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" Here lies our Captain, and Major of Suffolk was withal A goodly magistrate was he, and Major General. Two troops of horse with him here came, such love his worth did crave, Ten companies of foot, also mourning, marched to his grave. Let all, who read, be sure to keep the truth, as he has done; With Christ he now is crowned; his name was Humfrey Atherton."
His estate, besides a farm of seven hundred acres, inventoried £838. His will was proved Sept. 27, 1661, and in 1662 his property was divided among his widow and children.
John Audlin, or Odlin (1638), was born in 1602, " an ancient dweller of the Town of Boston," and lived on what is now Washington Street, between Bedford and Essex. In January, 1637, he was alloted eighty-four acres at Rumney Marsh, which he sold Dec. 24, 1638, for £29 8s. He was a cutler, and was disfranchised in November, 1637, for his sympathy with Mrs. Hutchinson's teachings. His name is the one hundred and thirty-ninth on the register of the First Church. His deposition in regard to " Black- stones Sale of his Land in Boston " is printed by Shurtleff, Description of Boston, p. 296. He was armorer of the Artillery Company from 1644 to 1673.
John Audlin (1638) died in Boston, Dec. 18, 1685, aged eighty-three years.
William Ballard (1638), of Lynn, with wife, Eliza, and two children, came in the " James " from London, in 1635, aged thirty-two years. He lived on the Boston road, a little west of Saugus River. He was admitted a freeman May 2, 1638, and the same year was a member of the Quarterly Court, at Salem. He moved to Andover, and died July 10, 1689. His widow, Grace, died April 27, 1694.
Edward Bendall (1638), of Boston, with wife, Ann, who died Dec. 25, 1637, prob- ably came with Winthrop in 1630. He was admitted a freeman May 14, 1634. His children were named Freegrace (1667), Reform, Hopedfor, Moremercy, and Restore.
John Audlin (1638). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1887, p. 265; Snow's Ilist. of Boston, p. 50.
" Friday, Dec. IS, 1685. Father John Odlin dies; one of the very first inhabitants of Boston. The oldest save the Governor." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., pp. 112, 113.
"Satterday, Dec. 19, Father Jnº Odlin buried in the first Burying place [corner Tremont and
School streets]." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., f. 113.
William Ballard (1638). AUTHORITIES : Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1848, p 183.
Edward Bendall (1638). AUTHORITIES: Re- parts of Boston Rec. Com., 1634-1682; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng., Sav- age's Ed .; Records of Mass. Bay.
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The last four were born of his second wife, Mary -, of Roxbury. His business prop- erty, consisting of a stone house and warehouse adjoining, was just west of Change Avenue, and facing Faneuil Hall Square. The dock, where Faneuil Hall now stands, was then used as a cove for shipping. It was the centre of mercantile business, and was called Bendall's Dock, afterward Town Dock. It was from the shore in front of his warehouse that, in December, 1637, he was permitted to run a "ferry boat to Noddle's Island," and to the "ships riding before the town." He also owned a house and garden, two acres, at the corner of the present Tremont Row and Tremont Street.
He was a man of uncommon enterprise, projecting and using successfully a diving- bell. The "Mary Rose " was " blown up and sunk with all her ordnance, ballast, much lead and other goods." "The court gave the owners above a year's time to recover her and free the harbor, which was much damnified by her ; and they having given her over, and never attempting to weigh her, Edward Bendall [1638] undertook it upon these terms, viz. : if he freed the harbor, he should have the whole ; otherwise, he should have half of all he recovered. He made two great tubs, bigger than a butt, very tight, and open at one end, upon which were hanged so many weights as would sink it to the ground. (600 wt) It was let down, the diver sitting in it, a cord in his hand, to give notice when they should draw him up, and another cord to show when they should remove it from place to place, so he could continue in his tub near half an hour, and fasten ropes to the ordnance, and put the lead &c. into a net or tub. And when the tub was drawn up, one knocked upon the head of it, and thrust a long pole under water, which the diver laid hold of, and so was drawn up by it ; for they might not draw the open end out of water for endangering him, &c." Savage adds, in a note : "If the diving-bell had by ingenious and philosophical men been earlier invented, I doubt if any instance of its successful application before this can be found."
