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Hopestill Foster (1642), and his mother, Patience, are recorded as being in the second emigration to Dorchester Plantation, which was in 1635. Hopestill was then fourteen years of age. He married Mary, daughter of James Bates. She died in 1703, aged eighty-three years. He joined the Dorchester church in 1638 ; became a freenian in 1639 ; was ensign of the Dorchester train-band, under Humfrey Atherton (1638), in 1644, and subsequently its captain. He served as a selectman from 1645 to 1674 inclusive, except 1646-9, 1651, 1653, and 1667. In 1675 he was elected, but declined. He was a deputy to the court in 1652, and afterwards a commissioner of trials. By his will, witnessed July 19, 1676, he gave five pounds towards the free school. He resided near the southwest corner of Adams and Centre streets. He was a brewer, active in all town affairs, a man of judgment, and deserved popularity.1 He died Oct. 15, 1676. He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1647. His son, Hopestill Foster (H. C., 1667), became a member of the same in 1673, and his grandson, Hopestill, in 1694.
Thomas Glover (1642), of Dorchester, son of John of the same, came in 1630 with his parents. John Glover was one of the original patentees of 1629. He was " a plain, sincere, godly man, strong for the truth." He was the first to set up tanning in Massa- chusetts. He owned land in Rhinehall, England, which he left by will, proved Feb. 9, 1653-4, to his son Thomas (1642). The latter was in England in 1661, and doubtless spent the remainder of his days there, where, Mr. Savage says, " he was well married."
William Patten (1642), of Cambridge, first appears in that town March 13, 1635-6, when he agreed with the town "to keep 100 cattle on the other side the River for the space of seven months for twenty pounds." He became a freeman in 1645. Mr. Patten (1642) does not appear to have been prominent in town affairs. He resided in Cam- bridge on the easterly side of North Avenue, opposite the common. He was one of the original proprietors of Billerica in 1658, and died there Dec. 10, 1668.
Michael Pepper (1642).
Thomas Rawlins (1642), son of Thomas and Mary Rawlins, of Roxbury and Scituate, was born in England, and came to America with his parents in 1630, in the same company as Gov. Winthrop. Thomas, Jr. (1642), resided in Boston, and married
Hopestill Foster (1642). AUTHORITIES : Hist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc .; Sav- age's Gen. Dict; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1885.
Thomas Glover (1642). AUTHORITIES : Hist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc .; Savage's Gen. Dict.
William Patten (1642). AUTHORITIES : Paige's Hist. of Cambridge; Savage's Gen. Dict.
1 His son, John, born Dec. 10, 1648, died Sept. 9, 1681, aged thirty-three years, was an ingenious printer and mathematician. He designed the arms for the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
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Sarah -. His will, dated Dec. 12, 1681, conveys his property to his nephew, Ephraim Kempton, of Salem, and to other relatives Thomas Rawlins, Sr , died March 15, 1660. He conveyed by will, March 12, 1660, some of his property to his wife, " and to his son Thomas [1642], a house in Boston, provided he live there with his mother as hereto- fore." It is added in the record of probate, that Thomas Rawlins (1642), "ye sonne, declared that knowing his father to have left his mother-in-law [stepmother] too little, he was free and willing and did give her nine pounds more."
Robert Selling (1642), as Mr. Whitman (18ro) suggests, should be Robert Seeley (1642). His sureties were Sergt. Leverett (1639), with whom he served in 1654, and Mr. Lyall (1640).
Robert Seeley (1642) was an early settler in Watertown. He became a freeman May 18, 1630, was a proprietor in 1636-7, and in 1642. In 1634, he, with Abraham Brown, was employed in the survey of Watertown, and soon after left the town. In 1637, he served as a lieutenant in the Pequot War, and afterward returned to the vicinity of Boston. In 1654, he led the forces, raised in New Hampshire for service, under Gen. Sedgwick (1637) and Gen. Leverett (1639), against the neighboring province of New Netherlands- a conflict that was prevented by the restoration of peace in Europe. In 1663, he was at the head of the militia at Huntington, Long Island, but later at New York. A Capt. Seeley was killed in a battle with the Indians in December, 1675, who, it is thought, was Capt. Robert Seeley (1642).
