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May 14, 1676; " Mr. Hezekiah Usher died, a pious and useful merchant." -- Hull.
Nov. 13, 1685 ; "Barington arrives, brings word of the be- heading my Lady Lisle, Mrs. Hez. Usher's Mother, at Win- chester." --- Sewall.
"M' Hezekiah Usher died at Lin ; July 1Ith was brought to Boston. and laid in his father's Tomb, July 14, 1697. Bearers W. Winthrop, Cook, Sewall, Addington, Sergeant, Eli. Hutchinson." -- Sewall.
JOHN HULL, silversmith and mint-master; freeman ; capt. of artill. co. 1671, 1678 ; assistant, 1680 to 1685. His wife, Judith (1674), was a daughter of Edmund Quincy. Hull gave her name to a headland in the Narragansett country (where he owned land), which it still bears. Their only child, Hannah (1688), married Samuel Sewall (1677) in 1675. For an imaginary account of this wed- ding, see Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair, p. 39. Mr. Hull died in 1683, and was buried in the Granary burying ground.
1 The year thus given in parenthesis, immediately after a name, is that in which the person mentioned became a member of the Old South Church.
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" A large property-350 acres-which he possessed in Longwood, was known as Sewall's farm, after it descended to his son-in-law."
EDWARD RAINSFORD, came in the fleet with Winthrop; said by Hutchinson to have been a brother of Lord Chief Justice Rainsford ; this is doubted by Savage, but John Hull, writing from England, March, 1676, says : "Judge Rainsford, brother to him of Boston, is said to be one of their [the Nonconformists'] bitterest enemies. Might not his brother have power over him to move him to some moderation ?" He had been a deacon of the First Church, but was dismissed from office because of his participation in, the movement for a new church.
" On 12 Feb. 1669, Edward Rainsford and Jacob Eliot were dismissed from the office of deacons for setting their hands, with other brethren, to desire their dismission from the church, because the church had chosen Mr. Davenport for their pastor."-History of the First Church.
He was chosen ruling elder in the South Church, and . this is sufficient evidence as to the high respect in which he was held among his brethren. So far as we know, he is the only one who has held the office in this church.
His second wife, Elizabeth (1674), and his daughter, Ranis Belcher (1674), were among the earliest members of the South Church. He died 16 Aug. 1680 (aged 71), being, as Hull says, "old and full of days."
" An Island in the harbor still preserves in its name the record of his former ownership."
PETER BRACKETT, Braintree, freeman, 1643 ; artill. co. 1648; representative, 1649, " and often after for his own town, and for Scarborough in 1673 and 4;" deacon of the South Church. His last wife was Mary (1674), widow of the first Nathaniel Williams, who had bought from Richard Pepys in 1655, the land reserved by William Blackstone 29
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when he sold his rights to the town in 1634. Pepys, when he purchased this land, built a house upon it, and it was said that Blackstone frequently went there on his visits from Rhode Island. Judge Sewall, writing to the Rev. Increase Mather, 24 July, 1688, says : "Deacon Brackett was buried this day."
JACOB ELIOT, son of the first Jacob, who was brother of the Rev. John Eliot, "the Apostle to the Indians." Freeman, 1654. "Captain, in high esteem, selectman, deacon." -- Savage. He was a deacon of the First Church, and afterward of the South Church. He married Mary (Powell) (1674), widow of William Wilcock or Wilcox.
Aug. 12, 1693 ; "Capt. [and Deacon] Eliot comes sick from Muddy-River." Aug. 16; "Dyes about 2. at night." Aug. 17; " Is buried. Major Hutchinson, Sewall, Joyliff, Walley, P. Allen, Bridgham, Bearers. Buried in the new burying place. Tis a sudden and very sore Blow to the South Church, a Loss hardly repaired. On the Sabbath, Mr. Willard being in before me, I did not mind D[eacon] Eliot's absence, and wondered I heard not his voice beginning the Ps., and Capt. Frary waited when I should begin it. We shall hardly get another such a sweet Singer as we have lost. He was one of the most Serviceable Men in Boston, conde- scending to his friends. One of the best and most respectfully Friends I had in the World. Lord awaken us. Scarce a Man was so universally known as He. Dyed in the 61. year of s' age. Was one of the first that was born in Boston." ...- Sewall.
