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Dec. 9, 1692, Mr. Sewall (1679) was chosen one of the judges of the Superior Court, and became chief-justice in 1718, retaining his seat on the bench until 1728, when, on account of advanced years, he resigned it. He was appointed judge of probate for the county of Suffolk in 1715, an office which he also resigned in 1728. He was a supervisor of the press in 1681, and, when the Cambridge press came under his control, is said to have printed the catechism with his own hands. In 1721, he entered his dissent to a declaration of war against the eastern Indians, and is entitled to the honor of being the first to oppose domestic slavery.
He was " a good friend to the aborigines of every tribe, not from mere humanity and compassion, but he was much inclined to think that they were part of the ancient people of God, and that the ten tribes, by some means or other, had strolled into America. He was a commissioner for propagating the gospel among them, and with his own substance built them a synagogue, and did many other charitable acts."
He was a man of distinguished piety, a diligent student of the Scriptures, and the author of two works on the Prophecies. In the year 1700, he expressed his sympathy with the enslaved Africans by the issuing of a tract, entitled " The Selling of Joseph." In 1701, with Hon. Isaac Addington (1652), he drew up rules for the regulation of Yale College, and was a member of the council, and one of the board of overseers of Harvard College for many years.
He died at Boston, Jan. 1, 1730, in his seventy-eighth year. The Boston News- Letter of Jan. 8, 1730, says, -
" After a month's languishment, died at his residence here, the Hon. Samuel Sewall, Esq. [1679], who has for forty years appeared a great ornament of his town and country. He was early chosen a tutor and fellow at Cambridge college, after taking his degree, but did not long reside there, on account of his marriage within a year. In
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the disorderly time of Sir E. Andros's government, towards the end of 1688, he went a voyage to England; upon his landing there, met the surprising news of the happy revolution, and returned here the following year.
" He was universally beloved among us for his eminent piety, learning, and wisdom, his grave and venerable aspect and carriage, his instructive, affable, and cheerful con- versation, his strict integrity and regard for justice, which with many other excellencies, rendered him 'worthy of a distinguishing regard in the New England histories.'
" He lived happily with the wife of his youth about forty-three years, who died Oct. 19, 1717. He afterwards married Mrs. Abigail Tilley and Mrs. Mary Gibbs, who is now a mourning widow."
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1680, ensign in 1683, and com- mander in 1701. Among his children were Rev. Joseph, pastor of the Old South Church, whom he lived to see settled there, and who, by shedding tears profusely during his prayers, gained the name of the "weeping apostle."
Thomas Smith (1679).
William Sumner (1679), of Boston, blacksmith, grandson of William, of Dorchester, and son of William, of Boston, was born in Boston, Feb. 9, 1656. He was a member of Major Clarke's (1644) military company in Boston in 1680, and held town offices for three years. July 28, 1684, the selectmen "agreed with William Sumner [1679], blacksmith to pay him 4lds in mony to keepe the clocke at ye North end of the Towne for one yeare." About 1687, he moved from Boston to Middleton, and died there, July 20, 1703.
From William, the grandfather, are descended Gov. Increase Sumner and his son, Gen. William H. Sumner (1819), also Thomas W. Sumner (1792).
James Townsend (1679), of Boston, a carpenter, son of William, and brother of Col. Penn Townsend (1674), was born Jan. 15, 1647, and became a freeman in 1672. He died before Dec. 17, 1689, when his widow refused letters of administration.
David Waterhouse (1679), of Boston in 1679, was very prominent in the out- break of 1689 against Gov. Andros, and was one of the signers of the letter, dated April 18, requiring the Governor to give up his authority and surrender the forts to the people. He was one of the Council of Safety in 1689, " after which," says Mr. Savage, " we hear no more of him."
Rev. Edward Bulkley, of Concord, Mass., delivered the Artillery election sermon of 1679. He was the eldest son of Rev. Peter, the first minister of Concord, and was born in England. He was baptized at Odell, England, June 17, 1614, and came to this country before his father. He became a member of the First Church, Boston, March 22, 1635, and was admitted a freeman June 6 following. He was ordained in 1643, and was settled at Marshfield until 1658. In 1659, he succeeded his father at Concord, preached the sermon before the Governor and Legislature in 1680, and died at Chelmsford, Jan. 2, 1696, but was buried at Concord.
William Sumner (1679). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1847, 1851, 1854, 1855; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842; Hist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc., pp. 424, 436, 437.
