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The new members recruited in 1646-7 were : George Barber, William Blake, Edmund Bowker, John Capen, Roger Clap, William Clark, Hugh Gunnison, Richard Harding, Richard Harrison, Edmund Jackson, Nathaniel Newgate, William Parsons, Brian Pendleton, Edward Preston, John Ruggles, John Shaw, Richard Whittington.
George Barber (1646), of Dedham, was born in England about 1615. He came to America in the "Transport " in 1635. He became a townsman in Dedham in 1640, took the freeman's oath in 1647, and soon after settled in what is now Medfield. In November, 1641, he contracted with the selectmen of Medfield to build a mill, " for the supply of the town," which he did on Mill Brook, near where Elm Street crosses it. The next year he sold the mill to Henry Adams (1652). Oct. 26, 1652, the General Court ordered that the town of " Medfield, being not capable of choosing commissioned officers, the Court doth grant that George Barber [1646] whom they have chosen as eldest sergeant, shall carry on the military exercise there." He was promoted to be captain of the foot company prior to 1678. In 1663, he " beat the drum," and received from the town therefor four bushels and three pecks of corn.
He served ten years on the board of selectmen of Medfield, and was a representative from that town to the General Court nine years, viz., 1668, 1669, 1673, 1676, 1677, and 1679 to 1682. He married, (1) Nov. 24, 1642, Elizabeth Clark, who died in 1683 ; and (2) Joan (Faxon), widow of Anthony Fisher (1644), of Dedham. Capt. Barber (1646) died in 1683.
William Blake (1646), of Dorchester, came over in the "Mary and John " from Little Baddow, Essex County, England, arriving at Nantasket May 30, 1630. He was born in England in 1594 ; joined the church at Dorchester in 1636 ; was granted land in 1637 ; admitted to be a freeman March 14, 1638-9, and was a selectman in 1645, 1647, and 1651. In 1636, he went with Pynchon to Springfield, but remained less than a year. He lived in that part of Dorchester which, in 1662, was incorporated as Milton. He was the " Recorder for ye Towne, Clerk of ye Writs for ye Co. of Suffolk, 1656," in which office he continued until his death. He was a very useful and prominent citizen. He died Oct. 25, 1663. By his will, dated Sept. 3, 1661, he gave "Vnto ye Towne of Dor- chester, £20. to be bestowed for ye repairing of ye Burying Place, so yt swine and other vermiine may not Anoy ye graues of ye saints."
Edmund Bowker (1646), of Dorchester, is recorded in the History of Dorchester. He married Mary Potter, of that town, and removed to Sudbury, where he died in March, 1666.
George Barber (1646). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg., IS48; Records of Mass. Bay; Tilden's Ilist. of Medfield; Savage's Gen. Dict.
William Blake (1646). AUTHORITIES: New
Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg , 1858, p. 153 (will); 1867, p. 292; Ilist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc .; Ilurd's Ilist. of Middlesex Co., Vol. III., p. 398; Teele's Ilist. of Milton.
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John Capen (1646), of Dorchester, only son of Bernard Capen, of Dorchester, was born in England in 1612. He was admitted a freeman May 14, 1634; was a deacon of the church in 1658; elected selectman of Dorchester for sixteen years ; a representa- tive in 1671, and from 1673 to 1678; town recorder for thirteen years, writing more in the town records than any other man, and was fourth sergeant in the Artillery Company in 1650. He was called lieutenant in 1674, and March 30, 1683, was elected captain of the foot company in Dorchester. He was by trade a shoemaker, and his house is sup- posed to have stood at the corner of Pleasant and Pond streets.
Capt. Capen (1646) married, (1) Oct. 20, 1637, Radigan Clap, who died Dec. 10, 1645 ; and, (2) Sept. 20, 1647, Mary Bass, of Braintree. He died April 6, 1692. It was to Mr. Capen's (1646) house that Nicholas Upshall (1637) was "removed out of prison, in 1661."
