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He was born in the parish of Bishopstoke, England, in 1598, and came to Boston in the ship "Whale," Capt. Graves, master, arriving there May 24, 1632 .; He was made a freeman November 6, 1632. At that date he was probably living in Roxbury. He built a water-mill in that town as early as 1633.
The tax on his real estate in Roxbury and Saugus was re- duced by order of the General Court, March 4, 1633-4.5 The same day, the raising of a fund to be used in the con- struction of a movable fort, for the defence of the colony, was authorized, and Mr. Dummer contributed thirty pounds. ||
September 4, 1634, Richard Dummer, Nicholas Easton, and several other freemen, residing in different towns in the colony, " were chosen ouerseers of the powder & shott & all other amunicon in the seuall plantacons where they lyve." T
[March 4, 1634-5] Ordered that Mr Rich : Dumer & John Johnson shall builde a sufficient Cart bridge over Muddy Rivr before the nexte Gen'all Court & that Boston, Rocksbury, Dorchestr, Newe Towne & Waterton shall equally contribute to it .**
The same day that Newbury was allowed to be a planta- tion, May 6, 1635, a farm of five hundred acres was granted Mr. Dummer at the falls in Newbury; and, on the eighth
* Ante. p. 31.
t New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. xliv., pp. 249, 250.
# Winthrop's History (edition, 1853), vol. i., p. 138.
§ Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. i., p. 113. Il 1 bid., p. 114.
Ibid., p. 125. ** Ibid., p. 141.
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day of July following, Mr. Dummer and Mr. Bartholemewe were authorized "to sett out a convenient quantity of land within the bounds of Newbury, for the keeping of the sheepe and cattell that came over in the Dutch shipps this year." Liberty was also given "M' Dumer & M' Spencer to build a myll & a weire att the falls of Newberry." *
Richard Dummer was a member of the governor's council, or Court of Assistants, and attended the meetings that were held in June, July, August, September, and November of that year, and in March, April, June, September, and Decem- ber, 1636.
[May 25, 1636] Mr Dumer is chosen Treasurer for this yeare next ensueing & till a newe be chosen.t
He served as treasurer of the colony until May 17, 1637, when Richard Bellingham was elected to that office by the General Court, and "The late. Treasurer, M' Dumer, was ordered to receive all the last rates, of wch hee hath received part." #
[June 6, 1637] The account of the late Treasurer, Mr Richrd Duiner was accepted & apprved. there resting dew to Mr Dumer 235 2shs, hee not haveing alowed the 50% wch hee pmised.§
November 20, 1637, more than sixty followers of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson and Rev. John Wheelwright were con- demned for holding erroneous religious opinions, and were ordered to deliver up to officers appointed by the General Court " All such guns, pistols, swords, powder, shot & match as they shalbee owners of, or have in their custody."
The names of the Neweberry men to bee disarmed are Mr Dumer, Mr Eason, and Mr Spencer : [their guns, pistols &c] to bee delivered to the cunstable of the towne. !!
It was, ordered, that if any that are to be disarmed acknowledge their sinn in subscribing the seditious libell or do not justify it, but acknowledge it evill to two magistrates, they shalbee thereby freed from delivering in their arms according to the former order. ||
Soon after the adoption of these orders by the General Court, Richard Dummer and John Spencer went to England,
* Ante, pp. 33 and 38.
t Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. i., p. 175.
Il Ibid., p. 212.
# Ibid., p. 196.
§ Ibid., p. 204.
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and Nicholas Easton found it advisable to remove to Rhode Island, where he settled, and was afterwards elected governor of that colony.
Richard Dummer returned to New England in the ship " Bevis," Robert Batten, master, sailing from Southampton in the month of May, 1638. His brother Stephen and his brother's wife, Alice, with six children, were passengers in the same vessel .*
On the sixth day of August following, the selectmen of Newbury agreed "that in case M' [Richard] Dummer doe make his mill fitt to grynd corne, ... there shall not another mill be erected wthin the said Toune "; t and it was also agreed that the bounds and limits of the land previously granted him should be fixed and determined by a board of arbitrators.