Rev. Edward Bulkley. AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit; Eliot's Biog. Dict,
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The officers elected were : Thomas Savage (1637), captain ; Ephraim 1 680-I . Savage (1674), lieutenant ; Anthony Checkley (1662), ensign. Samuel Sewall (1679) was first sergeant; John Hayward (1673), second ser- geant ; John Waite (1673), third sergeant ; John Moore (1675), fourth sergeant ; Nathaniel Barnes (1676), clerk ; John Marion, drummer, and Edward Smith, armorer.
Meanwhile Randolph had continued to cross and recross the ocean, taking to the King statements showing the lack of loyalty to him in Massachusetts, the colonies of Plymouth and Connecticut having expressed their willingness to be "reduced under his Majesty's immediate government." Randolph also informed the King that, even "at Boston, the principal inhabitants, some whereof were the chief officers of the militia, and the generality of the people, complained of the arbitrary government and oppression of their magistrates, and did hope his Majesty would be pleased to free them from this bondage, by establishing his own royal authority among them, and govern them according to his Majesty's laws."
The new members recruited in 1680-1 were : Stephen Burton, Giles Dyer, Enoch Greenleaf, Joseph Greenleaf, James Hawkins, Robert Mason, John Nelson, John Oliver, John Pell, John Phillips, Abel Porter, William Towers.
Stephen Burton (1680), was of Boston, Sept. 3, 1678, when he was called by Nathaniel Byfield (1679), with Edward Bromfield (1679) and Joseph Davis (1675), to appraise certain personal property. In 1680-1, he was constable of Boston, and in that year joined with John Walley (1671), Nathaniel Byfield (1679), and Nathaniel Oliver, "men of large estate and distinction, in purchasing the Mount Hope estate," the seat of King Philip, of Plymouth Colony. He married, Sept. 4, 1684, Elizabeth, only daughter of Gov. Josiah Winslow, having moved the year previous to Swansea, and was prominent in the settlement of Bristol. He was the first or earliest recorder for the county of Bristol, commencing at the date of its incorporation, viz., June 2, 1685. He represented the town of Bristol (then in Massachusetts, but now in Rhode Island) at the colonial court in 1685, 1686, and 1690, and was a selectman of Bristol in 1689 and 1690.
Giles Dyer (1680), of Boston, first appears in the Boston town records Feb. 23, 1673, when the selectmen engaged him "to keepe the clocke for one yeare." He had then had charge of the clock " 10 months past." He continued to have charge of this clock on the First meeting-house until March 29, 1680, when he set up the clock on the North meeting-house and had the care of both. In 1684, he was a member of Capt. John Wing's (1671) military company and a tithing-man, and in 1708 was captain of the same company. He was afterward colonel of the regiment, and from Oct. 3, 1702, until his decease, was sheriff of the county. He was prominent in town matters, being assessor in 1703, and selectman from 1701 to 1704 inclusive. He was a member of King's Chapel, and a warden in 1690, 1696 and 1697. During Dudley's (1677) administration he was appointed, May 25, 1686, "receiver of duties on wines and liquors imported," and, Aug. 26, " deputy receiver of his Majesty's customs."
He died Aug. 12, 1713, his will of March 3, 1713, being proved on the 13th of December following. Judge Sewall (1679) says in his diary, that Capt. Dyer (1680) died
Stephen Burton (1680). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records; MS. of Gen. Ebenezer W. Peirce (1852).
Giles Dyer (16So). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Foote's Annals of King's Chapel, Vol. I., p. S9; Dyer Genealogy; Savage's Gen. Dict.
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" after long Languishing about 6 M. Church-Bell rings just before the School Bell, so both ring together. . . . Augt 14. Am invited to be a Bearer to the Sheriff. I enquired of Mr. Secretary whether there was a Sermon; he told me yes, Mr. Harris was to preach, and seem'd to make no doubt of [my] going to hear him ; I now begun to be distress'd." Mr. Foote, in Annals of King's Chapel, adds, "Judge Sewall [1679] accepted a pair of gloves for his sake, but refused to be a bearer, and though he followed in the procession, would not go into the church."
Mr. Edwin L. Bynner, in the Memorial History of Boston, after referring to the furnishings of King's Chapel and the costly presents that were made to it, says in regard to Mr. Dyer (1680), " Fired by this royal munificence, the worthy warden of the chapel has recorded with scrupulous care, but indifferent orthography, his own contribution : 'To my labor for making the Wather cock and Spindel, to Duing the Commandments and allter rome and the Pulpet, to Dning the Church and Winders, mor to Dning the Gallaray and the King's Armes, fortey pounds, which I freely give. G. DYER.'"
