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Her portrait is in the rooms of the Mass. Hist. Society. She left one hundred and thirty descendants.
William Roby or Robie married for his second wife (15 May, 1722), Anne Pollard, daughter of Jonathan and granddaughter of William and Anne.
HANNAH SUTTON, wife of Bartholomew Sutton.
MARY PENNIMAN-BAKER. James and Mary Penniman had children baptized at the South Church in 1670; and Thomas and Mary Baker had children baptized there after 1680. But there was another Mary Baker who joined the church in 1681.
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MARGARET GALLOP, wife of Nathaniel Gallop. .
JAMES HILL, freeman, Married 10 April, 1662, Hannah Henchman, sister of Daniel (1670). Elected deacon of the South Church, 24 Nov. 1693.
Feb. 23, 1720-21 ; " Dined at Mr. Sewall's, with Mrs. Man, Granddaughter of Capt. Hill, who was pray'd for with his wife." Feb. 25 ; " Mrs. Hannah Hill, wife of Capt. James Hill, dyes about 5 p.m. /Etat. S3." Feb. 26; " Lord's Day, Capt. and Deacon James Hill dyes about 6 a-clock in the morning ÆEtat S2. Dyed Praying; Optando si non affir- mando." March 2; "After Lecture Capt. James Hill and Hanah his wife are buried. Bearers, Sewall, Townsend ; Bromfield, Stoddard ; Checkley, Williams ; Oliver, Welsteed ; Maryon, Draper ; Man and Deacon Green. South Burying place. Great Funeral."-Sewall.
DOROTHY PERRY, wife of Seth Perry (1669), and daughter of Michael and Abigail Powell. Mary (Powell) (1674), whose second husband was Deacon Jacob Eliot (1669), was her half-sister. Theophilus Frary's (1669) first wife, Hannah, was a sister of Deacon Eliot. Seth Perry bought some of the Eliot lands, and there seems to have been some informality about the deed; this is supposed to have been the cause of the difference between Frary and Perry, to which Judge Sewall refers in his Diary, and which he and Mr. Willard interested them- selves to adjust.
Aug. 19, 1711 ; " Mrs Perry is buried, a good woman, aged 68." --- Sewall.
MARY SHRIMPTON-WILLIAMS ; daughter of Peter Oliver (1669) ; her first husband was Jonathan Shrimpton, eldest son of Edward, of London, and nephew of Henry, of Bos- ton ; he died, 1673 ; she then married Nathaniel Williams (1675), deacon of the South Church, who survived her, and married, secondly, Mrs. Crispe (1672).
MARY WRIGHT, wife of Robert Wright. Their daugh- ter, Hannah (1670), married William Iloar (1670).
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SARAHI TOMLINS-HENCHMAN. Sarah, daughter of Matthew Barnes, was married, 26 Dec. 1660, to John Tomlins. She afterward married, probably, William Henchman.
SARAH NOYES, daughter of Peter Oliver (1669) and wife of John Noyes (1675), whom she survived.
March 19, 1708 ; "About Candle-lighting, the day senight after her being taken, my old cordial Christian dear friend, Mrs. Sarah Noyes, Expires. I saw her on Wednesday, she knew me, and ask'd how Madam Sewall did. She was Labo- rious, Constant at Privat Meeting, Lecture, Lord's Day. I am much afflicted for the loss of her." --- Sewall.
ELIZABETHI MUCKDANNIEL, wife of John Muckdanniel.
JONATHAN JACKSON, "friend of the Apostle Eliot, and a helper in his work." Born, probably in London ; free- man, 1671. Savage says that his warehouse was burned in the great fire of 1679; died 1693. Sewall records the death of his wife, by suicide, 13 Dec. 1681.
JOYCE BURGESS, wife of Francis Burgess.
ELIZABETH MACCARTY, wife of Thaddeus Maccarty, who was of artill. co. 1681, and died 18 June, 1705, aged 65. Judge Sewall records that he visited the widow, 24 Dec. 1705 ; she lived until 7 June, 1723.
AMBROSE DAWES, born at Braintree, 1642; son of William (1669) and Susanna (1674). Like his father, he was a mason and -builder ; freeman, 1671; artill. co. Served in the war against Philip, and went to Maine with Governor Phips, and was wounded. Died, 9 Nov. 1705. His wife was Mary, daughter of Thomas and Susanna Bumstead, and sister of Jeremiah (1684). Her name does not appear on the church records. She died in 1706, aged 64.
