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Number of Inhabitants (1790) estimated at 1,100. Proportion of Deaths as 1 to 34. Births, 40; Deaths, 35; natural increase, 5. Increase by immigration considerable.
1791. FEB. 13. Sarah Thompson, W. of Jona Thomp", 26, Consumption. -15. Stephen Miller, 73, Putrid fever. - A Child of Mr. Cade's (Son), 2 mo., Suffocated.
Mcu. 1. Hannah Hopping, 21, Consumption. - 12. Polly Cogswell, 15, Putrid fever. - Eliza Thompson, 8 m., Decay.
APRIL 26. A Child of Mr. Robbin's (Son), 4 m., Overlaid. - A Child of Mr. Phipps (Son), 1, Decay.
MAY 21. Thomas Brazier, 56, Bilious fever. - June. Doreas Delany, 60, Decay. - July 25. Daniel Simmonds (Stranger), 26, Erysipelas or S' Anthony's Fire.
AUG. 5. IIepzibah Larkin, 10, Putrid fever. - 12. Betsey Raymond, 10, Dropsy. - 20. Maria R. Stevens, D. of Wm. Stevens, 2 y. 6 mo., Hooping Cough.
OCT. Joseph Raymond, 3 mio., Decay. - Johnson, wife of Jona Johnson, 44, Putrid fever. - James Gould, 47, Atrophy.
DEC. 9. Abigail Hurd, Daught of B. Hurd, Jr., 3, Hooping Cough. -10. Joanna Swan, 36, Consumption. - 14. Lemuel Sheppard's twin child", 4 days, Decay, one also Still-born. - Andrew Stimp- son's child (D.), 16 mo., Ilooping cough. - Mr. [?] Ford's Child (Daugh ), 4 mo., Decay. - SEP. Josiah Willington's Son, 3 mo., Hooping Cough. - OCT. John Trumbull [?], 76. Consumption. The number of Inhabitants in this Parish this year estimated at 1,250. - Consequently the proportion of deaths is as 1 to 50. Births (1791), 47; Deaths, 25; natural increase, 22. The in- crease by immigration much greater.
1792. JAN. 1. Dr. Thomas Miller's Daught, 0, Still-born. - 20. Winne- frid Brigden, 26, Consumption, Phtisis pulmonalis.
FEB. Thomas Edes, 55, do. - David Devens, 45, Nervous fever. - Elisabeth Johnson, 85, Decay.
APRIL. Eunice Hooper, 50, Consumption. Ph. Pulmo. - Mary Floyd, 50, do.
MAY. Joseph Phipps' Son, Still-born. - Mrs. Leathers, 56, Decay. - Naphtali Newell's Son, Still-born. [Palsy.
JULY. Win. Wiley's Son, 16 mo., Decay. - Elisabeth Mallet, 66, SEP. Betsey Hooper, 21, Consumption, Ph. Pulmo. - Joseph Kid- der, 7, Convulsions. - Cotton Center's Son, IS mo., Small-Pox. - Abigail Edes, 26, do., imprudent. - Hannah Hopping, 30,
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DEATHS, 1792-1796.
do. - Lemuel Sheperd, 3, do., supposed natural way. - Abigail Frothingham, 2, do. - Polly Goodwin, 6 mo., do., rather decay. [These last six marked] innoculated.
Ocr. Samuel Austin, 90, Decay. - Lydia Hood, 88, do. - Betsey Windship, 2, Natural Small-Pox. - Bandon Temple (Negro), 70, do. - Mrs. Wedgwood, 36, do. - Ruth Wood, 81, Decay. - Wm. Allen's Son, Stillborn. - Sally Wiley, 11, Nervous fever. - Sam1 Payson's Son, 1, Canker. - Wm. H. Manning's Son, 6 mo., Decay. DEC. Betsy Devens, 14, Dysentary. - Henry P. Sweetser, 50, Hepatitis.
Births, 46; Deaths, 32; nat. increase, 14. Large no. of Emigrants added this year. A very healthy year.
1793. JAN. John Kidder's Daughter, 10, Dropsy. - FEB. Hepzibah Mansir, 24, Phithisis Pulmonalis. - James Rayner, 18, do.
MARCH. Isaac Kidder, 88, Decay. - Jonathan Kettle's Son, still- born. - Mary Penny, 70, Decay. - MAY. Elizabeth Brigden, 58, Inflamatory fever.
