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The tomb of Zechariah (1722) and Cornelius Thayer was No. 65 on the south line in the South burial-place.
Benjamin White (1722). He was elected constable of Boston in 1719, but refused to serve, and paid the fine. He united with the New South Church, Boston, at its organization in 1715.
Joseph White (1722) was a carpenter in Boston. He was viewer of shingles and measurer of boards and timber in 1723, from 1726 to 1730, and from 1737 to 1748; constable in 1724, and fence-viewer in 1735 and 1736. He was also a collector of taxes in 1745 and 1746. In the former year, he is called " Esqr." June 27, 1749, he was chosen one of a committee to bring forward suits-at-law against persons who had made encroachments on the town's lands.
He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1727, and captain in the militia. In May, 1750, he, as ex-collector, petitioned the town to abate certain taxes he had paid for Harvard College and the Artillery Company, as the same had been remitted by the General Court.
" A List of Soldiers under the fine of 12ª per diem for delinquency.
" James Varney [1711], Solomon Blake [1719], Jeremiah Belknap [1711], Samuel Oakes [1712], Samuel Durham [1712 ], John Greenough [1712], John Darrell [1714],
Zechariah Thayer (1722). AUTHORITIES: Joseph White ( 1722). AUTHORITY : Boston Boston Records; Thayer Genealogy. Records.
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Edward Pell [1714], Ephraim Hunt [1717], Joseph Hubbard [1717], John Gibbon [1717], Samnel Barratt [1717], Ebenezer Bridge [1717], John Eyre [1718], Daniel Pecker [1720], Samuel Rand [1720], William Lee [1720], Erasmus Stevens [1720], Samuel Bass [1720], Andrew Cunningham [1720], John Goldthwait [1720], James Pecker [1720], James Fosdick [1722], Zechariah Thayer [1722], Benjamin White [1722], Thomas Foster [1722], Joshua Loring [1722]."
" A List of Soldiers under the fine of 6/ per diem.
" John Holyoke [1714], Benjamin Hiller [1714], Thomas Chamberlin [1714], John Eliot [1714], James Gooch, Junr. [1714], James Wright [1715], Ebenezer Thornton [1716], Samuel Townsend [1716], Thomas Jackson [1716], William Downe [1716], William Pell [1716], James Halsey [1716], Benjamin Gray [1717], Grafton Feveryear [ 1717], James Hill [1717], Jonathan Sewall [1718], John Gerrish, Junr. [1718], Barratt Dyer [1711], Nathaniel Green [1722], Samuel Sewall [1720], Nathaniel Cunningham [1720], Richard Buckley [1722], Robert Proctor [1722]."
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The record of the Artillery Company for 1722 is as follows : -
" April 2. 1722. The Rev'd Mr. William Cooper was chosen to preach the Artillery Election sermon, and the commission officers were desired to request it of him. Accepted by him."
Rev. William Cooper,1 of Boston, delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1722. He was a son of Thomas and Mehitable (Minot) Cooper, of Boston. His mother, Mr. Savage informs us, was a niece of Lient .- Gov. Stoughton, and, after her husband's decease, she married Peter Sergeant, Esq., and next, May 12, 1715, married Hon. Simeon Stoddard (1675). Rev. William Cooper was born in Boston, March 20, 1694, and graduated at Harvard College in 1712. He settled as colleague of Rev. Benjamin Colman, D. D., at the Brattle Street Church, May 23, 1716, and held his relation with that church until his decease.
He married (1) Judith Sewall and (2) Mary Foye. He was the father of Rev. Samuel Cooper (Harv. Coll., 1743), a distinguished politician, called " silver-tongued," who delivered the Artillery sermon in 1751, and of William, who for forty years was town clerk of Boston. Rev. Samuel succeeded his father as pastor of the Brattle Street Church. In 1737, Rev. William Cooper was chosen successor of Mr. Leverett (1704) as president of Harvard College, but declined this honor and trust. Mr. Cooper's labors were continued as pastor, without interruption, till near the close of his life. He died Dec. 13, 1743, aged forty-nine years. His funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Colman, and was printed.
