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Estes Hatch (1711), of Dorchester, was born in 1689. He married, Nov. 9, 1716, Mary Rolfe.1
Col. Hatch (1711) was a prominent man in town affairs; held the principal mili- tary offices, and at the time of his decease was a "brigadier-general of horse." He was captain of the Tenth Company in the Third Massachusetts Regiment at Louisburg, in 1745.
The Artillery Company has in its museum a valuable relic in the form of a mourning ring, made in memory of Gen. Estes Hatch (1711). It is of fine gold, panelled on the outside, and inscribed with the words, " | Bd Gen | E : Hatch | OB : 6 | Feb | 1759 | Æ70|."
Samuel Haugh (1711), of Boston, son of Samuel and Ann (Rainsford) Haugh, was born Feb. 1, 1676. "Samuel Haugh [1711] was indentured to Mr. Thomas Savage [1665]."2 He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1713, and is said to have died " before middle age."
Richard Hunnewell ( 1711), master-mariner, of Boston, son of Ambrose Hunnewell (1695), was born in 1681. He married (1) Sarah -, who died July 23, 1723, and, (2) March 12, 1724, Elizabeth Bradford. He was chosen to town office, March 12, 1710-1, and also the year following. He resided in North Street in 1710. Oct. 25, 1715, he presented to the selectmen his account of disbursements in laying a common sewer, three hundred and fourteen feet long, from the common sewer in North Street, through Charter Street to Thomas Chittey's, which was approved by the selectmen, and assessed upon the property holders. It amounted to £35 7.
He died Nov. 27, 1742, aged sixty-one years, and was entombed in King's Chapel Burial-Ground.
Ebenezer Lowell (1711), cordwainer, of Boston, son of John and Hannah (Proctor) Lowell, was born in 1675. Ebenezer (1711) married, Jan. 30, 1694, Elizabeth Shaler, and they had at least two sons, John and Ebenezer, who grew up. The father was clerk of the market in 1704, constable in 1707, and, in 1711, was licensed to sell " strong drink." He died before Sept. 11, 1711, and his widow, Elizabeth " Lowle," petitioned the selectmen for a license, which she received in 1711 and 1712. In 1713, objection was made to its renewal, and, July 23, Philip Bongarden, having married Mrs. Lowell, petitioned for the license she had, and it was granted.
The son, Ebenezer, remained in Boston, sold " strong drink " for several years, and,
Estes Hatch (1711). AUTHORITIES: Chase's Hist. of Haverhill, p. 220; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1871, p. 258, and 1893.
Samuel Haugh (1711). AUTHORITY : Eaton's Hist. of Reading, p. 87.
" [1717, June] 9. Mr. Sam. Haugh buried; Mr. Edwards, Ellis, Williams Retailer were 3 of the Bearers. I had a scarf. Mr Eliakim Hutchinson & I follow'd next after the Mourners, 42 upon the Coffin." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., p. 132.
Richard Hunnewell (1711). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; King's Chapel Burial-Ground, by Bridgman.
Ebenezer Lowell (1711). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Pilgrims of Boston, by Bridgman. 1 Mary Rolfe was a daughter of Rev. Benjamin Rolfe, of Haverhill. Aug. 29, 1708, the Indians
attacked Haverhill. Mr. Rolfe was killed by the Indians, and his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, were saved by the sagacity of Hagar, a negro slave, who was an inmate of the family. She carried the children into the cellar, covered them with two tubs, and then concealed herself. They thus escaped the hrutality of the savages. Elizabeth became the wife of Rev. Samuel Checkley, who delivered the Artil- lery sermon in 1725, and was the mother of the wife of Samuel Adams, the patriot.
? " Thursday, November the Sixth, 1690, at my House in Boston Samuel Haugh and Mr. Thomas Savage mutually sign'd and deliver'd Indentures to each other: Sam. to serve him from Oct 7 last, Seven years and six Moneths." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., p. 333.
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in 1742, was allowed to sell " Flour, Butter, Cheese & Rice " in stall No. 10, south side of the market. The son, John, graduated at Harvard College in 1721, was ordained as pastor of the First Church in Newbury, Jan. 12, 1726, and held that position forty-two years. John, son of John, and grandson of Ebenezer (1711), graduated at Harvard College in 1760, and became distinguished as a judge. Several eminent benefactors of the Commonwealth are the descendants of Ebenezer (1711).
