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JEREMIAH FITCH - was a farmer, and lived in Shepard street. He removed to Reading in 1644.
SAMUEL GRAVES - was a farmer, and lived on the Turnpike, west of the Floating Bridge, and from him the neighborhood has ever since been called Gravesend. In 1635, he gave nearly £300 to the colony. He had a son Samuel, and his descendants remain. [The son Samuel married Sarah Brewer, 12 March, 1678, and had children, Crispus, born 3 Aug. 1679; Hannah, b. 27 Aug. 1681; Samuel, b. 2 Aug. 1684.]
JOHN HALL -- was admitted a freeman in 1634. Edward Hall, son of John, was a farmer, and died in 1669. His children were Joseph, Ephraim, Elizabeth, Rebecca, and Martha. His descend- ants remain. [I think this John Hall must have been the one who, in 1640, was a Salisbury proprietor, and married, 3 April, 1641, Rebecca, widow of Henry Bayley, by whom he had a son John, born 18 March, 1642. He was dead in 1650, as his widow, in July of that year, married Rev. William Worcester, the first minister of Salisbury. And after the death of Mr. Worcester, which took place in 1663, she married, as a fourth husband, Deputy Governor Symonds, whom she outlived, and died in 1695. As to Edward, Mr. Lewis is without doubt wrong in some particulars. There may have been two of the name here. Edward, son of John, by his wife Sarah, had children, Joseph, born 3 July, 1646; Ephraim, b. 8 September, 1648; Sarah, b. in August, 1651; Elizabeth, b. 30 April, 1654; Rebecca, b. 30 April, 1657. And Savage treats him as the same individual who
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was so oddly named in the will of Benjamin Keayne, of Boston, who, probably through his son, at one time a resident of Lynn, had various connections with the people here. If so identified, he must have been a carpenter, though he may have carried on farming to some extent. "To Edward Hall, of Lyn, carpenter," says Mr. Keayne's will, " as an acknowledgmt of his Loueing seruice to me, (though of Later yeares he hath Carryed it lesse deseruing, & fuller of more Just provocation,) three pounds."]
ADAM HAWKES - was a farmer, and settled on the Hawkes Farms, in Saugus. He owned the land where the iron ore was found, and filled up one of the mines, on the supposition that it contained silver. Soon after his settlement, his house was burned. The only persons in it at the time, were a servant girl and two twin infants, who escaped. He died in 1671. His sons were, Adam, John, Moses, Benjamin, and Thomas. His descend- ants remain.
JOHN HAWKES - was admitted a freeman in 1634, and died 5 Aug. 1694. [I think Mr. Lewis is wrong in making this John Hawkes, the one who was admitted a freeman in 1634. The only John here, at that period, was probably the young son of Adam, though there was an older person of the name in the vicinity. The John who died here, 5 Aug. 1694, is called in the record of his decease, senior, and would, as respects age, answer well as the son of Adam. He married, 3 June, 1658, Rebecca Maverick, and she died in 1659, at the birth of their son Moses. He married again, 11 April, 1661. His second wife was Sarah Cushman, and he had by her, Susanna, born 29 Nov. 1662; Adam, b. 12 May, 1664; Anne, b. 3 May, 1666; John, b. 25 April, 1668; Rebecca, b. 18 Oct. 1670; Thomas, b. 18 May, 1673 ; and Mary, b. 14 Nov. 1675. Within twenty days of the latter date, he experienced a severe affliction in the loss, by death, of all his daughters, excepting the infant Mary.]
