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Paul Maverick married Jemimah Smith, daughter of Lieut. John Smith of the adjoining Ferry Farm on the Bellingham estate. He owned the covenant at Charlestown, September 11, 1681. His children were: Moses, born February 8, 1680/81, baptized Septem- ber 11, 1681, died January 28, 1685; Jotham, baptized October
father, married Sarah Smith, February 3, 1695/6. She married George Robinson, April 7, 1698, and on April 27, 1699, was appointed adminis- tratrix of the estate of her former husband, Elias Maverick, of Boston, " Mariner." Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 14, f. 35; Vital Records of Boston.
3 See Sumner, East Boston, 166.
Wyman; Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 11, ff. 227, 261, 275; Suff. Deeds, L. 14, ff. 431, 432; L. 18, f. 2.
5 Suff. Deeds, L. 11, f. 81; L. 17, f. 251.
6 Mass. Archives, cix. 121.
Suff. Deeds, L. 24, f. 118.
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28, 1683; John, baptized, aged one year, August 14, 1687.8 Paul Maverick received by the will of his father twenty-five acres, and acquired, by payment of legacies to his sisters, the western farmhouse and fifteen additional acres. March 1, 1708/9, he conveyed to his son, John Maverick, joiner, the westerly homestead with forty acres, the consideration being £300. June 17, the latter conveyed the same to John Brintnall (his uncle) for £440.º In June, 1709, Jemimah Maverick applied, in the name of her husband, Paul Maverick, for a license to sell strong drink as an innholder from "Mr. Hillier's House in Middle Street," Boston, it having been previously a licensed house. She stated that her husband was absent at sea and that she wished the business to retrieve losses in his estate.10 At the January term of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, in 1709-10, Jemimah Maverick was fined for selling strong drink without license.11 Later she married Henry Richman, of Boston.12
James, son of Peter Maverick, received from his grandfather Elias fifteen acres of the farm at Winnisimmet. From a deposi- tion taken in 1718, and recorded at the Suffolk Registry, it is learned that he was a ferryman, and lived at Winnisimmet, where two children were born to him and his wife Hester, - Martha, born April 17, 1693, and James, born, the deposition states, October 2, 1699. Presumably the latter date is a mistake of the copyist, as James Maverick must have been twenty-one years of age when he joined in the conveyance to Brintnall, November 1, 1715. July 16, 1703, Hester Mavrick of Lynn, widow of James Mavrick late of Boston, presented a petition to the Governor and Council for permission to sell a part of her husband's estate, the half " of a Small Plot of Ground " with " a little old house on it " on Wing Lane in Boston. She said that her " husband did about Eight years Since go out of this Port in a Voyage bound for Lon- don, & was then taken by the ffrench, & Since not heard of by any of his Relations, he Left me two Children a boy & a girl, with uery Small matters to Support & maintain them." The house was not sold until 1728. August 7, 1705, the widow married Benjamin Whitney, and November 1, 1715, Benjamin and Esther Whitney of Framingham, and her children James and Martha Maverick, conveyed to John Brintnall fifteen acres lying between
8 Wyman.
º Suff. Deeds, L. 24, f. 134, 191; L. 28, f. 257.
Original Papers, City Clerk's Office, Boston, ii. See also Suff. Deeds,
L. 24, f. 135.
Court Records, 201.
12 Suff. Deeds, L. 24, ff. 132-137; L. 28, f. 257.
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the lands conveyed to Brintnall by John Pratt and by the son of Paul Maverick; the consideration was £50, and there was no mention of buildings.13 Later Martha Maverick married Thomas Bellows of Southboro.]
