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John Bartlett (1769), physician, of Boston and Roxbury, had a son, Thomas, born in Boston May 14, 1767, by wife Tabitha. Thomas became a druggist, and joined the Artillery Company in 1793.
Nov. 11, 1767, Mr. John Bartlett (1769) prayed of the selectmen "leave to break ground in order to carry a drain from his house, near the sign of the Lamb," into the common sewer. He therefore lived near the present Adams House, on Washington Street, Boston. He was chosen a scavenger for Ward 11, March 14, 1768 ; a constable, Sept. 16, 1776, and March 11, 1777. He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1772. Mr. Drake locates and describes the residence of Dr. John Bartlett (1769) in his " History of the Town of Roxbury." He was drafted for service in the Continental Army, Dec. 19, 1776, and hired a substitute. Aug. 11, 1783, Dr. Bartlett (1769) and Dr. John Warren petitioned the town of Boston "for Liberty to carry on the Business of Innoculation upon Apple Island it being a very Safe and convenient situation." The petition was granted. Oct. 25, 1786, Capt. Bartlett (1769) applied to the selectmen for " the use of the [Faneuil] Hall to exercise his Company," called the " Volunteer Re- publican Company," on Thursday evenings.
After an affliction of blindness for several years, he died in 1823-4.
John Boyle (1769), bookseller, of Boston, at No. 18 Marlborough Street, "the sign of the Three Doves," was born in the town of Marblehead, Mass., on the sixth day of March, 1746. He was published, Feb. 21, 1772, to marry Celia Gray, and, (2) Jan. 10, 1777, Betsey Cazneau. He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1773, and commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary War. He was a warden of the town of Boston in 1780, and June 10 of that year, Capt. Boyle (1769) was selected from Ward 10 to collect the sums subscribed in that ward for carrying on the war.
John Bartlett (1769). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Whitman's Hist. A. and II. A. Company, Ed. 1842.
John Boyle (1769). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Anniver- sary of the Massachusetts Lodge, A. F. and A. M., 1896; Moore's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XVIII.
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He served an apprenticeship with Green & Russell, printers. He began business in Boston as a printer and bookseller on Marlborough Street, having purchased types, etc., of a Mr. Fletcher at Halifax, and printed a few books on his own account. In May, 1774, Mr. l'oyle (1769) formed a partnership with Richard Draper, publisher of the Massachusetts Gasette and Boston N.ws-Letter. Mr. Draper died the following month, June 6, 1774, and his widow formed a partnership with John Boyle (1769) in the publication of the News-Letter. In August following, the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Boyle (1769) returned to his former stand In 1775, he sold his printing materials, but retained his book-store, which he kept for many years. His place of business was No. 18 Marlborough, now Washington, Street. He was a commander of the Cadets, active in military matters, and was aide-de-camp for nine years on Gov. Hancock's staff, with the rank of colonel.
Col. Boyle (1769) received the Masonic degrees in the Massachusetts Lodge during the first months of 1785. He became a member of that Lodge April 4, 1785, and was worshipful master in 1798, 1800, and 1803. In the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, he was steward in 1794-5, deacon in 1796-7, junior grand warden in 1799, senior grand warden in 1800, 1801, and 1802. He was the first district deputy grand master of the First Masonic District, having been appointed in 1802 ; he served until 1808.
Col. Boyle (1769) died Nov. 18, 1819, aged seventy-three years.
Joseph Croswell (1769), probably of Charlestown. He was published, Oct. 29, 1772, to marry Lucy Allen, of Boston, and is not elsewhere mentioned in the records of Boston.
John Grant, Jr. (1769), of Boston, son of John (1733) and Elizabeth Grant, was born Sept. 1, 1746.