EDWARD HOLYOKE - was a farmer, and had 500 acres of land. He was a member of the Essex Court, and was many times chosen representative. In 1656 he owned the western side of Sagamore Hill. He died 4 May, 1660. In his will he beseeches God to impress his children with the importance of private prayer and public worship, and bequeaths each of them a lock of his hair. His children were, Elizur, who removed to Spring- field, and married Mary Pynchon; and Elizabeth, who married George Keyser. An excellent spring, in the western part of Lynn, surrounded by willows, is well known by the name of Holyoke spring. [This spring is near the western margin of the meadow lying immediately north of Holyoke street, and west of Walnut, formerly known as Pan Swamp.] An eminent descendant of this settler, Dr. Edward A. Holyoke, of Salem, died 31 March, 1830, aged a hundred years and seven months. K
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[The two children named by Mr. Lewis, Elizur and Elizabeth, were not the only offspring of Mr. Holyoke. He had daughters, Ann, who married Lieut. Thomas Putnam, 17 Oct. 1643; Mary, who married John Tuttle of Boston, 10 Feb. 1647; Susanna, who married Michael Martin, 12 Sept. 1656; and Sarah, who married an Andrews. He also had sons, Edward and John, who were born in England and died there, at early ages. Mr. Hol- yoke's will is a curious document ; and most of it is here given, because it so well exhibits his spirit and so faithfully exposes the condition of things at that time, in several interesting par- ticulars. It was made 25 Dec. 1658, and he died 4 May, 1660.
As for the holy faith of the holy one, God in trinitie, and of the holy faith of our glorious Lord, the son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the second Adam, I haue composed A booke and doe bestowell vpon each of my sonns in law as their best legacy, &c. (Being instructed chiefly by an understanding of the Scriptures) I doubt not my booke will give him A hart of all sound doctrine.
Touching my worldly estate, I dispose the yoke of Oxen and my mare, to my sonn in law, George Keysar, and my mare foale and A Cow, to my sonn Prenamn; tow kine to my sonn Andrewes; A Cow to my dau. Marten. These Oxen and kine are in the hands of Goodman Wilkins, of Linn; the mare and foale is at Rumney Marsh. I giue to my sonn Tuttle, that £4 yearely hee should haue giuen mee since I put ouer the house in Boston to him. I neuer yet had a penney of it; 40s. I gaue him of that, so theare is yet £6 beehind and theare is £5 mentioned in Goodman Wilkins Case that hee oweth mee, I giue to my dau. Marton, and 20s. to my kinswoman Mary Mansfeild, and 10s. of it to John Dolittle, and 10s. of it to my kinsman Thomas Morris, of New- ham, and 10s. of it to Hannah Keasur. I giue my best Cloake of that Cloth that cam from England to my sonn Holyoke, as allsoe my Coate of the same cloth. I giue my other Cloke to my sonn Keaser, my best Dublet and breeches to my sonn Tuttle, my stuff dublet and my best hat to my sonn Holyoke; all the rest of my weareing apparell to my sonn Keasar. As touching the whol veares rent of this yeare 1658, that is Dew mee from Goodman Wilkins, of Linn, I owe Theodore Atkins 49s .; pay him in wheate; I owe John Hull Aboute 22s .; pay him in wheate; pay Mr. Russell, treasurer, 3 bushells of wheate ; for John Andrewes, 8 bushells of wheate to Mr. Wilson Paster at Boston, and 8 bushell of Indian. As for my Linell, let all my daurs. part alike. The 20s. Goodman Page oweth me, as my sonn Tuttle cann witness, I give my dau. Martin. There is about 15s. Capt. Sauige oweth mee; intreat him to satisfie my Cosan Dauis, and the rest giue to my dau. Marten. As for my books and wrightings, I giue my sonn Holyoke all the books that are at Linn, as allsoe the Iron Chest, and the bookes I haue in my study that are Mr. Beanghans works I giue him, hee onely cann make vse of them, and likewise I giue all my maniscripts what soeuer, and I gine him that large new testament in folio, with wast papers between euery leafe, allso Mr. Answorth on the 5 books of Moses and the psalmes, and my dixinary and Temellius bible in Latten, and my latten Concent and daniell bound together, and A part of the New testament in Folio, with wast paper betwin cuery leafe, and the greate mapps of geneolagy, and that old maniscript called a Synas sight ; the rest, for A muskett I gaue of olde to my soun Holyoke: All my land in Linn, and that land and Medow in the Country neere Reding, all was giuen to my sonn Holyoke, when he maried Mr Pinchors Daughter.
