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Thomas Baker (1694), of Lynn, son of Edward, was born in Lynn in 1653, and married, July 10, 1689, Mary Lewis of that town. He was admitted a freeman in 1691. On the 13th of November, 1675, he, with fourteen others, was drafted in Lynn to serve in the war with the Indians. Mr. Baker (1694) was in the Narraganset fight, as appears by his affidavit : "June 8, 1730, Thomas Baker [1694] deposed and said that he was seventy-seven years old," and testified as to the presence of certain persons in the Narraganset fight in 1675. Feb. 28, 1698, he killed two wolves, and received a bounty of twenty shillings each.
Jeremiah Allen (1694). AUTHORITIES : Bos- ton Records; Province Laws, Vol. VII., 1692-1702. Joseph Allen (1694). AUTHORITIES: Prov- ince Laws, Vol. VII., 1692-1702; Boston Records.
Thomas Baker (1694). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Baker Genealogy.
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John Ballentine, Jr. (1694), of Boston, merchant, son of Col. John Ballentine (1682), was born March 15, 1675, and married, March 9, 1703, Mary, daughter of Hon. Adam Winthrop (1692). He graduated at Harvard College in 1694, the same year he joined the Artillery Company. He was one of a committee of thirty-one persons, elected by the town Dec. 27, 1708, "to draught a Charter of Incorporation " for the better government of the town. In 1709, he was elected overseer of the poor, but declined, and in 1711 was elected and served as a tithing-man. He was one of his Majesty's justices of the peace, being appointed in 1728, and serving until his decease ; also, he was "clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas," and register of deeds for the county of Suffolk, "all which posts," says the New England Journal, of Jan. 6, 1735-6, " he discharged with great prudence and fidelity, and was a gentleman beloved and esteemed among us."
Capt. Ballentine, Jr. (1694), was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1700, ensign in 1706, and lieutenant in 1708, and died Jan. 2, 1735-6.
Joseph Billings (1694), of Boston, grandson - as appears from Mr. Savage's Genea- logical Dictionary - of Roger Billings, of Dorchester, was probably born in Braintree, but removed to Boston, for the births of five children of Joseph (1694) and Hannah Billings, born between 1691 and 1700, are recorded in the town books of Boston. His family, in Braintree, were leather-dressers or tanners. Joseph (1694) was a tithing-man in 1698, and a constable in 1700 and 1701. Dec. 3, 1711, liberty was granted to Joseph Billings (1694) by the selectmen, to dig in Hanover Street, "for repairing his cellar drain."
Edward Brattle (1694), of Boston, son of Capt. Thomas Brattle (1675) and Elizabeth (Tyng) Brattle, was born Dec. 18, 1670, and married, March 23, 1692-3, Mary Legge, of Marblehead. He served as constable in 1696 in Boston, and was pro- moted to be captain in the militia.
About 1712 he settled in Marblehead, " where he possessed considerable real estate, and acquired a high reputation as a successful and enterprising merchant." He died at Marblehead, Sept. 9, 1719. By his will, written Feb. 5, 1719, it appears that he owned vessels, land, houses, shop and goods therein, and warehouse, besides lands at " Kenne- beck, Quaboag and in ye Narragansetts."
Nicholas Buttolph (1694), of Boston, bookbinder, son of Thomas Buttolph, of Boston, was born March 3, 1668, and married, June 28, 1699, Mary Gutteridge, daughter of Robert (1694). His place of business was on what is now Washington Street, the next door to his father-in-law's coffee-house. He was elected constable in 1704, but declined ; and assessor in 1720, but was excused. From 1719 to 1728, he carried on the book-publishing and book-selling business, " near Guttridges Coffee-House," but was in business about fifty years. He died Jan. 29, 1737, and his tomb is No. 60 in the South Burial-Ground. Buttolph Street derives its name from this family.
He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1705 His son, John, joined . the Artillery Company in 1718.