William Parkman (1711), joiner, of Boston, son of William and Elizabeth Park- man, was born in Boston, Dec. 19, 1685. He married, May 5, 1708, Hannah Goodwin. He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1717. Dec. 12, 1709, " the selectmen let unto William Parkman, Jr. (1711), a strip of land belonging to the North Battery, on the easterly side of his dwelling-house, at one shilling per annum." Feb. 27, 1709-10, the selectmen engaged Mr. Parkman (1711) to collect and receive the wharfage and dockage fees at Merry's Point. In 1732, he resided in Ship, now North, Street. A strip of land, eighty feet long and two feet wide, was sold by him to the town in 1734, to widen Battery Alley, now Battery Street, for the sum of forty shillings.
He was scavenger in 1721, 1723, and 1725 ; constable in 1721 ; assessor in 1731; measurer of boards and timber, and viewer of shingles, in 1732, 1744, 1745, and 1746. June 17, 1734, William Parkman (1711) and others petitioned the town for liberty to lay down and maintain, for twenty or thirty years, good and sufficient ways for the land- ing of passengers from Winnisimmet, at the town's slip, at the lower end of North Street. The petition was granted, and the term was fixed at thirty years.
Probably William Parkman, Sr., was the person of that name who was one of the founders of the New North Church in 1712, but William, Jr. (1711), was a member of that church, a deacon, and its last ruling elder. He was elected to the latter office in 1743, and died in 1775 or 1776, in the country.
Thomas Phillips (17II), was a tavern-keeper, of Boston. He married, Dec. 31, 1702, Rebecca Blaney.
Thomas Phillips (1711) first appears as an innholder in 1709, when, June 9, the selectmen billeted ninety of the soldiers, " now in her Majesty's service upon this present expedition," within the town of Boston. These soldiers were assigned to the several houses of entertainment, and five were billeted to Thomas Phillips (1711). The town records inform us as to his tavern and its situation. Oct. 31, 1712, Thomas Phillips (1711) received liberty "to dig up the highway from his dwelling-house, being the Sun Tavern, to the dock, which is about thirty feet," to lay a drain. Feb. 21, 1714-5, Thomas Phillips (1711) was notified by the selectmen to remove " the heap of dirt lying in the highway, before or nigh his house, at the entrance of Corn Market, which hath been made by dirt from his yard."
The dwelling-house of Thomas Phillips ( 1711) was the original Sun Tavern, on Dock Square. He kept it, certainly, from 1708 until 1724, when he was succeeded by Samuel Mears, who was followed by Andrew Halliburton and James Day (1733), and probably others. The Sun Tavern was on the corner of Dock Square and what is now Faneuil Hall Square.
The will of Thomas Phillips was proved in 1726.
William Parkman (17II). AUTHORITIES : Thomas Phillips (1711). AUTHORITY: Bos- Boston Records; Drake's Hist. of Boston. ton Records.
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Habijah Savage (1711) was the same as Habijah Savage (1699). See page 322.
James Tileston (1711), housewright, of Boston, son of Timothy and Sarah (Bridg- man) Tileston, of Dorchester, was born in Dorchester, July 2, 1678. He was a brother of Col. Thomas Tileston (1724), of Dorchester. James (1711) was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1713, its ensign in 1723, and one of the founders of the new Brick Church, Boston. He was a constable in 1712, viewer of shingles, boards, etc., in 1716, 1717, 1719, 1720, 1724, and 1725, and fence-viewer in 1718, 1721, and 1728. In 1714, he resided on Bennet Street. Tileston Street perpetuates the name of this family.
He died prior to February, 1740.
James Varney (1711) was a bricklayer in Boston. He came to Boston about 1700, and married, Nov 6, 1701, Mercy Hiskett, who died May 22, 1702. His name appears again in the records in 1706, and he had, by wife Jane, James Varney, born Aug. 8, 1706.
James (1711) was a constable of Boston in 1717. In 1708, he received official notice to "make his Brick wall in higth conformable to his Lycence." Jan. 21, 1725, he received permission of the selectmen to erect a dwelling-house on Copp's Hill, front- ing Sheafe Street.