Pr me. EDWORD HOLYOKE.
[Mr. Holyoke's son Elizur administered on the estate, and the inventory was taken 19 June, 1660. John Tuttle and John
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Doolittle were appraisers, and the amount was £681. " A farme at Lynne, £400 ; 3 acres at Nahant, £6; a farme at Bever dame, neare Reading, £150;" two oxen, £12; four cows, £16; and his books, £20; are the principal items.
[Mr. Holyoke was from Tamworth, Warwickshire, where he married, 18 June, 1612, Prudence, daughter of Rev. John Stock- ton, rector of Kinkolt. His father, who was likewise named Edward, is thought to be the same " Edward Hollyocke " men- tioned in the will of the father of Ann Hathaway, wife of the immortal Shakspeare, where he is spoken of as having a claim of twenty shillings, for wood.
[It is evident that Mr. Holyoke, quite early in life, had his mind directed to the consideration of sacred things. And on the whole he seems to have been rather a lively exponent of puritan character. On 12 May, 1612, about a month before his marriage, he wrote to Miss Stockton a long epistle, from which a few passages are here introduced, the orthography being mod- ernized. "Let us resolve," he says, "with an unfeigned heart in constancy and perseverance to follow the Eternal, and to cleave unto him all our days; to set him up in our hearts to be our God; to love him with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength; to worship him in spirit and truth, according to his revealed will; to sanctify his name in his word, in his works, in our holy conversation; to keep his Sabbath with joy of heart and delighting in the Lord; in it not doing our own will, but sanctifying it wholly to the Lord. If this be in our hearts, in deed and in truth, then we shall be faithful to each other, not sinning against one another ; for you have set me on your heart and me alone, to be thine; thy husband, the veil of thine eyes in the sight of all; thy head. If this be so, then cleave to me, to me alone ; let your affections be mine, your desires mine. And I have set thee on my heart, and thee alone, to make thee my spouse, my companion, the wife of my youth; to enter into covenant with thee before God, never to transgress against thee, but to love you only, even as myself; to care for you, to rejoice with you, to wander in thy love continually. . . . . Me- thinks I see the preparation that Prudence makes for the day of solemnity ; every thing in readiness, that she will not forget an ornament; every thing in such conveniency. Oh, will you thus prepare for this marriage, which is but for a time ? Labor to be truly spiritual, that this may be, above all things, the chief of your thoughts, to prepare for that eternal marriage with Christ Jesus in the last day."
[The name of Mount Holyoke, in Hampshire county, it is said, was derived from Elizur, the son named as having married Mary Pynchon, and who became a very conspicuous and useful man. Few names appear on the records of the colony in connection
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with more enterprises of a public nature than that of Elizur Holyoke, and few are more highly spoken of for their services. There is a tradition that during an exploration by some of the settlers of Springfield, five or six years after they first located there, Elizur Holyoke, with a party, went up the east side of the river, while Rowland Thomas, with another party, went up the west side. On reaching a narrow place, between the mountains, a conversation took place, across the water, between Holyoke and Thomas, concerning the naming of the mountains. And finally it was determined to give the name of Holyoke to that on the east, and the name of Thomas to that on the west. The latter soon came to be called Mount Tom; but the former was more fortunate in retaining the integrity of its name. A worthy writer says of Elizur Holyoke: "His whole life was devoted to the service of the people among whom he lived." He was appointed by the General Court, in 1652, one of the commis- sioners empowered to govern the Springfield settlers, "in all matters not extending to life and limb." He died 6 Feb. 1676. He had a son Elizur, the youngest of four, who was sent to Boston to learn the trade of a brazier, and who finally became prominent by his enterprise and wealth; and his name will long survive from his association with the founders of the Old South Church. Edward Holyoke, president of Harvard College, was a son of his. The name is perpetuated in Lynn, through Hol- yoke street, in the vicinity of which Edward, the original settler, owned lands.]
