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In January, 1634/5, the ministers of the Massachusetts Colony, convened at the call of the Governor and Assistants, advised re- sistance to the rumoured governor "if we were able." The same Court which ordered Maverick to remove his habitation to Boston appointed a Board of War with extensive powers, including the right of life and death over "any that they shall iudge to be enemyes to the comonwealth," and to order out troops in case of war; ordered that an oath of fidelity should be taken by all men over sixteen years of age; appointed a beacon on Sentry Hill and a watchman from April to October; decreed that the fort at Castle Island should be fully finished, ordnance mounted and the like before any other fortification should be proceeded with; and. forbade any one to visit a ship without leave from an Assistant until it had lain at anchor twenty-four hours, and made it "ap- parent yt shee is a ffriend," under pain of confiscation of all his estate.6
With such an excitement brewing, the town and colonial
" Palfrey, New England, i. 391-404; Hutchinson, Hist. of Mass., i. Appendix 4.
" Savage, Winthrop, i. 143, 144, 154; Mass. Col. Rec., i. 125, 136-140.
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authorities, not unnaturally, looked with suspicion on Mr. Mav- erick, because of his early relations with Sir Ferdinando Gorges. Apparently he found his six months' experience under the juris- diction of Boston unpleasant, and decided to sell his lands at Winnisimmet. Noddle's Island was not placed under the juris- diction of Boston until March 9, 1636/7. In the meantime the Massachusetts Bay Government could, at this crisis, scarcely tol- erate a man of doubtful loyalty in a place so accessible to the ships in the harbor as Noddle's Island. At least Maverick did convey to Richard Bellingham the lands at Winnisimmet, February 25, 1634/5, and the General Court, which met a weck later, ordercd him to remove his habitation to Boston. It is interesting to note that Blackstone, about this time, left Boston and settled in Cum- berland, Rhode Island, within the limits assigned to Lord Gorges in the division of land among themselves by the Council for New England.7 Also the General Court which ordered Maverick to remove to Boston expressed a desire that Mr. Allerton should remove from Marble Harbour, and ordered him to appear at the next General Court, at which time, in May, 1635, it was re- corded that Mr. Allerton had given his housing at Marble Head to his son-in-law, Moses Maverick, who also managed, apparently, the estate of Samuel Maverick during the latter's absence in Virginia the following winter, as he then paid to the General Court the rent for Noddle's Island.
But the danger passed. A few weeks after the order dirccting Maverick to remove his habitation to Boston, that is, on June 16, 1635, Winthrop recorded 8 that it was certified by "a letter from the Lord Say, and report of divers passengers," that the " great ship to send over the general governour . . . being launched, fell in sunder in the midst." Two months later, August 17, 1635, a ship arrived, bringing word that as it lay near Bristol, on May 27, Sir Ferdinando Gorges came on board, asked if there were pas- sengers bound for Massachusetts, and assured the Rev. Daniel Maud of " his good will to the people there in the Bay, and promised that, if he ever came there, he would be a true friend unto them." 9 Inasmuch as the Council for New England was still seeking the revocation of the charter of the Colony,1º such promises
7 November 10, 1634, a rate of six shillings was assessed on every householder in Boston to pay him, and he probably left Boston the fol- lowing June. Young, Chronicles of Mass., 170, note.
8 i. 161.
9 Journal of Richard Mather, Young, Chronicles, 451.
10 Records of the Council for New England in Proc. Amer. Ant. Soc., April, 1867 ; Hubbard, Hist. of New Eng., 180, 226-231.
