Pasturage, if it may stand with the Main design of benefit-
ing the
aboriginal Natives.
Indian Boy, Josiah Hassit, jun'r. Psalm Book.
Abel Sacuchassauet, Promised, sent a New
Testament, July 5.
1714. Major Thaxter and I went to the Gay Head,
accompamed by
Mr. Thomas
Mayhew, Mr. Josiah Torrey, Mr. Ebenezer Allan, Mr.
Robert
Cathcart, Mr. Benjamin Haws, Mr. John Denison, Mr. Robert
Homes, David
Sinclar. Major Skiff, and Mr. Experience
Mayhew,
we took in
our Way. About one Hundred Men and Women
were
gathered
together besides Children. Mr. Mayhew
directed Joash
Pannos,
Minister of Gay-Head, to begin with Prayer; then Mr. May-
hew preached
from Ephes. 1. 11. -- who worketh all things after the
Counsel of
his own Will. Sung 4 verses of the I11th
Psalm. Mr.
Torrey set
the Low-Dutch Tune. Mr. Mayhew gave us
the heads of
his Sermon
in English; a good Discourse. Isaac
Ompane concluded
with
Prayer. I enquired if any could read
English; proclamation
was made. At last only two young men were produced. I set him*
434 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1714.
* to read in
my Psalm-book with red Covers, and then gave it him.
Promised a
Testament to the 2d.
Fifth-day.
April, 8. 1714, at Mr. Ebenezer Allen's, in Martha's
Vinyard;
sent for Mr. Benjamin Mayhew, who has Land adjoining
to the
Gay-head Neck. I informed him that the
Gay-head Indians
have made
their Half of Fence, on the side towards the Sound, and
desired him
to make his Half, that the Neck might be closed; which
he agrees
to. And he is promis'd that his so doing
shall not alter
any Lease he
has of Sam. Osowit for about 10 or 12 Acres just
within the
Neck. To Sarah Japhet, widow, 12s, to help Fill her
Land. Bethiah, Nicodemus' widow, who died at Port
Royal, is her
daughter,
and dwells with her. Bethiah has one
son, of 22 years
old, who is
helpless by reason of Sickness; have one servant 17 years old.
April 8. 1714. Jonas Aosoe, saith that he took up with Govr. Dun-
gan's
[Dongan] Terms, brought a Red-Ear of Indian Corn to Mr.
Thomas
Mayhew to signify it. Terms were to pay
a Peck of Wheat
yearly for a
while, and then to pay a Bushel of Wheat per annum,
which
Conditions he has not perform'd. Yet he
expects to hold the
Land,
because his House is there, and that is the place Major Mat.
Mayhew
assign'd him. Dont understand he has any
Evidence of it.
He also gave
Elezer Sonamog three pounds and Ten shillings for his
Forty Acre
Lot at the Gay-head Neck, which Sonamog took up as he,
to the said
Jonah, took up his.
In answer to Thomas Paul, of Christian
Town, who is angred that
Isaac
Ompane, of the same Town, lives m the Town's English House
Rent-free. It is directed and Ordered, that Isaac Ompane
for the
future pay
Twelve Shillings per annum Rent for the said House so long
as he dwells
in it, which shall go towards reimbursing the Widow Abi-
gail's
Lease. And it is very necessary that the
Town speedily join
together as
one Man, and pay what is owing to the said Widow.
And then the
Twelve Shillings per annum shall be employed in some
other public
use of the Town, and shall be paid accordingly to the
Select-Men
thereof by Isaac Ompany, who has been a principal Doer
and Sufferer
in Recovering the same. Sewall, Thaxter,
Thomas
Mayhew, Esq.
Benjamin. Skiff, Esq. April 8.
1714. This day, !
April 8; was
exceeding dark at one Time in the morning. I have
hardly seen
such Thick Darkness. Great Rain,
considerable Lighten-
ing and
Thunder before Night.
Sixth-day, April 9. 1714. Fair Wether; Cold Northerly Wind.
Visit Abel's
Widow. Go to the top of Prospect Hill,
from thence to
the Sound,
and by Mr. Thomas Mayhew's direction view'd the River
falling into
the Sound, and the Shoar all along to the end of the 327 *
1714.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 435
* Rods which
extends Southward to the middle Line, containing
about 1000
Acres which belongs to the Corporation.
CHILMARK, April, 9. 1714. Receiv'd of Samuel Sewall Twenty
Shillings in
full of all Demands for Services done by me as under-
Sheriff, or
otherwise, in Recovering some Lands of Oukakemy to the
Indians. I say, received in full by me,
THOMAS TRACY.
5.
I give further to my daughter Hanah and my Grandson Jno.
Harlock all
such Land or Lots of mine, which are not mentioned in
this my last
Will, and I add to my daughter Hanah half the Whale
at Natyk
which I had forgot.
June 16. 1681. THOMAS MAYHEW.
Samuel Sarson's Patent. 8r. 18.
1687. To pay 25th March yearly,
One Bushel
of Wheat, and at the death of the Tenant, or entring of
every new
Tenant, for ever, such sum as the above demised premises
would or
might yield if to Farm-Letten for the Term of one full
year.
Thomas Lothrop, One Hundred Acres, Nov.
24, 1704. One Ear
of Corn yearly,
and every 21st year the full Value of One Year's Rent.
CHILMARK, April 10, 1714.
GENTLEMEN, -- I intend, God Willing, to
go off the Island this
Day. Desire and order you to take Mr. Benjamin
Mayhew with
you and
Repair to the Entrance of the Gay-head Neck and Stake the
Line between
the Honble Corporation and him, the said Benjamin
Mayhew, and
then Call upon him speedily to make up his Part of the
fence
towards the South-Sea, that the Corporation Gate may be set
up and the
Neck Closed, and then let a Ditch of four-foot Wide and,
two foot
Deep be made all on the outside of the Hedge, and set
within
Thorns or Barberries all along the top of it this Spring, or the
Next, if it
prove too late now. In consideration of
the whole Ditch
being made
on Mr. Mayhew's Side, I will be at all the Charge of
making it at
the first, and Mr. Benjamin Mayhew shall keep his part
in Good
Repair from time to time. I hope the
advancing Spring will
Quicken your
dispatch.
This is what Major Thaxter and I have
Agreed upon and Ordered,
and have
accordingly set to our hands.
SAMUEL SEWALL.
SAMUEL THAXTER.
TO THOMAS
MAYHEW, ESQ. and Mr. EBENEZER ALLEN.
In Chilmark.*
436 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1714.
* April 10.
1714. The Wind being excessive high we
did not goe
to Homes'
Hole, but viewed Watsha Neck allover, being conducted,
by Mr. Simon
Athern and B. Haws: find much of it good for Herb-
age and
Tillage. Sat awhile in the Wigwam where
Elisabeth,
Stephen
Spoko's Widow, dwells: eat roste Alewive and very good
Hasty
Pudding. Gave the Widow at coming away
10s.
Get to Mr.
Worth's
between 3 and 4. Demanded Rent of Mrs.
Worth for the
Neck. Went to Mr. Mat. Mayhew for a Copy of another Letter of
Attorney of
his Father.
Seventh-day, April 10. 1714. The last night was very Cold.
Plenty of
Ice was to be seen in the Road between Mr. Allen's and
Cathcart's,
past Ten a clock in the fair sun-shine.
Edgartown; April 11th
1714. Serene Day. Ps. 90.1-6. L. By
Mr. Saml. Wiswall, A. M.
Eccles. 9. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
thy
might, for
there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom
in the
Grave, whither thou goest.
This Life is our season for design, counsel,
work. This a time of Probation.
Doct. Men ought with the utmost diligence
to prepare for the
Eternal
Estate while this Life lasts, because this is the only time to
prepare in.
Prop. 1.
This Life is a space of probation and preparation for
(Eternity. If we are irreligious here, we must needs be
miserable for
ever. We are here upon our good Behaviour. Eccles. 3. 26. Spirit
of a man
goes upward, is immortal. Heaven is a
state of Eternal;
Blessedness,
Hell of Eternal Misery. Rom. 2. 7. Dan. 12. 2.
Thes.
1. 9. Do not rightly acknowledge these Truths
except we give them
agreable
Entertainment, Govern our Lives by them.
Prop. 2.
It is a work of the greatest Importance to prepare for
Eternity. Believe in Christ, Repent of our Sin, fly
from the Wrath
to come. One thing is Necessary.
Prop. 3.
This Life is the only opportunity to prepare for Eternity
in. Heb. 9.
27. Apointed to all men once to dy, and
after death
the
Judgment. Lazarus died and his Soul
Convoyed to Abraham's
bosom, to
the Society of the Spirits of Just men made perfect.
Dives --
[the Judge leaves a gap here.]
Our Life is very short, Ps. 90., 70
years soon cut off, and we fly
away. Those who live the longest very short in
itself, compared
with those
before the flood. Especiall if we
compare it with, the
Eternal
Abode in the next life, which is consequent upon it.
(2) Tis very Uncertain, compared to a
Shadow, Prov. 27. Boast
not thyself
of tomorrow; James 4. 13. 14. 15. What
is your Life?*
1714.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 437
*
Prop. 4. We ought to use our
utmost Diligence in preparation
for
Eternity. This is the whole Duty of
man. Deut. 32,46,47. It
is your
Life. Engage our Souls most intense
Resolution, most in-
dustrious
Endeavonrs. Work out our Salvation with
Fear and
Trembling. If we are not prepared, if Death surprise us,
we are
Everlastingly
Undone.
[Of course there was an afternoon service,
and the Judge has
notes of the
Sermon, which was a second part of the morning dis-
course, but we
omit it.]
Contribution. Mr. Jonathan Dunam made a short pithy prayer,
and then
pronounced the Blessing, taking in that the Priests were
to
give. He seems to breathe a Spirit of
Holiness.
In the evening visited Mrs. Lothrop. As we went we met Capt.
Dogget and
Mr. Mat. Mayhew coming to see us. Mrs.
Lothrop has
eight
Children. They are all well. Mr. Wiswall eat with us be-
tween 4 and
5, p. m. Their Custom is not to
dine. Capt. Dogget
expresses a
great desire that Mr. Wiswall may continue, with fears
lest he
should be discouraged and remove. Would
have me en-
deavour to
persuade him to stay among them. Two
Sloops sailed
yesterday;
One for Boston, the other for Wood's Hole.
Second-day, April 12. 1714. Major Thaxter and Mr. Denison go
to Mr.
Mayhew for the Letter of Attorney and an extract of the
Deed. Yet our Landlady scruples paying
Arrears. Thinks I may
be able to
demand only what has grown due since my Lord Lym-
erick made
conveyed [sic] his Lands and Lordship to the honble.
Company
whereof Sir William Ashurst is Governour.
Mr. Samuel Sarson left two Danghter's
that are now living, viz:
Anne Sarson
and Jane Sarson, who are descended from Mrs. Jane
Sarson,
Widow of Mr. Thomas Mayhew,1
Minister, lost in Garret,
whom Mr.
Richard Sarson 2 married, and by her had Samuel Sarson,
brother by
the Mother's side, to Major Matthew Mayhew; and
Mehetabel
Sarson, (now Lothrop.) To S. W[iswall]
10s.
Rode to Homes's Hole accompanied by Mr. Jno. Worth, Capt. *
1 This was Thomas Mayhew, Jr., son of
Thomas Mayhew, the pioneer
English
settler at Nantucket, the founder of an honored family. The son
was well
educated, a good classical scholar, and a devoted friend of the
Indian, to
whom he was the first English preacher in their own language.
He was in
his thirty-seventh year, when, in 1657, on a voyage to England,
he was on
board a vessel the fate of which was never known. -- EDS.
2 Savage enters Richard Sarson under the
head of "Sansom," though he
corrects it
in the errata. He was made a Justice of the Peace, Dec. 8, 1692,
and acted
until 1697. He seems also to have been a
special Justice of the
Court of
Common Pleas for Duke's County. -EDS.
438 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1714.
* Doggett,
Mr. Matthew Mayhew, Benj. Haws, John Tolman.
Came
off about 25
minutes past 10. m. To Job Soumauau,
Schoolmaster,
at
Christiantown, Ten Shillings. Had a good
passage over with
young Mrs.
Dagget of Attleborough. Wood's Hole,
left with young
Mrs. Weeks,
for Rachel Pepeena, who has no feet, Five Shillings.
Din'd at
Capt. Lothrop's. It began to Rain, [so]
that I would have
had the
Horses set up again. But Mr. Thaxter and
Mr. Denison were
for standing
along. Capt. Lothrop accompain'd us to
the River.
Baited at
Fish's, where were sundry Indians; had brought Elisha
Sonamog
going in his way homeward. He
administer'd the Lord's
Super
yesterday at Mashpan. Rain'd hard, yet
being warm, and not
Driving, got
comfortably to Mr. Cotton's a little before Sunset. Mr.
Cotton is
gon to Boston. Madam Cotton tells us
that Mrs. Maria
Mather died
April 4. Mr. Attorney sued by Col.
Nicholson in an
£1800
Action. Governour bound for him. Mr. Stoddard and Dav-
enport,
Sureties.
Sandwich, April 13. 1714. Cold Storm of Rain and Snow.
To Caleb Papmouet £0. 4. .0.
To Mouniment Peter, a pair of Pumps 0. 4.
0.
To Mr. Jno. Denison, Forty Shillings.
The Rain ceasing we set out from Sandwich
about 2. p. m: got
well to
Plymouth a little before Sunset, just as men were returning
from the
Funeral of Lieut. Saml. Bradford, who was buried this day
at Duxbury,
46 years old; is Lamented. Col. Thomas says Mrs.
Maria Mather
should have been buried on Thorsday; but the Stormy
weather
hinder'd, and she was buried on Friday.
Col. Fr. Wain-
wright's
daughter lay dead at Mr. Addington's.
Visited Mr. Thomas
and his
Wife, to condole the Loss of their Daughter.
In the Night, long before we went to Bed,
twas fear'd Sam. Toon,
an Indian,
was drown'd. He was Servant to Capt.
