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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
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It does not fall to every one's share to have the books cited; and some of them are rarely to be seen in New England : besides, the collating many things thus together will save both time and pains to such as have libraries and want leisure to search them. - PAUL DUDLEY, 1731.
Royal Army
PENSE
Lausbring Cross
Shirley Arms
Eustis House
KILBURN
GOVERNOR WILLIAM SHIRLEY.
ARMS OVER THE PROVINCE HOUSE PORCH. - CROSS FROM LOUISBURG CHAPEL. - ARMS IN KING'S CHAPEL. SHIRLEY HALL, LATER GOVERNOR EUSTIS'S HOUSE, ROXBURY.
THE
MEMORIAL
HISTORY OF BOSTON,
INCLUDING
SUFFOLK COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
1630-1880.
EDITED
BY JUSTIN WINSOR, LIBRARIAN OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
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VOL. II.
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C. C. C. H. LIBRARY 50 West Broadway South Boston, Mass.
Issued under the business superintendence of the projector,
CLARENCE F. JEWETT.
A. C. C. H. LIBRARY SOUTH BOSTON, MASS.
BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY. 1881.
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Copyright, 1881, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co. All Rights Reserved.
JOHN WILS
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
FRONTISPIECE. Governor Shirley, Shirley Hall (or Eustis House), the Province House royal arms, the Louisburg cross and Shirley's arms (described on p. 62) Facing titlepage
INTRODUCTION.
ESTATES AND SITES, i; MAPS AND PLANS, xlix ; GENEALOGICAL REFERENCES, Ivi ; THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT. The Editor Iviii
ILLUSTRATIONS. MAPS IN FAC-SIMILE : Franquelin's Map of 1693, li ; Earliest Survey of the Harbor (1705?), heliotype, lii; Burgiss's Map (1728), heliotype, li ; Price's Edition of Bonner's Map (1769), heliotype, lv.
SKETCH MAPS: North End, iv; Dock Square, etc., xiv, xxii; Washington Street, etc., xxv; South End, xxxvi; Fort Hill, xl; Beacon Hill and West End, xlii; Bonner's Water Front (1714), lii.
SECTIONS OF BONNER'S (1722) MAP: North End, vii; Dock Square, Corn- hill, etc., xiii ; Summer Street, etc., xxvii ; Fort Hill, xxxviii; South End, xxxix ; West End, xlix.
AUTOGRAPHS IN GROUPS : Overseers of Captain Keayne's will, xvi; Project- ors of Long Wharf, xx; Sufferers by the fire of 1711, xxxv ; Petitioners of Long Lane, xxxv.
AUTOGRAPHS (Alphabetical) : Samuel Adams, xxxv, xl; John Alden, xlviii ; Bozoune Allen, x ; Henry Alline, xli ; John Anderson, x ; William Aspinwall, iii, xix ; Theodore Atkinson, xviii ; John Baker, ix; James Barnes, xx; John Bateman, xxxii ; William Baulston, xxi; William Beamsley, ix ; Alexander Beck, xviii; Edward Belcher, Sr., xxxv; Edward Belcher, Jr .. xxxv ; Penel- ope Bellingham, xliii; Richard Bellingham, xliii ; Edward Bendall, xxi; John Briggs, xlix ; Nathaniel Bishop, xxix; William Blaxton, xlvii; Abraham Blish, xxxv; John Bonner, liii; Nicholas Boone, xxxv; Nehemiah Bourne, ix; James Boutineau, xxviii; Richard Brackett, xxiv ; Simon Bradstreet, xvi; Thomas