He was a member of the First Church, and was disarmed in 1637 for sympathy with Mrs. Hutchinson. In 1649, he was appointed, by the General Court, collector of custonis and registrar of horses intended for exportation.
Edward Bendall (1638) and James Penn "did bind themselves as sureties for the fine of Stephen Greensmith " (1638), who was censured and fined for disrespectful language concerning the clergy. He died in 1682, and letters of administration on his estate were granted May 2 of that year.
Walter Blackborne (1638) (Savage says Blackburne) owned property in Boston in 1640, but prior to that time a Mr. and Mrs. Blackburne are recorded as members of the church in Roxbury. His house was on Washington Street, nearly opposite the head of Milk Street. He was made a freeman May 22, 1639, and on the " 22d of the Ist month," 1640, he gave the power of attorney to his wife, Elizabeth, “ beinge now intended to goe for owld England in the Shipp called the Desire." In 1641, Elizabeth Blackburne sold the house and garden to Francis Lyle (1640), who served in the double capacity of barber and surgeon.
Nehemiah Bourne (1638) arrived in America in 1635, a member of the "second emigration." Savage says he resided in Charlestown in 1638. He and his wife were
Walter Blackborne (1638). AUTHORITIES: Savage's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
throp's Hist. of New Eng., Savage's Ed .; Suffolk County Records, II., 195 and 211; Drake's Gen. Nehemiah Bourne (1638). AUTHORITIES : Dict. New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1854, 1873; Win-
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admitted into the Dorchester church in 1639. He was a "ship carpenter"; removed to Boston in 1640, and became a freeman June 2, 1641. In the winter of 1643-4, having a taste for military affairs, he accompanied Col. Stoughton (1637) to England, and became a major in Rainsburrow's regiment, of Cromwell's army. After the death of Col. Stoughton (1637), Major Bourne (1638) returned to his family ; but again went to England, Dec. 19, 1646. He was in England in 1655 and also in 1661. When he went to England in 1646, his vessel was armed with "one drake from Dorchester, a drake and a sacre from the Castle and two sacres from Boston," which were loaned to him ; all to be returned by June 10, 1647.
He next appears, March 2, 1649-50, in command of the great frigate, at Woolwich, carrying two hundred and fifty men. Sept. 26, 1650, he was in command of the frigate "Speaker," two hundred and seventy men and fifty-two guns. In May, 1652, Capt. Bourne (1638) was appointed "rear admiral of the fleet of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, and captain of the ship 'St. Andrew,' of sixty guns." In January, 1652-3, he became commissioner for the navy, and had charge of refitting and victualling the vessels. He afterward was connected with the militia of the county of Kent, but at the time of the Restoration fled to the Continent, and remained there for some years.
His wife, Hannah, died June 18, 1684, and was buried on the south side of Bunhill Fields Burial-Ground, where the ancient and honorable admiral was also buried in the year 1691. His will, dated Feb. 11, 1690-91, was proved May 15, 1691.
James Browne (1638), of Charlestown, a glazier, married (1) Judith Cutting and (2) Sarah Cutting. He was admitted a freeman in 1634. His name is the sixty-first on the roll of the First Church in Charlestown. A remonstrance, signed by Charlestown men, was presented to the General Court, against the banishment of Rev. John Wheel- wright. The document was held to be seditious, and the signers were called to an account. Ten of them acknowledged their " sin," but James Browne (1638) and one other refused to recant ; whereupon the constables of Charlestown were ordered to disarın them unless they acknowledged their error, " or give other satisfaction for their liberty." In 1640, he was granted a part of Lovell's Island on condition " that he set up a stage and follow a trade of fishing there."
