History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. III, Part 111

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co
Number of Pages: 1278

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" When we chose you to represent us in ye General Asseuibly we did it esteeming you e staunch and firui friend to our civil und religious lib- erties.

" We have no reason to alter our sentiments concerning you in this regard. Yet that your own opinion and sentiments may be confirmed by having those of your constituents, we now, sir, instruct you to exert yourself to the utmost in order to obtain n redress of our present grievances, and a confirmation of those rights and privileges, which to enjoy withont molestation ioduced our forefathers to emigrate from their native land and plant that in which we now dwell,

" We trust, sir, we shall always find yon in the number of those mem- bers of the General Court who, while they feel and express the warm- est loyalty to their Sovereign, steadily and Brmly maintain ye rights of their constituents.

" As we cannot but think that the prevailing iniquities of pur taod have induced a righteous God to permit men of violence thus to bulasB 00, 80, sir, we instruct you to use your utmost influence in the General Assembly thut some effectnal measures may be taken in order to carry yo good and wholesome laws of this province for yo suppression of in. morality into more full and complete execution ; and also that a day uť humiliation may be observed through the province on account of his favore upon us in these regards, and deprecate his displeasure and ssk bis divioe interposition in favor of our anking laod.

" JOHN DEATER, per order."

" Having taken into serious consideration ye state of ye rights nf ye colonists of this province in particular, as men, as Christiaos and as British subjects ; and also the list of these infringements and injurions violation of these rights transmitted to us from the vigileot and patri- otic inhabitants of ye towo of Boston, by their committee of correspond- eace,

" Resolved, As far as we are capable of Judging that ye said rights and also ye list of infringements and violations of the rights are exhibited in a just point of light, and, therefore, with hearts deeply penetrated by the cruel oppressions aod indignities with which we are treated by our elder brethren at home, and with ye shuddering prospects before us, 10-

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The report and instructions were unanimously adopted, and the meeting adjourned to the 21st of the same month. At the adjourned meeting the follow- ing letter was adopted, and it was voted that the clerk should send a copy of the same to the Boston Com- mittee of Correspondence:

" To the respectable inbabitnats of the town of Boston : It is with the utmost satisfaction and pleasure that we have, from time to time, ob- served your solicitous care and prudent endeavors to suppress all ap- pearances of tyranny and oppression, and to maintain the past rights atul privileges of a distressed people. Aad particularly of Jate that you have not been intimidated by ye alarming reports that have reached our ears ; but He our fears and distresses increase your zeal and resolution a broad.

" We give yen eur hearty aad sincere thanks for all the salutary measures you have adopted for the common safety. And we heartily wish and desire that every towa in this Province and thro' the land may have such a sense of danger aad of duty as readily to lead a help- ing hand in this time of need. By the papers transmitted to you here- with you will find that a committee has been chosen by this town to correspond with yours on matters of publick .concernment. We trust you will always find them and us ready to receive nay intimation of this nature from you and to join in such measures as may be thought best. Aud mmy the great overruler and disposer of all events so direct and succeed your wise endeavors as that ye yoke of tyranny may be entirely broken and New England's yet invaluable privileges inviolate to the latest generattons.

" May all vice and immorality be suppressed and piety aud virtne reign triumphant. And may you in particular, the respectable iahabit- ants of Boston, thro' the propitions smiles of heaven see the happy fruits of your unwearied diligence in the cause of liberty. May you al- waym be deemed among the early projectors and constant pursuers of those legal and constitutional methods which may establish our charter rights on n basis durable as the foundations of the earth ; and may pos- terity, yet uubora, rise up and call you blessed."

Another meeting was hekl on the 13th of Decem- ber, 1773, at which Captain John Dexter was chosen moderator, and Captain John Dexter, Mr. Ezra Sar- geant, Captain Eben Harnden, Dr. Jonathan Porter, Mr. Thomas Hills, Mr. Ezekiel Jenkins, Mr. James Kettell, En-ign Benjamin Blaney and Captain N. Hatch, were chosen a committee to report on certain papers received from the town of Boston relating to the importation and landing of the article of tea. The committee reported at the same meeting a pre- amble and four resolutions sustaining the inhabitants of Boston in their action.

