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In 1707, a powder-house was erected by the town .on the hill near the Frog Pond, " on the Common, or training-field." It seems from sundry votes passed by the select- men in 1713, 1718, 1719-34, that Lieut. Powning (1691) had charge of the powder- house and its contents for more than twenty years.
May 3, 1708, when the streets of the town were named by the selectmen, "The way from mr. Pownings Corner by Dock Square leading Southerly into King Street " was called "Crooked Lane."
He was second sergeant of the Company in 1693, and a member and deacon of the New South Church. He died in 1735.
Timothy Pratt (1691), tradesman, of Boston, son of Timothy and Deborah Pratt, was born in Boston, Dec. 18, 1660. He married, Nov. 19, 1679, Grace Shippey. In 1684, he served as a tithing-man, and was a member of Capt. Turell's (1660) military company. He was a constable in 1692. His father, in his will of Aug. 16, 1694, men tions a daughter " of his son Timothy, deceased."
Timothy Thornton (1691), of Boston, merchant, son of Rev. Thomas Thornton, of Yarmouth and Boston, was born in England in 1647. He came to America with his parents in 1662-3, lived in Yarmouth, but moved to Boston in 1677. He held various town offices in Boston, having been scavenger, 1690 ; constable, 1682 ; assessor, 1694 and 1711-2 ; tithing-man, 1714 and 1715 ; highway surveyor, 1717 ; selectman, 1693 and 1694, and representative to the General Court in 1693, 1694, and 1695.
In 1707, Aug. 27, he was appointed by the selectmen to have charge of the town's wharf, docks, etc., at Merry's Point, North End, and retained their use and possession by subsequent leases until 1718. In 1708, he built a ship at the Point. He served the town on important committees, - as, regulating the price of corn for bakers, and purchas- ing additional land for a burial-place at the North End.
Timothy Thornton (1691), Elisha Hutchinson (1670), and John Walley (1671), were the committee, acting by order of the General Court, Feb. 3, 1690, charged with the service of issuing the first paper currency after the disastrous expedition of Sir William Phips against Canada. In 1690, by virtue of this action, bills of credit were issued by the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, being the first issue in the American colonies. Bill No. 4980, for five shillings, was issued Dec. 10, 1690, and was signed by John Phillips (1680), Adam Winthrop (1692), and Penn Townsend (1674). A specimen was in the possession of the late Hon. Robert C. Winthrop (1830). The first bills were probably written, and not engraved.
Daniel Powning (1691). AUTHORITY : Bos- ton Records.
Timothy Thornton (1691). AUTHORITIES :
Bond's Watertown; Boston Records; New Eng. IFist. and Gen. Reg., 1862, 1870; Shurtleff's Des. of Boston; Copp's Hill Burial-Ground, by Bridgman.
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Mr. Thornton (1691) was married twice : first, to Experience -, who died March 23, 1694, and, second, to Sarah -, who died Dec. 3, 1725, aged eighty-six years. He died Sept. 19, 1726, and was buried in Copp's Hill Burial-Ground.
His son, Ebenezer, joined the Artillery Company in 1716.
Timothy Wadsworth (1691), carpenter and gunsmith, of Boston, son of Samuel and Abigail (Lindall) Wadsworth, of Milton, was born in 1662. He was admitted a freeman in 1690, served in Boston as a tithing-man in 1691 and 1703, and was, there- fore, identified with the military ; was constable in 1691 and 1706 ; clerk of the market in 1695-6, and surveyor of highways in 1704. Sept. 26, 1704, the selectmen "Ordered that Mr. Timo. Wadsworth be desired to take Care of doing what is necessary in repaireing the High way on ye neck & that as many of the free negroes & poor of ye Town may be imployed therein as Shall be convenient."
Timothy's son, Recompense (Harv. Coll., 1708), was employed, June 20, 1709, "to instruct the Scholars at the Lattin school" during the indisposition of Mr. Nath- aniel Williams.