About 1660 he moved to Newbury, and afterward to Salem, where he died Nov. 13, 1676, aged seventy-one years.
Thomas Cheeseholm, or Chisholm (1638), of Cambridge, 1635, was admitted a freeman March 3, 1636. He had a wife, Isabel, but they left no posterity. The first person licensed by the General Court, Sept. 8, 1636, " to keepe a house of intertainment at Newe Towne " was Thomas Cheeseholm (1638), a deacon of the church, and after wards steward of Harvard College. He was also licensed "to draw wine at Cambridge," May 13, 1640. His dwelling-house was on a lot at the northwest corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets, adjoining the lot on which the first meeting-house was erected in Cambridge. The first church edifice and the first tavern in Cambridge stood side by side. He was by profession a tailor, and died at his residence, as above, Aug. 18, 1671.
James Browne (1638). AUTHORITIES: Mem. Ilist. of Boston, Vol. I .; Wyman's Charlestown Genealogies and Estates, Vol. I .; Third Report, Boston Rec. Com .; New Eng. ITist. and Gen. Reg., I853 (will).
Thomas Cheeseholm (1638). AUTHORITIES : Hist. of Cambridge, by Rev. Lucius R. Paige; Mass. Col. Records, Vol. I., p. 180; Savage's Gen. Dict.
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Thomas Clarke (1638) was of Dorchester in 1630. He commenced his career in that town, but was prominently connected later with Boston. He retained his property in Dorchester until his death, and gave by will to the town, £20 for its poor. His farm, which he retained, as above, was situated on the south side of Jones's Hill. He sustained a high reputation for integrity and independence. He was admitted a freeman in 1638, and the same year joined the Dorchester church. He was selectman in 1641 and 1642. He removed his residence and business to Boston in 1644 or 1645, in company with other prominent Dorchester settlers, whose names are recorded among the founders of the Old North Society, in 1650. Mr. Clarke's (1638) name is perpetuated by the name of a street and a wharf, at the north part of the city. He commanded the Suffolk Regi- ment in 1651, and the same year was chosen deputy from Boston. He was continued in that office eighteen years, five of which he was speaker of the House. He was elected assistant in 1673, and held that office until his decease, March 13, 1683. He was a successful merchant, and owned several estates. In 1678, his shop goods inventoried £756, and six pieces of real estate were estimated at £1,395. In 1672, he succeeded Major Lusher (1638) as sergeant-major.
In 1658, when the sanguinary law was passed condemning Quakers to death, he was one of the two deputies who entered their dissent against the law. When the commis- sioners of Charles II., in 1665, arrived in Boston, and threatened to annul the Massa- chusetts charter, on account of the sympathy of the people for the Revolution, that instrument was placed in the hands of Major Clarke (1638) and three others, for safe- keeping. He was sent, with Mr. Pynchon, to New York, to represent the Bay Colony at the transfer of Manhadoes from the Dutch to the English authorities, which was done Aug. 27, 1664.
On the 30th of September, 1666, "Mrs. Clarke, the wife of Capt. Thomas Clarke [1638], of Boston," had the offence charged against her, before the church in Dor- chester, " of her reproachful and slanderous tongue against the Honored Governor Richard Bellingham ; and other lying expressions." After several meetings, "she, manifesting no repentance," was excommunicated.
Upon the division of the Suffolk Regiment, in 1680, Boston constituted the First Regiment, under Col. Clarke (1638) ; that part of Suffolk County now Norfolk was created a new regiment, under William Stoughton. Major Clarke (1638) was lieutenant of the Artillery Company in 1639 and 1651, and captain in 1653 and 1665. He made his will in May, 1680, and it was proved March 22, 1683. "He was buried," says an old almanac, " March 19th, 1683, with military honors."