The officers elected were : Penn Townsend (1674), captain ; William 1723-4. Lowder (1708), lieutenant ; James Tileston (1711), ensign. Samuel Rand (1720) was first sergeant; Zechariah Thayer (1722), second sergeant ; John Buttolph (1720), third sergeant ; John Darrell (1714), fourth sergeant, and John Cookson (1701), clerk.
The new recruit of the Artillery Company in 1723 was James Carey.
Rev. William Cooper. AUTHORITIES: Dr. Colman's Funeral Sermon; Panoplist, II .; Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit, Vol. I .; Allen's Biog. Dict.
1 " [1722] June 4. On ye 4. Mr. Cooper preached ye Artillery Sermon, from Psalm 45 .- 3. 4. 5." - Jeremiah Bumstead's Diary.
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James Carey (1723), cooper, of Boston, son of Jonathan and Hannah (Windsor) Carey, " of Noddle's Island," was born April 2, 1686. He married, Jan. 15, 1707-8, Sarah Tomline. Their daughter, Hannah, born April 25, 1713, married Daniel Tucker (1733). Their son, "Capt. Jonathan," joined the Artillery Company in 1740. Capt. James (1723) was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1727, and was elected clerk of the market in 1720, constable in 1723, and scavenger of Boston in 1730, 1731, 1732, and 1741.
He died Nov. 21, 1745, " in 60th yr," says his gravestone in the Granary Burial- Ground.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1723 is as follows : -
" April 2ª 1723. The Rev'd Mr. Thomas Foxcroft was chosen to preach the Artillery Election Sermon, and the present commission officers were desired to request it of him. Accepted by him."
Rev. Thomas Foxcroft, son of Francis Foxcroft (1679), delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1723. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Gov. Danforth. He was born Feb. 26, 1697, and graduated at Harvard College in 1714. His father was a prominent Episcopalian, and designed this son for the service of the English Church. But after his graduation at Cambridge he was engaged in teaching school at Roxbury, where, becoming intimate with the Rev. Nehemiah Walter, he was convinced by that minister of the truth and excellence of the Puritan faith, which he finally accepted, and became an eminent advocate of that doctrine to the close of his life. Though born in Boston, he was from early childhood brought up in Cambridge. He settled over the First Church as colleague with Rev. Mr. Wadsworth in 1717, and the following year he married Anna Coney, of Boston, by whom he had one son and five daughters. He died June 16, 1769, in the fifty-second year of his ministry.
1724-5. The officers elected were: Edward Hutchinson (1702), captain ; Samuel Greenwood (1722), lieutenant ; Nathaniel Goodwin (1711), ensign. Ebenezer Bridge (1717) was first sergeant; Erasmus Stevens (1720), second sergeant ; Samuel Bass (1720), third sergeant ; Andrew Cunningham (1720), fourth sergeant, and John Cookson (1701), clerk.
It was a custom in Boston for the justices and selectmen, accompanied by a con- stable in each ward, to visit annually " the familys in the Several parts of the Town to Prevent and Suppress Disorders, to Inspect Disorderly Persons new Comers, the Cir- comstances of the Poor and Education of their Children, &c." On Friday, Feb. 14, 1724, this annual visitation was made by thirty-eight visitors, consisting of twenty-one justices, four overseers of the poor, five selectmen, and eight constables. They were divided, by agreement, into eight parties, being one for each ward. Of these thirty- eight persons, twenty-two were members of the Artillery Company.
James Carey (1723). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Wyman's Charlestown Genealogies and Estates.
Rev. Thomas Foxcroft. AUTHORITIES : Drake's Hist. of Boston; Eighty-fifth Annual Rec- ord of A. and H. A. Company, 1723; Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit.
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June 3, 1724, Mr. William Clarke (1703) was chosen representative, in place of John Clark, Esq., chosen councillor.
March 9, 1724-5, the town selected a committee to draw up some suitable method for choosing jurymen. Nathaniel Byfield (1679), Thomas Fitch (1700), Adam Winthrop (1694), Addington Davenport (1692), and Edward Hutchinson (1702), were chosen for that purpose.
