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George Halsey (1650). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
Nicholas Simpkins (1650). AUTHORITY : Savage's Gen. Dict.
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Mills were likewise built, ship-yards opened, and some slight progress was made in the manufacture of linen and cotton cloth.
The new members recruited in 1651-2 were : James Davis, Strong Furnel, William Ludkin, Simon Tuttle.
James Davis (1651) was of Boston in 1635, in which year he became a freeman. His house and garden were situated on the north side of Water Street, at the shore. fn 1640, he was granted land at " Long Island," and in 1645 was one of a committee chosen by the selectmen "to hire eight fitt men for the Garrison " at the Castle. In 1651, the selectmen voted, "James Davis [1651] hath Libertie to keepe a house of common entertainement, if the Countie Court consent." He was called "sergeant " on the town records in 1645.
Strong Furnel (1651), of Boston, a soapboiler, called also a ship-carpenter on his admission to the church, became a freeman May 10, 1643. He probably died before 1658, as " widow Furnall " is spoken of in the records of Boston, Jan. 31, 1658.
William Ludkin (1651), of Hingham, a locksmith, came from Norwich, Norfolk County, England. He sailed from Ipswich, England, April 8, 1637, and arrived at Boston June 20, and settled in Hingham. He had a house-lot granted him in Hingham in 1637. He became a freeman in March, 1638. He removed to Boston, and was chosen a constable March 8, 1652. On the 27th of March, 1652, he was drowned in Boston Harbor, leaving a wife and two children.
Simon Tuttle (1651), of Ipswich, was born in England in 1630, and came over with his parents in the "Planter" in 1635. His father settled in Ipswich. Simon (1651) was recorded in the list of voters in that town Dec. 2, 1679. He died in January, 1692.
Rev. John Cotton, the second or associate pastor of the First Church in Boston, delivered the election sermon in 1651. He was born at Derby, in England, Dec. 4, 1585. At the age of fourteen years, he was entered at the University of Cambridge, and in 1606, he took his degree of A. M. at Trinity College. He remained at Cambridge until 1613, when he was chosen vicar of the borough of Boston, in Lincolnshire. He preached there twenty-one years, and then, in consequence of a growing dissatisfaction with the ecclesiastical tendencies in England, he resigned his charge and came over to Massa- chusetts. He arrived at Boston, in New England, in the "Griffin," Sept. 4, 1633, and on the following Sunday was admitted to the First Church. On the 10th of October, he was ordained its teacher, and May 4, 1634, was made a freeman. He died Dec. 23, 1652, in consequence of taking cold while crossing the ferry to Cambridge. His burial was described as " the most grievous and solemn funeral ever known upon the American continent."
Mr. Cotton resided in a house, surrounded by a garden, etc., of one and a half
James Davis (1651). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
William Ludkin (1651). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1876; Boston Rec- ords.
Simon Tuttle (1651). AUTHORITY: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1868, p. 329.
Rev. John Cotton. AUTHORITIES: Mather's Magnalia; Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit; Eliot's Biog. Dict .; Gen. of the Cotton Family.
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acres, facing on what is now Tremont Row, and looking down Prison Lane, now Court Street. This wide allotment was creditable to the town, which thus recognized its pastor, from whose English home the town derived its name. His wife retained her possession of a "house and garden in the market place in Boston, in Lincolnshire," and he made provision in his will that in case she returned there with her children, or they should die without heirs, his landed estate was to be equally divided between Harvard College and the church at Boston.
1652-3. The officers elected were : John Leverett (1639), captain ; Francis Norton (1643), lieutenant ; William Davis (1643), ensign. Richard Sprague (1638) was first sergeant ; John Hull (1638), second sergeant, and Jacob Sheafe (1648), clerk.
The Castle, now Fort Independence, which had fallen into a ruinous condition, was rebuilt, the Boston train-bands working upon it during the time usually spent in monthly parades and drills. Capt. Roger Clap (1646), the commander of the Castle, tells us, in his Memoirs, that it was built partly of bricks, and contained a number of apartments. He says that there was a "dwelling room below, a lodging room over it, a gun room over that, wherein stood six good sacker guns, and over it, upon the top, three lesser guns." This affair cost about four thousand pounds. Mr. Johnson (1637) says of the expenditure : "Yet are not this poor pilgrims people weary of maintaining it in good repair, as it is of very good use to awl insolent persons."
The new members recruited in 1652-3 were : Alexander Adams, Henry Adams, Isaac Addington, William Aubrey, Thomas Edsall, Henry Evans, William Hasey, Samuel Hutchinson, William Paddy.
