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Sabine says: " Early in the war he embarked for Nova Scotia, was shipwrecked on the passage, and perished "; but it was other- wise. It does not appear where he was between 1775 and 1779, when, in September, he arrived in New York City on "His Majesty's Ship Blonde," A. Barclay, Esq., Commander, which
5 For an account of this fort see Williamson, History of Belfast, Maine, pp. 50-58; Bangor Hist. Mag., vii. 61. The Journal of Governor Pownall during his expedition to erect it is in Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., v. 365.
6 See Knox Papers, Ii. 1, 11; 1. 176-180, in MSS. Coll. N. E. Gen. Soc.
7 House Journal, p. 194; also Journals of the Provincial Congress, May 15, 1775.
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brought adviees of British sueeesses on the Penobseot.8 Dee. 23, 1779, he sailed thenee for England, where. Hutehinson notes his arrival at Portsmouth, Feb. 15, 1780.º Curwen 1º wrote June 28, 1782, " Met T. Goldthwait, and rode with him to Charing Cross ; invited me to dine at his house, Walthamstow " (near London). Also July 27, 1782, " Dined at New England Coffee-House on fish, in company with Mr. Flueker, Franeis Waldo, Mr. Hutchinson, Thomas Goldthwait." July 29. " Through Haekney to Waltham- stow, where dined with Mr. Goldthwait."
According to the gravestones in Walthamstow ehurehyard lis wife Catherine died Dee. 16, 1796, aged 81, and he died August 31, 1799, aged 83. Two nephews, sons of his brother Joseph, were aeeounted loyalists : Joseph, Major and Barraek-master of the King's troops in Boston, proscribed and banished in 1778, died in New York Oet. 3, 1779; and Philip, an offieer of the eustoms at Biddeford, Maine, at the outbreak of war, and later, it is said, a member of the King's household as Gentleman of the Bed Chamber.11
Some very unfavorable accounts of Col. Goldthwait have been published, which I do not feel at liberty to withhold, but in referring to them suggest, first, that they were mainly written after he had beeome obnoxious as a loyalist; secondly, that his position on the Penobseot was one in which it would have been impossible to proteet the just rights of the Indians against tur- bulent frontiersmen outside any effieient government, without ineurring their hostility, sinee their only sense of justice was their desire for exelusive possession of lands whiel rightfully belonged to the original oeeupants. In 1859, one hundred years after the founding of the fort, a writer in the New England Historieal and Genealogieal Register 12 said : " Col. Goldthwaite lias left behind him in the valley of the Penobseot a bad reputa- tion. He was arbitrary, eruel, and an extortioner. The Indians complained loudly of his unfair treatment of them in his dealings with them." This view of the man was aeeepted by Joseph Wil- liamson, the historian of Belfast, Maine, who speaks of him as " an unscrupulous man of considerable ability." 13 R. Goldthwait
8 R. Goldthwait Carter, " Col. Thomas Goldthwait - Was He A Tory," p. 95.
Diary, ii. 341.
10 Journal and Letters (ed. 1864), 381.
11 Boston Transcript, December 2, 1893; House Journal, Nov. Sess. 1775, pp. 225, 227, etc.
12 Vol. xiv. 8.
13 See also his letter to Judge Chamberlain, November 17, 1893, in Chamberlain MSS., viii. 135; Bangor Hist. Mag. (November, 1886), v. 87.
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Carter read before the Maine Historical Society Dec. 19, 1895, a paper on " Col. Thomas Goldthwait - Was He a Tory?" which shows much research, and a commendable purpose to reseue from reproach one whose blood he inherits.