On the 25th of August, 1774, at a meeting called to consider the affairs of the Province, Ezra Sargent was chosen moderator, and, among other things, it was voted " that the Committee of Correspondence for this town, viz .: Captain John Dexter, Mr. James Kettell, Mr. Thomas Hills, Mr. Samnel Sprague and Captain Ebenezer Harnden, or any three of them, shall attend a general meeting of the committees of the several towns in this county, to be convened at Concord the thirteenth inst., to consult and determine what is ex- pedient to be, done at this very critical juncture of affairs; and that the said Committee of Correspond- enee shall, from time to time, as there may be occa- sion, consult and advise with the committees of any other towns in this County or Province on the affairs of our publie grievances."

The resolves passed at the meeting in Concord were presented to the town at a meeting held on the

9th of September, 1774, and were unanimously ap- proved. At a meeting held on the 20th of September it was voted that Captain Ebenezer Harnden and Captain John Dexter be appointed delegates to at- tend a Provincial Congress to be held at Concord the second Tuesday in October. It was also voted that a committee, consisting of Captain John Dexter, Cap- tain Eben Harnden, Deacon Joseph Perkins, Mr. Ezra Sargeant, Mr. John Green, Jr., Mr. John Wait, Mr. David Sargeant, Captain Benj. Blaney, Mr. Joseph Howard, Mr. John Bucknam, Mr. Ezekiel Jenkins and Lieut. Amos Upham, be appointed "to hear and consider any matters of controversy that may arise in this town between man and man, between party and party, and use their wise and prudent endeavors for an amicable and pacific accommodation of such dif- ferenees ; and if possible promote that love, peace and friendship which will so much strengthen the common cause as well as prevent unnecessary and expensive law-suits, and that the town will support said committee in their determination so far as they shall appear to be just, and in such manner as shall be thought proper."

At the same meeting it was voted that Capt. Ebenezer Harnden be the representative of the town in the General Court, and on the 28th a letter of in- struetions to the representative was adopted. Again, on the 27th of May, 1776, instructions to Ezra Sar- geant, then representative, were adopted by the in- habitants of the town, and their instructions, here given in full, will elose the record of the preliminary steps taken by the town in approaching the War of Revolution :

" To Mr. Ezra Sargeant :

"Si :- A Resolution of the late Honorable House of Represen- tatives, calling upoa the several towns in this Colony to express their minde with respect to the important question of American Independence is the occasion of our now instructing you.

" The time was, sir, when we loved the King and the people of Great Britain with an affection truly filial ; we felt ourselves interested in their glory, we shared in their joys and sorrows, we cheerfully poured the fruit of all our labors into the lap of our Mother Country, and with- out reluctance expended our blood and our treasure in their cause.

" These were our sentiments towards Great Britnia ; while she con- tinned to art the part of a parent state we felt ourselves happy in our connection with her, nor wisbed it to be dissolved. But our sentiments are altered ; it is now the ardent wish of ourselves that America may become Free and Independent States. A sense of unpro- woked injuries will arouse the resentment of the most peaceful. Such injuries these Colonies have received from Britain. Unjustifiable claims have been made by the King and his minions to tax us without our consent. These claims have been prosecuted in a manner cruel and unjust to the highest degree ; the frantic policy of Administration hath induced them to sund Fleets and Armies to America that by depriving us of our trade and cutting the thronts of our brethren they might aws us iuto submission and erect a system of despotism which should so far en- large the influence of the Crown as to enable it to rivet their shackles upon the people of Great Britain. This was brought te a crisis upon the memorable nineteenth of April. We remember the fatal day-the expiring groans of our murdered countrymen yet vibrate in our ears ! ! We now behold the flutes of their peaceful dwellings ascending to Heaven ; we hear their blood crying to us from the ground, vengeance, and charging us, as we value the peace of their unmes, to huve no further connection with a King who can unfeelingly hear of the slaughter of his subjecta und composedly sleep with their bleed upon his soul. The manaer la which the war has been prosecuted has confirmed us in their