John Ballentine, Jr. (1694.) AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
Joseph Billings (1694). AUTHORITY : Boston Records. Edward Brattle (1694). AUTHORITY: De- scendants of Thomas Brattle, by E. D. Harris, 1867.
" Marblehead Sept. 12. On Wednesday last, the ninth Currant, Dyed here, Edward Brattle Esq. in the 49th Year of his Age, and was Yesterday decently interr'd." - Boston News-Letter, Sept. 14, 1719.
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Samuel Clough (1694), of Boston, son of William and Mary (Adams) Clough, of Charlestown, was born Dec. 6, 1665. He was a tithing-man in 1695 and 1697. The selectmen ordered, Jan. 1, 1701, "That whereas Samuel Clough [1694] did formerly borrow the Town Globes, that he do now return them unto the Town Treasurer," and the next month he mended the town-house clock.
Nov. 17, 1707, Ruth, widow of Samuel Clough, deceased, was refused a license to retail strong drink.
John Davenport (1694), of Boston, son of John and Bridget Davenport, was born June 13, 1672. John Davenport, the father, born at Salem, Mass, Sept. 19, 1641, was a son of Richard Davenport (1639), the friend of Endicott, and captain of the Castle.
Hopestill Foster (1694), of Boston, shopkeeper (some say housewright), son of Capt. Hopestill Foster (1673) and grandson of Capt. Hopestill Foster (1642), of Dorchester, was born about 1670, and died Sept. 23, 1735. He was a constable of the town in 1705 and 1731 ; clerk of the market in 1710 and 1720; tithing-man in 1710, 1715, 1717, and 1722, and held other town office in 1720, and from 1725 to 1733, except in three years.
He had a son, Hopestill, a bookseller in Boston. Hopestill (1694) was identified with the militia, and, like his father and grandfather, rose to the grade of captain.
Richard Green (1694), of Boston, son of James (1674) and Rebecca (Jones) Green, was born April 7, 1669. His father lived at Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea, at Dorchester, and finally settled in Boston. His mother was a daughter of Thomas Jones (1643), of Dorchester. His brother, Samuel, joined the Artillery Company in 1711. Richard (1694) married, June 1, 1692, Hannah Sherrar.
He was chosen scavenger in 1697, which was his only town office.
Robert Gutteridge (1694), of Boston, probably a son of John (1640), was born in 1645. He kept a coffee-house on what is now Washington Street. His first wife, Mary -, by whom he had five children, died March 25, 1701, and he married, Feb. II, 1703, widow Mary Thaxter, by whom he had three children. He was clerk of the market in 1701 and 1706, and constable in 1707. He died Nov. 4, 1717, aged seventy- two years.
Feb. 28, 1709, he was assessed one pound (total expense, three pounds sixpence) for repairing "the pump standing in the town's ground in Cornhill." The cost of repairs was assessed on, and paid by, those "who make use of said pump for their supply of water." This pump stood in the middle of Cornhill, now Washington Street, on a line with the north side of Court Street. This approximately locates the coffee- house of Robert Gutteridge (1694).
It was Robert, his eldest son, who was a witness in 1724, mentioned by Mr Whitman (1810) in his history of the Company, page 232.
Thomas Hutchinson (1694), of Boston, merchant, son of Col. Elisha Hutchinson (1670), and grandson of Capt. Edward Hutchinson (1638), was born Jan. 30, 1675,
Robert Gutteridge (1694). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
Thomas Hutchinson (1694). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg.
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at Boston. His mother was Hannah Hawkins, daughter of Capt. Thomas Hawkins (1638). He married, Dec. 24, 1703, Sarah, daughter of Col. John Foster (1679), by whom he had two sons, Thomas and Foster, and five daughters. The elder, Thomas, became Governor and historian of Massachusetts. Edward, half-brother of Col. Thomas (1694), became a member of the Artillery Company in 1702.