Col. Thomas Goldthwait's connection with Chelsea extended over about ten years. Sept. 1, 1752, Henry Atkins, Ezekiel and Thomas Goldthwait, and four associates purchased from Lt. Thomas Pratt 140 aeres at Point Shirley,14 where a fishing station was estab- lished. This enterprise was favored by Gov. Shirley, whose name was given to the locality. It also received encouragement from the town of Boston, which voted May 15, 1753, to lease Deer Island to the proprietors for seven years at twenty shillings a year on condition that twenty vessels belonging to the inhabitants of Boston should be employed in the fishery at the Point, " the above said Vessells to be of the Burthen of Forty Tuns, One with the other." 15 The lessees were to keep the buildings in repair, and pay the taxes. At a town meeting held June 12, 1758, inquiry being made whether the condition had been complied with, the proprietors acknowledged that they had been prevented by the war with the French from sending out as many vessels or sehooners as their lease required, " having had three or four Vessells taken when a fishing by the French," but when the war ended " they intended to carry on the Fishery again at said Point Shirley." They offered to yield up the island to the town. Thomas Gold- thwait was lessee of the island from Dee. 1, 1758 to Dec. 1, 1765 at £28 a year, and Ebenezer Pratt was his under-tenant.16 The fishing enterprise at Point Shirley was doomed to ultimate failure.
Apparently Thomas Goldthwait, a merchant in Boston, was heavily in debt when, a few years after the purehase, he settled at Point Shirley. Thus April 5, 1750, he owed Josiah Quiney £300, and November 24, 1753, James Boutineau of Boston, merehant, a like sum. Neither had been paid June 1, 1757, when he mortgaged his interests at Point Shirley to his brother Ezekiel to seeure the latter in serving as his bondsman. His interest then was one eighth of the lands, "Together with all such Dwelling Houses Warehouses Edifices & Buildings that I have Ereeted, or that now stand upon said Land." 17 Feb. 15, 1753, he denominated himself in a conveyanee as of Boston; July 17, 1755, as of Chelsea.18 One
14 Suff. Deeds, L. 81, f. 154.
15 Boston Rec. Com. Rep., xiv. 236, 237.
10 Supra, p. 143. In 1759, troops were in barracks at Point Shirley.
17 Suff. Deeds, L. 91, f. 2.
18 Ibid., L. 82, f. 35; L. 87, f. 121. The birth of his daughter Mary, March 1, 1753, was recorded at Boston; that of Henry, in 1759, at Chelsea; that of Jane at neither place.
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of his shop-bills,1º June 26, 1754, to February 19, 1756, indicates that he carried on a general merchandise business, possibly at Point Shirley, where he was taxed in 1755 for four schooners, and for his " faculty," as a man's ability and opportunities for acquiring wealth were called.
In March, 1753, and again in 1754, the town of Chelsea voted to remit the year's taxes to the proprietors and inhabitants of Point Shirley; but by 1755 the business was prosperous apparently. The residents then came forward to demand a share in the man- agement of town affairs. March 10, 1755, Chelsea voted " yt the Frecholders of Shirley point & othr Inhabitants legally qualified be Voters in our Town Meetings "; also that "the Number of Select Men be 5 and 1 of 'em to be at Shirley point." Thomas Goldthwait was the selectman chosen. Two constables were also elected, one of whom, " Jnº Wormsted," was from Point Shirley. In May of the same year, it was voted to post notifications of town meetings at Shirley Point. At the annual town meeting in March, 1756, Thomas Goldthwait was again chosen selectman and " John Wormstill," constable, and Capt. Moses Bennett "Survey" of high Ways at ye point." New officials were then created, cullers of fish : John Wormstill and John Pomeroy. May 18, 1756, Thomas Goldthwait was chosen moderator of the town meeting, an honor hitherto reserved for Hon. Samuel Watts or Capt. Nathaniel Oliver. At this meeting it was voted that the tax collected at Point Shirley for the support of the ministry should be expended there.20 June 27, 1757, John Chandler was approved by the select- men as innholder at the Point.21
Throughout his residence at Point Shirley Thomas Goldthwait was one of the leading men of Chelsea, and from 1757 its repre- sentative in the General Court.22 From the first he seems to have supported the Governor's party. Dec. 9, 1757, he voted with the minority, including Chambers Russell and Michael Dalton, for the use of the militia " on certain Occasions " in defence of the Province.23 He entered the Legislature in June, 1757; during the following December and January, as a member of the Com- mittee " on Petitions from sick and wounded Soldiers," he began to have an active share in the committee work of the House.24 At
19 Chamberlain MSS. iii. 72.
20 See infra, chap. xxvi. note 20.
Chamberlain MSS., iv. 53.