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were of somewhat dubious value, but the destruction of the ship which should have brought him was a certain boon. The Gen- eral Court, which met September 3, -1635, voted, " The order that enjoyned Mr Sam" Mattacke to remove his habitacon to Boston before the last of Decembr nexte is repealed." It also rescinded the order as to visiting ships in the harbor. In November, Mrs. Amias Maverick was living on Noddle's Island, as she dated a letter there on November the 20th.11
It is interesting to note, however, that Samuel Maverick went that autumn to Virginia and remained there for nearly a year, not returning until August 3, 1636. Boston was apparently will- ing to welcome his return, as, under date of April, 1636, Winthrop wrote there was some thought of sending the "Blessing" to Virginia "for Mr. Maverick and his corn." Certainly by the summer of 1636 all danger from Sir Ferdinando Gorges had passed. George Vaughan wrote from London in April that he had no encouragement as to New England, that "they were quite could in that matter, Mr. Mason being ded and Sr Ferdinando minding only his one divityon." 12]
11 Doc. Hist. of Maine, iii. 76-78.
12 Belknap, Hist. of N. H., i. Appendix xi. See C. F. Adams, Three Episodes of Mass. Hist. for further information as to the general governorship.
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[IN 1678 there were two farmhouses standing on the present hospital grounds, and these continued, apparently, for over onc hundred years, as two houses appear on the direct tax of 1798. The easterly one was then described as a " verry old house," and was valued at only forty dollars; the westerly was the principal dwelling on the estate. The site of the latter is marked by a well, while the easterly house stood a little below a spring of fresh water. A spring is marked on the plan of the Naval Hospital grounds, by S. P. Fuller, dated December, 1827;1 and in the spring of the year a rill of water still descends the hillside from this site toward Broadway. In 1681 the spring was dcemed so valuable that Elias Maverick, in dividing his estate among his sons by will, provided that a way should be left open to the spring for the watering of the cattle, and that half an acre should be left in common about it. Trumbull interprets the name Winnisimmet to mean " at the good spring." 2 Doubtless the first house at Win- nisimmet was located near a spring of fresh water. This was also a defensible position. The westerly farmhouse was on low land, while the easterly was on the hillside, controlling the only point at which access to it could be had from the mainland without crossing swamp or river, - the course followed later by the road from Lynn to Winnisimmet ferry. This can be scen by following the line of marsh traced on the maps of the Naval Hospital grounds in 1827, and of the Ferry Farm, as recorded by the Winnisimmet Company.3 The easterly house stood on land which Samuel Maverick sold to William Stitson, kceper of the ferry previous to August, 1635, later a resident of Charles- town; from him the title passed to Elias Maverick by deed re- corded in 1662; he in turn conveyed it to his son Elias in 1678. The westerly farmhouse was on the one hundred acres of land lying west of this, of which there is no record until Elias Maverick devised it by will in 1681; it seems reasonable to assume that it
1 Mass. Archives. Maps and Plans, 1826.
2 New English Canaan, Prince Society Publications, xiv. 229.
3 Suff. Deeds, L. 351, f. 153. See also infra, the map of Chelsea, showing the location of the Bellingham farms.
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was the land confirmed to him as an " old planter." In 1635, or carlier, Elias Maverick married Anne Harris, the stepdaughter of William Stitson, the ferryman. The westerly house may have dated from this marriage. Elias Maverick was living there at the time of his death, in 1684. It is known that more than one house stood at Winnisimmet before the estate was sold to Richard Bellingham in February, 1634/5,4 and that in addition to Samuel Maverick, his wife, his children, and his servants, William Stitson, the ferryman, was living there with his family. Maverick may have lived in the house deseribed six months after the sale as the farmhouse of Richard Bellingham. What is supposed to have been the oldest house on the Ferry Farm of Governor Bellingham stood a very little east of the house below the spring,5 and the Winthrop plan (circa 1633) places at Winnisimmet one large house, and two smaller houses west of it. All is conjecture.
However, the first house built doubtless stood near a spring, and as Maverick states that it was still standing in 1660, it seems reasonable to assume that it was the house mentioned in the deed of 1678, and that it was occupied in the early days of the colony by the ferrymen at Winnisimmet, Thomas Williams alias Harris, in 1631, and William Stitson later. The road to the ferry passed its door.6 For the benefit of any who may wish more exact informa- tion as to the site the following items are added. In 1678 the western boundary of the land conveyed by Elias Maveriek, Senior, to his son Elias, ran from a point one rod west of the northwest corner of the house " unto the Marsh upon the backside of the hill North-East " in such a way as to include fifteen acres of upland, - the eastern boundary being the farm of Samuel Bellingham. The spring is not mentioned therein, but in 1681 it was described as " the spring that is aboue his house." Below the house, toward the sea, lay the garden.
