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The homestead of Thomas Coitmore (1639) in Charlestown, and twelve other pieces of real estate which he owned, are described in Charlestown Land Records, as printed by the Boston Record Commissioners, Vol. III., p. 20.
Richard Davenport (1639) came with Gov. Endicott in the "Abigail," in Septem- ber, 1628, from Weymouth, Dorset County, England, and landed at Salem. He was born in 1606 ; was admitted a freeman Sept. 3, 1634 ; a deputy from Salem in 1637, and resided in that town until 1642. He was ensign of the Salem train-band in October, 1634, when his friend Endicott cut out the red cross in the national ensign, and in admi- ration of that act he named a daughter, born that year, " Truecross." He held the same office, ensign, when, with Underhill (1637), Turner (1637), and Jennison (1637), he
in talking about New England, the doctor " railed against the people, saying that they were a company of rogues and knaves." Mr. Willoughby (1639) replied that he who talked so was a knave, where- upon the doctor gave him a box on the ear. They were separated by friends. To restore peace, Dr. Child (1639) was ordered to give five pounds to the poor of New England, to apologize in the full Exchange, and to promise never again to speak evil of New England men.
Thomas Coitmore (1639). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1880; his will is in same, 1853; the inventory in same, 1854; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Whitman's Ilist. A. and Il. A. Com- pany; Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng., Savage's Edition; Frothingham's [[ist. of Charlestown.
Richard Davenport (1639). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1850; Drake's
Indians of North America, Book III., p. 75; Felt's Annals of Salem; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Drake's 1list. of Boston; Records of Mass. Bay.
Oct. 19, 1652, Capt. Davenport (1639) was appointed one of the guardians of Adamn Winthrop, "the orphane, of about fine yeares of age," who joined the Artillery Company in 1692.
1 Mr. Frotbingham says he was drowned " on the coast of Wales."
" A right godly man and expert seaman," writes Winthrop; "dearly beloved." "A good scholar and one who had spent both his labor and estate in helping on this wilderness work," writes Edward Johnson (1637).
2 The marriage contract, with an inventory of her goods and chattels, is given in the Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. II., pp. 234-236.
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went in Gov. Endicott's expedition against the Indians, to revenge the murder of Mr. Oldham. In 1636, he was lieutenant of the first volunteer train-band, under Capt. Denison (1660), in Ipswich, where it is probable he resided a short time. He was a military man of distinction in the first settlement of the colony, and was engaged in many enterprises against the Indians, yet he never held any office in the Artillery Company, probably on account of his absence on public duty.
Lieut. Davenport (1639) was wounded in a battle with the Pequots in 1637, and in the same year was directed by the General Court to receive the arms of Mr. Wheel- wright's friends in Salem. The first settlers in and near Boston built a fort for their defence in July, 1634. It had walls of earth, and was afterwards called Castle William, now Fort Independence. Capt. Nicholas Simpkins (1650) was the first commander, Edward Gibbons (1637) the second, Lieut. Richard Morris (1637) the third, and Robert Sedgwick (1637), in June, 1641, was the fourth. In 1643, the mud walls having gone to decay, the fort was rebuilt with pine-trees and earth, under the superintendence of Capt. Richard Davenport (1639), who was appointed to command it When that decayed, which was within a little time, there was a small castle built of brick, which had " three rooms in it - a dwelling room below, a lodging room over it, and the gun- room over that, wherein were six guns, called sacker guns, and over it upon the top three lesser guns." Such was its condition July 15, 1665, when "God was pleased to send a grievous storm of thunder and lightning, which did some hurt in Boston," says Capt. Roger Clap (1646). Capt. Davenport (1639), weary by severe duty, had retired in a room separated from the powder magazine by a thin board partition, and while asleep was killed by a flash of lightning, no material damage being done to the Castle.1
His son, Nathaniel, was a captain in King Philip's War, and was killed in the Great Fort fight, Dec. 19, 1675. The command of the Company then devolved on Lieut. Edward Tyng, Jr. (1668). His grandson, Hon. Addington Davenport, joined the Artillery Company in 1692.
