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" [1689] July 16 Saw London Artillery Com- pany pass by about 2 aclock. Most had Buff Cloaths
and Feathers in their Hats. Marched 5, 6, 7, and Eight in a Rank. The Pikes. Had Musick besides the Drums." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., pp. 265, 266. 1 Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ist Ed., p. 45.
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and Samuel Checkley (1678) succeeded the latter in 1705. These three members, loyally supported by others of no less experience and military knowledge, actively engaged in reviving the Company, and in confirming and increasing its former prestige and usefulness.
Among those who aided in this revival were : Lieut .- Gen. John Walley (1671), Cols. Penn Townsend (1674) and John Ballentine (1682), Major Samuel Sewall (1679), and Capts. John Wing (1671) and Bozoun Allen (1676), - all of whom, subsequent to the revival, the Artillery Company honored by electing commanders.
The expedition of Sir William Phips against Canada occurred in 1690. The New England colonies raised two thousand men for that fatal expedition, " of whom one thousand perished "; "not vagrants," says Dummer, "picked up in the streets and pressed into the war, but heads of families, artificers, robust young men, such as no country can spare, and least of all new settlements." The force sailed from Boston, Aug. 9, in about forty transports and small men-of-war. Major John Walley 1 (1671) had command of the land forces. His journal of this campaign against Canada is given in the first volume of Gov. Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts. "Sir William Phips returned to Boston, Nov. 19, having lost," Mr. Drake says, " by the enemy and sickness, near three hundred men. The fleet, on its return, was scattered by storms ; one vessel was wrecked, and others driven toward the West Indies."
The small-pox prevailed in Boston ; " Printer Green and his wife died of it," before the fleet sailed. It appeared among the soldiers on the transports, and many died.
The colony was not in a financial condition to enter upon war. Its treasury was empty. The expense of this expedition was paid partly by private subscription, and partly by a loan. In the Massachusetts archives there is an original petition of those Boston merchants who had loaned the colony money to carry on this expedition, and who, in 1692, asked to be reimbursed. The signers were: John Richards (1644), Edward Bromfield (1679), John Foster (1679), Peter Sergeant, Andrew Belcher, Edward Gouge, Simeon Stoddard (1675), Nathaniel Williams (1667), Thomas Brattle (1675), James Barnes, and Robert Gibbs.
Col. Benjamin Church made a diversion in favor of Sir William Phips and his expedition, by advancing against the French and Indians in Maine. The Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph says, that a metal button was recently ploughed up in that town, bearing the inscription, "Massachusetts Artillery," in a circle around the rim. There is on it a very excellent representation of a gun, with its rammer and sponges attached, and to the rear of the piece stands the British flag. Upon the reverse of the button is the inscription, "Gilt. London." This button probably belonged to one of the three hundred solders in this expedition under Col. Church, who captured and destroyed a fort on the site where Brunswick now stands.
1 Another member of the Artillery Company, Col. Penn Townsend ( 1674), was first offered the command, and was appointed in March, 1690, com- mander-in-chief of the expedition; but Sir William offered " to go in person," whereupon the former de- clined "with thanks." - See Sewall Papers, I., 316. The Memorial History of Boston, Vol. II., p.
98, notes : " Dr. Bullivant, in his Journal, says that Nelson [1680], who had played an important part in the overturning of Andros, had been applied to " for generalissimo, as the fittest person for such an enterprise; but the country deputies said he was a merchant, and not to be trusted; so it was offered to Sir William Phips."
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The officers elected in April, 1691, were : Elisha Hutchinson (1670), 1090-I . captain; Penn Townsend (1674), lieutenant ; Bozoun Allen (1676), ensign. Joseph Bridgham (1674) was first sergeant; Nathaniel Williams (1667), second sergeant ; Samuel Checkley (1678), third sergeant ; Thomas Hunt (1685), fourth sergeant ; Henry Deering (1682), clerk, and Samuel Marion (1691), drummer.