Church, and our
Landlord
Willard. They gave £24 for him. The dead Corps was
found
before. Somebody sent him to fetch 2
Fish from a vessel, and
tis
conjectur'd miss'd in stepping from his Canoe to the Sloop. Was
about 26
years old. Every body says he was in no
way disorder'd
with Drink.1 Mr. Sheriff shows me the
Proclamation for dissolving
the General
Court, dated April 6.*
1 The poor and forlorn condition of the
scattered remnants of the Indian
tribes in
the region visited by Sewall officially, may be taken as illustrating
the fate of
many others of the aboriginal race at the time, and of those that
survived
soon after, till all of them vanished as now from the soil of New
England,
except the few still left on the Penobscot, in westerly Rhode Island,
and in
occasional patches of our territory. In
the volumes of the earlier
series of
the Collections of the Society are found many fragments of history
1714.] DIARY
OF SAMUEL SEWALL. 439
* Midweek,
Aplil 14. 1714. Between 6 and 7 I went
on board the
Sloop
Success, John Davis Master, burdened about 42 Tuns, Loaden *
of
biography, and of local descriptions, and sketches of missionary effort for
the Indians,
which give evidence alike of the conscientious attempts, at much
cost of
patience, money, and hard labor, in their behalf, and of the discour-
agements and
failure which shadowed and saddened the results. Primers,
catechisms,
tracts, and Bibles, were printed in their own languages. Schools
were
established for Indian children. Tools
and implements for agriculture,
and for
household thrift, were generously furnished.
Guardians and over-
seers were
sent into the bounds reserved for the Indians to teach them agri-
culture and
profitable industry. About the time of
Sewall's visit to Martha's
Vineyard and
Nantucket, there were a score of graduates from Harvard who,
as
preachers, were capable of conducting religious services in the language
and dialect
of the natives, while eight of the red men had been trained and
ordained to
the work of the ministry to their own people.
But contact and
intimacy
with the white man and with civilization, in almost every case, de-
moralized
the Indians, robbing them of such wild manhood as they might
have had in
their savage condition and in their forest life, and making them
degraded and
humiliated in the presence of a superior race.
No community
of Indians,
in New England at least, has ever advanced much beyond a stage
of
semi-civilization, and it is very rarely that a single one is now to be seen
among us of
pure, unmixed, native blood: while in the vast regions of our
western and
northwestern territory it is estimated that a very large propor-
tion of the
Indian tribes are half-breeds, chiefly of a French mixture; and
while such
tribes in the Indian Territory as the Creeks, the Choctaws, the
Chickasaws,
the Seminoles, and the Cherokees, as have made the most ad-
vance in
civilization, show a commingling of the blood of all European na-
tionalities,
as well as of the African. The negro
blood predominates among
those who
represent the natives in New England.
The sketches from life
given in the
papers in our Collections, above referred to, though showing the
devotedness
of such hopeful friends of the Indians as Shepherd, the Mayhews,
Eliot,
Gookin, Cotton, and others, were regarded by contemporaries as over-
stating and
over-coloring the real truth. The
prevailing opinion was the
cheerless
one that labor, in behalf of the Indian, was wasted. An abject
demeanor, a
spiritless dejection, a squalid mode of life in a hovel so sur-
rounded with
mud and filth as to be more forbidding than a smoky wigwam,
and
subsistence on the dole of pauperism, marked the aspect and condition of
the former
lords of the soil in presence of those who supplanted them. The
kind-hearted
Sewall distributed among those whom he saw his private
gifts, and
gave, or promised, religious books to the children, who he thought
would value
what he so prized. The poor waif whose
sad fate by drowning
-- under the
relieving qualification that he might not have been intoxicated
-- he
relates so sympathetically in his Journal, was one of many of his race
at the time
scattered over our farming towns, who did laborious and menial
service for
the whites for a bare subsistence; showing how complete was the
transformation
from their natural state, in which they refuse and despise all
work. --
EDS.
440 DIARY OF
SAMUEL SEWALL. [1714.
* with
Wheat, Rye, Barley, Pork, &c. They
that carried me aboard
saw the
Indian's Canoo upon the Beach, Lanch'd it and Tow'd it to
Town with
them. Just as I came to the Wharl Mr.
Thomas, the
Coroner and
Jury were viewing the body of the poor Indian.
Thus
I, in many
respects, a greater Siner. am suffer'd to go well away,
when my poor
namesake, by an unlucky Accident, has a full stop put
to his
proceedings, and not half so old as I.
Dine with Pork and Pease. I had my New York Biscuit to eat,
and a Bottle
of Wine. Four Men in the Sloop: John Davis, Thomas
Davis,
Timothy Mulford, of East Hampton, Owners, and John King,
whom they
hire to go with them. The Owners speak
very well of
Mr. Hunting,
the Minister.
Cargo: 600 Bushels of Wheat: 280 Barley:
40 Rye: 40 Indian:
50 Oats, to
Mr. Jekyl: 70 Barrels of Pork, 40 Barrels of Beef, 16 fir-
kins Butter,
19 Boxes Candles, about 80 ponnds a Box, Some Tallow
and
Bay-Berry Wax, 500 Weight, Few Feathers, Furrs.
They clear
at New
London, and we drunk New London Water.
They have a
privilege of
late that the East End of Long Island may clear at New
London.
Got up with the Castle just about Sunset.
Were becalm'd, and
Collins and
Marshall, coming by in a small Boat, landed me at the
Long
Wharf. I visited my Son, who very
heartily welcomed me.
He had been
taking Physick. Got into my own House
just about
Eight, and
found all well. David complains of the
Heat of the Day,
which
confirms me I did best to come by Water.
Laus Deo.
April 16.
To Mr. Stedman for David's Horse to the Vinyard
and home,
30s. *
Return'd to my own home April 14,
1714. By water
from
Plimouth. Laus Deo. Mrs. Maria Mather was
buried in my
absence.
I N D E X.
I N D E X.
NOTE. -- This index contains chiefly the
names of persons only. It is intended
hereafter
to furnish a
complete index of persons, places, and subjects for the whole Diary. The numbers
with an
asterisk added, which numbers are at the end of each group of references, refer
to the
Introduction. As that part occupies over one hundred pages,
it was deemed inexpedient to use
the Roman
style of pagination. The usual Arabic
figures were used with a distinguishing
mark.-- EDS.
A. Allin,
57, 76, 84, 97, 100, 102, 128, 130,
137, 143,
152, 158, 166, 193, 195, 197,
Abbott, 105,
106. 209, 223, 232, 235, 257, 266, 267, 268,
Abel, 434. 285, 301, 302, 306, 359, 410, 411, 432,
Aberdeen,
94, 334. 433, 434, 435, 436.
Abigail, 10,
23, 71, 375, 434. Allison,
119.
Abington,
97. Alamanza, 191.
Acadia,
Acadie, 260, 398. Almsbury,
81, 45*, 54*.
Accady,
49*,70*,108*. Alsted,123.
Accord Pond,
97. America,
91*, 130*.
Acushnet,
166. Amory,
120.
Adams, 11,
12, 47, 48, 54, 57, 68, 69, 76, Amsdal,175.
100, 154, 175, 186, 187, 255, 380. Amsden, 27,
28.
Addington,
1, 2, 10, 16, 23, 24, 25, 26, Anchor
Tavern, 115.
29, 34, 42, 48, 67, 58, 63, 64, 66, 68, Andover, 52, 62,
114, 401, 16*.
71, 78, 79, 83, 102, 103, 104, 117, 118, Andrews, 357.
129,
130, 154, 162, 178, 186, 188, 224, Andros,
35, 81,344, 413, 35*, 67*, 68*,
227, 229, 240, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 104*, 105*.
263, 267, 276, 279, 285, 300, 303, 306, Anger, 209, 261,
278, 333, 337.
320, 325, 327, 328, 331, 336, 357, 360, Angier, 347, 370,
17*.
369, 370, 372, 373, 385, 402, 405, 407, Angola (Indian
slave), 197, 198.
408, 415, 416, 419, 422, 424, 438, 11*, Annapolis, 298, 299,
314, 316, 317, 322,
21*, 93*, 95*, 110*. 329, 335, 369.
Addison,
261. Anne,
47, 184, 228.
Adgate, 198.
Antram,
114, 192.
Adonijak,
266. Aosoe,
434.
Agnew, 234,
262, Appleton,
75, 77, 78, 116, 121, 131, 162,
Albany, 6,
86, 153, 262, 273, 329, 390. 182, 187, 188, 189, 205, 224, 245, 256,
Alcock, 301,
19*. 263, 313, 320, 350, 352, 362, 377, 385,
Alden, 54,
254, 301, 327, 332, 335. 402, 106*.
Alderton,
58. Archdall,
43.
Aldlard,
129. Ardell,
324, 11*.
Alexander,
12, 334, 335, 336. Argyle,
339.
Alford,
25, 27, 41, 363, 378. Arlington,
392, 393.
Algiers,
20*. Armstrong,
369, 29*.
Allen, 2,
20, 22, 23, 27, 28, 35, 46, 14*, Arnold,
1, 23, 48, 95, 320.
15*, 19*, 21*, 23*, 131*. Arrowsmith,
123.
444 INDEX.
Artichoke River,
384. Bastian,
183,279, 302, 393.
Ashley, 11,
352. Batter,
26.
Ashurst, 41,
124,149, 217, 243, 261, 268, Battis,
37*, 69*, 74*, 75*.
273, 274, 275, 283, 284, 416, 419, 437 Baxter, 70, 139.
515, 115*, 117*, 118*. Baynes,
16.
Aspinwall,243.
Bean,
82.
Assowamset,
166, 167. Beccles,
342.
Athanasius,19.
Becon,
418.
Athens, 85*.
Bedwell,24.
Athern, 436.
Bee,
12.
Atkins, 195.
Belcher,
2, 5, 7, 23, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
Atkinson,
331, 11*, 52*, 57, 60, 65, 72, 78, 81, 82, 88. 89, 93,
Atlantic,
113*. 101, 102, 103, 112,117,126, 130, 134,
Attleborough 307, 318, 396, 426, 438. 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 158, 160, 162,
Attleborough
Gore, 169. 169, 170, 174, 118, 184, 186, 187, 188,
Atwater,
393. 190, 191, 197, 198, 208, 210, 213, 214,
Atwood, 45,
195, 299, 301, 408, 409, 55*. 220, 224, 229, 233, 234, 236, 238, 239,
Auchmuty,
45. 253, 254, 250, 261, 265, 276, 278, 279,
Austin, 73,
80, 81, 108, 118, 341, 326. 280, 281, 285, 287, 288, 300, 303, 306,
Ave-Mary-lane,
13. 312, 313, 317, 323, 327, 328, 332, 335,
Avery, 101, 112,
249. 337, 339, 342, 343, 344, 346, 355, 357,
Aylmer
(Lord). 261. 360, 362, 363, 366, 369, 370, 372, 384,
Ayres, Airs,
18*. 395, 397, 402, 408, 422, 424, 410, 19*,
Aylsbury,
300. 95*.
Belknap, 16, 116, 367.
Bell, 35.
B. Bellamy,
160.
Bellingham, 56, 57, 197, 198.
Babel, 141. Bellomont,
3, 4, 7, 20, 33, 174, 417, 106*, Babylon, 140. 114*.
Bacon, 53. Ben,
344.
Bailey,
Bayley, 12, 13, 32, 112, 113, 115, Benjamin,
11, 120, 130.
118, 119, 126, 130, 135, 144, 151, 155, Bennet, 25, 61, 89,
130, 198, 310, 373, 414.
157, 161, 162, 166, 169, 170, 171, 172, Bernard, 180, 195,
245.
173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 187, 192, Bernort, 262.
246, 247, 287, 337. 338, 356, 8*, 10*. Berry, 192, 268,
285, 815, 354.
Bairstow,
38, 39, 77, 92, 95, 139, 183, Berwick,
93.
252, 276, 277, 304, 341. Berwick,
Duke of, 191.
Baker, 82,
97, 324, 356, 116*. Bethune,
303.
Balch, 196. Betty,
18, 20, 24, 65, 245, 283, 378.
Ballard, 32,
47. Betty
(negro), 340, 341.
Ballentine,
23, 24, 98, 137, 161, 186, 235, Beverly 15, 77, 102,
104, 105, 384.
258. 297. Bilercia,
67, 190, 272.
Balston,
130, 184, 180, Bill,
254, 297.
Banbury,
176, 177. Billings,
8, 41, 64, 88, 116, 169, 194, 203,
Banister,
75, 88, 128, 140, 158, 220, 226, 222, 237, 265, 287, 323.
260, 290, 291, 315, 317, 420, 421, 424, Billingsgate, 387.
11*. Bird,
47, 71, 198.
Banks, 404,
405. Birds-eye,
48.
Banniard,
198 Bisby,
340
Barbados,
32, 140, 161, 294, 366, 369, Bishop,
113, 114.
16*, 67. Bishop's
Lane, 113, 114, 139.
Barber, 114.
Blackamoor,
16.
Barker, 97,
127, 157, 182. Blackmore,
265.
Barmuuas,
306. Black
point, 84.
Barnard, 29,
49, 80, 114, 355, 357, 362, Black
River, 169.
368, 400, 401. Blackstone,
24, 169.
Barns, 275,
303, 308, 320. Blackstone's
Point, 260.
Barnsdell,
335. Blagrove,
163, 164, 200,238.
Barnstable,
120, 134, 301, 321, 372, 413, Blake,
47.
430. Blathwayt,
109.
Barrell,
324. Bligh,
296.
Barrow, 51*.
Blin,
51, 52, 141.
Bartlett,
146, 338, 11*. Blish,
117, 257.
Barton, 189.
Blount,
212.
Bassett,
166, 341, 432 Blower,
8, 246, 251, 368, 384, 403.
INDEX 445
Blunt, 418. Brakenbury,
69.
Bly, 415. Brattle,
2, 8, 16, 23, 28, 37, 48, 66, 84,
Bodin, 413. 94, 111, 130, 135, 161, 164, 176, 186,
Bodin, 88. 196, 199, 208, 209, 214, 220, 229, 232
Bogistow 76 233, 235, 243, 257, 258, 260, 272, 278,
Bollingbroke,
314, 364, 279, 286, 291, 304, 331 335, 343 347,
Bolt, 179,
305. 349, 355, 362, 384, 391, 401, 413, 11*
Bombazeen,
82. 18*, 19*.