In 1769, the town of Boston received from Joanna Brooker a bequest for poor widows. The original bequest was eight hundred and twenty-one pounds. This amount was loaned by the selectmen to responsible citizens of the town; the interest being collected annually and distributed to the poor. March 22, 1769, John Grant (1733) & Son (1769) obtained a loan from this fund of sixty-six pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence. The interest, paid March 23, 1770, for one year, was fourteen pounds, probably an error for four pounds, the amount paid the next year. The interest was regularly paid by them until Feb. 24, 1779, when Deacon Simpkins (1769) paid the interest for Mrs. Grant, and July 29, 1782, the bond of John Grant (1733) & Son (1769), being paid, was discharged. This implies that just prior to 1779, John Grant (1733) died, his son John (1769) does not afterward appear in the records.
Other members of the Artillery Company who borrowed from the Brooker bequest were John Fullerton (1768) and Mr. Tilestone (1747).
Joshua Loring (1769), of Boston. There were three persons in Boston and vicinity, in 1769, named Joshua Loring.
(1) Joshua Loring, of Boston, Dorchester, and Roxbury. He learned the tanner's trade with James Mears, on Roxbury Street, but when of age went to sea, rose to the command of a privateer, and having been taken prisoner by the French, in August, 1744,
Joshua Loring (1769). AUTHORITIES: Cur- Company, Ed. 1842; Lincoln's Hist. of Hingham; Frothingham's Siege of Boston.
wen's Letters; Drake's Hist. of Roxbury; Sabine's American Loyalists; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A.
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was for some months a prisoner in Louisburg. Dec. 19, 1757, he was commissioned a captain in the British navy, was commodore of the naval forces on lakes Champlain and Ontario, and participated in the capture of Quebec, under Gen. Wolfe, and in the con- quest of Canada, in the succeeding campaign of Gen. Amherst. He was severely wounded while in command on Lake Ontario, and at the close of the war retired on half pay, at which time he settled down at Jamaica Plain. Gov. Gage appointed Com- modore Loring a member of the governor's council. March 30, 1775, the Provincial Congress denounced Joshua Loring as an implacable enemy to their country. On the morning of the Lexington battle, he mounted his horse, left his home, and everything belonging to it, and, pistol in hand, rode at full speed to Boston, stopping on the way only to answer an old friend who asked, " Are you going, Commodore?" "Yes," he replied ; " I have always eaten the king's bread, and always intend to." He received a pension from the Crown until his decease, at Highgate, England, in October, 1781, at the age of sixty-five years.
(2) Joshua Loring, Jr., was a son of Commodore Joshua and Mary (Curtis) Loring. Joshua, Jr., was sheriff of Suffolk County in 1775, and was " Town Major," under Gen. Gage, during the siege of Boston. Oct. 7, 1775, Gen. Gage issued a proc- lamation appointing "Joshua Loring, Jr., Esq., to be sole vendue master and auctioneer, in and for the town of Boston," and strictly prohibited any other person from doing that business. He is the one who, as deputy commissioner of prisoners at New York, made himself so detested by his brutal indifference to the comfort of his unfortunate country- men who were prisoners. He was an addresser of Hutchinson in 1774, of Gov. Gage in 1775, went to Halifax in 1776, and was proscribed in 1778. He married, in 1769, Elizabeth Lloyd, of Boston. It is this Joshua whom Mr. Whitman (1810), in his history of the Artillery Company, cites as being a member of the Company.
In the Columbian Centinel of Nov. 21, 1789, it is stated that Joshua Loring, Esq., commissary of prisoners during the late war, died in England, aged forty-five years.
(3) Joshua Loring, of Boston, was a son of Caleb and Rebecca (Lobdell) Loring, of Hingham, and was born Oct. 31, 1737. He married, Oct. 8, 1760, Margaret Tid- marsh. He was by trade a cooper. His brother, Israel Loring, joined the Artillery Company in 1768. It is more probable that this Joshua, son of Caleb, joined the Artil- lery Company in 1769. Prior to 1769, he had risen to the grade of captain in the local militia. Joshua Loring (1769) died soon after joining the Artillery Company, for, in 1770, his brother, Caleb, a distiller (Loring & Snelling), of Boston, married Margaret (Tidmarsh) Loring, the widow of Joshua (1769). The Joshua who joined the Old South Church, Jan. 31, 1741, was a son of Joseph, of Hingham, and joined the Artillery Com- pany in 1722.
