THE HISTORICAL COLLECTIOKS OF THE TOPSFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOL. V. 1899. TOPSFIELD, MASS. : Published by the Society. 1899. JUDGE DAVID CUMMINS. THE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE TOPSFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOL. V. 1899. TOPSFIELD, MASS.; Published by the Society. 1899. GEORGE FRANCIS DOW, Editor. THE MERRILL PRESS, MASS. CONTENTS. JUDGE DAVID CUMMINS, - - - * Frontispiece ISAAC CUMMINGS OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. BY MISS MARIETTA CLARK MRS. ABBIE W. TOWNE, W. F. CUMMINGS AND GEORGE FRANCIS DOW, Illustrated, - - - I DUDLEY BRADSTREET REAL ESTATE FOR SALE, 1 83 5 40 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685- 1 706. COPIED BY SIDNEY PERLEY, - - - - - - 4 1 ISAAC ESTY, OF TOPSFIELD, AND SOME OF HIS DE- SCENDANTS. BY GAY ESTY BANGS, - - - IO5 SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. COPIED BY GEORGE WARREN TOWNE, - - - - II/ PETITION FROM DAN CLARKE, 1 75 8, - - - 126 CAPT. NEHEMIAH HERRICK’S REVOLUTIONARY SER- VICE, WITH HISTORICAL NOTES, - - - 1 27 CUMMINGS BURYING GROUND INSCRIPTIONS. COPIED BY GEORGE CLINTON DONALDSON, - - - 131 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO TOPSFIELD, 1801- 1804. COPIED BY GEORGE FRANCIS DOW, - 1 32 COURT RECORDS RELATING TO TOPSFIELD, 1642- 1657. COPIED BY GEORGE FRANCIS DOW, - 143 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/historicalcollec05unse ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. Arranged From Data Collected by Miss Marietta Clark, Mrs. Abbie W. Towne, W. F. Cummings, and George Francis Dow. The first mention in Essex County records of Isaac Cum- mings,* is an entry made by the town clerk, at Ipswich, showing that he owned a planting lot near Reedy marsh, in that town, previous to July 25, 1638. On the 9th of the 2nd month, 1639, he also owned a house lot in Ipswich village, on the street called the East End, next the lot owned by Rev. Nathaniel Rogers. He was a commoner in 1639, and the same year sold land near the highway leading to Jeffrey’s Neck. He also possessed, in 1639, land adjoining John Winthrop and William Goodhue, the farm being partly in Ipswich and partly in Topsfield. He was made a freeman. May 18, 1642, and was a proprietor in Watertown the same year. As an Ipswich commoner he was one of those “that have right of commonage there the last of the last month, 1641.” On the first day of the second month, 1652, Isaac Cum- mings, for .^30, bought of Samuel Symonds, 150 acres of land, “being the North-east corner of his farm called Olli- vers.” This lot of land was in Topsfield and bounded on the *Isaac Cummings, according to tradition, was of Scottish ancestry, claiming descent from the “Red Cummin,” of Badenoch, in the soutli- eastern district of Inverness-shire, a wild, mountainous country, present- ing wide stretches of bleak moorland. Here the clan flourished from 1080 to 1330, and then began to decline. Some deduce their origin from Normandy and others from Northumberland. According to the Chroni- cle of Melrose, the first of the name, who figures prominently, was slain (I) ISAAC CUM^^IINGS, OF TOrSFIELI), MASS., west and north-west by land lately of John Winthrop, on the south and west by land of Francis Peabody, and on the south by land of Daniel Clarke. This farm began at what is now known as the Hobbs-Bcll place, and continued down both sides of the brook, then called “Winthropps,” to what is now called Hewlett’s brook, one hundred acres lying on the westerly side, and fifty acres on the easterly side, probably joining other land belonging to him. The county court records have the following items : Good- man Isaac Cummings, of Topsfield, having claimed owner- ship of a heifer in the possession of John P'uller and driven the same to his home, suit was brought by said haulier. March 28, 1654. Isaac Comings, sen*'., was witness against Wm. Duglas, of Ipswich, who was presented “for taking of iplb of Shor- borne Wilson, his late servant, for 9 mo. time, which we think tends to opresion.” March, 1656. Isaac Commins, sen'., was sued for debt by Zerobabell Phillips, of Ipswich. March, 1657. Isaac Cummings, sen'"., brought suit against John Fuller for damage done in his corn by swine belonging to said Fuller. Dec. 31, 1656. In 1659 Isaac Comins, senk, made deposition that Zacheus Gould, of Topsfield, “in time of singing y® psalm one sabbath day in y® afternoon, sate him downe upon y® end of y® Table (about w''' y® Minister & Cheife of y® people sit) w”^ his hatt with Malcom III, at Alnwick, in 1093, leaving two sons, John and Will- iam. From John, all Uie Cumins in Scotland are said to be descended. Sir John, the Red Cumin or Comyn, was the first Lord of Badenoch, and in 1240 was an ambassador from Alexander II, to Louis IX, of France. His son John, called the Black Lord of Badenoch, was inferior to no sub- ject in Scotland for wealth and power, and was one of those who vowed to support Queen Margaret, daughter of Alexander III, in her title to the crown. At her death he became a competitor for the crown of Scot- land, “as the son and heir of John, who was son of Richard, son of Will- iam, son of Hextilda, daughter and heiress of Gothrick, son and heir of Donald, King of Scotland.” The son of this Lord, called, in turn, the Red Cumin, was the last Lord of Badenoch of the surname of Cumin. In 1335 a number of the Cumin clan were slain in the feudal battle of Culbleau, in Glennwick, where a stone now marks the spot. The badge of the clan, in Gaelic, was “Lus Mhic Cuiminn,” in English — the cum- min plant. AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 3 fully on his head, & his back toward all y® rest of y“ y^ sate about y® Table, & thence spoken to by y® Minister & 2 others, ether to showe reverence to y® Ordinance, or to w^’klrawe, yet altered not his posture.” Isaac Cummings was chosen grandjuryman in 1675 and was moderator of the Town Meeting in 1676. He was dea- con of the church in Topsfield for many years. According to a deposition made Mar., 1666, wherein he gave his age as 65, he probably was born in 1600 or 1601. Of his wife nothing is known save that she died before 1677. He died between the dates of May 8 and 22 in the year 1677. The Last will and testament of Isaac Comins Senier. I being sencabl of my aproaching desolution being att pres- ent weak in body yet perfect in my vnderstanding haueing by the grace of god bene helped to provid for my future state in another world : doe now in ordering of what god hath been pleased to bestow vpon me of the blessings of this life, take Care and order that in the first place my debts be duly payd : nextly I doe by this my last will and testament confirme to my son Ifaac the ten Acres of division Land on the south side of the great river be more or less : nextly I do giue vnto my son in law John Jewet ten pounds part in Cattel and part in houshovld goods : nextly I do will and bequeath to my grandson Isaac the son of my son Isaac one year old heifer on little sow the Indian come which he hath planted for himself and the flax which he hath sowne, item I doe giue vnto him my chest the 2^ in bignes with the lock and key : item my history book with such books as are his owne : i e. a bibl and testament, item I do giue him ten pounds to be payd at seuenteen years of age in Covntry pay — item I doe giue vnto my son in Law John pease thirty povnds to be pay out of the stock of Cattel and hovshovld goods as much as maybe att present and the rest in two years — item I doe make my son John my sole executor and doe giue vnto him my house and lands being fovrty Acres more or less Consisting of vpland and meddow — with all the priviledges emmolvments therof and apvrtainces thervnto belonging : provided that this land shall stand bovnd in part and in wholl for the payment of these leagacyes and in case that the said legacyes shal not be payd according to this my will : the land shall be sovld and 4 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., payment made out of the price thereof : and the remainder shall be the executors : item my will fvrther is that if any of these my children shall throvgh discontent att what is done for them in this my will : Cause trovbl to arise to the execu- tor then there shall be nothing payd to him or them but the legacy or legacyes willed to them shall return too and remain in the hands of the executor as his proper right. dated the of the 3^^ m^^' 1677. My desir farther is that Isaac ffoster and Thomas Dorman would take Care that this my will be duly performed. Isaac Cumings S'". Witneses the Mark { of John poore S'" Thomas Dorman Isaac ffoster. Probated June 14, 1677. The Inuentory of all the Goods & Chattls of Isake Com- ings senior Late of Topsfeild deceased tacken and apprised by us whos names ar under writen this 22 maye 1677. it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it a Cloth Sute 40 : a Grey Sute 35 6 yards of cloth with butons silk & thread as they cost at the marchants an old Grat Coat 9® : wascot 6® a payer of Gren brehis & two payer of drawers 3 payer of shoos i®: 5 payer of stokins 8® 4 shirts 10®: 7 Caps 7®: one slke Cape 4® 10 bandes 10®: 7 handcovehrs 3® 4 hates 8® : a cloth hood & Startups i :6^ a fether beed & bolser & pillow a nu Couerlit 24®: an old couerlit 5® Curtins & valants, beedsted cord & matt a smale beed with a pilow & a Rugge one payer of sheetes 30® & other payer 16: one payer of sheets 18® one sheet 7® 3 pilow bers 6® : 3 napkins 3* 6^ 2 table cloths 5® 6"^ 7 toweles 5® 6*^ 2:00:0 1:15:0 I :i9.-3 0:15:0 0:09 :o o :o9 :o I :oi :o 0:13 :o 0:09:6 4:00:0 I :o9 :o 1:10:0 1:15:6 2 :o6 :o I :o5 :o 0:09:6 0:11:0 AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. it two sacks and willit one bage o:io:o it 3 Small Remnants of cloth 0:02:6 it flax and tow o:o6:o it 6 pound of cotton woole 0:06:0 it a broad howe 2® one broad how 3® 6^^ 0:05 :6 it an iron foot i® 6^: 3 haye forks 4®:6‘* o:o6:0 it an iron spitt 3® & ades 5® a hand sawe 2® 6^^ 0:10:6 it axe 3® 6^^ : & old spad 3® : botle & 4 wedgis 6® 0:12:6 it a mare 40®: a yearling Colt i 5® : a sadle & a panel with a bridle & gurte & crooper 20® 3:15:0 it a brafs pott 20® one iron pott 9® two payer of potthooks I : 12 :o it an old ketle 6® : 3® 6^^ a bras candlstik 4® potlid i® 0:14:6 it in pewter 18® tine 9^: one glac i®: 5 spons 2® i :oi :g it earthn ware 6® 8^^ : tramell tongs Beilis 12® 0:18:8 it hamer pinchers 5®: fann 3® chern 5® 0:13:0 it a nu powdering tub 3® 6^^: 4 paiels 7® 8^^ 0:11:2 it 2 Kelors 4® : old powdring tub I® two old barels 2® 0:07:0 it half bushel : a peck : halfe peck 0:03:6 it 4 trayes 4® 4 bouls 4® dishes & ladle i* 8^^ 0:09:8 it one duz trenchers i® two barels 5® 0:06:0 it 3 siues 3® 3 chayers 7® A litle table & form 4® 0:14:0 it a desk 6® one chest 1 1® 6*^ two old chests 4® 1:01:6 it 3 books 10® a chest 5® two books 10® i :05 :o it Corn 10® malt 6® 0:16:0 it baker 3® kneding trof 2® 0:05 :o it A worming Pann friing pann 0:10:0 it eight swine 5:00:0 it 3 cowes 12C one 2 yer old ster, one yerling 16:06:0 it bowsing and Lands with all prueledges & apurtenceses : upland & meado is abought 40 accers 100:00:0 it depts due to the eftat 004:00:0 John Whipple John How 125 40 12 09 166 :oi :6 depts due from the est at aboute 9:16:5 6 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., John Comings testified vpon oath before the worshipfull Samuell Symonds Esqr Dep ; Govh & maior Gen‘11 Esq‘‘ & the clarke being present the 14**^ of June 1677 and testified vpon oath this to be a true Inventory of the estate of his late ffather deceased to the best of his knowledge & if more appeare to ad the same As attest. Robert Lord Cler. Children : 2. i. John, b. 1630. See below (2). 3. ii. Isaac, b. 1633. See below (j). iii. Elizabeth, b. ; m. May i, 1661, John Jewett of Rowley. By deed dated Eeb. 28, i66i-2,Isaac Cummings conveyed a farm of 40 ac. to John Jew- ett of Rowley “for and in consideration of marriage with my daughter Elizabeth.” She d. in Ipswich, July 9, 1679, and he m. 2nd Elizabeth, widow of Benjamin Chadwell of Lynn. iv. Ann, b. ; m. Oct. 8, 1669, John Pease of Sa- lem, it being his second marriage. They removed to Enfield, Conn., in 1681. Children: James, b. Oct. 23, 1670; Isaac, b. July 15,1672; Abigail b. Oct. 15, 1675. 2 John Cummings^ born in 1630; married Sarah, daugh- ter of Ensigne Thomas Howlett. He received, by his fa- ther’s will, the homestead, consisting of 40 acres with hous- es, barns, orchards and fences, and in 1680 sold the same to Edward Nealand (Kneeland). This farm was bounded by land of the above Nealand, and by Tobijah Perkins and the Ipswich common land. About 1658 he removed to Boxford. Both he and his wife were members of the church in Tops- field. Dec. 7, 1685 : “voted dismission to John Cummings without commendation and dismissed his wife with commen- dation to the church to be shortly gathered at Dunstable,” — Topsfield Chureh reeords. He removed with his family to Dunstable, Mass., about 1680, where he was one of the first AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 7 settlers. He was a selectman in 1682 and a member of the church in 1684. He died Dec. i, 1700, his wife having died Dec. 7, 1688. Children : 4. i. John, b. . See below (4). 5. ii. Thomas, b. Oct. 6, 1658. See below (^). 6. iii. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 10, 1659. See below (6). iv. Sarah, b. Jan. 28, 1661-2 ; m. Dec. 24, 1682, Samuel French, son of Lieut. William French. 7. V. Abraham, b. . See below ('/). vi. Isaac, 1 Killed by Indians at Dunstable, Nov. 2, vii. Ebenezer,J 1688. “Remained unburied several days.” viii. William, b. Aug. 5, 1671 ; d. Mar. 30, 1672(3?). ix. Eleizer, b. Aug. 5, 1671. X. Benjamin, b. Feb. 23, 1672-3. xi. Samuel, b. Dec. 28, 1677. 3 Isaac Cummings^ born in 1633; married Nov. 27, 1659, Mary Andrews, daughter of Robert Andrews. He received, in 1663, by deed from his father, a farm of 100 acres lying on both sides of Winthrop’s brook, being a part of the orig- inal purchase of Samuel Symonds. He built his house near or on the site of the Hobbs-Bell house. He was elected deacon of the church June 13, 1686, and was an influential man in the town, his name frequently appearing upon the records. He is styled “Sergeant” in the list of those who took the oath of allegiance in 1678. He also served as selectman, treasurer, constable and tithingman. He was made a freeman in 1673, and in 1675 was impressed for the Narraganset expedition. In his will dated in 1712 and pro- bated June 19, 1721, he gives his son Isaac .^30, and land in Boxford ; to son John, land on the south side of the river “where he now dwells,” and also “my homestead house and land * in Consideration of what he hath Done Towards mine & my Wives Support while my wife Lived, & upon Consideration yt he maintaines mee honorably During my Naturall Life.” Thomas, the other son, “for whom I have Done Considerably already in helping him purchase land,” ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., received “my English Dictionary.” He died in 1721, his wife having died before 1712. Children : i. A son b. and d. Aug. 28, 1660. ii. A son b. and d. Nov. 2, 1661. iii. A son b. and d. Dec. 6, 1662. 8. iv. Isaac, b. Sept. 15, 1664. See below (8). 9. V. John, b. June 7, 1666. See below (g). 10. vi. Thomas, b. June 27, 1670. See below (10). vii. Mary, b. Feb. 16, 1671-2; m. July 14, 169-, Dan- iel Black, jr., of Boxford. She d. Dec. 16, 169-. viii. Rebecca, b. April i, 1674; m. Jan. 13, 1695-6, Thomas Howlett. He d. Feb. 10, 1713 ; and Dec. 20, 1715, she m. 2nd, Michael Whidden, of Ports- mouth, N. H. ix. Abigail, b. ; m. Mar. 28, 1693-4, Samuel Perley, son of Samuel Perley. She d. Jan. 22, 1725-6. X. Steben, b. P"eb. 27, 1680-1. “Dyed by the hands of the Indians on the third Day of July, 1706.” 4 John Cummings'^, born in Boxford, and lived in Dunstable ; married. Sept. 13, 1680, Elizabeth Kinsley, who “was killed by the Indians, July 3, 1706.” Belknap I, 173. Children: John, b. July 7, 1682; m. , 1705, Elizabeth Adams, of Chelmsford ; Samuel, b. Oct. 6, 1684; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 5, 1687 ; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 17, 1695 5 Anna, b. Sept. 14, 1798 ; Lydia, b. Mar. 24, 1701, d. . 1701 ; William, b. April 24, 1702. 5 Thomas Cummings^, born in Boxford, Oct. 6, 1658 ; mar- ried, Dec. 19, 1688, Priscilla Warner. Lived in Dunstable. He died in 1723. Children: Priscilla; Mary; Ann; Thomas; Jona- than, b. July 3, 1703, 111. Elizabeth Blanchard ; Eph- raim and Samuel. THE CUMMINGS-HOBBS-BELL HOUSE. AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 9 6 Nathaniel CuMMINGS^ born in Boxford, Sept. lo, 1659; married Abigail . Lived in Dunstable. Children: John, b. Jan. 14, 1698, d. 1770; Nathaniel, b. Sept. 8, 1699; Eliezer, b. Oct. 19, 1701 ; Joseph, b. May 26, 1704. 7 Abraham CUMMINGS^ born in Boxford, removed with his father to Dunstable about 1680, where he evidently was^liv- ing in 1689, he being one of those who contributed to the ministers’ “wood rate.” He married, Feb. 28, 1687, Sarah Wright, of Woburn, where he lived for about ten years. Children : i. Abraham, b. Oct. 7, 1690, in Woburn. 11. ii. Joseph, b. Sept. 1 , 1692, in Woburn. See below ( J i). iii. Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 1694, in Woburn. iv. Jacob, b. Jan. 3, 1696, in Woburn. V. JosiAH, b. July 12, 1698, in Dunstable. vi. Eliezer, b. April 9, 1704, in Woburn. 8 Isaac Cummings^, born in Topsfield, Sept. 15, 1664; mar- ried, 1st, Dec. 25, 1688, Alice Hewlett, daughter of Thomas Hewlett; married, 2nd, Nov. 23, 1696, Frances Sherwin, of Boxford. She d. Mar. 13, 1770. He received by deed from his father in 1708, 57 acres of land in Boxford, but he prob- ably never resided on the farm, as in 1712 he was living on a farm deeded him by his wife’s grandfather, Thomas Hew- lett. The farm was situated in the vicinity of the present Alfred Cummings homestead, then situated in Ipswich. There are supposed to have been no less than six different houses upon this farm. The first one was situated very near the river and it is said to have been destroyed by Indians. In 1721 both he and his wife were dismissed from the church in Topsfield to the church in Ipswich. He died Aug. 7, 1 746. Children : i. Lydia, bapt. May 4, 1690; pub. Oct. 5, 1723, Ste- phen Smith, of Ipswich. Had four children. 12. ii. Isaac, bapt. April 24, 1692. See below (12). _ - 10 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., iii. Alice, b. Dec. lO, 1695; April 22, 1725, Thomas Bixbee ; lived in Boxford and d. before 1736, leaving four children. iv. Mercy, b. June 5, 1699, and d. Nov. 4, 1731, un- married. V. Jemima, b. July 4, 1704; m. Jan. i, 1733-4, Jona- than Foster, of Ipswich, and d. before 1750. vi. Pallatiah, b. May 15, 1707; d. Nov. 14, 1727. vii. JERUSHA, b. Feb. 17, 1710; pub. Jan. i, 1735-6, Joshua Conant, of Ipswich. 9 John Cummings^, born in Topsfield, June 7, 1666; mar- ried, Jan. 23, 1688-9, Susannah, daughter of Joseph and Phebe Towne. She died Sept. 13, 1766, ae. 96. He received from his father by will dated May 8, 1722, 100 acres of land now known as the Hobbs-Bell farm, and fifty acres of land on the south side of the river “where my son John now dwells.” As early as 1694 he began buying land on the south side of the river, until he finally owned over 200 acres. He was living in that part of the town as early as 1714, and probably much earlier. He lived in the old house that stood, until its destruction by fire in 1882, on what is now known as the Peterson farm. He was tithingman, constable, and held other minor town offices. He executed a will May 8, 1722, which was proved July 16, 1722. Children : 13. i. Joseph, bapt. Jan. 26, 1689-90. See below (ij). 14. ii. John, bapt. July 17, 1692. See below (14). iii. Isaac, b. Dec. 25, 1695 5 before 1722k 15. iv. David, b. April 15, 1698. See below (15). V. Mary, b. May 15, 1700; m. Jan. 24, 1722-3, Na- thaniel Hutchinson, of Salem, and removed to Sutton. She d. before 1732. vi. Susannah, b. Jan. 3, 1701-2; m. Feb. 14, 1721-2, John Whipple, of Salem. vii. Steepens [Stephen], b. Aug. 3, 1706; m. Ruth, daughter of John Giles, of Salem Village. Cooper. Sold, in 1732, 52 acres of land and 2 barn which 1. This Isaac Cummings may have m. Jan. 5, 1 720-1, Hannah Eastie. AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. I formerly was given to brother John by father’s will, and removed to Sutton, Mass., where he m. Betty Carriel. “Mr. Cummings was the first , ‘teetotaler’ in town ; he could never drink any kind of intoxicating drink ; yet his full tempera- ment and florid complexion led strangers to think that he might indulge.” — History of Sutton, Mass. Dead before 1766. Was probably named for his uncle, who was killed by Indians about the time he was born. i6.viii. Samuel, b. Feb. 14, 1708-9. See below (16). ix. Rebeckah, bapt. Nov. I, 1713 ; m. Feb. 2, 1 730-1 , Thomas Perkins, and d. Aug. 13, 1734. Isaac Cummings. “Lydia How her son Isaac Cummings as She called him was Born on y® 4 day of december 1719.” This boy’s paternity does not appear. His will made March 4, 1744-5, “Being Bound in his Majesties Service In y® Ex- pedition Formed Against Cape Britton,” was brought to an early probate, and another life tragedy and luckless pledge of unwedded love was buried with hundreds of other brave New Englanders, beneath the dark greensward on Point Rochfort, near “the Dunkirk of America.” “No monument marks the sacred spot, but the waves of the restless ocean, in calm or storm, sing an everlasting requiem over the graves of the departed heroes.” He remembered in his will sever- al cousins, “the church of Christ in Topsfield,” and by a codicil made at Louisburg, while “weak of body,” one, Mary Marshall, who lived with her guardian in the old home in Topsfield ; a sweetheart, who, with “the poor of Topsfield,” shared the wage'due from the Province to the dying soldier. 10 Thomas Cummings^, born in Topsfield, June 27, 1670; married. Mar. 20, 1 704-5, Mehitable, daughter of Joseph and Ann (Hathorne) Porter, of Salem Village. She died May 9, 1738. He was of Boxford at time of marriage, and was selectman of that town in 1713, 1721, 1728, 1731. By will dated 1749 and proved Dec. 25, 1749, he bequeathed. 12 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., among other items, land lying in Lancaster, a dictionary and a farrier’s book. Children : i. Samuel, b. April 3, 1706. Removed to Lunen- burg, Mass., where he was in 1750k ii. Meiiitable, b. Oct. 21, 1710; m. May 7, 1740, Oliver Andrews, of Middleton. 17. iii. Jacob, b. Nov. 21, 1714. See below (17). iv. Abigail, b. June 5, 1717; m. Nov. 16, 1743, John Buswell, of Boxford. 1 1 Joseph CuMxMINGS'^, born Sept, i, 1692, in Woburn ; mar- ried, 1st, Dec. I, 1714, Sarah, daughter of Isaac and Abigail Easty. She was living in 1748. He m. 2nd, Nov. ii, 1751, Priscilla Lamson. She died Aug. 19, 1780. At the age of twelve, tradition says, he came to Topsfield to live with Thomas Howlett, whose wife was Rebecca Cummings, and by whom he was adopted. In 1715 he received by deed the farm east of the Ipswich river, in “thick woods,” of recent years known as the Smith farm. He d. April 22, 1794, se. 1 01. Cleaveland, in his Bi-centennial Address, says of him : “With physical energies scarcely impaired, and with a ment- al vigor not perceptively abated. Captain Cummings lived to the age of one hundred and two. Even after he had com- pleted his ‘orb’ of years he could mount his horse, unaided, from the ground, and ride many miles. To the last his memory was strong and exact — his judgement clear and sound — his retorts equally quick and keen.” “Died at Topsfield, on the 22d of April, Capt. Joseph Cummings, in the I02d year of his age. He was born at Woburn, Sept, i, 1692, O. S. At the age of 12 he came to Topsfield, by the invitation of a relation, who gave him a tract of wild land, on which he settled and lived about 80 years. In early life he made a public profession of religion ; and, by a uniform piety, integrity, temperance, cheerfulness and benevolence, he supported an amiable and unblemished character. He was not favored with the advantages of edu- cation ; but strong mental powers, an inquisitive turn of I. Samuel Cummings, of Uxbridge, and Mrs. Sarah Emerson, of Ips- wich, pub. Nov. 10, 1753. AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 13 mind, and a tenacious memory, had enabled him to acquire and retain a good knowledge of the principal events and public transactions of the last hundred years. Possessed of a rich fund of interesting and entertaining anecdotes, he was a living history of nearly a century. Within his memory the people of his neighborhood were in fear of the Indians, and he had himself stood centry at a small fortress in the town. Employed from his youth in cultivating a valuable farm, not with excessive labor, but steady industry — living in a plentiful, but plain and simple manner — and enjoying a uniform cheerfulness — the powers of his body and mind continued in great vigor, to a very ad- vanced age. When nearly an hundred, he would readily mount his horse from the ground ; and his reason continued to his last moments. Satisfied with living, and with little appearance of any other disease than senility, he closed this mortal scene, in the cheerful hope of a blessed immortality. His descendents were 2 children, 23 grand-children, 116 great-grand-children, and 32 great-great-grand-children. Total 173.” — Salem Gazette, May. ij, i^g^. Children : 18. i. Thomas, bapt. July 15, 1716. See below (18). ii. Sarah, b. Aug. 20, 1720; pub. Sept. 18, 1736, Benjamin Lamson. Removed to Exeter, N. H. (12) Isaac Cummings*, bapt. April 24, 1692, in Topsfield; married. Mar. 8, 1716-17, Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Prudence (P'oster) Boardman. She died Oct. 5, 1771, “an aged woman.” Lived in Ipswich. In 1744, before the mar- riage of his son Joseph, he sold to him the westerly half of his homestead, and in 1752 he sold the remaining half to his son Pelatiah. Yeoman. He died Oct. 12, 1761. Children: i. Abigail, bapt. Aug. 2, 1719; m. July 12, 1738, Samuel Potter, of Ipswich. 19. ii. Elisha, bapt. Aug. 2, 1719. See below (ip). iii. Mary, bapt. Oct. 2, 1720 ; m. June 4, 1741, Eze- kiel Potter, of Ipswich. 20. iv. Joseph, bapt. May — , 1722. See below (20). 14 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., V. Hannah, b. Jan. i6, 1724-5; pub. Sept. 30, 1750, Robert Perkins. She d. July 22, 1802. 21. vi. Pelatiaii, bapt. Oct. 27, 1728. See below (21). 13 Joseph Cummings^, bapt. Jan. 26, 1689-90, in Topsfield ; married, May 22, 1712, Abigail, daughter of Isaac and Abi- gail (Kimball) Easty. By his father’s will he shared with his brother John his grandfather’s homestead, the Hobbs- Bell place. He died of small-pox Dec. 24, 1729, and seven- teen days later his widow followed him, a victim of the same dread disease. At the death of the parents the children were placed under guardianship, and on coming of age, at different times, sold their shares in the estate, so that the homestead passed out of the family name. Children : 22. i. Joseph, b. July 27, 1713. See below (22). ii. Jacob, b. May 12, 1717; house-wright ; removed to Sutton, Mass., about 1733 ; m. Jan. 21, 1744, Mary Marble, and had 1 1 children. He d. Oct. 13, 1814. iii. Abigail, b. Dec. 16, 1721. 23. iv. Daniel, b. Dec. 4, 1724. See below (2j). V. Moses, b. Oct. 9, 1726; he was of Ipswich when he was pub. Nov. 2, 1754, to Esther Adams, of that town. Perhaps lived in Sutton, Mass. 14 John CummingsS bapt. July 17, 1692, in Topsfield; pub- lished Feb. 18, 1715, Mary, daughter of Isaac and Martha (Towne) Larrabee, of Lynn. He was a cordwainer, and in his father’s will shared with his brother Joseph, his grandfa- ther’s homestead, the Hobbs-Bell place. In 1727 he ex- changed this share with his brother Stebbens for a farm just over the line, in Middleton, now known as the “Porter Gould place.” In 1748 he sold his home in Middleton and re- moved to Southborough, Mass., where he bought a farm from John How. His son-in-law, Thomas Goodale, bought the adjoining farm from John Gould. In his will, dated Dec. 19, 1755, he mentions his son John, “if he shall ever return AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 5 from His Majesty’s service.” He died Feb. 29, 1756. Children : 24. i. John, b. April 19, 1717. See below (2^). ii. Hannah, b. Nov. 6, 1718 ; m. Dec. 13, 1739, Thom' as Goodale. iii. Mercy, b. Oct. 26, 1720; m. July i, 1740, Thom- as Pike. iv. Benjamin, b. Sept. 12, 1723; d. Nov. 27, 1731. V. Reuben, b. Jan 29, 1726; m. , 1747, Hannah Booth. vi. Sarah, b. May 30, 1729; was living in 1755. vii. Benjamin, b. Oct. 7, 1731. 25. viii. Joseph, b. Feb. 5, 1733. See below (2^). 15 David CUMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, April 15, 1698; married, ist, Anna . She died Feb. 9, 1741,36. 31. He married, 2nd, (pub.) Oct. 30, 1741, Sarah Good- hue, of Ipswich, who afterwards married. May 25, 1769, Deacon George Bixby. He, with his brother John, gave the “South Side Burying Ground” in Topsfield. Lived on his father’s homestead, and at death bequeathed the property to his son Samuel. In his will he gave to his “well beloved wife Sarah,” an annual allowance of the various necessities of life, among those named being “five barrels of cider yearly.” He died April 2, 1765. Children : 26. i. David, b. March 26, 1729. See below (26). ii. Jonathan, b. March 19, 1730-1 ; d. April 5, 1731. 27. iii. Samuel, b. Feb. 28, 173 1-2. See below (^7). iv. Anna, b. Oct. 20, 1734; m. April ii, 1754, Moses Perkins, and had five children. V. Susanna, b. May 8, 1737; m. Dec. 8, 1763, Ed- mund Towne and removed to New Ipswich, N. H. vi. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 19, 1739; d. Feb. 13, 1741. 28. vii. Jonathan, b. Oct 14, 1743. See below {28). viii. Stephen, b. Jan. 27, 1744-5; d. May 27, 1765, “coming home from sea.” ix. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 19, 1746-7; d. Feb. 14, 1746-7. i6 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., X. Daniel, b. Aug. 30, 1749. He was a soldier in the Revolution. xi. Archelaus, b. June i, 1752. 16 Samuel CUMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, Feb. 14, 1708-9; married, Nov. 7, 1733, Susanna, daughter of Nathaniel and Joanna (Dunnell) Hoodh Lived in Middleton, on a farm occupied in part by his brother John, to whom he transferred all right and title Nov. 23, 1733, and removed to Stoughton, Mass. Was a soldier in the Louisburg expedition in 1745, and was living in 1767, when his mother’s estate was divided. 17 Jacob CummingsS born in Boxford, Nov. 21, 1714; mar- ried, , 1745, Mary , who died Dec. 2, 178-. He lived in Boxford. Was a soldier in Capt. Jacob Gould’s Company at Lexington. Was selectman of Boxford for many years. He died March 26, 1803. Children : i. Mehitable, b. Sept. 21, 1746; d. Dec. 5, 1752. ii. Dudley, b. Feb. 18, 1748; committed suicide by hanging in Willis’ woods, East Boxford, June 25, 1815. iii. Jacob, b. April 17, 1750; d. April 10, 1757. iv. Polly, b. April 15, 1752; pub. March 29, 1785, Thomas Andrews. V. William, b. Sept. 19, 1755 ; d. Nov. 10, 1776. He was a soldier in the Revolution. vi. Jacob, b. Jan. 10, 1762; d. April 3, 1769. vii. Thomas, b. Oct. 12, 1765 ; d. May 29, 1834, 71011 compos mentis. 18 Thomas Cummings^, born in Ipswich, was bapt. July 15, 1716; married, ist, (pub.) July 17, 1736, Lydia Richardson, of Dracut. She died March 26, 1753, and he married, 2nd, March 28, 1754, Anna Kettell, widow of Asa Johnson, of I. See foot note page 12. AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 17 Andover. She died Dec. 6, 1 792. Lieutenant in the French and Indian war and was at the capture of Louisburg. He probably lived with his father on the hill farm in “thick woods” until 1763, when he bought the farm in Topsfield now known as the Robinson place. He died Sept. 3, 1765. Children : i. Asa, b. Dec. 28, 1737; d. Mar. 2, 1737-8. ii. Lydia, b. Jan. 30, 1738-9; pub. Aug. 3, 1755, Ebenezer Porter. Removed to Little Hocking, Ohio, had thirteen children, and died Mar. 28, 1814. 29. iii. Thomas, b. Feb. 12, 1 740-1. See below (2g). iv. Sarah, b. May 9, 1743; m. , Samuel Colby. V. Anna, b. May 29, 1745 ; pub. June 25, 1763, John Towne. vi. Elizabeth, b. May 17, 1747; m. Dec. 6, 1764, Abraham Hobbs, jr. vii. Rhoda, b. July 13, 1749 ; m. April 20, 1774, David Hobbs. viii. Abraham, b. Jan. 4, 1755, grad. Brown Univ., 1776. Clergyman. ix. JOSIAH, b. Jan. 30, 1756; m. Dec. 6, 1781, Mary Boardman. Private in Capt. Baker’s Co., 1775. He d. of cancer Eeb. 6, 1835, in Albany, Me. 30. X. Stephen, b. Eeb. 9, 1757. See below (30.) 31. xi. Daniel, b. April ii, 1758. See below (31). 32. xii. Asa, b. Sept. 18, 1759. See below (32). xiii. Israel, bapt. Dec. 25, 1763; d. Jan. 22, 1764. 19 Elisha CuMMINGS^ bapt. Aug. 2, 1719, in Topsfield; married, 1st, Nov. 22, 1744, Mary Andrews, of Boxford ; married, 2nd, widow Marston. He was of Topsfield as late as I757» some time afterwards removed to Bridge- water, N. H. Children: i. Mary, b. Feb. 13, 1745-6. ii. John, bapt. Sept. 13, 1747; d. Sept. 24, 1747. iii. John, b. Feb. 8, 1748-9. iv. Andrew, b. P'eb. 8, 1748-9, died young. i8 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., V. Isaac, b. April 24, 175 1. vi. Elisha, b. Sept. 20, 1754. vii. Nathaniel, b. Jan. 16, 1761 ; m. Mary Crawford, viii. Hannah, . ix. Andrew, . 20 Joseph CUMMINGS^ bapt. May — , 1722, in Topsfield ; married, ist, Nov. 20, 1744, Mary Hale, of Boxford ; mar- ried, 2nd, March 21, 1 758, Judith, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Perkins, of Topsfield. She died March 30, 1791, and he married, 3rd, June 21, 1791, widow Lucy Knowlton. He lived in Ipswich, in the westerly half of his father’s home- stead, and at the death of his grandmother, in 1770. acquired title to the entire hitherto undivided ' estate of his grand- father Isaac, the original “hundred acres” bequeathed by Ensigne Hewlett. He died Oct. 24, 1801. Children : 33. i. Joseph, b. Dec. 27, 1745. See below (33). ii. Jonathan, bapt. July 26, 1747; d. June 13, 1752. iii. Hannah, bapt. June 30, 1751 ; d. April 4, 1758. iv. Mary, bapt. Sept. 23, 1753; pub. July 7, 1776, Zebulon Smith, of Ipswich. 34. V. Jonathan, bapt. Nov. 9, 1755. See below (34). vi. Mehitable, bapt. May 13, 1759; d. before 1795. 35. vii. Elijah, bapt. Sept. 27, 1761. See below (33). viii. Amos, bapt. Dec. 25, 1763; pub. Dec. 13, 1783, Mercy Knowlton, of Ipswich. Lived in Marl- borough, N. H., where he d. Aug. 8, 1843. 21 Pelatiah CUMMINGS^ bapt. Oct. 27, 1728, in Topsfield; married, 1st, Sept. 17, 1754, Sarah, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Kimball. She was born in Wenham, Dec. 23, 1732, and died in Topsfield, May 22, 1769. He married, 2nd, Nov. 8, 1770, Sarah Hammond, of Rowley. Lived in Ipswich, in one half of the homestead deeded him by his fa- ther in 1752, until July, 1757, when he conveyed his title to his brother Joseph, who owned the westerly half of the house, and removed to Topsfield. In 1786 he bought of ANI\ SOME OF ms DESCENDANTS. 19 Rev. Joseph Cummings, his farm in Marlborough, N. H., and, removing there, died in 1803. His widow died May i, 1808. Children : i. John, b. May 12, 1755 ; pub. May 25, 1777, Sarah Tenney, of Wenham, and settled in Barnard, Vt. ii. Pelatiah, bapt. March 12, 1758 ; d. Oct. 27, 1776. A soldier in the Revolution. iii. Lydia, b. April 24, 1760; m. Dec. 18, 1780, Hezi- kiah Hotchkins, of New Ipswich, N. H. iv. Mehitable, b. Feb. 28, 1762 ; m. Oct. 17, 1784, Stephen Adams, of Ipswich, and lived in Jaffrey, N. H. V. Sarah, b. Nov. 28, 1764; d. Feb. i, 1778. vi. Isaac, b. Jan 25, 1767; m. May 20, 1800, Betsey Emery, of Winchendon. Lived in Marlboro’, where he kept a public house. 7 children ; d. Feb. 24, 1843, in Winchendon. vii. Abigail, b. March 25, 1769 ; d. in Wenham, Jan. 23, 1770. viii. Abigail, b. Oct. 8, 1771 ; d. unm. ix. Oliver, b. June 4, 1773 ; d. in the war of 1812. X. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 17, 1775 ; m. Stephen Benja- min, of Ashby, Mass. xi. Betsey, b. March 24, 1778; m. Sept. 17, 1804, John Lummus, of Hamilton. 22 Joseph Cummings'\ born in Topsfield, July 27, 1713; published. Sept. 22, 1739, widow Martha Hodgkins, of Ips- wich. Cooper. Children : i. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 22, 1740. ii. Abigail, b. Nov. 28, 1743 ; m. Sept. 9, 1766, Wal- ter Everden. • iii. Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1746. iv. Martha, b. June 28, 1749. 