Mr. James Varney (1711) died "Jan. 24, 1752, aged 74," and his widow, Jean, died "April 8, 1752, aged 80." Both were interred in Copp's Hill Burial-Ground.
Ezekiel Walker (1711), currier, of Boston, son of Samuel, of Woburn, was born March 5, 1679. He married (1) Sarah Wyman, and, (2) Aug. 7, 1701, Ruth Cook. He was constable of Boston in 1712, and sealer of leather from 1714 to 1722 inclusive, except in 1719. He became a member of the Old South Church, May 11, 1707. Sept. 24, 1716, the selectmen "Voted, That Mr Ezekiel Walker [1711] be desired and he is here by Impowered to Prosecut Such persons as shall transgress any of the Laws of this Province against Intemperance, Immorality & Prophaness, and for Reformation of Manners." The next month, Oct. 23, he applied to the selectmen for a retailer's license, but his petition was dismissed "as out of season." His application of July 5, 1717, for a license was refused, but subsequently was allowed to sell beer and cider in Queen (now Court) Street ; and in March following, the selectmen " Voted. A period to Mesu'rs John Marion [1691] & Ezekiel Walkers [17[1] Service in Prosecuting the Breach of Laws & Town orders, untill further Order." They were allowed, beginning May 29, " to prosecute the breach of the laws," for one "moneth." Ezekiel (1711) continued his cider and beer business. He died before June, 1724, when the license was granted Ruth Walker, his widow.
Nathaniel Wheeler (1711), by wife, Mary, had five children born in Boston between 1699 and 1712. He was clerk of the market in Boston in 1715.
Jonathan Williams (1711), merchant, of Boston, son of Robert, was born Sept. 22, 1673, and died in Boston, March 27, 1737. His parents were members of the First Church, and of that Jonathan (1711) and Jonathan, Jr. (1729), were deacons. Jonathan Williams (1711) began life as a wine cooper, and carried on that business in Boston for
James Tileston (1711). AUTHORITIES: Bos- ton Records; Dorchester Records; New Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg., 1859.
James Varney (17II). AUTHORITIES : Bos- ton Records; Copp's Ilill Burial-Ground, by Bridg- man.
Ezekiel Walker (1711). AUTHORITIES: Bos- ton and Woburn Records.
Jonathan Williams (1711). AUTHORITY :
Boston Records.
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some years. His first wife was Mary Hunlock, a granddaughter of Samuel Sendall, by whom he had two sons, Jonathan (1729) and Sendall (1738), and a daughter, Mary. Mary (Hunlock) Williams died in September, 1707, and Jonathan Williams (1711) married, June 24, 1708, Mrs. Rebecca Townsend. She was the widow of James Town- send, of Boston, wine merchant. Jonathan Williams (1711) succeeded to the business of Mr. Townsend, and sold wines, etc, at the famous wine store, under the sign of the " Blackboy and Butt," in Cornhill (Washington Street), Boston. By his second wife, Deacon Williams (1711) had several children, one of whom, Rebecca, married Thaddeus Mason, and they were the grandparents of the distinguished Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, of Dorchester.
He was clerk of the Artillery Company from 1711 to 1713 inclusive, and second sergeant in 1714.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1711 is as follows : -
"April 2. 1711. The Rev. Mr. Nehemiah Walter was chosen to preach the Artillery Sermon and the then Commission Officers, with Colo Samuel Checkley [1678], were desired to request it of him.
" May 7th. It was accepted by him."
Rev. Nehemiah Walter, of Roxbury,1 who delivered the Artillery sermon in 1711, preached before the Artillery Company in 1697. See page 313.
Following the charter of 1638, and the orders " made and agreed upon " Sept. 2, 1700, at the beginning of the book of records of the Artillery Company, is given the following list, which was probably made out in 1711 :-
" The List of those Artillery Soldiers, that are under the fine of 12d for non-appear- ance, who subscribe to the above articles.