Manasseh Marston (1769), cooper, of Boston. He married a Miss Ingalls, Jan. 27, 1785. The Columbian Centinel announces the event in these words: "On Thursday evening last [Jan. 27, 1785] the hymeneal torch was light[ed] between Capt. Manasseh Marston and Miss Ingalls - When a refin'd sensibility is added to the most superlative worth, we cannot but presage that the alliance will do honor to the Institution."
He was chosen a culler of staves, hoops, etc., from 1769 to 1777 inclusive. The
Manasseh Marston (1769). AUTHORITIES: Boston Records; Early Masonic Records.
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town records often give the name "Masters" for "Marston." July 14, 1768, he lived near the New Brick Meeting- House. Capt. Manasseh Marston (1769) was elected culler of staves in 1783, was approved as a surveyor of "pork, beef and barrel'd fish for this town," in 1784. He was identified with the militia, and rose to the grade of captain. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, becoming a member of the Lodge of St. Andrew in 1781. He was present in Grand Lodge at the installation of M. W. Joseph Webb, Jr. (1761), June 24, 1783, and attended the Special Communication, Jan. 8, 1784, in Charlestown, when King Solomon's Lodge was constituted.
His will was proved in 1791.
John Fisk Osgood (1769). Sarah, daughter of John Fisk and Lucy Osgood, was born in Boston, Oct. 25, 1771. She died in infancy, and their second child, Sarah, was born April 7, 1773. He was drafted, Dec. 18, 1776, to serve in the Continental Army. He therefore enlisted, and rose to the grade of ensign, in active service.
Administration was granted on his estate in 1792.
Joseph Pierce (1769), merchant, of Boston, son of Isaac and Mary (Hardy) Pierce, was born Dec. 25, 1745. He married Ann Dawes, daughter of Thomas (1754) and Hannah (Blake) Dawes, and sister of Judge Thomas Dawes, April 4, 1771, by whom he had twelve children. He was a graduate of the Boston Latin School in 1756, a prom- inent merchant of Boston, and from his store, on the north side of State Street, witnessed the massacre of March 5, 1770. Mr. Whitman (1810), in his history of the Artillery Company, says that his name appears on a sign, over his store-door, in an old picture of the State House, taken before the Revolution.
He was a founder of the Provincial Grenadier Corps, and its second captain. He commanded the company on the occasion of its first parade, June 8, 1772, Henry Knox, his intimate friend, afterward major-general and secretary of war, being second in command. His only son, Major Joseph Hardy Pierce, who married, in 1791, Frances Temple, daughter of Joseph Cordis, was a man of " most elegant presence, lieutenant with the rank of major in the Independent Corps of Cadets, aide-de-camp to several governors, secretary to the board of war, and clerk of the municipal court of Boston." His eldest daughter, Ann, born Aug. 11, 1774, married, April 25, 1792, John, son of Rev. John Lathrop, who delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1774. Hon. John Lothrop Motley was the grandson of John and Ann (Pierce) Lathrop.
Capt. Joseph (1769) and his wife, Ann, joined the Old South Church Feb. 26, 1775. For more than fifty years he was an active member of that church, served it as secretary at different times, a member of the standing committee for many years, and was promi- nent in the management of the business matters of the Old South Church.
He belonged to a military and patriotic family, - his father and brothers serving with distinction in the Continental Army. He was a representative to the General Court, and served on important committees during the Revolutionary War. He was clerk of the Artillery Company in 1769 and 1770, and first sergeant in 1773, and in the militia became captain. He died in Boston, Jan. 1, 1828, aged eighty-two years.