Eliot Street was afterwards opened through his proper- ty, which also included the land on which Boylston Market stands.
PETER OLIVER, son of Thomas Oliver, who came to New England in 1631, and was ordained ruling elder of the First Church, 22 Nov. 1632 ; the Rev. John Wilson being ordained as pastor of the church on the same day.
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" Goodman Thomas Oliver, one of the elders of the First Church, a person held'in such esteem by his fellow-townsmen that in the year 1646, when horses were forbidden to feed upon the common, exception was made in favor of one horse for him." -- Shurtleff.
Peter was an eminent merchant; freeman; capt. of artill. co. 1669 ; died 1670. His wife Sarah (1674), daugh- · ter of John Newdigate, died in 1692. Their descendants for several generations were active members of the South Church.
THOMAS BRATTLE, merchant ; freeman ; artill. co. 1672 ; was a capt. ; representative. He was one of the wealthiest men of his day. His wife was Elizabeth (1672), daughter of Captain William Tyng. He died in 1683. Several of his immediate family became members of the South Church ; and he has had descendants, though not of his own name, in the membership almost constantly to the present time.
EDWARD RAWSON, of Gillingham, Dorset, came to New England, 1637, and settled in Newbury, where he was town clerk and representative ; removed to Boston, 1650, and was Secretary of the Colony from 1650 to 1686. For an account of his resistance to Edward Randolph, in de- fence of the liberties of New England, see Palfrey's His- tory of New England, Vol. III. p. 486. He lived in Rawson's Lane, now Bromfield Street, where "he owned some acres of land which bordered on the Common or Training Field, out of which he sold a number of house lots." He died 27 Aug. 1693. -
JOSHUA SCOTTOW, freeman ; artill. co. 1645, its ensign 1657 and capt. later ; selectman; a great proprietor after Philip's war, at Scarborough, captain of the garrison there and magistrate.
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"Mr. Scottow was a merchant of much respectability, nearly contemporary with the Governor [Bradstreet], and, during his early life, took an active interest in all the affairs of the town. But he grew despondent as he grew in years ; the change of dress, manners, and social customs from those of the first generation, seemed to him the sure presage of de- struction, and he poured out his sorrow in a book of lamen- tations called Old Mens' Tears for their own Declensions."
This was in 1691. Three years later, he published A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusetts Colony, which he dedicated to Governor Bradstreet (1680). Sewall records, 21 Jan. 1697-8 :
" It seems Capt Scottow died the last night. Thus the New England Men drop away." Jan. 22 : " Capt Joshua Scottow is buried in the old burying place ; Bearers, Maj" Gen1 Winthrop, Mr. 'Cook, Col. Hutchinson, Sewall, Ser- geant, Walley: Extream Cold. No Minister at Capt. Scottow's Funeral ; nor wife nor daughter."
Mr. Scottow's four daughters, and his son, joined the church in 1669, under the baptismal, or halfway, cove- nant, and the former were afterward received to full mem- bership. The son, Thomas, Harv. Coll. 1677, was of Scarborough in 1681 ; register of probate, 1687 to 1693; and died before 1715.
BENJAMIN GIBBS, freeman ; artill. co. 1666; captain in Philip's war. His wife was Lydia (1671), daughter of Joshua Scottow (1669) ; after his death she became the wife of Anthony Checkley (attorney general), and, later, of William Colman.
THOMAS SAVAGE, second son of Major Thomas Savage, who came to New England in 1635, and was commander in chief of the forces in the early part of Philip's war. His mother was Faith, daughter of William Hutchinson, Governor of Rhode Island, and of Anne, his wife, whose religious opinions afterward created so much dissension in the colony. Thomas Jr. was born 28 May, 1640; select-
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man ; an officer in the expedition to Canada under Sir William Phips in 1691. He was capt. of artill. co. the year of his death.
July 2, 1705 ; "L' Col. Tho' Savage dies about 6 p. m."
