History of East Boston; with biographical sketches of its early proprietors, and an appendix, Part 15

Author: Sumner, William H. (William Hyslop), 1780-1861. cn
Publication date: 1858
Publisher: Boston, J. E. Tilton
Number of Pages: 883


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" I give to my grandson James Mavericke son of my son Peter 15 acres of Land next unto my Grand son Jotham, with the same prviso given to his cousen Jotham.


" Be it knowne that my intent in the division of the aforesd prcels of Land is that each of my sons and grandsons shall have such a prportion of Marish Land as is answerable to their quantity of upland that falls to their share - As for my dwel- ling house, outhouses, Orchard, Cornefield and so much Land adjoyning next the Creeke as will make up 40 acres wth the Orchard & corne field & meadow proportionable, I give to my 5 daughters, either to be sould or let to each of them an equall prportion.


" But if my sons Elias and Paul, whome I make joint Exectators of this my will, pay unto each of their sisters viz., Abigail Clarke, Sarah Walton, Mary Way, Ruth Smith, & Rebecca Thomas £50 apiece takeing in the moveables and a quantity of Marish weh I have at Hogg Iland of 20 acres of Land and upward for to help pay these Legacies, then the said houseing and Land shall be theirs to enjoy, and also they shall pay unto cach of my Grand Children and great grand children 5s apiece.


" Whereas I am bound by obligation unto my Father in law


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William Stitson to keep him 16 Sheep yearly with their in- crease till towards winter & then to be left to the same number during his life, that my two sons Elias & Paul my Executors shall make good this engagement after their mothers decease & not before.


" As for my servant Jonas Holmes I give the remainder of his time unto my dear wife if she live so long or else to my Execu- tors. And having forgotten to express Ruth Johnson my grand- daughter that now liveth with me, I leave it with her grand- mother to do as she pleaseth. My Father in law Deacon William Stitson, Aron Way senior & William Ireland senior to be overseers. The land was measured to be 120 acres if it fall short or exceed my will is that each dividend be prportion- ably abated or enlarged.


" 13, Oct. 1681. ELIAS MAVERICKE.


" William Ireland sent William Ireland junr John Barnard, John Sentre Wm Ireland sen" Wm Ireland jun" and John Senter deposed 6 Nov. 1681.


" Will exhibited for probate by Elias Maverick and Paul Maverick 6 Nov. 1681." 1


Elias Maverick married Anne Harris, whose mother married, as a second husband, Deacon William Stitson of Charlestown. Her mother, when she married Deacon Stitson, was the widow Elizabeth Harris, who, as Mrs. Harris, had children John, Thomas, William, Daniel, and Anne. Deacon Stitson, in his will (12th April, 1688), mentions Anne Maverick among the children of his first wife Mrs. Harris, and as the relict widow of Elias Maverick.2


Elias Maverick died on the 8th of September, 1684, aged eighty years, and was buried in the ancient burial-ground at Charlestown, where, a few years since, his gravestone and the inscription upon it might have been seen. It is to be lamented that the stone has been removed.


The children of Elias Maverick and Anne his wife were, accord- ing to the Charlestown church records, John, born 3d of Feb-


1 Suffolk Deeds, Vol. VI. p. 479.


3 Gen. Reg. Vol. II. pp. 102, 218.


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1635-1687.] ELIAS MAVERICK'S FAMILY GENEALOGY.


ruary, 1635-6; Abigail (Clarke), born 10th of August, 1637; Elizabeth, born 2nd of June, 1639 ; Sarah (Walton), born 20th of February, 1640-1; Elias, born 17th of March, 1643; Paul, born 10th of June, 1657; and, according to his will, Peter, Mary (Way), Ruth (Smith), and Rebecca (Thomas), (he speaks of "5 daughters in his will " ) ; also James, who is found recorded as a son of Elias in an inventory of the estate of James Maverick, " Proved 31st Oct. 1671, by Elias Mavericke to be a true inventory of his late son."1 This is probably the one who was a member of the Ancient and Honerable Artillery Com- pany in 1658.2


Of these children John,3 son of Elias, had a wife Jane , and another wife, Katharine Skipper, whom he married 9:2: 1656. She is mentioned as the widow of John, 27th April, 1680 (IX. 4.) ; children, John, born 18th April, 1653; Dorothy, born 23d January, 1654; Jotham, who married Mary, widow of John Williams.4


Abigail, daughter of Elias, married Matthew Clarke 4: 4: 1655.5


Elizabeth, daughter of Elias, married John Johnson 15th October, 1656 ; had a daughter Ruth.