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JEHOSHEBA WING, daughter of James Davis, of Boston, and wife of John Wing (1669), whom she survived.
DELIVERANCE POLLARD, wife of John Pollard.
CICELY TALBOT, wife of William Talbot.
MARY PEACOLKE, wife of Samuel Peacolke.
RUTH WILLIS, daughter of the Rev. Zechariah Symmes, and wife of Capt. Edward Willis (1694).
SARAH TYNG; Sarah, daughter of Hezekiah Usher (1669), married about 1668, Jonathan Tyng, of Dunstable, who lived several years in Boston, was a representative and a member of the council, and died, 1724.
SUSANNA DOWNES, daughter of the first Jacob Eliot and sister of Deacon Jacob (1669). . She married first, Peter Hobart, of Hingham, and next, Thomas Downes, mariner. She joined the South Church by letter from the church in Hingham, and died, 14 March, 1688.
FRANCIS ROBINSON ; Boston ; freeman, 1671 .- Savage. His wife, Sarah, joined the church at the same time.
MARY THORNTON -- GREENWOOD, probably the wife of Samuel Greenwood (1680).
JOHN MARSHALL.
Aug. IS, 1719; "Mr Jnº. Marshal, Merchant, dyes sud- denly ; was abroad all Satterday." Aug. 20 ; " I went first to the Funeral of M" John Marshall, a very desirable merchant." Sewall.
JANE HOUEN, wife of John Houen.
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ELIZABETH DAVENPORT ; received by letter of dismission from the church at Braintree. Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Thacher (1669), married Nathaniel Daven- port, "the brave captain killed in the great Narraganset battle, 19 Dec. 1675;" and next married, 1677, Samuel Davis.
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ABIGAIL THWING, wife of Benjamin Thwing (1674).
MARTHA SAFFIN, daughter of Captain Thomas Willet, of Plymouth, and wife of John Saffin. She died with two of her children of small-pox in 1678. John Saffin was representative, speaker, councillor, and judge. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Lidget; and his third, Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Lee.
July 29, 1710 ; " Last night John Saflin Esq' died. He ex- press'd to M' Pemberton an Assurance of his good Estate 2 or 3 hours before his death."-Sewall.
His widow married, 1712, the Rev. Joseph Baxter of Medfield. His last surviving son, Thomas, died in Lon- don, 1687, and was buried at Stepney ; the epitaph on his tomb was quoted and commended in the " Spectator," in paper No. 518, written by Steele.
Among the sacramental silver of the Old South, is a curiously wrought cup, with these two inscriptions : " Memento MARTHA SAFFIN, Obijt. 11 Dec. '78." "Legacy of M' FARR TOLLMAN to the Old South Church in Boston, 1751." Mr. Tollman also left £300, old tenor, to the poor of the Old South." His name does not appear in the membership ; but Hannah Tollman became a member in 1752.
SARAH COOKE. We find the names of Robert and Sarah Cooke, and, also, of James and Sarah Cooke on
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the baptismal register. A second Sarah Cooke joined the church in 1677.
LYDIA ELLISTON, wife of George (1688) ; freeman, 1690; mentioned by Judge Sewall as one of the bearers at the funeral of Isaac Walker, 1688.
ELIZABETH BROUGHTON, perhaps daughter of Thomas Broughton, of Watertown, afterward of Boston, a mer- chant of large business, who died, 12 Nov. 1700, aged 84. By wife, Mary (daughter of Nathaniel Briscoe), he had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Obadiah Reed.
JOHN WINSLOW, MARY WINSLOW,
Joined by letters from the church at Plymouth. John Winslow, brother of Governor Edward, was a thrifty merchant, and representative, and died 1674. His wife, Mary Chilton, came over in the "Mayflower," 1620, and has the reputation of being the first woman who landed from that vessel, leaping ashore at Cape Cod, "in her girlish sport." Shurtleff says that an estate in Spring Lane, adjacent to Governor Winthrop's, came into the possession of John Winslow, 1671.
ELIZABETH ROBBINS, wife of William Robbins.
ELIZABETH JOHNSON ; Judge Sewall mentions a nurse of this name more than once, who had been in his family.
