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But little is known of him. In 1734, he mortgaged some real estate on Fort Hill to his brother, James. The last record found concerning him is the fact of his forbid- ding the marriage banns of his eldest daughter, in 1736.
Joseph Hiller (1709). AUTHORITY: Boston Records. John Hunt (1709). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Hunt Genealogy.
Brattle Oliver (1709). AUTHORITIES: Bos- ton Records; Descendants of Thomas Brattle.
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James Smith, Jr. (1709), merchant, of Boston, son of James and Prudence Smith, was born in Boston, June 12, 1689. He was constable of Boston in 1715. He died Aug. 4, 1769, aged eighty years, and was buried in the King's Chapel Burial-Ground. His gravestone says, "Æ 82." His widow, Elizabeth, married Ralph Inman. She died May 25, 1785, aged fifty-nine years.
Francis Wainwright (1709), merchant, of Ipswich and Boston, son of Francis and Phillippa Wainwright, was born in Ipswich, Ang. 25, 1664, and graduated at Harvard College in 1686. He married Sarah Whipple, March 12, 1686-7. Their son, John, died in his eighteenth year, when a senior at Harvard College. Francis (1709) partook of the paternal military spirit, and when quite young joined the militia of Essex County, passed through the various positions, and was promoted to be colonel. He was also town clerk, representative to the General Court, justice, commissioner, and collector of excise for Essex County. His wife died March 16, 1709, aged thirty-eight years. He made an engagement to marry Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst, of Salem, but died Aug. 3, 1711, before the marriage was consummated. He bequeathed five pounds to the First Church. His estate was appraised at one thousand nine hundred and fourteen pounds.
He never held an office in the Artillery Company. In the unsuccessful expedition against Port Royal, he was second in command.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1709 is as follows : -
" April 4. 1709. The Rev'd Mr. Joseph Gerrish was chosen to preach the Artillery Sermon and the then Commission officers, with Capt Samuel Sewall, Esq [1679], Colo Samuel Checkley [1678] and Lt Colo. Adam Winthrop [1694] were desired to request it of him.
" May 2ª. It was returned. Not accepted by him; and the Rev'd Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton was chosen to preach the Artillery Sermon, and the last mentioned Committee was desired to request it of hin."
Rev. Joseph Gerrish, who was invited to preach the Artillery sermon in 1709, but who declined, was a brother of John Gerrish, of Dover, the father of Capt. John Gerrish (1700) and of Benjamin Gerrish (1714). Rev. Joseph and his wife, Ann, daughter of Major Richard Waldron, of Dover, were the parents of Samuel Gerrish (1709), of Boston. He settled over the church in Wenham in 1673, and died Jan. 6, 1720.
Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, the preacher of the sermon before the Company in 1709, also delivered a sermon before it at its June anniversary in 1701. The latter was printed, and appears in a volume of Mr. Pemberton's sermons, but is misleading on account of a typographical error, which states that it was delivered on " Jan. 1," instead of June 1, 1701. See page 334.
James Smith, Jr. (1709.) AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; King's Chapel Burial-Ground, by Bridgman.
Francis Wainwright (1709). AUTHORITIES : Hurd's Hist. of Essex Co., Vol. I., Art., Ipswich; Savage's Gen. Dict.
"Aug 3. 1711. Col. Francis Wainwright dies at his own house at Ipswich. Left Salem for his last July 25, the day before his first apointed Wed- ding-day; which Appointment was remov'd to the last of July. He was taken Sick at Ipswich on the Lords Day, July 29, and died on the Friday follow-
ing at IO M; his Bride being with him. Tis the most compleat and surprising Disapointment that I have been acquanted with. Wedding Cloaths, to a Neck-cloth and Night-cap laid ready in the Bride- chamber, with the Brides attire; Great Provision made for Entertainment; Guests, several came from Boston and entertain'd at Mr. Hirst's; but no Bride- groom, no wedding. Ile was laid in a new Tomb of his own making lately; and his dead wife taken out of another and laid with him." - Sewall Papers, Vol. II., p. 320.