WILLIAM HATHORNE- was born in England, in 1607; ivas admitted a freeman in 1634; and removed to Salem.
DANIEL HOWE, (Lieut.) - was admitted a freeman in 1634. He was a representative in five General Courts, and a mem- ber of the Ancient Artillery Company in 1638. He removed to New Haven. His son Ephraim was master of a vessel which sailed from Boston. In Sept. 1676, his vessel, in which were two of his sons and three other persons, was disabled by a storm, off Cape Cod, and driven to sea for several weeks, until his two sons, lashed to the deck by ropes, perished. The vessel was then cast on a desolate island, where the three other per- sons died. Mr. Howe was thus left alone, and found means to subsist for nine months, lodging and praying in a cave, till he was taken off by a vessel, in June.
EDWARD HOWE- was a farmer, and was admitted a freeman in 1636. He was several times chosen representative, and was a member of the Essex Court, in 1637. In April, 1639, after the Court was ended in Boston, having dined in his usual health, he went to the river side, to pass over to Charlestown, and while waiting for the ferry boat, fell dead on the shore. Gov. Winthrop says he was "a Godly man." He had a son Edward.
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[Mr. Lewis has located him here at too early a date. He came in the Truelove, 1635. He was 64 years old at the time of his death. He and Daniel Howe, the preceding, were brothers.]
THOMAS HUBBARD - was admitted a freeman in 1634, and removed to Billerica. [His wife's name was Elizabeth. He died in Nov. 1662.]
THOMAS HUDSON - was a farmer, and lived on the western side of Saugus river. He owned the lands where the Iron Works were situated, part of which he sold for that purpose. He had a son Jonathan, whose descendants remain.
CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY - was born in Darking, in Surrey, Eng- land, in 1598. He went to Holland, where he became enamored of Theodate, daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, who had resid- ed there several years, but her father would not consent to their union, unless Mr. Hussey would remove to New England, whither he was preparing to go. Mr. Hussey came to Lynn with his mother, widow Mary Hussey, and his wife, in 1630, and here, the same year, his son Stephen was born, who was the second white child born in Lynn. He removed to Newbury, in 1636, and was chosen representative in 1637. In 1638, he became one of the first settlers of Hampton, and was chosen a counsellor. In 1685, he was cast away and lost on the coast of Florida, being 87 years of age. His children were Stephen, John, Joseph, Huldah, Theodate and Mary.
GEORGE KEYSER, born in 1616 - was a miller, at Swampscot, and was admitted a freeman in 1638. He married Elizabeth Holyoke, and had a son Elizur, who removed to Salem.
CHRISTOPHER LINDSEY - lived as a servant with Thomas Dex- ter, and kept his cattle at Nahant. A hill on the notheastern part of Nahant is still called Lindsey's hill. He died in 1668. He had two sons, John and Eleazer, and his descendants remain. [Mr. Lindsey was wounded in the Pequot war, and in a petition to the Court, May, 1655, states that he was " disabled from service for 20 weekes, for which he neuer had any satisfaction." He was allowed three pounds. His only daughter, Naomi, was the first wife of Thomas Maule, of Salem, the famous Quaker, to whom she was married, 22 July, 1670. Maule published a book setting forth and maintaining the truth according to the Quaker view. And for this he was indicted. He afterward put forth another work -his "Persecutors Mauled " - in which he remarks that they five times imprisoned him, thrice took away his goods, and thrice cruelly whipped him; besides their many other abuses.]
JONATHAN NEGUS- was born in 1601, and admitted a freeman in 1634.
THOMAS NEWHALL - was a farmer, and owned all the lands on the eastern side of Federal street, as far north as Marion. K*
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His house stood on the east side of the former street, a few rods south of where the brook crosses. He had two sons. 1. John, born in England. 2. Thomas born in 1630, who was the first white child born in Lynn. He married Elizabeth Potter, 29 Dec. 1652, and was buried 1 April, 1687, aged 57. His wife was buried 22 Feb. 1687. His descendants are more numerous than those of any other name at Lynn, and there are many in the adjacent towns. [A fac-simile of the autograph of this Thomas, Thomas MorRall the first of the white race born in our precincts, is here given. Signature of Thomas Newhall.
