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Robert Long (1639). AUTHORITIES : Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Mem. Hist. of Boston, Vol. I .;
Frothingham's Hist. of Charlestown; Records of Mass. Bay.
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John Musselwhite (1639), of Newbury, yeoman, came in the "James" in 1635 from Southampton. He is called, in the custom-house records, "of Longford," Wilts County, England. He was first of Ipswich, and became a freeman March 22, 1639. He is named in the division of lands in Newbury, March 17, 1642, and Jan. 11, 1644. He died Jan. 30, 1671, leaving property to one sister and two brothers in Beaverstock, Wiltshire, England.
Thomas Owen (1639), of Boston in 1639, when he joined the Artillery Company, and in 1641, when he escaped from the Boston jail. Whitman recites the story from Win- throp, Vol. II., p. 51 : " Owen [1639] was in Boston jail, for notorious suspicion of adultery. He was sentenced 'at a Quarter Court at Boston, 7th of 7th mo. 1641, for his adulterous practices [and] was censured to be sent to the gallows with a rope about his neck, and to sit upon the ladder an hour, the rope's end thrown over the gallows, and so · to return to prison.' Sarah Hale, wife of William Hale, his paramour, was sentenced to the like, and after to be banished. Several men and women, who were concerned in his escape to Noddles Island, especially Maverick [1658], were severely fined. Owen [1639] also was fined {20, and if not paid in a week, to be severely whipped. Among other things, Hale, the husband, was admonished to take heed of the like concealment. Seven of the persons censured have the title or prefix of respect. This suspicion must therefore have originated among the better sort of people."
Herbert Pelham (1639), of Cambridge, came over in 1638, bringing his daughter, Penelope, after he had befriended the cause of the colony as a member of the company in London for ten years. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1619, when he was eighteen years of age. By profession a lawyer, he is called "gent," and Gov. Hutchinson says, "He was of that family which attained the highest rank in the peerage one hundred years ago, as Duke of Newcastle."
He settled in Cambridge, and resided at the northwest corner of Dunster and South streets, the same estate having been previously occupied by Gov. Thomas Dudley and by Roger Harlakenden. The widow of the latter became the second wife of Herbert Pel- ham (1639). He was a freeman in 1645, selectman and commissioner of the United Colonies the same year, and assistant from 1645 - when Col. Stoughton (1638) had gone to England - to 1649 inclusive. In the latter year he returned to England, and resided at Buer's Hamlet, in Essex County. He was a commissioner of the United Colonies in 1645 and 1646, and was intrusted with much important public business. He also was the first treasurer of Harvard College, chosen Dec. 27, 1643, and the second person named in the act incorporating the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians in 1649. Another incorporator of this society was Major Robert Thompson (1639).
Edward Johnson (1637) styles him " a man of courteous behaviour, humble and heavenly-minded." He was one of the Company in England in 1629, and contributed to the common stock one hundred pounds. The year following his settlement at Cam-
John Musselwhite (1639). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Coffin's Hist. of Newbury. Thomas Owen (1639). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Edition of Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng. Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Records of Mass. Bay.
" Thomas Owen, Boston, Ar. Co. 1639, impris- oned, 1641, perhaps unjustly, for Samuel Maverick befriended him," - Savage's Gen. Dict.
"Thomas Owen for escaping out of prison, was fined 20 pounds to be paid witbin a week or to be severely whipped." - Records of Mass. Bay.
Herbert Pelham (1639). AUTHORITIES: Paige's Hist. of Cambridge; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Hurd's Hist. Middlesex Co .; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1864, 1879; Savage's Edition of Win- throp's Hist. of New Eng. Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company.
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bridge his house was burned down, from which he and his family narrowly escaped. Winthrop calls the discovery of the fire, by a neighbor's wife, who heard her hens making a noise at midnight, and awakened her husband, "a special providence of God."
After his return to England, he became a member of Parliament, rendered frequent and important services to the colony, and died in June, 1673, being buried " in County Suffolk, July 1."
After his return to England, he might have again visited this country, if the extract from the Boston News-Letter, Aug. 19, 1826, quoted in Whitman's (1810) History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, be true. It says, "This gentleman was one of the early settlers in Cambridge, prior to 1660, and a large proprietor to the first division of the lands there, in 1665. A few acres of it were called Pelham's Island. Subsequently he made larger purchases of real estate, and permitted the poorer people to cut off the original growth of timber on one hundred acres of it. He must have been considered as holding high rank in society ; for his son Edward, who graduated at college in 1673, was placed at the head of his class ; and this same son inherited all his estate in the then colony of Massachusetts. He returned to England before 1672, for his will was dated, in January of that year, at Ferrer's, in Buer's Hamlet, in the County of Essex, where he died. His will was proved at London, in March, 1676. Some of his posterity are citizens of the United States, at this day."