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The officers elected were : John Ballentine (1682), captain ; Samuel 17IO- I. Keeling (1699), lieutenant; Edward Martyn (1702), ensign. Richard
Bill (1707) was first sergeant ; Daniel Epes (1706), second sergeant ; Jonathan Loring (1704), third sergeant; Richard Hall (1707), fourth sergeant, and William Lowder (1708), clerk.
The members recruited in 1710 were : Robert Calfe, Jr., George Robinson, William Tidcomb, Abiel Walley.
Robert Calfe, or Calef, Jr. (1710), merchant, of Boston, and later of Roxbury, son of Robert, of Roxbury, was born about 1678, and therefore was only about fourteen years of age at the time of the witchcraft delusion, and was but twenty-two years of age in 1700. Mr. Whitman (1810), in his history of the Artillery Company, edition of 1842, p. 253, and Mr. Savage, in the Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. I., p. 329, credit him with being the author of More Wonders of the Invisible World, printed in London in 1700, the authorship of which, as Mr. Drake claims in his History of Roxbury, should be awarded to Robert Calfe, Sr. The latter was born in 1648, and died, says his gravestone, " April 13, 1719, aged 71." The name of the author given on the title-page is " Robert Calfe," and not Robert Calfe, Jr.
Rev. Cotton Mather drew up an account of the witch trials, and published it with the title, Wonders of the Invisible World. Mr. Calfe replied with More Wonders of the Invisible World. The latter gave great offence, and was the, occasion of bitter and angry feelings on the part of the Mathers. Rev. Increase Mather, president of Harvard College, caused the "wicked book " to be publicly burned in the college yard, "the scene of the holocaust being the area between Massachusetts, Harvard, and Stoughton Halls." The book was reprinted in Salem in 1823. Mr. Savage remarks, " Ever honored will be his name for . .. giving the history of the baneful superstition of 1692; that served to prevent a renewal of the horrid tragedies that the patrons of the delusion, unsatisfied with their sad experience, would surely have attempted."
Robert Calfe, Jr. (1710), married, Dec. 23, 1699, Margaret, daughter of James Buxton, of Newton, and had at least eight children.
Mr. Whitman (1810) gives the date of the death of the Mr. Calfe, Sr., for the decease of the junior. The latter died between April, 1722, and Feb. 18 next following, when his will of Jan. 2, 1720, according to Mr. Savage, was probated.
Robert, Jr. (1710), was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1712.
George Robinson (1710), carver, of Boston, son of George (1694) and Elizabeth Robinson, was born in Boston, Dec. 28, 1680. He married Sarah Maverick, April 7, 1698. He was a tithing-man and member of a Boston militia company in 1715. He died in August, 1737.
William Tidcomb, or Titcomb (1710), of Newbury, the eldest son of William Tidcomb, was born Aug. 14, 1659. He is called "Sergeant William " in the Newbury records. He married, May 15, 1683, Ann Cottle. He died Feb. 4, 1740, and his widow died Aug. 15, 1747.
Robert Calfe, Jr. (1710.) AUTHORITIES : Whitman's Hist. A. and II. A. Company, Ed. 1842; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1876, 1884.
George Robinson (1710). AUTHORITY : Bos- ton Records.
William Tidcomb (1710). AUTHORITIES : Savage's Gen. Dict .; Early New Eng. Families.
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Mr. Coffin, in his history of Newbury, mentions Mr. Tidcomb (1710) as an assessor in 1716, and, Sept. 20, 1721, "Ensign William Tidcomb was one of a committee to receive and to loan the town's part of the fifty thousand pounds - granted by Massa- chusetts, July 13, 1720." This was the famous "land-bank " scheme, which resulted so injuriously to the estates of many persons. Mr. Whitman (1810) calls him "Col. William Tidcomb," and after quoting from Mr. Hutchinson's history, concludes, "' He was killed,' says Farmer, 'in the French war of 1755.'"