It was traced from his signature to an inventory filed in the court at Salem, in 1677, the last two letters being supplied, as the paper is so much worn as to render them illigible. I have searched in vain for a proper signature of his father, who died 25 May, 1674. His will is signed by " his mark." But as the document was executed just before his death, it is reasonable to conclude that infirmity, rather than ignorance, was the occa- sion of his signing in that suspicious manner. A somewhat extended genealogical view of the Newhall family will be given in another part of this work.]
ROBERT POTTER - was a farmer, and lived in Boston street. He was admitted a freeman in 1634. He had a daughter Eliza- beth. [He removed from town soon after he became a freeman. Under date 1685 Mr. Lewis gives the name of a Robert Potter, who was probably a son of this Robert. He went first to Rhode Island, but changed his place of abode two or three times. In 1643, he, with others, was arrested for disseminating obnoxious doctrines, and brought to Boston. The government ordered them to discontinue their preaching, on pain of death. They suffered imprisonment, confiscation of estate and banishment. Subsequently, however, by making complaint in England, they had their estates restored. In 1649, he kept an inn, at War- wick. He had a son John, and daughters Deliverance and Eliz- beth ; and, probably, a son Robert, his eldest child. He died in 1655.]
JOHN RAMSDELL - was a farmer, and died 27 Oct. 1688, aged 86. His wife, Priscilla, died 23 Jan. 1675. His sons were John and Aquila, and his descendants remain.
JOSEPH REDNAP - was a wine-cooper, from London, and was admitted a freeman in 1634. Judge Sewall, in his Diary, says he died on Friday, 23 Jan. 1686, aged 110 years. [But Judge Sewall must have made his entry touching the age, from exag. gerated reports. Mr. Rednap could not have been much, if any, above 90. And in the Judge's statement we have further evi- dence that in those days people took a singular pride, when one died at an age beyond the common limit, in giving him, to as
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great an extent as the case would bear, the patriarchal charac- teristic of age. On 29 June, 1669, Mr. Rednap gave certain testimony, which he swore to, in the Salem Court, in which he states himself to be " betwixt seventy and eighty years " old. He also, in evidence given in 1657, states himself to be about sixty. Now if he was 60 in 1657, he would have been 72 in 1669, and at the time of his death, in 1686, he would have been but 89 or 90. This conclusion, it will be observed, is drawn from his own statements, made under oath. Mr. Rednap was an anabaptist, or rather an anti-pedobaptist, and underwent some persecution as such.]
EDWARD RICHARDS, born in 1616 - was a joiner, and was ad- mitted a freeman in 1641. He lived in the eastern part of Essex street. On the third of April 1646, he sold to Daniel King, " one parcel of land, called Windmill Hill," being the eastern mound of Sagamore Hill. He died 26 Jan. 1690, aged 74. His descendants remain. [His wife's name was Ann, and they had children, William, born 7 June, 1663; Daniel; Mary ; Abigail ; and, it is thought, John. William was living abroad in 1688, as appears by a parental letter superscribed " These ffor my love- ing sonn William Richards Liveing att philadelphia in pensylva- nah or elsewhere present," and sent "ffrom Lin in New Eng- land this 12th of June, 1688." The letter urges him to return to Lynn, as his parents are getting old, and much desire his presence. And they want him to make up his mind never to leave the place again ; the father agreeing, for his encourage- ment, to give him half of his place. In 1678 Mr. Richards made oath that he had lived here forty-five years. The inventory of his estate, taken about a month after his decease, by William Bassett, jr. and Samuel Johnson, gives an amount of £180 1s.]