William Rainsburrow (1639), of Charlestown in 1639, in which year he joined the Artillery Company, had, the next year, property in Watertown. He probably intended to live in America, for he purchased, in the first year of his residence here, the old meeting- house, as Mr. Budington, in the History of Charlestown, p. 195, has shown ; but he returned to England before the civil war, in which he acquired distinction. He was related to Gov. John Winthrop by marriage. Col. Rainsburrow's sister, Judith, married Stephen (1641), a son of Gov John Winthrop.
On his return to England, he was appointed to be captain of a troop of horse intended for Ireland, and also governor of Worcester. He was highly favored by Crom- well, and was appointed colonel of a regiment in the Parliament's service, with Israel Stoughton (1637) as lieutenant-colonel, Nehemiah Bourne (1638) as major, John Leverett (1639) as captain, and William Hudson (1640) as ensign, -all of whom were citizens of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and members of the Military Company of the Massachusetts. He was assassinated in Ireland, Oct. 29, 1648.1 His daughter, Martha,
William Rainsburrow (1639). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Savage's Edition of Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng .; Records of Mass. Bay, Il .; Clarendon's Hist. of Rebellion; Bond's Watertown.
' Samuel Adams Drake, in his New England Legends and Folk-Lore, tells the story of the "Death of Rainsburrow. Col. Rainsburrow (1639) was repeatedly promoted by Cromwell, and at the imme- diate storming of Bristol, commanded a brigade. How well he planned and fought the Protector tells in an official letter. For his bravery, the Earl of Fairfax deputed Col. Rainsburrow (1639) as one of the officers to receive the surrender of the place; and Cromwell appointed him as one of the commis- sioners to treat with the King.
" When the insurrection preceding the second civil war broke out, Rainsburrow [1639] was in com- mand, and on board the English fleet. Ile is there called Admiral Rainsburrow [1639]. The sailors embracing the Royalist side put the admiral ashore,
and, going to London, entered upon his last service in Yorkshire. At the head of the Parliament army, he established his headquarters at Doncaster, near Pomfret. The Royalists planned the surprise and capture of Rainsburrow [1639]. Twenty-two picked men, well mounted, under the Royalist Capt. Paul- den, passed through the besiegers lines into Don- caster undiscovered. Four troopers forced an entrance into the colonel's lodgings. Rainsburrow [1639] was arrested; brought out of his house, and ordered to mount a horse, which stood ready saddled. The colonel, at first, seemed willing to mount, but, on reflection for a moment, he determined to fight his four enemies. The colonel's lieutenant was slain while endeavoring to assist his superior officer. Though wounded and bleeding, the fight waged fiercely until one of the party run his sword through his body, when the brave Gen. Rainsburrow [1639] fell dead upon the pavement of the courtyard."
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was married three times : (1) Thomas Coitmore (1639) ; (2) Gov. John Winthrop ; (3) John Coggan (1638).
" The Great House," in Charlestown, once occupied by Robert Long (1639) as an inn, was used by the Charlestown church, Oct. 14, 1632, for a place of meeting. In 1636, another building was occupied by that congregation, but its precise location is not known. The Memorial History of Boston, Vol. I., p. 394, says, " November 26, 1639, William Rainsborough bought the old meeting-house for £100, which was used towards paying for ' the new meeting house newly built in the town on the south side of the Town Hill.' "
Henry Saltonstall (1639), of Watertown, youngest son of Sir Richard Saltonstall, was born in England, and came to America, probably with his father, in 1630. He graduated in the first class in Harvard College in 1642, and therefore must have become a member of the Company before he entered, or while a student there. He went to England and thence to Holland with his father, in 1644, Sir Richard being ambassador from England at that time. It was during this visit that a portrait of Sir Richard was painted by Rembrandt. Henry studied medicine, and in October, 1649, received the degree of M. D. from the university in Padua, and June 24, 1652, a degree at Oxford, England. He and William Stoughton, chief-justice, son of Israel Stoughton (1637), were, by order of Parliament, created fellows of the New College, Oxford, England.
Robert Sampson (1639), of Boston in 1630, son of John and Bridget (Clopton) Sampson, came in the same ship with Gov. Winthrop, who calls the former " cousin," in a letter to his wife. Mr. Sampson's (1639) mother was a sister of Gov. Winthrop's second wife. Savage says that Robert Sampson's "family was ancient in the rank of knights, residing at Sampson's Hall, in the parish of Kersey, near Groton."
