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GENEALOGICAL HISTORY
OF THE
TOWN OF READING, MASS.
INCLUDING THE PRESENT TOWNS OF
ielahefield, Beading, and Horth Reading,
WITH
CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SKETCHES,
FROM 1639 TO 1874.
BY HON. LILLEY EATON.
" The hills are dearest, which our childish feet Have climbed the earliest ; and the streams most sweet Are ever those at which our young lips drank, - Stooped to their waters o'er the grassy bank." - WHITTIER.
BOSTON : ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, 34 SCHOOL STREET. 1 874.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, BY JOHN S. EATON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
EXPLANATORY PREFACE.
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IN order that the readers of this Historical Record may fully understand its origin, and the method of its completion, these explanatory pages are presented.
In the month of February, 1865, the Hon. Lilley Eaton delivered a lecture, containing a portion of the historical reminiscences herein recorded, and subsequently received the following letter : -
[COPY.]
"SOUTH READING, Feb. 25, 1865.
HON. LILLEY EATON :
Dear Sir, - The undersigned, your fellow-townsmen, would respectfully tender you their congratulations for your very interesting lecture, delivered at the Town Hall, on Wednesday evening last. They feel that it is to you, more than any one else, that the town is indebted for the high position it occupies in intelligence and progress ; to you, who have so long been identified with its schools, and all that goes to educate us in the paths of knowledge and prosperity ; to you, who deem no labor too great that will enrich the present from the gleanings of the past ; to you, who, in the halls of legisla- tion, have represented us so long and so well.
Happy is the town which claims a citizen of equal worth with the one we are now · addressing.
As everything relating to the history of our town is worthy of permanent record, we respectfully request you to prepare a copy of your lecture, or a history of the town, for publication.
We are, Dear Sir,
Very respectfully yours,
(Signed,)
THOS. EMERSON. S. O. RICHARDSON.
EDWARD MANSFIELD.
JONAS EVANS.
B. B. WILEY. C. WAKEFIELD. P. H. SWEETSER."
In compliance with the above request, the preparation of these records was speedily commenced, and from year to year their collection and arrange-
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ment were carried forward with a patience alike remarkable and unwearied, in the confident expectation of their completion and publication under his personal supervision.
The unexpected death of Mr. Eaton, which occurred on the 16th of Jan- uary, 1872, at the age of seventy years, prevented the accomplishment of this design, and the manuscript he had prepared was found to be in some portions incomplete.
In accordance with the wishes of many of the inhabitants of Wakefield, and others, who desired copies of the records which had been thus laboriously obtained, and by authority of the town of Wakefield, the work has been com- pleted through the agency of a committee appointed for the purpose.
Although its completion has been effected by hands less skilful than those employed at its commencement, an attempt has been made to carry out the original design (as far as such design was apparent), in the arrangement and embellishment of the work, and to present it to the public, as nearly as has been possible, in the form he had expected it to assume.
In the more ancient records, there may be detected occasional omissions of dates, which (it is presumed) were not found in the original search for them, and no later attempt has been made to supply them.
In the records of recent years, such omissions have been mainly supplied.
We therefore present these so nearly completed records of the vanished years and early settlers of this venerable town, fully confident that their im- perfections will find ample compensations in the value, variety, and interest of recorded historical incidents, in the entertaining anecdotes and personal de- scriptions, and in the patriotic, poetic, and eloquent sentences which mark the composition of the original historian.
JOHN S. EATON, LUCIUS BEEBE, RICHARD BRITTON, CHESTER W. EATON,
Committee of Publication.
,
VERITAS
VINCIT OMNIA
Eaton.
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PREFACE
'T is good sometimes to travel back 'To days of " auld lang syne,"
Retrace the ancient fathers' track, Along the mossy line ; Visit the old ancestral homes,
Our parents' virtues learn,
And round their monumental stones Let veneration burn.
Review the trials that they bore, In old primeval years,
To gain this fair and goodly shore, Mid toil and want and fears ;
Observe their efforts here to raise The standard of the Cross,
Where they might preach and pray and praise, No prelates to oppress.