Bond, 179,
183. Brattle
Square, 113.
Bonner, 134,
227, 297, 318. Brattle
Street, 323, 363, 394, 400.
Bonus, 41. Breck,
47, 219.
Boone, Boon,
92, 100, 169, 409. Breden,
211.
Bordeaux,
234. Brenton,
41, 54, 67, 81, 237, 322, 326.
Bordman, 81,
135, 165, 192, 358. Brett,
75, 334, 346.
Borland, 60,
165, 200, 201, 206, 215, 216, Brewer,
47, 184.
238, 240, 292, 298, 316, 317, 360, 363, Briant, 276, 340:
394, 411, 40*, 51*, 76*, 111*, 117*, Bricket, 30.
119*, 120*. Bridge,
57, 83, 102, 110, 115, 134, 174,
Boston, 3,
4, 6, 7, 12, 15, 20, 21, 23, 25, 178, 181, 184, 195, 207, 209, 210, 215,
29, 35, 40, 47, 48, 52, 59, 60, 65, 137, 218, 232, 248, 270, 273, 278, 298, 297,
68, 69, 70, 72, 74, 19, 86, 90, 95, 98, 303, 312, 317, 325, 327, 329, 330, 332,
100, 102, 105, 107, 108, 109, 112, 119, 337, 345, 357, 359, 361, 364, 365, 369,
120, 121, 124, 128, 129, 133, 134, 135, 373, 378, 385, 388, 398, 402, 406, 409,
138, 145, 151, 154, 158, 170, 173, 174, 410, 411, 418, 15*.
182, 185, 186, 189, 190, 192, 196, 198, Bridger, 207, 337,
338.
203, 208, 210, 211, 213, 218, 219, 220, Bridgham, 102, 137,
154, 247, 248, 249,
223, 229, 230, 231, 238, 240, 241, 245, 302, 303, 312, 373.
260, 261, 262, 264, 265, 269, 282, 286, Bridgmall, 231, 326,
375.
295, 299, 304, 306, 309, 310, 313, 319, Bridgwater, 75, 115,
305, 313, 334,
321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 329, 342, 344, Bright, 167.
350, 352, 356, 360, 363, 367, 368, 373, Brightman, 113, 114,
270, 271.
374, 377, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 390, Brighton, 234.
398, 400, 404, 408, 411, 412, 413, 414, Briggs, 208, 354.
415, 420, 421, 423, 427, 437, 438, 10*, Brill, 372.
13*, 19*, 20*, 21*, 29*, 30*, 35*, 37*, Brinley. 269, 306,
328, 419, 421.
38*, 39*, 40*, 42*, 44*, 45*, 48*, 50*, Brinsmead, 34.
51*, 53*, 55*, 56*, 62*, 67*, 69*,. 70*, Brisco 91. 104, 105,
106, 107, 373
71*, 74*, 76*, 78*, 81*, 82*, 84*, 89*, Bristol, 46, 64, 83,
116, 139, 167, 194,
90*, 93*, 95*, 100*, 101*, 102*, 103*, 237 238 264, 265, 270, 288, 322, 396
104*, 105*, 109*, 112*, 117*, 118*, Bristow, 41, 88,
287.
120*, 122*, 125*, 128*, 129*. Britain,
130*.
Boston
Streets, 225. Broadhurst,
153.
Bosworth,
329, 332. Bromfield,
5, 42, 60, 72, 73, 78, 80, 91,
Bourn, 166. 102, 112, 113, 131, 152, 157, 162, 166,
Bowditch 160. 167, 169, 173, 174, 175, 177, 185, 186,
Bowdoin,
413, 188, 190, 206, 208, 214, 224, 226, 233,
Bowdoin
Square, 417. 239, 243, 247, 250, 256, 263, 267, 270,
Bowen, 372. 283, 290, 306, 314, 327, 329, 333, 335,
Bowles, 67. 339, 346, 360, 362, 370, 372, 373, 390,
Bowling
Green, 417. 394, 399, 402, 407, 410, 416, 419, 420,
Bowtel, 52. 421, 422, 423, 424.
Boylston,
24, 225. Bromfield
Street, 174.
Boylston
Street, 23, 320, 360, 410. Bromsdal,
421.
Boynton, 62.
Bronsdon,
128, 420, 421.
Bradford,
78, 95, 220, 223, 438, 14*, 16*. Brook,
31.
Bradish, 4,
6. Brooklin,
97, 99, 112, 118, 120, 122, 130,
Bradley,
59*, 60*, 84*, 86*, 87*. 135, 142, 143, 144, 146, 155, 157, 161,
Bradstreet,
3, 7, 9, 24, 26, 31, 38, 61, 65, 163, 165, 175, 185, 192, 195, 199, 204,
72, 95, 142, 199, 209, 246, 260, 261, 224, 229, 243, 245, 246, 250, 270, 272,
272, 277, 289, 297, 308, 310, 326, 334, 275, 285, 287, 297, 308, 319, 321, 330,
343, 377, 378, 401, 418, 20*. 345, 346, 351, 356, 359, 360, 361, 364,
Brady, 209,
294. 369, 370, 371, 380, 390, 399, 400, 409,
Braintry, 1,
92, 97, 112, 115, 139, 161, 414.
185, 191, 221, 222, 218, 253, 286, 341, Brouillan, 260.
379, 386, 313, 409, 425, 15*, 17*. Broughton;
25,110, 408.
Braithwaite,
176. Broughton
Hill, 109.
446 INDEX.
Brown, 31,
84, 40, 51, 65, 78, 93, 100, 47*, 48*, 58*, 61* 69*, 71*, 77*, 9*,
103, 114, 115, 119, 130, 131, 132, 154, 130*.
162, 187, 188, 193, 197, 204, 224, 243, Canada River 318.
244, 245, 255, 256, 263, 270, 289, 307, Canoe River, 263.
338, 350, 354, 367, 386, 401, 406, 409, Canterbury, 24*.
410, 11*, 12*, 29*, 110*. Canton
Street, 310.
Brunsdon,
48. Caparon,
322.
Buckminster,
274. Cape
Anne, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 126,
Bucks, 300. 142, 50*.
Bulkley, 47,
276. Cape
Cod, 71.
Bumstead,
46. Capen,
14, 187.
Burchsted,
72. Cape
Sables, 62*.
Burden, 322.
Captains
Island, 133.
Burhll, 416.
Cardinal
Albani 32.
Burlington,
121. Carlowitz,
99.
Burnel, 276.
Carlton
Place, 119.
Burnet, 391.
Carolina,
89.
Burns,253. Carpenter,
194, 396.
Burrill,
211. Carr's
Bridge, 39.
Burrington,
56. Carter,
107, 108, 349, 405.
Burroughs,
42, 47, 157, 179, 241, 344, Carver,
318.
410,
417. Cary,
89, 90, 387.
Burton, 352.
Caryl,
159, 177, 189, 271.
Busby, 201. Casco,
189, 16*.
Bushee, 54. Casco
Bay, 81, 85, 86, 87, 89, 189, 389,
Butchers,
153. 38*, 46*, 48*, 54*, 70*,72*, 129*.
Butler, 10,
267, 414, 417, 432. Castine,
328.
Butler's
Wharf, 314, 316. Castle,
59.
Buttolph,
92, 296, 408. Castle
Street, 309, 310.
Button, 408.
Cathcart,
433, 436.
Butts Brook,
383. Cauplin,
40*, 76*.
Byfield, 2,
4, 5, 8, 9, 16,22, 24, 25, 45, Cawford, 322.
46, 53, 57, 64, 67, 71, 79, 96, 101, 103, Ceilon, 7.
104, 105, 106, 116, 139, 178, 187, 214, Center Haven, 408.
283, 285, 237, 256, 264, 305, 340, 341. Chateau, 116*.
Byles, 220. Chamberlin,
118, 198.
Chambers,
176.
Champney,
193, 360.
Chandler,
225, 248, 296, 17*.
C. Chaney,
374.
Channey,
9, 36, 42, 76, 808.
Cabal, 189. Chanterell,
210.
Caesar, 160.
Chapman,
69, 105.
Calamy, 70,
427. Charles,
76.
Caleb, 27. Charles
River, 88, 109, 183, 260, 404.
Calef, 53,
93, 322, 352. Charles
Street, 360.
Calf, 419. Charlestown,
1, 11, 26, 29, 31, 47, 52, 53,
Calley, 201,
38*,47*, 50*, 67*, 70*, 84*, 62, 65, 70, 71, 72, 77, 81, 87, 88, 95,
85*, 131*. 100, 102, 112, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124,
Calvin, 135,
136, 137, 178. 126, 139, 140, 154, 164, 190, 192, 199,
Cambridge,
1, 8, 87, 44, 52, 60, 66, 67, 208, 209, 210, 218, 220, 223, 227, 231,
68, 69, 74, 80, 81, 84, 87, 89, 98, 100, 245, 246, 248, 255, 260, 261, 219, 231,
102, 105, 111, 114, 118, 122, 123, 127, 282, 290, 297, 298, 309, 318, 333, 334,
133, 135, 138, 155, 163, 164, 165, 170, 385, 336, 348, 344, 348, 354, 358, 387,
174, 183, 186, 187, 192, 193, 194, 196, 399, 412, 415, 13*, 19*.
203, 206, 208, 214, 224, 227, 228, 229, Charlestown Hill, 266.
234, 239, 246, 260, 262, 269, 277, 301, Charnock, 320.
303, 306, 328, 331, 352, 355, 357, 360, Chelsea Fields, 169.
369, 391, 406, 14*, 15*, 16*, 17*, 18*, Chebacco, l04
19*, 20*. Checkiey,
8, 10, 11, 25, 86, 44, 45, 48,
Cambridge
Street, 417. 68, 74, 77, 94, 98, 116, 121, 129, 132,
Campbell,
100, 136, 149, 241, 252, 389, 137, 183, 206, 240, 241, 247, 2?0, 253,
394, 418. 251, 287, 294, 297, 302, 309, 320, 331,
Canada, 142,
165, 200, 254, 255, 261, 332, 346, 347, 357, 377, 381, 394, 410,
268, 213, 313, 314, 315, 322, 324, 328, 11*.
329, 374, 389, 390, 403, 37*, 39*, 41*, Chelmsford, 67, 118,
386.
INDEX. 447
Chelsea,
384, 414. Cooke,
25, 26, 29, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43,
Cheney, 171,
173. 45, 46, 47, 48, 54, 55, 63, 64, 66, 77, 78,
Chester,
Bishop of, 374. 79, 96, 103, 109, 121, 129, 137,148, 154,
Chester,
29*. 161, 162, 170, 175, 178, 180, 204, 223,
Chickatabut,
375. 224, 225, 227, 237, 240, 244, 248, 252,
Chiever, 1,
45, 52, 105, 120, 129, 154, 253, 254, 255, 257, 264, 276, 279, 283,
155, 171, 216, 230, 231, 236, 246, 283, 284, 304, 305, 310, 314, 328, 340, 344,
329, 333, 357, 394, 20*, 21*, 22*, 23*. 346, 349, 355, 360, 363, 375, 376, 377,
Child, 112,
170, 356. 395, 409, 415, 8*, 21*.
Chilmark,
166, 435. Cooper,
2, 100, 136, 159, 174, 175, 233,
Chip, 32,
248. 354, 362.
Chirurgeon,
332. Copeland,
1, 253.
Christiantown,
438. Copp,
51, 137, 154, 231, 248, 299, 407,
Church, 64,
225, 237, 238, 252, 418, 438, 408.
30*. Copp's
Hill, 119, 408.
Churches,
397. Cork,
72.
Churchill,
313. Corlet,
165, 191, 192, 13*.
Clapp, 239,
243, 322, 357, 363, 49*. Cornbury,
54, 56, 84, 149.
Clarendon,
54. Corn
hill, 323, 324.
Clark, 1, 8,
15, 24, 30, 33, 37, 38, 47, 51, Cornill,
265.
53, 66, 67, 93, 94, 103, 118, 119, 124, Cornish, 426.
128, 143, 150, 179, 180, 233, 240, 248, Corwin, 34, 40, 44,
78, 79, 83, 100, 130,
251, 253, 256, 275, 276, 279, 284, 303, 154, 161, 162, 188, 223, 224, 225, 236,
308, 310, 318, 320, 324, 326, 334, 335, 237, 241, 245, 246, 251, 256, 257, 263,
336, 337, 340, 345, 363, 367, 370, 373, 264, 267, 283, 287, 292, 298, 304, 305,
379, 393, 399, 401, 402, 407, 413,416, 311, 325, 327, 328, 333, 340, 346, 348,
419, 421, 20*. 367, 375, 396, 399, 424, 425, 11*, 30*.
Clayton,
313. Cotton,
11, 12, 14, 23, 137, 140, 210, 212,
Clifford,
107. 213, 267, 276, 277, 278, 301, 312, 381,
Clough, 198,
310, 320. 398, 430, 481, 438, 439, 7*.
Clough
Street, 320. Cotton
Hill, 22, 75.
Cobb, 183,
408. Courtemaruh,
134.
Coddington,
287. Court
Street, 417.
Codnor, 211.
Cowell,
51, 53, 189, 410.
Coffin, 14,
61, 95, 102, 149,187, 197, 338, Coweset
Ave., 169.
51*. Cowper,
136.
Coke, 149,
179, 186. Cowesick,
61*, 84*.
Colburn,
197. Cox,
102.
Cole, 51,
101, 116, 219, 359. Cradock,
46.
Collins,
321, 440. Crauston,
41, 168.
Colman, 2,
3, 8, 23, 24, 48, 49, 54, 57, Crease,
226.
60, 74, 94, 95, 121, 128, 130, 141, 149, Creedy, 188.
153, 155, 175,179,181, 182, 184, 195, Creese, 373.
196, 208, 214, 229, 235, 239, 241, 252, Croakham, 332.
257, 261, 272, 273, 282, 299, 303, 307, Crocker, 372.
314, 317, 318, 325, 330, 333, 337, 342, Crofts, 57, 70.
353, 355, 357, 361, 364, 376, 379, 385, Crompton, 30, 31, 61.
386, 394, 398, 399, 400, 401, 407, 410, Cromwell, 48, 52,
429.