There may have been more than one spring on the hillside. August 22, 1836, the Winnisimmet Company, in conveying Lot 6 on Chestnut Street, near the United States Hospital grounds, on the northeast side of the hill, reserved "the reservoir of water on said lot," and the right " to lead water into the same from the springs & sources above "; also a "right to use and take away the water," and "to lay suitable pipes and conduits " for said pur- pose.7 It is said that this water was carried to Chelsea House,
* See appendix to chap. ii.
" See that marked Tav. on the plan in Suff. Deeds, L. 351, f. 153.
6 Infra, Appendix 9.
7 Suff. Decds, L. 839, f. 198.
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then a place of public resort, formerly the mansion house of Samuel Watts. Also in 1836 Sarah Green, who had lived in 1785 in the eastern house, on what is now the Naval Hospital estate, as a nurse in the family of Jonathan Grcen, testified that she went on the Ferry Farm "to the spring for water several times a day while I resided in Chelsca." As she was seventy-one years of age in 1836, and had not visited Winnisimmet for fifty years, she may have forgotten the exact site of the spring she visited. So far as the records show, there was no change in the western boundary of the Ferry Farm from its purchase by Richard Bellingham, in 1635, until after its purchase by the Winnisimmet Company, in 1831.]
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ONE of Maveriek's pinnaces was taken by Dixy Bull, the noted pirate, against whom an expedition was fitted out, and for which another of his pinnaees was chosen. The eost was " Paid by a bill from Mr. Samuel Maveriek, being husband and merchant of the pinnaee, for a month's wages, to Elias Maverick, £2. Paid for vietuals upon his aeeount, £2 5s." 1 [Samuel Maveriek had been one of the grantees of Agamentieus in Deeember, 1631.2 When the patent was confirmed in Mareh, 1632, some names were dropped and four were added, - " Seth Bull, Cittizen and Skinner of London, Dixie Bull, Matthew Bradley of London, Gent, and John Bull, Son of the said Seth." 3 Immediately thereafter, ap- parently, a ship was sent forth commanded by Dixie Bull; but it was seized by the French, if the report which eame to Winthrop may be trusted, and Bull turned pirate.4 Possibly this explains Winthrop's reeord in December, 1632, that the pirates, besides promising future good behavior, "had given another pinnaee in exehange for that of Mr. Maveriek, and as mueh beaver and otter as it was worth more." 5 A few months later, however, Maveriek's pinnace was sent out "to take Dixie Bull." Win- throp reported that "after she had been forth two months, she eame home, having not found him. After, we heard he was gone to the French." " Clap said: "These Men fled Eastward, and Bull himself got into England; but God destroyed this wretched Man." 7
Governor Dudley wrote to the Countess of Lineoln: "About the end of Oetober this year, 1630, I joined with the Governor and Mr. Maverecke in sending out our pinnaee to the Narragan- setts, to trade for eorn to supply our wants; but after the pinnace
1 Drake, Boston, 148, note. [2 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., viii. 233.]
2 Supra, appendix to chap. ii.
& Proc. of Amer. Ant. Soc., April, 1867, 105.
4 Savage, Winthrop, i. 79, 96.
Ibid., 98.
" Ibid., 104.