1710; " This day. Augt 4. Nurse Elizabeth Johnson dyes. Seventh-day, Augt 5. Is buried near the Entrance of the old Burying-place ; about 60. years old. I and Major Walley followed next the Women, M' Pemberton, Hanah and Cousin Jane Green were there."
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JOSEPH WHEELER,
MARY WHEELER.
Judge Sewall refers frequently to Joseph Wheeler in his Diary. He was a member of the artill. co. and promi- nent in the town. A private religious meeting at his house is mentioned, Oct. 1696. In 1698 he assisted Mr. Willard in the matter of Roger Judd's (1684) contumacy.
Dec. 11, 1707; "Madam Usher, son and daughter Hirst and their family, Cousin Sam. and Jonathan Sewall, Bror Wheeler and his wife, M -- and her daughter dine with us."
Oct. 19, 1728; "I told him [M' Joseph Sewall] of the death of the Widow Wheeler yesterday morning, which he had not heard of." -- Sewall.
LYDIA GIBBS, daughter of Joshua Scottow (1669), and wife of Robert Gibbs (1669). In 1678 she married Anthony Checkley, merchant, and attorney general ; his first wife was Hannah, daughter of the Rev. John Wheel- wright. Lydia married for her third husband, William Colman, father of the Rev. Benjamin Colman.
REBECCA SCOTTOW --- CHURCH. John Scottow, son of Thomas, and nephew of Joshua (1669), had a wife Rebecca, who must have had a second husband. Rebecca, daugh- ter of John and Rebecca Scottow, was baptized 4 March, 1676-7.
JOHN BLAKE, MARY BLAKE.
John Blake, of Dorchester, son of William; born in England ; arrived in this country, 1642; freeman, 1644; married, 16 Aug. 1654, widow Mary Shaw, " but who had been her former husband, or whose child she was, I sec not. Perhaps he [John Blake] lived some years in Bos- ton about 1663, and died there early in 1689." -- Savage.
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MANASSEH BECK, son of Alexander and his wife Eliz- abeth (Hinds), of Roxbury. "Was freeman 1672, and this is all I know of him."-Savage. His wife was proba- bly a daughter of William Salter (1669).
1672.
EPHRAIM SAVAGE, son of Major Thomas Savage (1669), by his first wife, Faith ; Harv. Coll. 1662.
"He was freeman, 1672 ; artill. co. 1674 ; its captain, 1683, and was for many years town clerk, and in that period the records were carefully kept, except when he was engaged with his father in Philip's war, and served in the unhappy expedition of Sir William Phips, 1690, then having command of one of the fleet ; was representative, 1703 and six years more, and took the head of a company of the force drafted and sent on service to Nova Scotia, in the abortive campaign, 1707." -- Savage.
He died, 1731. His first wife was Mary, eldest daugh- ter of the second Edmund Quincy, of Braintree, and Joanna (Hoar) his wife; she was a cousin of Judge Sewall's wife, and the Judge, in his Diary, frequently speaks of Ephraim Savage as "Cousin Savage." He married, 1678, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Hough, of Reading; and, 1688, Elizabeth, widow of Timothy Symmes, and daughter of Captain Francis Norton, of Charlestown. His third marriage was solem- nized by the Rev. Charles Morton, and was one of the earliest instances in New England of marriage by a clergyman. Mr. Savage's fourth wife was Elizabeth, widow of Peter Butler, and daughter of Abraham Brown, who survived him.
Feb. 4, 1712-13 ; "Privat Meeting at our house, pretty number of men ; M' Tilly here : tis the first Meeting he has been at since his Sickness. Sung 3 Staves 27th Ps. W[indsor] * Cousin Savage was here with his new wife." -- Scwall.
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ELIZABETH BRATTLE, wife of Thomas Brattle (1669), and daughter of Captain William Tyng and his wife Eliz- abeth (Coytmore). She died very suddenly, at the mar- riage of Daniel Quincy and Anna Shepard, which was solemnized at her house, 9 Nov. 1682.
SARAH CRISPE -- WILLIAMS. Sarah, youngest daugh- ter of the Rev. John Wheelwright, first married Richard Crispe, and, then, Nathaniel Williams (1675), deacon of the South Church. Judge Sewall gives the following ac- count of her in connection with her death and funeral.