Brattle, xxi ; Henry Bridgham, xxix ; Edward Bromfield, xxviii, xlv; Thomas Broughton, viii; James Brown, xviii; Thomas Bulfinch, xlv; Thomas Bumsted, xviii ; George Burden, xxiii ; John Buttolph, xxi; Thomas Buttolph, xxi ; John Button, xiii; John Cambell, xxxv; John Cary, v ; Mat- thew Chaffe, xi ; Bartholomew Cheever, vi; Ezekiel Cheever, xxxiii ; Thomas Clarke, x, xxvi; John Clough, xxxviii; William Coddington, xxi; John Cogan, xviii; Martha Cogan, xviii ; William Colbron, xxxv; John Cole, xliv ; Samuel Cole, xx; Elisha Cooke, xxviii ; Richard Cooke, xxviii ; William Copp, vi; William Corser, xxxii; John Cotton, xliii ; Seaborne Cotton, xliv ; Thomas Coytmore, ix ; George Cradock, xvii; Thomas Creese, xxxv; Isaac Cullimer, x ; James Davenport, ix ; Humphrey Davie, xliii ; John Davis, v;
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AUTOGRAPHS (continued) :
William Davis, vi, xv; Daniel Denison, xvi; Henry Dering, xxxv ; Father- gone Dinely, xvii ; William Douglass, v ; Francis Douse, xxiii ; Shem Drowne, xxviii; Hugh Drury, xli; Nathaniel Duncan, xv ; Henry Dunster, xviii ; Jacob Elliot, Jr., xxxviii ; Mehetabel Elliot, xxxviii ; Susanna Elliot, xxxviii ; Elizabeth Endecott, xxiv ; John Endecott, xxiv ; Madett Enges, xxx ; James Everill, xxiv ; Henry Faine, xlv; Thomas Fitch, xxxvii; Thomas Fowle, xxxii; William Franklin, xxi; Theophilus Frary, xxxviii ; John Gal- lop, xi; Joshua Gee, vii; John George, xx ; John Gerrish, xx ; Elizabeth Gibbs, xli ; Robert Gibbs, xli ; Edward Gibbons, xxi; Benjamin Gillom, xli ; Habakkuk Glover, xxiii ; John Glover, Sr., xxiii ; James Gooch, Jr., xx ; John Gooch, xlviii; Edward Goodwin, viii; Thomas Graves, ix; John Gray, xli ; Joseph Green, xxxiv ; Enoch Greenleaf, xxxv ; William Greenough, viii ; Richard Gridley, x1; George Griggs, xxxi; Hugh Gunnison, xxii ; Thomas Hancock, xlvi ; John Harrison, xl ; Atherton Haughe, xxviii; James Hayden, xi ; Daniel Henchman, xvii, xxxiii; Richard Henchman, xliv ; William Hib- bins, xxix ; Valentine Hill, xxxiv ; Jeremy Houchin, xvii ; Thomas Hubbard, xxxi ; Francis Hudson, xi; William Hudson, vi; John Hull, xliv ; Robert Hull, xxxi; George Hunne, xxiii; Edw. Hutchinson, x, xli; Thomas Hutch- inson, xi; Edmund Jacklene, xxvi; Edmund Jackson, xvii; David Jeffries, xliii ; John Jeffries, xliii ; James Johnson, v, xvi ; John Joyleffe, xxix ; Robert Keayne, xv; Jacob Lager, xxiv ; John Lake, xxx ; Thomas Lake, xliv; Christo- pher Lawson, vi; John Leverett, xvii; Thomas Leverett, xv ; Ezekiel Lewis, xxxV ; John Lovell, xxxiv ; Samuel Lynde, xxxv ; Thomas Makepeace, xxiii ; James Marshall, xxxv ; Thomas Marshall, xii ; P. Mascarene, xxxiv; Sara Mather, xliv ; James Mattocke, xii ; John Mellows, xvii; Henry Messenger, xxxiii; W. Molineux, xlvi; George Monck, xxxiii ; John Mylom, xii ; Rob- ert Nanney, xii ; Benjamin Negus, xxx ; Jonathan Negus, xxxiii; Ann New- gate, xlv ; John Newgate, xlv ; John Norton, xxviii ; Oliver Noyes, xx ; John Odlin, xxxii; Andrew Oliver, xxxvii ; Andrew Oliver, Jr., xxxvii; Daniel Oliver, xx; James Oliver, xix ; John Oliver, xii; Nathaniel Oliver, xxxv ; Peter Oliver, xxxv, xli; William Paddy, xii; Richard Parker, xvii; Bar- tholomew