22 See supra, pp. 586, note 9; 589, note 13.
23 For other votes see October 12, 1758; February 3, 1762; February 1, 1764, etc.
House Journal, pp. 227, 242, 243, 251, 252, 257, 286, 293, 294, 295, 304, etc.
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the December session, 1758, he was placed on a joint committee of the two houses to prepare a " new impression of the perpetual laws," the edition of 1759. March 28, 1759, he was chosen one of three Commissioners for settling the affairs of the Land Bank. 25 After the fire in Boston, which destroyed a tenth of the town, he was one of a joint committee of the House and Council, March 25, 1760, to consider the Governor's message on the rebuilding of the town, and the widening and opening of streets.26
June 27, 1760, he was appointed by the Council to pay the army " at the Westward." .He journeyed to Crown Point and elsewhere, and, aeeording to his memorial, was three years in settling accounts with 4000 soldiers. April 23, 1762, Gov. Bernard in a message to the Legislature wrote: "Upon my undertaking to raise the Pro- vineial Troops for the last Year, I found it quite necessary to have a Secretary extraordinary for that Department. I accordingly engaged Mr. Goldthwait, a Gentleman of your own House, wholly unexeeptionable, and in some Respeets particularly qualified for that Business. The Punetuality and Integrity with which he hath executed that Offiee, deserve my Commendation, and the Attention which he hath had to the Interests of the Provinee in Matters of Account and Expenee, intitles him to your Favour. I therefore recommend to you, to grant him a Compensation for his Service for the Year past." 27 April 24, 1762, the House voted £150 to Thomas Goldthwait " for going to New York to settle an Affair with Sir Jeffery Amherst, relative to the Troops; and paying the billetting Money to the Soldiers, and for his assisting in raising the Levies, and all other Services to this Day." 28 In a special message dated June 2, 1763, Governor Bernard said : " I Must again recom- mend to you to make a Compensation to Mr. Goldthwait for the last Year's Serviee in his assisting me in the Care of the Provincial Troops," the need of such "a Seeretary extraordinary for that department," having been pointed out in the message of April 23, 1762. In response thereto, £150 was granted.29 The Boston News-Letter of June 23, 1763, printed an order to army offieers signed June 18 by " 'Thomas Goldthwait, Seer'y at War." 30 May 27, 1763, he was appointed one of a committee of three to " pro- vide a New Impression of the Temporary Laws, with a Table to the same." 31 June 11, he was added to the committee for the
25 Acts and Resolves of Prov. of Mass., i. xiv; iv. 189.
26 Ibid., iv. 357.
House Journal (1761, 1762), p. 326.
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Ibid., 331; Council Records, December 2, 1761.
20 House Journal (1763, 1764), 48, 79.
30 See also Mass. Archives, xcix. 154, 184; Council Records, July 17, 1761.
31 House Journal, p. 13; Council Records, July 27, 1763.
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repair of the Castle 32; June 15, he was chosen one of a com- mittee of five to examine during the recess of the Legislature the accounts of the agent in England.33
Sept. 19, 1763, the Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser stated that Thomas Goldthwait, " Secretary at War," had been appointed cap- tain and truckmaster at Fort Pownall. Early in the same month Governor Bernard left Boston for a visit eastward, whence hc returned about the middle of October. In his message to the Leg- islature Jan. 14, 1764, he announced that he had " commissioned Capt. Goldthwait to the Command of Fort [Pownall] ; and by the Advice of the Council, appointed him Truckmaster " there, these offices having been resigned by General Preble. "Soon after this Appointment I went with Capt. Goldthwait to Fort-Pownall," for the regulation of the trade there and Indian affairs. Governor Ber- nard advised the appointment of a chaplain and the augmenting of the garrison, referring the Legislature to Capt. Goldthwait for details. The appointment was confirmed, the garrison was aug- mented, a chaplain was provided, and it was voted to build a " Barrack " 40 X 24 to shelter the Indians against cold and storm when they came to trade.34 At this time, as it happened, there was an epidemic of small pox, and the House in fcar thereof adjourned to Cambridge January 16. On January 21 an order was brought down from the Council for the concurrence of the House, permit- ting the inoculation of the people of Boston at Point Shirley.35 February 8, 1764, the proprietors of Point Shirley and the select- men of Boston met in the Council Chamber at the call of Governor Bernard. " And his Excellency in Council represented to the Proprietors the great Advantage that might probably arise to the Publick if the Houses at Point Shirley might be improved for Inoculation, and recommended to them to consent thereto, and thereupon they declared their Willingness that the said Houses should be so improved. And His Excellency with the Advice of the Council was pleased to approve thereof, and it was Recom- mended to the Selectmen to give Publick notice." The town of Chelsea ordered the sclectmen to remonstrate to the Governor and Council, but finally yielded.36 This ended Thomas Gold- thwait's connection with Chelsea. Thenceforth his history belongs to Maine.