March 3; 1726-7; "Mrs. Sarah Williams dies, a very pious Gentlewoman, daughter of the Rev'd Mr. Wheelwright of Salisbury, whom Mr. Richd Crisp first Married, by her he had a Son and daughter. The Son died a young Man. Capt Nathan' Williams married her after M" Crisp's death, who also died Dec' 23. 1714. So that Mrs. Williams liv'd his widow somthing more than twelve years and died on Friday night between 10 and I. a-clock, after or in the great and violent Storm of Snow, March, 3, 1726-7 in the 79th year of her age, and was entombed in the South-burying place on Tuesday March, 7th following. Bearers, were Sewall, Byfield ; Simeon Stoddard esq', Sam' Checkly esq"; John Campbell esq', M' Benjamin Walker. Mrs. Sarah Clark her only daughter being the principal Mourner."
Richard Crispe was a merchant, who came from Jamaica. His first wife was Hannah, widow of Benjamin Richards, and daughter of William Hudson, Jr.
The Rev. LEONARD HOAR, born in Gloucestershire, about 1630; it is probable that he came to New England with two brothers, John and Daniel, and two sisters, Margery and Joanna, and with his mother, Joanna. He graduated at Harv. Coll. 1650; returned to England, 1653, and was presented to the living of Wanstead, in Essex, from which he was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, 1662. In 1671, he received the degree of M.D. from the Univ. of Cam- bridge. In the summer of 1672, he came to Boston, ac-
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companied by his wife, "upon some invitation relating to a settlement in the Pastoral Charge with the South Church," and preached as an assistant to Mr. Thacher, sojourning with his kinsman John Hull (1669), the mint- master. Full notes of the sermons preached by him at this time are in the possession of the Mass. Hist. Society. Hull says that Dr. Hoar was sent for from England by the Third Church, but the presidency of Harvard College being vacant, "it was the earnest desire of the ministers and magistrates that they would spare him for that work, and upon Nov. 15 they did yield him up to that service." His course at Cambridge was beset with difficulties almost from the first, and he held the office only until March, 1675. The recital of these difficulties cannot be given here ; it is to be found in Quincy's History of Har- vard College. It will be appropriate, however, to say that one of the sins laid to his charge was his "act in joining a church in Boston before receiving a dismissal and recom- mendation from the one to which he belonged in England." -- Sibley. Cotton Mather, who was an undergraduate at the time, says, "Considered either as a Scholar or as a Christian," he "was truly a Worthy Man, and he was generally reputed such, untill happening, I can scarce tell how, to fall under the Displeasure of some that made a Figure in the Neighbourhood, the Young Men in the Col- ledge took advantage therefrom, to ruine his Reputation, as far as they were able." "His grief threw him into a consumption ; " and he died in Boston, 28 Nov. 1675, and was buried at Braintree. He married Bridget, daughter of John Lisle, a very distinguished man, one of the judges of Charles I., some time lord-president of the high court of justice, and joint commissioner of the great seal. Under the Stuart Restoration, his wife, the Lady Alice, had to pay the penalty for his republicanism with her life. She was the first victim of Jeffreys on that circuit of which Macaulay has said that its "memory will
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last as long as our race and language." Mrs. Hoar be- came the wife of Hezekiah Usher, Jr., but the marriage was not a happy one. Sewall mentions her joining the First Church, 31 Jan. 1685-6. In 1687, she went with her daughter to England, and remained there until after Mr. Usher's death. She died in 1723 ; in her will she re- membered the poor of the Third Church ; she left her es- tate to her only child, Bridget, wife of the Rev. Thomas Cotton, of London.
SARAH WALLEY, wife of the Hon. John Walley (1679). She died on Sunday, II Nov. 1711, just two months be- fore her husband. Her funeral took place on the following Thursday ; her bearers were: "Wait Winthrop esq", Elisha Hutchinson esq'; Addington, Sergeant ; Belchar, Stoddard. All the Councillors had Scarvs." Judge Sewall was holding court in Salem ; but he tells us that he received from Major Walley (1679) a good lute-string scarf and ring, with gloves.
SARAH BALSTON, dismissed to the church in Marsh- field. James Balston, Boston, married Sarah, daughter of Ralph Root, and had a daughter Sarah, born 26 Aug. 1653.
JAMES BRACKETT, dismissed to the church in Braintree.
" A cooper, son of Richard; freeman, 1673 ; removed to Braintree, 1675 ; by wife. Sarah, had Joseph, Nathan, and several daughters ; died S April, 1718, aged 72."-Savage.
