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SAMUEL HART - married Mary Witteridge, 29 Jan. 1673, and had two children ; John and William. [In a deposition of Mr. Hart, sworn to 27 Oct. 1653, he calls himself about thirty-one years of age, and says that he was sent over by the Company, to the Iron Works. The two sons mentioned by Mr. Lewis were children by his second wife, and both died young. He had a previous wife, also named Mary, who died 24 Dec. 1671, by whom he had children - Mary, who died in 1657; Hannah, born in April, 1657; Joseph b. 10 April, 1659; Abigail, b. 15 Nov. 1660; John, b. 3 Aug. 1666, who died the next year ; Re- becca, b. 27 Jan. 1668; Ezekiel, b. 28 April, 1669, who died in infancy. Savage seems to think his second wife was Mary Whiting. But I have no doubt Mr. Lewis is correct in stating it to be Witteridge. Mr. Hart himself died 25 June, 1683. The son Joseph, named as born 10 April, 1659,-married, 24 June, 1685, Ruth Chadwell, and had children - Ruth, born 4 July, 1687; Joseph, b. 12 Sept. 1689; Moses, b. 25 Dec. 1691; Elias, b. 30 Sept. 1695; Ruth, again, b. 3 April, 1697; Aaron, b. 17 Aug. 1700; Edmund, b. 18 Oct. 1702; Benjamin, b. 21 April, 1705 ; Samuel, b. 15 Nov. 1707. This last named Samuel mar- ried Phebe Ivory, and the Joseph spoken of on another page, was a child by this marriage. He, Joseph, married Eunice, daughter of Samuel Burrill, and granddaughter, of Hon. Ebene- zer, whose farm embraced the beautiful estate of E. R Mudge, at. Swampscot, and had children- Anna, born 12 April, 1767; (who married Joseph Lye, and was grandmother of Amos P. Tapley, president of the City Bank); Joseph, b. 1 Nov. 1768; Eunice, b. 8 Oct. 1770; (who married David Tufts, who for many years ran an express wagon to Marblehead, and was the first regular Lynn express driver) ; Phebe, b. 12 June, 1773; Burrill, b. 12 Nov. 1775 ; Samuel, b. 2 May, 1778 ; Sarah, b. 24 Jan. 1781; (mother of the writer); John, b. 8 Dec. 1783; Joseph Burrill, b. 8 Oct. 1788. The Aaron named above as born 17 Aug. 1700, was father of Edmund Hart, who built the famous frigate Con- stitution. For something further concerning the Harts see other dates.]
THOMAS IVORY- had two sons, Thomas and John. He died 18 July, 1690. [Mr. Ivory came in 1638. His wife's name was Ann, and he had daughters, Lois, Ruth, and Sarah. Lois mar- ried, 10 May, 1656, John Burrill, and was the favored mother of Hon. John Burrill, the " beloved speaker," and Hon. Ebene- zer, his brother; notices of whom may be found elsewhere in
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this volume. Ruth married Theophilus Bailey, and Sarah mar- ried Moses Chadwell.]
DANIEL KING - married widow Elizabeth Corwin, of Salem. He died 27 May, 1672. His widow, Elizabeth, died 26 Feb. 1677. He lived at Swampscot, and bought a large portion of Mr. Humfrey's farm. He had two sons; Daniel married Tabitha Walker, 11 March, 1662. Ralph married Elizabeth Walker, 2 March, 1663. [It appears by the records that this Elizabeth Corwin, or Curwen, as Mr. Lewis elsewhere spells it, was not a widow till 3 Jan. 1685; and in 1694, she was still living as the widow Elizabeth Corwin.]
JOHN LYSCOM - had a son, Samuel, born 16 Sept. 1693. 1 DANIEL NEEDHAM - married in 1673, and had five children ; Elizabeth, Edmund, Daniel, Ruth, and Mary.
EZEKIEL NEEDHAM - married Sarah King, 27 Oct. 1669, and had five children ; Edmund, Sarah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Ralph. [Mr. Lewis is evidently in error about these two Needhams. They were doubtless sons of Edmund Needham, who came to Lynn in 1639, and the same mentioned in his will copied under date 1640. Daniel married Ruth Chadwell, 24 Feb. 1659, and had children, Daniel, born in 1665; Judith, b. 1667; Ezekiel, b. 1670; Mary, b. 1672; Elizabeth, b. 1675; Edmund, b. 1677; Daniel and Ruth, twins, b. 1680. And Ezekiel's children were, Edmund, born in 1670; a child born in 1673, who died in infancy ; Sarah, b. 1674; Ezekiel, b. 1676, who survived but a short time ; Ezekiel again, b. 1677; Daniel, b. 1680; Ralph, b. 1682. I do not see how the error of placing Daniel's marriage in 1673, oc- curred.]