Thomas (1694) was selectman of Boston in 1706 and 1707 ; representative to the General Court from 1708 to 1712; was elected a councillor in 1714, and annually thereafter - except in 1724 and 1727 - until his decease, Dec. 3, 1739. During these years he was prominent in the public matters of the town and colony, and enjoyed the fullest respect of his townsmen. He lived in the mansion house 1 afterward occupied by his son, while Governor, situated on Hanover Street .?
Mr. Whitman (1810), in the history of the Artillery Company, page 231, quotes : " Regardless of the frowns of a Governor, or the threats of the people, he spoke and voted according to his judgment, attaching himself to no party further than he found their measures tended to promote the public interest."
In 1713, a scheme for private banking and the issuing of paper money was pro- jected, which Col. Hutchinson (1694) violently opposed. "He was an enemy all his life to a depreciating currency, upon a principle very ancient, but too seldom practised upon, nil utile quod non honestum." At length, after a long struggle, the party for a public bank prevailed in the General Court for a loan of fifty thousand pounds, in bills of credit, which were put into the hands of five trustees, and loaned for five years only, to any of the inhabitants, at five per cent interest, one-fifth part of the principal to be paid annually. He and his brother, Edward (1702), were appointed two of these trustees ; " but," says Mr. Whitman (1810), "their efforts were unavailing to keep up their value, and from this time may be dated the origin of the distresses of the country on account of depreciation and scarcity of money and ' old terror' troubles."
Though not a graduate of Harvard College, he gave that institution three hundred pounds, and died possessed of a large property. In his inventory are mentioned his coach and horses, which only the very wealthy in those days possessed. He lived to participate in the first centennial anniversary of the Artillery Company.
He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1698, ensign in 1699, lieutenant in 1701, and captain in 1704 and 1718.
He was distinguished for independence of character in times of great party excite- ment ; was much esteemed for his integrity and for his benevolence, freely giving of his means to both public and private interests. In 1711, the town voted thanks to Capt. Thomas Hutchinson (1694), "for as much as he hath offered at his own charge to build a School House at the North End of the town." A lot was purchased between Bennett and Love streets for one hundred and fifty-three pounds. But it was April 29, 1719, when the gift had been absolutely completed, and the town then voted, "The Thanks of this Town unto the doners of the Two North School Houses, vizt ; - The Hon'ble Thomas Hutchinson Esqr [1694] for the Gramer Schoolhouse. And ye Sd Mr Thoms Hutchinson [1694] and also Edward Hutchinson [1702] Esqrs for ye Writing Sch. House." Such benefactors should be held in grateful remembrance by a municipality which names its school-houses in honor of men. No school-house in Boston bears the name of either of these generous citizens.
1 See Mass. Hist. Soc. Procs., February, 1881.
2 See American Magazine, Vol. II., for a view of the Hutchinson house.
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Thomas Phillips (1694), shopkeeper, of Boston, son of Nicholas and Hannah (Salter) Phillips, was born Oct. 19, 1667. He received a license to sell wine and strong liquor, July 3, 1701 ; June 28, 1708, he again petitioned the selectmen for a license, saying that he had been "wounded in His Majesty's Service and there by rendered unable to do anything at his Trad toward his Support." The Selectmen granted him license as a " Retaylor at his House next door to Mrs Hauksworths at Cornhill in Boston." It was renewed in 1711, and allowed in subsequent years until 1724, when he was refused a license. He subsequently - 1730-is licensed in "Corn Hill," and continued at the same place and in the same business until his decease, in 1734. His will, dated Aug. 16, was proved Sept. 9, 1734.
There were two or more persons of this name in Boston from 1700 to 1725. One held the office of selectman, and owned real estate.
George Robinson (1694), of Boston, carver, son of George and Mary (Bushnell) Robinson, was born in Boston, March 30, 1658. He married Elizabeth -, and their first child, George, who joined the Artillery Company in 1710, was born Dec. 28, 1680. On the 7th of November of that year, George (1694) united with the Second Church. May 5, 1686, he was chosen by the selectmen of Boston a tithing-man, at which time he was a member of Major Richards's (1644) military company. In 1694-5, he served as constable, and was third sergeant of the Company in 1697.