7 Memoirs of Roger Clap, in Young, Chronicles of Mass., 363.
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had doubled Cape Cod, she put into the next harbour she found, and there meeting with Indians, who showed their willingness to truck, she made her voyage there, and brought us a hundred bushels of corn, at about four shillings a bushel, which helped us somewhat." 8 March 14, 1632, " The bark Warwick arrived at Natascott, having been at Pascataquack and at Salem to sell corn, which she brought from Virginia "; March 19, "she came to Winysemett "; and on April 9, " the bark Warwick, and Mr. Maverick's pinnace, went out towards Virginia." August 3, 1636, " Samuel Maverick, who had been in Virginia near twelve months, now returned with two pinnaces, and brought some fourteen heifers, and about eighty goats, (having lost above twenty goats by the way). One of his pinnaces was about forty tons, of cedar, built at Barbathes, and brought to Virginia by Capt. Powell, who there dying, she was sold for a small matter." 1º]
8 Young, Chronicles of Mass., 322, 323.
9 Savage, Winthrop, i. 71, 72.
10 Winthrop, i. 191, 466.
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APPENDIX 4
Will of Elias Maverick 1
I, Elias Mavericke Senior, of Winnasimmet, within the Towne- ship of Boston in the Countie of Suffolke, in New-England, being through the mercic of God in a competent measure of health, & vnderstandinge, (though aged, & know not the tyme of my dis- solution weh cannot be longe) being desirous to put my house in order, so that as much as in me lyeth all controversies about my outward estate after my decease may be prevented Doe make this iny last will & Testament (& hereby revoke all former wills & Bequests) in manner & fforme ffollowinge.
Imprimis I resigne vp my Soule, to Almighty God, my Creator & Redeemer & my Bodie to be decently interred, according to the diseretyon of the Survivingc. And for my tempall estate I thus & thus dispose of it. ffirst of all I giuc vnto my Beloued wife Anna, all my temporall estate, both in land houses and mooueables, (after due debts & ffunerall charges discharged) during her natu- rall life, if she remayne a widdow, otherwise to enioy onc third during her natural life pvided also, that she shal freely consent, to those termes that I shall hereafter expresse.
It I giue to my son Elias, ffiue acres of land as an addition to the land, & house that I formerly gaue him, as also that out- house, that I built, not farre to the westward of his house, to him, his wife & Children for euer accordinge to the tenor of his dcede of Gift, acknowledged & recorded pvided that there shalbe at all times, half an acre of land left in comon, about the spring that is aboue his house wth a convenient highway therevnto ffor watering of Cattle.
It. I giue to my son Peter fiue pownds starling after my wiues deccase.
It. I giue to my son Paul Mavericke twentie fiue acres of land, next vnto my son Elyas his land, wch I wil giue in prsent possession by decde of gift, to him his wife & Children, pvided that his ffather in Law Liut John Smith (whose daughter Jemimah he married)
1 Suff. Prob. Files, 1374; A. D. S. with official endorsement of probate.
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will giue as a portion to his sayed son in Law with his daughter, one halfe of that some of money that the sayd land shalbe prized at by indifferent men chosen on either side, weh if he refuse to doe, then he shall enioy it after his mothers decease.
It. I giue to my Grand son Jotham Mavericke the son of my son John ffiueteene acres of land adioyning on the west syde of my son Pauls land, after his Grandmothers decease to him & his heires for euer, with this pviso, that he shal haue liberty to sel or alienate the same, if he see good, vnto any one or more of his vnckles before mentioned but to no other man or men.
It I giue to my Grand son James Mavericke, the son of my Son Peter fiueteene acres of land next vnto my Grandson Jotham, to him & his heires ffor euer, wth the same pviso that is giuen to his Cousin Jotham.
Be it knowne that my intent, in the division of the aforesayed pcels of land is, that each of my sons & Grand sons shal haue such pportion of marish land, as is answerable to theire quantitie of vpland that falls to theire share.
As for my dwelling house, outhouses, orchard, corne ffeild & so much land adioyning next the Creeke as will make vp ffourty acres, wth the orchard & Corne ffield & medow pportionable, I giue to my fiue daughters, either to be sould or let, to each of them an equal pportyon, but if my sons Elyas, & Paul, whom I doe make joynt Executors of this my Will, will pay vnto each of theire sisters viz : Abigaile Clarke, Sarah Walton, Mary Waye, Ruth Smith & Re- beckah Thomas, ffiuety pounds apeece, taking in the mooueables, & a quantitie of marish weh I haue at Hogiland, of twenty acres of lande & vpward, for to helpe pay theise legacies, then the sayd housing & land shalbe theirs to enioy, & also they shal pay vnto each of my Grand children and Great grand children fiue Shillings apeece.
ffurther my will is, that, wheras I am bound by obligation, vnto my father in law William Stitson, to keepe him sixteene sheepe yearely, with theire increase, tyl towards winter, & then to be left to the same number, during his natural lyfe, that my two sons Elyas & Paul my Executors shal make good this engagement after their mothers decease & not before, as also that the former lega- cies shal not be payed til that tyme.