[August 16, 1638] Itt was agreed that Mr Woodman shall goe into the bay the second day of the week to enforme the arbitrators chosen by the Towne & Mr Dumer to putt an end to the differences concerning the necke betweene Mr Dumer & the towne.# -
October 6, 1638, Mr. Dummer purchased a dwelling-house of Thomas Hale, with land on both sides of Merrimack ridge, where he lived for several years.§
May 22, 1639, the General Court passed the following vote : -
The 506 wch Mr Rich'd Dumer was to pay is remitted to Mr Ezechi : Rogers & his company [at Rowley].||
September 7, 1640, Thomas Mayhewe, of Watertown, sold Richard Dummer, of Newbury, a farm in Watertown, contain- ing five hundred acres, formerly owned by Simon Bradstreet. I Several years later, the title to this property was contested and brought to the attention of the General Court. *
* Ante, p. 38. The statement that Richard Dummer returned " bringing his wife and family " is incorrect. He brought Stephen Dummer, wife, and family with him. In the note at the bottom of p. 38, the age of Stephen Dummer should be thirty-nine, probably, instead of twenty- nine, and the age of Thomas Dummer, the last name in the list, should be two years instead of twenty-seven.
t Ante, pp. 38, 39. # Town of Newbury Records. § " Ould Newbury," p. 315.
|| Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. i., p. 256. Suffolk Deeds, vol. i., p. 13.
** The questions in dispute were evidently settled before the day appointed for the hearing arrived. October 24, 1659, the inhabitants of Watertown "voted, at a publike toune meeting, that the five hundred acres of land once the land of Mr Oldam, but now lajd to Mr Dumer, in
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Mr. Dummer contributed one hundred pounds to the fund raised, in 1640, to make up the loss that Gov. Winthrop had sustained by the appointment and subsequent mismanage- ment of an unfaithful bailiff. In 1644, Richard Dummer was appointed " one of the associate judges of the Ipswich Court " ; * and March 20, 1645-6, as agent for Mr. John Spencer, he sold to John Bond " the howse & howse lott of Mr John Spencer sittuate in Newbury with a planting lott of three acres & a half on great neck over the great River for & in consideration of fourteen pounds." ¡ Thirty years later, he became involved in a lawsuit with the town of Newbury in regard to the bounds and limits of a portion of the land that he claimed to own in the vicinity of Newbury Falls. The details of the con- troversy are unknown ; but Mr. Dummer was evidently annoyed by threats of prosecution, and sent the following communica- tion to the selectmen :
Sept. 15, 1675 To the prudentiall men of Newbury.
I do by this writing signify to you that you shall not need to sue for any of that Land I have fenced at Rowley Mill that is in question or difference. I shall for peace sake rather yeild it to the Towne and use some other means to recover my right which is about twenty acres more than is fenced in RICHARD DUMER Sen't
Two years later, John Knight, sr., and Tristram Coffin were appointed a committee to attend the court at Ipswich, and defend the town of Newbury against the suit brought by Mr. Dummer.t
[March 12, 1677-8] Nicholas Noyes, Richard Knight & Tristram Coffin were chosen to go to Mr Dumer to treat with him about the Difference between the Towne and hee, and to make him a tender of the land and of the court charges.t
The committee reported April 10, 1678, that the claim had been settled, "he [Mr. Dummer] having recovered judgment at the Ipswich Court in September last for twenty five acres of land." +
the bounds of Watertoune, do remajne his, the sajd Mr Dumers, wthout any of the tounes opposi- tion. Wittnessed by me in ye name of the toune. EPHRAIM CHILD."
"The Court accepts of this returne of the toune of Watertoune as that wch putts an end to ye controursy mentioned in this petition, and confirmes the land accordingly to Mr Richard Dumer." (Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv., part i., p. 408.)
· Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. ii., p. 65. t Town of Newbury Records.