John Savage (1694), of Boston, the fourteenth child and tenth son of Major Thomas Savage (1637), was born Aug. 15, 1661, and graduated at Harvard College in 1694.
Adam Winthrop, Jr. (1694), son of Col. Adam Winthrop (1692), grandson of Hon. Adam Winthrop (1642), and great-grandson of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts, was born in England, and married Anne -. He graduated at Harvard College in 1694.
He was very active in military affairs, passing through the various grades, and became major of the Boston regiment in 1706, and lieutenant-colonel in 1709, and at one time was commander at Castle William. He was also ensign of the Artillery Com- pany in 1702, lieutenant in 1704, and captain in 1706. He was representative from Boston to the General Court in 1714 and 1715, and was a councillor from 1715 to 1718 inclusive ; also from 1725 to 1729 inclusive, except in 1727. He was appointed a special justice of the Superior Court, June 22, 1733, having been a justice of peace since June 30, 1702. March 9, 1701-2, he was elected constable, but declined to serve, and Dec. 27, 1708, was chosen one of a committee of thirty-one to draw up a charter of incorporation for the town. May 15, 1710, he declined to act as moderator of the town meeting, and the next year declined the office of selectman, to which he had been elected. From 1715 to 1742, he served on the most important special committee of the town. He was one of a committee to advise the town in regard to the erection of a public market ; of others, to see about the site of the school-house which Col. Thomas Hutchinson (1694) proposed to present to the town; to inspect the schools ; select a
Thomas Phillips (1694). AUTHORITIES: Bos- ton Records; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Com- pany, Ed. 1842; Savage's Gen. Dict.
George Robinson (1694). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
Adam Winthrop, Jr. (1694.) AUTHORITIES: Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
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school teacher ; to suggest a method for impanelling juries ; to oppose the formation of a new county in 1727. The last two committees upon which he served linked his name permanently with that which became the " Cradle of Liberty."
Sept. 13, 1742, the receiving of Faneuil Hall was officially recognized by the town. A committee was appointed, of which Col. Adam Winthrop (1694) was one, “ to wait npon Peter Faneuil in the name of the town, to render him their most hearty thanks for so bountiful a gift, with their prayers that this and other expressions of his bounty and charity may be abundantly recompensed with the Divine blessing."
Sept. 17, 1742, when the Governor, through Hon. John Jeffries, presented the town with his Majesty's picture, "to be hung up in Faneuil Hall," it was unanimously voted that " the Hon. Adam Winthrop [1694], Samuel Waldo, and Ezekiel Lewis [1707], Esqs., be a committee to draw up a proper vote of thanks to his Excellency for his great good- ness and generosity in making the present." The committee made a report which was accepted, and Col. Winthrop (1694) was chosen one of a committee to wait upon his Excellency with a copy of the same. His residence was on Atkinson Street, Boston.
He died Oct. 2, 1743, the inventory of his estate amounting to seven hundred and fifteen pounds.
Rev. Moses Fiske, of Braintree, a son of Rev. John Fiske, of Wenham, delivered the Artillery election sermon of 1694. He was born at Wenham, April 12, 1642 ; grad- uated at Harvard College in 1662; was ordained at Braintree, Sept. 11, 1672, and died Aug. 10, 1708. From April 27, 1668, to Sept. 11, 1672, the church at Braintree was without a settled pastor, it being divided and contentious. Finally, Mr. Moses Fiske was sent to the church "to minister to it in holy things," by order of the County Court held at Boston. Freegrace Bendall (1667), clerk of the court, sent to Mr. Fiske a copy of the order of the court. Mr. Fiske obeyed, and, going to Braintree, took charge of the church, and preached his first sermon there Dec. 3, 1671. On Feb. 24, 1671-2, the united church gave him a unanimous call to settle, and Sept 11, 1672, Mr. Fiske preaching his own installation sermon, he became the third regular pastor of the church in Braintree.
