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James Hill (1717) was a peruke-maker in Boston. He married Mary Hunt, Jan. 19, 1713. He was clerk of the Artillery Company in 1721, and second sergeant in 1722. His will, dated April 11, was proved May 29, 1746.
Joseph Hubbard (1717), blacksmith, of Boston, was probably the Joseph Hubbard who joined the Company in 1707. See page 361.
Ephraim Hunt (1717), blacksmith, of Boston, son of Capt. Thomas (1685) and Judith (Torrey) Hunt, was born Feb. 17, 1681. He married Joanna - about 1701, by whom he had seven children. The mother died Aug. 20, 1731, and he married, (2) June 8, 1732, Sarah (Austin) Butler.
He was a tithing-man in Boston, and identified with the militia in 1707. In 1722, he was elected constable, but declined to serve and paid the fine. He became a mem- ber of the New North Church, and, having been elected March 8, 1726, he was ordained a deacon of that church on the 18th of August following. He held the office of councillor from 1703 to 1713 inclusive ; was elected councillor June 6, 1706, by writ of mandamus, the Governor having negatived Mr. Joseph Hammond, and was appointed special justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Oct. 24, 1712. He was appointed justice of the peace June 30, 1702.
He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1719, and in the militia rose to the rank of colonel. The family burial-place was on Copp's Hill.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1717 is as follows : -
"April 1, 1717. The Rev'd Mr. Thomas Blowers of Beverly was chosen to preach the Artillery Election Sermon and the Commission officers, with Colo. Samuel Checkley [1678] and Lt Colo. Savage [1699] were desired to request it of him. Accepted by him.
" October 7th 1717. Then voted that Col. Thomas Fitch [1700], Lt Colo. Edward Hutchinson [1702], Maj. Habijah Savage [1699], Capt. Jonathan Pollard [1700], Capt Nathaniel Oliver [1701], Capt John Greenough [1712] and Mr. Richard Bill [1707] be
Ephraim Hunt (1717). AUTHORITIES: Hunt Genealogy; Boston Records.
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a committee to inspect Mr. Leonard Whiting's lease of the Artillery Company's farm at Dunstable, whether he has complied with the terms thereof, and upon any failure on his part, they are Impowered to act further what they shall think for the interest of the Company ; and if they shall think proper that three or more of the committee go upon the spot, and enquire into the premises, that the Company will bear the charge thereof. And, further, the said committee are Impowered to act what they shall think needful with relation to the five hundred acres confirmed to the Company by the General Assembly in May last, the charge to be borne by the Company as before."
The General Court, at its May session in 1717, made good the additional grant of five hundred acres by granting one half of a reservation of one thousand acres belong- ing to the government, in the township of Rutland, Worcester County. The Indians continued to infest those parts, and in 1724 committed depredations in that township. The grant is as follows : -
" The following order passed the House of Representatives, - read - concurred, viz : Upon the petition of Edward Hutchinson [1702], Habijah Savage [1699], John Ballentine, Jr [1694], Edward Winslow [1700], and Jonathan Pollard [1700], in behalf of the Artillery Company in Boston, praying that five hundred acres of land which are reserved to the Province in the township of Rutland, may be granted to said Company, to satisfy a grant made to them by the General Court, Oct. 15th 1673 - Ordered, that five hundred acres of the one thousand reserved to the Province in the township of Rutland, be granted in answer to this petition ; but so, that John Burrill, Esq, to whom the other 500 acres is granted, have the choice at which end to lay out his grant.
" Consented to.
SAMUEL SHUTE, Governor."
This grant made the Artillery Company owners of one moiety of said one thousand acres, in common with the heirs of Hon. John Burrill, deceased ; and the Artillery Com- pany, April 7, 1729, appointed Capt. William Ward (1724), Thomas Smith (1702), and Col. Benjamin Pollard (1726), to make partition, which was mutually agreed upon, May 1, 1729.