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Richard Dummer had one son, Shubael, born February 17, 1635-6, by his first wife Mary. Mrs. Dummer died soon after that date,* and by his second wife, Frances, widow of Rev. Jonathan Burr, of Dorchester, whom he married in 1644, he had three sons, Jeremiah, Richard, and William, and one daughter, Hannah. He died December 14, 1679, and was buried in the graveyard near the "trayneing green " in New- bury. A low moss-covered stone, bearing the following in- scription, marks his last resting-place : -
RICHARD DUMER, ESQ. DIED DECEMBER YE 14TH 1679, IN HIS 88 YEAR
Near it, another stone is inscribed as follows :
MRS FRANCES DUMER DIED IN THE 70TH YEAR OF HER AGE BEING THE 19TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1682.
Stephen Dummer was made a freeman May 22, 1639, and returned to England previous to 1648. In a letter dated May 10, 1648, he wrote to Henry Short, of Newbury, " If you can sell my farme at the Birchen Meadows do for what it is worth." + March 5, 1650, Henry Short sold the farm of three hundred acres, more or less, for twenty-one pounds to Thomas Browne and George Little.
Laid out to Thomas Brown & George Little in the behalfe of Mr Stephen Dumer two hundred and forty acres of upland at Turkey Hill joyning to Mr Stephen Dumers meadow called by the name of Birchen Meadow &c t
[May 30, 1650] In answr to the peticon of Henry Short, of New- bury, the Court doth order that the peticoner shall have liberty, and is
* Rev. John Eliot's record of church members in Roxbury has the following notice of Mary Dummer, wife of Richard Dummer : " she was a Godly woman but by the seduction of some of her acquaintances she was led away into the new opinions in Mrs. Hutchinsons time & her hus- band removing to Newbury she there openly declaired herselfe & did also (together with others endeavours) seduce her husband & p'swaded him to return to Boston ; when she being young with child & ill; Mr. Clark (one of the same opinions) unskillfully gave her a vomit, wch did in such maner torture & torment her with the rising of the mothr & other vyolences of nature yt she dyed in a miost uncomfortable mauer. But we 'believe God tooke her away in mercy fro worse evil wch she was falling into & we doubt not but she is gone to heaven." (Lives of Isaac Heath, John Bowles, and Rev. John Eliot, by J. Wingate Thornton, p. 172.)
t Town of Newbury ( Proprietors) Records, vol. i , p. 18.
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hereby impowered, to sue any person for any rents or arrears dew to Mr Stephen Dommer, now in England, and vpon receipt thereof to acquitt and discharge the same .*
Jeremiah, son of Richard and Frances Dummer, was born September 14, 1645. He was apprenticed, when quite young, to John Hull, silversmith, in Boston. He died there, May 24, 1718, leaving two sons: Jeremiah, who graduated at Harvard college in 1699, and was afterwards agent of the province of Massachusetts Bay, in England; and William, born in Boston in 1677, and appointed deputy governor of the province in 1716.
William Dummer died October 10, 1761, and was buried in the Granary burying-ground on Tremont street, Boston.t The following obituary notice was published in a Boston newspaper, October 26, 1761 :-
Departed this life the Hon. William Dummer, Esq. in the 84th year of his age ; and on the 16th his funeral was attended with every mark of respect due to so eminent a person. Scarce any one ever passed through this life with a more unspotted character, or performed its various duties with more universal esteem. In the gayest scenes of youth he was preserved from destructive paths of vice : and, in maturer age, was a shining example of the most amiable virtues. In the begining of the reign of George I. he was appointed our Lieut. Governor. Upon the return of Col. Shute to Great Britain the chief command of the Province devolved upon him. In this station he appeared with distinguished taste.
The wise, incorrupt and successful administration of Mr Dummer will always be remembered with honor and considered as a pattern worthy of the imitation of all future Governors. Uninfluenced by party prejudices, superior to all mercenary attachments, he discovered no passion in his public character, but love to his country and fidelity to his Royal Master. Having filled the Chair with dignity and usefulness for several years : when a successor was appointed he retired to enjoy the unenvied satisfactions of a private life: with the approbation of a good conscience, and the applause of his country.
* Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv., part i., p. 10.
t For additional facts relating to the Dummer family see " Ould Newbury," pp. 313-325.
# New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. ix., pp. 174, 175.
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CART CREEK.