411, 412, 414, 424. Crosby,
47.
Colson, 323,
419, 421. Crossman,
263.
Comer, 9. Cross
Street, 211, 212.
Commercial
St. 408. Crow,
32, 41.
Common, 11,
55, 189, 310, 344, 353, 360, Crump,
336.
384,
410. Cuffee,
386.
Concord, 48,
67, 287, 347, 18*. Culliver,
222.
Concord
Street, 119. Cumby,
280.
Condor, 15.*
Cunable,
9.
Coney, 137,
186, 210, 249, 250, 347, Curacoa,
7.
393. Curasso,
384.
Coney's
Lane, 210, 211. Curtice,
11, 12, 14.
Congress
Street, 113, 232. Curtis,
276, 50*, 51*.
Connecticut,
4, 54,60, 65, 109, 133, 135, Curwin,
113.
150, 153, 188, 318, 328, 367, 389, 411, Cushing, 9, 27, 29,
42, 75, 97, 127, 156,
11*, 16*, 63*, 109*, 125*. 157, 162, 166, 183, 188, 201, 224, 225,
Converse,
62, 75, 132, 262, 93*. 252, 256, 263, 276, 303, 304, 305, 340,
Cook, 1, 2,
5, 9, 10, 14, 20, 23, 24. 341, 375, 390, 425, 427, 30*.
448 INDEX.
Cushnet,
167. 208, 209, 228, 229, 235, 238, 239, 313,
Cutler, 1,
25, 67, 175, 221, 251,253, 283, 353, 354, 362, 368, 418.
290, 294, 302, 349, 373. Dorothy,
62, 108
Dagget, 396,
397, 438. Douay,
287.
Dallie, 153,
407. Dougan,
434.
Dalton, 125,
125, 127. Douglas,
334, 335.
Dana, 144,
234. Dover,
45*, 54*.
Dana's
Brook, 234. Dover
Street, 225, 309.
Dane, 234. Dow
156.
Daney, 234. Dowden,
8.
Danford,
199. Downing,
188.
Danforth, 1,
23, 26, 34, 93, 97, 113, 115, Downs,
150, 251.
118, 166, 167, 178, 185, 188, 198, 209, Dracot, 53.
228, 229, 233, 237, 261, 263, 264, 265, Drake,
142,154,158, 309, 323, 408, 417.
306, 355, 362, 368, 374, 411, 8*, 14*, Draper, 257, 275, 318.
20*. Drew, 373.
Daniel, 10,
11, 15, 27, 178, 264. Drinker,
120.
Darby, l67,
319. Drury,
68.
Dartmouth,
228. Du
Bast, 260.
Dastrom,
236. Dublin,
89, 313.
Davenport,
137, 197, 242, 303, 308, 402, Dudley,
40, 41, 47, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 63,
406, 438. 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 77, 80, 82, 84,
92,
David; 111,
121, 151, 178, 184, 192, 193, 97, 98, 102, 104, 105, 106, 109, 111,
215, 216, 236, 244, 251, 255, 258, 263, 112, 115, 121, 124, 125, 129, 131, 132,
264, 334, 406, 409, 425, 440. 139, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149,
Davie, 188,
195. 151, 152, 158, 159, 162, 172, 177, 186,
Davis, 6,
16, 46, 47, 105, 114, 118, 145, 187, 190, 195, 198, 199, 200, 201, 207,
159, 180, 206, 237, 257, 322, 362, 396, 208, 209, 212, 214, 232, 237, 244, 247,
439, 440, 13*, 115*. 248, 252, 254, 255, 268, 284, 285, 290,
Davison, 14,
38, 61, 124, 161. 296, 297, 300, 309, 317, 327, 328, 338,
Daws, 96,
142. 343, 346, 349, 350, 355, 357, 359, 360,
Dean, 47,
133, 16*. 361, 367, 372, 377, 389, 393, 407, 410,
Dearfield,
257, 349, 46*, 54*. 416, 430,
9*, 17*, 29*, 30*, 35*, 37*,
Deborah,
170. 39*, 44*, 46*, 47*, 48*, 49*, 50*, 52*,
Dedham, 31,
60, 64, 65, 80, 82, 88, 112, 53*, 54*, 55*, 56*, 67*, 68*, 69*, 73*,
113, 114, 116, 117, 169, 185, 210, 237, 74*, 79*, 80*, 87*, 89*, 90*, 91*, 94*,
241, 265, 312, 323, 325, 346, 362, 377, 104*, 105*, 106*, 107*, 108*; 109*,
110*,
415,446. 114*, 116*, 118*, 119*, 120*, 124*, 125*,
Dedham
Street, 310; 126*, 127*, 129*, 130*.
Deerfield,
96, 127, 173, 175, 182, 255, Duke
of Anjou, 32.
374, 391, 63*. Duke
of Ormond, 72.
Deering, 26,
55, 165, 175, 257, 363. Dummer,
16, 21, 24, 26, 30,39,55,60,
Defoe, 97, 61, 63, 66, 71, 72, 92, 94, 100, 111,
112,
Deming, 1,
5, 133, 140, 155, 178, 356. 123, 124, 155, 159, 165, 175, 221, 226,
Denison,
179, 282, 414, 430, 433, 437, 232, 237, 251, 255, 268, 271, 272, 283,
438, 12*. 284, 285, 287, 288, 315, 331, 349, 353,
Denny, 144. 357, 377, 393, 405, 414, 415, 416.
Derefield,
332, 39*, 71*, 74*, 84*. Dungan,
434.
Deringe,
3l9. Dunnam,
437.
De Rogers,
374. Dunstable,
67, 409.
Devon, 188. Dunton,
119, 219, 410.
Devotion,
169, 237, 264, 265. Duxbury,
15, 375, 438.
Dible, 15*. Dwight,
158, 176, 176, 180, 186, 201, 324,
Dier, 254. 415.
Dimond, 347.
Dyar,
23, 67, 68, 117, 231, 251.
Dinsdal,
216. Dyer,
254, 200, 302, 316, 325, 335, 336,
Disney, 313.
392, 395, 424, 15*.
Dixwell,
138.
Dock Square,
323.
Dod, 43,
212. E.
Doggett,
130, 437, 438.
Doliver, 244.
Eames,
15*.
Don Barthol.
de las Casas, 13. East,
113.
Doolittle,
381. East
Boston, 376.
Dorby, 303. Easterbrooks,
132.
Dorchester,
27, 29, 34, 39, 71, 93, 178, Eastham,
71, 252, 387.
INDEX. 449
East
Hampton, 408, 440. Ferguson,
188.
East Indies,
4, 113*. Ferry,
21, 31, 41, 45, 65, 71, 89, 116, 122,
Eaton, 113,
114. 162, 168, 188, 181, 191, 192, 287, 244,
Ebenezer,
128. 246, 255, 311, 322, 333, 340, 355, 358;
Edgartown,
262. 415, 418, 432.
Edgecomb, 6.
Fessenden,
135, 328.
Edinburgh,
142. Fifield,
12, 32, 38, 119, 287, 301, 373, 374.
Edmund, 27. Fireworks,
24.
Edward, 27,
218. Fisher,
64, 356, 397, 482, 433, 438.
Edwards, 89,
328, 368, 19*. Fisk,
2, 23, 26, 97, 104, 136, 179, 185,
Eels, 97,
252, 340, 342. 186, 226, 228, 229, 237, 411.
Eldridge,
169. Fissenden,
318.
Eliot, 23,
25, 92, 118, 135, 136. Fitch,
8, 35, 36, 42, 45, 69, 98, 161, 235,
Elliot, 165,
166, 180, 198, 206, 213, 225, 246,
258. 272, 297, 308, 309, 346, 356.
250, 279, 320, 326, 350, 400, 429, 439, 381, 383, 394, 410, 411, 416.
11*, 14*, 15*, 16*, 20*, 21*. Flack,
368.
Eliot
Street, 119, 320. Flavel,
60, 122, 338.
Elisa, 248. Fietcher,
Eliza, 83. Flint,
8, 80, 81, 112, 165, 179, 186, 209,
Elizabeth,
130, 216. 214, 228, 232, 244, 258, 294, 302, 331,
Elm Pasture,
128. 339, 341, 343, 357, 362, 396, 406.
Elm Street,
159. Floid,
16*.
Ellary, 322 Flying
Horse, 51*.
Ellis, 49,
51, 373. Flynt,
399.
Emerson.
266, 284. Foe,
47., 48*.
Emery, 102,
171, 175, 351, 384. Forbes,
94.
Emons, 120. Fort
Anne, 141.
Emmons, 275,
417. Fort
William, 141.
Emory,116. Foster,
2, 5, 21, 24, 25, 40, 42, 43, 68, 78,
England, 3,
10, 20, 31, 33, 48, 52, 54, 58, 91, 92, 103, 109, 118, 122,130, 134, 137,
70, 84, 97, 98, 112, 116, 124, 125, 144, 138, 154, 162, 174, 188, 208, 219, 224,
148, 149, 169, 188, 214, 225, 232, 234, 229, 240, 256, 259, 262, 263, 274, 280,
261, 274, 288, 313, 315, 324, 389, 80*, 299, 300, 308, 304, 305, 312, 331, 373,
43*,
55*, 67*, 68*, 73*, 79*, 85*, 88*, 410, 411, 11*.
91*, 93*, 99*, 106*, 121*. Fountain,
262.
Engs, 218. Fowl,
62, 89, 115.
Epes, 14,
69, 225, 238, 241, 256, 263, 310, Fowl
Meadow, 65.
320, 350, 367, 403. Fox,
62, 74, 257,
Ephraim,
383. Foxcroft,
6, 47, 61, 66, 67, 98, 111, 128,
Escombuet,
38*, 70*, 73*. 214, 227, 233, 270, 313, 367, 403.
Essex, 68,
105. 268, 47*, 50*, 118*. Foy,
251, 279, 327.
Esterbrooks,
10, 11, 67, 190. Foyes,
248.
Euphrates,
55. 140, 141. Framingham,
34.
Europe, 90*,
91*, 94*. France,
32, 33, 88, 142, 225, 234, 269,
Eustace,
332, 357. 392, 129*.
Evans, 308. Franklin,
78, 98, 286, 335, 381.
Everden,
137. Franklin
Street, 114.
Everit, 17*.
Frary,
8, 23.
Everton,
124. Frazier,
80*.
Evesham,
269. Frazon,
95.
Exeter, 38,
45*, 54*. Freak,
370.
Eyre, 8, 11,
15, 16, 80, 128, 195, 383, 7*. Freeman,
169.
French, 87, 127.
Frog Lane, 23, 320, 410.
F. Fryer
Lane, 170.
Fuller, 47, 186.
Fairbanks,
76. Furber,
45*, 53*, 83*, 84*.
Fairweather,
25, 250, 319, 344. Furgison,
51*.
Falmouth,
54, 166, 188, 432. Gallen,
54*.
Farmington,
8*. Galley,
103, 51*.
Farnum, 51,
408. Gallop,
89, 98, 801, 319.
Farwell,
409. Gardiner,
7, 132, 228, 288, 289, 331.
Fausdicke,
415. Gardiner's
Island, 7.
Fayall, 54. Gardner,
197, 331, 332, 19*.
Fayerwether,
251, 343, 344, 11*. Gaskill,
12.
Fenno, 409,
422. Gatchell,
211.
450 INDEX.
Gatchman,
104. Guernsey,
68*.
Gates, 64,
89, 139, 158, 165, 195, 372, 406. Guinea,
16.
Gay Head,
166, 427, 433, 434, 435. Gulliver,
119.
Gedney, 47,
101, 104, 8*, 14*. Gullock,
8.
Gee. 6, 45,
362, 396, 408, 20*,
Geoffries,
13, 399.
George, 128,
229, 246, 363. H.
Gerrish, 14,
31, 39, 42, 55, 62, 77, 100,
101, 103, 105, 136, 161, 187, 246, 249, Hadley, 301.
250, 251, 255, 256, 257, 262, 266, 269, Hagar, 150.
271, 281, 282, 285, 286, 289, 290, 307, Hagg, 113.
311, 334, 336, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, Halberneld, 272.
355, 384, 395, 398, 409, 17*. Hale,
15, 31,61,101,123,161,162,187,
Gery, 50*. 256, 282, 283, 318, 364, 384, 390, 391,
Gibbins,
180, 181. 426.
Gibbons,
193. Halfway
Pond, 309.
Gibbs, 25,
26, 42, 69, 70, 98, 111, 135, Hall,
390, 12*.
156, 182, 183, 186, 196, 412. Hallowell, 216.
Gilbert,
104, 368, 396. Hambleton,
3.
Giles, 392. Hamilton,
3, 70.
Gill, 8,
156, 402. Hamlet,
405.
Gillam, 4,
6, 142, 158, 161, 14*, 19*. Hammond,
47, 62, 75, 78, 131, 162, 321.
Gillman, 38,
414. Hampshire,
174, 220.
Gleason,
361. Hampton,
14, 38, 276, 277, 301, 45*, 64*.
Glocester,
104, 105, 107, 126, 127, 399. Hancock,
67, 347, 370.
Glover, 119,
135, 250, 11*. Handy,
292.
Goff, 47,
114, 227, 301, 403. Hannah,
17, 22, 23, 61, 66, 68, 83,
Gooch, 8,
117. 100, 122, 136, 216, 239, 243, 247, 266,
Goodue, 194,
199. 270, 272, 285, 287, 293, 294, 307, 321,
Gooding,
195. 330, 364, 371, 378, 395, 396, 399, 400,
Goodrich,
197. 413, 435.
Goodwin, 8,
135, 13*. Hanover,
427.
Googe, 22. Hanson,
110.
Gookin, 11,
27, 56, 76, 81, 114, 118, 156, Harcourt,
416.
160, 186, 243, 358, 429, 439, 20* Harley,
315.
Goose, 51,
95, 279, 294, 11*. Harlock.435.
Gordon, 421.
Harman,
216.
Gore, 109,
300, 309. Harris,
14, 130, 187, 190, 233, 238, 255,
Goreham,
413. 281, 332, 337, 367, 394, 395.
Gouge, 122. Harrison,
90.
Graften,
239. Hart,
46, 77.
Grant, 191. Hartford,
112.
