History of Newbury, Mass., 1635-1902, Part 52

Author: Currier, John J. (John James), 1834-1912. cn
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston : Damrell & Upham
Number of Pages: 1518


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REVOLUTIONARY WAR.


John Brown and Samuel Pilsbury were boatmen in the barge that conveyed Benedict Arnold to the sloop-of-war " Vulture" after the discovery of the plot to deliver West Point to the English forces .*


Mrs. Mercy Warren, in her History of the American Revo- lution, published in 1805, describes the incident as follows : -


Arnold took a barge and under a flag he passed Verplank's Point and soon found himself safe beneath the guns of the Vulture, sloop of war. Before he took leave of the bargemen he made them very gener- ous offers if they would act as dishonorably as he had done; he prom- ised them higher and better wages if they would desert their country and enlist in the service of Britain, but they spurned the offer and were permitted to return.t


* Ante, pp. 614-616.


t History of the American Revolution (Warren), vol. ii., p. 269.


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PHYSICIANS IN NEWBURY FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN IN 1635 TO THE INCORPORATION OF NEWBURYPORT IN 1764.


Dr. John Clarke probably came to Newbury in 1637. He was granted a farm of four hundred acres at the mouth of Cart creek January 23, 1637-8 .* At a town meeting held September 28, 1638, "It was granted that Mr Clarke in re- spect of his calling should be freed and exempted from all public rates either for the country or the towne so long as he shall remayne with us and exercise his calling among us." *


He was appointed June 6, 1639, associate magistrate of the county court at Ipswich, t and elected deputy from Newbury to the General Court held September 4, 1639. He served in the place of Edward Rawson at the session held September 27, 1642, and was again chosen to represent Newbury in the General Court beginning May 10, 1643.


Dr. Clarke probably removed to Ipswich in 1647, and soon after bought a dwelling-house and land in Boston. He sold his farm in Newbury to Matthew Chaffey, of Boston, who conveyed it the same day to Richard Thorlay, of Newbury.# Dr. Clarke died in Boston in the month of November, 1664.


* Ante, p. 67.


t Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. i., p. 261.


# Ante, p. 67. Dr. Clarke, soon after his removal to Boston, invented a stove "for the saving of firewood & warming of howses" His right to the control of the new invention was provided for by the following orders of the General Court: " [October 19, 1652] Itt is orderd by this Courte, that no person shall for the space of three years next ensuing, make vse of Mr John Clarks invention for saving of fire wood and warming of roomes with little cost and charges, by which meanes great benefitt is like to be to the countrie, especially to theise populous places ; and if any family or other person doe, by the consent and direction of the sajd Mr John Clarke, or wthout, improove or vse the sajd experiment, they shall pay tenn shillings to the sajd Mr Clarke, for which the sajd Mr. Clarke may sue or jmplead any person before any commissioner for the same, as the cawse shall require." (Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv., part i., p. 104.)


"[May 14, 1656] This Court having made an order in the eighth month, 1652, wherein Mr John Clarke was to haue tenn shillings of euery family that should make vse of his invention for saving of firewood & warming of howses, which sajd order was only for the terme of three yeares, wch is now expired vppon a mocon made to this Court in his behalfe, this Court judgeth it meete to confirme the sajd order for the terme of his life." (Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv., part i., p. 260.)


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Dr. William Snelling was the youngest son of Thomas Snelling of Chaddlewood, Devonshire, England. He married, July 5, 1648, Margaret (or, Margery), daughter of Giles Stagge, of Southwark .* His son William was born in New- bury, June 24, 1649. His daughter Anne was born in New- bury, March 5, 1651-2. She probably died young.


Doctor Snelling was fined by the county court at Salem, March 30, 1652, for indiscreet words spoken in jest .; He removed to Boston two years later, and there, probably, another daughter, Ann, was born, May 7, 1654. He pur- chased a dwelling-house, with a garden and orchard, in Boston, October 13, 1654.