July 5; " Col. Savage buried about 7. p. m. Companies in Arms : Bearers, Sewall, Foster; Walley, Lt Col Lynde ; Townsend, Belchar. The Street very much fill'd with People all along."-Servali.
His wife was Elizabeth (1670), daughter of Joshua Scottow (1669). His father's second wife was Mary, daughter of the Rev. Zechariah Symmes.
JOSEPH ROCK, freeman, 1652. He married Elizabeth (1674), daughter of John Coggan, who, says Savage, brought him a good estate. His daughter, Hannah (1674), married James Brading, and Elizabeth Bromfield (1700) was their granddaughter. Mrs. Mary Rock, of whom Judge Sewall frequently speaks in his Diary, was, probably, Joseph's second wife. She was a daughter of the Rev. John Wilson, of Boston ; and her first husband was the Rev. Samuel Danforth, of Roxbury (Harv. Coll. 1643), the colleague of Eliot, who said in reference to his death, "my brother Danforth made the most glorious end that ever I saw."-Sibley. Mrs. Rock was probably a member of the Second Church, as when she died, 13 Sept. 1713, Dr. Cotton Mather preached her funeral sermon. The text was, "His soul shall dwell at ease." The serinon was printed, and is in the Prince Library.
THEODORE ATKINSON, felt maker. Came from Bury, England, with John Newgate or Newdigate. Freeman, 1642. Died, 1701, aged 89. Sewall records that he at- tended his funeral, 16 Aug. 1701. By his first wife, Abigail, he had a son Nathaniel, born 1645, Harv. Coll. 1667 ; died before 1700. His second wife was Mary (1673), daughter of the Rev. John Wheelwright, and widow of Edward Lyde.
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JOHN WING, son of Robert, who came in the " Francis," 1634; artill. co. 1671, of which he was captain 1693. His wife was Joshabeth or Jehosheba (1670), daughter of James Davis of Boston.
"He was a very thrifty man, so early as 1674 making bond to Samuel Shrimpton for £4,200 secured by Castle Tavern near the midst of the town, and other estate of which part was near the Common, and this mortgage was discharged in three years and he died 22 Feb. 1703." -- Savage.
Cord Wing, son of John, had children by wife Sarah (1718), baptized at the South Church early in the next century.
RICHARD TREWSDALE; called on joining the First Church, 27 July, 1634, "servant to our teacher, John Cotton." IIe was afterward a butcher. Freeman, 1635. Deacon of the First Church. He died, 1671, leaving a wife, Mary.
THEOPHILUS FRARY, capt. of artill. co. 1682 ; repre- sentative. Ordained deacon of the South Church 8 Nov. 1685.
" He married Hannah, daughter of the first Jacob Eliot, and his wife inherited a part of the Eliot lands at the South End. Eliot's house stood at the south west corner of our Washington and Boylston streets, and this part of the estate passed to the Frarys."
His second wife was Mrs. Mary Greenwood; Sewall records that he married them, 12 June, 1690. He was very active in the church, and was prominent in the oppo- sition to Andros and Randolph, when they undertook to introduce the forms of the English Church into the colony.
" Another illustration of the bitter feeling here is found in the account of the funeral of a person named Lilly, who had left the ordering of this to his executors. Mr. Ratcliffe un- dertook to read the service at his grave, he having been one of the subscribers to the church, but the executors forbade
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him ; and when he began, Deacon Frairey of the South Church interrupted him, and put a stop to the service, for which the deacon was bound to his good behavior for twelve months."-Foote.
Sept. 17, 1697; "I view Mr. Baxters House and the Orchard Capt Frary hath given to the Ministry, which lies very convenient ; A living Brook runing by it; and throw Mr. Baxters."-Sewall.
Oct. 17, 1700; "Capt. Theophilus Frary expires about 3 aclock past midnight."-Sewall.
Three of his daughters became members of the South Church.