Graves, 398,
7*. Harvard,
112, 263, 272, 400, 12*, 29*.
Gray, 112,
114, 115, 223, 307. Harvey,
408.
Great
Britain, 225, 392, 85*. Hassit,
433.
Great
Island, 364. Hastings,
38, 135, 322, 340, 348, 352, 396.
Great Ponds,
375, Hatch,
51, 362, 399.
Green, 21*,
22*. Hatfield,
283, 318, 355.
Green Lane,
129. Hathorne,
2, 15, 40, 63, 64, 68, 71, 73, 77,
Green, 12,
14, 20, 28, 29, 78, 88, 97,101, 114, 115, 130, 139, 147,
Greene, 35,
51, 52, 78, 100,101, 136, 150, 148, 151, 154, 162, 163, 164, 165, 187,
169, 170, 237, 239, 246, 251, 252, 263, 188, 194, 199, 223, 224, 241, 245, 251,
269, 284, 285, 296, 306, 326, 336, 337, 255, 256, 260, 263, 264, 287, 292, 298,
354, 356, 363, 379, 392, 398, 415. 311, 340, 346, 348, 349, 384, 403, 14*.
Greenleaf,
49, 50, 51, 61, 137, 251, 389. Haverhill,
95, 234, 357.
Greenough,
321. Haverly,
59*, 86*,87*.
Greenwood,
64, 194, 236, 264, 265, 288, Hawkins,
49, 51, 95, 109, 116, 271, 300.
303, 321. Hawksworth,
70.
Grice, 330. Hawley,
21, 312.
Griggs, 8,
22, 231. Hawley
Street, 113, 114.
Grimsby,
404. Haws,
432, 433, 436, 438.
Grindall,
368. Hayman,
9, 78, 79, 89, 103, 130, 154, 268,
Gross, 410. 369, 11*.
Groton, 67,
188, Hayward,
206.
Groundsill,
248. Hazard,
159,168.
INDEX. 451
Heath, 410. Holton,
331.
Heaton, 192.
Holyoke,
8, 73, 79, 134, 206, 209, 230
Hedge, 10. 238, 306, 320, 339, 398, 409, 9*, 11*.
Henchman,
41, 69, 126, 136, 150, 171, Holyoke
Street, 320.
172, 222, 12*. Homes,
170, 181, 274, 388, 401, 405,
Henry, 72,
161, 246, 404, 433.
Herbert,
228. Hollington,
98.
Herborn,
123. Hook,
173.
Hermer, 198.
Hooker,
8*.
Hern, 28,
124, 139, 198. Hopkins,
416.
Heron, 68. Hopkinton,
426.
Herrick,
105. Horace,
182.
Herring
Pond, 166. Horton,
217, 19*.
Hersey,47. Houchins.
5.
Heton,.114. Howard,
26, 36, 116, 344, 373, 395.
Heveningham,
268. Howe,
34, 56.
Hews, 189. Howell,
336, 389, 419, 421, 422.
Hicks, 66. Hubbard,
14, 22, 29, 46, 65, 77, 82, 93,
Higginson,
26, 40, 53, 56, 69, 78, 100, 130, 116, 117, 137, 155, 172, 179, 206, 223,
131,132,138,142, 162, 172, 178, 188, 231, 236, 239, 248, 249, 270, 271, 272,
196, 199, 202, 204, 218, 224, 243, 244, 277, 290, 393, 407, 11*, 13*, 17*.
245, 246, 254, 256, 263, 288, 320, 326, Hubbart, 409.
349, 367, 402, 13*, 112*, 113*, 131*. Hudson, 24, 113.
Highway, 81,
89, 129, 304, 309, 310, 319, Hughes,
427.
330, 410. Hull,
50, 62, 76, 134, 185, 198, 322, 16*,
Hill, 8, 10,
49, 51, 56, 113, 116, 134, 158, 18*.
160, 175, 186, 206, 246, 257, 279, 287, Hull Street, 35, 129,
13*.
313, 316, 377, 394, 21*. Hungarian,
20*.
Hiller, 198,
427. Hunt,
26, 50, 71, 75, 78, 79, 127, 131, 138,
Hinckes,
107. 162, 183, 185, 188, 205, 222, 223, 224,
Hingham, 27,
97, 183, 188, 189, 221, 276, 227, 256, 263, 271, 274, 298, 304, 390,
375, 13*. 392, 411, 11*.
Hirst, 13,
23, 24, 26, 28, 31, 39, 44, 45, Hunter,
271.
47, 52, 60, 61, 68, 69, 72, 73, 77, 82,
91, Hunting, 41,
52, 440.
92, 93, 94, 95, 99, 102, 112, 122, 128, Hutchins, 369, 372.
140, 141, 142, 153, 158, 170, 179, 199, Hutchinson, 1, 2,
5, 8, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25,
206, 210, 221, 223, 235, 236, 239, 245, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 48, 53, 55, 57, 59,
60,
247, 248, 250, 266, 282, 285, 286, 289, 67, 68, 72, 78, 88, 90, 91, 92, 96, 102,
308, 311, 320, 328, 329, 345, 348, 353, 103, 109, 117, 118, 121, 122, 125, 126,
355, 356, 359, 375, 381, 384, 389, 396, 127, 130, 131, 134, 135, 187, 138, 142,
400, 403, 404, 406, 415. 149, 152, 153, 154, 162, 172, 174, 175,
Hispaniola,
4. 183, 188, 189, 190, 191, 199, 201, 203,
Hitchborne,
303. 204, 208, 214, 224, 226, 233, 240, 248,
Hittee
(Indian), 340, 341. 254, 255, 256, 257, 259, 263, 265, 272,
Hoags,102. 274, 278, 293, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303,
Hobart, 2,
34, 77, 94, 117, 138, 183, 193, 306, 308, 322, 32.3, 324, 327, 328, 331,
209, 221, 229, 234, 239, 252, 260, 279, 333, 339, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, 349,
282, 293, 308, 330, 337, 338, 344, 345, 357, 363, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 373,
347, 360, 361, 362, 364, 410. 385, 389, 395, 402, 407, 409, 410, 411,
Hobbie, 43,
55, 69, 68, 70, 79. 412, 415, 416, 419, 422, 424, 11*, 42*.
Hobby, 121,
142, 149, 195, 201, 203, 243,
248, 257, 261, 284, 306, 333, 339, 356,
383, 396, 416. I.
Hobins, 216.
Hodges, 167.
Ilsly,
371, 405.
Hog Island,
66, 89, 280, 844, 365, 362, Indian
chief, 261.
369. Indies,
41*.
Holberton,
196. Ipswich,
14, 22, 29, 31, 38, 39, 56, 60, 65,
Holbrook,
76, 127. 69, 77, 80, 81, 101, 102, 105, 116, 155,
Holland, 96,
129. 161, 187, 229, 246, 231, 246, 255, 256,
Hollis
Street, 320. 272, 281, 282, 310, 311, 319, 320, 348,
Holliston,
76. 350, 377, 383, 384, 406, 16*, 17*, 19*,
Holman, 221,
261. 20*, 105*, 118*.
Holmes, 173,
257, 313, 319, 30*, 131*. Ipswich
River, 313.
Holmes Hole,
166, 436. Ireland,
43, 225, 433.
Holm's, 205,
414. Isaac,
218.
452
INDEX.
Isles of
Shoales, 105, 45*. Kay,
327.
Isle of
Wight, 92, 214, 68*. Keats,
89.
Keayne, 35, 109, 114.
Kebeck, 85
J. Keeling,
28, 216, 297, 368, 412
Jackson,
144, 148, 171, 281, 234, 239, Kellond,
300, 303.
16*, 17*. Kempenfeldt,
313.
Jacobs, 276.
Kendal,
336.
Jamaica, 32,
33, 119, 135, 142, 194. Kenrick,
113.
James, 107,
108, 130, 184. Kent,
30, 41, 307.
James
(King), 10*. Kibbie,
76, 96, 304.
James
Printer (Indian), 296. Kid,
3, 4, 6, 7.
Jane, 80,
68, 72, 75, 136, 136, 187, 189, Kilby,
318.
190, 246, 319. Kilcup,
117.
Jane
(negro), 22, 29, 46. King,
107, 108, 109, 116, 264, 316, 317
Japhet, 434.
440.
Jarvis, 102.
King
Alfred, 122*.
Jefferson,
288. King,Charles,
99*.
Jeffries, 112,
118, 310, 346, 361, 381, 383, King's Chapel, 57, 70,
119, 136.
389. King
James, 100.
Jekye, 196,
866, 421, 440. King
Street, 316, 323.
Jemeson,
374. King
William, 68, 36*, 67*, 68*.
Jenkins,
112. Kinsman,
109*.
Jenner, 253.
Kirk,
313.
Jeremy, 376.
Kitchen,
69, 246, 365, 408.
Jericho,
129*. Kittery,
13, 88, 77, 45*, 54*.
Jesse, 61. Kittery
Circuit, 56.
Jewett, 164.
Kneeland,
363.
Joanna, 219.
Knight,
107.
Jocelyn,
332, 430. Knowlton,
31.
Joclin, 332.
Knox,
210, 211.
John, 27,
130, 161, 184, 188, 266.
Johns, 316.
Johnson, 51,
98, 167, 280, 285, 297, 337, L.
18*
Jonathan,
72, 180, 184, 311, 328. La
Bloom, 235, 236, 320.
Jones, 107,
108. Lake,
137.
Jones River,
252. Lakeville,
166.
Joseph, 13,
16, 21, 31, 39, 46, 59, 63, 72, La
Loutre, 389.
80, 81, 88, 87, 89, 91, 99, 111, 112, 134,
Lambert, 108,
109, 111.
135, 153, 160, 165, 170, 173, 174, 182, Lampton, 338.
183, 190, 206, 208, 209, 216, 234, 239, Lancashire, 267.
243, 247, 249, 252, 279, 283, 285, 287, Lancaster, 67, 114,
140.
290, 293, 297, 299, 301, 302, 303, 306, Lane, 109, 324.
308, 315, 318, 325, 328, 329, 330, 331, Langden, 355.
335, 338, 342, 348, 344, 345, 347, 349, Larned, 76, 156.
362, 363, 354, 355, 369, 362, 364, 367, Larnell, 297, 336,
348, 356, 362, 369, 396,
368, 370, 376, 377, 379, 383, 380, 388, 428.
389, 390, 394, 395, 406, 409, 418. Larrimore,
65, 108, 104, 105, 106, 107.
Josiah, 37,
218, 375. Lason,
124, 125, 126, 165.
Josse, 125. Latherby,
362.
Joyliffe,
48, 95, 10*, 17*. Lawrence,
108, 211, 367, 374.
Joyner, 332.
Lawson,
124, 211, 223, 252, 40*, 45*; 51*,
Joy's
Building, 100. 54*, 70*, 117*, 119*.
Judd, 60,
133. Leach's
Stream, 263.
Judith, 60,
65, 68, 74, 75, 77, 79, 101, 102, Lechmere,
269, 303.
112, 114, 116, 117, 135, 136, 216, 321, Lee, 210, 211, 303.
330; 396. Leeds,
239.
Legg, 74, 77, 78, 79, 100, 104, 117, 131,
K. 153, 162, 16*.
Leland, 76.
Kallender,
276, 290. Lemon,
257.
Kane, 313. Lenard,
116.
Kaquendero,
261. Lendall,
326.
Kates 344. Le
Neves 149.
INDEX. 453
Lennard,
194, 264. M.
Leonard,
167.
Leverett, 9,
63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 71, 75, 77, Macauly,
4.
83, 84, 88, 89, 91, 97, 101, 104, 114, Maccaness, 3.
116, 120, 121, 122, 127, 139, 147, 149, Maccarty. 94, 150.
151, 152, 154, 155, 157, 158, 161, 162, Macdonel. 50.
164, 165, 167, 172, 173, 182, 187, 188, Mackintosh, 64, 82,
288, 322, 396, 397.
191, 192, 194,196, 199, 204, 205, 208, Macquerry, 53.
209, 214, 227, 232, 233, 255, 257, 271, Madagascar, 4.
272, 285, 300, 311, 337, 357, 403, 404, Madera, 56.
416, 8*, 29*, 120*. Magazine
Street, 114.
Lewes, 68,
69, 208. Maine,
93, 131, 188, 256.
Lewis, 29,
31, 69, 95, 101, 102, 105, 117, Major,
95.
118, 142, 153, 161, 162, 187, 198, 224, Makentash, 64, 139,
264, 270.
246, 276, 281, 289, 326, 348, 367, 375, Malden, Maldon, 81,
100, 132, 133, 272,
404, 427. 354, 20*, 21*, 22*, 23*.
Leydon, 1. Malplaquet,
269.
Lichmore,
246. Mamore,
339.
Lillie, 23,
162, 163, 362. Man,
265, 278, 397.
Lincoln,
136, 159. Manchester,
104.
Lindal, 161,
295. Manly,
300.
Lindall
Street, 113, 232. Mann,
8, 88, 236.
Lindsey, 92,
128. Manumit
River, 166.
Lion, 77,
322. Marblehead,
20, 57, 60, 92, 103, 104, 105,
Lisbon. 156,
196, 106, 205, 220, 320, 321, 333, 349, 400,
Lisle, 243,
8*, 47*, 50*.
Little, 9,
115, 183, 276, 277, 305, 340. March,
83, 189, 72*.
Little
Compton, 342. Margaret,
72, 77, 246, 329.
Livingston,
3, 328, 369. Marlboro
Street, 114.
Lockyer,
100. Marlborough,
213, 269, 406, 89*.
London, 6,
12, 35, 52, 58, 70,99,101,123, Marion,
130, 137, 154, 182, 183, 184, 185,
142, 156, 159, 169, 170, 179, 196, 197, 248, 257, 283, 286.
198, 200, 203, 234, 254, 262, 267, 268, Maroll, 391.
273, 313, 342, 400, 408, 410, 412, 19*, Marseilles, 202.
24*, 29*, 47*, 50*, 52*, 55*, 81*, 89*, Marsh, 260, 286, 378,
379, 387.
93*, 102*, 106*, 109*, 110*, 112*, Marshal,
Marshall, 11, 113, 114, 255, 266,
117*, 120*, 275, 329, 440.