The farm of four hundred acres granted Dr. John Clarke by the town of Newbury, previous to 1647, was bounded in part by Cart creek, a small tributary of the river Parker .*
In 1651, the farm was sold to Richard Thorlay, who built, three years later, the first bridge over " the great river." t
Edmund Goodridge and John Noyes, jr., were granted liberty, June 22, 1708, to set up a saw-mill on Cart creek.#
February 28, 1807, John Noyes, Caleb Titcomb, Isaiah Rogers, Josiah Adams, Stephen Adams, John Longfellow, Simon Thurla, Enoch Little, and Simeon Titcomb, " proprie- tors of the greater part of a tract of salt marsh, situate on Cart-Creek, in Newbury," were incorporated by the General Court, and granted liberty " to erect and make a Dike, and Dam, of sufficient heighth and width, across said Cart-Creek, in or near the same place where a Dike or Dam, was formerly made, so far as a Dike, or Dam, may be found necessary ; and to erect and keep in repair, such a Fence, as the said proprietors may, at a legal meeting, agree to have, where a Fence may be found necessary." §
The persons named in the act of incorporation evidently hoped to convert the salt marsh in the neighborhood of Cart creek into pasture or tillage land by the erection of a dyke or dam to keep out the salt water. For some reason unknown the work was delayed for several years ; but, after mature de- liberation, a dam with a tide-water gate was constructed, and is still maintained.
* Ante, p. 67. t " Ould Newbury," p. 204. $ Ante, p. 261.
§ Special Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Acts of 1806, chap. c.
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FIRST PARISH MEETING-HOUSE.
The following notice was published in the Salem Gasette, May 29, 1806 : -
NEWBURYPORT, MAY 6.
" There is a time to build up, and a time to pull down."-SOLOMON.
On the last Sabbath a valedictory Sermon was delivered by the Rev. Mr. POPKIN, to a crowded assembly at the old-town Meeting House (Newbury) that society being about to pull down the house and erect a new one in the same place. This ancient fabric has stood One Hundred and Seven Years, probably the oldest meeting house in New England. This was the original society from which emanated all the others in Newbury and Newburyport, now ten in number. There have been six ministers settled over this society, previously to their present one, viz: -* Mr Noyes, Mr Woodbridge, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Toppan, Dr. Tucker and Mr Moore. Mr. Toppan and Dr. Tucker administered more than half a century .- The occasion excited the liveliest sensations in the breasts of those aged and venerable parishioners who have as- sembled here from their earliest childhood, for religious worship; and whose fathers before them enjoyed the same happy privilege in the same place from the first settlement of the country.t
* In the newspaper paragraph quoted above, the number of ministers is not correctly stated. The following-named persons were ordained pastors or assistant pastors of the First parish in Newbury from 1635 to 1806:
Rev. Thomas Parker was pastor from 1635 to the day of his death, April 24. 1677. Rev. James Noyes was assistant pastor from 1635 to the day of his death, October 22, 1656. Rev. John Woodbridge was assistant pastor from 1663 to 1672. Rev. John Richardson was assistant pastor from 1673 until 1677, and afterwards pastor until his death, April 27, 1696. Rev. Christopher Toppan was pastor from 1696 to 1747. Rev. John Tucker was assistant pastor from 1745 to 1747, , and pastor from that date until his death, March 22, 1792. Rev. Abraham Moor was pastor from 1796 until his death, June 24, 1801. Rev. John S. Popkin was installed pastor September 19, 1804.
t The first meeting-house in Newbury was probably erected in 1635, at or near "that parcell of land called the greene," in the vicinity of Parker river. The second was built in 1647 " upon a knowle of upland by Abraham Toppan's barne," two or three miles in a northerly direction from the first house of worship. Subsequently, meeting-houses were erected in 1661, in 1700, and in 1806, at or near the same site. The new house, to which reference is made in the newspaper para- graph quoted above, was destroyed by fire in 1868; and the land upon which it stood now forms a part of the First parish burying-ground. The present house of worship, erected on the opposite side of the street, was dedicated March 4, 1869.
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SECOND PARISH CHURCH.