JULY. Catharine Kettle, 50, Ph. Pulmo. - 31. Jedh Edwards Morse, 10 mo., Gangrene.
AUG. Amos Tufts' Son, 13 mo., Canker. - Anne Scotter, 89, De- cay. - Jno. Brinkley's Daugh!, 13 mo., Canker. - Solo Phipps' Daughr, 16 mo., Diarrhea. - Sam! Rand's Daught, 5 mo., do. - Aaron Putnam's Daugh', 2, Putrid fever. - Nathan Dexter's Son, 2, Cho. Dyssentary. - Wm. Codman's Son, 1, do. - Dan! Thomp- son's Daughr, 1, do. - Lot Miriam's Daugh', 20 mo., do.
SEP. Matthew Bootman's Son, 4 mo., Canker. -- Jno. Green's Son, 13 mo., Quincy. - Jno. Wait's Son, 17 mo., Decay. - Wm. Sargeant, 44, do. - James Griffith's Son, Stillborn.
OCT. Win. H. Manning's Daugh", 4 days, Decay. - Mr. Prideaux, or Paddock, 40, Ph. Pulmo. - Mrs. LeFever, or Levarre, 60, HIamoptisis.
Nov. Eward Newel, 60, Gout. - Isaac Roger's Son, S mo. Con- vulsions. - Thos. W. Pratt's Daugh", 19 mo., Decay. - DEC. Hannah Hill, 78, Apoplexy. - Wmn. Bunton's Son, 2 weeks, Convulsions.
Births, 64; Deaths, 32; nat. increase, 32. Large increase by im- migration this year. The growth of ye town rapid. A healthful year except Aug. & Sep.
Died abroad, David Wood. - Jonathan Carter on his passage from WV. Indies, Put. fev. aged [no dates with these deaths].
1794. (26 deaths.) 1795. (38 deaths) [no names or dates entered].
1796. JAN. Samuel Mansir's D., 3 weeks. - 7th. Isaac Mallet's Child. - 10. Obadiah White's D., 4. - Dr. Putnam's Child, D. - Dr. Bartlett's, 5. - Polly Keyes, 14. - John Green, 22.
FEB. 11. Hannah Miller, 47. -- - Kendall, 45. - Richard Harris, 19. - Mr. Long's child. - Goldsmith Sherman, 22 .* - 17
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Whiting's child. - Isaac Austin, 22 .*- Sam! Wood, 22 .* - A negroe man, age unknown.
APRIL. Samuel Bodge, 53. - MAY. - Knight, 76. - Moody Whiting's Child. - JUNE. James Reid, 32. - 11. Nathaniel Gorham, 59. - Trask's Son, infant.
JULY. Joanna Swan, 72.+ - - Owebridge [?], 29. - Joseph Hurd's child, S., 9 mo. - - Larkin's child, D. - Parnel Boylston, 67. - Polly Harris, 14.
AUG. - Paul's inf: -- Mullet's inf! - - Mullet, 86. - John Brinkley's S., 6. - Symond's S., 2. - Hetty Webb, 39.t - Anna Rand, 71.1 - Geddes child, 1. - Mary Lane, 29.
SEP. Jacob Thompson's S., 1. - John Calder's S., 2. -. 9. Pru- dence Smith, 36. - Timº Walker's D., 9 mo. - - Low's child. -- Anthony Waters, 36. - Timothy Brigden, 70 .; - Anna Mirick, 70.t-John Goodwin's S., 1. - Edward Burditt, 28 .* -- Abraham Rand's S., 1. - Peter (negro), child, 2. - James Sweetser, 22 .* -29th. Isaac Mallett, 71.
OCT. 1. Choate's S., 9. - Norton's S., 2. - Sarah Call, 91.t- John Brinkley's S., 2. - Hannah Larkin, 30. - Nov. Joseph Bird's child, D. - Mary Barrett, 59. - Dan! Scott's D. - Sally Skimmer, 24. - DEC. Wait Pratt's child. - Abigail Lord, 92.+ N. B. Stillborn this year, three. - t Members of ye Chh., 7. - * Died abroad, 5. Deaths, 65; Births, 83; natural Increase, 18. This year has been healthy. No prevalent mortal discase. Notwithstanding it has been a remarkably dying year. The Parish has increased greatly by immigrations.