In 1693, a fleet, under the command of Sir Francis Wheeler, arrived in Boston Harbor from Barbadoes. Upon its arrival, the yellow fever appeared in Boston for the first time. Judge Sewall (1679) alludes to the arrival of the fleet, and the appearance of the fever. He wrote : " Last night Timo. Wadsworth's [1691 ] man dies of the Fever of the Fleet, as is supposed, he having been on board and in the Hold of some ship. Town is much startled at it." July 24, he wrote, "Capt. Turell is buried." Capt. Turell was an active member of the Artillery Company, having joined it in 1660. He, also, died, it was supposed, from the fleet fever.
Timothy Wadsworth (1691) was by trade a gunsmith, a son of Capt. Samuel, who was killed by the Indians at Sudbury, April 18, 1676, and consequently a brother of Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, president of Harvard College, who delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1700. Timothy Wadsworth (1691) was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1696. He removed to Newport, R. I., and died there.
Thomas Willis (1691), of Medford, son of Thomas and Grace ('Tay) Willis, was born in Billerica, Aug. 15, 1666. He was a member of the militia, a deputy in 1701 and 1702, where he is called in the record, " Lieutenant." His grandfather was George Willis, of Cambridge, who lived near what was afterwards called the " Washington Elm." Thomas Willis (1691) moved from Billerica to Medford in 1672. In 1708, he conveyed to his brother, Stephen, houses and land by the Mill Creek in Boston.
Rev. Cotton Mather delivered the Artillery election sermon of 1691 and also of 1707. He was the eldest son of Rev. Increase Mather, who delivered the Artillery sermon in 1665, and was born in Boston, Feb. 12, 1663. He graduated at Harvard College in 1678, was admitted to his father's church, Aug. 31, 1679, and became a free- man in 1680, when at the age of seventeen years. He was ordained as colleague with his father at the Second Church, May 13, 1685. He married, May 4, 1686, Abigail, daughter of Col. John Phillips (1680), of Charlestown. The latter was commander of the Artillery Company in 1685-6.
Timothy Wadsworth (1691). AUTHORITIES : Teele's Hist. of Milton, p. 590; Boston Records.
Rev. Cotton Mather. AUTHORITIES: Eliot's
Biog. Dict .; Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit; Biography of Cotton Mather, by Samuel Mather; Drake's Hist. of Boston; Mass. Hist. Colls.
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Judge Sewall (1679) wrote in his diary : "May 10, 1686, Went to Charlestown and wished Mr. Cotton Mather joy : was married last Tuesday."
Rev. Cotton Mather married, (2) Aug. 18, 1703, - his first wife having died Dec. I, 1702, - Elizabeth (Clark) Hubbard, widow of Richard. He married, (3) July 5, 1715, Lydia Lee, widow of John George (1702).1
He was honored with the degree of doctor of divinity by the University of Glas- gow, and was a fellow of the Royal Society of London. He had been an overseer of Harvard College, and at his decease was senior pastor of the Old North Church. He was recognized as the greatest scholar of his day in America, and was active and influ- ential in the concerns of the colony. He was prominent in the town of Boston for forty-seven years, bringing persons of all ranks in life to listen to his word, and to admire the man. Learning, piety, charity, wit, and goodness of temper were the marked characteristics of his mind and life. There was universal sorrow at his decease, and extraordinary marks of respect were paid his memory at his burial.
The Weekly Journal of Feb. 28, 1728, says the six first ministers of the Boston lecture supported the pall at the funeral ; several gentlemen of his flock bore the coffin ; and after the immediate family and relatives came the Lieut .- Gov. William Dummer (1702), his Majesty's council (fourteen in twenty-eight of whom were members of the Artillery Company), House of Representatives, ministers, justices, and many others. "The streets were crowded with people, and the windows filled with sorrowful spectators, all the way to the burying-place." The family tomb is at Copp's Hill.
Rev. Mr. Cotton Mather seems ever to have been on cordial terms with the Artillery Company. He delivered the first sermon in the second fifty years of the Company, -- 1691, - and in 1707, when Rev. Mr. Sparhawk, of Bristol, R. I., was taken ill on his way to Boston to preach the Artillery sermon, Rev. Cotton Mather, with a notice of but a few hours, took Mr. Sparhawk's place, and delivered the sermon of 1707.