Alexander Adams (1652), of Boston, a shipwright, became a freeman in 1648, and married, it is said, Mary, sister of Tristram Coffin, of Salisbury, and. afterward of Nan- tucket. He removed to Dorchester in 1647, but returned to Boston, and from 1655 to 1661 held the office of "water-bailyffe." " 27 : 3 : 61," at a meeting of the selectmen, they declared, "Whereas Alexander Adams [1652] hath taken vp an Anchor on ye Flatts, wch hauing beene cried & no owner appeares. Itt is ordered y' ye sd Anchor shall be d'd to ye Townes Treasurer, & yt ye sd water bayliffes shall haue } of ye sd Anchor if nott owned."
His residence was at Merry's Point, where, in 1645, he purchased property which was originally Walter Merry's, who gave his name to the point. In 1646, Alexander Adams (1652) was allowed to wharf out, maintaining along the shore a highway for a cart, now Commercial Street.
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1656.
Henry Adams (1652), son of Henry, of Braintree, was also of Braintree, but removed to that part of Dedham afterward called Medfield. Henry (1652) was born in England about 1604, and he was the first town clerk of Braintree. Removing to
Alexander Adams (1652). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1853, p. 42; 1877, p. 18; Hist. of the Adams Family; Tilden's Ilist. of Medfield.
Henry Adams (1652). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1853, p. 42; Hist. of the Adams Family, 1893, by Henry Whittemore; Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Tilden's Hist. of Medfield.
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Dedham, he became the first town clerk of Medfield, and was very prominent in town matters. He was a selectman several years, a representative in 1659, 1665, 1674, and 1675, and was lieutenant of the train-band there.
In 1652, he bought the mill which George Barber (1646) had erected. He had several grants of land in the town, and was one of the petitioners for the incorporation of the town of Sherborn.
Mr. Mather, in his History of King Philip's War, says, "Lient. Henry Adams [1652] was killed at his own door by the Indians, Feb. 21, 1676." His wife was acci- dentally but mortally wounded by a soldier the same night, at the house of Rev. Mr. Wilson.
He married, Nov. 17, 1643, Elizabeth, daughter of Moses Paine (1644). His brother, Thomas, joined the Artillery Company in 1644.
Isaac Addington (1652), of Boston in 1640, married, in 1644, Anne, a sister of Major-Gen. John Leverett (1639), and became a freeman May 22, 1650. They had five children, four of whom were daughters. One, Sarah, died young; of the others, Ann married Capt. Samuel Maudsley, or Moseley (1672) ; Rebecca married Eleazer Daven- port, son of Capt. Richard (1639), and Sarah married Penn Townsend (1674). Their eldest child was Isaac, who became chief-justice of the Superior Court and secretary of the province.
Isaac Addington (1652) is believed to have been a surgeon by profession, or a " chirurgeon," as then called. The first items enumerated in the inventory of his estate are, "Steele instruments," "a box of launcets tipt with silver," and "a surgions chest." Administration on his estate was granted to his widow, Dec. 6, 1653, and on the tenth of the same month the property was inventoried at £998 9s. 4d.
William Aubrey (1652), of Boston, a merchant, came to America from London, by virtue of a contract made in 1650, and was factor for the iron-works at Lynn. He married Rachel, the daughter of the secretary, Edward Rawson. In 1651, Valentine Hill sold a lot, near Mill-Creek Bridge, and north of the cove, to William Aubrey (1652), " for the use of the undertakers of the iron-works in New England." A lane which passed through this lot (the present North Centre Street) was called Paddy's Lane, from Capt. William Paddy, who joined the Artillery Company the same year as William Aubrey (1652).
Thomas Edsall (1652), of Boston, was a turner by trade. He married Elizabeth Farman, Sept. 16, 1652, and had one son, Henry, born in Boston, Feb. 28, 1654.
Henry Evans (1652), of Boston in 1643, a husbandman, was admitted a freeman in 1645, and was a member of the Boston church. A Henry Evans, of Middlesex County, was drowned March r, 1667.
William Hasey (1652), of Boston, lived at Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea, as early as 1652. The Boston Records call him "Cornet William Hasey [1652]." He was admitted a freeman in 1665.
Isaac Addington (1652). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1850, p. 117; Eliot's Biog. Dict.
William Aubrey (1652). AUTHORITIES : Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
William Hasey (1652). AUTHORITY: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1871, 1881, 1888.
" [May 27, 1674.] Cornet William Haisy is appointed to be lieutenant . . . to the Three County Troop, under the conduct of Edward IHutchinson [1638] their Captain." - Records of Mass. Bay.