Enoch Greenleaf (1680), of Boston, son of Enoch, of Malden and Boston, was born about 1658, had two children born in Boston, and removed, or died, before 1700. He was by trade a saddler. In 1681, he was a member of Capt. Hutchinson's (1670) military company, and a tithing-man ; in 1693, was a constable of Boston, and May 11, 1697, the selectmen voted, that "Mr. Enock Greenleaf . . . should have his just dne." He was a brother of Joseph (1680).
Joseph Greenleaf (1680), of Boston, son of Enoch, of Malden and Boston, was a brother of Enoch (1680).
James Hawkins (1680), of Boston, son of James, was born in Boston, March 18, 1654. He first appears in the town records of Boston, May 26, 1681, when " Wm Dawes, Ambrose Dawes [1674], James Hawkins [1680], were fined 208 for causeinge ye Towne ground to be dig'd vp, without leane, & makeinge the wall of ye Cellar of ye Worp" Thomas Danfort Esq. Deputy Govern' 9 inches throughout frontinge toward ye Docke, vpon the towne lands, & still stands vpon the Towne propertie." March 29, 1686, he was again fined twenty shillings for "breakinge vp the Towne ground to make Mr. Thomas Clarke [1685], a Cellar, thereby digging too farr into the streete." He was a town officer in 1683, 1685, 1687, 1690, and 1691, and resided in Boston until his decease, Jan. 6, 1709-10.
Robert Mason (1680), of Portsmouth, N. H., was a grandson of John Mason, the patentee of New Hampshire, to which right he was an heir. Charles II., in 1677, con- firmed his rights as proprietor of New Hampshire, and he was named, by the King, a councillor of the province in 1680. He was a councillor in 1682, while he resided in Portsmouth. He was named one of Sir Edmund Andros's council, but died in 1688. He was the father of John Tufton and Robert Tufton Mason, prominent in the history of Portsmouth.
Enoch Greenleaf (1680). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1884, p. 300; Bos- ton Records.
James Hawkins (1680). AUTHORITY : Boston Records.
"[1709-10] Sixth-day Jan 6th James Hawkins
dyes very suddenly, about 56 years old." - Sewall Papers, Vol. II., p. 271.
Robert Mason (1680). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842.
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John Nelson (1680), of Boston, merchant, was a son of William, to whom Sir Thomas Temple, his nephew, made lease of his patent rights in Nova Scotia. John (1680) and Sir Thomas were, therefore, cousins. Mr. Nelson (1680) " was of a good family, nearly related to Sir Thomas Temple, - an enemy to tyrannical government, but an Episcopalian in principle ; of a gay, free temper, which prevented his being allowed any share in the administration, after it was settled, although he was at the head of the party to whom the fort and Sir Edmund surrendered." He was, however, selected as one of the Council of Safety. In the new council, he was omitted. "Notwithstanding the slight put upon him, yet such was the regard for his country that he ran very great risk of his life in an attempt to give intelligence of the designs of the French. He went, not long after the surrender, upon a trading voyage to Nova Scotia, where he was taken by a party of French and Indians, and carried to Quebec."
Mr. Whitman (1810) adds: " It was here [Quebec] in confinement he contrived to send a letter of information to the court at Boston, which Hutchinson gives at length from their files, developing the hostile plans of the French in August, 1692. He had received a commission from the provincial government of Massachusetts in 1691, to be commander-in-chief in Acadia, when bound on this voyage ; but when he came near the river St. John's he was taken prisoner. He was afterwards carried as a prisoner from Quebec to Paris, France, where he was confined in the Bastile." A valuable letter from Paris, written by him in 1698, when a prisoner, is given in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., I., 196. His relative, Sir Purbeck Temple, procured his liberation, and he returned to his family after a separation of ten or eleven years.
In 1689, there was a popular uprising of the people to protect their liberties, and dethrone Andros and his subaltern, Randolph. On the eventful day, April 18, the Gov- ernor, and such of his friends as had not been put into Boston jail, retired to the Sconce, or South Battery, intending, doubtless, to board the English frigate, " Rose," whose captain, John George, was among the first seized by the enraged people. The Governor's friends and redcoats gathered at the fort ; the Americans assembled at the town-house. Preparations for a conflict were made by both sides, the " Rose " running out her shotted guns. Failing to reach the frigate's boat, which had been sent to take the Governor off, because the Americans seized it, with its “ small arms, grenades, and a quantity of match," the Governor and his party retired again to the fort. Nathaniel Byfield (1679), an eye-witness, says, " Whereupon Mr. John Nelson [1680], who was at the head of the soldiers, did demand the fort and Governor, who was loath to submit to them, but did at length come down," and he was escorted a prisoner to the house of Col. John Usher (1673).