It was Col. Moses, son of William (1710), who was at Louisburg in 1745, and who was killed in the French war of 1755. As Col. Moses was born June 19, 1700, he could not have joined the Artillery Company in 1710. William Tidcomb (1710) was not at Louisburg in 1745, as his death occurred five years previous to that expedition.
Abiel Walley (1710), merchant, of Boston, son of John (1671) and Elizabeth (Alden) Walley, was born Aug. 30, 1686. His mother was a daughter of the second John Alden. Abiel Walley (1710) married, June 17, 1710, Margaret Corwin.
He was a constable of the town of Boston in 1715 and 1723. May 25, 1735, he contributed, "to be paid in goods," thirty pounds towards the erection of the new work- house. He resided on Hanover Street in 1737. He was a selectman of Boston in 1746 and 1747, and was on several important committees, visiting schools, instructing repre- sentatives, etc. He was moderator of the town meeting, June 29, 1747, and became a member of the Old South Church, March 3, 1716, but " took dismission to the New North Church."
May 22, 1741, he was chosen one of a committee to wait on his Excellency the Governor, "desiring that some measures may be taken to protect such coasters as may be bringing provisions, wood, etc., from being impressed on board of his Majesty's ships of way, laying in the harbor."
May 15, 1750, he was chairman of a committee to prepare a memorial " to the Great and General Court, for the repeal of the law lately passed," laying a duty on tea, coffee, coaches, chaises, etc. The report of the committee was accepted, and it was voted that " an agent be also chose by the town to appear in their behalf at home to prevent said acts being confirmed by his Majesty." Christopher Kilby, Esq., of London, was chosen agent. Of the committee of five, who wrote the vivid portraiture of the distressed condition of Boston in 1752, as given in the Report of Record Commissioners (City Document No. 170, pp. 220-222), three were members of the Artillery Company, viz. : Abiel Walley (170), Daniel Henchman (1712), and John Phillips (1725). The pro- tests were the same as those in defence of which the colonies resorted to arms. The document is stamped with as great a spirit of firmness and determination as those written by the patriots of a quarter of a century later. In these public concerns, Mr. WValley (1710) took a great interest, and he bore a prominent and honorable part in opposing the heavy burdens levied by the British government.
He was appointed a justice of the peace and of the quorum for Suffolk County, Nov. 5, 1740, and was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1711. He died with- out issue, and his will was proved Aug. 31, 1759.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1710 is as follows : -
" April 3. 1710. A committee chosen and Impowered by the Artillery Company of
Abiel Walley (1710). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Hist. Cat. of Old South Church.
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the Massachusets to Treat with, and lease out to any Person that may present [himself], the farm belonging to said Company, not exceeding the term of twenty-one years; vizt : Capt Penn Townsend [1674], Capt Habijah Savage [1699], Ensign Thomas Cushing [1691], Colo Elisha Hutchinson [1670], Capt Samuel Sewall [1679], Colo. Samuel Checkley [1678], Capt Samuel Keeling [1699].
"The Rev'd Mr. Increase Mather was chosen to preach the Artillery Sermon, and the then Commission Officers were desired to request it of him. May 4th. It was accepted by him."
Rev. Increase Mather, of Boston, who preached before the Company forty-five years before, in 1665, delivered the Artillery election sermon 1 in 1710. A sketch of his life will be found under that date. See page 204.
One of his successors, Rev. Dr. Pond, speaks of Mr. Mather as "a man richly endowed by nature, richly furnished by education, and deservedly numbered with the most pious, learned, and industrious men of New England."
The elected officers were : Habijah Savage (1699), captain ; Edward 171 1-2. Winslow (1700), lieutenant ; Edward Hutchinson (1702), ensign. Thomas Salter (1704) was first sergeant ; Richard Proctor (1699), second ser- geant ; William Lowder (1708), third sergeant ; Abiel Walley (1710), fourth sergeant, and Jonathan Williams (1711), clerk.