13 Suff. Deeds, L. 33, f. 15; L. 30, f. 75; L. 46, f. 151; Mass. Archives, xvii. 93; Sumner, East Boston.
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[JOHN BRINTNALL, first of the name, was a son of Thomas and Esther Brintnall,1 a brother of Captain Thomas Brintnall, of Framinghamn, and hence an uncle of the William Brintnall who graduated from Yale College in 1721. October 9, 1721, Lieuten- ant John Brintnall executed a deed of gift of the farm to his son Thomas Brintnall, to take effect at his death (confirmed by will dated September 15, 1731). The "Condition & limitation " of the deed was " that his said son Thomas Brentnall shall not have or possess the abovegranted Farm & other the premisses before he comes to the Age of Twenty one years but that he shall be brought up to learning out of the profits & Incomes of the farm until he hath Commenced once, after which time he shall have twelve pounds yearly & every year out of the profits & Incomes of said farm for and towards his Maintenance until he comes of age or until the decease of sd Lt John Brintnall & Phebe his wife." 2 A son Thomas was born to John and Phoebe Brintnall, October 17, 1708. This lad would have been nearly nineteen in 1727, when a Thomas Brintnall graduated from Harvard Col- lege, where Edward Wigglesworth - brother of Rev. Samuel Wigglesworth, who had married Mary Brintnall, elder sister of Thomas of Winnisimmet - was a professor. Presumably the graduate of 1727 was Thomas Brintnall, of Winnisimmet. In June, 1728, he joined the church of Thomas Cheever at Rumney Marsh, and in August, 1729, and June, 1732, was chosen a delegate to the Ecclesiastical Councils, to which the church was invited. For Harvard men these councils were essentially alumni meetings, and were appreciated as such. Thomas Brintnall, of Winnisimmet, died in the summer of 1732, as August 23, his elder brother John petitioned to be appointed executor of his father's estate in the place of his brother Thomas, deceascd.3 Thomas Brintnall (H.C. 1727) is starred in the catalogue of 1733. The following items from the "Inventory 3 of the Estate
1 See chap. xix. Appendix 3.
2 Suff. Deeds, L. 46, f. 100; Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 29, f. 266.
8 Suff. Prob. Files, 6157; Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 31, f. 347.
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According to the deed of gift of 1721, on the death of Thomas Brintnall without heirs, the estate descended to Benjamin Brint- nall, grandson of the grantee, John Brintnall, and son of John and Deborah Brintnall, then resident in Lynn. First, however, the farm was to be rented, and the rentals paid to the children of Lieutenant John Brintnall - Phoebe Sprague, John Brint- nall, Mary Wigglesworth, James and Esther Brintnall - till each had received two hundred pounds. Phoebe Brintnall, widow of Lieutenant John Brintnall and daughter of Captain John Smith of the Ferry Farm, also held a life interest in the estate. Ac- cording to the Chelsea vital records, she died in 1753, the 19th day of the second month. The children of John and Phoebe Brintnall were:
Phobe, born November 22, 1691; married by Nicholas Paige, Justice of the Peace, January 25, 1709/10, to Stower Sprague of Malden, greatgrandson of Ralph Sprague and of Nicholas Stowers, the first settlers in Charlestown. She died March 15, 1741/2 - gravestone at Malden.4
John, born November 3, 1693; married August 28, 1712, Deborah Mellins, daughter of William Mellins of Malden; was a tanner at Malden, a schoolmaster in 1721, in which year he sold his lands there; 5 he lived thereafter on a farm in Lynn given him and his son Benjamin by deed of gift from his father ; he removed thence to Winnisimmet. His will was probated November 18, 1746.
4 Boston Rec. Com. Rep., ix. 249; Wyman; Suff. Deeds, L. 62, f. 117; there is a discrepancy of a year between her age as calculated from the dates of her birth and death, and her age as given on her gravestone.
" Boston Rec. Com. Rep., ix. 249; Wyman; Malden Vital Records; Corey, History of Malden, 360 note, 491, 492; Middlesex Probate Files, 1767.
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Mary, married by Rev. Joseph Sewell, June 30, 1715, to Rev. Samuel Wigglesworth of Ipswich, son of Rev. Michael Wiggles- worth of Malden. She died June 6, 1723, aged twenty-eight."