THOMAS NORWOOD - married Mary Brown, 24 Aug. 1685, and had six children; Francis, Ebenezer, Mary, Thomas, Mary, and Jonathan.
GEORGE OAKS - had five children, by his wife Janet ; John, born 31 July, 1664, Mary, Richard, Sarah, Elizabeth, and George.
SAMUEL PENFIELD - married Mary Lewis, 30 Nov. 1675, and had two children, Samuel and Mary.
JOHN PERKINS - married Anna Hutchinson, 29 Aug. 1695, and had five children; Anna, John, Elizabeth, Mary, and Wil- liam.
JOHN PERSON - had Eleven children ; James, born 28 Nov. 1680, Tabitha, John, Rebecca, Kendall, Susanna, Mary, Thomas, Ebenezer, Sarah, and Abigail.
JOHN PHILLIPS - had two children ; John, born 3 Dec. 1689; Hannah, b. 6 June, 1694. He lived at Swampscot, and his wife's name was Hannah. He died 29 Sept. 1694.
WILLIAM ROBINSON - had three sons; William, born 7 Oct. 1683; Aquila; John.
HENRY SILSBE - had three sons; Jonathan married Bethia
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Marsh, 1 Jan. 1673; Samuel married Mary Bistow, 4 July, 1676 ; Henry married Grace Eaton, 18 Nov. 1680.
HENRY STACEY - had five children; William, born 3 Jan. 1674; Henry, b. 1 April, 1677; Sarah, b. 3 Jan. 1678; Ebenezer, b. 4 Jan. 1680 ; John, b. 30 Oct. 1682.
[JOHN VINTON - settled in Lynn as early as 1648, and was in some way connected with the Iron Works. His wife's name was Ann, and his children were, Eleanor, born in May, 1648 ; John, b. 2 March, 1650; William, b. in April, 1652; Blaise, b. 22 April, 1654; Ann, b. 4 April, 1656; Elizabeth, b. in Jan. 1658; Sarah, b. 16 Sept. 1662. Eleanor married Isaac Rams- dell, of Lynn. John married Hannah Green, of Malden, and removed to that place. He was an iron worker, acquired a large property, and is now considered to be the progenitor of almost all who at the present time bear the surname in the country, including those eminent brothers, Rev. Dr. Alexander H. and Rev. Dr. Francis Vinton. One of the family, a number of years since, collected the names of more than a thousand of his descendants. Blaise served in the Indian war of 1675, and is supposed to have perished then. The Vinton family is, no doubt, of Huguenot origin.]
JOSHUA WAIT - married Elizabeth Mansfield, 10 Jan. 1675, and had two children, Moses and Mary.
ABRAHAM WELLMAN - whose wife's name was Elizabeth --- had a son born, 3 May, 1676.
DOMINGO WIGHT - a colored man, had three children ; Mary, born 31 Aug. 1675 ; Joseph, b. 23 May, 1678 ; Hannah, b. 5 Sept. 1679.
[Mr. Whiting, Mr. Cobbet, and four other ministers, send a letter to Cromwell, 31 December, in which they say, "since your honor hath so large a heart given you of the Lord as to desire you to build him a temple amidst the ruinous heaps of Ireland, we know not but we may attend this providence of the Lord, hoping that as we came by call of God to serve him here, so if the Lord's mind shall clearly appear to give us a sufficient call and encouragement to remove unto Ireland, to serve the Lord Jesus Christ there, we shall cheerfully and thankfully em- brace the same."]
1651.