The officers elected were : Wait Winthrop (1692), captain ; Joseph 1692-3. Lynde (1681), lieutenant ; William Colman (1676), ensign. Thomas Barnard (1681) was first sergeant; Samuel Johnson (1675), second sergeant ; John Cotta (1679), third sergeant; Robert Cumby (1691), fourth sergeant ; William Robie (1684), clerk; Robert Cumby (1691), clerk's assistant, and Samuel Marion (1691), drummer.
After great labor and frequent disappointment, the new charter of Massachusetts was obtained. March 29, 1692, Dr. Mather, in company with the newly-appointed Governor, Sir William Phips, embarked at Plymouth for New England, and arrived at Boston the fourteenth day of May.
During the administration of Sir William Phips, who was appointed by King William in 1692, the fort on Castle Island was first called "Castle William." The Crown sent thither a famous engineer, Col. Romer, who first demolished the old works, and then raised a new fortification. A strong citadel was erected, and the King furnished it with ordnance. The new bastions were long known by the names of the "Crown," the " Rose," the "Royal," and the "Elizabeth " bastions. The ordnance
" [1692] May 2, No Artillery Training, so near the Election." -- Sewall Papers, Vol. I., p. 360.
1 See a curious letter from Mr. Mather to Mr. Colman, New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., V., 60.
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consisted of twenty-four nine-pounders, twelve twenty-four-pounders, eighteen thirty- two-pounders.
The year 1692 is historically memorable for the witchcraft delusion. The position and justly supposed judgment and candor of prominent members of the Artillery Com- pany made some of them conspicuous in this trouble. A special commission was appointed for the trial of persons suspected of witchcraft. The court, which commenced its sessions at Salem, June 2, 1692, consisted of : William Stoughton, a cold and severe man, "partisan of Andros," and never a member of the Company, as chief-justice ; Major Nathaniel Saltonstall declining from conscientious scruples to serve, Jonathan Corwin took his place; Major John Richards (1644), Major Bartholomew Gedney, Wait Winthrop (1692), Capt. Samuel Sewall (1679), and Peter Sergeant. Capt. Anthony Checkley (1662) was appointed attorney-general, but, declining to serve, Thomas Newton (1703) was appointed in his stead. By this court, nineteen persons were hanged, one pressed to death, and eight others condemned.
The first Superior Court, established by an act of 1692, met at Salem, Jan. 30, 1692-3. On the seventh day of December preceding, William Stoughton was appointed chief-justice, Thomas Danforth, John Richards (1644), Wait Winthrop (1692), and Samuel Sewall (1679), justices. Three persons were condemned by this court, but, on its adjournment to Charlestown, the Governor reprieved them.
The last court which tried witchcraft cases was held in Boston, April 25, 1693. Messrs. Danforth, Richards (1644), and Sewall (1679) presided. At this session, Capt. John Alden,1 of Boston, was acquitted, and Mary Watkins was condemned. The court imprisoned her, "and she was finally sold into bondage in Virginia." Judge Sewall (1679) became conscious of an error in this matter, and made a public confession of his mistake on the fast day, Jan. 14, 1697, - appointed on account of the late tragedy, - standing before the congregation in the Old South.
The members recruited in 1692 were : Joseph Belknap, Jr., John Borland, Joseph Briscoe, Addington Davenport, Gibson Fawer, Robert Gibbs, Nathaniel Hall, Heze- kiah Henchman, Thomas Jackson, John Keech, William Keen, Samuel Lilley, John More, David Norton, James Thornbury, John Winslow, Adam Winthrop, Joseph Winthrop, Wait Winthrop.
Joseph Belknap, Jr. (1692), of Boston, leather-dresser, or, as Mr. Savage says, " leather breeches maker," was the eldest son of Joseph Belknap (1658), of Salem and Boston, and was born Jan. 26, 1659. His son, Jeremy, had Joseph (1742), whose son, Jeremy, was the learned historian of New Hampshire; and the author of valuable volumes of American biography. Joseph, Jr. (1692), was a member of the Old South Church, of which his father, Joseph (1658), was one of the founders in 1669. Joseph Belknap, Jr. (1692), was a tithing-man in 1703, a member of the Boston militia, and
Joseph Belknap, Jr. (1692.) AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Hill's llist. of Old South Church.