James, born November 18, 1699, married August 6, 1724, Mary Basset. She owned the covenant at Charlestown, April 18, 1725, was admitted to the church January 21, 1727/8, and had two children baptized there in 1725 and 1727. In 1727/8 James is spoken of as late of Charlestown, now of Falmouth in the County of York, Sadler. March 16, 1728/9, he had a son James bap- tized in the right of his wife by Rev. Thomas Checver. Later Ebenezer Thornton obtained judgment for the rent (£3 per quar- ter) of a house near the North Battery, which James Brintnall, " Sadler or Gentleman," had occupied from April to October, 1729. In November, 1732, he dated a petition from Winni- simmet, and February 3, 1733/4, had a son Thomas baptized by Rev. Thomas Cheever. February 7, 1737/8, he was of Charles- town. He is described by his father, in his will, as "my un- worthy son James," and by his widow, in applying for letters of administration in 1747, as "late an Ensign in Captain Wins- lows Company of Foot in ye Expedition to Carthegena." 7
Esther, born July 5, 1701, married January 24, 1733/4, by Rev. Thomas Cheever, to Samuel West of Salem.8
Thomas, born October 17, 1708; died in 1732.
Benjamin, born March 25, 1714; died April 13, 1714, aged twenty days.
Judging from the inventory of his estate November 22, 1731, John Brintnall was prosperous. The total sum, which included little land, as that had been conveyed to his sons by deeds of gift, was £885 4s. 6d. Among the items were: " Imprimis his Books," £3 18s .; "his goold & silver," £77 18s; "peuter," £12; "the negro woman," £25; " the two negro men," £200; "the clock," £8. The appraisers were Joses Bucknam of Malden, Thomas Pratt, and Samuel Tuttle.9 John Brintnall attended the church in Malden. He died October 7, 1731, aged seventy years.
September 11, 1732, Phoebe Brintnall, widow, and John Brint- nall were appointed to execute the will of Lieutenant John Brint- nall in the place of Thomas Brintnall, deceased. 'November 6, 1732, James Brintnall petitioned that his mother and brothers
6 Boston Records; Felt, Ipswich, 282.
7 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 40, f. 116; Suff. Prob. Files, 8826; Suff. Deeds, L. 56, f. 16; Wyman; Rec. of Suff. County Court, 1727-1728, 313; 1729- 1730, 202, 403, 404.
Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 30, f. 362; L. 31, f. 115; Suff. Deeds, L. 56, f. 16, º Suff. Prob. Files, 6157.
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and sisters be cited to appear before the court in order to arrive at a better understanding of his father's will. Apparently, by a clause therein, John Brintnall intended to cancel all gifts to his son James, including possibly the legacy of £200 mentioned in the deed of gift of 1721. October 27, 1735, James Brintnall and Stowers Sprague complained to the court that four years had passed since their father died, and no account had been rendered, and no rent fixed on the farms, and they petitioned that the matter be examined into and the farms rented to the highest bidder. All concerned were cited to appear December 9, 1735; an account was placed on file; Samuel Watts was ap- pointed guardian of " Benjamin Brintnall - a Minor aged about Twenty Years Son of John Brintnall of Winnisimit"; and February 25, 1735/6, John Brintnall and Samuel West of Salem became the guardian's bondsmen.10 February 7, 1737/8, John Brintnall secured a release of the farm at Winnisimmet from the heirs of his father, - Mary Wigglesworth of Ipswich, grand- daughter of John Brintnall, deceased, for £150; James Brint- nall of Charlestown for £200; Esther and Samuel West of Salem for £300 in bills of credit; Phoebe and Stowers Sprague.11 But he did not, apparently, end his indebtedness. In 1752, Samuel Wigglesworth and Thomas Cheever testified that he gave bond to Esther West to secure the legacy due her. After John Brintnall's death, Samuel West, June, 1748, sued his executors for twenty pounds still due, he claimed, on a debt of £60. The matter seems to have been difficult of adjustment, as Samuel Wigglesworth certified that he attended, as a witness in the case of Capt. Samuel West vs. John Brintnall's heirs, the court at Salem in 1748, and at Ipswich in 1752.12
John Brintnall, second of the name, was living in Lynn when his brother Thomas died in 1732.13 July 8, 1733, he had a son Thomas baptized by Rev. Thomas Cheever. Presumably he was then living at Winnisimmet, though he was not dismissed from the church in Lynn until September 19, 1737, - the year when Benjamin Brintnall attained his majority, and the father and son thereby obtained an assured title to the farm. March 22, 1737/8, the South precinct in Malden voted " To grant ye request of mr Benj. Brintnall and others to buld a sete behind ye forth
10 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 29, ff. 266-271; Prob. Files, 6157, 6827.