32 House Journal (1763, 1764), 85.
33 Ibid., 102; see also pp. 19, 26, 34, 35, 56, 70, 149, 177, etc.
24 Ibid., 190, 202, 208, 209, 246.
35 Ibid., 214.
36 See infra, vol. ii.
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ALLEN VS. EUSTACE
Writ of Allachment 1
Suffolk ss :
GEORGE the second by the Grace of God of Great Brit- ain, France and Jreland King Defender of the Faith &ca :
To the Sherriff of our County of Suffolk his Under Sherriff or Deputy Greeting. -
WE COMMAND you that you summon Joshua Eustice Housewright and Abigail Eustice Widow both of Chelsea in our County of Suffolk (if they may be found in your preeinct) to appear before our Iustices of our Inferiour Court of Common pleas to be holden at Boston within and for our said County of Suffolk on the first Tuesday of October next then & there in our said Court to Answer to John Allen of Boston in the County of Suffolk Goldsmith a person non compos mentis who sues by William Fairfield of Boston aforesaid Bricklayer his Guardian, Hannah Danforth of Taunton in our County of Bristol Widow, Jeremiah Wheelwright of Boston aforesaid Gentleman, James Allen of Boston aforesaid an Infant, William Allen of Boston aforesaid an Infant, Jeremiah Allen of Boston aforesaid an Infant - Martha Allen of Boston aforesaid an Infant which said Infants sue by their Guardian Abiel Walleye of Boston aforesaid Esquire, Jonathan Belcher of Halifax in our Province of Nova Scotia Esquire and Abigail his Wife , Jn a plea of Ejectment wherein the plants: Demand against the Defendts the possession of a Messuage and about Two hundred acres of Land adjoyning situate in Chelsea aforesaid bounded as follows to wit Southeasterly and Southwesterly on the River, North- westerly partly on the highway and on Land in the possession of Samuel Watts Esq , Northeasterly partly on Land in the possession of Samuel Sprague and partly on Bass Creek so called. Wherc- upon the plants say that Richard Bellingham late of Boston aforc- said Esq deceased was seized of the demanded premisses in his demesne as of Fee and being so seized on the twenty Eighth day of November A. D. 1672. by his last Will and Testament in writing
1 Court Files, Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk County, July term, 1758. The original writ with the official endorsements thereon.