Rev. Thomas Blowers, of Beverly, delivered the anniversary sermon before the Artillery Company in 1717.1 He was the fourth son of Pyam and Elizabeth (Belcher) Blowers, of Cambridge. His mother, Elizabeth Belcher, was the eldest child of Andrew Belcher (1642), and sister of Andrew, the father of Gov. Jonathan Belcher. Rev. Thomas Blowers was born in Cambridge, Aug. 1, 1677. He graduated at Harvard Col- lege in 1695, and was ordained as pastor of the church in Beverly, Oct. 29, 1701. He married Emma Woodbury, who, with their six children, survived him.
The salary of Rev. Thomas Blowers, at Beverly, was eighty pounds per annum, with " an allowance of one hundred pounds for a settlement." His residence was near Char- nock Street, which takes its name from that of his married daughter, Emma Charnock. He continued in the pastoral office in Beverly until his decease, June 17, 1729.
1 " [1717, June] 3. Mr Blowers preaches from Governor gave the Staves on the Change by reason of the wet weather." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III .. p. 131.
I Sam. 16. 18. Mr. Edward Hutchinson is chosen Captain; Capt N. Oliver Lt; Greenough Ensign.
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1718-9.1 The officers elected were: Thomas Hutchinson (1694), captain ; John Greenough (1712), lieutenant ; Joseph Hiller (1709), ensign. Nathaniel Goodwin (1711) was first sergeant ; Samuel Barrat (1717), second sergeant ; Francis Parnell (1713), third sergeant ; John Holyoke (1714), fourth sergeant, and Thomas Jackson (1716), clerk.
In 1718, Thomas (1694) and Edward (1702) Hutchinson, executors of John Foster, Esq. (1679), proposed to be at the charge of erecting a house convenient for a free writing-school at the northerly part of Boston, for the benefit of said town. It was accepted, and the building was erected on land purchased by the town of Mrs. Susanna Love, corner of Bennet and Love (now Tileston) streets, where the Eliot School-House now stands.
At the town meeting, May 14, 1718, the fortifications of the town were again con- sidered, and Capt. Timothy Clarke (1702), Col. Edward Hutchinson (1702), with three other persons, were appointed a committee to consider the state of the fortifications, advise in regard to placing a battery at the end of Long Wharf, and repair the North Battery.
Sept. 29, 1718, the selectmen having been informed "that ye Sconce or South Battrey is become deffective and unfit to keep ye Townes powder there Ordered that Capt Timo Clarke [1702] be desired to send said powder to the Powder House, takeing Mr Powning [1691] rec't for the Same. . . .
"Ordered that Capt Timo Clarke [1702] be desired to move to his Exel'cy the Gov'r & Councel for a Supply of So much of ye Townes powder as hath been Expended in the Service of the Province."
The new members of the Artillery Company recruited in 1718 were : Sampson Dewer, John Eyre, John Gerrish, Jr., and Jonathan Sewall.
Sampson Dewer (1718), of Boston, son of Sampson and Sarah Dewer, was born in Boston, Jan. 28, 1690. This name is spelled in the Boston Records, Dewer, Dure, and Duer. He was a brother of David Dewer (on city records ; Dure, on Company record), who joined the Artillery Company in 1695. He was a tithing-man, and a member of the militia of Boston in 1713, and clerk of the market in 1721.
The family burial-place was in King's Chapel Burial-Ground.
John Eyre (1718), often Eire or Eyers, merchant, of Boston, son of Hon. John Eyre (1682), was born Aug. 7, 1700, and he graduated at Harvard College in 1718. His mother was Catherine, daughter of Capt. Thomas Brattle (1675), who after the death of John Eyre (1682), in June, 1700, married Wait Winthrop (1692). He settled in Boston as a merchant. John Eyre (1718) was elected constable for 1723, but was excused, and the following year was elected to the same office and excused again. He lived on Queen Street, adjacent to the prison, as his mother conveyed to him, Oct. 21, 1724, land adjoining his own residence there. Feb. 1, 1725-6, he, with his wife, Anne, and others, sold to Jacob Wendell (1733), for seven hundred pounds, warehouses and wharf privileges at the foot of King (State) Street, lately the property of their mother, Catherine Winthrop. March 7 of the same year, the General Court granted him a strip of land off of the prison estate, for a passage way. Dec. 23, 1728, he mortgaged his
Sampson Dewer (1718). AUTHORITY: Bos- John Eyre (1718). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Descendants of Thomas Brattle, p. 70.