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sentiments; Piracy and murder, robbery nod breach of faith have beeo conspicuons in the conduct of the King's Troops, defenseless towne have been attacked and destroyed-the ruins of Charlestowo, which are daily in our view, daily remind ne of this. The cries of the widow and the orphan demand our attention; they demand that the hand of duty should wipe the tears from their eyes and that the sword of their country should avenge their wronge. We long entertained hopes that the spirit of the British Nation would once more induce them to assert their own and our rights and bring to condigo pnoishment the elevated villains who have trampled upon the sacred rights of mau and affronted the majesty of the people,

" We heped in vain. They have lost their Jove to freedom ; they have lost the spirit of just resentioent. We therefore renewoce with disdain our connection with a kingdom of alavee; we bid a final adien to Britain. Could an accommodation be now affected we have reason to think that it would be fatal to the liberties of America-we should econ catch the contagion of venality and dissipation which has subjected Britain to lawless domination. Were we placed in the eitnation we were in the year 1773; were the powers of appointing to office and com- manding the militia in the hands of Governors, our arts, tradesand man- ufactures would be cramped ; nay, more than thie, the life of every man who has been active in the cause of his country would be endangered For these reasone, as well as many others which might be produced, we are confirmed in the opinion that the present age will be deficient in their duty to God, their posterity and themselves, if they do not eatab- lish an American Republic. This is the osly form of Government which we wish to eee established, for we can never willingly be subject to nny other King than He who, heing possessed of infinite wisdom, goodness and rectitude, is alone fit to possess unlimited power.

" We have freely spoken our eentimeots upon this important subject ; but we mean not to dictate-we have unbounded confidence in the wis- dom and uprightoess of the Continental Congress; with pleasure we remember that the affair is under their direction ; and we now instruct you, Sir, to give theos the strongest assurance that if they should declare America to be a Free and Independent Republic, your constituente will support and defend the pleasure to the last drop of their bloed and the last farthing of their treasure."

Nor was the spirit displayed in this communication a spirit of boasting, which was destined to fail when put to the test. In the repeated calls for men to recruit the armies of the war, Malden performed its full share. The list of soldiers furnished is not a long one, but it must be remembered that at that time the popula- tion of the town was only nine hundred and eighty- threc, of whom forty-eight were negroes and fonr hundred and sixteen nuder sixteen years of age. According to Mr. Corey, in 1767 there were seven work-houses or shops in the town, with a trading stock of two hundred and forty-four pounds. The people had at interest eleven hundred and sixty-nine pounds six shillings and eight pence, and the live-stock of the farmers consisted of eighty-fonr horses, one hun- dred oxen and four hundred and eighty-six cows, be- sides sheep and a few swine. The products of the land were fifty-eight hundred and thirty-nine bushels of grain and six hundred and fifty- two barrels of cider with one thousand and fifty-two tons of hay, of which eight hundred and sixteen tons were salt hay. With these slender resources the people went into the war with a determination and spirit of self-sacrifice in which no town excelled, if there were many that equaled it.

The following list of soldiers of the Revolution is as complete as can be made out from the rolls in the office of Secretary of State :

Enlisted in Capt. Russell's company of Col. Jonathan Brewer'e regi- ment for duty on Prospect Hill, Charlestowo, 1775 : Gideon Williame.

Enlisted in Ephraim Corey'a company, Col. Prescott'a regimeot, 1775 ; Stephen Sweetser.

Enlisted in Capt. Abner Cranson's company for duty on Prospect IJill, 1775 : Jonathan Mower.

Enlisted in Capt. Wood's company, Col. Jonathan Ward's regiment, 1776 : Nehemiah Newell.