In the Salem Gasctte, the following advertisement was pub- lished, June 3, 1803 :-
Mr Gardner's Address before the Massachusetts Charitable Fire So- ciety ; for sale
by CUSHING & APPLETON - also
Rev. Mr. Tomb's Fast Sermon, delivered in the second Church in New bury - Text, " Thou shalt not revile the gods nor curse the ruler of thy people."- The preacher in this sermon endeavours to show that this country is in danger of destruction from the spirit of reviling and invective against our rulers, which prevails .*
* Rev. Samuel Tomb was pastor of the Second church in Newbury from 1798 until 1805 (see ante, p. 361).
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VIII. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS.
The following items, taken from the records of the select- men of Newbury, relating to the care and management of schools, give some details not printed in chapter vii., pp. 395- 412, of this book : -
Nov. 30, 1723 paid Mr John Woodbridge for gramar skool £45.0.0
Dec. 1729 paid Mr James Chandler for the school 30.0.0
paid Mr John Rogers for the school . 15.6.0
1730 paid Mr. John Woodbridge 33.7.10
Ambrose Berry is credited with the pay- ment of . 28.4.7
" to Mr John Greenleaf ye 3d for school " John Carr is credited with the payment of " to Mr Ezekiel Hale for ye school "
34.5.4
1731 Ambrose Berry is credited with the pay- ment of .
28.8.9
"to Mr Stephen Sewall for the school which is the 3d parishs part of the money paid."
1732 paid Benjamin Davis for the use of his house for a schoole . 1.10.0
1733 "paid Mr Joshua Bayley for ye use of ye schools in ye second parish " . 21.0.0
1734 "paid Mr Nathaniel Morrill for keeping school " . 20.0.0
1735 paid Mr Moses Hale for keeping schoole . 1736 paid Mr. John Noyes ditto 10.0.0
20.0.0
Charles Chase, constable, is credited with the payment of
10.0.0
and Isaac Knight, constable, is credited with the payment of the same amount "to Mr. John Noyes for keeping ye grammer schoole "
1737 William Brown, constable, is credited with the payment of
20.0.0
" to Mr Beni Greenleaf for ye use of ye schoole "
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March 2, 1742-3 bills for repairing the school house were paid
Jan. 12, 1743-4 paid Mr Benja Toppan in full for keeping ye Town School .
£20.0.0
Feb. 15, 1743-4 paid Mr. Nathan Hale for keeping ye Town School in part
20.0.0
Feb. 1744-5 paid Mr. Enoch Bailey for keeping school 20.0.0 ditto ditto 10.0.0 March 10, 1745-6 paid Mr. Joshua Moody for keeping ye Town School . .
40.0.0
paid Mr. Enoch Baley in full for keeping Town Skool for the year 1744 .
20.0.0
March 1746-7 paid Mr. Joshua Moody for keeping school . Feb. 1, 1749-50 paid Mr. Joshua Moody for keeping school 1751 paid Mr Moses Hale for keeping the town school
20.0.0
40.0.0
1753 paid Mr. Joseph Parsons for ye Towne School .
20.0.0
11.13.4 paid Mr John Noyes ditto. 20.0.0
1754 paid Mr Joseph Parsons for keeping ye Town School .
paid Abel Merrill ditto . 13.6.8
1756 paid Micajah Sawyers order for a quarters schooling
12.10.0
1757 ditto ditto . 12.10.0
Feb. 24, 1757-8 By cash paid for Mr. Cushing ye school master 5.15.2
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WOODWELL'S SHIP-YARD.
1762-1853.
The ship-yard at the foot of Muzzey's lane, now Marlboro street, Newburyport, was probably first used for ship-building purposes in 1762. Early in the spring of that year Capt. Gideon Woodwell, who had served with credit in the ex- pedition to Crown Point in 1756, bought a small lot of land in Newbury from the estate of Robert Mitchell, with a dwelling-house and barn thereon, between the road or way, now Water street, Newburyport, and the Merrimack river .* He built there, previous to the close of the year 1773, a large number of fishing and coasting vessels.t
During the Revolutionary war, the yard was unoccupied. From 1783 to 1790, Capt. Woodwell, in company with his son John Woodwell and Mr. Enoch Hale, under the firm name of Woodwell & Hale,# built ten vessels there. After the death of Capt. Woodwell, August 24, 1790, the yard was again unoccupied for several years.