Dr. Peter Toppan was a son of Abraham and Susanna (Goodale) Toppan. He was born in England in 1634, and came with his parents to Newbury in 1637. He married Jane, daughter of Mr. Christopher Batt, April 3, 1661, and died November 10, 1707. His son, Rev. Christopher Top- pan, was ordained pastor of the first church in Newbury, September 9, 1696 .¿


Dr. Henry Greenland was a physician in Newbury from 1662 to 1666. He sold his house and land, January 12, 1665-6, on the southwest corner of Ordway's lane, now Market street, and the way by the river, now Merrimack street, Newburyport, and probably removed to Portsmouth, N.H., soon after.§


Dr. John Dole was the son of Richard Dole, of New- bury. He was born August 10, 1648, and married Mary, daughter of Capt. William Gerrish, October 23, 1676. He occupied a dwelling-house on the westerly side of Market square, near the corner of Greenleaf's lane, now State street, Newburyport. || He died in 1694.T


* The record is much worn and nearly ineligible. So far as it can be deciphered, it reads as follows: -


" July 5 Anno 1648 was maryed at D . .. William ye fourth son of Thom . .. Snelling esquire & Johan his wife dwell . . . at Chaddlewood in Plympton Mary (?) in ... and Margerety the eldest daughter of Gyles Stagge, gent & Anne his wife dwelling ... Southwark in Barnaby street at ... sign of St ... Christopher."


t Ante, p. 122. # Ante, p. 333. § Ante, pp. 140-144. [ Ould Newbury," pp. 121, 144. " January 10, 1694-5 Dr Doel of Newbury died a little while ago, one of my school- fellows, as was also Brother Gerrish: heard not certainly of said Doel's death till Mr. Emery told it me Jan. 15 in the street." (Samuel Sewall's Diary, vol. i., p. 397.)


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Dr. Humphrey Bradstreet was born in Ipswich, January 6, 1669-70. He married Sarah, daughter of Joshua Pierce, of Newbury .* Dorothy, daughter of Humphrey and Sarah Bradstreet, was born December 19, 1692. Doctor Bradstreet died in Newbury May 11, 1717. His widow married Capt. Edward Sargent June 9, 1719.


Dr. Joshua Bailey was born in 1685, probably in Kil- lingworth, Conn. He came to Newbury in 1707, but re- mained only a few years, removing to Haverhill, where he practised medicine and surgery during the rest of his life. He died February 7, 1752.+


Dr. Matthew Adams, son of Abraham and Mary (Pettin- gell) Adams, was born in Newbury, May 25, 1686. He mar- ried Sarah Knight, April 4, 1707. He practised medicine from 1726 until his death, Nov. 24, 1755.4


Dr. Joseph Hills, son of Joseph and Priscilla (Chase) Hills, was born in Newbury, October 15, 1707. He married Han- nah Brett, September 10, 1730. He was a physician in Newbury until his death, September 22, 1745.


Dr. Nathan Hale, son of Thomas Hale, was born in New- bury, June 2, 1691. He married Elizabeth Kent, August 27, 1713. He lived in that part of Newbury which was incorporated as a separate town, by the name of Newbury- port, in 1764. He died May 9, 1767.


Dr. Enoch Sawyer, son of Stephen Sawyer, was born in Newbury, June 22, 1694. He married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Pierpont, of Reading, previous to 1722. He was a physician in Newbury for more than fifty years. He died November 15, 1771.


Dr. Eleazer Peirce, son of Benjamin and Lydia Peirce, was born May 19, 1711. He married Eunice, daughter of Rev. Christopher Toppan. He owned and occupied a dwelling- house on what is now Water street, near the foot of Marl- borough street, Newburyport. He died August 31, 1764.


*"Ould Newbury," p. 124.


t The Essex Antiquarian, vol. v., p. 124.


# Ibid., vol. ii., p. 20.


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Dr. John Sprague graduated at Harvard college in 1730, and came to Newbury a few years later. "Mary daugh- ter of John Sprague & Ruth, his wife, was born March 30, 1738."* He married, for his second wife, Prudence Titcomb, May 19, 1754 .* He lived in that part of Newbury which was set off and incorporated as a separate town in 1764.t His will, dated March 17, 1781, was proved April 26, 1784.


Dr. John Newman was admitted to the church in Hampton, N.H., December 7, 1740. He married May 21, 1741, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Joshua Wingate. Three children were born to Dr. John and Elizabeth Newman in Hampton, namely : Elizabeth, born November 19, 1741 ; John, born July 23, 1743; Jane, born January 20, 1744-5. Doctor Newman probably removed to Newbury with his family in 1746. Two children were born after that date, in Newbury, namely : Wingate, February 10, 1746-7; and Payne (?), September 5, 1749 .* He died in Newburyport, February 18, 1806.