Roger Clap (1646), of Dorchester in 1630, came in the "Mary and John " from Plymouth, and arrived at Nantasket May 30 of that year. He was born April 6, 1609, in Salcombe, on the coast of Devonshire, England. Roger Clap, in his Memoirs, mentions that the passage over was made in seventy days, and the Word of God was preached and expounded every day during the voyage. He was one of the original settlers of Dor- chester. His autobiography is contained in his oft-published Memoirs. He was granted land in 1633, and filled most of the important offices of the town at various times from 1637 to 1665.
He was admitted a freeman in 1634, and was a founder of the church in Dorchester in 1630, of which he continued a member sixty years. He was lieutenant of the Dorchester train-band in 1644, and was afterwards its captain. He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1647, and was its lieutenant in 1655. He was representative from Dorchester in 1647, and from 1652 to 1665, - except 1658, - and in 1671; in all, fifteen years. In 1659, the General Court granted him five hundred acres of land.
Aug. 10, 1665, immediately after the death of Capt. Davenport (1639), the General Court appointed Capt. Clap (1646) to the command of Castle William, a position he held until 1686, when he resigned it. After the new charter, the command became a sinecure, and was usually assigned to the lieutenant-governor. The fort was burned March 21, 1672-3, when Capt. Clap (1646) commanded, but was immediately rebuilt. He was of the ultra-Puritan school, and by no means tolerant of the innovations attempted by the Antinomians and Quakers. It is said of him that his soldiers were treated as of his own family, and none were permitted to be enlisted but pious as well as brave men.
So greatly was he beloved by the people of Dorchester, that in the year 1676, "when taken sick, they kept a day of fasting and prayer to beg his life of God, and, when he recovered, a day of thanksgiving." He died Feb. 2, 1690-1, and his grave- stone, in the chapel ground, is standing, on which his name is plainly legible. He was
John Capen (1646). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1848, p. So; 1866, p. 246; Hist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc .; Records of Mass. Bay.
Roger Clap (1646). AUTHORITIES: King's Chapel Burial-Ground, by Bridgman, p. 239; Hist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc .; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Records of Mass. Bay.
" [1686] Sept. 24. Friday. Capt Clapp leaves
the Castle; about nine Guns fired at his going off. It seems Capt. Clap is not actually come away, but Capt Winthrop, and Lient Thomas Savage did this day receive their Commissions." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., P. 152.
Capt. Clap left the Castle Sept. 29, 1686.
"[1690-1] Feb. 2. This morn Capt Roger Clap dies, about 86 years old." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., p. 340.
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buried with much pomp; the military officers - probably the Artillery Company - pre- ceding the corpse, the Governor and General Court following the relatives as mourners, and the guns firing at the Castle.
" In his natural temper he was of a cheerful and pleasant disposition, courteous and kind in behaviour, free and familiar in his conversation, yet attended with proper reservedness, and he had a gravity and presence that commanded respect."
William Clark (1646), of Dorchester, came over in the second emigration, 1635. He was selectman in 1646, 1647, and 1650. He removed in 1659 to Northampton, for which town he was representative in 1663, and for thirteen years afterward, but not consecutively. He was commissioned by the General Court as lieutenant, Oct. 8, 1662, and he held that position in active service in King Philip's War. In 1662, he was authorized to solemnize marriages in Northampton, and in 1665 was elected an associate judge of the Hampshire court.
Lieut.' Clark (1646) died July 19, 1690, aged eighty-one years. His gravestone still stands in the old burying-ground at Northampton.
Hugh Gunnison (1646), of Boston in 1634, was admitted to the First Church March 22, 1635, when he is called "servant to our brother Richard Bellingham," and became a freeman May 25, 1636. He was one of the persons disarmed in 1637, and the same year had a grant of land at Mount Wollaston.