Pasmer. x ; John Pears, xii; James Penn, xxix; John Phillips, xv, xxxv ; Thomas Phillips, xxxv ; William Phillips, ix ; David Phippeny, xii ; William Phips, viii; James Pitts, xlviii ; William Price, liv ; Edw. Rawson, xvi, xxviii ; Edw. Raynsford, xxxii; Amos Richardson, xxx ; Joseph Rocke, xviii ; John Rowe, xxxi; Owen Rowe, xxxii; John Ruggles, vi; William Salter, xxxvii; Richard Sandford, xlv; Ephraim Savage, xxxv; Thomas Savage, ix; John Scolle, ix ; Robert Scott, xv; Joshua Scottow, xviii ; Thomas Scotto, xxxiii; Robert Sedgwick, xxxiv; Hannah Sewall, xliv ; Samuel Sewall, xliv ; John Shawe, xiii; Jacob Sheafe, xv, xxxv ; Sampson Sheafe, v; Richard Sherman, xxviii ; Edw. Shippen, x; Sampson Shoare, xi; Henry Shrimpton, xix ; Saml. Shrimpton, xlvi; John Smibert, xviii; Francis Smith, xxvi; Richard Smith, xx ; Cyprian Southack, liv; John Staniford, xlix ; Christopher Stanley, vi; Anthony Stoddard, xix, xx ; Simeon Stoddard, xlvi; Robert Stone, xix; John Synderland, xxviii; William Tailer, xxiii; Evan Thomas, xxiv; Benjamin Thwing, xviii ; William Tilly, xxi; Benj. Tompson, xxxiii ; Richard Truesdall, xvii ; Daniel Turell. viii ; Robert Turner, xxxiii ; Richard Tuttall, xxx; Edward Tyng, xix; William Tyng, xxi ; John Underhill, xxiii; Nicholas Upsall, xi; Hezekiah Usher, xviii; Luke Vardy, xix ; William Vassall, xliv; Isaac Vergoose, xxvi; Thomas Venner, xix; John Viall, xxxii; Robert Walker, xxxvi; Benjamin Ward, xli; Gamaliel Waite, xxx ; Richard Wayte, xxx; Henry Webb, xv ; Samuel Welles, xxxviii; John Wendell, xvii; Nathaniel Williams, xxxiv ; Nicholas Willis, xiii; Francis Willoughby, xxvi; John Wilson, xvi, xviii; Eben" Winborn, xxxv; William Winbourne, viii; Deane Winthrop, iii; John Winthrop, xxviii; Stephen Winthrop, xxviii; John Woodmansey, xxxiii ; Nathaniel Woodward, xxx ; Robert Woodward, xxxii.
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CONTENTS.
The Provincial Period.
CHAPTER I.
THE INTER-CHARTER PERIOD. William H. Whitmore I
ILLUSTRATIONS : Sir Edmund Andros, 5; Great Seal of New England, 9; John Nelson, 15; Order for the Frigate's Sails, 16.
AUTOGRAPHS : Captains of Military Companies (Anthony Checkley, Thomas Savage, Benj. Davis, Jeremiah Dummer), 3; Jo. George, 13; Benjamin Bullivant, 14; John Nelson, 15; Petitioners about the " Rose " frigate (Charles Redford, Samuel Shrimpton, Jeremiah Dummer, E. Hutchinson, John Foye, James Lloyd, John Nelson, Nathaniel Oliver, Peter Sergeant, Benjamin Al- ford, Thomas Cooper, Benjamin Davies), 17; Commissioners for the Colo- nies (Thomas Danforth, Elisha Cooke, Thomas Hinckley, John Walley, Wm. Vaughan), 18; William R., 18; Petitioners from Castle Island (E. Andros, J. Dudley, Ed. Randolph, J. Palmer, Ja. Graham, John West, James Sherlock, George Farewell), 19; John Fayerweather, 20; Nathaniel Williams, 20; Nathaniel Byfield, speaker, 23.
CHAPTER II.
THE ROYAL GOVERNORS. George E. Ellis
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ILLUSTRATIONS: The Provincial Charter, heliotype, 30; Sir William Phips, 36; Shute's Commission, heliotype, 50; Governor Burnet, 55; Governor Belcher, 59; Governor Pownall, 63; Governor Hutchinson, 68; the Province House, 89.
