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Adam Winthrop (1692) died Aug. 3, 1700, in his fifty-third year, and was buried in the family tomb in King's Chapel Burial-Ground. His daughter, Mary, married, March 9, 1703, John Ballentine, Jr. (1694) ; and his son, Adam, joined the Artillery Company in 1694.
Joseph Winthrop (1692), of Boston, only son of Deane and Sarah (Glover) Win- throp, of Boston, who lived to manhood, was born May 3, 1666. He was named José, in honor of his grandfather, José Glover. Joseph's (1692) residence at Pulling Point, in the harbor of Boston, was within what is now the town of Winthrop.
Joseph (1692), whose right name was José, but who is called Jesse in Boston Records, was elected constable at Rumney Marsh, March 11, 1700; and, March 23,
John Winslow (1692). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Eliot's Biog. Dict .; sketches of Winslow Family, in New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1850, 1871, 1872.
Adam Winthrop (1692). AUTHORITIES : Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842.
"Adam Winthrop [1692] dics Aug. 3. 1700, about 2 post merid. buried Aug. 7." - Sewall's Diary, Vol. II., p. 21.
Joseph Winthrop (1692). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
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1702, he was chosen, with eleven others, " to run the lines and renew the bound marks," between Malden, Lynn, Reading, and Boston, "on the 21st of April next." He died, unmarried, Nov. 15, 1702.
Wait Winthrop (1692), of Boston, son of Gov. John Winthrop, of Connecticut, and grandson of Gov. John Winthrop, of Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Feb. 27, 1641-2, and was baptized in the First Church, March 6 of the same year. His name as given in the church records is Waitstill, but he habitually signed his name "Wait Winthrop." He received the middle name, Still, probably in memory of his father's great uncle, Dr. John Still, Bishop of Bath and Walls. Mr. Winthrop (1692) married (1) Mary Browne, of Salem, who died June 14, 1690, and, (2) Nov. 13, 1707, Catherine, daughter of Capt. Thomas Brattle (1675), and widow of Hon. John Eyre (1682).
In 1646, he went with his parents to New London, Conn., which his father had founded the year before. Subsequently he entered Harvard College, but left before taking his degree in order to enter the military service of Connecticut, and afterwards had a command in King Philip's War. He returned to live in Massachusetts, and took a prominent part in its public affairs. He was one of the commissioners of the United Colonies in 1672, and held the same office in 1675 and 1676 - years made perilous by the Indians. He was one of the councillors named by the King to serve under Joseph Dudley (1677), president in 1686; was reappointed to serve in the council of Sir Edmund Andros, and he was continued a member of the latter until the Governor's overthrow in 1689. The name of Wait Winthrop (1692) is the first signed, April 18, 1689, to the demand for the surrender of Gov. Andros, and on the 20th of April, 1689, when the colonists formed a " council for the safety of the people and conservation of the peace," Wait Winthrop (1692) was chosen commander-in-chief of the militia, a position he held until his decease.
Mr. Hutchinson says, "Mr. Winthrop was a good sort of a man, and although he was of a genius rather inferior to either of his ancestors, yet he was popular, and the party against Mr. [Joseph] Dudley [1677] wished to have him Governor. Winthrop was a plain, honest man. . .. He was one of the old council who had drawn up and sent to England a narrative of the proceedings of Sir Edmund, and was chosen agent for the colony in the room of Sir H. Ashurst, and was ready to embark when the news of Gov. Dudley's [1677] appointment arrived and prevented his voyage."
Major-Gen. Winthrop (1692) was chosen an assistant, under the old form of government, in 1692, ten days before the arrival of Sir William Phips with the new charter. In this, Gen. Winthrop (1692) was appointed by the King one of the coun- cillors, and was annually re-elected to that office until his decease. Dec. 7, 1692, he was appointed a justice of the Superior Court, and Aug. 1, 1701, after the death of William Stoughton, Justice Wait Winthrop (1692) was promoted to be chief-justice.
Wait Winthrop (1692). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Winthrop's Letters, pub. by Mass. Hist. Soc .; Reports Boston Rec. Com .; New Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg.