23 Daniel CUMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, Dec. 4, 1724; 20 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., published Feb. 8, 1746-7, Mary Williams, of Ipswich. Was in the Louisburg expedition of 1745, under Capt. Thomas Pike. Child: i. Lucy, b. Aug. 5, 1747. 24 John Cummings^, born in Topsfield, April 19, 1719 ; mar- ried, , 1739, Mary Towne. Soldier in the French and Indian war, 1755. Lived in Middleton and Andover, and died in Andover, May 22, 1756. Children : i. Jonathan, b. Feb. 13, 1739, in Middleton. ii. Abigail, b. Oct. 5, 1743, in Middleton. iii. Mary, b. Dec. 28, 1745, in Andover. iv. Mercy, b. Dec. 28, 1745, in Andover. V. David, bapt. May 30, 1756, in Andover. 25 Joseph Cummings, born Feb. 5, 1733, in Middleton. He married. Sept, ii, 1753, Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Al- lard, of Framingham, and lived in Southboro’. In 1767 he exchanged, with David Goddard, his home in Southboro’ for a farm in Athol. This farm was lot 41 on the proprietors records, and is now located in Phillipston. He served as Corporal in Capt. Dexter’s company, at Lexington. He al- so was at Bunker Hill, and in 1777 marched with the forces against Burgoyne. He held several town offices, and died Feb. 25, 1818. Children: i. Joseph, b. Oct. 13, 1754; Revolutionary soldier. ii. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 13, 1757. iii. John, b. Aug. 13, 1759; Revolutionary soldier. iv. Benjamin, b. Feb. 8, 1764. 36. V. Stephen, b. May 8, 1766. See below (36). vi. Daniel, b. May 20, 1768. vii. Nathan, b. April 8, 1771. viii. Samuel, b. Feb. 2, 1773 ; d. Oct. 15, 1856. Lived in Orange, Mass. Susy, b. Jan. 7, 1778. IX. THE CUMMINGS-BATCHELDER HOMESTEAD. AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 2 37. X. Daniel, b. Jan. 27, 1781. See below (37). 26 David CUMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, March 26, 1729. He was published July 16, 1748, to Joanna Jones, of Box- ford. Children : i. Ebenezer, b. Sept. 21, 1749, in Topsfield. ii. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 19, 1751, in Topsfield. Hi. Joanna, b. Nov. 27, 1752, in Middleton, iv. Phebe, bapt. May 30, 1756, in Andover. 27 Samuel CUMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, Feb. 28, 173 1-2. He married, April 25, 1756, Eunice, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Bradstreet. She was born April 15, 1733. Shortly after the death of her husband she removed to Andover with her family. She joined the South church, Andover, in 1798. Sometime after the marriage of her daughter Mehitable she went to Topsfield to live, where she died, July 20, 181 1. Re- ceived by will, his father’s homestead, which, in 1777, he sold to John Derby, of Salem, and removed to Andover the same year. In 1784 he returned to Topsfield, having pur- chased a farm of 162 acres, now known as the Batchelder farm, which, at his death, became his son David’s share of the estate, the Andover property going to Samuel. Tradi- tion has it, that at the time of his death, Samuel lived in Topsfield and David in Andover, and they were obliged to move, much to their disgust. He died in Topsfield, March (29-31), 1796. Children : i. Sarah, b. March 27, 1759 ; pub. July 24, 1774, Francis Peabody, jr., of Middleton. 38. ii. David, b. May 19, 1762. See below (38). iii. Mehitable, b. Aug. 31, 1767; m. April 23, 1799, Thomas Emerson, jr., of Topsfield. 39. iv. Samuel, b. Sept. 10, 1774. See below (3g). 28 Jonathan Cummings^, born in Topsfield, Oct. 14, 1743; 22 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., married, 1st, Mary Eastman, of Pembroke. She died July 26, 1801, ae. 59, and he married, 2nd, Dec. 30, 1802, Mary, widow of James Parker. She died April 15, 1826, se. 80. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Blacksmith. Lived in Andover. He died in 1805, according to the manuel of the South church, Andover. Children : i. Sarah, b. May 2 1, 1767 ; m. April 13, 1788, David Gray, of Andover, and d. March 15, 1793. ii. Mary, b. Aug. 25, 1768; d. Sept., 1768. iii. An infant, b. ; d. young. iv. Jonathan, b. ; m. Joanna Cole, of Gray, Me. V. Stephen, b. Jan. 12, 1773; d. in Portland. Phy- sician. He m. Eleanor Hale. vi. Mary, b. Nov. i, 1774; m. May 22, 1798, Solo- mon Holt, of Andover. vii. Daniel, b. Dec. 6, 1776; d. June 25, 1778. 40. viii. Daniel, b. Sept. 2, 1778. See below (40). ix. Amos, b. July 2, 1781 ; m. Jan. 25, 1803, Abigail Judkins, of Andover. Lived in Norway, Me. X. Betty, b. Oct. 13, 1783 ; m. Sept. 2, 1806, Barnard Douglas, of Portland, Me. xi. Abiatha, b. Sept 22, 1786; d. Oct. 8, 1802. 29 Thomas CUMMINGS^ born in Ipswich, Feb. 12, 1 740-1. He married, ist, April 26, 1763, Lois Boardman, of Tops- field. She died Dec. 6, 1792, and he married, 2nd, Sept. 3, 1797, Elizabeth Perkins, of Topsfield. She died Dec. 6, 1825. Lived with his grandfather, Capt. Joseph, until the death of the latter, in 1794, when he received by will all his real estate, including the “burying ground.” He was a sol- dier in the Revolution. He died March 27, 1806. Children : i. Jonas, b. Oct. 22, 1763; m. Aug. 16, 1787, Hep- zibah Knowlton, and lived at the homestead. He d. Jan. 16, 1804. ii. Joseph, b. Dec. 14, 1765 ; d. before 1804. 41. iii. Thomas, bapt. May 29, 1768. See below (41). AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 23 iv. Nathaniel, bapt. June 24, 1770. Blacksmith. Lived in Salem. V. Daniel, bapt. May 15, 1774. vi. John Boardman, bapt. May 4, 1777 ; m., ist, Nov. 26, 1801, Rebecca Balch, of Topsfield ; m., 2nd., (pub.) Jan. 26, 1804, Martha Knowlton, of Ham- ilton. He lived at the homestead until 1807, when he sold his share of the estate to his brother Thomas. 30 Stephen Cummings®, born in Ipswich, Feb. 9, 1757; married, March 29, 1780, Deborah Peabody. She died Jan. 21, 1821, 3e. 62. He died in Andover, April 16, 1797, ae. 40. Children : i. William Peabody, b. July 28, 1782. Lived near Eastport, Me. ii. Stephen, b. March 14, 1784. Lived in Maine. 42. iii. Charles, b. March 29, 1787. See below (42). 43. iv. Joseph, b. Dec. 6, 1792. See below (43). V. Deborah Gould, -b. Oct. 19, 1794; d. Oct. 8, 1818. vi. Susannah, b. Aug. 25, 1797; m. Randall. 31 Daniel Cummings®, born in Ipswich, April ii, 1758; married, ist, Feb. 28, 1782, Mary Dodge, of Boxford. She died March 10, 1824, and he married, 2nd, May 12, 1825, Lydia McAllister, of Marlboro’, N. H. She died Dec. 29, 1856. Lived in Andover, with his widowed mother, during his early years. In 1787 he removed to Marlboro’, N. H. Farmer. Deacon of the Baptist church in Pottersville, N. H. Died in Marlboro’, Nov. 26, 1836. Children : i. Daniel, b. Feb. 26, 1783, in Andover, Mass.; d. Jan. 13, 1784. ii. Daniel, b. Dec. 13, 1784; m. Dec. 5, 1815, Eliza- beth Daggett. He d. in Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 30, 1852. iii. Mary, b. Feb. 10, 1787; d. Jan. 21, 1834. 24 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., iv. John, b. Oct. 29, 1789; m. Feb. 16, 1815, Eliza- beth Emerson. Removed to Warren, N. Y., d. June 5, 1852. V. Thomas, b. May 22, 1792; m. Dec. 5, 1820, Sarah Harvey; d. in Indiana, Feb. 8, 1844. vi. Anna, b. Jan. 2 1 , 1 795 ; m., ist, Nov. 6, 1 82 1 , Robert Fay, of Walpole, N. H. ; m., 2nd, May, — , 1834, Alonzo Hubbard, of Walpole, N. H. ; d. Jan. 31, 1841. vii. Joseph, b. June 19, 1798; m. , 1819, Hep- zibah Robbins. Blacksmith. viii. Abraham, b. May 15, 1801 ; m. March 20, 1817, Daphne Carter, of Roxbury, N. H. ; d. Aug. 31, 1827. 32 Asa Cummings®, born in Ipswich, Sept. 18, 1759; mar- ried, 1st, March 7, 1782, Hannah Peabody. She died at the birth of her ninth child, and he married, 2nd, May 25, 1797, Lydia Holt. Soldier in the Revolution. Emigrated to Al- bany, Me., in 1800, and died there Eeb. 22, 1848. Was a prominent man in Albany and filled many important offices. Children : i. Enoch, b. Dec. 24, 1782. Lived in North Yar- mouth, Me., and had two children. ii. Asa, b. April 4, 1784; d. Oct. 18, 1786. hi. Hannah, b. Oct. 23, 1785; m. Sept. 29, 1814, Isaac Stevens, of Andover. Lived in Maine for a number of years, and died in North Ando- ver in 1827. iv. Susannah, b. April 29, 1789; m. May i, 1826, Benjamin Mooar, of Andover. She d. by an ac- cident, falling down stairs, July 5, 1868. V. Asa, b. Sept. 29, 1790 ; m., Oct. i, 1821, Phebe Johnson, of Andover. D. D. Minister at North Yarmouth, Me., 1821-9; editor of the Christian Mirror, Portland, 1826-56; Harvard U., 1817; d. at sea June 5, 1856, while returning from Panama. 44. vi. John, b. March 9, 1792. See below (44). AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 25 45. vii. Francis Peabody, b. April 25, 1793. See below (4S)- viii. Sarah, b. Oct. 12, 1794; missionary to Burmah ; um. ; d. of jungle fever. Baptist, ix. A child, b. P'eb. 12, 1796; d. Feb. 13, 1796. X. Lydia, b. May 28, 1798; m. Daniel Wheeler, of Bethel, Me. xi. Mary, b. July 5, 1800, in Albany; m. Andrew Merrill. Lived in Michigan. xii. Sophia, b. Dec. 19, 1802, in Albany; m. Marma- duke R. Hutchinson, of Albany. xiii. Stephen, b. July 23, 1805, in Albany; m. Nancy I'rost, of Albany; d. March 28, 1863. xiv. Hermon, b. Jan. 20, 1808, in Albany; m. Char- lotte Frost, of Albany; d. Sept. 13, 1882. XV. Leonard, b. Feb. 2, 1812, in Albany; m. Mary Pingree; d. July 25, 1878. 33 Joseph CUMMINGS^ born in Ipswich, Dec. 27, 1745. He married , Anna Gove, who died in Topsfield, July 22, 1792, aged 38 years, and was buried in the “old burying ground” on the Cummings farm, where lie over one hundred of the early settlers in the locality. The Lamsons, Smiths, and Cummingses. But few stones now remain, and these are of recent date. It is surrounded by a high wall and over- grown with trees. Joseph Cummings graduated at Harvard Coll, in 1768. He studied divinity in Topsfield, probably with Rev. George Leslie, pastor of Linebrook church, who had several students, and in 1778 he removed to Marlboro’, N. H., and became the first settled pastor of the Congrega- tional church in that town, at a salary of $133.33. Difficul- ties arose between pastor and people, and in Dec., 1780, he was dismissed from his charge, the church charging various matters of Christian neglect, which were sustained at a coun- cil of ministers. He returned to Topsfield and is said to have gone to Ohio as the land agent of the Massachusetts Company. While on his way home from there, he was taken suddenly ill and returned to Marlboro’, to the house of his 26 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., brother Amos, where he died Sept. 24, 1788. Children : i. Charles, b. Sept. 23, 1777, in Seabrook, N. H. Baptist minister; organized several churches; m. Polly Hemenway and had 7 children ; d. Dec. 27, 1849. ii. Mary, b. Aug. 3 1 , 1779; m., Jan. 8, 1802, Capt. Jacob Batchelder, of Topsfield, who removed to Boxford in 1828, where she d. in 1873. 46. iii. Cyrus, b. July 30, 1782. See below (46). iv. Cynthia, b. April 5, 1785 ; m. March 2, 1812, Si- mon Lane, of Sanbornton, N. H. V. Samuel, b. April 5, 1785; d. June 22, 1802, in Topsfield. vi. Sophia, b. ; m. Daniel Story, of Ports- mouth, N. H., where they afterwards lived. 34 Jonathan Cummings®, born in Ipswich. Baptized Nov. 9, 1755. Married, ist. May 23, 1780, Elizabeth White, who died in Nov., 1797. He married, 2nd, Dec. 20, 1798, Lucy Kimball, of Wenham. Lived in the house demolished a few years ago by Eugene L. Wildes, which stood nearly opposite the Smith house, so called. It probably was built about 1780, at the time of Jonathan’s marriage. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Children : i. Polly, b. Sept. 15, 1781 ; d. April 22, 1783. ii. Elizabeth, b. May 26, 1783. iii. Lydia, b. Dec. i, 1784. iv. Isaac, b. Oct. 18, 1799. 35 Elijah Cummings®, born in Ipswich. Baptized Sept. 27, 1761. He married, June 24, 1783, Eunice, daughter of Wil- liam and Elizabeth Conant. She died in Topsfield, Dec. 13, 1813. He was executor of his father’s will and received the homestead farm and personal property. He died March 27, 1842, aged 83 years. Children : AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 27 i. Eunice, b. June 18, 1784 ; m. July 18, 1806, Moses Knowlton, of Hamilton. 47. ii. William, b. Jan. 17, 1788. See below (4-7.) iii. Judith, b. Jan. 28, 1792; pub. March 12, 1815, Sylvester, son of David (33) Cummings. 36 Stephen Cummings®, born in Southboro’, Mass., May 8, 1766. He married May or Polly Brown, and lived in Phil- lipston. Mass. Children : i. Betsey, b. June 21, 1792 ; d. Dec. 20, 1819. ii. Stephen, b. Dec. 23, 1793; d. Oct. 17, 1820. iii. Susan, b. Nov. 18, 1795 ; m. Felton. iv. Polly, b. Nov. 10, 1797; m. Dunton. V. Louisa, b. , 1800; m. King. vi. Laura, b. April 28, 1802. vii. Amos Smith, b. Dec. 2, 1804; d. , 1893. viii. Charles Adams, b. July 3, 1807; m., ist, March 2, 1828, E. Rich, of Wellfleet, Mass. She d. Dec. 2, 1831, and he m., 2nd, Oct. 9, 1834, So- phronia Gregory, of Winchendon. She d. Jan. 9, 1839, and he m., 3d, Bowler. Had chil- dren : — Mary Ann; George H. ; Abby ; Susan Maria and Anna Bradley. He was a teacher in Quincy, Mass., for many years, and d. Feb. 25, 1861. ix. Fanny Ann, b. June 23, 1803. X. Augusta Loretto, b. June 23, 1803. xi. Joseph Boyle, b. Dec. 23, 1815. xii. Francis Henry, b. Dec. ii, 1819. 37 Daniel Cummings®, born in Athol Mass., Jan. 27, 1781. He left his home in Gerry, now Phillipston, Mass., in 1800, and settled in Orleans, Mass., where he married, Dec. i, 1803, Lydia, daughter of Josiah Sparrow, of that town. He lived in that part of Orleans known as Tonset, and was prom- inent in town affairs. Was selectman fourteen years and representative to the General Court for seven years. He 28 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., died Dec. 3, 1857. His wife died July 26, 1872. Children : i. Joseph, b. Dec. 17, 1804; d. Jan. 23, 1883. ii. Samuel Smith, b. Nov. 25, 1806; d. July 4, 1822, at New Orleans, La. Hi. JosiAH Sparrow, b. Oct. 5, 1809; d. Feb. 23, 1810. iv. Lucy, b. Aug. 24, 1812; d. Dec. 13, 1892. V. JosiAH Sparrow, b. Dec. 15, 1814; d. June 29, 1863, at West Newton, Mass. vi. Benjamin, b. Oct. 18, 1816 ; d. July 5, 1839, at Charleston, S. C. vii. Daniel, b. Dec. i, 1818. 48.viii. Calvin, b. March 24, 1821. See below (4S). ix. George Washington, b. May 26, 1824. X. Lydia Sparrow, b. July 27, 1826; d. Aug. 27, 1826. xi. Lydia Sparrow, b. July 23, 1828; d. Feb. 21, 1858. David Cummings®, born in Topsfield, May 19, 1762. He married, Oct. 21, 1784, Mehitable Cave, of Middleton. She died in Middleton Oct. 10, 1831. In 1814 he gave land to enlarge the South Side Cemetery, and also built the wall about it. He died March 22, 1826. Children : i. David, b. Aug. 13, 1785; m., ist, Aug. 13, 1812, Sally, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Porter, of Topsfield. She d. Feb. 2, 1814, of consumption, and he m., 2nd, Aug. 17, 1815, Catharine Kitt- ridge, of Andover. She d. in 1824, and he m., 3d, Oct. 17, 1825, Maria F. Kittridge, of Ando- ver, sister of his 2nd wife. She d. Jan. 3 I, 1873. He graduated at Dartmouth College, 1806, and was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 1828- 1855. Lived in Salem. He is well remembered for his eloquence at public meetings and in ad- dresses to juries. Many distinguished men studied law in his office, among them being Ru- AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 29 fus Choate. He d. March 30, 1855, at Dorches- ter. Children : i. William, h. ; d. Sept. 3, 1814, ae. 19 mos. ii. Francis,h,M.d.y 17, 1816; d. Oct. 3, 1849. iii. Catharme, b. Aug. 23, 1818. iv. Helen Franklin, b. July 2, 1824; m. July 25, 1843, Edmund P. Tileston, of Dorchester. V. Maria Susaima,h. April 9, 1827; d. Oct. 1,1866. Author of “The Lamp- lighter,” “Mabel Vaughn,” etc. vi. Thomas Kittridge, b. May 12, 1829; m. June 25, 1863, Mary A. Paschall, of St. Louis, Mo. vii. Martha Ann, b. Feb. 12, 1832. viii. Horace, b. April 4, 1834; d. April 14, 1856, in Dunbarton, Scotland. ii. Abigail, b. Dec. 4, 1786; m. April 18, 1814, Sam- uel Hood, jr., of Topsfield, a mariner. She d. Sept. 15, 1863. iii. Pamelia, b. Aug. 25, 1788; m. June 27, 1816, Allen Porter, brother of David’s wife. She d. March 27, 1837. 49. iv. Samuel, b. July 7, 1790. See below (^p). V. Sylvester, b. March 17, 1793; pub. March 12, 1815, Judith, daughter of Elijah (35) and Eunice Cummings. Had Hiram, b. Feb. i, 1816, d. Feb. 2, 1816; Judith A., who m. Erastus Smith ; Ma- ria F., m. Stephen Peabody, of Boxford ; lived in Newburyport, and had Mary, Maria and Sam- uel ; Susan, who m. Dr. Wm. S. Thompson, of Newburyport, and lived in N. H. Sylvester Cummings received the Topsfield homestead as his share of his father’s estate, where he lived until 1829, when he sold the farm to the Endi- cott family and removed to Bald Pate, in George- town. He d. April 17, i860. 30 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., vi. Hiram, b. Nov. 20, 1794; d. Oct. 8, 1805. 39 Samuel Cummings®, born in Topsfield, Sept. 10, 1774; married, Nov. 27, 1800, Lucy, daughter of Caleb and Lucy (Lovejoy) Abbott, of Andover. She died May 25, i860, aged 76. He was killed by being thrown from his team, near his home, on July 8, 1816. Lived in Andover. Children : i. Samuel, b. Oct. 29, 1801 ; d. unm. June 4, 1856, of typus fever. ii. Lucy, b. Nov. 19, 1802; m., June 5, 1820, Joseph Richardson; d. Oct. 2, 1873, of paralysis. 50. iii. Charles, b. Jan. 15, 1804. See below (so). iv. Asenath, b. March 19, 1805 ; m. March 4, 1823, George Richardson, of Chelmsford. V. Mehitable, b. May 4, 1 806 ; unm., d. in Lawrence, 1874. vi. Mary Elizabeth, b. March 8, 1812; m. Oct. 4, 1832, Nathan Abbott, of Charlestown, and d. Nov. 27, 1872. Her four sons were in the Re- bellion, during the entire war. Two of them were afterwards killed in the great Boston fire of 1872. 40 Daniel Cummings®, born in Andover, Sept. 2, 1778; married, June 30, 1801, Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and Phebe (Chandler) Ames, of Andover. In 1832 his widow was granted a letter of dismission from the church in An- dover to the church in Springfield, Vt. He had the title of “Major.” He was a carpenter and erected many buildings in Andover, and removed to Bath, Me., before 1813. He died in 1827. Children : i. Daniel, b. April 21, 1804. ii. Elizabeth, b. May 20, 1807. iii. Mary Eastman, b. Dec. 22, 1811 ; m. Seth Paine. iv. Sarah, b. ; m. Rev. Hiram Orcutt. V. Hannah, b, ; m. Williams. Lived in Springfield, Vt. AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 31 41 Thomas CUMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, was baptized March 29, 1768. He married, Jan. 4, 1798, Abigail Foster. Lived on the Capt. Joseph Cummings farm, which he sold, in 1819, to Samuel Bradstreet, who in turn sold to John and Reuben Smith. Children : i. Jonas, b. June 9, 1798. ii. Foster, b. Aug. 23, 1800. iii. Asenath, b. March 23, 1804. iv. Abigail, b. April 19, 1807. V. Louisa, b. June 27, 1809. vi. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 21, 1811. 42 Charles Cummings^, born in Andover, March 29, 1787; published Sept. — , 1808, to Hannah Eaton. Lived in East Andover, Me. Was married four times. Children : i. Stephen Osgood, b. Feb. 21, 1810. ii. Charles, b. Jan. 14, 1812. iii. Theron Johnson, b. . 43 Joseph Cummings^, born in Andover, Dec. 6, 1792 ; mar- ried, 1st, Dec. 19, 1815, Mary Plummer, of Londonderry, N. H., widow of Stephen Poor. She died Dec. 2, 1845, aged 63 ; married, 2nd, (pub. 1847), Phebe Foster, of Brentwood, N. H. She died May 2, 1886, aged 14. Was deacon in the Andover church, 1833, and was in charge of the Andover almshouse for many years. He lived in Hancock, N. H., at one time, and died in Andover, Oct. 10, i860. Children : i. Joseph Hale, b. June 15, 1816 ; m. Rebecca Whip- ple, of Hamilton. Had Clara, m. Wood- bury; Lilia, m. Frederick March, of Newton, Mass. 51. ii. Charles Osgood, b. June 29, 1818. See below (50‘ 32 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS. iii. Ann, b. June 27, 1820; m. Nov. 26, 1840, John T. Randall, of Haverhill. Had George ; Sarah ; Harriet, and John P. iv. Henry, b. May 25, 1822; m. — , 1842, Eliza B. Farnham. Schoolmaster. Lived in Haverhill, Gloucester, etc. Had one daughter, Helen ; m. Henry Freeman, of Chicago, 111. V. Elizabeth, b. Jan. ii, 1826; m. , Dr. Sidney Drinkwater, of Portland, Me. Had Louis and Joseph. 44 John CUMMINGS^ born in Andover, March 9, 1792 ; mar- ried, 1st, , Abigail Libby; m., 2nd, Mrs. Laura Young. Lived in Albany, Me. Children : i. Lydia, b. Oct. 13, 1812; m. Waterhouse; had 13 children, all dying in infancy. ii. Asa, b. June 17, 1814; m. Sophia Green, and d. Dec., 1893. iii. John, b. March ii, 1816; moved West, and d. in 1864. iv. Abigail, b. April 17, 1818; m. Sept. 15, 1839, Daniel G. Holt. V. Albion Parris, b. June 9, 1820; d. , 1894. Homeopathic physician. Lived in Wisconsin. vi. Sarah Johnson, b. Oct. 24, 1826; d. Sept. 20, 1828, in Andover. vii. Samuel Johnson, b. Dec. 31, 1828, in Andover; m. Ann Poor; d. Jan. 31, 1865. viii. Phebe Ann, b. Sept. 9. 1831 ; m. Nathan Atkin- son, of Canada. 45 Francis Peabody CuMMiNGSh born in Andover, April 25) 1793; married, during the winter of 1816-17, Lois Cham- berlain, of Waterford, Me. She died Nov. 28, 1838, in Al- bany, Me., aged 43 ; m., 2nd, Mary Ann PYost, who died Jan. 20, 1848 ; m., 3d, Hephzibah Holt, of Bethel, Me., who AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 33 outlived him. Served in the war of 1812. He died Sept. 14, 1863, 'in Albany, Me. Children : 52. i. Aaron, b. Sept, ii, 1819. See below (52). ii. Lydia Chamberlain, b. Oct. 12, 1821 ; m. Thomas Green, of Waterford, Me. iii. Lois Barrett, b. , 1823. iv. Ephraim Chamberlain, b. Sept. 2, 1825; m. Anne Pomeroy, of Portland, Me. Clergyman ; d. Dec. 14, 1897. 53. V. Daniel, b. March 13, 1828. See below (SS)- vi. Persis Bartlett, b. July 18, 1830; d. Jan. 10, 1848. vii. Brainard, b. Feb. 24, 1833; m. Nov. 22, 1864, Sarah H. Holt, of Albany, Me. No children. Lives in Andover. Was a soldier in the Re- bellion. viii. Sarah, b'. Oct. 9, 1835. City missionary, at Wor- cester, Mass. ix. Lewis P'rancis, b. Nov. i, 1843. Lawyer. Chi- cago. Civil war veteran. X. Mary Ann, b. Feb. 8, 1846; unm. ; lives in Bethel, Me. 46 Cyrus CUMMINGS^ born July 30, 1782. He married. May 25, 1809, Susanna, daughter of Moses and Susanna Wildes. She died Jan. 7, 1852. PAllowed the sea in his earlier years, and afterwards kept the famous Topsfield Hotel, on the Newburyport and Boston Turnpike. He was prominent in town affairs, at various times holding all the principal offices within the gift of the town. He died April 26, 1827, aged 45. Children : i. Susan, b. Aug. 20, 1810; m., April 6, 1859, Rev. Martin Moore, of Boston, for many years editor of “The Congregationalist.” ii. Mary Ann, b. May 16, 1813; m. July 9, 1833, Benjamin P. Adams, of Topsfield. She d. May 15, 1840. 34 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOrSFlELD, MASS., iii. Cyrus, b. Nov. 24, 1816; m. Adeline D. Stevens, of Boston. Attorney-at-law; d. Jan. 26, 1886. iv. Catharine, b. April 21, 1819; d. Feb. 20, 1820. V. Humphrey, b. Feb. 27, 1822 ; m. Mary H. Stevens, of Boston; d. Aug. 9, 1874, in Boston. 47 William Cummings^ born in Topsfield, Jan. 17, 1788. He was published March 25, 1815, to Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Perley) Scott, of Ipswich. She died Aug. 17, 1878, ae. 86. Farmer. He built the house now standing on the Cummings farm. Was known as “Captain,” being commissioned Captain in the militia Sept. 19, 1821. Was selectman for many years. He died Oct. 10, 1868. Children : i. William Perley, b. April 7, 1817; pub. April 4, 1841, Mary C. Dodge, of Hamilton. He d. Aug. 12,1842. Had, Sarah Elizabeth, b. ; m., , Jan. 23, 1862, Augustus Blaney ; had, Mary A., | b. June 9, 1864, d. , 1889; Francis B., b. j Aug. 21, 1866, m. Sadie Hooker; Almira A., b. Oct. 4, 1874, and Jenney S., b. Oct. 14, 1878. I 54. ii. Alfred, b. May 28, 1823. See helow (34.). iii. Almira, b. Dec. 1 1, 1828 ; m., June 10, 1880, Sam- ; uel Todd, of Topsfield. 48 I Calvin Cummings^ born in Orleans, Mass., March 24, I 1821; married, Nov. 25, 1848, Mary Frances, daughter of James Freeman, of Orleans. He followed the sea from the ; age of nine years until the time of his marriage, when he ' became a carpenter. About 1855 he removed to Kankakee, 111., where he lived until 1872, when he returned to Orleans, and died there Sept. 25, 1872. | Children : I i. Arthur Richmond, b. April i, 1854, at Orleans. | 55. ii. Charles Freeman, b. July 31, 1858, at Kankakee. 1 See below (SS-) 56. iii. William Freeman Sparrow, b. May 9, 1863, at Kankakee. See below (^6). i AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 35 49 Samuel CUMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, July 7, 1790. He was published, July 17, 1825, to Joanna Andrews, of West Gloucester. She was born Feb. 28, 1805, and died March 26, 1875. Received from his father, by will, the Cave prop- erty in Middleton. He was for many years a successful teacher, and was commonly called “Master Sam.” He died Sept. 9, i860, and was buried in the South Side Cemetery, Topsfield. Children : i. David, b. June 24, 1827, in Middleton; m., July 28, 1852, Olive C. Ross, of Danvers. ii. Samuel Augustus, b. Nov. 4, 1829, in Middleton; m., Aug. 9, 1859, Julia A. Perley, of Boxford, and had Julia Augusta, b. Nov. 26, i860. iii. Charlotte Porter, b. Dec. 30, 1832, in Middle- ton. Died of scarlet fever, March 21, 1853, on the eve of her marriage. iv. Sylvester, b. Nov. 20, 1835, Wenham ; m., Aug. 2, 1861, Mary Jane Otis. Had, Nellie F., b. July II, 1862, and William, b. Nov. 18, 1869. Lived in Chicago. Died in Springvale, Me., Sept. 22, 1890. V. Porter Emerson, b. July 6, 1839, in Topsfield; m., June 13, 1863, Emily Ferguson, of Spring- vale, Me. Had, Mary Emily, b. March 26, 1 864 ; Florence Amelia, b. Sept, i, 1866; David Porter, b. May 25, 1869 ; John Murray, b. June 20, 1880. Lives in Dorchester. vi. Joanna Pamelia, b. Oct. 17, 1841, in Topsfield; d. March 26, 1875. 50 ' Charles Cummings^ born in Andover, Jan. 14, 1804; married, , Mary Russell Fames, of Bethel, Me. She died Jan. 28, 1888, aged 74. Was a peculiar man. Willed ; his entire estate to the town of Andover, cutting off his wife ^ and grandchild without a cent. The town waived all claims and the widow occupied the property. Farmer. Lived in 36 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELI), MASS., Andover. Died of paralysis at the Worcester Hospital, April 12, 1873. Children : i. Martfia, b. ; d. March 8, 1850, of scarlet fever, ae. 10 years. ii. Mary Emily, b. , 1842; m. Nathan Foster, who was b. in Norway, Me. She d. of consump- tion, Sept. 24, 1864. Lived in Andover. iii. A son, b. Oct 3, 1843 ; d. young. 51 Charles Osgood Cummings®, born in Andover, June 29, 1818; married, ist, .Abigail W., daughter of Simon and Clarissa Locke, of Newmarket, N. H. She died July 13, 1886, aged 62, and he married, 2nd, March 22, 1892, widow Augusta C. Stevens, daughter of Willard and Henrietta M. (Sheldon) Symonds, of Middleton. He was a farmer, and for many years was in charge of the Andover almshouse. He died in Andover, Sept. 14, 1898, having had no children, but leaving an adopted daughter, Blanche L. Cummings. 52 Aaron Cummings®, born in Albany, Me., Sept, ii, 1819; married, March i, 1866, Lydia A., daughter of Asa and Lydia Sawyer, of Methuen. She was a school teacher. He taught school between 1847 1855, in Maine, N. H., and Mass., afterwards residing in Andover, Mass., and became a farmer. Children : i. Louisa Marcella, b. June 30, 1869. Lives in Andover. ii. Arthur Gray, b. Feb. 12, 1872. Harvard Coll., 1894. Principal of Hubbardston High School. iii. Florence Levina, b. Oct. 9, 1874. Lives in An- dover. 53 Daniel Cummings®, born in Albany, Me., March 13,1 828 ; married. May 2, 1854, Hannah A., daughter of Moses W., AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 37 and Lydia Holt, of Albany, Me. He died Jan. ii, 1896, in Andover. Children : i. Luella a., b. Aug. 13, 1855, in Manchester, N. H. ; m., Oct. 8, 1879, Frederick O. Perry, and lives in Wakefield, Mass. ii. Lydia, b. Dec. 6, i860; d. April 21, 1863. 54 Alfred CUMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, May 28, 1823. He married, April 18, 1847, Salome M., daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann (Stevens) Welch, of Hamilton. She died March 31, 1894, m. 69. Farmer. Children : 57. i. William Scott, b. Dec. 26, 1848. See below (s7)- 58. ii. George Washington, b. Oct. 8, 1850. See below (58). iii. Martha Stevens, b. March 30, 1853; m., March 28, 1888, Norman McLeod, of Topsfield. iv. Abby Jane, b. March 25, 1854; m., Jan. 20, 1875, William Porter Gould, of Topsfield. He d. May 18,1 897, leaving one child, Allen Porter, b. March 6, 1882. V. Laura Anna, b. Oct. 15, 1857; m., Dec. 14, 1898, Ira Perley Long, of Topsfield. vi. Sarah Burgess, b. April 25, 1859; m., April 24, 1881, Ephraim P. Ferguson, of Topsfield. She d. Oct. 16, 1895, leaving one child, Eva Burgess, b. July 19, 1883. vii. Hannah Eva, b. April 2, 1863 ; m., Nov. 30, 1882, Samuel G. Goodhue, of Hamilton. Had Hattie Alice, b. Sept. 6, 1885. 59. viii. Charles Arthur, b. Feb. 20, 1870. See below {59-) 55 Charles P'reeman CuMMINGS^ born in Kankakee, Ilk, July 31, 1858. He married, June 20, 1888, Eleanor Emma, daughter of William Boyd, of Ayershire, Scotland. He is a printer, and lives in Cambridgeport, Mass. 38 ISAAC CUMMINGS, OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., Children : i. Margaret Eleanor, b. May 20, 1889, hi Cam- bridge. ii. Dorothy Quincy, b. Aug. 26, 1892, in Quincy, and d. Aug. 31, 1895. 56 William Freeman Sparrow Cummings®, born in Kan- kakee, 111., May 9, 1863. He married, June 18, 1891, Cor- delia Johnston, daughter of James M., and Jane A. (Fowler) French, of Cambridge. Lives at Quincy, Mass. Travelling salesman. Children : i. Doris Estelle, b. Jan. 17, 1894, in Quincy. 57 William Scott CuMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, Dec. 26, 1848; married, ist, April 25, 1870, Aurelia Maria, daughter of Maurice and Nancy P. (White) Webber, of Wenham. She died Feb. 12, 1890, and he married, 2nd, May i, 1892, Margaret L. Mullin. Lives in Swampscott. Farmer. Children : i. Mary Louise, b. Sept. 24, 1871; m. Sept, ii, 1895, Francis T. Glavin. Had, Grace E., b. April 3, 1896; William F'., b. April 19, 1897, and Florence M., b. Jan. 22, 1899. ii. William Irving, b. Feb. 20, 1873; m., Nov. 28, 1898, Florence M. Conley. iii. Perley Lester, b. Feb. 8, 1875 ; m., Nov. i, 1897, Julia Perkins. Had, George W., b. Sept. 10, 1898, and Edwin P., b. Sept. 12, 1899. iv. Laura Isabel, b. Nov. 4, 1876; d. April 15, 1877. V. Nancy Porter, b. Feb. 25, 1878 ; d. April 12, 1878. vi. Alfred Percy, b. Sept. 3, 1879* vii. Annie, b. Feb. 26, 1893. viii. Francis Scott, b. Feb. 23, 1895. ix. Helen Catharine, b. July 25, 1896; d. Nov. i, 1896. X. Alice Salome, b. Sept. 5, 1897. xi. Gertrude Elizabeth, b. Sept. 17, 1898. AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 39 58 George Washington CuMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, Oct. 8, 1850; married, , Nellie M., daughter of Moses Chapman. Lives in Lynn. Carpenter. Children : i. Mabel A., b. Jan. 28, 1876. ii. Harry Raymond, b. Oct. 22, 1890. 59 Charles Arthur CuMMINGS^ born in Topsfield, Feb. 20, 1870; married Elizabeth Bell, daughter of Frank and Mary (Flaharty) Merrill, of Wenham. Lives in Wenham. Employed by the B. & M. Railroad. Children : i. Arthur Merrill, b. March 3, 1891. ii. Ernest Farnklin, b. Dec. 6, 1892; d. May 19, 1893- iii. Annie Florence, b. June 9, 1894. Erratum. Page 9. Eleventh line from the bottom of the page. Strike out the words, situated in the vicinity of, so that it shall read — The farm was the preseiit Alfred Cummings hojnestead. 40 ADVERTISEMENT. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. The subscriber offers for sale, that excellent Farm, sit- uated in Topsfield, on a beautiful eminence about one mile east of the hotel, being the same that was lately owned by Dubley Bradstreet deceased. Said Farm contains about ninety two acres in the homestead, and in point of soil is not inferior to any in that fertile town. There is also a large two story House, two good barns, and other out build- ings ; two good wells of Water, and otherwise well watered ; it is well fenced into lots, with that most substantial fence, stone wall — there is a unit a large orchard of good fruit, now in a bearing state. There are also about twenty acres of good meadow and wood land, situated within about half a mile. Also, about two acres of good peat meadown, situated near — all in Topsfield. Also, six acres of good marsh, and one half of a pasture containing about thirty acres in all, situated in Ispwich. The whole will be sold together and possession given the first of April next ; or the owner will reserve the Ipswich land, as best suits the purchaser. It will be sold for a reas- onable price, and terms of payment made easy. For further particulars enquire of JOHN BRADSTREET. Danvers, June 29, 1835. \_Sale7n Gazette^ BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. [The original record, of which this is a copy, is entirely in the handwriting of Capt. John Peabody, the first town clerk and school- master of Boxford.] COPIED BY SIDNEY PERLEY IN 1880. [1] Refaiued of the Conltabul of Boxford Robert ftielf the fum of twanty fhillingf in Silver which mmmy waf dew a pon an a grement from the towen of boxford to the towen of Rowly for the year 1685 af doth a pear by an a greinent mad by both towens bearing Date the seventh of July 1685. I faye refaivad by me daniel wicom fen’^' this tierft day of Juen in the year 1686. John pabody.i Avitnes John pearsons.