Dr. Parker Clark, son of Thomas Clark, was born in New- bury, July 22, 1718. He was a physician in Andover, Mass., from 1741 to 1750, when he returned to Newbury. He sub- sequently removed to Ipswich, where he died September 19, 1798.


Dr. Jacob March, son of Samuel and Ann (Toppan) (Rolfe ?) March, was born January 20, 1722. He was a surgeon in the expedition to Cape Breton in 1745.# His intention of marriage to Ruth Bradshaw, of Charlestown, was published


* Town of Newbury Records.


t " Newburyport April ye Ist 1766. This Agreement made by & between Doctor John Sprague of Newburyport Physitian & Stephen Emerey of Newbury, Witnesseth that the said Doctor John Sprague Teach & Instruct Eliphalet Emery son of said Stephen By the best way & means he may or can, in the art, trad & Calling of Physic & Surgery The said Eliphalet to have the benefits of his Instruction so long as he see cause not exceeding four years for sed Doctor to be obliged and the said Stephen Emery in consideration of said Doctor Sprague's Instructing his son Eliphalet as aforesaid Do Engage & Bind himself to pay said Doctor John Sprague Thirty Three pounds, six shillings & eight pence. Thirteen pounds six shillings & eight pence to be paid in hand at the time of said Eliphalet first going to be instructed, & six pounds Thirteen shillings & four pence yearly afterwards untill the whole sum of 33-6-8 is fully paid.


" In witness whereof the Parties have Interchangeably set their hands the year and day above written. STEPHEN EMERY."


# Ante, P. 553.


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April 25, 1747. " Samuel, son of Dr. Jacob and Ruth March was born Dec. 10, 1753." *


Doctor March subsequently enlisted as surgeon in one of the regiments under the command of Gen. John Winslow for the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, and was killed in a skirmish with the Indians, September 2, 1755.t


Dr. Enoch Sawyer, son of Dr. Enoch and Sarah (Pierpont) Sawyer, was born in Newbury, April 19, 1723. He married Hannah Moody March 30, 1758. He died September 7, 1805.


Dr. Micajah Sawyer, son of Dr. Enoch Sawyer, was born in Newbury, July 15, 1737. He graduated at Harvard college in 1756, and commenced the practice of medicine in that part of Newbury which was set off and made a separate town in 1764. He died in Newburyport, September 29, 1815.


Dr. Charles Coffin, son of Col. Joseph Coffin, born August 17, 1741. He married July 1, 1773, Hephzibah, daughter of John Carnes, of Boston. He was a physician in Newbury and Newburyport. He died April 30, 1821.


Dr. Eliphalet Emery, son of Stephen Emery, was born in Newbury, July 16 (?), 1748. He was educated for a physician, and probably practised his profession for a year or two in Newbury. He died October 18, 1773, in the twenty- sixth year of his age.


Dr. Moses Sawyer, son of Moses and Hannah Sawyer, was born in Newbury, November 23, 1756. He married July 25, 1781, Hannah, daughter of Col. Moses Little. He died in Newbury, August 5, 1799. His son, Matthias Plant Saw- yer, of Boston, gave $5,000 in 1857 to the public library of the city of Newburyport.


In addition to the physicians named above, the following persons, born in Newbury, removed to other towns, and commenced the practice of medicine there : -


Dr. Edmund Toppan, son of Rev. Christopher Toppan,


*Town of Newbury Records.


+ New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1879), p. 392.


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born December 7, 1701. He was a physician in Hampton, N.H., and died there, November 28, 1739.


Dr. Bezaleel Toppan, son of Rev. Christopher Toppan, born March 7, 1705. For more than thirty years a physician in Salem, where he died in 1762.


Dr. Nathaniel Coffin, son of John and Judith (Greenleaf) Coffin, born September 7, 1716. He married March I, 1739, Patience, daughter of John Hale, and removed to Fal- mouth, now Portland, Me., where he died, January 12, 1766.