And how, in after-times, they grew The tree of liberty,
And, from its topmost branches threw The flag of victory ; That same bright flag, whose starry fold Their loyal sons admire, And spite of traitors, will uphold, With sword and blood and fire.
ANIMATED life-long with perhaps rather more than an average share of sentiments as above expressed, loving with ardor my native home, revering whatever was time-honored and worthy, it has always been my delight "to inquire for the old paths, and to walk therein"; to use my leisure hours in exploring the ways of the fathers ; and collect, as I had opportunity, what- ever was antique, curious, and interesting, - storing it for occasiona reference.
It was known to my fellow-citizens that I had such collections in store ; that I had for many years of my life been conversant, often officially, with the municipal, literary, financial, and social progress of the town of South Read-
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ing ; and was more or less familiar with the course of events in the three Readings, for the last half-century. They therefore very kindly invited me to prepare for the press these historical collections and reminiscences, gener- ously agreeing to assume the pecuniary responsibility of the publication.
Thus invited and encouraged, I consented to undertake the duty, regretting my want of ability to do justice to the subject, and my want of leisure, on account of a multiplicity of other pursuits, to bring to the performance of the work that power and devotedness which the importance of the object de- manded.
I can truly say, however, that while I am not insensible to the honor of being the chosen historian of my native town, I do not engage in the work rom any expectation of pecuniary advantage ; for my service in the matter will be entirely gratuitous. Neither do I thus seek literary fame ; for I make no pretence to rhetoric or fine writing. Nor do I offer it as a complete history of the old town of Reading, fully sensible that it is very far short of exhausting the subject : but the publication is made from a sincere desire to arrange and preserve so much of our municipal history as is already collected, and so assist the future historian with many valuable facts and annals that might otherwise be soon lost and overwhelmed in the vortex of the swiftly receding tide of time.
LILLEY EATON.
Wakefield, 1871.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
[PAGES 1-41.]
A CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NOTABLE EVENTS, FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN, IN 1639, TO 1700.
Early settlement - Petition to Court for land - The first grant of land - Lynn Vil- lage, incorporation and name - Reading, England - Names of first settlers- First mill - First meeting-house - First Church - First military company, and other military matters- William Witter, a Baptist, prosecuted - Tax of first set- tlers at Lynn - General. division of land- Death of Rev. Henry Green, and settlement of Rev. Samuel Haugh, and names of the members of the Church - First bridge over Ipswich River, and order about attending town-meetings - Chadwell's Neck - Fitch's Way - Order about lumber, etc. - Clerk of the Writs - Precautions against fire, scolding, swearing, and unlawful wooing - Town herd, fences, land grants, etc. - Extract from Johnson, etc. - Additional grant of land by the Court, and an order in reference to town-meetings - Baptists of Lynn imprisoned, fined, and whipped, etc. - Another division of lands - Order about cutting timber - Road from Reading to Chelsea laid out - Road from Andover to Reading laid out - Sale of liquors to the Indians - Smith's Ordinary - Slaves - Minister's salary - Division of lands - Cattle on Common - Witchcraft and theft - Town way laid out, town-meetings, and new gallery - Commissioners for small causes, minister's pay, troop of horse, and division of lands in North Parish - Fitch's Lane - Authority to join in marriage-Pound-Order about gallery and division of lands - Order about Quakers, and John Weston admonished - Death of Rev. Mr. Haugh and settlement of Rev. Mr. Brock, and seats of women and