At a church meeting in Dorchester, April 29, 1683, "John Minot came forth volun- tarily and acknowledged his sin in being too much overcome with drinking on the day of Major Clarke's funeral." Dr. T. M. Harris supposes Major Clarke (1638) to be one of three brothers, - Bray, Joseph, and Thomas, - of Dorchester, 1630, commemorated in an epitaph on a gravestone in that town : -
" Here lie three Clarks, their accounts are even, Entered on earth, carried up to heaven."
Thomas Clarke (1638.) AUTHORITIES: Hist. Gen. Dict .; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. Company, of Dorchester, by Antiq. and Hist. Soc .; First and Ed. 1842; Savage's Edition of Winthrop's Hist. of New Eng .; Records of Mass. Bay. Fourth Reports of Boston Rec. Com .; Savage's
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John Coggan (1638), of Boston, who has the distinction of being the "father of Boston merchants," lived on the opposite corner of State and Washington streets from Capt. Robert Keayne (1637). Below Mr. Coggan (1638), and on the next lot, Rev. John Wilson, the first minister in Boston, a brother-in-law of Capt. Keayne (1637) and the preacher of the first election sermon before the Artillery Company, resided. Crooked Lane, from State Street to Dock Square, ran through Mr. Wilson's land, and was, there- fore, called Wilson's Lane. It is now the extension of Devonshire Street. John Coggan (1638) was admitted a freeman Nov. 5, 1633, and opened the first shop in Boston, March 4, 1633-4, on the above-named corner, which he purchased of Mr. Wilson. His first wife, Ann Coggan, joined the church in Boston in July, 1634. His second wife, Mary, dying on the 14th of January, 1651, he married, on the 10th of March following, Mrs. Martha, the widow of Gov. Winthrop, the ceremony being performed by John Endicott, Governor. She had previously been the widow of Thomas Coitmore (1639). In January, 1635, for the raising of a new fortification on Fort Hill, Mr. Coggan (1638) loaned five pounds to the town, and was made treasurer of the fund ; and Aug. 12, 1636, he subscribed the same amount as Capt. Keayne (1637), twenty shillings, at a meeting of the richer inhabitants, for the maintenance of a free-school master. He was a selectman of the town in 1634, 1639, and 1640, and was on a committee with Samuel Cole (1637), Dec. 15, 1652, to receive money for the support of the president, fellows, or poor scholars, at Harvard College. Besides other property, he owned in Boston a half acre on the corner of Beacon and Tremont streets, opposite King's Chapel. He was an early and liberal donor to Harvard College, and died April 27, 1658, leaving a large estate. His daughter, Elizabeth, married Joseph Rock (1658).
George Cooke (1638), of Cambridge, arrived in Boston from London, in the ship " Defence," in 1635, with an elder brother, Joseph (1640). In the ship's clearance, at the custom-house, he is called, with others, servants of Roger Harlakenden, who also settled in Cambridge. This was doubtless done to deceive the custom-house officers, and assure their emigration. George Cooke (1638) was born in 1610, and became a freeman March 3, 1636. Immediately upon his arrival, in connection with his brother, he pur- chased a large number of houses and lands of those who were about removing to Connec- ticut. He was selectman in 1638, 1642, and 1643; deputy, or representative, in 1636 and from 1642 to 1645, - five years, - and was speaker of the House in 1645. While a inember of the House he was frequently placed on important committees, especially in relation to military affairs. In 1645, he was elected one of the reserve commissioners of the United Colonies. In 1636, he was appointed captain of the first train-band in Cambridge, and had William Spencer (1637) for his lieutenant. He retained that office at the organization of the militia in 1644. At the formation of a company in Middlesex, May 14, 1645, he was placed at the head of it. He commanded the Artillery Company in 1643, and, while its captain, was sent by the court, with Humfrey Atherton
John Coggan (1638). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1855, 1856, 1877; Mem. Ilist. of Boston, Vol. I .; Hist. of Dorchester; Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Report of Boston Rec. Com., 1634-1660.