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estate on Queen Street to Jacob Wendell (1733), and Feb. 20, 1732-3, gave a second mortgage for the same. He probably soon after removed to Portsmouth, N. H., where he was living in August, 1741. He died, according to the Triennial Catalogue of Harvard College, in 1753.
He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1722.
John Gerrish, Jr. (1718), merchant, son of Capt. John (1700) and Lydia (Watts) Gerrish, was born in Boston, Jan. 22, 1695. He does not appear to have held town office. He joined the Old South Church, March 7, 1735-6, and administration was granted on his estate in 1737.
Jonathan Sewall (1718), of Boston, son of Stephen and Margaret (Mitchell) Sewall, of Salem, was born in Salem, Feb. 7, 1693. Jonathan (1718) was a brother of Major Samuel Sewall (1720).1 They were nephews of Major Samuel (1679). Jonathan (1718) married Mary Payne, of Boston.
He was clerk of the Artillery Company in 1720, and first sergeant in 1726.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1718 is as follows : -
"April 7. 1718. The Rev. Mr. John Barnard was chosen to preach the Artillery Election Sermon, and the commission officers were appointed to request it of him. Accepted by him."
Rev. John Barnard, who preached the Artillery election sermon of 1718, was a son of John Barnard (1677), of Boston. He was born Nov. 6, 1681, and graduated at Harvard College in 1700. He became a minister of much distinction, being first settled in Marblehead. The town proposed to select a colleague for Rev. Mr. Cheever, the aged and infirm pastor of the church. There were two candidates, Rev. John Barnard and Rev. Edward Holyoke. The town selected the former, and, as a result, a second church was formed with the latter as pastor. On the 9th of November, 1715, Mr. Barnard entered upon his duties as colleague.
He died Jan. 24, 1770. His interesting autobiography is printed in 3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, V., 178.
The officers elected were : William Dummer 2 (1702), captain ; 1719-20. Joseph Hiller (1709), lieutenant ; John Sale (1704), ensign. Joseph Hubbard (1717) was first sergeant; Ephraim Hunt (1717), second sergeant ; William Downe (1716), third sergeant; Samuel Holyoke (1714), fourth sergeant, and William Pell (1716), clerk.
On the twenty-ninth day of April, 1719, the town voted, "The Thanks of this Town unto the doners of the Two North School Houses, vizt : The Hon'ble Thomas
" [1718] May 2 [should be June 2]. Mr Bar- nard preaches the Artillery [sermon]." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., p. 186.
' Henry Sewall came to New England in 1634. Ile returned to England prior to 1649, and had (1) Samuel (1679), born March 28, 1652, who came to
New England in 1661; (2) Stephen, born Aug. 19, 1657. Stephen had Major Samuel (1720), born Nov. 24, 1689, and Jonathan (1718), born Feb. 7, 1693. 2 " [1719] June 1, 2d day. Lt. Gov. chosen Captain." - Sewall Papers, Vol. III., p. 221.
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Hutchinson Esq [1694] for the Gramer School-house. And ye S'd mr Thomas Hutch- inson [1694] and also Edward Hutchinson [1702] Esqrs for ye Writing Sch. House."
During 1719, the people of Boston were distressed, so much so that a committee was chosen by the town to consider what could be done for the "relief of this town under their present distresses," and that they make report to the town. John Clark, Thomas Fitch (1700), Oliver Noyes (1699), Elisha Cooke (1699), John Marion (1691), William Clarke (1703), and Edmund Knight (1700) were chosen said com- mittee. At the next town meeting, the above-named committee made a report in writing, which received the approbation of the town, but its contents are not now known.