Thomas Fowle (1639), of Boston, came from England before 1635, and was a merchant, whose home estate, consisting of a house and garden, was situated at the north corner of Essex and Washington streets. He was admitted to be a freeman Sept. 7, 1639, and joined the First Church in Boston March 26, 1643. He served as selectman of Boston, with Gov. Winthrop, in 1645 and 1646. In 1644, " 30th of 10 mo." he is called in the Boston Town Records, "Tho : Fowle, Gent." In 1639, the " 27th of the 11 mo.," he was granted six hundred acres " at Rumney Marsh," which in 1650 were owned by Samuel Bennett (1639). He is supposed to have moved to Braintree, at least he owned property there. Whitman says Mr. Fowle "figures as a man of much notoriety in Winthrop, having on account of his liberal sentiments, been a constant thorn to the civil and ecclesiastical rulers of the colony." In Boston, he had the agent
Thomas Fowle (1639). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Edition of Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng .; Drake's Hist. of Boston; Mem. Hist. of Boston; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company.
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1 " 1665. July 15. There was a dreadful thunder [and] lightning ... And at ye Castle it wounded 3 or 4 men In so much that they cryed out some houres after, some that yir tooes, others yt their legs were falling off, and ye Captain of the Castle, Mr
Richard Davenport, a man of a choice and excel- lent sp't, having bin hard at work, was layd down upon his bed in ye Castle, there being but a Wain- scot betw. ye bed & ye Magazine of Powder, the lightning came in at ye window & smote ye Captain on ye right eare so yt it bled, bruised his flesh upon his head, wounded & burnt his breast & belly, & stroke him dead that he never spoke more; but it pleased God ye powder escaped ye fire." - Roxbury Church Records.
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of D'Aulnay, in the troubles of La Tour, to lodge at his house, and his ship was seized at London for damages by the La Tour party. In 1646, he was earnest for an extension of liberties, was heavily fined, and went to England in disgust in November, 1646.
The seizure of the ship, when Joseph Weld (1637) and Stephen Winthrop ( 1641) were arrested, has heretofore been mentioned, page 24. In 1646, Mr. Fowle (1639), with Dr. Child (1639), John Smith, and David Yale (1640), " petitioned to Parliament, complaining of the distinctions in civil and church estate here, and that they might be governed by the laws of England "; - this petition cited that they, "free born subjects of England, were denied the liberty of subjects, both in church and commonwealth, them- selves and their children debarred from the seals of the covenant, except they would submit to such a way of entrance and church covenant, as their consciences could not admit, and take such a civil oath, as would not stand with their oath of allegiance, or else they must be debarred of all power and interest in civil affairs, and were subjected to an arbitrary government and extra judicial proceedings," etc. A petition was presented to the General Court by them, but the consideration thereof, as well as a law to permit non-freemen to vote, was deferred to another session. Mr. Fowle (1639) also, with Gen. Sedgwick (1637) and others, petitioned for the abrogation of the laws against Anabaptists and the tax on new-comers, which was also unsuccessful.
On the eve of his departure for England, after having been fined and imprisoned for the above-mentioned petition, he was stayed again at Gov. Winthrop's warrant, as also Dr. Child (1639), said "to be the chief speaker," who said "they did beneath themselves in petitioning us," and appealed to England. The hearing was continued with much spirit and acrimony. " In conclusion, Fowle [1639] and one Smith were committed to the Marshal for want of sureties, and the rest were enjoined to attend the Court when they should be called. So they were dismissed and Mr. Fowle [1639] found sureties before night." The trial proceeded, and in the subsequent pages of Winthrop we may find the long-contested argument, pro and con. Dr. Child (1639) was fined fifty pounds and Mr. Fowle (1639) forty pounds, " for persisting thus obsti- nately and proudly in their evil practice." They were offered to have their fines remitted, if they would but acknowledge their fault ; but they remained obstinate. Their appeal was received, but refused acceptance and was not permitted to be read in the court. " Surprise," says Savage, " almost equals our indignation at this exorbitant imposition ; for in this very year Fowle [1639] was associated with Winthrop as one of the Selectmen of Boston. All these petitioners but Maverick [1658] left the country, I believe."