AUTOGRAPHS : The Royal Governors (Sir William Phips, Earl of Bellomont, Joseph Dudley, Samuel Shute, W. Burnet, J. Belcher, W. Shirley, T. Pow- nall, Francis Bernard, Thomas Hutchinson, Thomas Gage), 29; Jahleel Brenton, 38; Signers of -Instructions to Stoughton (Stamford, Lexington, Ph. Meadows, Wm. Blathwayt, John Pollex, Sr., Abr. Hill, Mat. Prior), 42 ; Queen Anne, 47 ; Sunderland, 47 ; William Tailer, 48; George the First, 48; William Dummer, 50; Spencer Phips, 58; Colonial and Provincial Agents (Hugh Peter, Thomas Weld, Wm. Hibbins, Edward Winslow, John Leverett, Richard Saltonstall, Simon Bradstreet, Henry Ashhurst, John Norton, William Stoughton, Peter Bulkley, John Richards, Joseph Dudley, Increase Mather, Francis Wilks, Elisha Cooke, Jeremiah Dummer, J. Belcher, Christopher Kilby, Jasper Maudit, W. Bollan, Dennys De Berdt, B. Franklin, Arthur Lee), 82, 83.
CHAPTER III.
FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
ILLUSTRATIONS : Sir William Pepperrell, 114; Colonel Josiah Quincy, 121 ; Gen- eral John Winslow, 123; Pownall's View of Boston (1757), 127; Map of Castle Island, 127; North Battery, 130; Sconce, or South Battery, 130.
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AUTOGRAPHS : Committee on the Expedition, 1689 (Bartholomew Gedney, Benj. Browne, Charles Redford, Jo. Nelson, Nathl. Oliver, John Foster, John Alden), 94 ; Nicholas Paige, 95; Frontenac, 97; Cyprian Southack, 98; Penn Townsend, 98; Saml. Adams, 98; John Walley, 99; Ephraim Savage, 99; Boston Capitalists, 1690 (John Richards, Edw. Bromfield, John Foster, Peter Sergeant, Andrew Belcher, Edw. Gouge, Simeon Stoddard, Nathl. Williams, Thos. Brattle, James Barnes, Robert Gibbs), 100; Silvanus Davis, 100; W. W. Römer, 101; Committee of 1704 (John Higginson, Samuel Appleton, Ephraim Savage, Samuel Browne, Samuel Clap), 101 ; Committee of 1706 (Elisha Hutchinson, Samuel Sewall, John Phillips, John Walley, John Hig- ginson, Samuel Legg), 101; Benjamin Browne, 101 ; Andrew Belcher, 101 ; Governor and Committee on Fortification (William Stoughton, John Fayer- weather, Samuel Legg, Andrew Belcher, Timothy Clarke, John Eldridge), 102; Thomas Brattle, Timothy Clarke, 102; Commanders of ships (John Foye, Timothy Clarke, Jeremiah Clap, Samuel White, John Russell, Thomas Gwinn), 103; Benjamin Church, 104; Thomas Church, 104; William Tailer, 105; Royal Commissioners (Francis Nicholson, Samuel Vetch, Charles Hobby), 106; Signers to proclamation (Francis Nicholson, Samuel Vetch, - countersigned, J. Dudley), 106; Zech. Tuthill, 106; John Borland, 106; Andrew Belcher, 107; Vaudreuil, 108; John Lovewell, 109; Thomas West- brook, 109; Petitioners, 1733 (Timothy Clarke, Samuel Hill, John Endicott, Samuel Grant, Joseph Fitch, Shem Drowne, Jonathan Gunnysson, John Franklin, Jonas Clarke, William Salter, John Hunt, Geo. Bethune, Richard Clarke, Thomas Worth, Henry Howell, Samuel Adams, Nicholas Davis, Matthew Adams, Edward Winslow, William Tyler, Jacob Wendell, Caleb Ly- man, James Bowdoin, William Rand, John Salter, Samuel Sewall, Thomas Brooks, Thomas Hubbard, Benj. Fitch, John Fayerweather, John Edwards, John Phillips, John Dolbear, Jonathan .Jackson), 110-112; Spencer Phips, 112; John Quincy, 112 ; Benj. Bird, 112; John Larrabee, 112; John Brock, 112; William Vaughan, 113; William Pepperrell, 113; Edward Tyng, 115; Peter Warren, 116; Moses Bennett, 116; Richard Gridley, 117 ; Eben' Prout, 117; William Rand, 117; Council of War, 1745 (P. Warren, W. Calmaly, James Douglas, Richard Tiddeman, Montagu, William Pepperrell, F. Waldo, J. Dwight, Samuel Moore, Andrew Burr, John Bradstreet), 118; Benj. Greene, 118; Committee (Jacob Wendell, Ezek. Cheever, Andrew Oliver, Thomas Hutchinson, James Skinner), 119; Officers, etc., of Cadets, Jan. 2, 1748 (Ben- jamin Pollard, Leonard Jarvis, Nath! Martyn, Joshua Blanchard, Thomas Clarke, Samuel Gerrish, Benjamin Austin), 120; General John Winslow, 124; Edw. Boscawen, 124; Robert Monckton, 125; Seth Pomeroy, 125; Samuel Watts, 125; William Shirley, 126; J. Willard, 126; William Pitt, 128; Gen !. James Abercromby, 128; Loudoun, 128; Gen1 Jeffrey Amherst, 129.