Capt. John Nelson (1680), of the Artillery Company, stands forth as the chief military actor in the revolution of 1689. He was born in 1654, and died Nov. 15, 1734. Dr. Timothy Cutler delivered a sermon upon his career, service, and character, saying that "Capt. Nelson [1680] was neither troublesome, dangerous, or dishonorable, but universally affable, courteous, and hospitable." He " closed a life of fourscore and one years, fearing God, and calmly and quietly trusting in His mercy." He contributed five pounds toward the building of King's Chapel, July, 1689, and was a warden of the Episco- palian church, Boston, in 1705-7.
John Nelson (1680). AUTHORITIES: Foote's Annals of King's Chapel, pp. 89, 90, 179-181, with portrait and fac-simile of his autograph; Dedham
Reg., 1890, p. 130; Eliot's Biog. Dict .; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842; Acts and Resolves of Prov. of Mass. Bay, Vol. VII.
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John Oliver (1680), of Boston, cooper, son of John Oliver (1638), was born in Boston, April 15, 1644. He was admitted a freeman in 1681 ; became a member of the Second Church in Boston, and lieutenant in the militia. He married Susannah, daughter of John Sweet (1673). He died in 1683.
John Pell (1680). It is difficult to trace this recruit. John Pell, who came to America in 1670 to receive an estate left him by his uncle, Thomas, at Fairfield, Conn., may have taken up his residence in Boston. Judge Sewall says, "John Pell [1680] was third sergeant in Capt John Hull's [1660] company in 1681."
John Phillips (1680), of Charlestown, a master-mariner, was born in 1631. He married, (1) July 19, 1655, Catherine Anderson, who died Feb. 24, 1699, and (2) Sarah Stedman, of Cambridge. He died March 20, 1725, aged ninety-three years and nine months. He was admitted a freeman in 1673, and represented Charlestown in the General Court from 1683 to 1686. He was one of the Committee of Safety, organized when Andros surrendered in 1689; assistant in 1689; treasurer of the province in 1692-3; one of the council named in the new charter, but was chosen by the people, before it came, as a councillor, and was re-elected yearly until 1715; was appointed judge of the inferior Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex County, June 29, 1702, and served on the bench until Dec. 9, 1715. In 1695, he was a commissioner to treat with the Indians ; also, again in 1701, when he was associated with Penn Townsend (1674), Nathaniel Byfield (1679), and John Nelson (1680), in making a treaty with the eastern Indians. He was colonel of the First Middlesex Regiment from 1689 to 1715.
His daughter, Abigail, married Rev. Cotton Mather, May 4, 1686, and according to Judge Sewall's (1679) diary, it was to the house of Capt. John Phillips (1680), in Charlestown, that Rev. Increase Mather, father of Rev. Cotton, fled in March, 1688, being bitterly hostile to the royal Governor.
John Phillips (1680) was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1681, ensign in 1682, lieutenant in 1684, and captain in 1685.
Mr. Whitman (1810) is in error when he states, in his History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Ed. 1842, p. 212, that the Company held no election in June, 1686, and that Col. Phillips (1680) " did not assemble the Company after Andros was deposed, or resume his command on its revival." Col. Phillips (1680) served his year from June, 1685, to June, 1686, when Capt. Benjamin Davis (1673) was elected captain, and Rev. Nehemiah Hobart delivered the sermon. Col. Phillips (1680) had no authority to assemble the Company after Andros was deposed, not could he resume command at the revival of the Company.
Abel Porter (1680), of Boston, son of Abel, of Boston, was admitted to be a free- man in 1672, when he was called "junior." He was a member of a new military company in Boston in September, 1677, of Capt. Hudson's (1640) company in 1680, of Capt. Samuel Sewall's (1679) in 1685.
William Towers (1680), of Boston in 1668, was a butcher. He is first mentioned in the Records of the Town of Boston, March 14, 1669-70, being authorized to enforce
John Oliver (1680). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1865, p. 101; Savage's Gen. Dict.
John Phillips (1680). AUTHORITIES : Hurd's Hist. of Middlesex Co., Vol. I., p. 29; Whitman's
Hist. A. and HI. A. Company, Ed. 1842; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Mather's Magnalia, Vol. II., p. 631.
William Towers (1680). AUTHORITY : Boston Records.
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the law in regard to wandering swine. He held minor town offices for four years, and in April, 1681, he was approved by the selectmen to keep a house of public entertain- ment. His license was annually renewed until 1692.
Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, delivered the Artillery election sermon of 1680. He was born May 27, 1650, probably at Ipswich. He received a liberal education, graduated at Harvard College in 1671, studied theology, and was ordained pastor of the church at Dedham, Dec. 3, 1673. He received but sixty pounds annually as his salary, and one year he relinquished eight pounds of. that moderate stipend, on account of expenses incurred by the town during King Philip's War.
He married, (1) Oct. 21, 1674, Mary Manning, of Cambridge, who died June 24, 1679, and, (2) March 27, 1680, Alice, daughter of Major William Bradford, of Plymouth. He died at Dedham, Aug. 17, 1685.
The officers elected were : Penn Townsend (1674), captain ; Ben-
1681-2. ja jamin Davis (1673), lieutenant ; Thomas Savage (1665), ensign. John Phillips (1680) was first sergeant; Benjamin Alford (1671), second sergeant ; Jonathan Bridgham (1673), third sergeant ; Bozoun Allen (1676), fourth sergeant ; Nathaniel Barnes (1676), clerk ; John Marion, drummer, and Edward Smith, armorer.
The King, stimulated by the misrepresentations of Randolph, sent a peremptory demand to the colony to send over its agents fully empowered to act, and to answer for the irregularity of its proceedings, under the penalty of the forfeiture of its charter. Accordingly Col. Joseph Dudley (1677) and Major John Richards (1644) proceeded to London to answer the royal demand. They had a passage of twelve weeks, and on their arrival learned that the King and his counsellors had matured their plans for depriving Massachusetts of her charter.
The new members recruited in 1681-2 were : Thomas Barnard, Thomas Beavis, Samuel Breighton, Thomas Brinley, John Brookhaven, John Cutler, Jonathan Farnam, John Long, Joseph Lynde, Thaddeus Maccarty, Solomon Phips, John Pordage, Nathaniel Reynolds, Richard Sprague, and Samuel Worden.
Thomas Barnard (1681), of Boston in 1678, a carpenter, son of Matthew (1660), a carpenter, was born April 4, 1657. He first appears as a member of the first fire- engine company organized in Boston, on the 27th of January, 1678; held town office by election or appointment from 1683 to 1685 inclusive, from 1689 to 1692 inclusive, and in 1698 and 1699. He was a member of Major Clarke's (1644) military company in 1681, and a tithing-man ; and in 1708, and again in 1713, was appointed to inspect the town in regard to ladders, for use in case of fire. He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1692.
Rev. William Adams. AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit; Lamson's Historical Discourses.
Thomas Barnard (1681). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Copp's Hill Burial-Ground, by Bridgman, p. 33.
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He died March 14, 1715-6, and was buried in the Copp's Hill Burial-Ground. On his gravestone he is called "Capt." 1
Thomas Beavis (1681), of Boston in 1679, " a tobacconist," was that year a town officer, and in 1680 was a member of Capt. Richards's (1644) company and a tithing- man. In 1681, he was a clerk of the market, and a constable in 1683. Administration was granted on his estate in 1683.
Samuel Breighton (1681), of Boston, a cooper, was a member of a military com- pany in Boston, and a tithing-man in 1690-1. He had four children born in Boston from 1684 to 1692. The last was born Sept. 30, 1692, and his estate was administered upon Oct. 21 next following.
Thomas Brinley (1681), of Boston, was the second son of Francis Brinley, and was born in Newport, R. I. He removed to Boston in 1681, and was one of the founders of King's Chapel in 1686. He went to England, married Mary Apthorp, and died at London in 1693. The widow, with three children, came to America to reside with their grandfather, and after his death she resided with her son, Francis, in Roxbury.
John Brookhaven (1681) was of Rhode Island in 1669, and in 1671 was there called " Captain."
John Cutler (1681), of Charlestown, a blacksmith, son of Robert, was probably born in England about 1628. He married (1) Anna Woodmansey, of Charlestown. She died Aug. 20, 1683, and he married, (2) Oct. 29, 1684, Mehitabel Hilton, daughter of Increase Nowell. She died Sept. 29, 1711, surviving her husband, who died "Sept. 12, 1694, aged 66 years," according to his gravestone.
He was a deacon of the Charlestown church in 1673, ensign of the Charlestown company the same year, and a representative for that town in 1680 and 1682. He was identified with the military, and served as captain in an expedition during King Philip's War. In 1689, he was deprived of his military command for supporting Capt. Laurence Hammond (1666) in opposing the acts of the convention of May 22, 1689. Capt. Cutler (1681) was a sympathizer with Andros, signed the petition to the King against the succeeding government, and was fined and imprisoned. He petitioned the Governor and council, Dec. 12, 1689, to be released from confinement, promising to be a good subject of their Majesties and of their government here. He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1684.
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