William Shepard (1642). Mr. Farmer was not misled, as Mr. Savage suggests, by reading "Mr." as an abbreviation for "Wm." This name, on the oldest roll of the Company, is plainly written "Mr. Wm Sheapheard." There was a Wm. Shepard in Dorchester, who was a servant of William Sumner. In April, 1636, he was whipped for stealing from his master ; and "in no other instance," says Savage, "is the name to be found in Massachusetts for the first quarter of a century."
The Mr. Shepard who joined the Artillery Company in 1642 had the prefix " Mr.," and his sureties were Capt. Sedgwick (1637) and Sergt. French (1638). He was prob- ably a sojourner or visitor in Boston, as others who defy all research were, their names not having become a part of the early town or colonial records.
Lawrence Smith (1642), of Dorchester, son of John Smith, the "quartermaster," who came to America in the ship " Mary and John," in 1630. He was called quarter- master because he had served in the Netherlands in that rank. Lawrence (1642) became a freeman May 10, 1643, and Mr. Savage says " he was often a selectman." He died Oct. 3, 1665. His name appears once in the Records of Massachusetts Bay, when he appeals to the court for damages on account of an apprentice being taken away from him.
Thomas Rawlins (1642). AUTHORITIES : Records of Families of the name of Rawlins, by John R. Rollins, Lawrence, 1874; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1854, 1855.
"Thomas Rawlins [Sr.] he brought 5 children to this Land. Thomas, Mary, Joane, Nathaniell, John. he came wth the first company, 1630."- Roxbury Church Records.
Robert Seeley (1642). AUTHORITIES : Bond's Watertown; Savage's Gen. Dict ; Hist. of Long Island; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842.
Lawrence Smith (1642). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Records of Mass. Bay.
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Richard Stowers (1642), son of Nicholas and Amy Stowers, of Charlestown, was born in England in 1620. He came to America with his parents in 1628. He became an inhabitant in 1648, was admitted to the church April 12, 1650, was made a freeman the next month, and in March, 1651-2, married Joanna -
In 1658, he was licensed to keep a house of entertainment in Charlestown.
He died July 8, 1693. His wife, Hannah, died Feb. 3, 1698-9.
Edward Tyng (1642), of Boston in 1639, was born in Dunstable, England, in the year 1610. He was a brewer, afterward a merchant. His name first appears in Boston Records, " Admitted to be an Inhabitant " of Boston, Nov. 25, 1639. He joined the First Church, Jan. 30, 1640, and was admitted to be a freeman June 2, 1640. He was a constable in 1642 ; selectman of Boston in 1645, 1648, and 1651 ; representative from Boston in 1661 and 1662, and an assistant from 1668 to 1680 inclusive. He died, while occupying the latter office, Dec. 28, 1681, at Dunstable, whither he moved in 1679. He was buried in the chapel burial-ground, Boston. His burial-place became the property of the Waldo family. Mr. Whitman (1810) gives his age as eighty-one ; Farmer and Savage, as seventy-one. In his will, proved Jan. 19, 1682, he speaks of his "old age." His daughter, Hannah, married Habijah Savage (1665), and afterward Major-Gen. Gookin (1645). Another daughter, Rebecca, married in 1669, Joseph Dudley (1677), afterward governor. His brother, William, joined the Artillery Company in 1638. Two only of his sons grew to manhood, - Edward (1668) and Jonathan (1670). He held a colonel's commission, and was chosen by the General Court major- general, to succeed Gen. Leverett (1639). The house, brew-house, warehouse, and wharf in front, " My wharf against the end of the great street," i. e., State Street, corner of Merchants Row, were where Mr. Faneuil had subsequently his warehouse, and where still later the Admiral Vernon Tavern stood.