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duly proved and approved an Authentic Copy of which Will and Probate thereof in Court shall be produced devised the premisses among other Lands after the decease of his Wife to his Son Samuel Bellingham for life, and after his decease to the said Samuel's Daughter Elizabeth Bellingham for Life, and after her deccase to John Oxenbridge & James Allen both of Boston aforesaid Clerks John Russell of Hadley and Anthony Stoddard of Boston Shop- keeper and their heirs in trust for certain pious & charitable pur- poses in said last Will and Testament particularly set forth and declared, and afterwards, Vizt: on the thirtieth of the same No- vember, the said Richard Bellingham died so seized of the prem- isses, and after the death of the said Richard's Wife the said Samuel Bellingham entered & was seized of the demanded prem- isses for the term of his natural Life & being so seized on the third day of August A. D. 1702 died, after whose Death the premisses by force of the said devise came to the said Elizabeth Bellingham and she became seized thercof for term of her life, and afterwards, Vizt on the third day of February A. D. 1745 died, and the plants further say that the said James Allen the Devisee survived all the other Devisees in the said last Will and Testament named, and on the twenty second day of May A. D. 1705 was only living of the said devisees & so became solely seized of the remainder aforesaid expectant on the said Elizabeth's life to execute the trust in said Will set forth, and thus surviving and being seized the said James Allen on the twenty second of September A. D. 1710 died so seized, and the plants are all the heirs and representatives of the said James Allen to wit the said John Allen is son of the said Devisee James Allen, the said Hannah Danforth is daughter of the said Devisee James Allen, the said Jeremiah Wheelwright is son of Mary Wheelwright deceased daughter of Jeremiah Allen deceased son of the said devisee James Allen, the plants James Allen, Wil- liam Allen, Jeremiah Allen & Martha Allen are Children of Jere- miah Allen deceased, son of Jeremiah Allen deceased son of the said devisee James Allen, the plant. Abigail Belcher is Daughter of Jeremiah Allen deceased son of the said Jeremiah Allen deceased son of the said James Allen the Devisee aforesaid, and the plants since the decease of the said Elizabeth Bellingham to wit on the thirteenth day of September Current entered into the demanded premisses and thereby became seized thereof in their demesne as of Fee in trust for the Execution of the pious and charitable uses in said Will set forth & ought now to be in the possession thereof, but the defendants have sinee unjustly entered thereinto & still hold the plants out, To the Damage of the said John Allen (who sues as aforesaid) Hannah Danforth, Jeremiah Wheelwright, &
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James Allen, William Allen Jeremiah Allen and Martha Allen Infants who sue as aforesaid, Jonathan Belcher & Abigail Belcher as they say the sum of one thousand pounds which shall then & there be made to appear, with other due Damages : & have you there this writ, with your doings therein. Witness Eliakim Hut- ehinson Esq. at Boston the nineteenth day of September in the thirty first Year of our Reign Annoque Domini 1757. -
(Endorsed on back :) Middlecott Cooke Cler Suffolk ss Chelsea September the 19 1757 J summoned the within named Defendents to appear at the time and Court within men- tioned By Leaving an attested Copy of this writ at Each of there abodes Gideon Thayer Dept Sheriff Trauel & Service 0 = 9 = 0 And William Thompson of Elsham in Lineolnshire in Great Brit- ain Esq. being admitted Deft in Lieu of the sd Joshua & Abigail Comes & Defends &e & says the sd Joshua & Abigail are not Guilty as the PIts Deelare & there of puts &e. Benj Prat 2
Nº 36. Jury in Allen v. Eustiee : 3-
Jona Williams Forem, Oliver Wiswall, Thos Snow, Benja Browne, Eben! Whiting, Preserved Baker, Benja Sylvester, Elijah Waters, John Wight, Willm McClan, Matthew White, John Joy.4
THOMPSON, APPELLANT, VS. ALLEN
Court's Judgment 5
At His Majesty's Superiour Court of Judieature Court of Assize and General Goal Delivery, held at Boston within and for the County of Suffolk on the third Wednesday of February (being the 21st day of said Month) Annoque Domini 1759. . .. William Thompson of Elsham in Lineolnshire in Great Britain Esquire
2 Endorsed when folded: " Allen &ca vs. Eustice &ca Writ . Octo 1757. Abiel Walley."
3 Filed with the Writ of Attachment.
" On the baek is written: "The Deposition Joseph Barrell to be used in a Case to be tryed at his Majs Infer Court of Comn Pleas to be Holden at Boston July 1758 -"
5 Records of the Superiour Court of Judicature, 1757-1759, p. 522. August 1, 1758, Benjamin Lincoln and Samuel White were appointed special justices of the Superiour Court in the place of Judges Cushing and Russell in any cause relating to the validity of the will of Governor Bel- lingham. (Whitmore, Mass. Civil List.) Hon. John Cushing was cousin of Thomas Cushing, agent of Thompson for the Eustis farm and other estates. Hon. Chambers Russell was brother of Hon. James Russell, who owned, in the right of his wife, one-third of the Townsend farm of the Bellingham estate.