Dr. Anthony Emery, son of John and Hannah (Morse) Emery, was born in Newbury, September 5, 1713. He graduated at Harvard college in 1736, and was for nearly two years physician at Chelmsford, Mass. He married Abi- gail Leavitt, May 10, 1738, and removed to Hampton, N.H. He was surgeon in the Massachusetts train of artillery at Louisbourg in 1744, and also in the Crown Point expedition of 1755. He died at Hampton, August 19, 1781.


Dr. Eliphalet Hale, son of Dr. Nathan Hale, was born in Newbury, July 29, 1714. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. George and Joanna (Pepperell) Jackson, of Kittery, Me. He was a physician in Falmouth, now Portland, Me., and afterwards in Exeter, N.H. He died in Exeter previous to July 23, 1766.


Dr. William Hale, son of Rev. Moses Hale, pastor of the church in Byfield parish, was born in Newbury in 1727. He married Martha Johnson, November 6, 1753, and re- moved to Rowley, Mass., soon after that date. He died in Rowley, February 26, 1784.


Dr. Ebenezer Noyes, son of Daniel and Abigail (Toppan) Noyes, was born January 6, 1738-9. His intention of mar- riage to Hannah Chase, of Newbury, was published Novem- ber 3, 1764. He subsequently removed to Dover, N.H., where he died, August 11, 1767.


Dr. Barnard Tucker, "son of Rev. John Tucker, D.D. & Sarah his wife," was born April 2, 1760. He graduated at Harvard College in 1779. He was for many years a physi-


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cian in Wenham, Mass, He died in Newburyport, January 24, 1832.


Dr. Charles Coffin, son of Joshua Coffin, born in New- bury, September 4, 1765, married Dorcas Parker, Septem- ber 29, 1801. He was a teacher and physician in Ports- mouth, N. H., and afterwards at Beaufort, S.C., where he died in September, 1820.


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XIII.


" PIERCE HOUSE AT THE UPER END OF CHANDLER'S LANE."


Daniel Pierce, sr., came to Newbury in 1638. He owned the Spencer farm of three hundred acres when he died, November 27, 1677, and also a malt-house near the Merrimack river, at the northerly end of Chandler's lane, now Federal street, Newburyport. The inventory of his estate, filed March 26, 1678, mentions the following items of interest : -


Wearing apparrell, books and Armes £40. ... About forty head of neat cattle, oxen and cowes £94 ... one hundred and sixty sheep young and old £40. . . eighteen small swine £5 Ios ... An Anvil, vice, shop tools, with iron potts kettles brass and pewter, two old fur- naces, fire shovel, tongs &c £20. ... Negroes £60. ... A malt house with about twenty acres of upland & three and thirty acres of meadow & furniture to the malt house £255 .*


Two or three years after the death of Daniel Pierce, sr., his son Daniel Pierce, jr., to whom he gave "all his houseing, lands, goods & chattells," erected a dwelling-house on land near the malt-house. Among the miscellaneous items re- corded by Samuel Sewall in his Commonplace Book is the following statement : ---


Satterday May 7, 1681 there was a Hurrican at Newbury which blew down Richard Bartletts Barn, uncover'd Capt Pierce's new house at the ūper end of Chandler's Lane, blew down the Chimneys.t


Capt. Daniel Pierce, jr., was appointed colonel of the second Essex county . regiment soon after the organization of the provincial government under the new charter in 1692.


[March 14, 1698-9] Granted Col. Daniel Pierce land between Mer- rimack River & the highway by said River against his malt house to


* Essex Deeds (Ipswich Series), book iv, p. 158.


t Massachusetts Historical Society's Collections, Fifth Series, vol. vi., p. 17 * (preceding the diary).


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sett a dwelling house on : of sixty foote in breadth & the fflats against it to low water mark .*


[March 21, 1703-4] Granted Coll Daniel Pearce Esq. liberty to sett up a smiths shop uppon the Bank between his house & the house of Dr. Humphrey Bradstreet. t


Col. Daniel Pierce died April 22, 1704. In his will, dated August 12, 1701, and proved May 8, 1704, he gave to his son Joshua Pierce "my now dwelling house with the malt house and outhousings"; to his son Thomas Pierce, "that dwell- ing house which I built for him Situate and being upon that my land that the malt house do stand upon "; and to his grandson John Wainwright, " my dwelling house standing on the north corner of that land my malt house stands on." #


* Town of Newbury Records.


t Town of Newbury Records. Doctor Bradstreet married Sarah, daughter of Joshua Pierce. The location of his house is shown on the map, p. 119, "Ould Newbury."