March 4, 1633, "John Coggan, merchant [set up] the first shop." - Winthrop's Journal, Vol. I., p. 125.
" John Coggan mar Mrs Martha Winthrop 10 : 1 : 1651." - Suffolk Co. Files.
George Cooke (1638). AUTHORITIES : Paige's Hist. of Cambridge; Ilist. Middlesex Co., Vol. III., pp. 174, 177; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Win- throp's Hist. of New Eng .; New Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg., 1847.
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(1638), Edward Johnson (1637) and forty soldiers, to Patuxet, near Providence, in Rhode Island, to arrest "Samuel Gorton and his company"; which they did, and brought the prisoners to Boston. Winthrop gives a long detail of the military pomp and ceremony on their return.
Near the close of 1645 he returned to England, became a colonel in the army of Parliament, and was " reported to be slain in the wars in Ireland, in 1652."
Suits were instituted by the family for the possession of his property in America, and Oct. 5, 1652, the County Court empowered "Mr. Henry Dunster [1640] and Mr. Joseph Cooke [1640] to improve the estate of Col. George Cooke [1638], deceased, for the good of Mary Cooke, the daughter of said Col. George Cooke [1638], deceased, and also to dispose of the said Mary Cooke, for her education, as they shall apprehend may be for her best good."
Col. Cooke (1638) probably resided on the northerly corner of Brighton and Eliot streets, in Cambridge.
William Cutter (1638), a brother of Richard Cutter (1643), was a resident of Cambridge in 1636, and was admitted a freeman April 18, 1637. He had a grant of land in Cambridge in 1648, and owned and occupied the estate at the southwest corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets. He soon returned to England, and, in 1653, resided at Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; at which date he empowered Edward Goffe, Elijah Corlett, and Thomas Sweetman, of Cambridge, and Robert Hale (1644), of Charlestown, to collect debts due him in New England. He probably died without children, for Richard Cutter (1643), six days before his own death, deeded, June 10, 1693, to his son William, a house and lot in Cambridge, describing the premises as " formerly the right and proper estate of William Cutter [1638], my brother, deceased, and from him descended to me as my lawful right of inheritance."
Nathaniel Duncan (1638) was the second person named in the charter, but did not sign the roll until 1638. He was one of the early settlers in Dorchester, where he was a merchant. He appears in the town records as a grantee of land in 1633 and 1637, selectman of the town from 1635 to 1645, one of the six who first signed the church covenant with Mr. Mather, was admitted a freeman in 1635, removed to Boston in 1645, and resided on State Street, in the house next to Capt. Keayne's (1637). He joined the Old North Church in Boston in 1655, was a vote commissioner in Boston in 1646, and he represented the town for several years in the General Court. He was lieutenant of the first train-band organized in Dorchester, in 1636, and was afterwards its captain. He never held any office in the Military Company of the Massachusetts, prob- ably on account of his advanced age, as he does not appear to have held any position in the colonial militia when it was reorganized in 1644. Johnson says, " He was learned in the Latin and French tongues, and a very good accountant ; whereupon he was called to the place of auditor-general for the country." His son, Nathaniel Duncan, Jr., was admitted into the Artillery Company in 1642, and his son, Peter Duncan, was admitted in 1654.
William Cutter (1638). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Paige's Hist. of Cambridge.
Nathaniel Duncan (1638). AUTHORITIES : Drake's Hist. of Boston; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Re-
port of Boston Rec. Com., 1634-1660; Hist. of Dor- chester, by Antiq. and Ilist. Soc .; Records of Mass. Bay.
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At the Quarterly General Court held Sept. 1, 1635, appeared the first grand jury of the country, " who presented above one hundred offences, and, among others, some of the magistrates." Of this court was Capt. Nathaniel Duncan (1638), from Dorchester. Capt. Duncan (1638) was also a member of the court which banished Mrs. Hutchinson in 1637, and disfranchised Capt. Underhill (1637). The same court disarmed her sympathizers, who were ordered "to deliver their arms at Capt. Keayne's [1637] before the 30th of November, under penalty of ten pounds for every default."