In 1724, according to Drake's History of Boston, Mr. Joseph Marion, son of Deacon John Marion (1691), " established an insurance office in Boston, which appears to have been the first in the town, and probably the first in New England." In 1728, his office was where the Globe Bank now is, on State Street.
The members recruited by the Artillery Company in 1724 were : Jeremiah Belknap, Thomas Edwards, Christopher Marshall, Stephen Paine, Samuel Swift, Thomas Tileston, William Ward, Thomas Wiswall.
Jeremiah Belknap (1724), leather-dresser, of Boston, was a son of Joseph Belknap (1692). Jeremiah (1724) first joined the Artillery Company in 1711, but, from some cause having ceased to be a member of the Company, he rejoined it in 1724. See page 373.
Thomas Edwards (1724), goldsmith, of Boston, was a son of John 1 (1699), a goldsmith, of Boston. He was born Jan. 14, 1701-2, and married, Nov. 20, 1723, Sarah Burr. His brother, Capt. Joseph, joined the Artillery Company in 1738. His nephew, John, Jr., joined the Artillery Company in 1747. Capt. Thomas (1724) was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1729, ensign in 1747, lieutenant in 1750, and its captain in 1753. "He did not command until the thirtieth year of his membership. Up to this time, that honor was sparingly conferred upon young members." He was clerk of the market in 1729 and 1747.
Being of the same trade as his father, it is probable they occupied the same shop. The father's place of business was on "Dock Square, No. 6, between Mr. Dyer's and Mr. Casno's." Capt. Thomas Edwards (1724) lived, in 1727-8, on Union Street, near the Green Dragon Tavern.
" He died at his house in old Cornhill, now Washington Street." In his will, 1755, he mentions wife, Eleanor ; daughters, Sarah Edwards and Elizabeth Cheever ; John (1747), son of brother John ; Joseph and John, sons of brother Joseph (1738), and his brother Samuel.
Christopher Marshall (1724), of Boston, son of Thomas Marshall, of Boston, was born May 22, 1697. He married, Nov. 29, 1716, Elizabeth Wheeler. He was a con- stable of Boston in 1734, and the fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1727, and was captain in the militia. Capt. Marshall (1724) was a captain in the expedition to Cape Breton.
Letters of administration on his estate were granted in 1745.
Thomas Edwards (1724). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842.
Christopher Marshall (1724). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1824.
1 John Edwards (1699) was not born in 1687, as stated on page 318, but he came to Boston, a lad of ten or twelve years, with his father, in 1687-8.
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Stephen Paine (1724) was a carpenter. March 25, 1727, the contest for the possession of certain lands and tenements near the dock, between Edward Bromfield (1679) and others and the town, ended, when the said property was delivered to the town. One of the tenements was occupied by Stephen Paine (1724), at a rental of sixteen pounds per annum. Jan 23, 1728, " the selectmen went upon the spot," and notified Stephen Paine (1724) that he must quit the town's tenement, on the south side of the dock in Boston, by April 23, 1729. He held a minor town office in 1728.
Samuel Swift (1724), lawyer, of Milton, son of Deacon Thomas and Elizabeth (Vose) Swift, of Milton, was born in Milton, Dec. 10, 1683. His father, and his grand- father, also, had been quartermasters of a troop of horse, with the rank of lieutenant. Deacon Thomas Swift " was appointed by the General Court to have charge of the Neponset Indians, and was constantly active in the Indian wars."
Col. Samuel Swift (1724) married Ann, daughter of Thomas Holman, of Milton. He was a man of wealth and influence, filling many offices of trust and importance in the town. He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, colonel of the militia, repre- sentative to the General Court, moderator of town meetings eleven years, - between 1734 and 1747, - and selectman for fifteen years, - between 1735 and his death in 1747.
His second son, Samuel, joined the Artillery Company in 1746.