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Cornet William Hasey (1652) was appointed on the 27th of May, 1674, lieutenant of the Three County Troop, an engraving of whose standard is given in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXV., also an account of the troop. In the summer of 1675, Lieut. Hasey (1652) commanded a company engaged in King Philip's War.
William Hasey (1652) married, (2) May 16, 1681, Judith Poole, widow of Capt. Jonathan, of Reading. After Mr. Hasey's (1652) death, she married, about 1690, Robert Gould, Sr., of Hull. Lieut. Hasey (1652) seems to have given up his farm at Rumney Marsh to his children, and to have taken up his residence at the Poole home- stead in Reading.
William "Hescy," as it is spelled on his gravestone now standing in Wakefield, died in Reading, May 30, 1689, aged about seventy years.
Samuel Hutchinson (1652), of Boston, brother of John (1645) and of Rev. William, husband of the famous Ann, was born in England, Nov. 1, 1589. The time of his arrival in America is not known. He had a grant of land in Rhode Island, May 20, 1638, whither he went, probably with his brother William. He was accounted a scholar in his day, and wrote from Boston, " Answer to a Letter sent from Old England to New, 1659." It was printed in London in 1667.
Samuel Hutchinson (1652) died, unmarried, July 14, 1667.
William Paddy (1652), of Boston, merchant, came over in the " James " from Southampton in 1635, arriving in Boston June 3. He was called in the custom-house clearance, a "skinner," and was probably of a guild or company of the skinners. He lived for a time at Plymouth, was deacon of the church there, and one of the repre- sentatives from that town in the first General Court of Deputies for Plymouth Colony, in 1639. His first wife, Alice Freeman, died April 24, 1651, and he married in Boston, Dec. 3, 1651, Mary Greenough, about which time he made that town his permanent residence. He was elected a selectman March 12, 1654-5, and was re-elected until his decease. He attended the meeting of the board, Aug. 12, 1658, and died on the twenty- fourth day of that month. William Paddy (1652) attended nearly every meeting of the selectmen during three and a half years, and was very prominent in the conducting of town affairs.
In his will, after providing for his wife and nine children, and granting legacies to several friends, he gave "ten pounds to be disposed of by ye selectmen of ye town of Boston, for ye poore."
A gravestone was dug up from the north side of the Old State House, near the centre door, and bones found near it, while the city were repairing the building, June 18, 1830. The inscription is all in capital letters, viz .: "Here sleeps that | Blessed one whose lief | God help us all to live | That so when tiem shall be | That we this world must lieve | We ever may be happy | With blessed William Paddy." On the other side : "Hear lyeth | The body of Mr. William Paddy, Aged 58 years. | Departed | This life August the - 1658."
The stone was deposited in the garret of the Old South Church.
Samuel Hutchinson (1652). AUTHORITY : Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg., 1850, 1853, 1854, 1877; Drake's Hist. of Boston; Columbian Centinel, June 19, 1830; Records of Plymouth Colony.
New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1847, pp. 299, 302; 1862, p. 331 (will) ; 1865, p. 15.
William Paddy (1652). AUTHORITIES : New
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1653-4. The officers elected were : Thomas Clarke (1638), captain ; James Oliver (1640), lieutenant ; William Hudson (1640), ensign. Joshua Hewes (1637) was first sergeant ; James Browne (1638), second ser- geant, and Thomas Clarke (1644), clerk.
The English army, as organized this year, consisted of regiments composed of eight companies of musketeers, with a flank company of grenadiers on the right, and of fusileers on the left, each company being composed of sixty men, rank and file. The captains carried pikes ; the lieutenants, partisans ; the ensigns, half-pikes, and the sergeants, halberds. Each infantry soldier was armed with a musket and a sword, and the grenadiers carried hand-grenades, which they lighted and threw among their opponents.
During the reign of Cromwell, the people of Massachusetts managed their affairs with very little interruption from the mother country. Mr. Hutchinson says he has " nowhere met with any marks of disrespect to the memory of the late King, and there is no room to suppose the colonists were under disaffection to his son; and if they feared his restoration, it was because they expected a change in religion, and that a persecution of all non-conformists would follow it."
Cromwell had conquered Ireland, and while considering how to keep it in sub- jection, he thought of the Puritans in New England, and made overtures to them to recross the water and occupy " the Green Isle " as its proprietors by right of conquest. The General Court did not receive the proposition with favor, and directed Gov. Endicott to reply that the people of Massachusetts " were enjoying health, plenty, peace, and the liberty and ordinances of the gospel, and an opportunity for spreading the knowledge of it among savages; and that, content with these blessings, they had no desire to change their abode."