In 1648, Mr. Fowle (1639) is thus spoken of by Gov. Winthrop : " For God had brought him very low, both in his estate and reputation, since he joined in the first petition." Whitman adds : " There is no reason to attribute it to a judgment of God ; it is far more easy to account for his becoming poor by losses at sea, heavy fines, imprisonment, delays, expenses," etc.
John Greene (1639), of Charlestown, came in the "James" from London in 1632, and arrived.June 12, with his wife, Perseverance (Johnson), three children, a servant, and Joseph Greene, a relative. He joined the church in Charlestown, March 29, 1633 ; was afterward an elder of that church, the first and only one it ever had, and became a freeman April 1, 1633. In the town records he is called "Sergeant." He was town
John Greene (1639). AUTHORITIES: Wy- Ilist. and Gen. Reg., 1847; Frothingham's Ilist. of Charlestown; Savage's Gen. Dict.
man's Gen. and Estates of Charlestown; New Eng.
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clerk from 1646 to 1658, selectman from 1646 to 1657 inclusive. His dwelling-house, on a lot of three-quarters of an acre, was situated at the west end of the Common, " bounded on all sides by the common." His property in Charlestown is described in Charlestown Land Records, as printed by the Boston Record Commissioners, page 50. His will of April 21, 1658, names his wife Joanna. She was his second wife, the widow of John Shatswell, of Ipswich, who brought him a large estate. Mr. Greene (1639) died April 22, 1658. His tombstone, now broken and defaced, near Harvard's monu- ment, once bore this inscription : -
" MEMORIAL OF YE JVST IS BLESSED.
" Here Iyeth ye body of Mr. John Greene, born in London in Old England, who married Perseverance, the daughter of [Rev. Francis] Johnson, in Amsterdam, hy whom he had 6 children, with whom and 3 children he come to Charlestown, in New England, in 1632, was rvling elder in ye church, and deceased April 22, 1658, leaving behind 2 sons and one davghter, viz. John, Jacob, and Mary, who erected this Monvment to the memory of him and his wife, their father and mother."
Walter Haynes (1639), of Sudbury, was one of the first proprietors of that town. He, with his wife, Elizabeth, and three children under sixteen years of age, embarked in the ship "Confidence," of London, for America, leaving Southampton April 24, 1638. Mr. Haynes (1639) is recorded as being fifty-five years of age. He is called a " Lennen Weaver," from Sutton, Mandifield, in the county of Wilts, England. He was admitted a freeman May 13, 1640; was appointed commissioner in Sudbury, in 1640, "to end small businesses "; clerk of the writs in 1641-5 ; represented the town of Sudbury in the General Court in 1641-4, 1646, 1648, and 1651, and was one of the selectmen of that town for ten years. " Mr. Haynes," says the historian of Sudbury, " was probably one of the first grantees to erect a house on the east side of the river, which was probably the ' Haynes Garrison.'" It stood until 1876, when it was taken down. Descendants of Walter Haynes (1639) were : Capt. Aaron Haynes, who commanded a Sudbury company that marched to Concord, April 19, 1775 ; Dea. Josiah Haynes, who was slain in that fight,
Walter Haynes (1639). AUTHORITIES : Hud- son's Hist. of Sudbury; Savage's Gen. Dict.
This name is given in the oldest record book as "Mr. - Haines." Mr. Whitman ( 1810) concluded it was Walter Haynes, of Sudbury. It might have been Gov. John Haynes, of Connecticut. It does not seem possible to decide which became a mem- ber of the Company.