As for my servant Jonas Holmes I giue the remaynder of his tyme vnto my deare wife if She liue so long, or else to my Execu- tors. & hauing forgotten, to express Ruth Johnson my Grand daughter, that now liues with me, I leaue it with her Grand mother to doe as she pleaseth.
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And I desire, & intreate, & appoynt, my trusty & welbeloued ffriends my ffatherinlaw Deacon William Stitson, Aron Way Senio!, & William Ireland Senior, to be Querscers of this my Will & to advise & counsell my Executors.
The land was measured to be 120 aeres, if it fall short, or exeede my will is that each diuidend, be pportionably abated or en- larged.
In the Prsenee of vs Signed & sealed
whose names are subscribed
this thirteenth of October Anno
William Ireland Sener Dom' one thousand six hun-
John Barnard
dred eightie one
William Ireland Jun
Į me Elyas Maverieke
John Senter
This will exhibited for probate by Elyas Maveriek and Paul Maveriek the two Executors therein named before the County Court sitting in Boston. 6º. Novemb! 1684.
William Ireland Senio! and William Ireland Jun! and John Senter three of the witnesses Subscribed psonally appearing made Oath that they did see and heare ME Elias Maverick Signe Seale and publish his Instrum to be his last will and Testamt and that he was then of disposing mind to their understanding. Attest! Isª Addington Clre.
A TRUE INVENTORY 2 OF THE ESTATE OF ELIAS MAVERICK SENE OF WINNISIMMET DECEASED
16th Septemb: 1684.
£ : s : d
Imp's his wearing Clothes .
10:00:00
It . one Bedsteed, Bed, Bolster & all other Furniture belonging to ye Bed . 6:00: 00
It . one Bedsteed . 10: chaire & Chest . 5ª -: 15 : 00
In another Chamber . Chest and wheeles and other Lumber . 2:00:00
It . one Bed and Furniture in the garrett . 5:00:00
In the Hall . one Bed . Bolster and Furniture belonging to ye Bed 8:00: 00
It . a Trundle Bed with its' Furniture . 4: 00: 00
It . Tables, Formes chaires Cushion's & carpet to ys table 3: 00 : 00
It . two Bibles and other Bookes 2:00:00
It . warming pan andirons & other things
1:00:00
It . 3 pª Sheets wth Table Linnen 5:00:00
It . 2. guns, sword and bandileers
1:00:00
It . 2 . pots . 2. tramels . 2. p .- Andirons, 2. spits, tongs & Fire Shovels
3:00:00
It . dripping pan, earthen ware & other things. 208 Churn & milke vessels . 258
2:05:00
Suff. Prob. Rec., ix. 203.
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It . gridiron and frying pan : 5: Barrells keelers table & forme . 309 1:15:00
It. Cash with other plate 10:00: 00
It . 2. Oxen : 6. Cowes, one bull one heifer, three Calves . 3. horses with Fodder 40: 00: 00
It. 30. Sheep and Lambes £.8 : Swine. £7 15:00:00 It. Cart and plough with all Furniture belonging thereto & horse tacklin with a cros betle & wedges grindstone & Sythes 5:00:00
It . houses and Land Meadow and upland 700:00:00
More one Cow Common in Boston. £820:15:00
John Smith William Ireland Sen!
Boston: 60 Novembr 1684.