Of the above, Ensign Henry Deering (1682), clerk, was first sergeant in 1685 ; Lieut. Samuel Checkley (1678), third sergeant, was fourth sergeant in 1685. The remainder were not officers of the Company when its meetings were suspended in 1687.
The lists of the Company which have come down to us do not distinguish between such as joined the Company in April or June, 1691. It might be inferred that all the recruits in 1691, except one, were received at the April meeting, for Major Hutchinson (1670), the commander, and Henry Deering (1682), clerk, were the bondsmen for all of the twenty new members, except one, of that year, and both of these officers were succeeded by others at the meeting in June, 1691.
1691-2. The officers elected at the June meeting in 1691 were: Penn
Townsend (1674), captain ; Bozoun Allen (1676), lieutenant ; William Greenough (1675), ensign. John Ballentine (r682) was first sergeant ; Edmund Brown (1691), second sergeant; Samuel Marshall (1685), third sergeant ; Obadiah Gill (1679), fourth sergeant ; William Robie (1684), clerk, and Samuel Marion (1691), drummer.
The Company immediately began an era of prosperity; the surviving members became newly interested, and many additions were made to the ranks. Not less in personal worth and colonial fame than former members of the Company were some of the recruits who joined the Company very soon after it was revived. Col. Adam Winthrop (1692) and his son, Adam (1694) ; Hon. Wait Winthrop (1692) ; Thomas Hutchinson (1694), father of the Governor of that name; Cols. Thomas Fitch (1700), Edward Winslow (1700), Penn Townsend, Jr. (1700) ; Sir Charles Hobby (1702) ; Hon. William Dummer (1702), lieutenant-governor, and Hon. John Leverett (1704), who was elected president of Harvard College while holding the office of lieutenant in this Company, were among the distinguished additions soon after the revival of the Company.
The members recruited in 1691 were : John Adams, Edmund Brown, John Clough, James Cornish, Robert Cumby, Thomas Cushing, Benjamin Dyar, John Dyar, William Gibbins, Joseph Hill, John Kilby, Samuel Lynde, John Marion, Jr., Samuel Marion, William Paine, Daniel Powning, Timothy Pratt, Timothy Thornton, Timothy Wadsworth, Thomas Willis.
John Adams (1691), of Boston, a nephew of Henry (1652), was born in Braintree in 1661. He married (1) Hannah Webb, and, (2) Oct. 19, 1694, Hannah, daughter of Anthony Checkley (1662). The third child by his first wife was Samuel (1729), who
John Adams (1691). AUTHORITIES: Hist. of Braintree; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Hist. of Adams Family, by Henry Whittemore, 1893.
History of Adams Family says, "Capt. John [1691] died intestate before June 20, 1712."
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was the father of Samuel Adams, the patriot and orator, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Governor of Massachusetts. John Adams (1691) was also grand- uncle of John Adams, the second president of the United States.
Mr. Adams (1691) was a tithing-man in Boston, and a member of Capt. James Hill's (1677) military company in 1693. He was a constable in 1699, and became a member of the Old South Church, Jan. 5, 1700, by letter from the church at Braintree. He is known in the records as Capt. John Adams. He died before June 20, 1712.
Edmund Brown (1691), of Boston, son of Deacon William, of Sudbury, was born in the latter town, Nov. 27, 1653. His uncle, Rev. Edmund Brown, delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1666. Edmund (1691) settled in Dorchester, but after- ward removed to Boston and became a shopkeeper. In 1694, he married his second or third wife, the widow of Hopestill Foster (1673), and he died soon after.
Edmund Brown (1691) was a constable of Boston in 1687 ; tithing-man in 1690; a member of the militia, and promoted to be lieutenant ; an overseer of the poor in 1692, and the same year was a deputy from Boston to the General Court. He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1691.