Richard Way (1642), of Dorchester, son of Henry, was born in England about 1620, and came to America with his parents in 1630 or 1631. He was admitted to be a freeman May 10, 1643. He moved to Salem, - his children were born there, - but removed to Boston about 1660. He joined the First Church Feb. 17, 1661. He married (1) Esther, daughter of Thomas Jones ( 1643), of Dorchester, and (2) Hannah, sister of Col. Penn Townsend (1674) and widow of Thomas Hull (1667).
He was active in town affairs after his settlement in Boston. April 29, 1672, "Lt. Richard Way [1642 ] to sell stronge watr but not lesse than a pinte at once," is recorded as a vote of the selectmen. A license to sell strong drink was granted him for ten years, though he was by trade a cooper. Nov. 14, 1673, the selectmen ordered certain coopers not to build any fire in their cooper-shop chimneys until they were repaired to the satis- faction of the selectmen. Lieut. Richard Way (1642) is the first cooper named. This was a precaution against fire, which, however, did occur, and March 26, 1677, Lieut. Richard Way (1642) was allowed four pounds for his stable which was pulled down
Richard Stowers (1642). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Wyman's Charlestown Gene- alogies and Estates; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1849 (will of Nicholas Stowers); Report of Boston Rec. Com., Vol. III., p. 98 (deed of homestead, bought by Richard Stowers, June 25, 1646).
Edward Tyng (1642). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Hurd's Hist. of Middlesex Co.,
Vol. I., pp. 738, 739; Savage's Edition of Win- throp's Hist. of New Eng .; Fox's Hist. of Dun- stable; Report of Boston Rec. Com., 1634-1660.
Richard Way (1642). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1847, 1875; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Hist. of Dorchester; Report of Boston Rec. Com., 1660-1701.
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"in the last fire." He was a lieutenant for about twenty years, serving in 1686 in Capt. Turell's (1660) company. He was ensign of the Artillery Company in 1669, and a lieutenant in 1671. He died June 23, 1697.
Adam Winthrop (1642), the fifth son of Gov. John Winthrop, was born April 7, 1620, at Groton, England, and came to America in the ship " Lion," Nov. 2, 1631, with his mother. He was admitted to the First Church July 4, 1640, and became a freeman June 2, 1641. His first wife was Elizabeth Glover, daughter of Rev. José Glover and stepdaughter of President Dunster (1640) ; his second, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hawkins (1638). His son, Adam, Jr., joined the Artillery Company in 1692. Adam, Sr., died Aug. 24, 1652, being at the time a selectman of Boston. His widow married Major John Richards (1644).
John Woodde (1642), of Roxbury, son of Richard. John was admitted to be a freeman about 1644, was brother of Richard (1642), and married Mary, daughter of John Coggan (1638). He died May 23, 1650, "a christian and godly brother," says the church record.
Richard Woodde (1642), of Roxbury, brother of John (1642), was a soap-boiler ; admitted to be a freeman in 1644. He moved to Boston. In the Second Report of the Boston Record Commissioners, under date of Jan. 26, 1651-2, it says, "Richard Wooddy is Admitted an Inhabitant upon his promise not to be offensive by his Trayd to the Towne." April 2, 1658, the selectmen of Boston leased to Richard Woodde (1642) and James Everill, "Bird Iland ... for sixty years, they paying 12d silver or a bushel of salt," per annum. In 1666, he manufactured saltpetre ; and was ensign in the militia in 1674. He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1655, fourth sergeant in 1662, ensign in 1667, lieutenant in 1669, and captain in 1677. He died in 1680-1, and administration on his estate was granted May 6, 1681.