children in meeting-house regulated, and order about dogs and dog-whipper-Land north of Ipswich River laid out - Tho. Tower -Corn and saw-mills, and earth- quake - Lands exchanged, lands granted, and Herdsmen, Sealer, and Commis- sioners appointed - Burial-ground fenced - Two-mile grant confirmed - Division of the Great Swamp, and minister's rates - Names of owners of houses - Water privileges granted - Bounty on wolves- Right to cut wood in Great Swamp defined - Uncivil behavior admonished, fined, and otherwise punished - Wood- end, stone wall, ladders, town-meeting - Order about stubborn children and pa- rents - King Philip's war - Fish petition - Relative standing of Reading in the Colony - Petition for defence against the Indians - Stockade fort - Gar- rison houses and garrison soldiers - Curious petition to Court in relation to mil-
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itary matters - Shoemaker - Petition to Court in relation to public worship Rate for building new meeting-huose or parsonage - Grant of land in payment of a survey of two-mile tract-Town presented to Court for deficiency of a Grammar School, and for a defect in highway, and Mr. Brock, licensed to take Mr. Haugh's land - First parsonage, description, assignment, and sale-Copying of old town books ordered- Highway between Woburn and Reading - Report of committee on the parsonage - Death of Winnepurkit - Petition of William Hawkins- Bounty for bears - Two moderators- Names of inhabitants on north side of Ipswich River, and grant of land to them - Ministerial barn - Grant of land in Nipmug Country to soldiers in the Indian war - Highways to Woburn and Charlestown laid out- Another division of public lands - Rate to pay for land purchased of the Indians- Captain Savage sues the town for possession of land- Death of Deacon Cowdrey - Bounties paid for bears - Death of Rev. Mr. Brock, and subscription for a new meeting-house - Indian war - Major Swayne appointed Commander-in-Chief -Settlement of Rev. Mr. Pierpont - Location of new meeting-house, and Hart's Corner - Canada ex- pedition - Leather sealers - Warning out of town, and soldiers' debentures - Dr. James Stimpson - Witchcraft - Sale of the old meeting-house, and another general division of land, and names of drawers and their taxes - Free School - Mystic Bridge - Tithing men - Bounty for blackbirds, and a school rate - Tav- ern - Shade trees - Assessors - School-house - Minister's salary, how paid - New meeting-house improvements- Order in relation to a separate parish on north side of Ipswich River - Horse sheds - Chirurgery - Agreement with a school teacher - Mystic Bridge - Minister's pay - Eaton's mill.
CHAPTER II.
[PAGES 42-127.]
A GENEALOGICAL LIST OF EARLY SETTLERS, WITH THE SUCCESSION OF THEIR FAMILIES FOR SEVERAL GENERATIONS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTICES OF MANY OF THEM. THIS LIST IS INTENDED TO INCLUDE THE NAMES OF ALL THE MEN WHO SETTLED IN THE TOWN PRIOR TO THE YEAR 1700, WITH SOME LATER ONES .*
I ABBOTT, P. 42. Davis.
4 ARNOLD, P. 43. Bryant.
(3) Lamson. Leathe.
7 BATCHELDER, P. 45. Cowdrey.
Graves.
5 BANCROFT, P. 43.
Lovejoy. Metcalf.
Ellesley.
Swain.
Bacon.
(5) Parker
Flint.
Bryant.
Poole.
Lewis.
2 ANGIER, P. 43. Murch.
(3) Eaton.
Woodman.
Pearson.
Emerson.
Plummer.
3 ANOUGH, P. 43. Newman.
Fitch.
6 BARRETT, p. 45.
Poore.
Kendall.
Bennett.
Dix.
Hewes.
Browne.
Pearson.
Hartshorne.
Pratt.
* The names of heads of families are arranged alphabetically, and printed in large type ; those names that have been connected with these families by marriage follow in smaller type, under each family head respectively, and can be further examined in the body of the Genealogy.
CONTENTS.
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Sweetser. White.
8 BELKNAP, P. 47.
15 BRYANT, P. 55. Arnold. Fitch. Frothingham. Kendall. Smith. Swain. Thompson. Weston.
25 COOK, p. 58. Wiley.
26 COWDREY, P. 58. 31 DICKERMAN, p. 62.
Batchelder. Boutwell. Burrill.
32 Dıx, p. 62. Fitch. Smith.
10 BENNETT, P. 47.
II BORMAN, P. 47.
16 BURNAP, P. 56. Antrim.
(2) Parker. Polley. Stearns.
34 DUTTON, p. 63. Hooper.
12 BOUTWELL, p. 47. (2) Browne. Bryant. Eaton. Cowdrey.
Emerson.
