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Gen. Crane (1819) was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. He was master of Rising Star Lodge in 1810, district deputy grand master, District No. 4, in 1820 ; junior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1821 and 1822, senior grand warden in 1823, and grand master in 1833.
Gen. Crane (1819) in social life was plain, substantial, reliable, and upright, kind to friends, generous to enemies, polite and courteous. June 21, 1819, Major-Gen. Elijah Crane (1819) was unanimously elected an honorary member of the Artillery Company.
He died at Canton, Feb. 21, 1834.
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Ezra Hawkes (1819) was a tin-plate worker in Boston. His shop was No. 63 Court Street, and his residence on Second Street. He was ensign of a company in the First Regiment, Third Brigade, First Division, from 1816 to 1818 inclusive, and captain in the same from 1819 to 1821 inclusive. He rejoined the Artillery Company, May 9, 1821, and was honorably discharged March 24, 1823. He never held any office in the Company. He died Dec. 21, 1868.
Benjamin T. Pickman (1819) was a merchant of Boston. March 14, 1806, by act of the Legislature, Benjamin Pickman, son of the Hon. Benjamin Pickman, Jr., of Salem, in the county of Essex, was allowed to take the name of Benjamin Toppan Pickman (1819). He was born in Salem in 1790, and married Hannah, daughter of William and Hannah (Carter) Bright, of Boston. They had no children. Mr. Pick- man (1819) was ensign of a company in the Second Regiment, Third Brigade, First Division, in 1815 and 1816, and lieutenant of the same in 1817 and 1818. He held the position of aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov. John Brooks (1786) from 1819 to 1823, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was a member of the common council of Boston in 1829, 1830, and 1831, a representative to the General Court, also a senator, and presided over the Senate from 1833 until his decease. He died March 21, 1835, aged forty-five years.
Timothy Rix (1819) was in the grocery trade in Boston, at No. 7 Rowe's Wharf. He does not appear to have held office in the State militia, nor in the Artillery Company. He paraded with the Company in 1822, but subsequently his name was dropped from the roll. Mr. Whitman (1810) says that Mr. Rix (1819) removed to Haverhill, N. H.
George Stearns (1819) is recorded in the Boston Directory of 1820 as being a " victualler " on Cambridge Street, and as residing at No. 8 North Russell Street. He was ensign of a company in the Second Regiment, Third Brigade, First Division, from 1818 to 1823 inclusive, and lieutenant in the same from 1824 to 1827. He paraded in the Artillery Company in 1822, and was honorably discharged May 19, 1823. He never held any office in the Company.
Peter L. R. Stone (1819) was a grocer, of the firm of Train & Stone, and their place of business was on Cambridge Street. He was lieutenant of a company in the Second Regiment, Third Brigade, First Division, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, in 1819, and captain of the same from 1820 to 1823 inclusive. He was honorably discharged by the Artillery Company, May 31, 1824. He never held any office in the Company.
George Sullivan (1819), lawyer, of Boston, joined the Artillery Company, Oct. 7, 18II. He was honorably discharged in 1814, and he rejoined the Company, May 27, 1819. He was elected an honorary member May 27, 1819, and was again honorably discharged Feb. 16, 1827. He never held any office in the Artillery Company. See page 357 of this volume.
William Sullivan (1819), lawyer, of Boston, second son of Gov. James Sullivan, whose father came from Ireland in 1730, was born at Saco, District of Maine, Nov. 30, 1774. He entered the Latin School in 1781, and graduated from Harvard College
William Sullivan (1819). AUTHORITIES : Loring's One Hundred Boston Orators; Whitman's Hist. A. and II. A. Company, Ed. 1842.
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in 1792. He studied law under the direction of his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1795. He married, May 19, 1802, Sarah W., daughter of Col. James Swan, of Dorchester, Mass. He became eminent in his profession, - " a man of popular talents and a polished gentleman." He delivered the oration for the town authorities, July 4, 1803, which was such a signal success that, in 1804, he was elected representative to the General Court, and afterward to the Senate or Council until 1830, when he declined to serve longer. In 1812 he pronounced the first oration before the Washington Benevolent Society, and delivered a discourse before the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, in 1829. He was a member of the convention on the revision of the State constitution in 1820.