This was the year of a conflagration, called the " great fire," until eclipsed by that of March 20, 1760. Mr. Whitmore, in the Old State House Memorial, edition 1887, says, "To add to the general depression, a great fire in Boston occurred 'about 7 or 8 o'clock of the night between the 2d and 3d of October.' 'It broke out in an old Tene- ment within a back Yard in Cornhill (i. e., Washington Street), near the First meeting- house, occasioned by the carelessness of a poor Scottish woman (one Mary Morse), by using Fire near a parcel of Ocum, Chips, and other combustible Rubbish.' This spot was in or near Williams Court. 'All the houses on both sides of Cornhill [Washington Street] from School Street to what is called the stone-shop in Dock-square, all the upper part of King Street [State Street] on the south and north side, together with the Town House, and what was called the Old Meeting House above it, were consumed to ashes.' " Thus ended the first town-house in Boston, originally suggested by, and largely erected through the thoughtful generosity of, Robert Keayne (1637), the founder of the Artillery Company.
One hundred buildings were consumed, and one hundred and ten families were turned out of doors. Snow's History of Boston says, "The house in which the fire took is said to have belonged to Capt. Ephraim Savage [1674], who then lived in Williams Court." How many members of the Artillery Company suffered directly by the fire is not known. Two petitions, however, containing some of the names of the sufferers, are on file in the clerk's office, Boston. Included therein are the names of Samuel Lynde
' " [1710] Second day, April 3 [during a ses- sion of the council in the town-house ], As we look toward the Artillery passing by, I said to Mr. Pem- berton the passage of Ulysses : 'Si mea cum vestris
valuissent vota Pelasgi!' Before we went away word was brought that Dr. Mather was chosen to preach the Artillery Sermon. Mr Pemberton said, 'Must choose agen.'" - Sewall Papers, Vol. II., p. 279.
THE OLD TOWN-HOUSE.
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(1691), Ephraim Savage (1674), Henry Deering (1682), Ezekiel Lewis (1707), Thomas Phillips (1694), and Enoch Greenleaf (16So). The saved goods, unclaimed, were placed by the selectmen in the care of Edward Hutchinson (1702).
The town took immediate steps toward procuring a new town-house, and addressed the Legislature, by which a joint committee was selected, viz. : Elisha Hutchinson (1670) and Penn Townsend (1674), councillors ; Addington Davenport (1692), Samuel Thaxter (1728), and Capt. Phips (1681), deputies, with two persons representing Boston, viz. : Thomas Brattle and William Payne (1691), which committee, under the direction of the Legislature and the town of Boston, supervised the erection of a town-house, - the present Old State House, so called, - at the head of State Street.
In 1711, Timothy Thornton (1691), Capt. Thomas Hutchinson (1694), and Capt. Edward Martyn (1702), were chosen by the town, with full power, to purchase land for the enlargement of the North burying-place. A purchase was accordingly made of land adjacent, belonging to Hon. Samuel Sewall (1679), for one hundred and twenty pounds.
The line of defence, or the fortification, proposed across the Neck, was a matter of absorbing interest to the town. At the August meeting, it was determined that the " line of Defence be forthwith made," and that Col. Giles Dyer (1680), Capt. Timothy Clarke (1702), Messrs. Richard Draper, Joseph Wadsworth, and Joshua Gee were appointed a committee to manage the affair of making it. A thousand pounds were appropriated for it, and the field-officers of the militia of the town were desired to make suggestions in regard to it, as was also his Excellency the Governor. The field-officers of the militia were veteran members of the Artillery Company.
The members of the Artillery Company recruited in 1711 were : Jeremiah Belknap, Benjamin Bridge, Barrat Dyer, John Eustace, Ephraim Fenno, John Gibbins, John Goldthwait, Nathaniel Goodwin, Samuel Green, Estes Hatch, Samuel Haugh, Richard Hunnewell, Ebenezer Lowell, William Parkman, Thomas Phillips, Habijah Savage, James Tileston, James Varney, Ezekiel Walker, Nathaniel Wheeler, Jonathan Williams.