ROBERT WALKER, freeman, 1634. Judge Sewall records his death and funeral :
May 29, 1687 ; "Sabbath. Dame Walker desires me to pray with her Husband, which I do and write two notes, one for our House and one for the Old. Sam. carries the first. Between 12. and one Robert Walker dies, about a quarter after Twelve. He was a very good Man, and conversant among God's New-England People from the begining. May 31 Tuesday, Goodm. Walker is buried, Capt. Eliot, Frary, Hill, Deacon Allen, Mr. Blake, Pain, Bearers: Mr. Saunderson and Goodm. Serch lead the Widow, Gov' Bradstreet, Mr. Cook, Mr. Addington, with the chief Guests, were at our house."
His wife, Sarah (1674), died 21 Dec. 1695. Their son was the Rev. Zechariah Walker of Stratford, Conn. He left Harvard College before graduation.
JOHN ALDEN, eldest son of John Alden the Pilgrim of Plymouth and Duxbury, and Priscilla "the Puritan maiden." He sailed for many years as a ship-master, and seems to have been in the employ of his fellow church- member, John Hull, who records in his Diary :
" 1669 rith mo. Master John Alden went for England in the ketch ' Friendship.' being three-fourths mine." . "1672. I lost my ketch, three-fourths, with her lading, from Virginia, taken by the Dutch from Joli Alden, worth about two hun- dred pounds."
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He was a leading and much respected citizen of Boston, and, "as a brave and efficient seaman, in command of the armed vessel of the colony, he had done noble service in the French and Indian wars." But his good standing and patriotic service did not secure him against suspicion and accusation, in the days of the witchcraft excitement. We are told that he was not " so circumspect, when they brought him before the court at Salem in May, but he could use the strong language of an old sea dog, as he was, when he was confronted by a lot of wenches whom he had never before seen, and accused of bewitching them. Perhaps his indignation rendered it easier for the magistrates to send him to Boston jail, where he remained fifteen weeks, when he escaped and was concealed by his relatives in Duxbury till the delusion was past." Judge Sewall tells how in one of the intermissions of the court, he was present at a fast at Captain Alden's, upon his account (July 20, 1692).
"Mr. Willard pray'd. I read a sermon out of Dr. Preston, Ist and 2ª Uses of God's AJsufficiency. Capt. Scottow pray'd, Mr. Allen came in and pray'd, Mr. Cotton Mather, then Capt. Hill. Sung the first part 103 Ps., concluded about five a clock. Brave Shower of Rain while Capt. Scottow was praying, after much Drought."
The good Judge, of whose penitence in this connection we shall have occasion to speak again, was not satisfied with the public confession which he made in the South Meeting-house, but went and made private acknowledg- ments to those who had been wronged.
June 12, 1693 ; " I visit Capt. Alden and his wife, and tell them I was sorry for their Sorrow and Temptations by reason of his Imprisonment, and that was glad of his Restauration."
He seems to have continued his visits and attentions to them, and was with Captain Alden when he died.
March 14, 1701-2 ; " Capt. John Alden expired ; Going to visit him, I hapened to be there at the time."
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Mrs. Alden died five or six years before her husband.
BENJAMIN THURSTON, freeman, 1665. Married 12 Dec. 1660, Elizabeth (1674), daughter of Robert (1669) and Sarah (1674) Walker. In the autumn of 1678, Judge Sewall was very ill with the small pox, which was then making terrible ravages in the town. He afterward wrote in his Journal :
" Multitudes died, two of my special Friends, viz. Mr. John Noyes, and Ensign Benjamin Thirston, who both died while I lay sick."
The Walkers and Thurstons had known the Sewall family in England.
WILLIAM SALTER, admitted a member of the First Church, 1635 ; freeman, 1636; shoemaker. He owned Spectacle Island. He kept the prison, 1656, and long after, says Savage, was witness to the will of the wretched . Mrs. Hibbins, who was "executed as a witch, when she was only a scold." He died, 10 Aug. 1675, aged 68. His wife, Mary (1674), survived him.