He was major of the Independent Cadets from 1805 to 1809 ; was elected to the colonelcy, which he declined; was brigadier-general of the Boston brigade of State militia from 1818 to 1822, but never held any office in the Ancient and Honorable Artil- lery Company. He was president of the Social Law Library of Suffolk ; a member of several societies of art, science, and history, and was elected to the city council on its institution in 1822. In his last years he devoted himself to literature, wrote several valuable books, and the " Political Class-book, which entitles him to the reputation of having first introduced the study of the nature and principles of our government in the schools of our land." He died Sept. 3, 1839. His brother, Lieut .- Col. John Langdon Sullivan, joined the Artillery Company in 1812, and another brother, Lieut .- Col. George Sullivan, in 1811 and 1819.
William Hyslop Sumner (1819), lawyer, of Boston, only son of Gov. Increase and Elizabeth (Hyslop) Sumner, and grandson of William Hyslop (1755), was born in Rox- bury, July 4, 1780, and graduated at Harvard College in 1799. He married, (1) Oct. 4, 1826, Mary Ann Perry, who died July 14, 1834; (2) Dec 13, 1836, Maria F. Green- ough, who died Nov. 14, 1843, and, (3) April 14, 1848, Mary D. Kemble. When nineteen years of age, by the death of his grandfather in 1796, and of his father in 1799, he became attorney for his mother in the management of her half of the large Hyslop estate. His mother died in 1810, and for several years he had the sole care of the properties left by his father and mother, one of which was Noddle's Island, of six hundred and sixty acres.
Mr. Sumner (1819) was aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov. Strong in 1806 and from 1813 to 1816, and on the staff of Gov. Brooks (1786) from 1816 to 1818, when he was appointed by Gov. Brooks (1786) adjutant-general of Massachusetts. Mr. Sumner (1819) held that and the office of quartermaster-general under Govs. Brooks (1786), Eustis, Lincoln, and Davis until 1834, when, upon his resignation, Gen. Dearborn (1816) was appointed his successor. In 1808, and during the eleven succeeding years, he was one of the representatives of Boston in the General Court. On the 10th of September, 1814, he was appointed by Gov. Strong an agent of the State to go "to the District of Maine," which was then invaded by the British, and provide means for the protection of that part of the State. In December, 1814, he was appointed by the board of war to borrow money of the banks and pay off the troops which had been called out in Maine. In 1816, Gen. Sumner (1819) was a State agent to present the Massachusetts claim for militia services during the war to the general government. In November, 1826, he was
William H. Sumner (1819). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1854; Sumner's Hist. of East Boston; Whitman's Hist. A. and H. A. Company, Ed. 1842.
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appointed by the secretary of war one of a board, of which Gen. Scott was president, to report a system for the reorganization of the militia. He commanded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1821. Gen. Sumner (1819) died Oct. 24, 1861.
Samuel Swett (1819), lawyer, of Boston, son of Dr. John B. and Charlotte (Bourne) Swett, was born in Newburyport, June 9, 1782. He married, Aug. 25, 1807, Lucia, daughter of Hon. William Gray. She died May 15, 1844. He attended school in Newburyport, graduated at Harvard College in 1800, and began to study law in Exeter, N. H. In 1801 he taught school in Roxbury, after which he continued his law studies with Judge Charles Jackson. He was admitted to the Essex County bar in 1804, and opened an office in Salem. In 1810 he relinquished law, removed to Boston, and became a partner in the firm of W. B. Swett & Co., merchants, No. 11 Foster's Wharf.
He was elected, Sept. 22, 1812, the first commander of the New England Guards, Second Regiment, Third Brigade, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and served two years. In 1814 he entered the army as a volunteer, on the staff of Gen. Izard, in which he served as an engineer. After peace was declared he visited Europe, and saw much of the allied armies, concerning which he published an account in the Boston Daily Advertiser. Mr. Swett (1819) was aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov. Brooks (1786) from 1818 to 1822 inclusive, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; a member of the school committee of Boston ; of the common council in 1823, and three years a repre- sentative to the General Court. The publications of Col. Swett (1819) were contro- versial and critical, a partial list of which is given in the "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," 1867, page 375.
Mr. Swett (1819) died at his residence on Hancock Street, Boston, Oct. 28, 1866.
George W. Thayer (1819) was a merchant in Boston, of the firm of Dudley & Thayer, 112 Orange, now Washington, Street. He resided at No. I Pleasant Street. He was ensign of a company in the Third Regiment, Third Brigade, First Division, in 1818, paymaster of the Third Regiment from 1819 to 1822 inclusive, and adjutant of the same in 1823. He was honorably discharged by the Artillery Company, April 17, 1820, and rejoined in 1821. He never held office in the Company.