He probably returned to England soon after becoming a member of the Company. He was one of the sureties for Mr. David Yale, when he joined the Company in the year 1640.
Anthony Stoddard (1639), of Boston in 1639, a linen-draper, joined the First Church Sept. 28, 1639, was admitted a townsman the 26th of August preceding, and became a freeman May 13, 1640. His first wife was Mary Downing, of Salem, a niece of Gov. Winthrop; his second wife was the widow of Capt. Joseph Weld (1637), of Roxbury. She died in 1654, and he married Christian -, after whose decease he married Mary, widow of Major Thomas Savage (1637). The remark of Sewall (1679) in his Diary seems to be true, - Anthony Stoddard was " the ancientest shop-keeper in town."
He was a man of great influence in Boston. As early as 1641 he was a constable. Winthrop (Vol. II., p. 39) relates a story of the constable's scruple to obey the Gov-
Henry Saltonstall (1639). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1879; Bond's Watertown; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Com- pany, Ed. 1842.
Robert Sampson (1639). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Savage's Edition of Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng., Vol. I., p. 445, Appendix.
Anthony Stoddard (1639). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1851; Report of Rec. Com., 1634-1660; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Sav- age's Edition of Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng.
" [1686-7] March 16, About I, aclock Mr. Anthony Stoddard dyes, was the ancientest shop- keeper in Town."- Sewall's Papers, Vol. I., p. I 70.
" May 31, 1660, Capt Edward Johnson [1637] Mr. Anthony Stoddard [1639] and Deacon William Parkes [1638] were nominated and appointed a committee to officiate as Surveyors Generals of the country's ammunition." - Records of Mass. Bay.
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ernor's warrant to take Francis Hutchinson into custody for freedom of remarks, called "insolence." He held that office until 1644, and March 18, 1650, was chosen recorder of the town of Boston, being succeeded in that office by Thomas Savage (1637) on " 16th of ist mo., 1651." He also represented Boston in the General Court in 1650, 1659, 1660, 1666, and for eighteen successive years afterwards.
Nov. 27, 1639, he was granted one hundred acres of land at Mount Wollaston, and Feb. 31, 1641, he was chosen, with three others, "to Trade with the Indians according to the Order of the General Court." In 1643, as constable, it became his duty to pay Arthur Perry (1638) for his services as drummer for the town, also from 1647 to 1652 inclusive. March 9, 1656-7, at a general town meeting, it was ordered that "Capt. Savage [1637], Mr. Stoddard [1639], Mr. Houchin [1641], and Mr. Ed. Hutchinson, Sr., are chosen a committee to consider of the modell of the towne house, to bee built," etc. He was also rate commissioner or assessor in 1661. He died March 16, 1686-7.
Mr. Whitman (1810) relates, concerning Mr. Stoddard's (1639) scruples of 1641, that he was required to take a person - Francis Hutchinson - into custody at one of the courts in Boston till the afternoon, " and said withal to the Governor - Sir, I have come to observe what you did; that if you should proceed with a brother otherwise than you ought, I might deal with you in a church way. For this insolent behavior he was committed, but being dealt with by the elders and others, he came to see his error, which was, that he did consider that the magistrate ought not to deal with a member of the church before the church had proceeded with him. So, the next Lord's day, in the open assembly, he did freely and very affectionately confess his error, and his contempt of authority : and being bound to appear at the next court, he did the like there to the satisfaction of all. Yet, for example's sake, he was fined 20 shillings, which, though some of the magistrates would have it much less, or rather remitted, seeing his clear repentance and satisfaction in public, left no poison or danger in his example, nor had the Commonwealth or any person sustained danger by it." 1
He was clerk of the Artillery Company in 1642, 1644, 1646, 1648, and was third sergeant in 1650.
Robert Thompson (1639), of Boston in 1639, was a man of wealth and distinction in London, where, Savage thinks, he married a sister of Gov. Hopkins, of Connecticut. In 1639, though probably a transient resident in Boston, he bought the old edifice of the First Church, and the lot on which it stood on State Street, for one hundred and sixty pounds. He was a strong friend of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and for services rendered this country he was granted five hundred acres of land. In Hutchinson's Collection are some letters of his which reveal his good disposition and wise judgment. He and Francis Willoughby (1639) were trustees of the famous will of Edward Hopkins. In 1639-41 he was one of the sureties for seven members of the Company.