Thompson.
Damon.
Flint.
Weston.
Davis.
Grover.
Eaton.
Lilley.
27 CURWIN, p. 60.
Emerson.
Newhall.
Foster.
Pearson.
28 CUTLER, p. 60. Bellflower.
(3) Boutwell.
Frothingham. Hartshorne. Kendall.
Sawyer.
Haines.
(2) Browne. Burnap. Damon.
Lewis.
Stearns.
Pike. Smith.
Delver.
Manning. Parker.
Upton.
Underwood.
Dodge. Eaton.
Poole.
Walton.
Verry.
(3) Emerson. Flint. Frothinghanı. Gould.
17 BURT, P. 58.
Batchelder.
Boutwell.
(2) Hart. Hartshorne.
Gilbert. Lariford.
Cowdrey.
Holden.
13 BROCK, P. 49. Haugh.
18 BUTTERS, or BUT- TERY, P. 58.
(2) Emerson. Flint. Gerry.
Howard. Hurcom.
14 BROWNE, p. 49.
Badger.
19 CARTER, P. 58. Locke.
Leman. Nichols.
(2) Lilley. Mason. Moore.
Burnap.
20 CHADWICK, p. 58.
Parker.
Dix.
Jenkins.
Pratt. Rand.
(4) Nichols. Nurse. Parker.
Emerson. Fellows. Fiske. Gerrish.
Stocker.
Trevit.
(3) Smith.
Pearson.
Pierce.
Goodwin.
Roberts.
Hartshorne.
22 CLARK, P. 58.
Russell.
Jaques.
Bancroft. Swain.
(2) Townsend. Wiley. Wright.
Wiley.
Nichols.
Osgood. Parker.
23 COLE, P. 58.
37 EDWARDS, p. 68. Poole.
Sprague. Stearns. Whipple. b
24 COLSON, P. 53. Browne. Dustin.
30 DAVIS, p. 62. Boutwell. Hartshorne. Poor.
38 EMERSON, p. 68. Badger.
Sibley. Stimpson. Swain. Thompson. Townsend. Walkup.
Weston.
Woodward.
29 DAMON, p. 60. Bancroft.
Fiske.
Bragg.
(3) Gowing.
(2) Kendall. Lamson.
Holden.
Bancroft.
Bulkley.
21 CHANDLER, P. 58.
Sweetser. Symonds. Taylor. Thompson.
Poole.
Upton.
Lamson.
9 BELLFLOWER, P. 47. Cutler.
(2) Emerson. Goodwin. Hartshorne. Lilley.
33 DUNTON, p. 63. Gould.
Stimpson.
35 DUSTIN, p. 63. Tower. Colson.
36 EATON, p. 63. Bancroft.
Rice.
Smith.
Hewett.
Swain.
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CONTENTS.
Bancroft. Boutwell. Browne. Bruce. Bryant. Buckley.
Merriam.
Whittredge. (2) Woodward.
Oakes. Orr.
Story.
Sweetser.
Parker.
Perry.
Poole.
Burnap.
Barker.
Symonds.
Conant.
Batchelder.
Smith.
Cowdrey.
Bradford.
(2) Foster. Stone.
Damon.
Brooks.
Dix.
Burnap.
(2) Goodwin. Gould. Hartshorne.
Townsend.
Dresser.
Burns.
(3) Eaton.
Burrill.
Johnson.
Vinton.
Buxton.
Merrow.
Walton.
(2) Emerson. Farrar. Foster.
Damon.
Parker.
White.
(2) Howard. Johnson.
Downton.
(2) Roberts. Taylor. Townsend.
52 GROVER, p. 85. Burnap.
(2) Nichols. Parker. Poole.
Evans.
Farnhamn.
48 FRANCIS, P. 80.
53 HARNDEN, P. 85. Sherman.
Richardson.
(2) Folger. Foster.
49 GOODWIN, P. 80. Bryant. Cowdrey.
54 HART, 1. 85. Winborne.
Townsend.
Frost.
Lunt. Nichols ..
55 HARTSHORNE, p.85.
Wakefield.