John Haynes arrived in America in the ship " Griffin," Sept. 3, 1633, coming from Copford Hall, in Essex, England. He became a freeman May 14, 1634, was elected an assistant in 1634 and 1636, and governor in 1635. May 2, 1637, he removed to Hartford, Conn., was elected the first governor of that colony in April, 1639, and continued to hold that office every second year afterward until his decease, March 1, 1654.
He seems to have been interested in military affairs. Sept. 25, 1634, he was appointed by the General Court "to onersee the amunicon house, to he hnilte att Newe Towne"; May 6, 1635, was appointed a commissioner of military affairs, and Dec. 13, 1636, was made colonel of the Middlesex Regiment.
He was married first in England. His two eldest sons remained in England, and took part in the civil war; another son, by his first wife,
returned to England. His second wife was Mabel, sister of Roger Harlakenden, by whom he had four children. While in Cambridge he resided on the westerly side of Winthrop Square, his lot extending from Mt. Auburn Street to Winthrop Street.
" His great integrity and wise management of all affairs so raised and fixed his character in the esteem of the people of Connecticut that they always, when the Constitution would permit, placed him in the chief seat of government, and continued him in it until his death."
June 5, 1638, Gov. Haynes came to Boston with Unkus, the Monahegan sachem, and thirty- seven men, to consult in regard to Indian affairs. - See Winthrop's Journal, Vol. I., p. 265.
Toward the last of May, 1639, Gov. Haynes, of Connecticut, visited Boston again, with Rev. Mr. Hooker, and coming into the bay, staid near a month. They came to renew the treaty of confed- eration with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gov. Haynes was therefore in Boston the first Monday in June, 1639, at which time he may have joined the Artillery Company.
John Haynes. AUTHORITIES: Savage's Gen. Dict .; Paige's Hist. of Cambridge; Trumbull's Hist. of Conn .; Bridgman's Pilgrims of Boston.
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at the age of eighty, and Joshua Haynes, who was killed at Bunker Hill. Sergt. Walter Haynes - for he is so called on the town records - was prominent in all town matters, and, with Brian Pendleton (1646), was active in founding a church and erecting the first meeting-house in Sudbury. He died Feb. 14, 1665.
John Leverett (1639), of Boston, was a son of Thomas Leverett, the ruling elder of the First Church, who resigned his office of alderman of the borough of Boston, England, just previous to his sailing from London, and arrived, Sept. 4, 1633, at Boston, Mass. John Leverett (1639), born July 7, 1616, came over with his parents, Rev. Mr. Cotton, Mr. Haynes (1639), afterward governor, and other eminent persons, in the " Griffin." He joined the First Church July 14, 1639, when Rev. Mr. Cotton, the spiritual teacher of his boyhood, was pastor, and was admitted a freeman May 13, 1640. "No man in our country," says Savage, "ever filled more important offices, nor with happier repute."
He was clerk of the Artillery Company in 1641, junior sergeant in 1642, senior sergeant in 1643, lieutenant in 1648, and was elected commander three times, viz .: in 1652, 1663, and 1670. He is called "Sergeant " Sept. 27, 1642, in the Records of Massachusetts Bay ; was appointed captain under Sergt .- Major Gibbons (1637), Aug. 12, 1645, to take the field against the Narraganset Indians ; in 1652 was captain of a troop of horse, and the same year the South Company in Boston chose him as its captain. In 1662, he was granted one thousand acres of land in consideration of his services to the colony, and five hundred more in 1671. May 23, 1666, he was voted " thanks " by the General Court, and one hundred pounds as a gratuity, for his care and pains in completing the batteries of Boston and mounting the great artillery. In 1663, he was chosen major-general of the colony, and held that office ten years.
He was concerned in trade with Gen. Gibbons (1637), wherein several ships and cargoes were lost. Ten thousand dollars were lost by the wrecking of one vessel. He was appointed one of the commissioners to the Dutch Governor of New York, and was made commander of the forces contemplated to be raised in 1653, in case of war with the Dutch. He was also captain of a troop of horse in Cromwell's service, in 1656.