Robert Thompson (1639). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Suffolk Deeds, III., 386. 1 " 7th 7mo 1641. Anthony Stoader, confess-
ing his fault in his unfitting speech to the Governor, in affronting of him, is fined 13}t." - Records of Mass. Bay.
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Francis Willoughby (1639), of Charlestown, Aug. 22, 1638, called by Hutchinson, "a gentleman from England," was a son of William Willoughby, who was " a colonel of the city " of London. Francis Willoughby (1639) was a native of Kent, and had been for some time commander of a vessel. He joined the First Church in Charlestown, Oct. 10, 1639, and became a freeman May 13, 1640, from which time till his death he " was constantly engaged in public service." He was representative from Charlestown in 1642, 1646, and 1649; was chosen assistant in 1650, 1651, and 1664; was elected deputy governor in 1665, and held that office until his death, April 3, 1671, when Gen. John Leverett (1639) succeeded him.
In 1641, he, with others, invested largely in real estate in Charlestown, and built warehouses and wharves, and "prayed the court " to appoint fixed charges for wharfage, porterage, and storage. His wharves were on each side of the ferry ways, and his ship- yard on the site of the Fitchburg Railroad depot, or on Warren Avenue, where, in 1641, he was engaged in building a ship.
He went to England in 1651, and remained nearly eleven years. In 1652, he was appointed commissioner of the navy for Portsmouth, and in 1658-9 was a member of the British Parliament.
In 1662, when it was desired by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay to congratulate King Charles upon his restoration, a letter was written to Herbert Pelham (1639), Nehemiah Bourne (1638), Francis Willoughby (1639), and others, in London, asking them to supply the commissioners, upon their arrival, with such funds as they might require on account of the colony.
His widow, Margaret, married, Feb. 8, 1675, Capt. Laurence Hammond (1666), of Charlestown. Francis Willoughby (1639) left a large estate, for those times, being estimated at over four thousand pounds.
He was ensign of the Artillery Company in 1643. The Artillery Company doubtless joined in the funeral honors which were paid on the 7th of April to Deputy-Gov. Francis Willoughby (1639).
The officers elected were: Robert Sedgwick (1637), captain ; 1040-I . Capt. Femys (1638), lieutenant; William Tyng (1638), ensign ; senior sergeant, Thomas Savage (1637); junior sergeant, Francis Cosen (1640) ; clerk, John Johnson (1638). Capt. Sedgwick (1637) was one of the founders of the Artillery Company, very active and useful in its interests. It was believed that he had been a member of the present organization in London, until, on a careful exami- nation of its rolls, his name could not be found there. It is probable that Capt. Edward Johnson (1637) confounded the Artillery Garden with the Military Garden. "These Nurseries or Academies of Military Science," as they are styled by Lieut .- Col. Alton, a contemporary writer, were noted as having produced many good officers. "The Military
Francis Willoughby (1639). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1876, 1880; Froth- ingham's Hist. of Charlestown; Wyman's Gene- alogies and Estates of Charlestown, Vol. II .; Hurd's Hist. Middlesex Co., Vol. I .; Savage's Gen. Dict.
" 1671, April, Mr Francis Willoughby, Deputy Gover. of the Massachusetts Colony dyed. He desired to be buried one foot deep and to have ye
top of his grave plain, only covered with the turfs of grass." - Bradstreet's Journal.
Eleven foot companies were in attendance at his funeral, "with the doleful noise of trumpets and drums, in their mourning posture, three thundering volleys of shot discharged, answered with the loud roaring of the great guns, rending the heavens with noise at the loss of so great a man." - Noadiah Adams.
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Garden," he continues, " is famous for the great improvement of divers worthy persons of quality daily resorting, whose excellent skill in military exercises hath raised many of them to high preferment here at home and to places of honorable command abroad. The Captains-in-Chief of these academies are Major General Skippon and Major Henry Tellier, which latter was the first that ever showed in the Military Garden, (of which I am a member,) the marching of the souldiers in a regimental way."
The new members recruited in 1640-1 were : Joseph Cooke, David Courtney, Francis Cosen, Wentworth Day, Henry Dunster, Daniel Fisher, Joshua Fisher, John Friend, John Gutteridge, William Hudson, John Humfrey, John Hurd, Thomas Lechford, Lawrence Litchfield, Henry Looker, Francis Lyall, Thomas Marshall, James Oliver, Ralph Ory, Henry Phillips, Samuel Shepard, Christopher Stanley, Robert Turner, David Yale.