Gould.
Parker.
(2) Boutwell. Browne.
(2) Williams.
(2) Graves. Green. Hardy.
Wiley.
39 ENDICOTT, p. 69.
(3) Hart.
Wotton.
(2) Burnap. Goodwin. Haseltine. Hopkinson. Lamson.
40 EVANS, p. 69.
Alexander. Convers.
Hubbard.
Brown.
Dunton.
Hunt.
Foster. Hart.
(2) Pearson. Swain. Taylor.
Sweetser.
Kendall. Kimball. Lewis. Nelson.
(2) Smith. Sweetser.
56 HASELTINE, p. 87. Hartshorne.
41 EVERETT, P. 70. Edwards.
Nichols.
Nickerson.
(3) Osgood.
Bryant.
57 HASTINGS, p. 87. Edwards.
42 FAIRFIELD, P. 70. Palfrey. Skipperway.
Parker. Phelps.
Deadman.
Evans.
58 HAUGH, p. 87. Baker.
43 FELCH, P. 71.
(3) Putnam.
Gerry.
Booth.
Cutler.
Richardson.
Gould.
Brock.
Deane.
Russell.
Green.
Bulkley.
Smith.
(4) Sawyer. Stone.
Hadley.
Herbert.
44 FISH, P. 71. Lewis.
Taylor.
Kinerson.
Rainsford.
Train.
Knight.
Savage.
Tucker.
Larrabee.
Symms.
Marble.
Usher.
45 FITCH, P. 71. Low.
(6). Upton. Wakefield.
Newhall.
Walker.
(2) Smith.
Swain.
French.
Upton.
Gardner.
Pearson.
Weston.
Nurse. Osgood.
Green.
(2) Hutchinson.
Smith.
Pearson.
Thompson.
Townsend.
Hayward. Herrick.
Holt.
50 GOULD, p. 81. Aborn.
51 GREEN, P. 82. Ash.
Cook.
(2) Pope. Pratt.
Farmer.
Hay.
Davis.
46 FLINT, P. 72. (2) Abbott.
47 FOSTER, P. 79. Bancroft. Boutwell. Eaton. Flint.
Pratt.
Swain.
Upham.
Deblois.
(4) Eaton.
(2) Flint.
Walton.
CONTENTS.
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59 HAY, P. 90. Appleton. Boutwell. Chandler. Emerson.
73 KENDALL, P. 93. Boutwell.
Stimpson.
Kendall. Merrow.
Bryant,
Dunton.
Eaton.
Flint.
Goodwin.
Gale.
Nichols.
Kidder.
Parker.
86 MORRILL, P. 97.
Lucus.
Pearson.
87 NEWHALL, P. 97.
Mansfield. Myrick. Nichols.
74 KNOWLTON, P. 94.
88 NICHOLS, P. 97.
Poole.
75 LAMSON, P. 94. Hartshorne. Nichols.
(2) Bancroft. Barrett. Batchelder.
Boutwell.
Kendall.
Ring.
76 LAUKIN, P. 94. Browne.
Browne.
Swain.
Sweetser.
Thompson.
(2) Damon.
93 PHELPS, P. 103. Putnam.
60 HERBERT, P. 92. Haugh. Nichols. Southwick.
78 LEWIS. P. 94. Boutwell.
Taylor.
Hersey.
Kendall. Lamson.
Hay.
62 HILLS. P. 92.
79 LILLEY, P. 95. Burnap.
(2) Nichols. Poole.
Ring.
63 HODGKINS, P. 92.
Eaton.
(2) Stimpson. Wiley.
- 64 HODGMAN, P. 92. Boutwell.
Parker.
89 NURSE, P. 100.
Gerry.
Smith.
Eaton.
Morrill.
Wright.
Hartshorne. Roberts.
97 POLLEY, P. 106. Everett.
65 HOOPER, P. 93.
80 MARSHALL, P. 95. Swain.
90 PALFREY, P. 100. Fairfield. Smith.
98 POOLE. p. 106. Bancroft.
Barrett.
91 PARKER, P. 100.
Belknap.