The new members recruited in 1653-4 were : Jonathan Gilbert, Thomas Lake, Evan Thomas.
Jonathan Gilbert (1653), of Hadley, innkeeper, came from England and settled in Hartford, Conn. He married, Jan. 29, 1646, Mary, daughter of John White. His wife died Dec. 15, 1649, and in 1650 he married Mary Welles, of Hadley, to which place he had removed. He was a man of distinction, and was for many years marshal of the colony. He died Dec. 10, 1682, aged sixty-four years. His eldest daughter became the wife of Andrew Belcher, and mother of Gov. Jonathan Belcher.
Thomas Lake (1653), of Boston, came from London to New Haven, and there married the daughter of the deputy-governor of that colony. He was admitted a free- man in 1641 ; was selectman from 1658 to 1676; an eminent merchant, and member of the Second Church. He purchased in 1654, from John Richards (1644), half of " Arousick " Island, in the Kennebec River, where he occasionally resided, and for many years had a trading house, near which he was killed by the Indians, against whom Capt. Lake (1653) commanded an expedition. "His bones remained long unburied, but were afterwards discovered and deposited on Copp's Hill, where his gravestone says : " An eminently faithful servant of God, and one of a public spirit - was previously slain
Thomas Lake (1653). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1849, 1850, 1851, 1871; Mather's Magnalia; Copp's Hill Burial-Ground, by Bridgman.
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by the Indians at Kennebec, August 14th 1676, and here is interred, March 13th following." His inventory amounted to nearly twenty-five hundred pounds.
He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1654, ensign in 1660, lieutenant in 1661, and captain in 1662 and 1674. His daughter, Ann, was the wife of Rev. John Cotton, and afterward of Rev. Increase Mather, whom she also survived.
Evan Thomas (1653), of Boston in 1640, came from Wales ; was "taken into con- sideration as a resident" of Boston, Oct. 26, 1640, and was admitted an inhabitant Jan. 25, 1641. He was admitted to the First Church April 4, 1641, and became a freeman the 2d of June following. He was a vintner, had a good property, and died Aug. 25, 1661.
He and Thomas Lake (1653) were anti-tariff men in 1655, according to Drake's History of Boston, P. 340, and were opposed to any duty on beer. He assisted in the impressment of thirty-two soldiers for the expedition against Ninigret in 1654, and was paid by the town for his service. In 1660, Oct. 25, the selectmen voted to allow him to keep a house of "publick intertainment for the yeare ensuing," and Oct. 27,.166r, his widow was permitted " to draw beere till April next," according to the grant made to her late husband. Her license was renewed in 1662, and repeatedly afterward, for in 1671 she is allowed to draw beer and keep a house of public entertainment. Savage says, " The widow seems to have been less acceptable in her control of the business at the Kings Arms public house, for she was warned to leave town as late as 1672, and not restored before 1676." In May, 1680, she relieved the tavern of a mortgage of three hundred pounds, and died in 1697.
The officers elected were : Edward Gibbons (1637), captain ; Edward 1654-5. Hutchinson (1638), lieutenant ; Joshua Hewes (1637), ensign. John Barrell (1643) was first sergeant; Nathaniel Williams (1644), second sergeant ; Thomas Lake (1653), third sergeant ; Richard Waite (1638), fourth sergeant, and Thomas Clarke (1644), clerk.
Capt. John Leverett (1639) was commissioned by Gov. Endicott and the General Court, as the agent of the colonists in England, to appear for them and to act in their behalf " in all matters of concernment to them before His Highness, the Lord Protector of the Commonwealths of England, Scotland, Ireland, and His Honourable Council there." He had been a commissioner to confer with Gov. Stuyvesant, of the New Netherlands, concerning a rumor of a plot between the Dutch at New Amsterdam and the Mohawks. On stating the case to Cromwell, Major Sedgwick (1637) and Capt. Leverett (1639) received from him a commission to raise five hundred volunteers in New England for an expedition against the Dutch at New Amsterdam, and he returned to Boston with four ships and a few troops. They had a long passage, and were imme- diately followed by news of a peace between England and Holland, which put an end to the expedition. Cromwell next proposed that Jamaica, which he had wrested from Spain, should be colonized with the Puritans of New England.