Feb. 28, 1642, Hugh Gunnison (1646) applied to the selectmen for permission to keep an " Ordinary with a cook's shop," and in 1649 reference is made to his " signe post." In 1650, Hugh Gunnison (1646) was called "a vintner." He was licensed by the selectmen, and kept a tavern called King's Arms, on Dock Square, "facing to the head of the Dock." He sold this tavern, with barns, brew-house, etc., and removed to Kittery about 1652. May 18, 1653, he was licensed by the General Court to keep an ordinary, and to sell wine and strong water. The same day the General Court appointed him an associate commissioner in the court holden at Kittery.
He represented Wells in the General Court in 1654, and was returned as re-elected in 1657, but for some reason he was considered by the court "vnmeete " for that trust, and was discharged therefrom.
Richard Harding ( 1646) was of Boston in 1640. He is probably the Capt. Harding mentioned several times in the Second Report of the Boston Record Commissioners. Richard Harding's (1646) lot was that on which, in 1640, the new meeting-house for the First Church was erected, now occupied by the Rogers Building, on Washington Street.
Mr. Drake, in the History of Boston, p. 243, says Mr. Harding (1646) "was one of the disarmed, went to Rhode Island and was a prominent man in that colony."
Richard Harrison (1646). On the record of 1680, this name is plainly written. Richard Harrison (1646) was probably a resident of New Haven, and joined the Company while temporarily sojourning in Boston or vicinity. He died in New Haven, Oct. 25, 1653.
William Clark (1646). AUTHORITIES: Pil- grims of Boston, p. 310; Records of Mass. Bay.
Hugh Gunnison (1646). AUTHORITIES : New
Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 188o. p. 42; Records of Mass. Bay; Boston Records, 1634-1660; Savage's Gen. Dict.
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Edmund Jackson (1646), of Boston in 1635, was a shoemaker, and joined the First Church Nov. 15, 1635. He became a freeman May 25, 1636. He was chosen a sealer of leather in 1647 and 1661, a constable in 1650, clerk of the market in 1657, and in 1673 was licensed to keep a house of public entertainment and sell beer, which was repeatedly renewed. His will of May 2, 1675, was proved July 28 following. He was married three times, his second wife being Mary, daughter of Samuel Cole (1637). His house and garden were on the corner of Hanover and Sudbury streets, where, during the provincial period, the Orange Tree Inn stood.
Nathaniel Newgate (1646), of Boston, son of John of the same, was born at South- wark, near London Bridge, England, and came over with his parents in 1632. Nathaniel (1646), before his marriage, returned to England. Nathaniel's (1646) eldest sister, Elizabeth, married John Oliver (1637) ; his youngest sister, Hannah, married Simon Lynde (1658), and his sister Sarah married Peter Oliver (1643), brother of John Oliver (1637).
William Parsons (1646), of Boston, came, probably, in the "James" from South- ampton, in 1635. He was a joiner by trade ; was admitted to the First Church April 20, 1644 ; was admitted to be a townsman Dec. 2, 1644, and became a freeman in 1645. His house and garden were on the northeast corner of the present Water and Devonshire streets. He died Jan. 29, 1701-2, aged eighty-eight years.
Brian Pendleton (1646) was born in 1599, for when he was a witness in York County Court (now in Maine), in July, 1669, he gave his age as seventy years. He came to this country with his wife, Eleanor, and children, Mary and James. He was admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts Colony Sept. 3, 1634. He settled in Water- town ; was a selectman of that town in 1635, 1636, and 1637, and was representative in 1636, 1637, and 1638. In the last-named year, he, with others, set the bounds of the town of Sudbury, and in 1640 was desired to train the company of that town. About 1645, he returned to Watertown, and was again its representative in 1647 and 1648. March 20, 1648-9, he sold his real estate in Watertown to Robert Daniel, of Cambridge, and the same year purchased a six-hundred-acre farm in Ipswich, where for a time he probably resided. In 1651, he became interested in the plantation at Strawberry Bank (Portsmouth, N. H.), for, Oct. 23, 1651, he was appointed an associate to hold court at that place. He represented this new plantation in the General Court in 1654, 1658, 1660, 1661, and 1663. In 1663, he was appointed commissioner to enforce the navigation laws on the river "Piscataqua," at the Isles of Shoals, and ports adjacent. In 1664, he was commissioned captain of a military company at Portsmouth, and in 1668 he was made major at Saco, "he to settle Blackpoint "; and at the same time was directed to assist in keeping the court at York.