Jeremiah Belknap (1711), leather-breeches maker and leather-dresser, of Boston, son of Joseph (1692) and Deborah (Fitch) Belknap, and grandson of Joseph Belknap (1658), was born in Boston, Jan. 1, 1687. Jeremiah (1711) was a half-brother of Nicholas (1725), and of Abraham (1735). He married Sarah Fosdick, born Feb. 19, 1684-5, sister of Lieut. James Fosdick (1722). Jeremiah (1711) and Sarah (Fosdick) Belknap had two sons, Joseph (1742), named for his paternal grandfather, and Jeremiah (1745), named for his maternal grandfather, Jeremiah Fitch, of Boston. They were the grandparents of Jeremy Belknap, born June 4, 1744 (Harv. Coll., 1762), "the amiable and learned historian of New Hampshire," and author of valuable volumes of American biography. Jeremiah (1711) and his wife were members of the Old South Church. He was admitted to membership March 9, 1711-2, and she, the 8th of April preceding. He followed the trade of his father and grandfather, and acquired a considerable prop- erty. He was a man of marked ability, and took a prominent part in town affairs and public matters. He held minor town offices for twelve years, between 1716 and 1741 ; was one of the purchasers of grain for the town from March 11, 1739, to 1746; was one of the committee to raise, by taxation, ten thousand pounds for the building of batteries and fortifications for the town in 1744; frequently made the annual visit to the public
Jeremiah Belknap (1711). AUTHORITY : Boston Records.
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schools, with the clergy and others, and was selectman in 1747. His residence was on Cornhill (Washington Street) in 1723. Sept. 27, 1725, liberty was granted him by the selectmen to build a tomb on the south line of the South burying-place. The tomb was No. 33. He died in 1751, aged sixty-four years.
Benjamin Bridge (1711), tailor, of Boston, son of Samuel (1679) and Hannah Bridge, and brother of Capt. Ebenezer Bridge (1717), was born Feb. 18, 1684. He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1715, and ensign in 1728. In the latter year, July 4, he was one of the coroner's jury " who being Sworn, upon their oaths say, that Benjamin Woodbridge came to his death " with a sword in the hands of Henry Phillips, on Boston Common, July 3, 1728. He died in June, 1739.
Barrat Dyer (1711) was a cooper, of Boston. He was a tithing-man and mem- ber of a Boston military company in 1707 and 1708; measurer of grain in 1707-8 and 1709 ; constable in 1711, but resigned ; scavenger in 1723, 1726, and 1734, and culler of staves in 1744. In 1708, the selectmen appointed him a gauger and viewer of casks made for tar, pitch, turpentine, and rosin. In April, 1710, he was ordered by the select- men to remove the fence which he and William Keen ( 1702) had erected in Pierce's Alley, now known as Change Avenue. Liberty was granted Barrat Dyer, Sept. 6, 1726, to build a tomb " on the new line in the South burying-place." He presented a clock to the New Brick Church. He died Dec. 7, 1753.
A Barrat Dyer married Elizabeth Bull, Dec. 21, 1730.
John Eustace, or Eustis (1711), housewright, of Boston, son of William Eustis, was born Dec. 8, 1659. He married (1) Elizabeth Morse, who died about Nov. 20, 1714; (2) April 4, 1715, Mercy Tay, who died April 3, 1718, and, (3) July 7, 1719, Mary Moulds. He died April 5, 1722, and was buried in King's Chapel Burial-Ground. His name is spelled Eustis on his gravestone. He resided on Back, now Salem, Street, in 1722, where he owned two houses, inventoried at nine hundred pounds.
He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1712.
Ephraim Fenno (1711) was of Boston. He married Elizabeth Smith, July 22, 1706. In the selectmen's records of 1708, reference is made to the house of Ephraim Fenno (1711), at the South End. Robert Calfe, Jr. (1710), was his neighbor. July 15, 1718, petition for license as an innholder was disallowed ; but Aug. 5, 1718, he was licensed to sell ale, beer, and cider within doors, " at his house in Marlborough [now Washington] Street." In 1720, he was licensed as an innholder. He again applied in 1736 for a license, but it was disallowed. He was clerk of the market in 1712, constable in 1713, sealer of leather in 1724, 1725, and 1726.