^ Daniell Wicom^ At a Lawfull and a Genarall meetins: of the inhabetanc of Rowly velig the 18 of may 1685 it was a greead a pon and voted by the a boue faid inhabetanc that Abraham Radington sen"" fhall Cary a petefion to boston and enter it in to the Genarall Coart in the name of the a hove faid velig to desier the Genaral Court to grant the a bove G vileg to bee a Town and the Court a Cordingly granted that the velig fhould bee a town by them felves and ordered the Velig to a gree with Rowly whear the bounds of the Velig bee betwen Rowly and the Velig as attest John pebody and a Cordingly the velig fent Six men to a gree with Rowly whear the lien should Run to devid betwen Rowly and the Velig and thoef Six men did Consent that it should be as it is now steated this sevanth of July 1685. af attest John pebody who was one of the Commety Lick wies the Commety of Rowly would not free the 1 Autographs. (41) 42 BOXFOUD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. Velig (until they gave) to Rowly tliaier proportion of the rainistars Real yearly (until) they Shall obtain a minnister for them seines and in stead of the wholl they hane a- greead to tack twenty Shillings by the yearteall the Velig maintaien a minnester a inong themselves which doth free ns from all other Reats for time to come in the Town of Rowly as attest John peabody one of the men [2] At a lawful town meeting held in Boxford the . . . by the town of Boxford it was then agreed on and voted that a Highway from Andover bounds to Topstield along by Joseph Bixbes hows and also a nother waye from Zach- ens Cortices hons to this a hove faid high waye or road way a long by the Works threw Abel Langlyes farm also from the Workes a long by the South sied of the plain and fo to John Stielses and fo in to this a bone faid waye and so from all other places that the men that fhall be Chosen shall see needful for to bee layed out for the ves of the town in genaral so as to doe af littel damig al conueniantly may bee the men Chosen for this semis bee af foloweth : thair names be Abraham Radington Senr John Pearly Samuel Simonds Mosef Tiler fenr and John Peabody fenr these hue men Chofen or anney three of them a greeing with the men that the hy waies shal ly threw thair land shall be a Ualewed act Avhat thay do not, and it is alfo a greead a pon by the towen that this Com- mety or others for high waies fhall giue accordingly notis to all persons that thay doe lay anney hy waye threw thair lands to be thare : it is alfo further a greead that when the hy ways is to bee layed therew anney men or mans land that al waies such men or man Shal haue af much power in ordering wher the way Shal gooe af anney on of the Commety tell it bee gone threw his land the way from Andouer to Topsfild is to bee an open way all a long therew the Town not to be inCombrad with gates or bars 23 of nouembr 86 the Commety a bove Chofen to lay out high waies in order to thair work layed out a hy waye from mapel medow by John pebodyes houf and fo a long to Topsfeld Comman land in Bear hill plaien doing ai letal damag af may bee and it doth lye a long in the ould path to John Andrufef Slow and fo af near the hilly ground on the left hand as Can Conveniantly bee layed to BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 43 the nex Slow and then Stil by the hilles to Thomas an- dnifef beam and fo to Crean broock along the ould path waye to Topsfild land this way is to bee the open by waye af if aboue menfioned The Commety a bone faid layed out a way from good- man bofwels there vv goodman Radingtons pastuer to John Stiles barn and fo along to the workes on the South Sied of the plaien and fo along to zecheus Cortises beam al fo the Commety did alfo a gree to lay out a way therew Abel Langlyes farm by the workf to the maien Road way af a bone : as letul to the damig of the farm af may bee y elding to thair Conuenency af much as possible Abell Langly did freely Confent that thay should lay a high waye therew his farem af if a boue [recorded] af atteft John pebody one of the committee and Clark that was ordered to record what was done hear in : John pe- body towen Clark [3] At a legal Towne meting hild in Boxford the * day of March 1687. Sargent Bixbe was Chofen modarator for the prefant meeting first the Towne choes •5* Selact men for the year infew- ing and ther names be as foloweth John Peabody fener william Wotfon daniel wood John Andrews Abraham Radington Juner Votad •2* the Town Choef william Pabody Conftabul for the year in fewing voted •3* Thomas Radington Thomas hazan Jofaph Andruf be Chofen Survaiers. •4- the Towne mead an order that all Swien with in the Town a boue *3* monthef ould fhall be wringed from the medil of march to the firft of november yerly a pon the panilty of six pence a weeck for every Swien that fhall be found a pon the Comen with out a wring in his noes and half the mony fo forfited fhal be for the finder & the other half fhall be for the ves of Towne : Votad •5* the Towen mead an order that all Rambf with in the Towne fhal be Capt up or fofefiantly yacked from the firft of awguft to the furst of novembr a pon the penilty of I Sixpenc a tiem that any Rambe Shal be found doing dam- I ig be payed to the owner of the Sheep whear he doth the damig : Votad 1 44 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. •2* July ’87* the Selact men of this Towne of Boxford have leaf the parsoneg medow to Thomaf hazen and dan- iel wood this prefant year for Six fhillings to be payed in Corel! to the Cunstabiil for the Ves of the Towen At a legal Town meting hild in boxford the 19th of Aiigoft 1687 firft the Town Choes Sargent Bixbe madarator for the prefant meting •2* John Pearly Commesenor to Joyen with the Selact men in a fafing the Towne a Cording to the honarad Traf- nrerf warent. votad by the Town •3* william foster if Chofen to keep an ordenary for the Towne voted also John pebody if Chofen to goe to Eowly to Search the Towne boock abonght the lien of Topslild At a lawful Towne meting hild in Boxford the 5^'^ of Septa m her *87* tint the Town Choes Abraham Radington Sener moda- rator for the meting •2* the Towne Choef -3* men to be a Commety for the Town to healp the Selact men in making the Peat af fnen af they Cean geat light to by and al fo to anfwer for the Town! neglacting in not doeingther duty a Cording to the honarad Trefurarf warent and to give the Refonf of 'ther fo doing Thinking it hater to doe nothing at prefant then to go by geaf without [anything] to Reat by : alfo that william fosters hons fhal be the place of meting teal the Town Chonef a nother plac The 12th of June in *88 • the Selact men of Boxford met to hear of the pooer & did order daniell Black Juner to help hif father af much af hee head need of in hay time & to give a Count of it to the Selact men. The 8th of Jenewary •88/9* the Selact men had a meet- ing mead a Reat of a bought eaight pound to bee paied in silver for to pnrches amenition for a tonen Stock and have ordered Mofef Tiler & Thomas pearly & Thomas Andruf & * * * * for to Gather the a bove Saied Reat & to lay it out in both pondr & bullets and flentf a Cording to |-^j * * ] (taniel Ames leaft his wief in a pooer iThis record should probably be dated Nov. 4, 1693. BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 45 and helples Condesion and winter Came on She mead her Complant to the Selact men for healp : theSelactmen of Boxford for the present year John pehody John Chad- wick daniell wood Zacheiis Cnrtes and josaph bixbee Jun : who being fenfabel that thair waf no efteat to be had and for the present to lieleue her and hir Children : did per- swade fiohn pebody on of the Selact men to Refaive hir in to his howf and and afford hir fuch nefafary Releef af fhee ftood in need of and hir Children teall the Selact men or Town Ihould tack further Cear in desposing of hir and hir Children this ‘Jth* of november *93* Thus fear the Selact men have dun af thair duty for the time being af attest John pebody Clark of the Selact men and Town Clark [5] Boston •27* Novembr -1688* Refaived of m^ John hares on a Count of Thomas Pearly (^onltabul of the Towen of Boxford Eleven pound Seven fhillings and 10*^ in full for the Contry Reat of that Town for Jo ^ Vsher Tresurer pr Michall Perrey this is a trew Copey of the Trafurers Refaight af a teaft John Peabody Clark for the Town Ipfwich -IS- may *1696* then Refaived of daniel wood Constable of Boxford 01^ — 18® — 6^ for the County in •95* by rnee John Appelton trefurer this is a trew copey as ateast John peabody Att a Lawfull Town meting hild in Boxford the •21* of may *1688. The Town Choes John Peabody moderator for that meting by a voat. •2- the Town Choes -b* men for Selact men for y® year in fewing by a voat and thair names be af foloweth John Chadduck Thomaf Andrus daniell wood Thomas ha- zen Abraham Radington Juner and John Peabody fener Yotad •3* John Pearly for a Commefiner for the year in fewing by a Voat : •4* Thomaf Pearly is Chofen Conftabull for the year in fewing by a Yoat At a meeting of the Selact men of Boxford the 16*^^ of faberary *1689 : thay proporfined the minnisterf Reat and alfo mead a town Reat to be payed in mony to discharg the Towens deats for that year 46 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. At M biwfull Town meting hild in Boxford the *24* of ■ June -89’ the Town Choes John Perley fener to bee the Constabul for the year in fevving by a Vote: alfo the Choies of the Selact men bee af foloweth : *1* Corporall Josaph Bixbe •2* Coporall Thomas hazen -S* william fos- ter fener *4* Jofaph Andrus *5’ william peabody alfo : Nathaniell Brown Jofaph Pebody .John Buswell Robard Ames for farvayers for the year in fewing At a lawtnll Town meting hild in Boxford the *24* of June •1689- The Town Choes John pearly fener and Samuel Simonds Sener to bee the reprefentatives tor the folowing part of this Summer or tel a nother bee chosen only thay bee not to Sarve but one at a tiem and not to Confeni to Set up any government Contrary to Charter preveliges : [7^] At a Towen meting hild in Boxford may the 6th 1689 the Towen Choes John Pebody fener to bee a i representetiue for the Towen and to Carey thear minds to the Counfel of fifty Relating to the fetelment of gouerment : and the Townes miends bee Signified in thes folouing liens : towet : wee the free houelders and in habetanc of the Towen of Boxford being vary fensabul of and thank- full to god for his great marcies to us in delivering vs from the Tiereny and opresion of thes ill men vndr whoes Iniustes & Cruelty we have fo long groned with all Ren- dring our harty thanks to thoes so Avorthy & honerabul Jentilmen who have been Jngaged in foe good and naces- ary a worck as the Confarvation of our peace fine that Revel ution yet being also apprehancive of the many in Conveniencies and hazerds of the present vnsetelment of our afiaiers doe declear that we doe expact that our hon- erad goiierner & dapety governor and asistanc Elacted & Sworn by the free men of this Colony in May 1686 to gather with the dapetyes then sent dauen by the Respact- ive Towens to the Cort the[n] haulden and which was never legally defolved shall Come and Reafuem and exar- cies the gouerment as a general Cort a Cording to our Charter on the nienth day of may in Sewing nex & in So doing wee doe hear by promis and ingage to aied and asist 1 Page 6 is blank. BOXB'ORI) TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 47 them to the vtmost of our power with our persons and estates praying god to gied them in the rnanigment of our ardeous aftaiers and wee doe hope that all thoes that are Trew frends to the peace and prosparety of this land will Radely and hartely «Toyen with vs hear in voted by the Towne. At a lawfull Town meting hild in Boxford June 3^* 1689 in answer to an order sent from the honerad president and Councell of Seafty of the peepol and Consernation of the peece the Town of Boxford haue Chofen elohn Pe- body seller and Thomas Pearly fener to bee thair repre- sentetives teell the gouerment shall bee seatled only they bee to sarve but on at a time : and not to Confent to feet vp aney goverment Contrery to our Charter preveliges and also to Concur with the other representetiues of this Colony which aer to meet at boston on the fifth day of this enstant June : as a teast John Pebody Clark At a Towen meting hild in Boxfor[d] the of June 1689 : it was voted that the selact men of Boxford f houeld leatthe pasenag medow this presant year and a Cordingly the Selact men have dun for Seven Shilli[n]gs this year •89* At a lawfull Town meting hild in Boxford the ‘12* of defembr : 89 the Town Choes Enfien John Pearly and quartermaster Thomas Pear''^ and Corperal Thomas Andrus to goe to Rowly fume tiem this winter and to inquire of the town of Rowly if thear bee any agreement betwen Rowly and Topsfel or Epswich Conferning thair lien betwen Rowly and Topsfeld from quartermaster Pearlyes to epswich Revar also John Pebody sener and Ensien John Pearly Cor- peral Thomas Andrus Robert Ames sener Corperal Josaph Bixbe Josaph Andrus be Chosen to steat the lien betwen Topsfeld and Boxford this next Aprell and mack return to the town [8] allfo At a lawfull Town meting hild in Boxford the *12* of desembr 89 the Town Voted that thoes men in boxford that doe hear the word despenced at Topsfeld f hall paye this year •15* pound fiue of it in Siluer to the ministre and the Rast of the Town that goe to Andovar 48 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. and bradferd to hear Shall paye proporsanabally whear they doe hear voted by the Town : At a Lawful Town meting hild in Boxford the -ll- of march 89/90 Ephraham Cortes is Choes to be thaier Con- ftabnl for the year in fewing : Voting *2- thaier felact men and thaier names be af foloweth : John Peabody fen Na- thaniell Browen Josaph Pebody Senr : Thomas Rading- ton Thomas Pearly Sen^’ Voted Mosis Tiler is chofen for to farve a pon the Juryes of trials and John Andruf to be thair grand Juryes for the year in fewing: the naems of the furvaiers be as foloweth : John Chadduck Epharaham Smith william Peabody and gorg Bixbe and John Stiels : be Chosen for Sarvaiers for this year enfewing it is alfo voted that the Selact men Shall let the parsoneg farm for this year in fewing : Voted allfo John Pebody fener and Thomas perly fener be chofen for dapeties to Saerve at the genaral Coart this next year in fewing or tell fiim other bee Choesen and thay be to faerve but on at a tiem and alfo to give an a Couent to the Commety what nafesity ther is of thaier going from tiem to tiem and alfo to have thaier advice whether to gooe or not and when thay Shall gooe : the Commety a bone Said bee Abraham Radington fener and Josaph Bixbe fener to gather with the felact men which the Towen Choes for a Commety for that end voted alfo the Town haue a greead and voted to give Six Shillings a weeck to the Souldiars in Contry paye that wear fent to the eastward vndr fr edman Andros for all the tiem thay wear gon from thaier feuarell hoems prouided that thay will giue undr thaier hands in writing to return to the town of Boxford as much paye as thay Shall refaiue if the Contry doe at any tiem after thyer refaving our paye giue them paye for thair faruis undr fur edmon Andrus and in fo doing the Town doth order the selact men to a fess the Town a Cording to the beast of thar light & if nobody bring in bills thay be to goe by the ould Reats movd this year Voted it is to be vndrstod that thay be to keep as much of our mony with what thay fhal resaive of the Contry as ihall fully pay them for thar tiem as others the Souelders abone said be Ephariam Smith T7- weecks John Tiler *20* weecks : Jonathan foster *4- BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 49 weecks : and in witnes to the a bone Said we have Seat two ovr hands this 13^‘‘ of April 1690 Ephraim Smiths Mofis Tiler feneri Jonathan foster^ [9] At a Lawful Towne meting hild in Boxford the 1* of march ‘OO/l* the Town Choes Corperal Josaph Bixbe Conftabul for the year in fewing -2* Enfien John pearly quartermaiter Tiler Corperal Thomas Andrus Samuel Si- monds Corperal Kimbal Selact men for the year infewing voted -S- william watfon Robart Ames Juner Jonathen Bixbe John Andruf Seruears for the year infewing voted •4* the Toune Voted to Send fume men (namly John pebody and John hu*) to the Cort at bofton to pete- fian the General Cort for an a beatment apon the doum- ing the Towen in the ton Reats and two and a half in mony -f- tliay finding them felus oner dumed •5* and for all the damig that fhall come a pon the Se- lact men for not laying the rniftacken mony the Towen haue votet to bear it by a town Reat •6* that every foulder in the town fhall geet him felf two pound of powdr a peece and bullets and flints pro- porfanabul -Voted by the Town : that Corparel Thomas Andrus is Chozen Clark of the marcet to fee that all mesuers bee Capt in good order a Cording to the ftandard •8* that Gorg Black and wedow Andrus and Alter Cary fhall not bee Reated by any felact men teal the Town giue ordr (that is to Say) : not in our towne : Voted The Selact men of Boxford mead the twenty Reats in the year -90- and mead them -4^ — 10® — 00- moerthen the warent did requier and thay haue orderad Ephararn Cor- tes Conftabull to pay to Rowly twenty fhillings as mony and John pebody fener and Thomas pearly fhner bee to have the other *3’ pound and to laye it out in poudr and fhot for the vs of the Town as fueen af Conueniantly thay Cean and to giue an a Count to the Town of thaier doing hearin 15 defembr *91* at a Lawful Town meting hild in 1 Autographs. 50 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. Boxford the Town Cliof Samuel Simonds moderator -2. the Town Chos Ensien John pearly and Corperal Thomas Andrus Colecters for this year ‘Ol* to gather the minestars Rates and to gather vp the arearffor that which is behind of all the menisters Reats formerly to this year •3* the Town Voted to paye to the minestre of Tops- fel this yer 15 pounds one third of it in Siluer mony •4* that the Last Twesday in fabewary next in fewing is a point [ed] a daye for to Choues a Commety for to Steat a pleac for to fet [the] meting hones in and other nafefary oCatiens if the Towen aprove of it •5* the Town Choes fum men to Join with the Com- mety of melety to aduies with them concerning men who ihall goe out to war from tieme to time and to inJage with them in that a faier : and thair names be John An- dros and daniel wood troppers : Sargent Chadduck Cor- peral Thomas Andros Corperal Jofaph Pebody william foster Seller Samuel Simonds Voted: *23- of fabewary •91/2- the Towen being meat to gather a Cording to a poiutment voted to Choves a Commety on the -8*th of march next iusiiing to liend out a lit pleac to fett a meting hous [10] At a Lawful Town meting hild in Boxford the of march •1691/2* the Town Choes John pebody fener mode rater for the daye : •2* the Towen Choes Jofaph Andrus Conftabel for the year einfewing : -d* the Town Chos thair felact men af ibloweth Samuel Simonds Sener Thomas hazan Josaph pebody fener John Andrus Robard Ames fener -J* Cor- peral Thomas Andrus grandJurey Leftenant Thomas parly Jure of triads for the nax Court at Ipswich: 5 : Samuel Smith daniel wood Sargent Chadduck Corparal Kimbal Sarvaiers for the year in fewing: *6* the Town Choes Saveral men for to mesuer from end to end and from fied to fied of our towen to fiend out the Senter and if that bee not the moest titest place for to fet a meting hous in then the Commety that wee (Jioues aer to Confedar of a nother place or places : which thay Shall think molt fitest and fo mack thair report of what thay shall doe hear in to the Town of Boxford : and the names of the men Chofen for the Sarues a boue Said bee Leftanent John gould Laf- BOXFORD TOWN RECOKDS, 1685-1706. 51 ten Thomas Backer : Sargent John Honey Henary Wil- kens Ensien John perly Leften Thomas parly qurterm. Moses Tiler Samuel Simonds fener Robart Ames I'ener and John Pebody fener Zecheus Cortes this Commetty bee to meet one the first tewesday of June next in fewing for to doe this feruis aboue menfinad At a Lawfnl Town meting hild in Boxford the *31* of Maye -92* the town Choes John pebody and Thomas pearly fener representetives for the genarall Court or a Sembly or- dered to be heald the of June in the a hove Said year •92* by the gouerner and Counfell: The Commety a pointed by the Town to fiend out a place to fet the meet- ing hous in meat one the of June 92 a Cording to the Townes order and thay have mesurad the towne from ende to end and from fied to Sied : and from the ferthies bowsing by wills hill to gorg bixbes feeld is *7*miels : and from the farther most Corner of our Land near maremack Reuar to gorg bixbes feald is -8- miels : and from the -8* miell tree to gorges feld is -2* miels and a qurter : and from Rowly Lien to the aboue laid feeld is a boute •2* miels and a half the neraft waye as Sume think •9- July •92’ the town had a meeting a Cording to warent and the To wen Choes Ensien John pearly Com- mesener to Joyen with the Selact men to tack a trew valew- ation of the esteat of the Towen a cording to Lawe Leftenant pearly and John pebody fener have payed to Rowly the three pounds of pay that was deliuerad to them for the ues of the Town Rowley had it to Satisfy for tew years Salery dew to them by an a grement of the Vileg with them before thay would part with vs [11] At a Lawful Towen meting hild in Boxford 15^‘^ of march *92/3 the Towen Choes Leftanent Thomas par- ly to bee the modarator for that day : alfo Abraham Rad- ington Constabul for the year enfewing voted-i- alfo Choes *5* Selact men and there names bee as foleweth : John pebody fener Sargent John Ch * * Zecheus Cortes dan- iell Wood fener: Josaph Bixbee voted: alfo Leftenant Thomas pearly Commesiner for the year insewing alfo the Towen Choes Eniien John pearly to farve af a Jure- man for trials at naxt Cort at Ipswich and Thomas 52 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. Redington grandiiirey for the year insewing also quarter mafter Tiler Samuel Simons be Chosen tithing men this year insewing also John Ames Servaier and John pebody Juner and Temothy dormen also Josaph pebody fener and mofes Tiler fenc vewears and to fee that fwien bee wringed a Cording to Lawe : also corperal Thomas Andrus Clark of the market also John pebody fener Clark of the towen to enter votes of the towen from tiem to time : alfo voted by the Town that all our town Charges fhall bee raifed af foloweth that is to saye one quarter fhall bee layed a pon vacant land and one quarter part of eny land : and one half a pon heads and movebal esteats heads being valewad at twenty pounds a head in all fuch Town Reates voted also the Town Choes fevan men to bee a Commety to order the waye emproving the minestars farm and to order what a howes fhall bee a pon it at the presant if anney and what way to paye for the buelding of it and the names of the a bove Said Commety bee af foloweth John pebody enfien John pearly Samual Simonds fener Leftenant Thornes pearly quarter master Tiler : Corparel thomas hafen Eparam Cortis this work is to bee dun with in one year if the Commety doe a gree in macking of thair Report to the Towen. at a Town meting hild in boxford the *3- of July -OS* the Town Choes John Pebody senr to Same as a repre- santetive for the Town this Sasiens. at a Lawful Town meting in Boxford the 15^'^ of Sep- tember -93* Choes daniel wood modarater : and Leften- ent pearly Thomas Andrus J * * * * Ames daniel black Thomas Radington to fee that Swien bee wringad a Cord- ing to Law : alfo Sargent Chadduck Jury man for newbury Court : at a lawful towen meting hild in boxford the -31 • of October *93* the Towne Choes Enfien John pearly to gather what is rafinably and honestly dew from Robart Ames his esteat to his fon daniels Children and to ves al lawfull mens to obtaien that which is dew and to giue an acount to the Town that so it maye be disposed of for the faid daniel Ameses Children Voted also the town Chos Leftenant Thomas p * * * * as a represantetive for the town this next Sit * *. BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 53 [12] At a Legal Town meting honlden in Boxford * the Town Choes Enfien pearly moderator tor the day and allb (vote)d that nacent land fhoiild not bee rated this year to anney * * Charges in Boxford : *2- that thos that doe hear the word of (God) despanfed at Topf- feeld should this year pay to the menistry thaier the sum of eaighteen pounds one thord of it in Silner money not to Beat Uaeant Land So high as wos a greead a pon At a Lawfull Town meting hild in Boxford the 13*^' of march 1693-4 the Town Choes Corperal Thomas Andrus moderator for the day: Voted: alfo John pebody fener Town Clerk : Voted : alfo John Kimball Conitable for the year infewing voted alfo The town Choes five felact men for the year infewing and thair names be as foloweth Lef- tenent Thomas Pearly : Corporel Thomas hazen * arter master Tiler william foster fener : Epharam Cortes Voted : alfo John pebody fener Comesiner for the year infewing voted : alfo william pebody and John Andrus Saruaier[s] for the year in sewing : also Thomas Radington and Josaph haillbe Chosen fenc vewars for the yer infuing also Epha- ram Smith and moses Tiler Juner be Chofen to loock after horses for the year infewing: alfo John Stiels grandJure and Josaph pebody fener Jureman for nex * rt at Eps- wich : alfo Ensien John pearly and Abraham Radington Juner tithing men At a Lawfull Town meting holden in Boxford the -24* of April -94* the Town Choes John pebody fener mode- rator for the daye : voted the Town Voted that the Town of Boxford Should build a meting hous in Conuenient time therty fouer foout Squear and eaighten foout Stud betwen gointes also to build and finniesh this meting hons with in the speac of two years- after the deat hear of dated the *24* of April •94. At a Lawful towne meting honlden in Boxford the •14* of May -94* the Towne Choes Ensien ^ * ly moderator for the day : and by Reson of defaranc they did no moer that day At a Lawfull Town meting honlden in Boxford the •26* of July *94* the town Choes *3* men for affesars for this year and thair names bee as foloweth : John Pebody fener daniell wood fener and Josaph Andrus * * thay b 54 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. all fworn a Cording to Law John Pebody was fworn * * nathan Corwin Esquier and daniel wood and Josaph An- drus was fworn * * John pebody Clark of the Town as attest John Pebody Clark : [13] Josaph Andrus Conftable of Boxford brought a resaight from nf* Tailer trasurer for the year *93- of fifty pounds *19 Shillings which is peart of the Towns afef- ments for the year -93* as attest John Pebody Clark Keper of the Town Boock : Besaiued of nf’ Josaph Bixbe Constabell of Boxford Eight pounds Eleven Shillings and two penc by discount the 1^^ of June 1694 being the full of the twenty fouer thowsent pound Beat of the Said Town of Boxford I say refaued for iif’ Jimes Taylar Trefurer this is a trew Cope of a resaight which the Constable Josaph Bixbe brout from the Trasurer as attest John pebody Clark •28* June *94* deliuerad to Sargent Chadduck of the towns money by order of the selact men for poudr and fhot the fumbe of — 09 — 03 — 02 30^^ June *94* Besaiued of Sargent Chadduck one hundred and twelve pound of bullets bages and all and three hundred flints which Coomes to two pound ten shillings — 02 — 10 — 00 also a fmall barel of powder barel and powder and bringing Corns to — 04 — 14 — 00 also hee deliuerad to mee the seame day in Silver the fume of — 01 — 18 — 08 as witnes my hand John Pebody Town Clark for Boxford •6* of octobr -94* layed out in ponder and Shot and bullets and bringing — 08 — 19 — 8 Befaived of John Kimbol (Constable of Boxford 15^'' of nouember *94 : 03 — 11 — 5 Besaived of John Kimbol Constabel of Boxfor[d] •27**^ of desainbr 94 01 — 00 — 0 Besaived of Constable Kimbol for the powder Beate in Silur — 00 — 13 — 4 Besaived of Constable Kimball for the ponder Beat in Silver 01 — 08 — 0 2 fabruary 96/7 all that 1 haue Besaived is caft up att 15 — 15 — 11 9 desambr 1701 Besaued of Constabel Kimbol in Sil- uer for the powdr Bat — 11 — 00 Besaived of nT daniel wood Constable of Boxford BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 55 twenty five pounds thorten Shillings and sixpenc in full of two Rates a mounting to *25^ 13® — 6^: by James Tailer Tresurer : may *28* 1696 this is a trew Cope as attest John pebody Clark of Boxford. Boston may 26‘^ 1697 : Resaived of mr Thomas an- drus Constabel of Boxford twenty Sevan pounds in part of a warent for fifty fouer pounds Resaived for m^ James Tailer Trasurer Resaived by Jaremy Allin booek kepar as attest John pebody •14* Augost.96. dilevared to quartermaster Tiler of the town Stock of poudr and bullets and flintes : ten pound of poudr thirty pound of bullets and -50* flintes and hee is to keep this part of the Town stok teall the Selact men fee Caues to lodg it in fum other place as attest John pe- body Town Clark [14] At a Lawfull Town meting hild in Boxford the 4^*^ of desambar •94* the Town Choes John pebody mod- erator for the presant meting : also voted by the major peart of the Town was that the Town of Boxfor[d] fhal paye to the menistry of Tipsfeld this year *94* the sum of Eaighten pound on thord part of it Silver money pro- voided thay seat us a cordingly as thay doe themsealves which was thair promies At a Lawful Town meting hild in Boxford the ‘22* of [ Jenewary 94/5 the town Chos Samuel Simonds sener I moderator for the meting Voted : also the Town Chos the place for to set the meting hous in and the place is be- twen william pebodyes hous and gorg bixbes hous as thay Can agree with the onenars of the land the town firs voted i to fiend this plac a bove said by a vote : of the town : Jo- i saph Andruf and fevral others entered thair Conterary de- ; sant a gainst the place a bove named for sum Resans thay I had At a Lawful Town meting held in Boxford the *29- of Jenewary 94/5 and first wee Choes daniel wood modera- tar for the presant meting voted : also the Town Choes *5* men to be a commety to carey on the worck of bulding the meting hous in the Town of Boxford a Cording to thair beait discrasion emprouing men in our owne town if thay may bee obtained rasanebly also to agree with the ouener of the land wher the meting hous shall Stand : and the 56 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. men Chosen to bee this Commety a hove Sad bee al foloweth Thornes Andms : Ensien John Pearly John Pebody quarter master Tiler Thomas hazen : At a legal Town meting honlden ||in Boxford|| the 12*^^ of march 1694/5 first the Town Choes ||Corparal|| JosaphBixbe modera- tor for the meeting voted *2* the town Choes Sargent John Chadduck Constabel for the year insewing the town Choes fine Selact men ||and to be assesars|| and thair names bee af foloweth Ensien John pearly quar- ter mafter Tiler: Corperal Josaph Bixbee John Andrus Corperal Josaph pebody : voted : and John pebody Clark : also Abraham Redington Juner and Josiah Bridges fer- vaiers of high waies : also Josaph Andrus and Epharem Smith and John Ames and moses tiler Juner fenc vevers for the year in sewing voted : also Leftenant pearly grand Jnrey and daniell wood fener Jury of trials also the Town Choes *5* men to meet with Topsfeld men to agree with them if thay Can : a bont the satling of thair bounds with our town in places wher thay and our toun Joyen to gather and if this Commety a bove Chosen Cannot a gree 'with Topffeld Commety in Sattiling the bounds betwen them and wee whear it is yet to goe : then the a bove sad Commety is to mack Retern to the Town that fo other rnethords may bee emproued for the Satteling of our bounds : the names of the Commety bee as followeth : En- sien John perly Leften Thomas pearly Samuel Simonds fen^’ Corparal Thomas Andrus * * * * John pebody: also John pebody to get Coppies ||at the towens cost|| of the generaP i^^0tiiio’ hild ii] ***** * the Towen Choes John Pebody modarator for the day 2 the Town Choes John pebody to same as thair repra- sentitive at the grate and genaral Court to begin at boston on the •28* of this enstant may also the Town Choes the Saem Commety to Settel bounds with all others that Joien a pon us in all places that wee Choes to agree with (Each) Conserning thair lien 1 Torn off. BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 57 with US : and thair names bee as foloweth Ensieii John pear- ly John pebody Leftenant Thomas pearly Thomas Andrus and Samuel Simonds voted as attest John Pebody At a Lawful Town meting hild in Boxford the of «Tuly -95- the Town Choes Ensien John pearly moderatior [for] the day : also Choes Left * * Thomas pearly Commesin- er for this presant year : also the town Choes A * * * Radington to fume a pon the Jury of trials next Court at newbery v(oted) : also the Town Choes John Earns to mack a pound and to set it by the * * near Josaph heals hovs and hee ||the Sad hale|| to bee the pound keepar for the presant voted . At a lawfull Town meting hild in Boxford the of de- samber the town Choes Sammuel Simonds moderator for the meeting V(oted) and the Selact men declared that the grounds of the meeting was to a low of such billes of Chearg as wear by Law and Reson a lowed sevral wear offerad but only one allowed to Edward phelps of forty * * also the Town voted to paye to Rowly the twenty shillings ||yerly|| y^ is yerly dew to (them). At a Lawfull town meting holden in Boxford the tenth of march 169(5) * the Town Choes william pebody moderator for the presen (t) meting Voted also daniel wood is for the year ensewing chosen Causta(b)el Voted the Selact men ||and assesars|| bee as foloweth : John pebody william pebody Thomas A * * * Jonathan foster Jonathan Bixbe bee chosen Selact men for the year inaewing also mosis Tiler Juner and Zacheus Cortes bee Chosen Seruaiers for the year * ^ ^ * Ebennezar Stiels and Thomas pearly j Juner bee chosen fenc vewars this year * * John Ames I is Chosen Jury ||man|| of trialf this nex Court at Ipswich I in march * * * el Simonds is Chosen grand Jury man Ii for the year in fewing voted * * town Choes Captain wi- com to asest and healp our Commety in all * * tyes thay may meet with all in satteling our bounds with all towns * * * pon and also doe agree to Satesfy Capten wicom in Reson for * * * will bee perswaded to half us in that a faier voted : Same * * * Town voted that the Selact men this year shall call all the former constabel(s) that 58 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. have been in our town to giue an a Count what thay haue dun with the money that wos ouer layed in each mans Rate for the }"ears thay sarved that so it may bee desposad of for (the benefit) of the town : Voted ; also voted that gorg bixhe shall have the vse of the parsenag medow this year in sewing and he to pay for it what * * * * also the Town voted that no man shall medall with * * * *ing to the parsanig farm with out (leave) from the * * * * also the Town Choes Corperal Josaphi * * * * [16J ^ ^ names u * * * nder ********* of July 1696 in fetteling the boundes * n Boxford * the propriators of the farrnes att wils hill namely E * * *ns and Esqier balingemes formerly Called peculers * the bounds bee as foloweth : a tree marked by the Revar * ut forty Rods a boue the Indian bridg and from * c a pon a norwest Cors to a heap of Stones a littel * * d wil- liam waies hous : and from thenc a pon a northw * * * to a heap of stones by pout pond broock : and so from thenc a pon the seam Cors to a forked whit Oack tree which is now down and a heap of stones in the Roome of it and from thenc northerly to a Rock in beech broock whear the broockes meet and from thenc a pon a north- westerdly Cours to the whit Ocke tree marcked : and from thenc a pon the fame Cors to a Crooked whit Oack tree marked with Bee. Boxford Commety was Ensien John pearly and Corper- al Thomas Andrus and Samuell Simonds. the propriators of the a boue s^ farrnes wear Thomas fuller fener and Thomas fuller Juner and Thomas Wil- kins : as attest John pebody Clark. * of fabewary 96/7 the Selact men of boxfor(d) Called the Conft * * a Rackning for money that wear ouear laied in each mans * * * fouer of them did apper to Raccon namly Josaph Bixbe * haram Cortes Abraham Radington John Kimbol and the fela * * be Satisfiad with the a Counts and doe fiend John Kimbol in the Towns deat - 2^ • • 9®* and doe order him to paye to Ab * * *y one pound *4* Shillings for parsons that wear ouer K * * * year which wos not Just: thorow mistakes: and to Jo 1 Torn off. BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 59 * * * * be ,6®-8^-: and to John pebody *18^* 4^*: for the Yes of * * ^ * have payed to Josaph Bixbe 16® for a Reat that hee * * * Josiah Bridges when hee was Con- stabel in -Ol- and * * * Recover the *16®* of s^ bridges he is to Retorn it t * * * wee doe fiend the Town to bee in deat to Epharaui Co * * 6®- 10^ for pearsons that wear Reated which could not * * * witnes our hands the Sa- lact men of Boxford John pe * * * Thos An * * * Jono * * * will * # a bone s^ John Kimbol hath payed to the a bove Abraham Radington the *24- Shillings as is above * * * Selact men then in being as attest John ******* ******** Thomas Andrus Constabel for the year * * * ^ pebody is Chosen Town Clark for the year * * Chos the Selact men for the year in sewing and also ^ the same men for assesars for the year in Sewing * * names bee as foloweth Corperal Josaph bixbe and * * Andrus william pebody Sargent Chadduck * * * as pearly Juner thes bee to Same for the year in fewing * william foster sener grand Jury for the year insuing Josaph heayel seam on the Jury of trials at next Coart at Ips- wich Thomas Andrus is Chosen selare of waits and mesuers Samuel Simons fen^' and John Ames fervaier for the year in * * Thomas hazen and Josaph pebody senr fenc vewars for the yer insewing * osis Tiler sener and Thomas Rad- ington tithing men for this year. the town have Yoted to Exsapt of Captin goulds and Endicots farm : if anney men will bee att * * rst and paiens to precuer them to bee layed to our * * by petes- ining to the genaral Court to retorn them * * hat if anney men will bee at Charges to petesion ^ * enaral Court to obtaien them and doe Recover them * * * will bee at all the Cost and Charges that ^ * expanded but if thay Cannot obtain one of * * * thay that doe spend thair time and money * R them sealves unles the Town doe for- ther act * 60 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. The Town have Voted that thair shal bee a pound S * * * ^ Timothy dormens or Joseph pebodyes houesen * bee Seat up by anney that will goin to gather to * it at the Tovvens Cost and Charges * 1 town meting hild in Boxford the Eaighteenth of may *97- * hoes John Andrus moderator for the day Choes John pebody to fame as a Represantetive att the gr * * * * * rt to bee ceapt and hild the •26* of thispres- ant month. *******,,*****^ * william foster to tack notes of anney dis * * * * by Reson of our disagre- ing about that wee ***** * 2* of march -96/7 : the Selact men of Boxford whic * * * * n the year •96- bane layed out a tow[n] high way from the training place to the norweaft end of thair town beginning att the training feeld and So a long the path by Ab * * Redingtons feeld to the wedow Stie[l]ses new feeld and fo (along) the path to Could water medow Swamp and fo ouer the Swamp and a long the path to Samuel pickards new (feeld) now in the posasion of Jonathen and william foster from the East end of that feeld to the East end of