Enlisted in Capt. Nailer Hatch'e company, 37th Regiment nf Conti- Dental Army under Lieut .- Col. Wm. Bond, 1775 : Nailer Hatch, capt. ; Nathan Eaton, lieut. ; Elijah Caewell, sgt. ; Baroahas Newhall, sgt. ; Unite Cox, sgt. ; C'has. Hill, corp. ; Amos Sergeant, Dan. Knower, Eben. Eaten, Eben. Barne, Floyd Pratt, Geo. Barrington, John Grover, Joshua Caswell, Josiah Pain, James Pain, Joseph Baldwin, Joshua Gill, Joel Whitmore, John Graham, John Sprague, James Nichole, Joseph Hollo- way, John Hatch, Nathan Bucknam, Nathan Burditt, Obadiah Jenkins, Prince Hill, Phinehae Sergeant, Robert Burditt, Stephen Pain, Solomon Sergeant, Samuel Holloway, Samuel Bishop, Samnel Burditt, Samuel Grover, Solomon Dow, Silas Sergeant, Thomae Wheeler, William Sprague.

Enlisted in Wm. Perkins' company of artillery Col. Richard Gridley'e regiment, 1775 : Eliakim Caswell.

Marched to Watertown April 19, 1775, Benjamin Blaney, capt .: Na- than Lyadee.

Sent to Point Shirley under Capt. Benjamin Blaney in 1776.

Enlisted in Capt. Stephen Dana'e company, Col. McIntosh'e regiment 1776, for one month : Nehemiah Oaks, John Sergeant, fifer ; Jacob Ser- geant, Samuel Waitt, John Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins, NathI. Floyd, Benjamin Bill, Samuel Oliver, Nathan Hille, John Paine, Joseph Bald- win, Charles Hills,

Enlisted in the Continental Army for three years, 1777: Samuel Barns, Andrew Bennett, Samuel Bishop, Samnel Berry, John Blackford, John Boyd, John Burnam, Win. Buckuam, John Blanchard, Jodes Bucknam, Robert Bushley.

Enlisted in Capt. Benjamin Edgell'e company, Col.John Jacebe' regi- ment, 1778 : Samuel Grover, Jeha Grover.

OTHER ENLISTMENTA.

1780, Joseph Shaker . . . 3 yeare

1780, William Watte . . . 3 years 1780, Thomas Battom. . . 3 years

1780, Daniel Green . . . . 3 yeare 1780, Joel Whitteniors . . 3 years 1780, John Low . . . . . 3 years 1780, Daniel Raokin . . . 3 years 1780, Edward Pierce . . . 3 years 1780, Jonathan Knower . 3 years 1780, James Salluck . . . 3 years 1779, Joshua Geary . . . 3 years 1779, Pomp Magus . . . . 3 years 1779, Samuel Hazelton . . 3 years 1779, James Barrett . . . 3 years

1781, Thomas Wheeler . 3 years 1781, Phillip Pratt . . .. 3 years 1781, Enoch Jenkins . . . 7 years 1781, Obadiah Jenkine . . 3 years 1781, Sam'I Barns, Capt . 3 years 1781, And. Bennett, Corp . 3 years 1780, Edward Pratt . . . . 6 1108 1780, Sam'l Hazelton . . . G mos 1780, Benj. Hilla . . . 6 niee

1780, James Barrett . . . 6 mos 1780, Wm. Buntnall . . . . 6 mio8

1780, John Christie . . 6 mo8 1780, Thomas Wheeler . . 6 mos 1780, James Johnson . 6 mos

1780, Peter Barber . 6 mos

1780, John Bailey . 6 mos

1777, John Boyd 9 m109

1779, Joshua Geary . 9 mos

1779, Benj. Wait . 9 0100

1778, Daniel Rankin . 6 mins

1782, Robert Morrison . . 3 years 1782, Timothy Carder . . 3 years

1782, Samuel Hazelton . . 6 mos 1782, David Watt . . . . . 6 moe 1782, Asa Witt . . . 6 mes

1782, Aaron Brigham . . . 6 0108

1782, Ebenezer Watson . . 6 mos

1782, James Barrett . . . . 6 moa

1782, Benjamin Hilts . . . 6 mos

1782, William Wrentnell . 6 m06

1780, Anthony Hoskies . . 3 mua 1780, John Taylor . . . . . 6 mos 1780, Jerry Lovering . . . 6 nos 1780, John Bailey . . . . . 6 moa

Benjamin Blaoey, Captain,

Nathan Lyode, Lientenant, William Wait, Lieutenant,

Amos Sheets, Sergeant,

Amos lloward, Sergeant, Nehemiah Oake, Sergeant, Jabez Lymle, Sergeant, Bernard Green, Corporal,

Micah Walt, Corporal,

Jacob Parker, Corporal, John Venter, Corporal,

W. Sergeant, Drummer. Samuel Green, Fifer.

PRIVATES.