" [1717] Nov. 7. Last night died the Excellent Waitstill Winthrop, esqr., for Parentage, Piety, Pru- dence, Philosophy, Love to New England Ways and people very Eminent. His Son not come though sent for. . . .
" Nov. 14. Attended the Funeral of Maj.
Gen. Winthrop; The Corps was carried into the Town House the night before; Now buried from the Council Chamber. Bearers, His Excel. the Gov., Gov. Dudley; Lt. Gov. Dumer, Col. Taylor, Col. Elisha Hutchinson, Sam. Sewall. Scarfs and Rings. The Regiment attended in Arms, Mr. John Winthrop led the widow. 'T was past five before we went. The Streets were crowded with people; was laid in Gov. Winthrops Tomb in Old Burial Place." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., PP. 146, 147.
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Except from 1702 to 1707-8, he held the office of chief-justice until his death, which occurred Nov. 7, 1717. Samuel Sewall (1679) was promoted to fill the vacancy.
Major-Gen. Winthrop (1692) was elected captain of the Artillery Company the year he joined, - an unusual event. He inherited his father's taste for medical studies, and sometimes practised gratuitously, finding his own medicines. He was buried in the King's Chapel Burial-Ground.
In the inventory of his estate are included : coach, two horses, and harness, £30; silver plate, £115 Ios. ; farm at Billerica, £200 ; half an acre of land in Boston, £100; Elizabeth Islands, £2,000 ; " stock in slaves and salt works " (carried out), "nothing "; whole amount of inventory, £3,027 18s. 8d.
Rev. John Bailey, of Watertown, who was born near Blackburn, in Lancashire, England, Feb. 24, 1644, delivered the Artillery election sermon of 1692. He is said to have preached at the Old South, in Boston, as an assistant, prior to his settlement in Watertown, and delivered his farewell sermon in Boston, July 25, 1686. "July 26 [1686], a considerable troop from Watertown come and fetch Mr Bailey ; some of ours also accompany them." 1
John Dunton says, in his journal, " I went to visit Mr. John and Mr. Thomas Bailey in Boston. These two popular preachers are very generous to strangers. I heard Mr. John upon these words : 'Looking unto Jesus'; and I thought he spoke like an angel."
Mr. Bailey was installed in Watertown, Oct. 6, 1686, the fourth minister of that church. He removed to Boston in 1692-3, where he lived until his decease, Dec. 12, 1697.
" Died Dec. 12, 1697, in Boston, Rev. John Bailey, who for many years preached the gospel in the city of Limerick, but having been persecuted and silenced, he removed to New England in 1684. He preached in Watertown when his wife died ; then, being very melancholy, and having the gout, he removed to Boston about 1693. He preached at the South Church, Boston, once a month, and at the Old Church almost every Sabbath, and his turn in the lecture, till, falling sick last fall, he died as above written, and was honorably interred on the sixteenth day in the tomb of Mr. Thomas Deane .. ..
" The distinguishing traits of Mr. Bailey's character were ardent piety, great tender- ness of conscience, and an absorbing interest in the spiritual welfare of men. It was his prayer, to use his own words, that 'he might not be of the number of those that live without love, speak without feeling, and act without life.'"
His wife, Lydia, died in Watertown, April, 1690. The following is her
" EPITAPH. " Pious Lydia, made and given by God, As a most meet help unto John Bailey, Minister of the Gospel. Good betimes - Best at last, Lived by faith - Died in grace, Went off singing - Left us weeping, Walked with God till translated in the 39th year of her age. Ap 16. 1691. Read her epitaph in Prov. xxxi. 10, 11, 12, 28, 29, 30, 31."
Rev. John Bailey. AUTHORITIES : Bond's Watertown; Mather's Magnalia; Diary of Daniel Fairfield, of Braintree; Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit; IIill's Hist. of Old South Church.
' Sewall's Diary.
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1693-4. The officers elected were : John Wing (1671), captain ; Nathaniel Williams (1667), lieutenant ; Henry Deering (1682), ensign. William Robie (1684) was first sergeant; Daniel Powning (1691), second ser- geant ; Roger Kilcup (1684), third sergeant; Robert Gibbs (1692), fourth sergeant ; William Robie (1684), clerk ; Robert Cumby (1691), clerk's assistant, and Samuel Marion (1691), drummer.