medow pien Swamp and from thenc one a norwest Cors on the South Sied of a great valley and Swamp St7i * * Andover Road to Ipswich : not very far from Jo * Tilers feeld and fo a long Andouer Road to Sarg * Chadduckes Corner of his feeld and from thenc * young moses Tilers beam and so a long the path to na- thaniell pebodyes hous and so in to a way the proprietars of nf* nelfons great farm have layed for thair nesesary Ves and from the Training field to Thomas pebodyes hous is * * a half to the beast of our Remambranc if wee wear n * [19] At a lawful Town meting hild in Boxford the 10 of may •98* the Town Choes John pebody moderater for the day *2- the Town Choes John pebody to sarve this year af a Represantetive for the town of Boxford *3* that the above S^ pebody shall Ves all fevill means to Recouer our names a gaien which wee haue lost by misinforma- tion in Signetiing that wee did not doe our duty in the maintaining of the minnistrey also to petesion the Court BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 61 for the money that we payed that year by Keson of that misinformation moer then was our Just and Eaquel pro- portion Compeared with other Towns next to us. also to petesion the genaral Court for mister Endi coots farm and Captien gould farm for to payedewtyto Boxford to which Town wee think thay doe properly belong to : being wonc giueen to Rowly by the Court and the Cost of the pete- sion to be at the Towens Charg At a lawfull Town meeting hild in Boxford the Eai[g]th of Septem 1 698 the Town Choes Thomas hassen modera- tor and Choes Leftenant Thomas pearly to Sarve as a Juryman the next Court at newbury The Mark of Luke Hovey Jun^ for his Catteland other Creturs is as folio weth (viz) a Croop of the Right Ear & a hole threw the Same Ear Entred May the •14^^^ 1739 [20] At a Lawful town meting hild in Boxford the •3^* of Jenewary 98/9 The Town Choes Sargent hazen model ator for the day Voted the Tow[n] Voted to Choes 5 men to bee a Com- mety to Carey on the work of bidding and finnishing of our meting houes •2* it is also Voted that Euery man in the Town shall have liberty to doe as much work in bidd- ing and finneshing of the meting hous as will Come to thaier Shear Exsepting the money peart and theas 5 men shall Seat the pries that euery man f hall have for the work that hee shall doe a bout the meeting hous -d* that this meeting hous shall bee mead fit for to bee Raised by the 10^’^ of June nex infewing : also to bee finnished by the first of Jenewary next insewing or Sowner if it may bee Conveniently so dun 4 that theas *5* men that bee our Commety to Carey on the meting hous shall have -3* Shillings a day from the first of march to the first of novembr : and then half a Crown a day teell the first of march following : and thes •5* men Chosen for our Commety to Carey on the meting hows thair names bee as followeth Ensien John pearly Corperal Thomas Andrus Sargent Thomas heazen Cor- poral daniel wood and Josaph head be the Commety aboue sd- 5th. Town have agred and voted that the Selact men for the time beeing shall mack a reat or Reats for to Raies money as need shall Requier from tiem to time for to 62 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. Carey on the work of finnishing the meting hoiis tacking thair deraction from the Commety how much thay shall Rais from tiin to time voted The Selact men of Boxford in the year 1698 the *5^^' of Awgost mad a Reat of twenty one pound one Shillien and '3^* or thaier a bouts and delivered it to william wot- son Constabel of Boxford and ordered him to paye -18^ of said Reat to the Country tresurer and the Reast of it to Josaph haill for the Ues of the Town : as attest John pebody one of them and Town Clark the Selact men a hove mead a nother Reat sum time in Jenawery folowing which doth a mount to the sumb of 30^-14^-07^ or thair a bouts and orderad the Constabel william wotson to pay thoirty pounds of it to The County Tresurer and the oner plush to deliver to the selact men for the Ves of the Town as attest John Pebody Town Clark and one of the Selact men for the year 1698* in the Town of Boxford also the selact men of Boxford mead a Town Reat the •24* of fabewary 1698/9 which Reat a mounted to the Slime of fouerten pound Eaightten Shillings and ten penc and orderad the Constabel william watson to gather S^ Reat and deliver it to the Selact men then in being for the ves of the Town also to make up his accounts with the Selact men by the tenth of September next folowing as attes John pebody one of the Selact men and Town Clark This last Reat was deliuerad to Samuel Simonds to gather becaes m^ wotson had neglacted it and pledad much infermity so that the whol Reat was in danger to be lost : whearfoer the Selactmen took the list from s^ wotson and writ it over a gaien Every mans Just * rn in a nother sheet of Paper just as thay wear in ni^’ watsons list and deliv- erad this list to m^ Samuel Simonds the then Constabel of Boxford [21] At a legal Town meting hild in Boxford the 3*^ of fabewary 1698-9 first The Town Choes Ensien pearly moderator for the day alfo the Town Choes five men to bee a Commety to agree with workmen to buld and finish a meting hous in BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 63 the Town of Boxford and to mack a galery in it and a pulpit as good as topsfiles and rnak seats both for the lower Rouem and galeries fofisiant for the wholl hous Sacondly the Town did agree volentarery and vnane- musly did Vot to Raies money to paye the work men that the Commety a boue s^ shall agree with to buld and fin- nish our meting hous and Raies money as much as will bee needfull to paye the work men for bidding and fin- nishing of the meting hows : and what money is needfull the Town doth agree to Raies at three times : the first payment is to bee the twentieth of may next : and the Sacond payment is to bee by the next Cresmus after the deat hear of and the third payment to bee when the whol work is fully finnised and the Town to bee att the Charges of Raiesing the meting hous and to satesfy the Commety for what Charges thay shal nasasareyly bee att in dis- charging thair trust Reposad in them and the Commety that the Town have choes att this tiem bee as foloweth Josaph Andrus Corperal Josaph Bixbe Corperal daniell Wood John Earns and Zecheus Cortes and thay bee not to promies a boue Six Scoer pound which is acording to what was oflferad and to bee payed att three destinkted payments as a boue s^ : voted. At a legal Town meting hild in Boxford the 14^'^ of march 98/9 first the Town Choes Corperal Josaph Bix- bee modarator for the day : 2* Clark Simonds is Chofen Conftable for the year insewing voted -S* the selact men bee as foloweth LeT*^ pearly John pebody John An- drous John Ames william pebody voted for the year in- sewing and to bee assesars -J* william foster Sener is Chosen tithing man for the year insuing alfo have Choes Ebennezer Tiler Thomas Wilkins Abraham Radington Servaiers of hy Avaies for the year in fewing •5* Thomas Radington and John Stiels fenc Vewars this year, also Epharam Cortis is Chosen to same on the grand Jurey this yer : also »Tosiah Bridges is Chosen to Sarve on the Jury of trials att next Court to be houlden att Epswich after the deat hear of Voted also John pebody is Chosen Town Clark for the year insewing also the Town Choes *5* men to be a Commety to fiend the moest sutabel place to set our meting hous in and the names of the men bee as 64 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. foloweth Insien Juett Captiii greenlef Captiii goodhew Captiii Asgood and doctor dean then saveral being gone wee came to (>ontrevart a bont the legallety of such a work to be dun '2* oners in the night when many was gon : yet them that wear leaft did prosed to Chous -5* men to be informers of the s^ Commety and thayer in be Leften perly Sargent Chadduck Josaph Andrus Zacheus Cortis and John pebody 16*^^ may *99- the Town Choes John pebody to sarve as a Representative for the year *99* also to manieg thair petesion for the two farmes that did belong to gouernor Endicot and Zecheus gould [22] At a legal Town meting hild in Boxford the 19^^' of June 1699 the town Choes Corperal Josaph Bixbee moderatar for the day At a legal Town meting hild in Boxford the 18^'^ day of Septembr 1699 : the Town Choes John Andrus modera- tor for the day : allfo moses Tiler to sarve as a Juryman next Court at newbery alfo the Town Choes five men to bee a Commety to determen a pon the most sutabelles place to seat our meting hons in for to a Comadat onr Towen for the most Conveniency of the town in Jenaral the names of the Commety be nehamyah Jneat Captin Rayment docter dean decon noulton Sargent Epharam Stevens. At a Town meting hild in Boxford the •22* of Sep- tember 99 : the Town Choes John Andrus moderrator for the metinof : also the Town voted to stand to the detar- menation of the Commety that was (Chosen on the Eaight- tenth day of this Enstant Septembr or the mager peart of them in a greeing a pon and stating of a place whear our meting hous shall stand : also voted to Satesfy the a bove s^ Jentil men for thaier paiens in Reson and the Town Choes Leftenant pearly and Corperal Thomas Andrus to Enviete the a bove s^ gentilmen for this servis and the IJte^th of march -98/9* the Town have Choes Leftenent pearly Sarent Chadduck Josaph Andrus Zecheus Cortis and John pebody to inform the a bove s^ Commety how the Town lyeth and for lenth and bradth •27* of April *99* the Selact men of Boxford mead a Reat for the Charges of the meting hows amounting to BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 65 the sumbe of : 31^ — 08 — 08* as the Country Reat is Raised : also the seam men mead a Reat Containing : 10* — 19 — 03* at the Seam tiem and Raised it on vacant land lying in our town ship and deliverad both the a bove s^ Reats to Con- stabel Simonds to gather and deliver the mone}' to , Cor- poral wood : af attest John pebody Clark B'J’t in Augost ‘OO* the Selact men mead a Reat of 19* — 10® — 00 and did deliver it to Constable Simonds and ordered him to pay Eighteen pound of it to deliver to the Contry tresurer and the Reast to deliver to the Se- lactmen for the ues of the Towne as attest John pebody on of the Selactmen and Town Clark •22* desambr *99* the selact men mead a Reat of 38* — 12 — 00 to paye the Town deals and deliver it to Consta- bel Simonds to gather and ordered him to deliver the money to Corperal wood and John pebody as attes John pebody the Selact men of Boxford mead a Town Reat the *29* of desambr 1699 : amounting to the surne of •38* pound •12* or thair a boiites and orderad the constabel to Ceary •30* pound of it to Corperal daniel wood and *8* pound 12® to Jhon pebody for the ues of the towne as attest John Pebody The Commety Chosen the •18^*^* day of Septembr *99* to Steat a plac to set our meting hous in Came on the •3^* and on the forth day of October 1699 and a Cordingly vewed both the phases nominat to them by the in formers and have shewed thair opinion of the plac which they did think most Conueniant for the Town in genarall to set a I meting hous in and hear is a Copey of thair a ward in I that matter as foloweth wee whose names are subscribed I being Chosen by the towne of Boxford a Commety to ; detarmine vpon the moest sutabele Place to set thair met- I ing hous in to accomedat s^ towne in genaral as apperath : by thair Town Voat brought to s^ subscribers by Leften- I ent pearly and Corpral Thomas Andrus wee being meatt I a pon the third and torth daye of Octobr *1699* att the hous of s^ pearlyes wear attendad by the Commety ap- pointed by this Towne for information how the Towne lyeth and the inhabitanc seatad to wit Leften pearly Sar- gent Chadduck Josaph Andros Zecheus Cortis and Leften 66 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. John pebody who gave us full Information with Respact to the premisies as weal as meny others persons ot s^ towne whoe wear presant whicli after hering all the de- bates and pleas pro & Con : with Respact to the promises that the opisit parties mead : vewing of the s^ places offered for our Confedarations with Respact to ye setting of s^ hous wee haue Concludad and detarmined that s^ meting hous will stand most Conveniant to accomedat s^ Towne in Genarill on a small hill in the Land of Abra- ham and Thomas Radington whear a stump stands with stoens layed a pon it vpon the northerly sied of the thorn bushes and meting of two waies : which stump and stones wear shewed to us by s^ Thomas Radington : In testi- money that it is our determination with Respact to the premises wee hane hear unto set our hands the day and year a bove written : Nehamiah Jewett this is a trew Copey taken out of William Rayment the Enftrument drawen up by s^ Philemon dean Commety to be thair determination Nathaniell Knoulton Conserning the most Sutable plac for to accomedat the Town in Genarell as attest John Pebody who copeiad it out Town Clark Whear af the Town of Boxford have Chosen a Coni- mety to Steat a place to feat our meting hous in : and a Cordingly the Commety have been vewing the places pro- posad to them by the informars and have also detarmined a pon a place near to the thornbushes uppon the Land that now is in the posasionof Abraham Radington and Thomas Radington and thay both lovingly and freely have given grantted and doe by thes presants give grant and Con- fearm to the Town of Boxford a parsel of Land for the ves of the Town for to seat thair meting hous on so long as the Town shall have ocation to Emprove the said land for a meting hous to stand vppon the said land the first bounds is a tree wich is Ensien dormans Corners bounds and so northwardly fiften Rod to a smal whight oack marked from thenc Eastwardly ten Rods to a grea[t] Rock with stons layed a pon it : and from thenc South- BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 67 wardly thorten Rod and a half to a Read oack tree marked : and from thenc Eaight Rods westwerdly to the first bounds : and this a hove said land lyeth a Joyning a pon the twalve Rod broad Road which Runneth from the Thorn bushes to the other Road which lyeth from Andover to Topsfild : and for the trew performanc of what is a boue written wee the a bove said Abraham Radington and Thomas Rading[ton] doe biend our sealves our haiers Exsecotars administrators and assiens not to molest the Town so long as the Town shall have ocation to emprove the s^ land for a meting hous : and in testimony of what is a bove written wee the a bove s^ Radingtons have seat tow our hands this twenty-thord of October -1699* witnes Abraham Redingtoni Joseph Byxbei Thomas Redington John Andrew^ At a legal Towne meting hild in Boxford the Eaith day of desamber 1699 1. the Towne Choes Josaph hale moderator for the day 2. the Towne voted that the Selact men now in being Shall Call all the Constabels to an account that have not yet giveen an a count of all the money layed in thair saveral Rates deliverad to them by the Selact men Re- spactively in thair saveral years : it is to be vnderstod that all the Constabels that have not clerad thair accounts and payed the money whear thay have ben orderad by the selact men : also the town have Choes Zecheus Cortis and John Eames for Colactars to demand and gather all the money that the Selact men of Boxford have assesed and layed a pon men liveing out of our town for land lying with in our town which thay that ouen such land doe Refues to pay with of Sewt : also fuch men as live with in our town that Refues to paye what is layed a pon them for thair vacant land that is Rated to the Charge in bueld- ing of our meting hous in Boxford.^ 1 Autographs. 2 This paragraph was the eight lines crossed out in the original and referred to in the second paragraph below. 68 BOXFOKD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. Aalso the Town of Boxford have voted for and mead chois of Zecheiis Cortis and John Eames for Colacters and the Town doth Emprove them and also hear by Empower them to gather and Resaive of the sevaral sums of money that is lavied by waie of Reat apon persons that have vacant Land in thair land lying with in the Township of Boxford wich is Raised for to discharg the Charges arising for buldino: and finnishing of a metino: hous in Boxford also the Town doth give them full power to sew for and Re- cover of anney person or persons that shal Ether neglact or Refiies to pay thair several Sumbes of money assesed on them by the selact men of Boxford both of persons liveing with in our Town also the a hove said Cortis and Eames be hear by inpoward to sew for and prosecut anney person or pearsons that thay Shal have ocation to Com- menc anney Snet or Sutes against from Court to Court teall the Canes or Caneses bee Endid and what money thay shal gather or Resaive of pearsons for Reals as a hove s^ tha}^ bee hear by orderad to deliver to Corperal daniel Wood for the ves of the Town to wards the meting hous Charges in boxford thes *8- liens a bove that stand Crosed wear worded by the tow Colectors a bove named and when they had Con- sedarad weal of them they them selves did not liek to have them stand as thair orders to goe by in that servis but had them Crosed out becaues thay wear not worded to thair miends and then worded the folowing orders to stand for the Town act to impower them in the discharg of thair offis of gathering all the money of persons in Towen and out of towen that wear in the Real deliverad to them to gather as attest John pebody Town Clark according to a Town voat the Selact men sent to call the Constabels to a Racning and have Racned with Con- stabel wotson and fiend him 01^ — 04® — 7^ behiend of which money we have giveen him *6®* 7^ for his trubel he hath bee[n] at and wee have ordred him to pay Eaigh- ten shilling to John pebody for the ves of the Towne : also Eaight shilling and six penc dew from Constable wat- son to the Towen for so much that hee gatherad of a Town Reat deliverad to him and hath deliverad the Real to the selact men agaien this *22’ of desamber *1699- on the BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 69 Condesion he pay the whol sumes of money to the a hove said pebody the 12^^ of march 1699/1700: first the Town Choes E[n]fien hazen moderator for the day Voted allfo the Tow[n] Choes Josaph haill Constabel for the year ensuing voted also the selact men and assesars bee as foloweth Ensien Pearly Sargent Josaph Bixbee Josaph Andrus Josiah Bridges and Corperal Josaph Pebody bee selact men the yer insuing : also william foster Thomas Radi ng [ton] Corperal Kimbol bee Chosen Tithing men : for the year in Sewing : also the Town Choes «John Stiels moses Tiler and Thomas wilkens and david wood bee Chosen Servaiers of hy waies for the yer in sewing : also Abraham Radington and John Buswell fenc vevvars voted : also Corperal daniel wood is Chosen grand Jury man for the year insewing : also Timothy dorman to sarve on the Jury of trials this nex Court at I[)swich also the Town voted that the vacant land Reat that is deliverad to Zecheus Curtis and John Eames for to gather shall bee payed forth with : which Reat was mead the •29^^ of desamber 1699 att a Legal Town meting hild in Boxford the *8^^* of may 1700: the Town Choes Leftenant pearly and John pebody to searve as Represantius this year in sewing and to searve by torns one att a time voted : also that John pebody shall attend to manieg the petesion lying in Court thow hee stay noe longer which hath a promis of a hear- ing the sacond fryday of next sesions and to bee al- lowed by the Town what money hee shal Expend in pro- curing of Copies of Records to mack apper our Just writes a Cording to the genaral Courtes grants both tow Ipswich and Rowly from which Towens wee did both proseed oreganally and whot other Charges shal bee need- ful in the manigment of our petesion now lying in Court wee whoes names are vnder written being Chosen by the Town of Rowly on the one part and by the village of Rowly on the other peart to a gree abovt a parting liene j betwixt the Town of Rowly and the Villiag being meet to j gather the seventh of July 1685 : do agree as foloweth ! that the middel bound shall bee whear the foout Path ! Esueth out of the Cart path not far ofe the bridg going I ouer the great medow and from the said middel bounds 70 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. to a forked whit oack neear the medow formerly layed out to Elder Rainer being a bound of that peart of the said medoo that feall to Captiii whippel one a devision : and is also the Corner bound of a persil of land layed out to Ezecal northen being by Estemation a bout forty acors and so going on the Same liene Straight to Ipswich lien and from the a hove said tree of a Straight lien to the South weast Corner of the three thowsand acors which is a whit oake marked with ‘R* and I and so from the Said tree north ward on a lien betwixt the three thowsand acors and land layed out to mistris Rogers and John pickard teall you Come to a whit oake marked with -S* K be- ing the Corner bound of John pickards land standing in the lien betwixt bradforth and the vileg : wee forther agree that the inhabitance of the village shall be free from all Reats for time to Come to the Town of Rowly Ex- septing twenty shillings in silver to bee payed by Josaph Bixbee sener John pebody william foster Samuell Simonds and mosis tiler yearly to anney of the Commety whiel thay have no orthodox minister setled in the village and forther it is agreead that all the Coman land lying with in the village undeuided shall Remaien to belong to the town of Rowly Exsepting the fearm Commenly called the min- nisters farme with in the villeag : and anney thing that is dew to the Country for land lying in the villiag is to bee paied by the in habitants of the villeage in Comformation of what is a hove written both pearties have seat tow thair hands the day and year a bove spesified Ezecal Jueat John hopkins John layton Robart Eames this is a trew Copey taken out of the Enstrnment of a greement betwen Rowly and the villiag in the day that Rowly seat the villiag thair bounds a cording as the ofeneral Court did order Josaph Bixbee John Jonson John Pebody Samuel plates Juenr Samuel Simonds Ezecal 1 northen william foster daniell wicom mosis Tiler John Trumboll Stecphen myheall as attest John pebody Town Clark for Boxford wee whose names are vnder written being appointed by BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 71 the Towne of Rowly may the 11^^ 1699 to Tmpower the Towne of Boxford to settell Bounds with the Town of Salem Topstild Andover and Bradford or aney other that the Township of Rowly formerly granted waf Bordering apon wee do fully and Ahsoliitly Grant and give to the Towne of Boxford as full Power to Settell anney bounds or Run any Lien or lines with anney Towne or Townes farme or farmes that was formerly Adjoyning to the bounds of the Towne of Rowly befoer that Boxford had the grant of a Township and what Power wee formerly had or still have : we Resigne vp our sole power to Boxford Towne to transact in anney such besines as if wee our Sealves wear actuelly Possesad of said Township of Boxford as formerly wee wear : al wales Resarving to our sealues the Comen land that lyeth in the village vndevided as may appeare by an a greement bearing deat the seventh of July one thowsend six hundred and Eaighty hve and the payment of the twenty Shillings per annem in Silver Ex- prased in s^ agreement by Josaph Bixbe sener John Pe- body William foster Samuell Simonds & mosies Tilealr sener & to bee paied by them to the Towne of Rowly or thaier orders whiel Boxford have aid otherdox minister setled a mongst them with the three pounds that will bee dew the saventh of July next and already orderad to Capten Wicom dated may 1699: by daniell wicom Josaph Boyenton & Samuell plats of Rowly and Con- firmed at a Legall meeting of the Towne of Rowly P an act of s^ Town may 16^‘^ 1699 : this is a trew Copy taken out of the Towne booke of Rowly as attest Josaph Boin- ton Clark for Rowly this is a trew Copy of that Enstrewment that the Towne of Rowly gave to vs of Boxford syned and attested to by Josaph Bointonclark of the Towne of Rowly and copied out by John pebody as attest John Pebody Clark for Boxford Wee whoes names bee hear to subscribed being ap- pointed by Ipswich & boxford Respactively to preamilat j the bounds beetwen s^ townes met this day being the I of Aprill *1700* and the Mowing bounds are them which ; are the standing bounds beetwixt the Townes first be- ! gining at the Swamp Called the Ash Swamp whear thair 72 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. is a heap of Stones l)y a path sied vpon the weast Sied ot s^^ Swamp : thenc Riming westwardly of *s^* swamp to a littel whit oack bush with a heap of stons a bout it : thenc Riming on the same lien to a heap of stons : thenc Run- ing on the same liene to two Read oack trees with Stones by them and sum Stones placed betwixt them : thenc Runmg upon the same lien to a heap of Stons upon a Ridg by a medow sied Collad pearlyes meedow thenc Runing on the same lien to a heap of Stones in Leftenant Thomas Pearlyes fild that hath a walnut bush in the heap of Stones thenc to a lopt whit oack that is dead with stones a bout it thenc on the same lien to a makt Read oack with a heap of stones a bout it thenc on a straight lien to an appeltree in Thomas pearlys field as witnes our hands : Abraham how : John Pearlay : William howlet : Thomas pearlay : this is a trew Copey of the Retorn of the Commety that did sentel the bounds betwen Ipswich and Boxford so far as s*^ towns Joyen togather and sined thair doing thair in the of Aprill *1700* as attest John pebody Clark for Boxford At a legall Towne meting hild in Boxford the •21* of September 1700 the Towne Choes Ensien Pearly moderator for the meeting : •2* the Town Choes John Eames to Sarve on the Jury of trials next Court at newbery also Chos John Eames to mack a pound in that end of the Town whear hee lire- ath and seat it vp by quarster master Tilers beam [[or near to it in that Road|| : also the Town did appoint that thear should bee a nother pound mead and seat it vp be- twen Corperal pebody es hous and Timothy dormans hous II or in com other plas in that Road as may be conveniant|| ; and have Choes John pebody to see that this pound bee mead by may nex also the Towne Choes Ensien pearly to see that thair bee a nother pound mead and seat vp by Josaph haiels hous ||or near thairabouts|| whear it is al Redy Voted to bee mead: thes three plases bee a lowed of by the Towen for the ||Eas and|| benifit of the whol and voted At a le^al Town meting hild in Boxford the of October 1700 the Towne voted to send Ensien John pearly II and II Clark Simons to inviet nP Simes persons m^* Capen BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 73 barnit : to come to our towen and to afoerd us thair halp in keeping a day of prayer to Seek the Lord for his bias- ing in our Colling of a minnister to dispenc the word of god amongst vs in Boxford : also the Towne Voted to satisfy thos men that shall Entertain the minestars || & thair at- tendanc|| : that shall Come to aford vs thair halp in the s^ day also the Towne Choes Ensien pearly Leftanent pearly Clark Simonds Sargent Andros and John pebody to bee a Commety to meet with a Commety sent by order otthe gen- aral Court to vew the liens betwen Topsfild and Boxford : also to inform them as weall as thay Kean whear the liens betwen Topsfield and Boxford [are] or oute to bee a Cord- ing to Court grant or otherwaies setled also to act in the Townes behalf what thay shall see needfull for the good of the Towne in that affaier a Cording to the trew intent of the genaral Courts order : voted The selact men of Boxford being meat to gather on the 17^^ day of July 1700 haue a greead that the hy way shall Contenew as it is Vesad for that End from the Road by william fosters feild a long to Rowly bouends near to a hill Colled tobacovv pip hill as witnes our hands the se- lact men of Boxford Josaph Bixbee this is a trew Copey of what Josaph pebody was giveen in to bee | Re- Josaph Andrus corded as attest John pebody II town II Clark for Boxford wee the selact men of Boxford being meat to gather on the nienth day of September 1700 have a greead that a hy way shall ly and Contenew from the meting hous as straight as the ground will most Convenantly alow of to the vpperend of the medow that lyeth a littel way below the wedow pebodyes new mill and so over the broock to the bounds of the land betwen the wedow pebodyes land and Josaph heals land and so a long upon thair bounds to Andover hy way part upon the wedow pebodyes land and peart upon Josaph heals land : as witnes our hands the selact men of Boxford this is a trew Copey of what was giveen in | to bee Recorded as attest eTohn pebody town | Clark for Box- ford John pearly Josaph Bixbee Josiah Bridges Josaph pebody Josaph Androus 74 BOXFOKD TOWN RECOKDS, 1685-1706. wheat’ as the Commety have Ingined the Carpenders to fill our meting hous with seats as andover meting hous is filled and upon the townes desier the Commety have Re- lesad the Carpenders of that Oblygation as to seting of the meting hous and do leave it to the descration of In- sien John pearly and Clark Samuell Simonds with the Carpenders to fill the meting hous with seats as thay shall see Caues to the towns beast advantage : This was agjreead to and Voted by the Towne at a Town meting hild the .4th. Qf October 1700 in Boxford new meting hous The Selact men of l|Boxford|| Being met to gather on the •17‘^^* of July 1700: wee have a greead that the hy waye Shal ly and Contenu for that ves from francos Eal- lit his hones unto the mill path as it is now improved and as the trees aer marked and so one to Crooked pond broock and so on as the trees aer marked to the Eadof of O the long plaien from thenc straight over s^ plaien unto the fishing broock a littel a bove the pout hooel and so on to the Road Comming out of the feeld by Timothy dormans beam s^ Road to ly one peart vpon said dormant land and peart on Corperal Josaph pebodyes land and so on vnto the meting hones : as witnes our hands the selact men of boxford this is a trew Copey of what John pearly Josaph Bixbe was giveen | in to be Re- Josiah bridges and corded as attest John Pe- Josaph Andrus body I Town Clark for Boxford At a legal Town meting hild in Boxford the 9*^*^ of Jen- ewary 1700/1701 the Town Choes Ensien pearly moder- ator for the day : allfo the Town Voted to give an Envitation to m^ Thomas Simes to bee our minister if it pleas god to in- clien him to take vp with our invitation and what wee can give also the Towne have Choes Corperal daniel wood and Corperal Thomas pearly to goe to Cambridg and Carey the Towns Vot and declaer it to m’^ Simes and bring the Town his answer whether hee will Exsept of it or not or other wies : also the Towne have Resaived the meting hous this day of the Commety and carpendars to full satisfaction a Cording to bargin : At a legal Town meting hild in boxford the 15“^ of O O BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 75 Jenewary 1700/1701 : the Town Choes Sargent Thomas Andrus moderator for the meeting : also the Town voted to Choues a Commetv to treeat with the Indians a boujjht thaier demand of money for onr Town being with in the tract of land the Indians have claimed to beelong to the Sagemoer of aggowam which also thay have proved thay bee the grand Children of the s^ Saggamoer : the Com- mety chosen for this sarvis bee as folow Ensien pearly Leftenant pearly John pebody Ensien heazen Josiah bridges the Toun haue agreead and voted that this Commety ||or the major part of them|| have full power to a gree with the Indians in order to thair demand both for quantety of money and for the time when it shall bee payed also have voted to levye and Raise the money preporsanebly upon all the land with in our township The 16^^ of Jenewary || 1700/1701 1| the Commety a Cording to the Towns order have a greead with Samuel English the grandson of Mascanomenet Sagemoer of ag- gawam Conserning his titel to our town : and wee have tacken a deed of him from bradford bounds to Ipswich River and from wils hill to Ipswich lien a Cording to the Court grant to Rowly : and wee have given him Eaight pound of money and all thair Charges wdiich is about nien pound and fouer shillings in the whol and hear is an account of what Each man layed down to mack vp the sum Ensien pearly -01-06-00 Leftenant per- ly -01-10-00 Ensien heazen 02-00-00 John pebody -01-04 -00 and david wood lent the Commety -02-04-00 and Lef- tenant pearly on pound in vittels and drink -01-00-00 and *5* Shillin and 6^ for acknowlegment of the deed -00-05-06 about the 10^*" of October 1701 : Josaph foster brout Jo- saph Inglish and John Vmpee to set thair hand to a quit Cleam and Resaived of John pebody two Shillings and six- penc in Siluer and Rum and vittels Enouf alfo John pebody payed in^ Adington 3® for writing the quet dame that thes tow Indians sined untow the -2^-04® lent by david wood is payed agaien. thir- ten Shiling and sixpenc by Josiah bridges and *5®. shilling he payed of it for his father and himself for thair owen Shaer and by John pebody one pound live Shillings and Sixpenc so that the -2^-4® is payed agaien 76 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. To all People to whom these pvesants Shall Come Sam- uell Inglif h an Indian the grand son and heair of mascau- nomenit the Sagemor of agawom in the County of Essix in newingland sendeth greeting Know yea that I the Samuel Englif h Good and fofesiant Resons and Consedara- tions mouing me thaier vnto and for the full and Just sum of nien pounds of Corent money of newingland trewly paied unto mee the s*^ Samuel English the Resept whear of I doe hear by acknowleg in full of all Rightes of Indian claimes and titels what so ever by Ensin John pearly Left Thomas pearly Ensigen Thomas hazen Left John pebody and Josiah bridges a Commety and agents for the Town of Boxford in the County of Essix in the provenc of the massechusets in newingland whear with I the s^ Samuell English doe hearby acknowleg mysealf fully Satisfied payed and Contented for Euer Haue giueen granted bar- genad Sould. and Confarmed and doe by thes presants fulley freely and absolutly giue grant bargen seall and Confirm for Euer vnto them the s^ John perly Thomas pearly thomas hazen John Pebody and Josiah Bridges and to as many others of the proprietars and inhabetanc of s*^ towne of Boxford as Shall well and trewly paye vnto the aboue Commety at or befoer the first day of May next insewing the deat hear of thaier dew and respactive Shears and proporsions of the sum of money a boue said and all other charges Expen dad by s^ Commety in and a bout the same to thair dew Satisfaction a Sertin tract of land Containing by Estimation twelve thowsend acres be the contants thair of moer or bee thay leas knowen by the name of the township of Boxford in the County a foer f ^ being a butted and boundeed northerly by a marked pien tree on the southerly sied of marimack River which is the Corner bounds and then the lien Runs by the marked trees that aer betwen andouer and Boxford and Southerdly as the trees a Cordingly are marked betwen Andover and Boxford as it hath bien preamilated tell it Come to the Eaight miel tree So Called which is a bound mark beetwixt s'^ Andouer and s*^ Boxford and Southwardly to a whit oack tree which is the bounds betwixt wills hill men and s'^ boxford and then southerdly to a wield pear tree or box tree Standing by Ipswich River Sied and then Eastward- BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 77 ly as the Riuer Runs tell it meet with Ipswich Lien which lien doth Extend Six miels from s^ Ipswich meting house and then upon a straight Lien tell it Com to an appel tree that is in Leften peaiiyes feild marked and then it Runs with Ipswich Lien vntel it meat with Rowly Lien near Calip Jacksons and so teall it Com to a whit oack in Bradford Lien as it is setled beetwixt Boxford and Rowly and then westwardly teel it meet with the pien tree first mensioned parting betwen Boxford and Andover all which tract of Land in the s^ township of s^ Boxford according as it is bounded or ought to bee boundad with all the Lands Soiels Revars brooks streams water waters ponds fishings huntings wood stoens gras food and all the Rights profits privilegas Commodites and apportenencies thair tow belonging or in any maner of waies appertaining to the same or anney part thair of To haue and to hould to them the s^ John pearly Thomas pearly