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WILLIAM DIXEY - was born in England in 1607, and came over a servant with Mr. Isaac Johnson. [Common laborers and craftsmen were frequently called servants to those by whom they were for the time being employed.] On his arrival at Sa- lem, he says, in a deposition in Essex Court, 1 July, 1657, that application was made for him and others, " for a place to set down in; upon which Mr. Endecott did give me and the rest leave to go where we would; upon which we went to Saugus, now Linne, and there wee met with Sagamore James and som other Indians, who did give me and the rest leaue to dwell there or thereabouts ; whereupon I and the rest of my master's com- pany did cutt grass for our cattell, and kept them upon Nahant for som space of time ; for the Indian James Sagamore and the rest did give me and the rest in behalf of my master Johnson, what land we would ; whereupon wee sett down in Saugust, and
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. had quiet possession of it by the abovesaid Indians, and kept our cattell in Nahant the sumer following." Mr. Dixey was admitted a freeman at the first General Court, in 1634. He re- moved to Salem, says Felt, and kept a ferry-boat across the North River. [He had several children baptized in Salem, and died in 1690, aged 82.]
WILLIAM WOOD - came to Lynn in 1629, and was admitted a freeman 18 May, 1631. He resided here, according to his own account, about four years ; and during that time he wrote an interesting work, entitled "Nevv Englands Prospect," contain- ing a very favorable account of the early settlements. On 15 August, 1633, he sailed with Captain Thomas Graves, for Lon- don, where, in 1634, he printed his book, in one hundred pages. In 1635, he published a map of New England, engraved on wood. He returned to Lynn the same year. He embarked on the eleventh of September, in the Hopewell, of London, being then 27 years of age; bringing with him his wife, Elizabeth, aged 24 years, as appears by the records in Westminster Hall, London. In 1636, he was chosen representative. In 1637, he went with a company of about fifty men, and commenced a settlement at Sandwich. He was chosen town clerk there, and was a very active, intelligent, and talented man. His book is one of the most interesting and valuable which was written at that early period, and several extracts from it will be found in these pages. [Shattuck thinks Mr. Wood went to Concord, where he resided many years, dying there, 14 May, 1671, aged 86. There were several of the same name, in the settlements, and hence oppor- tunity for confusion among genealogists. It is pleasant for one to locate eminent individuals in the society of his ancestors, and some appear over-anxious to do so. There is, however, no doubt as to Mr. Wood's having resided at Lynn.]
JOHN WOOD - was a farmer, and lived on the corner of Essex and Chesnut streets. When the lands were divided, in 1638, 100 acres were allotted to him. I think that William Wood, the writer, was his son, and William Wood of Salem, his brother.
Such was the little band who commenced the first settlement in the wilderness of Lynn. Five men, with their families, prob- ably comprising about twenty persons. They did not settle at Sagamore Hill, because the Indians were there; nor on the Common, because that was a forest ; but coming from Salem, they selected a " faire playne," somewhat less than half a mile in extent, where they built their rude cottages, " and had peace- able possession." John Wood appears to have been the princi- pal person, and from him the vicinity has ever since been called " Woodend." , There the soil of Lynn was first stirred by the white men -there, surrounded by Indians, they laid the foun- dation of a town.
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[There was a fashion of constructing temporary habitations, prevailing, more or less, particularly among the poorer class of farmers, at an early period, which deserves notice for its inge- nuity and security, and for the comfort it afforded in winter. A square pit was dug, of such dimensions as convenience re- quired, to the depth of six or seven feet. This was lined with boards or logs, and a roof made of poles covered with bark, apertures being left for lighting and for the escape of smoke. As late as 1650, the secretary of the province of New Nether- lands, writing in Dutch, speaks of houses constructed after this fashion. He however describes them as being generally finished in rather better style, and says that the wealthy and principal men in New England, in the beginning of the colonies, com- menced their dwellings in this way.]
1630.