The members recruited in 1693 were : John Combs, Moses Draper, James Fowles, Nathaniel Holmes, Nicholas Paige, Samuel Phillips, Thomas Savage, Samuel Wentworth.
John Combs (1693), of Boston, son of Jacob Combs, cooper, of Boston, was born July 20, 1664. He was admitted a freeman in 1690, was identified with the military, and served as a tithing-man in 1694. John Coombes (probably same as above) was a tithing- man of Boston in 1697. John Combs (1693) was again a tithing-man in 1707 and 1708. He was buried May 13, 1716.
Moses Draper (1693), shopkeeper, of Boston, son of James Draper, of Dedham, was formerly of Roxbury, where he joined the church Feb. 17, 1683, being about twenty years of age. He married, July 7, 1685, Hannah, daughter of John Chandler, and sister of Major John Chandler (1725). She was born Sept. 18, 1669. His wife died June 9, 1692, about which time he moved to Boston, and married, Nov. 3, 1692, a second wife, Mary Thatcher, by whom he had a son, Moses, who was baptized at the Second Church, Sept. 17, 1693.
James Fowles (1693), of Boston, was probably a son of Thomas Fowles (1639), of Boston. If so, he was born Dec. 3, 1644. James Fowles (1693) was a member of the fourth military company of Boston, and a tithing-man in 1696-7.
Nathaniel Holmes (1693), of Boston, joiner, son of Joseph Holmes, of Roxbury, was baptized July 10, 1664. Nathaniel's parents moved to Boston about 1660. His mother was Elizabeth Clap, daughter of Capt. Roger Clap (1646). He married Sarah Thaxter, Oct. 1, 1691. In January, 1705, Nathaniel Holmes (1693) was granted liberty to burn brick and lime, for the space of one year, over against the land of Joseph Allen (1694), at the South End of Boston. In 1706, he was a tithing-man of Boston.
" At a meeting of ye Sel. men Janry 23th. Sarah ye Wife of Capt Nathl Holmes her Petition to sell Strong drinck as a retaylor at her present dwelling House at ye South end of ye Town is allowed by ye Selectmen," is a transcript from the Records of the Selectmen for 1709. In 1711, the same license was granted to "Sarah Holmes, Widow."
Lieut. Holmes (1693) was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1695.1
John Combs (1693). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
Moses Draper (1693). AUTHORITY : Sav- age's Gen. Dict.
"[1693] Monday Augt 14, Moses Draper, a very hopefull young man [dies]."- Sewall Papers, l'ol. I., p. 381.
Nathaniel Holmes (1693). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
1 There were, in 1693, three persons in Boston and Roxbury by the name of Nathaniel Holmes. It is difficult to determine which was the member of
the Company. It seems most probable that it was Nathaniel, grandson of Capt. Roger Clap (1646), though it might have been Nathaniel, son of Nath- iel, of Roxbury, of whom Judge Sewall thus wrote : "Second-day, June 12, 1699. The Gov. gocs to the Castle with Col. Romer and several of the Council: Was saluted by the Fort and ships as passed by, and at the Castle. Afterwards Col. Romer desired a Shot might be made; the Gun broke and kill'd Nathaniel Homes, the Under- Guner, who was buried at Roxbury next day." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., p. 498.
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Nicholas Paige (1693), of Boston, came from Plymouth, Devon County, England, in 1665. He was a merchant, and at first dwelt at Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea. Ann Keayne, daughter of Benjamin (1638) and Sarah (Dudley) Keayne, and granddaughter and heiress of Robert Keayne (1637), founder of the Artillery Company, married, Dec. II, 1657, Edward Lane, aged thirty-six years, a merchant from London, who came over in the "Speedwell" in 1656. He died soon after 1663, and his widow, Ann (Keayne) Lane, married Capt. Nicholas Paige (1693). The latter was engaged in King Philip's War, in 1675, having been appointed captain of a troop June 27 of that year. July 15, 1675, a treaty was negotiated by force or intimidation with the Narragansets, among the witnesses to which were Capt. Daniel Henchman (1675) and Capt. Nicholas Paige (1693), " of the dragoons." Nicholas Paige (1693), in the records, has, at different times, the titles, captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel, which imply a continued and successful military career. He was captain of one of the three military companies which assembled in Boston when the Andros government was overthrown, in April, 1689.
