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MARGARET THACHER, wife of the Rev. Thomas Thacher, first minister of the South Church. She was the only child of Ilenry Webb, a merchant, who left a very con- siderable property for those days, and gave to Harvard College the estate in Washington Street, upon which the store of Messrs Little, Brown & Co. stands. She was born in Salisbury, Wilts, and baptized there 25 Sept. 1625. She married, 1642, Jacob Sheaf; and several years after his death, she became the second wife of Mr. Thacher. She died, 24 Feb. 1693-94.
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Mrs. Thacher, and the twenty-two whose names follow upon the register,-most of them wives and daughters of the founders of the Third Church,-were members of the First Church, to which they applied repeatedly for letters of dismission and recommendation, but in vain. At length, an appeal was taken to an Ecclesiastical Council, and the statement of their case, with their autograph sig- natures attached, is on file among the church papers. The decision of the council was :
" That such members may joyne, and such a church unto whome they desire to joyne may receive them into their fellowship, without the transgression of any rule of church order or any just offence given unto ye church unto wch they did belong, provided they be in a capacity, by a convenient vicinity and other necessary circumstances, to walk with that church constantly in ye course of church fellowp. and come according to their church covenant."
Many years passed before the efforts of the brethren of the Third or South Church to become reconciled with the First Church were successful.
" On 29 March, 1670, at a meeting called about our dis- senting brethren, the question, whether the church see light from the word of God to dismiss our dissenting brethren that desire it, was answered in the negative unanimously."- Ilistory of the First Church, p. 117.
" In 1682, the disagreement between the First and Third churches, which had continued for fourteen years, came to an end. An effort was made in that year to establish an Episcopal church in Boston. Both societies regarded such a church as a common enemy, and so both came together and united their energies to prevent its establishment. The pro- posal for a reconciliation was voted by First Church, April 23, 1682."-Ibid, pp. 134, 135.
ELIZABETH GIBBS-CORWIN. Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Sheaf, by his wife Margaret (afterward Mrs. Thacher (1674), ), married, first, Robert Gibbs, a noted . merchant ; and, secondly, in 1676, Jonathan Curwin or Corwin. Her second husband was born in Salem, 1640;
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freeman, 1671; representative, 1684, 1689; assistant, 1689; named councillor in the new charter; judge of Superior Court. He died, 9 June, 1718.
MARY NORTON, wife of the Rev. John Norton, who was born in England, 1606, educated at St. Peter's Col- lege, Cambridge, and, being dissatisfied with the state of things in the English Church, came to New England in the "Hopewell " with Governor Winslow, 1635 ; he went to Ipswich and was ordained there; was called to Boston to fill John Cotton's pulpit, 1656, and died, 1663. His wife was the third daughter of John Ferneley, of West Creting, Suffolk. She was born 2 October, baptized 21 October, 1602. In the Magnalia she is spoken of as "a gentlewoman both of good estate and good esteem." In the controversies which arose in connection with the call and settlement of the Rev. John Davenport, of New Haven, as the successor of her husband in the First Church, she cast in her lot with those who seceded from it, and founded the Third or South Church. On the Ist of April, 1669, she gave by deed the land on which the first meeting-house was built. This was the southern part, and somewhat less than half, of the land afterward owned by the parish. The conveyance was to "Capt. Thomas Savage, Capt. William Davis, Mr Hezekiah Usher, M' Edward Rawson, Mr John Hull, Mr Peter Oliver, Mr Josiah Scottow, Mr Edward Ransford, Mr Richard Trusdall, and M' Jacob Eliott, and to such as they shall associate to themselves, their heirs and suc- cessors forever, for the erecting of a House for their as- sembling themselves together publicly to worship God," etc. On the 30th of June, 1677, she gave, by another deed, the eastern half of the remainder of the land; and two months later, by will, the residue, together with the house in which she had lived.
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" The lot was one of the original grants to John Winthrop, the first Governor, and the father of the colony, and the house just mentioned was the mansion in which he resided till his death. The house was of wood, two stories high, and stood nearly opposite the end of School Street, fronting South ; till the first Meeting House was erected, there was upon the lot no other building, and the premises presented the appearance indicated by the name by which they are described in the early records, The Green, being skirted along the main street by a row of beautiful button-wood trees."- Wisner.