11 Suff. Deeds, L. 56, ff. 15, 16; L. 62, f. 117.
12 Suff. Early Court Files, 45,726, 64,261, 69,392, 70,092.
13 A farm in Lynn had been given him by his father. See Vital Records of Lynn for four children born there.
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Seat in ye mens side Gallery, and to have it for thear own, with- out any Disturbance." 14 After the settlement of Rev. William MeClenachan over the Chelsea church in 1748, Benjamin Brint- nall and his brother John transferred their membership from Malden church to Chelsea.
In 1740 John Brintnall and his son Benjamin divided the farm by a line running from the Mystic River northerly over the hill. The son received a deed of the eastern farmhouse with fifty-eight acres, and quitclaimed to his father the western farmhouse with sixty acres.15 In July, 1743, the father and son exchanged farms. The right of dower of Phœbe Brintnall, widow of Lieutenant John Brintnall, was reserved.16
John Brintnall, second of the name, by will probated in 1746, gave the eastern farm to his son John Brintnall, - brother of Benjamin Brintnall, owner of the western farm, - subject to certain legacies to his six daughters, the maintenance of his widow, Deborah, and the right of three daughters, Phoebe, Deborah (born in Lynn, May 29, 1727), and Mehitabel, to live in the house until their marriage.17 The other three daughters of John and Deborah Brintnall were Jemimah (presumably married Thomas Patten of Malden, December 4, 1745), Esther (born in Lynn, August 18, 1722; presumably married Nathan Dexter of Malden, June 26, 1744), Mary (born in Lynn, June 16, 1724 ; pre- sumably married Nathan Shute, November 14, 1745).18 Phoebe 19 was married by Rev. Phillips Payson to John Reed of Boston, September 14, 1758; Mehitabel to David Barker, December 27, 1759.
The intention of marriage of Benjamin Brintnall and Elizabeth Waite of Lynn was recorded in Chelsea, March 7, 1741. She died September 24, 1770, aged forty-eight. Their children, as recorded at Chelsea, were:
Benjamin, born in 1743, the 8th day, 10th month (married Rachel, daughter
Elizabeth 1745 23 12
of Samuel Watts, jr., 20 October 11, 1770).
(married Richard Floyd of Boston, June 30, 1768).
14 Corey, 543 (note), 211, 610 (note).
15 Suff. Deeds, L. 61, f. 80; L. 82, f. 268.
18 Ibid., L. 79, f. 131; L. 82, f. 267.
17 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 39, f. 243. For the inventory, see Prob. Files, 8608.
18 Malden Vital Records.
19 According to Wyman, born December 31, 1713.
20 See chap. vii. Five children recorded at Chelsea, 1771-1778.
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Esther
1747
21
7
(died 1747 - 8 10).
Ezra
1749
21
1
(married Elizabeth Watts, daughter of Samuel Watts, jr., June 2, 1774). (married Joseph Oliver, 21 April 18, 1771).
Abigail
1750
15
10
Esther
1752
5
6
(married Tileston Clark, June 16, 1774).
Phebe
1754
26
9 [?]
Jonathan
1756
1
9
Mary
1758
5
6
(baptized May 14, 1758).
Thomas
1760
3
1
(baptized January 6, 1760).
William
1761
28
7
(baptized August 2, 1761).
Samuel
1763
3
3
(baptized March 13, 1763).
The intention of marriage of John Brintnall of Chelsea and Deliverance Bean of Boston (born July 4, 1732, daughter of Caleb and Deliverance Bean),22 was recorded in Chelsea, July 2, 1752, and in Boston, August 13. Their children were: John, born in 1753, the 24th day of the 8[?]th month; Deliverance, in 1755, the 12th day of the 11th month; William, in 1756, the 18th day of the 4th month; (died in 1758, the 6th day of the 1st month). The wife, Deliverance, died October 21, 1759, aged twenty-seven.