"This excellent person was ordained pastor of the church in Braintree in September, 1672, in which sacred employment he continued until his dying day, a diligent, faithful laborer in the harvest of Jesus Christ; studious in the Holy Scriptures; having an extraordinary gift in prayer, above many good men, and in preaching equal to the most, inferior to few ; zealously diligent for God and the good of men ; one who thought no labor, cost or suffering too dear a price for the good of his people." 1
He was buried in Braintree. The following is taken from his gravestone : -
"Here rests the body of Rev. Moses Fiske, deceased August 10, 1708 in the 66th year of his age and the 36th of his ministry."
" Braintree! Thy prophets gone, this tomb inters The Rev. Moses Fiske, his sacred herse. Adore heavens praiseful art that formed the man, Who souls not to himself, but Christ oft won; Sailed through the straits with Peter's family, Renowned, and Gaius hospitality, Pauls patience, James prudence, John's sweet love, Island'd enter'd, clear'd and crown'd above."
' Diary of Mr. John Marshall.
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1695-6. The officers elected were : Nicholas Paige (1693), captain ; John Atwood (1673), lieutenant ; Thomas Hunt (1685), ensign. Nathaniel Holmes (1693) was first sergeant; Benjamin Dyar (1691), second sergeant ; John Clough (1691), third sergeant ; Joseph Briscoe (1692), fourth sergeant ; William Robie (1684), clerk; Robert Cumby (1691), clerk's assistant, and Samuel Marion (1691), drummer.
The members recruited in 1695 were : John Bucanan, Anthony Checkley, Jr., William Clough, David Dure, Richard Gridley, Ambrose Hunnewell, Samuel Shrimp- ton, Jr., William Sutton.
John Bucanan (1695) was a baker in Boston. He is probably the John, son "of John and Mary Bowhanon," born in Boston, Aug. 23, 1661. Children were born in Boston to John (1695) and Elizabeth Bucanon - the name is spelled several ways- between 1693 and 1699. John Bucanan (1695) held town office in 1700, 1706, 1707, and 1715, and in 1704 served as a tithing-man. John " Buckannon " (1695) is named with other "Loafe Bread Bakers " who were " convented before the General Court," Dec. 16, 1696, for violating the law in regard to " the due assize of bread."
Administration was granted on his estate, Feb. 28, 1731.
Anthony Checkley, Jr. (1695), of Boston, was, according to Mr. Whitman (1810), a son of Capt. Anthony Checkley (1662). Anthony, Jr. (1695), does not appear to be mentioned on the Records of the Town of Boston. He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1698. He died Oct. 31, 1702.
William Clough (1695), of Boston, mason. He was a town officer in 1686; was a tithing-man in 1694, surveyor of chimneys in 1695, and a constable in 1699. By wife, Lydia, he had five children born in Boston between 1686 and 1698. A William Clough joined the Second Church, April 7, 1689. Administration on the estate of a William Clough was granted March 18, 1733, and a William Clough died Feb. 1, 1727, aged seventy-two years.
David Dure (1695), - this name should be Dewer,-of Boston, son of Sampson and Sarah Dewer, and brother of Sampson Dewer (1718), was born in Boston, Dec. 5, 1674. He does not appear to have held any town office.
Richard Gridley (1695), currier, of Boston, son of Joseph (1662) and Elizabeth Gridley, and grandson of Richard (1658), was born about 1660, and married Hannah (Morse) Dawes, widow of Jonathan, Feb. 27, 1694. He was a constable of Boston in 1696 ; surveyor of highways in 1698, 1699, 1701, and 1708; clerk of the market in 1705, and a tithing-man in 1710. He joined the Old South Church, June 25, 1693. He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1697.
Ambrose Hunnewell (1695), of Boston.