82 MAVERICK, P. 95. (2) Bancroft.
Eaton.
67 JACKSON, P. 93. Taylor or Tower.
Harris.
Smith.
Stetson.
Bursham.
Hescey.
68 JENKINS, P. 93. Chadwick.
83 MCINTIRE, P. 96.
Cowdrey.
Leman.
Damon.
Nichols. Parker.
69 JENKINSON, P. 93.
84 MERROW, P. 96. Brooks. Cowdrey.
(2) Eaton.
Pope.
70 KEBBE, P. 93.
Foster.
Gould.
Parker.
Gould.
Pearson.
Green.
Pratt.
Hopkins.
99 PRATT, P. 109. Boutwell.
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Hutchinson.
Flint. Haugh. Hay. Herbert.
94 PHIPPS, P. 103.
61 HESCEY, P. 92. Poole. .
77 LEAMAN, P. 94. Bryant. Damon.
Eaton. Eustis.
95 PIERPONT, P. 103. Angier. Bancroft.
Gale.
Perkins.
Chase.
Goodwin.
96 PIKE, P. 106. Cutler. Leffingwell.
Webber.
66 HUTCHINSON, P. 93. 81 MARTIN, P. 95. Jeffrey. Laukin. Leighton.
Batchelder. Bright. Browne.
Edwards.
Fitch.
Gibson.
Ellesley. Emerson. Flint. Goodwin.
- Poole.
71 KELSON, P. 93.
72 KEN, P. 93. Pepper.
Tuttle. Wallis.
(2) Newhall. Parker. Polley. Pope.
85 MILLER, P. 97. Smith.
(3) Richardson. Underwood. Winn.
92 PEARSON, P. 103. Batchelder. Eaton. Goodwin. Gould.
Pope.
Porter.
Raddin.
Burnap.
Sawyer.
Richardson. Wakefield.
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Damon. Smith. Wakefield.
Harris. Hart.
Clark. Green.
121 TOWNSEND, P. 119. Boutwell. Emerson. Evans.
122 UNDERWOOD, P. 120. Bancroft.
IOI RICHARDSON, P. 110.
Maverick. Mead.
Pope.
Cutler.
Morrill.
Smith.
Miles.
Noyes.
Walton.
Parker.
Palfrey.
Williams.
Poole.
103 ROBERTS, P. IIO.
Pierce.
Eaton.
Pratt. 116 TAYLOR, P. 117. Harrington.
123 UPHAM, p. 120. Browne.
Nurse.
Smith.
Hooper. Stimpson.
124 UPTON, P. 120. Cross.
Shelton.
Walton.
117 TEMPLE, P. 117.
Goodale.
Webb.
(2) Bancroft.
Gray.
104 ROGERS, P. 110.
Wiley.
Woodman.
Buck.
Stimpson.
105 RUSSELL, P. 110. McIntire.
III SOUTHWICK, P. 114.
Carter.
Swallow.
Herbert.
Coggin.
Thompson.
106 SADLER. P. IIO.
Southwick.
(2) Damon. Dix.
Wilkins.
107 SAVAGE, P. III. Haugh.
112 SQUIER, P. 114.
Ela.
125 VINTON, P. 121. Brooks.
Norton.
113 STIMPSON, P. 114. Atwell.
Fowle.
Mcleod.
Walker.
Boynton.
Flint.
Nichols.
(3) Bryant.
Harnden.
Parker.
Cowdrey.
Hemphill.
Richardson.
. Damon.
Holden.
Stacy.
Damon.
Danforth.
Jenkins.
Swain.
Lilley.
Fuller.
Locke. Lovejoy.
Wilson.
Rich.
Knight
(4) Nichols. Noyes.
126 WAKEFIELD, P. 121. Bridge.
Means.
Pierce.
Gould.
109 SCOLLEY, P. III.
(2) Nichols.
(2) Pratt.
Pratt.
Parker.
(4) Richardson.
Eaton.
IIO SMITH, P. III.
Ridgeway.
(2) Temple.
Hardy.
Sanborn.
(2) Townsend.