The only town office he held seems to be that of constable, to which he was elected March 16, 1673-4.
In 1659-60, the General Court granted to Ann (Keayne) Lane a tract of land, in consequence of the liberal donations of her grandfather, Robert Keayne (1637), to the country. Col. Paige (1693) was appointed by the court one of the executors of the will of Robert Keayne (1637). The estate was not settled until long after the marriage of Nicholas Paige (1693) and Ann (Keayne) Lane. They joined in a will, which was proved Jan. 3, 1717.
Mr. Paige (1693) seems to have been neglectful of others' convenience and rights, for the town entered complaint against him, April 24, 1676, for creating a nuisance in the highway ; in April, 1688, he encroached upon the street; and again, in 1695, he caused a nuisance near his house, which he was ordered to remove by a certain time, or pay five shillings for the use of the poor. A similar complaint was made against him July 28, 1701.
His wife died June 30, 1704, and on the same day the selectmen "declare their Consent that in the Old burrying-place there be a Tombe made for Coll. Page [1693] to burry his deceaced wife in." He died in November, 1717, and his will was proved the 3d of January following.
He was commander of the Artillery Company in 1695.
Samuel Phillips (1693), of Boston, son of Henry Phillips (1640), of Dedham, was baptized Nov. 2, 1662. In 1691, he was distinguished as a bookseller. Mr. Dunton, in his Life and Errors, calls him his old correspondent, and says, " He treated me with a noble dinner, and (if I may trust my eyes) is blessed with a pretty, obliging wife ; I'll
Nicholas Paige (1693). AUTHORITIES : Bos- ton Records; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Com- pany, Ed. 1842.
" [1717, Nov.] 29. Col. Paige is buried Irom Capt. Oliver's. Bearers John Usher esqr, Wm Tailer esqr; Sewall, Thomas; Col. Byfield, Col Checkley. Scarvs and Rings. Laid in a Tomb in the old Burying place. Gov. and Lt Gov. had scarvs and Rings." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., p. 150.
In 1701, Elisha Hutchinson (1670), captain of his Majesty's castle on Castle Island, memorialized the honorable council in regard to things necessary
for his Majesty's service. The memorial, etc., is given in the notes to Province Laws ( Resolves, etc.), 1701-2, pp. 710, 711. Among other things neces- sary, he cites an additional force. March 28, 1702, the council resolved that three hundred men should be enlisted out of the two Suffolk and one lower Middlesex regiments, for duty at the Castle; namely, "One hundred and twenty of the regiment under command of Col. Nicholas Paige [1693], eighty of the regiment under command of Elisha Hutchinson [1670], and one hundred of the regiment under command of Col. John Phillips [168o]."
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say that for Sam (after dealing with him for some hundred pounds), he is very just, and (as an effect of that) very thriving. I shall add to his character, that he is young and witty, and the most beautiful man in the town of Boston."
He married Hannah Gillam, by whom he had six children. Gillam, the eldest son, born in 1686, joined the Artillery Company in 1714. Hannah, the eldest daughter, married Habijah Savage (1699), and her sister, Faith, married Arthur Savage, son of Thomas (1665).
Ensign Samuel (1693) died in October, 1720, aged fifty-eight years, his will being proved the 30th of that month. He, with his wife, Hannah, joined the Old South Church, Oct. 26, 1707.
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1699, and served in minor town offices, especially as a tithing-man.
March 26, 1693-4, the selectmen of Boston agreed that "Mr. Samuel Phillips [1693] shall have the ground where the cage and watch hous stand leased to him for 21 years for to build a shop, he to dig a sellar under it he to pay 3ld p. ann. to the Town after one year and a halfe, and leave the cellar to their dispose as soon as finished, the building not exceeding 20 foot long and 12 foot wide, the stone work to be 12 inches above the ground, he to have 14 foot of the upper room for a shop and to leave 6 foot for a Watchhous." The selectmen's records for May 9, 1694, show that the building occupied was of brick, and at the west end of the town-house, hence Mr. Phillips (1693) became known as the shopkeeper " At the Brick-shop at the West end of the Town House."