Sarah, daughter of Elias, married - Walton.


Elias, son of Elias, married Margaret Sherwood 10th (8th mo) 1669 (admitted to the church 8th August, 1675), and prob- ably a second wife Sarah.6 The children of Elias and Mar- garet were Elias, born 4th Nov. 1670; Margaret and Elizabeth, baptized 22 (6) 1675 ; Abigail, baptized 24 (7) 1676 ; Samuel, baptized 14 (6) 1687.7


1 Probate Records, VII. p. 158.


2 Hist. An. and Hon. Art. Co. p. 168.


8 Inventory of John's estate 27th April, 1680.


4 Inventory of Jotham's estate taken in June, 1753. About seventy volumes of books are enumerated, thirty bound books in octavo, nine pictures, etc. Bk. 48, p. 65.


5 Hist. and Gen. Reg. Vol. I. New Series, p. 203.


6 Probate Records, VIII. 127, XIV. 35.


" John Pratt, innholder, to be guardian unto his brother-in-law Samuel Mavericke, son of Elias Mavericke, of Boston, ship-wright, dec'd (being a minor about nine years of age), 19th April, 1697, (XI. 275).


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[1675-1750.


In the Genealogical Register, Vol. III. p. 160, it is stated that Abigail Maverick of Boston, daughter of a clergyman who left England in the time of the persecution, married a William Tully, etc. There is probably some mistake in this statement, as an examination of the dates will show. Had she been the daughter of the Rev. John Maverick, the only clergyman of the name in this country of whom we have any account, she must have been at least sixty or seventy years old when the first of her ten children was born ! for the Rev. John died in 1636, and her first child was born in 1702. The Abigail referred to in the Register is probably the daughter of Elias above mentioned; she was born in September, 1675, baptized 24 (7) 1676, and died on the 9th of December, 1750.


A daughter of Elias married a John Pratt, an innholder of Boston.1


Paul, son of Elias, married "Jemimah," daughter of Lieut. John Smith; had a son John, baptized 14 (6) 1687, then aged one year; Moses, baptized 11 (7) 1681; Jotham, baptized 28 (8) 1683.


Peter, son of Elias, married Martha, daughter of Robert Bradford,2 and had children ; a son James.


In Suffolk Deeds mention is made of Hester, wife of Benja- min Whitney. She certifies to the birth of her two children by a former husband, James Maverick of Winnisimet; Martha Maverick, born 17th April, 1693; James Maverick, born 2nd October, 1699. This James Maverick, husband of Hester (who subsequently married Benjamin Whitney, 7th August, 1705), was undoubtedly the son of Peter, and thus grandson of Elias Maverick of Winnisimet. In 1729, Benjamin and Hester (Maverick) Whitney convey estate in Boston, formerly of James M., to her children James and Martha, wife of Thomas Bellows of Southboro.3


Mary, daughter of Elias, married - - Way.


1 Letters of administration granted to John Pratt of Boston, innholder, on the estate of his father-in-law, Elias Mavericke, Sen'r, late of Boston, ship- wright, dec'd, 2d Nov. 1696, (XI. 227).


2 IX. 29. For many of these items the writer is indebted to T. B. Wyman, Jr., who has faithfully examined the Charlestown Records.


3 Gen. Reg. Vol. I. New Series, p. 225.


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MOSES MAVERICK.


1634-1686.]


Ruth, daughter of Elias, married Smith. Rebecca, daughter of Elias, married - Thomas.