In 1669, when New Hampshire was a royal province, it was governed by a president and eight councillors, appointed by King Charles II. Brian Pendleton (1646) was one
Edmund Jackson (1646). AUTHORITY : Sav- age's Gen. Dict.
William Parsons (1646). AUTHORITY : Sav- age's Gen. Dict,
" [Saturday] Jan. 31, 1701-2. William Par- sons of 88 years, is buried. Was in the fifth-mon-
archy fray in London; but slipt away in the crowd." - Sewall Papers, Vol. II., p. 52.
Brian Pendleton (1646). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1847, P. 53 (letter of Mr. Pendleton) ; 1849 (will); Williamson's Hist. of Maine, Vol. 1., p. 686; Savage's Gen. Dict.
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of these councillors. In 1672, he was relieved of military command, at his own request, and his regiment became the care of Major-Gen. John Leverett (1639).
His commission as associate for the county of York was renewed in 1675, and again in 1676.
June 12, 1673, he purchased of John Paine, of Boston, seven hundred acres of land in Westerly, R. I., and gave to his son James a life-interest in the same, and, at his death, they were to be equally divided among the children of James's second wife, Hannah.
He was possessed of a large estate, perhaps larger than that of any other person in Portsmouth. He was described in a list of the Royalists and Puritans in Maine (sup- posed to have been written by Edward Randolph about 1680), in the following words : " Major Bryan Pendleton [1646], a man of Saco River, of great estate, but very precise, independent, [is] beloved only by those of his fraternity, being both an enemy to the King's interest and Mr. Gorges' interest, also a great ring leader of others to the utmost of his power." A clue to Major Pendleton's (1646) American home may possibly be furnished by the deposition of Job Tookie, made June 27, 1683, wherein he says " that his grandfather, minister of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, was an acquaintance of Major Pendle- ton [1646] of Winter Harbor, then lately deceased."
Major Pendleton (1646) returned from Saco to Portsmouth in 1676, where, on the 7th of August, 1677, he made his will, and he died in 1681.
Edward Preston (1646) was probably the son of William Preston, of Dorchester. He came over in the ship "Christian," the first ship from London, in 1635, and was thirteen years of age. The father removed to New Haven as early as 1639, and his son Edward is called, " of New Haven." The latter seems to have lived in both New Haven and Boston. He was in Connecticut (not New Haven) in 1643 and 1644-5, but in 1651, 1654, and 1655, had children born in Boston. His name does not appear in the Boston Book of Possessions, nor in the town records, except in records of births.
John Ruggles (1646), of Roxbury, born in England, came over in 1635 in the ship " Hopewell," when he was ten years of age. The church record says, "John [1646] was brought over a servant by Phillip Eliot." The homestead of Thomas Ruggles, John's father, was on the south side of the First Church, and included the hill where the lower Roxbury fort stood. The property extended from Dudley Street, beyond Cedar, on the south, and from the Norfolk House to Centre Street, on the west. John Ruggles (1646) was admitted a freeman in 1654, was a sergeant in the military, and died, or was buried, Sept. 15, 1658.
John Shaw (1646), of Boston, was a butcher. "The 26: 12:54 . .. Itt is this daye ordered that there shall be a distresse leveyed upon the land the which was John Shawes, bucher, for the Rent which is behind due to the Towne upon the Dock Caled Bendalls Dock." 1 He died July 23, 1687.
John Ruggles (1646). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Drake's Hist. of Roxbury.