Mrs. Norton's second deed, after referring to the former one, and to the grantees therein named as "erecting a Meeting House on the place and becoming a church of Christ, with whom I have had communion ever since," makes conveyance to "Thomas Savage, Edward Rawson, John Hull, Joshua Scottow, Edward Raynsford, and Jacob Elliot, yet alive, and to such as they have associated unto them in church fellowship, or shall be associated to them and to their heirs and successors forever." The language of the will is : "I give and bequeath unto the Third Church of Christ in Boston, my now dwelling house, with all the land belonging to the same, as it is situated near the. Third Meeting House in Boston aforesaid, with all profits, privileges," etc.
HANNAH FRARY, daughter of the first Jacob Eliot, sister of Deacon Eliot (1669), first wife of Deacon Frary (1669), and the mother of his children. She died before 1690.
MARY SALTER, wife of William Salter (1669), whom she survived.
" In 16So, widow Mary Salter sold half her land, bounded east by the sea. west by the highway to Roxbury, south by the old highway to Roxbury, and north by land of Deacon Jacob Eliot."-Eds. Sewall.
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JUDITH HULL, daughter of Edmund Quincy, and wife of John Hull (1669), whom she survived twelve years, during which time she resided with her son-in-law, Judge Sewall.
June 21, 1695 ; " About one at night, Jane [Tappan] comes up with an unusual Gate, and gives us an account of Mothers Illness, not being able to speak of a considerable time. * In the morn Roger Judd [ ( 1684) ] is sent to Cambridge for Dr. Oliver [( 1684) ], mother chusing to speak with him and no other * * About 8. or 9. I call'd M' Willard at her desire, who prays with her. Finding the room free once, and ob- serving her very great weakness; I took the oportunity to thank her for all her Labours of Love to me and mine, and ask'd her pardon of our undutifullness ; * * * a little before Sunset she expired, to our very surprising Grief and Sorrow. Roger Judd was here about noon, and said that when some in the next room spake about who should Watch, my dear Mother answer'd, She should need no Watchers, she should be above at Rest. June 24; About seven aclock, my dear Mother is entombed. Bearers, ME Danforth, Russell, Cooke, Elisha Hutchinson, Addington, Sergeant."-Sewall.
MARY SAVAGE-STODDARD, daughter of the Rev. Zechariah Symmes, and second wife of Major Thomas Savage, the founder of the Savage family, "representative, speaker, assistant, noted as a staunch soldier." Her second husband was Anthony Stoddard, recorder of Bos- ton, and for nineteen consecutive years chosen a repre- sentative. He was married four times : first, to Mary Downing, niece of Governor Winthrop; fourthly, to Mary, widow of Thomas Savage. One of his sons was the Rev. Solomon Stoddard, Harv. Coll. 1662, the learned and ex- cellent minister of Northampton, and ancestor of Charles Stoddard (1821); his other sons, Simeon (1691) and Anthony, were very useful members of the South Church.
March 16, 1686-7; " About I aclock M' Anthony Stod- dard dyes, was the ancientest shopkeeper in Town."-Scwall.
July 19. 1710; "Madam Stoddard, widow, buried in Major Savage's Tomb-old burying place."-Sewall.
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RANIS or RAVIS BELCHER, daughter of Elder Rains- ford (1669), by his second wife, Elizabeth (1674), and wife of Josiah Belcher (1669).
ELIZABETH RAINSFORD, wife of Elder Edward Rains- ford (1669).
Nov. 16, 16SS ; "Mrs. Rainsford, the aged Mother, dies." --- Sewall.
" Mrs. Eliz'th Raynsford died on the 16th of Nov. 1688, aged eighty-one years. At her decease the property of the Elder was divided, and Rainsford Island, which at his death was valued only at £ro. was assigned, together with other property, to the children of Captain William Greenough, of Boston, a noted shipwright, whose second wife, Elizabeth, then deceased, was daughter of the Elder." -- Shurtleff.
SARAH PEMBERTON, wife of James (1669), and mother of the third minister of the South Church, the Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton (1692).
May 26, 1709 : " Mrs. Sarah Pemberton buried. Bearers, Sewall, Sergeant; Walley, Checkly ; Hill, Williams." --- Scwall.