Moses Maverick lived at Marblehead, with Isaac Allerton, whose daughter Sarah he afterward married; he was engaged in the fishing business in 1634,1 in which year he was made a freeman (3d September).2 In May of the next year, Mr. Aller- ton conveyed to his son-in-law Moses, all his " houses, buildings, and stages that hee hath att Marble Head, to enjoy to him & his heires for euer." 3


He was born about 1610, and became a member of the church in Salem on the 12th of June, 1637. During the absence of Samuel Maverick to Virginia, Moses paid to the governor 40s. rent for Noddle's Island, 7th June, 1636.4 He may have hired the Island during the absence of his (probable) brother, or Samuel may have engaged him as a brother or relative to hold it during his southern excursion. After this, Moses con- tinued to reside at Marblehead, and was licensed to sell wine there in 1638, as appears by the Court Records, 6, 7mo. 1638 : " Moses Maverick is permitted to sell a tun of wine at Marble Head, and not to exceede this yeare." 5


His first wife, Sarah Allerton, died before 1656, when he was married, 22, 8mo. 1656, by John Endicott, governor, to Eunice, widow of Thomas Roberts. His name appears as one of the petitioners against imposts in 1668.6


By his first wife he had children Rebecca, baptized 7th Aug. 1639, married - Hawkes; Mary, baptized 14th Feb. 1640-1, died 20th Feb. 1655-6; Abigail, baptized 12th Jan. 1644-5; Elizabeth, baptized 3d Dec. 1646, who died before Sept. 1649; Samuel, baptized 19th Dec. 1647; Elizabeth, baptized 30th Sept. 1649; Remember, baptized 12th Sept. 1652; and perhaps others. The father, Moses Maverick, died 28th June, 1686, aged 76 years. In the settlement of his estate, in November of that year, are mentioned, - daughter Mary, wife of Archi- bald Ferguson, died in 1698, (probably a daughter by his


1 Felt's Annals of Salem, Vol. I. p. 206.


3 Mass. Records, Vol. I. p. 147.


5 Mass. Records, Vol. I. p. 237.


2 Gen. Reg. Vol. III. p. 93.


+ Ibid. Vol. I. p. 176.


" Gen. Reg. Vol. IX. p. 82.


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second wife) ; Sarah, only surviving daughter, and wife of John Norman ; Moses Hawks, only son of eldest daughter Rebecca ; William Hughes and Thomas Jackson, married to Elizabeth and Priscilla Grafton, daughters of daughter Elizabeth Grafton, deceased; the children of daughter Abigail Ward, deceased ; and the children of daughter Remember Woodman, deceased.1


Antipas Maverick is recorded as " belonging to ye Ile of Shoals," in October, 1647; 2 in 1652 we find him at Kittery, Maine, appearing before the commissioners, and submitting to the government of Massachusetts.3 This circumstance gives plausibility to the conjecture that the different individuals by the name of Maverick were of the same family, for we know that Mary Hooke, the daughter of Samuel Maverick, lived in Kittery. Antipas married -, and had a daughter Abigail, who was married to Edward Gilman, of Exeter.4


All the known circumstances connected with the births, lives, business relations, and residences of Samuel, Elias, Moses, and Antipas, lead to the conclusion that they were brothers.


An Abigail Maverick was admitted to the church in Charles- town, 18th 12mo. 1637-8.5 She may have been a sister of Samuel, Elias, etc. At least, it is evident that she could not have been Abigail, daughter of Elias, as the latter was born 10th Aug. 1637.


1 Gen. Reg. Vol. VIII. p. 270.


2 Mass. Records, Vol. II. p. 199.


3 Gen. Reg. Vol. III. p. 193.


4 Edward Gilman, who married Abigail Maverick, was called "Edward Gil- man, 3d," being the son of Edward, Jr., and the grandson of that Edward who came from England to Hingham in 1638, removed to Ipswich at an early date, and to Exeter in 1652, where he spent the remainder of his days ; the first Edward was the progenitor of the eminent family of the name, among whom were the late Governor John T. Gilman and Hon. Nicholas Gilman. Edward, third, was born about 1648, married 20th Dec. 1674 ; his will was dated 2d June, 1690, and proved 12th April, 1692; he owned lands in Kittery ; his chil- dren were Edward, born 20th Oct. 1675; Antipas, born 2d Feb. 1677 ; Mave- rick, born 11th April, 1681 ; Abigail, who married Capt. Jonathan Thing ; Catherine, who married Nathaniel Ladd; and Elizabeth. Descendants still remain in New Hampshire.


