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" June Ist 1730, Voted, that the present Commission officers of the Company, with those new elected, with Lt. Col. Habijah Savage [1699] be a committee to give the thanks of the Company to the Rev'd Mr. John Hancock for the sermon preached to them this day.
" June Ist 1730. Whereas the land belonging to the inhabitants and proprietors of the township of Rutland was taxed towards the support of the Gospel ministry in the said town at one penny per acre for five years from the 18th December 1727, and that James Browning, Constable of said town demands forty-one shillings and eight pence, it being what the Company's land in said town was taxed this present year to the Gospel ministry aforesaid ; Wherefore, Voted, that the Clerk of this Company pay to James Browning, Constable of the town of Rutland, forty-one shillings and eight pence in full for what the Company's land in said town was taxed to the Gospel ministry there this present year."
Rev. John Hancock, of Lexington, who delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1730, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Prentice) Hancock, of Cambridge, was born March I, 1671, and graduated at Harvard College in 1689. He taught school in Cambridge in 1691, but Nov. 2, 1698, he was ordained to the gospel ministry at Lexington, then called "Cambridge Farms," settled over the church there and continued as its pastor until his decease, which occurred Dec. 6, 1752. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Thomas Clark, of Chelmsford. Their eldest son was John, born June 1, 1702, and died May 7, 1744, who was the father of John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, president of the Continental Congress, and the first signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Thomas Hancock, another son of Rev. John, became one of the wealthiest merchants in the province. He was a bookseller in Boston, and, dying Aug. 1, 1763, bequeathed to his nephew, John, more than fifty thousand pounds sterling, besides the reversion of twenty thousand pounds at the decease of his widow, a daughter of Daniel Henchman (1712), in whose book-store Thomas had been a clerk.
Rev. John Hancock, who was pastor of the Lexington church for fifty-four years, was eminent in his profession, a man of great influence and worth', and was generally styled " Bishop Hancock."
Rev. John Hancock. AUTHORITIES: Allen's and Appleton; Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit.
Biog. Dict .; Funeral Sermons, by Rev. Messrs. Gay
North Cunningham
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The officers elected were: Nathaniel Cunningham (1720), cap- 173 I-2. tain; Samuel Rand (1720), lieutenant ; Ebenezer Bridge (1717), ensign. John Helyer (1727) was first sergeant; Bartholomew Gedney (1726), second sergeant ; Job Coit (1727), third sergeant ; Thomas Fleet (1727), fourth sergeant ; Samuel Holyoke (1714), clerk, and Jabez Hunt (1727), clerk's assistant.
No members were recruited by the Artillery Company in 1731.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1731 is as follows : -
"April 5th 1731. The Company made choice of the Rev'd Mr. James Allen of Brooklyn to preach the next Artillery Election sermon, and voted, that the commission officers of the Company with Lt Colo. Habijah Savage [1699] and Maj. Edward Winslow [1700] be a committee to request it of him.
" Whereas Samuel Davis, Constable of the town of Rutland for the year 1729, demands forty-one shillings and eight pence, it being what the Company's land in said town was taxed towards the support of the Gospel ministry there for the year aforesaid ; wherefore, voted : that the Clerk of this Company pay to Samuel Davis, Constable of the town of Rutland forty-one shillings and eight pence, it being what the Company's land in said town was taxed towards the support of the Gospel ministry there in the year 1729.
"Nº 1. Voted, there be a committee chosen to consider what improvement may be made of the land granted to this Company by the General Court for providing of necessaries for their military exercises and defraying of other charges that may arise by occasion thereof, and make report at the training in May next. The gentlemen chosen were, viz : Colo. Edward Hutchinson [1702], Lt Col. Habijah Savage [1699], Maj. Edward Winslow [1700], Capt John Greenough [1712], Mr Nathaniel Cunningham [1720], Mr Edward Pell [1714] and Samuel Holyoke [1714].