ELIZABETH THURSTON, wife of Benjamin Thurston (1669), and daughter of Robert (1669) and Sarah (1674) Walker. In both the letters on file, signed by the wives of the founders of the church, the name appears as Elishua Thurston.
SARAH WALKER, wife of Robert Walker (1669), who died in 1687.
Dec. 21, 1695 ; " Between S. and 9. I went to see Dame Walker, and found her very weak and much alter'd. Mehetabel [Thurston] told her I was there, she said with a low voice, I thank him. Afterward Mchetabel ask'd her if I should pray, she said, I stand in need. * *
* I went home to Prayer, Intending after that to go to M' Willard to pray him to give her one Lift more heaven-ward. But before I
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could get away, a Girl came runing to call me. And by that time I could get thether, the Good woman had expired, or was just expiring, being about Ten of the clock in the morn- ing. God fulfilled his good Word in her and kept her Leaf from withering * Dec. 23, 1695 ; Dame Walker is buried. Bearers, M' Ezek. Chiever, Capt. Theophilus Frary, Capt. James Hill, William Daws, pater. Jnº Maryon, pater, Deacon Joseph Bridgham, beside a 2ª set of Bearers ; Odlin, Wheeler, Butcher, Jnº Maryon fil', Joseph Brisco. Major General Winthrop, M' Cook, M' Sergeant, M' Addington, Sewall were there, of the Council ; M' Willard, M' Allen, ME Oakes, Physician &c. Women, Mrs Sergeant, Mrs Willard, Mrs Noyes, M" Williams, M' Pierson, my Daughter, cum multis alijs; very comfortable Wether over head, somthing dirty under foot."-Sewall.
MARY TAPPAN -- AVERY, wife of John Tappan, and after- ward of Dr. William Avery (1682). She inherited from her first husband the property where the Daily Advertiser Building now stands, and the fee of which passed from her and William Avery to John Campbell (1698).
ELIZABETH ALDEN, daughter of William Phillips, mar- ried, first, Abiel Everill; second, John Alden (1669). Their daughter, Elizabeth (1709), says Savage, married John Walley, possibly grandson of the Rev. Thomas ; and next, Simon Willard, "but," he adds, "this union is not clear to me." It was another John Walley, not nearly related, probably, to the family of the Rev. Thomas, who married Elizabeth Alden, the daughter.
Feb. 7, 1695-6; "Mrs. Alden is buried. Bearers were M' Chiever, Capt. Hill, Capt. Williams, M' Walley, M Ballentine." -- Sewall.
ELIZABETH BECK, perhaps the mother of Manasseh Beck (1671) ; his wife, according to the baptismal register Mary, was a daughter (probably) of William Salter (1669).
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SARAH OLIVER, daughter of John Newdigate, and wife of Peter Oliver (1669). Their sons, Nathaniel (1685) married Elizabeth (1683), daughter of Thomas Brattle (1669) ; James (1684), Mercy, daughter of Samuel Brad- street ; and Daniel (1689), Elizabeth (1707), daughter of Andrew Belcher (1697). Of these, all except Mercy (Bradstreet) were members of the South Church.
Oct. 11, 1692; ""Went to the Funeral of Mrs. Sarah Oliver, widow, aged 72 years; buried in the new burying place ; a very good, modest, humble, plain, liberal Matron. Bearers, Sam. Sewall, Major John Walley, Capt. Joshua Scottow, Capt. James Hill, Capt. Jacob Eliot, Capt. Theophilus Frary. Scarvs and Gloves."-Sewall.
MARY ELIOT, daughter of Michael and Abigail Powell ; married, first, William Wilcox, and, second, Deacon Jacob Eliot (1669). Her daughter, Abigail (1685), married William Davis, and she had a daughter Abigail (1713), wife of Henry Lowder. Silence Eliot (1697) was the wife of her son Joseph.
Dec. 12, 1707; "Mrs. Mary Eliot, widow of my dear friend Capt. Jacob Eliot, and her self a very good woman. Scarf and Gloves. 75." "Bearers to Mrs. Eliot, widow of D[eacon] Jacob Eliot : Sewall, Bromfield ; Hill, Williams ; Checkly, M' John Hubbard. Was buried from her daughter Davis's. At the Return to the house, I said to M' Holyoke, it was a happiness that our Condolance for the departure of our friend, was join'd with Congratulation for her being gon to her Rest and Reward."-Sewall.