September 1, 1761, the town of Chelsea chose Benjamin Brint- nall town clerk " in the room of mr John Brintnall who was gon in his Majestys Seruise." In April, 1761, the General Court voted to raise 3,000 men for garrison duty in order to release the regular troops for offensive warfare in the South. John Brintnall enlisted forty-five men, and served as Second Lieutenant under Captain Lemuel Bent from April 18 to December 13; under Cap- tain Gideon Parker from December 13, 1761, to July 6, 1762. In the account of Captain Parker is a charge of £3 12s. for the pas- sage of Lieutenant Brintnall, his sergeant, and his servant, from Halifax; in 1761, the servant was William Townsend, private. Brintnall served as Lieutenant from July 1, 1762, to January 1, 1763 (company unknown) ; and from January 2, 1763, to July 16, 1763, under Captain Wm. Barron.23 February 20, 1764, Lieuten- ant John Brintnall and another were " drowned attempting to go to Castle William in a small Canoe." 24 His intention of marriage
21 See E. D. Harris, Descendants of Captain Thomas Brattle, 63, note.
Boston Records. Apparently John Brintnall attained his majority five years after his father's death. Suff. Prob. Files, 8608.
23 Mass. Archives, xcviii. 425, 436; xcix. 146, 162, 168, 180a, 181, 200, 277.
24 Church Records of Chelsea.
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with Jerusha Blowers of Boston was recorded at Chelsea, April 3, 1763, and in Boston, March 31; the marriage itself is not on record in either place. At the time of his death he was school- master at Winnisimmet.25
By deed in 1761 from his brother, and by bond of May 28, 1764, to pay an annuity to his mother, Deborah, Benjamin Brint- nall obtained title to the eastern farm.2" In April, 1768, the mother Deborah died, aged seventy-three years. She had been schoolmistress at Winnisimmet in 1755; Jan. 13, 1752, the select- men's records state that the "Widow Brintnall " was willing that those ill of the smallpox should be removed to her house. March 6, 1769, Benjamin Brintnall was living apparently in the eastern house, as when he conveyed the title of seventy-seven aeres and the westerly farmhouse to Jonathan Green, a bond was drawn for the peaceful removal from that house of the family of Stephen Greenleaf before March 16.27 Jonathan Green and Benjamin Brintnall were kinsmen. In 1712 the parents of the latter chose their unele Joses Bucknam their guardian. Lydia Bueknam, the sister of Joses, was the mother of Jonathan Green.28 Benjamin Brintnall continued to live in the eastern farmhouse after its sale to Green in 1772, and there seems to have been an agreement by which he might, under certain conditions, redeem it for £361 18s. 2d.29 Benjamin Brintnall held many town offices, in- eluding that of town treasurer; he was chosen a deacon in the church in 1749. Occasionally he taught the school at Winnisim- met. Many legacies and large families were a heavy burden; in the latter years of their ownership, the farms of Benjamin and John Brintnall were encumbered by a long series of mortgages.30 August 3, 1780, Deacon Benjamin Brintnall married Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Joseph Emerson of Malden and widow of Jacob Parker; thereafter he lived in Malden, where he died July 26, 1786, aged seventy.]
25 Abigail Hawks was paid £1 13s. 4d. for " Bording mr John Brint- nall Deceasd the Town's School master five weeks " in January and Feb- ruary, 1764, at 6s. 8d. per week. Chamberlain MSS., v. 57. Also ibid., 95.
20 Suff. Deeds, L. 95, f. 209; Prob. Files, 8608.
27 Rough draft in Chamberlain MSS., iii. 121.
28 S. S. Greene, Descendants of Thomas Green of Malden (1858), 32.
29 Chamberlain MSS., iii. 135.
30 Suff. Deeds, L. 60, f. 79; L. 65, f. 70; L. 81, f. 222; L. 83, f. 14; L. 82, f. 269; L. 95, ff. 210, 211; L. 97, ff. 222, 223; L. 100, f. 25; L. 104, f. 219; L. 105, f. 145, etc.