Early in the spring, eleven vessels, having on board about seventeen hundred persons, left the harbor of Southampton, and sailed for New England. In the number of the passengers were Mr. John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, with many other persons of dignity, wealth, and reputation. As Mr. Humfrey, who had been chosen deputy governor, was not ready to remove, Mr. Thomas Dudley was chosen in his stead. In the month of June, the ships arrived at Salem, and the passen- gers began to make settlements in the pathless woods. Mr. Dudley says that some of them settled " upon the river of Sau- gus." Others went, to Charlestown and Boston; and the rest began new settlements at Roxbury, Dorchester, Watertown, and Medford. The Council had agreed that each person who ad- vanced fifty pounds, should have 200 acres ; and that each one who came over on his own expense, should have 50 acres. The following persons appear to have arrived at Lynn, this year.
JOSEPH ARMITAGE-lived on the north side of the Common, a little east of Mall street, his land extending to Strawberry brook. He was a tailor, and was admitted a freeman in 1637. Some years after, he became the proprietor of a corn and slitting mill on Saugus river. (Essex Reg. Deeds.) He opened the first tavern in the town, called the Anchor. (Mass. archives.) It stood on the Boston road, a little west of the river. For a hundred and seventy years, this was the most celebrated tavern in Essex county, being half way from Salem to Boston. He died 27 June, 1680, aged 80 years. His wife, Jane, died March 3, 1675. His children were John, and Rebecca, who married Samuel Tarbox, in 1665.
GODFREY ARMITAGE - was a farmer, and was admitted a free- man in 1638. [He was by trade a tailor, as was Joseph; and they may have been brothers. Godfrey removed to Boston,
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where he reared a family ; and some of his descendants became prominent.]
JAMES AXEY - was a farmer, a representative in 1654, and died in 1669. His wife, Frances, died the same year.
ALLEN BREED - was a farmer, and lived near the point where Summer street crosses the Turnpike. In 1638 he had 200 acres allotted to him. He was born in 1601. The name of his wife was Elizabeth, and his children were Allen, Timothy, Joseph, - Ja and John. His descendants are numerous, and from him the Elisa vicinity in which he resided was called Breed's End. [He was one of the Long Island settlers, but returned. And it is assert- ed that Breed's Hill, in Charlestown, where the battle of Bunker Hill was fought, took its name from him. In early times the name was spelled Bread, and there was more uniformity in the spelling than there was in that of most names. Appended is a fac- Allon Pensar Signature of Allen Breed. simile of his autograph. It is a careful tracing from his signature on a document in the county ar- chives.
WILLIAM BALLARD - was a farmer, and was admitted a free- man in 1638. In the same year he was a member of the Essex Court. His children were John, Nathaniel, and Elizabeth. [Mr. Ballard seems to have died in 1641. Nicholas Brown and Gar- rett Spencer made oath before Messrs. Bradstreet and Nowell, in March of that year, " that being wth Mr Willm Ballard of Linn a day or two before his death & perswadinge him to make his will," he told them that " he intended to do it the next day, but . . . dyed before he could put it in wrightinge. He would leave his [wife Sarah ?] half his estate, and the other half to be devided amongst his children; the said William Ballard beinge then of pfect minde." (Suffolk Recs.)]