CHAPTER IV.
WITCHCRAFT IN BOSTON. William F. Poole .
ILLUSTRATIONS : Samuel Sewall, 148; Witchcraft Bill, 153; William Stoughton, 166; Calef's Letter to Bellomont, 168.
AUTOGRAPHS : Joshua Scottow, 141; Inscription by Cotton Mather, 147 ; John Arnold, 149; Cotton Mather, 152; William Bond, 153; William Phips, 153; Witchcraft Court (Wm. Stoughton, John Richards, Peter Sergeant, Samuel Sewall, Nathaniel Saltonstall, John Hathorne, Wait Winthrop, Bar- tholomew Gedney, Jonathan Corwin, Thomas Newton), 155; John Alden, 155 ; Stephen Sewall, 160; Robert Calef, 165, 168.
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CHAPTER V.
LORD BELLOMONT AND CAPTAIN KIDD. Edward E. Hale
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ILLUSTRATION : Lord Bellomont, 175. AUTOGRAPHS : Edward Brattle, 173; Sarah Kidd, 179; Bellomont, 175, 183.
CHAPTER VI.
THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD. Alexander McKenzie . 187
ILLUSTRATIONS : Benjamin Colman and William Cooper, heliotypes, 211 ; Tim- othy Cutler and John Moorhead, heliotypes, 214; The Old Brick Church, 219; Thomas Prince and William Welsteed, heliotypes, 221 ; Charles Chauncy, 226; Mather Byles, 228; Benjamin Wadsworth, 230; George Whitefield, 238 ; Joseph Sewall, 241 ; Samuel Cooper, 242; Jonathan Mayhew, 245.
AUTOGRAPHS : Benjamin Wadsworth, 197; Ministers of the Province, 1697 (Cotton Mather, Grindal Rawson, William Williams, John Rogers, Nehemiah Walter, Jonathan Pierpont, John Sparhawk, Joseph Belcher, Benjamin Wadsworth, Jonathan Russell, Increase Mather, William Hubbard, James Allen, Charles Morton, Samuel Torrey, William Brinsmead, John Cotton, Samuel Willard, John Daily, Samuel Cheever, Moses Fiske, Joseph Esta- brook, Jabez Fox, Jeremiah Shepard, Thomas Clarke, Peter Thacher, Thomas Weld, James Sherman, John Danforth, Joseph Capen), 198; Ministers, etc., of King's Chapel, 1700 (Samuel Myles, Christopher Bridge, William Hobby, East Apthorp, Thomas Newton, Francis Foxcroft, Ben- jamin Mountfort, John Indecott, Giles Dyer, John Cooke, Samuel Simpson, E. Lyde, Thaddeus Mecarty, John Nelson), 201 ; Corporators of Harvard College (Increase Mather, James Allen, Samuel Torrey, Samuel Willard, Peter Thacher, John Danforth, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Wadsworth), 203; Ebenezer Pemberton, 212; Timothy Cutler, 214; John Leverett, 217 ; Thomas Foxcroft, 221 ; Thomas Prince, 221 ; Cotton Mather, 227; Mather Byles, 228; Samuel Mather, 229; Jonathan Edwards, 231 ; George White- field, 238; Minister, etc., of King's Chapel, 1747 (Henry Caner, James Gordon, John Box, Henry Frankland, Chas. Apthorp, Edward Tyng, John Gibbins), 240; Andrew Eliot, 243; Jonathan Mayhew, 245.