Long Ditton,
233. Marshfield,
9, 130, 216, 218, 223, 403.
Longfellow,
17*. Marshpee,
166.
Long Island,
314, 408, 440. Marston,
60, 104, 208, 311, 367.
Long Wharf,
440. Martin,
2, 40, 92, 170, 293, 295, 297, 303.
Lops, 174. Martineco,
306.
Lord
Verulam, 123. Mary,
62, 66, 83, 89, 95, 112, 117, 130,
Loring, 69,
216, 391. 135, 136, 139, 140, 179, 208, 216, 243,
Lothrop, 75,
134, 166, 183, 305, 375, 413, 249, 250, 251, 257, 263, 336, 361, 396.
432, 435,
437, 438. Maryon,
1, 8, 29, 316, 409, 410.
Love, 79. Masham,
313.
Lovelace,
238, 243. Mashpan,
438.
Lowder, 180,
184, 409. Mason,
96, 115, 120, 121, 142, 196, 219,
Lowell, 189,
332, 357, 384, 113*.
Lue, 210. Massachusetts,
341, 46*, 47*, 116*, 124*,
Lumbard,
432. 125*, 130*.
Luther, 27,
116. Massachusetts
Archives, 90.
Lyde, 69,
139, 233, 235, 331, 395. Massachusetts
Bay, 58, 44*, 46*, 50*,
Lydia, 62,
184. 52*, 55*, 56*, 84*, 90*, 91*, 94*, 107*.
Lymerick,
437. Massinger,
148.
Lynde, 2, 5,
8, 9, 25, 40, 47, 50, 65, 71, Mather,
2, 3, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 35,
76, 77, 78, 79, 88, 100, 124, 130, 131, 41, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 53, 57, 59,
66,
132, 134, 179, 188, 100, 202, 209, 224, 67, 69, 70, 80, 84, 91, 108, 109, 110,
115,
240, 249, 254, 255, 256, 257, 263, 278, 117, 118, 134, 135, 136, 138, 170, 171,
283, 286, 304, 305, 306, 307, 310, 326, 172, 174, 175, 180,181,184,186,195,
328, 350, 357, 375, 395,396, 399, 409, 196, 198, 200, 201, 203, 204, 207, 208,
417, 418, 425, 430. 209, 211, 212, 213, 215, 217, 220, 230,
Lyndsey,
412. 232, 236, 239, 241, 248, 251, 253, 257,
Lynn, 42,
48, 263, 282, 356, 414, 14*. 260, 263, 266, 269, 270, 275, 279, 280,
Lytherland,
25. 281, 283, 288, 290, 291, 295, 298, 300,
454 INDEX.
305, 306, 307, 312, 314, 315, 319, 323, Minot, 8, 21, 47, 67,
174, 192, 233, 251,
325, 328, 330, 332, 334, 335, 337,
344, 310, 348, 424, 55*.
345, 347, 348, 350, 354, 356, 359, 362, Mistick,330.
363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 371, 376, 377, Mitchell, 72, 246.
379, 381, 382, 383, 385, 386, 389, 390, Mitchelson, 14*.
392, 396, 397, 398, 400, 401, 402, 403, Mittimus Hill, 158.
404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 413, 416, Mix, 399.
417, 425, 438, 440, 20*, 21*, 23*, 29*, Mogangog Lands, 396.
30*. Mohawk
Chiefs, 261.
Mattapeeset,
375. Momontaug, 375.
Matthews,
261, 322, 327, 346, 53*. Mompesson,
45, 148, 149.
Maxwell, 45,
57, 123, 152, 159, 174, 215, Monk,
35, 73, 79.
219, 259, 214, 299, 302, 333, 366. 401. Monotocot, Monotocott,
161, 277.
May, 309. Montford,
94.
Mayhew, 166,
260, 263, 269, 270, 276, Montreal,
173, 265, 374, 64*.
277, 282, 283, 285, 286, 290, 291, 295, Moody, Moodey, 9, 14,
30, 39, 45, 52, 56,
407, 429, 433, 434, 435, 436, 431, 438, 61, 62, 63, 75, 96, 102, 109, 115, 135,
439.
136, 162, 175, 183, 187, 190, 196, 256,
Maylem, 5. 260, 266, 277, 282, 318, 339, 344, 364,
Mayo, 430. 371, 384, 389, 401, 414, 416, 8*, 21*,
Meadfield,
236, 377. 72*.
Meadford,
209, 370. Moore,
More, 300, 368, 11*.
Meadows,
228. Morat,
271.
Medfield,
114, 139. Moreau,
366.
Medford, 31,
272, 321, 350. Morey,
128, 166, 263, 287, 426.
Medway, 404.
Morocco,
3.
Meers, 213,
257, 301, 363. Morse,
47, 76, 114, 124, 156, 323, 350.
Meetinghouse,
76, 115. Mortimer,
315.
Meetinghouse
Hill, 158. Morton,
89, 306, 8*.
Mehitabel,
187. Moss,
14, 76, 323, 346.
Mehitable,
23, 62, 72, 187, 246. Mount
Etna, 208.
Melville,
322. Mountford,
12, 13, 100.
Melyen, 8,
29, 110, 128, 136, 174, 356. Mount
Hope, 14*, 16*.
Menotomy,
392. Moxes,
87.
Menzies, 45.
Muddy
River, 8, 11, 80, 89, 91, 146.
Mequinez, 3.
Muddy
River Marsh, 74.
Merrill,
338. Mulford,
440.
Merrimac
River, 67, 156. Mulgrave,
43.
Merriwether,
398. Mumford,
114, 168, 232.
Messenger,
210. Murat,
356.
Messengers.
111. Myles,
57, 69, 112, 136, 184, 233, 259,
Metcalf,
183, 391, 432. 260, 292, 318, 337, 401.
Mexico, 53.
Miajah, 266.
Mico, 28,
207, 208, 233, 260, 285, 332, N.
406.
Middleboro,
Middleborough,
166, 218. Nahant,
134, 19*.
Middlebury,
183, 277. Nantasket,
3, 150, 254, 321, 335, 376, 409.
Middlecott,
21. Nantucket,
197, 217, 218, 437, 439.
Middlesex,
59, 81. Narigowock,
61*.
Middlesex
Street, 320. Narragansett,
Narraganset, 64, 169, 167,
Middleton,
61. 168, 307, 387.
Mighill,
190. Nashobah,
55*, 107*.
Miles, 234. Nassau,
88, 123.
Milk Street,
113. Nathan,
27.
Milford
Haven, 349. Nathaniel,
120.
Mill-bridge,
326. Natick,
186, 213, 217, 260, 271, 356, 435,
Miller, 56,
108, 109, 186, 222, 223, 305, 439.
322. Naushon,
166.
Mill Pond,
212, 417. Neal,
123.
Mills, 21,
198, 206, 277, 288, 297, 332, Needham,
211, 329.
340, 356, 375. Neesnurnin,
212, 217, 263, 276.
Milton, 10,
13, 15, 115, 118, 168, 180, 221, Nelson,
38, 255, 314, 363, 17*, 115*.
222, 229, 261, 362, 375, 399, 409. Nenemeno
Indian, 225.
Mingo, 32,
253, 333. Netmaker,
419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424.
INDEX. 455
Nevis, 161,
16*, 17~, 19*, 20,* 42*, 78*, North
River Bridge, 340.
80*. North
Street, 154, 396.
Newberry, 7,
13, 14, 15, 20, 29, 30, 31, Norton,
9, 148, 183, 185, 219, 221, 224,
38, 39, 46, 48, 49, 60, 61, 77, 81, 101, 225, 263, 276, 418.
102, 149, 161, 178, 100, 196, 238, 255, Norwalk, 408, 411.
300, 337, 338, 384, 405. Norwich,
18.
Newcastle,
70, 284. Nova
Scotia, 142, 268, 299, 41*, 77*.
New Castle,
88, 52*, 53*. Nowell,
416, 18*. "
Newcomb,
426, 430, 49*. Noyes,
14, 26, 30, 36, 37, 39, 48, 55, 61, 78,
New England,
3, 46, 82, 127, 149, 188, 94, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 148, 149, 156,
198, 199, 200, 288, 261, 269, 299, 300, 161, 162, 172, 179, 184, 187, 192, 199
313, 331, 365, 369, 20*, 35*, 36*, 38*, 219, 220, 225, 238, 241, 244, 245, 246
40*, 41*, 42*, 43*, 44*, 45*, 47*, 48*, 247, 251, 296, 303, 308, 309, 310, 312:
49*, 50*, 54*, 55*, 56*, 57*, 67*, 68*, 326, 329, 349, 357, 403, 404, 406, 419,
70*, 71*, 72*, 73*, 76*, 77*, 78*, 79*, 11*,
80*, 81*, 82, 83*, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88*,
89*, 90*, 91*, 93*, 94*, 99*, 100*, 102*, O.
103*, 104*, 106*, 107*, 110*, 112*, 115*,
117*, 119*, 120*, 122*, 123*, 124*, 125*, Oakes, 29, 37, 49, 74, 77,
78, 88, 134, 174,
126*, 127*, 129*, 130*, 131*. 178, 204, 231, 243, 279, 294, 324, 329,
Newfoundland,
56, 130, 254, 260, 364, 349, 354, 363, 368, 373, 409, 14*, 17*,
405, 38*, 49*, 70*, 130*. 23*.
Newgate, 4,
397. Obadiah,
120.
Newhall,
22*. Oburn,
368.
New
Hampshire, 31, 45, 126, 151, 189, Odell,
142, 216, 220, 241, 242. 202, 268,
324, 44*, 52*, 54*, 55*, 56*, Odkins,
211.
82*, 93*, 94*. Odlin,
26, 124, 327, 410.
New Haven,
137, 231, 351. Oliver,
6, 8, 15, 25, 28, 32, 34, 37, 69, 91,
Newhill,
266. 92, 99, 100, 117, 158, 160, 172, 186, 191,
New Jersey,
3. 192, 211, 216, 220, 243, 250, 277, 290,
New London,
25, 33, 228, 292, 308, 317, 301, 303, 308, 315, 330, 335, 344, 345,
345, 352, 360, 377, 407, 440. 361, 362, 381, 383, 394, 402, 410, 411,
Newman, 139,
268, 288, 295, 12*. 416.
Newport, 95,
120, 168, 322. Ompane,
433, 434.
Newsletter,
106, 108, 109, 110, 120. Oort,
3.
Newton, 45,
119, 124, 138, 144, 145, 171, Oporto,
72.
196, 202, 214, 233, 234, 239, 264, 272, Orange Street, 198,
225, 310.
279, 308, 330, 361, 363, 364, 384, 395, Ordway, 102.
55*, 84*, 85*, 131*. Osborn,
Osborne, 368, 408, 426, 432.
New York, 3,
4, 20, 33, 45, 53, 54, 56, 82, Osburn's,
41, 64, 65.
84, 110, 116, 119, 145, 243, 255, 261, Osowit, 434.
271, 310, 421, 106*, 124*, 127*. Otis, 218,
224, 256, 268, 276, 341, 430, 433.
Nichols,
101, 136, 301, 362. Oukakemy,
432, 435.
Nicholson,
254, 265, 266, 267, 283, 284, Oveneach,
148.
285, 286, 287, 292, 293, 313, 314, 318, Owen, 386, 387.
319, 325, 339, 401, 402, 403, 405, 406, Owens, 28.
407, 411, 412, 418, 422, 423, 438. Oxford, 1, 5,
101, 268, 398.
Nickawanuck,
93. Oxford,
Earl of, 315.
Nicodemus,
434. Oxfordshire,
176.
Niles, 119,
157, 161, 167, 168, 169, 243. Oyster
Island, 340, 341.
Ninequabben,
225.
Nipmuck,
55*, 107*.
Nod, 62.
Noddles
Island, 135. P.
Norden, 20,
224, 246, 256, 263, 306, 307,
367, 372, 408. Packers,
38.
Normandy,
43. Paddon,
129*.
Normans
Land, 433. Page,
408.
North, 108,
226, 235, 254. Paige,
14, 47, 54, 59, 66, 96, 109, 111, 113,
Northampton,
37, 312, 390. 195, 203, 229, 269.
Northamptonshire,
21. Pain,
Paine, 6, 47, 78, 79, 90, 119, 131,
North
Britain, 100*. 139, 162, 167, 188, 224, 225, 233, 238,
Northend,
30, 62, 101, 102, 161, 181, 255, 256, 270, 288, 322, 332, 359, 360,
364, 282, 364, 365. 381, 396, 397, 422, 15*, 51*,110*.
North Farms,
135. Palfrey,
3, 33, 52, 58, 79, 199, 200, 266,
North River,
341. 365, 12*, 30*.
456 INDEX.
Palmer, 68,
102, 103,113, 183, 203, 233, Phillips,
5, 9, 60, 78, 79, 92, 111, 118, 123,
304, 314. 126, 130, 162, 187, 188, 192, 209, 211,
Pannos, 433.
212, 224, 240, 248, 255, 256, 257, 261,
Papasquash,116. 263, 290, 310, 312, 322, 336, 362, 381,
Papillion,
342. 383, 387, 394, 401, 402, 414, 415, 40*,
Papmouet,
438. 51*, 67*, 76*.
Parker, 113,
182, 214, 341, 387, 430, 13*, Philosoph,
124.
21*. Phipeny,
128
Parkers, 13.
Phips,
42, 43, 91, 107, 140, 144, 153, 171,
Parkman,
407, 422. 172, 174, 200, 203, 204,216,269,274,
Parris, 21*. 71*, 106*.
Parrot, 107,
330. Phipps,
313, 387, 402.
Parson, 118.
Pickerill,
76.
Parsons, 21,
52, 272, 330, 354, 52*, 54*, Pierce,
14, 30, 61, 67, 78, 93, 102, 112,
56*, 67*, 81*, 83*, 84*, 86* 131*, 256, 276, 312, 17*.
Partridge,
15, 38, 78, 84, 131, 151, 162, Pierpont,
135, 145, 195, 257, 312.
188, 201, 224, 256, 303, 312, 315 Pigeon, 257,
261, 273, 367, 16*,
Partrig, 21 Pignet,
100
Partrigge,
67. Pike,
187, 275, 278, 367.