GEORGE BURRILL -lived on the west- ern side of Tower Hill. He was a farm- er, and had 200 acres of land. A fac- simile of his autograph is here given- traced from the signature to his will, dated 18 October, 1653. [He was one. Signature of Geo. Burrill. of the richest of the planters. His wife was named Mary, and both he and she died in 1653. His chil- dren were: |George; |Francis; |John. ||George removed to Boston and was a cooper. He married Deborah Simpkins, and died 5 July, 1698. He had children, George, born 13 Feb. 1654; Samuel, b. 10 Jan., 1656; Sarah, who married John Souther. || Francis's wife was named Elizabeth; and he had chil- dren, Elizabeth, born 1 Dec. 1655; James, b. 21 Dec. 1657; Jo- seph, b. 18 Dec., 1659; Mary, who died young, b. 16 May, 1661;
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Lydia, b. 13 June, 1663; Hannah, b. 19 March, 1665; Mary, who lived but ten days, b. 7 Feb., 1668; Deborah, b. 23 July, 1669, and died the next month; Moses, b. 12 April, 1671; Hes- ter, b. 15 Jan., 1674; Sarah, b. 11 April, 1676, and died in infan- cy; Samuel, who also died in infancy. | John married Lois Ivory, 10 May, 1656, and had children, John, b. 18 Nov. 1658; Sarah, b. 16 May, 1661, and died 27 Dec., 1714; Thomas, b. 7 Jan., 1664; Anna, b. 15 Sept., 1666; Theophilus, b. 15 July, 1669 ; Lois, b. 27 Jan., 1672; Samuel, b. 20 April, 1674; Mary, b. 18 Feb., 1677; Ebenezer, b. 13 July, 1679; Ruth, b. 17 May, 1682. The last named John, he who was born 18 Nov., 1658, became quite distinguished for his talents, and for skill as a presiding officer in the General Court. He died in 1721. See a bio- graphical notice of him beginning on page 489. His brother Ebenezer was also conspicuous as a public man, and known as the Hon. Ebenezer. He died in 1761. See notice, page 492. Sarah, who was born 16 May, 1661, married John Pickering, of Salem, and became grandmother of Hon. Timothy Pickering, the eminent statesman and intimate friend of Washington. Hon. James Burrill, LL. D., who was made chief justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, in 1816, and was afterward distinguished as a United States senator from that State, was a great-great- grandson of |John, (known as Lieut. John, and youngest son of the first George.) Other conspicuous descendants of this early settler will be named elsewhere. The Burrill family was form- erly called the royal family of Lynn, in view of the many famous persons connected with it.]
EDWARD BAKER - was a farmer, and lived on the south side of Baker's Hill, in Saugus. He was admitted a freeman in 1638 ; and was buried March 16, 1687. His wife, Joan, died April 9, 1693. His sons were Edward, who married Mary Marshall, April 7, 1675 ; and Thomas, who married Mary Lewis, July 10, 1689. [Mr. Baker removed to Northampton about 1658, and there had grants of land. He remained many years, respected and influential. Mr. Lewis is incorrect in one or two particu- lars. The name of Mr. Baker's wife was Jane, and he had five sons - Joseph, Timothy, Edward, Thomas, and John. He finally returned to Lynn; but his sons Joseph and Timothy remained at Northampton. John is supposed to have settled in Dedham, and become the head of an extensive family. . The will of Mr. Baker is dated 16 Oct. 1685, and having previously provided for some of his children by deed, not all of them are named in it. He exhorts his family to live peaceable and pious lives, and desires for himself a decent funeral, suitable to his rank and quality while living. Timothy was a prominent man in North- ampton, and some of his descendants became conspicuous ; among them, Hon. Osmyn Baker, late member of Congress.
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[Captain Thomas Baker, son of Timothy, just named, and of course a grandson of Edward, the early Lynn settler, was taken captive by the Indians, at Deerfield, on the terrible night of 29 Feb., 1704, and carried to Canada. He however, the next year, succeeded in effecting his escape. In or about the year 1715, he married Madam Le Beau, whose name figures somewhat in the history of that period. And the lives of both husband and wife furnish touching and romantic passages. She was a daughter of Richard Otis, of Dover, N. H., who, with one son and one daughter, was killed by the Indians on the night of 27 June, 1689, at the time they destroyed the place. She was then an infant of three months, and was, with her mother, carried captive to Canada and sold to the French. The priests took her, baptised her, and gave her the name of Christine. They educated her in the Romish faith, and she passed some time in a nunnery, not, however, taking the veil. At the age of sixteen she was married to a Frenchman, thus becoming Madam Le Beau, and became the mother of two or three chil- dren. Her husband died about 1713. And it was very soon after that her future husband, Capt. Baker, appears to have fallen in with her. He was attached to the commission detailed by Gov. Dudley, under John Stoddard and John Williams for the purpose of negotiating with the Marquis de Vaudreuil for the release of prisoners and to settle certain other matters, and went to Canada. From Stoddard's journal it appears that there was much trouble in procuring her release, and when it was obtained, her children were not allowed to go with her. Her mother was also opposed to her leaving Canada.