John Clough (1691), of Boston, a glover, son of John and Mary Clough, was born April 11, 1669. He was a tithing-man in 1698, and in 1704-5, and was therefore a member of a military company in Boston. Sept. 24, 1718, he joined the South Church, and Jan. 21, 1730, he met, with others, at the house of Hopestill Foster (1694), and formed the Hollis Street Church. He was afterward prominent in the erection of the Hollis Street meeting-house, and in the maintenance of that society. He was third sergeant of the Company in 1695.
James Cornish (1691), of Boston, was a son of Thomas Cornish, of Boston. He was chosen a sealer of leather in 1698.
The first child of James (1691) and Mary Cornish born in Boston, was born March 18, 1687, and the last, Nov. 22, 1694.
Robert Cumby (1691), of Boston, son of Humphrey, of Boston, was born Feb. 14, 1654-5. He married Rebecca Cromwell, daughter of John, one of the original members of the First Church in Charlestown. Robert (1691) was a member of Capt. John Richards's (1644) military company in 1680-1, and also a tithing.man. He was a highway surveyor of Boston in 1701, a tithing-man again in 1704, and a town assessor in 1707. He was a member of the old North Church, and was elected a deacon of the new North in 1714. He was assistant clerk of the Artillery Company from 1692 to 1697, and fourth sergeant in 1692. He died July 17, 1717. His remains were buried in Copp's Hill Burial-Ground.
Edmund Brown (1691). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
John Clough (1691). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Drake's Hist. of Boston.
"In Price's map of 1743, the street laid out by the Eliot heirs, from Frog Lane (now Boylston Street) to Hollis Street, was called Clough Street,
from John Clough, who owned the land where the Hotel Boylston stands." - Note by Eds. in Sewall Papers, Vol. II., p. 320.
Robert Cumby (1691). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Copp's Hill Burial Ground, by Bridgman; Boston Records.
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Thomas Cushing (1691), merchant, of Boston, was the second son of Hon. John Cushing, of Scituate, where the former was born, Dec. 26, 1663. Lieut. Thomas Cushing (1691) was twice married : (1) Oct. 17, 1687, to Deborah, a daughter of Capt. John Thaxter, and, (2) Dec. 8, 1712, to Mercy Wensley, widow of Joseph Bridgham (1674). He was the father of Thomas Cushing, a prominent citizen of Boston, - who was representative for Boston from 1742 to 1746 inclusive, and speaker from 1742 to 1745, - and the grandfather of the distinguished patriot, Thomas Cushing, who was a member of the Continental Congress in 1774 and lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts from 1780 to 1788.
Thomas Cushing (1691) was a clerk of the market in 1691 and 1692 ; tithing-man from 1692 to 1694, and in 1696, being during those years a member of Capt. John Wing's (1671) military company of Boston, in which Mr. Cushing (1691) rose to the rank of lieutenant. Judge Sewall (1679) calls Thomas Cushing (1691) " Captain " in 1725. He was a selectman from 1705 to 1708 inclusive, 1710 and 1711, 1719 to 1722, and 1724 to 1726, chairman of the board in 1707, and representative from Boston to the General Court from 1724 to 1731 inclusive. During these forty years of public service, he served on many important committees, in company with the principal citizens of the town. He was a member of the council from 1731 to 1736 inclusive ; was appointed special justice of the Superior Court, June 22, 1733, and justice of the peace, Dec. 29, 1731. He became a member of the First Church in 1688, and in March, 1705, he, with his wife, became members of the Brattle Street Church. He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1697, and its ensign in 1709.
He died, universally regretted by his townsmen, Oct. 3, 1740; and his widow died in April, 1746, by whom the estate was bequeathed to the children of her first husband, Joseph Bridgham (1674).
Benjamin Dyar (1691), shopkeeper, of Boston, son of Thomas Dyar, of Weymouth, was born Nov. 6, 1653. He married, Dec. 10, 1691, Sarah Odlin, daughter of Elisha and Abigail Odlin, of Boston.