"John Ruggles. he came to New Eng. in the yeare 1635 & soone after his coming joyned the church. he brought his first borne, John Ruggles, with him." - Roxbury Church Records.
His father's will is given in New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1849, p. 265; and his, in same, 1855, P. 139.
1 Boston Town Records, Second Report, pp. 122 and 153.
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Richard Whittington, or Withington (1646), of Dorchester, son of Henry, was born in England, came to America in 1636, and admitted to be a freeman May 13, 1640. Richard's sister, Faith, married Richard Baker (1658). Richard Whittington (1646) was chosen ruling elder in the Dorchester church in 1651, and deacon in 1669. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Eliot (1638). He was a selectman in 1675, 1676, and 1677. He died Dec. 22, 1701, aged about eighty-three years.
1647-8 The officers elected were : Robert Keayne (1637), captain ; Eleazer Lusher (1638), lieutenant, and Francis Norton (1643), ensign. Joshua Hewes (1637) was first sergeant ; Roger Clap (1646), second sergeant ; William Hudson (1640), third sergeant ; Hopestill Foster (1642), fourth sergeant ; Anthony Stoddard (1639), clerk ; John Audlin (1638), armorer, and Arthur Perry (1638), drummer.
The clamor raised against Capt. Robert Keayne (1637), at the instigation of George Story, had prompted his fellow-townsmen to elect him a deputy from Boston to the General Court, and the military company which he founded manifested its confidence in him by re-electing him its commander.
The new members recruited in 1647-8 were : Thomas Bumstead, Abraham Busby, John Hansett, John Hill, Giles Payson, and Roger Williams.
Thomas Bumstead (1647), of Roxbury. The church records of that town say : "Thomas Bumstead came to this Land in the 5t month of the yeare 1640," in which year he became a freeman. He moved to Boston in 1643, and died there June 22, 1677.
The Boston Book of Possessions, p. 103, mentions Goodman Bumstead as residing in a house adjoining the mansion-house belonging to John Coggan (1638), corner of State and Washington streets.
Mr. Whitman (1810) says, in the History of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- lery Company, p. : 55, "His gravestone in the Granary ground records, 'Thomas Bumsted died June 22ª 1677.' His estate was opposite the burial-ground, a valuable portion of which has remained in the family ever since [1842] and was lately the resi- dence of Major Thomas Bumstead [1764]. The elegant blocks of Hamilton Place and Bumstead Place stand on his land, also the Masonic Temple [corner Tremont Street and Temple Place ]."
Mr. Winthrop says (1644), "A private matter or two fell out about this time, the power and mercy of the Lord did appear in them in an extraordinary manner. A child of one [Thomas] Bumstead [1647], a member of the church, fell from a gallery in the meeting-house, and broke the arm and shoulder, and was also committed to the Lord in
Richard Whittington (1646). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1851, p. 468; IIist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc.
Thomas Bumstead (1647), AUTHORITIES: Savage's Edition of Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng., Vol. II., p. 250; Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict
"Thomas Bumstead. he came to this Land in the 5 month of the year 1640. he brought two
small children Thomas & Jeremiah. He and his wife [Susanna] were dismissed to Boston." - Rox- bury Church Records.
The will of Thomas Bumstead, brazier, made May 25, 1677, mentions his son, Jeremy, and daugh- ters, Hannah, Mary, wife of Ambrose Dawes (1674), and Mercy. - See Suffolk Probate Records, Vol. VI., p. 530.
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the prayers of the church, with earnest desires, that the place where his people assembled to his worship might not be defiled with blood, and it pleased the Lord also that this child was soon perfectly recovered."
Abraham Busby (1647), of Boston, was a linen weaver, and a son of Nicholas, of Watertown. Abraham came with his parents from old Norwich, England, to Boston, June 20, 1637. He was admitted a freeman in 1650. The father moved to Boston in 1646, and willed to his wife, and after her to his son, Abraham (1647), his new dwelling- house and garden, situated on Washington Street, about one third the distance from West to School streets.