The only new member recruited in 1719 was Solomon Blake.
Solomon Blake (1719), cooper, was a son of Edward Blake, cooper, who resided in Dorchester, but subsequently removed to Milton, where he died in 1692. A deed in the Suffolk Files reads, "Jonathan Blake, cordwainer and Solomon Blake [1719] cooper of Boston, with their wives Elizabeth and Abigail convey lands inherited from their grand- father William of Dorchester, deceased." William was the father of Edward Blake.
Solomon Blake (1719) was constable of Boston in 1714. The warrant for a town meeting, to be held May 28, 1714, was issued in usual form, and given to the constable. June 1, complaint was made against Solomon Blake (1719), because he did not make return of the warrant, and " the said meeting was wholly disappointed and defeated."
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1720. His uncle, William Blake, joined the Artillery Company in 1646.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1719 is as follows : -
" April 6, 1719. The Rev. John Webb was chosen to preach the Election Sermon and the Commission officers were appointed to request it of him. Accepted by him. "Sept. 7th 1719. Then voted that the above committee, only putting in Lt. Col. John Ballentine [1682] in the room of Capt. Nathaniel Oliver [ 1701 ] be a committee."
The committee referred to is doubtless the one selected in 1717, of which Capt. Oliver (1701) was a member, to see if the terms of the lease had been complied with.
Rev. John Webb, of Boston, delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1719. He graduated at Harvard College in 1708. In 1714, the New North Church was organized, and a meeting-house built. There were two candidates for the pastorate, - Rev. John Barnard, who delivered the Artillery sermon in 1718, and Rev. John Webb, who was then chaplain at Castle William. Mr. Webb was elected at the second trial, and was ordained the first minister of the New North Church, Oct. 20, 1714. After surviving the labors of one colleague, Rev. Peter Thacher, who delivered the Artillery sermon in 1712, and enjoying the assistance of another for eight years, Mr. Webb died peacefully, April 16, 1750, aged sixty-two years. His colleague pronounced him " one of the best of Christians and one of the best of ministers."
Rev. John Webb. AUTHORITIES: Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit; Allen's Biog. Dict.
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The officers elected were : Thomas Fitch (1700), captain ; Richard 1720-I. Bill (1707), lieutenant ; Francis Parnell (1713), ensign. Solomon Blake (1719) was first sergeant ; John Gibbins (1717), second sergeant ; William Pell (1716), third sergeant ; James Halsey (1716), fourth sergeant, and Jonathan Sewall (1718), clerk.
Sept. 28, 1720, the town chose a committee to consider about promoting a spinning- school or schools, for the instruction of the children of the town in spinning. Habijah Savage (1699), Daniel Oliver, William Paine (1691), and four other persons, were appointed said committee.
The recruits who united with the Artillery Company in 1720 were : Samuel Bass, John Buttolph, Andrew Cunningham, Nathaniel Cunningham, John Goldthwait, William Lee, Daniel Pecker, James Pecker, Samuel Rand, Samuel Sewall, and Erasmus Stevens.
Samuel Bass (1720), tanner, of Boston, probably came from Braintree. He married Christian Turell, April 9, 1717. He was constable in 1719 and 1751, and scavenger in 1754.
In 1738, he petitioned the town to sell him a certain parcel of its land, and in 1742 the same petition was again presented. The parcel was bounded northerly on Water Street one hundred feet, and easterly on said Bass's land twenty-nine feet, and southerly on said Bass's land, in part, and westerly on Joyliffe's Lane. The lot he desired was therefore twenty-nine by one hundred feet, on the southeast corner of Water and Devonshire streets, for which he and Kezia Harvey offered the town five hundred pounds. There were then a "stable shop and shed" on the lot. The offer was not accepted, but the selectmen were authorized to sell it by giving public notice.
In 1744, Samuel Bass (1720) was chosen one of a committee to collect the sum of ten thousand pounds from the inhabitants of Boston, for the purpose of building batteries and fortifications for the defence of the town, said amount having been levied by the assessors.