Thomas Tileston (1724), of Dorchester, son of Timothy and Sarah (Bridgman) Tileston, of Dorchester, and brother of Ensign James Tileston (1711), of Boston, was born in Dorchester, Oct. 19, 1675. He was a very prominent and useful man in his native town. For about ten years he was representative ; for twenty-four years, select- man ; also held other important offices in the town, and from the position of a private soldier was promoted in regular order until he became lieutenant-colonel.
On the 29th of October, 1716, Capt. Thomas Tileston (1724), with two other citizens, was appointed "to look for the thousand acres of land granted to Dorchester school, to see where they could find the same." Sixty years after the original grant, the school land was found "beyond Lancaster," in what became Lunenburg, Worcester County.
Mr. Whitman (1810) says, "Col. Thomas (1724) was colonel of the first regiment in Norfolk, then part of Suffolk County." He was lieutenant in the Artillery Company in 1725, and was appointed a justice of the peace for Suffolk County, July 3, 1734. He died Oct. 21, 1745, aged seventy years and two days.
William Ward (1724), son of William and Hannah (Johnson) (Eames) Ward, was born March 27, 1680. He married Jane -, probably Jane Cleveland, of Boston, and resided in Southboro. He was for many years a member of the militia, and rose through the several grades to the rank of colonel. He was a noted surveyor, and was often employed by the proprietors of new townships to survey their house-lots and subse- quent divisions of the common lands. He thereby became a proprietor of many of the new towns, and an extensive landholder. He was a magistrate in early life, and was
Stephen Paine (1724). AUTHORITY : Boston Records. Samuel Swift (1724). AUTHORITY: Teele's Hist. of Milford.
Thomas Tileston (1724). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1859, p. 122; Hist. of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Iist. Soc.
William Ward (1724). AUTHORITY : Ward Genealogy.
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much employed in public business. He petitioned the General Court for a grant of land for losses in the Narraganset war, sustained by the father of his wife (Solomon Johnson, of Sudbury), and eventually became possessed of one thousand acres of land in Charlemont, originally granted to the town of Boston. His children inherited it, and in that town and vicinity his descendants remain, and are numerous. His wife, Jane, died at Southboro, April 12, 1745. He married, second, Sarah Smith, at Westboro, in 1758, and he died at Southboro, Jan. 8, 1767, in the eighty-seventh year of his age.
Thomas Wiswall (1724) resided in Dorchester. He was one of the committee authorized to erect the new meeting-house in 1743.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1724 is as follows : -
" April 6th 1724. The Rev'd Mr. Ebenezer Thayer was chosen to preach the Artillery Election Sermon, and the present commission officers were desired to request it of him.
" Accepted by him."
Rev. Ebenezer Thayer, who delivered the anniversary sermon before the Company in 1724,1 was a son of Rev. Nathaniel and Deborah Thayer ; was born in Boston, Feb. 1, 1689-90 ; graduated at Harvard College in 1708, and was settled the first minister of the Second Church in Roxbury, Nov. 26, 1712.
In 1706, a considerable number of families "at the west end of Roxbury, towards Dedham," on account of their great distance from the meeting-house, desired to be set off as a separate precinct, and so petitioned the General Court. This petition failed, but later, in 1712, the project succeeded, and a separate precinct was formed. The meeting- house had already been built, and a congregation gathered. Nov. 2, 1712, the Second Church was organized; on the 26th of the same month their pastor was settled over the new parish. These relations were continued until the decease of Rev. Mr. Thayer. He married, June 4, 1719, Lydia Copeland, who died Feb. 8, 1730. He died March 6, 1733, at the age of forty-four years.
1725-6. The officers elected were : Thomas Fitch (1700), captain ; Thomas Tileston (1724), lieutenant ; William Downe (1716), ensign. James Fosdick (1722) was first sergeant; Thomas Foster (1722), second sergeant ; Richard Bulkley (1722), third sergeant ; Joseph Russell (1722), fourth ser- geant, and John Cookson (1701), clerk.
May 5, 1725, four representatives to the General Court were elected, the whole number of votes cast being three hundred and thirty-two. Three of the four persons elected were members of the Artillery Company, viz. : William Clarke (1703), Thomas Cushing (1691), and Ezekiel Lewis (1707).