Joseph Cooke (1640), elder brother of Col. George Cooke (1638), came in the " Defence " in 1635, aged twenty-seven years. They were from Earl's Colne, in Essex, and there enjoyed the spiritual teaching of Rev. Thomas Shepard, who came in the same ship. Joseph (1640) and his brother George (1638) were registered as servants to Roger Harlakenden. The position was assumed as a disguise to enable them to leave England more easily. Even their teacher and friend, Rev. Thomas Shepard, embarked under a fictitious name and character, being styled "John Shepperd, husbandman."
These brothers became prominent citizens. Joseph's residence was on the east side of Holyoke Street, near Holyoke Place, in Cambridge. Connected with his house were several acres of land, extending northerly to Mount Auburn Street, and southerly and easterly to the marsh ; besides which, he owned several other houses and lots. He was admitted a freeman March 3, 1636, and was selectman of Cambridge from 1635 to 1645, except two years ; town clerk from 1635 to 1641 ; local magistrate from 1648 to 1657, and representative from 1636 to 1641. He also was a military man, for when his brother George (1638) had gone to England, "the Court think meet," says the record, " to desire Mr. Joseph Cooke [1640] to take charge of the Company in the absence of the Captain, and till the Court shall take further orders." He had charge of the Cambridge company from October, 1645, to November, 1647. Oct. 5, 1652, the County Court empowered " Mr. Henry Dunster [1640] and Mr. Joseph Cooke [1640] to improve the estate of Col. George Cooke [1638], deceased, for the good of Mary Cooke, his daughter," etc. Joseph Cooke (1640) went to England in 1658, and in 1665 was residing at Stannaway, Essex County, at which time he conveyed his homestead, and several lots of land, to his son. It is not known that he returned to America.
David Courtney (1640). The name Courtney is very plainly written on the oldest roll in the possession of the Artillery Company, but the authorities do not appear to mention it.
Francis Cosen, or Cozens (1640). This name does not appear on the old roll of the Company, but it has been inserted because, in the list of "Names of the officers of the Artillery Company . . . collected Sept 6 1680, by Nat. Barnes, Sec.," the name Francis Cosen appears in the list of officers for 1640-1. Mr. Cosen (1640) was " junior sergeant " in that year, and after his name and grade follow, in the same line, the words "Sergt. ffriend," implying that Sergt. John Friend (1640) acted as junior sergeant during a part, if not all, of the year.
Joseph Cooke (1640). AUTHORITIES: Savage's Gen. Dict .; Paige's Hist. of Cambridge.
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Wentworth Day (1640), of Boston in 1640, has the prefix of respect on his admis- sion to the church, Sept. 22 of that year.
April 26, 1641, " Our brother Mr Wentworth Day hath graunted unto him 100 acres of land for his greate Lott at Muddy River out of a parte of that land which was appoynted for the Comune." "He was a surgeon," Savage says, "at Cambridge," and is honored by Rev. Mr. Hale, of Beverly, in his tract on Witchcraft, as saving, in 1652, "a woman charged with the horrid offence." Probably he returned home, for one with his unusual name was, in 1658, fined and imprisoned, as one of the "fifth monarchy men," and for disturbing the reign of Oliver Cromwell. In 1661, he was living in London, and had a legacy in the will of Edward Shrimpton.
Henry Dunster (1640), Boston and Cambridge, was a son of Henry Dunster of Balehoult, England. He came over in 1640, and resided for a short time in Boston, on the north corner of Court and Washington streets. Dec. 13, 1641, the Cambridge records refer to Mr. Dunster's barn and the town spring near by. The barn stood on the northerly side of Brattle Street, near Church Street. In 1649, the town gave him four hundred acres of land. He was a member of the Cambridge church, and was admitted a freeman June 2, 1641. He was educated at Magdalen College, in the University of Cambridge, receiving his degrees in 1630 and 1634. He was elected president of Harvard College, Aug. 27, 1640, and resigned that office Oct. 24, 1654. Subsequently he preached in Scituate, and died there in February, 1659; but, as specially directed in his will, he was buried in Cambridge.
Daniel Fisher (1640), of Dedham, son of Anthony and Mary Fisher, of Dedham, was born at Syleham, Suffolk County, England, about 1620. He was a brother of Anthony (1644), and a cousin of Joshua (1640). He was admitted into the Dedham church in 1639. The record is as follows: "Daniel Fisher who appeared to be a tender hearted & hopeful, Christian young man, as allso divers of ye yt had long knowne him testified & so was easily and gladly received." He became a freeman May 13, 1640, and married, Nov. 18, 1641, Abigail Marriot, of Cambridge. He died Oct. 8, 1683, and his widow followed him upon the eleventh of the same month.
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