Joseph Pierce (1769). AUTHORITIES: Whit- man's fist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842; Hill's
Hist. of Old South Church; Holland's " William Dawes and his Ride with Paul Revere."
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Thomas Russell (1769), brazier, of Boston, son of Capt. Benjamin (1745) and Elizabeth Russell, was born May ro, 1738. He had a wife, Onner, and their first child was born in Boston, April 16, 1757. He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1773, and was chosen scavenger for Ward 6, in 1771 ; one of the committee, in 1776, to collect an account of the damages since the Boston Port Bill, and also a scavenger in 1777 for Ward 9. Mr. Russell (1769) was chosen one of a committee of twelve persons to borrow money to purchase flour, etc., for the people of Boston. A Thomas Russell was present at the festival of St. John the Evangelist, held by the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, Dec. 28, 1778.
Thomas Sherburne, Jr. (1769), merchant, of Boston, son of Thomas and Margaret Sherburne, was born Jan. 26, 1741. He was clerk of the market from 1775 to 1777 inclusive, and Feb. 6, 1777, was chosen one of the three from Ward 5 "to aid and assist the selectmen and Committee of Correspondence in carrying into effect a late act to pre- vent monopolies." He was drawn for a juror in a maritime court, Jan. 11, 1778, and again, July 19, 1780. Sept. 8, 1784, a Mr. Parker, collector of taxes, presented several persons as bondsmen not acceptable to the selectmen, but at a later meeting, Mr. Thomas Sherburne (1769) was presented and accepted. His residence and place of business were on Back, now Salem, Street.
John Simpkins (1769), upholsterer, of Boston, son of William (1739) and Elizabeth Simpkins, grandson of 'Thomas (1727), and a descendant of Capt. Nicholas (1650), was born in Boston Nov. 12, 1740. Previous to 1780 he occupied a "Town's Shop " near the dock (rental, {666 per year), but later his store was No. 51 Cornhill, now Wash- ington Street. He was elected a clerk of the market, March 24, 1766, and March 9, 1767. In March, 1770, he was added, by vote of the town, to the committee authorized " to procure subscriptions to an agreement not to dispose of foreign tea until the revenue acts shall be repealed." In 1777, he was chosen one of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety ; and in 1777, also in 1778, 1780, one of the twelve wardens of the town. In the militia he rose to the grade of captain.
In 1778, the town of Boston voted to raise four thousand pounds for the purpose of supplying " the families of the Non-Commissioned Officers & Soldiers in Town, who have enlisted in the Continental army," with provisions. A commissary, Capt. John Simpkins (1769), was elected to dispose of said provisions to the families. In 1780, he was intrusted, as commissary, with the expenditure of twenty thousand pounds for the same purpose. He was treasurer of the Massachusetts Charitable Society in 1784 and subsequently. Capt. Simpkins (1769) was a deacon of the New North Church for many years.
He died Dec. 11, 1831, aged ninety-one years, leaving a handsome estate. His dwelling-house, in Boston, was near the Brattle Street Church.
Thomas Russell (1769). AUTHORITIES : Bos- ton Records; Early Masonic Records. Thomas Sherburne, Jr. (1769). AUTHOR-
John Simpkins (1769). AUTHORITIES: Bos- ton Records; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Com- pany, Ed. 1842.
ITY : Boston Records.
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Josiah Waters, Jr. (1769), merchant, of Boston, son of Capt. Josiah (1747) and Abigail (Dawes) Waters, was born Sept. 28, 1747, in Boston. He married, March 14, 1771, Mary, daughter of William and Elizabeth Whitwell, of Boston. He resided on Newbury, now Washington, Street, between Summer Street and Rowe's Lane. He became a member of the Old South Church, Jan. 5, 1772. In 1782 his place of business was in "Auchmuty's Lane," now Essex Street.