Benjamin Winslow (1819), auctioneer, of the firm of Winslow, Channing & Co., was located in business at No. 8 Kilby Street. He resided on Purchase Street. He held the office of ensign in .a Boston company from 1814 to 1816, and was quartermaster of the Third Brigade, First Division, with the rank of major, from 1818 to 1822 inclusive.
The Company met for business and exercise March 22, 1819 ; also on March 29.
April 5 a business meeting was held, and at three o'clock P. M., April 9, the Com- pany met for field duty, under the command of Lieut. Luke Richardson (1812). Previous to their leaving the Hall, Rev. Thomas Gray, of Roxbury, was elected to deliver the next anniversary sermon. The Company marched to the Common, went through the usual evolutions and firings, then returned to Faneuil Hall, and partook of the usual collation.
Several meetings were held for drill during April and May.
Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company.
«INCORPORATED 1638.
BOSTON,
May 11/2019
THIS MAY CERTIFY, That Cap. Quel Bieten was reg- ularly admitted a Member of the ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY, On the Terit& day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
Being Boring
Commander.
ATTEST.
At Mapples CLERE.
CERTIFICATE OF MEMBERSHIP, 1819.
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Friday, May 7, the field-pieces were taken out to the Common, and the volunteer artillerists had a careful drill.1
May 10, 1819, the committee previously appointed to revise the by-laws made their report. These new by-laws were printed by the Company in 1819, in connection with a list of all the members of the Company from 1638 to 1819. The rules and regulations then adopted were approved, Feb. 11, 1820, by the committee of the executive council, to whom they were referred, who recommended that the governor approve the same. The governor approved them the same day.
The revised Rules and Regulations of the Company were as follows : --
ARTICLE 1 .- OF ACTIVE MEMBERS.
SECTION I. Persons wishing to become members may be proposed at any meeting of the Company by a member, and the Clerk thereupon shall make a record thereof and furnish the Commanding Officer with a list of all candidates in the order they were proposed.
SECTION 2. Every candidate shall stand proposed one meeting before he be balloted for, and not then admitted, unless he obtains two thirds of the votes of the members present. If admitted, he shall sign the Company Book, pay fifteen dollars, and find two sureties satisfactory to the Commander, to be responsible for his compliance with the rules of the Company.
SECTION 3. No person can be an eligible candidate unless he be twenty-one years of age.
ARTICLE 1I. - OF HONORARY MEMBERS.
SECTION 1. Every active member, who shall have performed duty, and complied with the Regulations of the Company for twelve years, shall be considered as placed on the Honorary List.
SECTION 2. Active members who have become disabled by bodily infirmity or are exempt from Military duty, and have complied with the Rules and Regulations for one year, may be admitted by ballot as Honorary Members, a majority of the ballots of the members present constituting an election.
SECTION 3. Persons who have not been active members may be admitted Honorary Members.
SECTION 4. A candidate, under the preceding section, shall stand proposed one meeting before he is balloted for, and not then admitted unless his name has been inserted on the notification of the meeting when the ballot is to be taken, nor unless he obtain two thirds of.the votes of the members present.
SECTION 5. No person shall be eligible as an Honorary Member, according to the two preceding sections, under the rank of a Colonel, excepting the Aids to His Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth.
SECTION 6. Honorary Members, who have paid their entrance as a member, and who pay their assessment for the anniversary in June, may be entitled to vote, and eligible to office.
1 " Yesterday the Ancient and Honorable Artil- lery, commanded by Col. Loring [1810], held a field-day and exercised and manœuvred with small
arms and artillery with veteran precision and celer- ity."-Columbian Centinel, May 8, 1819.
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ARTICLE III. - ARMS AND UNIFORM.
SECTION I. The Officers and Privates of the Company shall be furnished with arms and equipments, according to law, from the Armory. The Non-Commissioned officers to carry Halberds.
SECTION 2. The uniforms of the Company to be as follows, viz. : -
Hat. Chapeau de bras, ornamented with a fantail cockade, silver loup and button, and a full white plume, twelve inches long.
Coat. Deep blue superfine cloth, with red facings, and white linings; blue shoulder-straps edged with red; two silver-laced buttonholes each side of the collar ; diamond on each skirt, and white convex buttons stamped with the arms of the State and the word " Commonwealth."