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JONATHAN GREEN was of Stoneham, where his family had long lived. [According to W. B. Stevens, History of Stoneham,1 he was the son of Jonathan, and grandson of Samuel, Green of Malden; was born in that town November 23, 1719; but when a boy was carried to Stoneham on his father's removal thither. He had served the town of Stoneham as town clerk and town treasurer for twenty years, and had also been active in the militia, - hold- ing the rank of Captain.] On his removal to Chelsea in 1769 he became, as he had been in Stoncham, an important citizen, - was assessor, town clerk, [selectman, town treasurer] and repre- sentative to the General Court. Hon. Samuel Watts was his neighbor, only a road separating their estates. He was one of the administrators of Watts' estate, and as such hunted up the papers which in London, or in Boston, had been used in defending the Bellingham Will suits, of which we shall hear much, - mainly from papers preserved by Jonathan Green.
In the War of the Revolution, Mr. Green was efficient in many ways. His house was on the hill now belonging to the United States, across the Mystic from Bunker Hill; and from it he and many other people from Chelsea and other towns witnessed the battle of the seventeenth of June, 1775. His estate, near the British lines, was so accessible by water to General Howe's troops, that the Committee of Correspondence ordered him to remove his live stock to Stoneham.2 His farm houses and barns were used for barracking our "Main Guard " then commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Loammi Baldwin.
" This certifies that our main Gard that was kept at Winnesim- met made use of the two Dwelling houses Belonging to Capt. Jonathan Green at sª winnesimmet from September to January Last past.
March ye 28th 1776.
Loammi Baldwin Colo." 3
" Decr ye 23ª 1775 the Officers of the Companies stationed at Chelsea to Jona Green Dr To two Cords one foot & a half of
1 Pages 65, 99-104. See also S. S. Greene, Descendants of Thomas Green of Malden, 32; Corey, Malden, 501, 632.
2 See infra, the itemized account of the damages he sustained from the war. Chamberlain MSS., v. 175-177.
3 A. D. S. Chamberlain MSS., vi. 23.
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wood Delivered at the Gard house at winnesemmit for the use of the Gard since the first day of this Instant
Jonª Green." 4
On this estate, in 1779, Jonathan Green boarded the town schoolmaster at Winnisimmet four weeks at £3 10s. per week; and in 1780 for nine weeks at £12 per week, - such had been the depreciation of paper money. Two and one-fourth cords of wood for this school cost the town £135.5
[December 21, 1785, Jonathan Green conveyed to Josiah Capen of Chelsea, Gentleman, one hundred fifteen acres " with two dwell- ing houses three barns one Cyder house one chaise house one wood house one little house bounded Southerly on the river that runs from Boston to Medford to Low water mark westerly and North- westerly on the mill river partly and westerly partly on Marsh of Thomas Sergeant Northerly on Marsh of Moses Collins and also westerly on said Collins marsh Northerly Northeasterly and Easterly on the Island end river so called and Easterly on land of Samuel Watts excepting out of said piece of Land the road or way that goes by said Easterly house." By the same deed he conveyed four acres in the dammed marsh, in what was formerly the Tuttle farm (in what is now Revere). The lands were con- veyed subject to a mortgage of 480 "pounds of lawful silver money " to Ebenezer Putnam of Salem, physician. December 22, 1785, Josiah Capen mortgaged the land to Jonathan Green to secure a part of the purchase money, and August 28, 1787, quitclaimed the land to Jonathan Green of Stoneham for £700, and a release from his mortgage bond. He included also in the conveyance a pew in the southeast corner of Chelsea meeting- house between the pews of Samuel Watts and Samuel Pratt.6]
4 Chamberlain MSS., iii. 149. [Draft in handwriting of Jonathan Green. He delivered four cords six feet of wood at the guard house between October 1 and November 25, 1775. Ibid.]
5 Chamberlain MSS., vi. 125, 163. [Bills in the handwriting of Jonathan Green, with the order for payment endorsed on the back. For boarding the schoolmaster in March and April, 1779, Green charged £4 16s. a week. Ibid.]
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