The officers elected were: Capt. George Cooke (1638), captain ; 1643-4. Thomas Hawkins (1638), lieutenant ; Francis Willoughby (1639), ensign ; John Leverett (1639), senior sergeant ; Thomas French (1638), junior sergeant ; Anthony Stoddard (1639), clerk, and Arthur Perry (1638), drummer.
When La Tour visited Boston, in June, 1643, the fortifications erected in 1635 on Castle Island, afterwards Fort Independence, had so gone to decay that his salute could not be returned. The fort was consequently repaired, at the expense of Boston and the five nearest towns. It was reconstructed of large pine logs, stones, and earth ; 'made fifty feet square inside, with walls two feet thick. Mention is made of the Artillery Company going down to the fort and firing the great guns.
"The next week, the training day occurred at Boston ; and La Tour, having expressed a wish to exercise his men on shore, was allowed on that occasion to land
John Woodde (1642). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1853; Savage's Gen. Dict .; ' Roxbury Church Records.
"[1650] May 23, John Wooddie dyed of the
small pox." - Rev. S. Danforth's Records of Rox- bury Church.
Richard Woodde (1642). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1853, p. 339 (will).
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forty men. They were escorted to the field by the Boston company, which numbered one hundred and fifty men. After the exercises were over, La Tour and his officers were invited home to dinner by the Boston officers, and his soldiers by the Boston soldiers." 1 La Tour was entertained during his visit to Boston at the home of Gen. Gibbons (1637).
The tyrannical King and the patriotic Parliament having taken up arms against each other, the hostile attitude of the aborigines prompted an alliance of the English- speaking colonists. Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven were repre- sented by commissioners who united in Articles of Confederation, under the name of " The United Colonies of New England," for a firm and perpetual league, for offence and defence, and mutual advice and succor. This act was consummated May 19, 1643, O. S. When the threatened danger was averted, the temporary alliance ceased, but it was renewed again and again, as hostilities against the Indians or French formed a bond of cohesion, which finally resulted in independence. In the consummation of this desirable confederation, members of the Artillery Company took an active and influential part.
The social aspects of life in Massachusetts at this time were especially reverential. Family government was efficient, and military organization furnished the only titles of distinction. There was a general cultivation of reverence towards God and the Common- wealth, without a nobility in the government or forms in religion. The clergy were a recognized institution, the school-masters were abroad, and the drill-sergeants were diligent.
The magistrates of Massachusetts undertook at first to oppress trade by creating monopolies, and by forbidding the people to buy goods at vessels which might arrive, but giving the privilege to nine men and their partners to select such goods as might be wanted, and sell them at a profit of five per cent within twenty days. Six of the men who made the law were mentioned in it as proprietors of this profitable scheme, which disposed of the goods that were really wanted and of quick sale, leaving for regular merchants only those which were out of season. Joshua Hewes (1637) defied the law as unjust, and was arrested ; but the " ring " was broken up. The year after his successful resistance to monopolies, Mr. Hewes (1637) and others organized “ A Free Company of Adventurers," in order to divert the principal trade of Indians in beaver- skins to New England. These skins, like corn and bullets, were used as money at fixed prices, and while the Dutch settlement in New York and the Swede in Delaware appeared to have better opportunities to obtain such skins than Massachusetts, yet they were supposed to be brought in the largest quantities from the "Great Lakes," which Boston people thought were located in the northern part of the Massachusetts grant. This company was likewise unsuccessful.
The new members recruited in 1643-4 were : William Aspinwall, John Barnard, John Barrell, Richard Barthelemey, Thomas Bell, Matthew Bridge, Thomas Bridge, James Browne, John Button, Francis Chickering, Richard Cooke, Richard Cutter, John Davis, William Davis, Edward Fletcher, John Gurnall, John Hill, Atherton Hough, Thomas Jones, Henry Maudsley, Francis Norton, Peter Oliver, John Plympton, Hugh Pritchard, William Robinson, John Scarborough, Benjamin Smith, John Smith, Samuel Titterton, Robert Turner, William Ware, John Webb, Robert Wright.