# "Ould Newbury," pp. 35 and 124.


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THE SEWALL HOUSE, NEAR "TRAYNEING GREEN."


Mr. Henry Sewall, jr., after his return to Newbury from England, purchased, November 7, 1660, a dwelling-house with about four acres of land, on the northerly corner of Noyes' lane, now Parker street, and the country road, now High street .* He subsequently built, on a part of the land, a new house, which he gave by his will, dated August 17, 1678, to his wife, Jane (Dummer) Sewall, and, after her de- cease, to his son, Samuel Sewall .;


Coffin, in his history of Newbury, page 398, says that Henry Sewall, jr., "resided in Parker street (formerly South street) on the North side, a few rods N. W. from Mr. Silas Noyes's house." The house owned and occu- pied by Silas Noyes was built by Rev. James Noyes in 1646, probably, and is still standing. There is some doubt, how- ever, in regard to the location of the house built previous to 1678 by Henry Sewall, jr. Recent investigation indicates that it was erected at or near the corner of Parker and High streets, about twenty rods in a southeasterly direction from the Noyes house. Although the fact has not been estab- lished beyond a reasonable doubt, it is probable that the words "northwesterly end" used in describing the Sewall house on page 249 of "Ould Newbury " are incorrect, and should read "southeasterly end." A photographic view of the house now standing near the corner of the above-named streets is reproduced in the half-tone print on the next page.


March 7, 1683-4, Henry Sewall conveyed to his son Stephen a lot of land " bounded on ye north with ye land of Tristram Coffin, on ye west with ye land of Richard Brown,


* Ipswich Deeds, book ii., p. 16 (28) ; "Ould Newbury," p. 249.


t "Ould Newbury," p. 252.


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on ye south with ye land of Henry Sewall, on ye east with ye highwaye." * The next day Stephen Sewall, of Salem, conveyed to Richard Brown, of Newbury, the above-described land " on the way to the meeting house," between the land of Tristram Coffin on the north and the land of Henry Sewall on the south.t


Samuel Sewall, of Boston, after the death of his mother, Jane (Dummer) Sewall, sold, June 22, 1704, about one and one-quarter acres of upland to Richard Brown, of Newbury, "bounded & abutted as follows viz: eastwardly By the highway Leading to ye meeting house, southwardly by Mr. Noyes Land, westerly and northerly by Land now In ye pos- session and Right of Richard Browne together with the Dwelling house, Barn, orchard and fence or fences Being upon or Belonging to said upland together with all priviledges and appurtenances y." unto Belonging." }


This land and the adjoining lot, purchased of Stephen Sewall in 1684, remained in the possession of Richard Brown for many years. November 2, 1770, John Brown, one of his descendants, sold the property to John Stickney.§ June I, 1784, Stephen Atwood, of Provincetown, by levy on execu- tion against John Stickney, became owner of the land and buildings.|| He conveyed the house, barn, and about ten acres of land to Paul Lunt, November 26, 1788.


Paul Lunt died November 26, 1824, having devised all his real estate to his wife Hannah. She died previous to 1851 ; and May 30, 1853, her daughters, Dorcas and Edna, conveyed their interest in about an acre of land, with the buildings thereon, on the corner of Parker and High streets, to Daniel A. Lunt .**


* Essex Deeds, book vi., leaf 111 (689). This lot of land was probably devised by the will of Henry Sewall to his son Stephen (see "Ould Newbury," p. 252), but the above-described deed was signed six years before the will was probated.


t Essex Deeds, book viii., leaf 48 (116).


# Ibid., book xv., leaf 266.


§ Ibid., book cxxvii., leaf 245. Il Ibid., book cxlii., leaf 228.


T Ibid., book cxlix., leaf 143. ** Ibid., book dxxiii., leaf 23.


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DEPUTIES TO THE GENERAL COURT.