Deacon John Marion (1691) for many years had charge of the Common and collected the pasturage money. May 3, 1725, the selectmen again empowered him to
Rev. Ebenezer Thayer. AUTHORITIES : 1 " [1724] On ye 1. Mr Thear preacht ye artil- lery election Sermon, from Timothy, ' fight ye good fight of faith." - Jeremiah Bumstead's Diary.
Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit; Thayer's Family Memorial.
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" Receive the 5/ & Six pence of the ownerer of Each Cow that goes on the Comon and give forth Tickets accordingly for this year."
The new members of the Artillery Company recruited in 1725 were : John Ashley, Nicholas Belknap, John Chandler, Edward Durant, Samuel Jones, John Phillips, Ralph Smith, Thomas Wells.
John Ashley (1725) was a shopkeeper in Boston. He married, June 13, 1734, Mary Causland. His petition to the selectmen for license to sell " Beer, Ale, Cider &c " was approved by them July 24, 1734, and March 3, 1735, he was licensed and approved as an innholder on Dock Square. Aug. 24, 1737, his innholder's license on Dock Square was disallowed ; Aug. 17, 1738, his application for a retailer's license on Newbury Street was rejected. The Sun Tavern had Samuel Mears as its proprietor in 1724. He died in 1727. No license was granted to any innkeeper on Dock Square until John Ashley (1725) was licensed, in 1735. This tavern was kept by Capt. James Day (1733) in 1755. Its proprietor in 1735-8 was probably John Ashley (1725).
Administration was granted on his estate in 1739.
Nicholas Belknap (1725), leather-dresser, of Boston, son of Joseph (1692), grand- son of Joseph (1658), half-brother of Jeremiah (1711), and a brother of Abraham (1735), was born in Boston, Oct. 15, 1695. He married, May 25, 1727, Huldah Booket. He was elected clerk of the market in 1724, and constable in 1729, but he was excused from service in the latter office. At a meeting of the selectmen, held July 13, 1724, it was granted unto Nicholas Belknap (1725) to improve part of his land in Harris's pasture near Cambridge Street, for curing leather, according to his petition.
He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1728.
John Chandler (1725), husbandman, of Woodstock, Conn., son of Deacon John Chandler, was born April 16, 1665, in Roxbury. Deacon John, with other citizens of Roxbury, moved in 1686 to New Roxbury, afterward called Woodstock, Conn., and there settled. John Chandler (1725) married, Nov. 10, 1692, Mary Raymond, of New London, Conn. Their eldest child was John, who joined the Artillery Company in 1734. Mary (Raymond) Chandler died April 8, 1711, and Col. John (1725) married, Nov. 14, 1711, Esther (Britman) Alcock, of Charlestown.
In 1688, a lot of land in New Roxbury was assigned to him, and Feb. 24, 1690-1, he was chosen clerk of the writs. The town of Woodstock was organized Nov. 27, 1690, when John Chandler (1725) was chosen town clerk, and was also selected to instruct the children to read, write, and cipher. March 8, 1692-3, he was re-elected town clerk, and allowed twelvepence for every town meeting, for writing the votes, and sixpence for every record of all grants of land. In 1693-4, he was one of the town committee, and in 1694 selectman, at which time he was given thirty acres of land for his work as town clerk and recording "Earmarks." He resided several years in New London, and in 1698 he was licensed to keep a house of entertainment in that town. He returned to (South) Woodstock, and was appointed town surveyor, April 3, 1703. He was repre- sentative to the General Court at Boston as early as 1711, and for several years after.
John Ashley (1725). AUTHORITY: Boston Records. Nicholas Belknap (1725). AUTHORITY : Boston Records.
John Chandler (1725). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1876; Boston News- Letter, Aug. 18, 1743; Genealogy of Chandler Family, by Dr. George Chandler, Worcester, 1883.
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Worcester in 1722 furnished five men for the country's service, in the company of scouts under Major John Chandler (1725). In July, 1724, orders were issued to Col. Chandler (1725) to impress twenty men for the frontier service. The presence of these soldiers may have saved Worcester from desolation.