He held several minor town offices, and died March 20, 1687. Sarah Busby, who married Thomas Cakebread (1637), was a sister of Abraham Busby (1647).
John Hansett (1647), of Boston, is called, on his admission to the church, July 13, 1634, "Servant to our pastor John Wilson." He was admitted a freeman May 17, 1637, and soon removed to Braintree. Not long after, he took up his residence in Roxbury. It is recorded in the church records of the latter place, written by Rev. John Eliot, under date of Feb. 23, 1684, " Old John Hansett [1647] buried."
In October, 1637, the selectmen of Boston granted him a great lot at Mount Wollaston. In 1646, he bought a house and garden of Abraham Page, situated on Milk Street, where the Boston Post building formerly stood. "The spot got its chief glory sixty years later, when Benjamin Franklin was born here."
John Hill (1647), of Dorchester, a blacksmith, came to America in 1633, and united with the church in Dorchester in July, 1641. He was one of the selectmen of Dorchester in 1636, was admitted a freeman in 1642, and died in 1664, his will being proved June 14 of that year.
Giles Payson (1647), of Roxbury, came in the "Hopewell" from London, 1635, aged twenty-six years, and was admitted a freeman April 18, 1637. He was a member of the church in Roxbury, and the records say he "married a maide servant, Elizabeth Dowell." He became a deacon of that church, held many town offices, and there had a homestead of five acres. His farm was one of the first cut up into house-lots in Roxbury. It contained Forest and Dudley streets, and Mount Pleasant Avenue. He removed to Dorchester, and died there Jan. 28, 1689.
His daughter, Elizabeth, married (1) Hopestill Foster (1673) and (2) Edmund Browne (1691).
Roger Williams (1647), of Dorchester, came over in the "Mary and John" in 1630 ; served on the jury Sept. 30, 1630, in trial of Palmer for killing Bratcher, and was admitted a freeman May 18, 1631. He was one of the selectmen of Dorchester in
Abraham Busby (1647). AUTHORITY: Sav- age's Gen. Dict.
" [1686-7] Sabbath, March 20, Abraham Busby dies." "Tuesday, March 22, 1686-7, Abra- ham Busby buried." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., pp. 170, 171.
John Hansett (1647). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Mem. Hist. of Boston, Vol. II.
John Hill (1647). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1858, p. 346 (will); Hist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc.
Giles Payson (1647). AUTHORITIES : Drake's Hist. of Roxbury; Savage's Gen. Dict.
Roger Williams (1647). AUTHORITIES : Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Hist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc.
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1635, and the next year removed to Windsor, Conn. At Windsor he was in excellent repute, had a good estate, and served on juries in 1642, 1643, and 1644. His wife died Dec. 10, 1645, whereupon he sold his property in Windsor, and in 1647 returned to Dorchester. In 1649, he married Lydia Bates of that town.
In 1650, in a deed he gave, he is called "of Boston." He was an ancestor of Lieut .- Gov. Samuel T. Armstrong (1807).
1648-9. The officers elected were : Robert Sedgwick (1637), captain ; John Leverett (1639), lieutenant, and John Manning (1641), ensign. James Oliver (1640) was first sergeant; David Yale (1640), second sergeant ; Joshua Fisher (1640), third sergeant ; Samuel Oliver (1648), fourth sergeant ; Anthony Stoddard (1639), clerk ; John Audlin (1638), armorer, and Arthur Perry (1638), drummer.
A charter member of the Artillery Company, Major Sedgwick (1637), had twice before been honored with its command, and he is spoken of as " a very brave, zealous, and pious man." When the colony feared retaliation from the Royalists of Great Britain, and the expedition for the subjugation of New York was talked of, Major Sedgwick (1637) took an active part in reorganizing the militia of Massachusetts.
Peace having been concluded, the expedition against the Dutch at New York was abandoned, and Gen. Sedgwick (1637), returning to England, was promoted to the rank of major-general.
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