John Woodwell, with his sons John, David, and Gideon, § grandsons of Capt. Gideon Woodwell, re-established the busi- ness at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was con- tinued by the sons for thirty years after the death of their father in 1822. From the year 1800 to 1853, John Wood- well and sons built nearly one hundred vessels, varying in size from fifty to three hundred tons register.
* Essex Deeds, book cxiii., leaf 160.
t The statement printed on page 263 of the History of Newburyport by Mrs. E. Vale Smith, that Capt. Woodwell built fifty-two vessels, or more than five every year, from 1763 to 1773, is probably iocorrect.
# John Woodwell, son of Capt. Gideon Woodwell, was born in 1752. He died February 12, 1822. Enoch Hale, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Pettingell) Hale, was born December 10, 1757. He married Mary, daughter of Capt. Gideon Woodwell. He died November 10, 1825.
§ Gideon, son of John Woodwell, was born in Newbury December 15, 1790. He was a skilful and industrious mechanic. He drew the plans and made the models for most of the vessels built by the Woodwell brothers.
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MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.
The names printed in the following lists were copied from manuscript papers formerly in the possession of Robert Adams, of Newbury, who died August 2, 1855. They were published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July, 1896.
The names [ ] Soldiers under ye command of Capt Tho. Noyes.
Left Tristram Cofen
Ins Jacob taping
Aquilah Ches * Aquilah Annis
Sargt Browne
* ( ) Miller
Sargt Jnº Emery
Sargt Jno Webster
Benj poure
Sargt Joseph Littel
Benj Morce Snr
Joshuah Morce [Drummer]
Jno Stickney
Charls Annis
Benj Morce (? )
Cornelious Davis
Corprall Woodman
Calv( ) richardson
Benj Lowle
Cyprian Whiple
Daniell Merell
* Ephrim davis
Jno Ba( )t
Elisha tredwell
Abraham Merell, Ju
Daniell Ma[ ]way
* Abil Merell Sn
Daniell Chase
Abil Merell
Daniell Merell
Abial Long
Edward Woodman
Abill plisbury
Ephrim Davis
Augustan Stedman
Edward poure
Andrew Godfrey
* Elisha tredwell Edmong Grenlef
* Abraham Merell Jur Abil Huse
Edward Woodman Jur
Abiall Somarby
Gedeon Lowle
Andrew Stickny
* Mr Hugh March
Abraham Annis
Hannaniah Ordway
* These names were probably intended to be erased.
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* ) ( )opping
Benj Morce Jur
Benj Sanboune
Edmond Grenleaf
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* Henry Bradley Ha( ) Adams Hugh March Jur Harcules Woodman Hucker Osgood Mr Jno Sewall Jno Mitchell
Jno Davis
* Hercules Adams
* Jnº Sawyer Jno Worth James Ordway Snr James [ ] Jur Jnº ord[ ]
Upon the back of the original is the following indorse- ment :-
] training Day ye 26 day of F [ ] 1688 Abraham [ ] Corp1 Lowle, Sen. Corp1 Woodman, Sen. Se [ ] men att Jno Brownes hous t
Sar. Aquila Chase
] men that went to Amsbry John devis daniel osilow
peter Cofen
James ordway Benjamin Chese
timothy Mirrick
thomas wales Nathan Merril
Nathaniel Noyes
John Aiers Benjamin long
Aberham tappen
John Worth
Zacharia devis
Samuel bartlit
bat Molten +
A list of the names of the men put under the comand of Ser. James Jackman ye 1 5th of July 1 707 Thomas Noyes L. Coll.
Ser James Jackman
Nathaniell Rolfe John Haskins
William Salmon Hilkiah Boynton John Smith
Richard Pettingale Moses Cocker
Joseph Ilesley Jun
Jonathon Moores Anthony Somerby
Sanuel Hasletine
Cutting Pettingale John Noyes 3d
John Sewall
Jonathan Ilesley John Kingsbury Abraham Toppan
Tho Pettingale
Amos Pilsbury
James Wit [ ]+
* These names were probably intended to be erased.
t New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 1., pp. 338, 339. # Ibid., p. 341.
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