Thomas hazen John pebody and Josiah bridges and to others of the in- habitants and proprietors of s’^ Towne of Boxford pro- uoided as is above prouided to them thair haiers Execoters Administrators and assiens in quieat and pesabel posasion for Ever in fee Simple a good and sound Esteat of inhar- itenc freely and Clearly acquitted Relesed and discharged of all and from all Indian Rights and titels what so Euer that may bee mead by mee or aney other natiue in this Land of newingland forther I the Samuell English doe hear- by Covenant promies and grant to and with the a bove s^ Comety of the Towne of Boxford that at and vntel the in seling and declaring of theas presants I had good Right full power and Lawfull athorety to grant and Conveay the Same and all the premisies as a boue Said : hear by bind- ing my fealf heairs Exsecotars and Administrators for Euer to defend the s*^ John pearly Thomas pearly Thomas hazen John pebody and Josiah bridges and others as is prouidad accordingly befoer them thaier hairss Exfecotars administrators and assiens for Euer from the Lawful Claimes of all pursons what so Euer to the same or aney part of the a boue mensioned and granted premises in witnes whear oflf I the s^ Samuell English doe hear vnto seat my hand and Seeall this Sixtenth day of Jenewary Seventeen hundrad Seventen hundrad and one and in the 78 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. twelth year of the Kaien of our Royal Soveran William “ hiB the thord ouer England and Kino’ Sined sealad and deliurad in prasents of vs Thomas Baker Josaph fibster Mosis parker Samuel CO English mark Samuel Englis an Indian apperad befoer me the subscriber one of his Majesty es Justises of peac for the County of Essex and acknowlegad this Instrewment to bee his act and deed this sixtenth of Jenewary 1700/1701: Dudly Brodstreet This is a trew Copey of the Indian deed which Samuell English an Indian grand son and heair of mafkenominit Sagemoer of aggawom who Chalenged the Town of Box- ford to bee part of his grandfathers Land and proued it so to bee by sevaral Indin testimoney vpon oath and so to preuant fother trubbel and to Satisfy the Indian natiue heaier the Town of boxford haue giueen him the full sum of nien pound in money. At a legal town meting hild in Boxford the 20*^ of Jenewary 170G-1701 the Town Choes Leftenent pearly moderator for the day : also Choes Samuel Simonds to goe to Cambridg and accompeny mr Simes to our town also the Town have voted to Choes •5* men to settel our inhabetanc of the Town in seating our inhabitenc in our meting hous a Cording to thair Sivel wrights having Regard Chefly to Esteats yet soe as to have Respacts to ould age : the men Chosen for this servis bee as foloweth Ensien hazen Sargent bixbee Corparal Radington John Andrus and Jonathan foster At a legal Town metin hild in Boxford the *11 • of march 1700-1701 the Town Choes Clark Simonds moderator for the day : also the Town Choes Lef John pebodyto bee Town Clark for the year infuing also the Town Choes Josaph hael Clark for the day : ot this meeting. also the Town Choes Zecheus Cortis Constabel for the year infewing BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 79 also the Town Choes •5- Selact men for the year in sewing : And thair names bee as foloweth Clark Simonds Leften pearly ||Corperal|| Thomas Radington Corperal Kimboll and Samuell Smith and to bee assesars also the Town Choes Abraham Radington grand Jury man for the year infewing : and Corperal Thomas pearly to sarve on the Jury of trialf next Court att Ipswich ; also the Town Choes william foster and Ensien hazen tithing men for the year also Corperal Wood and John Stielf bee Chosen Servaiers also Jonathan Bixbee and Samuel foster bee Chosen fence Vewars for the year in sewing : Whot is hear a bove written I have Recorded Reseiving it in a loues paper thow not attested to by the writer of the same fouer of the Selact men a bove named haue had the assesers Oath adminstread to them by the Clark of the Town as the Law diracts in Such Cases as attest John Pebody Clark thair names bee Thomas Pearly Samuel Simonds John Kimbol and Samuel Smith Selact men for the year 1701 A Cording to law the Selact men did administar the oathes to all the Town officer [s] in Boxford Chosen for the year insewing as by law thay aer impowred : also the II town II Clark did administer the oath of ||the|| assesers to •4* of them namly Samuel Simonds sener daniell wood Josaph heall and John Stiels for the yer 1702 At a lawful town meting hild in Boxford the -4th- of Aprill 170* the Town Choes William foster to bee the moderator for the day : Voted also the Tow[n] voted to giue to mister Thomas Simes sixty pound in money yearly for his salery in Keas that mister Simes will bee plesad to Exfapt of our Invitation to bee our minister and to tack offis a niongst vs : also buld him a hous of *48* foot long and *20* foout wied : and tow story hy : and a back Roouem of *16* or T8* foout Squar and to finnish the hous by this next October Come twelvemonth and as much Soouenar as ||Conveniantly|| wee Kean: also to fiend thirty five Coord of ||wood|| by the year yearly also to procuer him teen acers of land as Convenantly as wee Ken not fear from the meting hooues which hous and land as a bove spesified wee doe giue to mister Simes and his 80 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. heairs for Ever provided that mister Simes Exsept to Come and bee oiir miimister and to tack offis a mongst vs : and the Salery to bee paied so long as hee Shall dispanc the word of god ||publickly || a mongst vs in Boxford Voted also wee have voted that m^’ Thomas Simes Shall have the ves of one half of the pasneag the time hee Shall bee our minister in Boxford also the Town Choes -S* men to discoarc with Topsfild men Conserning a divisanel lien betwixt Topsfild and Boxford and to see how near wee Caen Come to gather if it might bee to prevant further trubbell : the names of the men wee have Choes to doe this sarvis bee John Andrus Josaph Andrus Sargent Josaph Bixbee Corperal Thomas perly and John pebody voted At this tiem when the major peart of the Towen voted to giue to nfi Simes *35* Cord of wood yearly by the year then Sevaral men mead objactions a gaienst the alowing the wood to m^* Simes and did at the tiem Enter thaier Contrerary desant becaes sayd thay sum men have not wood to dispoes of but if the Towen see good to mack the Salery so much the moer as will Com to the wood wee shall not declien from our share the names of the men that did Enter thaier Contrary desant bee as foloweth John Andrus Josaph Andrus Timothy dorman Epharam Smith and Epharam Cortis Zacheus Cortis nathaniel pe- body Thomas Andrus At a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the *11 • of march 1700/1701 : the Towen votet that the money that was disbursed upon the Commety that was Imployed by the Towen to steat the place whear our meting houes [should] stand should bee allowed : also the Coushen for the pulpit to be alowed : also the money that Corperal Wood Thomas pearly and Samuel Simonds disbrsed in going to Cambridg for m’' Simes Should bee allowed by the Towen : also the Towen voted that the *15- Shillings that was payed for the geer and Ropes to Raies the met- ing houes should bee allowed : also that goodman foster should haue five shiling for Cariing the Roopes and blockes whom a gaien : also voted that goodman bridges should have Eaight Shillings for the hangings of the meting houes ceasments : also voted to allow Leften pearly what cost BOXrORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 81 hee was at in provoiding for the Cominety that steated the place ther the meting hoiis Should stand : also voted that the Chargis that was Expended a bout the Commety that the genaral Court sent to vew the liens of Topsfild and boxford and the tow farmes petesioned for by Boxford should be alowed by the Towen What is hear recordid & Resaived in a loues paper thow not attestid by the writer At a lawful Town meting hild in Boxford the -21 • of April 1701 The Town choes Leftanent Thomas perly moderator for the day also the Town voted to lay a Reat of -SO* pound and to bee payed by the first of novembar insewing in Silver or Short Shingel or boards or naiels or brickes or in procur- ing a mafon to bueld the Chimneys or in liem as Cheap as anney of theas thing[s] Can bee bought for in money : provided that all thos that will procuer anney of the things above mensenad doe Com to the Commety that the Town will Choues to Cary on the bidding and finishing of the hous for the minister with in a month after the deat hear of and declear whot thay will prouoid : and if thaier bee not a sofesiancy of the several things a hove mensioned provoided with in a month as above s^ : then the s^ Com- mety aer hear by Empoured and desirad to provoid what shall bee wanting to finish the s'^ ministers hous : and the Town doe hear by ingeag to paye them in money Every man his Eaquel shear as shall bee laied in the *50* pound Reat as a hove s"^ : and now the Town doe prosed to Choues a Commety as folows The Commety that the Towne have chosen for the oner sight of the Carying on of the work of the minnisters hous II as a foer sad|| : thaier names bee as foloweth : Sar- gent Thomas Andrus Corperal daniel wood Zecheus Cor- tis Sargent Josaph Bixbe Josaph haill Jonathan foster Thomas pearly Juner and Corperal Josaph pebody also thes men : be to provid what is needful || for the hous a bove S^ll on the Towns Cost and charge this Commety || above choesen|| bee to have two shill- ings and six penc a day when thay work delegently Each man : thay bee also to keep a trew account of all the 82 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. worck that is dun a bought the ||minesters|| hous both for work a bout the sealler and the woals of the hous and tending the mason and drowing ofRockes and bringing of Clay or brick: and if anney man Com leat : or if hee Com Early and worck with a Slack hand : in Eaither of thes failewers the Commety bee to noet them down : that so the Town may the batter know how to allow Every man a Just Recompenc for his work when the hous is finnished : also Every man in the Town shall have free liberty to worck out his Eaquel shear Exsepting the mon- ey part : and all that will provoid his shear in the things a hove spesified may save his money becaues the money is to procuer matter for the finnishing the ministers hous : and the major part of the Commety shall Judg what Each man shall have a day for his Labor in bulding and finnish- ing the minnisters hous the Towen have Regected thes fouerten liens above next to this lien as trumpery also the Town have voted to alow mister Thomas Simes the ves of the whol pasneag farm during the tiem that hee shall dispence the word of god a mongst us : hee leaving of it in good tenanttabel Repair or as good as he doth fiend it : also the town Choes Leften perly and Sargent Bixbe and John pebody to a gree with m^ Simes a bout the man- er of paying of his salary and his wood At a Town meeting hild in may in the year 1701 the Town Choes John Pebody to searve as a Represan- tetive for the year 1701 att the great and genaral Court to bee houlden in Boston •28* of may *1701* At a Legall Towne meting [held in] Boxford the Six- tenth of Juen 17 * the Towne voted to send that answer to m'' Thomas Simes which Leftenant pearly drew up in Answer to a desier that m^ Thomas Simes sent to the Town to Releas him from the promis which hee did mack to bee thaier minnister or the in Courigment that hee had given the Towne for to bee thaier minister also the Towne did voat to send to m^ Jonathan dan- ford and to Run the lien or mesuer from Ipswich meting ^ This paragraph is crossed out in the original. BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 83 howes (* * *) thaier Six raields granted by the genarall Couert to Ipswich which is the bounds beetwen Topsfield and Boxford by a grant from the genarall Couert to Row- ly as attest John pebody Clark : and a Cordingly the Se- lact men sent John Stiels to invight m*' danford to com to doe the above s^ Servis : and a Cordingly m^ danford and (his) son ceam and did the searvis and was •4* dayesfrom thaier whom: for which thay Resaived *2- pound *8®* of the Selact mennamly of Samuell Smith *9®* and of Cor- poral Radington *6®* and of Leftenant pearly and Clark Simons the Reast of the money Leftenan pearlys was •15®* and Clark Simons paied *12®* and Sargent Josaph Bixbee *6®* which is the wholl of the 2^ 8® all this was paied besied Expences wich is set down in a nother place. At a Town meting hild in Boxford the *24’ of november 1701 The Town Choes Ensien heazen moderator for the day also the Town Choes John Pebody to bee thair Scowel master for the year insewing Boston desambr *26^^* 1701 Resaived of m^ Zecheus Curties Constabel of Boxford thirty fouer Pounds fouer Shillings in full of a warent for the lick sum of thirty fouer Pounds fouer Shillings Resaived for m"" James Tay- ler Tresurer by Jaremy Allin At a lawful Town meeting held in Boxford the 21 of April 1701 (?) The Town voted to Record Sum propossals drawen vp in a looues paper which aer diractions for the Comety to walk by in bulding and finishing the ministars hous as foloweth that is to Saye theas liens hd below be the full Sum and Substanc of what was in the paper a bove s^^ pesesions how to Cary on the bulding and finishing of a hous for m^ Thomas Simes first to mack Choies of *5. or *7* men the rCarpentars to bee a Commetty or vn- dertackers to Carey on the bulding and finishing the a bove s^ hous which Commety shal be a lowed for thair worck by the Towen tow shillings six penc per day a peec Euery of them for Euery day that thay worck at a bout the s*^ hous and also that Euery man a licke in the Town shall haue liberty to worck out thaier preporsion of thair worck part in bulding the s^ hous and Euery man shall bee a lowed for his labor as much a day as the Commety or the 84 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. major part of them doth judg thay doth Earn or desarue and the Commety afoer shall keep a trew and just ac- count of his owen work and tiem that hee spendes a bout Cariing on of the s^ hones and also of Every other mans labor being a lowed as a foer s*^ and the Commety a foer s^ shall give the selact men or trustees of the Towen then in being when the hous is bult and finished the whol sum of what the work peart doth amount to soe that it may bee preporsioned by a Reat and hee that doth not doe his peart in work shal paye it in such paye as shall an- swer the End in bidding or finishing of the hous and hee that doth moer shall bee payed by the Towen and the Commety a foer s^ Shall have full power to procuer boerds naiels brickes and glas and what Eals may bee judged meedfull for the bulding and finnishing of the s^ howes att the Towens Cost and Charg wee whoes names bee vnder written being choes to agree with m^ simes a bout the maner of paying of him his salary yearly and his wood and a Cordingly wee went to m^ Simes and did agree with him to beegin his year with vs the •27‘^* of Aprill 1701 : which was the least Sabath in Aprill also wee did then agree to pay him fif- teen pounds Euery quarter of the year and his wood att tow sesons in the year one half bee brought to his hous at or befoer the first of July the other half of his wood at or befoer the first of Jenewary folowing yearly also wee did agree to haue a Contribusion once a month yearly and whot is then by the Towen givenen shall bee put in to papers and to bee Seat ofe for part his Reat wee beeing Choesan by the Towen of Boxford to doe this seruis for the Town as appears on Record as witnes our hands this •25‘h- of Aprill *1701 : John pebody * was voted by the Town as attest Thomas Pearly then(?) * * * Josaph Bixbe * * * rk of Boxford Att a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the •27* of April 17 ^ * The Towen Choes Joseph Pebody sener moderator for the day BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 85 also the Towen Choes Lefteiiant pearly Representative for the year 1702 also the Towen Choes five men to bee a Commety to meet with Topsfield men to Straigh[t]en the lieen from Leftenant pearlyes appeltree in Leftanent pearlyes field to the heep of Stoens and a Stack at the north East Cor- ner of m"" Backer farm fo Called which lyeth in Boxford and from thenc to the Dam or Cofweay over hafekey medow and fo to the filhing broock as the Revelat Runs in to the fishing brock and so af the fishing broock Runs in to the River this Commety above Said have full power to Settel with Topsfild a Cording as the genaral Court have ordered it to bee : and the names of this Commety bee af followeth Insien John pearly John Androus John Eames Epharam Courtis and John pebody Also the Towen voted to give m^ Simes Leberty to Seet vp a pew in the East Corner of the meeting howes for his wief to Seet in on the Sabeth day Also the Towen voted that the Selact men Should lay a Reat of Six pound in money to by what is wanting to finnish the ministers howes At a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the •19^''* of Juen 1702* the Towen Choes Ensien John perly moderator for the day the Towen Choes Leftenant Thomas pearly and John pebody to anfwer Topsfilds petesion att the genaral Court when the Court will bee plesad to grant Topsfield a her- ing the Towen Choes John pebody Sargent bixbee and Jos- aph heall to draw up a Request to the honerad genaral Court that thaier may bee a Commety of -3* men to Com and See the liens Run a Cording to the general Courts grants both to Ipswich and Rowly Juen the *24* 1702* at a meeting of the Commety Chosen by Boxford to Joyen with Bradford selact men to settel the lien betwen the a bove s^ towens the names of Boxford Commety wear Leftenant John Pebody and En- sien John perly Sargent Josaph Bixbee: the names of 86 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. Bradford selact men wear Corparal Robert haseltien and Thomas Kimbol and Samuel Tenney thay doe agree that a (pine?) tree Shal bee the bounds standing a vpon An- dover lien and so to a black oak tree marked standing upon the South west End of John Simmonses field and thane to a whit oack tree marked standing near the Cuntry Road as it goeth by the hous that was John pickards de- sesad and from thenc to a white oack tree marked with an •S’ & a *K* & a P with a heap of Rocks a bout it. John Pebody Robart haseltin Thomas Kimball John perly Josaph Bixbe Samuel Tenney : a trew copey as attest John pebody Clark for Boxford At a legal towen meting held in Boxford the 10“’ of march * * * * the Towen Chos Leftenant pearly moderator for the day also Chos John Pebody Town Clark for the year in- sewing voted also Choes Thomas Pearly Jun Constabel for the year in sewing voted and the Selact men bee as foloweth Choes for the year in sewing Clark Sammuel Simonds Corporal daniel wood Josaph heall John Andrus and John Stiels also to be as- sesars for the yer insewing also Ensien hazen is Chosen town Trasurer for the year insewing also Sargent Bixbee and Josiah Bridges bee Chosen tithing men also Timothy Dorman is Chosen to Searue apon the grand Juary the year insuing also Ensien hazen is chos to saru on the Jury of trials this next Court to bee houlden at Ipswich also Jonathan foster and Joseph Pebody Juner bee Choes Servaiers for the year in Sewing : also the Towen Choes Thomas Radington and John Buswill feanc Vew- ars for the year in sewing also Ensien John pearly and Sargent Josaph Bixbee and John pebody bee Chose a Commety to seattil bowends be- twen Bradford and Boxford being hear by fully Impow- erad by the town for that Searuis alfo to fettel the north Eastwardly Corner of boxford bounds with Rowly Com- mety BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 87 also Choes lefte“‘ John Pebody Scowel master teal a nother be Chosen in his Rouem propofales how to procuer teen acors of land for ni'’ Thomas Simes the Towen also giiies to the Selact men Chosen for the insewing year 1701/2 to agree with the ouenars and propriators that bweneth the Land that lyeth betwen Abraham Radingtons hous and ould goodman fos- ters hous and our meting houes and the Towen gives the Selact men a hove full power to agree with ouenars of the s^ land and to give them billes for the payment for the s^ land and also to tack a deed of s^ Land in the Towens be- half and to give m^ Thomas Simes a deed a Cordingly as the Towen hath voted vnto m*^ Simes in Ceas hee tacks offis a pon him to bee onr minister its to bee vnder Stood that the Towen oblig themsealves to pay the money that shall bee ingeaged by the Selact men for the Land afoer whoes names aer as foloweth Samuell Simond Sener dan- iell wood Josaph halle John Andrus John Stiels : voted by the Towne of Boxford as attes John Pebody Towen Clark for Boxford At a legal Towen meeting hild in Boxford the *21* of July 1702 1. the Towen Jagread and:|| voted that Leftenant pearly and John pebody which bee chosen to answer Tops- tilds petesion shall haue libarty to Improue ||at the Towens Cost II a man or tow : to assist them in the manigment of II the II defirenc beet wen Topsfild and Boxford Ralating to Topsfildes petesion for a nother hering at the genaral Court The Towen Choes Sargent Josaph Bixbee moder- ator for this meeting voted •2* the Towen ||have|| agreead and voted to a low Eaight Scoer pound towards this houes bult for the min- nister Eaighty pound ||of it|| in silver money and the other Eaighty pound in paye as money and this hous is in lew of the hous that the Towen voted to bueld for m’^ Thomas Simes bearing date the of April 1701 : 3 : the Towen have a greead and voted ||that|| the Se- lact men shall deliuer this hous now bult for the minnister to m*" Thomas Simes in lew of the hous the Towen voted to bueld for m^ Simes in the condesion that it is now in with all that is agreead for \\to finnish s^ hous|| upon the Town voted to give it tow Thomas Simes 88 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. At a Toweii meting hild in Boxford the 16^*' of Sep- temi)er 1702. the Towen Choes Zecheiis Cortis moderator for the day : also Choes John Eames Jury man for the next Court to be houlden att newbery. [The record of the following meeting is by Joseph Bixby.] At A law Full towen meting held in Boxford Dacember the 15 : 1702 the tow(n) chos in sin hazzan modarator for the day alfo the tow(n) chos Four men to tak the full care Con faming and prouiding For the Fast and ordaine- atyon of m’" Sims and thar nams be as Folloeth william Fostar Infin Pearlay Liutanant Parlay Clark Simuns all fo the tow(n) voted to Pay the charg in that a Faire [The records are continued by Mr. Peabody, as follows :] At a legal Towen meting in Boxford the Sixtenth day of fabewary 1702/3 the Towen Choes willim faster Rep- resentive for the Towen of Boxford this Sasion or Sa- sions also John Andrus is chosen moderator for the pres- ant meting At a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the *21* of July 1702 : the Towen have agread and voted that the Selact men Shall deliver this hous now bult for the min- nister to m’* Thomas Simes in lew of the hous the Towen voted to buld for m’’ Simes in the Condesion that it is now in with all that is a greead for to finnish 8^ hones upon the Condesiones the towen voted to give it to m^ Thomas Simes we whoes names aer undr written doth order m*’ Sam- uel Simonds to deliver the hous a bove mensioned to m^ Thomas Simes a Cording to Towen voat daniel wood John Andros John Stiels Josaph hall Selact men of Boxford Boxford July *22^^* 1702 : I then Resaived posasion of the hous bult for mee in this Towen : of m^ Samuel Si- monds orderad to deliver it to me by the Selact men ac- cording to the tenner of the Towen vot Refering to Said house past July *21* in the year a bove said I say Resaived by me Thomas Simes BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 89 Recorded febewary the 19^ 1702/3: by me John Pe- body II Town II Clark the Selact men of Boxford beint? met to gather the 25^^ of novembr 1702 to lay out hy waies in the To wen of Boxford and a cordingly wee have laied out a towen hy waye from Jacob pearlyes land as the path now leads from Jacob pearlyes houes to Thomas hazens hous and so on from the s^ hazenn as the path now is : to the west sied of a hil by daniel woods houes from thenc to the wast End of the woods field and on by the feanc Sied to andovar Road from thenc on a Straight lien to the wedow pebodyes field and so a long by the fenc Sied to the s*^ wedowes beam thenc on as the path now lieth to the meting houes this Road is not to Exsed tow Rod wied : also a nother hy waye beeginning at the open Road this lyeth to Topsfild and lyeth a cros the Ridges from Tim- othy dormans land to the north EastCorner of blacks ould orchard from thenc on a Straight lien to the East End of a littel hill in blaks field which now belongeth to John Andrus and Josaph Andrus from thenc a long the ould path over the hilles called Langlyes hills as the trees be now marked to the northerly Corner of Samuel Simonds land and so on southerdly to Samuel Simonds houes and so thenc to a bridg over fishing broock thenc to a marcked tree Standing by the fenc thenc ||in|| the most conveniant- est ground to Epharam Cortises field to tow poplers marked thenc to the west sied of the s^ Cortises dwelling howes : and so a long by his fenc as the south west Corner of his stoen wall ; thenc a long the cart way twelve Rods : thenc torning south westerdly to a cart waye that goeth ouer the Swamp a bout twelve Rod a bove the Caswey : thenc a long by the Swamp as the marked trees lead to the ould Road and thenc a long the seam Road to the Caswey ouer II the II Inland medowes thenc to the houes of Samuel Si- monds Juner as witnes our hands the selact men of Boxford Samuel Symonds^ Daniell Wood^ Joleph Hale^ John Stils^ 1 Autographs. 90 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. the selactmen that layed out the hy way from Timoth(y) dormans feld to yong Samuell Simons hous : haue a pon sacond thouts and better consedarations mouing them thair to haue alterad the a boue hy way from a Cart way to a hors way only : as attest John pebody Towen Clark who Recorded the a boue s^ cart way at the desier of the Selact men also from Jacob pearlyes hous to the meting hous or hy way by Roburd Stiels hous shal be only a priuet hors way and the Selact men doe also agree that thaier shal bee hors geats mead in Epheram Cortises land in fouer places if thaier be need of so ||maney|| geats in his land: at the Towens cost also thair shal bee hors geats from Jacob pearlyes hous to Robard Stieles hous whear thaier shal be need of anney geats also upon the Towens cost and charges : which wee Judg dew Recompenc for the land At a legal Towen meting hild in Boxfor[d] the of march 1702/3 the Town Choes Ensien Thomas hazen moderator for the presant meting also Choes John pebody Towen Clark for the yer in- sewing voted also mosis tiler is Chosen Constabel for the year insew- ing voted also the Towen have chosen *5* Selact men and thaier names be as foloweth : John pebody Ensien Thomas hazen Jonathen foster Samuel Simons ||juenrl| and Timothy Dorman voted and to be assesars this year also the Towen have chosen Richard kimbol and Tim- othy foster to be fenc vewars for the year in sewing : also the Towen Choes Abraham ||Radington|| anddavid wood llthayll should bee saruaiors of hy waies for the year in sewing also the Towen Choes Corpral Kimbol Jonathen Bixbe tithingmen for the yer also the Towen choes Ensien Thomas hazen Towen treasurer for the yer also Sargent Bixbe is chosen grand Juryman for the year in sewing also Jacob pearly is chossen to Sarve on the Jury of tryals next cort at Ipswich also Ebennezer Sharin and Jaremy pearly shal be fild BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 91 drivers or hawards for the year insewing al thes men a boVe mensioned wear voted by the Towen to Searve in thaier seueral plases that thay be chosen for this next year in sewing also the Towen haue Choes *5- men to seat parsons in the meting hous and thair names be as foloweth john Pebody Leftenant pearly Sargent Bixbee John Andrasand Jonathan foster and the Town dothleaue thes men to thair ouen discrasion and prudenc in the matter : and thoes that wil not sit in thair seats that thes men shal appoint ||them|| may Justly be coled brackers of : good order : and have a hen layed upon them that will sit forwerder then thay shal be seted also the Selact men Choes for the year in Sewing II 1703 II have giuen the Towen Clark and the Constabel thaier oathes to thaier Respactiue ofises : also havegiueen Jonathan Bixbe Richard Kimbol Timoth[y] foster Abra- ham Radington thair oathes to thair Respactive ofises for the year insewing : also Josaph Andrus Commesioner : Samuel Simonds Josaph heall John Andrus and John Stiels ye( ?) ould Selact men orderad by the Court to at- tend the commesioner ||that|| the Towen have chosen to carey dowen the Town Ratabel Esteat to Salem thair to be Compared At a legal Towen meting hild in box ford the 20“^ of April 1703 the Towen Choes Epheram Cortis moderator for the presant meting : also the Towen have Choes Josaph Andrus to be the Commesinor to Joyen with the leat Selact men to tack a trew account of al Ratebal Esteat pouls and faccueltyes : also the Towen have voted to buld a pound and ||to|| set it vp betwen the meting houes and Abraham Radingtons houes wher the Selact men shal agree tow : for the ves of the whoel Towen at the Towens Cost also the Towen voted to pay John Andrus and Josaph Andrus *26* Shillings out of the Towen tresurey assouen as conveniantly may be and in so doing thay doe Consent that thaier shal be gats set up throw thair land wher thaier is need of them and if thaier be no damig dun in theier land in one y ers tiem then thes waies may stand longer 92 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. the *26* shillings a, bone voted to be payed to John and Josap[h] Andruses is a cordingly payed to them by Con- stabel Thomas perly At a legal To wen meting hild in Boxford the Elaventh of may 1703 : the To wen Choes Leftenant pearly moderater for the presant meting voted Also the Towen voted to set the minnisters wood at *4* shillings a cord in money and ol that wil not pay thair shear of wood must alow after that Rat in money also the Towen voted that the presant Selact men this present year 1703 Shall Call all the former constabels and colectars to an account how thay have disposed of al the money layed in thaier years for to gather for the ves of the Towen such as have not alredy discharged what was thair Just dew to doe Also the Towen have pased a vot that thay bee Satisfied with the bargen ||thatl| the Commety mead with |!the|| Indiens namly masconominats sucfesers Samuel Ingles and Josaph Inglash and John vmpee the grand children of masconomenat sagemor of aggawom and by thes presants doe Ratifi the s^ bargin by a uiianimus vot of the Towen also to pay tow shillings by the hundred moer or les as the Commety ||a for sad || have alredy preporsioned it: ||also|| voted thair Excptenc of that which is dun in it be paied for by the towen also the Towen voted that John pebody and Josiah Bridges shal be the colectors to gather the money of the persons [jthat live|| in the ||town|| and of thos out of |lthe|] towen that have land in the Towen of Every [jone or|j man his Eaquel share at the Rat of tow shilling a hundred and proporsinabel for moer or les also the Towen voted to send Leftenent perly (?) to the general Court this presant yer 1703 to sarue as a Repre- sentive for the Towen of Boxford in the great and gen- aral assembly also wher as the Towen haue chosen the Selact men for the year 1703 to call al the constabels and colecters to give them II an II account of the money orderad them to gather for the ves of the Towen in thair several years that Each man sarved : and for what arears aer yet beehien the BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 93 Towen doth fully Impower the Selact men to Isshevv out warents to the presant constabel to mack distres upon II the constables and coleactrs that wer formerly in Boxford|| Constabel or Constabels Colecter or Colectares for what money thay have not gathered which was by law Kecover- abel in their Respactiue years also for what money thay haue gatherad which is not Improved for the ues and banifit of the Towen Ijas it should haue ben don|l ; thay obsarvingthe diraction of the law in tha prosedings in al such affaiers which will bear them harm les voted Resaived of Zecheus Cortis former constabel of Box- ford the Sum of Six pounds tow Shillin and tow penc in Cash it being so much commeted to him by the Selact men of Boxford to Colact for the County of Essix 10"'° : 17 day 1702 Resaived by John Appelton County tresuerer a trew copy At a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the •21* of Juen 1703 : the Towen Choes Josaph Andrus moderater for the day voted also the Towen have Choes *5* men whoes names bee af foloweth Leftenant pearley Zecheus Courtis John pe- body ||Ensien thomas hazen|| Zarubbebel Endicot and John Eames : which aer a Commety fulley Impowred to a gree if thay see Caues : with a Commety Chosen by Topsfild a bout the bouends betwen the Towens and if thes Commeties doe not a gree then wee doe Impower our Commety to Joien with Topsfilds Commety in the Choies of a Commety to End the defiranc that is betwen Tops- fild and Boxford Relating to Towen bouends the Com- mety so chosen by the Commeties of Each Towen having full power to desied the a foer s^ defirenc thay tacking the genaral Couert grants for thair Rewel to Judg by : in thair determination of s<^ defirenc : also it is a greead and voted by the Towen of Boxford that in Ceas the Com- metyes of the tow Touens a foer s^ doe a gree to Eand the afoer s^ defirenc a monge them selves thair a ward 94 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. shal be a full End of defirenc as far as Boxford is Con- sernad and if thay should not a gree and it bee left to a Commety Chosen by the Commety of Each Towen the a ward of s^^ Commety shal bee a final End of thir defirenc so far as Boxford is conserned : thay tacking the grants a foer s^ for thair diraction in this matter : also it is farther voted by the Towen of Boxfor[d] that in Ceas s^ towen doe not stand tow and a hied by the a ward or detarmi- nation of the a fore s^ Commeties or Commety Chofen by them : then the Towen of Boxford doe for fit to the Towen of Topsfild the sumb of a thowsend pound : also it is forther voted that in Ceas our Commety shal Enter in to a thowsend pound bond to the Towen of topsfild or thair Commety then the Towen of Boxford doe a gree to hould thaier owen Commety Choes for the Sarvis a foer s^ in- demnified : the Towen of Topsfield did obgact a gainst Zerobobal Endicot thairfoer the Towen of Boxford have Chosen Ensien hazen in the Rouem of nT Endicoat for the afoer s^^ servis : at a legal Towen meting hild in box- ford the *22* of fabewary 1703/4: as attest John pebody Clark also the Towen pased a voat to alow Sixten pound one shillin for the Expends a bout the fast and ordenation of nf Simes and m^ Simes is indented to the Towen one pound tow shillin of it also the Towen voted to alow Leftenant perlyes bill a mounting to the sumb of Elaven pound seventen shilling Six penc also to allow what money thay should spend that shall goe to the governer to Carey a petesion to Eeles our Towen from Relesing Afer Carey which other wies our Towen must haue dun To mosis tiler Constable of Boxford thes aer to Requier you in her majesties name forth with to warn the wief of Afer carey to depart out of our Towen to the place of hir former Residenc the Selact men of Boxford not allowing her to Resied in our Towen dated BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 95 the *22* of October 1703 as witnes our hands the Selact men of Boxford : John pebody Thomas hazzen Recorded on hell Jonathen foster Timothy darman in Court at Salem Selact men of Boxford : november 30‘*^ 1703 Examined : as attest Stephen Sewel Clerk October the *26* 1703: in obedianc to this warent I haue warned the wief of After Carey to depart out of Boxford and not to Com in to it a gaien as an in habitant as witnes my hand Mosis Tiler Constabel of Boxford Copah vera of the oreganal on fiell as attest Stephen Sewel Clerk at a genaral Sasions of the peec houlden at Salem no- uembr the 30*^ 1703 Stephen Sewall The selact men of Boxford having Retorned to this Couert a warrent with