Elias and Paul Maverick the two Executors made Oath in County Court then sitting that this is a just and true Inventory of the Estate of their late Father Elias Maverick deced so far as hath come to their knowledge and that when more appeares they will cause it to be added -
Attest! Is? Addington Clrc
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APPENDIX 5
[MATTHEW CLARK, who married Abigail Maverick, June 4, 1655, lived first at Winnisimmet, where a daughter, Abigail, was born June 17, 1656; later at Marblehead. John Johnson, who married Elizabeth, October 15, 1656, was of Charlestown and Haverhill; she died Mareh 22, 1673/4. Peter Maveriek and John Maveriek (who married Catharine Skipper, April 9, 1656) lived in Boston. The latter was described in deeds as a shipwright, owned a house at the North End of the town, and died before 1680.1 James, Elias, Jr., and Paul Maverick lived at Winnisimmet. These are the names on sueh tax lists as have been preserved: 1674, Elias Maveriek and Elias Maverick, Jr .; 1681, the same, also Paul Maveriek ; 1687 and 1688, Widow Maveriek and Elias Maveriek ; 1692, Elias and Paul Maveriek ; 1695, Paul Maverick ; 1702, Paul Maveriek and John Pratt. In 1687, the Widow Maveriek was taxed for one poll, two horses, two oxen, six eattle, twenty sheep, and two swine; Elias, for one poll, two horses, nine sheep, and one swine. His housing was valued at three-fifths that of the western farmhouse. In 1702, John Pratt was taxed for one negro man, two eows, twelve sheep, and three horses; Paul Maveriek, for three eows, twenty sheep, and one horse. As "Sea bookes and Instruments" and over a tun of logwood appear in the inventory of the estate of James Maverick, taken in 1671 by two of the neighbors at Winnisimmet, and as Elias Maveriek, Jr., was deseribed in legal documents as a "ship- wright," it would seem that the family utilized their frontage on the sea and Island End River in addition to cultivating their farm.
Elias Maveriek, Jr., married Margaret Sherwood December 8, 1669. She was admitted to the Charlestown church August 8, 1675. The children recorded to them are: Elias, born November 4, 1670 ; 2 Margaret, married John Pratt, July 29, 1691; Elizabetlı.
1 Vital Records of Boston; Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 9, ff. 6, 7; Suff. Deeds, L. 11, f. 392; L. 17, f. 351; L. 24, f. 137; Wyman, 555; Boston Rec. Com. Rep., i. 25.
2 Presumably the son, not, as Sumner (East Boston) suggests, the
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According to Wyman, all three were baptized August 22, 1675. Abigail, baptized September 24, 1676; 3 Samuel, baptized August 14, 1687. Elias Maverick died before November 2, 1696, as on that date his son-in-law, John Pratt, was appointed administrator of his estate, and, five months later, guardian of his son Samuel. In September, 1697, three children were living, - Margaret Pratt, Abigail Maverick, and Samuel Maverick.+
In 1678, Elias Maverick, Sr., conveyed to his son Elias and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, the house in which the son then dwelt, with the land which Elias, the father, bought of William Stitson. In January, 1695/6, Elias Maverick gave twenty acres of land near this house by deed of gift to his son-in-law, John Pratt, of Boston, inn-holder.5 In the tax list of 1695, both Elias Maverick, Sr., and John Pratt appear in division num- ber one (the North End) of Boston, yet the inventory of the estate of Elias Maverick was taken by men of Winnisimmet.4 John Pratt was host of the well-known Salutation Inn, near the landing-place of Winnisimmet Ferry in Boston. Thence he removed, early in the autumn of 1697, "to Winnysimtt into his owne House standing night ye fferry, there - where- into he hath removed his wines beare and other necessaryes for ye accommodation of man & horse." He petitioned the Suf- folk "Court of Quarter Sessions for the Peace," October 5, 1697, for permission to continue at Winisimmet his vocation as innkeeper.6 He increased his lands by purchase, and Feb- ruary 8, 1708/9, with his wife Margaret, conveyed to John Brint- nall, for £400, forty-five acres, including the easterly homestead with twenty-six acres.7 He was then described as of Salem, innholder.
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