Waistcoat. White Marseilles, single breasted, with a standing collar.
Small Clothes. Fine white cassimere, with white metal buttons on the knees.
White Stock to be worn on the Anniversary ; Black Stock on other field-days.
Gaiters. Fine white linen, to come up to the kneepan, under the small clothes, with black buttons, and a black velvet knee strap, with a white buckle, on the anni- versary ; on other field-days, the gaiters to be of fine black cassimere, with black buttons, of the same length with the white gaiters, and worn to come up over the pantaloons ; the Shoe to be short quartered and tied.
Hair. Long hair to be braided and turned up, and the whole to wear powder on the anniversary.
SECTION 3. Every member of the Company shall be entitled, on admission, to wear a Herring-bone on the right arm of his uniform coat, as a badge of membership. Each member, on the completion of seven years from the time of his admission, and who has performed his regular duty in the Company, shall be entitled to wear an additional Herring-bone, and shall also be entitled to wear an additional Herring-bone at the completion of every five years afterwards that he may continue a member.
ARTICLE IV. - DUTY AND POWER OF OFFICERS.
SECTION I. The Commanding Officer shall have power to remit the fines of the members for non-attendance, provided an excuse is offered to his satisfaction within eight days, and shall give the member thus excused a certificate authorizing the Clerk to remit the same.
SECTION 2. He shall give all his orders to the Clerk in writing, to be by him passed down, excepting those given in presence of the Company at the place of parade or exercise.
SECTION 3. He shall have power, by and with the advice of his subalterns, to grant a furlough to any member wishing to leave town for a limited time, and retain his mem- bership, which furlough shall excuse such member from all fines and assessments during his absence.
SECTION 4. The Commissioned Officers shall be a Standing Committee for the year ; it shall be their duty to determine who shall have forfeited their membership, agreeable to the provisions of the Rules and Regulations of the Company, and to superintend the affairs of the Company generally.
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SECTION 5. The Commanding Officer shall have power to enlist, for the term of one year only, three respectable men as drivers for the field-pieces, provided the Com- pany thereby be put to no expense for uniform or horses ; and such drivers, so enlisted, shall be considered as belonging and attached to the Company for the term of their enlistment, and have a certificate thereof signed by the Commander and countersigned by the Clerk.
ARTICLE V. - DUTY OF CLERK.
SECTION I. The Clerk shall, on receiving orders from the Commander, imme- diately transmit the same to the proper Officers; he shall insert the names of all candidates on the notifications for the meeting on which they are to be balloted for, and for the neglect thereof shall pay a fine of Five dollars.
SECTION 2. He shall immediately, upon an assessment being laid, prepare and exhibit to every member liable to pay the same, a bill specifying the amount thereof, and including all fines due at the time. And it shall be the duty of the Clerk personally to request the payment of the same as soon as may be; and if any members of the Company shall neglect or refuse to pay the amount of said assessment within the space of ten days from the time the said Clerk shall so call on him therefor, or within the space of twenty days from the time the same was voted by the Company to be laid, then the Clerk shall report the name or names of any such delinquent member at the next meeting of the Company, and in no case shall the report of such delinquents be dispensed with ; and the Clerk shall be personally responsible for all fines or assessments which shall not be collected or reported, agreeable to the foregoing regulation.
SECTION 3. He shall record all the orders he receives ; the meetings of the Com- pany and business done at said meetings ; all reports of committees, all admissions and discharges of members, and for the neglect of either of them he shall pay a fine of two dollars.
SECTION 4. He shall keep a regular account of all monies by him received, and shall pay the same to the Treasurer, once at least in three months, taking his receipt therefor, and for the neglect thereof shall pay a fine of ten dollars.
SECTION 5. He shall attend all meetings of the Company at the time ordered, under the penalty of one dollar for each neglect.
SECTION 6. He shall not, in any instance whatever, remit a fine to a member, unless by order of the commanding officer, under penalty of five dollars.
SECTION 7. The Clerk shall annually, before entering upon the duties of his office, viz., on the first Monday in June, give bond to the Company, with sufficient sureties, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office ; which bond shall be kept by the Commanding Officer of the Com- pany for the time being, for the use and benefit of the Company, and shall never be given up or cancelled until a new Clerk has been chosen and qualified according to ancient usage and this regulation, nor until his accounts have been settled by the Committee of Finance.