1797. JAN. 1. Mary Paine, 56, Fistula. - 5. Nath! Rand's Son, 3, Quin- sey. - 28. George Calder, news of his death arrived from the W. Indies, 32, Yellow fever, at Demerary. - 31. J. P. Duncklee's Son, 2 mo., Decay.
FEB. 8. Sam! Frothingham's Son, 1 day, Fits. - 13. George Runey, 39, Dissentary, or West India flux. - 20. N. Trash's Son, 8 days, Fits. - 22. Lydia Duncklee, 38, Phithisis Pulmonalis. - Moody Whiting's Son, stillborn.
MARCHI 8. - Barker (Widow), 76, Decay. - 9. Hannah Breed, 14, Consumption. - 12. Mary Curven, 43, Cancer in womb. - 16. Eldad Whiting's Son, Stillborn. - 19. Fanny Russell, 17, Nervous fever. - Sam. Niles', Jr., Son, Stillborn.
APRIL 6. Eben" Gage's Daughr, 2, Quinsey. - 14. Elisabeth Phipps, 75, Decay. - 22. John Keyes, Jr., 19, Nervous fever. - 28. Hannah Jackson, 42, Apoplexy. - MAY 10. James Breed, 29, Consumption. - 11. Sam! Austin's Son, 4, Fits.
JUNE 2. Wm. Knapfel's Son, 10 mo., Canker, - 5. Elisabeth Bisp- ham, 72, Palsey. - 26. Harriet H. Talbot, 23, Phthisis Puhın., died at Menotomy, Cambridge. - 29. Sally Frothingham, 26, Phthisis Pulm.
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JULY 2. Betsey Rayner, 20, do., do. - 4. Richard Miller, 78, De- cay. - 17. David Wood, 87, Cancer. - 21. Abigail Kemble, 27, Ph. Pulm.
AUG. 15. Richª Pierce, 40, drowned. - 21. Griffin's negro child, 9 mo., Fitts.
SEP. 2. Milicent Ball, 56, Decay. - 5. Wm. H. Manning's Son, 5 mo., Canker. - 6. Rebecca Frothingham, 48, Dropsy. - Jnº Harris' Son, 16 mo., Convulsions. - 15. Hannah Rhodes, 83, Decay.
OCT. 6. Jedh Morse's Son, 5 mo., Inflammation of ye brain occa- sioned by a fall. - 7. Elisabeth Taylor, 33, Nervous fever. - 13. - Ayer's Son, 13 mo., Dissentary. - 14. Win. Leathers, 65, Hepatitis. - 26. Betsey Robbins, 8, Worms. - 27. Isaac Mallet's Son, 10 weeks, Canker. - James Frothingham's Son, 5, Dissentary.
Nov. 5. Bela Mitchell, 37, Putrid fever, tanner & butcher. - 15. Betsey IIall, 27, do., or Bilious fever. - 30. Sam1 Sprague's Son, 11 mo., Decay.
DEC. 19. Ilannah Brazier, 53, Consumption. - 20. Elkanah Welch, 72, do. - 23. Anna Lynch, 96, Old age. - 29. Mrs. Baker, about 30.
Total, 50. 1 upwards of 90; 2 between 80 and 90; 5 do., 70 and 80.
[Names of those who died were not recorded after this date, but some sta- tisties are given. ]
No. of Deaths in Charlestown within the Neck.
1798, 40, of whom 3 were between 80 and 90, S upwards of 50. - 1799, 60 (?), of whom 7 were above 60. - 1800 [blank]. - 1801, 95, of whom 2 were upwards of 70. - 1802, 79. - 1803, 57 (do., 6). - 1804, 68 (do., 9). - 1805, 76 (do., 5). - 1806, 80 (do., 6). - 1807, 90, of whom 2 ab. 90, 5 bet. 80 aud 90, 8 bet. 70 and 80. - 1808, 78. - 1809, 81, of whom 3 were chh. members, 4 above 70. Population about 3,500 (1 in 15). - 1810, 63, of whom 6 were above 70; population about 4,000, 1 to 63. - 1811, 100 (3=80-90; 13=70-80; 6=60-70). - 1812, 93 (2=80 -90; 5=70-80; 4=60-70). - 1813, 115 (3 above 80; 7=70- 80; 5= 60-70; 7=50-60; 17 = 10- 50; 10 =30-40; 12 == 20-30; 7 = 10-20; and 47 under 10, of whom 28 were infants, Beside 27 soldiers died, in town, & about 20 at the Marine Hospital and State's Prison).