He seems to have spent most of his life in the service of the colony, for he was chosen deputy for Boston in 1651, 1652, and 1653, and again, 1663, 1664, and 1665. He was speaker of the House part of the year 1651, and also in 1663 and 1664. In 1665, he was chosen from the House of Deputies to be an assistant, and was continued in that office until 1670. He was elected deputy-governor in 1671 and 1672, and governor from 1673 to 1678, and died March 16, 1679, while holding that office. May 28, 1679, the General Court appropriated one hundred pounds towards the interment of his remains.
Mr. Leverett (1639) went to England in 1644-5, and was appointed a captain in the regiment of Col. Rainsburrow (1639), but soon returned to Boston. In August, 1676, the King, Charles II., conferred the order of knighthood upon him. He sup- pressed that title, or the knowledge of it, during life ; his previous republican employ- ments, and the genius of our colonial government, made him wisely conceal it. He was in England at the Restoration, advocating the interest of the colony, which may have
John Leverett (1639). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Edition of Winthrop's Ilist. of New Eng .; His- tories of Harv. Coll .; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Reports of Boston Rec. Com., 1634-1660, 1660-1701;
Bridgman's Pilgrims of Boston; New Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg., 1850, 1851, 1876; Drake's Hist. of Boston; Records of Mass. Bay, 1640-1679.
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made his talents and influence known to the King, who afterwards, when Mr. Leverett (1639) was in his highest colonial dignity, honored him.
He was one of the four persons to whom, in 1664, the patent, or first charter, was delivered by the General Court, to be kept safe and secret, together with a duplicate. They were directed to dispose of them as might be safest for the country. The other three persons were Gov. Bellingham, Capt. Thomas Clarke (1638), and Capt. Edward Johnson (1637).
His son, Hudson, joined the Artillery Company in 1658, and his grandson, John, in 1704; and several other of his descendants have been members of the Company. His will and codicil are dated March 15, 1678 9, wherein he names his grandson, John (1704), "to be brought up to learning." His son, Hudson (1658), the father of John (1704), was given a double portion. He left, also, six daughters, and had a very large landed estate. His mansion-house, during the life of his father, Elder Thomas, was at the southeast corner of Court Street, and his father's, which he afterwards occupied, with a garden on the east side of the original site of the old or first meeting-house, had State Street on the north and the marsh of Mr. Winthrop on the south. That part of Congress Street north of Water Street was called Leverett's Lane for many years, in remembrance of the father and his son. The disease of which he died was the stone, as appears by an interleaved almanac of that year. His picture, representing him in the military costume of that day, with sword, collar, gloves, etc., is preserved in the Essex Historical Library, at Salem, Mass. That society possesses his sword, and other relics. Another portrait of the good old man, in civil attire, with a mild and benignant expression of countenance, adorns the State House of Massachusetts.
"The Governor, under the old Charter," says Hutchinson, " although he carried great porte (so does the Doge of Venice), yet his share in the administration was little more than any one of his Assistants. The weighty affairs of the war, and the agency, during his administration, conducted with prudence and steadiness, caused him to be greatly respected. . .. His funeral was splendid, as appears by the order of pro- cession, and was not unlike that of royalty in England."
He was sent, with Edward Hutchinson (1638), on an embassy to Miantonomoh, sachem of the Narragansets, in 1642. He also had a military command under Gen. Sedgwick (1637) in expelling the French from Penobscot, in 1654. He also served as a commissioner, with Lusher (1638) and Danforth, to repair to Dover, N. H. Harvard College Records, " 3ª mo. 10th day, 1649," contains the paper drawn up by the Governor and magistrates, against "long hair." The following is the preamble : “ Forasmuch as the wearing of long hair, after the manner of ruffians and barbarous Indians, has begun to invade New England, contrary to the rule of God's word, which says it is a shame for a man to wear long hair, as also the commendable custom generally of all the godly of our nation, until within these few years," etc. "He wore long hair, but is the first Governor that is painted without a long beard. He laid it aside at Cromwell's court."