In February, 1756, a committee prepared a petition to be sent to the General Court, setting forth " their difficulties and repeating their grievances," showing " the decayed and diminished circumstances" of the town. At the meeting, when the petition was presented to the town, Feb. 11, 1756, Mr. Samuel Bass (1720), tanner, was chosen to report upon the decline of the tanning business from 1746 to 1756, "and reduce the same to writing." On this committee, besides others, to make a report on their several trades, were Benjamin Hallowell (1733), shipwright, Nathaniel Thwing (1736), baker, and Joseph Belknap (1742), leather-dresser.
He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1724, and a member of the Old South Church. His will was proved in 1766.
John Buttolph (1720), wine cooper, of Boston, was a son of Nicholas (1694) and Mary (Guttridge) Buttolph, of Boston. He married, June 19, 1710, Mehitable I.ord. Capt. John (1720) was a scavenger in 1720, 1730, and 1731, and was elected constable in 1722, but declined and paid the fine. His petition, June 30, 1713, "to sell strong drink," was "distinctly voted - disallowed " by the selectmen. March 29, 1717, the selectmen let to Mr. John Buttolph (1720), cooper, the middle cellar under the town-
Samuel Bass (1720). AUTHORITY: Boston Records.
John Buttolph (1720). AUTHORITY: Boston Records.
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house for one year from April 7, at fourteen pounds per annum. In 1729, he resided in Leverett's Lane, now called Congress Street.
He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1723, and its ensign in 1732. Administration was granted on his estate in 1739; inventory filed in 1746, and a will was found in 1750.
Andrew Cunningham (1720), merchant, of Boston, son of Andrew and Sarah Cunningham, and brother of Capt. Nathaniel Cunningham (1720), was born in Boston, Aug. 17, 1692. He married, May 5, 1722, Mary Hirst. Capt. Andrew ( 1720) was elected constable in 1722, and collector of taxes in 1745, 1746, and 1747. He made the visitation to the families of the town, Feb. 14, 1723-4, also in 1745 and 1746, in company with the justices and others. When collector of taxes he had as his bondsmen Jacob Wendell, Esq. (1733), and John Hunt, Esq. (1709). He discharged his duty with acknowledged satisfaction, and was a man of great activity and public spirit. He died April 27, 1752, in the sixtieth year of his age, and was buried in the Granary Burial- Ground.
He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1724.
Nathaniel Cunningham (1720), merchant, of Boston, son of Andrew and Sarah Cunningham, and brother of Capt. Andrew Cunningham (1720), was born in Boston. Capt. Nathaniel (1720) lived on Cross Street, owned land there, and had a large real estate in Boston, among which was a pasture at Barton's Point.1 His house and land at the bottom of the Common were the subject of the Otis lawsuit. He left the Old South Church a legacy for its poor.
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1722, ensign in 1727, lieutenant in 1730, and its captain in 1731.
Capt. Nathaniel Cunningham (1720) was one of the most influential men of his time in Boston, and the reports, in the records of Boston, from those committees of which he was chairman, are alike creditable to his judgment and intelligence. Both he and his brother, Andrew (1720), were captains in the militia. He was constable of Boston in 1719. Among the important committees of the town upon which he was chosen to serve, often as chairman, were : on instructing the representatives, in 1731, 1736, 1738, and 1739; on the scheme for regulating the markets, 1732 ; computing the cost of erecting them, 1733; assigning places for their location, 1733, and erecting the market houses in 1734. He was on the committee for purchasing grain in 1733, 1734, 1735, and 1736; moderator of town meeting in 1732 and 1734; on committee on dividing the county in 1735, right of the town in Windmill Point in 1733, and in the town dock in 1735; petitioned the General Court, by order of the town, represent- ing its defenceless condition in 1739, and its distressed condition in 1735; and for the
Andrew Cunningham (1720). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Pilgrims of Boston, by Bridgman. Nathaniel Cunningham (1720). AUTHORI- TIES : Boston Records; Drake's Hist. of Boston.