Bancroft.
Teprell.
(2) Weston.
Emerson.
(3) Boardman.
Upton.
Hemenway.
Boutwell.
Poole.
Bryant.
114 SUTTON, P. 115.
Upton.
127 WALKER, p. 123. Dole.
Cutter.
115 SWAIN, P. 115. Allen.
119 TONEY, P. 119.
Haugh.
Emerson.
Appleton.
Jewett.
Evans.
Boutwell.
120 TOWER, P. 119.
Savage.
Felch.
Browne.
Crocker.
(2) Gould.
Buck.
(2) Burnap.
Jackson.
Dustin. 128 WALTON, P. 123. Bartlett.
(2) Green.
Jenkins.
(2) Hartshorne.
Knowlton.
Lawrence. Marshall.
100 RICE, p. 109.
Lilley.
Lynde.
Morse.
Parker.
102 ROBBINS, P. IIO. James.
Foster.
(2) Sherman.
Pierce.
Swain.
Taylor.
(3) Sweetser.
(3) Beard. Beck.
McIntire.
Upton.
Weston.
Eaton.
Emerson.
Quincy.
Evans.
Green.
Symms.
108 SAWYER, P. III. Burnap.
Wiley.
Nurse.
Hartshorne.
Townsend.
Laughton.
Wood.
Leffingwell.
(6) Parker.
Bancroft. Bill.
118 THOMPSON, P. 119. Hartshorn.
(4) Burnap.
(5) Damon.
Hayward.
CONTENTS.
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(2) Brown.
Fitch.
Goodwin.
Burnap.
Bryant.
(2) Green. Hawkes.
Conant.
Townsend.
Emerson.
Hay.
Green.
Mansfield.
Hawkes.
131 WILEY, p. 125. Bancroft.
Nichols.
Munjoy.
(3) Browne.
(2) Poole.
134 WOODWARD, p. 127. Bancroft.
Swain.
· Bryant.
Sherman.
Tarbell.
Cooley.
(2) Smith.
Burnap.
Williams.
Damon.
Sprague.
Leaman.
Davis.
Tapley. Vinton.
Robbins.
129 WELLMAN, P. 125. Browne.
Eaton.
(3) Wiley.
Edes.
135 WORMWOOD, P. 127.
130 WESTON, P. 125.
Edmands.
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132 WILLIAMS, p. 127. Nichols.
133 WINBORNE, P. 127. Hart.
CHAPTER III. [PAGES 128-202.]
A CONTINUATION OF CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NOTABLE EVENTS, FROM 1700 TO 1812.
George Lillie - Stocks - Indenture with schoolmaster - School meadow - School wood - Elizabeth Jonson - Death of Widow Kendall - Stephen Dix drowned - Indian attack - Agreement with schoolmaster - Schools - Death of Rev. Mr. Pierpont and candidates for the succession, and petition of Ipswich River and Sadler's Neck proprietors - School at Woodend, and ram pasture - Pas- toral invitations - Petition for the North Parish - French and Indian War, and names of soldiers - Rev. Richard Browne invited - Parsonage, first and second - Law against desertions - Settlement of Rev. Mr. Brown, schoolmaster and town clerk - Parsonage land - Incorporation of North Precinct, and first meet- ing - Town votes in relation to North Precinct - North Precinct invites Rev. Daniel Putnam, and votes concerning meeting-house and parsonage - Deaths of Hannah Felch and John Brown, Esq. - North Precinct petitionts for common land - Mr. Putnam ordained - Early settlement of North Precinct, and names and residence of early settlers - List of tax-payers in North Precinct in 1720 - Herbage in Lynn Common - Bills of credit - Members of First Church in 1721 - Lynnfield church members and North Precinct ditto- Small-pox - First Parish parsonage, and singing- Sale of rights in lands at Lynn - Petition about fish - Common land assigned to the parsonage - Petition of North Pre- cinct in relation to Mr. Putnam - First Parish contribution - Division of school money - Town order about geese and timber trees - First Parish Church struck by lightning - New bell - Stoneham incorporated - Annexation of north part of Malden asked for - Lynn herbage - Earthquake - Fish - Bills of credit - Mystic Bridge - Indian deed - Dismissal of Stoneham church members - Wm. Williams and son drowned - Ten families from Malden annexed- Seating the meeting-house - Petition for a Third Parish - Incorporation of Wilmington - Financial condition - Old pulpit cushion- North Precinct School - Child drowned - Death of Rev. Mr. Brown - Funeral expenses - Settlement of Rev.