March 12, 1638, the General Court voted : "Natha Duncan, of Dorchester, is licensed to sell wine and strong water"; and in 1645 he was elected by that body auditor-general of the province.
By the following order, it appears that Dorchester did its share in 1664, in fortifying Castle Island : " 20 of the 3 mo. 1664. It is ordered by a major vote of the town, that the raters shall make a rate of one hundred pounds towards the fortification of Castle Island, and providing powder, and shot and other for the great guns ; to be delivered into the hands of Nathaniel Duncan [1638] and Humfrey Atherton [1638], overseers of the work, who are to be accountable to the town for the disposing of it."
Capt. Nathaniel Duncan died about 1668.
Philip Eliot (1638), of Roxbury, came to America in April, 1635, in the " Hope- well." His name is not in the custom-house list, though those of his wife and children are. They were from Nazing, England, the seat of the family. He was admitted a freeman May 26, 1636, and was a deacon of the church of which his brother, Rev. John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians, was pastor. He represented the town in the General Court for four years, from 1654 to 1657. He resided in Roxbury, west of Stony Brook and south of Heath Street, having for his nearest neighbors James Astwood (1638) and Isaac Johnson (1645). Between 1636 and 1640, he is recorded as being the possessor of three hundred and thirty-three acres of land. The most northerly resident of these three mentioned, " his house, barn and houselot of three acres on Stony River, east" was Philip Eliot (1638). He "was a right godly and diligent person, who used to accompany " his brother, Rev. John, in his work among the Indians. The Rev. John Eliot left this record concerning his brother Philip (1638) in the records of the "Church at Roxborough ": " Philip Eliot [1638] he dyed about the 22ª of the 8 month : 57. he was a man of peace, & very faithful, he was many years in the office of a Deakon wh he discharged faithfully. in his latter years he was very lively usefull & active for God, & his cause. The Lord gave him so much acceptanc in the hearts of the people yt he dyed under many of the offices of trust yt are usually put upon men of his rank. for besides his office of a Deakon, he was a Deputy to the Gen. Court, he was a Comissioner for the govnmt of the town, he was one of the 5 men to order the prudential affairs of the town ; & he was chosen to be Feofee of the Publick Schoole in Roxbury."
He died Oct. 22, 1657.
Femys (1638). On the oldest list of officers of the Company, as lieutenant in 1640, appears the name "Capt. - Femys." Mr. Whitman adopted the name
Philip Eliot (1638). AUTHORITIES: Savage's Gen. Dict .; Drake's Hist. of Roxbury; Report of Rec. Com., Vol. VI., Roxbury; will in New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1854.
Femys (1638). AUTHORITIES: Rc- port of Rec. Com., Boston, 1630-1699, p. 52; Savage's Gen. Dict. (Vermacs); see will of Alice Fermace, New Eng. Gen. and Hist. Reg., 1854.
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William, adding, "He might be one of those who became early discontented and therefore returned to England."
The pronunciation sounds like Fermase, Fermace, or Formais. Mark Fermace was of Salem in 1638 ; was admitted to the church there Sept. 22, 1639, and became a free- man May 13, 1640, when the name is spelled Formais. Savage says, he was probably a son of widow Alice Vermaes, whose daughter Abigail was admitted to the church in Salem in 1640, and married Edward Hutchinson (1638) after being the widow of Robert Button, of Boston. Alice, then of Boston, died Feb. 9, 1655-6, and Edward Hutchinson (1638) was named her executor ; but Mark is not mentioned, nor her other son, Benjamin, implying they had previously died. Her name as attached to her will is Alice Fermace. Mark Fermace being a brother-in-law of Edward Hutchinson (1638), who was very active in the affairs of the Company, gives much probability to the suppo- sition that Capt. Femys was really Mark Fermace.
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