Daniel Gookin (1645), formerly a Kentish soldier, who had first emigrated to Virginia, and who went thence to Massachusetts, was then in London. Cromwell sent
Evan Thomas (1653). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
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him home with propositions to the people of New England to emigrate to his new possessions, over which Major John Sedgwick (1637), of Massachusetts, was to be Governor. "The Lord High Protector did apprehend," he said, "that the people of New England had as clear a call to transport themselves from thence to Jamaica, as they had from England to New England, in order to their bettering their outward condition, God having promised his people should be the head and not the tail ; besides that design had his tendency to the overthrow of the man of sin." He offered them land on the easiest terms, immunity from taxes and customs for a period of years, and other inducements. But he proposed himself to appoint their highest magistrate, and this alone would have been an insurmountable obstacle, had there been no other, to their acceptance of his offer. The General Court returned "their thankful acknowledg- ment of his Highness's favor, and assured him that he should always have their prayers"; but, with periphrastic phraseology such as they could trust him to understand, they declined to go to the West Indies.
The expedition against the Dutch having failed, the two commanders turned their attention against the French at the eastward. "It was a time of peace," says Hutch- inson, "between the two nations, but the English had good right to the country."
The new members recruited in 1654-5 were : William Avery, Peter Duncan, Richard Fairbanks, Elias Maverick, John Severne.
William Avery (1654), of Dedham, an apothecary and physician, was admitted a citizen of that town Jan. 1, 1650. He was called sergeant in 1655, was a lieutenant of the company at Dedham in 1673, and was admitted a freeman in 1677. It is possible he was the bookseller mentioned by Thomas in his History, Vol. II., p. 411, whose will is in the probate records, but certainly he represented Springfield in the Legislature of 1669. He died at Boston, March 18, 1686-7, aged about sixty-six years, and was buried in Dedham, in the Ancient Burial-Place, Range XIV., No. 29, or in King's Chapel Burial-Ground, Boston, - both places record his burial.
Peter Duncan (1654), of Dorchester, son of Capt. Nathaniel Duncan (1638), of Dorchester, and brother of Nathaniel (1642), came to America with his parents in 1630. He removed to Gloucester and there settled.
Richard Fairbanks (1654), of Boston, where he arrived in 1633, having crossed the ocean in the "Griffin" with Rev. Mr. Cotton. He joined the First Church the same day as Elder Leverett (October, 1633), the father of John Leverett (1639) ; was admitted a freeman May 14, 1634, and in November, 1637, was disarmed for his adhesion to the cause of Mr. Wheelwright. Within two years after, he was made, by the same government, the first receiver of all letters from abroad for the whole colony. He was elected " pound keeper " in 1637. In 1652, he sold his house to Robert Turner (1640). It was on a lot next to Robert Keayne's (1637), where the Blue Anchor Tavern afterward was erected. He was second sergeant of the Company in 1656.
William Avery (1654). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg., 1847; King's Chapel Burial-Ground, by Bridgman; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Dedham Register, 1892, p. 159; Dedham Records, Vol. II., p. 277; Vol. III., pp. 179, 221.
" [1686-7] March 18. Dr. Wm Avery dyes." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., p. 170.
Ile was buried Monday, March 21. Peter Duncan (1654). AUTHORITY : Savage's Gen. Dict.
Richard Fairbanks (1654). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
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Elias Maverick (1654), of Charlestown in 1632, joined the church there in Feb- ruary, 1633, and became a freeman June 11 of the same year. He afterward lived at Winnisimmet, now Chelsea. "He died at Charlestown," says his gravestone in the old burial-ground in Charlestown, "September 8, 1684, aged 80 years." He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1658.
The winter of 1633 was severe, and the small-pox added to the terror of the Indians. Sagamore John, a friend of the whites, died on the 5th of December, and his people died so fast that Elias Maverick (1654) buried above thirty in one day ; and when their own Indian friends deserted them, Elias Maverick (1654), his wife, and servants, went daily to them, administered to their necessities, and cared for their children.
John Severne (1654). As but one John Severne, or Severance, is found in 1654 on the records of the towns of Massachusetts Bay, it is probable that this is the same person who joined the Military Company of the Massachusetts in 1641.
Rev. Thomas Thacher, of Weymouth, afterward of Boston, was the preacher of the Artillery sermon in 1654 and 1671. He was born in Salisbury, England, May 1, 1620, and was well educated at the grammar school, but preferred " the meannesses of America" to an attendance at Oxford or Cambridge. He embarked for New England, and arrived at Boston June 4, 1635. He fortunately came under the tuition of Mr. Charles Chauncy, who was afterwards president of Harvard College. He pursued his studies ; was married May 11, 1643 ; was ordained Jan. 2, 1644, and settled in Weymouth. In May, 1669, at the formation of the Third Church, or Old South, in Boston, he became its first pastor, and continued as such until his death, Oct. 15, 1678.
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