[After her return, Christine married Capt. Baker, and they went to reside at Brookfield, where they remained till 1733. They had several children, and among their descendants is Hon. John Wentworth, late member of Congress from Illinois. She became a protestant after marrying Capt. Baker, and substituted the name Margaret for Christine, though later in life she seems to have again adopted the latter. In 1727, her former confes- sor, Father Siguenot wrote her a gracious letter, expressing a high opinion of her and warning her against swerving from the faith in which she had been educated. He mentions the happy death of a daughter of hers who had married and lived in Que- bec, and also speaks of her mother, then living, and the wife of a Frenchman. This letter was shown to Gov. Burnet, and he wrote to her a forcible reply to the arguments it contained in favor of Romanism. And there are, or recently were, three copies of the letter and reply, in the Boston Atheneum. The mother of Christine had children by her French husband, and Philip, Christine's half-brother, visited her at Brookfield.
[All the children of Capt. Baker and Christine, seven or eight
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in number, excepting the first, who was a daughter, bearing her mother's name, were born in Brookfield. There is no rea- son to doubt that the connection was a happy one. They held a very respectable position, and he was the first representative from Brookfield. He was, indeed, once tried before the Supe- rior Court, at Springfield, in 1727, for blasphemy ; but the jury acquitted him. The offence consisted in his remarking, while discoursing on God's providence in allowing Joseph Jennings, of Brookfield, to be made a justice of the peace -" If I had been with the Almighty I would have taught him better."
[In 1733 Capt. Baker sold his farm in Brookfield. But this proved an unfortunate step, for the purchaser failed before mak- ing payment, and their circumstances became greatly reduced. They were a short time at Mendon, and also at Newport, R. I., before finally removing to Dover. Poor Christine, in 1735, pe- titioned the authorities of New Hampshire for leave to "keep a house of public entertainment " on the " County Rhoade from Dover meeting house to Cocheco Boome." In this petition she signs her name "Christine baker," and mentions that she made a journey to Canada, in the hope of getting her children, " but all in vaine." A license was granted, and it seems probable that she kept the house a number of years. She died, at a great age, 23 Feb., 1773, and an obituary notice appeared in the Bos- ton Evening Post. The Mrs. Bean mentioned in the N. H. Hist. Colls. as having died, 6 Feb., 1826, at the age of a hundred years, was Mary, the daughter of Capt. Baker and Christine. She pos- sessed her faculties to the last, and her eyesight was so perfect that she could, without glasses, see to thread a needle. Col. Benjamin Bean, of Conway, N. H., was a grandson of this aged granddaughter of Edward Baker the Lynn settler.
[I have given this connected recital, though hardly knowing how to afford the space, not only on account of the romantic incidents touched upon, but also because it aptly illustrates occurrences frequent in those days.]
JOHN BANCROFT -- died in 1637. He had two sons, Thomas and John, and his descendants remain. [The name was some- times spelled Barcroft; indeed it is questionable whether that was not the original spelling, the change easily occurring. Jane, the wife with whom this settler was blessed, does not seem to have been the most amiable of women. By the record of the Court held at Boston, in 1633, it appears that, "Mr John Bar- croft doeth acknowledge to owe vnto or Souaigne, the King, the some of xll. & Mr Samll Mauacke the som of xxl. &c. The condicon of this recognizance is, that Jane Barcroft, wife of the said John, shall be of good behavr towards all psons." George Bancroft, the eminent historian, is a lineal descendant from this Lynn planter.]
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SAMUEL BENNET - was a carpenter, and a member of the An- cient Artillery Company, in 1639. A pine forest in the northern part of Lynn still retains the name of Bennet's Swamp. He resided in the western part of Saugus, and when the towns were divided, the line passed through his land, eastward of his house, so that afterward he was called an inhabitant of Boston.