MARY BRACKETT, second wife of Peter Brackett (1669), deacon. Her first husband was Nathaniel Williams, freeman, 1640, who died 1661. Nathaniel Williams (1675), deacon, was their son.
SUSANNA DAWES, daughter of John Mills, of Braintree, and wife of William Dawes (1669), who died, 1703.
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JOANNA MASON, wife of Arthur Mason (1704), and daughter of Nicholas Parker. Several of her children became members of the South Church. Her daughter, Mary, married the Rev. John Norton (Harv. Coll. 1671), nephew of the Rev. John, of Boston; he was minister of Hingham, and the old meeting house, now standing, was built during his pastorate.
Jan. S, 1704-5; "I went to the Funeral of Mrs. Johana Mason. She was a vertuous, pious woman, in the 70th year of her Age."-Sewall.
RACHEL RAWSON, wife of Edward Rawson, the Secre- tary (1669), and daughter of Thomas Pirne or Perne. She came from England with her husband ; died, 11 Oct. 1677.
Mr. Secretary Rawson's mother, Margaret, was a sister of the Rev. John Wilson, of the First Church. Their father was the Rev. William Wilson, D.D., canon of Windsor, and chaplain (and nephew by marriage) .of Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury. Margaret Rawson. had a second husband, William Taylor.
SARAH BODMAN, wife of John Bodman, of Boston.
" What time he died is not known, but his widow was one of the first members of the Third or Old South Church."- Savage.
WILLIAM TILLY, rope maker. Judge Sewall speaks of his death, Nov. 1717, "as a great loss to the South- Church and to the town." His widow, Abigail (1704), became Judge Sewall's second wife.
BENJAMIN EMMONS, MARY EMMONS.
" Benjamin Emmons, of Boston, son of Thomas of the same, freeman, 1676, by wife Mary, who died 12 Sept. 1690, had Mary, born 23 June preceding. He married, 10 Sept. 1694, Mary Amory." -- Savage.
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But it was Benjamin, Jr. (1698), who married Mary Amory.
ELIZABETH ROCK, first wife of Joseph Rock (1669), and daughter of John Coggan.
LYDIA ScorTow, wife of Joshua Scottow (1669), whom she survived several years. Both she and Mrs. Rock should be considered as among the earliest female mem- bers of the church, although for some reason they did not join until three months after the other wives of the founders.
May 12, 1707; "Mrs. Lydia Scottow buried ; Bearers, Sewall, Addington ; Hill, Williams; Ballentine, Coney." --- Scwall.
Her age was 86.
Mrs. MATHER, probably Sarah, widow of the Rev. John Cotton, of St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, and after- ward of the First Church, Boston, and third wife of the Rev. Richard Mather, of Dorchester, the persecuted non-con- formist clergyman who came to New England in 1635.
" He was a man of excellent discretion, of less learning, it is probable, than his ambitious son Increase, and less brilliancy, it is clear, than his eccentric grandson, the never dying author of Magnalia, but in true service as a minister, happier than either and better than both. He was settled at Dorchester, 23 Aug. 1636 ; his wife died 1655, and he married, 26 Aug. 1656, Sarah, widow of his great friend John Cotton, and died 22 April. 1669. A few days before, he had met a great in- dignity, in being refused admittance with sundry others, sent by an ecclesiastical council, met at Boston, to attempt conci- liation in the First Church there."-Savage.
John Hull (1669) says in his Diary :
" The Church of Boston would not let him into the doors, when he, with sundry others, waited with a letter from the Council to them ; but the Lord soon opened his way into the church triumphant."
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The widow made her will 3 May, 1670, but did not die for six years.
Widow CLEMENTS.
William Clements, artill. co. 1662, married Mary, daugh- ter of Joseph Rock (1669), "and of him," says Savage, "I hear no more."
TIMOTHY BATT, youngest son of Christopher and Ann Batt, who came from Salisbury, Wilts, 1638; freeman, 1673 ; by trade a tailor ; had wife, Abigail.