He was a tithing-man in Boston in 1685, and at that time a member of Capt. John Wing's (1671) military company, and previously of Capt. Henchman's (1675) company. He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1695. His brother, John, joined the Artillery Company in 1691.
Benjamin (1691) died Dec. 29, 1718, aged sixty-four years, and was buried in the King's Chapel Burial-Ground. His will was proved March 9, 1718-9.
John Dyar (1691), ironmonger, of Boston, son of Thomas Dyar, of Weymouth, was born in that town, July 10, 1643. He married, June 6, 1694, Hannah Morton. His brother, Benjamin, joined the Artillery Company in 1691. John (1691) was a constable of Boston in 1681-2, a tithing-man in 1690, and in 1696 he held the latter office in place of John Clough (1691). Ensign John (1691) was a member of Capt. Daniel Henchman's (1675) military company in 1680, and of Capt. John Wing's (1671) in 1684. He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1694. Administration on his estate was given June 11, 1696, to his widow and eldest son.
Thomas Cushing (1691). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1854, 1865, 1871; Eliot's Biog. Dict .; Savage's Gen. Dict.
Benjamin Dyar (1691). AUTHORITY : Boston Records.
John Dyar (1691). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
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William Gibbins (1691), shopkeeper, of Boston, held various town offices between 1696 and 1705. He probably married Anne - in 1686. The first child of William and Anne Gibbins was born in Boston in 1687. He was a member of a Boston military company, and became a lieutenant. Administration was granted on his estate, Aug. 16, 1711. His son, John, joined the Artillery Company in 1711.
Mr. Whitman (18ro) suggests that, "though there is a slight variation in the surname," he was " undoubtedly a descendant of Major-Gen. Gibbons [1637], a charter member " of the Military Company of the Massachusetts.
Joseph Hill (1691), varnisher, of Boston, probably son of Valentine (1638) and Mary, daughter of Gov. Eaton, of Boston, was born July 18, 1647, and was baptized at the First Church on the 26th of the same month.
Joseph Hill (1691) was approved by the selectmen, May 1, 1691, " to sell Coffee, Tea & Chuculetto." From this time to 1707 he held town offices, and in 1721 was granted permission by the selectmen " to erect a wooden building in Long Lane," now Federal Street.
May 27, 1702, Mr. Hill (1691) presented a petition to the General Court, saying : "Whereas there is very great probability of our Nations being speedily involved in a bloody War : which will affect all the Dominions and territories of the Crown of England as well in this Country as else where ; And prudence requiring that all just and necessary preparation be made for the defence of the same ; I crave leave, humbly to Informe this Hon. Court That the true Love which I have and bear to my King and Nation and the zeal I have for their service hath for some time past put me on invention to find out something that would be serviceable in time of War for the annoyance of the Enemy etc. . .. I can form such engines and make such composition of Fireworks " - as will do more damage to the enemy than many men. He asked for an appropriation to pur- chase the material to test his invention. The General Court, in Chap. 15, Province Laws, 1702, First Session, appropriated twenty pounds, " for the purpose of experiment- ing with fireworks for sinking ships," and appointed a committee to disburse the money.
Mr. Hill (1691) was active in the military, and rose to the position of captain. He died in 1727, aged eighty years.
John Kilby (1691), of Boston, was a son of Edward. By wife, Rebecca, he had eleven children born in Boston. Mr. Kilby (1691) was a tithing-man in 1693-4, and a member of Capt. Allen's (1676) military company. He held other town offices, and in 1713 was elected assessor, but declined. He owned real estate "at the northerly end of Cornhill, on the westerly side thereof," in 1711 and 1718. John Kilby (1691) was one of the twenty persons to whom Thomas Brattle (1675) conveyed land, Jan. 10, 1698, as a site for a meeting-house.
He was a member of the Old South Church until the formation of the Brattle Street Church in 1699. He was fourth sergeant of the Company in 1696, and ensign in 1705.