Pascataqua,
292, 308, 315, 363. Pillsbury,
161.
Patch, 226. Pipe-staff
Hill, 256.
Patteshall,
377, 378, 11*. Pirates,
3.
Paul, 65,
195, 286, 432, 434. Piriam,
169.
Paxten, 276,
343, 346. Piscataqua,
126, 128, 171, 811, 389, 53*,
Payne, 198,
310. Pitkins,
54, 390.
Payson, 14,
30, 61, 101, 165, 255, 282, Pitman,
107, 108.
311. Pitts,
248.
Peck, 236. Pitts
Street, 417.
Pelham, 55,
57, 120, 133, 159, 322. Place,
168.
Pemaquid,
82. Plaisted,
162,174,188, 207, 224, 256.
Pemaquid
Forte, 67, 130*. Plimly,
178.
Pemberton,
8, 21, 22, 23, 24, 35, 36, 37, Plimouth,
131, 223, 304, 321, 340, 375,
44, 49, 50, 57, 66, 92, 93, 100, 115, 123,
377, 425, 427, 429, 430, 438, 440.
137, 151, 169, 172, 173, 174, 181,182, Plummer, 14.
184, 186, 194, 195, 196, 201, 206, 207, Plymouth, 9, 10, 11,
15, 24, 75, 82, 97,
208,
209, 213, 227, 230, 232, 235, 236, 129, 149, 157, 182, 188, 217, 218, 220,
238, 239, 243, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254, 221, 251, 252, 256, 262,287,14*.
257, 262, 263, 265, 267, 269, 271, 273, Point, 269.
277, 278, 280, 281, 282, 285, 286, 287, Point Judith, 168.
290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 298, 299, Pole, 295, 325, 11*.
301, 302, 303, 306, 307, 310, 314, 315, Pollard, 55, 325.
319, 322, 324, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, Pomperprisset, 166;
336,
337, 339, 342, 345, 346, 347, 349, Poole,
325, 326.
352, 354, 355, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, Poor, 20*.
364, 367, 368, 369, 313, 374, 376, 377, Pope, 53, 167.
378, 379, 381, 383, 386, 388, 389, 390, Popponessit, 166.
391, 393, 394, 395, 397, 398, 399, 404, Porter, 344, 370,
402, 403, 405, 406, 116*,
405, 407, 409, 411, 414, 418, 424, 11*. 120*,124*,125*,126*,127*,128*,129*,
Pembroke,
153, 375. 130*.
Pendleton,
333. Port
Royal, 85, 181, 184, 185, 189, 190,
Penhallow
134, 380, 390. 205, 243, 259, 260, 265, 268, 293, 298,
Peninsula,
24. 314, 400, 434, 37*, 44*, 45*, 46*, 47*,
Penn, 113. 48*, 54*, 62*, 69*, 83*, 84*, 92*,102*,
Penniman,
373. 115*.
Pennsylvania,
3, 196. Portsmouth,
5, 13, 14, 38, 77, 84, 91, 126,
Penobscot,
86, 87, 328, 329, 438. 151, 243, 318, 346, 52*, 54*.
Pepeena,
438. Portugal,
98, 243, 265, 129*.
Peperill,126.
Poultney,
228.
Pepperell,
188. Povey,
58, 66, 111, 201.
Perce 75,
101. Powning,
275, 303.
Perry, 111,
130, 219, 321, Pudding
Lane, 417.
Peters, 62,
141, 68*. Pulcifer,
306.
Peterson,
107, 108, 109. Pulling
Point, 96, 134, 19*.
Peybody, 69.
Pullins,
305, 325, 366.
Philadelphia,
113, 196. Pumspisset,
166.
INDEX. 457
Punkapog,
158, 263, 287. Rogers
156, 192, 221, 224, 245, 281, 282,
Putnam
Street, 158. 285, 311, 320, 377, 384, 7*, 54*.
Pynchon, 36,
73, 351. Rolf,
14, 161, 234, 256, 300.
Romer, 40.
Rooke, 72.
Q. Rose,
280.
Rosewell, 367.
Quebec, 142,
149, 182, 265, 328, 61. Rouse,
345, 45*, 47., 48*, 51*,76*, 115*,
Queen, 56,
57. 119*, 120*, 121*.
Queen Anne,
54, 58, 73, 95*, 99*, 111*. Row,
16*.
Quelsh, 103,
105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, Rowlandson,
141, 13*.
111, 92* Rowley,
14, 61, 101, 102, 187, 300, 17*,
Quick, 344 19*.
Quincy, 84,
112, 284, 297, 341, 29*. Rowse,
99, 120*, 122*.
Quinsey, 11,
20, 26, 27, 74, 127, 154, 183, Roxbury,
32, 59, 60, 61, 67. 70, 72, 80,
221, 222, 223, 229, 232, 261, 277, 336, 83, 84, 90, 91, 103, 112, 115, 117, 130:
390, 405, 409, 416, 8*, 10*, 14*, 18*. 135, 144, 149, 150, 158, 166, 169, 170,
171, 174, 176, 178, 184, 185, 192, 201,
206, 207, 208, 214, 234, 241, 247, 250,
R. 252, 261, 264, 274, 275, 285, 287, 310,
314, 319, 330, 348, 360, 361, 368, 370,
Raikes, 35. 377, 380, 393, 399, 400, 406, 407, 411,
Rainsford,
306. 15*, 19*, 35*.
Rand, 238. Roxbury
Hill, 158.
Randall, 50,
74, 223, 251, 340. Roxbury
Street, 178.
Randolf, 47,
12*, 17*. Royal,
31.
Ratcliffe,
12*. Ruck,
299.
Rawling,
378. Ruggles,
236, 247, 272, 319, 352, 398.
Rawlins,
134, 364, 391. Rumney
Marsh, 8, 254, 329, 383.
Rawson, 217,
218, 222, 256, 278, 297, 341, Russell,
9, 23, 25, 40, 41, 46, 67, 75, 78,
368, 396. 79, 81, 88, 89, 90, 96, 103, 109, 130,
154,
Rawson's
Lane, 174. 162, 174, 188, 190, 204, 209, 224, 230,
Read, 175. 253, 254, 255, 301, 340, 11*, 13*, 14*,
Reading,
114, 135, 411. 15*, 21*.
Rebeckah,
61, 120, 155, 170, 175, 207, Rust, 155.
247, 272.
Redding,
284. S.
Redknap,
189, 210, 407.
Reed, 16. Sachem
River, 261.
Rehoboth,
41, 45, 64, 116, 139, 194, 203, Saco,
92, 228, 129*.
236, 237, 295, 307, 322, 396, 397, 426. Sacuhassauet, 433.
Remington,
8, 80, 84, 99, 209. Saffin,
2, 5, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 64, 78,
Resail, 7. 243, 264, 285, 8*.
Revesby
Abbey, 404. Sagadahoc,
131.
Reyner, 74. Salem,
13, 14, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 29, 39,
Reynolds,
41, 113, 264, 288, 426. 46, 47, 51, 52, 56, 60, 61, 65, 66, 68,
69,
Rhode
Island, 4, 6, 31, 45, 95, 167, 189, 72, 73, 77, 79, 93, 99,100,101, 102, 103,
194, 438, 489, 14*, 55*, 85*. 104, 105, 106, 107, 113, 118, 119, 126,
Richard, 71,
160. 142, 154, 161, 165, 172, 179, 187, 198,
Richards,
41, 66, 107, 108, 109, 8*, 21*. 205, 210, 224, 230, 236, 238, 239, 241,
Richardson,
26, 108, 113, 114, 124, 414. 244, 246, 255, 282, 283, 289, 295, 311,
Rickard,
223, 276, 340. 319, 325, 326, 328, 329, 331, 349, 364,
Ripley, 276.
365, 367, 377, 378, 384, 396, 403, 406,
Riswick, 99.
407, 410, 411, 412, 14*, 19*, 22*.
Rivet, 1. Salisbury,
29, 171, 351, 391.
Roach, 107,
108, 109. Salter,
9, 177, 178, 193, 276, 342, 353, 358,
Robert, 130,
419.
Roberts, 66,
82, 185, 327, 395, 424. Satterly,
342.
Robbins, 15. Saltonstall,
187, 284, 328, 354, 356, 365,
Robbinson,
156. 367, 374, 376, 380, 106*.
Robie, 398. Salt
Ponds, 241.
Robinson,
127, 128, 129, 139, 178, 182, Salutation,
Alley, 396.
187, 277, 398, 432, 16*. Salutation
Street, 154.
Rochester
(negro), 142. Sam,
11, 13, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 39, 43,
Rock, 60,
61, 135, 250, 265, 266, 315, 400. 49, 52, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 71, 72,
77,
Rodgers, 11,
31, 39, 66, 77, 101, 110. 120, 161, 177, 201, 206, 207, 216, 229,
458 INDEX.
243, 257, 283, 286, 301, 369, 370, 399, Sherburn, 236, 15*.
400, 405, 406, 407. Sheriff,
438.
Samsons 97. Sherman,
34, 76, 118, 135, 306, 20*.
Samuel, 380.
Shippen,
196.
Sanders,
198. Shiprene,
368.
Sandwich,
166, 213, 425, 430, 431, 433, Short,
15, 30, 62, 77, 175, 282, 365, 368
438. 392.
Sanford, 67,
411. Shortt,
318.
Sansom, 437.
Shortts,
187.
Sarah, 62,
117, 170, 400. Shove,
318.
Sargent,
169, 233, 343, 13*. Shrimpton,
79, 135, 190, 210, 211, 212,
Sarson, 435,
437. 257, 298, 414, 416, 8*, 106*.
Saul, 433. Shrimpton's
Lane, 252.
Saunders,
24, 31, 35, 36, 51, 55, 56, 68, Shrinton,
38.
74, 77, 88, 98, 102,109, 114, 117, 119, Shurtleff, 25, 40,
113, 232, 277, 309, 329,
120, 123, 130, 132, 133, 134, 142, 160, 339.
161, 171, 192, 198, 218, 226, 228, 229, Sibbes, 61.
241, 253, 263, 272, 275, 279, 283, 297, Sibbs, 60, 61.
303, 310, 320, 321, 323, 324, 332, 334, Sibley, 39, 94, 371.
337, 346, 369, 383, 393, 398, 405, 407, Sill, 257.
408, 413, 415, 417. Simeon,
169.
Savage, 11*,
18*. Simes,
57.
Savil, 3,
27, 276, 371. Simkins,
173.
Sawen, 102,
140, 198, 338. Simon
(a Jew), 65.
Saybrook,
33. Simons,
61, 13*.
Scarlet's
Wharf, 59, 110, 191, 220, 253, Simpson,
95, 122, 193, 235, 421.
335. Simson,
179, 251, 330, 398.
School
Street, 219, 323,404. Sinclair,
68, 175.
Schyler,
273, 390. Sinclar,
433.
Scipio, 246.
Sipson,
430.
Scituat, 156 Skibbow,
198.
Scituate,
97, 156, 218, 223. Skiff,
166, 433, 434.
Scotland,
225, 352. Skinner,
412, 22*.
Scott, 54,
59, 113, 120. Slack,
116, 139, 140.
Scottow, 186,
10*. Slaughter,
198.
Scudamore,
108, 109. Smith,
41, 51, 61, 62, 64, 116, 136, 139.
Seaconk,
288. 192, 194, 198, 236, 249, 252, 265, 277,
Sebastian
(negro), 22, 29, 46, 66, 75. 288, 290, 295, 328, 344, 383, 384, 389,
Selling of
Joseph, tracts 11-20 n. 19*.
Sergeant, 2,
5, 8, 20, 24, 25, 28, 29, 34, Snake
Island, 107.
40, 41, 42, 43, 48, 60, 78, 103, 121,
153, Snowhill,
408.
154,173,174,175, 188, 204, 208, 219, Soams, 26.
220, 224, 226, 229, 233, 240, 245, 250, Somers, 24, 122.
252, 256, 257, 263, 272, 278, 279, 284, Somersby, 30, 49.
292, 306, 327, 332, 339, 346, 357, 363, Sonamog, 434, 438.
377, 399, 400, 401, 414, 415, 416, 417, Soumanan, 438.
418, 419, 420, 421, 424, 428. Southach,
55, 66, 71, 83, 85, 98, 169, 201,
Seven Starr
Lane, 113. 243, 301, 313.
Sever, 167,
282, 373. Southmayd,
33.
Sewall, 223,
7*, 12*, 13*, 15*, 21*, 24*, Southwark,
189, 427.
29*, 30*, 95*, 110*, 112*, 115*, 123* Spain, 22, 98, 99,
191.
133*. Spainish
River, 322.
Shaller, 90.
Sparhawk,
65, 116, 139, 167, 183, 192,
Shaplelgh,
45*, 54*. 194, 237, 265, 302, 322, 333, 397,
Sharp, 60,
68. 406.
Sheaf, 47,
113, 325. Spensar,
249.
Sheaffe,
368. Spithead,
3.
Sheffield,
97. Spoko,
436.
Shelden,
173, 226, 61*, 87*. Spooner,
167.
Shelter-Island,
16*. Sprague,
20, 89, 112, 142, 21*, 22*.
Shelton,
198. Spring,
76.
Shepard, 98,
127, 221, 260, 261, 276, 300, Springfield,
21.
318, 354, 355. Spring
Street, 170.
Shepherd,
246, 439, 18*. Spruce-crick,
13, 38, 130
Sherborne,
76. Spry,
12.
Sherbourn,
54, 281. Spy
Pond, 15*.
INDEX. 459
Squamscot,
38. Swanzy,
426.
Stamford,
155, 228. Sweet,
187, 256.
Stanhope,
269, 364. Sweetser,
415.
Stalford,
76. Swett,
161.
Starr
Island, 107. Swift,
34, 221, 222, 223.
St.
Christophers, 42*, 78*, 80*, 94*. Swifts,
158.
Stearns, 47.
Symmes,
171, 220.
Steddman,
358.
Stedman, 77,
111, 264, 276, 440.
Stedmand,
191. T.
Steel, 252.
Stephen, 72,
82, 246. Tailer,
354, 357, 359, 373, 377, 416.
Stephens,
214, 250, 331, 332, 339, 362, Talbot,
211.