The Boston Gasette (1720) calls him "an exemplary Christian, an indulgent husband, a kind father, and a true friend."
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Thomas Savage (1693), gold and silver smith, of Boston, son of Lieut .- Col. Habijah (1665), and nephew of Lient .- Col. Thomas (1665), was born at Boston, Ang. 17, 1664. He married (1) Mehitabel Harwood and (2) Elizabeth -. He became a freeman in 1690; was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1700; ensign in 1701 ; 1 lieutenant in 1703, and its captain in 1705. He united with the Old South Church, July 12, 1702. Lieut .- Col. Savage (1693) served as a tithing-man in 1696, and a constable in 1697.
Samuel Phillips (1693). AUTHORITIES : Bos- ton Records; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Hill's Hist. of Old South Church.
July 5, 1714, at a meeting of the principal men of the Old South Church, " they began to speak about Deacons," those acting being old and infirm. Some one named "Mr. Sam'l Phillips." Judge Sewall (1679) adds, in his diary, " I said nothing." " [1717] Nov'r 16, Mr Samuel Phillips drowned, was now Buried." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., p. 145. (He was the son of Samnel (1693), and was " near home on his return from London"; aged twenty-four years.)
Thomas Savage (1693). AUTHORITY: Bos- ton Records.
Mr. Whitman (1810) is probably in error in calling Thomas (1693) son of Thomas (1665), as the former would have been less than twenty years old when he was elected ensign. He was, as above, the son of Habijah (1665).
" [1720-1] Midweek, March 8. Serene. It Col Thomas Savage was entombed. The Regiment were under Arms; was a Led-Horse. Bearers, Thomas Hutchinson esqr; Adam Winthrop esqr; Edward Lyde esqr; David Jeffries Esqr; Mr. Samuel Greenwood, Mr. John Pitts of the North. But few Gentlewomen follow'd. was buried in his Grand- father Savage's Tomb in the old Burying place. I was not at the Funeral." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., p. 284.
1 In 1701, when Judge Sewall (1679) was elected captain of the Artillery Company, all the officers elected but two were members of the Old South Church, and the pastor of that church delivered the sermon; so that it is called " a South Church occa- sion." Among other pleasantries in his speech of thanks, Judge Sewall (1679) says, "The savages were souldiers ex Traduce."
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Lieut .- Col. Savage (1693) died March 3, 1721. His inventory, April 21, 1721, contains : brick house and land in Dock Square, £1,400 ; brick house in Union Street, £500; wooden house, £730; other lands, etc .; total real estate, £2,830; real and personal, £3,899.
Samuel Wentworth (1693), son of Samuel Wentworth, of Portsmouth, and grandson of Elder William Wentworth, " the emigrant," was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April 9, 1666. He remained at home until after the death of his father, in 1690-1, when he removed to Boston, and became an eminent merchant. He married (1) Hannah Wiggin, of Exeter, who died Feb. 1, 1690-1; (2) Elizabeth Hobson, of Boston, and (3) Abigail, widow of Christopher Goffe, mariner. He died at Boston in 1736, his widow being appointed administratrix of his estate, July 21, 1736. Among his effects were : a negro man named Cato, valued at £100; negro, Tom, £70, and negro woman, Rose, £70.
Samuel Wentworth (1693) was an officer of the town in 1694, 1696, 1698, 1699, 1712, 1713, and 1718, and was a tithing-man in 1709, 1715, and 1717. He was a health officer for the Mill Bridge ward, and lived on Ann Street, near the bridge. In 1713, he was permitted to dig "a Cross Anne Street for the Laying his Cellar drain." The same year he was elected to have care and inspection of the Mill Bridge ward. He united with the Old South Church, March 14, 1707-8.