a retorn thair on of warning the wief of Afer cary out of the said Towen is filed up with this Couert as the law diracts a Cordingly Copia vera Stephen Sewel Clark al this a boue written is a trew Copia of what Standeth on fiel on Court Record in Salem Court Records as it was giueen in to mee John Pebody Towen Clark of Boxford Essix ss. to the Constable of Boxford in said County of Essix greting Complaint beeing mead to mee frances wainright on of her majestis Justeec of the peac for said County by Lef- tanent John pebody one of the selact men of Boxfor[d] a foer : that Sarah Ceary an inhabitant of Ipswich in s^ County is Com into the afore s^ Towen of Boxford Shee beeing a poer body demanding Relef of the Selact men of Boxford afoer s^ and thay not beeing a bliged by law to grant Releef to her Shee being an inhabitant as afoer said 96 BOXrORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. Thes thairfoer are in her majesties name to Requier you to aprehand the person of the s^ Sarah Care}^ if shee may bee found with in your Towenship of Boxford a foer saied and her Conuay to the Selact men of Ipswich afoer s*^ : or to one of the ouer seears||of the poer|| of said towen of Ipswich and her the s^ Sarah Carey you aer to leaue with Eaither of them to wit the Selactmen of Ipswich or over- sears as afoer s<^ : that so shee may bee provided for with conueniant Releef a Cording as the law provides her of you aer not to faiel of your duty hear in : and for youer so doing this shal bee youer sofesiant warent giueen undr my hand dated in Ipswich desamber the •16^‘ 1703 In the Sacond yer of her majesties Raien Frances Wainwright a trew Copey of a warent giueen by Justis waineright as attes John pebody Town Clark. Racned with Zecheus Cortis as hee was our Constabel and wee fiend the Towen to bee Eaight Shillings in his deat upon the Towen Reats the Eaight Shilling was for paying so much for m^' Endicoat in the towen Reat as attest John pebody one of the Selact men for the yer 1703 that Recond with him also the Selact men for the year 1703 Racned with Josaph haill as hee was the Constable for the Reats Com- meted to him togather in his year and wee fiend him to bee six pound and forten shillings in the Towens deat or thair a bouts : as attest John pebody Clark and one of the Selact men that Racned with him At a legal Towen meting hild in boxford the •22* of febewary 1703/4 The Towen Choes qurtermaster wood moderator for the day. the Towen voted a bill for Leften perly amounting to 11 — 17 — 6 which is set dowen on the other sied of this leaf The selact men of Boxford mead tow Contrys Rats the of October 1703 Each Reat a mounting to the Sum of Sixty nien pound fine shilling to be paied to the Treasurer and the ouer plush of the Reat to the Lef John pebody also minister Rat amounting to the Sum of 60 ^ — 00^ — 00^^ BOXFOKD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 97 also the selact men mead a Reat to pay sum Towen Charges amounting to the sumb of thirty pounds five Shilen six penc of this Towen Reat to Leftenant pearly is to bee paid 11^05—0 to Lettent pebody the sumb of forten pound Eaitten Shill 4—18—0 to m^ william foster the sumb of two pound Elaven 02—11—0 to Josaph Andrus on pound to John Andrus 7® both is 01—07—0 as attest John pebody Clark and one of the Selact men also the select men mead a Couenty Reat the 8^‘‘ of oc- tobr 1703 a mounting to the sumb of fiue pound three Shil- ings sixpenc al thes Reats aboue spesified wear deliverad to our Constable mosis tiler to gather them and to deliver the money to all the persons above named ||to|| Each man thair Just sumb or sumes as is aboue spesified as attest John Pebody Towen Clark and one of the Selactmen for the yer 1703. At a lawfull Towen meting hild in boxford march 14^ 1703/4 The Towen Choes Leftenant pearly moderator for the day also the Towen Choes Lef John Pebody Towen Clark for the year 1704 also the Towen Choes John Andrus for the year insew- ing to be thair Constabel also the Towen Choes Lef pearly Sargent bixbee Abra- ham Radington Josaph Andros and Josiah Bridges Selact men for the year in sewing : and assesars the yer insew- ing also Corpral Kimbol is Choes grand Jury man for the yer insewing : also the Towen Choes Zecheus Cortis to serue on the Jury of trials next Cort also the Towen Choes Thomas Jewet Jonathan foster and Samuel Simonds Juner to be tithing men for the yer in sewing also the Towen Choes moses tiler Corperal pebody and John how servaiers for hy waies for the yer in sewing 98 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. also the Towen Choes Josaph heall and nathaniel pearly fenc vewers for the yer in sewing hear is an Account of thoes men that haue tacken thair Respactiue oathes to the faithful discharg of thair ofises for the yer 1704 John Andrus Constebel : moses Tiler and Corperal pe- body servaiers of the hywaies Josaph heal fenc vewar : Jonathan foster tithing man : as attes Joseph Bixbee Clark for the day and now hear set dowe[n]d by John pebody Towen Clark John peabody Towen Clark is sworn to bis ofies : also LeP^ pearly Sargent bixbee Abraham Radington and Jo- siah bridges bee sworn assasers for this yer 1704 At a Towen meting hild in Boxford the 16^^ of may 1704: The Towen Choes Leften perly moderator for the presant meting also Choes Samuell Simonds sen^ to same the yer in sewing for a Represantitive At a Towen meting hild in Boxford the *15* of desamber 1704: The Towen Choes Sargen Bixbee modarator for the day hear is an account of thoes men in Boxford that haue tacken thair oathes to the faithful discharg of thair Re- spactive ofises that thay bee Chosen to searve in this year 1705: John Pebody Towen Clark ||sworn|| allso John Stiels and Jacob Pearly Constabels ||and sworn || also John Pebody Zecheus Cortis Nathaniel pearly and Joseph Pe- body Juener ||are sworn || assasars for the yer inseuing Resaiued of m^ Samuel Simonds and m^ Zecheus Cortis the wholl of my salery for the year 1701 : the 14 of Sep- tember 1702 : by mee Thomas Simes this is a trew copey of the Resait m^ Thomas Simes gaue to Constabel Zacheus Cortis the •14- of September 1702 : as attest John pebody Constabel Thomas perly payed to mr Simes Sixty pound in money for the year 1702 : which is the whoel of his salery Exsept the w'ood also Constabel perly payed to the Cuntry trasurer 34i_04«— 00^ BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 99 At a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the *13^*^* of march 1704/5 : The Towen Choes Insien hazzen moderator for the presant meting : also the Towen Choes Leften John pebody Towen Clark for the yer Insewing also the Towen voted to Choues tow Constabels for the yer insewing and a Cordingly have choes John Stiels and Jacob perly for to bee thair Constabels for the year Insew- ing and the Selact men bee as followeth Lef John Pebody Joseph pebody Jun daiiid wood nathaniel pearly: and Zecheus Courtis voted and to be assesars also Jonathan foster is chosen to searve on the Jury of trials next Court to be houlden at Ipswich : also Josaph II heal II is chosen grand Jur[y]man this year also II choes II Corparal Kimbol Sargent pearly Timothy foster Tithing men this year ensewing also Samuel foster david pebody Jarimyah perly and loouck houey aer Chasen seruaiers of high waies the year in sewing also voted by the Towen that Ensien hazen shal be Towen trasurer for the year insewing : also Thomas Jewet and Iseack perly be chosen fenc vewars ||for the year insuing|| also voted by the Towen to paye to m*’ Simes Eaight pound by the year yerly for seven year to gather after the deat her af in good provesion ||in lew of the wood for m*" Simes II at money pries and to be payed by the last of november Every year yearly teall the seuan years bee Expired and then the voat for the wood to tack place a gaien as befoer voted At a meting of the Towen of Boxford by an a Jorn- ment ||from the 13^^ of march 1704/5 1| to the 3^ of April ||1705|| and then meat and the moderator not being at the I meting the Constabel Stiels did cary on the work of the ’ by putting things to voat : 1 : the Towen voted to , alow twenty shilling this year 1705 to that man that shal I keep the Kee of the meting hones and ||to|| open ||and|| shut the doers on al publick metings in sutabel tim and I to swep the meting hous as often as theaier is ocation : 100 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. also the UtouenU choes John pebody to be a Scouel master for this year : also Choes Richerd Kimbol and Robart Stiels to bee hewards this yer insewing At a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the 30^^ of October 1705 the Towen Choes quartermaster wood modirator for the presant meting and by Resan of our not agreing to act towen bisenas we have a Jorned the meting to the first tewesday in november next at *3* a clock after nowen John Andrus Constabel of Boxford brought six Resaiets to bee Recorded which Resaites wear all of them sined by Jaremyah alien Clark of the provenc Tresurer and thay all did a mount to the sum of 138^ — 10® — 0 and the last Re- saight I have her set dowen as it is worded in the Resait Resaiued of m^ John Andrus Constebal of Boxford nienten pound thirten shillings and Eaigh[t] penc in full Resaiued for m^’ jaems Tayler Tresurer boston October : 9t'‘-1705 a trew Copey of what is in the Resaight as attes John pebody Towen Clark At a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the *5’^'^* of fabewary 1705/6 first the Towen Choes Josaph heall moderator for the presant meting all so the Towen voted to send thes folowing preposials to Topsfield to inviet them to Joyen with us in agreeing to Choues a Commety to End our long defirenc if thay pies Boxford fabewary *5- 1705/6 : from the Towen of Box- ford to the Towen of Topsfield gentielmen sum tiem sene wee sent to youer selact men to desier them to come and Preamilize with us upon the lien betwen onr Towens : and thay sent us word that thay did not account thair was anney lien setled to preamilieze upon : but wear wil- ling to Joyen with us in setting a lien if wee Could con- trive anney Rasianel way for that End whearfoer wee have thout it conueniant to mack you this offer that if you fee caues to Joyen with us in Chouesing a Commety of sutabl persones to doe that worck for us wee aer freely II willing II to Joyen with yow and wee pray that you will mack us a Return whether you will tack up with theas offiers and wee think it Rasionel and Cristian lick : or if BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 101 you can mack us a beatter wee hope wee shall not be bac- ward to exsapt of anney Rasional preposiales ||to End our defirenc in love|| : voted by the Towen as attest John Pebody Towen Clerk alfo voted by the Towen to bueld a houes for the pooer of the Towen and to seat it vpon that parsel of land de- votad for the ves of the Towen whear our meting houes doth stand : and the demensions of the houes a bove saied is as followeth it is to bee thorty foout in lenth and fouer- teen foout in bradth and six foout stud with a conveniant sealler vnder one Eand of it : also the Towen have Chosen three men to a gree with sum man or men of our Towen to bueld and finish this a bove saied houes and sealler accord- ing to the sound discresion of thes three men undr named vpon the Towens Cost and Charg the names of this Commety for this semis bee Thomas Jeweat Jacob pearly and david Pebody : and this work is to bee dun by the last of Juen nex in sewing the deat hear of dated fabewary the *5*^* 1705/6 All the Towen oficers chosen the 12^^ day of march in boxford to searue for the year -1706* have tacken thaier oathes to thair Respactive ofices Exsepting the towen tresurer which hath not as yeat as attest John pebody Towen Clark At a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the *26* of fabewary 1705/6 The towen Choes Corpral John Andrus moderator for the presant meting also the Towen did allow several bils of Charg for money Expended for the Towens semis ; to m^ Endicot for money layed out at boston and and Cambridg for the Towen 02 — 12 — 0 also for John Eames for money Expendad at Cambridg for the Towen 00 — 17 — 0 also to John Stiels for Keeping of the Keea and swep- ing the meting hous 01 — 00 — 0 also Thomas Radington twenty shilling for sweping the meting hous 01 — 00 — 0 also the Towen did alow John Pebody all that pebody Read in the town meting being seat dowen in 102 BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. pebodys oweii bouk of accounts Exsept *6®* that hee saith he deliverad to JohnEames: but ||s^|| Eames denyeth him and wil not ovven it also to william foster it was a lowed for sweping the meting hous on yer 01 — 00 — 0 also to Josaph pebody was a lowed for sweping the met- ing houes on yer 01 — 00— 0- also Towen Choes Ensien hazzen Sargent bixbe and Zerobebabel Endicot to vew a pees of land that John wood desirad of the Towen lying in the Eastwardly corner of the pasnig farm and to mack Ketorn to the towen what thay did Estem s*^ land to bee worth voted at a legal Towen meting hild in Boxford the •12‘^^* day of march 1705/6 the Towen Choes Leften Pearly moderator for the pres- ant meting voted also Timothy dorman is Choes Cunstabel for the yer in sewing for the south sied of the towen also Job Tiler is Choes Cunstabel for the yer in sewing for the north sieed of the town also John pebody is Choes Towen Clark for the year in Sewing also Ensien hazzen is Choes Selact man for the yer 1706 and al so assesar for 1706 also dauid wood and Rich- ard Kimbol and Samuel Simonds sener and Jonethen Bix- be be Choesen selact men and assesars for the year in- sewing 1706 : voted to searu acordingly also the Towen Choes Thomas Jueat for a grand Jur[y]- man for the year in sewing also Insien hazen is chosen Touen Trasurer for the year in sewing also John Stiels and Louck houey aer Chosen tithing men for the year 1706 also nathaniel pebody francos Eallit and Robart Stiels be choesen seruayers for 1706 also Jarymyah perly and John wood aer Chosen fenc vewares for the yer 1706 also david pebody is Choes to saru upon the Jury of tryals next Cort at Ipswich also the Towen voted to giue gorg Bixbe twenty shill- ing for this year 1706 to Keep the Kee of the meting hous BOXFORD TOWN RECORDS, 1685-1706. 103 and to svvep it and open and stet^ the dors and to lay ||it in the first Reat|| also voted by the Towen that thaier bee a Commety Chosen to make inquirey whether. thaier is no land lying conven- iant for the ves of the miniestry that may ||be|| Exchanged by the Towen for the whoell or a peart of the personeg which Commety shal forth with ingage in that affaier and mack thaier Report of thaier doings to the Towenas souen as may bee and also thay shall make inquirey whether thaier be anney land conveniant for that End to bee soueld and mack Report to the Towen of thair doings thair in also voted by the Towen that peart ||of|| or the whoel pasnege farem shall bee Exchanged for sum land in sum other place Conueniantly for the ves of the menistry if an apertunity presant that the Towen shal approue of: also the Towen Choes three men to bee a Commety to mack inquirey whether thaier bee anney land to be Ex- changed : for all or peart of the pasneg or to be souel for the ves of the menistry if non Can be Exchanged also whear as Topsfield haue Intuimated Hto|| us that thay haue Chosen a Commety to agree if it be posiabel with a Commety Chosen by our towen a bout a deuiding lien betwen our towens wee in answer to them haue chosen leiut pebody Ensien hazzen and ||John|| Eames to bee a Commety to meet with Topsfiles commety a foer s^ and doe giue them full power to agree with them in the II matter II afoer s^ if it bee posiabel and also wee giue them full power to Joyen with them in anney other methord of Issewing that defaranc if thay see caues and wee oblige our sealues to stand tow and abied by what Ever thay shal doe in that matter : also the Towen choes Leftn John pebody scowel master for the year in sewing •1706* *Shut. ISAAC ESTY OF TOPSFIELD AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. BY GAY ESTY BANGS. The first mention in America of the name Esty, or as it is otherwise spelled " Estey, Este, Estee, Easte, Eastey, Easty,” is in Salem, where one JeflTrey Esty was granted twenty acres of land in the year 1636. From the Essex County Registry of Deeds we copy the following : " 23-6- 1651, Jeffrey Esty hath sold the arbadge or after feeding of the five acre lotto Henry Bullock. The planting thereof was formerly granted to Nathaniel Bishop as by a writing dated the day and year above written.” Also ”A caveat recorded for William Dixie who bought of Jeffrey Estee thirty acres of upland for 30^ in Mackerell Cove. 6 Oct. 1651, the said Estee being out of this jurisdiction cannot yet be called to acknowledge same.” In the year 1651, it seems, Jeffrey Esty had left Salem and was out of juris- diction. The facts are that he removed to Long Island, settling for a time at Southold, thence to Huntington, and later to Little Neck, where he died Jan. 4, 1657. He made a will, without date, which was probated Jan. 23, following, and was written by Henry Scudder, his son-in- law. This will mentions a daughter Catharine and a son Isaac. Catharine married, first, Henry, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Scudder, of Salem, who made his will Jan. 25, 1661 ; second, Thos. Jones who settled at Huntington, making his will Feb. 16, 1669. Isaac Esty, the son of Jeffrey, was born probably, in England, previous to the year 1630, and was quite young at the time of his father’s settlement in Salem. He was a cooper by trade, and the following is the first reference to him that we have: "2-5-1653, Job Hilliard of Sa- lem, fisherman, hath sold to Isake Esty of Salem, cooper, one house and land adjoining, being nearly half an acre (105) 106 ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. for 20 li. to be paid as follows. 6 li. on the October next in Codfish or caske, 8 li. on the 15^^ October 1654 in fish or mackerel, 6 li. ye 15^'^ October 1655, in fish or mackerel or Job to have the house and land again as by deed dated 19-5-1653.” Isaac Esty settled in Topsfield previous to 1660. In 1661, he was one of the commoners appointed to share in the Topsfield common land on the south side of Ipswich river. In 1664 he was rated at 19s. 6d., which was the ministers rate for that year and entitled him to a propor- tionate share in the division of the common land, those pay- ing fifty shillings to have one of the greater shares, under fifty to twenty to have one of the middle shares, those un- der twenty to have one of the least shares ; in 1669, in the casting of lots he was given the 15th share. In 1672, with Deacon Howlet, Lieut. Peabody, Joseph and Ed- mund Towne and Thomas Baker he was granted all the swamp meadow, lying upon Ipswich river, extending from the lower part of the Governor’s meadow down to the bridge that goes over the river below old Goodman Towne’s for a consideration of fifty pounds. He was one of the selectmen of the town in 1680, ’82, ’86 and ’88. In 1681, ’84, ’85, he was chosen juryman of trials at Ipswich, and in years 1691 and ’96, he was chosen grand juryman ; he also served as ty thing man, surveyor of highways and fences, and was a member of different committees of the town. In 1677, he is called ” senior,” his son Isaac having be- come of age. In 1689 he is styled " Sargent ” Esty. He was a member of the church, and one of the committee appointed to secure the services of Mr. Daniel Epps of Salem, as minister in 1681, and also to secure the services of Mr. Capen and to provide for the ordination. The church register for 1684 shows that Isaac Esty, wife and family, were members in full communion. He died at Topsfield, in the year 1712, leaving a will dated March 26, 1709, witnessed by John How, Abraham How, and Joseph Capen (the minister), which was prbbated June 11, 1712. It reads : ’'In the name of God amen I, Isaac Estie senr. of Tops- ISAAC ESTT AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 107 field in the County of Essex in New England Cooper be- ing at this present of perfect understanding and memery but sensible of my Declining years have thought good to make sum disposal of my Temporal Estate as followeth Commending my soul into y® hands of God y® maker and Redeemer of it whenever it shall please God to take me hense and my body to desent Interment. 1 . My will is y’^ my son Isaac have all y® land which he is already posest of being on y® south side of Ipswich river which I reckon to be about forty acres of upland and four of meadow be it more or less. My will is y^ he & his heirs forever have y® land aforesaid togather with what he hath had of my movable estate. 2. As for my son Joseph my will is y*^ besides what I have already Done for him about building or in Cattle or in purchasing Land which hath been Considerable he shall have half of my wearing apparel at my Decease. 3. As for my son John he hath already what I intended for him in full & hath signified the same by writing under his hand. 4. As for my son Benjamin my will is y^ he and his heirs forever have y® house & land adjacent, which I for- merly designed for my son Joshua. My meaning is y* he have y® value of y® said house and land y* is what was sold for to my neighboor John Robinson togather with the two cows which he hath had of me already which money for said House and Land he hath had already. 5. As for my son Jacob, my will is y^ he & his heirs forever have my now dwelling house, together with barn, and other buildings with my orchards, plow lands pasture lands and meadows not already otherwise disposed of to- gether with all my Implements of husbandry, weaving or Copering also my will is y^ my son Jacob have y® whole of my movable estate y^ shall be left at my decease he tak- ing off & discharging my funeral expenses whom I do appoint sole Executor of this my last will whom I do ap- point to pay my grandchild Sarah Gill ten pounds in pay not in money, nor as money, also my son Jacob and his heirs forever shall have all my right in cart or drift way as expressed by deeds. 6. As for my son Joshua for whom I procured a trade 108 ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. and payde some debts for him, my will is y^ besides what I have already done for him he have at my decease y^ other half of my wearing apparel eaqiially dividing y® same with brother Joseph Avhich is all I can do for him. As for my daughter Sarah Irellan she had her full pro- potion out of my estate upon her marriage in Cattle bed- ding or otherwise. As for my daughter Hannah I have on her marriage with George Abbot of Andover payed her y® full of w* I intended for her excepting twenty pounds in pay which I thought she should have at my decease payd her by my son Jacob, but inasmuch as my son Jacob hath payd her about seven pounds & ten shillings of y® twenty pounds already there remains only about twelve pounds ten shill- ings in pay due to her by my son Jacob at or before or within one year of m}^ decease and in testimony of ye * * * I y® said Isaac Estie senr hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-sixth day of March in y® year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & nine and in y® seventh year of y® reign of Anne of Great Brittain France &> Ireland Queen. Signed, sealed and declared to be y® last will of Isaac Estie senr as above said in presence of us. John How Isaac Estie sen Abraham How Joseph Capen Codicill. Sarah Gill to have but five pounds. twenty fourth day of January 1710/11. Admitted to probate June 11, 1712. Isaac Esty married Mary, daughter of William and Jo- annah (Blessing) Towne of Topsfield. She was born at Yarmouth, Norfolk Co., England, and baptized at St. Nicholus church, Aug. 24, 1634. We know but little of her life till 1692, when that terrible witchcraft delusion spread over Salem Village and vicinity. Among those to fall a victim was Mary Esty. Her sister Rebecca Nurse, about thirteen years older, had previously been accused. ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 109 found guilty and executed on July 19, 1692. Mary Esty was arrested April 21, 1692, kept in jail till May 18, when she was released. On May 21, a second warrant was procured and she was taken from her home at midnight, carried to Salem jail and placed in chains. She was tried, found guilty and condemned to death, and on the 22 of September, 1692, she was executed with seven others. She was the mother of nine children, a woman of sound judgment and exalted Christian character. In intelligence she was far in advance of her age, as the following petition, written while in prison, amply bears testimony: The Humble Petition of Mary Easty unto his Excellency Sir William Phips, and to the Honored Judge and Bench now sitting in Judicature in Salem, and the Beverend Ministers, humbly showeth, that, whereas, your poor and humble petitioner, being condemned to die, do humbly beg of you to take it in your judicious and pious consideration that your poor and humble petitioner, knowing my own innocency, blessed be the Lord for it ! and seeing plainly the wiles and subtility of my accusers by myself, cannot but judge charitably of others that are going the same way of myself, if the Lord steps not mightily in, I was confined a whole month upon the same account that I am con- demned now for, and then cleared by the afflicted persons, as some of Your Honors know. And in two days’ time I was cried out upon them, and have been confined, and now am condemned to die. The Lord above knows my innocency then, and likewise does now, as at the great day will be known to men and angels. I petition to Your Honors not for my own life, for I know I must die, and my appointed time is set; but the Lord he knows it is that, if it be possible, no more innocent blood may be shed, which undoubtedly cannot be avoided in the way and course you go in. I question not but Your Honors do to the utmost'of your powers in the;discovery and'detecting of witchcraft and witches, and would not be guilty of innocent blood for the world. But, by my own innocency, I know you are in the wrong way. The Lord in his infinite mercy direct you in this great work, if it be his blessed will that no more innocent blood be shed ! 1 would humbly beg of you, that Your Honors would be pleased to examine these afflicted persons strictly, and keep them apart some time, and likewise to try some of these confessing witches ; I being confident there is several of them has belied themselves and others, as will appear, if not in this world, I am sure in the world to come, whither I am now agoing. I question not but you will see an alteration of these things. They say myself and others having made a league with the Devil, we cannot confess. I know, and the Lord knows, as will . . . appear, they belie me, and so I question not but they do others. The Lord above, who is the Searcher of all hearts, knows, as I shall answer it at the tribunal seat, that I know not the least thing of witchcraft ; therefore I cannot, I dare not, belie my own soul. I beg Your Hon- ors not to deny this my humble petition from a poor, dying, innocent person. And I question not but the Lord will give a blessing to your endeavors.” 110 ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. She asked not for her own life ; only that other inno- cent blood might not be shed, and for this unconsciousness of self has been called ” the self-forgetful.” After sentence was executed Isaac Esty did not weakly submit to what seemed to be the inevitable, but with a keen sense of jus- tice and a recognition of his duties to the martyred wife, he bore in mind the fact that upon him devolved the re- sponsibility of doing all in his power to rescue her name from reproach and his children from disgrace. After nearly twenty long years had passed away he was in a measure successful ; the petitions which he presented to the court were recognized ; the verdict annulled, and twenty pounds granted him, in acknowledgment of the injustice of the previous decision. Children : 2. Isaac, ^ b. about 1656. 3. Joseph, b. Feb. 5, 1657/8. 4. Sarah, b. June 30, 1660; m., 1st, Moses Gill of Amesbury, and had Sarah, bapt. May 3, 1691, and Benjamin, bapt. Sept 27, 1691 ; m., 2nd, Ireland. 5. John, b. Jan. 2, 1662/3. 6. Hannah, b. 1667 ; d. Nov. 5, 1741, at Topsfield; m. July 21, 1707, George Abbot of Andover, being his second wife. No children. 7. Benjamin, b. Apr. 29, 1669. 8. Samuel, b. Mar. 25, 1672; d. before 1709; probably unmarried. 9. Jacob, b. Jan. 24, 1674/5. 10. Joshua, b. July 2, 1678; and d. before Apr. 25, 1718, when widow Abigail m. William Poole. Had dau. Mary, b. Jan. 12, 1701/2. 2 Isaac'^ {Isaac^’^ Jeffrey'^') ^ born in Topsfield about 1656. His name appears with others who took the oath of allegiance and fidelity to Charles II. in Jan., 1677. In 1681 his minister’s rate was seven shillings and one penny, his father’s being one pound and three shillings, and his brother Joseph’s seven shillings and nine pence. In 1689 and 1691, he was chosen one of the surveyors of highways, and in 1694 was chosen constable. In 1696 he was one of the selectmen of the town. He left a will dated Mar. 16, 1713/14, which was pro- bated May 3, 1714. Married Oct. 14, 1689, Abigail, daughter of John and Mary (Bradstreet) Kimball, who was born Mar. 22, 1667. She married, second, Apr. 25, 1718, William Poole of Reading. ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. Ill Children : 11. Mary/ bapt. Feb. 15, 1691/2; m. Sept. 10, 1713, John Perkins. 12. Abigail, bapt. Jan. 8, 1692/3; m. May 22, 1712, Joseph Cum- mings, and died of small pox, Jan. 10, 1729/30. 13. Sarah, b. Oct. 4, 1694; m. Dec. 1, 1714, Capt. Joseph Cum- mings, and d. before 1751. 14. Isaac, b. Nov. 20, 1696. 15. Aaron, b. Feb. 16, 1698/9. 16. Jacob, b. June 28, 1700. 17. Hannah, b. May 18, 1702; m. Jan. 5, 1720/1, Isaac Cummings. 18. Richard, bapt. Apr. 7, 1706 ; d. about 1784 ; m. May 7,1728, Ruth, daii. of William and Mary Fiske of Ipswich, b. Oct. 18, 1709. He lived in Rowley until 1764, when he removed with three sons, John, Zebulon and Richard, to a settlement lately formed by New England colonists on the banks of the St. John river, New Brunswick, called Maugerville. Richard Esty was one of the signers of the original covenant of the Congregational church founded there. He left numerous descendants in N. B., and many now living in the U. S; W. P. Estey of Fredericton, and Jas. A. Estey of St. John, are among them. 19. Rebecca, bapt. Aug. 8, 1708; m. 1st, Nov. 12, 1729, Preserved Tucker of Stoughton ; m. 2nd, Apr. 7, 1743, Matthias Puffer of Stoughton. 20. Moses, bapt. Sept. 6, 1712 ; m. Sept. 8, 1736, Eunice Penguille. Removed to Enfield, Ct., in 1752, and in 1756 to Bucks Co., Pa., and later to New Jersey. He had one son, Capt. Moses, of Morristown, N. J., who was a soldier in the Revolution. The late Judge David Kirkpatrick Este of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a descendant, also Charles Este of Philadelphia, Pa. 3 Joseph^ (/8aac,2 Jeffrey^), born in Topsfield, Feb. 5, 1657/8, surveyor of highways in 1683. About 1705 he removed with his family to a new settlement in Dorchester, that part now known as Stoughton. His name appears with that of his brother Benjamin as one of the signers of the original covenant of the church of which Rev. John Davenport was minister. In 1706 he obtained land of the Indians, some of which is now located in the town of Canton. In 1712 he conveyed seventy acres to his son Joseph Esty, Jr. He died at Stoughton, Oct. 25, 1739. He married Jane Steward June 2, 1682. Children : 21. Isaac, b. Mar. 12, 1682/3; d. Apr. 30, 1683. 22. Mary, b. Feb. 22, 1684. 23. Joseph, bapt. May 5, 1688/9; d.Feb. 6, 1765, at Stoughton; m. June 16, 1715, Experience Bennet of Dorchester; she d. Apr. 28, 1768. His son Joseph, b. Dec. 8, 1726, and grand- son Joseph were soldiers in the Revolution from Stough- 112 ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. ton, and left descendants among whom were the late Hon. Edward S. Esty of Ithaca, N. Y., Willard F. Estey, of Lewiston, Me., and C. H. Esty of Brookline, Mass. 24. Jacob, b. Oct. 15, 1690; d. Apr. 1777, at Sharon, Mass. His wife Mehitable died June 16, 1770. Three sons, Jacob, John and Elijah, were soldiers in the Revolution from Sharon. Judge C. C. Esty of Framingham, Mass., is a de- scendant. 25. Samuel, bapt. May, 1691; d. Dec. 25, 1779, at Sharon; m. June 16, 1718/19, Rebecca Hawes; she died Feb., 1780. 26. Elizabeth, bapt. March 13, 1691/2; m. June 12, 1712, Samuel Jackson of Dorchester. 27. Edward, bapt. July 16, 1692/3; d. Nov. 6, 1789, at Canton; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac Stearns. He is said to have been the first to make his home in Canton, in 1717 purchasing over 200 acres of land. He practised medicine to some ex- tent and was known as Dr. Esty. Prof. W. C. Esty of Amherst College, I. Bruce Esty of New York City, Chas. Esty of Newton, Mass., and Edward Esty of Westmore- land, N. H., are descendants. 28. Lydia, b. Mar. 21, 1695/6. 29. John, b. Aug. 26, 1697. 30. Benjamin, b. Oct. 9, 1701; d. Oct. 23, 1766; m. Apr. 1, 1725, Sarah Chandler ; was corporal in the French war, and died in service at Lake George; administration papers were granted his widow Sarah, Apr. 29, 1757. 5 John^(/saac,2 Jeffrey^) ^ born in Topsfield, Jan. 2, 1662/3. Settled in Middleton. He married, first, May 31, 1688, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Judith (Wood) Dorman and, second, Hannah . Children by Mary : 31. Mary,^ bapt. July 31, 1692. 32. Hannah, bapt. Dec. 24, 1693; m. Apr. 10, 1718, at Salem, Jona- than Russel. Children by Hannah : 33. Susannah, b. Aug. 14, 1695. 34. Jemimah, b. Feb. 2, 1696/7. 35. Nathaniel, bapt. Aug. 24, 1701; d. 1746, at Stow; m. Oct. 24, 1724, Ruth Goodale of Salem. Removed from Salem to Stow and had two sons, John and Asa, whose descendants are numerous, among whom are Hon. M. M. Estee of Cal. and James B. Estee of Milwaukee, Wis. 36. David, bapt. May 4, 1707. 37. Jonathan, bapt. May 4, 1707. 38. Kezia, bapt. May 4, 1707. 7 Benjamin^ (/s‘«ac,2 Jeffrey^), born in Topsfield, Apr. 29, 1669, where he resided until about 1705, when ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 113 he removed to Dorchester and purchased land of the In- dians. In 1727, he settled in what is now Sharon, where he died March 28, 1750. His will mentions wife Mary, daughter Elizabeth Howard, and sons Benjamin and Eben- ezer. He was a. bricklayer by trade. He married, tirst, Apr. 9, 1702, Elizabeth, daughter of M^m. Goodhue of Ipswich. She died in Dorchester, July 18, 1713. He married, second, Dec. 13, 1716, Mary Holland. Children : 3a. Benjamin, b. May 29, 1703. Lived in Stoughton and Sharon, dying at the latter place June 9, 1781; he was called “ En- sign ” and is said to have servetl as soldier in the French war; was also deacon in the Sharon church. He m., 1st, Dec. 6, 1732, Abigail Farley of Billerica. She was dau. of Timothy and Abigail (Foster) Farley, and was born Sept. 8, 1705, and died at Sharon, Apr. 29, 1750. He ni., 2nd, Apr. 4, 1751, Mrs. Joannah (Tupper) Ormsby. She was a dau. of Thos. Tupper and a sister of Brig. Gen. Benj Tupper. A son Benjamin was a soldier in the Revolution from Bil- lerica, and one of the first to fall at Bunker Hill. Chas. H. Easte of Arlington, Mass., is a descendant. 40. Ebenezei;, b. Oct. 15, 1705, resided in Sharon, where he died Apr. 10, 1769. He m., 1st, Sept. 13, 1739, Martha Belcher, who d. Nov. 17, 1764, aged 48 yrs. He m. 2nd, in 1765, Hebsibah Gulliver of Milton; she survived him, dying in 1770. His will names wife Hebsibah (adm’x) ; minor chil- dren : Aaron, Solomon, Ebenezer and Mary. The son Solo- mon was a soldier in the Revolution from Sharon, and is said to have fought at Bunker Hill. 41. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 10, 170718, at Dorchester; m. Jan. 13, 1738, Caleb Howard of Stoughton. 42. Sarah, b. June 26, 1713, at Dorchester. 9 Jacob'^ (/8aac,2 Jeffrey^) ^ born in Topsfield, Jan. 24, 1674/5, and died there Oct. 3, 1732. Bricklayer. He married March 25, 1709/10, Lydia Elliot. Was living in Dorchester, in 1724. Children : 43. Jacob, b. Jan. 29, 1711; m. Nov. 15, 1735, Dorcas Hovey; had Anne, b. Feb. 7, 1741/2, who d. Feb. 25, 1839, aged 98 yrs. 44. Lydia, b. July 30, 1713; m. Jan. 7, 17378, Isaac i'owne, and settled at Sutton, 45. Isaac, b. Aug., 1715 (bapt. Aug. 14, 1715); d. 1792; m. Nov. 11, 1743, Sarah Gould, and removed to Sutton. Col. J. J. Estey of Brattleboro, Vt., is a descendant. 