JOHN MORSE, probably son of John Morse of Dedham, one of the early settlers, and of his wife, Annis. Born, 8 June, 1639; freeman, 1669. He and Theophilus Frary were appointed commissaries of subsistence in Philip's war. He was one of the original proprietors of Mendon, where lands were assigned to him, 1667 and '68. He died in 1678 or '79. His widow, Elizabeth (1670), ap- plied to the government for compensation on account of his military services.
JOSIAH BELCHER, son of Gregory, of Braintrec, and afterward of Boston. Married Ranis (1674), daughter of Elder Edward Rainsford (1669). 30
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SETH PERRY, son of Arthur and Elizabeth Perry. Born, 7 March, 1639; artill. co. 1662; freeman, 1666. Father and son were both tailors.
JAMES PEMBERTON, Newbury, 1646; freeman, 1648. Brewer near the Town Dock. Father of the third minister of the South Church.
Oct. 10, 1696 ; " Bro" Pemberton dies." -- Sewall.
WILLIAM DAWES, born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, 1620 ; came to New England, 1635 ; first settled at Brain- tree ; freeman, 1646; moved to Boston about 1652, and bought an estate in Sudbury Street, then known as the lane from Prison Lane (Court Street) to the mill pond. The mansion house remained in the possession of the family for five generations. It was pulled down by the British during their occupation of Boston in 1775.
March 24, 1723-04; " William Daws, Mason, dyes about 2 pm. A good old man, full of days, is got well to the end of his weary Race." --- Sewall.
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His family was active and useful in the Old South for an hundred and fifty years. The Hon. Thomas Dawes (1749), deacon, was his great-great-grandson.
JOSEPH DAVIS, perhaps of Roxbury ; there married, 1670, Sarah Chamberlain, "but I know not that either belonged to that place."-Savage.
The Rev. THOMAS THACHER, first minister of the South Church. He was born I May, 1620, in Salisbury, Eng- land, where his father, the Rev. Peter Thacher, was rector of St. Edmund's Church. Having received a good grammar school education, his father offered to send him to cither of the universities, but he declined to go because of the religious subscriptions required by them. He came to New England in 1635, and studied for several
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years under the Rev. Charles Chauncy, then minister of Scituate. "As was not uncommon at that period, he studied two professions-medicine and theology, in both of which he obtained a high reputation. In the former profession, he has the honor of having been the author of the first medical tract ever published in Massachusetts. He first settled in the ministry at Weymouth, where he continued with great acceptance more than twenty years." He removed, 1664, to Boston, "where he preached occa- sionally, but was chiefly employed in practising as a phy- sician, till he was chosen pastor of the Third Church in 1669. As a Christian and a minister he was greatly and deservedly esteemed. He was among the most popular preachers in the colony. His sermons, of which one only is known to have been published, are said to have been 'elaborate and affectionate.' " -- Wisner.
Mr. Thacher was installed 16 Feb. 1670, and continued sole pastor for eight years. His last sermon was preached for the Rev. Increase Mather, from the text "Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ;" immediately after, he visited a sick per- son, was himself seized with a fever, and died 15 Oct. 1678, aged 58. He was twice married : 11 May, 1643, to Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Ralph Partridge, of Dux- bury ; she died, 2 June, 1664; and, secondly, to Margaret (1674), daughter of Henry Webb and widow of Jacob Sheaf. He left several children, and many of his descendants became members of the Third Church.
JOSEPH BELKNAP, son of Abraham of Salem ; probably born in England ; came to Boston, 1658; freeman, 1665. "Took dismission to Hatfield, there lived in good esteem from 1682 to 1695, then came back to Boston, and died, 14 Nov. 1712, aged 82."-Savage. He lived to see his children's children members of the same church with himself.
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Nov. 7, 1712 ; "I visited Bro' Belknap on his Sick-bed ; said he was hoping in the Free Grace of GOD." Nov. IS; "Mr. Belknap buried. Joseph [the Rev. Joseph Sewall] was invited by Gloves, and had a scarf given him there, which is the first. Mr. Pemberton is not well."-Sewall.
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MARY BALLARD.
March 15, 1686-7 ; " Mrs. Ballard, M' Lee's Sister, dyes suddenly .- Sewall.