He moved to Worcester about 1731, when Worcester County was organized. The first Probate Court in Worcester County was held by Col. Chandler (1725), as judge, on the 13th of July, 1731, and the first Court of Common Pleas was held on the 13th of August following, by Hon. John Chandler (1725), who was commissioned as judge June 30, 1731. His son, John, Jr. (1734), was clerk of both courts, and one of the justices of the General Sessions. Col. John (1725) resigned as judge of the Common Pleas Court, Oct. 5, 1739. He also became colonel of an infantry regiment. He was appointed a justice of the peace June 5, 1707 ; was reappointed Dec. 19, 1728.
"To which stations of civil, judicial, and military honors," says Mr. Lincoln, in his History of Worcester, "he rose by force of his strong mental powers with but slight advantages of education. While in Woodstock, he represented the town in the General Court of Massachusetts Bay, and was a member of his Majesty's council from 1727 to 1733. He was the father not only of Judge Thomas Chandler, of Chester, Vt., but also of Judge John Chandler [1734], who resided in Worcester and who was the progenitor of that most respectable and influential family of Chandlers, that flourished there prior and up to the Revolution."
He died in Woodstock, Conn., Aug. 10, 1743, in his seventy-ninth year, and was buried, as desired in his will, " in Woodstock, with a flat stone, without any inscription, covering his remains."
"The death of Judge Chandler [1733]," says the historian of Windham County, Conn., " severed the strongest tie that bound Woodstock to Massachusetts."
Edward Durant (1725), blacksmith, of Boston, son of Edward Durant, was born in Boston, March 2, 1694-5, and married, March 31, 1715, Judith Waldo. He was clerk of the market in 1719, constable in 1723, and scavenger in 1729. July 3, 1728, the selectmen granted the petition of Edward Durant (1725), asking liberty to build a dwelling-house in Winter Street. He was one of a committee, appointed May 17, 1732, and reappointed July 28 following, to receive proposals concerning the demolishing or repairing the old buildings belonging to the town on Dock Square. The committee met at Mr. William Coffin's, Bunch of Grapes Tavern, every Thursday, from 6 to 8 P. M., to receive proposals. In 1732, he removed to Newton, having purchased there a farm of ninety-one acres.
"He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1726.
The town book of Newton contains the following : " 1734. Captain Edward Durant [1725] asked leave to build a pew in the meeting house, and was refused. He was a very wealthy man from Boston and owned three slaves, - paid eighteen hundred pounds for his farm."
The Massachusetts Centinel records : "Judith Durant, wife of Capt Edward [1725], late of Newton, died October 27, 1785." He died in 1740.
Samuel Jones (1725), blacksmith, of Boston, son of Samuel Jones, was born Feb. 5, 1688. He married, Nov. 28, 1710, Katherine Barnard.
Edward Durant (1725). AUTHORITIES: Bos-
Samuel Jones (1725). AUTHORITY : Boston
ton Records; Smith's Hist. of Newton. Records.
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The record of the town of Boston under date of April 27, 1720, is as follows : " Mr Samuel Jones [1725], Blacksmith, is chosen to Serve as one of ye clerks of the market for ye year ensuing," etc. He also served as constable in 1724, and scavenger in 1730. He lived in 1721 on Salem Street, and was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1728.
He died Aug. 26, 1731, aged forty-two years, and was buried in Copp's Hill Burial-Ground.
John Phillips (1725), merchant, of Boston, son of Samuel and Sarah Phillips, of Salem, was born at Salem, June 22, 1701. He became an apprentice to Col. Henchman (1712), stationer and bookseller, and having married, Nov. 21, 1723, Mary, the eldest daughter of Nicholas Buttolph (1694), bookbinder and bookseller, he settled in Boston. Their son was Lieut. William Phillips (1762), who married Margaret, daughter of Col. Jacob Wendell (1733). Their child, John, grandson of Col. John (1725), became the first mayor of the city of Boston. Mary (Buttolph) Phillips died Aug. 15, 1742, and Col. Phillips (1725) married Abigail, daughter of Rev. Mr. Webb, of Fairfield, Conn.
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