46. Anna, b. May 1, 1719; m. Samuel Carriel of Sutton. 47. Mary, b. Feb. 9, 1720/1. 15 Aaron"* {Isaac,^^ Isaac Jefrey'^)^ born in Tops- 114 ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. field, Feb. 16, 1698/9, and died there April 21, 1783. He married June 7, 1723, at Lynn, Esther Richards, who was born, it is said, in Soiithboro. She died in Topsfield, July 23, 1805, aged 100 years and 16 days. Children : 48. Isaac, ^ b. Jan. 23, 1723/4; d. young. 49. Aakon, b. Jan. 18, 1724/5; d. in French war in 1745. 50. Hannah, b. Apr. 14, 1720; m. Feb. 2, 1753, Enos Towne. 51. Maky, b. June 1, 1730; in. Feb. 27, 1750/1, Beiij. Dwinnel; d. Mar. 5, 1820, at Keene, N. H. 52. ISA.\c, b. Sept. 30, 1731. 53. Abigail, bapt. May 5, 1734; d. Feb. 24, 1737. 54. Estiikr, bapt. July 4, 1736; d. Feb. 28, 1737. 55. VViLLi.\M, bapt. Dec. 11, 1737; d. Mar. 13, 1745. 56. Danikl, b May 4, 1739. 57. Esther, b. June 29, 1741; m. Nov. 12, 1761, David Balch 3^; settled in Keene, N. H. ; four children. 58. Aaron, b. Jan. 18, 1745/6; d. Aug., 1844. 59. AVilliam, b. Aug. 2, 1748. 37 Jonathan'^ (John,^ Isaac, Jeffrey^), baptized May 4, 1707. Married Susannah Monroe of Lexington. He lived in Middleton, and his children were born there. Children : 60. Joshua,^ b. Aug. 28, 1735; d. Oct. 3, 1807, at Hillsboro, N. H. ; m. Elizabeth Clark of Millbury, Mass. Settled in Hillsboro, N. H. in 1769. L. K Eastey of Winona, Minn., is a de- scendant. 61. Sarah, b. June 13, 1737; m, David Wright. 62. Hannah, b. July 26, 1739. 63. Susannah, b. Jan. 26, 1741; d. May 27, 1827; m. Nathaniel Berry. 64. John, b. May 13, 1742; d. Nov. 2, 1834, at Middleton; m. Han- nah, dau. of Samuel and Lydia (Andrews) Flint. The late Gen Geo. P, Este of Toledo, Ohio, who served in the Civil War, Rev. Jonathan Estey of Boston and E. J. Estey of Galena, 111., are descendants. 65. William, b. July 23. 1744; d. Apr. 11, 1768; unmarried. 66. Nathaniel, b. Oct 25, 1746; d. in 1807; m., 1st, Sept. 26, 1771, Mehitable Preston of Salem; 2nd, Jan. 28, 1792, Mrs. Re- becca (Rolfe) Hobbs of Middleton. He lived in Salem and Middleton, and had issue by both wives. This family changed their spelling of the name to “ Estes.” 52 Isaac^ Aar on, Isaac, ^ Isaac, ^ 'vas born in Topsfield, Sept. 30, 1731. Married Hannah Smith of Roxford, Sept. 2, 1755, and resided in To])sfield until about 1770, when he removed to Keene, N. H. He was a member of the N. H. Committee of Safety, Maivh 14, ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 115 1776, and was sergeant in the Keene Foot Company. He was a fi ee-mason. Children : 67. Stephen,® b. Apr. 14, 1756; d. Nov. 13, 1815, Keene, N. H. 68. Abigail, b. Sept. 3, 1758; d. June 11, 1759. 69. Hannah, b. Aug. 9, 1760. 70. Isaac, b. Aug. 7, 1771, at Keene; d. Oct. 15, 1839, atReadsboro, Vt. ; m. Apr. 3, 1794, Polly Warner, b. July 25, 1773, and d. Oct. 28, 1821. Settled in Readsboro, Vt. Chas. C. Estey of Gardner, Mass., is a descendant. 71. Esther, b. at Keene; m. Abijali Wood. 72. Sarah, b. Apr. 28, 1774, at Keene. 56 DanieP (^Aaron,‘^ Isaac, ^ Isaac, ^ Jeffrey^), born in Topsfield, May 4, 1739, and died there July 22, 1830. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Capt. Jos. Gould’s company at Lexington. Married Hannah . She died Feb. 26 or 28, 1802, aged 62. 73. Mary,® b. May 28, 1766; d. Apr. 17, 1846. 74. Daniel, b. May 29, 1768; d. May 7, 1790. 75. Richard, b. Feb. 14, 1771; d. Jan. 5, 1853; m., 1st, ; 2nd, Caroline Fox of Dracut. 76. Enos, b. Dec. 10, 1773; d. Feb. 26, 1848; m. Eunice Kenny. She d. Nov. 4, 1851, a). 77. 77. Sarah, b. Oct. 12, 1775; in. Nov. 27, 1800, Oliver Peabodv. 78. Hannah, b. Apr. 24, 1778; m. May 16, 1822, Elijah Goukl. 79. Abigail, b. Nov. 7, 1780; m. Nov. 10, 1808, William Homan. 80. John, b. Mar. 28, 1785. 58 Aaron-^ Isaac,^ Isaac,^ Topsfield, Jan. 18, 1745/6. Married Oct. 23, 1765, Molly Hooper of Lynn. About 1770 removed to Rindge, N. H., then after a few years to Shrewsbury, Yt., and thence to Leicester, Yt., where he died Aug., 1844, re- taining a rugged vitality almost to the very last. Children : 81. Joseph,® b. Aug. 5, 1767. 82. Hannah, bapt. Aug. 6, 1769. 83. William, b. May 26, 1771, at Rindge; d. Dec. 6, 1848; m. Ann Powers. Settled in Seneca Co., N. Y. E. B. Esty of Cleveland, Ohio, is a descendant. 84. John, b. June, 1773, at Rindge; m. March 22, 1797, Sally Des- per of Leicester, Vt. Had twelve children. One son, Ja- son Esty, is still living in Palmyra, N. Y. 59 William^ (^Aaron'^, Isaac, Isaac, Jefrey^) born Aug. 2, 1748, in Topsfield, and died Nov. 17, 1819, at 116 ISAAC ESTY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. Keene, N. H. Married Phoebe Dwinnei of Topstield. Lived in Topsheld until about 1784, vvlien he removed to Boxford and, after a short stay, to Keene, N. H., where he died. Was a soldier in the Kevolntion, and was one of the charter members of the Masonic Lodge at Keene. Children : 85. Kuth,® b. Jan 28, 1774, at Topsfiekl ; m. Evelith . 86. PncEBE, b. Jan. 12, 1776, at Topsfielcl; m., 1st, Bane; m., 2nd, Nathan Tenney. 87. William, b. Oct. 8, 1777, at Topsfield; in. Sally Blake of Keene. Lived in Kandolpli, Vt. 88. Deborah, b. Oct. 21, 1779, at Topsfield; m. Kimball. 89. John, b. Ang. 2, 1781, at Topsfield; d. May 3, 1867, at Groton, N. H. ; m. Betsy Howard. Win. E^ty of Laconia, N. H., is a descendant. 90. Dorothy, b. Mar. 2, 1784, at Boxford; in. Poole. 91. Aaron, b. Apr. 5, 1786, at Keene; d. at Koxbnry, N. H. ; m. Snsannab Davis. 92. David, b. Aug. 2, 1788, at Keene; d. at Walpole, N. LI.; m. Mary Hirth. 93. Nancey, b. Mar. 17, 1791, at Keene; d. Mar., 1852; m. Capt. Jos. Crandal. 94. Solomon, b. May 2, 1793, at Keene; d. Aug. 15, 1864; m. Clar- issa Tasker. 95. Fanny, b. Jan. 23, 1796, at Keene; in. Isaac Davis, jr. 96. Jacob, b. Apr. 9, 1798, at Keene; d. Mar. 2, 1860, at Keene; in. Sophia Brown of Keene. 80 JohW (^Daniel, ^ Aar Isaac, Isaac, ^ Jeffrey^), born ill Topsfield, March 28, 1785, and died June 5, 1872, at Derry, N. H. Married Aug. 16, 1804, Sarah l^eabody of Boxford. She was daughter of Bimsley Peabody. She was born June 10, 1780, and died Dec. 28, 1851. Lived in Topsfield and Derry, N. H. Children : 97. Eliza,’ b. Sept. 28, 1804, at Boxford; d. Oct. 23, 1851; m. Mar. 6, 1834, Joseph Whittemore. 98. Daniel, b. Apr. 6, 1806, at Topsfield; d Nov. 11, 1891; m. Mrs. Rebecca (Hawkins) Ciufl’. 99. John, b. Apr. 18, 1808, at Topsfield; d. Apr. 4, 1895; m. Hannah Cochran. 100. Sarah, b. Nov. 23, 1809, at Topsfield. 101. Enos, b. .\ug. 9, 1811, at Topsfield; d. Jan. 20, 1863; m. Mary Ann Packard. 102. Jonathan R., b. Mar. 26, 1813, at Topsfield; ni., 1st, Elvira ; 2nd, Mrs. Hepsibah (Trask) Whipple. 103. Richard, b Oct. 25, 1815, at Topsfield; d. April 5, 1897 ; m. Clara Nichols. 104. Hannah T., b. Jan. 9, 1817, at Topsfield; in. Moody Morse. 105. Edward P., b. June 9, 1820, at Derry; d. Aug. 21, 1888; in. Lydia (\ Hemphill. SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. COPIED BY GEORGE WARREN TOWNE. The South Side Cemetery is situated in the southern part of the town, on the highway leading to Danvers and not far from the “Copper Mine Lot.” It is upon a hill and some- what removed from the travelled road. A time-stained wall of stone, encloses about an acre of green-sward “where heaves the earth in many a mouldering heap.” The great beauty of the spot is found in the trees planted by the different generations of men who have loved this “acre” well. There are the usual native varieties, but one forgets all save the towering pines that whisper messages of rest and peace. In 1740, Joseph Herrick, who lived on the farm at present owned by William L. Batchelder, “in consideration of love, goodwill and affection I bear towards” David Cummings, John Cummings, Joseph Towne, Nathaniel Porter, Thomas Dwinell, Benjamin Towne, Samuel Curtis, Aaron Estey, Gide- on Towne, Nathaniel Porter, jr., Amos Dorman, Thomas Dor- man, Israel Towne, Daniel Robinson and Joseph Hobbs, deeded to them “one-half acre of land in Topsfield on the south side of Ipswich River, known as the burying place, in- closed with a stone wall, to be used as a burying place forev- er. I furthermore grant a priviledge for said persons to pass and repass across my land (Herrick’s) to bury their dead.” Dated Mar. 13, 1739-40. Joseph Hobbs lived on the Wm. Peabody farm just over the line, in Middleton, and John Cummings lived on the Por- ter Gould place, also in Middleton. It will be noted that the deed says “known as the burial place,” proving that the spot must have been used for burial purposes before 1740. There are no stones to mark the earliest graves and the resting places of only a few of the (117) ii8 SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. many Revolutionary soldiers here buried can be identified. There is the grave of Mrs. Esther Estey, who lived to be over a hundred years old, and off in a corner, separated from the other mounds, where the grass seems longer and thicker, is a grave with a large tree at its head, as if Nature was try- ing to be especially kind to the lonely sleeper. There are two traditions relating to this mound, one, that it is the grave of a slave once the property of the Cummings family, anoth- er, that it is the grave of an Indian woman named Sarah Tutoo. The late John H. Gould believed in the latter story. Judge Cummings, having lost his wife Sally, in 1814, per- suaded his father to enlarge the Cemetery by the gift of about half as much land as it then contained, the boundary of the old ground being between the “Herrick row” and the lot of the late David Towne. The land added in 1814 is now occupied by lots of David and Lorenzo Towne, and the Peter- son, Johnson, Cummings, Batchelder and Rea families. The Cummings family built the wall, and it is said, planted the larches and many of the other trees. “Master Sam” Cummings cared for the ground as long as he lived, and after his death, David Towne collected money by subscription and repaired the wall, purchased new gates (the stone gate posts were given by Lorenzo P. Towne) and put the ground in good order. After his death the burial ground became neg- lected, until in 1893, the neighborhood, to the number of thirty, devoted a day to clearing away the undergrowth. A subscription paper was again circulated and the sum of $262.00 was contributed and accepted by the town in town meeting assembled, as a permanent fund, the income of which forever should be expended in the care of the “South Side Cemetery,” a designation adopted at that time. INSCRIPTIONS. Ezra Batchelder | Died | Sept, i, 1881 | /Et. 68 yrs. 7 m’s. 13 days. I Father. In Memory of M*"®- | Sarah Bixby Wife | of Dec" George I Bixby Who Departed | This Life June | 30th, 1776 in the 64th year | of her age. SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. 19 Mary A. Clark | Died | Dec. 14, 1851 | JEt. 33. It must be so — our Father Adam’s fall And disobedience brought this lot on all. All die in him — but hopeless should we be Blessed Revelation, were it not for thee. Here Lyes the Body of | M*"®- Annar Cummings | wife to M^- David Cummings | Born in the Year 1710, | died Feb”'^ y 9"' 1741. Charlotte P. | daughter of | Samuel & Joanna | Cummings I of Danvers | Died March 21. 1853 | Aged 20 years and 3 months. For thee, sweet spirit, we are left to mourn. From Parents, Brothers, Sister, Lover, torn; Untimely summoned in thy youthful bloom. To thy long slumber in the silent tomb. But the sweet promise of the God of love. Bids us to hope that we shall meet above. Here Lyes the Body of | M*’- David Cummings | of Tops- field I Born April y 15, 1698 | died April® 2, 1765 | Aged 67 years. Inscribed | To the Memory of | Sally, wife of | David Cummings Jr. | who died Feb. 2, 1814. | Aged 28 years. Rest sacred shade, I bring no pompous lays. To swell thy virtues with vain human praise; From opening skies may streaming glories shine. And saints embrace thee with a love like mine. And their son William Porter, | who died Sept. 3, 1814, | Aged 19 months. Affliction’s semblance bends not o’er thy tomb. Affliction’s self deplores thy early doom. Mr. I David Cummings | died | March 22, 1826, | ^t. 64. A tender Husband, Father dear, A much lamented Friend lies here; When Christ returns to call him forth. The rising day will show his worth. Inscribed | To the Memory of | Eunice, wife of | Cap^' Samuel Cummings, | who died July 20, 1811, | Aged 78 years. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours and their works do follow them. 20 SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. Inscribed | To the Memory of | Hiram Cummings | who died I Oct. 8. 1805. | Aged ii years. | See there the youth whose cheerful bloom i Promised a train of years to come, | When death derides the expected joy, J And all the flattering hopes destroy. Hiram | Son of Sylvester & | Judith Cummings | died Feb. 2, 1816. I aged I day. Happy the babe who priveleg by fate To shorter labour & a lighter weight Received but yesterday the gift of breath Ordered tomorrow to return to death. Mrs. Hitte Cummings | Wife of | Mr. David Cummings | died Oct. 10, 1831, | aged 66 years. Although my body is now entombed And mouldering into dust; A dying Jesus has perfumed The graves of all the just. Father | Samuel Cummings | Born | July 7, 1790, | Died I Sept. 9, i860. I Mother | Joanna Cummings | Born | Feb. 28, 1805. I Died I March 26, 1875. At thy right hand there are pleasures for ever more. As a token of affectionate | respect, this stone is erected | by the Widow & Children of | Mr. Samuel Cummings | in Memory of his death | which took place | March 29^^’ 1796. I ^t. 64 years. Our nearest earthly friend. Sleeps here in silent dust A Husband, Father kind A friend of dearest worth. M*'®- Susanna Cummings. ‘ [Fort stone.] Mary T. Dale, | Daughter of | Osgood & Susanna | Dale I Died Aug. 3, 1845 1 I Aged 14 yrs. Happy One thy days are ended. All thy youthful days below. Go by angel guards attended. To the arms of Jesus go. In the memory of | Mr. | Daniel Estey | who died July 23, 1830 I yEt. 91 ys. & 2 ms. | And | Mrs. Hannah, | wife of Daniel Estey, | died Feb. 26, 1802, | ^t. 62 ys. SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. I2I In memory of | Enos Esty, | who died | February 24, 1848, I JEt. 76 yrs. “Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene, resumes them, to prepare us for the next.” Eunice | wife of | Enos Esty. | Died Nov. 4, 1851 | ^t. 77. Man passeth soon; his earliest breath Is but the promise sure of death; From being’s dawn to darkling age. The grave his certain heritage. Sacred | To the Memory of | Miss. Mary Estey. | who died I April 15, 1846, | Aged 80. Here Lyes the Body of | M*'®' Mary Herrick | wife to M^- Nehemiah Herrick | Born April ® 15, 1741 | died April ® 18, 1768 I in ® 27 year of Hur Age. Mr. I Jonathan Hobbs | died | Feb. 13, 1833, | ^t. 79. | Mrs. I Rachel Hobbs | died Dec. 20, 1835, I 79. Our Father calls us to his arms. And willingly we go With cheerfulness we bid farewell To every thing below. William Homan, | died at sea | Aug. 31 1823. | ^t. 37. | Abigail, | his wife died | Aug. 20, 1852, | /Et 71. Hitty C. I daugh* of Samuel | & Nabby Hood, | died April 6, 1821, I aged i week. Happy infant eady blest. Rest in peaceful slumbers rest. Sally C. I daughter of Samuel | & Nabby Hood, | died Sept. 29, 1815, I aged 16 months. Rest sweet child in gentle slumbers, Till the resurrection morn. Then arise & join the numbers That its triumphs shall adorn. Samuel Hood | died | August 30, 1865 | Aged 81 yrs. | Also Abigail his wife | died Aug. 26, 1863, | Aged 76 yrs. 22 SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. Moses Horne | died | Oct. 28, 1869, | 83 y’rs. 5 mo’s I & 26 d’s. “There’s rest for us in heaven;” O, blissful words are they ; That hope to us is given Of an immortal day. In memory of | Sally, | Wife of | Moses Horne | Died Sept. 12, 1851, I JEt. 64. Farewell, husband and children dear, Farewell, to lands below my Jesus calls, And I must go to lands above, Where seraphs bow and bend the knee, O that’s the land, the land for you and me. Elen M. | wife of | George H. Johnson, | Died | Oct. 22, 1869, I /Et. 24 yrs. 6 mos. George H. Johnson | Sept. 4, 1835 I E 1896. Henry Johnson | Died | Feb. 3, 1873. | ^t 78 yrs. 9 mos. Sarah | wife of | Henry Johnson, | died | Sept. 3, 1859 | /Et. 66 yrs. 7 mos. Sarah J. | wife of | George H. Johnson. | Died | Dec. 29, 1886 I ALt. 48 yrs. 6 mos. Benjamin | Pike | Died | Nov. 20, 1847, I 93 y’^- & 5 Ill’s. I Dorothy | his wife | Died | Nov. 17, 1853 | 96 y’s. & 3. ni’s. Pike Monument. Nathaniel | Died | Apr. 4, 1805, | JE. 23 y’s. & 4 m’s. | Elizabeth | Died | F'eb. 21, 1812 | JE. 28 y’s. & 3 m’s. Pike Monument. Sarah | Died | Mar. 27, 1821 | JE. 28 y’rs. | Lois | Died I Sept. 3, 1830. I JE. 34 y’s & ii m’s | Dolly | Died | Feb. 20, 1893, I JE. 92 y’s. 8 m’s. Pike Monument. Samuel | Died | May 25, 1819 |^. 33 y’s. & 4 m’s. | Lydia | Died | May 12, 1809 | JE. 18 y’s & 6 m’s. Pike Monument Benjamin F. Pike | Died Sept, ii, 1855, | Aged 22 yrs. 10 mos. I Ithemar E. Pike | Died May 14, 1866, | Aged 28 yrs. 1 1 mos. Benjamin Pike Jr. | Died Feb. 23, 1888 | Aged 90 yrs. i mo. I His Wife | Hulda Dorman, | Died June 24. 1867, | Aged 62 yrs. 3 mos. SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. 23 Alethina P. Pike | Died Apr. 6, 1844, | Aged 14 yrs. 6 mos. I Minerva A. Pike | Died Sept. 28, 1842, | Aged 2 yrs. 3 mos. Charlotte H. Porter | Died | Feb. 16, 1840, | /E. 17 y’rs. 3 m’s. Dearest sister thou hast left us, And thy loss we deeply feel ; But tis God that has bereft us, He can all our sorrows heal. In memory of | Mr. | Daniel Porter | who died | Jan. 28, 1831, I JEt. 88. In memory of | Doly C. | wife of Ira Porter, | who died I May 7, 1838, I ALt. 42. | Also two Infant twin children | April 28, 1836, I And an Infant child | May 6, 1838. Hiram C. Porter | Died | Jan. 3, 1852, | AL. 33 y’rs. 6 m’s. ' Brother thou art gone to rest. Thine is an earthly tomb; But Jesus summond thee away. Thy Savior called the home. Ira Porter, | ALt. 90 yrs. 17 dys, | Born | July 8, 1791, [ Died July 25, 1881. Nathaniel Porter | Died | Mar. 8, 1849, | yF^t. 77 y’rs. 4 m’s. Permelia Porter | wife of | Allen Porter | died March 27, 1837, 1 Aged 47. In memory of | Miss Polly, | Daughter of Mr. Daniel | & Mrs. Sarah Porter, | who died | Dec. 31, 1828, | ^t. 46. In memory of | Mrs. Sarah, | Relict of Mr. Daniel Porter, I who died | Nov. 24, 1833, | JEt. 89. George Prince, | Died | May. 12. 1867, | Aged 78 yrs. Hattie S. | wife of | John W. Ray | died Feb. 3, 1879, | JEt. 32 y’rs. “Sheltered and safe from sorrow.” Abbie T. | Daughter of | David & Rebecca H. | Towne | Died Jan. 3, 1864, | Aged 22 yrs. & 8 mos. We mourn thy absence, Yet would ne’er recall thee from thy rest; Believing thou art dwelling now In Heaven among the blest. 124 SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. Sacred to the memory of | M*'®’ Abigail Towne | Wife of M'- Daniel Towne | and daughter of Mr. Enos | and Mrs. Prudence Lake. | Born Feb. 23, 1787, | and died April 29, 1822, I Also Ephraem their son Born | April 9, 1814, died June 13, 1814. Relentless death regards not worth nor years. A parents fondness nor a husbands tears, Nor childrens wants with urgent claims could save Their tender parent from the insatiate grave. Caroline F. | dau. of Joseph & Hannah | Towne | died | May 27, 1865 I aged 48 y’s. 2 m’s. We’ve laid thee, loved one neath the sod All free from care. Thy spirit pure hath sought its God In mansions fair. Sadly we miss thee here below. And grieve thy voice no more to know, Kind words thou ever didst bestow, Our griefs didst share. Charles Sewall | son of | Daniel & Fanny Towne | Died Jan. 18, 1853, I 9 y’rs & 2 d’s. This tender bud from earth was torn. And left its parents here to mourn The object of their love; But parents, let your tears be dry. Your loving child now lives on high And dwells with Christ above. Cynthia, | Daughter of | Joseph & Hannah | Towne, | Died Apr. 8, 1835, I y^*s- Cyrus, I Son of | Joseph & Hannah | Towne, | Died Mar. 6, 1834, I JEt. 17 mos. Daniel Towne | Died | June 22, 2845, | ^4- David Towne | Died | March 17, 1862, | Aged 82 yrs. ‘Tn a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.” Gone but not forgotten | David Towne, | Died Sept. 15, 1878, I Aged 63 yrs. 6 mos. A husband kind a father dear, A true friend lies sleeping here. SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. 125 Frances Abby, | dau. of | Daniel & Fanny Tovvne | Died I May 20, 1856, I ^t. 16 y’rs. 10 mo’s. 16 d’s. “Be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the son of man cometh.” George Irving, | Son of | Sewell L. & Mary A. | Towne I died Jan. 30, i860, | ^t. 6 y’rs. 2 mo’s. & 10 days. Farewell vain world. I’m going home, My Savior smiles and bids me come. Sweet angels beckon me away, To sing God’s praise in endless days. Hannah | wife of | Joseph Towne | Died Oct. 28, 1835, 1 Ait. 48. John P. Towne | died | Mar. 16, 1862, | aged 22 y’s. 3 m’s. So fair, so young, so gentle, so sincere. So loved, so early lost, demands a tear. In memory of | Joseph Towne son of | M*" Joseph & M''® Martha | Towne who died Oct. 28 1795 | ^tat 8. Tis God that lifts our comforts high Or sinks them in the grave. He gives and blessed be his name He takes but what he gave. Joseph Towne, | died | July 8, i860, | ^t. 75 y’rs. 8 mo’s. & 14 days. Laura Annie, | Dau. of | Sewell L. & Mary A. | Towne | Died July 21, 1866, | Aged 4 yrs. 5 mos. “For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Lorenzo P. Towne | Died | Jan. 31, 1877, | Aged 65 yrs. 10 mos. I Lois L. Perkins, | wife of | Lorenzo P. Towne, | Died June 25, 1875, | Aged 65 yrs. 7 mos. Yet again we hope to meet thee. When this dream of life is o’er. Lucy Ellen | dau. of | Daniel & Fanny Towne | Died | Dec. 5, i860 I JEt. 14 y’s. ii m’s. 10 d’s. We know that God has but recalled. The gem that he had given; And though the casket moulders here. Our jewel is in Heaven. 126 PETITION FROM DAN CLARKE. Mary Abby, | Died Apr. 2, 1852, | JEt. 4 yrs & 5 mos. | Otis Warren | Died Apr. 3, 1852, | /Et. 2 yrs. & 6 mos. | Children of Sewell L. | & Mary A. Towne. Two lovely buds of promise fair, Here blossomed for a time, Then was transfer’d from parents care To Heavens purer clime; There their young spirits sweetly rest, Enfolded on their Savior’s breast. Mary Towne | Died | June 12, 1862, | Aged 84 yrs. Michael | Servetus, | Son of Luke and | Sarah Towne, | died I March 27, 1832, | JEt. ii ms. & 10 ds. Moses A. I Son of | Joseph & Hannah | Towne, | Died Sept. 2, 1815, I jEt. 2 yrs. & 9 mos. PETITION FROM DAN CLARKE, 1758. Gentlemen, altho it is a time of Sorrow and Trouble with me & my family as I have a Large quantity of Speritous Liquors by me I humbly Desire that youll be so kind as to give me your Approbation to keep a Publick House this year and in so Doing youll much Oblige your Hum^^® Ser^- Dan Clarke. To the Slectmen of Topsfield. Topsfield, June 16^^’ 1758. CAPT. NEHEMIAH HERRICK’S REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE, WITH HISTORICAL NOTES. Albany, N. K, January 21, 184.^;. Dear Sir, I am endeavouring to procure a pension for the widow of Nehemiah Herrick, who was a Captain from your Town in the War of the Revolution, and am refered by the commissioner of pensions for your Town, for record evidence of his services. I have procured a certificate relating to his services from the Secretary of State, which appears as fol- lows, viz. : “The name of Nehemiah Herrick of Topsfield is borne upon a pay roll of Capt. Joseph Gould from April 19th 1775 — 5 Days as Sergeant. There are no rolls of said Gould after that time in this office. The name of Nehemiah Herrick is signed to a roll of men as Captain, raised by the Town of Topsfield to serve three years or during the war 1777 dated Feb’y i8th 1778. The name of Nehemiah Her- rick is signed to a roll of men as Captain raised by the Town of Topsfield to go to Fishkill for nine months under a re- solve of Apl 20th 1778, dated Sept. 14th 1778; upon an ad- ditional return of two men enlisted into the continental ser- vice to serve my company April 9th 1778; upon a roll of men enlisted from said Town of Topsfield to serve nine months under a resolve of June 9th 1779 as Captain.” In reply to which, the commissioner says, “The name of Nehe- miah Herrick does not appear upon the records of the Mas- sachusetts rolls in this office and the only service satisfactor- ily established by the certificate of the Secretary of State is five Days as a Sergeant in 1775,” he also adds, “That evi- dence of the length of the Alleged service as a Captain from Topsfield must be procured. The Town Clerks office or the Town rolls from Topsfield in the office of the Secretary of State should shew any service he may have performed as a Captain from that Town.” I would remark that they were married in that Town, a certificate of which has been obtained, in which it appears (127) 28 CAPT. NEHEMIAH HERRICK’S that he was recognized by the clergyman as a Captain. I desire to enquire if you can give me any information that will lead to the necessary evidence, either by oral or record evidence. If there are no other records of his servi- ces perhaps there may be some persons living who knew him or served under him in the war. I should think from the purport of the above certificate & other circumstances con- nected with the case, he must have performed considerable service as Captain, and if you can render any assistance you will confer a great favour upon the old Lady who is very poor & destitute, and oblige me, at the same time I shall be in the event of success to fully compensate you, & it will af- ford-me pleasure to do so. * * * Yours very respectfully, Wm. Valentine, J. P. Towne, Esq., Albany, N. Y. Clerk, Topsfield, Mass. The following notes were taken by J. P. Towne during the month of February 1845 written on the margins of the foregoing letter. — Editor. Nath. Porter, 73 yrs. old last October. Cant remember any thing about Capt. Herrick going into army. Does re- member hearing Capt. H. talk about his being out but how long a time he said he was out he (P.) cannot remember or what part of the war ; thinks it must have been in early part of war & before he was old enough [to] know anything about it. Never tho’t Capt. H. was out a long time but can- not say. Has heard him tell about being in a skirmish or battle. He was a Capt. here but never heard of ' his being in the army but has heard of being a serjeant & about 8 men. Miss Mary Towne has heard he (Herrick) was Capt. here — knows nothing about his being in the army. Nath. Fisk, born Dec. 1764, 80 yrs. Dont remember hearing Capt. Herrick say anything about being out in army or any other person say he was out — knew him well. At the taking of Burgoine (or that way he thinks?) a man by name of Low was wounded in the ankle by a ball — died as he thinks in consequence of this wound. At time of Lexing- ton affair Thos. Towne came to his Fathers to give the alarm. His father, uncle Sam, Mr. Dwinell, Jeremiah Towne & Wm. REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE. 129 T. (jr?) went (now Dea. Peabody place). His Father and some others went on foot b'lt did reach. Thinks they went by Middleton. Elijah Perkins> 79. Dec. 16. Knew Capt. H. Knows nothing about his being in the army. At school on South side of River day of Lexington battle. When he came home after school at night every man in this (his) neighborhood had gone except Dr. Baker (who lived between the“ Brad- street farms) who was not a sound man (“kind of a broken man.”) Capt. B. Gould, Archelaus Perkins, Jno. Lefavor, Amos Low (Father lived where David Hobbs now does) Ivory Hovey, Hodgkins, D. Hobbs & i or 2 others at taking Burgoine. Gun of his cousin Ar.[chelaus] would not go off (British retreating) & Capt. G. told him to throw it down take up another — took up one of British which he kept as long as he lived. Capt. G. & his cousin A. took the first cannon that was taken in the battle. Has heard that cannon was in a . Elizabeth Towne, 84 yrs of age. P'eb. 19, last. Thinks it likely Capt. H. out but can’t rem. anything in particular about it. Has heard her father (or “her folks,” her father & uncle Elijah) say that 3 brothers & one sister came fr. Eng. together named Jacob, Joseph & Jesse Towne Joseph settled where she (Elizabeth) now lives. The sister married a Browning of Danvers. Capt. Ezra Towne was in Bunker hill fight — he went from New Ipswich where he had lived some yrs. His brother Edmund went to New I. (fr. Tops- field) at same time he did. Enos Estey, 73 yrs., lOth of Decern., last. Knew Capt. Herrick worked with him, a few days several times, dont re- member hearing him or any body say any thing about his being out in the army. His grandmother once at door heard a pig squeal & on looking up saw a pig being carried by a Bear from somewhere Bill Bradstreets way (they pursued) killed the bear. His grandmother sd. used keep tied at door (a horse?) for the purpose of using in fleeing to the fort if Indians came. The Fort was on South East part of Tread- wells plain towards David Perkins. He (E) has ploughed up old dishes, pieces of bricks where he thinks the Fort stood. Thinks Indians passed up & down the River after his grand- 130 CAPT. HERRICK’S SERVICE. mother came here doubts about any making their home in this town at that time but thinks they did in Boxford. His grandmother came from Lynn when i6 }ts. old. Mar- ried at Lynn — came here on horseback. Thinks she sd. when she came the River meadows were mostly covered with woods. Thinks some places were clear of woods. Mrs. Peabody, Dea. P’s mother said she “had tho’t of them pretty much as they are now” or some thing of this kind. There might have been trees on parts or by the Road. “New Meadows” was the ist name of this place. (Written P'eb. 28, ’49.) Mrs. Peabody wid. of Jno. P. & mother of present Dea. P. 80 yrs. 1 6th March next. Cant say that ever she heard that he (Capt. Herrick) was out in the war. Mrs. P. subsequently remarked that “the more she tho’t of it the more she tho’t he was out.” It appeared rather to be her belief that he was out but in what capacity (private or officer)^ she could not say. Remembers the day of Bunker [Hill] battle, consider- able No. of people (she thinks women & children perhaps 20 or 30) were on the hill. Could see the smoke & hear the guns. Dominick Moore, 75 yrs. i8th day of June last. He was going with his brother after his fathers horses the ist or 2d yr. of the war, was going on the road where Nat. Porter now lives & saw them grinding corn stalks for molasses at Capt. Herricks now Nat. P’s not far from the time of cutting stalks. He has heard Capt. Herrick say he was out in the army remembers his coming to his fathers as he understood soon after his return from the army, but what time in the war it was he (Moore) cannot say should think he (H) was not out in the war a long time dont know if he was a Capt. in the army. At time burning of Cn. (Bunker H. battle) he, Moore, lived at the small house by J. Balch’s at time of B. Hill battle he has heard that David Balch was hoeing on hill, heard cannon & Balch & he thinks (M.) a good many others started but how far they went he dont know. Thinks the River Meadow was mostly covered with woods when this place was first settled. There was once a house on Perkins Island, East of Joshua Towne’s. He has seen bricks & ap- pearances of a cellar name of man that lived there was Perkins. CUMMINGS BURYING GROUND INSCRIPTIONS. COPIED BY GEORGE CLINTON DONALDSON. This private burying ground, located in the easterly part of the town, was set aside for burial purposes at an early date. Here lie over one hundred of those who lived in the vicinity, which, until 1774, was a part of the town of Ipswich. The Cummings, Smith, and Lamson families here lie buried. But few stones now remain and these are of com- paratively recent date. Mrs. I Eunice Cummings, | Consort of | Mr. Elijah Cum- mings. I Died Dec. 13, 1813, | JE. 50. My flesh shall slumber in the ground Till the last trumpet’s joyful sound. Then burst the chains with sweet surprise, And in my Savior’s image rise. In Memory of | Mr. William P. Cummings | who died | Aug. 12, 1842. I Aged 24. My friends prepare to meet thy God, He carmly said, As with a smile, His spirit fled. In Memory of | Mrs. Betsy Smith | Relict of | Mr. William Smith I who died | Feb. i, 1843 | Aged 69. In such a time ye think not the Savior cometh. Cynthia Allen | Died | July 26, 1843. | JE 3 yrs. | Moses Welch I Died | Sept. 9, 1834. | ^ i yr. 5 mos. | Children of Willard. | & Mary G. Smith. “Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep.” In Memory Of. | M. William Smith. | who died. | Feb. i, 1841. I Aged 65. Be ye also ready. (131) NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO TOPSFIELD. COPIED FROM THE FILES OF SALEM NEWSPAPERS BY GEORGE FRANCIS DOW. Letters at Salem Post Office, Dec. 31, 1800. Dr. Nehemiah Cleaveland, Topsfield. William Emerson, do. Salem Gazette, Jan. 6, 1801. DIED. — At Topsfield, Mr. Thomas Perkins, aged 75. A worthy and respectable old gen- tleman. Salem Impartial Reg- ister, Jan, 8, 1801. MARRIED.— At Topsfield, Mr. Joseph Killam, of Boxford, to Miss Nabby Bradstreet, of the former place. Salem Gazette, Mar. j, 1801. DIED. — At Topsfield, Mrs. Joseph Cummings, aged 80; Mr. Moses Bradstreet, aged 28. Salein Gazette, Nov. j, 1801. MARRIAGE.— At Topsfield, Mr. John Cummings to Miss Rebecca Balch. Salem Gazette, Dee. /, 1801. New Music, of the best style, JUST PUBLISHED, and for sale by Cushing & Appleton. THE ESSEX HARMONY, an original Composition, in three and four parts. By JACOB KIM- BALL, jun., A. B. Author of the “Rural Harmony.” Music’s bright influence, thrilling thro’ the breast. Can lull e’en raging anguish into rest; And oft its wildly, sweet-enchant- ing lay So Fancy’s magic heaven steals the rapt thought away. Salem Gazette, Maj j, 1801. DIED. — At Topsfield, Wid- ow Mary Towne, aged 82. Salem Gazette, Dec. 75, 1801. DIED. — At Topsfield, Miss Rebecca Gallop, aged 55. Salem Gazette, Dec. 2^, 1801. (132) NEWSPAPER ITEMS. 133 At Topsfield, on Monday night the 9th instant a respect- able number of the citizens as- sembled at Mr. Kimball’s, and after partaking of an elegant supper, the following toasts were given : 1. President Jefferson: — May he ever support the Constitution, and may he be cloathed with Political Salvation — and may the Republicans shout aloud for joy. 2. The Vice President: — May his great abilities be displayed in the support of Liberty, and the downfall of Tyranny. 3. The Constitution of the United States of America: — May its rights never be violated. 4. Our Republican PTiends: — May they be as numerous as the people of America. A Song. 5. May all the enemies of our Liberty be converted to Friends or to Salt Petre to be used in its defence. Three Cheers. 6. Our old President Adams : — May his last days be as hap- py, as his former have been useful. 7. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: — May its Elec- tions be ever free from intrigue, and may its citizens be as virtu- ous, as they are industrious. 8. The first Monday of April, and Mr. Gerry. Three Cheers. 9. The Treaty with France: —May it be a happy means of reconciling the two Republics. 10. Our little Navy : — May it protect our commerce, from all insults. 1 1. The Ministers of the Gos- pel : — May they never forget to pray for the President and Vice President. 12. The Poor of our land : — May the warming hand of char- ity, be ever near to their relief. 13. The Town of Topsfield: — Although small among the thousands of America, yet may it never be the last in the cause of Liberty and Virtue. Six Cheers. 14. The Youth of our land : — May they ever pursue the paths of virtue-, and contend for the liberty of their country. 15. The advocates for Britain : — May they see themselves coming out of the “little end of the horn.” Three Cheers. 16. The Fair Sex: — May they ever hold a place in our hearts equal to their worth. VOLUNTEERS. By Mr. Kimball. Success to President Jefferson: — May he support the constitution equal to Adams or Washington. Three Cheers. May the blood and treasure, that has been spent in defence of Liberty, be remembered ’till the latest posterity. Salem Im- partial Register, Mar. 16, 1801. 