Teal.
Dunn.
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CONTENTS.
Mr. Hobby - Ordination expenses - Parsonage land and house - Repair of the meeting-house - Highways and common lands - Parsonage - Throat dis- temper - Mystic Bridge - Bridge over Saugus River - Common lands - Enlargement of the parsonage house- Deer - Town expenses - Horse block - Suicide - North Precinct meeting-house - Whitefield - Tavern - Common lands - Nova Scotia expedition - Jos. Underwood - Daniel Emerson - Cap- ture of Louisburg, etc. - School-house at North Precinct - Jos. Swain - Hobby's salary - New meeting-house and pound at North Precinct -New Style- Sale of Negroes-John Kimball - Capt. Fitch - Death of William Hobby, Jr. - Death of Rev. Mr. Putnam - Ordination of Elias Smith at Middleton - French Neutrals - Settlement of Rev. Mr. Stone at North Pre- cinct - Town pound - Mystic Bridge -Sickness of Mr. Hobby - His death - His funeral - Stamp Act- Action of the town in relation thereto - Joseph Frye - Woodend petitions to be set off from the First Parish - Action of the parish - Young Men's Christian Association - First Parish votes to build new meeting-house - Woodend again seeks a separation - Description of new meet- ing-house - Sale of pews, and original purchasers - Woodend petitions General Court for a separate parish - Old parish opposes - General Court grants the petition, and Third Parish incorporated - First meeting of Third Parish - Act of incorporation of Third Parish - Rev. Caleb Prentiss settled at First Parish - List of inhabitants of Third Parish at its incorporation - Powder house - Third Parish meeting-house completed -Third Parish parsonage bought - Rev. Thomas Haven settled at Third Parish, and Mr. Haven's letter of acceptance - First Parish sell their parsonage to Mr. Prentiss -Third Parish sell their par- sonage to Mr. Haven, and accept the share of ministerial lands apportioned to them by the town - Lists of voters in the several parishes in 1771 - Dr. Jabez Brown's letter - Alewives - Choristers-Third Parish sue Jona. Eaton for trespass on ministerial land - First Parish defend - Jacob Burnap settled at Merrimac, N. H. - Jabez Carter and family - Disagreement between First and Third Parish about meeting-house settled, also the suit against Jona. Eaton -- Boston Tea Party -Spirited action of the town in relation to public grievances -Patriotic resolves of the town for the maintenance of their rights - Deputies chosen to a Provincial Congress - Roads in North Precinct - Commencement of the War of the Revolution, and the part that Reading took therein - Battle of Lexington and Concord - Call from the army for wood, and the town's response -Capt. James Bancroft, and other able men in Reading - Army stores in First Parish meeting-house - Orders for powder, wood, and hay- Battle of Bunker Hill-Letter of Benj. Brown and John Walton in reference to refugees and pro- visions - How town-meetings were warned -British prisoners sent to Reading - Hay and blankets for the army - Town vote to stand by Congress to the last - Independence declared - Population of Reading in 1776 - Cato, a negro - Death of Mrs. Haven-Donation people-Tory prosecutor- Col. Brown's order - Lieut. Foster to be ready to march at shortest notice - Number of sol- diers on the rolls in Reading - Selectmen petition for fire-arms, etc. - Order for a draft- Surrender of Burgoyne - " Articles of Confederation " approved by the town - Clothing. sent to Concord for the Army -Town voted against the Constitution of 1778 - Militia notified to be ready to march to Boston - Mo- nopoly - Delegate to a Constitutional Convention - Small pox - Proportion of recruits from each parish - More men called for - Quita always filled -New
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