" Elisha Hutchinson [1670], John Walley [1671], Penn Townsend [1674], Nathaniel Byfield [1679], Bozoun Allen [1676], James Hill [1677], Nathaniel Williams [1677], Samuel Checkley [1678], John Ballentine [1682], Thomas Hunt [1685], Samuel Johnson [1675], John Barnard [1677], John Cotta [1679], Daniel Powning [1691], John Noyes [1698], J. Ballentine Jun [1694], Thomas Savage Jun [1693], Oliver Noyes [1699], William Sutton [1695], Thomas Savage [1665], Henry Bridgham [1699], John Kilby [1691], Penn Townsend, Jun. [1700], Peter Weare [1700], Silence Allen [1700], John Buchanan [1695], William Briggs, John Mountfort [1697], Thomas Cushing [1691], Joseph Belknap [1692], Benjamin Emmons [1698], Henry Deering [1682], Elisha Cooke Jun. [1699], Thomas Barnard [1681], Adam Winthrop [1691], Thomas Phillips [1694], Nicholas Buttolph [1694], C. Myngs [1701], Timothy Wadsworth [1691], Joseph Russell [1699], Robert Cumby [1691 ], Nathaniel Oliver [1701], Charles Hobby [1702], Timothy Clarke [1702], Thomas Palmer [1702], Thomas Newton [1702], E. Lyde [1702], Calvin Galpine [1702], John Nichols [1702], John George [1702], Edward Martyn [1702], Thomas Smith [1702 ], Adino Bulfinch [1702], Zechariah Tuthil [1699], Thomas Leverett [1703], Thomas Baker [1703], William Frary [1703], William Hutchinson [1703], Joseph Hubbard [1707], Benjamin Eliot [1707], Ezekiel Lewis [1707], James Davis [1708], William Lowder [1708], Ames Angier [1708], Francis
1 " [1711] Second day, April 2 Mr Walter is chosen to Preach the Artillery Sermon." - Sewall Papers, Vol. II., p. 305.
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Wainwright [1709], Joseph Hiller, Jun. [1709], Thomas Salter [1704], John Sale [1704], John Eustace [1711], Nathaniel Wheeler [1711], Samuel Haugh [1711], Benjamin Bridge [1711], Habijah Savage [1699], Ephraim Fenno [1711], John Gibbon [1711], Nathaniel Goodwin [1711], Jonathan Williams [ 1711 ], Thomas Phillips [1711 ], Ebenezer Lowle [1711], Samuel Green [1711], Ezekiel Walker [1711], Barrat Dyer [1711], William Parkman [1711], Richard Hunnewell [1711], James Tilestone [1711]."
The officers elected were : William Tailer (1712), captain ; Edward 1712-3. Martyn (1702), lieutenant ; John Gerrish (1700), ensign. John Green- ough (1712) was first sergeant ; John Eustace (1711), second sergeant ; Robert Calfe (1710), third sergeant ; Samuel Gerrish (1709), fourth sergeant, and Jonathan Williams (1711), clerk.
The Blue Hills having been sold by the town, it was voted to choose a committee to invest the proceeds, one thousand five hundred pounds. Addington Davenport (1692), Isaiah Tay, Daniel Oliver, Thomas Cushing (1691), Oliver Noyes (1699), Joseph Wadsworth, and Edward Hutchinson (1702), with the selectmen, four of whom were members of the Artillery Company, were chosen for that purpose ; and to the same committee, March 9, 1712-3, the town referred the consideration of "what is proper for the town to do about a lighthouse."
The members recruited in 1712 were : Samuel Durham, Joseph Essex, Daniel Goffe, John Greenough, Daniel Henchman, Samuel Oakes, William Tailer.
Samuel Durham (1712), by trade a mason, appears first in Boston Records, July 6, 1691, where it is recorded, "Samuel Durham and Eliza Reed were married by Sam'l Sewall [1679] Esq. Assist." They had a son, Samuel, born March 1, 1692, but his name does not again appear on the records of Boston. Samuel (1712), July 12, 1706, was requested to survey the defective chimneys in the house of Mr. Obadiah Proctor (1722). Dec. 20, 1708, he was appointed by the selectmen to appraise a brick wall, on petition of Capt. John Fairweather, and April 14, 1712, he was required to perform a similar service, in answer to a petition of William Paine (1691).