[1716] Apr. 2. . ,heard of Mr. Belknap's [death ] at Braintry. . . .
" April 3. Went to the Funeral of my good Friend Mr. Belknap." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., PP. 76, 77.
" [1716] April 23. Prov'd Mr. Joseph Bel- knaps Will." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., p. 79.
His will mentions wife, Abigail, and his children. His house was "at the head of Prison Lane, now called Queen Street." He also had land "on the northwest side of Beacon llill" and in Roxbury, besides a cornfield and fulling-mill. (Probate Files, Suffolk Co., Vol. XIX., folio 138.)
1 " He was the son of the Pilgrim, John Alden, of Plymouth and Duxbury, and was seventy years of age." - Mem. Hist. of Boston, Vol. II., p. 155.
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became a commissioned officer. He held other minor town offices. He married (1) Deborah, daughter of Jeremiah Fitch, by whom he had Jeremiah (1711). He married (2) Abigail, daughter of Thomas Buttolph, by whom he had Nicholas (1725) and Abraham (1735).
In 1708, the way leading from Mr. Pollard's corner, in Brattle Street, through Mr. Belknap's (1692) yard, into Queen Street, was named by the selectmen, Hillier's Lane. Joseph, Jr. (1692), died March 30, 1716, his will, dated Dec. 22, 1715, being proved April 23, 1716. He was third sergeant of the Company in 1699.
John Borland (1692), of Boston, merchant, came from Scotland to Boston about 1685. Mr. Whitman (1810) says, in his history of the Company, second edition, page 227, he was the "noted merchant" who was supposed to be principally concerned, with Gov. Dudley's (1677) connivance, in 1706, in trading with the French, then at war, in Nova Scotia and Canada. With others, he was brought to trial before the whole court, found guilty, and sentenced to a fine of one thousand pounds and three months' imprisonment. The court finally punished him the most severely of any concerned, by a fine of one thousand one hundred pounds. This proceeding was not approved by the Queen, and the fines were ordered to be refunded.
John Borland (1692) was a constable of Boston in 1691 ; tithing-man in 1699, 1701, and 1710 ; overseer of the poor from 1703 to 1706, and was quite active in town matters. March 2, 1701-2, the selectmen granted " Liberty unto Mr. John Borland to burn Brick & Lime in his orchard at the Northerly end of Adkinson's Lane for his House to be built there this next summer."
In 1708, the way leading "from the South Meeting House passing by Mr. Bor- lands & Mad'm Olivers & so down to the sea by Hallawayes," the selectmen named Milk Street.
The Memorial History of Boston, Vol. II., p. 106, informs us that, when Gen. Hill arrived at Boston in the frigate "Devonshire," June, 1711, after he had been saluted by the Castle, and had visited the council chamber, he was "entertained at Mr. Borland's, one of the prominent merchants of the town and the Queen's agent."
The town records state that Mr. Borland (1692) owned a warehouse "near Swing Bridge, and property opposite the Green Dragon Tavern."
He was elected assistant president of the Scots' Charitable Society in 1696, and its president from 1703 to 1716, and was a member of the Old South Church.
Sept. 6, 1726, the selectmen granted John Borland (1692) liberty to build a tomb in the South Burial-Ground, No. 37, and he died March 30, 1727, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.
Joseph Briscoe (1692), of Boston, a "loaf-bread baker," was born in Boston, Aug. 21, 1658 ; married, in 1678-9, Rebecca -, and their third child was Joseph (1703). The parents of Joseph Briscoe (1692) were Joseph and Abigail (Compton) Briscoe, of Boston. The father was drowned Jan. I, before the birth of his child, and the grandmother Compton, left, in November, 1664, all her estate, sixteen pounds six- teen shillings, to the fatherless child.
John Borland (1692). AUTHORITY : Boston age's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records; Hill's Hist. of Old South Church.