5 Budington's History of First Church in Charlestown.


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JOHN MAVERICK.


1733.]


The name of Maverick has become extinct in New England, although descendants still remain; in New York, however, numerous persons perpetuate it.1 It is highly probable that Samuel, the royal commissioner, removed his residence to New York after the Duke of York had presented him with a house ; 2 and subsequent to the siege of Boston, a branch of the Maverick family removed thence to New York. These remov- als account for the existence of the name in that city.


Prior to the revolutionary war, John Maverick, an importer of lignum-vitæ and other hard woods, resided in Boston, in Middle street (now Hanover), on the original site of the Han- cock school-house.3 His shop, called the " Cabinet and Chest of Drawers," is mentioned in Middle street in 1733. Here he sold also " choice good silver and gold lace, silver buttons, thread, and cloths." He was a man of considerable property, owned slaves, and kept a carriage; he died before the war commenced, leaving children, - Nancy, Jemima, Sally, Mary, Jotham, and Samuel.


Of these children, Nancy became the wife of Nathaniel Phil- lips, who kept an apothecary shop in Orange (now Washing- ton) street, at the corner of Bennet street. The children of Dr. Phillips were Elizabeth Phillips, who married the late John Parker, Esq., and was mother of Peter Parker (who married a daughter of Dr. Reed, of Charleston, S. C.), of the late John Parker, Jr. (who married Annie Sargeant and died childless), of Charles Parker (who married Miss Vandenburg, of Troy, N. Y.), of the late George Parker, of New York (who married, first, Annie Moore, of Charleston, S. C., secondly, Harriet Boardman, adopted daughter of William Boardman, of Han-


1 For many of those facts relative to the descendants of the Maverick family in New York and Boston, the writer is indebted to Napoleon B. Mountfort, Esq. of New York, late judge of the police court in that city. He is a lineal descendant of the family. The writer would also acknowledge his indebted- ness to Augustus Maverick, of the New York Daily Times, for facts and dates.


2 New York Col. Hist. Vol. III. p. 185.


3 The school is now removed to a better location ; but the old house still stands, and is now used for primary schools and a ward room. -- Hist. Boston, p. 219.


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cock street, Boston), and of Eliza Parker (afterwards Mrs. Wil- liam Shimmin) ; James Phillips, who married Annie, daughter of the late Richard D. Tucker ; Polly Phillips and Nancy Phil- lips, who married respectively the late brothers William and Joseph Lovering, of Boston; Sarah Phillips, who died unmar- ried; Samuel Phillips, a painter, who also kept a paint shop in Washington street, above Boylston, and had a son John, who was a painter, and a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company ; Nathaniel Phillips and William Phillips, merchants in Merchants' Row.


Jemima, the second daughter of John Maverick, was married to a Captain White, a king's officer, a tory during the revolu- tionary war; " but was otherwise," says Judge Mountfort, "a highly respectable gentleman!" He had a son, named Ben- jamin, who was employed at a large salary in the office of W. Winship ; he had also another son and two daughters. Cap- tain White, with his family, resided in Essex street, opposite the old " Glass House," under the large elm trees, and there they died.


Sally, the third daughter of John Maverick, married Judge Stoddard, of Chelmsford.