Joseph Essex (1712), jack maker, of Boston, married Hannah Bill, March 30, 1713. The only time his name appears on the Records of the Town of Boston is July 20, 1719, when he applied to the selectmen for a license as an innholder. Administra- tion was granted on his estate in 1719. "His trade," says Mr. Whitman (1810), " like that of a pewterer, and some others, is extinct."
Daniel Goffe (1712), merchant, of Boston, son of Christopher and Abigail Goffe, was born in Boston, May 27, 1690. He married, Aug. 16, 1711, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin (1707) and Elizabeth Pemberton.
He was a constable of Boston in 1713, and collector of taxes in 1733, receiving one hundred and twenty-one out of the one hundred and twenty-six ballots cast. May 9, 1733, he was chosen one of the committee " to make a computation of the cost and charges of erecting the several markets." Oct. 31, 1733, a special meeting of the town
Samuel Durham (1712). AUTHORITY: Bos- Records. Daniel Goffe (1712). AUTHORITY: Boston ton Records.
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was called to elect a tax collector in the place of Daniel Goffe (1712), who declined to serve. He was active in the colonial militia, and passed through the various grades to lieutenant-colonel. He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1714, and its lieutenant in 1734.
" In 1740, he manifested his good-will to Harvard College by bequeathing to it two hundred pounds ; but, his estate proving insolvent, this legacy was not paid." Administration was granted on his estate in 1742.
John Greenough (1712), shipwright, of Boston, son of Capt. William (1675) and Ruth (Swift) Greenough, was born Feb. 17, 1672-3, and followed the business of his father. He married Elizabeth Gross, Oct. 18, 1693, and had a family of eleven children, two of whom became members of the Company, viz. : Major Newman Greenough (1740) and Thomas Greenough (1744).
John (1712) was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1712, ensign in 1717, lieutenant in 1718, and its captain in 1726.
Samuel Greenough (1786) was a son of Major Newman Greenough (1740), grand- son of Capt. John (1712), and great-grandson of Capt. William Greenough (1675).
Capt. John (1712) was highway surveyor of the streets of Boston in 1708 and 1709. June 14, 1708, he represented to the selectmen that the alley lately named Greenough's Alley was his private property. May 3, 1708, the selectmen had voted, in the naming of streets and alleys, that " the alley leading from Charter Street doun through Mr. Greenough's building yard into Lyn Street [should be named] Greenough's Alley." Nov. 29, 1708, he hired of the town the slip at the lower end of North Street, and the wharf thereto belonging. He used this slip for floating, laying, and hauling up timber to be used in his ship-yard. In 1712, he was a fireward of the town. Feb. 14, 1715, the selectmen made a memorandum, from which it appears that Capt. Greenough (1712) occupied the town slip to Nov. 1, 1715, when there was due the town two years and nine months rent at thirty shillings per annum. July 30, 1722, he had liberty granted by the selectmen to build a tomb on the southeast side of the North burial-ground.
His will was proved Nov. 14, 1732.
Daniel Henchman (1712), book publisher and bookseller, of Boston, son of Hezekiah (1692) and Abigail Henchman, and grandson of " the valiant Capt. Hench- man [1675]," who figured prominently in King Philip's War, was born in Boston, Jan. 21, 1689.
He was clerk of the market in 1716; an incorporator of the Fire Society in 1717; tithing-man, and a member of a militia company in Boston in 1722, 1726, and 1727 ; was overseer of the poor from 1735 to 1756, when he declined to serve longer ; was one of the committee to erect a workhouse in Boston in 1735, toward which project he gave twenty-five pounds ; was one of a committee to repair the almshouse in 1741, and to repair the fortifications of the town in 1746. In 1744, 1751, 1753, and 1757, he was one of the several gentlemen selected to visit the public schools. He became an officer of the militia ; was called "Capt." in 1735 ; was promoted to be major of the Boston regiment in 1742, and afterwards was its lieutenant-colonel. He was clerk of the
John Greenough (1712). AUTHORITY : Bos- ton Records.
Daniel Henchman (1712). AUTHORITIES : Teele's Hist. of Milton; Boston Records; Thomas's Hist. of Printing; Drake's Hist. of Boston.
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Artillery Company in 1714, third sergeant in 1715, lieutenant in 1733, and its captain in 1738 and 1746.