William Gibbins (1691). AUTHORITY : Bos- ton Records.
Joseph Hill (1691). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records; Province Laws of Mass. Bay, Vol. VII.
According to note in Sewall Papers, Vol. III.,
p. 88, Capt. Hill (1691) was forty-seven years old in 1694.
John Kilby (1691). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Early New England People, by S. E. Titcomb.
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His death is noticed in a Boston newspaper of 1722 : "John Kilby died May 29 [1722], aged fifty-four years." He was, therefore, born in 1668, and he married at the age of twenty years. He was buried in the old Granary Burial-Ground.
Christopher Kilby, son of John (1691), became a very prominent citizen of Boston. He was the agent for the province of Massachusetts Bay in England many years, and in recognition of his money subscriptions and other manifestations of interest after the fire of 1760, Mackerel Lane, when widened and improved, was called Kilby Street.
Samuel Lynde (1691), of Boston, a son of Simon (1658), was born in Boston, Dec. 1, 1653. He was a merchant, and owned a brick house and brick warehouse on Cornhill, and a pasture and an orchard on Cambridge Street. He also owned land, which he inherited from his father, in Freetown, and donated the lot on which the first meeting-house was built in that town. He also owned an island in the Kennebec River.
Samuel Lynde (1691) was very prominent from 1692 to 1708 in town affairs. From Nov. 19, 1702, to 1718, he was one of the " Majesties Justices." In 1690, Mr. Lynde (1691) was one of the grand jury which indicted Thomas Hawkins and nine others for piracy, all of whom were tried and executed. In 1692, according to the Boston Records, Samuel Lynde (1691) was chosen an overseer of the poor "by paper votes." In 1711, he petitioned the town for an abatement of taxes on account of his losses by the great fire of that year. He was a member of the Boston military, and became lieutenant.
His brother, Benjamin (Harv. Coll., 1686), studied at Temple Bar, and became chief-justice of the province. Benjamin (Harv. Coll., 1718), son of Benjamin, and nephew of Samuel Lynde (1691), also became chief-justice, and presided at the trial of Capt. Preston in 1770 for the State Street massacre.
Lieut. Samuel Lynde (1691) died Oct. 2, and was buried Oct. 5, 1721.
John Marion, Jr. (1691), cordwainer, was a son of John Marion, who was the drummer for the Artillery Company from 1679 to 1685. John, Jr. (1691) was born in 1650, and married Ann, daughter of John Harrison (1638). He resided for a short time in Cambridge, but soon, with his father, removed to Boston. He was admitted a freeman in 1679, and was subsequently prominent in town matters. He held several offices, but principally that of selectman, in which he served in 1697-1701, 1703-5, and 1714-25. He was four times moderator of the annual town meeting, and held special positions of honor and influence. In 1721 and 1722, he was one of a committee selected to instruct the representatives of Boston in the General Court. In 1677, John Marion, Sr., and his sons, John, Jr. (1691), and Samuel (1691), signed the petition to the General Court " for protection in their several callings."
Samuel Lynde (1691). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
John Marion, Jr. (1691.) AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records; King's Chapel Burial-Ground, by Bridgman.
"Oct 13, 1690, John Marion Jr. was elected Clerk of the South Company and Sworn, had 23 votes." - Sewall Papers, Vol. II., p. 333.
" 1710, July 10, Mr Jno Marion and I went to Rumney Marsh to the Raising of the Meeting House." - Sewall Papers.
" [1727-8] Jan 4. . . . About 9 a-clock on Wednesday night Deacon Jno Marion dies very sud- denly : was well at bis Son's the Tuesday night before, discoursing of Weighty Affairs; was seiz'd about Io on Wednesday morning. . . . Monday Jan 8. buried. A very great Funeral. Was laid in a Grave a little above my Tomb in the South- burying place." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., p. 389.