Rev. John Danforth, of Dorchester, delivered the Artillery election sermon of 1693. He was a son of Rev. Samuel Danforth, of Roxbury, who preached the sermon before the Artillery Company in 1667, and was born Nov. 8, 1660, graduating at Harvard College in 1677. He settled in Dorchester, and was ordained, June 28, 1682, the seventh minister of the Dorchester church. He held that relation to the church until 1730, proving his worth and fidelity through a continuous pastorate of more than forty years. He died May 26, 1730.
Mr. Blake, in his Annals, says of him : "He was said to be a man of great learning ; he understood mathematics beyond most men of his function. He was exceeding charitable, and of a very peaceful temper. He took much pains to eternize the names of many of the good Christians of his own flock; and yet the world is so ungrateful that he has not a line written to preserve his memory ; no, not so much as upon his tomb, he being buried in Lieut .- Gov. Stoughton's tomb that was covered with writing before."
1694-5- The officers elected were: Samuel Shrimpton (1670), captain ; Samuel Checkley (1678), lieutenant ; John Ballentine (1682), ensign. John Keech (1692) was first sergeant ; John Dyar (1691), second ser- geant ; John Marion, Jr. (1691), third sergeant; Enoch Greenleaf (1680), fourth sergeant ; William Robie (1684), clerk; Robert Cumby (1691), clerk's assistant, and Samuel Marion (1691), drummer.
Samuel Wentworth (1693). AUTHORITIES : Wentworth Genealogy; Boston Records.
" April 2, 1694, Monday, Artillery Training." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., p. 389.
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The members recruited in 1694 were : Jeremiah Allen, Joseph Allen, Thomas Baker, John Ballentine, Jr., Joseph Billings, Edward Brattle, Nicholas Buttolph, Samuel Clough, John Davenport, Hopestill Foster, Richard Green, Robert Gutteridge, Thomas Hutchin- son, Thomas Phillips, George Robinson, John Savage, and Adam Winthrop, Jr.
Jeremiah Allen (1694), of Boston, was a son of Rev. James Allen, an “ ejected minister," who delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1664. Jeremiah Allen (1694) was born in Boston, March 27, 1673, and married, June 25, 1695, Mary Caball, by whom he had one daughter, who became the wife of John Wheelwright, of Boston. Jeremiah (1694) was elected overseer of the poor in Boston, May 13, 1712. By direction of the town, Col. Penn Townsend (1674), Jeremiah Allen (1694), and John Edwards (1699), visited the South School, kept by Mr. Ames Angier (1708), and reported to the town, May 22, 1722, that they "are of Opinion That it will be no Service to the Town to Continue Mr Angier [1708] in that Employ."
Mr. Allen's (1694) dwelling was near Mr. Colman's meeting-house, on Brattle Street. He was elected treasurer of the province, June 25, 1714, and served until July 5, 1736. He died, after a long illness, Jan. 6, 1741-2.
Joseph Allen (1694), was a son of Joseph and Ruth Allen, of Braintree, according to Mr. Savage. He is given on the Boston Records as son of Joseph and Rebecca Allen, - a family different from that of Jeremiah's (1694). Both Mr. Savage and Boston Records give the same date of birth, viz., Jan. 3, 1672. Joseph (1694), having removed to Boston, was elected to minor town offices in 1695, 1697, and 1698. Feb. 23, 1701, the selectmen voted that "Joseph Allen [1694], his acco't of 17. 15. o for bullets is allowed." Aug. 25, 1724, the town granted liberty to Mr. Joseph Allen (1694) " to take up the Pavement and dig up the ground to lay a drain from the house where he [dwells] in Hanover Street into the common sewer."
He married, July 7, 1701, Elizabeth Temple. He was fourth sergeant of the Artil- lery Company in 1697, and also one of the " undertakers," or grantees and promoters, of the Brattle Street Church in the following year. Mr. Allen (1694) was probably a printer. In the report of the legislative committee, "appointed to print and sign the bills of credit," under the Act of 1702, there is this item: "To Mr Jos Allen, for printing. 3200 plates at 1} Each, {20." Mr. John Coney (1662) engraved the plates, and Mr. Samuel Phillips (1693) furnished the paper.
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