Records
Joseph Briscoe (1692). AUTHORITIES: Sav-
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He was a constable of Boston in 1694, served as a tithing-man, and was chosen by the town as a measurer of grain from 1706 to 1709. Mr. Briscoe (1692) was a neigh- bor and intimate friend of Judge Sewall (1679), who frequently mentions him in his diary. He was a member of the Old South Church, and fourth sergeant of the Company in 1695.
In 1708, the way leading from Briscoe's Corner, in Marlborough, now Washington, Street, passing by Justice Bromfield's (1679) "in to ye Comon," the selectmen named Rawson's Lane. The latter became Bromfield Street in 1829.
Addington Davenport (1692), of Boston, son of Capt. Eleazer and Rebecca (Addington) Davenport, was born Aug. 3, 1670, graduated at Harvard College in 1689, and until his decease, in 1736, was one of the active and prominent men of Boston. Mr. Davenport (1692) was a grandson of Capt. Richard Davenport (1639). Mr. Davenport (1692) was a selectman of Boston in 1711, and representative to the General Court, 1711-3; was appointed justice of the peace, Feb. 25, 1708-9 ; special justice, Sept. 16, 1715 ; a councillor, 1714, 1728, 1729, and 1734; was appointed a justice of the Superior Court, Dec. 19, 1715, and was continued in that office until his decease, which occurred in April, 1736. In 1714, he was appointed one of the trustees of " Bills of Credit," and in 1715, one of the commissioners for keeping the great seal, public records, and files of the secretary's office. He was one of the founders of Brattle Street Church in 1699.
Gibson Fawer (1692), of Dorchester, son of Eleazer and Mary (Preston) Fawer, of Dorchester, was born in 1666. In the Dorchester Records, the name is given Fower. His father, Eleazer, made his will, Nov. 13, 1665, " bound to see," and probably never came back.
Robert Gibbs (1692), of Boston, merchant, son of Robert, was born Sept. 28, 1665. He married, May 19, 1692, Mary Shrimpton, and had five children. He became a freeman in 1690 ; was then living at Salem, but died at Boston, Dec. 8, 1702. He served as constable in 1696, and as assessor in 1698. He was selectnian of Boston from 1700 to 1702 inclusive, and during the same time acted as an assessor. He was a member of the Old South Church ; was also fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1693, and clerk from 1697 to 1701. His son, Henry, joined the Artillery Company in 1726.
Nathaniel Hall (1692), of Medford, son of John and Elizabeth (Green) Hall, of Cambridge, was born July 7, 1666, and married, April 16, 1690, Elizabeth Cutter. He died April 14, 1725. They had six children born in Medford.
Addington Davenport (1692). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1850, 1879; Boston Records.
Gibson Fawer (1692). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1851; Dorchester Rec- ords.
Robert Gibbs (1692). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Hill's Hist. of Old South Church; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1865.
" [1702] Xr. 8. Mr. Robt Gibbs dies, one of our Select men, a very good man and much La- mented; died suddenly of the Small Pocks. His death and the death of Jno Adams . . . is a great stroke to our church and congregation. The Lord vouchsafe to dwell with us and Not break up House- keeping among us. Xr 9. Mr Gibbs buryed." - Sewall Papers, Vol. II., pp. 69, 70.
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Hezekiah Henchman (1692), of Boston, bookseller, son of Daniel Henchman (1675), school-master, and father of Col. Daniel Henchman (1712), was born in Boston. He was admitted a freeman in 1690, and died May 1, 1694. He never held any office in the Artillery Company. The only town office he ever held was that of constable, having been elected March 13, 1693-4.
Thomas Jackson (1692), of Boston, son of Edmund (1646), of Boston, was born March 1, 1640. He served as a tithing-man in 1699 and 1700; was a member of a military company in Boston during those years. He held the office of selectman in 1704 and 1705, but declined in 1706, after his re-election to that office. He married, Oct. 15, 1690, Priscilla Grafton. His son, Thomas, joined the Artillery Company in 1716.
John Keech (1692), of Boston, merchant, was probably a son of John Keetch, of Boston. His name is spelled Keech in the Boston records of births. Lieut. John (1692) had, by wife Abigail, three children born in Boston. He died prior to Feb. I, 1696, when his estate was inventoried for the probate court.