CHAPTER VII.
THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS IN BOSTON. Charles C. Smith
ILLUSTRATIONS : Andrew Lemercier, 255; Peter Faneuil, 260; Faneuil Arms, 262; Letter of Faneuil, heliotype, 263; Second Faneuil Hall, 267.
AUTOGRAPHS : P. Daille, 253; Andrew Lemercier, 255, 257 ; Remonstrants (Stephen Boutineau, Zach. Johonnot, Jean Arnault, James Packnett, John Brown, Andrew Johonnot), 257 ; Andrew Faneuil, 259; Benjamin Faneuil, 259; James Allen, 263; John Scollay, 263; Peter Chardon, 263; Isaac Gridley, 263; Harrison Gray, 263; Samuel Eliot, 263; John Lovell, 265; Pierre Baudouin, 268; James Bowdoin, 268; Zach. Johonnot, 268; Stephen Boutineau, 268; Andrew Sigourney, 268; Daniel Sigourney, 268; Daniel Johonnot, 268; Philip Dumaresq, 268.
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CHAPTER VIII.
FRANKLIN, THE BOSTON BOY. George M. Towle . 269
ILLUSTRATIONS : Entry of Franklin's Birth on Town Records, 270; Entry of Baptism on Church Records, 270; Bill of Franklin's father, 271; Franklin's Birth-place, 272; the Blue Ball, 273; the Ramage Press, 275; Franklin at Twenty, 277; the Franklin Monument, 280; Franklin Statue, 290.
AUTOGRAPHS: Josiah Franklin, 271 ; John Franklin, 271; George Brownell, 273; B. Franklin, 284.
CHAPTER IX.
THE MATHER FAMILY AND ITS INFLUENCE. Henry M. Dexter . 297
CHAPTER X.
CHARLESTOWN IN THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD. Henry H. Edes 311
ILLUSTRATIONS : Charlestown before the Revolution, 329.
AUTOGRAPHS: Thomas Greaves, 311; John Cutler, Sr., 312; John Cutler, Jr., 312; James Russell, 312; Charles Lidgett, 312; John Phillips, 313; Henry Phillips, 313; Nathaniel Cary, 314 ; Jacob Greene, 315; Charles Morton, 315; Simon Bradstreet, 316; Samuel Bradstreet, 317; Joseph Stevens, 317; Hull Abbot, 318 ; John Alford, 318 ; John Harvard (1631 and 1635), 318; Thomas Prentice, 319 : Committee (James Russell, Richard Cary, David Wood, David Cheever, Peter Edes), 319; Jno. Emerson, 319; Richard Foster, Jr., 320 ; Seth Sweetser, 321 ; Robert Calley, 321; Daniel Russell, 322; Thomas Greaves, 322 ; Chambers Russell, 322; Nathaniel Dows, 323; Jonathan Dows, 323; Benjamin Dows, 323; Thomas Jenner, 323; Samuel Phipps, 323; Joseph Phillips, 323; Richard Dana, 324; Charles Chambers, 325; Joseph Lemmon, 325; Ezekiel Cheever, 325; Thaddeus Mason, 326; Eben Austin, 326; John Codman, 327 ; Joseph Lynde, 327 ; Robert Ball, 327 ; Isaac Foster, Jr., 328; Edw. Sheaffe, Jr., 328; Isaiah Edes, 328; Isaac Foster, 329; Benjamin Hurd, 330.
CHAPTER XI.
ROXBURY IN THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD. Francis S. Drake 331
ILLUSTRATIONS : Dudley's Letter from Jail, 333; Joseph Dudley, 334 ; Auchmuty House, 343; Hallowell House, 344 ; Loring or Greenough House, 345.