"Nº 2. May 3ª, 1731. Agreeable to the above vote, the Committee made the following report to the Company this day, which the Company accordingly accepted ; which is as follows, viz : -
"We, the subscribers, are of opinion that there be a petition preferred to the General Court, praying that the Company may have liberty to make sale of one of their tracts of land, and the produce thereof to be let out at interest upon land security for the use of the Company ; and if that may not be granted, that then we may have liberty to sell the whole of the Company's land, and lay out the produce thereof in some landed estate in or near the town of Boston, in such place, where it may yield most income for the benefit of said Company.
" NATHL CUNNINGHAM,
" EDWARD PELL,
" SAMUEL HOLYOKE,
" EDWARD HUTCHINSON,
" HABIJAH SAVAGE,
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" EDWARD WINSLOW,
" JOHN GREENOUGH.
"Nº 3. Voted, that the aforesaid Col Edward Hutchinson [1702], Lt. Col. Habijah Savage [1699], Maj. Edward Winslow [1700], Capt John Greenough [1712], Mr. Nath- aniel Cunningham [1720], Mr. Edward Pell [1714] and Samuel Holyoke [1714], be a
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a committee to prefer a petition to the Great and General Court at their next -May Sessions, agreeable to the above report.
" The Sixth Article of the Rules and Orders made by the Governor and Council, April 1638, by which this Company were to regulate themselves, accompanied this petition, for the sale of the Company's lands, to the General Assembly with the foregoing votes, Nº 1-2-& 3.
" Here follows the petition preferred to the General Assembly at their present session by the committee aforesaid, viz : -
"To His Excellency JONATHAN BELCHER, Esqr, Captain General and Governor-in-Chief in and over His Majesties Province of Massachusetts Bay, and to the Honorable Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled at Boston, May 26th 1731 : -
"The petition of Edward Hutchinson [1702], Habijah Savage [1699], Edward Winslow [1700], Esquires; John Greenough [1712], Nathaniel Cunningham [1720], Edward Pell [1714], and Samuel Holyoke [1714], a committee chosen and appointed by the Artillery Company of the Massachusetts Bay, so called, for the purposes hereafter mentioned, Humbly sheweth :
" That whereas on the 24th Day of April A. D. 1638, the then Governor and Council, by order of the General Court did incorporate the Military or Artillery Company of the Massachusetts, and did grant unto the said Company certain privileges and immunities, among which there was more particularly, in the Sixth Article of the Rules and Orders made by the Governor and Council, by which the said Company were to regulate them- selves in their military exercises, granted to the said Company one thousand acres of land for the use of the said Company, and such as should join in the same, to be improved by them for providing of necessaries for their Military exercise and defraying of other charges which may arise by occasion thereof; and that on the 15th day of October 1673, the General Court did confirm to the said Company one thousand acres of upland and meadow bordering on Merrimack and Nashaway rivers in the township of Dunstable, with an additional grant of five hundred acres more, which was confirmed to said Company by the General Court, at their session in May, 1717, in the township of Rutland, as by the said grants and confirmations here produced may fully appear ; and forasmuch as the said lands have never yet been under any improvement, but lay remote and are only a burthen and charge to the Company, by reason of the taxes and other charges to which they are subject, and the intention and design of the Donors being for providing necessaries and defraying the charges of the said Company, which have hitherto proved ineffectual, the said Company think it will be much for their advantage, and the true end and design of the said grants being answered, if they might have liberty to make sale of one, or both, of the said tracts, and to convert the produce thereof for the purchasing of other lands in, or near, the town of Boston, which may be a present, as well as a future, benefit to the said Company; or to let out the said produce at interest upon land security for their use ; and therefore the said Company, by their vote of the fifth of April last, chose your petitioners a committee to consider what improvement might be made of the iand granted as aforesaid, for the benefit of the said Company, who, on the third of May last, made their report touching the premises, and thereupon the said Company voted, that the petitioners should be a committee to prefer a petition to your Excellency and Honors, the copies of which votes
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are here also produced. Wherefore your petitioners, in behalf of the said Artillery Company humbly pray your Excellency and this Hon'ble Court, that they may have liberty to make sale of one, or both, of the said tracts of land granted to them as afore- said, for the ends and uses aforesaid, the produce whereof to be appropriated as to your Excellency and Honors, in your consummate wisdom, shall seem most meet. That so, the true intent and design of the said grants may be the better answered. And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray,
" NATHANIEL CUNNINGHAM, " EDWARD PELL, " SAMUEL HOLYOKE, " EDWARD HUTCHINSON,
" HABIJAH SAVAGE,
" EDWARD WINSLOW, " JOHN GREENOUGH.