"October 11, 1750. After Breakfast, went with Mr Nat Cunningham to the Commons to See the Training, which Consisted of Twelve Compys Foot and three Compys Ilorse from thence they march'd into Kings Street, Exercis'd their Ilorse and Foot. Fireing Several Vollies, we went in the Towne House Facing the Street . from thence to Capt
Wendells [1733] Intertainment. where Dynd &c." - Journal of Capt. Francis Goelet, in New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., January, 1870.
1 " His estate was valued at £50,000. He gave to Dr. Sewall's church sixty ounces of silver; to the poor of the church, £500; to each daughter, £10,- 000; and the rest of his estate to his son, Nathaniel. He gave the town, now Spencer, land for a meeting- house and training field." - See Hist. of Spencer and Suffolk Probate Records.
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relief of Boston from the province tax in 1742. He opposed the setting off of Rumney Marsh (Chelsea) in 1738, and favored the new bridge from the western part of Boston to Col. Phips's farm in 1739; and in 1742 he was one of the committee chosen to express to Peter Faneuil, Esq., the thanks of the town for his generous gift. In 1727-8, he resided on Marlborough, now Washington, Street. He served as representative to the General Court in 1739-
He died in London, Sept. 7, 1748. His tomb in the South burial-place was No. 40.
John Goldthwait (1720), of Boston, was the same as John Goldthwait (1711). See page 375.
William Lee (1720) was a shipwright, of Boston. He was a " noted ship-builder, and lived at the North End." He held town office in 1728 and 1729 only. May 22, 1722, he signed the covenant, and became a member of the New Brick Church, in which he was a deacon for many years. Jan. 23, 1733, the town treasurer complained " that Mr. William Lee [1720] is six years behind in his rent of five pounds p. year for the town's slip at the bottom of Coney's Lane." Mr. Lee (1720) replied that he had suffered by its lack of repair, and that he had paid out thirteen pounds on it. This was allowed, settlement made, and he rehired the slip at nine pounds per year. Jan. 19, 1736, he agreed with the selectmen for the town slip, at the lower end of Cross Street. Cross Street is probably another name for Coney's Lane. In 1708, Cross Street ran "from the Mill Pond, southeasterly, by the late Deacon Phillip's stone house, to the sea." The slip was not far from the corner of Cross and North streets.
" Dea. William Lee [1720], cooper and shipwright, died March 15, 1769, aged 90."
Daniel Pecker (1720), a tallow-chandler in Boston, was born in 1690. He mar- ried, (1) Oct. 29, 1713, Sarah Cheever ; and, (2) Sept. 23, 1743, at Boston, Mrs. Elizabeth Wellard. He had a son, Daniel, also a tallow-chandler. The latter, of whom Mr. Whit- man (1810) speaks, died, according to his gravestone in the Granary Burial-Ground, March 4, 1777, aged sixty years. As he was born in 1717, he could not have been the Daniel Pecker of the Artillery Company in 1720, nor could the son have been a founder of the New Brick Church.
Capt. Daniel Pecker (1720) was a scavenger of the town of Boston in 1727, con- stable in 1728, and hog-reeve in 1730. He was elected to the responsible office of collector of taxes, Nov. 1, 1733, which he held until Dec. 10, 1739, when he declined to continue in it on account of the small pay. In March following, he was elected assessor, and continued in that office until 1749.
His residence was on Middle Street in 1719, and also in 1724 ; for, Feb. 11, 1723-4, the selectmen " granted to Capt. Daniel Pecker [1720] liberty to try tallow and make candles in a shed behind his house in Middle Street, according to his petition."
He gave five pounds, March 25, 1735, towards the erection of the new workhouse. April 16, 1744, he was chosen one of a committee to raise, by a tax on the inhabitants of Boston, the sum of ten thousand pounds, Old Tenor, the same to be applied in erecting batteries and fortifications in said town.
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