DANIEL SALMON, born in 1610 - was a soldier in the Pequot war, in 1636. [He labored at the Iron Works, soon after their establishment.] He had a son Daniel, born 2 May, 1665.
JOHN SMITH - was a farmer, and was admitted a freeman in 1633. He removed to Reading.
SAMUEL SMITH - was a farmer, and lived at Swampscot. His descendants remain.
JOHN TAYLOR - came from Haverhill, in England. His wife and children died on the passage. He was admitted a freeman, 19 Oct. 1630, and lived on the western side of Saugus river.
EDWARD TOMLINS, (Capt.) - was a carpenter, and was admitted a freeman in 1631. He was six times chosen representative. In 1633, he built the first mill in Lynn, at the mouth of Straw- berry Brook, which flows from the Flax Pond, where Chase's mill now stands - [that is, at the point where Summer street now crosses the stream.] At one of the courts he agreed to repair Mistick bridge for £22. In 1638 he was a member of the
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Ancient Artillery Company. In 1640 he went to Long Island, but returned to Lynn, and was appointed clerk of the writs, in 1643. His son Edward came over in 1635, at the age of 30; but returned to London in 1644, and in 1679 was at Dublin.
[The statement that the first mill in Lynn was at the mouth of Strawberry Brook, is a mistake; and Mr. Lewis was satisfied of it when the facts were laid before him. The first mill was on that brook, a few rods west of where Franklin street opens into Boston street. Some years ago there was a case in one of our courts, wherein the question of the location of the first mill in Lynn became of some importance. An examination of ancient documents and records established the fact as above stated. Astute counsel objected to any testimony from Mr. Lewis tending to show that it was located in any place but that stated in his book, on the ground that it would be a contra- diction of himself. After some wrangling, however, it was admitted, for the rules regarding the admission of evidence are not quite so bad as to deny one the privilege of correcting an undoubted error. The mill which he refers to as the first, was, without doubt, the third in Lynn, the second having been built near the Flax Pond and afterward removed to Water Hill. And this seems to have been the first manifestation of that propen- sity to move buildings which has characterised our people to this day. Every season we find our ways obstructed and trees dismembered by migratory edifices. For something further about the old mills, see under dates 1654 and 1655.]
TIMOTHY TOMLINS, brother of Edward - was a farmer, and was admitted a freeman, 1633. He was representative in thir- teen sessions of the General Court. In 1640, he went with those who began a settlement at Southampton, on Long Island, but returned. A pine forest in the northern part of Lynn is well known by the name of Tomlins's Swamp. He was one of the first proprietors of Cambridge, but did not reside there.
NATHANIEL TURNER, (Capt.) -lived in Nahant street, and owned the whole of Sagamore Hill. He applied to be admitted a freeman, 19 Oct. 1630, but did not take the oath until 3 July, 1632. He was representative in the first seven sessions of the General Court, and a member of the first County Court at Salem, in 1636. In 1633, he was appointed captain of the militia, and in 1636 and '7 had a command in several expeditions against the Pequot Indians. In 1637 his house was burnt. In 1638, he became a member of the Ancient Artillery Company ; and the same year sold his land on Sagamore Hill to Mr. Edward Holyoke, and removed, with others, to Quilipeake, where a new settlement was begun, and called New Haven. His name is preserved in Turner's Falls. In 1639 he was one of the seven members of the first church at New Haven. In 1640 he pur-
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chased for the town, of Ponus, the Indian Sagamore, the tract of land which is now the town of Stamford, for which he paid in " coats, shoes, hatchets, &c." His active and useful life was soon after terminated in a melancholy manner. In January, 1647, he sailed for England, with Capt. Lamberton, in a vessel which was never heard of more. Governor Winthrop informs us that in June, 1648, the apparition of a ship was seen under full sail, moving up the harbor of New Haven, a little before sunset, in a pleasant afternoon, and that as it approached the shore, it slowly vanished. This was thought to have a refer- ence to the fate of Capt. Lamberton's ship. The following epi- taph was written to the memory of Capt. Turner.
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