AUTOGRAPHS: Joseph Dudley, 334; Selectmen, 1710 (W. Dudley, Samuel Ruggles, John Mayo), 335; Joseph Heath, 336; John Gyles, 336; Nathaniel Williams, 336; Estes Hatch, 336; Selectmen, 1756 (Samuel Heath, John Davis, Increase Sumner, William Heath), 337; Selectmen, 1762 (Samuel Heath, Ebenezer Newell, Thomas Dudley, Ebenezer Pierpont), 337 ; Select- men, 1771 (Joseph Williams, Joseph Mayo, Eleazer Weld, John Williams, Nathaniel Ruggles), 338 ; Francis Bernard, 342; Robert Auchmuty, Sr. and Jr., 342; Benjamin Hallowell, 343; Joshua Loring, 344; Nathaniel Walter, 346; John Eliot, 347; Nehemiah Walter, 347 ; Benjamin Pember- ton, 349 ; Committee, 1771 (John Davis, Joseph Mayo, John Baker, Nathaniel Richards, David Weld), 349; William Gordon, 350; Paul Dudley, 351 ; William Shirley, 352 ; William Heath, 353; Joseph Warren, 354.
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CHAPTER XII.
DORCHESTER IN THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD. Samuel f. Barrows · 357
ILLUSTRATIONS : House on Willow Court, 361 ; Everett House, 367.
CHAPTER XIII.
BRIGHTON IN THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD. Francis S. Drake 369
CHAPTER XIV.
WINNISIMMET, RUMNEY MARSH, PULLEN POINT, AND CHELSEA IN THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD. Mellen Chamberlain .
375
ILLUSTRATIONS : The Old Meeting-House, 378 ; Cheever's Return of Scholars, 380. AUTOGRAPHS: Selectmen, 1764 (Thomas Pratt, Benjamin Brintnall, Samuel Sprague, Samuel Sargeant, Samuel Watts, Jr.), 385.
CHAPTER XV.
THE PRESS AND LITERATURE OF THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD. Delano A. Goddard . 387
ILLUSTRATIONS: The Boston News-Letter, 389; The Boston Gazette, 393; The New England Courant, 395; The New England Weekly Journal, 397; Master John Lovell, 401 ; Fleet's Sign, 403; The Boston Gazette or Country Journal, 405; View of Boston (1743), 408; Isaiah Thomas, 410; View of Boston (1774), 411 ; Cotton Mather's Notes, 416.
AUTOGRAPHS : John Draper, 391 ; Richard Draper, 392 ; John Boydell, 394 ; Peter Papillon, 396; Bartholomew Green, 400 ; John Gill, Edes and Gill, Benjamin Edes, 404 ; Benjamin Colman, 423; Thomas Prince, 423; William Cooper, 423; Charles Chauncy, 423; John Read, 427; Paul Dudley, 428 ; B. Prat, 430; Benjamin Church, 430; Francis Bernard, 431 ; Edward Holyoke, 431.
CHAPTER XVI.
LIFE IN BOSTON IN THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD. Horace E. Scudder
ILLUSTRATIONS: Samuel Adams, 438; Furniture, 452 ; Nicholas Boylston, 453; Thomas Hubbard, 455.
AUTOGRAPHS : Petitioners, 1714 (Thomas Walker, John Clough, Caleb Eddy, Bartholomew Green, Andrew Eliot), 439; Robert Ball, 440; Ferrymen, 1691 (Samuel Hudson, John Scolly), 441 ; Boston Merchants (Benjamin Greene, James Perkins, Christopher Tilden, John Gooch, Josiah Quincy, Thomas Flucker, Ralph Inman, John Dennie, John Rowe, Benjamin Austin, Thomas Gunter, Samuel Hewes, Thomas Hancock, George Holmes, Job Lewis, Thomas Hill, John Steel, Samuel Welles, Peter Chardon, Joseph Russel, John Wendell, Jacob Wendell, John Avery, Thomas Greene, Thomas Ox- nard, Joseph Lee, Edw. Winslow, John Jones, John Boylston, Benjamin Faneuil, James Bowdoin, James Boutineau, William Bowdoin, John Spooner, Æneas Mackay, Jonathan Binney, Samuel Sturgis, Nicholas Boylston, Isaac
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AUTOGRAPHIS (continued) :