JOHN HOWARD, MARY HOWARD,
Joined by letter from the church in Concord. Judge Sewall records that in June, 1688, Mr. James Graham, attorney general, was dwelling in "Mr. John Howard's brick house."
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JOIIN DRURY. "Boston, 1672; freeman, 1673; car- penter ; son of Hugh and Lydia Drury ; by wife Mary, had Thomas and John, and died 1678."-Savage. It may have been his second son of whom Judge Sewall records that "John Drury, a desirable young man," died of the small-pox, November, 1702.
1673.
JOHN JOYLIFFE.
" He was one of the connecting links with the first settlers. He married, in 1657, Anna, widow of Robert Knight, and previously widow of Thomas Cromwell, that rich privateer who settled in Boston."-Eds. Sewall. "He was freeman 1673, many years a selectman, one of the patriots of 1689, who put Andros in prison, town recorder in 1691 ; was made by Increase Mather one of the Council in the Charter of William and Mary, but dropped at the first popular choice." -Savage.
In the South Church he was one of those to whom was assigned the difficult and delicate duty of arranging the sittings.
Oct. 26, 1685 ; " The worshipful Samuel Sewall Esq", was chosen to join with M' Jnº Jolliffe and Capt. Joshua Scotto and Capt. Wm Gerish in the oversight of the seats."
March 14, 1691-92 ; " M" Joyliffe lays down his Recorder's place, his sight does so much fail him." Nov. 23, 1701 ; "John Joyliffe Esq' dies. He had been blind and laboured under many Infirmities for a long time * * * Bearers of M' Joyliffe ; M' Cooke, Addington, Sergeant, Anth. Checkly, Elm Hutchinson, M' Saffin."-Sewall.
He had a daughter, Hannah, who died unmarried.
The Rev. PETER THACHER, youngest son of the Rev. Thomas Thacher (1669), minister of the South Church ; Harv. Coll. 1671. He was a classmate and life long friend of Judge Sewall. He was dismissed to Milton, 1681, when he was ordained minister of the church there. 32
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He married three times : first, Theodora, daughter of the Rev. John Oxenbridge, sixth minister of the First Church ; second, Susanna (1698), widow of the Rev. John Bailey ; third, Elizabeth, widow of the first Joshua Gee.
" Lord's Day, Dec' 17, 1727; I was surprised to hear MY Thacher of Milton, my old Friend, pray'd for as dangerously Sick. Next Dav, Dec' 18, 1727. I am inform'd by M. Gerrish, that my dear friend died last night; which I doubt bodes ill to Milton and the Province, his dying at this Time, though in the 77th year of his Age. Deus avertat. Omen ! Friday, Dec' 22; The day after the Fast was inter'd. Bearers, Rev. MI Nehemiah Walter, M' Joseph Baxter ; M' John Swift, M' Sam Hunt ; M' Joseph Sewall, M' Thomas Prince. I was inclin'd before, and having a pair of Gloves sent me, I determined to go to the Funeral, if the Weather prov'd favourable, which it did, and I hired Blake's Coach with four Horses ; my son, M' Cooper and Mr Prince went with me. Refresh'd there with Meat and Drink ; got thither about half an hour past one. It was sad to see triumphed over my dear Friend ! I rode in my Coach to the Burying place ; not being able to get nearer by reason of the many Horses. * Now I can go to no more Funerals of my Class-mates ; nor none be at mine; for the survivers, the Rev'd M' Samuel Mather at Windsor, and the Rev'd M' Taylor at Westfield, [are] one Hundred Miles off, and are entirely enfeebled. I humbly pray that Christ may be graciously present with us all Three both in Life, and in Death. and then we shall safely and Comfortably walk through the shady valley that leads to Glory." --- Sewall.
Mr. Mather died in 1728, Mr. Taylor in 1729, and the good Judge, the last survivor of his class, in 1730. The last sermon preached by Dr. Cotton Mather (printed after his death), was his funeral sermon on the Rev. Peter Thacher : "The Comfortable Chambers, Opened and Visited."
HANNAH HOWARD.
" Edward Howard, Boston, married, 7 June, 1661, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Hawkins the baker; and it is strange that we hear no more of him."-Savage.
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MARY ATKINSON, second wife of Theodore Atkinson (1669). She was a daughter of the Rev. John Wheel- wright, M.A., Sydney College, Cambridge; and her first husband was Edward Lyde.