Mr. Richard Leader, the agent for the Iron Works, was ar- 'raigned by the Court, on the seventh of May, for reproaching Governor Endicott, the Court, and the church at Lynn. In their first excitement, the Court fined him two hundred pounds, which was afterward reduced to fifty. [The offence would be more exactly stated by employing the words of the record : " This Courte . . doe finde that, contrary to the lawe of God
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and the lawes heere eastablished he hath threatened, and in a high degree reproached and slaundered the Courts, magistrates, and gouernment of this comon weale, and defamed the toune and church of Lynne, also afronted and reproached the counsta- ble in the execution of his office." He was likewise bound in the sum of 1001. for the payment of the fine, and for his good behavior " toward the government and people of this jurisdiccon whiles he remajnes in this collonje, till the next sessions of this Courte." And at the next general session, in October, 1651, the whole thing came to an end. It appeared that the obnox- ious words were " spoken in the midst of the sea, going hence to England."] After this, Mr. John Gifford appears as agent of the Iron Works. He married the widow Margaret Temple, and had a son Philip. [He probably came from the Braintree works. See deposition of Henry Leonard, page 207. And for some years he seems to have been in a sea of trouble, arising, most likely, from pecuniary embarrassment. He was subjected to long and troublesome litigation regarding a bond given while in England. In a petition to the Court, in 1684, he states that he " hath now been a prisoner upon execution fower yeares and seuen moneths," and without relief from the Court, will " inev- itably perish in prison for want of meet suppljes for his releife." So rigid were the old laws touching imprisonment for debt. It may have been suspected, however, that he had property fraud- ulently secreted, for he declares in his petition that it had not been shown that he had any estate concealed, by which he might relieve himself. The Court " having weighed the neces- sitous and perishing condition of the prisoner," ordered that under certain conditions, and unless the opposing parties came forward and performed what was required of them, he should be released in ten days.]
On taking the management of the Iron Works, Mr. Gifford raised the dam, which caused the water to overflow six acres of " plowland " belonging to Mr. Adam Hawkes. For this, on the 20th of June, an agreement was made, in which Mr. Hawkes was allowed £8 for damages.
On Sunday, the twentieth of July, three men of the Baptist persuasion, whose names were John Clarke, John Crandall, and Obadiah Holmes, came from Newport, and went to the house of William Witter, at Swampscot, where Mr. Clark preached, administered the sacrament, and rebaptized Mr. Witter. This being reported to the authorities, two constables went down to Swampscot to apprehend them as disturbers of the peace. They carried a warrant which had been granted by Hon. Robert Bridges. "By virtue hereof, you are required to go to the house of William Witter, and so to search from house to house for certain erroneous persons, being strangers, and them to
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apprehend, and in safe custody to keep, and tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock, to bring before me." Mr. Clark says, " while I was yet speaking, there comes into the house where we were, two constables, who with their clamorous tongues make an interruption, and more uncivilly disturbed us than the pursui- vants of the old English bishops were wont to do." In the afternoon, they were taken to Mr. Whiting's meeting, where they refused to uncover their heads. Mr. Bridges ordered a constable to take off their hats, when one of them attempted to speak, but was prevented.
At the close of the meeting, one of them made some remarks, " after which they were taken to the Anchor Tavern, and guarded ' through the night. In the morning, they were sent to Boston and imprisoned. On the thirty-first, the Court of Assistants sentenced Mr. Holmes to pay a fine of thirty pounds, Mr. Clark of twenty, and Mr. Crandall of five. The fines of Clark and Crandall were paid; but Mr. Holmes refused to pay his, or suffer it to be paid, and was retained in prison till September, when he was publicly whipped. When brought to the place of execu- tion, he requested liberty to speak to the people, but the presid- ing officer, one Flint, rightly named, refused, and ordered him to be stripped. His friends brought some wine, which they requested him to drink, but he declined it, lest the spectators should attribute his fortitude to drink. The whip was made of three cords, and the executioner spat three times in his own hands, that he might not fail to honor justice. In a manuscript left by Governor Joseph Jenks, it is written that " Mr. Holmes was whipped 30 stripes, and in such an unmerciful manner, that for many days, if not some weeks, he could not take rest, but as he lay upon his knees and elbows, not being able to suffer any part of the body to touch the bed." As the man began to lay on the stripes, Holmes said, " though my flesh should fail, yet my God will not fail." He then prayed, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." When he was released, two spectators, John Shaw and John Hasel, went up and took hold of his hand to sympathize with him, for which they were fined forty shillings each. Such is the bitterness of religious persecution. Dr. John Clark was one of the most respectable physicians in Rhode Island, and wrote a book entitled "Ill News from New Eng- land," with a full account of this persecution.
Mr. Witter was presented at the Salem court, on the twenty- seventh of November, for neglecting discourses and being re- baptized.
On the fourteenth of October, the Court made an order against " the intolerable excess and bravery " of dress. They ordered that no person whose estate did not exceed £200 should wear any great boots, gold or silver lace, or buttons, or silk
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hoods, ribbons or scarfs, under a penalty of ten shillings. [And the Court also passed the following: "Whereas it is observed there are many abuses and disorders by dancing in ordinaries, whether mixt or unmixt, vppon marriage of some persons, This Court doth order that henceforward there shall be no dancing vppon such occasion or at other times in ordinaries, vppon the pajne or penaltje of five shillings for every person that shall so daunce in ordinarjes."]