1811, 79 (2 above 80; 4=70 - 80; 11 =40 - 70; 37 1 and under). 1815, 100 (6 above 80; 11=70-80; 34=30 -70; 36, 2 yrs. and under; see Ser. on 1. Kings, 18, 21, preached Jan. 7, 1816).
1816, 128 (2 above 80; 10 = 70 - 80; 5 = 60 - 70; 15 == 40 - 60; 25 = 20-40; 24=2-20; 21 under 2; 20 still born). - 1817, 162 (2 above 80; 6=70-80; 12= 50 -70; 50 =20 - 50; 90 under 20, of whom 63 were infants). A sickly year. - 1818, 92 (1 above 80; 5=70 - 80; 8= 60-70; 33 = 20 - 60; under 2, 23).
1819, 128 (5 above 80; 3=70 - 80; 1= 60 - 70; 7= 50 - 60; 12 = 40-50; 13=30 -40; 17 = 20-30; 13=4-20; 37 under).
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[The statistics, kept to this date by Dr. Morse, are continued by Dr. Fay.]
Deaths. Under 10. 10-20. 20-30. 30-40. 40-50. 50-60. 60-70. 70-80. 80-90. 90-100-
1820.
90
51
3
6
4
8
4
2
5
1821.
144
82
1
17
14
12
8
6
1
1822.
105
54
3
5
11
13
5
6
4
4
1823.
83
40
5
S
10
6
6
3
4 8
1 3 8
4
1826.
135
66
6
12
8
16
11 15 4
5
6
1827.
115
51
6
17
17
S
3
4
1
1828.
96
59
3
9
6
6
6
6
1
1
1829.
106
52
5
17
12
5
5
4
1
1830.
90
15
2
4
S
9
3
6
1
1
4 5 2
1824.
87
3
10
10
1
5
1825.
166
78
10
28
14
5
1 1
Not including the public Establishments, State Prison, MeLean Hospital, Marine Hospital, Navy Yard, and Almshouse (12 in the last, 1828). 1830 does not include " the Catholics."
A considerable amount of Charlestown Records are printed.
Land Records, 1638-1802, including the "Possessions," 1638; Streets, 1670 ; Surveys, 1713-14, 1767, and 1802, etc., are in the Third Report of the Record Com- missioners, Boston, 2d ed., 1883. - Extracts from the Town Records, 1646 to 1814, quite full, and many of them important, made by Wm. Sawyer, are in the B. Hill Aurora, 1838 (Bib., p. 60), of which there is a file in the C. Public Library. - Church Records, complete, 1632-1789, were prepared by James F. Hunnewell. Sce Bib., and p. 193. Also 1789-1832, on pp. 193-260. - Those of the Harvard Church since 1816 were prepared by H. H. Edes (Bib., p. 87). - Many extracts from Church, Lodge, Society, and Town Records are in publications to which the Bibliography directs.
"The Genealogies and Estates" of C., 1629-1818 (2 vols., 1880), also contains an immense number of items from Records and other sources, but by no means all the personal data available (compare List, pp. 157-74, Church Record above, and pp. 193-259, herein). The author died when his proof-reading had extended only a few pages, and an arduous labor was committed by him to his editor, who was thus obliged to follow, to great extent, the MIS. as he left it. Modest as he was laborious, the author would hardly have claimed that he had found and done every- thing, yet he did a vast deal. He had a strong attachment to his native town, and no expression of it could be more touching than his when the writer congratulated him that his life-work had reached the printer. He raised both hands and threw back his head with a silent look of heart-felt delight, and that look was on his face when the writer for the last inoment saw him.