ARTICLE VI. - DUTY OF THE TREASURER.
SECTION 1. The Treasurer shall keep the funds of the Company, and receive all monies from the Clerk, giving him a receipt therefor. All money received for the admission of Members shall be added to the funds, and the assessments and fines be
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appropriated to defray the expenses of the Company. He shall pay all bills against the Company which may have been approved by a majority of the Committee of Finance.
SECTION 2. The Treasurer shall give bond in the same way as the Clerk, in a like penal sum, to be kept by the Commanding Officer for the time being, and not given up or cancelled, but in the same way and manner that the bond given by the Clerk is cancelled.
ARTICLE VII, - DUTY OF MEMBERS.
SECTION I. Every Active Member who has not done duty in the Company for the term of seven years, shall be held liable to attend the Company and Sergeants' drills when ordered. Those who have served more than seven years and less than twelve years, shall be liable to attend the evening drill of the Company next preceding each field-day, and the three evening drills next preceding the Anniversary in June. And it is expected that all members who have served more than twelve years, and who shall contemplate appearing in uniform on the anniversary, will attend the three evening drills preceding the same.
SECTION 2. At every meeting regularly notified by the Commander, there shall be a first and second Roll-call, and every member liable to attend said meeting absent at one or both Roll-calls, shall pay such fine as is prescribed in the table of fines.
SECTION 3. Every Member who neglects complying with the Rules and Regulations of the Company for one year shall be notified thereof by the Clerk, and his name returned to the Standing Committee; and if he does not within thirty days from the time of receiving such notification, render an excuse to the satisfaction of said com- mittee, he shall no longer be considered a member, and his name shall be returned to the commander of the Military District in which he resides.
SECTION 4. Any member who shall divulge the names of candidates elected for officers previously to the anniversary, or who shall repeat any observations made respect- ing the character of any candidate for admission, to any person not a member, shall be liable to be dismissed from the Company by a majority of the votes of the members present.
ARTICLE VIII. - FINES FOR NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
SECTION 1. Non-attendance at drill, 50 cts. ; non-attendance at a meeting, first Roll-call, 25 cts .; if absent the whole evening, 50 cts .; on the three evenings for exer- cise preceding the Anniversary, non-attendance first Roll-call, $1.25 ; non-attendance the whole evening, $2.50; absent on field-days, $2.00 ; neglecting to notify the Company in season, 75 cts.
FINES FOR MEMBERS.
SECTION 2. Non-attendance at drills, 50 cts. ; non-attendance at a meeting, first Roll-call, 25 cts .; if absent the whole evening, 50 cts .; on the three evenings for exer- cise preceding the Anniversary, non-attendance at first Roll-call, $1 ; non-attendance the whole evening, $2 ; absent on field-days, $2.
ARTICLE IX. - EXEMPTIONS FROM FINES AND ASSESSMENTS.
SECTION 1. Honorary Members are exempted from all fines and assessments, except the assessment to defray the expense of the Anniversary.
SECTION 2. Active Members living out of town are exempt from all drill fines excepting the three drill evenings next preceding the election of officers in June.
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SECTION 3. Active Members who have served more than seven years are exempt from all drill fines, excepting the fine for non-attendance on the evening drill of the Company next preceding the field-day, and the three drill evenings next preceding the election in June.
ARTICLE X. - OF COMMITTEES.
SECTION 1. Every member appointed on a committee, if he accepts, shall duly attend to the duty assigned him, at the time and place appointed by the Chairman, which office shall be filled by the first member chosen ; and every committee shall make report of their doings at the next meeting after they are elected.
SECTION 2. There shall be chosen by the Company at the first drill meeting in May annually, a committee of three to continue in office one year, who shall be styled a Committee of Finance and Ways and Means. And it shall be the duty of said com- mittee, so chosen, to examine the state of the Company's finances, accounts and funds from time to time, and make report thereof as often as expedient, and particularly to examine and approve such bills against the Company as are just and reasonable ; to report from time to time what assessments may be necessary to defray the current expenses ; to guard against the Company's contracting debts beyond the amount of the assessment laid, and to see that the entrance money paid by members is applied to increase the funds; to examine the records of the Clerk, and, at the last drill meeting previous to the election of officers in June, to make an annual report upon the Treas- urer's and Clerk's accounts, and return an inventory of the funds and property of the Company.
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