389, 401, 404, 418. Tappan,
13, 14, 30, 31, 39, 61, 62, 77, 133,
Stephenson,
248. 161, 162, 198, 216, 227, 354, 357.
Stevens, 92,
95, 332, 345, 401, 417. Tappin,
102, 187, 196.
Stevenson,
113. Tarpaulin
Cove, 41, 166, 167.
Steward,
373. Tate,
294.
Stewart, 24,
119. Taunton,
115, 166, 167, 263 346.
Stimson,
357. Tavern,
Anchor, 115.
Stoddard,
37, 42, 71, 72, 77, 91, 97, 103, Tay,
8, 46, 155, 248, 253, 275, 303, 319,
107, 121, 128, 131, 134, 140,169,174, 409.
188, 190, 191, 192, 201, 208, 214, 226, Taylor, 8, 24, 32,
66, 79, 88, 93, 139, 152,
227, 228, 229, 239, 251, 253, 257, 283, 162, 214, 226, 233, 235, 246, 260, 284,
285, 289, 301, 308, 327, 331, 343, 355, 315, 324, 353, 377, 402, 9*.
370, 376, 377, 380, 386, 390, 394, 403, Teat, 248.
414, 416, 438, 11*. Tedman,
120.
Stone, 118,
15*, 20*, 21*. Templeton,
108.
Stonington,
408. Tenison,
261.
Stony River,
158. Tewksbury,
408.
Storer, 328.
Thacher,
17, 26, 40, 57, 75, 78, 115, 118,
Stork, 349. 119, 131, 157, 158, 162, 179, 185, 186,
Storke, 359,
405. 188, 221, 228, 229, 239, 261, 277, 304,
112, 159, 222, 233, 324, 325, 8*, 100*. 375, 387, 393, 425, 433, 13*.
Stoughtonus,
112. Thair,
22, 28, 29, 345, 368, 380, 390.
Stawberry
Hill, 39. Thaxter,
222, 223, 276, 425, 430, 432,
Strephon,
21. 433, 434, 435, 437, 408.
Stuckely,
161. Thayer,
368.
Stuckey,
291, 359. Thomas,
9, 67, 83, 120, 129, 198, 212,
Stuckley,
189, 53*, 84*. 218, 230, 277, 310, 340, 341, 349, 351,
Studley,
325. 357, 358, 365, 367, 375, 383, 391, 418,
Sturgis,
393. 430, 440.
St. James,
138. Thompson,
324, 339.
St. John,
314. Thomson,
54, 67, 82.
St. Johns,
254. Thornton,
6, 266, 281, 282, 299, 405,
St. Lawrence
River, 313. 409.
St. Thomas,
7. Thrasher,
193, 303.
Subercase,
260. Thwing,
14.
Succanesset,
166. Tiler,
155.
Sudbury, 34,
255. Tileson,
9.
Sudbury
Street, 211, 262, 417, 11*, 12* Tilly,
319, 369, 373, 396.
Suffolk, 60,
63, 79, 129, 239, 304, 423. Tisbury,
166, 167.
Summer
Street, 113, 114. Titcomb,
198.
Sumner, 376.
Tiverton,
243.
Sunderland,
369, 99*. Tobie,
5.
Surat, 97. Toby,
430.
Susan, 216,
239, 246, 285, 404, 409. Toft,
252.
Susanna, 72,
117, 118. Toland,
13.
Sutherland,
266. Tolman,
438.
Swaddle,
337. Tom,
282, 361, 370, 371, 372, 390, 399,
Swain, 228. 400.
Swan, 174. Tomlin,
14.
Swansey, 65,
396. Tomson,
218, 228, 347.
Swanzey,
307. Toon,
438.
460 INDEX.
Topham, 256.
Valentinian
99.
Topliff, 408.
Vaudrel,
389.
Topsfield,
187. Vaughan,
5, 38.
Torbay, 315.
Vearing,
212.
Torey, 364. Veazie,
119, 139, 199, 386, 387
Torrey, 2,
9, 22, 26, 27, 34, 57, 75, 84, 97, Venner,
52.
117, 118, 127, 130, 156, 157, 167, 171, Vergoose or Goose,
130.
182, 183, 185, 280, 319, 433, 10*, Versalles,
32.
15*. Vetch,
142, 164, 200, 201, 206, 215, 238,
Torry, 433. 254, 259, 260, 262, 265, 266, 272, 273,
Tortugas,
305. 284, 293, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 313,
Tory Hill,
158. 314, 322, 333, 335, 339, 349, 411, 37*,
Toulon, 196,
202. 38*, 40*, 45*, 47*, 50*, 51*, 54*,
Town, 95. 70*, 76*, 111* , 116*, 117*, 119*.
Townhouse,
59, 68, 73, 115. Vigo,
72.
Townsend, 1,
2, 4, 5, 16, 21, 23, 24, 28, Vigo
Bay, 72.
29, 33, 40, 42, 60. 63, 66, 72, 73, 78,
96, Villars, 269.
103, 111, 116, 129, 130,134,154,157, Villebon, 260.
160, 162, 172, 173, 174, 177, 188, 191, Vince, 379.
201, 203, 204, 208, 214, 215, 224, 226, Virginia, 33, 82,
202, 413, 68*.
229, 235, 253, 255, 256, 257, 263, 267,
274, 284, 290, 303, 306, 313, 320, 337,
339, 353, 377, 300, 395, 401, 402, 409, W.
410, 415, 416, 424, 30*.
Tracy, 435. Wade,
325, 350, 351, 401, 21*.
Treat, 385. Wadlin,
305.
Tremont,
399. Wadchuset,425.
Tremont
Street, 320. Wadsworth,
2, 15, 23, 35, 46, 68, 89, 94
Tristram,
61. 156, 171, 181, 184, 195, 196, 208, 209,
Triton, 168.
214, 219, 221, 229, 232, 266, 273, 275,
Trott, 93. 278, 283, 290, 296, 303, 307, 312, 316,
Trowbridge,
34, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 321, 325, 330, 332, 333, 337, 343, 345,
152,
213, 249, 344. 352, 359, 360, 363, 364, 367, 369, 373,
Tucker, 183.
410, 411.
Tuft, 81,
378, 403. Wainwright,
60, 69, 81, 104, 148, 190,
Tulloh, 327.
201, 234, 237, 238, 285, 311, 319, 320,
Tupper, 432.
370, 372, 377, 405, 407, 438.
Turell, 32,
210, 211, 342. Wait,
22, 29, 53, 113.
Turfey, 10,
71, 228. Wakefield,
60, 93, 103, 106.
Turnin, 32. Waldron,
354, 410, 44*, 83*.
Turner, 51,
104, 105, 106, 107, 155,156. Wales,
53.
Turpins,
169. Walker,
8, 23, 25, 41, 84, 172, 198, 251,
Turtelot,
262. 306, 313, 318, 319, 322, 327, 328, 336,
Tuthill, 28,
84, 116, 128, 134, 253, 260; 360, 384, 410.
272, 316, 317, 339, 388. Wallace,
88.
Tuttle, 103.
Walley,
2, 5, 15, 24, 25, 26, 34, 35, 38,
Twitchell,
76. 39, 41, 44, 45, 46, 51, 63, 64, 67, 68,
71,
Tyng, 47,67,
74, 138, 169, 261, 287. 75, 78, 81, 92, 93, 97, 98, 100, 101,
103, 114, 116, 118, 122, 127, 130, 131,
134,139, 142,147,152, 153, 157, 161,
U. 162, 163, 164, 165, 167, 174, 176, 177,
182, 186,188, 190, 192, 217, 223, 224,
Ulysses,
279. 229, 237, 240, 241, 254, 256, 257, 260,
Union
Street, 159. 263, 264, 277, 279, 282, 285, 292, 298,
Usher, 11,
24, 31, 36, 47, 51, 84, 91, 93, 300, 301, 303, 305, 306, 312, 322, 326,
111, 142, 153, 190, 195, 206, 212, 286, 327, 329, 330, 331, 332, 349, 354, 361,
300,327,333,377,405,17*. 375, 376, 378, 383, 390, 396, 405, 406,
Utrecht,
365, 392. 8*, 11*, 12*.
Wallis, 99, 354, 395, 396, 397, 399, 419,
421, 423.
V.
Walter,
23, 61, 64, 65, 80, 84, 91, 112,
113, 115, 117, 135, 137, 173; 174; 179,
Valentine,
71, 124, 139, 164, 198, 340, 201, 229, 247, 285, 305, 330, 333, 360,
363, 375. 364, 368, 371, 380, 399, 400, 406, 414.
INDEX. 461
Walton,313. 36, 37, 48, 49, 50, 52, 57, 61, 65, 71,
74,
Ward, 141. 80, 83, 84, 85, 87, 92, 96, 98, 100, 115,
Wardell,
418. 122, 123, 128, 132, 135, 142, 148, 151,
Ware, 210,
211. 152, 153, 156, 165, 169, 170, 181, 183,
Warmall,
120. 184, 186, 100, 193, 194, 195, 198, 208,
Warren, 92,
97, 341, 411. 279, 285, 296, 306, 312, 322, 344, 359,
Warwick, 98,
16*. 389, 394, 404, 411, 418, 438, 13*, 17*,
Washburn,
45. 18*, 21*.
Washington
Street, 23, 113, 114, 115, Willet,
321, 408.
119, 309, 310, 323. William,
363.
Watertown,
98, 135, 156, 191, 208. Williams,
7, 8, 13, 22, 27, 55, 63, 64, 91,
Waterstock,
267, 268. 112, 116, 120, 130, 161, 165, 172, 173,
Watsha Neck,
436. 175, 182, 185, 186, 188, 195, 206, 208,
Watson, 216.
213, 216, 230, 231, 235, 255, 257, 267,
Watts, 169,
198, 223, 323, 411. 283, 297, 308, 318, 319, 330, 345, 346,
Way, 21*. 355, 359, 363, 374, 300, 391, 394, 403,
Weare, 28,
88, 193, 194, 236. 14*, 64*, 74*, 75*.
Weaver, 124,
301, 335. Williamsburg,
413.
Webb, 359,
391, 420, 421. Williams
Court, 323.
Webster, 82,
104. Willis,
350.
Weeden, 13*.
Willoughby,
62.
Weeks, 166,
167, 432, 438. Willys,
360.
Weld, 112. Wilmington,
62.
Wellfleet,387.
Wiltshire,
149.
Wells, 7,
23, 81, 84, 92, 107, 173, 184, Win,
3, 5, 7.
364. Winchcomb,
82, 165, 422.
Welsteed,
308. Winchester,
136, 144, 145, 146,147,148,
Wenham, 104,
224, 249, 251, 257, 281, 151, 152, 220, 8*.
307, 311, 398. W Windresse,
313.
Wenham Pond,
61. Windsor,
15*.
Wentworth,
41, 211, 251, 329. Wing,
239, 18*.
West, 71*. Winnicomet
Pond, 263.
Westfield,
153, 352, 353. Winnisimmet,
26, 41, 66, 69, 161, 197,
West Indies,
133, 141, 92*, 113*. 198, 256, 282, 283, 348, 406, 14*.
Wethersfield,
13*. Winslow,
78, 82,131,158,162, 188, 218,
Weymouth,
19*. 226, 244, 251, 256, 272, 297, 304, 368,
Wharton, 47,
363, 400. 394, 418, 427, 431, 14*, 19*.
Wheeler, 10,
51, 53, 61, 62, 193, 206, 410, Winsor,
210, 375.
417. Winter
Hill, 187.
Wheelwright,
13, 15, 85, 224, 256, 331. Winthrop,
2, 5, 8, 9, 21, 25, 39,40,41,
Whetcomb,
235, 260, 11*. 45, 46, 47, 48, 57, 60, 66, 78, 83, 88,
96,
Whipple,
321. 109, 121, 123, 128, 130, 150, 154, 161,
Whippo, 321.
162, 174, 178, 182, 188, 190, 193, 195,
Whiston,
355. 199, 204, 206, 207, 208, 210, 211, 218,
White, 38,
47, 00, 65, 105, 113, 121, 135, 219, 223, 224, 228, 229, 233, 237, 240,
148, 196, 222, 223, 312, 349, 352, 399. 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 250, 253, 256,
Whitehead,
53. 263, 269, 277, 279, 283, 284, 300, 303,
Whitehorn,
54. 306, 308, 325, 327, 328, 332, 334, 352,
Whiting, 54,
61, 67, 108, 165, 100, 263, 356,
357, 385, 391, 392, 393, 400, 405,
331, 347, 367. 408, 410, 416, 418, 422, 424, 11*, 17*.
Whitman, 35,
185, 186, 229. 19*, 21*, 106*, 112*.
Whitmore,
78.
Whittier,217.
Wise,
46.
Whittingham,
367. Wiswall,
309,379,436,437, 21*.
Wiar 11. Witherby,
4, 6.
Wicket, 340.
Witherell,
304, 340.
Wiggins, 38.
Woburn,
62, 67, 72, 409,19*,117*.
Wigglesworth,
22, 37, 80, 81, 101, 117,
Wollomapaugh, 88.
132, 133, 134, 190, 191, 229, 378, 21*, Wood, 342, 17*.
23*. Woodbridge,
14, 80, 32, 41, 46, 63, 66,
Wilcox, 180.
72, 187, 195, 209, 247, 272, 398, 14*,
Wilde, 108. 16*.
Wilkins, 43,
44, 45, 114, 118, 119. Woodcock,
88.
Will
(negro), 5. Wood
Creek, 265.
Willard, 1,
2, 3,10,12,22,33,26,27,32, Woods
Hole, 166, 437, 438.
462 INDEX.
Woodstock,
2. 206, 265. Y.
Woodward,
113, 130.
Woolcot,
245, 370. Yarmouth,
6, 10, 393.
Worcester,
418, 14*, 16*. York,
9, 62,109,190, 339, 344, 364, 371,
Worm wall,
106, 107. 414.
Workington,
328. Yorkshire,
174.
Worth, 436.
Wretham, 88,
189, 194, 236, 278, 397. Z.
Wullamanappack
Pond, 88.
Wyeth,174. Zachary,
113.
Wyllye, 24. Zadori,
117, 118, 20*, 24*.
Wyllys, 257,
11*. Zagadahock,
188, 224, 256.
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