1 Mem. Hist. of Boston, I., 286.
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William Aspinwall (1643), of Charlestown in 1630, probably came in the fleet with Winthrop. He served on the first jury of inquest in the colony, Sept. 28, 1630, was one of the first members of the First Church, and was chosen a deacon thereof at its organization. He removed to Boston, and was admitted a freeman April 3, 1632. He was a selectman of Boston the first term of 1636 and the last of 1637, and was chosen a representative from Boston in the place of Henry Vane, who returned to England in August, 1637 ; but being a signer of the famous petition concerning Mr. Wheelwright, and a supporter of the principles of Mrs. Hutchinson, he was rejected by the court, disarmed, disfranchised, and banished. He went to Rhode Island, and was the first secretary of that colony. Thence he removed to New Haven, where he lived in 1641. Under date of March 27, 1642, Winthrop says, "Mr. William Aspinwall [1643], who had been banished, as is before declared, for joining with Mr. Wheelwright, being licensed by the general court to come and tender his submission, etc., was this day reconciled to the church of Boston. He made a very free and full acknowledgment of his error and seducement, and that with much detestation of his sin. The like he did after, before the magistrates, who were appointed by the Court to take his submission, and upon their certificate thereof at the next general court, his sentence of banishment was released."
After his return to Boston, he was clerk of the writs, or recorder, and in 1644 was appointed a notary public. Oct. 14, 1651, for reflecting upon the judgment of the court, he was fined, and deposed from the offices of recorder for Suffolk County and clerk of the writs for Boston. He resided on Washington Street, the third estate above Francis Lyall's (1640) barber-shop, which was opposite where the Old South Church now stands. The lot of William Aspinwall (1643) extended from Washington Street to Tremont Street, and contained about two acres. In 1652, he sold this property to John Angier, his son-in-law.
In 1644, it appears he went with others on a voyage of discovery to Delaware River, and their pinnace was fired upon from the Swedish fort. He made great complaint of this act to the Dutch Governor, and particularly that they were forced to weigh anchor on the Lord's Day.
He was a proprietor of Watertown, though he never resided there, and went back to England in 1653, never to return.
Mr. Aspinwall (1643) published several books in England, among which was one with the following title : " A brief Description of the Fifth Monarchy or Kingdom that is shortly to come into the World; the Monarch, Subjects, Officers and Laws thereof, and the surpassing Glory, Amplitude, Unity and Peace of that Kingdom, &c." In the conclusion there is "added a Prognostic of the time when the Fifth Kingdom shall begin, by William Aspenwall, N. E." The book was printed in " London, by M. Sim- mons, to be sold by Livewell Chapman, at the Crown in Pope's-head-Alley, 1653." By his theory, Antichrist's dominion was to cease, or the fifth monarchy to be set up, in 1673. Two years after, another of his works, with the following title, was printed in London : " An Abstract of Laws and Government &c, collected and digested by John Cotton, of Boston, in N. E. in his lifetime presented to our General Court and now published after his death by William Aspenwall."
Mr. Whitman (1810) gives the following specimen of a judicial proceeding by Mr. Aspinwall (1643), when recorder : -
William Aspinwall (1643). AUTHORITIES: Savage's Edition of Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng .;
Savage's Gen. Dict .; Records of Mass. Bay; Mem. Hist. of Boston.
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"To the Marshal or his Deputy :
"You are required to attach the goods or lands of William Stevens, to the value of £100, so as to bind the same to be responsible at the next Court at Boston, 29th of the 5th month, to answer the complaint of Mr. James Astwood [1638], in an action of debt to the value of £50, upon a bill of exchange; and so make a true return hereof under your hand.
" Dated 29th 2d month, 1650.
"per curiam
" WILLIAM ASPINWALL."