NICHOLAS BROWN - was a farmer, and lived on Walnut street, in Saugus. He removed to Reading, in 1644. He had a son, Thomas, who continued in Lynn, and died, 28 Aug. 1693. His descendants remain.
BONIFACE BURTON - was a farmer, and was admitted a free- man, 6 May, 1635. He was the oldest man who ever lived at Lynn. He died, 13 June, 1669, aged 113 years, according to Sewall. Another diarist makes him 115. His son Boniface removed to Reading.
THOMAS CHADWELL - was a farmer, and lived in Summer street. He died in Feb. 1683. His sons were Thomas, Moses, and Benjamin. His descendants remain. [He had three wives ; the first was named Margaret, and she died 29 Sept. 1658. He afterward removed to Boston, and married Barbara Brimblecom, a widow, who had survived two husbands. This second wife died in 1665, and for a third wife, he married Abigail Jones, of Charlestown, a widow. His son Moses was born 10 April, 1637.]
CLEMENT COLDAM - was a miller, and a member of the An- cient Artillery Company, in 1645. He had a son Clement, born in 1622, who removed to Gloucester, and died in 1703.
THOMAS COLDAM - was admitted a freeman in 1634. He kept Mr. Humfrey's windmill, on Sagamore Hill, and died 8 April, 1675, aged 74 years.
WILLIAM COWDRY, born in 1602 - was a farmer. He removed to Reading in 1640, where he was Clerk of the Writs, Town Clerk, Selectman and Representative.
THOMAS DEXTER - was a farmer, and lived on the west of Sau- gus river, near the Iron Works. He was admitted a freeman, 18 May, 1631. He owned eight hundred acres of land, and was called, by way of excellence, " Farmer Dexter." He was a very active and enterprising man, and built a mill and a wear across Saugus river. . Among his speculations, he purchased Nahant of the Indian chief, Poquanum, called " Black Will," for a suit of clothes; which occasioned the town an expensive lawsuit in 1657, another in 1678, and a third in 1695. He became one of the first proprietors of the town of Sandwich, in 1637, and pro- moted its settlement, but did not remove at that time. He had a son Thomas, a grandson Richard, and a great-grandson William; but none of his descendants remain at Lynn.
ROBERT DRIVER - was a farmer, and lived in Shepard street, on the south of which a creek still bears his name. He was
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made a freeman in 1635, and died 3 April, 1680, aged 88 years. His wife, Phebe, died in February, 1683. He had a son, Rob- ert, who was a soldier in the Indian War of 1675.
WILLIAM EDMUNDS - was admitted a freeman in 1635, and died 4 Aug. 1693. His children were John; and Samuel, who married Elizabeth Bridges, 27 Jan. 1685. [He was a tailor by trade. His wife Mary died 2 April, 1657, and five months after he married a widow Ann Martin, at Boston. Besides John and Samuel, he had children, Joseph and Mary. The latter married Joseph Hutchings, 1 Sept. 1657. He was 82 years old at the time of his death.]
GEORGE FARR - was a farmer in the eastern part of Essex street. He was admitted a freeman in 1635, and died in 1661. His wife Elizabeth was buried 11 March, 1687. His children were, John, Lazarus, Benjamin, Joseph, Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, and Sarah, [Mr. Farr came over in 1629. He was a ship- wright.]
HENRY FEAKE- was admitted a freeman, 14 May, 1632, and removed to Sandwich in 1637. [He was a Representative in 1643 and '4. About 1656 he was residing at Newtown, L. I. John Dillingham married a daughter of his, 24 March, 1654.]
JEREMIAH FITCH - was a farmer, and lived in Shepard street. He removed to Reading in 1644. son Same m. Rebecca dan. qWAN
SAMUEL GRAVES - was a farmer, and lived on the Turnpike, - west of the Floating Bridge, and from him the neighborhood . Oof-2 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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