"In the House of Representatives, June 14th 1731. Read and Ordered, that the prayer of this petition be granted ; and that the Artillery Company within mentioned be and are fully authorized and impowered, in due form of law to make and execute a good deed or deeds of conveyance of the two tracts of land within mentioned; the produce thereof to be vested in such other real estate as may be most for their advan- tage ; the income thereof to be applied to and for providing necessaries for their military exercises, and defraying the other charges that may arise by occasion thereof.
" Sent up for concurrence,
J. QUINCY, Speaker.
"In Council, June 16th 1731. Read and concurred,
" J. WILLARD, Secretary.
" June 16th 1731.
Consented to.
" Copy examined by J. WILLARD Sec'y.
J. BELCHER.
"September 6th 1731. The above Order of the General Court being read ; voted, That there be a committee chosen, consisting of five members of this Company, who are hereby fully impowered, or a majority of them, to dispose of said lands agreeable to the order aforesaid ; and voted, that Colo Edward Hutchinson [1702], Lt. Colo. Habijah Savage [1699], Maj. Edward Winslow [1700], Capt Nathaniel Cunningham [1720] and Mr. William Downe [1716], be a committee for the ends and purposes abovesaid.
" Voted, that the present commission officers of this Company, viz Capt. Nathaniel Cunningham [1720], Lt Samuel Rand [1720] and Ensign Ebenezer Bridge [1717] be a committee to wait on Colo Thomas Fitch [1700], and receive of him what money he has of this Company in his hands, and give a discharge for the same; and likewise to give him the thanks of the Company for his good service in said affair."
Rev. James Allen, of Brookline, delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1731. He was a native of Roxbury, and graduated at Harvard College in 1710. He was ordained as first minister of the church in Brookline, Nov. 5, 1718, and preached in that parish for twenty-eight years. He died Feb. 18, 1747, aged fifty-five years.
Rev. James Allen. AUTHORITIES : Pierce's Cent. Discourse; Allen's Biog. Dict.
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The officers elected were: William Downe (1716), captain ; John
1732-3. Goldthwait (1711), lieutenant ; John Buttolph (1720), ensign. James Davenport (1727) was first sergeant ; David Mason (1727), second sergeant ; Hugh McDaniel (1729), third sergeant; Samuel Miller (1728), fourth ser- geant, and Jabez Hunt (1727), clerk.
May 10, 1732, Mr. Nathaniel Cunningham (1720), Mr. Samuel Waldo, Henry Deering, Esq., son of Mr. Henry Deering (1682), Mr. Edward Bromfield (1732), and Mr. Thomas Brooks were selected to prepare instructions for the representatives. The representatives, two excepted, were members of the Artillery Company, viz .: Elisha Cooke, Esq. (1699), Samuel Welles, Esq., Habijah Savage, Esq. (1699), and Mr. Thomas Cushing, Jr., son of Mr. Thomas Cushing (1691). The instructions are given in full in the printed Records of the Town of Boston, 1729-1742, pp. 32-34.