Mary, the fourth daughter of John Maverick, married John Gyles, importer of fancy goods, who died of camp fever con- tracted from the barracks of the British troops, who were at the time quartered near his place of residence, shortly prior to Bos- ton being declared by General Gage to be in a state of siege. By this marriage, Mary had five daughters and two sons, viz. : Mary, wife of Howard, dealer in cabinet ware ; Ann, wife of Adam Knox, a sea-captain ; Elizabeth, who married Levi Lane, a merchant on Long wharf; Sarah, who married Joseph Mountfort, a sea-captain (who was lieutenant in the navy under the brave Commodore Manley, and was with him in several naval engagements with the British vessels during the revolutionary war),1 and Mercy, the youngest daughter, who also married a sea-captain named Richard Roberts.


1 He was one of the party which, disguised as Indians, destroyed the tea in Boston harbor, and assisted in the tarring and feathering of Malcolm, who informed of the persons engaged in that celebrated feat. Malcolm was tarred and feathered, placed astride a rail, and surrounded by a crowd bearing


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The sons of John Maverick, Jotham and Samuel, were mer- chants in Boston, and highly respected. There may have been other sons, whose names have not come down to us.


The widow of one of these sons of John Maverick was the mother of the Samuel Maverick who was shot in State street in the Boston massacre, on the 5th of March, 1770.1 Snow, in his History of Boston, in giving an account of the massacre, says, that among others, Samuel Maverick, whose mother lived in Union street, received a mortal wound, of which he died the next morning; and Loring, in his Hundred Boston Orators, says, " Samuel, a son of widow Mary Maverick, a promising youth of seventeen years, an apprentice to Mr. Greenwood, a joiner, was wounded by a ball that entered his abdomen and · escaped through his back, and his remains were removed from his mother's house on the day of interment."


The particulars of this massacre, and numerous depositions respecting it, are given in the " Short Narrative," etc., just referred to ; and as the principal facts are familiar to all readers of history, they need not be repeated. The death of young Maverick, however, comes within the proper limits of our book. At the trial of the soldiers, one of the witnesses testified that he saw Maverick about two hours before his death, and asked him concerning the affair. Maverick answered that he "went up the lane, and as he got to the corner, he heard a gun ; he did not retire back but went to the town-house ; as he was going along he was shot." In answer to the inquiry where he was when wounded, he replied that he was " betwixt Royal Exchange lane and the town-house, going up towards the town-house." 2


As, in addition to the published authorities above given, the


torches. As the procession moved on, it stopped at the corner of every street, and the poor tale-bearer was made to cry out, " Here comes old Malcolm the informer ; " which if he refused to do, his tormentors threatened to apply their blazing torches to his combustible exterior, and thus he was quickly compelled to announce his own infamous character, halit, and position. Mountfort was in the receipt of a pension at the time of his death.


1 Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre. Boston, 1770.


2 Trial of William Wemms, etc. (soldiers), for the murder of Crispus At- tucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, etc., page 96.


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[1770.


writer has it in his power to present from an authentic source some particulars of this massacre, so called, which have never been printed, he will be allowed to enter more into details re- garding this matter.


Mr. Joseph Mountfort, previously alluded to, was with Mave- rick at the time he was shot. He, with Samuel Maverick, Peter C. Brooks, Samuel and Thomas Carey, were playing marbles in the house of Mr. Carey, at the head of Gardner's wharf, near Cross street, at the time the bells rang the alarm, and were thereby attracted to State street before the British troops fired. Here they observed that a tumult had arisen between some men and boys and the soldiers. Angry words were being exchanged, and missiles of various kinds were thrown. Some one threw pieces of ice, when the soldiers, . exasperated by the boldness and taunts of their rebel oppo- nents, discharged their guns at the crowd. Young Maverick cried out to his relative Mountfort, "Joe! I am shot!" and ran down Exchange street, then called Royal Exchange lane, to Dock square, where he fell to the ground, and was conveyed to his mother's house. He died the next morning. At that time the widow Maverick kept a genteel boarding-house in Union street, at the corner of Salt lane.


It is not a little singular, that Mr. Mountfort's name does not appear among the witnesses examined at the trial. The printed report (of which the writer has a copy, as well as copies of the other pamphlets printed at the time) is very full, and the other accounts are quite minute; but the particulars above given are not contained in them. Yet, there can be no doubt as to the authenticity of Mr. Mountfort's narrative. The writer has it from his son, Judge Napoleon B. Mountfort, of New York, who is well informed on the subject.