Jany 4, 1711-12 ; " Mrs. M. Atkinson, born in New Eng- land, aged 73. years, buried in a Tomb in the New-burying place, from her son M' Lyde's house."-Sewall.
Her sister, Hannah, was the first wife of Anthony Checkley.
MARY BUTLER, wife of Stephen Butler.
DEBORAH PROUT, a daughter of the Rev. Zechariah Symmes, and wife of Timothy Prout the second, who, Savage says, had been a master mariner, and in 1676 had "had striking peril in shipwreck, * as in Hubbard, 643, may be read : and was probably lost at a much later day." 'It must have been the father of whom Sewall wrote :
Nov. 3, 1702; "Capt. Timº Prout died last night, aged more than So years."
Timothy Prout, born 1666, was actively connected with Old South affairs, although his name does not ap- pear on the list of members; he was on the building committee for the new meeting house in 1728-29; his son Timothy became a member in 1740. Mrs. Deborah Prout died 13 March, 1716.
MOSES PAIN,
ELIZABETH PAIN,
Joined by letter from the church at Braintree. Moses Pain, son of Moses of Braintree, by wife Elizabeth had nine or ten children.
" Artill. co. 1644; freeman, 1647; lieut. and a repre- sentative, 1666 and 8: removed to Boston; died 15 Dec. 1690." -- Savage.
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Dec. 19, 1690; " Three desirable men now dead ; one out of each Church. Our M' Pain the oldest, being about 68." -- Sewall.
WILLIAM NEEDHAM ; Braintree.
" May have been of Newport, 1638, and came afterward to Massachusetts ; freeman, 1648; removed, I think to Bos- ton, had probably no wife or children, for in his will of 10 June, 1690, he freely gives one-third of his estate to Old South Church, opposite to which was his residence, and two- thirds to William and John, sons of his kinsman John Need- ham late of Boston, deceased, and he minutely disposes of his furniture, and died, 30 [? ] Dec. afterward." -- Savage.
Dec. 6, 1690; " Brother Wm Needham is buried about 3 a-clock : Bearers, Deacon Eliot, Frary, Allen, Tomson, Bridgham. Had Rings and Gloves. Executors sent me a Ring."-Sewall.
His wife, Grace (1673), must have died some time be- fore. He seems to have served as sexton of the South Meeting House, and his name appears in connection with the usurpation of Andros.
Friday, March 25, 1687 : (probably Good Friday) ; "The Governour has service in the South Meeting house. Good- m [an] Needham, though had resolved to the contrary, was prevailed upon to Ring the Bell and open the door at the Governour's Comand, one Smith and Hill, joiner and Shoe- maker, being very busy about it."-Sewall.
GRACE NEEDHAM, wife of William (1673). They both joined by letter of dismission from the church at Braintree.
MARY GEORGE, daughter of William Pell, and wife of Richard George ; they were married I Nov. 1655.
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BENJAMIN THWING.
Jan' 14, 16So-S1 ; " Benjamin Thiwing, carpenter, one of the South Church, was going from Mount Hope to Rhode Island in a Canoo with an Indian, was overset by the wind and Ice, drowned. The Indian escaped."-Sewall.
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Benjamin Thwing, freeman, 1680, by wife Abigail (1671) had Benjamin and Lydia.
ISAAC WALKER, merchant, came from Salem to Boston, 1645; freeman, 1646; he was an active proprietor of Lancaster, but did not remove thither; lieut. artill. co. 1676; died, 19 Oct. 1688. His third (or fourth) wife was Hannah (1682), daughter of Deacon Theophilus Frary (1669). She afterward became the wife of Andrew Belcher (1697).
Monday, Oct. 22, 16SS; "Mr. Isaac Walker is buried. Bearers, ME James Taylor, M' Francis Burroughs, Capt. Tho. Savage, M' Simeon Stoddard, M' George Elleston, M' Sam1 Checkly ; Deacon Eliot and I led the young widow, and had Scarfs and Gloves."-Sewall.
SUSANNA BENNETT, wife of John Bennett, as we judge from the baptismal register ; but there were two or three of this name.
ELIZABETH DAVIS.
June 24, 1709; "Elisa. Davis, Widow is buried; M" . Dering, Hill ; Williams, Mcers; Blish, Draper, Bearers. They invited me and my wife by sending us good Gloves." -- Scwall.
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