He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1773; first sergeant in 1793 ; lieutenant in 1787; 1 its captain in 1791, and was the treasurer of the Company for several years. He was appointed inspector of police Dec. 29, 1792, and held that office for several years.
Mr. Whitman (1810) says Col. Waters (1769) "collected many facts for a history, but never published them. The manuscript is lost. The older members used to speak of it as containing important facts, as well as anecdotes of members, now preserved in the imperfect recollection of survivors. In 1804, Col. Waters [1769] proposed to establish a military library, but it was never carried into effect " He was greatly inter- ested in the militia, and, after passing through the various grades, he became colonel of the Boston regiment.
Josiah Waters, Jr. (1769), received the Masonic degrees in the Lodge of St. Andrew in 1770, and was chosen steward of that lodge Nov. 30 of that year. June 24, 1782, he was present at the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, and was the first named on a com- mittee " to wait on Rev. Mr. John Eliot & Dr. John Warren and Return the Thanks of the Grand Lodge for the Elegant Sermon & Charge delivered by them," on that day, before the Grand Lodge. He was grand marshal of that Grand Lodge in 1788 and 1789, and previously held other positions pro tempore.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1769 is as follows : -
"April 3d. 1769. The Company being under Arms, it was then Voted, That the Rev. Mr. Phillips Payson, of Chelsea, be desired to preach on the Anniversary Artillery Election of Officers in June next, and the present Commission Officers, with the Treas- urer, be a Committee to wait on him and desire the same. Voted, That the Clerk pay to Mr. Lunisby eight shillings for a new bench, in lieu of that which was broke in the Common last Election Day. Attest : ELIAS DUPEE, Clerk.
"May Ist. 1769. The Company being under Arms, the Committee chosen to wait on the Rev. Mr. Phillips Payson of Chelsea, to desire him to preach the next Artillery Election Sermon, reported that he had accepted the same. Voted, That the Treasurer pay thirty pounds to the present Commission Officers towards defreying the charge of the Election Dinner, in June next, and the Company to dine with them. Voted, that Elias Dupee [1763], the present Clerk, have one quarter part of the fines he shall collect the present year from the delinquent members of the Company. Voted, That Capt. Thomas Dawes [1754], Mr. John Deming [1756] and Mr. Robert Jenkins [1756] be a Committee to examine into the state of Mrs Rebecca Blanchards Bond & Mortgage and
Josiah Waters, Jr. (1759). AUTHORITIES : Boston Records; Early Masonic Records.
1 " My friend and neighbor, Waters [1769], has given me a memorandum for a book of military ex- ercises, which he wishes you would get for him as soon as possible, and let him know the price. He is an ardent lover of military matters; and I sup-
pose wants to introduce something new into the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company before he goes out of office, which will be the first Monday in June." - Belknap to Hazard, May 15, 1788, quoted by Mr. Hill in Hist. of Old South Church, Boston, Vol. II., p. 254.
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see what may be due thereon. Voted, That Capt Thomas Dawes [1754], Mr. John Deming [1756] and Mr Robert Jenkins [1756] be a Committee to examine the List of Members & settle with those in arrears. Attest : ELIAS DUPEE, Clerk.
"June 5th, 1769. The Company being under Arms, it was then Voted, That the present Commission Officers, with the Treasurer, be a committee to wait on the Rev. Mr. Phillips Payson, & return him the thanks of this Company for his Sermon preached this day.1 Attest : ELIAS DUPEE, Clerk."
Rev. Phillips Payson, of Chelsea, delivered the Artillery election sermon of 1769. He was a son of Rev. Phillips and Ann (Smith) Payson, and was born at Walpole, Mass., Jan. 18, 1735-6. He married, Aug. 17, 1758, Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Rev. James Stone, of Holliston. He graduated at Harvard College in 1754, and received from that institution the degrees of A. M. and D. D. Mr. Payson was ordained at Chelsea, Oct. 25, 1757, and remained there as pastor of the First Church in Chelsea for forty-four years. He rose to distinction as a classical scholar, and was well versed in astronomy and natural philosophy. He delivered the election sermon in 1778, which was printed, and a sermon on the death of George Washington, also printed.