The manuscript Records of the Town were in much need of care, arrangement, and binding ; indeed some of them were only bound in boxes or barrels. Accord- ingly one of the last aets of the City Council (1873) was to appropriate funds for this purpose. Fortunately there was a native who has a strong regard for the old place, and an intelligent conception of good work. To him was assigned the labor now approaching completion. The necessary expenditures will probably leave him with the frequent reward gained in services for history, - a clear eonscience and invisible pecuniary profits ; but the Records of the old town will be in thorough order, associated, as they should be, with the name of Henry II. Edes.
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EYE-SALVE, . Or WATCH-WORD From our Lord Iefus Chrift unto his Churches :
Efpecially thole within the Colony of the MASSACHUSETS In NEW-ENGLAND To take heed of A poftacy : 0 R
A Treatife of Remembrance of what God hath been to us, as alfo what we ought, and what we ought not to be to him, as we de- fire the prolonging of our Profperous Dayes in the Land which the Lord our God hath given us.
By Thoma: Shepard, Teacher of the Church of Chrift .in Charlftown;
Who was appointed by the Magiftrate:, to Preach on the day of ELECTION ,at . Bolton, May 15. 1672.
Deut. 8. 10, &c.when thou haft. Eaten, and art full, then thou Shalt Ble's the Lord thy God, for the good Llana which he hath given thee : Be- ware that thou forget not the Lord thy God in notskeeping bis Com- manaments, &c ... Left when thou haft eaten and art full ----. thine Heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God.
Chap 5. 32, 33. Ye Shall obferve to do therefore as the Lord your Ged bath eommanved jou : you shall not turn afide to the right handor to the left, you shall walk in all the wayes which theLord your God hathCom- manded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may Prolong your dayes in the Land which ye fhall poffels.
Cambridge Printed by Samuel Green. 1 6 7 3.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF CHARLESTOWN, MASS., AND BUNKER HILL.
Additions to this work by the writer (8º, pp. viii + 100, three fac- similes) with about 1,100 titles, published by Jas. R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1880. - Also, lists of native and resident authors,1 and of works printed in the town from 1786 to 1836.
A lot of books and pamplilets, - hundreds of them, - some old or shabby, or looking as if no one had ever cared to use them; many of them obscure; enough of them apparently uninteresting, and nearly all scarce, or very scarce, - what do they, except some of the recent books, amount to ? is a common enough thought or question. " Paper- stock" is, or was, a not infrequent answer, and accordingly only few copies have survived. They are something very different, others know, who gather and save them ; for they are an important portion of the intellectual record of the people in an old American town, that lias been slowly made since the country was settled. It was not an aca- demic seat, like Cambridge, or a capital like Boston, neither was it a small, obscure place; but it was a large, active, fairly representative town, and the printed work of its inhabitants, from first to last, is very well worth an index.
None of these books or pamphlets were written or issued without a purpose, or a conviction that they were needed or desirable. Ideas, beliefs, or plans at the time are shown, - it may be only those con- sidered important enough, or that were somehow lucky or unlucky enough to be printed, - yet they are, after all, some of the best evi- dence we have of the thought and feeling of eight generations.
No more preface is needed, and the writer continues his work pub- lished in 1880, with the thought that while he then named everything
1 Those of single reports or addresses, and works of residents after leaving the town, are generally omitted. Books and pamphlets only, are mentioned, and arti- cles in periodicals or newspapers are not, except in regard to Bunker Hill, and in a few cases for special reason.
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he could find after laborious search, and while he has added much, no Bibliography is complete. It is one of the things in which we do and offer the best we can, without claim to omniscience.
Every one of our old towns needs such an index, and each of the local libraries, now happily growing numerous, should have the local works it would mention. The writer's experience for years past is that persistent search - that only - with the chief reliance on pur- chase, can form it, but the time for doing so is fast passing away.
In preparing this Bibliography, he has the pleasure of acknowledg- ing kind help from the late Admiral G. H. Preble, the Hon. Sam! A. Green, Judge J. W. Austin, Mr. A. E. Cutter, Mr. E. M. Barton, and Mr. E. F. Everett ; also, while printing the book, other aid from Miss Helen Hurd, Dr. E. J. Forster, and Mr. H. II. Edes ; and in enlarg- ing the work, aid from Miss Mary F. Andrews, Mr. T. G. Frothingham (and his father's collection), Mr. C. H. Guild, and Mr. E. N. Coburn ; also from authors for notes of their works, furnished by Dr. C. S. Cartee, Mr. A. E. Cutter, the Hon. Charles Devens, the Rev. R. M. Devens, Dr. E. J. Forster, Gen. J. F. B. Marshall, Mr. J. B. O'Reilly, Admiral Preble, the Rev. A. S. Twombly, D.D., and Mr. W. W. Wheil- don. Help has also been found in several libraries, public or society, and not a little in sale catalogues.
BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.
A CHAINE of SCRIPTURE CHRONOLOGIE from the CREATION of the WORLD to the death of IESVS CHRIST, in feven Periods. By [ Rev.] Thomas] A[llen]. Title within a border engraved by W. Hollar. [Fac-simile in the Bibliography.] Sm. 4º. pp. iv + 240, eight folding charts. London, 1659.
- The Same, pp. ii + 210, Printed and " sold by John Allen, that for- merly lived at the Sun rifing in Little Britain, and now lives at the White Horse in Wentworth ftreet near White chappel." London, 1668.
The Rev. Thos. Allen was one of two out of the eleven ministers of the First Church before the Revolution who returned to England, and who did not die in the ministry of the Church.
THE | PARABLE | OF THE | Ten Virgins | OPENED & APPLIED ; | Being the Subftance of divers | SERMONS | on Matth. 25. 1,-13. Now Publifhed from the Authours own Notes, at the defires of many, for the common Benefit of the Lords people, By Jonathan Mitchell, Minifter at Cambridge, Tho. Shepard, Son to the Reverend Author, now Minifter at Charles-Town in NEW ENGLAND. Sm. folio. pp. viii + 240 + 203 + 5. Printed by J. II. for John Rothwell and Samuel Thomfon. London, 1660.
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- The Same. " Re-printed, and carefully Corrected in the Year 1695." Sm. folio. pp. vi + 232 + 190 +5. No place. [London, 1695.] - The Same, 2 vols, Falkirk, 1797, and (with a Biographical Preface by Jas. Foote, D.D.). 8°. pp. xviii + ix - xiv + ii + 17 - 592. Aberdeen (also Edinburgh and London) 1853.
HILTON, Wm. A Relation of a Discovery lately made on the Coast of Florida (31° to 33°, 45, N.) in the ship Adventure from Barbadoes in 1663. 4to. London, 1664. The Same, Bristol, for R. Moon, 1664.
There is a copy in the British Museum, and one was in the library of the late Peter Force. The author (?) married Mehetabel Nowell (1659), and was ad- mitted to the Church (1670), both in C., and died in 1675.
OAKES, Rev. U. Elegie on Rev. Thomas Shepard. 4º. pp. 16. Cambridge, 1677.
In Thomas's "Hist. of Printing " (Arch. Amer., V. 70), in the ante-Revolu- tionary Publications (do., VI. 316), and in Kettell's "American Poetry" (1829, III. 379), it is stated that this work was printed in 1668, - the last says at Boston, as also (but in 1677) says Mr. Frothingham ("Ilist. of C.," 191). 1668 is seven years before the press was established there, and nine years before Mr. Shepard died. The true title is shown by a fac-simile in the Bibliography. It is possibly the earliest title of a poem both written and printed within the limits of the United States.
THATCHER, Rev. Thos. A Fast of God's chusing, Plainly opened. A Fast Sermon. 4º. pp. 6 + 25. Introduction by Rev. I. Mather. Boston, 1678.
The author, first pastor of the "Old South," Boston, was a member of the 1st eh. in C., Oct. 24, 1669, to Feb. 16, 1670.
[THOMPSON, Benjamin. ] " New England's Crifis. | THE | PROLOGUE." A Poem on Philip's War. Sm. 8º. pp. 31. [1675 or 1676?]
The poet (who died in 1714, aged 74) was teacher of the Town School, C., Jan., 1670/71 to Nov. 7, 1674 ; consequently the above must have been writ- ten after he left (?) C. The only copy found by the writer (B. A.) lacks the title-page and one leaf, and begins on A 3 (p. 5) and ends, as does the work, on B + (p. 31). Under fourteen lines (p. 29) on "Chelmsford's Fate," are eight lines in small italics, to which, at the foot of the page, is added in print "B. Tompfon." Nearly all publications in N. E. to 1679, except Almanacs, were folio and 4°; but this, like " Anne Bradstreet's Poems," Boston, 1678, was 16º or small 8°. "In the beginning of April (1676) they [the Indians] did fome mifchief at Chelmsford," says Increase Mather (Brief Hist., 1676), so that "The Crisis " must have been printed after that date; and if it was in the samo year, its interest rivals that of "The Elegie."