34 NEWSPAPER ITEMS Census inTopsfield for 1800: Males, 375; Females, 408; Blacks, 5 ; Total, 788. Census in 1790, 780, increase 8. Salem Impartial Register, April 20, 1801 . PUBLIC ROADS. Mr. Carlton, Among the most satisfactory evidences of the flourishing state of a country, and of the wisdom and sound policy of its government, is the attention which is paid to those improvements and regulations, which tend to facilitate the in- tercourse between the different parts of it, by means of good roads, canals, and bridges. The continual labour and experience exerted in straightening, widen- ing and repairing the public roads, in the states of Newhamp- shire, Newyork, and Pennsyl- vania and the general im- proved state of the roads, to- gether with the western turn- pikes in this state, are happy testimonials of the flourishing state of our country, and of the attention paid to these import- ant objects, by the respective Legislatures of these states. The rapid increase in popula- tion, and the consequent in- creased culture of hitherto un- cultivated lands in various parts of the country, create a contin- ual demand for new means of commercial intercourse and new means of communication by the establishment of new lines of post. Provided such estab- lishments can do any thing con- siderable towards their own sup- port, they can scarcely be too greatly multiplied. Every new road opens a new source of wealth to the district through which it passes — and throughout the whole course of it, presents a kind of thorough fare for the fabricating and vending of all sorts of home manufactures. Shoe-makers, Blacksmiths, Hat- ters, Wheelwrights, Chairmak- ers. Clock and Watch-makers, Coopers, dealers in Corn and Grain, Retailers, Venders of for- eign manufacturers, line these county roads at convenient dis- tances, and exchange their la- bour or their commodities for the produce of their own coun- try, or goods and raw materials imported from abroad. The shops on these roads may be considered as so many maga- zines, and Emporiums of traffic for the internal parts. Foreign commodities are brought to the doors of these magazines, from whence they are distributed through an almost infinite num- ber of smaller channels, which every where divide and inter- sect the most remote parts of the interior country. Of great importance also is it RELATING TO TO PS FI ELD. 135 to straighten and alter the course of old roads — directing them in such a manner as to avoid all those obstacles which impede the traveller, or increase the labour of the team. Among these the principal are, narrow confined passages, low and sloughy places, and long or steep hills. When it is consid- ered, for example, that a hill which might be avoided, of 80 rods ascent, passed over by 100 travellers in a day, will make a general amount of 8000 rods of different and superfluous labor, the seeming shortness of the distance should not any longer be made a pretence for the con- tinuance of such an impediment. It retards the public 8000 rods in a day, that is 9000 miles near- ing in a year. It is the greatest importance too, for the improve- ment of the domestic commerce of any country, that the means of communicating by post should be as much as possible fa- cilitated and multiplied. There is a kind of stagnation of this kind of commerce in these parts where this intercourse is not es- tablished. There are many who wish to purchase and many who wish to sell, who remain equally ignorant of these opportunities and each others wishes, for want of such an established inter- course. In the County of Essex, at the present time, the mail trav- erses only two sides of it — that is, on the sea board, and on its northern boundary. All the central parts of this populous country, must communicate with distant places, through one or other of these lines of post from which they are about equally distant. The mail from Boston passes through Wilming- ton and Andover to Haverhill — and on the sea coast, through Salem and Ipswich to Newbury- port — thus describing two lines which embrace the body of the county between them. As some of the most fertile lands in the county lie towards its central points, THERE also must be supposed to be a pro- portionate degree of popula- tion ; and in those parts, conse- quently must be experienced many inconveniences from the great distance to any of the lines of post. Such inconveniences ought, and no doubt will in due season be remedied. There is already an excellent road which intersects the county into nearly two equal parts — leaving the present post line at Salem, and rejoining it at Ha- verhill. This road possesses great “capabilities.” The great- ly increased, and daily increas- ing travel on this road, from Canada, Cohoss, and all the back country, through Haverhill NEWSPAPER ITEMS 136 to. the sea coast, — and from Boston and Salem, thro’ Dan- vers, Topsfield, Boxford and Bradford to Haverhill, Exeter and Portsmouth, as well as the back country, entitles it to the consideration of the Post Mas- ter General as a post road. A mail coach on this road, would after a short period, participate in the advantages of the travel, at present thro’ Wilmington and Andover to Haverhill, Exeter and Portsmouth — and the sepa- rate travel belonging to the road itself, would be no inconsidera- ble object. The only obstacles that pre- sent themselves on this road to carriages, are the height and length of some of the hills — in other respects it is a good road. The principal of these hills, lies in the town of Topsfield, adjoin- ing the Bridge. It is by far the largest and most tedious one. A set of horses in the run of a season, with middling freights, would be benefitted by travelling three miles about rather than pass over this hill. Its descent may be about 100 rods — but on a future occasion we shall be more particular — and this des- cent in many places is rapid. It is obvious how difficult and dangerous stich a hill must be to teams and loaded carriages. — Truth is, the country teams are frequently obliged to put on an additional pair of cattle — and those in chaise find it conven- ient and sometimes even neces- sary, to walk up the hill to foot to spare their horses. Many dangerous accidents have from time to time happened to trav- ellers in descending this hill — and much labor and trouble, undoubtedly, a/w aj/s ^ittends as- cending it. Considering it therefore as a carriage road, this hill must be looked on as a very material obstacle — and in the event of its becoming a mail stage road, this hill would very considerably increase the ex- pence, difficulty and danger of travelling. But it is conceived that this impediment admits of an easy remedy ; and it shall be the business of a future paper to offer some remarks on that subject. A Friend. Topsfield, Oct. 20, 1801. Salem Impartial Register, Oet. 2g, 1801. DIED. — At Topsfield, two Children of Mr. Edmund Park- er, of the dysentery — others of the family dangerously ill. A child of Mr. John Pe^'kins, of the dysentery, Mr. Joseph Cummins, of the dysentery, aged upwards of 80.^ A child of Mr. Moses Brad street — and a few days after Mr. Bradstreet, the RELATING TO TOPSFIELD. 37 father, aged 28, both of the dys- entery. Mr. Brad street was a young man who united to an exemplary piety, uncommon at his age, all those qualities which form a good husband, parent, citizen, and neighbor. He was a man of few words, and was never heard to speak ill of any one. This together with the general prudence of his conduct, endeared him to all who knew him — more especially as the former of these qualities is not apt to abound in small places. He was a man of integrity and punctuality in all his transactions and has left an afflicted widow and children, as well as all his neighbours and acquaintance to mourn and regret his loss — Such a number of deaths in so short a space of time, and of the same disorder, has not happened but once in that place in the memory of the inhabitants. About 30 years ago, Mr. Mat- thew Peabody, his wife, and one or two grandchildren, all lie dead in the same house, of the dys- entery— the two former were buried in the same grave. Sa- lem Impartial Register, Nov. 5, 1801. DIED. — At Topsfield, Mrs. Elizabeth Bradstreet, wife of Mr. John Bradstreet, aged 83. Salem Impartial Register, Nov. 16, 1801 . DIED.— At Topsfield, Mr. Robert Perkins, in the 73d year of his age — An honest man, the noblest work of God. Salem Impartial Register, Nov. 12, 1801. Letters at Salem Post Office, Jan. I, 1802. Billy Bradstreet, Topsfield. Jonas Merriam, do. Salem Register, Jan. 14., 1802. DIED. — At Topsfield, John Peabody, aged 7 1 . Salem Reg- ister, Feb. ig, 1802. MARRIED.— At Topsfield, Mr. Thomas Moore to Miss Bet- sey Nichols — Mr. Thomas Tal- bot to Miss Jenny Groves — Mr. John Boardman to Miss Rebec- ca G o u 1 d . 5 alem Register, M a r. I, 1802. Letters at Salem Post Office, April 3, 1802. Stephen Cree, Topsfield. Daniel Hobbs, do. Rebecca Ingalls, do. John Tood [Todd], do. Salem Register, Apr. ig, 1802. DIED. — ^At Topsfield, Mr. Elisha Perkins, aged 49. Sa- lem Gazette, June //, 1802. 38 NEWSPAPER ITEMS FOUND. On the 8th inst. at the Stable of the Subscriber, a dark brown MARE ; thick set, has some white in her face, white hind feet and trots all. The owner of the Mare may have her again by applying to the Subscriber, proving property and paying charges. Daniel Porter. Topsfield, May 1 1 . Salem Gazette, May //, 1802. The want of the means of in- tercourse between this town and the northern parts of the county of Essex, has long been felt; and we are happy to see, in the Post-Master-General’s propos- als for carrying the mails, that one is to pass every P'riday from this town to Haverhill and back, through Danvers, Topsfield, Boxford and Bradford. This, it may be hoped will be a pre- lude to the improvement of the roads to the northward of us. Salem Gazette, Jitiie zg, 1802. Letters at Salem Post Office, July I, 1802. Samuel Hood, Topsfield. Rev. Ashael Huntington, do. Eleazer Lake, do. John Merriam, do. Salem Register, July 12, 1802. DIP3D. — At Topsfield, Mr. Samuel Gumming, aged 17, son of the late Rev. Joseph Cum- mings. Salem Gazette, July 2, 1802. Married.— At Topsfield, Mr. Jacob Towne to Miss Mary Perkins. Salem Register, Sept, g, 1802. THE ESSEX HARMONY, by Jaeob Kimball jun, (the best American composition extant) for sale by CusHiNG & Apple- ton, — Also, Singing Books of various kinds; and a New Edi- tion of COWPER’S POEMS. Salem Gazette, Get. 8, 1802. DIED. — At Topsfield, Miss Hannah Perkins, aged 48, daughter of Mr. Robert Perkins, lately deceased. Salem Regis- ter, Nov. 2g, 1802. MARRIED. — At Topsfield, Mr. Ebenezer Peabody to Miss Mercy Perkins Salem Reg- ister, Jan. ly, i8oj. DIED. — At Topsfield, on the 3d instant, Mr. Simond Gould, aged 93 years and 9 months. Salem Register, Jan. 20, i8oj. RELATING TO TOPSFIELD. 139 Among the letters remaining at the Beverly Post Office Jan. 10, 1803, was one for Sarah Cummings of Topsfield. Salem Gazette, Jan. //, 180^. Turnpike. — Some gentlemen of Newburyport have it in con- templation to carry a road strait from that town to Boston, which will of course run to the north- ward of the seaports in this county, and have no connexion with the Salem turnpike. But it is expected that an actual measurement will discourage it, by showing that the saving will not be more than a mile more than if brought strait to this town. Salem Gazette, Feb. //, 1803. The Legislature at their last session incorporated a Turnpike from Newburyport to Chelsea bridge. Salem Register, M arch 14, 1803. To be sold at PiLblic Auction on Wednesday, 13th day of Apidl next at 2 0 clock, P. M. Four Acres in Bunker’s mead- ow, (so called) in Topsfield. — N. B. If it should be foul weather, the sale will be the next fair day (Sunday except- ed). E. Putnam, Ancfr. Wenham, Mar. 29, 1803. Salem Gazette, Apr. 3, 1803. DIED. — At Topsfield — Da- vid Perkins, aged 77. Salem Register, Apr. 23, 1803. DIED. — At Topsfield — Capt. Daniel Boardman, aged 50. Salem Register, May 3, 1803. COMMUNICATED. On Tuesday last was interred at Topsfield, Capt. Daniel Boardman, with every to- ken of respect for his memory, and sympathy for his afflicted family. As it was on the day assigned to military parade and review, the militia company in the town, the command of which he had recently resigned, ap- peared under arms on the occa- sion, commanded by Capt. Bradstreet, and went through those movements and positions usual on such occasions, attend- ed with solemn music. — The order and decorum of the mili- tary, made a favorable impres- sion on a numerous assemblage of people. The solemnity ob- servable on the occasion was expressive of the public estima- tion of an honest man, a good neighbor, and a worthy citizen. Salem Register, May g, 1803. Topsfield. — We are sorry to hear that this town, always cor- rect in its politics, has not this 40 NEWSPAPER ITEMS year chosen a Representative. This continual giving ground to the enemy will and by and by firmly fix their power in Massa- chusetts. Salem Gazette, May 20, iSoj. DIED.— At Topsfield, Maj. Joseph Gould, aged 77 — a man long respected for his distin- guished virtue, patriotism and piety. Salem Register, June 16, 180J. NOTICE is hereby given, to all persons interested in the lay- ing out the Newburyport Turnpike Road in the County of Essex. — That the Committee appointed by the Court of Ses- sions to lay out said way and to estimate the damages any per- son may sustain thereby, pro- pose to meet at the head of State street, in said Newbury- port, on Monday the 1 8th July inst. A. M. and thence proceed upon the business of their ap- pointment. Thomas Perley, per order. Newburyport, July 12. Salem Register, Aug. 8, i8oj. Newburyport, Aug. 24. NEW-TURNPIKE. The workmen on the direct Turnpike from this town to Bos- ton, commenced the important undertaking yesterday. It is to run from the head of State street, Newburyport, in as straight a line as possible. The inhabi- tants of New-England have long gained attention for their enter- prising and public spirit, and the present undertaking may be well said to justify this claim. Salem Register, Aug. 2g, i8oj. The Newbury-Port Turnpike has begun. It will pass through Topsfield and Danvers in our vicinity. Salem Register, Aug. 2g, 1802. MARRIED. — At Topsfield, Mr. Stephen Hammond to Miss Lydia Hood. Salem Reg- ister, Sept. 12, 180J. DIED. — At Topsfield, Mrs. Mary Hobbs, consort of Mr. Benjamin Hobbs, aet. 53 — a wo- man highly useful to her family, desirable to her friends and ac- quaintance, and exemplary as a Christian. Salem Register, Oct. 6, 1803. DIED. — At Boxford, JOSHUA Rea, killed by the wheels of his waggon. Salem Register, Oct. 20, 1803. RELATING TO TOPSFIELD. 41 MARRIED. — At Topsfield, Mr. Ephraim Perkins, to Miss Molly Perkins. Salem Ga- zette y Ju7ie lOy 180J. DIED.— At Beverly, Mr. William Gallop, jun., former- ly of Topsfield, aged 53. Sa- lein Gazettey June i8o^. FOUND. On the road between Salem and Rowley, a bundle of MUS- LINET. The owner may have the same by applying to the Subscriber, proving property, and paying charges. Daniel Kneeland. Near Ipswich line. Topsfield, Aug. 5. Salem GazettCy Aug. 5, i8og. MARRIED.— At Topsfield, Mr. John B. Cummings, to Miss Patty Knowlton, of Hamilton. Salem Gazette y Feb. j, 180^. Nathaniel Hammond of Tops- field, was administrator of the estate of Benj. Raddin, of Mar- blehead, mariner. Salein Ga- zettCy Feb. gy 180^. DIED. — At Topsfield, Mr. Jonas Cummings, aged 40, of a long and distressing sickness, which he bore with that calm- ness that betokens the Christian mind. He has left a widow and three daughters to lament the loss of an effectionate husband and fond parent. In him soci- ety has lost a worthy member, and his numerous and respecta- ble friends and acquaintance a friend indeed. Salem Gazette y Feb. 21 y 180^. MARRIED.— At Topsfield. Mr. Daniel Boardman, to Miss Elizabeth Gould. Salem Reg- ister y March 22 y i8o.f. MARRIED.— At Topsfield, Mr. Humphrey Wildes, to Miss Nabby Peabody. MARRIED.— AtRowley, Mr. Benjamin Hobes of Topsfield, to Miss Mehitable Searl, of the former place. MARRIED.— At Wenham, Mr. Thomas Perkins jun. of Topsfield, to Miss Sally Knowles of the former place. Salein Registery July p, 180/J.. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested, that the com- mittee appointed by the Honor- able Court of Sessions for the County of Essex, to locate the NewburyportTurnpike Road and to estimate the damage any persons may sustain by said road passing over their lands, have appointed to meet at the 142 NEWSPAPER ITEMS. Dwelling-House of Matthew Newall, Inn-holder, in Lynnfield, on Monday, the 13th day of August inst., at ii o’clock, A. M., for the purpose of finishing the business of their appoint- ment. Nath’l Marsh, Chairman. Haverhill, August 3rd, 1804. Salem Register, A7ig. p, 180/j.. DEATHS. — Killed instantly, by the falling in of the earth, while at work on the Turnpike, in Topsfield, on the 19th of July last, Jonathan Hoyt, aged 20 ; an active and industrious young man from Concord (N. H.) He was valued by his employers, esteemed and beloved by his acquaintance, and his sudden and awful death is lamented by all who knew him. His remains were interred on the Saturday following attended by a respect- able number of the inhabitants of the town, as well as a numer- ous procession of those engaged in the same undertaking, whose decency and propriety of beha- vior witnessed their sorrow for the solemn event, and their sym- pathy for the afflictive stroke, which the Friends and relations of the deceased have sustained. Salejji Gazette, Aug. ij, i8o/j.. DIED. — At Hamilton, Mrs. Dodge, wife of Deacon Solo- mon Dodge, of Topsfield, aged 60. Salem Register, Sept. 10, 1804. The Storm. — From the coun- try, generally, we learn that the fruit andforest trees, fences, etc., : have suffered greatly, and that 1 the roads in many places were obstructed by them on Wednes- ^ day morning. A Topsfield gen- tleman informs us, that many cows and calves perished in the severity of the storm in that ; Town. Salem Gazette, Oet. 12, \ 1804. j I Found. — A Red Morocco | Pocket Book, containing a num- ber of Bank Bills, near the Tops- field Meeting House. The owner may have it again on ap- plication to Thomas Emerson. Salem Gazette, Nov. 10, 1804. NewbiLryport Turnpike. — 25 miles of the road are made ; bridges built over six rivers ; hills reduced in some instances 25 feet; two houses of enter- tainment built, one of which is now open for travellers ; and it is expected the whole route of 26 miles (from Newburyport to Malden road) will be open early in the spring. Salem Gazette, Dec. 28, 1804. COURT RECORDS RELATING TO TOPSFIELD. SALEM QUARTERLY COURT. COPIED BY GEORGE FRANCIS DOW. Jeffery Estie of Salem was presented at Court for much sleeping in church on the Lord’s Day. lO mo. 1642. Files, Vol. I., p. 9. August 13^^ 1642. Knowe all men by these p^nts that I William Hughs of New Meadowes have demised granted bargained and sould for divers goode causes and considerations mee there unto movinge but more especially for th[e] [s]ome of thirty eight pounds in hand pd the receipt whereof I acknowledge as al- soe for the assurance of the some of eighteen pounds more to bee pd to mee the sd William my heires executors adminis- trators or assigns at or before the fourteenly day of October next ensewinge the date hereof, have demised graunted as- signed set over and sould unto Richard Barker of Quicho- chock, 3 yearlinge hifers 2 yerling bulls at twelve pounds ten shillings twoe kine at tenne pounds 4 calves at 3^ one house and house lot of 7 acres broken [ ] and twoe vnbroake, with all the come mee there vnto belonginge as allsoe twelve loads of hay with all the straw of the Come there grow at the farme of M'’ Paine where the sd William now lives at tenne pounds all these above sd pticulars it may bee lawfull for the sd Richard his heires or assignes, to sell assigne or dispose of as his owne pp right in witness whereof I have heere vnto set my hand. Willm Hughes [seal] Test, [ffida] Ottery John Huges. Files, Vol. I. 15. According to deposition, Walter Roper took his oath in the Court at Dover in the 8‘'' mo. 1645, regarding a horse. Files, Vol. I. 71. (H3) 44 SALEM COURT RECORDS John Burton of Salem was presented, with Giles Corey and two others, for sleeping in time of their watch and had their arms taken away from them. Files, Vol. I. 90. Zacheus Curtties of Salem was presented at Court 30, 10 mo. 1647 taking off tobacco in the open streete. Files, Vol. I. 90. Joseph Bigsby of Ipswich, husbandman, gave marriage bond 15, 10 mo. 1647, with widow Sarah Hearde of Ips. (wid. of Luke) to educate and care for her two children by Luke. Her father’s name was John Wyat. Files, Vol. I. 95. Joseph Bigsby departed the jurisdiction of the Court and was obliged to give above bond in consequence, on com- plaint of John Wyat. Files, Vol. I. 96. Alexander Knight of Ipswich was presented at Court 10, 8 mo. 1650, for lying, the wit. were Mark Symonds, good- wife Perry, Robert Lord, goodman How and Richard Cooke. Files, Vol. I. 1 17. Thomas Hobbs was witness in the presentment of Henry Reinolds of Salem for beating his wife. 10 mo. 1648. Files, Vol. I. 106. William Avery jr. was witness in the presentment of The- ophilus Salter of Ipswich for lying. 8 mo. 1650. Files, Vol. I. 1 17. Elizabeth How of Ipswich testified in a suit brought by John Bradstreet for defaming his character, i mo. 1651. Files, Vol. I. 128. Francis Uselton servant of Henry Jaques of Newbury was presented at Court for using the name of God prophanely and contemptuously in speech, i mo. 1651. Files, Vol. II. 3. William Perkins witnessed will of Walter Tibbetts of Glou- cester under date of June 5, 1651. Files, Vol. II. 26. Mr. William Perkins, Gloucester was witness in Court against the wife of John Bourne of Gloucester accused of stealing left off garments, thread, etc. under date of 4 mo. 1652. Files, Vol. II. 28. RELATING TO TO PS FI ELD. 145 Mrs. Houlgrave, Gloucester, was presented at Court “ffor reprochefull & unbeseeming speeches against m*" will : Per- kins, an officer off a church, as namelye if it were not ffor the Law, shee would never come to the meeting the Teacher was soe dead, & accordinglye shee did seldome come and & with all pswaded Goodwife Vincent to come to her house, on the Sabath Daye, & and reade good bookes, affirming ; that the Teacher were fitter to bee a Laydes chamber-man, than to be in y® pulpit.” Files, Vol. II. 28. The following writs were entered and returned 21,7 mo. 1652. Wm. Paine, Ipswich vs Daniel Clarke, attached Clarkes farme to the amount of ^80, “for the forfiture of a farme sould vnto him by the sayd William Payne for non payment,” also Wm. Paine, Ipswich vs. Daniel Clarke, attached Clarkes corn & hay to the value of 30 pounds on complaint of Wm. Paine for “witholding a debt due vnto him of about twenty one pounds vppon the shopp acompt,” also Wm. Paine, Ips- wich vs John Wildes, attached house & land of said Wildes to the value of ^12, on complaint of Wm. Paine for “an action of debt of about seauen pounds dew vpon the shopp account.” Files, Vol. II. 43. Master Baker [Ipswich] was presented at Court “vpon suspisian for breach of that order which requires six bushills of mault to be put in to a hogshead of beare at thre penc the quort.” 7th mo. 1652. Files, Vol. II. 46. Edmund Bridges, Ipswich, was witness against Mr. Baker above. 7th mo. 1652. Files, Vol. II. 53. I William Auerill of Ipswich being weake in bodye'but of pfect memorye doe make this my last will and testament first I doe bequeath my body to the earth to be deasently buryed in the Burying place of Ipswich my sperit int the hands of my Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ. And for my outward estate being but small I doe give vnto my children each of them being seuen in number the some of hue shillings a peece & the rest of my estate my debts being discharged I give vnto Abagal my wife whom I make sole execotrix of 146 SALEM COURT RECORDS this my last will in witness heerof I have heervnto sett my hand and seale the 3th of the 4th mo: 1652. Will Andrew hodges. Aveirell. Renold ffoster. Proved in Court at Ipswich 29 March 1653. Files, Vol. II. 54. Inventory of the estate of William Averill of Ipswich, filed 29 Mar. 1653. It. hous : Lott & house 10 :oo :oo It. 10 acres of vpland ground & 6 A® meddo 10:00:00 It. 2 Kine & 2 two-yer : old 16:00:00 It. 2 shoats 01 :oo :oo It. I Iron pott — I brass pott — i frying pan — 4 pewU platP — I flago" — i Iro" Ketle — i brass Ketle — i Copp, i brass pan & some oth*' smal things 02 : 17 :oo It. 2 Chests — I feth*" bed — i oth*" bed — 2 payre of sheets — 2 bolsU'' — 3 pillows — 2 blan- ketts — I Covlid — i bedstead — & oth*" smal linnen 05 : 10:00 It. 2 Coats & wearing appel 03 :oo:oo It. I warming pan 00:03: 00 It. A tub 2 pails a few books 0 0 0 0 0 A Corslett 01 :oo:oo what shee oweth 12:00:00 Reginold fosU Andrew Hodg® Apprisers. Files, Vol. II. 54. Edmond Marshall [Gloucester] was attached to the amount of ;^ioo, in a suit brought by Wm. Evans for de- faming the wife of said Evans “in saying she was a witch or words to that pirpose.” Warrant dated 4 Sept. 1653. Piles, Vol. II. 79. Daniell Broadley [Gloucester] testified in the above case “the goodman marshall did say at my house that mistress pirkins goody euens goody duch and goody vinsen that they RELATING TO TOPSFIELD. 47 weare vnder suspisian of being witches and that he thought that which was formerly by him and others was now come forth.” Files, Vol. II. 79. Mr. William Perkins brought suit and attached Christopher Avery, Richard Boford and Robert Tucker in behalf of the inhabitants of Gloucester, to the amount of ^50, for withold- ing what is due him for his labors among them. Writ dated 15 Sept. 1653. Piles, Vol. II. 81. Christopher Avery of Gloucester was presented at Court Sept. 1653 “for many reprochfull & disgracefull speeches against m*’ w“ Perkines theyr Teacher which speeches were uttered in a publick Towne meeting both against the pson & ministry of the sayde m*" Perkines.” The witnesses were Wm. Evans, Richard Beeford, Wm. Vincent and Edward Miles. Files, Vol. II. 86. Robert Tucker of Gloucester was presented at Court Sept. 1653, “for useing many reprochfull speeches against m'' w“ Perkinss theyr Teacher him to in a very vn- seemly manner also discouraging men for contributing to his maintenance.” Files, Vol. II. 86. Robert Dutch of Gloucester was presented at Court Sept. 1653, “for reproachfull speeches against m*‘ w“ Perkines in a publick towne meeting.” P'iles, Vol. II. 86. John Roe of Gloucester was presented at Court, Sept. 1653, “for afronting m*" w™ Perkinss in the tyme of his preaching the word in publicke.” Files, Vol. II. 86. In case of Payne vs Gilman under date of Sept. 30, 1653, both parties agreed upon “William Howard of Topsfield,” as one of the arbitrators. Files, Vol. II. 107. Goodman Isaac Cummings having claimed ownership to a heifer in the possession of John Fuller and driven the same to his home, suit was brought. John Avery was one of those who testified He said he had lived with Goodman Cum- mings during the past year and knew the heifer, etc. 28 Mar. 1654. Files, Vol. II. 126. 148 SALEM COURT RECORDS George Hadley of Ipswich had “two servants” presented at Court, March 1654. Files, Vol. II. 130. William Howard had authority to issue writs of attach- ment in 1654. (prob. was clerk of court.) Files, Vol. II. 144. William Goodhue, Ipswich, under date of March 1653, leased “his farme” for 14 years to Robert Wallis and William Smith both of Ipswich, they to “breake vp twelf accres of ground and croscutt it and harrow it and alsoe a 6 accer lott of meddow beyond gravelly brook as alsoe a parcel of med- ow which lyeth in the medow in the thick woods att the vp- per end of that medow mr Vincent haveing a parcell att the lower end and the said William Goodhue is too build them a hous and a barne the hous thirty foott long with two chim- neys in the midst and the barne forty foott long with a lean- too att the one end the sayd barne twenty foott wid and all- soe foure bullocks four yeare old a peace for the which the said Robert Wallis and William Smith is too fence the farm in for the first yeares rentt and afterward too paye twentty pownd a yeare for the terme of fourtteen yeares.” Files, Vol. II. 153. Robert Smith of Ipswich testified that he came to New England in the same ship with Mr. Whittingham, which was in the year 1638, as testified by another servant of Mr. Whit- tingham, they coming from Boston in Lincolnshire, sailing in May 1638 from London. Mar. 1655. Liles, Vol. III. 3-5. Thomas Avery witnessed the will of John Bridgeman of Salem not dated but proved in Salem Court Nov. 1655. Larmer John Porter was one of the creditors of the estate. Nov. 1655. Files. Vol. III. 31. Rebecca Bacon, widow, Salem, in her will dated Mar. 23, 1655, pro. Nov. 29, 1655, gives a neck handkerchief to “sis- ter Avery” and appointed “Thomas Avery” an overseer of her will. Nov. 1655. Files, Vol. HI. 37. Alexander Knight named as being of Ipswich. Mar. 26, *1636. Files, Vol. HI. 41. RELATING TO, TOPSFIELD. 49 The case Kimball vs Smith (Ipswich) relating to damage done by cattle. Robert Andrews and his wife Mary testi- fied. John Newman also testified. March 25, 1656. Files, Vol. III. 43- Isaac Cummings senr. and Ed. Bridges were witnesses against Wm. Duglas of Ipswich who was presented “for taking of iplb of Shorborne Wilson his late servant, for 9 mo. time, which we think tends to opression.” March 1656. Files, Vol. III. 45. Zacheos Gould of Rowley [Topsfield] was presented at Court “for not frequenting the publike ordinances vpon the saboth dayes.” March 1656. Files, Vol. III. 45. Sary Barnes “now the wife of Francis Usselton of Wen- ham” was presented at Court “for speaking reproachfully against minister & people at Wells, saying that Mr. Syth Flecher ther sayd minister, vpon the Saboth daye in time of the publike ordinance when he had sett the psalme, that while the people ware a singing he the sayd mr flecher did take tobackcoo in the publike meeting-house & while he the sayd mr flecher was a preaching the people would take to- backcoo in the publike meeting-house.” The witnesses were the wife of George Bunker, the wife of John Redington & the wife of Abra. Redington. March 1656. Files, Vol. III. 45. Edward Bridges and John Andros were witnesses at the presentment of John Forgison of Ipswich for lying. 30 Sept. 1656. Files, Vol. III. 55. Edward Bridges of Andover was presented for lying. Gov. Bradstreet was one of the witnesses. 30 Sept. 1656. . Files, Vol. III. 55. Evan Morris of Topsfield was presented at Court “for Re- viling in reproachfull language the ordinance of God and such as are in Church fellowship saying when some was to- gether keeping a day of Humilliation that they were Howl- ing like wolues and lifting up there paws for there Children saying the gallows were built for members and members 50 SALEM COURT RECORDS Children and if there had beene noe members of Churches there would haue beene noe need of gallows.” The witness- es were James Howe jr., John How, John pearley and Mary How. 30 Sept. 1656. Files, Vol. III. 55. William Browne of Gloucester was complained of in Ips- wich Court 2 April 1657 for “speaking disgracefully against Mr. Blinman and Mr. Perkins and Mr. Millet, saying Mr. Blinman was naught and Perkins was starke naught and Mil- let was worse then Perkins.” Files, Vol. III. 108. John Perley of Topsfield was presented at Court for lying about a horse. April session, 1657. George Abbott aged about 40 years testified that Oct. 3, 1656 John Perley & John How came to Andover, Perley rid- ing upon a colt and How upon a mare, both horses were tired, Perley said he had bought his colt recently and it was not yet broke in, “but hoped he should doe it this voyage.” By other testimony it was proved that the colt belonged to Anthony Potter of Ipswich. Files, Vol. III. 114. The assignees of Zerobabell Phillips of Ipswich brought suit against Isaac Commins, senr., for debt, amt. £^.2.6 said debt to be paid in wheat and barley. Tried in Court, Mar. 1657. Thomas Averill made deposition. William Smith was a bondsman for Zarobabell Phillips. John Cummins son of Isaac Commins made deposition. Files, Vnl. III. 76-77. Isaac Cummings, senr., brought suit against John Fuller for damage done in his corn by swine belonging to said Ful- ler. Fuller was fined ^i.io & costs. Isaac Cummings jur. testified, Isaac Cummings senr., “his girle” named as driving swine away from an opening in the fence. Said Cummings field of Indian come was located near the cornfield of Ed- ward Bragg who bought his land of William Story. Said land was next the common. 31 Dec. 1656. Files. Vol. III. 78. In case of John Choate Ipswich, presented for lying. Sam- uel Mighell made deposition April 9, 1657, as to what Choate said. John Androus then master of John Choate named. RELATING TO TOPSFIELD. 51 also goodwife Androus and Thomas Androus. Maids Han- na Day and Hanna Porter also named. P'iles, Vol. HI. 1 15. Thomas Dexter, Lynn, brought suit to recover Nahant and John Ramsdell made deposition “aged fifty five yeares or there abouts saith that aboute five and twenty yeares since being a seruant vnto Capt. Torner” etc., etc. 30, 4 mo. 1657. Files, Vol. HI. 118. Edmund Bridges jr., of Ipswich presented for fornication. 29, 7 mo. 1657. Files, Vol. III. 137. Edword Brogis (Bridges) of Ipswich was concerned in a debt where action was taken in Court. His father is men- tioned in a manner showing that “Edword” was probably a minor. 9th, 2nd month 1657. Files, Vol. HI. 137- John Younglove of Ipswich made deposition that “enquir- ing of Hachiliah Bridges one night this weeke concerning a paire of gloues w*’^ blacke fringes, w'^'^ Nehemiah Jewet tak- ing from Edmun Bridges did lay claime vnto. In his broth- er Josiah Hubbards name said that he had them of John Smith of Rowly & gaue two shillings for them.” 9 April 1657. Files, Vol. HI. 138. Simon Stacey, Ipswich, made deposition, “that meating with edman Bredges on the lekter day he asked me if that i hade not heard of y® story abought y® towne of hime abought thos two wenches i toulde him not, he tould me y^ he mow- ing with Samuell Youngloue tould him that he had [f d] Mary Browne, and the simple foole went and tould Thomas Fowler. (Confest in court by Edmond Bridges.)” 9 April 1657. Files, Vol. HI. 138. Shoreborne Willson made deposition “that being at Rowly lecture in January or february last he saw Ed : Bridges in the sermon tyme gett a peace of paper of Daniell Warner jr. & wrote in it and over his shoulder red these words (goodman Tode I would in treate you) and after Lecture saw him de- liver the same paper to Goodman Tod and sayd his ffather sent it & then Goodman Tod asked Ed : Bridges if he might trust him y*^ it was from his ffather, he answered yes it was & 152 SALEM COURT RECORDS. being afterward at his ffathers shop this deponent tould his ffather of it & he denyed it, & some ten dayes after comeing vnto the shope agayne his ffather was chydeing of him amongst other things for his writing of that note without his consent & Ed : Bridges did threaten to sue this deponent & did fetch a warrant & served it for slandering of him soe this deponent was forced to goe to Goodman Tod to fetch the sayd note & when he saw it knew it to be the same paper that he had of Daniell Warner in the meeting house of Row- ley and after he the s*^ Ed : Bridges heard this deponent had the note he came & agreed with me this deponent & let his sute fall.” 9 Aprill 1657. Files, Vol. III. 138. Thomas Varnham aged 25 made deposition “that he heard Edward Bridges was gone from his master to Ipswich with- out his masters consent and this deponent meeting the said Ed- ward coming home asked him how he would answer his goinge without his masters leaue and the said Edward replyed, he should doe well enough for he had a letter from his father to his master and he pulled out a letter and shewed it me and it was sealed and directed to Mr. Bradstreete. 2 April 1657. Files, Vol. III. 139. Samuell Lumas made deposition that “he saw Edmun Bridges borrow a piece of paper of Daniel Warner, jun.. In lecture time at Rowly, but where in he wrote to Goodman Todde to deliver him 5 shillings in his fathers name.” 9 Apr. 1657. Files, Vol. III. 139. John How made deposition regarding Hackaliah Bridges who was presented at Court for fornication. He speaks of going over the new bridge, and of going with Bridges as far as William Avery’s when they parted -and How went to his uncle Danes. 29th 7th month 1657. Files, Vol. III. 140. Thomas Hobes, Richard Hutten & Charles Gott witnessed the will of Humphrey Gilbert dated 14, 12th month 1657. Prob. 30 Mar. 1658. Files, Vol. IV. 19