"Order of march at the funeral of Gov. Leverett [1639], who died 16th March 1678 and was buried the first day of the next year, 25th March, 1679. -
" Mr. John Joyliff, Mr. James Whitcomb, Mr. William Tailer [1712], Mr. Richard Middlecot- to carry each a Banner Roll at the four corners of the Hearse.
"To march next before the Hearse, as followeth :
"Mr. Samuel Shrimpton [1670], or in his absence, Capt. Clap-to carry the Helmet.
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" Mr. John Fairweather - to carry the Gorget.
" Mr. E. Hutchinson [1670] - Brest.
" Mr. Charles Lidget [1679] - Back.
" Mr. Sampson Sheafe - one tace.
" Mr. John Pinchon - one tace.
" Mr. Dummer [1671], in case.
"Capt Nich. Paige [1693] - One Gauntlet, Capt J Carwin -one Gauntlet.
" Lt. Edw. Willys-the Target. Capt. Edw Tyng [1668] - the Sword.
" Mr. Hezekiah Usher [1665] - one Spur. Mr Peter Sargeant - one Spur.
"Capt William Gerrish, to lead the Hearse per the Racis -and Return Waite [1662] (as Groom) per the headstall.
" Mr. Lynde [1658], Mr. Saffin, Mr. Rock [1658], N. Green -to carry Banners mixt with the Banner Roles above."
The names mentioned above clearly indicate the prominence given to the Artillery Company in the funeral honors of its late commander, Major-Gen. Sir John Leverett (1639).
Gov. Leverett's (1639) second wife, who outlived him many years, was a daughter of Major-Gen. Sedgwick (1637). She became a member of the First Church Oct. 12, 1656, and died Jan. 2, 1704, having arrived at the age of seventy-four years. She was buried on the 8th of January, and Rev. Cotton Mather preached her funeral sermon.
Robert Long (1639), of Charlestown, came from Dunstable, England, in the " Defence," in 1635, at the age of forty-five years, bringing his wife, Elizabeth, and ten children. He had been an innholder at Dunstable, Bedford County, England, where Rev. Zechariah Symmes, of Charlestown, Mass., had formerly preached. He was an innkeeper in Charlestown, and his house was situated "on the south of Mill hill - his houselot being bounded by the market place, meeting house lane and High Street." He was licensed Sept. 3, 1635, " to keepe a house of intertainment att Charles Towne for horse and man." In 1640, Charlestown chose him to sell wine, and the General Court approved the choice. Dec. 11, 1648, Robert Keayne (1637) and James Penn, deputies of the General Court, and in behalf of said court, signed articles of agreement with William Phillips (1644), Robert Long (1639), Hugh Gunnison (1646), William Hudson (:640), and Robert Turner (1640), vintners, by which the latter had the exclusive right to sell and retail all kind of wines in Boston and Charlestown for five years, by paying to the treasurer of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts one hundred and sixty pounds yearly, in current money. He owned, according to the Book of Charlestown Land Records, twelve other pieces of real estate, containing above one hundred and fifty acres. He died Jan. 9, 1664.
"The Great House, first used as the official residence of the Governor, was pur- chased in 1633, by the town, of John Winthrop and other gentlemen, for f10, and used as a meeting-house until it was sold, for £30, to Robert Long [1639] in 1635, when it became a tavern or 'ordinary,' sometimes known as the 'Three Cranes' from its sign. It stood wholly in the market-place, in front of the building lately the City Hall, at the corner of Harvard Street. The tavern was kept by Mr. Long [1639] and his descendants till 1711, when it was sold to Eben Breed, in whose family it remained until the land was bought by the town to enlarge the Square after the Revolution."
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