The funeral of Maverick and the others who were killed upon the 5th took place on the following Thursday (the 8th). An immense assembly was in attendance, most of the shops were closed, and the bells were tolled in the city, in Roxbury, and in Charlestown. The four hearses met in King street, upon the spot where the tragedy took place ; thence the procession, six deep, proceeded through the main street, followed by a long


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train of carriages. The bodies were deposited in one grave "in the middle burying-ground." The following patriotic verses were circulated on the occasion : -


" Well fated shades ! let no unmanly tear From Pity's eye distain your honored bier ; Lost to their view, surviving friends may mourn, Yet o'er thy pile shall flames celestial burn ; Long as in freedom's cause the wise contend, Dear to your country shall your fame extend ; While to the world the lettered stone shall tell, How Caldwell, Attucks, Gray, and Maverick fell."


Joseph Mountfort had five sons and three daughters, namely, Napoleon B.1 (from whom the above description of the mas- sacre, and many other items, are derived) ; Captain George M., who died many years ago ; John, Lieut .- Colonel U. S. Art., who was wounded in the battle at Little York, Canada, under command of Gen. Zebulon Pike, and distinguished himself at the battle of Plattsburg, as well as in several other actions during the war of 1812, and who died about two years ago; Charles, who died about two years since ; George, U. S. Con- sul at the Island of Candia (at Canea, the town) ; Sarah, Eliza- beth, and Rhoda ; these three daughters now reside in Boston.


There was a Peter Rushton Maverick, an Englishman and an engraver, who resided in New York City, and owned prop- erty (No 85) in Crown (now Liberty) street, about one hun- dred feet from Broadway.2 It is stated by descendants that he came to this country from England (probably from the county of Kent), about the year 1774, when but eight or ten years of age. He was originally a silversmith, and is sometimes called " Peter Maverick, the first," to distinguish him from his son and


1 He worked with the volunteers on Dorchester Heights in 1814, under George Sullivan, the engineer. The boys marched out from school early in the morning, under the command of the eldest boy, to the heights, taking their breakfast in tin pails.


2 The deed of this house from John K. Bancker and Margaret, his wife, to Peter Rushton Maverick, dated Aug. 18, 1802, is on record in lib. 78 of Con- veyances, p. 38.


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[1787.


grandson, all bearing the name of Peter and all following the same profession. Little is known of his character or circum- stances. He was a free-thinker and a friend of Thomas Paine. His family through several generations displayed an unusual talent for engraving, and made it their occupation. For many years he etched and engraved, and had pupils, some of whom attained eminence. He was the best engraver in New York, yet he had no education in the art, and owed all his proficiency to his own persevering industry. The best specimens of his work are in Brown's Family Bible, published by Hodge, Allen, and Campbell in New York, and considered a great work for that time. Francis Kearney was his pupil, and Maverick demanded and received $250 for his instruction for three years, besides the advantages of his ingenuity and labor. In 1787-8 he taught William Dunlap (author of the History of Arts and Design in the United States) the theory and practice of etch- ing. He also instructed in the art of engraving, his son Peter, who, with his brother Samuel, were afterwards bank-note en- gravers of celebrity ; the son, however, far excelled the father as an artist. Mr. Anderson,1 the father-in-law of Peter R.'s son Andrew, well remembers Peter R. : he walked with " old Peter " in the procession of the trades in New York at the time of the adoption of the constitution ; Peter represented the engravers, being then, in fact, the only one in the city.


Peter Rushton Maverick died about 1807, and left a will, recorded in the surrogate's office.2 By this, he devised his property in Liberty street, which appears to have been all he owned, to his wife for life, with remainder to his children. The widow survived him many years, always occupying the old house (85 Liberty street) ; she died 19th October, 1853, in the ninety-sixth year of her age; the property was then sold, and the proceeds were divided among the heirs. A lawsuit ensued ; since its settlement, a white marble building has been erected on the site of the old house.3




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