Freeman, Henry Quincy), 445, 446; Assessors, 1708 (Samuel Lynde, B. Walker, Thomas Walker, James Barny, Richard Draper, Edw. Martyn), 450; Workhouse Committee, 1734 (Edward Hutchinson, Ezekiel Lewis, Samuel Welles, Samuel Adams, Samuel Greenwood), 458; Petitioners, 1753 (Andrew Oliver, Thomas Greene, Thomas Hubbard, Middlecott Cooke, Thomas Gunter, William Clarke, Silvester Gardiner, William Bowdoin), 461 ; William Bowdoin, 461 ; Nathaniel Holmes, 461 ; Tavern-keepers, 1684 (John Wing, Moses Payne, John Viall, George Monck, Thomas Wheeler), 463; Bakers, 1696 (Joseph Brisco, Alexander Bulman, Nathaniel Baker, William Briggs, John Bucanan, Henry Emmes, Humphrey Richards), 464 ; Tavern-keepers after 1700 (Gayer Coffin, William Bennett, John Marston, Deborah Cricke, Robert Sanders, Thomas Bayley, James Day, William Copp, Ann Pollard, Joseph Willson, Elizabeth Monck), 465; Masters of Watch-houses (William Lowdry, John Chambers, Ebenezer Winborn, Jabez Tuttle, Abia Holbrook), 482 ; Fire-wards in 1713 (John Ballentine, Timothy Clarke, Edward Winslow, Stephen Minot, Edward Martyn, Samuel Green- wood, John Greenough, Jonathan Pollard, William Lowder), 483.
CHAPTER XVII.
TOPOGRAPHY AND LANDMARKS OF THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD. Edwin L. Bynner. 491
ILLUSTRATIONS : The Present King's Chapel, 498; Triangular Warehouse, 501 ; Old Corner Book-store, 505; Old State House, 507; Christ Church, 509; Long Lane Meeting-house, 513; Old South, 515; Thomas Hancock, 519; Bromfield Mansion, 521 ; Faneuil-Phillips House, 523; Borland-Julien House, 524; Frankland House, 527; Carwitham View of Boston, 531 ; Price's View of Boston, heliotype, 532; Revere's View of Boston, heliotype, 532; British Admiralty Views of the Harbor, heliotypes, 532.
AUTOGRAPHS : South-end petitioners (Samuel Sewall, Benjamin Simpson, Samuel Adams, Daniel Henchman), 503; Petitioners for a division by wards (Abiel Walley, John Walley, Habijah Savage, Edmund Quincy, Daniel Henshaw, William Rand, Ebenezer Storer, Joseph Webb, Jabez Hunt), 511 ; Com- mittee for preserving Beacon Hill (Thomas Hancock, William Phillips, Joseph Sherburne, Joshua Henshaw, James Otis), 520; H. Frankland, col- lector, 525 ; Record of Agnes Surraige's baptism, 525.
CHAPTER XVIII.
BOSTON FAMILIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. William H. Whitmore . . 533 ILLUSTRATIONS : Sir Charles Hobby, 541 ; Thomas Boylston, 556; Chief-justice Benjamin Lynde, the elder, heliotype, 558; Chief-justice Benjamin Lynde, the younger, heliotype, 558.
AUTOGRAPHS : Selectmen, 1696 (Ephraim Savage, Bozoon Allen, Samuel Legg, Samuel Checkley, Samson Stoddard), 534 ; Selectmen, 1703 (Timothy Clarke, Daniel Oliver, Thomas Savage, Giles Dyer, Thomas Fitch), 534; Selectmen, 1709 (Ephraim Savage, Isaiah Tay, James Barnes, Timothy Clarke, Richard Draper, Daniel Powning, Jonas Clark, Samuel Marshall, Joseph Wadsworth), 535; Selectmen, 1720 (Thomas Cushing, John Marion, Ebenezer Clough, Oliver Noyes), 535; Selectmen, 1734 (John Jeffries, Edward Bromfield, William Downe, John Armitage, David Collson, Alexander Forsyth), 535; Selectmen, 1744 (Samuel Adams, Jonas Clarke, Middlecott Cooke, John - Steel, William Salter), 536; Selectmen, 1750 (Thomas Hancock, John Steel, William Salter, Samuel Grant, Thomas Hill, John Gardner), 536; Select- men, 1761 (Thomas Cushing, John Scollay, Benjamin Austin, Samuel Sewall,
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