" In answer to the petition of George Indian of Lynn, This Court refers him to bring his action in some inferiour court, against any that ungenerously withold any land from him,"
The following description of Lynn is from "The Wonder Working Providence," a work published this year, by Mr. Ed- ward Johnson of Woburn :
Her scituation is neere to a River, whose strong freshet at breaking up of Winter, filleth all her Bankes, and with a furious Torrent ventes itself into the Sea. This Towne is furnished with Mineralls of divers kinds, especially Iron and Lead. The forme of it is almost square, onely it takes too large a run. into the Land-ward, (as most townes do.) It is filled with about one Hundred Houses for dwelling. There is also an Iron Mill in constant use, but as for Lead, they have tried but little yet. Their meeting house being on a Levell Land undefended from the cold North west wind, and therefore made with steps descending into the earth; their streets are straite and comly, yet but thin of Houses; the people mostly inclining to Husbandry, have built many Farmes Remote. There Cattell exceedingly multiplied. Goates, which were in great esteeme at their first comming, are now almost quite banished, and now Horse, kine, and Sheep are most in request with them.
In his remarks on manufactures, Mr. Johnson says :
All other trades have fallen into their ranks and places, to their great ad- vantage, especially Coopers and Shoemakers, who had either of them a corporation granted, inriching themselves very much. As for Tanners and Shoemakers it being naturalized into their occupations to have a higher reach in managing these manifactures then other men in New England are, having not changed their nature in this, between them both they have kept men to their stand hitherto, almost doubling the price of their commodities, according to the rate they were sold for in England, and yet the plenty of Leather is beyond what they had there, counting the number of the people, but the transportation of Boots and Shoes into forraign parts hath vented ally how- ever.
The manufacture of shoes had not, at this time, become a principal business at Lynn. A few persons practised the em- ployment regularly ; but they traded with merchants at Boston, and did not export for themselves. The shoes which they made were principally of calf skin, for morocco had not been intro- duced. Cloth was worn only by the most wealthy ; and if a lady in the more common ranks of life obtained a pair of stuff shoes, to grace the nuptial ceremony, they were afterward laid aside, and carefully preserved through life, as something too delicate for ordinary use.
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1652.
Wenepoykin, the Lynn Sagamore, on the first of April, mort- gaged "all that Tract or Neck of Land commonly called Nahant," to Nicholas Davison of Charlestown, "for twenty pounds ster- ling dew many yeer." The deed was signed with his mark, which has somewhat the form of a capital H in writing.
[John Hathorne having succeeded Joseph Armitage "in the ordinary at Lin, and so standing bound to perform his engage- ment in respect of what he was to pay for drawinge of wine, desiring a remittment of what is due for the last halfe yeare past, received this answer: that he should only pay after the rate of fifty shillings per butt for what he hath drawne to this time." This appears to have been the same John Hathorne who was proceeded against, about this time, for forgery, and confessed himself guilty. Having petitioned, in May, 1653, for remission or mitigation of the penalty, the General Court ordered that in lieu of the prescribed punishment he should " pay double dama- ges, which is twenty pounds, to the party wronged and ten pounds to the common wealth, to be forthwith levied; and to be disfranchised. If he doth not submitt to the sentence, then the law that pvides against fforgery is to take place in euery particular."]
At the Quarterly Court, on the 29th of June, the following presentments were made. "We present Ester, the wife of Jo- seph Jynkes, Junior, ffor wearing silver lace ; " and " Robert Burges for bad corne grinding." Other persons were presented for wearing great boots and silk hoods.
Mr. Gifford this year increased the height of the dam at the Iron Works, by which ten acres of Mr. Hawkes's land were overflowed; for which he agreed to give sixteen loads of hay yearly, and 200 cords of wood. Afterward he agreed to give him £7, " which ends all, except that 10s. is to be given him yearly." By this agreement the water was to be so kept " that it may not ascend the top of the upper floodgates in the pond higher than within a foot and a halfe of the top of the great Rock that lies in the middle of the pond before the gates."
This year a mint was established at Boston, for coining silver. The pieces had the word Massachusetts, with a pine tree ,on one side, and the letters N. E. Anno 1652, and III. VI. or XII. denoting the number of pence, on the other. The dies for this coinage were made by Joseph Jenks, at the Iron Works.