He also established the first paper mill in the colony, in which undertaking he was favored by the General Court. It was in Milton, and was established in 1728. Isaiah Thomas, in his History of Printing, says that "Daniel Henchman [1712] caused the first edition in America of the English Bible to be printed [in 1749], and with a false title-page to evade the right of the King's printer."
While captain, he ordered the Company's records to be transcribed, and thereby the most of Mr. Barnes's transcript of 1680, especially the roll of members and list of officers, is preserved. The transcript ordered by Capt. Henchman (1712) has come down to our time, and in a good state of preservation.
Col. Henchman (1712) continued all his life much attached to the Company. He lived to enjoy, in its youthful vigor, the shade of the great elm-tree on the Common, which his grandfather, Capt. Daniel (1675), planted. "He was long distinguished as an eminent bookseller in Cornhill," and in 1726 his shop was "over against the Brick Meeting house in Cornhill." The title-page of the sermon which Rev. Mr. Prince pro- nounced on the death of Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D, bears this imprint : " Boston in New England : Printed for D. Henchman, near the Brick Meeting house in Cornhill M.D.CCXXVIII."
He gave in his will to the poor fund of the Old South Church, of which church he had been a deacon for many years, £66 135. 4d. In 1742, he presented Harvard College with one hundred ounces of silver, and in 1747, with two hundred and fifty pounds, Old Tenor. He gave by will his estate, after his wife's decease, to his son-in-law, Thomas Hancock, Esq., and wife. Thomas Hancock, when young, was a clerk in Daniel Henchman's (1712) book-store, and married his daughter, Lydia.
Thomas Hancock, who died in 1764, uncle of John Hancock, Governor, patriot, and president of the Continental Congress, willed the latter fifty thousand pounds sterling, besides the reversion of twenty thousand pounds at the decease of his widow. Accord- ing to Mr. Whitmore's " Civil List," Daniel Henchman (1712) was appointed a justice of the peace Jan. 26, 1738-9, and was reappointed Sept. 14, 1756.
" Daniel Henchman [1712] was the most eminent and enterprising bookseller that appeared in Boston, or indeed in all British America, before the year 1775 ; and since that time few have exceeded him as a publisher. He furnished much employment for the presses of Boston, and several books printed for him in London, which were sent over in sheets."
He lived in Queen, now Court, Street, in what was the Brattle Street Society's parsonage, which was willed to that society by his daughter, Mrs. Hancock.
Col. Daniel Henchman (1712) died in Boston, Feb. 25, 1761. The following obituary notice of him is taken from the Boston Gazette and Country Journal of March 2, 1761 : " Last Wednesday night, died here, Daniel Henchman Esq. [1712] one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Suffolk, and many years Deacon of the (Old) South Church in this town, Overseer of the Poor, &c. He was esteemed one of the most noted and eminent booksellers and stationers on this continent. We hear his remains are to be interred this afternoon."
" First Monday in March 1761," says the regimental book, then kept by Col. Dawes (1754), "he was buried, not being in commission, yet the officers of the Regiment all walked in procession before the corpse."
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Samuel Oakes (1712), saddler, of Boston, son of Lieut. Thomas (1684), was born about 1688. Samuel (1712), by wife, Jamina, had a child born in Boston in 1709.
He was elected a clerk of the market in 1727; constable in 1728; and, May 6, 1729, the petition of Samuel Oakes (1712) to the town was read in the town meeting and dismissed. The records do not give the subject-matter of the petition. July 4, 1729, his petition for a retailer's license in Cornhill (Washington Street) was approved, and again, July 15, 1730, in Marlborough (Washington) Street.
Administration was granted on his estate in 1733.
William Tailer (1712), of Dorchester, was a son of William and Rebecca Tailer. The father, " distinguished for his active enterprise, fell into melancholy and died by his own hand, July 12, 1682." Col. William (1712) married, (1) March 2, 1699, Sarah Byfield, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Byfield (1679) ; and (2) Abigail, daughter of Benjamin Gillam, and widow of Thomas Dudley. His mother, Rebecca, was a daughter of Israel Stoughton (1638), and a sister of Lieut .- Col. Israel Stoughton (1645) and of Lieut .- Gov. William Stoughton, the chief-justice in the witchcraft cases of 1692.
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