JOHN MELLOWES, born in England ; freeman, 1671. Had grant of land in the Stonington country. His house was in Coney's Lane, afterward Cross Street. Martha (1670), his wife, survived him, and married Deane Winthrop.
SUSANNA RAINSFORD, daughter of Peter Vergoose, and wife of John Rainsford, ship carpenter ; he was, probably, son of another Edward . Rainsford, who came in the " Abigail " from London, 1635. He died, 5 April, 1698.
ELIZABETH MORSE-BUTTON, daughter of Zaccheus Bosworth, and wife of John Morse (1669), whom she sur- vived. No record can be found of her second marriage, except the entry against her name "now Button, ' in the registry of the South Church.
MARTHA MELLOWES-WINTHROP, wife of John Mel- lowes (1670) ; after his death she became the wife and widow of Deane Winthrop, sixth son of the first Gov- ernor, John Winthrop; he came with his brother John in the " Abigail," 1635 ; his first wife was Sarah Glover ; he lived at Pulling Point, now Winthrop, and died 16 March, 1704.
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DANIEL HENCHMAN, schoolmaster ; freeman, 1672; artill. co. 1675 ; soldier in Philip's war.
"First appears in our local history as the assistant teacher in the Latin School, then under the charge of Robert Wood- mansey. In 1669 he was appointed on the committee for the survey of a new plantation, and from the history of Wor- cester it appears that he was one of the most important persons in laying out and settling that town. He died there in 1685. He was a connection of Judge Sewall, and there was in Sewall's house a room called by his name. Everything in his letters shows that he was a good soldier, and a prompt, executive man, and he is, perhaps, the most prominent repre- sentative of Boston, as the war goes on." --- Hale.
The Liberty Tree, according to a tradition recorded by Dr. Shurtleff, was planted by him, it being on his estate. By his wife, Sarah, he had a son, Hezekiah, who was father of Daniel, elected deacon in the South Church, 17 April, 1719. His second wife was Mary, daughter of John Richmond and widow of William Poole; she died, 1690.
Oct. 19, 1685 ; " About Nine aclock at night News comes to Town of Capt. Henchman's Death at Worcester last Thors- day ; buried on Friday. Very few at his Funeral, his own Servants, a white and black, carried him to, and put him in his Grave."-Sewall.
WILLIAM HOAR,
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Savage says there was a baker named William Hoar in Boston, who married, 1669, Hannah, daughter of Robert Wright, and was made a freeman, 1671. William and Hannah Hoar were dismissed to the church in Bristol, R. I.
SARAH WARREN, daughter of Robert Tucker, of that part of Dorchester which is now Milton, and first wife of Peter Warren. He bought a dwelling house with land from Theodore Atkinson (1669) in 1659.
ELIZABETHI SCOTTOW, daughter of Joshua Scottow (1669), and wife of Thomas Savage, Jr. (1669), whom she survived.
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Sept. 1, 1714; "Madam Elisa Savage buried; Bearers, Winthrop, Cook ; Sewall, Addington ; Belchar, Bromfield. All the Ministers had Scarvs. Dr. Increase Mather inquired very kindly after my Daughter Hanah. I had acquainted him with her broken Bone."-Sewall.
ANNE POLLARD, wife of William; she died, 5 Dec. 1725, aged 103 or 105; the church registry gives the latter age. She made a deposition when she was 89 years of age, to the effect that her husband was a tenant of Richard Pepys on land near the bottom of the Common, and that Pepys bought the land of the Rev. William Blackstone.
Dec. S. 1725 ; " After Lecture Mrs. Ane Pollard is buried with her great Grand-child Robie in her Arms; about 7. months his mother went with him. The Corps was set in the Chamber next the burying Place. L' Gow there. Went along and went down Queen-street, then in the great street, and so up School-street to the South-burying place. Bearers, Sewall, Townsend ; Bromfield, Stoddard ; Checkly, Deacon John Marion the Age of whom, join'd together, made 445." Dec. 12 ; "Mr. Sewall preach'd from Gen 5. Adam died, of mortality-a good Discourse on occasion of Mrs. Pollard's great Age." -- Scwall.
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