At the meeting, March 12, 1732-3, a committee, consisting of Col. Thomas Fitch (1700), Thomas Hutchinson, Esq (1694), Jacob Wendell, Esq. (1733), Mr. Nathaniel Cunningham (1720), John Colman, George Cradock, and Thomas Palmer (1702), was chosen to project a scheme for regulating a market and to lay it before the town. The committee reported May 9, 1733, recommending that there be three market-places ; one at or near the town dock, a second near the Old North meeting-house, and a third at or near the Great Tree at the South End, near Mr. Eliot's house. Mr. John Colman, Jacob Wendell, Esq. (1733), Nathaniel Cunningham, Esq. (1720), Mr. Daniel Goffe (1712), with the three clerks of the market elected, were chosen to compute the cost of erecting the several markets. March 26, 1734, the town placed seven hundred pounds in the hands of Thomas Fitch (1700), Edward Hutchinson (1702), Thomas Palmer (1702), Jacob Wendell (1733), Esqs., Messrs. Nathaniel Cunningham (1720), James Watson, Francis Willoughby, and John Steel, to enable them to erect the buildings at the places assigned. This was finally accomplished after persistent opposition ; but, so strong was the general prejudice against regular markets " that, in less than four years from their establishment, the houses were abandoned by the market-men and they fell quite into disuse." The house at the North End was taken down and its timber utilized in erecting a workhouse ; that at the South End was converted into stores, and that at Dock Square was torn down by the people.
The members of the Artillery Company recruited in 1732 were : Thomas Baker, Edward Bromfield, Jr., Josiah Carter, Joshua Cheever, Joseph Goldthwait, Thomas Hubbard, Caleb Lyman, William Rand, Ebenezer Storer.
Thomas Baker (1732), of Boston, son of Thomas (1703) and Thankful Baker, was born Feb. 17, 1708.
Edward Bromfield, Jr. (1732), merchant, of Boston, son of Edward (1679) and Mary (Danforth) Bromfield, of Boston, was born Nov. 5, 1695. He married, Feb. 21, 1722, Abigail Coney. Rev. John Wilson, who delivered the first sermon before the Artillery Company (1638), was Edward, Jr.'s (1732), great-grandfather.
In 1723, he was elected constable of Boston, but was excused; and when again elected, in 1726, he paid a fine for not serving. He was one of a committee to draw up instructions for the representatives in 1731, 1732, and 1738, and was himself a represent-
Edward Bromfield, Jr. (1732.) AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1859, 1871, IS72.
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ative for Boston in the General Court from 1739 to 1742 inclusive. May 25, 1735, he gave fifty pounds towards the erection of the new workhouse. Nov. 21, 1738, he was on a committee chosen to consider the setting off of Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea, into a separate township. He visited the schools, with the clergy and others, in 1739, 1740, 1746, and 1751. The petition of the members of King's Chapel, April 11, 1748, for additional land to enlarge their church, was referred to a committee of which Edward Bromfield, Jr. (1732), was a member. He was a selectman of Boston from 1732 to 1735 inclusive, and an overseer of the poor from 1736 to 1756, when he declined to serve longer. He was an active citizen, liberal and industrious in public as in private affairs. He became a member of the Old South Church, April 13, 1729. His residence was on Beacon Street, opposite the present Athenæum building.
June 12, 1747, David Brainerd, the famous missionary to the Indians, visited Boston for the last time. While in Boston, he was entertained at the house of Edward Bromfield, Jr. (1732). On Sunday, July 19, he attended services at the Old South Church, and sat in Mr. Bromfield's pew, which was the second wall pew on the left from the Milk Street entrance.1
The Boston Gazette of April 19 said, concerning him : " His ancestors were among the distinguished worthies of New England, whose names will appear in characters of honor in the annals of our church and state. The town of Boston, his native place, observed his accomplishments and called him to fill some of their most important places of trust ; all which he discharged with great honor to himself and advantage to the public. In the House of Representatives he appeared the firm, uncorrupted patriot ; careful to assert the just prerogatives of the Crown and defend the undeniable liberties of the people."
He died April 10, 1756. Rev. Thomas Paine delivered the funeral sermon, which was printed.