His son, Ephraim, Jr., was a member of the Old South Church, and not Ephraim (1711), as Mr. Whitman (1810) states.
Benjamin Bridge (1711). AUTIIORITV : Bos- ton Records.
Barrat Dyer (1711). AUTIIORITIES: Boston Records; Boston Post-Boy; Rev. Mr. Ware's Hist. Discourse.
John Eustace (1711). AUTHORITY: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., IS78, p. 205. Ephraim Fenno (17II). AUTHORITY : Bos- ton Records.
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John Gibbins (1711), apothecary, of Boston, son of Lieut. William Gibbins (1691) and Anne, his wife, was born Jan. 11, 1687, and graduated at Harvard College in 1706. He married Rebecca Gray, Oct. 4, 1711. He was clerk of the market in 1712, and was elected constable in 1715, but declined to serve. Feb. 23, 1736, he petitioned for a tomb in the South burial-ground, and Jan. 10, 1738, the selectmen granted tomb No. 85 to " Dr. John Gibbins [1711]."
He was one of the founders of Trinity Church, 1734.
John Goldthwait (1711), a brick mason, of Boston, son of Samucl and Elizabeth (Checver) Goldthwait, was born in Salem in 1677. He was a grandson of the celebrated Ezekiel Cheever. /He married Sarah Hopkins, March 13, 1701. She died Oct. 31, 1715.
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He was elected constable in 1713, but declined ; and served as tithing-man in 1721, clerk of the market in 1724, scavenger in 1725, and in 1726 was appointed, with others, by Edward Bromfield (1707) and others, and by the selectmen of Boston, an appraiser, to make a true " apprizement of the tenements standing on the towns land and wharf, on the South side of town dock, now in the possession of Mr Bromfield [1707], Belcher and others." He was called in 1708 to appraise a partition brick wall near the Swinging Bridge, and in 1712 to examine chimneys, which would indicate that he was a mason. Feb. 25, 1716, he was directed to make such alterations in the chimney of Mr. Sheaffe's house as were necessary, and March 25, 1717, the selectmen agreed that "Mr. John Goldthwait [1711] be imployed in carrying up a Small Stack of chimnyes" at Mr. Sheaffe's house.
In 1735, he contributed thirty pounds in mason work toward the erection of the workhouse. Tradition says that he lived at the North End. (Charter St. )
He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1721 ; ensign in 1730, and its lieutenant in 1732. Of his sons, Joseph joined the Artillery Company in 1732 and Benjamin in 1740.
He died June 25, 1766, aged eighty-eight years and six months.
Nathaniel Goodwin (1711) was of Boston. He was not born or married in Boston. He appears in Boston in 1696, and had wife, Elizabeth. Their first child was Nathaniel, born Nov. 23, 1696. Nathaniel (1711) married, (2) July 6, 1708, Bridget Salisbury.
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1718, and its ensign in 1724, and became a member of the Old South Church, Sept. 27, 1730.
Samuel Green (1711), cooper, of Boston, son of James (1674) and Rebecca (Jones) Green, of Boston, was born in Boston, July 20, 1680. His mother was a daughter of Thomas Jones (1643), of Dorchester. He married Elizabeth Brazier, Jan. 27, 1703. His brother, Richard, joined the Artillery Company in 1694. Samuel (1711) was by trade a cooper, but Aug. 27, 1711, he applied for a license as an innholder, which was disallowed. Nov. 24, 1713, he was appointed by the selectmen to board sloops or vessels bringing corn, and see to the delivery of the corn, according to the by-laws of the town, -" so much to each family." His last petition for a license was July 9, 1714, where he is named "Samuel Green. Coop"."
John Gibbins (1711). AUTHORITY : Boston Samuel Green (1711). AUTHORITY: Boston Records.
Records. John Goldthwait (1711). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1880, p. 94; MS. of Joseph Cutler Whitney.
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