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Appellant, vs John Allen of Boston in the County of Suffolk Gold- smith, a person Non Compos Mentis, who Sues by William Fair- field of said Boston Bricklayer his Guardian, Hannah Danforth of Taunton in the County of Bristol Widow, Jeremiah Wheelwright of said Boston Gentleman, James Allen of said Boston an Jnfant, William Allen of said Boston an Infant, Ieremiah Allen of said Boston an Jnfant, Martha Allen of said Boston an Jnfant, which said Jnfants Sue by their Guardian Abiel Walley of said Boston Esquire, Ionathan Belcher of Hallifax in the Province of Nova Scotia Esq! and Abigail his Wife Appellee's, from the Judgment of an Jnferiour Court of Comon pleas held at Boston in and for said County of Suffolk on the first Tuesday of Iuly A D 1758. when and where the Appellee's were plan'ts and the Appellant was defendant. Jn a plea of Ejectment &cª as in the Writ tested the 19th day of September A D 1757. and on file at large Appears. At which said Inferiour Court Judgment was rendred that the said Iohn Allen (a person non Compos Mentis) by William Fair- field his Guardian, Hannah Danforth Ieremiah Wheelwright Gentleman, Iames Allen an Infant, William Allen an Infant, Ieremiah Allen an Jnfant, Martha Allen an Infant, by Abiel Walley, and Ionathan Belcher and Abigail his Wife Guardians as aforcsaid, Recover against the said William Thompson Possession of the Premisses Sued for, and Costs of Suit. This Appeal was bro't forward at the last Term of this Court for this County, and from thence Continued to this Court by Consent, and now the said William comes and says that after the last Continuance of this Action and before the Setting of this Court Vizt on the ninth day of November last, at said Boston, the said Iohn Allen died, and because the other Appellees do not deny the same, but admit it to be true, therefore It's Considered by the Court that the Surviving Appellees proceed no further in the Suit aforesaid, and that the said William be no further held to Answer thereto.]
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[DANFORTH VS. SARGENT et al Writ of Attachment 1
Suffolk : Ss :
The Goverment and people of the Masschusetts Bay in New England.
To the Sheriff of our Counties of Suffolk and Middlesex their Respective Under Sheriffs or Deputies
Greeting
We Command you to Attach the Goods or Estates of David Sergent of Malden in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Yeoman, David Sergent Jun" Ebenezer Sergent Daniel Prat Samuel Hutton Pratt Yeoman Samuel Prat Tanner and Daniel Prat Jun" Infant all of Chelsea in the County of Suffolk aforesaid to the Value of Two thousand pounds and for want thereof to take the Bodies of the said David Sargent David Sargent jun" Ebenezer Sargent Daniel Prat Samuel Hutton Prat Samuel Prat and Daniel Prat junr (if they may be found within your precinct) and them safely Keep, so that you have them before our Iustices of our In- ferior Court of Common pleas, next to be holden at Boston within and for our County Suffolk aforesaid on the second Tuesday of Iuly next then and there in our said Court to Answer unto Samuel Danforth of Boston aforesaid Physician in a plea of trespass for that the said David Sargent David Sargent Junr . Ebenezer Sargent Daniel Prat Samuel Hutton Prat Samuel Prat and Daniel Prat Jun" at said Chelsea on the thirtienth Day of April last past with force and Arms broke and enter'd the Plantiffs Close lying in said Chelsea and then and there with Force as aforesaid Broke and enterd the Pltfs Dwelling house lying in Chelsea as aforesaid and there with Force as aforesaid the Pltf out of the possession thereof put and Kept from the said thirtienth Day of April to the twen- tieth Day of May last past - all which is against the peace and To the Damage of the said Samuel Danforth as he saith the sum of Two thousand pounds, which shall then and there be made to
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