Josiah Carter (1732), currier, of Boston, son of John and Ruth (Burnham) Carter, of Woburn, was born in that town, Aug. 3, 1698. He was clerk of the market in 1727; scavenger in 1737 ; constable in 1742, and sealer of leather in 1732, 1733, 1734, 1739, and from 1744 to 1753.
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1740.
Joshua Cheever (1732), merchant, of Boston, a son of Rev. Thomas Cheever, grandson of Ezekiel Cheever, whom Cotton Mather called " the civilizer of his country," and a brother of Capt. Ezekiel Cheever (1733), was born Jan 6, 1687. He married Sarah Warren, Nov. 2, 1708. Capt. Joshua Cheever (1732) served the town as a scavenger in 1724, constable in 1720, sealer of leather in 1717, 1718, and 1723 ; assessor from 1725 to 1729 inclusive ; fireward in 1732; overseer of the poor in 1736, when he is first called "Captain " in the town records, and was annually re-elected until 1743, and was selectman from 1730 to 1732. He also served on several important committees, notably the one on fortifying the town in 1746 ; and May 25, 1735, he gave fifty pounds towards the erection of the new workhouse. He was appointed a justice of the peace Jan. 25, 1738-9. During the last years of his active public service, from 1740 to 1747, he made the annual visitation of the town, with the justices and others. He was one of
Joshua Cheever (1732). AUTHORITIES : Bos- ton Records; Drake's Hist. of Boston.
1 Edwards's Life of Brainerd, pp. 225, etc., quoted in Drake's Hist. of Boston, p. 624.
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the original members of the New North Church in Boston ; was chosen a deacon, Nov. 1, 1720; ruling elder, July 11, 1736, and was ordained to that office, Aug. 7, 1737.
He was lieutenant of the Artillery Company in 1736, and captain in 1741. Inventory of his estate was filed in June, 1753.
Joseph Goldthwait (1732), of Boston, son of John (1711), was born in Boston, Nov. 11, 1706. He married, Feb. 8, 1727, Martha Lewis. He was elected constable of Boston in 1734, and scavenger in 1743. A retailer's license was granted him, Aug. 24, 1737. His shop was on Marlborough, now Washington, Street. His license was renewed, Sept. 10, 1742.
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1738.
Mr. Whitman (1810) says Mr. Goldthwait was "alive in 1784."
Thomas Hubbard (1732), merchant, of Boston, son of Joseph and Thankful Hubbard, was born in Boston, Aug. 4, 1702. For a half century Mr. Hubbard (1732) was one of the most prominent men in the town. He held various town offices ; was a member of many important committees, and active in all that concerned the public welfare. He graduated at Harvard College in 1721. He was elected a representative from Boston in 1746, and for fourteen years afterward, occupying the speaker's chair for ten years, and finally was raised to a seat in the council of the province, which he resigned a short time before his death. For twenty-one years - from 1752 to his death - he was treasurer of Harvard College, succeeding Mr. Edward Hutchinson (1702). " He increased the funds of the college by his judicious and assiduous management, and to the office of treasurer united the character of benefactor." Mr. Hubbard (1732) gave four hundred pounds, besides various donations, to the college. He became a member of the Old South Church Nov. 22, 1730; was a deacon for many years, resigning in 1764, but in 1768 accepted the office of treasurer.
He resided on Summer Street. He died at Waltham, July 14, 1773. He left two hundred pounds to the poor of Boston, and fifty pounds to the charitable fund of the Old South Church.
Caleb Lyman (1732), shopkeeper, of Boston, son of John and Elizabeth Lyman, was born in Northampton, Sept. 17, 1678.