Christopher Batt was a tanner, and bought a large es- tate opposite to the site on which the Old South Meeting House was afterward erected, having the property of Peter Sergeant (1689) on one side, and that of Edward Rawson (1669) on the other. He was accidentally killed in 1661, by a.shot from a weapon in the hand of one of his sons. His wife, Ann, was a sister of the Rev. Peter Thacher, of St. Edmund's, Salisbury, and, therefore, aunt of the Rev. Thomas Thacher (1669) of the South Church. In her will, dated 14 March, 1678-9, she makes Edward Rawson, whom she calls her "trusty and deare friend," and her "honoured and faithfull friend," her executor.
MARY USHER-NOWELL (printed Newel, p. 10).
Hezekiah Usher, the elder (1669), married for his third wife, Mary, widow of Peter Butler, daughter of William Alford; she survived him, married the Rev. Samuel Nowell, of Charlestown, outlived him, and died, 14 Aug. 1693.
Sabbath, May 13, 16SS; "Lord's Super at the South- Church. Near half an hour after twelve by that time I got home, by my Clock : and five by that time got home in the afternoon : Day cloudy. Mrs. Nowel here, sits in our Puc, and dines with us. A fine Rain begins at 7. p. m. M" Lawson [16So] who came to Town to dwell last week, with us." -- Sewall.
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Aug. 15, 1623 ; "Mrs. Mary Nowell buried. MY Cook, Major Hutchinson, Sewall, Allen, Willard, Baily, Bearers. Was laid in M' Usher's Tomb." --- Sewall.
Mrs. BRADING. James Brading, of Newbury, removed to Boston 1659, married Hannah, daughter of Joseph (1669) and Elizabeth (1674) Rock, and had Elizabeth, James, and Joseph. Elizabeth became the first wife of Edward Bromfield (1698), and had a daughter Elizabeth (1700).
The will of Joseph Rock (mercer), probated 3 Jan. 1683, makes bequests to his dearly beloved wife Mary, to the Rev. Samuel Willard, and to the Deacons of the Third Church, and gives the rest of his property to the children of his daughter, Hannah Brading, and to his great-grand- child, Elizabeth Bromfield.
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JOHN NOYES, freeman, 1676, married Sarah (1670), daugh- ter of Peter Oliver (1669), and had Sarah, John and Oliver (1693). Sewall mentions his death from small pox, 9 Nov. 1678.
DEBORAH CLEMENT-WILLIAMS. Samuel Clement, probably eldest son of Austin or Augustine, of Dorchester, married for his second wife Deborah -. Deborah Clement had two sons, Augustine and Samuel, baptized 2 May, 1675, when she joined the church.
LYDIA CHAPIN. There was a David Chapin, of Spring- field, who married in Boston, 29 Aug. 1654, Lydia Crump, and had a daughter Lydia, born 19 June, 1655.
HANNAH STILES-WARREN ; received from the church in Newbury. Savage says that she was the second wife of Peter Warren, of Boston.
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The Rev. --- WOODROP (printed Woodross, p. 10).
Hull, in his Diary, says that a Scotch minister, Mr. Woodrop, arrived in Boston from Jamaica in the autumn of 1674, and he seems to have remained here several years. Sewall mentions him two or three times. In May, 1676, he speaks of Mr. Woodrop, the Rev. Gershom Hobart, the Rev. Nehemiah Hobart, and three of his classmates, Samuel Phips, the Rev. Thomas Weld and the Rev. Edward Taylor, as coming after lecture and sit- ting with him. On the 12th of July, 1687, he went down the harbor with a party of friends sailing for England.
" Goe in the Ship M' Wharton, Sam. Newman, Mr Charles Morton, M' Woodrop, Mrs. Bridget Usher, and her Daughter Mrs. Bridget Hoar, and others. Had an extraordinary good wind. M' Usher wept at taking leave of 's Wife and Daughter."-[See ante, 240.]
Against Mr. Woodrop's name on the register is re- corded, "removed into Scotland."