Mr. Whitman (1810) adds, "This brevity is exceeded only by the warrant of an Indian magistrate in the early settlement of the country, viz. : -
"' I, Hihondi, You, Peter Waterman, Jeremy Thwackit, "' Before me. HIHONDI.' "
"'Quick you take him, Fast you hold him, Straight you bring him,
John Barnard (1643). Mr. Whitman (1810) says he was of Cambridge. John Barnard, of Cambridge, moved in 1636 to Hartford, Conn., and thence in 1659 to Hadley, Mass. The John Barnard (1643) of the Artillery Company was, more probably, John, of Watertown, who came to America from Ipswich, England, in 1634, aged thirty years ; was admitted a freeman March 4, 1634-5 ; he was a selectman of Watertown in 1644, and was buried June 4, 1646.
John Barrell (1643), of Boston, was a cooper. In 1656, he was ensign of the Artillery Company, having served as fourth sergeant in 1651, and first in 1654. In Boston Records he is called (1651-3) "Sergt," and he held some minor town offices. In 1654, he was sent, with Richard Waite (1638), as messenger to the Indians, for which the General Court allowed each of them three shillings per day. In August, 1654, Mr. Barrell (1643) was appointed an officer to prevent the exportation of money. He died Aug. 29, 1658.
Richard Barthelemey (1643), of Salem in 1638, had a grant of land from the Salem authorities. He was admitted to be a freeman June 2, 1641, having joined the church there, July 31, 1640. He died in 1646.
Thomas Bell (1643) resided in Boston as early as 1637, when "a house plott neere to Mr Dyar's," and a great lot at the Mount, were granted him. His house and garden were on the south side of Summer Street, about midway between Washington and South streets. He was the public executioner in 1649, and, therefore, the General Court exempted him " from watchings." He died June 7, 1655.
Matthew Bridge (1643), of Cambridge, probably came over with his father, John, in 1632. He married Anna, daughter of Nicholas Danforth. He resided on the north- west corner of Brattle and Mason streets, a property he bought in 1657. Subsequently he moved to the Farms, now Lexington, and improved four hundred acres which he
John Barnard (1643). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Bond's Watertown.
John Barrell (1643). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1848, p. 353.
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owned there. In May, 1637, by some mischance, he killed John Abbot, for which he was arrested. Sept. 19, 1637, " Matthew Bridge appearing, and no evidence coming in against him, he was quit by proclamation." He was a respected and influential towns- man, and died April 28, 1700, having attained a great age.1
Thomas Bridge (1643), of Cambridge, a brother of Matthew (1643), was born in Essex County, England. He died before March 10, 1657, at which time the inventory of his estate was taken. It is said that Thomas (1643) and his wife, Dorcas, died of small-pox in Boston, in 1656.2
James Browne (1643), of Boston in 1630, was a member of the First Church, and was admitted to be a freeman March 4, 1634. He died in 1651, and his will was proved Aug. 7, 1651. On certain conditions, he willed his house and land to the church. This property was on Court Street, opposite the old court-house.3
John Button (1643), of Boston in 1633, was a miller by trade. He was born about 1594, joined the First Church Dec. 22, 1633, was admitted to be a freeman May 4, 1634, and in 1637 was disarmed, being a sympathizer with Mr. Wheelwright. He owned one acre in the Mill-field, and three lots, with houses thereon, on north side of the present Elm Street. His mill was on the former lot, near which he resided. He was a contributor among the "richer inhabitants," Aug. 12, 1636, towards the maintenance of a free schoolmaster. He held several minor town offices, and died in 1681. By his will, dated Nov. 5, 1681, he gave twenty pounds to the First Church, "to buy two silver cups."
Francis Chickering (1643), of Dedham, came in 1637 from Suffolk County, Eng- land, bringing his family. His first wife was Ann Fiske, whom he married in England. She was buried Dec. 6, 1640, and he married, second, June 11, 1650, Mrs. Sarah Sibley.
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