Capt. Lyman (1732) removed to Boston about 1710, and became thoroughly identified with the town. He was a constable in 1712 ; clerk of the market in 1714 ; tithing-man, and a private in the militia, from 1723 to 1727 inclusive ; assessor from 1727 to 1731 inclusive, and a selectman from 1736 to 1742 inclusive. April 21, 1736, a tomb was granted him in the North burial-place. May 25, 1735, he gave thirty pounds towards the erection of the new workhouse. Mr. Savage says that Capt. Lyman (1732) died without issue. He was a deacon in the New North Church, of which he was one of the founders in 1712, and gave to that church, in his will, five hundred pounds. He was appointed justice of the peace Jan. 25, 1738-9. He made a very bold excursion into the northern part of New Hampshire in 1704, an account of which, written by himself,
Joseph Goldthwait (1732). AUTHORITY : South Church; New Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg., 1871, P. 45; Boston Records.
Boston Records. Thomas Hubbard (1732). AUTHORITIES : Caleb Lyman (1732). AUTHORITY: Boston
Quincy's Hist. of Harv. College; Hill's Hist. of Old Records. First
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Called " The dirty Half Itundred" which had been in the battle of "fontenay- and the Suge of wrong. he was captured! und gas to Tal end of martinque ( france ) the end of writon ; diec and was hund Mar 1, 1780, as 72 ; his wife d-oct 23, 1783-
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is given in the History of the Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians, 1703- 1725, by Samuel Penhallow.
Capt. Lyman's (1732) story, in substance, is as follows : In the month of May, 1704, there came intelligence from Albany concerning a number of unfriendly Indians up Connecticut River, who had built a fort and planted corn at a place called Cowassuck. On the 5th of June following, he set out, by order of authority, with five friendly Indians, from Northampton, and travelled into the wilderness for nine days, through much diffi- culty. They saw tracks and heard the firing of guns, and soon came upon fresh tracks, which they followed until they came in sight of the men. When they arrived in the vicinity of the fort they made a halt, and after consultation determined to send out a spy. Before the spy had gone out of sight they saw Indians in a canoe, and soon after a gun was fired. The attacking party kept quiet till sunset, intending to attack the enemy in the night. Capt. Lyman (1732) and his men advanced a half mile, and at two o'clock A. M. were within twelve rods of the fort. The sticks and underbrush crackled, but fortunately there appeared a cloud ; it soon thundered and rained. They came to the wigwam undiscovered ; fired into it ; then they surrounded it, and with hatchets and clubs knocked down several of its inmates. Only two of the enemy escaped, and one of those was mortally wounded. Seven were killed on the spot, six of whom were scalped, one for each of the attacking party. They descended the river for twelve miles in canoes, then broke them up and walked the remainder of the distance, arriving safely at Northampton, June 19 or 20. The General Court rewarded Capt. Lyman (1732) and his party by a gift of thirty-one pounds.
He was lieutenant of the Artillery Company in 1735, and its captain in 1739. He died at Weston, Mass., Nov. 19, 1742, aged sixty-five years, and "his funeral sermon was preached by Rev. William Williams," who delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1737. His remains were entombed in Copp's Hill Burial-Ground.
William Rand (1732), physician, of Boston, son of Thomas and Sarah (Longley) Rand, of Charlestown, was born May 4, 1689. He married (1) Sarah Cotta, daughter of John Cotta (1679) ; (2) Isabella Armitage, daughter of William Tilley (1706), and (3) Elizabeth Leeds. When the son was six years old his father, Thomas, was drowned in Mystic River by the sinking of his canoe. William (1732) became a member of the Old South Church, Feb. 24, 1722, and in 1733 was an apothecary, at the sign of the Unicorn, near the town dock. In 1714, he sold land on Bunker Hill to Jonathan Dowse. He was a collector of taxes in Boston from 1734 to 1737 inclusive, and was scavenger in 1736. He contributed ten pounds towards the erection of the workhouse in 1735. May 15, 1750, he petitioned the town for an abatement of taxes committed to him from 1734 to 1737, which the town refused to do. A year later a similar petition was dismissed by the town. He appears to have been a physician employed in part by the town, and from 1737 to 1740 had charge of the small-pox patients and others at the Province Hospital, on Rainsford Island.
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