LORD, Rev. Josephi. Reason Why, not Anabaptist Plunging But Infant- Believer's BAPTISM Ought to be approved, is because the LORD JESUS CHRIST and His Apostles, Preached it and Practiced it. In Answer to the Anabaptist Reason Why. Sm. 12º. pp. (2), 8, 170. Printed by S. Kneeland for Samuel Gerrish, at his Shop in Cornhill, Boston, 1719.
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See Bibliography, 1748 (p. 9). He was a native of C., who went to the Caro- linas, and is said to have administered the first Communion there Feb. 2, 1696. At his departure was the Rev. John Danforth's Sermon, "Kneeling to God, At Parting with Friends." (12º. pp. 72, Boston, 1697.)
ELEAZER PHILLIPS (Bib., p. 6), the first bookseller in C., and only one before the Revolution, published a few small books, now extremely rare, of which the writer has found four, as follows : -
THREE PRACTICAL DISCOURSES. I. Man's Laft End, by Mr. J. Janeway. II. A Golden Chain of Four Links: or, The Four Laft Things Briefly Difcours'd of. With Some Directions to Die well, in order to Avoid Hell, and obtain Heaven. III. A SERMON on Dives & Lazarus. Pub- lifhed for the greater Comfort of thofe that tafte the Bitterness of Affliction, The Two Laft, by famous Authors. Bofton : Printed by T. Fleet and T. Crump, for Eleazar Phillips in Charlestown. 1715. Small 12°. pp. 96.
DORRINGTON, Theophilus. " A familiar Guide to the right-profitable re- ceiving of the Lord's Supper, wherein also The Way and Method of our Salvation is briefly and plainly declared. Seventh Edition. Bos- ton, Re-Printed by J. Franklin for Eleazer Phillips at Charlestown and Sold at his Shop. 1718.
Vital Christianity : | A brief | ESSAY | On the Life of God, | in the | SOUL of MAN ; | Produced and Maintained by a | Christ living in us: [ and | The Mystery of a Christ | Within Explained. | Printed by Samuel Keimer for Eleazer Phillips in Charles-Town in New England, and sold at Rice Peter's in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Sm. 8°. pp. (4), 30 +1. 1725.
The last page has a notice of an Almanac for 1726 to be issued, and the fol- lowing paragraphs : "Printed by Samuel Keimer, in Philadelphia, where Country-Chapmen and all Shop-keepers may be furnished there with. And also Sold by Eleazer Phillips in Charlestown, in New England." The only copy known to the writer is in the Prince Library ; it has a recent MS. state- ment on the title "By C. Mather." It is not in any Mather collection known to the writer, or in Mr. Brinley's of works by Keimer (15 from 1724 to 1720).
Keimer printed pamphlets on a poor press, kept a small shop and sold blanks, candles, soap, etc. (Arch. Amer., V. 231.) Phillips had the "Dorrington," 1718, printed by James Franklin in Boston, and may thus have become ac- quainted with his brother Benjamin, who in 1723 went to Phile and worked for Kcimer (but was in London in 1725).
STEVENS, Rev. Joseph. Another and Better Country, 1723 (See Bib., p. 7). Printed by S. Kneeland for E. Phillips at his Shop in Charlef- town. Preface, pp. xii, by Benj. Colman, Boston, Feb. 18, 1723. The second Sermon, The Heavenly Country (at p. S1) has only a heading, but the third, on Rev. Wm. Brattle (at p. 71) has a full title with a black border, but not the name of Phillips.
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ABBOT, Rev. Hull. Early Piety Defcribed and Recommended. | A | SER- MON | Preach'd to a Society | of | YOUNG MEN | EN COARZES- TOUUN, | July 8th 1739. | (Two texts. ) BOSTON: Printed by S. Knee- land and T. Green, in Queen-street over againft the Prifon, 1739. 8º. pp. (2), ii, 24.
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