William Keen (1692), of Boston, rejoined the Company in 1702.
Samuel Lilley (1692), merchant, first appears in Boston in 1682. He was a son of Samuel and Mehitable (Frary) Lilley, of Boston. It was at the grave of Samuel, Sr., in 1689, that Deacon Theophilus Frary (1666) objected to the use of the burial service, by Rev. Mr. Ratcliffe, the Episcopal minister.1 Samuel (1692) was chosen constable of Boston, March 10, 1689-90. His mother married, for her second husband, Edward Bromfield (1679).
John More (1692), of Boston, brewer, was admitted to be a freeman in 1671. He was elected clerk of the market in 1673, and until his decease held some one or more of the minor town offices. He was identified with the Boston militia, held the position of ensign, and was a tithing-man in 1691. He died in 1693. By his wife, Lydia, he had ten children. Administration on his estate was granted his widow, July 13, 1693.
David Norton (1692), of Boston, son of William and Susanna (Mason) Norton, of Boston, was born May 31, 1664. In 1708, the street leading northwesterly front Morrell's Corner, in Middle (now Hanover) Street, passing by Mr. David Norton's (1692), extending to the salt water at the ferry, was named by the selectmen Prince Street. In 1711, he, with his neighbors, was assessed by the selectmen for the draining of Prince Street, and in 1714, April 29, the selectmen gave him liberty to dig up the highway and enter his cellar drain into the common "shore" (sewer). He was a member of the military, and a tithing.man in 1694. He died Dec. 2, 1721, and was buried in Copp's Hill Burial-Ground.
Hezekiah Henchman (1692). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Thomas's Ilist. of Printing.
"[1694] Wednesday May 2. ... went to the Funeral of Iezekia Henchman who died yesterday : was a Jury-man at the last Superior Court." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., p. 390.
John More (1692). AUTHORITIES: Savage's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
David Norton (1692). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
1 See Hutchinson, Vol. I., p. 356.
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James Thornbury (1692), of Boston. Lieut. Daniel Powning (1691) refusing to serve as tithing-man in 1697, James Thornbury (1692) was chosen in his place. The latter also held town office in 1702 and 1711.
John Winslow (1692), of Boston, merchant, was a son of John Winslow, of Boston, and grandson of John, of Plymouth, a brother of Gov. Edward Winslow, of Plymouth. John Winslow, the grandfather, moved to Boston in 1657. John (1692) was born in Boston, May 22, 1669, and was a cousin of William Paine (1691). He brought the proclamation of the Prince of Orange to New England from Nevis, arriving in Boston April 4, 1689. John Winslow (1692) was thereupon imprisoned by Gov. Andros,. although the former offered two thousand pounds security. The proclamation brought by Mr. Winslow (1692) was immediately issued in Boston, and scattered throughout the town and country, gladly welcomed by the people.
John Winslow (1692) was a cousin of Col. Edward Winslow (1700).
Adam Winthrop (1692), of Boston, merchant, only son of Adam Winthrop (1642), and grandson of Gov. John Winthrop, of Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Oct. 15, 1647, and graduated at Harvard College in 1668. He married Mary, daughter of Col. Luttrell, of Bristol, England, and, with his wife, was received into the Second Church, Boston, April 30, 1682. He became a freeman in 1683 ; was representative for Boston in 1689, 1691, and 1692 ; was a member of Mr. Mather's (Second) church, and, by the advice of Mr. Mather, the King named Col. Winthrop (1692) as one of the Governor's councillors under the new charter. He held that office but for one year. He was elected constable of Boston in 1681, but declined to serve. He was a commissioner in 1684-5 and 1690, and one of the selectmen in 1688, 1689, and 1690. He was a captain in the militia in 1689, and judge of the Superior Court in 1692. He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1698. At the time of the Andros revolution in April, 1689, there were three companies of militia in Boston which assembled at the town-house. Adam Winthrop (1692) commanded one, Col. Shrimpton (1670) another, and Nicholas Paige (1693) the third.
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