March 4, 1634-5, the General Court, having assembled at Newe Towne (Cambridge), passed the following vote : -


Vpon a certificatt of 5 commissioners chosen by the Court to consider of the election of the deputyes of Ipswich, it did appeare to the Court that two of them viz : Mr Easton & Henry Shorte, were vnduly chosen, whoe were forthwith dismissed; soe Mr John Spencer onely stands le- gally elected in the opinion of the Court." *


Mr. Spencer also served as deputy from Ipswich for the session beginning May 6, 1635. During the following summer he removed to Newbury, and was granted a house lot of four acres on the northerly side of Quascacunquen river, "alsoe a farme lotte of four hundred acres of upland & meadow " near the Merrimack river. He represented the inhabitants of New- bury in the General Court that met at Newe Towne (Cam- bridge) September 2, 1635, and March 3, 1635-6, and also served at the session held in Boston May 25, 1636.


No town having less than ten freemen could send a deputy to the General Court. A town with more than ten and less than twenty freemen was entitled to one deputy ; with twenty to forty freemen, two deputies; over forty freemen, "to three deputies, if they will, but not above." t


The names of the deputies or representatives to the Gen- eral Court from Newbury, from the first settlement of the town in 1635 to the beginning of the twentieth century, are as follows : -


Sessions beginning


Deputies.


Sept. 2, 1635


Mr. John Spencer


March 3, 1635-6 Mr. John Spencer


May 25, 1636 Mr. John Spencer


Sept. 8, 1636 Mr. John Spencer and Mr. [Edward] Woodman


* Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. i., p. 135. t Ibid., p. 178.


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Sessions beginning


Deputies.


Dec. 7, 1636


Mr. John Spencer


April 18, 1637 Mr Edwd Woodman and Mr John Woodbridge


May 17, 1637 Edward Woodman and John Woodbridge


Sept. 26, 1637 . Edwd Woodman and john Woodbridge


Nov. 2, 1637


Leift Woodman and Mr John Woodbridge Mr. John Woodbridge


March 12, 1637-8 .


May 2, 1638 .


Mr. John Woodbridge and Mr Edwd Rawson


Sept. 6, 1638


Edwd Rawson


March 13, 1638-9 *


Edward Rawson and Edward Woodman


May 22, 1639


Edward Rawson and Edward Woodman


Sept. 4, 1639


Mr Edwd Rawson and Mr John Clarke . Mr John Woodbridge


Oct. 7, 1640 .


Mr Richrd Dumer and Mr John Woodbridge


June 2, 1641


Mr John Woodbridge


Oct. 7, 1641 .


. Mr. John Woodbridge


May 18, 1642 +


John Saunders and Edward Rawson


Sept. 8, 1642


. Edward Rawson


May 10, 1643


John Clarke and Edward Woodman John Lowell and Hen: Short Edward Rawson


May 14, 1645


Mr [Richard ?] Dumer and Mr Edward Rawson


May 6, 1646 §


Mr. Edwd Rawson


May 26, 1647


. Mr Dumer and Mrs Rawson


May 10, 1648 |


Edwd Rawson


May 2, 1649


Edward Rawson


May 22, 1650


Left Wm Gerrish


May 7, 1651 .


Capt William Gerrish


May 27, 1652 Capt Wm Gerrish


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Capt Wm Gerrish


* " March 13, 1633-9 It was ordered that no towns should send more than two deputies to the Generall Court." (Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. i., p. 250.)


f" May 20, 1642 The Court left it to the liberty of the townes to send but a deputy a peace, if they please, to the next session of this court." (Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. ii., p. 3.) # " Mr Rich : Dumer" was deputy from Salisbury, May 29, 1644, and May 6, 1646.


§ " April 8, 1646 Edward Rawson was chosen & appointed to serve at ye next generall Courte as Deputy for ye Towne of Newbery & there to stay & consumat ye affairs of ye country." (Town of Newbury Records.)


Il In 1647, the General Court passed an act reducing the number of deputies to one from each town; but, in order to ascertain the will of the people, this act was suspended until the next ses- sion of the court. (Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. ii., pp. 209, 217.) March, 1647-8, the court ordered " That most of the freemen desiring their formr librty of sending one or two deputies to ye Gentall Corts from time to time, the former wonted liberty is continued & ye former acı in sus- pence is repealed." (Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. ii., p. 231.)


" April 12, 1648, Mr Edward Rawson was chosen & appointed to serve Deputy at the nexte courte of election for the towne & to stay & consumate the affayres of the Country according to order." (Town of Newbury Records.)




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