Timothy Tufta,

Ebenezer Wait,

Thomas Wait,

Joseph Lynde,

Daniel Chadwick,

Edward Jenkins,

Ebenezer Pain,

John Nichols, Jr.,

Joseph Pratt, John Sprague,

Thomas Sargent,

Jacob Sargent,

Joseph Burditt,

Aaron Bucknam,

John Dexter,

Richard Dexter,

Jacob Pratt,

John Howard,

Charles Hill,

Ebenezer Shute,

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Francia Phillips,

John Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins,

John Tufta, Ezra Howard,

John Gould,

Stephen Pain, Jr.,

Benjamin Lynde, Benoni Vinton, William Sprague, Philemon Monroe,

Benjamin Buck nam,

David Sargent, Samuel Baldwin, Levi Joseph Perkins,

Jamey Wade. Robert Oliver, Jonathan Gardner, William Upham, Edward Newhall,

John Manser, John Ramsdell,

Phineas Sprague, Era Hatch.

Among the men who have been specially mentioned as conspicuous in service during the war, were Capt. Benjamin Blaney, Capt. John Dexter, Capt. Naler Hatch, Sergeant Bernard Green, Corporal Timothy Tufts, Pomp Magus, (a negro), Capt. Daniel Waters, Capt. Jonathan Oakes, Dr. John Sprague and Dr. Ezra Green ; the last four performing their chief ser- vice on the sea. Capt. Waters distinguished himself while in command of the armed ship "Thorn,"carrying eighteen guns and one hundred and twenty men, by the capture of the English brigs "Tryon " and " Erskine," carrying thirty-four guns and one hundred and sev- enty-one men. Capt. Oakes commanded at various times the Brigantine "Hawke" and the ship "Favorite," in which he made successful cruises. Dr. Sprague, in the military service in the early part of the war, was afterwards in the schooner " Active" and surgeon on board the State sloop " Winthrop," in which he re- mained until the close of the Revolution. Dr. Green, also first in the military service, afterwards became surgeon of the "Ranger," commanded by Paul Jones, and later of the ship "Alexander." But it is making an invidious distinction to mention even their names while there were so many others equally patriotic, and if not performing, yet ready to perform as brilliant service.

In the troubles with the French at the close of the last century and in the War of 1812 Malden took little part and suffered few burdens. Nor was the embargo a matter of special interest to its people. While the people in the sea-ports encountered embar- rassments and losses, those only a little removed from the coast saw only the clouds without feeling the storm. Malden from the date of these events led a peaceful life, gradually increasing its population and business, and, as the neighboring city of Boston began to overflow its borders, felt the wave of prosperity and wealth flowing towards the town,

On the 23d of May, 1849, the two hundredth anni- versary of the incorporation of the town was celebra- tul. An oration was delivered by James D. Green, and a poem by Gilbert Haven, Jr. A procession was formed under the marshalship of Augustus L. Barrett, assisted by Aaron Barrett, Charles Eastham, J. P. Lord and Francis Odiorne, and escorted by the Washington Light Infantry, of Boston, with the Boston Brigade Band, and marched to Bell Rock Pasture, where the ceremonies were liad. On the platform were seated, besides the Orator and Poet,

Gilbert Haven, the president of the day, John P. Bigelow, the mayor of Boston, Samuel T. Armstrong, Rev. Messrs. Streeter, Neal and Church, of Boston, Rev. Mr. Hague, of Roxbury, Rev. Mr. Whittemore, of Cambridge, Rev. Messrs. Buddington and Ellis, George Washington Warren, Richard Frothingham, Rev. Dr. Ballou, Daniel P. King, Rev. Mr. Upham, Isaac Hill and Rev. Aaron Green. After the cere- monies the procession was again formed, and marched to the dining-pavilion, where accommoda- tions had been provided for two thousand persons. In the evening there was a display of fire-works, and the town was illuminated.