John Bucanan (1695). AUTHORITIES: Bos- ton Records; Province Laws, Vol. VII., p. 567. Richard Gridley ( 1695). AUTHORITIES: Bos- ton Records: Savage's Gen. Dict.
"Sept 2, 1695, Artillery Training. Dine at George Monk's, invited by Col. Paige; Mr. Moodey and Mr. Chieuer there, Addington, Foster." - Sew- all Papers, Vol. I., p. 411.
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Samuel Shrimpton, Jr. (1695), of Boston, son of Col. Samuel (1670) and Eliza- beth (Roberts) Shrimpton, was born in Boston, April 20, 1673. Samuel, Jr. (1695), married, May 7, 1696, Elizabeth Richardson, a niece of Col. Samuel's (1670) wife, being the daughter of her sister, Sarah (Roberts) Richardson. They had one child, Elizabeth, born in Boston, Aug. 26, 1702. She married, May 6, 1720, John Yeamans, and died Dec. 4, 1721. All her grandchildren died young, and this branch of the Shrimpton family became extinct.
Samuel Shrimpton, Jr. (1695), was a merchant in Boston. "About the year 1702, he was in partnership with a cousin of his father, Epaphras Shrimpton, who was the son of Edward Shrimpton. On the 28th of December, 1702, Samuel Shrimpton [1695], in ' his humble complaint and petition' to the Hon. Isaac Addington [1652], Esq., and other justices of the peace, relates that he had been engaged in a partnership with the said Epaphras ; that consignments had been given them to a considerable amount from merchants in England, and the accounts had been entered in sundry books, which had been at all times in the possession of said Epaphras Shrimpton ; and that, on the Satur- day previous, these books were so badly burned 'as to be of no manner of use' to the petitioner." He proceeds to say that he has great reason to suspect these books "were destroyed with the privity " of his aforenamed partner. The whole affair was examined, but we do not learn the result. The accused affirmed that he was innocent.1
About 1700, he engaged with Simeon Stoddard (1702) and others in the manu- facture of salt, " on the Neck, in the town of Boston." The salt-works were in operation in 1720.
Samuel Shrimpton, Jr. (1695), died May 25, 1703. His widow married, Dec. 23, 1713, David Stoddard, son of Simeon (1675).
William Sutton (1695), of Boston, son of Bartholomew Sutton, of Boston, was born March 3, 1667, and married Mary Johnson, Jan. 31, 1694. He was chosen a constable of Boston, March 11, 1705-6, and was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1700. July 3, 1721, Capt. Jonathan Pollard (1700) petitioned the select- men for a license to keep an inn in the house of the late William Sutton (1695), deceased.
Rev. Peter Thacher, of Milton, delivered the Artillery election sermon of 1695. He was a son of Rev. Thomas Thacher, who delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1671 ; was born at Salem, Mass., July 18, 1651, and graduated at Harvard College in 1671. He was chosen third fellow of the college, June 15, 1674. In 1676, in company with Judge Sewall (1679) and Rev. John Danforth, who delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1693, he visited Europe, and was absent a year or more, pursuing his studies. On his return, he settled at Barnstable, where he remained one year, and in September, 1680, removed to Milton, by invitation of the church there, and settled over it. Ten members of the church went to Barnstable to conduct him to his new home, and a cavalcade of fifty-seven horsemen accompanied him as far as Sandwich. He accepted the invitation to settle with the Milton church, May 18, 1681, and was ordained over that church, June I following. Mr. Thacher wrote in his journal : " May 20. This
Samuel Shrimpton, Jr. (1695.) AUTHORITIES : Sumner's Hist. of East Boston; Boston Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
" Sumner's East Boston, pp. 233, 234.
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day the ordination beer was brewed." A full and interesting account of his life and work is given in the History of Milton, by A. K. Teele.
He died Dec. 17, 1727, after a pastorate of forty-six years. Judge Sewall (1679) attended the funeral of his life-long friend and classmate, having hired for the occasion " Blake's coach with four horses."
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