NATHANIEL WILLIAMS, second of the name; baptized, 25 Sept. 1642 ; freeman, 1676; had grant of land, 1679; was engaged in Philip's war as a commissary; and his name appears with the names of other capitalists who had advanced money to the Government at that time. Chosen deacon of the South Church, 15 Oct. 1693, probably to succeed Jacob Eliot. His first wife was Mary (1670), daughter of Peter Oliver (1669), and widow of Jonathan Shrimpton. His second was Sarah (Wheelwright) (1672), widow of Richard Crispe.
The townsmen voted, 9 March, 1690-1,
"' That M' Nathaniell Williams, M' Benjamin Walker, Mr William Coleman and M' Symeon Stoddard be Overseers of the Poore in this Towne for the year ensueing,' and thus origi- nated in name the Board of Overseers of the Poor in Boston." -Shurtleff.
Lord's Day, Dec. 12, 1714; "Neither Capt. Belchar nor Capt. Williams abroad." Dec. 13 ; " I visit Capt. Williams,
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who has been very sick since last Wednesday. Tells me he was 71 years old that day my son was ordain'd. Desires Prayers." Dec. 25; "Shops open &c. as on other days, very pleasant weather. Capt. Williams buried; Bearers, Col. Checkly, Capt. Hill, M' Tay, &c."-Sewall.
ROBERT BUTCHER,
ELIZABETH BUTCHER.
They are mentioned more than once in Sewall's Diary. Their son Allwin joined the Third Church, 1705. Samuel Gerrish (1707) published a tract, the subject of which must have been their grandchild :
" Early Piety, exemplified in Elizabeth Butcher of Boston, who Died. July 13, 1718, Being just Eight Years and Eleven Months Old. With a Preface by the Rev. M' Sewall."
LYDIA BATT, wife of Thomas, who was a son of Chris- topher and Ann Batt. Thomas was a tanner, and suc- ceeded to the business of his father.
Mrs. WALDRON-BRENTON, probably Priscilla, wife of Isaac Waldron, a physician, who was of York 1670, and removed to Boston about 1676; they had children bap- tized in the South Meeting House between 1677 and 1680. He died, 1683.
1676.
Mrs. SANFORD, probably Sarah, widow of Robert Potter, and wife of John Sanford, schoolmaster, of whom Savage says : "was perhaps the freeman of 11 Oct. 1670, and died 10 Feb. 1677. His will of 19 Jan. preceding, proved 24 April following, mentions no children, but gives all his es- tate to wife Sarah for life." At her death the schoolhouse and land adjoining were to go to the Third Church. His wife Sarah and Timothy Wheeler were the executors.
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" At a church meeting, March 20, 1693-94, Voted that Cap- tain Samuel Sewal and M' Theophilus Frary, be empowered to agree with the relations or executors of Mr Jnº Sanforth, about a certain house and land bequeathed by said Sanforth to ye South Church, and to give or make to him or them a suffi- cient conveyance of any title which this church hath of claim to said house and land by vertue of such will."
1677.
GILBERT COLE, freeman, 1677. He joined the church the same day with Samuel Sewall, who thus refers to it :
March 30. 1677; "I, together with Gilbert Cole, was ad- mitted into Mr. Thacher's Church, making a Solem covenant to take the L. Jehovah for our God, and to walk in Brotherly Love and watchfulness to Edification. Goodm. Cole first spake. then I, then the Relations of the Women [Anne Ganet and Rebecca Hacket] were read : as we spake, so were we ad- mitted ; then alltogether covenanted. Prayed before and after."
His name was Colesworthy, and is so written by his descendants.
Oct. 15, 16SS; " Speak to Gilbert Cole, to Bottle me a Barrel of Beer for the Sea."-Sewall.
SAMUEL SEWALL, eldest son of Henry and Jane (Dummer) Sewall; born at Bishop-Stoke, Hants, 28 March, 1652, and baptized, 4 May, in Stoke Church, by the Rev. Mr. Rashly, formerly a member of the First Church, Boston, and, later, one of the persecuted clergy under the Act of Uniformity. Samuel arrived in Boston 5 July, 1661, resided with his family at Newbury, and fitted for college there; grad. Harv. 1671, and took his M.A. 1674; married 28 Feb. 1675-6, Hannah (1688), daughter and heir of John Hull (1669). In 1684 he was chosen a magistrate of the colony ; in 1692 he was appointed by William and Mary a member of their first council for the Province ; in 1692, he was made one of the judges, and, in
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