When the War of the Rebellion broke out, the people of Malden were ready to perform their part in the terrible emergency. On the 20th of April, 1861, at a citizens' meeting, it was resolved "that we be- lieve it to be the duty of every lover of his country and his race to assist in crushing out the rebellion and treason now existing in the Southern States " - "and that the Town of Malden, true to its ancient history, will furnish the men and the means to the ex- tent of her ability for this object and we recommend the immediate formation of a company of volunteer militia to aid in preserving the Government of the United States." A committee was chosen to raise funds and purchase uniforms, consisting of J. H. Ab- bott, George D. B. Blanchard, J. S. Rice, Paschal P. P. Ware, M. Crocker and Lorin L. Fuller. The sum of $2526.05 was raised by the committee. At a legal meeting of the town held on the Ist of May, 1861, it was voted that the selectmen, with a committee of seven, be authorized to expend a sum not exceeding $10,000 in aid of the families of volunteers. The committee consisted of Matthias Crocker, George D. B. Blanchard, Lorin L. Fuller, J. H. Abbott, Rich- ard Ward, G. L. Fall and George W. Wilson.

On the 15th of July it was voted by the town to pay a bounty of $100 to each volunteer mustered in before the 20th of August.

At the same meeting a recruiting committee was chosen, consisting of David L. Webster, Gilbert Haven, E. S. Converse, R. G. Hill, Caleb Wait, Henry Rams- dell, Henry W. Van Vorhees, Daniel Emmons, Mat- thias Crocker, John Shaekford, Hubbard Russell, Geo. P. Cox, Charles S. Maldt, Thomas Darling, John Turck, Matthew Fitzpatrick, James Cutter, James Cruickshanks, Lorin L. Fuller, J. H. Abbott, Hub- bard R. Lewis, Wm. 11. ITill, Joshua Webster, James McShane, A. H. Evans, C. Cronan, Wm. H. Cromack, Thomas M. Butnam, F. D. Hayward and Henry A. Wentworth.

On the 27th of August, 1862, it was voted to pay a bounty of $100 each to men enlisted for nine months.

Most of the men raised during the spring of 1861 enlisted in Company K, Seventeenth Regiment, for three years, and a few in Companies A, C, D, H and I of the same regiment.

In 1881 the population of Malden exceeded twelve

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thousand, and by an act passed March 31st, in that year, it was incorporated as a city and divided into six wards. The act of incorporation provided that the government should be vested in a mayor, a board of seven aldermen and a Commou Council of eigh- teen. The Board of Selectmen were required to divide the town into six wards, and it was provided that the election of city and ward officers should take place annually on the first Tuesday of December, and that the municipal year should begin on the first Monday of January, following. In 1887 the act was amended so that the city should be divided into seven wards, and that one alderman and three members of the Council should be chosen from each ward. The city officers for the first municipal year, 1882, were as follows :

Mayor. Elisha S. Converse.

Aldermen.

Ward 1. Tristram Griffin.

= 2. JobnM. Devir.

3. Joseph M. Russell.

4. George T. Coverly (Chn.)

5. Lorin L. Fuller.

6. Frank M. Clark.

Common Council.

Ward 1.

Charles F. Shute. John P. Russell. Wm. Perkins.

Word 2.

Wm. H. Murphy.

Wm. F. Hackett.

Michael McNamee.

Ward 3.

James Bartlett.

James C. Taylor. Edward O. Holmes.

Sinking Fund Commissioners.

Stillman K. Roberts.

Albert H. Davenport.

George W. Walker.

James H. Whitaker.

Ezra A. Stevens.

James Pierce.

Ward 5.

James Pierce, president. Charles Sprague. Frank F. Silliman.

Ward 6. Charles L. Davenport.

Daniel P. Wise.

Osceola A. Whitmore.

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History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. III, Part 111

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co Number of Pages: 1278

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co
Number of Pages: 1278