[The coinage was continued for many years, the mint not having been closed till about 1686, according to. Mr. Felt, or before 1706, according to others. But the dies were not alter- ed, at least for some years; and perhaps the date never was, for reasons patent to our shrewd fathers. And hence a large T*
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portion of the pine-tree coins now in the cabinets of the curious, do not bear sure evidence of the precise date at which they were struck. It is certain that the date 1652 was retained as late as 1685. This coinage would, under most circumstances, have subjected those engaged in it to heavy punishment, for it in- fringed a prerogative usually guarded with the utmost jealousy by the sovereign. But it will be observed that it was com- menced during the Puritanical Interregnum, and affords addi- tional evidence that at that period almost perfect independence was assumed by the colonists. It is stated by Randolph, 1676, that Massachusetts established this mint, in 1652, to commemo- rate her independence ; and adds that the adjacent colonies were subject to her. Hugh Peters was a fast friend of Massachusetts ; and having much influence with Cromwell, it was probably in a great measure through his exertions that she came so near being declared an independent commonwealth. When Charles II. came to the throne he was greatly offended at the high-handed pro- ceedings. Sir Thomas Temple, who knew the necessities of the colonists, and was friendly to them, stated to the king that money was extremely scarce in New England, and during the civil wars but little could be obtained from the mother country. And he exhibited pieces of the pine-tree money. "What is that ?" asked the king, pointing to the pine-tree that adorned one side of the coin. "That," answered Temple, with more shrewdness than honesty, "is the royal oak that sheltered your majesty." This well-timed insinuation regarding the loyalty of the colonists so pleased the monarch that he gleefully exclaimed, "Honest dogs !" and let the matter pass for the time. Events that took place soon after, however, indicated that he had reached a temper to use the noun without the adjective.
[The pine-tree shilling, as assayed at the United States mint proved to be 926-1000 fine, and to weigh almost exactly sixty- six grains ; its value, therefore, would be just about seventeen cents of our present money.
[A comet appeared in Orion, 9 December, and remained an object of wonder for about a fortnight, or ."till Mr. Cotton died."
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On the 17th of March, the boundary line between Lynn and Reading was established.
Samuel Bennet, carpenter, sold his corn mill to Thomas Wheeler, 1 April, for £220.
This year, Mr. Thomas Savage, of Boston, attached the Iron Works, at Lynn, for the amount owed to him and Henry Webb.
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On the 14th of September, a special court convened at Boston, for the trial. Mr. Savage obtained for himself £894 2s. and for Henry Webb, £1351 6s. 9d. The total account of Mr. John Gifford, agent for the Company, was £16,284 7s. 4d.
[The Court ordered, 18 May, that Lynn be allowed ten pounds per annum, "so long as the Iron Works shall be continued," with a qualification relating to a former grant.]
1654.
The selectmen of Boston agreed with Mr. Joseph Jenks "for an Ingine to carry water in case of fire." This was the first fire engine made in America.
In August, the Court fixed the prices of grain; Indian corn at 3s., rye and peas at 4s., and wheat and barley at 5s. a bushel.
At a town meeting, on the 28th of December, a grant was made to Edmund Farrington, allowing him the privilege to build a grist-mill, in Water Hill street, on condition that grain should be seasonably and faithfully ground; otherwise the privilege was to revert to the town. [Mr. Lewis makes a mistake in locating this privilege at Water Hill. The grant was for a tide mill, which of course could not have been where he states. It was where Chase's mill was afterward built, at the point where Summer street crosses the stream, a little above Needham's Landing. Mr. John Raddin now (1864) owns the mill there.
[Mr. Whiting and Mr. Cobbet, " elders of Lyn," were appoint- ed overseers of Harvard College.]
1655.
This year Edmund Farrington built his mill on Water Hill. A pond was dug by hand, and the water brought from the old brook, by a little canal about half a mile in length. This mill was for many years the property of Benjamin Phillips, and in 1836 was purchased by Henry A. Breed, who dug out a new pond of more than an acre, for a reservoir. [Nehemiah Berry purchased the property a number of years since, and continues the mill in successful operation. It long ago, however, ceased to be a mere grist-mill. But Mr. Farrington did not build his mill here. His was a tide mill, and stood where Chase's was afterward built. See under date 1654. See also page 128.]
Mr. John Gifford, agent of the Iron Company, having been imprisoned on account of the pecuniary affairs of that establish- ment, a petition was sent from London to the General Court, for his release. It was dated on the 27th of February and signed by John Becx, William Greenhill, Thomas Foley, and Phebe Frost.
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