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John Marion, Jr. (1691), became a member of the First Church in Boston, Aug. 26, 1677, and was ordained a deacon of that church, Sept. 6, 1696. He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1694. He died Jan. 3, 1728, in his seventy-eighth year, and was buried in the King's Chapel Burial-Ground.
Samuel Marion (1691), of Boston, tailor, was a son of John Marion, who was drummer for the Company from 1679 to 1685, and a brother of John Marion, Jr. (1691). Samuel (1691) was born in Watertown, Mr. Bridgman says, " Dec. 14, 1655," and removed with his father to Boston. Judge Sewall (1679), in his diary, relates the sad manner of the death of Samuel's (1691). wife, Hannah, which occurred April 4, 1688. Samuel (1691) held minor town offices from 1695 to 1698 inclusive, and in the latter year was a member of the regular militia of Boston. He died Aug. 6, 1726, and his will, dated April 18, 1726, was proved Aug. 13, 1726. Like his father, he was a drummer, and served the Company in that office from 1691 to 1701.
William Paine (1691), whose father, Tobias, came from Jamaica to Boston in 1666, was born in Boston, Jan. 21, 1669. His mother was Sarah (Standish) Paine, widow of Miles Standish, Jr., and daughter of John Winslow, of Plymouth, who mentioned his grandson, William Paine (1691), in his will.
William Paine (1691) graduated at Harvard College in 1689, after which, for two years, he was in the employ of his stepfather, Richard Middlecot, and learned book- keeping. In 1698, Gov. Stoughton appointed him in the revenue service, and in 1699, Lord Bellomont made him collector. Mr. Paine (1691) held this office eleven years. In 1714, he became sheriff of Suffolk County. In 1716, he retired from business, and lived upon the income of his estate.
The first town meeting (Nov. 16, 1711) held after the great fire of 1711, in which the town-house, largely erected through the munificence of Robert Keayne (1637), was destroyed, considered proposals made by the General Assembly for the erection of a new house where the old town-house stood. Thomas Brattle (Harv. Coll., 1676) and William Paine (1691) were appointed a committee on the part of the town for jointly constructing a house to accommodate both the town and the colony. Aug. 3, 1713, the selectmen of Boston appointed William Paine (1691) and John Colman to have pre- pared "an Act suitable to lay before ye Gen'll Court," relating to the town of Boston being concerned in erecting and maintaining a lighthouse. This resulted in the erection of a lighthouse - the first in Boston Harbor - on the " Great Brewster," in 1715.
Mr. Paine (1691) became a member of the Second Church, March 20, 1692, and was one of the founders of the Brattle Street Church in 1699. He represented Boston in the General Court in 1715 and 1716, and was prominent and active in the concerns of the town, serving as a selectman in 1713. He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1696.
Mr. Whitman (1810), in his history of the Artillery Company, says William Paine (1691) was brother-in-law of the celebrated Elisha Cooke, Jr. (1699), and being attached to his party, upon the removing of John White from the office of clerk of the
Samuel Marion (1691). AUTHORITIES : Bos- ton Records; Savage's Gen. Dict .; King's Chapel Burial-Ground, by Bridgman.
" [1726, Saturday] Aug. 6, Sam1 Marion dies : was born Xr 1654." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., p. 379.
William Paine (1691). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict .; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1856 (will); Drake's Hist. of Boston; Robbins's Hist. of Second Church; Sibley's Harvard Graduates.
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House of Representatives for party reasons, in 1721, Mr. Paine (1691) was elected to that station.
He married, (1) in October, 1694, Mary Taylor, who died Jan. 6, 1700, and, (2) May 12, 1703, Anne Stuart. Mr. Paine (1691) died July 11, 1735.
Daniel Powning (1691), of Boston, shopkeeper, son of Henry (1677), was born in Boston, Aug. 27, 1661, and was baptized Sept. 1 following, at the First Church. He was a tithing-man, and a member of the military of Boston in 1698 and 1704; selectman from 1705 to 1710, and assessor from 1711 to 1726.
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