Mr. Payson died at Chelsea, Jan. 11, 1801, aged sixty-four years.
1770. The officers of the Artillery Company elected in 1770 were : William Heath .(1765), captain ; Martin Gay (1761), lieutenant ; Jonas Clark (1756), ensign. Nathaniel Waterman (1768) was first sergeant ; William Dawes, Jr. (1768), second sergeant; Michael Homer (1768), third sergeant; Jacob Williams (1768), fourth sergeant, and Joseph Pierce (1769), clerk.
Feb. 22, 1770, " some boys set up a large wooden head, with a board faced with paper, on which were painted the figures of four of the [proscribed] importers, who had violated the merchants agreement, in the middle of the street before Theophilus Lille's door." An informer, conspicuous by his intermeddling, was driven by the boys to his home. Chagrined, and seeking revenge, he opened a window, and fired a gun into the crowd, severely wounding Samuel Gore (1786), son of Capt. John Gore (1743), and mortally wounding another lad.
Soon after, the trouble between the ropemakers and the soldiers took place, which resulted in the massacre of March 5, 1770. No members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company were prominent in that conflict between the people and the soldiers, but some were active in demanding and obtaining the removal of the soldiers from the town. In the list of merchants who preferred private emolument to the public good, as entered March 19, 1770, upon the books of the town, the name of a member of the Artillery Company does not occur.
Rev. Phillips Payson. AUTHORITY : MS. Genealogy of Payson Family, in the possession of New Eng. Hist and Gen. Society.
1 " The same Day [June 5, 1769] being the Anniversary of the Election of the Officers of the Antient Artillery Company, an excellent Sermon was preached on the Occasion by the Rev'd Mr.
Phillips Payson of Chelsea, from Psalm cxliv. i, ' Which teacheth my Hands to war & my Fingers to Fight,' and in the Afternoon the following Offi- cers were chosen, viz : Capt. Josiah Waters [1747]. Captain Mr. Edward Carnes [1755] Lieutenant, Mr. Robert Jenkins 3d [1756], Ensign." - Boston Gazette.
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June, 1770, at a meeting of the selectmen, it was voted that a visitation to the public schools be made on the fourth day of July next ensuing, and that the following- named gentlemen be invited to accompany the selectmen. Then follows a list of twenty- four names of guests, besides the representatives of the town and overseers of the poor. In this are included, "Capt. Heath [1765], Lieut. Martin Gay [1761], Ensign Clark [1756], Artillery Co."
The members of the Artillery Company recruited in 1770 were : William Miller and Daniel Rea, Jr.
William Miller (1770). At a meeting of the selectmen, held Jan. 20, 1762, " Mr. William Miller [1770] from Europe attended the Selectmen and acquainted them, that with their consent he purposed to open a Book Sellers Shop in Kings street, having imported a large Quantity of Books for that purpose" "Voted that he be permitted accordingly."
Capt. William Miller (1770) was present at the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, Dec. 27, 1776, and June 24, 1777. He lived on Milk Street in 1774, when he petitioned the selectmen for liberty to run a "Wharf from his Land across the Bottom of Milk Street," etc. Capt. Miller (1770) was drawn as a juror, Aug. 7, 1776, and Aug. 18, 1779. He was identified with the militia, and held the position of captain.
Daniel Rea, Jr. (1770), painter, of Boston, son of Daniel, was born in 1743, and died Jan. 13, 1803, aged sixty years. Daniel Rea, Sr., died Nov. 31, 1798, at his resi- dence in Quaker Lane, now Congress Street, aged eighty-seven years.
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